Barry's First Date

Home Schooling Run Amok?

Creampie

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Today's Homily

Crying girl claims brother ripped the arms off her Barbie Doll.  Boy denies.  Parents spank him; send him to bed without dinner.  Girl admits that she had herself destroyed Barbie.  Parents tell boy that if he apologizes to his sister he can come down  have some dinner.  Boy says go fuck yourselves

The Decent Ones

Hitler's Mustache

“ The Decent Ones? Next: Newly discovered papers reveal the human side of one of history's most merciless killers: Nazi Architect Heinrich Himmler. TNR stooge Jonathan Chait writes, somewhat counter intuitively, that History will be “Very Kind” to Obama’s legacy. This assertion comes ironically juxtaposed with the virtually universal blistering criticism Obama is receiving even from his most vociferous defenders (like Mike Lupica) for having failed to send even an administration representative (nevermind the President himself) to the anti-terror rally in Paris this weekend. It has come to the point that long time liberal defenders of Obama’s presidency are forced to concede publicly that Obama will most be remembered as a President who did essentially nothing. Strangely, that seems to be the exact basis for Chait’s pre-emptive praise of Obama’s historical legacy – that while all others around him were clamoring for him to do something, Obama has remained steadfastly calm and done none of those things: [Continued] There is nothing more delicious than the serendipitous discovery of two outrageous things that serve to cancel each other out.  I was agog last night to have The Decent One served up on Netflix.  The decent one is Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi who next to Hitler I should most have enjoyed throwing headfirst down a functioning outhouse privy. Newly discovered papers reveal the human side of one of history's most merciless killers: Nazi Architect Heinrich Himmler. The documentary uses written letters between Heinny, family, and alas mistress, to show his human side?  Is it possible the author was ignorant of the pathology of  sociopathic killers?  Hey, Hitler loved his dog.  Even the supposition—make that declaration—that Himmler was a devoted family man is destroyed when he fathers a bastard daughter with the mistress he takes because his wife has become an old barren cow.  Wait!  I haven't checked, but is it possible that Jonathan Chait authored this one too?  By the bye, watch it and make your kids and grandkids watch it too. ”

Breakfast in Bed

Unattributed Snark Hey There!

YIKES!

MAN AWAKENS FROM 12 YEARS IN 'VEGETATIVE STATE'  'I was aware of everything'

No Pants Subway Scam

I call Bull S**t! They're all wearing pants

What I See Harry Reid Panics, Breaks 'Number of Ribs and Bones in His Face ... Horse with Blinders Panics, Runs and Breaks Everything on Its Way (VIDEO)

