Be a Man, Food Production

I'm sure that as I write this a whole lot of people are going to be nodding their heads.  But for those who don't, I'll break it down for you - a real man knows how to take raw ingredients and make a full meal.  And I do mean "raw".  I'm not talking about grabbing a pre-packaged steak at the supermarket, I'm talking about grabbing the entire beef tenderloin, cutting the sliverskin off, and cutting nine steaks off it.  Not cutting up bread and rubbing garlic on it, but taking flour, salt, sugar, water, butter and yeast and turning out a loaf or two.  Making your own sausage.  Jams, jellies, preserves.

Making your own FOOD.

Why do it?  Because it's something that everyone needs to know how to do, as you cannot always be guaranteed a supermarket will be nearby.  And because if you ever pick up a package of food and read the ingredients, you will invariably find something that you cannot pronounce unless you're a chemistry major, and a whole host more that you just don't want to put into your body.

Look folks, corn syrup is not natural.  Your body cannot break it down.  High Fructose Corn Syrup is in damn near everything, and it's nasty.  You don't need it, I can guarantee that it's not doing you any good, and I can also guarantee that if you're a normal person you're eating absolute SHITLOADS of it without even knowing it.

There's also the fact that making your own food is cheaper.  I can make my bratwurst for about $2.00 a pound.  Try to buy a pound of brats for two bucks at the store.  And my bratwurst tastes better, is healthier for me, and causes my friends to commit homicide for a chance to get some.

Now, what does it take?  Time, and a few kitchen implements that you might not already have.  If you have a Kitchenaide type stand mixer, you can make sausage, bread, just about anything.  We found a meat grinder/sausage stuffer combo on sale, so we picked that up.  Any hunting or outdoors supply store will have meat grinders, sausage stuffers, all kinds of utensils you might need.  The local Gander Mountain has collagen casing and natural hog casing for sausage as well.  Most department stores will have some sort of bread machine if you don't want to actually turn out a loaf by hand.  Bread can be frozen if you make a bunch of loaves at once, so I normally do three batches and the Mrs. tosses most of it in the freezer until we need it.

So the next round of Be a Man will focus on food production.  I figure it'll be nice to talk about something other than how Obama and his cronies are ruining this country.

Sleeping in?

Tried it.  Still woke up nice and early without any alarm clock.

When you've been waking up at O-Dark-30 for years, your body just figures "Fine, bastard wants to wake up early?  He's gonna wake up early!"

Papa's got a new set of wheels

Well, it finally happened - I bought an new (to me) vehicle.  My job is going to require me to travel just as much as it did last year, only I'm going to be driving to a majority of the duty.  I get paid mileage to drive to my TDY, but my poor old Nissan truck just wasn't going to make it.  Too many miles under the hood, too many things starting to wear, and I didn't want to get stranded in Chicago or St. Louis with a truck that's hit it's limit and has died.

So, I went down to our local trust-able dealer, found something within my price range that would be a good little runner for me, and bought it.  My truck is now going to be passed down to the Ragin' Step-Son, who will learn to drive on a manual transmission.  Which means that this truck will end up serving three generations of the Ragin' Family.  It's got over 235,000 miles on it right now, and the engine is still good.  It's the rest of the truck that's falling off.  I've had lots of people tell me that a V-6 engine doesn't last very long.  Mine sure did.  It got me through Seattle, Puerto Rico and now Wisconsin.  It had a few major repairs, but fixing it up was cheaper than buying a new vehicle, and dammit that was MY TRUCK.

I actually apologized to it when I brought the new one home.  How messed up is that?

Anyways, it'll get driven a lot less now, but it's still ready to go.  I'll use it for hunting, hauling trash, and teaching the step-son how to drive.  He'll use it when he absolutely needs to get somewhere, and we aren't available.  It ain't dead yet.

Got a to-do list today

And it's a good long one.  Need to take care of all the things that have been neglected for a while.  So...  see you tomorrow.

Don Surber: Then and N.O.W.

Compare and contrast the actions and statements of N.O.W. when it was their boy Slick Willy Clinton, and when it's Herman Cain.

Anyone who defended Slick Willy, and who stood by him and claimed that he did nothing wrong, is not allowed to say ONE DAMN THING about Herman Cain.  Not one.  Period.

Holy clap

A degree in PUPPETRY?


Hey Dave, why don't you want to go to school?  BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE SURROUNDED BY FUCKHEADS WHO THINK A DEGREE IN PUPPETRY IS GOING TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFE!

$35,000 for a degree in PUPPETRY!  WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!?!?!

The Holidays

A time starting around Halloween, and ending some time past New Year's Day, where I fight a battle to NOT gain wait, and mostly lose.

I need to up my running mileage.

Flea Party getting ugly

Rapes.  Death in at least one camp.  Violence towards police. 

It's time for America's mayors to face the facts - the Occupy movement is nothing but a bunch of drugged-out hippies and spoiled brats causing trouble because they can.  And it's not going to end well.  So here's Ragin' Dave's solution to the problem.  You barricade them in.  Wall them in.  You're wasting millions of dollars on police, have them circle the camp and let NOTHING get over the barricades.

Yes, you can let people out.  But do not let anything go in.  No water, no food, no medicine.  And NO POLICE.  There's no reason why cops should have to put their lives in danger trying to save the anti-police fuckheads who would just as soon slit their throat as look at them.

One by one, those protesters will come out.  Handcuff them and send them to jail.  The ones that don't come out will die, and society will have lost that many parasites off it's belly.  After the last corpse has been removed, burn everything that remains.  Sweep up the ashes, and move on.

Done, and done.

You know who's trying to take down Cain?

The same JournoList fuckholes who carried and protected Obama, and attacked his every enemy as "racist".

Huh.  Gosh, I wonder if it's just a coincidence?

That was sarcasm, for those who didn't know.

Rapists against Rape

Hey, remember when the Tea Parties held a rally and people were getting raped?

No?  That's because it didn't happen!  But I wouldn't trust any Flea Party camp if my life depended on it, because after finding out that men are getting raped, it just MIGHT depend on it.  Sexual assault at OWS.  No sexual assaults at Tea Parties.  It really is that simple.

Hey, remember when.....

John Edwards cheated on his then-cancer-stricken wife and the media reported it?

No?  That's because it didn't happen.  But Herman Cain can have multiple "anonymous" accusers of sexual harassment, and Obama's Palace Guards will print that on page one from day one.

This is how they attack you.  Luckily, Cain might come out of it smelling like roses - he had his biggest fundraising day yesterday after the allegations broke.  Hopefully, this means conservatives are finally figuring out that the Media, being Obama's lackeys and flunkeys, only care about advancing their political and ideological agenda rather than reporting the news.  Which means that any story that can hurt the Right they'll run - even if it's not true.

Squatters against Squatting

First we had the "Freeloaders against Freeloading", and now we have this:

So to summarize: The protesters consider the police enemies and hurl insults (and sometimes worse) at the men in blue. Yet, they demand that the cops take action to expel the unwanted element, who have precisely the same rights to the space as do the protesters themselves. If that scenario isn’t a microcosm of the Obama presidency, nothing is.

 It would serve the Flea Party right if all the cops did was build barricades around Zuccotti Park, and refused to let any people out.  Fuck 'em, and let 'em rot in there.