This is how they create slaves out of citizens

Step one:  Create government schools.

Step two:  Turn government schools into pits of Marxist insanity, but mandate that all kids have to go there.

Step three:  Destroy any ability to teach kids the basics (whole lot of blame to go around on this one).

Step four:  Announce that kids don't actually have to be proficient.

And you're left with a population that has not learned, and cannot teach themselves, and thus are entirely dependent on the government.  They'd better vote the right way, eh?  Or their monthly welfare check might just not come at all.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – High school students won’t have to be “proficient” in either math or English to graduate, under minimum required test scores proposed by State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria.

They will just need to know enough to do the most basic of jobs.

"The most basic of jobs".  Like vote for their government masters.  Public school is a disgrace, and you'd be better off throwing your kids into a pit of feral wolves and telling them to learn.  As Insty likes to say, Public School is simply child abuse.

Burn the Department of Education to the ground, and then salt the earth where it once stood.

It was warm enough to get on the bike yesterday

So the Mrs. and I took a little ride.  Nothing major, just a few miles and a gallon of gas, but it was awesome to get back out on two wheels.  We passed other motorcyclists here and there, and every one of us was wearing a big grin and waving at each other.

The Mrs. and I are currently in the search for a new church.  We tried a church yesterday that was close to home, and about the time the drums came in on the first hippy-dippy song, we both turned, looked at each other and shook our heads.  I may have found a Latin Mass about an hour South of here.  Maybe.  We'll see.

I kept away from the news this weekend.  Deliberately.  I didn't want to mess around with the world's bullshit while I had a weekend with the wife, and we enjoyed ourselves.  Took a little trip to Evenston to pick up my cigars, did a little cooking, finished my homework for the module I'm working on, and basically just relaxed and had a good weekend.  How was yours?

Sanders wins Nevada

Folks, at this point, Bernie Sanders is going to be the Democrat nominee.  The DNC is in full blown panic mode.

Sanders, as an "independent" socialist from Vermont, has never really been challenged on his views.  And because he always caucused with the Democrats, the media protected him.  When it's him against Trump?  They can't protect him as much, and they know it.  This dude had a man-crush on Fidel Castro and honeymooned in the USSR.  He's a loon who has never held a private job and yet is a millionaire who owns three houses while screaming about how evil the rich are.  And unless the DNC pulls another 2016 maneuver, he's going to be the winner.

And as the crazy commie with a cardiac problem rises, so do the boats of other crazy commies like AOC, Ilhan "I married my brother to cheat the INS" Omar, Rancid Tlaib or whatever the hell her name is, and the rest of the lunatic wing of the DNC who have essentially turned Nancy Pelosi into a botoxed, drunk figurehead who does their bidding.

I don't know how much I'm worried about 2020.  I'm worried about what comes after that.

Maybe the reason they want to disarm you is because then they can really do what they want to you.

I mean, given that incidents of Leftist rage and aggression are increasing, it's only logical that they would want you defenseless and unable to fight back.

According to police in Hobart, Indiana, a northwestern Indiana couple suffered a bout of road rage when they spotted two teenage boys with Trump flags attached to their bicycles. Their response was to run them off the road, potentially endangering the lives of the two minors, who are twins.

They attempted to run over to boys on bikes because of a Trump flag.

A flag.

The Left hates you and wants you to die.  Prepare accordingly.  Buy more ammo.

Ilhan Omar is a liar and a crook

But you knew that already, didn't you?

I really need to download Opera and get rid of this Microsoft Edge garbage.  It's to the point where I can't even get Edge to use the "quote" button on blogger here, so trying to pull quotes from a linked post doesn't work.  Microsoft Edge is garbage.  Period.

Anyways, the Daily Mail, a Brit paper doing actual reporting that the US Democrat Media Complex refuses to do, did actual journalism (unlike the American media) on Ilhan "Bro-Fo" Omar.  She married her brother in order to commit immigration fraud.  She lied, repeatedly, on her immigration application.  She's a fake American.  She should have never been brought to this country, and she should have her citizenship revoked for the lies and falsehoods she perpetrated.  At the very least, she should to go jail for her multiple crimes.

But we all know that Terrorist Barbie is a member of the favored class, so she won't get touched.  Just like McCabe, and Comey, and Clapper, and Brennan, and Clinton, and Holder, and Lois Lerner, and so on and so forth.  Democrats never go to jail for their crimes, because we don't have a fair system of justice in this country any more.  We have a system that rewards corruption and violence on the Democrat side, while punishing conservatives and their supporters for non-crimes.

GET OFF YOUR &^%(#@ PHONES!

Traffic was jacked up yesterday for miles.  We finally get past a point that has no meaning what so ever, and traffic clears up.  I manage to pass five or six cars that are clogging up the interstate.

They're all on their phones.  Texting.  Talking.  Doing something other than piloting their multi-ton vehicles.

GET OFF YOUR FUCKING PHONES, YOU PATHEIC SACKS OF SHIT!

It's bad enough that I'm surrounded by people who cannot drive on the best of days.  But to compound their idiocy by having mouth-breaking fucktards on their phones makes my blood boil.

Pushback on the indoctrination of the 1619 project

The Democrats never pass up an opportunity to show just how much they hate this country.

Absolute fucking bullshit

Not a single fucking chance this actually happened.



Oh, I believe that those documents no longer exist, but they were "lost" in the same way that I happened to "lose" my virginity as a teen-age boy.

The FBI has no credibility.  Any.  At all.  Zero credibility.  It is a garbage institution run by Democrats for the benefit of Democrats, and it's been exposed as such.  Burn it down.  You can't trust the FBI to follow their own procedures, and that means you cannot trust them to investigate anything or anyone.  Any investigation they conduct has to be considered either a political operation or the fruit of the poisoned tree.

Given how every single Democrat connected FBI person has skated on the multiple crimes they committed, there is absolutely zero chance that anyone will actually be punished for their "failures", which is to say their deliberate actions undertaken to cover up the larger crimes they committed in service to the Democrat party.

Trump's election has ripped the curtain away from the corruption at every single Washington D.C. institution.  There's not a single that's headquartered within Washington D.C. that I would trust, because they have all shown themselves to be partisan political Democrat agents.  They serve their socialist masters, not you, not America.

Can someone tell me how this is not Satanic?

Planned Parenthood murders babies.  After murdering those babies, they dig through the pile of human remains and pull out various body parts.  They sell those body parts for cash.  The US Government, through the National Institute of Health, buys those body parts with YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

Bravo to Judicial Watch for exposing this evil.  The lies that have been told by the defenders of Planned Baby Murder are legion, and when the videos came out exposing Planned Baby Murder as the body-part selling ghouls that they are, the lies and shrieking were ramped up to 11.  Because liberal women demand the right to murder babies so they can continue fucking random people without consequence.

And our government is using our money to push along this butchery.  At what point do we get to hang them from lamp-posts on Pennsylvania Avenue?

