So France Dissolved their Government

How many times is this now for France?  Five?  Six?  Not counting all the times that their government was dissolved for them by the Germans.

And amazingly, every left-wing shibboleth was tried in France.  They got more socialist.  They spent more of other people's money.  And yet....  failure.

But that won't stop the Left in America from hurling us down the same path.

To the retarded braying jackass on the bike path

Maybe if you had one scintilla of awareness of what was going on around you, you wouldn't have swerved right into my lane of travel, causing me to have to jump a curb and blow my rear tire.  Since I couldn't then follow you to beat some sense into your ass, rest assured that I'm going to be looking for you every day from now on, and when I find you, I will fucking make sure you remember exactly who I am, and why I beat you into a pulp.

You fucking jackass.

Things I watch to make me laugh

Epic freak-out of a kid who's mom just deleted his World of Warcraft account.





Dude is going through some DTs right there.

Added a new link

Under the "Be a Man" sidebar.  Pipes and Cigars.  The shop is the same folks who run Cigars International as far as I can tell, but on the pipe smoking side of things.  If you're a pipe smoker, go check them out.  And if you're a cigarette smoker, dump the coffin nails and pick up a pipe.  Everyone around you will thank you.

Corncob pipes

Are actually one hell of a smoke.

I've been trending more towards smoking my pipes, especially with the Ragin' Mrs. in the vehicle with me.  She much prefers the aroma of a pipe than my cigars, so I try to make her happy when I can.  While I love my briars and my meerschaums, I've recently picked up two corncob pipes and I've been using them as a knock-around pipe for my backpacks or on long trips.  Any trip where there's a risk of damage or loss to my good pipes, I take a corncob pipe.  Hell, they're under $10, so if I lose one or destroy one, I can just order another without crying about it.

And they're not bad at all.  The trick is to get one with a thick bowl, such as this, this or this.  Get a good, mild tobacco blend stuffed in there, light 'er up and you're ready to go.  Now the Mrs. enjoys the car ride as much as I do.

Now I need a good pipe rack for all the pipes I've been collecting.  One for my aromatics, one for my English blends....

Does this make anyone else hungry?

I'm actually drooling....

Damn!! New at Lambeau Field at Packers game. The HORSE COLLAR! pic.twitter.com/96OcTcCYJT
— Bill Michaels (@Bill_Michaels) August 21, 2014

That's a 22-inch kielbasa sausage with beer cheese, on a loaf of bread.

So.....  hungry.....

How to start your day off wrong

Have the local Los Angeles fuckheads repeatedly run red lights (in the left-turn lanes!) and then speed through the turn trying to turn left across THREE FUCKING LANES OF TRAFFIC and A CROSSWALK FULL OF PEOPLE, and then give those people who are crossing because THEY HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY a dirty look when they don't get out of your way.

Today is the day that I lost it and began yelling at drivers.  Today is the day when I questioned their intelligence and their parentage.  And I really, REALLY want them to get pissed off and get out of their cars to respond to me, because I will get off my bike and I will break them.  I will break them so that they spend the next six months of their pathetic, worthless, miserable lives drinking their dinners through a straw.   I will break them so fucking hard that every time they see a red light they will curl up in the fetal position sucking their thumb while whimpering "Make the bad man stop!"  I will break them so fucking hard that they will instinctively flinch away from a bicyclist for the rest of their lives.

The reason this city is nothing more than a filthy, polluted, disgusting third-world shithole is because of the people who live here.  This city needs to fall off into the sea and drown all the locals, for the good of the rest of the country.  Fuck Los Angeles.  Fuck this worthless cesspool straight to hell.

Bill Whittle is a national treasure

Dealing with a topic that everyone on the Left refuses to deal with.

A sidebar

Me, speaking to the Ragin' Mrs. while another L.A. yahoo guns his compensation-cycle past our house at top RPMs...


Me:  I don't think I've ever hated loud pipes the way I do here.

Ragin' Mrs:  I don't know, hate is such a soft word......

Yes, Mr. Smallweiner, I get that you have glasspacks on your penis-extension of a car.  I get that you try to pick up chicks by peeling out and screaming down the road after the light turns green.  Doing it in a suburban area right outside my house?

Go fuck yourself.

There are exactly four loud engines in this neighborhood that I don't mind hearing, and they belong to the quartet of WWII planes that take off from the airport and fly in formation to their next heading.  Everybody else can blow me.

Alternate Universe

So, just what it sound like of "Sweet Child O' Mine" was sung by a big-lunged black woman from New Orleans?




'Bout like that, I'd say.

Did Michael Brown deserve to get shot?

I don't know.  Nobody knows at this point, because the full investigation hasn't been released.

However, what we DO know at this point is that the narrative pushed by the Race War Poverty Pimps has been all lies.

They claimed Michael Brown was a "young kid".  He was a 6'4", 290 pound, 18 year old man.

They claimed that Michael Brown was shot in the back.  The autopsy proves all gunshot wounds were on his front.

They claimed that he was running away with his hands up.  The autopsy report proves that claim is a lie.

They claimed Michael Brown was just minding his business that day.  The video that came out, showing Brown and a friend robbing a convenience store and tossing around the poor clerk, proves that was a lie.

At this point, there are still two sides to every story.  The difference is, one side has pushed nothing but lie after lie after lie after lie.  And then that side looted and burned private businesses in their town, all while claiming to want "justice".  Because justice against the po-po involves burning down a private business, right?

Oh, and let's not forget the photos of that "young kid" flashing gang signs for his facebook feed.  Because all innocent young boys flash the Bloods sign.  It's a thing now, so I've been told.  Yeah.  Uh huh.

I still don't know if Michael Brown deserved to get shot.  But I do know that every statement made in support of Brown has been proven to be a lie.  And at that point, I'm going to lean on the side of "Dude needed ventilation" until proven otherwise.

Power Grid and Winter Weather

So, apparently people are worried that the power grid might go down if we have another hard winter, thanks to Obama's EPA closing coal fired plants down and dropping the amount of electricity we can produce.

I say let the winter come, and let the people in the cities freeze to death.  This, after all, is what and who they voted for.  This is the consequence of their actions, and I can't think of anything more fitting than liberals shivering, huddled together while they go into hypothermia, wondering why unicorn farts and rainbows didn't save them.

glarble!

Holy crap I slept like absolute ass last night.  I don't think I got two hours of uninterrupted sleep.  And I don't know what kept waking me up.

Today is going to suck ass.

Yep. What did I tell you?

Rosemary Lehmberg has been a hard-core drinker for a long, long time.

From January 2012 to April 2013 — 15 months — Lehmberg made 59 purchases of alcohol at various Twin Liquors stores, a rate of nearly one purchase a week. 

She bought 76 bottles of alcohol. According to the receipts, Lehmberg prefers Ciroc vodka. Lehmberg routinely purchased 1.75 liter bottles of vodka, at a price of nearly $60 each. On occasions, she bought more than one 1.75 liter bottle of Ciroc at a time. 

Those 76 bottles add up to 24.7 gallons of alcohol purchased over 15 months. The last purchase in the KEYE-compiled list was on April 2, 2013 — 10 days before her arrest for drunk driving, and the subsequent attempt to abuse her power by trying to intimidate the officers who processed her in jail. Lehmberg purchased vodka on that day. An open bottle of vodka was found in her car during her arrest.

I don't think this list includes cash purchases, but I know it doesn't include alcohol purchased by anyone else, or drinks purchased at a restaurant.  There's a pdf of all the alcohol purchases that Lehmburg made, and they are all Visa card purchases.  I did a quick, non-scientific search for "Cash" purchases and none came up.  If she paid in cash, it won't show.  So this is just the lowest level you can conclude.

