"Highly Educated" does not mean "Highly Intelligent"

Especially today, when a college degree doesn't actually mean that you learned anything of value, like economics, or history, or Western Civilization, and universities are indoctrination centers instead of institutions of higher learning.

Here's a sentence that may surprise many readers: "In general, the most politically intolerant Americans… tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves." 

That's according to a recent article in The Atlantic, which cites the results of a survey conducted by the polling firm PredictWise. The authors were interested in gauging political intolerance—where in the U.S. are people more likely to disassociate from members of the opposite political party?—and were able to assemble a county-by-county index of American intolerance based on poll results.

As I've said before, I've had to correct the spelling, grammar and format of one-page essays from people who held a Master's degree.  A degree used to mean something positive.  Nowadays, if you hold some degree in the liberal arts, it means you're most likely an indoctrinated hard-core Marxist unable to deal with the real world in any kind of meaningful way, with the added bonus that you don't hold any kind of marketable job skills.  Oh, and you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

Yay, college.

Anyways, given that colleges and universities have been churning out good little Marxists for decades, is it any shock that people are now finding that "highly educated" whites are so intolerant?  Yeah.  Didn't think so.

I'm for it

Standard Time.  Daylight Savings Time.  Pick one, make it permanent.

Most of the nation will set their clocks forward one hour this Sunday, and Sen. Marco Rubio is hoping to make the change stick.  

The Florida Sen. is expected to reintroduce the his Sunshine Protection Act, which would make Daylight Saving Time permanent for all of the United States, several media outlets in Florida report. 

Enough of this swinging to and fro.  Pick one and stick with it.  I've lived in places that didn't change back and forth, and I didn't miss it one single bit.  It just needs to go away.

Why we need Christianity

Part 2



As an aside, Central Texas is flat.  Very, very flat.

Yup

And this just barely touches on why a modern society that rejects Christianity is bound to fail.  As someone else pointed out a while ago, the reason God handed down the Ten Commandments wasn't that he just wanted to tell people what to do.  The Ten Commandments is simply how life works best.  A society that lives by the Ten Commandments can function together no matter who is a part of that society.  But a society that disregards them, and lives however they want to live, ends up with hostility, distrust, and violence.

Apropos of absolutely nothing

Dickel whiskey has a batch that's aged in Tabasco barrels.

Uh huh.

I'll be trying it out in a Manhattan later tonight.

Going to church

And then cleaning.  I have a whole bunch of bottles that need to be sanitized and put away for the impending move.

And when I get to my next duty station, I need to throw away every single bit of cardboard and get new boxes to store the bottles, as the mold her has been so pernicious that I'm having to spray metal lockers down with bleach.

Meet the new Socialists, same as the old Socialists

Man, it's almost amazing how money just gets funneled into their pockets, innit?

Freshman Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) paid herself tens of thousands of dollars from her campaign's funds during the midterm elections, filings with the Federal Election Commission show. 

Tlaib, who was elected to the House last November, began paying herself on May 7, 2018, from Rashida Tlaib for Congress, her campaign committee, and averaged $4,000 per month outside of August, which included two checks of $3,000 each.

It's actually not a shock at all, because this is what Socialists do.

So much for that "summit" Bergolio

Yeah, like we expected the guy who's best friends with all the homosexual predators to do anything about them.

The Vatican’s four-day summit on protecting minors ended Sunday with a whimper. There were no new “concrete, effective measures” to hold Catholic bishops accountable for ignoring and covering up sexual abuse, as Pope Francis had called for before the summit began. There were likewise no discussions of the link between sexual abuse and homosexuality among the clergy, the rampant abuse of adult seminarians by their superiors, or the case of disgraced former Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. 

Instead, the summit concluded with a 3,000-word speech by Francis that contained little of substance but was heavy on defensiveness and bureaucratese. Francis rattled off a list of “best practices” for ending violence against children compiled by the World Health Organization, and offered a meandering discussion about how a “great number of” abuse cases are “committed within families”—an obvious attempt to deflect attention from the putative subject of the summit: clerical sexual abuse.

Just in case you want to know how deviant and evil Jorge Bergolio is, while he was working up to this "summit" that accomplished nothing, his boyfriend, who also traffics in underage boy prostitutes, was murdering the woman who outed him.

Let me lay this out, because it's almost impossible to grasp.  The gay boyfriend of Jorge Bergolio either murdered or paid someone to murder the woman who outed his trafficking of young boys as sexual slaves and prostitutes.

Jorge Bergolio, aka Pope Francis
Has a boyfriend
Who traffics in underage male prostitutes against their will
Who killed the woman who exposed him.

Dear Lord Jesus, purge your Church from this evil that inflicts us, so that we may once again represent you on this earth.

Is NYC that fucking stupid?

Yes, yes they are.  Not only did they vote for Alexandria "Donkey Chompers" Ocasio-Chavez, the googly-eyed socialist who's dumber than a sack of wet hammers, they also voted for Bill De Blasio and his communist wife, who just managed to blow away $1.6 billion dollars with no real record of what it was spent on.

How many other big-bucks initiatives are in similar straits is unknowable — mostly because bureaucrats never blow the whistle on themselves and also because Gotham’s formal watchdog, city Comptroller Scott Stringer, is among the most incurious individuals ever to hold the office. 

That the co-mayors could fly under the radar to burn through $1.6 billion to no obvious good effect is an embarrassment — but understandable in the abstract. Things happen. 

That Stringer could sleep through it all is the real scandal; why does the city even have a comptroller, if that’s the standard of performance?

Bill "Blah Blah" De Bolshevik is a hard-core Marxist through and through, so we don't even have to guess as to where the money went - it went into the pockets of his political allies and cronies.  Just like it does in every Marxist government around the world, ever.

Every time I hear anyone on TV or radio try to tell me about how people from NYC are so educated and intelligent, I can only roll my eyes and look at who they elected to represent them.  "Oh, but our financial center of the country is in Wall Street!"  Doesn't have to be.  That's just geography, and it can be moved.  "Oh but the arts and culture!"  HA!  Has anyone been to a museum of art lately?  If you wanted a backdrop for a horror movie, all you need to do is stroll into the Modern Art section and take a look around.  Modern "art", which seems to come from these vaunted urban areas, is a collection of garbage, mental illness, and wasted paint.

