THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

The key to solving these alleged runaway Toyotas with their supposedly stuck accelerator pedals, is to shift the transmission into neutral. Let the engine race, if it will, while the car slows down until you can pull over.

Instead, this latest fellow reportedly told the 911 dispatcher he was afraid to do that ’cause the car “might flip.” Huh? How could it? Nothing like a little (apparently) panic to ensure your fifteen minutes of fame. And keep the pols and GM happy.

Scott will like this one. PC rules the public school day in most ways, except here recently when a rainy morning canceled recess for Mr. B.’s class. Instead, they played games at their tables and one friend taught him and another kid how to play poker.

Texas Holdem, to be exact. He said the teacher thought it was amusing. The three boys used plastic cubes as chips, which they designated as dollars. Mr. B. lost most of his. Said he had only one good hand: an ace-high straight.

Reminds me of an old joke:

“‘Daddy, daddy, why can’t I play outside like other kids?’

‘Shut up and deal.’”

Photo by Snoopy-the-Goon’s son. Taken in the Angels (Malachim) Forest.

Haven’t a thing against Austinite actress Sandra Bullock’s winning an Oscar  for playing a rich, religious, patriotic Southern white lady who befriends and helps a poor, homeless black kid become an NFL lineman.

How much more worth seeing the movie would be, however, if her character was a rich, religious, patriotic Southern (yes!) black lady who befriended and helped a poor, homeless white kid become a point guard in the NBA. That one I’d go see. This other, not likely, thanks.

Delighted to see a new confirmation of the postulated dinosaur-killing effect of the meteor (or comet) that splashed into Chicxulub on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula millions of years ago. University of Texas geophysicists, who have helped map the ocean floors, did quite a bit of work on the remains of the crater—all hidden today by water and rock but still discernible with radar.

It’s a putdown of the InterTubes from 1995 and it’s from Newsweak. Who else?

Over Mt. Jelm and the Wyoming Infrared Observatory.

The usual Hollywood claptrap over the Oscars was on the front page of the daily, above the fold, so it didn’t just seep into consciousness when I gathered the thing off the lawn. I left it on the kitchen table for Mrs. C. and that’s when it whacked me between the eyes. Even though I didn’t read it.

I did read Roger L. Simon’s prediction that the winners forecast some sort of decline of the Sean Penns, Michael Moores, and other Lefty dirtballs who think there’s a premium on their political views. I wonder. I found more certainty in commenter cedarhill’s take:

“Funny thing, once you wean yourself off their TV shows, movies and newspapers they’re just not attractive and seem really, really simple and stupid. Try it. You’ll like freedom from Hollywood. Oh, and if you are compelled to watch something from them, make sure you pick it up on eBay or at a flea market or Goodwill or such. Let the Left support them.”

Indeed.

Why is our Affirmative Action president willing to stake his and the Dem’s immediate future on son-of-Obamacare? Simple. It will vastly expand the permanent Democrat bureaucracy .

“Once the state swells to a certain size, the people available to fill the ever-expanding number of government jobs will be statists – sometimes hard-core Marxist statists, sometimes social-engineering multiculti statists, sometimes fluffily “compassionate” statists, but always statists. The short history of the post-war welfare state is that you don’t need a president-for-life if you’ve got a bureaucracy-for-life…”

You know, the way the Dems in the CIA fought W by leaking to the NYTimes.

UPDATE:  The Dems are just ten days away from having it in the bag. They may lose the fall elections in retribution, but they will have done the deed.

Now you don’t even need a real gun to get suspended from school. A finger gun is enough. And to think I actually taught Mr. B. how to make one. Sigh.

(Note that out of the more than one hundred comments under the article at the first link, many side with the school’s policy. Sheeple.)