Here it is Monday and I can’t think of anything to write about. Fortunately, there is Ron.

I figgered to stay inside and read. Got bored with that pretty quickly and decided to whip up a rant about Obeyme. Had a lotta ideas, such as

Hands Up; Don’t Shoot

You can keep your doctor

Police acted stupidly

If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon

ISIS is the JV team

Not even a smidgin of corruption in IRS

Most transparent administration in history

and so on to characterize the Indo-Kenyan Republic-Destructor. But as I started compiling that list, I realized it was gonna go on forever and I’d never get anything actually written, just listed.

Here are some his monumental boners from the past few years:

The “Affordable” Care Act

Economic recovery

Alternate energy

Susan Rice

Jay Carney

Hillary

Kerry

Holder

Sebelius

Napolitano

Sharpton

Same-sex marriage

Pissing off Britain

Pissing off Israel

Apologizing for America Greatness

Misreading the Arab Spring

Abandoning the Kurds

Pulling out of Iraq like a prematurely ejaculating teenager

Proposing funding increase for Planned Parenthood

Having lobbyists in his administration after pledging never to do that

Bowing to Muslim king of Saudi Arabia

Caving to Cuba

Caving to Chavez

Caving to Putin

Caving to Khamanei

Swapping 5 Taliban field marshalls for a deserter

Firing flag officers who disagree with him

Supporting carbon cap & trade bills

Burning up hundreds of thousands of gallons of jet fuel for fundraiser trips

Saying America is not a Christian nation

Hiring a tax cheat as Treasury Secretary

Pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens

But that list could go on for hours, even days, so I gave up on that one too. Shouldn’t he pretty much have run out of mistakes to make by now? I mean, it’s as if he mistook what he was being elected for and thought he was President of the North American Society for Stupid Ideas.

His precedency has been the Hindenburg of administrations. If a visitor from another galaxy came along and saw what’s going on in Washington, he’d quickly conclude that if Obama was the answer, the question must have been REALLY stupid. I can’t think of anything of significance that’s come up under his leadership that hasn’t turned out badly.

It’s like he was in a choom cloud when horse sense was being handed out and thought they said “incense” so he said no ‘cause it would mess up the ambience. Every time an important decision comes up it’s as if he’s in the “Up” elevator headed for the penthouse ballroom when everybody else is on the mezzanine watching the info crawler.

The worst part of it all is that even if we get a conservative PotUS with a right-of-center Congress, the world will continue to disintegrate because of the failed policies of the Soetoro Keystone Kops regimme. And the tragedy will be complete when the mainstream media spins it all to blame the collapse on whoever has the misfortune to follow the Kenyan Klown.

Wise men often say that a lot can be learned about a man by the company he keeps. Well, Racism is the center pole of the Obamao Circus and Soundbyte Sharpton is the ringmaster. Together they have worked tirelessly to stem the tide of racial harmony that had been steadily rising for several decades.

Barack lies matter, and Fitty Cent is a better at managing money than the Halfrican and his bone-in-the-nose mate. The danger of the past was often that people were victimized by out-of-control despots. The danger of the future will be that the people will be victimized by runaway debts.

Given my druthers, I’d make being PotUS contingent upon having honorably served at least 3 years in active duty military service and complete disclosure of all financial, academic, medical, and travel records. And I’d make being Jacques Friggin Querrie a flogging offense. Open season on Klintoons, BTW.

To hell with it all. I’m goin’ to bed. My dreams are always more credible than what I see coming out of D.C.

This one is from Toejam.

One of the best early 70’s hard rock bands.

Saw them live once. The swagger of Rusty Day on stage was amazing. Too bad he was killed in a drug deal gone bad.

The album shown is not the album this cut came from. It came from their second album One Way or Another.

A little Scarlatti for Saturday.

Russ sent me yet another one.

Two uninformed voters are in a river holding fishing poles with the lines in the water. A game warden comes up behind them, taps them on the shoulder and says, “Excuse me, ladies, I’d like to see your fishing licenses.”

“We don’t have any.” replied the first woman.

“Well, if you’re going to fish, you need fishing licenses.” said the game warden.

“But officer,” replied the second girl, “we aren’t fishing. All we have are magnets at the end of our lines and we’re collecting debris off the bottom of the river.”

The game warden lifted up the lines and, sure enough, there were horseshoe magnets tied on the end of each line. “Well, I know of no law against it,” shrugged the game warden, “take all the debris you want.” And with that, the game warden left.