Bottom line, I don't want to hear one smug New Yorker trying to brag on about how great their city is.  It's run by "Blah Blah" De Bolshevik, and you have Hugo Chavez's ideological daughter running thousands of jobs away in her first year in office.  Bra-fucking-vo.  Enjoy the homeless people pissing and shitting on your streets, New Yorkers!  It couldn't happen to a nicer toilet of a city.

The wife just called the sheriff on our drug-dealing neighbors

But not for the drugs; we don't have enough evidence to give the cops.  But for weeks now, they've been burning trash by the barrel-full.  And it's always got some plastic and other chemicals in it.

So we come back from returning dogs to the neighbor's place (that's another story) and our entire section of road, as well as a couple of acres around us, are engulfed in smoke that makes our throats burn and our eyes hurt.  It's the neighbors, and there's smoke just billowing out of their burn barrel. 

"Neighbors" is a rough term, given that we're rather rural.  They live down the road, and the smoke is stretching from their property to several hundred yards past ours.  The wife starts having problems breathing, and just goes inside to call the local constabulary.  Dispatch says that they'll send a sheriff by, and if the neighbors are doing anything wrong the sheriff will make them put the fire out.  That's good enough.  We're outside of city limits, so we don't even know what the rules are for burning around here. 

The Sheriff shows up.  Apparently, there was nobody home, so the next thing I know a firetruck shows up, and extinguishes the smoldering barrel of plastic.  But for about two hours, we were chased inside by a pall of chemical smoke that was affecting our breathing.

I'm ready to leave this town.

And I'm not kidding about them being drug dealers.  As far as I know, they're users as well.  At least, that's the way they act.

We still don't know what was smoldering in the barrel.

Justin Trudeau is a corrupt sack of shit

This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who remembers his daddy.  Justin Trudeau was born and raised to be a socialist dictator.  There should be no wonders as to why he turned into what he was raised to be.

1. For my American and British friends: Canada's Justin Trudeau is done. He might try to fight on; I personally think he's too damaged. He's irreparably damaged. Here's what happened in a few short tweets. pic.twitter.com/E57BxWPKhK

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) February 28, 2019

But hopefully, for our friends up North, his goose is cooked.

Tim Scott argues against killing babies

You would think that in this supposedly "civilized" age, a bill that would prevent babies from being killed would be a no-brainer.  But because the Democrats, the Party of Death and Evil, want to destroy Western Civilization as we know it, they are all in on infanticide.  They are fully bought in on the concept of killing babies.




It makes me sick to my stomach.

The New Socialist It Girl provides a lesson in Socialism

That being, the leaders of socialist movements always claim they're with the people, and that lasts up to, but not beyond, the point they get elected.  And then it's living rich, baby.

And it’s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise — even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district. 

Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father’s Bronx condo on her voter registration since 2012, and even posed in the one-bedroom Bronx flat for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in a Vogue magazine profile after her stunning November election. But The Post could find little indication she continues to live there. 

The Post emailed Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman, Corbin Trent, four times with specific questions — which were all ignored. On Saturday, The Post reached Corbin by phone. 

“We will not be commenting,” he said. Among the queries he refused to answer: Where does the congresswoman live?

The new leader of the Democrat Party can't even take a few lessons from the old leader.  At least Granny Rictus still had a San Fran mansion, albeit surrounded by a massive fence so that the great unwashed hoards couldn't be seen or smelled.  The googly-eyed socialist idiot can't even manage to keep an address near the people she supposedly represents.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Ocasio-Cortez has rented a pad in a luxe building in the chic Navy Yard neighborhood, where studios start at $1,840 a month, according to the Washington Examiner. 

Her new digs feature gold-plated amenities like a rooftop infinity pool, a cycling studio with a dozen pricey Pelotons, men’s and women’s saunas, and a golf simulation lounge — but no affordable units for low-income residents, in spite of a local law that requires them, the news site reported. 

In the eight months since Ocasio-Cortez’s dramatic defeat of the long-serving Crowley in June’s Democratic primary — a victory that all but guaranteed a general election win in the heavily Democratic District 14 — the congresswoman has failed to open a local office.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA SUCKERS!  I hope NYC retains this moronic bimbo for years, and I hope she remains the face of the Democrat Party.  It would serve New York City right to be represented by an arrogant, elitist, out-of-touch, ignorant snot-nosed piece of socialist crap.

Socialism as a Hate Crime

A well thought out article.

Which raises the question: given our loose standards on the subject, why isn’t socialism a “hate crime”? 

After all, the evidence for its malignant effects is obvious to anyone with sufficient curiosity to look at the historical record. The socialist movement has been responsible for the murder, imprisonment, and torture of many millions, and perhaps hundreds of millions, of innocent people during its heyday in the twentieth century. That history of murder and tyranny continues on a smaller scale today in the handful of countries living under the misfortune of socialism—for example, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and (more recently) Venezuela. 

How do socialists escape the indictment that, in view of the historical record, they are purveyors of tyranny and mass murder? Many deny that Stalin, Mao, and the others were true socialists and, indeed, that socialism has never really been tried—a manifest absurdity. Senator Sanders and others claim that they are for something called “democratic socialism,” a popular and peaceful version of the doctrine, but that’s what Lenin, Mao, and Castro said until they seized power and immediately began to sing a different tune. Democracy and diversity are what they say when out of power; tyranny and authoritarianism are what they practice once in power. That is the tried-and-true technique of all socialist movements.

And that ties in nicely with this:  (Language Warning, NSFW if you work in a civilized office)



Socialism is death, both literally and figuratively.

So the Oscars were last night

Didn't watch.  Couldn't care less.  I know that Crowder did an Oscars show, replete with mockery and drinking games, but my liver can only take so much.  I'm glad we have cultural warriors willing to take the hit.

The thing is, I stopped watching the Oscars a long time ago.  Hell, I was just out of high school, and not really into politics, and even back then I knew that the awards were crap, the show itself was crap, and the entire thing seemed like one big exercise in mutual masturbation that only half of the actual attendees seemed to care about.

