Of course it gets worse

This pathetic clown show that Obama is running would fuck up a wet dream if it could.  Data breach numbers soar to 18 million.

I bet my SF86 is in that collection.

And since the most corrupt administration ever is in control, there's not a single person that's going to go to jail over this crap.

They would feel ashamed if they had any shame at all

How a 16 year old kid tricked the NYT and other "news" outlets into thinking Dylann Roof was a "Brony".

I'd tell that kid he's way too smart to go into journalism.

Holy. Crap!

Hummanahummanahummana....

The class-action lawsuit challenged various articles in Puerto Rico’s gun law, which the court declared unconstitutional. Because of the ruling, Barreras said, Puerto Ricans may now carry openly or concealed without a permit, and they do not need to obtain a permit before purchasing a firearm.

Emphasis mine.  This is huge, folks.  Puerto Rico now has better gun laws than the People's Demokratik Republik of Kalifornia.  When I lived there, you couldn't even sniff a gun permit unless you had another permit that allowed you to do so.

The criminals there must be shitting themselves silly at the thought of their victims being able to fight back.

I have done 24 of these 25 things

And the only reason it's not all 25 is because we didn't have snakes in rivers to throw rocks at.

I would add in:

26.  Jumping from a cliff into a lake or pond.
27.  Sprinting through a field while a bull tried to catch you and stomp a mud-hole in your ass.
28.  Learning how to pour a perfect cup of beer at age 5.
29.  Bareback horse riding.  No bridle either.

I've said it before

But sometimes it bears repeating - if I end up being just half the man my father is, I'll count my life well lived.

Happy Father's Day, Dad.

OK, the cider

I've tried two batches of cider here in LA, and neither of them came out as drinkable.

I used the same juice for both of them - unfiltered Honeycrisp Apple.  It was pasteurized, but unless you go to the orchard and get it straight off the press, you're going to get pasteurized juice.  Even when we pressed our own pears, we still had to heat it up to 140 degrees to kill any microbes that might try to take over.

Everything gets sanitized.  I use a phosphoric acid based sanitizer, and anything that touches the juice gets cleaned.

So - I filled two three-gallon carboys full of the juice.  I used two different strains of yeast - carboy one was White Labs English Cider yeast, and carboy two was a Nottingham Ale yeast.  The English Cider yeast tends to eat more sugar than the Nottingham Ale, so you get two distinct flavors out of the batches.  When I made the pear cider we used the Nottingham Ale yeast and it came out so good that I had people lined up to buy my entire 5 gallon batch.  And it was so good that I told them "Nope, I'm keeping this stuff".

I put the carboy into a bucket.  Depending on the amount of pectin in the juice, you can get some quite impressive blow-offs from the gas lock, and putting the carboy into a five gallon bucket helps contain any mess that might come out.  It also helps reduce the amount of light that reaches the brew while it's fermenting.  So I put the carboy into a bucket, throw a towel around the top to keep light out, and let 'er buck.  Specific Gravity at the start was 1.050, so a little high on the beer scale but definitely within the range you want.

Here's the thing.  It smelled awesome while it was fermenting.  But yeast is very temperature sensitive.  Too hot or cold and you get some "off" flavors.  And boy howdy did I get some off flavors.  The end result was a cross between hard apple cider and vinegar, and even the small sample I tried left me with an upset stomach due to it's harshness.  SG was an even 1.000, which puts the Alcohol By Volume at 6.5%.  It was just un-drinkable.  Too harsh, flavors were horrible, and it upset the stomach.

The only real variable I could not control was the temperature.  It's the same with our meads and wines.  It's too hot in this house, and the temperature changes too much.  There's no real cool place for me to brew and age the stuff.  The gas locks never got compromised, the brew did want it was supposed to do, the juice I used was so rich and sweet that I wanted to drink it rather than ferment it, and the yeast was alive and well when I dumped it in.  It still turned out crap, just like about half the meads we've made.  They've either been too sweet (yeast didn't eat all the sugar), too harsh (off flavors and unpleasant taste from yeast that's too hot), or there's been too many temperature changes throughout the day and the yeast has put out an unpalatable mix of esters that make you gag.

Once I get to a house in a place without this jacked-up climate, or that has a basement where the temperature remains more constant, I think I'll start having success again.  But for now, I'm done trying to brew in LA.

Frustrating

I just had to pour out three gallons of apple cider that turned into more vinegar than anything I'd like to drink.

Trying to home-brew in Los Angeles has been an exercise in frustration.  Recipes no longer apply, due to the climate.  Half of what we've made here has been un-drinkable, where everything we made in Wisconsin was not only drinkable but damn good.

I can't wait to leave.  Oh, and it's in the triple digits again today.  I'm in hell.

McDonalds wants to be "Progressive"

Whatever the hell that means.  I remember when I first really stopped going to McDonalds - when their commercials started being "Urban".  You want me to eat a burger?  Don't rap to me.  Their target demographic was "urban" kids, at least according to the ads I heard repeatedly on the radio.

For that matter, being "progressive" and hiring that loathsome slug Robert Gibbs isn't going to help them anymore than going "urban".  I don't know what the fix for McDonalds is.  I know I stopped eating their fries when they caved into the veggie-freaks and stopped using beef fat to fry them in.  Their burgers?  Eh.  You can get the same from Burger King.  Wendy's was my go-to, and I still enjoy a Frosty from time to time (CHOCOLATE, you commie bastards!  Vanilla is NOT A FROSTY FLAVOR!).

Right now if I want a burger it's either Five Guys, or a local joint called Beep's.  It's a bit more than McDonalds but not by much, and I get one hell of a better burger.

I do hope McDonald's figures their shit out.

Well holy crap!

It turns out that with the application of enough scotch, I actually can sleep in past 0530!

It had been so long I wasn't sure...

The Pope's environmental crusade

Is a cause that hurts the people he claims to care about most:  The Poor.

Energy costs consume a substantial portion of the budgets of lower-income Americans. This simple chart tells the story: while energy costs account for only 7% of expenditures by those who earn over $50,000 per year, those making less than $30,000 pay an astonishing 23% of their after-tax income for energy.

I wish I could claim I was shocked, but I'm not, because I actually bother to read economic news instead of just blathering on in Marxist-fueled pipe dreams like the Pope does.  Folks, this particular pope, Francis, is a Marxist first and foremost.  You can see it in his attacks on Capitalism, the one force that has helped more of the poor than anything else in the world.  You can see it in the way he inserts himself into every marxist cause of this century (and the last), rather than focusing on the real, actual mission of the Church, which would be the saving of souls.

If you're Catholic, I'm begging you to find a traditional Latin Mass in your area and start attending that instead of the Novus Ordo caricature of a religious celebration.  Do it not just because you're missing out on an authentic religious ceremony, a beautiful celebration that has been stripped from you by modernists and other enemies inside the Church, but do it because Pope Francis hates the Latin Mass with a passion.  Because the Latin Mass isn't about "the ecology" or being against Capitalism or any of the other Marxist shibboleths that Francis espouses instead of focusing on his actual job.  The Latin Mass is focused on Jesus Christ, not the popular political movement of the day, or whatever Leftist bullshit is being tossed around.

And I think that's really why Frank hates it.  Because his focus is not on Jesus Christ, his focus is on this world and his ideology.  And he doesn't want to be reminded of that.

Still tired

And quite frankly, disgusted.  The house passed the trade bill giving Obama "fast-track" authority.

