The Drugging of the American Boy

You want to talk about a rise in shootings?

"We are pathologizing boyhood," says Ned Hallo-well, a psychiatrist who has been diagnosed with ADHD himself and has cowritten two books about it, Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction. "God bless the women's movement—we needed it—but what's happened is, particularly in schools where most of the teachers are women, there's been a general girlification of elementary school, where any kind of disruptive behavior is sinful. What I call the 'moral diagnosis' gets made: You're bad. Now go get a doctor and get on medication so you'll be good. And that's a real perversion of what ought to happen. Most boys are naturally more restless than most girls, and I would say that's good. But schools want these little goody-goodies who sit still and do what they're told—these robots—and that's just not who boys are."

You don't say?

48% OF SUBJECTS OF ONE STUDY WHO TOOK ADHD MEDICATIONS EXPERIENCED SIDE EFFECTS LIKE SLEEP PROBLEMS AND "MOOD DISTURBANCES." IN ANOTHER, 6% OF CHILDREN SUFFERED PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS, INCLUDING THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE. 

Source: Psychiatry, April 2010; The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, October 1999.

Years ago, my step-son was diagnosed with a "learning disability".  He couldn't read.  The teachers said he was "slow".  This kid was one of the smartest boys I knew and yet he couldn't read.  So the Mrs. started reading to him at night.  Not any of the boring bullshit forced down kids throats these days, but Harry Potter. 

By the time we got to book two, he was reading on his own.  He had no problem reading.  He had no problem learning.  He was BORED STIFF IN SCHOOL.

One man believes that drugging children's brains is too risky. That until we get a lot closer to achieving a foolproof diagnosis for ADHD, we need to think twice about giving a single pill to a single child. He believes that what is called attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder might in fact be a boy's greatest gift, the gift of energy. And that the best way to treat it is to first teach the boy to control the energy all by himself, because by learning to control it all by himself, a boy can channel that energy to help him succeed. That the responsible thing to do is first to see if there is some problem with the boy's heart—not with the way it pumps blood, but with its ability to show and accept love. The man's name is Howard Glasser, and he is one of those countercultural clinicians who, as American society has become inured to giving psychotropic drugs to kids, has built a practice predicated on opposing the very idea. 

If he were a child today, Glasser would be given a prescription for a stimulant in about five minutes. Little Howie was a wired kid. Obstreperous. But good. A good kid. And when he grew up and became a family therapist—he has applied to earn his doctorate in education from Harvard starting this fall—he created a way of dealing with wired, obstreperous, uncontrollable kids who are, beneath all that, good. And he believes all of them are good. 

He calls the method the Nurtured Heart Approach, and it seems simple on the surface: You nurture the child's heart. If a child is hyperactive and defiant and has trouble listening and concentrating, Glasser feels it is our responsibility as a society—as grown-ups—to do everything we can for a child's heart before we start adding chemicals to his brain, because what if his brain is fine? What if the diagnosis isn't right? And even if it is, what if something else works?

If ADHD had been a thing when I was growing up, I'd be doped up to the gills by the school system to ensure that I would be a "good boy".  I hated school.  Never paid attention, other than in my various music classes.  Tore-assed through the countryside of North Idaho whenever I could.  I guarantee that if my teachers could have doped me up on some ADHD drug, they'd have done so in a red-hot minute.  Thank God that didn't happen.  But it's happening to boys all over this country.  And it's a load of horse shit.  You want to talk school shootings?  What in the hell do you think is going to happen when you're doping boys up with Schedule II drugs from the time they enter the school system to the time they leave it?  What in the HELL do you think is going to happen when you have a kid on drugs that affect dopamine for over a decade, and then turn them loose?

I'm of the opinion that the biggest problem kids have these days is the public school system.  The one-size-fits-all, mediocrity-shall-be-enforced, publik skool sistim that has ruined learning for generations of children in this country.  And I'm willing to bet that if we stopped shoving our kids into this meat grinder of misery, we might be able to treat a huge number of ADHD cases without drugs.

But what do I know.  I'm just a guy who hates sitting still.

Dear Never Trumpers

If you can't come around now, and accept the fact that Donald Trump has actually be a damn good president so far...  well, then you should just join the Democrats and stop pretending.

Thomas Binion, director of congressional and executive branch relations at Heritage, said that Trump has implemented 64 percent of the “unique policy recommendations” from the group. 

At this stage of his presidency, Reagan had completed 49 percent of the Heritage policy recommendations. 

“We’re blown away,” Binion said in an interview. Trump, he said, “is very active, very conservative, and very effective.” 

What’s more, he said, Trump hasn’t just focused on one agenda area, but he and his team has pushed through administrative moves on foreign policy, deregulation, immigration, tax reform and health care, moves often ignored by the media. 

“It is a huge volume that his administration has worked on and it is a huge spectrum of issues,” said Binion.

First and foremost, Hillary Clinton is not, nor will she ever be, President.  Huge win.  Massive win for the country and for people who love freedom.

Second - Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch.  A home-run, that will pay dividends for decades.

Those two things were worth electing Trump.  Now add in the huge (sorry, YUUUUUUUUUUGE) list of accomplishments that would never, ever have happened with the GOPe choices of Jeb, or Kasich, or Christie.  Trump got it done.

All the never-Trumpers currently falling onto their fainting couches are either two stupid and ignorant to understand that, or they were lying about their conservative principals from the word "Go".  Either option is plausible.

People have observed Sheriff Israel, the Coward of Broward County

And found him lacking.  Here's what another Sheriff has put out in response to the complete and total clusterfuck in Broward County:

“We do not stage and wait for SWAT, we do not take cover in a parking lot, and we do not wait for another agency,” Sheriff Tracy Murphree wrote. “We go in and do our duty. We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives.” 

“If for any reason you cannot follow this directive, please inform your supervisor and we will work to get you re-assigned,”

Apparently, The Denton County Sheriff wanted to make sure that his deputies didn't get any ideas following the Coward of Broward County's debacle.  And maybe, just maybe, he wanted to make a point that the Sheriff of a county is supposed to take responsibility for their actions, not run and hide and blame the NRA, gun-owning moms, law-abiding citizens and small dogs.

