Category Archives: Blogosphere

The coming ice age

Posted on August 13, 2013 | 6 comments

Folks at The Weather Channel keep shrieking about global warming making our temps higher than at any time in human history, blah, blah, blah, and their critics keep replying that the temp trend is down, the record is being manipulated and the Earth has been cooling since 2002. Meanwhile word is trickling out of a possible coming ice age.

This 1683 painting The Great Frost by Jan Grifier shows the Thames River in London frozen over with ice three-feet thick. Nobody’s saying that’s going to happen again, but who knows. Don’t look for it in your forecast. Meteorologists are awfully poor at predicting the weather beyond three days and the honest ones admit it.

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Benghazi coverup: It’s about the Manpads

Posted on August 13, 2013 | 3 comments

Manpads, a silly acronym for shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. You know, the kind developed to shoot down military helicopters, which could also be used, if the user was driven by some sort of religious fanaticism, to shoot down airliners.

And 400 of them still on the loose is the reason for all the coverup about Benghazi, from Shillary’s “What difference, at this point, does it make” tantrum to the CIA’s hush-up of the survivors to Obongo’s claim of “phony scandals” unfairly diverting attention from his next ho-hum (yawn) speech.

Maybe we’ve finally got an explanation for why no aircraft were sent to help Ambassador Stevens survive.

Via Instapundit.

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Axe versus Old Spice

Posted on August 10, 2013 | 2 comments

Michael over at Cobb sums up (at Amazon) his shift away from Old Spice deodorant to something called Elixir Blue:

“My son uses Axe. He’s 18. I used to use Old Spice, [until] they changed their formula to go after the kids who use Axe. I don’t want to smell like some kid in a club. This [Elixir Blue] is the body wash for the mature sophisticated gentleman.”

I could say the same, except that Mr. Boy is 13 and I still use the “classic” version of Old Spice, partly out of habit (a habit established at 14 or so) and partly because, well, I just like the way it smells. But I will check out Elixir Blue. For my  money, Axe literally stinks. It smells like bad girly cologne.

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Getting the Lizard Queen into the running

Posted on August 9, 2013 | 4 comments

Via Simply Jews And don’t miss PJMedia and its classic photo of the queen’s tantrum before Congress.

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Knowing **it from Shinola

Posted on August 8, 2013 | 7 comments

Chas at Dustbury has a funny post on Shinola shoe wax which, as it happens, was a Detroit product when it finally went toes up long, long ago. Where better for the demise of a product than bankrupt Detroit?

Only folks who still wear leather shoes that need periodic shining are likely to have ever heard of Shinola, despite the old put down phrase of my youth many probably have heard but don’t really understand.

I requested (and hope Chas’s impeccable research will out) a post on Vitalis or Brylcreem. Awful stuff. I used to slather one or the other on my hair in high school back in the 50s when motor oil [Vitalis] or bacon grease [Brycreem] was the only choice of hair products and the conformity of teenage “cool” demanded one or the other.

I still recall with a shudder the way the residue used to slide down my forehead and neck when the temperature rose above eighty degrees. Talk about poop. No one was more grateful than I when, in the 70s blow-dry became the norm. Followed, for those of us at a certain age, by hair spray.

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The insanity at Fort Hood

Posted on August 7, 2013 | 6 comments

Bad enough that the Pentagon echoed the White House in calling the Jihadi massacre of 13 unarmed soldiers (and wounding of 32 more) at Fort Hood in 2009 “workplace violence,” but now there seems to be no valid reason to be trying the killer Muslim major.

“The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,” he testified Tuesday. Huh?

If he admits his crime, if he admits he was the one who shouted “Allah is great” while he was pulling the trigger at least 13 times, why is he even on trial? He’s not defending himself as an innocent falsely accused. He admits his guilt. Sentence him and be done with it.

What seems to be happening is that he wanted a forum to publicize Jihad and let us all know why he had to murder people he’d never met to make his bloodthirsty god happy. And I’m sure he’ll show us chapter and verse in the Koran requiring him to fight the war that our incompetent government won’t even acknowledge. What poppycock.

The Army is staffed by bigger fools than we already thought. They’re giving this murderer a forum for his religious propaganda. And charging us taxpayers for a privilege he doesn’t deserve. The murderous major supposedly is insane. Ha. We’re the insane ones for putting up with this sorry excuse for a military.

UPDATE:  More absurdity: Since the Jihadi major faces the death penalty, under military law he cannot plead guilty. Huh? Even though he plainly has. Apparently he is going to get his soap box. And, get this, he’s still being paid his military salary. It isn’t like no one knew the bastard did it. But they insist on playing their little charade for the sake of “justice,” so-called.

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Make it go faster, indeed

Posted on August 6, 2013 | 2 comments

In the interest of the make it go faster concept, Scott at the Fat Guy endorses Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston for Obongo’s Department of Homeland Security.

Oh, the comic relief. We could all use a good laugh every day.

And like Victor Davis Hanson, I don’t believe any of these clowns are capable of doing permanent damage, try as they may.

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