Category Archives: Blogosphere

Emilie Parker and the butterflies

Posted on December 30, 2013 | 2 comments

If ever there was a poster child for armed security in elementary schools, this little one (lower right) is she. Murdered in her first grade classroom by the Newtown maniac.

I’m a firm proponent of armed security like the good guy whose prompt response stopped the latest school shooting. I would personally tear down all those “gun free campus” invitations to the insane currently posted oh-so-righteously by self-centered idiots whose vision stops at the ends of their noses.

For all I know, though, the kiddo’s mother disagrees with me. Lots of people do. But she writes a simple, poignant essay about her lost child that’s worth reading. I’d quote from it but it’s under all-rights-reserved copyright. So click the link, please.

The badge gang, of course, was johnny-on-the-scene-at-Newtown—as always, just in time to clean up the blood and fill out the forms. And strut around in their version of security theater. I’m sure they  felt just like the fools they looked. Armed security in the school is the only way to stop these travesties.

UPDATE:  Instead, the good guys in Connecticut have to register their guns. Criminals, of course, will not obey the law and the insane? You can imagine.

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Where is the environmental benefit?

Posted on December 29, 2013 | 1 comment

So ask Native American groups angry at the White House’s continued push for more wind turbines which despoil natural beauty and kill millions of bats and birds.

“Wind farms must be located where the wind blows fairly constantly, and such locations are prime travel routes for migratory birds, including protected species such as bald eagles and golden eagles. Exacerbating the problem, wind farms act as both bait and executioner—rodents taking shelter at the base of turbines multiply with the protection from raptors, and their greater numbers then attract more raptors to the turbines.”

Meanwhile the turbines are a political shuck, providing only small amounts of intermittent electricity, generally at times when a utility doesn’t need it. Ah, but they fill the pockets of lobbyists, politicians, and wind turbine companies with subsidies, i.e. tax money. That’s the “environmental benefit” the White House really is interested in.

“Wind cannot satisfy the demand requirements of a utility unless it is backed up with fossil fuel plants and/or energy storage projects. This results in duplication of resources and additional costs, with little, if any, carbon mitigation. Further, the steep increases and declines in power delivery of wind put the reliability of the grid in question.”

All in the name of another, bigger shuck: stopping so-called man-made global warming, the warming which hasn’t been occurring for 17 years now. Except in federal press releases. Health insurance isn’t the only thing they lie about.

It’s lose-lose, all around, unless you’re one of Wormtongue’s cronies with your paw in the trough.

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Revelations

Posted on December 26, 2013 | 2 comments

Try this English vocabulary and pronunciation survey and see if it doesn’t place you accurately in a specific region of the country: It put me in the Deep South, specifically Alabama, with a bit of Georgia thrown in.

I would have thought my military upbringing would have Midwesternized me more, but I guess not. With parents from Mississippi and Texas, I suppose it was inevitable I wouldn’t talk like people in the Midwest.

Of course if English is your second or even third language, like Mr. Goon, the placement won’t be accurate except to show you which region’s patois you have ingested.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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Why Wendy will never be governor

Posted on December 26, 2013 | 2 comments

I mean, besides her plan to make guns illegal and abortions in the third trimester just peachy—without calling it murder, of course.

Poor Wendy Davis, the Democrat abortion queen from Fort Worth, has to go all the way to NYC to raise money for her abortive (to coin a phrase) campaign for governor of Texas. Well, Wormtongue did promise to turn Texas blue and having Wendy for governor would sure make lots of us blue. But, really, there’s no danger. None at all.

I doubt that even Wendy really expects to win. Which is good. Realism is good for you. And if she can get some Yankee suckers to give her money for her hopeless campaign, all the better. Let the progressives pay. Through the nose.

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To tree or not to tree, that is the question

Posted on December 25, 2013 | 1 comment

There is so much intermarriage in Judaism these days that ornament makers are churning out Star of David tree toppers and similar ornaments, my favorite being the Hanukkah menorah.

I have a favorite, yes, because we have all three kinds on the Xmas tree my Baptist-turned-atheist wife would be bereft without and might even divorce me over—unlike this chap who persists in refusing his converted wife’s very secular plea for one.

I understand him and other Jews who refuse to countenance such a thing, but having already capitulated in what some see as a holy war, I like to fall back on history.

Xmas trees were pagan (bad enough for some Jews, of course) to begin with, such that even the former Soviet Union felt comfortable with them under a slightly different name.

So it’s more than ironic that today they are so intensively identified with Christianity. Indeed, back in mid-19th century America when what was then a secular European tradition began to become popular, many Christians flatly refused to consider them.

“I don’t worship the tree,” was a common explanation of those who resisted. They lost, obviously, as I suspect many intermarried Jews are going to lose in the end, and then we’ll see whether and how things change.

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Have yourself a Jewish little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2013 | 5 comments

The top ten Christmas songs? From Silver Bells to White Christmas? All written by Jews. Case you didn’t know it.

Enjoy them, one by one, on YouTube. Unless there’s a piano in your house, in which case, there’s liable to be sheet music available for almost every one of them.

Not a big surprise, this, considering the history of American popular music is largely a Jewish one.

Although I think we can skip over Rap. Mercifully. Do the rappers do Christmas? Well they “sing” Ho, Ho, Ho a lot.

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Lest we forget

Posted on December 24, 2013 | 3 comments

The Miriam Carey Mystery.

Almost three months after the young mother was murdered by D.C. Secret Service and Capitol Police—victim of a police chase and let’s-all-shoot-together frenzy—we discover that she may have been innocent of any wrongdoing at all.

The police report (at the links above) also lied about how she died. It claims she was shot while in her car and “along with an uninjured child” was “removed from the vehicle.” All news media reports have said she got out of the car and ran and was gunned down, unarmed, by the police.

Yet the local liberal rag, the WaPo, not to mention Wormtongue’s “justice” department, apparently have conducted no investigation. They have simply swept poor, black Miriam Carey down the memory hole, like a piece of garbage.

Like the actor always said on the Hollywood cop show: Be careful out there.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

UPDATE:  The WaPo, very uncharacteristically for a supposedly premier news organization, even if it does tend to be a Democrat house organ, pens an editorial that they are waiting for the cops and prosecutors to decide whether appropriate force was used against Carey. Why not do their own investigation? What are they afraid of?

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