Ron sent me the following email titled The US SUPREME SCROTUM: (Maybe we should start calling it the SCROTUS)

Yeah, knowatchamean. Been slowly cleanin out the fridge & freezers while Reggie’s off on her road trip. Found some chicken thighs and made myself a pot of adobo. Little dry, but not bad. Both dogs almost dry from their mornin bath, so I lay on the bed for a li’l nap and heard about the follow-up SCotUS uppercut after yesterday’s purely political 6-3 rabbit punch.

Made me think . . . some time back this nation built a transcontinental railroad at a time when no roads at all existed to get the materials on site.

Built the Panama Canal, which a leftie PotUS later gave away, for nothin.

Built Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges back when they said it was impossible.

Those projects would come in late and over budget today due to unions, OSHA, and the EPA. Look at how long it’s taking to rebuild the western part of the Oakland – Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Is it done yet? Look what replaced the World Trade Center in NYC. One sissy building compared to the Twin Towers.

Built the first atomic bomb and first nuclear power generators.

And now nuke plants always come in late and over budget like the additional reactor the Southern Company is building at Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

Built so many aircraft carriers I’ve lost track of the sequential numbers.

And I just read that now we are gonna contract with foreign ships because we do not have enough ships to transport our Marines.

Built a space shuttle system and an orbiting platform.

And now we have to buy slots on Russia’s Soyez capsules to put men in space and we never built a high orbit space station and the ISS will eventually crash into the ocean. We were too busy subsidizing poverty and trying to elevate blacks into the middle class.

And now we can’t build a friggin thing anymore. A 13% fragment of our society generates 70% of the crime and has an illegitimate birth rate even higher than that.

Dat be raycisss! But we elected a black man as president to prove we weren’t racist. That wasn’t enough. Now we’re gonna have to ban the Confederate flag. That won’t be enough. Our black Taliban will prolly have us blow up the carving at Stone Mountain here in Georgia. That won’t be enough. Howza ’bout reparations. That won’t be enough. It will never be enough. BTW, Fred has a great column on “White Supremacy” and “White Privilege”. He says he would glady pay reparations but in return, blacks would have to pay license fees to enjoy all of the stuff that white civilization has created.

Now, Cornel, I have often heard blacks demanding reparations for slavery. All right. I agree. It is only fair. I will pay a half-million dollars to each of my slaves, and free them immediately. I am not sure how many I have, but will try to give you an estimate in even dozens. Further, I believe that all blacks are entitled to a similar amount for every year in which they were slaves.

However, I think you owe us royalties for the use of our civilization, which can be regarded as a sort of software. There should be a licensing fee. After all, every time you use a computer, or a door knob, you are using something invented by us. Every time you sharpen a pencil, or use one, or read or write, you infringe our copyright, so to speak. We have spent millennia coming up with things–literacy, soap, counting–and it is only fair that we receive recompense.

The accounting burden would be excessive if we tried to distribute royalties in too fine a granularity, such as three cents per use of a boom box or a Glock, so we should probably use a bundled approach–so much per year for use of the wheel, refrigerator, and television. The amount could be deducted first from reparations payments and then automatically from EFT cards.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Here’s an idea. Instead of reparations, why not repatriations? After all, they insist on being called African-Americans, I guess to honor their African heritage or sumpin’ like that. Me? I’m proud to be just an American. Not an English-American. Not a German-American. Not even an European-American. Just an American. Since they like the African so much, even going so far as making up names that sound African, why not just a one way ticket to the African nation of their choice? We’ll even make it first class. So many of them hate the America white people created. Let’s let them live in the countries their ancestors created.

But I digress. Back to Ron.

We can’t protect our southern border, and we’re so far in debt we couldn’t get out if every industrialized nation on the planet went bankrupt except us.

We have become the land of the gay and the home of the broke.

Our allies don’t trust us and our enemies think we’re a joke. (rhyme accidental)

I wouldn’t know how to explain or apologize to Ben and Tom and George and Sam if I ran into ’em. Glad I don’t have to.

Speaking of Ben.

From one of Ron’s friends and what inspired his email.

When asked by a woman at the end of the Constitutional convention what they had given the country Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” We didn’t. We’re done. A dictatorship within the next 20 to 50 years. Obungler is showing someone just how easy it will be just like Marius and Sulla showed Caesar how easy it would be to take over the Roman gummint and be dictator for life.

