Category Archives: The Culture

“So sue me”

Posted on July 7, 2014 | 1 comment

Peggy Noonan, the WSJ columnist who once wrote speeches for President Reagan and unabashedly campaigned in print for President Choom is now so disenchanted with him she’s calling his behavior “dangerous” for America.

“…I’m not sure people are noticing the sheer strangeness of how the president is responding to the lack of success around him. He once seemed a serious man. He wrote books, lectured on the Constitution. Now he seems unserious, frivolous, shallow. He hangs with celebrities, plays golf. His references to Congress are merely sarcastic: ‘So sue me.'”

Actually he didn’t write the one book that was praised. He lied about that. He wrote the other one, the boilerplate one, which matches his pedestrian speeches. And he’s sarcastic to the Republican House because he doesn’t know how to negotiate with anyone.

As a rich boy who qualified for Affirmative Action because of his skin color and African name, he never had to. On the other hand, the Republicans don’t have the nerve to actively stand up to him. Only passively.

It’s going to be right unpleasant waiting for the first black president of our hyper-racial society to finally leave the stage—stoned or otherwise. I’m guessing stoned to the eyeballs.

But dangerous? I doubt it. He’s too stupid to do anything but preen. And sneer.

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Colorado’s weed: Only at home

Posted on July 6, 2014 | 3 comments

Now here’s a wrinkle to Colorado’s new legal marijuana culture that I wasn’t aware of and I bet most other people outside the state aren’t either.

It’s legal to buy it and legal to possess it. But it’s only legal to ingest it at home.

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Liberty? In your dreams

Posted on July 6, 2014 | 1 comment

What is this land of the free business, anyhow? It’s not in the charter of the master snoops of the NSA who aren’t just collecting terrorist stuff but….

“They tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000 account holders who were not targeted are catalogued and recorded nevertheless.”

Be careful what you write in email, bud, especially if you ever plan to run for public office as anything but a Democrat. Orwell was just a few years early.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: Presidentialism: There’s a good reason we’re increasingly unfree and, perhaps surprisingly, it’s due to the Constitution which created an “elective monarchy.”

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Super cool fireworks

Posted on July 5, 2014 | 1 comment

“Inside the Explosion,” was made by a camera-carrying drone quadcopter over some unspecified city that has a waterfront for the barges that carry the rockets and other explosives.

What’s different about the video is that the copter-and-camera hovered inside the colorful star cluster bursts and yet survived unharmed. I don’t usually post YouTube videos, but I’ll make an exception with this lovely example of individual expression of freedom. The Andrea Bocelli aria is the perfect accompaniment.

Don’t miss it. And be sure to go to YouTube and make it full screen. The FAA will have a cow.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: Apparently whoever owned the Bocelli recording had a cow. It’s been replaced with some forgettable techno. Pity. So turn off the sound and substitute your own.

MORE: Andre is back! Still the perfect accompaniment. Well worth a viewing, as the 10 million views as of 10/9/14 shows.

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Like minds: Obama and Rodriguez

Posted on July 5, 2014 | 1 comment

Officially, President Choom is coming to Austin next week to raise yet more money for his political party, which is seeking re-election despite intentional policies that are prolonging the worst economy since the 1930s.

Unofficially you have to wonder why the great champion of amnesty for illegal aliens (“reform,” don’t you know) would choose to do his begging in the home of filmmaker Robert Rodriquez. R. is best known for “Spy Kids,” a successful string of kiddie action-adventure movies starring his own children.

Well, it might have more to do with Rodriguez’s lesser-known series of super-violent Mexploitation flicks called Machete and Machete Kills which some reviewers consider racist and anti-American. These “revenge” flickers, which include such well known Leftists as Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson, are unsubtle calls for revolution. They champion the slaying of Americans—in Arizona and elsewhere—who dare protest illegal immigration from south of the border.

Yep.

The Worm’s visit possibly has more to do with Rodriguez’s money than with his politics. The Mooch has expensive tastes, after all, and, as corrupt as the Democrat party is, some of those donations are bound to settle in her account. But you never know. It might be wise to keep an eye on the yard man. Those hedge trimmers are sharp.

UPDATE: Well… protests of illegals bused to one California town soon will be confronted by armed feds in riot gear. Obamalot will have its way.

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You will celebrate independence today

Posted on July 4, 2014 | 2 comments

Independence of what? IRS harrasment? Watch how you vote. Illegal immigrants? They’re swarming over the border with federal complicity, then flying and busing to a neighborhood near you.

The Democrat Depression? Be thankful if you’re employed. Ninety-two million are not and the ruling Democrats don’t care. Vote for them again and you might get beer with your food stamps. As Andrew Klavan says: “Trading welfare for power is the second oldest profession.”

Clear skies above your town? Except for the government drones and their cameras. Be thankful they’re not armed. So far. Privacy on your Internet account? Unless you use Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. The National Security Agency is watching, listening, recording it all. The FBI is seizing websites when it pleases them.

Wanna shoot off fire crackers for old times sake? Not in Austin. Too dangerous. Too individual. Same thing.

Attention, comrades! You will celebrate today. It takes a village, you know, as the presumed next Democrat president is famous for saying. Have another helping of government cheese. Mmmm. So good.

UPDATE: It wasn’t supposed to be this way: “In a time when government mandates what you can eat and how much of it, only one of the ways it seeks to regulate every aspect of daily life for the greater good—the declaration that started it all declares that the purpose of government is not social justice, a minimally obese population, universal tolerance or even equality. Equality is acknowledged as a fact, not as a goal.”

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Sunscreen too “toxic” for San Antonio

Posted on July 2, 2014 | 2 comments

I’ve always thought it rather silly the way Texas mothers slathered on the sunscreen whenever their little darlings ventured into the sun, noonday or otherwise, all in the name of preventing skin cancer. Going the pioneers one better: they only wore long woolen trousers and shirts and broad-brimmed hats to keep their skin pristine.

But troglodyte that I am, I grew used to sunscreen as Mrs. Charm joined the crowd with young Mr. B, starting in pre-school and continuing to the present and his status as a rising high school freshman. Little did she know. The second-largest public school district in San Antonio has now banned sunscreen as “dangerous.”

“Sunscreen is a toxic substance, and we can’t allow toxic substances to be in our school[s],” said North East Independent District spokesperson Aubrey Chancellor. “They could possibly have an allergic reaction [or] they could ingest it. It’s really a dangerous situation.”

Which suggests to me that either the threat of skin cancer was overblown all along or the school district really does deserve its Nanny-of-the-Month award from Reason Magazine.

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