Category Archives: The Culture

Teacher confiscated Mr B’s iPhone

One of Mr. B.’s teachers called Mrs. Charm (who’s still in the hospital but may finally come home this afternoon) and said after three warnings to stop texting, and he still wouldn’t stop, she he confiscated his iPhone.

Requires a parent coming to the school to get it back for him. Ha ha. No chance today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe.

It’s going to be amusing watching him discover email. He has prided himself on never using email (claims “his” generation does not do email), not even reading what other people email him. Now it’s that or we’ll see him acting like a heroin addict without his daily dose. Stay tuned. Heh.

UPDATE:  He was classically indignant. It was “my property,” etc. Then he went to bed early for the first time in living memory. No phone, no fun, apparently. Wish they’d confiscate it more often.

MORE:  Silly me. He had his old iPhone 5 to use in bed. At least for the tunes stored therein. No texting of course as it wasn’t wi-fi or cell tower capable. He picked up the six this morning at school, saving me a trip.

Pol drinks from Pope’s used water glass

The irreligious will find it “kinda weird” as Insty headlines what has turned into a commenter marathon on supernatural religion. And I suppose it is, up to a point.

But Catholics aren’t the only ones who do this. Jews, too, venerate the objects touched/used by famous rabbis, pilgrimage to their graves and pray there. Including the Kotel (the western wall of the Temple Mount) where the old joke is that prayer is a local call.

A joke that’s passing on now that fewer understand what a “local call” is.

Via Instapundit.

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Rule 5: Viktoria Manas

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Baby Chop Shop Stays In Business

No matter how vile its practices, Preventing Parenthood (more accurately known as the Baby Chop Shop) will stay in business thanks to the usual Democrats and their cowardly Republican allies. There really is no difference between the political parties as presently constituted and no point in voting for either one.

They are, as a famous Republican conservative, once called them: Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. For those who have read their Alice In Wonderland. Or, at least, seen the cartoon. Unless, of course, you really do like the political status quo. No wonder outsiders Trump, Carson and Carly are so popular with potential voters.

Indeed, no devout Muslim president

Of course not, if s/he feels bound by Islam’s Sharia law which, uniquely among the world’s major religions, expressly denies a separation of mosque and state. Dr. Ben Carson is absolutely right about that.

The Democrat snooze media’s outrage bus has been rolling on the point ever since Carson said it on Fox News, despite his logical explanation. And a few of his fellow GOP candidates, have been joining the off-with-his-head chorus. And why them? Because after the recent GOP dog and pony show (laughingly called a “debate”) Carson came in third in a poll showing Trump and Carly in first and second place.

So Carson, it seems, must be brought down at all costs—by back-in-the-pack losers Rubio, Bush and Pataki. And the Democrats for the success of their latest gotcha game. And undoubtedly because Carson also jokingly added: “I also can’t advocate supporting Hillary Clinton either by the way.”

Hang in there, Ben. They really hate it when you don’t fold. Especially when the outrage bus can’t manage to run over you.

Via Fox News.

UPDATE: Some devoted, fundamentalist Muslims agree with Dr. Carson. Heh.

 

Ahmed’s “clock” looks a lot like a bomb

Moreover, despite his multiple, continuous claims, he didn’t invent it at all. He took apart an existing, antique digital clock and rebuilt it in a pencil case that looks a lot like a miniature Hollywood movie bomb suitcase. As explained here.

So the Irving, Texas, high schooler’s arrest was easily explainable without resorting to the usual Islamophobic, racist b.s. Not to mention his father’s probable hand in the whole thing—daddy being a Sharia law “activist.” Plus, according to Mark Steyn, “a perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation.” Subtle.

Ever hear of an “activist” who didn’t like publicity? Ahmed got plenty of it, once the Democrat snooze media’s weekly outrage bus got gassed up and rolling—plus a nice note from the Hildabeast (who else) a White House invite from our own Barry Hussein (he of the Muslim father and middle name), a new Surface tablet and an Xbox from Microsoft. Plus daddy is planning to sue. Of course he is. Not bad for a little time in handcuffs, eh Ahmed?

Meanwhile, a white kid in Dallas got suspended for wearing an American flag tee-shirt under his hoodie. Under it, mind you. His suspension was later canceled but the kid and his mother are still waiting for the outrage bus and his White House invite to arrive.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  How Ahmed made Barry his dupe. Not to mention the Hildabeast, Microsoft, etc. Meanwhile the mayor of Irving notes that Barry made his invite and praise of the clock “maker” before pix of the device were publicly available. Makes you wonder if he and Ahmed’s “activist” father were in cahoots from the beginning. Staged the whole thing, as it were. Wouldn’t put it past Barry. Certainly not the Hildabeast.

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Rule 5: Alberto Vargas

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