Friday, November 30, 2018

Kind of like watching rivals in the same drug cartel maneuvering for position

"Rebel Democrats regroup, vow to hold firm as Pelosi plots to outflank them".

Happy Feet Friday

Singer Ann Moore, with an assist from Count Basie's orchestra, hands her man his walking papers in "Meet Me at No Special Place" (from 1947).



Bonus song! I was delighted to find out that this tune had a life of its own (the only time I had heard it previously was in a shorter version used in the intro to the 1950 Tom and Jerry cartoon, "Texas Tom"). Here's Harry James and his band, with Art Lund on Vocal, with "I Tipped My Hat and Slowly Rode Away" (also from 1947).

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Is he unusually large...

...or are his fellows on the small side? Knickers, the giant Australian steer.

The chins face of Antifa

Police arrested Tom Keenan on assault charges after he turned himself in. Described by some as the "leader" of an Antifa group in Philadelphia that attacked and robbed several Marine Corps reservists, it is unclear whether police have yet rounded up Spanky's pals, Alfalfa and Darla.


Mr. Big.

Maybe the best part of the Trump presidency...

...is watching the Hillary people come completely unglued.

Monday, November 26, 2018

Assortment

Larry Correia on gun control, confiscation and civil war.

Elsewhere, the bloodthirsty Alison Aires unwittingly makes a great case for the Second Amendment (in a nutshell, it protects us from people like Alison Aires).

I'm totally clueless as to motive: guy named Mohammed Mohammed tries to run over Jews near synagogue.

First they came for the tuna fish sandwiches, and I said nothing because I don't eat tuna fish: "Hamburgers Are Going to Kill Us".

No, no, we can't "colonize" Mars, that simply won't do.

Professor Reynolds deplatforms Twitter.

Hilarious Portland, Oregon tourism video.

Paul Joseph Watson on Prime Minister May's sabotage of Brexit

He minces no words.

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Sunday funnies



Farm kid writes letter home after joining the Marines (just a joke, son, but has a true ring to it).

Via a friend of mine (career Navy).


From Powerline's special holiday post, "Thanksgiving in Pictures".





Jigsaw puzzles just got real interesting.

Now, that's a war dance.



Friday, November 23, 2018

Happy Feet Friday

From last week's jump blues stomper we fast forward to the sophisticated piano magic of Oscar Peterson, who performs his version of the Ellington standard, "C Jam Blues".

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving!



I am thankful for my loyal band of readers whom I look upon as old friends. May God grant you all peace and goodwill as you gather together to renew and strengthen your family ties.

And go easy on any knee-jerk liberals at the table; they know not what they are, let alone what they do.

Sorry, your honor, but it's a little late to be peddling that horse s**t

Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked President Trump, who, in a show of frustration at the routine trampling of executive authority by left-leaning justices, referred to one of Obama's black-robed henchman as an "Obama judge". You see, we don't have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” Just a bunch of non-partisan, ideology-free professionals, interpreting the law with transparent and inarguable fairness.

That's pretty rich, coming from Chief White Feather, who infamously changed his opinion on an important challenge to Obama Care in the face of a well-orchestrated campaign in the media led by Obama, himself. Ultimately, Roberts wound up treating a major flaw in the language of the law, which should have sunk Obama Care, as a mere scrivener's error, of no consequence whatsoever.

Leftists have been using friendly courts for decades to get the results they can't get through free elections, so Roberts is being either naive or dishonest. And, given his craven performance on the Obama Care issue, I'd say that Roberts' opinion on the matter of judicial non-partisanship, to borrow a line from the late Justice Holmes, is "a purely municipal idea, of no validity outside the jurisdiction".

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Short on memory or long on hypocrisy?

I'm going with "long on hypocrisy", but he definitely was hoping that everybody else has a short memory.

Talking airhead Joe Scarborough recently invited Al Sharpton onto his program to decry President Trump's alleged racism; however, long ago, when Scarborough was a Republican (!) congressman, he actually introduced a resolution condemning Sharpton's anti-Semitism.

Elsewhere among former and/or fake Republicans, Max Boot apparently is still packing his steamer trunk.

