Another giant gone.

A great blues guitarist. I saw him once in the early 70’s. I took this babe to see Rare Earth and King was the warmup act. She asked me who B.B. King was.

“What? You never heard of B.B. King?” (She was only 18 and I think she only listened to top 40 AM radio. This was the early 70’s before FM took over.)

“Nope. Is he any good?”

I told her that a lot of big names in rock had been influenced by him, people like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones.

Then, when she saw the large band start to play she thought this was gonna be her parents’ music. The band played for a minute or two until King strolled on to the stage and started to play. It was a great set. After he walked off the stage after his encore she turned to me and said, “That guy was good. He was nothing like I expected.” I’m glad I broadened her musical horizons somewhat. Unfortunately, I got nowhere with her. That was our only date.

Great blues! Fantastic musician. He could really make Lucille sing. He was 89 years old. Had a good long life. Gave us a lot of great blues music.

He was in his late 70’s in this clip.

Another giant gone.

Another one from Roman.

A police officer stops an uninformed voter for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her driver’s license.

She replied in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together! Just yesterday you took my licence away, and, now, today you expect me to show it to you?”

I think Toejam has bought a new computer so I’m posting this pic Catfish sent me just for him. (more…)

Make it stop! Make it stop! The assholiness, it hurts! Wow! So many assholes, so little time.

Didja hear that Sandra Fluke was back? This is really asshattery and nutbagery to go along with assholiness. I heard about this on the radio this afternoon.

Speaking on NPR’s internet public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica, Fluke was asked her opinion on the situation in rural Nigeria, where Islamists are holding around 250 school girls hostage, threatening to sell them into sexual slavery (or worse) if the government does not release numerous political prisoners they want to see freed from jail. Addressing the matter of the radical group Boko Haram, which as killed, bombed and kidnapped people before and has the lowest opinion of women, Fluke told KCRW host Madeleine Brand on her afternoon show Press Play that the girls being held captive by the militants should “count themselves lucky” they weren’t being held captive by Republicans or working for Republican lawmakers.

“I must say that as dire and barbaric as these Boko militants in Nigeria seem, we have to remember that if these girls are released and come to America as political refugees, they could end up working for Republican lawmakers here in California or in Washington, or end up living in a Red state in the South, which would no doubt make them wish they were still in the clutches of militant al-Qaeda-linked rapist terrorists,” Fluke told Brand.

WTF? This even astonished the interviewer on the National Proletariat Radio station.

As unsurprisingly liberal as NPR and KCRW are in their politics, even host Madeleine Brand was taken aback by Fluke’s response, reiterating her question: “You mean that you would prefer that these girls be held in bondage and sold as sex slaves rather than live in a Republican state in the U.S., or work on a Republican politician’s staff?”

“Or worse, they could live in Utah!” quickly replied Fluke. “You know they have arranged marriages in Utah, and an only 10-child-per-family policy? Utah has the Great Salt Lake, too. Salt is bad for you, it makes your blood pressure rise and leads to heart disease. That’s very unhealthy. And who likes unhealthy people? –Republicans! …I think that the kidnapped girls in Nigeria would find themselves in even a worse situation here being around Republicans than they’re in right now.”

Liberalism really is a mental disease. I only wish we could send this loony leftie to Nigeria and have her experience the hospitality of the Boko Harem Mooslime savages.

Update: This appears to be satire. Not only did I get punked on this but one of the local talk show hosts in Atlanta did as well.

Next up is Moochelle. She gave a commencement speech at Tuskogee University and whined about how hard she has had it being black in America. JHFC! She has had everything handed to her due to her skin color. She got an Ivy League education and she is married to a black dude who is the most powerful man in the world. Doesn’t she ever get tired from carrying around that chip the size of a two by four on her shoulder? There is no other country in the world where she could have achieved what she has in this country.

