Monthly Archives: December 2015
If it really starts…
So a mosque in Houston catches fire and it’s a case of arson, okay? Yeah, yeah, every ‘responsible voice’ in America, from Obamam hisownself on down, is cautioning against the surge of Islamophobia and the media quickly points out that this case in Houston is evidence of those eeeevil white people hatin’ on the religion of the pedophile prophet.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had earlier said the fire appeared suspicious because it had multiple points of origin. The fire department’s classification of the fire as “incendiary” means that accidental or natural causes have been ruled out.
There have been no arrests, but the ATF, Houston Police, and the FBI are also investigating the fire along with the fire department’s Arson Bureau.
The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on authorities to investigate a possible bias motive in the case, citing what it called a “recent spike in hate incidents targeting mosques nationwide. (Emphasis mine)
Well, while CAIR is being felated by the mainstream media, there was an investigation going on around the incident and lo and behold:
A spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed that the suspect, 37-year-old Gary Nathaniel Moore of Houston, was arrested early Wednesday. Moore appeared in court at 7 a.m., spokeswoman Nicole Strong said, and bond was set at $100,000.
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According to a charging instrument released by the Harris County District Clerk, Moore told investigators at the scene that he has attended the storefront mosque for five years, coming five times per day to pray seven days per week.
I can’t find the reference, but one story gives his self-awarded official muslim name.
Here’s a look at the evillll racist white guy CAIR is worried about.
What we have here is another freelance attempt by a muslim to, using the vernacular, ‘start some shit’.
Folks, I knew it wasn’t real. If a bozo like this was trying to blow up a bus, I’d expect him to burn his mouth on the exhaust pipe. It’s just that stupid. I know a bunch of people, real people who don’t have time to go bang their heads on a mosque floor five times a day, seven days a week as this mohammed wanna-be did. These folks, had that wanted to eradicate a mosque, there’d be a smoking shell left, and a pig carcass smoldering in the ashes and they likely wouldn’t have waited until the place was empty to do it.
Go ahead, CAIR. Keep pushing. We’re Americans, and we incinerated people all over the globe when they forced us into war. If the feces hits ventilator here, there won’t be any stinkin’ ‘rules of engagement’.
Vote for Name of the Year!
So I browsed back through a year’s worth of Name Game posts and picked out some of the more memorable entries. Here they are. Vote for your Favorite. I’ll post the findings on January 9.
Today in History – December 31
1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope. Does the name “du Toit” ring a bell?
1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. Don’t give the ‘takers’ any ideas!
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
1805 – End of the French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorian calendar like the rest of the civilized world. If you EVER want to see what happens when the Left takes control of government and implements all its “enlightened” ideals, study the French Revolution. Or Detroit.
1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. My employer uses many two-stroke, natural gas fueled engines to compress gas in our pipeline system.
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time. 2012 – Incandescent bulbs are essentially outlawed by ignorant legislation.
1961 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe. Then we stayed there for the next thirty years making sure the commie hordes didn’t come take the place, and they still treat US like crap!
1998– The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. And right now, Europe is seriously reconsidering the wisdom of that move…
2007 – The Massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends as it starts filling itself in…
Food for Thought – 30 December 2015
Today in History – December 30
1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace spreading the gospel of the Religion of Peace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city. “Religion of Peace”, yeah… Never was before. Isn’t now.
1817 – First coffee planted in Kona, Hawaii. Hawaiian Kona is still a GREAT coffee. Visit Smith Farms if you want to try some.
1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. 29,670 square miles for $10 million. Bought it fair and square. Bite that, Aztlan!
1854 – Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., first oil company in the US is incorporated in NYC. “Rock Oil” = “petroleum”.
1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. Ambitious title, but “all India” didn’t want to be Muslim, not that such feelings have any bearing to radical Muslims…
1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. That’s good for about seventy years… And the murders of several million of its own people.
1953 – The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA. “NTSC” stands of “Never The Same Color”. And $1175 was a year’s worth of minimum wage in 1953.
1959 – USS George Washington, world’s first ballistic missile sub commissioned, resulting in numerous pants being shat in the Kremlin.
