I guess I ought to conserve my resources...

...while continuing to add to them, while I can - "Democrat Party Platform: Ban Online Ammo Sales, License All Gun Owners".

The licensing is bad enough, but is also something that one might conceivably dodge; banning online ammo sales would be a huge nuisance. I don't know how much, or even if, any of this would affect reloaders; I don't believe the platform addresses that issue. But the donks will get around to it, mark my word.

Of course, the best medicine for the plague of gun control is to keep the Democrats out of power everywhere we can. If Trump wins, I'm really going to have to focus on stocking up on everything I need over the next four years (beyond four years, the crystal ball grows very cloudy). 

Update  Interesting: "Ruger to Acquire Marlin Firearms". 

After approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Ruger released the following statement this evening: Sturm, Ruger and Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) announced today that its offer to purchase substantially all of the Marlin Firearms assets was accepted by Remington Outdoor Company, Inc. and approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The Company will pay the $30 million purchase price from cash on hand at the time of closing, which is expected to occur in October.

I believe this can only benefit the Marlin brand, which I have heard has been languishing somewhat under Remington's control. 

Suck it up, buttercup

Uh oh. Now he's done it: President Trump's debate performance apparently made a little girl cry : "Jake Tapper Claims President Trump Made Little Girl Burst Into Tears and Run to Bed as She Watched the Debate."

I demand that this claim be fact-checked (by somebody other than Chris Wallace). How do we know that the little girl didn't run away after glimpsing Gropey Joe Biden on the screen?

BTW, the attempt by Biden to label the Proud Boys as white supremacists was yet another slanderous attempt by a Democrat to cancel anyone not explicitly on the left. Hell, if there were a chapter nearby, I might join the outfit myself. So far, they're one of the few rightist organizations that have shown a taste for fighting back. And we're going to need street fighters before this civil war trial run is over (and either peters out because the normals emphatically say "Enough!", or continues to develop into something more widespread and destructive).

Update  Veeshir, in the comments:

And that little girl's name? Jake Tapper. 

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

Dang!

First, the deer and the rabbits help themselves to the Paco All-You-Can-Eat Buffet, wolfing down my Mexican petunias and my green beans, and this weekend I saw a turtle moving at speed (for a turtle) from among the new mum plantings, which I strongly suspect he pigged out on.

Introducing Seabiscuit, the official turtle of Paco Enterprises. 

He (or she, as the case may be) is a sizable fellow; the shell measured about 8 inches long. I'm not sure what kind it is. We're not up against a pond or creek, so maybe it's a tortoise of some kind. Notice the olive drab, probably military spec, carapace.

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Wait, this can't be

I thought stone-cold professional and all-around straight arrow FBI Director Christopher Wray said he didn't have any evidence of significant voter fraud.

A Biden Campaign operative in Texas is attempting to rig the 2020 election with the help of others in a massive ballot harvesting scheme, according to two private investigators who testified under oath that they have “video evidence, documentation and witnesses” to prove it. With the help of mass mail-in ballots, the illegal ballot harvesting operation could harvest 700,000 ballots, one Harris County Democrat operative allegedly bragged.

Hmm. Maybe Wray should be fired before the election. 

It's like I always say

 Animals know.

Reporters for CBS News and other outlets were sent scrambling Monday morning after an aggressive raccoon began attacking news crews outside the White House.

Update  Veeshir, in the comments: "Raccoons are attracted to trash after all."

Short cynical rant

Do you suppose John Durham suddenly expanded his investigation to include the Clinton Foundation in order to justify not releasing a report until after the election? And do you suppose that, after the election, we're going to get the same old "no evidence of a crime" b.s.? It's difficult to see how a two-year investigation into something as big as a coup attempt hasn't generated more then one indictment (and that one on relatively minor charges). Next, I suppose Durham will decide that he needs to take a hard look at the Missouri Compromise or the accounting for the construction of the Panama Canal.

Seriously, I may just secede all by myself. Pacovia will need a flag and a national anthem, so I'd better get cracking.

Totalitarianism

Sometimes it gallops, sometimes it creeps: Berkeley becomes 1st city to ban junk food at grocery store checkouts.

How does a city government - or any other government - presume to have the right to do things like this? Keep it up, citizens of Berkeley, keep putting these meddlesome, officious little Kommissars on your city council. One of these days, you're going to vote yourselves straight into a concentration camp.