Kinda like the Grammies.  When Milli Vanilli won a Grammy, I stopped caring about the entire award.  Forever.  Yeah, yeah, it was revoked when the people who apparently did too much cocaine to notice that guys with thick accents and deep voices could sing perfect English two octaves higher woke up and went "Aw, shit!".  But I didn't care anymore. The Oscars are the same way.  I used to watch a lot of movies.  It was an event for me to go to the theater and see the latest comedy, or action flick. But the Oscar for "best" movie would always go to so crappy film I had never heard of, but that all the right people (read drug addicts, pedophiles and various other creeps) in Hollywood all loved because they were drug addicts, pedophiles and various other creeps.

So yeah.  Stopped watching the Oscars long before I got political, because it was a crappy show that loved crappy movies, and I didn't think they were really worth all that much attention.  So now that all of Hollywood is "woke" and loves to tell me how much they hate me because I'm a conservative male, traditional Catholic, and mostly white?  That just gives me even more incentive to not watch a damn thing.  And I mean not watch a damn thing.  The last time I was in a movie theater was for the Second Hobbit movie.  When did that come out?  2014?  2015?  And we went because someone had given us a gift certificate for that theater chain.  The last time I actually PAID to see a movie?  I think it was Avengers Age of Ultron, at the second run theater when I was on Vacation.  Other than that?  Nope.  I don't watch the work of people who hate me.

So, I don't care who won best picture, or actor, or whatever.  And judging from what I see around the country, there's vastly more people who feel the way I do than not.

Worst. Russian. Asset. EVAR!

Gonna be pushing natural gas out of the USA.  You know who the biggest loser is going to be on that?  Russia.

All the NeverTrump cucks who wail about how Trump just isn't the "right guy" are the same idiots, backstabbers and swamp creatures who never managed to get half of Trump's accomplishments when they were in office.  And all the Leftist morons, half-wits, slack-jaws and drooling retards who scream "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA" at every opportunity were the same ones giving Putin everything he wanted when they were in power.

But now Trump has managed to get more done, against greater odds, than reluctant voters like me ever hoped to dare, and has managed to do real, long-term damage to Russian power.

He's the worst Russian asset, ever.

Things that history has taught us

Yup.

Check this list out

Hundreds of fake hate crimes.  Hate crime hoaxes, just like Juicy Smollet, or whatever the hell the gay black actor's name is.

I guarantee that you can think of more than just that list.  This is why I refuse to believe any claims of a hate crime, or "alt-right" criminal action, until concrete, definitive proof has been offered.  The Left lies.  It lies constantly.  It's entire ideology is based upon lies, and it's claims of victimhood are just so many lies again, aided and abetted by the Democrat Media Complex.

To hell with them all.

Probably driving through here right now

Mmmhmmm.

Music to drive to

Crap like this just makes me happy.  Your mileage may vary.

The Ragin' Mrs and I made this. It was awesome

We put a caramel chocolate espresso frosting on it.  Yes.  It was awesome.

If you want to learn how to cook, or cook better

This guy here is about the best chef on YouTube for learning.

I so want to do this recipe:



Yeah.  No politics today.  I'm busy.

So much for non-political posts

The Democrats really don't give a shit about gun crime.

Democrats this week approved legislation to require background checks for essentially all sales and transfers of firearms -- but rejected GOP-led efforts to amend the legislation to alert law enforcement authorities when gun buyers, including illegal immigrants, fail those background checks.

So stopping gun crime is GOOD, but stopping gun crime from illegal aliens is BAD.

Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do about American citizens.  And they prove it every day.

Oh Holy Crap this was me

And we got between 10 and 25 cents a bale, which was good money.

But those crazy bastards are in short sleeves.  You always put on a long sleeve shirt, even in August, because that hay will cut the ever-living shit out of your arms.  Short sleeves = bleeding forearms.

Up where I lived it was 1.5 tons of hay per horse for the winter.  Mom had two horses,  Neighbors had more, and they always needed help bucking bales.  This is how I earned some cash during the summer.  Brings back memories, it does....

There will be an extended period of non-political blogging

So enjoy some various things that I enjoy myself.

Well.... yeah, kinda

Catch you later.

I knew this. You knew this. EVERYONE knew this!

There was never any Trump-Russia collusion. 

There was never any collusion. The entire debacle has been a Deep State plot to depose a president. The Deep State-promulgated disillusionment about our country’s true power nexus and electoral process has done much to erode the faith of a generation not yet baptized in the fires of partisan destruction. 

(.....) 

California Congressman Devin Nunes has battled back with legal countermeasures related to congressional oversight from the very beginning. America’s Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, though at times muddling the defense narrative on his cable news appearances, never wavered in his conviction that the entire trope was a lie. In his cable appearances, Trump legal adviser Joe diGenova could barely contain his scorn for the debacle that was taking place. Even liberal Alan Dershowitz has called out the unprecedented prevarication used to float what credible analysts have labeled an “attempted coup.”

The entire Trump-Russia hoax was designed to damage Trump and the GOP.  Nothing more.  It was a Democrat Party fever dream that they pushed for the sole purpose of trying to reverse the 2016 election, aided and abetted by the Democrat Media Complex.

I don't think the vast majority of Democrats even thought there was ever any collusion.  I think they were pushing the narrative just as a political action in order to damage the GOP.  There might be a few people who are stupid enough to think it actually happened, but the rest of the people pushing this hoax are simply amoral, evil people who use lies in order to gain political power.

It's that simple.

Congressional Jihadi Caucus flies to California to fete with terrorist-lovers CAIR

Also, I don't want to hear one damn word from the Democrats about my carbon footprint, or how we're all gonna die if we don't stop using fossil fuels.

Newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar will jet off to Los Angeles next month to keynote a fundraiser for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a terror-tied organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist financing case in U.S. history. 

On March 23, Omar will speak at CAIR-Los Angeles’ 4th Annual Valley Banquet, where tables will cost $500.

Hamas-loving terrorist supporting Somali from Minnesota?  Check.
Terrorist supporting organization?  Check.
Same political party that wants to ban plane travel for Normal Americans flying across the country for a banquet?  Check.

And that's the group who controls the House of Representatives, and huge chunks of every major city in America.  And they are nuttier than squirrel turds.

