Thursday, December 31, 2015
On the Fact that (According to the Esteemed Historian and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Hermann Giliomee), Black Life-Expectancy Went Up 61% Under Apartheid (from 38 Years in the 1940s to 61 years in the 1990s) and (According to the Journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty, March-April 2002) Has Actually Gone DOWN 15% (9 Years) Since the Beginning of Black Rule in 1994
Long live the ANC and short live their subjects, I guess.
On New Jersey's CRDA (the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority)
Yeah, this is a government agency that was essentially set up to syphon off taxpayer dollars and fork them over to various Casino interests and which frequently uses eminent domain to strong-arm citizens/home-owners into selling off their property. It's an incredibly corrupt and abusive way to go about governing (though, yes, one would be hard-pressed to point to another way) and what is especially loathsome about it is that in most instances these land-grabs are either unnecessary (huge lots already being available for developers) or result in zero development (the land is acquired just because they can). Just peachy, huh?
On the Fact that (According to the Daily Telegraph, April 2008) the White Population of Zimbabwe Has Plummeted by 93% Since the Early 1980s
And this (the loss of many of the country's most educated and talented people) has aided Zimbabwe how exactly?..............................................................................................P.S. And, yes, this white population loss has been even more pronounced in the agriculture sector (Rhodesia, for all of its warts and issues, was quite literally the bread-basket of Africa and now look at it) where the white-owned farm population has gone down by 96% (a combination of government redistribution policies and flat-out theft and terrorism; axe and machete wielding gangs who've threatened and assaulted white farmers, forcing them to vacate, ransacking their personal possessions, slaughtering their cattle, torching their crops, polluting the water, etc.). Nice, huh?
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
On the Fact that Barack Obama, Alicia Keyes, and Halle Berry All Seem to Identify More with the Black Fathers Who Abandoned Them than with the White Mothers, Grandparents, etc. Who Raised Them
More chic (not to mention, political), I guess.
On the Fact that (According to Many Historians; Black, Davis, Beachey, and Toledana, to Name a Few) the Arab Slave Trade Both Predated and Postdated the Atlantic Slave Trade (to Which the Vast Majority of Those Slaves Went to South America and the Caribbean) and Easily Surpassed it in Terms of Cruelty
And yet only white Europeans and white Americans have been forced to expiate, apologize, and grovel 24/7. Fucking A, huh?...................................................................................................P.S. It also must be pointed out that there was a brutal and vibrant slave trade that took place in the interior of West Africa and that this existed well into the 19th Century AND that there still exists in Haiti a form of child slavery (the Retavek system) that keeps young kids in perpetual poverty and works them into near oblivion (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2013/1017/Haiti-s-child-slaves-land-country-high-on-new-global-slavery-index-video)....Just for additional context.
On North Carolina Having Treated its Bowl Match-Up Verses Baylor as a "Business Trip"
Maybe, but being that they gave up an NCAA record 645 yards rushing and lost by 11, they probably should have treated it as an athletic competition instead.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
On the Fact that Fox News Now Employs a Small Army of Neoconservative Bobble-Heads (Pete Hegseth Shown Below) and Rarely if Ever Delivers Push-Back (as Opposed to Their Noninterventionist Guests Who Consistently Get Challenged, Cut Off, etc.)
I think that I've been very fair to Fox and have actually gone as far as to commend them for their hiring of late; folks like Ed Henry, John Roberts, Maria Bartiromo, Howie Kurtz, etc. and for their bouncing of the moronic and tedious Sean Hannity from the 9 PM slot for the much more palatable Megyn Kelly. But now - the fact that the Charles Krauthammer, Marc Thiessen, and Pete Hegseth wing of that network has seemingly taken charge over there - let's just say that my viewership is the latest casualty.
The Biggest Impediments to an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord?
a) A media which is completely controlled by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and which only allows propaganda and b) an "educational" system in Gaza and the West Bank (also co-opted by the state) which specifies to children as young as five that they have to destroy Israel (and, yes, themselves, too, if necessary) because Allah wants them to.......Yeah, those are my top two.
Reverend Majed El Shafie (Co-Bounder of One Free World International and a Fellow Who Was Tortured and Sentenced to Death in Egypt Simply for Converting to Christianity) on the Difference Between a Nightmare and Existing in Israel
"You can wake up from a nightmare but you cannot wake up from a sea of enemies who desire to finish you."............Kind of hard for us to identify with, huh? At least for now.
Monday, December 28, 2015
On the Concept of Enforcing Gun Bans Via State-Sanctioned Weaponry
If you can't see the potential for tyranny with this, you haven't studied history.
On if Your Views Are Not on the Table to be Modified by a New and Reliable Chain of Reasoning and Evidence (Climate-Related Deaths Being Down 95%, Extreme Weather Events Not Having Gotten Worse or More Frequent, 73 of 75 Climate Models Having Been Way Off, Wind Turbines and Bio-Fuels Having Easily the Most Pitiful Power Density Figures of Any Current Energy Source, Atmospheric Temperatures Having Essentially Flat-Lined for Close to Two Decades, etc., etc.)
Succinctly put, you've stymied your learning, assumed true-believing status, risked looking like a tool, surrendered to authority, enabled the tyrannical.
On the Fact that the Israelis Completely Vacated Gaza in Late 2009, Leaving Behind a Fully Functioning Infrastructure (Part of Which Was a $14 Million Greenhouse Business) and the "Palestinians" Responded by Immediately Lobbing Thousands of Rockets into Israeli Cities, Bulldozing that Infrastructure (Including Homes and Offices), and Digging a Tunnel into Israel so Suicide Bombers Could Get There
I try very hard to be even-handed when it comes to Israel and the Arabs (I've consistently said, for example, that Netanyahu is full of shit when it comes to a nuclear Iran) but I just can't see how anyone can try and blame Israel for the mess in Gaza and say that "land for peace" is anything but pure bullshit. I can't.
Sunday, December 27, 2015
On the Fact that (According to Constitutional/Free Speech Scholar, Floyd Abrams, and an Exhaustive Study by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) 58% of Public Colleges and Universities in America Have Speech Codes that Are Flagrantly Unconstitutional
So, still don't think that political correctness is bald-faced tyranny?...Just wait, your time will come.
On the Fact that Miami Shores, Florida Passed an Ordinance Two Years Ago Which Made it Illegal for Property Owners to Grow a Vegetable Garden in THEIR OWN FRONT YARD (Fruit and Flowers You Are Allowed to Grow - http://ij.org/case/flveggies/)
This is what happens when fascistic politicians have too much time on their hands. They go after not the big boys but folks like us (in this instance, people simply growing their own damned food).
The Incomparable Steven Pinker on the Importance of Free Speech
Pinker makes more intelligent comments in these 20 minutes than Bush and Obama have over the past 15 years of their moronic governing. Please, listen and enjoy (maybe take some notes, too).
Saturday, December 26, 2015
On the Fact that (According to Numerous Energy Experts; Vaclav Smil, Robert Bryce, Jesse Ausubel, Roger Pielke, Steve Goreham, etc.) Corn Ethanol Has a Power Density of 1/20th of a Watt per Square Meter and Has Significantly Increased the Cost of Food Worldwide
This is the type of idea that only a stupid and oily politician or paranoiac extremist environmentalist could have ever come up with and yet bullshit like this continues to makes its way to U.S. energy policy. How fucking sad, wasteful, embarrassing, etc..
On a Prospective Lakers Versus Quakers Series
Yeah, I'd pick the Quakers in 6 (the fact that the Lakers are 5-24 this season and probably not even that good).
On the Fact that Hamas Murdered Scores of Fatah Opposition in 2007 After the Elections There (Such that They Were) and Followed that Up with Summary Executions of Suspected Traitors (http://www.jspacenews.com/hamas-executions-palestinians-gaza/)
Yeah, nobody gives a flying fuck 'cause it was Muslims killing Muslims without an Israeli in sight....Haven't you figured this out yet?
On the Fact that There Are Actually Streets in Durbin, South Africa Which Have Recently Been Renamed Che Guevara Road, Yasser Arafat Highway, and Fidel Castro Drive
While I understand that these are just names, the fact that they so exemplify the mindset of those (i.e., the ANC) who have literally, shamelessly, and moronically destroyed the country (the high crime rate, the corruption, an extremist affirmative action program that has literally smashed the infrastructure, a tanked economy, etc.) makes them more than just symbolic to me. Sorry but, yes.
Muhammad's Stark Message to Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Polytheists
Convert or pay the tax (while assuming dhimmi status). Pay the tax or perish............................................................................................P.S. While it is generally agreed upon by scholars that the first ten yeas or so of Mohammad's ministry was one of tolerance, it is also a consensus that during subsequent decades his philosophy (via additional revelation, I guess) went from one of tolerance to one of conquest and that his followers were all too willing to oblige (just ask the inhabitants of Jerusalem).
On the Fact that There Are Actually Several 5-7 Teams in Bowls this Year
Not content to just jump the shark (which it did many moons ago), the NCAA now seems bound and determined to jump the entire "Jaws" franchise.
Friday, December 25, 2015
On the Fact that the South African Man Who Most Consistently Looked to Western Canon for His Inspiration (Mangosuthu Buthelezi) Also Happened to Be the Man that that Same West Most Inexplicably Marginalized
Leave it to the self-flagellating West to turn on Buthelezi (a leader and gentleman who would literally fill up soccer stadiums) and instead embrace a murderous and corrupt bunch of communist thugs like the ANC....Thank you, politicians, the media, academia, bobble-heads, etc. for ruining yet another country. I hope that you're happy.
Ilana Mercer on Nelson Mandela's Admirers
" ex-Presidents, vacuous and egomaniacal politicians, starlets, coke-addled fashion models, intellectually challenged and morally strained musicians, the hollow international jet-set...."............Yeah, she nails it.
On the Fact that Conspiracy Theorist, Jim Fetzer, Thinks that the Sandy Hook, Charleston, Oregon, and San Bernardino Mass Shootings Were ALL Staged Events by the Government and that Nobody Really Died There
Yeah, I gave him a Straight-Jackets R Us gift certificate for Christmas this year and really hope that he takes advantage of it (the fact that the government can't keep anything secret and so how in the hell could they keep a lid on something like this?).......................................................................................................P.S. He also thinks that we didn't go to the moon and that the present-day Paul McCartney isn't the original one - just for some context here.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
On the Fact that Former Colonies Such as Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan Are Doing Phenomenally Well While Countries Such as Afghanistan, Liberia, Tibet, and Nepal Which Were Never Colonized Are Still Performing Poorly
The fact of the matter is that those areas of Asia and Africa that had the most European contact are doing the best and those that aren't are doing poorly because of corruption, repression, and socialism. Period, end of report.
On My Fear that a Chris Christie Presidency Would a Essentially Be a George W. Bush Redo; Big Government Conservatism, A John Wayneesque Interventionist Foreign Policy, Blunt Talk, etc.
More unenthused I could not be (though, yes, there are handful worse than him; Cruz, Clinton, Huckabee, Sanders, Trump, Santorum, etc.).
