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August 1968: "Classical gas" and other great songs on the radio this week

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/23/2025 11:09:31 PM

                  Mason Williams & others had a big hit on the radio this week in August 1968: 1. People Got to Be Free - The Rascals (Atlantic) 2. Classical Gas - Mason Williams (Warner Brothers) 3. Turn Around, Look at Me - The Vogues (Reprise) 4. Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano (RCA) 5. Hello, I Love You - The Doors (Elektra) 6. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream (Atco) 7. Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension (Soul City) 8. Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan (Epic) 9. Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf (Dunhill) 10. Dream a Little[...]

79 AD: Mount Vesuvius and the end of Pompeii

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/23/2025 10:02:00 PM

                    The eruption of Mount Vesuvius began on this day in 79 AD.   Pompeii was destroyed within the next 25 hours.       Pompeii, about 90 miles south of Rome, was established in 600 BC and n the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.   According to historians, no one was aware that Vesuvius was an active volcano and could destroy the city.  Over the years,  many books have been written and movies made about the events of this day almost 2,000 years ago.           P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of[...]

Why Primitives Are Primitive

K T Cat
8/19/2025 6:54:09 AM

I recently found the YouTube channel of Franck Zanu. He is a native of Benin who has spent a good deal of time researching, studying and thinking about the plight of blacks around the world. I'm not sure I agree with all of his conclusions, but he has interesting and relatively defensible positions. Since he comes from Benin and I do not, at the very least I must respect his vastly superior experience.Here is his conversation with a woman from the Caribbean about why he thinks Haitians will never be able to fix Haiti. I have queued it up to a relevant part of the discussion.    His assertion, which he lays out thoroughly if you watch the whole video, which I recommend, is that the Africans had never seen a[...]

A Little Image Translation

K T Cat
8/14/2025 4:31:52 AM

 I couldn't find the tweet I wanted to include here, but this image will have to do. Do you know why Muslimas must dress like this?    In Islam, they believe that men cannot be expected to control their sexual desires. To prevent sexual sin, women must cover themselves completely. The image I had in mind was a still from a BBC interview with a woman covered even more completely than this, where you could only see her eyes.Aside: Will Neuralink technology make the niqab obsolete? If women had sensors in their clothing that provided them visual information from the world around them, they wouldn't even need the eye slits any more.If you tell boys from a very young age that they cannot control their sexual urges[...]

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[...]

Iconic Oak Ridge, TN, Chosen as Site for Googles Small Modular Nuclear Reactor 

Leslie Eastman

Oak Ridge, location of "Manhattan Project" work, now site of a SMR plant project to power Google. Additionally, Denver International Airport has announced an SMR feasibility study to power its operations.The post Iconic Oak Ridge, TN, Chosen as Site for Googles Small Modular Nuclear Reactor first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Fauci and His Cronies Accused of Intel Cover-Up Regarding Covids Wuhan Origins 

Leslie Eastman

In an exclusive, the Daily Caller interviewed scientists and government officials, revealing what was known about coronavirus origins in early days of the pandemic.The post Fauci and His Cronies Accused of Intel Cover-Up Regarding Covids Wuhan Origins first appeared on Legal Insurrection.