Partnerships only work if everybody pulls together

And in the same direction.

So the Germans have 95 operable tanks at any given time and less than 200 working Armored Personnel Carriers. Their Air Force is in serious trouble. They have roughly forty operable fighter jets, a good portion of which are already committed to operations around Turkey and Syria. 

And then there’s the Navy. Shall we talk about the German submarine force? It’s going to be a short discussion. Coming into this winter they had one (!) operable submarine. Sadly, that one grounded on the rocks a few months ago so their total fleet of subs currently stands at… zero. 

How did things get to this point? A recent interview with the German Defense Minister included some choice quotes. One of them was the explanation that Germany hasn’t paid as much attention to the military because “we are surrounded by friends.” The alternate and somewhat more dismal explanation is, “because we just don’t care.”

In my very short time in Kabul, I saw lots of flags at the main airport.  French and Belgium and Australian and Greek and so on and so forth.

Out at Camp Phoenix, it was Armenians and Bulgarians.

Out in FOBs away from the comforts and political safety of the main base in Kabul, it was....  just Americans.

The only real reason we have our NATO allies helping us out in Afghanistan is to use them as a political fig leaf.  "See, what we're doing is right and good and just!  Look at all the people we have helping us!"  Except we don't really have people helping us, do we?  We have "allies" that can't field a force.  We have allies that cannot actually get their troops from one theater to another, and moreover, they do not care that they lack this ability, because the US of A has always been doing the heavy lifting so why should they bother?

I remember when NATO intervened in Kosovo, and the French had to hire civilian ferries to move it's troops because they didn't actually possess the watercraft needed to move troops and supplies up a river.  Or up anywhere.

After the tsunami in Indonesia, it was a US carrier group that every other country in the world used as a floating HQ.  Of course, they all wanted to rub elbows with the political figures that would allow them the most opportunity for graft, because that's what the rest of the world does while America busts its ass trying to fix shit.

If Germany cannot field a military, then they are worthless as a NATO ally.  They should either do their damn job, or we should dump them.

Why nobody trusts the media

Or military "experts".

A)  The fact that this raging douche-nozzle was a Lieutenant General in the US Army explains quite a bit about the problems the Army is currently facing.

B)  The AR-15 was never used by the US military in any capacity.

C)  There is no such thing as "full semi-auto". 

And in my opinion, as well as many other military members, the 5.56mm round is under-powered, weak, ineffective, and pathetic.  There are reasons people have been calling for a bigger round ever since I knew what ballistics were, and that's *mumblemumble* decades now.  The experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have not made those calls any softer.

In short, this general got used by CNN like a condom, and he's worth just about as much as a used prophylactic after everything is said and done.

Immigration and War

A 15 minute lecture on BitChute.  I don't know how to embed the video, or perhaps BitChute doesn't offer that just yet.

Also, BitChute - an alternative to YouTube, and the liberal fascist fuckheads at Google.  Yay!

Sorry for the short posts lately - been busy.

There's a woodsy kind of smell in the air.

Tons of rain the past couple of days.  Tons more coming up.  But today was sunny, and the forests around the house are giving off a delightful aroma.  It's the kind that says "SPRING IS HERE, BITCHES!"

I'm left to wonder what it will smell like in July when Summer is flogging me senseless.  Probably like Satan's jock-strap, or something.

Oh, they better pass this

Maybe if folks from South-eastern Idaho hadn't gotten a little taste of what Islamic boys do, this wouldn't be such an issue.  But they did, so it is.

The Idaho House on Tuesday approved North Idaho Rep. Eric Redman’s anti-Sharia law bill by a nearly two-to-one margin, the furthest Redman has gotten with his proposal in three years of trying. 

Idaho Spokesman The bill, which passed on a 44-24 vote, would declare void any court ruling that relies “in whole or in part on any foreign law” that doesn’t match U.S. or Idaho protections for due process, freedom of religion, speech, press, privacy or marriage. It doesn’t specifically mention Islamic Sharia law, but that’s been the focus of debate over Redman’s proposal.

It's sad that we've gotten to a point where a bill like this is even needed.  But given the Left's desire to embrace enemies of Western Civilization at every opportunity, and make no mistake, Islam is the enemy of Western Civilization, then it behoves those of us who can see a danger coming to ensure we avoid it.

CNN says they didn't give anyone questions for their Town Hall. They lied, as usual.

Found here. 

The plot sickens

So, regarding the school shooting in Parkland, Florida:

The FBI was tipped off about this kid twice, and did nothing.

Local law enforcement agencies had been called to this guy's house 39 times, and did nothing.

And now we're finding out that a Broward County Sheriff's Deputy was actually on site at the time of the shooting, and did nothing.

But they want to blame the NRA.

They want to blame an inanimate object.

I think we all know why.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel should resign immediately, not only for this screw up but for the fact that he KNEW his own deputies had fucked up and he went out on a CNN stage and pushed their bullshit narrative.  It's no wonder the Lefties tried a full court press for gun control the moment the bodies had stopped twitching.  Every day that passes comes more news about people who did not do what they were supposed to do, and these are the people the Left says should be in charge of situations just like this!

CNN pulled a two-minute hate on Dana Loesch for daring to say that private citizens are the only ones who can protect ourselves, and as it turns out, she is 100% correct.  Because the guy who was actually paid to protect those students in the case of an active shooter did NOTHING while kids were getting shot.

CNN gave Parkland shooting survivor scripted questions.

CNN:  All the "news" that's fit to fake.

CNN aired a town hall on the Florida school shooting with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) that included NRA's Dana Loesch and Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel that was moderated by Jake Tapper. Students and parents asked questions about gun control and school safety.

"I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions," Haab said. 

"Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded classmates in the midst of terror says he did not get to share his experience," WPLG's Janine Stanwood explained.
"Colton wrote questions about school safety, suggested using veterans as armed school security guards but claims CNN wanted him to ask a scripted question instead so he decided not to go," Stanwood reported.

