Musings

After 40 (+)years in Mexfornia, my lovely bride and I moved back to America - deep in the heart of Dixie. Culture shock? And how!

When my Mexifornia neighbors said "it's close" we knew it meant 10 minutes max - a couple miles. In Dixie 'close' is at least 12miles away, or 20 to 25 minutes.

When we purchased a newly built home, in Dixie, we made a few assumptions. Phone service? Kinda, but no landlines. It's all Wifi. Holy data limits, Batman.

Believe it, when I tell you Dixie healthcare is much better than my Mexifornia providers.

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Is the inescapable covid 19 mask an infringement on the venerable culture of career criminals? Shame on you Fauchi! Holy cultural appropriation, Batman!

Speaking of masks, do brides and grooms wear them? Kissing masked? Killjoy.

Does the mask replace the legendary bag over his/her head?

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'Chicago PD' is a network series that also appears on several cable channels. Its focus is the elite intelligence unit of the windy city's police department. 'Elite' is worthy of an eye roll if not a guffaw for several reasons:

* members of this unit are routinely held hostage

* members of this unit can't shoot worth a damn

* they are piss poor when it comes to a foot pursuit

* when trying to arrest a suspect outdoors, they start shouting 'halt' while still a block away

* their most effective capture strategy is hitting the perp with a cop car

* two of the female investigators are the biggest bimbos in town

It's like watching NASCAR. You know the wreck is coming but you don't know how or when.

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I ingested a news item about John Hinkley - the man who shot POTUS Regan to impress Jodie Foster. He was booby-hatched, for a while. Until... Eventually, deemed 'cured', he was fitted with a tracker and freed to live in the basement of parent 1 and parent 2 [mom and dad]. This week, the shrinks proclaimed 'bygones' and removed his tracker. [Attention Jodie: he's ba-ack!]

This news tidbit was followed by a series of stories about Joe [Old Joke] Biden's on-going assault on America. That made me ask my lovely bride, "I wonder what would happen if we told Hinkley that Biden has the hots for Jodie. Among other things, we would learn how 'Fully CURED' Hinkley is.

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I thought I had this free speech thing out of my system, but I was, obviously, wrong. If words like "civilized", "developing nations" and "brainstorming" are condemned, because they give the chronically-offended a boo-boo, where are the limits?

Eventually, I wondered if there's any word that doesn't offend, someone. Seeking that answer, I challenged myself with the three most innocuous words in the English language: "The", "A", "Is". Could I render these words 'offensive', 'oppressive', or was I headed for bitter defeat?

Here are my entries for these commonplace terms:

"The"
Oppresses the chronically indecisive by limiting their options.

"A"
Oppresses the Educrat who got fired during that nasty grade-inflation scandal. Also oppresses the grade inflatee, who learns, the hard way, that all 'A's are not created equal.

"Is"
Oppresses Demoncrats who don't know what the meaning of 'is' is. Also oppresses the VRWC who still remember their Quixotean Quest to dump Bubba.

With those in the bag, I reeled off the following examples of unexpectedly 'oppressive' words:

"Work"
Oppresses the chronically unemployed. It also oppresses the egregiously lazy.

"Lazy"
Oppresses the differently energetic who view it as an attack on their fondness for leisure.

"Rich"
Oppresses those who are vilified for having deep pockets. Oppresses the chronically needy who want to empty them. The Korrectnik-approved word is "exploiter".

"Poor"
Oppresses the have nots, by rubbing their faces in it. A more acceptable term is Wealth-challenged.

"Food"
Oppresses lard asses, dieters, and size zero starve-a-holics.

"Diet(er)"
Oppresses lard asses, dieters, and food-wrangling capitalists.

"Home"
Oppresses 'housing-challenged' urban campers and gassed to the gills meatheads who would love to go there, but can't remember where the blasted thing is located.

"Childish"
Oppresses the chronically juvenile. A more suitable description is 'behaviorally nostalgic'.

"Tote Bag"
Oppresses women in male-dominated third-world cultures, who think it's a snarky way of defining their role in life.

"Beauty (Beautiful)"
Oppresses the genetically gifted who want to be admired for their mind. Oppresses the butt ugly, for OBVIOUS reasons.

"Mom"
Oppresses orphans, and tykes with two daddies.

"Dad"
Oppresses orphans, and wenchlets named 'Heather' who have two mommies.

"Sex"
Oppresses Mecca Maniac (alleged) males, avowed celibates, womyn, the socially-challenged, sheep, the FCC, L. Brent Bozell III, and little Donny Wildmon.

"Water"
Oppresses the drought-stricken, aqua-phobics, and denizens of a city in a hole by the sea called the Big Easy.

"Dike"
Oppresses GLAAD BAAGs who flunked spelling. Besides, it 'sounds like that OTHER word'.

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Our POTUS makes great Aunt Daffy seem utterly rational.

His VEEP is a train wreck.

Waiting in the wings is that commie nightmare San Fran Nan.

Just shoot me.

Thank a Democrat.

We the PIGs are deeply troubled by all the hostility between the left and right wings of the political spectrum. Okay we're not troubled, let alone deeply. We are, however, aware of it. With nothing better to with our time, we decided to do something about it. Something? Yup.

We're calling this 'healing' process 'thank a Democrat'. If it makes you feel better call it 'thank a progressives' aka ;' 'Progtard'. It's your call. I'm sticking with thank a Democrat.

Why? It's the Jackass Party who is doing the heavy lifting on most things. It's rank and file Democrats who empower the Jackass Party, without a moment's hesitation. Why? The Jackass Party gives them 'free shit'.

I know what you're thinking: why not 'thank a Republican'? In most instances, pachyderm punks are just along for the ride. The Jackass Party is in the driver's seat as we careen toward the abyss at breakneck speed. The pachyderm punk passenger isn't making the driver stop, asking him to turn around, or trying to seize control. All the passenger is doing is asking the driver to 'slow down', a little. The last thing the pachyderm punks want is control and the responsibility that goes with it. If the pachyderm punks ever do anything we'll 'thank' them, too.

We will begin by citing some memorable Jackass Party accomplishments. Let the healing begin.

America - the nation immortalized as "a shining city on a hill" - is gone and it won't be coming back. It won't be back? Exactly. There aren't enough rational adults left to restore it and their numbers are still shrinking. If America's untimely demise pisses you off, thank a Democrat.

Our next president is likely to be a notoriously unstable woman with a violent temper who makes Will Shakespear's legendary Kate seem placid by comparison. If giving her access to nukes thrills you spitless thank a Democrat.

If the fruit of your loins graduated from high school and can't even read his, her, hisher, or its own diploma, thank a Democrat.

If you live in the coal belt - Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, etc. - and your life went to shit when Barry nuked the coal industry, thank a Democrat.

If you work in the insurance field and your job vanished in the latest Obamacare-induced company-wide downsizing, thank a Democrat.

Barry's agreement, deliberately put Iran on the fast track to an arsenal of nukes. Israel with top their hit list, then it will be our turn. If arming perpetually pissed Iran with nukes really grabs you, thank a Democrat.

In post-liberty America, up is down, right is wrong and your gender is determined by your whim, not your DNA. Thank a Democrat.

In post-liberty America, success is evil, and failure is heroic. Thank a Democrat.

In post-liberty America, what you are [pedigree] supercedes who you are [your thoughts, words and deeds]. Thank a Democrat.

In post-liberty America, Ivory Towers have devolved into insanely expensive babysitting services. Thank a Democrat.

In post-liberty America, daring to use facts to disprove government orthodoxy on such whoppers as secondhand smoke, global warming, or that lives aren't saved by legally owned firearms, is considered a crime. Thank a Democrat.

In post-liberty America, wages and benefits are determined by Nanny State bureaucrats, instead
of that task's worth, in the marketplace. Thank a Democrat.

If you live in a crumbling relic of a once great city - Detroit - thank the party in control since the 1960s. Thank a Democrat.

Black on black crime? They yawn when you mention the debacle in Chicago. Black lives only matter when a cop shoots them. Thank a Democrat.

A 'news' media that's the Jackass Party's propaganda arm? Thank a Democrat.

A politicized judiciary, a degraded military, an economy in shambles, our world class healthcare system destroyed...Thank a Democrat.

We are devolving into Venezuela. Thanks for nothing, Democrats,.

Terrorism

The end game of terrorism is - duh - fear. Given that, a terrorist measures success, in large part, by the amount of publicity - MSM coverage - the heinous deed generates.

There are several ways to get attention.:

Kill a lot of people at once like the Boston Marathon or the rock concerts in Paris.

Or, like Orlando, target a group that hits way above it's weight, when it comes to MSM coverage. Gays,for example. Factor in Gay Pride Month and the Orlando gay watering hole is ideal. The MSM is in a feeding frenzy, so hang the 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' banner.

Putting it another way, there's this chant used by antiwar demonstrators outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel during the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago: "The whole world is watching".

So who pinned this bull's-eye on GLAAD BAAGs?

Trump? MSM? The PROGTARDS? The VRWC?

None of the above. Islam did it centuries ago.

Remembering A Different America.

[If the American Dream isn't dead, yet, it's a miracle, in light of the Obama Regime's frontal assault on capitalism, sovereign individualism, and inalienable individual liberty. This rant salutes an utterly American phenomenon that's under attack.]

The American Dream means different things to different people. In fact, by its very nature, the American Dream is, of necessity, defined by the dreamer. Each of us has his, her, hisher or its own dream, a dream that can't be...must never be...dictated by some outside entity. I can't tell you what to 'dream'. The Nanny State can't tell you what to dream. That pernicious pest 'the majority' can't tell you what to dream. Your preferred flavor of supernaturalism can't tell you what to dream. It's your American Dream, Sparky, and you're the one who must define it for yourself.

The essence of the American Dream is the unbridled liberty to make your own choices, set your own goals, and define your own criteria for 'success'. The American Dream gives you the freedom to conduct your life and exercise your liberty as you pursue your happiness. The American Dream is a highly personal thing and that's why it is derided as 'selfish'. Of course it's selfish and who said that being selfish is, invariably a bad thing? Like it or not, altruistic Sparky, a rational self interest is an inherently human trait. The American Dream is built upon this fact of existence.

In a larger sense, the American Dream involves creating a political and social environment wherein a sovereign individual has the inherent right to determine the course of his, her, hisher or its life, unimpeded by outside forces. The American Dream is, to borrow a familiar phrase, the freedom "to be all that you can be". But, it's more than that. The American Dream doesn't demand that you reach for the stars when you determine the course of your life. The American Dream is the freedom to become as MUCH, or as LITTLE as you want.

For some, an American Dream might be an utterly altruistic life that seeks to make the world a better place by helping others. For others, it might mean banding together with like minded sovereign individuals to create something meaningful to each of you (a new invention, a product, an outpost of capitalism, or simply a book). For certain rugged American individuals, the American Dream means striving to test your limits in some specific endeavor. Your dream could be as simple as being the first member of your family to get a college degree. Maybe your dream is to get married, buy a home and raise a family. The nature and scope of your personal American Dream is only limited by your imagination.

The essential point about the American dream is that, by the nature of your inalienable individual birthright, it's your call. It's up to you to determine how to utilize your inalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. You are free to make this monumental, life-defining choice, without the permission of the Nanny State, the tyrannical majority, or some flavor of supernaturalism. The Nanny State, the 'majority' and the true believers need to butt out because nobody asked them to make this call. In this land conceived in liberty, the momentous decision to define your personal version of the American Dream is all yours. You can dream as big and as grand as you want, but how well you do is dictated by the amount of energy, talent and intellect you have at your disposal.

The American Dream involves giving an individual the liberty to make his own choices about the course his life will take. But, since it's your personal choice, your individual American Dream, it comes with certain baggage. In your pursuit of your American Dream, you must be free from outside coercion. By the same token, the American Dream does not allow you to coerce others into handing you that American Dream on a silver platter. You are free to enlist others who choose to join your quest, but you can't force them into it. The dark underbelly of the American Dream is that it's your intellect, your energy, and your talent that seal the deal. If you expect to reap the rewards when you realize that American Dream, you need to do the heavy lifting.

There's one more thing you need to know, need to accept, about the American Dream. No matter how you define your American Dream, you're going to be second-guessed, criticized, and, in some cases, vilified. Depending on the nature of your dream, you'll be impugned as "selfish", "materialistic", "hedonistic", "arrogant", and of course "doomed to failure". You'll need to develop a tough hide if you expect to see your personal version of the American Dream all the way to that finish line. You must learn to ignore the naysayers, the critics and the parasites who can't wait to steal a piece of your success. Nothing worth having comes easy, Sparky.

There have always been barriers, traps and unexpected consequences lurking between an American and his dream. Back in the day, many of the barriers were dictated by an untamed environment and the prevailing level of technology. In the 21st century, the Nanny State shoves its greedy mitt into your pocket at regular intervals. If, by sheer force of willpower and talent, you achieve your dream, the Nanny State will do its level best to crush you with bureaucracy, regulations, taxes, intrusive laws and assorted other obscenities. Does that mean the American Dream isn't worth the effort? Nobody can make that call but you, Sparky. If you've got the right stuff, you'll shrug off the Nanny State nitwits, the naysayers and all the other pests who want to keep you from achieving that dream.

The bottom line about the American Dream is this: success is not guaranteed and there are more barriers in your way than you want, need or deserve. All this land conceived in liberty gives you is the opportunity. But, when you cross that finish line and achieve that American Dream, you are entitled to gloat and mete out the relevant 'neener, neener, neener'. Once you're done with that, don't rest on your laurels. Set a new goal, and start striving for that next American Dream, because there's no limit on how many American Dreams you can have in your lifetime.

Are we all up to speed on the American Dream now, Sparky?

Observations

The primary critique of candidate Trump is unintentionally ironic.

"He's never held a position of political power such as governor."

His resume includes a lot more leadership than a certain Dumbo-eared Marxist whose lack of leadership skills has turned his 7 years as POTUS into an unmitigated disaster.

"He's temperamentally unsuitable for such a powerful position."

Shrillary's meltdowns - a daily occurrence - are legendary. This infamous shrew calls Trump temperamentally unsuitable? Laughable!

"He has no foreign policy experience."

True but neither did Barry, whose foreign policy is an utter disaster. Trump has to be an improvement.

Enough Damn It!

That rat fucking bastard Obama is in Hiroshima [Japan] apologizing for nuking it in WWII. As usual, he omits the rest of the story.

400,000 [appx.] American warriors died in that war. You could double- perhaps triple that number, if we had invaded Japan, instead of nuking it. Instead of 100,000 [appx.] dead in the two aforementioned cities, invasion planners estimated a million, or more Japanese would die. Barry and his hate America cohorts never mention such inconvenient truths.

Seven decades ago, the aptly named 'Greatest Generation' was thrust, unprepared, into a desperate struggle against two powerful enemies. After a ferocious battle waged on two fronts, they prevailed, preserving our liberty. The price of victory was high, but they never complained. How have we thanked them? How indeed.

Our stewardship of the liberty they defended so heroically is replete with failure.

We stood idly by, while our domestic enemies chipped away at our freedom.

We stood idly by, while our domestic enemies rewrote history to recast these Greatest Generation heros as villains in WWII.

We stood idly by, while our hand-picked representatives, our EMPLOYEES, became our RULERS.

We waited - we're still waiting - for a hero to come to our rescue. If we asked them, the Greatest Generation would set us straight. Like them, we must be our own heros.

Are up to the challenge? I don't know.

Afterthought:

Where did all those liberty preserving hecklers go? Who is today's Lenny Bruce? Who is today's George Carlin? Who is today's Will Rogers? Who is today's Jack Anderson? Who is today's H.L. Mencken?

PIGish Fun

[Metro.uk] A teenager put a pair of glasses on the floor of a gallery and everyone thought it was art

Ah, the classic 'put a random object in an art gallery and wait for people to lose their minds over its greater meaning' prank. It shouldn't work. But it does – every. damn. time.

And are we really surprised, considering there's currently an exhibition in London that's just a closed gallery you can't actually enter? And a massive pile of oranges currently sitting in the Tate?

One man proved once and for all that we are all truly lost, confused people wondering around galleries desperately pretending that we know what art is.

According to a Twitter moment from Tuesday night, a teenager named TJ Khayatan and his friends pranked a load of cultural types by leaving a pair of glasses on the floor of a museum.

People reacted pretty much the way you'd expect. They stared. They pondered. They took photos. It was magical.

But here's a question: through gaining a reaction, does a pair of glasses left on the floor become art? What is art, really?

Hmm.

Stress

I was in the middle of something when the doorbell rang. He looked 30-ish and entirely too eager. His shirt bore a company logo and a name patch over his pocket.

I took in the clip board, his toothy used car salesman grin and his body language, concluding, can't be trusted.

Me: "What the hell do you want?

Him: "Your lawn is stressed."

Me: "It's not alone."

Him: Ignoring my witty reply, he reeled off a lot of lawn related gibberish.

Me: "Can it and cut to the chase. How much?"

Him: "Well, you see, uh..."

Me: "Spill it or take a hike."

Him: Reluctantly, he complied. It wasn't a princely sum, until I did the math.

Me: "So for this nominal per visit fee, you'll come out every other month to help my front lawn relax. I assume you'll double your nominal fee if I have you do the back."

Him: "Let me explain."

Me: "Nope, let me explain. Rule 1: I only buy door knocker goods from certain enterprising neighborhood tykes. Rule 2: People who carry a clipboard can't be trusted. Rule 3: Rightly or wrongly you triggered my 'scam' alarm. I never ignore that. We're done here."

Stressed lawn? You bet. We're both stressed, thanks to the Water Nazis.

Nostalgia

It hit me, yesterday, during my afternoon commute, and once it grabbed me, it wouldn't let me go. Unable to avoid it, I finally confronted this painful truth. Something very precious to me is gone and it's my fault. Admittedly, I didn't destroy it all by myself, but I'm partially to blame and I'm man enough to admit it.

I miss America.

I talked a good story, but I wasn't there when I was needed. Since I took it for granted, I didn't fully appreciate it until it was gone. Regrettably, its loss is irrevokable and it's a loss that's made much worse, now that a pale imitation has taken its place.

I miss America.

Admittedly, America wasn't perfect. It never lived up to its full potential, but it was a remarkable place populated by exceptional people nonetheless. The founding fathers deliberately set the bar for success very high, but that didn't stop America's rugged individuals from striving to meet, preferably exceed, those lofty ideals. Throughout our history, America, its denizens, showed flashes of brilliance.

I miss that America.

In America, men like Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Ford and numerous others, transformed our world though hard work, ingenuity, plus an unshakable belief in themselves, and their ideas. Their success inspired others to pursue their own American Dream.

I miss that America.

The classic American success story, during America's golden age, often started in the family garage, where one of those American dreamers transformed their idea into a memorable outpost of capitalism.

I miss that America.

In America, the schools never tried to indoctrinate, but they did their utmost to educate the young minds which strolled in through the school's doors. In American schools, young scholars were given the fundamental building blocks of knowledge in the legendary 3-Rs, plus other essentials. Once the young scholars had a solid foundation of basic information, they were taught how to analyze it and form their own opinions about it. American schools taught young scholars how to think, how to defend their opinions. But, American schools never told the young scholars what to think.

I miss that America.

In America, even the political class produced, from time to time, a leader who understood that individual liberty is inversely proportional to the size and scope of government. These leaders include, but are not limited to, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and James Madison.

I miss that America.

In America, the rank and file American rose to the occasion, when the nation was in dire straits. For example, in December 1941, an unprepared America was jolted by a series of punishing attacks by the Imperial Japanese war machine. Sucking it up, Americans from sea to sea were up to the challenge. While American men put on the uniform, American women took jobs in factories, where they produced the weaponry which turned the tide of war in America's favor. There's a reason we call them 'the greatest generation'.

I miss that America.

That America didn't disappear overnight. It died incrementally, over a prolonged period of time. Now, in 2016, that America is gone forever. It only exists in my memory, and it's not enough to distract me from the red, white, and blue tyranny that took its place.

I miss that America.

Parting shot: Have I given up on bringing that America back? In the short term? Yes, because it will take time for objective 'this sucks' reality to batter its way into the moribund brains of all those idiots with self-esteem pooped out by government cess schools.

The long term outlook for restoring the America I miss, depends, in large part, on how many rugged, sovereign individuals are available, when the time comes.

Is my outlook egregiously gloomy? You bet, but I'm ready, willing and downright eager to be proven wrong.

I miss America.

Today is Friday the 13th

It's the first Friday the 13th of the Year

That makes it: Blame Someone Else Day

Or

Think like a Liberal Day

[We're all adults here so let's face the facts. For Libs every day is Blame Someone Else Day. ]

Musings

Today, something happened that made me laugh, and cringe, at the same time. More about that in a minute. First, some background is needed.

Every month, the sequence is the same.

1) They [phone bills for our 2 land lines] arrive in the mail.

2) MLB [my lovely bride] sees them, grits her teeth, then puts them beside her computer, muttering profane pleasantries.

3) The next morning, she opens them, examines them intently then calls 'them' everything but a child of God.

What sets her off? It's not what you think, because our phone use charges are not out of control. It's the endless list of fees, taxes, and assorted other bullshit charges imposed by the Nanny State that launches her. In addition to being asinine, the N.S imposed fees keep inching higher...a nickle here, a dime there, and she - quite understandably - hates it.

So what happened today? THIS:

Exciting news - your wireless bill from AT&T is now on video. This video is available for your first two bills to help you understand all of your charges. You will continue to receive your official paper bill by mail or paperless bill at att.com.

Will I let her see it? Nope?

My phone. My bill. My drama.

I'm quite capable of doing my own swearing, if/when the need arises.

Asides

About Bruce/Caitlyn: Does Bruce's "I'm utterly insane and believe I'm a chick now" brain fart make him a certified mom? Is his delusion enough, or does he, she, heshe or itneed an okey dokey from his 20-ish Kardashian daughters: Tart & Bimbo [Kylie & Kendall]?

For some reason, when I see Ted Cruz, I think "Nixon". I think it's his grim 'undertaker' expression. I know they don't look alike, but there's something about Ted that sets off my Tricky Dicky early warning system.

I sold my soul to a technological demon, last week. I mothballed my flipphone and bought an iPhone. I won't waste time by explaining it. Let the games begin.

Such a deal! My power utility's blurb shouts "EARN $200", BUT the fine print whispers "or less". All I must do is let them install a gizmo that will allow THEM to shut off my air conditioning whenever they feel like it. Don't hold your breath, public utility Sparky

Precious Snowflakes Get An Earful

A Steven Crowder classic!

A must see: Crowder

Awesome!

Signs of the Times

 

 

You'll find more: Here

 

More Schilling

[Breitbart] Apologize For What? Curt Schilling Stands Strong Against Left on Transgender Bathroom Comments

Curt Schilling, the ex-Boston Red Sox ace pitcher, appeared on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM 125 The Patriot Channel with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Friday morning to make absolutely clear he is not backing down to the left over his transgender bathroom comments.

Schilling, who led the Red Sox to their first World Series victory in 86 years in 2004 by carrying the team through the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees by literally pitching on an ankle so busted his sock was bleeding, was fired from ESPN this week for siding with the majority of America on the transgender public restrooms issue.

Schilling, a conservative, this week posted on his blog a photograph of a heavyset overweight man wearing women's clothing and a wig with the caption: "Let him in! To the restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!"

It came amid the controversy surrounding the North Carolina bathroom law regarding transgender people, and as such ESPN used Schilling's common-sense comments to fire him. "Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated," the network said in a statement.

When Bannon asked Schilling if he's a "hater," Schilling replied that he's not.

"Hand to God, I'm going to tell you a quick story: in my family, my kids, the minute the word hate comes out of [somebody's] mouth [when talking about me], they now kind of chuckle about it because I've always said, 'Listen, there's very little of anything in the world that I hate,'" Schilling said. "Hate takes effort. Hate takes energy. There's far too much in this world that requires effort and energy otherwise that I don't have the energy to hate. I don't hate anything."

Schilling compared the accusations against him to someone who hasn't molested children being accused of being a child molester.

"That's how I feel," Schilling told Bannon. "I don't have a racist bone in my body. I'm not transphobic. I'm not homophobic. My 16-year-old son is one of the founding members of the LBGT club in high school. That's his group. That's the people he loves and hangs out with. He has no blinders on. His whole world is about 'I don't care who you are and what you are—you're good people.' Those kids are in and out of this house all the time. I've never in my life treated somebody based on a racial denomination or religion or sexual preference. I don't care. I've never cared. As long as you're not sleeping with my wife, I don't care who you sleep with. So that, to me, to be where we're at—something had to go wildly askew. I hate to use that defense when people talk about 'oh, you're a racist,' that 'no, I have black friends.' But listen, I'm 49 years old. I had a company with almost 400 employees. I had many people that were transgender. There were people that were gay and all the things that were like that. They were some of the greatest people in the world; they're still friends and some of the people I talk with. If in my past, I'd ever been a racist or I'd ever said something racist or if I had ever been transphobic or homophobic, somebody somewhere would have said something I'm sure given my status."

