May 2013
5 posts
What he said and why it matters
Today I had a heated conversation with a friend who claimed that there is nothing to the investigation into what happened in Benghazi. My friend claimed (1) Obama had called the attack terrorism in a speech the day after it happened and (2) no one really knew what had happened and who had done it, so it would have been premature to have called it terrorism.
Ok, it’s obvious that (1) and...
Don't be a bunch of pussies, SF.
I just saw @jenkirkman respond to someone who was thinking about going to her show at the @punchlinesf. The person, who seems to be one of many similar people in the Bay Area, said that he/she would go to Jen’s show but he/she doesn’t have anyone else to go with.
Listen up: If there is one venue in entertainment that is perfect for people flying solo, it’s the Punch Line in SF.
I went to Jen’s...
WatchI met a friend’s husband today and he stuck his nose in my truck to try to scare me.
April 2013
4 posts
A question for those who want more gun laws
So I hear a lot of whining from anti-gun zealots about the recent failed attempt in the US Senate to enact new anti-gun laws.
It made me wonder what exactly these folks want. Let’s say that the following law was enacted…would it be enough?
It will be unlawful for certain categories of persons to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms and no firearms dealers will be allowed to...
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I have to disagree, @Jenkirkman
Earlier today @jenkirkman took President Obama to task for making a comment about California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ looks. Not long after tweeting her disapproval of the comment, Jen retracted her comment, saying that since Obama and Harris are friends it’s different.
Jen, I respectfully disagree (and since I’d vote for you as President in a second, the respect is...
March 2013
2 posts
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You missed the point, @adgeller
An Associated Press writer published a story today that was so off the mark I had to pen a response.
The story is titled “Hitler joins gun debate, but history is in dispute”. In a nutshell, the author, Adam Geller, tries to refute the idea that the Nazis used gun control to further their genocidal, totalitarian ways and thus the invocation of Hitler’s policies is misguided in...
February 2013
1 post
Fuck technology
I was reminded today of why I am something of a Luddite at heart. Not too many years ago, before everything could be found via Google, I used to have a lot of fun making a mockery of newspapers.
One of my favorite things to do was write letters to the editors of very liberal papers, like my hometown San Francisco Chronicle. No bragging intended, but I’m a very good writer and can put...
January 2013
6 posts
Dear @toddglass and @pftompkins - @jenkirkman is...
Ok, I’m pretty sure she’s not a member of the NRA and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even own a gun, but you’ll get my point if you continue reading.
On his most recent podcast, Todd Glass made a random thought/observation that the NRA, and the people who are members of it (and who support gun rights generally) are people who “are tired of all change…from...
Prepare to be surprised...
I’m going to do this in real time, so you get to see my initial reaction to President Obama’s attack on the 2nd Amendment. What I’ll do is jot down, in bold text prefaced by “SK”, my reaction to each of the 23 points.
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary EMBARGOED UNTIL THE START OF THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS January 16, 2013 Gun Violence Reduction...
Setting precedent
Let me preface this post with a very clear pronouncement: I am not in favor of restricting abortions, especially if the restrictions are based on a religious idea of morality.
Pop quiz: Am I about to advocate for government control of reproductive issues? If you answered anything other than “NO”, please re-read the introduction. If you answered “NO”, continue reading.
...
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December 2012
4 posts
A political pretext in action.
Around 2001 liberals cared about nothing more than preventing the government from overreacting and abridging anyone’s rights due to the rogue acts of a few.
Around 2012, liberals care about nothing more than using the rogue acts of a few as a pretext to press forward with one of their longstanding goals, the denial of a fundamental right, one enshrined in the Bill of Rights no less.
Of...
WatchAsking 10 year old the important questions: if Jews had ray guns during ww2 would they have beat the Germans?
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November 2012
7 posts
Dear GOP: Stop being turkeys.
As I mentioned in a prior post I changed my party affiliation from Republican to Libertarian after the most recent election.
This morning I was listening to talk radio on the way to work and there was discussion of a recent interview that GQ Magazine did with putative 2016 GOP frontrunner Marco Rubio. Rubio was being attacked by the left wing media for responding to a question about the age of...
