Two Must Reads

Bill Whittle Rides Again

The Jawa Report: Hope, Change, and Lies.

The household goods are arriving today. I'd love to say that the house is in perfect shape, but there's still quite a bit that isn't done. And I'm never using oil based primer again. That crap takes forever to dry. But we did paint the living room and the dining room, cleaned up, put everything in it's place, so that when our worldly possessions show up we can get them set up and ready to go.

The stove and fridge show up on Wednesday. After that, I'll be blogging from a house that I own. Yeehaw!

Barack Obama In Veggie Burger Hill

Don't forget Barack Hussein Obama's smears of the troops he claims he wants to lead:

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

At a fancy '05 Manhattan fundraiser, Obama told the approving crowd that the Bush administration was using soldiers in Iraq as "cannon fodder."

“You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.” -- Barack Hussein Obama

..."oftentimes our women servicemembers are more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder partly because they — there's a sad, but real, problem of sexual harassment and sexual abuse for women veterans, and that makes them much more prone, then, to have post-traumatic stress disorder." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

"If you talk to commanders on the ground there, they'll tell you, 'Instead of having another platoon, I'd rather have a couple of agricultural specialists." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D) who hasn't been "on the ground there" in Afghanistan

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

More painting today

Primer done. What will be my office almost completely gutted. Right now we're working on the front porch, and everything else will be on hold for a little while. We have to take it one room at a time, otherwise I'll go completely bonkers looking at jobs all over the place. Once the paint is on, re-seal the wood floors in the living room and dining room.

Hopefully that'll be it for today. There's a football game on somewhere that I'm going to miss, but that's life.

See ya all tomorrow.

Nice little rundown

Noel at Cold Fury has a nice little rundown of the Do-Nothing, most ethical Congress EVAH that must be read.

This Congress is a National Disgrace. Nancy Pelosi’s National Disgrace Congress of 2008.

Harsh? I don’t think so.

Take Charlie Rangel. On his 5-week paid vacation, he went to his tax-free Carribbean condo. It’s not supposed to be tax-free, it just worked out that way. Charlie is the Ways & Means Chairman, the committee which writes our tax laws. If he can’t understand his own tax laws what hope do the rest of us have?

Charlie blames the condo staff because they speak Spanish. But US tax law is written in English. Allegedly.

Joe Biden says paying high taxes is patriotic. I don’t think he should question Charlie’s patriotism like that.

It turns out that AIG had so much extra money laying around that they gave Charlie 10 million dollars for his “foundation”, because they care so deeply about good government. The Good News: surely they don’t need that giant bailout if they’ve got that kind of money to burn!

Will Charlie step down from his chaimanship? Of course not; this is the National Disgrace Congress.

Note that I am not surprised at how corrupt the Democrat American Communist Party controlled Congress is. Hell, I predicted it when they took over. The Left only cares about power, nothing else.

Busy day today

We've got to get a lot of painting and fixing done before the movers show up with the household goods. So, no blogging today.

But hey, I've got a great blogroll!

Insantiy is hereditary

Speaking of douchbags, get a load of this:

The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell told The Tennessean.

Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin’s personal e-mail account, the newspaper reported on its Web site this afternoon.

Check out the kid's picture. Now, if you were going to put a photo of yourself online, wouldn't you want to avoid photos that look like you are a) stoned out of your mind, or b) masturbating furiously to midget porn?

And why am I not surprised that the people who broke the law in order too harass Gov. Palin are members of the Democrat American Communist Party? At least, I'm assuming that little Kernell is a Donk since his daddy is a Donk congresscritter at the state level.

Buckle up, folks. This election season is going to get rather sick.

Hoooooooo, boy

That's some nice tasty crazy, unhinged, lunatic bullshit right here: Biden says paying more taxes is patriotic.

So, Smirky Joe, when this country revolted and started tossing tea into Boston Harbor, (or for those of you in Boston, Bahstan Habah), I guess they were being unpatriotic.

We can plainly see the roots of the modern Democrat American Communist Party these days. They might as well whip out the Communist Manifesto and base their platform off of it.

Oh, wait, THEY ALREADY HAVE.

Fucking douchbags.

Can I say how happy I am that Mr. Hopey-Changitude picked this fucking dumbshit to be his Veep? I'm thrilled. I really am.

Good News/Bad News

I'll give you the bad news first, shall I?

The bad news is that I just put myself thirty years in debt.

The good news is that I own a house.

Pardon me while I freak out.

Here's a special one

Just for you, Dave!

Steve Almond

Putrid slimeballs

Guttertrash cumdumpsters.

Filthy lying cockholsters.

Worthless oxygen thieves.

We've got seven weeks left. The sheer assault against anyone with half a brain is only going to get worse. The brainless minions of the Left will stop at nothing in their sheer naked grab for power.

I wonder when the physical assaults will start.

Democrats

Is there anything they can't destroy and then blame on someone else?

The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory."

Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the '90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.

And it was the Clinton administration that mismanaged the quasi-governmental agencies that over the decades have come to manage the real estate market in America.

Never let a lawyer meddle with the economy. And never let a Leftist anywhere near the levers of government. The results end up hurting everyone except for the rat-bastard commies who caused the problems in the first place. Because they make damn sure they got theirs, and screw everybody else.

This is so exciting.

Oy!

Douchebags Say What?

Lemme know if you want the keys...

"Bucket of Fluff"

Oy!

Biden Versus the 'Bucket of Fluff' | NewsBusters.org

Guess which candidate is talking about god?

I mean, if this kind of god-baggery doesn't scare you off, I don't know what does!

The prayer that I tell myself every night is a fairly simple one: I ask in the name of Jesus Christ that my sins are forgiven, that my family is protected and that I am an instrument of God's will. I'm constantly trying to align myself to what I think he calls on me to do. And sometimes you hear it strongly and sometimes that voice is more muted.

What kind of republican douch would say that? I mean, talking to god? God talks to you and tells you how to live your life? Only a right-wing crazy would... OOOPS!

Amazing how the Leftists are attacking Sarah Palin because of her faith, and yet when Barak Obama was campaigning in churches all over the USA he got a pass.

Maybe because the Left thinks that Barak Obama doesn't believe it? I dunno.

Lindsay Lohan Lashes Out at Sarah Palin | Showbiz Spy

Lindsay Lohan sez:

She said, "I find it quite interesting that a woman who now is running to be second in command of the United States, only 4 years ago had aspirations to be a television anchor, which is probably all she is qualified to be.

"Oh, and... Hint Hint Pali Pal - Don't pose for anymore tabloid covers, you're not a celebrity, you're running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY!"

Lohan -- who is rumored to be in a relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson -- also referenced Palin's views on homosexuality.

"Is it a sin to be gay?" Lohan asked. "Should it be a sin to be straight? Or to use birth control? Or to have sex before marriage? Or even to have a child out of wedlock?

"Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe?"

Diddy, Barbra, Matt Damon, Whoopi, Bon Jovi.

Quite the list of intellectuals lining up for Obama.

Lindsay Lohan Lashes Out at Sarah Palin | Showbiz Spy

More Bias

Can anyone tell me why McCain and Palin should even bother talking to the MSM at all? It's nothing but hit piece after hit piece, and hatred, and dripping bile.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!

Back when I was little PVT Mangan in 2ID, a common saying when faced with something just stupid was "What the fuck?" I'm sure it's a common phrase for most of my readers as well. As I PCSed back to the states and realized that the politically-correct crotch-sniffers at Ft. Riley wouldn't accept that kind of language, "What the fuck?" changed to "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!", and if said over the radio (asking for clarification of a particularly idiotic order, for example) the "Over" was added. It's now pretty much ingrained into the part of my brain that controls my speech patterns. When I see something so stupid and idiotic that I wonder just what kind of mental abortion created said stupidity, the words out of my mouth are normally "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!"

That's pretty much what I said when I saw the attack ad put out by the Obama campaign. "McCain can't use the computer to send an email!" And he can't comb his hair, either. The injuries he suffered while a prisoner of the fucking commie Norks prevent him from tying his shoes as well.

