Dear Gerry N.

I was going through the comments today, and checked the spam filter for the first time in months - found a bunch of your comments in there.  I don't know why they were labeled as spam, but I checked them as "Not Spam" and set them free.

Sorry 'bout that.  Again, don't know why it happened, but it seemed to be only your comments in there.

Memorial

Click for full size.  I took this while in Washington D.C. a little over a year ago, having the honor of being the Color Guard at a reunion of WWII vets.

Everyone has seen the photos.  But I don't think there is a single photo out there that can convey what that monument conveys in person; panel upon panel of black stone, covered with names, seemingly stretching on forever.

Have your BBQ, I know I will.  Have your beer, because I know I will.  And pour a little out for the people who gave that to you.

I know I will.

UPDATE:  It looks like Blogger shrunk the photo, so there is no full size for the clicky-clicky.  If you do want the full sized photo, just email me and I'll send it to you.

Songs that make me drive too fast

It's like someone pushed my foot on the accelerator when this song comes on the radio.



Maybe it's just me.

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

Be the kind of person who, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the Devil says "Crap!  He's awake!"

It was on a sticker I saw.  Don't know if I got the wording right, and don't remember where I saw it.  It just popped back into my head five minutes ago.  My brain is funny like that.

Memorial Day Weekend

I figure there will be a few more of these along the way.

Hey, remember when.....

I said that progressives were pushing for younger and younger kids to have sex?

Yeah.

Look, I know that kiddy-diddling doesn't have a political flavor, supposedly.  But there's only one side who seems to not only try to make it acceptable to diddle kids, but who is trying to make it easier and legal to diddle kids.

NAMBLA doesn't vote Republican, OK?

So Stupid only a University Student would say it

Saw this on the old intertubes:

I'm sure that some dipshit thinks that he just came up with something witty.  But my immediate response was simple: 

We asked for all those things to come here, and they call came here LEGALLY.  Then they assimilated themselves into American society.  Unlike the border-hopping criminals currently demanding citizenship simply because they could walk across the Rio Grande.

This is the kind of brainless idiocy currently running our country.  Blah.

0530 start time yesterday

And I tumbled back into bed sometime around 2330.  Slept somewhat, and now I get to take care of all the things I still need to do around the house.

Ain't being an adult fun? 

Things I've yelled at the radio in recent days

Especially when Lois Learner pleads the Fifth Amendment, and then claims "I've done nothing wrong"....


If you've done nothing wrong, then WHY THE FUCK DID YOU JUST PLEAD THE FIFTH AMENDMENT, YOU STUPID BINT?

You know what the worst part is?  The low-information voters, those dipshit fuckheads who keep electing that fucking nazi Obama, actually believe her.

Compare and Contrast

Dictators hate to stand out in the rain. 


!!!!!

Grrr Snarl Growl

Work sucks.  There's not much more to say on that front.  I'm still busy, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

By the way, I love how the AP and other various assorted media outlets are all outraged over Obama's abuse of power when it's against them.  But let's face it - the MSM, aka the Obama Propaganda Machine, is the picture perfect definition of "Useful Idiots".  If they had half the brains they thought they had, they would have read a few history books and discovered that the Useful Idiots were some of the first people put up against a wall and shot by Uncle Joe once their usefulness was outlived.

In short, the commie fascists like Obama use the Useful Idiots, and then do away with them.  Welcome to the party, you fucking morons.  Your turn to get bent over and ass-fucked with a sandpaper condom.  Now you know how it feels to be a patriotic American who actually gives a shit about the Constitution.  I say "feels like" because I'm pretty sure that after this, you're going to go right back on your knees, slurping at your Communist Christ's soiled crotch, just like you have since 2007.

Pray for the people in Oklahoma

Especially those who don't know if their loved ones are alive or dead.

The future of Amerika

!!!!!

Daddy got his new pair of shoes

New Balance 810v2.  They're my transition into minimalist running shoes, but they have good cushion, and when I ran my test lap around the store they kept my feet in the proper position.

Light, too.  REAL light.  And they're trail running shoes, since I run about half on pavement and half on dirt.

We'll see how they do.

Clean-up day

Got some plants to remove, other plants to put in the ground, things to pick up, mead to bottle, more mead to start, and various other activities that need to be completed.

Sorry.  No free ice cream today.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, publik skool edishon

From Clair:

Behavioral health problems means “lack of obedience” or “trouble with the factory skool model” which requires long hours of sitting and a read and regurgitate methodology of ‘teaching’. 

 I honestly believe at this point that putting your kids into the publik skool sistim is tantamount to child abuse.  The best case scenario is that your child will come out functioning at lower levels than kids who go to private or charter schools, but won't be a raving psychotic sociopath.  The worst case?  Well, just go look at the inner cities of places like Compton, Oakland, Detroit, Washington D.C., Baltimore, etc etc etc......

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day

From Headmissy SondraK

# of Marines deployed to protect Obama and TURKISH Prime Minister from water: 2

# of marines deployed to protect US Ambassador from brutal rape and 3 other Americans from murder: 0

I now know that pResident Pissy-Pants hates to get his hair wet.  I already knew that the Marines holding the umbrella over that fucking oxygen thief's head have more integrity and honor in their left nostril than pResident Pissy Pants has in his entire body.

Ragin' Dave's Thought for the Day

If the government refuses to follow the rule of law (IRS, Benghazi, AP wiretaps, ect) then the government becomes illegitimate and needs to be resisted at every turn.

Days like today

Make me want to walk down the sidewalk with a baseball bat and destroy things at random.  To say I hate my job would be an understatement.

So in lieu of actual content, I'll just link to yet another completely NSFW gif over at the Schoolhouse of Snooch, Soylent Siberia.

More schoolwork ahead.

The ad-lib script of my life

So I finally get done with my school work for the night.  I'm sitting out front, throwing a frisbee for the dog, and a woman pulls her car over by the curb.

Woman:  You seen a black man in a paper jumpsuit around here?

Me:  Nnnnnoooooooo......

Woman:  Well if you do, hook his ass up!  He's a beeyotch!

Me:  Oooooookay then!