I watched a couple of clips of the town hall that CNN held.  I couldn't watch more than a few clips because I can't stand CNN's habit of dressing up emotional vomit as some sort of "logic".  The kids were smug and insulting at every turn.  The Broward County Sheriff who's department basically ignored every single warning flag the shooter put up was smarmy, condescending and full of himself.  And the NRA couldn't have asked for better TV ad material than all these smug, ignorant shitbags clapping and cheering over full confiscation of all semi-automatic firearms.

2018 is going to get nasty.  Prepare to fight back, hard.

If you have boys at home, maybe they should read this

A Letter to the Boys and Young Men of America.

Leftists being leftists

This does not shock me one bit.  Leftists always use the state to bully, intimidate and punish their enemies.

It was a prolonged mystery that struck Wisconsin education reformers as more akin to a Kafka novel than American due process: Who was behind cryptic demand letters sent under the aegis of the Obama Justice Department, intimating without specific evidence that Milwaukee’s school-choice program was illegally discriminating against disabled kids? 

Now, after a six-year bureaucratic and legal tangle in which school voucher advocates said they were stonewalled by Washington, the mystery has been solved. And the answer, they say, is alarming: The federal operation was sparked and practically run behind the scenes by liberal opponents of the program.

This is why Leftists need to be driven out of power.  Because all leftists are tyrants at heart, and they'll use the government as a weapon every chance they get.

This will not end well

Marines lower requirements in order to get more female officers to pass.

I can't think of anything that will is destroy combat readiness than lowering standards in order to appease diversity requirements. 

I'm thankful that I'm getting close to retirement.  The Army is already infected with PC Diversity Bullshit from top to bottom.  It's sad to see the Marines fall as well.

Guess what I'm doing today?

Since I have the day off.



Yes, I busted up laughing.



And yes, I busted up laughing! 

And they don't say "Domino".  They slap the domino on the table hard enough to leave a dent and holler it at the top of their lungs.  "DOMINO, BITCH!"

Unless you do it first.  Just sayin'.

Problematic

The Left is furiously masturbating to the new Black Panther movie, because diversity and screw you racists.  The Z Man points out a few logical conclusions: 

The underlying argument from our rulers is that Africa is a mess, because of racism. The book Why Nations Fail is the model for this argument. Whites destroyed the native African institutions and left behind extractive ones. That’s why Africa is a mess. The reality is sub-Saharan Africans have an average IQ in the low-80’s. Eritrea is the “smartest” country with an average IQ of 85. What that means is most Africans are borderline to mildly retarded. The reason Africa is not and never will be Wakanda is it is full of Africans. 

Now, you cannot fault blacks for celebrating this fictionalized black homeland where they are at the top of the heap. The promotion of this fantasy, however, makes the essential point of the Dissident Right. Humans naturally want to reign supreme in their own domains, surrounded by people that are like them. Wakanda would not resonate with black people if the ruler was a guy named Muary Greenblatt and his minions were all East Asians or Mexicans. Like everyone, blacks dream of a world without diversity. 

The over the top promotion of this black supremacist movie makes all the main cultural arguments you hear on the Dissident Right. If it is OK for blacks to dream of their own homeland, why can’t whites do the same? If blacks would be better off without whites around, doesn’t the same hold true for whites? If the natural order is for the races to be separate, then why in the hell is diversity a good thing? If you were hoping whites would become racially aware, the movie Black Panther is manna from heaven,

By separating people into groups, the Left has essentially created what it said existed all along:  A group that identifies itself as "White".  If blacks are going to vote against Whitey, and hispanics are going to vote against Whitey, all because of the color of Whitey's skin, then Whitey is going to find himself voting against blacks and hispanics just to be able to exist.  It's like like the political version of the Tragedy of the Commons.

So what does the future hold? Well, the fantasists will say “race war.” That’s bullshit, of course. No, the most likely future is a “whimper rather than a bang” scenario. And to make my point, I’ll once again invoke Native Americans. Right now, about a quarter of all American Indians live in squalor and dependency on reservations. The rest are spread out across the country, making a living, contributing to society. Individual Native Americans are fine, but “the community” is shit. I think that’s what we’re going to see happen with blacks. As the black community continues to decay, and as it continues to get squeezed by whites, Asians, and the stupefyingly fertile Hispanics, we’ll see a kind of urban “reservation” network take shape. Blacks with skills and a desire to be seen as something other than fart receptacles will leave the community and mix with everyone else. The remaining detritus? They’ll be increasingly boxed into urban hellholes. Reservations, essentially. Places with lots of welfare, lots of crime, and little hope. Places that cannot be helped, places that cannot be saved. 

The notion that a segment of the black community might be unsalvageable is heresy to egalitarian leftists, conservative Christians (who hold fast to ideas of redemption and salvation), and establishment neocons (because “land of opportunity, early to bed, hugs not drugs, we all bleed red”). But as millions of black Americans go to the movies this week to escape reality, the rest of us might do well to contemplate the reality they’re escaping.

Even in the small town I live in, there are parts of said town that a person of light-colored skin does not trespass.  Folks have essentially self-segregated themselves into enclaves.  I've seen exactly what David Cole describes; individual blacks are working, living, etc, but the black community is going to absolute shit.  I had to stop by the police department last month on a business matter, and every single photo of wanted criminals that was hanging up in the PD were black faces.  When you hear about gunshot victims, you don't hear about John Smith getting capped, it's Devonta'e, or Drayzell, or some other various ebonics spelling of some name that didn't exist until the 1980s or so.  But the guy who delivers propane around our neighborhood, who just happens to be black?  Justin.  I don't think he's going to be involved in a gang shooting any time soon.

No, I don't have any answers.  I'm just observing and stating what the Left doesn't want anyone to observe or say.

Take care of yourself, folks.

I'm part of a funeral detail today.  Old-ish gent, Viet Nam vet, but about 15 years younger than my father, who is also a Viet Nam vet.

Now granted, this gent had scores of kids, grand-kids, great-grandkids, etcetera, so you can't say he didn't live a full life.  But he died rather young, all things considered.  Much younger than I would prefer to kick the bucket.  And probably much younger than he wanted to shuffle off this mortal coil.

Get healthy.  Or healthier, all things considered.  Take care of yourself. 

What could we do with $38,000,000,000?

Fix some bridges, maybe?  Repair some of our infrastructure?  Anything other than letting illegal aliens dump it into their countries?

