Unfortunately, no. Not yet…soon.
Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t posted anything today because I’m working on posts that will fire-off while Mrs. B. and I are on vacation starting this Friday. They’ll be at least one post coming your way every day.
EXCELSIOR!
From today’s Morning Jolt e-mail by National Review Online’s Jim Geraghty:
Glenn Reynolds: "So with Tim Scott’s appointment, the GOP has the nation’s only black senator and both of its two Latino governors. Kinda busts the racial narrative, doesn’t it?"
Not only that, but he was appointed to the position by the country’s second Indian-American governor; both of the ones we have are not only Republicans, but Southern conservative Republicans.
The editors of [T]he Wall Street Journal notice: "Mr. Scott’s appointment requires him to stand for a special election in 2014, though he has a record as a House conservative in sync with Palmetto State values and emerged with the Tea Party. It’s also worth noting that the movement deplored by liberals as retrogressive has done more than anything in years to increase diversity in politics—and not merely of thought. Think Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Ms. Haley herself. The best news is that Senator-designate Scott’s story isn’t about racial grievance and preference. It’s a measure of personal achievement, political conviction and the opportunities available in modern American politics."
Am I the only one that is uncomfortable with people on the Right touting such a fact?
Frankly, I don’t give a good Goddamn what the color of the man’s skin is. I want to know if he’s a true conservative and not some Establishment hack RINO or Situational Conservative.
I understand that people want to show-up the Left/Democratic Party as being hypocrites when it comes to racial politics, but aren’t we playing by their Rules, accepting the legitimacy of their Narrative, when we tout these facts?
Shouldn’t we approach these facts like Andrew Breitbart recommended we should when confronted with Leftist libels against us and just say ‘So?’.
Is responding in this way, going on the offensive as we must do? [Please see Jeff Goldstein's post on this bigger issue in regards to the calls for more 'gun control' in the wake of the Newtown Massacre.]
From Breitbart News, we learn [worth quoting in full]:
Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers on Tuesday, police said, highlighting resistance to the country’s immunisation campaign.
Four were killed in three different incidents in the sprawling port city and the fifth in the northwestern city of Peshawar, on the second day of a nationwide three-day drive against the disease, which is endemic in Pakistan.
Sagheer Ahmed, the health minister for Sindh province, of which Karachi is capital, said he had ordered a halt to the anti-polio drive in the city in the wake of the shootings.
Senior Karachi police officer Shahid Hayat said another polio worker was shot dead in the city on Monday, but the circumstances of his death only became clear on Tuesday.
In Peshawar, which lies close to the restive tribal areas, a haven for militants and hotspot for polio, two attackers on a motorbike fired on two sisters working on vaccination, killing one, senior police official Javed Khan told AFP.
The incident took place in Mathra suburb of Peshawar which borders Mohmand tribal district, Khan said.
Hayat blamed "militants who issued a fatwa against polio vaccination in the past" for the Karachi killings.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the highly infectious crippling disease remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria.
But efforts to tackle polio have been hampered over the years by suspicion over vaccination drives.
The Taliban have banned immunisations in the northwest, condemning the campaign as a cover for espionage since a Pakistani doctor was jailed after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination programme.
The ban — to protest against US drone strikes and because they allege that the anti-polio campaign is a cover for espionage — risks the health of 240,000 children in North and South Waziristan tribal areas, officials say.
Tuesday’s killings in Karachi took place in parts of the city dominated by Pashtuns, Hayat said. Pashtuns are the dominant ethnic group in northwest Pakistan and have a sizeable migrant population in Karachi.
WHO, a partner in government efforts to eradicate the disease, suspended vaccination activities in part of Pakistan’s largest city in July after a spate of bloody shootings.
A UN doctor from Ghana working on polio eradication and his driver were shot in part of Karachi and three days later a local community worker who was part of the same campaign was shot dead in the same area.