Seriously, sometimes I think I'm a bit actor in my own movie.

pResident Pissy-Pants Press Conference

I did catch a bit of the thin-skinned pissy-pants bitch giving his press conference, where he called the Benghazi hearings a "sideshow".

Well, if there's one thing that gutless fucking cunt of a clown knows for certain, it's sideshows.

Does that sound mean and hateful?  Too bad.  Americans died while pResident Pissy-Pants ran off to Las Vegas for a fund-raising party.   I have as much care and concern for pResident Pissy-Pants as he had for the people who fought and died waiting for help that would never come.

Progressive Incest

Top execs at CBS, ABC and CNN all have relatives working for Obama.

But then, does that shock you?  I mean, after watching the press literally on their knees worshiping their Marxist Messiah, does anything the Media do to cover up their Communist Christ's evil actually surprise you any more?

Greatest. gif. Evar!

Not Safe For Work, of course, but still....

IRS admits it discriminated against conservative groups

Extra audits for the right-wingers, coming right up!

Just more evidence of the banana-republic style of government we've come to accept from that fascist, wingnut-head piece of shit in the Oval Office.

UPDATE:  Even though the IRS said it was just "lower level officials" who targeted conservatives, we all knew they were lying out their asses.

And as usual, we were right.

A federal watchdog’s upcoming report says senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups in 2011.

The disclosure contradicts public statements by former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who repeatedly assured Congress that conservative groups were not targeted.

These people need to go away to jail, and break big rocks into little rocks for a loooooooong time.

The Benghazi Hearings

I'm trying to remember who said it - "If you're a Republican and you're just catching up on what happened in Benghazi, you're just stepping off your spaceship from the planet Zargon".  In other words, there's no need for me to rehash the whole thing.

What I will say is this: 

There is absolutely no doubt that the Obama administration left Americans to die in Benghazi. 

There is absolutely no doubt that the Obama administration blamed a YouTube video for the attacks, when that video had nothing to do with it and the film-maker is still in jail.

There is absolutely no doubt that the Obama administration lied and tried to cover up the real reasons behind the attacks.

There is absolutely no doubt that the Obama administration has continued to lie about Benghazi and it's actions before, during and after the attack.

There is absolutely no doubt that the Democrat American Communist Party and their lackeys in the Government-Media Complex are continuing to lie, obfuscate and provide cover for the Obama administration during these hearings, even as the truth continues to come out despite the Left's best efforts.

Unfortunately, I don't think we have enough people with integrity or balls in Washington D.C. to impeach that gutless piece of shit currently infesting the Oval Office - even if we could get enough Republicans to do it, the Democrat American Communist Party still controls the Senate, and there's no way in hell they're going to impeach their Marxist Messiah.  It's not like they give a shit about the Constitution anyways - they wipe their ass with it each and every morning as a matter of principal.

Hopefully these hearings will end Hillary Clinton's political career, but I'm not even certain of that.  This country is too far gone.

What I can say for certain is that the full exposure of the total corruption and incompetence of this Administration makes my stomach churn.

Making Money

There are sometimes lessons to be learned from even casual exposure to entertainment literature. Case in point is the Discworld series by British author Terry Pratchett, and one of the more recent books was titled, "Making Money", wherein a story is told with humor, bad puns, and a large grain of salt, but a lot of knowledge is explained in simple terms.

I won't go into detail, but an interesting point is made as to the basis of money. If you live on a desert island, a bag of vegetables is worth infinitely more than a bag of gold, but in the city, the situation is reversed, and several paragraphs are set forth to explain why this should be, and it boils down to a single point: people think the dollars are worth a dollar because - and for no other reason than - they are supposed to be worth a dollar.

I made this point once before on my own blog, but it bears repeating that every single purchase you have made, or will make, in your entire lifetime, is a barter. A swap. This for that. Whether for goods or for personal services, it is a trade of one for the other.

This piece of paper is what I will give you for that gallon of gasoline or loaf of bread. This handful of metal bits in exchange for a ride on a bus or subway train. This swipe of my plastic card's magnetic strip (to cause electrons to move from one computer account to another) in exchange for that new pair of shoes or a haircut.

Money is just a medium of exchange that makes it easier to swap things that can't easily be carried around (such as home repairs or medical expertise). Instead of offering to carve a fancy little statue in exchange for a place to stay, money allows third and fourth and fifth parties to be bypassed and adds the ease of transport, by giving you those little pieces of paper in exchange for those skills, whereupon you can take the little pieces of paper to the corner market and trade them for the loaf of bread you will need to earn more of those little pieces of paper tomorrow.

"This Note Is Legal Tender For All Debts, Public and Private" appears on every US currency bill, of any denomination, and is intended to emphasize that the bill is supposed to be acceptable as a standard means of intermediate exchange between two parties to any transaction. But please note that it does not say that people are required to accept it, merely that it would be legal for them to do so.

People accept those little pieces of colored paper at their face value, because they expect that the next person in the chain will also accept them in trade for whatever they are trying to get rid of, whether it's a fancy pair of shoes, a tankful of gasoline or a loaf of bread.

But what happens if they don't?

Not a damned thing. Remember that it is legal for them to accept it, but not required. And at the other end, they can refuse payment by any means other than currency or coins, although paying a large bill in coins can result in a sprained back (a mere 400 pennies - $4.00 worth - weighs a kilogram, which works out to $1.81 per pound). Quarters are heavier (about 176 to the kilo), but worth much more (176 quarters = $44, or $20/lb).

But what happens when people stop thinking that they are anything other than just pieces of colored paper, or rather heavier bits of shaped metal? What happens when the "Full Faith and Credit" means as much to the common man on the street as the Second Amendment means to the Obama regime?


Ask the Weimar Republic. Ask Zimbabwe. Ask Timmy "Turbo-Tax" Geithner.

Daddy needs a new pair of shoes

Running shoes.  I'm looking at the new minimal kind of running shoes.  One of my coworkers wears the "Minimus" by New Balance and he raves about them.

Anyone out there have opinions?  I've worn New Balance and Saucony for the past couple of decades, but I'm willing to look at other brands as well.

Horry Clap!

I followed this link from Instapundit and found one hell of an awesome rant!

No, anti-gunners are absolutely right: There can be no rational debate on this issue anymore. Anti-gunners don’t understand guns, they don’t understand crime, they don’t understand American history and traditions, they don’t understand gun owners and don’t care to understand us, and they reduce people like me to a debasing label or a number they’ve got no clue about.  

Anti-gunners reject our passions, our traditions, our knowledge, our experiences, our beliefs, our wisdom, our rights. Anti-gunners reject our very individuality by reducing us to labels, stereotypes and false or distorted statistics. Screw you for destroying that individuality and denying our humanity.

Oh my....  this needs to be read, printed out and passed out in Congress.

Good old-fashioned rocking out

I remember this song when it first came out years ago - I thought it was pretty darn good then, and I still think it's pretty darn good now.



Some songs just convey a sense of joy; this is one of them.

Back from the Wilderness

It has been quite a while since I actually did any blogging, but there has just been too much for me to ignore of late, and it's high time I had a chance to vent my spleen, as the saying goes. (And if it doesn't actually go that way, we'll just have to force it somehow.)

It will be a little while before I get the hang of this, and it doesn't help that the damned system keeps insisting that I have logged out somehow, but those are technical details that just require a bit of tweaking, so for now, I will just say "Thanks!" to Ragin' Dave for the chance to let off that steam.

Since there is absolutely no chance that the cowards in the House will ever get together and pass Articles of Impeachment (the listing of Barry's High Crimes and Misdemeanors would take too long, but being actively complicit in the murder of a US Ambassador and imprisoning US citizens for exercising their First Amendment Rights is a good place to start), and the traitors in the Senate will never get 67 of them to vote in favor of said hypothetical Articles (remember Clinton and his fellow Democrats in the Senate saying "He's not guilty enough"?), we will be stuck with Obama until he gets good and ready to leave, but I have been saying that there will be a Second American Revolution not later than about 2025 since the mid 1980s, and I see nothing to cause me to change my mind.

It's no longer a question of "if", but "when and how", and so it's time to start thinking about where the pieces will fall. The rift is narrow, but very, very deep, and it all boils down to reality and how it is being avoided by those who really ought to know better.

The differences between the political parties are almost non-existent, and there just isn't a third party powerful enough to pick up the pieces (yet), but remember that can that has been kicked down the road for the last two generations? Well, we are now facing a big yellow sign reading "Road Closed", and the bills are starting to pile up at our feet. There isn't enough paper on the planet to print the amount of money needed ($123.82 trillion-with-a-T as of this writing -- http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html) to cover all the financial promises that the Federal Government has made.

A quick economics lesson for those who don't get it: Wealth is not money, and I include all of the precious metals that are used as a practical synonym for cash, just as I include the colored bits of paper and stamped bits of metal printed with denominations of one sort or another, in a hundred languages.

Wealth is fresh water. Wealth is arable land. Wealth is the lumber, metal and stone used to make things. Money is just an efficient means of trading those things without having to carry around (say) a bushel of wheat or sticks of lumber or blocks of stone.

But even before we need a form of government, we need some means of trading efficiently. If we have 100 potatoes, and 100 dollar bills chasing those 100 potatoes, that does not mean that the potatoes are worth $1 each, only that they cost that much. (A fine distinction, but a very real one, as you will see in a moment.) If the government then prints another 100 dollar bills, that does not mean that the potatoes are suddenly worth twice as much, only that they cost twice as much. (See?)

In actuality, that means that the dollar is suddenly worth half of what it was before the sudden surge of currency, because it takes twice as many to get the same number of potatoes.

I need you to get the distinction between wealth and money, because while money cannot be created out of thin air without ruining the value of that money, wealth can be, and routinely is. Wealth is what happens when you take the raw materials, and turn it into something more valuable. Take a raw piece of flint, and turn it into an arrowhead, and it becomes valuable to the hunter through the application of skill and effort. Take a few trees and some adobe, add skill and effort, and you have a house capable of keeping the weather outside.

Case in point: the value of the buildings in (say) the city of Los Angeles had to come from the application of skill and effort to raw materials, rather than the expenditure of money, because there simply wasn't enough money available to steal on the planet to pay for all those buildings, much less the rest of the State or country. That wealth was created, it wasn't stolen from the third world or "the down-trodden".

But our government has been borrowing money in the hopes that there would be the wealth to pay for it later, and the can has reached the end of that particular road.

All it takes is one bank to say "well, I don't think we're going to loan you any more money, and those T-bills are mighty pretty, but they are just IOUs and I don't think you would be able to pay them off when they come due", and it will trigger what is known as a "preference cascade": when all those people who have been nursing their own private doubts for so long finally realize that not only are they not alone, they are actually in the majority.

Governments cannot declare bankruptcy, as long as they retain the power to tax, but we already owe in current debts more than the annual collective effort of the 320 million people who live within our borders. If the Federal Government were to simply take -- excuse me, "collectivize" -- every cent that was spent by every person in every endeavor, and seize the cumulative assets of every person on the Forbes 400, it would STILL not be enough to pay off just what is currently owed, never mind all the future payments that have been promised.

And what cannot go on forever... won't.

Not with a bang, but a Ka-ching...

Anyhow, thanks again to Dave for giving me an outlet...

It both amazes and sickens me

How many leftists stridently push for young children to have sex.  When you read the comments at Ann Althouse on this post, you get a very creepy kind of vibe from the people defending the government's decision to allow Plan B pills to be sold over the counter to young girls.  Most if not all of the leftists I've debated on the topic of abortion and sex education were of the opinion that we should essentially encourage young kids to have all the sex they want.

Which leads me to ask - do they push for this because they actually believe that tripe?  Do they push for it because they push for just about anything that can help destroy the nuclear family?  Or do they push for it because they themselves want to have sex with young girls?

And I fear that the answer is "Yes".

Obama blames Mexican violence on guns smuggled from USA

Holy.  F'n.  Crap.  The man personally responsible for the program responsible for giving guns to Mexican drug cartels wants to blame Mexican gun violence on the USA.

Well, in a way, he's right.  Obama is the President of the USA, and Obama is responsible for thousands upon thousands of guns being smuggled to the drug cartels.

But I don't think he means that, do you?  No, that god-damned communist anti-American traitor is trying to blame everybody else for the Mexican gun violence.   Fast and Furious?  He's never heard of it.  Really.  He says so.

God, he makes me sick. 

May Day, or "Yay for Socialism!" day

Take a look at the videos from Seattle at Hot Air.  And remember, as you watch them, that these sub-human fucks are the ones running the country.

Yeah.  Gives you that sick feeling in your stomach, doesn't it?

UPDATE:  I like this better - Victims of Communism Day.

The Country is in the Best of Hands

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent letter to USA warning of the Boston Marathon Bombers.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012, long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds, according to a senior Saudi government official with direct knowledge of the document.

The Saudi warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen.

Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, the source said. Tsarnaev's plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.

I want you to think about this for a minute.  This isn't just a failure of the DHS to ferret out a bomber on their own....  THEY WERE WARNED ABOUT THEM BY SAUDI ARABIA!  IN WRITING!

Hey, wouldn't it be nice if that jack-booted bitch in charge of DHS actually gave a shit about stopping Islamic terrorism rather than trying to find some Christian anywhere to blame for the world's ills?  Just think of what this country could do if it actually focused on finding real terrorists rather than trying to turn veterans and patriots into scary right wing "terrorists" (scare quotes intended).

Good God in Heaven, this government couldn't be more of an incompetent clustefuck if it actually tried.  And the brain-dead Democrats think everything is hunky dory. 

Hammered flat

Working pretty much all day, and then coming home to do schoolwork - doesn't leave much blogging time.  Sorry 'bout that.

Any reader out there ever have an intense, unfulfilled desire to blog about booze, guns, wimmin and politics?

If'n you're a lady, I'll remove the blogging about wimmin part.

Gutless Pussy wets self, runs away

Otherwise known as Obama being Obama.

Yeah.  Nice "Red Line" in Syria, you gutless fucking pussy.  Of course, it's not like all those terrorist supporting countries didn't already know that you were just another spineless fucking bitch from the moment you first got elected, but it's been confirmed so many times that this is just gilding the lily.

Coffee Inbound!

Just put in a big order to Mystic Monk coffee.  Getting plenty of their Ethiopian blend, plus a few more to try out. 

Hey, when something is that good, you just buy it when you need it, right?

Mollbot beat me to it

One of the various blog posts I wanted to highlight was over at Random Nuclear Strikes, where they quote a lefty dipshit crowing about how Boston's ability to "lock down" the city somehow proves that us gun-toting right wingers could never possibly win any conflict with the Feds.  Mollbot pointed out the thought that was in my head:

And yet two incompetent jihadi wannabes shut down an entire US city for a day. That’s a fairly significant ROI for whatever nebulous organization they may or may not be a part of. They tied down tons of local LE and whatever other agency personnel got called up. And the younger brother wasn’t even FOUND… by a subject… er citizen… whatever… of Massachussetts until the lockdown was lifted.

 The unarmed sheep of Boston were on lockdown over TWO people.  TWO.  Two people who did not plan anything other than their initial attack.  Two people who, after their initial strike, essentially drove around PRACTICALLY WAITING TO BE FOUND, which still didn't happen until after they had ambushed and killed a cop after they robbed a store AND carjacked a guy AND told him that they were "The Bombers".

And the younger brother wasn't found until after the lockdown ENDED!

Holy Batshit, Batman! 

And this stupid fucking Leftist douchenozzle, Steve Marme, thinks that the Boston lockdown somehow proves that the "gun lunatics" have no chance against the almighty power of the state?  It's the complete opposite!  Give me one platoon of troops, with halfway decent training, and I could shut that city down for a month without even trying too hard.  Give me two platoons, and I could own that town.  Who's going to stop me?  The people of Boston?

THEY DON'T HAVE ANY GUNS.

The whole reason the lockdown was necessary in the first place is because the people of Boston, being unarmed sheep, have NO OTHER OPTION but to hunker down behind closed doors while two relatively untrained morons forced an entire city into trembling, pants-wetting fear.  Do you think anything like this would have happened in Dallas?  Or Oklahoma City?  Or Phoenix?

You know it wouldn't have.  Because those cities have armed citizens, not unarmed sheep.

Sitting here with a cigar

and a cuppa, trying to catch up on the news.  It's a bright day, and the dogs are running around in the back yard playing with each other.

Supposedly there's some sort of playoffs going on right now.  I don't know what the hell they're talking about - Hockey playoffs haven't started yet, baseball just started their season and football was over a while ago.  Is there some other sport out there I haven't heard of?  Maybe they're referring to the NFL draft.

Speaking of baseball - has anyone seen just how horrible my Mariners are this year?  This is how you know that I'm a true fan - no bandwagon rider would be rooting for the mariners for almost three decades like I have.  Gah.

For all you runners out there - I've been using a website called Map My Run for a while now.  It's free (with ads that pop up), and it lets me track my miles run and calories burned while allowing me to plot routes just about anywhere I go.  I don't think it's the most accurate site out there, but hey, it's free.

Have I mentioned how awesome the Mystic Monk Ethiopian Blend is?  I have?  Oh.  Good.

Anywho, that's my basic brain dump for this AM.  Should anything actually penetrate my brain before the caffeine kicks in, I'll let you know.

I'm back

Did the world end?  No?  Carry on then.

Light blogging notice

Going on a mission.  I'll be blogging from my tablet, but I can't type very well on that thing.  We'll see how much I feel like posting.

Homebrew update

Bottled three gallons of apple cider last night.  I had used an English Cider yeast, and it came out quite a bit different than my last batch.  The Ragin' Mrs. compares it to a Riesling.  It's dry, and has a more complex flavor than just apple.  I used a raw apple cider to start, so it's not just apple-flavored sugar water.  I primed it and bottled it, set it in a nice dark spot and now I'm going to wait for two weeks before I crack one open and see how it finished.

Next weekend, the lavender mead and Rodamel get bottled.  The Mrs. is already doing her happy dance.

Found a New Blog

Or actually, Borepatch found a new blog, and that led BabyTrollBlog to find a new blog, which led me to find a new blog.

Follow all that?  Good.

Lurking Rhythmically.

Is good.

Is going in sidebar after I get back from doing what I gotta do.

Things you need to know

What is five times better than WD-40 for dealing with rusted bolts?

ATF/Acetone at 50/50.

Also, Ed's Red.  You're welcome.

Boston Marathon Bombers are Muslim

Progressives, NYT hardest hit.

Let's hope the cops don't miss.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Walkin' Edition

In picture form.

 

!!!!!

Been busy

Gonna get busier.  After the bomb blasts in Boston, I called the Ragin' Brother, who has reason to be in and around downtown Boston at times.  He's fine, along with his wife and kid.  Meanwhile, the media and the Democrat American Communist Party continue to beclown themselves.  One idiot Democrat (but I repeat myself) actually tried to claim that the bombing happened because of the sequester?

Numbskulls.

Stadium full of hockey fans takes over National Anthem at Boston Bruins game

Friggin' Awesome.

Review of Mystic Monk FTO Ethiopian Coffee

So, a while back I purchased a pack of FTO Ethiopian coffee from Mystic Monk.  I finally got around to grinding some up and making coffee to test out.

It's a medium blend, not too bitter, with a bright flavor to it.  You can taste notes of apricot, with an undertone of roasted nuts and no real aftertaste.

All in all, I'd give it a 4.5 stars, with one being "Bleah!  Starschmuchs!" and a 5 being "OHMYGODTHISISTHEBESTCOFFEEINTHEWORLD!"  And I'll definitely be ordering more, and other types to try out.

More Tar and Feathers

Are you saving for retirement?  You rube.  I hope you haven't saved too much!

How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?

Well, be careful how much you save.

That's the message in President Obama's budget for fiscal 2014, which for the first time proposes to cap the amount Americans can save in these tax-sheltered investment vehicles. The White House explanation is that some people have accumulated "substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." So Mr. Obama proposes to "limit an individual's total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, or about $3 million for someone retiring in 2013." 

One - if this doesn't give you the perfect window into that fascist fucking pinhead's mindset, I don't know what will.  Obama the Nazi doesn't think you even own your own retirement accounts - and he'll make sure you only have what he thinks you should have, you fucking peasant!  BOW BEFORE YOUR GOD AND KING OBAMA, YOU FUCKING SLAVE!!!!!

The budget offers few details on how the government would enforce this cap across a worker's various accounts, but you can bet it would be complicated. Right now the government doesn't track all tax-deferred account balances. Financial firms don't have to send IRS 1099 forms to investors unless there's a distribution, nor do the firms know how much customers hold at other institutions.

So the IRS would get new power to impose new burdens on millions of taxpayers. And all so the government could raise what the White House claims would be $9 billion more in revenue over 10 years, as if people wouldn't change their savings habits. After this proposal, only a fool would pay taxes now to transfer to a "tax-free" Roth IRA that the feds may decide to tax someday. 

 Well, duh.  That's one thing those anti-American communist fucksticks never figure out - people will change their actions to avoid being punished by the fascist government.

The Administration's political motive here is two-fold: First, it's a redistributionist play and a revenue grab. But for many on the left it's also about reducing the ability of individuals to make themselves independent of the state. They have always disliked IRAs, just as they oppose health-savings accounts, because over time they make Americans less dependent on federal entitlements or transfer payments.

Amazingly, Mr. Obama has surveyed the economic landscape and somehow decided that it's time to discourage savings if you make more than he thinks is "reasonable."

And that is the bottom line, isn't it?  Like all Marxists, they want slaves dependent on the government, not a free group of individuals who are self-reliant.

We need more tar and feathers.

So lookie what I found here!

You know all about how Obama wants you to pay your fair share, right?  For the common good, right?

That fucker pays 18.4% in taxes.

That's LESS THAN I PAY.  And he makes a hell of a lot more than I do!

So whenever you hear about how Obama wants the rich to pay their fair share, just remember these words:

HE'S A GOD-DAMNED HYPOCRITICAL LYING SACK OF SHIT!

I am sickened by my country right now.  I am sickened that they re-elected this god-damned hypocritical lying sack of shit, and I'm sickened by the fact that this country is so full of idiotic, mouth-breathing, teat-sucking, slack-jawed fucking morons that they actually swallowed that fucking fascist's lies so that he could spend another four years lying to the world.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Caring Edition

Via Twitter and Ace:

One rich white girl missing in Aruba? WALL TO WALL COVERAGE! Hundreds of poor black babies murdered, their feet saved as trophies? Crickets.

And as someone else pointed out yesterday, when Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut (which she is, but the more accurate term of someone who demands money for sex is whore) the media went apeshit and ran non-stop coverage about "the WAR on WOMEN!"

But when a woman dies, and babies are pulled out of their mother's wombs alive, SCREAMING AND ALIVE, and then killed via scissors to the neck?

Nothing.  Crickets.

This is a sickening mindset.  We are murdering the most helpless among us so that people won't be sexually inconvenienced, but all the left can say is crap like this:

Meh. The story needn't be nationalized. It's being used to attack reproductive health care for women.

This is a sick, mentally diseased woman with a black hole where her soul should be.  Just for the record, she is labeling the act of pulling a living child out of the womb and murdering it as "Reproductive Health Care" for women.  Good God, I can't imagine what it's like to live in a world so pathetic and hateful that youi'd call the murder of a living child "Reproductive Health Care".  All I can do is look at people like that Tweeter and realize that evil lives among us.

I'd like to dedicate this song

To the entire Democrat Party.



Lyin' bastids.

Good God, the Mariner's suck

I've been rooting for the Seattle Mariners since 1984.  I remember Ken Griffy Jr's first season.  I remember The Kid smacking back-to-back home runs with his dad in the same game.  I've been a fan.  I've seen one or two good seasons, but just....


The Astros were predicted to be the worst team in the Major Leagues this year.  I mean, the experts were saying that the Astros were on pace to lose 100 games.  THAT kind of bad.  But the Astros look to be taking two out of three from the Mariners so far.

So by that logic, the Mariners suck worse than the Astros are supposed to be sucking.

Can Seattle just sell the team to someone who actually gives a shit about winning?

Free Ice Cream Machine broken

Although Day by Day seems to have taken an interesting turn.

Why I must run, run, and run some more

My wife is cooking up Kielbasa sausage, potatoes, and Swiss chard with onions and bacon.

I need to run another five miles tomorrow.  Don't you feel my pain?

Margaret Thacher has died

And Great Britain has lost half of it's testicular fortitude.  Can you think of one British politician with the stones that the Iron Lady had?

I think I might be getting old

Random joints on my body pop for no apparent reason when I move.  Ankle, shoulder, knees.....

Or maybe it's just the aftermath of my former life as a secret agent.....  yeah, that's it.....

In other news, I cleared out half of the jungle that was threatening to consume my little strip of dirt in the back yard.  Now I must contemplate what to plant in the cleared area.

Ho. Lee. Shit.

"We have to break through the idea that kids are YOUR kids."

Take a good hard look at what the fascist progs really think.



Remember, to the Progressive Left, these kids aren't YOUR kids, they are the COMMUNITIES kids, which means that the COMMUNITY can do what they want with them.

Oh, and the whole bullshit about not spending enough on Education?  We spend more on education now than we ever did, and we are increasingly turning out uneducated, ignorant, intellectually stunted adults, indoctrinated is Marxist agitprop, rather than actual EDUCATED INDIVIDUALS.  Why the hell do we want to spend more money on it?

Democraphics Doom Dem's Demagoguery?

Most likely, yes.  As the Puppy Blender is fond of pointing out, thinks that cannot go on forever, won't.

The unfunded non-means tested middle class entitlement state is the foundation of progressive Dem power. Without it they have nothing but naked crony capitalism, outright bureaucratic empires like the educational-industrial complex and the racial grievance industry. 

 (......)

Obama is trapped…the Dems can’t be for tax reform, they can’t be for entitlement reform, and they can’t tax the middle class without destroying the left/New Class ruling coalition. There aren’t enough “rich” to tax sufficiently…AND there will soon be a borrowing constraint. The people have been systematically lied to for over 70 years–lies they have wanted to hear, though. If they ever figure out that it is THEY who have to pay for the welfare state and that–systematically–younger cohorts will pay a lot more and get a lot less, there will be hell to pay.

Demographics may very well end the Democrat's power, as their lust for more money hits the brick wall of reality that says you can't get any more from a population that's already being soaked.  However.....

I'm willing to bet that before that happens, the Left will destroy what remains of this country in their desperate bid for political power.  So no, I'm not really all that hopeful about the future at this point, and the re-election of that fucking Nazi Obama only reinforces my belief.  Who needs reality when you have a Marxist Messiah to sooth you with false promises that you willingly accept?

You wanna know why I'm not hot on the Jesuits?

Or why I think a Jesuit being named Pope isn't a great thing?

Yeah.

Spokane’s Gonzaga University [Jesuit run Catholic school] has denied a Knights of Columbus group application to be recognized as an official student organization. Those seeking the status were notified of the University’s decision at a meeting on March 7.

The group was notified of the decision by Dean of Students Kassi Kain and Assistant Director for Student Activities Dave Rovick.

“The Knights of Columbus, by their very nature, is a men’s organization in which only Catholics may participate via membership,” says a letter obtained by The Cardinal Newman Society written by Sue Weitz, Vice President for Student Life. “These criteria are inconsistent with the policy and practice of student organization recognition at Gonzaga University, as well as the University’s commitment to non-discrimination based on certain characteristics, one of which is religion.”

So a Jesuit university denies a Catholic group because you have to actually be Catholic in order to be part of said Catholic group.

Folks, the Jesuits are just as bad as the nuns who backed Obamacare.  Marxism has infiltrated the Catholic church, and I think that the Jesuits are a pretty good example of what happens when you allow statist ideologies into religion.

A religious organization with actual standards would have simply said "Of course the K of C can have their group, and if people don't like it, perhaps they shouldn't attend a CATHOLIC university."  But that would take balls, and as Ann Barnhardt is often pointing out the Marxist-Homosexualists who have infiltrated the Catholic church in America care more about their political ideology than their theology.

Female Marines fail Infantry Officer Course

Couldn't pass the physical endurance portion.

I should point out that twelve men failed as well.  But that's the point.  You weed out the people who can't hack it.  And the Infantry Officer Course is a bear, because if you pass it, you're going to be in command of a whole lot of grunts who will surely look down at you if you cannot do what they can do.

But women don't have the physical stamina men do.  They have lower muscle-mass to body-weight ratios.  And they have less cardio endurance than men do.  These are basic physiological facts, people.  Don't believe me?  Take a look at the differences between men and women on the Army Physical Fitness Test.

You want to know why women should not be in a combat arms MOS?  Because women as a rule cannot sustain the kind of physical effort those jobs require.  Period.

Cigars and Whiskey

Are keeping me sane right now.  Work....  sucks.  Thatisall.  Calling up USARC and begging to be deployed has gotten me nowhere.

Let's you and him fight!

Bwahah!  Hollywood fuckwits versus Ecofreaks!  DING DING DING!

Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn and Pierce Brosnan are among 108 homeowners along the 1.2-mile beach, where houses sell for up to $30million. When most of them were built in the 1970s, the owners had to walk 140 feet in the sand to reach the surf. Now, at high tide, the waves crash against an 8-foot-high emergency rock barrier. Though the stars want to spend their own money to rebuild the beach with sand dredged from the ocean floor, regulators have blocked the plan. Environmentalists prefer a “managed retreat” from the waves so the shore can revert to its natural state.

Where's my popcorn?  This ought to be good!

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Florida University Jesus Stomping

So an idiot perfesser at Florida Atlantic University told his students to write the name "Jesus" on a piece of paper, and then stomp on it.  Supposedly it was to get students to discuss uncomfortable topics.

The one student who objected was punished.

The story leaked out, and now that perfesser is suspended, although for how long we don't know.  And oh by the way, the perfesser is also some muckity-muck in the local Democrat American Communist Party.  Go figure  Fascist politicians and universities go hand in hand these days.

