Yep

Went over to The Smallest Minority and saw the quote that I had to steal:

The Republicans more or less follow the laws and constitutional procedures, the Democrats deliberately and consciously break them. But the Republicans, while they complain incessantly about the Democrats, never identify this underlying fact. Why? Because that would show that the system is no longer legitimate. And the function of the Republicans, as "patriotic, conservative Americans," is to uphold the goodness and legitimacy of the system, a legitimacy which rests on the belief that everyone in American politics shares the same basic principles and loyalties. So the Republicans, as defenders of the system and its presumed basic unity, cannot expose what the Democrats are. If they exposed it, politics would be replaced by open war between two radically incompatible parties and America as we know it would come to an end. 

 I need to add my two cents here - the establishment GOP doesn't want to expose the Democrats as the cheating fucking anti-American asshats they are because much of the establishment GOP is enjoying the material wealth gained through cheating for themselves.  They don't want to see the Gravy Train come to an end.  They're just as elitist as the Democrat American Communist Party is.

But there are two radically incompatible parties in America.  There's the Left, and then there's the Americans.

Woke up way too early

Even after two belts of whiskey and my head hitting the pillow at 2200 hrs, I still couldn't sleep in past 0545.

My body seems to have determined that it's an early riser.  Both my parents are probably feeling a disturbance in the force, and they have no idea why.

Ah well.  Spent some time washing more of the carrots that came out of our garden.  I have a giant tub of heirloom carrots sitting in my kitchen right now, and I'm going to turn them into dill pickled carrots.  Hopefully they taste good. 

I'll probably just simply can a bunch of them as well.  I have a LOT of carrots.

My laugh for the day

After sitting out all day hunting Bambi and getting skunked, I needed this laugh:

At the scene Thursday night, Flynn told reporters that officers wouldn't help protesters fulfill their "martyrdom fantasies" and they could stay "and freeze their butts off."

The bridge "cleared itself," as protesters left about 40 minutes after his announcement that there would be no mass arrest, Flynn recalled Friday.

 Flea party temper tantrum getting ignored?  Well.....  yeah, check.  Flea Party walking off with pouty face firmly in place?  CHECK!  Yeah, you go ahead and "occupy" a bridge in Wisconsin in mid-November there, genius.  Tell me how that works out for you, after you get out of the hospital for your frostbite and hypothermia.

On their butts.

HAA!

Hat tip to the Headmistress.

This isn't a shock -

Nancy Pelosi is corrupt as hell.  Naw, really?  Tell me another one!  I'm stunned!  This is my stunned face!

Going hunting

Although the last two times I went out, I got skunked.  But what the hell, hope springs eternal or something like that.

Maybe this year, I can make Bambi my bitch.

On a Dime

Just random thoughts here - I went to pull out of my parking space at work yesterday, and did what I would normally do in my truck - crank the wheel hard to the right and slowing ease on out.

I damn near backed right into the side of the vehicle next to me.

My truck, while not a full-size, still had a decent turning radius.  I could pull a U-turn in the road if I went all the way to one side and then turned the wheels.  My little runner could pull a U-turn in my friggin' driveway.  The turning radius on that thing is so small that I swear I could do a circle and it would pivot, not turn.

That'll be handy in the summertime!

But Mom, they're not people! THEY'RE HIPPIES!

Dirty.


Filthy.

Nasty!

Hippies!

Winter Wind

Went running this morning - took a route that passes by the local VFW.  They've got the US flag up high, and ten other flags on a lower set of poles; all the Armed services flags, the POW/MIA flag, Wisconsin Flag, etc.

Every last one of their flags was sticking straight out in the wind.

Yep.  It's winter.  And it's getting colder by the day, although we've been blessed with a beautiful Indian Summer here.

Nose to the grindstone

I've been too busy to do much news browsing, but what I've seen just makes me sick.  By the way, when are the riots over Elena Kagan going to break out when she refuses to recuse herself after working in favor of Obamacare?

Just asking.

Three Hundred Bitchslaps

And I do mean Bitchslaps.

The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.

That there is a backhand that will loosen teeth.  And I loved the ending:

In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.

Or better yet, enlist for the real thing. Maybe our military could whip some of you into shape.

They might not let you babies keep your iPhones, though. Try to soldier on.

Schmucks.

HOO-FUCKING-RAH!

Home again

Was out on business.  Home now, and waiting for dinner.  Later, a walk with the puppy and a good cigar.

Tired.  Brain not working.

Veteran's Day

There's plenty of folks who have spoken words much finer than I can compose.  I'm simply one small, tiny part of a giant tapestry that goes back for hundreds of years, and when I shake the hands of men who have endured trials that any modern man would consider life-breaking, I can only offer humble thanks to the men who paved my road for me.

This year, instead of just thanking a vet, try volunteering with a local veterans organization.  Put action to your words.  Join the American Legion, or the Patriot Guard Riders.  If you're a vet, join the VFW.  I listened to a Lieutenant Colonel give a speech, and his dominant theme is that we still need to serve if we're committed to keeping America great.  He's right.  You can't just go home anymore and think that everything is going to be fine.  As we can see, it's not.

Being a veteran means that at some point and time, you have offered yourself to the service of your country.  It doesn't mean that your service is over, or that you can relax.

But it does mean that you have my thanks, and the thanks of millions of Americans who understand what you've given.

From:

To:

Be a Man, make some bread

Ok folks, here is my simple, easy bread recipe.  This is one of those things that you can futz with all you want, as it's just a basic loaf of bread.  Actually, this recipe will give you two to four loaves, depending on how big you make them.

You're going to need:

6 cups of white flour.  I use the "Better for Bread" high-gluten flour.
2 cups water
1 tablespoon raw sugar
1 tablespoon yeast
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon salt.

Let me start by saying that I use a stand mixer to mix my dough.  You can do it by hand, it just takes a lot more effort.

Warm up your water.  You want it no more than 100 degrees.  If you can pour it over your wrist without discomfort, you should be good.  Dissolve your sugar in the water, and then add your yeast.  Let the yeast get happy.

While the yeast is getting happy, put TWO cups of your flour in a mixing bowl.  Cut the butter into small cubes, and toss it in.  Add the salt.  Once the yeast is happy, and you can tell by having a layer of froth on top of the water, pour the water/yeast mixture into the flour.  Mix well.

Once you have your water/yeast/flour mixed, change to a dough hook.  Start mixing again, adding your flour in ONE HALF CUP AT A TIME.  This is important.  Due to the fact that we're measuring out our flour by VOLUME and not by WEIGHT, the actual amount of flour you're going to use may vary by as much as a cup.  By adding your flour one half cup at a time, you're giving the flour a chance to mix in the dough, and not adding too much flour. 

