Category Archives: Obsessions

More climate change shuck

Posted on December 12, 2015 | 5 comments

Climate change ought to be a debate but is buried under so many tons of political, scientist and celebrity bullshit that the best it draws from most critics is a healthy snort.

Hey, “Hans Solo” is fighting to save the planet. Gosh I’m impressed. Aren’t you?

Me, I prefer the acerbic like Mark Steyn, a bold marauder if there ever was one. Only weak arguments, Steyn notes, require the muzzling of their opponents. Yep.

Especially when the “solution” to this weak argument is frightening in itself.

Fortunately, our Little Barry Hussein has as much influence on this as he does generally, i.e. none.

UPDATE:  Lurch,  our halfwit secretary of state and, not incidentally, the husband of a ketchup heiress, calls for the public shaming of climate change deniers: his master’s preferred alternative to proof or debate.

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Cops fight back

Posted on December 11, 2015 | Comments Off on Cops fight back

“‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,’ [Brevard County, Florida, sheriff Wayne] Ivey said.

“He urged residents to arm themselves as a first line of defense against an active shooter.” Better than quaking or “sheltering in place,” until the SWAT team finally gets its camo and boots on.

Ivey’s not the only one who’s fed up with our Barry Hussein’s and his party’s constant anti-gun refrain. Leading to more and more restrictive gun registration schemes. You know, instead of recognizing terrorism.

“‘You are not our potentate, sir. You are our servant,’ says Randy Kennedy, police chief of Hughes Springs, a north Texas town east of Dallas.

Get it, Barry? These are the guys who would have to enforce your and the Hildabeast’s ultimate dream of confiscation.

Via Instapundit.

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Posted in Guns, History, Obamalot, Obsessions, Texana, The Culture

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Teach Texas women not to rape

Posted on December 9, 2015 | 2 comments

The headline is a modified steal from the Instapundit who has long chronicled the surprisingly increasing incidence of middle- and high school teachers, who are generally women, sexually abusing their students.

Now the problem is a growing Texas one, according to the state Senate Education Committee. The Texas Education Agency says the number of investigations of “inappropriate relationships” between teachers and students grew from 141 in 2009-10 to 188 in 2014-15. Long prison sentences may help.

And, strangely enough, it’s not just women teachers taking advantage of male students. They’re using the disappearing content feature of such apps as Snapchat and Kik to get sexually involved with female ones, too. Maybe it’s time for the Democrat party’s feminists to focus on the high school reality instead of their pretend rape problem involving only men at the country’s college and universities. Ya think?

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Legalizing marijuana in Canada

Posted on December 8, 2015 | 7 comments

Mr. B. was crowing the other day about how Canada is the first country to legalize marijuana. Hasn’t actually done so yet but is expected to soon. It fit with his belief that legal barriers will continue to fall and users and sellers will no longer be punished. Not by the law, at least.

I agree, and long have, that these mind-altering substances should be legal across the board. Government has no business telling us what to do with them and, certainly, their attempts to police it for the past few decades has been a failure. All that has done is create a vast network of prisons and young prisoners whose lives have, essentially, been ruined by the state. Plus raise the street price.

However, I know from long experience that children, whose brains are still developing, have no business with it, and shouldn’t be encouraged in any way to use marijuana. Even for adults it has two major drawbacks: 1) the more you do it the harder it is to stop and 2) it is one of the world’s greatest de-motivators. It will gradually quash whatever ambition you may have.

As for Mr. B., any thought that he has for doing pot is being tempered by the realization that his father and the parents of his friends are organizing to try and turn around what schoolkids hereabouts regard as “no big deal.” It’s a very bad deal for them and we want educators to place an onus on it similar to texting-and-driving and drinking-and-driving. But I’d still like to see the government and the police butt out.

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The climate crisis of the elites

Posted on December 2, 2015 | 2 comments

There’s nothing like photos of the Obama-Kerry power luncheon with the other elites of the Dictator’s Club (aka the United Nations) to demonstrate how the so-called climate crisis is really about us giving them our tax and utility money to go on being elites who will tell us how to live.

“There is a consensus among the political elites of the world that we must act immediately to expand trans-national government power, diminish economic liberty through taxes and regulation, shut down the fossil fuel industry, and redistribute wealth globally; all things the left wanted to do anyway. What a happy accident that these are precisely the things that must be done in order to save the Earth from Global Warming.”

I know they’re not going to get it by a vote from us little people. They may have most of the atheistic science world in their pockets, but there aren’t enough of the gullible among the rest of us to put it over.

So I presume they’ll try to take it by force—controlling our lives by taking away the coal we need for electricity and the oil for gasoline. While their lifestyles stay the same or even improve. Then we’ll see just how long they keep their power, among other things.

Via Gay Patriot & Instapundit.

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Ignoring the food cops

Posted on November 30, 2015 | 2 comments

I’m sure the gullible are anxiously awaiting the new federal dietary guidelines due out by the end of the year. The dwindling number of believers in Big-Daddy government, that is.

“Many Americans have lost trust in the science behind the guidelines since they seem to change dramatically every five years. In February, for example, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee declared that certain fats and eggs are no longer the enemy and that cholesterol is ‘not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.’ This, after decades of advising Americans to ‘watch their cholesterol.’”

As one who never stopped eating eggs, nor ever ate low-fat anything, and never paid the least attention to his so-called cholesterol numbers–over the protest of most doctors who provided them–I can only laugh.

Via WSJ

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Bye, bye Confederates

Posted on November 25, 2015 | 4 comments

I suppose it was inevitable. Especially in a largely liberal town like Austin. Rewriting history certainly isn’t uncommon elsewhere.

So it’s soon goodbye to Lee, Lanier, Johnston, Reagan and, possibly, Travis. All the names of local elementary and high schools. Although Travis is the Alamo personified and more about Texas history than slavery per se. But slavery is the issue du jour. Lee, Lanier, Johnston and Reagan being slave owners as well as Confederates.

Ironically, it was Travis’s slave Joe that brought us the most complete version of William Barrett’s death, having witnessed it, seeing as how his master had brought him along to the mission-cum-fort for what turned out to be his last stand.

Nevertheless, WBT could be next. When revisionism really gets going, no history is safe for long.

One I wish they would change is the residential street named Malvern Hill in South Austin. Some developer’s idea of commemoration, I suppose, though the battle by that name was a sizable Confederate defeat in 1862. Naw. Too obscure. Besides, in the current climate, a Confederate defeat would be a good thing.

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