The housing market has now entered the feared “double dip,” after rebounding slightly in the past few quarters. Liberal pundits and media are furiously spinning the seemingly unending stream of bad economic indicators as “unexpected.” Heck, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin is once again flabbergasted by the inability of people to understand what science can and cannot do as evidenced by the manslaughter charge leveled against a group of seismologists by Italian government officials. This criminal charge against Italy’s … Continue reading →
How bad are things for the President? According to Weekly Standard’s Jeffrey H. Anderson,, Paul Ryan could beat him solo. According to his calculus: To win the presidency, Ryan would just have to win his home state and hold GOP-leaning … Continue reading →
No possible additional comment. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia … Continue reading →
GorT recommends the use of Easy Off to clean grilles. Maybe the Czar missed the point, here, but he tried it. And after 20 minutes, the can exploded on the grille. Big mess. So important safety tip: spray Easy Off … Continue reading →
The President walks into the White House kitchen early this morning. “I would like breakfast.” “Yes, Mr, President. Our choices this morning are pancackes or eggs.” The President tilts his chin upward. “I would like Belgian waffles.” The cook nervously … Continue reading →
The Czar is spot on with his grilling advice. I’d like to chime in with a few other notes: First, for those with gas grills (or those saying that gas grills can’t get that smokey flavor), try a “smoke packet”. … Continue reading →
It’s entirely possible he got that pork recipe from the Necronomicon, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, or perhaps a Weber or other grill cookbook… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Ordinarily, on a holiday like Memorial Day, you get a lecture about how good you have it, and how you should be remembering all those lost lives rather than going out and partying. Not this year, though. Instead, with this … Continue reading →
It’s seriously bad when your blinders are on this long. The Chicago Sun-Times tends to skew slightly right-of-center in its editorial reporting (though it is getting lefty), but its featured columnists are way off the left end. Competing for most … Continue reading →
All part of life’s rich pageant. NOAA: We have data that corresponds to evidence of climate change. Lib Media Machine: Ah! You should listen to NOAA. They are scientists! They know this stuff. Now fund our green jobs. Global warming … Continue reading →
Regarding our attempt to fathom the President’s weird dissonance on Israel, the Doctor writes: Czaralicious, I liked your post. I grew up with very pro-israel Jews as friends, so I’m a bit of a Zionist. Besides I see them as … Continue reading →
Man, the Czar wishes he didn’t agree with this. Can you imagine the US becoming a Euroweenie country as bad as any you can name? You bet you can, and Ken Blackwell points out that 2012 is the Rubicon for … Continue reading →
What migth get lost in ‘Puter’s excellent post here is the following: The elephant in the room that liberals steadfastly ignore is that the housing market under the best of conditions is destined to deflate or at best hold level … Continue reading →
First, the Czar would like to confirm that yes, the ability to time travel with GorT has many educational advantages. You can learn a whole lot about the future by going there. Second, and somewhat related, the Czar would like … Continue reading →
The following is a subject the Czar has been struggling to understand for some time now, and no doubt (most of) you are equally puzzled. But really, what the hell is going on with the President and Israel? First, in … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board strikes another blow for market ignorance today in this editorial. Its premise is that in order to save the housing market, we have to destroy it. Sadly, this is an all too common attitude … Continue reading →
A typical email, but one we chose because it seems really flattering: Do my eyes deceive me, or is there new wallpaper in the background on the blog? What is it, and who picked it out? It looks very nice … Continue reading →
Fake Herzog does what more of you should do, and write in: ‘Puter hit the ball out of the park (was it perhaps a tee ball?) today with his post on E.J. Dionne and the Catholic Church’s position on economics … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board gets something partially correct today! This editorial lauds the Supreme Court for upholding a Ninth Circuit decision requiring California to remedy intolerable (“cruel and unusual”) prison conditions.* Based on the decision, the conditions inside … Continue reading →
Speaking for the “Catholicism = Whatever My Personal Beliefs Are At Any Given Time” wing of the faith, E.J. Dionne pens another Washington Post op-ed. Regular readers of your Gormogons know ‘Puter’s opinion of Mr. Dionne regarding matters of Catholic … Continue reading →
So the Czar found himself coaching a tee-ball game today. Due to a variety of scheduling conflicts, only a single assistant coach showed up. So the Czar, dropping off the Царевич (who won the game ball for some outstanding defensive … Continue reading →
