Story-telling at MyOldRV whose author Andy is also working on his HAM radio license:
“I did ask him if the truck was ‘hot’, had he run over a bunch of school chil’ren’s on the sidewalk in it? Robbed a 7-11? Any such thing as that? He mumbled something about a problem with the registration and inspection and said that was about the size of it. Tittlemouse is a lot of things but a liar isn’t one of them.”
Worth a read, pard.
Via MyOldRV.
Posted in Blogosphere, Guns, Texana, The Culture
Tagged MyOldRV, the real Dallas, Tittlemouse
Thanks to a crowd-sourcing campaign Ferguson small-business woman Natalie Dubose won’t be improverished by the idiot looters and destroyers who attacked her Natalie’s Cakes & More in the name of, what, sticking it to The Man?
“…The sweet lady who offered money from her social security check brought me to tears … Thank you to EVERYONE for the kind words, prayers, and emotional support.”
And the $98, 241 raised in 20 hours on the Internet. And more still coming in. Here’s hoping some of the other small-business owners who lost their life-savings-investments to the mob are similarly saved. And that the IRS doesn’t steal too much of what they raise. To give Joe Biden, et al, their cut.
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Blogosphere, The Culture, The Economy
Tagged crowdsourcing, Natalie Dubose, Natalies Cakes and More
Riots, looting (most pathetically, of a Dollar Store), bricks and bottles, fires, gunshots, the usual to-do fed by the Al Sharptons and other shouters who make their living off these events.
Meanwhile, in Cleveland… I suppose that will be the next righteous shoot, the black 12-year-old with a toy gun. Ferguson’s Brown, indeed, seems to have been a thug, like Trayvon. But the dead 12-year-old? And unarmed Miriam Carey?
Wormtongue’s “we do have work to do here, we shouldn’t paper it over” makes a point that the Ferguson nihilists are obscuring. Not to mention the snooze media and its usual sloppy, emotion-first reporting.
UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg at NRO: “I’ve had enough of cable TV enjoying itself while acting like it hates covering riots.”
MORE: Gun. Foot. Most of the businesses destroyed…were owned by minorities. The Democrats would rather have them on welfare, anyhow.
And probably no need to impeach, either, despite what I said earlier. The Worm’s big amnesty decree was a lot less than advertised, which is typical of him and his administration.
“Mass amnesty would be unfair,” Obama said during the primetime address.
Also unconstitutional. Even his temporary delay of deportations for an unspecified number of illegals will likely be overturned by the courts anyhow. Meanwhile it does little to add to the tax burden of the rest of us. Except in Texas where a proposed lawsuit may take care of our border expenses eventually.
Not all agree: Obama’s Amnesty Order Harms Jobs, Schools, Health and Simple Fairness, Black Activists Say. I’m sure some legal aliens would agree.
Still, I think former Reagan advisor and scifi author Jerry Pournelle has it:
“This is not a time to panic. The President has exceeded his authority, but not in a catastrophic way. He has issued a decree that states that it is reversible. Some of his legal people have asserted that he has more powers he hasn’t used yet, but for the moment he has done nothing that he could not have done, tediously, by issuing 5 million pardons….
“Now, we hope, some sense will settle into the Congress and result in some realistic approach to the problem of ten to the seventh [power] illegal aliens unlawfully present within our borders. We would deal with an invading army; surely we can deal with this?”
If they were all armed and belligerent, sure, but for the most part they’re peaceful and hard-working. More so than some black and white citizens, though the asians still put all of us to shame. The only real complaint I have is that old canard about how they’re doing the work Americans won’t do, which is b.s. considering a lot of the work is skilled construction. But if you take that to mean voting Democrat, then it’s a pretty good joke. Until they do it.
I still like Instapundit’s idea: “You know, if one of the GOP big-money donors — I’m looking at you, Sheldon Adelson — is smart, he’ll fund a welcome-wagon operation in swing states. Reach out to these newly-amnestied immigrants, help them get jobs, connect them with social services, offer them American civics education to help integrate, register them Republican. . . .”
Face the inevitable and beat the Dumbos at their own game. Just don’t turn into full-throttle McCain-Romney RINOs, please.
UPDATE: This makes perfect sense. Which, of course, is why it will be ignored.
MORE: The pretty-objective law professors of the Volokh Conspiracy, who are no part of the court media, say the Worm’s move was good law and good policy.
Posted in Blogosphere, The Culture
Tagged Instapundit, Jerry Pournelle, Obama's amnesty, Sheldon Adelson
Actually, they didn’t say “dangerous.” That’s the Worm’s lie. No surprise. He lies.
What he also didn’t say is what WUWT does: “…while 97% of scientists may agree that global warming is caused by humans, virtually 100% agree that global warming has stopped or slowed considerably during the 21stcentury.”
I still contend that this climate change dodge (a wholly-owned subsidairy of the Democrat Party) is a tax scam, just like Obamacare.
Via WSJ & WUWT
Even the Democrat Progs at the New Republic finally get it:
“…the senselessness and brutality of the synagogue assault, and the otherworldliness of the victims, lays bare the inadequacy of rational political explanations for terror. No doubt the murderers had their grievances (and some perhaps were reasonable), but the butchery in Har Nof shows that any sense of strategy has been overwhelmed by hate. The murder of non-Zionist Torah scholars is an attack on Jews more than Israel, and explaining it requires an understanding of hatred, not of politics.”
Watch a video of aftermath pix to see the butchery of four middle-aged rabbis, ambushed at prayer by two young Arab terrorists, the pictures the news media does not want you to see. If you dare.
Via Israel Matsav
For one thing, they’re so short and pithy, you can wind up seeming to mean something you didn’t intend. Or if you say something you do intend it might be understandable in context but look very unwise standing alone. For instance.
Now I think the Duncanville, Texas teacher at the link went too far. Her words look pretty stupid. But I also think she ought to have a right to say such things without being fired. The problem is saying them in public. So fired she is and all because of a Tweet. Not for me, thanks. Not for me.
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, Texana, The Culture
Tagged fired Duncanville teacher, Instapundit, why I don't tweet
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 