Category Archives: Obsessions

Pranking a Telemarketer

Posted on August 1, 2015 | 1 comment

This is probably very old. I first got it in a group email about 2006. Still is a hoot.

http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

I laughed so much the tears were rolling. See if you can get through it without a hoot or three.

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13 hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Posted on July 31, 2015 | Comments Off on 13 hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

I actually teared up the first time I watched this trailer of the new Benghazi flick.

Because I had thought that the Obama administration and their lapdog Democrat news media had successfully swept it, and Ambassador Chris Stevens’ murder, under the rug.

To the extent that a U.S. Secretary of State shouted at a Senate committee: “What difference, at this point, does it make?!” and no one on the committee or in the media said boo.

Now maybe we’ll finally find out what difference, at this point, it makes.

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The White Privilege B.S.

Posted on July 30, 2015 | 1 comment

I get the point. You would have to be a moron not to. But this fellow’s recitation of why I and other white men are supposed to feel bad about our “privilege” isn’t very convincing. Even if he has, as it says under his byline, a “Doctorate in White Privilege.” Imagine that. He says blacks are more likely to be stopped for the color of their skin, even shot to death, but he offers no proof of either claim.

The “actual facts,” as opposed to, I suppose, the unactual facts, of WP. Nothing there about black guys in polo shirts and khakis getting stopped or shot. But that would be discriminatory, wouldn’t it, expecting them to dress like whitey. Uh huh.

I still think most of the problem of blacks and other minorities tending to be hassled by cops, when it is true, is really a matter of class and behavior. Clothing, behavior, and whatever else denotes one’s social and economic standing.

Dress like a gangbanger, in other words, like Trayvon, and you’ll be treated like one. Get belligerent with a cop like Michael Brown, and you’ll have a gun pulled on you. Run away from a cop like Larry Jackson did and you risk getting shot. How simple is that?

We have blacks in our mostly white Austin neighborhood and no one hassles them because they mow their lawns, wash their cars, go to work every day and dress like the rest of the American middle class. We rarely even see a police car and have never heard a gunshot.

And if that’s too hard, or too debilitating for the ones who are hassled, well, you get what you resemble. Trayvon and his gold grill. Brown and his I’ll-mess-you-up attitude. Jackson and his you-can’t-catch-me-whitey. It’s really as simple as that.

The “white privilege” babble is just the latest excuse for why so many non-performing, unambitious and belligerent blacks are left behind by whites and Asians and, at least in Texas, by Hispanics, too.

UPDATE;  Now, it could be that the White Privilege B.S. was invented by some dimwit white academic. Sounds like it, doesn’t it? But it’s even more probable it was invented by some racist black person because, as The Z Man says:

“The most bigoted people in America are black. In fact, blacks are actively encouraged to wear their prejudices on their sleeve. Every black comic does bits on white people. Famous black people put a lot of effort into ‘keeping it real’ so they can be clear that they are not down with the blue-eyed devil. How many times have you heard a black guy say something like, ‘It is a black thing, you wouldn’t understand’?”

MORE: Example No. 1 of black bigotry: Our very own black president. Well, your president, maybe. To me he’s just THE president.

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The real danger to Preventing Parenthood

Posted on July 29, 2015 | Comments Off on The real danger to Preventing Parenthood

“The true danger to Planned Parenthood and the entire [abortion] industry [of the videos] is the exposure of their hypocrisy. The two positions of ‘clumps of cells’ and negotiating over human organs from abortions are mutually exclusive.

“One cannot extract human organs from ‘a pile of goop,’ or from tumors or undifferentiated ‘clumps of cells.’ Human organs come from human beings, and the only way to harvest them from unborn human beings is to kill them first.

“The videos cut through all of the misdirection, all of the antiseptic generalities used in defense of abortion, to expose its true nature — and that’s what has Planned Parenthood panicked over the videos.”

And why, at the moment the Texas Baby Chop Shops are stonewalling a state Senate investigation into the organ harvesting and selling. Not a workable move, folks, as you will soon find out.

