Clarkson in charge

not all brits are leftist fops who betray their country                                 Clarkson in Charge I joke often about how, if I were in power, I’d employ police marksmen to sit on motorway bridges picking off people who drive too slowly… I can think of many people who could and should be removed from the scene in such a way that no one can really explain what happened. George Monbiot. Ken Livingstone. Various hardline Muslim fanatics. Most human rights lawyers. Anyone with a rally jacket. People in Babyshambles. People with beards. Anyone with a sign on their desk that says “You don’t have to be mad to work here”, anyone in a jungle in Australia, anyone who claps along to the oompah music at the Horse of the Year Show, and everyone at the Ideal Home exhibition. And: There was one girl we called Butterface. This is because she was ravishingly beautiful in every single respect … but her face, which was that of an eroded gargoyle. Then there was a boy who, because he hadn’t started shaving at the age of 14, was referred to always in the third person as “she”. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this simply wouldn’t be allowed any more. Calling a boy “she” would be an infringement of his human rights and the school would undoubtedly be demoted to the Gola League. The headmaster might even be branded a paedophile and banned from the sports pitches. collected archive

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STFU Michelle

In response to the American Thinker piece  I sent out today ("Michelle Obama's racially skewed version of history" by Selwyn Duke), my friend offers this: I'm shocked... just shocked that after so many years of fighting racism in America we're not even close to equality. Tom Scocca, managing editor of Deadspin and the author of "Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future", reports, "Eighty-Eight Percent of Romney Voters Were White. The GOP candidate's race-based, monochromatic campaign made him a loser." Eighty-eight percent! Sounds terrible! Using Mr. Scocca's voter demographics, we can see that Romney's share of the White vote was 61% while Obama's share was only 39%. Only 39%! That's so unfair of Whites that it doesn't come closer to 50/50 equality. If some take offense at this, they can pound sand. I take offense at the constant derision aimed at my civilization by critics who should get down on their knees, kiss the ground trod by our ancestors and thank God for our civilization’s existence. Where else could effete ne’er do wells complain about injustice while living a life of silk, satin and Sidwell Friends and dining on Kobe beef? (Amer Thinker) Again using Mr. Scocca's voter demographics we see that Black voters were split 93/7% in favor of Obama. Now we can begin to see how racism continues to be so prevalent in America. How else can we explain why 7% of Blacks remain so brainwashed to vote for a White man? Wait just a minute. Maybe Romney wasn't so wrong in pursuing a race-based, monochromatic campaign. Afterall, Obama's race-based, monochromatic campaign put him in the White House. So, both men used a race-based, monochromatic campaign. Why was Obama successful and Romney not? Mr. Scocca's voter demographics show two possibilities. White voters are not racist enough or Black voters are too racist. Should we pursue the obvious or insist on the Progressive myth? Thank you, Mr. Scocca. Now we see that Obama's race-based, monochromatic campaign made the Progressive candidate a winner. Is it time to speak up and demand "vote equality? Will we see a re-education campaign with a goal of reducing Black on White discrimination? We will see M. Obama wildly waving the American flag before that happens. via skoonj

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Hiney, I'm pregnant!?! Can pregnancy tests check for testicular cancer in men? Whoa!

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Kerry- What will we have lost?