On the Distinction Made by Psychiatrists Between Psychopathic Killers Such as Caligula and the Hussein Sons and Purpose-Driven Killers Such as Genghis Khan and Napoleon
It's a distinction without a difference to the masses being smoked would be my guess.
On the Claim Made by Marxist Academics and Others that Colonial Britain (and, Believe Me, I Am No Fan of the British) "Plundered" Africa and Refused to Reinvest There
Objectively bullshit. As Harrison, Huntington, Mercer, and others have pointed out, practically the entire infrastructure of Africa (as it pertains to agriculture, mining, commerce, finance, industry, etc.) was built by colonial powers (most of Sub-Saharan Africa didn't even possess the wheel prior to European contact) with the lion-share of that being built by THE BRITISH!! An, while, yes, the period of colonization itself was often less than ideal (horrible in the case of the Belgians), even that period has been characterized by no less than Moeletsi Mbeki (brother of former South African President, Thabo Mbeki) as better than what exists today. So, yeah, maybe we all need to stop beating ourselves up and realize that the troubles in Africa have a hell of a lot more to do with tribalism, racism, horrible economic models, and a variety of repressive regimes that would have made Joe Stalin proud and much less to do with colonialism. Just a thought, folks.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
On the Fact that a College Professor at San Houston State Censored Anti-Obama Sentiments on a Free-Speech Wall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1bRnowqZk&list=PLD70519787168B65A&index=61
More baldfaced tyranny and how fucking in the tank can these morons get, for Christ?
On the Fact that Auburn University Forced a Student to Take Down a Ron Paul Banner from His Dorm Window While Simultaneously Allowing Obama Banners in Other Windows
The tyranny on college campuses, while it obviously hasn't reached the level of Stalin's Russia or that of the Palestinians, is rapidly becoming one of the most disturbing trends in American society in that it is free speech which remains the major bulwark against this more virulent form of tyranny. And how are these students ever supposed to learn if we take away this basic right to challenge and conjecture (the same with societies as a whole; the ability to adapt and innovate)? It makes no sense.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
On the Fact that the City of Pagedale Missouri Has Increased its Dispensing of Non-Traffic Related Tickets by a Whopping 495% Over the Past Four Years
It's ludicrous, fascistic, and unconstitutional. And if you think that I'm being hyperbolic, get a load of these "offenses"; parking a bike in your front yard, not having curtains on your windows, having a barbecue in your front yard, drinking a beer in your front yard, having an "inappropriate" screen door, not fixing a crack in your sidewalk, and having too many people in your backyard (too many in one family's case being three). And the most outrageous thing of all is that a significant number of the people being targeted are poor, black, and elderly. Thankfully we have an organization like the Institute for Justice (a LIBERTARIAN pro-bono legal team out of D.C.) that is holding these statist bastards' asses to the fire and the end of this tyranny may in fact be near (the court in Pagedale said that the cameras couldn't enter the proceedings even though legally cameras are allowed in Missouri - more tyranny) - may, being the operant word - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8P-l8_dTsI
On Donald Trump Arguing (Against Neocon Buffoons Like Christie and Rubio) that We Should "Let Syria and ISIS Fight"
Yeah, I'm definitely with the Donald on this one, folks (the fact that allowing our enemies to slaughter each other is always a decent option). And that's the aggravating thing in that while the dude can obviously be a shithead at times, he's also capable of common sense and wouldn't it be nice if he showed us this side a bit more often? I'm just askin'.
On Shrieking Girl (that Moronic Yale Bimbo Who Was Evidently "Triggered" by a Handful of Lame Halloween Costumes and Who Took it Out on the Head Master While Acting Like a Fucking Lunatic)
We are doing these CHILDREN (sometimes you gotta call it like it is) not a bit of good by tolerating this (the fact that the real world operates much differently) and if it was up to me I'd have suspended her ass on the spot. I mean, just listen to this idiot (I'm guessing that she's not a STEM major or she would have been studying instead of engaging in profanity-laced tirades)................................................................................................P.S. It's also been determined that she comes from a privileged background (Fairfield CT, a gorgeous home worth $760,000, etc.) and was a member of the committee which hired the head master (this after she bellowed out, "Who the fuck hired you!!? Fucking A, huh?
Monday, December 21, 2015
On the Fact that Chris Christie Has Said that He'd Be Willing to Shoot Down Russian Planes if They Ever Invaded His Proposed Syrian No-Fly Zone
I used to think that Christie was half-way decent. But if he's gonna go around spouting horseshit (i.e., neoconservatism on steroids) that even Dick Cheney probably wouldn't say, yeah, no...................................................................................P.S. And, yes, kudos to Rand Paul for hitting him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper during the debate for saying it (SHOOTING DOWN RUSSIAN PLANES!!!).
On the Fact that (According to the Pew Research Center) in 20 of the 23 Predominately Muslim Countries Polled, More than 50% of the Men Stated that a Wife MUST Obey Her Husband
If I had told my wife that she MUST obey me, she would have face-planted my ass and the vast majority of men in our circle of friends would have cheered her on. If you want an actual war on women, folks, you just might want to turn to the Mediterranean and, please, knock off the damned hyperbole (Taliban Dan, a rape culture, etc., etc.).
On the Fact that a) Most Muslim Countries Treat Women the Same Way that Delusional Feminists Say that the West Treats Them and b) this Is Rarely Acknowledged by the Left
So an actual war on women and rape culture isn't important but a bogus, trumped-up one is. Just great (and by, "great", I of course mean outrageous, idiotic, and hypocritical)...............................................................................................P.S. And, yes, South Africa is majorly fucked up in this regard as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_South_Africa).
Sunday, December 20, 2015
On the Fact that the Left Loves to Criticize and Ridicule All Sorts of People; Fundamentalist Christians, Mormons, Tea-Partiers, Bankers, Scientologists, Folks Who Home-School Their Kids, etc. but When it Comes to Criticizing and Making Sport of Muslims (Believers in Some of the Most Buffoonish Things Imaginable and a Culture Which Represses Women and Murders Gays, "Infidels", etc.) THEY JUST CAN'T DO IT!!
I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that they tend to see the world strictly through this almost cartoonish repressor versus repressed prism and that it just never dawns on them that there are major-league assholes, evil, and significant stupidity amongst those who they see as "the repressed" (with white Europeans, Americans, and Israelis being responsible for everything that's bad in the world). It's kind of a racist sentiment if you think about it in that it a) strongly implies that Muslims (in this instance) are just too stupid and helpless to know any better and b) is therefore strictly up to white Europeans to facilitate a change....Oh well, I guess that the this whole obsessive-compulsive white European tendency for self-reflection and self-criticism can only go SO far.
On the Concept of an Illiterate and Knuckle-Dragging Merchant Warlord/Pervert Communicating with the Divine and Transcribing it Perfectly
I consider myself to have an active imagination but even I couldn't come up with something that absurd.......Embarrassed to be human yet?
Saturday, December 19, 2015
On Robert Mugabe's Political Opposition in Zimbabwe
Let's just put it this way. The luckier ones simply get kneecapped.
On the Claim Made by the Center for Immigration Studies (an Admittedly Anti-Immigration Organization) that it Would Cost $128.7 Million to Resettle 10,000 Syrian Refugees in America but Only $10.6 Million to Resettle Them in Other Middle-Eastern Countries (1/12th the Cost, in Other Words)
Assuming that the numbers are correct (which may or may not be a wise option), I think that we may have stumbled upon the perfect compromise. a) We're helping the refugees. b) We're saving taxpayer bucks. c) We wouldn't have to worry about terrorist infiltration of the refugee population. And d) being that these other countries are much closer to Syria, the assimilation process should be significantly easier. I mean, yeah, Obama and the Democrats would have to wave bye-bye to a bunch of potential Democratic voters but that shouldn't be an overriding concern (to anyone who's name isn't Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, at least), correct?
On the Fact that (According to the L.A. Times, Keith B. Richburg's "Out of America", and Numerous Other Sources) the First Action of Robert Mugabe (Post-Election, 1980) as the President of Zimbabwe was to "eliminate" Over 10,000 Ndebele Civilians in Matabeleland in What Can Only Be Deciphered as a Barbarous Act of Retribution
Despicable, and the fact that the West chose to ignore this horrid body-count (which actually could have been much higher in that as Richburg has pointed out the Zimbabwean government simply stopped keeping track) well into the 1990s (the blood-thirsty bastard was actually knighted by the obviously inbred Queen Elizabeth in 1994 - KNIGHTED!!!) is an even more monstrous indictment, I think.
Friday, December 18, 2015
So, Does a Trump Presidency Scare Me?
Of course it does. But does it scare me any more than a Cruz Presidency (if impudence was an art-form this fellow would be Mussorgsky), a Clinton Presidency (one of the idiots who thought that getting rid of Gadaffi was a great idea), a Sanders Presidency (not just a socialist but a dumb one), a Huckabee Presidency (a miscreant and a bible-thumping buffoon), a Graham Presidency (yep, he's still running, that moron), etc.? Not really, folks. Nope, they all pretty much scare me and, so, yeah, I'll be voting for Johnson again.
On the Fact that I Criticize Republicans More in One Week than Leftist Buffoons Like Octopus and Shaw Have Ever Criticized Democrats in Their Entire Overrated, Boring, Obnoxious, True-Believing, and Intellectually Dishonest Lives and Yet I'm I'm the One Who Gets Tarred as "a Right-Winger" and a "Shill"
Fuck 'em.......Oh, and, yeah, they're race-baiters, too.
The Biggest Body-Attack Yet to the Blowback Theory
Boy, do I miss this guy (not that I agreed with him 100%, mind you; the Iraq War, for example).
Ilana Mercer on Leftist Canadian Douche-Bag, Naomi Klein
"An oddball socialist scribe who, if she had been more discerning (i.e., intelligent - me editorializing/interpreting), would have credited (Nelson) Mandela for brilliantly re-branding socialism instead of criticizing the dude for not being leftist ENOUGH (Klein apparently having wanted Mandela to implement the ANC's off-the-charts radicalism of the 1950s)!!"......Yeah, that sounds like the drooling Klein for sure.
On Nelson Mandela's Opposition to George W. Bush's Iraq War
While I obviously agree with him, the fact that the Mandela-orchestrated South African army (along with the SADC) had invaded Lesotho in 1998 leads me to think that this asshole probably isn't the world's premier spokesperson for non-interventionism. Sorry but no.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
On the Bullshit Student Protests at Yale, Mizzou, etc.
Kids will be kids and they always will be. My problem is with the adults (and, no, I'm not referring here to the leftist professors who, because they're so isolated, are still pampered children themselves and whose radical ideology has often planted the seeds of this idiocy) who simply sit there and take it and who never say, no. Those folks are a disgrace.
On the Fact that the Left Responds to ANY Criticism of Islam with Moral Equivalency and Endless Mentions of the Crusades (Never Minding the Fact that the Muslims Invaded Europe First), the Spanish Inquisition, Colonial Abuses (Never Minding the Fact that the Turks Were One of the Most Brutal Colonial Powers of All), Slavery (Never Minding the Fact that the Arab Slave Trade Was as Virulent and Expansive as it Gets), etc.