Update: One of the features writers for the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation wrote a column today saying she agreed with Moochelle. Guess her skin color. If you said black, you got it in one. I am sick and tired of these people bitching about being watched when they enter stores because the employees think they might be shoplifters. Or car door locks clicking. Or moving to the other side of the street. There’s a reason for that sweetie. Blacks commit the majority of crime in this country. In the big cities it’s even worse. In St. Louis alone, which is 43% black, over 85% of violent crimes are committed by black people. It wasn’t white people rioting in Baltimore. And they managed to shut down a ballpark and for the first time had a major league baseball game played in an empty stadium. Tell your fellow blacks to clean up their act and you won’t experience profiling by white people. When I’m in my car and I see a crowd of black people, I lock my car. In her eyes that makes me a racist.

And then, of course, we have Dimocrats like Chuck the schmuck Schumer racing to microphones to say the Amtrak accident could have been prevented if only Republicans hadn’t cut spending on Amtrak. The most dangerous place in DC is between Schumer and a microphone. Amtrak spending had nothing to do with the dude going over 100 MPH when he should have been going 50 MPH.

But, I have to give the award this week to this racist bitch. Here are some of her recent tweets.

She is an incoming professor at Boston University. Guess what she’s gonna teach? If you guessed African-American studies you guessed right. So Boston University is hiring a blatantly white-hating racist. Wouldn’t you just love to spend $23K a year sending your kids to BU? As to the validity of her tweets.

Update: Chris in the comments informed me that it costs $65K ($47K tuition) to attend BU.

Um…no? So I guess a history lesson is in order:

First off, Arabs, not “whites” did much of the slave trading in Africa. They also did much of the transportation of those African slaves, an estimated 10-18 million people. Whites didn’t “invent” the idea of transportation, nor did they do this on their own.

And, it wasn’t just Africans who were enslaved by Arabs, but an estimated 1 million + Europeans were also taken as slaves by Arabs. Barbary pirates did a lot of that.

Continuing, slaves were transported from India to Central Asia by Muslims, centuries before the first African was transported by white or Arab slave traders.

There are many more examples of slave transport throughout history besides these. Perhaps if Ms. Grundy took a history class she would know this problem transcends all races, cultures, and geographic locations, and even still continues today with global transportation in the human trafficking industry.

I couldn’t have stated that better myself. Plus, it was white Europeans who banned slavery. And then white Americans fought a war to abolish slavery. Guess where slavery still exists? In black Africa among many other places. And, it was black Africans who captured other black Africans and sold them to the white and Arab slave traders on the coast. Whites and Arabs never went into the interior of Africa to find slaves. They didn’t have to. It’s ironic that we have blacks converting to Islam when slavery still exists in some Islamic cultures. But wait! There’s more.

In regards to slavery for generations (which she says is only something white people did as well): Again, Muslims enslaved Indians who they considered “infidels” for centuries, whites and others were traded in the Ottoman Empire for centuries, and it wasn’t just whites who owned black slaves in the Americas either, but other blacks, Native Americans, and of course what we would today call Hispanics in Latin or Central America, which had large slave trades and agricultural industries as well. Generational black slavery in the Americas was not something only done by whites. The notion is absurd.

Read even more examples of this deranged woman’s white-hating racism at the linked site. She has obviously spent way too much time listening to Blackie O. Can you imagine what would happen to a white professor ranting and raving about black people this way? He wouldn’t be able to get a teaching job anywhere.

The article ends with these two salient points.

1. This is only a few months. If others want to do the leg work, there is certainly much more to be found in her past tweets.

2. Parents who are sending their kids to college should be aware of what the standard for faculty is at Boston University. Apparently, VERY low.

But BU is hiring an award winning teacher. Saida Grundy has just won the AOTW Award.

Yes. Today marks my 30th year in Atlanta. I started work here in IBM hardware education on May 16th 1985.