Classical corner

One of the world's greatest classical trumpet soloists, Alison Balsam, performs an excerpt on the piccolo trumpet from J.S. Bach's Concerto in D for trumpet and organ.

Bonus video!  Ms. Balsam discusses and demonstrates the baroque trumpet, and the piccolo trumpet.

Like Cuba?

 One-half of the most obnoxious couple in Hollywood sees a mass migration looming.

Pop star John Legend says Americans might "have to start thinking about going somewhere else" if President Trump wins reelection. "At some point, if that project [to destroy democracy] was to be in any way successful, you’d have to think about going somewhere that is a true democracy, that has respect for the rule of law and human rights," the "All of Me" singer said in an interview published this week with Cosmopolitan UK.

Well, Paco Enterprises is about helping people attain their dreams, Baby Face, so be sure and check out the one-way cruises from our travel subsidiary, Progressive American Cruises Overseas*. 

* Lifeboats not included.

Don't tell me: he played center on the basketball team, too, didn't he?

 "Joe Biden Claimed He Attended Historically Black University; University Disagrees".

Elsewhere, Dwayne "Only His Head is a Rock" Johnson has endorsed the Biden/Harris team. Tell me, Duhwayne, you really want to be associated with the Rob Reiner Meathead Brigade of Anti-Trump Foaming Big Mouths?

Hollywood. The anus of the nation.

Update  Of course, not everything from Hollywood is bilge. Here's the saloon shoot-out scene from Appaloosa, the film friend and commenter Jonah mentioned in the comments section of an earlier post.

I hope so

 "The Left is going to find Amy Coney Barrett a tough nut to attack. She is smart, pleasant, and competent. Her personal history is an open book of service and commitment."

May God give her strength. And I hope she wears her extra-thick skin to the hearings. Some Democrats are already secretly warning about overreach and the perils of being overtly nasty; however, no doubt some on the committee will probably ignore the memo, and/or they'll all find other, perhaps more subtle, ways to attack her. I pray for her, and for the success of her nomination. 

Sunday funnies

 

Walk softly but carry a big flyswatter.

New dad. (H/T: David Thompson).

Sort of a video bomb (H/T: Ditto).

"Constitution To Be Replaced By List Of Ginsburg's Last Wishes".

From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".

Here's what a Biden rally looks like

 

Notice the main features: (1) No more than ten people, and (2) no Joe Biden (that's Jill Biden sitting in for him).

Feel the excitement.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Outstanding question from Scott Adams

 

Can someone ask Democratic leaders, including BLM, if they will commit to a peaceful continuation of the Trump administration should Trump win reelection?

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 26, 2020

How do I despise thee, let me count the ways

The governor I hate the most this week is Oregon's Kate Brown, who's fine with left-wing violence, but thinks a mere right-wing protest is practically some kind of Putsch.

Kate Brown. Gavin Newsom. Andrew Cuomo. This is why we have an Electoral College, so that the neurotics and imbeciles and ideologues who put people like these in charge do not get to impose their mad dystopian societies on the rest of us.

The raw materials of a police state

Just because many politicized FBI personnel, and the giant flock of cut-throat prosecutors in the DOJ (who frequently give the impression of vultures hanging around a waterhole, watching for a sick wildebeest) have proven, so far, to have been undone by their clumsy zeal and conspiratorial incompetence, doesn't mean that they are not capable of eventually upping their game. That's why, however late in the day it may be, I'm glad this corruption is being exposed.

But it will come to naught if Trump is defeated in November. The investigations, the turning over of all the rocks, the splashing of light on the activities of all the deep state vermin will abruptly end, and will result not only in no change, but in an expansion and hardening of the unlawful network we see operating today. If they can get General Flynn, getting you or me will be a milk run.

This is quite possibly the most self-defensive election in our nation's history.

Diana Rigg, RIP

As everyone knows by now, Dame Diana Rigg died last week.

An extremely accomplished actress, she is probably best known, at least in the United States, for her role as Emma Peel in the classic British television series, The Avengers. 

I recently came across the following YouTube video which shows her first and last appearances on The Avengers.

Kurt Schlichter's prose leaves me in awe

Check out this bit of metaphorical brilliance.

Joe Biden? "He’s an unsteady conduit, the terminal soup can for the feverish leftist dreams of the folks talking into the tin cylinder at the other end of the string."

My hat's off to you, sir!

Happy Feet Friday

 Chicago blues giants Elmore James and Little Johnny Jones combine on “Wait, Baby”.