You can tell you've added enough flour when the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl, and it doesn't stick to your finger when you poke it.

Now that your dough ball is mixed, you have to knead it.  Spread some flour on a flat, clean surface and turn your dough out of the bowl.  Knead it until it's smooth.  If the dough begins to "break", or you see it tearing as you fold and knead it, stop.  It's been kneaded enough.

Put the dough into a bowl that's been oiled.  Cover it with a damp towel or some plastic wrap.  Let it rise.  The dough is going to double in size, so make sure you have it in a large enough bowl. 

Here is where you can play around.  After the dough is risen, you can punch it down and let it rise again.  The more you punch it down, the smaller and more evenly dispersed the air bubbles in the dough will be.  If you only let it rise once, you're going to get larger, uneven air pockets in your bread, which gives it a rather rustic feel.  If you really want a rustic bread, don't bother with the bowl.  Shape it into loaves, let it rise, and then pop them in the oven when they're risen.  I normally punch the dough down one or two times.

After the last rise, however many you do, turn the dough out of the bowl onto your floured surface again.  Punch it down, and cut it into about four pieces.  You can ball these pieces up and put them into bread loaf pans, or you can roll them out into long loaves and put them on a sheet pan.  For a little different flavor, roll the dough out flat, sprinkle a light coat of rosemary into the dough, and then roll the dough into a long loaf.  Let the dough rise one more time.  This is a good time to pre-heat your oven to 410 degrees.

Once your loaves have risen that last time, place them into the oven at 410.  Bake for fifteen minutes.  Rotate shelves, and cook for ten more minutes.  Pull them out and let them cool just enough to handle, then cut a piece off, put some butter on it and eat it.

That's it.  Easy, simple, NO PRESERVATIVES, no crap, no junk, and it tastes great.  You can add just about anything you want to this bread to change it up - spices, different herbs, an egg, you name it.  Or you can just make it plain, and turn it into french toast, or sandwiches. 

Don't let it sit out too long.  Remember, there's no preservatives, so it won't stay "fresh" for more than a couple of days.  Goober recommends freezing it outside of any wrapper for a day, and then pulling it out and sealing it in a vacuum bag to avoid getting freezer burn. 

There you have it.  Bread, made by you.  Go for it.

Why is nobody beating his face in?

Where I come from, screaming in someone's face is a sign of aggression, and should be responded to accordingly.  Beat.  His.  Fucking.  Face.  In.  Stomp a mudhole in his ass, and maybe the next time he feels froggy he won't go screaming in respectable people's faces.

In any case, video cameras are exposing just what a collection of freaks and losers the Occupy camps are.  And Obama endorsed!  Don't forget that, especially when the reports of rape and sexual assault keep coming out.  Obama-endorsed rape camps.

The Herman Cain Scandal

Why I'm not jumping on the "Kill Herman Cain" bandwagon.

Suspicion number one:  Gloria Alred.  If there ever was a Democrat smear merchant, it's her.  I wouldn't trust her to tell the truth during an election cycle if you paid me a million dollars.

Suspicion number two:  Three unsubstantiated accusations, including a woman who was released from her confidentiality agreement who suddenly says she doesn't want to talk, and then this woman comes forward.  Too many coincident.  I don't believe in coincidences.

I'll wait and see what happens, but for right now, I'm not buying the crap that the Left is trying to sell me.

Nice photo there

I mean, nothing says "freedom!" like dancing on the American flag after you spatter it with paint.

Anti-American fuckheads.

Been getting into massive debates about the Obama-Endorsed rape camps that the Flea Party has turned itself into.  Some people still think the Flea Party is worth more than whale shit, and I'm trying to disabuse them of that notion.

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.

Happy Halloween

I'm gonna be busy today.

Flea Party Crimes

Big Government is keeping a list of the crimes committed by the Flea Party.  I counted at least twelve that were sexual in nature, to include Madison's public masturbation.  And women in the Flea Party camps are being told not to report the rapes.

Disgusting. 

Occupy Madison Masturbating in Public?

And losing their permits because if it.  Just.....  wow.

Yeah, why isn't that on the nightly news?

And I love this comment:

'Public Masturbation'....that's a very apt summary of the whole #OccupyWallStreet phenomenon right there 

Can we spread this idea around?

After nearly three weeks of protests and overnight stays in Kanawha Plaza, the Richmond Tea Party is about to send Jones a bill for about $8,000 on the basis that “Occupy Richmond” has been using the area illegally and for free.
Richmond Tea Party spokeswoman Colleen Owens told CBS Washington that the protesters have been given special treatment and free reign of the park and have not had to comply with the strict liability and security provisions that the city required of a Tea Party Tax Day in 2009.

How many Tea Party rallies had to go through the permit process, and spend thousands of dollars to jump through all the legal hoops?  Lots, I'm willing to bet.  Any if those cities who charged the Tea Party for their rallies are letting the Flea Party sit around and stink up the joint for free, that's discrimination.  Either those cities pay up, or get sued.

Friggin' Brilliant.

Found here.

Why, that's CRAZY talk!

Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

I'm certain someone at PBS is finding a way to disavow this video as we speak.

You can tell the difference between a liberal and conservative by the following test:  A liberal believes that changes in taxes have very little effect on production, but huge effects favorable on distribution. Folks like myself believe it's exactly the opposite. Very high tax rates or even small changes in taxes have very adverse effects on production, and they do very little to produce redistribution because the money gets dissipated and taken away through the political process in ways that the most ardent supporters of redistribution will not like.

It really is that simple

Oh. Maw. Gawd.

Satire:  Dead as a doornail.

The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

Gosh, it's almost like these people don't like it when people who don't produce anything and don't contribute anything show up and take the fruits of your labor for themselves without compensating you in any way, shape or form!

What a fucking shock.  And these brain dead fucking morons still don't get it.  Hey Flea Party!  YOU ARE THE FREELOADERS!  The way you feel about those vagrants is the way I feel about you!

And seriously - by your very own brainless, moronic chants and slogans, those vagrants and homeless are MORALLY SUPERIOR TO YOU.  They have every right to take what you have, because that is what you've been demanding for the past month!  They are following your chants and your mantras to the fucking letter, and you're bitching about it?  Really?  THEY ARE DOING WHAT YOU DEMAND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY DO IN MACRO FORM!