Back in early May, I flew down from St. Louis to interview for a job in education. When I started working for the IBM Field Engineering Division in 1978, my account was McDonnell Douglas Automation which was the largest data processing center in St. Louis and one of the largest in the country. We had 26 full time customer engineers. I was 14th in seniority. By 1985 we were down to 14 CEs and I was 13th in seniority. IBM was a victim of its own success. Processors and I/O had gotten smaller, faster, and more reliable. They were gonna cut headcount even more, not by layoffs but by promotions and buyouts. Also, by this time FE had merged with the Mattel Division Office Products Division which I had left back in 1977 under a black cloud. A friend of mine had pulled some strings and got me out of OP and into FE. The money was better and it was more professional. Now, I saw some of those managers who didn’t like me getting closer to me so I figgered it was time to get out of Dodge.

At the Atlanta Education Center, they were looking for 3081 (top of the line mainframe) instructors. I was support trained on that processor. There were two types of training. Product which was basic and support which was more in depth. I was also support trained on mass storage (an early tape library) which this manager also managed. To top it off, I was product trained on 3800 (high speed laser printer) also run by this manager. I showed up in a navy blue three piece Brooks Brothers suit, white shirt, and conservative tie. I had also gotten a haircut. I arrived early. The interview went well. An hour after I left the building, the manager was on the phone with my manager offering me the job.

I got back to St. Louis the next day and my manager called me at home. “What did you do in Atlanta?”

“What?”

“He called me right after the interview and wants to hire you.”

I explained that there were certain conditions. I had to have three weeks off in September because we were gonna take a trip to Greece and spend ten days on a sailboat sailing the Greek Islands and then take a bus tour of Greece. With travel it would require three weeks. During the interview I had told him that and he said he would work with me. Jeff, my manager, told me he would take care of it. I also told him I wasn’t sure whether I would be a temp instructor to see if I liked the job or go ahead and make it permanent. Jeff told me he had told him he would take me temp or permanent. I realized permanent would be the best way to go because it would get me promoted from associate instructor to instructor earlier. So, Jeff called him back and said I would take the job but I had to have the three weeks of in September. Eugene, the Atlanta manager said he would work with me on it. Jeff said that was not good enough. No three weeks, no Denny.

I got the three weeks and a 10 percent raise. I went permanent. That was the right decision. I made full instructor in nine months. That was three months earlier than normal, but, I taught 3081, 3084, and mass storage. I was his only instructor who taught three different classes. Another instructor started with me as a temporary instructor. He didn’t go permanent until three months after he started and it took him a year to make instructor. By going permanent, I was six months ahead of him.

I wasn’t planning on staying in Atlanta for 30 years. This was only supposed to be a way station to the job that I really wanted, Systems Engineer. I became an instructor to get presentation skills. But stuff happened. Instructor was a training ground for management. Most instructors were on a path to management. Not me. No way! No how!

Eighteen months after I started, my manager came up to me in lab and told me he wanted to start sending me out on management interviews. At this time I was his fair-haired boy. Made instructor early. Taught multiple classes and got good reviews from students. I told him I thought there had to be two years between moving and living expenses, i.e. IBM paying for employee transfers. (Remember, IBM used to stand for I’ve Been Moved) He told me that could be waived and I was ready to go.

“Nope. I don’t want to be a manager.”

It was like I slapped him in the face. I immediately went on his shit list. Fortunately, I only worked for him for another nine months. Mass Storage training was shutdown, and 3081 training was slowing down as well since customers were moving to the next generation processor, the 3090. They needed more 3090 instructors so I moved over to that program and had a different manager.

As it turned out, it was a good thing I did not become a field manager. In the first two years I worked as an instructor, we sent out over 50 people to become field managers. But, we were cutting headcount out in the field and all of a sudden, we didn’t need any more field managers. In fact, a lot of them tried to come back and be instructors again.

I never did become a systems engineer and that was a good thing. Lots of SE jobs were cut. During the nineteen-and-a-half years I worked for IBM here in Atlanta, I worked in the same building with a variety of different jobs. After my accident, I had an opportunity to move into programming, and I taught programming as well as being a systems programmer. There were a few years where my official job title was programmer but I carried more teach days than many fulltime instructors. It kept me employed while many instructors got resource actioned or workload balanced out of jobs. There were a lot of 60 hour weeks. There was some traveling involved. Two years running I made Medallion level at Delta Airlines by June. Got a lot of first class upgrades. They were easier to get back then. I was able to upgrade any flight over a thousand miles to first class. During this time when I was working my butt off I worked for a great manager who took care of me. Great raises and awards every year. It’s amazing how many managers don’t know how to motivate people. The better care of me he took, the harder I worked.