But what really turns my crank is this: This topic came up during the 2000 election. Of Obama or any of his sycophants had bothered to spend five minutes online doing a Google search, they would have known that the attack would turn around to bite them in the ass. In fact, the Obama camp has been putting out one mistake after another. Once McCain announced Palin as his VP, the Obama camp has been drifting around, contradicting themselves, making gaffes left and right, and shooting themselves in the foot on a daily basis. Obama, who prided himself on how he ran his campaign, now can't seem to control it for one stinking day.

If he gets this flustered over the Governor of Alaska, how the hell is he going to deal with the leader of some pisshole backwater country that may just end up nuking part of the USA?

He can't even control his campaign staff. How the hell does he expect to control his cabinet and staff if he gets elected?

If the past few weeks have shown us anything, it's how unfit Obama is to be in charge of anything other than tying his own shoes. He's a stuttering idiot when he doesn't have words fed to him off a teleprompter. He makes "mis-statements" or "mistakes" or "gaffes" even when he DOES have a teleprompter. And he crumples like tin-foil when faced with any kind of opposition.

He's not ready to even be in this election. I can't wait for the debates.

Following in their mentor's footsteps

If I recall correctly, there was another regime that airbrushed quite a few of their mistakes away too. I suppose that when a Leftist makes another one of their multitude of mistakes, they just follow the examples set by their idols.

Obama mocks the handicapped

Sweetness & Light posts Obama: Stupid McCain Can’t Send Emails

But reveals...

McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Hey Barack Hussein Obama... you say you want to lead this country? Name one qualification you have that proves anything other then tying John McCain's shoes isn't "above your pay grade"?

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Corrupt Communist Clusterfucks

The modern Democrat American Communist Party keeps showing that they're not fit to be dog-catcher, much less hold any elected office. I saw these yesterday, but I didn't want to post them because I tried being non-political on September 11th. Well, it's now September 12th, and I'm still pissed off. Why? Because the Democrat American Communist Party still exists, and it's still doing it's best to destroy America.

They are the party of criminals.

The criticize the president for "not protecting America" when that's damn near all he's done for the past seven years. I guess San Fran Nan going to Syria and having her little sit-down with Boy Assad helped? What a fucking joke. The President has been opposed at every. Single. Fucking. Opportunity by the Democrat American Communist Party, and yet they want to blame him for "not doing enough"? Oh, and they released their little smear report on September 10th. If that's just not appropriate, I don't know what is. Because the entire Democrat American Communist Party is stuck on September 10th, where everything was fluffy bunnies and rainbows and nobody attacked us and everybody liked us. What a fucking joke.

Ace has a link to the Daily Kos petting zoo where they celebrate September 11th just a little differently than real Americans. But gosh, don't question their patriotism! Also a link showing just how badly the biased propaganda whores of the MSM are in the tank for the Donks.

The more I read, the more pissed off I get. The Left today is nothing more than howling, feces-flinging monkeys, unworthy of respect or any serious consideration. And I'm getting to the point right now where I've just flat out had enough. Enough of their lies. Enough of their smears. Enough of their childish actions, and enough of their bullshit. So I'm really, really, REALLY hoping that McCain/Palin win the ticket, and I'm really, really, REALLY hoping that the Left starts rioting.

Because I'm going to have a hickory axe handle, and a strong desire to use it.

How to win a war

Well, you start like this:

I respect the chain of command. I know that the Joint Chiefs and the Pentagon have some concerns. One is about the Army and Marine Corps and the impact of the war on them. And the second is about other contingencies and the lack of strategic response to those contingencies.

I want Dave to know that I want him to win. That’s the mission. He will have as much force as he needs for as long as he needs it.

When he feels he wants to make further reductions, he should only make those reductions based on the conditions in Iraq that he believes justify those reductions. These two concerns that we are discussing back here in Washington — about contingency operations and the needs of the Army and the Marine Corps — they are not your concerns. They are my concerns.

I do not want to change the strategy until the strategy has succeeded. I waited over three years for a successful strategy. And I’m not giving up on it prematurely. I am not reducing further unless you are convinced that we should reduce further.

I honestly believe that President Bush was saddled with political flunkies instead of Military Generals when we took office. The Clinton administration favored ass-kissers and paper-pushers over actual military thinking, and thus the people who were promoted to the higher positions were those that could kiss ass and push paper around instead of plan for wars. THAT is why we were losing in Iraq.

But a good CinC realizes when things are working, and looks to fix them. For all of President Bush's faults, he wanted to win. No withdraw, not set an "end date", he wanted to WIN this war. And so he took the steps he needed to take.

Fault him on his domestic policies, but don't fault him for his leadership of the military.

Found via RNS.

September 11th

There's been a lot of words spoken about September 11th, tons of pictures, and I'm betting you've seen them, read them, and don't need to be reminded.

So all I'm going to say about September 11th is one hopefully small paragraph.

When the planes hit the towers, my friend ended up waking me and the Ragin' Girlfriend (now the Ragin' Mrs.) with the news. We spent the rest of the day watching it on TV. I had been out of the Army for two years then, my obligation done, my turn at the wall over with. And yet, here I am again in uniform, the past three years of it on active duty. If September 11th had not happened, I would not have re-enlisted. But I'll be damned if my country calls and I don't answer.

I'm keeping this post non-political today. But you can expect a hellstorm tomorrow night. Yes, I am pissed.

9/11

This pretty much sums it up for me: 102 Minutes that Changed America - History.com

Still Flailing

This is from "the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School":

Sarah Palin's views make me fear that the Republican party has finally lost its mind.

As for sex, the hypocrisy of her outing her pregnant daughter in front of millions of people, hard on the heels of her concealing her own pregnancy (her faith in abstinence applying, apparently, only to non-Palins), is nicely balanced by her hypocrisy in gushing with loving support of her teenage daughter after using a line-item veto to cut funding for a transitional home for teenage mothers in Alaska.

Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party's cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.

Can you imagine what it must be like to PAY to sit in a classroom or lecture hall and listen to self-important self-obsessed self-aggrandizing clucks like this?

Wendy Doniger: All Beliefs Welcome, Unless They are Forced on Others - On Faith at washingtonpost.com

I am beginning to hate Modern America

And no, it's not because of the fact that a do-nothing socialist can now be a candidate for President of the USA. In a way I consider that a good thing, because it proves that the most idiotic piece of shit can aspire to the highest office in the country.

No, we're trying to buy a new stove for the house that we're purchasing this month. We need a new stove, since there isn't one in the house. Fine. Dandy. Let's get a new stove. We're pretty simple in our needs:

Four burners. Not the inline, glass covered crapola, but just four plain coil burners.

An oven, preferably self cleaning.

And last but not least, it needs to last. Which means that the less electrical gadgetry on it, the better. But guess what? All the newer ovens today are push button ovens. Which means that you have a friggin' computer panel right in the middle of a huge metal appliance that experiences huge changes in temperature and humidity on a DAILY BASIS! Guess how long THAT damn thing will last in my house? Sure, if you're the type of person that cooks once a week, it'll last forever. But if you actually use the stove to, oh, I don't know, COOK YOUR MEALS EVERY DAY, it won't last longer than a couple of years before it turns into crap!

What the fuck was wrong with having knobs on your stove? And why can't I find a single damn new stove or oven WITH knobs instead of this push-button crap? What the hell is wrong with America? Are we so mentally deficient that we have to push a button instead of turning a knob to the correct temperature? What the hell?

Anyone else see the movie WALL-E? That's what I see America turning into. A bunch of fat fucking idiots who live by punching buttons in a chair. And dammit, I might just find an old cast-iron wood burning stove and put it in my kitchen, because this computerized, won't last five years crap is pissing me the hell off. Some things do not need a computer in them. A stove/oven is one of those things. Dear lord, if you put some of these modern pansy shitheads in a house from twenty years ago, they would starve to death. "What? No push button? No Microwave? Oh, whatever will I do?" Fucking choke to death on your microwavable cup of soup, you asscannon. I'll bet that most of Modern America wouldn't be able to start a fire without a gallon of gasoline and a Bic lighter.

