Jack Klugman as Jessie Cardiff in The Twilight Zone: A Game of Pool 1961
Jessie Cardiff:There it is- the game ball. All my life i’ve been waiting for this, it’s it’s a pocket hanger.
The Twilight Zone: A Game of Pool 1961
Back in the days when I was first going to CPAC I found myself in line to get into an event with Michelle Malkin (who graciously filmed a “hello” video for my brother). In the line behind me was a gentleman who claimed to have had an affair with President Obama. He was quite emphatic & gave interesting details but with only a single source & no corroboration it wasn’t a priority to me.
This was before his re-election and his “change of heart” on gay marriage.
It was about that time or maybe a few years later that I first heard the “Michelle Obama is a man” rumors. I dismissed them out of hand thinking that I’m not a fan of going after a first lady & anyways it would be so easy to disprove that it was to be ignored. It was for the same reason that I dismissed the same lines about the French president’s wife, which is now the subject of a lawsuit.
As you might know this weekend at the fight at the White House, one of the fighters, after his victory bluntly and loudly said that Michelle Obama is a guy.
I found this fascinating for a couple of reasons.
It was done at the most public forum avaialble
There seems to be no movement or effort by anyone to make the guy retract the statement
There is every possible incentive for the Democrats to urge the Obamas to sue because
There is now a very long precedent of defamation suits by leaders, Trump has made an art form out of it.
The Obama library is in debt already & a settlement would help in that reguard
That this happened at a Trump event should make Democrats chomping at the bit to sue.
When the current first lady was defamed by the press her threat of a lawsuit brought a quick retraction.
Such a suit would mean that every republican running for office could be asked “do you believe it?”
It gets der Oysterfurher in Maine off the front page.
It would be the most easy thing in the world to prove as false
That last one is a kicker, a photo of a pregnant Michelle Obama, a hospital picture with the newborn kids, easiest thing in the world to produce, cripes even a DNA sample taken today could do it.
Yet not only has it not produced a suit or even a threat of a suit but it’s already off the front pages assuming it ever made it on the front pages.
Moreover on X one of the biggest Gadfly’s to the left has publicly said this:
The left can hyperventilate about this tweet all they want, but they’ll never ever produce any proof. https://t.co/ipX33rELDV
Now this was posted to X where the fellow has 4 MILLION followers. Even if you weren’t interested in suing the fighter you could bankrupt & destroy this fellow who has been one of the strongest voices on the right for quite a bit. It would be a one foot putt or as Jack Klugman’s character Jessie Cardiff in the Twilight Zone episode a game of pool put it: “A pocket hanger”! It’s a shot you can’t miss. One tiny DNA sample & it’s game over!
I ask myself a simple question: “Why would the Democrats not go all in on this, particularly when the latest polls show their generic lead in the midterms dropping?”
There is a logical answer to this question. That logical answer isn’t evidence but it does make one think.
If anyone from the left has a more logical answer I’m ready to hear it.
Closing thought: Even if the party or the Obamas aren’t interested in doing so, there are a ton of leftists on X and/or Bluesky who would absolutely LOVE to take down Catturd & claim his scalp. It will be interesting to see if anyone on X files a complaint against him or talks about doing so publicly.
It would be more interesting if such a person was approached by the Democrat party & told not to.
I spent some time watching World Cup Highlights yesterday and those highlights demonstrated why the sport is not worth my time.
The highlight reels ran 15-20 min with several replays in them so maybe 10-12 minutes of play. That from a match that runs 90-100 minutes. That’s 80 minutes of dead time where there is no much happening but a guy kicking a ball back to another while they look for a chance to make something happen,
Contrast this with Baseball which while not having a clock has the potential for a run to be scored & a highly happening on every single pitch.
Give me the pine tar & the leather any day.
The worst part of being out of work is the waiting.
Last time around in 2008 I couldn’t buy a job interview. This time I’ve had quite a few. I’m waiting on three companies right now 2 of which had told me I’d be hearing back from them up or down before this point.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy that I’m getting interviews it’s the waiting that throws me for a loop.
It’s not easy at 63 to be competing for positions with people 20+ years younger than you.
Let me remind you of several somethings concerning Elon Musk’s soon to be Trillion dollar net worth.
Musk employs tens of thousands of people
Musk is actively using his wealth for some rather incredible things
There are plenty of people who have never built anything who will critique his wealth for profit. power & clicks.
There are plenty more who only started hating on him once he became a threat to the power of the left or to virtue signal to said left that they’re one of him.
As the old saying goes, he will still be able to only eat one meal at a time & sleep in one bed at a time & will like all of us eventually die.
The only think that really counts in the long run is his relationship with God, I’d worry more about that but I’m too busy worrying about my relationship with God.
But the real thing about Musk’s wealth is this: It’s nothing to do with me and not my concern. He has what he has and does what he does and what he so does is his own business, not mine. I have no more right or claim on what he has than the guy down the street has to mine.
