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Rule 5: Kelly Brook

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Barry’s Temper Tantrum

I understand his mea culpa over the Republican wave was a doozy. No mea culpa, actually. Of course not. Megalomanical. Narcissistic. Childish. All the usual Wormtongue encomiums. I don’t think he called anyone chickenshit, though.

But I can’t say for sure. I didn’t watch it nor will I read it. I can’t stand the sight of the man, his voice or his lies. Play golf for your last two years, Barry, take the Mooch on expensive vacations. Sign a garbage-bag-full of executive orders. Whatever. I just want to live long enough to see you retire.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Listening is not his strong suit. Or negotiation. Or telling the truth. Meanwhile, his lapdog news media, no doubt fearing having to do some real work, i.e. reporting, with the Republicans in power, are urging him to double-down.

Station Eleven

I don’t usually read dystopian fiction. I can see the appeal and understand why it’s popular, but I don’t need the depressive (and usually far too cynical) view of humanity-under-siege.

Emily St. John Mandel’s dystopian novel “Station Eleven,” is different. Not only because of her beautiful writing and character development, but because despite the collapse-of-civilization theme, her view of people (the bad as well as the good) and her overall story actually are hopeful.

For the survivors, that is. The few left after a believable, airborne pandemic (no, it’s not ebola) kills most of the world’s population in a matter of weeks. Which takes down the electric and transportation grids, the Internet and smart phones, along with just about everything else. Very thought-provoking.

The novel ends with a vision of ships at sea. I prefer to think of one of the story’s main characters, the Traveling Symphony moving on, ever in search of audiences, rosin and bow hair. (Not to mention new strings.)

I also liked Mandel’s first novel, Last Night in Montreal, for similar reasons and her third one The Lola Quartet. though both involve parents who ignore their children. None of it is light-reading, in other words. The tragedy-of-life theme the litterateurs love so much. It’s nevertheless good stuff you should try.

But start with Station Eleven.

Ready for 2014’s voting fraud?

After all, as former FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky says, “progressives” and the Wormtongue “justice department” have been working overtime to aid the usual Democrat election cheating.

“And too many groups and individuals—including the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder—are doing everything they can to prevent states from improving the integrity of the election process.

“Their refrain is that voter fraud either doesn’t exist or is so insignificant that nothing needs to be done to improve ballot security. Yet in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling that upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, Justice John Paul Stevens acknowledged ‘flagrant examples of such fraud’ throughout the nation’s history and observed that ‘not only is the risk of voter fraud real’ but also that ‘it could affect the outcome of a close election.’

Or, as the Democrats always say: Vote early and vote often.

So. counter-intuitively speaking, get yourself out there and vote today. The bigger the turnout the better. If the totals for any race ain’t close the cheaters can’t win.

And for gawdsakes, if you live in Austin, please vote NO ON LIGHT-RAIL Hardly anyone rides the damn thing. All it’s good for is more opportunities for political graft.

Via WSJ.

UPDATE:  The Elephants seem to have won the Senate and kept the House in a wave of victories. Too bad they’re almost as big crooks as the Dumbocrats. They might be worse if the Democrat news media didn’t dog their every step.

The part I really don’t like is that too many incumbents kept their jobs. So now we’ll see what Obumbles, he who doesn’t compromise, will do—probably before the newbies take their seats, while his party still has their power, he’ll try to ram stuff through.

Abolish the FEC

It is, as law professor and Instapundit Glenn Reynolds says, clearly unconstitutional. This regulating of elections, specifically who can donate money to whom and how much. Especially by a partisan agency run by partisans.

The FEC with Weintraub on board has shown zero interest in investigating the foreign money that the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns are known to have accepted, which is against campaign finance law.”

Just one of the many laws Wormtongue has broken, backed by his federal Democrat bureaucrats, such as the FEC, IRS, and, lest we forget, Fart, Barf & Itch.

Via PJMedia.

More random thoughts

Since the incumbents will never give up their privileges, much less impose term limits on themselves, the only solution is to vote out incumbents every chance you get. Like tomorrow. No exceptions. Party makes no difference. Constant rotation will give them less time to steal.

But vote conservative when you can. Why? Because, as PJMedia columnist Richard Fernandez puts it: “Even though most politicians are scumbags, conservatives tend to be less scumbaggy simply because the media is always out to get them. They are literally held to a higher standard and consequently, some of them actually rise to it, albeit unwillingly in many cases. But whatever, as long as it works.”

Interesting how whenever Israel fights back against the arabs who like to call themselves Palestinians the haters come out of the woodwork, like cockroaches in the dark. Especially those in the State Department who suddenly are fearful for civilians who might get hurt. Having long ignored the civilians under the gun in Syria, North Korea, Iran, etc. These cockroaches really do miss the Holocaust.

In the old days of sink or swim in newsrooms, before journo degrees became required and “diversity” led to hand-holding of new hires, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a hundred dollar bill in a wallet. Or a woman. Clouds of cigar smoke hung in the air, cigarettes were stomped out on the linoleum floor and pint whiskey bottles were not uncommon in lower desk drawers.

Wait’ll the Queen of Benghazi gets in, then the modern journos’ll be saying how careful they have to be in criticizing a woman. The journos are always looking for an excuse to do nothing but report the latest celebrity whatever.

You can still see the occasional old sedan with two dead deer atop it in the Hill Country during deer season. Not as many as forty years ago. More often now it would be a pickup with the tailgate down.

Anyone who lives in New Jersey and follows the news knows about the New York Time’s constant, egregious errors and bias. Only those beyond NJ are inclined to believe it pure.

I don’t expect the White Houses geniuses, who call names and flip the bird like middle-schoolers on the playground, are smart enough to read Dilbert.

Not sure how far back you want to go to “used to be”, but it wasn’t so long ago (to us in our 70s) that America was segregated, sexist, queer-hating, at least as conformist as now (but in different ways) and a whole lot poorer.

Politicians have always lied, stolen, over-reached and been feared as the final nail in society’s coffin. Perspective, people, we need perspective.

The Democrat snoozemedia is convinced that Obamacare will be fixed someday soon. More likely never is my bet. It’s that 10,500-page rule book that’s killing it. Pols always do themselves in. Their over-reach is our saving grace.

No carrot and celery sticks for Obama’s kids

“While Michelle Obama’s skimpy school lunch mandates have been widely rejected by students and schools, the elite private school attended by both Obama daughters will be serving chicken wings and potato chips…

“Obama’s daughters can get a Cuban sandwich. Pasco County Schools in Florida had to eliminate Cuban sandwiches because they violated Michelle Obama’s lunch standards.”

Government standards are for the peasants, not the political elite. It’s always do as they say, not as they do.

Don’t believe I’ve ever had a Cuban sandwich. Probably an East Coast thing. Doesn’t look like I missed much.

Via PJMedia.