OK, another quick post

Browsing through Say Uncle, I found this link, which lead to this link, and that got me thinking...

So, this national visitor's center, which opened late and three times above it's budget, can't even get the national motto correct. Is anyone surprised? Anyone? Hell, no.

This is the government that can't even run a whorehouse and make a profit. OK? Got it? THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CANNOT SELL ORGASMS AND MAKE MONEY. The sheer level of incompetence shown by our "elected" officials is staggering when you actually think about it.

A center dedicated to Congress couldn't even get the National Motto right. I think they should have left it as it is. Let it be a monument to the fuck-upedness that is Congress.

A quick post

Before I rush off. I'm going to be gone this weekend, out in the woods, with no internet access. So, all y'all fellow posters, please keep it going?

But I'll leave you with an Open Letter to a Democrat Majority.

It never really occurred to me before just how many of you have never hit a lick in your lives; never done one hour’s worth of honest work, never gotten your hands dirty, never actually earned a paycheck by the sweat of your brow. You go right into some liberal-arts ivy-league college straight out of high school, usually on your parents’ money and grants of OUR money in student loans, which will probably not get paid back. Then, fresh out of college, you head right for Washington, and find the tit on that government sow that has your name on it, and there you cling for the rest of your natural life.

You have made a very lucrative career of taking our money, telling us it’s for our own good and that it will go to help those less fortunate, then sticking it in your pockets, doling out little dribbles here and there to keep those “less fortunate” as miserable as possible–and just smart enough to blame US for their misfortunes. You have all amassed personal fortunes on our backs, through the sweat of our brows, and you never even said, “I’ll call you in the morning,” while you rifled OUR retirement funds.

Found at Og's place. Enjoy the rest. I'll be off then!

Sorry bout the lack of posting again

This is getting to be a bad habit. But I left the house early yesterday, and I didn't get back in time to do anything but brush my teeth and go to bed.

Today was almost as bad. Tomorrow is more of the same. Bear with me, please.

Linky Love

Via RNS (their quote of the day) comes this gem of a piece. I'll post the first and last paragraph. You'll have to read the rest on your own.

Government officials lecturing anyone on ethics, greed or financial responsibility is as laden with irony as the latest appropriations bill is with pork barrel spending.

(.......)

So in a show of good faith, I would like to see our federal leaders take the lead in fiscal accountability by refusing to accept a salary until, as they've demanded of the automakers seeking a bailout, they can demonstrate a plan to bring their enterprise into the black and repay their debt. Until then, Congress should just be grateful that, like the fat cat executives that they castigate, their pay is not determined by their performance, and avoid drawing undue attention to the fact with their hypocrisy.

Sigh

We missed such an opportunity to have this man as president.

Deepak Chopra is a fucking idiot

Douchebags say what?

Sean Penn is fucking awesome.

And I do mean AWESOME!

I headed up the back stairs, and waiting for me at a table in the upper deck were the two contractors I had arranged to meet the night before. Full disclosure: I'm not a big "contractor" guy. I'd been jacked up by DynCorp-employed Iraqis on a dark night in a Baghdad alley, and slept beside Blackwater boys and their guns on a floor in the floods of New Orleans. It's just this little thing I have about apolitical military might for profit. Call it irksome. Call it what you will, but a source is a source. We exchanged greetings by way of grunts. I took a seat and ordered Johnny Walker Black. It had been years since I ordered Johnny Walker Black. Pathetically I might have wanted to be one of the boys for a moment. They ordered a bubbly water a piece, and it was on. I was Al Capone, motherfucker, and they were a pair of Perrier pansy John Wayne's. "Whatcha got for me?" Uninterestingly, they turned out to be a couple of gents, South African though they were. In practice, their job in Venezuela was logistical. One, organized the patrolling of waterways by their company, contracted by the Venezuelan government to aid in drug interdiction. The other strategized jungle patrols on the Colombian border. We talked about a lot of things, and a lot of parts of the world, as I tend to do when indulging Johnny Walker Black. But here are the highlights: Neither one of them liked Chavez a bit. Whatever personal politics they might have had were far to the right of my peripheral vision. Chavez just wasn't their kind of fellow. But the jungle patrolled said straight out, "I'll tell you this about Chavez though. Of all the countries we've worked for, this government is by far, the most serious about drug interdiction." I said, "What's the bad news?" He said, "Chavez won't last a year." "What do you mean?" I said. "He's too radical. We've seen it before." "Seen what before? I said. "They'll kill him." "They?" I said. He reached across the table, took a sip of my Johnny Walker Black, smiled, and pointed directly at me, the Americano at the table.

