Keeper of the Clown Bell

With all the misguided ideas surrounding policing in America it has finally come to this: A Quentin Tarantino Boycott . Why? Because the guy hates cops, of course, but isn't that obvious to anyone who's ever seen his movies? All the more reason not to boycott them - go see them and you'll understand the full measure of what the police are up against. A few Tarantino flicks pumped through the eyes and ears and you'll find yourself cheering every Popo choke hold and random snuffing out of a miscriants bitter waisted life. The world of QT is a merciless, godless waistland of foul losers and their eternal quest for revenge which provides the only meager solice they will know in this life. The movies are great "entertainment" but only a fool (of which there are many) could find anything appealing in a QT hero - they're usually sociopathic killers reeking havoc on an unjust world filled with unjust scum, whores and sickos who also happen to be friends and...

Jim Cramer is a loud, opinionated dudebag who appears on CNBC's  "Mad Money" where he helps investors find "Bull Markets" to boost their stock portfolio. If you wander around Manhattan long enough you're almost sure to bump into him somewhere. He's a True Blue Dem - loves (loved) Eliot Spitzer (and I mean true love) - so it's fitting that he should be part of the panel of "journalists" who asked questions of GOP candidates at the CNBC GOP "debate". But he really got down to business after the debate when speculating on the question of why with MSNBC's Chris Matthews . CRAMER: A bit of a mean spirit to it. If they all hate the government so much, why do they want to work for the government? The government was on trial. The media was on trial. I think the economy should be on trial. Yes, exactly, why do they want to work for government? This IS the question of the day - the question of the century really. Oh, the poor gover...

WHO, the greatest acronym of all time, has has come out with a report targeting bacon and hot dogs as cancer causing killer foods - "a causal link with bowel cancer". Even the gullible Guardians are skeptical of this World Health Organization claim and that should give every "citizen of the world" pause when ordering lunch. Who is WHO ? It's a $4.5 Billion boondoggle for one worlders who feel compelled to squander resources on the important project of convincing people to stop eating bacon. That's right America - you're paying for this crap and the WHO budget increased by 10% for 2016 so you're paying even more. Did you get a 10% pay raise this year? I ask you, in all seriousness, who (besides WHO) would want to live in a world without bacon? Not me brother - drive me to the nearest euthanasia center if it ever comes to that. But they don't just go after bacon - the bed wetters at WHO have also targeted the lowly hot dog as a carcinogen ...

Have you ever tried to mop up a pool of blood? It's not easy to do. Blood is thicker than water and towels just seem to smear it around on whatever surface you're trying to clean and it drips off a towel or mop onto everything. After a day it starts to smell and by day 2 it stinks - like death - so even a little bit of blood left in the corner of your garage will fill the space with the rank smell of decay. It's one of the great failings of cinema that there is no ophactory element to violent entertainment - the stench of a summer blockbuster would have the Comic-Con nerds fleeing from the multiplex and vomiting their nachos, goobers and slushies on the mall parking lot.  No one but a Jeffery Dahmer type would be able to stand the smell of a TV in their home and forget about video games - They'd all be burned in mass demonstrations. But We the People can't smell the carnage so let's just sit back and "enjoy" it. Blood Nougat These are the though...

T.I. is one of America's finest rappers. Recently he reached too far for a joke and paid the price for his 1st Amendment rights. In the interview with DJ Whoo Kid, T.I. had said, “Not to be sexist but, I can’t vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman. Just because every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. But, the president? It’s kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally — they make very permanent, cemented decisions — and then later, it’s kind of like it didn’t happen, or they didn’t mean for it to happen. And I sure would have to just set off a nuke.” He's sorry . It's OK T.I. - Hitlery knows what it's like to apologize. Not for herself mind you, but for the actions of others. I did a little mashup of T.I.'s 2012 song Big Picture and the former first lady's apology for America's freedom of speech guarantee and I think it really might work as a campaign spot this election season. Check it out....

Uproar is so easy to cause these days. For example:  Netanyahu causes uproar by linking Palestinians to Holocaust.  For the (capital H) historically minded this simple truth is beyond the pale hate speech and is, in fact, a form of Holocaust denial because it alleviates 100% blame for mass murder on one guy named Adolph. Moshe Zimmermann, a prominent Holocaust and anti-Semitism researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said Netanyahu made a "far-reaching argument" for political purposes that didn't hold water. He said the comments essentially made Netanyahu a Holocaust denier. "Any attempt to deflect the burden from Hitler to others is a form of Holocaust denial," he told The Associated Press. Al-Husseini was an enthusiastic Nazi supporter. But Zimmermann called him a "lightweight" who was pleading with Hitler for assistance in getting rid of the British Mandate and the Jewish immigrants coming to the Holy Land. He said there was no eviden...

