On this day in history

The seeds of what would become World War I were sown 100 years ago today.....

A ragtag band of hipster, coffee-house, intellectuals in Sarajevo, who called themselves The Black Hand, hatched a vaudeville-like plan to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. And despite a comedy of errors on the parts of both the assassins and the oblivious Archduke, they pulled it off. The resulting hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Serbia with Russia, dragged the European allies of each side into what would become WW-I.......a single bullet, that but for the utter incompetence of everybody involved, caused the deaths of 9 million.

Establishment GOP plots against Tea Party guys

Apparently speaker Boehner, and 27 other establishment republicans are heading to the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida next weekend to strategize with far-left liberals about how to defeat non-establishment republicans in primaries this November. It's sponsored by Steve LaTourette's(former Ohio congresscritter) Main Street Advocacy group which is funded largely by George Soros and union money. 

These guys hate any dissent by Tea Party or independent-minded republicans. They want to elect only blindly-loyal, get-along, milquetoast candidates who'll do exactly as they say, once democrats have been consulted of course.

Don't even try to tell me the republican establishment doesn't have the same big-government, socialist-style nanny state plan for America that Harry Reid and Obama do. Every single one of these guys needs to be primaried and kicked out of office.

These traitors control the GOP.....which is why I abandoned it in 2006. They're indistinguishable from liberal fever-swamp democrats.

When football players become lazy union thugs

Candy-ass Northwestern football players apparently didn't like two-a-day practices or all the hard work that goes into game preparation, so they sued for, and won, the right to unionize and bargain collectively with the school and coaching staff about practice conditions, housing arrangements, etc. 

This is going to be a disaster if unions hit up every NCAA -Div-1 sports team and try to unionize them, which they will now if this decision is upheld. Obviously Northwestern U. appealed the ruling. 

The NCAA should make an announcement today: [If players want to be considered legal "employees" of their school, then they will be charged taxes on their scholarship tuition they receive, just like any other "employees".]

That'll kill this absurd idea while it's still in the cradle. I mean what blue-chip player would choose a school that made him pay taxes on his tuition benefits because the team is a union shop. At Northwestern U. that's like $50,000 a year. What would his parents have to pay in taxes on that?

Every thing has a price, including the American Lung Assoc.

You'd think that the American Lung Association had the best interests of the health of Americans in mind when it chooses to endorse or criticize products. Well, you'd be wrong.

Turns out that Pfizer is losing its ass on smoking cessation drugs Chantix and Nicotrol because to date there have been 500 suicides of users of these products(suicidal thoughts are a known side-effect). And to be fair, the commercials all warn you abut "feelings of suicide" as a side-effect but 500? Seriously?

The ALA purports to be all about smoking cessation and have in the past endorsed the new ridiculous but harmless e-cigarettes as a way to get your nicotine fix without all the harmful cancer-causing chemicals found in cigarette smoke. But they've recently taken a hard line against them, why? Because Pfizer donated $900,000 to them with the understanding that they would criticize e-cigs that are taking much market share away from cessation drugs.

That the ALA would criticize an essentially harmless product so that a drug manufacturer can increase sales of drugs that cause people by the hundreds to take their own lives is outrageous.

I wonder if people sucking on pretend cigarettes know how dumb and weak they look?

That's racist!

Quick, somebody call Al Sharpton. I'm offended and I want reparations.

Obama ends Navy's two best missile programs

Obama announced that he would be very quickly cutting the Tomahawk and Hellfire cruise missiles from the US Navy arsenal.

These two weapons systems are the best offensive weapons the Navy has. We can deliver very accurately, death from a distance without risking the lives of F-18 Hornet pilots and at a fraction of the cost.

Now, I'm not a fan of blowing things up in third-world countries when it's unnecessary, but sometimes the people who we've bribed with foreign aid don't do as we've asked them and they need to be reminded from whom they happily took bribe money and a surprise Tomahawk in your back yard focuses the mind.