As soon as he was out of sight, the women started laughing hysterically. “What a dumb Fish Cop! Doesn’t he know that there are steelheads in this river?!”

Do you like cowgirls? Tom sent me a picture of one. (more…)

Tom sent me this story.

Are you skeptical of human-caused global warming or climate change like many respected scientists and climate experts? Then you should be prosecuted like a Mafia mob boss, according to 20 academics at ivory towers like Columbia, Rutgers, and the University of Washington.

Apparently, these professors either don’t believe in the First Amendment or are profoundly ignorant of the basic rights it protects. They recently wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking for anyone who questions the climate-change dogma to be criminally prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act because they have “knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.”

Sounds like these booger eatin’ moh-rons would have been comfortable back in the Middle Ages demanding people be burned at the stake for not believing church doctrine, and that’s just what the junk science of “climate change” is. It’s church doctrine of the Church of AGW.

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The professors seem totally oblivious to the fundamental infringement of free speech they are urging. Not only that, but they seem completely insensible to the basic mission of academic institutions, which is to foster, as the University of Washington (where two of the academics who signed this letter teach) mission statement says: “an environment for objectivity and imaginative inquiry and for the original scholarship and research that ensure the production of new knowledge in the free exchange of facts, theories, and ideas.”

These academics are trying to foster the exact opposite of a “free exchange of facts, theories, and ideas.” They want to end all scientific debate.

They’re not scientists, they’re social justice warriors and they will tolerate no dissent.

These academics could also use a remedial course in the history of scientific development. There have been many fierce debates over new scientific theories that have occurred over the past 2,000 years of human development, and there are countless examples of theories that became accepted wisdom that later turned out to be completely wrong, in which dissenters from the original “accepted wisdom” were greeted with a range of reactions from skepticism to derision. Suggesting, however, that so-called dissidents on the climate issue be prosecuted is a whole different story and amounts to a modern-day academic Inquisition.

Have these professors never heard of Galileo Galilei? Galileo was attacked by the Inquisition for advocating the Copernican theory of the universe, which violated the consensus of the times.

And had they lived back then they would have demanded that Galileo be prosecuted for heresy, just as they believe that anyone who does not believe in “climate change” is a heretic.

Like the supposed “consensus” of the “overwhelming majority of climate scientists” today (which actually isn’t true), these lofty academics know what the absolute truth is about climate change—just like Pope Urban VIII knew what the absolute truth was about the nature of the universe and our solar system.

These academics want anyone who disagrees with their “absolute” truth to be prosecuted, just like Galileo. Should the skeptics be put in prison? Or would these professors be satisfied with the skeptics being confined to house arrest and formally abjuring their errors like Galileo?

The final word here is this: the heads of George Mason University, the University of Washington, Rutgers University, the University of Maryland, Florida State University, the University of Miami, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University should be embarrassed to have professors on staff with such a profound ignorance or intentional disregard for the First Amendment and the need for robust, unchecked, vibrant debate not just in the university setting, but in American society, culture, and politics.

But they aren’t because they prolly believe the same thing that these “academics” believe. Universities are run by and are full of SJWs like these 20 “academics”. These “academics” are assholes and they get to share in the prestigious AOTW Award.

This is from Ron.

So I fired up my Futurescope Scope and went rummaging around. Came upon a text of the first State of the Union address by President Trump, or maybe it was the Inaugural address. Don’t think it really makes any difference, tho, ’cause he’d say the same thing in both, methinks. Pretty long, so I’ll just give some highlights:

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:

You know what, folks, we’ve all listened to these State of the Union addresses for years, and everybody knows they’re just a bunch of hooey . . . circular rhetoric, doubletalk, empty promises, pie-in-the-sky, “Hope and Change” . . . .

Well, I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to do that, bore you with a lot of words that don’t mean anything. So let’s just get down to business, and that’s what I’m good at – business.

Look . . . the state of the union is terrible. It’s a disaster. The worst it’s ever been since the Great Depression. For the past eight years my predecessor did nothing useful – we all know that, right? I mean, he hobbled the economy, he drove jobs away to China, to India, to Indonesia . . . he weakened our military to the point that nobody fears us any more . . . he worsened the racial unrest in the country . . . he made end runs around Congress with his “pen and his phone” to do things that he knew they’d never pass, and you know why? Because they were unconstitutional, that’s why. It’s a mess.