Over the past two weeks gasoline has dropped .29 cents from it’s high in my area. About 9%.
While that’s nice it’s still up 57% from the low it had hit before the Iran War.
This causes me pain but it’s still worth it if Iran is emasculated. What the people who are complaining about the lack of a deal or Trump not getting said deal or bombing them on any given day either don’t understand or ignore is that every day that passes Iran grows weaker and we grow stronger.
As the tankers continue to come to the US & we keep getting tankers in the straits out Iran’s leverage continues to drop. Yeah if we were willing to commit 100,000 troops we could likely bring them down and take the country & the oil but at the cost of 1000’s of US lives that while justifiable in the long run to destroy once & for all the leading terror sponsor in the world, is a price our current society is unwilling to pay & unnecessary if Iran can be emasculated without doing so.
The price will keep trickling down slowly as the alternate supplies continue to open up. I suspect if things aren’t concluded right away it will take till the end of August to see gas at $2.99 again. By that time Iran will be capping wells and their ability to finance jihad outside will be practically finished, which frankly they are almost at now anyways.
That’s a lot less sexy than seeing the Mullahs fall just like winning the cold war over 50 years was a lot less sexy than Patton leading his army against the Soviets in 1945 would have been, but I’ll take less sexy with thousands of less casualties every day of the week.
Finally word is out that the Doctor Who Christmas special is nixed & the BBC is pretty much taking bids to see who wants a shot at running the franchise that they’ve driven into the ground once again.
Like the anti-thatcher stuff that killed it in 1989 the work stuff has made Doctor Who so Toxic that actors have no interest in the iconic role & fans don’t care.
In my opinion the solution is obvious, I’d give it to Big Finish which has been producing original Doctor Who stories for more than a quarter of a century & doing so without needing a government imposed fee to pay the way.
While they have their share of woke they are experts at making stories that people are willing to pay actual money to hear, and while they don’t have experience in TV that doesn’t matter as the special effects and or cinematography are not the problem here. it’s the stories and as Big Finish says: Big Finish, We Love Stories!
Let Big Finish supply the scripts and Doctor Who can thrive again, or let the TV show die and let Big Finish run the Time Lord as strictly audio. Remember it was six years of Big Finish stories starting a decade after the final show that caused it to return. And even if it dies here, remember the first episode was broadcast in 1963 when I was six months old.
Paul Crewe: Hey Pop, the time you hit Hazen in the mouth, was it worth 30 years?
Pop: Yeah: For me it was.
The Longest Yard 1974
Last week I filled up my gastank at $4.009 a gallon.
The $4 barrier was a big shock as gas had plummeted during the 2nd Trump term to a point where I had paid $2.56 just before the start of the war with Iran. That had saved me a lot of money and it showed.
I had hoped that things would be over before a final oil delivery but it was not and my oil delivery cost considerably more than I had budgeted, fortunately my prepay had still covered it so the impact wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
With my job about to end this week after 10 years these additional costs are a real strain on the family budget and I imagine that for people who are less careful with their money, which I imagine is most people, the gas increase is a matter of real pain.
Gas is now $4.27 everywhere as we start getting fuel that was traded on markets at the top of the spikes.
It’s a real concern not just financially but politically because the cost of gas increases the cost of everything else and the Democrats who didn’t say boo when gas prices were like this during the Biden years are making hay of it all.
Every incentive both personal for me and political for conservatives in election 2026 screams for things in Iran to end yesterday.
But when it comes down to it, none of that matters, because this is a defining moment for the country and the world.
For 47 years the Islamists in Iran have been the number one source of murder and terror in the world and have exported this terror to almost every corner of the planet. Thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of others have lost their lives become of their direct actions over this time. They have been the delivery system for all our enemies who want us dead. For 47 years they have chanted “Death to America” and I’ve never for one moment thought they didn’t mean it.
America had opportunities to stop this. Reagan, could have gone in regardless of the Hostage release but was dealing with the cold War. Bush one didn’t want to upset Arab allies as he dealt with Iraq. Clinton was more interested in not getting booted, Bush two who actually had Iran surrounded on three sides never pulled the trigger and Barack Obama, It’s my opinion that he’s been on Iran’s side from the very beginning of his presidency and into his 3rd term running the autopen man.
The single greatest thing Donald Trump can do for the United States and for the World is removing the Islamic Republic from the face of the earth.
It will save countless lives, free the people of Iran from the terror they’ve lived under.
It will destroy terror networks and connections that will take our foes years to rebuild.
It will change the face of the middle east permanently giving an incentive for Israel’s neighbors to make peace
It will deprive both Russia & China of a proxy used to attack us and intimidate others
And it will deprive Islamists of a nuclear device (at least until England and France fall)
All of these gains are stacked against a tighter belt for me and mine.
There is no contest.
I hate where Gas prices are, but if they reach $5 and Iran falls this year, it’s worth it.
