The Stench from the Bench

One of the reasons I'm certain this country is going to have another round of civil war is that the law is no longer the law.  That is to say, when the law can be twisted to mean one thing for one person, and one thing for another, then following the law no longer makes sense.  And a big problem with that is our judiciary.

On top of the worst political class in our country's history, we have our worst judicial class.  That's probably because they were selected by our political class.

It's because they have no standards. They just want to use ours against us.

A Democrat attacking Roy Moore for "rape" refused to say if he would vote for Bill Clinton.

GB: Would you vote for Bill Clinton if he ran again?
ZP: I think that all of these women need to be believed, and that we need to hold everybody accountable, whether it's Al Franken or or whether it's John Conyers, or whether it's Bill Clinton, or whether it's Donald Trump.
GB: So you wouldn't vote for Bill Clinton for president against Ted Cruz?
ZP: Would you vote for Donald Trump?
GB: I didn't.  Your question.  Back to you.
Host: You still didn't answer
ZP: Yeah, I was 15 years old...
GB: That's a dodge.  

Given the opportunity for the Democrat to say that he would NOT vote for serial rapist and sexual assaulter Bill Clinton, the Democrat...  dodged.  Because he knows, as we all know, that if it comes to a choice between doing the moral thing and doing the thing that will gain you political power, Democrats always, always, ALWAYS, grab the political power.  What's a few more rape victims, right?  You gotta crack some eggs if you wanna make an omelette! 

Which is why I hope Roy Moore wins.  Because we've been playing this game with the Democrats for far too long, and it's time they find out their tactics no longer work.  Because we normals no longer care. 

Now, do I believe Roy Moore's accusers?  No, not really.  I don't think they are credible.  The woman who claimed he signed her yearbook is most assuredly full of shit.  This is the same hit-and-run job the Democrats always do.  Raise a bunch of accusations, sink the Republican, and then after the election, just fade away laughing with NOTHING coming from any of the elections.  And sad to say, a lot of Republicans are on board with it, as shown by the number of people trying to get Roy Moore to step down.  But curiously, a huge number of those folks are the GOPe who spend upwards of $30 million to try to keep Roy Moore from winning the nomination.

And the people screaming for Roy Moore to step down haven't said ONE FUCKING THING about Al Franken, and John Conyers.  Funny, that.  It's almost as if they have a vested interest in keeping the status quo alive and well in D.C.

Fuck Black Friday.

Fuck it hard with a chainsaw.  Fuck Black Friday with a baseball bat wrapped in rusty barbed wire.  I'm not going out.  I'm not shopping, online or in the malls.  I am staying home. 

I refuse to be part of a greed-driven movement just ONE DAY after we ruminated on what we were thankful for.

I am going to cook up some food, have a drink, and enjoy some time with my wife.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Thanksgiving

I'll leave the sappy posting to someone else.  Especially since I seem to have caught a cold, and don't really have to much energy right now.  But I'm extremely thankful for my wife, my family, and the fact that I didn't have to move the metric shit-tons of household goods all by myself.

I giggled at "Freedom Seed"

Seems legit pic.twitter.com/YYhJMvZJXl

— Jon Del Arroz🇺🇸✝️ (@jondelarroz) November 20, 2017

The movers come today

Gonna be radio silence for a bit.  You do understand?

Today is National Ammo Day

And, if I recall correctly, it's also Kim's birthday.  And he wants you to buy ammo for yourself, for his birthday.  Swell guy, ain't he?

So.  Go buy ammo.  I might buy some other shooting oriented gear, because I already have a crate and a box full of ammo that I have to move myself, and I don't need to add any weight to that already-full load.

Maybe a nice set of targets.  Or the kind that you stick a clay pigeon in, and when you shoot it from far away it goes 'POOF".  I don't have any of those targets.  Yet.

A Rape of Democrats

It's like a Murder of Crows, or a Business of Ferrets.  It just fits so perfectly.....

US Intel Agencies have become both politicized weapons, and a sad joke

They're politicized weapons to be used by Democrats against their enemies, and a sad joke because they cannot do what they're actually supposed to do.