MC writes in to discuss music. Dread, awful, and sometimes lyrical Czar, Rush (the band) are not the most conservative rock band out there, but these lyrics have some relevance during this second term of Jimmy Carter’s presidency (this song … Continue reading →
DT responds to BG and Dr. J: For some* reason, reading this epistle of yours brought to mind the Billy Joel (pbuh) song “Angry Young Man” to mind: There’s a place in the world for the angry young man With … Continue reading →
Premillennial dispensationalism and scriptural crypto-mathematics? No, thanks. The elderly Johnny Cash from the haunted heart of American low-church Protestantism, oh, God, yes. All but the last of these (and some even better tracks not on YouTube) are available on My … Continue reading →
BG writes in to ask Dr. J: Your Czariness – You write, “The Czar is curious that members of San Francisco lefty lefts think that surgical and safe removal of the foreskin is detrimental to the child, but that cutting … Continue reading →
Guys, I found this when I came in last night after a few pops at the Leapin’ Peacock. Which one of you two does it belong to? GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to … Continue reading →
…or Dat Ho or Sleestak has been selling some vehicles for cash. Because I’m pretty sure the Czar and ’Puter own or have owned at least three of these vans. We took their keys away. Also, because Vince over there … Continue reading →
I realize it’s been a while since I’ve chimed in on tech news, so I thought I’d drop a few nuggets here: Apple is going to be facing some serious challenges soon. iTunes is the defacto standard for music collections. … Continue reading →
Dear The Czar, Very briefly, two news items to keep an eye on. Remember when we discussed the attempts to place a ban on male circumcision in San Francisco? Well, it’s made the ballot in November. It would become a … Continue reading →
The election season has (let’s be honest) already begun. We are already seeing some of the familiar patterns re-emerge from the media, many of which have already been identified and reported here. But let us condense a short list of … Continue reading →
Governor Andrew Cuomo has fast-tracked new, test score based teacher evaluations. Teachers’ unions have predictably reacted by saying, “ZOMG! OH NOES! UR KIDZ IZZ GUNNA BE TEH DUMMER BCUZ WE R BING EEVALYOOATED!!1!eleventy!!“ ‘Puter was listening to his local NPR … Continue reading →
Dr. Boli is teh awsum. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all … Continue reading →
Remember the Summer of 2010? It was the Obama Administration’s self-proclaimed “Summer of Recovery” that, well, wasn’t. In recent months the economy has ticked up a bit but I wouldn’t be holding your Summer 20102011 of Recovery party just yet. … Continue reading →
A New York Times columnist dissembles on an important issue today regarding the hotly contested House race in New York’s 26th district in order to promote the official party line on Medicare and Republican vulnerability thereon. Of course, the New … Continue reading →
A nod to Huckabee: he realized that he would be wasting millions of Americans’ donation dollars, and for what? He doesn’t stand enough of a chance to survive a primary, and will only suck votes away from someone who could. … Continue reading →
First some thoughts on Thor from BG: Great and Terrible Czar – Our neutered female cat likes to hang around my wife while she’s getting dressed. Is Thor an appropriate movie for cats that like to watch naked women? Is … Continue reading →
Continuing in a curmudgeonly vein, ‘Puter offers the following example of elitist disconnect. The politics of this individual don’t matter, but his status as an Ivy League professor does. ‘Puter offers the following comments captured in today’s Washington Post concerning … Continue reading →
It’s a dreary, drizzly, 45 degree Monday. His back hurts, and his dreams were haunted all night by the image of Mrs. ‘Puter stepping out on him. Needless to say, ‘Puter’s in a foul mood, with a full-blown case of … Continue reading →
The last photo of Adm. Yamamoto, April 18th, 1943.He was dead by 10:00 a.m. Tokyo time. R.I.P. From the depths of interstellar space, the unusually pensive Klingon, Da’rod of Q’onos, writes in: Most Puissant and Beneficent Volgi, I have been … Continue reading →
The Czar has just returned from seeing Thor with the family, all of whom endorse the movie as whopping good entertainment. As a sort-of review, the Czar will entertain your most essential questions, so that you can decide if you … Continue reading →
The Czar received some nice thoughts from all of you on his empty leash vignette, and evidently it struck a chord with some of you. But you know perfectly well that the Gormogons have the smartest readership around, and no … Continue reading →
This past week, driving home, passed by a veterinary clinic. A woman in her sixties, sitting in the shade of a tree alongside the parking lot, sobbing uncontrollably into the crook of her left arm. In her right hand, an … Continue reading →
Well it’s about danged time this Rube Goldberg contraption is up and running, sort of, again. ‘Puter’s been venting over to The Twitter. If you don’t already follow us over there, you really ought to. Especially because most of ‘Puter’s … Continue reading →