As an aside - organic chicken?  Dude, I can't afford organic chicken.  Don't sit there and whine about how life is so unfair when you're eating organic chicken and my family is shopping the freezerburn frozen bin finding the cheapest cuts of meat that we can cook.  No, seriously, fuck you and your organic chicken.  Roasted beet and sheeps-milk cheese?  I CAN'T AFFORD SHEEPS MILK CHEESE!  Whiny fucking snot-nosed trust-fund baby bitches!  Go fuck yourself and your protests, you worthless pieces of shit!  Over-pampered, egotistical, entitlement-minded fucking PUKES!

Tuned out

I can't even listen to Obama the Socialist Savior anymore.  When I hear him on TV at work, I either change the channel or just walk out.  I'll read his lies later when I can download a transcript.

You do know that any speech he gives is a lie, right?  Period.  He has proven himself to be a pathological liar.  If he says that X is true, the I automatically assume that the opposite of X is true.  And so far, I haven't been wrong yet.

I don't think they meant to say it

But they said, it, and it's said:

At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.

 Because self-reliance and individuality cannot be allowed in the communist utopia that Obama wants.  Just think about that one statement - the Democrats are afraid of being self-reliant.  They don't want people to be self-reliant.  They want people to be dependent on the government.  Because self-reliant people make horrible slaves.  And the Democrats want nothing more than to be the slave masters in the formerly great country that they've turned into their personal fiefdom.  Every time they open their mouths, they expose who they are.

Found via Riehl World View.

Yeah, I figured....

Why did talks with Iraq fall apart?  Because Obama ignored them.  Must be more of that "smart diplomacy" we've heard about.

Let me ask a question I've asked before - if there were two Obamas, and one of them was working as hard as he could to destroy America from the inside out, and one of them was just an incompetent buffoon, how would you be able to tell them apart?

That's the point we're at right now.  I honestly believe that Obama is trying to destroy America from the inside out.  And if you can prove me wrong, please do so.  But I'm willing to bet that you can't.

Want to know why people like Herman Cain?

Because he's not a politician, that's why.

Every other person out there who wants the job is a politician, looking to grab that brass ring that would signify that they've put in their years in the grinder, compromising their morals, their ethics, lying, cheating, and generally being a bunch of amoral pricks.  Herman Cain is the only guy running who seems to be running because he sees that things are broken and he actually wants to fix it.

Now, is there some ego involved here?  Hell yes.  You don't run for President if you don't have at least a little ego.  But compared to Mitt "I'll say anything to get elected" Romney, and Rick Perry, who if I recall wasn't well loved by Dick, before he parked his blog.....  who else has a chance?

Herman Cain.  Hell, I'd take a Cain/Perry ticket in a heartbeat.

To ride, or not to ride

When there's that much rain in the forecast, I'll take the truck.  The last thing I need is one of these tailgating, cell-phone-yammering fucknuts to slam on the brakes and slide into me at 50 mph because he never fucking realized that wet pavement means increase your following distance.

Social Contract

This little tidbit from Ace of Spades HQ has been making the rounds:

“The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them.”

Those two sentences contain more wisdom than the entire Flea Party from every city combined.  I'd like to add one more sentence - when the social contract begins to infringe on me more than necessary, I have the right to tear that social contract into small pieces and flush it down the toilet.

A social contract is not slavery, and when it turns into slavery, it's time is done.

Sunday Music

Adoro te Devote



I can't say I'm in a much better frame of mind than last week, but I'm trying to improve it.  Here's the literal translation for the Latin; there are plenty of poetic translations, but as I sing it in Latin, I prefer the literal.

I devoutly adore you, O hidden Deity,

Truly hidden beneath these appearances.

My whole heart submits to you,

And in contemplating you,

It surrenders itself completely.

Sight, touch, taste are all deceived

In their judgment of you,

But hearing suffices firmly to believe.

I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;

There is nothing truer than this word of truth.

On the cross only the divinity was hidden,

But here the humanity is also hidden.

I believe and confess both,

And ask for what the repentant thief asked.

I do not see the wounds as Thomas did,

But I confess that you are my God.

Make me believe more and more in you,

Hope in you, and love you.

O memorial of our Lord's death!

Living bread that gives life to man,

Grant my soul to live on you,

And always to savor your sweetness.

Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,

wash me clean with your blood,

One drop of which can free

the entire world of all its sins.

Jesus, whom now I see hidden,

I ask you to fulfill what I so desire:

That the sight of your face being unveiled

I may have the happiness of seeing your glory. Amen

 

Excuse me,

but what the hell just happened in Louisiana?

The law goes further to require secondhand dealers to turn over a valuable business asset, namely, their business’ proprietary client information. For every transaction a secondhand dealer must obtain the seller’s personal information such as their name, address, driver’s license number and the license plate number of the vehicle in which the goods were delivered. They must also make a detailed description of the item(s) purchased and submit this with the personal identification information of every transaction to the local policing authorities through electronic daily reports. If a seller cannot or refuses to produce to the secondhand dealer any of the required forms of identification, the secondhand dealer is prohibited from completing the transaction.

No, seriously, what the hell just happened in Louisiana?  Holy.  Shit.   This just torpedoed entire jobs and businesses.  For what?  What possible purpose could this have other than to increase state control?

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Tax Code edition

From Art Laffer via Adrienne -

Let's turn  a question around and contemplate the answer.  If our present system operated on 9-9-9, would you throw it out in favor of the 71K pages of tax code we have now?  I'm not supporting or not supporting Mr. Cain's plan.  I am saying that the present tax situation needs to be fixed.  

Is the 9-9-9 plan perfect?  Nope.  But it's the only serious attempt to reform a tax code that increasingly works to keep the political elite happy and the rest of the country screwed.

Heavy Frost

It's looking like yesterday's ride was the last motorcycle ride of the season.  It's getting colder; time to winterize the bike and put it away until the sun returns. 

Meet the New Regime

Same as the old Regime.

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta today announced the following new members to the Defense Policy Board:  Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general; Jane Harman, former U.S. congresswoman; Retired Gen. James Cartwright, former vice chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Retired Adm. Gary Roughead, former chief of naval operations.

 Tell me again how this is "CHANGE"?  Tell me again about how this administration is different?  Obama is Jimmy Carter the Second and his administration is made up of every last aparatchik from Carter's and Clinton's terms!


JAMIE FUCKING GORELICK!  IN MY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE!  WE ARE FUCKING SCREWED!  Everything that woman touches turns into a HUGE FUCKING DISASTER!  And now she's writing POLICY FOR THE MILITARY!!!!!!


GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!  FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK!

Thanks for nothing, Rodger!  FUCK!