Bah. I know that I'm going to end up the cranky old fart in the woods, waving a shotgun at anyone who dares come on his land. But you know what? The more I see of modern society, the more I think that it's not that cranky old coot who's crazy, it's everybody else.

Why the Big Three Auto Companies are dying

Here's a clue, you dipwads.... when you actually build a vehicle that your customers want to buy, it might be a nice idea to sell it to them.

Unless you’re a foreign military, government, or humanitarian organization, you’re not getting your hands on the Jeep J8, a vehicle we think a number of Jeepers would be all over in about two seconds if it were to be offered in neighborhood dealerships. Available as a two-door pickup (above) or a four-door (like the civilian Wrangler Unlimited), the J8 goes on sale this month and was officially revealed at Euro Camp Jeep ‘08 in Germany.

Power comes from a 150-horse turbodiesel with 295 lb-ft of torque, with that juice going to all four wheels via a five-speed auto and Jeep’s Command-Trac 4WD. The J8’s built to be a workhorse, with a Dana 60 rear, leaf springs in back, upgraded brakes, and a revamped intake that lets it ford 30 inches of water and handle a sandstorm lasting up to five hours. Its max payload is 2,750 pounds, and it has a towing capacity of over 7,700 pounds. Because the J8’s duties will vary depending upon who’s placing the order, a variety of cargo and seating configurations are offered, as is left- or right-hand-drive. All this, and no, you can’t order one. Yes, that sucks.

So you have a vehicle that would perform all the duties that a HUGE FUCKING AMOUNT of people in America need a vehicle to perform. Tear your eyes off of New York Fucking City, or Los Fucking Angeles, and take a look at the middle of the country. See all that space? People live there. People who own farms, or ranches, or just huge amounts of land that they need to work on. And they need a vehicle to work on those farms or ranches or acreage. This Jeep J8 would sell like hotcakes.

But we can't buy them. Nope, that's for them special people, not us commoners.

And they wonder why they're losing money hand over fist? Fuck them. If they're that damn stupid, they deserve to go out of business.

Hahaha!

The flailing continues apace...

South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion."

I read somewhere today speculation that the Democrats' internal polls show them in deep, deep trouble, maybe even checkmated, so long as Palin remains the GOP VP candidate.

They sure are going out whole hog to get her. It's almost like a high tech lynching, but they cannot find a tree strong enough to hold her.

Poor dumb bastards.

Politico.com

The Bourne Doltimatum

Where in the world is Sarah Palin?

Heh, lefties are saying she's "sequestered".




I'll see Ace's first commenter and raise him a just a bit:

Holy shit.

I'll bet my paycheck

That this woman votes for the Democrat American Communist Party.

The Americans are doing it again, mystifying the masses here with their weird, weird presidential elections.

To the Chinese, who are spared by the one-party Communist system of such complications as electoral colleges and party caucuses, the spectacle unfolding in the United States is not a very tempting advertisement for democracy.

Feel the stupid, folks. "Spared" from the horror of a two party system by the wonderful Communist Party! Right, because the Chinese can vote for anyone they want, but there's only one name on the ticket!

Yet if the Chinese think the U.S. presidential campaign is chaotic and unseemly, there is good reason. Chinese coverage has not exactly highlighted the more flattering aspects of the American political process.

Well gee, why wouldn't the ChiComs want to paint a flattering picture of American Politics? Maybe because if the Chinese found out that the rest of the world isn't forced to abort their second child, they might get a little ticked off?

And that, folks, is why I canceled my newspaper subscription when I lived in Seattle. Found at RSN.

Pardon me whilst I LOL

Matthews, Olbermann shitcanned from MSNBC.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Gee, two of the biggest no-talent, biased asscannons ever to disgrace a TV screen have finally been fired.

Unfortunately, they've hired David Gregory to replace them, showing that MSNBC still hasn't learned a damn thing. Hey NBC - it's not just that Olbermann and Matthews were idiots, it's that they're biased pieces of shit who were nothing more than mouthpieces for the DNC on the air. That turned off plenty of viewers. And if you expect David Gregory to change that, well, you're dumber than a mud fence.

But then, if you were smart, you wouldn't have allowed Olbermann and Matthews to continue this long.

How does Barack Hussein Obama really see the military?

Let's ask him:

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

So... they are slaughtering civilians like Ghengis Khan eh?

At a fancy '05 Manhattan fundraiser, Obama told the approving crowd that the Bush administration was using soldiers in Iraq as "cannon fodder."

So... they are stupid? eh?

“You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.” -- Barack Hussein Obama

So... voting against funding the troops is working eh?

..."oftentimes our women servicemembers are more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder partly because they — there's a sad, but real, problem of sexual harassment and sexual abuse for women veterans, and that makes them much more prone, then, to have post-traumatic stress disorder." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

So... when they aren't killing civilians they are molesting our service women who are stupid to join up as well? eh?

"If you talk to commanders on the ground there, they'll tell you, 'Instead of having another platoon, I'd rather have a couple of agricultural specialists." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D) who hasn't been "on the ground there" in Afghanistan

Because nothing inflicts casualties upon the Taliban like "agricultural specialists".

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

He almost joined the service

Oy Vey!

Just one problem with Obama’s little story.

Registration for selective service was not reinstated until 1980.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31176_Obama_Suddenly_Remembers-_He_Almost_Joined_the_Military

My cheeks hurt

After reading the Ratel Saga from Lawdog. Part three had me laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my face.....

Found via BTB.

I'm making a proclamation

Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who knowingly half-strips a 60 year old hardwood door, and then puts varnish over the whole damn thing, should be consigned to no less than the seventh circle of hell.

I have no idea what all is covering that poor door. All I know is that I can barely scrape it off. It just laughs at the varnish stripper I used. There's probably two decades worth of dirt, crap, and varnish on it.

The previous tenants of this house need to be persecuted for crimes against a historic home.

Joe Biden: Dirty as a Skunk

Actually, skunks may be clean animals. Dunno.

Can't excerpt it all, the gist is this, I think:

Joe Biden likes to say he is the embodiment of the American dream -- a middle-class kid who became one of the U.S. Senate's most-respected members and, now, the Democratic nominee for vice president.

Though he's considered one of the least wealthy senators -- his net worth dwarfed by several multimillionaire attorneys and entrepreneurs -- Biden is a wealthy man by ordinary standards -- worth about $2 million but perhaps hundreds of thousand dollars more, a News Journal analysis found.
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While their earnings probably would not be enough to purchase their Greenville estate today, the Bidens have managed to live in such splendor partly because of two financially rewarding real estate deals with political supporters.

In 1996, Biden sold a home in Greenville for the asking price of $1.2 million -- more than six times what he paid two decades earlier -- to John R. Cochran III, a top executive at the MBNA credit card bank that was a longtime political benefactor.

Using profits from that sale, Biden paid $350,000 cash to real estate executive and developer Keith D. Stoltz for 4.2 vacant acres -- a long, narrow lot a few miles from Biden's old home. Stoltz had bought that same lot five years earlier for the same price.

Stephen Pyle, who sold the land to Stoltz in 1991, said he was surprised that Stoltz, who lived on a neighboring estate, did not make any profit selling to Biden. "That doesn't sound like Keith Stoltz," Pyle, an artist who now lives in Texas, said of Stoltz, whose company recently proposed a $525 million project at nearby Barley Mill Plaza, a former DuPont Co. office campus.
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Sen. Biden married Jill in 1977 and the couple raised three children in the home. In 1996, they put it on the market for $1.2 million -- and that's exactly what Cochran, MBNA's chief marketing officer, paid for it.

That fall, the home sale became controversial when a pollster for Biden's re-election opponent, Republican Raymond Clatworthy, suggested during a telephone survey that Cochran paid more than twice what the house was worth.
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That didn't end the controversy, however. The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, published an article in 1998 that branded Biden as "The Senator from MBNA." The story was written long before Biden supported federal bankruptcy reform legislation, an effort that MBNA pursued aggressively.

The piece noted that MBNA employees had given $62,850 to Biden for his 1996 re-election -- by far the most from any company -- and that Cochran himself had given the maximum $2,000.