St. Valentine is also a martyr. Just so ya know.

Once again, I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.  It's a made-up holiday.  A made up day that spawned an entire industry of buying things you don't need or should already have.  (Don't need flowers.  Should already have chocolate.)

So as I did last year, here's a brief synopsis of 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.

So we have a guy who was violently executed because of his Christian faith.  Now who wants some chocolate?

I'd like to point out that under Democrat rule, there's a good chance that being a martyr might just start being a thing again.

We've been fed lies for so long that the sound of truth is jarring to the ear.

And it is the truth.

(W)hen men ran the world and women ran society we had a chance to conduct our lives in some semblance of balance, but women have abdicated their running of society and thus, it has collapsed dramatically. Women forced their way into the running-the-world deal and now we have a world gone mad. And the beautiful society which we Western women built is in tatters. Moms decided they were the same as men so they deserted the home and babies to grab their briefcases and rush out to run the world.

By the way, the person talking is the sister of a Feminist "hero".  Apparently someone decided to try to get a happy word from the sister of this feminist icon.

Tapson: In obituaries upon Kate’s passing, the news media wrote largely glowingly of her influence, but what do you think the good and bad of her feminist legacy has been? 

Millett: As I scan the wreckage of our beautiful America, knowing that my own sister was in great part responsible, I feel as if my heart has been kicked down the stairs. So, on pondering this question about the good and the bad of militant feminism, it reminds me of the joke in which the reporter asks, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”

And reflecting on the mental illness of the feminists and their leftist allies.

Most everyone on the left is atheistic, depressed, dark and miserable, and they want us all to be miserable. Winston Churchill said, “Socialism results in the equal sharing of misery.” They detest happiness. Nothing makes them more miserable than another’s happiness. There is no more comedy! Since they swooped in and took over Hollywood and Broadway, everywhere you search for comic relief is dark, dark, dark. Surf through 200 TV channels and it is grim, grim, grim and then there’s a dismemberment. Our “entertainment” has become death, terror, horror and filth.

Just read it all, if only to give your brain a wash of truth to help cleanse the filth of leftist nihilism from it that builds up like barnacles on a ship's hull.

The FakeNews folks are working overtime this week to protect the Democrats

Oddly enough, there's also no screaming hysterical cries coming from Hollywood demanding that Democrats resign.  Gosh, I wonder why?

The same game is being played with the Green New Deal proposal. 

“I really don’t like their policy of taking away your car, of taking away your airplane rights, of let’s hop a train to California, of you’re not allowed to own cows anymore,” Trump said in the El Paso speech. White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post Philip Rucker let his 340,000 followers on Twitter know that this was “false” and that “no one” had proposed any such thing. David Weigel, another well-read political reporter at The Post, who had earlier co-bylined a piece with the misleading headline “Ocasio-Cortez retracts erroneous information about Green New Deal,” retweeted Rucker’s falsehood to his 450,000 followers. 

First of all, even if Ocasio-Cortez did walk back her pitch, it was proposed. This might be inconvenient, but it’s also indisputable. Simply because a politician pulls a proposal that’s been dragged across the entire internet and beaten senseless does not mean its existence has been expunged from the record. 

The authors of the Green New Deal were very clear that their plan was a “massive transformation of our society” with “clear goals and a timeline.” Those goals included eliminating “combustion engines” and air travel and beef. It was the bill’s authors who wrote about “economic security” for those who are “unwilling to work.” They simply hadn’t come up with all the nuts and bolts yet. And, yes, a bunch of presidential candidates endorsed these ideas, while the FAQ was up. 

Secondly, Ocasio-Cortez never really walked back her proposal, anyway. A journalist with access to the celebrated socialist congresswoman might want to take a break from running interference and ask her if the schemes found in the original Green New Deal factsheet are still worthy goals. Instead, they’re letting Ocasio-Cortez write their copy for them.

Truth #1:  The media is nothing more than Democrat Operatives with bylines.
Truth #2:  If it weren't for double standards, the Democrat Media Complex would have no standards at all.

Clarity

A former transgender wakes up.

I believe that gender identity is a fraud perpetrated by psychiatry, the likes of something the United States and other nations hasn’t experienced since the lobotomy era. As a result, I have returned to my male birth sex. 

On January 25, 2019, in the State of Florida, the Marion County Department of Motor Vehicles in Ocala, Florida issued me a male driver’s license. Ocala, Florida has been my home since July 2018. 

In the days ahead, I will be taking further steps to restore my birth sex to male more formally.

Now this guy apparently looked around, realized that the whole tranny thing was BS, and went back to being a guy.  I'm genuinely happy for him.

But what about the kids who are being given hormones blockers or testosterone and allowed to chop off their wienie or lop off their boobs because the Left wants to weaponize mental illness?

Anyone out there still think that's a good idea?  Because I have a two-by-four that just needs a few more dents in it....

Went running this morning

Holy cow, I've lost my wind.  I guess since I really haven't been able to go running since the middle of October, that's four months without running.  It's amazing how much you lose in that time.  Luckily I have access to a gym at work, so I've been making sure I don't turn into Fatty McFatcakes, but dang it, I've got a couple of months to get back to where I was before all of this crap with my foot started happening.

Yep. Pretty much

Linda Fox writes about people leaving the San FranSicko area, and a few truths they need to understand.

So, 1 by 1, this women’s social circle is developing gaping holes in it. In her naiveté, she implores the residents who see fleeing CA  refugees to realize that they are good people, just hoping for a better life. 

And, I’m sure she believes that. 

