Category Archives: The Culture

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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Rule 5: Audrey Littie

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Posted on December 10, 2015 in Rule 5, 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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Posted in Mr. Boy, Obsessions, The Culture, The Drug War

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The president who won’t

Posted on December 7, 2015 | 7 comments

“President Obama finally acknowledged last night that the attack in San Bernardino was an ‘act of terrorism.’ Yet, as a Journal editorial observes, “the President devoted most of his speech to defending the strategy he has pursued for 16 months against Islamic State without much success. He cited his bombing campaign, but he didn’t mention that the vast majority of sorties drop no bombs because of the limits he has placed on the military.“

Or maybe the headline should be the president who can’t. Can’t admit he was wrong. Keep making those range trips, guys. Keep practicing hitting center mass. It’s for sure the feds aren’t going to be of any help.

Via WSJ

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Snapchat’s new use

Posted on December 7, 2015 | 2 comments

Snapchat, the latest social media app, was designed for the transmission of photos. It later became a vehicle for sexting—the sending of intimate selfies.

Its big advantage is that after opening a Snapchat missive, it eventually disappears, making the photo ephemeral, a quickie look with no evidence left behind.

That’s the part that now appeals to teens of Mr. B.’s 15 years. The no evidence left behind part. So,  instead of just sending photos, intimate or otherwise, they now send messages with content they don’t want to be caught sending.

The msg gets through and the evidence disappears. Convenient, eh?

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