Vodka is also one of the favorite boozes for alcoholics because it looks like water and you can mix it with anything; coffee, orange juice, you name it and there's some alcoholic pouring vodka into it.  Although at the time of her arrest, she was chugging it straight from the bottle while driving in her car, so mixing it was not exactly what she had in mind.

Lehmberg is a hard-core boozer, and if this is her first time driving drunk I'll eat my hat.  This is just the first time she's been caught, or at least recorded being caught.

Way to go, Texas Democrats!  You sure picked a winner to rally behind!

If this seems like over-kill to you, please keep in mind that I have seen the immediate, bloody aftermath of drunk driving.  I've seen what it can do to a human being, and to the family that human being is ripped away from due to the selfish, stupid actions of the drunk driver.  So the fact that this DA gets rip-snorting drunk and then behind the wheel pisses me off to no end.  The fact that she's also supposed to be in charge of the Public Integrity Unit infuriates me due to the rank hypocrisy of both the DA and the people who support her.  The fact that the Democrats demanded that Lehmberg keep her job despite being a drunk-driving alcoholic is due only to politics, not any kind of integrity or respect for the position, and the fact that they are using the legal system to attack Gov. Perry over his actions shows that they care more about putting their people into positions of power rather than following the damn law themselves.  This entire episode should show just how far gone the Democrats in Austin, TX have fallen.  The fact that national Democrats are backing off and saying this goes too far should drive that last point home like a splitting maul to the Texas Democrat's heads.

So, just to be clear...

...the Democrats in Texas are demanding that a drunk-driving alcoholic DA who is in charge of the Public Integrity Unit be allowed to keep her job despite the drunk-driving, cop-abusing behavior, and attempts by Gov. Rick Perry are illegal in their book.

Oh, and this drunk-driving Democrat DA wasn't just drunk, she was friggin' hammered.  To whit, a .238 BAC.

.238.  Blood.  Alcohol.  Content.

Lemme tell y'all a story about younger Dave, m'kay?  Younger Dave, back when he was an MP, had gone through DUI detection and deterrence courses, and as such, was volunteered to be the drinker at the upcoming DUI detection course.  In short, they have people get drunk so that other MP's can do the field sobriety tests on them, and thus learn just what a drunk person looks like while taking field sobriety tests.  On top of that, you have to determine the person's BAC within a certain percentage just from the field sobriety tests, and in order for that to happen, the person you're testing has to have an actual BAC.

So Dave drank.  And drank.  Keep in mind that when I was younger, this was not an unknown thing for me.  I was a hard drinker when I was younger; probably borderline alcoholic.  I could drink a lot of folks under the table.  Not everybody, but most people.

So I did thirteen shots of Southern Comfort 101.  That's 101 proof SoCo.  50.5% alcohol.  In three hours.

Folks, I was hammered.  I had a hard time walking.  I could speak, but not well.

At the three hour mark, they took my BAC with a breathalyzer test.  It was a .133 BAC.

.133 after thirteen shots in three hours.  And again, I was hammered.  I was drinking on the Army's time, and damn if I wasn't going to do the best drinking I could do!  But I couldn't walk, and I damn sure wasn't even going to think about driving.  They took my BAC an hour later and I was a .113 BAC, and that's STILL too damn drunk to drive.

So trust me when I say that if someone has reached a .238 BAC and they are still upright, they have been getting drunk each day, every day, every week, for years and years on end.  For this woman to be DRIVING with a .238 BAC means that she has been doing this more than once.  More than twice. Hell, I'm willing to bet that she gets behind the wheel with a snoot-full at least once or twice a week, because she has been drinking hard-core for YEARS.  I would hazard a guess that she's downing a fifth of liquor a night, or at least close to that amount.

And then she goes for a drive.

Hey, just the person you want as your DA, right?  Just the person you want running the Public Integrity Unit, right?  Well, only if you're a Democrat in Texas, I guess.  So every time you hear about Rick Perry being indicted, just remember that the Texas Democrats are demanding that a drunk-driving DA be allowed to keep her job AND be in charge of the Public Integrity Unit.

Bill Whittle on Suicide

I can only add "Yeah, what he said".

I'm all in favor of this

Insty, commenting on how to demilitarize the police:

A simple rule would be to provide that police can have only weapons that a civilian could lawfully possess, since they’re civilians themselves.

Of course, it would have to be weapons available to ALL civilians, not just the politically favored ones.

Hey, did you hear the one about....

....the Reuters "journalist" who fell face down on Obama's crotch and gave him a blowjob right on the front page?

No?

Well, here it is.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is loosening restrictions on lobbyists who want to serve on federal advisory boards, a White House official said on Tuesday, a setback to the president's efforts to tamp down special interest influence in Washington.

Feel the spin.  Feel it!  Good God, they can't even bring themselves to admit what he's doing!  Obama's actions are a "setback" to Obama's efforts?  As Instapundit likes to say, the Media in this country is nothing more than Democrat American Communist Party advocates with bylines.

!!!!!

Excuse me, I need a drink.

A thousand times, this.

Erin Palette in the comments yesterday made a statement that I'd like to repeat:

"YOU SELFISH MOTHERFUCKER YOU ONLY SUCCEEDED IN HURTING THE PEOPLE WHO CARED ABOUT YOU."

Suicide hurts everyone around.  It is probably the single most painful and selfish thing you can do to the people who care about you.  I've had to go to a funeral of a friend who committed suicide, and his poor mother could not understand what had happened.  She would ask me and everyone else why he did it, and we had no answers.

I feel a great deal of pity for Robin Williams, but that pity ends at the point he tied a belt around his neck and stepped off his chair.  I have no doubt he was a tortured soul, but that never excuses ending your own life and transferring that torture to everyone you love.

I won't even get in to the Catholic view of suicide.  Suffice to say that when I called it the "unforgivable sin" I wasn't far off.

So I'm right there with Erin.  Fuck you, Robin Williams, for hurting everyone you loved.  Fuck you for hurting everyone around you.  Fuck you for putting all your friends and family in such pain and grief.  Robin Williams committed one of the most selfish acts in the world, and there is no amount of depression on his part that can excuse the pain and suffering that his family is going through right now.

There is never a happy ending in suicide.  For anyone.

Robin Williams is dead

By suicide.  Dammit.

Folks, suicide is the unforgivable sin.  Just don't do it.  Ever.

Dear Angry Black People in Ferguson, Missouri...

When you are trying to show America that you're not a bunch of rioting thugs, doing things like rioting, vandalism, robbery and attempted murder probably are not the best activities for you to engage in.

I mean, seriously here folks!  How many negative stereotypes can you perpetuate in one night?  Apparently, all of them.  Not good.  Not good at all.  This is like the WTO riots in Seattle, where one rocket scientist got himself photographed vandalizing the Niketown store while wearing...

Nikes.

For those people in Ferguson, MO who are having a little trouble comprehending the concept, here's a handy video from Chris Rock.

Hey, want to know a good way to die?

Get out of your race car and go running down a DIRT TRACK while every other car is still moving, and then try to poke your finger through the window of a MOVING RACE CAR.

Look, I feel sorry for the dead guy's family, but I also feel damn sorry for Tony Stewart.  If this young little hot-headed dipshit had approached Stewart in the pits and socked him in the mouth, that would have been one thing.  But he chased down a MOVING RACE CAR on a DIRT TRACK.

If Stewart cranks his wheel to the left, then his back end fishtails to the right and smacks the kid square in the chest.  If he cranks his wheel to the right, he runs the risk of hitting the kid with his front end.  There was no good place for Stewart to go once this kid jumped into the middle of an ONGOING RACE with MOVING VEHICLES.

I feel sorry that this kid died.  But he caused his own death, sure as if he'd jumped off the Empire State Building.  Tony Stewart isn't to blame for it.

An oldie but a goodie

From Drumwaster, just in case some of you didn't see it in the comments.

