Month: May 2020
A Plug for Someone on Our Side of the Culture Wars
Tyler Cook, my friend over at The Portly Politico, is having a sale of his music at his site. Even though I’m a country music guy I think it’s my duty to provide a link to show my solidarity for non-Leftist arts of all kind. If you are a music lover and feel so inclined check out his link and see if it’s your kind of sound
03MAY2020 – American Greatness – Post of the Day – Bound and Gagged by the Bugmen
Someone pseudo-named L0m3z has a post about SJW double talk or as he references it bug speak. He makes his point but what really makes this worth reading is his quote from the “Zaphorian Cossack’s Letter to Sultan Mehmed IV.” That scurrilous obscene screed to the Ottoman sultan is downright hilarious. And Lom3z is using it as an example of non-bug speak such as he highlights in President Trump’s straightforward way of speaking and writing. You owe it to yourself to read the details of the Cossacks’ history with the sultan. It makes you proud to be a free man to know that such courage and creative obscenity has been passed down to us through history. Take a look at the famous painting celebrating the momentous writing of the letter. It does my heart good.
I’ll conclude with the conclusion of the Letter, “Now we’ll conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t own a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!”
Mika Brzezinski Versus Joe Biden, Clash of the Mindless
I was watching a video clip of Joe Biden being “grilled” by Mika Brzezinski over why he would not allow a search through his document archive of sealed Senate records at the University of Delaware. I suppose in some sense there is some importance in the outcome of the “investigation” of Tara Reade’s assault charges against Biden. Biden was categorical during the Kavanaugh investigation that a woman must be believed when she makes a charge of sexual harassment. And he made it perfectly clear that in his mind Title IX demanded that any man in a college that was accused of sexual “crimes” should have all his rights to due process stripped away by the college administration and be subjected to summary expulsion at the whim of any woman who chooses to make an accusation.
For those reasons I guess I should enjoy watching Brzezinski ask Biden over and over and over why he won’t allow his archive to be searched for evidence on Tara Reade. But it’s just so painful to have to listen to the two of them monotonously make the same points endlessly. It’s like one of those Three Stooges routines where two hoodlums have overpowered Moe and Larry and are preparing to beat Curley to a pulp but somehow he and one of the gangsters get tangled up and are both wearing one half of a coat, each one of them has an arm in one sleeve and so Curley will swing and punch the other assailant and as the force of the blow pivots him around the guy he punched swings and hits the guy in the coat with him. And the force of that blow pivots Curley back around again and he punches the same guy again. This goes on ad infinitum until both gangsters are beaten to a pulp. As humorous as this might be the first couple of times, after that it starts to get annoying.
I’ll give Biden credit. In his present state of demented senility, I wouldn’t have thought it possible for him to keep track of the argument. Granted they were the exact same words repeated over and over but based on what I’ve seen of Joe lately I assumed he would have been worn down and just started going into details of his assault on Reade and tried to justify it based on his importance as a Senator and her job description. But somehow, he managed to repeat his talking points with only short lapses into incoherence. Not once did he drool or stick his finger in his ear. It was a virtuoso performance.
As for Brzezinski, I can’t stand looking or listening to her. Everything she says and does is painful to sit through. I consider her to be one of the stupidest or the most dishonest individuals in media. It’s got to be one or the other and possibly it could be both. But looking at her vapid face while she parrots whatever drivel she’s been handed is just too much for me. When I started writing the Morning Shmoe parodies of Scarborough and Brzezinski I tried to make Lycra Spandexy as over the top as I possibly could. But I don’t think I ever made her more absurd than the almost-real-world model she was based on.
And so, it was astonishing to me to note that I was rooting for Creepy Uncle Joe to somehow manage to escape from the mindless hectoring of Mika/Lycra. I could hear myself thinking, “No Creepy Joe, don’t get your arm tangled up in that coat with her. Don’t slip on that banana peel. Put your hand between your eyes before they get poked!”
It’s such a strange world. In a sensible world I’d want Biden, Brzezinski and Jim Comey to be eaten by zombies searching for their non-existent brains. Or at least I’d like to see them performing the work their talents qualified them for, namely picking up trash on the side of a highway with a pointed stick while wearing an orange jumpsuit. But we live in a fallen world. So, I guess it’s a good thing when MSNBC and Joe Biden are at an impasse as to which is stupider.