That's all [sic]. Dude doesn't like paragraphs.

Click to "read it all" at HuffPo:

Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes

Unbelievable

I truly cannot believe this shit. I can't. Except I have no choice but to believe that the slimy, traitorous, surrender-monkey propaganda whores actually wrote it.

I’m sure that Obama, whatever he said during the campaign, will play this smart. He has to avoid giving Iraqi leaders the feeling that Bush did — that he’ll wait forever for them to sort out their politics — while also not suggesting that he is leaving tomorrow, so they all start stockpiling weapons.

If he can pull this off, and help that decent Iraq take root, Obama and the Democrats could not only end the Iraq war but salvage something positive from it. Nothing would do more to enhance the Democratic Party’s national security credentials than that.

IF OBAMA PULLS IT OFF? O-FUCKING-COMMUNIST-BAMA! Mr. "THE SURGE HAS FAILED!" Obama! Mr. "WITHDRAW AND SURRENDER NOW!" OBAMA!

WHAT! THE! FUCK!

I'll let Confederate Yankee fill you in on the details. I'm so disgusted right now I don't know what to say. After trying and trying and trying to drown the US military in defeat, now the New York Fucking Propaganda Whores are trying to credit O-Fucking-Marxist-Traitor-Bama with victory in Iraq.

They are the enemy. They must be destroyed.

"And so, it has come to this"

There are plenty of bloggers out there that shovel information out as fast as they can get it. Others pontificate to a small audience (like yours truly), but don't push their heart and soul into blogging for a myriad of reasons (mine is that the Army keeps me too busy).

Kim du Toit has put his heart and soul into his blog for several years, and I challenge anyone to find me any blogger that has affected more people in a positive way that the du Toit's. Today is the last day that he'll be blogging.

Damn.

I truly hope that he enjoys his retirement, and I wish he and his family the best. Happy trails, Kim.

Drool

David at RNS has picture up of a Charter Arms Rimless Revolver. A revolver designed to shoot rimless cartridges, like my beloved .45 ACP.

I want one. I sooooooooo want one.

Skunked again!

OK.... I have now been to four different hunting areas. I have seen a grand total of one deer. Hell, I haven't even heard many other folks getting shots off. I've seen a few tagged deer in the back of someone's truck, but I just don't know if there's many deer out there right now.

Dammit. I wanted venison. I'm trying a new place today, we'll see what happens.

Well, I did better than last year.

I got a 93.94 on this quiz. I got 88% last year.

I've been reading more. Some of the questions were different, but I'm pleased that I'm improving my knowledge. This year instead of comparing the test results with college seniors, they compared them with elected officials. And the officials scored worse than average citizens on most of the questions.

But you know what? I blame the citizens for that. STOP VOTING IN MORONS!

Hell, who am I kidding? Massachusetts, New Fucking York, and California are responsible for more dumb shit than the rest of the country combined. I can't blame someone from Nebraska for the idiots of New Fucking York.

Wait, hold on. Add in Chicago to that mix. Not the entire state of Illinois, just Chicago.

Another list

From Og, via Kim du Toit. Since he didn't pass it on, I'm taking it and using it anyways.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (no, not totally, but I can insult you in five!)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (kind of, long story)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

Damn, there's still a lot of shit I need to do!

Skunked

I saw a grand total of ONE deer yesterday, and that was about 100 yards away and running like crazy through the woods.

Ah well. Wish me luck today!

I am thankful for...

My wife, who puts up with far too much crap and still manages to smile at me. I (partially) joke that I found the one woman in the world capable of putting up with me, and then I married her. I thank God for the day he steered her into my life.

I'm thankful for my parents, who refused to strangle me to death in my teens, no matter how desperately I deserved it.

I'm thankful for the friends I've made around the world, including the one who's taking me hunting today while our wives cook Thanksgiving Dinner (see first paragraph).

