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Happy # 78 Reggie Jackson

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/18/2024 1:30:00 AM

      We say happy birthday to Reggie Jackson, who was born in Pennsylvania on this day in 1946.Jackson came up with the A's in 1967 and put together quite a career:   561 HR, 1,701 RBI, AL MVP 1973, 18 HR in 77 post-season games and 3 HR in game 6 of the 1977 World Series.Jackson was selected to the Hall of Fame in 1993.    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.         

Happy # 72 George Strait

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/18/2024 1:00:00 AM

                We say happy birthday to George Strait, the modern king of country.            He's sold over 100 million records and hit the # 1 spot 60 times.   His farewell concert in Dallas drew over 100,000 fans         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.           

The Jenga Tower Of Sex

K T Cat
5/17/2024 4:01:09 PM

Recently, I read an excellent essay by L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright called Losing the Sexual Revolution. She's a woman in despair, looking at the fallen Jenga tower of modern romance and relationships. Here's a tidbit.It is finally official. We have lost the sexual revolution...Watching all the peoples, around the globe, who bought into Feminism and Free Love stop reproducing is one of the greatest proofs of the existence of the Powers of Darkness I have ever seen.I look at the result, the lack of support for men, the misery of women, the unhappiness of children, and I throw up my hands and admit defeat.I surrender.But I find myself left wondering, what now?How do we go back to a society that honors chastity and[...]

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[...]

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 on Kempsville HS baseball team no surprise to NAACP leader

A safe and welcoming environment in all schools and on all teams thats the new assignment for Virginia Beach City Public Schools days after longstanding racist activities within the Kempsville High ...

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.

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.

The Late Republic 

William A. Jacobson

"The Late Republic, between 200-27 BCE, was defined by the collapse of the system of government."The post The Late Republic first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Sonoma State U. President Retires After Being Put on Leave for Agreeing to Boycott Israel 

Mary Chastain

President Mike Lee was on administration leave for agreeing with the anti-Israel mob "without the appropriate approvals."The post Sonoma State U. President Retires After Being Put on Leave for Agreeing to Boycott Israel first appeared on Legal Insurrection.