His thirteenth sonata.

Normally I would now post this played on a harpsichord, but I found this rendition by Glenn Gould and had to post it. I love Glenn Gould playing Bach and he does just as well playing Scarlatti.

From Catfish. (more…)

So very many assholes to list this week. I’m gonna just grab one. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. She released all of the looters and rioters arrested during the George Floyd riots in St. Louis. So St. Louis voters, you are getting what you voted for, good and hard.

The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation somehow let this little nugget slip through in one of their articles about the protests riots. Some young black dude said the following:

“This city has been run by black people my entire life. Why are we still poor?”

Maybe it’s because it’s been the wrong black people. Your elected officials are not there to make things better for you. They’re there to make things better for themselves. They are the useful idiots of the Dimocrat Party. The Dimocrat Party wants to keep you poor uneducated, and dependent upon the gummint. The gummint schools no longer exist to educate but to brainwash and to be a jobs program for teachers. The teachers unions couldn’t care less if you get educated.

Now let me ask you a few questions young black male.

Were you raised by a single mother?

Do you know who your father is?

Did he help raise you or was he a sperm donor?

Was your mother a teenager when she started having children?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, that’s why you’re still poor. The biggest cause of poverty in this country is people having children out of wedlock that they can’t afford. The illegitimacy rate in the African community is 75%. Three quarters of African children are born out of wedlock. Most of them are raised by single mothers who started having children when they were teenagers. Their mothers did the same thing.

Now some more questions.

Did you graduate from high school?

Can you read, write, and speak standard American English?

Have you ever held a job?

If you answered no to any of those questions that’s why you’re still poor. You can’t expect black politicians to help you. You need to help yourself by getting an education and developing a work ethic. Unfortunately, you were prolly told that doing well in school was “acting white”. Well maybe if you acted white, you could get some of that white privilege I keep hearing about.

At IBM, I worked with a man who was the son of a Mississippi sharecropper. He joined the Air Force and learned electronics. He got a job with IBM. I met him when we were both mainframe instructors. He had gotten rid of his Mississippi accent. He dressed well. I guess he “acted white”. He was also paid well and eventually became a manager.

IBM used to have an outreach program where employees would speak at local schools. This man would come back from speaking at a local school and be really depressed. He told me that there he was reaching out a hand to try and pull people up and they wanted to pull him down. They thought he was a sellout, an Uncle Tom.

That my young black male is why you’re still poor.

Are you in a gang?

Are your role models rappers, athletes, pimps, and drug dealers?

If you answered yes, that’s why you’re still poor.

All my life we’ve been trying to help our Africans. We integrated schools so they could get the same education as white kids. We gave them job preferences with affirmative action, now renamed Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) We lowered standards so they could get into colleges. And, of course, we have supported them with housing, welfare, and food stamps.

But it’s never enough is it? They commit the majority of crime but somehow it’s our fault. They destroy their neighborhoods with their rioting and looting and then complain about food deserts.

Now they want reparations for sumpin’ that happened 160 years ago.

I got news for you. We are paying reparations with the housing, welfare, and food stamps. Then there’s the cost of rebuilding the neighborhoods you destroy on a regular basis when you riot.

I’m sick of you blaming me because you’re poor. It ain’t my fault and I’m sick of your whining and your crime and your riots. You can succeed if you get off your ass and take responsibility for your actions. As someone once said, “Turn your hat around, pull up your pants, and get a job.” It can be done. I worked with enough black people at IBM.

As for the Black Lives Matter bullshit, more whites are killed by Africans than the other way around. When it comes to interracial crime, Africans are the kings. Check out this chart.

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I am so sick of this bullshit!

Ron on riots and the rioters.

Political anarchists and paid agitprops are merrily dismantling the republic which gives them the freedom to go feral and the means to go mau-mau. Many ordinary citizens who have sympathized with blacks for the hardships (many of their own making) they’ve had to endure for what-must-seem-like ever.