So a part of Oregon wants to break off and join up with Idaho

Huh.

Well, it would probably give Idaho another Representative in the house.  A conservative one, because Eastern Oregon is like the Central Valley in California - a conservative area dominated and abused by liberal fascists in the urban blight.  I don't see why not.  And we wouldn't be creating another state, so no worries about senators, or who gets to make their own state next.  I say go for it.

And don't tell me Portlandia would be sad to see those conservative folks go.  Portlandia hates conservatives and wants them to die.

Well, that was a long day

So enjoy a little Canuckian commentary on the protests going on up North.



Canadian protesters and water cannons.  Just a thought.

Turning dollars into sweet smoke

Went to the range today - got an invite from a co-worker who's a range safety officer at a local range.  Had plenty of time to sit down and get the sights dialed in.  Also had a steel plate target system, which allowed me to focus on accuracy AND time.  Yee haw!

Just an observation, you can get a steel plate to fall with 3-4 hits from a 22LR.

Now I need to buy more ammo.  That Ruger carbine will blow through a box of ammo pretty darn quick.  And it's so much fun....

Don't be stupid enough to send your kids off to colleges like this

If they want to be Leftist shitholes of fascism and hatred, let them do it without your money.

UMass Amherst has broken this promise to Louis. We have repeatedly filed grievances on his behalf against Peller and her co-actors and have been met with stony silence. Instead, Louis has been notified that the university is investigating another complaint -- by Peller against him.

Louis’ ordeal is a glimpse of the far left’s “cancel culture” as it pushes the Overton Window on free speech from Twitter bans to outright criminalization of dissent. We believe that more malicious prosecutions like Louis’s are likely; brought, at first, in progressive enclaves like Northampton where the far left holds real political power. Much as occurred in the Jim Crow South, authorities in such places are increasingly choosing to enforce their political ideology instead of the rule of law entrusted to them. The American left these days is unable to accept defeat under fair rules of play, whether in elections or in judicial proceedings. To avoid defeat, leftists will continue searching for ways to criminalize dissent.

There's no better way to waste your money and ruin your life than go to one of these fancy-schmancy schools that do not teach you anything of value, while you shell out six figures in cash for the pleasure of being indoctrinated.  And nobody needs to support the jack-booted thugs and nomenklatura that poses as "higher education" these days.  If you need a hard degree, go get a hard degree.  I wouldn't take a degree in the humanities right now if you paid me to do so.  
I know my parents weren't happy with me way back in the Dark Ages when I graduated high school, but looking back at my life I consider my choice to skip college and enlist in the Army to be the best choice I could have made.

We made 20 pounds of sausage today

So yeah, been a bit busy.  Bratwurst, Sweet Italian, Kielbasa and a beef sausage that we're experimenting with.  The beef sausage came out awesome, if I may say so myself.  The key is hot paprika.

Yesterday was a whole lot of cleaning, shopping and getting rid of things.  It's been a busy weekend.  Also got a sourdough starter started, so hopefully by next weekend I can make some sourdough bread.

I'm making a tool bag for my motorcycle.  I've dyed the leather black and green, although the green is so dark you won't be able to tell the difference unless it's in bright light.  Still got a ways to go on that.

I enjoy home things.

J. Christian Adams details the two-tiered justice system

Crap like this is just part why I'm voting for Trump again.  Actually, I'd drag myself through a mile of broken glass to pull the lever for Trump, especially because of crap like this.  Trump flicked the light on and we all got to see the rats scurrying.

This is what the President began to realize was happening at the United States Attorney office in the District of Columbia – biased justice.

It wasn’t just the Trump campaign being targeted for unequal justice by the US Attorney’s office.

Every time a corrupt Swamp Rat cries, the Baby Jesus smiles.

As government becomes more and more intrusive in medicine, I see this becoming the norm

A walk-in, same-day MRI clinic.

$399 for a same day MRI?  That's cheaper than some people's deductibles!

Getting the actual MRI takes about 30-45 mins and you’ll get your images and a radiologist report. Taylor is a board-certified radiologist specialist trained in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the Mayo Clinic, so you can trust the results you get.

Unless you've worked in the medical field, I don't think you can understand the special kind of hell that is government insurance.  Any kind.  Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, any medical insurance requires extra staff just to deal with getting reimbursements.  Tricare is the worst of them, but none of them are good.

Regular insurance is better, but that's not a glowing recommendation.

More and more doctors, once they get established, are starting medical clinics that are cash on the barrel.  Payment for services rendered, and insurance can piss off.  Trust me, if my choice was going through a doc and waiting, and still paying $500 for the deductible, or just walking into this clinic and paying $100 less?  I'm walking in.

This post at Insty's pretty much sums it up

Bill Barr says Trump tweeting about the DOJ is making his job impossible.

To which someone replies that maybe he should be tossing people in jail already, and then maybe Trump wouldn't have to tweet about the DOJ.

She's got a point.  We Normal Americans are watching people commit crimes that we all know would land us in jail in a red hot minute, and yet nothing happens to the politically connected in D.C.  Trump seems to be the only person putting anyone on blast for their blatant crimes.  And now you want him to stop?

Without Trump tweeting about it, do you think anybody would be talking about the conflict of interest that occurred in the Roger Stone case?  The blatant violation of a fair trial?

The only reason, the one, singular reason why anything is getting fixed in Washington D.C. is because Trump is tweeting about it, exposing the corrupt, pathetic pieces of shit in our government, and those corrupt pieces of shit are either fleeing from the light, or finally being forced to fix themselves.

I hope Trump never stops tweeting.

CASE IN FUCKING POINT:  DOJ won't pursue criminal charges against McCabe for lying to investigators.

McCabe, that Deep State lying fuckstain, lied his ass off at every opportunity, but he won't be charged with anything.  Can anyone out there list one of the charges they hit Roger Stone with?

Anybody?  Anyone?  Wanna take a guess?

Lying to the FBI.  So because Stone is a Trump supporter they throw the book at him, but one of the people who deliberately tried to destroy the Trump presidency and lied continually from the day Trump first took office, abusing his power every single day as they cooked up a fake Russia narrative, won't be charged with a fucking thing.  McCabe got fired for LYING, just in case you forgot.  He got caught LYING so badly that they couldn't even cover his ass, so he got shitcanned.  But now his Deep State buddies have determined that gosh, they just can't bring any charges against him despite doing just that to anyone connected to support of Donald Trump.

HEY THERE A.G. BARR!  DOES THIS MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO DO YOUR FUCKING JOB?!?!?!?!?!

The FBI lost any and all credibility years ago.  This is just the feces-crusted cherry on top of one gigantic shit sundae.  This is beyond laughable.  Why not just wear armbands with the DNC logo on them while you go about your Gestapo tactics there, Fibbies?  It's about the only thing you haven't done yet.

Stay Strapped, My Friends

Violent, homicidal Leftists are now attacking Trump supporters with a cane sword.

