Paul Meets Amy

\Queensland Rail

Seein' the Pope

Trippin' Out “ This is truly a milestone week for me. I've been using all my spare time, which is to say all my time, getting MoSup ready for her visit to see the new Pope.  Since telephone rates from Europe are exorbitant, and since—as she pointed out to her sister—we have never gone a single day in our 82 years of marriage without talking to each other, I needed a plan..  I got the bright idea to polish up my 7 year-old Acer Aspire notebook, and harness its powerful Intel Atom CPU NC70 @1.608Hz and 93.38 GB of available memory—and  10" display— to power Skype.  I ain't never used Skype before, but all my kids use it (on their fancy Apples) to interface with each other.  I down loaded and installed it, and now what?  Shit.  I'll deal with that later. Next thing I had to set up her e-mail, because JFC, can;t be missing those gardening tips and sewing machine projects.  Iit's been years since I set up her Verizon e-mail, and none of the passwords or account names are working.   I'll have to call Verizon and find out WTF her e-mail particulars are.. Shit.I'll deal with that later. Of course the first thing I  had to do is sanitize the thing.  It's been so long since I used it on road trips that, you know, some stuff might have gotten on there.  What happens if Pope Francis admires her notebook, and asks to see it?  And he pushes some wrong keys and up pops Paris Hilton in sporting mode?  Or  her plane is hijacked,  And the Islamos something like  this?  I did a full scrub, a full defrag and a full everything., then dabbed some holy water on it.  It's still slow as shit, so I'll be interested to see how it handles Skype. This is where the milestone comes in.  My grandaughter (4ys) got for Christmans what I thought was a toy I-Pad.  Oh no.  The sumbittch has Skype on it. She and the princess are coming tomorrow to show me --SHOW US! how to use it.   I may look like I'm only 75, but I damn sure feel like 76 (after a certain point, nothing more changes.  What's gonna shrink has done shrunk, and what gonna ache, does, always.  But Hey!  Soon as she leaves, it's PAR-TAY TIME. sigh ”

Jane Tennison

At The Cinema                            Best Series Ever (Confirmed) Salesmen will understand.  When I find something that excites me, I am compelled to tell people about it.  I'm also  naturally prone to over-hyperbole stuff, even afterjust  a short test drive. This sometime comes  back to bite me in the ass, like when I waxed all flowery about LILLIE: "This BBC series is magnificent on several levels, not the least of which is it's intimate look at Victorian Age London ..." Problem was, I had only watched  a few episodes when I wrote that. When the action  moved from London to America, the whole thing fell apart.  The characters were  boring and not believable;  the sets cheesy.  I immediately jumped ship, but felt guilty at having led others into a trap.  An event that would naturally send them cursing and to pretermit future recommendations.  Same thing happened with SPOOKS.  Almost immediately calling it "the best television action series ever made," it went into full blown, anti George Bush BBC liberal mode.  I have since skipped several episodes, but am recently  rewarded when Adam Carter gets blown away.  The BBC is no more to be trusted than NBC. But, Prime Suspect.   In April I called it the "Best Series Ever."  I just watched the 15th, and last episode, and it is all of that.  Confirmed with a ++. Premiering in December 1992, it lasted until October 2006.  Helen Mirren's 30 year career as Detective Inspector Jane Tennison evolves, almost in real time.  In those 14 years she ages gracefully, but noticeably.  I fell in love with Mirren, and this week's public rant fits perfectly Jane Tennison, who by the end had  become an alcoholic.  Bravo. Best Ever. By the bye, it happened that just afterwards I watched what I thought was the 81st, and last, episode of Midsomer Murder.   There was no great acting here, nor brilliant screen play.  And it was decidedly  about showing the worst side of Britain's landed gentry. But it was like chicken soup, or a sail on the bay.  Something to exorcise demons after a day of too much Obama. I just now discovered it has continued,  with retired Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby's  cousin, John,  taking over for him.  That series in not in the NetFlix line-up, but I assume it will pop up soon.

Thank the Hollywood News Machine

Accomplices

metzger

There are no subtleties with Obama

Of Tyrants & Tyranny “ "When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." — Thomas Jefferson (attributed to Jefferson, by his contemporaries) "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." — Thomas Jefferson (attributed to Jefferson, by his contemporaries) "... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual" — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany - 1819) “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C.S. Lewis “Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them” — Voltaire “The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.” —  Oscar Wilde quotes “When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” — Plato “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy”  — Charles de Montesquieu And, in rebuttal (drumroll) "Reject voices that warn of government tyranny" President Barack (nee Barry) Obama Soetoro; commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University I Respect Your Law and Traditionas This Much ”

Jihad Brand Sausage?