Okay Obama, you condemn guns for the killings of schoolchildren…how about condemning your Muslim friends for crippling children?
What?…of, I see…I get it: letting the little Paki’s get polio is just a delayed version of the Infanticide you like so much…I understand stand you now.
How anyone thinks we can sit at a negotiating table with these barbarians is beyond me.
-Of course, the Leftists can’t resist declaring what happened last Friday in Newtown is a symptom of a great crisis.
Of course, they then have to take the next step and insist that a ‘national conversation’ has to take place [even though they already know what they plan to do].
Of course, instead of talking about how we as a Society handle the mentally ill, they demand this ‘national conversation’ be about an issue that has nothing directly to do with the situation.
Of course, the Left pretends that all of the evidence is on their side, even though the exact opposite is true.
And of course, because of all of the mealy-mouthed ‘leaders’ of the GOP, the Left will get something they want out of this in the legislative sense, while, of course, Obama issues un-Constitutional orders.
We’ve seen this maudlin movie before…on Lifetime.
-Of course, Barack Hussein Obama had to put himself in the middle of the grieving families of Newtown and, of course, he could not resist not letting this grief go to waste:
This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.
And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we’re doing enough to keep our children — all of them — safe from harm? Can we claim, as a nation, that we’re all together there, letting them know that they are loved, and teaching them to love in return? Can we say that we’re truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?
I’ve been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we’re honest with ourselves, the answer is no. We’re not doing enough. And we will have to change.
Since I’ve been President, this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by a mass shooting. The fourth time we’ve hugged survivors. The fourth time we’ve consoled the families of victims. And in between, there have been an endless series of deadly shootings across the country, almost daily reports of victims, many of them children, in small towns and big cities all across America — victims whose — much of the time, their only fault was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true. No single law — no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.
But that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely, we can do better than this. If there is even one step we can take to save another child, or another parent, or another town, from the grief that has visited Tucson, and Aurora, and Oak Creek, and Newtown, and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that — then surely we have an obligation to try.
In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens — from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators — in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Because what choice do we have? We can’t accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?
While I retch, let see what some of my Friends In The Ether have been saying…
My first contribution to that [national] conversation is this: why is it that lawmakers looking for cheap grace have been allowed to pass laws that not only leave children unprotected in schools, but they proudly advertise the fact that that’s what they do?
We’re to entrust our children to school teachers — and yet those same teachers can’t be trusted, even with the proper training, to carry a concealed firearm. Meanwhile, we’re to trust that criminals, who by definition are willing to break the law, will somehow be cautioned away from unspeakable acts because legislators like to attach their names to feel-good — and yet demonstrably unworkable — gun bans.
There. There’s a start, liberal fascists. Now let’s hear your defense of what are essentially “sitting duck” laws.
…I was wondering if Obama may decide to do an end-run around the “overhead” of attempting to pass new gun-control legislation by simply issuing an Executive Order placing handguns and semi-automatics under NFA status or some other dubious legal chicanery.
What I’m terrified of is an onerous ammo tax. Y’know, 70%. Then they’ll come up with bullet safety regulations to bump the price up even more. Like they did with fuel and cigarettes. The Dread Chief Justice Roberts has already determined that ANYTHING is possible under taxing authority. And just imagine how much revenue it can bring in to help victims of gun crimes! HAW HAW HAW. Then they can make owning a gun make it much harder to get in to see your doctor and raise the cost of your mandatory health insurance policy.
Teachers : smart enough to educate your kids, deserve much higher pay, are far too important to the future of our country to have their performance measured by standardized tests, but still too dumb to carry a gun. Unlike security guards, body guards, (and anyone who works for a Federal agency).
-LBascom brings the [justified] snark:
You know who would be mad if teachers started packing? That kid that got suspended for pretending a chicken finger was a gun.
Too bad though, that’s the kinda policy that works!
