Month: July 2025

One Step Closer to Firing Books and Capon

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That bill that would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by extension NPR and PBS has moved past a big hurdle on the Senate floor.  So the fear at the NY Times is palpable.

This Is Why America Needs Public Media

Good!

“Republicans complain, not always wrongly, that public media reflects left-leaning assumptions and biases. And they can fairly tell NPR and PBS to do a better job of reflecting the citizenry that is subsidizing them. Yet the “national” part of NPR (or National Public Radio, as it used to call itself) that chafes conservatives may well be just fine without federal funds. Only about 2 percent of its budget comes directly from the federal government, and it may have an easier time raising money from its many dedicated listeners if Congress punishes it.”

They can’t make up their minds.  Is the government funding insignificant or critical?  Well, let’s find out!

The Lunatics are Running the Asylum in Minnesota

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Alleged Minnesota shooter confessed to killings in letter to FBI director

This is a transcript of what was in the confession letter that Minnesota political assassin Vance Boelter left in his car when he ran away from police.

“Dear Kash Patel,

My name is Dr. Vance Luther Boelter Ed.D. I am the shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the east 12 shootings the morning of Saturday June 15th at approximately 2:30 am and 3:30 am and maybe others. I will probably be dead by the time you read this letter. I wanted to share some info with you that you may find interesting.

I was trained by U.S. Military people off the books starting in college. I have been on projects since that time in Eastern Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. All in the line of duty, what I thought was right and in the best interest of the United States.

Recently I was approached about a project that Tim Walz wanted done, and ___ and Keith ___ was also aware of the project. Tim wanted me to kill Amy Klobuchar and then ___ to retire as planned.

Tim wants to be a senator and he doesn’t trust ___ to retire as planned, and plans so I was to stay at the best motel with Amy ___ gave Tim would get one of the open senate seats, and ___ was to be gov, and Keith Ellison would be rewarded with a high governor’s position.

I told Tim I wasn’t willing to do with it and if he didn’t call off that plan I would go public. He said he would call it hurt my family if I didn’t play ball. Then he set up a meeting with me and Mel ___ and ___ to talk about jobs. When I arrived they had some people waiting to kill me. I was able to get away by God’s mercy. So I went back a short time later and shot battled with ___ ___.

You should know how I didn’t fire one round at any peace officers and boy did I have plenty of opportunity. Ask for the report on how my weapons and ammunition I had with me.

Cops were pulling up right next to me in their vehicles and I had an AK rifle armed right at them, hand on ___, I could have took out a pile of cops dead but I didn’t shoot at protect & serve law enforcement. You can ask them. Because I support the police and didn’t want to see them hurt.

But if they are hurting my wife + or kids next time, I won’t give them a pass.

If you think I’m making this up, just get on the phone and tell Tim you have a few questions for him.

Then ask Tim Walz if he knows me and see what he says? If he says he doesn’t know me, never met me, look in the files and you will see that Tim Walz personally approved me to be on his Governor’s workforce. Buildings and elite business representatives. He is probably trying to destroy that info but it’s public record.

Then ask Tim Walz why they kept the shots silent from the media when they first happened. Not a word in the press and it. Why? They needed to get their ___ for strings figured out first so everyone was on the same page about what happened. Tim is probably crapping bricks right now because I’m still at large and he knows what I can document, what I know, what all the buried skeletons are. So I will be shot on sight, you can bet on that.

If you want me to turn myself in, it need to be directly to you and Ben. I need to be held at a military prison + or in Asia or the Middle East, or at least on a ship. These guys have their goons everywhere and can get to anybody, initially over there.

I am willing to spill all the beans. I quit with my family safe. They had nothing to do with this and are totally innocent. This was a one person op.”

Now how do you figure this?  Without a doubt this guy is crazier than a bedbug.  But there’s something very, very fishy going on in the great state of Minnesota.  They must be adding LSD to the drinking water.  This guy claims he can document this madness.  Well, as I said, I’m sure he’s a complete lunatic but there’s more to this than just a single madman on the rampage.  He has a link to Walz that is verifiable.  Is there anything more to this link or is it simply the ravings of a madman?  If there’s more to this maybe by Wednesday there will be some additional documentation of what is going on in the Gopher State.

But let’s assume this is all complete schizophrenia.  Mr. Boelter is just talking to the voices inside his head.  What is a guy like this doing as an appointed official in their state government?  Have they decided that psychosis is a valuable skill for Minnesota state officials to possess?

As I said, something stinks here.  This guy should have been in a looney-bin not sitting on a state government board.  Well, let’s see.

The Boys and I Give Superman (1978) a Try

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Because of the new Superman movie coming out I had a showing of the 1978 Christopher Reeve version for the two younger grandsons.  I was curious to see how they reacted to the somewhat slow startup to this version.  After all I think half the movie is gone before Superman actually dons the suit.  But from all appearances they liked it.

Now the youngest one is a very analytical viewer of science fiction and fantasy so he gave me a short lecture on why kryptonite kills Superman.  Come to think of it he gave me several lectures about various esoteric aspects of the Man of Steel; how he could fly, how he got from one galaxy to another so quickly, why he could never die of old age, how he was able to handle people without killing them by accident.  It was very interesting to find out he had worked out all of these theories in just the time since the beginning of the movie.

