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Gaylord Perry and complete games

Silvio Canto, Jr.
12/3/2022 2:30:00 AM

            (My new American Thinker post)  The Society of Baseball Research:   

1962 to 1983, he pitched in the majors and did some pretty amazing things:  314 wins, 2-time Cy Young Award winner, a no-hitter, 4-time 20 games winner, an amazing 3.11 ERA over 5,350 innings and 3,534 strikeouts.  Like Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry did not play for good teams so his overall record has to be understood in that context.  His only post-season appearance was in 1971 with the Giants.  303 games of the 690 that he started.  Talk about you won't see that again.  Of[...]

December 3, 1968: Elvis and the TV special

Silvio Canto, Jr.
12/3/2022 1:55:57 AM

      Elvis returned to TV with a great special on this day in 1968.  It was his first TV show in years.    He also introduced a new song, "If I can dream".    Elvis followed this show with several concerts in Las Vegas and Hawaii.   The king was back, as they said back then.You can get it here: CLICK           P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.        

I Think I've Cracked The Code

K T Cat
12/2/2022 3:21:24 PM
 Those creepy, saccharine, nauseating LGBTQ+ groomers we see on LibsOfTikTok are ...... the modern-day version of Up With People.  The rules keep changing. Even if you use the correct pronouns, its still not good enough pic.twitter.com/LPJhpqSVMN— Libs of TikTok (libsoftiktok) December 1, 2022      

God Is Not Love

K T Cat
12/2/2022 7:46:04 AM

Instead, God is love on a framework of objective reality and logic.I have to admit, I absolutely hate those homilies whose message is "God is love." It's just all so much squishiness and maudlin sentimentality. Life is inherently tragic. You can see that in the hospice process. I find myself missing my parents lately. I looked back on the photos I had of them from their last days. Ghastly, every one of them. Ghastly and real. Death happens. Tragedy happens. It's the nature of life."I can't believe in a God who would allow (pain, evil, sending people to hell, that ridiculous no-call on the clear pass interference penalty against the Saints in the playoffs, fill-in-the-blank-with-something-bad)." Why not? If He exists, then He[...]

Mmmkay....

W.C. Varones
9/1/2022 4:31:22 PM
President who usurped Congressional spending authority to issue an executive order handing out hundreds of billions of dollars right before an election will lecture nation on "threats to democracy."

Seems legit

W.C. Varones
7/20/2022 4:08:43 PM
WSJ:Calpers stock portfolio returned minus 13.1%, while bonds returned minus 14.5%, the pension fund said. Those losses delivered a double blow for retirement funds and other savers who have long relied on those two assets to move in opposite directions. Private equity and real estate returned 21.3% and 24.1%, respectively. It's a CalPERS miracle       Everything with observable market prices went down, but everything CalPERS values subjectively went up By double digits 

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Boston trip is no tea party for Prince and Princess of Wales

In a week dominated by royalty and race, there was a small but tellingly symbolic moment that passed all but unnoticed when the Prince and Princess of Wales wat ...

Americans Love to Hate Their Politics

The silver liningof todays bitter partisan warfare is that, for millions of citizens, it has made civic engagement more meaningful.

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Survey: Public Trust In Miliatary Declining 

Mike LaChance

"The most common response was military leadership becoming overly politicized, with 62% of respondents picking it."The post Survey: Public Trust In Miliatary Declining first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Israeli Police Arrest Two Palestinians Who Forced Jewish Man to Kiss Their Feet and Posted it on TikTok 

Vijeta Uniyal

"Palestinian teenagers ... filmed themselves threatening an ultra-Orthodox man in Jerusalems Old City and ordering him to bend down on his knees and kiss one of their feet in a video."The post Israeli Police Arrest Two Palestinians Who Forced Jewish Man to Kiss Their Feet and Posted it on TikTok first appeared on Legal Insurrection.