Political correctness run amok (the fact that these Islamists are insane and that a failure to recognize this is potentially dangerous)............................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, I have no trouble conceding (or even arguing) the fact that U.S. foreign policy has unquestionably exacerbated the situation and that we need a thorough reexamination of it and quickly. But that's a different issue (walking and chewing gum at the same time evidently difficult for the left).
Sam Harris on Liberals and Isalm
They (the liberals) grade it (Islam) on a curve.............In a racist manner, in other words (the softer bigotry of low expectations).
On the Fact that North Carolina State Football Coach, Dave Doeren, Has Been Courting High School Superstar Defensive Tackle, Dexter Lawrence (Rated by Rivals as the Number 3 Player in the Country), So Strenuously and for So Long that His Wife Was Getting Envious Only to Have the Youngster Commit to Clemson Instead
On the Fact that 27% of British Muslims Recently Polled by the BBC Said that They Had Sympathy for the Charlie Hebdo Attackers
Scary and what's scarier still is the likelihood that that number is no doubt higher amongst the new wave of entries into Europe (that and the fact that an additional 10% were "undecided"). Political correctness, anyone?
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
On Why I Don't Like Jennifer Lawrence
'Cause when everybody says one thing (to the point of forcing it down my throat), I say, "Take a hike, Jackie boy."......That, and with a meh body she's not even a good butterface.
On the Possibility that Cruz and Rubio MIGHT Be Worse than Trump
a) Trump had the good sense to see that Bush's Iraq War was a turkey right from the get. b) He seems to think that Ukraine is none of our damned business. And c) he also seems more than willing to let Russia and Iran do the heavy lifting in Syria and that another international civil war is not in America's best interests. Yes, the dude has a lot of warts in addition but at least he seems a wee-bit more cautious than some of these other neocon ramrods and for that I will give him SOME respect.
On the Fact that (According to Economist, Steven Farron) Black-Owned Banks in the U.S. Direct a Considerably Smaller Proportion of Their Investment to Black-Owned Businesses, Neighborhoods, and Individuals than Do White-Owned Banks
Speechless doesn't even begin to cover it (the fact that black bankers are able/allowed to adequately ascertain risk but white bankers are seemingly much more constrained, yada yada) . Damn, huh?
On the Fact that 65% of Republicans Recently Polled Stated that Donald Trump Has the Right Temperament to Be President
While there are a lot other head-scratching polls out there (Republicans and the President's birth-certificate, Democrats and 9/11 being an inside-job, etc.), this one I'm especially savoring; Trump having the right temperament to be President. YOUZA!!
On the Fact that Bowe Bergdahl Is Now Facing a Possible Court Martial and Life Sentence
Yeah, I strongly suspect that there won't be any Rose Garden ceremonies for this one.
Honor and Distinction?
Yeah, the U.S. military begs to differ, it seems (the fact that he's being put on trial for desertion and facing a possible court martial).
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
On the Assertion that Abe Lincoln Was de Facto Less of a Racist than Jefferson Davis
I don't have an absolute answer here. But the fact that a) Lincoln's '61 inaugural was basically a slavery in perpetuity speech (even going as far as to make nullification of the Fugitive Slave Act illegal), b) he never once opposed the virulently racist black codes of his own state of Illinois, and c) he was trying up til his dying breaths to figure out a way get black people out of the country (through "colonization" and as a contingency plan in lieu of emancipation) leads me to think that at the very minimum it's close.
On the Fact that Libertarians Embrace the Non-Aggression Principle While Progressives and Neocons Shit, Piss, and Vomit All Over it
Yeah, that's why I'm a libertarian (or at least libertarian leaning) and not one of the other two.
On Marco Rubio Stating in One of His Commercials that Terrorists Hate Us Because We "Let Women Drive"
I've been following Presidential politics for over 40 years and that is probably one of the least nuanced statements from a candidate that I've ever heard. I mean, yes, I understand that these people are nuts and that the blowback theory has often been overstated but, come on, for a Presidential candidate to dumb it down to that degree is just way too embarrassing.
On the Fact that Lindsay Graham Is Still Gnawing at the Children's Table
The dude either has no pride or metaphysical pride. Not quite sure which.
On the Fact that Science Has Gone from a Dispassionate Search for Truth in Which the Evidence Is Questioned and the Conclusions Challenged and Reexamined to a Highly Politicized Endeavor in Which Skepticism Is Vilified, Numbers Have Been Played with, the Peer-Review Process Has Been Made a Mockery of, Cronyism on Steroids Has Emerged (Green Energy, Cap and Trade Schemes, etc.) and Lives Have Been Ruined
Cataclysmic anthropogenic climate change (what was once called, global warming), 15th Century low power-density boondoggles (windmills clocking in a watt per square meter), the vilifying of one of the major building-blocks of life (carbon), the smearing of exceptional scientists such as Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, Willie Soon, and Roy Spencer (mainly by intellectual lightweights; Salon, Desmog, etc.), idiotic claims that the "science is settled" and heinous scientific fraud (the hockey stick in which Michael Mann merged two distinct data-sets, the numerous fudgings of the data by James Hanson, etc.), ANYBODY?
Monday, December 14, 2015
For Erections Lasting More than Four Hours?
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Yeah, this ought to do it.................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, it even works on blind fellows in that simply after an utterance or two (the voice combined with what she says), boom, gone.
Yeah, this ought to do it.................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, it even works on blind fellows in that simply after an utterance or two (the voice combined with what she says), boom, gone.
On the Fact that Donald Rumsfeld Once Referred to the Iraq War as a "Last Resort War"
He either believed that BS (which would have made him a psychotic imbecile in that anyone with an IQ of 80 could have told him that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, wouldn't have ever given his WMD to terrorist schmucks, was essentially neutered by NATO, etc.) or didn't and tried to pull a fast one. Either way he's a fink and what's with 77 U.S. Senators falling in line with the guy? That's even scarier, I think.
On the Fact that There Are Still Folks Out There (Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman - He, of the Fake Alien Invasion, etc.) Trying to Convince Us that War and Natural Disasters Are Beneficial to the Economy
These folks are either morons or delusional (the fact that Frederic Bastiat totally eviscerated this stupid-assed theory over 150 years ago - the "Broken Window Fallacy", the fact that the Keynesians still can't point to a single real-world example of this BS ever having worked, etc.) and the fact that they still have an audience is incredible to me (though not entirely in that the average voter is as smart as a wet rag).
Sunday, December 13, 2015
On the Fact that in Present-Day South Africa, the Victim of a Home-Invasion Can Actually Be Held Liable for Murder if They Shoot the Perpetrator (as Stated in the Criminal Procedure Act)
Yeah, that's right, folks, before an individual can act in self-defense, it has to be established that his or her life was being threatened either through an attack that had started or one that was imminent ("South African Crime Quarterly" June 8th, 2004). What these folks are supposed to do in the mean time (while they wait to be shot and/or lunged at), they don't exactly say. Pray and mind-read, would be my guess.
On the Fact that (According to Historian, Tom Woods) Not Only Did Alexander Hamilton Vigorously Support the Alien and Sedition Acts, He Didn't Think that John Adams Enforced Them Enough and Was Actually in Favor of Additional Legislation that Would Have Restricted Free Speech Even More
And to think that there are still some people out there who consider this man, "a champion of liberty".................................................................................................P.S. And, please, keep in mind here that the fascistic Hamilton also supported protective tariffs (which severely harmed poor people), a central bank (central banking/the Fed having prompted some of the country's most severe economic downturns), internal improvements and subsidies for favored industries (making him the founding father of crony capitalism), "implied powers" (a concept that pretty much allows for any governmental caprice), a president and senators for life (kings and princes, in other words), and a national debt (which he referred to as the "national blessing" in that it opened the door for more taxation) - none of which even remotely promulgate liberty, and, so, no, no big surprise here.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
On Lincoln Equating "Departing from" with "Destroying"
Delusional, illogical, and right up there with his contention that the Union preceded the states and his absolute ignoring of the 9th and 10th Amendments (where one could quite readily assert the right to self-determination) and replacing them with one of his own.
On a Recent Egyptian Poll Which Stated that 64% of the Citizens There Supported the Death Penalty for Atheism
I suppose that in pointing this fact out I'm being Islamophobic. How did I guess?
On the Fact that if You Don't Secure Your (High Density) Energy from Under the Ground, You're Going to Have to Use Copious Amounts of Land (Have You Ever Witnessed Some of Those Wind and Solar Farms?) Above the Ground and/or Chop Down Trees Like They're Going Out of Style
And this fosters ecology......how exactly?...................................................................................................P.S. And if you think that I'm blowing smoke here, I invite you, take a look at the aerial shots of the island, Hispaniola, and compare the brown as Smokey the Bear Haitian side with the green as can be Dominican side (the Dominicans being smart enough to use butane for cooking and not wood, charcoal, palm oil, etc.). That just might convince you.
Sarah Haider (from Ex-Muslims of North America) at the American Humanist Association's 74th Annuel Conference
Every leftist boob needs to listen to this.
On Reza Aslan's Claim that Female Genital Mutilation Is Primarily a Central African Problem and Not a Muslim Problem
Yeah, tell that to the young girls of Yemen, Egypt, Malaysia, and Indonesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_female_genital_mutilation_by_country). I'm sure that they'd love to hear it.
On the Fact that UCLA Created a Bunch of Useless Majors (Such as "Critical Race Theory" and "Black Studies") in the 1990s
Yeah, it seemed to conveniently occur at around the same time that black affirmative action students started shitting the bed. So instead of having good degrees from Cal State Northridge or Cal State Fullerton, these kids had BS degrees from UCLA.......Great job, central planners, great job.
Friday, December 11, 2015
On the Fact that East-Asian-Americans and Ashkenazi Jews Continue to Dominate White Gentiles in Professions and Academic Areas Involving Mathematics
A systematic bias against white Christians? Or a cultural difference? And if it's a cultural difference, couldn't the same be said regarding blacks and the way that they lag behind not just whites and Asians but African immigrants, too?......I'm just asking here, folks (as a part of the President's conversation on race, let's say).
On the Claim Made by "South Africa Today" (Along with Journalists, Dan Roodt and Ilana Mercer) that One-Third of All Black Municipal Councilors Controlling Budgets in the Billions Are Illiterate
While I can't say for sure that this is wholly accurate, the fact that the country's infrastructure and basic services (including the electrical grid, hospitals, and refuse collection) are in total free-fall, I gotta think that it's in the ballpark.
On the Fact that Not a Single Affirmative Action Program in All of Human History Has Ever Ended Because of Success (and, Please, if You Know of One, Inform Me)
So, either affirmative action programs don't work (as Thomas Sowell, Stuart Taylor, and Richard Sander have asserted) or the government is so incompetent that they can't administer them (well, that and the fact that government programs never seem to go away in that the bureaucrats and special interests which benefit from them will never in a million years willingly relinquish their power). How pitiful.