GREEN NAZIS                                     “ We are asked to believe that humans are drastically changing the earth’s climate by burning fossil fuels. The problem with their theory is very simple: It is NOT true. Kerry: If We're Wrong on Climate Change, 'What's the Worst That Can Happen?' What if '97 percent' of scientists are wrong? Duplicitous wording and mendacious babble Insidious plotting by  dishonest rabble, White paper cunning by dishonest turds These are a few of my favorite words to describe John effing Kerry, a man whose entire public life is bereft of even a single example of selflessness or humility.  What will we have lost?  Another great chunk of our freedom, that's what.  Ceded to this cunningly deceitful organism called the Obama Administration.  Scientists Respond to the Obama Administration’s 2014 National Climate Assessment The National Climate Assessment - 2014 (NCA) is a masterpiece of marketing that shows for the first time the full capabilities of the Obama Administration to spin a scientific topic as they see fit, without regard to the underlying facts. With hundreds of pages written by hundreds of captive scientists and marketing specialists, the administration presents their case for extreme climate alarm. This is a rebuttal drafted by 14 independent meteorology and climatology experts. As independent scientists, we know that apparent evidence of “Climate Change,” however scary, is not proof of anything. Science derives its objectivity from robust logic and honest evidence repeatedly tested by all knowledgeable scientists, not just those paid to support the administration’s version of “Global Warming,” “Climate Change,” “Climate Disruption,” or whatever their marketing specialists call it today. We are asked to believe that humans are drastically changing the earth’s climate by burning fossil fuels. The problem with their theory is very simple: It is NOT true. Here we address the administration’s basic thesis and the essential evidence that they claim support extreme concern. The theory of ‘Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming’ (CAGW) is based on a string of inferences that begins with the assumptions that carbon dioxide is a ‘greenhouse gas’ and that we are slowly driving up the atmospheric concentration by burning fossil fuels. It is therefore claimed as self-evident that the Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) has already risen significantly and will continue to do so. Higher GAST is then presumed to lead to all sorts of negative consequences, especially Extreme Weather. They promote their ‘Climate Models’ as a reliable way to predict the future climate. But these models dramatically fail basic verification tests. Nowhere do they admit to these well-known failures. Instead, we are led to believe that their climate models are close to perfection. This document is structured around a “fact-check,” where we quote a number of the government’s key claims in the NCA and show each to be invalid. The first three claims involve their three crucial scientific arguments (Three Lines of Evidence or 3 LoE), which, if valid, would satisfy a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for making their case. But each is easily shown to be false; and because each is crucial, their entire theory collapses. That means that all of the overblown “Climate Disruption” evidence that they mention, whether true or not, cannot be tied back to man’s burning of fossil fuels. Hence, efforts to reduce or eliminate Extreme Weather by reducing the burning of fossil fuels are completely nonsensical. NCA CLAIM #1: “First ‘Line of Evidence’ (LoE) – Fundamental Understanding of GH Gases” Go to What's Up With That for a step by step and real scientific examination.  And henceforth  post this— http://tinyurl.com/lh2hw27— as your comment to any and all  further AGW gibberish .  Sheesh ”

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One morning three South Georgia good old boys and three Yankees were in a ticket line at the Atlanta train station heading to Athens, GA for a big football game. The three Northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the three Southerners bought just one ticket among them. "How are the three of you going to travel on one ticket?" asked one of the Yankees. "Watch and learn," answered one of the boys from the South. When the six travelers boarded the train, the three Yankees sat down, but the three Southerners crammed into a bathroom together and closed the door. Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect tickets. He knocked on the bathroom door and said, "tickets please." The door opened just a crack, and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand. The conductor took it and moved on. The Yankees saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea. Indeed, so clever that they decided to do the same thing on the return trip and save some money. That evening after the game, when they got to the train station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip, while to their astonishment the three Southerners didn't buy even one ticket. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?"asked one of the perplexed Yankees. "Watch and learn, answered one of the Southern boys. When they boarded the train, the three Northerners crammed themselves into a bathroom, and the three Southerners crammed themselves into the other bathroom across from it. Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left their bathroom and walked quietly over to the Yankees' bathroom. He knocked on the door and said, "ticket please." There's just no way on God's green earth to explain how the South lost the Civil War. Wally "Cleaver" Ruzekio

Liberals Think?

“They have actually turned thinking into a hate crime!” he declared. “ Thoughtful comedian Evan Sayet explained why the American left is so opposed to argument or debate, arguing that liberals view thought as so inextricably bound to race, identity and orientation that they “have actually turned thinking into a hate crime.” “Liberals only do well when they lecture to you,” he asserted. “They do just fine on the 23-minute nightly news, where [NBC's] David Gregory dictates the truth to you. Take those same arguments to the debate and discussion programs on cable, and it’s only Fox News.” “They have cowed us into not speaking,” he continued. “For one thing we’re polite, and they have made debate and discussion something that is ugly. ‘You’re a racist, you’re a bigot, you’re a homophobe, you’re a xenophobe.’” “They have actually turned thinking into a hate crime!” he declared. “The concept behind this is that anything you believe . . . is so tainted by your personal prejudices — the fact that you’re white, the fact that you’re black, the fact that you’re tall, the fact that you’re short, that you’re fat, you’re skinny, you’re rich, you’re poor — anything you believe is going to be just a reflection of your prejudices.” “Therefore the only way not to be a bigot is to never think at all,” Sayet explained. “So it’s not that the liberal is stupid, it’s that he has made thinking into something he will not engage in.” Read more Some will remember that Evan Sayet was once a writer for Bill Maher before he decided enough was enough and struck out on his own.  In 2007 he made a huge splash with this address to the Heritage Foundation: "How Modern Liberals Think" ”