I know it doesn't fit into the perception of happy hippy Jesus. but despite his long hair, Jesus was not a hippy.

Sorry to harsh your mellow, dude.

Still pissed about the fence

Every time I look into my front yard.

Non-insurance carrying bastard.

Still, thank god the fence was there, otherwise I'd be royally pissed about the gaping hole in my front living-room wall.

Good News / Bad News

Bad News - some Mexican just plowed into my front fence.  Hit the concrete post and slammed it into a 45 degree angle, taking a good portion of the rest of the fence with him.  This was after he took a bus-stop sign and snapped it off at knee level on the opposite corner, so he was hauling ass for a good long while after he hit the first curb.

Good News - the fence kept him from plowing into my living room.

I'll take what I can get.

This is what happens

When weak, gutless pathetic presidents are allowed to screw things up.  Or in other words, every time America has allowed a Democrat to infest the Oval Office.  Johnson screwed us into Viet Nam, and then did everything he could do to get us to lose.  Carter twiddled his thumbs as the Middle East fell apart.  Clinton screwed up Somalia, and allowed thousands to be slaughtered in Rwanda.  And Obama has probably done more to make things worse in the Middle East than Carter could even dream of.  He pissed away his chance to support the Iranian people in 2009.  He pushed out Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and then supported the jihadi Muslim Brotherhood.  He drew his red line in the sand of Syria, then erased it, then drew it again, then erased it again, and finally begged Vladimir Putin to take over.

He pulled us out of Iraq without any concept of the consequences of his actions.  Like, say, 1,500 innocent people being slaughtered by ISIS.

Hell yes I'm laying this at his feet.  Obama ignored his military commanders.  Obama ignored al-Maliki, back when Maliki wanted the US to keep a force there.  Obama ignored the Iraqi parliament, who didn't want the USA to leave.

The decision to completely pull out and abandon Iraq is, was, and always will be entirely Obama's decision.  Therefore, the reactions to his decision will always be Obama's as well.  And as Iraq descends into chaos, and civilians get slaughtered by terrorists, we need to remember that this could have been prevented, but Obama allowed it to happen.

So, Dave...

Why do you still go to that traditional Latin Mass, anyways?  What's wrong with English?  Why do you have to be so old fashioned, huh?

This is why:















English changes.  HAS changed.  Latin?  Not so much.  There's a reason for the Mass to be done in Latin, after all - the church must pray as one, and that gets kind of hard to do when everyone prays in a different language.  Heck, it's hard enough to do when everyone tries to pray in English.  Even the English Mass used by the Novus Ordo is just an rough translation of the original Latin.

Oh, and for those folks who want to claim that Latin has changed?  Yes, sure, it has.  And those changes are now called Spanish, and French, and Italian, so on and so forth.  But the root language of Latin hasn't changed for about 1500 years or so.  It was the language of scholars in Europe, because you could communicate with your fellow scholars no matter where you or they were from or what language you grew up speaking.  And when the Mass was codified, it was Latin that was used to ensure that everyone in every church would pray as one, and that the Mass would STAY THE SAME.  That's a critical component there.  The Church didn't want the Mass to change as people and languages changed.  They didn't want to pull the Mass away from it's true meaning and significance due to the change in people.  And so the Latin Mass was used for centuries, until the Novus Ordo came along and decided that they really didn't need to worry about all that "God" business in church, and they did away with the true Mass.

You think that's harsh?  Let me explain:  Catholics believe that during the Mass, God is present on the altar.  He is present in the Host and the chalice.  That is why there is a tabernacle in every church.  That is the resting place of God.

So....  If God is present on the altar, and in the tabernacle, then why during the Novus Ordo Mass do the priests turn their back on him?  If you truly believe in God, and you offer the sacrifice of the Mass as he commanded you to do, why turn your back on him in the tabernacle?  Can you even see where the tabernacle sits in your church?  Do you know where the tabernacle is?  Is it veiled, or it is just sitting out in a corner somewhere, a forgotten part of the Novus Ordo mass?  "Oh, hey, yeah....  get some bread out of that fancy box over there, m'kay?"

In the traditional Mass, the tabernacle sits upon the alter, and the priest offers Mass while facing the tabernacle.  His back is to the congregation, and his face is towards God.  The canon of the Mass is said while the priest faces God.

Think about that for a while.

Boy, I need more coffee......

Rule of Law vs Rule of Man

When the Rule of Man supplants the Rule of Law, well....  what reason do men have to follow the Rule of another Man?

The Helmetta police officer replied, “Obama just decimated the freakin’ Constitution, so I don’t give a damn. If he doesn’t follow the Constitution, we don’t have to.”

And here is the downward spiral - when following the Law only gets you punished, and people who refuse to follow the law get away scott free, then it is in your self-interest to not follow the law.

Get ready for more of this.

Do you have a Kindle?

Or an Amazon account?

There is a flaming shit-ton of free Kipling books available for Kindles.  I was just looking for a poem or two, and found a veritable treasure trove.  I'll be re-reading Kipling for days and days.

Thatisall.

Drop them in the middle of Camp Pendleton

Let the real Marines know where they are.

Problem solved.  And make sure all the border-jumping wetbacks know exactly what happened to the people who wear the uniforms of a US Marine without earning it.  I guarantee you'll see less of it.

They know what side they're on

Journo reports on pro-Paleswinian demonstration in Canada, refuses to report that they chanted "Heil Hitler".

Don't you think that an anti-Israel crowd chanting "Heil Hitler" in Canada might just be news-worthy?  Maybe.  But that doesn't help advance the narrative that the Left wants to push, so they try to flush it down the memory hole.

Too bad for them people have video cameras today.

Brain dead

Anyone who's been reading me for a while knows that the quality of my writing has gone downhill in a big way.  And the reason is, quite simply, I'm brain-dead at this moment.

I keep forgetting the little things.  I keep forgetting the big things.  Hell, I showed up at church over an hour early yesterday, and couldn't figure out why anyone wasn't there.  I feel like I'm going senile, but I'm nowhere near that age.

A big part of it is my job.  It is a mind-numbing exercise in stupidity and futility, and I am honest when I say that every new day is worse than the last.  I have one year left in this hell hole, and then I'll move on to something that doesn't resemble an insane asylum.  Part of it is living in a polluted, filthy shithole of a city, where you are constantly under attack by something or someone.  I've had one or two good nights of sleep in the past three months, and that's it.  I'm sleep deprived beyond all get-out.  Between the shitty job and the hellish city, I'd rather be in Afghanistan.  At least in theater if I was being kept awake it was from out-going artillery.

I'm pretty sure that I'm on adrenaline overload at this point.

So I may have to have some pauses in the free ice cream every now and then.

Late to bed

The Ragin' Mrs. and I were all set up to go to bed at a decent time, and then something magical started to happen.

It started to rain.

There may be some folks who live in normal areas who are reading this and asking themselves why we think it's such a big idea.  Those folks have never lived in this craphole.  It hasn't rained in Los Angeles in months.    I haven't had water fall from the sky on to my yard in months.  It doesn't rain here during the summer, and after today it might not rain again until December or January.

So we stood outside in the rain and just enjoyed it.  We finally got to bed before Midnight, but it was worth it just to stand in the rain.

How Leftists think Minimum Wage Laws work

A lesson in four easy panels.

No, I ain't stealing it.  Go look at it over there.

This is what I like to call a "Decision Maker"

If your girlfriend is a fan or, or subscribes to the hashtag of #dearfeministmen, drop her like a bad habit and walk away, never looking back.

Actually, if you're a guy and you're dating a modern feminist, please go collect your balls from their jar on the mantle, and get the hell out of that relationship.  You're not doing yourself any favors.

Another Random Post of the Day

Yeah, I'm swamped.  Sorry.

Random post of the day

And it's safe for work!