The death panels, they are coming.
A month ago I wrote about my dad’s health problems and how it exposed the ugly truth about Medicare to me. If you didn’t read it, READ IT before you go on with this post.
Read it? Good.
So now you lnow that my dad was probably a few days away from being dead back in September and Medicare denied him the only thing that the doctor thought might save him.
And you know that even though...
Goodbye, GOP (hat tip to @jenkirkman)
Like I said in a previous post, I’m not happy with the results of the latest election. Read the previous post if you want specifics.
Something @jenkirkman, who I write about a lot, tweeted today spurred me to do the following. She apparently was taking shit from people over the election and specifically, for her comments about Republicans.
I just re-registered to vote. I changed my party...
WatchThis is why it is so important to support dog rescues.
This is the real Kyle behind my Twitter/Tumblr names. He had a pretty shitty life for the most part, going from one shelter to another in Los Angeles (the last few were in south central LA, not a very good place for a hunting dog) over the course of four years. He was actually 24 hours from being killed in the last shelter when he was rescued...
Don't hate me because I'm a conservative
@jenkirkman recently tweeted a link to a story describing racist reactions to the election. As commentary to the linked story, Jen said the following:
Let’s just become two countries already - we can rename the other one “Hell” and let all these people go to it
Let me preface all of what I’m about to say with an acknowledgement that twitter is about short messages, and...
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October 2012
5 posts
LA, you suck!
I just saw @jenkirkman tweet about a show she has coming up. In fact, here’s the info on it: https://nerdmeltla.com/tickets2/index.php?event_id=231/
November 1 she’s doing a show working on new material.
As a native San Franciscan, I grew up hating southern Cal in general and LA in particular. Much of it was based on sports rivalries but, at least up here in NorCal, we were raised to...
Hail @jenkirkman
Yesterday I misunderstood something said by @lloyddobler89, the genius behind LloydDobler89 and www.fuckyeahjenkirkman.tumblr.com. It was a joke that Mr. Dobler made about my self described physical appearance that I claimed was offensive, when it was, apparently, a joke. Ok, so I was joking and so was he, but for purposes of this post, let’s go along with the idea that I took offense at...
Obamacare, it's worse than I thought.
My dad is sick. We don’t know exactly what is going on, but earlier this year my parents were in Israel visiting family and when they were in Eilat my dad started to feel ill.
He didn’t go to the doctor until he got back to the US and they didn’t really know what had caused him to feel ill, but he has congestive heart failure and they figured that the stress of the trip had...
Watch“Murder is not delicious”
Comedy genius.
jenkirkman:
Morrissey on not reuniting with the Smiths, “Not everybody is a fat, old, slag….”
And his comedic stare into camera at moment 2:13 is great.
For those who don’t know - Moz is a HUGE Colbert fan and has been in the business long enough that he would not allow himself to be chided unless he was in on it. He’s playing his part....
September 2012
6 posts
WatchIf you’ve never seen @jakefogelnest ‘s tweencast, this is why you should watch. Markinem, Gay Black Vincent Price admitting to masturbating to a 13 year old Jake, Jake rapping and a token reference to yours truly by Jake and GBVP.
Goodbye, Hypocrisy.
Following up on my last post, I have nothing more to say about the hypocritical cowardice of left leaning entertainers. You’ve lost my support, financial and promotional.
What am I to do, @scharpling?
I have a quandary and I think I know what I should do, even though it’s something I don’t want to do.
I’m a political person by nature and by nurture. When I was a little kid, I sat and watched the Watergate hearings with my (maternal) grandfather and father.
I’m a first generation American, my parents came to the US from eastern Europe, my father’s family before...
WatchSince the Obama administration is now in the business of suppressing speech that it deems to be insulting to muslims, I had no choice but to break out my impressive filmmaking talents to produce this homage to the Prophet Mohammed.
This short film is titled “The Innocence of Muslims II: Electric Boogaloo” or “sole of the sandal and spade of the dog shit upon the Prophet’s...
On heroes, appreciation and 9/11
A few minutes ago I went, as I always do, to the Tom Burnett Jr. memorial sign to place a yellow ribbon in his memory.
