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The Clintons Are ....

Head of Clinton Foundation: The Clintons are paranoid loonies The Washington Free Beacon continues its record of committing journalism. via Red States (Hiding from the law for 40 years will take a toll.)

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This is a Test. For the Next 30 Days We’ll See How Stupid the Republicans Are. This is Only a Test.

The United States Supreme Court will soon hand down its opinion in King v. Burwell and we will get to see just how stupid the GOP is. To recap, the case centers on whether states that do not set up state based exchanges can get subsidies from the federal government to subsidize healthcare costs. The law, as drafted, had a section on state based exchanges. That section gave federal subsidies. The law had a separate section on states that did not create state based exchanges. The law allowed federal exchanges, but did not have language giving a federal subsidy in the federal exchanges. That language was there, but was removed before final passage. The healthcare expert Democrats relied on to help draft Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber, was recorded saying this was done to incentivize the establishment of state based exchanges. The Democrats now pretend none of this happened and it was a “drafting error” the Supreme Court should fix for them. I have no idea how King v. Burwell will be decided, but given how much pressure the Democrats are trying to put on the Court, the odds are they think it will be decided against them. Who knows. If it is decided against them though, they will scramble quickly to make Republicans own it. Republicans, of course, lack any and all testicular fortitude — it having been drained by the yellow stripe down their backs. Here’s the great test for the GOP. If King v. Burwell is decided against the Democrats, Republicans need advertisements ready to go across the fifty states with a very simple message. “They never read it, they rushed it through, and now you’re paying the price. Tell Barack Obama we need to repeal Obamacare and start over.” Use Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) 18%‘s clip that they had to pass the law to find out what was in it. Democrats passed this law over Republican objections. They drafted it. They screwed it up. Make them own it. If Republicans do not do this we can be assured that (1) they are interested in fixing Obamacare, not repealing it and (2) are political and moral cowards. - : Erick Erickson  I had to post the whole thing ... sorry.  Bets, anyone?

A well behaved gun ...

Tails of the Gun (Hot Linked)

oday I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 30.06 right in the doorway.  I left 6 cartridges beside it, and then went about my business. While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front of my house. After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was still sitting there, right where I had left it. It hadn't moved itself outside. It certainly hadn't killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had presented to do so.In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself. Well, you can imagine my surprise, with all the hype by the Left and the Media about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people. Either the media is wrong or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world.The United States is 3rd in Murders throughout the World. But if you take out just 4 cities: Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, and New Orleans, the United States is 4th from the bottom in the entire world for murders. These 4 Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the U.S. ALL 4 of these cities are controlled by Democrats. It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data, right? Well, I'm off to check on my spoons. I hear they're making people fat. cuzzin ricky

Smartphone Cancer

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Nietzsche: Ode to a liberal Icon

Liberal Culture

The Nietzschean Concept That Explains Today’s PC Culture There once was a fellow named Nietzsche Who was generaly quite filled with der shitsy  But he was also a Packer  And as middle line baker  He was one real son-of-a-bitchky ‘God,” Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared, “is dead.” God, it has been noted, made a similar yet more lasting pronouncement about Nietzsche. - Jonah Goldberg But before the German philosopher departed this mortal coil, he had some interesting things to say. Nietzsche argued that one of the most powerful forces in society was “ressentiment.” Similar to the everyday word “resentment,” ressentiment lay at the heart of new kinds of morality. In ancient times, nobility was associated with power. The downtrodden, the poor, the weak, the enslaved were ignoble. Today it is a great sin on college campuses — and elsewhere! — to make anyone other than the ‘privileged’ feel uncomfortable. The masses of have-nots, to use a more modern language, resented their plight for understandable reasons. But they were too weak to launch a real, armed revolution. Instead, the powerless resorted to a moral revolution, assaulting the concepts of nobility, goodness, and morality and rendering them evil in the popular imagination. [...] In 2015, our society is shot through with Nietzschean ressentiment. Today it is a great sin on college campuses — and elsewhere! — to make anyone other than the “privileged” feel uncomfortable, challenged, or otherwise psychologically threatened by the use of the wrong words or concepts. The University of California recently issued a set of guidelines about the terrible danger of “microaggressions” — small, usually unintended slights that allegedly hurt the feelings of the newly anointed classes of victims. One must no longer say that America is a “melting pot,” for to do so is to suggest that minorities should “assimilate to the dominant culture,” according to the new moralists at the University of California. And one mustn’t say anything that advances “the Myth of Meritocracy.” Saying “America is the land of opportunity” or “everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough” is now a form of bigotry. Of course, the surest way to guarantee that America is not a meritocracy is to teach young people not only that it isn’t one, but that it’s evil to say it is, or should be, one. Read on ... Post script:  In 1889, at age 44, Nietzsche suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. The breakdown was later ascribed to atypical general paresis due to tertiary syphilis ... Ahem

