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Silvio Canto, Jr.
3/24/2023 5:00:00 AM

     (My new American Thinker post)the story:   

Mrs. Doubtfire", the story of a recently divorced father who dresses up as a female housekeeper to interact with his children.  Funny, and no one is offended.  Drag shows are different, especially when they perform in front of innocent children,  By the way, the Texas legislature is debating a law or a $10,000 fine on business owners who host drag shows in front of children. my blog for posts, podcasts and videos.

1958 and Elvis joined the US Army

Silvio Canto, Jr.
3/24/2023 1:30:00 AM

          A generation ago, young men were drafted for military service. The draft ended in the 1970's under President Nixon.One of those young men drafted was the legendary Elvis. He joined the US Army on this day in 1958.He could have fought the draft with legal gimmicks and technicalities, starting with the fact that he was already 23Nevertheless, he went, did his duty and came back to more success.Well done Elvis          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.   

Our Household Lacks Discipline

K T Cat
3/23/2023 5:20:10 PM

 ... inside and out.Starting in the backyard, we have these two bird feeders that the local finches, sparrows and doves frequent.    They look fine, right?WrongI have to fill the darn things two or three times a day because some of the little nimrods sit at the feeder and throw the smaller seeds down onto the ground so they can get at the sunflower seeds.    ScandalousMeanwhile, indoors, our small, chubby Catican Guard is getting so flabby that she needs her blankets folded about 8 layers deep so it's soft enough for her.    ShamefulChatGPT UpdateIt turns out that ChatGPT loses track of the conversation after a while. I had a long thread going, playing around with vignettes for my novel and[...]

Chat GPT Version 4

K T Cat
3/20/2023 5:03:52 PM
 ... is simply unreal.ChatGPT rolled out a completely new version of their product and I've been playing with it, writing Arthurian fanfic and working on my Hardy Boys takeoff. It is simply unreal. It has a prompt limit and you can only ask it for 25 things every 4 hours. Thank God for that or I would never leave my study.I've been experimenting with it to understand how to make better prompts and keeping a file of character descriptions for my novel. As I work with it and then correct it, I refine the characters so the AI produces the story I have in my mind. It's simply fabulous. So far, I've been working with four characters, using dialog vignettes to correct it and add to my file where I keep their[...]

Maybe teaching racial division and hatred wasn't such a good idea after all

W.C. Varones
2/3/2023 7:04:10 PM
Doctor cycling in California run down, stabbed by driver screaming about white privilege: A doctor cycling along the Pacific Coast Highway in California was mowed down by a driver who then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the cyclist to death while screaming white privilege slurs. Dr. Michael Mammone, 58, of Laguna Beach, was on his bike in Dana Point when he was struck by the driver of a white Lexus. The driver allegedly sped through a red light at an intersection before running over Mammone on Wednesday afternoon, KABC reported. He then jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed the victim multiple times in the back before bystanders tackled him to stop the attack.

Mmmkay....

W.C. Varones
9/1/2022 4:31:22 PM
President who usurped Congressional spending authority to issue an executive order handing out hundreds of billions of dollars right before an election will lecture nation on "threats to democracy."

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[...]

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 394 of the invasion

Zelenskiy asks EU leaders for more long-range weapons; Medvedev says Moscows relations with the west are at an all-time low ...

Russia's war in Ukraine

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism that cooperation with European allies could bring a victory by the end of the year, but he warned there were still problematic areas such as delays in ...

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.

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Bidens COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers 

Mary Chastain

"The President is not an unelected administrator. He is instead the head of a co-equal branch of government and the most singularly accountable elected official in the country."The post Federal Appeals Court Blocks Bidens COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Alan Dershowitz Says Stanford Law Protest was Orchestrated by Well Known Left Wing Group 

Mike LaChance

"The disruption was organized by the local chapter of National Lawyers Guild as part of a nationwide effort to suppress conservative speech."The post Alan Dershowitz Says Stanford Law Protest was Orchestrated by Well Known Left Wing Group first appeared on Legal Insurrection.