InstaPunk Returns

  So the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before Congress today. He told us he was always doing what was right for the country, whether that meant conducting illegal secret negotiations with our greatest enemy, suborning the authority of the CIC with his own Pentagon staff, libeling the president he served to multiple muckraker writers and publications, or conversely, rubber stamping the insane and disastrous Biden exit strategy from Afghanistan that leaves his country humiliated, American troops dead, American civilians trapped behind enemy lines, and himself defiant and unrepentant. Herewith some excerpts of Breitbart reporting from the hearings. Italicized comment is my own. Gen. Mark Milley confirmed Tuesday he leaked extensive details of President Donald Trump’s presidency to several journalists writing books about his administration. Under questioning from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Milley confirmed he spoke to the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward for his book...

She got bumped last minute from No. 10. Honorable Mention here. Heart of Glass . She accepted my challenge. Here’s her list. Not mine. I picked the videos though. You know. Men are all control freaks. 1. Maria Callas She was so right about this one. God’s female voice. 2. Denyce Graves I just gasp listening to this. 3. Edith Piaf I will ALWAYS be in love with this woman. At every age. (‘Pleurer’ means weep and ’Larmes’ means tears. All the  French words you need to understand the Little Sparrow.) 4. Nina Simone. Beautiful woman. Breaks my heart with every word. 5. Judy Garland They’ve got her in a box now. Where they always wanted her. Forever. 6.  Billie Holiday Little girl lost. That voice… 7. Ella Fitzgerald Perfect voice. My first songstress love. 8. Amy Winehouse  I know the road she traveled. Trust me. You don’t want to go that way. 9. Ronnie Spector Don’t you just want to pinch her cheeks? It can’t have been easy, her life. 10. Adele Don’t like her. Don’t want to....

Pretty simple actually. We murder Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins. I think I’m the better shot but my wife will be equally guilty because she will handle all the logistics. I can’t remember how to get to Pittsburgh anymore. uh, Excuse me. She’s just reminded me we have to do it in Canada, preferably Winnipeg, which I’m reliably informed is the asshole of Canada, a town where nobody cares who’s doing what if there’s enough Molson’s around. Then we surrender, plead guilty, and accept our punishment. Have to do it in Canada so we can get one of those nifty Canadian “Life Sentences” that spring you in three/four years. Only we’re seriously considering staying for the long haul. Canadian “Life Sentence” cell. Beats all hell out of our current U.S. senior citizen circumstances. The whole point really. Penal life in Canada will almost certainly be better than life in Biden’s ‘Revolutionary’ progressive America. We already can’t afford exponentially escalating gas prices and property...

  He died he did in ‘68.. So sorry. So sorry. How the best, most tragic story of F1 ever, unfolded. Jimmy Clark. Just possibly the real GOAT of Formula 1. Grosjean. Made podium one year into Indy racing. Last weekend at Indycar’s Laguna Seca, Romain Grosjean put on an F1 Show not seen since Jimmy Clark won the Indy 500 in 1965. Grosjean waged a war. Americans might not know that Grosjean’s F1 career went up in smoke a year or so earlier in a fiery crash that should have ended his competitive driving forever. His hands were badly burned. People didn’t think he’d drive again. Said similar things about Niki Lauda. F1 is where the superheroes live. Presently, three F1 drivers competing in Indy stuff. Ericsson, Sato, and Grosjean. All fast, no hurt and rebuild on the fly, and forget the ad-heavy car costumery… Yet… Burned his hands, bad. So he came to America. In 100+ F1 starts, Grosjean had scored, well, this: In that same approximate period of time, Lewis Hamilton registered 99 wins, ...

Let’s say we — just as an exercise — rename COVID-19 as FREEDOM-19, a virus we will survive or fail. How are we doing? Compare and contrast: Still just brainstorming here, pun intended, but let’s consider the circumstances when a high civilization is most in danger. There’s only one that really matters: when that high civilization begins to forget that survival is always an issue and becomes complacent to the point of ignorance, carelessness, and passivity. That’s when they are easy prey for the predators of their own and every kind of force in nature. When danger arrives, they curl up in the corner, they panic, they submit to whatever authority professes to have the answers to a survival outcome they have entirely forgotten how to provide for themselves. Nothing penetrates the creeping ennui. Let’s face it. Rasmussen and the other polling organizations are manfully cherry-picking the data to keep Biden at approximately 45 percent approval. Except he should be in the low thirties, if n...

  Fifty-six percent of Americans disapprove of the direction of the country after President Biden’s first eight months in office according to a Fox News poll. Via Breitbart FTA : Biden’s poll numbers are tanking on the heels of a controversial vaccine mandate, an inflated economy, a disastrous  withdrawal  from Afghanistan, and a drone strike that  killed  10 innocent Afghan civilians, including seven children. According  to a Fox News survey, 56 percent of respondents disapprove of how things are going in the United States. Conversely, 42 percent of respondents reported they approve of how things are going. When it comes to unity, 54 percent of participants believe the country is less unified under Biden, while 37% feel the country is more unified. Forty-nine percent of respondents reported they believe Biden exhibits the mental soundness to serve effectively as president, while 50 percent perceive the president to be trustworthy and honest. Moreover,...

