Monthly Archives: December 2010

Nanny News: Obamalot’s minutia

“A child nutrition bill on its way to President [Barry Soeto] — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.

“Republicans, notably Sarah Palin, and public school organizations decry the bill as an unnecessary intrusion on a common practice often used to raise money.”

Federal regulation of school bake sales? Typical out-of-touch fascist government. And one more example why the federal executive branch is the country’s largest (and highest paid) employer. As well as the most oppressive.

Land of the free? I think not!

UPDATE:  Remember the bumper sticker about air force bombers and bake sales? Now both are endangered.

Speaking of girls with guns

There’s the little matter of what to do after you pump four bullets into the chest of the would-be rapist/murderer. Call 911? Have your recorded “confession” replayed endlessly by the legacy media, damaging your right to self-defense, and shaming you for life? Au contraire. You need this book.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Well, judging from the reviews at the link, particularly the first one, maybe not.

Girl With Gun: Rule 5

Womens_with_guns_013Looks like a, uh, twelve gauge to me. The gun, I mean, of course, the gun.

Honor Our Fallen

Start with the latest:

Army Pvt. Devon J. Harris

Died November 27, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom

Age 24, of Mesquite, Tex.; assigned to Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, at Ft. Polk, La.; died Nov. 27 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with a rocket-propelled grenade.

Read it all.

When W was president, the legacy media was clamoring to photograph the latest dead hero’s arrival home. Now that a Democrat is, there’s a blackout on that aspect of the war. Strange how that works, eh?

The settlements obsession

Nevermind the latest “secret” document dump by obvious traitors within the U.S. State Department. It’s the department’s very explicit behavior an honest media would highlight every day. For instance, the way they ignore:

“….the level of poverty and illiteracy in the Arab and Muslim world and the absence of a free press, independent judiciary, human rights, and of the increasingly savage persecution of women, infidels, dissidents and homosexuals; about the prisons teeming with thousands of Muslim political prisoners…kidnapped and…tortured for ‘thought crimes.'”

Instead, our permanent “diplomatic” bureaucracy whines incessantly about “settlements” in Judea and Samaria (as if they learned nothing from Israel’s abandonment of settlements in Gaza, from which the Hamas rockets continue to fly) and silly (if not so pathetically cynical) fluff about a Palestinian “state.”

It makes about as much sense as this animated cartoon does.

Try as they may, A&M can’t change the Ags

One of my old girlfriends is an Aggie, one of the first, in fact, to co-educate the place, and I’ve always admired her pluck.

D.G. Myers’s farewell to all that, in leaving teaching at Texas A&M, files includes this regret:

“But what I will miss, far more than anything else, are the Aggies. They endure many jokes at their expense as if they were the Polacks of the academic world. Even Larry McMurtry, in ‘Moving On,’ could not resist a crack about an Aggie and his tractor.

Aggies are badly misunderstood, however. It is true they are not sophisticated, and it is true they are overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian and politically conservative, although the administration has done everything in its power to alter the makeup of the student body and bring A&M into conformity with every other unexceptionally Leftist university in the country. Aggies remain unique, proudly different.”

Don’t miss his funny story of the Ag-with-toothpick who discovers—to his horror—that he actually understands sophisticated literary ideas.

(I neglected to post about it at the time, but I was delighted when the Ags beat the Longhorns this year. The Horns stunk up the state this season and they deserved to be put in their place for it. And nobody is better at that than A&M.)

Happy Chanukiahs

9aWe’re sticking with our old fav, the stone Maccabees.

But this traditional-design chanukiah is actually very nontraditional.

It’s made from the pieces of Kassam rockets fired from  Gaza into Israel by that allegedly peace-seeking band of despots known as Hamas.