In case you were wondering

I know that if you are reading this, you probably support Voter ID laws already, but if you need ammo to hammer arguments about how "requiring an ID is oppressive", use this page.

I suppose there is a pacifist teetotalling non-smoking citizen who doesn't have a bank account or cell phone, has never applied for any government benefits or employment, lives alone in someone's garage, walks everywhere he goes, and has never been seen by a doctor or hospital* and who has never needed a prescription of any sort who REALLY, REALLY wants to influence the political landscape, but vague hypotheticals aren't enough to override the State's interest in preventing fraud on massive scales. There actually has to be someone who is harmed by the requirement. (And most States say that if the potential voter wants to vote, but can't afford the minor fee involved in obtaining the ID, that fee - often on the order of $4-20 - can be waived.

(* what with the total avoidance of tobacco and liquor, and all that healthy exercise, I have to admit this is possible)

Woke up early

Took the dogs running, took a shower and headed out. 

Came back into the house a long time later.  I haven't caught up on the news, I don't know what's going on, and dammit I need a drink.

Ah, scotch.  Yes.

Yeah, I still got nothing

So.......


Bewbs

So, are there any Obama Administration Officials

Who actually use their real names to conduct official business?

“Through the course of the investigation, we have learned that you sent documents related to your official duties from your official IRS e-mail account to an msn.com e-mail account labeled ‘Lois Home,’” the letter sent to Lerner states. “This raises some serious questions concerning your use of a non-official e-mail account to conduct official business.”

Hey, you know why people would use something other than their official email address to conduct official business?

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS FUCKING WRONG AS SHIT!

Can we start the prosecution of these fucking illegal god-damned bastards now?  PLEASE?

An idea for David Letterman

Let's do a Countdown of the Bill of Rights, shall we?

First Amendment? Not so much. And an even more hypocritical example here.

Second Amendment? Not so much. Ammo registries on the way here in California, too.

Third Amendment? I would have bet money that this one would last, but not so much.

Fourth Amendment? You're kidding, right?

Fifth Amendment? No Habla Ingles.

Sixth Amendment? "Indefinite Detention", anyone?

Seventh Amendment? Fairly technical in nature, involving court cases brought in federal courts.

Eighth Amendment? It has shifted from "don't use branding and thumbscrews" to "I don't like this meal" and making the taxpayers pay for gender reassignment surgery.

Ninth Amendment? Just ask the citizens here in California, which are not even allowed to petition our elected officials to enforce the law, thanks to SCOTUS.

Tenth Amendment? Anywhere there is a Federal Department of anything not specifically mentioned as one of the enumerated powers of Congress which duplicates and overrides the assorted State agencies that would normally have the legal jurisdiction is a violation. Take the list on this page, and subtract Commerce, Defense, Justice, State and Treasury (all of which are mentioned or can be logically inferred). Get rid of the rest, lock stock and little red stapler.

But by all means, let's add some more Amendments to solve this!

Yeah, I've got nothing

Although I hear a rodeo clown got fired for daring to make fun of Black Jesus, by wearing an Obama mask while he got chased by a bull.

Hey, remember when all those Democrats got pissed at a movie depicting the assassination of George W. Bush?

Me neither.

Remember when all those Democrats got upset at GWB being burned in effigy?

Me neither.

If the Black Jesus got his ass run over by a bull, it would be one of the nicest things he deserves.

An Oldie but a Goodie

Remember this video when you read the headlines coming from Washington, DC...

I've gone to find my ain true love

I think the reason I like bluegrass so much is the Celtic influence behind it.  You do know it was them Scots-Irish up in them hills that received the nickname "Crackers", don't you?

Don't know if I've posted this before

From the musicians that have pretty much set the standard for bluegrass for decades.  Allison Krauss and Union Station are so tight that I think they wouldn't even need to be on the same stage, and they'd still play together like that.

The enemy of my enemy?

Richard Dawkins kicks the hornet's nest

All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 8, 2013

Here's the rub - he's correct, and despite the usual hyperventilation from the Religion of Perpetual Outrage, facts are not racist or bigoted.

I enjoy watching heads pop over this, I admit.

Each and every one...

of these idiots ought to have their voting rights repealed forever.

Period.

Stupid f*ckers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0he0cqHH20

I wonder if...

... all of these pro-illegal immigration advocates would mind if the illegals they are championing were to come and live in their living rooms. Eating their food, drinking their water, using their utilities, all the rest. No rent, no explanation, maybe chip in the occasional $20 (while sending anything they actually earn back to their families in whichever country they came from)...

They'd be okay with that, right? No choice in the matter, and someone to call them "racist" when they so much as sighed in frustration.

That's what they are demanding of the rest of us, after all.

No one I have ever spoken with on the matter has EVER been for "no immigration at all". Our country was founded on the concept of "Give us your huddled masses, yearning to breath free", and there is room enough for everyone who wants to share in the dream of creating a better future for their kids. But that does not mean we don't have the right - not to mention the duty and responsibility - to make sure we know who is visiting, and who is planning on staying. And the bias of the government MUST be towards those who are living within the rules, with increasing levels of disincentive for those who choose to violate them as a condition of entering.

Just sign the damned guest book on the way in the front door, instead of breaking in through the basement window and leeching off the rest of us. And learn the damned language, just as I would have to do if I were to move to whichever shithole you are deserting.

Calling an illegal immigrant an "undocumented resident" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".

Bug Out Bags

I just read some damn good advice regarding a bug-out bag.  Given that this country is so huge, and I doubt there's two people who read this blog that face the same conditions in an emergency or natural disaster, this person's comment over at Rural Revolution made me want to repost it, both for it's insight and it's simplicity.