Happy Thanksgiving, folks.

I'm going to make a brief comment

On crap like this:

So, Kathleen Parker has determined that getting rid of social conservatives and shelving the values they fight for is the solution to what ails the Republican Party (“Giving Up on God,” Nov. 19). Isn’t that a little like Benedict Arnold handing George Washington a battle plan to win the Revolution?

Whatever she once was, Ms. Parker is certainly not a conservative anymore, having apparently realized it’s a lot easier to be popular among your journalistic peers when your keyboard tilts to the left. She writes that “armband religion” — those of us who “wear our faith on our sleeve,” I suppose, or is it meant to compare socially conservative Christians to Nazis? — is “killing the Republican Party.” Lest readers miss the point, she literally spells it out. The GOP’s big problem? G-O-D.

N-O-N-S-E-N-S-E.

I'm not calling James Dobson crap on this article, I'm calling Kathleen Parker crap. Get rid of the social cons? What else should we do Mrs. Parker? Get rid of our demands for smaller government as well?

Listen, for the past eight years we conservatives have had the "moderates" telling us what we needed to do in order to win elections. Do this. Get rid of that. Don't be so far to the Right.

Hows that working out for ya? Half the "moderates" of the Republican Party jumped ship, after the Republican party did what they wanted it to do!

Fuck. Them. Fuck them all to hell. Fuck them sideways with a chainsaw, fuck them up a tree with a pruning hook. Fuck off, Mrs. Parker. Fuck off, Chris Buckley. Fuck off, Colin Powell. Loved ya as a general, but your political leanings should not in any way influence conservatives.

These "moderates", these fair-weather conservatives, these DEMOCRAT LITE, should lose any and all say they had in the Republican Party. They're done. They have failed.

They FAILED. They have FAILED so utterly and horribly that a radical Left Communist has just been elected to be President. That is a failure on par with the Hindenburg's last flight. That is a failure on par to the current Detroit Lions football team. That is a failure on par to Benedict Arnold saying "Hey, why don't I switch sides right now?" That is a failure on par to Ishtar. That is a failure on par to the captain of the Titanic asking "Iceburg? What iceburg?"

So all these people who've been yanking the Republican Party to the Left can kiss my ass. We have all seen what happens when the Republicans try to be moderate. If that's not a repudiation of moderate conservatism, I don't know what is. Piss off, Mrs. Parker.

I'm not the only one

Who recently joined the ranks of the home-owning.

Congratulations, Phil! Now I can brag "I knew Phil when he lived in Renton, and went by the Nom de Cyber 'Analog Kid'!"

OOOO-RAH!

Ya see what happens when you just let the military do it's job?

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.

Let's enjoy military victory while we can, before the Surrendercrats take control.

Here's a must read

from Jane Galt. Wow. Just wow.

VDH has ten random politically incorrect thoughts

I'm willing to bet that he has more than ten, but he's only writing ten of them down. Here's number 10, and it's resonating with me:

10. The K-12 public education system is essentially wrecked. No longer can any professor expect an incoming college freshman to know what Okinawa, John Quincy Adams, Shiloh, the Parthenon, the Reformation, John Locke, the Second Amendment, or the Pythagorean Theorem is. An entire American culture, the West itself, its ideas and experiences, have simply vanished on the altar of therapy. This upcoming generation knows instead not to judge anyone by absolute standards (but not why so); to remember to say that its own Western culture is no different from, or indeed far worse than, the alternatives; that race, class, and gender are, well, important in some vague sense; that global warming is manmade and very soon will kill us all; that we must have hope and change of some undefined sort; that AIDs is no more a homosexual- than a heterosexual-prone disease; and that the following things and people for some reason must be bad, or at least must in public company be said to be bad (in no particular order): Wal-Mart, cowboys, the Vietnam War, oil companies, coal plants, nuclear power, George Bush, chemicals, leather, guns, states like Utah and Kansas, Sarah Palin, vans and SUVs.

I know that there are always exceptions to the rule, but I would not willingly put a child into the American Publik Skool Sistim if my life depended on it.

Oh, and here are the other nine random politically incorrect thoughts. I found 'em over here, so you can thank him for that bit of brilliance.