Unbelievable

 And by "unbelievable", I mean "horrible, but quite believable".

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents tasked by fired former Director James Comey to take down Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election were so concerned about the agency’s potentially illegal behavior that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Trump was inaugurated president, previously hidden FBI text messages show.

If Trump is reelected, his first step should be to can FBI Director Christopher Wray and begin the process of cleaning out the rest of the rats' nests in the FBI and the intel agencies. 

 

I tend to agree

 If there is to be another civil war in the United States, it is far more likely to resemble the Spanish Civil War, in many respects, than our own earlier War Between the States. 

Follow the money

So, who's supporting the anarchists who are terrorizing our cities? Looks like Jack Dorsey may be one of them (by the way, he looks like King Arthur's weaselly bastard son Mordred from some small town dinner theater production of Camelot): "Twitter's Jack Dorsey Funds Bail Project Linked to U-Haul Providing Supplies to Louisville Rioters".

It's true

Leftism really is a form of mental illness: "Seattle City Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto, Begins to Defund the Police".

For whatever reason, Seattle is bound and determined to turn itself into the opposite of a Potemkin village.

Update  When "expertise" pushes out common sense: "Civilization Requires Collective Common Sense".

What a waste

"Man dies from eating bags of black licorice".

How pointless. I mean, it would be something glorious to go out on overindulgence in Baby Ruth bars or Milky Ways or (drool!) pecan turtles, but black licorice? Just sad. RIP, old fellow.

Very true

The organization known as Black Lives Matter is the photographic negative of the KKK.

It is past time for the federal government to go after the money bags, and the equivalent Grand Dragons and Kleagles, who are funding and directing these riots.

Up-Chuck Schumer tries to pull a fast one

"Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a ceremonial resolution honoring the life of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after Democrats, under the direction of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, tried to use the occasion to push a political message. The Texas Republican objected to language added to the resolution noting Ginsburg’s reported dying wish that a successor not be chosen until after the election..."

You know, if the people of New York keep electing garbage politicians as their senators (and governors and mayors), it's going to be very difficult to avoid drawing certain conclusions about the voters.

I don't shop at Costco...

...and I'm not about to start: "Costco pulls Palmetto Cheese after founder calls BLM a ‘terrorist organization’".

I'm glad to see that some corporate types aren't afraid to tell it like it is. We need more - many more - to do the same thing. Although, sadly, it's possible that there are the usual garden variety executive weenies within the company that will attempt to walk the comments back.

H/T: Mrs. Paco

Gale Sayers, RIP

 Legendary Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers has died at age 77.

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

Ventriloquist blames dummy for his performance bombing

"Weissmann Lashes Out at Robert Mueller and Fellow Russia Probe Lawyers in New Book, Says Mueller Let the American People Down".

The only thing having to do with Andrew Weissmann that I'd really care to read is his obituary.

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Desperation

Some Democrats apparently are willing to lie down and block the entrances to the Senate building in order to prevent a vote on RBG's replacement.

Well, for every problem, there's a solution...

It's within the realm of possibility, I suppose

 "Ninth Circuit Court Overturns Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg".

America's Maginot Line

It consists of NeverTrumpers like David French and Jonah Goldberg. who think it would be awesome if Republicans postponed voting on a replacement for the late RBG in return for a Democrat promise not to pack the court in the future.

Did you get that? We give up something real and tangible, right now, in return for a promise by the Party of Lies not to do something bad down the road.

This is absolutely the stupidest attempt at strategy I have heard from Conservative, Inc., yet. 

Outrageous

Not only will the state deny you and your property protection under the law, it will also punish you for trying to defend yourself - and if you commit suicide in the process, then I guess the state will pat itself on the back for saving the taxpayers some money. RIP, Jake Gardner.

As Jeff Goldstein says, WE are now the outlaws. 

Level of self-awareness: zero

Did you ever notice how Hillary gets a wild, yearning look in her eyes every time she accuses Trump of lusting for power? This is another way you can tell she's projecting like a clackety old Bell and Howell. 

From personal experience, I'd say...

 ...this is more fact than satire: "Man Sticks To Keto Diet For Full 12 Seconds".

Classical corner

 The late, great Andres Segovia performs the first movement of F.M. Torroba's Sonatina.

The Democrats' biggest voting block

 

H/T: The People's Cube

Update  It's getting hard to keep up with accelerating Democrat depravity.

Update II   "Genius Trump Nominates Joe Biden To Supreme Court Forcing Dems To Accuse Him Of Sexual Assault".