Yeah.  That's going to end well.  Is there anything John Boehner and Mitch McConnell won't give away to Obama?  I quite honestly wouldn't be shocked to walk into the White House and see either of those two worthless pieces of shit on their knees giving Obama a blowjob while he outlined what he wanted them to do next.  It's disgusting.  Boehner and McConnell have done more damage to the GOP than Obama could ever dream of or hope for.

Blarg

Sorry 'bout the lack of posting.  Running on about four hours sleep right now, up waaaaay to early and back way too late.

I have no confidence

None what so ever, that this dim bulb has even the slightest clue about what to do next, other that obey whatever political orders come from Obama's camp.



Can anyone tell me what Archuletta's credentials are, and why she got the job?  THIS is the top person of OPM?

And you know what's making me feel even worse?  The average Democrat drone doesn't even know what's gone on, much less care.

And now they control your health care. What could go wrong?

We have Top Men on it at the Office of Personnel Management.  Top.  Men.

Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is ‘so what’s new?’”

Seriously, every time I think the FedGov can't turn into a bigger Klown Kar, it does.  Over and over.

This shouldn't be a shock

The eco-freaks in Seattle damaged a popular diving spot that was home to several different species of marine wildlife, and left a $10,000 clean-up to someone else.

Yeah.  I know.  This is my shocked face.

Donald Trump is running?

So who's campaign is the most ego-driven?  Trump or Jeb Bush?

Trump doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.  If Bush gets the nomination, the GOP is finished as a national party.

Yeah, you do get that sense, don't you?

The other option for the lackluster performers is teaching in publik skools.

After thousands of examples of the intellectual flaccidity and inferiority of the journalists in our midst, we have to accept the fact that they are not the best and the brightest. They are, overwhelmingly, college students who couldn't handle college math, couldn't manage to do the work to pass Biology 101 and Chemistry 101, and were daunted by the prospect of reading a bunch of long books with lots of facts in them, so history was not an option either. 

So what was left? (fill in the blank)_____ Studies or Journalism.

When i read the paper, the journalists and columnists I read are typically in the Sports section.  If it's not a plain "X happened and here is how" news piece, I'll just skim it.  I don't have time to waste going through and refuting every liberal loon with an overpriced journalism degree, especially here in Los Angeles, where they seem to spread like the cockroaches that thrive in the San Fernando Valley.

Today is Flag Day

Or, more importantly, the birthday of the United States Army.

HOOAH!

Yes, typically a nice long post about how awesome the Army is would go here.  It's a busy day for me today, and I'd rather write nothing than write something trite and cheap.

Truth

Which is how gun-control is still a problem, and health care is a "right".

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

Ain’t that a kick in the head, ladies? The Pill has not only increased your potential for STDs and infertility, but also increased the chances you’ll marry a loser.

R.S. McCain.  Doing the reporting that others won't do.

Why I refuse to identify as a Republican

Ace has a worthy rant up that's a must read, regarding the Trade bill that just stalled in Congress.  But the summation that I want to quote is this:

Paul Ryan argues that there's no sense blocking the fast track authority because Congress will always get an up-or-down vote on the actual trade deal, whenever Obama deigns to share it with us. 

He doesn't understand: We no longer trust the GOP. Yes, Mr. Ryan, the GOP will have another chance to weigh in on the TPP in its final form But we don't trust you to do the right thing then, just as we don't trust you to do the right thing now. 

The GOP lies to us at every turn. They claim they're going to stop Obamacare, then they begin drawing up plans to affirmatively save the plan with subsidies should the Supreme Court strike it down. 

They claim they will fight Obama like hungry dogs on immigration, then they approve it. 

They claim they're against Obama's Iran deal-- then they pass a mechanism which allows the Iran deal to pass with just one third of the Senate, so that GOP Senators can vote "against" the bill while ultimately losing the vote -- thus being able to claim to their constituents "Well we tried, but goshdarnit, the other side just outvoted us with its one-third majority."

Emphasis in the original.  The end of the rant is what should scare the GOP witless.  They've so completely alienated the politically active part of their base that they're going to have a hard time winning in 2016 no matter who they run.  There's a reason they're called "The Stupid Party".

President FuckUp

To start with, go check out an epic twitter rant about the Office of Personnel Management hack job, storified onto one web page.

And then understand that no matter how bad people think the hack job was, it's actually worse.  The Chinese were in the OPM database unfettered and undetected for over a year.  The Office of Personnel Management, for those who don't know, are the people in charge of running background checks for security clearances.  As such, they have every last bit of information on the people they're investigating.

Name.  Social Security number.  Place of birth.  Residences for the last seven years.  Employment for the last seven years.  Aliases.  Family member's information.  Financial information.

You want to completely fuck over someone?  Take their SF 86 and give it to a criminal.  And the Chinese had access to over four million of these records.

And "President LadyParts" as Mr. Wilson calls him is once again playing his game.  Shifting blame, downplaying it, "I read it in the news!" kind of bullshit.  Because actual leadership in this situation is impossible from a gutless pathetic piece of shit who has never once displayed any kind of real leadership in his entire life.

This is a fuck-up beyond compare, and the worst part is, nobody in D.C. is going to do a thing about it.

You know that's true.  You know it.

Oh, and now there's a massive, electronic database of people's health information thanks to Obamacare.  Don't you feel safe?  Don't you feel secure?

And this collection of tweets

Is the perfect example of why I wrote that letter to Mr. Doherty at Tor.

Notice how the Social Justice Warriors have no problem calling people everything but a white boy, all for the sheer horrible act of asking to be included in their reindeer games.

Nope.  We're bigots, and misogynists, or nazis, or whatever.

This is the exact kind of behavior that got feathers ruffled up to begin with, and it won't stop until they're driven out of their comfy little holes and exposed as the vicious, hateful pieces of crap that they are.

The SJWs are why #GamerGate exists.  And why the Sad Puppies campaign exists.  And why Vox Day started up his Rabid Puppies campaign.  Because they are hateful people, going into hysterical fits at the mere thought of having to share air with people they consider "beneath" them.  And they don't even realize that the people they hate and attack are the book-buying public that they need to survive.

So I say either kick them out, or let them die.  And me personally, I'm at the point where kicking them off of their pedestal is just more fun.

Feel teh CRAZY!!!

FEELZ IT!

Just feminist things. pic.twitter.com/r3sLMJWoeY

— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) June 11, 2015

Hopefully, the men who read this blog would avoid a woman like that no matter how cute she was.

TMI

So I had a sit on my face, just below the right corner of my mouth.  It had been there for a while.  Unfortunately, this isn't anything new for me while living in California; the pollution here gives me skin problems like acne and contact dermatitis on a regular basis.  So I didn't think much about it.  It would go away, or it wouldn't.

Until this morning, when it started itching like mad, and I scratched it, and it damn near exploded all over my hand.  Nothing says "Good Morning!" like hearing a damn abscess pop under your fingernail.

Turns out it wasn't a zit.  The two-inch long hair that came out with the pus was proof of an ingrown hair.

I've had ingrown hairs before, but this once was special.  For me, this was Hairzilla.

And that's more than you wanted to know.

