“I Don’t Stop When I’m Tired, I Stop When I’m Done.”

 

“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound sand. I beat people up.” – Muhammad Ali

The braggadocios young Muhammad Ali, nee Cassius Clay, mellowed with age and illness butt he will nevertheless always be known for his swagger.

I, however, am partial to the equally great boxer butt less bodacious Joe Louis -

Joe Louis and Ali

the first black Heavyweight World Champion. He was always described as a gentleman. (full disclosure: my uncle was the “Brown Bomber’s” commanding officer in WWII and his promoter for awhile afterwards)

The Brown Bomber with Uncle Lou, 1946

Boxing is a lot like politics, everyone brags, everyone exaggerates and everyone dances around trying to evade the punches while awaiting the opportunity to land the winning blow. Butt unlike boxing, people playing the blood sport of politics will always play to the death. 

Which brings me to my brother’s favorite peripheral Joe Louis story. It involves Max Baer who, after being pummeled by Louis in a fight that only lasted four rounds, told a post-fight reporter "Sure I could have gotten up the last time. Twenty bucks entitles these people to see a fight. It don't entitle them to see a murder." 

In the world of politics however we demand the murder.

There will be blood – Lord Byron

So, carry on troops; it’s not over yet.

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The Graduation of Michelle Obama

If you think Lady M has been on extended vacation for these past 7 years, 4 months and 15 days, think again.

I know, I know; you don’t want to hear any thing else from her or her husband.

Butt if you do you’ll see that the woman who’s “had the privilege of traveling around the world” (several times) hasn’t just been setting around putting notches in her travel log. No sir, she’s been enrolled in an intensive total emersion self-promotion program. Using the same speech and empathy coaches who turned her community organizing husband into The Prince she has emerged as The Princess.

The City College of New York address was also Lady M’s graduation performance. Watch and note: the same cadence, intonation and facial expression as the Won’s best efforts. She has been an astute student of when to drop your g’s (although in her case they have to tell her when NOT to), when to register concern with a wrinkled brow, when to wince with shared pain, when to smile in false solidarity, when to coordinate head and hands in sweeping gestures of inclusiveness, how to masterfully read a series of three teleprompters – left, middle and right, middle, left – in order to look totally engaged, when to frown in slight vexation and wet her lip with a forked tongue. A real piece of work! Check out the climax of her training:

“It’s the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters — two beautiful, black young women — head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the president of the United States, the son of a man from Kenya who came here to America for the same reasons as many of you: to get an education and improve his prospects in life.”

Ladies and gentleman, you are looking at either the first Black Female President of the United States, or the second coming of Oprah. My money is on the later as Lady M is constitutionally far more aligned with the entertainers than the politicians, although admittedly it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference.

Then again, what difference, at this point, does it make? Royalty is royalty. Right?

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Trumpy Cat’s Trained Rats

Oh great.

Finding the water too deep, the rats are jumping back aboard: Ryan Endorses Trump

Don’t worry, Trumpy Cat will train his rats to do his bidding.

Trumpy Cat’s Trained Rats

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Writing Our Own Rules Since 2009

What do you do when the facts don’t fit the narrative written by your “failed fiction writer?”

That’s simple, do what Facebook and Hilllary do: delete the evidence.

Only thing though, try not to get caught. There might have consequences, dependent on your skin color…

and/or your hair color.

Because if you’re a Black head of state or a blond or redheaded Woman of State, what difference, at this point, does it make?

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You Just Can’t Make Some People Happy

I know, I know; Harambe was a magnificent beast - who didn’t deserve to die. So why did he have to die?

Because #BlackLivesMatter, idiot.

Apparently you just can’t make some people happy.

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Announcement: The SSS is Set to Sail

NOTE:  As has been my custom for the past two years I will be taking a summer semi-sabbatical (SSS) for the next few months. Butt as the old cowpoke once said…“I don’t know how quit you.”  

Accordingly, I’m not shuttering the shop, just cutting back on my hours a bit in order to tend to a myriad of half-done or not yet started projects that tend to build up every year and demand attention by the time summer rolls around. The posts will be shorter, mixed with some open threads and/or re-posts from the MOTUS deep vault of golden oldies. And I won’t be checking in throughout the day as regularly as I normally do.

