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Finally, a president without a college degree

Posted on March 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Finally, a president without a college degree

Potentially, that is, as in Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker. He didn’t finish community college, let alone Harvard or Yale. Now some people will think that’s a bad thing, but look at the bozos we’ve had with their slick Ivy League educations.

Like Wormtongue who can’t tell the truth to save his life, delegates everything and spends his time playing. And unlike even his Harvard predecessors, Bush and Gore, refuses to release his college transcripts. Almost certainly because his grades sucked and he skated because of his race.

Truman was the last American president without a college degree and he, at least, was pretty honest and no more thin-skinned than rest of ’em. Shoot, I’d vote for Walker for that reason alone. Helluva recommendation.

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Rule 5: The Velazquez Venus

Posted on March 16, 2014 | 2 comments

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Completed between 1647 and 1651 by Diego Velazquez, it was attacked and badly damaged in 1914 by the suffragette Mary Richardson. It was fully restored and returned to display.

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Another Wormtongue decree

Posted on March 15, 2014 | 7 comments

All presidents since FDR have thought they were kings, but only Wormtongue has taken it to heart, issuing decree after decree, each one costing the economy in some way.

“Thursday’s example was Obama’s plan to decree overtime pay for some 10 million who had willingly been working without it, because they are salaried employees.

“It’s not a good thing. First of all, anytime the government mandates pay increases, it costs real people their jobs. While some people might get more pay, others’ pay goes to part-time, or to zero. When Obama proposed his minimum wage hike last month, even the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) agreed that it would cost 500,000 jobs.”

I’m surprised Wormtongue and Dictator Putin aren’t chummier. They have a lot in common, after all. But the worm probably identifies even more with FDR, who prolonged the Great Depression by keeping taxes high and business uncertain about what regulations he would impose on them next.

Via Gay Patriot.

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The dying wristwatch

Posted on March 13, 2014 | 7 comments

I bought Mr. Boy two wristwatches (trying to find one that suited him) before I decided to investigate his claim that his generation doesn’t wear them.

Sure enough, I’ve never seen one on a kid at his school the times I’ve been around and looking. Or at the grocery. Or anywhere else. But, like him, they carry phones which display the time whether there’s a call or not.

Darkwater says he saw a report that wristwatch sales are down 30 percent. Could be. Then he touts this successor to the plain-Jane timepiece and the pocket-filling phone.

Maybe. But I see two problems: one, Mr. B’s generation prefers texting to voice, for which they need a keyboard, and two they also need a larger screen than these wrist-size screens for the games they play when they’re not texting.

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MH370’s potential whereabouts

Posted on March 13, 2014 | 1 comment

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Yes, I’m as caught up in the mystery as everyone else. And the Chinese sat image having been debunked, I’m onto the WSJ’s report that the plane may have flown on for about four hours after it vanished from radar between Malaysia and Viet Nam. Putting it (potentially) somewhere on the above map, pinched from a commenter at the Professional Pilots Rumor Network. If so, it and its 239 souls (including at least one Texan) may never be found

UPDATE:  Malaysian authorities are denying the WSJ report but so far as I can see have yet to be joined by Rolls Royce, makers of the jet’s engines whose transmitted mechanical data is the basis of the WSJ report.

MORE: And so the search is now expanded to the Indian Ocean, west of Indonesia. Apparently a sub has picked up a locater ping or a satellite seen a magnetic anomaly on the seabed, neither of which would be publicized. Only a find or lack of one.

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Pushing back twice as hard

Posted on March 12, 2014 | 6 comments

“Tensions continue to rise in Connecticut, as the home addresses of the legislators who voted for the [“assault” weapons] ban have been posted on numerous web sites and forums. Many of the legislators are now calling for police protective details, regarding the publication of their home addresses as a threat to their safety.”

This could become a “teaching moment” for pols elsewhere with the same plans to please their anti-gun supporters by disregarding the Constitution.

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Those rockets Iran sent to Hamas

Posted on March 11, 2014 | 1 comment

“Take the rocket from Operation Pillar of Defense that hit a home in Rishon Lezion. That rocket destroyed one floor. This warhead would have destroyed the entire building.” —Israel Defense Forces.

While Iran pretends to be standing down its nuclear weapons development, its material support for terrorism continues without pretense.

Read. It. All. Here.

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