Victims reportedly told police that Whitehurst had approached them during their peaceful assembly with what was described as a cane sword. The assailant allegedly pointed the sword in their faces and made threatening statements, holding the blade 6 inches from their faces.

There are two outcomes if I'm in that crowd.  One, the good outcome, is that the cops show up to find me holding a gun on this fucking fascist turd while he's face-down in the grass waiting to be arrested.

Two, the bad option, is that I ventilate his ass for attacking me with a deadly weapon, and the cops show up to do the report.

There is no option where he attacks me with a sword and walks away.

We've moved on from "Democrats hate you and want you to die", we're now at "Democrats hate you and they want to kill you themselves".  Prepare accordingly.

Crap like this is why I don't give a shit about what Democrats have to say

Especially regarding the Roger Stone affair.

Under Obama and his radical attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the Justice Department became a hotbed of political favoritism, pretty much from day one.

I have picked five examples of Obama's allies being protected from justice in various ways by his administration that Democrats didn’t give a hoot about… and when you read them, you’ll understand why.

Let's face the facts, shall we?  We no longer live in a country guided by the rule of law.  The rule of law no longer matters, as proven by the fact that Hillary Clinton is still a free woman despite her felonies, the FBI agents who lied on the FISA applications and lied directly to a FISA judge's face are not being prosecuted, the people who lied about RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA and then lied about Ukraine are not being prosecuted, the people who aided and abetted in the corruption in Ukraine are not being prosecuted, the NSC apparatchiks who spent three years lying to the President and undermining his foreign policy are not being prosecuted, and the examples keep going on.

Every time you turn over a rock, you find a Democrat committing crimes and getting away with it, because the people running the show don't want their friends to get in trouble.  But Roger Stone gets the book thrown at him, complete with a SWAT team dragging him out of his house, over what, again?  Lying to the FBI?  All the FBI does is lie, directly, to everybody's face, but gosh, don't you dare make one little mis-step to them or it's nine years in the slammer!  Yeah, Roger Stone's prosecution isn't poltiical at all, is it?  Sorry, my eyes rolled so hard they fell out and are on the kitchen floor now.

So now the Democrats are screaming about how four of their political hitman goon allies are resigning from the DOJ, and screaming that DJT is somehow perverting justice.

Even if that was the case, which it is not, I wouldn't really care.  I don't care about it because the concept of justice no longer holds any weight at the Federal level.  The Democrats destroyed that concept, and they continue burying its corpse on a daily basis.  

There is no such thing as Justice at the federal level anymore.  The Democrats killed it.  Maybe, just maybe, after a sufficient number of Democrat criminals are in jail, I'll believe in justice once again.  But for right now, it doesn't exist, and DJT could hang Democrats from lamp-posts up and down Pennsylvania Avenue and I wouldn't blink an eye.  The Democrats have done their best to destroy the rule of law.  They don't get to whine and snivel about the law anymore.

New Computer problems

Like....  a touch-screen.  Who the hell puts a touch-screen on a computer?  Why can't I get a laptop without a touch-screen?  Who the hell puts their grubby, greasy paws on a touch-screen when you have a mouse or track pad or whatever they use as an interface these days?

I went to wipe a smudge off my screen and the damn thing flipped to the next webpage.  Took me a bit to figure out why, and to find out that I even had one of these things.

Seriously, why the hell would you put a touch-screen on a computer?  Were there not enough fecal bacteria on your phone, and so you have to spread your disease in a new way?

The father of a coke-snorting stripper-impregnator came in FIFTH in New Hampshire

Oh, and he's been a member of Washington D.C. longer than I've been alive, but he'll fix all your problems.  Really.  Or not, since he's in single digits.

Joe Biden skeedaddled to South Carolina, his "black wall" of black voters, supposedly.  But he's an unlikable asshole, so no matter how many black voters vote for him in S.C., his campaign is pretty much toast at this point.  He's spent so much time getting his ass kissed in Washington D.C. that getting challenged on ANYTHING gets under his skin.  Hence his calling a lady asking a simple question a "lying dog-faced pony-soldier".

Seriously, at that point, he should have been done and over.  But the media is looking at Bernie Sanders coming down on them like a freight train and the DNC is tied to the tracks, and they're desperately trying to make Joe Biden into a thing again.  Sanders isn't just a disaster waiting to happen to this country, he's a disaster for the DNC.  With him at the top of the ticket shouting at clouds and promising free puppies that everyone else will pay for, he'll suck up plenty of votes from San FranFreakShow and New York City (currently the home of Comrade Willhelm, aka Bill DeBlasio) but voters in a lot of purple states are going to run away from him like he's Satan himself.  And the DNC knows it.  But the DNC has been sucking commie cock for so long that they can't just toss him aside without losing half their voting base.  Hell, the commies ARE the DNC, and everybody knows it.  Nancy Pelosi holds the title of Speaker of the House, but she's just a sundowning alcoholic at this point.  The real power is held by A.O.C. and the squad, as proven by the Democrat's headlong fling into the shampeachment.  Nancy didn't want that.  Even her wine-soaked, botox-paralyzed brain knew that shampeachment was a bad idea.  But A.O.C. and her crew wanted it, so they got it, because Pelosi is nothing but a washed-up commie desperately trying to hold on to her power and the millions of dollars her corruption brings her, so she caved.

Howdya like THEM apples, Nancy?

Lie-a-watha finished fourth, just a few points ahead of Creepy Joe.  Petey Butt-plug finished second, but we'll see how he does in the South.  I'd say there's no way in hell the USA would elect an inexperienced homosexual child of communists and Marxists who was raised in an environment soaked in America hatred, but we already did.  He just happened to be black, so that got the vote of the black community.

Get out and vote.  Remember, Trump doesn't just have to beat the Democrat who's running, he also has to beat the massive amounts of voter fraud that will be going on.  The Democrats got caught with their pants down in 2016 when they thought they had the election won, so they didn't push as hard on the fraud as they could have.  They won't make that mistake again.

There's a part of my job that requires I schedule training events

For anywhere from 50-100 people, depending on the units involved.  So not huge, not thousand-person events, but let's take a gander at some numbers, shall we?

Let's say I wanted to put on a training event in Portland, OR.  Just a hypothetical situation.

Training events for the USAR are mostly held in the summer time.  It's when kids are out of school, obligations are lower, so you can actually get Soldiers to an event.  Summertime per diem for Portland is $192 for lodging, $61 for meals, and $5 for incidentals.  That's per day.  So that's $258 per day, per person.

Going with my last training event that I held, we can assume 60-70 attendees.  Again, this is a rough number, but it gives you an idea.  So that's $15,480 - $18,060 being spent just on lodging and food.  And that's just for the attendees, not the staff, instructors, and various other costs.  And that's PER DAY.  Most of my training events are four days.  So the total amount of money being spent is $61,920 to $72,240.

That's a lot of money.  And again, that's not travel costs, or car rentals, or any other costs.  That's just one factor that I have to figure out when I'm holding an event.