In the past, I heard a wilderness survivalist refer to what he call the "Five Cs" for basic survival.
They are:
1. A cutter. Some sort of a bladed instrument or multi tool.
2. A container. Something to hold your survival equipment and also serve as a water container and cooking implement.
3. A combustible. Some instrument that can be used to start fires.
4. A cover. Small tarp or poncho to provide shelter.
5. Cordage. A ball of heavy twine or 550 cord covers more uses than can be covered in just a few sentences.
You can pack these few very useful items with minimal weight and then expand your B.O.B. as circumstances dictate.

That's good advice right there.

Obama is Putin's Bitch

So I see in the news that the Great Marxist Messiah, he of the "Smart Diplomacy", isn't going to have a face-to-face meeting with Russia's Putin.  That's probably a good idea, given that any photo of the two of them together simply reinforces the point that Obama is nothing more than Putin's bitch on the international stage.  Hell, even before Obama basically told the Russian President over a hot mic that once he got re-elected he'd get America bent over and spread-eagle for a good ass-raping, Putin knew that Obama was nothing but a spineless little bitch and acted accordingly.  So when Edward Snowden hauled ass to Moscow, do you think for one moment that Putin was going to turn him over to America?

Fuck no.  Obama the sniveling pussy is Putin's bitch, everybody knows it, and everybody knew what would happen:  Putin would make Obama twist in the wind, and then tell him to piss up a rope.  And yep, that's pretty much what happened.

Congratulations, Democrats.  Your Lord, God and Savior is every bit the craven piece of shit we said he was, and now America is the international laughingstock.  I hope you're happy.

I came home from work

with my stomach twisted in knots and wanting to vomit.  I don't think this unit could be more fucked up if it actually tried to self-implode.

The worst part?  I'm one of the lowest ranking people in the unit.  My sphere of influence is tiny, and my hands only go up so high.

This is why God invented Whiskey.  I only hope I can finish out my tour without strangling someone.

Playing catch-up

This weekend was overtaken by homework.  After a week and a half away from home and office, there's a crapload of work to be done, and I'm not half through with it yet.

In the meantime, I see that Jimmeh Cah-duh the Second has flushed American influence down the shitter in Egypt. 

Actually, I take that back.  Calling Obama Jimmy Carter the Second does a great disservice to Jimmy Carter.

I honestly think the first thing I would do to an Egyptian if I could would be to apologize, and let them know that I didn't vote for that simpering, spineless, weak-minded fucking jackass shithead currently infecting the Oval Office.

Adding on to my "Bad Word" post...

Presented without comment.

Home again home again, Jiggity Jig!

Spent the last ten days up near my old stomping grounds.  Busy as all hell.  And there's no rest for the weary this week.

Driving near the Space Needle was enough to remind me why I left Seattle.  Traffic was even worse than when I moved away.  And the pot smoke was enough to convince me to never move back.  I love how I can't find a place to smoke a cigar for love or money, but the dopeheads can sit around Pike Place Market and toke up at will.  The smell made me gag.

DuPont was nice though.  Great running trails.

How about some plain language?

Amendment 2 --  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The men who wrote the Constitution and its Amendments were not lawyers quibbling over the value of a comma. They were fairly well-educated for their day (for the most part), and moderately to very successful in their own occupations. They were not politicians. They used simple language, intended for everyone to understand, since that language would have to stand up to scrutiny and arguments by those very same people who had seen both the War and the resulting screw-ups involving the Articles of Confederation.

So let's look at it from a plain language point of view, shall we?

There is something I remembered from high school English class, and it is the concept of "Dependent Clause" vs "Independent Clause". You can go read up on the peculiarities and distinctions, but it boils down to one thing, and it is a binary condition. Either the clause can stand alone as an intelligible sentence (making it an Independent Clause) or it cannot, and is intended merely as a supplemental phrase, perhaps adding additional context or explanation (making it a Dependent Clause). Simple, no?

Ignore the history of the Amendment, and how the people who endorsed the idea had just used their personal weapons to get rid of one government, so were not unaware of the need for such preparations. Ignore that Federal Law actually defines "militia" as effectively everyone between 17 and 45. Ignore all of that, and see which of the two clauses in the Amendment can stand alone. (Because THAT is the intent of the sentence, not the supplemental context.)

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State"

or

"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"?

Which of those two is what was actually meant by the Founders?

Molon labe...

I'll tell ya what, since gun grabbers are all about "compromise", let's try one. You give us back all of the kinds of scary-looking guns currently banned under Federal and State Laws, and you can marry whoever you want. Care to offer me nukes in exchange for third-trimester abortions?

You've GOTTA be kidding me

Pop Quiz time...

Is Charlie Rangel displaying his:

A) Total lack of historical knowledge
B) Subconscious projection
C) Racism
D) All Of The Above

" In an interview with the Daily Beast published Friday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) suggested Tea Partiers are the "same group" who fought for segregation during the Civil Rights movement."


Would that be people like George "Segregation Now, Segregation Forever" Wallace (Democrat) and Sheriff Bull "Set the dogs on 'em!" Connor (Democrat)?
Maybe Charlie means his fellow freedom fighters like the longest-serving Senator Robert "Grand Kleagle/White Nigger" Byrd? (Democrat)
Maybe Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black? (Democrat and KKK sycophant)
Race pimps Je$$e Jack$on and Al "Tawana Brawley" $harpton? (both Democrats)

Or people like Martin Luther "I have a dream" King. Jr.? (Republican)

Time to start pointing and laughing, getting into their faces to do so when necessary...

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