Interacting with Obama voters

The Ragin' Mrs. and I were out doing some shopping today; some groceries, a new pair of jeans for me (first new pair in years to tell the truth) and various sundry items.  On the way from one store to another, we pass a bicyclist doing his best to make an annoyance of himself in the middle of the road.  We maneuver  around him, pull up to the light (which is red) and wait for the green.  I'm in the far right lane, getting ready to turn right.  In the meantime, Mr. Future Road Pizza pulls up at the crosswalk, and engages in a conversation with some skinny gang-banger wanna-be covered in tattoos that guarantee he'll never make more than minimum wage.

The light turns green.  Mr. Future Road Pizza is still blocking traffic, still chatting up Mr. Gang-Banger.

A car beside me honks.  Mr. Gang-Banger hollers something at him.  Whatever, I don't give a damn what he yelled, I just want to get a move on.  The car in front of me manages to turn, and so I start to creep up to make my turn, and Mr. Future Road Pizza decides that now is the perfect time for him to cut right, exactly in front of my car.  So I hit the brakes before I hit him, and both the Ragin' Mrs. and I yell "HEY!" at the same time.

Apparently, Mr Gang-Banger doesn't like our reaction, because he flips his lid and jumps out in front of us, screaming all kinds of "I'm such a badass" bullshit.

You know that "fight or flight" reaction?  Both the Ragin' Mrs. and I were ready to jump out of the car and beat that motherfucker's ass.  I was suffering from mixed emotions - beating that punk-ass bitch would have been one of the most satisfying things I've ever done in California.  However, it would have most likely gotten me tossed from the military at this particular juncture, and I wasn't ready to toss my career down the tubes for the satisfaction of turning that fucking punk into a bawling, slobbering pile of bloody meat.  I'm still suffering from those mixed emotions, to tell the truth. 

My desire to inflict large amounts of pain must have been written on my face, because he shut up after about five seconds and moved out of the way.  He was still talking, but he wouldn't make eye contact.  We made our turn, and then both the Mrs. and I worked our way out of the RCOB adrenalin rush that we were both experiencing. 

I have never lived in such a place, where huge chunks of the population were incapable of driving, or following the rules of the road.  I have never lived in such a place where so many people were incapable of any kind of polite interaction with the rest of the population.  I have never lived in such a place where my desire to pulverize the arrogant, rude, selfish fucking bastards has risen to the forefront of my consciousness every single day.  I've got two years left in this fucking hellhole, and I hope and pray that I can make it out of here without breaking my fists on the face of some punk-ass bitch who thinks he's tougher than I am, and wants to try to prove it. 

All I wanted to do was drive to the store and get a pair of jeans.  And I almost hopped out of my car to curb-stomp some oxygen thief in the middle of the day.

I really do pray the day never comes when I give in to that urge.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day

Lapping up the tears edition:

You think a bunch of people can sit down and... Lux Fiat! ...re-write the rules for how 15% of the economy works in one fell swoop, in what amounts to a giant bong-fueled bull session, and have nothing go wrong? You might as well try to change the spark plugs on your car while the engine's running.

Then again, these are people who think that the efficiency of internal combustion engines or the amount of water it takes to carry off a turd are governed by legislative magic and not the laws of physics.

I so, so very much wish I had come up with that last line.....

I just spoke with my Congressman's office

I asked the guy who answered the phone what the Congressman intended to do about the President';s violation of the Separation of Powers and the breaking of his Presidential Oath of Office.

Congressional Aide: "Well, I don't think that's what the President is doing."

Me: "Okay, but aren't there deadlines written into the Affordable Care Act? Dates on which certain steps must be taken and certain things must be accomplished, written into the law, voted on, and signed by President Obama?"

CA: "Yes, that's true."

Me: "Okay, and since those dates were enacted by Congress, and the Act became Law, the President doesn't have the authority to simply rewrite the law, and change those dates to suit his political necessity. The Constitution gives the power to write and edit laws to the Legislature, and tells the President that it is his job to enforce those laws, not rewrite them."