Perhaps comically, remittances were actually Mexico’s biggest source of foreign income after auto exports, far surpassing the $20 billion that Mexico earned from oil exports and the $19 billion from tourism in 2017. 

Undoubtedly the majority of these remittances were sent by legal immigrants to America, although a substantial share was in fact sent by illegal immigrants.  It is estimated that illegal immigrants sent $38 billion abroad in remittances in 2017.

A country that refuses to enforce it's borders stops being a country in short order. 

FBI was warned about school shooter last month, and did nothing

TOP.  MEN.

The FBI said Friday that a month before the shooting rampage at a South Florida high school, the bureau received a warning that the 19-year-old charged in the massacre might carry out such an attack — but then investigators failed to act on it. 

The startling revelation came two days after police say Nikolas Cruz marched into his former high school and gunned down 17 people. In a statement, the FBI said it received a tip last month from “a person close to Nikolas Cruz” reporting concerns about him, specifically saying that he could potentially carry out a school shooting. 

While this should have been investigated “as a potential threat to life …  these protocols were not followed,” the bureau said in a statement.

Oh, and they were warned about Cruz's YouTube channel where he made similar threats, and again, did nothing.

But hey, they're all over the MUH RUSSIA thing!  Oh, and lying to Congress, and to the American people about the bullshit they were pulling over the 2016 election.

Failures of this magnitude normally require folks to be fired with prejudice in order to right the ship.

Mind altering drugs and violence

In light of the school shooting in Florida, here's a list of people who were on anti-depressants when they committed violence.

Guns are not the problem.  Guns are inanimate objects, and as we've seen all around the globe, you can be killed by a truck just as easily as you can with a gun.  What is causing these people to kill others?  In the case of muslims, it's their belief in a Satanic death cult.  But in the case of kids who've been fed medication....  maybe it's the meds.

I'll also point you once again to John Ringo's essay about Cymbalta.

Nobody really knows how the brain works.  We can see functions and actions and say "OK, if we do X then Y happens", but we still don't know WHY.  Adding drugs that screw with the dopamine and serotonin receptors WILL cause side effects, and God knows that we've been doping kids up with all kinds of SSRI inhibitors, or anti-depressants, or anti-psychotics for years now.  I think we'll continue to see more of this than less, because too many people focus on the gun and not the actual issue.  They're focusing on the symptoms, and not the cause.

So, I was arguing with this "Jew" in Kalifornia

And I put the word "Jew" in parentheses, because they may have been Jewish ethnically, but they didn't follow a single bit of Jewish doctrine.  And when I asked them what temple they attended, they blew a gasket because they didn't actually have an answer.

So it makes me happy to read an article like this:  Hey, Chuck, What the hell does McDonalds put in its cheeseburgers?

Chuck Schumer is a Jew like Nancy Pelosi is a Catholic.  It's a mask to be used in order to gain votes and deflect criticism, but they don't actually follow their faith.  That's just for the rubes, don't you know.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you

And in case you were wondering, so long as you're not some ProgNazi, they're out to get you.

These kinds of abuses of power were nothing new, given the Obama team’s long history of this type of misconduct on everything from the Benghazi terror attack to the political misuse of the IRS. They weaponized the most fearsome government agencies to target, monitor and presumably illegally unmask political opponents, including members of Congress, journalists reporting unfavorable stories, Trump allies and average Americans.  

These dark institutional offenses didn’t just materialize out of thin air. One of the criticisms of President Nixon was that even though he wasn’t aware of the Watergate break-in, he had created an environment in which such an action was acceptable. 

Decades later, Obama created a climate in which the potentially criminal misuse of the DOJ and the FBI, as currently being unraveled, was not just acceptable but perhaps encouraged, thereby giving rise to what could be the most dangerous scandal in American history.

And then these Proggies wonder why we refuse to give up our guns.  Because without them, the odds of being shoved into cattle cars and sent off to a final "solution" by the liberals grows exponentially. 

This is not how a clean, competent organization functions

When six high-level officials resign, are removed, or demoted in a short window of time.

But if the FBI and Justice are so squeaky clean of political bias, what accounts for the growing pile of top officials deeply involved in those supposedly aboveboard investigations who've been reassigned, demoted or have suddenly quit their jobs? There have been nearly half a dozen in just the past few weeks. Thankfully, reporter Sharyl Attkisson has been keeping a running tally.

BUT DAVE, THE RANK AND FILE BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.  Exactly how many rank and file agents have we seen pushing back against the leadership who was COMMITTING ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS ON A DAILY BASIS?

The FBI needs to be purged, top to bottom.

St. Valentine's Day

And Ash Wednesday.  So, today we celebrate the feast day of the Patron Saint of Love, along with the beginning of Lent, the season where we prepare for the resurrection of Christ by acknowledging our sins that caused his death.

The Mrs. and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.  It's a Hallmark Holiday.  Flowers and Chocolates and blah blah blah blah.  We've never really gotten into it. 

Just in case you were wondering who St. Valentine actually was:

Valentine became famous for marrying couples who were in love but couldn’t get legally married in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II, who outlawed weddings. Claudius wanted to recruit lots of men to be soldiers in his army and thought that marriage would be an obstacle to recruiting new soldiers. He also wanted to prevent his existing soldiers from getting married because he thought that marriage would distract them from their work. 

When Emperor Claudius discovered that Valentine was performing weddings, he sent Valentine to jail. Valentine used his time in jail to continue to reach out to people with the love that he said Jesus Christ gave him for others. 

He befriended his jailer, Asterious, who became so impressed with Valentine’s wisdom that he asked Valentine to help his daughter Julia with her lessons. Julia was blind and needed someone to read material for her to learn it. Valentine then became friends with Julia through his work with her when she came to visit him in jail. 

Emperor Claudius also came to like Valentine. He offered to pardon Valentine and set him free if Valentine would renounce his Christian faith and agree to worship the Roman gods. Not only did Valentine refuse to leave his faith, he also encouraged Emperor Claudius to place his trust in Christ. Valentine’s faithful choices cost him his life. Emperor Claudius was so enraged at Valentine’s response that he sentenced Valentine to die. 

