Paul Ryan for VP

Excellent.  And that's not snark.  It's damn good.  It's better than good.  It brings the economic fighter that Obama fears most into the fight, and I bet that as much as the Left is going to bring Mediscare into the fray, Ryan's been fighting back for a while on that and knows how to counter-punch.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Gettin' Ripped Off edition

 Everyone forty fifty or younger needs to be so pissed off about Social Security that their rage can be felt as actual heat in Washington D.C.

But I didn’t get a vote on Soshe Security. It was fait accompli — despite the clear intention in the framework of our government that there be no permanent program, that every thing be reconsidered every two years, with gridlock being the order of the day. I was not represented when it was decided that I would be robbed at gunpoint of fifteen percent of my productivity for life to pay for someone else’s woefully inadequate retirement pittance.

Emphasis mine.

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Every time I look at the news

It keeps getting worse.  Every time I think that Comrade Obama can't sink any lower, in both his morals, his ethics and his actions, I get proven wrong.

This is getting depressing.  Because as far as I can tell, the vast majority of America is still falling for it.  How fucking dumb can my country be?

California

I want to go put dish soap all over his windshield.  The jackass.  Cali has pretty much been what I've expected, with a few pleasant surprises.  We'll see what the next few days bring.

House hunting

The Ragin' Mrs. and I have been looking for a place to rent.  Needless to say, we're dealing with a little culture shock right now.  I thought maybe we would get a shoe box on a postage stamp.  Not even close.  We're getting half a shoe box on a patch of ground that could charitably be called a yard.

Coming from living in our own house to trying to find a way to fit our stuff into a broom closet?  This is housing hell.  And the people looking to buy my house are claiming that my bedrooms are too small?  They've never been to LA!

The next few years are going to suck ass.

What was planned for

Ace has a link up to this article, discussing the US military's supply of Purple Heart medals.  As you know the Purple Heart is awarded to servicemembers who were injured in combat.  The US military was anticipating so many casualties from the planned invasion of Japan that when Japan surrendered after we dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, the inventory of Purple Heart medals lasted us until the year 2000.

Half a million Purple Hearts.  And that's after loss, pilferage, and waste.  Over a million and a half Purple Heart medals were produced for the war effort.

FYI, today is the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.  So when people talk about how horrible that bombing was, just remember that the US military was preparing for millions of dead Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen.  The bomb changed that.  I'm rather glad my Grandfather came home alive, rather than leaving my father an orphan. 

Bill Whittle has one of the best summations of why we had to drop the bomb.  It's 15 minutes, but you need to watch it to understand why the decision was made.

So, Los Angeles....

The 405, more specifically.

Yay.  I haven't driven in traffic like that since I left Puerto Rico.  I'm going to spend the next three years going insane.

Port Angeles to Redding today

And I should hit my final destination tomorrow afternoon, and report in on Monday morning.

We've been doing some driving.

Saddams WMD's that didn't exist now being destroyed

With help from the Brits.  Just remember this when another lying Democrat (redundancy alert) tries to claim that BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH LIED!

Nearing the end

Vacation is almost done.  This is a badness thing.  But I'm doing my best to enjoy it as much as possible.

Concert in the park last night.  The Custer Grass Band.

So, Romney pissed off some dipshit in Britain

When he made some remarks about the preparations for the Olympic Games in London.

Um....  and?

As my father reminded me this morning, Romney is the one person talking about running the Olympics who has actually successfully ran an Olympic Games in this century.  So everybody else who is all butt-hurt about what Romney said might just want to shut their fucking whore mouths and listen to what he's saying.

Fucking wankers.

Depression

Read this VDH essay on California.  And then try to guess what state Ragin' Dave is being moved to, and why Ragin' Dave has a strong urge to drive his car off of a very tall cliff before his report date.

New Alternatives

In the local paper today, there was an article about a STEM academy being opened up in Northern Idaho.  STEM, for those who don't know, stands for Science, Technology, Electronics and Mathematics.  In short, it's a school designed to teach the hard sciences that aren't being taught in the Publik Skool Sistim.  And it's a charter school, so it doesn't fall under the school administration in this area.  Much to the STEM Academy's benefit.

I have to wonder; just what would my life have looked like if I had been given the chance to go to a STEM academy instead of being tortured with four years of hell courtesy of the government-run schools?

More coffee please

I'm currently sitting at a coffee shop in downtown Cd'A, relaxing and checking my email.  No internets out at the Ragin' parents house, so any posting I do will be when I make it into town with my computer.  And in case you hadn't noticed, that's not happening all that often these days.

Hey.  I'm on vacation.  Deal with it.

Half-way there

I'm sitting at the Kootenai Coffee Shop, relaxing and checking email.  The Ragin' Mrs. and I are staying in our hometown for a while before continuing on to the second half of our great trek across America.  Internet connection is whenever we can get to a place with WiFi, so don't expect much out of me in terms of blogging.

In the mean time, I'm going to be smoking cigars, relaxing, enjoying my family, drinking good beer, and generally trying to have as little stress in my life as possible until I have to report in to my new duty station.

Sadness

Turning off the lights to your house for the last time as you drive off is one of the saddest things I've ever done.

Things you miss when you're gone

I knew Eternity Road had gone Tango Uniform.  But the esteemable Francis Porretto blogs on at Liberty's Torch!  Maybe one day I'll keep up with blog happenings, but that would require me to do a heck less work, and that's not going to happen any time soon.

Nice.... erm.... uh....

I can't even use Mark Alger's preferred comment to respond to this pile of crap from an over-tanned bleach blond bimbo.  Not only are those over-inflated silicone sacks NOT nice, but she's only "attractive" if you're into plastic-surgeon stretched skin and and a look that says she could be outwitted by a wet sack of catshit.  So she's perfect for California, but for any place that values a little common sense?  Not so much.

But still, since there's really nothing that can be said to Ms. O'Day that she could learn from (being that she's probably incapable of learning much at all) it's better than nothing:  Nice tits.

I just threw up

And not like "a little bit in my mouth", I'm talking I chundered like a snowblower and re-painted the living room walls.  Linda Blair just looked at me and said "Dude, you've got a problem!"

Click on that link only if you've got a stomach of steel.

Quote of the Day, Bitin' you in the jack-ass edition

"And that, dear kiddies, is why choosing politicians who can manage their own lives is important."

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 In this country, politicians are supposed to represent you to the country and to the world.  And I never wanted to be represented by a moronic coke-head who did nothing but chase pussy.  The Democrats wanted that, and that says more about them than I could ever hope to say.