Foot Ball Lives

Catharsis

A football Life ... Selected A FOOTBALL LIFE segments .. A Football Life S01E04 Kurt Warner A Football Life Season 04 Episode 06 Doug Flutie A Football Life Season 03 Episode 20 Bill Parcells A Football Life Season 03 Episode 18 Vince Lombardi Part II A Football Life Season 03 Episode 08 Pat Summerall A Football Life Season 04 Episode 11 Lyle Alzado A Football Life Season 04 Episode 05 Eric Dickerson A Football Life S03E02 Don Shula A Football Life Season 03 Episode 07 Michael Strahan ... I'm a Redskin fan first; NFL fan 12th, or so.  Ergo, people like Michael Strayhan, Bill Parcells, or any rat bastard Cowboy are no good.  After watching their life story in the NFL's "A Football Life" series however, I admire the hell out of them all, except Lyle Alzado. I featured the Steve Sabol episode because—well—while I knew who he was, I had no idea how much I'd have liked knowing him.  I liked Doug Flutie before, and like him more now.  Pat Summerall! Watch You don't have to like football to appreciate this series, but you may have to be male.  That's my sense anyway.  You will feel good after watching them, and that's cathartic.

Salt

I watched a great episode of "Modern Marvels" last night..... the title was "Salt" suggest you check it out. Cuzzin Ricky

Bush III

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Great Math Mystery

I think that had I seen this when I was 7 years old, or so, I'd have done my math homework.  But then I would now likely be living in Silicon Valley.  So there'd be that shame.

Help, my scotus is infected.

..... failed to protect SCOTUS Passes on Chance to Set 2A Ruling Right “Despite the clarity with which we described the Second Amendment’s core protection for the right of self-defense, lower courts, including the ones here, have failed to protect it.” Justice Clarence Thomas Not exactly profiles in courage, but the Supreme Court declined to review two lower court rulings upholding San Francisco's draconian gun control laws. The Associated Press reports, "The court on Monday let stand court rulings in favor of a city measure that requires handgun owners to secure weapons in their homes by storing them in a locker, keeping them on their bodies or applying trigger locks. A second ordinance bans the sale of ammunition that expands on impact, has 'no sporting purpose' and is commonly referred to as hollow-point bullets." Of course, in DC v. Heller, the Supreme Court struck down a requirement about locking down a firearm in the home, saying the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep a "lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense." So by declining to hear this case, the justices are allowing a patchwork of wrong interpretations of its ruling to stand. As Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, "Despite the clarity with which we described the Second Amendment’s core protection for the right of self-defense, lower courts, including the ones here, have failed to protect it." Furthermore, they're passing on an opportunity to clarify the most important point of all: The Second Amendment is not "for sporting purposes." The ban on hollow-point ammunition is beyond asinine, but the justices can't be bothered to fire anything but blanks. This post was in my queue when life so rudely interrupted on June 8.  It seemed important.  Now it seems like blah-blah-blah.  What else is new?  Sigh.

24

cinema à la carte

24

The CBS series Blue Bloods became so inculcated into our daily routine that we actually felt real loss when finished.  What could possibly replace it?  Nothing.  However, since we are likely the only two people on the planet to never watch a minute of 24 (Mo Sup said her work people thought her weird when she was unable to join the water cooler discussions),  we logged onto season one (streaming Amazon).   And we are (tenuously) hooked.   Why tenuously? Last night we watched episodes six and seven.  Jack warns the hospital that date-raped and car struck Janet York is in danger. The girl, just out of life saving surgery, is in the ICU.  Her imposter father is allowed to visit her—unattended.   I said ICU (Intensive Care Unit), where her every breath and heart beat are telemetered. He promptly smothers her into a flat line with nary a warning beep.  And then he dawdles around, convincing Teri to go for a ride with him. I said we're hooked, but that was only the most egregious of several poorly scripted  Perils of Pauline moments—so far—that make me wonder. And yes, this is the most important thing in my life this morning.

UPDATE- DAY 5    It's Wednesday morning .  We have now watched thirteen hours.  That pretty much says it all.  Hooked.  At least on season one. What wins here is that, like the serial films of my yoot (Flash Gordon, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Captain Midnight ....),  I am compelled to watch the next episode.  Or, more accurately, Mother Superior demanded it and I was very happy to go along.  There are great villains, and there is retribution.  I seem to remember people complain that there comes season when 24 goes flat, but then gets it back on track the following season.  We'll pick up on episode 14 tonight, and I shall hope to see Alberta have her hair pulled out by Nina.