1980 – “Wonderful World of Disney,” last performance on NBC-TV , back when Disney was still VERY patriotic (you old f*rts remember “The Sons of Liberty”?) and very pro-science. Not like today when it’s very “let’s promote a few kiddie acts to the pre-pubescent girl crowd and make lots of money”.
1987 – Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe. He’s still there. Zimbabwe is almost gone, but Mugabe is still there.
2006 – Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging. “Justice” would have had him fed into a shredder, feet first.
2009 – The last roll of Kodachrome film is developed by Dwayne’s Photo, the only remaining Kodachrome processor at the time, concluding the film’s 74-year run as a photography icon. “Camera film” goes the way of “Dialing a phone”… And people will have to do research to see what the words to that song mean…
Food for Thought – 29 December 2015
Not only does the dimmocrat party ignore any other of their candidates, but the mainstream media (I know, I repeat myself) ignores the rest, as well.
Then there’s the real ‘war on women’:
Today in History – December 29
1170 – Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church. This is about separation of church and state. The ‘state’ had the ‘church’ murdered.
1837 – Steam-powered threshing machine patented in Winthrop, Maine
1845 – Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state. 2035 – New US-Mexican border established at the Trinity River.
1890 – United States soldiers clash with members of the Great Sioux Nation in the Wounded Knee Massacre. “Clash?” Soldiers killed perhaps 200 including women and children.
1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. Once out from under these restrictions, Japan builds a great navy. America and its allies sink most of it in WW II.
1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million. They apologized. That makes it okay… They were “imagining” “giving peace a chance” anyway…
Food for Thought – 28 December 2015
Today in History – December 28
1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly cataloged it as a fixed star. But hey! The science was settled…
1836 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico. How, if only Mexico had recognized the independence of Texas, we could have saved us a whole war or two…
1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000. FEMA slow to respond. Bush widely blamed.
1939 – First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype. It and the Boeing B-17 were the backbone of US strategic bombing in Europe in WW II. The B-17 was prettier.
1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. Cue up the “twilight Zone” theme music. It’s one of those “Bermuda Triangle” mysteries… Or a series of human errors. Depends on which way your mind works…
1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. Nine-banded snorflezorts breathe easier. Tree-hugging hippies now have federal law to give meaning to their lives.
1981 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia. Yawwwnnnnn! Call me when a government welfare check is a contact birth control medication.
1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan. You throw off the yoke of Soviet oppression and you STILL end up with a “president for life”? Duuuude! You’re doing it waaaaay wrong!
2009 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura. The culprits? A group of radical Episcopalians OTHER Muslims who had differing opinions as to the correct attitude when slaughtering infidels. That’s part of the fun of the Religion of Peace – if there are no convenient infidels around, they’ll happily kill each other in large numbers.
2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government. America’s Left, led by such luminaries of international diplomacy such as Hillary (Haauuugghh! Spit!) Clinton and Barack Obama, squeal with glee because everybody knows that as soon as the dictator’s gone, two thousand years of tribal conflicts will go away and everybody will sit in a circle and drink Cokes and sing ‘Kumbayah’, just like in Pakistan the year before.
The Name Game #423
We almost made ‘eighty by eight’ two days after Christmas. It was seventy-five when I walked out to get the paper, with a dry ninety-one percent humidity.
The front page story was the closing and sale of a local summer camp used for decades of kids, mostly girls. the money’s not there. Little girls don’t do Girl Scouts and Campfire Girl camps any more.
Turning to the family section we find that the big hospital across the river reports thirty-two new babies from between December 11 and December 21. Twenty of those are to unwed parents and six new mommies can’t seem to determine a baby daddy.
Let’s sally forth, shall we?
Miss Daywnessa C. opts for Korean with her son, little Daewon Anthony.
Caleb D. & Adrienne F. give their new son a manly name, Drake Joseph.
Miss Samantha J. makes sure that her baby girl starts out being treated as royalty by tagging her with Majesty Sade.
Another manly name surfaces as Justin K. & Macy F. present little Tanner Jace.
Andrew C. & Catherine G. celebrate their Hebraic heritage by naming their son Cohen Lee.
Cody ‘n’ Kyla O. get into weather patterns with their daughter, Everlee Rayne.
Marcus B. & Brianna S. fabricate a tag for their daughter, little Amyrah Breashia.
