Slept in

Don't know if I feel like posting today.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, 2A edition

From an old post at The Smallest Minority:

Being armed goes far beyond simple self-protection against thugs or even tyrants -- it's an unequivocal and unmatched lesson that you are politically and morally sovereign; that you, and not the state, are responsible for your life and your fate. This absolute personal sovereignty is the founding stone of the Republic. "A well-regulated militia" (where the militia is "the whole people") isn't just "necessary to the security of a free state" because it provides a backup to (and defense against) the police and the army. More importantly, keeping and bearing arms trains sovereign citizens in the art of freedom, and accustoms us to our authority and duty.

Emphasis mine.  It's not quite an uber-post.  Go read it all.  But that one paragraph says more than I could put out in an entire essay.

Cigars

Help keep me sane.

Actually, it's the time alone that a cigar gives me that helps keep me sane.  It's not very often I get someone who actually wants to smoke a cigar with me.  So most of the time it's just me, a cigar, and my thoughts, which I can sift through, clean up and store away for a later date.

You'd be amazed at how much that helps.

The past few days

Have been spent in Arizona, with the in-laws, and I have had a good time.

I smoked many a cigar outside next to a firepit.

I have drank way too much bourbon.

I have caroled at a nursing home with the rest of the in-laws.  We managed three-part harmony, or four part if one person wandered off the melody a little too far.

I have enjoyed a feast that most people would give their eyeteeth for.  Crown roast of pork, sweet potatoes, stuffing made from scratch with all kinds of good ingredients, green bean casserole from scratch, asparagus, home-made bread, brandied yam soup, home-made panetone,  and plenty of good wine to wash it down.

I have managed to relax a bit in the past few days, and yet, in the space of less than half a day, I drove back into a state that I loathe, a city I cannot stand, to return to a job that I detest.  And all that relaxation has vanished.

It's going to be a long few years.

Hell yes, prosecute the bastard!

So David Gregory of NBC violated Washington D.C. gun laws when he waved around a 30-round clip for an AR-15.  He probably did not violate any laws intentionally.  He certainly was not threatening anyone's life.  But he broke the law, and people are wondering if he should get prosecuted for what he did.

HELL YES HE SHOULD!

Lock that fuckwit up and throw the book at him!  He is the one saying that there should be MORE gun laws and MORE gun control, isn't he?  Then let's make damn sure that he gets to feel the full effect of the gun laws that are already on the books!  Because if he isn't prosecuted, then he's proving exactly what the 2A people are saying:  More gun laws wouldn't do a thing.  If some fuck-witted asshat like David Gregory can violate the gun laws with impunity, then exactly how will MORE laws change anything?

Let the people screaming for more laws feel just what the law is like NOW.  PROSECUTE DAVID GREGORY FOR VIOLATING THE GUN LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Seahawks roll

So, three weeks ago, the Seahawks stomped on Arizona.  And I said 'Yay!  But it's only the Cardinals."

Last week, they laid the hammer down on Buffalo.  And I said "WOO HOO!  But it's only Buffalo."

Last night, the Seahawks punched San Francisco right in the mouth and spit in their faces.  And I said "YEE HAW!  But it's only....  no, wait...  wow!"

See you in the playoffs!  BOOYAH, BABY!

Gee, Dave...

Why do you claim that reporters are nothing more than whores, communists and propaganda agents for the National Socialist Democrat Worker's Party?

Well....  Listen to what they say when they think no one is listening.

What I truly think of the Democrat whores isn't fit to be read by anyone with a shred of decency.

A Darn Good Question

Where was the father?

We don't hear about the effects of fatherlessness, especially on young men. We don't hear that the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race but growing up fatherless. We don't hear that a large majority of violent criminals were fatherless. We don't even hear that young male elephants go on violent rampages unless they are kept in line by the old bulls.

We know that Adam's parents separated around 2006 and divorced around 2008. We know that his father, Peter Lanza, moved to Stamford, CT, re-married, and is believed to earn about $1 million per year as a General Electric executive -- enough that Adam's mother and he have lived in a big home and that she has not worked.

The Daily Mail reports quotes several of Adam's former classmates to the effect that his problems got much worse after the separation. "He was always weird but the divorce affected him. He was arguing with his mother. He was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode."

But sure, GUNS are the problem, right?

Yeah. What he said.

It's a must read.  Go.  Do it.  Now.

Writing Christmas Cards

I never used to do it.  Now I've got a stack of cards to mail out or put in gift boxes.  It's amazing how your outlook on life changes as you get older.

The Wild Life in Los Angeles

Take a gander at this -

You can click for full size.  See that little four legged thing in the middle?  Coyote.  At the Los Angelese Country Club.  Look up in the hills - that's Beverly Hills.  To the left of this picture is Bel Air.  And right smack dab in the middle of it is a creature that we used to shoot for bounties in Idaho.

"Honey, have you seen Fluffy?  He never came in from his potty time!"

YipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipYIPE!