But rest assured, there is not a single reason in the world why I would ever hold a training event in a shithole like Portland.  Portland used to be beautiful.  It is now a stinking, feces-ridden shithole populated by garbage people, run by garbage people, and controlled by fascist garbage.  I won't ever hold a training event in that shithole garbage city, because I'm not going to risk my people being assaulted by the screaming mobs that control the place.

You couldn't pay me to visit Portland.  Why the hell would I want to spend money there?

Proving the opposite

I don't look at AOC's degree and go "Wow, she must be so smart!"  I look at her degree and ask "How in the hell did a woman with the IQ of naval lint graduate cum laude, and what the hell is wrong with that school?"

Any education system that can produce someone as staggeringly stupid as Ocasio-Cortez is doing something wrong. Taxpayers are paying good money and getting dismal results.

I have long stopped being impressed by a fancy university degree, and now I'm simply disgusted at how horrible our education system has become.  That AOC is walking around with a degree in economics, and yet still doesn't understand how unemployment percentages are calculated, is a stunning indictment of Boston University and it's entire Economics department.  I bet her cum laude had a lot more to do with the cum than the laude, IYKWIMAITYD.

Is that crude and rude?  Good.  Because the other option is she got high honors due to a complete and total collapse of any standards formerly held at what used to be a prestigious university.

How Refreshing

Trump is proposing a budget plan that would balance the budget in fifteen years.

Anyone remember when Republicans used to care about a balanced budget?  Remember when the Republican party made statements every year about how we were plunging headlong into debt that we couldn't recover from?

Of course, it was all words.  When they had the House, Senate and White House in 2004, what did they do with it?  Spend, spend, spend, baby!  And Obama made them look like a piker with his spending, but by then they had stopped all pretense of passing a budget and just rammed through massive, bloated Continuing Resolutions every year.

Paul Ryan put the nail in that particular coffin, when he bent over and sucked Obama's dick like a good little pussy when he became Speaker of the House.  And even after Trump got elected in 2016, Paul Ryan refused to put forth a budget, or even have a fight about the budget, even with Republican control of Congress and the Presidency.

I honestly believe that this is part of the reason the Republicans lost control of the House in 2018.  Why the hell should any R get support when all the do is act like a D?  When Trump was elected, how many bills were ready to go for his signature when he sat down in the White House?

None.  Zip, zilch, zero.  Budget?  Ha!  Reform bills?  Ha!  Anything that actually pushes forward a common-sense conservative agenda?  HA!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  I don't know if the Democrats had photos of Paul Ryan in compromising positions or what, but he did everything they wanted him to do, while shafting the Republicans who put him in his position.  He's gone now, far too late.  Same with Jeff Flake.  Same with John F'n Boehner.  Granny Rictus McWinebox is in control, at least until Election 2020.  We'll see what happens then.  Maybe we'll get people who actually care about representing the voters in office.

Maybe Trump can actually get them to do their jobs.  Maybe that's just a dream.

Well, the new computer works

I'm still getting used to the keyboard, and transitioning back to Windows from a MacBook, but I'm able to get things done again.  Which is why I sorta went radio silent on the weekend, as I furiously got my homework done after losing a week.

I still don't have any of my photos, documents or anything else like that.  As far as I know, it's all gone.  Kaput.  Blown away.  Eh.  I can't say I'm too broken up about that.

I need more coffee.

Got a doctor's appointment for the foot today.  That damn bone I broke in 2018 isn't getting any better, and I had a flare-up a couple of weeks ago.  We'll see what the doc can do about it, if anything.  The doctor in Mississippi told me that it was just something that people have to put up with, because there were no good options.  Running is getting to be problematic with it, but we'll see what the doctor says.  Taking the bone out entirely is an option, but that's surgery, and dammit, I don't have time for walking around in a cast or a boot.

Random tidbit - beef heart, ground up, makes awesome chili.  And meatloaf.

As Trump continues winning bigly, Democrats become increasingly homocidal

Bernie-Bro James Hodgekinson was just the beginning, and it keeps happening.

A 27-year-old man is under arrest and charged with aggravated assault after police say he drove a van into a Republican Party voter registration tent in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday.

This dick-bag tried to run over Republican volunteers, then got out of his van, flipped them the bird and ran off.  If you try to tell me that's not politically motivated, you're smoking crack.

It's just another in a long line of violent Democrats attacking peaceful Republicans.

Jorge Bergolio is a godless Marxist

Hey, Jorge?  Why don't you and your boyfriend go back to Argentina and try your Marxist bullshit there, hmmmm?

Tax cuts for the wealthy constitute a “structure of sin,” Pope Francis said Wednesday in a passionate address calling for international wealth redistribution.

Let's simplify something, shall we?  And this is something that anyone with a basic knowledge of theology would understand, which apparently does not include Jorge the Commie Pedo.  Forced charity IS NOT CHARITY, IT IS THEFT.

“Today’s structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development,” Francis told the meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences.

This godless commie is a wolf in shepherd's clothing.  Forcing people to give their money to the government does nothing for your soul.  It will not lead you to salvation.  It does NOTHING to expunge your obligation to help the poor, because you are not helping the poor.  You are simply enriching the corrupt and powerful, while signaling your unearned virtue of "charity".  And meanwhile, as the corrupt and powerful siphon tax dollars into their own pockets, the people who actually need charity don't get it because the money that would go to charity has been taken away from the people who could give it.

Here's a little experiment for you.  Go take a gander at how many of your local hospitals have a saint's name in there somewhere, or how many end in "Presbyterian" or "Methodist" or "Lutheran".  Those organizations were running hospitals for everyone, long before the government decide to financially rape everybody with a job.  Many of them continue to do the Lord's work despite the governmental interference, because it is what God has called them to do.  Little Sisters of the Poor, anyone?

The government is not charity, because the government takes your money against your will and uses it for whatever the corrupt and powerful wish to use it on, which leads to the government using tax dollars of Christians to pay for abortion on demand through Planned Parenthood, which uses some of that money to pay off politicians, who then make sure that Planned Baby-Parts-For-Cash gets even more money.  That is not charity.

Charity cannot be forced.  Charity that is forced on a person is simply theft with a fancy hat.  If you stick a gun in my face and take all my money, and then give that money to a single mother in Detroit, IT IS STILL THEFT.  In order for Charity to exist, it must be given freely out of a person's understanding of God's love and God's will.  That means that government programs can never be, and will never be, charity.  Charity is the supernatural love of God, expressed through his followers here on earth.  It is not yet another government hand-out.

I cannot believe that a topic this simple would get skipped in seminary, so I'm forced to conclude that Jorge the Commie Sodomite knows this simple fact, and choses to ignore it in favor of the santanic, ungodly ideology that he worships instead of worshiping the one true God and savior.

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI, the one true pope.  Jorge Bergolio is the anti-Pope, doing Satan's will on this earth.