Schilling added that the motivation of people who have been criticizing him over this seems to be that they have an agenda.

"That's why I sleep well at night—I'm okay with people I don't know saying things that aren't true because life is hard enough. I can't live my life to make people that don't know me like me," Schilling said. " And I won't. And people don't like that, for whatever reason they don't like that. And one more thing I would tell you this: I am firmly a believer now in that this isn't about me being transphobic or me trying to promote transphobic things. It feels to me like this is about people whose agenda is way more important to them than it is to me, and I'm not making a big enough deal about it."

Alex Marlow, the Editor of Chief of Breitbart News, asked Schilling about a headline—"Contrition Continues To Elude Curt Schilling"—linking to a New York Times article that calls for him to apologize for what he said. Marlow noted that the "Social Justice crowd" is "trying to shame" Schilling into "one of those ritual public apologies."

"Listen, people that know me know I talk a lot—I have opinions on a lot of things—I never have a problem admitting when I'm wrong or make a mistake," Schilling said. "And I do it a lot–number one because I'm human and the only perfect human who ever walked the earth died a couple thousand years ago. I don't try to be wrong. I love debate. I love to talk about things. I love to debate people who have a completely opposing opinion of mine because I think it helps me get educated about things I don't know about, number one. But number two, I think vice versa is true as well. But here's the problem: People have a very, very distorted view of opinions and beliefs. Beliefs, to me, are things that are foundational to what makes you. Jesus was the living Son of God, that's a belief. I know that. An opinion is that I don't think men should pee in women's bathrooms, and vice versa. That's an opinion. I don't think anything differently about people because of that opinion. If you disagree with me, that's fine. There's a discussion to be had."

Bannon noted to Schilling that "they're trying to break you," but Schilling said he won't back down.

"Oh yeah, this is not the first time [they've tried to break me]," Schilling said. "For 20 years as a baseball player, I drove GMs [general managers] kind of batshit crazy because I wasn't afraid to say what I thought and felt. Now, listen, that doesn't make me right. That makes me me. I was in a position to question ownership and general managers because I knew I wasn't going to get fired—and younger players wouldn't say the things I said. So, if you're expected me to give you everything I possibly have to win every night, I expect the same from you—and if you're not going to give it to us, then I have a problem. That rubbed people the wrong way. That made GMs [upset]. But no one ever questioned—my job was to pitch every fifth day and win. No one I ever played with before would ever tell you, or question the amount of effort I put in on those days. So, that was my job. My job was to win. It wasn't to play baseball—it was to win. And I took that very seriously, and I do that with everything—and much to my wife's chagrin, 9 times out of 10, I don't have the ability to just answer a question I'm passionate about 'yes' or 'no' because I think that that's a shallow thing to do a lot of times."

This Is War

[While working on my top story, I found this rant and decided to deploy it here.]

All you need to know is that, in my OTHER life, the life outside the FSOP, a group of Austrians succeeded in really pissing me off. I tried to cut them some slack, but they insisted on pushing it, again, and again.

I'm willing to let bygones be bygones, more or less, over their homeboy Adolph. I'm trying to 'be a man' about the steaming load who left Austria and ended up in Mexifornia's governor's mansion. BUT, I draw the line, when THEIR badly planned bullshit interferes with my duties here in the FSOP. As bad as that was, it got worse when they threatened the most important day of the year at Hambo's homestead: Halloween.

Enough was enough, so I declared war on Austria. That's right, PIGsters, Hambo is OFFICIALLY at WAR with this pissant, Eurotrash infested, pimple on humanity's butt.

Willing to wallow in the muck and the mire, I tried to enlist help. Where? I started at the top, by placing a call to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Red Shed: "White House switchboard, how may I assist you?"

Me: "This is Hambo. I need to yammer at Barry, so grab his Dumbo ears and drag his scrawny butt to the phone."

R.S.: "If you mean PRESIDENT Obama, I must demand an apology."

Me: "Don't give me that crap, I'm not one of Barry's leg-humping asshats like Chris Matthews. I need Barry and I need him now. Don't make me come over there."

R.S.: "If you don't change your tone, you'll be very sorry."

Me: "Don't hold your breath. I only need a minute of his time. How long can it take to declare war on Austria, then nuke them back to the stone age?"

R.S.: "Declare war on Austria? You must be insane. President Obama is much too busy for the likes of you."

Me: "Just put him on the phone, while he practices his putting in the Oval Office. I need Austria nuked, and I need it RIGHT NOW!"

R.S.: "You're INSANE! We are not going to declare war on Austria, period."

Me: "Would it help things along, if I told you that Austrians LOVE the Fox News Channel?"

R.S.: "It can't hurt, but I still can't connect you with President Obama. I might get you on Valerie's call back list."

Me: "I have no use for Jihad Jarrett, since she hasn't got her finger on the nuclear trigger."

R.S.: "She has the president's ear."

Me: "Barry's ear? Admittedly, that's quite a handful, but it's not much help. I don't want, or need, Barry's ear. I need his nuclear trigger finger so he can nail Austria for me. If he does this favor for me, I'll pretend to believe it when he blames the nuking of Austria on George Bush."

R.S.: "I will NOT connect you with President Obama, PERIOD. End. Of. Discussion!"

Me: I knew this was a waste of time. What's the point in making a Messiah president, if he's not up for a smiting, when a patriotic American of my caliber needs one pesky little favor? He's supposed to do his part to perpetuate our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Trust me when I tell you that, if he lobs a couple nukes at those Austrian bastards, I'm a happy camper."

R.S.: "I'm going to report this call to our Secret Service detail."

Me: "Whatever floats your boat, darlin'. By the way, do you have Messiah Al Gore's home phone number? I hear the Austrians are dastardly greenhouse gas spewing eco-terrorists. Maybe he can muster the right messianic stuff to smite those Austrian bastards for me."

R.S.: "You are INSANE."

Me: "Agreed, but I'm not answering the phones for a Dumbo-eared narcissist."

R.S.: "[Profane pleasantries.] Click. Dialtone.

I want to nuke Austria out of my misery and I want it NOW. If you have the right stuff to help me get the job done, put in a good word with the nuclear-armed smiter on your Christmas list.

Hands On Navigation

My Lovely Bride [MLB] HATES my Garmin. Why? It wasn't idiot [Hambo] proof. Did I throw it away? Nope, but I did upgrade to a low tech navigation unit.

I find this new GPS helps me stay abreast of where I am and where I want to go.

MLB hasn't seen it yet. When she does the whole neighborhood will know it.

This Week's Feel Good Story

[Finally, an Ivory Tower shows some spine.]

[Campus Reform] A sit-in at OSU has been cut short after the administration threatened to arrest or expel about 70 protesters who refused to leave Bricker Hall.

A sit-in at Ohio State University (OSU) has been cut short after the administration threatened to arrest or expel about 70 protesters who refused to leave Bricker Hall after repeated warnings.

The sit-in, organized by "ReclaimOSU," began Wednesday in protest of OSU reportedly refusing to be "completely transparent" with where the university is investing its money. The group issued demands prior to the sit-in saying they wouldn't leave Bricker Hall until the demands are met.

"We. Are. Being. Starved... They want us to waver in our convictions. But we are strong."

"We are occupying to show that we will not remain complacent while Ohio State continually represses its students, faculty, staff, and those affected by Ohio State's investments," the demand says, "We are here because these voices deserve to be heard and these demands deserve to be met. We are here because we are fighting for justice and nothing less."

The demands include, "complete, comprehensive and detailed access to the Ohio State budget and investments," and personnel to help students understand this information, to divest from corporations involved in "well-documented human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and across the globe," as well as increasing the production and use of locally produced food and for OSU to stop outsourcing jobs.

According to a Facebook post by Real Food OSU, the protesters had intentions of staying in Bricker Hall all night, yet this was disrupted around midnight when they were threatened with expulsion and arrest by Jay Kasey, the vice-president of OSU.

In a video provided to NBC4, Kasey warns the protesters that they have one last chance to clear the room, to which a student responds, "What do you mean clear the room?"

"Our police officers will physically pick you up and take you to a paddy wagon and take you to be arrested," Kasey replies.

As the students left, they reportedly sang protest songs.

Border Jumping Scumbag Deterents

1 - Landmine Lotto

2- Random strafing

3- No anchor babies

4 - No nanny state handouts, no 'free' school, no freebie medical care

5 - Strap a chute on randomly selected invaders and airdrop them somewhere thrilling

Just The Facts?

Needing a traffic report, I punched up the local 'all news' station on my car radio. I landed in the middle of a discussion about Mexifornia's new minimum wage debacle. The news nitwit was yammering with a 'expert' who had to be a Jackass Party stooge, because every word he uttered was bullshit.

If you've ever listened to Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams dish up just the facts on minimum wage hikes, you know it's bad news for workers, business owners, and REAL entry level workers.

If you need 'proof'', look at the impact of a similar minimum wage hike in Seattle: jobs axed, work hours reduced, price increases, small businesses closing. Not the economic bonanza the wage hike asshats promised.

Ignoring the real experts - Sowell, Williams, etc - this fool didn't distort the facts, he stood them on their head.

So what? So this is one of countless instances where a 'news' outlet threw just the facts out the window. Where do we go for just the facts? I don't know and that bugs the crap out of me.

Musings

Today is April Fools Day, a day when everyone gets to act like a Democrat and lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

April Fools Day means, quite simply, you can't believe anything you see, hear, or read.

The remaining pachyderm POTUS wannabes are so busy destroying each other that they give Shillary a free pass.

Ironically, Shrillary is the candidate both political clans are determined to inflict on We the People.

I shudder when I think about the hell we're going to pay under President Shrillary.

Given the fact that presidential primary elections are, at best, a sham, wouldn't it be more fitting to hold them ALL on April Fools Day.

I heard what Barry said about Iran's nuke program and it was straight out of fantasy land. His behavior gets more erratic with each passing day.

MLB has said, for some time, that Barry will stay in office, somehow, when his term ends. Her theory has merit, but it also has a flaw: Shrillary. That titanic twat will do whatever it takes to evict him.

HOME GROWN

Here's a low quality image of Jessica Simpson. Her headlights are impressive. Made in America, Sparky.

Trump

Why do Trumpistas stick with him?

1) If nominated, he's the only candidate who will take the fight to Shrillary. He's the only one who will rip her a new one.

2) If elected, he'll do what successful CEOs do. He'll surround himself with the best and brightest.

Prediction

1) The pachyderm nominee won't be Trump, or Cruz.

2) The pachyderm shill - probably Jeb or Mitt - will be CRUSHED in November.

3) Having lost House, Senate, and Red Shed, the Republican Party will cease being a meaningful entity in national politics, permanently.

4) POTUS Shrillary will drive the final nail in American liberty's coffin.

Irish For A Day?

St. Patrick's Day is that day of the year when we have our sanity assaulted by a bunch of inane nitwits, most of whom aren't Irish, couldn't find Ireland on a globe if their life depended on it, and have a pathological hatred for green every other day of the year.

Green beer? Leprechauns? Stupid looking hats? Family, friends, co-workers and strangers nagging you about the lack of green in your attire? A frontal assault on your sanity by musical terrorists who bellow out "Danny Boy" every 3 minutes? Is this the best Ireland, the Irish, have to offer? Give me a break.

I get the part about national/ethnic pride running amok. I get the fact that, for one day of the year, it's cool to be Irish. I get the fact that, after you cut through all the crap, St. Patrick's Day has nothing to do with snakes, or holy rollers who chased them from the storied isle. For most of us, St. Patrick's Day is an excuse to get blasted and slur our speech with a faux Irish accent. Ireland, the Irish, deserve better, and quite frankly, so do we. Besides, we already set aside a date on the calendar to get blasted, New Year's Eve.

Essential Business

My lovely bride and I send our heartfelt wishes for a very happy birthday to the best freelance popcorn wrangler in this hemisphere: Daniel Patrick O'Publisher.

POTUS 2016

Things I've learned in this Election Cycle

* I hate politics.

* I hate the Republican Establishment.

* The presidential primary scheme is, for both political clans, a deliberate sham. Both clans tweek the rules, as needed, to allow party hacks, instead of voters, to select their POTUS nominee.

* The Republican Establishment has signed a suicide pact. They're willing to destroy their own political cabal...and this nation conceived in liberty to preserve their own power.

* The Republican Establishment detests We the People, including, especially their own base.

* The Republican candidate will be Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney.

* Millions of disgusted individuals who would have voted Republican will stay home.

* Hillary will win in a 50-state landslide that gives her control of congress.

* The Republicans will cease being a meaningful force in American politics, forever.

* The 2016 Election Cycle will be the last one in your lifetime.

* Under Hillary, America, as you know it, will cease to exist.

* Hillary's stint as POTUS will make you view Barry's disastrous 8 years as "the good old days"

Yes, I know...I'm even depressing myself.

Inspired

If you make a pitstop on our awards page, you'll find this:

PIGish Idea of the Week:

[UPI] ULYANOVSK, Russia, March 10 -- While the financial crisis has hit many of Russia's entrepreneurs hard, the founders of messaging startup Tittygram are seeing business boom.

The service, launched in spring 2015, allows customers to send a virtual card with a greeting or any other message written on a chest, male or female.

You select your favorite model online and send the text of your future message. As soon as an hour later, you will receive a ready photo card that you can send to a friend as a gift.

I'm delighted with this Tittygram idea and bummed that those damn Ruskies got there first.

Undeterred, I forced myself to contemplate female funbags. Sigh...the sacrifices I make for our loyal readers. The idea hit me while I watched a Pam Anderson flick,' Barb Wire', on one of the movie channels. Boobie Books.

We call this tome toter our 'War and Peace' Boobie Book edition.

If you want to go for the gold, this 'healthy' young lady is our Encyclopedia Britannica Boobie Book edition.

We're putting the excitement back in reading with our Boobie Books.

Today is my brother-in-law's birthday.

Happy Birthday, George.

I didn't get you a card, but I do offer some timely advice: Don't answer your phone, because March is On-Hold Month. Let RevKev get it for you. It might keep him from locking his keys in his ride, again.

Beltway Bozos

The Elephant Clan Establishment has a problem with the ongoing Oval Office Derby. Actually, they have 2 problems: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz. They're afraid of them, because one of them might win.

Only these pachyderm punks would rather lose with a RINO like Romney, Dole, or McCain than win with a conservative like Cruz or a loose cannon like Trump. More than one of the Beltway Bozos has stated a Prez Shrillary is preferable to a Prez Trump or Prez Cruz.

If/when they 'rig' the nomination, it is spitting in the faces of pachyderm voters. In bygone years, they got away with it. I think it's different this year, because pachyderm voters are pissed, very pissed. If the Beltway Bozos interfere, it will quite likely destroy the Republican Party.

Are the Beltway Bozos that fucked up? Yup.

Fun Stuff

On FB, a certain Kin-Tucky Lib - she's an in-law - is bemoaning the Draconian cutbacks in city and county services. She's looking for a way to blame the Elephant Clan Governor, Bevin.

Nice try cupcake, but no cigar.

Fact One: the impacted region is in COAL country.

Fact Two: coal tax revenue dropped from $20.5 million a month to $8.9 million.

Fact Three: the Governor didn't have anything to do with it.

Fact Four: Neither did Bush 43.

Who done it?

Barack Hussein Obama.

Sorry cupcake, reality is a real bitch that way.

I'll let you tell Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

Musings

What happened to Je$$e Jackson? Some time ago, he mouthed off about Barry in an uncomplimentary way, then the earth swallowed him up. It makes me ask the obvious question: what dirt do the Obamunists have on Je$$e?

I read that The Tribune company dumped their top dog and replaced him with a dude whose expertise is in medicine. Is the Tribune cabal sick enough to need medical assistance? What's their new motto? "Just what the doctor ordered?"

First I read that Kanye West is in debt, big time...Something like $400,000,000...or more. Next, I read that Mrs. Kanye, Porn Star Kardashian, has divorce papers ready for deployment. Now, I read that Big Mama Kardashian is ready to paint a bull's-eye on the scowler. Coincidence? I doubt it.

I fired my designated fishwrap, yesterday. Like some of you, they wanted to know why. Was it because my morning fishwrap is rarely here before I leave for work? Was it because several days a week, they don't deliver at all? OR, was it because they just doubled the price I pay for this so called customer service? What do you think?

That snake Rubio might be the apple of Establishment Republicans' eyes, but I'm not buying it, or him. I don't trust him. If he told me the Sun rises in the East, I'd demand a second and third opinion.

High Tech Terrors

[I found some new tech terrors, so I'm sharing them with you.]

Here in the Free State of PIG, we dare to ask the hard questions. We dare to ask, why did user friendly conveniences like the telephone and the television turn against us and make us want break out Old Betsy, then lock, load and kill the damn things? When did it get so out of control, that an entire population was transformed into mind-numbed, instantly gratified, Techno Trolls? When did we stop being technology consumers and start being technology addicts who will throw granny under the bus to be the first dweeb on the block to own the latest piece of technological crap that's going to be obsolete next week anyway?

We call the drivers of this runaway technology bullet train techno terrorists. We considered calling them techno pushers but thought it might impugn the reputation of those capitalist icons, the street corner drug pushers. Like their drug dealing counterparts, techno terrorists know they've got humanity hooked on this relentless technological evolution. These techno terrorists are exploiting the techno addict's insatiable craving for something newer, faster, bigger and flashier. The techno terrorists have brainwashed techno addicts into believing their dazzling, new, features-intensive, whizbang has been transformed into a technological dinosaur the moment they switch it on for the first time. That easily, the craving for more is programmed into the techno addict, because techno addicts, like their drugged out counterparts, need a bigger, stronger, techno hit to achieve that same techno high.

Here, for what it is worth, are some examples of technology's dark underbelly.

Apple iPhone

Apparently, the iPhone password security is so robust, even Uncle Sam's top byte monkeys can't crack it. If you forget your password, you have 10 shots at it, after which it will erase itself. Kiss all your data goodbye.

Jeep Grand Cherokee

This gem has a high tech gear shift that reeks of Rube Goldberg.

Gotcha 1: When in use, the shift lever can be moved forward or backward to select gears. Like BMW's selector, though, it doesn't actually run through a gate; instead, it returns to its original position. So instead of moving into a unique position for each gear, the lever simply notifies the driver what gear they're in through a light.

Gotcha 2: Currently, the system does sound a chime and display a dashboard warning if the driver opens the door while not in Park. Adding insult to injury, the push-button start-stop engine system is unable to shut off the engine when the car is left in Park.

This Terror of Technology can get you killed.

Samsung 'Smart' Television

If you own a 'smart TV' from South Korean tech giant Samsung, every word you say can be captured by the device and beamed over the internet to Samsung and to any other companies with whom it chooses to share your data.

This ability for the TV to earwig your conversations on the sofa is part of the set's voice command feature, which enables viewers to tell the TV to change channels rather than use a remote.

Such a feature is typical of many smart TVs, which are to the humble old cathode ray TV set what a jet aircraft is to a propeller plane.

Crucially, smart television sets connect to the internet, from where they can download programmes and films from services such as Netflix or BBC iPlayer. And increasingly, experts are realising that if the internet can be used to bring information into your TV, it can also be used to take it out.

Smart TVs also have a whole range of advanced features, of which voice recognition is one.

There is no doubt that many viewers find voice recognition a welcome addition, but its darker side was revealed this week when a hawk-eyed U.S. journalist found the following sentence in Samsung's surely misnamed 'privacy' policy.

'Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of voice recognition.'

The TV itself is programmed to understand certain phrases, such as 'turn on', but it can also record everything else that is said in the room.

[E]ven if we turn off the voice recognition function, how can we be sure they are not recording what we say anyway.

Just look at the recent case of a smart TV sold by South Korean tech giant LG, which continued to monitor users' viewing habits, even when they had disabled the relevant feature. [D.M.]

I'd be wary of anything with voice recognition.

Here are some quick hits.

Cars - GPS is a two-way device which is used to track how fast you drive, where you go, when you travel and how fast you drive, plus assorted other data. If you're in a rented car, or a leased car, a case can be for the 'oversight'. It is, after all, their car. During last year's cross country trip our rental car went rogue on me, over an oil change.

If there's a camera built into your computer, tablet or smart phone it can be hijacked and used to spy on you. Needless to say, the built-in microphone has similar vulnerability.

If you're out and about with your credit cards safely tucked in your wallet, don't feel too smug about it. Some asshat with an easy to acquire gizmo can scan those cards in your wallet, while it is still in your pocket.

The newest techno terror threat is selling like gangbusters. I guarantee that at least one of your neighbors owns one. He's probably still learning how to use it, but that won't take very long. Trust me, there's nothing as thrilling as sitting on your front porch, back patio or in your chair by window inside your humble abode while some asshat buzzes you with his drone.

Technological advances are a fact of our existence and so, apparently, are the techno-terrorists who feed off our techno addictions. Techno addiction is not, however, etched in stone. Do you really need to replace your fully functional boob tube with that hi-def, 93 feet wide, flat screen just to stare at Kim Kardashian's hippo size butt? Do you really need to upgrade to the latest high definition digital, or satellite, radio to listen to some bellowing boom box host spout his Kool-Aid fueled drivel? Do you really need that kicked up cell blight, or can you get the job done with the one you've got? Do you really need a new computer, or has that techno addict next door nagged you into it with his relentless, "my computer runs circles around yours" bragging? Do you really need a car that is so computerized it will randomly engage its 'we're all gonna die' runaway mode?

If you're buying techno crap to stay on the constantly moving technological leading edge, you're hooked, techno addict Sparky. We think it's time to go cold turkey and kick that techno addiction habit. It's time to use something until it wears out, or ceases to be functional. Do that, and it will be the techno pushers who start to feel terrorized for a change. Bold New Concept.

Noise Pollution

When I'm thrilling the snot out of the worker bees at Wonderland, I'm, repeatedly subjected to one of cell idiocy's most annoying features. I refer to those customized ringtones which are egregiously long and invariably annoying to the max.

I 'get' that it makes the phone's ring distinctive, but how many times can you hear it, before you grab Old Betsy and blast that pestilence out of your misery?

Fun Stuff

I was chatting with a member of the medical profession, when I mentioned 'participation trophies'. He responded with this story:

He was sitting in the bleachers watching a little league baseball game, when he addressed the man - a stranger - sitting next to him.

Doc H: Who's winning?

Stranger: Nobody.

Doc H. What's the score?

Stranger: This is Commie baseball. Nobody keeps score.

Doc H: How do they pick a winner?

Stranger: They don't, so everyone is declared the winner.

Doc H: Commie baseball.

Stranger: Commie baseball.

Paying Homage To My Muse.

Today, February 2nd, is the 111th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth. The least I can do is to thank her for helping me take my mind out of neutral. I give her credit for lifting the mental fog which clouded my thinking, when I was young, full of myself, and clueless.

Admittedly, my introduction to Ayn Rand was a painful one. It happened while I was working for a company that made a primordial form of computer memory devices. At the time, two of us shared a small test room, where we performed some mindless tasks that left ample time for conversations.

My co-worker was an Objectivist, who always managed to humiliate me during our discussions of various ideas and/or events. Eventually, I got the message. I was spouting drivel that had been jammed into my brain, unprocessed. Since I never fully analyzed my 'beliefs', I didn't have a snowball's chances in hell of defending them. Okay, let's be real...the mush that filled my brain at that time was indefensible.

Eventually, my co-worker took pity on me and gave me a guidebook to lead me out of my mental fog. It was 'Atlas Shrugged', a book which, in every possible way, rocked my world. Ayn Rand's wisdom still rocks my world, decades after she has shuffled off this mortal coil.

Thanks to Ayn Rand and her compelling wisdom, I know what I believe, and why. Admittedly, my understanding of, mastery of, her philosophy is imperfect, but I still have ample time to drag myself onward, upward, to a more complete understanding of her Objectivism.

I owe her, big time, for helping me switch on my brain. Before I thank her for that, I will do a Nixon and make one thing perfectly clear. Ayn Rand gets credit for my metal clarity, such as it is, but I do NOT blame her for my regular brain-farts. With that in mind I say, "Thank you Ayn, and Happy Birthday."

Hambo's Political Primer.
A handy-dandy guide to all those pesky political labels.

Conservative
A moribund political philosophy that was the big kid on the block for a short span of time. Its decline came quickly, after it was mortally wounded by neglect then thrown over the side by a political clan that put politics ahead of principle.