My Letter to Tom Doherty at Tor Books

Dear Mr. Doherty, 

My name is Ragin' Dave.  I am a (my rank) in the United States Army, and I was recently made aware of comments made by one of your Senior Editors at Tor Books, Irene Gallo.  The comments that I refer to are pasted below: 

"There are two extreme right-wing to neo-nazi groups, called the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies respectively, that are calling for the end of social justice in science fiction and fantasy. They are unrepentantly racist, misogynist, and homophobic. A noisy few, but they've been able to gather some Gamergate folks around them and elect a slate of bad-to-reprehensible works on this year's Hugo ballot." 

While I have not participated in any Puppy-related campaigns, I have supported them silently from the sidelines.  To say that this comment from your senior editor infuriated me would be an exercise in downplaying the meaning of the word.  After reading that comment from Ms. Gallo, I went in search of other comments from Tor personnel. 

That’s when I found similar comments from Patrick Neilsen Hayden, Teresa Neilson Hayden, and Moshe Feder.  All of them attacking the character, integrity, intelligence and humanity of people they do not know, have never met, and only are aware of because of an internet campaign to have other books on the Hugo ballot. 

Mr. Doherty, I buy books, hundreds of books per year per year.  I do not have a TV in my house, I read.  I don’t watch shows on my computer, I read.  I read for enjoyment, I read for learning, I read for research, I read for improvement.  I buy paperback books, hard cover books and eBooks through Amazon.com.  And I have never once in my life boycotted a publishing house because I do not want to punish good authors for the actions of a few knuckle-heads.  But that this point I cannot in good conscience purchase any more books from Tor Books, as it seems that at least three members of your senior staff (four if you count Mrs. Neilson Hayden, who was recently part of your paid staff but is now a “consultant”) are such hate-filled creatures that they would attack the very people who they need to buy their books. 

I have read Mrs. Gallo’s so-called “apology”, and it’s the Diet Coke of apologies; saccharine, bland, and not real.  I have read your statement whereupon you claim that Mrs. Gallo does not speak for Tor Books.  Given the statements of Mrs. Gallo, both of the Neilson Haydens, and Mr. Feder, I can say for certainly that you may not wish them to speak for Tor Books, but they are doing just that.  I’m a military man, Mr. Doherty.  Once is accident.  Twice is coincidence.  Three times is Enemy Action.  And you have four individuals who have all attacked, impugned, slandered and defamed good, honest people, and I am quite honestly fed up with it. 

I will buy no further books from Tor Books until Mrs. Gallo is relieved of her duties and issued a pink slip.  I will not buy books from a company that hates me. 

Ragin' Dave

If you own any Tor books, or if you enjoy reading and you supported the SP campaign, it might be worth your time to politely tell Mr. Doherty how YOU feel about being called a neo-nazi.

So there's this compendium

Of road-rage and car crashes on YouTube.  I clicked the link on a whim.  You'd be amazed how many of the crashes and road-rage are from the Los Angeles are.

I'm not shocked at all.  But you might be.

106 today

And it was in the 70's last week.  Ugh.

The worst part about the heat is that it also traps in the pollution.  It's a hellacious twofer!

A-yup

"fill up the clown car and drive it far away."

Hells to the yes.

Normandy, France

1944.

If you're one of the people who hasn't seen "Saving Private Ryan", go watch the opening sequence.  You don't have to watch all of the movie, just the opening.



"WHAT'S THE RALLYING POINT?"

"ANYWHERE BUT HERE!"

Ever try to run in full battle rattle?  Ever actually WORN full battle rattle?

Ever try to swim in it?

I can't begin to imagine what it was like on that beach.  I can't begin to imagine what those men went through.  I can't begin to imagine what it was like to be there on that beach as men fell around you and all you could do was press forward into Hell.

But I can damn sure feel grateful, and make sure their sacrifice won't be forgotten, ever.

Yeah, I'm a day early.  I can't guarantee that I'll be posting tomorrow.  All I can do is make sure this point goes up.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Modern Liberal Edition

By Evan Sayet.  Sometimes you need to be reminded of who we're dealing with.

The Modern Liberal will invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Give the Modern Liberal the choice between Saddam Hussein and the United States, and he will not only side with Saddam Hussein; he will slander America and Americans in order to do so. Give him the choice between the vicious mass murderer corrupt terrorist dictator Yasser Arafat and the tiny and wonderful democracy of Israel, and he will plagia­rize maps, forge documents, engage in blood libels--as did our former President Jimmy Carter-- to side with the terrorist organizations and to attack the tiny democracy of Israel.

They're not just wrong, they're evil.  Ignorance that is caused by willfully rejecting knowledge cannot be virtuous.  Ever.

That is so much the mindset of the Modern Lib­erals. It's not that they are not aware of all the things that we're aware of; it's that they need to reject them in order to remain in this five-year-old's utopia that they've been told is the only hope for mankind: a mindless indiscriminateness.

But of course he was

Former President of Muslim Student Association arrested in Pedophilia sting.

Folks, anyone who's spent some time in the Middle East isn't going to be surprised by this at all.

Not.

At.

All.

I am of the opinion

That anyone who uses the word "Heteronormative" in a non-sarcastic way (unless it's doing research like R.S. McCain) is crazier than a shithouse rat and needs to be avoided.  They're also most likely to be some of the most miserable, self-hating individuals in the world, who make everyone else miserable...

And always vote Democrat.

Sometimes you CAN judge a book by it's cover.

This is what a third-world shithole looks like

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Speaking of people who don't have a chance...

Rand Paul just assured that he will never be president.

People here in town think I’m making a huge mistake. Some of them, I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.

Dude, as much as I hate John McCain, I don't think he wants America to be attacked.  I just think he's a liberal douchebag who hates the people who vote for him.

But Paul's statement is mind-boggling in it's sheer hubris.  And he probably just sunk his campaign, for no good reason at all.  He had plenty of support for his anti-Patriot Act stance without having to go full retard.

Lindsey Graham is running for President

He has less of a chance than I do, and I'm not tossing my hat into the ring.

Back

Spent the past few days on a boat in the Pacific Ocean.  Nothing like waking up and sitting on deck watching fish swimming around the boat.

Also did quite a bit of running on the island.  Clean air.  Loved it.

Hated coming back to the valley.  I cannot wait to leave this hell.

And this is my....

Sunday Music post

This is my....

...fuck it, I'm busy post.

This is my...

...  don't give a damn post.

This is my...

.... taking time off post.

Part 1

Sigh...

Oh, for fuck's sake!

Mitch McConnell is showing every day why the GOP is old, failed, and busted.  He's clueless.  He's a walking advertisement for the Democrats.  Mitch McConnell has done more damage to the Republican Party than Obama could ever dream of doing.

The GOP is going to continue to be complete and total failure so long as that worthless, Obama-fellating fuckstick holds any position of authority.

Ouch, bro.

The Ragin' Mrs. and I were trying to do some sort of fun thing yesterday, and we decided to drive through one of the canyons to get to that fun thing.

Yeah, that didn't work out so well.  We got stuck in traffic, major delays, and the Mrs. had her magic talking elf-box out, and there were traffic accidents in front of us and behind us, leaving us locked in place.  After sitting in a line of cars on a two-lane canyon road for way too long, we saw a wrecker headed in the opposite direction with a car loaded up on it.  A newer Ford Mustang, white and red, with the front end absolutely crunched.

About five minutes later, here comes another wrecker with the other car.  Some white luxury sedan, (I think it was Audi) again with the front end absolutely crunched.  It had been a head-on collision.  Both cars, straight in the kisser.  Kapow.

I don't know the exact amount of damage, but I'm guessing that was six figures of pain on those two wreckers.