On the Fact that James Madison (in "The Federalist Papers") Referred to "an Equal Division of Property" as an "Improper Wicked Project"
Feel free to dismiss him because he was a slaveholder, if so inclined, but just beware and, please, PLEASE, look around, for Christ (the fact that governments have slaughtered hundreds of millions of folks and have often cloaked this mass-murder with the finest of intentions and the sweetest of linguistic garb; progressivism, socialism, liberalism - which they stole from classical liberals, egalitarianism, etc.)!
Thursday, December 10, 2015
On the Fact that White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, Today Referred to the San Bernardino Terror Attacks as "Gun Violence" and Lamented the Fact that Honest Law-Abiding Citizens Were Purchasing Guns to Protect Themselves
This is one of the most agenda-driven administrations in history (and, trust me, I was no big fan of the previous one, either) and using their twisted logic 9/11 was "airplane violence".
The Emancipation Proclamation
What would be my answer to the question, "So, what in your opinion is the most cynical, overrated, and meaningless document ever offered by a western leader (the fact that only "freed" slaves that were held in rebel territory, the fact that it allowed slavery to continue in the northern and border states and even in union-held rebel territory, the fact that it allowed a continuance of slavery in the southern states if the southern states stopped rebelling and returned to the union, the fact that it was essentially a military document in that its primary purpose was to foster a slave rebellion, etc.)?"
On the Fact that Jimbo Fisher Is 68-13 in His First Six Years at FSU
That's impressive but what the boosters really like is the fact that he's 15-3 against Florida, Miami, and Clemson (FSU's three major rivals). That's where the rubber really hits the road.
On Fox News's Greg Gutfeld (Fox Now Apparently Being THE Neocon Network) Saying that if We Wanted to We Could Crush ISIS in 48 Hours
They only way that we could do that would be to drop an H-bomb; the fact that if we tried to engage them from the ground they would just filter into the civilian population which would then necessitate house to house combat, the fact that even if we were to defeat them rapidly it would obviously call for another lengthy occupation (this one potentially without the blessings of the Iraqis), etc.. I think that we just have to face it here that there is no simple solution and that maybe, just maybe, sitting back and letting the Iranians and Russians take the incoming for a while isn't the dumbest strategy (that along with strengthening our defenses - port and border security, for example - and intelligence, of course).
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
On Ben Bernanke in 2008 Telling the Congress that Unless We Bailed Out the Big Banks Another Great Depression Would Quickly Transpire
Complete and absolute bullshit. a) Most lending in this country takes place outside the realm of Wall Street banks and banks in general (discussed at length in Tom Woods's "Meltdown"). b) Japan and Germany were essentially reduced to rubble during WW2 and within a couple of years (thanks to free market capitalism and NOT the Marshall Plan) both of these economies were percolating (Bernanke apparently thinking that the failure of a Wall Street bank is far more lethal than nuclear devastation and fire-bombing). And c) Governments don't have resources and so the only thing that a bailout does is shift the money from point A (which is probably sound) to point B (which obviously isn't sound).......I think that we just have to face it here that the modern economics profession is insane (save for the Austrians and a handful from the Chicago School) and what's even more frightening is that mindless politicians (Pelosi, Boehner, Lott, etc.) continue to lap this elixir up (not the least bit surprising in that cronyism surges through their veins) and think that they're accomplishing something.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
On the Fact that There's Never Been a Mass-Shooting at a Gun Show, NRA Meeting, or Tea-Party Rally
Mass-killers may be crazy and they may be evil but they certainly aren't stupid.
On the Fact that Bernie Sanders Is Attempting to Blame ISIS on (Man-Made) Climate Change
This man is either a bald-faced liar or an ignoramus beyond belief. As Roger Pielke has pointed out on numerous occasions (in his masterful book, "The Climate Fix", and during his Senate Testimony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_oynx1D8w), extreme weather events have not gotten a) more frequent, b) more extreme, or c) more damaging (climate deaths in fact have gone down by 95%!!). And it isn't just Pielke who's been saying this in that even the IPCC alarmists have conceded the fact. Hopefully the American public can see through this bullshit as well and ultimately realize that if schmucks like Sanders, Boxer, Gore, etc. could put a meter on your forehead and charge you for your breaths (especially if you possessed some coin), they'd do it before you could blink. Assholes.
Monday, December 7, 2015
On the Fact that it Now Appears that the Murder of 9 Year-Old Tyshawn Lee Was a Retribution Gang Killing Against the Kid's Father
So this doesn't make the Black Lives Matter movement's radar but some high out of his mind knife-wielding lunatic breaking into cars and refusing multiple requests to get on the ground getting gunned down by a cop does? Yeah, I don't know about that (the hypocrisy, lack of perspective, etc.), folks.
On the Fact that (According to Harvard's Steven Pinker) War-Related Deaths Have Gone Down From 300 per 100,000 During the Peak of World War 2 to Under 1 per 100,000 Today
This is an astonishing fact and the reason for it is that warfare
between countries has become exceedingly rare (in large part due to
democratization, economic liberalization, trade, etc.). Yes, the world
is still filled to the brim with civil wars (and the occasional
international civil war - thank you, George Bush and Barack Obama) but
these tend to be less severe and, while the media loves to play up every
single conflict, the facts are significantly less dire than the
wall-to-wall coverage, thank God.............Recommended reading - "The
Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker
Sunday, December 6, 2015
On the Joan Fontaine Versus Olivia de Havilland Sisterly Hate-Fest
Yeah, that would have been an awesome cat-fight (and like Kramer hypothesized, they might accidentally kiss).
On the Fact that Clemson Head Coach, Dabo Swinney, Chewed Out His Punter for a Good Five Minutes After the Latter Tried to Run for a First Down Instead of Just Punting the Damned Ball
Yeah, there aren't any "safe zones" or "trigger warnings" in football, even college football.
On the Trusting of One's Well-Being to Parasitic Government Bureaucrats, Lifelong Bought and Paid for Politicians, and Greasy-Assed, Power-Hungry Union Bosses
You can't have a boatload of self-esteem to live like that, and don't even get me going on the naivete. Please. PLEASE.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
On the Fact that (Again, According to FBI Crime Statistics and Steven Pinker) the Homicide Rate in this Country Has Gone Down by Over 50% in Just the Past Two Decades
Two points a) You'd never know this by listening to the politicians and media and b) this decline has occurred simultaneously to a huge increase in gun ownership and right-to-carry laws and so, no, more guns has NOT correlated with more violence. Interesting.
On the Fact that (According to Researcher, Frederick R. Lynch) Prudential Used to Require that its Applicants Pass a 9th Grade Reading Test but Because Too Many Black Applicants Were Failing it Was Forced by the Courts to Ditch this Requirement
So, is this a part of "checking" one's "white privilege", too?............Seriously, though, can you even begin to imagine what John F. Kennedy (who never envisioned affirmative action like this EVER), Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington would be thinking if they were alive to witness this? They'd be aghast, I think.
On the Fact that (According to the FBI's National Crime Victimization Survey and Harvard's Steven Pinker) Rape and Domestic Violence (Especially Against Women) Are Down by 75% and 70% Respectively Since Their Peak in the Mid-1970s
This is only surprising to the extent that the left and radical feminists have been trying to push their agenda. I mean, it only makes sense that as societies become more modernized, civilized, and interconnected, violence of all kinds will more than likely be reduced and that this is just one permutation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRhoIl5DbfE
Friday, December 4, 2015
On the "Risk" of Using Fossil Fuels
You think that that's risky, try the risk of NOT using 'em; walking to the emergency room while you're bleeding out (instead of using a gas-powered ambulance), only going to hospitals that are powered by solar-panels and windmills, attempting to make steel out of windmills when we only know that the opposite is possible, etc.. That'll teach ya'.
On the Length to Which Our Government Will Go to Pacify the Undifferentiated Masses by Mulcting the Few/Placate the Envious by Pilfering from Those Who They Envy
I guess that it depends upon who's in charge of that government. If it's Sanders, Frank, or Warren, we're probably talking Ron Jeremy length here with the Road to Serfdom rapidly morphing into a super-highway.
On the Fact that Corporate, Political, and Academic Elites Rarely if Ever Resist the Implementation of Race-Based Quotas
Yeah, it's all about not getting sued by government agencies, various minority pressure-groups, etc.. Pure cowardice, in other words.
On the Fact that in the Aftermath of the San Bernardino Terror Killings the President Immediately Went Into Gun-Control Mode
The dude's basically on automatic pilot at this point and more checked out he could not be.
On the Leftist Environmentalist Concept of Nature as Some Sort of Ansel Adams Photograph or Garden of Eden and Man as a Rousseauian Noble Savage Operating Blissfully as a Part of it
The idiocy of these folks is off the charts. As anybody with any sort of knowledge and common sense can inform you, human life prior to industrial civilization (which obviously includes the discovery and utilization of fossil fuels) wasn't just short and brutish, it was also completely and fully AT THE MERCY OF THE CLIMATE!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, that's right, folks, at the very same time that man has (potentially) altered the atmospheric CO2 levels from .027% to .039%, not only has global life expectancy more than doubled and the standard of living for a significant slice of the planet gone up exponentially, CLIMATE-RELATED DEATHS HAVE PLUMMETED BY OVER 95%!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, what's probably the most nauseating aspect of all is the fact that these same hooligans aren't just benefiting from civilization, fossil fuel use, mining (they evidently think that those cell-phones and kindles fall out of the sky), etc., they're making out like lottery winners and leaving some of the largest "carbon footprints" in human history (Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Cameron, etc.). Man, do I ever hate these folks.
On the Fact that (According to Economist/Historian, Tom Woods) Asian-Americans Are Approved for Mortgages at a Higher Rate than Whites
So, does this prove that there's a pervasive anti-white bias in lending and that we need to impose draconian remediation measures to correct this bias (and, yes, this is quite obviously a rhetorical question)?
On the Fact that Jason Riley and Heather MacDonald Have Diametrically Opposing Views on Immigration and Yet They Both Belong to the Manhattan Institute
Interesting and, yes, something (AKA, a diversity of opinion) that their intellectual cross-town brethren over at Columbia University just might want to emulate from time to time. My two cents worth.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
On Red-Haired, Green-Eyed, 50-Something Television Actress, Melinda McGraw
This chick is so smolderingly hot that I was even willing sit through episodes of "The Commsih" to scope her out.
On the Seemingly Bipartisan Mainstreaming of Drone Warfare
So, of all the possible issues to NOT have a vigorous debate about, the Democrats and Republicans selected this one; the targeting and assassination of "suspected" terrorists in multiple countries via remote control replete with massive destruction, civilian casualties, etc.?...Yeah, we have two major war parties, folks.
On the Fact that Cornell Law School Now Has a Higher Percentage of Graduates that Pass the Bar Exam on Their First Try (Almost 97%, Making Them Number One in New York State) than Columbia and NYU Law Schools Do - (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotlights/Cornell-1-in-Bar-Pass-Rate_2015.cfm)
Go Red!!