Let's talk some more about how Democrats hate America and Normal Americans

Let's talk about the "New Way Forward" act, shall we?  Here we have the Democrats trying to pass a law that would:

Decriminalize illegal entry into the USA.

Force the USA to pay to bring criminal immigrants back to the USA and pay them money so they can sue people.

Force the USA to allow immigrant pedophiles, rapists, drug dealers and human traffickers to stay in this country.

And much more America-destroying crap.

Folks, the Democrats prove they hate America.  They hate you.  They don't want freedom-loving individuals, they want government-dependent little slaves.  They want to turn the entire country into a mix of Baltimore and Venezuela.  Don't take my word for it.  Look at what they're doing.

UPDATE:  Here's a much better summary of the bill.  It's worse than bad.  It's horrible.  It would end America as we know it.  This bill is the ejaculation of every America-hating Democrat who wants to "fundamentally change" this country.  It's bad enough that I wouldn't object to having every sponsor of this bill hung for treason.

And again, Democrats prove that they love Illegal Aliens more than they care about Americans

Un-fucking-believable.

And the Democrat's middle finger towards Americans gets worse.  For some reason I can't quote the article, maybe because I'm using Microsoft Edge, which is akin to working with baling twine and plyers when working on a car.  So go read it yourself.

He's a lot calmer about it than I would be

But that's why he's a senator and I'm not.

Leading to the vote that acquitted President Trump, Scott spoke for nine minutes about how fairness was completely lacking in the impeachment process and how crucial it is to our rule of law. If you closed your eyes for a second you might have thought Ward Cleaver was having a heart-to-heart with the Beaver upstairs in the bedroom.

I like having Tim Scott on my side.

And I'm off to go shovel some more snow

Although with the snow in the mountains, I can just sweep the driveway as long as my neighbor hasn't salted it like he's a sumo wrestler and the driveway is the most important tourney of his life.

I noticed that a lot of people seem to do that.  Throw salt like it's going out of style.  The problem with that is all it does is melt the snow, and then when it re-freezes you get a layer of ice with snow on top.  Not good for cars or people.  I shovel his sidewalk quite a bit when I have time, just to keep him from throwing salt on top of snow.  I shovel my other neighbor's walk as well, but that's just because she's in her 90's and doesn't need to be running a shovel up and down the sidewalk.  Not if I can help it, anyways.

Also, if you have to throw salt, a mix of salt and sand does wonders for your tires gripping.  Some of you Southern people will have no clue what I'm talking about.  Some of you Northern people are going to wonder why I use a shovel when there's snowblowers and plows available.  It ain't that serious.

So, Mittens Romney voted to convict Trump on Article 1

Something tells me he's going to get a primary challenger when his time rolls around.  Romney had a lot of goodwill stored up in Utah due to the way he managed the 2002 Winter Olympics, which in all fairness, he pulled a mess out of the dumpster and produced a damn good event.  Credit where credit is due.  But that credit just got wadded up and tossed back into the dumpster, because outside of urban Salt Lake City, Utah is still a deep red state.  And SLC doesn't have enough people to function like Los Angeles or San Franfreakshow.  All you have to do is drive half an hour in any direction, and you're in Trump country.  These people do not appreciate the clown show impeachment that's been going on, and Romney is going to find himself hard pressed to defend his vote.  Hell, Ben McAdams, the lone Democrat from Utah, is already facing five or six Republicans all gunning for his seat, and after he threw his lot in with the Marxists, he stands a good shot of losing his seat.

All this to say, when you find yourself standing on the side of Chuck Schumer, you're on the wrong side.  Romney just cast his lot with the anti-American Marxists, and he's going to pay for it.  Will it be enough to get him booted?  Maybe.  Probably.  I guess we'll find out.

So, did you watch the SOTU address?

Just a couple of random thoughts - there doesn't need to be a standing ovation every thirty seconds, folks.  Although, while it was somewhat annoying to watch on TV, it had to be driving the Donks absolutely crazy.  So, eh.

Although maybe the Republicans were just making up for the Donks sitting on their hands, while Trump listed off accomplishment after accomplishment.  The Democrats couldn't even clap for a little girl getting a scholarship for a school of her choice.  Rashida Tlib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur couldn't bother to clap for the last Tuskeegee Airman.  Democrats really do hate America, and they hate Normal Americans.

And of course, in a move that was as classless as it was tone-deaf, Granny Rictus McBotox, San Fran Nan, the Botoxed Bitch of the Bay Area, ripped up her copy of Trump's speech on live TV.

I did notice at one point that as several Donk women stood to clap for something, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ran over to scold them and tell them to sit back down.  The Democrat's loathing for American success is palpable.

Trump's guests were spot on.  And the Democrats hatred of Trump's guests was almost a physical object.

Anyways, back to the salt mines.

Well, crap

Computer died.  I'm typing this on the Mrs. old laptop.  I figure I'll have to go out and get a computer some time in the next few days.  So posting may be light in the upcoming days.

Not to mention that work is still taking up a whole lot of time.  Gotta pay the bills, ya know.

Weed smokers need more anesthetic

Just another reason to avoid using it.

Along with anecdotal reports, a 2019 study found that patients who reported smoking weed or ingesting edibles on a daily or weekly basis needed more than double the amount of the anesthetic propofol for endoscopic procedures (like colonoscopies) than non-users. They also needed 19.6% more midazolam and 14% more fentanyl.

Look, I know some folks out there use it for medicinal purposes, but let's be honest shall we?  That accounts for a very, very small percentage of actual users.  The vast majority of weed smokers are just getting high every day, and unlike cigarettes or alcohol, there's a culture in America that cheers for the constant intoxication of a generation via cannabis.  Cheering on marijuana use is like cheering on chugging a pint of whiskey and smoking two packs of cigarettes.

We haven't even begun to see the damage that is occurring, both to individuals and to society at large, and by the time you will see it it will be too late to do anything about it. 

It's snowing sideways today

The bosses at work took a look at the weather forecast yesterday, and said "Hey Dave, why don't you take your computer home just in case?"  And sure as shooting, my phone buzzed nice and early to say "Hey Dave, just stay home and answer emails from your living room, because there's no way in hell you're getting up that hill you have to climb to get here.  Bunches of people have already tried and failed."

So I'm posting whilst answering emails from people all over the country.  Yay!

I'm not being too sarcastic, I'm sitting in my sweats sipping coffee when I could be stuck in an office.  Could I get up that hill?  Yes.  I know how to drive in the snow.  But pj's and coffee!

Out the door early again

So light posting.  But I have a blogroll, after all.

It's brilliant, and I'm stealing it

From Instapundit.

John Bolton hired the Vindman Twins?

Hell, that's reason enough to fire the moron right then and there.

The American people have John Bolton, and only John Bolton, to blame for the presence of the self-serving Vindman twins on the NSC staff. We have only Bolton to blame for empowering this gossipy pair and their confidants who have made a mockery of the common-sense security precept of “need to know.”