Our first punctuation shows up when Jeremiah M, and (hang on!) Randaderah(! – told you!) C. present their daughter, little Raina Ja’hde. Note that they do no adhere to the ‘capitlaize the first letter after the goofy-assed apostrophe’ rule.
Justin & Daryn H. present their daughter Paris Alice. One wonders if the baby is named for a notorious slut or a demonstration that somebody was awake in geography class. Your call…
Ramson R. & LaTrischa(!!) C. do a daughter with Jaliyah Monae’.
And with that, we finish the last Name Game column of 2015. hasn’t it been fun?
Today in History – December 27
1814 – War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed. Freed of the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s makeshift fleet allows the British to move efficiently forward to the epic butt-kicking of the Battle of New Orleans.
1825 – First public railroad using a steam locomotive completed in England.
1871 – World’s first cat show held at the Crystal Palace in London. “What’s that? A cat. And that? Another cat.” Actually, I’ve been to a few cat shows. Fascinating, but cats are not nearly as widely different in their breeds as dogs can be. Think of the difference between a shih-tzu and a Saint Bernard… Then think of the fun and games if you bred a playful housecat the size of, say, a Labrador Retriever…
1929 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class” in an effort to spread socialism to the countryside. That order results in the deaths of somewhere between five and fifteen million MILLION people. The number’s not important. It’s not like they’re gonna vote dimmocrat or something…
1945 – The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations. Major functions include providing featherbeds for UN bureaucrats and funding third-World despots.
1972 – New North Korean constitution comes into effect. “Article 1: Kim is always right. Article 2: If Kim is wrong, see Article 1. Article 3: Succession: Next of Kim.”
1978 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. That’s nothing. America is becoming a dictatorship after two hundred and thirty years as a democracy.
1985 – Proselytizing for the Religion of Peace, Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
2007 – Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis. Yawn! In Africa anything short of two wildebeests procreating triggers a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
Saturday Song #125
As I sit here simmering Southwest Louisiana ‘winter’ where our LOW last night didn’t get below seventy, let’s sweep off to cool Norway in the form of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 – Anitra’s Dance:
Today in History – December 26
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. This was the result of that “Washington Crossing the Delaware” thing. It wasn’t a photo op, it was a BATTLE, and at the end, the Americans lost 2 dead (froze to death on the march there) and five wounded. The Brits and their Hessian mercenary allies lost 22 killed, 83 wounded and 896 captured. In this one battle, the Americans went from almost down and out to “Hey, we just might pull this off.”
1799 – Four thousand people attend George Washington‘s funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
1846 – Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism. Recipes to follow…
1865 – James H. Mason of Massachusetts patents first US coffee percolator. It’s a horrible way to make good coffee, but a good way to make poor coffee.
1928 – Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming, goes on to be a particularly memorable movie star, especially as Tarzan. I and my contemporaries in the local neighborhood spent many a Saturday afternoon watching those movies.
1933 – The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
1936 – Israel Philharmonic Orchestra forms even though there is no Israel except in the hearts of the Jews. Those silly Jews. They’re isolated and persecuted, and yet there’s still enough spirit for an orchestra.
1944 – World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne with Patton’s Third Army showing up after a brilliant turning move. General McAuliffe’s reply of “Nuts” to the German commander’s offer to accept his surrender is a fine example of making sure that when your mouth writes a check, your butt can cash it. The 101st Airborne and General McAuliffe wrote the check and Patton’s Third Army cashed it.
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies (A sure indication of clarity of thought) at California State University, Long Beach. Aksed where th eidea came from, Karenga replied “PIOMA” which he thought was Swahili, but it actually engineer-speak for “pulled it outta my a**”.
1979 – Opening night of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot. Nobody mentions that those were victims of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” and other such pacifist tripe. Self-important hippy M*****f*****s. The blood of millions is on their heads.
1982 – Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. I remember computers in 1982. Baby steps.
1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR. Just like that… I spent years thinking I’d be fighting these bas*ards in the Fulda Gap.
1996 – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force. There IS NO END to the stupidity that the UN will put out. This one is right up there with King Canute’s commanding the tides to stop coming in.
2004 – A 9.0 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.
2006 – An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260. Didn’t ‘explode’. Thieves punctured it to steal the oil. The spill ignited.