On the Fact that One of the Amenities of Brown University's "Safe Rooms" Is a Video Which Shows Frolicking Puppies
Note to the parents of these kids. You do realize, don't you, that you're basically driving a new Mercedes off the cliff every year by paying for this horse-shit and that unless the kid is majoring in science, medicine, or engineering it's probably all for naught? HELLO!!
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
On Charles Krauthammer (on Fox, of Course) Lionizing President Bush Senior for the Way that He Conducted the First Gulf War in 1990
He made some good points (the way that Bush assembled the coalition, for example) but what he left out (either intentionally or out of sheer ignorance) was the fact that the Bush administration all but waved Saddam Hussein into Kuwait and made it patently clear that we would NOT intervene in the event of war. So, while, yeah, he fought the war well, the fact that it never should have happened in the first place kind of obviates that, I think (though, yes, if my choice was strictly between Bush and Bush the elder, elder would still prevail).
On the Fact that the Two Largest Spending Reductions in U.S. History (in 1921 and 1945) Just So Happened to Coincide with the Two Fastest Economic Recoveries in U.S. History
Just another coincidence, I'm assuming..............................................................................................................Seriously, though, Keynesian economics is either the most unlucky philosophy on the globe or the purest of bullshit. Probably the latter.
On the Fact that (According to Boston University Economist, Laurence Kitlikoff - No Right-Winger) America's Unfunded Liabilities (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Veteran's Benefits, etc.) Aren't 70 or 80 Billion but Closer to 220 Billion (http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/01/economist_laurence_kotlikoff_us_222_trillion_in_debt_363.htm)
Let me guess here. Tax the rich more?
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
On the Fact that (According to the CDC) 1,000,000,000,000 Germs Can Survive in Just One Gram of Fecal Matter
This needs to be pasted on the wall of every hospital, convalescent home, and rehab facility on the planet (the fact that tens of thousands of people die every year from mostly preventable hospital infections).
On the Falling Out Between William F. Buckley and Murray Rothbard in the Late 1960s
Yeah, it was about Vietnam (Rothbard having the good sense to see the utter futility of the operation and Buckley not so much). What else?
On Hannity Referring to Newt Gingrich as a "Great Historian"
There are sliding scales and then there are SLIDING SCALES. This was a SLIDING SCALE........................................................................................................P.S. The truly great historians in my mind are people such as Charles Adams, Ralph Raico, and Robert Higgs in that they are the ones with no sacred cows and who challenge the standard government narrative, as we all should.
On the Fact that the Left Has No Problem Accepting the Theory (Even Embracing it) that Sin Taxes Reduce the Sinful Behavior but Won't Even Entertain the Possibility that Income Taxes (Especially at a Certain Level) Reduce Income
Not surprising in that intellectual honesty and logic have never been their strong suits.
On the Fact that the Central Kalahari Bushmen Have Been Barred by the Botswana Bantu from Claiming Their Ancestral Homeland
And the self-righteous indignation, hand-wringing, and international uproar pertaining to this is where exactly?............Seriously, though, I haven't heard this much echoing silence from the left since King Hussein (and NOT the Israelis) mowed down thousands and thousands of Palestinians during Black September (circa, 1970 to 1971).
Monday, November 30, 2015
On the Fact that (According to Economist, Edward Pinto) 76% of the Subprime Loans in the U.S. at the Time of the Housing Crisis in 2008 Were on the Books of Government Agencies; Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, HUD, etc.
And yet we still have partisan idiots like Krugman going around saying that the crisis wasn't at all caused by government policies. Unbelievable, huh?
Sunday, November 29, 2015
On the Fact that (According to Economist, Marion L. Tupy) the Number of People Living in Absolute Poverty in South Africa Has Doubled Since the ANC Came to Power in 1994
Further proof that the ANC has ruined the country.......Dead or poor, take your pick.
On the Fact (Well, Opinion) that 90% of the Better Songs from the Rolling Stones' Phenomenal Musical Canon Were Penned and Recorded Prior to 1973
I guess that rock and roll truly is a young person's musical genre.
On the Fact that WW2 Was Initially Referred to as "The War for the Independence and Freedom of Poland"
Mission - not accomplished. History - rearranged (AKA sanitized).
Saturday, November 28, 2015
On the Fact that the De Beers Diamond Company Was Forced by the ANC Government to Create a Black-Controlled Diamond Mining Company
And the chairman of this new mining company? Yeah, it's an influential senior member of the ANC; a fellow by the name of Manne Dipico (personal advantage derived from political influence clearly the norm). In the now famous words of Gomer Pyle, "Surprise! Surprise!"
On Steph Curry
This kid (and, yes, 28 is still a kid in my mind) is the best combination of shooter, ball-handler, and passer that I have ever seen (and I've been watching basketball for over four decades); better than Jerry West, better than Oscar Robertson, better than Walt Frazier, better than Earl "the pearl" Monroe, better than Pete Maravich, better than Dave Bing - better than all of them. He's also a super person, teammate, and role-model who's only flaw is that he's maybe a little TOO unselfish (his teammates want him to shoot MORE). Talk about a breath of fresh air.
On the Fact that Syracuse Is Apparently Considering Recently Dismissed Miami Coach, Al Golden, as Their Next Football Coach
He couldn't win with the talent down there (yes, he was a good recruiter). How's he gonna win at the 'Cuse?...Bad idea.
Groucho on Politics
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."......Now THIS is a Marx who I agree with............................................................................................P.S. The most obvious example of this is of course anthropogenic global warming; the fact that governments have tried to pin what has been a modest temperature increase (.7 degree Celsius) over the past 130 years on human-induced CO2 when we all know that that's patently ludicrous (the fact that a significant chunk of the warming took place in '20s and '30s - well before the massive increase in man-made carbon emissions, the fact that CO2 has a strong logarithmic relationship with atmospheric warming, the fact that feedbacks in natural systems are almost invariably negative, the fact that the increases in CO2 have only correlated with the thermally-induced CO2, the fact that global sea-ice has essentially been a flat line for 30 years, etc., etc.) and then tried to "fix" this nonexistent problem with moronic green energy solutions such as ethanol (.05 watts per square meter and wind turbines ( a watt per square meter) and a cap and trade scheme that has only benefited big bankers and other fat-cats.
Economist (and Former Adviser to Gorbachev), Yuri Maltzev, on His Experience Working for The Soviet Government
"Working is a serious overstatement of my activities there."......So, kind of like here but much worse, in other words.
Friday, November 27, 2015
On the Fact that (According to Writer and South African Exile, Ilana Mercer) Every Year Millions of Rands in Taxpayers' Money Are Paid Out to Private Security Companies to Protect South Africa's Police Stations
There is so much absurdity in this world that I sometimes get anesthetized by it. But THIS is so ridiculous that even I had to chuckle. THE COPS CAN'T EVEN DEFEND THEIR OWN DAMNED POLICE STATIONS!!!......Yet another ANC success story, folks.
On the Fact that (According to Economist, Brian Riedl) the Vast Majority of Farm Assistance Goes to Commercial Farmers with an Average Income of $200,000 and an Average Net Worth of $2,000,000 - Quick Addendum
Not that these farm subsidies are a huge part of the overall budget, but five billion here and five billion there it really does start to add up and if the two parties can't agree that this bullshit should be cut, heaven help us.
On the Fact that (According to Economist, Brian Riedl) the Vast Majority of Farm Assistance Goes to Commercial Farmers with an Average Income of $200,000 and an Average Net Worth of $2,000,000
And these are 2007 figures. Frightening, huh (though not all surprising in that as Public Choice Theory informs us, it is the small politically active class that tends to secure the large government favors - sugar tariffs, for example - while the rest of us pays for them)?
Thursday, November 26, 2015
And the President of the University of Missouri Could Have Prevented Some Idiot from Shouting a Racial Epithet (Allegedly) at a Black Dude on the Outskirts of the Campus
HOW......exactly (the poor bastard being forced to relinquish his livelihood as a response to this ridiculousness)?
On Herbert Marcuse
A radical leftist buffoon who was a) anti-the scientific method ("the enemy"), b) anti-work, c) anti-free-speech/the free exchange of viewpoints (free-speech being only for the "oppressed"), d) pro-free-sex ("don't work, have sex"), e) anti-logic and debate (no need for such things in that Marxism provides all the answers), f) pro-utopia, and g) a writer of pure gobbledygook and BS. In a nutshell.
On the Fact that the Chinese Minority in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam Have NEVER Possessed Significant Political Power and Have in Fact Been Officially Discriminated Against and They've Still Perpetually Outperformed (Ofttimes to a Major Extent) the Majorities Both Economically and Educationally in Each of These Nations
This one fact alone blows to smithereens the absolutely cartoonish notion of the left that discrimination is the most important (singular in the minds of some) variable determining group differences in achievement. And there are obviously other ones; the fact that Jews achieve at a higher rate than Hispanics do IN HISPANIC COUNTRIES, the fact that the Japanese were so discriminated in this country that they were put into internment camps during WW2 and totally dispossessed and by 1959 they were making as much as white Americans were, the fact that African and West-Indian black immigrants do significantly better (in school and in the market-place) than African-Americans born here do, etc., etc........................................................................................................Not that any of this evidence will ever be persuasive to the ruling-class in that it all but neuters the necessity of their existence (the fact that they need the unfairness argument to reign supreme so that they can gallop in on their white horses and rescue the oppressed). But the rest of us can appreciate these facts and hopefully arrive at a much more nuanced and empirical conclusion and at the very least not make the situation worse (as affirmative action - in Sri Lanka, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, as well as the United States - clearly has).
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Socialist Buffoons on How to Amass a Small Fortune
"Start with a large fortune and prune away at it."
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
The Lesson from Sweden
If Sweden had been the 3rd wealthiest country on the planet under socialism, fell to 17th after 20 years of capitalism, and then soared once again when government spending went from 49% of GDP to 67% of GDP and the top marginal tax rate from 50-something percent to 80 something percent, the left would be championing this A-B-A scenario as a perfect example of successful government intervention/central planning (to which they'd have a decent amount of justification in that this is about as close as one can get to a controlled experiment in economics). Of course, being that the exact opposite was actually happened in Sweden, they're spinning like a bunch of drooling buffoons and circling the wagons YET AGAIN. Oh well, you've gotta at least admire their depravity, err, I mean, persistence.
On the Fact that America's Colleges Have Gone From a Bastion of Vigorous Debate to a Pitiful Cesspool of "Trigger Warnings", "Safe Spaces", "Micro-Aggressions", and a Singularity and Systematizing of Thought that Borders on the Kafkaesque
And then we wonder why poor Johnny can't find his way home after "graduating".
On the Fact that Whenever a Woman (Andrea Yates, for Example) Goes on Killing-Spree it's Mental Illness but Whenever a Dude (Like Elliot Rodger) Goes on a Killing-Spree it's Misogyny
Feminist logic 101 (at least amongst the more radical sects).
Note to Islamic Extremists
You can't slaughter people for making sport of you. You simply can't (the fact that literally every schoolyard in America would be strewn with corpses if this was the case). And, so, yeah, you're either going to have to develop a tougher skin, a live and let live philosophical mindset, or get your asses handed to you by a bunch of pissed-off westerners (and, trust me, they'll do it). I report, you decide.