Sunday funnies

 

"Media Criticizes Trump For Ignoring Social Distancing Guidelines While Saving Baby From Oncoming Train".

Why you need to make visual contact before plugging something into a wall socket (H/T: David Thompson).

Another of James Lileks' unique galleries: "Eww La La: French Cuisine" (H/T: Little Grandma's Kitchen).

From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".

Fossilized irrelevance

A couple of commenters - was it Spiny and ck? - mentioned the blog Little Green Footballs a few posts back. Just out of curiosity, I googled it, and the site is till there - and it's exactly what you would expect: splenetic, anti-Trump garbage.

Rare

Volunteers have "rescued" a bunch of Venus flytrap plants from some of the homebuilding sites in our development and established them along one of our nature walks. These interesting little fellows only grow in a fairly small area of the coastal plain in North and South Carolina. They apparently are extremely difficult to transplant, so hats off to the nature walk volunteers for taking such good care of these.

Creepy

 So, what's going on with Nancy Pelosi's eye?

Possibly a trick of the light, or even a faked video - or maybe the demon's mask slipped.

RIP, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Supreme Court justice Ginsburg died today.

Update  Well, that didn't take but a few seconds. The Democrats immediately began screeching that no replacement should be nominated until after the election; however, somewhat to my surprise, Mitch McConnell has promised a vote on whoever Trump nominates. 2020 just keeps getting wilder by the minute.

Update II  Ted Cruz, as is frequently the case, effectively cuts to the chase.

Of course

The decision by the Pittsburgh Steelers to honor a drive-by shooting thug apparently was made by management - possibly with the approval of the Democrat-supporting owners, the Rooney family.

I stopped watching all professional sports years ago, except for baseball which I dropped last year. I was surprised how easy it was to fill the time with more useful activities - e.g., improving my shooting skills at the range.

This is why I would decline to ever permit myself to run the risk of getting justice at the federal level

 Elite Democrats can wipe their phones and their servers with impunity; you can’t.

Happy Feet Friday

From 1947, here's a little number called “Flip and Jazz”, showcasing the talents of Flip Phillips and Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge.

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A lot of tectonic plate shifting going on along the fault lines in these guys' craniums

I swear, some of these NeverTrumpers act like the president's the guy who shot Bambi's mother. 

Steve Schmidt ought to be giving interviews from a fainting couch.

Public enemy #1

 

Update and bumped: Newt Gingrich addresses Fox's attempt to shut him down, and reveals even more details about Soros' networks.

I have attempted to understand what the end game is for George Soros, without anything like complete success. I do believe he is actively undermining institutions and processes associated with responsible forms of popular government - not just populist movements, but all forms of workable, popular government - because be doesn't trust most of the other 7.8 billion people on the planet and he wants to erect some kind of overarching global society run by a permanent bureaucracy staffed by similarly-minded corporate fascists, secure from the meddling masses.

 Maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps he has found some secret way to make money from chaos and he's motivated by purely financial incentives, or maybe he's the anti-Christ and is carrying out a program for destroying the human race based on a plan constructed by the father of lies. I'm not sure it matters, anymore, to ascertain his motives. You do not absolutely have to have a motive to prove a crime, and the forensic evidence, alone, demonstrates that Soros is trying to destabilize democracies everywhere, and that the outcome is unacceptable to free people, whatever his rationale may be.

How fascinating - fascinating and alarming - to see FoxNews' clumsy, but apparently successful, effort to silence Newt Gingrich when be mentions Soros's financial support of leftwing DAs.  And how  ominous, yet unsurprising, to see the hydra-headed beast of his political operation continuing to expand its reach.

I have always enjoyed reading G.K. Chesterton, but I confess that I used to find many of his economic ideas naive and even archaic; I was particularly dismissive of his contempt for Big Capitalism. No longer. Great concentrations, whether of wealth or of power, are always potentially dangerous, and when wealth and power form alliances - especially when they transform themselves into a single malign force, indifferent to the will of the people, and ultimately corrupting it - that way lies the concentration camps and the gulags and the killing fields.

Assortment

Jazz critic Stanley Crouch has died. I used to catch his columns every now and then, and always found him to be a breath of fresh air, a man of intelligence and common sense who rejected the self-ghettoization of black nationalism. He also provided what was probably the greatest put-down of Spike Lee ever, calling him a "middle-class would-be street Negro" (H/T: Instapundit).  UPDATE:  Some more cool quotes via Powerline.