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Sarah Palin mocks media, liberals over Hillary Clinton health questions; and it was so, so easy to do

People believe what the media tell them they believe

http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-dishonest-rewrite.html A Merrily Update amen I say to you

duToit the Author

art is everywhere A future book? I  read Kim duToit's Vienna Days and Family Fortunes some years ago, and just ran across them on the bookshelf.  Made me wonder whether he'd written any more, and lo! Yes. Two.  Prime Target, and  Creative License.  He's a skilled writer, as most of you know, and has a James Michener-like appreciation for detail which I love.  At this stage, if I'm honest, I don't remember many details of either book previous book, but then I quite often forget my gym locker combination too.  I do remember that both were my summer vacation book, in successive years, and I read them straight through.  Now that I'm in my dotage, I can probably read them again.   Dotage has advantages.

A Dishonest Rewrite

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what  the hell." TRKOF&S LIARS “ A Dishonest Rewrite of the Duke Lacrosse Case On an author's publicity tour, he's even more explicit in trying to taint the students who were falsely accused. (by Dorothy Rabinowitz) "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." - 1984 In the outpouring of praise for William D. Cohan's new book "The Price of Silence"—a work, remarkably enough, being celebrated as a model of evenhandedness, scrupulous objectivity, etc.—one essential has gone overlooked. Namely, the central point of this tale about the Duke lacrosse case and accusations against three players of rape and assault at a house party. It takes no close reading to see that the book is meant to recast the story so as to nullify the outcome Americans thought they knew—that the players were exonerated and had been falsely accused. In Mr. Cohan's portrayal, the workings of decency and justice were undone by malign forces—among them, it would seem, the ability to hire defense attorneys. [...] No surprise the accused beat the charges, Mr. Cohan is regularly at pains to make clear: These were white sons of privilege, from families who could pay for their excellent defense lawyers. In Mr. Cohan's revisionist history we find a new moral hero—none other than Mr. Nifong, the prosecutor who brought the case and was disbarred for his actions during the investigation.  [The Full Rabinowitz] Forget the details? Case refresher Truth today is what people can be made to believe, or feel unsure about; a concept introduced to the U.S. body politic by Bill Clinton, and a willing media who held him in awe.  Muddy the waters; divide. There is of course the peculiar Liberal Duke culture. ”

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Hope Springs Eternal

Castle Keep

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Castle Keep Bada-Bing Some have asked what I'm going to be  doing in retirement... Well, I applied for a building permit for a new  house. It was going to be 100 ft tall and 400 ft wide, with 12 gun turrets at  various heights, and windows all over the place and a loud outside entertainment  sound system that was going to entertain the whole neighborhood. It would  have parking for 200 cars, and I was going to paint it snot green with pink  trim. The City Council told me; “Forget it...IT AIN'T GONNA  HAPPEN!” So, I sent in the application again, but this time I called it a  'Mosque'. Work starts on Monday. I love this country. It’s the  government that scares the crap out of  me. Ron "I Metzger in St. Louis"

