Tatyana does Chopin. Long time readers know that my favorite female guitarist is Tatyana Ryzhkova. Not only is she a talented guitarist but also a beautiful woman. Her beauty is only exceeded by her musicianship. I love to watch her play as she seems so caught up in the music she is playing. Didja know that there is not a Wikipedia entry on this awesome lady? WTF?

She has a series on YouTube called Ask Tatyana. On Ask Tatyana 10 she plays a short excerpt of Asturias on an electric guitar. I’ve wondered when she would do it on classical. She hasn’t as yet. Dammit!

Today is Earth Day so remember to turn on all of your lights to use as much electricity as you can. If it’s warm, turn on your AC. Mine is set at 72. Take your SUV out for a long ride to use as much gas as possible. Fire up your lawn mowers and leaf blowers. And don’t forget to fire up your grill and throw on some nice juicy steaks.

Earth Day = Piss off as many environmental wackos as you can. Have fun!

Legal Insurrection has some failed predictions from 1970:

Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” (We are still going strong 47 years later, though the appearance of man buns is now a cause for concern.)

Paul Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.” (Current human population = 7.5 Billion< ).

Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” (Currently, the only regions at risk for famine are the Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen.…for reasons that have us much to do with civil unrest as much as climate.)

These predictions were about as accurate as the predictions of the global warming climate change alarmists. Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW claimed 15 years ago that we would be past the point of no return in 10 years. Of course, he was wrong as are most of these assholes predicting climate disaster.

From Ed S. (more…)

I’m gonna give it to Jon Ossoff. He is running as a fiscal conservative. Can you imagine that? A Dimocrat running as a fiscal conservative? He’s trying to fool the Never Trump Republicans into thinking he’s a moderate Dimocrat. There ain’t such a thing anymore. The Dimocrats ran on that fiscal conservative thing back in 2006 and then proceeded to double the national debt. Ossoff is a typical lyin’ Dimocrat and he’s an asshole.

Ron’s just thinkin’.

Read somethin’ a few days ago . . . li’l aphoristic quatrain:

“Your mind is a garden;
The thoughts are the seeds.
Now, you can grow flowers,
Or you can grow weeds.”

So . . . thinkin’ — actually, I think I think about thinkin’ too much. Must be those pre-dawn walks with Dawg. No distractions, no pundits perched on pulpits preachin’ their personal perspectives at me.

Nobody to contradict or dispute me. No interruptions. No half-vast ideas from half-assed mentalities . . . just my own. So, do I think about beautiful girls? Moonlit tropical beaches? Food? Wine? Adventure?

Na-a-h-h . . . I gotta think about stifling government, unchecked immigration, gay rights, radical Islam, racism, politics, frauds, charlatans, greedy CEOs, Kim Phat Un, Putin, Xi Jinping, my grandchildren at war in the “Holy Lands.”

I think about born-again assholes such as John McCain, the wise-ass frat boy who never grew up but got scrambled eggs on his cap because his daddy was an admiral.

I think about the deeply committed felons such as Clintons and the very devout merdistes such as Kerrys and Lynches and Rices.

I think about the Alzheimerish fossils on the Supreme Court such as RBG, who isn’t even aware that Senator Lindsey Graham isn’t female.

I think about a CinC who was about as American as modern-day Italians are Romans, followed by one who changes his mind like I change my socks.

I think about how we got along for 2 centuries without gay marriage and are now homophobes and incipient criminals for casting askance glances at the idea.

I think about a national debt which now has an annual INTEREST growth of a quarter of a TRILLION dollars. Just the interest!

I think about uncounted and uncountable trespassers who come here for a better life, then try to change the country into the same pesthole they just fled.

I think about all the illegals and “refugees” who come here sans skills, sans education, sans assets, and immediately go on Welfare, MedicAid, and Food Stamps.

I think about snowflakes who spend their time thinking about words or images to be offended or frightened into their “safe spaces” by.

I think about a Neolithic cult with principles completely incompatible with our culture coming here in droves and demanding special consideration for “religious” reasons.

I think about churches being converted into mosques and women wearing shrouds and infidels being tossed from roofs or beheaded or dismembered.

I think about a large cultural region of the planet which exports little more than rape, terrorism, and hydrocarbons.

I think about a Mongolian Pillsbury Doughboy with a dead fruit bat on his head hurling threats at humanity like an armless Black Knight in a Python skit.