King Buckwheat

The Obamissariat

“ What Not Even the King of England Could Do A federal researcher points out George III couldn’t suspend laws — as Obama just did. Remember those WWJD bracelets that were so popular in the ’90s? Well, an expert at the Law Library of Congress — a non-partisan branch of the Library of Congress that has advised Congress and the Supreme Court since 1832 — tackled a slightly different question: What would George III do when faced with a law he didn’t like? Not even the King of England at the time of the American Revolution had the authority to suspend laws unilaterally, the Law Library expert wrote in a memorandum to the Senate committee tasked with responding to President Obama’s recent executive orders on the enforcement of immigration law. “The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate,” Sessions writes in the memo. One hundred years before the American Revolution, another British king had “attempted to suspend a number of laws,” contributing to the onset of the Glorious Revolution in England, a senior foreign-law specialist at the Law Library writes in the memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee. “King George III,” the specialist goes on to remind the committee, “was thus unable to enact or repeal any laws unilaterally without the involvement of Parliament.” The memo, obtained by National Review Online, was written in response to a request by Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), according to a top aide in his office. It does not address the question of whether Obama’s latest executive actions amount to a suspension of the laws, although Obama and other Democrats referred to such orders as a decision to “suspend” deportations. But it is a clear and incendiary jab at the president, just days before House and Senate Republicans are scheduled to attend a joint retreat in Pennsylvania to discuss their agenda for the 115th Congress. At the top of the list: Deciding on a response to Obama’s decision to “suspend” deportations of millions of illegal immigrants, who will instead receive some of the benefits of legal status. The GOP regards Obama’s executive orders as a way of rewriting the law without congressional input. House Republicans decided to use a Department of Homeland Security–funding bill to block implementation of the orders issued in November, as well as other related immigration-policy decisions. That bill may struggle in the Senate, where some Republicans up for reelection in Democratic-leaning states worry about a political backlash. One such Republican, Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), told Politico that the House bill “leads us to a potential government shutdown scenario, which is a self-inflicted political wound for Republicans.” Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who helped write the Gang of Eight immigration bill that died in the House, has signaled a willingness to separate the DHS funding from an attempt to restrain Obama. “Defunding that part of the bill that deals with enforcing the executive order makes sense, but we can’t go too far here, because look what happened in Paris,” Graham said last week. “The Department of Homeland Security needs to be up and running.” Sessions disagrees. “A constitutional breach of this magnitude demands nothing less than a vigorous, public, disciplined campaign to rally the nation behind a Republican effort to deny the president the funds he would need to carry it out,” he writes in a 23-page “immigration handbook” distributed to every congressional Republican on Monday and obtained by NRO. To politicians who worry about losing votes over the issue, Sessions replies by citing the midterm-election results and a referendum in the blue state of Oregon that saw voters overturn a law granting drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants. [Continued] One difference: While George III was insane, his Parliament was not. ”

Meanwhile ...

Christian Cake Company's Refusal to Bake Pro-Gay Marriage Cake Compared to Slavery, Holocaust by Colorado Commissioner more than ever it seems

HEARTS

Stuff on my desk

Microsoft chose not to include Hearts in Windows 8;  instead offering, among others, Random Salad Games "Hearts Deluxe."  They kept pestering me to write a review so I finally did a week or so ago.  I wrote that while I have yet to catch a renege, in other respcts it seemed like Hearts Deluxe was beginning to cheat, and even suggested that they were hiring erstwhile MS Hearts people to program, and if so balls-out cheating and blatant reneges could not be far behind.  This morning "John" broke hearts early on when "Sandra" led clubs.  Clearly an attempt to end my incipient Shoot the Moon atempt. Later John played a club.  I had them! But that's not what this is about.  This is. I've noticed that several internet games of chance offer Easy/ Hard options.  WTF?  It's a game of chance.  The only way the game can have easy/hard options is if the programmers are cheating.  Right?  The earliest MS Hearts game was real.  I once won 27 straight games before tiring.  That was in the 90's, before the Clinton Culture had time to fully seep in.  Now it has.  Everything is cheat cheat cheat.  Nothing is real.  There are no hard and fast rules for anythong.  That's all. Mentalist fans will understand why I'm reminded of Lisbon, for whom I've developed something of a crush.

Hollywood Culture

“ Liars and Cowards But the executive also firmly emphasized a decision has not yet been made and the story’s villain will be chosen for creative reasons— and to avoid repetition— rather than the recent terror attacks in Europe. Story Excuses ”

Downton Reprise

Ago MoSup is back to watching the new Downton Abbey piecemeal on PBS which fact reminded me of this.  I still crack myself up.

OSU giving 14

Oregon has one Heisman QB; Ohio State had three.  From that I can interpolate that OSU will have more depth at all positions and beat Oregon 42-28.

