ROGER SIMON: Election Time in the Banana Republic of Florida.
What could go wrong?
Archive for 2018
November 11, 2018
SADLY, YOU DON’T HAVE TO:
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Racist note at Kansas State University turns out to be a hoax. If it weren’t for fake racism, how much racism would there be?
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE XBOX: “In my mind, I was trying to get rid of those rounds before one ended up in my head.” A deeply suboptimal approach, but I’m glad no one was hurt.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, TAKING-SIDES EDITION: UMN French class devolves into liberal GOTV effort.
ONCE AGAIN, THE PUBLIC POLLS DIFFERENTLY THAN THE POLITICAL CLASS: 6-in-10 say Trump can suspend press pass of Acosta, others. “A solid majority of Americans believe that President Trump can suspend White House press credentials of reporters like CNN’s Jim Acosta, who lost his this week after a verbal tussle with the president. The latest YouGov poll found that 59 percent said the president and White House are in charge of the press passes.”
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WATERBORNE AIRBORNE: Paratroopers from the 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, row Zodiac boats across Fort Bragg’s McKellar’s Pond commemorating the 74th anniversary of the WWII Waal River Crossing during Operation Market Garden.
IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY. But man, this was a lay-up.
FINAL OFFENSIVE ON THE SALONICA FRONT: A short documentary by France24/AFP on the September 1918 Allied breakthrough in the Balkans that led to the defeat of Bulgaria. The report has all the basics.
[INSERT OBVIOUS PUNS HERE]: A Real Pick-Me-Up: Viagra Could Become The Next Cancer Drug.
IT’S AS IF WINNING IS THEIR ONLY ACTUAL “PRINCIPLE:” Liberals Angry at White Women for Re-Electing Ted Cruz, a Hispanic.
WHEN YOU LAUGH, BECAUSE IF YOU START CRYING YOU’LL NEVER STOP: Parkland school shooter registered to vote while in jail, outraging victim’s father.
THE REASON THIS IS NOT WIDELY KNOWN IS THAT BY THE TIME THE WALL FELL, OUR UNIVERSITIES WERE FULL OF DEVOUT COMMUNISTS WHO COULDN’T ADMIT THEY’D DEVOTED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES TO ONE OF THE MOST EVIL IDEOLOGIES TO EVER MAR HISTORY. SINCE THEN THEY’VE BEEN TRYING TO DECEIVE OTHER PEOPLE TO MAKE THEMSELVES FEEL BETTER: Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins.
Red of Black Fascists, Heinlein called them.
AGAIN, ALL YOU HAVE TO ASK IS: WHEN HAS A LATE-FOUND TROVE OF VOTES GIVEN THE VICTORY TO A REPUBLICAN? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THEN THIS IS ALL HAPPENSTANCE AND CARELESSNESS? Arizona GOP Accuses Dem Recorder of Destroying Evidence.
Memo to the dems: You’re playing with fire in a powder arsenal. None of us will enjoy the explosion. And you might find, to your shock, you’ve destroyed the only country on Earth who would tolerate your shenanigans.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A LATE-FOUND VOTE-HOARD THAT GIVES VICTORY TO REPUBLICANS? WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CHANCES ARE? LOOK OUT THE WINDOW, EITHER PIGS ARE FLYING OR IT’S FRAUD. What’s Happening In Florida and Arizona.
How long will we tolerate this?
THOSE DANG WHITE PEOPLE AND THEIR ABILITY TO COUNT AND… HAVE PROCESSES? Florida Election Official Implies Asking about Vote Counting Process Is Racist.
SURE, BUT IN ANOTHER TERM OR TWO SHE’LL BE A BILLIONAIRE: Ocasio-Cortez Butt-Hurt Because of “I Can’t Afford D.C. Rent” Sob Story. (And I really hate the way people keep misspelling Occasional Cortex. Get with the program people. Words exist for a reason. Pointing and laughing at “democratic socialists” is as good a reason as any!)
THE SOUND OF A WAR ENDING: Birdsong of Peace.
November 10, 2018
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.