I could sense the greatest annoyance with the movie when Lois Lane was on the screen.  Apparently, the love story wasn’t intensely popular with this part of the audience.  But somehow, they soldiered through.  By the time Superman was flying around Earth at ludicrous speed to turn back time and save Lois from death I think they were prepared for the end.  I’m not sure they felt Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor and Ned Beatty as his mentally challenged henchman were sufficiently serious to be credible enemies for Superman.

But by the time the (extremely long) credits were rolling they seemed to forgive some of the weaknesses of the production and wanted to discuss viewing (at least) Superman 2.  Apparently, they wanted to see the return of General Zod after I hinted that he was much more formidable a foe than Luthor.  So maybe we’ll have a second Superman feature this month.

It was funny seeing this movie for the first time in forty-seven years.  What struck me most was how odd Margot Kidder was as Lois.  The rest of the actors and actresses came across as much more professional.  Kidder seemed almost like a fish out of water.  Maybe that was the vibe they were going for.  Probably the worst acting and dialog was Marlon Brando as Jor-El; Superman’s Kryptonian father.  All of the exposition and lecturing about his duty to help humans and his fate is a bit boring.  But I guess some introduction is necessary to establish how he ends up as the man flying around in the suit.

My impression of Christopher Reeve in the movie is very positive.  He brings enormous likeability to the character and he does the comedy part of the role very deftly.  As far as the special effects in the film, this was 1978.  All of the effects are non-CGI.  To a modern audience some of them are less than overwhelming.  There is a scene where Superman is causing an avalanche to stop a flooded river from washing away a town.  But the scene is so obviously done with a miniature set using some sand and pebbles that it’s kind of silly.  But that couldn’t be helped back then.

All in all, the boys and I gave a thumbs up to Superman (1978).  Now bring on General Zod and “Planet Hooston!”

We’re Fresh Out of “Give a Damn.”

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In the last three weeks there have been two opinion pieces in the New York Times that, to me, acknowledge that the Left’s narrative is starting to become untenable.

The first is called, “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back.” is from a fifty-something divorced career woman bemoaning that men no longer are interested in bringing her out to expensive restaurants.  She goes through this whole long description of a scene in one of these restaurants where all the patrons are women either in groups or alone and men aren’t present at all.  We hear all about how men used to value escorting “high-status” women out into society to signal their own high status as the possessor of such a trophy.  She finishes up with an embarrassing plea for all the good men to come back and be of service to her.

The second one is called, “Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?” and is by a woke loser who up until recently gave his brother-in-law the cold shoulder because he didn’t want a COVID vaccine.  His disdain was palpable in his writing and the only reason he relented is because he wanted to take up surfing and his brother-in-law is an excellent surfer and was generous enough not to reciprocate his callous political snobbery.  But the lefty snob makes the whole thing sound as if it’s his enlightened attitude that suddenly allowed him to lower himself to feigning friendship with his wife’s brother.  And all the shots he takes at his brother-in-law.  He’s only a lowly electrician while the writer is an Ivy League graduate and obviously part of the elite few.  He ends by sagely noting that by sharing this surfing hobby he is opening up a space where he can interact with even someone as benighted as this ignorant tradesman, who also happens to be part of his family.

So, what do these two articles tell me about the current state of the Left.  What it seems to signal to me is that the cancel culture they constructed to keep normal people out of their little echo chamber has worked a little too well.  They’ve excluded all the normal people and they’re trapped inside with just the psychopaths that really believe the stuff they’ve been gaslighting the world with.

The women watched one season too many of “Sex and the City” and convinced themselves that they would always be in demand and men would be beating down the doors to squire them around Gotham City for the chance to have geriatric sex with them.  So now instead of being a doting grandmother and spending her golden years with husband and family, she’s a lonely, frustrated single women hoping for some chump to show up and pick up the tab one last time before she checks out of the Hotel California.  They kicked all the men out of their club because they didn’t need them.  They could play girl boss and not need a man to be happy.  That is until they stopped showing up.

The guy with the surfer electrician for a brother-in-law was the typical COVID cancel-culturist.  He says, “Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?  I wasn’t the only one thinking this. A 2021 essay for USA Today declared, “It’s time to start shunning the ‘vaccine hesitant.’” An L.A. Times piece went further, arguing that to create “teachable moments,” it may be necessary to mock some anti-vaxxers’ deaths.”  Pretty close to that female pediatrician who mocked the Texas flood victims because they voted for Trump.

But now this Ivy League genius wants to add some human interest to his boring life and finds out that this rube related to his wife is accomplished at the thing that he wants to do.  And on a dime, he switches on his “live and let live” mode and now we’re all just one big happy family!  Funny how that happens after they lose a big election.  Real funny.

So, the New York Times is hinting that maybe we should “all just get along.”  It’s a funny thing about that.  It’s almost like I don’t care anymore what they want.  They tortured us for four years and called us everything under the sun.  They did everything they could to force us to kowtow to COVID and trans-madness and there is no inflation and “Biden is sharp as a whip” and every other crazy thing they could think of.  And now it’s, “let’s let bygones be bygones.”  Yeah, I don’t think it’s gonna happen.  We’re fresh out of “give a damn.”