They may have ‘good hearts and big dreams’, but what the resistant old residents of the new locations are wary of is the newcomers’ refusal to recognize several important things:

Go read the whole thing.  Understand that as a guy from Idaho, we have a rather visceral reaction when we find out that Kalifornians are moving in next door.  This reaction is a learned response.  There's nothing quite like having people move in who

1 -  Don't respect property rights (tear-assing around on four-wheelers, including through YOUR pasture land, and they don't even bother to close the gate behind them when they trespass)

2 - Demand that YOU conform to THEIR standards (when their standards are the reason they fled whatever stinking hellhole they came from)

3 - Sneer down at anyone local and label them as "hicks" or "rednecks" (but we were smart enough to not impose stupid legislation on our neighbors and make the whole place unlivable, much like Kalifornia did)

4 - Generally act in such a manner as to make yourself a pariah with anyone who's from the location.  (Loud statements of "Oh I love the scenery but have you seen the way they DRESS here?" do not help your cause)

Having lived in Los Angeles, I can honestly say that there's maybe four or five people out of the entire millions that I would welcome into my home town.  As for the rest, they need to stay there.  Don't pollute my home.  I would tell Kalifornians who are thinking about moving to Idaho to go read Fox's list, but I doubt it would do any good.  I've seen the kind of people who live in the San FranFreakShow area, I've worked with them, and I don't think they have the capability to actually learn anything from that list.  Arrogance and Ignorance combined, weaponized with Marxism, inflicted on America.  These are the people who allow drug addicts to shit on their streets.  And now they want to move to my town?  Why?  So they can let drug addicts shit on the streets up there?

I've come to agree with more folks that we're not voting our way out of this mess.

Ow. Knees hurt

Lots of pomp and ceremony yesterday. Which means lots of standing.  "BRING YOUR UNITS TO ATTENTION!"  Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.  The more rank being moved around, the more you stand at attention or parade rest or at ease.  Anyways, lots of standing.  Standing for that length of time used to hurt a little bit when I was younger.  Now that I'm not some young buck, standing for hours on pavement now hurts the next day.  Gah.  And I have good boots with good insoles.  I'm going to see a lot of people limping around today.

Attended a retirement ceremony yesterday

Another pal gone.  It's the way of things.



One day it'll be me.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kinda looking forward to it.  The body's starting to give out, little by little.  I'd like to enjoy my time after the military while I still have the physical capabilities to do so.

It's Happy Fun Time Day!

Going to be doing Army Stuff all weekend.  Might I suggest a fresh selection from the blogroll?

Because we all know Twitter is going to ban you just in time for the 2020 election

So...  Social Galactic.  It's in beta stage right now.  Go check it out. 

Words of Wisdom

There's long been a short list of things to do if you want to avoid living in poverty:

1)  Don't do drugs.
2)  Graduate high school.
3)  Wait until you're married to have kids.

All of those imply a modicum of self control.  Robert McCain has another list that's very similar:

1)  Work Hard.
2)  Live Cheap.
3)  Save your money.

The rest of his post is a refutation of a socialist who is living large of of capitalism.  But that's the case with all socialists, isn't it?  They have to cannibalize a capitalist economy in order to fund their socialist pipe dream.  Louder with Crowder once pointed out that capitalism doesn't require a billionaire to exist in order for their system to function, while socialism, who's adherents demonize the rich, require millionaires and billionaires to exist in order to fund their immoral system.

And as an aside, take a good look at the photo of that socialist twink, Anand Giridharadas.  Hair done just so, face made up, wearing a MOTORCYCLE JACKET that I guarantee hasn't seen one second of actual ride time.  This is a guy living large like a fat tick on a well-fed dog.  But like all socialists, he'll kill the dog, and then blame the dog for not paying it's fair share, while he continues to live large on the efforts of others.

After all, that's what the adherents of socialism all want.  Hell, Hugo Chavez was worth billions, and Venezuela is a socialist hellhole of poverty and despair.  All those socialists think that they're going to be Hugo Chavez, and they have no problem with we Normal Americans being forced to eat our pets to survive as long as they can continue to wear fancy leather jackets and be applauded by their peers for being so noble.

The simple truth is that digging your way out of poverty requires a few simple rules, and a modicum of self control.  I've gone from eating Top Ramen three meals a day to driving a new car, having a motorcycle, living a happy life and eating damn well.  And I did it with self control and NOT demanding that others pay my way.

But that's the rub, innit?  Socialists don't have much self control at all with other people's money, and they always demand that someone else pay their way.

This is my shocked face. Look how shocked I am.

People knew that Democrat Justin Fairfax, the Lt Governor of Virginia, was a rape-y rapist before he got elected.

The woman who has accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) of sexual assault informed Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) of the incident more than a year ago, an aide told The Hill on Wednesday. 

An aide to Scott told The Hill that Vanessa Tyson first reached out to the congressman in October 2017 to express concerns about Fairfax, who was then a candidate for lieutenant governor. 

Tyson sent another message to the congressman that November expressing a desire to speak with Scott about the issue, an aide said.

Yep, that's the same rapist who likes to shout out "FUCK THAT BITCH!" when discussing the woman he raped.  SJWs always project.  That's SJW Rule #3.  If they're accusing you of being rapists, you should probably start digging into their past and see when they raped or sexually assaulted someone.

I was there in Virginia while the election was going on, and I remember listening to the adverts and the interviews and all the radio speeches, and the thing that I remember most is how creeped out I got from the Democrat side.  Ed Gillespie was no great thing.  He was a milquetoast, squishy "moderate" who thought that just being nice would get him a win.  But Northam and all the Democrats who got on the radio made my skin crawl.  Northam especially was this smarmy, lecturing, arrogant asshole from top to bottom, and it just got worse from there.  I think this whole episode of disaster and being hung by your own rules couldn't happen to a better group of arrogant, elitist, out-of-touch Marxists.  But of course, the Virginia GOP is too stupid to take advantage of it.

Had our priest over for dinner last night

Lots of food.  Then cigars.  Then dessert.  Then more talking.  Got to bed far too late.  So you might get shorted here today, because I didn't wake up in time for my usual news perusal.

Truth

I loved the fact that Trump took the National Socialist Democrat Worker's Party head on during the SOTU speech.

The SOTU speech

Trump:  Nearly 5 million people have been lifted off of food stamps!

Democrats wearing white:  *refuse to clap*

Well, I guess I see who their base is, right?

Trump:  Hispanic and black unemployment is at it's lowest in recorded history!

All Democrats:  *refuse to clap*

That's a good look for them.

UPDATE:  I see the Democrats are going with their tried and true look of sitting on their hands and looking pissed off at America's success.

UPDATE 2:  OH MY GOD THE GOP IS CHANTING "USA" AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE PISSED!  I'm laughing my ass off!

