The Allergy Season that Never Ends

Apparently, this is a really bad year for allergies in Mississippi.

I can't breathe.



Even the dog is having allergy problems right now.

A little more Mean Mary

Way back when I was a young buck, I helped play the "drums" for a recital.  I might just tell that later.

Got a big boss man showing up today

So I get to lead him around and make sure that he gets taken care of.  Because I don't trust a damn senior person in that building to do it themselves. 

There's no ass-kissing, but I have to make sure he's in-processed, to include the money people and the computer people.  So I'm going to be rather busy today.

Apropos of nothing, if the people of East Lansing are so horrified about Catholics not celebrating teh gays, I can't wait to see what they think of their Muslim neighbors in Dearbornistan.  But it's almost like all the hatred only goes one way.  Huh.  Go figure.

Five Reasons to Build The Wall



I'm now at the point where I think that the wall will never truly get built, because the people in D.C. don't want it built.  At some point, the bloodshed that is occurring will make it to T.V., and then god knows what's going to happen.  As it is, I'm absolutely certain that there is a huge amount of "Shoot, Shovel, Shut Up" going on that never makes the nightly news.  If I had drug traffickers destroying my ranch land?  A night scope and a 30-06 takes care of quite a bit of problematic people.

Candice Owens just whipped Nadler and Lieu in person

Couldn't have happened to a worse couple of pathetic shitstains.

Candace Owens: "I think it's pretty apparent that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip…That was unbelievably dishonest…I'm deeply offended by the insinuation of revealing that clip without the question that was asked of me." pic.twitter.com/UioMSZK93d

— CSPAN (@cspan) April 9, 2019

Nadler is a turd.  Lieu is a turd.  They are both a symptom of just how far down the drain America has gone. And of course, they're both Democrats.

And Ted Lieu deserves to be punched in the face on a daily basis for being such an unmitigated asshole.

Hack hack cough

It was a yellow alert day yesterday thanks to all the pollen in the air.  It'll be another yellow day today.  And that means that your humble narrator is hacking up chunks of lung-butter.

It's disgusting.  What's worse is that all this congestion eventually turns into an illness that puts me flat on my ass for a few days.

Grrrrrr.

I'll be the guy swigging Airborne like it's whiskey and I'm an old cowboy from the 1880's.

It's sad that this even needs to be said, but this is the world we live in

Being a Fatty McFatCakes is NOT a service related disability.  Senior officers/NCOs in the USAR and ARNG hardest hit.

Obesity cannot be considered a service-connected disability, according to a new ruling by the Department of Veterans Affairs General Counsel expected to be published in the April 8, 2019, edition of the Federal Register. The new ruling, among several precedent opinions set to be included, reinforces the VA's long-standing opinion that obesity isn't a disease or injury according to the law for wartime or peacetime compensation and can't be considered directly related to military service for compensation purposes. 

The number of people I've seen waddling up to the door of my unit, with their uniform stretched to the breaking point, makes me rather angry.  I actively work to either get the people I am responsible for to be A) in shape, or B) out of the Army if they can't put the fork down.

If you have an injury that prevents you from working out, then you should be getting compensation for that injury.  But if you're a fat-ass, and you can't be bothered to do a minimum of exercise, that's on YOU, not the Army.  I've been unable to run for the past six months thanks to a fractured sesamoid bone in my foot, but I've found other ways to exercise so that I don't get fat.  Getting fat is bad, m'kay?  Especially when the Army will kick you out for being fat, and I rather enjoy being able to see Mr. Happy when I look down.  Which is a total non sequitur, but it's still rather important to the Mrs.

While the VA treats obesity as a disease for which treatment is warranted, the distinction is in the words "service-connected." The VA simply does not see it as a condition that was a result of military service, and therefore for which compensation is payable. 

Oh yes, obesity is treatable.  Stop drinking beer.  Stop eating fried everything with fried sauces on top. 

When I was stationed in Wisconsin, I worked with another Soldier from Georgia who was so fat even his fingers were plump.  He did enjoy his fried chicken.  He retired sometime in 2012, and was dead from a massive heart attack by 2014.  He had probably gained another 50-100 pounds from his rather hefty retirement weight. 

I think he was 51 or so.

Put the fork down.  Eat an apple instead of a donut.  Cut down on the beer, like I did.  And I love beer, folks.  I really, really do like beer, but it makes me fat so out it went.  My diet has had to change multiple times depending on what it was doing to my body, and I figure that it'll change a couple more times once I retire and grow a beard and put up signs around my house saying "Trespassers will be shot; Survivors will be shot again".  But don't ever blame anyone else for you being fat.  If you're fat, it's because YOU made the choices that made you fat.  The VA shouldn't have to pay for that.

