I hope every good person in Whitefish, Montana puts a menorah in their window.

http://blog.adl.org/extremism/white-supremacist-ratchets-up-campaign-against-montana-jews-promises-armed-march

I wouldn't trust the ADL to tell me if it was raining outside.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262937/adl-turns-anti-israel-daniel-greenfield

Mucking out the Injustice Department:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/mucking-out-the-justice-department/article/2006031

So much could be added to that article - for instance, Obama and Justice combining to conduct organized racebaiting that caused death and destruction, and their campaign to deny men attending college their constitutional rights.

Before the Trump administration moves in, they'll have to fumigate the White House and the agencies, and wash the shitrat out with a firehose.

The rehearsal; the show itself may well have been his finest hour.

Now, Nikita is Elton John's best song.

Excellent components include:

• The bass playing
• The charming modulations...
• ...Underneath an excellent synth solo
• The percussion
• Elton's tempered, moderate singing
• The arrangement considered as a whole
• The mixdown

And, bequeathing this blog comment...


• George Micheal's backing vocal cameo

That's as classy as anything that happened in the Top Ten in the 1980's, and it makes upfor a lot of perfectly fine ballads ruined by shitty drum machines.

2016 refuses to let go.

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/12/26/toronto-sisters-arrested-for-allegedly-cyberbullying-and-extorting-nigerian-billionaire.html

"Infantile Nation: How Breeding Overgrown Children Begets the Nanny State"

Written by Selwyn Duke

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/24902-infantile-nation-how-breeding-overgrown-children-begets-the-nanny-state

Excerpt:

...Calvin Graham became the United States’ youngest decorated war hero, receiving the Bronze Star and Purple Heart at 13, serving heroically aboard the USS South Dakota during WWII. (He’d lied about his age to military recruiters.) Now college students demand “trigger warnings” when a professor might ­present something traumatizing, such as The Great Gatsby, whose “trespass” is that it portrays suicide, domestic abuse, and graphic violence.

Why, we might say today’s little snowflakes need to “man up,” but watch out! That term is verboten on some campuses because, supposedly, it’s “offensive” and distressing. But what’s really distressing is that many “adults” today aren’t half the boys our ancestors were....

(snip)

I do, however, think it's a bit of a mistake to include a positive reference to the real-life(?) Casabianca. As every adult should know, the poem, at least, is considered a laughingstock - not just today, but for well over a century. Why does Duke think all the parodies were written? In 1904, E. Nesbit had her characters - in Chapter 11 of "The Phoenix and the Carpet," when fire breaks out - thumb their noses at the idea that such a boy was truly mature, since he apparently lacked common sense.

Not to mention that it's kind of weird to quote Benjamin Franklin on virtue, if you know what I mean...and no, teens today are NOT necessarily having babies more than they did two or three centuries ago, when teen marriage was a lot more common. (For the record, from what I hear, teen pregnancy has gone downhill ever since the 1950s; and while I don't know about the rates for pregnancy, per se, before the 1950s, teen MARRIAGE, per se, was actually pretty uncommon in the entire 20th century - except in the 1950s.) And just because teens were expected, centuries ago, to grow up fast and get married early, like it or not, that didn't change the fact that pregnancy has always been a lot more dangerous for teen girls than for women; maybe doctors just didn't realize that because they took it for granted that even women would die at a high rate in childbirth and that both women and girls should just accept that risk. Ugh!

"Court finally stops trying to make Detroit man pay child support for child that isn't his"

http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/court-finally-stops-trying-to-make-detroit-man-pay-child-support-for-child-that-isnt-his

"The whole matter is beyond your comprehension and so conclusions you draw have no basis in experience, it's just conjecture."

This is a phrase used by Peter Ralston (an amazing person) in a response to a reader's question about his life practices/experiences.

I believe it is appropriate to many complaints made today by college students (who have experienced little of the world - BTDT at that age so ...) and SJWs (who have hidden away from the world).

IMO, life can not be summed up in a phrase, hidden by a trigger warning, or truly ignored due to willful ignorance.

It is what it is and our responses to demands to apologize or grovel for events beyond our control probably need to be more blunt.

We are not gaining anything by expecting true discussion or excusing their ignorance/imprudence.

Thread about parents not getting FREE toys in a timely matter.

http://www.refugees.bratfree.com/read.php?2,413585

Many of the harsh comments are worth reading - check out the one from "crazy old crone" about halfway down, including what she quoted.

It's cold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXrTtiBdrq8

'Dem Boomers needuh cometa grips with the intense statisticalism evinced in our celebrity headlines of late, because you can run buts you cain't hide.