Maybe he's waiting for a rousing sendoff. Ok, here you go Max...



Democrat voting math

Some strange results from Orange County, California.

Monday, November 19, 2018

Ma Paco, RIP

My mother, Vivian Davis Fletcher, passed away in the early hours of November 15th, at age 87, from a heart attack. Born near the outset of the Great Depression, the second youngest of seven children, the family was desperately poor, but to hear her talk about it, she had a wonderful childhood. Her four brothers fought in WWII and all came back alive (two Marines, one Navy, one Army); sadly, they have now also joined the majority. Two sisters survive.

She was married to her second husband for almost 40 years, and he was utterly devoted to her; he is nearly inconsolable, but I pray he will come to terms with her passing. She lived for many years on a parcel of land in Mann's Harbor, NC, located on the mainland across from the Outer Banks. Her love of all living things inspired her to turn the place into a veritable Garden of Eden, rich with flowers and shrubs and vegetables; her favorite neighbors were the deer and the bears who inhabit the vicinity.

She was committed to her faith, and I trust that the God she served for so many years will bless her soul.

Friday, November 16, 2018

Happy Feet Friday

I love Jimmy Liggins' gravelly voice and the killer rhythm section of his band, the Drops of Joy. Here they are from 1953 with a foot-stomper called "Drunk", in which Mr. Liggins expounds upon some of the unfortunate phenomena associated with intoxication (one or two of which make me wince from dimly recollected personal experience).

Sunday, November 11, 2018

A heartfelt thanks to all of our veterans

Sunday funnies



Chopping cinder blocks...with your mind.


Congratulations to Milton, who's just completed 20 years of service as manager of the Paco Enterprises complaint desk!



Funny pitch for the movie Halloween.



Project for the weekend (via David Thompson).



You can combat evil with goodness...or, in the case of the Addams family, with sheer weirdness.



From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".



Democratic Nazism (totally not like the old Nazism).

Friday, November 9, 2018

Happy Feet Friday

Billy Eckstine provides a good example of scat singing, topped off with a fine tenor sax solo by Gene Ammons (Gene's father, Albert, was one of the original "Big Three" of boogie-woogie, the other two being Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis).

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Bummer (with some upside)

By now, everyone knows that the Democrats have recaptured the House of Representatives, and I suppose in the not too distant future we'll be seeing Nancy Pelosi and her criminal gang marching toward the Capitol, Pelosi clutching that big-ass gavel she's so fond of (Where did she ever get that thing, anyway? It looks like a ginormous bung starter).

So, not good. But far from what the Democrat faithful were hoping for. It is typical that the party out of power in the White House makes congressional gains in a non-presidential election year, and the Democrats' gains were far less than half what the Republicans achieved in 2010. Plus, the Republicans increased their lead in the Senate, which, at a minimum, will help President Trump in his court and Cabinet nominations. And Republicans won some of the most contentious gubernatorial elections, turning back left-wing zealots in Georgia and Florida. Let us savor, as well, the defeat of Robert O'Rourke ("Beto", as he was known to his would-be constituents) in Texas (Ted Cruz rides again!)

The big question is, have the Democrats learned anything in the last couple of years? Will they now start to exercise some restraint and reign in their sociopathic impulses, or will they continue spraying the country with their rhetorical flamethrowers and, once again, wildly overplay their hand?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Well, whenever the political news looks bad, I always do something to cheer myself up, and nothing cheers me up like adding to my collection of Hummel figurines. Pardon me while I do some shopping!

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Today's the big day

I'll let Kurt Schlichter have the last word. A sample:
They would rather burn this country down than allow it to prosper without them in charge. Why? Because the only thing that matters to them is their power. The only thing that matters to them is their position. That, and crushing you under their heels. They enjoy that.
Don't allow yourselves to be crushed. Vote!

Monday, November 5, 2018

Assortment (election edition)

Why is it that feminists, who are constantly decrying the sexual objectification of women, can't think of anything better to get out the vote than taking their clothes off? Chelsea Handler is the latest example (Caution: You might want to employ the R-man policy of not clicking on photos of semi-nude liberal women. On the other hand, if you happen to be turned on by bunions, click away).