Here's what I would have done.  I would have taken a piece of paper, written "Obama" on it, and danced a jig on that mother.  And when the perfesser threw his pants-wetting hysterics, I would simply say that while he stomps on the name of my Lord and Savior, I'm stomping on the name of his.

How's that for an uncomfortable topic within the incubator of progressive fascism?

Coffee Test

I have an order placed with Mystic Monk Coffee.  It's been shipped and on the way.  Once I have a chance to give it a try, I'll let you all know if it's worth it.

For what it's worth, I ordered the FTO Ethiopian.  High caffeine content, donchaknow. 

Google thinks Ceasar Chavez is more important than Jesus Christ

Ed Driscoll, posting at Instapundit, has the screencap of it.  I clicked over to Google just to see it with my own eyes.

Google is the home of Leftist douche-nozzles and useful idiots.  You want a search engine that isn't a tool of the progressive fascists?  Use dogpile or bing.  Or whatever other search engine you enjoy.  But dump Google, unless you like your search results flavored with unhinged leftism.

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

I've always liked Bach, and the older I get, the more I appreciate the sheer amount of talent it takes to play one of his pieces.

He is Risen!

Oh hell yes!

Every illegal immigrant is a spit in the eye of every single person who came here LEGALLY.



More, please.

Pardon me whilst I waddle my fat ass to the sofa

So among other things that happened today, a bright young man at my church was baptized into the faith.  And he had asked me to be his Godfather, and I had accepted.  And it was a beautiful thing.

And then the wives started cooking. 

And we ate.

And ate.

And ate.

I was able to stuff down one cookie for dessert.  That's it.  Right now I'm smoking a good cigar and wondering just how far I have to run on Monday to make up for the sheer amount of calories I've consumed today, and will most likely consume tomorrow, as the delightful ladies are cooking an Easter feast.

Definitions

The Ragin' Mrs. and I were having dinner the other night, when she made the remark "I think we have too much convenience food in the house."  And since I didn't quite know what convenience food we had, I asked her about it.  "Well, you know....  um....  we have that ravioli in the fridge."

OK.  So.  My wife thinks that un-cooked pasta, that you have to cook AND prepare a sauce for, is "convenience" food.

Today is Good Friday.  It is the day when our Lord Jesus Christ was beaten, flogged, tortured, forced to carry a wooden cross through a city, and then NAILED to that cross, hung on it for hours, and died.

Only in the knowledge of our salvation through Christ's death can we think about calling today "Good" Friday.

I'm so damn tired

There's something about living in Kalifornia that makes you want to slit your wrists and bleed out while you take a shit on the hood of a Mercedes being driving by yet another self-absorbed asshole who probably is too busy talking on his phone to notice your deficatory prowess.

This fucking state is bat-shit insane, and going deeper into the black hole of lunacy every day, driven by people who are so ignorant of reality that they force themselves to NOT observe any kind of logical reaction to their behavior.

Fuck this place.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day

From a post at Adrienne's Corner -

The moral argument is "guns can't be both good and bad".  This is just a logical thing, and since you will need guns in the hands of the police to take away guns from the hands of private citizens then you're saying guns in the hands of the government are really good and guns in the hands of private citizens are really bad.  And what you've then done is created opposite moral standards for two groups of people who are not differentiated by anything except a concept called "The State". 

Stefan Molyneux

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, the Truth which shall not be allowed Edition

Via The Smallest Minority:

If you are stuck in a minimum wage job for ten years, the problem is you. If you are trying to support a family for any extended period of time on a minimum wage job, the problem is you. If you don't think the problem is you, the problem is you. If you don't have the skills to get promoted or hired somewhere else, the problem is you. If there aren't any jobs in you area, friggin' move, but I'm betting the problem is still you.

 In my life I've bucked bales of hay, washed dishes (which is how I got started cooking in restaurants), been a line cook, been a security guard (a surprisingly good job, when you have a Military Police background and can demand commensurate pay) and of course, my military career.  In between those jobs I've done a few temp jobs, most of which sucked, but all of which paid the bills.

And after I got done cooking, I never worked for minimum wage.  Ever.  Want to know why?  Because I've constantly tried to learn the skills it took to earn a "living" wage.  I never wanted to be a brainless drone living on minimum wage for a FRIGGIN' DECADE!  Do you know why jobs are minimum wage?  Because those are the jobs that take NO SKILL TO DO!  THEY REQUIRE NO REAL BRAIN FUNCTION!  If you want to make more than minimum wage, LEARN SOMETHING!  Even if it's how to maintain the fryers you're using!  Make yourself valuable to an employer, and you'll be out of the minimum wage bracket in no time.  But as long as you just sit around with your thumb up your ass, and you can be replaced by the next dope-smoking jackass walking in, you're going to be a minimum wage person for the rest of your life.

So, to repeat the phrase....  "The problem is you."

Need Good Music

I'm tired of a lot of things right now, and I need something to lift meup.



That oughta do it.

GO READ IT ALL

And then, if you have school aged children, start taking a long, hard look at what it will take to get them out of the publik skool sistim.

The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto.

Because I can guarantee that the damage done to them if they remain in that sistim will be almost impossible to reverse.

Lazy Day today

I've taken out the trash, done some cleaning, and I'll be picking up after the dogs in the yard later.  In the afternoon, choir practice.  But all in all, I'm not going to do much of anything.

Yep.

To quote that great philosopher...

...Ron White - You ever take a shit so big your pants fit better afterwards?

There comes a point where you finish dropping the kids off at the pool, and when you stand up you realize you have produced an object that can only qualify as HAZMAT.  Nothing that looks or smells like that should ever come out of a normal human body.  And as the dogs were frantically throwing themselves at the front door in an effort to escape the stench, I took solace in the fact that they cannot verbalize the torture I just put them through, and thereby gain the Ragin' Mrs' wrath through their squealing.

I figure they'll wake up in a moment or two.  Maybe.

One of the songs we're practicing

for Easter....



I don't think we sound near this good.

