Guilty Pleasure

OK, so I have something to admit to all of you.  Whenever this song comes on the radio, I crank it up.



Don't judge me!

So there's this guy at work

His name is Juan.  That's not his whole name, but that's all the name I feel comfortably putting out online.

Juan has been in this country for over two decades.  He came up from a Central American country, and he always wanted to be an American.  He wants to open up his own business and live the American dream.

This past Wednesday, he took and passed his citizenship test.  He is now a full citizen of the United States of America.

If the GOP caves and pushes Amnesty for all the illegal border jumpers, they will have shit all over Juan and every other immigrant who followed the rules, did what they had to do, and became citizens.

Think about that when you're contacting your congresscritters.

Damaged

So, Lena Dunham is experiencing a melt-down, caused in part by her new book, wherein she relates multiple episodes of behavior from her that can only be described as sexually abusing her sister.  I won't go into too many details, but they're out there if anyone cares to read it.  Truth Revolt put excerpt of her book online, and now she's threatening legal action against them for...  um...  accurately quoting what she wrote.

Now see, if Truth Revolt had made up the fact that Lena Dunham had sexually molested her little sister, I could see the lawsuit working.  But by accurately quoting her?  Nope.

In any case, the sister in question (who is now a lesbian) used Twitter to try and defend her sister:

Grace responded on Twitter: “heteronormativity deems certain behaviors harmful, and others ‘normal’; the state and media are always invested in maintaining that.”

Did you get that?  It's not a problem that Lena Dunham sexually abused her sister, it's "hetronormativity" that deems it bad, and "the state and media" don't want you to think otherwise!

If you do a search for Dunham's father and his "artwork", you suddenly realize that this entire family is screwed up in their collective heads.  And I mean completely jacked up.  When Daddy Dearest is painting "art" that looks like the drawing of a naked woman as done by a twelve-year old (imagine growing up in a house filled with that crap), and Mommy liked to have a picture of herself with her legs spread featured in the house, Lena described her own actions towards her sister as a sexual predator, and it's just "hetronormativity" that's keeping you down, man!

I really, honestly have pity for Lena Dunham.  She was so screwed up by her parents that she didn't have a chance at living a normal happy life.  But that pity doesn't make me want her to go away any less - she's still a diseased whore, corrupting modern culture even further every day that she's on the public stage.  It's just that we now know why she's the way she is.

I wish I had a magical cup

So that I could collect all the tears from the Democrat Media Complex today and drink them with my dinner.  Ah well, I'll settle for scotch instead.

Election Day

Go Vote!  Remember, if you like freedom, don't vote Democrat!

"Smart" Diplomacy!

I'd say Poland has this Obama fellow figured out.

Yesterday I spoke with a top Polish MoD official, a man of sober and strongly pro-American views whom I’ve known for years. Referring to this week’s needless White House crisis with Israel, another American ally who has doubts about the current administration, he noted, “I didn’t need the Beltway media to tell me who the real chickens--- is.”  

"They really have no idea what they are doing,” he opined about Obama and his national security staff, “and we know it. You have no idea how many promises we’ve been given, even by the President himself, but there’s never any follow-up, it’s all talk. He thinks he’s on Oprah.” 

When I asked if he thought America would come to Poland’s aid in a crisis, he said laconically, “I’d flip a coin.”

Our foreign relations are going to be damaged beyond belief by Obama.  I only hope they're not damaged beyond repair.  But nobody can say the Poles don't know the reality of the situation.

Daylight "Savings" Time.

So, even as late as last Friday, I was riding to work in daylight and riding home in daylight.

Yesterday, I rode to work in daylight and rode home in the dark.  First time I've had to use the lights on my bike.

Tell me again about how we're "saving" daylight?

Gurgle

One of the joys of living in Los Angeles is the constant pollution.  There's no escaping it; it surrounds you, you live in it, you suffer with it.  In my case, my allergies have been through the roof for the past two years.  Breathing is interesting some days.

So when you get rain, like we did Friday night and Saturday, and it clears out the air, suddenly your body doesn't know what to do.  But after it goes through it's period of shock, it tries to expel all the crap that's built up from fighting the pollution for so long.  So I've been hacking up lung biscuits yesterday and today.