There are too many coincidences for it to be just bad luck. Some journalists are belatedly realizing they are living through the aftermath of the Big Bang. A huge strike happened without them even being aware of it and the scale of it is boggling. The Obama administration failed to detect the rise of the Islamic state, was surprised by the Russian invasion of Crimea and Putin's intervention in Syria, did not see the rapid development of Kim's nuclear arsenal and, publicly at least, ascribed the assault on the Benghazi consulate to a video -- and as the New Yorker points out, were even blindsided by Russian election interference openly happening on Facebook.

But they sure were great at spying on US journalists that the Obama regime didn't like!  Golly, could they ever wiretap those reporters!  And Trump's campaign office!  Because if you want to get to the bottom of things, you throw wiretaps on a political nominee's phones!

Stopping the hack of the Office Of Personnel Management, where over 20 million service-member's personal information was stolen?  Not so much.

Along with the worst political class in history, we have the worst intelligence agencies in our country's history.  And the fact that the two are inexorably merged is the reason for the latter. 

Mitch McConnell is a worthless, back-stabbing, traitorous pile of snake shit

And it's starting to become clear even to GOP stalwarts.

The secret behind McConnell’s reputation has been his ability to evade responsibility for suboptimal outcomes. He does so by blaming others when things do not turn out as expected while simultaneously taking credit for ensuring that they did not turn out even worse. 

Most of the time, that meant blaming former President Barack Obama and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for the fact that Senate Republicans did not accomplish more in specific legislative debates, such as those over the debt ceiling, government funding, and Obamacare. 

While leaders have always blamed their adversaries for their shortcomings, McConnell’s willingness to blame his fellow partisans sets him apart. For example, he routinely assigned blame to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund, and the candidates it supported in Republican primaries in 2010 to explain why the GOP failed to capitalize on the Tea Party movement and retake the majority that year. In doing so, McConnell also conveniently overlooked the early support DeMint gave to rising GOP stars such as Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. 

And after Republicans finally won a majority in the 2014 elections, McConnell regularly defended the lackluster bills he brought to the floor and passed with largely Democratic votes by pointing to what he portrayed as the obstinate refusal of conservatives such as Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to compromise.

At this point the GOP is probably going to lose control of both Houses of Congress in 2018, and it is entirely due to Mitch McConnell being a big-government, anti-conservative shitstain, who has spent the past decade doing his utter best to destroy the Tea Party movement and Trump voters while coddling the Democrats.  He is a pathetic waste of oxygen, who has one, uno, singular victory under his belt as the Senate Majority Leader, despite having GOP control of the House, Senate, and Oval Office.  Gutless, spineless, clueless and hopeless, he careens from one complete failure to another, always blaming someone else for his total inability to stop kissing Democrat ass and stabbing GOP voters in the kidneys.  He only punches to the Right, and Virginia is the perfect example of what happens under his "leadership".

Mitch McConnell needs to retire, go home, and spend the rest of his life letting the rest of us try to repair the damage he's done.

You never know just how much crap you have

Until you have to move.  And then it's "Why the hell did we keep that?  What IS that?  Where did that come from?"  Needless to say, the Mrs. and I have dumped several boxes of random stuff at Goodwill, and even more boxes into the dump.  That doesn't count the bonfires we've had from paperwork that we didn't need, but had PII on it. 

And that doesn't count the stuff we've sold off, like a massive plate glass table that was just too big for the house, along with the six chairs that went with it.  I'd say we're down at least 1000 pounds from when we got here.

Why in the hell did we have so much crap?

Don't know why Day by Day is so big

I might have to delete the old code and put whatever new code in there.  Meh.  Give me a bit.

Da music of my yoot

The 80's, musically, sucked.  Oh, there were some good bands, but the synth-heavy, breathy gay-boy sound like Duran Duran was ruling supreme, and quite honestly once a guy hit puberty that lost it's appeal.  Hell, even before my nuts dropped I was still making fun of George Michael.  When he came out as gay nobody was shocked.

So my tastes were formed by my Father, who favored jazz and classical, and my brother, who favored heavy metal.  So I would listen to Bach, Gershwin, and Ellington one minute, and Judas Priest and Iron Maiden the next.

And then, sometime in the late 80's, these bands started coming out playing...  real music.  Me being a drummer, I rejoiced in music where the beat didn't come from a Casio keyboard.  So....