Speaking of the building I worked at, it was built in 1983 for education. They moved the Kingston New York training to Atlanta. Likewise, the training in Washington DC and Chicago. They consolidated it all in this one building. They eventually moved all of the hardware used to support customer education into this building. Now, there is no IBM presence at all in that building. Hardware training is now in Boulder Colorado and the hardware supporting customer education is in Montpellier France.

I have a lot of fond memories of that building from being a hardware instructor, a software instructor, and a systems programmer. Nineteen-and-a-half years of my thirty-one-and-a-half year career with IBM was spent working in that building. It was a beautiful building nestlied in a wooded area. I think the manager responsible for building it and consolidating hardware education in that building and who ran education there for three years is dead and gone. I know he would have hated to see IBM education leave it.

Thirty years in Atlanta. Almost half my life. I can’t believe I’ve lived in GOC Central in Beautiful Dunwoody for seventeen years. They sure have passed by quickly.

Toejam sent me this story.

It just got surreal. George Washington University Law School Professor John Banzhaf filed a human rights complaint to the D.C. Office of Human Rights against Catholic University for hindering Muslim students’ free exercise of their faith due to the “excessive” amount of “Catholic imagery” on the campus. It seems that this man – who teaches at a different school across town – thinks that Catholic University’s adherence to the cultural aspects of Catholicism (we have a lot of artwork, Crucifixes, and statues in every nook and crany) keeps muslim students from praying the required five times a day.

WTF? This is a Catholic university. I would expect there to be crosses all over the place. The big WTF here is what are Mooslimes doing at a Catholic university in the first place? Of course there are crosses and other symbols of the Catholic Church. It’s a freakin’ Catholic university fer chrissakes! JHFC! It’s also pointed out in the article that none of the Mooslime students have complained. It’s this idiot professional protester professor who filed the complaint.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the university caves and creates a special praying area for the Mooslime students. Why not. The Catholic Church now has a rat bastard commie as Pope who is buying into the liberation theology BS. The anti-communist pope, John Paul II, is prolly spinning in his grave. And now Pope Francis just recognized a Palestinian state. Yannow, the same Palestinians who are driving Christians out of their territory. The same Palestinians who defaced the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Pope Francis, you are a big disappointment. You are a midget compared to John Paul II.

…high on Cocaine
Casey Jones, you better watch your speed. – The Grateful Dead.

Didja hear that the engineer of the Amtrak train was driving 100 MPH in a 50 MPH zone? Who did he think he was, Casey Jones?

Update: I’m not saying he was coked up. This was just a good place to insert a Grateful Dead song.

Didja hear the news? Obungler is gonna build his presidential library on Chicago’s South Side. Right. Put a library somewhere where most of the populace can’t read. And just think, you can get mugged entering or leaving the building. And you better take the El since your car will prolly be stripped while you’re inside.

Saw this over at Daily Pundit.

Surprise! More Prefer Gay President That Evangelical Christian President

Here’s a weird idea. Instead of voting for a president based on Diversity (All Hail Diversity!), why don’t we elect a president based on qualifications for the job. Skin color has nothing to do with competence. How’s that dude we elected based on his skin color doing? Six years later the economy is still tepid. The last quarter that had a miniscule .2 percent growth rate will actually turn out to have a negative growth rate. We have been in a recession for the past six years despite what the gummint has reported with their phony numbers. We have the lowest job participation in my lifetime. The gummint unemployment rate is nowhere near as low as they are telling us since they don’t report the people who have given up looking for work. The actual unemployment rate is over 12 percent. Obummercare is a job killer. It has not held down costs as Obungler and the Dimocrats promised. When Oblunder leaves office he will have added over $6 trillion to the national debt which has been wasted since we’re still in a recession and the job participation rate is at a record low. Race relations have been set back fifty years. Wat a wonderful record for our first black president. And to top it all off, blacks did far better under Reagan and both Bushes than they have done under their wonderful Obamessiah.

