Monday, March 17, 2014

(Ed: Deer Friends, I have jury duty in Key West Monday, St Patrick’s day, blimey. There will be a disruption of service concerning the Coconut Telegraph until I figure out what’s going on. I have to be downtown at 8:30 am so today’s CT will be an abbreviated one. Think of this disruption as spring break.)

No one knows how to party like a Key West local.

Crimea seceding is like New York seceding to join Canada. Astonishing!

[Bacon] My gawd, this is brilliant! How did I miss something so obvious and tasty. 

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”  ~Carl Sagan

Part 1) Here’s a better idea than having an outdoor pistol range in a residential neighborhood. Click on the link and find out how good you are at shooting a virtual Russian pistol.

The virtual pistol is a Soviet Tokarev Model 40, in caliber 7.62 mm. You’ll have to do some thinking and experimentation with the program because all the text is in Russian, but no worries, you can handle it. After you open the program, to start the shooting, simply click on the circle that’s on the trigger guard. The longer you delay “firing”, the more wobbly the gun will become. You’ll have 30 seconds to fire 3 rounds. Have fun….thanks Skipper. Http://deti.mil.by/templates/swf/Pistol/index.swf.

Part 2) Certainly we can all agree that our nation is now a mess. We see the massive, record, numbers of Americans that are one form of welfare or another. We see that Democare will in all probability stall crash and burn taking with-it billions of tax dollars. We see our status as a world leader slipping away. We see 7 out of 10 babies born to American African mothers are born out of wedlock. We see massive unemployment, especially amongst Blacks. We see the poor getting poorer and rich getting richer. The growth of our economy is stalled, we are experiencing the slowest recovery from a recession, ever. We are in a Democrat caused mess of Gordian complexity.

Yet with all of that swirling around, Facebook’s influential Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg launched a new campaign, known as ‘Ban Bossy,’ which would – as you can imagine – encourage people to ban the word “bossy.” It may look like just another silly crusade for feel-good airhead liberals, but it is not.

Is there some kind of epidemic of the use of that word being used that keeps females from achieving? Ms. Sandberg’s crusade has actually cited surveys, but the surveys her  campaign has cited are decades old, and a more recent survey by the Girl Scouts of America found that girls are more likely than boys to see themselves as a leader or have the desire to be a leader.

Sandberg is a leading liberal. She is an achiever. She is a close friend of Hillary Clinton.  Sandberg worked as former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’ chief of staff under President Bill Clinton during his second term and maxed out in personal campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton in 2007 and 2008. She also donates almost exclusively to female Democratic candidates. She has thousands of employees. She is bossy, but her actions if she were a male would also be labeled as being bossy. Hells Bells, Obama is bossy.

Why on earth would anyone with such an impressive portfolio start a war against an innocuous word such as “bossy?”

There are several reasons. First. Remember when HC was embroiled in the ’08 presidential primary? One of the criticisms tossed at her was that she was “bossy”. Then there is the fact that she is considered to be overbearing. Let’s face it, Hillary Clinton is a bossy human, bossy knows no gender. Nor is being bossy a negative attribute. Then there is the fact that the Democrats have been flooding us with nonsensical propaganda that Republicans are engaged in a war against women.

The war against the word “bossy” is yet another weapon in the liberal arsenal to wield against whoever the Republican presidential candidate may be.

I urge you to relish the word bossy. Our Deer Ed is bossy, he decides the content of this site. Harry Reid is bossy, he controls what legislation will come before the Senate. Your Doctor is bossy, he/she tells you what meds to take and how to care for yourself. Your mom and dad were bossy when you were a kid. Every teacher you had was bossy. The Dean at your school was bossy with a capital B.  What is there about that word that frightens or offends Hillary and her minions?