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ChatGPT Is No Fan Of Fan Boats

K T Cat
5/1/2024 12:52:06 PM

 Sorry, Ohioan. I couldn't get a fan boat for love nor money. I did get this image, though.    Meanwhile, as BobbyLee and the General rescue Maxine "Max" Gams, Cat has decided he has had quite enough of the Man with the Golden Cat's henchmen, thank you very much. He's swatted a switch and released poison gas, gas that is, of course, harmless to cats.Good Lord, why can't they just die quietly? These people are intolerable.

AI Storyboard Comedy

K T Cat
4/30/2024 1:25:01 PM

 ... isn't going to be as easy as I'd hoped.I was doing something or other at the computer when the theme song to the Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" popped into my head. Naturally, I changed the lyrics to "The Man with the Golden Cat" and part of my brain asked to be excused, went downstairs into my subconscious and came back a few minutes later with this idea.What about doing a Bond takeoff comedy where the stories are told in the form of storyboard art created by ChatGPT? Each episode or chapter would be a couple of images with a paragraph or two of summary. The comedy would come from the lead character being BobbyLee Bond, James Bond's American cousin from Dixie. He'd be in all the same kinds of settings,[...]

Hard to be a woman south of the border

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/1/2024 5:00:00 AM

            Hard to be a woman south of the border: Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, to paraphrase Tammy Wynette.   Down in Mexico, it's awful to read the crime statistics.  This is the story:According to new figures..  Click to read:              Hard to be a woman south of the border - American Thinker https://t.co/IgpkdbS53g Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) May 1, 2024

1956: "Heartbreak hotel" by Elvis was # 1 this week

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/1/2024 5:58:29 AM

            Elvis recorded this song in January 1956 and it became his first # 1 and gold record.   "Heartbreak hotel" is one of the greatest rock songs of all time.  It launched Elvis and everything that followed, from more gold records to movies.   I learned later that Chet Atkins played guitar and Floyd Cramer the piano in this recording.        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.             

CalPERS Fail

W.C. Varones
8/4/2023 5:59:23 AM
Despite the awesome bull market this year, CalPERS again missed its return target, earning only 5.8% vs. its required 6.8%.CalPERS has missed its return targets for the trailing 1-, 3-, 5-, 15-, and 20-year periods.When CalPERS fails to make its' required returns, California taxpayers are liable for making up the difference for California's uber-generous public pensions.

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[...]

Local elections 2024: The key battlegrounds in Greater Manchester and what to expect

Three councils in Greater Manchester are on a knife-edge as voters go to the polls this week with Andy Burnham's job also up for grabs ...

Bachelor Nations Arie Luyendyk Jr. Admits He Rushed His Vasectomy and Might Want More Kids

Former Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr. admitted he rushed into getting a vasectomy and might want more kids with wife Lauren Burnham ...

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.

Pro-Life Christian Groups Sue NY AG Letitia James Over Political Witch-Hunt 

Mary Chastain

James threatened to sue the collective over supposed misleading statements and lies about abortion pill reversal.The post Pro-Life Christian Groups Sue NY AG Letitia James Over Political Witch-Hunt first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Pro-Hamas Mobs on Campus: Brown Considers Divesting From Israel, Police Breakdown Camps at Wisconsin 

Mary Chastain

Here is another post I'll update through the day with the happenings of the pro-Hamas mobs on campuses across America. In this post: Brown, U. Wisconsin-Madison, Columbia, University of South Florida Tulane. Brown University Brown University caves to the mob and promises to consider divesting...The post Pro-Hamas Mobs on Campus: Brown Considers Divesting From Israel, Police Breakdown Camps at Wisconsin first appeared on Legal Insurrection.