UPDATE 3:  Cory Booker looks like he's desperately trying to keep his anal plug from popping out.

UPDATE 4:  The googly-eyed socialist, Ocasio-Cortez, can't even clap for putting sex traffickers behind bars.  Telling.

UPDATE 5:  Trump sucks with a Tele-Prom-Ter.  He does.  The speech is good, but the delivery is stilted.

UPDATE 6:  Granny Rictus' dentures must be flopping around again.  She keeps trying to put them back into place.  Or maybe Trump has gotten her so pissed of that she's chewing on the inside of her mouth.  I hope it's option 2.

UPDATE 7:  I'm looking at the ribbons on the vet who helped liberate Dachau.  This is an honest to god war hero, and he's got a rather common set of ribbons.  I think the modern day Army could use a little lesson from that.  The Marines have it more right - AWARDS are for special situations.  You need to bust your butt for an award.  Stop making the Army look like 3rd World generals.

It was a good speech, but the teleprompter reading drove me up the wall.  Half an hour speech more or less, which is far, far better than the droning of Obama or GWB.  And it jabbed all the right people at the right time.

Well &*^#

It seems like everything is getting me pissed off these days.  Tonight it was the realization that the Ragin' Mrs., in her infinite ability to take what works and try to improve it, put an "ancient" salt into the spice mix I was using to make sweet Italian sausage.  It's some fancy salt that tastes much saltier than regular salt.  And now I have six pounds of sausage that are saltier than the ocean, that give me indigestion from eating them.

She keeps insisting that she can use them to make various dishes, but I'm about to just throw it all away and never look at it again.

If the GOP were smart.... hell, I should just stop there.

They would help Howard Schultz get into the race as an independent.  It would help fracture the Democrat Party, which has long been taken over by far-Left Marxists, perverts, and baby-murdering psychos.  Anyone who can help yank it back to the middle can only be a good thing.  But Glenn Reynolds has it right:

The parties’ biggest fear isn’t that someone from the other party will win. It’s that someone from outside the Beltway Uniparty will win.

And the GOP no longer represents it's own voters, as proven by their complete and utter refusal to do anything about border security, spending, or any of the ideas it claims to support when they had the opportunity.

Covington kids punch back

This is so awesome, I want to rub it all over my body and go streaking at an NHL game.

Attorneys representing Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and his family indicated on Friday that they have sent letters for potential lawsuits to over 50 entities ranging from Democratic politicians to celebrities to media figures.

YES!  Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!  Sue the bastards, hit them where it hurts, and make them bleed!  It's about damn time that someone finally yanked on the rope that these anti-American shitwads have used to fashion their nooses!

I don't just want that list of people sued, I want them excoriated on the public square for their hatred and inhumanity.  They can all go out of business, and then they can all go to hell.

I know my wife is going to heaven

Because she has to put up with my BS.  She just got done making some Monte Christo-type sammiches for lunch, and topped them with an over-easy egg.  So we sat down to eat some lunch.

Me:  Yeah, this is a really good Monte Carlo type sammich!

Her:  Christo.  Monte Christo.

Me:  Oh, right.  Carlo is the car, Christo is the sammich.

Her:  Just think of the Count.

Me:  What does Sesame Street have to do with a sammich?

Her:   ......

Me:  ONE!  ONE husband beaten with a rolling pin!  Ah ah ah aaaaaaaah!

Her (rubbing her forehead):  I love you, honey.

I'm going to a friend's house this afternoon for good food and good company.  Apparently they'll be watching a football game too.  I'll be outside with a cigar and a glass of brandy, because fuck the NFL sideways with a chainsaw.  The biggest problem I have with the Super Turd Bowl is that someone is going to win it.

The blunt truth: Democrats have no problem murdering babies

In fact, they're actively working to murder as many babies as possible.



Here's my question, for anyone who might be on the fence - given that the Democrat Party has no problem murdering babies just because they're inconvenient, what in the world makes anyone think that the Democrat Party wouldn't round you up, put you in a box car and ship you off to a death camp once you become "inconvenient" to them?

Sigh

People...  I don't know if you've heard about this recently, but...  it's cold.

Tens of millions of Americans braved Arctic-like temperatures on Thursday as low as minus 56 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 49 Celsius) that paralyzed the U.S. Midwest and were blamed for at least 21 deaths.

When the Ragin' Mrs. and I first got to Wisconsin, it got to -46 degrees.  And we moved there from Puerto Rico.  Yet, somehow, we knew enough to NOT go outside without appropriate clothing.

Yes, people have been found dead.  I got that.  Let me be heartless right here, m'kay?  I'm going straight to the "Ohmygodhowcouldyousaythat" zone.

If people get drunk and wander outside in -50 degrees, they probably deserved to die.

If people get high, crawl into an abandoned house and freeze to death, then I'm going to guess that they weren't really a contributing member of society.

I do feel sorry for the older folks with dementia who went outside in their underoos and froze to death.  I have no idea what they must have gone through, other than it was painful.  But if you're one of those people who died because you wanted to pull a stupid prank, or you got drunk and locked yourself out of your house, or you're a crackhead who won't go to a shelter because they won't let you smoke crack in there, and you end up a human popsicle?

Well...  that's what is called natural selection, folks.  The stupid people die off, and makes the human race smarter by their subtraction.

Let the hate mail commence.

Running

Put some new insoles in my running shoes.  Tried them out for about a mile.  Everything seems to be in order, with no new pain or stabbing sensations in my foot.

I might just be back to running.  Lightly, at first.  But running nonetheless.  Oh happy day!

I know why I drive a small car

Because if I had a big truck, I'd be ramming people off the road.  Like the slack-jawed crackhead who tailgated me for miles as I was following behind a work truck who was doing the speedlimit.  It wasn't just the tailgating, it was the passing me (on a double-yellow line) only to do a hard braking, swerving maneuver once you realized that I had a GINORMOUS FUCKING BUCKET TRUCK IN FRONT OF ME, which you were too oblivious to notice prior to attempting to illegally pass me, on a double yellow line, while flying past an intersection.

That mouth-breathing fucking retard put my life in danger, plus the lives of everyone else around him, and for what?  To get to where he was going five seconds sooner? 

