Top. Men.

The CDC Director cleared a nurse infected with Ebola to fly on a commercial airplane, and then claimed that she "broke protocols".

I guess this is what happens when you put political flunkies into a position that has real-world consequences, eh?  And gosh, doesn't that just give you all sorts of confidence in the FedGov's handling of a viral crisis?

Use their lies to attack them.

So the Democrat American Communist Party has been using the Ebola outbreak to whine and complain that it was those mean old Republicans who are at fault because BUDGET CUTS or something.

Hit them back twice as hard, people.  TWICE!  AS!  HARD!

Attached [at the link above] is a CRS analysis of the actual NIH budget for the last several years in inflation adjusted (real) dollars. It’s worth noting that after the Republican takeover in ’94, the NIH budget rose until the Dems took over Congress in 2006. The Pelosi/Reid Congress was the first to flatline the NIH budget in nominal dollars.

HIT THEM!  And then HIT THEM AGAIN!

More Joys of Los Angeles

Running through the park, when I feel the urge to take a leak.  Damn.  I hate that.  And I'm not going to use the bushes like the damn hobos around here, as sections of the park already reek of rancid stale urine and I'm not going to add to that.

So I make my way around the park, and near the maintenance shed there's a public restroom that's open.  Yay, Maintenance guys!  I duck in and immediately hear the drug dealer in the shitter call out his challenge.

Dude.  I can't even take a leak without having to dodge the druggies and their handlers.

I managed to hold it in until I got home, and then damn near blew the porcelain off the john with a fire-hose amount of pressure.  I really cannot wait to get out of this city.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Viet Nam Doux edition

Stolen from Denny, who stole it from someone else:

Once again, just as with VietNam, our government has proven that the only force on this planet which can defeat the US militarily and economically is the Democratic Party.

The only thing that can stop the military from winning is the Democrat American Communist Party.  Period.

Pipe Tobacco part 1

This stuff right here smells like an aromatic when you smoke it, but smokes like an English tobacco.  Damn good stuff.

The Mrs. like the smell of it, which is damn near unbelievable.

Since I'm busy today

Enjoy Bill Whittle's latest!

Busy today

Might I suggest a selection from the sidebar?

On the topic of Sidebar, anyone have any suggestions for the "Be A Man" area?

Not my photo

But it is a photo of the boat we were on.

One of the yacht clubs down here has hooked up with the recruiting battalion to give Soldiers a chance to chill out, relax and go boating.  We went out on this boat a couple of months ago, and the Cap'n and I got along like peas and carrots.  He keeps inviting me back, and I keep going.

We got some good wind yesterday, and cruised around off the coast of Long Beach.  I think the Cap'n enjoys bringing me along so that he can lounge on the bow of the boat with a drink in his hand while I pilot the boat and haul on rope.  And that's exactly why I enjoy going along, so it's a perfect relationship.

I came home tired and a little sunburnt, but any day spent sailing is better than just about any other day you can have.

Bows

So, I'm in the market for a compound bow.  I've taken some lessons and know how to use one, but I'm not a professional by any means.  I want a decent bow that's less than $500.

Any suggestions from the folks out there?  I'm going to be using it for hunting; with a bow added to my rifle and muzzle-loader, that'll give me three difference chances to get some venison in my freezer.

Is a sub-$500 hunting bow even feasible?

When you get down to the roots of this, it's actually pretty scary.

So, some Leftist douchenozzle named Dana Milbank is wondering why Republicans care about the whole Secret Service scandal.  I mean, don't we want Obama to die anyways?

Look, Obama is a communist twat, and even thought it's not Christian of me I would be smiling if he died screaming while his car plunged off a cliff.  But do I want him assassinated while the Secret Service stands by?  No.  I do not.

The fact that conservatives can oppose Obama without actually wanting him to be killed is ...  foreign ...  to the Left.

I want you to think about the implications of that for a bit.

That means that every bit of assassination porn that the Left put out during the Bush years wasn't hyperbole.  THEY WANTED HIM DEAD.  That means that every Leftist who rubbed one out while screaming for Rumsfeld to be pushed up against a wall and shot actually wanted to see that happen.

So if they aren't kidding about wanting to kill off Bush and other Conservatives, just what do you think they mean when they call the Tea Party a bunch of terrorists who need to be shot or jailed?

