Scammers at the old folks dating site

Posted on May 9, 2016 | 3 comments

It’s hard enough having to start over in your seventies. But when the scammers are lurking at the senior dating site…

Teresa Gulledge, so called, using the handle texasdippzberry, snared me at the Senior People Meet site, run by a Dallas outfit. I’d use her fetching picture here (complete with dimpled chin) except it’s probably someone else’s stolen for the scam only and why embarrass them? As for TG’s name, well, it’s probably phony, too.

How did I know? Well, she seemed perfectly normal. Just another Native American civil engineer widow of a Paris fashion model who was busy looking for the crown of her successful life whilst building one last offshore drilling rig and a few over-water bridges. (Are there any other kind?) And why shouldn’t she be looking, after all that?

Right up to where she wrote: “I am a total package.” For some reason I got hung up on that phrase (it sounded phony, ha!) and Googled it. Which led me to this where if you scroll down a little you will find the entire content of TG’s missive, albeit with appropriate gender changes. Gosh, Teresa, you’re a fraud.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to complain to Senior People Meet. Haven’t found a way yet. Geeze Louise, do you suppose they don’t want to know?

UPDATE:  Finally figured how to report s/he/it. Little bitty triangular sign with an exclamation mark in it at the bottom right of her profile page. That did it. Her page and fetching photo have been disappeared. Adios.

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Financial barometer heading up?

Posted on May 9, 2016 | Comments Off on Financial barometer heading up?

Andy fixes a roof fan on the No Princess Palace while noticing evidence of a financial turnaround in the South Texas fracking patch. We can only hope. No help from our witless president and his greedy political party,of course.

Via MyOldRV

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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Texana, The Economy

Daddy Bush’s Junkyard of Popped Hoods

Posted on May 8, 2016 | 6 comments

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1991’s so-called “highway of death,” Muslim exaggeration worthy of Pallywood at its most pathetic. Of course the leftist American snooze media ate it whole. Those dastardly American soldiers, may their name be erased!

Via commenter Sennacherib

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Trump’s plain talk

Posted on May 7, 2016 | 6 comments

Elizabeth Warren, Harvard’s self-proclaimed American Indian (critics call her Hiawatha and Princess Spreading Bull) whom the Uterus is reported to be considering for her vice-presidential running mate, called Trump a racist. The standard Democrat “debate” line. Shut up, she argued.

Trump returned the favor, mocking the Massachusetts senator as “goofy”.

“Let’s properly check goofy Elizabeth Warren’s records to see if she is Native American. I say she’s a fraud!” Next, he tweeted, “Goofy Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton’s flunky, has a career that is totally based on a lie. She is not Native American.”

Well, Hiawatha said her deceased grandpa said she was and that was good enough for goofy Liz. And, not incidentally, for Harvard U. which thereby gave her preferential treatment in hiring. Affirmative Action, you know. And of course the Uterus, whom Trump calls corrupt. Which she is, obviously.

As long as Trump keeps refusing to pull his punches, I’m really going to like this presidential campaign. Oh, yes.

Plain political talk. Finally. Hear, hear.

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Posted in The Culture, Trump, Twitter

Punching holes in your bucket list

Posted on May 6, 2016 | Comments Off on Punching holes in your bucket list

Alas, we can but mourn the passing of one Robert Hartwell Fiske, he of the Vocabula Review and an unparalleled concern for our declining language.

“I’m not sure when, precisely, Robert Fiske signed on to fight the pollution of empty jargon, idiotic euphemism, self-serving imprecision, comic redundancy and nonsense generally. He had earlier worked as a copy editor for the Addison-Wesley publishing company and then as a freelance editor. A passion for correct English at some point must have turned into an obsession. Robert was apparently obsessive in other realms: He was a weightlifter and a man who went on 10-mile treks carrying 50 pounds of bricks in a backpack.”

His Vocabula Review was far more reasonable. Have a look.

Via WSJ

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The Climate Prosecution Club

Posted on May 5, 2016 | 1 comment

The First Church of Climate Change is not only threatening to put dissenters in jail, it is prosecuting companies and private think tanks that don’t come to the progressive altar, genuflect on bended knee and sing hallelujah with the rest of the choir.

“Mr. Walker belongs to this climate prosecution club and so he unleashed his subpoena attack on CEI, as well as on DCI Group, a Washington-based PR firm that represents free-market and fossil fuel groups. His demand for a decade’s worth of papers on climate research is a form of harassment. The process is itself punishment, intended to raise the cost of speaking freely on climate policy lest it invite legal bills and other political headaches.”

Land of the free? Increasingly not. Home of the brave? That remains to be seen.

“Rather than play defense, the targets of the climate police need to fight back with lawsuits of their own.” Hallelujah!

Via WSJ

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Posted on May 3, 2016 in Evolution, Obsessions, Science/Engineering

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