I needed that laugh. The Left are so damn earnest and insufferable in their Narcissism…kind of like, oh, I don’t know…people who go and shoot unarmed innocents.
-Palaeo responds to the calls by both some Republicans and Democrats for ‘sensible gun control’:
The call for sensible gun control is like the call for sensible censorship. There have at times been calls for sensible conquest, sensible, slavery, and sensible genocide. No one would be happy to find out that the mafia is only whacking people the sensible way. We are like monkeys who never seem to learn the old tricks used against is. Sensible is a frosting designed to hide a sinister cake of oppression, corruption, or aggression. You can’t do something bad in a sensible way that takes away its badness.
What we are dealing with here — amidst the chaotic cacophony of frenzied liberal noise — is another one of those “do something” episodes that occasionally afflict the media/politics nexus. The follies that result from the “do something” impulse, as politicians react to the latest headline and try to reassure voters that government can fix whatever problem concerns them, has resulted in some of the most awful stupidity in history, including Republican stupidity: Terrorists strike New York? Create a new government agency for airport security! Give the feds more wiretapping authority! Invade some foreign countries! And . . . how’d that work out for ya?
-Regarding the way the media has handled this story, Stacy has a few choice words:
…TV news today is full of somber seriousness, and it’s driving me nuts:
“Special coverage of Our Nation’s Tragedy will continue, right after these advertisements for laxatives and car insurance.”
Networks pay millions of dollars a year for the services of news anchors who can pretend that what they’re doing is anything other than a carnival sideshow to sell the advertiser’s product. News for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Read — these lucrative televised spectacles inspire less cynical scoffing than they deserve. Nothing like a national tragedy to boost ratings, after all, and you know full well that the correspondent now peering grimly into the camera will be chuckling merrily with his colleagues as soon as the Breaking News Update is over. And why shouldn’t he chuckle? He’s getting paid handsomely to report this tragedy, and charges his travel expenses on the company AmEx card.
People who say they hate “the media” usually mean they hate TV news, a hatred shared by those of us whose medium is the written word….
Well put, Stacy, except: we hate the print media as well. As TOM commentator slp wrote in your Comments section:
Stacy,
TV and newspapers are the same. The purpose of the news stories is to lure readers to buy the newspapers that are filled with paid advertisements. As a newspaperman, your job was to fill the “news hole.”
‘We’re both part of the same hypocrisy, Senator….’
…Leftists also hate guns, but for a different reason. They see guns as the ultimate symbol of the thing they hate most, Individualism. Anything that makes people more independent is evil to a Leftist. And make no mistake. Leftists KNOW that bringing back the idiotic “assault weapons” ban will not do a single thing to curb any mass shootings….
Bingo. This is ultimately about gaining Power And Control.
As you can see, the gun control fanatics are having an orgiastic outburst of gun confiscation fervor. I’ve been posting on freaks such as MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and the stupid faux conservative David Frum. And Sunday’s “Face the Nation” was a veritable who’s who of fanatical anti-gun zealots.
Their program has the imprimatur of the man at the top of the left’s political hierarchy, and the sick exploitation lobby goes down from the MSNBC journalists spouting editorial points while purportedly reporting the news, to the academic grandstanders among the left’s professoriate, to the Democrats in Congress hot off the news pushing for new legislation, to the left’s ghouls on Twitter trying to silence reasonable comments on the right to bear arms, and to the ASFL fever-swamp bloggers pathetically pushing the left’s disgusting talking points.
This is a truly depraved time in this country. The threat to liberty and goodness is on the left. The country needs to mourn after these tragedies. And we need to think about how mental health services intertwine with the right to bear arms. But blanket calls to ban guns and strip Second Amendment rights from law-abiding Americans is pure political extremism, sick and reprehensible left-wing political extremism.
If we want to tackle the problem of how we deal with the mentally ill in this country, we have to first speak the truth no one really wants to hear: Leftism is a mental illness.