Ouch, bro.

We got word that the Highway Patrol had shut the road down to clean off all the oil and fluids that had been spilled, so we turned around and headed back out.  Didn't see any accident on the other side, so perhaps that was a false alarm.

Side note - the Mrs. stated that she needed to find a restroom, so we pull over at this little hippy place that serves coffee and hummus and other organic stuff like that.  As we're walking in, we see a sign saying they need some help.  The Mrs. has been looking to pick up some extra cash, so she inquires.  She now has a job.

My conservative wife is going to be making hippy food.  Part time.  I must find a way to turn this to my advantage.

On my old computer...

I have some photos of yours truly carrying a flag-draped coffin to a Soldier's final rest.

That's on the old computer.  I'll pull them out later.

But for now, this older Cox and Forkum piece was a gut punch for me.

Way back when, I was part of a funeral team that included a member of the fallen Soldier's unit.  It was an airborne unit from Vicenza, Italy.  As the flag team was preparing to march, having folded the flag and handed it to the OIC, the Soldier from the unit turned to the fallen Soldier's young brother.  Kid was probably about 5 or 6.  This Soldier knelt in front of that kid, pulled his jump wings from his uniform and pinned them on the kid, explaining that his brother had earned these wings himself, and he would want his little brother to have them as well.  That little kid clutched those jump wings and bawled his eyes out.  The Mother was holding that folded up flag to her chest and weeping, while the father held his wife and tried his best to be stoic.  And failing...

I'm man enough to admit that once we marched away from the group of people around the coffin, we all cried. Every single one of us.

This is Memorial Day.  To remember that Soldier; a medic who was shot while tending to a wounded brother.  To the very first Soldier who's funeral I was a part of; a helicopter pilot who went down with his aircraft, who's coffin was only half the weight of a normal casket, and we never, ever opened it.  We had been warned.

And that little kid, holding on to a set of jump wings and bawling his eyes out.  This day is for them as well, because the reason for this day is also the reason for their pain and grief and suffering and wondering about what could have been.

Remember them all.

Annals of shopping

Went to get a new pipe tonight.  Part of the thing with the Mrs. and I is that when we get our money back from taxes, we pay off debt and put some in our investments, but we always make sure to take a little bit and reward ourselves for not allowing the government to steal any more than they already did.  So I decided that I was going to pick up a good briar pipe.  We had held off buying it for a number of reasons, but today we went to a somewhat local pipe shop and did some searching.

My price was set at no higher than $150.  There are tons of good briar pipes out there for that price, and I found a unique pipe that I picked up for a bit less than that.  However, while shopping I saw pipes that were over $700.

That's two-thirds of a cool grand, all for a smoking pipe.  And the thing that got to me was that the expensive pipe isn't going to smoke any better than the pipe I picked up for considerably less.

Ah, well.  This is what makes the world go round, I guess.  If folks want to spend that much for a pipe, there's some Danish pipe maker who's happy to sell them.  And don't get me wrong, that $700 pipe is absolutely gorgeous.  I held it.  It fit my hand like it was made for me, and the grain on the briar was unbelievable.  Which is why it's as high priced as it is.  But still - I like the volcano I picked up, and there's no way on God's Green Earth that I'm spending $700 on a pipe.

Cigar Review: Ave Maria Charlemagne

I was offered another chance to review cigars for CigarsCity.com, and I jumped on it like a hungry dog on a bone.  The box arrived yesterday, and I opened it up with trembling hands, revealing this glorious beauty:  The Ave Maria Charlemagne.

Just holding this cigar is breath-taking, let me tell you.  And as a Catholic guy, how can I not love a cigar named "Ave Maria"?

All kidding aside, I wanted to light it up right away.  I probably could have, as Anthony made sure it arrived in perfect condition.  I let it sit in the humidor for a day to make sure I would get all the flavor from it, and after dinner decided it was time to light it up.

First observation - make sure you have time.  This cigar is 7.5 inches long with a ring gauge of 54.  The website says it's an hour and a half smoke.  My smoke tonight lasted two and a half hours, and I could have milked it for a bit more if I wanted to.  Bring a book.  And the adult beverage of your choice.  This is a cigar meant for a good, long, relaxing smoke.  If you lit this bad boy at the beginning of a football game you'd still be smoking it well into the third quarter if not longer.  

Once I unwrapped it I gave it a good sniff.  Sweet tobacco aroma.  Clipped the end, gave it a test puff and the draw was perfect.  It's a well crafted cigar.  As I was toasting the foot, I caught my first whiff of the smoke.  You know that smell you get when you first walk into a top-end cigar lounge?  That smell that says you're in a store dedicated to the best smokes that cigar makers can put out?  The smell that makes you just want to stand in the entrance and inhale the air?  Yeah.  That was the smell I got.  This is how a cigar should smell.  I think I actually said that aloud.

The first part of the cigar is straight tobacco flavor with a hint of cream.  The description of the cigar is medium-full, but I found the start of the cigar to be almost mild/medium.  About a quarter of the way through, you started to get hints of toast and coffee that slowly built in strength.  The strength kept building, and a third of the way through the cigar had attained its medium-full potential, with notes of spice starting to pick up.  It was an outstanding way to start a cigar of this size.  It doesn't show up and kick over your palate, it lets you get warmed up before it flexes its muscles.

About halfway through, the spice became more pronounced, and the cream notes faded.  The toast and coffee flavors held steady.  Two-thirds of the way through, the spice and tobacco flavors were hitting the "full" description, and remained there until the finish.

I normally don't go into that kind of depth - quarter, third, etc.  But this cigar lasted so long with the flavor profile changing accordingly that I felt it was worth remarking on.

The ash held for over an inch at the start.  I eventually knocked the ash off before it could fall, and it was firm.  I never had any ash fall off for the entire smoke.  It burned even all the way to the finish, with no canoeing or hot spots.  The draw held steady from start to finish.  The construction on this cigar was superb.

My bottom line:  This cigar is frigging awesome.  I wanted to come up with some sort of flowery description about how much I enjoyed it and all of that pleasant verbiage, but what it comes down to is that this is just a great smoke.  When you buy the box the price per cigar is $7.95.  I've paid $15 for a cigar that wasn't even close to as good as this Ave Maria was.  After I smoked it, I went to the website so I could put the hyperlink into this post and was astonished at how little it cost.  This is a top-notch cigar.

Once again, I'd like to thank Anthony from CigarsCity.com for allowing me to review these cigars.  You can find their link under the "Be A Man" sidebar, or just use the link in this post to get to the Ave Maria line.  Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

Went to dinner tonight

At a sushi place the wife likes.  They had two TVs going - one had golf, the other had a rugby match - Glascow vs. Ulster.

I pointed out the rugby match to the Mrs.  I don't know the rules, but it's always fun to watch.  The Mrs. looked over her shoulder (the TV was behind her), watched ten seconds of the game, and then came around to my side of the table so she could watch while she ate.

She's now hooked on rugby now.  I need to find a game or two around here so I can take her.

Got a new computer

Kicking the wheels, testing the acceleration, you know the drill.  The old one is stuttering so hard right now that I can't even back up files to my portable hard drive.  I may end up transferring files via a thumb drive.

Sorry 'bout the lack of posting.  Kinda been busy.

Ramadi falls

I haven't written anything about Ramadi falling to ISIS.    There's lots of folks out there writing better articles about it than I can.  I'm sure you can find more.

So here's the statement I have to make about it - Let's take two presumptions:

1 - Obama is so incompetent that his foreign policy has been a disaster to the extent that the world will never recover from the damage.

2 - Obama is working for America's enemies to damage America in ways that cannot be repaired.

How could you tell these two presumptions apart?  Because that's the scenario we're faced with right now.

Paid to protest

Is there any Leftist activity in this country that isn't organized to further disrupt the rest of us?
Doubtful.

The Ferguson protesters were getting paid to protest.  Which means that they had to be organized enough to know WHO the professional protesters were, and how to conduct their protesting business.

Behold, the Progressives.

The Answer is "Yes"

To this question:

One by one, the great institutions that gave meaning to Western civilization have fallen to their infection.  Our schools teach their false history, our universities enforce their fascist speech codes, our media coddle their thuggish political hacks, our military is seconded to serve their social rather than our national security agenda, courts are enjoined to consider “just outcomes” rather than due process,” and now even the elected president of the United States questions the logic of the First Amendment, the guarantee of free speech. 

Can they possibly have now also captured the Church of Rome?

First, they captured the Catholic Church decades ago, with enough force to bring about the Second Vatican Counsel.  The changes wrought to the Mass were enough to twist it away from what it should be, and towards what the Marxists want it to be - completely removed from the spirituality of the church.

Second, for decades the Church has happily handed over it's responsibilities to the governments whenever it could:  Feeding the poor, sheltering the homeless, helping the suffering.  It was just so much EASIER to let the government take over, don't you know, until Catholic charities are but a shadow of their former selves.  Still potent, still able to function to some degree, but still a shadow of their former selves.  This is a direct result of the Marxists inserting themselves into Church leadership and allowing their political ideologies to direct the Church's actions.

Third, they have allowed all the modern Marxist heresies to permeate the Church's branches to the point where a Catholic priest tweets out support of same-sex marriage, and when he gets fired for it, other Catholics react in shock.  Have they not even bothered to learn their own Church's teachings?  Why don't they start with the Sacrament of Marriage?

Once again, and I hate to sound like I'm beating out the same beat on the same drum over and over, if you are Catholic, you owe it to yourself to find a Latin Mass somewhere close to where you are, and start attending it.  Come see the Church as it should be.

And the Ragin' Mrs. puts it well:

Now we know the Border Patrol is pretty much Obama's special army.

So, to whit:

An American Citizen driving from one point in America to another point in American is detained by the Border Patrol for "acting nervous".

She's not under arrest.  She hasn't done anything wrong.  But she's told she cannot have her car until a K9 unit arrives.  And when she argues with them, they tackle her and taze her.

This happened.  In America.

Tar.  Feathers.

And this is how America dies

Stupid people voting for a well-known name that's pushed by the media.

Ten bucks says that most Hillary supporters don't even know who Chris Stevens was.

Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty wouldn't even make their mental needle move a tic.

A second cigar review

So, back when CigarCity.com sent me some cigars to review, they sent me two of the Rocky Patel Vintage 1992.  In my first review of this cigar, I noted a strong pepper flavor, and the fact that it died out probably an inch from the nub before I was ready to stub it out.  After smoking the first cigar, I decided to let the second cigar sit in my humidor and get happy for a while.  I figured that maybe the trip had made the smoke perhaps a bit harsh, and I didn't get the full flavor and experience of the cigar.

I lit the second cigar up last night.  My original review still holds true:  Sweet tobacco flavor, with spice and pepper building up.  But after allowing it to rest in a humidor for a bit, the sweetness of the tobacco holds constant throughout the smoke, even with the building pepper notes.  And this stick burned all the way down to my finger-tips.  I only stubbed it out once it was no longer safe to hold.

For you non-cigar smokers out there, or for the newer cigar folks, I have to point out that Anthony from CigarCity.com did everything he could to get these cigars to me in good condition.  They came in the mail faster than any other cigar shops I've dealt with, and they had a humidification pack in the bag with the cigars to make sure they didn't dry out.  But I live in the desert.  Yes, LA is a desert, and it affects anything that you mail here.  These conditions affect a cigar in transit.  Giving it a rest in a humidor improved the smoke considerably, and moved it up in my rankings.  It is still a stronger cigar, especially towards the end.

I just wanted out point that out - my first review wasn't exactly a glowing review, but allowing the cigar to sit for a while improved it considerably.  This is a cigar I would actively look for in a shop's humidor.

Aroma

With all the rain that's fallen, there's new scents no matter where you go.

In my front yard, it's the smell of dry earth sucking up the water, and plants growing as fast as they can with the rain.

On the running path it's a clean scent of vegetation.

Around the trails in the park, it's the smell of all the piss and shit from the hobos and drug addicts all getting re-hydrated at once.

Seriously folks, I cannot for one moment think of why anyone would ever want to live in this city of their own choice.  I really can't.  What's so desirable here?  The pollution?  The greedy, selfish assholes who populate the place?  The illegal aliens?  The earthquakes?

Rain! Lightning! Thunder!

In Los Angeles!

Yes, I'm sitting outside smoking right now.  Why do you ask?

If you are Catholic

Then you need to distance yourself from this heretic who calls himself the Pope.

Find a traditional Latin Mass (which Francis is opposed to, by the way).  There's a Latin Mass directory here.  This is the Mass that the Catholic church offered up until the schism known as "Vatican Two", which removed the spirituality from the Mass and turned it into nothing but performance art, created by people who hated the Church.

Satan couldn't defeat the church from the outside, so he attacked it from the inside.  Vatican Two is the result.  And if you are Catholic and you think I'm nuts for saying that, let me ask you something personal:

How often do you pray the Rosary?

When did you last read the Catechism of the church?

Do you know where the Tabernacle of your church is?  Do you understand why it's considered important?

Trust me on this.  As a man raised up under the Second Vatican council who then discovered the Latin Mass (aka the Tridentine Rite), the Vatican Two mass bears little resemblance to what it's supposed to be, and even worse, the people going to the mass don't even understand the wheres and whys of what the Mass is supposed to be, and why it's so important.

The largest religious denomination in America is ex-Catholics.  And Vatican Two is a huge reason for that.  If you'd like to go to a Catholic Mass where people actually believe in God, find Latin Mass.

And whatever you do, don't be fooled by Pope Frank.  He's the end result of decades of anti-Catholic teaching, culminating in the enemy of the Church being placed in charge of the Church.  Kind of like the anti-American communist Obama being voted in as President of the country he hates, loathes, and wishes to destroy.

Computer is having issues

It's old, it's cranky (like me!), and it might finally be seeing the end of it's days.

Then again, maybe it's just the new version of Safari that was "upgraded" a few days ago.

You morons

You absolute fucking morons....



Here's what happened, even though nobody wants to say it, and I'll bet a paycheck on this - the bear and her cubs were in the middle of the bridge, going one way or another, and a bunch of brain-dead, fucktard, city-slicker, "oh hey look, Jesus freaks!", know-nothing fucking dipshits decided that they were going to get "close enough" to get a picture.

Do you know what you do when you see a mother bear with cubs?  You leave.  You leave quickly.  You do NOT go near it to get a photo.  You are dealing with an apex predator who sees you either as lunch or a threat.  Either way, it's not going to go well for you when five-hundred pounds of pissed off teeth and claws rips you in half.

Just leave them alone, you city-dwelling fucktards.  And leave your money at the gate.

