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Come Mister Alvin, tally me banana

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/17/2024 5:00:00 AM

            Come Mister Alvin, tally me banana: The world is watching New York City turning into a banana republic.  A lot of investors and job creators are watching too.  They are wondering about their money, and what a partisan AG and DA will do to their investments if they dont...  Click to read:          Come Mister Alvin, tally me banana - American Thinker https://t.co/Ra6uchvDdh Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) May 17, 2024

We remember Cool Papa Bell (1903-1991)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/16/2024 11:30:00 PM

      (You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.)        James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell was born on May 17. 1903 and played his entire career in the Negro Leagues.     He was one of the fastest men ever to play baseball.    Satchel Paige once said this about him:One Time he hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit him sliding into second.He was part of the greatest Negro League teams.  Bell won many  championships with the St Louis Stars, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, and the Homestead Grays.   The 1935 Crawfords featured five future Hall-of-Famers:[...]

Choose: Psychotic Sociopaths Or Cops?

K T Cat
5/14/2024 11:45:14 AM

The gulf between red and blue is growing every day. Dig this charming exchange between a UC Davis professor and a student.  NEW: The pro-Palestine protester who told bourne_beth2345 put a gun in your mouth you piece of sh*t has been identified as ucdavis Professor Seeta Chaganti.I wonder what ucdavis thinks of their professor telling people to kiII themselves and behaving like this. pic.twitter.com/HdEzkC67a0 Libs of TikTok (libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024   I looked up dear, little Seeta and found this.Seeta Chaganti joined the faculty of the UC Davis English department in 2001. She specializes in Old and Middle English poetry and its intersections with material culture. Her first book was The Medieval Poetics of the[...]

When An Unpleasant Thing Is The Right Thing

K T Cat
5/13/2024 5:22:45 PM

I just got back from a sprint to Seattle. It was grueling, painful and beautiful.Our oldest son lives in Seattle. A few years back, we brought him a Korean Mastiff puppy he had acquired from someone in the family. Korean Mastiffs are huge and even as a pup, the brute was too large to take on a plane, so wife kitteh and I drove him up there. It was a total grind without much sleep. Puppies don't let you sleep, after all.Fast forward to today, and the dog, now full-grown had taken ill. For the last year or so, oldest son kitteh has been run ragged by his sick dog. He did everything he could for it, but working full time and taking care of a chronically ill dog proved to be too much for him. He didn't have the heart to put the[...]

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[...]

Racism simmered in a Texas school district. Culture war made it boil.

Journalist Mike Hixenbaughs book They Came for the Schools is a propulsive account of the controversies that swept through a North Texas suburb.

Soccer-FIFA Congress to choose Women's World Cup host, seek racism penalties

Soccer's world body FIFA will decide the 2027 Women's World Cup host at its annual Congress on Friday and discuss a push for strict penalties to stamp out racism and Palestine's pursuit of sanctions ...

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.

Jewish Student at Reed College Struck in the Head by Rock Thrown Through Her Dorm Room Window 

Mike LaChance

"This is a clear act of antisemitism directed at a student on our campus, and that is unacceptable and unlawful behavior"The post Jewish Student at Reed College Struck in the Head by Rock Thrown Through Her Dorm Room Window first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Cause and Effect: Military Enshrines DEI While Recruiting Tanks 

James Nault

A new Air Force "Pride Month" Memo is riddled with Marxist language and "empowers," i.e. strong arms, base commanders to hold base-wide pride events; meanwhile military recruiting woes continueThe post Cause and Effect: Military Enshrines DEI While Recruiting Tanks first appeared on Legal Insurrection.