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Nametags And Gators

K T Cat
2/16/2026 12:52:17 PM

Tomorrow is our annual Mardi Gras party held, oddly enough, on Fat Tuesday. We'll have about 50 people, tons of food, 2 mixologists and Pandora's excellent New Orleans music mix on the Sonos.The guest list is eclectic, so there will be plenty of people who don't know each other. To help them mingle, this year, we're doing name tags. I made a sign for the name tag table, but my wife didn't like it.Women and gators. They just don't mix well.The main image for our eVite invitation.The Queens of Mardi Gras are, of course, our two chihuahua mixes.The name tags feature the girls.Wife kitteh did not approve of this sign.

Devouring Mother First Ballot Hall Of Famer

K T Cat
2/15/2026 5:23:17 AM
 ... Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston. Every problem is a baby. Every solution is cuddling. Dig this. 

BREAKING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is facing mass demands to RESIGN after she claimed every single human on planet earth has a right to be in the United States, rendering citizenship meaninglessWhat's your response to this......??MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON . LETS GO pic.twitter.com/TfcBdaFI6A Save America (SaveAmericaNew) February 7, 2026   No worries, Michelle, I'm sure Spain won't get all of them. We'll be able to find one or two to send your way. Note all the big-eyed tykes held in the arms of grateful mothers you can see in the video below. It warms the cockles of your[...]

The shallow AOC lost in Munich

Silvio Canto, Jr.
2/16/2026 10:01:13 AM
The lady was lost in Munich. This is a member of the US House, and she couldnt utter a thoughtful idea about Taiwan. She is one of the 435 votes in the US House who will vote on the military budget, and she is lost explaining what her position is. She is also talked about as a potential presidential candidate, and she is lost when she has to discuss a complicated foreign policy issue. My guess is that shed do no better if the topic were Ukraine or anything else.And thats the problem with the Democrats. Its all about bashing Trump. They cant handle an issue unless its to tell us how much they hate Trump. Whatever happened to serious Democrats? I guess that they are gone with the wind or too scared of a primary.Click to[...]

Happy Presidents Day

Silvio Canto, Jr.
2/15/2026 10:06:00 PM

                Its difficult to pick a favorite president because we tend to focus on the ones that we remember. In our case, its Cold War or recent presidencies. Nevertheless, I will try to look at past and recent history. My five picks for best presidents are:George Washington-the US was lucky to have this man at the very foundation of the republic. Most new countries go wrong from the very beginning. On the other hand, the US had the proper man at the right moment.Abraham Lincoln-who else? He kept this nation together. Its sad because no one appreciated him during his presidency.Franklin D. Roosevelt-great leader. He made people feel better during The Great Depression that saw huge[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

New Ringworm Outbreak Turns Minnesota Into Americas STD Fungus Hotspot 

Leslie Eastman

A reminder that the cold isnt always the worst thing you can catch in February.The post New Ringworm Outbreak Turns Minnesota Into Americas STD Fungus Hotspot first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Japan Nets Chinese Trawler as Global Backlash to Beijings Fishing Raiders Grows 

Leslie Eastman

This seizure may prove to be more than an isolated enforcement action; it signals that Japan is prepared to move from warnings to concrete penalties against Chinas distantwater raiders.The post Japan Nets Chinese Trawler as Global Backlash to Beijings Fishing Raiders Grows first appeared on Legal Insurrection.