Category Archives: Obsessions

Bob Dylan was never my poet

I sorta liked “A Hard Rain Is A’Gonna Fall,” but otherwise. Folk music was a joke. And the hard rain didn’t really fall. LBJ retired to the ranch. The only people who got really wet were us veterans of his fuckedup war. Howsomeever.

“We are not a folk but a church, and our native music is church music–the Battle Hymn with its quotation of Isaiah 63, for example, or “The Year of Jubilo,” whose hymnal roots I analyzed here. Our popular poetic language is that of our national epic, the King James Bible. We sang the go-to-meeting songs of the Methodists and other Protestant denominations. This informed the spirituals of black slaves who gave us our first original art form. American folk music? Gospel is as close as we get to such a concept.”

The most authentic thing Dylan ever did—besides going electric—was to refuse to go accept his Nobel Prize for Literature. He knew he was a phony.

Read the rest from a practicing Modern Orthodox Jew.

WaPo’s lies

“….Breitbart News, an alt-right news site that has become a forum for the white nationalist movement…”

I read Breitbart News every day. I have yet to see any item or “forum” about white nationalism. I’m not sure what this repeated expression in the Washington Post and other dominant Democrat media even means.

Except that it’s another Democrat smear, the leftists preferred method of handling politics and the leftist news media’s reporting of same. Just a lie to keep the political pot boiling and Generation Snowflake wailing.

UPDATE:  More fake news from that fakiest of the fakers, the NYTimes. Now claiming, on the front page no less, that Breitbart is a birther site. Drivel. No wonder this Democrat lapdog and Obama and Clinton shill is losing subscribers and money.

Dems battling to overturn the election

Constitutional scholars like Eric Holder and Bill Maher want to throw out the “archaic” electoral college and make the popular vote winner the president.

There are now at least two Democrat-backed petition drives underway to try and influence the electoral “college” electors when they meet Dec. 19  to ignore the outcome of their state elections and put Clinton in the White House. Because (as they aren’t saying) she got more votes in New York and California than he did.

That’s what eliminating the electoral college would mean: the big mainly Democrat populations of New York and California would determine the “popular” vote and elect the president of their choice. A Democrat, of course.

And the rest of us could go hang. Ready for a second civil war?

UPDATE:  Hagzilla’s cronies have begun harassing electoral college voters with the support of our fraudulent news media.

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New crime: Heterosexuality

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No, just no

Much as I like candy corn and as thankful as I am for my blood sugar levels that its mainly available this time of year, candy corn beer sounds just too, too awful.

Via Instapundit

The Hottest Year Evah Nonsense

The television meteorologists and the newspaper scribblers reissue these government handouts every year as if they were gospel instead of political bullshit so fundamentally flawed they don’t deserve to be called science.

“Surface temperature datasets are so flawed (Urban Heat Island effect; poor siting issues; large areas of the world where there is no coverage) as to be untrustworthy,” writes James Delingpole. “Satellite data don’t show nearly the same extreme warming trend: this year’s high temperatures, the result of a strong El Nino, are roughly the same of those as of the (similarly strong) El Nino of 1998.”

“[Where] there is little or no data coverage for most of the world,” writes climate blogger Paul Homewood, “temperature trends are simply made up for large areas, particularly the supposedly fast warming regions like the Arctic.”

Made up? Yes, made up. Extrapolated, as they say in professional-speak, those none-too-scientific scientists, getting fat and living high on the climate-change gravy train powered by your tax money. Championed by such luminaries as the dictator’s club (aka the UN) and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

Why the Obama Economy Sucks

It’s not just the taxes that could have been lowered to give the poor economy a boost. It’s the constant pressure on business to spend its money elsewhere than on employment.

“In sum, consider President Obama‘s overall regulatory record: 624 major rules (as of this writing) and on track to approach 650 major regulations, 31 percent more than his predecessor. Regulators have added more than $760 billion in net costs since 2010, with 485 million in net paperwork burden hours….”

Via The Washington Examiner.