 Think I’m afraid of something called 19 ? Guess again. Sorry. Not afraid of this thing. Have I been vaccinated? Yes. Over the years, many times. DPT, Polio, Small Pox, Typhoid, and a couple tetanus boosters due to rusty nails and such. I have not lived a risk free life. Never got a flu shot, never got the flu. Haven’t been to a doctor for illness in my adult life, only stitches (14 by last count). Haven’t been hospitalized since the age of three, when they took my tonsils out and lied to me about an ice cream reward in exchange for the ether trip. Apple sauce was all I got.  I’m 68. Ever since, I have had this rule, not a superstition but a rule. Stay away from the medical system. Once they get you, they got you. They got my grandparents, all four of whom died in the Salem Hospital where I was born and expect one day to die myself. They got both my parents, though my dad escaped partially; having been born at the Salem Hospital, he did not die there but on a fancy motorized b...

They, we, all called him W, because he always insisted on nicknaming everyone else. Should have told us something. Before he exploded backward into Nazi granddad Prescott Bush… Promised some folks in the Sacred Social Network I’d make them chuckle about W again. Maybe too big a promise, but here goes. Missing text link from Shuteye Town’s listing for G. W. Bush’s Loving Ameria . A teaser excerpt to take the link above: Initially he was a complete bust at public speaking. He would stand in front of the microphone, turn bright red, try to crack an off-color joke, and then forget the punchline. Salvation came in the form of a course of instruction in fill-in-the blanks speechwriting and mucho practice at speech delivery reading from his own scripts. The first one was a store opening in Lubbock, where he brought down the house and acquired a measure of confidence. Well, read the rest and get back to me. Oh. Here’s the song if it doesn’t come through in the main file.  

 We’ve seen all the statesmanlike campaigning and editorializing… So the voting begins… From the Newsmax article earlier today: Some early GOP voters who reportedly tried to cast their ballots in the California gubernatorial recall election were told computers showed that they’d already voted, even though they hadn’t. ABC affiliate  KTLA  reported the disturbing episode occurred Saturday at a polling place, where Estelle Bender, 88, of West Hills, California, recounted the computer block — and said she wasn’t alone. Bender told the news outlet the block also happened to friends of hers, two others outside the polling place — all of them Republicans — and "the man next to me was arguing the same thing." "I Gave her this [ballot] and she scanned and said 'you voted,' and I said, 'no, I haven’t'. And she said this has been happening all morning," Bender said of the poll monitor. She said she was then given a provisional ballot instead, filled it out and...

 

What nobody reckons is that there’s order and purpose independent of chronology. Pretty sure Laika is alive today because of what I taught her about cars and driving. Which I wouldn’t have known if there weren’t real force behind my dad-style admonitions and training regimens. She was a teenager. She didn’t like the car you automatically get these days when you turn sixteen.  OK. I wouldn’t have liked it either. But I had to buy my first car. She didn’t have a driver’s license yet. Her mother set out to teach her when she got her permit. One day later, mother resigned. Then her grandfather tried. Three days later he handed in his reluctant car keys. Which left me. A familiar role. Went through the same sequence with my sister. Mother and dad both gave up trying to teach her how to drive a VW Beetle stick shift. I, possessed of superhuman patience, taught her how to do this thing. And now I had the same challenge with Laika, on a mere automatic. Cool. Except that my sister was a mo...

  We invented romantic love. Sorry. Let me be clear. Romantic love is a Christian conception. To be more depressingly specific for you WOKE youngsters, romantic love was fabricated out of essentially nowhere by white men. You’re well within your rights in this post-post modern era to say that 500 years of romantic love was just bullshit, well replaced by hooking up for just fucking. Within your rights, I said. But what does that leave you with? Rap songs about ho’s and, well, just fucking. Which makes women what? Think about that for a second. If they’re not worth anything more than fucking and making you a baby daddy for the nth time, what are they good for? Uh, nothing. It can’t have escaped your attention that men and women choosing their own mates is still a minority situation in the WOKE world you prefer to ours. India, China, Japan, Korea, the muslim nations, now including Afghanisand (what’s that, 4 billion all told?), women who don’t get a choice of who they marry. It’s al...

I accidentally discovered an apt new term to describe what’s going on right now. I was having fun with a recent Breitbart post referencing one of CNN’s duller voices. Atheocracy. Kind of perfect. Nailed home by the sudden leftist welcome of support from the Satanists  in opposing the Texas Abortion law. Not to mention Cher’s redefinition of democracy  as anything which enables a woman to get her way in every way she desires. A simple definition of Atheocracry. Every belief system involving the divine is non-scientific, worthless, and necessarily to be crushed out of existence. So we can all always do whatever we want, no matter who gets hurt. What happened?  Dr. Doolittle’s Pushmi-Pullyu. Often Characterized as a sexual stalemate. Men and women have battled for control of society forever. Both sexes (there are exactly two) have competed for power for over thousands of generations.  Thurber’s War Between Men and Women. Jeez. That’s been a while ago. Feminists believe ...