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THE AMAZING MUSICAL MONKEY

Dennis Turner March 24, 2006

1,000 files. 4.5 gigabytes. All in a month.

Numbers like these almost put me in the elite of digital music aficionados. I spent much of a month using one of my favorite programs, Stationripper, reviewed by me last July.

In its free version, Stationripper lets you record 2 Shoutcast MP3 streams at a time. Stationripper is useful because it saves songs downloaded as individual files with their proper names.

It's a great way to build a large music collection in just a few days - and it's all completely legal, as I mentioned recently. Getting music is no longer a problem, and playing it is easy, too.

The only problem is trying to get a handle on my collection. Until recently, all my files were in a few folders; it would have been nice to set up playlists by artists, genres, even albums.

But who has time to figure out what songs go with which albums? And who has time to set up playlists according to mood mixes, artists, music types or whatever?

The Monkey has the time - as well as the ability!

THE IDIOCY OF ABASEMENT TO THE UMBRAGE POLICE

James Delingpole February 4, 2015

The celebrity actor Benedict Cumberbatch has said he is "a complete fool," an "idiot," "thoughtless" and that he is "devastated" for having inadvertently used the term "colored" to describe black people on a US talk show.

It's depressing enough that he felt the obligation to apologize. But what's worse is that he felt the need to do with such groveling self-abasement.

Yes, we all know why he did it. It's Oscar nomination season coming up, Cumberbatch is a possible contender for his portrayal of fashionably autistic, gay code-breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, and Hollywood is notoriously PC and squeamish about issues to do with race.

But if anyone who owes anyone an apology, here, it's not poor put-upon Cumberbatch but the noisome professional offense-takers who by seeking to make political mileage out of such achingly trivial issues are creating a climate of linguistic fear in which good people suffer.

This, though, unfortunately, is how the liberal-left rolls. For as my friend Alex Wickham tells me, "Liberals are the new Puritans who want to control your life." We need an End to the New Puritanism movement.

HALF-FULL REPORT 10/24/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 24, 2014

Ten days to go until Election Eve. Is it time to play this?

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Yes, there's still time for things to go sideways, and many races are close enough for the Dems to cheat their way to victory - especially in Colorado. But every time I start to worry about Dem voter fraud this year, I think of Joe Biden.

Remember his incredibly obnoxious performance debating Paul Ryan in 2012? It was the single VP candidate debate on national television, with Ryan trying to have a serious discussion about serious issues, and all Biden did was smirk and eye-roll ridicule everything Ryan said.

A voice of alarm went off in my brain - which I unfortunately ignored as I couldn't believe it at the time - that Biden was signaling the fix was in. He couldn't take the debate or the entire campaign or voter sentiment seriously because he knew Dem Party operatives had made sure the election would follow Stalin's dictum: "It doesn't matter who votes - what matters is who counts the votes."

You won't find SloJo being a smart-ass now - or any other Dem and Enemedia pundit. They are all in a state of gloom and panic living in Sour Grapes City.

That alone tells you the Pub margin of victory in many races is too big for Dem cheating to overcome. So maybe we really can sing along with the 1967 Beatles, It's Getting Better All The Time. Let's look at some specifics.

FROM TINY SEAPORT TO WORLD FINANCIAL GIANT

Richard Rahn September 3, 2014

Hong Kong. How did this small city-state of 7.3 million people go from having a per-capita income of only a few hundred dollars per year to a per capita income that is equal to that of the United States in only 50 years?

Hong Kong became a British colony in 1842, and the adjacent "New Territories" were leased for 99 years in 1898. In 1997, Hong Kong was returned by the British to China, with an agreement that it would become a Special Administrative Region (SAR) -- "one country, two systems."

Hong Kong retained the British legal system, most individual liberties, and a high degree of local autonomy, except for foreign policy and defense. The amount of democracy has been limited -- with the British serving as the ideal benevolent dictator and the Chinese as a somewhat less benevolent dictator for the past 17 years.

Hong Kong is about as close to the ideal free-market capitalist model that you can find on the planet -- which came about largely by accident.

PUTIN IS A BRUTE WHO MUST BE SHACKLED

Sir Max Hastings July 21, 2014

News of the destruction of Flight MH17 and the appalling murder of 298 people gave Russia's president Vladimir Putin a chance to step back from a precipice.

He could have stood up before the world and denounced the crime; endorsed a full investigation and punishment of the guilty.

Instead - yet almost inevitably, given the nature of the man - he presented his stone face. He asserted, against all logic and evidence, that Ukraine and its rulers were the guilty parties.

He lied, as he has lied all his life since he was first schooled in deceit and brutality by those masters of the art, his old employers at the KGB.