If the economy slows because of the increase in gas prices, but Iran falls this year, it’s worth it.
And if the Democrat left, which I suspect is doing all it can to encourage Iran to hold out actually wins both houses of congress because of this war, but Iran falls IT’S STILL WORTH IT!
All of those things me a harder life for me in the short term, but a better life for my sons and myself and the entire world in the long term.
About 85 years ago my father found himself in the Pacific fighting a war for the world’s survival while at home my ancestors on both my mother and fathers side did without in order to support that effort until it was won. Because of their sacrifices I lived in a safer world in freedom.
You and I are being asked to do the same but on a much smaller scale and with a lot less pain.
Let’s be worthy of those who came before us.
Mr. President, fight this war to win. I know the world will not thank you for it, in fact they will publicly curse you for it and teach others to do so. A generation of idiots (outside of Iran itself) who already hate you will hate you more. The Europeans whose oil supply you will scorn you and don’t even think of the Nobel Prize that you had earned for your actions of the past year.
They will attack you for the rest of your life and dance upon your grave with you go to face your maker. They will live to do it in freedom and security.
But even as they do all of these things, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that the freedom, security & even the lives that they spend mocking you, will have been a gift you have freely given them asking nothing in return.
I was in a middle of a full screen game when DaWife told me about the attempt to kill Trump and when I checked my feed on the subject the first things I saw was the left either
Claiming Trump had faked this
Objecting to the right being blaming them for trying to kill him a 3rd time
I’m sorry but if you want people to not think these things perhaps go lighter on the whole “Trump is Hitler” thing, but in fairness given what we’re seeing these days in Maine if Trump WAS Hitler the left would likely support him.
Speaking of what we’ve been seeing
Friend at WHCD sent me a photo as she walked out of demonstrators waving signs that say “Death to tyrants” and “Death to all of them,” just in case you’re wondering if an actual attempted shooting would make them feel any shame. pic.twitter.com/cTMYjzL3Zb
Here is the right response from someone who doesn’t like Trump
Trump does a lot of things I hate.
But you know what he doesn't do?
Promote political violence against his enemies.
The same can't be said about the worst wackadoodles on the Far extremes right now.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) April 26, 2026
The summit of this nonsense was this:
Do you mean to say that if you spend weeks and months publicly justifying political murder it makes you a suspect when someone attempts a political murder on someone you hate?
Grok’s Pointed gun standard which doesn’t count Palm Springs not withstanding this puts Trump two behind Lincoln for 2nd place on the attempted assassinations all time for Presidents.
It would be nice if he doesn’t get a chance to break the record but given the left being the left and that we’re not even half way into this 2nd term I think he might do so
Of course in fairness the idea that at an event full of people who would privately cheer him being killed someone would try to do so isn’t all that odd. BTW can you imagine if the assassin succeeded yesterday how difficult it would have been for the assembled press to feign public outrage with all those camera running?
It was interesting enough to see the general silence since the attempt took place with them there and nobody had a chance to establish the left’s desired narrative nor feed it to those in attendance.
We don’t know much about the teacher of the month who has been arrested except that:
He’s fast
He shot a Secret Service agent who fortunately had body armor
He managed not to be shot and killed, how I haven’t figured out
If this guy was “Teacher of the Month” it’s more proof you need your kids out of public school
Given the use of AI these days I’m going to be a bit more careful about what gets spread today about him as the technology to manufacture a narrative has exploded but I must say I think this take is pretty good:
So let's unpack a few things right up front…
1) He left California and was in DC at the hotel where the WHCD was veing held. 2) Imagine the intent he had to have in order to travel that distance all the while thinking about what he was going to do. 3) He either moved several… pic.twitter.com/y7xnTlicfA
.Already we are seeing people trying to say he’s Mossad or that it’s all about an excuse to start shooting in Iran again (he doesn’t need an excuse btw Actually it would be more legit if he was an Iranian agent instead of just the avg loony lefty, after all we’re fighting a war against them and in war the other side gets to shoot back.), but we can expect everything from gay fanboy of Tucker Carlson trying to impress him to fanatical Catholic upset at the clash with the Pope.
No matter how wacked some narratives are there are fools online who will buy them if it fits their worldview.
“I’m starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi [Mangione], who shot a CEO to death and somehow became a hero. So, they said tonight you saw the worst of America. You saw the best of America. Tonight, you definitely saw the best of America. I hope on Monday we don’t see the worst again.
The chances of this not happening are so zero.
Finally Trump’s press conference was both informative and gracious you can watch it here:
This was likely the best dressed news conference in the history of Presidential press conferences.
Could you imagine giving such a press conference less than an hour after someone tried to kill you? This guy has ice in his veins.
The security for the new event in 30 days should be interesting.
I’ll close with a quote from Stonewall Jackson:
He who does not see the hand of God in this is blind, sir. Blind!
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