I'm actually in agreement with Obama that we need a slightly smaller, leaner military,(for instance why do we need 900 overseas American military bases in 130 nations?) however, there are certain programs that we should keep and these two missile programs are two of the most important in my opinion.

The fix is in, why fight the inevitable?

Here's more proof that democrat and republican insiders are essentially the same people, the same lying, cheating, corrupt, verminous people we've always known them to be. 

Until just recently, J. Michael Allen was the chief of staff to Mike Rogers(R) who chaired the House Intel. Committee investigating Benghazi, which incriminates Hillary Clinton. Now he's started a private consulting firm of his own and hired mostly hatchet-men from the Clinton administration. What does "consulting" mean in DC? It means lobbyists, the most vile, despicable people on Earth right after pimps, drug pushers, and middle-school gym teachers. 

The notion that party ID means anything is a preposterous fallacy. The whole of DC is a kabuki-theater production designed to make the stupid American voter believe that there's an ideological struggle taking place for the direction of the country and that we have a participatory role to play in it. WE DON'T! The federal bureaucracy always gets bigger, thousands of liberty-restricting laws are always passed, pointless wars are always started or continued in the name of our safety, and life in general never seems to improve......all regardless of who wins elections be they house, senate, or presidential. 

Here are the true players who matter: the secretive, private bankers who sit on the FED, the banking oligarchs who seamlessly flow back and forth between Wall Street, Academia, and the Dept. of Treasury, some in the UN, people connected with major defense contractors, a few well-connected Pentagon Generals, virtually anonymous venture capitalists around the world, and of course the highly-bribed US politicians who'll provide cover for it all with sham elections and the pretense of party-driven, legislative debate. 

Ask yourself, has the direction of the country really changed from Clinton to Bush to Obama? I'd say no, not in a single meaningful way. So what's the point? Stop fighting election cycle after election cycle, as if you can effect change. Instead, save as much money as you can, insulate yourself from our paternalistic, meddling government to whatever extent you can, and ex-filtrate yourself and your family to Belize, Costa Rica, or New Zealand when you can afford it. 

Black youths go wilding in North Philly

First of all, Philadelphia is a moribund cesspool on par almost with Detroit. And Temple University sits right in the middle of the worst part of town. Why you would ever let your kid go to college there is a total mystery. Still, that doesn't excuse this outrage......

A 19 year old Temple student and her boyfriend were attacked by a large gang of "youths" around 10-15 years old. The couple was stalked and taunted by the gang for about a block then one of the older girls slammed the victim's face with a brick, severely dislocating her jaw and teeth, as the other kids, male and female, grabbed and hit her and the boyfriend. The girl was rushed to the ER for emergency surgery.

I read 4 different published accounts of this story and in not a single one of them was the race of the gang reported. It was a white couple, does anybody think these kids would have done this to a black couple?

When will the politically correct media start reporting these knockout-game stories accurately rather than the cleaned up race-neutral version designed to protect black youths from the general public knowing just how rampant black-youth crime in big cities is. This story is about race and crime....report it!

When you read stories about "urban youths" attacking white people remember, this is how the media view all black kids.

Only in California

This male teacher(right) in California will be returning to school after the summer break as a woman, shown left. 

Look, if you self-identify as a woman and want to "change" I don't care, but at least take a hormone or two before scaring the bejesus out of kids, because you're not a chick yet, just a dude in drag. Feminize a little first. Common-Core math is hard enough as it is without the distraction of a hideous clown staring at you.

Purity Balls, where daughters symbolically marry their fathers???

So I was just reading an article on the national popularity explosion of "Purity Balls". It's a sort of creepy, wedding-like ceremony where teen girls pledge themselves to their fathers, he becomes her ersatz boyfriend, and promises to protect her chastity until she's married. They exchange purity rings and vows....the whole nine yards.....and that's after the girls march in carrying a cross and sporting wedding dresses. 

I'm try not to be too judgmental or critical of anybody pursuing happiness anyway they like, but am I the only who finds this a tad strange? And, isn't this much pressure to not have premarital sex setting the girls up for a lifetime of guilt if they fail.....as almost all of them will?