The primary problem with conservatism is that there's nobody around to articulate its core tenets since its two foremost promoters, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater shed this mortal coil, years ago.

Liberal
A political philosophy that was so demonized by rational adults that it tried to recreate itself by renaming itself "progressive".

Progressive
Everything that rational adults said about liberals applies to progressives. No longer saddled by the legacy of those 'classical liberals', progressives can give free rein to their inner Socialist. The cutting edge of this movement is so far ahead of the pack, they are eagerly stampeding over the cliff into unabashed Marxism.

Moderate
The popular myth about "moderate" states that this is an indecisive individual who can't or won't choose between the two political options: conservative, liberal. That might be true in some cases, but many who call themselves "moderate" are seeking political cover. Mexifornia's Action Hero former governor was a prime example. He's a liberal, but admitting that in public might damage his plans to run for the U.S. Senate - as a Republican - some day. "Moderate", pundits insist, applies to "thoughtful" people. Bull crap. Moderate applies to stealth liberals who need conservatives to punch a chad for them in some future election.

Independent
Often confused with a "moderate" an Independent is a politically-savvy rational adult who has taken a long hard look at both of America's political clans. Seeing through all the political smoke and mirrors, the Independent issues a non negotiable "Bite Me, Nanny State punks" to both clans. An Independent is the political equivalent of the Rugged American Individual.

Libertarian
Sometimes called a "small-l libertarian" this individual isn't a member of the Libertarian Party. Generally speaking, this is a rational who is fiscally Conservative and socially liberal. What does that mean in real life?

He, she, heshe, or it advocates [partial list]:

small, Constitutionally correct government

privatizing Educrap
legalizing prostitution
privatizing Medicine
booting the Nanny State out of the economy
abolishing the graduated income tax
privatizing marriage - it's none of the Nanny State's business
restricting the FCC to technology - broadcast strength, etc.- issues, only.

In my opinion, a critical mass of rational adults are small-l libertarians.

I debated including 'populist', but thought better of it. Populist doesn't define We the People. It applies, exclusively, to certain political candidates.

Just for fun, I'll apply this to some POTUS wannabes

Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush: During this election they masquerade as Conservatives. At best, they are Moderates of the Schwarzenegger ilk.

Ted Cruz: Conservative.

Rand Paul: Libertarian

Shrillary: Socialist

Sanders: Marxist

Trump: Populist

Baring My Soul

[When I spotted this Daily Beast prose, it struck a chord in me.

The Wild World of Oppression Studies

Does American University want to teach students about oppression, or does it want to subject them to it?

Members of the Washington, D.C.-based private university's faculty are engaged in the process of "reimagining" the university's core curriculum: the courses that all students, regardless of major, must take in order to graduate. Core curriculums are a way for universities to make sure that everyone on campus absorbs a common set of skills and values deemed fundamental to a liberal arts education—they often include basic instruction in writing, history, and mathematical reasoning, for instance. American plans to modernize its curriculum by 2017, and has convened a task force of professors to complete the process.

Under the proposal, the new core curriculum would require students to enroll in several worrisome courses that the Cato Institute's Walter Olson has astutely labeled "oppression studies." The task force calls them "Complex Problems" and "AU Experience," but "oppression studies" is certainly the more fitting name.

If they need an oppressor to give them a head's up, this venerable Top Story gets them there in rousing PIGish style.]

Howdy PIGsters. My name is Hambo and I'm an oppressor. Wait a minute, let me rephrase that. My name IS Hambo and I'm darn proud to be an oppressor. Since we're all friends here - more or less - I'll let you in on a badly kept secret. I'm not your garden variety oppressor, I'm a triple threat oppressor who is doing everything humanly possible to become the first 4-star oppressor in human history. Unfortunately, the World Victimhood Alliance is being very pissy about adding supernaturalist affiliation to the big three: melanin content, gender and sexual orientation. Those, they huff, are "genetic", but religious affiliation is voluntary. The upshot is that I'm only authorized to wear my three assigned - by them of course - oppressor designators: WMH. W stands for whitey; M stands for male; H stands for heterosexual. What's the harm in expanding that to WMHP (P=Pagan)? Nothing, but they don't want to hear about it.

I know what you're thinking and I've got it covered. Why, you demand, would anyone in their right mind be "proud" to be an oppressor? You're assuming facts not entered into evidence, Scooter, because, nobody has accused me of being "in my right mind" in a very long time. Be that as it may, I'm proud of my triple threat oppressor status for several reasons. The most important reason is the thrilling fact that oppressors fulfill a vital function within the cult of victimhood:

"...The victim's self image is constructed on the bedrock of their oppression, meaning that the continuing presence of an oppressor is essential. Without regular infusions of oppression, the victim's very identity is threatened." (PIG: Tour The Hood).

That's right, PIGsters these self-defined victims need oppressors. They need triple threat oppressors like me so much that, if we didn't exist, they would invent us. Do I get thank you for oppressing me cards for my valiant, tireless efforts? Not a chance and that's making me feel very unappreciated. I'm bummed. I'll get over it.

The most important reason that I'm a "proud" oppressor has nothing whatsoever to do with a properly-hyphenated pinhead's unrequited needs. Being an oppressor takes no effort on my part and, when it's done correctly, it can be big time fun. That's right PIGsters, being an oppressor is downright fun. Why? The key fact here is that, by and large, this "I'm a victim" crap is a byproduct of moribund synapses. In other words "oppression" is all in their fevered pea brains. Since my maleness and melanin-deficiency are so obvious, I can be smug in knowing that a self-defined victim - especially melanin meatheads and NO NADS - will feel oppressed every time they see me.

The nifty thing about effortless oppression is the fact that self-defined victims do all the heavy lifting on being oppressed. All an oppressor needs to do to accomplish this mission is to exist. These "victims" are the ones who insist on interpreting your every word, action or thought (they're empowered by their hyphenation to read your mind) into blatant oppression. No matter how harmless, irrational or bonkers your prose or behavior might be, they will find a way to ferret out your hidden (even when it's "hidden" from you) intent. Anything you do is automatically racist, sexist or homophobic because they say so. In other words, they're determined to make themselves miserable without your help, just because you exist.

As fun as this effortless "because he's there" oppression is, I can Emerilize it - kick it up several notches - with "the stare". I discovered "the stare" by accident one day while I was in a shopping mall waiting for my lovely bride to return. As usual, I was "zoned out" into scribbler land and more or less unaware of my surroundings. I returned from scribbler land abruptly when I oppressed a passing hottie with an appreciative stare. That's when I noticed two melanin-enriched womyn glaring at me. When they departed, I heard one say, "Did you see the way he was staring at me. I just know he's in the KKK." Truth be told, I never even noticed them, but I did gloat over the fact that I had a new weapon in my effortless oppression arsenal. The downside to "the stare" is the fact that I can't summon the writer's trance when I really need it.

If "the stare" seems more than you can handle, there's no need to abandon your attempts to Emerilize your oppressor fun. The bottom line on being an oppressor is this: Being an oppressor means never having to say "I'm sorry" because no self-defined victim is going to believe you anyway. Given that, why not go with the flow and turn your oppressor status into a game? Get creative. Devise some harmless sound, a bizarre expression or meaningless gesture. Practice it at home until you master it, then start deploying it obsessively, everywhere you go. That makes you bulletproof when you unleash it on properly-hyphenated pinheads. Instinctively, they'll choose to interpret it as "demeaning" and you'll be able to enjoy their reaction. If you're ever challenged, you're bulletproof because everyone you know will say that you "always do that". What am I deploying? I'm thisclose to mastering what I call "the all purpose grunt". I can't wait to unleash it on all those eager to be oppressed victims.

Another weapon that comes in very handy when you're confronted by a hostile "victim" is staying calm. When you remain cool, calm and collected while they bloviate, it will launch them into orbit. Best of all, if you can combine cool calm and collected with a grin, the effects are highly entertaining. As usual, you're having all this fun with little or no effort on your part, and the "victim" is providing you with a highly entertaining story to share with your friends and family.

The important factoid about the oppressor game is that anyone can play. If you're only a one star oppressor, "heterosexual" or "white" for example, that shouldn't stop you from having some relentless oppressor fun messing with some properly-hyphenated pinhead's mind. In fact, rational adults who are, by accident of birth, melanin-enriched or melanin-advantaged, have certain effortless oppression opportunities that makes a lowly three-star oppressor green with envy. It can be as simple as putting an Elephant Clan bumper sticker on your ride or letting yourself be seen reading Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams. If you're a female PIGster, then packing a Tammy Bruce book gives you unique, effortless oppression opportunities.

The properly-hyphenated pinheads - all self-defined "victims" - are determined to be miserable, so why not have some fun with it, without breaking a sweat. Don't just sit there Sparky, get into the game. On your mark. Get set. OPPRESS!

A June 2006 rant

Fool Me Once...

Mexifornia's Marxist hacks are at it again. They're 'alarmed' by the sorry condition of the state's highways and byways. The state's 36 cents a gallon tax on petrol isn't bringing in enough $$$ so they're launching a 'tax by the mile and/or the time drivers spend on the road' trial balloon..

Big, big, fun.

As usual, I have a few issues...

The new greeniac vehicles aren't paying their 'fair share', according to the twerps pushing this notion. That might be true.

Over the years -for at least a couple decades - Mexifornia has imposed numerous special taxes that would be safeguarded in the mythical 'lock box'. In each case, the Elected Tormentors raided the 'for roads only' fund and pissed it away on other, not road related, issues.

The 'by the mile' tax grifters swear on a stack of Communist Manifestos that 'by the mile' taxation will replace the petrol tax. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Mexifornia's rational - and irrational - denizens should shout NOT NO BUT HELL FUCKING NO!

Quick Takes

News Item: Rams Return to L. A.
Hambo sez: Yawn, fewer games on free TV.

News Item: Ted Cruz Born in Canada.
Hambo Sez: If that Kenyan Commie is eligible, so is Cruz.

News Item: Man Tries to Rape Pit Bull Gets His Junk Bit Off
Hambo Sez: Did he say "hold my beer and watch this"?

News Item: Oregon Peace Troubadour Wants to Serenade ISIS, in Syria.
Hambo Sez: He beheading for trouble.

We The People

According to the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, "We the People" were the ones who dictated the strict limits under which our government must operate. I am here to assure you that I am very clear on this point, but for those who need a primer on government, here is a passage from Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence:

'...Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...'

Every time I visit an Internet news site...Every time I listen to the boom box, or watch the boob tube, or endure my local fishwrap, I wonder if anyone in government gives a damn that "We the People" are up to here with their Nanny State on steroids antics. The answer, regrettably, is that they don't give a damn what "We the People" think, as long as a majority punches a chad for them in the next election cycle.

"We the people" made this Nanny State hell when we started nagging government to intrude in areas of "We the People's" lives that are strictly off limits, based on the clearly defined tasks government is allowed to perform, according to the Constitution.

Neither "We the People" nor the Nanny State hacks have the right to poke their noses into the bedrooms of consenting adults.

Neither "We the People" nor the Nanny State hacks have the right to tell a business owner whom to hire, what benefits to give and what customers to serve.

Neither "We the People" nor the Nanny State hacks have the right to grant certain individuals special alleged "rights" based on the person's immutable traits.

"We the People" had our heads up our butts when we gave the Nanny State a green light to indoctrinate our children via a universal, compulsory, government cess-school Educrap scheme.

"We the People" opened Pandora's Box when we allowed the Nanny State to nationalize the airwaves and dictate, in great specificity, programming content.

"We the People" sealed our own fate when we allowed the Nanny State to punish achievement and impose social engineering via the graduated income tax.

What the hell were "We the People" thinking when we allowed the Nanny State to tell sovereign individuals where and how they can use a legal product like tobacco?

"We the People" need to tell the Nanny State hacks to stop paying farmers for crops they don't grow, to stop paying for "bridges to nowhere" because it looks good in a photo op back in 'the district', and to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on border jumping scumbags' education, health, and assorted other freebees.

"We the People" need to grab the Nanny State hacks by the scruff of the neck and order them to stop the border jumping scumbag tide by imposing meaningful, "don't even think about it Colonista Sparky", border security.

The time has come for "We the people" to tell the Nanny State to knock it the hell off. It's time for "We the People" to take back our government and make our elected tormentors perform those duties - and only those clearly defined duties - that are set forth in the U.S. Constitution. It's time for "We the People" to remind these professional political hacks that "We the People" are calling the tune and if they value that cushy job they damn sure better start dancing to the tune "We the People" are playing. It's time for "We the People" to stand up and bellow "Enough is enough!"

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia

A high school classmate, Marcia, is a foaming at the mouth hard core lefty moonbat whose Facebook ravings I usually ignore. Usually, but not this time:

Governor of Texas unveils detailed plan to OVERTHROW the Federal Government

She's referring to this Constitutional tidbit:

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided [that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and]{11} that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

It's not treason, and nobody is overthrowing anything. It's a way for two-thirds of the states to clamp down on our out of control government.

Take a chill pill Marcia then get a copy of Mark Levin's book: 'The Liberty Amendment'.

Emperor Obama's New Clothes

PIG gets real about the Jackass Party's war on objective reality.

Get ready for a bumpy ride, reality sucks Sparky. PIG is ready to make you go cold turkey with some long overdue unvarnished facts of life.

It's everywhere we go. It's usually a pain in the butt. It's non-negotiable. It's objective reality, an unrelenting fact of human existence that a critical mass of alleged humans are fleeing like it's tainted with ebola. Everywhere I go...everywhere I look, I find reality-phobic pinheads addicted to lies, damn lies and steaming loads of pure bull crap. Like any addiction, the junkie must ingest ever increasing doses of their psychological comfort food to achieve the desired level of reality insulation.

A growing number of otherwise intelligent Americans are so distressed by the real world that they're retreating into a delusional alternative 'reality'. This 'comfort zone' is a place where up is down, black is white and A just has to be B. It's a dreamscape that is built upon the mental quicksand of half truths, wishful thinking, myths and outright lies. To me, it's the stuff of nightmares, so why do so many Americans go there to escape from that pain in the butt, but essential to our survival, objective reality? I don't know, and that bugs the crap out of me, too.

What, you ask, got Hambo riled up this time? It's a lot of things. It's every new deranged Jackass Party brainfart, but it's just one of many...too damn many.

From top to bottom the Jackass Party is infested with reality phobic Moonbats. If their hearts are in the right place, if their intentions are good, are noble, it doesn't matter how detached from objective reality their brainfart is. Reality sucks, they insist. It keeps getting in the way, when a Jackass Party Moonbat insists on perpetrating something neurotically noble. As long as their intentions pass a progressive litmus test, it doesn't matter how far they ram their head up their ass.

If you're puzzled about the title of this rant, get over it:

Emperor's New Clothes: A vain Emperor who cares for nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or "hopelessly stupid". The Emperor's ministers cannot see the clothing themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions and the Emperor does the same. Finally the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they mime dressing him and the Emperor marches in procession before his subjects. The townsfolk play along with the pretense not wanting to appear unfit for their positions or stupid. Then a child in the crowd, too young to understand the desirability of keeping up the pretense, blurts out that the Emperor is wearing nothing at all and the cry is taken up by others. The Emperor cringes suspecting the assertion is true, but continues the procession by showing off his pretend clothes.

Objective Reality: The Emperor is, despite his brainfart, NAKED.

Like the aforementioned Emperor, Reality is, for Jackass Party Moonbats, whatever they want it to be. It's whatever makes them feel good. Prove it? No problem. Let's look at a few examples.

Emperor's New Clothes: Numerous Jackass Party 'players', including Valerie Jarrett, the Botox Bitch, Sheila Jackson-Lee and assorted other Jackass Party Elected Tormentors, insisted that Unemployment Insurance is the BEST way to stimulate the American economy. It's a shame, they seem to think, that everyone can't participate.

Objective Reality: The money for those unemployment checks doesn't materialize out of thin air. It must be 'liberated' from someone else. Before it can be 'injected' into the economy via unemployment benefits, it has to be removed from the economy first. If you take a twenty from your wallet and put it in your pocket, have you stimulated your personal economy?

Emperor's New Clothes: A few years ago, when a Jackass Party hack, Bill Richardson, visited North Korea with the Socialist Moonbat who runs Google, what does he do? He bemoaned the fact that North Koreans don't have high speed Internet access.

Objective Reality: The one irrefutable given about North Korea is the fetid fact that the regime is deliberately starving its people. It's a fact that's beyond dispute and this fool is yammering about Internet access? He's so detached from reality, the distance is measured in light years.

Emperor's New Clothes: There's not enough money coming in to fund such economically stimulating things as 'green' energy, welfare payments, unemployment benefits, universal healthcare, pay and benefits for government employees, plus enforcement of regulations which SAVE people from their own ignorance. The evil Bush 43's tax cuts for the rich are to blame. The greedy, 1% must 'pay their fair share'.

Objective Reality: Uncle Sam does NOT have a revenue problem. It has a SPENDING problem. The deficits (in trillions) for 2009 thru 2012 are as follows: $1.4 , $1.3, $1.3, $1.1. The problem can't be resolved with Draconian tax hikes. Even if you took everything the 'rich' have, it wouldn't even fund a year's worth of government spending. Furthermore, you can only steal everything they have ONCE, giving the Nanny State spend-a-holics an even bigger problem in the next fiscal year.

The ONLY way to fix it is via meaningful - spend less money in REAL dollars than they spent the prior year - spending cuts.

Emperor's New Clothes: A disgruntled county worker invaded a Christmas gathering of his co-workers, in San Bernardino [Mexifonia], then murdered 14 of the Nanny State minions. This would never happen if America could shed that pesky 2nd Amendment.

Objective Reality: The man was not disgruntled. He and his wife [who accompanied him] were hard core Jihadikazes whose garage was a bomb factory.

Nuking the 2nd Amendment wouldn't do a damn thing about the pipe bombs he and his Jihadi bride had with them.

Emperor's New Clothes: The roads in the Mexifornia are, at best, terminally shitty. For the good of the 'people', money needs to be raised to fix them. The Marxist Legislature is imposing a $65 tax on all vehicle registrations the proceeds of which will be set aside for road upkeep and repair, exclusively.

Objective Reality: Tax money ear-marked for the upkeep/repair of roads in the Sanctuary State of Mexifornia has already been raised and set aside in a 'lock box'. So what, you ask, happened to all that money ear-marked for roads? It was seized by Jackass Party Elected Tormentors and used to pay the insane salary and benefits of public employee union members. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Emperor's New Clothes: Sovereign Individuals who peaceably assemble to petition the Government (via a face to face with their designated Elected Tormentor) using their freedom of speech aren't exercising their liberty. They are engaged in terrorist acts against the Nanny State in general. They are the ONLY terrorists who are attacking America.

Additionally, Jihadikazes who fly planes into buildings, and try to blow up airliners during a flight, are just inexplicably cranky individuals who really need a hug.

Objective Reality: The United States promotes inalienable individual liberty for all individuals, making it the strongest force preventing political Islam from establishing its globe spanning supernaturalist gulag. Reality - as seen in daily news items from behind the burka curtain - demonstrates that inalienable individual liberty and Mecca Mania are fundamentally incompatible,..in essence individual liberty's version of matter and antimatter. Interacting like matter and antimatter, liberty and antiliberty (political Islam) destroy each other in a violent explosion whenever they come into direct contact. Islam, by its very nature, is our enemy.

Emperor's New Clothes: The Emperor (Messiah Barry) isn't to blame for the well-intentioned things that failed miserably during his watch. It's racist to impose 'the buck stops here' on Messiah Barry, using the results (outcome) of his policies as a criteria. Instead, he must be lauded, rewarded, for his good, and noble, intentions. It's his motivation, not the imperfect results, that really matter.

Objective Reality: Messiah Barry is, by any objective measure, the worst president in history. If he's not responsible for what happens on his watch, he's not doing the job he was hired to do and deserves to be fired, IMMEDIATELY. If he is responsible for havoc he has spawned, he's a dangerously incompetent fool and still deserves to be fired, IMMEDIATELY.

Emperor's New Clothes: The 'real' problem with America isn't the Marxist-infested Jackass Party. It's those political Neanderthals on the 'far right' who bitterly cling to their guns, their bibles, and outdated - irrelevant - historical relics, like : the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and those notorious racist white dudes, the Founding Fathers.

Objective Reality: There's no 'use by', or 'void after' date affixed to this: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Is this willful myopia, this reality sucks plague dangerous? Yup, especially when it comes to the infamous 'low information voters'. Is it incurable? Hardly, but, like any cure, there are numerous pitfalls, distractions, and hazards along that path to recovery. The first step to kicking that habit is a healthy dose of scepticism. You can begin by admitting that our nation conceived in liberty is controlled by lying rat bastards who can't be trusted as far as you can throw Jupiter. You can come to grips with the fact that America's problems are largely, of our own making because we prefer our cherished dream world to an objective reality that is, I freely admit, a pain in the butt. A never was, never will be, B. A is and always shall be A PIGsters.

Freefall

PIG explores the trajectory of American liberty and we're not thrilled spitless with what we found.

There's a question people keep asking. It comes in a numerous forms. It comes from legal immigrants. It comes from 'born in the USA' Americans. It comes from the callers on VRWC (Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy) Radio. It comes from friends, co-workers and family members. The wording varies, but when you focus on the essentials, all the questions boil down to this: What's happening to America?

Do I agree that We the People lost something vital, something near and dear to us which helped make us who, what we are? This Top Story will explore that question, but my initial response is 'yes'. It's a provisional 'yes' because the destructive process is incremental and on-going.

Can this change be added to the list of 'accomplishments' perpetrated by George Soros and his front man, Barack Hussein Obama? Not exactly. The process began before they became festering sores on humanity's butt. However, since they took center stage, they managed to speed up this destructive process.

The changes are real, and troubling, because they undercut what it means to be an American. The America that's slipping away from us was a nation that one of its presidents called a 'shining city on a hill', a nation that showed the world what sovereign individuals working together, voluntarily, could accomplish.

It was a marvelous place that encouraged an individual to strive to achieve the maximum degree of success.

It was a land conceived in liberty where each individual was afforded the opportunity to go as high and as far as his talents, energy, and intelligence would take him.

It was a nation where an individual's great achievement and success were celebrated and cited as an example of what could be accomplished when a person focused all their energy, intellect and talent on a single goal.

We've been headed in the wrong direction, for some time now. Thanks to the Jackass Party, we're hurtling down that highway to hell at breakneck speed. In theory, the Pachyderm punks could slow down our headlong dash to hell, allowing rational adults time to organize a rescue mission. Unhappily, the D.C. establishment Republicans are firmly entrenched in 'don't rock the boat' mode. It explains why The Donald terrifies them. His whole campaign is fueled by his disgust with the status quo.

After mulling things over, I decided on a format that will demonstrate, via examples, how far we've moved down this wrong way street. It's a three-element thrill ride that goes like this:

Then - Shows us where we were.

Now - Shows us how far we've strayed, so far.

Tomorrow - We predict where this devolution might end.

Where possible, I use a news item to highlight where we are headed

Then: After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, America suffered a series of humiliating defeats by Imperial Japanese forces. With American morale at its lowest point something amazing happened.

Instead of wallowing in defeatism and self pity, America struck back, where Japan least expected it.

The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders was a group eighty men from all walks of life who flew into history on April 18, 1942. They were all volunteers and this was a very dangerous mission. Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, led by (then Col.) Jimmy Doolittle. They were to fly over Japan, drop their bombs and fly on to land in a part of China that was still free. Of course, things do not always go as planned.

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By spring, 1942, America needed a severe morale boost. The raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942, certainly provided that – cheering the American military and public. Yet, the Doolittle Raid meant so much more, proving to the Japanese high command that their home islands were not invulnerable to American attacks and causing them to shift vital resources to their defense. Two months later that decision would play a role in the outcome of the Battle of Midway, the American victory that would begin to turn the tide in the Pacific War. [The Official Website of The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders ]

Fifteen of the aircraft reached China, and one landed in the Soviet Union. All but three of the crew survived, but all the aircraft were lost. Eight crewmen were captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of them were executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union at Vladivostok was confiscated and its crew interned for more than a year. Fourteen crews, except for one crewman, returned either to the United States or to American forces. [Wikipedia]

The damage caused by the bombing itself shouldn't wasn't going to bring the Imperial Japanese warmachine to a screaming halt. It wasn't meant to. The real impact was psychological. It shook the Japanese populace to their very core, by destroying their feeling of invulnerability.

Now: Barry prefers a war without killing, so our air force bombs empty buildings and unoccupied trucks. Just to play it safe, Barry warns ISIS that we're coming. Heaven forbid that we'd kill somebody.

Tomorrow: Borrowing a plot point from Heller's 'Catch-22', a future Obamunist POTUS would placate our 'enemy' by having our military installations attacked by our own military.