So I’m calling on the MOTI (MOL, MOD and FOM) to perform troll patrol and generally carry the load around here for the summer - with all the wit, snark and je ne sais quoi we’ve all come to expect from each other.

For the SSS inaugural post I chose one from the vault. And with that I leave you to reflect on the uncanny frequency with which umbrellas, dogs and ice cream seem to come into the picture now that Obama is Here.

 

  ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 24, 2015

Here’s a (post) Memorial Day Weekend Quiz for you: I call it Which One is Smarter Than the Other Won?

Cast your vote(s) below for either:

A. Our President, figuring out how to get his big umbrella over the gate:

Or B) The Dog, figuring out how to get his big stick over the bridge:

And in case you missed this heartfelt Memorial Day tweet from the Democrats:

They are hoping everyone can join Barry for another brain freeze.

Funny, isn’t it, how many stories about umbrellas, 

  ice cream and dogs

pop up around Memorial Day now that Obama is here?

Cast your votes now! The polls have been reopened for this round. And we will leave them open until we reach the desired response.

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Memorial Day 2016

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." —Winston Churchill
As we do on this day each year, we pause to remember the men and women who died fighting for our freedom.
We stand by humbly, gratefully, silently, to honor their sacrifice.

We remember…

We mourn for those lost…

And we mourn for those they’ve left behind…

As we reflect again on the the steep price of freedom.

By all means, enjoy your picnics, parades and celebrations today – it is a holiday after all. But do pause to remember and honor all the brave Americans across time who have sacrificed their lives in the fight against tyrants and tyrannies that threaten the endurance of the great American experiment.
And should anyone dare ask “what difference does it make”

I think it’s fair to say “all the difference in the world.”

Because there will always be tyrants.

And God willing we will always be there to take them out. NOTE: Originally posted May 25, 2015
Have a wonderful Memorial Day MOTI, wherever you are.

Who Are the Real Luddites Around Here?

As we kick off the summer of 2016 the world remains terrorized - by Islamo-fascists, global warmists and now…mosquitos.

Islamic fascists live in the firm grasp of a seventh century religious cult even as their beliefs intersect with the modern era, putting the worst of both worlds within their grasp. Or, as George Carlin put it, “ancient hatreds and modern weapons, my kind of show man!”

Global warmists, in one of the richest ironies of our time, reject actual scientific methodology in favor of bogus anecdotal data which - as it turns out - isn’t even anecdotal, it’s manufactured. (here, here, here and here)

Yet they are still faithfully committed to the conclusions produced by the bogus data, just as the Islamo-fascists remain committed to the dictates of their Koran; it’s a religious thing. And like the Islamo-fascists, the warmists want us to return to a simpler time when life did not involve the use of so many carbon based fuels. You know - before electricity, central heating and toilet paper. (Welcome to Venezuela! We’ve got plenty of mosquitos too!!)

And then, of course, there are the mosquitos.

The mosquito-borne virus, which causes terrible birth defects in babies born to infected mothers and paralytic disease in adults, is expected to reach some 50 U.S. cities as the weather gets warmer, extending throughout the South and up the East Coast…there is no vaccine or cure available.

It never needed to get to this point. Zika was actually identified decades ago in Africa, but until now wasn’t considered a threat to the Americas. That is because the mosquito that spreads the virus, Aedes aegypti, was practically eradicated in Latin America in the 1940s and ’50s.

That’s right, DDT nearly eradicated the Aedes mosquito, carrier of malaria, yellow fever and Zika, from North and South America. Butt then came environmental alarmists Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich and the next thing you knew there was a scientific consensus that DDT was killing the planet (which, it turned out, was not true -- spectacularly not true) and banned. Hence, the return of the killer mosquito.

All of which leads me to ask, who, exactly, are the Luddites around here? Donald Trump, who wants to keep the Islamo-fascists out of our country and doesn’t care that he may have to ban some of the “peace loving Muslims” along with them until “we figure out what’s going on” or the “Progressives” who want to open the borders to all comers, no questions asked?

The Deniers who want to continue the advance of the modern world by continuing to use proven sources of power or the Warmists who wish to rely on 14th century wind power to run our modern world?

Environmentalists more interested in protecting rain forests, salamanders and bugs than people or radical rightwing extremists who believe human life to be more valuable than the vermin of the earth? I’m just asking.

And now, let the holiday celebrations commence! (Don’t forget your OFF!)

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