Category Archives: The Culture

Rockets, we need rockets

Posted on July 17, 2014 | 2 comments

Now that the latest ceasefire seems to be in effect, so Hamas can restock and reposition its snipers, don’t you know, we need to consider some places on this side of the Atlantic that could use rocketing.

But not Austin, as J.D. at Mouth of the Brazos wants. His other choices, such as D.C. and San Francisco, would be fine with me. I would add Houston, also, home of the awful Astros. And Dallas. Just because.

UPDATE:  So much for ill-timed jokes. The missile shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine certainly isn’t funny, though it was bound to happen sooner or later. Twenty-three Americans killed, according to some sources.

MORE:  According to the manifest released Saturday, and available at Fox, none of the passengers were Americans. The majority were Dutch.

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Flying illegals northeast upsets Yankees

Posted on July 14, 2014 | 4 comments

It’s easy to be for open borders when you don’t live near one, eh? But when the feds start flying the latest crop of illegals to your northeastern town or to one near it, all of a sudden…

“This is un-American and has raised the stakes to the public health and public safety threat.”

Gee, guys. You folks in Boston (as in Massachusetts) who always vote Democrat are not living up to your Leftist-rules-for-everyone reputations. Everyone else, anyhow. What a surprise.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: From National Review: “…said Lynn (Mass.) Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. ‘But now it’s gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city’s budget is being sustainably altered in order [to] accommodate all of these admissions in the school department.'” Get ready, Judith, there’s plenty more where they came from.

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No charges for murder frenzy

Posted on July 12, 2014 | 1 comment

As J.D. says over at Mouth of the Brazos, this is no surprise. The Badge Gang protects its own whenever possible and, since the Democrat media is paying almost zero attention to Miriam Carey’s murder, it’s imminently possible.

“The 34-year-old mother from Stamford, Connecticut, was shot five times, once in the head, three times in the back and once in the arm, in the confrontation with authorities in Washington. The bullets all missed her 14-month-old child, who was in the back seat of her vehicle as officers repeatedly fired at it.”

I can’t help wondering if Miriam had been white, would her murder be ignored like this? I’ve seen black victims swept under the carpet before. At least the civil lawsuit against the badge gang is proceeding, so they still haven’t completely escaped retribution for this obvious murder of an unarmed woman.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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Bye, bye, Bill

Posted on July 11, 2014 | 2 comments

Well, supposedly, it won’t actually be bye, bye to UT prez Bill Powers until next June, but we’ll see. The Board of Regents wanted October at the latest and they may get it yet. All this after their review found political favoritism in admissions on Powers’ watch.

“Undergrad applicants with recommendation letters from lawmakers had a 58.7% admission rate at UT between 2009 and 2013 compared to a 15.8% overall admission rate. Half of the law school applicants with special letters were admitted, compared to 22.5% overall, and some of the favored had scores well below average.”

By state law, UT and other state universities must admit the top 10 percent of a Texas high school’s graduating class. The next 40 percent can apply without any guarantees. The remainder are out of luck. Looks like the politically-connected in the 40 percent were getting a boost and some of the bottom 50 percent were getting into law school.

Via Wall Street Journal.

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The new Keystone Pipeline

Posted on July 11, 2014 | Comments Off on The new Keystone Pipeline

“Change the path of the pipeline and have it run north from Laredo to Alberta, make the pipeline bigger and with windows, put a fast train inside and welcome all the illegals at the border for a free train trip to Alberta, They’ll love it way up north.

“One pol there is now demanding Canada provide $20,000 per person minimum income. I think that offer might even beat the free benefits we’re offering. What could be better incentive to large scale immigration than a very generous welfare state?”

I’m sure Wormtongue and his Democrat cronies can get behind this pipeline, but only if it’s rerouted from Laredo to Wisconsin. They’re after new Democrat voters, you know. Sending ’em to Canada wouldn’t work. They’d just have to bring them back.

They’re bound to like that minimum income idea, though. Once they figure out who will pay for it. Other than themselves, of course.

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Our “elective monarchy”

Posted on July 9, 2014 | Comments Off on Our “elective monarchy”

Wormtongue may be the biggest liar we’ve ever had for a president. He’s certainly the most open, least inhibited, about it. But his notion that he’s a king who can rule by executive order is hardly new.

Indeed, it’s built into the system, according to conservative law professor F.H. Buckley. In a new book, he expands on what political scientist Juan Linz called The Perils of Presidentialism.

“While ‘an American is apt to think that his Constitution uniquely protects liberty,’ the truth ‘is almost exactly the reverse,’ says Buckley. “In a series of regressions using the Freedom House rankings, Buckley finds that ‘presidentialism is significantly and strongly correlated with less political freedom….Where parliamentary systems cleave off power from ceremony, presidential ones make the chief executive the living symbol of nationhood: the focal point of national hopes, dreams, fears—and occasionally fantasies.”

Starting with president-for-life FDR who vastly expanded the federal government, that’s how we got a Democrat bureaucracy which under Obamalot’s kingly direction has come to include an HHS that highhandedly created the birth control requirement Hobby Lobby sued over, and an IRS that punishes people who don’t toe the Democrat party’s line.

The master snoopers at NSA merely collect and archive our private emails in the name of fighting terrorism and will dispense them to who knows who for whatever reason. The IRS cracks the whip at our “elective monarch’s” whim.

Via Reason.

 

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Rule 5: Katherine Roll

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Posted on July 8, 2014 in Obsessions, Rule 5, The Culture

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