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Defining yourself as a series of holes

Posted on April 29, 2015 | 6 comments

It’s impolitic, these days, to say so, but the so-called transgender are altogether too weird for me. Not that I want to cage them or anything. I just prefer to stay clear.

I do know the mother of a lesbian who will soon marry her girlfriend. Not as another lesbian, but rather as a so-called transgender male, instead. After the operation, which JD over at Mouth of the Brazos calls an “addadicktome.”

Good luck with that. To my mind these are mentally-ill people who’ve secured the cooperation of amoral and money-grubbing surgeons in mutilating themselves. They can change their genitals and add or subtract breasts but not their genes or their musculature. Not yet, anyhow. And the Jenners among them are going to turn athletics upside down.

As JD says: “Rule changes will quickly follow to allow them to compete, that’s what will happen, and that particular sport will be ruined forever.”

As the late, great shock comic Patrice O’Neal said:  “See, I gave you the chance to talk and you qualified yourself as a series of holes.”

Via Instapundit.

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The Ghost of Plumbing Past

Posted on April 28, 2015 | 2 comments

Our pal Akaky, one of the (apparently few) literate denizens of the upper regions of the Vampire State, frequently works at trying to be funny. And sometimes he scores big, as in this post of the preceding headline:

“One would think, given that the dead are, in fact, dead, and therefore have no further need for an excretory system that they would choose to inhabit some other portion of the house, like the living room, the bedrooms, or the kitchen, rooms redolent with time and family memory, unlike the bathroom, which is only redolent of last night’s dinner.”

Read on. If you need a good laugh. And who doesn’t?

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Treasure Island

Posted on April 26, 2015 | 5 comments

Mr. Stevenson’s Treasure Island is still one of my favorites, though the last time I read it was to Mr. B. just before he learned to read. I often think of young Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and old Ben Gunn and his secret in the cave.

And Blind Pew and the fabled black spot.

And, of course, the book is at least 300 percent better than the movies, even the 1934 classic with Wallace Beery. Or the 1990 remake with Charlton Heston.

As reviewer Robert Guttman says at Amazon (where the ebook version linked above is free!): “No boy [or girl] ever really outgrows Treasure Island.”

Via Miriam’s Ideas.

UPDATE:  I used the link to get a free copy and I’m rereading it!

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Teach Women Not To Rape*

Posted on April 25, 2015 | 3 comments

To hear the lefty academics and the Worm’s administration tell it, there’s an epidemic of sexual assaults on women on college campuses. You can bet Godzillary will be echoing it as she runs for president (see update below).

The statistics don’t bear it out, but in politics the argument with the loudest voice (i.e. the most publicity) wins. And thanks to the Democrat news media, the left has long enjoyed the loudest voice.

Ahem. However. The blogger Instapundit, apparently without any of the resources of the academics and their political and media cronies, has single-handedly uncovered a growing epidemic of sexual assaults in high schools and middle schools. Scores of cases, in fact.

Not against women, but by women. Mostly on underage boys but sometimes on adolescent girls as well.

Via Instapundit. (* Recurring Instapundit headline.)

UPDATE: Godzillary already is beating the drum for those alleged sexual assaults on college campuses. It’s all part of her class and gender warfare. She’s ignoring the high school and middle school ones, of course. They don’t fit her narrative.

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The Vichy GOP caves

Posted on April 23, 2015 | Comments Off on The Vichy GOP caves

The Stupid Party, which is really an offshoot of the Democrat Party, making the USA ruled by a single political party (except for the shouting) has caved in on the Worm’s AG nominee.

After holding up Loretta Lynch’s confirmation for months. Ironic name for an AG, that, “lynch.” When anybody gets screwed by the AG, you can say they were Lynched. At best, she’ll be Eric Holder in drag.

And our guy Ted skipped out on the vote instead of being recorded as a nay. He used an old Worm excuse. He had to fly home for a fundraiser. I’m pretty much more interested in Rubio, any how, who did vote nay.

I think he has a much better chance, if he can prove himself sufficiently to the establishment to beat Bush 3 to the nomination. It may be the Vichy GOP, and Rubio not much better than a Democrat, but either we vote for them or we get eight years of Godzillary and Slick. No thanks.

But I won’t expect any hope or change. Our greedy, corrupt and incompetent federal government will continue thus, as today’s confirmation proves.

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Miriam Carey’s Legal Fund

Posted on April 22, 2015 | 3 comments

Miriam Carey is still dead and most of the snooze media still doesn’t care. Not to mention the pols, or the White House, or Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They’re not out organizing demos and making incendiary speeches over the young, photogenic black mother who was hit five times in the back from a hail of white cop bullets. And Barry is not calling her the daughter he didn’t have.

Since none of that is happening and only WND.com is even bothering to continue writing about the murder masquerading as police work, Miriam’s family is garnering legal fees to try and get her the justice denied her by the system.

And legal fees, as you might imagine, can be pretty stiff. Hence this new GoFundMe site for her which hasn’t raised a pittance yet of the $300,000 sought. Hard to do when the usual channels of publicity are denied. Give ’em some money. I have. Maybe this way we’ll find out the real story, someday, behind this incredible coverup.

Via Mouth of The Brazos.

UPDATE:  The WaPo did a lengthy rehash of what was known back in November, 2014—more than a year after Miriam’s murder. The piece caught a U.S. Attorney in a lie and asked all the right questions. Five months later, the police still refuse to provide the answers.

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Bloggers may lose First Amendment protections

Posted on April 21, 2015 | 1 comment

Depending on how the next Texas court defines “nonmedia,” that is. The Texas Court of Appeals for the Second District (Dallas), seems to be saying if you’re not part of the institutional media, it will be easier for plaintiffs to win a libel judgement against you.

“…this is an unfortunate result, and also requires Texas courts to now decide who counts as ‘media’ for First Amendment purposes. Do book authors qualify? Filmmakers? Academics? Bloggers? (Does it matter whether they make money blogging? Whether they blog on The Washington Post site, even if they are not newspaper employees?)”

I learned to be wary of libel when I was a newspaperman. Hence I try to reserve my criticisms here for obvious public figures, like the Worm, Godzillary and Joey Hairplugs. Take on a small-town mayor, however, one who is not wellknown beyond his jurisdiction and you might run afoul of this new ruling. Not to mention criticizing a private citizen with less-than-temperate language—which would have been true even before the ruling.

Via The Volokh Conspiracy

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