Yeah.  Let that sink in.  That's not an exaggeration on their part, they actually want to either kill you or put you in jail.

Scratch a Democrat, find a communist dictator hell-bent on genocide.

Gone Sailin'

Been invited on a boat.  No free Ice Cream today.

So morons in St Louis are rioting again.

They're rioting because an 18 year old felon who was wearing an ankle monitor (a little electronic ankle bracelet that allows the cops to know where he is, because he's a violent felon, did I mention the violent felon part?) and most important of all, FIRING A GUN AT A POLICE OFFICER was shot and killed.

Oh, and the cherry on the top of this shit sundae is that the gun this violent felon was shooting at a cop just happened to be stolen.  And this sub-human thug, VonDerrit Myers Jr., was already on house arrest for his previous gun felony.

So naturally the morons in St Louis call him a choirboy and start chanting about how bad the cops are, and then start rioting.

It's really incomprehensible to be how these people can be claiming that their little choir boy wasn't doing anything wrong.  How dumb and stupid do you have to be for you to riot over a violent thug getting shot for being a violent, gun-toting thug who shoots at cops?

Added:  Hey, what's a sure-fire way to get popular opinion on our side?  Steal American flags from homes and burn them!  Yeah, that's the ticket!

This enrages me. And it should enrage you.

Obama sells out the Kurds for cheap.

They’ve been shafted again. The editors of Bloomberg note that the Turks are watching ISIS destroy the Kurds, in much the same way as the Soviets stood by and let the Nazis crush the Warsaw uprising. 

If there has been one group of people that we could actually trust to do what they say they were going to do, (other than Israel), it's been the Kurds.  And they could have been our strongest ally in the Middle East of all the Muslim groups.  Instead, Obama is letting them be slaughtered wholesale.

The next time someone turns down our offerings, remember that we allowed our allies to die in lots, rather than lift one single finger that might upset some turbaned dictator.  The destruction of America's foreign policy under Obama is complete.  He has alienated our allies, destroyed alliances, given our enemies hope and strength, and killed future alliances dead before they even had a chance to start.

Is Obama was actively working to destroy America, or is he so incompetent that he destroys everything he touches?  At this point, how would you tell the difference?

More on the publik skool sistim.

At this point, putting your kids in public school amounts to child abuse and dereliction of duty.  A Nebraska School District is telling its teachers to not use the words "Boy" or "Girl", and instead use phrases like "Purple Penguin".

No, this is not a joke.  This school district is actually telling its teachers to IGNORE HUMAN BIOLOGY COMPLETELY and make up a bunch of feel-good bullshit.

Once again, the publik skool sistim is not there to educate your child.  The publik skool sistim exists only to indoctrinate your child in Marxist, ProgNazi agitprop and ensure that your child never, ever questions their masters in the government, nor has the resources or capabilities to even learn how to do so.

More Joys of Los Angeles

Running through the park and gagging on the marijuana smoke coming from the teenager who's sparking up before school starts.

I wonder how much money is wasted attempting to teach young pot-heads like him?

Only a Leftist

Would take parenting advice from a woman who hates children.  And who's vagina probably resembles the mouth of a lamprey.

Stench

I have never before in my life lived in a place where, when running, I get hit with a smell that makes me vomit in mid-stride.

I couldn't tell you what it was if you paid me.  It was like a mix of hobo shit, skunk spray, and diesel fumes.

I'll take a freshly fertilized rice paddy in Korea any day; at least there it's just shit.

We need more of this

Lois Lerner tries to flee from cameras by begging to be allowed into a random person's house.

She should be just ONE of the people hounded for the rest of her life, or until she gets the hell out of Washington D.C.  Put a camera in Elijah Cumming's face every chance as well, and as him why he was collaborating with the IRS to unlawfully prosecute and intimidate conservatives.  Every time he steps out of the door he needs to answer for what he did.

Well, Dang

Failure to Fire just put out their last strip.

Gonna miss those.  Understand why he's doing it though.

Oops

So much for posting every day.  Sorry about that.  It's been 0600-2300 type of days around here.

This is how busy I've been

I completely forgot there was football on last night.  Both college and NFL.

I can't wait to leave here.  Truly cannot wait.

Cooking salmon

On the grill.  Brown sugar and soy sauce glaze, with various herbs (garlic!  garlic!  more garlic!).