You want reparations?

Reparations for what?  I've never owned slaves, and there ain't a black man alive in America today who was forced to pick cotton.

Tell ya what - how's about we make a deal with this whole "reparations" thing.  Any black person who wants reparations can have them.  And they can get them just as soon as they give up their American citizenship, step on a plane, and go to any African country of their choice.  Go back to their motherland, if they're so caught up in their blackness and all that entails.  Hell, I'd be willing to put them on a boat just so they can carry more of their personal belongings, and drop them off on any country in Western Africa.  They get the cash, they get on the boat (a cargo boat, not a cruise ship), they leave and NEVER COME BACK.

Then, and only then, will I consider the possibility of reparations of acts that occurred prior to anyone in my family arriving on these shores.  Until then, they can all kiss my ass.

Stupid vile woman proves her stupidity and vileness (A post on Dr. Charlotte Riley)

So I go for this quote: 

During the twentieth century, Britain sank from being the world’s foremost power to a marginal colony of Brussels where you can go to jail over a Facebook post. The empire that ruled the seas is now an emasculated political basket case that seemingly cannot import invaders fast enough to satisfy its thirst for virtue signaling.  

And end up reading crap like this:

A few days ago, I was having a bad morning: my train tickets were expensive, my train was delayed, and my coffee was cold. But I cheered myself up by playing a game on my commute. The game is called Patriarchy Chicken, and the rules are simple: do not move out of the way for men.

(.......)

The point of Patriarchy Chicken is not just that you get where you’re going marginally faster (although you do) or that you irritate a number of men (which you also do). The point is that men have been socialised, for their entire lives, to take up space. Men who would never express these thoughts out loud have nevertheless been brought up to believe that their right to occupy space takes precedent over anyone else’s right to be there. They spread their legs on tubes and trains, they bellow across coffee shops and guffaw in pubs, and they never, ever give way. 

Now, if you're reading that and thinking to yourself "My, it seems that this author is a Leftist douche-canoe who lives in order to make everything around her more miserable and more evil", you'd be correct.  She's a academic.  And "intellectual", even.

The fact that this stupid cow goes out of her way to ignore the basic norms for general civility ought to tell you all you need to know about her.  But it also shows that this academic turd blossom it absolutely full of shit as she rages about the men who keep her civilization running.  Men do not go out of their way to annoy people.  That's a good way to get a fist to the face.  The reason so many men get perplexed at this woman is that if it were another man, they would react accordingly.  But men are conditioned to treat women with respect, and when we see a female walking genital wart acting in such a fashion it throws us for a loop.  We can't punch her in the face, AND SHE KNOWS IT.

That's the rub, right there.  This is why this blithering sack of maggot vomit needs to be publicly humiliated:  Because she's protected by her vagina, and she knows it.  If she jabs her elbow into a man's ribs, she wins.  If he reacts in any way other than to mumble an apology and move on, she wins again.  And she knows it.  She rages about the patriarchy while simultaneously being protected by the same patriarchal rules she's raging against.

Dr. Charlotte Riley is the end result of a society that has decided to end it all and just slit its wrists open.  The corpse of formerly "Great" Britain is still twitching, but it's dead, Jim.  She's a human AIDS virus, destroying the body by destroying the immune system so that any small little virus will kill it off.

Huh. A good hard look at "social costs".

A long but interesting and very informative read, right here.

And this brings me back to the question of cost/benefit analyses and the idea of the “social benefit of carbon”. As noted above, people put the “social cost of carbon” (actually carbon dioxide) at “roughly $40 per ton”. 

Now, remember that corresponding to the “social cost of carbon”, the “social benefit of carbon” is: 

… the dollar value of the total benefits from emitting one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 

As Figure 6 shows, the benefit that we get from emitting that additional tonne of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is an increase in goods and services of $4,380 … which dwarfs the assumed social cost of carbon of $40. When we do an actual cost/benefit analysis, the result is almost all benefit.

I'm a big fan of CO2.  Plants can't exist without it.  If you freeze it and drop it into root beer, you have an awesome holiday drink for kids that makes them all think you're a genius.  But mostly the plant food thing, because my food eats plants, and without plants, my food couldn't be turned into, well, MY FOOD.

Also, asparagus.  I do eat asparagus.  Which also cannot grow without CO2.

And I still want to kick every eco-freak I meet straight in the twig and berries, in the hope that they won't reproduce and spread their stupidity genes.

One of the little joys of living in central Mississippi

Is that I don't know if I'm coming down with some sort of upper respiratory infection, or if it's just my allergies fighting against whatever the hell is blooming now.