This just in e-mail cap “ Yeah, Gary . . . Dennis Miller or somebody did a little riff on somethin like that a few months ago. Think I saw it in a YouTube clip I got in e-mail. This is better, tho. And this mornin on FoxNews, the subject of where to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev came up. Apparently no cemetery in or around Boston will allow its being buried there. So Brian Kilmeade said, "Why do we have to bury him anyway?" Then Gretchen Carlson said that she thinks cremation is somehow abhorrent to Muslims. So then Kilmeade says, "Well, why can't we just put his body in a bag and dump it in the ocean like we did with bin Laden?" During the next segment, with Stu Varney, Kilmeade wasn't on the set any more and I thought to myself, "Oh, JFC! Some PC cop has got to the executive producer and Kilmeade is being severely chastised, or fired, or both. But he was back later, still his smiling wise-cracking self. Ron "Metzgering Up Some Sawsij" ”

The Complete Benghazi Timeline

OBAMUNISM, The Party, BEST POST OF THE WEEK DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format -Doug Ross

Barry's Courage

   Tom Jefferson Smith

The Brazilian

The Brazilian merrily

Table of shame

Oh My

Can You Say "Operation Gunrunner?"

Last Week's, and Possibly All-Time, Most Egregious Insult “ This in-your-face president is, again, celebrating that he can effectively trump truth by making declarations that turn it on its heels. Obama transcends anyone's ability to accurately express the depth of his evil, and breadth of his wickedness. ”

Antonia W. "Toni" Larroux

celebration of a life well met Antonia W. "Toni" Larroux “ Waffle House lost a loyal customer on April 30, 2013. Antonia W. "Toni" Larroux died after a battle with multiple illnesses: lupus, rickets, scurvy, kidney disease and feline leukemia. She had previously conquered polio as a child contributing to her unusually petite ankles and the nickname "polio legs" given to her by her ex-husband, Jean F. Larroux, Jr. It should not be difficult to imagine the multiple reasons for their divorce 35+ years ago. Two children resulted from that marriage: Hayden Hoffman and Jean F. Larroux, III. Due to multiple, anonymous Mother's Day cards which arrived each May, the children suspect there were other siblings but that has never been verified. Click for full Obit Well, now I miss Antonia and I didn’t even know her.  And, may the person who wrote this please write my obituary.  I might just sound like I had an interesting life.        crimson tide jodi Agreed.  Possibly the best obituary ever writ. ”

Israelis pound Syria

Apparently, the shit has just hit the fan. “ Raja,  The NY Times and Debkafile both report Israel destroyed a warehouse at Damascus International Airport.  Both report that the warehouse contained either SCUD or much more modern surface to surface missiles, destined for Hizbollah.  They had just been sent to Syria by Iran.  According to both reports, the Israeli missiles were fired by Israeli aircraft over Lebanon, so they are long range missiles the Israelis fired.  The Israeli jets later continued to fly over other parts of Lebanon, including the capitol. .... thousands of Basij militiamen had just been airlifted from Iran to Syria, establishing an Iranian military presence opposite Israel from Syria as well as Lebanon. They joined a comparable number of Hizballah militiamen fighting for the Bashar regime.  Debkafile adds that Israeli ground forces have entered Lebanon, and entered the Shebaa Farms area.  Recently, Iran flew thousands of Iranian Basij militia troops, which are guarding about 30 Syrian Shiite villages. The Israelis announced there will be an “exercise”, starting tomorrow.  Debkafile believes that is cover for a major Israeli operation.  Apparently, the shit has just hit the fan. The Debkafile article.  Skoonj ”

DiFi on a rage

What I See

Mental patient obsessed with Sandy Hook massacre escapes CA facility... Vows she will reintroduce  Senate gun bill ..?

Prom Dates

Oh My

Sorta Like Dating The President's Daughter

Kate M Topless

Oh My

As seen

Another Obama Brown Shirt

Nanny State: One regulation away from total bliss          The Police State                People Whose Guts You Should Hate Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw A Clear and Present Danger to the United States “ Just one of the things I've been stewing over for the past few days.  And, yes, I know what you've been thinking Planned Parenthood, ACLU may sue state to block anti-abortion law that might close clinic ACLU of Georgia to investigate Lumpkin Co. HS prayer meeting ACLU suit accuses Lake schools of breaking federal law over gay-straight club ACLU: Dispute concerning Red Lion transgender student progressing ACLU holds town hall meeting on prison divestment ad nauseam [æd ˈnɔːzɪˌæm -sɪ-]adv to a disgusting extent[Latin: to (the point of) nausea] ”

Durex Long

The long and short of it

Women Paid Less?

Oh My There's no call for this

Adam Smith & US Constiturion

Adam Smith's “Wealth of Nations” & US Constitution Digest “ ”