Category Archives: The Culture

Why I don’t Tweet

For one thing, they’re so short and pithy, you can wind up seeming to mean something you didn’t intend. Or if you say something you do intend it might be understandable in context but look very unwise standing alone. For instance.

Now I think the Duncanville, Texas teacher at the link went too far. Her words look pretty stupid. But I also think she ought to have a right to say such things without being fired. The problem is saying them in public. So fired she is and all because of a Tweet. Not for me, thanks. Not for me.

Via Instapundit.

Officer Unfriendly now harrassing children

They claim they did it for the children’s safety, bursting unannounced and armed with at least one military automatic rifle (thoughtlessly provided by the Pentagon) into a Florida elementary school for a “drill.”

Some of the kids, understandably, said they feared for their lives. PTSD, anyone? And all because Officer Unfriendly is an idiot who is almost completely out of control. Not even the pols can corral these bozos anymore.

I suppose the kids and their parents can be relieved that none of these so-called police lost control of themselves and opened fire. You know, like they’ve been known to do elsewhere.

Via Drudge.

UPDATE:  They’re really careful, however, about not harassing star football players.

Advice to Congress: No new laws

“It would…be a signal that [the new Republican] Congress understands the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.’

“The authors of the Bill of Rights understood what today’s politicians and pundits often forget, which is that Congressional inaction is an opportunity for state or local governments, for businesses, or for voluntary organizations.”

Pipe dream? Undoubtedly, but we have to start somewhere. We have so many laws now that no one, not the police, lawyers or the courts, can claim to be anything but ignorant of the law. It’s an absolute excuse for official lawlessness and selective enforcement that needs reversing before it’s too late.

And while we’re dreaming, here’s the Congressional Reform Act.

Via Reason

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Rule 5: Diane Hernandez

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And more random thoughts

How different from the criminal AG Eric Holder could this Loretta Lynch (I almost wrote Lynn) person be? This “first black woman AG” (whoop-dee-do) has been on Holder’s Advisory Committee since 2010 and its chairman since 2013. Why else was she nominated and what else is she gonna do but play scandal goalie until Wormtongue retires?

After paying social security taxes for forty-six years, I’m taking my pittance of the bennies every month without any sense of guilt. I financed the retirement of the so-called “greatest generation,” and now it’s the whatever-you-call-the-latest-generation’s turn to pay for mine. The pols can fix this thing on somebody else’s back. I didn’t escape it and I see no reason why these young-uns should.

Officer Friendly certainly seems to be out of control. But it’s more likely his boss, the politician, who wants it this way. The politicos could stop all these police shootings immediately if they wanted to.

College women must be raping each other, considering there’s more of them in college than men every year.

The D.C. incompetents have been pushing this lo- or no-fat nonsense since the 1960s and pimping for pasta, potatoes and bread. In the 90s they even recommended we all eat more sugar. Of course they take no responsibility for the resulting epidemics of diabetes and obesity. Taking the blame is not their game. Instead, we always got the NYTimes quoting them that the science was settled.

I thought the proactive girl-gropers of Mexico City’s subways were bad until India’s gang rapes started blossoming. Time for the wymyn to admit how good they have it here.

FTL (faster-than-light) is fantasy. I’d settle for a working ramscoop or interplanetary beam rider and reliable cold sleep. Or a generation starship. So long as we go into the outer reaches of the solar system and, eventually, the stars.

Fart, Barf & Itch was corrupted long ago where their cross-dressing director was dressing in panties and bra. The Democrats have just upped the ante.

Prior to the Civil War, American pols routinely attacked each other in scurrilous fashion, just like they do today. Like the white-supremicist candidate whose opponents had three black children run at him in mid-sentence on the stump yelling “Father, Father!”

Wendy is such a hoot. And to think she started off being just another boring liberal trying to get elected to statewide office in libertarian Texas. Nobody expected her to become real entertainment. I hope the Dems pay her to run again and again and again. I’d even chip in a few dimes for the pleasure.

As the worms turn

Time for the big switcheroo the Progs make every time the Republicans get power:

They “speak up for freedom of speech, but only when a Republican is in the White House and dissent is the highest form of patriotism. When Democrats are in power, dissent and criticism magically morph into hate speech.”

So, even without the Reps in the WH but only controlling the Congress, we can expect plenty of the “highest form of patriotism” for the next two years. Of course because they don’t have the WH, the hate speech dodge will continue.

Opposing Wormtongue will still be raaaaaacist.

And I expect the lapdog Democrat snooze media will go right on ignoring:

“Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, the VA, the JV Islamic State, the nonexistent red line in Syria, the surrenders in  Iraq and Afghanistan, amnesty for illegals, refusal to secure the Southern border, the disgraceful manner in which Obama appeases the Islamic fascists of Iran while throwing the Jewish State into the snake pit, high taxes, lack of jobs, an ever expanding welfare state, the suicidal budget cuts to America’s military even as Russia and China are on the march, and most recently, Ebola. How’s that Ebola czar working out, folks?”

Via Seraphic Secret.

Our Illinois Incitatus

I am, of course, very pleased at the voters’ “immense repudiation” of Wormtongue, as the Streetwise Professor has it. As a commenter there wrote: “…his base of black, student, Hispanic and cemetery voters stayed home.” Heh.

Indeed, as PJMedia’s Michael Ledeen says, the Worm and his party were rejected and “On your current record, you’re doomed.  Surely you noticed that the good young talent is Republican, and that young voters are getting distinctly reddish?

Likewise I was delighted to see the comeuppance for the smirking pollsters who “rank a close second to Obama in The Biggest Loser results…”

But Akaky at The Passing Parade notes we still are stuck with the adolescent ADHD jackass for another two years. Still time for plenty of mischief.

“…our Illinois Incitatus appears to think of his current office as being akin to being the Mayor of Chicago, except with better golf courses and nuclear weapons.”

Fortunately for us, he only uses the former, not the latter. So far, anyhow.

Incitatus? You could look it up. It was the name of Caligula’s horse and means “swift” in Latin which, as regards Wormtongue, apparently is meant to be ironic. ‘Cause he ain’t too.

Via The Passing Parade & Streetwise Professor.