Redlining on the idiotmeter: "'Where Are The Police?' After Voting To Defund Cops, Minneapolis City Council Baffled Over Recent Crime Wave".

The support by Democrats and their propaganda operatives in the mainstream press of the violence associated with Antifa and BLM has created an open season on the police and on political opponents of the madness.

It's a crazy time, indeed, when a niece of Osama bin Laden turns out to be a better American patriot than the average Democrat office holder.

How about a little truth in labeling? Joe Biden has just received an endorsement from The Scientific American, a magazine which is neither scientific or American.

What to do with Joe Biden if he wins? Kurt Schlichter speculates.

Victor Davis Hanson on the phenomenon of "un-news".

Still of monumental importance

Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. Both the constitution and citizenship have been under attack by the forces that want to tear down our country and build a socialist dystopia (shot through with institutionalized racism and psychosexual depravity). Over my dead body, lefties (literally, if necessary).

In any event, this is also the 36th anniversary of Mrs. Paco being sworn in as a U.S. citizen, in a huge event at Miami's Orange Bowl, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush presiding. 

It's as if Benedict Arnold decided to stay in the U.S. after the war and didn't do anything but whine about George Washington on Twitter

 "Mitt Romney Slams Hunter Biden, Burisma Probe".

Once again, Mitt...

Fair warning

Joe Biden, real estate flipper

"The Guy Who Once Sold His Own Driveway Wants To Be Your President".

Hilarious account of Joe Biden's big real estate investment adventure. Of course, he made up for this disaster by using his connections as a politician to line his pockets (and the pockets of his relatives) many times over; still, a good look at Joe Biden's cognitive ability before it began its precipitous decline.

Rousing words

 From Jeff Goldstein.

Remember this: in the fight against fascism, YOU are the outlaws, the true guerrilla warriors.

So fight

Liberty and individualism are our birthrights.

Refuse — ever — to surrender either.

Working-with-your-hands-Wednesday

 

The tow truck was a nice touch.

Hey, lady, your Freudian slip is showing

Cackling Commie Kamela Harris accidentally said out loud what a lot of people are thinking when she recently referred to the Harris administration at a campaign event in Arizona.

"Say, I'd love to have another shot at being president! I've got some great ideas...What? What's that? 'Harris', not 'Harrison'? Oh. Heh. Never mind!"

Update  I saw a Biden campaign ad today (the remote always seems to be out of reach), and he wants you to know he's going to find a vaccine for COVID-19. In fact, he has heroically volunteered to serve as the guinea pig for experimental medicines. Paco World News Daily (PWND) has obtained exclusive footage of Joe Biden bravely testing a new drug.

Update II  Oops! Our bad! We've just been handed a bulletin informing us that the video shows Joe Biden taking his daily dose of Metamucil.

Go figure

 "State That Just Voted To Reduce Penalties For Pedophiles Not Sure Why God Keeps Lighting Them On Fire"

Haw!

State legislators, trying to figure out why God keeps unleashing bowl after bowl of wrath upon California, cast lots and threw all the remaining Republicans in the state into the Pacific Ocean in hopes that the plagues would subside. Both men were swallowed by a great fish and are expected to survive.

Hurry Sundown

Ace of Spades has a few recent videos  of Joe Biden, um, riding off into the sunset. 

How do you think his minders are going to get him out of the debates? I think Nancy Pelosi tried to float the notion that they're not necessary because, you know, Trump, but I don't really think that will fly with the voters; however, maybe they'll just have to run with that, because there's no way Biden can survive a debate, and any excuse at all, or even no excuse, is better than having him get on the same stage with Trump (or, for that matter, appearing in a remote, split-screen setting with him). 

Amazing

Every time one of these protest dummies does something stupid - like, for example, climbing on top of a moving squad car - there's always someone in the crowd who screams when the imbecile gets hurt, as if the person is an innocent victim, instead of a candidate for the Darwin Award.

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For future reference

The concept of commie-run summer camps, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, continues today in a new form. Celebrity sports flop, Colin Kaepernick, is now running something called Know Your Rights Camp, a venue for the indoctrination of young "black and brown" people in the politics of racial divisiveness - or, as their mission statement puts it, "Our mission is to advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders." I'm not linking the organization's site; look it up and browse if you want to. Just know that it's out there, and that it's not the kind of operation where students say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, or display the American flag as a symbol to be respected.