The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of … Continue reading →
Well, we seem to be back on line. Evidently, Blogger has figured out what the red button does that says Do Not Push. We hope one of them wrote it down. We lost some material up here, so our apologies, … Continue reading →
Hi. Czar here. Due to a technical error that appears to lie with our provider, our posts are not presently showing who wrote which post. You can probably guess who wrote which, but until we figure out whom the Czar … Continue reading →
As GorT notes below, many leftist Catholics believe that God commands us to structure government to provide for the perceived “needs” of all. In essence, leftist Catholics use government to impose their religious views on others. But it’s OK, because … Continue reading →
I had planned to write about this particular subject tonight but I was distracted by coaching my daughter’s team. Upon returning home, I received an email from the Volgi pointing to a particularly excellent take down of the instigators of … Continue reading →
“You know,” the Czar said to his foreign policy advisor as we pushed two shells into the shotgun, “Polls are funny things, Vanya.” We yelled pull, and Ivan Zborikov held two orange plates out at arm’s length, one in each … Continue reading →
GD writes in with a couple more arguments and reminders about Corporate Tax Rates (including GorT’s favorite). Sorry: sometimes we assume that you all know this, but GD is right to add this in for our many first-time readers: Dread, … Continue reading →
You may have heard that the University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL) had some explaining to do when students alleged that two co-instructors—under the aegis of teaching Introduction to Labor Studies—taught, encouraged, and flaunted illegal and unethical activities to two … Continue reading →
Dear The Czar, There is much talk today about the debt limit. At the National Tea Party Convention, the Republican leadership were given a warning that raising the debt ceiling without real changes in spending will result in primary challenges … Continue reading →
The next time some weenus says that maintaining obscene corporate profits are why our jobs are moving overseas, point them to this picture: Here is why jobs are going overseas: the corporate income tax rate. Ask them which businesses pay … Continue reading →
It seems that intrusive government cheerleader Mika Brzezinski, of Morning Joe and ‘Puter’s naughty dreams, complained that she couldn’t make ends meet on her morning talk show host compensation. In fact, Ms. Brzezinski was making fourteen times less than Joe … Continue reading →
Here’s a little riddle for all of ‘Puter’s “progressive” friends. Q. How is the Peace Corps like the Catholic Church? A. Both have horribly mismanaged credible allegations of sexual assault and rape, covered them up for years, and blamed the … Continue reading →
President Obama’s exact words about Usâma bin-Lâdin on 60 Minutes: “And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn’t deserve what he got needs to have their head examined.” So the … Continue reading →
In the previous post, the question is raised: why did we off Usâma bin-Lâdin rather than capturing him and making him the mother of all sources? Of course, Confucius has no greater knowledge than anyone else, but it strikes him … Continue reading →
DT writes in to say: Oh Czar, Destroyer of Worlds: I won’t miss Osama a bit, and am pleased that he’s now fellating Satan on a full-time basis. However, I can’t stop asking myself Why? Why was the order to … Continue reading →
Dear The Czar, Mickey D’s created 25% of the new jobs in April. Wesley Smith, at The Corner speculates that a waiver exempting them from Obamacare helped. That theory was originally floated in this forum. However, truth be told, Dr. … Continue reading →
Dit M. le Docteur Beauli. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Days ago, the Czar wrote to tell you that Illinois was seriously considering concealed carry. One commenter on our Twitter site thought we were a bit too optmistic, since there was no way Illinois would really consider concealed carry. Yes, … Continue reading →
One important factor the Czar omits in the excellent post above is that since Partition, almost all attempts to forge a pan-Pakistani identity have focused on the common denominator of religion: the large majority of Pakistanis are Muslim, and the … Continue reading →
Gotta love a letter that opens like this: Dear Dread and Wonderful Czar, From what you wrote about Pakistan in Bit 3 of your “Four Little Tidbits” post, it sounds like Pakistan could be described as the Yugoslavia of the … Continue reading →
AH writes a nice, thoughtful transmission: Esteemed Czar of Muscovy: I hope you will indulge me with something of an answer to your recent piece on natural selection. I too find it refreshing to discuss the issue using familiar products. … Continue reading →
While conversing with a co-worker, ‘Puter lamented the low quality of education these days. ‘Puter’s co-worker agreed, saying she had a great example of current academic shortcomings. Below is an essay submitted by an Arizona State University senior journalism major. … Continue reading →