If I had a truck, I would have run him off the road.  As it is, my car damn near had a stripe going down the side of it.  And yeah, I followed him a for a good long while, with my middle finger getting quite a bit of air-time.  I wanted that drooling fuckwit to pull over, but he wouldn't.  He just stomped on the gas.  Like his crappy, pathetic piece of shit hoopdy can outrun me.  Uh, no, there's something called maintenance that needs to happen with a car in order for it to function properly.  I finally decided that I didn't want to be late for dinner.  My appetite was more important to me than dragging this fucking moron out of his car and beating him with a tire iron, but it was a close thing.

Gah.  Poverty is a culture, people.  So is acting that fucking selfishly. 

For all the idiots out there saying that Climate Change is going to kill us all

Well, maybe, maybe not, but it's not like it was for the majority of this planet's history.



I know I'm preaching to the choir on a lot of this, but take the time to educate the people around you.

Robert Mueller is a dirty, crooked, corrupt cop, and has been for decades

That's why he was such an Obama favorite.  Barry O'Bumblefuck knew that his dirty cop would do what Barry wanted him to do.

And all it took to bring Mueller around to doing the right thing was the threat of a contempt citation by an ultra-liberal federal judge who went to Yale Law School with the Clintons. 

Of course, that wasn’t the first time Mueller’s FBI tried to broom the scandal of the four framed men. In 2002, Mueller directed the G-men to oppose state pardons for the four men because the FBI’s own evidence that exonerated them was merely “fodder for cross-examination. 

Despite the FBI’s knowledge that the men, including Peter Limone, were innocent, Mueller’s FBI claimed to a state board that the incontrovertible exculpatory evidence “does not necessarily mean, however, that Limone or any of the other defendants is innocent – it merely means that they are entitled to a new trial.” 

By the way, one of the innocent men, Louie Greco, was in Florida the night of the murder he was falsely convicted of. One of the crooked Boston FBI agents (who died in prison in Oklahoma while facing murder charges in another gangland hit) later bragged to a local gangster about their brilliant railroad: 

“How does Louie Greco like going from Miami to death row? He wasn’t even there.”

Good lord, the FBI has been exposed as a bunch of Mafia thugs with badges, haven't they?

Kamala Harris, who slept her way to power in San Francisco, wants to take your guns

Don't listen to me on this.  Listen to her.

She’s just packing her speech with anti-gun keywords hoping to elicit the right response from anti-gun proponents, who’ll open their wallets to donate to her campaign. Much like she opened her legs to advance her career. 

Yep, I just went there. Send me your hate tweets.

No hate tweets here.  If Kamala Harris didn't have an extramarital affair with Willie Brown while he was mayor of San Fransicko, then nobody outside the Bay Area would know who the hell she is.  But because she slept her way to positions of power, and then got more power, now she's running for president.  Her qualifications are whoring herself out to men, and whoring herself out to Planned Parenthood.

She's like the female Barack Obama.  Which means the media is going to be masturbating as hard and fast as they can every time she's on screen.

Oh, you want to talk "smirking"?  Check out Harris' face every time she talks to someone who isn't worshipping at her feet.  Sneering, smirking, entitlement, and outright hatred and hostility radiate from her like heatwaves from the sun.  Remember, the Left hates you and wants you to die.  Kamala Harris, who slept her way to the top, can't even keep her hatred off her face.  She's counting on the hordes of people who hate you like she does to get her elected.

The Deep State protects its own

A Leftist judge refused to unseal documents that were used by the FBI to trash a whistleblower's house.  Because there's nothing...  INTIMIDATING....  about the FBI ransacking your house after you blow the whistle on the government covering up for Felonia von Pantsuit's crimes.  Nah.

A federal court is refusing to unseal the government documents that allowed the FBI to raid the home of an alleged recognized whistleblower last November. Judge Beth P. Gesner, the U.S. District Court of Maryland’s chief magistrate judge, "also sealed her justification for keeping the documents secret in a single-page Dec. 20 order," The Daily Caller reported. Gesner is a Clinton appointee.

Absolute bullshit.  And crap like this is why Trump won, and why he'll most likely win in 2020.  Because people are sick and tired of watching the unaccountable, politically connected criminals in Washington D.C. get away with crime after crime after crime, all while the rest of the country crumbles.

Rodger Stone had his house raided by the FBI live on the Clinton News Network.  Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, who committed multiple felonies, walks around free.  THAT is why Trump is so popular.  And the political animals in D.C. know it, which is why they're trying so hard to tear him down.

I want to make one small little quibble here

Jorge Bergolio isn't fiddling while the Church burns.  He's doing his best to burn it to the ground, because he doesn't actually care about saving souls.

There is a church in Rome called the Church of Domine Quo Vadis (Latin for “Lord, where are You going?”). It is situated on the spot where the apocryphal Acts of Peter described a meeting occurred between St. Peter and Jesus. Peter was fleeing Rome and Nero’s persecution. On his way, Peter saw Jesus walking in the opposite direction. Peter asked Him, “Domine, quo vadis?” Jesus responded, “I am going to Rome to be crucified again.” Shamed, Peter returned to Rome and was crucified, upside down. 

Pope Francis, too, has abandoned his post… except he hasn’t done by leaving Rome. Instead, he has dawdled, fiddled, and worse. He must address Archbishop Viganò’s allegations about his personal conduct. And then he must take up the sins of the victims and the perpetrators, and, with the help of bishops, priests, religious, and laity, energetically, and with a sense of urgency, clean house.

A bunch of bishops, and most the cardinals here in America, don't want to clean house.  They enjoy using the laity's money to live the good life while having sex with young men and young boys.  Why would they want to clean house?  They would actually have to practice what they preach!  Can't have that, you know! 

There are good bishops in the USA, just as there are good diocese.  Right now I attend probably one of the most conservative diocese churches in the USA, albeit a Novus Ordo church.  However, the priest offers a Latin Mass every first Sunday, so that's what I go to.  But I'm lucky.  Other Catholics have to attend a church where the priests, bishops and archbishops all essentially care more about this world than the next.  And those Catholics....  are leaving.  In droves.

The so-called leadership of the Catholic Church in America are abandoning souls in favor of fancy mansions and gay sex. 

