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We remember Lee May (1943-2017)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
3/22/2023 11:00:00 PM

      We remember Lee May who was born in Alabama on this day in 1943.   He died in 2017.  May was a quiet power hitter of the 1970s.    Overall, Lee hit 354 HR  with 1,244 RBI and a .267 batting average. He started with the Reds and hit behind Johnny Bench in that power lineup:   111 HR & 302 RBI over a 3-year stretch Then he went to Baltimore and hit behind Ken Singleton:  387 RBI over 4 years. He played for the Reds in the 1970 World Series and for the Orioles in 1979.Lee May played with lots of class.   He let the bat do the talking and it did a lot of that        P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our[...]

The story of World War I, part 2, with Barry Jacobsen

Silvio Canto, Jr.
3/22/2023 10:01:00 PM

                              THURSDAY: The story of World War I, part 2, with Barry Jacobsen.....      P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.   

Chat GPT Version 4

K T Cat
3/20/2023 5:03:52 PM
 ... is simply unreal.ChatGPT rolled out a completely new version of their product and I've been playing with it, writing Arthurian fanfic and working on my Hardy Boys takeoff. It is simply unreal. It has a prompt limit and you can only ask it for 25 things every 4 hours. Thank God for that or I would never leave my study.I've been experimenting with it to understand how to make better prompts and keeping a file of character descriptions for my novel. As I work with it and then correct it, I refine the characters so the AI produces the story I have in my mind. It's simply fabulous. So far, I've been working with four characters, using dialog vignettes to correct it and add to my file where I keep their[...]

The Streets Of The Mullahs' San Francisco

K T Cat
3/18/2023 3:18:25 PM
Once you see it, our evolution into Iran with the way the woke progressives continually choose fidelity to their insane religion over practicality, you can't stop seeing it. Dig this thread about a CNN crew getting robbed in San Francisco while they were there to do a story about crime in San Francisco. You can't make this stuff up.Here's the payoff.  Bc so many people get their cars broken into and their bags stolen, SouthwestAir was very used to my lack-of-ID problem and smoothly gave me my ticket after a brief security check. Off to TSA now. pic.twitter.com/fDnfF1loRF Kyung Lah (KyungLahCNN) March 17, 2023   How hopelessly screwed up does your city have to be for your airport to find it natural that[...]

Maybe teaching racial division and hatred wasn't such a good idea after all

W.C. Varones
2/3/2023 7:04:10 PM
Doctor cycling in California run down, stabbed by driver screaming about white privilege: A doctor cycling along the Pacific Coast Highway in California was mowed down by a driver who then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the cyclist to death while screaming white privilege slurs. Dr. Michael Mammone, 58, of Laguna Beach, was on his bike in Dana Point when he was struck by the driver of a white Lexus. The driver allegedly sped through a red light at an intersection before running over Mammone on Wednesday afternoon, KABC reported. He then jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed the victim multiple times in the back before bystanders tackled him to stop the attack.

Mmmkay....

W.C. Varones
9/1/2022 4:31:22 PM
President who usurped Congressional spending authority to issue an executive order handing out hundreds of billions of dollars right before an election will lecture nation on "threats to democracy."

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

The Los Angeles union chiefs holding education of 500,000 Californian schoolkids to ransom

As for SEIU99 Executive Director Max Arias, he promoted a march to Defund the Police and re-invest in schools in 2020. At a rally on Monday, Arias led picketers in a chant of 'no justice, no peace' ...

The War on Wokeness Is the Luxury Belief of the Right Opinion

The Left has its luxury beliefs, like open borders and Defund the Police. But so does the Right, and it's the war on wokeness.

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Equal Protection Project Files Opposition to Biden Education Dept. Rule Rescinding Trump-Pence Campus Religious Protections 

James Nault

Proposal would remove Trump-Pence era regulation mandating that higher education treat campus religious groups and secular groups equallyThe post Equal Protection Project Files Opposition to Biden Education Dept. Rule Rescinding Trump-Pence Campus Religious Protections first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Report: FBI Mole Known as One-Eye Would Tip Off Hunter About Any China Probes 

Mary Chastain

Claims come from a man awaiting extradition to the U.S. on arms charges. He said: DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim, and Hunter Biden. Shall I name names?The post Report: FBI Mole Known as One-Eye Would Tip Off Hunter About Any China Probes first appeared on Legal Insurrection.