Before he was killed, Valentine wrote a last note to encourage Julia to stay close to Jesus and to thank her for being his friend. He signed the note: “From your Valentine.” That note inspired people to begin writing their own loving messages to people on Valentine’s Feast Day, February 14th, which is celebrated on the same day on which Valentine was martyred. 

Valentine was beaten, stoned, and beheaded on February 14, 270. People who remembered his loving service to many young couples began celebrating his life, and he came to be regarded as a saint through whom God had worked to help people in miraculous ways. By 496, Pope Gelasius designated February 14th as Valentine’s official feast day.

St. Valentine so loved Christ that he was beaten, stoned, and beheaded.  I will withhold any commentary about how that mirrors modern-day romance.

Pretty much, yeah.

College - it's just a show put on for other folks.

While the labor market rewards good grades and fancy degrees, most of the subjects schools require simply aren't relevant on the job. Literacy and numeracy are vital, but few of us use history, poetry, higher mathematics or foreign languages after graduation. The main reason firms reward education is because it certifies (or "signals") brains, work ethic and conformity.

"Conformity" being the biggest of those three. 

Almost everyone pays lip service to the glories of education, but actions speak louder than words. Ponder this: If a student wants to study at Princeton, he doesn't really need to apply or pay tuition. He can simply show up and start taking classes. As a professor, I assure you that we make near-zero effort to stop unofficial education; indeed, the rare, earnestly curious student touches our hearts. At the end of four years at Princeton, though, the guerrilla student would lack one precious thing: a diploma. The fact that almost no one tries this route — saving hundreds of thousands of dollars along the way — is a strong sign that students understand the value of certification over actual learning.

Using the Army as an example - they want to see a diploma.  They don't care what subject.  It could be Underwater Manchurian Basket Weaving.  It could be on Technical Lighting and Sound in the Pornography Industry.  They don't give a shit as long as they see you have a diploma.

Well, then, a lot of troops go to a diploma mill, get a fancy sheepskin, and hang it on their wall.  What did they learn?  Damn near nothing.  But the Army says that if you don't get a diploma you don't get promoted, so they play the game. 

I have to head out, so I'll post more on this later.  I've got a couple of thoughts brewing.

More music from my yoot*

Sad that most radio stations around here can't play more than Led Zepplin and AC/DC.  I love those bands, don't get me wrong.  But damn, there was a LOT of good music that came out of the 90's.


* "yoot" being a relative term.

"Stupid German Whore"

This is what they do.  This is who they are.

And suddenly, it turned out that those people who dealt with everything who ate with me, drank, danced, laughed, did not pray, did not go to the mosque, did not observe Ramadan, mocked religion and deeply religious people, they, all while eating my food and sitting in my garden, they don’t talk about me other than “a stupid German whore”.

If you are unfamiliar with muslim culture, or muslim customs, then go read that entire article.  It's a long one.  Get a cup of coffee and sit down to read.  The people we are bringing in to our countries are not refugees, they are invaders, and they know it.  They bring their crime with them, they bring their own customs with them, which they refuse to give up, and they bring their barbaric, 7th-Century pedophile-worshipping Satanic death cult with them.

Islam is incompatible with Civilization.  Always has been.  Always will be. 

See if you can spot the problem

Web-hopping around today.  Went to The Declination, to this post.  Saw this photo:

Now that's a historical photo, of people protesting the Apollo Space Program because they want the money to go to them.  Specifically, to their food.

Take a look at the woman.  She's so damn fat she cannot put her arms completely down at her sides.  You can see the blubber around the bicep, which looks more like jello shoved into a sock rather than an arm.

Hey lady!  Maybe put your fork down and FEED YOUR KID INSTEAD OF YOURSELF.

Now I know this photo is decades old, and yon behemoth is most likely dead of some coronary disease that you get from eating grease like it's going out of style.  But the sentiment, and the behavior displayed in this photo, is alive and well today.  One only needs to hang out at the local welfare office to see this.

Blah.  Off to work.

The fun and joys of moving around a lot

There'a always something wrong with a house that you rent.  Even the nicest house has it's issues, because houses age, and age brings issues along with it.  This is quite possibly the nicest house that we've ever rented in terms of its condition.  The owner renovated it as if they were going to live in it, not rent it out.  So on that score, I really can't complain.  But the heating unit apparently hadn't been maintained for some time.  I honestly think it just slipped the landlord's mind, because if you're constantly renting the house out during the summer in Mississippi, heat is the last thing you worry about.

But it started acting up two weeks ago, and we called an HVAC guy, and they came out to check it, and...  well...  apparently, they've never seen all three tubes on the transfer unit all cracked at the same time.  Luckily the part is under warranty, and they're working to get a new one installed, but the shut the heater down two weeks ago.  Oh, and that just happened to be in the middle of one of the colder winters this place has seen in years.  The locals are all running around bundled like eskimos and asking where their friend the sun went.  Apparently it should be in the 60-70 degree range right now, instead of 45 and raining.  The Mrs. is not so happy at this moment.

We've been heating the house with a little propane unit that's safe to use indoors, plus a couple of electric heaters we use at night.  I just can't wait to see my electric bill.

Crazy like a fox

Just a thought here:  If Trump had fired Mueller, as he had plenty of reasons to do so, would half of the information regarding the DNC collusion with Russia come to light?

And, almost as opera bouffe, it also emerged Thursday that Senate Intel ranking member Mark Warner was himself colluding with a Russian oligarch in an attempt to get a secret interview with the notorious Christopher Steele.  In humiliating texts, Warner urged his contact to tell his oligarch buddy to keep the negotiations on the down low because Mark didn't want a "paper trail" if things went South. (Incredible that a senator could be so clueless as to put that in a text in this day and age.) If Warner was so concerned about an "interview," perhaps he should have asked to talk with Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer, both of whom are undoubtedly lawyering up but would have a considerable amount to say about the contents of various dossiers.  (In Hollywood, we call it the auteur theory.)

This is called letting people hang themselves with their own rope.

I'm OK with this

DREAMers in the military will not be deported.

"They will not be subject to any kind of deportation," Mattis told reporters as quoted by the Associated Press. "In terms of the DACA situation ... it's clarified they are not in any kind of jeopardy." 