My priest has been open about the fact that the Catholic Church in America will most likely continue to shrink.  Maybe that's what it will take for the current leadership to finally be pushed out.  We'll see.  I don't have any good answers to the problems that I see coming at us like a freight train.  I can only pray, and act within my sphere of influence.  That's all anybody can do, I guess.

Ah, the South

62 degrees on Monday.  Motorcycle weather, and I took advantage of it.

It's supposed to be snowing when I wake up this morning.  We'll see.  The worst part is that every other slack-jawed, cellphone using idiot thinks they can drive in the snow.  Ugh.

Kamala Harris is just a darker-skinned Stormy Daniels

With a better legal team.

The privilege afforded to progressives by the media is that they can attack someone *for being Catholic* and then get write-ups like this just days later. Fascinating to observe. https://t.co/bdQo4kOPAP

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 28, 2019

She slept her way to the top in San Francisco, and then used her position as California Attorney General to send a SWAT team to raid the house of investigative journalists when some of her political donors (Planned Parenthood) were the subject of the story.  Since then she's done nothing of note in the US Senate except for blatant anti-Catholic bigotry.

And the Democrats love her because she's a dark-skinned woman.

This country is fucked.  

We've got the water heater set to "Screaming Hot" right now

We're cleaning just about everything we can, and we want to kill any germs on our clothing, sheets, couch covers, etc.  Which means we have to remember to add quite a bit of cold water when we just want to wash our hands.  Or when I'm doing the dishes, and I don't want to scald the skin off my fingers.

Although boy, the sheets came out nice and clean.

This guy is me

But I don't make as much money as he does.

Stop Freaking Out about Trump opening the government for THREE WEEKS.

#1 - Trump now gets to give the State of the Union address, and if Granny Rictus tries to block it, it comes down on her.

#2 - I'll let Kurt take it from here.

So we lost this round? So what? We’ve lost before, and we’ll lose again. This is for the long-haul folks. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. There’s no magic wand where one term of Vitamin D cures a century of progressive pathology. 

Trump’s instincts have been right all along. We doubted he could win. He did. We doubted he would actually remake the courts. He has. We doubted he’d fight for the wall, but he did, and he paid a price. Who else would have withstood the heat this long? Who would have even picked the fight? 

Mitt? Jeb!? Chet the Unicorn? 

Name the Republican you want to replace him with. Who’s the guy who is going to stand up to the cultural fascists like Trump? Who’s going to fight for you harder? 

What’s his name? 

***mumble mumble mumble*** 

I CAN’T HEAR YOU! WHAT’S HIS NAME! 

Nobody.

So while people freak out about a three week timeframe, here's what's going to happen.  Trump is going to give the SOTU address with Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him, grimacing and being the raging communist bitch that she is.  And as Trump lays out his case for a border wall, the Democrats are going to act as petty and petulant as they did on the last SOTU speech.  So Trump will give an hour-long argument for the wall, and the Democrats will have to sit there and take it.

Boo-yah.

Classically under-rated

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies.  Yeah, forgive the name, it was the 90's.  But damn, they had talent.



I'm willing to bet there's orchestral musicians who can't hit the notes this guy does on trumpet.

OK, so maybe I'm not on much of a break

Because this shit has my dander up.

At any rate, I have some advice for Sandmann: it wouldn’t have mattered. If Sandman had somehow managed to walk away from Phillips, one (or more) of these things would have almost certainly resulted: Sandmann would have been criticized for disrespecting Phillips by walking away, and/or Phillips would have followed him beating that drum all the while, and/or Phillips would have focused the same technique on another boy.

This whole act that the Democrat-Media complex is putting on, that the kids in D.C. did something wrong, has just gotten me to the point that I want to see every single media outlet that pushed this bullshit line destroyed and reduced to ashes and rubble.  And Nathan Phillips, that lying bastard, should be in jail for the damage he's caused to those kids lives with his lies and bullshit.  Neo is right, it wouldn't have mattered if that kid walked away or stood there or whistled Dixie.  Philips was looking for a reason to scream racism, and there was nothing those kids could do that would have prevented it.  He was going to get his racism charge no matter what, and the media ran with it, just like Phillips knew they would do.

I hope those kids and their families sue the fucking bastards into the ground.  I hope CNN goes bankrupt, along with MSNBC and every other outlet that trashed those kids based off of 30 seconds of a 90 minute video. 

Not reported by the Drive-by Media: Dems block GOP efforts to pay workers

Why did House Dems kill a GOP effort to pay federal workers during the partial shutdown? An aide called it a 'stunt' & 'distraction.'

Translation: We love talking about those folks, but getting them paid would hurt our leverage, so the pain must go on.https://t.co/6rySipgiLX

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 24, 2019

Congratulations, Democrats!  Your dream of impeaching Trump by refusing to pay Federal employees is working out great!  

We all knew that Democrats didn't really care about the people not getting a paycheck.  It's all political games to them.  They've just confirmed it.  Three times, as a matter of fact.  Fuck the fucking fuckers.

And of course, how much did you hear about this in the media?  I know, I know, it's a rhetorical question.  The media never reports anything that might hurt the Democrat party, which is in fact the party the media belongs to lock stock and barrel.

Taking a knee

The Mrs. has been ill.  Bronchitis.  I've been taking care of her, and now I'm getting it too.

(various words deleted because even I have standards)

So enjoy some music for the next few days, because I'm too damn tired to do anything much.

Maduro out in Venezuela

Something to keep an eye on.  In the meantime, the complete and under destruction of Venezuela under socialism is something that can be used to beat idiots like Alexandria Occasional-Cortex and other Marxists over the head.

Not that it'll do THEM any good, of course.  They're Marxists.  Reality doesn't work on them.  Facts don't work on them.  They are emotionally-driven, ideologically-programmed drones.  It's the folks watching that need to be convinced.

Anybody tried these NeoMags?

A magnetic magazine holder that lets you carry a spare mag in your front pocket.  I have one friend back home who uses it, but he dresses in slacks or business clothing.  I need to know if this thing will keep the magazine in my jeans pocket as I drive around either in a car or on a bike.

Anyone out there tried it?