R.S. McCain has been researching the crazy

That is modern feminism.  And when I say "The Crazy", I'm talking absolute, bug-fucking, coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs, batshit insane.

To translate this to plain English, if you are a normal (feminine) woman who feels normal (heterosexual) attraction toward normal (masculine) men, this means that you have been brainwashed by society into accepting your own oppression under the system of male supremacy. Feminists believe that heterosexuality is imposed on women by the patriarchy — women are “coerced into heterosexuality,” as Professor Marilyn Frye explained — and feminine behavior is simply the performance of inferiority. Gender “glamorizes the subordinate status of females” and creates an artificial appearance of male-female difference in order “to clearly mark the subordinate class [i.e., females] from the privileged class [i.e., males].”Thus, there are no natural differences between male and female, according to feminist theory, only the oppressive hierarchy of “gender” by which society enforces male supremacy.

And I guarantee that as Marxists, all of these people are also huge into Glow-bull Worming, which means that they call anyone who doesn't buy into the Church of Pope Prius the 1st (algore) a "science denier".

There's a reason I refuse to associate with modern "feminists".  I cannot tolerate this kind of stupidity, or for that matter, the sheer hatred of one half of humanity that feminism espouses.

Pictures, or not

I'd show you all a photo of me after the Mud Run, but you wouldn't be able to tell who I was in any case.

I was scrubbing mud out of my eyebrows by the time it was over.

Going running this morning.

Doing a Mud Run.  5k, with 25 obstacles.  Ought to be fun.

Don't know how I'll look at the end of it.  The Ragin' Mrs. is taking pictures.

Oink.

Whittle

Says it better.

ISIS says they have 71 Soldiers here in the states

71 whole Islamonazis.  

Well, that'll use up some of my 30-06 ammo a bit.  I suppose if they're spaced out far enough apart, I can probably work in some of my 7.62x54R as well.  The Mosin hasn't shot a tyrannical bastard in decades.  It'll be happy to get back to work.

Seriously, these splody-dopes had better chose some Gun-Fearing-Wussy state to attack.  They try this in any state that has a decent gun culture, they won't make it past "ALLAHU ACK-"

BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!

"Well hell, Bob!  These hollowpoints really DO make a difference in force delivery!"

Oh, and they might want to avoid a large-scale attack in any state where the hunters outnumber the non-hunters.  Just sayin'.

To every person who criticized Pam Gellar

For having the temerity to act like an American in America...

Fuck you.  Fuck you with a fence-post wrapped in barbed wire.

Pamela Geller exposed Islam for what it is.  And at the same time, she exposed modern-day American Leftists, and even quite a few people on the Right, for what they are.  Pasty, mealy-mouthed, gutless, spineless worms who would rather live on their knees than possibly die on their feet.

Let's be blunt here, shall we?  If you cannot defend the 1st Amendment right of free speech without adding a "but" to your argument, you're pathetic.  You're worthless.  And when you show a total lack of willingness to defend one amendment, you can't be counted on to defend any of the others when it counts.

Free speech means FREE SPEECH.  If you add a "but" to that, screw you.

Does that mean the Islamonazis can run around screaming about how they should institute sharia law?  Sure.  Let them.  But I will be standing in front of them screaming about how their pedophile prophet is a child-buggering, boy sodomizing, moon-god worshiping bastard who only deserves to have his grave pissed on.

And when they try to kill me to stop me from speaking, I'll put a bullet in their brain.  Because THAT is what you do to people who try to take away your rights.  THAT is something that the all of the Left and part of the Right need to remember.

Keep this in mind

Whenever you hear someone talking about banning "Hate Speech", what they want is the power to ban speech they don't like.

Which means that if they suddenly decide that what you're saying is disagreeable, it's "hate speech", and they will punish you for it.

UPDATE:  It appears that the column is satire.  Sad part is, with the way the Left is going these days, you really can't tell without looking deep into what she's saying.

Random thoughts

To all the "modern" women out there worried about body image and all that.

Rhonda Rousey does not have a thigh gap.

Rhonda Rousey is hot as hell.

Act accordingly.

Oh, and by the way

I didn't watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.  And after reading the reviews, I'm soooooo happy I didn't even bother going to the cigar shop to watch it.  I'm not one of those chumps.

Floyd Mayweather is a loud-mouthed bitch who's made millions off of fighting people who aren't in his class.  Which is why this fight happened now, and not six years ago when Pacquiao would have beaten his ass like a drum.

For all of Mayweather's talk, he's not even half as good as he thinks he is.  Rhonda Rousey would beat his ass.  Connor McGregor would beat his ass.  I'd put up against a tiny little thing like Paige van Zant, and she would beat his ass, because in the end he's not very good, and he's proven that he's not very good by avoiding every single fighter in his prime, and choosing to fight against newbies or people past their prime.  Mayweather can only be defined by the fights which he has fled from, which are legion, and spell his weakness and status as a gutless little bitch for history to view.

And you know what?  Mayweather would never agree to fight van Zant, because he's a gutless little bitch and he knows he'd get his ass beat by a girl.

Oh, and Pacquiao fighting with a torn labrum?  That's a shit move.  But if he didn't fight he didn't get his payday, because Mayweather would have never agreed to fight a healthy Pacquiao.  Because Mayweather is a gutless fucking bitch.  Hell, I'm not even a boxer, and I'd lay even money on me beating his ass like a drum.

Also, nobody would shell out $90 to watch Pacquiao fight with an injury.  And he knew it.  So he kept it quiet, so fuck him too.

This "Fight of the Century" just helped elevate MMA as the dominant spectacle to watch.  I'll never pay money to watch boxing.  Had Mayweather-Pacquiao been good, I would have gone back.  I would have bought in.  But this proves what I've been thinking for a while:  Boxing is dead.  It's all bullshit and crap and Don King's hair.  Don't waste your time on it, unless you happen to like watching 135 pound Mexicans pop each other.  And there's nothing wrong with that.  But if you want to watch actual fighting, pick up the UFC or Strikeforce, and watch some actual fighting, not a skinny black man running away from a Filipino and then hugging him when he got too close.

Muah-ha-ha!

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

And I don't care!

Nothing says "Los Angeles"

like having some diseased parasite paw through your car at the park while you're out running the dogs.

Med kit was still there.  I don't carry any actual CD's in the car.  No electronics, because quite honestly I don't have any that I use in the car.  But my sweatshirt was moved around, and they had tried to get into the locked glove box.

I hate this fucking city.  And I hate it because of the people who inhabit it.

And today is just another work day

One of the things I hate most about USAREC is the fact that the people up top seem to always think in short term.  Oh sure, they plan things out for twenty years, but they have an OER coming up and they want to look good RIGHT NOW.

So they do whatever it takes to get that good OER.  Like telling their teams "You're going to work Saturdays to make mission."

Forget the fact that my team IS making mission.  Forget the fact that my team has made mission every year I've been here.  Forget the fact that my team has been THE TOP TEAM every year I've been here.  Somewhere, some other team hasn't made mission, and that might effect that officer's OER, so it's off to work Saturdays.

It is pathetic.  It is a short-sighted, abusive way to run a unit.  It is saying "We will beat up every team we have, and flog the really good teams to produce more, rather than fixing the actual problems, because it's easier to beat on the good teams than fix the bad ones."