CA: "Yeah, but I'm not sure that's what is happening."

Me: "But that IS what the President is doing. He is changing those deadlines because it isn't popular any more, and he simply doesn't have the Constitutional authority to do that. What happens if a Republican has the Presidency and uses what is happening now as precedent, perhaps saying, 'Oh, I don't think I will bother raising those taxes, even though Congress wrote them to take effect now, I will push them off for a few years because I want to help out the people who helped me get elected'?"

CA: "Well, I don't think you understand that this is how things are done here in Washington these days."

Me: "Oh, so the President thinks that the Constitution doesn't matter anymore? Thanks for telling me." {Click}

"...against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic..." I no longer believe that this government is legitimate. It has violated the Constitution, over and over again, and intends to go on doing so. They have forfeited all claim to my allegiance, and I am going to begin treating them like the hostile occupying power they have become.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, O LOOK SHINY edition

From Vox Day:

Most "ADHD" is little more than mothers and female teachers drugging little boys due to their inability to behave like little girls.

You can go read the rest of the post.  It's interesting just how much difference there is in both diagnosis and treatment in two different countries.

What Democrats really think of women

Dear women - according to the Democrat American Communist Party, you are nothing more than stupid sluts who only care about cheap free birth control pills, and are too simple to understand complex economic decisions regarding your health care coverage.

You think I'm kidding?  You think I'm wrong?  Look at what they put out for their ad.  WHO ARE THEY TARGETING WITH THAT ADVERTISEMENT?

Young women, that's who.  Because they think you're just a bunch of dim-witted sluts who can be bought off cheap.

You gonna prove them right?

Spot the similarities

Obamacare flaw allows anyone on Earth to fraudulently enroll through healthcare.gov

I got ten bucks says the code was written by the same douche-nozzles who set up Obama's electioneering donations page!

Hmmmmmm, using past performance as an indicator of future actions!  How quaint!  Or, as the Democrat American Communist Party likes to say, "SHUT UP YOU RACIST HATER!  IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!"

The trouble with Atheists

... is that they won't ever quit bringing up God in everything they do.

Now I have nothing against atheists, just as I would have no issue with Flat-Earthers, but simply taking the religious position they do doesn't grant them any sort of moral or ethical superiority. I point out that having a religion does not require a Supreme Being or Deity. Buddhism is the largest such example, with between 350-550 million followers. (The beings known as "Devas" or "Brahmas" are not deities as such, but merely those reborn into the highest planes of existence, having necessarily passed through humanity at some point.)

Now we have atheists sitting around, singing songs that support their religious beliefs in a crowd of their coreligionists, and taking moments of quiet contemplation to begin and end their religious convocations. If it looks like a church, sounds like a church, and talks like a church, it's a church.

My only question is what religious symbol they have atop the spire? And whether they will have the chutzpah to demand tax-exempt status given to churches.

Well, it's kind of veteran-themed

This email making the rounds on the intertubes...

"Putting things in perspective: March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days.  December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day.  What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage.  Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks,  planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa,  Invading Italy, D-Day,  Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin - all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!!  And in that amount of time - this administration can't build a working webpage."

Ragged thots

So CMBlake had up a post regarding Halloween costumes, specifically Captain Spaulding.  If you look in the comments, Lobo posted a little video of the Captain.

I think that's the best stand in for Uncle Sam under the Obama regime that I ever did see.

Unaltered

I've always had a thing for Asian women, ever since I was stationed in Korea.  I saw very few of them with plastic surgery.

Oh, there are always a few who have it, but they're in the minority, especially compared to what I see here in California.

Satori

I have just realized why things are turning to shit so fast.

The greatest generation - those who fought WW2, both on the battlefield and back here at home - were the last generation that had a winnowing of smart versus stupid.Up until the early 1900s, nature and a frontier allowed for that winnowing to occur naturally enough that it was barely noticed. The smart survived, the stupid died off, and the race was continually improved, and we were a nation of pioneers. That gave us the spirit they needed to pass along to their kids (who fought WW1) and their grandkids (who fought WW2).

