Taking children seriously. Not.

Posted on June 4, 2018 | 1 comment

“Why should anyone take today’s children seriously? They eat laundry detergent, understand nothing about the constitution, are ignorant, and are so weak minded they need safe spaces to escape from words they don’t agree with. These kids want to take away our [gun] rights only because their elders told them to do so. They are Red Guards without the dress sense of chairman Mao.” —commenter BattleofThePyramids at Instapundit.

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When a leak is an obstruction of justice

Posted on June 3, 2018 | 1 comment

When it’s a leak by the Special Counsel Mueller’s office to try an obstruction of justice case in the lapdog media rather than a court of law.

“Unfortunately for them [the] majority will not be bothered with detailed legalese letter one set of lawyers sent to another set of lawyers. The sound of collective public yawn is deafening.” —commenter Janna Blantner at Power Line Blog.

Via Power Line Blog.

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Spy vs spy

The real reason why the FBI had a spy in the Trump campaign

UPDATE:  Congress is still waiting for the DOJ-FBI to fess up.

MORE:  On the other hand, Speaker Ryan says FBI justified in spying, in prejudging the doc dump.

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Posted on June 2, 2018 in Bronco Bama, Bureaucracy, Obamalot, Political corruption

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Mr Boy graduates high school

Posted on May 31, 2018 | 6 comments

Finally. Whew. Only takes three hours to hand out diplomas to his 500-odd classmates. What do you bet they screw it up and give the wrong diploma to some.

But no more dealings with the school system for me. I finally get to unsubscribe from their various emails. No more of their political b.s. Oh happy day! Mrs. Charm can watch from afar. She’s been out of their loop for a while.

He’s happy, too, and ready to go off to Texas A&M University in August. After he spends the night at the school. Huh? Yep that’s what they’re gonna do. Spend one last time in the old hoosegow. Me I’d want to be as far away from the place as possible.

UPDATE:  The school system took no chances with the diplomas and gave the graduates a card saying to pick up their diplomas June 6 in the school office.

MORE:  I wasn’t surprised to see the valedictorian was a girl or that she was Asian-American. I was a little bit surprised that she was Vietnamese.

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Posted in Bureaucracy, Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Viet Nam

Cigarettes & pneumonia

Posted on May 30, 2018 | 4 comments

When I was recovering from my recent bout with pneumonia, one of the doctors I saw at the hospital told me my smoking cigarettes at age 74 made me vulnerable to the bacterial version of the disease. And that I would continue to be vulnerable to it the longer I smoked. Until it finally killed me.

So in the three weeks—including one of coughing before I came down with pneumonia and the two weeks since recovering, I have had less than one pack of cigarettes. And I was only drawing the smoke in my mouth and blowing it out again. I didn’t start inhaling again until yesterday.

Which ended in a fit of coughing. I have a Nicoderm patch packet but haven’t used it yet. I think it’s the act of inhaling that I miss rather than the nicotine per se. But my lungs won’t let me do it any more without a penalty of coughing. Am I going to quit entirely? I hope so but really can’t say just yet.

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The Baby Bust

Posted on May 29, 2018 | 1 comment

The WSJ’s Best of The Web argues for more legal immigration based on an historically-low birth rate for American women:

“American women are having children at the lowest rate on record, with the number of babies born in the U.S. last year dropping to a 30-year low, federal figures [show]…

“The general fertility rate for women age 15 to 44 was 60.2 births per 1,000 women—the lowest rate since the government began tracking it more than a century ago…”

With European women likewise giving birth at historically low rates, the West’s declining (and simultaneously aging) population should be grounds for statistical worries, yes, but more immigration? When unemployment among blacks and legal Hispanics is at an all-time low? Maybe not.

Via WSJ

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Spymaster

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Posted on May 27, 2018 in Blogosphere, Bronco Bama, Obamalot, Political corruption, Trump

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