Fixing the bad teams takes effort, don't you know.  Fixing the bad teams might mean looking at the systems and processes they use and saying "This is broken."  You never admit anything is broken.  You just ride your good teams into the ground until they can't function any more, and then you beat them even harder to keep going because that's just the easy route to success!

I can't wait to leave.

Another Bill Whittle video

Happy Stinking Commie Day!

Or "May Day", if you're a pinko commie tool.

I'm only half-joking about that.

Dear People of Los Angeles

I know that you are some of the laziest sacks of shit to ever befoul this country.  But shoving a shopping cart into a curb, when the cart corral is TWENTY FEET BEHIND YOU???

My disgust of this place grows on a daily basis.

It's come to this

Apparently, telling black people to mind the constitution is racist.

Dear black people -

Wait, let me rephrase that, because that's not fair.  I know far too many people with darker skin than I who are busting their butts right along side me day after day.  And I don't want to include them in that statement.

Dear Leftists -

If you decide that you don't want to follow the Constitution, also known as the LAW OF THE LAND, then I might decide that I don't want to follow it either.

You throw rocks and demand that the State commit violence on your behalf.

As of right now, I am part of the violence committing state, and guess just now much violence I'm going to commit for a pinko commie shitbag?  And now guess how much violence I'm going to commit against a pinko commie shitbag who tells me to attack the people who do follow the Constitution?

Although I suppose I shouldn't be shocked that this article is out there, openly advocating for violence and trashing of the Constitution.  After all, these are the people who have build a cult around Barack Obama that no truth, no reality can penetrate.  Obama could be caught in bed with a live boy AND a dead girl, and his cult would claim that anyone who objected to that is racist.

Keep your powder dry, folks.

Why I keep odd tools

So I had purchased a bicycle trailer, and it showed up today.  Needed assembly, of course.  I put it together, and pump up the tires to the recommended psi.

Problem - right tire is leaking air from the valve.  First thought through my mind is that I have a defective tube/valve in the tire.

Next thought through my mind:  "Huh.  I wonder if it's just the valve stem that's loose?  Did I keep the valve stem tool?"

Yes I did indeed keep the valve stem tool.  And yes indeed it was just a loose valve stem.  A couple of turns to the right, and it stopped leaking air.

And that's why I keep that tool.  Well, that, and the one I have stashed in my car so that I can remove the valve stems of the various assholes who park like they own the entire parking lot.

Headache

My wife is allergic to marijuana.

The smoke, in particular.  It triggers her migraine headaches.  It's just one thing in a long list of things that are triggers for her.  Most of what she's allergic to is food based, so it's easy enough to avoid.  Read labels.  Make sure food doesn't have certain ingredients in it.  So on and so forth.

But when you're out on a bike ride in the morning, and every bus-stop has some dipshit smoking weed like his life depended on it?  She got caught with a big blast of smoke towards the end of the ride, and by the time she got home five minutes later the visual symptoms were already hitting her.  By the time I left for work, she was curled up on the couch with the curtains drawn.

I can't beat the shit out of every loser who's doping up at a bus stop.  There's too many of them.  I wouldn't make it two blocks before I had to beat another loser half to death.

We have to plan our bike trips based on what streets have the most pot smokers, and try to avoid them.  But we can't even go on a bike path without plowing through a cloud of marijuana smoke that some no-life shitbag is blowing out as he gets high at 0630.

This city is a fucking cesspool, and once I escape I am never coming back.  It can fall off into the Pacific Ocean for all I care.  I wouldn't cry one tear for it.

Baltimore is burning

And I'm finding it hard to care.

Seriously - there comes a time where putting forth the effort to give a shit just doesn't seem worth it.  Do I pity the innocent folks there?  Yep, I do.  But given that Baltimore is the product of decades of Democrat/Proggie/Liberal polices that have been voted on over and over by the people who live there, I'm really just shrugging my shoulders and telling myself "Let it burn".

Why try to help them?  That's like putting a band-aide on a gangrenous foot.  It does no good, and ignoring the larger problem means you'll have to cut off the entire leg later, rather than the foot right now.

And let's face it - I can't do a damn thing for that city, and even if I could I would be called a racist and attacked by the people doing the rioting.

So sorry, my give-a-damn's busted.  Let it burn.  And then don't rebuild.  Just walk away, and leave them there in the ashes of their own hatred.

Russia hacked Obama's emails

On one hand, this kind of thing worries me.

On the other hand, it's not like that narcissistic, incompetent buffoon actually does any work.  What the the Ruskies find, anyway?  His tee time?  Pornographic love letters from MSNBC?

Hey, Cletus

I'd always heard the name Cletus as a red-necked yokel.  A fixture on the Simpsons TV show.  A generic name for any yahoo who screws up with a firearm.

Turns out, that name has a much more storied past.  The third pope.  Ever.

Today is his feast day, just so ya know.  Apparently the Romans didn't like that whole "Christian" thing and cut off his head.

That kind of ties in with how Christians are treated in the Middle East today, doesn't it?

New Link

Up in the Be A Man area - Famous Smoke cigars.  I'd purchased from them previously, and a gent from their site asked if I could put up a link.  So I did.  They've got everything from the big-brand cigars to clearance cigars, to machine rolled smokes like Djarum and Backwoods.

One of the things that I like like about this site is not only do they have the names of the cigars listed, but they also have pictures of the cigar band.  So if you're not quite sure about what the name was, you can still identify it by sight.  When I ordered from them, the cigars came in good time and were in great shape.  Prices were right on line with the norm, or a bit better depending on what you were buying.

Give 'em a look!

Sirens

Some dude apparently was waving a gun at people in the Van Nuys area.

Driving home, I saw at least four different SWAT trucks hauling ass to the location.  There's been police copters hovering in the same area for hours.

See, this is why L.A. sucks.  Back in Idaho, that bastard would have been shot by a neighbor, tossed out on the front lawn, and all the cops would have to do is pick up the body.

Lot less noise that way for everyone else.

Oh, and since we're on a "Fuck Los Angeles" kick, the worthless fucking shithead who put a ding in my wife's door up at Porter Ranch?  Fuck you, you selfish, self-absorbed asshole.  You had better thank whatever gods you believe in that I wasn't there to see it, otherwise you'd be shitting your own teeth right now.

I truly do loath this city.  And most of the people in it.

The Evil League of Evil

Is actually a thing, if you're into reading SciFi and Fiction.  Larry Correia is the Lord of Hate, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.  Vox Day is something-else-or-something-other.  Forgive me if I haven't kept up on it.

What kicked over my giggle box was this.

I might just have to put that on a shirt.  As the creator says:  "I don't care"

And c'mon, the blog is named "Pan Galactic Blogger Blaster"!  Anyone catch the reference?

The nice thing about the Hugo kerfluffle

Is that by watching all the Leftists freak out and break shit, they self-identify as people who's work I will not buy.

I'm not supporting my enemies with my money, and they have literally come out and told me what they think of me, and of people like me.  That makes it pretty easy to cross them off my list.

The older I get

The more I dislike the modern stick-figure parody of beauty that marches across my screen.  I want to see a real woman, dang it, not some thing that looks like a strung-out coke whore.

And for that matter, I don't care how good your plastic surgeon is.  Fake tits are a turn-off.  Period.  Real A cups beat fake C cups every day of the week.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, The Colonel Speaks edition

On why Conservatives will out-breed liberals every day of the week, and twice on Sundays:

And as far as liberal men go, well, just look at them.  It’s hard muster raw sexual energy when you think foreplay consists of sobbing to your life partner about how you can’t bear the weight of your undeserved phallocentic privilege.