One of my favorite bands from that era.

That song got me laid.  A lot.  Both singing it and playing it.

Vets

Veteran's Day

Lots has been said.  More than I can say, and probably better as well.  I'd just like to point out that the families of military members, while not in the line of fire, still bear an incredible burden along with that vet.  So if you're out and about, and you feel like thanking a vet, make sure to include their spouse in with that.

God knows my wife has put up with more crap than she ever thought possible as she supported me.

So now Roy Moore of Alabama is being accused

by a Hillary Clinton staffer, Democrat worker, of a crime that happened 39 years ago.

Roy Moore has been a public figure in Alabama for nigh on 40 years.  You think this might have come out earlier?  Just maybe?  I'm calling bullshit on it, until someone else than a Democrat operative is spilling the beans to a different publication than the Washington Post, which is nothing more than the Democrat Media Complex.

Oh, and whether the allegations are true or not, Mitch McConnell, that fucking backstabbing sack of shit, is to blame for the complete and utter fuck-ups that are going on.  As usual, that turtle-faced turd only punches tot he Right, never to the Left.  He's an embarrassment to the GOP and needs to be fired.  Now.

Dear Jarheads

Happy Birthday to all of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.  No better friend, no worse enemy.

Juxaposition

So, I'm reading the online version of the New York Post.  And floating at the top of the page is a story "Actors say Rude Audiences are Ruining Broadway".

Down below that, there are a couple of other articles.  Such as....

"Neil Patrick Harris makes Religion jokes at an AIDS gala held in a Church".

And...

"CMA Hosts Underwood, Paisley, poke fun at Trump".

Huh.  I wonder where these Broadway audiences, most of whom are liberal, ever got the idea that it was OK to be rude?  Gosh, it's a mystery.

Virginia once again is run by a Democrat swamp-dwelling shit-weasel

And I apologize if I offended any weasels out there by calling Ralph Northam a weasel.  But the GOP did it to themselves.  They're not called "The Stupid Party" for nothing, although at this point that moniker is a bit tame.  It really should be "The Party of People who are Dumb as a Fucking Stump who Cannot see Reality if it Bit them In The Ass".

Four years ago, Virginia conservatives were told you couldn’t win with a candidate who excited the Republican base.  Conservatives were told that candidates like Ken Cuccinelli spelled certain doom, that the answer was a moderate establishment candidate. Tonight we now know that that candidate Ed Gillespie did worse than Ken Cuccinelli did. And Cuccinelli performed better without the support of the Virginia GOP establishment. 

Ed Gillespie is certainly a good fellow. But his campaign used messages from 2004 and tactics from 1996. It seemed to exist outside of the ferocious upheavals of the modern polarized political world.

I don't vote in Virginia, but I followed the races with some interest.  The Virginia GOP is the Establishment GOP.  Back during the Presidential nominations, Virginia went for Rubio, based on the sickening influence of "NoVa", the area of Virginia that exists to support Washington D.C.  One of the local radio hosts (John Fredricks, if I recall) was at the nomination, and was going ballistic over how the Establishment GOP screwed Trump out of Virginia's delegates. 

Virginia is a lot like California, politically.  A vast swath of low-population, ultra-conservative areas, controlled by the Democrat-Party cancer of NoVa and Richmond.

Let’s be clear. Unlike plenty of other candidates, Gillespie is a good fellow. But Gillespie ran a Jeb campaign in a Trump world. In fact, he avoided the president and the president’s supporters noticed. 

Equally gracious is Gillespie’s wife Cathy. But when I got a campaign letter from her in support of her husband, I could only think – some consultant needs to lose their job for writing this and sending it to me.  Let’s do the time warp, back to 1996 and the Dole campaign:

The Virginia GOP doesn't like Trump.  They're D.C. insider Republicans, and they refuse to acknowledge that their way of doing business doesn't work any more.

Ed Gillespie is a nice guy.  But he's been in and around politics his entire life, and he's so enclosed from the real world that his campaign couldn't have hit any worse notes than it did with normal Virginians.  Maybe if the Virginia GOP had actually listened to the people who voted for Trump, there would be another Republican in the governor's mansion. 

Either the GOP starts listening to it's voters, or it dies.  And if it dies, this time it ain't coming back.