Rice simmering right now.  Sliced some red onion super thin and tossed that on top of the water.  Gives the rice great flavor.  Added garlic.  Of course.

Drinking scotch.  Will transition to water when it's time to eat.

How YOU doin'?

Soooooo......

You're sent to clean up the vomit of a man infected with a terrible disease that is spread through contact with bodily fluids.

Like vomit.

So how do you clean it up?  Were it me, I'd be in a full HazMat suit, dousing the area with bleach, and then vacuuming up whatever I could get before hitting it with more bleach, scrubbing, and then more bleach.

Other people, not so much.

If the epidemic starts, remember that photo.  And go read Ann Barnhardt's take on it.  Political correctness will be the death of this country, one way or another.

Random Thots

So the intertubes are all abuzz regarding the crazy guy who jumped the White House fence and made it into the actual White House.

The Secret Service is being raked over the coals on this one.  Deservedly so, as you're not supposed to allow random crazy people into the Presidential residence.  But here's a thought:

Perhaps the Secret Service doesn't actually want to protect this particular president?

By all accounts, Uh-bama is a raging douchebag, and his Klingon-looking wife is a raging racist who treats people like crap.  Treating the people who protect your life like a bunch of semi-human drones isn't the best way to engender feelings of loyalty.  And while it is their job to protect the President and his family, being ragged on for six years does tend to affect your mental state when it comes to your job.

Just a thought.

One powerful messege

I don't live in Louisiana, so I don't have (much of) a dog in this fight.  But this anti-Landrieu ad is one hell of a punch.



Pow.

Obama refuses to do his job

Like, say, attending the intel briefings that may have just told him about ISIS/ISIL/ISOFAW*.

Obama is an imbecile, folks.  A moron.  To be quite plain, he is the dumbest person in the room, and when you're dealing with Democrats that's saying something.  Obama doesn't have the intellectual wattage to make a lightbulb flicker.

But he thinks he's the smartest person in the room.  He is a half-witted retard with a narcissistic personality disorder.  And he's in charge of our military.  Don't you feel better now?

Oh, and isn't it great that he skipped FIVE CONSECUTIVE DAYS of briefings right before our consulate in Benghazi was attacked?  Of course, it's not like he gives a shit about American lives, which is why he went to bed and then partied with Jay-Z and Beyonce while our people were fighting for their lives and waiting for help that never came.

Gosh.  What a great representative of America.  A clueless, classless idiot who thinks that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Thanks, America.  And thanks to all the "conservatives" who stayed home because Mitt wasn't conservative enough for them.  Do you really think we'd have these problems if Mitt were in the White House?

* - Islamic Society of Fuckheads And Wankers.

KC spanks the Patriots

41-14.  Ouch.  And the numbers don't tell you how poorly the Pats played.  They were that bad.

So, is KC that good, or is New England that bad?  Is this just a throw-away week?

My brother is probably shaking off a massive hang-over right now and wondering why his football world has crumbled.

Just got home a bit ago

And found out that "Liberal", Democrat-controlled, socialist California is now directing what sexual activity is and is not lawful.  On a college campus.

You got that?  In this communist clusterfuck of a state, the Democrat American Communist Party has now determined that they can legislate lawful sexual activity.

Helloooooooo!  McFly!

The worst part about this is all those little indoctrinated progNazis are nodding their heads and proclaiming how wonderful it is that the State will now tell them if their sex is lawful or not.

These people make me sick.

American Monarchy

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Lock Ness Socialism

Yet another must view from Bill Whittle



If the GOP had any brains or balls, they'd be hiring that man to be their communications director, and I mean rightfriggingnow.

Woke up at 6

was going to go running.

Went back to bed instead.  And you know what?  I'm not sorry.

Yet another reason to not attend a University

A professor from Delaware State is telling Liberians that the USA "manufactured" Ebola.

Yes, yes, really.  He really is saying that.  Only as bad as that sounds, he manages to make it sound even worse.

Worse, in the same breath, the semi-intelligible article suggests groups trying to stop the epidemic — Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders — are all somehow in on it. The piece puts them on a list of those “implicated in selecting and enticing African countries to participate in the testing events.” 