Dear Occupy Wall Street Sheeple

So you're down in whatever city, protesting and "occupying" some park.  Great.  You're all Leftist in persuasion.  You wouldn't vote for a Republican if your life depended on it, and you're going to vote for Obama.  Some of you are going to vote for Obama again.

Tell me how that works out for you, m-kay?

Obama rakes in more cash from Wall Street than any Republican candidate.  And you think Obama is going to kill his Cash Cow?  Really?  What set of facts makes you think that?  In what reality is Obama going to suddenly change direction and actually do what you think he's going to do, even though he's shown exactly ZERO indications that he'll do anything other than continue his crony capitalism?

Stop being such dumb fucking sheep.

Oh, wait, it's the Leftoids we're talking about.  If they weren't a bunch of dumb fucking sheep, they wouldn't be out there in the first place.

Stalin would be proud!

Don't like your historical facts?  Just airbrush them away!

There is not a single department head of any department in Washington D.C. that deserves to keep their job.

Busy again

Folks, I'm busier than a one-armed paper-hanger.  I get up early, I come home late, and I'm trying to have some sort of a family life.  Something's got to go, and right now it's blogging.

Wah wah f'n WAH!

So the Flea Party has found itself laying with dogs and waking up with fleas.  Gosh, what a shock.  These bong-smoking retards are screaming for the outright theft of wealth from those who create it.  They're thieves of their own right, they're just demanding that the government do the stealing.

There's no honor among thieves.  So fuck 'em.  Let them sit there and cry.

In a martial mood

I wish I could say I was in a good frame of mind, but I'm not.  So all I can do is ask God to forgive me.

Once you're done with that, go watch these four videos of Ann Barnhart.  If you don't know what and who you're fighting, you're going to lose the battle.

Yeah, I've had this conversation with people

But not this up close.  Which is a good thing, because I'd have popped that bastard in the face, and then I would have gone to jail.  That cameraman guy has a lot more patience than I do

Holder Lied, People Died

Only unlike loony chants from the Left, this one is true.  Attorney General Eric Holder Lied, and People Died.  Oh, and since the God-Child Obama is on record saying that he new about this program before Holder admitted that HE had known about it, this goes all the way to the top.  I really, REALLY hope that Obama gets impeached by this.

Are there any real men in Boston?

Because when a woman gets spit on by a bunch of fucking dirty hippies, you need to beat their fucking asses like a drum, until they wake up in a hospital and drink their dinners through a fucking straw for six months.

There's your fucking PSA.

No, I'm not in a good mood.  Stop fucking asking.

Another reminder

That Obama has got to be the DUMBEST MOTHERFUCKER WHO EVER SAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Yeah!  All you fucking Leftist pieces of shit who go on and on about how Obama is so fucking smart....

WHEN THE FUCK IS HE GOING TO ACT SMART????

I can't believe that this dumb fucking cockholster is polluting the Oval Office!  THANKS A FUCKING LOT, YOU DEMOCRAT SHITHEELS!

Broken

I got nothing.  Sorry.

What to call the "Occupy....

fill-in-the-blank-city-here groups?  Occupy WallStreetBostonSeattlePortlandStLouisandeverywhereelse just seems a bit unweildy.

Thankfully, our good pal Rivrdog is on it, with the new moniker for the unwashed masses - The Flea Party.

Reference to parasites?  Check.  Reference to the level of hygiene?  Check.  Quick, easy to remember moniker?  Check.

It's a good one.  Use it.  Spread it.

The "value" of education

Look, don't think that I'm some anti-education hick from the sticks.  I'm not.  I firmly believe in an education that will improve you as a person, help you make good decisions in your life, and increase your ability to get a job and earn money.

Problem is, the traditional university doesn't seem to do a very good job of that right now.  Every photo I've seen of the Occupy Wall Street losers and rif-raf has then with their pouty face on, holding a paper whereupon they scrawl their woes that always, invariably crying about their thousands upon thousands in student debt, and how they can't get a job.

Cry.  Me.  A.  River.

Here's part of the problem - college doesn't prepare you for the real world.  I would take a PFC from the Army who's done one tour on Active Duty before I would take a newly minted college graduate.  The PFC knows how to take orders, probably knows how to give orders, can work as a team, work independently, and has the discipline needed to buckle down and get the job done.

Looking at the Occupy Wall Street whiners and hippies, they know how to smoke a bong and complain that people aren't giving them enough free shit.

The other part of the problem - universities and colleges exist not to provide a complete education, but to provide jobs for various professors, administrators, and other groups of people who couldn't get a job in the real world.  Unless you're dealing with the hard sciences, which due to their proximity to reality are less inclined to put up with the kind of bullshit that creates "Womyn's Studies".  I've seen a documentary that was supposed to be about how hard it is for college graduates to find a job, and they interviewed some woman with a degree in Film Studies.

Film.  Fucking.  Studies.

Can anyone tell me just what the number of "Film Studies" jobs are out there?  I'm guessing not a whole lot, but this woman wanted to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to get a degree in Film Studies, and now she can't find a job?  And this is my fault how?  This is society's fault how?  We're not the ones who made her get a degree in Film Studies.  Had she asked me, I would have told her "Gee, that's a nice hobby, but what are you going to do to get a job?" 

Look, I love history, I'm looking at getting a degree in history, but I don't expect to get a job from that degree.  That degree is for me.  For my personal education, and to make me happy.  Nobody is going to hire me just because I have a history degree.  I need other skills to get a decent paying job, skills which I have because I've lived in the real world while many of my compatriots seem to still be living in a dream world where they get paid what they think they're worth even though they haven't acquired any real job skills.

Oh, and I'll get my degree from someplace other than a traditional brick-and-mortar college.  I don't have enough money to waste on incubators of socialism and groupthink.

Proof that Satan exists and is working to destroy us

Can pretty much be found every time Chuck Schumer opens his fucking piehole.

Yeah, I don't have much right now.  I'm so sick of anti-American traitors like Schumer constantly working to destroy this country, aided and abetted by the Left, who want to tear down the greatest country ever seen.  Not only is Schumer one of the biggest pieces of statist shit ever seen, but the people who keep sending him back into Congress allow him to continue breaking America apart.

I really do think that people like Og are right - there's no voting our way out of this.  The people who want to enslave us must first be removed, before we can ever be free.

To Quote Mark Styne

Non-Workers of the world, UNITE!  All of these "Occupy (fill in the city)" folks, while providing the far Left something to try to brag about, are proving the stereotype of Leftist losers to be correct.  Go look at the picture of that girl at Insty's post.  Pink hair.  Pierced lips and nose.  Some sort of sores around her mouth.