But the rage, the energy, the demand for justice we see every time a black man puts himself in a position to be arrested, resists that arrest, and unfortunately dies – for whatever reason – at the hands of a non-black man is more often built on a flimsy foundation of lies, misunderstanding, myth, and hype.

Eric Garner – petty crook, all-around boil on the butt of society – died resisting arrest. Nobody seems to remember that he was grossly obese, emphysemiac, and in terrible physical condition. He shouldn’t have died simply from being subdued by police, some of which were also black, but he put himself in the position to begin with.

Trayvon Martin – thuglette in on-the-job training, thief, burglar, trespasser – died while resisting arrest by a non-white self-appointed cop. He was a troublemaker in the making and shouldn’t have died . . . but he SHOULD have been banished from any orderly and educated society.

Michael Brown – future kneebreaker for the Black Panthers – died while challenging a police officer who tried to detain him after a report that he had stolen merchandise from a bodega. Shouldn’t have died, but he was resisting arrest and tried to take the cop’s gun. He was his own executioner.

George Floyd – on some kind of narcotic, “acting weird,” and offered resistance to police officers arresting him for passing bogus money. Died from a combination of congenital respiratory problems complicated by drugs. The cop kept his knee on Floyd’s neck too long, but according to the coroner did NOT CAUSE the death, merely contributed to it by exacerbating a previously existing condition.

But no one wants to hear any of that. What they want is either looting, excitement, or dismantling of all law enforcement in the entire country. Mayors and governors who tell their law-enforcement organizations to “stand back” or “give them room” or “let them get it out of their system” are as responsible for the costs to business and government as the rioters themselves.

And much of what is going on dovetails neatly with the Democrats’ agenda – Get Rid Of Trump Whatever The Cost!! — if PotUS doesn’t do something about the riots, the follow-on beatings and killings, the torching of hundreds of police cars nationwide and businesses in major cities (often owned by black people), he’ll be excoriated for failure to protect society; if he DOES take decisive action, no matter what it turns out to be, he’ll be called “RACIST!”

People who burn city vehicles, loot businesses, destroy property, attack people, MUST be made to see that such behavior is not tolerated. And they need to get it through their heads that although the leftist media will gleefully encourage their behavior and call them righteous “protestors,” they are in fact simply domestic terrorists whose actions signal that they’ve forfeited their right to live in an orderly society.

And they’re not doing the black segment of the US population (roughly 13.5%) any good; they’re in essence creating more racist attitudes in whites and other non-blacks who might previously have sympathized with them for their plight. Most black murder victims are most definitely not killed by white people, and certainly not white cops – 93% of them are killed by other blacks. In fact, black people, less than 14% of the population, commit over 50% of the murders in this country.

I’ve been around a long time, seen a lotta things, spent over a quarter of my life in classrooms of one sort or another, acquired advanced degrees, raised children, and earned privileges and entitlements along with other benefits and rights. But I just can’t see any logic in getting people to support your cause by burning police cars and looting Wal-Marts. Makes about as much sense as kicking your neighbor’s watchdog because you didn’t get the promotion you wanted at work.

“Hands-Up/Don’t-Shoot” was a total hype based on an exaggeration, a false narrative, a friggin myth. And the members of the US Congress who publicly joined in the demonstrations should have been fired for doing so.

Yes, George Floyd shouldn’t have died. But Clinton shouldn’t have lied, and Soetoro shouldn’t have said if he’d had a son he’d look like Trayvon, and AntiFa most definitely IS a terrorist organization which needs to be stamped out like an infestation of fire ants in your back yard.

We all get disappointed in things from time to time, angry even, maybe vengeful . . . but we tend to get over it when we realize that destruction of property is a crime, looting is a crime, and going Mau-Mau can get your ass killed, so we bite our tongues, take a deep breath, kick a doorframe, and get on with life.

If blacks think that a death triggered by a cop during an arrest in a guy with a congenital defect is bad, wait ‘til we go into a REAL lockdown – martial law. And that’s what they’re sucking around for, whether they realize it or not.

