Adios Scott Chaffin, your blog The Fat Guy is no more. We’ll miss it as we have been missing you.
Likewise Sullivan’s Travelers, a spinoff of the rare readers of Alan (The Seablogger) Sullivan—who was one of Scott’s blog friends. At least Alan’s blog remains. Without him, alas. Or his good photos, poetry, novels and memoirs. Pity Alan never did any of them up for sale on Amazon.
Only the long and winding road remains.
Posted in Blogosphere, Cancer
Hanukkah is not for the squeamish. Nor the two-state solution.
It’s not really about kids, gifts, fried potatoes or candles. It’s straight-up militarism, oh yeah, a victory celebration in a multimillenial conflict: “a reminder that Obama’s war on Jerusalem was preceded long before him by Antiochus’s war on Jerusalem.”
More timely news for the eight days from Sultan Knish.
UPDATE: Then there’s the “humor” version via Heeb.
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December 16, 2014 in Blogosphere, Israel, Texana
Tagged hanukkah is a war celebration, Happy Hanukkah!, victory celebrations
Maybe the Jeff Bezos 2013 buy didn’t really change anything at the Democrat house organ WaPo after all.
Witness this burial on page C-7 of the conviction of Joseph D. Morrissey, a Virginia Democrat state legislator, for sex with a minor, i.e. statutory rape.
Now if he was a Republican: It would be katy bar the door.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Probably helps that Morrissey is also a gun-control goofus.
Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The Culture
The Ponies don’t just have a lousy football team, they’ve also rigged the system against students accused of rape. Men, in other words. Despite all the recanted rape charges of recent years, the feds still encourage (shoot, they require) schools to favor the rape accuser over the accused.
“To reiterate: this new procedure, which OCR [federal Office of Civil Rights] requires SMU to continue in the future: (1) denies the accused student the right to an attorney; (2) denies the accused student the right to cross-examine his accuser; (3) allows the accused student no meaningful discovery; (4) can brand the accused student a rapist even if SMU’s own investigator and, later, own conduct review officer concludes he did nothing wrong; and (5) can reach that determination on a 3-2 vote.”
Innocent until proven guilty? Not on this subject and not at SMU. Keep your nose clean out there. The Supreme Soviet (i.e. OCR) is back in business, in Dallas.
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, Texana, The Culture
Tagged no due process at SMU, SMU
Never mind the black flag in the window of the Sydney, Australia coffee shop that says “There is no god but Allah.” The Fort Hood killer shouted the same thing as he gunned down his unarmed prey, but Wormtongue’s feds are still denying it could have been anything but workplace violence.
We’ll have to wait and see what the Aussies decide to term it. Possibly depending on how many of the between 12 and 40 hostages make it out alive and, of course, how many are employees. Gotta parse the tea leaves in these matters and, above all, pretend they’re not religion-motivated.
That would be Islamophobic. And we can’t have that now, can we? Why, shoot, some people (including the police) can actually see the perp with what appears to be a pump shotgun. So are there police snipers on the case? Not yet. But, hey, there’s some progress. The event is now officially being referred to as “a terrorist incident.” Take that, Barry.
Via Richard Fernandez at PJMedia
UPDATE: The perp is dead and two hostages. “11:30 EST The Daily Telegraph is now saying 4 wounded, 2 dead. One of the deceased is reportedly ‘Sheik’ Man Haron Monis, as he is now referred to in the press.” He was another known Lone Wolf.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The War, War Without End
Goodwill recently opened a boutique (true story) in a strip shopping center not far from the rancho and I have been encouraged to look through the racks of used but still good condition clothing. I have passed on the shoes and boots.
Andy at MyOldRV does me one better, buying his clothes off eBay. I knew he was buying old wide-brimmed straws there but not his shirts. Of course his shirts are the pricey specialty kind, made in West Point, Mis’sippi. Where slo-drawling Wynell answers the phone. When eBay hasn’t got enough used to satisfy him.
Via MyOldRV
Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, The Culture, The Economy
You know, the one that got all the fraternities at the University of Virginia suspended until further notice? The one that’s now cratered, i.e. the one that the aging look-alike for AARP Magazine (thank you, Ed Driscoll), has now retracted due to “misplaced” trust in its single source.
Its single source. Mull that one over for a while. One person. No corroboration. No support. One person. Wow, it doesn’t take much to move the whole Democrat news media’s needle these days. On the other hand, it was the WaPo that cut up the story. Thanks, no doubt, to its 2013 purchase by Jeff Bezos.
And the usual post-story-collapse cries of “fake but accurate” now resound. These aren’t journalists. They are leftist political activists ever in search of illustrations to support their agenda. And the author of the exclusive (one source!) and the Rolling Stone-AARP Magazine itself did it all before, back in 2011. Only that time, three Catholic priests and a school teacher went to jail.
BTW, I’m still waiting for the leftist “news” hounds to do an investigative piece on the dark power of sororities. Hopefully with more than one source. Dream on.
Via PJMedia.
UPDATE: In which the leftist rag disguised as a journal of news clarifies its retraction/apology.
Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The Culture
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