Yeah, yeah, tell me all about Freedom of Expression and "being an individual" and blah blah blah the same bullshit I've heard for years.  If I was a business owner, would I want THAT to be the face that greets my customers?  Is that the first thing I want my customers to see?  No, it's not.  Take that ring out of your nose.  Remove the metal from your face before you try to talk to my customers.  Figure out little things like, oh, hygiene, so that when potential customers walk through the door they are NOT thinking "herpes or meth?" to themselves, like I did when I first saw the photograph.

If you want to be paid a respectable wage, you had better try to look respectable.  Look like a McDonalds fry cook, and chances are that's the kind of job you'll get.  When I finished my first stint in the Army, I bought a couple pairs of nice slacks, some good shirts, and a sports jacket.  I wore a coat and tie to every interview I had.  I was a professional, and I both looked and acted like one.  I was offered a job at every place I interviewed, and I picked the best one.

I did NOT have metal sticking out of my face.  My hair was it's natural color.  And more than anything, I expressed what I could bring to the company.  I didn't act like a petulant brat.

Then again, that's probably why I'm still employed, working on getting promoted, and NOT "occupying" Wall Street with anything except my retirement fund.

Born that way?

So, let me make a long story short - yesterday, I was in a house that featured a lesbian and a "trans-gender" female.  The two were obviously romantic.  And this one example destroys the entire facade of homosexuals being "born that way".

IF, and that's a big IF, we accept the argument that a homosexual is born that way, we have to then look at the transgender female, who was a man, changed his gender to female because he/she/it was "born in the wrong body", and then became a lesbian.

So in short, she was a lesbian trapped in a man's body, who is now an actual lesbian.  Folks, that's not natural, that's a stand-up comedian routine.  This trans-gendered person still has the same urges that he/she/it did when the body in question had a penis.  He/She/It is still attracted to the female gender.  The only difference now is that he/she/it is now classified as "female" and so he/she/it is now a "lesbian".  Scorn quotes deliberately placed around that last one there.  A guy attracted to women is not a lesbian, even if he's so mentally screwed up that he has a surgeon take off his penis.  A self-mutilating mental disorder doesn't make one a lesbian.

Did that piss anyone off?  Good.  Maybe next you can get pissed off about a culture that celebrates self-mutilation that way. 

Rosary

October for the Catholic Church is the month of the Holy Rosary.  I know I've posted this song before, but it's beautiful enough to warrant another round.



I wanted to post one of the few "newer" songs that I like, but I couldn't find one with decent enough quality to sound good on a computer.  So if you happen to run across a rendition of "Hail Mary, Gentle Woman" that you can listen to, take a moment and just enjoy it.

Cider Pressed

Had a friend who offered to let me clean all the pears off a tree in his backyard.  Naturally, I accepted.  This left the Ragin' Mrs. and I with a conundrum - what do you do with a bushel of pears?

Make pear cider.

So, the Ragin' Mrs. set about finding a cider press.  We looked at making our own, but the cost in supplies and time would be more than if we just found a decent press at a local antique shop.  We eventually found one, and set about getting ready to press some pear cider.  A few repairs to the squeezer board later, we have five gallons of pear cider sitting in a fermentation bucket.  Add in one package of Munton's Premium Gold brewing yeast, put the lid on, and now we wait.  This should end up at about 5% ABV, so it's not going to be a high-octane brew, just a very, very tasty one.  My office has so many different projects brewing that it smells alternately like cherries, pears, or ginger depending on which batch just let loose some CO2.

Down with Evil Corporations!

Haw!

Oh Holy Hell

The Democrat shitheels who control the Senate are so desperate to avoid voting on Obama's jobs bill that they changed the rules of the Senate to prevent the Republicans from bringing it up to a vote.

Holy fuck.  Holy fucking corrupt pieces of god-damned worm shit Democrats, Batman!  Those worthless fucking anti-American communist fuckhead Democrats, lead by the head parasite Harry Reid, are so afraid of voting on Obama's bill that they went nuclear to prevent the Republicans from bringing it up for a vote.

This is the same senate that has failed in it's duty to pass a budget for over 900 days.  OVER TWO YEARS! TWO FUCKING YEARS OF DERELICTION OF DUTY!  My budget for the program that I oversee has been CUT IN HALF!  The Continuing Resolution Agreement, brought about by a Democrat-controlled Senate that WILL NOT DO IT'S JOB has created havoc throughout the entire military!  AND DINGY HARRY REID FUCKING CHANGED THE FUCKING RULES TO PREVENT FUCKING OBAMA'S FUCKING BILL!

FUCK YOU, REID!  FUCK YOU AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRAT FUCKING PARTY!  Bring back tar and feathers, NOW!  Every Democrat in the Senate should be fucking tarred and feathered at the earliest possible moment!

Sarah Palin not running in 2012

As much as I'm disappointed, I can't say I'm surprised.  She was attacked ruthlessly and horribly by the Left, who couldn't stand to see a woman succeed on her own.  She was attacked ruthlessly and horribly by the Right, who couldn't stand to see her expose their crony habits and corruption.  The sheer amount of lies, malice, hatred and evil that Palin had thrown at her would have crushed a weaker individual, but she stood through it.

You know she's not going to just go home and sit by the fire.  She'll be involved, and that can only be a good thing for real Americans.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Thanks for giving people an alternative to Winblows.

He was THE driving force behind Apple Computers.  I'm rather trepidatious about what will happen to the company now that he's gone.

OK, so I lied

I DO have something for you today, if only because I want to pass on the stomach-churning stupidity that is "The Lotion Man".  Both of these videos are NSFW, although the second is the worst.  Here we have the lotion man insulting and getting anti-Semitic at the Occupy Wall Street Lunatic's Ball.  




And here is a video of Mr. Lotion Man in what I can only assume is a meth-fueled montage of garbled insanity.  Don't play this if there are kids in the room.



That, ladies and gentlemen, is a proud Obama voter in the flesh!  There is a Wall Street Occupier.  There is the Left, full of sound and fury, idiotic as all hell, brainless, witless, clueless, and THESE ARE THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.

Yeah.  Feeling sick?  You're welcome.

Hat tips to Ace of Spades HQ and Breitbart.

Tired, Sore...

Mentally drained.

Sorry, I just don't have anything today.

Obama and the New Black Panther Party

Photos do not lie.

I don't even have to wonder what would have happened if the Mass Media had treated Obama like they treated McCain or Palin.  At this point, the press only functions as a propaganda organ for Obama.  Hell, just compare the Washington Post hit piece on Perry to the Media's actions with Obama.  With Perry, there's no THERE there.  With Obama, there IS a story, there are actions on behalf of Obama that are newsworthy, but the Mass Media is actively working to make sure those stories don't hit the news!

So when I hope and pray for rags like the Washington Post to die a painful death, a la the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, now you know why.  The Washington Post doesn't deserve to be called a News organization any more.  They're just another part of the Obama propaganda machine.

Pure Awesome

The Obama Presidency by the numbers.

A quick, simple graphic representation of just what a Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure Obama has been.

Here's the rub, though - you can only all Obama a SCOAMF if you think that he's trying to support and improve this country.  If you begin with the premise that he hates America and wants to see our downfall, well then, he's doing a great job, isn't he?

Hey, remember when I said

That the only time the media pulls it's mouth away from Obama's cock was to attack anyone who might besmirch their Marxist Messiah?

Yeah.

You're going to hear a lot about Rick Perry's land with the rock that shall not be named because it contained the word "nigger" on it.  For the record, the name of the place that Perry's father leased was "Niggerhead".  And the first thing that Perry and his father did when they leased the land was paint over that rock.

They did away with an offensive name.

It's too bad that the Washington Post is so busy trying to defend Obama their God and King that they couldn't even bother doing any kind of real reporting, such as the actions of the Perrys upon leasing the land.  Remember folks, we don't have to fight Obama to win the election.  The SCOAMF has already lost.  We have to fight the Mass Media, who function as nothing but a propaganda organ for the Democrat Party in general, and their God-King Obama in particular.

By the way - the comment that's made me snort coffee out of my nose comes from Bagoh20:

Can't you just see the reporter who found this hidden morsel of history. Like a crackhead combing the carpet for a tiny tiny rock. Just one piece, just one hit. Then "holly shit, I found a rock!" And he proceeds to light up a crumb of Parmesan cheese.

I wonder if Nigerians learned Arabic?

My Spam folder, when I peek into it every now and then, is filled with Arabic script.  I wonder if all those Nigerians have given up on America and are now trying to spam the Arabs?

Small Town Bells

One of the joys of living in a small town is that I can hear one of the local church's bells that play at 1700 every evening.  I always enjoyed working in the yard and listening to the songs come wafting over the trees, distant but still clear.  And I knew it was a church when I heard the hymn "Oh Sacred Head, Now Wounded" play.



I've lived in the city.  And I've lived in the country.  Heck, being a military brat who joined the military himself, I've lived just about everywhere, including overseas.  And I would pick a small, rural town any day of the week and twice on Sundays.  The big city folks can keep their noise, their bustle, their sky-high crime rates, their rude neighbors, their traffic jams, and their unearned sense of superiority.  I'll keep my small towns, where the church bells ring out J.S. Bach hymns in the evening, where the neighbors actually wave and say "Hello!", where I don't have to fight my way into traffic, and where bowing your head to say grace in a local restaurant invites smiles instead of sneers.

Be a Man, shaving update

So I've been using this razor for about three weeks now.  I use the "unscented" pre-shave oil from The Art of Shaving.  I put the "unscented" in quotation marks because it's made from botanical oils that have their own aroma - sandalwood, pepper, lavender, and a few others.  It doesn't have a strong odor, and the Ragin' Mrs. sniffed it and said "It just smells...  well...  masculine."  In any case, the aroma doesn't last after you lather up and shave.  I haven't used an aftershave or balm yet.

So far, it's the best shave I've had in my life.  Seriously.  I use a generic glycerine shaving soap that I bought from a soap shop in Seattle, that I've been using for the last six months or so.  I've been using a mug and brush for years, because I can't stand the chemical glop that comes out of a can.  I change the razor out once a week, and a ten pack of razors cost me about $6.00, if I remember correctly.  Once I got the technique down, I was clean as a whistle.  The only place my wife can feel any stubble is right under my chin, and I had stubble there with a cartridge razor as well.  It's just a spot that's hard to shave no matter what razor I use.  I just shave after I shower, and it takes a few extra minutes.  I have less ingrown hairs too.  I used to get them on my cheeks and my chin.  I haven't had a one since I started using the safety razor.

All in all, I wish I had done this sooner.

Headed off to Mad Town

Gonna help a friend with a little bit of photography.

Maybe I'll have time to go uptown.



Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge, and Gene Krupa.  Three of the absolute best at what they do.



I think that Anita O'Day had one of the best jazz voices out there.

Arizona Sherriff tells the truth

How long until the Obama regime beats him down, do you think?

Been out riding

You know, during January and February, Wisconsin sucks.  And not a little suckage, but sucking like a ten-dollar whore on payday sucks.

But in late September, with the trees just starting to turn, and nature on full display, this is an AWESOME time of year to go for a motorcycle ride.

So that's what I did. 

At what point can we begin Impeachment proceedings?

Corruption.  Crony Capitalism.  Graft.  Just another day at the Obama Administration.  And they're so blatant about it, knowing that they'll never be held accountable, that they'll do it in plain view.

Clair asks, I answer

Regarding the Republican Debates:

Why, since these “debates” are so thick on the ground, have there been NO questions about foreign policy? 

 Because, Clair, there isn't a single media outlet that's going to ask a question that highlights just what a Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure that their Marxist Messiah has turned into, and the Liberal Lord and Savior has managed to make Jimmy FUCKING Carter look like Winston Churchill on the Foreign Policy side.

Remember folks, we don't have to fight Obama.  Obama couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.  We have to fight the Mass Media, and the only time the Mass Media manages to pull their mouth off of Obama's cock is to attack anyone who might break up their fellatio session.  Meaning us, and anyone with half a brain to has seen just what a Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure Obama is.  So that's the majority of the country.,

Tyrants, exposing themselves

Communist Cockholster casually tosses off a "Hey, why not cancel the elections?" line.  Press spins furiously that she was just "joking".

I bring this up not to highlight just how desperate the communists, Leftists and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have become, but only to remind you that if GWB had said something like that in private, as an honest to god joke, the impeachment proceedings would have started already.

Oh, and the White House demanding that Ford pull it's ad regarding how Ford didn't take bailout money?  Yeah.  Folks, this is what communist, anti-American tyrants and dictators do.  This is why they are the DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Oh, and let's add in that Anti-American Communist Cunt-fart, Sheila Jackson Lee, who wants Right-Wing Bloggers to "Shut Up".  You first, you slimy, worthless, moronic bitch.  And if you want, I'll tell you exactly how I REALLY feel.  And thanks to this thing called the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, there's really nothing you can do about it.

Yeah.  Ask me how I'm doing stress-wise right now.

Gunwalker

Is pushing more dead bodies and more corruption to the surface.....

If people don't go to jail for this, then "justice" is nothing more than another concept that has been destroyed by the Left.