The real solution here is to kick all the professional career politicians out of offices, wherever they’re found, and for the black community to come up with a few leaders of its own to inject some reality and common sense into feral school dropouts and welfare junkies.

NOBODY has had a rougher time in the past 100 years than Japanese Americans during the 40s. But when was the last time we saw a riot with Japanese, or Koreans, or Filipinos, or Chinese, or even Mexicans? Puerto Ricans, yeah . . . every so often; Cubans, yeah . . . a time or two. But blacks? Every time somebody needs a new flat screen or thinks burning a police cruiser will make his life better.

From Gary.

My teacher asked me what my favorite animal was and I said, “Fried Chicken.”

She said I wasn’t funny but she couldn’t have been right because everyone laughed. My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.

I told my dad what happened and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much.

I do too. Especially chicken, pork, and beef.

Anyway my teacher sent me to the principal’s office. I told him what happened and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.

The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was.

Told her it was chicken.

She asked me why.

I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.

She sent me back to the principal’s office. He laughed and told me not to do it again.

I don’t understand. My parents told me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.

Today my teacher asked me to tell her what famous military man I admired the most.

I told her, “Colonel Sanders.”

Guess where the fuck I am now…

Pretty freaking dumb. I am, of course, talking about the Fake News Media. They think we’re really stupid.

How dumb do they think we are? During the Obungler years they kept trying to convince us what a great president Obumbler was and how great his economy was. Remember “green shoots”? Remember “recovery summer”? And the anemic growth was the “new normal”.

How dumb do they think we are? Then they turned around and tried to convince us that the Trump recovery wasn’t so hot and anyway it was Oboner’s doing. Trump had nothing to do with it.

How dumb do they think we are? Remember for eight years all we heard was how beautiful Moochelle was? Look at those toned arms. JHFC! Moochelle is built like and NFL linebacker and she is certainly not beautiful. Compared to Melania, who is a true beauty, Moochelle is a skank.

How dumb do they think we are? The Obongo administration was scandal free. We had Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, Crooked Cankles server, and the biggest scandal of all, Obamagate. We had a sitting president weaponize, the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ and use them to spy on a presidential candidate. This scandal makes Watergate look like a Sunday school picnic, yet the Fake News Media isn’t interested in this. They have participated in covering this up.

How dumb do they think we are? For the last three years they have perpetuated a hoax that somehow Trump colluded with Russia to win the election. They even gave themselves Pulitzer Prizes for perpetuating this hoax. Turns out none of it was true.

How dumb do they think we are? Bombshells.

After all of these “bombshells” Trump is still president.

How dumb do they think we are? All the reporting on the Kung Flu has been a crock. The Fake News Media fed us a bunch of bullshit and we ruined our economy because of it. They are lionizing Vito Cuomo for his incompetence in dealing with the pandemic while castigating Ron DeSantis and other red state governors for their response. Plus, they’re trying to hang the deaths of over 100,000 Americans on Trump. Over 2/3 of the deaths have occurred in blue states. Somehow that’s Trump’s fault. Remember when he wanted to limit travel from China and he was called xenophobic and a racist by these same people?

How dumb do they think we are? The riots that we are seeing are peaceful. Some dude on MSDNC actually said this with a burning building in the back ground. Yeah. They think you are that dumb. Of course, if you are watching MSDNC you are dumb. Same goes for CNN. Or CBSNBCABCPBS. Soon FOX News will join that club as well.

How dumb do they think we are? White supremacists and the Russians are behind the riots? WTF? Yep. People in the Fake News Media are actually saying this. Yep! Those white people in those riots aren’t ANTIFA, they’re white supremacists helping those feral Africans burn and loot. The Russians are behind this not George Soros. Only an idiot could say that and only and idiot could believe it but you have the Fake News Media spewing out this bullshit.

How dumb do they think we are? Pretty freaking dumb.

Russ sends me puns as well as boobage.

Just heard this on the radio.