Peanuts Gang Singing "Living in the U.S.A."

1/16/26:

Video was taken down. Shucks. Let's try this one instead...

Author:Flying Dutchman

Description: Video mashup with Steve Miller Band's hit song "Living in the USA".

5/3/17:


Cute little mashup of the Steve Miller Band song Living in the USA.

Kinda fit the theme, so I put it in today.

"Trouble coming"

  Does "Democracy" die in darkness, as the WaPo heading says?

  Perhaps a revolution can occur in the midst of confusion, as that thought crosses my mind.  There's a lot of noise out there.  Perhaps we can do with less, not more.

  You can cling to the well-established ways for the sake of stability.  Laws are made during times of calm.  When laws are made during turbulence, a lot more mistakes get made.  Decisions are best when made during times of quiet reflection.

  A lot of finger-pointing too.  Rather than that, one can look inward at oneself, and look for one's own mistakes first.  After all, it is in the Gospel.

  I'd like to think that things are improving despite all the "sound and fury", a lot of this signifies "nothing".

Trouble coming by Tom Knighton

Read on Substack

Not exactly what I had in mind

 

  Looks like a number of GOP congresscritters voted against the proposed bill defunding some rogue judges.

  This looks bad, but maybe not so bad once you consider that it won't pass constitutional muster.  The Constitution says you cannot mess with their compensation, if I am not mistaken.  You may be able to defund their staff positions, but not the judge's salary itself.

  A better move would be to remove jurisdiction.  Besides, there's not enough of a majority to do anything anyway.  The GOP may not even have a majority right now.  This stuff is just for show.

  The political climate right now is pretty goofy.  Not much worth commenting upon, but this is worth some attention.   They need to get smarter, not louder.

Starship Update, 1/13/26

 

Author: NASASpaceflight

Description: "Is SpaceX is closing in on Starship Flight 12 and the debut of Version 3?"

Comment:

  Too much talk, and not enough action. Sure, they are building things, but where's the launches?  It's been awhile already since Flight 11, and it will take some more time to launch 12.  Maybe in March???   Man, I thought they'd be ready back in December.

Texans v Steelers last night

  This isn't the usual fare around here, so excuuuuuse me.

  There were some funny looking plays in that game. The fumbles and such. Late in the game, Woody Marks had a run in which he seemed to disappear and then pop out of nowhere to score a touchdown. "Upon further review", it looks like a Steeler tackler took out another Steeler defender, and that sprung Marks for the endzone.

  Weird.

  Then there was the strip sack of Aaron Rodgers which looked like it was almost whistled dead, but all of a sudden, Sheldon Rankins picks up the ball and runs to the endzone--touchdown.  Weird.

  Why write about football?  Might as well.  There's nothing else to write about.  The NFL won't let me embed the video, but the link above will show it.  

Former Lecturer/Corporate CFO Bullies Chick-fil-A Clerk

1/12/26:

Author: u1oo

8/3/12:

Some homosexual activist bullies a clerk.  Proud of yourself, fella?

This is projection. He's condemning hate, but actually acting in a hateful manner himself.

Is this what it is coming to in this country?



Update:

Free market wins (this time)

One of the most amazing things to me about the Chick-Fil-A appreciation patronage is that private citizens are waging a free market battle against progressivism. While progressives want to use government to shut down diverse thought, conservatives don't. Conservatives will counter progressive boycotts with massive buying power, as seen yesterday. We don't need regulations or legislation. Conservatives battled progressivism within the private sector over Dan Cathy's free speech and conservatives won. Consider Vante's action another free market move.

But the free market can't win if the socialists take over.  You won't have the freedom to resist.