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One Man's War

One Man's War “ I've been making it a point to walk/run 5 miles everyday since that activity is logged by fitbit, and I am contested by MoSup who, as a matter of course, walks 10 miles a day just shopping, and taunts me for being a laggard.  I've found that listening to audio books is a great way to kill two birds with one stone, and make me forget how much I hate walking.  I just finished One Man's War.   I can't imagine that any man I know wouldn't find it fascinating.  (and there is a love story for the ladies who like adventure). Re: audiobook. Narrator Patrick Lawlor reads this book like a cheerleader or the teacher's pet in an eighth grade English class. His tone is overzealous and maudlin; it dilutes the dark moments and nearly ruins the whole experience. Fortunately, the story transcends all and will stay with you for years (as it has in my case). Tommy Lamore was a gunner on a B-17 that was shot down over France, and the book recounts amazing his adventures through 1945.  I thought the narrator was terrific, and among the best I've heard.  Not everyone will agree of course; you can listen to a sample here. If you're not into it, I believe it will be a real page turner.  The best part is that I didn't pay anything.  I got a library loan using the Overdrive Media Ap.  There was no waiting list.  Here are a few more reviews: When I first read the dust jacket and saw all the things that Tommy LaMore had to endure during his tour of duty in WWII my first thought was "this must be fiction". Well, it is all true and truly amazing. I have read many personal memiors about WWII and I compare all I read to the two best one: "The Forgotten Soldier" and "With The Old Breed". This book is witout a doubt in that class. I don't say that lightly. Mr. LaMore goes from being a tail gunner on a bomber, to being shot down, to the French underground, to the Soviet army approaching Berlin. Along the way, you will meet some really unique characters. My favorite is the Soviet commander who takes a liking to Tommy and tries to keep him safe until he can be turned over to the British. You will also meet the love of his life when he encounters a womens concentration camp and discovers a beautiful polish surviver. Their story alone is worth the price of the book. Outstanding! I won't tell you how it ends but please, please, get this book. You will remember it long after the last page is turned. I have read numerous accounts of men in war and until I read this one, I never had a doubt about the truth. However, this book reads like fiction. I hope I'm wrong but I thought I was reading a Jack Higgins novel. I gave Tommy LaMore the benifit of the doubt and decided to research the man. I was unable to find one written word about him. If his exploits are true, I would love it if someone could point me in the right direction and find a independent biography on him. Since I couldn't find so much as a photo of Tommy LaMore, I'll side with  it being a fictional account.  Doesn't matter. USA UAS USA! On topic, from Marc Miller: Today is Armed Forces day, btw... To quote Obammie, "Who rah?" http://freebeacon.com/culture/the-devil-and-jim-gant/ ”

Media Driven Culture

Culture War                         “ Has our culture devolved to the point that the private statements of an NBA owner draws more outrage than the lies and deceit of the President of the United States? - Col. Allen West    Ayup E. Lowered Stein ”

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Jews Flee France

Hitler's Mustache                “ Return Engagement The American Thinker article The Ominous Implications for the West of Jews' Exodus from France  is about the exodus from France of French Jews, who are fleeing violence perpetrated by Muslims and apparently tolerated by the French government.   For anyone who's been paying attention, this isn't really news. But, as is often the case with American Thinker, there's more revealed in the Readers' Comments; jumping from anti-Semitism in France to anti-Semitism in America, we learn this: ArmyAviator: There is a new wave of anti-Semitism in America that I continue to be amazed at. In the army, it really began after the First Gulf War. I witnessed officers, even senior officers go from admiring Israel and the Israeli armed forces, to cursing them as "those damned Kikes." Mostly, this has happened due to our culture crashing and burning. Wide scale recruitment of Blacks and other minorities, brought their prejudices and bigotry toward Whites in general and Jews in particular to the army. A Jew in the army is a double target. First, he's White and second he's a Jew. That really irks the Bros and the Hoes! To maintain any possible standard of discipline, the leadership has had to adjust and accept the prejudice and bigotry of the ranks. Consequently, we have the most hostile environment possible for Jewish soldiers, on a scale not seen since before WW2. As the army grows smaller, due to defense cuts, reduction in mission requirements, or whatever, the cadre that remains, will be more and more "politically reliable" and will serve as a tool of the Liberal Socialist movement. This will be accomplished through selective retention, not necessarily of the best and most talented officers and soldiers, but through their dedication to (Liberal Socialist) Democrats! 0bama has had six years already, to weed out politically unreliable General Officers, and the weeding is extending its way down as far as possible, as the army shrinks. If the next president happens to be a Republican, he/she will have a disloyal General Staff, not necessarily interested in "obeying the orders of the President of the United States," but more in tune with advancing Liberal Socialist causes and objectives. Ridding the army of Jews is one of them.  skoonj  @ George Santayana ”

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The Perfect Sunday 7:30 Mass Breakfast and newspaper Son drops by with our granson We take him fishing He catches first fish Nap Dinner

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