MBNA also reimbursed Cochran $330,115 for his move to Delaware from Maryland, including $210,000 for a loss on his old home, the magazine wrote, citing an MBNA Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Shortly after Biden defeated Clatworthy, the magazine reported, MBNA hired Biden's son Hunter, a Yale Law School graduate, to a management trainee post. Hunter Biden later left the bank and became a lobbyist.

Probably no more smarmy than a lot of what happens in DC. But a working class hero?

Ummm, no.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809060343

I think I may give blogging a go again

This Palin thing has me interested again. I've been spending most of my time on a hockey board, in the politics section. Almost everyone there is in college, twenty-something. Guess who they worship. It's quite a challenge.

Saw what appears below this afternoon, but before I link you, gotta say this:

Mmmmmmmmmm. American Legion Fish Fry.

Sounds tasty, and with good company.

So here it is, wonderful:

This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story.

“What you see in the picture I sent you is less than half of total flags,” a Republican official emailed. “We estimate the total number to be around 12,000 small flags and one full size 3×5 flag.”

http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/republican-recycling/

WTF?

Busy today

I have plenty of things to do to keep me occupied. Doing a little shopping for some necessities, possibly smoking a turkey (yes, a turkey, and yes, it'll taste damn good), and then working on a few projects around the rental house.

Rivrdog wanted a little comparison on cheeses from Wisconsin. So the wife and I will be doing a little write-up. We haven't tried them all yet, but we've already found a few we love. There's a cheese factory about 30 miles to the south-west that has a cheddar line up to blow your mind; everything from mild to 20-year old sharp, and yes it's just that damn good. From plain to fancy gourmet, we've liked just about everything we've tried, and we've found some that we absolutely love.

Yes, we're food snobs. And liquor snobs as well. We admit it, and it's a fault that we can both happily live with. If anyone comes to visit, you'll be well fed.

So I'm off. You folks have a great day.

More proof

that members of the Democrat American Communist Party are a bunch of lying, scummy, thieving, law-breaking rat-bastards who deserve to be tarred and feathered, then ridden out of town on a rail.

And fuckface Rangle is one of the worst. An absolute parasite, a waste of oxygen, someone who should probably tried for treason and crimes against the nation for crap he's done. And I'm betting we don't even know the half of all his crimes.

And have I mentioned

That after four years in Seattle, and three years in the middle of San Juan, that I am absolutely LOVING Wisconsin? The Ragin' Mrs. and I went to an American Legion Fish Fry for dinner tonight. Good people, good food, under $20.00.

I might just cry when I leave here. It depends on where they PCS me in five or six years.

Good God....

Bill Whittle can write. And yes, I knew this before, it's just nice to be reminded of it.

Want to lose weight fast?

Eat a huge fresh salad with dinner, and then go for a half-hour run the next morning. I swear I was prairie-doggin' the last mile, and I had to walk a block home at the end clenching my cheeks together. I managed to get into the bathroom on time, and then let loose with a hellacious flood of crap that dropped my weight by ten pounds in ten seconds.

And my pants fit better today too.

What, you didn't think I was all politics all the time did you?

Piling on

VDH takes on the Dimocrat Press and their smear-job attacks against Sarah Palin..

The Geraldine Ferraro Democratic Vice Presidential nominee appointment was an inspired stroke of genius that advanced the cause of feminism; Palin’s was tawdry tokenism.

Edwards was a social reformer brought down by the tabloids; Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is white trash and fair game.

Insulting “small town mayors” and “good looking” women is funny; suggesting that “community organizing” is often a farce is a felony.

Obama’s violation of drug laws with a “little blow” was youthful exuberance; Palin’s husband’s DUI was more proof of a working-class messy family.

Joe Biden bravely continued as Senator after the tragic death of his wife and daughter left his injured young sons with a single parent; Sarah Palin selfishly shorted her children by running for VP and endangered her infants by flying while pregnant.

Criticizing Clinton’s engaging in sex in the oval office and lying about it to the American people were once “the politics of personal destruction”; lying that Sarah Palin might not have been the mother of her 5th child is the mere overreach of the blogs caused by the improper vetting of the McCain campaign.

This all reminds me of the 2000 campaign when the media beat the dead-horse of Bush (Yale BA, Harvard MBA) as the lousy, lazy C-student, when, in fact, Al Gore’s undergraduate record at Harvard was full of C’s, F’s at Vanderbilt Divinity School (dropped out), and C’s at Vanderbilt Law School (dropped out). The point is not that quitting professional schools is necessarily a sign of anything, but rather once again that the media is shown to be bending and inventing facts for their higher purposes of liberal utopianism— a continuation of some half a century when we remember the “dumb” Ike floundering before the “brilliant” and “witty” Adlai Stevenson (who flunked out of Harvard Law School, a fact hidden from the public for decades.)

Slublog unloads...

You want to know why conservatives roared last night when the media was bashed and why many of us have spent the week in a simmering rage? It's because you're hypocrites. You claim to be objective, yet have spent the past few days absolutely smearing a woman and her family because she had the audacity to be a conservative Republican. You have expended more time and effort discussing her daughter's sex life than you've spent looking into the business and political associates of the Democrat candidate for president of the United States. When you did explore Palin's actual record, you have often done so with little regard for the truth. You and your colleagues have relinquished your right to be taken seriously as honest brokers of information.

And what this column shows me is that you know it. Behind the sarcasm lies an attempt to justify your behavior of the past week. Your little snark-fest is step one in the rehabilitation campaign. I don't think it's going to work all that well.

The media is proving that they're nothing more than hyper-partisan jackals. And they're proving it to anyone with a brain and eyes to see or ears to here.

Remember just yesterday...

When I said that the attacks, the lies, the smears would all get worse?

Yep.

And yep.

Lemme slap ya with some Velociman, courtesy of Og.

I don't know. But why can't she stand or fall on her own merits, without the left resorting to filthy smears and character assassination? I am outraged at the despicable libels and slanders hurled at her by the left, to wit:

1. Her Down Syndrome child is actually her daughter's.

2. She should be home with her children instead of being on the hustings.

3. She had an affair with her husband's best friend.

Just to name the latest. Oh, and when the media realized this shit was going sour they changed the meme to McCain didn't vet her! What horseshit. She was vetted for 5 months. And it was funny to see Alan Colmes still plying that crap, because he goes on at 9 PM, and the talking points change so fast he always ends up with the stale shit. Holding fetid talking points memos from DailyKos that virtually drip with obsolescence. The rage virus moves fast, Alan.

This type of attack is tolerated by the Obama campaign, if not sourced by it. It's a goddam sin against the American body politic, to me.

I don't even think I'm from the same species as today's leftist in general, and Democrat in particular. These people will employ any lie, any slander, any dissonance to their own professed beliefs to win. There is no excuse for these slimy fucking worms to behave this way. Except to win in Engels fashion.

I think this election season will prove that Leftists have no place in the human race. They've dropped far below us.

Again, yep. Let's see.... unfounded accusations, flat out lies, all designed to damage and destroy Sarah Palin.

It's the Left at it's finest. At this point, the only tactics the Left hasn't tried is rounding up the Palins and shipping them off to a gas chamber.

But don't think they're not thinking about it.

Rich Masters can kiss my ass

So Phil was listening to the radio an an asshat named Rich Masters comes on talking about Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party. Quoth the fuckstick, as paraphrased by Phil:

“And with affiliations like that I’m interested in what connections she has to Aryan and White Power groups. You did know she was born in Idaho, right?”

Hey Masters, you festering pustule on Idaho's ass..... In case it passed the notice of flaming assholes like yourself, we kicked those skinhead bastards out of Idaho. And guess what? We'd kick your ass out as well. Care to know why? Because you're both perfect examples of self-absorbed, brain-damaged, know-nothing, do-nothing wastes of oxygen. That's right, brainless blowhards like yourself are considered equal to racist pieces of shit like the skinheads. You're both intolerable, and I wouldn't piss on either of you if you were on fire in the middle of the street.

Gateway Pundit unloads on Code Pink haters

Look... I'm not advocating violence... I just think that the thugs of Code Pink deserve what they serve.