Great observations from one of our most distinguished cultural critics

Mark Steyn: "When I'm accused of being xenophobic or Islamophobic, thisaphobic or thataphobic, the charge is often formulated as 'otherizing' people. But the rampaging trustiefundies and psychotrannies are in effect self-otherizing - otherizing their entire civilizational inheritance, and those who still value it."

This idiot

"Lynwood, California City Manager Jose Ometeotl Posts 'Chickens Come Home to Roost' after 2 Young Deputies Shot in Head in Ambush Attack".

So this depraved Aztec thinks the cops got what they deserved. 

Ometeotl is said to have been a dual god in Aztec mythology. Old José, there, is just two kinds of stupid (at  least). You really did yourselves proud, citizens of Lynwood.

The two deputies are now in stable condition, and I pray for their speedy and full recovery. 

And, José, we'll be watching with eager anticipation for the day when your chickens come home to roost.

I dunno...

Pizzagate, Wayfair, stories of a huge pedophile ring in Hollywood..."absurd conspiracy theories", we're told, "completely debunked". 

Maybe. But I can't shake the feeling that this satirical story from the Babylon Bee is going to wind up cutting very near the bone: "Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They're All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell".

Classical corner

Boris Godonov was a late 16th century Russian Tsar who was considered by many of his people to have been an assassin and usurper. Modest Mussorgsky wrote an opera about the Tsar and the tumultuous times in which he lived (it is generally considered Mussorgsky's masterpiece).

My favorite part is the coronation scene. Glorious music and majestic staging.

They don't call it snail mail for nothing

"Dated 1920, a Postcard Finally Gets Delivered".

Sunday funnies

 

New, from Progressive Aluminum Chapeau Outfitters! (H/T: Little Grandma's Kitchen)

A-l-l-e-y oop! (H/T: David Thompson)

One should always weigh the consequences: "Man blows up part of house while chasing fly" (H/T: Ditto).

The cloak of invisibility.

Gun free zone.

The return of Steven Wright.

From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures."

The Democrats nominated the wrong person to be their presidential candidate

 Which is pretty obvious. One supposes that they simply hope to effectively create a one-party state, then it won't matter who the figurehead is. 

But if there are any Democrats left who have the brains to see that the party's current path is leading to what will ultimately become a destructive (and self-destructive) revolution, they could do worse than consider boosting the future career of Tulsi Gabbard, who apparently isn't afraid of tackling cultural issues.

Say, here's one way to resist capitalism

 Don't buy Lululemon's overpriced yoga pants: "$41 Billion Lululemon Is Holding Classes On 'Resisting Capitalism' While Selling $128 Yoga Pants".

Jane Fonda, the unrepentant dumbass

She's been wrong about everything - everything - all her adult life, but is too stupid to see it. If ever anyone deserved a Dunning-Kruger lifetime achievement award, it is this pathetic woman with a brain the size of a Milk Dud: Jane Fonda, Cheerleader to Ho, Che, and Jim Jones, Can’t Be Friends With Jon Voight.

She'll be the first one to appear before Adam Schiff's House American Activities Committee (it's coming, just you wait and see!) to denounce all of her acquaintances who aren't died-in-the-wool commies and America-Lasters.

That fateful day

 

On September 11, 2001, we were struck by an enemy from abroad, and our nation responded with courage, self-sacrifice and determination. In 2020, we still have external enemies, but probably nothing to match the danger coming from the enemies within. May God save the Republic from all foes of liberty, foreign and domestic, and may true patriots prove themselves worthy in the life and death struggles of the fateful days to come.

Joe Biden's spokesman can't handle the truth!

 "Biden Spox Melts Down Over Teleprompter, COVID Questions".

Gawrsh, Mickey!

 How could that happen? "At least 15 Mueller team phones were WIPED before they could be checked for records!"

Dishonorable, unmitigated scoundrels, every last one of them.

Happy Feet Friday

 From the Metronome All Star Band of 1946, here's “Nat Meets June” (that would be Nat King Cole and June Christy).

 

So, does that come with automatic transmission?

 "U-Haul Introduces Armored War Rigs For Californians Trying To Flee State's Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland".

Update

The Jesuits again

The Jesuit order in the Catholic Church has had a checkered history, generating extremely brave missionaries (and martyrs), such as the ones who went among the Indian tribes in North America in the 17th century, but also a large cabal of quasi or actual Marxists of the sort who have pushed liberation theology in South America and elsewhere for the last 40+ years. Now we learn that George Soros, whose tentacles seem to reach everywhere these days, is contributing money to the Jesuits.. 