Update: Dudley1 posted the following in the comments.

America has probably lasted longer then our founders envisioned but not nearly as long as it should have. when England declined & yielded its position of supremacy in the world ….the United States a nation guided by freedom & democratic principles was here to assume the mantle of leadership which allowed for the world to continue to advance for the benefit of any who championed freedom & independence. What we have given to the world will be remembered for centuries by those who survive the coming collapse of America
Future societies will ponder as to why the American people allowed this the greatest nation the world has ever known to decline & fall. Are humans always destined to fail? It certainly appears to be so if one thinks of all the civilizations which have failed with none to have ever survived the success they initially achieved.
Just who will be Americas successor & become the worlds leading super power? China, India, a revived Russia or a world wide Muslim Caliphate founded on the Islamic code, all come to mind with unimaginable consequences. It certainly appears likely the experiment with Freedom , Liberty & human rights is coming to an end.
The truth is there is no Country dedicated to any of the principles which created & guided this country is available & in a position to replace America & keep the concept of freedom , a belief for human rights& independent thought or actions going forward.
The brave new world envisioned by many will not be brave …tyrannical & savage is more likely & as for new?…..The Tyranny & Savagery is anything but new.
We are doomed!

Which gives me yet another opportunity to post the following Heinlein quote:

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

The people who created this country and took it to the heights of its prosperity and power were white people mostly from Northern Europe, namely England and Germany. My mother’s side of the family is 100% German. My father’s side is 100% English. One of my ancestors on my father’s side came over on the Speedwell, which followed the Mayflower. I’m also descended from Charlemagne which is no big thing since about 75% of Europeans are as well. Which is the group of people most vilified in this country today? White people. The same people who settled this country and created the wealth and the power and the civilization of the United States of America. The same people who won teo world wars. The same people who put men on the moon. This was before NASA’s mission was changed to honoring Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and Mooslime outreach. Now we can’t even send people into space. We have to pay Russia to do that. Eventually white people will be a minority in this country and this civilization will collapse. This will be “bad luck”. And it will prolly be blamed on white people.

Chris Squire, the only bass player Yes ever had and the only member to appear in all the different incarnations of Yes just died of cancer. He was only 67. I didn’t realize he was younger than I am. He was always my least favorite member of Yes but I’m not all that big on bass players. I remember reading of a former member of Yes say that he was a pain in the ass and took forever to tune his bass guitar. It could have been Bill Bruford, the best drummer Yes ever had who left the band for two reasons: He didn’t like the structured playing and preferred improvisation so he left the band and joined up with Robert Fripp in King Crimson and kissed his commercial success good-bye. The second reason was he said the rest of the band were a bunch of “carrot chompers” (vegetarians) and he preferred a big old slab of beef for dinner. There have been a lot of really good bass players in rock like Jack Bruce, Geddy Lee, John Entwhistle, Tim Bogert and John Paul Jones who was overshadowed by the other three members of Led Zeppelin and like Geddy Lee also played keyboard. Jones was a really good blues bass player. Listen to him on The Lemon Song.

Yes gave all of their instrumentalists a chance to shine. Squire got a nice bass part on the intro to Heart of the Sunrise as well as playing fast with Howe and Wakeman on that song. I didn’t realize that his bass was a large part of the instrumental at the end of Starship Trooper. I thought the bass part on the studio version was an overdub of Howe on guitar. Here’s a live version with his bass at the end of the song. This was just last year. Howe looks in worse shape that Squire does.

I remember smoking a joint, putting my headphones on, and listening to Starship Trooper. I loved the way they kept adding instruments at the end. At the very end Howe did overdub guitar parts as he played a part through one channel and before it would finish there would be a guitar part on the other channel. This went on and the song faded out. I currently have three Yes CDs: The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close to the Edge. The Fragile CD has a bonus track of their version of Paul Simon’s America I don’t think very much of the rest of their work.

Anyone know who the dude playing keyboards is?

This band has been around for over 45 years and is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? WTF? Squire once said about that what members would they choose out of the 18 who have played with the band over the years? I would pick the lineup on their best two albums, Fragile and Close to the Edge which would be Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, and Bruford. Maybe Alan White since he has been their drummer since Bruford left. Bet he’s glad Bruford quit.

