InstaPunk Returns

  USA Today fact-checkers were all over me for linking a  Gateway Pundit post pooh-poohing Dem evidence of a plot. Fact-checkers are hard at work trying to prove that dismissing the notion of Pelosi getting hammered by a MAGA terrorist is dangerous “misinformation,” for which its consumers must be punished as severely as the originators. You know the meme war is lost in propaganda terms when your big lie provokes instant laughter in everyone listening. Click the pic below for the text of the FrontPageMag story.  It’s funny enough, although I’m thinking I may be the only one still looking for the missing updates on Pelosi’s health status. Nobody cares about his physical well being on either side of the aisle. The Fact-Checkers will be all over you on this one, Kurt Schlichter. It’s absolutely not true that “ Nobody is buying the Bug Lie about a MAGA attacker. See?

  The Cover Page of the website. Tell you more about finding the site on the web later… It’s an online bookstore for eBooks, mostly mine. Designed, though technically not operational yet, as the first product set is still in process of being uploaded. I expect to be fully open for business very soon. This post will remain pinned here as the featured post for some time to come. It will be an early home to any comments by clients or browsers at the store. I will read and respond to such comments, starting now in fact. (btw, all your comments at this are saved and displayed in the Site Management files, hidden from prying eyes. I do read all comments and respond when a question is asked or some other dialogue seems indicated.) You might be asking Why do this? A store? Money? (He never behaved unbecomingly about $ before, no passing the hat, no blog ads…) Hmmm. Is it just the Scot coming out in him as he fades toward unintelligible highland penury? Well, here’s a kind of Mission Statem...

  Facebook has this feature called “Your Memories Today,” which includes links to posts from the exact calendar date in multiple years. Today, there were quite a few and I liked them all, but I didn’t want to spend my readers’ patience on past posts for too big a chunk of time.  So I tried getting the link for the whole day’s entries. FB seemed to do it. Let’s see. Click on the graphic up.

  That’s what happened when I try to logon. To what site? This one: I joined a few weeks, having overcome my ambivalent feeling about a platform boasting of no censorship and a platform obviously open to the the charge of being an echo chamber easily dismissible by anyone who might need persuading to think in a new way. After a few of the usual missteps I got signed up. I’m available via searches for SigmaZrn, RFLaird, or Robert Laird. I’ve posted 15 times to date. Pretty pleased with the way posting works, despite the Twitter-like limitation of 500 characters per post. Then, the other day, I was going to post again, and I was unable to log in. They told me that either my email address or my password was wrong. Thing was, they weren’t. Truth Social SW had actually posted both those bits of information into the Settings folder on my iPad. I copied them both directly and pasted them into the login form. Same answer. I had one of them ‘wrong.’ They asked me to reenter my email addres...

Have you ever been rejected for admission to an organization you never applied to? A few weeks ago I was rejected for attendance at a dinner for Kari Lake because I wasn’t a member of their sponsoring group. I had never asked for a dinner invite, and I had never applied for admission to their group. Funny stuff. Which must have been the reason I was was subsequently notified that my request for admission to the group had been declined. Funny stuff. Now it’s happened again in what feels like a slapstick comedy routine.I was notified I needed to answer some questions before my request to be admitted to ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ could be accepted. Having never made such a request or even heard to the group, I went where directed by the notification and was informed of this: Nice framing of the notice.Very official looking. Invited to review the standards I had failed to meet in my phantom application for acceptance, I found this: Well, okay, then. For that kind of haughty censorship I can stay h...

As you work your way through the links here, don’t be shy. Get ‘Click Happy.’ Even on pics. FIGHTING BACK ONE FILE AT A TIME … How bad has it gotten? I uploaded this video from the old Instapunk at YouTube an hour ago. It has already been removed for violating YT Community Standards.  There’s a pdf version, just published, of the post from Instapunk.com the video above was created for. Nobody censored it 15 years ago. Back then, it was unquestioningly covered as freedom of expression. Here’s my pdf file of ‘ The Goosestep Enigma ’.  This was by no means the most controversial post or graphic included in Instapunk’s 2,000+++ posts over the years. Now I’m going back in time to make pdf versions of the key parts of that website, meaning the most comical, controversial, reflective, insightful, and graphically provocative. But why reinvent the wheel. It’s all still there, isn’t it? The sad fact is that the truly huge resource called Instapunk.com is facing a ticking clock. The orig...

