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A word about June 10

Silvio Canto, Jr.
6/9/2023 10:30:00 PM

          We remember June 10:"Somewhere over the rainbow":    On this day in 1922, Frances Ethel Gumm was born in Minnesota.....we know her as Judy Garland........She died in 1969...June 10, 1959:    Rocky Colavito hit 4 consecutive HR......June 10, 1941:      Joe DiMaggio went 1-for-5 to keep the streak going......# 25 on the way to 56.....The great Chuck Thompson was born in Massachusetts on this day in 1921.    Thompson was the Orioles radio announcer for a generation.   He also did the Colts    "Orioles magic":    Happy # 74 to one of all my time favorite Orioles, Ken Singleton.    His best season was[...]

World War II: A look at the political leaders with Barry Jacobsen

Silvio Canto, Jr.
6/9/2023 10:01:00 PM

   

   

  World War II: A look at the political leaders with Barry Jacobsen...click to listen... https://t.co/4tNmAe0WGZ  Silvio Canto, Jr. (SCantojr) July 14, 2017   

St. Thomas, Rum And The Telos Of Sex

K T Cat
6/9/2023 8:22:41 AM

We're in the USVI, St. Thomas to be exact, and I'm escorting wife kitteh and wife's best friend kitteh (WBFK), so blogging and commenting will be light as I'll be their chauffeur, chef and entertainment. I've got two scuba dives scheduled, so I'm hoping to get some video to share as well.In this post, I'll try to reply to Ohioan's and Tim's excellent comments here, but I make no promises. Once the girls are up and about, the party will start and the keyboard will have to be discarded.First, a photo from our VRBO.The view from our balcony.I've now been here for 18 hours, so I'm an expert and can pronounce on all things USVI while looking over my pince-nez at you. St. Thomas is a lot like SoCal. It's coastal desert, not[...]

The Perfect Soundtrack

K T Cat
6/5/2023 2:52:26 PM
When I saw the original version of the video that opens the video below, the one where the kids are being marched into their school while the teachers wave pride flags and pride flags festoon the walls, all I could think of was the Nazi anthem, the Horst Wessel Lied.I would have thought of it if the flags had been Vatican flags. The goose-steppery of the whole thing is nauseating, regardless of the object of obedience. It took no effort at all to find enough videos to fill out the whole, repulsive song.Enjoy?   

Maybe teaching racial division and hatred wasn't such a good idea after all

W.C. Varones
2/3/2023 7:04:10 PM
Doctor cycling in California run down, stabbed by driver screaming about white privilege:A doctor cycling along the Pacific Coast Highway in California was mowed down by a driver who then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the cyclist to death while screaming white privilege slurs.Dr. Michael Mammone, 58, of Laguna Beach, was on his bike in Dana Point when he was struck by the driver of a white Lexus.The driver allegedly sped through a red light at an intersection before running over Mammone on Wednesday afternoon, KABC reported.He then jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed the victim multiple times in the back before bystanders tackled him to stop the attack.

Mmmkay....

W.C. Varones
9/1/2022 4:31:22 PM
President who usurped Congressional spending authority to issue an executive order handing out hundreds of billions of dollars right before an election will lecture nation on "threats to democracy."

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Bezos gana US$10 en curiosa compra de una sola accin de Amazon

Jeff Bezos, la tercera persona ms rica del mundo, hizo algo extrao hace dos semanas: compr una sola accin de Amazon.com Inc. por US$114,77.

Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share

Jeff Bezos, the worlds third-richest person, did something strange two weeks ago: He bought a single share of Amazon.comInc. for $114.77.The share purchase, disclosed in a filing, is his firstin ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

if they think that was not wrong, then who knows what else is going on at Missouri State 

William A. Jacobson

In response to a challenge from the Equal Protection Project, Missouri State stopped excluding white males from its business boot camp, but its President asserts that "I still dont think we did anything wrong," so we are continuing to pursue this until MSU acknowledges its wrongdoing.The post if they think that was not wrong, then who knows what else is going on at Missouri State first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Swan Bake How Progressive Policies Result In Disturbing Meals 

Leslie Eastman

Town's swan mascot is slaughtered and eaten by immigrants, naked witches eat deer carcass, and PETA President asks that her remains be grilled with a side of onions.The post Swan Bake How Progressive Policies Result In Disturbing Meals first appeared on Legal Insurrection.