Roger Simon says that "This Tuesday America Takes an IQ Test". So, tomorrow night we'll find out if a few watts have been shaved off the collective light-bulb.

Hillary Clinton is now the official Harold Stassen of the Democrat Party.

I think this is what they mean by "cognitive dissonance": Black Panthers appeared in public carrying "assault" rifles, campaigning for Democrat Stacy Abrams - even though she wants to take those rifles away from them.

And this is what's known as "projection": Maxine Waters claims that Trump is placing a target on her back.

I don't know what that smell is, but it ain't pork chops.

Special good luck wishes to Martha McSally in Arizona tomorrow. Question: how is her opponent, left-wing nut-job Kyrsten Sinema, even polling in double digits? Please don't tell me that the people of Arizona are looking for another freakin' "maverick"!





Sunday, November 4, 2018

Sounds like science to me

You'd think that stupidity would die out, since it tends to be a non-beneficial phenomenon of human evolution.

Friend and commenter Jeff, I believe, may have nailed the reason for stupidity's stubborn resistance to eradication:
Stupidity flaunts the Third Law of Thermodynamics through behaving like the mythical perpetual motion machine. I suspect that there is a hidden energy source, but finding and stomping it to death has proved elusive for generations of genuine truth seekers.

Hmmm...hidden energy source...Let's see if we can find it...


"Ok...brain mass measured in milli-bidens times the speed of fake news dissemination divided by Hillary Clinton's average post-election blood alcohol level...Eureka! I think I've found it!"


Sunday funnies

Chicken shaming...







About time: "Decaf Coffee Condemned As Heresy".


Trick or Treat! From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".




Naming the new lands, with Mitchell and Webb.




From the TV series F-Troop: how the Hekawi tribe got its name.




This is what you call an unwelcome mat.




You may be a redneck if...

1) Your dad walks you to school everyday because you're in the same grade.
2) You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
3) You think the stock market has a fence around it.
4) Your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mudflaps.
5) You own a home that is mobile and 5 cars that aren't.
6) Your stereo speakers used to belong to the Drive-in Theater.

Friday, November 2, 2018

Astoundingly bad marketing

Women remove clothes in inscrutable campaign ad (well, not totally inscrutable; you know they're not endorsing the MAGA movement). CAUTION: We are NOT talking the Swedish Bikini Team, here.

As one commenter in the thread notes: "A bunch of liberal women, who are mad at Trump for objectifying women and using crass language, decided to grab attention and encourage people to vote BLUE … by taking their clothes off."

Ace (as usual) has the funniest take: "Well you've inspired me into homosexuality so, halfway to Democrat I guess!"

Much more interesting than what I've found digging around my yard

"Miner finds giant 5,655-Carat emerald in Zambia worth up to £2m".

In the process of planting flowers and shrubs in my yard, I have dug up:

1) Four pieces of rebar;
2) A rusty bicycle taillight;
3) A giant dead magnolia root

The Paco Mines are not looking too promising right now (which, naturally, should have little or no impact on our ability to move Class C Non-Voting shares. Each certificate features an engraving of a pulchritudinous lady prospector, suitable for framing!)

Anthropomorphic Jersey barrier endorses "Beto" O'Rourke

Somehow, I'm not seeing John Brennan's endorsement of the Democrat candidate as being a big plus for O'Rourke's chances. Inmates within the confines of that giant leftist concentration camp known as Austin, Texas are going to vote for O'Rourke, anyway, and I fail to see how Brennan's well-established left-wing bona fides are going to carry much weight with normal voters.


"Beto O'Rourke! Like Gus Hall, only dreamier!"

Update: Response from Gus Hall to John Brennan -


"Hey, you ain't exactly eye candy, yourself, walrus boy!"

Happy Feet Friday

Glenn Miller had a #1 hit with "Tuxedo Junction" in 1940, and his version is the best known; however, the tune was written by band leader and trumpeter Erskine Hawkins and two of his saxophonists, Bill Johnson and Julian Dash, and was recorded by the Hawkins band in 1939 (it was a hit for them, also, ultimately rising to #7 on the charts). Here's Hawkins and his orchestra with the original: