I didn't watch the debate last night

I had other things to do that took up my time.  But I sat down after I got home, and started pulling up the reviews, and watching whatever clips of video were already out.

All I can say is that Obama came across as a snotty, whiny, petulant bitch.

Stayed up way to late last night

Not much sleep at all.  But we were sending a fellow off; a well-liked and respected fellow, so the lack of sleep and the late bedtime were in order.

I'm paying for it right now though.

The Fort Hood Shooting

Still called "workplace violence" by the gutless pussies in charge of our government.

I has a goodie

Picked up a Roland electric drum kit today.  Now I can practice without blasting the Ragin' Mrs. and the Ragin' mutts out of the house.

Best part - got it used, in good condition, and about half of what it cost brand new.

Nutso

My office-mates make a paranoid schizophrenic look calm and stable.

Can't Find My Way Home

There's been too many times recently when I've had this song running through my head. 



Today wasn't one of those days, which makes it a rarity right now.

Oh, this is awesome!

Iron worker hangs Romney banner on the Sears Tower.

That.  Friggin'.  Rocks.

Hello, Chicago!

Tonight's Debate

Candy Crowley should have been wearing an "Obama For America" t-shirt on stage.  At least it would have been an honest representation of what a shameless whore she is for him.  I think the memo went out to SAVE OBAMA, and she, being the good little kool-aide guzzling myrmidon that she is, obeyed perfectly.

Interesting theory

Did Clinton screw Obama by taking responsibility for Benghazi?

I think there's a case to be made that no matter what Clinton did, Obama had fucked up so badly that it was going to look bad for him.

And from Protein Wisdom, here's Something To Chew On.

According to her, Barack Obama, wanting an “October Surprise,” had secretly arranged with the Muslim Brotherhood for a kidnapping of our ambassador.  Then sometime in October before the election Obama was to orchestrate some great military action to rescue Ambassador Stevens, causing all of America to cheer Obama’s strong foreign policy and bravery and making him look like a hero. After all, his supposed killing of Osama Bin Laden bounce had long since faded. Thus, sweeping him to victory in November. Imagine the headlines and talking points. The election would be a lock.

The Muslim Brotherhood has every reason to want Obama re-elected in November and have an American President sympathetic to their causes. Not to mention an administration filled with Muslim appeasers. Therefore, they agreed to aid in these theatrics.

Unfortunately for Ambassador Stevens and three others, the Brotherhood could not control the “hired thugs” that were to perform the kidnapping and things escalated and four American lives were lost.

Apparently the two former Navy SEALs who were in Benghazi threw a monkey wrench into the gig.

And how sad is it, that even if this is completely false, the "leadership" of this country is so pathetic, twisted, and evil that this kind of talk is even plausible?

APFT

The Army Physical Fitness Test.

This morning.  Blah.

Oh, I'll pass it, and pass it easily.  But it throws a kink into my schedule for the day.

October is the Month of the Rosary

Officially the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  So, in that vein....



Those folks who want to know how to pray the Rosary, as many modern Catholics are sadly unaccustomed to the Rosary, or praying in general try here:  How to pray the Rosary.

The Rosary isn't just a string of beads.  It's a weapon against evil.  And it doesn't take much time to use it.

Joe Biden Lied

Religious Freedom Died.

What have I here?

I have two coins.  They both have the Gadsden motto on the front and "Enemy of the State" on the back.

I only really NEED one of them.

Oh my....

Gaffetastic Joe Biden, the dumbest piece of shit to ever come out of Delaware, just challenged Paul Ryan on economics.

This oughta be good!

OH DAMN!  "I think the Vice President knows that sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the way you mean."

BOOM!

18:44 - Biden is desperate - he keeps interrupting Ryan with every sentence.  Ryan can't get a statement out without Biden interrupting him.

Biden acts pissed off.  His handlers obviously told him to get "aggressive".

1902 - I don't think that Paul Ryan was ready for the two minute limit.  Although, it would be fair to say that the two minutes would be a lot longer if Biden the fuckstick didn't keep interrupting.

1907 - this debate moderator would go under the table and give Joe Biden a blow-job if the cameras weren't running.  Hell, she still might.

19:11 -  One phrase that Ryan could use to just destroy Biden's outbursts:  "So how's that working out for you?"

19:16 - Biden just announced that "you don't go through the UN"  What world is he living in?  I'm crocked right now, by the way.  If it weren't for spellcheck, I'd be hosed.

19:21 - Biden says that his religion defines who he is.  What a fucking CROCK OF SHIT!

I'm going to have to call this debate a draw - Biden had his talking points well rehearsed, and they were the progressive, anti-American left talking points.  Ryan spent more time trying to debate policy, and Biden kept interrupting him.  Biden stuck with his strong points - brainless, bumper-sticker logo bullshit.    Ryan kept trying to bring it back to policy, and Biden "D-O-G spells Dog!" avoided anything that might require complex thought.

I wish Ryan would have done better.  But when Obama lays out the gutless fucking performance, Biden only has to be half-competent to salvage the day.  I wish the Paul Ryan to eviscerated Obama in the Obamacare debates had shown up.

UPDATE:  Seems I might have been a bit pessimistic.

Fiscal Policy Report Card

For the various States.

For what it's worth, no Donk got an "A", and no Republican got an "F".  But anyone who's been paying attention knows that Democrat policies are not fiscally responsible.

My home state, Idaho, got a B.  So did Wisconsin.  Governor Moonbeam of California only got a "D", and considering how FUCKED UP California is you really have to question how bad all the "F" cards are, which include the Selected-not-Elected Governor of Washington, Christine Gregoire.

Bill Whittle's speech from Sunday

And it's a good'un.

The Seven Habits of Highly Frugal People

News you can use.

The Ragin' Mrs. and I follow most of these rules.  Our problem was that before we started following these rules, we got ourselves into quite a bit of debt, and we're working our asses off to get rid of that debt.  It's a long, slow grind, but we're working our way out of that debt.

The pay cut we took when I went active duty didn't help either.  Still, there are things we can look at and say "Yes, we're doing what we need to do."  The ten acres of land that's free and paid off was a huge step for us.

Know what I did yesterday?

Not a damn thing.  And it felt good.

Photo Time!

So, I had some spare time on my hands, inbetween going to Mass, church picnic (the Ragin' Mrs. made her pulled pork), picking out the newest member of the Ragin' household and trying out a new cigar.  So, what to do, what to do.....

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Howzabout a political rally of Conservative thought?  In Los Angeles?  HELL YES!  The Ragin' Mrs. and I drove down, where we were greeted by a line of Gadsden Flags, Old Glory in all her various iterations, and plenty of patriots to go around.  I snapped a few shots of signs I liked.  Click on the photos to get the bigger versions, although I had to size them down for the blog:

When I drove by this lady I honked like mad, with my $5.00 per gallon expenditure.  

There was a decent crowd on hand.  I don't guess numbers very well, but there were at least a thousand people either sitting, standing or walking around.

We got there a little late, and Alphonzo Rachel was already speaking:

 He's just as inspiring live as he is recorded.  There were a quite a few local speakers, and then Ben Shapiro got on stage:

 I loved this woman's shirt so much I had to ask to take a photo of it:

 Finally, the man I had come to see speak:  BILL WHITTLE!

The last speaker of the afternoon was Dennis Prager:

Alphonzo Rachel waiting for Madison Rising:

The Mrs. and I had to retire home, in part because we had our new addition with us and he was getting a bit tuckered out from all the people.  But it was a good event.  I met a few folks who I will be contacting later, and it was nice to see that all of California ain't brain dead.  Hopefully I'll be able to go to a few more of events like this.

Woke up at 0430

To take a piss.  Let the dog out.  Went back to bed, laid awake for an hour, and decided "Fuck it, I'm up."

That's kind of been the story of my life here in SoCal.  I don't think I've slept through the night more than a handful of times.  It's starting to piss me off.

Hey, you know that song....

California Girls?

I wish they all could be California Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiirls.......

Yeah, not so much.  Stretched out skin and a crappy facelift on a middle-aged jogging woman isn't attractive at all.

Gonna go visit some family today

If I manage not to get thrown out of their house, I'll be doing good.  Liberals, ya see.  Obama voters.  The Ragin' Mrs. has specifically forbidden me to talk politics.  I was going to avoid the subject anyways, but the Queen has now issued her decree, and that makes it twice as important.

Post like this

Make me miss home so badly it hurts.

I think part of my problem is the fact that the Army has plopped me right in the middle of a city.  I can live in the city.  Hell, I met the Ragin' Mrs. while I lived in downtown Seattle.  But I go to bed with the noise of cars and sirens and all the other assorted noise that a city makes, and I wake up to it.  I work in it.  I drive in it, and I'm sitting here in my back yard smoking a cigar and typing while thousands of people drive by on the road just on the other side of my fence.

And meanwhile, I know that there's ten acres of land in Idaho just waiting for me to build a porch on a house, and sit there while I listen to the owls hoot at night.  Smoking my cigar, of course. 

You want to know what it was like at my childhood home?  Go look at the photos in the link.  We didn't have chickens or cows, but I did raise pigs, and we had our own garden.  And once I retire from this life, I'll have it again.

My new phrase for the Liberal Media

They Butt-Chug the Obama Kool-Aide.

Mmmmmm, Obama-Aide!  Straight up the ass, so it doesn't get filtered by their stomachs or anything unnecessary like that!

To the Fat Ass on the Crotch-Rocket

I applaud your decision to wear a full-face helmet, and I'd like to congratulate you for being so mindful about your head.  Unfortunately, the fact that you were wearing nothing but a t-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes means that when the slack-jawed fuckwit Hyundai driver sideswipes you, the rest of your body is going to look more like ground meat rather than anything remotely human after your skin has been removed by the pavement.  Luckily for your family, your use of a full-face helmet means that they can still have an open casket funeral for you. 

Again, congratulations for using a helmet!

To the Hyundai driver

on 210, who decided that not only are turn signals not necessary, but that looking to see if the road is clear doesn't need to happen either:

Had I been driving my old truck instead of riding my motorcycle, I wouldn't have yielded the road.  I would have let you hit me, spun you into the wall, and drove away laughing at your dumb ass.  As it is, I do hope you could lip-read what I was saying in your rear-view mirror, because I meant every word of it, especially the part about you having a tiny dick and an even smaller brain.  Maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass you'd be able to drive like a normal human being instead of a slack-jawed fuckwit.

How many lies

Will Obama spew out in tonight's debate?

Just about every fucking line he utters, I'd say.

UPDATE:  Wow....  Romney has laid into Obama a couple of times, and damn hard.  Thank goodness.  I was afraid he wouldn't swing when he had the chance.

Update 2:  Obama must think that only teachers are unemployed, because that's all he's mentioning.

Update to the Update:  I feel a hell of a lot better about Mitt Romney after tonight.  He took Obama to the woodshed and exposed him for the empty, pathetic piece of brainless shit that he is.  Obama was physically begging for his TelePromTer after about twenty minutes.  "Uh, uh, uh, well, Mitt Romney wants to kill uh, uh, old women and uh, uh, uh, children!"

I hope the next two debates are like this.

Long Day

And I'm friggin' wiped.  I think this is going to be a re-occurring theme for the next few years.  It's not that the work is hard, is that I'm fighting HQ just do be able to do my job.  Dysfunctional would be the BEST that I can hope for.  The political backstabbing that goes on at the upper levels is unbelievable, and it paralyzes a lot of people from doing more than covering their own asses.

And here I come, pissed off from the start, and not really willing to deal with the bullshit that people are spewing.  I've already pissed folks off.  Too bad, I've stuck by the regulation, and I've kept my integrity.  There's not a damn thing they can do to me, and I have the support of plenty of other people.  I could get fired from this job, and I'll have plenty of places to go.

I might come out of this bloody, but by god, I'm sure as hell going to make sure that my harriers get it worse than I do.  And I just might improve the Army by doing so.

Good Tunes

This is how I spent an hour of my night yesterday - just plugged in and listening.



Plug your earphones in, or plug your computer into your stereo system.  You're welcome.

Had a weird dream last night

I was swimming from Wisconsin to New York.  No, I can't remember why.  Most the times I don't even dream, and if I do dream then I can't remember it, so the fact that I actually remember this dream means it was stuck in my mind for some reason.

So anyways, there I was, swimming from Wisconsin to New York, when I decide to get out of the water at this one boat dock/general store place.  And I go in to get something to eat, and maybe hitch a ride up a river, when I realize that I don't have any money because my wallet is soaked.  So I see these old ladies hunting for a piece of a lamp or some wire-made thing, and I find the piece they're looking for, and tell 'em that they can have it if they give me a ride because I've been swimming for a thousand miles and would like a brief rest.  And they look at me like I'm lying to them, and say "We don't want it that bad" and walk off.  So I go back into the water and start swimming again.

Maybe the little test of homebrew I sampled while I was bottling is more potent than I thought.

Homebrew

The first batch of honey and orange cyser is primed and bottled.  Given the way this stuff started fermenting quickly, I'm willing to bet that it'll be carbonated within a week.  We'll see how it tastes next Friday.

Yes, it was a terrorist attack

The Obama administration, to include Obama himself, have lied for days on end before they were forced to tell the truth:  Libya was a terrorist attack.

And the media knows that line is harmful to Obama, so it's doing it's best to bury it:



Don't let the anti-American bastards get away with their silence.

Toxic leadership

Can take many forms.  I worked under an abusive, toxic bully for three years, and he was the absolute worst leader I can say I have ever worked with or for.  Not a single person on the team ever wanted to even speak with him again.  People in our building didn't want to deal with him.  He was the worst.

This this current crop is running second.

Games

I hate office games.

I hate office politics.

I hate people at HQ who play office political games.

Guess who's coming to visit tomorrow?





FUCK!

My heart pumps purple piss for him

Goat-fucking terrorist Nidal Hasan is hospitalized.

You know what this means, don't you?

That means there isn't much time for the Army to take me up on my offer for me to fly down to San Antonio, on my own dime, and shoot that fucking pedophile worshiping traitor right between the eyes.  I'll use my gun and my ammo.  The Army wouldn't have to pay for a thing.  Just let me look that fucker in the eyes, tell him "Enjoy being ass-fucked by Satan, you worthless piece of shit" and blow his fucking brains out against the wall.  Then I'd stuff the empty cavity with lard and ham, right before I dumped his body at a pig farm and let his entire corpse be turned into stinking pig shit.

It can only be an improvement over his current state.

Earworm

I've had this song kicking through my head the past couple of weeks:



Bonus comment from the comment thread on YouTube:

Careful ladies. The trumpet section at 1:10 makes babies.

 Mmmmmm.....  baby-makin' music!

Obama Voters

These people vote.  Weep for our country.

If Obama was a Republican

He'd have been impeached by now, with the media rolling out story after story about his incompetence, arrogance, lawlessness and complete disregard for the Constitution of the United States.

But he's a Democrat, so the media is on his side.  Duh.

Gonna go downtown today

And see what LA has to offer.  There's a market down there that should be rather nice.

Worldview: changed

The step-son no longer resides in the Ragin' household.

The bottom line is that I refuse to subsidize anyone's poor behavior, especially when they have every opportunity to succeed handed to them on a platter and they instead choose to lay flat on their ass 24/7 and then verbally assault the people who allow him to live his nice comfortable lifestyle.

He thought he was untouchable, and he thought he could get away with his sheer disrespect and abuse.  Now he knows differently.  And as he sits in his train seat, headed to yet another family member's house, I hope he figures out exactly why he has been removed from my home.  But in the end he has to accept his flaws in order to correct them, and I don't see that happening any time soon. 

Some people have to hit rock bottom before they ever figure it out.  Maybe that's him.  Maybe he'll hit rock bottom and stay there, I don't know.  But he will never yell at my wife in my house ever again.  Buh bye there, Spanky.  Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

!!!!

Remember, you subject you - it's not the United States of America anymore, it's the Obama States of Obama.

Gawd, what a narcissistic prick.

The 47%

I don't have to worry about putting gas in my car!  I don't have to worry about paying my mortgage!



The 47%!!!!!  Yay!

Change comin'

On the home front.  Lots of crap going on right now.  Hopefully things will settle down by tomorrow night.

SQUIRREL!

You know that scene from the movie "Up", where they're fighting on the blimp, and the dogs are in bi-planes shooting everything in sight, and the kid yells "SQUIRREL!" and the dogs spaz out and end up dropping like rocks?



This is my office.  My co-workers are the dogs.  HQ and various other sundry people are the kid yelling the distraction.  And I'm trying to figure out just how the hell I'm going to sort everything and everyONE out, without killing someone of higher rank and thus voiding my career, while at the same time fulfilling my mission.

Dammit.

Cyser

The neighbor's tree is loaded with oranges.  He told me, and I quote, "Take 'em all down if you want 'em.  Better than them rotting on the tree."

So I did.  And since I can't drink a gallon and a half of fresh-squeezed OJ all at once, I decided to brew with it.  Orange-honey Cyser, with cardamom and star anise.  It's bubbling away in the carboy right now.  I should have tasty brewed goodness around All Hallow's Eve, if everything goes well.

Who's team won yesterday?

MY team won yesterday!

GO SEAHAWKS!

Hey, I gotta get them bragging rights in while I can, alright?  Whaddya want?  Decorum?  Have you read my blog?

The Best and Worst part

about posting conservative links on facebook is how my extended family reacts to them.  My extremely liberal extended family.  My Obama-loving, openly socialist extended family.

This morning isn't any different.

Balls the size of church bells

Lessee here...

Bookmarking the Koran with raw bacon?  Check.

Burning the pages after you read them and tear them out?  Check.

Telling the anti-Free Speech government to suck it?  Check.

That's.  Friggin'.  Awesome.



By the way, for those who think Miss Barnhardt is using a tad too much hyperbole, take a gander at "Tea Boys" in Islamic culture.  NAMBLA is trying to find a way right now to copy what Islam does on a daily basis.

Enjoy your drive!

Just don't ask how you're going to pay for it!

I can remember when the Democrats were screaming about how Bush the fat-cat oil man was making his Big Oil buddies rich.  What's their excuse now that Obama is in office?  Oh, right, they're too busy slurping at Obama's crotch to care.

48 Hours

That's the time that the State Department had, when it knew that the Libyan consulate and the Egyptian embassy were targets.

And what did they do?

Nothing.

Oh, wait - Obama was campaigning. 

That's the perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency.  That gutless fucking worthless piece of commie shit.

More Obama Failure

Protesters storm the US Embassy in Yemen.

Looks like plenty of targets of opportunity to me.  And it's just another highlight of how badly Obama has fucked up our foreign policy, and how badly he's fucked over our friends while groveling before our enemies.

The weak horse, and all that rot.

Another Obama Failure

Been watching the news about the attacks in Libya and Egypt.  My immediate solution?  Pull all friendly forces out of those countries now and carpet bomb them back to the Stone Age.

Well, farther back anyways.

But as usual, the Democrat Propaganda Organ known as the national media is more concerned about a statement made by Mitt Romney than with the actual attacks and the causes leading up to them.  They're more concerned about covering up Obama's foreign policy failure than actually reporting what happened.

Yet another reason why I wouldn't cry one single tear if every media branch ceased to exist tomorrow. 

Eleven Years

More, please.

It's Alan West.  Just watch it.

Destroy the Publik Skool Sistim

Exhibit A:  The Chicago Publik Skool Sistim teechers walked out today.  The average Chicago Publik Skool Teecher makes 161% of what the average Chicagoan makes in a year.  AND, the Publik Skool Teechers rejected a 16% raise.  Not "enough", you see.

Fuck them all.  Fuck them all to hell.  Fire.  Them.  All.  Fire them and replace them with real teachers, who actually give a shit about the students in their classrooms.

Moar Whittle!

Your daily depressing post

Of combat deaths in Afghanistan.  Let me boil it down for you:

Eight years of war-mongering Chimpy McHitlerBurton:  631.

Four years of peace-loving Lightworker, the Glorious Leader Obama:  1484.

Yes Virginia, experience DOES count, no matter what the Democrat press told you.

Update and Question:  My uncle seems to think that this post is over the top, "disrespectful to my fallen comrades" and needs to be deleted.  What say you?

Crash

We just had a motorcycle t-bone a car outside our house.  The motorcycle was going straight, while the car was attempting to make a left-hand turn into a busy intersection.

The car is at fault for attempting the turn, which required him to cut across three lanes of oncoming traffic and make a sharp left into his lane.  But who's a fault doesn't help the rider, who is currently on the way to the hospital.  Luckily, he was wearing full protective gear so he should make it out OK, but his bike is toast and he's got a hefty hospital bill coming up.

Folks, if you ride, and yes I ride as well, you have to ride as if everyone else on the road is trying to kill you.  All it takes is one guy not paying attention and trying to take a short cut for you to be in big trouble.  Do not assume anything.  Do not think that someone will see you.  Do not ride as if people on the road give a shit about you.  They are trying to kill you, period, that's all you need to remember. 

That's how you stay alive on a motorcycle.

Back home

and typing on a real keyboard.  Ahhh, the little joys in life.

Stogies

Ain't no decent cigar shops in Radcliff.  Dangit.

Fumble fingers

I'm blogging from my tablet right now, which means my typing is less than perfect.  Please forgive any mistakes.

Speed demon

My rental car is a Nissan Versa.  If the previous renters had not beat the hell out of it, it would be a hot little ride.

Be Still

Every now and then, when you're lost in thought....  say, while driving through a thunderstorm in the middle of South Dakota in what SHOULD be mid-day light, and your little Suzuki is straining to keep up with your wife's much larger, stronger vehicle, and you're worried about the move, and how much it costs, and the new position, and, and, and.....

You hear that voice, and it simply says "Be Still, and know that I am God."

Followed by one of my favorites - "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

 And yes, that's the Ragin' Mrs' vehicle ahead of me.  Her beast was pulling more weight than my vehicle weighs in total and she could still outpace me any time she wanted to.  But my scoot is a rag-top, which we love here in CA.  And I get about twice the gas mileage.  There's a price to be had for that power.

Blog stuff

Updated the blogroll a bit.  Got rid of some who hadn't posted for a while, added a few that I had in my personal blog folder.  There will be more coming as I see fit.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Outbound edition

"It’s interesting what happens when everyone begins to realize that a tyrant is on his way out. There’s a sense permission to stop pretending that everything is okay."

 !!!!

From my personal experience, the Military troops who support Obama are the same kool-aide guzzling, skin-color fixated idiots who would support him even if he was caught killing kittens while having sex with four year old boys.  You're never going to reach those folks.  But the sane people?  We're looking forward to November as the end of a huge error, and hoping we can undo the damage before it's too late.

Another day of unpacking

We're down to the slow part now, where we open up boxes, look inside and say "Well crap, where does this go?"  Add in the fact that we've gone from our own house with plenty of storage and a basement to a house with no basement, no porches, less storage and a much smaller yard.  We downsized before we left, and we'll be downsizing again before we make everything fit.

On the other hand, we have a pool.  Which rocks when the temps are in the triple digits, and all you want to do is cool off.

Oh Hell Yeah

!!!!

Wouldn't it be nice to have a President who isn't a walking fucking joke to the rest of the planet?  Let's make that happen in November, hmmmm?

Dichotomy

Mitt Romney has given away more of his personal money than Barack Obama has ever dreamed of donating; both in total, and as a percentage.

Maybe that's why the Left hates Mitt Romney so much - he's actually walking the walk when it comes to charity, while all that the Left can do is piss and moan about how they need to spend more of other people's money.

My Boss

Has a coin on their desk.  It's from a Vietnam Veteran's Association in New Jersey.  The front has a silhouette of Viet Nam.  The back has an inlaid picture of two hands clasped together.  On the edge of the coin are the words "Never Again will one generation of Veterans forsake another"

Day-um.  That's just about as strong a speech as you can put on a coin.

Why oh why

Do so many women bleach their hair blonde and keep their eyebrows a dark brown?

Folks, the thing I hate in the fairer sex is falsehood.  If you have A cups, be proud of them!  I'd rather see you have real A cups than fake D cups.  If you're a brunette, be proud!  I have loved a total of three women in my life.  One is my mother.  One is my ex-fiance.  And the third is my wife.  All of them have brown hair, and I love all of them for other reasons than their hair color.  For that matter, none of them have the same eye color or body type.

Changing your physical appearance in order to gain favor only gains the favor of superficial assholes who value physical looks over your real soul and personality.

My step-son

Is on a track to learn a hard, hard lesson in life if he keeps his current shit up. 

Crisis Averted

The Seahawks didn't hold on to Terrel Owens.  My football world is at peace again.  For now.

In honor of Neil Armstrong...

Godspeed, Mr. Armstrong.

Still unpacking

It's always harder to put something back together again, isn't it?

I met a guy today.

His name was Al.  He was in the Army Air Corps during World War Two.  He enlisted thirty days after Pearl Harbor.  He was shipped to Europe six months later.  And, as he told me:  "We didn't have any planes.  They hadn't been built yet.  So we sat around being bombed by the Germans until we finally got something we could fight back with."

Dude.  Yeah, tell me how important that DA Form is.  Sure. 

Al ended up doing four years.  After the war, he became an architect.  He pointed out a building that he had designed.  Doesn't like the war in Afghanistan, thinks we never should have gotten involved.  "Let 'em just kill each other.  That's what they do.  They've done it for centuries, why get involved?"

They were given high altitude fighter planes.  They could go up higher than anything the Germans had, so the Krauts didn't even bother going up after them.  So the wing commander told his unit to put a bomb on the plane, so that they could drop a few bombs, the Germans would think there were bombers in the air and scramble their fighters.  Al designed the bomb release latch.  Each fighter could carry one bomb.  The unit mocked up enough for twenty planes.  Al said they worked like a charm.  "They'd come on up thinking they were gonna shoot down a bomber, and we would just dive at 'em.  They were coming up slow, we were coming down fast, we'd blow them out of the air and then haul ass outta there.  We didn't want to stick around after that first hit.  We didn't dogfight.  One punch, and gone."

Al said they sent one of his latches back stateside, and the factories here put out hundreds within a week.  He was constantly amazed at how fast America could produce what was needed.  I wonder if we still have that capability now.  In fact, I know we don't.

I was glad I met Al today.

The Beer Fridge

Is plugged in and stocked.

This weekend might just turn out OK.

Fifteen hour days

They suck.  That is all.

Ruby Ridge

Insty has a link up about Ruby Ridge, 20 years later.

I wish I could report that the authorities' fear has faded in the decades since Ruby Ridge and Waco. Instead it has been institutionalized in the fusion centers that litter the country, where everybody from Ron Paul fans to anti-fracking activists have been tarred as potential terrorists. Meanwhile, the country's police forces have been steadily more militarized. What a sad and terrifying combination.

I was living in Coeur d'Alene when the Randy Weaver saga unfolded.  Ruby Ridge taught me that the government has absolutely no problem shooting an unarmed woman in the face when she's holding a baby in her arms.  I think that's a good lesson to learn, especially these days. 

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, FINALLY!!!! edition

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus:

“I’m a big believer in: if they punch us, we put on the brass knuckles and punch back,” he added.

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It only took decades, but we finally have someone willing to fight back against the Left.  Let's KEEP IT UP!

Picking up where I left off

Household goods arrive on Thursday.  Where's Dave going to be?  NOT at his house, for certain.  No, Dave is going to be TDY on military business, while the Ragin' Mrs deals with life's difficulties without him.  Again.

I swear, I think the hardest job in the military is to be a military spouse.  Thank God I married a strong woman.  Most women I know of would have divorced my ass by now.  Either that or cheated on me. 

Moving in today

Might not have the basics, like electricity and the internets until tonight.  Soooooo.....  see ya then!

Old School

Found a parish that does the traditional Latin Mass close to our house.  Dave is happy.

BRILLIANT!

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And in case you were wondering...

Eric Boehlert is a gutless, Obama-fellating shill who isn't fit to wipe the dust of off a Navy SEAL's boots.

Maybe the Donk-Whore should have kept his pussy mouth shut if he couldn't handle the reaction he's getting.  Of course, if he kept his mouth shut all the time, he wouldn't be able to shove Obama's cock into it at will, which is what Media Matters seems to be doing these days.  Is that harsh?  Good.  It needs to be harsh.  These propaganda whores don't deserve civility.

Personal Day

Taking the dog to the dog park, then loading up some stuff to put into the house while it's empty.  Gonna be a rather mellow day, if I can help it.

A-Yup.

Just watch it.

We have a house to rent

Finishing up the paperwork today, and we move in officially on Monday.

You have no idea how relieved I am about that.  Well, maybe you do.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Intellectual Laziness edition

But he (Obama) is also a symbol, a living embodiment, of the failure of American education and its ongoing replacement by political indoctrination. He is a symbol of the new American elite, the new establishment, where left-liberal politics is no longer a conviction, no longer a way of thinking: it is built-in mind-furniture you take for granted without needing to think.

"Built-in Mind Furniture".   If that ain't the Left's philosophy in a nutshell.  That's why they work so hard to indoctrinate the kids in the Publik Skool Sistim.  That's why they want their illiterate, unlearned graduates.  The Left doesn't want people to actually think, they just want people to shut up and follow their orders.

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I must disagree with the statement, but not the article

Instapundit has a link to an article about how Gonorrhea is winning, and how we need newer, and better antibiotics.

I have a better idea - keep your dick in your pants, don't fuck women you don't know, always wear a condom, and Gonorrhea will die out.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases are very easy to avoid - do not have unprotected promiscuous sex.  We don't just need newer and better antibiotics, we need people to stop fucking like rats without any kind of rudimentary protection.  We need people to stop going into clubs and fucking people who's names they don't even know.  We need people to remember what it is to be human, instead of a rutting pig.

THAT is what we need.  But in the end, the problem will eventually kill itself out, along with the people it's infected.  And I really don't know if I'm going to cry too much about that. 

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, PREACH IT edition

Do try to read the whole thing, and understand just how this fight has to go.

Progressivism is fundamentally an ideology that calls for micromanagement of all aspects of life by supposed “experts” who have no real, practical experience with that which they hope to dominate. They wish to meddle in affairs that are too big for them: to run things that are beyond human control, too complex and unpredictable to be reined in, far beyond the reach of big, broad rules made by small, narrow men.

The original American ideal called for allowing people to direct their own lives as they see fit, without much in the way of interference or restraint, and trusted them in the main to make choices and pursue goals that would advance civilization on their own, in ways that could not possibly be predicted–or, sometimes, even imagined.

These things are NOT compatible. You either believe in the one, or the other. There can be no lasting compromise between them; one of them must win out in the end, and at the expense of the other. If it’s Progressivism that wins out, as it has been for decades now, freedom and Constitutional government will not only shrivel and die, it will be actively destroyed. Which is exactly what has been happening, slowly but surely…and painfully.

Still House Hunting

Holy crap, people here are smoking crack when they want three grand a month for the houses around here.  You want to know where the housing bubble was?  It was here in CA, where crack-smoking fucktards paid way too much for a house, and now want me to pay way too much in rent.

Fuck.

Boom

Why the Democrat's "Mediscare" won't work.

Get familiar with the numbers.  You're going to need them to push back against the Left's lies.

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And just like other advice from Erskine Bowles..

....Obama is going to ignore this as well:  Bowles says Ryan Budget is "sensible, honest and serious".

Hell, Obama ignored the Simpson-Bowles budget panel, I see no reason why he's going to pay any attention to Bowles this time around.

MUST HAVE!!!!

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!  Where can I get one?  Where does he get those wonderful toys?

UPDATE!!!!!  SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!  AND THEY HAVE STICKERS TOO!

Modern Church Music....

....makes me grit my teeth.  Went to church this AM, and all the liturgical music had been re-done into some kind of hippy-dippy "Oh-look-at-how-I-can-syncopate-stuff" trash.

When even the Cantor has problems following the music, you're singing the wrong kind of music, mmm-kay?  You want to bring some sort of meaning back into the Mass?  Then sing the songs as they were meant to be sung.

Kyrie.

Gloria.

Sanctus.

Angus Dei.

Sing them in Latin.  Sing them to the music that they have been sung to for hundreds of years.  Don't pretend that some over-educated hippy from the 70's can rewrite these sacred songs for the better, because they clearly can not.  As Ann Barnhardt puts it, stop it with the Happy Super-fun Rockband church crap.

Go back to treating the Mass as worshiping God, not a concert solo opportunity.

Paul Ryan for VP

Excellent.  And that's not snark.  It's damn good.  It's better than good.  It brings the economic fighter that Obama fears most into the fight, and I bet that as much as the Left is going to bring Mediscare into the fray, Ryan's been fighting back for a while on that and knows how to counter-punch.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Gettin' Ripped Off edition

 Everyone forty fifty or younger needs to be so pissed off about Social Security that their rage can be felt as actual heat in Washington D.C.

But I didn’t get a vote on Soshe Security. It was fait accompli — despite the clear intention in the framework of our government that there be no permanent program, that every thing be reconsidered every two years, with gridlock being the order of the day. I was not represented when it was decided that I would be robbed at gunpoint of fifteen percent of my productivity for life to pay for someone else’s woefully inadequate retirement pittance.

Emphasis mine.

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Every time I look at the news

It keeps getting worse.  Every time I think that Comrade Obama can't sink any lower, in both his morals, his ethics and his actions, I get proven wrong.

This is getting depressing.  Because as far as I can tell, the vast majority of America is still falling for it.  How fucking dumb can my country be?

California

I want to go put dish soap all over his windshield.  The jackass.  Cali has pretty much been what I've expected, with a few pleasant surprises.  We'll see what the next few days bring.

House hunting

The Ragin' Mrs. and I have been looking for a place to rent.  Needless to say, we're dealing with a little culture shock right now.  I thought maybe we would get a shoe box on a postage stamp.  Not even close.  We're getting half a shoe box on a patch of ground that could charitably be called a yard.

Coming from living in our own house to trying to find a way to fit our stuff into a broom closet?  This is housing hell.  And the people looking to buy my house are claiming that my bedrooms are too small?  They've never been to LA!

The next few years are going to suck ass.