Schmaltz und Grieben mit Alois, Klaus, Deb und der Lugers

December 2008


12/29/08:

AL GORE CAN KISS MY FROZEN ASS, PART 66,212: The Goracle and his megalithic GoreBal Warming, Inc. continue to conveniently overlook many recent signs that we are, in fact, sliding toward another Ice Age.

We thought we had it bad here in Wisconsin, with the 40 inches of snow we've gotten (so far) in December. Well, not as bad as folks in my old hometown of Spokane.

And how 'bout those near-blizzard conditions in Seattle, a city until recent times almost never received any significant snowfall?

To say nothing of New Orleans, which until this month hadn't received any snow since 2004 (shortly after the Goracle declared that if we didn't all start riding bikes and giving up our private jets, the planet was doomed to drown in the meltwater of the Antarctic glaciers).

Oh, I forgot: Those glaciers have been growing again for several years now! (this paper may be a little dense for non-scientists, but skip down to the Conclusions section on pg. 1634).

But be that as it may. Why would you want to listen to a meteorologist, when you could listen to the Goracle instead and invest your hard-earned money in GoreBal Warming, Inc.? You've gotta admit—the future looks hot!

[Er, scratch that.]

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12/28/08:

DAILY GAAAAAAZ-O-LEEEEEEN! AWARD: You keep thinking that they've got to hit rock bottom any day now, but leftist asstards keep finding ways of getting stupider and stupider:

I remain confounded by the American progressive movement's widespread refusal to stand behind the Palestinian people as they are subjected to an endless barrage of colonialist, racist aggression.

Let me break it down for ya:

1) "The American progressive movement's widespread refusal to stand behind the Palestinian people yatta yatta"—we're obviously living in different Americas. In my America, schoolteachers wear kaffiyehs to work and refuse to socialize with Jews.

2) "Colonialist." Yeah, that's what you call it when, in a move unprecedented in human history, a people subject to a war of aggression gives back to the aggressors some of the spoils of war.

3) "Racist." OMG. You're obviously too fucking dumb to wear a Che Guevara t-shirt, although you ARE, and everybody knows it.

When you figure out the difference between a peace-loving people minding their own damned business and a terrorist death cult, get back to me.

Have we hit rock-bottom yet?

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12/27/08:

HOLIDAY GRAB-BAG: The usual busy holiday-type stuff going on around here—along with, auf course, some of the worst winter weather on the planet.

But all in all, it's been a good Christmas with a lot to be thankful for: My new job that got me the hell away from the Hysterical Bus Company (where my contacts tell me that the holiday season has been a living nightmare, slogging to work through the endless snowstorms only to have management scream at them because the drivers aren't showing up for work!).

And then there's the device my lovely wife got for me to convert my thousands of record albums and cassette tapes into CDs that sound like you bought 'em in a store. (I'm burning "Morrison Hotel" to CD right now.)

And so much more too, but I won't bore you with that.

Catching up for the week or so I've been away, here's a cartoon JoAnn sent me that speaks volumes:

And here's a reminder to American autoworkers, who seem to need one: The Japanese make damned good cars, and they do it without union country clubs.

Michael Totten's latest post from Iraq reminded me of something that nearly everyone (starting with our mainstream media) seems to have forgotten (or, in the case of the media, deliberately ignored): Our soldiers are the best in the world, and no amount of Kumbaya-singing, patchouli-drenched, peace-sign-bedecked kvetching is going to change the fact that they are keeping us all out of harm's way... and paying a hell of a price for doing it, considering that all they get from a goodly segment of our society is scorn and derision.

Photo credit: Zombie

...You had to look twice: The first time I saw this photo, I thought that "Lebanon" and "Haditha" and "Guantanamo" in the same sentence as "Suppressing Science" and "Religious Fanaticism" meant that someone was actually taking to the streets to protest radical Islam.

Silly me. I should have known.

Then there's this little piece of Americana, in which a feral-looking dog (reminding me very much of my own "coyote boy," Midnight) ransacks a store looking for a Christmas treat:

And here's more proof, in case you needed it, that our President-elect's MSM handlers have obviously mistaken him for someone else.