Then: In America's schools, if you break the rules, you get punished. Minor infractions would merit detention. More serious offenses are punished by suspension or expulsion.

Now: Former Attorney General, Eric Holder, became 'alarmed' over the disproportional number of 'his people' who were being suspended/expelled from government cess schools. As a result, Educrats from sea to shining sea decided that pedigree trumps guilt, giving melanin-enriched rule breakers a free pass.

The Obama administration is urging schools to abandon overly zealous discipline policies that civil rights advocates have long said lead to a school-to-prison pipeline that discriminates against minority students.

The wide-ranging series of guidelines issued Wednesday in essence tells schools that they must adhere to the principle of fairness and equity in student discipline or face strong action if they don't.

Holder said the problem often stems from well intentioned "zero-tolerance" policies that too often inject the criminal justice system into the resolution of problems. Zero tolerance policies, a tool that became popular in the 1990s, often spell out uniform and swift punishment for offenses such as truancy, smoking or carrying a weapon. Violators can lose classroom time or become saddled with a criminal record.

In American schools, black students without disabilities were more than three times as likely as whites to be expelled or suspended, according to government civil rights data collection from 2011-2012. Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.

More than half of students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or black, according to the data.

The recommendations encourage schools to ensure that all school personnel are trained in classroom management, conflict resolution and approaches to de-escalate classroom disruptions. [Breitbart January 2014]

Translation: if you're black, the no punishment fix is in, no matter what you do.

Tomorrow: Educrats will impose the mandated punishment -suspension, expulsion, legal charges - on a randomly selected unhyphenated white male.

Then: In American schools, the grading system was fixed:

0 to 59 Grade = F
60 to 69 Grade= D
70 to 79 Grade = C
80 to 89 Grade = B
90 to 100 Grade = A

If you skipped a test simply because you wanted to avoid it, you were given an F.

Now: Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District - located in Sonoma County, California - has put its new grading scale into effect alongside other scoring reforms. The core tenet is a system called the equal interval scale; in it, grades are organized according to twenty-point ranges. Making an A, for example, is possible as long as a student scores an eighty or above - territory that would have once belonged to a B-ranking. By extension, it's only possible to get an F by scoring less than twenty points. That might take a considerable amount of effort, since the reforms have an extra stipulation: even if a student doesn't turn in homework or take a test, the score can't drop below fifty. It's a system that can potentially reward those who don't try more than those who try and fail.

0 to 19 Grade = F
20 to 39 Grade= D
40 to 59 Grade = C
60 to 79 Grade = B
80 to 100 Grade = A
Slackers who skip tests and ignore homework assignments are guaranteed a 50 (mid-level C).

[You can get a higher grade by skipping a test and the Educrats are ok with that? "Cess-Schools" is starting to look overly complimentary.]

Tomorrow: Serious students are sent home until they can get with the program. Everyone else is given an 'A' in any class the inmate selects. No teaching takes place and a student's only obligation is to show up for role call, each school day.

Then: America's elite colleges and universities only enrolled the best, the brightest, students. It was a logical move, since they were best equipped to handle the unrelenting intellectual challenge to their cherished illusions, and half-baked brain-farts.

Now: America's elite colleges and universities are systematically stripping away any intellectually challenging course material, because it gives the precious snowflakes an intellectual boo-boo.

Tomorrow: America's elite colleges and universities no longer attempt to instill knowledge. Intelligence is no longer an enrollment criteria, because membership in an anointed victim group is all that matters. In reality, they serve as an obscenely expensive, live-in nursery whose only purpose is shielding precious snowflakes from objective reality.

Then: One man, one vote, proof of eligibility mandatory.

Now: In places like Chicago, dead voters are the norm. Curiously, death transforms room temperature patriots into hard core left wing Moonbats. In other places - Ohio, for example - eligibility is a non-starter, and 'one man, one vote' is modified to 'one man, one vote, per precinct visited'. Some exceptionally motivated individuals voted dozens of times.

Tomorrow: Voting is mandatory, but it doesn't determine anything. Instead, the ruling elite uses the ballots to assess each voter's loyalty to the ruling regime.

As long as the far left has its stranglehold on so called journalism and what passes for education in America, our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is endangered. Admittedly, the TEA Party Movement is a welcome addition to our fight to preserve/restore our inalienable individual liberty. The problem is that the TEA Party got caught between the Progtards on the left and the 'we suck, but they suck a lot more' Republicans on the right. Desperate to be loved, the pachyderm punks no longer have the balls to defend our inalienable individual liberty. When faced with grim Jackass Party determination, Weasels like Rubio, McCain and McConnell sell out liberty and call it bipartisanship.

Is America finished? Or, will, just in the nick of time, that American icon - its reviled, but endlessly resilient, rugged individuals - shake off their lethargy and put up a fight for the nation they love? Will you take a stand for the American Dream and the Inalienable Individual Liberty which all rational American adults cherish?

I don't kid myself about how fucked up We the People let things get. The destruction of our liberty didn't happen over night and it began long before the Marxist Messiah arrived on the scene. He's the END GAME. Our descent into tyranny began at least a half century ago. If it's going to be undone, it's going to take time.

If you're up to the challenge, the first order of business is salvaging or shit-canning the Elephant Clan.

Can we turn things around? Perhaps, but it won't be easy, or quick.

Step 1: Education, especially K-12 must be wrested from the Marxist Moonbats who infest/control it and turned over to rational adults. This might, probably will, mean privatizing Educrap, because it's the only way to loosen the teachers unions' stranglehold on state government in places like Mexifornia.

Instead of idiots with self-esteem, American schools would produce individuals who have a solid foundation in such disciplines as writing, reading, English, mathematics, history - U.S., World, civics (government), biology, physics, and chemistry.

Step 2: Journalism must be restored to its proper role, objective reporting which is based on the venerable who, what, when, where, why. Commentary will be removed from the news pages and confined to the opinion/editorial pages.

Step 3: Capitalism must be unshackled and allowed to energize our individual liberty. This will be a real pisser, since it is accomplished by slashing the regulatory beast to the bone.

Step 4: The bloated Nanny State behemoth genie must be stuffed back into the Constitutionally mandated bottle.

Step 5: There must be a purge - at the ballot box - of Big Government-loving Elected tormentors in all levels of Government.

If you're going to act, the time is now, because each tick of the clock mires us deeper in tyranny.

A Dose of Culture

If this classic poem isn't already banned in American classrooms, it soon will be. Why? It's too white. Furthermore it has to invite trigger warnings from hypersensitive pinheads.

If (by Rudyard Kipling)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And – which is more – you'll be a Man my son!

Hambo's Annual Holiday Meltdown

Tis the season, PIGsters and once again, our sanity will be assaulted by the usual suspects who willfully ignore certain doses of objective reality that don't match up with their seasonal delusions. It might help if you think of this rant as the holiday version of "A is still A".

For that legendary pain in the butt, the great America sports-a-holic, this is the time of year when friendships are given the acid test. It's the time of year when brewskie-fortified sports-a-holics get into bellowing, chest-pounding shouting matching over the burning college sports question of the moment: who's number one? There are, as usual, several official answers to this vital sports-a-holic question. Despite the various polls, the only official opinion that matters when it comes to college football is a notoriously dysfunctional, fatally-flawed gem called the College Football Playoff series No matter which teams end up in the so-called championship game, there are endless arguments over the way this team or that one got shafted by this bull crap. A is still A and the playoff system is still an egregiously flawed way to determine the National College Football Champion. Close, but no cigar.

I can make myself ignore the annual college football championship bovine excrement, but I have a much harder time when it comes to other elements of the holiday hoopla. The one that, invariably, makes me shudder is the horse crap that speaks in glowing, mythological terms about "one of mom's home cooked meals". It's accurate to state that my mother did unbelievable things in the kitchen, on a regular basis. When I say "unbelievable" I'm not engaging in Hambo's patented hyperbole. My mother was a highly intelligent woman who was gifted in many areas. HOWEVER, cooking wasn't one of them. She was, to put in bluntly, the most infamous culinary terrorist since Jeffrey Dahmer. A is still A, so don't hold your breath waiting for this far from fussy eater to get gooey over "one of mom's home cooked meals". Been there, done that, and I managed to survive, some-damn-how.

How many goddamn versions of 'A Christmas Carol' Do we need? Vanessa Williams did one. Susan Lucci did one. George C. Scott did one. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) did one. Albert Finney did one. Kelsey Grammar did one. Bill Murray did one (this one has moments). Even Fonzi did one! There were, at last count, well over 200 of the damn things and virtually off them will be shown during the looming holiday boob tube blitz. Isn't it about time for someone to declare that the Alistair Sim version, is THE superior version of this classic and ditch all these pretenders? Do we really need to have someone perpetrate a Skank Hilton plays Scrooge epic before we finally put this insane holiday tradition out of its misery? A is still A and Alistair Sim is still the one and only Scrooge.

Christmas songs are cool, especially if they're delivered eagerly, loudly, and cheerfully off-key by some stoned on Santa Claus tykes. HOWEVER, by the time I've heard "Deck the Halls" for the 800th time, in one day, I'm ready to put a whole new spin on "decking". You don't even want to know what I'm planning to do with that friggin holly. A is still A and Christmas songs are fine, in moderation. But if you keep bellowing them at me, eventually, I'm going to snap. You so don't want to go there.

One tis the season feature that I could do without is the annual whine from Cross Cultists that secular scumbags are kicking "Christ" out of "Christmas". I'm willing to meet the Cross Cult part way by agreeing that the Christmas holiday has, over the last few decades become increasingly secular with Santa taking center stage from the Cross Dude. HOWEVER, I am compelled to point out, AGAIN, that the Cross Cultists stole this winter holiday from the pagans, centuries ago:

Fact: In Roman times the period between December 17th and January 1st is the Saturnalia, a feast which celebrates the approach of Spring. Saturnalia featured feasting, mirth and exchanging gifts.

Fact: December 25th is the feast day of the Persian God, Mithra, the god of light and wisdom. In Roman times the feast celebrated the Sun God.

Fact: Many pagans, including the ancient Romans, celebrated their gods with trees, including evergreens. Such celebrations often involved decorating trees with candles.

A is still A and the pagans will celebrate their Mithra feast day any damn way they please. Sit down, shut up and stop all this bellyaching. Mithra...Mithra...Mithra...

Gift giving is another area where too much of a good thing ruins an otherwise spiffy holiday season. I like exchanging gifts with my lovely bride and that's a fact. I also like finding gifts for selected members of the human population. HOWEVER, we all need to get real about this "butt ugly tie from Aunt Thelma" crap. Gift giving is cool, most of the time, but some gifts test the limits of my meager acting ability. If you threatened me with Uncle Clyde's infamous fruit cake, I would admit that, for many years now, I have engaged in gift recycling. It resolves numerous problematic gift buying dilemmas when the lucky recipient is someone I barely know. A is still A and gift giving is cool, until it becomes mandatory.

I know what you're thinking, PIGsters and it's not nice to have such dastardly thoughts about Hambo. I am not a Grinch, nor am I a Christmas hater. I like the decorations and I like many of the Hambo family traditions that have developed over the years. The plain vanilla, down and dirty bitter reality is that Hambo has a very low tolerance for stupidity. Having so much of it coming at me, relentlessly for the last 6 weeks of the year gets on my last raw nerve. A is still A and Christmas is mostly cool, but too much of anything puts Hambo in a very ornery mood.

Update: Since I wrote this rant, which is still the ultimate Hambo rant on Christmas, there has been a marked improvement, on the music front. Thanks to PIGster J, I am now celebrating the season with Bob Rivers and his Twisted Christmas music. Thanks for the tip, PIGster J, you're a sanity saver. I owe you one.

Musings

The popular mantra among rational adults expresses a longing for another Reagan. I get that, but I've taken my 'if only' musings in another direction.

We would, I agree, benefit from another Gipper. However, we'd get what the doctor ordered if we found another secret exposing scribe like the late, great, bane of the richly deserving, Jack Anderson:

Jack Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In addition to his newspaper career, Anderson also had a syndicated radio show with the Mutual Broadcasting Network, acted as Washington bureau chief of Parade magazine, and was a commentator on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for nine years.

Notable topics that Anderson covered included organized crime, the Kennedy assassination, Chappaquiddick, Watergate, fugitive Nazis, the white supremacist group the Liberty Lobby and other far-right organizations, the death of Howard Hughes, the ABSCAM public corruption investigation, the investigation into fugitive financier Robert Vesco, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the activities of numerous Washington agencies, elected officials, and bureaucrats. [Wikipedia]

If Jack was still alive and kicking, he'd be Obama's worst nightmare. None of Barry's secrets would be safe, because Anderson was relentless. Now, more than ever, we desperately need a bean spiller like Jack Anderson.

* Climate Change AKA Global Warming

When it comes to the normal, long term warming and cooling of our planet, the impact of human activity is so minuscule it's meaningless.

The dirty little secret that lab-coated hooligans won't discuss concerns that ball of burning gas in the sky. Solar cycles are the prime mover, when it comes to our climate.

When Earth is 'warming', so are other planets on our solar system. Humans - our agriculture, our industry, our technology - didn't do that.

Curious Timing

At minimum, the timing of The Paris Climate Boondoggle [PCB] is ironic since, based on satellite data, what warming there was ended at least 15 years ago. The Climate Hooligans know this, so they recently manipulated historical data records, to mask that inconvenient truth.

Bottom Line

The PCB is a world-spanning con game that must make Nigerian scam artists green with envy.

It's extortion on a mind-blowing scale justified by junk science.

Its real purpose is impoverishing developed 'have' nations, by destroying the capitalism which energizes their economies.

They have the braindead rabble applauding this $olution for a 'problem' which doesn't exist.

* Brokered GOP Convention

"Brokered"? It's the venerable smoke filled room operating under a kinder, gentler name.

A "Brokered" Convention means some/all of the following:

1) The Republican primaries are meaningless, so voting in them was a waste of time.

2) The Pachyderm Punk Beltway Establishment doesn't trust its political clan's voters.

3) The national party will select a 'suitable' candidate - Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio.

4) The national party is willing to destroy itself, to prevent a President Trump, President Cruz, or President Carson.

5) The Republican Establishment would be pleased with a President Shrillary.

6) By opting for the smoke-filled room method, the Republican Party is committing political suicide. It will cease to be a meaningful national political entity.

7) If they want to lose the House and Senate and Red Shed, in a single election, this will do it.

Here are a few stray notions.

* Here I Go Again
The Oval Office ObfuscatOr insists that we're not at war with Islam. He's right, sort of, but that's only half the story. What he won't admit is the fetid fact that, motivated by Islam, a significant mob of Islamists are at war with us.

*Pearl Harbor Day Notion
At the start of WWII, the Japanese Empire had a couple things in common with Islamists:

Japan had an ENORMOUS chip on its shoulder, too.

Japan wouldn't/couldn't coexist peacefully, either.

Musings

I've been thinking about the hubby half of the San Bernardino Jihadikaze couple. The apologists insist that he was a fully Americanized dude who just happened to be a Mecca Maniac. Let's run that contention up the flagpole.

Okay, so he's Americanized and not that far gone in his Mecca Mania. Where does that take us? To a disturbing place. He meets his Jihadikaze bride, marries her, then is quickly transformed into a full blown Jihadikaze by wifey-poo.

We should all be alarmed by the ease of this transformation. Why? Because it means that any Americanized Mecca Maniac might be harboring a terrorist inside. That's not my idea of a good time.

Stuff

*
I listened to that news conference by the shysters shilling for some members of the shooter's family. Very, very weird. They went all in when it came to defending Mecca Mania, but were only lukewarm when it came to the shooter. Their defense of shooter's wifey was by comparison right out of the arctic circle.

Like many MSM outlets, they launched numerous 'workplace violence'trial balloons. He had his wife helping him. When was the last time that happened when some asshole went postal? Enquiring Minds want to know.

*
I watched the Lions - Packers game...Talk about losing ugly! The Lions controlled the ball for 50 minutes and still managed to lose. That last play was WOW.

I urge you to do a Bing search for 'Packers hail Mary', then watch the video. Hang in and you'll see how Lions fans in the stadium reacted.

*
Miley Cyrus is at it again. Images from a recent photo shoot leave nothing to the imagination. I"m predicting a headline grabbing sex tape, any minute now and a full blown porn site before Trump's November 2016 landslide.

What Is A Sovereign Individual?

[This rant avows my own brand if individualism. In so doing, it asserts many of the things which panic campus cry bullies into stampeding for the nearest safe space. Tough darts, assholes.]

I am a sovereign individual.

My life does not belong to the state. It does not belong to that amorphous collectivist illusion "society". It does not belong some supernatural entity. My life is mine and mine alone, not the state's, society's, or a deity's. I demand no more...I demand no less...than the freedom to take those actions and act upon those thoughts that further the primary purpose of life: life itself. I grant no more...I grant no less...than the same consideration to every other sovereign individual. My life and the essential properties thereof - my intellect, my thoughts, my character, my integrity - are mine an mine alone. Since I am the sole owner of my life, the blame or credit for its conduct is entirely mine, not the state's, society's or a deity's. For good or ill, the buck stops here, Sparky.

As sole owner, stockholder and director of my life, I started my tenure by determining that reality is objective: the universe exists independently and is not a figment of my imagination. Objective reality is not a malleable, undefined, chaos that is subject to the whim and whimsy of a capricious supernatural entity. Objective reality is not determined by the unrequited needs of society. Objective reality is not enslaved, altered or changed by the insatiable demands of the Nanny State. Because objective reality is constrained by certain immutable scientific tenets, each and every object in this objective reality possesses - must possess - certain immutable properties which can be observed, measured and, ultimately, understood. A is A, so get over it, Sparky.

Reason, not revelation, chronic societal need or government decree, is the means by which I comprehend objective reality...the means by which I determine those actions required to sustain, conduct and/or improve my life.. Reason, not commandments from on high is the means by which I conduct my own life. Reason, not plaintive wails for the unearned fruits of my labor and/or intellect determines how I conduct my life. Unless coerced by the Nanny State's monopoly on the use of force, reason, not politically motivated hyperbole, determines how, when and why I conduct my life. Reason - not the Nanny State, society, or some deity - determines how, when and why I expend the fruits of my labors and/or intellect. It's my life, my call, so back the hell off, Sparky.

Whereas reality is objective and reason directs my life - my choices, my thoughts, my actions - the Nanny State, society and supernatural entities must butt the hell out, because I don't need their interference in my life. I will not, voluntarily, be enslaved by the Nanny State, "society" or a deity. I will not, voluntarily, surrender the fruits of my labor...I will not, voluntarily, surrender the fruits of my intellect to any individual or entity that hasn't earned them. Conversely, I will not demand, accept, or steal the unearned fruits of another individual's labor and/or intellect. When I require the services, the knowledge, and/or the skills of another sovereign individual, I will negotiate a voluntary, mutually beneficial, bargain to secure their cooperation. I will not exert force, or attempt to coerce a sovereign individual into surrendering his rightful property - real and/or intellectual.

My life and the products thereof are not commodities that must be manipulated, micro-managed, sacrificed to or redistributed by the Nanny State. My life and the products thereof are not public resources that must be plundered to placate any other individual's chronic need. My life is not a toy to be played with, twisted, and/or controlled by some perverse, supernatural entity. I will never, willingly, surrender reason's essential role in directing my own life to the state, society, or a disembodied supernatural entity. My life belongs to me, so if you plan to claim dominion over it, pack a lunch, because you're in for one hell of a fight, Sparky.

I am a sovereign individual.

Happy Thanksgiving

On behalf of the entire PIG staff, I want to wish all our PIGsters, each of whom we no bull crap consider part of our PIGish family, a very Happy Thanksgiving. We're sure that most of you will be spending the day with your friends and family, enjoying a sumptuous meal after which you'll grab a nap in the lazyboy while pretending to watch the football games. We'd tell you not to go back for that second piece of pie after gorging yourself on a third helping of turkey, but we doubt that you're in a mood for some PIGish advice, however well intentioned.

Some of you might wonder how we celebrate Thanksgiving in the top secret PIG bunker. I hate to disappoint you, but it's quite boring and annoyingly traditional. I tried to elevate the annual festivities, again, by suggesting that we stage a properly pagan holiday. Once again, these unimaginative trolls were very disagreeable about the whole subject.

What, I ask you, is so heinous about a pagan tradition from a bygone era, a virgin sacrifice? I 'get' the part about the Nanny State getting pissy about such things, and I freely admit that 'back in the day', my pagan homeboys got a tad carried away with the sacrifice part. I'm willing to forego all that murder, mayhem and bloodletting. Instead, I suggested that we lay the naked wench out and use her body as our appetizer tray. No harm, no foul, and it lends a spiffy pagan aura to the festivities.

The usual PIG staff whiners were down with the nudity part, but got very disagreeable about the 'virgin' requirement. "Do you know how hard it is to find an old enough to be street legal virgin?" Blah, blah, blah. I have an answer for that one too, the same answer you've heard from me elsewhere. I'm willing to downgrade from "virgin" to "virtual virgin". If the wench proclaims that "I only did it once, I swear, and I really, really hated it." That's close enough for this pagan scribbler. I'm willing to be flexible, but the pigheaded PIG staff won't even consider it.

On a more appropriate note, I have a simple request that has nothing to do with virgins. When you sit down to that dinner and start giving your thanks for all the blessings this nation conceived in liberty bestows upon us, don't forget to thank those who are putting it all on the line defending our liberty. On this day of giving thanks, give thanks to those who are far from home, defending America.

If you see one of our men or women in uniform, take the time to shake their hand, and thank them from the bottom of your heart for their service to our country. Given the attitude on Capitol Hill, they're probably feeling unappreciated, so take the time to thank them.

In a perfect world, you'd set an extra place at your table and invite them to join you, but that's your decision, your call. All we ask, is that you remember our fighting men and women on this day of giving thanks.

Parting shot: The good news is that the turkey coma will wear off. The bad news is that you only have a tad over 30 days to get ready for Turkey Coma II, the sequel on Christmas Day.

Hambo's Helpful Holiday Hints.

Seizing the moment
The holidays are an ideal time for you to begin the selection process for your designated Obamunist scapegoat. You'll find this task very easy, since the Obamunists are still mired in that giddy, rose-colored glasses phase of their adoration with the Messiah.

You'll be tempted to make a pre-emptive strike, but I strongly suggest that you resist the urge. You'd be wasting your time, since, they're still in full synaptic shutdown mode and thus immune to any element of objective reality you might want to bestow on them.

This year, I'm going to play possum, and conduct a stealthy screening of the candidates for my designated Obamunist scapegoat. There will be ample opportunity to nail them, with unrelenting fury, after their Messiah starts strutting his 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' stuff. For now, keep your powder dry and WAIT.

Talking to strangers
The first item to consider is will there be any blowback from your friends or family if you get snarky with this stranger.

The second item to consider is will they get dangerously pissed if you get snarky with the stranger..

The final item to consider is how badly you need a good laugh.

If there's no blowback, no danger and you're desperate for a good laugh, I have a suggestion, but it only works if you can get the stranger to ask "What do you do?". That can be arranged if you pretend to give a damn what they do for a living. Asking about their profession might be very helpful in determining the answer to item two "dangerously pissed".

Once you've got all those ducks in a row, you wait for that golden moment:

Victim: "What do you do?"

You: "5 to 10 years, with time off for good behavior."

Culinary rules of engagement
Ideally, you would wait to see if anyone dies a horrible death after eating the food, but that rarely plays out in a timely manner.

A better scheme involves avoiding that initial rush when the dinner bell sounds. If the eats are done buffet style, I suggest holding back and wait until some of the gluttons head back for seconds. The items that are taken, the second time around, are the ones that are safe to eat.

If you can't avoid that initial rush because of pressure from family and/or friends, there are a few simple guidelines that will keep you out of harm's way:

* Avoid ethnic dishes.

* Approach sauces with extreme caution.

* Treat casseroles as if they're tainted with ebola.

* Unless you've got a death wish never eat anything you don't recognize, until someone else eats it and returns for seconds.

If you hear the hostess - the one who did all the cooking - say 'I tried out a new recipe', RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.

Gifts
[With Black Friday, the most insane shop-a-holic day of the year, upon us, this is the time to get 'real' about gift giving.]

I am a firm believer in recycling gifts - what the News Nitwits call 'regifting', but there are some pitfalls. The essential factor is keeping track of who gave you the damn thing in the first place. The last thing you want is to give it back to the person who inflicted it on you. You'll also want to make sure that the recipient of your recycled gift and the one who gave it to you, won't ever travel in the same circles. If you keep that straight, you'll do just fine.

Spend a little quality time practicing your insincere 'thank you' in front of a mirror.