I am not a Southern man, no matter how often the Army tries to turn me into one.

Music for a Lenten Sunday

Busy day today

Got lots to do.  Quite a bit of plans coming up for the future that need preparation now.  And of course, the ever-present need for socialization, lest I revert back to banging women on the head with clubs and dragging them back to my cave.  I'm much like a dog in that regard.  If I'm not socialized on a regular basis, I tend to be even less sociable in the future, and since the Mrs. likes to be around people, well....  She doesn't need me snapping and growling at them.  I told her that other people are highly over-rated, but she still likes to be around them, so....

So, off I go.  Enjoy some old-timey music.

And the Catholic Church continues to eat bullet after bullet

Because Jorge Bergolio, the Anti-Pope, continues to stick the barrel down our throat and pull the trigger.

Reports that Pope Francis is planning to appoint the very liberal Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta to serve as the next archbishop of Washington, D.C., are giving many conservative Catholics heartburn. 

Gregory, who would become the seventh archbishop of Washington, is expected to succeed Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who resigned in disgrace last October in the wake of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report on sexual abuse in the clergy. In the grand jury's report, Wuerl was accused of helping to cover up the crimes of predatory priests while serving as the bishop of Pittsburgh.

Wilton Gregory is a liberal politician in shepherd's clothing.  He's the fruit of the poison tree.  The fruit that he produces will likewise be poisonous. 

Gregory also worked closely with McCarrick when he was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2001–2004. During the presidential election year of 2004, McCarrick and Gregory withheld a powerful memorandum that was sent to the U.S. bishops by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The memo was intended to be read at an upcoming bishops' conference in the United States.

That would be known sodomite predator McCarrick. 

In the memo -- which was leaked to the Italian magazine EsspressOnline a week after the conference -- the future Pope Benedict XVI clearly and precisely instructed the bishops to deny Eucharistic Communion to politicians who publicly support and campaign for abortion. Some of the passages appeared to have been drafted specifically with then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry in mind. Throughout his long senatorial career, Kerry had always vocally supported and voted in favor of abortion rights.

But McCarrick and Gregory decided to toss that memo in the circular file, because they care more about liberal politics than the souls of church members.  They also care a lot more about having gay sex than about saving souls, but that's par for the course these days with the crowd of bishops who came into seminary in the 70's.

The Catholic Church will continue to disintegrate until these heretics and sodomites are dead and out of power.  That could take decades, because once Gregory is Cardinal of Washington D.C., he gets to appoint bishops all over America.  And again, his fruit will be poisonous. 

St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.

Miguel Estrada's Revenge

I really do like this guy.  And Chuck Schumer is a walking piece of dog shit dressed in a cheap suit.

Today, Senator Schumer reaps what he sowed 16 years ago. I will call it, Miguel Estrada's revenge. pic.twitter.com/ol6pyRqn4V

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) April 3, 2019

And that's raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacis!

You can't tell generations of white men that they are everything that's wrong in the world, and expect that they won't group up to defend themselves.  To the left, White Men are evilracisthomophobichaternazis, and they've been preaching that sermon for just about my entire adult life.

Hell, the Left has come up with their own hierarchy of who they love the most based on skin color or race or religion or sexuality.  It's called INTERSECTIONALITY.  Muslims rate higher than blacks.  Black muslims rate higher than white muslims.  There's some confusion about whether gays rate higher than muslims, but they'll figure that out once they can determine how many votes each particular side can bring to the table.

But no matter what, white men are at the bottom of their scale. 

You think that doesn't affect how people act?  How people vote?  How people choose to live?

White ethno-nationalist groups exist because we're told that every other nation in the world can choose who gets to live there.  Apparently, the message of "except you white nations" has fallen on deaf ears. Or it that message has just been rejected out of hand.

It's not just that white racism has been growing.  It's that white racism has been growing as a result of whites being increasingly marginalized, and told that we don't deserve to exist.  I grew up in a military household.  I'm still reflexively anti-racist.  But how many of my generation can say that they grew up the way I did?  Very, very few.  The Left has made identity politics their life-blood.  They shouldn't be surprised when the Right decides to play their game.

Say what you will about the most rabid of Trump fans...

They're not worshipping the guy.

Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke officially launched his candidacy for the Democratic nomination by declaring to Vanity Fair he is "just born to be in it." And his supporters seem to have picked up on the "chosen one" undertones already, with a sign at a Saturday night rally in Austin glorying, "BETO IS OUR CHRIST."

How in the hell can you debate what amounts to these people's RELIGION?

