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Shes my little Musk coupe

Silvio Canto, Jr.
3/17/2025 5:00:00 AM
Shes my little Musk coupe: All of a sudden, I want to buy a Tesla. Not really. Its a great car but my paid-for, practical Ford is doing everything that a car should do. In the meantime, its easy to see why so many people are fond of looking to buy a Musk Mobile. ...  Click to read:    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/she_s_my_little_musk_coupe.html      The mighty Tesla, once the pride of the college professors invested in climate change and committed to saving us from fossil fuels, is now the latest exhibit of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Who saw that coming? Who sees anything coming anymore? Its like The Twilight Zone and The— Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) March 17, 2025

Happy # 81 to John Sebastian

Silvio Canto, Jr.
3/17/2025 4:28:07 AM

          Happy birthday to a great songwriter and the leader of The Lovin' Spoonful, a great band from the 1960's. Later, John went solo and recorded "Welcome back Kotter", a # 1 song and theme music for the very popular TV show.   I think that I have my "Best of...." vinyl LP somewhere in a box.   "Darling be home soon" was one of my favorite songs.  Happy birthday John        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. 

       

Adventures In The Middle East And London

K T Cat
3/16/2025 9:07:07 AM

Back when I started this blog, I was a Wall Street Journal Republican. If the Party said it, it was true. If I read it in the WSJ, I believed it. R was good, D was bad.I still carry a lot of that around with me, but in one respect, I can see now that George W Bush's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan were not only doomed to fail, but our experts should have known they were doomed to fail.The Wrong MetricsIn the West, we use metrics like GDP, Per Capita Income, education statistics and the size of our militaries to gauge how well we are doing. We assume everyone else does the same. When we went into Afghanistan and then Iraq, we figured that once we gave the residents elections, electricity, money and schools, they'd fall in love[...]

Kumeyaay Orthodontia And The Canadian Residential Schools

K T Cat
3/14/2025 11:54:53 AM

The Kumeyaay are an Indian tribe local to the San Diego area. There are still a few of them around, probably maintaining their timeless culture and heritage by running a casino.At the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, who undoubtedly brought with them some delicious flan, the Kumeyaay were paleolithic savages, just like all the other Indians who lived in North America. That would include the Indians who lived in Canada. They didn't have writing, the wheel, domesticated pack animals or even Bic ball point pens. As I said in a post from long ago, "I'll bet dentistry with rocks as surgical implements was a big hit with the locals here in San Diego, circa 1490 AD."In Canada, circa 1890 or so, they had to figure out just what[...]

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:   

Who made who?

W.C. Varones
12/14/2024 7:42:37 PM

ChatGPT caught lying to developers to save itself from being shut down.       All is proceeding as Stephen King, AC/DC, and Emilio Estevez have foretold:           UPDATE: The Google Bot Overlords do not like this post.   

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[...]

Book Review: Israel and Civilization by Josh Hammer 

Leslie Eastman

The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West.The post Book Review: Israel and Civilization by Josh Hammer first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Five Years Later, NY Times Op-Ed Demands Pandemic Amnesty for Scientists Who Attacked Covid Lab Leak Theory 

Leslie Eastman

Columnist Zeynep Tufekci blames those of us who endeavored to bring up the evidence related to the lab-leak origin, because she didn't like our tone.The post Five Years Later, NY Times Op-Ed Demands Pandemic Amnesty for Scientists Who Attacked Covid Lab Leak Theory first appeared on Legal Insurrection.