Category Archives: Obsessions

Rule 5: Anita Ekberg

Posted on December 27, 2013 | 3 comments

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A famous, sometimes nude model of the 1950s, “Sylvia” in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, and one of my pubescent fantasies. Some things we never forget. And, now, thanks to the magic of the Internet, we can’t.

UPDATE: Little story about her. I had a paper route at 13, delivering tabloids. In those days (1957) even tabloids didn’t run cheesecake so they had to deliver in words (carefully) what they couldn’t show. I remember being mesmerized by an item on how Ekberg supposedly lost her decolletage, flung her arms about herself to hold the dress up and flew to the ladies room. Concluded the copywriter: “Underneath Anita’s dress was just Anita.” I still get chills reading it.

MORE:  Sex Goddess Dies at 83. Adios, Anita.

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Rule 5: Catherine Bell

Posted on November 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Catherine Bell

With a little inspiration from Simple Jews.

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Life in the Mold Pit

Posted on November 20, 2013 | 2 comments

Life, that is, with such critters as the Messiah of the Jews and the UFO Man in the Mold Pit where Akaky works in Our Happy Little Burg. Which he says is 65 miles north of de Blasio’s demented NYC though still in the Vampire State. Just not quite far enough north to be in the dreaded Upstate where as Akaky says “the trees grow without permission of the Parks Department.”

I always knew New York was a weird place and have, thusly, avoided it lo these many years. But Akaky at least makes it readable. Check it out.

Via The Passing Parade.

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The laugher that isn’t funny

Posted on November 13, 2013 | 6 comments

The daily (as we used to say in the biz) has “a little fun” with this story of the discovery of a 1950s-60s bomb shelter in the backyard of an Austin-area home. The retired Air Force colonel who had it dug deep into the limestone and outfitted it for weeks of underground living gets ribbed (in the thoughtless modern manner) by the oh-so sophisticated moderns who are so much wiser.

But the colonel knew what he was doing. Ground Zero hereabouts in that time period would have been then-Bergstrom Air Force Base (now Austin’s international airport) because it was a Strategic Air Command base with B-52 bombers loaded with nukes and on standby, ready to fly north and over the pole to Moscow.

Depending on the megatonage of any Russian strike against the base, and whether multiple missiles saturated the area, the shelter could have been vaporized along with much of Austin. If it had survived, it (and the city) would have been under the fallout of radioactive dirt and debris thrown aloft from the base by the explosions and raining down on the area, possibly for days.

That’s all much less likely to happen now. Not because the Rooskies are any more rational than they were then (though they are considerably less armed), but because the tempting target is no more. No more base, no more B-52s and no more nukes. We should be home free. Even the Mullahs are more likely to target the White House or Wall Street than relatively-inconsequential Austin. So our oh-so-sophisticated mockers are free to have all the fun they want.

Via Instapundit.

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Obozo’s latest coverup

Posted on November 12, 2013 | 3 comments

Nevermind the way unsightly, unreliable and unprofitable “wind farms” are lowering property values and killing bats, eagles and other birds to line the pockets of Obozo’s crony capitalists while he preaches socialism for the rest of us.

His Green Energy sidekicks have long been ignoring the “wind industry’s” flaws. Now they’re playing hush-hush with rising complaints within the federal bureaucracy itself, including at the Pentagon.

Seems massed wind turbines produce false echoes on Doppler radar that interfere with tornado and storm forecasting and even the air traffic radars for commercial and military aircraft—causing flights to be unnecessarily diverted, raising fuel costs and increasing travel time.

Via WeatherBELLl Analytics LLC.

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Remember when his parents met on the Selma march?

Posted on November 6, 2013 | 3 comments

Obozo’s penchant for public lying started early, at least as early as March, 2007, and it’s the best indicator of how lying is his way of life and thus isn’t likely to change now.

LeighB, a commenter at Roger L. Simon’s blog on PJMedia, reminded me:

“When Obama was on the campaign trail, with Caroline and Ted Kennedy sharing the stage, he said his parents first met at the march on Selma. I was shocked. A complete falsehood, easily checked and immediately recognized as historically inaccurate. No one called him on it. Ted knew it was a whopper and barely blinked. ”

Ted-the-Red did his own share of lying, though he was, generally, more careful about it. And some versions of the story have The Groper and the Lizard Queen with him instead of Ted and Caroline. LeighB nevertheless sums it up well:

“Obama lies to distract, to get his way, because he thinks he’s special. He does not think in terms of right and wrong, he just thinks about what he wants and how to get it…”

Which is very characteristic of adolescence, a life stage Obumbles seems never to have left behind. (As also shown when he gave the Lizard Queen the finger during their debates.) So it’s highly unlikely, no matter how far down his poll numbers plunge, that President Clown would (or even could) stop the lying.

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The Audacity of Mendacity

Posted on November 5, 2013 | 4 comments

What Obumbles said was…

No, what he said was very clear: “If you like your healthcare, you can keep your healthcare. Period.” Said it repeatedly, over and over again, just last year.

Until that lie was shown to be a lie. Now it’s being replaced by a new lie: “Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.”

Whatever that means…

This is the clown who supposedly wrote a 2008 campaign book called “The Audacity of Hope.” What he really meant to title the book was “The Audacity of Mendacity” because that is what he’s all about. Just one lie after another.

Meanwhile, his chief apologist, the NYTimes, is contorting itself to explain all this away. The narrative rules! Reality must not intervene. The first black president must not be shown to be a fraud. Even when he does it himself.

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