So.... the NBA......

Let me toss my two cents in here - I hope both the owners and the players continue to show the abject stupidity that embodies the NBA, and the lockout continues, and ends the season.

Yep.  Screw the NBA.  They're the HIGHEST PAID PRO ATHLETES as far as I can tell.  There are NFL Linemen who look at the money that a pine-riding NBA scrub is making and that poor lineman, with broken bones, aching joints, a bad back, is thinking "All I need is a jumpshot and an attitude and I'd be rich!"

Fuck the NBA.  They're a bunch of whiny bitches.  A bunch of overpaid, over-attitudinal half-men with chips on their shoulder and a sneer on their faces, complaining because they get paid millions to play a game.  Fuck 'em.  Fuck 'em all.  There are retired NFL players out there who can't walk anymore, and they made less in their entire career than some pine-riding flunkey makes in one NBA season.

Let the NBA fold for all I care.  Maybe then I wouldn't have to flip through entire channels of snot-nosed prima donnas to get to the REAL winter sport - Hockey.

Tactics

So the San Fran Chronicle writes a post about how Obama has barred the door to reporters at his fundraisers in California.

Should we be surprised?  Hell no.  Obama is a Leftist of the highest order, and actual reporting is anathema to them.  Still, what's instructive about it is the comment down below:

A tried and true trick of the right wing.

They perfected lies and secrecy.
Obama is only guilty of....plagiarism

Spin it wingnuts...everyone knows you lie, cheat and are basically insane.

Have at it

 So here we have the most Hard Left Democrat president since FDR.  Corrupt to the core.  Chicago Machine Politics on the national stage.  And the Left's rallying cry to yet another example of how much a thug Obama is, is to.....  attack the Right by saying we perfected lies and secrecy.

This is what we have to look forward to, all the way through the next election.  And here's just a little taste of the hatred we can expect to be spewed our way.  You know, I've always had a temper.  But I never was very political until I got to Seattle.  And Seattle is where I was attacked for being conservative.  Even in the Army when I had political disagreements we could figure things out without getting upset.  Seattle was where when I was insulted and verbally attacked for daring to point out that Global Warming was a cycle of the earth's climate, not a man-made catastrophe of the highest order.  Seattle was where my arguments against liberalism were answered not with actual arguments of their own, but the phrase "Dude, you're so stupid!".

Yeah.  THAT'LL change my mind, won't it? 

Get ready for hell.  Their Lord and Messiah is a Stuttering Clusterfuck Of A Miserable Failure, and they can't accept it.  It's gonna get really bad this election cycle.

So Cain won the Florida straw poll

Just because it would make me giggle - what do you think would happen to the collective Left if Cain won the nomination?  I mean, when they couldn't say that our candidate was racist?

I've already heard Lefties calling Cain a "self-loathing black man", so you can rest assured that the Left will still find some way to call us racist.  But still....  it would be nice to jam that down their throats and make them choke on it.

Pink Slip Auction

Ladies, this one is for you to bid on.  All money goes towards re-electing Wisconsin Republicans!

This is an auction for the famous “Pink Slip” that was hurled at Representative Robin Vos at the Racine Lincoln Day Dinner by notorious goof ball, Vos-Stalker, protestor Miles Kristan. Without missing a beat, Rep. Vos put the Slip up for auction (proceeds to the Republican party) and I bought it for $100.

Consequently, Mr. Kristan donated, in a very direct fashion, $100 to his arch enemies.
This same guy was recently busted for pouring a beer over Vos’s head at a Madison bar.
In the spirit of True Capitalism, I am putting this piece of Wisconsin political history up for auction. Any PROFITS from this auction will be split between the campaign funds of Robin Vos and Governor Walker.

As the gentleman says, the model is not part of the auction. 

Heading out today

Oktoberfest, don't ya know!

Yeah.  Don't expect much of me.

The New Civility, again

It starts at around 1:44 - "Did you ride Levi like that?  You're mother's a whore!"



What really disgusts me is that no other man penis carrier in that bar beat the living fuck out of those two douchenozzles for treating a woman in such a rude and crude fashion.  I refuse to call any swinging dick who allows that kind of abuse to happen a "man".  A real man would have had that ball-gargling fuck gagging on his own teeth before he could vomit forth another curse at a woman.

So... the debate last night

Who won?

No, I didn't watch it.  No TV, remember?

The Assault on Christianity Continues

Also titled "Fucking Hypocrites in San Juan Capistrano protect Islam and try to crush Christianity in that community."

Compare and Contrast if you will.....

An Orange County couple has been ordered to stop holding a Bible study in their home on the grounds that the meeting violates a city ordinance as a “church” and not as a private gathering.
Homeowners Chuck and Stephanie Fromm, of San Juan Capistrano, were fined $300 earlier this month for holding what city officials called “a regular gathering of more than three people”.

Now, compare that with how San Juan Capistrano deals with the possibility of an insult to Islam:

Reeve reportedly first divulged his dogs’ names, “Muhammad” and “America,” during a September 6 vote on plans for a local dog park.
That’s when some, including fellow councilman Larry Kramer, were rubbed the wrong way, prompting a discussion on proper “decorum” for council meetings to ensue.
“I’m asking for decorum on the dais. Yet if we can’t do that, all is lost,” Kramer said.
Patch adds:
“We are in a position of authority. It’s important we choose our words wisely,” Kramer said. “I hope the council will say this kind of speech is not OK.”…

Seems to me that the San Juan Capistrano city council needs to be read the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.  And then be beaten into a fucking pulp with a clue-by-four.

Music sooths the savage beast

In my case, a sultry brunette with an alto voice and mad musical talent?

Playing live?

Yep.  That'll do.



Yeah, fine, it's "pop" music.  It's still got more talent behind it than 90% of the modern crap out there.

Gimme more.



I don't think people truly understand just how much I love good, live music.  And if I can get a recording of a live performance rather than an over-produced studio mix?  Goodie.

Here's a jazzy little number....



Davey Like.

Oh. Maw. Gawd.

What a clueless fucking retard.  What a narcissistic piece of crap.

For all of GWB's supposed gaffes, he would have never done something like this.  Oh Lord, what the hell has this country foisted upon the world.

You want to know why so many people think that America is a weak, pathetic joke?  Just look at who we elected president.

Gonna piss some people off here

And I'm OK with that right now.  Here's a letter from a retired Chaplain that I received today, and I'm posting it in it's entirety.