Broderick, who is listed as an associate professor in the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Delaware State University, defended his article in a brief interview with The Washington Post. “There are many references to what was contained in my letter,” he said. “You may read the letter and double-check the sources listed. They are available and legitimate.”

Between nutjobs like this, false rape accusations, Marxist indoctrination, six-figure debt and worthless degrees, there are few reasons for anyone who isn't going into the hard sciences to actually attend a university.

And you can chalk this loon up there with the people who claim that the USA invented AIDS to keep the black man down.  Same fruitcake, different pan.

Eric Holder to resign

Now when can we get him on trial for his lies and obfuscation on Fast and Furious, the IRS targeting scandal, and all the various other scandals he blocked from being investigated or pursued while he covered for his boss's criminal activities?

That racist fucker deserves to rot in jail for the rest of his life.

Woke up early

Thought to myself "Self, you're still on vacation!"

Went back to bed.

Just woke up a bit ago, drinking coffee now.  First real lazy day I've had in....  well....  a long time.

More joys of Los Angeles

When you go for a run, and you're having trouble with your uphill sprints, your lungs are burning, you don't know why, and you suddenly realize your eyes are burning as well.

Fucking pollution.

I really don't know why anyone would voluntarily move to this disgusting shithole.  The only reason I can think of is "mental instability", because there's certainly no way a sane person would ever want to move here.

Well, Crap

So, since I'm stationed in the festering shithole of Los Angeles, any time I have a mandatory physical exam (optical, dental, PHA, etc) I get to travel to the mandatory medical place mandated by the military for all "local" military place to use.

Which for me means traveling two hours.  No, that's not a typo.  Oh, and since this is government health care, the only appointment they had open was a month wait and mid-morning, which means that I get to travel on the 405 in rush-hour traffic.

Did I mention that I cannot wait to leave this fucking shithole, and how I want Los Angeles to fall off into the ocean and drown?  I did?  Well, I meant it.

One of the "quirks" of LA driving, and by "quirks" I mean the habits of the insanely stupid and drug-addled, is the habit of "white lining" that the motorcyclists here do.  Meaning, they ride the white line in traffic.  Now, this normally isn't a problem, as if some dipshit wants to turn himself into road pizza that's his concern and not mine.  Hell, it's legal here.  They call it "Lane Sharing", as if riding the line between lines is somehow sharing a line.  But I was attempting to make my way into the HOV lane (The Ragin' Mrs. was with me), I got caught up in typical LA traffic, which means that the 405 turned into a parking lot suddenly and without reason.  Which leaves me caught in mid lane change, unable to back up, unable to go forward, and right on the white line between the "fast" lane and the HOV lane, and since the fucking assholes here don't leave you any damn room there was nothing I could do except wait for traffic to start flowing again and complete the lane change.

Whereupon some guy on a Harley, hauling ass down the white line in rush-hour traffic, promptly slid right into me.

Now, luckily he's OK.  He managed to slow down to the point where it was a love tap.  But holy hell people, what kind of brain-dead fucktard hauls ass down a white line in rush-hour traffic in LA?  Apparently, this guy.

So, to recap - two hours in this traffic to go to my mandatory appointment at the mandatory place, get hit by a motorcycle, and then have to deal with the traffic all the way back up.



I cannot wait to leave.  Less than a year.  Less than a year.  Less than a year.

Vacation

Yeah, um....  don't know how much you're going to get out of me this week.  Sorry.

If you're one of those people who waited in line or camped out to get an iPhone6

Please....  get a life.  Grow up.

Please, we're begging you.  You're like a little teenaged girl in the 60's when the Beetles came to America.  You're embarrassing yourself.  That is, if you had enough self-awareness to actually be embarrassed, which you don't, which is why you're camping out in front of a store to get a PHONE.

Get a life.

Pre-destined to fail in Iraq

John Gabriel nails it:  Obama can't afford to win in Iraq.

Let’s be honest: No effort can be successful if the Commander-in-Chief is unwilling to even define victory. This semantic murkiness is intentional, since it provides maximum political cover for the poll-watching president. Obama can declare that we “degraded” the terrorist threat with a single air strike or a thousand.  

(.....)  

Obama does not want to win his new Iraq war. He can’t afford to. If the projection of American military power successfully solved the problem of Islamic terrorism, it would shatter Obama’s entire worldview.

This is what scares the hell out of me, along with the news that Obama is going to personally sign off on any airstrikes in Syria.  Because a Democrat personally controlling airstrike targets in war worked out so damn well the last time, right?  Obama is such an incompetent, buffoonish, narcissistic shitbag that he thinks he can wage war better than his generals can, and it's a war that he doesn't even want to win.

Therefore....  he's going to lose.  Which will cause untold amounts of pain and suffering.

Thanks for saddling us with this jackass, America!

The Mrs. gots quips!

So, as the Ragin' Mrs. and I were enjoying dinner (it's National Cheesburger Day, donchaknow) I poured her a beer and didn't quite do it as smooth as I normally do, leaving the glass half ale and half frothy bubbles.

Ragin' Mrs.:  I think I'll wait for it to do it's Anne Boleyn impersonation.

Me:  *raised eyebrow*

Ragin' Mrs.:  It has to lose it's head!

Me:  *groans*

But she puts up with all my horrible puns, so she's a keeper.

Ah, the smells of Los Angeles

Running through the park, good pace, breathing hard, and suddenly I'm choked by the overwhelming smell of rank, stale urine.

I don't know if it's hobo piss, or dog piss, or coyote piss.  But it was piss.

How perfectly apt.

Your government at "work"

Dude was "working" at the EPA, watching between two to six hours of pornography A DAY ON HIS GOVERNMENT COMPUTER.

You'll be shocked to know he still has his job.  No, not shocked?  Neither am I.  Oh, and this guy is a GS-14, which means he's making at least $106,000 a year.

To watch porn at work.

And he can't get fired even months after it was exposed in an investigation.

That about sums up our entire government, doesn't it?

Is every Leftist "scientist" a liar?

Or just the popular ones?

Another Neil deGrasse Tyson bollocksed up science anecdote, as emailed to me by PJM’s own David Steinberg:

And this is on top of the anti-Bush screed that Tyson put out that was shown to be a pack of lies as well.

Neil deGrasse Tyson may be a fabulous scientist, and a consummate showman, but he’s downright terrible at accurately quoting people. Or, if you’re a “glass half full” kind of person, you might say that Neil deGrasse Tyson is pretty amazing at needlessly fabricating quotes and scenarios to showcase his own brilliance.

We’ve already established that a newspaper headline touted for years by Tyson likely doesn’t exist. We’ve also established that the exact quote he uses to bash members of Congress as being stupid also doesn’t exist. And then we established that the details within one of Tyson’s favorite anecdotes —a story of how he bravely confronted a judge about his mathematical illiteracy while serving on jury duty — seem to change every time Tyson tells the story. 

Every time you turn around, another Leftist "scientist", or the people who claim to use science, are shown to be liars.  Arctic Pack Ice, anyone?  Didn't algore, aka Pope Prius the First, claim that all the Arctic ice was going to be gone by now?  Not just less of it, but gone, as in no more.  And yet we had record levels of ice in the Arctic last year.  This year?  Record levels of ice in the Antarctic ice shelf.  So much for all that "The ice is gonna melt and we're all gonna die" meme, eh?  But get this:  Even in the article talking about record levels of sea ice in Antarctica, there are still people TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!

So, are all Leftist scientists liars?

Imagine living on the Sun....

Actually, it's worse than that here in Los Angeles.  Because I live in the San Fernando Valley.  Which, in the middle of this heat wave we're going through (106 for the past few days) is much like living right next to Satan's asshole after he's eaten a bushel full of habañero peppers and a case of MD 20/20.

I cannot imagine why people would ever want to live here.  I truly cannot imagine.  This place shouldn't exist.  It should still be orange groves and farmland, not some paved-over concrete shithole.

"We're 32!"

So, in a study of 34 different country's tax codes, we're number 32 in terms of competitiveness.

Anyone who's tried to open a business knows just how bad the tax situation in America is right now.  And it's going to get worse, because we don't have too many politicians with the stones to reform the tax code, even though doing so would damn near guarantee a Presidential vote later on down the line.

No, what the US Tax Code does right now is lower entrepreneurial growth, lower economic growth, and create incentives for a black market.

What, you didn't think of the black market?  If I can sell my product on the open market at $10 but taxes end up eating $5, then I can sell my product on the black market for a price greater than $5 and make more money.  $6 untaxed dollars is greater than $10 dollars that the government takes half of from me.

