Category Archives: Blogosphere

Playing the gender card

Posted on March 10, 2015 | 2 comments

Tired of the gender wars? Too bad. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

“Hillary Clinton’s big press conference this afternoon started off unpromisingly. “Just a minute,” Mrs. Clinton told the eager reporters. “Nick is calling on people.” Nick called on a guy who identified himself as being from ‘Turkish television.’ We are not making up his question: ‘If you were a man today, would all of this fuss . . . be made?’ She demurred—’Well, I will—I will leave that to others to answer.’ One strongly suspects the question was a setup, designed to have someone else play the ‘gender card’ on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf.”

The Hildabeast. The Queen of Benghazi. She is the real war on women.

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Google: from nudity assault to PC exalt

Posted on March 7, 2015 | 2 comments

Google backed off from its recent push to de-nudify Blogger. It still requires an “adult” label on blogs there that post nude pictures. I’m not sure if that means partially-nude Rule 5 cheesecake, but we’re talking about a machine’s rankings here, after all.

Now Google’s machine is hunting for “truth” (read political correctness) and will be basing site rankings not on popularity as it does now but on a database they call the “Knowledge Vault.” Probably already FCC-approved.

The Vault likes Wikipedia, with which I mostly concur. No encyclopedia was ever completely without bias. But the Vault also likes government sites, with which no unpoliticized person could possibly agree. Not after years of the feds, for instance, pushing carbs and sugar into an obesity and diabetes epidemic.

So, henceforth, any federally-unapproved criticism of global warming or illegal immigration…

Nice little page ranking you have there, comrade. Be a shame to lose it.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Here’s a good example of why those government websites can’t be trusted to be truthful.

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The Hildabeast’s digital bimbo eruption

Posted on March 6, 2015 | 1 comment

As TeaPartyLee says at Instapundit, the Lizard Queen is a one-woman criminal conspiracy. And Roger L. Simon adds:

“…the American public is being given a test.  Are they going to elect Hillary Clinton, a serial liar who purposefully hides her communications from the public and the government she is supposed to be leading while making [Clinton] Foundation [donation] deals with Qatar and Algeria in the middle of a war against militant Islam?”

Well, we can be sure they won’t be getting any help from most of the big snooze media. Few have noted the flaws in her apparent willingness to release her emails. Most will be too busy chorusing with her: “What difference at this point does it make?”

And then they’ll get back to bashing Scott Walker.

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Enjoy the hills, Andy

Posted on March 5, 2015 | 3 comments

Andy, of MyOldRV, is finally out of the gate-guard business down near Cotulla. His frackin’ gig of two years and seven months has succumbed to low oil and gas prices. Good for us drivers but not for oil companies and such.

Andy smartly took off for the western Hill Country, for a little vacating. He’s pointedly not saying exactly where. It’s pretty out there, and will be more so once the bluebonnets start unfolding. When this damn cold weather loosens its grip.

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Syncronicity

Posted on March 5, 2015 | 2 comments

J.D., over at Mouth of the Brazos, recently reminded me of my own experience on this subject. He’s inclined not to believe in it. I wasn’t either, until the fall of 1982.

My mother was visiting. She was dying of Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis. She pointed to a framed photograph on the wall and asked where it came from. I told her when it was taken and the name of the photographer. Then I added that I hadn’t talked to him in years. The phone rang. It was him wanting to chat.

Nothing like that has happened to me since. I’ve always wondered if it didn’t have something to do with her dying, which she finally did a few months later. As if she was somehow more tuned into things than usual. Because I had a few other strange experiences during that time, though none as startling as this.

J.D. still demurs, since it’s never happened to him. But he adds: “I mean yeah, everything, EVERYTHING, is most assuredly connected in every way with everything else (quantum mechanics being what it is, as far as we can understand it and my even more limited perception of it as it now stands).”

Seems to be so.

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Trying to hug our way out of wars

Posted on March 3, 2015 | 2 comments

“We can not win this war by killing them,” Marie Harf said on MSNBC of ISIS in what is now widely-agreed to have been a stunningly stupid remark.

“War is one of the few things in life we can reliably kill our way out of,” Sultan Knish reminds. “The United States has had a great track record of killing our way out of wars. We killed our way out of WW1. We killed our way out of WW2. The problem began when we stopped trying to kill our way out of wars and started trying to hug our way out of wars instead…Because the solution to war is so obvious that no progressive could possibly think of it.”

Certainly not the low-information Democrat progressives of our overpaid and blundering federal government.

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Google’s war on nudity

Posted on March 2, 2015 | 2 comments

A blogger friend whose blog is, coincidentally, on Blogger recently got an email from Blogger boss Google warning of a change in policy as of March 23. The email read, in part:

“In the coming weeks, we’ll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We’ll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.”

Well, I’d say female nudity is uplifting (in more ways than one) whatever the context about 99 percent of the time. Anyhow, Google backed down a few days later, as reported by Drudge and others, citing “a ton of feedback” complaints.

However, Google now requires: “If your blog contains adult content, please mark it as ‘adult’ in your Blogger settings. We may also mark blogs with adult content where the owners have not.”

The funny thing about all this is that you can use Google to look up all the images of nude women and men (cheesecake, soft-porn, even hard-core porn of people f**king) you can stand. If you can do that, why should Google attempt to muzzle blogs that might use the images? Or make them add “adult” tags? Their having procured (ha!) the images from Google in the first place?

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