Category Archives: Obsessions

Driving or texting?

Posted on April 9, 2016 | 2 comments

It’s not what you think. Not another one of those Don’t Text and Drive sermons.

It’s the observation of the father of one of Mr. B.’s chums. He noted that his 16-year-old son has no particular interest in getting his driver’s license. It reminded me of how slowly Mr. B. has been about moving through the end of his driving lessons. Putting the last ones off. Doing them once a week or every ten days.

My friend said when he and I were this age, we needed that driving license to get out of the house, to see friends, to go to the movies, to get out from under the parental thumb. Whereas nowadays, he said, they have private phones to talk and text with, Netflix to stream movies on, Xbox to play multi role player games with their friends, while talking to them on headsets, amid all the comforts of home.

Why go out? Why drive? Especially in Austin’s godawful traffic?

I suppose they’ll be too old for the real-life virtual reality games that are coming. That generation might be even less interested in getting a driver’s license. If unpopular public transportation can’t save the environment from the automobile, maybe the iphone and the Internet  can, eh?

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First Mooch’s lunch rules, now this

Posted on April 5, 2016 | 2 comments

“The Obama administration plans to continue its war on food and food manufacturers with proposed guidelines for sodium consumption.”

Despite “New studies show[ing] the government recommended sodium consumption level actually puts people at risk of death.”

Well, that’s no surprise. Their low-fat commands to food processors in the 1960s spurred 1980s epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Science’s reversal of their cholesterol edict was so embarrassing they hid it deep in a 572-page government report in 2015. Now, against their own research, the feds are going to try to get salt out of our diets.

Follow their food guidelines at your peril.

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Our Ted’s problems, part II

Posted on April 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Our Ted’s problems, part II

“It was disturbing enough when Senator Ted Cruz announced that Neil Bush, brother of Jeb and George W., would be a Finance Chairman of his campaign.

“Neil defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of $1.5 billion dollars in a savings and loan scam. Now however, Cruz has announced a key appointment that should disturb voters even more.

“Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008….

And then there’s “…Goldman Sachs. The bank bailed out by U.S. taxpayers paid Hillary $675,000 for a speech. They also made a secret sweetheart loan to Ted Cruz’s U.S. Senate campaign. So in a Clinton-Cruz race the folks on Wall Street win either way.”

I was already wise to the Hildabeast’s finagling. I was coming around to our Ted’s. That’s why I always delete his or Heidi’s passionate pleas for just $5 more in contributions. Like he really needs it.

Via Daily Caller

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Feds to enforce Mooch’s school lunch rules

Posted on April 2, 2016 | 2 comments

This is for public schools, adding to our tax burden. Private schools, like the one her daughters attend—where the carrot sticks and celery are ignored in favor of French fries and pastries—will be exempt.

As usual, federal rules are for the little people, not the elite. Haven’t noticed Her Imperial Moochness’s personal corpulence slimming down, either. Must not be following her own rules. What a surprise.

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When leftists fight

Posted on March 30, 2016 | Comments Off on When leftists fight

Southwestern U., a private little liberal arts college up the road from the rancho, is having a dispute only leftists could dream up. They’ve canceled this year’s annual performance of the Vagina Monologues.

Not because it’s an old, boring POS but because its author is white (and probably also because she’s Jewish. Israel and BDS, you know) how ever could colored, er, people of, enjoy themselves knowing a non-diverse, i.e. white, person wrote the annual play? Jeepers.

The flaw in their argument, of course, is that when only colored, er, people of, are writing all the plays and running everything else, they’ll have only themselves to blame. That will be tre amusing.

Via Simon Thomas Gentle, aka Simply Jews, aka Snoopy-the-Goon.

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Our Ted’s problems

Posted on March 29, 2016 | 5 comments

Five of them, according to the National Enquirer (enquiring minds want to know). Not the best source but their headlines sure grab the attention.

Seen in the checkout line at HEB: Cruz’s Five Secret Mistresses. And, uh, a reference to “Pervy Ted.” Over a closet tryst. In a closet, that is.

Trump, naturally, is making the most of it. Bad enough our Ted is getting whipped by a New Yorker. But this? Boy, I bet Heidi has a lot of questions.

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Jihad is everywhere

Posted on March 23, 2016 | 7 comments

Islam is not a religion of peace, far from it. And jihad is more than bombs.

“No, jihad is an eternal, all-encompassing unholy war against the unbeliever. It is waged in the mind of the believer, to fortify his or her own courage and faith. It is waged online and in the pages of books and magazines, to simultaneously cultivate the hatred and contempt of the committed for the kafir — the unbeliever — while also currying favor, appeasement, and advantage from the gullible West. Jihad is the teaching in the mosque. It is the prayer in the morning, the social-media post in the afternoon, and the donation to an Islamic “charity” in the evening.

“There is jihad in predatory, coordinated sexual assault, there is jihad when Western camera crews are chased from Muslim neighborhoods, and there is jihad when Muslim apologists invariably crawl from the sewers of Western intelligentsia, blaming Europeans for the imperfections in their life-saving hospitality. So don’t make the mistake of believing that Europe or America only ‘periodically’ or ‘rarely’ deal with jihad. We confront it every day, just as the world has confronted it — to greater or lesser degrees — ever since Muslim armies first emerged from the Arabian peninsula. While not all Muslims are jihadists, jihad is so deeply imprinted in the DNA of Islam that the world will confront it as long as Islam lives.”

Maybe Trump’s idea of limiting Muslim immigration is a good idea. And Ted’s idea of policing existing Muslim neighborhoods isn’t so bad after all. If it can be implemented without succumbing to the inevitable lawsuits and PC babble.

Otherwise, Islam must die.

Via NRO and Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Richard Fernandez at PJMedia: “The global jihad’s response to ponderous, pre-announced offensive against ISIS in Syria was long anticipated: they would counterattack.” Paris, San Bernadino, Brussels. Next?

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