Puzzle Solving Made Easy

“ Federal Judge: Can’t Arrest Illegals for Identity Theft If They’re Looking for a Job If Illegal Aliens Are Looking For Work, or Say They Are, They Are A Protected Class Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cannot use identity theft law to enforce immigration law according to a federal judge. Sheriff Arpaio will make arrests based on a law and then judges shoot it down for the sake of illegal aliens, making them a protected class at the expense of the safety of citizens. The open borders crowd says the illegal aliens are paying into the tax system and they should be allowed to work with fake IDs Lawsuits come from left-wing groups or the government who do not have our interests at heart and who advocate for open borders. A federal appeals court recently said it was illegal to deny bail to immigrants in the country illegally even though they don’t show up in court more than 90% of the time. A citizen at risk of fleeing, however, would be denied bail. The far left wants to make immigrating here illegally as inviting as possible. On Monday, an Arizona federal judge (Appointed by George W. Bush on March 13, 2003) blasted a state law that “stretched” the crime of Aidentity theft to include everyone from forgers to people seeking employment with fraudulent IDs. Many of the IDs illegal aliens use are stolen. Usually, a state law that does not conflict with federal law stands, but in this case, the liberal judge shot down the Arizona law using semantic machinations. This puts Americans at risk for identity theft which drastically affects one’s credit rating among other things. The judge in this case, U.S. District Judge David Campbell ordered Arizona to give drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens last month. The open borders crowd says the illegal aliens are paying into the tax system and they should be allowed to work with fake IDs. The logic of that escapes me. Most don’t pay taxes and, if they do, the job was gotten illegally and they shouldn’t be rewarded for it. The open borders activists also believe there are no Americans available for the jobs which is hard to believe since there are more than 92 million Americans out of the workforce. Illegal aliens are now taking higher level jobs, not simply jobs no one wants. In fact, all the jobs added since Obama took office equal the number taken by immigrants, legal and illegal. It’s obvious this is just another way to invite people to come here illegally. If the people coming here illegally were predominantly Republicans, the borders would be closed and the far left would be rounding them up to send them home. cuzzin ricky Another bizarre ruling from a court trying it seems to please the Obama Justice Dept. Judge Campbell was appointed by Bush 43, and he is a Mormon.  Not the CV of your ordinary anti-constitutionalist.  But. when presented with a puzzle he took the short cut. Maybe a bit of lèse-majesté (local sheriff trying to school the federal bench gets bitch-slapped) in play here?  How can using false identities ever, ever, be justified unless it's our guys trying to infiltrate SMERSH?  Maybe the courts are cowed by Obama's use of false birth data and Social Security number; i.e. not wanting to be viewed as rabble rousing.  Common sense dictates if you're going to place a statue of someone in the town square, and your choices are Sheriff Joe or Jose Morales O'Hare (born in Tijuana Iowa), who do you go with?  It's that easy. ”

The Coony Gang Tipped Off

They have friends on the inside

Stay in the car girl, I'll pump

CAPTION

Baquet- that's French int it?

Face Book Duel

USC Annenberg journalism professor Marc Cooper
A question for NYTimes editor Dean Baquet.  Exactly how many people
have to be shot in cold blood before your paper rules that you can show us
what provoked the killers?  Apparently 23 shot including 11 dead is not
enough.  What absolute cowardice.  These MSM managers act is if they are
running insurance companies, not news organizations. 

Dean Baquet Dear Marc, appreciate the self righteous second guessing
without even considering there might be another point of view.  Hope your
students are more open minded.  Asshole.

hilarity ensues

Filthy French Dooooosh Bags

The French 'Every single French Jew I know has left Paris': Editor of Britain's Jewish Chronicle claims people are fleeing terror-hit French capital Stephen Pollard says terror attack on Kosher store in Paris is no 'fluke' 'Every single French Jew I know has either left or is actively working out how to leave', he said Experts believe that more than 100,000 French Jews have left since 2013  France's Chief Rabbi has said after a number of attacks on Jews in the past year: 'Jews murdered were targeted specifically because they were Jewish'  Policing stepped up across British Jewish areas, community body says  Mayor's office has announced closure of shops in famous Jewish area

The money's in a brown bag ...

There was a time when I would have immediately sent several dozen.  Now I'm too mature.