They did the same thing to Obama.  They worshipped the ground he walked on.  Every mumbling stutter that dribbled from his lips like the limp dicks he used to suck for cocaine was treated as if it were the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Maybe there are people out there calling Trump their "Christ".  I haven't seen them.  Trump isn't a religious figure to the people who voted for him.  I've said this before:  Trump is one gigantic middle finger, from the Normal Americans to the Deep State swamp dwellers.  He's not a God, he's a weapon.

Expect a whole shit ton of stupidity in the 2020 race.  Good Lord, will there be stupidity from the Left.  We can see it now.  It's going to get worse.

Need more proof?

Amid her zeal to save the world with the Green New Deal, Rep. ­Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has ­ignored residents in her own Bronx back yard. 

“I thought AOC would be our savior, but that’s not the case,” complained Roxanne Delgado, a local activist who said she has tried for months to get in touch with the congresswoman for help saving an animal shelter and to clean up parks in the district

"I thought AOC would be our savior"  Imagine just how dumb, how stupid, how utterly ignorant and out of touch you have to be, to think that a know-nothing socialist is going to be your savior.  It's slack-jawed retards voting in googly-eyed retards, and the entire country is worse off as a result.

The arrogance of these people....

"Why are Christians so afraid of Subjective Moral Reasoning?"

That's not the arrogance.  That's a question that deserves a good answer, and it gets one at the link.  No, the arrogance in that snotty little brat's statement was when he asked if we were afraid that people would just start raping and pillaging if they didn't have a book to tell them what to do.  He says "I'm not afraid of that, because it's not going to happen."

Say what?  Just how historically illiterate do you have to be to say that?  And the arrogance to say "That's not going to happen" when not only can it happen, it has happened, all over the world, and in our country.

In any case, go watch the video to hear the response to that question.  The person who gives the response is far nicer than I am.

Why I don't give two shits about your college "education"

This utterly clueless bimbo has a degree from Boston University.  A rather well-regarded institution, although with the raging stupidity flowing out of Chaqita Guevera's mouth, that regard has taken a well-deserved hit.

According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected:

"They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected."

(Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947) pic.twitter.com/DImHj0caVy

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 31, 2019

I bet the guy in the background nodding in agreement has a Master's Degree from some Ivy-League place.  And they're both too stupid to add two plus two and come up with four.

Permitting illegal immigration is not compassion

Because there are no victimless crimes, and illegal immigration hurts more people than you can count.

An Encino, TX resident says she lives in fear every day. She sees hundreds of undocumented immigrants attempting to enter her property, adding she feels threatened by criminal organizations surrounding the area. 

"12 young men dressed in black. My husband automatically stopped and they just put a finger to their lips and it's like… You better not say anything, they know what we drive, they know where we live."

Tell me, where is the compassion for the Americans who have to live with the results of illegal aliens and the cartels who direct them, control them, and use them?

Go read the whole report.  We have US Citizens being threatened by Mexican drug cartels, and the Democrats don't care.  They don't care about the women and girls who get raped by the coyotes who are smuggling them  They don't care about the Americans who's land is being trashed.  They don't care about the victims of the cartels on both sides of the border.

So how can they call themselves "compassionate"?

They can't.  It's a lie.

I'm writing this tonight, and posting it in the morning

So that made sense, didn't it?

I spent all day making sausage.  As well as teaching the wife of a co-worker to make sausage.  We made Andouille and Chaurice, and then smoked the Andouille all afternoon.  Once we pulled the Andouille off the grill, we put on the pork bones from the pork shoulders we'd cut up for the sausage, and those have been smoking until 11 PM. 

I got to spend the evening surrounded by friends, eating good food, and having a good time.  And other than a few snide comments about MSNBC, we didn't discuss politics at all.  We talked sports.  Movies. Comedy.  Life in general.  Theology.  Haunted houses.  Exorcisms.  Kids.  Texas vs. Mississippi, especially when it comes to allergies.  And of course, food.

It was an awesome night.

I miss those.  Having that kind of nigh reminded me of a time when politics didn't consume every aspect of our lives.

By the by, the smoked pork bones will be used to make Hoppin' John, red beans and rice, and various other southern dishes.

If there's one thing that I curse the left for doing, is making everything political.  For taking away nights like tonight from everybody. 

Everybody needs a night like I had tonight.  But now we have to make sure we don't invite any Leftists in order to have that kind of night.  So be it.  I'm going to enjoy my life on this earth with good people and good food.  And good drink.  And cigars.  And I'll be damned if I bring some Leftist into my house to ruin it.  That's where I'm at right now.  I want to have a dinner and not talk about the President.  I want to have a dinner