No surprise that it was cooked up by Baby Boomers.
And as we all should know by now, there's no arguing with adolescents, not even after they've wrecked the family car.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
What P. J. O'Rourke doesn't get is that free individuals would never make babies without hormones
And they'd never make war, either. So O'Rourke's ideal libertarian world of individual freedom would die out first, from failure to reproduce, and then from war. Compulsion is inevitable. You know, like death.
Looks like we're well on our way.
Here:
And what defines a mob? Mobsters. That Cosa Nostra with its code of omertà at the Clinton Foundation. Those "Make America Great Again" Crips and Bloods wearing their colors on their baseball caps with brims bumped to the right.
We should be learning the value of individual liberty from the failure of the elites and the fiasco of their vast political power. Good things are made by free individuals in free association with other individuals. Notice that that's how we make babies.
Individual freedom is about bringing things together.
Politics is about dividing things up.
Elites would have us make babies by putting the woman on this side of the room and the man on that side of the room while the elites stand in the middle taxing sperm and eggs.
The Grauniad complains P. J. O'Rourke's new book is "rural" and "lazy"
One David Runciman, here, who evidently does not know that the old boy has slowed down since he became sick with cancer:
[O'Rourke] operates more in the mould of HL Mencken, one of his heroes, who rarely felt the need to leave his beloved Baltimore in order to lambast the idiocy of his fellow Americans. O’Rourke lives, as it says on the dust jacket, “in rural New England, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get”. This is American politics as viewed from the back room in front of the TV, feet up on the recliner chair. ... O’Rourke forfeits the reader’s patience and simply comes across as lazy.
Dilbert thinks James Comey took one for the American team
Scott Adams, here, who covers all the bases.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Senate Intelligence Committee aide anonymously tries to smear Trump with money laundering
Probably a Democrat aide. Democrats on the committee include Diane Feinstein, Ron Wyden, Martin Heinrich, Angus King (I), Joe Manchin, Kamala Harris and Mark Warner.
Here:
The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to see any information relevant to its Russia investigation the Treasury agency has gathered, including evidence that might include possible money laundering, according to a committee aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. Also at issue: to what extent, if at all, people close to Vladimir Putin have invested in Trump's real estate empire.
Susan Collins proves the old adage that even a broken clock is right twice a day
Here.
When the liberal Republican FBI director loses the support of a Susan Collins, he'd better believe he's had it.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Trump fires Comey from FBI, let's hope he fires Turkey from NATO next
Erdogan, our supposed ally, calls on Muslims to occupy Jerusalem.
Monday, May 8, 2017
Tea Party darling Sen. Ron Johnson of WI introduces massive guest worker/amnesty: 500k annually
The Tea Party was one half open-borders-libertarian from the beginning. That's why it went no farther than it did.
And Wisconsin narrowly reelected Johnson in 2016 why? It was the price we paid for the very narrow Trump victory there.
Story here.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Emmanuel Macron doesn't know how to speak of France, only of Europe and its citizens
Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France, quoted in the story here:
"I know the anger, the anxiety, the doubts that very many of you have also expressed. It's my responsibility to hear them," he said. "I will work to recreate the link between Europe and its peoples, between Europe and citizens." ...
[Marine Le Pen's] tally was almost double the score that her father Jean-Marie, the last far-right candidate to make the presidential runoff, achieved in 2002, when he was trounced by the conservative Jacques Chirac. ...
[A]ny idea of a brave new political dawn will be tempered by an abstention rate on Sunday of around 25 percent, the highest this century, and by the blank or spoiled ballots submitted by 12 percent of those who did vote.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for April 2017
Mean average temperature was 51.9 degrees F in April 2017 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The mean for April back to 1896 is 46.5.
The lowest minimum temperature was 27. The mean for April is 22.
The highest maximum temperature was 81. The mean for April is 79.
Precipitation was 6.27 inches. The mean for April is 3.3. Sixth wettest April on record.
April snowfall was 0.4 inches. The mean for April is 2.3.
Heating degree days came to 391. The mean for April is 553. The total through April from July 2016 comes to 5366 vs. mean to date of 6404.
The heating season to date has been about 16% warmer than normal.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Obama's SECDEF said nukes were an option against North Korea
From the story here:
Last month, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said about an attack on North Korea, “We’ve always had all options on the table… I wouldn’t take any off.” Were North Korea to commence a massive artillery barrage on Seoul, and especially if they used chemical or biological weapons, one potential U.S. response could be nuclear retaliation against Pyongyang and/or their artillery at the border. (Perhaps dialing down the “variable yield” of our B-61 nuclear bombs to reduce radioactive fallout and civilian casualties). As outlandish as this response may seem right now, some U.S. war planners do not think so; it could be considered “proportional” and therefore within the laws of armed conflict. If a nuclear bombing were ordered under Obama–who was widely perceived as thoughtful and hesitant to use force—the world may have been largely willing to listen to his logic. Unfortunately, because much of the international community views President Trump as reactive, even unstable, any such U.S.-initiated action would likely be met by ferocious global condemnation. This perception of our President may be a tactical consideration for our war planners led by the very talented head of Pacific Command, Adm. Harry Harris.
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