Shuteye Town is a very big place. Three different subways. It’s election season, I know, and everyone’s telling you that you must be out there working for the Red Wave. True. But all the media chatter can get depressing, whether it’s the iniquitous left or our own echo chambers. Everyone’s in a dither. Staying calm can be helped by useful diversions. I have three for you today, thanks to an addition to this site’s functionality. I have three short books for you in PDF files that are a cinch to open, you can reach them by clicking on the menu icon at the top left of the Main Page (The arrow at Top Left of this post will take you there.) Just scroll down the menu list till you see Page Content. There are three titles there: 1) The Newspaper Op-Eds of Shuteye Nation 2) A is for Automobiles (from the original Instapunk website, 2004-2014) 3) A Portfolio of Selected Illustrations from Shuteye Town 1999 They’re all looks at the past from the hopefully humorous distance of 2022. BUT all thre...

I don’t actually know when the site first went up. It happened during a transitional period in my life when I didn’t have regular Internet access. Obviously, I didn’t create it. The book’s fans did it, contributing computer code and frequently updated content well before one of the site’s founders let me in on the project. I did contribute thereafter, both content and conversation, the latter enabled by a ‘Boomer Bible Forum’ created at the Delphi Forums application. The site continued operational during and after my development of the multimedia CD release titled Shuteye Town 1999 , which was the source of a great deal of discussion and debate, like the TBB itself. Eventually I moved on to other major projects and the site was quietly retired to the Wayback Machine, where it still resides. The Welcome Page of the Boomer Bible website. The links here and on all other site pages mostly work, though the deeper you go from link to link the harder it can become to get to where you started...

 

He was One of a Kind. I’m sure you can acquire this collection at his old site. It’s a good cause, obviously.  As a personal touch, I can offer you a link to this piece I write at the original Instapunk on the occasion of his 20th Year Anniversary behind the EIB microphone, irreverent but fun. All about acquiring your own version of The Limbaugh Lifestyle . If you’re in the mood for fun or diverting reading that’s not about the current Biden mess(es), there’s a good variety of other Instapunk articles available right here, one at this  recent post  in particular and another longer list in the Archives of Instapunk Returns (Click on the drop-down menu at the top left of the Main Page). There’s a line item in the Archives for “IP Posts,” which also cover a wide range of topics, including both comedy (lots of graphic-intensive goofs on Obama) and pretty heavy duty stuff still relevant today. I’ve been doing my thing over the same span of time as Rush was doing his thing...

  The Bausch & Lomb Aviators the President rarely ventures outdoors without. I’m sure we’ve all heard his tales of derring-do as a Top Gun instructor in the Navy’s Fort Lauderdale fighter pilot training base back in a day. His missions were so Top Secret and hazardous that his many medals for valor have never been made public. That’s just the kind of guy Joe is. You’d never know. Initially we just wanted to verify that these really are the Special  Pilot’s  Issue of the most famously heroic sunglasses in the world. Well, they are special. Very special indeed. We decided to take a closer look inside the lenses through the advanced functions of today’s image processing technology. Here’s what we found. Hmmm. It doesn’t even look as if there are any eyes in there. We have stumbled on a mystery indeed. The implant mechanism above the left eye is simply not standard Bausch & Lomb equipment. The company turned down our inquiries and referred us to the Secret Service....

  An accurate portrait of Donald Trump, as seen by David Montgomery Most of you readers will be coming here from my Facebook page, which doesn’t have the technical capacity or features to do the subject justice. Here’s the graphic I used at FB.  Sorry. Princeton Boys always make me laugh for some reason. I’m going to try to fill in the Breitbart gaps here without being able to read the actual article in question due to WAPO’s Pay to Play policy.  I choose not to play WAPO’s spam-bait game or pay them a dime. That’s why I am stretching the ‘fair use’ principle of quotation to share with you most of an article at the American Spectator, available online. American Spectator Article Now for the Spectator piece, offered with wholehearted apologies to that site. << Ya just gotta love the utter cluelessness over  there at — yet again — the Washington Post. Just  last week , the paper was standing up for voter fraud denial by opposing the raft of GOP candida...