Category Archives: Obituaries

Remembering Six Million…

Posted on April 16, 2015 | Comments Off on Remembering Six Million…

…who lived, learned, thrived, struggled, laughed, worked and loved. Light a candle.

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Why leftists still hate Fox News

Posted on April 8, 2015 | 1 comment

“After a full-week spent lying about Indiana’s Religious Freedom law and relentlessly trashing Christians  as bigots and Christianity as bigotry, CNN closed things out on Good Friday by being humiliated in the all-important 25-54 primetime demo…”

Primetime: 25-54 demographic: FNC: 385 | CNN: 105 | MSNBC: 83 | HLN: 148

Via Breitbart News Syndicate.

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Islam’s latest contributions to peace

Posted on January 20, 2015 | 2 comments
2015.01.19 (Karachi, Pakistan) – A guard loses his life when Islamists attack a polio team.
2015.01.18 (Potiskum, Nigeria) – A female suicide bomber detonates at a bus station, claiming four kills.
2015.01.17 (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) – A Shiite lawyer and his two nephews are sprayed with automatic weapons fire by dedicated Sunnis.
2015.01.17 (Sabaa al-Bour, Iraq) – Five Shiites at a market are reduced to pulp by Sunni bombers.
2015.01.17 (Kulgam, India) – Muslim radicals shoot a local cop to death.
2015.01.16 (Baqubah, Iraq) – A child is taken out by a suicide bomber.

And don’t forget the ISIS slayings of two accused homosexuals in Mosul, Iraq. Thrown from a tall building to the pavement below. And a stoning and a crucifixtion. As you can see, Paris was not an aberration.

Via The Religion of Peace.

UPDATE:  The Islamic Holocaust continues.

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Feds imposing illegal gun control

Posted on January 16, 2015 | 2 comments

The president couldn’t get his own party to pass gun control laws, so he’s having his bureaucrats do it by “intimidat[ing] banks with the threat of heightened scrutiny and increased audits if accounts are maintained” by legal gun shops.

“What they’ve done is they put…gun dealers out of business, ammunition manufacturers out of business. Because in America, if you can’t bank, you can’t do business,” Rep Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican congressman, told FoxNews.

The Department of “Justice” even has a name for their exercise: Operation Choke Point. They’re aided and abetted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

“Brian Wise, with the U.S. Consumer Coalition, says there are hundreds and even thousands of businesses across the nation who have had bank accounts closed, and they may not even know their bank was intimidated by Operation Choke Point. ‘This is one of the greatest abuses of power that the country has never heard of,’ Wise said.”

Thanks to the Internet and FoxNews, they have now. Time to sue the bastards.

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Choppers last at Radio Shack

Posted on December 18, 2014 | 4 comments

Stopped off at our local Radio Shack the other day for a radio-controlled “toy” for the almost-15-year-old Mr. Boy who has been busy acing his first-semester high school freshman finals. Just for fun. Radio Shack, alas, is going out of business. The retail empire will be missed hereabouts and certainly in its home base of Fort Worth.

Anyhow, the RC vehicles were consequently marked way down, most at 50 percent off, some more. I got him an RC stunt car for $10. It’ll probably break pretty quick. Most of them do. Still be fun for however long it lasts.

Longer, I’m sure, than one of the twin-rotor choppers so popular the last few years. Until people figured out that, however cool they look, they are expensive to buy, hard to fly and easy to break. Mr. B. and I still have the two Mrs. Charm got us last year. Still in their boxes. Cowards, yep.

Likewise the choppers at Radio Shack, almost the last kind of RC toy still on the local shelves despite markdowns of as much as 70 percent. Which still leaves the price at $30 plus.

Back in the day (in the 1980s, when we never used that expression), my first word-processing laptop for work was a Radio Shack Tandy, complete with rubber ear cups for transmitting back to the newsroom over a land-line phone receiver. Which I once did to my own amazement on an assignment in Pennsylvania. Later I got a better one (larger, flip-up screen) of my own, then called a Notebook. Memories.

Bye, bye Radio Shack. Rest in Peace.

UPDATE:  My RIP link turns out to be a slam on the company by a disgruntled employee. I was fooled by the “eulogy” headline. It’s a long gripe about how tough retail is for the cashier-person, the lowest of the low. I remember it well. It was/is low-paid and exhausting. It’s what high school and college kids often wind up with for jobs, until they find something better. When they vow never to go back.

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The badge gang’s crimes

Posted on December 14, 2014 | 8 comments

Good examples of why the Badge Gang needs reform:

“They can shoot unarmed men and lie about it. They can roll up and execute a child with a toy as casually as one might in Grand Theft Auto. They can bumble around opening doors with their gun hand and kill bystanders, like a character in a dark farce, with little fear of serious consequences. They can choke you to death for getting a little mouthy about selling loose cigarettes. They can shoot you because they aren’t clear on who the bad guy is, and they can shoot you because they’re terrible shots, and they can shoot you because they saw something that might be a weapon in your hand—something that can be … any fucking thing at all, including nothing.”

Fortunately, people are finally catching on to the fact that Officer Friendly ain’t.

Via The Atlantic & Fox News.

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And more random thoughts

Posted on December 8, 2014 | 3 comments

Amazes me that anyone still takes the news media seriously. They don’t even take themselves seriously. Rolling Stone’s phony gang-rape story was based on the word of one, uncorroborated, source without any comment from the accused. None at all. When will the firings begin?

New York City’s illegal cigarette-salesman Eric Garner should not have resisted arrest but surely it wasn’t necessary to kill him for it. I have no use for the rioters but I have to agree with them that the system is seriously out of whack. Cops are killing people more often these days and many of their prosecutor-backers are persuading grand juries to do nothing about it.

As Ted Cruz has said, and Rand Paul has chimed in, it’s time to abolish the IRS.

Who will be the Republican nominee in 2016? Why Jeb, of course. It’s his turn. That’s the way the Stupid Party does business.  And creation of a third, Tea Party, will only pad the loss to the Democrats. Sixteen years of ’em. Whew.

There’s one consistent detail about the Democrats. A hundred years later, they are still trying to disarm black people. Only now they’re trying to do it to everyone else at the same time. Except their own elites, of course. They’ll always have guns. Or bodyguards with guns.

Few journalists are independent actors like the Rolling Stone “reporter” Sabrina Rubin Erdely. They do what their editors & publishers tell them and their editors & publishers are primarily interested in keeping the pols, the authorities and the advertisers happy. And, nowadays, keeping their own jobs. Erdely is an outlier. But, then, so is her editor. Are they still employed? Why?

Tell me why anyone would feel safe with a president who considers economic sanctions for Israel while fighting congressional attempts to renew sanctions on terrorism-supporting Iran? Sho’ loves him some jihadis, don’t he?

UPDATE:  The NYC grand jury’s failure to indict for trial the killer cop who murdered an unarmed black man for resisting arrest is a grave injustice that demands redress. Demands it, dammit. Get your heads out of your asses, people.

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