Monday, November 23, 2015
On Donald Trump's Claim that He Saw THOUSANDS of Folks (Muslims, Ostensibly) in New Jersey Cheering When the Twin Towers Came Down on 9/11
He's confusing Jersey with the West Bank and, so, yeah, he probably flunked geography as well.
On the Fact the Jews Accepted the 1937 Peel Commission Offer of 6% of British Mandate Palestine (the Hashemite Kingdom Already Having Been Awarded 70% of it) - this, While the Palestinian Arabs Said, "Stuff it"
And the Jews were the unreasonable party toward the creation of Israel how exactly? 6% versus 94%.
On What Clearly Would Have Been an Illegal U.S. Military Occupation of a Sovereign Nation
Yes, Obama (who I am not a fan of FYI) could have left a residual military force behind in Iraq, but it WOULD NOT have been with the consent of the Iraqi government (you know, the one that we had essentially backed) OR the Iraqi citizens. And so, yes, not only would these actions have been a violation of international law, they would have also been immoral, fool-hardy, etc.. Look, I'm not saying that Obama has been good on foreign policy and his dithering half-way measures are probably the worst of both worlds but to try and lay the entire blame for ISIS on him is more than a little unfair, I think.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
On John Kerry's Awkward and Head-Scratching Attempt to Differentiate the Charlie Hebdo Attacks from the More Recent Paris Attacks
Sometimes you can nuance yourself straight to stupidity. A case in point.
On People Who Commune Over Race, Religion, Ethnicity, etc. - as Opposed to Logic
I have zero respects for 'em. Be an individual or crawl in a hole is my philosophy....Boot-licking schmucks.
On the Fact that ISIS Is Murdering Gay Men by Dropping Them Off of Buildings
Saturday, November 21, 2015
On the Government's Despicable Antitrust Case Against Alcoa Aluminum
Yet another low point for sure. a) Alcoa was company that achieved market dominance through efficiency and technological innovation and not through funny business, cronyism, etc.. b) Even Judge Hand of the U.S. Court of Appeals had conceded that Alcoa was an honest company and had essentially invented the aluminum business, greatly expanded production, and significantly cut prices - its only sin being that it was successful (Hand practically chided them for expanding and introducing new technologies). And c) Judge Hand, in an effort to overstate Alcoa's market share, counted only primary ingot aluminum sales and disregarded the growing market for scrap aluminum. And all the while the customer got reamed AGAIN.............Sources - "Antitrust and Monopoly" by Dominick Armentano and "Bully Boy" by Jim Powell.
Coutesy of the Defense Intelligence Agency - October 5, 2012
"During the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused
by, the downfall of the (Qaddafi) regime in October 2011 and up until
early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military
stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of
Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam,
Syria. The Syrian ports were chosen due to the small amount of cargo
traffic transiting these two ports. The ships used to transport the
weapons were medium-sized and able to hold 10 or less shipping
containers of cargo. The weapons shipped from Syria during late-August
2012 were Sniper rifles, RPG’s and 125mm and 155mm howitzers missiles.
The numbers for each weapon were estimated to be: 500 Sniper rifles, 100
RPG launchers with 300 total rounds, and approximately 400 howitzers
missiles [200 ea – 125mm and 200ea – 155 mm.]."............So, the Obama administration KNEW that weapons were being shipped from the port of Benghazi to the Syrian rebels. Interesting. Of course, what makes this even more dubious is the fact that we also knew (per this same assessment) that a) al Qaeda was a big part of the opposition in Syria (yeah, that's right, we were arming al Qaeda) and b) a destabilization of Syria could easily lead to an Islamic insurgence....Damn, do I ever wish that these Presidents would listen to our first one and avoid these stupid foreign entanglements.
A Plea to (Football) Coach Turned Broadcaster, Tom O'Brien
It's not golf, dude. YOU DON'T NEED TO WHISPER!!!
Friday, November 20, 2015
On the Young Turks
Research - not hastily drawn and lazy enough. Arguments/positions - not poorly constructed enough.............P.S. Check this; one of the most devastating take-downs in Youtube history, directed at our friends, the Turks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eziz4l9C-Go
Cowboy Junkies LIve in Liverpool 1) I Don't Get It 2) Good Friday
One of the coolest bands ever. Just don't listen to 'em while your driving (heroine music and driving - not a good mix).
On the Fact that History Is Increasingly Being Taught Not as a Factual Enterprise but as a Palliative One
So, we're going from whitewashing to therapy (with a huge dose of dumbing down thrown in for good measure) - gotta love it!!
Benghazi, Arms for Rebels & Obama Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons
I've always had a feeling that those Syrian chemical attacks were bogus, and now that Seymour Hersh (one of the country's best investigative reporters) has come out with this new information, I think it even more. Please, watch.
On Bantu Chief, Shaka Zulu
He was a monster and psychopath on the same level as Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and Mao. Especially brutal was his wholesale killing-spree and ethnic-cleansing of what today is the Orange Free State (circa 1820) in which the lunatic slaughtered up to 2,000,000 natives and chased out the rest - the end result being a hundred mile swath of desolation. I mean, I know that we love throwing the word, genocide, around a lot these days, to the point where it has largely lost its descriptive oomph, but if this isn't genocide, what is?............Sources - Donald Morris's "The Washing of the Spears" and Ilana Mercer's "Into the Cannibal's Pot"
On the Claim that Libertarians Are a Monolith/Proof-Positive that They Aren't
This is a great debate; civil, enlightening, thought-provoking, etc.. I strongly suggest that you check it out.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
On the Fact that the U.S Has Purportedly Dropped Some 2,500 Bombs on Syria (Essentially Destroying the Infrastructure)
Only in the warped, degenerative mind of the neocon (the Krauthammers, Boltons, McCains, and Grahams of the world) could something like this ever be described as weak (ineffectual maybe but weak, no) - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/syria-russia-says-air-strikes-last-three-four-months-accuses-us-pretending-bomb-isis-1522142
On the Fact that a Shitload of Black Activists Are Presently Burning Up Twitter with Beefs Pertaining to the Level of Press Coverage that the Paris Terror Attacks Have Been Receiving and Are Alleging this this Attention Is Somehow Taking Away Coverage from Their Grievances at the University of Missouri
So, a poop Swastika (that not one person thought to take a picture of) and some yahoo who may or may not have been affiliated with the University shouting out the n-word from a moving vehicle deserves the same level of coverage as 129 people being slaughtered (with hundreds more wounded)? Damn, huh?...........................................................................................................P.S. Whatever else that these spoiled brats (probably a lot of the same morons who booed Bernie Sanders) have learned at the "academy", perspective surely isn't one of them.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
On Black Lives Mattering
There's never been an argument from me. IN FACT, being that the black murder rate is fully 6 times that of whites (17.5 per 100,000 versus 2.6 per 100,000) with the perpetrators being 93% other black people, I'm actually quite insulted that this bullshit is being placed not just at my doorstep but the law enforcement community's, too.......STOP BLOWING YOUR FUCKING BRAINS OUT (much of it over foolishness; half-eaten Snickers bars, Air Jordan sneaks, some big-butted heifer, a slight, etc.), PEOPLE. BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!
On the Fact that Skip Bayless Still Thinks that the 2-7 Cowboys Will Make the Playoffs
Note to ESPN - order more straitjackets.
On the Fact that (According to Anti-War Radio and Antiwar.com) Israel's Own Atomic Energy Commission Has Endorsed the Iran Nuclear Agreement and Found that on a Technical Level it Will More than Likely Prevent the Iranians from Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon
And the American media is ignoring this......why exactly (and instead focusing on the rants of Netanyahu, McCain, Rubio, Trump, Cruz, the Odious Mark Levin, etc. - Folks Who Criticized the Bill Before They Even Read it)? I mean, are they THAT enmeshed in the U.S. war-machine to ignore THIS? How pitiful if that's the case.
On the Fact that Pro-Blacks Are Foaming at the Mouth Over CNN's Don Lemon Having an Errant View (and in Fact Wish to Destroy the Man's Livelihood) but Continue to Ignore the Vile, Homophobic, Violent, Buffoonish, Moronic, and Sexist Antics of Rappers Such as Kanye West and Mos Def
It's a huge problem, folks, and until the leaders of the black community come to grips with it that community will continue to traverse backwards.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
On the Democratic Party's Pitiful Descent from Grover Cleveland, Al Smith, John F. Kennedy, William Proxmire, Bill Daley, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Ed Koch
To these two fucking imbeciles - horrid and every bit as bad as the Republican decline from Howard Baker, Bob Dole, and Everett Dirksen to Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, and Michele Bachmann.
On the Fact that if Pro-Blacks Really Cared About the Plight of Black People They Would Support Barry Scheck's Innocence Project but, Being that They Don't and Instead Simply Babble Incessantly About Victimhood, Gotta Wonder
They really need to change the name to "Agendas Matter". Or maybe "Narratives Matter".
Monday, November 16, 2015
On the Fact that Rudy Giuliani Actually Ventured on Fox News Tonight and Advocated that We Occupy (with 50,000 Troops) Iraq Indefinitely (Comparing it to Our Stay in South Korea)
That just might be the most moronic comment of the year (worse than even the BS from Trump and Sanders). They fucking hate us over there and even if they did consent to our presence (doubtful in that the Status of Forces Agreement mandated out departure - ditto, the Iraqi agreement with Iran) the terrorists would simply move to another country and damned if there wouldn't be more of these slugs due to the American occupation serving as a recruiting tool. Giuliani's a boob, flat out, and if he actually thinks that yet another illegal occupation is the answer to our prayers then he's never studied history OR logic. Occupy Iraq indefinitely - yeah, right.
On the Concept of God as Some Bloodthirsty SOB Whose Only Goal it Appears is To Convince People that Detonating Yourself in a Crowded Room of Civilians is Somehow a Purpose-Driven Existence
As an agnostic who finds all religion more or less silly, I must confess that do prefer the old-fashioned notion of some venerable bearded dude in the sky judging us askew for checking out married women, and it isn't even close at this point.
On President Obama Spouting that Thoroughly Discredited Claim that 1 out of Every 5 College-Aged Women Will Ultimately Be Raped
Do they simply not have a fact-checker at the White House? Yes, folks, there is a study from the CDC (and an older one by an activist named Mary Koss) which claims what the President is claiming, but it is seriously flawed (the main flaw being that they count all episodes of drunken sex in which the woman regrets it in the morning as "rape" and all episodes in which the man lies to the woman in an effort to get her in the sack as "sexual violence). A much more accurate number (one that is considered the gold standard) is the one which comes from the Justice Department Crime Survey; 1 in 50 (still a troubling number but not the type that produces hysteria)......................................................................................................Of course the $64,000 question is why in the hell did Obama use the bogus stat? Stupidity? More pandering? I'd kind of like to know.
On the Fact that Three Black Teenagers Busted Into a Las Vegas Home In February and Brutally Raped a Woman at Knife-Point (Her Husband Being Forced to Watch) and Crickets from the Radical Feminists, Leftist Media, Pro-Blacks, etc.