These are the people who maintain a 365 day-a-year, 7 day-a-week, 24 hour-a-day protest at Walter Reed military hospital to taunt the families of our wounded soldiers.

Screw "taking the high ground".

Gateway Pundit did some yellin'

Gateway Pundit

"I'm not proud of my actions."

I'm proud of you.

Remember:

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Why the MSM is worse than nothing.

The biased, hyper-partisan smearmongers and whores of the MSM have shown that they really are as scummy as we think they are.

Disgusting.

Pathetic.

If you thought the MSM was bad during the 2004 campaign, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. The propaganda mouthpiece of the Democrat American Communist Party will stop at nothing to place their Lord and Messiah, Barak Obama, on the throne. And the attacks have begun. The lies and the smears have begun. And it's only going to get worse.

Buckle in, folks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Birds of a feather, and all that....

Claire over at KisP notes that the Leftist Hounds are howling after Sarah Palin's family.

What's good for the goose.....

More good news from Iraq

That the hyper-partisan, biased, worthless MSM in this country doesn't feel the need to report.

Two years ago, Anbar Province was the most lethal place for American forces in Iraq. A U.S. marine or soldier died in the province nearly every day, and the provincial capital, Ramadi, was a moonscape of rubble and ruins. Islamic extremists controlled large pieces of territory, with some so ferocious in their views that they did not even allow the baking of bread.

On Monday, U.S. commanders formally returned responsibility for keeping order in Anbar Province, once the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, to the Iraqi Army and police. The ceremony, including a parade on a freshly paved street, capped one of the most significant turnabouts in the country since the war began five and a half years ago.

Just think - if Obama had his way, Anbar Province would still be a violent hellhole, and Iraq would be worse off than they ever were under Saddam.

So Palin is running for VP

Seriously, just how cool is that? I heard about it on the radio, and all of the sudden the popping sounds I'd been hearing all day were explained. The liberal's heads were exploding from the news. B. Hussien Obama picks a smarmy D.C. insider to be his running mate, and McCain picks a rising star.

For the first time in this election season, I actually have something to vote FOR rather than AGAINST.

Now, she's not going to fix all the problems the Republican Party has, but it's that small first step of a journey.

Ever gone skin diving?

Where you dive down deeper than you probably should have gone, and by the time you turn around and head back up your lungs are burning, and as you come out of the water you take huge gasps of air?

Yeah. I kinda feel like that. But the Ragin' Household has the internet again!

McCain(D) picks VP Sara Palin(R)

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

The more I think about Biden

The more I realize that the Lord Messiah Barak Hussien Obama is even more clueless than I thought.

He just gave John McCain the best shot at victory as McCain has seen this year. Short of picking Bela Pelosi as his running mate, all McCain has to do is stand on stage and ask America "Are you really going to elect THAT?!?!?!"

Flyin'

I'm heading back home today. Michael, I'm sorry we couldn't get together for a beer. I'm pretty sure I'll be back in the area some time next year, so we'll just have to take a rain check.

Still, I'll be glad to be out of the city and back in the country. I never realized just how much I missed rural living until I was back in the country of Wisconsin.

Pot use and the Democrat Party

So, I guess in Denver you can have an ounce of marijuana and not get arrested. That explains a lot about the DNC Convention this year, doesn't it?

(Yeah, I know that according to Denver state laws it's still illegal, but I'm just being snarky today.)

Here's another thought

Did anyone else other than me see the movie The Second Civil War? Phil Hartman plays a complete idiot of a President and goes about the movie making blunders after blunder every time he's on screen. Joe Biden reminds me of the President in that movie. Clueless, ineffectual, a smarmy blabbermouth, worthless. A politician who is all sizzle and no steak.

I'm trying to find the video clip of Biden saying that you can't walk into a convenience store without a slight Indian accent. You watch that video, and then you watch Phil Hartman playing the dipshit, and compare the two. THEY ARE IDENTICAL! The voice, the facial expressions, the clear lack of intelligence shown by both men (although Hartman was only acting stupid), they are identical.

Trust me on this. It would be a perfect political ad. Well, it would if anyone else other than myself had actually watched the movie.

Here's a thought

And you can tell me if this is a little crazy, but what of Obama picked Biden as a way to present a target that wasn't himself? I mean, you have Biden, a career politician, a walking gaffe machine, a guy who embodies everything that is wrong with politics in general and the Democrat American Communist Party specifically.

In short, he's the perfect target.

What if that's the point? I mean, Obama sits back and lets Biden get pounded, while all the while he pounds on McCain, and in the end it doesn't matter what Obama stands for because NOBODY CAN REMEMBER WHAT THE HELL HE SAID. Because all the attention was on Biden.

Or maybe I just had one drink too many.

Obama picks Biden

So the Lord Messiah Barak Hussien Obama, the holy purveyor of Changy-Hopiness, picks a lifetime politician who has been in office since BEFORE I WAS EVEN BORN. If you want a picture perfect example of the corrupt status-quo, Biden is an excellent example. Not the only example of course, but a damn good one.

I suppose if you wanted to attract the coastal liberal elites, Biden is a great pick. If you wanted to attract voters from the Midwest, the South and Western states, you couldn't have picked a worse candidate for VP. Right now as the ticket stands, the candidate for President is a done-nothing neophyte from the Chicago political machine who stands for some vague concepts but nothing specific, and the candidate for VP is a career politician from the Northeast who's known for verbal gaffes and plagiarism.

I'm a little underwhelmed.

This will be an interesting election season.

A question

And Michael, you might be able to answer this -

Is it pronounced DEE-troit or De-TROIT?

Again with the anti-Flag nonsense?

Via Van Helsing, Obama Wrapped in Upside-Down Flag

Check out this ticket design for the Democrat National Convention...

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Hey, what's that smell?

Does anyone else get the feeling that the Democrat America Communist Party rank and file have finally waken up to the fact that they've been handed a shit sandwich in terms of a Presidential nominee?

Granted, we conservatives also know that we have been handed a shit sandwich. We just knew it a long time ago.

Learn English, dumbass!

No, this isn't directed at those open-borders assholes who march up and down screaming "SI SE PUEDE!" This is directed at people who try to argue with myself or anyone else in print, and can't even bother to spell simple words correctly.

Now, I'm not talking about a few spelling errors here. I think that everyone who has typed up a document has made a few of those. Maybe put a comma where a period should have gone. Used a colon for a semicolon. Fine, those I can deal with. What I cannot deal with is crap like this:

u r a tool you don't now what ur talking about

Look, I get it - you're a spastic teenage twit who has never cracked open a book that didn't have pop-up pages. But if you're going to call me a tool, could you PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD try not to look like some ignorant, uneducated, worthless waste of time, space, and oxygen? Oh, and claiming to have a college degree while you write crap like that? Sorry, I was born at night but it wasn't last night.

You know what worries me? This brainless jughead is going to VOTE! He knows nothing about how this country works, why it was founded, the ideals behind it and the people that made it all happen. And yet he's going to be part of that great idiotic mass that votes for The Lord Messiah Barak Hussien Obama, and do his best to flush this country down the toilet.

I need more ammo.

UPDATE: Darling Wachel Wucas has another wonderful example of this sort of person.

The Army and Money

Let me give you a little back brief here, OK? As anyone who reads me on a regular basis (all ten of you, and I love yous guys!) know, I recently PCSed to a new station. And as anyone who has moved knows, moving takes money. Quite a bit of it in fact.

So, we have the PCS. The subsequent drive from my Home of Record to my new unit. Finding a house. Renting a house while we search for a house to buy. All of which takes money. Lots and lots of money. The wife and I had a darn good amount of cash stored in savings, but much of it was used. Not a problem, that's what it was there for, and we'll be getting some of it back from travel vouchers but that won't be for another month and a half or so. DFAS is swamped, so most vouchers take one to two months to process. Still not a big deal, or a big worry.

And now I go TDY. I have a 200 mile drive, followed by a plane trip to Detroit. I return on Sunday, pick up my truck and drive 200 miles back to my station. NOW we're getting into the big deal, because quite frankly I don't have the money to be buying plane tickets right now, yannow? But wait, the Army issues Government Travel Cards, credit cards to be used by government employees just for this purpose! Great! And I have one of those wonderful Government Travel Cards!