So, I’m going to fix all that. We’re in deep trouble . . . in education, in national security, in health care, in business growth – and you know I can fix that, because I’m primarily a businessman. I know how to do that. Believe me, it’s going to be amazing the things we’re going to do with the economy. We’re going to bring jobs back from overseas and get factories producing and stop illegals from taking jobs away from Americans . . . we’re going to do all that because we can’t go on the way we’ve been doing for the past 8 years.

O.K. Now I’m in charge, and I’ll freely admit that I don’t know all there is to know about everything. NObody knows all there is to know about everything. Do you folks know all there is to know about everything? Of course you don’t. Nobody does. But what you can trust me to do is find people who DO know everything there is to know about one specific thing and then hire them to keep me informed on that subject. And if they can’t do it, I’ll fire them and hire someone who can. And I know how to hire the right people, and I know how to fire people. Trust me.

Let’s face it – lots of laws and programs and other things have been put in place during the past 10 years or so that were just stupid. Stupid. There’s no other word for it. Stupid, and because stupid people without any real-world experience were running things. Now, George Bush is a nice guy . . . I’ve met him, I’ve talked with him, I like him a lot. But he made some really bad choices in Iraq and other places, and I told everybody they were mistakes . . . and I was right.

But George is a true American, and a really nice guy, and he’s done some amazing things with the veterans, the terribly wounded guys who lost legs and arms . . . but he was TOO nice a guy, and he didn’t know how to fire people when they screwed up. And that’s where I’ll be great, because I know how to fire people, and you all know that about me . . . that’s why you hired me.

O.K. We’re going to build that wall and stop illegals from coming in. As a matter of fact, we’re going to make it so difficult for illegals to get work here that they’ll eagerly go home to Mexico or wherever they came from. We’re going to put Americans back to work. I mean, it’s ridiculous to say that we have a 5% unemployment rate when everybody, and I mean EVERYbody knows that millions and millions of good people are out of work, and millions have just stopped looking for work because some alien took the job they could have done, and he took it for less pay than they would have received . . . and why? Because he’s here illegally, and he doesn’t have to worry about taxes, or insurance, or health care . . . and why? Because our government gives him all kinds of insurance and other benefits for free.

Look . . . I don’t want to waste everybody’s time here talking about specifics so that some reporter trying to make a name for himself can ask me a gotcha question at the next news conference because I said something here today that turned out to be incomplete or inaccurate or out of date or whatever.

Here’s what we’re going to do, and it’s going to be great . . . I can tell you that. First we’re going to get rid of Obamacare and fix the health-care problem so that employers can hire full-time employees they can count on and get things running smoothly again. My team is working on a plan right now, and we’ll give you that plan in a few weeks, and it’ll be so good that Congress, both houses, will fall all over themselves in their rush to abolish the ACA and put my plan in its place. Trust me on that. It’s going to be great.

Climate change. Biggest scam since Charlie Ponzi’s mail certificate scheme. We’re going to assume that the sun and this planet will do whatever is in their nature and we’re going to do what’s in ours, and that’s to use common sense in developing new sources of energy and don’t be gluttons in using our natural resources, the same way the guys who built this country did. Yes, we’re going to drill . . . in Alaska, in the Gulf, in the tar sands, anyplace we can find what we need without ruining the land for future generations. It’s going to be great, and we won’t be funding the oil-rich Arab states because we’ll outproduce them and drive them out of business. And business is what I understand. Trust me on this.

The war on terror. Most people don’t have a clue about how to handle the Muslim mentality. Well, I will tell you that the only thing they respect is strength and resolve. You show them the slightest hesitation, and they see weakness. You don’t compromise with people who say they’re going to kill you and cut off your head. You kill them first, or you eliminate their ability to operate, which is what we’re going to do. And I don’t care who gets rid of ISIS . . . I don’t care if it’s Assad, or Putin, or whoever. I’m not going to waste money and brave young Americans’ lives in places where the people hate us and vote against us in the UN. If they send their terrorist infiltrators here, we’ll kill them. And that’s another reason for the wall on our southern border. Trust me on this. We’re going to do amazing things about illegal migrants and terrorists and troublemakers, and we’re going to make somebody else pay for it, not the American taxpayers.

Cybersecurity. This is ridiculous. People send their children here to our universities to learn computers and systems and how to write code and all that, and then they go back to their countries and hack into our systems to get data to blackmail us or rip us off. That’s just stupid. If we can teach them how to do that, then we can develop ways to return the favor and infect their computers before they can even start on ours. It’s going to be wonderful how we’re going to stop the hackers. And when we catch one who did get into our databases, then we’re going to punish him SO severely to show the others what will happen when they get caught . . . and they WILL get caught. Trust me. It’s going to be great.

