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Rule 5: Sophie Mei

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The Democrats took your birthday cake

Mr. B. gave me a birthday card the other day—along with a package of sugar-free candy and a bottle of bubble juice with a wand for blowing bubbles, one of my favorite activities.

On the front of the card it shows a cake pedestal picked clean and the words: “The Democrats took your birthday cake.”

Inside: “They sliced it up and gave it to people who aren’t fortunate enough to have a birthday today.”

Heh.  Said he found the card in the local drug store. He didn’t see a Republican counterpart. Could be the rest of the country is as tired of the Dems as I am.

Nurse Hillary’s tyrannical compassion

One Cosmos on the amazing similarities between the Hildabeast and Nurse Ratched.

“So, I caught Nurse Ratched’s press conference yesterday, and was struck by how much she really does remind me of Nurse Ratched. It’s spooky. Between her and Obama, it’s difficult to say who’s the more irritating.

“And yet, there are obviously people — millions of them — who not only don’t find her irritating, but want her to be their Big Nurse.”

Sad but true.

Via Mouth of The Brazos.

Those wounded Ferguson police

I’m sorry the two Ferguson policemen were shot (one of them in the face), but even more sorry that the issue of police killings has turned from a problem many agreed needed solving to an Hussein Obama-Al Sharpton controversy. I agree the latter have made things worse, but that’s all you could really expect from them.

It’s simply past time for police across the country to begin training on how to subdue people who are resisting arrest without killing them. Then there’d have been no Ferguson rioting and probably these two wounded officers would not be. Keep up the police killings of recent years and there’ll be more shootings of police. Ipso facto.

UPDATE:  Or perhaps better yet, as JAY352 says in the comments here: the bar on use of force needs to be raised.

Strange Search Engine Queries

Once more with feeling. An idea cribbed from Dustbury, though we do not get near as many weird ones here at upstart Rancho Roly Poly as he does over at the fabled Bandwidth Wastage Station:

ализе фото  We could have sworn this was Greek until we did a little DuckDuckGo on it and discovered it was Rooskie. Either way it led right to one of our favorite Rule 5’s.

vietnam hot girls  This probably doesn’t belong on a list of the strange but who are we to complain? Like J.D. we saw few enough that looked like this (see link) back in the day (he says he saw none) but those few stayed in our memory to create a touch, however teensy weeny, of weak-kneed nostalgia for the place. Sans AK-47s.

mexican oldies Nope. Not this week or last or ever, actually. We do have a certain love for the Free Mexican Air Force, however, which is an oldie of a tune. Some say it refers to imbibing too much Tequila in one sitting (and swallowing the worm) tho like Peter Rowan we prefer to think of it as smoking the “fruits of the field,” the one cross-border commodity we have no gripe with.

sexy nude plus sized women models Plus-size women models we have here, in, uh, abundance, indeed. Sexy they are, as well. But nude? Not us, Google, we swear. Until the aforementioned link anyhow. Via Google, you may notice.

steyn ratzenberger tinker woodstock  Now oddly, we do know to what this refers, but you couldn’t prove it by Google any more. The Knowledge Vault must be kicking in. Fine by us as we are switching to DuckDuckGo, which is no stranger a name than Google, after all.

rick perry negatives  Yes, pilgrims, there are a few. But it was a great run while it lasted and many of us are going to miss ol’ Rick, the former Air Force C-130 pilot and always-Aggie, in the restored-mansion.

the houlihan lasso This one, we are happy to say, still points here in the first spot on a Google search and the 11th on DuckDuckGo. What it is and how it’s thrown are well-explained. But just how it came to be called Houlihan remains hidden in the mists of time. This might help, if you trust those sorts of things. One thing’s for sure, those Irish sure do get around.

nud yoga photo of amrican women We’ve no idea how this one led a searcher to us as our own search engine reveals nothing. All we can say for sure is we have no nud yoga photos of any kind, let alone of amrican women, whatever they are.

audits of american legions who does them? Uh, other than their own hierarchy, there was the IRS back in 2013. It was one of Wormtongue’s first uses of the agency to get back at his enemies, in this case the voters of Texas who did not want any more of his brand of “hope & change.”

whatever happened to ashley graham rule Not a thing, good sirs. With only four entries (so far) in the Rule 5 sweepstakes, she clearly rules.

known chinese submarine bases Ah, this has become a perennial favorite in the query category, though our in-house search engine doesn’t show any ready access to anything but the query. So the Chinese navy should please go pull a denial-of-service on someone else. Such as the Pentagon, or Obozo’s White House. Sank Kew, veery mooch.

whi wears a timex expedition  Whi does? What a coincidence. We does, too. Well, a Timex, though not the Expedition model. In fact our Timex fetish is the No. 11 spot in a DuckDuckGo search of these words. Call it syncronicity. (Actually we think whi is shorthand for the white-colored model of the watch. Ours is olive drab.)

Playing the gender card

Tired of the gender wars? Too bad. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

“Hillary Clinton’s big press conference this afternoon started off unpromisingly. “Just a minute,” Mrs. Clinton told the eager reporters. “Nick is calling on people.” Nick called on a guy who identified himself as being from ‘Turkish television.’ We are not making up his question: ‘If you were a man today, would all of this fuss . . . be made?’ She demurred—’Well, I will—I will leave that to others to answer.’ One strongly suspects the question was a setup, designed to have someone else play the ‘gender card’ on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf.”

The Hildabeast. The Queen of Benghazi. She is the real war on women.

Google: from nudity assault to PC exalt

Google backed off from its recent push to de-nudify Blogger. It still requires an “adult” label on blogs there that post nude pictures. I’m not sure if that means partially-nude Rule 5 cheesecake, but we’re talking about a machine’s rankings here, after all.

Now Google’s machine is hunting for “truth” (read political correctness) and will be basing site rankings not on popularity as it does now but on a database they call the “Knowledge Vault.” Probably already FCC-approved.

The Vault likes Wikipedia, with which I mostly concur. No encyclopedia was ever completely without bias. But the Vault also likes government sites, with which no unpoliticized person could possibly agree. Not after years of the feds, for instance, pushing carbs and sugar into an obesity and diabetes epidemic.

So, henceforth, any federally-unapproved criticism of global warming or illegal immigration…

Nice little page ranking you have there, comrade. Be a shame to lose it.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Here’s a good example of why those government websites can’t be trusted to be truthful.