I see this as proof that cats are evil and want to take over the world.

This is my inner monologue

When dealing with certain people at higher HQ.





Also, whenever I have to drive on the 405 around here.

Today has been

The equivalent of standing spread-legged while people take turns kicking you in the nuts from the time work starts to the time it stops.

So pardon me for the lack of posting.  I'm going to go find some scotch.

Well, um.... wow.

Women against Feminism.  It's a Tumblr/picture thing.  Here's a sample:

There's plenty more where that came from, including one woman who said that she didn't want to be represented by some hysterical hipster whore just because she had a vagina.

Go scroll through.  Maybe there's hope for this country yet.

It's all about the recent experience

When you couple crap like this...

Leaked comments from unnamed senior government sources to Army Radio, Channel 2 and other Hebrew outlets have described the secretary as amateurish, incompetent, incapable of understanding the material he is dealing with — in short, a blithering fool. 

But actually, it’s worse than that. What emerges from Kerry’s self-initiated ceasefire mission — Israel had already accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal; and nobody asked him to come out on a trip he prefaced with sneering remarks about Israel’s attempted “pinpoint” strikes on Hamas terror targets — is that Jerusalem now regards him as duplicitous and dangerous.

With crap like this...

 Obama, who won only 39 percent of the white vote in 2012, is swooning because he's lost even more of it. But Clinton's grabbing 46 percent of the white vote. That's better than Obama did in 2008 (43 percent), better than John Kerry did in 2004 (41 percent), better than Al Gore did in 2000 (42 percent). It's even better than her husband did in 1996 (43 percent), though that result—like the 1992 result—is skewed by the presence of Ross Perot. You have to go back to 1976 to find a Democrat who polled better than 46 percent with whites. And when Jimmy Carter narrowly defeated Gerald Ford, the electorate was 89 percent white overall. In 2016 it's likely to be closer to 70 percent white. In 2016 a Democrat who wins only 40 percent of the white vote and holds close to Barack Obama's totals with nonwhites can win easily.

You begin to understand that the only reason for John F'n Kerry to be SecState is to make Hillary Clinton's incompetent bumbling look good in comparison.  After four years in office, Clinton's only real accomplishment was to get four Americans, including an ambassador, killed by jihadists in Benghazi.  And John F'n Kerry is making her look good!

And people are buying her bullshit!

Weep for our country, people.  

Oh, hey, look! It's the interwebs!

Yeah, sorry 'bout the lack of posting.  I only fired up my computer at 2000 hrs today, so needless to say, my blogging time has been light.

So...  bewbs!

What "50 Shades of Grey" taught me

Actually, the reaction to "50 Shades of Grey", because I haven't read on bit of the books.  I picked it up at the store, thumbed to a point in the middle and read a few paragraphs.  What I read left me so unimpressed that I put the book down and walked away.  It's pr0n, plain and simple.  And who gobbled it up?

Women.  By the millions.  And millions.  Woman after woman bought and read all three books, and now they're making a movie out of it.  Matt Walsh gives you 4 reasons to hate it, but I'm going to just sit back and watch the fur fly once this movie comes out.  Hell, if I recall correctly there were shit-storms about the guy who they originally picked to play the "protagonist", and I'm using that word loosely.

The fact that "50 Shades of Grey" and it's sequels have made so much money and been so popular highlights some interesting facts about American women.  They, the women who love these books, fantasize about being dominated by an amoral, one-dimentional sociopath.  Which means that millions upon millions of women are proving my point that women love jackasses.

The movie is going to make a shit-ton of cash, because there are enough people in America who will enjoy seeing BDSM sex on the big screen.  They won't be getting any of my money, but considering how often I (don't) go to the movies these days that's not really saying much.

But every time the cash register goes ka-CHING! I'll be smiling at the thought of all those self-righteous feminists paying to see what they claim to be their worst nightmare, even while their panties are getting sopping wet at the thought of a woman being tied up, whipped, beaten, abused verbally and emotionally, and then used as a sex toy.

Does that make me a bad person?  Meh.  I don't care

Get your coats ready

Despite the unholy heat in Los Angeles, which is probably due to it being next-door to hell, the rest of the world seems to have a small little trend going on.

Folks, global warming is a hoax, OK?  It's a hoax created and maintained by people who want money; they want your money if they can guilt it out of you, and they want government money for saying all the right things.  When the people who scream the loudest also do the very things they claim to be against, you cannot take them at their word, can you?  Hell no, you cannot.

Stop worrying about the globe warming up.  Buy coats.  And long-johns.  If you're up North, lay in a supply of firewood.  There is no such thing as "Global Warming" but there ARE such things as an Ice Age.

It's a good thing the cops were there

Otherwise this worthless douchebag would have been murdered.  One of LA's "urban artists" (otherwise known as taggers, criminals and vandals) decided to try tagging a sign hanging over I-5 during rush hour on Friday afternoon.

Yeah.  Friggin' brilliant there, Mr. Brainiac.

Ah well....  if they were intelligent, they probably wouldn't be tagging street signs, would they?

In the mean time, if this douchebag's name ever gets released on a wide basis this week, his life expectancy can be measured in hours due to all the people who's commute he completely screwed up.

Well, OooooKAY then!

I can't let Day by Day put up a hot topless red-head without responding in kind!

Uh, if you have to ask if it's safe for work, you don't click the link, right?

A 115db wake-up

The Ragin' Mrs. has had several run-ins with people on the local bike path who are exercising with their earphones in.  This causes people to not hear the ringing of a bicycle bell, or the call of "ON YOUR LEFT", or much of anything to be honest.  And if people stayed to the right and let faster folks pass on the left it wouldn't be much of a problem.

But since people seem to think that taking up the entire bike path and drowning out any kind of outside noise is a perfectly grand idea, there are problems.  And the Ragin' Mrs. has almost wrecked her bike trying to avoid these morons who can't be bothered to know what is going on around them.

So today, I had to get new pedals for my bike, as I'd thrashed the old ones into twisted bits of plastic.  We ride to the bike shop, I get my pedals, we buy some chain lube, and the Ragin' Mrs. picks up a 115db air horn that mounts to your handlebars.

Oh, yeah, baby!

You fill up a small air tank with your bicycle pump, up to 100 psi.  You can control the volume on the horn, but at full blast it'll kick-start your adrenaline glands.

So the next time someone veers into her lane because they're too lost in their own little world, they're gonna get a 115db wake-up call.

Chilled

I knew I was going to be making a martini tonight to go with my cigar.  So a couple of hours before, I put the glass in the freezer.  When it came time to make the martini, I shook it up, pulled the glass out of the freezer, put the olives in an poured it over them.

When it's 100 degrees outside, an ice-cold martini is a thing of joy.

So in other words, Socialists are cheaters

Well, duh.

Anytime you live in a system of government that robs you of your hard work in order to pay for some slacker, you're going to end up a cheater.  Because you're either trying to protect your hard work (in the form of your earnings), or you're the slacker who wants to be a lazy shitstain and a parasite on the rest of society.

Socialism fails.  Always.  And this is just another example of why.

It's that time again

That time of year where you get into triple digit temps, and it never, ever cools down.  Oh, you wanted a cool night breeze?  Fuck you, it's 90 at 2100 hrs, and it will not cool down much from there.

Enjoy your sweat-soaked night trying to find some shred of sleep.

Oh, and before anyone tells me about the miracles of air conditioning, I'd like to remind you that I live in the stinking, festering shithole of Los Angeles.  So, AC means a $700 electric bill.  Yeah.  I so enjoy getting bent over a fence and ass-fucked with a sandpaper condom by the worthless fuckheads in this state who decided that building a power plant is evil, even though demand for power has fucking quadrupled since the last power plant was built.

Gah. Busy.

So enjoy your NSFW post of the day.

Tony Dungy is right

So former NFL coach Tony Dungy made a plain and simple statement about Michael Sam:

"I wouldn't have taken him,'' Dungy told the Tampa Bay Tribune. “Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it. 

"It's not going to be totally smooth ... things will happen."

Naturally, the Tolerance Brigade is up in arms, calling Tony Dungy everything but a white boy.  And for what?  For simply stating his opinion as to what he would have done as a coach.

And let's be honest here, shall we?  Michael Sam wasn't first round talent.  Or second round talent.  Or third round talent.  He was picked up in the seventh round of the draft, and after his combine performance I have my doubts as to if he deserved to go that high.

Oh, so he was SEC Defensive Player of the Year?  Whoop-de-friggin-do.  Quick, name the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, who wasn't even drafted.

What?  A Defensive Player of the Year who didn't get drafted?  B-b-b-b-b-but, that's unpossible!  Michael Sam!  Homophobia!

Yeah, whatever.  I won't even mention about how Sam's face looks like he's about ready to burst into tears at the drop of a hat; the guy is mediocre talent at best.  If he were not gay, you would have never heard of him unless your team drafted him.  What, you don't believe me?  Quick, how many other seventh-round picks had film crews there, with a cake and a significant other?  None, that's who.  How many other seventh-round draft picks were pushing for their own TV show from Oprah?  None, that's who.

So Tony Dungy wouldn't want to deal with the Michael Sam circus as a coach.  You know what?  I wouldn't either!  Can you imagine the hate that Jeff Fisher is going to get if he doesn't kow-tow to the gay mafia?  Who the hell would want that?

Tony Dungy was perfectly right in what he said.  The fact that the Gay Mafia is howling for his scalp proves how right he is - if Michael Sam had first round talent, it wouldn't even be an issue.  First rounders bring their own media circus with them half the time.  But some mediocre guy who probably only got drafted because he was gay and the NFL knew exactly how bright the spotlights were on them?

I wouldn't want him on my team either.

Oh, the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year who didn't get drafted?  Jackson Jeffcoat.  Got picked up by my Seahawks as an undrafted free agent.

Oh, nope the hell out

Ladies - if you're having marital problems, and your husband says (or writes) some things to you in private that you're not happy with, the last thing you want to do is post it on Reddit, m'kay?

This guy needs to dump his wife like a bad habit.  There is no way in hell I would ever stay with a cold, non-sexual, neutering bitch like that.

Is that harsh?  Good, it needs to be harsh.  This "woman", and I use the term loosely, wants to complain about her husbands immature behavior while she's posting their dirty laundry on Reddit?????

Nope.  Nope the hell right outta that marriage, because it's not going to get any better from there.

Preparation

The Ragin' Mrs. and I have been taking several classes that we think may come in handy, even if it's just to impress your friends on a camping trip.

We took classes that taught us how to make cordage from raw materials found in nature.  How to make stone tools.  How to build a shelter out of nothing.  How to find and purify water.  How to start a fire by friction.

Today we're going to learn how to make a bow and arrows.

It's always nice to be prepared.  The ultimate tool you have is your brain; everything else is just accessories.

Update:  Bonus on the day?  Class was full of Boy Scouts doing their Scout thing.  Which meant that I got to spend the day around a whole bunch of polite, well-mannered, engaging teenagers (and their Scout Leaders) as we all learned the same thing.

After living in this festering shithole for two years, it's a joy to meet some folks who are just plain good people.

What a worthless moron

So a civilian jetliner gets shot down, most likely by a Russian missile, dozens of Americans are dead, and President Bumblefuck still has to get his photo-op in while he can.  Because hey, dead Americans, no big deal to this fucking jackass, right?  Why should he care, right?  They were probably all racist 1%er teabaggers anyways, knowwhatImsayin?

The longer I watch this incompetent buffoon do his level best to wreck America, the angrier I get with the people who elected him.  Obama is just a symptom of the cancer that is destroying the formerly great country of the USA.  The real disease are the people who elect worthless shitheads like Obama into office.

Busy today

So you know the deal.  No clickee at workee, m'kay?  I guarantee that the Bossman won't like this flashing on his work computers.

Unless you work at one of those places.  You perv.

Well, lookie here!

It seems that criminals don't like it when their victims can fight back!

“I don’t want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed.”

According to The Detroit News, there have been 37 percent fewer robberies, 22 percent fewer break-ins and 30 percent fewer carjackings this so far in 2014 compared to the same period last year. 

“I can’t say what specific percentage is caused by this, but there’s no question in my mind it has had an effect,” Craig said.

If ordinary citizens carrying guns can have this effect in Detroit, just imagine what it can do for your city!

Got halfway home today

And my rear tire went flat.  It wasn't flat when I left work, but as I was pedaling my butt home I started to feel every bump in the bike path.  Looked down, saw flat tire.

Fuck.

So now I get to buy a new tube and put it in.  I could be doing so many better things right now.

Kinda-sorta update:  I'm putting a patch on it right now, so we'll see what happens.  The tire has to be inflated to 70-75psi, so I don't know how well a patch is going to hold.

Confirmation

I never read many of Marion Zimmer Bradley's books.  They weren't my thing.  I think I now know why; when the mind writing the books is this diseased, they won't appeal to the sane.

Marion Zimmer Bradley was a child rapist and a child abuser.  Her daughter laid out just a small piece of the hell that she went through in an email.  Her son confirmed what her daughter had claimed.  This woman was raping her own daughter at the age of three.

Three.  Years.  Old.

This woman knew that her partner was a serial abuser, who sexually abused dozens of children himself.  And rather than sent the bastard to jail, as any sane person would do, she defended his sexual abuse and both encouraged/enabled it.

Had I any Zimmer books, I would be burning them right now.  But since they never appealed to me, I never bought any.  So at least I can say that I did not give any kind of financial support to a child rapist who encouraged others to rape children as well.

The more you learn about MBZ, the less you like.  Quite honestly, it makes me reconsider my association with the SCA, although most people in the SCA today may or may not be able to tell you who the heck MZB is.  We'll see how I feel about that when I'm in a place where I can actually participate.

This particular bit of brain vomit started with reading about Mark Greyland over at Vox Pololi.  Ugh. I need a shower now.

Kinda Significant

When even the cab drivers in Orlando, FL are wishing that Uber would show up so that they can go drive for Uber and leave the cab companies, you know that traditional cab companies have some rather significant problems.

Several cabdrivers who lease their cars from Mears or other taxi companies told the Orlando Sentinel they want to switch to Uber because they think they can make more money. 

"If Uber opened up right now, then all the companies are going to be without drivers. If you talk to 1,000 drivers, 950 will tell you they are going to go to Uber," said a Quick Cab driver who has driven in Orlando for the past six years. He and other drivers spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing recriminations from taxi companies.

I think the best quote I've heard with regards to the whole Uber vs. Cabbies situation came from Uber's CEO, who said that the there has been so much corruption and crony capitalism with taxi companies that when you ask permission to do something that's legal you don't get it.

The Unearned Moral Superiority of Leftist Douchebags

Or in other words, "Where do you live, Mark Zuckerburg?"

Hell, I could have told you that!

Asking kids to sit still for an hour at a time is un-natural, unhealthy, and unproductive.

Fidgeting is a real problem. It is a strong indicator that children are not getting enough movement throughout the day. We need to fix the underlying issue. Recess times need to be extended and kids should be playing outside as soon as they get home from school. Twenty minutes of movement a day is not enough! They need hours of play outdoors in order to establish a healthy sensory system and to support higher-level attention and learning in the classroom.

I think that most kids, boys especially would learn better with less time in the classroom and more time outside.  What good is an hour in the classroom if half of it is wasted by a kid who cannot pay attention because we're forcing them to stunt their growth and their instincts?

Gah....

Sorry, I'm busy.  Have a post that I stole from here:

She gets WHAT?

Can someone please explain to me just how and why Chelsea Clinton gets $75,000 PER SPEECH?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Just what the hell has Chelsea Clinton done to deserve $75k to open her over-priviledged yap? Can anyone point to one thing she's done?

ANYTHING?

The only thing that makes Chelsea special is that Bill managed to get high enough on cocaine to lay the pipe to Hillary at least once, and they spawned.  That's it.  That's Chelsea's big achievement, and she really wasn't even involved in it.  Other than that, this is just more proof that the Left is so infatuated with their Marxist gods and goddesses that even being related to a ProgNazi deity is enough to get you paid.

Does George Bush's daughters get paid $75k to give a speech?  Hell, do they even go around giving speeches?

Oh by the way, that $75k per speech is more than I make in ONE YEAR.  I don't EVER want to hear the Left cry about the 1% when they give the Clintons a tongue bath at every opportunity.  Fucking hypocrites.

Hey, where'd all my money go?

Just keep this in mind while you're wondering where your paycheck went to - the rise of cost in food isn't counted into the "official" inflation rate.

And the cost of food is going sky high.

Tis always thus with Leftists

It's all "SOCIALISM!  MARXISM!  COMMUNISM!"

Until they have to pay for it.

Fuck the doped up douche-nozzles.

Another busy day today

So here's another NSFW throw-away post.

It's always worse

Every time you learn more about how badly Obama has fucked things up, it always gets worse.

While the policy process in Washington was frozen, U.S. intelligence analysts still filed their warnings about major weaknesses in Iraq’s military. Both the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency have issued reported analysis for nearly a year warning that Iraq’s military would not be able to stand up against a sustained campaign from ISIS.

So this weak, gutless, pathetic piece of shit in the Oval Office has been warned over and over for years about ISIS, and did nothing.  NOTHING!

Obama has thrown away every sacrifice made in Iraq.  And he did it because he's too pathetic to do anything else.

The Evil of Obamacare

I won't go into how the National Organization for (Liberal) Women put the Little Sisters of the Poor on their "Dirty 100" list.

I will simply state that any law which refuses to recognize Catholic Nuns as a "religious employer" because they employ and minister to non-Catholics isn't just stupid, it is evil, and it is designed to be so.

Inexcusable

There is absolutely no reason why I should be up this early.

New pair of Docs

I have horrible feet when it comes to buying shoes.  A high instep, high arch, tall feet, the only normal thing about my feet is that I'm a 10 ½ regular.  But couple a normal size with all the other characteristics, and I can't find decent shoes to save my life.  I'll shop for days just to get a pair of running shoes, because if they don't fit just right I'll be hobbled after I use them.

Anyways, I had a pair of Dr. Marten's sandals that the Ragin' Mrs. and gotten for me back when we were stationed in Puerto Rico.  So we're talking seven or eight years ago.  And these poor sandals are just beat to hell by now; stitching coming out, leather peeling from the foot-bed, sole worn smooth and flat, just plain worn out.

I've been shopping for a new pair of sandals for about two weeks, trying to find a pair that didn't pinch my feet at the wrong spot, and give me enough arch support, and so on and so forth.  We finally just went to the Dr. Marten's store in Santa Monica so I could try on another pair.  And I found the perfect pair, after two weeks of searching!  They fit, they feel good, they don't do weird things to my gait, and I bought 'em and walked out of the store with them on my feet.  And the crowd sang Hallelujah!

Now, we had a seminarian with us that day; he's going through training with our church, and the Bishop wanted him to get out and about, so he came with us.  He's wearing his cassock, and his collar, and we're walking around Santa Monica together after I got my sandals.  We pass buy a group of people who are evangelizing in the middle of the Third Street Promenade, and all of the sudden my  red alert siren goes off in my head.  I look closer, and all those folks handing out pamphlets asking if you know your creator?  Muslims.  They're talking about the Koran, and Allah this and Allah that, and they are all staring at this young man in his collar and cassock with contempt and hatred in their eyes.

I looked at this young man, who was also recognizing just what was going on and said "Abbé, I think we may want to pick it up a step."

I never expected Muslims to be out there like Jehovah's Witnesses, but there they were.  And they were NOT happy to see a traditional Catholic walking around.  Hell, we didn't even get that much of a stink-eye from the flaming homosexual guy at the Dr. Marten's store.

But anyway, there we go.  How's your weekend going?

Happy Fourth!

And a shout-out to my Navy-boat hitch-hiking bothers out there.



Since Souza was a Jarhead and all....

I'm going to be spending the day smoking a brisket and hanging out with friends.  I suggest you do something similar if you can.

And if you can't because Uncle Sam has you in some guard-shack in some dank hole of a country, well, thank you, and I owe you a beer.

I wanted to go running today

Had on my shoes, dogs in tow, ready to go.

Stepped outside into some of the nastiest smog I'd seen here.  I tried to go, I really did, but I was a quarter-mile in and my chest was getting tight, I was coughing, and I could taste the metallic tang of smog in the back of my throat.

I hate this place.  I hate this disgusting, polluted, nasty shithole that I'm forced to live in.  I hate the fact that I have to hide indoors because the air is so dirty that normal human activity causes me to break out into a coughing fit.  Hell, I've had a cough for the past two months, and I'm not sick, I'm just sucking this foul, nasty, polluted Los Angeles air into my lungs.  I cannot wait until I can escape from this third-world shithole masquerading as an American city.  Los Angeles needs to fall off into the ocean and drown, for the good of the rest of the country.

How would you like to take a bus ride

...and end up with scabies?  And lice?

The nurse told me she became especially alarmed because their files indicated the children had been transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes. 

“That’s what alerted me,” she said. “Oh, my God. They’re flying these kids around. Nobody knows that these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the truth, there’s no way to control it.”

Welcome once again to Obama's America.  The best part?  The healthcare workers are being threatened with arrest and confinement if they tell people just how bad the situation is.  So they're bringing in thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens, and just dumping them into America without any regard to the consequences.

Yep.  Obama's America.

I say dump them all in Washington D.C.  If they're going to be used as political props, keep them close to the politicians.  In fact, give them access to the Senate and the White House.  Let them crawl all over the chairs, and the floor, and run down the halls.  Make sure Harry Reid's seat is given special attention by the little scabies-crusted, border-hopping disease factories.

Does that sound mean?  Yeah, it does.  But we cannot fix the problems in Guatemala, or Nicaragua, or El Salvador, or Mexico.  Hell, the politicians in this country can't even man up and demand the same level of security on our Southern border as Mexico has on their Southern border.  Nope, that would be meeeeeeeean!  And raciss!  So we continue to allow anybody who can run, jump or swim access into this country via our Southern border, no matter who they are!

That's not just stupid, that's criminally insane.

We cannot help the entire population of Guatemala, or Nicaragua, or El Salvador, or Mexico.  We don't have the space, the money, the facilities, or the patience.  There will never be enough supply of aid to cover the demand coming from the third-world shitholes in Central and South America.  Until those countries drop their Socialist governments and improve themselves, there's nothing anybody can do, short of invading, toppling the government there and annexing it as another state of the United States.

I don't see a whole lot of enthusiasm for that.  I certainly don't have it.

So all we can do is seal the border, tell people to get their shit straight before they try to come here, and demand the same respect for our borders that all those other countries demand for theirs.

Roundabout

Way, way back.....

OK, in 1999....

I scored tickets to a concert at Sandstone Amphitheater when I was stationed at Ft. Riley in Kansas, to go see two bands that just absolutely rocked:  Kansas, and Yes.





They might not have had all the screaming fans of some other bands, but this was undoubtedly the beset concert I have ever been to in my entire life.  These two bands just blew people flat with their music, and all they had for a set was large, white sheets with a few colored lights behind them for effect.  The entire show was all about the music.