GD writes in: Dread and awesome Czar, I thought “natural selection” and true “evolution” were two different things? Related, but different. Moths adapting their coloring, weeds naturally selecting to resist a herbicide, etc. are all “natural selection”. Isn’t evolution more … Continue reading →
Your Czarness: Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written, but all the preparations for the Royal Wedding here at the Trailer-Park-at-the-Edge-of-Town left me with precious little time. You gentlemen of the Castle have no idea how hard it is … Continue reading →
Four quick items for you: On the Obama administration’s changing stories about the raid: This is not a surprise. All of this news is based on after-action reports compiled from the guys on the scene. If you have ever read … Continue reading →
An astonishing number of people reject evolution. This rejection is always of interest to the Czar, because there is (a) a widespread perception that evolution lacks clear evidence despite (b) a tremendous amount of it. Many in the scientific community … Continue reading →
The Royal Surgeon writes in to comment on this post from earlier today (or was that tomorrow….being a time travelling robot makes it hard to orient you humans): GorT, Your observation that the Obama Administration has more versions of ‘Let’s … Continue reading →
The New York Times yesterday published an editorial stating that The Hon. Vaughn Walker should not have recused himself from consideration of California’s Proposition 8. Judge Walker is the U.S. District Court Judge who ruled that California’s Proposition 8 (banning … Continue reading →
Yvette Vickers, a 1950s cult movie actress and former Playboy Playmate was found dead in her Benedict Canyon home. She kept to herself in recent years and a neighbor discovered her almost mummified body after noticing yellowing mail piling up … Continue reading →
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this and maybe it’s just me but the news reports are all over the place with regards to how the mission to get bin Laden was coordinated and executed. For example, we’ve … Continue reading →
Betcha didn’t know that Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a draft script for Star Wars. Well he did. And here it is. 3:11 of boredom and ennui disguised as release. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ … Continue reading →
Astute reader (but ain’t you all?) Mallethead writes in to point out that he has solved the identity of the secret 10th Supreme Court justice over at FantasySCOTUS. Um, yeah: It is indeed GorT. How do you think Heller got … Continue reading →
Illinois is slowly moving toward concealed carry. Legislation is under way that will allow Illinois residents, 21 and over and in good legal standing, the ability to carry concealed. On the one hand, this is good news for Illinois residents; … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been watching with some interest the flooding in the Midwest. You see, ‘Puter lived in Missouri during the Great Flood of 1993. Leaving aside for the moment the flooding’s likely impact on grain prices, and therefore ultimately on retail … Continue reading →
Well, the Czar’s okhrana was able to obtain mission pictures that neither the Press nor the White House want to show you. Here they are, along with the comments we received. So like, here’s the guys on the team just … Continue reading →
As Czar knows from his extensive time spent piloting Mi-28 Havocs in tank busting missions north of the Arctic Circle*, it’s never a good idea to grab a crew member’s “genital area.” Your Gormogons made extra-certain to give this travel … Continue reading →
Dr. J wrote in with the following and part of it struck a chord with me that I’ll expand on below: Your Timelessness: Dr. J. woke up this morning to the news that Usama bin Laden was killed in a … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been busy today working. Also, he’s been busy pulling a 1/4 inch bolt out of his passenger side rear tire, but that’s another whole story. But thanks, dipstick, for thoughtfully leaving the washer on the bolt as it bounced … Continue reading →
The Czar will not mince words here. Bin-Lâdin is dead, and Obama got him. We have already seen comments on pro-liberal blogs that the “tea baggers” are going to deny this is a victory for the President, but as always, … Continue reading →
So the Twitter world is all a buzz with the death of Osama bin Laden. Your Gormogons have been recognized as a solid contributor to this. However, I have to give props to the most entertaining one I’ve seen: On … Continue reading →
So, here’s some reaction: this is potentially a propaganda coup of the first order. Operationally, it may or may not be meaningful. Remember, as we’ve mentioned, part of the reason our enemies in this war are so fanatical is that … Continue reading →
Appears so. In case you had not heard, the Obama administration is expected to announce shortly that Public Enemy Number 1 has been killed by an American attack last week, and DNA evidence due back today confirms it. Well, give … Continue reading →
The Czar has spent an uncomfortable majority of the weekend watching his boys play baseball. The Цесаревич and Царевич are both on teams this year; however, the Цесаревич had his very first game of the season yesterday, and smeared the … Continue reading →