But when the League of Nations failed and the United Nations outlawed war, that gave the greatest generation and their kids (the Baby Boomers*) and their grandkids (Generation "X" ) the chance to relax and since nature was conquered, and medical science was saving kids from accidents that would have killed them off in centuries past, there was suddenly no serious penalty for being stupid.

The teachers started seeing more stupid kids showing up in the classrooms, and had to learn to adapt until the stupids started becoming teachers themselves. This, perhaps not coincidentally, happened at about the same time as universities were starting to be taught by the baby boomers (the late 70s) and jokes about getting degrees for "underwater basket weaving" happened along to cover up the multiplicity of degree programs in some of the most inane areas imaginable, culminating in the current jokes about "a doctorate in Albanian Lesbian Poetry of the late Triassic".

It has gone from being merely acceptable to be stupid, through enforced association (peer pressure graduation), to being the eagerly sought for "norm" ("Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten").

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. -- Robert A. Heinlein

But since there has been no natural weeding of the stupid, they have begun to outnumber us, to the point where a majority think that money comes from the government and happiness is a big screen TV.

Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary.

* - which includes every President since Clinton, and almost every politician in Washington, DC and most State capitals

I read this story...

It was a sob story by some San Francisco residents who have had their insurance cancelled.

San Francisco architect Lee Hammack says he and his wife, JoEllen Brothers, are “cradle Democrats.” They have donated to the liberal group Organizing for America and worked the phone banks a year ago for President Obama’s re-election.
 ....

The couple — Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 — have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage — a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The couple would need to find another one. The cost would be around double what they pay now, but the benefits would be worse.

My response?

More laugh-a-licious goodness:

I asked Hammack to send me details of his current plan. It carried a $4,000 deductible per person, a $40 copay for doctor visits, a $150 emergency room visit fee and 30 percent coinsurance for hospital stays after the deductible. The out-of-pocket maximum was $5,600.

This plan was ending, Kaiser’s letters told them, because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. “Everything is taken care of,” the letters said. “There’s nothing you need to do.”
The letters said the couple would be enrolled in new Kaiser plans that would cost nearly $1,300 a month for the two of them (more than $15,000 a year).

And for that higher amount, what would they get? A higher deductible ($4,500), a higher out-of-pocket maximum ($6,350), higher hospital costs (40 percent of the cost) and possibly higher costs for doctor visits and drugs.

Lose-lose-lose! WOOHOO!

The wages of feminism

Now apparently include Vaginal Reconstructive Surgery.

Look ladies, I'm about to lay down some serious advice for you, mm'kay?  If you can offer your man something else besides just sex, you don't need to have any doctor take a scalpel to your cooter.

I mean, let's just break down what this surgery means, shall we?  Women, apparently so worried about what men thing of their va-jay-jay, are going under the knife to have plastic surgery on their genitalia in order to make it more attractive to men.

So what these women are saying is that they only important thing they have to offer men, the thing that they are spending thousands of dollars on improving as a way of attracting a mate, is their pussy.

I want you to think about that.  This is what the sexual "revolution" has wrought.   This is the end result of the feminist movement, that supposedly "freed" women from the bondage and slavery of the oppressive patriarchy.  "I'm my own woman!  I'm free to do whatever I want!  And I'm going to slice my vagina in order to get men to notice be, because I'm free from all that silly man-centered stuff!"

Gosh, aren't we all modern and liberated and stuff?

And of course men, freed from their responsibilities of being a husband and a father by a society that tells them they are unimportant and expendable, are constantly offered a revolving course of rejuvenated pussy, which they will use and discard as they wish.  Why bother supporting a woman and kids when you can just get rid of the old, tiresome wench and get a new one?  Yay Liberalism!  Yay Feminism!

Welcome to our world, folks.