I think about a House of Representatives which can’t reach a consensus on what day of the month it is.

I think of a Senate in which each day begins with the majority leader saying, “Lights! Camera! Asshole!”

I think of “journalists” whose primary treatment of President Trump’s administration is lacing his jockstrap with Atomic Balm followed by gang tackling and piling on.

I think I think too much, and what I think about what I’ve been thinking is, “Well, THAT really sucks . . . . .” so I think I’ll think about this for a while:

The Dimocrats were unable to buy the seat in Georgia’s 6th congressional district much to the dismay of the Atlanta Urinal and Constitution and the Georgia Dimocrat Party who keep hoping that Georgia is about to turn blue. They threw over $8 million into the race trying to get Jon Ossoff elected. One of my readers said his name should be Jack. Go ahead, say, “Jack Ossoff” real fast. Turns out Ossoff doesn’t even live in the 6th, but that’s not illegal, but, since he doesn’t, he was unable to vote for himself. His excuse is he lives with his girlfriend of twelve years near Emory University where she is attending medical school. Twelve years? Not married yet? Commitment problems?

Ossoff got 48% of the vote, which is pretty good for a district that Tom Price won by double digits, but the Dimocrats did pull out all the stops. What surprised me was he ran really strong in Beautiful Dunwoody. WTF? When did Beautiful Dunwoody turn Dimocrat? When I moved here in 1999, this area was strong Republican. At that time Beautiful Dunwoody was in Cynthia McCommie’s district and I remember her getting booed when she rode in a convertible for our 4th of July parade. We always voted for the Republican who ran against her. I remember when Denise Majette ran against her in the Dimocrat Primary a whole bunch of us voted in the Dimocrat primary for Majette. I remarked at the polling station when I saw all of the people voting Dimocrat that I didn’t realize there were that many Dimocrats in Beautiful Dunwoody. The lady next to me said, “From your lips to God’s ears.”. McCommie blamed her loss on all of the Republicans voting in the Dimocrat primary, but it was the middle class blacks in Stone Mountain who did her in.

Beautiful Dunwoody has been growing by leaps and bounds since I moved here. The houses being built now start at $700K. I wouldn’t expect them to be Dimocrats but maybe they are. They have put in a whole bunch of apartment buildings on the west side of town. Those are prolly Dimocrats.

Still, driving down the main street through Beautiful Dunwoody, Mount Vernon Highway, I saw far more signs for the Republican candidates than I did for Ossoff. Sad to see this city turn blue. I should have suspected sumpin’ when they started putting in all of the bike lanes.

Ossoff and the Dimocrats are claiming that this is a win. Huh? He didn’t win the election and got less than 50% of the vote and this is a win. Now, he gets to face off with a Republican who should be able to defeat him in June. Look for the Dimocrats to throw even more money at this race. We’ll also have to put up with more campaign ads and robocalls between now and the election. Arrrrggggghhhhh!

From Ron in Ohio.

Please! Make it stop! I can’t take it anymore.

I live in Georgia’s sixth congressional district. That’s Tom Price’s district. Since he’s now Secretary of HHS there is a special election to fill his seat. Eleven Republicans are running. Four Dimocrats are running. Two independents are running. For the last four weeks it has been nonstop robocalls, not just from the candidates, but from the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and various PACs telling us that Dimocrat Jon Ossoff is Pelosi’s puppet, which he is.

Ossoff has raised over $8 million., almost all of it coming from out of state. The Dimocrats are making this a national race and a referendum on Trump. But, if you listen to Ossoff’s ads, you would swear that he was a Republican. He wants to cut out “waste and mismanagement” and “spend tax dollars wisely”. There is no mention of Trump in any of his ads.

The sixth district is solidly Republican and has elected Price by double digits the last few times he has run, but Trump only carried it by two points. The Dims think if they throw enough money at it (and Ossoff prolly has more money than the other sixteen candidates combined) they might be able to eke out a win. If no candidate gets over 50% of the vote tomorrow there will be a runoff between the top two candidates no matter the party. The chances of Ossoff getting 50% tomorrow are very low since he’s polling in the low 40’s. The runoff will prolly be between Ossoff and Karen Handel, the leading Republican, who will prolly win the runoff. But, that means another six weeks of robocalls but at least it will only be for two candidates this time.

But still, make it stop!

From Jane Austen.

My yearly Easter post.

So which do you prefer to eat first, the butt or the ears?