I really wish that "bands" today were half as talented.  Or at least, the bands that get record deals.  I've seen plenty of talented bands playing away in some club, never even getting a sniff from the big labels.

The Left's demands about birth control

summed up in one tweet:

"Get your politics out of my bedroom!" "Not a problem. I'm just going to grab my wallet before I leave." "The wallet stays, bigot."
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2014

And isn't that just the perfect summation?  Hell, isn't that just the perfect summation for 80% of the ProgLeft's arguments?  They want what they want, and they want everyone else to pay for it.

Aaaaaand, here we go

Every Caliphate needs it's leadership. and every leadership needs a communications network.  So we listen in on what they're saying, where they're going, and instead of sending a couple of divisions over, we just send bombers.  High altitude bombers, with GPS-guided JDAMS.

Boom.  The more leaders they move up, the more JDAMS we drop.  Don't just level the house.  Don't send in snipers.  Level the entire friggin' village.

I'm done being nice.  And we all know that Obama the petulant bitch doesn't have what it takes to win a war in Iraq.  Hell, he was handed a safe, stable country and fucked that up.  He certainly wouldn't be able to fix the mess he created now.  So I don't want to see any more US lives lost in Iraq until we have leadership that actually A) wants America to win as Obama doesn't and B) has the guts it takes to make the proper decisions, as Obama doesn't.

What is a "real" education worth?

Patrice Lewis has a post up questioning the value of a "real" college education.  I won't paraphrase what she said, you can go read it over there when you want to.

As part of her post, she links to Survival Blog, where they write that becoming self sufficient is better than going to college.

Here's my take (and you just knew I had a take on it):  Excepting the hard sciences such as math and engineering, I would rather hire someone with an honorable discharge from the military rather than someone with a four-year degree.

Now, obviously I'm somewhat biased, and I'll admit to that.  However, I'll point out that I've seen more than my share of people with an Honorable Discharge who still couldn't pour piss out of a boot if you printed instructions on the heel.  It's just that the ratio of worthless morons grows exponentially when you start looking at people with fancy sheepskins hanging on their wall.

What does a four (or five!) year degree mean these days?  Most likely, it means that you can successfully regurgitate all the hard-Left shibboleths on command, and have most likely been indoctrinated into some of the most toxic, anti-American thinking you can find in this country.

What does an Honorable Discharge mean?  Most likely it means that you can work in a team, can both give and receive orders and follow them out, and kept your nose clean and out of trouble for a goodly number of years.

"B-b-b-but, DAAAAVE!  What schooling does that military guy have that can help you in your business, huh?  Just what does he KNOW?!?!"

Hell, what schooling does that college graduate have that will help me with my business?  Tell me just what some Film Studies major can do for me?  Oh, you have a degree in English?  That's wonderful, exactly how are you going to help me sell food or plan my business?

Don't even get me started on "Wymens Studies".  I think that any college that offers a gender-based degree needs to be shut down for Grand Larceny.

And if you truly do want an education, in this day and age of online schooling you can get a degree at just about any time.  Hell, I'm getting my degree right now, and it's been years since I stepped foot into a traditional classroom.  And I will not pay to set foot in a traditional classroom in any case, as I don't wish to be exposed to far-Left propaganda disguised as education.  I don't have that problem with my online school.

Now keep in mind that when it comes to things like designing and building bridges or skyscrapers, or heavy manufacturing, or being a doctor, you obviously need schooling.  I got it.  There are some degrees that are required for certain jobs.

But check out the ratios of hard science degrees to liberal arts degrees.  And let's be blunt; I'm not going to be hiring a doctor or an engineer to help me with my business.

So.....  what's a "real" education worth to you?

Got a bike

The Ragin' Mrs. already had one; she uses it for going shopping, tooling around the neighborhood, etc.  Me, I haven't had a bike for almost a decade now.

Fixed that today.  Got pretty much a hybrid of a mountain/road bike.  Rides nice and I can get up to some pretty decent speed on it.  I'm going to start riding it to work, try to save some money on this too-damn expensive gasoline we got right here.

Fantasies

I just spent a goodly amount of time and two cans of spray-paint covering up graffiti that was left on my wall by one of Los Angeles' junior criminals.

I have actual fantasies about catching these parasitic shitstains in the act, and beating them so fucking hard that they have to wear diapers and helmets for the rest of their miserable lives.  I want to break them in half and shit in their mouth before throwing them into the road and letting traffic run over their broken bodies all day long.

Worthless, gutless, pathetic, parasitic, criminal maggots.  And I would bet my entire paycheck that they're huge Obama fans.

I cannot wait to leave this disgusting shithole.

D.C. cabbies strike to protest Uber

Business for Uber soars.  Go figure.

Look, I sort of understand the cabbie's frustrations here.  They pay big bucks to buy a medallion, and then they have to suck up to the big labor people, and jump feet first into cronyism, corruption and shady politics to stay in business.  And here comes Uber, with a new business plan that doesn't have to play with all of that.

If it were me?  If I were a cabbie watching Uber come on to the scene?

I'd be buying the most fuel efficient vehicle I could, and joining up with Uber.  Every single day of the week, and twice on Sundays.  The solution to dealing with crap is to get rid of the crap, not complain about other people who don't have to deal with crap.

Ah, well.  The cabbie strike is probably some of the best advertising for Uber that's out there.  The wife and I used Uber to get to the airport for our last vacation.  Loved it.  Car was clean, driver was nice, and it was about half the cost.  Why wouldn't we take Uber?

EPA employees have to be told not to poop in the hallways

No, really, they have to be told that.

Fire them all.

Fire them all, sell everything in the building at auction, close it down, and save the USA some money.  Just get rid of it.

Sleepless nights

Woke up in the middle of the night to the aroma of skunk.  We live close to a flood-control area which is also a wildlife reserve.  Skunks are common, as is the smell when someone gets too close to them.  It was strong for about five minutes, and then it faded, so it wasn't a skunk strike too close to my house.  For all I know, it could have been some hobo running by after getting hit.

Managed to get back to sleep, only to wake up to the smell of burning paper/cardboard.  That got me out of bed, but there was nothing even close to the house that was burning.  Best I can guess is that some homeless guy in the park was making himself a little fire.

I really, REALLY cannot wait to the the hell out of this shithole.  I don't mind the skunks, really.  But the noise, the crime, the trash, the shit, the filth, the omnipresent brown smog, the hobos camped out in the park taking a piss in plain view and leaving trash everywhere, I cannot wait to leave it all behind.

Over 1000 veterans dead because of VA waiting lists?

Um.....  whoa.

As with any huge government agency, once you start digging, you just keep pulling up more dirt.  The VA is no exception.  In fact, it's probably worse.  Remember all the crap going on a Walter Reed Hospital?  Mold on the walls, horrible conditions?  Do you really think that would have been fixed on it's own?

Hell no.

Oh, and the unnecessary pelvic and breast exams being given by a sex offender?  Hellooooooooooo, Obamacare!

Noise

I'm listening to a helicopter hover overhead somewhere close to the house right now.  I don't know if it's a police chopper or of it's a news/traffic bird, but either way I cannot wait to live in a place where I don't hear that kind of noise on a regular basis.

Grumbphlux

I'll say it again

"Global Warming" is a religion.  Wait, scratch that.  Global Warming is a cult.  A cult of easily duped people who desperately wish to believe that they can actually do something to affect the Earth on a large scale.  And like any cult, when reality intrudes, they either face the facts, or ignore them.  And the Global Warming cult has not only been ignoring the facts, they've been changing them to suit their needs.

Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data. In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN/GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century.

Emphasis mine.  The blog post referenced is here, and it has a handy little gif showing temperature records both with and without the fabricated data.

Global Warming is a hoax.  And a cult.

