Monthly Archives: July 2016
World Turned Upside Down
In a sane world, s bunch of investigative journalists would have uncovered hackers snooping into communications between major political figures.
Today, hackers uncover ‘journalists’ colluding with major political figures.
If it weren’t for the Internet, we’d never know because those that control the major media are totally in bed with the forces who would disassemble this country.
The Name Game #448
I’m not the only one who looks at this.
From this article, here are five rules for naming your child:
- Have you heard the name before? If not, no one else will have.
- Can you pronounce it without having to look it up? Because if you need to look it up, I can tell you firsthand that you will be the only person your child ever meets who has taken the time to do so.
- Avoid hyphens unless both names are easily pronounceable. Dobson – that’s fine. Mouawad – more than enough effort on its own. Dobson-Mouawad – no comment.
- Can a child of primary school age say it? If they look confused and say, “What?”, take that as a strong no. (Auth. note: Many of the present crop of kids will have trouble pronouncing ‘Bob’)
- Remember that your child’s name is for their happiness alone and not to prove to the world how cool and creative you are. That’s what Instagram is for. Take it from someone who knows or in 19 years’ time your child will be as fed up as I am.
Go read the article. The comments are interesting as well. Then come back here. I’m not going anywhere.
You’re back? Great! This morning’s list has twenty-nine new babies, twelve to unwed parents, three of the new mommies not deigning a guess as to the daddy’s name.
Let’s step into that brown, sticky stuff now:
Michael & Brittany T. give their son a name that’ll sound sooooo good coming over the rodeo PA system – Jace Edmond.
Chad & Kheyloni(!) S. make sure their son stands out in life, tagging him with Jeverett Kyler.
Roddria(!) B. & Tankia(! – sadly, almost common) D. do a bit of tryndeigh with their daughter Rylee Denise. ‘Riley’ was too plain.
Drew & Latkin(!) P. do a daughter with Kendyl Raine. Because ‘Kendall’ is a boy’s name.
Miss Sarah P. tags her son with Blayke Cole because ‘Blake’ is too ordinary.
Miss Danisha V. shows that she’s up for the tryndee as well with her daughter Haleigh Jenae.
Richard V. & Tonika(! – No, no, no! That last one was Tanika, with an ‘a’. There’s a significant difference.) G. do a son with Micah Makhi.
James W. & Bre’Anna(!) L. present their little girl, Angel Netia.
Miss Justice(!) T. Triples up and punctuates her son, little Dai’Lynn Lequeze Cotlone.
Ladrakeus M. & Alisha P. punctuate their daughter, Ny’Lah Rose.
Robert & Crystal L. take the brave step of naming their daughter ‘-son’, Madison Ann.
We now return to your previously scheduled summer.
Today in History – July 31
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1774 – Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen. Before this, people just breathed any old thing that blew in…
1914 – Oil discovered in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. 2016 – Oil money isn’t enough to keep the socialist government afloat any more.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (which comes into force on August 14). It’s a pretty good Constitution, too. For example, Germans are entitled to free expression of opinion in word, writing, print, image, etc. This right cannot be obstructed by job contract, nor can exercise of this right create a disadvantage. Censorship is prohibited. And we all know how this turned out when people started following a charismatic, smooth-talking leader with radical ideas.
1941 – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.” This is a lesson in incrementalism, among other things.
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. 1945 in Tokyo Bay, HMS King George V had rum. The US Navy had ice cream. The Brits wanted ice cream. Dad helped make the exchange possible with the landing craft he ran as a taxi around the bay.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1981 – 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States. Yawwwnnnnn!
Food for Thought – 30 July 2016
Saturday Song #155
A touch of Beethoven – Seventh Symphony in A Major – Allegretto Movement:
Today in History – July 30
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. Being all white, they’re under investigation by the Holder ‘Justice Department’.
1866 – New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. Republicans in New Orleans today wouldn’t fare much better.
1898 – Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ was an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent the materials from being used by the Allies in World War I. Today we have the anti-American Left happy to thwart war efforts on our enemies’ behalf.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. Sharks play a major role, as recounted in Jaws.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto. Then in 1965 US President Lyndon B. (Lyin’ B*stard) Johnson says, “Why fret over all that “god” stuff? We’re the government and WE’LL take care of you”, and he signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid, giving us a taste of how well the government can handle health care.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon, adding tire tracks to the American footprints.
1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets killed and fifty-four injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp. Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is NOT your friend.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. I have looked inside Chrissy’s purse. His body could be in there and nobody’d ever know…
1984 – Alvenus, a British tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil. This, then the BP thing, that’s the Brits trying to get even for that Battle of New Orleans thing.
2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. Ferdinand Porsche’s pre-WW II design was quite successful as the first foreign compact car to gain wide acceptance in America. I owned a couple myself.
