Friday, April 24, 2026

Happy Feet Friday

Dizzy Gillespie, joined by some very cool friends, performs "A Hand Fulla Gimme".

Featuring, in addition to Gillespie, Alice Roberts handling the vocals, Sonny Stitt on alto sax, Milt Jackson on vibraphone, Al Haig on piano, Ray Brown on bass, and Kenny Clark on drums.



Bonus!  Here's a short clip from another Dizzy Gillespie video, featuring some extremely hep flute playing by Leo Wright.

Thursday, April 23, 2026

More evidence...

 ...as if any were necessary, that leftists have strong sociopathic tendencies: "The devil wears Kagan".

Hemingway alleges that several of Kagan’s former clerks, along with others at the Court, have described her as “emotionally abusive,” “demanding, demoralizing, demeaning,” and “a hard a**.”’
‘Kagan’s clerks had fear in their eyes,’ Hemingway said someone who clerked for a different justice recounted to her.
Other former aides speculated that there is ‘something psychological going on there,’ Hemingway writes.

Generally being irreligious as regards traditional belief systems, leftists have no problem usurping the power and authority that historically has been assumed to rest with the divine. That they almost always use that power in abusive and evil ways does, indeed, suggest that there is "something psychological going on" - or perhaps something even deeper and darker.

It would look good for Republicans symbolically..

...but as a practical matter, would it ultimately make a difference? "A Republican Governor in California?"

California is practically under a Democrat lockdown when it comes to state politics and national congressional representation. Still, it would no doubt be beneficial to have a governor who adopts a policy of "first, do no harm". At a bare minimum, we should be able to look forward to a governor who does not, himself, initiate a lot of idiotic policies.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Southern Poverty Law Center certainly doesn't have a problem with poverty

"800 MILLION REASONS".

Put simply, the grand jury’s indictment alleges that, over a long period of time, the SPLC and its legions of LARPing lawyers cosplayed as a law enforcement agency. It generously funded “informants” in a variety of racist hate groups —actual ones— like the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. In one recent example, the SPLC paid $270,000 to a notorious racist who helped plan and organize the infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally in Virginia, around which corporate media would later concoct a ridiculous “fine people” fiction to smear President Trump during his first term, and Democrats would fundraise on that lie for years.

Let a thousand Reichstag fires burn. 

H/T: Friend and commenter JeffS

The western Virginia counties need to seriously consider this offer

Late last year, West Virginia invited 27 Virginia counties to join the Mountain State, and they might want to seriously weigh that option in view of the special vote last night, in which Virginia's Democrat and idiot low-information voters (there is considerable overlap) approved a new redistricting plan that likely would reduce Republican representation to 1 out of 11 congressman, instead of the present 5: "Virginia voters approve redistricting plan that could boost Democrats' seats in Congress".

If Washington and Jefferson could have seen what Governor SpanfΓΌhrer and her corps of idiot voters were going to do to the state, I'm not sure they would have bothered.

There is still some hope that the state supreme court will overrule this plan, so I'll keep a good thought - for now.

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 



Bonus video!  The travelin' tailgater.

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Here's more on the persecution of Australia's most decorated soldier

"Australia’s shameful hounding of their most decorated soldier – a war hero".

This practice absolutely astounds me:

The astonishing amounts spent by the Australian government – some have said north of $300million – on hunting down soldiers who random Afghanis have said committed atrocities, including placing billboards in and around Kabul appealing for dobbers to come forward for money

What Aussie in his right mind would ever sign up for military service in this kind of atmosphere?