Which has bitten me in the ass every last time I used it. And it's biting me in the ass now. Somehow, the damn thing never got activated for this particular TDY. Yep, you have to activate it every last damn time you use the worthless fucking thing, and so now I'm sitting in Minnesota with little personal cash in my account, and a GTC which I'm forced to use that hasn't been activated! So I get to pull some of the remaining cash out of my savings to cover my lodging and food! ONCE AGAIN, I AM USING MY PERSONAL MONEY FOR ARMY BUSINESS, AND I AM GETTING RATHER TIRED OF IT! The last time I used the card, I had to wait two damn months for the card to get paid, and I was getting nasty-grams from the Bank of America, a thoroughly shitty bank that I strongly urge that nobody EVER use, and now even though I have a $200 credit on the card I can't use it because some dipshit up higher decided that it wasn't going to get activated!

I'm so pissed off I'm spitting nails.

At least the bank approved the loan for the house. And my wife still loves me. So does my dog. So, I have that.

More government thuggery.

Kevin Baker has a couple of posts up about the wonderful job that the gummint, both local and federal, are doing to protect us from..... well, SOMETHING obviously, because they seem to be very serious about doing their job.

Sending storm-troopers into a guys house because he bought handgun ammo? Yep.

Confiscating supplies and notes from the house of a do-it-yourself chemist even though he hasn't broken any laws? Yep.

As Ronald Reagan said years ago, "The scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'" Add the two examples abover to the Idaho man who was jailed by a petty tyrant because he had the audacity to follow the rules and laws of where he lived. At which point do we as citizens start to lock and load? How about we start just shutting our doors in the faces of the thugs and storm-troopers sent by a government that more and more resembles the government we broke away from over two-hundred years ago? Re-issue the Declaration of Independence to the corrupt, blood-sucking shitheels in D.C. It's as valid today as it was back in 1776.

Government is the PROBLEM

It is almost never the solution. And it sure the hell ain't the solution here either.

Bid accepted

Paperwork signed. Bank loan OK'ed. Now we wait for the inspectors to do their job. And if all goes well, I'll be the owner of a house.

I'm scared witless right now. For everyone else who has their own home, did you feel like this when you bought your first house?

Scratch a Democrat

Find a dictator. The silencing of dissent via threats of violence and/or homicide does seem to be a hallmark of the Leftists, does it not?

When they call anyone on the Right a "fascist" or "thug", remember that it's just projection on the Leftist's behalf.

Drive-by blogging

I'm doing posting as I can, but obviously I'm not up to my normal standard. I apologize for that. Hell, I'm catching mistakes a day after the fact, once it's been posted for 24 hours. Kinda sucks. But, once I have internet on a regular basis things should go back to normal.

Problem is, I don't know when I'll have the internet on a regular basis. So there we are.

Well, yes..... but.......

Kim du Toit has a post up with links to articles detailing why America won't elect the Lord Messiah B. Hussien Obama. I'm not so sure.

1) The sheer idiocy of the liberal enclaves might swamp the boat, so to speak.
2) The Republican Stupid Party has just spent the better part of four years shitting all over their base of support.
3) John McCain is uninspiring to the point of boredom.

Any one of those three points is bad. But today, all three points are converging into a maelstrom of political suicide for this country. All we can do is keep showing how unfit B. Hussien Obama is to be President and hope for the best.

House hunting part Tres

Actually, the hunting as pretty much stopped, now that the bidding has commenced. We put in a bid on Friday. We still haven't heard back. That might be a bad thing, but on the other hand we didn't get a phone call of hysterical laughter from the sellers, so it might be that they're considering it.

The rental is an absolutely beautiful house. It's also about $30,000 more than we can afford to buy. So until we have OUR house in OUR name, we'll continue living there and fixing it up as we can. Nothing too expensive, but I can afford to put some elbow grease into making it better while I live there.

And coffee shops with Wi-Fi are my friend.

More evidence that the MSM is worthless

This time with the reference of John Edwards. How the NYT just flat out buried the story. How the story was out there, but the MSM refused to even check on it.

You cannot trust the MSM to tell you the truth. Actually, you can't trust the MSM to tell you anything that they do not personally and politically agree with. They are whores. Harlots. They are the cheap, tawdry tavern wench who has been bought and paid for to slip a mickey into your drink when you're not looking. They are scum. Worthless and pathetic, they have given up their mantel as "reporters" and have gone straight into political advocacy disguised as news. Any claim of objectivity from the MSM can be discarded as complete rubbish, and the credibility of any journalist can be assumed to be nil, zip, zilch, nada, non-existent.

I have to scan five different sources for a news story before I'll even begin to believe it. And unfortunately, I find myself looking at stories that don't make it very far and wondering "Did that die because it's false, or did that die because the MSM doesn't agree with the political angle?"

I wouldn't trust a "journalist" any farther than I could throw him.

The Olympic Games are on

And I don't have a TV. You know what? After watching the opening ceremonies at lodging, I really don't know if I'll miss it. Did anyone else catch that show on whatever station was broadcasting it? The director was either doing drugs, or needs to be fired pronto. They would have this wonderful panoramic shot of all the performers, and then they would close in for some ungodly close-up shot of a Chinese guy in his costume. The performance was meant to be viewed from above and from afar, not up close! You would have this great shot of the people in the light-up costumes, and when viewed properly it was breath-taking. I don't much care for the Chi-coms, but whoever was in charge of this thing did it damn well. UNTIL..... the dipshit in the director's chair decided that a close-up of a single performer lit up like a Christmas tree would be better than the actual entire show.

I do not need to see a close-up of a Chi-com with LED lights on his wanger, thanks very much, go kill yourself for being such a moron, mmkay? For Pete's sake, the performers could have been giving a one-of-a-kind show, and I missed it because the drug-soaked idiot in charge of the cameras wants to give me a shot of some single performer's FREAKING FEET! Put the bong down, you shit-for-brains asshole! Pull the camera back! You turned a good show into a miserable experience!

Oh, and the commercials during the Parade of Athletes. Matt Lauer and Bob Costas blathering away for thirty seconds, followed by two minutes of commercials. "And here's the tiny island nation of Tututu, wearing constumes representing the penis of their monarch, King Schlongalong! You know, they worship their king's phallus, Matt! Now let's take a quick break for commercials!"

*****two minutes of Raging Dave beating himself unconscious with a beer bottle*******

"And we're back, as the Australians enter this magnificent arena! Aren't their dusters magnificent, Matt? Now let's take a quick commercial break!"

*****two more minutes of Raging Dave trying to kill himself with an ottoman*****

After a while, I just turned it to a different channel, and I would click back over to see when the Americans were entering. And oh, by the way, how did everyone love the sheer, Soviet-style military showing of the flag raising? You could almost hear Joseph Stalin screaming from his grave "DA! DA, COMRADE!" I thought the goose-stepping while carrying the Olympic freaking flag was a rather nice touch.

Blah.

Anyways, I guess I'll have to read all about the games in the newspaper for a little while. Ah well. That's life.

spankspankspank

The Glow-Bull Warming crowd reminds me of a retarded child some days. You can tell them the truth, but they still don't get it. You just have to keep telling them the truth until it sticks. Or until they die, in which case you just hope you can mitigate the damage they might cause from not listening to you.

Thanks, Alger.

What do you make of this?

Reader Proud Horn emailed me this, and asked of Obama was a Trekkie. (reference for that here) Me, I'm not so sure. I think it indicates the size of the shafting we're all going to feel personally if Obama gets elected. "Yep, by the time the Lord Messiah B. Hussien Obama is done, your cornhole is gonna be THIS BIG!"

UPDATE: Kim du Toit has another thought on it.

August 8, 1942 German saboteurs executed in Washington

Remember when (D)emocrats had a pair?

6 German saboteurs executed in Washington

Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York, from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and bringing ashore enough explosives, primers, and incendiaries to support an expected two-year career in the sabotage of American defense-related production. On June 17, 1942, a similar group landed on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, equipped for a similar career in industrial disruption.