I don't care who you are, you don't hire two brothers to work on the same security organization.  You just don't do it - the appearance of impropriety alone should be enough to put a halt to that.  But to have the two sanctimonious pieces of shit actively working against President Trump?

Bolton and his leaked manuscript can kiss my ass.

Hey Brits! How does it feel to no longer be a vassal state to unelected assholes?

Nigel Farage pulls what has to be the most satisfying move.

At this point, the chair, European Parliament vice-president Mairead McGuiness, began losing her sense of humor and started scolding Farage and the British delegation who did what a free people should do to overbearing bureaucrats. They mocked her and left waving their flags.

Cheers, mate!  I need to go buy some good British ale and have a pint in celebration with them.

Progressive/Liberals are always tyrants

Always.  Without exception.

Don't think that liberals aren't looking at what the government is doing in Canada, and not wishing and dreaming they could put that in place in America.  Ezra Levant has giant brass balls, and he's going to need them now that Canada has decided that actual journalism is verboten, and their Blackface Jesus needs to be protected at all costs.

Stupid woman acts stupidly, acts shocked when consequences come down

Folks, if you don't want to be bound by a moral code that you have to follow as a condition of employment, maybe don't work for a CATHOLIC school?

A Roman Catholic private school teacher in Pennsylvania who was fired from her job for an unwed pregnancy with her boyfriend lost another bid to get her job back, but she will be allowed to proceed with her discrimination lawsuit. 

(......) 

"I feel like I'm a rewriting of 'The Scarlet Letter' at this point, just minus the affair," Reich said at the time.

You stupid, self-absorbed, narcissistic moron - you are unmarried, shacking up with your fuck-toy, you got knocked up while unmarried, you told the school you have no intention of getting married, and you signed a contract that included a morality clause because this is a RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION!  Now, I'll give you props for not aborting the child, but on every other standards, you are wrong.  The school has every right to fire you, especially since you plan to remain unmarried while carrying on with your baby-daddy.

This is a CATHOLIC SCHOOL.  One of the big tenants of Catholic doctrine is no sex outside marriage.  You cannot expect a CATHOLIC school to just toss their doctrine aside for you, you precious little snowflake.  If you don't want to follow a moral code, go work for a public school. 

But suing a CATHOLIC school for following their doctrine just proves what a pathetic cow you are. 

If you go read this gent's experience with communism

And it's not a glowing review, so rest easy on that...  Just remember that this is how the Democrats want Americans to live.  This is their dream.  This is their hope.  This is what they want to do to the entirety of this country, every man woman and child.

Hell, just look at the Democrat controlled cities, and how people flee them if they can.  Detroit.  Baltimore.  Chicago.  That's just a small little taste of what the Democrats want to do to this country.

Is there anything the government can't destroy?

Also known as "Tell me about how important and mighty those universities are again, eh?"

Thus, our nation’s institutions no longer perform their role as Eisenhower’s fountainhead of free ideas and discovery. Instead, American universities often produce corrupt, incompetent, or scientifically meaningless research that endangers the public, confounds public policy, and diminishes our nation’s preparedness to meet future challenges. 

Nowhere is the intellectual and moral decline more evident than in public health research. From 1970 to 2010, as taxpayer funding for public health research increased 700 percent, the number of retractions of biomedical research articles increased more than 900 percent, with most due to misconduct. Fraud and retractions increased so precipitously from 2010 to 2015 that private foundations created the Center for Scientific Integrity and “Retraction Watch” to alert the public.

One reason non-government organizations lead the battle to improve science is that universities and federal funding agencies lack accountability and often ignore fraud and misconduct. There are numerous examples in which universities refused to hold their faculty accountable until elected officials intervened, and even when found guilty, faculty researchers continued to receive tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars. Those facts are an open secret: When anonymously surveyed, over 14 percent of researchers report that their colleagues commit fraud and 72 percent report other questionable practices. The problem goes well beyond the known frauds. 

The list of elite institutions at which high-profile faculty commit misconduct is growing rapidly.

The days of a college degree being worth something just because it's a college degree are going away, and it's because of crap like this.  An undergraduate education is becoming worthless because the institutions producing them are worthless.  And if I'm being honest, a whole lot of graduate degrees are equally worthless in the real world.  I can't tell you how many essays I had to correct for grammer and spelling from graduate degree students when I was in recruiting.  Look folks, it's a single page essay, one-inch margins, twelve point font, DOUBLE SPACED, so we're talking two paragraphs at most.  Some could do it.  Some couldn't.  GRADUATE DEGREES HERE, PEOPLE, AND THEY CAN'T WRITE TWO FUCKING PARAGRAPHS WITHOUT HELP.  Help from non-college educated me.

Colleges and universities, by and large, no longer function as systems of higher education.  They're Marxist indoctrination centers designed to close a person's mind permanently so that they produce a good little drone with credentials.  It's the credentials that are important, you see.  The credentials let you know who you can trust. 

Give me ten grunts with honorable discharge papers, and I'll move a city.  Give me ten graduates of a liberal arts program from any public university, and I won't be able to do crap because they're pretty much worthless.

Failure isn't an impediment to Democrats

So, here's a news article about how the New York City Schools Chancellor has helped destroy any credibility that NYC schools had left, as well as flipping of parents of a child who was brutalized at a NYC school.  That story is bad enough.  But what makes it worse is this: 

In San Francisco, Carranza left behind a desert. The otherwise glowing Atlantic profiler had to admit: “According to a report by Innovate Public Schools, a Bay Area nonprofit, in 2016, at the end of Carranza’s tenure, only 19 percent of African-American students were on grade level in reading, and 13 percent in math.” 

That’s abject failure, and Carranza has to be stopped from replicating the same here.

I saw much the same behavior when I lived in Seattle.  Way back when, before I was blogging, I worked at the Experience Music Project.  Now, the EMP was Paul Allen's pet museum, designed for his enjoyment.  I don't know if it was every supposed to be more than a tax write-off, but it lost money every year, including the year I worked there.  At some point, they fired the Operations Officer and brought in a woman from right next door.  Literally.  She had run the Seattle Center for two years before he was hired at the EMP.  And why was she available for hire?  Because in the time she ran the Seattle Center, she had successfully dropped its attendance by a significant percentage, and violated the contract with the security officer's union that resulted in a $2.5 MILLION LAWSUIT that the Seattle Center lost.

So, having driven away paying customers and losing a $2.5 million in a lawsuit, naturally she got picked up by the EMP.  Within six months, over 58% of the workforce was laid off.

She knew the right people.  She had the right politics.  And she ruined yet another business and ran it into the ground. 

I don't know what's happened to the EMP since I moved away from Seattle, but I can guarantee one thing:  The culture has only gotten worse.  Failure isn't actually punished if you're a commie, because the other commies will still hire you to make sure that the "in crowd" stays together.  It's one incestuous dumpster-fire of failure and politics mixed together in a sewer.  This goon from NYC will destroy the city schools (well, destroy them more, anyways) and when he leaves he will inevitably get hired on by another liberal shithole of a city to ruin their schools some more as well, because this is what happens in liberal shitholes.  Who you know is more important than what you know.  Your politics are more important than your abilities.