Finally? Happy Wednesday (on Saturday). Here's Mrs. Indiana Jones fer ya.

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12/22/08:

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: In what PC-addled public school did Americans begin to be taught that when bad things happen, no one is ever to blame?

D'jever notice that we're not supposed to blame anyone for the current Great Depression?

Or how about, "IT'S THE FAULT OF ALL OF US."

Yeah? Well screw that, pal. It ain't my fault, or the fault of anyone I know. We worked for a living, we paid our taxes on time, and we didn't ship anybody's job offshore. And when we got a raise—if we got a raise—we got it for busting our butts, not sitting around in a sauna devising ways to defraud our employees of their pension funds to grease our own palms.

With that said, consider this:

...in an attempt to increase home ownership, particularly by minorities and the less affluent, virtually every branch of the government undertook an attack on underwriting standards starting in the early 1990s. Regulators, academic specialists, GSEs, and housing activists universally praised the decline in mortgage-underwriting standards as an “innovation” in mortgage lending. This weakening of underwriting standards succeeded in increasing home ownership and also the price of housing, helping to lead to a housing price bubble. The price bubble, along with relaxed lending standards, allowed speculators to purchase homes without putting their own money at risk.

Same old, same old. My advice to my fellow Americans (i.e. those not of the "regulators, academic specialists, GSEs, and housing activists" stripe): Don't let 'em blame you for this one. We're never going to fix the problem until those that created it are held to account.

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OBAMA'S CABINET, FACEBOOK STYLE! The sad thing is, I can actually see this being TRUE! (Don't worry, I know it's not, but it's not that far from the realm of possibility if you ask me...)

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GOSH, IT'S THOSE SWELL SAUDIS! Court to Eight-Year-Old: No Divorce from 58-Year-Old Pervert

Man, I'll tell ya, that shari'a law is just smellin' sweeter all the time!

The best case that could ever be made for American energy independence has absolutely nothing to do with the Goracle, the myth of global warming, or wildly fluctuating gas prices.

It would be the day when we could ring up the Saudis and say, "Keep your oil. We think you should go back to your sandbox and chant a whole bunch of shit."

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12/17/08:

A GIRL IN A WINDOW, and she's got the right idea.

Take it from your friends at S&G: If you live north of, say, Austin, stay inside.

Happy Wednesday!

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GOV. ASSHAT BOLDLY LEAPS INTO ACTION TO SAVE WISCONSIN'S ECONOMY: Doyle Creates Council on Day Care

Sure thing, Jimbo. That'll help.

Do you have any idea what's going on here in the state you "govern"?

Guess not.

And that Journal-Sentinel writer is being unnecessarily kind. Most of us Wisconsinites trace the beginning of our recession back to 2000—seven years before it began in the rest of the country. Remember those wistful articles way back then about "What happened to the 'Wisconsin Miracle'"?

We all know the answer to that, Gov. Asshat: You did.

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12/15/08:

QUOTE OF THE DAY II: "Of course, anyone who tried such a thing with Saddam Hussein would have been tortured, murdered, and dumped into a mass grave." — Charles Johnson, commenting on the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush yesterday

And naturally the left, those great fearless champions of individual rights everwhere, continue to feign ignorance.

Or maybe they're just ignorant.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY I: Affirmative action divides our country and ruins people’s lives. All over the US, there are people who earned jobs and college spots, yet who did not receive them because they were given to applicants with inferior qualifications. As a result, many of these victims of politics have suffered very severe financial damage and emotional pain. And many of the people who got the things earned by the dispossessed have proven incompetent and unable to benefit from them. If you want to see what affirmative action does, go to any law school and compare the percentages of minority students in the first and second-year classes. Affirmative action beneficiaries show up in August of their first year, full of hope and optimism, and many of them leave in January or April with their dreams crushed... if your doctor is a white male whose parents aren’t rich, you can pretty well assume he earned his wings, because when he applied to medical school, the entire system was trying to destroy him. It must be frustrating, being a highly capable black professional and knowing that people are unwilling to take your credentials at face value because so many of your peers are barely adequate. — Steve Graham

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