Today's schedule

Wake up.
Go running.
Go to work.
Feel my soul decay for hours.
Go home.
Practice for Easter Mass (I'm singing in the choir, the poor fools)
Come home.
Eat Dinner.
Go to bed.

Wash, rinse, repeat for the next few days.

Gah, this day sucked

Can I get deployed again?  Please?

Saint Patrick's Day

Dinner was a corned beef, in a crock pot.  Quartered a red onion, placed the corned beef on top of the quarters, and then filled the crock pot with Guinness up to the bottom of the beef.

Mashed potatos with bacon and onion.

Irish beer bread.

Leeks, braised in the pan that we cooked the bacon in, de-glazed with Jameson's Irish Whiskey.

Gravy made with the liquid from the crock pot.

I'm so full, if I move wrong I might just pop.

So....

Muir puts up a redhead and a brunette nude on DayByDay?

Well then....

Sitting in the morning

Already took the dogs to the park to run them out a bit.

Drinking coffee, smoking a fine robusto, shopping for cigars, and listening to the birds in the trees.  I've been waiting for this all week long.

Bad Wheel

I rolled my ankle yesterday on my run.  Iced it, walked around yesterday, no problem.

Woke up this morning, hopped out of bed and almost fell over. 

Dammit.

Seen at my dentist visit

On an Air Force base, no less.

Read the title of the major article.  I had to control my gag reflex for about half an hour after I saw it.  I then flipped it over, covered it up with a year-old "US" magazine and walked away before I lost my temper.  I know that Newsweek is one of the media outlets that performs fellatio on Obama every chance it gets, but this is the kind of bias that explains just how and why Obama won stole a second term.

You want to know why I don't give a shit about the press going under?  Because anything, ANYTHING is better than the shit being put out today. 

Later on, I expect Newsweek to offer an article about how Obama's executive orders commanding Jews and Catholics to head to "Re-Education Centers" is going to lead to world peace and anyone who objects to it is a doo-doo head.  Don't mind the smokestacks, that's just where the heretics....  BOOKS, yeah, their books are being burnt. 

And in the same subject as my last post

Well, kinda....

We have a new Pope.

OK, yes, I know, as a Catholic I should be more....  respectful.  More joyful?  More what?

I've had a gin and tonic, I'm bone tired to the point where I go to sleep immediately and wake up exhausted, and while the pope is the leader of the Catholic Church, I don't have any real emotions tied up in a guy from Latin America becoming Pope.  Not yet, anyways.  We'll see what happens in the upcoming years.

Campy

I just watched a movie that took campy beyond campy.  It's like the director deliberately took every stereotype from a bad movie and put it into his movie as an homage.  Even the name screams "CAMPY!"

"Nude Nuns with Big Guns".

Guess what it features?  Go on, guess!

Yeah, and I'm the guy who also watched "Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter".  Deal with it.  Some movies are so bad, they just HAVE to be seen.

Deadline met

Now maybe I'll go back to normal hours at work.  Maybe.

Well now...

Since DayByDay is showing hot topless redheads on top of the page....

Left work tonight

At around 2015 hrs.  Heard a pack of coyotes having themselves a sing-along about a football field away from where my car was parked.  Living here is....  interesting.  I wonder how many fluffy kitties will go missing tonight.

Serves 'em right, the demon-spawned bastards.

I think I just found my new theme-song

Thanks, Sondra!

John McCain is a fucking jackass

Shut the fuck up, you senile piece of shit!

 Is that harsh?  GOOD!  I voted for McCain in 2008, and I have upheld his military service as honorable against Leftists across the country, but damn it, he needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP!  You want to know why the GOP keeps getting it's ass handed to it on a silver platter?  Because of people like John McCain, who as far as I can tell never misses a chance to grease up his ass and bend over for the Democrats when it'll hurt conservatives the most.  Maybe if he was more concerned about the Constitution and less concerned about making sure that Obama's feeeeeewings don't get hurt, he would have won in 2008, and we wouldn't be faced with the knowledge that Obamacare is going to destroy our economy!

But since he can't be bothered to actually uphold the convictions he claims to have, he needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP!

It's come to this

But then, when one party is dedicated to removing the rights of Americans, it always comes to things like this:

The Democratic Whip Just Announced That the Democratic Party Objects to a Resolution That the President Can't Murder American Citizens

Let me say that again:

The Democratic Whip Just Announced That the Democratic Party Objects to a Resolution That the President Can't Murder American Citizens

Fuck those fucking fuckers right the fuck out of this country.  The god-damned fascist pieces of shit.

I'm sorry, did you say Hugo Chavez was dead?

Fuck you, Sean Penn, you god-damned commie cocksucker.

Fuck you Jimmeh Carter, you fucking commie appeasing dipshit.

Fuck you, Harry Belafonte, you fucking moron.

Do I need to go on?  WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Hugo Chavez is dead?

Like, really?

Celebrate his death?  Nah.  I'm celebrating the fact that he can't fuck with Venezuela anymore, and that all the fascist douchebags from Hollywood are in mourning.

Fucking idiotic pricks.

Long Days Suck

There's not much for me to blog about, because I've spent most of the day doing brainless, mind-numbing work that reduces my mental capacity to just about zero.

So.....



Yeah, that's for my wife.

CALORIES!!!!!

My wife just made bread pudding.

With doughnuts instead of bread.

And home-made custard.

And vanilla ice cream for on top.

Oh.  Maw.  Gawd.  If I don't show up tomorrow, just send the coroner to pack up my bloated body, because I'll have eaten myself to death tonight.  I think I feel a week's worth of calories coming on in one dessert.

Wishing it were a joke

But it's not. 

The Large Labia project.

Otherwise known as "Exhibition Porn for the Anonymous Woman who wants to feel all self-empowered and stuff!"

Is that a bit harsh?  I don't think so.  I can't think of any reason, any at all, why I would take a picture of my wedding tackle and post it on a website for other folks to comment on.  And let's face it - any time you're taking a picture of your vajayjay and posting it online, there are going to be millions of young men fapping like mad and leaving comments designed to get more women to post more pictures of their hoo-haw.

Who the hell thought this idea up, anyways?  

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