2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. It’s going to happen here if they don’t bring the unicorn fart-powered generation on line fast enough to replace the cola plants obama’s EPA is shutting down.
Food for Thought – 29 July 2016
Today in History – July 29
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the “invincible” Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Gives the Germans something to march under when they conquer the country. or for other foreign armies to look at when they rescue France from the Germans. This picture is of an 1871 parade of the Prussian Army celebrating a French “triomphe”.
And another in 1940:
The next likely example appears to be a string of Japanese pickup trucks flying ISIS flags.
1901 – The Socialist Party of America founded. Its positions have since been co-opted by the dimmocrat party.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established, providing yet another toothless featherbed front for international bureaucrats at the UN.
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). And it’s eleven years to the moon. And now it’s Obama’s outreach program to the Religion of Peace.
1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. Dimmocrat L.B. (Lyin’ B*stard) Johnson is in the White House.
1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Today a large number of American girls still use this as a pattern for their own ‘princess for a day’ weddings. Daddy’s still paying the bills from it two years after the divorce and the little princess is on her third tattooed biker since the breakup.
Food for Thought – 28 July 2016 – Target-rich Environment Edition
Today in History – July 28
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is beheaded at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day. There are some obvious “head” jokes that decorum prevents me from making.
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France during the French Revolution, victims of the bloodbath they helped bring about.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated with a population of 300. Coincidentally, that’s the total number of real Floridians there today.
1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately executed. “The shootings will continue until morale improves.”
1965 – Vietnam War: Dimmocrat U.S. President Lyndon B. “Lyin’ B*stard” Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. Nothing like an inept, crooked dimmocrat playing with a real army…
1978 – Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time. It’s at $1200+ right now.
1984 – The 1984 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were opened in Los Angeles USA. three words – Mary Lou Retton.
1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations. Despite not being involved in any fighting, Andorra was technically the longest combatant in the first World War, as the country was left out of the Versailles Peace Conference and technically remained at war with Germany from 1914 until 1939.
Food for Thought – 27 July 2016
Today in History – July 27
1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution.” Guess who’s got the next ride on “Mr. Guillotine”. Way to go there, Pierre!
1866 – The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time. The first cable, in 1858, only lasts a couple of months before failing, but it cut communication from Europe to North America from a couple of weeks to seconds. We in the electrical biz know all about the heartbreak of a premature cable failure. This one works better. You could ask a question and get an answer the same day!
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny. Mickey Mouse is a wimp!
1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China. What were the French gonna do? They’d ALREADY surrendered to Germany.
1944 – First British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor). It isn’t allowed over German-held territory because of secrecy. Of course, the Germans had beat the Brits into jet combat with the Me-262 already and theirs was technologically much more advanced.
1945 – US Communist Party forms. In 2009, with the inauguration of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, they are rendered superfluous.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. Some inattention to minor engineering details causes them to fall out of the sky in alarming fashion. By the time they’re fixed, Boeing’s 707 and Douglas’ DC-8 were ready to roll out and they took the market over..
1953 – Korean War ends: The United States, People’s Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. To this day, that’s all we have with North Korea: an armistice. Like they honor any written agreement anyway… I spent a year on that DMZ and just south of it myself: 1969-70
1964 – Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. Curse those war-mongering Republican presidents. Wait! What? That was Lyndon Baines “Lyin’ my ass off!” Johnson, a DIMMOCRAT?!?!?! Ain’t nothing like a dimmocrat getting all feisty.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. Compared to Hillary Clinton, Nixon was a petty shoplifter, but today’s ‘majority’ nutless wonders in Congress can’t bear to officially sanction her. Tell me how the game’s not rigged.
Wonder what the motivation was…
The news media won’t be able to figure this one out either:
Islamist knifemen forced priest, 84, to kneel and filmed his death as they slit his throat: Hollande says ‘France is at war with ISIS’ after jihadists storm French church during Mass chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’
The ISIS barbarians who stormed into a church in Normandy filmed themselves butchering an elderly priest after forcing him to the ground at the altar, it has emerged.
The 84-year-old priest, named as Jacques Hamel, had his throat cut while a nun is critically injured in hospital following the raid which saw five people held hostage by ISIS assailants shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
The two killers were ‘neutralised’ by marksmen as they emerged from the building, which is now being searched for explosives. French president Francois Hollande said France is ‘at war’ with ISIS while the terror group has claimed responsibility for the killing.
One of the men who stormed into the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen during mass was a local man, who was being monitored by electronic tag after being jailed for trying to join fanatics in Syria.
This afternoon it emerged that the murdered clergyman was deputising while the parish priest was on holiday. French authorities say they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack.
It comes as it emerged that the building was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist ‘hit list’ found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.
Yep! Those lists of targets by ISIS? Just loud talk, right? they can’t actually DO anything, they’re just talking, right?
Yeah. That’s the ticket. Gotta be true. The gummint says so.