NOTE: From now on I will be adopting The Stacy McCain Standard for referring to murderers like this punk: ‘News organizations keep trying to bestow post-massacre fame on the creepy little weirdo. I’ve decided to stop cooperating with that agenda’. An example from Stacy’s latest post:
…[The creepy little weirdo], targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown after killing his mother early Friday because he believed she loved the school “more than she loved him,” said Joshua Flashman, 25….
The time for making such deranged people famous is over.
How to describe the malady that has befallen, beset, assailed, and deviled Hillary Rodham and is preventing her from testifying on the Benghazi Massacre…
In keeping with the highest medical standards [yes, I have been in the meds cart again], let me list the ways: Mzzz. Rodham’s illness is tactful, politic, sensitive, subtle, delicate, polite, discreet, prudent, adept, considerate, judicious…in other words ‘diplomatic’, as my colleague Dr. John Bolton explains [tip of the fedora to Memeorandum]:
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton suggested Monday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is trying to avoid testifying about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, by coming down with what he called "a diplomatic illness."
Clinton was scheduled to testify this week before a House panel and to present an independent report on the incident. The report, which she received on Monday, will still be presented to congressional leaders in a closed door session Wednesday. But the secretary won’t be there because of a concussion she suffered during a fainting spell this past weekend brought on by the flu.
"I think she will have to testify at some point," Bolton told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Monday evening, suggesting that her illness excuse was somewhat suspect.
"You know, every foreign service officer in every foreign ministry in the world knows the phrase I am about to use. When you don’t want to go to a meeting or conference, or an event, you have a ‘diplomatic illness,’ Bolton told Van Susteren. "And this is a diplomatic illness to beat the band.
"I certainly hope it was nothing serious, but this was revealed in a way that I think was not transparent," Bolton continued. "And I think there is an obligation here, especially if Secretary Clinton decides to run for president, to indicate what happened. She may not be testifying this week, but she will not escape it forever."
On that last point, my distingushed colleague and I disagree because I beleive she, indeed, may be able to avoid testifying if she finds the right physician to declare her having been, in reality, insane since she stopped being a Goldwater Girl and became a Leftist.
Considering that the line of succession, in light of the passing of Senator Inouye, is now...
-Joe ‘Hill’ Biden, Vice President
-Cryin’ John Boehner, Speaker Of The House
-Patrick ‘Leak-Breath’ Leahy, President Pro-Tempore Of The Senate
-Hillary ‘Scrambled Brains’ Rodham
…[gives you nightmares, eh?] I wish the Jug-Eared Nancy Boy robust health.
May The Founders forgive us.
As you read this post, Mrs. B. and I will be wending our way to Northeast shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in the Live Free Or Die State for a well-needed vacation — and, of course, to await the end of the world as we know it [and we feel fine] later today.
We’ll be there until New Year’s Weekend, so blogging will be light around here.
However, per usual, I’ve set-off at least one post to publish each day, so do check in between bouts of making merry [or 'making Mary', if you're a single guy or married to a woman named Mary]. Some of the scheduled posts are serious, some fun — but they’re all entertaining.
The traditional TCOTS Countdown To Christmas starts later today and continues through Christmas Eve [whoever Eve is] and there will be a Rule 5 Saturday.
I’ll be checking in from time to time, but we’re leaving you the keys to the Tiki Bar & Lounge — go easy on the hard stuff and don’t expect us to bail any of you out.
Also, if you can, send a greeting to Amusing Bunni, throw some Christmas Cheer her way [and maybe a few denarii].
If you, too, are going off the grid as of today, then
The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to do another TCOTS Christmas Countdown. With so much funk enveloping us this year, The Committee feels a duty to provide a moment of relief, so from now until Christmas, the gals are on us…
Christmas: Even Ayn Rand liked it! [with some qualifications, of course]:
[In answer to the question of whether it is appropriate for an atheist to celebrate Christmas:]
Yes, of course. A national holiday, in this country, cannot have an exclusively religious meaning. The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular religion: it is good will toward men—a frame of mind which is not the exclusive property (though it is supposed to be part, but is a largely unobserved part) of the Christian religion.