That also applies to any honorably discharged veterans, he said. 

However, Mattis said the protection doesn't include someone who commits a serious felony or who has been has ordered deported by a federal judge.

This applies to about .01% of actual DACA or DREAM Act individuals.  And those individuals have worked their ass off in service to this country.  They haven't been sitting on their ass asking for hand-outs.

In short, those are the kind of people we WANT to have in this country.  You do a hitch in the military, you should earn the right to stay here if you want to do so.

Republicans once again step on their dicks

But that's because they're just the GOP wing of the Democrat Party.  Actions speak louder than words.

All those fiscal conservatives of days past – Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) – voted for the new budget. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) attempted to block the bill by refusing to give the go-ahead to a vote on it sans an amendment process, complaining, “Every one of these Republicans complained about President Obama’s deficits.” But he was shut down. 

Trillion dollar deficits.  The GOP just sold more of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren into financial slavery to pay for socialist pipedreams that do nothing but waste money.  And it is STILL NOT A BUDGET!  IT IS STILL NOT THE VERY THING THAT CONGRESS IS SUPPOSED TO PRODUCE!

This is why the Senate GOP has become a joke. McConnell has signaled for years that Republicans can deviate from the platform as much as they want, even with a GOP president. He’s merely a guy to make sure the trains run on time. 

A normal party leader would call people like Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins into his office and say, “Look, the president has already compromised beyond belief by offering a massive amnesty. It’s time to support the party platform and vote for a package that concurrently addresses our issues, otherwise find yourself a new party.” 

The GOP platform has become a free-for-all. The only ones who don’t get blank checks are conservatives. While cutting a deal with Schumer to raise the debt ceiling and increase the debt to unthinkable levels, McConnell has agreed to prevent conservatives from making any push to pass a single good piece of legislation this year. Section 30103 of the McConnell bill treats the budget caps for FY 2019 as if they are the official annual budget, which means that there will be no budget reconciliation this year. As we warned last month, without budget reconciliation, there is no way to pass conservative health care priorities or welfare reform. And that is exactly the way McConnell wants it.

The GOP is still the Democrat Party's little bitch thanks to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.  The Democrats are still in control, Chuck Schumer is still fucking this country over every single day, and Mitch McConnell will do nothing about it.  This is the GOP.  The Right Wing of the Democrat Party.  Mitch McConnell should just switch parties now, since he apparently wants to keep Chuck Schumer happy more than his voting base.

He who would pick a pun....

My wife sent me this.  Blame her.

A rather mild statement

We now have a side-by-side comparison of two FBI-redacted versions of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s criminal referral of Christopher Steele for lying to the FBI. After releasing a heavy-redacted memo on Monday, committee chairman  Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) put out  anupdated version late Tuesday after the FBI removed several of its earlier redactions. It offers a glimpse into what the Bureau initially considered to be classified information, and seems to justify what Grassley called his “loss of faith in the ability of the Justice Department and the FBI to do their job free of partisan, political bias.” 

"Free of partisan, political bias".  At this point, every FBI paper-shuffler in D.C. should be assumed to be working directly for the DNC as well as their FBI gig.  I have seen no evidence to the contrary, and every other rock we turn over features yet another FBI cockroach scuttling away into the DNC machine.  To hell with not trusting the leadership; I DON'T TRUST THE FBI.  I do not trust the leadership, nor the middle management, and that means I cannot trust the boots on the ground who take their orders from the top.

There must be a purge, otherwise nobody in their right mind will ever trust the FBI again.

"This will counteract global warming for 50 years"

Hey bub, if it's going to counteract glowbull warming for 50 years, then maybe global warming isn't really happening they way you think it is.

Reduced sunspot activity has been observed and indicates the sun is heading into a 50 year reduced solar activity similar to what happened in the mid-17th century. 

Comparison to similar stars indicates the reduced activity will cause 0.25% less UV for 50 years.

I know that weather is not climate, but down here in Mississippi all the locals are wondering where they hell their friend the Sun has disappeared to.  I'm enjoying what I think is an extremely mild winter, but the locals can't walk outside without uttering "What the fuck?  What the fucking fuck?" as they wrap up like Nanook of the North and scurry from their heated office to their heated car.

If our friend the Sun is taking himself a little nap for the next 50 years or so, I will react to all proclamations of global warming with a severe beating 'round the head and shoulders of the proclaimer.  Kind of like the writers of this article, who are STILL going on and on about the absolute fucking bullshit that mankind is causing the Earth to WARM UP AND DIE!

Granny Ructus babbles for eight hours and six minutes in support of illegal immigrants

That's approximately eight hours and five minutes longer than she's ever spoken in support of law-abiding American citizens. 

Dear Government - Stop fucking up the BASIC shit!

Sorta like this:  STOP EMBRACING JIHADIST SHITBAGS WHO ENDORSE KILLING AMERICANS!

Last Thursday, Sam Brownback was sworn in as the State Department's new ambassador for religious liberty. 

Today -- in his first official speech as ambassador -- Brownback openly embraced a hardline Islamic cleric who authorized a fatwa in 2004 justifying the killing of Americans in Iraq, and another fatwa in 2012 calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. 

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah's past is no mystery to the State Department. For example, the Obama administration's State Department had to repeatedly apologize in May 2014 for promoting Bin Bayyah as a moderate. However, the Obama administration then implemented a full-court press with the U.S. media and the D.C. foreign policy "Smart Set" to rehabilitate the image of the Mauritanian cleric.

It's crap like this that proves they still don't have a clue as to why the Americans who use their brains don't trust the government.  This jihadist shitbag is a known entity.  They knew he called for killing Americans.  But gosh, let's partner with him and sing Kumbayah!

Brainless fucktards running the State Department.  No shock there. 

I. Am. STUNNED!

The "Bake That Cake" gestapo just ran into a wall, courtesy of a California judge.

I do notice it's Kern County, which means it's away from the toxic cesspools of Los Angeles and San Francisco. 

A timeline of the FBI's activity

And yeah, it's pretty criminal.  Anyone who looks at the evidence and then says that the FBI didn't try to sway the election to Hillary is lying.

There can be no question, at this point, that certain higher ups in the FBI and the DOJ did not want Hillary to be indicted and did not want Donald Trump to become President.  Those efforts were not entirely independent of each other. 

Below is a timeline of events – abbreviated though it is – that makes it rather plain that the FBI and DOJ were not investigating potential crimes objectively. 

Indeed, they were committing crimes during the process in aid of their preferred outcomes.

I think the reason why Trump is allowing the Mueller probe to continue is because the longer this investigation goes on, the more information about the corruption in the FBI is exposed.  And I think Mueller knows this, but he's caught in a trap of his and the DNC's making, and there's no way out for him.  And while he's stuck with a nothing-burger, the Left keeps taking hits with every new bit of information that comes out.  And Trump is going to use that on the campaign trail for the GOP this year.  And there's nothing the DNC or Robert Mueller can do about it.

It is right to say that this episode is the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections. Watergate is nothing by comparison. That involved people not employed by the government.  Later it involved a cover-up in which Nixon participated. 

Watergate did not involve the DOJ and the FBI – two institutions which must be non-partisans for this Republic of ours. 

This case does involve the FBI and DOJ.  It also is foolish not to assume that Loretta Lynch and President Obama were ignorant of the goings on - if not involved in them.

Gonna be another interesting year!

Moto-interruptus

Went to get on my bike this evening to come home, and saw oil dripping from the final drive shaft.

Well, CRAP!

Guess what I get to do on my free time now?

The Sports-Ball Bowl

I want to congratulate Team A for their victory over Team B, and also Team B for their gracious display of humility after a loss to Team A.  And I'd also like to tell the rioters where ever they are to calm down.  It's sports, not life.

Don't tell me who won.  I don't give a shit.  And I'll probably hear it from guys at work today, which makes me give even less of a shit.

Corruption runs deep, but Leftist seem to fail upward

So. the former Metropolitan Chief of Police who bungled the Seth Rich murder investigation is now the Chief of Security at the NFL.  Oh, and also, she likes to hob-nob with DNC bigwigs and sits on a board with the former wife of John Podesta.

So yet another Clintonista skated while the skating was good, and got a fat job pushing Progtard values at a converged institution.  You want to know why the NFL has no problem with it's players kneeling during the anthem?  Because the NFL is run by people who associate far more with the Democrat leadership than they do with Joe Sixpack from Kansas City.

Oh, and just in case you were wondering, no, I'm not watching the game.  I'm guessing most of you already knew that.

This reminds me of my time working at the EMP in Seattle.  The Director of the place was stepping down, and they brought in a new director from the Seattle Center to take over.  The new director had just stepped down as director of the Seattle Center after triggering a lawsuit over unpaid benefits from Seattle Center staff that cost the Center over $2.5 million.  So, after that spectacular debacle of crashing the Seattle Center's traffic into the ground and costing the center millions of dollars due to her violating employee's contracts, she got a better paying gig right next door because she knew the right people and said the right things.  She promptly laid off half of the EMP staff.  The last time I walked by the place, it was even more empty of patrons than when I got laid off.  A month after I got laid off, I got another job with higher pay, so it wasn't like I got screwed over.  And quite frankly, the guys who didn't get laid off quickly left when they could.  Under her "leadership", employee turn-over increased quite a bit.

I highly doubt she's still the director there.  However, this being Seattle, I am willing to bet money that she's driven several other organizations into the ground, and still gets paid six figures a year, or more.

This woman, Kathy Lanier, was the Chief of Police for one of the most crime-ridden cities in America.  After the department she was responsible for completely bungled one of the most high-profile murders in recent history, she failed upwards into a cushy job thanks to her political connections.  I have no doubt that she'll "succeed" in her new job like she did in her old one.

This is why group identity is so important for Leftists.  They don't succeed based on their own merits, or on the basis of past work.  They continue to fail time and time again, but someone else always pays the price.  And as long as they signal the right virtues, and say the right things about the right people, they will continue to find new work, to fail upwards.

Whereas folks the right judge you based on your body of work.  Any conservative with half a brain would never have hired the failed executive who cost the Seattle Center millions of dollars in lawsuits and lawyers fees to take over a failing music museum.  Because we don't care what virtue you signal.  We want to know if you can get people in the door, paying for tickets, buying food and drink, and keeping our employees employed.

Apparently, the NFL really doesn't care about that.  Oh well. 

So.... "The Memo"

We now know that the DNC can come up with some of the most fantastical bullshit known to man, and the FBI will use that bullshit to spy on a Republican candidate in service to the DNC.

I want you to think about that.  The Deep State went after Trump based on lies.  Lies so flimsy that nobody actually believed them.  But they didn't admit that to the FISA court.

Everybody knew the dossier was bullshit.  And everybody knew it was bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign.  But the FBI and DOJ was perfectly OK using it to violate the 4th Amendment rights of Donald J. Trump because he was running against a Democrat.

Hell yes, people should go to jail for this.

A much better summation than mine:

The Dems made the whole thing up, paid somebody to write a fake dossier, got the FBI to employ that same somebody (Steele), and then got DOJ to go to the courts with the fake dossier as a justification for spying on the Trump campaign. 

The Dems, including, of course, the reprehensible Obama misadministration, used our government agencies as their personal hit-men and shredded the Constitutional protections we all should enjoy.

Jail time for those involved.

Updated:  What this guy said.

Ho. Lee. Crap.

If you're of a age as me...  (cough*cough*theanswertolifetheuniverseandeverything*cough*) then you might not have ever lived in America with a GDP growth rate this large.

The economy is on track to put up blockbuster growth numbers in the first quarter, according to the latest forecast from the Atlanta Fed. 

GDP is expected to surge 5.4 percent to start 2018, the central bank branch estimated in its latest rolling look at how the economy is progressing. 

If the forecast holds, it would be the best quarter since the Great Recession ended in 2009. The previous highest was third quarter of 2014, which hit 5.2 percent.

The kids who have been born since I graduated hah skool have never really seen this kind of economic growth.  They might have been alive, but they weren't actually aware of what this kind of economic growth means.

Helloooooooooooo, Trump economy!

Holy crap, it's Friday

I thought I had a post up for yesterday.  Apparently, it got eaten by Blogger.

