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We remember Glen Campbell (1936-2017)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/22/2025 12:00:00 AM

          We remember Glen Campbell, who was born in Arkansas on this day in 1936.      He died in 2017. Campbell had a ton of country and pop hits:

  Glen Campbell....Greatest Hits... https://t.co/YfLjlhQxMB via amazon  Silvio Canto, Jr. (SCantojr) April 21, 2018

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1978: The Blue Brothers made their debut on "Saturday Night Live"

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/21/2025 11:44:44 PM

      Who knew?   I loved those early seasons of Saturday Night Live.   I guess that I'm talking about 1975-80On this day in 1978,  The Blues Brothers made their first appearance on Saturday Night Live and the rest is history.    They had 3 top-40 hits (Soul Man, Rubber Biscuit and Gimme Some Lovin'),  a #1 pop album (Briefcase Full of Blues) and a 1980 film, "The Blues Brothers".To say the least, one of the most hilarious and funniest acts of the late 1970s. 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 Easter

K T Cat
4/20/2025 7:45:01 AM

 I hope you and yours are having a blessed and peaceful Easter today.ChatGPT has made some dramatic improvements to its algorithms lately, most importantly dealing the the way it organizes its memories of your requests and increasing the amount it remembers. The results have been most satisfying.It has improved image processing now, too. The results rival that of Gemini. Superior to Gemini is the way you can discuss how the background processes work and how you can make your prompts more efficient and more effective.I spent some time trying to get my older, Southern man and his cat enjoying coffee and the bayou sunrise while awaiting the women at Jesus' empty tomb, but didn't receive anything I really liked. Oh well,[...]

The Women Running Ireland

K T Cat
4/18/2025 7:29:07 AM
 ... are allowing, nay, encouraging, mass migration into the Emerald Isle from the Middle East and Africa with utterly predictable results.  Before the Conor McGregor interview is aired later on today, here's a reminder of what's happening in Ireland. Over 300 migrant plantations have been forced into communities across the country. Ireland is unrecognizable. pic.twitter.com/gHUcBzMtxx MichaeloKeeffe (Mick_O_Keeffe) April 18, 2025   My AI session discussing pathological femininity seems to be spot on about why this is happening. Assuming a pathologically feminine culture of Irish Elites, here's what you get.1. Emotional Compassion Replacing Loyalty to Ones OwnThe Irish Elites, infected by pathological[...]

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[...]

UK Gynecologists Report Rise in Flesh-Eating Infections of the Vulva 

Leslie Eastman

A recent report from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust detailed three women hospitalized with vulvar necrotizing fasciitis; one died less than 28 hours after diagnosis.The post UK Gynecologists Report Rise in Flesh-Eating Infections of the Vulva first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Texas Residents Opposed Permit for Recycling Facility, Recently Destroyed in Massive, Fume-Filled Blaze 

Leslie Eastman

While there were plenty of "carbon emissions" from this blaze, there is also a history of air quality complaints related to Silver Creek Materials. prior to the fire.The post Texas Residents Opposed Permit for Recycling Facility, Recently Destroyed in Massive, Fume-Filled Blaze first appeared on Legal Insurrection.