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one’s friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .
The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.
—The Objectivist Calendar, Dec. 1976
Oh, well……I do agree with the ‘giv[ing] men pleasure’ part.
‘Give a hoot: don’t loot’.
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Two recent reports caught my attention…
-CLEAN-UP
From Breitbart and the AP, John Hanna reporting, we learn:
LANSING, Kan.
The bodies of the two men executed for the 1959 murders of a Kansas family that became infamous in Truman Capote’s true-crime book “In Cold Blood” were exhumed Tuesday in an effort to solve slayings of a Florida family killed weeks later.
Kyle Smith, deputy director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said bone fragments were collected from the skeletal remains of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, who were hanged for the murders of Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their children in Holcomb, Kan., on Nov. 15, 1959.
The fragments were collected at the request of a Sarasota County Sheriff’s detective, who has been trying to determine whether Hickock and Perry Smith were responsible for the deaths of Cliff and Christine Walker and their two young children on Dec. 19, 1959, in their home in Osprey, about four hours northwest of Miami near Sarasota. Smith and Hickock fled to Florida after the Clutter murders.
If you have never read Capote’s In Cold Blood, I highly recommend it as an excellent example of the banal side of Evil.
-A CAR PARK! A CAR PARK! MY KINGDOM FOR A CAR PARK!
From The London Daily Mail, Anthony Bond reporting, we learn:
The skeleton found in the resting place of Richard III has been confirmed as belonging to the king – but scientists are holding the news back for greater publicity, it has been claimed.
The human remains were uncovered in September in what is now the car park of Leicester City Council’s social services department.
Since then, a number of tests have been taking place to determine if the bones belong to the Plantagenet king, including DNA tests.
But, according to The Daily Telegraph, even if long-awaited DNA results prove inconclusive, the archeologists will still announce that the remains belong to Richard III.
A source, who has knowledge of the excavation, told the newspaper that additional evidence which was not revealed at a press conference following the discovery of the remains demonstrates beyond doubt that the skeleton is Richard III.
Another source said that new evidence will not be revealed until a Channel Four documentary is shown in January….
I don’t see what the problem is: after all, Richard is still waiting for that horse.
Well I woke up this mornin’
And all my hits were down
Oh, I woke up this mornin’
And all my hits were down
All my friends are missing
I’m the only one who’s posting now
Santy Claus, Santy Claus
What you bringin’ down
Santy Claus, Santy Claus
What you bringin’ down
I need some linky lovin’
Before I shut this old blog thang down
—Ramblin’ Bob Belvedere, Blogger Mood Disorder Blues
I got me some Blogger Christmas Traffic Blues and the only thing that will get me out of this funk — have mercy! — is some bona-fi-dee blues…
-Lightnin’ Hopkins…
-Mister BB King…
-I’m feelin’ better, so let’s up the mood with one of my favorites…
-Of course, no Christmas would be complete without Mister Chuck Berry…
-Now, link this post so I can really bet over by Blogger Christmas Traffic Blues.
The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to do another TCOTS Christmas Countdown. With so much funk enveloping us this year, The Committee feels a duty to provide a moment of relief, so from now until Christmas, the gals are on us…
The American Spectator has kindly reprinted Mark Steyn’s article It’s The Best Time Of The Year from their December 1995 issue.
I well remember reading it because it was one of my first exposures to his writings. It aided me in becoming a fan of his.
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole thing, but here are a few highlights:
In Vermont the first school board of the season has already declared that songs about Santa, Rudolph, and Frosty are offensive to those of other backgrounds. Really? The hallmark of democratic American culture used to be that it was simultaneously universal and specific. In denigrating the secular Christmas as it has evolved over 200 years, these groups are moving beyond the separation of church and state to the separation of American from American; they’re saying that the very notion of any common culture is suspect….