I would suggest to Pope Francis, with all due humility, that if he would like to avoid the stigma of becoming the pope who winds up provoking more apostasy than Martin Luther and Calvin combined, he'd better stop looking on the Catholic Church as a wing of the International Socialist movement, with Jesus serving as a mere Chairman Emeritus, and return to (or, more likely, take up for the first time in his career) a stout defense of the ancient faith.

What's that noise?

 It sounds like a hive of agitated bees set loose in a room full of balloons. 

Ah, yes, it's the familiar sound of liberal heads exploding: "Donald Trump Earns Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for Israel-UAE Deal".

Update  Plus, Trump picks up an endorsement from an unexpected quarter.

Just an average Democrat family

 Kamala Harris has nothing but good to to say about accused rapist Jacob Blake and his Anti-Semitic father.

I love Lucy

 But not 2020...

Working-with-your-hands-Wednesday

I think I see a few bankruptcies on the horizon

If you are a patron of The Ox and Stone, The Daily Refresher, or The Swan Dive in Rochester, New York, then you are merely grist for their virtue-signaling mill: "Rochester Diners Terrorized by BLM, and the Restaurant Sides With the Rioters? " Pusillanimity runs rampant.

If I had known on January 1st of this dreadful year what I know now, I think I would have just stayed in bed.

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I have little doubt that Trump would win a fair election (therein lies the rub)

 As Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote, "[t]he effort to stop President Trump is growing comical."

In terms of bombshells, what does the Left do after the 2016 suit to decertify voting machines, the FISA court abuse, the effort to sabotage electors’ votes, the first impeachment drive, the Logan Act gambits, the Emoluments Clause joke, the 25th Amendment ruse, the Russian collusion hoax, the 22-month-asleep-at-the-wheel Mueller and his “all-stars,” Ukraine! Ukraine!, the second impeachment drive, and the 2020 trifecta of Trump as Typhoid Mary, Bull Connor, and Herbert Hoover?

The point is, in Jussie Smollett fashion, the demand for scandals is outrunning the supply and time grows short.

But even though Trump would win in a  fair election pretty handily,  we're looking down the barrel of what will probably be the biggest attempt at election fraud in history. The possible success of such a gambit provides an awful lot of food for thought - and quite a bit of heartburn. Let us pray (or rather, as the old song says, "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition").

Deserving of its own post

 Somebody has set rioter Horace Hotfoot to the Benny Hill theme, "Yackety Sax" (H/T to friend and commenter Veeshir).

Elsewhere, Steve Inman does the play-by-play. (H/T to friend and commenter Spiny Norman).

Best wishes on Labor Day!

Paco Enterprises wishes all of its employees a happy Labor Day. Go ahead and knock off an hour early this evening. 

"Gee, thanks, boss!"

Classical corner

Van Cliburn performs Chopin's Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor.

I saw him play in Raleigh, NC a year or so after I had graduated high school; very much one of the musical highlights of my life.

RIP, Tom Seaver and Lou Brock

 We lost two baseball greats over the last week: Tom Seaver and Lou Brock.

Quote of the week from Umpire Joe West, after tossing Nationals GM Mike Rizzo from a game

“I wouldn’t take that from a player. I wouldn’t take that from a manager,'” West said, via the Associated Press. “If it was Donald Trump, I’d eject him, too. But I’d still vote for him.”

Antifa's mad revolutionary skillz

 ANTIFA Member Tosses Molotov At Cops, Ends Up Lighting BLM Activist On Fire Instead.

Video! Don't miss it. Instead of immediately doing the old "stop, drop and roll", Combustible Carl decides to light out with a Texas two-step. 

The revolution: Bring. It. On.

Update  I'd love to see this guy's moves set to music. Maybe something old school, like the frog in this Warner Bros cartoon.

BOLO

 Between now and election day, expect the Dem/Media Complex to push one fake scandal after another.

Something like this...

Who you gonna believe?

 A political hack like Jeffrey Goldberg and his unnamed sources, or real soldiers and their families?

H/T: Friend and commenter, Spiny Norman.

Sunday funnies

 

Fetch, boy!

The human treadmill.

"Wife Claims $450 Salon Treatment Was A Setup"

"Goat takes over deputy’s patrol car, eats her paperwork" (H/T: Mrs. Paco)

From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".

