The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, February 27, 2017

What's up with that, Bozo?

Mexico paying for the wall?

The wall actually being approved and built?

The big investigation of three to five million illegals voting for Hillary?

The new and improved executive order on foreign travel and refugees, to replace the one the courts stopped?

Meanwhile, McCain and Graham in the senate and Issa in the House are demanding, fruitlessly, an independent investigation of the campaign's ties with Russia.

All Democrats and some Republicans, those who have opposed Trump from the beginning both as an individual and especially on his anti-immigrant, pro-Putin agenda, are doing their level best to make it impossible for Trump to lead the country into a significant revision of its defense commitments to NATO and other foreign allies.

The huge dust of suspicion and scandal about Russian meddling in the election and the Trump campaign's possible complicity in it, as well as hints of corruption and even treason, all serve to disable Trump in this area.

And, anyway, The Duce can't find anybody for the role of national security advisor who actually shares his foreign policy views.

HR McMaster is a standard issue establishment globalist who sounds like Obama and Clinton on Jihaders and on our global alliances.

He made a point of firmly stating these views in meetings with White House folks.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Elementary in book form

Adam Christopher has written a novel based on the TV characters.

Not bad, but his insistence on the politically correct singular they is obtrusive to the point of more than usual annoyance.

And he doesn't seem to know what "salubrious" means.

Reading The Ghost Line.

33° F and clear in Our Town

Not one flake left on the ground.

26° F in Our Town, right now.

And it's snowing.

Friday, February 24, 2017

The big, bad isms

I saw an ad for some black guy's show on some cable news channel.

Might have been MSNBC.

Or something.

It said his thing is to attack the most dangerous isms on the planet: racism, sexism, and colonialism.

As the man used to say, I kid you not.

Marxism is so passe, despite China.

Or Cuba.

And Islamism, aka Muslim fundamentalism?

Not even on the map, though the more or less global war against it dominates and has dominated the headlines since 9/11/01.

And colonialism, gone these 50 years, at least?

That is among the most dangerous isms on the planet?

God, I hate the shithead left.

Bozo outdoes himself, moves up from clown to total asshole

Donald Trump’s CPAC speech proves it: He’s totally obsessed with the media

So, are we all distracted from the fact that it's Friday and we have seen no sign of the promised new executive order on visitors, refugees, etc.?

White House blocks CNN, New York Times from press briefing hours after Trump slams media

Fact-checking President Trump’s CPAC speech

76° F in Our Town

Not that I mind having the doors and windows open and the furnace off on February 24th, but it does seem odd.

The lemmings are really thrilled to have Bozo in the White House, I guess. Dow = 20,821.76

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Strategically playing up the threat

Geert Wilders suspends election campaign over alleged security leak

Dutch media reported earlier this week that a member of the far-right politician’s police security team had been arrested on suspicion of leaking details of his whereabouts to a Dutch-Moroccan criminal gang.

The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper reported on Thursday that the officer and his brother, both previously members of the Utrecht police force, had been investigated in connection with suspected leaks of confidential information.

The DBB security service, responsible for the safety of the royal family, diplomats and high-profile politicians, said the officer – who is of Moroccan origin – was not one of Wilders’ bodyguards but screened locations for his public appearances.

. . . .

The Dutch police chief, Erik Akerboom, told Dutch radio an investigation had been opened but insisted Wilders’ safety had not been compromised, prompting Wilders to reply that if he could not trust the DBB, “I can no longer function”.

The justice minister, Stef Blok, insisted Dutch politicians could “campaign safely on Dutch streets” and said the alleged leak had endangered no one.

It was such a dark time, too. And so loooooong ago.

'Walking Dead' T-Shirt Pulled for Being 'Racist'

[W]hat happened was a guy in Sheffield, England was at a Primark (U.K. department store) with his wife and they saw a "Walking Dead" T-shirt quoting Negan's now infamous line: "Eeny Meeny Miny Moe," with a picture of Lucille, the barbed-wire-covered baseball bat Negan uses to kill.

This guy's mind went immediately to a dark time in history when the "Eeny meeny" rhyme included the n-word instead of the word tiger.

("Pulp Fiction" used the n-word version.)

Pair that with a weapon, and he saw something very different from TWD fans.

. . . .

Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays Negan, and he tweeted out a link to the story, including his own commentary on the state of humanity: "Holy crap people are stupid!"

I foresee an extorted apology in Morgan's future.

The race commissars, you know.