Here, let me piss some people off

Instapundit linked to an advice column about a female who's male partner is upset because she won't do things with him that she has done for previous boyfriends.  See, this girl was COMPLETELY HONEST (all caps in the original, so you know she's all like, swearsies and stuff!) with her boyfriend, and now she's hurt because HE is upset over the fact that she used to be a little freak in the bedroom, but now she's not.

Now, while I'm all up for mocking people who write in to an advice column, I really wanted to comment on what the columnist herself wrote:

He is the one who has to get past it, and it doesn’t sound as if he’s trying. If he won’t try, then I don’t see any other answer than to break up. 

I can’t speak for you, but “all I’ve ever wanted in a partner” is someone who accepts me as-is. You don’t have that — he’s punishing you for who you are. Are, were: Same diff, by the way.

Emphasis mine.  Pardon me, but what an absolute load of horse-shit.  This guy is "punishing" his girlfriend?  This guy has to "get past it"?  Screw you, you sanctimonious feminist cow.

Let's try on this perspective, shall we?  Girlie used to be a freak in the bedroom.  Guy is perfectly fine with her being freaky in the bedroom, and says "Hey, cool, let's get freaky!"  Girlie says "No, not with you, I don't do that anymore."

What the fucking fuck?  So all those other guys were good enough to get freaky with, but your boyfriend isn't?  All those other guys were worthy of sexual escapades, but your current boyfriend isn't?  Those other guys got your "A" game, but your current boopsie only rates your "B" game?

In short, it's another variation of a girl burning through all the bad boys, until she's ready to settle down and then she wants to find a "nice guy".  "OK, I've had my fun, now it's time for you to take care of me and forget that I did anything in the past!"

Not just no but hell no.

I almost never pay $15 for a book

Look, I'm not rich.  I'm not even close to being rich.  And even if I were rich, unless the book has a huge value to me in terms of research or personal education, I am not paying $15 for it.

And I'm certainly not paying $15 for an e-book.  Not gonna happen.  While the effort on the part of the author is the same, you don't have to print it.  You don't have to bind it.  You don't have to do anything that spits out a physical object.  That's the whole point of an e-book!  I have an entire library in my Kindle, and it's all digital.

So when I read things like this, about how a publishing company is supposedly preparing for the future, and part of that future is keeping the e-books they digitally publish at $14.99?

Yeah, good luck with that.  Because you won't be getting any of my money.  Hell, there are authors out there who I like and enjoy reading, and I won't spend $9.00 on their e-book either.  Because when it comes down to where my money goes, that $9 is a big chunk out of my personal finances.  People can try to say that it's only $9, but that cash has a name.  It's a truck in the future, or the next step to owning my own business once I retire from the military.  And while I appreciate what people write and I enjoy reading it, I read so quickly that my $9 amounts to an afternoon of reading.  If that.

No, I don't go to movies either.  Hell no.  Not only do I refuse to pay the salaries of a bunch of snotty Leftist Hollywood douchebags who hate me and everything I stand for, but I refuse to take out the second mortgage on my house to pay for the popcorn and soda.  Screw that noise.  Take the wife to a movie, or take that money and cook dinner for three nights?  Hmmmmmm, hard choice, right?

So anyways, anyone who thinks that I'm going to spend $15 on an e-book is probably going to be out of business sooner or later.  I'm guessing sooner.

Another throw-away post

You know the deal - NSFW.  At all

Jokes my friends send me

How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber?  Ask them how to pronounce unionized.

Bad things I've done

The Ragin' Mrs and I were off to see a friend in the hospital last night.  But before we left, we had dinner.  BBQ pork.  And the Mrs spiced it up a bit.

And by "a bit", I mean my entire head was sweating by the time I finished eating.  My lips were burning.  I was chugging milk to make the heat go away.  But my mouth cooled down just in time to leave.

So off we go, and sure enough, by the time we get to the hospital my stomach is doing flip-flops.  Not enough that I couldn't control it, but bad enough that I had to find ways to release the pressure when no one was around.

So we're in the elevator heading up to where our friend is at, and I feel it:  That rumbling, twisting, gurgling sensation that says a pressure release is imminent.  Since the Mrs and I are the only ones on the elevator, I figure that if I let it go at just the right time, no one will notice.

The doors open, and as I slowly walk out, I trip the pressure release switch.  I'm talking a good three second burst which let out so much gas that my waist shrank several inches.  And I managed to do it silently, which I thought was amazing.  And we saunter out of the elevator, and there's no one around, and I'm thinking that I've made it free and clear.

Then, at the last minute, I see a nurse turn the corner and high-tail it to the open elevator.  I tried to warn her off with my eyes, but she didn't even look at me, just sped into the elevator that I had just turned into a gas chamber.

As the doors closed, I heard her start coughing.  And then I heard a sob right before the doors shut completely.

I'm pretty sure it's things like that will send me straight to hell.  I won't even bounce in purgatory, there will just be a Dave-shaped hole in the floor, while I burn into the seventh or eighth circle.

Answer to the Trivia Question

The Seattle Metropolitans were the first US Team to win the Stanley Cup, in 1917.

If the NHL ever pulled it's head out of it's ass, it would get a pro hockey team in Seattle pronto.  There are more minor league teams around the Puget Sound than you can shake a stick at, and they all have good attendance.  A pro team would have a fan base that would rival the Seahawks.

And this is why Kalifornia will never be "home"

I'm pretty sure I stole that from here.

New Jersey slips further into Hell

The State of New Jersey is threatening to terminate a parent's rights and put his son up for adoption because the kid was twirling a pencil "like a gun".

This is not a joke.

The proper response to this kind of idiocy and insanity is to burn down the building that houses the government doing the threatening.  Preferably with the people who initiated this insanity still inside the building.

What is this "cup" you speak of?

I keep hearing about something called the "World Cup" on the news.  What is this "World Cup"?  There's only one cup in sports worth mentioning, and that's Lord Stanley's Cup, now in the possession of the LA Kings.  Previously it belonged to Chicago.  And before that there were Canadian teams who had it for a while.

Is there some other cup out there?  It can't be very important, whatever it is.

POP QUIZ!  Who was the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?

No using Google!

Wait, wait, wait....

The Obama regime is now hoping that IRAN pulls their bacon out of the fire in Iraq?

FUCKING IRAN????????








*bangs face on keyboard*


*sobs for what's left of my country*



What kind of gutless, weak, pathetic, brainless fucking shitstains hope that the WORLD'S LARGEST STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM HELPS FIGHT A TERRORIST GROUP?!?!?!?!

You've all heard that Cello song, right?

You can probably hum it in your sleep, ever since it re-surfaced several years ago.

Well, here's the entire song, 18+ minutes of glorious music.



I could listen to that all day.

Here's a happier post

But NSFW.  So you, at the work computer, pissing away your Saturday.....  GET YOUR FINGER AWAY FROM THAT BUTTON!

Go home and look, you perv.

Democrats always throw away military victory

My father served two tours in Viet Nam, and then watched as the Democrats in Congress cut all aid and support to South Viet Nam, ensuring that North Viet Nam would win the war.

I'm watching Iraq collapse because the Democrats once again surrendered, ran away, gave up, pissed their pants, sniveled, and cut support to Iraq.  Cut support?  Hell, cut off DIPLOMACY.  Acted like Iraq didn't exist.  Turned their back and slithered as far away from Iraq as possible.

Watching Obama throw away every sacrifice we made in Iraq makes me want to puke.  I think I have an understanding of how my father felt as the helicopters were leaving Saigon.

Given how the Democrat American Communist Party behaves while their in power, why would any single country ever trust America to be an ally, when they know that all it takes is one election, one dipshit like Obama being thrust forward onto a stage he cannot and will not be prepared for, to throw that bond into the trash?