And this is just a reminder that putting your children into the publik skool sistim is essentially child abuse, and it consigns your children to a lifetime of ignorance and abuse.

The fact that these criminals aren't in jail is part of why the next civil war is going to happen.

Democrats teaching illegal aliens how to vote.

Democrats, teaching people who are here illegally how to commit another crime.  Because it benefits the Democrats.

Fuck jail  Bring on the gallows.

So a basketball player died

Yeah, I don't watch basketball, and I understand that he died young, but he had accomplished everything he wanted to in his life.  Don't cry for him.  Cry for his daughter who died with him, because she never got the chance to grow up.

Pop music used to be like this

But that takes talent.  LOADS of talent.  Which modern pop musicians just don't have.

I blame the commies, of course.

Well, yee-haw!

This is like one big jam session.  My kinda music. 



And anybody who can appreciate "The Aristocats" like I can, well...

If you have young kids, and you aren't showing them the old classics, shame on you!

And if you're an old fart like me who just enjoys the classics?  Good on ya.

Don Surber writes of the 4th anniversary of National Review's suicide.

Has it really been four years already?  It seems much longer than that.

It may be difficult to believe in this enlightened age but there was a time not so long ago when the National Review was the intellectual heart of America's conservative movement. Its writers were sharp, gifted and irreverent. Their appearances on Fox News and other TV outlets made them rock stars. 

All that ended on January 22, 2016, when the magazine posted online its "Against Trump" issue. Once again, the editors proudly chose to stand athwart history rather than make it. They chose to lose with what they consider honor rather than win.

I remember that edition.  I remember Kevin Williamson's snarling contempt for anybody who didn't acquiesce to his demands that Trump be deemed verboten, which started well before that edition and continued well after it. 

How's that working out for you guys, anyways?

Everything the writers at National Review said they wanted done, he's done. 

A conservative publication by now would have admitted it was wrong, apologized, and celebrated. 

These witless apes want him impeached. On the fourth anniversary of its suicidal Against Trump editorial, the magazine's staff ran an editorial, "Impeachment Doesn’t Require a Crime." 

Madison, Mason and Hamilton say, Wha'???

My dad, a hard-core conservative, and an early subscriber to National Review, cancelled his subscription after the "Against Trump" edition.  I did the same.  I'm sad to say that I'm glad I did it, because for all I can tell the National Review is so sunk into it's hatred of Trump that they're pretty much incoherent at this point.  Never-Trumpers as a whole have gone off the deep end and keep swimming away from any sane, stable rock.

The Never Trumpers first told us in 2016 that Trump was a Manhattan liberal. Then they told us he really wouldn’t pick good judges. Then they told us he really wouldn’t deregulate the economy. They told us he really wouldn’t be on the right side of race, voting, and culture. They told us he would start World War Three. They told us Trump really wouldn’t enact pro-life policies. 

Then Trump gave the pro-life movement the heft of the presidency on a cold January afternoon. 

Never Trumpers have been crying wolf since the 2016 GOP primaries. They are a modern Millerite doomsday cult. It’s time nobody takes them seriously.

National Review is irrelevant to the discussions at hand, and I don't see them gaining their relevancy back any time soon, if ever.  Ah, well.  There's plenty of other people I can enjoy reading.

Everybody knew about Epstein

Who didn't kill himself, by the way.  Because not only did everybody know about Epstein, everybody was in on the action.

Cindy McCain, the widow of late Sen. John McCain, blasted authorities who were "afraid" to arrest convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein even though everyone "knew" what he was doing. 

"Epstein was hiding in plain sight," said Cindy McCain. "We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing, but we had no one that was — no legal aspect that would go after him. They were afraid of him. For whatever reason, they were afraid of him." 

McCain's comments came after she was questioned by an attendee during her appearance at the State of the World 2020 conference in Florida.

Every.  Body.  Knew.  And everybody was neck deep in it, because our so-called "ruling class" are a bunch of amoral, depraved, power-hungry, corrupt pieces of shit.  Everybody knew about Epstein.  Everybody knew about Kennedy too, and they didn't do shit about him either.  Not his sexual assaults, not his philandering, not his collution with the USSR back in 1984, not a damn bit of it.  Because again, our so-called "ruling class" are a bunch of amoral, depraved, power-hungry, corrupt pieces of shit, who were more than happy to allow rich men to abuse women and children for their own political gain.

These are just the secrets that we know about.  Imagine what we haven't found out yet.

Oh, and if Cindy McCain knew, then John McCain knew, and he didn't do jack or shit about it.  Assuming his brain cancer allowed him to remember to tie his own shoes at that point.

Democrat media organs furiously masturbating over Adam Schiff

I'll wait while you stop vomiting from that mental image.

In any case, the usual suspects are using up a year's supply of KY and Astroglide over the bug-eyed pervert's turn at the podium.  I only wish I was kidding.  I think I could actually see Pissy Chrissy Matthews run that tingle up and down his leg while cranking his yank under the table.

Having actually watched some of said presentation by that pencil-necked sexual deviant, I can say that it's nothing but a whole lot of bullshit, and anyone who is impressed by it is mentally deficient and unable to be trusted with sharp objects.

The same people who orgasm every time that creepy liar's face shows on the telly are the same people who would never ever report about Adam Schiff's connection to the now-jailed pervert and drug addict, Ed Buck.  You know, the guy who had gay black men over for methamphetamine-fueled sex, where at least two men died?

Gosh, I wonder why Adam Schiff doesn't want any details of his multiple and extensive relationship with Ed Buck to come out?

Given that this all happens in California, and the chair of the LA Democrat Party is kinda deep into the pedo perv himself, don't expect anybody to clean this up from the inside.

I knew that Schiff had the Uncle Bad-Touch vibe, I just didn't know how deep into the filth he truly was.  The Democrat Media Complex are doing their best to make sure that none of this comes out.  Of course they are.  Wouldn't want their current love interest to actually be exposed as the creepy lyin pervert he is, would they?

Alexandria DonkeyChompers McBigtits opens her piehole once again

What an unbelievably stupid, ignorant, bitter woman.

She addressed a hypothetical "widget" billionaire in her remarks. 

"You didn't make those widgets, did you? Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you," Ocasio-Cortez said. "You didn't make those widgets. You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern-day slave wages, and in some cases real modern-day slavery."

I just want to point out that this unbelievably ignorant Marxist moron has a "degree" in "economics" from Boston College.  This woman can't tie her own shoelaces together without instruction, people.  If that doesn't show you the devaluation of a fancy degree, I don't know what does.  There's not a single business owner out there who's just sitting on a couch counting their money while other people make their widgets.  And if Alexandria DonkeyChompers McBigtits wasn't such a blithering idiot Marxist, she might know that.