Putin probably felt that no path was open to him save denial, because the facts point blame for this huge tragedy squarely at the Kremlin.

Putin has acted throughout his tenure of power on the assumption that European leaders are marshmallows, to be defied with impunity.

It is time, and beyond time, to prove him wrong.

THE POGO PRESIDENCY

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 13, 2014

Ever hear of a guy named Walt Kelly? He was born in Philly in 1913, moved to California in the 30s to draw Donald Duck cartoons for Walt Disney, and started his own newspaper comic strip in 1949. It featured anthropomorphic animals in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, with the main character named Ponce de Leon Montgomery County Alabama Georgia Beauregard Possum - a dig at the South's pretentious aristocracy.

Kelly titled his comic strip after Ponce's nickname - Pogo. If you grew up in the 50s or 60s, you grew up with Pogo, along with an innumerable cast of lovable animal characters (there were almost 1,000 over the years), all poking gentle fun at the human condition. In 1971, two years before his death from diabetes, he published the cartoon for which he is best known.

This is more frighteningly relevant today than 42 years ago - and the "us" is all of us. There are varying degrees of complicity. At the top, of course, is an Anti-American President who hates his own country.

Zero is an affirmative action baby, handed everything on a platter without earning it because of his race and made-up bio. He's our #1 security threat because he doesn't want to defend us, and worse, doesn't know how if he did want to. Bad combo.

Which bring us to the real security threat beyond our shores. It isn't Russia, with its one-trick pony economy that can't even get itself above water with oil at $100 a barrel. Putin is all bare-chested bluster, all hat and no cattle. No, the real foreign threat we face is China.

I've been going to China since 1979, and as you know, just got back from there again last week. Here are three pictures of the spectacular places we visited that I took with my Panasonic DMC-TZ5 compact camera. There is a particular reason for me to show them to you.

YOU HAVE TWO YEARS TO LIVE

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 9, 2012

[This letter is in lieu of the Half-Full Report this week, as the HFR glass today is totally empty. I'd like to encourage all TTPers to both email and fax a printed copy of this letter to the District Office of any nearby GOP Congressman or Congressman-elect, and ask any patriotic friend of theirs to do the same.]

An Open Letter to the Incoming Republican House Members of the 113^th Congress

Dear GOP House Members and Members-Elect -

Congratulations to you all for surviving the absurd calamity of November 6^th. You need to know what's in store for you.

To put it bluntly, you have two years to live. Politically live as the House Majority, that is. You are going to be demonized and destroyed by the Chicago Gangsters who run the White House and the presstitutes of the CorruptMedia. Your chances of retaining your majority in 2014 are 0%.

The question is: what are you going to do with these two years? Realize that the political outcome will be the same no matter what you do. While many of you may individually survive and be reelected in 2014, collectively your majority will be gone and you'll all be just minority schmucks.

So if you plan to cringe, compromise, and cooperate with the gangsters just to be reelected as a minority schmuck, why not just quit now, resign and collect your pension - rather than continue a charade in order to keep your perks of power for a little while longer, and all that while you'll have to look into the mirror every morning and see a coward?

Why not, then, see someone of courage in that mirror instead? There is a power that only you - a majority of members of the House - have that neither the Senate, the President nor any of his agencies, nor even the Supreme Court has. If you choose to exercise it, you will be feared and respected, instead of being Obama's poodles.

But far more importantly, you will have done your patriotic duty to protect your country from the lethal damage Obama is poised to inflict upon it.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Dr. Joel Wade October 18, 2012

(Note: next week's Teleclass will be closed on Sunday this weekend, sign up now to hold your spot)

Sometimes we can have a sense that things aren't working well, or we'd like something to be different in our lives, and we can try to take steps to change. But without an idea of what isn't working well, what we'd like to have different, or what we would like to change, we can end up wandering aimlessly through life. That's what I'd like to help you to avoid today.

There are three questions that I'd like you to consider :

MOOSE SHOOTIN’ MAMA

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 21, 2008

Country singer Pat Garrett has the hit song of the year. It is can't-sit-down, gotta-get-up-and-boogie, real deal rock and roll. And while you're jumping and dancing for joy, tears will also be streaming down your face from the beauty and truth of the lyrics.

For it is a tribute to America's Sweetheart, the woman who is destroying the Left's stranglehold on our culture, who will give us our country back so that America can be America again: Sarah Palin.

Liberals can eat their hearts out while we dance our hearts out to Moose Shootin' Mama. Be sure and crank up the volume.