The purpose of the invasions was to strike a major blow for Germany by bringing the violence of war to our home ground through destruction of America's ability to manufacture vital equipment and supplies and transport them to the battlegrounds of Europe; to strike fear into the American civilian population, and diminish the resolve of the United States to overcome our enemies.

By June 27, 1942, all eight saboteurs had been arrested without having accomplished one act of destruction. Tried before a Military Commission, they were found guilty. One was sentenced to life imprisonment, another to thirty years, and six received the death penalty, which was carried out within a few days.
...
The eight were tried before a Military Commission, comprised of seven U.S. Army officers appointed by President Roosevelt, from July 8, to August 4, 1942.

Constrast that to Sweetness & Light's observation:

Bin Laden Driver Gets Slap On The Wrist

Did he also apologize to the 3,000 people murdered on 9/11 for helping Bin Laden to elude capture?

Do you really think the obscene pressure put upon the system by our partisan MainStreamMedia and the Leftist (D)emocrat apologists for terrorism isn't having an impact?

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

House Hunting Redoux

Grrrrrrr..... just when you think things are settled, reality comes up and bites you square in the ass. But, me and the Mrs. are somewhat resourceful so we're not sitting around crying about it. It looks like we're going to be buying a house despite not wanting to do so. We'll see what happens. In the meantime, internet connectivity is going to continue to be intermittent since without having a permanent house we can't get our household goods. No household goods, no router. We're looking for other internet options. If we manage to get hooked up you'll be the first to know.

Too Much Government

I found this RCOB piece while checking C&S. Good god, if anyone ever needed proof that the government had grown to damn big, this is it. And as S.H. Long says:

"It's a civic responsibility for every U.S. citizen to read this so they can't later claim, "We had no idea the smoke was from those ovens."

Innocent people following the law getting tossed into prison due to some black-robed petty tyrant? Gosh, that couldn't happen in America, could it? IT HAS HAPPENED. IT IS HAPPENING. Out of control government agencies. Judicial activism at it's worst. And a man going to jail because he followed the laws and did what he was told to do by the county he lives in and the US Corps of Engineers. Tell me that it wouldn't be appropriate to bring out the tar and feathers and march on D.C. It's well PAST that point. The parasitic bastards should have been tarred and feathered years ago.

Mike Gravel(D) defends a terrorist with terrorism

A convicted terrorist no less... and Steve Emerson has the audio

...urged people to stalk a federal prosecutor and his family in order to get criminal contempt charges dropped against Sami Al-Arian...

"Find out where he lives. Find out where his office is. If you've got some chutzpah - which is a word that you don't hear often - if you've really got it, find out where he lives, find out where his kids go to school, find out where his office is; picket him all the time. Call him a racist in signs if you see him. Call him an injustice. Call him whatever you want to call him, but in his face all the time. They can't take the heat; deliver it to them. We have to stop laying down to these injustices."

...Al-Arian pled guilty in 2006 to conspiring to provide goods and services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). His 2005 trial ended with eight acquittals and a deadlocked jury on nine other counts, including racketeering conspiracy. He has argued that his plea agreement ruled out what he considers cooperation with any government investigations. But Kromberg has argued that a grand jury subpoena is not cooperation, but rather it is a compelled statement. When Al-Arian refused to testify despite a grant of immunity, he was subject to civil contempt orders that extended his incarceration for months.

Mike Gravel(D) is not just willing to defend a terrorist but is in fact threatening children of public servants tasked with bringing that terrorist to justice. A vomitous coward demonstrating exactly the tactics we've seen his party adopt repeatedly to veil the threat to innocents.

I hope Mike Gravel(D), gets exactly that which he wishes upon children. Better yet... grant him the fate he would allow Sami Al-Arian's fellow terrorists to visit upon children.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

I think we have a house

to rent, anyways. The least gets signed on Monday if all goes well. But DAMN there's a lot of work to do before we can live in it. We managed to negotiate the rent down a considerable amount because of that fact. Of course, that leaves the Ragin' Mrs. and I up to our eyeballs in house repair the moment we sign for it, but it'll be worth it. The house is huge, all wooden floors (a plus for an allergy sufferer like my dear wife) and flat out beautiful. Some of the wood work makes me just drool. The damage done to that wood work makes me cry, but that's why I'm going to be repairing it.

So if all goes well, I should have a house with internet access sometime around the 11th. WOO HOO!

Incommunicado

Well, transient housing said they had wireless internet in their place. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Ah, well. I'm sitting in La Crosse right now at a coffee shop checking my email. I won't have the 'net for a while longer, so expect intermittent postings until I'm set up in a casa of my own.

Barack Hussein Obama smears the troops... again...

Barack Hussein Obama has not served, and it shows.

“So Senator Obama and his campaign decided that it would be inappropriate to visit wounded soldiers in Germany while touring Europe as a candidate for the presidency. Senator McCain hit this one right on the head: it is never inappropriate to visit our wounded men and women in uniform.” -- Bobby Eberle

Yet

"When Obama learned that he couldn't bring his media circus, he blew off visiting wounded US troops in Germany. But Iraq's Minister of the Interior Jawad Karim al-Bolani holds them in higher regard, visiting them at Walter Reed and offering them the thanks for ending Saddam Hussein's menacing and genocidal rule that have not been forthcoming from the Democrats who helped send them to war." -- Van Helsing

In fact Barack Hussein Obama credits the terror supporters for the success of the surge rather then the American troops that risked their lives to stop them.

“So the point that I was making at the time was that the political dynamic [in Iraq] was the driving force between that sectarian violence. And we could try to keep a lid on it, but if these underlining dynamic continued to bubble up and explode the way they were, then we would be in a difficult situation. I am glad that in fact those political dynamic shifted at the same time that our troops did outstanding work.” -- Barack Obama on the surge

Leaving an honest few in the MainStreamMedia surprised

“Why can’t Obama bring himself to acknowledge the surge worked better than he and other skeptics, including this page, thought it would? What does that stubbornness say about the kind of president he’d be?” -- USA Today

This isn't surprising as he has called our boys murderers:

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

He has called our boys stupid:

At a fancy '05 Manhattan fundraiser, Obama told the approving crowd that the Bush administration was using soldiers in Iraq as "cannon fodder."

He has called our boys clueless

“You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.” -- Barack Hussein Obama

He has called our boys mentally ill:

..."oftentimes our women servicemembers are more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder partly because they — there's a sad, but real, problem of sexual harassment and sexual abuse for women veterans, and that makes them much more prone, then, to have post-traumatic stress disorder." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

He has repeatedly demonstrated arrogance and ignorance

"If you talk to commanders on the ground there, they'll tell you, 'Instead of having another platoon, I'd rather have a couple of agricultural specialists." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D) who hasn't been "on the ground there" in Afghanistan

Barack Hussein Obama claims he wants to lead as Commander-in-Chief?

Excerpted from DANEgerus

Calling it quits

No, not me. Kim and Connie du Toit are calling it quits. Not immediately, but in a while.

Crap. Well, they've been kicking ass for years. If anyone deserves to say "Nope, no more" it's them. But..... I give it a year before Mr. du Toit starts up again. In my honest opinion, I don't think he can keep quiet when he knows he can have a positive effect.

And if he doesn't come back, at least we can say that we learned something from him while he was around.

Ft. McCoy

Made it in late last night. Currently staying in Sparta, WI until tomorrow when we move to transient housing. It was a good trip, but I'm glad that it's over.

I managed to visit one person, LifeTrek, who graciously opened up his house to my family and I. We were able to relax in comfort for a while before we gassed up and made the last leg of the journey. Right now we're poring over real estate and getting ready to jump back into the swing of things.

Other than the mosquitoes, I have no complaints about the area. In fact, even though I know that it's going to get cold as hell in the wintertime, I'm still looking forward to it. The people here are polite and friendly, the roads are in decent shape, and the wife is happy.

Dinner time. Must go.

Banning Trans-Fats

So Commiefornia has banned trans-fats, as well as New York Fucking City. Can there be a better example of over-reaching government control? "IT'S BAD FOR YOU AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!"

