Category Archives: Obsessions

Four Years Ago on The Scribbler

Don’t you wish you could be a Palestinian refugee too?

What a gig. You produce nothing. You get lots of sympathy and lots of cash from the Israel-haters of the world. Meanwhile, it’s off to the beach. Just try to watch out for your Hamas rulers, eh? They have no sense of humor.

Obama’s benign Hiroshima speech

Much as I dislike His Earness for other reasons, I have to say that his Hiroshima speech, transcribed here by the NYTimes, isn’t bad at all—assuming the transcription is accurate. He preached against war in general and nukes in particular. Who could argue with that?

“Some day,” he said, “the voices of the hibakusha [bomb survivors] will no longer be with us to bear witness. But the memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must never fade. That memory allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change.”

The usual crazies have portrayed the speech as pandering to Japan’s old warlords and glossing over their attack on Pearl Harbor. I don’t see it. Nor the Daily Wire’s “one of the most repulsive speeches in American history.” It’s hardly that.

The Wall Street Journal had it right (so to speak): “In solemn comments, Mr. Obama neither apologized for nor justified the U.S. atomic bombs dropped both here and in Nagasaki that killed more than 200,000 people, and instead focused on a nonnuclear future, seeking to avoid inflaming passions on either side of the Pacific.”

It’s ludicrous, even harmful, for a politician’s opponents to misrepresent his benign actions when there are malignant ones worthy of whacking.

Why Trump Will Win

“It is widely assumed that Mrs. Clinton will pay no price for misbehavior because the Democratic president’s Justice Department is not going to proceed with charges against the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

“This is what everyone thinks, and not only because they watch ‘Scandal.’ Because they watch the news.

“That is the civic decadence they want to see blown up. And there’s this orange-colored bomb . . .”

Go get ’em, Donald T. Pee all over the Hildabeast and her likely veeper Pocahontas, the faux indian. You’ve got nothing to lose and a presidency to win.

Via WSJ

Rule 5: The Clitoris

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Muslim men. So savage. So retarded. So insecure.

Unfriended

Facebook is a huge time suck and, near as I can tell, worth neither the time nor the suck. Our pal Mr. Goon (who uses another alias on FB) seems to enjoy it. He posts there a few dozen times every day.

An old girlfriend of mine from high school posts at least a hundred times a day. She claims to be married. I hope she’s a widow because otherwise her husband is a Facebook widower. There are such things.

Anyhow, she’s of the liberal (read leftist, though liberals seldom admit to leftism) persuasion so she doesn’t hit the like button on mine very often. But I try to mix the politics up with jokes about cats and so she does occasionally. When she does I feel the need to respond in kind. Then I run across all the usual leftist crap about greedy corporations, lying Republicans and how we need more rules and taxes for another deserving something or other.

And, lately, a big push for the Hildabeast for president. Eww.

So eww that the last time I visited and saw another Hildabeast promo I couldn’t help myself. I wrote “Slick Willie’s cuckold” in the comments. Bam! The old girlfriend replied: “Are you beyond help?” Before I could respond she unfriended me. Can’t get into her place anymore.

No big loss. She wasn’t much of a girlfriend, either. Oh, I liked her plenty when I was eighteen. Then I grew up.

Another reason not to live in California

The California state senate has now banned the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines. Adios AR-15s, the most popular hunting and sporting rifle in the U.S.

“Lawmakers approved 11 bills including measures mandating background checks for Californians buying ammunition and outlawing the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines.”

If the state assembly concurs and the governor signs off, then it looks like banning ownership of such rifles could be next. Then California can expect the departure of thousands more of its citizens.

Not that the libs will care. Not until they realize their taxes will have to go up to take up the slack from all the departures. Worse, we’ll get more of these flakes. We’re already up to our eyeballs in Californicators fleeing their tarnished “golden” state.

How and why the warmists are wrong

From JD at Mouth of the Brazos:

“All the climate change (global warming) freaks are basing their doom predictions on are COMPUTER MODELS. If there is one algorithm in their model that’s wrong, or one regulatory factor omitted, the model isn’t worth a fart in a whirlwind. I’ve seen the same thing in doing science at Dow. It’s why predictive behaviors in any system have to be taken with a humongous grain of salt.”

The very idea that science could accurately model the climate is pure bullshit only impressive to suckers.