Monthly Archives: February 2016

“Parachuting” cats

Posted on February 22, 2016 | 2 comments

British anthrozoologist John Bradshaw in his 2014 feline science book Cat Sense reports how cats can survive falls from tall buildings and trees by performing an intricate midair ballet. Their “gravity-detecting” bio systems cause the forelegs and hind legs to rotate to point downward as they fall.

Then “…forming a ‘parachute’ by spreading all four legs out sideways, before adopting the landing position at the last minute. Laboratory simulations suggest that this limits the falling speed to a maximum of fifty-three miles per hour. This tactic apparently allows some cats to survive falls from high buildings with only minor injuries.”

Some cats also counter-rotate their tails fast, like a helicoptor, to stabilize their fall “…while the back is arched to cushion the landing.” Pretty clever, those cats.

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How Marco will win the nomination

Posted on February 21, 2016 | Comments Off on How Marco will win the nomination

The GOPe hates Trump and, for that matter our Ted, so all they have left after the Thumper took SC is Marco the Rubio. Even if he did only come in second in a tie with Ted. I like Ted and Marco better than Trump, but how can the GOP establishment ignore the most popular fellow?

Easy. Now that the GOPe’s fav, Little Jebbie, has dropped out, Marco has got to be their man. How will they engineer it so he wins the nomination? Watch. After these dog-and-pony shows to make everyone think this process is truly democratic, the e will start controlling the caucus votes. Getting what they want.

Look for Marco to suddenly come from behind, going away. Shockeroo.

UPDATE: OTOH..”But on Tuesday night, the real-estate mogul broke 40 percent, winning his third nominating contest in a row and trouncing his two most serious competitors by almost 20 points. Instead of further clarifying who would be best able to take on Trump, the Nevada caucus raised doubts as to whether anyone could take him on at all.”

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The Clinton penchant for lying

Posted on February 20, 2016 | 1 comment

Sure, all pols lie. They’re notorious for it. But the Clintons, i.e. Slick Willie and his cuckolded harridan, the uterus running for president, do it all the time. Probably even in their sleep. Apart, of course, in separate bedrooms, if not separate addresses.

“As R. Emmet Tyrell Jr., an almost unhealthy student of Clintonian prevarication, once said, ‘The Clintons lie when they do not have to lie, and they tell a gaudy whopper when a little white lie would be perfectly satisfactory.'”

But while Slick Willie is a master of lies, the cuckold-harridan-uterus (known hereabouts as the Hildabeast) is terrible at it. Not that she doesn’t try. She’s just so obvious when she’s doing it, and she gets caught at it so often.

Latest example, in New Hampshire: “We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.” Heh.

Via Jonah Goldberg at NRO.

UPDATE:  Not that the blacks, Hispanics and labor union folks in Nevada care. They voted her past Bernie on Saturday. She and Slick can lie like rugs and they still love ’em.

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Kitty superiority

Posted on February 19, 2016 | Comments Off on Kitty superiority

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As our orange male tabby Pumpkin would be the first to acknowledge.

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Teach universities not to pursue false charges

Posted on February 18, 2016 | 1 comment

Sue the bastards!

“The university [of Texas] has been placed under enormous political pressure to appear tough on those accused of sexual assault and as a result have adopted a practice of expelling males from the university without regard to the rights of the accused student [or] the evidence,” each [of the two] lawsuit says. “The university has furthermore sought publicity and prestige by portraying itself as a national leader in the effort to curb on-campus sexual assaults.”

Via Instapundit

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The case for The Donald

Posted on February 17, 2016 | 4 comments

While we’re swiping stuff from author Kurt Schlichter ( a former Army infantryman, no less, which obviously appeals to me), let’s do up his case for nominating and electing President Donald Trump.

As I often say, a floor mop would be better than the Hildabeast. And you should add in that bum-who-wants-your-money Bernie. But the Thumper? Well, consider…

“Most of Trump’s supporters are good people, patriotic Americans burned by an elite that sees their misery as collateral damage in a coastal, urban-led struggle for feel-good progressive change and personal enrichment.  The positive, optimistic, even Reaganesque language Trump uses when describing the future speaks to them – and Trump is the first major American figure in a long time to speak to them of hope and with respect.

“Mostly the culture lectures them on their stupidity for not having attended Harvard, their selfishness for not wanting to support welfare cheats with their hard work, and their unforgivable, innate racism for having a great-great-great-great-great grandfather who came from the British Isles.  These are the Americans who built this country, who fought for it, and who died for it, and until Trump came along, all they ever were was dumped on.”

Hear, hear. Not to mention that Trump is a capitalist. Capitalists know how to make money and so are bound to know how to support an economy that helps people make money. Unlike what we’ve had for almost eight years under Little Barry Hussein. Also known as President Fail. The man who couldn’t find his economic ass with both hands.

Read. It. All.

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President Fail’s token commie

Posted on February 16, 2016 | 2 comments

The headline is author Kurt Schlichter’s bet on who our Little Barry Hussein will nominate to replace newly-deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He whose strict constructionism of the increasingly ignored U.S. Constitution has helped keep the Socialist Democrat Party from imposing more nonsense on us than they already have.

“The next president will appoint Justice Scalia’s replacement, and thereby determine whether the Supreme Court will remain a bulwark of liberty or a tool of liberal fascism – that is, assuming that sad sack Mitch McConnell stays sacked up and refuses to allow a vote on whatever token commie Obama decides to nominate.”

The Democrats have always denounced any Republican president’s bid to nominate a justice during a presidential election year. Not that they believe such should apply to them. So it’s up to the Republican majority Senate (and its Obama toady McConnell) to deny what Schlichter calls “President Fail’s Che-loving creep.”

Even if he does, if the Hildabeast or Bernie win the White House, you can bet it’ll be a nominee of similar ilk. Perhaps even Barry Hussein himself. Gasp.

Via Instapundit.

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