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We remember Otis Redding (1941-67)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/8/2025 10:16:00 PM

                  We remember Otis Redding who was born on this day in 1941.  He was killed in an accident in late 1967.            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.                                     

1893: First Lady Frances Cleveland had a baby.

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/8/2025 10:02:00 PM

        Here is a story about a baby named Esther born to President and Mrs. Cleveland.  She remains the only child of a President born in the White House.     The little girl became an instant celebrity. The couple had another daughter, Ruth.   She was born between his two presidential terms.        We remember that Mr Cleveland was elected in 1884, defeated in 1888 and reelected in 1892.     He, and President Trump, are the only men elected, defeated and elected again.    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 8th Air Force And Islam In Europe

K T Cat
9/4/2025 4:57:39 AM

I know this is a detour from my series on Be Nice, Don't Judge in the Diocese of San Diego, but I just got a brain wave on a topic I've been pondering for years.What will the world be like for us when Europe and Canada become Islamic? Given demographic trends, we're on track for that. What if the end result is a 1950s America where we prosper because our competition has been bombed into the Stone Age and we're the only ones with a functional, advanced economy? The analogy isn't perfect as we would share the spoils with Asia in a way we didn't in the 1950s, but the idea might be the same.Is there a difference between the 8th Air Force and Islam?Think about this: there isn't a single Muslim country where there are[...]

Who Are The Marginalized? Not You

K T Cat
9/3/2025 6:24:16 AM

After Bishop Devouring Mother smothered us with treacle at the recent Synodality Meeting, we got another earful about the marginalized from the pulpit on Sunday.Who are the marginalized? Well, the homeless, the addicts, the migrants, the LGBTQWERTY crew, non-whites and women in general.Recently, an illegal got a trucker's license from a deep blue state where they love the marginalized. Illiterate and ignorant of traffic laws or signs, he made a U-turn on an expressway from the right-hand lane and killed three people.  Illegal took the lives of three people by making an illegal U-Turn with a truck in Florida on Tuesday.Harjinder Singh faces state charges thenll be deported.He entered the US illegally in 2018 and got his[...]

It's different this time

W.C. Varones
8/11/2025 9:23:05 AM

No, really. It is.        

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?

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,[...]

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[...]

Media Becomes More Unhinged as Trump Continues to Fire Government Workers 

Leslie Eastman

Media drama ensures after Trump admin fires 8 EPA employees over "letter of dissent."The post Media Becomes More Unhinged as Trump Continues to Fire Government Workers first appeared on Legal Insurrection.