Fix Yourself

It's a good message, delivered by someone who knows what he's talking about.



The problem is that the people who ARE trying to fix themselves are, by and large, already conservative in nature.  It's the other people he describes, the bitter, hateful, rage-filled Leftists, who think they're perfect.

We had a guest over last night

So I didn't watch the State of the Union address.  When the Mrs. is cooking coq au vin, then dammit, I'm focusing on the coq au vin.  And the fruit and cheese platter.  And the..  well, I don't need to make you too jealous. 

However, given how hard CNN is trying to say that it wasn't a success, I'm forced to conclude that it was, indeed, a success.

In an amazing example of just how out of touch they were with the American people Tuesday, CNN prefaced the release of their very positive State of the Union reaction poll by claiming it wasn’t representative of the nation. 

I'm pretty sure that there's some kernel of truth in there, seeing has how a bunch of folks from the National Socialist Democrat Workers Party either didn't show up, or got triggered so hard by actual patriotism that they stormed out.

But Americans, by and large, liked it!

But DACA! Dreamers! Valedictorians!

Two DACA recipients arrested for human smuggling.

Three men were inside the vehicle. The agents found that the 20-year-old is a DACA recipient and his 22-year-old cousin is a Mexican national illegally residing in the US.  

A 21-year-old Mexican national illegally in the US was also in the vehicle. 

Why in the hell do people think that if these poor widdle children have been in America for such and such number of years that they're somehow American?  We don't have magic dirt.  And if Pedro and Juan have been raised in a Spanish speaking household to think of themselves as Mexican (and by the sheer number of Mexican flags I saw in California, that's exactly what is happening) then they're going to do things they way they're done in Mexico.

To include human trafficking.

No DACA.  No Amnesty

"Minnesota Man"

Yeah, quotation marks are needed.

We noted the case of “Minnesota man” Mahad Abdiaziz Abdiraham (or Abdirahman)

Stop right there.  If you needed any examples of how Islam and muslims are incompatible with Western Civilization, the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota should be one of the first things to look at.  They have a huge muslim population thanks to all the Somali "refugees" they've taken in over the years.  And what have they gotten for it?  Stabbings by muslims at the mall of America.  That would be muslims who have lived in the USA for years, lived in a country that took them in and helped them, and in return they go all jihadi.

At the plea hearing Thursday, Abdiraham’s attorney read a statement — which is public record — to the courtroom, which explained why he attacked the two men.

In the statement, Abdiraham said he went to the Mall of America to answer the “call for jihad by the Chief of Believer, Abu-bakr Al-baghdadi, may Allah protect him, and by the Mujahiden of the Islamic State.”

The statement added, “I understand that the two men I stabbed know and have explained the reason for my attack, and I am here reaffirming that it was indeed an act of Jihad in the way of Allah.”

Abdiraham also said in the statement that Americans will not be safe as long as “your country is at war with Islam.”

And let's not forget that "Minnesota woman" who set fires at St. Catherine's College in Minneapolis.

A 19-year-old former student at St. Catherine University allegedly set several fires across campus Wednesday in retaliation for U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to charges filed Friday. 

Tnuza J. Hassan, of Minneapolis, allegedly told police that “she wanted the school to burn to the ground and that her intent was to hurt people,” according to the complaint charging her with one count of felony first-degree arson filed in Ramsey County District Court. 

According to the charge, Hassan said similar attacks happened on “Muslim land” and no one cared if Muslims were hurt. She told police and fire investigators, “You guys are lucky that I don’t know how to build a bomb because I would have done that.”

Islam is a barbaric, satanic, 7th Century moon-god worshipping death cult, and it is incompatible with civilization.  Which is why Islam seeks to destroy civilization every time it runs up against it.

Not a good look for the Coasties

But I'm not heckling them, because I'm pretty sure the Army has pulled this crap as well.

The nation’s highest military court has thrown out the 2012 rape conviction of a Coast Guard enlisted man because admirals and prosecutors packed the seven-member jury with five women, four of whom held jobs as advocates for victims of sexual assault.  

In a 5-0 ruling that could change how the military conducts sex abuse trials, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces unleashed caustic criticism of all involved.

Please keep in mind that during the Obama junta, as in all Marxist governments, competence and experience were not a real requirement to attain flag-officer rank.  The correct politics were what got you in.  Which leads us to...

 The opinion, delivered by Judge Margaret A. Ryan, said the four admirals who played a role in assembling the officer and enlisted jury pool produced an illegal “gender-based court stacking.” She suggested that the admirals’ role amounted to unlawful command influence, which military law analysts see as the enemy of fair trials for service members. 

The court ruling said the trial judge “failed to conduct even a rudimentary investigation” into defense attorneys’ complaints of an unfair jury.
It also said the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals failed in its duty to protect against unlawful command influence as it “rationalized the error away as a benign effort to seek inclusiveness.”

My emphasis up there.  "Seek inclusiveness".  That's verbiage straight out of the SJW handbook right there.

One of the admirals involved in jury selection is Coast Guard Commandant Paul F. Zukunft. He was the last of four convening authorities of the rape trial. 

Adm. Zukunft told a hearing judge that he was unaware of jury stacking. The appeals court rejected his excuse.

My emphasis once again.  Paul F. Zukunft, the flaming twatwaffle who wants more trannies in the Coast Guard, helped stack a jury to convict a Sailor of a crime, based on evidence so flimsy and weak that even the original prosecutor wanted the charges thrown out.

The case against this Sailor was so pathetic that the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has dismissed all charges with prejudice, meaning the Coast Guard cannot bring these charges up again.  In a just world, political officers like Paul F. Zukunft would be turning in their resignation immediately.  The military does not need political parasites like Paul F. Zukunft leading anything more than latrine duty. 

Let's hope that this political slimeball Paul F. Zukunft retires soon, or that Trump tells him to clear out his desk, so that we can get someone who actually cares about the military service in charge rather than a political leech who cares more about the approval of politicians than doing his job correctly.

The Second American Civil War is occurring right now

We just haven't started shooting yet.



Maybe, just maybe, if we can clean out the corrupt bastards in the government, we won't get to that shooting part.  I'm hopeful but doubtful.