Compile a list of simple - nobody could screw it up - gifts that you put on your list every year. For Hambo that involves notebooks, plain black t-shirts, and mechanical pencils. If you feel brave, you can give specifics on book titles, music CDs, or movie CDs. Requesting specific books, music, or movies can lead to trouble since it invites the gift giver to get creative. That's not a problem with a member of the immediate family, but with distant relatives or friends, you can be inviting trouble.

If your gift list gets out of control, you're going to thank me, profusely, for suggesting that you practice that 'thank you'.

When giving gifts, don't get too elaborate or complicated. If it takes more than two sentences to explain it, you're probably going to annoy the crap out of the recipient. I went down that road, with mixed results, several times, but I'm feeling much better now. The moral of this story is 'keep it simple, stupid'.

[Stay tuned for more sanity-saving Hambo advice in the coming weeks.]

Required Reading
[Lifted from Page One PIG]

Let's All Laugh As Liberalism Commits Ritual Suicide On Campus
Kurt Schlichter

[Townhall] Please don't tell the students at University of Missouri and Yale and all the other throbbing pustules of academia to stop their insanity. Instead, encourage and provoke them to turn the turmoil up to 11, a number most of these students can't count to without taking off their Nikes. No, we want the campuses to echo with the whiny cries of the Children of the Safe Space Revolution.

And we will sit back and point and laugh as the weak-willed, spineless liberal losers of academia abase themselves before their whimpering student bodies. This is just great. As Napoleon observed, never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake. Now, mentioning Napoleon probably a microaggression because, in the unlikely event that the gender studies and Marxist interpretive dance majors of Yale and Missouri recognize the name, he's a cis-het dead white male – and he was not actually differently abled despite being vertically challenged. Still, his advice has merit – just pretend for a moment that he is trans woman-identifying being of color of some sort.

Our enemies are tearing themselves apart. Let's let them, because every time a social justice warrior humiliates other liberals, a conservative gets his wings. See, this has all happened before. For those unfamiliar with that thing called history – I'm talking to you, college students – there was this guy named S.I. Hiyakawa who was head of San Francisco State University back in the 1960s. When a bunch of hippie punks decided to make demands, he stood up to them. He became a hero to normal people, and the voters of California – back before they went insane – elected him senator. In other words, all this idiocy about safe spaces and healing circles and "I am an oppressed special snowflake of love" provides us not only nearly endless amusement, but an opportunity to swoop in after the left has pummeled itself into mush.

This is an opportunity to get back on the side of the American people and do their will by striking back at these leftist twits. Along with the rising crime rate – even as President Faily McWorsethancarter has decided it's time to free thousands of felons because justice or something – student idiocy provides enterprising conservatives a chance to appeal to the Silent Majority just like Richard Nixon did. For you college students out there, you'll need to Google his Wikipedia page, but suffice it to say, he won.

So let's make sure Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Democrats have to own this pouty passion play. You know there's no way Hillary can stand up and say what I would: "Hey you little cretins, you've got 'til I count to three to get off my quad or I unleash these state troopers to get all pepper spray and nightstick up on your delicate little booties. Three."

No, she has to kiss their collective healing circles. And we should make her do it publicly, because there's nothing normal voters love more than seeing people giving in to petulant sophomores with an attitude. We should force her to take a stand, to decide whether she's on the side of the little college punks, or on the side of Americans. Gee, where do you think she'll come down? Not with the normals, that's for sure.

But even as we get a short term political benefit we also have a long term cultural opportunity. An Overton Window is opening to defenestrate academia as it is currently constituted. Right now, as people like Glenn Reynolds and yours truly have written, colleges are pricing themselves out of the market and are increasingly vulnerable to new technology that can deliver an education without all the nonsense. Conservatives can now make an even stronger case that we need to stop subsidizing these government-funded petri dishes of social pathologies and pinko bioweapons. The clown shows at Yale and UofM are a perfect, graphic demonstration of why we should slash their budgets, pare their loathsome, Dem-voting administrations to the bone, and force academia to change – and it goes without saying that the change will be into something other than the lefty conformity factories they are today.

It's beautiful how this conflict divides the liberals between the establishment and the students, and how it further subdivides two of their main establishment constituencies, academics and mainstream media journalists. For too long, both of these groups of hapless losers have been able to pretend to support free speech. Well, suckers, now it's getting real. The little monsters you spawned don't much like free-speech, and they want you to shut up too, not just us conservatives. Being academics and journalists, and therefore presumptively without spines, most of you guys will submit. A few of you won't, and it will weaken your coalition when some number of your members walk away because they just can't swallow your catering to these Junior Red Guards.

Conservatives should be loving this fight. We're sitting on the sidelines and watching our enemies beat each other to a fussy pulp. This is a classic wedge issue because it splits our enemy apart like Abe Lincoln split rails. Yeah, there's another dead white cis-het male reference you Mizzou morons won't get.

Oh, and what if you little goofs dare strut off campus thinking that we're like the professorial puffballs who'll fold in the face of any intersectional anarcho-feminist who starts bawling about feeling unsafe because someone expressed an idea he/she/it doesn't like? Well, stampy foot may work with your local Assistant Dean for Diversity and Petty Fascism, but it doesn't play with us. The Iraqis didn't stop me from exercising my First Amendment rights, nor the Balkans baddies, nor the scumbag rioters in Los Angeles, so you sure as hell aren't going to without a fight. If you think you get a vote about what we normal Americans can and can't say, you best be ready to try and make that happen with more firepower than a vicious Tumblr, because when it comes to the Bill of Rights we're playing for keeps.

So, fellow freedom lovers, grab a bag of popcorn and a tumbler of scotch, because this is only going to get better and better. And you matriculating Marxist morons, pay no mind to us conservatives or to our laughter. Just keep very publicly making your strategic mistakes in your widdle campus safe spaces, and we will keep letting you – for now.

Words of Wisdom

These quotes bestow enlightenment.

Alan Dershowitz

These are the same people who claim they are seeking diversity. The last thing these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas. They may want superficial diversity, diversity of gender, diversity of color, but they do not want diversity of ideas.

We are seeing a curtain of McCarthyism descend over many college campuses I don't want to make analogies to the 1930s, but it was the college students who first started burning books during the Nazi regime. These students are book burners...

By expressing my opinion, I am "harassing students." This is becoming a very serious problem not only in American universities, but around the world. It is having a terrible impact on the education of students...

It is the worst kind of hypocrisy. They want complete control over their personal lives, over their sex lives, over the use of drugs, but they want mommy and daddy dean to please give them a safe place, to protect them from ideas that maybe are insensitive, maybe will make them think...

When I spoke at Johns Hopkins University, the same students who were talking about a 'safe space,' painted a Hitler mustache on my posters, it is an absolute double standard.

It is free speech for me, but not for thee. Universities should not tolerate this kind of hypocrisy, double standard…

If you're going to be a college administrator or a professor, if you have tenure, you have to speak back to the students, you have to call these things what they are: double standards, hypocrisy, bigotry, McCarthyism, and the fog of fascism is descending quickly over many American universities.

Real Clear Politics

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Mark Steyn
I'm Islamed out. I'm tired of Islam 24/7, at Colorado colleges, Marseilles synagogues, Sydney coffee shops, day after day after day. The west cannot win this thing with a schizophrenic strategy of targeting things and people but not targeting the ideology, of intervening ineffectually overseas and not intervening at all when it comes to the remorseless Islamization and self-segregation of large segments of their own countries. …

[I]f M Hollande isn't prepared to end mass Muslim immigration to France and Europe, then his "pitiless war" isn't serious. And, if they're still willing to tolerate Mutti Merkel's mad plan to reverse Germany's demographic death spiral through fast-track Islamization, then Europeans aren't serious. In the end, the decadence of Merkel, Hollande, Cameron and the rest of the fin de civilisation western leadership will cost you your world and everything you love.

So screw the candlelight vigil.

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Burt Prelutsky Aces It Again

THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA

I am fast approaching my 76th birthday and I have to say the biggest surprise of my lifetime has not involved moon landings, the fall of the Berlin Wall, home computers, electronic gizmos or even the re-election of Barack Obama. Instead, I'd have to point to the success of the media and public education in turning young people into zombies who eagerly accept every lie force fed them like so much Pablum laced with cyanide. By now, they're convinced it tastes like chocolate.

We have wound up with a generation of louts who believe that urban blacks, illegal aliens, Muslims, sexual oddballs and welfare recipients, hold a special place in the universe, whereas Christians, Israelis, registered gun owners and those of us who hold the U.S. Constitution sacred, constitute what's wrong with the world.

I have often wondered what it is like inside the head of a liberal. The best I've been able to come up with is that it's a large echo chamber that could easily house a family of five and a sheepdog, with space left over for a large screen TV, an Olympic-sized refrigerator and a guestroom for visiting space pods.

 

Asides

A Mexifornia fishwrap - The O.C. Register - is hyperventilating because the Elephant Clan now 'controls' - by a one vote margin, 7 to 6 - the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Yahoo?

That depends. What kind of Republicans are they?

Why is so much power invested in boards whose members aren't answerable to We the People?

Enquiring minds want to know.

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I've been reading about the University of Missouri debacle in the Legal Insurrection blog.

If you want an excellent description of the mess here's the link:
Mizzou Meltdown

As far as I'm concerned this comment nails it.

Mannie | November 10, 2015 at 8:51 am

Close the school. This semester is declared over. No grades will be given. No credit will be given for courses taken. Go home and try again. We will decide whether next semester will be had. We will decide which students will be readmitted.

But they don't have the balls to do that. They let the lunatics run the asylum.

So does this one:

snopercod | November 10, 2015 at 9:17 am

…or at least cancel the football program and terminate the scholarships.

How did Missouri get so f**ked up?

Should we build an Israeli style wall around some, or all, of it? Lobbing the occasional artillery barrage into it is optional, but still in play.

Halloween Leftovers

Help From A Friend

Halloween was another rousing success, thanks to the 'hands on' assistance provided by a fellow named Porcus and his hard working, extremely likeable, son DPC.

Dog Dazed

As far as I can tell, our neighborhood is going to the dogs, because a critical mass of former males - all adult - showed up dressed as a canine. I didn't feel the need to ask if it was neutered, because I already know the answer. SHE probably has them in a jar on the fireplace mantle.

Grumpy Panics

Grumpy is an ex-cop, former neighbor, who is a relation of the woman next door. Suffice it to say, Grumpy and I have a 'history'. When our neighbor invites him to her annual Halloween bash, Grumpy always finds time to stop over at the Pop Corn House to spread his special brand of joy.

This year, brimming with pleasantries, he sailed through the archway, made a right turn, then stopped dead, when he came face to lens with a digital camera I had sitting on a tripod. He got a harried look on his face, stammered something incoherent, then took off like a scalded mutt.

I have no clue what he had going through his mind, and I don't really care. The camera had nothing to do with him, or anyone else. I'd used it earlier and didn't get around to take it back inside.

A Humble Request

A neighbor, a genuine good guy, is having some serious health issues. Do my neighbor, Tim, a favor and remember him in your prayers.

Halloween Headcount

450 individuals stopped by in less than 3 hours.

Reality Is Catching Up

In 2006, I posted what I called my 'final solution' to American Educrap. It's on one of those PIG pages you never read. Here's the money shot from that rant

The first day, a bright-eyed inmate arrives in a government school, he must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. That day, before any alleged Educrap is perpetrated, each student will be given a High School Diploma, because the student already fulfilled all the graduation requirements: he, she or it found the school and is, apparently, alive. To close this deal, the student's responsible adult must sign a legally binding contract that absolves the school from any blame for the 'student's' ignorance. All the student must do is arrive at school, each school day, sign in, after which the student is free to leave (the headcount is preserved that way). Those students who so desire - students with no custodial parent during the day - are free to stay at school, during school hours, and do anything they want, anything except learn. On a related note, serious students will be sent back home, permanently - without a diploma - because they have no place in America's government cess-school scheme.

Everyone gets what they want, and, the results are virtually indistinguishable from what happens in government cess-schools right damn now. Without all that annoying teaching to get in their way, Educrats have more time for their politics and social engineering. Since actual teaching is banished, there's more money for all their pet projects. Students are absolved from social programming , and Neo-Marxist political tirades, plus they get their diploma, just for showing up regularly. Parents get what they really want from this Educrap scheme: 12 years of government perpetrated daycare that won't clutter the brat's mind with anything useful. So what if the outcome - student-wise - sucks? Until Educrap consumers demand meaningful Educrap reform, this no bullshit Educrap is the best possible solution, given the prevailing circumstances. Wake up and smell the politically-correct idiots with self-esteem coffee!

So what? The usual suspects gave me a lot of guff for 'going off the deep end'. Sticks and stones.

Today [10/26/15], I found this on Moonbattery. Does my 9 year old rant still sound crazy, compared to this:

School System Raises Grades by Lowering the Bar

As the rot implicit in liberal control corrodes educational quality, and demographic deterioration eats away at our national IQ, academic achievement is bound to suffer. Fortunately the educrats at the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District in Sonoma County, California have solved this problem by introducing a new grading scale:

The new system is called the equal interval scale. Essentially, it makes it harder to get a failing grade. It departs from the traditional A to F scale in which students receive F's for scores below 59 percent. Instead, the scale awards F's only for scores below 20 percent. …

Under the new policy, grades rise in 20-point increments. For example, scores of 20 to 40 percentage points earn D- through D+ grades — and so on, up the ladder. Students get an A- for scoring between 80 and 85, which traditionally is low B territory.

Some teachers have tried to hang on to the traditional grading system but have been tripped up by a blanket new policy that students, even if they do not hand in homework or take a test, get 50 percent. Under the new rule, it's possible for a student who skips a test to receive a better grade than a student who takes the test and does poorly.

This opens up possibilities regarding the budget woes that continue to plague public schools despite ever-rising property taxes. If you can get a higher grade by not taking the test, why take it? If you are not going to take the test, why come to class? If no one comes to class, what do you need classrooms and teachers for? Eliminating them entirely would free up more money for the extravagantly generous pensions of the useless bureaucrats whose salaries and benefits account for an outsized share of education expenditures.

Inequality can be eradicated at last by giving all kids an A in everything, as they stay home playing video games in preparation for secure careers as welfare recipients.

Musings:

Joe Biden's decision to pass up an Oval Office run caught me by surprise. I suspect that someone pressured him to stay out. I'm still mulling the matter of who applied the pressure and why it worked.

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While spending quality time in a Nevada brothel, Lamar Odom ingested a potentially lethal combination of drugs and it came thisclose to killing him. When he came out of his coma, he found himself in Kardashian Hell.

We're expected to believe that, despite the fact that it was seeing himself bashed on an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians which made him seek relief in drugs, he voluntarily agreed to call off the divorce from Sasquatch Kardashian? No fucking way.

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During my trip to North Carolina, I was enjoying a visit with one of my lovely bride's brothers. His phone rang frequently, due to junk calls. The telemarketers have his phone number, a fun fact that didn't thrill him spitless. After his wife handled another of them, I told this Vietnam Vet, this:

"You should have her speak like a Saigon hooker and answer, 'You want boom-boom? I give number one boom-boom. You want? Five dolla...'. I always wanted to try that."

He loved it. His lovely bride? Uh, I suspect it will take quite a while for her to warm up to it..

 

Downright Ugly

Michigan was ahead of arch rival Michigan State by a score of 23-21.

Michigan has the ball around their own 40-yard line with 10 seconds left in the game.

Michigan State has used up all its timeouts.

It's 4th down.

There's just enough time for one more play.

Michigan decides to punt.

There's a wonky snap from center which the Michigan punter fumbles.

A Michigan State player picks it up and rumbles 30 yards or so for the winning touchdown.

RevKev

Kevin - henceforth RevKev - is married to my lovely bride's niece. Our introduction to him set the tone for what ensued. We were awaiting his arrival at his father-in-law's Tar Heel State abode, when the niece's phone rang. Inexplicably, she reacted to the customized ring tone by reaching for her car keys. Her first words were equally puzzling, "Again? Where? On my way."

After his daughter departed, my lovely bride's brother explained that his son-in-law has a long history of locking himself out of his truck. Obviously, he'd done it again.

Son-in-law turned out to be a nice looking, good natured fellow, who took my pagan pleasanries in stride. A young man of many talents, the dude is a Pole climbing city minion by day, but he's also a soul wrangler, a pastor of the Cross Cult genre. That's why my lovely bride and I dubbed him 'RevKev'.

Eventually, RevKev and I strayed into a chat about religion. I think it started when I shared this magic Hambo moment:

Opportunity Comes Knocking
My most interesting enlightenment bestowing encounter happened when a pair of those Watchtower twerps showed up at my door eager to 'discuss it'. I had no interest in 'it', but I'd just written a piece for my top secret Hambo archives about the God Squad so I was willing to devote a few moments of my day to play their game.

There were two of them, both males, but the one doing most of the talking seemed like a seasoned pro while the other, younger one reeked of rookie. I won't bore you with all those juicy Hambo tidbits, but I will assure you that, fresh from a meaningful interlude with my keyboard, I was in rare form.

I'm not sure when it happened. I think it occurred during a particularly lengthy, highly entertaining Hambo oration on about Adam and Eve's offspring, incest, original sin and the puzzling fact that humanity doesn't resemble the rustics from 'Deliverance' after all that in-breeding. While listening to the pro handle that exceptional Hambo oration, I glanced at the rookie, then fought the urge to laugh. He appeared to be in a state of shock. Chalk white, his eyes were as big as saucers. That's when, in a moment of clarity, I could read his mind. He had convinced himself that he had just met the Antichrist and his name is Hambo. With that dose of enlightenment bestowed, I sent them on their way. I'm pleased to report that no Watchtower twerp has ever darkened my door since. That's world class enlightenment, PIGsters and I managed to wrap it up in 30 action packed minutes.

My chat with RevKev was a friendly one. He was sincere and tried his best, but I could tell that my responses puzzled him. As I recall, it was after I invoked Paine's 'Age of Reason' that I hit him with this jaw-dropper:

"You realize, of course, that I'm a Doctor of Philosophy in Theology".

His stunned look was a classic. While he picked his jaw up off the floor, my lovely bride administered the coup de grace:

"Years ago, I bought it for him on line and gave it to him for his birthday, but it's the real deal."

Understandably wary, he never strayed close to religion thereafter.

Perspectives

Barack Obama has one black parent and one white parent

The Oregon shooter has one black parent and one white parent.

The MSM and their Progtard homies go to great lengths in depicting BHO as our first BLACK president.

The MSM and their Progtard homies go to great lengths in depicting the Oregon shooter as a WHITE supremacist.

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The MSM and their Progtard homies are front-loaded with [somewhat misleading] statistics enumerating the number of individuals who died from gun violence.

The MSM and their Progtard homies willfully ignore the number of lives saved because an intended victim had a street legal firearm.

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The Lunatic Left views border jumping scumbag invaders as new Jackass Party voters.

The Repulsive Right - U.S. Chamber of Crony Capitalism - views border jumping scumbag invaders as cheap labor.

Only We the People see them for what they are: parasites who bring their diseases, crime, and squalor, while swilling at the public trough on OUR dime.

PIGish Wisdom

[I found his on Town Hall and it's excellent. I'll share my favorites.]

John Hawkins - 25 Useful Political Rules Of Thumb
John Hawkins

"A useful principle having wide application but not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable in every situation." – "A Rule of Thumb" from the Free Dictionary

2) Because Republicans don't fight for anything, Democrats don't see a need to compromise on anything.

5) "To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." -- Charles Krauthammer

7) If there is a group of people in politics with money to spend in support of an idea, no matter how foolish, stupid or conspiratorial it may be, someone will happily show up to champion their cause as long as the donations, campaign contributions or ad dollars keep flowing.

10) If it's not an emergency and both parties seem willing to work together, either a lot of pork is being doled out or organizations with very deep pockets are pushing for it.

14) Any "emergency legislation" that both parties craft together in response to some disaster will be poorly written, is sure to be harshly criticized down the road and will create a number of serious problems that may be so damaging that Congress would have been better off doing nothing.

19) Outside of the occasional Republican primary, there is nowhere that any politician is punished for spending too much money. On the other hand, cutting any type of spending buys a politician a whole host of enemies. This is a big part of the reason why we have 18.4 trillion dollars in debt.

22) When Democrats are in office, they work hard to move the country to the Left as fast as possible. When Republicans are in office, they also typically move the country to the Left, albeit a little slower, in the name of "getting something done."

24) To paraphrase Voltaire, if you want to find out who REALLY has "privilege" in American politics, take note of which groups you're not allowed to criticize without being accused of engaging in some kind of "ism."

[You'll find the whole list here: Town Hall ]

Selected Questions From A Hambo Quiz

• You're out in public and you get caught ogling a wench's bra-busting cleavage. How do you handle that awkward moment?

A. "Chill, darlin', I'm still recovering from that terminally 'jiggly',Baywatch marathon on the Neanderthal Channel."

B. "Do you know someplace where I can buy those in a 36C? My brother-in-law is turning into a real Girlieman."

C. "That reminds me, I need to get some milk at the store on my way home."

D. "I must say you're an udderly delightful wench."

• You're out in public when your main squeeze goes bonkers over a buffed stud whose impressive bulge is impossible to ignore. How do you handle it?

A. "That reminds me, dear, I need to stop by the store and buy some sweatsocks."

B. "His sweetie, Bubba, won't like you ogling his man like that."

C. "Your drooling and heavy breathing is scaring the tykes."

D. "Fred's Clydesdale is standing stud. Do you want me to book you some quality time with the brute?"

• A friend, neighbor or relative starts talking about her adult son who still lives at home. How do you handle it?

A. "How the hell is basement boy doing these days?"

B. "I haven't seen that homo since that night he swished down Main Street dressed only in your garter belt."

C. "He makes a vivid impression. He's gotta be the only person in human history who incurred Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from a paper cut. And 'they' said he'd never amount to anything."

D. "Now that he's reached, and surmounted, the ripe old age of 30, don't you think it's time to stop breastfeeding him?"

• When you encounter an ample young mother breastfeeding in public, your initial response is:

A: "Well, did you bring enough to share with EVERYBODY?"

B: "Thank God I ran into you! I'm running about a pint low, and I was wondering…?"

C: "Hi! I'm from MADCOW: The Milkman's Association of Dairyfarmers Center for Operation Wean. I'll be needing a sample for analysis back at HQ. Do you mind?"

• Which of the following, best identifies your efforts to 'reach out to the other side'?

A. "They're still talking about my 'Flannels for Feminazis" clothing drive, where we boxed up our old flannel shirts, clod stomper shoes, plus some still serviceable sweat pants and sent them to the Womyn's Studies Department at the local Ivory Tower."

B. "When I found out about a richly deserving group that was so destitute they didn't have suitable Easter Sunday fare, I organized "My'Ham it up for Habib' campaign. We vastly exceeded our goal to send 200 Easter hams to our local CAIR infestation...uh office. After all they've done to...uh...FOR us, I just had to 'give some of it back'."

C. "My outreach to Fat Nazis is the stuff of legend, but, for some reason, neither the food-phobic Fat Nazis, nor the "Fat Acceptance" wide loads appreciated being invited to attend a "Fat, Fat, Water Rat" Thanksgiving mixer.

D. "Knowing how often they use them, I decided to give Ethnocrats like Je$$e, Sharpton, and Maxine Waters, a hot off my printer, spanking new copy of PIG's Race Card for Christmas."

• What steps have you taken to drag Moonbats, meatheads, and mind-numbed Obama Zombies out of their Korrectnik 'darkness' and into the bright, synapse restoring light of the PIGdom?

A. "Aided and abetted by a hacker...uh gifted computer professional...I posted PIG's Milestones In Feminist History on a Feminazi group's Web Site.

B. "The rabid Libertard Moonbats at my workplace were suitably thrilled that glorious morning when I reset their home page to Page One PIG."

C. "My Libertard friend from my high school days couldn't stop talking about it, after I posted the PIG Doctrine on his FaceBook page."

D. "My hopelessly Obamunist sibling tried to hide it, but I know that he, she, heshe or it loved it when I e-mailed the choicest 'Oh Crap' entries to them.

Late Nite Lament

When did late night televison - The Tonight Show, Late Night, especially - devolve from entertainment oriented television into another Progtard political propaganda pile of turds? YES, I know that the opening monologue always featured pointed political humor. BUT, the lion's share of each show featured thespians promoting a new movie or boob tube show, musicians performing their latests songs, standup comedians getting some nationwide exposure, plus authors hawking a new tome.

It had something for everybody and was, on balance, good television. The good old days? Yup.

Echo Chambers

The MSM is infamous for picking up a talking point from the Red Shed - it can be a word or phrase - then each MSM outlet will have one, or more talking heads use it in identical ways. I remember when 'gravitas' popped upon every MSM newscast. Identical contexts, using identical wording. Limbaugh did a masterful job of creating an audio montage of it.