It made me go "Heh!"

Went for a ride yesterday

The Mrs. and I felt like we could use some exercise, so off we went.  We had a few errands to run anyways.

Riding down the bike path, I noticed fresh concrete at every lamp-post on this particular segment of trail.  Someone had done repairs.  And in every single patch of concrete, some Mexican gang-banger had scratched his tag.

The concrete was still a bit fresh.  So I rode back and rubbed every single tag away with the toe of my shoe.

Granted, it didn't leave the concrete looking as good as it was before that little gang-banger had vandalized it, but at least I won't have to see his tag every time I ride down that stretch of trail.

I did leave one tag - it read "Lily and Daddy 2015"  I figured I could live with that being permanent.

Calgary Expo kicked out a women's group

Because these women prefer to NOT be victims, or part of the victim mentality that SJW's demand all women partake in.  But the Leftists lied (as usual) and claimed that they were "harassed" by the Honey Badger Brigade, and so the HBB were shown the door.  Under rather secretive circumstances.



So someone took the CalExpo logo girl, and made it into a poster that better represents CalExpo.

Made a poster for #CalgaryExpo, less offensive than a #GamerGate logo and closer to their ideals. pic.twitter.com/OyZY56I9DX
— Alejandro Argandona (@Toshi_TNE) April 19, 2015

This is why you never, ever, EVER trust the Left.  This is why you never, ever EVER give ground to them.  They are liars, bullies, thugs.  They are the back-stabbers, the Wormtongues, the parasites who destroy from the inside.

A woman's group was kicked out of a comicbook expo because they weren't victims enough to make the Left happy.  Think about that.

Kill the F-35, keep the A-10, bring back the F-22

And find the worthless bastards who OK'd this crap, cover them with tar and feathers, and run them out of town on a rail.

Additionally, the first F-35s are still plagued with communications deficiencies. First, the aircraft has a difficult time distinguishing friendly forces from hostile ones, and second, it can’t verify the GPS ground coordinates. 

Tests indicate that 80 percent of the F-35’s information system alerts constitute false positives. The first F-35s ready to deploy in July, according to the Marine Corps, cannot use night vision technology.

So this MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR AIRCRAFT cannot do the things that an aircraft built in 1975 can?

Nope, nope, nope.  This is such an epic failure that people need to be jailed.

That blithering, hypocritical moron from MSNBC

Wow, is that a triple redundancy or a quadruple redundancy?

Anyways, that blithering, hypocritical moron from MSNBC, Melissa Harris Perry, has a problem both with tax cuts and with paying her taxes.

According to The Winston-Salem Journal, Wake Forest University professor and MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry and her husband James Perry owe the Internal Revenue Service $70,000 in delinquent taxes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please take a look at what an E-7 in the military makes.  It's less than what this blithering, hypocritical moron from MSNBC owes in taxes.

The bottom line is that as with all ProgNazis, they never, ever EVER mean for the rules they impose upon YOU to actually effect THEM as well.  Rules and taxes are for the little people.

Sure, let's set this precident

Elizabeth Price Foley, blogging over at Instapundit, has a post up about how the Democrat American Communist Party wants to ignore the rule of law when it suits them.

We already know the Left hates the rule of Law and loves the rule of Man.  Their blind, slavish devotion to Obama and Hillary are proof enough of that.  But if they really want to push the issue, and we don't have anyone with balls enough on our side to actually, y'know, STOP THEM, then fuck it.  Let's ride this bomb all the way to the end point, shall we?  Because the next time a Republican gets into office, let's ignore...

The IRS.

The EPA.

The INS.  As a matter of fact, let's do away with the INS, and just offer hunting permits along the Southern border.

The Department of Education Indoctrination.

And every other alphabet organization in D.C. run by un-elected faceless bureaucrats who make our lives a living hell more and more each day.

Sound like a plan?

Or, we can finally punish those law-breaking fuckwits of the Left, get back to the rule of law, and have everyone playing on an even field.  Right?  Right?  HA!  I slay me.

Yeah, I know

Nothing new.  So yank my paycheck.  I was out of the house damn early, and back damn late.

I'm willing to bet there's more

NY Post has a breakdown of "every" scandal swirling around Hillary.

These are the Clintons, folks.  Dirty, filthy Clintons.  I'd bet my next paycheck there are a hell of a lot more scandals swirling around Hillary than the NY Post can find.  Lots more.

The Bishop brought this up at Mass yesterday

The Armenian Genocide.  And how Turkey denies it ever happened.

Back when DANEgerus was blogging here, he put up a post about the genocide.  It's still one of the most searched for posts, seven years later.

Christians have been martyred for their faith ever since Christ walked the earth.  The Copts in Egypt and the Catholics in Iraq today are suffering the same fate as the Armenians did 100 years ago.

It doesn't make it any less evil.

So Hillary makes it official

Like we didn't know for years that this was coming.

Hillary is a power-hungry tyrant who will let nothing get in the way of her quest for ultimate control. Not morals, not the truth, not other people's lives, nothing.  She will destroy anything and everything that gets in her way.  Or at least, she'll try to do so.

But the problem with being an unethical parasitic piece of shit for decades upon decades is that those who don't drink the Democrat Kool-Aide have decades of misbehavior and deviant action to point at and say "Um, I don't want you in charge of the PTA, much less the Oval Office."

However, watching her attack other Democrat American Communist Party Members is going to be fun.

Slept in today

My body told me "Fuck you, I'm sleep deprived, and you're going down for a good long time."

So I slept for about 12 hours.  Feel much better.  It's amazing what you can do when you're not constantly dozing off.

Went for a walk to the store instead of driving, for instance.  Nice.  It's still in LA, and we had to dodge the bums and their piss-soaked areas, and the gang graffiti, and the crazy drivers.  But still, it was nice.  Especially since it's not hotter than Satan's jockstrap here yet.

Yeah, I know...

Blogging has sucked lately.  I've been damn busy, folks.  And the few scraps of time I have where I'm not doing something, I've just wanted to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me.

Sorry.

I would like to thank

All the women who continue to wear skin tight yoga pants while traveling via airplane, for keeping me entertained through multiple airports by showing me all the same views they wouldn't dare show people back home.

Seriously, folks.  I can check out your pubic hair style.

I especially want to thank the woman wearing white spandex in the San Francisco airport who gave me a perfect shot of her vulva as she was going down the escalator while I was going up.  Nothing makes a traveling man happier than viewing labia.

So the Hugo Nominations are out

And the predictable crowd is predictably losing their collective shit.  A few recaps here and here.  But those are by no means the only shit being lost by the Leftists who until this year had a death grip on the Hugos and were strangling the life out of them.

I long since stopped using the Hugo Award as a reason to buy a book.  In fact, I would consciously avoid books with the Hugo, because by and large they just weren't very good.  It wasn't until I started reading the blogs of other writers that I found out why - they had been taken over by the gatekeepers of the Left, and like all things Leftist controlled, had been put to task pushing their message rather than their primary function, which was rewarding the best writers.

Leftist agitprop disguised as Science Fiction isn't very good.  It never will be.

So I'm quite pleased to see the writers that are on this year's ballot.  While I've already purchased many of the books that were nominated, if one of them I don't own wins the Hugo I may actually purchase another Hugo Award-winning book again!

Easter

He is Risen.