And not only do I keep more money in my pocket, but I starve the Liberal welfare state of tax revenue.  Double bonus.

Another cry of "RACISM" blown to shreds

Hey, maybe instead of accusing an LAPD officer of being racist, perhaps you should find somewhere else to have sex than a public street in the middle of the day?

Hmmmmm?  Maybe?

Oh, and in the audio tape Daniele Watts comes off as an insufferably stuck up raging bitch.  Not only does she try to pull the "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?!?!" card (at one point she starts talking about her publicist) but she goes off in such hysterics that the cops damn near HAD to handcuff her.

Stories like this are why I roll my eyes at every new accusation of racism.  Because time and time again, the accusation is used as a distraction from the real issues, in this case being that this raging bitch got caught boffing her husband in public.

Another Beheading by ISIS/ISIL/ISOFAW*

That would be the Islamic State of Fuckheads and Wankers.

So of course, Uh-bama went golfing.  Best thing in the world to do when people are getting beheaded!  What else was he going to do?  His job?  Pish.

Didja hear the one about Uh-bama calling the ISLAMIC State of Iraq and Syria "not Islamic"?  Didja laugh as hard as I did?

Remember, folks:  Uh-bama, previously known as Barry Soetoro, was raised by a Muslim in Indonesia.  That's not some crack-head conspiracy, that's just a plain fact.  Before Barky Uh-bama ever existed, there was Barry Soetoro pressing his head to a carpet facing East five times a day.  Ya think maybe he's allowing his biases to get in the way of his judgement there?  Just a little?  "Ah, naw, they ain't Islamic!  Now watch this putt!"

And meanwhile, one of our allies has a head chopped off with more promised to come, and Uh-bama does nothing.  Just like he did nothing when our boys got their heads cut off.  Just like he did nothing when the consulate in Benghazi was attacked.  Just like he did nothing when the SOFA with Iraq came due.  Just like he did nothing in the US Senate for his shortened career there.

Noticing a trend there?

FORE!

But of course

So, the Voter-ID law in Wisconsin was recently put back into place by the 7th Circuit Court.  Great.  Good.  This is a good thing.  It makes it harder to cheat and commit voter fraud.

Naturally, the Democrat American Communist Party is claiming that it disproportionally hurts them.

So, what the ProgNazis are saying here is that a law designed to prevent voter fraud makes it harder for the Donks to win their elections.

So what the ProgNazis are saying is that they actively commit voter fraud in order to win elections.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your Democrat Party in action.

The Cult of Obama

Here's just a small sample of what the Left has turned into.  When I call Uh-bama the Marxist Messiah, or the Communist Christ, or the Left's Lord and Savior, it is because that is how they treat him.

Uh-bama isn't just their President.  He is their God.  The Left has turned into a a cult-like religion where Uh-bama is worshipped and praised on their alters.

Don't take my word for it.  GO LOOK FOR YOURSELF.

Look, we all know the answer

The Question being, of course, "Where exactly is the anti-war movement?"

I mean, with Uhbama going back into Iraq and all, where is the "NO WAR FOR OIL" signs, and the protests and the riots, and all those braindead fucktards who were out in full screaming force from 2000 to 2008?  Where are they now?

The answer to that, of course, is that all those anti-war protesters were nothing more than cheap partisan hacks; whores and tools of the Democrat Party, without a single shred of integrity to be found among any of them.  And since it's their Marxist Messiah who's bombing people in Iraq now, they can finally abandon any pretense of having ideals and morals other than "BUSH SUCKS!" and go back to blindly supporting whatever their Communist Christ does.

Thirteen Years

It never cools down in LA

Just in case you were wondering.

The concrete and the shit keep the heat in.  I can't wait to leave this shithole and move back up North.

Hey.... is Uhbama giving a speech tonight?

Maybe?

The only thing that blithering jackass ever does is give a speech, and he's not even good at that unless he's got his precious TelePrompTer doing all the heavy lifting for him.

Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy dies at 93

Saw the news yesterday.  As usual, all the Lefties are out in their hatiest-hatemongering hatefulness.

Why?  Because Cathy was a Christian, and he didn't back down from Christian values, unlike a certain Cardinal of New York who's currently doing everything he can to demean and devalue the church he's supposed to lead.