Unfortunately, the VRWC also has their own echo chamber up and running. Today, show after show played the same clips about some MSM scumbags discussing Ben Carson and his contention that he wouldn't support a Sharia compliant Islamikaze in the Oval Office. Quite rightly, he explained, for all the good it did, that Sharia and Individual Liberty are fundamentally incompatible.

Once again, same clips, same boom box host response, same shit. The Progtards set the agenda, and the VRWC swallows the bait. It yields the desired effect, here in the bunker I shut off the radio.

Why Ben Carson Is Right

For starters Sharia is diametrically opposed to this:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

This rant gives us a more comprehensive look at Islam and life under the oppressive yoke called Sharia

Islam as a Political Movement

The president and his loyal minions insist that we are not at war with Islam. In one sense, he's right. In another, he's very, very wrong, dangerously wrong. The fact is that for a significant number - hundreds of millions - of Mecca Maniacs, Islam is more than a religion, it's a political movement that seeks to impose its 7th century notions on everyone, believers and unbelievers alike. The truest of the true believers these Mecca Maniacs are, invariably, the most active, most vocal, most influential members of their religion. Their goal is nothing less than world domination and they plan to achieve it, one country at a time.

The process is simple, but very effective. Phase one involves becoming the dominant voice within a country's primary Islamic institutions, plus staging a vigorous campaign to attract new converts:

First, the fundamentalists take control of mosques. They also seize control of Islamic schools, youth groups, community centers, political organizations, and professional organizations. Within these groups they spread their radical agenda that includes political control, the imposition of Islamic law - Shariah, on all of a country's citizens no matter what their beliefs.

Another initial step is to infiltrate the so-called underclasses, especially the poor and the chronically discontent, where they quickly build up a critical mass of converts. It's a simple matter to wean these eager new true believers off their initial, fuzzball flavor of Islam and transform their belief to the more radical variety. This feat is performed in the schools, mosques and other Islamic institutions controlled by the fundamentalists.

A highly successful tactic employed during this first phase of the campaign involves using a given country's existing laws to gain special rights or protections for Mecca Maniacs. A World Net Daily commentary provided the following facts on this activity as it's being carried out in the Mecca Maniacs' top candidate for an Islamic State, the United States of America:

Promoting Islamic rituals and customs in the public square. Islamists want secular authorities to permit students in public institutions, for example, to recite the basmallah (the formula "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate") in classroom exercises. They also want the right to broadcast over outdoor loudspeakers the five daily Islamic calls-to-prayer. Similarly, they have agitated for publicly maintained prayer facilities in such institutions as schools and airports.

Privileges for Islam. Islamists seek public financial support for Islamic schools, mosques, and other institutions. They also lobby for special quotas for Muslim immigrants, try to compel corporations to make special allowances for Muslim employees, and demand the formal inclusion of Muslims in affirmative-action plans.

Restricting or disallowing what others may do. Islamists want law-enforcement agencies to criminalize activities like drinking and gambling that are offensive to Islam. While seeking wide latitude for themselves, for instance when it comes to expressing disrespect for American national symbols, they would penalize expressions of disrespect for religious figures whom Islam deems holy, especially the prophet Muhammad; punish criticism of Islam, Islamism, or Islamists; and close down critical analysis of Islam.

The second phase begins when an Islamic political party gains control of a government. Once in power, the rights and freedoms of all citizens, especially those who aren't Mecca Maniacs, are essentially abolished. Depending on the strength of the Islamic party in power, the resulting nation can be as oppressive as Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia or as benign as Turkey.

In most cases, the results are chilling. Pakistan, a member in good standing of 'W's anti-terrorism coalition, has hundreds of Islamic schools, all of which have been proven to be nothing more than indoctrination centers for a new generation of Islamic fundamentalists. Nigeria is on the verge of a religious civil war, as one state after another imposes Sharia on all its citizens. A virtual who's who of hot spots world wide can trace the source of their troubles to this political brand of Islam: Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, the Phillippines, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, the Kashmir province in India, and let's not forget Afghanistan, a country that those lovely Taliban transformed in to a 'hell on Earth'.

The brave new Islamic world, won't tolerate the likes of: William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Albert Einstein, Madam Curie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Victor Hugo, Aristotle, Leonardo Di Vinci, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison. The brave new Islamic world would eradicate: N.O.W; the ACLU; the NAACP; Christians; Jews; Buddhists; Hindus; atheists; Republicans; Democrats; Libertarians; secular media like CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, the Times of London, BBC; schools like Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Cal Tech, Oxford or Cambridge. In the brave new Islamic world, there will be no progress of any kind: no new discoveries, no medical breakthroughs, no scientific advances, no technology to make life easier for everyone. The brave new Islamic world would deny us the great literature that inspires us, the music that enchants us, the movies that entertain us, the sports that thrill us, and the individual liberty that sustains us. In the brave new Islamic world: the boundaries of human knowledge will shrink; the quality of life will become abysmal; the average life span will decrease dramatically; abject poverty and despair will suffocate the human race. We've been down this road once before. It was called the Dark Ages, for a good reason.

Do you want to repeal the civil rights of women? Do you want to subject your daughters to that horrific ritual mutilation the Mecca Maniacs call 'female circumcision'? Do you really want to live in a world run by an international Taliban? Do you really want to live in a world where the most vile form of supernaturalism obliterates our inherent right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'? Do you really want to live in a world where 11th century religious fanatics dictate our every thought, word and action? If not, then wake up and smell the coffee, before it's too late.

In the end, we get back to the central question: Is this a war on Islam? The answer is, has to be, hell yes! It's a war on this virulent, political style of Islam that would enslave us all. In fact, this is a war against all forms of state-imposed supernaturalism. There can be no peaceful co-existence with this Islam, because, pure Islam, is - always has been - a belief system that demands total control of every human on this planet. This is a war for our very survival. The sooner we accept this, the better.

Debate?

What 'they' call a debate is, in reality, an AMBUSH of presidential candidates by hostile 'moderators' out to destroy their candidacy. It was an assault on the Elephant Clan by the MSM.

That Quisling piece of SHIT Hugh Hewitt is beneath contempt. Shame on him for being part of the MSM firing squad.

Here We Go Again

It's government shutdown time again, and the usual Jackass Party suspects are starting up again, sounding like a broken record. The Earth will stop spinning on its axis. The Sun will stop shining. All the lakes, rivers and oceans will dry up. All this and more will be the Elephant Clan's fault.

Iranian Nukes

From my perspective, this Iranian nuke fiasco doesn't make sense, unless...Barry has a vested interest. We know he'll break out the bubbly, when Iran nukes Israel, so saving them would never occur to him. His attitude about the USA is even worse, so warding off a nuke attack, here, isn't on his agenda, either.

He'll cheer an attack on us. That's a given. He'll celebrate when Iran nukes Israel. He's not worried - flat out doesn't give a rat's ass - about the virtual certainty of such attacks. He's giving Iran a green light on both, but, he does have one condition. In exchange for lifting the sanctions, and releasing our hold on $150,000,000,000 in Iranian assets, Iran must wait until Barry is out of office.

In other words, he's telling Iran, "Nuke Israel...nuke America, I don't give a damn, but don't do it on my watch. Let POTUS 45 deal with it."

Trumped

He's not a conservative.

He's not pretending to be a conservative.

He's a thin-skinned narcissist. So what?

He's not running for Mister Congeniality

He's not playing a role scripted by Beltway 'operatives' who are paying for his candidacy.

He's self-made, and self-financed.

Best of all, he refuses to take crap from anybody. If you hit him, he will hit you back, much harder than you hit him.

I'm not 'sold' on Trump, but that last item has me taking his candidacy very seriously.

Are rational adults sneaking sips of the Progtard Kool-aid?

The war for the heart and soul of America has reached a critical juncture. Due to the unrelenting barrage of deceptive Moonbat bullshit fault lines are starting to appear in the rational adult defenses. Most are the political equivalent of hairline cracks, but they're destined to grow.

This fracturing is caused by otherwise rational adults who start sneaking sips of the Progtard Kool-aid. Partaking of that bogus beverage doesn't make an individual go over to the dark side. It will, however, make them wobbly. Perhaps some examples will show you what I mean.

Fox News Channel, is no longer securely anchored to the rugged individualism, the libertarianism/conservatism of the VRWC. Megyn Kelly exemplifies the network's leftward shift. Apparently impatient to get 'there', Megyn might jump ship. According to persistent rumors, her likely destinations are CNN or MSNBC. Michele Malkin once a mainstay at FNC, has been exiled, after a nasty on - air war of words with a waste of breathable air, Geraldo Rivera.

Dana Loesh, a VRWC boombox prattler of the Conservative persuasion, ratted herself out, Kool-Aid wise, while discussing the Hillsboro High School [Hillsboro, Missouri] pervert. At least she got the facts about this twisted twerp right. HE is wearing a dress, girlie cosmetics and a wig, so he can get a cheap thrill in the girls' locker room. Instead of stating the obvious, he's a pervert and he's acting like a complete asshole about this, Dana's diatribe took an unexpected turn. After brandishing 'pervert' and alluding to 'asshole' Dana's Kool-aid sipping kicked in, making her stoop to invoking victimist buzzwords. His actions are 'sexist' and stem from his inherent patriarchal proclivities. Nope! He's just being a dick.

Behind the once formidable Orange Curtain (Orange County, Mexifona), Raymond C. Hoiles icon of libertarianism and inalienable individual liberty, The Orange County Register, has gone over to the dark side.

Recently, I visited a high school classmate, who lives in the Memphis area. At one point he aptly defined Southern Culture as "God, guns and rebel flags". That's very perceptive, especially for a damn Yankee. Based on my interaction with my lovely bride's family, all of whom are proudly Southern, "God, guns, and rebel flags" nails it.

"God, guns, and rebel flags" also explains why Southern culture is under unrelenting assault by Progtards and their properly-hyphenated proxies. The highly publicized assaults on Civil War era memorials, monuments, etc., are just one facet of a larger war on American culture. Nathan Bedford Forrest is low hanging fruit, and so is the Confederate battle flag. This war on Southern culture is more successful than it should be, because the Kool-aid sippers are wobbly on it, conceding that such historical relics are, perhaps, 'divisive'.

The on-going drama with that county clerk in Kentucky, is another example of the sipper effect. The county clerk is balking - for religious reasons - over issuing marriage licenses bearing her name, to same-sex couples. Her only request involves expunging her name from such documents. It's just one minor skirmish in the Progtard's nation-wide war on Cross Cultism. Kool-aid sippers on the right take a step in the wrong direction by deeming such principled stands as 'intolerant'.

The Kool-aid induced flight from objective reality in one vital area has leap-frogged over 'troubling' and landed squarely on 'alarming'. Thanks to a well-orchestrated PR blitz, Islamikazes have been upgraded from gang-raping, child butchering, mass murderers. Upgraded to what? Tragically misunderstood, peace-loving true believers who are ill-served by a fatally-flawed public relations department. They are, Kool-aid sippers assure us, economic refugees whose livelihood has been obliterated by - TA DA - Global Warming.

Even a small amount of Progtard Kool-aid will prompt the sneaky sipper to pin a 'they don't really mean it' label on heated Iranian rhetoric such as 'Death to America', 'Death to Israel'.

I could go on, but I won't, this time.

Put down that Kool-aid, dipstick. Don't make me come over there.

F**K Labor Day

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money to spend."
Margaret Thatcher
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If you've ever wondered why the Free State of PIG doesn't usually commemorate Labor Day with a Top Story, wonder no more. Quite frankly, especially in this second decade of the of the 21st century, the labor unions that exemplify this faux holiday aren't thrilling us spitless. No matter what essential topic you name, they're on the wrong side of it. Given organized labor's deleterious impact on a sovereign individual's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, the FSOP won't set aside a picosecond on the first Monday in September to hoist a brewskie to honor BIG LABOR. Why? We refuse to give PIG props to the public employees unions, teachers unions, auto workers unions, or any other organized labor group which are key players in this increasingly oppressive Obamunist Error.

What, exactly, is Labor Day? If you cyber surf to the Department of Labor Internet speed bump, you'll learn that the American version of Labor Day dates back to 1882. You'll also find this high sounding, bureaucratic, bull crap to justify this salute to BIG LABOR:

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

Social and economic achievements? Let's take a closer look at that.

Teachers unions are high on our list of groups that deserve to be nuked out of our misery. First, and foremost, being a tenured member of a teacher's union means you'll never have to hear the words "You're fired." No matter what you do, you'll never have to pay the piper for your incompetence. Hell, in most government cess schools, the only way you'll get in serious trouble with your union happens if you're foolish enough to educate your young charges instead of indoctrinating them.

In liberty-impoverished blights like Mexifornia, teachers unions are powerful political players who, routinely, impose their will on feckless Elected Tormentors and brain dead chad punchers. They shape the political landscape, with unrelenting advertising campaigns, which inhibit liberty and impoverish unwary achievers.

When it comes to unionized teachers, their primary social and economic achievements involve producing properly indoctrinated, neo-Marxist meatheads who can't read, write or compute but are brimming with inexplicable self-esteem.

As fun as the teachers unions are, they're bush league, when compared to the pernicious social and economic achievements of unionized, job-for-life, public employees. When it comes to memorable social and economic achievements, public employee unions, like the SEIU, are without peer. For example, at every level of government in Mexifornia - city, county, state - one budget-busting item is drowning them in a tidal wave of budgetary red ink. What is it? It's public employee retirement plans. Generous to a fault, these scams allow the union worker to retire at 50 with, at least, 90% of their pay, then return to their job, THE NEXT DAY, at, virtually, the same pay.

From sea to shining sea, public employee unions, like the SEIU, dictate public policy, using bought and paid for Elected Tormentors, including Prompter Punk himself. They say "jump" and their Elected Tormentor toadies bellow "how high". If those pesky sovereign individuals try to take back their government, the SEIU's merry band of thugs goose-step into peaceable public assemblies to shout, and/or beat, the sovereign individuals into compliance.

Don't wait for the FSOP to get warm and fuzzy over the social and economic 'achievements' of unionized teachers and public employees. Any alleged good they do is overwhelmed by their destructive impact on our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Screw them, and the sorry nag they rode in on.

Jealous of the social and economic achievements perpetrated by unionized teachers and public employees, so-called 'civilian' unions made a compelling, annoyingly successful, bid for their piece of the taxpayer funded pie. Did it work? You better believe it, Sparky.

Eager to please, the Demoncrats doled out billions via make-work projects funded by the Porkulus Bill, all of which will reward labor unions.

The same Demoncrat horde worked feverishly, to pass the 'card check' bill which would make it much, MUCH, easier for union organizers to intimidate recalcitrant, rogue individuals into 'agreeing' to be unionized.

The auto industry bailout bill handed two of the Big Three automakers to the United Auto Workers Union on a Commie Red, Obamunist platter.

When Boeing built a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina, a right to work state, instead of the state of Washington, the company let its new employees decide if they wanted to unionize. When the South Carolina workers voted against unionization, union bosses whined to their Demoncrat lackeys in D.C. In record time, the Obamunist regime unleashed the National Labor Relations Board which accused Boeing of unfair labor practices. It took a while, but Boeing prevailed, however, it wasn't bloodless, since they had to give the union a few concessions.

When the grope-a-dopes in the TSA were allowed to join a public employee union, the TSA twerps responded by waging war on that individualist pestilence, the pay for performance evaluation system. Mediocrity triumphed over excellence. Now, passengers get to pay for the ineptitude of the public employee asshat who is assaulting them.

Marching to the beat of organized labor's drummer, the Nanny State has shackled business owning individuals with suffocating restrictions and unrelenting interference. In addition to complying with minium wage - and 'living' wage - laws, business owning individuals must eke out a profit, while the Nanny State second-guesses every staffing decision, then micro-manages the business' benefits package.

Our antipathy to labor unions goes beyond the aforementioned social and economic achievements. That's only half the story. Organized labor's underlying principles are, in the FSOP's considered opinion, diametrically opposed to the individual liberty on which this nation is built.

Under the union's 'collective' bargaining rules of engagement, longevity trumps individual excellence. It doesn't matter if you're the best at your job, your pay raise will be exactly the same as those three slackers who foist off their work on you. If, however you're a relative newbie, you'll always be earning less than those slackers, whose paycheck is based, exclusively, on longevity.

Union rhetoric is infused with anti-capitalist diatribes which denigrate the achiever(s) who rolled fate's dice by going all in on a new business. Instead of saluting the achiever for risking everything he had on his personal version of the American Dream, the union thugs vilify the achiever as an 'exploiter'. Instead of honoring the achiever who made their own job(s) possible, the union thugs do their utmost to bring the achiever down. For example: the biggest, noisiest union thug celebration I've ever witnessed happened after the union's insatiable demands and prolonged strike forced the company they targeted to close its doors, permanently. They were out of a job, but they called it a victory, because an achiever, a capitalist, went down for the count.

If you need the smoking gun on anti-capitalist union leaders, you're in luck. Exhibit 'A' is AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, an FOB (Friend Of Barry) who proudly proclaims that he's a Communist. Furthermore, Trumka boldly declares his antipathy to America's inalienable individual liberty. He's ready, willing, and eager to sacrifice our liberty, our prosperity, and our property as a down payment on the Marxist America that he's working tirelessly to impose on us.

Summing it up, labor unions are anti-capitalist, anti-excellence, and anti-individual. Don't hold your breath waiting for us to salute THAT bull crap on Labor Day. Does that mean we won't take some time out from our summer ending festivities to honor America's working men and women? Hardly. The FSOP is ready, willing and eager to honor America's hard-working men and women. BUT, we insist on saluting the right hard-working people, for the right reasons.

On Labor Day, on many other days, we salute that dirt under the fingernails individual who keeps our ride in top working order, without sending us to the poor house. It's a dirty job - especially keeping Hambo's paganmobile functional - but it's accomplished with compelling expertise.

On Labor Day, we salute the food wrangler at our local deli who greets us by name, knows our preferences, and serves us with friendly efficiency.

On Labor Day, we salute the support we get from our web hosting service. We know we're small potatoes on their ledger sheet, but, no matter how busy they are, they take the time to answer our pesky questions and still manage to convince us that they appreciate our business.

On Labor Day, we hoist a brewskie to honor the computer gurus at our internet service provider, who spotted a problem we had with our e-mail, then sent us the answer to our question, before we had time to ask it.

On Labor Day, we give a shout out to the dude who toiled in the oppressive heat, on the hottest day of the year, to replace a fried component that shut down our air conditioner. He didn't complain, didn't gouge us, and he got the job done with compelling efficiency.

On Labor Day, we honor all the working men and women who understand our, occasional, financial limitations, prompting them to suggest a bang-for-the-buck solution, without making us feel like a charity case.

On Labor Day, we salute the working men and women who keep their outpost of capitalism open for an extra half hour, allowing us to meet our own pressing schedule.

On Labor Day, we take a moment to thank the working men and women who understand the importance of excellent customer service. This, in our estimation, is a major social and economic achievement, since it allows us to reward excellence with our continuing patronage.

On Labor Day, we send a heartfelt shout out to the working men and women who take the time to help us solve our pressing problem with a referral, when their outpost of capitalism doesn't offer the goods and/or services that we need.

What's the difference between these achievements by America's working stiffs and the overblown social and economic achievements attributed to organized labor? The actions the FSOP honors, salutes, and venerates are examples of individual excellence. It's the kind of individual pride in one's work, which is sorely lacking in a unionized environment. They're mundane examples of the individual excellence which helped forge the solid foundation on which this once great nation was built.

The Free State of PIG refuses to play killjoy, by ruining your Labor Day. If you still decided to hoist your brewskie to honor organized labor, so be it, but do it with your eyes wide open. If, like us, you choose to salute those real working stiff heroes who make your life a little bit more liveable, one transaction at a time, that's an utterly PIG-worthy idea.

Labor Day still isn't our idea of a good time, and it never will be. On the other hand, if we could create a Capitalism Rocks holiday, that's a whole new ball game.

Wonderland

Wonderland - one of my consulting clients - continues to amaze and amuse.

It started, when I returned from my 6,000 mile road trip. That's when I did a header into their new Internet hookup. They call it an 'upgrade', because it's faster. Given my experience with it, I'll call it a change.

The old network scheme supported a lot more 'wired' connections and that worked like gangbusters, for wired and wireless connections. The new network scheme only has a handful of wired connections, with the lion's share of connections being wireless.

Does it work? Yes, no and hell no.

Yes. It's blazingly fast, however...

No. It works just long enough to enter a Web address into a browser, then cuts out for 5 to 30 minutes. Maximum 'up' time is about 4 minutes.

Hell no. The desktop computer Wonderland assigned to me - the one with all their critical files - has only connected wirelessly ONCE in the two months since my return to Wonderland.

My laptop works just fine, with every other wireless connection, but not Wonderland.

Wonderland continues to drive the short bus of technology.

Musings

* Donald Trump reminds me of that annoying Energizer Bunny. No matter what the Establishment Republicans throw at him...no matter how often the so-called news media tries to sabotage his campaign, he just keeps going, and going, and going.

* Ted Nugent has mixed emotions about Megyn Kelly. He's not thrilled with what she says, and does, but he's inordinately fond of her packaging.

NUGENT: I'm a big fan of Donald Trump because I believe in bold, aggressive, unapologetic truth. Period. And I'm not a fan of Megyn Kelly, though I often turn on Fox just to look at her. Sometimes when I'm loading my (gun) magazines, I like to just look at her. And I usually sit naked on the couch dropping hot brass on my stuff. [Newshounds]

I love this Newshounds Headline:

Ted Nugent defends Donald Trump With Disgusting Comments About Megyn Kelly

Trouble in Paradise

When it comes to rampaging Korrectnik Moonbats, I some unresolved 'issues'. If I makes you feel better, think of them as quibbles. Nitpicking? Guilty, but you'll get over it.

Unlike rational adults, emotionally driven Progtards, are perpetually gobsmacked by consequences any thinking individual would see coming. That's because leftism - in all its permutations - is emotionally driven, so it's a 'leap before you look' mind set.

Here are a few obvious examples:

* Margaret Thatcher famously said, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." She's right of course, as the on-going debacle in Greece demonstrates. It reached that tipping point, where essentially everybody was on the recipient list, leaving only a relative handful to pay for all the Nanny State's largess. Greece ran out of other people's money, within its borders, so it sought deep pockets in the EU.

* Marching under the banner 'black lives matter', Al Sharpton-inspired agitators tested another axiom: 'If you punish something, you get less of it.' In Baltimore the Ethnocrats punished police for doing their job. The police got the message and dialed back their response. As a result, crime, in general, especially murders, in Baltimore's 'hood are way up.

* The on-going 'no justice, no peace' turmoil is doing more than transform once thriving outposts of capitalism in Ferguson (Missouri) into vacant lots. In addition to that arson fueled fun, property values have plummeted and are only 1/3 of their pre 'gentle giant riot' levels.

* Occasionally, due to unfocused synaptic activity, a Progtard will have a thought, allowing him, her, himher or it to see the unintended consequence coming. It doesn't help, because they think 'it can't happen to me'. I'm sure Josef Stalin's inner circle had similar thoughts when the murdering bastard took over in Russia. Wrong! Stalin killed those closest to him, first, because they posed the greatest threat. He didn't start murdering rank and file Ruskies for several years.

Since Progtards never admit or face up to failure, they continue to promote the same fatally flawed notions, again and again.

Get Whitey

Some Ethnocrats are spouting off about exterminating whitey. Bold new concept! It does elicit a couple questions about their no whitey paradise.

Question 1: Since an Ethnocrat's entire existence is built on the existence of ongoing white oppression who is going to replace white oppressors? How does a life based on victimhood, oppression, work without an oppressor?

Question 2: Since gainful employment isn't an Ethocrat's 'thing', who is going to create all that wealth he, she, heshe, or it intends to plunder?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Enough Already - Updated.

The list of infuriating bullshit that MAJORLY pisses me off is getting longer.

* I'm fed up with alleged humans who belong in a carnival sideshow trying to convince me that their freak show so called life is worthy of my attention.

* I'm fed up with race mongering asshats who insult my intelligence by insisting that rioting, looting, and arson are in fact an ethnic brand of political commentary.

* I'm fed up with the Marxist assholes pretending that indoctrination is really education. They seem to be the ONLY ones who don't know that they'll be the first ones rounded up, if/when Marxism reigns from sea to shining sea: goodbye classroom; hello gulag.

* I'm fed up with public utilities that coerce me into 'conserving', then raise my rates when all that conservation nukes their revenue stream.

* I'm fed up with bureaucrats who abuse their regulatory power to trample my liberty as they stampede America toward full blown Marxist tyranny.