Yeah, this woman had two strikes against her. a) She was white and b) she was a porn actress. And, besides, the media is always way too busy covering ludicrous white on black rape stories (Tawana Brawley, Duke, and UVA) that more definitively fit their narrative (blacks as perpetual victims) to ever care about something like this - http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/cytherea-raped-by-gang-of-teen-thugs
Sunday, November 15, 2015
On the FDA's Jihad Against Rare Diseases
Since 1962 (the year that the Kefauver Amendments were passed), the length of time that it takes to get a drug from the lab to the market has TRIPLED (from 5 to 15 years) and the cost is now approaching a BILLION dollars per drug. This has made it almost impossible for a new drug that addresses rare diseases to be brought to market because a company could never recoup its expense never mind make a damned profit - this while people are suffering....Government killing people, folks - it's what they do.
On the Necessity of Racism
The government needs it as a means to sustain itself (the "we can fix it" attitude) while certain elements of the black community need to explain away their mediocrity. ERGO, don't expect it to go away any time soon.
On the Corrupting Influence of Koch Brothers Money
Yeah, it's a tad unseemly, I agree. But as long as the Democratic Party continues to promise (and often deliver) everything under the sun (for "free") to the American public and bend over backwards to THEIR special interests (leftist environmentalists, unions, etc.), I think that they will continue to do just fine and, so, no, no need to worry.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Note to Senator Rubio
You are ignorant of history, son. The conservative movement in America has never been about foreign interventionism. From Robert Taft to Grover Cleveland (the last of the Jeffersonian Democrats),
Herbert Hoover, Hamilton Fish the third, General Robert Wood, George
Holden Tinkham, Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, Murray Rothbard, Felix
Morely, James McClellan, Robert Nisbet, and Frank Kellogg - all of these
guys and many more (conservatives in government, the military, academia,
the press, etc.) were opposed to American involvement in foreign wars
and they weren't even remotely the exception (this while the left was
blowing shit up and intervening everywhere; Europe, Asia, Central
America, etc.). My suggestion is that you open up a few
history volumes and stop listening to Charles Krauthammer, reading the Wall Street Journal, etc..
On People Who Go to Web-Sites that They Profess to Despise Simply to Fuss, Argue, and Trade Insults with Other Bloggers
That is so far from normal behavior that it's discomforting. Agree?
Friday, November 13, 2015
On the Fact that that Idiot Hunger-Striker from the University of Missouri Who Claims to Be Oppressed Is Actually the Son of a Rich Railroad Executive Who Made Over $8 Million Last Year (a Figure that Would Put the Dude and His Family in the Top .1%)
Spoiled brat, unsubstantiated allegations, and professional agitator had a kid, it seems.
On "Hate Crimes" at the University of Missouri
I can only count two; those two poor bastards who got bounced out of a job for no fucking reason other than a mob of whiners demanded it.
On the Fact that Black on White Crime Is Being Ignored at University of Missouri
Might we have at least a small dose of journalistic and academic integrity? I mean, is that too much to ask of these people?
On the Fact that 150 French Civilians Just Got Murdered in What Appears to Be a Terrorist Attack
A major blow to the "blowback" theory it seems (the fact that the French haven't invaded Iraq, sent boatloads of money and armaments to Israel, stationed troops in the Holy Land, etc.).
Relief (the Fact that She Wouldn't Have to Contend with STDs, Unwanted Pregnancies, Bozos, etc.)
What would be my answer to the question, "So, what would be your mental state if your daughter ever informed you that she was a lesbian?"
On Standing in Line at the Post Office While Having to Take a HUGE Leak
Wear a Depends, would be my suggestion (that and pray to God that one of the super efficient East-Asian women waits on you and not one of the slant-headed white asshole males).
On the Fact that the Cowardly Western Media Referred to the Murder of Afrikaner Separatist/Resistance Leader, Eugene Terre'Blanche (He Was Bludgeoned to an Unrecognizable Pulp and Left with His Pants Pulled Down to Underscore the Humiliation), as a "Labor Dispute"
Does anyone in his or her right mind think that if the races of the victim and perpetrators were reversed, the media would act the same? "Cause if there is, I would LOVE to do business with them. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
On Trump's Stupid Comments Pertaining to Mexican Immigrants
If he had made those comments about any other group; blacks, Jews, Asians, gays, American Indians, even Muslims, the dude would have been eviscerated and his candidacy ended. But because they were levied against Mexicans, Guatemalans, etc., he continues to skate. Un-fucking-real.............................................................................................P.S. And now he wants to set up a bunch of deportation squads to rid the country of 12,000,000 illegals in less than a year, which is both draconian AND unfeasible. Wake me when it's over, would you?
On the Fact that Change.org and Various Other Leftist Sites Are Trying to Get CNN's Don Lemon Off the Air Simply Because He Refuses to Drink the Cyanide-Laced Purple Kool-Aid Which States that All Black People Must Think a Certain Way
These people are so fucking ignorant. There has NEVER been a unanimity of thought in the black community (and, yes, I hate that term); from Frederick Douglass confronting his critics, to Booker T. Washington debating with W.E.B. Dubois, to Martin Luther King disagreeing with Malcolm X, to Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Robert Woodson confronting liberal orthodoxy in the '70s and '80s. And, while, yes, the black vote has largely gone Democratic over the past four decades or so years, nowhere is it written that it must continue that way and I have to ask these assholes - so, who was it that died and made your opinion THE opinion of black people, and until they do answer it, flock 'em........................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, I DO like Don Lemon. The fellow is fair, open-minded, and a role-model not just for African-Americans but gay folks (it's not easy being gay in the black community - just ask Lemon), too.
On the Fact that Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tim Kaine and Former New Mexico Governor, Bill Richardson, Have All Spoken at the Cato Institute Recently and Have All Been Treated with the Utmost Respect
Gee, what a shock, libertarians behaving better than imbecilic university leftists when it comes to hearing views that they may (liberalizing our drug policies) or may not (banking regulation) agree with.......STOP THE PRESSES!!!
On that Doltish University of Missouri Professor Who Tried to Intimidate a Reporter into Leaving the Premises (Which Were, Yes, Public Property) so that He Couldn't Perform His Job
The bitch should be fired immediately in that there is no excuse for this type of behavior. We still have a free-press in this country and if she doesn't want a reporter to cover her antics then she needs to take them elsewhere.......That and lose the damned fascism.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
On the Fact that Jeb Bush is Emphasizing His First Name Much More than His Last Name in Campaign Commercials - "Jeb".
Yeah, that's probably a smart move.
On the Fact that Lincoln, Churchill, and Mandela Are the Three Leaders from History Who We Are Seemingly Not Allowed to Criticize
Yes, I got the memo and, no, I will not follow it. The fact of the matter is that all three of these men were bloodthirsty statists whose ends (centralized power, taxation, empire, communism) were every bit as nasty as their means (targeting civilians, persecuting dissent, etc.) and the fact that we glorify them is as moronic as it is disturbing.
On Hyper-Racial Consciousness
It has delivered hell every single time; in Argentina when the government officially put Jews and Italians into the "undesirable" category, in Sri Lanka when the Tamils and Sinhalese ultimately decided to emphasize their ethnicity, in Nigeria when (after the British left) the Hausa-Fulani started expelling Ibos simply because they were out-competing them, in Malaysia when the Malays imposed affirmative action against the Chinese because the Chinese (despite starting off far behind) were kicking their butts educationally and economically, in America when the federal government (under Presidents Johnson and Nixon) instituted preferential policies which alienated whites and seriously harmed blacks, in Russia when the Communists ethnically cleansed the Volga Germans out of some paranoiac fear of Nazi collaboration, etc.. WE'RE ALL FUCKING HUMANS, PEOPLE, and the sooner that we get rid of these damned hyphens the better.
On the Modern Flat-Earth Society
The fact that one of its major proponents isn't an astronomer, a physicist, a mechanical engineer, or a meteorologist but a yogi and a wing-chun master probably says it all.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
On the Fact that (According to the Institute for Justice's Robert McNamara) in Louisiana, a Larger Percentage of Applicants Pass the Bar Exam than Pass the Exam to Be a Licensed Floral Arranger
One more example of the government a) protecting existing businesses, b) destroying citizens' lives, and c) adding to the income inequality that they supposedly care so much about.
Best Performance Ever in a So-So Movie?
Yeah, I'm probably gonna go with Gregory Peck as Ambrose Bierce in the 1989 Flop, "Old Gringo". Peck's performance at least made it tolerable.
Question for Trump
And what if don't want to say, "Merry Christmas"? Are you going to force me to, Mr. Nine-Tenths Mussolini, One-Tenth Wendell Willkie?
On the Fact that Two Black Law Enforcement Officers Rained 18 Bullets Into a Six Year-Old White Kid and His Dad (Killing the Child and Seriously Wounding the Father) in Mississippi the Other Day
The left is turning itself into pretzels as we speak (what to do, what
to do) -
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/11/09/police-shooting-autistic-boy
On the Concept of Paying Burger-Flippers the Same Wage as EMTs or Even CNA's and Teacher's Aides
As absurd (the fact that you would even consider paying people with zero skills - many of whom are teenagers - the same as people who've taken the time, money, and effort to develop marketable skills, improvements in their human capital, etc.) as it is economically illiterate (read some Bastiat or even some Schumpeter, for Christ).
On the Fact that in 1941, Time Magazine Actually Had a Cover Story Which Read, "How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs"
And that's from the "intelligentsia". Can you imagine what Joe Blow and Joe Sixpack thought?......................................................................................P.S. The truth of the matter is that anti-Asian bigotry was off the charts in this country and in Canada (starting off against the Chinese and extending to the Japanese - post Pearl Harbor, Koreans, etc.) for well over a century and if that Time Magazine hit-piece doesn't illustrate it to you nothing ever could.
"Gun Free Zone' Translated
"No need to beware of canine, no need to beware of people, the door's unlocked, please feel free to enter, nobody will
try to stop you, we don't even possess steak knives, we are such phenomenally stupid lemmings".
Monday, November 9, 2015
On the Concept of Giving the Government X Power
How dumb and naive to think that they would be satisfied with that, and only that.
On Angry Black Conservatives and Youtube Sensations, David Carroll and the Honorable Akwesi 100
I dare anybody to call these two, an "Uncle Tom", TO THEIR FACES (you know, as opposed to sitting anonymously behind some computer screen).
On the 29 Democratic Senators (the Vast Percentage of Whom Didn't Even Read the Summary Section of the National Intelligence Estimate) Who Shamelessly and Moronically Voted to Give George Bush (a Novice at Foreign Affairs) a Blank-Check When it Came to Dealing with Iraq
I'll take, "Me-tooism, Cowardice (Cannot Be Seen as Soft on Terror, Now Can We?), and Acts of Political Expedience Totally Off the Charts", for a thousand, Alex.
