Category Archives: Obsessions

Lurching into the UN cesspool

Posted on September 27, 2013 | 2 comments

Supposedly we don’t have to worry that Lurch, Obozo’s secretary of state, has signed the new UN Arms Treaty, which the NRA warns could lead to a real national gun registry on top of the defacto registry that’s already in place.

Not to mention effectively banning handguns and semi-automatics.

We don’t have to worry, we’re assured by various of the usual assurers, because the US Senate will never ratify the treaty and that’s a necessary step. Ah, but is it really? Well, not exactly:

“Once the U.S. signs a treaty, we hold ourselves bound not to violate the treaty’s ‘object and purpose.’ In other words, we obey in practice treaties that the Senate has never ratified.”

Fortunately, what one president’s lackey signs, another president’s lackey can later unsign. In the meantime, Obozo, who is already the country’s champion gun salesman—scaring American gun lovers into buying more guns before he can restrict them—will now become the premier recruiter for the National Rifle Association and the even fiestier Gun Owners of America.

Thanks, Barry!

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Rule 5: Alizee’s butt

Posted on September 20, 2013 | 2 comments

Bernie at Planck’s Constant has updated this hits magnet of mine in the comments there with a link to the original (above) before it was photoshopped to be quite a bit more daring. I actually like this pre-photoshop better, though it is not the best pix of the French pop singer’s fetching face. I like to use my imagination.

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Then, and now

Posted on September 18, 2013 | 8 comments

The UT Tower sniping has pretty much faded from local memory, but one aspect of it should be remembered for how things worked in 1966.

“After the first fifteen minutes, the sniper was pinned down by students and other civilians who’d spontaneously flocked to the university area with deer rifles.”

People were trusted, then, to do the right thing. Some didn’t, of course, but many did. Nowadays we’re all lumped in with the creeps who don’t. And we “shelter in place” like cowards while waiting for the police to arrive. Only to find out that their first priority is to go home safe at the end of their shift.

A similar Austin incident now would probably have a bigger toll than 1966’s seventeen dead and thirty-two wounded, all in those first fifteen minutes before the deer rifles spoke.

Via Instapundit, who agrees with a reader comment that lefty Austin is no longer a real part of Texas. Maybe, but I can’t think of a city in Texas today (or anywhere else in the country, see the Navy Yard massacre) that could now replicate Austin’s civilian defenders of 1966.

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I have a dream

Posted on September 17, 2013 | 7 comments

The more Barry’s incompetence, mendacity and general indifference to the majority of Americans, i.e. those of the Caucasian persuasion, become apparent, the more we can expect to see his court media hunting down racial slurs, real or imagined. Even inventing a few, when it suits them.

It’s the Democrat’s oldest ploy. Well, since 1964, anyhow. Before that they specialized in racial slurs of their own. Hell, they organized the Ku Klux Klan. Now, though, they gotta deflect attention from reality, which is pathetic beyond belief. Who could have guessed that the first black president would turn out to be a racist scumbag?

Me, I think the Great Divider’s claim on our sensitivity to the his half-race is long past its shelf life, left behind on one of Mooch’s expensive vacations or else the golf course where the GD spends most of his time. Time to send him a crate of bananas, followed by another crate of watermelons. Yup. A blunt message to let him know we are past playing his race games. Give his pet media something to howl about. Then ignore them all. I, uh, have a dream.

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Some great music for pennies a pop

Posted on September 16, 2013 | 1 comment

The computer game Neptune Gasoline never made it to production but that certainly wasn’t Jonathan Geer’s fault. My favorite Austin pianist/composer has done more than a few game soundtracks (thirteen so far) and Neptune Gasoline was one of his better efforts.

Fortunately, even if the game cratered, the music still is available in MP3 format at pennies a pop. My favorite there is A Thousand Light Years at 3:32 for a mere 89 cents, or more if you want to be generous and help out a talented guy who has the proverbial bright future ahead of him, shades and all.

Or try Eye of The Pond at 2:02, from Jonny’s soundtrack for Sparkle 2, an arcade puzzle game that is apparently pretty popular.

And don’t miss JG’s score for the PC adventure game OwlBoy, when it becomes available. No MP3s for sale yet, but you can preview the main theme of the really cool music here on YouTube.

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Tell me again, why are chemical weapons so awful?

Posted on September 15, 2013 | 5 comments

It’s bad enough that a nation’s youth wind up fighting (and dying in) the wars their elitist “leaders” start and then sit back and watch from a comfortable chair with servants bringing them refreshments. But what’s with all this WMD whoop-de-do?

Nukes I can see. Yep, you could do a real mass number on a whole city that way. Nagasaki, for instance. Also biologicals, perhaps, though they would be somewhat easier to contain the swifter you could plan, manufacture and deploy preventative pharmaceuticals.

But chemicals? They’re called “gas,” apparently to scare civilians and save lazy journalists an extra sentence or two, but they’re usually heavier-than-air and so not at all easy to disperse, even in a crowded subway car. The Tokyo sarin attacks in ’95, were bad enough, but still managed to kill only thirteen, and permanently injure about fifty, and that was on several cars.

And, when you get down to the nitty-gritty, except for the inevitable bowel voiding and vomiting, chemicals leave a pretty nice corpse for the loved ones to gather round before the planting—much nicer than a pile of steaming offal, which would be the result of even an incompetent machinegunning inside that aforementioned subway car.

But, somehow, machineguns escaped the WMD label. Pure twaddle.

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Will there be a Christmas truce, too?

Posted on September 9, 2013 | 2 comments

It’s tempting to follow Norman Podhoretz’s theory that Obozo’s Syria Circus isn’t ineptitude but a nefarious plot to make the USA look stupid. Because otherwise, with its shifting claims of really tough strikes, but not too really tough, mind you, it’s clowns all the way down.

But it could be our favorite Nobel Peace Prize winner has decided he actually likes rattling sabers now and then and he’s trying to channel LBJ and his turn-the-screw attacks on North Viet Nam.

They were supposed to, you know, bring the Commies to the Paris peace table, whether square, rectangular or round, so that Lyndon could get re-elected for having won an unpopular war. And if so does this mean Obongo will eventually be offering Baby Assad a Christmas truce?

UPDATE: Looks like Lurch’s “trust us” b.s. turned into an apparently offhand remark about letting Russia secure Baby Assad’s chemical weapons which has now morphed into Obongo’s new no-strike-Syria policy. And after all that two-bit histrionics. Geeze Louise. There’s obviously no Xmas “truce” in the offing now.

MORE:  Or Not. Is Obozo being played by the Russians? Who better?

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