The death of the medical system

So, Obama and his flunkies are attacking a cancer patient who's losing her health insurance thanks to Obamacare.  Crap like that is par for the course for the Obama regime, and we shouldn't expect anything less from a group of people who only care about collecting power for themselves.  Hey, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few million eggs, right?

But here's where it gets even worse for everyone - that cancer patient had a 2% chance of living this far.  TWO.  PERCENT.  And while it's a joyful thing that she's lived this long, it's also extremely important for medical research, because here we have an actual living example of what went right in cancer treatment.  It's a case study.  It's an opportunity to look at how this woman was treated, and apply the concepts to other folks who have cancer to see if we can extend their lives or develop a cure.

And it's not going to happen very often under Obamacare.  In fact, I'm willing to bet that the incidents of people getting the treatment that this woman was getting are going to vanish.  Gone.  Kaput.

And all the knowledge gained will stop as well.

Thanks, Obamacare!

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day

From Mostly Cajun:

Doesn't that just explain the Democrat American Communist Party to a "t"...

Cooch de Sarlac

The Ragin' Mrs injured herself while exercising, and she's been on crutches for a little while.  Tonight, we were doing some grocery shopping and a lady who was walking perpendicular to us made eye contact with the Ragin' Mrs, then sped up and tried to cross in front of us.  Normally not a big deal, except that she didn't cross fast enough, and the tip of the Mrs' crutch came down smack dab on the rear of this woman's flip-flop, which came off her foot with a loud *POP*.  It caused the Mrs to stagger a bit until she could regain her balance.

But what really got to me was the fact that the slow-crossing woman threw a bitch-hate glare at my wife before grabbing her sandal and going on her way.

Listen, you self-righteous bitch:  Either slow down and allow my injured wife to pass, or speed up and get the fuck out of our way.  My wife can't stop on a dime.  Nor can she speed up without turning into a pole-vaulter down the store isle. My wife didn't try to get your sandal with the tip of her crutch, she just wants to get to the checkout isle.  So quit your bitchier-than-thou attitude and get the fuck out of our way!

I told the Ragin' Mrs. that the bitch probably needed a good fucking, but no guy in his right mind would touch that woman, given that based on her attitude, her cooch has the strong possibility of possessing the various attributes of a snapping turtle.

Salve Regina

Yeah, I love music like this.

The funny thing about charges of racism

I was just thinking that charges of racism only work to shame those people who are obviously NOT racist.

That is to say, you cannot use the charge of "You're just a racist" against a member of the Klan or any of the 'White Power' skinhead groups. Their likely response? "Yeah. Your point being...?"

It only works to shame people who agree that being a racist is such an abhorrent thing that they should stop saying anything lest they prove the charge true. It does nothing about topic under discussion, except make it okay to use the threat the next time the topic comes up.

Unfortunately for those out there who have used the charge too often, when the first response to any perceived threat is to glibly throw around the charge of "Oh, that's just because you're a racist. You want lower taxes because you don't want a black man in the White House. You don't want the government dictating your health care choices because you're a secret member of the Klan. You think the IRS threatening political groups is wrong only because you hate Muslims. You're just a homophobe for insisting that marriage is the basis of civilization. You're just a H8RXTIANIST for not wanting the EPA to triple the cost of energy. He won and now no one has to pay their rent or phone bills or health care, so SUCKITHATERS."

Which, fuck that. They have overplayed their hand, and the charge is utterly worthless, but only if you call them on it every time they use it. Whenever they make the charge, make them look like fools by making that explicit: "Damned skippy, pal, I hate anyone not in the human race, now answer the question about {whatever topic they are avoiding}." Every time. (Or your own variation, but make it clear that they are making charges solely to avoid answering the embarrassing question. So let's embarrass them.

Things what not to do with your wife

When she models a new hair-style for you, do NOT run up and ask her which finger she stuck in a light socket (complete with a triage check of her hands).

Not a good idea.  Nope.  Not at all.

There are many types of Mantids,

"none of which have laser beams, but all of which resemble what would plop out of a nightmare that farted too aggressively."

I just bust a gut laughing at that.....