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MODOGGIES: THE LATEST MOSLEM FREAK-OUT

Dr. Jack Wheeler August 31, 2007

The latest event in what is surely one of the world's most fun sports - Moslem Enragement - is the Modoggy Cartoon Contest taking place in Sweden.

It started out so innocently. A group of Swedish artists in the small town of Tällberg decided to hold an exhibition entitled "The Dog in Art," and invited submissions. A famous (and famously eccentric and mischievous) artist, Lars Vilks, exhibited a large cartoon drawing entitled "Mohammed as a Rondell Dog."

A Rondell Dog or Rondellhund has been a harmless art form in Sweden for the last several years. Anonymous artists have set up plywood or plastic sculptures of dogs in traffic circle roundabouts (rondells) throughout the country. Here's a typical one:

So Vilks puts up this cartoon sketch:

THE INVISIBLE HOSTAGE CRISIS IN IRAN

Michael Ledeen May 31, 2007

Rarely have so many journalists, politicians and commentators so totally missed a headline. There are now five American hostages in Iran.

Each case has been largely treated by itself, almost as if it were an oddity, something requiring a special explanation, instead of another piece in a luminously clear pattern whose meaning should be intuitively obvious to us all.

Iranian and Iranian-supported terrorists have been trying unsuccessfully to capture armed Americans in Iraq for some time (a hostage-taking operation failed last September, for example), but they found that the Americans fought back.

They have now snatched unarmed Americans within Iranian borders. The five American hostages are:

GEEK HUMOR

Dennis Turner March 15, 2006

I was sitting at Aroma Café this morning when another geek sat at the table next to me and booted up his laptop. A woman, also a regular with a laptop, sat nearby, and another customer made a joke about Aroma becoming an internet café.

The three of us traded a few geek jokes. There are so many funny computer stories and anecdotes out there, it's a wonder some headliner comedian/comedienne hasn't come up with a related routine.

Something like - "Did you hear the one about the computer programmer who gets shipwrecked on a desert island with a gorgeous blonde?

STALIN, MOHAMMED, AND OBAMA

Ralph Peters January 28, 2015

Pundits agonize over President Obama's resistance to calling Islamist terror "Islamist terror." How can he not see the obvious? How can he ignore the overwhelming and ever-increasing evidence?

How can he insist that his subordinates continue their buffoonish insistence that Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam and that they-secularized Christians and non-observant Jews-know Islam's character better than Moslems themselves?

It's easy. President Obama and his commissars fit the longstanding pattern of behavior (insistence, denial, castigation) that the hard left has embraced for generations. Just as Obama's ideological predecessors could never criticize Stalin, so their successors today can never cricize Mohammed.

HALF-FULL REPORT 10/17/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 17, 2014

Lots of uplifting news this week, but first a trio of questions. Are you a big fan of Eric Holder? No? Well, how would you like an Eric Holder on steroids? No again? Lastly, why is Sarah Palin answering Yes! to these questions instead?

Because that's precisely what she is doing in Louisiana.

Zero intends to nominate Tom Perez, a racist fascist far worse than Holder for AG, should the Pubs fail to win the Senate. And that's just for starters. Harry Reid running the Senate for the next two years will allow Zero to run completely amok.

Yet Sarah, rather than telling the Louisiana Spoiler - Rob Maness - to stand up like a man for his country and bow out, has doubled down on her support for him. This is ludicrously mistaken and here's why....

Elsewhere, things are looking pretty good. This week has seen an amazing number of October Surprises - all of which have screwed Zero and the Dems. Bad Karma has finally caught up with them.

*In Texas, hero-to-baby-killers Wendy Davis drove her gubernatorial campaign straight off a cliff with her wheelchair attack ad on Greg Abbott. After a deluge of disgust, she doubled-down with her ridicule. Abbott was already ahead by 14 points before Wendy's hara-kiri ads. Wendy gives the term "politics of personal destruction" a new meaning. Here are more examples...

Yet all of that is merely the tip of the Bad News Iceberg for the Dems this week. Beneath that tip is...

THE POLITICAL CLASS IS DETERMINED TO MAKE OUR ECONOMY WORSE

Richard Rahn August 27, 2014

Do you think government has grown or contracted during the past seven years?

If you listen to the political class and many of their lackeys in the news media, you would think there have been massive cuts in government spending. The truth is the opposite both in the United States and Europe.

According to Keynesian orthodoxy, the massive government spending binge of 2009 was supposed to result in a rapid recovery, high growth (the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration had predicted several years of approximately 4 percent growth in the U.S.), and big increases in employment. It didn't happen.

The Democrat Party and one of its gurus, New York Times economist Paul Krugman, blames the poor result on the "stimulus" being too small. One little problem for the Krugman crowd is...

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