* I'm fed up with junk science whoppers like man-made Global Warming or Thirdhand Smoke and the lab coated hooligans who perpetrate them for a research grant financed with money stolen from ME.

* I'm fed up with the bait and switch bullshit where, pre-election, the Republican Party promises less government, more liberty, if We the People give them control of Congress. After the chads are punched, they stab us in the back, by putting business as usual weasels like Boehner and McConnell in charge.

* I'm infuriated that the Republicans will play 'it's his turn', by ramming another liberal loser - Jeb Bush - down the throats of Elephant Clan primary voters.

* I'm outraged by Elected Tormentors, who feign shock and dismay over America's sorry condition, then brazenly pretend that they didn't play a critical role in flushing this once great nation down the crapper.

* I'm fucking furious over the all powerful hyphen, and the caterwauling cretins who use it to bludgeon their way to the front of the 'show me my money' line in the Nanny State's victimhood sweepstakes.

* I'm fed up with chronic crybabies who seek to silence me because they think they have a right that protects them from 'offensive' words they don't want to hear, images they don't want to see and thoughts they don't want to think.

* I'm fed up with the motherless rat bastards whose idea of a joke is this ASININE Daylight Savings Time bullshit.

Enough already...it's time for Old Betsy, Big Bang, and I to load up then go do what we gotta do.

Trapped In A Drone Zone?

Now that the Nanny State has opened a Pandora's Box labeled 'Drones', it's just a matter of time before one intrudes on your life. The most likely perpetrator is some clown in your neighborhood. What to do?

If you're thinking, 'Old Betsy', that evokes two closely related issues:

1) Is there a downside to shooting the damn thing down? Probably:

The ways you can end up in a sticky legal situation by shooting at a drone are many and terrifying. I reached out to Brendan Schulman, drone-lawyer turned VP of Policy & Legal Affairs for drone company DJI, for specifics on the legal nightmare. Naturally, it depends a bit on state law, but the broad strokes are widely applicable:

In some states, you could face reckless endangerment charges or be prosecuted under laws relating to the discharge of firearms. By destroying the drone, you may be liable for civil damages to its owner. Although I have not seen it raised yet, there is also a federal crime in Title 18 relating to destruction of an aircraft that could apply, and that would involve very serious penalties. [Popular Mechanics]

2) If you're willing to shoot it down anyway, is Old Betsy up to the task?

Drones are very fragile, so any firearm will git 'er done. BUT, drones are very nimble, making them hard to hit.

Firing a rifle into the air is a horrifically bad idea, as the Kentucky drone shooter William Merideth was quick to point out in an interview with Ars Technica: "Now, if I'd have had a .22 rifle, I should have gone to jail for that. The diameter of those things are going to come down with enough force to hurt somebody. Number 8 birdshot is not. Number 8 is the size of a pinhead."

Go figure, the guy who shot a drone is onto something. Yes, a shotgun is your best bet at taking down a drone. Preferably one loaded with the largest spread ammunition you can find. You'll want to go with birdshot (more, smaller pellets) over buckshot (fewer, larger pellets). In fact, you'll want as many pellets per cartridge as you can reasonably find. Drones are so structurally weak but so elusive to actually hit that you want maximize your chance of touching the thing at all—stopping power should be the least of your worries.

Number 8 birdshot, like Merideth used, is a good start, but you can go further; the higher the better. Number 10 birdshot will net you around 1,000 tiny pellets per 1 oz. cartridge. Number 12 birdshot (which tends to be harder to find) has as many as 2,500 tinier ones. The only time you might need to go bigger is if that drone is way off in the distance, in which case you should double-triple think your decision to fire at it. [Popular Mechanics]

I guess that settles it. Shooting down a Drone is risky, legally, so think twice, before loading up a shotgun with Number 12 birdshot, then putting the damn thing out of your misery.

Good hunting, PIGsters.

Gladys Kravitz Syndrome.

If you've never seen the boob tube show, 'Bewitched', you won't have a clue about Gladys Kravitz. No sweat, this prose from Wikipedia should get you up to speed.

Gladys Kravitz, née Gruber, is a fictional character on the American situation comedy Bewitched (1964-1972). Portrayed by Alice Pearce from the show's premiere in 1964 until Pearce's death in 1966 and then by Sandra Gould from 1966 until her last appearance in 1971, Gladys Kravitz is an across-the-street neighbor of the program's protagonists, Darrin Stephens (played by Dick York from 1964 to 1969 and Dick Sargent from 1969 until 1972) and his wife, witch Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery). Although a relatively minor character on Bewitched, the role was memorable enough that the term "Gladys Kravitz" entered the American lexicon, and is even today used as a synonym for a nosy neighbor or colleague.

No matter what you call these Nosey Ned/Nelly types, it's a slam dunk that you've got one in your life. In the TV show, Gladys' primary tactic involved standing in her front window with a pair of binoculars. When that didn't work, she'd find some excuse to pay the Stephens a visit so she could lurk and listen.

Speaking of lurk and listen, I had a memorable Gladys encounter of my own.

Eons ago, when I was nearing the end of my stint in the USAF, I finished my hitch at a base located in one of those Hell's Half Acre places. My lovely bride and I set up housekeeping in a microscopic apartment complex (5 units, all one story) which was run by a woman who could be the poster wench for quirks. An unabashed snoop, she spend the lion's share of her time raking the green rocks which served as our 'lawn'.

One memorable afternoon, my lovely bride and I were seated on the sofa, which backed up to our livingroom window. We had the curtain closed, while we yammered about our moonbat landlady, Gladys. I'm not sure who said it, but one of us warned, "We better keep our voices down, because, she's probably out there listening."

When we opened the drapes there she was, Gladys herself, with her nose pressed against the glass. Did she act the least bit guilty? Nope, she just resumed raking the rocks.

In 2015, a Gladys (or Glen) Kravitz might go high tech and use a drone to snoop on her (his) neighbors. If you're enduring that foolishness, Popular Mechanics' advice is (How to Shoot Down a Drone) - reluctantly - use a shotgun loaded with Number 12 birdshot. Legal eagle killjoys might have issues with it, but this Pagan scribbler likes the sound of it.

The neighborhood Gladys Kravitz is more of a pest than a pestilence. She only becomes a serious pain when she's a co-worker. Don't even think about getting me started on THAT.

Threat Assessment

Every day, my Kindle Fire displays a dummy page from the Washington Post with a 'come hither' headline. This morning, the headline asked, 'Who is America's Greatest Enemy?' It's an interesting question for which the answer is obvious, to me.

How do we measure 'greatest enemy? Here are a few criteria:

* Has expressed unrelenting hatred for USA and everything it represents: unalienable individual liberty, individual accountability, the American Dream, American exceptionalism, etc.

* Has used power at its disposal to attack America, weaken its military, undermine its economy, and seized every opportunity to vilify it on the world stage.

* Has encouraged/strengthened America's enemies while weakening/alienating America's staunchest allies - international friends.

Using that criteria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China come to mind. So do Jihadikazes, especially ISIS and al Qaeda.

Which one did I put in the number one slot as America's greatest enemy? None of the above.

1 - Barack Hussein Obama
He became our greatest enemy on January 20, 2009, when he was sworn in as the USA's 44th president. He gets worse with each passing day and I know that the closer we get to inauguration day 2017, the more destructive his attacks on us will get.

2 - Marxist infested Jackass Party
Their only loyalty is to their political clan. They don't give a crap about this country. [Includes the Marxist MSM]

3 - We the Sheeple.
Obama and his Jackass Party wrecking crew get away with what they're doing because We the People let them. Let them? How?

* Low information voters support tyranny because they vote blindly.

* Voter apathy keeps too many people home on election day.

* Feckless pachyderm punks who control both houses of congress but don't lift a finger to fight those destroying our nation from within.

4 - Jihadikazes.
This includes murderous Mecca Maniacs foreign and domestic.

5 - Iran.
Until they can fire a nuke tipped ICBM and hit the continental USA, this is as high as I'll put them.

Our greatest enemy is our own President and nobody is willing to do a damn thing to stop him.

Musings

What's worse than a President Barry? I can only think of one thing and it isn't President Shrillary, although she runs a very close second.

The only thing worse than President Barry is a President FOR LIFE Barry. Unlikely? Perhaps, but given America's sorry state, it's far from impossible. Why would he take the risk such a move entails? Why indeed.

If, as now seems to be the case, Barry's primary objective involved destroying - or degrading - America to render it powerless, he isn't there yet. He knows, now, that it will take longer than the two terms the Constitution allows. He won't admit to himself, or anyone else, that he underestimated the resilience of We the People.

How would he do it? Tinfoil Tilly, my lovely bride, serves up a conspiracy theory which predicts a national emergency - a major terrorist attack, here in the USA, for example - which would allow Barry to declare Martial Law. Part of his edict would suspend the national elections, until the emergency is over. It's destined to be a very long running emergency.

President for life, Barry? Just shoot me.

Questions

[If you detect some deep meaning in the sequence of the following questions, you're a sick puppy.]

Is there some compelling reason - don't even think of hitting me with that "Thou shalt not kill" stuff - why I can't forcibly expel those technical magazine hawking telemarketers from the human gene pool?

Are they born with a natural immunity to the word 'no', or do they learn it at 'how to be a relentless asshole on the phone' school?

Don't they feel guilty about the damage all those magazines are inflicting on the mailman's back?

Has some dastardly dark power inflicted a checkout line curse on me that condemns me to that special circle of hell behind a PPPWC (penny pinching pinhead with coupons)?

Do those dithering, indecisive, dipsticks who create gridlock in an eatery's drive-up queue understand the unambiguous meaning of FAST food? Would it help if Old Betsy and I explained it to them?

I know that my bank has my e-mail address, so why are they still clogging my snail mail, several days a week, with junk mail offering me perks/upgrades that I don't want and don't need?

Is there some compelling reason why the stores where I shop on a regular basis keep moving things around?

Do these 'hide and seek' asshats think shopping should be a treasure hunt?

Red celery? Is insanity a prerequisite for aspiring Food Nazis?

Why do Food Nazis insist on deploying those data intensive nutritional label that nobody - except me - reads?

Why don't Food Nazis replace nutritional labels with a series of statements (compliments to threats) ranging from "your mother would be proud" to "if this doesn't kill you, I'll track you down and finish the job personally"?

Why are women punished for going topless in public, when the real criminals against my sensibilities are those MOOBS baring, Bubba Beer Bellies who should be horse whipped if they go out in public shirtless?

If Uncle Sam kicks don't ask, don't tell to the curb, will they reconfigure units along sexual orientation lines? In other words, will all dude seekers - straight women and bun-ranger dudes - be sharing a barracks, while all women seekers - straight dudes and lesbians - be sharing another barracks?

Wouldn't it be easier to replace don't ask, don't tell with something much simpler like 'don't flaunt it' (GLAAD BAAGs) and 'get over it' (straight shooters)?

If you made it this far, you need help; have you considered increasing the voltage on your shock treatments?

[I have lots more of these quirky questions, but I'll be merciful and let you have your life back.]

Asides

Heard Levin talking to, and about, Ted Cruz, today. Based on the clips Levin played, and Ted's own yammering, I deduce that Ted laid into McConnell and elements of the Republitard establishment. He did his talking on the floor of the Senate. Give 'em hell, Ted.

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My designated water provider has decided to elevate our base water rate by 148%. FYI, a base water rate is the extortion I must pay for the honor of doing business with our local state sanctioned water monopoly. All usuage charges are piled on top of the base water rate. Big, big, fun.

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My designated electrical power monopoly decided to thrill me spitless with a 'planned' all day power outage. They were, allegedly, 'upgrading' the existing system. If it's better, I can't tell the difference.

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Speaking of public utilities, I'm also on a collision course with my phone company. My landline is NOISY and then some. I'll call them, but not today. Two public utilities at a time is my limit.

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Don't even get me started on my Satellite TV hookup. Neither of us wants to go there.

Spreading The Joy

While visiting my brother, recently, I was entertained by the energetic antics of his great grandchildren. The tykes - fraternal twins: one male, one female - are on the sunny side of two [they'll be 2 in November.] and very entertaining.

While sitting with my nephew, his daughter [twins' mom, T-Mom] and his son-in-law [twins' dad, T-Dad], I watched the little dude flail at the boom box which was playing some memorably bad CD.

Me: [To nobody in particular] "He's destined for a memorable career in entertainment."

T-Dad [Rising to the bait] "He loves his music."

Me: "I can see it all now, known by one and all as 'Sparks', he'll be the road manager for Justin Bieber's comeback tour."

T-Dad laughed, watching his daughter hang on to a post holding up the retractable awning while she bounced up and down.

Me: "She'll be in show business too. Plying her trade under the name 'Bubbles', she'll be a pole dancer at the club where Sparks and his crew relax after the show."

T-Mom: [Not amused in the least] "Bubbles! A pole dancer."

Me: [Watching Bubbles bounce up and down] "She obviously has a natural talent for it."

My Nephew: "Bubbles? I like it."

T-Mom: [Frowns at her dad]

Me: [Smiling at her] "Give it time. It'll grow on you."

One of Life's Mysteries

'They' can't figure out why he did it.

His name, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, doesn't help.

Born in Kuwait, raised in the USA, his recent visits to Jordan and Yemen don't get them any closer.

His regular attendance at a local Mosque, recently, don't even give them a glimmer.

His family's disapproval over his Americanization aren't even considered.

His family's donations to certain Islamikaze affiliated groups don't get them there, either.

They'll blame it on the TEA Party, if they can.

They'll kick it up a notch by blaming America's anti-immigrant bias.

Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

Asides

It's nearly impossible, these days, to take the pachyderm punks seriously. Yes, they're highly motivated to win/maintain majorities in both houses of Congress. BUT, that doesn't mean that they want to be in charge. Being in charge means being responsible for what happens on their watch and they want no part of that,

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If you listen to the Progtard-infested MSM, the disastrous Iran nuke deal is the crown jewel on Barry's presidential legacy. Let's give them that one, then add an inconvenient truth, by serving up what Paul Harvey liked to call 'the rest of the story'.

With Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and others in the region fast-tracking their own nuke programs, Barry's real legacy is World War III. It will be a nuclear war and it will be fought in the Middle East. Thanks Barry.

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[With Iran going nuclear and ISIS on our very doorstep, this timely reminder seems in order.]

PIG's Terrorism Warning System

Lowest level: Nothing to see here, move along

Level 3: Uh Oh!

Level 2: Holy Crap

Level 1: We are SO SCREWED!

Given this week's events, Level 1 is now in play.

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Arena Football

If you're drunk, or high, watching this sport will give you a headache.

If you're a football purist who enjoys a tense defensive struggle, it will piss you off.

If you hate the snail's pace of real football, you're going to love it.

It's the way real football would look if your DVR was stuck in fast forward.

One game I watched had a final score of 83 to 47.

Call me names if you must, but I'm starting to like it.

Random Notions

* POTUS Succession

I hear a lot of people wishing Barry would leave office early, or become incapacitated, making it impossible for him to perform his duties. Before you revel in that pipe dream, consider this sobering bit of objective reality:

Order of succession (partial): Vice President, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State.

So what?

So this:

VP = Joe Biden

Speaker of the House = Blubbering John Boehner

Secretary of State = John "Old Boltneck" Kerry

It's not an inspiring list, and it doesn't get much better as you delve deeper: the members of the President's cabinet, based on the date their department was created.

*Fairness

The Progtards are obsessed with 'fairness', a concept which in their twisted noggins is a code word for 'an equality of results'.

Once you start down that fairness road, you arrive at some very strange places. One such place is something I'll call 'geographic fairness'. What the hell is that? What indeed.

A brief glance at a map will reveal that Tennessee is much too wide, and so is Oklahoma. When you compare one or both to geographically deprived Rhode Island, you're horrified by this glaring example of geographic injustice. We need geographic 'wealth redistribution'. In this instance, geographically (excessively) rich states -Tennessee and Oklahoma - must give some of their excessive width to width-impoverished states like Rhode Island.

Admittedly, it's, uh, challenging, but that's a Progtard problem, since Fairness is their fetid notion. Besides, instilling geographic justice just FEELS like the right thing to do, so don't bother me with any of those pesky details.

Once you start looking, you'll see geographic injustice everywhere. For example:

Why is Colorado excessively rich, when it comes to their soaring mountains, while nearby states like Nebraska and Kansas are topographically impoverished. We need Geographic Affirmative Action to right this ancient wrong.

I could go on, and on, but I'm just too choked up by this unfairness to continue.

A Gathering

It was the first time in years that my lovely bride's 6 surviving siblings and THEIR extended families had come together. For once, there wasn't a funeral to attend. The reason for the reunion, was my lovely bride's arrival in their midst.

By and large, it was an unremarkable gathering, but, here and there, it had some quasi PIG-worthy moments.

RevKev: Pole climbing city minion by day, he's also a soul wrangler, a pastor of the Cross Cult ilk. He's a good natured fellow, who took my pagan pleasantries in stride.

Honey Foo Foo: an otherwise unremarkable girl, she's what passes for a 'star' in this clan. In a move that I never saw coming, she began the festivities with a tone deaf rendition of our national anthem. Later, she warbled another song, but, mercifully, I couldn't hear her.

Uncle PIGster J P: He's one of my lovely bride's brothers and he's a PIGster.

A missed opportunity: I sat there, minding my own business, hoping someone would ask me the relevant question. It should have gone like this:

Them: "Who are you?"

Me: [Silence.]

Them: "WHO ARE YOU?"

Me: "I'm not allowed to tell you. They might be watching."

Them: "Who are you and why are you here?"

Me: "My death will be on your head."

Them: [Growing impatient] "Don't make me ask you again."

Me: [Sighing] "I live at the end of the road. I was out for a walk, when a trio of ruffians grabbed me. They made me put on this shirt [the official reunion shirt] then ordered me to sit here and keep my mouth shut. Can I go home, now?"

Fair warning: Two attendees said things to/about my lovely bride that were unkind, unnecessary, and begging for Hambo retribution. I have a few choice for them: LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!

Hambo Visits Real America

Here are some recent encounters with rational adults in real America.

* He's a retired railroad worker, a Vietnam vet, who spends quality time mentoring boys who have tangled with the juvenile justice system and don't have a dad of their own to show them the way out. He hates what's happening to America but is powerless to change it, so he's creating new rational individuals, by being a surrogate dad to young men who need one.

* He's another Vietnam vet, a Marine, who was seriously wounded, twice, and doused with Agent Orange, multiple times. The wounds healed, but the Agent Orange nearly drove him insane. Despite it all, this tough as nails real American, has that classically American sense of humor which makes him one of the funniest individuals you'll ever meet. When I met him, he was still recovering from a heart surgery that occurred earlier this year, but he didn't allow it to keep him down.

There's one more thing you need to know about these men. They are brothers. Since the family arrived in 1619, their family tree has sunk its roots deep into real American soil.

Nostalgia Sucks

I'm not big on nostalgia, an attitude that's demonstrated by the fact that I never attend high school reunions. High school was cool, for the most part, but it is ancient history, now, so why revisit it?

One of my classmates is my lovely bride's cousin, so my attempts to distance myself from high school are only partially successful. Through him, my best friend in high school - a team mate on the school's football team - contacted me. Initially, he tried to lure me to last year's reunion. When that failed, he asked that we get together, somewhere.

Since my road trip to America took me near his place, I let curiosity get the best of me. My expectations weren't unreasonably high. High school was a long time ago, and we've both evolved in many ways over the years. I knew it would be different, so I wondered if the 2015 me and the 2015 him would still get along.

We did. I was pleased to see him, and he seemed equally pleased. We got caught up and may even stay in touch, if it's up to him.

If it's up to him?

Yup! His life is not his own; it belongs to his wife. For example, when we met, she defined her political genre as "LIBERAL", then, leaving noting to chance, she defined his as "moderate".

We're not HER kind of people. Why?

We're so common.

We're so vulgar.

We're so beneath her lofty station in life.

My old chum's 'you should stay here some time' was greeted by an icy stare from his horrified bride.

She's probably a nice woman, but we are not her idea of a good time. So be it.

Did I make a mistake, when I went to meet my high school chum? The jury is still out. I was pleased by his success. I was pleased by his friendly demeanor. I enjoyed our visit. Despite that, I wonder if going there was a good idea.

Like I said, nostalgia sucks.

Another Field Trip Report

The Good: I'm surrounded by rational adults.

The Bad: They're all Cell Phone Bonkers.

The Ugly: They're obsessed with the damn things.

At a gathering of such people, this kind of thing could happen;

Cell Psycho I: "I'm hungry."

Cell Psycho 2: "Me too."

Cell Psycho 3: "I could go for a sandwich."

Cell Psycho 1: "I'll have it for you in a minute. There must be an app for that."

Seriously, they are so addicted to cell idiocy, that they were texting each other while standing a few feet apart, at a social gathering.

Hambo's shame: Many of the aforementioned cell psychos are kinfolk.

Field Trip Report

Greetings From America

When my lovely bride started packing for our road trip through randomly selected parts of America, I expressed some heartfelt alarm over the vast array of items she laid out. Eventually, I felt compelled to issue a long overdue reality check.

Me: "You realize, of course, that this isn't a one-way trip. We will be coming back."

Her: She smiled indulgently, then sighed. "Yes, dear."

"Yes, dear." , in this case translates as 'trust me, I know what I'm doing."

Did she know what she's doing? Yes, in many instances. No, in many others.

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I am delighted to report that, the 'real' America is still out there, and most of the inhabitants of real America are pissed over the wanton destruction of our beloved country. In that Marxist infested safe haven for disease-ridden Border Jumping Scumbag Invaders which I call home, I often feel like I'm the last rational adult left standing. That might be true, there, but not out here, in real America.

During my travels, I met rational adults all along the way:

There was a man riding his Harley who was returning to his paper-pushing job, after attending a motorcycle rally.

There were the construction crews whom we met at some of our hotel stops.

There was the eager young man who was making made to order omelettes for a restaurant's breakfast buffet. He was looking forward to attending an air show where the Blue Angels were slated to perform.

There were the helpful ladies at the road side state travel centers who defied the prevailing perception that snarling DMV cretins represent the gold standard for Nanny State worker bees.

There was the computer software wrangler who was riding herd on his rambunctious brood of frolicking tykes. Devoted fathers do exist in real America.

Real America has its share of devoted mothers, too, here in real America. One delightful young mom hugged her crying daughter, kissing away the wenchlet's pain. After, restoring the girl's joy of life, she sent her daughter on her way with an affectionate spank. Nobody called the childhood services Nazis, because rational adults know the difference between being a good 'mom' and child abuse. Even editors of notorious on-line publications recognize and salute good parenting.

Here in real America, all that rational adults want from the Nanny State is breathing room. They want government, at all levels, to back the f**k off, so they can live their own lives, exercise the unalienable rights which is their birthright, and pursue their own brand of happiness.

The flame of liberty burns bright in real America.

I'm pleased to report that the Spirit of 1776 is out here, despite Barry's persistent Jihad against it.

I'll have more for you in my next report.

Murder is Murder, Period

The Libs are utterly giddy - hallelujah he's a no shit white racist - because some gun-packing redneck strolled into a church and gunned down nine strangers. He's a murdering piece of crap, period. I don't need to know any more than I just told you.

THEY - Protards, Ethnocrats, etc. - obsess on other things:

The murderer is a WHITE MALE.

The South Carolina Toll Booth is a BLACK CHURCH.

The murder victims are - TA DA - BLACK.

When THEY add it all up they hit a victimhood jackpot named HATE CRIME.

Hate crime laws promote the notion that a criminal's thoughts are more important that his actions. Such laws contend that, when a murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation, arson, vandalism or property destruction stems from a bias due to the victim's race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity, it is especially heinous. The same crime, if perpetrated for any other reason - or, no reason at all - is, according to this hate crime mindset, less contemptible...more commendable. Hate crime zealots don't give a damn about the crime itself, as long as the criminal committed the crime for the right reason.

To put this matter in it's proper perspective, I'll quote from our Pin The Tail page in PIG's Ethnocrat section:

A quick look at certain notorious Amerikan crimes brings this hate crime irrationality into sharp focus. James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King, for racial reasons. Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy for political reasons. I find it impossible to say one murder is worse than the other, simply because of the assassin's motives. Hate crime advocates advance the notion that politically-motivated assassins like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and John Wilkes Booth are more honorable, more praiseworthy, and less guilty than a racially-motivated assassin like James Earl Ray. Are the Kennedy brothers and Abraham Lincoln less dead than Martin Luther King? Did their friends and family find solace in the assassin's political motives? What about mass murderer Tim McVeigh? Would his actions be more vile if his motives were racial, rather than political?