Among other things , NASA observes the earth and grabbed this shot of the eastern US a few days ago showing the Autumn colors bursting forth as the last, sputtering gasps of summer peter out and the long cold nights begin. It's a beautiful time of year in this region of the world when trees burst into flames to rage against the dying of the light . Mid October is when the reality of the coming winter sets in - the first frost, collecting firewood, foggy morning mist rising off the pond, geese squawking on an afternoon flyover,  Hillary Clinton is set to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi  - There's a lonely, wistful beauty to all of it and a man must enjoy the spectacle before daylight saving time ends and the sunlight fades an hour earlier. Testimony

When I was 15 years old Star Wars was amazing - target audience early adolescent males: Bullseye! The sequel, "I am your father", OK - not great, but not bad. #3 with the little teddy bears was stupid to my 21 year old eyes. The next 3 films in the series were damn near unwatchable - Jar Jar Binks, the clones, the love story, the big name movie stars, the whole thing was preposterous. Now "the force" is about to "awaken" again this Christmas. The Force is indeed with us and has been with us since 1977. This "force" is empty, new age pabulum for a post Christian age of machine men living in a time beyond good and evil. Not everyone has it - some are chosen or gifted and this ability to access the force is passed down through blood. Not what you'd call democratic or egalitarian in its distribution. Onward Christian Soldiers The newest bad guy who's mastered the dark side of the force is Kylo Ren - he's the gentleman ...

Located atop the USA's lower 48, Michigan has always represented Americas erect penis - giving the high hard one to Canada and everyone else. The health of the nation can be gaged by tracking the University of Michigan Wolverines Football Program . When times are good Big Blue is lead into battle by the likes of Fielding Yost and Bo Schembechler but when times are bad they suffer under inferior coaching by fellows like Harry Kipke and Bump Elliott. Today I was prepared to (day dreaming actually) write a blog post declaring the birth of a new and glorious era for our beloved nation with a well earned Michigan victory over the MSU filthy Spartan squad who have usurped the throne for the past 7 years of national misery. Today was to be the day we ushered out the Rich Rodriguez/Brady Hoke mediocrity in favor of heart pounding steel will Harbaughness - but today is not that day . MSU had almost no chance of winning the game , but they won anyway. The Wolve...

Biden at the gates of Hell.

It's a very cold day in hell when this blog will defend Matt Damon, but today is such a day. The latest queer temper tantrum and fall-out that Matt is having with the gender Guardians is too much for me to bear. I know, I know - let him suffer. If anyone deserves this twisted gay hate retribution it's Matt Damon who's heterodox Hollywood leftist pabulum has dripped unfiltered from his puffy lips for almost 20 years. It's just that I don't play it that way, with very few exceptions, and I'm certainly not going to play it that way with this player. First off, before I say anything else, I have to give credit to the man for an unbelievable work ethic - acting in 70+ films/TV shows, producing 20 films, writing 4 scripts and literally hundreds of appearances on mindless talk shows and other promotional crap over the course of 20 years is impressive. Say what you will about his Commie ideology but this guy is living the American Dream, raking in green-backs and ...

Just in time for last nights Democrat "Debate" the NYTime's favorite Conservative diagnoses the reasons for the Republican parties incompetence . The cause of the GOP's problems, as everyone with a half-wit knows, is Rush Limbaugh. "Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic, hyperbolic and imbalanced." David Brooks just doesn't understand why the Republicans can't show more "intellectual humility" and promote "steady, incremental change" showing a "respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured and responsible." You know, like Bernie Sanders or Hilary Clinton. It's like this, traditional conservatives are supposed to run out on the tracks of history and yell stop - then get run over, but these Rush Limbaugh inspired rubes are actually trying to rip up the tracks or at t...

There is something wonderfully Berniesque about holding the first Democrat Party Presidential debate of the season at Steve Wynn's monument to himself (and "Capitalism") situated on the Las Vegas strip where the cheep rooms go for $599 per night ($671 if you include tax). What better location to promote Democratic Socialism and wealth redistribution than a casino built in Harry Reid's home town. Maybe the candidates can play a round of golf and warm up to each other before the debate - green fees are a measly $500 for 18 holes - that's a little more that $25 per hole after frustrating hole and caddying for a fivesome comprised of Hitlery, Bernie, My Favorite Martian, The Biggest Little Hobgoblin in the Union and the Cracker Jim Webb would be insane in the membrane. The only guy missing is Lunch Bucket Joe Biden ( empty lectern ), but he'll be joining the group soon, then Gore, then Kerry when  Plan B  takes effect - everyone's going to jump in after ...