To wit.

[W]e owe God a death.

— Henry IV, Part II, Act III, scene 2.

It's totally my favorite twitter account... Really knows how to crank up the warming cheer for Yule.

(Close inspection of the timeline reveals that he took the next two days off. I've decided this will be known hereafter as the Fisher Interval.)

For Lenona

Couple OD's on opioids, leaving their baby to slowly starve to death in its crib.

Horrible. But surely no one would claim...

“I still just don’t want to believe it,” she said. “And I just want people to know they were good people — they were really good parents. This was an accident.”

Gosh, I'd hate to see BAD parents.

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/friend-remembers-pair-killed-in-suspected-drug-overdose

Lenona, that's a great link.

I love how getting free presents for their children -- but not on THEIR timetable -- left "parents fuming."

Did you see this?

http://i.imgur.com/AHB541J.png

There's no more jiggling in the Empire. 2016 claims another.

When your white guilt gets to you, check into the loonie bin before you set fires and fake a hate crime.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4064080/White-husband-confesses-wife-setting-cars-fire-painting-racial-slur-garage-door-staged-hate-crime.html

The wages of feminism . . .

https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/the-embittered-sexual-market/

Leftoid nursing home:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/27/harry-reid-democrats-2020-going-old-folks-home/

The wages of open borders. (Let's hear it for "diversity!")

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/27/police-hunt-gang-syrian-libyan-migrants-homeless-man-set-alight-christmas-day/

Thanks, Kevin. (Btw, I should have said "timely manner.")

No, I didn't see that so-called job listing. The only way it would make sense is if there actually ARE plenty of people in that neighborhood desperate enough to take the job at slave wages (but it's still illegal, I'm sure), or if there was some sort of math-related typo. At 11 hours a day, a salary of $75 twice a DAY would make more sense.

It reminds me of Chapter 2, "The Day Out" in "Mary Poppins," in which employer Mrs. Banks is trying to set the terms of how much time off Mary Poppins will have:

"Every third Thursday," said Mrs. Banks. "Two till five."

Mary Poppins eyed her sternly. "The best people, ma'am," she said, "give every SECOND Thursday, and one till six. And those I shall take or--" Mary Poppins paused, and Mrs. Banks knew what the pause meant. it meant that if she didn't get what she wanted Mary Poppins would not stay.

"Very well, very well," said Mrs. Banks hurriedly, though she wished Mary Poppins did not know so very much more about the best people than she did herself...

(snip)

I mean, since when was three hours every three weeks EVER considered a reasonable amount of time off for a nanny? Even in the 1930s?

Mrs. Banks makes a pretty outrageous request (without even realizing it) here as well, in book 2:

https://books.google.com/books?id=-eyqBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA416&lpg=PA416&dq=banks+poppins+%22hurrying+into+the+nursery%22&source=bl&ots=THqAJMVuNh&sig=6ZunMScV5SSOhcnF829ue5vHgB4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUv-6ez5XRAhWlzIMKHRnLCTsQ6AEIHTAB#v=onepage&q=banks%20poppins%20%22hurrying%20into%20the%20nursery%22&f=false

That is, she's asking her to carry shopping bags, a baby, AND take four other children with her - two of whom are toddlers!

(It's clear by the end of the second page that Mrs. Banks wouldn't have been uncomfortable asking any other servant to do all that!)

https://imgur.com/q0jUMBa

If kids from the 80's are upset, kids from the (late) 50's...

> Leftoid nursing home:

I don't think they have anything to worry about.

The lessons of leftist rhetoric —at least since about the time I entered Junior High— are that the problems in your life are...

• …Caused by other people... Your choices about the conduct of your life, and the discipline and courage you instill in the lives of your children, can have no effect on the outcomes.


• …Systemic. All the wealth in the world has already been created, such that if one person doesn't have enough, the only possible explanation is that some other person has too much. So there's no point in trying to make other people happy enough that they'd ever want to pay you, or anything like that. The world is a paperwork problem.


• Etc.
  

Leftists don't have to wait for some gifted & commanding new leader, some Tony Robbins type, to come to striding from the mists of fate to remind them to be insular, selfish peckerheads. Fifty such 'leaders' are born to our species every minutes of every hour.

In the fullness of her timeline, McArdle confesses that she got some things wrong here... But it wouldn't take much to convince me that her main theme is correct.

Now, Nikita is Elton John's best song.

Certainly was the best on that album, and I tend to like his more poignant pieces.

Now that I think about it, maybe the ad was supposed to say "$750 a week." Still stingy, though, I'm guessing.