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Random thoughts

Posted on October 28, 2014 | 3 comments

Of all the ways there are to get f**ked nowadays, the oldest profession still is among the most pleasant.

Even if the drug industry succeeds in replacing the dwindling supply of working antibiotics, some doctors will keep sabotaging the new ones by prescribing them for viral and other non-bacterial conditions. It’s ironic that the one group, doctors, that should know better is the one group causing the problem.

I keep confusing climatology with cosmetology.

I remember (1964) that education was the easy major for the girls and a few not-very-bright males. K-12 was at least as useless in the 1950s as it is now. As for why there are few men teachers today, could be because teaching at K-12 doesn’t pay very well for an educated, ambitious person.

Pols: And while we have all your attention focused on this trendy distraction, I’m going to get a bag full of money THIS BIG from a lobbyist to do something much harder for you peasants to understand but much more profitable for me and my cronies.

The employment of kings. Doesn’t every child aspire to be a fed?

All pols lie, but Obama is a chronic liar. He lies like an adolescent, which is to say about everything, small things and big things. He doesn’t differentiate. And it’s always someone else’s fault.

I guess you have to be a lawyer to appreciate this game of waiting to hear what our robed rulers will decide next. Politicians are just a sideshow to their main show.

Really funny how the Web catches up Old Media, and forces them to go in and scrub their old posts. I bet they dream of the old days when nobody remembered what they said a few years back, unless they clipped it out and few would bother.

If conservatives stopped writing about what MSNBC does, no one else would know.

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Feeding the troll

Posted on October 16, 2014 | 4 comments

Like many bloggers, I read Althouse and her commenters now and then, almost as consistently, in fact, as I read Instapundit, which is daily. So naturally I ran across the troll The Crack Emcee, a purported black American (and supposed half-sibling to the late jazz bassist Charlie Mingus, according to TCE’s Blogger profile) who examines everything (and I mean everything) through the filter of race.

Even her/his handle, supposedly, since it’s well known that mostly blacks use crack, the cheap version of cocaine. His/her avatar also is of a black man wearing shades. S/he (you can’t be sure of gender with anonymice) is pretty boring most of the time, as trolls generally are, with all the usual racist twaddle as if s/he is still stuck in 1963 wondering if Medgar will ever get justice.

It’s the other commenters who’ve finally begun firing back at him/her that’re amusing. Violating the first rule to never feed the troll, i.e. by acknowledging their existence. Amusing enough, however, for me to make a post about it. Such as Michael K.: “Do you ever have another thought cross your alleged mind? Al Sharpton is bright compared to you. Unless, of course, you are a racist white guy making blacks look stupid.”

Could be. As they used to say (and still should) on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog. Unless you comment like the troll The Crack Emcee and prove it time after time. Or maybe I’m just jealous, not having had a troll of my own in a long time. I must have scared them all off. Even trolls can only take so much mockery.

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Good news: Al Jiz is a fizz

Posted on August 21, 2014 | 5 comments

“CNN averages 453,000 viewers, AJAM (Al Jazeera America) has 17,000 viewers. Those are just different levels of failure. [Fox averages 1.7 million.]

“The difference is that CNN still has an enormous amount of impact on the national political and social conversation. As long as that impact exists, the Left is going to fund CNN.

“AJAM has no impact. None. Zip. Nada. The network’s stories get zero traction. Not a single story, video clip, factoid, or interview has ever penetrated the news cycle in any way. AJAM is the proverbial tree in a forest no one hears fall.”

Could be that’s why terrorist-supporting Qatar’s baby went blatantly pro-Hamas when Israel fought back against the rockets. Gotta get an audience somehow, even if it means taking off the mask.

Via Breitbart News’ John Nolte.

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With Al it’s always about the money

Posted on August 20, 2014 | 2 comments

Al Bore, that is, the phony Green whose Tennessee mansion has more rooms than some hotels. Which makes the Global Warming blowhard’s carbon footprint bigger than Godzilla’s loafers. Who also really looks goofy in a Sheikh of Araby get-up, considering Halloween is still months away.

“Al Gore is a fake environmentalist who leveraged his Green cred to get special access that enabled him to set up a liberal news network that he then sold off to Qatar’s Al Jazeera, a tyrant’s propaganda outlet that pretends to be a news network.”

Qatar. You know, the financiers of Hamas, the terrorists who run Gaza?

Well, Qatar might like Hamas but they’re not so fond of Al. They allegedly stiffed him for millions when Al Jiz bought his liberal network. So Al is suing.

As Daniel Greenfield asks: What happens when one fraud sues another fraud for fraud? 

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Nimrod Newton Nash

Posted on June 8, 2014 | Comments Off on Nimrod Newton Nash

Newton Nash

Newt Nash was a rifleman in the Thirteenth Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment whose letters home to his wife Mollie go a long way to illuminating the Civil War from the Confederate viewpoint. Most of them are in my latest nonfiction book a history of the regiment in paper and digital at Amazon.

Copies of the letters, transcribed by Newt’s descendants, were given to me by Weldon Nash of Dallas, an old Aggie who faithfully reads from some of them every year on July 2, the Battle of Gettysburg’s famous second day, the day Newt was killed in the regiment’s charge on the Union lines. Weldon also sent me this copy of Newt’s photograph, apparently taken in the late 1850s.

I’m sure Weldon will be pleased to see Newt finally out here on the Net which I hope will stimulate interest in his eloquent letters, most of them quoted verbatim in my history of the regiment—-cheap at 99 cents in digital format.

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Maureen Dowd, druggie

Posted on June 5, 2014 | 2 comments

I think it’s cool that they sell marijuana candy in Colorado and very funny that the NYTimes lefty propagandist Maureen Dowd stupidly ate too much of it when nothing happened immediately from a little bit.

Then she got what all goofballs do: a non-stop eight-hour high. If we can believe her. She’s never been very trustworthy.

What a genius. They should never have let Dowd out of Manhattan. She’s fairly presentable up there in the lefty booby hatch, but hopelessly outclassed anywhere else. Next time, Maureen, if there is a next time, just stay home and make it up. You know, the way you usually do.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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The Hobbit: Just awful

Posted on April 30, 2014 | 2 comments

I finally saw the first of the three part (oh, no) Hobbit movie on DVD the other night. It sucks. It truly sucks. Mostly because, unlike the Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit isn’t at all faithful to Tolkien’s work.

It starts off with an unnecessary prologue, introduces new, dopey characters, invents a new plot line that is totally unnecessary and compresses some key details in Tolkien’s fine story into a stale cinematic mush. Then it glides off into Hollyweird cliche with trite scenes and dumb characterizations and way too much contemporary dialogue: “Chips, anyone?” “Put that in your cakehole,” et-awful-cetera. I gave up after an hour and found a book to read.

The Ring trilogy was almost too faithful to Tolkien, which is why it was so long. The Hobbit is a bastardization of his tight, almost claustrophobic little adventure tale—until the very majestic end—into just more sweeping landscapes, slavering orcs, sword and battle ax scenes ad awful. Yech

If you haven’t seen it and you have read the book, steer clear. I wish I had.

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