The prelude to another cello suite by Bach played on guitar.

From Thomas.

An uninformed voter was driving home, drunk as a skunk. Suddenly he has to swerve
to avoid a tree, then another, then another.

A cop car pulls him over, so he tells the cop about all the trees in the road.

The cop says, “That’s your air freshener swinging about!”

This one is from Ray. (more…)

Altho’ there has been enough assholiness to go around this week, I’m gonna give it to ESPN, who fired Curt Schilling for speaking his mind and for actually speaking truth to power. Of course, if offended the SJWs at ESPN, so he had to go.

“ESPN is an inclusive company,” ESPN said in a statement. “Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.”

Any time an organization states that it is “inclusive” it means it is infected with SJWs, and we have known for quite some time that that is the case with ESPN. The only time I ever watch it is if it has on a football game I want to watch. Other than that, nada. If I didn’t have it on my satellite, I wouldn’t miss it. Here’s your award guys.

NH Tom commented.

If they can pull this bathroom fairy tale over on us, they can do anything, pronounce anything, get away with anything they want.

Too many people are just too afraid of appearing aberrant and looked down on as an outcast. The only thing worse than being called a racist is being an individualist.

I swear it’s a test run. With enough media hype/lies and bleeding heart stories they’ll realize they have absolute power – the crown jewels – thought control.

Power corrupts…

“The secret to life is honesty and fair dealing. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.” Groucho Marx

For the longest time I thought that was a joke.

I replied.

Orwell should have titled his novel 2024.

Ron is on a roll!

O.K. Now I’ve been in storms out in the middle of the ocean, I’ve lived in 6 different states, visited about a dozen countries, witnessed a live birth, got a MA degree, raised a buncha kids, been shot at, and spent time in at least one of two honky-tonks from time to time. But some things I just don’t unnerstan’.

Every time I hear a politician, especially a liberal, talk about the rich paying their “fair share” or extracting more revenue from big banks or big business to reduce the burden on ordinary taxpayers, I just want to pull their tongues from their mouths and slap them silly with ‘em.

First of all, half the people in the country don’t even pay taxes, and of those who DO pay, the top 10% pay more than 70% of the money collected on personal income taxes. If the tax rate on the rich is raised much higher, the result will be capital flight. That’s exactly what France is experiencing now.

Secondly, the mantra of relieving individual taxpayers by raising rates on banks and businesses is simply code for increasing revenue, which is nothing more than raising taxes. Wage earners, consumers, and taxpayers are the source of ALL monies collected from businesses. Period. Any time taxes are raised on a bank or a business, rates or prices are raised to ensure profitability. And if the product prices or the bank rates are too high for ordinary customers, those banks and business go OUT of business.

A long time ago a very rich man told me that it’s virtually impossible for the average guy to amass too much money because sooner or later no matter how much he makes, the government will find a way to take half of it away from him and give it to the deadbeats and entitlement crowds.

Any politician who wants to enforce a “fair share” on businesses and the very rich is either lying or ignorant. In either case, that politician is NOT the one we want making decisions and laws that affect capital investment, entrepreneurs, banks, and income tax rates.

And another thing: this business about transgenders being allowed to use any restroom facilities they choose is simply rank stupidity and political correctness gone completely ‘round the bend. If you do just a little simple research, you’ll find that a total of less than 5% (probably closer to 3.5%) of the US population is gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender. And if the bisexual component is removed, the overall percentage drops down to around 2%, that’s TWO PERCENT!

O.K. Now, how the hell would we ever know someone is gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender unless they announce their status to us? If a bisexual identifies and lives as a female, the only people who might know she’s using the wrong restroom would be her lovers, unless she’s some kind of moron.

The point is, of course, that if transgendered men (female born into a male anatomy) want to use the women’s restroom, they’ll have to use a stall anyway, since damned few women’s restrooms have urinals. And if a transgender woman (male born into a female body) wants to use the men’s restroom, she’ll also have to use a stall, right?

So what the hell is the problem? We seemed to get along just fine for hundreds of years with the occasional tranny or shemale or confused or bi or homosexual type answering the call of nature. Why are we allowing over 98% of the public to be annoyed or offended for the sake of less than one percent who just happen to have gender confusion or one percent of perverts who want to get a free peep show?

I just don’t get it. Seems just a little selfish for someone with a perceived problem to want everyone else to be inconvenienced because of it. Sometimes you gotta play the hand you’re dealt, and if exposing your genitals that you think are the wrong ones by taking a shower in a public place bothers you that much, then do it at home. Like the doc says to the guy who complained about breaking his arm in three places: “Well, why don’t you just stay outta them places?”

I’m also having a bit of a problem wondering how so many people voted for an inexperienced, unqualified, un-American popinjay – TWICE – and why we’re going to wind up with a professional criminal as our next CEO. (I think he’s referring to Cankles, not Trump – GOC) Guess I just didn’t spend enough time in those honky-tonks . . . or read too many of the wrongest books.

Yet more hypocrisy over the North Carolina law.

Canada-based circus and theater entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has canceled its upcoming shows in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh in North Carolina to protest the state’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.

“Cirque du Soleil strongly believes in diversity and equality for every individual and is opposed to discrimination in any form,” the group announced Friday in a press release. “The new HB2 legislation passed in North Carolina is an important regression to ensuring human rights for all.”

How noble. Human rights is important to Cirque du Soleil. But are they?

Cirque du Soleil’s North Carolina cancelation comes as a growing number of artists and entertainers abandon their respective performances in the state to protest of the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.