Dr Stuart Armstrong, of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, has a warning: "Humans are very hard to learn moral behaviour from," he says. "They would make very bad role models for AIs." Ain't that da' truth. There are those who F'n Love Science and crap like this: Watch A Katana-Wielding Robot Battle A Human Samurai Sword Master | IFLScience Not me. I respect science and admire (in a limited way) the achievements of selected scientists, but science as popularly understood - that is to say, the scientific method, is cold, passionless, materialistic and, at the end of the day, inhuman. In other words, unlovable. Robots  mimics humans like the  Japanese bank teller  that speaks x number of languages. They make  Better pets  - no mess, no feeding, hell, you don't even need to take care of them - Even  on the moon Je suis Charlie . Thanks to robots we'll have  Better Sex  with less focus on gender (much less).  Rober...

I've always found Dilbert to be a kind of Sylvia for the info-tech crowd (smarter copy to be sure, though it would be absolutely impossible to write dumber copy than Nicole Hollander's) because there's only a very niche kind of audience that really gets it - and audience of moist robots. My first exposure to Sylvia was at UC Boulder in the early 80's where the comic strip was published in the towns "alternative" newspaper and I must admit a certain fascination with the strip. I was young, inexperienced (cloistered really) and simply couldn't believe that anyone, other than myself, was reading this comic strip and every time I read one I either felt nauseous or confused - it was like a comic hangover. I could not comprehend the reality that Sylvia actually had a loyal following, that the comic was published and that someone (Ms. Hollander) was paid real money to produce it.  One lazy Sunday I was flipping through the news pages with my housemates and voic...

Barry Diller is promising to leave the country if The Donald gets elected president. I feel sorry for the GOP field - every time the shimmer starts to fade for Trump some crazy, out of nowhere situation happens that sprinkles the front runner with Fairy Dust - in this case, Barry Dust.  “All he is is a huckster,” Diller said of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. “Somebody who learned long ago in real estate that if you can make a big name for yourself, it can get you an extra dollar.” In addition to questioning the GOP front-runner's motivation for running, Diller attacked Trump for appealing to the nation's worser angels. “He’s a self-promoting huckster who found a vein,” Diller continued. “A vein of meanness and nastiness.” Just a huckster? A self-promoting huckster? If that's all Donald Trump is Mr. Diller, then what are you? Why the hell does anyone even know who you are? You run TV networks and mega web sites serving up garbage to the American con...

Al Gore has warned us that "once in a thousand year events are occurring more frequently" and that holds true for weather as it does for everything else. Since I have a daughter living in Charleston, SC and many old friends in the Palmetto State I have been following the deluge that drowned the low country over the weekend with great interest. We were discussing the flooding over dinner tonight when grandmother said it reminded her of the Great Ohio River flood of 1937 . Oh yeah, 1 million people washed out of their homes and hundreds of millions of dollars (something like $10 Billion in todays money) in damages. She lived in a railroad car for a few months while they repaired her parents home in the Kentucky town where she lived. So I guess Al Gore is... right? Who the hell knows, floods happen with or without the internal combustion engine and a modern energy grid - if anything we handle them better today than we did yesterday. The Fear Of course, things could have b...

Frenchman plucks birds and roasts them good Pierre Garcon  showed what a Frenchman can do in the NFL today as the Washington Redskins beat the Philly Eagles in a magnificent come from behind victory and establish themselves as a contender in the NFC East. This wide out is one tough hombre with great hands and break away speed once he's carrying the ball. Winning against one of the I-95 rivals is always sweeter when victory comes in the last half minute after an ugly and mistake laden game with lots of penalties. A long bus ride home for Chip Kelly and the dirty birds back to City of Brotherly Love giving them time to think about the valiant heart beating in the breast of every Redskin.

Teacher Last week Bret Stephens filed his weekly report card and declared that America has  An Unteachable President , sighting Obama's entire list of foreign policy non-achievements as proof, and then did a little speculation on why the Prez is so... what's the word? Slow maybe? This, along with other similar criticism from policy wonks who don't like the way the Middle East, Europe and Asia are collapsing in front of their eyes spurred our contemporary Marcus Aurelius to explain the assignment, once again, to his star pupils (the press). “Our approach as the United States is not to see these as some Cold War chessboard in which we’re in competition with Russia,” Obama said. “Our goal is to make sure that the people of Ukraine are able to make decisions for themselves about their future, that the people of Syria are able to make decisions without having bombs going off and killing women and children … because a despot wants to cling to power.” He's not willi...

Our Leadership Our global team of over 100 people is led by an elite group of distinguished former news executives, White House and Downing Street advisors, entertainment industry executives, and experts in international affairs. It's amazing to me that "the Great Game" of geopolitical strategy has come down to  A Rose in the Desert and the Vogue puff piece commissioned by the PR firm BLJ Worldwide . Once this glowing exposé on Syria's ruling family went public (i.e. on the internet) in March of 2011 the people of that beleaguered nation quite understandably went berserk and everything that's followed springs from the sloppy code Asma Assad installed on Syria's hard drive. BSOD The author of the article in question, Joan Juliet Buck, who must have worked closely with BLJ to craft "the message" did her best to walk it all back once the peasants started getting killed but the applications had already seized up (not responding) - you can...