In Praise of Senator Wellstone
This guy was the only Senator who voted no on the Iraq War resolution who had to face an election three weeks later, THE ONLY ONE. It was an act that took major courage and God do we ever need more of that, eh, folks?
Sunday, November 8, 2015
On the Fact that (According to Author and Researcher, Caroline Wolf Harlow) "The Number of Black Hate-Crime Victims Was (Circa 2005) so Small, that is Statistically Insignificant, that it Precluded Analysis of the Race of Persons Who Victimized Them"
The numbers that Ms. Harlow used were taken from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' "National Crime Victimization Survey"; a study which clearly showed that white on black violent crime was exceedingly rare and that when it did happen only three in ten victims cited race as a motive.......Hey, Obama said that he wanted to have a "conversation" and I don't recall him saying that facts were optional.
On the Fact that a Lot of Black Guys Refer to Black Women Who Prefer to Date White Guys as "Bed Wenches"
This while they're simultaneously trying to bag as many white chicks as possible.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
On Obama Making Fun of the Republican Candidates for Their Bitching and Moaning About the Recent (CNBC) Debate Moderators
So kind of like what he does regarding Fox News, in other words?
On the Fact that Melissa Harris-Perry Apparently Thinks that Only 18th and 19th Century Sub-Saharan African Slaves Toiling in North American Have Ever "Worked Hard"
On a network that is literally laced with crazy-assed lunatics (and far worse than Fox at this point), she be the queen for sure.............And, yes, I would ask the chick yet again; "Where is the image on your wall of those Irish slaves that Cromwell worked to oblivion in Barbados. Certainly THEY knew the meaning of hard work, too."
On Rape and Race in the U.S.
Here are the stats (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0502.pdf). According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2005 "Criminal Victimization Statistical Tables", of the 111,490 incidents of rape in this country in which the victims were white, in 34% of those instances the perpetrator was black (this despite the fact that blacks only make up 12% of the population), and of the 36,620 incidents of rape in which the victims were black, in less than 1% of those instances was the perpetrator white (this despite the fact that whites make up about 70% of the population). Yes, we have a huge racial violence problem in this country but it's predominantly black on white. Sorry but yes.
My Cat's Own Private Super Bowl?
Yeah, it would probably be Turkey and Giblets versus Salmon with Salmon being a slight 3-point favorite.
Florida 9 Vanderbilt 7
Yeah, I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo rooting for Vanderbilt.
Friday, November 6, 2015
On the Fact that (According to BBC News; December 12, 2006) in Present-Day South Africa, 65 People on Average Are Murdered Every Day (They Also Note Nearly 200 Rapes and 300 Violent Robberies per Day)
And the sad thing is that these figures are probably low-ball estimates (the fact that the government and police force play with the data). Interpol, for example has the murder-rate as nearly double this and even the South African Medical Research Council says that it's a third higher....Ain't gonna play Sun City for certain.
On the Fact that a Black Mother from Detroit Murdered Two of Her Children (the Other Two She Just Tortured) and Stuffed Their Carcasses in a Freezer
Yeah, I'm gonna go with, four black lives totally NOT mattering -http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/03/surviving_children_say_detroit.html
On Obama Rejecting the Keystone Pipeline
Our country is being run by morons. I mean, does the President just not realize that the oil is going to be sold and shipped anyway, and that the alternative modes of transport (rail and tanker) are even more dangerous? And why is he so beholdin' to these radical environmentalists who actually think that windmills (with a power density of one watt per square meter and which cannot function absent a fossil fuel backup) and ethanol (with a power density of .05 watts per square meter and which is driving up the cost of food worldwide) are viable options not just for America but for an energy-starved third-word (a world that even Hillary Clinton has conceded will have to utilize more coal in order to achieve even a semblance of modernity)? It's inexplicable to me.
Note to Donald Rumsfeld
I hate to tell you, dude, but you're getting "a little up there in years", too, and so maybe not the best attack-line (responding to criticisms from Bush senior)................................................................................................P.S. Unless of course you were attempting to be ironic, in which case you totally succeeded.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
On the Fact that Bush Senior Purportedly Blasts Both Cheney and Rumsfeld in his Upcoming Book
Well, being that he couldn't lambaste his own prodigy (over the Iraq debacle), it was probably the best that he could muster.
On the Fact that Economist Bob Guest Has Recently Referred to South Africa's Affirmative Action Policy as the "Most Extreme in the World"
So more extreme than even that of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Nigeria. THAT is saying something.
On the Fact that Even the BBC's John Simpson Has Conceded that the "New" South Africa Now Contends with Iraq and Columbia as the World's Most Violent, Chaotic, and Lawless Country
And yet American politicians (from both parties) continue to stick their heads in the sand. How pathetic.
On the Most Recent Megyn Kelly - Jeb Bush Interview
One of them acted like a bitch. Guess which..........................................................................................................P.S. I'll give you a clue here. IT WASN'T MS. KELLY.
On State Power
It will either destroy you, corrupt you, negate/neuter you, or make you its pet.......Magical elves, my ass.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
On the Fact that (According to the "Child Abuse Review") Close to 10% of All Rapes in South Africa Are Perpetrated Against Children Under Three Years of Age
Where is the left's outrage on THIS? I mean, have we gotten to the point where race trumps even child brutality now? My Lord.............................................................................................P.S. One of the possible reasons for this barbarism is a ludicrous belief by some in South Africa that sex with a child will insulate you from AIDS - this despite the numerous efforts by Western relief agencies to educate the populous otherwise.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
On Melissa Harris-Perry Lecturing Her Viewership (as Paltry as it Is) on "Relative Advantage" and Engaging in Such Condescending Bullshit from a Perch on Corporate High
These folks are so insulated (in Perry's case by both the media AND academia). And what really irritates me is the fact that they think that these ideas of theirs (their various social-conflict theories) are so brand-spanking new, unique, and revolutionary when they're little more than regurgitated and hackneyed crap from the '60s (yeah, I was a Sociology minor). News-flash, slant-heads, we all went through this phase - you know, back when we were 19. Bug duh.
On the Fact that Bernie Sanders Can Go to Liberty University and Get Treated with Respect but a When a Conservative (or Even a Moderate Like Christina Hoff Sommers) Even Sets Foot on a Liberal Campus All Fucking Hell Breaks Loose
So even Bible-thumping morons are more open-minded and courteous than the left these days. How damned embarrassing is that?
On the Fact that Not One but Two Black Women Threw Their Babies Off of Balconies in the Fordham Heights Section of the Bronx in Just the Past Six Weeks
So these stories get completely ignored by pro-blacks and the white liberal media but that image of the school-safety officer strong-arming a disruptive 16 year-old black chick gets wall-to-wall coverage (one CNN segment showed the visual 20-something times)? Unreal.
Monday, November 2, 2015
On the Assertion by Demagogues Such as Melissa Harris-Perry (What a Colossal Waste of a Hyphen) that the Treatment of Blacks in North America Was Some Sort of Uniquely Evil Episode
Total bullshit. The fact of the matter is that slavery was practiced throughout the world (and still exists today) and if anything how it was administered here was mild when compared to what happened in South America, the Caribbean, Northern Africa, etc. (and, no, I'm not saying that slavery was a benign institution - just making a comparison). And neither was the institution confined just to Sub-Saharan Africans, either. Poor whites from the ghettos of London were also rounded up and in the 17th Century Cromwell sent tens of thousands of Irish people (as a part of his ruthless attempt at ethnic-cleansing) to Barbados where they were quite literally worked TO DEATH (have an image of that in your office, too, Melissa). Yes, slavery was a stain on our country's history but to try and create some mythos about it and to dwell on it 150 years after it was abolished is thoroughly getting lame, I think. If I was to counsel folks like Perry, it would be to get them to look at not just how well that the the East Asians (another group that was treated like garbage in the 19th and early 20th Centuries) have done but also how well that the black immigrants from Africa and the West Indies have done, and to try and get them to rally around that instead of this incessant victimization BS.......................................................................................................Recommended reading; "White Cargo" by Don Jordan and "To Hell or Barbados" by Sean O'Callaghan.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
On the Fact that the CEO of Walmart Could Work for NOTHING and Even if You Distributed His Entire Forfeited Salary to the Employees it Would Only Come Out to About $15 per Person PER YEAR
That's why I don't get too upset about this whole "CEO to worker ratio growing" talking point (the fact that it's an essentially symbolic issue, lacks perspective, etc.) and would much prefer a more substantive analysis.
On Radical Environmentalists Who Go Around Decrying Mining While at the Same Time Tinkering with Their Cell-Phones and Laptops
These people are so moronic. Do they think that this stuff just falls out of the heavens and into their fucking laps?......Seemingly, huh?
Saturday, October 31, 2015
On Bernie's Affinity for Sweden
It depends on what he's referencing. If he's talking about the Sweden of today that has radically reduced a) public spending as a percentage of GDP and b) the top tax rates, I could probably live with that. But if he's talking about the Sweden of the '70s and '80s in which government spending was for close to 70% of GDP and the top tax rate was 80-something percent (a policy that prompted many rich folks to simply leave the country - HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!), then, no, that's unacceptable.......Knowing the fascistic Sanders, it's more than likely the latter.
On the Fact that Historians Always Seem to Conflate the Crony-Capitalistic and Vote-Buying Political Entrepreneurs Such as Collins, Gould, Fulton, and Villard with the Market Entrepreneurs Such as Hill, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Schwab and Attempt to Suggest that They Were All Evil
This is one of the most flagrant examples of laziness and bias in all of academia. The fact of the matter is that the latter group of men, while surely not perfect, created hundreds of thousands of jobs and brought down the cost of living for pretty much every American AND they did it without government assistance (in the form of forced monopolies, subsidies, etc.). I mean, I understand that these court historians (folks such as Schlesinger and Kearns-Goodwin) truly and sincerely believe that all of America's heroes have been politicians (it's how they're wired) but you've got to be at least a little bit fair.
Friday, October 30, 2015
60 Minutes Report on Benghazi - IT'S NOT a "Fake Scandal" After All!!!
Yeah, I strongly suspect that Ms. Logan is going to get slimed over this one (and probably already has - can you say, David Brock?).
On the Fact that (with England Dominating the Market) Steel Was Selling for Over $50 a Ton in 1872 and by 1900 it Was Selling (Courtesy of Carnegie Steel Under the Leadership of Schwab) for Less than $12 a Ton
So, still think that the entrepreneur is "incidental"?
Thursday, October 29, 2015
On the Fact that as Early as 1880, Many Experts Had Begun Predicting the Demise of Not Just Standard Oil but of the Entire U.S. Oil Industry (the Fact that Electricity - Powered by Coal - Had Started Supplanting Kerosene for Lighting, the fact that the Russians Had Discovered Massive Quantities of Oil at Baku and Were at Least Partially Successful in Marketing it in Europe, etc.)
Yeah, the experts (AKA pessimists) didn't foresee a) the massive discovery of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, etc., b) the need for gasoline as a power source of the future, and c) the incredible ingenuity, resourcefulness, and efficiency of entrepreneurs like Rockefeller who were ultimately able to out-compete the Russians....Talk about being way off, huh?
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