The world-famous circus, however, has not canceled its upcoming performances in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai.

Indeed, Cirque du Solei has a planned production, Varekai, scheduled to run from September 16 to 24 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The United Arab Emirates of Dubai has outlawed same-sex marriage, sex or gender reassignment surgery, adoption by same-sex couples, openly gay and lesbian military service, with the aforementioned being punishable by death, fines, or imprisonment.

Obviously not. Blatant hypocrisy. Just like feminists who won’t speak out about how Mooslimes treat women or the LGBT people who are silent about how Mooselimes treat gays. Sorry. Can’t take any of you folks seriously. You are all hypocritical booger eatin’ moh-rons.

Ron sent me this one.

Look at how far we have come! Ain’t it great? Makes one proud to be an American!

Some more words of wisdom from Ron.

Miserable rain. Temp around 68 or so. Unpleasant to be outside. So . . . since I can’t exercise my arms and legs, I’ll put my fingers to work:

Climate change! Big deal these days. Greatest threat to national security according to BHObeyme and JFQuerrie and Pope Algore. BUT . . . I’m actually all in favor of it, just so long as the change is in Murkan politics.

The moral climate of our political landscape has created a toxic fog which repels men of honor and integrity but dangles mountains of cash in front of wastrels and hypocrites. My guess is it’s a persistent low-hanging cloud of gaseous residue from decades of party members eating revenue, belching corruption, and farting deceit.

What we’ve managed to set up in the US is an entrenched two-party system which offers politicians for sale to the highest bidder. And naturally somebody will buy them . . . the problem is that it’s never the people, but the special interests who can afford it.

Our two-party system isn’t a democracy – it’s a plutocracy. All it offers voters is a myth, a coin flip between unpalatable puppet leeches contaminated with the morals of Capone, the scruples of Quaddafi, and the credibility of Baghdad Bob.

Trump is complaining about the corrupt party bosses cheating him out of delegates and ignoring citizens’ votes. He willingly accepted delegates from winner-take-all states, though, ignoring the vast numbers who did NOT vote for him in primaries. Hey, entrenched party bosses depriving a deluded egotist of a perceived campaign victory is a victimless crime.

A bunch of career parasites deciding to scuttle a candidate because he won’t play by their rules is like an NFL team refusing to draft a quarterback because he’s a Druid. Politics never bind communities together or solve social problems; all politics can do is keep entrenched, power-hungry, double-dealing sponges in power.

Hell, Trump is as qualified as anybody who’s run for PotUS in the past quarter-century: he’s rich, he’s flamboyant, he’s controversial, he thinks he knows everything, and he knows nothing about the job. Sounds exactly like the guy we got in there now, right?

I don’t know if Trump can be bought or not. If elected, he’ll take office without obligation to any PACs or other special interest groups, and that’s good. He’ll also be faced immediately with accusations of conflict of interest, and the opportunity for sweet deals to multiply his fortune will always be there, and that ain’t good.

The question would be, of course, whether he considers himself rich enough already. He’ll take a pay cut and a housing downgrade, and all he’ll get for it in the long run will be criticism, wrinkles, threats, and very possibly ulcers. So . . . what’s in it for him?

Sometimes when I’m not quick enough with the remote and hear parts of a Trump speech, I wonder if he’s autistic or something. Many times he sounds like somebody coming down off a cocktail of LSD and speed.

I mean, he uses words of course, but he repeats himself like the old guys who hang around on the benches in front of the court house in little Midwestern towns. Often he’ll begin a sentence and never finish it, breaking off in the middle and shifting topics as if his horse threw him off into the thought stream and he had to remount on another one, talking for several minutes without saying anything meaningful.

And he thinks they’re terrific sentences. That I can tell you. Believe me, they’re great, at least in his opinion. They’re great. Full of words. Good words. Not big words that regular people would have to go look up. That I can tell you. But every Trump sentence uses words. Sometimes over and over again. And that’s great. Believe me. They’re great. Winners. All of them. Not stupid, like our politicians. That I can tell you. Believe me.

And I gotta say, I’m absolutely astonished that nobody has so far put a 7.62 ventilation port in the supraorbital foramen of the alleged person who has been squatting in The People’s House for the past 7 years.

Which brings up the issue of why it’s hard for people to understand why someone would vote for Trump . . . I mean, that’s PRE-goddam-cisely how millions of us felt when people voted for Soetoro out of a sense of white guilt or ethnic loyalty.

All I know is that you mix one part hype with equal parts of greed, deceit, and lust for power and you get a PoliCockl, or a Political Cocktail. ‘Tis the season for sound bytes, buzzwords, catch phrases, bombast, sales pitches, spin, backtracking, denying, and hypocrisy, which eventually all boils down to common everyday propaganda.

It is the art of promising paradise and taking things to hell, then claiming to be a savior for rescuing the country from purgatory.

People might like to have friends who are in politics, but any parent who loves his child wants him to be a true professional anything BUT politician.

Of course not. They won’t even take in Islamic refugees. That’s why Europe has to. One of the five pillars of Islam is charity. I guess that does not count with Islamic refugees. It’s hated Christians who are far more charitable than Mooslimes and unfortunately, they will wind up paying for it with their women assaulted and raped, but that’s OK because of multiculturalism and Pope Francis is for it as well. I wonder why he doesn’t let the Syrian family he just flew into Italy stay at the Vatican with him? There’s plenty of room there.