That, of course, is the Leftist Thinking behind most of it.
One more:
The soundtrack to the American Christmas dates from Coots’ 1934 seasonal staple to “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” written by Johnny Marks 30 years later. Every Christmas standard you can name—“Frosty,” “Silver Bells,” “Sleigh Ride”—comes from that period, the apogee of mainstream American popular culture at its most confident and embracing.
It’s not surprising, then, that the last three decades have failed to produce a single Yuletide song of any lasting impact. Broadcasting has degenerated into narrowcasting, pop music has split into mutually antagonistic minority interests like grunge and gangsta rap, and, following the same pattern of fragmentation, Christmas has begun to subdivide too. If the American Christmas is a triumph of the American ideal—E Pluribus Unum—then the pseudo-African festival of Kwanzaa is surely the reverse. It exemplifies the trend of recent years, whereby large groups of Americans go to great lengths to make themselves more foreign than they really are. The language of Kwanzaa is Swahili, and the underlying philosophy of its seven “Principles” is the distinctively incompetent Afro-Marxism that bankrupted Africa’s richest countries. To placate disgruntled kids, Kwanzaa has since been obliged to introduce its own Santa figure—a wise man called Nia Umoja. But what was wrong with the old Santa figure? Will our society really benefit from Santa separatism?
…
In 1966, the same year Kwanzaa was invented, Jerry Herman, composer of Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles, wrote what looks like the last Christmas standard. “I snuck in just in time,” he told me. “We don’t really have Christmas songs anymore and we don’t really have songs that step out of shows and get taken up by jazz singers and country singers. But every year I get another half-dozen different recordings by different artists.” And, in his frail songwriter’s croak, he began to warble:
We need a little Christmas
Right this very minute
Candles in the hallway
Carols on the spinet…Well, maybe not the spinet. But we do need a little Christmas. Right this very minute.
Indeed, we do, especially in these dark times of the Leftist Era in America.
Hold your loved ones a little bit longer.
Pray a little bit harder.
Cherish those merry moments with friends and family a little bit more.
We know not what the future holds and we rightly fear that it will not be pleasant. But we must never forget the admonition of God to never despair for He is always there for us in the silent night.
We also must never forget that America is an idea that knows no physical limitations — as long as it remains alive in the soul of one Human Being, America will live on in the world.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Let Nothing You Dismay….
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Mrs. B. and I did not send out our typical ‘cat card’ this year. What we mailed was a pic of me in front of a wagon load of Maker’s Mark barrels looking every inch the Southern distiller. So, we can’t show you that one.
Instead, here are a couple of our previous cards…
And it just wouldn’t be a TCOTS Christmas around here,
if we didn’t follow the tradition and post Miss Betty Grable…
Not only do we read each and every comment you all leave here at TCOTS, but we enjoy reading the spam messages we get before I send them into the black hole of the Trash Bin [aka: Erika Niedowski's Who-Who]. Most are just the same old, same old. But, occasionally, one proves to be somewhat interesting and unintentionally humorous. Also, they can provide a situation well-disposed to our showcasing of our marvellous wits.
All of the gang here at the TCOTS Redoubt have taken on the duty of responding to the many interesting spam messages we receive.
1) From Selena:
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Hagbard Celine: I’m willing to take that chance, my dear…call me.
Bob: Sacrifices have to be made.
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Hagbard: You should stick to Democratic Party events, Herp.
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Bob: Plenty of evidence you were part of those LSD experiments conducted by the CIA.
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Hagbard: How ’bout I just come over to your place and bookmark it for you — show you how it’s done, IYKWIMAITYD.
Bob: For you, my dear, I always have the opportunity.
5) From Stephen Wozniak:
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Bob: Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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Hagbard: Bloody Mormons.