I was standing on the patio when I saw two ears bouncing up the green.  I kept watching, and sure enough that little bastard came right up on the green next to the clubhouse like he owned the place.  Stood their for a while, yawned, and went back to his hidey-hole.  Cheeky little shit.

Well, Yeah

Of COURSE the New York Times is deliberately lying.

The NYT is not “perpetuating myths,” it is consciously and knowingly lying with malice aforethought in an effort to push through various gun ban and confiscation laws which it greatly desires.

To pretend that they are making errors in good conscience is the myth that needs to be destroyed here. None of the facts Carney so painstakingly lays out here – and this is only the ten thousandth, or ten millionth, time these facts have been carefully, and publicly, pointed out – are hard to come by. In fact, if you are honest, they are impossible to avoid.

The New York Times, just like a majority of the legacy media outlets, are nothing more than Propaganda Organs for their Lord, God and Savior, the Marxist Messiah.  And they've been whores and propaganda spreaders for long before their Communist Christ ever came into their mouths office.  So the NYT doesn't really care about the facts, because the facts are inconvenient to their agenda.

The Endarkenment Cometh

As Kevin Baker likes to say.  America is slipping, and seems to be spiraling downhill with ever increasing speed.

Over the past four years, prosperity has increased around the globe, while it has remained stagnant in the United States, the Legatum Institute reports. As a result, the Institute ranked the United States 12th out of 142 countries on its 2012 Prosperity Index, putting the country outside the top ten for the first time.

 Congratulations, Komrades!  President Jug-ears Hussein Downgrade is taking on further into his glorious five-year plan of productivity!

The only joy I'm ever going to get out of this is using it to flat out HAMMER my socialist relatives to all voted for their lord, god and savior, the Marxist Messiah, the Teleprompter Jesus, the Communist Christ, Barack Hussein Obama.

Who is Mark Shields

And how can someone this brainlessly moronic be allowed on national TV?

And the question about -- is not whether somebody stands for or against this, whether you even bring it up. And the reality is that in the United States of America in 2012, it's easier in many states to rent an automobile -- to buy an automatic weapon than it is to rent an automobile. It's more demanding.

The fact that this idiot was not immediately laughed off the stage is proof of just how far the Prog-Commie rot has spread through our country.  Automatic weapons have been illegal for anyone without a Class III license since 1934.  This lie, and it is a lie, wasn't even questioned by the brain-dead commie fucktards on PBS.  They accepted it without thinking, because that's what kool-aide guzzling douche-tools do.

The conversation that needs to happen

In the wake of the Connecticut shooting, where the shooter was pretty much kookoo for Coco Puffs:

Idiots blame the tool for the misuse of the tool. In so many ways. Yes, involuntary commitment has been used for vile and inappropriate purposes. That is what needed to be addressed. But the “empathy endowed” decided that involuntarily committing anyone was a breech of their civil rights and now people who would have been helped by being in a safe, clean place where people understood what was going on with them are wandering the streets having arguments with mail boxes and sleeping in creeks.

Or they are still living with their families who have absolutely nowhere to turn when their loved one begins talking about the voices and the visions.

 A decent chunk of the homeless population is there because they're mentally sick.  For all the hue and cry about "helping the homeless", I have yet to meet one bleeding heart liberal who can explain just how we can help when a person literally believes that the pills that make him well also put him under the control of alien mind-control beams, and so he stops taking them, and not only forgets where he lives, but also who anyone around him might be, or what city he's in.

Look, I forget to take my vitamins about once a week.  For me, it's no big deal.  But for a paranoid schizophrenic, forgetting to take his medication once could be the difference between being able to take care of himself and wandering the streets muttering about God knows what.

I think one of the reasons this conversation won't happen is because the Democrat Media Propaganda Machine is still working on gun control, and using this story to further gun control is their M.O.

Also, they're probably working on a way to cover up the fact that it was the Democrats who wrote the legislation that pretty much abolished the mental institutions we used to have.

Either way, blaming an inanimate object for the evil done by someone with a mental illness is not going to ever fix the problem.

Where I was yesterday

Clikee for Biggee.

The Morning Comes

God, I hope so.

How the hell did I not know about this group?

Delta Rae....

That's because Warren Buffett is a god-damned hypocrite

Of COURSE he refuses to practice what he preaches!

Anyone who thinks that Warren Buffett is actually saying what he says out of altruism or patriotism needs to check themselves for kool-aide stains.  If he actually gave a shit about paying taxes, he would re-work his money funds to that he paid an actual INCOME TAX instead of investment taxes, which are taxed far lower than income.

But he won't do that.  Because he's a god-damned, gutless hypocrite.  That fucking tool.

Rand Paul lays out the obvious

Let the National Socialist Democrat Worker's Party own the tax hikes.  Let them own ALL OF THEIR FAILURE.  

Stop working with the enemy!  Stop allowing the enemy to set the stage!  Stop allowing the enemy to blame conservatives for the enemy's failures!

Stop shooting ourselves in the foot, and let the commies own it all!