Yesterday, September 20th, 2011, a date that will live in infamy, the U.S. armed forces were deliberately and successfully attacked by advocates of the scourge of homosexualism. The elimination of the last vestige of moral restraint on sexual perversion in the U.S. military, commonly known as the "Don't Ask / Don't Tell" (DADT) policy, ushers in a new Orwellian era in which the military leadership of our nation will proclaim the unnatural as natural, the unhealthy as healthy, and the immoral as moral.

In August 2010, before the DADT policy was rescinded by the U.S. Congress and the current President of the United States, I wrote the following in a guest editorial in Stars & Stripes, the private newspaper intended for the U.S. armed forces:

A “nondiscrimination” policy would surely mutate into approval and celebration of the “gay” lifestyle, followed by “affirmative action” recruitment of homosexuals, politically correct ideological indoctrination throughout the armed forces including family members, and, finally, active discrimination against — and persecution of — those who dare to express a dissenting opinion.

We shall soon see whether that prediction was exaggerated or prescient.  May God the Holy Trinity preserve the U.S. armed forces especially in this new Dark Age.

The repeal of DADT was less about "equality" as it was about pushing political correctness onto the Army, with the resultant lawsuits and other legal actions that will follow.  We'll see how much damage the Armed Forces sustain from this.  All I know is that we haven't begun to see the problems yet, because nobody has bothered to actually try to figure those problems out.  Just wait until the first Chaplain preaches his faith, to include advocating against homosexuality, and the lawsuits start to fly.

And before anyone tries to tell me that removing DADT was about "equality", I still cannot shower with the females.  Why not?  Because long ago, people realized that allowing people who are sexually attracted to each other causes problems in a military unit.  But now men who are sexually attracted to me can shower with me in an open bay shower, and I cannot shower with females who I am sexually attracted to.  So it's not about "equality", is it?  No, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. 

Your tax dollars at work

$16 muffins.  Sixteen FUCKING DOLLAR muffins at the DoJ meeting in 2009.  $5 Swedish meatballs.  $32 per person snacks.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!

Here's a little info into my work life - part of my job is dealing with government contracts.  Part of my job, until recently thanks to a personnel change, was budgeting for those contracts.  I had to budget down to the friggin' dollar what was going to be spent on food and lodging for upwards of 60 - 180 people for multiple events.

If I had spent $16 on a fucking muffin, I would have been ripped to PIECES during my annual audit, and then I would have been held financially liable for each and every item that wasn't authorized.  I'm  not even allowed to buy COFFEE for the people at my events.  NO SNACKS.  NO REFRESHMENTS.  PERIOD.

You want to cut the government budget?  Let's start holding all these fucking bureaucratic pieces of shit to the same standards that they enforce on me.  No more $16 fucking muffins, that's for DAMN sure.

And you can also be sure that if this one event has come to light, it's been happening all over the place, multiple times.  Fucking government jackasses!  No wonder we're fucking broke! 

One side effect

Of being sick and confined to home, is that you catch up on quite a bit of news.

Now I'm still feeling sick, AND I'm depressed!

Home sick

I guess that's why I was feeling like crap all weekend.

Got a good, clean shave though.  So there's that.

Be a Man!

I've added a section over on the blogroll titled "Be a Man".  There will be more links added to it in due time.  It'll be links that I think men might be interested in, or that they SHOULD be interested in.

I've recently picked up a safety razor, and set the modern cartridge razor aside.  The last time the Ragin' Mrs. and I went to the store to pick up refills for the modern razor we damn near shit kittens at how expensive they are.  My old Gillette Sensor that I got when I was 18 shaved better than all of these modern plastic pieces of junk, but for years I couldn't find the refills for it.  After looking at the prices of every razor refill, and looking at the very inexpensive cost of the razors for a safety razor, I figured I would at least give it a try.  Up front cost for a good safety razor - $40.  Replacement blades?  About 25-50 cents each.  I'll make my money back in a couple of months.

First things first - a safety razor requires that you actually learn how to shave.  Some folks might already know how to actually shave, but I'm willing to bet that most people only know how to slap some chemical glop on their face and scrape it with a cartridge razor.  I already had good shaving soap and a brush, because the chemical glop irritated my skin.  If you don't have a shaving mug, you can get one cheap.  Good soap can be bought without breaking the bank.  I've been shaving with the safety razor for about a week now, and once I got the technique down I get a better shave than I did with the cartridge razors.  It takes a bit more time, so I have to adjust my schedule in the morning.  The real expense is the initial purchase - razor, mug, and brush can cost you anywhere from $60 in total, to upwards of $1,000 if you're buying the primo stuff.  After that, it's just buying soap and razors, which should run you about $10 a month or less.

So anyways - post one on how to be a man:  Learning how to shave again.  There will be more later.

I got nuthin'

I'm tired.  I'm worn out.  My brain activity is near zero, and I dread going in to work each day.  It's the end of the fiscal year, which means that I run around finding things to do because all the money is gone, and the bulk of my work requires a cash flow.

Lots of online training.  But you can only sit at a computer training for so long before your brains leak out your ears and you run around screaming "I'M A POLISH JUMPING PENIS AND I'M HERE TO SAVE YOU!"  And at that point your co-workers lock you in a fancy white coat and lock you in a closet until after the new Fiscal Year beings.

Hell, my body is just plain sore.  I skipped the workout this morning.  My shoulder is thanking me.  My legs are thanking me.  I'm kind of at a point where all I want to do is make my body feel better.  I think the past six years of my life have worn me down to the point where I need to take a whole lot of leave all at once and just let my body recuperate.

Ah hell, whining never solves anything.  Let's go punch a hippy.  That'll make me feel better.  And the Left has been calling for war for a good long time now.  Let's give it to 'em.

Any reports about hippy punching in Wisconsin is not me.  I was not here.  You didn't read this.

If you can hook up to a good soundsystem....

Do it.

And then turn up the volume.

And then hit "Play".



Oh hell yes.

Homebrew updates

The ginger beer has been fermenting for over a month.  We pulled a sample out and gave it a try tonight.  Good flavor, needs a bit of refinement.  It's going to be high alcohol content for a beer, but not in the wine range, more around 8-9% abv.  We're thinking about adding a few of the "cookie" spices to it and calling it gingersnap beer.

All in all, it's going to be a success, but it's going to still need some work.

Oh, and we started a batch of mead tonight, using a sherry yeast.  That's going to be good.

The Last Centurion

If you haven't read it yet, go buy it and read it.  John Ringo, The Last Centurion.  I read it a while ago, and pulled it out of my bookshelf today.  I think I'm going to read it again.

When I was reading it the first time, I was struck at how much the fictional government mirrored our current government.  I'm pretty sure it's going to strike me even harder this time.