Dead at 93.  That's a good, long life, and Cathy did a lot of good things with it.  He's an example to be shared and emulated.  Let the haters hate.  They are small, pathetic, empty shells without souls, constantly hoping that their next orgasm will somehow give their worthless lives some sort of meaning.  Cathy didn't have that problem.  His life had meaning, and he used it to it's greatest effect.

Well, it IS recycling!

Phil at RNS is trying to gauge how much interest there would be for some stickers of this variety:

If he can get enough interest, he's going to put in an order to get them printed up.  If you're interested just hop on over to his site and let him know.

Baseball pennant races

Three teams from the AL West are in the top ten power rankings for MLB right now.  My Mariners, currently third in the AL West, are at #9 in total rankings.

That ought to tell you just how hard a row they have to hoe to get into the playoffs.  Hell, assuming they snag a wild card spot, there will be THREE teams from the AL West in the playoffs.

King Felix deserves to play in the post-season, dammit.

Sure signs of growing old

You're trimming your nose hair (sign #1!) and you realize that half the hairs are white (sign #2!)

Crap.

Yeah, that was TMI, wasn't it?  Deal with it.

Spent all yesterday reading

Just sitting and reading, and sipping scotch and reading, and enjoying a cigar and reading.

Pleasant day.  Too bad Monday had to come around.

Nailed it

This article in the Federalist has a paragraph at the bottom that just nails the Left's whole life philosophy in a few short sentences.

That there are angry, bitter misanthropes out there with a chip on their shoulder about having to cook is not significant. What is significant is that this outlook gets taken seriously and finds a home and a ready audience on the left. What’s significant is that there is a constituency out there that is ready to complain about each and every basic requirement of human life, to resent the effort of taking responsibility for it, and to denounce as tyranny any expectation that life is supposed to be about work, effort, and striving.

Isn't that just a perfect summation?  Think about all those useful idiots walking around squawking about how they should get paid $15 an hour to flip burgers and pull fries out of the fryer.  Are you kidding me?  Why should we pay you that much for doing a job that requires no real skill, training, or effort?

EFFORT.  That in itself is the key.  Put some effort into your life, and you won't be working for minimum wage very long at all.  Want to get paid $50 an hour?  Be a plumber!  But nah, that's too hard and takes too much EFFORT, so these angry, bitter misanthropes are just going to walk around demanding a living wage for a job that can be done by a 16-year old with no experience.

They're already pushing out prototypes of burger-cooking robots, folks.  Make it cheaper to buy the robot and produce burgers, guess what's going to happen?

Just a bit longer

And then I'll be on leave, and I won't do a damn thing except wake up, go running and drink coffee while enjoy my cigars.

Soon.

But they want to talk about MY carbon footprint?

Matt Lauer takes a friggin' HELICOPTER TO WORK EVERY DAMN DAY!

I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ONE FUCKING WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT FROM THESE DAMNED HYPOCRITES!

THIS is why you don't just let anyone in.

So, the ISIS terrorist (now an ex-terrorist, actually) from Minneapolis, who was 29 years old, had 9 kids from multiple women, and jumped at the chance to go be a jihadist in Iraq worked at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.

Do you feel better now?  Do you feel safer?

This musloid, who most likely dumped his kids onto the social welfare services (who else is taking care of them?) believed enough in jihad to go abroad to join in a massive terrorist army.  And he had access to the planes that flew in and out of one of the busiest airports in America.

Minneapolis is full of Somali immigrants, and Somali immigrants bring Somali problems to America if they are not forced to leave them behind.  And since Minneapolis is Ground Zero for liberal retardation in the upper Midwest (along with Madison, WI), that means that those Somali immigrants were welcomed with open arms and told "Don't you ever change, you vibrant, mulit-cultural person you!"

Well, guess what Somalia has to offer to the world, hm?  Pirates.  Terrorism.  Child armies addicted to khat.  Warlords.  Brutality.

So...  how about when people come to America from Somalia, they have to leave all that behind?  You think we could do that please?  Apparently not.  The only good thing to come out of this story is that the jihadist shithead died in Iraq and not blowing himself up in America.

Either we get damn picky about who we let into this country, or we get more crap like this, only next time maybe it shows up as pieces of what used to be a plane and 250 people impact the ground over Chicago, or St. Louis, or Denver.

