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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Summertime Blues
Feeling blue is a common summertime ailment from which there is apparently no cure.
The phrase “summertime blues” has, in modern parlance, evolved from the sentiments of a kid working a summer job to encompassing any and all feelings of lethargy during the long, hot days of summer. The “dog days,” as it were.
The original “Summertime Blues” was written and recorded by musician Eddie Cochran in 1958 and reached #8 on the Billboard charts that year. It was later covered by several bands including The Who, The Beach Boys, and country superstar Alan Jackson. It expresses the frustration of a kid with no car, working long hours at a summer job and unable to take his sweetie on a date. In a theme often repeated in popular music throughout the ensuing years, it is an anthem for teenage angst.
Modern application of the phrase is puzzling. While the hot, humid days of summer can be wearisome, summertime is nonetheless preferable to the icy cold and snow of winter for many. The warmth and plentiful sunshine generally contribute to a more positive attitude.
Activities abound and the weather is much more conducive to outdoor excursions. Afternoons are spent enjoying picnics in the park, lounging by the pool or frolicking at the beach. No need to bundle up in a parka, hat and mittens. A sundress for the ladies and short-sleeved shirt and light pants for the guys will do!
Thunderstorms are frequent and displays of lightning are impressive and sometimes frightening. But there’s no need to spend hours clearing a driveway buried in wet, heavy snow or waiting for the snowplow to clear the road. Rather, just hop in your car, open the windows, and cruise – that is, assuming you have one, unlike the teen in the aforementioned song.
And like the teen hoping to take his sweetie on a date, summertime offers a multitude of pleasurable outdoor jaunts with a significant other, from outdoor concerts, movies at the drive-in theater, or even a simple, quiet evening under the stars. Winter, of course, limits dating options to mostly indoor activities.
Heat and humidity can be dangerous in the summer, especially for the more seasoned citizens. Relief from the heat is often just a cold beverage away or a comfortable chair in a cool, air-conditioned room or home. Larger cities often offer “cooling centers” for those in need of such facilities. And few things are as pleasant as a tranquil summer night with the windows open. Don’t try that in the winter!
So is there really no cure for the summertime blues? Summertime is the cure! The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful day. Get out and enjoy it! Winter, after all, is always just around the corner.
The phrase “summertime blues” has, in modern parlance, evolved from the sentiments of a kid working a summer job to encompassing any and all feelings of lethargy during the long, hot days of summer. The “dog days,” as it were.
The original “Summertime Blues” was written and recorded by musician Eddie Cochran in 1958 and reached #8 on the Billboard charts that year. It was later covered by several bands including The Who, The Beach Boys, and country superstar Alan Jackson. It expresses the frustration of a kid with no car, working long hours at a summer job and unable to take his sweetie on a date. In a theme often repeated in popular music throughout the ensuing years, it is an anthem for teenage angst.
Modern application of the phrase is puzzling. While the hot, humid days of summer can be wearisome, summertime is nonetheless preferable to the icy cold and snow of winter for many. The warmth and plentiful sunshine generally contribute to a more positive attitude.
Activities abound and the weather is much more conducive to outdoor excursions. Afternoons are spent enjoying picnics in the park, lounging by the pool or frolicking at the beach. No need to bundle up in a parka, hat and mittens. A sundress for the ladies and short-sleeved shirt and light pants for the guys will do!
Thunderstorms are frequent and displays of lightning are impressive and sometimes frightening. But there’s no need to spend hours clearing a driveway buried in wet, heavy snow or waiting for the snowplow to clear the road. Rather, just hop in your car, open the windows, and cruise – that is, assuming you have one, unlike the teen in the aforementioned song.
And like the teen hoping to take his sweetie on a date, summertime offers a multitude of pleasurable outdoor jaunts with a significant other, from outdoor concerts, movies at the drive-in theater, or even a simple, quiet evening under the stars. Winter, of course, limits dating options to mostly indoor activities.
Heat and humidity can be dangerous in the summer, especially for the more seasoned citizens. Relief from the heat is often just a cold beverage away or a comfortable chair in a cool, air-conditioned room or home. Larger cities often offer “cooling centers” for those in need of such facilities. And few things are as pleasant as a tranquil summer night with the windows open. Don’t try that in the winter!
So is there really no cure for the summertime blues? Summertime is the cure! The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful day. Get out and enjoy it! Winter, after all, is always just around the corner.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Green/Food Police
The pervasive environmentalist culture (or, to be more accurate, Mother Earth worshipers) are trying to tell me what I can and can't eat? What's wrong with these people and their moral superiority complexes? Why do they always want to control people?
Funny thing is when it comes to an issue like abortion these people don't want anyone telling them what to do with their bodies of the bodies growing inside their bodies.
I'm going to eat whatever I want, and leave as many carbon footprints as possible.
How much protein do you really need?
Funny thing is when it comes to an issue like abortion these people don't want anyone telling them what to do with their bodies of the bodies growing inside their bodies.
I'm going to eat whatever I want, and leave as many carbon footprints as possible.
How much protein do you really need?
Monday, June 20, 2011
Rigging elections? Pot, meet kettle.
The left is up in arms over voter ID laws making their way through various state legislatures.
Hey, remember how you used to have to be a land-owner to vote? Wow, that was totally crazy. What were those wig wearing crazy old dudes thinking? Not letting people who had no stake in the outcome vote on the use and control of other people's resources and property? It's like they didn't want other people's wealth forcefully redistributed by a centralized governmental bureaucracy or something.
Washington Post - How states are rigging the 2012 election
Hey, remember how you used to have to be a land-owner to vote? Wow, that was totally crazy. What were those wig wearing crazy old dudes thinking? Not letting people who had no stake in the outcome vote on the use and control of other people's resources and property? It's like they didn't want other people's wealth forcefully redistributed by a centralized governmental bureaucracy or something.