Going for my run this morning, I blew a snotwad out of my sinuses that I'm pretty sure weighed more than my little dog.  And when I talk, I gurgle, until I can clear the crap out of my chest and talk normally.

Nine more months.  Nine.  And then I can escape.  I think the people who move here willingly all need a mental evaluation.

O Salutaris Hostia

One of the greatest sins the Novus Ordo Catholic church ever did was throwing away their musical legacy of praise.

I think the music you find in a modern Catholic church is designed to drive the people away, rather than allow them to sing in praise.  Fine, you go sing some hippy-dippy song from a 1970's musician who's more interested in putting five different time signatures into a song rather than how it actually sounds.  I'll be in my traditional Latin Mass singing Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus".

Daylight savings time

Fall back!  FALL BACK!

Unless you're in Arizona, who doesn't give a shit about DST.

Halloween in a Hispanic neighborhood.

Got the treats.  Left the porch light on.  Not one single knock on the door.

Ah well.  At least we got little bags of pretzels instead of chocolate.  I can take them to the office and they'll get eaten there.

It's raining

Beautiful, glorious rain, and so even though it's early I'm outside with coffee and a cigar enjoying the sounds of the rain hitting the pavement.

Sometimes it's just the little things in life that make you happy.

I am up way too early

Damn internal clock.

Can't wait for tomorrow, when thanks to daylight savings time, I'll be up at 0430!  Yay me!

Stop all emergency services to Ferguson, MO

No cop should be asked to put up with this as part of their job.  I certainly wouldn't put up with that as Joe Citizen.  But then, I wouldn't be caught dead in a vibrant shithole where the locals are typically rampaging gangs of thugs and hoodlums, either.

Yeah, I know that's harsh.  Take a look at the video.  Feel the hatred that these people have for anyone who isn't black skinned.  And as an added bonus, these are the people who flat out lied about Michael Brown being a "Gentle Giant" even after he was caught on video robbing a store and tossing the store owner around.  And of course, they stuck it to "the Man" by smashing windows, looting the QuickTrip store, and burning their town down around their ears.  And now that the grand jury has seen ALL the evidence and refused to indict the cop, they're going insane over the fact that their lies couldn't get the desired results.

Even a dog doesn't shit in it's own den.  But apparently that's too high a level of civilization for the residents of Ferguson, MO.

So my solution would simply be to cut off all emergency services until the population stops assaulting cops.  No Police, no Fire Department, no EMT.  If the barbarians who populate Ferguson want to act like a bunch of savage cavemen, so be it.  Don't put anyone else's life at risk.  Let them drown in their hatred, and hope that the survivors are less inclined to devour those who are trying to help them.

Even a flatworm turns away from pain.

Score one for the good guys.

We previously covered the now familiar tale of the Knapps at the Hitching Post in Idaho. For the short version of the recap, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, were informed that they were going to have to perform same sex weddings at their chapel in order to remain in compliance with a city non-discrimination ordinance. The ensuing uproar which traveled from coast to coast like a shotgun blast apparently attracted the attention of the city fathers who have since thought better of the matter.

The people who pushed this issue on the Knapps wouldn't have done so if they didn't think the culture allowed them to get away with it.  We can't sit back on our laurels with this; we must remain vigilant.

"Chickenshit"

So, the dope-smoking retard to the right just called the Special Forces troop on the left a "chickenshit".

Wait. Who's "chickenshit" again? #Israel #tcot pic.twitter.com/VHU10NH2Sd
— Felicia D Murphy (@FD_Murphy) October 28, 2014

You want to know what's chickenshit?  That American Jews will, en masse, march into the polling booth and pull the lever for the Democrat American Communist Party, no matter what the leader of that party says, and no matter how horribly the Democrats and their allies smear the state of Israel.  Only one side of the political spectrum is marching in protests with signs calling Jews a bunch of Zionist Nazis who want to use the blood of non-jews in pastries, and it ain't the GOP doing it, m'kay?

When did races get so expensive?

When I registered for Bloomsday, it was $30.  Now Bloomsday is a 12K (7.5 miles approximately), but it's a big one with over 50,000 people running it.  That requires a lot of administration and capital, doesn't it?  So let's use Bloomsday as our baseline of what it costs to run a race - 7.5 miles into $30 is $4 a mile.