Yes Master. Thank you for keeping me safe, Master. Whatever would we do without you, Master. Fuck you sideways with a chainsaw, Master.

FEDERAL LAW requires television stations to broadcast in digital instead of analog signals. Excuse me? Why the hell is the Federal government mandating anything about how TV stations broadcast their signals? Who gave them that right?

The Mitchel Report on baseball. Since when is it the FedGov's job to worry about whether or not baseball players are juiced? WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY DEALING WITH THAT?

Does anyone else see the problem here?

Gas prices

Since the family and I are driving around a lot of the USA right now, you can imagine that it's costing us a bit in gas money. And you would be right. I'm glad to see that America is finally waking up to the cost of allowing eco-freaks to dictate our energy policy.

One thing that always pisses me off is when some clueless Leftist (redundancy alert) starts blabbing about how mass transit or alternate fuels could wean us off oil. On the alternate fuels point, I'll let Mr. Alger take over, since he manages to shred that particular argument in about five minutes flat.

But this mass transit thing. I've heard it mentioned before. "But, but, Europe has trains! Japan has trains! We can have trains!" Or buses. Or whatever mode of transportation is being discussed.

People who make this argument have never taken the journey that I have this week. Or the several that I've taken over my life, from one coast to the other. Leftists don't have any comprehension of just how big this country is, how vast the spaces are. A train from Berlin to Paris works because it's only around 545 miles. That's two countries, millions of people, all in an area that would fit into Montana. Hell, Montana took us two days to traverse. Germany could be dropped into Texas and IT WOULD FIT EASILY.

Mass transit is not the answer for this country. Sorry. But them's the facts.

Say WHAT?

An older video of Dingy Harry Reid has him saying that paying taxes is friggin' voluntary.

The man is so damn idiotic that it makes me cry to know that he's in Congress making laws that the rest of us are forced to follow. VOLUNTARY????????

Impeach the bastard for being so damn stupid. Fucking oxygen thief. I think he's the perfect frontman from the Democrat American Communist Party. A clueless fucking idiot who's arrogant to the extreme and refuses to admit when he's wrong.

Floor it or shoot?

Depends on what vehicle I'm driving. In the wife's car, with it's low clearance, I'd shoot and clear a path out. In my truck, I'd downshift, pop the clutch and run these fucking bastards over.

Real peaceful folks, Leftists.

St. Louis, MO

It's hot. Damn hot. Now I remember why I got the hell out of Kansas as soon as I could - because the weather will make you melt.

After three years of Puerto Rico, you would think that I would be used to hot and humid. You would be wrong.

Stopped by the Baker's Creek Seed Company about 45 miles out of Springfield. It's an Heirloom seed company. The wife danced around a little bit and then bought forty-five different packs of seeds. We got carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, melons, gourds, radishes, beans, more beans, peas, summer squash, winter squash.... whew..... next spring is going to be plant heaven at my house. Cool place, and the guy helping us pick seeds out knew damn near everything about what was in his store. Turned out, he was the owner. Not only that, but he'd started the company when he was 17.

When I was 17, I was chasing girls and banging on drums. I guess it took me a little while to get myself in gear.

I pick up my truck tomorrow. WOO-HOO! I get to drive my vehicle again! Don't get me wrong, my wife's car is nice, but it's sized for her. As in, sized for her 5'4" frame, not my 6' frame. Getting in and out requires at least ten minutes of limbering up before I attempt it, lest I contort myself in some odd fashion and pull a muscle or rupture a hamstring.

We should be in Wisconsin by tomorrow night. Long day of driving, but at least we won't have any further to go.

A letter from the troops

About the Lord Messiah Barak Hussien Obama.

95% of base wanted nothing to do with him. I have met three troops who support him, and literally hundreds who regard him as a buffoon, a charlatan, a hindrance to their mission or a flat out enemy of progress. Even when the rumors were publicly admitted, almost no one left their duty sections to try to see him, unless they were officers whose presence was officially required.

Yeowch. If it weren't for the Leftist propaganda whores of the MSM, The Lord Messiah Barack Hussien Obama would be toast. The only reason he's gotten this far is because the media, being the mouthpiece for the Democrat American Communist Party, has kept him afloat. The man is a walking embarassment to America.

And the Obama campaign

Is full of lying pieces of shit. That includes The Messiah Lord Barak Obama himself, the worthless arrogant asscannon.

More "support" for the troops

From the Democrat American Communist Party.

Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence. Democrats normally leap on an opportunity to find fault with the Bush Pentagon. But not a single Democrat joined Blunt as a co-sponsor, and an all-Republican proposal cannot pass in the Democratic-controlled House.

The Democrat American Communist Party only supports the troops when they can get some sort of political gain for doing so. Other than that, they treat us like shit. They hate us. They can't stand us. They loath the military with every fiber of their being. And it shows in their actions when they think we're not looking. The fucking anti-American fuckers.

Found at RNS, who has a whole load of good posts up today.

Sioux Falls, SD

Is today's stop. But we took a little detour first. Click for bigger.

If you want to download it, it's 795 KB. I've got a flaming assload more photos of the monument from a lot of different vantage points. I've also got quite a bit from the Little Bighorn Battlefield, but they're over 4MB each and I can only throw so much up here.

Maybe I should start a photography blog. Meh. We'll see.

South Dakota has it's own beauty that has to be seen to be appreciated. You can't get it from a photograph, although some come close. Neither the Ragin' Mrs. nor the Ragin' Stepson had ever truly understood the phrase "Big Sky Country". After the drive through Montana and South Dakota, I think they have a much better understanding.

That one is 2.6MB. And that's just a small taste. Anyone who's been there will understand. If you haven't, well, you need to make the trip during the summer. Visit Mt. Rushmore. Take I-90, or better yet, take some of the many highways that parallel the interstate. It's well worth it.

We'll be heading South tomorrow, through Iowa and ending up in Missouri. We'll be kicking around Missouri for the weekend taking care of business, and then heading up to Wisconsin through Illinois. That's the basic layout, although the Ragin' Mrs. and I are rather capricious when it comes to travel plans so long as we meet the timeline at the end. We'll be driving by something and go "Oooooo!", turn into whatever the attraction is, and spend some time. That's how we met Brutus. All 800 pounds of him.


And he's still growing!

More updates as time and internet permit. Till then.....

Rapid City, SD

Is where I'm at right now. We got off I-90 today and saw some absolutely beautiful countryside. Found one of the best damn ice cream shops I've ever eaten at in Broadus, Montana. The Copper something-or-other Antiques and Ice Cream Shop. Great stuff, and they didn't skimp at all.

Stopped at Little Bighorn Battlefield. I didn't know they had markers up at the locations where they found the bodies of the Soldiers. So you have the main monument, and then you have marble headstones on the locations of where the different soldiers fell. Some headstones have names. Some just say "U.S. Soldier, 7th Cavalry" They have a National Cemetery there as well. Lots of headstones with just a name, and "Infant" or "Child" underneath it. Life on the frontier was harsh. These headstones are a glaring reminder of just what people endured over a century ago so that I could sit here four generations later and type on a computer in South Dakota.

We're taking things slow, turning this trip into a vacation instead of just traveling straight through. We purposely avoid any national restaurants or stores, staying completely local. We ate at the Firehouse Brewing Company tonight in Rapid City. The beer was OK, but the food was good. Drooled over some buffalo hides that I can't afford and couldn't fit into the already overpacked car in any case. Strolled around the historic area of Rapid City. They have bronze statues of the founding fathers at every corner of several blocks. You couldn't find that in California if you tried. The Ragin' Mrs. hasn't been out this way before, and she's a bit surprised at the way most people are actually proud of their country. She's still suffering from Puerto Rico. It's going to take us a while to recover from that place.

We'll be swinging South to hit St. Louis and pick up my truck from VPC before we head North. If I have the internet at the next hotel, I'll keep you updated. Till then!

Barack Hussein Obama, No Pledge, No Pin, No Flag

"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Obama

So Yes, No Pledge, No Pin, and look how he "fixed" O-force-One:

Cross Posted at DANEgerus