Washington Post - How states are rigging the 2012 election
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Demonizer in Chief
What's wrong with being rich?
Liberalism is predicated on emotion -- specifically envy. It's not fair that they're rich and you're not!
But how is it fair to confiscate what someone has earned? Rich or not? How is it fair to confiscate someone's property? That's what wealth is. Property. Even the wealth of someone who inherits it.
But envy is the basis for all of modern liberalism. Remember the Bible verse? "The love of money is the root of all evil." Well, liberals love rich people's money and they want it. They want it to buy votes. They want it to buy power and influence. They want it to buy control.
President Obama is campaigning again, hoping to be reelected by playing the familiar games of class warfare and demonizing his opponents as friends of the rich, haters of the poor and killers of the sick and elderly. The constant class warfare from the president is nothing more than an effort to exploit people's baser instincts. Envy and jealousy can be very powerful motivators.
Never mind that the president actually cares very little for the people he is manipulating (Lenin had a term for such people -- I believe it was "useful idiots"). It's a very callous tactic.
Thus he demonizes the wealthy. He portrays them as the most evil examples of humankind -- oppressors of the poor with nothing but the most despicable of intentions. Thankfully he will be the one to protect the poor and downtrodden from the abuses of the evil rich, and he will exact vengeance on their behalf. In Barack Obama's world, everything the rich have is stolen from the poor and infirm.
If that's the case, why have there never throughout the history of mankind been laws that have specifically punished rich people for such criminal behavior? Surely they would be prosecuted for robbery and thievery if that were true, wouldn't they? If the rich are so lawless and crooked, why are jails not filled with the formerly rich? Why then is the only way to exact "justice" through the very subtle means of taxation?
And why do proponents of high taxation for purposes of fairness couch their motives in such veiled language as "redistribution of wealth" and innocuous sounding terms as "social justice"? Surely, if the wealthy have committed such crimes wouldn't criminal prosecution be common and accepted?
Even the most "progressive" (read: socialist) countries in the world enact punishment no harsher than high taxation to correct these supposed wrongs.
Apparently simply being rich is a crime against humanity.
Thus, the president resorts to stoking humanity's baser instincts -- envy. It's not fair that they're rich and you're not, after all.
Liberalism is predicated on emotion -- specifically envy. It's not fair that they're rich and you're not!
But how is it fair to confiscate what someone has earned? Rich or not? How is it fair to confiscate someone's property? That's what wealth is. Property. Even the wealth of someone who inherits it.
But envy is the basis for all of modern liberalism. Remember the Bible verse? "The love of money is the root of all evil." Well, liberals love rich people's money and they want it. They want it to buy votes. They want it to buy power and influence. They want it to buy control.
President Obama is campaigning again, hoping to be reelected by playing the familiar games of class warfare and demonizing his opponents as friends of the rich, haters of the poor and killers of the sick and elderly. The constant class warfare from the president is nothing more than an effort to exploit people's baser instincts. Envy and jealousy can be very powerful motivators.
Never mind that the president actually cares very little for the people he is manipulating (Lenin had a term for such people -- I believe it was "useful idiots"). It's a very callous tactic.
Thus he demonizes the wealthy. He portrays them as the most evil examples of humankind -- oppressors of the poor with nothing but the most despicable of intentions. Thankfully he will be the one to protect the poor and downtrodden from the abuses of the evil rich, and he will exact vengeance on their behalf. In Barack Obama's world, everything the rich have is stolen from the poor and infirm.
If that's the case, why have there never throughout the history of mankind been laws that have specifically punished rich people for such criminal behavior? Surely they would be prosecuted for robbery and thievery if that were true, wouldn't they? If the rich are so lawless and crooked, why are jails not filled with the formerly rich? Why then is the only way to exact "justice" through the very subtle means of taxation?
And why do proponents of high taxation for purposes of fairness couch their motives in such veiled language as "redistribution of wealth" and innocuous sounding terms as "social justice"? Surely, if the wealthy have committed such crimes wouldn't criminal prosecution be common and accepted?
Even the most "progressive" (read: socialist) countries in the world enact punishment no harsher than high taxation to correct these supposed wrongs.
Apparently simply being rich is a crime against humanity.
Thus, the president resorts to stoking humanity's baser instincts -- envy. It's not fair that they're rich and you're not, after all.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
American History 1918
More fascinating American history -- Medal of Honor acts of heroism --
The U.S. M1911 & The Medal of Honor
The U.S. M1911 & The Medal of Honor
Pajamas Media » Why Liberals Hate the Constitution
Ha! Take that, hippies!
"You can’t hear [the Constitution] without imagining the ghost of George Washington punching hippies."
Pajamas Media » Why Liberals Hate the Constitution
"You can’t hear [the Constitution] without imagining the ghost of George Washington punching hippies."
Pajamas Media » Why Liberals Hate the Constitution
There's Just Something About A 1911...
A little something for the American military history aficionados out there -- from Arms and the Man, April 6, 1911 --
The M1911: The Greatest Pistol in the World
The M1911: The Greatest Pistol in the World
A Concise Definition of Leftism
Collectivist homogenizing, morality equivocating, enlightened despotism.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
President Palin?
I don't know whether Governor Sarah Palin will run for President, nor have I decided how I might feel about it were she to run for the office. I will tell you this -- she sounds very Presidential here:
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
Leftist Non-Hate?
This is what passes for civilized, benign discourse on the left, apparently. For a supposedly enlightened liberal, Bill Maher sure holds a negative, narrowminded opinion of conservative people. I wonder if he realizes how uninformed, intolerant and, dare I say, hateful, he sounds?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Michelle Malkin » The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
Michelle Malkin » The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:3-5
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:3-5
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