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Those murdered Israeli teenagers

Posted on July 1, 2014 | Comments Off on Those murdered Israeli teenagers

Sad to hear of the murders of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, but not terribly surprised. Nor of the Drudge headline: “Arabs stone ambulance carrying corpses.” It’s the so-called Religion of Peace at work and play.

As Brett Stephens, former editor of the Jerusalem Post, notes: “As for the Palestinians and their inveterate sympathizers in the West, perhaps they should note that a culture that too often openly celebrates martyrdom and murder is not fit for statehood, and that making excuses for that culture only makes it more unfit.”

Among the “inveterate sympathizers” who should know better, we could start with the Presbyterian Church and their new Israel divestment scheme. And the United Methodists who did it before them. At least we can be pleased that their numbers are steadily dwindling.

Via Simply Jews.

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Soccer: A clear sign of dementia

Posted on June 30, 2014 | 2 comments

At the risk of further upsetting Mr. Goon, who adores soccer (probably because he came up in the Soviet Union where there was little else to do), I couldn’t ignore this piece about soccer fanatics (the origin, BTW, of the contraction “fan”) using laser pointers to injure goalies.

Nor this incisive comment by Estragon about America’s decline with the (so far, thankfully, miniscule) rise here of soccer popularity:

“Whereas the youth of America once came of age in the bleachers trying to second-guess pitchers and managers and learning real strategy, nowadays we seek to emulate the Eurotrash, who crowd into the standing room areas of soccer stadiums and urinate on each other’s legs to avoid missing a minute of the ‘action.'”

Heck, soccer players have been gunned down for “poor play,”—how could anyone tell good play from poor in such a boring, sleep-inducing game?

Via Instapundit.

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The feds’ party: Democrats

Posted on June 29, 2014 | 1 comment

Why does the federal government and its economy-killing regulations keep growing? Because it is the government of the Democrats, by the Democrats and for the Democrats. And people keep voting Democrat.

“The Democratic party today is, quite simply, the party of government and the natural home of the managerial class. It is no accident, as the Marxists say, that the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents the IRS, gave 94 percent of its political donations during the 2012 election cycle to Democratic candidates openly at war with the Tea Party — the same group singled out by Lois Lerner. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents the VA, gave 97 percent of its donations to Democrats at the national level and 100 percent to Democrats at the state level.”

Via The National Review. Doing the journalism the Democrat news media, which loves the Democrats and big government, refuses to do.

Via Instapundit.

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We lost, we can all go back to hating soccer

Posted on June 27, 2014 | 3 comments

Now that the U.S. soccer team was beaten by Germany by a measly one point (despite still needing to lose to Belgium, which they probably will), we can all go back to waiting for football (the real football) season to begin.

As my favorite political columnist, Ann Coulter, says: In soccer, “everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That’s when we’re supposed to go wild. I’m already asleep.”

Scoring in real football—tackle football y’all—is never done by accident, not with 300-pounders trying to crush you before you get to the goal line.

Via Althouse.

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Curmudgeonly, yes, but also true

Posted on June 26, 2014 | 3 comments

“…I tire of our early 21st century world which is dubiously the rudest and crudest society in history, having jubilantly swept most of the etiquette of speech, table, dress, hospitality, regard for fairness, deference to authority, and the relations of male and female and child and elder under the fraying and filthy carpet of politically convenient illusions.”

Ain’t it the truth, with a criminal president and a news media that aids and abets him.

(Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!)

Via MyOldRV.

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Why you must not move to Texas

Posted on June 25, 2014 | 4 comments

First, because we have too many immigrants already and only a small fraction of them have come from South of the border. Second, because every story you’ve ever heard about how great it is here was a lie. Plain and simple. We have fire ants in every back yard, scorpions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas all over the place, and cockroaches as big as your hand. And there’s more:

As TexasDoubleDoc, a commenter at Instapundit, says: “The grocery stores only stock potato chips and coke, the roads are full of potholes, and gunfights break out every twenty minutes. The schools are in shambles, there are regular book-burnings, and everyone is forced to attend [a Baptist church] every weekend.

“Women have zero rights here, gays are stoned in the town square, and minorities must apply skin whiteners to blend in and avoid violent mobs. There is no true ‘nighttime’ here, as Texans frequently burn large open swaths of oil for fun. And EVERYONE rides a horse, so it stinks to high heaven from all the manure on the disintegrating roads.”

Plus which, there are no more jobs left anymore. None at all. Zip. All taken. So do us all a big favor and stay the hell away. Pretty please.

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Give me spicy ketchup or give me death

Posted on June 22, 2014 | 4 comments

I didn’t think it was really possible to find 24 things I’d miss about Texas if I left. But there is. Mostly. Read it and weep.

No Whataburger (the spicy ketchup) would be bad enough. No Blue Bell would be intolerable. And where else in the country could I legally drive 100 plus mph—besides I-10 west of San Antone?

So forget it. I ain’t leavin’.

Via Althouse (not that her Yankee commenters care, but what do they know).

UPDATE:  Do like this comment, however: “Oy. I do think, however, that “Texas” should be taught as one of the basic geometric shapes, along with the circle, rectangle, triangle, and square.”

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