I went to sign up for the Long Beach half-marathon:  $100.  Say what?  At 13.1 miles, that shouldn't have been more than $53.

I was looking into the Ragnar race.  They wanted over $120 a person, with teams of 12 people.  Uh, no.  Look, I have no problem paying to support the costs of administration for a race, but when you get to paying a Franklin just to run?  Sorry.

What's it cost to race where you are?  Am I off my gourd here?

Spent yesterday sick as a dog

And with a headache that started between my shoulderblades and radiated up to the top of my head.  The Ragin' Mrs. hit it with some ointment and worked on my shoulders until the vertebrae started to pop back into place.  You ever have a time where you were in so much pain you didn't know just how much?  And when the pain finally went away, the feeling of relief made you dizzy?  Yeah.  That kind of pain.

Feeling much better.  I may actually try to go to work!

The illness was due to getting the flu shot.  I know there are tons of people out there who will shriek at me "THE FLU SHOT DOESN'T MAKE YOU SICK!"  Yeah, yeah, whatever.  For years and years, every time I got the flu shot, I got sick.  When I was out of the Army and living the civilian life, I never got the flu shot, and never got sick.  And then I was back in the Army, getting the flu shot every year, and getting sick from it.  So I'm either getting a mild case of the flu, or I'm catching some other virus that sneaks in while my body is busy dealing with the vaccine.

I'm not an anti-vaccine kind of person.  I'm all for the MMR vaccine, and the polio vaccine, and all those other vaccines that help us avoid the kinds of diseases that used to kill or cripple huge swaths of America.  But if you're a healthy person between the ages of 15-65, do you really need the flu shot?  If I'm going to get sick every time I get the flu shot, then why don't I just skip the shot entirely and give myself a chance to not get sick at all?  And since the flu shot only covers three or four different variations of the virus of the year, there's no guarantee that you still won't catch the flu even after you get the shot.

Once I'm out of the Army, I won't be getting a flu shot until I turn about 80 or so.

This, this, this!

This is politely written, unvarnished truth that needs to be repeated, from the comment's at Vox Popoli:

With all due respect, both you and your critics here are wrong. You object to filthy language from anonymous teens directed at women-handles on the grounds that it is misogyny, and they object to your objection on the grounds that it is typical young male banter. 

Courtesy is an organic and reciprocal thing. The only way to get boys, who are innately and inherently barbaric, to act chivalrously and nobly, is to have your your ladies act like ladies.
Not to be too crude or direct about the matter, but if the only way to persuade a woman to copulate with you is to behave like a gentleman (and I mean a gentleman who fights duels and is polite to the man he shoots or stabs) then the natural lusts and pride of youth will incline the young men to act like gentlemen. 

The Cultural Marxists for all the decades after World War Two have spent their utmost time and efforts attempting to normalize filthy and filthy language, and heap up the obscene and disgusting things in our lives, because men without dignity, and men without beauty in their lives, men who live in a dungheap, find it hard to fight. Their spirits are low.  

So, to reform the filth talk of the HALO players, your mission is to reintroduce Christianity, courtliness, femininity, and romance into life.  

Stop talking this nonsense about women being exactly like men in all ways. Men and women are not equal, they are complimentary, and each has strengths and merits the other lacks.
Men are downstream of women. Eliminate feminism, and you will eliminate what you are calling misogyny.

The Marxist and their allies have pushed to dumb down modern culture for as long as I can remember, and it's been their goal to make what used to be degenerate, common place.  Defining Deviancy Down.

But now that they've gotten their goals and their places of power, they're trying to shame all those hollow-chested men they've created into following their rules.  But deviants don't do shame.  Degenerates don't do shame.

You want to be treated like a lady?  Act like a lady.  But modern feminism refuses to act that way, and so they reap their reward.

OK, so...... I need some cash.

Just enough to get to Korea.  And then enough to buy this sammich.

No, you don't understand.  I must have it.  Now.  Like right now.

Look, I won't stay there for long, just enough to have one or two hundred of these sammiches.  So, like, a month, tops.  Maybe three.

Want.  Badly.