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Herewith, a selection of needed (or decidedly not needed) books, by title (and optional subtitle)

• Our Shifting Legal Landscape
  • A Guide to the Law in a Lawless Land
• My Autobiography
  • Why I am Unqualified to Write about Anything Else

Join us on our next voyage to the Village of the Darned by selecting a headline, preferably something you can link, and be prepared* to lead the conversation on your chosen topic.

With this crowd, any topic is on-topic at least once, so you don’t have to cater to anybody’s wishes.

Also, how many folks would be able to either A) follow along in chat as we pass the “talking stick” around, r B) follow along on something like Google Docs for a cheap (free) online collaborative thingy.  If you’re just phoning in from a landline with no PC, or a cellphone while driving, of course, that doesn’t quite support it.

One of the great things about the phone call is that it’s a free-for-all among friends  That’s also … Continue reading →

I am not Catholic. I am not Christian. I am not a lady, and I am not dressed in white. I am a free person who identifies fully with the people held in bondage by Barack Obama’s communist friends. Obama made nice with the horrific Castro regime, when he should have challenged it for the sake of people such as these brave souls pictured here. But these people making themselves free, even for a limited time, are not who Obama identifies with. He remains an unreconstructed progressive, more in favor of dictating to people than freeing them.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/06/26/violent-weekend-in-cuba-30-ladies-in-white-arrested-for-trying-to-go-to-church/
From 2009, when Iranians died in the streets with America’s name on their lips, to the closing days of the Usurper horror, when the Castro dictatorial regime was rescued … Continue reading →

So here’s the Audible.com blurb for a field guide to swamp-dwelling troglodytes.

A Thought-Provoking Journey
Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild journeys to Louisiana bayou country – a stronghold of the conservative right. Though this community’s ideas differ vastly from her own, she realizes that Americans share a few key principles – the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for our children. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help listeners understand what it feels like to live in “red” America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: … Continue reading →

An actual bloody shirt is not enough to constitute a bloody shirt these days. This is because the Republican Party is in control, with President Donald Trump at the helm.  

I am finally clearing out my old FB group “BallDiamondBall”.  It’s a pity, as there was a lot of good content a long time ago, but I started it as a private group, and the participation is so low now that I can;t eve contact a quorum of old members to see what they want to do about privacy.  So I’m doing the responsible thing; deleting all users, nuking the content, and THEN changing the privacy settings.  At that point, I will tie the group to this blog.

I have a script running which is either deleting everything, or individually failing to delete each article, but either way, I am watching a bunch of great content slide up the screen.  A pity.  But I don’t want to suddenly … Continue reading →

Just had a great morning experience. I dropped my son off at the train station.  Went for coffee at a Starbucks close to base.  Saw a table of yard clams speaking a bit too loud. These civilian contractors to Navy shipyards are typically enlisted veterans who go straight from the military to directly supporting the military but with great heaving bellies, bushy beards, and a funk that comes from loose living and tight quarters.

I waited for my decaf and fiddled with my trash, and eavesdropped on a fascinating conversation.

They were discussing Trump, and while they had a great many pros and cons, the cons always seemed to get washed away as minor compared to the audacious goals and worthy strikes.

The group was five, with a gaunt … Continue reading →

And just who will pay all of these pensions, retirement plans, benefits?  Certainly not the next generation or the one after that.  Just because Roosevelt decreed it, that does not, in fact, lay a burden upon as-yet unborn grandchildren to suck up the debt for our comfy ending days.  When we are gone and the debt remains, there will be a “pinch” generation; those who try to retire in the face of (and on the backs of) an angry, indignant generation which both outnumbers and out-influences them.  By then, the once-powerful AARP might as well be NAMBLA.  By then, debt will be unsustainable, and the sacrosanct 50% of government spending, the supposedly untouchable entitlements, will suddenly be very touchable.

If you think this generation’s constitutional awakening is impressive, … Continue reading →

Hillary Clinton may unravel at last, thanks to those whom she sought to influence in her family’s shady business trading government favors for private donations.

As described in this awesome little article, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh spills the beans on just one example of the (at best) unethical dealings gotten up by the Clinton family.  The article is short, and fills in the details undergirding the claim that then-Secretary of State Clinton “made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to her husband’s charitable foundation”.

While the linked article stands alone as good news for those who have long suspected the illicit quid pro quo nature of the Clinton family’s enterprises, what really makes this noteworthy for me is that this … Continue reading →