The Big Itch Is A Bitch

Been itching to see you Previously As an aside, I've had a poison ivy rash that will match or surpass anything you'll see in this gallery.   My Doc put me on 2 weeks of  steroids a few days ago. (May 28) It morphed into contact dermatitis, which sounds a lot more benign than it feels. Sumbitch moved to my first dance partner (left palm) on Friday.  By yesterday was so swollen I could not close my fist.  Hurt like a sob. Right arm throbbed enough that I had to take some Percocet.  MoSup drove me to the ER.  They had to cut my wedding ring off —to which I quipped, to nobody's apparent amusement, "I can go the singes bar again!."  Last night I slept for 6 hours (my Fit Bit logs sleep/restlessness).  That's the most night sleep I've had in a month.  Been averaging 2-3 hours. Took a three hour nap already too.  Moral:  None that I can think of, off-hand; sht happens.  Thanks for the well wishing.

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Q. Would you shoot a rabid dog about to bite your child?

The Right Thing I would agree to shoot dead any American who I knew with certainty had joined ISIS Yes, In a heartbeat if it's legalNo, I'd call Eric Holder for guidance pollcode.com free polls Hours before his fatal encounter with anti-terrorism officers, Usaamah Rahim told an associate he was switching from plans to behead a conservative blogger to assaults on the "boys in blue." Rahim, who officials believe was radicalized by ISIS, referred to his planned act of jihad against police officers in coded language -- "going on vacation," he said, according to an FBI affidavit. The 26-year-old security guard's so-called vacation ended in a hail of bullets Tuesday. FBI and Boston police officers tailing him suspected he was about to launch an attack. An associate, David Wright, 25 ... Blah-Blah Blah ISIS in the United States.  There is no doubt, no argument, and no pasty-face denial that any American recruited by ISIS understands that he/she is expected to kill American citizens on American soil in the most horrific way possible.  ERGO, I am proposing that any known recruit be put on wanted dead or alive status.  See him... Kill him.

Courageous Bruce Jenner

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Still Dickless

Catharsis          WHITE MAN COMES OUT OF CLOSET AS 'BLACK' Gets asked immediately: 'Do you hate the cops?'

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Women Packing Iron

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Last women wash out of Ranger School Biology: 1 Political Correctness: 0 [...] For those who aren’t familiar with the course, it is 61-days of intense stress, sleep deprivation, lack of food and any other item that could conceivably make life at the bottom of Maslow’s Heirarchy not a challenge, and general suck. The graduation rate is a [deleted]-hair above 50% but this masks the fact that 37% of all graduates have to repeat at least one phase. So 61-days is really a best case and most graduates spend closer to 75-days in the course. One of my officers started the course three times before finally completing it as distinguished honor graduate. One hardly knows what the Army was thinking. If physical standards aren’t radically changed for women, and Bruce Jenner isn’t in the class, human physiology in terms of muscle mass, weight, bone structure, and upper body strength indicate that few, if any, birth-women (I guess we have to start using this now to be clear) can pass the program. Personally, I was betting the Army would fold like a cheap suit. When the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says: “Importantly, though, if we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?” The remaining eight female Ranger School candidates failed the first phase of the U.S. Army’s elite infantry program, the Army said in a statement late Friday. Of the eight women, five were kicked out of training. Three others will be allowed to start over from the beginning of the first phase of Ranger School. Those three will start class on June 21. The Army said in a statement that 29 students failed to meet the standards of phase one, also known as the Darby Phase. A vast majority of the students who are being dropped from the course were unable to successfully lead a patrol. All students received multiple opportunities to lead a patrol as a squad or team leader, the Army said. And, of course, the reason we would be questioning that is that any woman’s career is much more important than any number of bodies left strewn about a battlefield. Much to my surprise, the Ranger cadre have held firm to the macro-standards. Of the 19 women in the first class, eleven did not complete the first four days, the Ranger Assessment Program — what used to be known as City Phase, of the course. At the end of the Darby Phase, the remaining eight women were recycled having failed to meet the standard necessary to move on to Mountain Phase at Camp Frank D. Merrill in Dahlonega, Georgia. At the end of the recycle period, five of the remaining eight women were dropped from the course. Three were allowed to start with a new class from Day One. This would entail retaking the Ranger Assessment Program. [The full SNAFU] Don't even start.  There is nobody on this blog who loves women more than me, but puh-leeez!  I am forever and  adamantly against throwing our women into combat roles for the obvious sexist (yes, it is technically sexist) reasons—which necessitate letting women cadets at West Point parade with lightweight wood replicas of the rifles the man carry—as I'm told they did; and all the rest the the Patsy Schroederization We Are Woman crap.  But even more importantly, cloistering women with men on long combat tours, especially aboard ships, creates unnecessary tensions plus morale and disciplinary problems.  You know very well what I mean. We don't have to so this.