Via Hot Air.

UPDATE:  PP gets a California state judge to issue a temporary restraining order on the anti-abortion group that made the undercover videos exposing PP’s organs-tissues business. So much for the 1st Amendment. Meanwhile, Fox News doesn’t feel restrained in publicizing the latest sting video.

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Crazy Bernie would ban handguns

Posted on July 29, 2015 | Comments Off on Crazy Bernie would ban handguns

The Democrats’ favorite Socialist (the only one who admits it; and Ma Barker‘s only real opponent so far) Bernie Sanders has staked his new position on handguns: They should be banned, along with shotguns and any other so-called “self-defense” firearm. Can’t have the proles defending themselves, can we?

Thanks for the warning, Bernie. Although just how you’d ban them (if you were our Socialist king) remains to be seen. Somehow I doubt a presidential executive order like that would last long in the courts. But you never know.

Is Bernie an aristo? Not literally, I suppose, but in a real sense, yes. Afterall, he’s a career pol whose major interest (like all of them) is his own re-election, accumulating money and power and prestige.

The Socialism bit is just his means to his end. Or, more likely, Ma Barker’s.

Psst, Bernie. The gun grabbers are losing. Sure you want to align with them?

Via USToday & Bearing Arms.

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Carly Fiorina Shows Us How It’s Done

Posted on July 28, 2015 | 2 comments

Speaking of abortion… Jake Tapper has become an abortion, buying into the whole Democrat wheeze now that he’s taking money from CNN, one of the dead-last cable newsies. But his latest target Carly Fiorina hung him out to dry.

Rush has the moment. It’s a doozy. Be sure to go here and read it all.

“So he’s asking Carly Fiorina, ‘What do you think about abortion law without exception rape or incest?’  It’s right in the Democrat media manual, how to entrap a Republican: ask about rape or incest.  So here’s what she said.  This is the first of two sound bites:

“Let’s talk about what extreme is.  It’s not a life until it leaves the hospital.  That’s Hillary Clinton’s position.  It’s Hillary Clinton’s position that a 13-year-old girl needs her mother’s permission to go to a tanning salon or get a tattoo, but not to get an abortion.  It’s Hillary Clinton’s position that women should not be permitted to look at an ultrasound before an abortion and yet people who are trying to harvest body parts can use an ultrasound to make sure that those body parts are preserved so that they can [be] sold.  That, Jake, is extreme.”

You probably didn’t see or hear this, unless you’re one of the minority who even pays attention to CNN, second only to MSNBC in the cable newsy cellar. Let alone Carly who, unfortunately, has no chance at the nomination. Which is a real pity because she’s just about the only one in the GOP who could beat Ma Barker.

Via Rush Limbaugh.

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Second Amendment: Aristos vs Commoners

Posted on July 26, 2015 | 4 comments

“Amendment II. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

Most of the modern debate about the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution centers on the need for a “well regulated militia.” It was needed then, it isn’t needed now, and so private guns aren’t needed, either, etc.

But the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” was always the most revolutionary aspect and remains so. It was revolutionary because prior to it, in most countries, only the elite, the aristocrats, had the right to keep and bear (or carry) arms. The men among them wore swords and, sometimes, pistols.

Ordinary people, the commoners, had no such right and though some of them certainly carried arms, they concealed them rather than bearing them because it was illegal for them to keep them let alone to bear them. That was true in mother England and in most countries of Europe and remained so long after the second amendment became law in the U.S.

Modern law has hemmed in the right, the “shall not be infringed,” in many ways. Always imposed by the elite, the modern aristos who tend to be politicians and their lobbyist-cronies. In the name of the common good, ironically.

And so the commoners, as individuals and in groups such as the NRA and the Gun Owners of America continually fight with publicity and lawsuits to beat them back. So far the commoners are winning, via concealed carry laws and, increasingly, open-carry. The latter being more in keeping with the amendment’s wording.

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