Now, the Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) crowd is telling us that it’s time to elect a vagina, only it has to be a Dimocrat vagina. Just like conservative blacks, like Clarence Thomas or Condi Rice are not real blacks, conservative vaginas like Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina, are not real vaginas.

Here’s the deal. I don’t give a flying fuck about sex, skin color, or sexual orientation. That is not what counts in a leader. What counts is competence. Somehow, in this age of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) that’s been forgotten. That’s why we have a SCoaMf running this country. That’s why the Dimocrats are trying to sell us the PIAP by saying it’s high time we had a liberal vagina in the White House. Competence? Who needs it? Obviously, we no longer care about it.

We’re doomed

Ron wrote a quick little post on Cankles with comments from me in italics. .

Year-and-a-half still to go, and already I’m sick and tired of hearing about HC.

Hillary Clinton has never run a town, city, county, or state during her “career” as Slick’s wife. She has 8 years’ experience in the White House, but so does the cook, the housekeepers, the Secret Service guys, and the people who answer the phones.

There’s an email going around comparing the PIAP to Bret Favre’s wife stating that since she was married to Bret during his career she should be the new QB of the Packers. Makes about as much sense as TRT being prez.

Her signature achievement as SecState was allowing a US ambassador to be murdered while she chanted the regime mantra that terrorism was on the run. Her own famous statement pretty well sums up her tenure at State: “What difference does it make?”

Lying, hypocrisy, selfishness, pandering, and controversy are the foundations of her entire adult life. The e-mail hypocrisy she established and hid behind was deliberately designed as a CYA strategy for precisely the sorts of scandals she’s gotten herself involved in, especially Benghazi-gate and the Clinton Foundation funding subterfuge.

In a sane world, both BJ and TRT would be in jail.

Other than name recognition and gender, she has exactly zero qualifications for PotUS candidacy. Her only appeal is “It’s about time we had a female president.”

We tried that crap with our first black president. How’s that working out? Wouldn’t it be nice if we selected someone for his/her qualifications rather than skin color, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity?

Both her work and private history comprise enough baggage to fill every C-130 and C-5 the US military can muster up, but except for one or two obligatory remarks by the NYT, the mainstream media consider all her mistakes, shortcomings, and failures “old news” and refuse to cover them.

Right now, since she has no legitimate competition for the Dem nomination, she’s content to stall, stonewall, and simply avoid answering questions of import and substance. After her coronation as the nominee, though, she’ll have to begin prepping for genuine debates with whatever victim the RNC comes up with to run against her.

And in a debate, she comes armed with zilch. She couldn’t debate her way out of the simplest questions concerning real issues, such as national defense spending or same-sex marriage or immigration reform or debt reduction or anything that matters.

She is a deficient debater, an awful author, a soporific speaker, and a frumpy female. My prediction is that the Clinton Foundation has a team of researchers already digging into the lives of anyone who could possibly run against her as the Dem nominee as well as those likely to get the GOP nod.

And if they don’t find something scandalous or illegal, they’ll do exactly what Harry Reid did to Romney: generate a baseless rumor for their attack dogs to repeat so often in the alphabet networks that it takes on a life of its own and undercuts anyone with the temerity to challenge her right to the PotUSy.

Hillary is getting old. And she has old ideas, old tactics, old scandals, old baggage. Basically, she’s old news herself. What great fun it would be to have Congress hold her to the same standards that everyone outside of Boston would hold Tom Brady to. But waiting for that to happen is like waiting for Al Gore’s AGW to drown half the people on the planet with glacier melt.

Hillary Clinton is overrated. She’s overhyped. She’s overpromoted, overvalued, overconfident, overpriced, overbearing, overreaching, overpaid, over-age, and overweight.

For the good of the nation and probably the entire planet, I think she should be overlooked as a PotUS candidate, and if nominated, overruled. If elected, she should be overthrown.