Elephants: what clowns!

So close to a happy resolution

 Yet it didn't quite happen. Joe Biden Accused of Groping Breast of Secret Service Agent’s Girlfriend During 2009 Photo-Op.

According to the report, an unidentified Secret Service agent was suspended for a week after the incident for shoving the vice president “after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him.”

“The situation got so heated … that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President,” according to the report.

Ah, there's always those blasted "others", who manage to thwart the cause of justice. 

A sad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome

 Jim Gaffigan, the portly comedian with one of the fruitiest voices ever possessed by a heterosexual male (not being judgmental, just making an observation), has lately been flooding YouTube with videos of his various stand-up comedy routines. The sheer volume of these things, to put it charitably, far exceeds the quality of the material. I get it, though. The guy's married and has five children, so that's a lot of mouths to feed. Got to do the best you can.

Unfortunately, he turns out to be another "acceptable" Catholic who has come out against Trump, and has done so in a series of hysterically unhinged Tweets.

I am getting so sick of the knee-jerk vitriol being spouted by people who are complete ignoramuses with respect to history - even very contemporary history - and who take umbrage when anyone dares to question their toxic politics. Gaffigan, taken as an individual, is irrelevant. But he is emblematic of the fifth columnists - in the entertainment industry, in the bureaucracy, in academia, in the media, in sports - who pass themselves off as regular Joes or political moderates or even apolitical types until something, or someone, rises up to threaten the progressive rot that they either secretly support or blithely tolerate. Then, at last, the prospect of losing power and prestige, or maybe just being discomfited in their unthinking assumptions, finally flushes them out to condemn the people who have hired a knight-errant to slay their complacent and overfed pet dragons. In the aggregate, they are a not necessarily insignificant segment of the coalition of the "righteous" who, in one possible scenario envisioned by Victor Davis Hanson (see the previous post), will not hesitate to search out their enemies and persecute them. 

Or maybe Gaffigan is just an idiot who believes everything he hears on CNN. In which case I would remind him of an important point made by the American literary and cultural critic Lionel Trilling: we have a moral obligation to be as intelligent as we can be.

So, either way, whether lazy dumbass or progressive fellow-traveler, Gaffigan is on the side of the gravediggers of our culture and our form of government, another "funny man" who can't see the gulag for the zeks.

Wise words (as always) from Victor Davis Hanson

 An interesting interview of Victor Davis Hanson by former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, John Anderson. The whole thing is intriguing, but be sure, especially, to catch the last three minutes or so; positively chilling. 

Update  Sorry, I had originally linked the wrong story. The link will now take you to the page with the Hanson interview (thanks for the correction, Rebecca).

Nancy Pelosi looking out of her window: "OMG, are those nooses?!?"

 Protesters Hang Blow Dryers on Tree Outside Nancy Pelosi’s Home.

Happy Feet Friday

Tex Williams with “That's What I Like About the West”.

Assortment

 Anti-Semitism is on the rise - including in Joe Biden's back yard.

Guess the Anti-Semitism  doesn't trouble Biden that much, because his trip to Kenosha is centered on meeting the family of Joseph Blake, a violent criminal injured while resisting arrest. Should be interesting, considering that Blake's father is a rabid hater of Jews in particular, and whites in general.

Biden attempts joke, fails (as usual).

Let's keep a good thought.

Well, somebody's got to: "Feds Start Charging Portland Rioters For Crimes Against State Officers.

I think the NFL is disintegrating before our very eyes, as it deserves to do.

Bravery and viciousness are not synonymous.

Hi, man! Welcome to Tel Aviv!

Can Joe come out to debate?  (h/t: Ace of Spades)

If the stuff's that valuable, it's time to get the official Paco Enterprises yacht, The Jolly Codger, underway and make sail for Sardinia post haste.

Dangerous criminal apprehended in Australia

 "Pregnant Australian Mother Arrested In Her Home Over Facebook Lockdown Protest Post".

Hmm. Not exactly Ned Kelly stuff, is it? This is what, I suspect, our "progressive" governors and mayors here in the states would love to do - and may wind up doing if the Democrats get their hands on the levers of power in November.

The Humpty Dumpty effect

 Maybe America really can't be put back together again. Tal Bachman over at Mark Steyn's site considers possible changes in the future direction of our country. 

There is much work to do

The Republican Party needs an in-house revolution, and, frankly, so does the Catholic Church. Lay people need to quit taking references to believers as "sheep" quite so literally.