This is what the sign looked like after I had placed my ribbon on it.
Today, unlike in past years, I found that other people are also now leaving memorials for this greatest of American heroes. I’m glad that others are not forgetting the immense bravery and sacrifice...
Reasonable, common sense regulation of abortion...
I hear that the Democrat’s convention starts this week and one of their platform points is “reasonable regulation” of firearms.
I have a challenge for the Democrats and those who support their platform.
Any time you see or hear “firearms” in a Democrat document or speech, replace that word with “abortion” or “gay marriage”.***
For example,...
August 2012
5 posts
I follow no rules but my own
The phrase that is the title of this post was uttered by my old college dormmate on Twitter (ok, that’s a lie, she wasn’t my dormmate, but it sounds better that way).
It brought back memories, from circa 1997, when I was a fresh faced young lawyer at my first firm in Midtown Manhattan.
It was around Christmastime and I had only been practicing for about a year when a much more...
Rights
The unfortunate thing about my gym (Crunch Blackhawk) is that someone likes to turn the tvs to MSNBC (or as Rush calls it, PMSNBC, or as Mark Levin calls it, MSLSD). Blackhawk is a fairly conservative enclave in the overwhelmingly left wing Bay Area and folks prefer to watch CNBC or ESPN or even Fox when they work out, so inevitably the channels get changed.
When I was working out this morning it...
This is why gun control doesn't work.
Last night I had to break a law to potentially save my own life.
Though my wife and I now live in a very nice gated community in the rural burbs way outside of San Francisco, we used to live 20 miles west of here, in a little town called Oakland.
You may know Oakland from a number of things, whether it’s the site of the violent Occupy conflicts or the home of one of the highest murder...
The Earth hates you
I have to share a conversation from earlier today, as it is a perfect synopsis of my views on the environment and those who make the environment a prominent social and political issue.
The best way to share the conversation is to recreate it, to the best of my (fading) memory. The conversation took place at what some would call a green industry supply warehouse. It’s a place, sort of like...
Gay marriage is at the bottom of the list of fast...
I’ve said it before, but to recap, I’m conservative but my philosophy is “leave me alone, I’ll leave you alone, and keep the government out of all of our private affairs unless we’re doing harm to someone else.”
Not only do I not care whether a person is gay or not, I am in favor of more people being homosexual, so long as it means they won’t have kids....
July 2012
7 posts
He didn't build it, but he certainly is trying to...
On July 13 at a campaign stop in Roanoke, Virginia, President Obama made a speech that has become quite controversial in political circles.
In this speech, Mr. Obama made the following statement:
“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
If you think that I’m misquoting Mr. Obama, please note that the words quoted are a link....
Wherein the pot, @IJasonAlexander, calls a paper...
I don’t know much about Jason Alexander (the one who played George Costanza, not the one who played Mr. Brittney Spears for a few minutes). He seems like a good actor and before today I didn’t have anything to say about him one way or another, other than he seems to get typecast quite a bit (I may be the only guy who liked Shallow Hal, where Mr. Alexander was once again playing a sad...
How to understand the middle east conflicts
Background for those who don’t know me: Jewish, first generation American, mother of mixed sephardic and ashkenasi backgrounds, father ashkenasi. I’m a typical Jew…not a typical American Jew, but a typical Jew that you’d find in the middle east.
Ok, so here’s the story.
When I was a kid growing up in San Francisco I was a HUGE baseball fan. And my team was the...
Let's ban everything!
Yesterday, a mentally ill person went on a rampage and killed at least a dozen people in Colorado. Within minutes, the knee jerk calls for a ban on guns followed.
I could try to educate those of you who want to ban guns, or “assault rifles”, but you wouldn’t listen any more than you’ve listened to these factual arguments in the past. You’re going to believe what you...
Is this what you mean by fair, comrade Obama? ...
As we get closer to the 2012 election we hear more from the left (and the White House) about the need for “fair” taxation.
Liberals, prepare for your heads to spin and explode as I destroy your talking points with facts, numbers and logic.
I’ll cut to the chase here. Let’s look at effective tax rates (i.e., the overall rate that is actually paid by a taxpayer, as opposed...