Blarg

I had a restful weekend, but not a sleep-filled one.  And last night I was helping the Mrs. with one of her things, and we got home just in time to go to bed today if you catch my drift.

So it's up at 0530 to start continue my day, and my brain just called me a few unmentionable things, with my body chiming in.  So sorry for the lack of posting today.

pResident Uhbama knew.

He knew about ISIS for at least a year, and that gutless fucking piece of shit still doesn't have a strategy to deal with them.

After crowing for years about how he got us out of Iraq, and how Iraq is stable and secure, all his lies on that particular story are exposed yet again.

Dear lord, I cannot wait until I can be proud of my country again.  But hey, look!  Obama's golfing!  How rare an occasion!

I'm with Ricky Gervais on this one

You wanna guess how many nude photos of myself or the Mrs. there are around the house?

Aw, hell, I'll tell you right out:  None.  None on our computers, none on our phones, none on any cameras, none on any devices.

That's because we don't take nude photos of ourselves.

Now, the chances of anyone wanting a nude photo of me is exactly zero, and I still don't take nude photos of myself because the last thing I need is someone actually finding a picture of me in the buff, and then vomiting for an hour.

But celebrities?  Hey, guess what - if you're a hot female, and you make a lot of money by showing off your hot female self, do you really think people won't stop at nothing to get nude photos of you?  Hmmmmmm?

So yeah, I with Ricky Gervais:  If you don't want anyone hacking nude photos from your phone, don't have nude photos on your phone.  And that "phone", as you call it, is nothing more than a computer that also makes phone calls.  And any computer can be hacked.  Hell, your "phone" is a computer designed to be hacked, because it's designed to allow communication with other devices!

So either admit that you wanted those photos out there in the first place, or stop taking nude photos of yourself and keeping them on your phone.

Grilling

Before you throw whatever you're cooking on the grill, sprinkle it with a little bit of scotch, and then dump your spices on it.  If you don't have a particular rub, at least use salt, pepper and garlic.

The scotch adds just the right amount of sweet to the finished product, and it helps the spices stick to the meat.

Trust me.  Do it.

I ran myself dry

Literally.  Sweat had stopped coming out.  Made it home, with a few judicious stops at water fountains where I knew they existed, and then drank water.  Lots of it.

I'm doing much better, but my body is certainly letting me know not to do that again.

Cracking me up

These new Gatorade commercials with Payton Manning...






And Cam Newton, who I don't really like all that much but he's funny here.

Putting two and two together

So, in case you haven't heard yet, there's a serious problem with musloid men raping and sexually abusing women and children over in Rotherham, England.  Over 1,400 female teens and children were abused by "Asian" men (in England, Asian stands for Muslim, Pakistani in this particular case).  But what was worse was that the people who were supposed to help these children did nothing for fear of being labeled "racist".

Head exploding yet?  No?  It gets better.

The Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (some of the the same people who looked the other way while musloids were raping children) removed three foster kids from the home of a family due to their political affiliation, which was their membership in the Ukip (United Kingdom Independence Party).  The Ukip is kind of like the British version of our Tea Party.  Look up Nigel Farage on YouTube to check out his speeches at the EU.  Curmudgeonly and Skeptical has a list of their Party platform.  In any case, the Rotherham Council removed the children because they claimed that the family opposed "multiculturalism".

I want you to think about that for a moment.

And then let's all sit back and taken in the concept that three children were taken away from perfectly good foster parents because they parents supposedly opposed "multiculturalism", yet while at the same time the very people in charge who removed those kids were allowing the rape of children to go on unopposed for fear of seeming "racist".

So....  allegedly opposing "multiculturalism"?  BAD.
But...  actually raping children?  GOOD (as long as you have the right skin color and are of the proper "religion".

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is how a culture commits suicide.

If George Bush built a "truth" database...

The howls from the Left would be deafening.  But when the Marxist Messiah does it?

Crickets.

It's almost as if all of their protestations during the Bush years were all a sham, y'know?

I need to take a break...

I have electronic crap either breaking down or malfunctioning all around me right now.  I don't know why, and I don't know how.  All I know is I seem to be surrounded by some sort of death cloud that makes all things electronic go on the fritz.  Even my Kindle.

Lovely.

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.