A few weeks ago I was watching a rerun of The Mentalist and there was a blind woman playing Bach’s Prelude in C Major on the piano. So naturally, I tried to find someone playing it on the guitar and I posted it for my Saturday Bach. I made an offhand remark about learning it on the piano since it appeared to be relatively easy. Play two notes with the left hand and then three notes with the right hand twice. How hard could that be? Claudia commented that if I lived close to her she could teach it to me in a week. No way! Or, in my exact words, “Wrongo!” I was wrong.

I downloaded the sheet music from the web and I found a tutorial on YouTube. I’ve been working on it for a week-and-a-half on my own, and I can play it all the way through now so just think what Claudia could have had me do in a week. I could have really used her help with the fingering at the very end but I just worked that out about ten minutes ago.

I’ve played the piano more this past week-and-a-half than I have for the last 28 years. I guess it’s time to relearn Bach’s two Minuets in G. I also once knew how to play both of them on the guitar and I got tab for that. My BIL gave me his old classical guitar and it’s amazing how much easier classical music is to play on it.

Here is Bach’s Prelude in G Major.

If I get real ambitious, I’ll relearn The Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. I could actually play that 28 years ago.

Thanks Toejam.

Needless to say, Ron has a few words.

A few questions and some recommendations in the wake of the most recent non-terrorist terrorism against freedom of speech in a republic:

How much fargin longer will it be ‘til we play Cowboys and Muslims?

I’d like to see it sooner rather than later, especially those assholes at CAIR who want us to tolerate their bullshit but refuse to tolerate us and our customs. Remember, in Saudi Arabia there are no Christian churches or Jewish synagogues and it is a crime to possess a Bible. Let’s reciprocate by not allowing any mosques and making it a crime to possess a Koran.

Or better yet, how much fargin longer will it be ‘til the ‘moderate’ Muslims do something about the imams fomenting this crap in America?

The ‘moderate Mooslime” is a myth just like a conservative Dimocrat. A moderate Mooslime is a heretic in Islam.

Even more basic, how much fargin longer will it be ‘til enough Muslims are in the legislature to amend our Corpus Juris Civil?

Why IS it that so many allegedly intelligent people in this country cannot comprehend that the very nature of Islam with its arcane set of demands and commands is inimical to our system of freedom and independence?

Because liberalism is a mental disease. It’s amazing that the farookin’ feminists preach toleration of Islam, a religion that treats women like chattel and in some Mooslime societies practices genital mutilation on girls.

Why IS it that we continue to permit a closet Islamist who already has declared that he “will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” to have the slightest involvement in how our nation is managed?

Because American voters thought it would heal racial tensions and absolve white guilt by electing a black president. How’s that workin’ out?

And why IS it that Hassan and KSM and Tsarnaev are still contaminating the air?

Good question.

Goddamit, any person who goes to join or expresses the intent to go join Al Qaeda or ISIS or the Taliban in any country in the Middle East is no longer eligible for American citizenship and ESPECIALLY not a US passport.

Totally agree with that.

And anyone who performs acts of terrorism against US interests or citizens is an enemy of the people; anyone with US citizenship who performs such acts is a traitor. Such threats to the peace and security of the nation and its citizens not only warrant but DEMAND the death penalty so that they can go immediately to whatever imaginary afterlife they envision and deal with those seventy-two Virginians.

And I’m all for rounding up all those Mooslimes living here who hate this country and our laws and customs and sending them back to the shitholestans they came from. Let’s start with the Somalis in Minnesota, like the cab drivers who refuse to take blind passengers with seeing eye dogs or passengers with alcohol. Or the checkout women in stores who refuse to scan bacon. Condition of employment. Here’s a free ride on a C-130. We’ll drop you off 30,000 feet above Somalia.

You simply cannot trust someone who stunts his culture’s brainpower, keeps women wrapped up in death shrouds, prays to a non-existent moon god by raising his butt in somebody else’s face, and wipes his ass with his hand but considers anyone who eats bacon to be unclean.

Compare the number of Mooslimes who have won a Nobel Prize (Peace Prize does not count) to the number of Jews. Not even close. Islam was a religion created by an insane pedophile to unite the Arab tribes on the Arabian Peninsula. It is mired in the 7th Century and practiced by barbarian savages.

When I was a kid, we cleaned house each spring to get rid of accumulated dirt, dust, animal hair, and unwanted pests. Hey, spring is not far away, folks; I say let’s get out the brooms . . . and the ropes . . . and the tar . . . and the 12 gauges.

Get out the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. I’ll bring the feathers and the chips and dip. Working party assemble at the mall. Sand fleas beware.

Catfish sent me this one.

You just gotta remember that Obumbler is simply a cleaner and more articulate (to paraphrase Crazy Uncle Joe) version of Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton. He is a white hating, race-baiting, racist. It’s as simple as that.