I’ll bet I’ve seen these guys live at least six times and it has always been a great show with great sounds even in places that did not have the best acoustics. I would love to go back in time and attend just one of their shows again with their best lineup.

Goodbye Chris. You had a great 45+ year career.

Saturday night on TCM they showed the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray. In it they had a very young Angela Lansbury who played the naive Sibyl Vane (nominated as Best Supporting Actress for the Academy Awards) and also a very young Donna Reed. George Saunders played the hedonistic Lord Henry Wotton who had the best lines in the movie. My favorite was as follows:

I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks. I forgot that you were a member of Parliament.

Hmmmm. I can use that.

I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks Justice Roberts. I forgot that you were Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks Speaker Boner. I forgot that you were a member of Congress.

I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks Senator McConnell. I forgot that you were a member of the Senate.

The closest I ever came to that was when I was a systems programmer and I apologized to one of my users for his incompetence. He didn’t take it well and went crying to my CDSM©.

Yannow, I’m getting sick and tired of hearing this “97% of scientists agree that we have man made global warming” BS. At least once a week someone writes a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation parroting that line. One night on Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Frededie’s Fashion Mart Arson “Greek homos” Sharpton’s TV show, he wore a white lab coat and quoted that 97% of scientists line. It just proves that old adage that if you tell a lie often enough every one will agree that it is a fact. It isn’t a fact. It’s a lie and it is shoddy science. Hey Brian Williams, how does it feel to be on the same network as Rev. Al? How the mighty have fallen.

“85% of statistics are made up on the spot.” – Larry the Cable Guy.

Don Surber debunked that statistic a long tine ago in one of his blog posts. It turns out that some global warming climate change dude sent out a survey to a bunch of climate scientists about global warming climate change. Over half of the respondents said they didn’t know or had no opinion. The dude threw all of those responses out. Of the less than half of the respondents who did have an opinion, 97% of them did believe in global warming climate change. So, lets be charitable and say 50% of them responded with an opinion, although it was less than that, 97% of that 50% gives us 48.5%. So the proper statistic would be 48.5% of scientists believe in global warming climate change. And they call us science challenged. And don’t get me started on GMO, vaccinations, or organic foods all three which show how scientifically illiterate liberals are.

So, the next time you hear or read that 97% statistic know that it is a lie.

Mike sent me this.

or if you see a larger flag like the one Rayko sent me.

I finally agree with the perpetually offended race and it is time to remove the flag.

From my friend Richard.

A man took a job in the city. Each day, he faced a long commute that included a congested tunnel. So, he started a carpool. Things went well initially. But after a few weeks, he started experiencing wrist pain. This only happened in the tunnel. He went to his doctor. The doctor diagnosed the problem as (more…)

Since my Saturday Guitar was Vivalda, howza ’bout some Tina S doing Vivaldi? Yannow, the cute little French girl who can really shred the crap out of the guitar.

And as a bonus, here she is doing Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption. She was 14 when she recorded this.

She started out playing classical guitar.

It is Summer after all.

But the one I wanted to use has embed disabled so you’ll have to go to YouTube to watch it. Go there. It is awesome!

Ron in Ohio sent me a bumper sticker suggestion to go along with my As Lon As We’re Banning Flags post.

Click on image to enlarge.

In his ongoing quest to piss off Toejam, AlphaDelta sent me another large chested babe to post. Hello Alice! What’s not to like? Long dark hair and a nice rack. I have posted a picture of this babe before but she deserves a second look. She’s a Brit and the boobage is real. Also, as AD pointed out, she is smart enough not to have any ink or metal. I’ll have to take his word about the metal since we can’t see her navel and I hope he’s right about the ink as well. Why any beautiful woman would cover her body with tattoos is beyond me. Update: Not sure if these were before surgery or after surgery. Before they were 32F (UK cup sizes are different from ours. A UK F is equivalent to an American DD which is still pretty large.) For some reason she had hers enhanced to 32FF. (I couldn’t find a UK FF on my conversion chart but it’s prolly an American DDD) So, this picture could be after her enlargement. She had them enlarged in 2009. (more…)