03MAY2020 – Quote of the Day
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
P. G. Wodehouse
03MAY2020 – Photo of the Day
02MAY2020 – OCF Update
Apologies for the silence on the site today. I fell ehind on some urgent chores and had to do some catching up. Things will be returning to normal momentarily. One unfortunate circumstance has become apparent. Unless you are an especial fan of the weeping cherry tree the “Photo of the Day” in the merry, merry month of May may have a few too many photos of this flowerful tree. I seem to have gone a bit overboard. My apologies.
Here’s a quick photo for the update. It’s a photo stack and I learned that shiny things can cause issues for stacking software. Look closely at the edge of the watch and you’ll see some digital schmutze that happens when things get too right.
Anyway, I*’ll get busy trying to be incisive, mordant, relevant, scathing, ironic and droll.
02MAY2020 – Photo of the Day
02MAY2020 – Quote of the Day
Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? The answers to these questions have, for centuries, given rise to considerable dispute and, indeed, bitter fighting. Yet, in my own mind there can be no doubt that in both cases a dispassionate consideration can only lead to a negative answer.
Albert Einstein
Friday Always Seems a Little More Optimistic
Yesterday I commented on William Barr’s lack of concrete progress in prosecuting the cabal of Deep State actors in the intelligence agencies that had tried to pull off a coup in 2017. I was feeling pretty depressed about the whole thing. Maybe it was a combination of being part of the ridiculous blue state cower-in-place strategy over the Wuhan flu and knowing just how much damage that policy has caused to millions of people across the country. But today in the light of day and with a weekend coming up to enjoy I feel a little less gloomy.
After all I think about the things, I can be grateful for. One of those things is Joe Biden. If you could choose anyone to be the Democrat contender in a presidential race could you find anyone better than Creepy Uncle Joe? If you go over his resume it’s simply breathtaking. Here’s a man who comes ready made with quotes, video footage and democratic personnel who go on record disparaging his intelligence, his competence and most importantly his ethics. Think of what can be done with hair sniffing, shoulder kneading, head nuzzling footage and a quote of what Tara Reade says Joe did to her back when she worked for him. I can only imagine that will have a chilling effect on the suburban professional women’s vote in November. I no longer think the Justice Department will do anything about Hunter Biden but what’s already out there should be enough to allow plenty of linkage to the whole China story. Between the Wuhan flu and the past administration’s complicity in the off-shoring of American jobs to China it should be a very useful exercise to tie Sleepy Joe to China. And finally, how easy will it be to take a few minutes of Joe’s verbal gaffes and nonsensical utterances to convince any but the most committed ideologues that Joe should be in an assisted living space and not the Oval Office.
And as the reports from various medical experts keep coming in it becomes easier to look beyond the confines of my blue state lockdown bubble and realize that for a large majority of the country, life will be returning to comparative normalcy very soon and with the help of the federal stimulus money economic recovery will be dramatic in many parts of the nation. And that recovery will be exactly the right scenario to highlight the goals that the President stands, a strong American economy based on industrial capacity within the United States. This can be contrasted to the Democrat strategies of elite prosperity coupled with universal unemployment underwritten by tech oligarchs who allow the poor to subsist on a UBI that robs their lives of dignity, purpose and hope. And looking at the champions of this Orwellian future, at the Bernie Sanders’ and AOC’s of the democratic world, it looks easier and easier to provide the contrast needed to allow the voters the chance to choose. Admittedly the American voting population is not uniformly rational and in fact there are whole swaths of people, especially in the blue states that will jump at the chance to institute the UBI and the Green New Deal. But in the final analysis the Electoral College should still have sufficient actual Americans with enough intelligence to choose sanity instead of Democrats.
So, forgive my dark mood of yesterday and take heart. President Trump is still in charge of the executive branch and William Barr isn’t the last word on justice and if he doesn’t get the job done he will be replaced by a less timid soul and I can still hope to see James Comey wearing the old timey striped pajamas working on that chain gang and using a sledge hammer to break the big ones into little ones. O Brother, where art thou.