Taxes. Hey, everybody knows that if you tax people too much, you stifle business growth. This is something I know about, because I am a successful businessman. Trust me on this. We’re going to reduce taxes on everyone except the parasites, the hedge-fund dealers, the speculators, the lobbyists. You’re going to be amazed at how much money is going to flow back into the country and how quickly the economy will respond. I’m good at this thing, so trust me on it. I mean, I’m rich, and I didn’t get that way like John Kennedy or John Kerry or George Bush. I didn’t inherit it, I didn’t marry it, and I didn’t just luck into it. I’m really good at making money.

Education: I’m going to fire a lot of people who haven’t been doing their jobs and are just costing the taxpayers huge amounts of money on inflated salaries. My Secretary of Education is a retired Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant who has raised 5 kids of his own and been teaching in a ghetto school in Miami for the past 10 years. He’s going to make our system lean and mean, just like he is, and it’s going to be great. Trust me.

Foreign Affairs. As you know, my Secretary of State is John Bolton, a man who doesn’t tolerate liars and doubletalkers and people who consistently vote against us in the UN. In fact, we’ve informed the UN that it’s no longer welcome to headquarter here in the US and we’re not going to fund what has become a bash-America and destroy-Israel cartel. They’re going to have to move, I don’t care where, but we can’t have them here. We’re going to treat it like a business, and we’re not going to throw good money after bad on a doomed investment. This is something I know about, and John Bolton agrees with me. He believes in dialogue, but that even the best dialogue doesn’t work with ideologues unless it comes backed up with strength. And we’re going to deal from strength, because I’m going to revitalize our military, and I know how to make deals. Trust me on this.

Guantanamo Bay. This is really stupid. How in the world did we ever get the idea to give those guys air-conditioned barracks and special foods and a brand-new soccer field and television . . . I mean, those guys want to kill us and cut our heads off. I’m not going to allow them into this country where they can stand in front of some bleeding-heart judge who tells them they’re free to go just so we can shut down a facility we’ve spend millions and millions of dollars upgrading and modernizing. And if the Castro brothers want it back, they’re going to have to make a great offer for it, because I’m not just GIVING it back for free. I know how to make deals. Believe me.

Same-sex marriage. O.K. Look – I don’t care who does what with whom in the privacy of their bedroom so long as it doesn’t disturb the neighbors. But marriage has traditionally been for the purpose of producing and raising children. If people of the same sex want to live together, fine. Who cares. And if they want to make some kinds of arrangements for hospital visitation or for property rights or for raising adopted children, that’s up to them and the courts in whatever state they live in. They can make their own deals without destroying our culture. That’s what marriage is anyway, isn’t it . . . a deal? And I know about deals.

Shari’a law. This is really simple. In fact, it’s so simple that only stupid people can’t understand it – Shari’a law is not compatible with our Constitution or with the American way of life. No discussion. It will never be allowed into our system of law while I have anything to do with running this country. Trust me on this. It’s just wrong, and we’re not going to have it.

O.K. Folks. I’ve taken up enough of your time. I’ve got work to do. I need to fire some people in critical positions and hire some new ones. And that’s something I know how to do.

America is a great country that made a bad decision, twice, all because of political correctness, and we got some stupid people who didn’t know what they were doing in powerful offices. Well, that’s over now. America is going to be great again. Trust me. This is something I know how to do, and if I don’t know, I know how to find out.

Believe me.

Our national disgrace is over, so let’s roll up our sleeves, kick out all the parasites, and get to work.

Thank you, and good night.

From Ron in Ohio.

Of course. The media is the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. Of course they’re gonna hump Cankles’ leg.

This is a great time of year to live in North Georgia. Cool nights and warm days. Don’t need the furnace or the AC.

Took the Z3 out to get the annual emissions check. Put the top down and took a long circuitous route to the emissions check place. Beautiful day to be driving a sports car with the top down. I got there and the emissions check failed due to an OBD communications problem. In other words, the emissions check computer couldn’t talk to my car’s computer. The dude told me to take my car to my mechanic and have the OBD system checked out. I told him to retry the test. He did. This time it worked. Geez. They’re computers. If they fail, you always do a retry.

Took the long way home as well and drove down Peachtree Industrial so I could open up the car a bit. I don’t drive this car near as much as I should. For example, it is a 2001 and I only have 53K miles on it.