7) From Sex Toys:
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Hagbard: Moses had a pretty big staff he carried around; Sephora always seemed happy.
8) From Gay Pi:
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Bob: That’s me: Blogger to The Unfamous.
Hagbard: Christ, they’ve even taken over Mathematics!
9) From Ashton:
no
Hagbard: Yes, dammit!
Bob: Why so glum, Mr. Kutcher? #Losing
10) From Johnie Cloutier:
Hello, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam responses? If so how do you reduce it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any assistance is very much appreciated.
Bob: I usually find out where the spammers live and send Hagbard over to eliminate them with extreme prejudice.
Hagbard: Let me see if I’ve got this straight, Johnie…you live at 634 East Mango Road, apartment 394 in Cumquat, Iowa…am I correct?
11) From scarf elephant:
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Bob: And what does the Senator from Massachusetts have to say about this???
12) From BeepBeepsNailMail:
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Bob: True.
13) From Gerry:
Dear Bobbelvedere,
Thanks for your thoughts, As you start exploring the market of strollers, you are sure to hear the name Bob Revolution Double Stroller. You may begin to wonder just who this BOB person is and why parents rave about his strollers. The key to this is to first figure out just who this BOB character is.
Cheerio
Bob: I wouldn’t dare venture a guess.
Hagbard: Hey, Clyde…there’s only one Bob and he just spoke to you. Am I right, TCOTS readers?!?
Some very interesting progress has been made in this long battle to defeat the forces of Cancer.
From the UC Berkley News Center, Sarah Yang reporting, we learn [tip of the fedora to Roxeanne de Luca]:
Researchers at the UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have put the squeeze — literally — on malignant mammary cells to guide them back into a normal growth pattern.
“We are showing that tissue organization is sensitive to mechanical inputs from the environment at the beginning stages of growth and development,” said principal investigator Daniel Fletcher, professor of bioengineering at Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Berkeley Lab. “An early signal, in the form of compression, appears to get these malignant cells back on the right track.”
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The latest work from Fletcher’s lab, in collaboration with Bissell’s lab, takes a major step forward by introducing the concept of mechanical rather than chemical influences on cancer cell growth. Gautham Venugopalan, a member of Fletcher’s lab, conducted the new experiments as part of his recently completed Ph.D. dissertation at UC Berkeley.
“People have known for centuries that physical force can influence our bodies,” said Venugopalan. “When we lift weights, our muscles get bigger. The force of gravity is essential to keeping our bones strong. Here we show that physical force can play a role in the growth — and reversion — of cancer cells.”
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It should be noted that the researchers are not proposing the development of compression bras as a treatment for breast cancer. “Compression, in and of itself, is not likely to be a therapy,” said Fletcher. “But this does give us new clues to track down the molecules and structures that could eventually be targeted for therapies.”
Let us hope that such research will not be halted once Obamacare has fully engulfed us and funding for such studies is stopped for monetary reasons.
That’s the way I feel every time someone mentions Lady ‘Evita’ Michbeth running for the Presidency in 2016.
Imagine my reaction when I read this by Sean O’Hare in The London Daily Mail [tip pf the fedora to Moonbattery]:
A striking transgender model made up to look like Michelle Obama being sworn into office has been put on the front cover of a U.S. magazine.
Luis Venegas, publisher of the first transsexual style magazine Candy, said he put model Connie Fleming on the front cover because he was inspired by the idea that a black, transsexual woman could one day be president of the Unites States.
The split front cover shows New York model Fleming being sworn into office and waving a U.S. flag accompanied by the headline ‘The Candydate’.
Fleming is dressed in typical First Lady fashion, down to the pearl necklace. Even the hair style is reminiscent of the President Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle.
Connie Fleming is described on website database of New York transsexuals as ‘a living doll, a multi-talented lady with a promising career as stylist and designer’s assistant.
Here’s the cover:
You know…give me the she-male over Lady Michbeth any day — at least it will have better fashion sense.
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