Or even worse, maybe she does know that, but she's blatantly lying for political gain.  Which makes her an even worse kind of communist.  The kind that needs to be given a free helicopter ride.

One big party of sin, filth, and corruption

Via Ann Barnhardt, and with her urging, I link to this post that connects a lot of pedophile dots within the so-called "leadership" of the Catholic Church and antipope Jorge Bergolio.  Do feel free to read it all if you're Catholic.  But I want to highlight this last little bit:

September 12^th Pope Francis issued a statement inviting world leaders and young people to gather at the Vatican on May 14, 2020, for an event called “Reinventing the Global Educational Alliance.” He stated that “a global educational pact is needed to educate us in universal solidarity and a new humanism.”

HUMANISM?

Humanism is antithetical to Catholic doctrine, folks.  More evidence that antipope Bergolio doesn't actually believe a word of the faith he professes to lead.

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI, the real Pope.

Shampeachment debacle

Whomever on the Democrat side thought it would be a good idea for Pencil-Neck Schiff for Brains and Nadler the Hutt to be the Democrat spokespeople, thank you.

I can't think to two more grotesque parodies of humanity to put on TV.  Did Trump pay you to do this?

Or maybe you think the creepy, bug-eyed Uncle Badtouch persona would play outside of Hollywood?

Well, that didn't work

So the Mrs. is putting more meat in our diet because of the results of a blood test that showed she needed more iron and vitamin D.  We're trying out organ meats.  We used beef heart in chili, and that worked out really well.  Tonight was liver.

Liver and onions.  We'd never had it before, and we asked "How bad could it be?"

Pretty damn bad, actually.  No bueno.

So next we're going to try to grind it up and mix it with ground beef to make burgers.  We're trying to figure out how to get the nutrients without just eating it straight.

My dad loves liver and onions.  Apparently that's not exactly genetic.

How 'bout you put the fucking fork down, lady?

Another gravitationaly-challenged porker squeals about how unfair it is that people judge her on her weight.  (link goes to David Thompson's blog)

Fat academics need to be more vocal in calls for increased structural accessibility such as larger desks or substitutions for tables and chairs, greater ease in access to elevators, and more. Yet in addition to structural changes that campuses could make to help people of size be more comfortable -- such as providing larger bathrooms, chairs without arms and larger auditorium seating -- we need to discuss more techniques to combat stigma within classrooms.

Nope.  With the exception of people who have a medical condition (thyroid, cancer, etc), the problem with people being fat is themselves.  And if you're fat, and you're offended, I'm not sorry.  I have to maintain a certain weight and body fat percentage to stay in the Army.  I have to work every day to make sure I'm eating right, and working out, so that I maintain my fitness even though I'm stuck behind a desk doing fuck-all for physical exertion ten to twelve hours a day.  It takes self control to not eat ice cream every night.  We just don't buy it.  We don't bring it in to the house.  It takes self control to cook your own food instead of eating processed crap every day.  Again, we just don't buy the crap or bring it in to the house, which forces us to cook real food.  Yes, it takes effort.  It's what we used to call "being an adult".

What this academic wants is for people to applaud her complete and total lack of self control while she stuffs her face with all the things that makes her fat.  That's like a slut demanding that people applaud their genital warts.  "LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEE!  MY INABILITY TO CONTROL MYSELF HAS GIVEN ME A MEDICAL CONDITION AND MULTIPLE DISEASES!  YOU MUST WORSHIP ME NOW!"

To hell with that crap.  Nobody admires a 400 pound blob for their fatness, and nobody should do so.  If Jabba the grad student wants approval for something, maybe she should take the time to lose the weight and show the world that she can actually control herself.  Otherwise, piss off.

Crap like this is why I take college classes online.  If I had to sit in a class being lectured by a feminazi land-whale, I'd be kicked out of school faster than this sow gobbles down a triple cheeseburger with bacon.  She doesn't need acceptance.  She needs to put her fork down.

Look, we all pack on a few pounds here or there, but if you have to clean between the folds of flab, you're a fattie.  If your blood type could be "Jello Pudding", you're a fattie.  If you have to reach around the mound of flesh to wipe your own ass, you're a fattie.  And if you have to get special chairs and desks made to accommodate your bulk, you're a fattie.

Put down the fork.  Step away from the fork, and the spoon.  Eat a salad, without the quart of ranch dressing.  Hell, put down the ranch dressing because most of them are made with absolute crap.  Cook real food that you bought at the supermarket.  Learn how to cook healthy.  Don't know how?  Try looking it up on your smart phone, which even people on welfare have, and which can get you access to the ENTIRETY OF THE WORLD'S KNOWLEDGE IN FIVE SECONDS.

But don't ask me to applaud you while you waddle your quarter-ton ass to your specially reinforced chair.  Ain't gonna happen.

Things can go to hell in twenty years

Just take a look at National Review.  At this point, they've gone from being a freedom-defending publication, to having to be scolded for implying that Jews are responsible for Antisemitism.

Seriously, I used to keep old stacks of National Review in my house so that I could bone up on any topic that I was going to have to argue about with my co-workers.  Now?  I wouldn't take a copy of NR if you paid me to do so.  I knew their boat was sinking when my dad, who had subscribed to NR from the beginning, said he was dropping his subscription.  He couldn't handle their whiny soiboi anti-Trump-all-the-time bullshit. 

He's also ditched his Forbes subscription.  We've gone from having Thomas Sowell on a monthly basis to liberal Democrats extolling the virtues of socialism in every episode.  Dad used to read it religiously, as he was an investor for decades.  Stocks, bonds, real estate, you name it and dad probably invested in it.  And a couple of years ago he decided that he didn't need to be preached to by some snot-nosed know-nothing kid with a fancy degree and no experience what so ever in anything resembling the real world, which is pretty much the entire slate of Forbes writers these days, with an exception here or there.

It doesn't take long, once you stop defending civilization, for the Morlocks to take over.  They've taken over NR, they've taken over Forbes.  Hell, they've taken over vast swathes of our government because they were installed there by the proto-morlocks of the 60's and 70's.  The freedom we had in this country is essentially gone.  No kids today are going to remember riding in the back of pick-up trucks.  Hell, parents are getting visits from the police for the crime of letting their children walk to school alone.  The safety nazis of today would shit a brick if they saw what my brother and I used to do when we were kids.  I was six, he was nine, we lived in a suburb, we had bicycles, and mom would shoo us out the door in the morning.  We'd come back when we were hungry, and she'd shoo us out the door again.  Figure that for the sixteen waking hours we had, we were indoors for maybe three of them.

Unless they're growing up in the country, away from the cities and Morlock nests they contain, most kids can't even comprehend growing up the way my generation did.  And that is how a civilization dies.

Lazy Day

The smoked sausages are awesome.  Mesquite goes quite well with game meats. 

I can't say I've done much at all today.  In fact, I've stayed off the computer for the majority of the day. 

See you tomorrow.