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July 1969: Junior Walker, "Honky Tonk Women" and Apollo 11

Silvio Canto, Jr.
7/18/2025 10:03:00 PM

      It's July again and time to remember some of our younger days.      Back in the middle of July 1969, everybody was talking about Apollo 11.  We were glued to the TV for the launch, the moon landing, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon and the successful return to earth.    It was so exciting to be alive that week. Of course, there was also some pretty good music to keep us busy down on the earth.My favorite songs from that summer were "What does it take" by Junior Walker & The All Stars and "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones.        P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look[...]

July 19, 1960: Juan Marichal's debut was a 2-hit 1-0 victory over Phillies

Silvio Canto, Jr.
7/18/2025 10:02:00 PM

                    The great Juan Marichal, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1982, made his major league debut with style in 1960.  He retired the first 19 batters, and carried a no-hitter two outs into the eighth inning.   It was a 2-0 complete game vistory, 12 Ks and just 1 walk.       He finished his rookie season: 6-2 with a 2.66 ERA.      Juan's first game was a sign of things to come:  243-142 and a career ERA of 2.89.  Marichal threw 52 shutouts; 10-time All-Star and was the games MVP in 1965.     Without question, the greatest Latino pitcher ever       [...]

This Isn't Going To Be Like "The Troubles"

K T Cat
7/17/2025 6:50:10 AM

This is going to be an existential fight to the death, brought on us by the faculty lounge and their idiot idea of multiculturalism. In Ireland, it was the Catholics vs. Protestants, fueled by a political power struggle. At their core, both sides had nearly identical belief systems. This sort of thing would have been out of the question.Attempted Islamic honor killing: Two fundamentalist Muslim migrants from Iraq are on trial in Olympia, Wash. over a horrific attack on their teen daughter outside Timberline High School last year. Prosecutors say Ihsan Ali and Zahraa Ali strangled the girl to try to kill her as revenge for her rejecting their plan to marry her off to an older Muslim man in their home country. The girl's[...]

Torre Pacheco?

K T Cat
7/16/2025 12:08:12 PM
Dig this.    I myself had wondered if all the predictions of civil war in England were hyperbolic, but more and more I'm seeing incidents like this one.In Torre Pacheco, Spain, which is 30% migrant, a group of Africans beat up an old man out for a morning walk. The local Spanish lads didn't take too kindly to that and went out for revenge. That got the other Africans riled up and they took to the streets themselves. Given that the population of this Spanish burg of 30,000 is 30% African and that most "migrants" are military-age men, the odds probably favor the Africans when it comes to street fighting.The authorities and their mouthpieces in the legacy media, like Reuters, blamed the violence on the far-right and[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

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,[...]

Depopulation

W.C. Varones
3/31/2025 5:50:52 AM
I meet a lot of very cool 30-ish people who dont seem to be on the path to having kids. Huge mistake. Kids are awesome.Its the circle of life. Its meant to be. Whether you believe in God or not, nature wants you to have kids.All your ancestors had children. Youre going to end a family tradition of millions of years because its inconvenient for your current lifestyle?

Inauguration Day

W.C. Varones
1/20/2025 9:49:56 AM

 Joe Biden right now listening to Trump talk about ending government censorship and the weaponization of justice:   

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[...]

Volcanic Activity Continues at Icelands Fissure Volcano with New Eruption Following Earthquake Swarm 

Leslie Eastman

A continuation of an eruption cycle that began in 2023.The post Volcanic Activity Continues at Icelands Fissure Volcano with New Eruption Following Earthquake Swarm first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Coca-Cola Reportedly Agreed to Make US Sodas with Real Cane Sugar 

Leslie Eastman

Trump announced the potential switch on social media, and it looks like high fructose corn syrup may be the next target of MAHA success.The post Coca-Cola Reportedly Agreed to Make US Sodas with Real Cane Sugar first appeared on Legal Insurrection.