So that wonderful “religion of peace” showed its true colors today in France. I got an email from a reader who comments as Marksman2000 who wrote sumpin’ that pretty much captures my thoughts on the matter.

When I woke this morning and read the news, I was shocked—but then again, I wasn’t. You know, Denny, I don’t like fanatics of any kind. As a child, when I’d see these old black-and-white films of Elvis Presley performing and girls in the audience screaming as if set afire before passing out unconscious, I could see that some people simply were not capable of curbing their emotions. For some people, sex is their Achille’s Heel. For others, it’s gambling. And for others, it’s religion, specifically Islam. Twelve people slaughtered for what? A cartoon? Denny, more and more I’m starting to agree with you on this issue. A religion of peace? That’s almost comical—if so much murder hadn’t been carried out in the name of God.

If French and British and American lawmakers were smart, they would immediately exile every Muslim inside their countries. Burn the mosques, ban the Quran, and tell those goat-fucking, rag-headed fanatics to get the hell out before we push them into the ocean. But we won’t do that. We’re tolerant. And these rag-heads take advantage of that. What a way to reciprocate, eh, Denny?

Once upon a time, when I thought of France, glimpses of wine and cheese and all kinds of art flashed through my mind. Now look. Now look at what they have over there.

I’m not a visual artist, not even enough to be a cartoonist, but I am a published writer. Perhaps I should start publishing my own satire with Islam in the crosshairs. Perhaps I could make it a tribute to the workers at Charlie Hebdo. If the goat-fuckers get their feelings hurt, let them come over here and get a taste. I don’t wear the handle “Marksman2000” for nothing…

Take care, Denny. Please publish more anti-rag-head material soon.

And now let’s wait for CAIR speaking out worrying about an “anti-Muslim backlash” but not condemning the killing done in their moon god’s name. And we’ll have liberal Mooslime apologists saying that not all Mooslimes are terrorists and “Islam is a religion of peace” which is total bullshit. Islam has never been a religion of peace. It was spread by fire and sword.

Maybe it’s time to start playing Cowboys and Mooslimes.

Another round of Arctic air is about to hit us. Gonna get cold here in the Deep South and really cold in the Midwest. I wonder how long it will be until some AGW true believer tells us that the cold weather is due to warming at the North Pole which is pushing this cold air south? They actually said that last year with the dreaded Polar Vortex.

Some rocket scientists in the Atlanta city gummint thought it would be a really neat idea to bring back streetcars. Yannow there is a reason that streetcars went away in this country. They were too expensive and no one rode them but it seems that old is new again to liberals and that is why we have bird killing inefficient windmills generating electricity.

Anyhoo, the Einsteins in Atlanta city gummint built a streetcar line that consists of a 2.7 mile loop in downtown Atlanta. It runs from Centennial Olympic Park to the King Center (a distance of about a mile) and back in a 2.7 mile loop. It was originally gonna cost about $68 million and begin running last summer but due to unforeseen circumstances it cost an additional $30 million and didn’t open until December 30. Over budget and behind schedule on a gummint program. I’m shocked! It’s gonna be free for the first three months and then cost a buck a ride after that. Streetcars will run every fifteen minutes to take people from Centennial Olympic Park to the King Center, a route they can walk in twenty minutes. City officials claim it will be jammed with tourists. It only cost around $36.3 million a mile. My prediction? Within the next five years they will tear up the tracks and repave the streets. This will be about as successful as the miniature golf course and arcade they opened up by Turner Field. It lost money from the get go just like the Atlanta Streetcar will.

Toejam sent me this.

Sloth and irresponsibility are rewarded while hard work is penalized and then when those of us who have busted our ass want to keep more of what we have earned we are called greedy. Meanwhile Nyquilia and Tylenolia with their 15 kids say someone needs to take responsibility when there is a glitch in the Food Stamp program. WTF is wrong with this picture?

Yannow how I became a SRF? I busted my ass and this was AFTER I became a cripple. I didn’t want anyone to say that the only reason I had a job was because of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). I outworked my peers and they knew it. For a few years I worked two full time jobs. I was a systems programmer but I saw some opportunities and wrote classes that I taught and I delivered more teach days than many full time instructors. I traveled all over the country teaching while still maintaining all of the operating systems I was responsible for. Fortunately, I worked for a manager who realized what I did and compensated me accordingly. I also received many awards during that period. I saved and invested and didn’t live beyond my means but I did live very well as I still do. But liberals call me greedy because I want to keep more of the money I earned and don’t want to have to support sloth and irresponsibility.

Thomas and John both sent me the latest Pearls Before Swine pun.

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Howza ’bout Vivaldi’s Winter by a rock band.