Let's make sure I understand hate crime as defined by Ethnocrats and other hate crime zealots. If I burn down my white neighbor's house because his dog used my lawn as a toilet, I'm hate crime cool and, probably, the victim of a bad childhood. Conversely, if I burn down my black neighbor's house because he's black, I'm public enemy number one, and nobody gives a rip about my crappy childhood. Asinine? You bet, but hate crime zealots love this bovine excrement. A person who burns down someone else's property is an arsonist, period; it doesn't matter why the firebug did it. Arson is arson, whether it was motivated by a fondness for flames, where a dog does its 'business', or some form of bigotry.

A 'hate crime' is a politically motivated red herring specifically created to placate the whining victim groups. Instead of creating new crime definitions just to make 'victim' groups feel better, why don't these whining zealots simply punish all criminals to the full extent of the law? We could start by abolishing all the excuses America's bleeding hearts use to shift blame away from the criminal, but the excuse abuse, shyster-shrink cabal won't allow that. This Ethnocrat, Don Quixote-like tilting of the hate crime windmill is much easier, and much more enriching than doing something about the epidemic of real crime.

America must flush this hate crime legicrap and impose a justice system that adjudicates a crime based on the criminal's actions, instead of the criminal's thoughts. The foundation for this new system rests on this non-negotiable concept: Any individual who initiates force against another individual or that individual's property is guilty, period.

Parting Shot: If you're still confused about the right and wrong motives for perpetrating a senseless criminal act, some examples might help.

The easiest way to dodge the hate crime bullet involves picking the right motive. Cutting to the chase: you are free to victimize anyone, as long as your motive passes muster. A useful rule of thumb states that the more irrational the motive, the higher the approval rating. Utterly random victim selection affords you maximum protection from a hate crime rap.

A few examples should illustrate this point.

Approved Motive:
"On the spur of the moment, I decided to shoot (rob, assault) the next person I met."

Hate Motive:
"On the spur of the moment, I decided to shot (rob, assault) the next beaner (homo, spade, chink) I met."

Approved Motive:
"His dog took a dump in my front yard."

Hate Motive:
"That beaner's dog took a dump in my front yard."

Approved Motive:
"Her shoes made a very annoying sound."

Hate Motive:
"That dyke's shoes made a very annoying sound."

Approved Motive:
"He (or she) wore yellow and I'm off yellow, today."

Hate Motive:
"That chink wore yellow and I'm off chinks in yellow today."

Pagan Musings

Before I 'get to the point, dude', I need to invoke a Tome concept, Original Sin.

Original Sin, as I understand it, is twofold. First, it refers to Adam's rebellion against Old Ka-boom in the Garden of Eden. Second, it refers to Adam's legacy of sin that he passed down to all his children - all of humanity (man's sinful nature sums it up nicely). The Cross Dude squared all that away, but there is some fine print tied to it.

All I need from the foregoing prose is an understanding that Original Sin is something you were issued at birth. It's just part of who, what, you are, putting it beyond your control.

Now, we switch our focus from Heaven to Hell - Korrectness as it exists in the 21st century. In Korrectnik theology, the real Original Sin is something called white privilege, therefore, the original sinner is each and every unhyphenated white male. For the lack of a better term, being white, male, and unhyphenated is something like the mark of the beast in Revelations: 666. Still with me? Good, here's the punch-line:

There isn't a Korrectnik savior who will 'lift the yoke of his sinful white privilege from whitey, but for a small percentage of white males there might be an escape clause. The ability to elude oppressordom, depends on how Korrectness answers these questions:

If the unhyphenated white male is the source of all that is evil in our Korrectnik Eden, how does being a GLAAD BAAG impact it?

Does the magic pink triangle obliterate whitey's Original Sin or merely mitigate it to some unknown extent?

Does it erase the mark of the beast, or simply fade it out to some undetermined level?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Why I Hate The News

They needed $105 to buy dad a present. Instead of asking mom for a handout, the wenchlets discussed ways to earn the money. Eventually our two enterprising young ladies decided to open a lemonade stand. In the first hour they made $25.

Things looked promising, until City Hall deemed them public enemy #1.

* A cop said they were too close to the curb.

* A code enforcement Nazi...uh...officer demanded that they pay $150 for a city permit - a peddler's permit.

* The city health department insisted on performing a health inspection and demanded that they get a health permit [ka-ching].

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse. It didn't happen in some Progtard infested state, it happened in Overton, TEXAS!

Here are the dastardly capitalists, Andria and Zoey Green:

If, like me, you believed Texas was more enlightened about such things, we both know better now.

Stranger Than Fiction

This epic serves several useful purposes, which I will enumerate after you read this:

[Fox Affil] "I'm a business man; I don't care if you're black, white, green, gay, it's all green to me. Money is money, and any businessman will tell you that," said Tempe Tavern Manager Robert Tasso.

Tasso is the manager of the bar that Briana Sandy, a transgender woman, was kicked out of on Saturday while trying to order a drink. She and civil rights activist Rev. Jarrett Maupin held a press conference about the incident.

"We won't allow drug dealing in here, and we won't allow people who are known to be dealing in prostitution. Was this person doing that? Apparently not, but it's a mistake in judgement that was made by our bartender and this person was asked to leave," said Tasso.

But it was how Sandy was asked to leave is what Tasso says is being twisted.

"This person claimed that my 20-year-old Mormon bartender said 'we don't serve your kind here' and there are a handful of people who were at the bar when this incident happened, who are more than willing to tell the story that that's not what was said. It's unfortunate because that's the statement that is driving a lot of the hate that is going out there on Facebook," said Tasso.

Tasso said the bartender said this instead.

"She goes I'm sorry, but I can't serve you, I'm going to have to ask you to leave, and just repeated that statement," he said.

Sandy says it's still discrimination and not true.

Useful purposes.

1) When you read about a Transgender Woman, they mean a creature like THIS:

2) If that is an example of a Tempe hooker, you really don't want to go that road.

No Way

I spotted something that made me cringe, in my assigned fishwrap. It was an ad for - I wish I was making this up - 'Tarzan', the MUSICAL!

I know they're running out of ideas, but I had no clue that they'd sunk this low. Why not 'Jack the Ripper', a screwball comedy? They could bill it as 'cutting edge entertainment'.

The Three Stages of Prompter Punk Accountability

Stage 1: Evoking his inner Elmer Gantry, Prompter Punk intoned his electoral sales pitch, with the compelling, religious, fervor, "Yes we can."

Stage 2: Channeling his inner Bart Simpson, Prompter Punk kicked "Yes we can" to the curb next to his white granny. The new Prompter Punk mantra became "I didn't do it. It's all Georgie Bush's fault."

Stage 3: Bart Simpson and "I didn't do it" have a limited shelf life in the Red Shed, so Prompter Punk kicked both to the curb. Cowering inside his reality-insulated cocoon, Prompter Punk reverted to his geek roots, by channeling the ultimate nerd, Urkel, making "Did I do that?" his new mantra.

Old School

When I was a mere lad, the family road trip was a highly entertaining adventure. In that bygone era, GPS wasn't even a gleam in an engineer's mind. Besides, we didn't need GPS we had something much more action-packed - DPS aka Dad's Positioning System.

Dad's belief in his highly tuned sense of direction was unshakeable. Once he dialed in his DPS heading, nothing would deter him. He assurance that 'I know where I'm going' resonated with confidence, a confidence that remained unshaken when 'where I'm going' was to hell and gone from 'where I ended up'.

I've purchased a Garmin for my forthcoming road trip. I'm sure it's a fine bit of technology, but deep down, I know I'll wish we had that DPS, instead.

Disappointment

I watched Greg Gutfeld's new show on the Fox News Channel, Sunday night. It was more than a letdown. It was so bad it made me wince. Painfully bad? You better believe it.

I like Gutfeld, but I didn't like his hour-long debacle which was part Colbert, part John Stewart, and part twilight zone. I suspect he was trying to be funny. The only things that put a smile on my face were the closing credits.

You're better than this, Greg.

Windows 10

I noticed it tucked away on the far right end of the Task Bar. It wasn't there yesterday. It's on all my Windows PCs.

It's a 'gift' from Microsoft: a free copy of Windows 10 that they'll download to my computer, as soon as it's available. It's just one click away.

Hmm. Windows 10?

Obviously the stench wafting up from Windows 8 made them skip 9 and move on down the road to 10.

I don't blame them for fleeing from Windows 8. Windows 8 only has one redeeming quality, it makes Windows Vista seem much better, by comparison.

Will I plunge headlong into Windows 10 sight unseen? Nope. As usual, I won't do anything until Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Win 10.

Lard Ass

Rumblings from Kardashia report that Porn Star Kardashian-West is urped again. Yawn.

I think it's safe to assume that step daddy Bruce/Caitlyn isn't the one who knocked her up. Bummer.

 

Asides

Crocodile Tears
I saw a news headline about Bolt Neck [John Kerry] breaking his leg in a bicycle accident. It made me laugh...shame on me.

Consequences
Murders in the Big Apple have spiked [4 people were killed in one 5 hour period this weekend], since the NYPD terminated their crime deterring 'stop and frisk' policy. Families of the latest murder victims are yammering at the Big Apple's Commie mayor, asking him to re-instate the policy.

Don't hold your breath, Big Apple Sparky. You should have seen this crap coming, when you elected this hard core lefty.

File this under 'elections have consequences'.

More Consequences
Baltimore had 40 murders, in May, setting a new, single month record. Keep this up and you'll be another Chicago.

How's that whole, 'we'll police ourselves' thing working out for you?

File this under 'be careful what you ask for'.

Damage Assessment

In a few weeks, I'll emerge from the bunker, climb into a suitably stealthy conveyance, then begin a damage assessment trip into the American heartland, and beyond. I need see for myself what the Progtard horde has done to this once great nation.

Living, as I do, in a disastrously BLUE state, I will be looking for signs of intelligent life in isolated rational adult enclaves, when I travel many of America's highways and byways. If I encounter anything, anyone, noteworthy, I will post a report of my findings, here on the Hammer.

After lurking in a Blue State for too many years, I'm hoping to find meaningful signs that the America I remember, the America I venerate, still exists. Given the desperate nature of this quest, you might as well call me Hambo Quixote.

At Last An Answer

In 1984, Wendy's took dead aim at burger wrangling rival McDonald's by intimating that a Big Mac was more bun than burger. Using a feisty seasoned citizen named Clara Peller Wendy's hit one out of the park with its iconic "Where's the beef?" ad campaign.

Clara's question still resonates, 28 years after her passing.

Thirty-one years after Clara asked, "Where's the beef?", we have an answer. It comes via a Cincinnati McDonald's franchise that is thisclose to the spot where a bovine that escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse was terminated.

"Where's the beef?"

"It's outside in the parking lot, where slaughterhouse minions gunned it down."

Candy Store Update

Oops, he did it again.

That's right, yesterday, another free-ranging Asian wench set off his Self-Activating Hubba Hubba System [SAHHS], when she blundered inside its event horizon. I don't have any specifics, yet, aside from the fact that she seemed to detect his SAHHS before she triggered it. It's not supposed to happen that way.

What went wrong? I'm not sure, so I'll serve up a few possibilities:

1) She's equipped with a heretofore unknown SAHHS detector.

2) He has the power on his SAHHS set too high.

3) Greeting her with his tongue hanging out was a dead give away.

Stay tuned.

Candy Store

Other than his name, the facts I'm about to present are too true.

His Name: Candy Store.

His Age: Way past old enough to know better.

His Marital Status: confused.

His Romantic M.O. The world is one big candy store and he's compelled to try and 'taste test' every scrumptious Asian sweetie that he meets.

Bottom Line: His life is crammed with unnecessary drama.

* His wife (second wife) divorced him nearly 6 months ago, but she emerged empty-handed. Determined to torture him, she refuses to move out of the house, which is leased in HIS name. That's right they're still living together.

A 'tropical' woman, his ex has, repeatedly, threatened to carve him up, but he refuses to send her packing.

She has dropped his name, but continues to view him as exclusively hers.

* He has a girlfriend who predates his divorce. Pedigree: Japanese. Complicating factor: her husband isn't the sharing type.

* He has another female in his life, but all I know about her is 'Asian' and 'hot'. Complicating factor: Unknown, but, given his track record, and some cryptic remarks, there has to be a BIG one.

* This week, a Chinese hottie strayed too close, activating his automatic 'hubba hubba' system.

He chatted her up for a while after which she asked him out. When he showed up for his date early, at the outpost of capitalism she owns/runs, he did a header into another complication.

Complication: his Chinese hottie has a significant other. It's another woman. That's right his new 'toy' is a lesbian whose girlfriend isn't the sharing type.

Why did she ask him out? Why is she trying to string him along? I don't know, but he's nuts, if he decides to hang around to find out.

Candy Store's theme song: Looking for love in all the wrong places.

Inconvenient Truth: At this moment, an insanely jealous, murderously hostile ex-wife who wants to Bobbitt him is the high water mark of his romantic life.

Will History Repeat Itself?

Last Sunday, my lovely bride and I attended an engagement party for the son of one of our friends. It's quite possible we will be invited to the wedding. Oh boy! It's decision time. Will history repeat itself? Or, will Hambo put a sock in it? Hmmm.

If you wonder what the hell I mean...wonder no more:

Wedding 1: Don't Do It Johnny

It happened while I was visiting my brother. It's windy and cold outside, par for the course in WINTER. Despite that, my brother, who was paying his annual visit to a certain town that shall remain nameless, suggests that we walk to the beach and have a chat at one of the tables on the sand. With nothing better to do, I agreed.

We were exchanging pleasantries when Johnny and Moonbeam blundered into our region of the planet. Johnny and Moonbeam weren't exactly dressed for the beach, but we cut them some slack, because Johnny and Moonbeam were there to tie the knot. They had no idea how close we came to staging an intervention.

The minister 'begged' for it when he spouted some irrelevant drivel. I considered giving him a pagan reality check, but resisted. I toyed with the idea of nailing him with a dreaded pagan curse that would give him a killer case of wang rash, but held back. Why? Seeing a man of the cloth grab his crotch and howl in agony might scare the crap out of the flower wenchlet and scar her for life. That's right, I did it for the children.

My brother and I road tested - out loud - suitable responses for that bit about "If anyone gathered here knows a reason why this man should not marry this woman, speak now or forever hold your piece."

Me: "Don't do it, Johnny."
Him: "Just say, no, Johnny."
Me: "Do a Bundy, Johnny. Go to the local nudie bar and do some comparison shopping."
Him: "Stick a fork in yourself, Johnny. Once you say "I do", you are DONE."

Our wives gave us the look, but didn't intrude on this brotherly bout of male bonding. That's right, PIGsters, despite our best efforts, Johnny strapped on a ball and chain named Moonbeam. Ignoring my well founded misgivings - don't forget I SAW Moonbeam - I'm willing to man up and wish Johnny and Moonbeam as much happiness as I've enjoyed with my lovely bride.

Wedding 2: A shock I so didn't need.

Speaking of shock-inducing weddings, I had the worst scare of my life at a wedding. I know what you're thinking, Sparky, and shame on you. This is not about MY wedding. It happened while my lovely bride and I attended the wedding of a neighbor's daughter. Since we weren't close friends of either family, we parked it in the rear pew of the Toll Booth and waiting for the festivities to begin.

Those festivities started with the most ungodly noise I've ever heard. HE snuck up behind us and standing at point blank range, this musical terrorist began doing god knows what with the bagpipes - that's right, BAGPIPES - that he held mere inches from my ears. I still get the shakes and my ears start to bleed whenever I have a bagpipes flashback.

There have been other magic Hambo moments at weddings, but I'll save them for another time. Suffice it to say, I am disagreeably Hambo at wedding ceremonies. I'm a relentlessly fun guy that way.

A Sinking Ship

It looks like the L.A. Clippers are poised to perpetrate one of most memorable collapses in NBA playoff history. After playing two dominating games that put them up 3 games to 1 in their 7 game series, they didn't show up for game 5 in any meaningful way. Last night they played well for 3 quarters then phoned in the 4th quarter.

When they lose game 7 - as sure a thing as you'll ever find - the Clippers will become only the 9th team to lose a playoff series after going up 3 games to 1.

That demonic laughter you hear in the Sanctuary City of Angels is Donald Sterling laughing all the way to the bank where he keeps Steve Ballmer's money.

Mom's Most Important Lesson

I think a love of - affinity for, if you prefer - learning begins at home. Before you start casting aspersions on Hambo, let me explain my contention. During my formative years, my mother - a teacher, by the way - successfully road tested a very innovative parenting ploy. Whenever I was home and up to no good - watching television, playing games, and the like - she would aim my idle mind at more suitable pastimes. Taking me away from those unworthy distractions, she would sit me down where she could see me, then reach for a volume of the extensive encyclopedia set we had in our home. It started, as such things should, with the "A" book. "Read this." After the usual "Aw mom, do I really have to read that?" and other pointless prattle, I started reading the "A" book. Believe it or not, there were a lot of nifty things in the "A" book to entertain and enlighten the young Hambo. Eventually she didn't need to tell me. When I had nothing to occupy my time, I'd reach for the next volume of the encyclopedia and started discovering more of the hidden treasures it contained.

Thanks to that "read this" ploy, my mother instilled a love of reading/learning in me that persists to this very day. That's why I insist that teaching a child to love reading/learning, is one of those core "it begins at home" things. By the time the child gets to school, that love of learning should be locked and loaded. If the school doesn't satisfy that inherent craving for new knowledge, then it's up to you, the child's parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, big brother, big sister, or family friend to find new, innovative ways to kick start those eager young synapses into action.

It's not as hard as you think. When Rocket Boy or Moon Beam hits you up for money, make them earn it. My mom had her own ideas about that too. Once she determined how much money I wanted, we'd get out a volume of "America's Best Loved Poems". After a bit of Hambo and mom negotiating on which poem merited the desired amount of money, I would begin to memorize the damn thing. When I could recite it, unaided by the book or a cheat sheet, she would hand over the money. To this day, I still catch myself reciting passages from "Casey At The Bat" and for that I say: thanks, mom.

That's Funny, You Don't Look White
(An Inspired Solution to the Racial Divide)

The relentless quest for plunder - the 'slavery reparations' extortion scheme - continues to resonate among American parasites of the whining, melanin-enriched persuasion. Countless well-intentioned individuals seek to reason with these greedy dolts, hoping, no doubt, to make them see the error in their thinking. Obviously, these 'lets sit down and reason together' types don't get the big picture: these slavery reparations extortionists, whiners who cling to their 'great white bigot behind every tree' bovine excrement, aren't speaking from intellectual conviction. They're basing their spew on emotion. Nobody, no matter how intelligent...no matter how polished their debating skills...no matter how well reasoned their views, can win an argument with emotion. It can't be done, because feelings, by their very nature, are irrational, thus beyond the reach of well-reasoned persuasion.

I, on the other hand, know better than resort to a calm, reasoned discussion. I know, too damn well, that these greedy obnoxious, lazy dolts will persist, until they set off a race war, or get their plunder. Extortion? You better believe it, Sparky. Unlike civilized individuals who seek to resolve this through relentless yammering, I only want one damn thing. I want these reparations-extorting assholes to shut the (expletive deleted) up and get the hell out of my face about this race baiting bovine excrement.

Among other things, the howling mobs in Baltimore, Ferguson, and elsewhere, keep demanding reparations.

Fact: Paying reparations is an asinine notion that will set back race relations in America by decades. That said, I'm all for it, if it will make these ethnocrat whiners shut the (expletive deleted) up. I say, let's dangle a wad of money (at least $500,000 in dead presidents, but I'm willing to make it a cool $1 million, if needed) in front of their bellowing, self-pitying faces. Let's tell these whiners that the money is theirs for the taking, however, we want something in return. No, I'm not spouting any 'send them back to Africa' drivel. The only requirement is as follows:

You're free to take the money and use it any way you want, tax free. In return, you, personally, and all of your descendants to the end of time, must absolve the American government of any/all historical 'sins'. In other words, from the instant you take this money, you and your family are, in the eyes of the government 'unhyphenated white males'. This means no more racial set asides, no more 'protected minority' status, no raced-based government largess, ever again. As an unhyphenated white male, you lose your race card privileges. White males, by their very nature, are incapable of being subjected to racism. By the way, former ethnocrat, that's not the white man's rules, it's yours. So, there you have it. The choice is yours. The money in exchange for your protected minority status.

In other words, take the god damn money and shut your god damn yaps, for god damn ever! If they won't accept the money on those terms, they can bellow about reparations and racism till our sun explodes, because they're not getting jack. This offer is a one-time, take it or leave it gig. End of discussion.

Update:

I wrote that YEARS ago, and tucked it away in my files, until now. Aside from the reference to Baltimore and Ferguson, it's just the way I wrote it, way back when.

It 'came out of the shadows', when I mentioned it to Porcus. Together, we brain-stormed some consequences of this plan. Here are some obvious ones which will impact a reparations recipient:

* His race card is invalidated, but that's cool because he's issued a 'Cracker Card'.

* The newly minted cracker loses his, her, hisher, or its Ebonics privileges. He must talk 'white' because he, she, heshe, or it IS white, now.

* The newly minted cracker won't be waylaid by the cops for 'driving while black', because, melanin-content is trumped by 'I took the money, honey'. All he needs to do is flash his Cracker Card.

* If he stumbles and lands in jail, he helps improve graybar hotel demographics because he's not another brother in the slammer, he's just another whitey, paying his debt to society.

* If he's walking on the street at night, whitey won't panic, because his reparations recipient status makes him 'one of us'. One flash of his Cracker Card will get 'er done.

* If he decides to start his own business, live in the burbs, or get an education, he has a ready response for the losers who chide him for 'acting white'. Brandishing his Cracker Card, he will proudly proclaim: "I'm not ACTING white. I AM white."

* His Cracker Card entitles him to vote for anyone he wants, including Conservatives and -GASP - Republicans.

There are, of course, some devilish details to iron out, but it's no big deal. Winner, winner, chicken dinner? Oh, hell yes.

Stranger Than Fiction

"Evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don't — the difference in their life chances — is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don't," British academic Adam Swift told ABC presenter Joe Gelonesi.

Gelonesi responded online: "This devilish twist of evidence surely leads to a further conclusion that perhaps — in the interests of leveling the playing field — bedtime stories should also be restricted."

Daily Telegraph (Aussie)

Hambo Sez

I have two notions.

Notion 1
It's interesting how Progtards react to a naturally occurring difference in results. If reading to your tyke at bedtime gives the nipper a leg up, how should we react? If you're a rational adult, you think, 'we need to encourage all parents to start reading bedtime stories to their nippers, because it will reduce the difference in outcomes, by lifting the underachievers up'.

A Progtard never tries to lift anyone up. The instinctive lefty response is to impose an equality of misery, by tearing the achiever down. There's never a pot of 'gold' at the end of their rainbow, only a cesspool of suffering.

Notion 2
This Brit egghead has his head up his ass on 'leveling the playing field'. Like all Progtards, he defines a 'level playing field' as one which produces equal results. A rational adult knows how asinine this is.

A level playing field is one wherein all comers are confronted with identical conditions. This level playing field also measures their performance using a one size fits all, criteria for success.

If you still don't get it, this venerable pagan prose will get 'er done:

Life is inherently unfair. That's why condoms come in different sizes.

Fairness vs. Justice

In the good old days, those heady days of my youth before it became politically incorrect, justice was a respectable concept. Bowing to the 'gimme whether I deserve it or not' sentiments of the great unwashed, a new word has come into vogue: 'fairness'. Both words - fairness, justice - apply whenever a person is being measured, tested, evaluated, or judged. The primary difference is one of implied emphasis.

'Justice' places the emphasis on the measurement standard being used. At the very least, the standard must be objective, and equally applied to all who are tested, measured, evaluated or judged. I.E. Justice is when the most qualified individual, based on an objective, equally applied standard, is selected to fill a job opening, gains college admission, qualifies for a scholarship, receives an award, etc.. This is what the euphemism, 'the level playing field' is supposed to mean.

'Fairness', on the other hand, betrays an obsession with the results. Devotees of 'fairness' would - and have - willingly sacrificed the objective, equally-applied standard in order to achieve the desired result. Affirmative Action programs are 'fairness' oriented, since they seek to achieve an equality of results, by using a relaxed standard for 'underrepresented groups' (based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc) while employing an impossibly difficult standard for 'overrepresented groups'.

Fairness usually involves some irrational, irrelevant, criteria. The most popular one is U.S. Census data. I.E. Fairness in college admissions is when the incoming freshman class reflects the population distribution in such erroneous factors as race, ethnicity and gender, no matter how this result was achieved. If too many Asians - based on their percentage of the population - meet the entrance standards, the entrance criteria for Asians applicants will be raised until the proper balance is achieved. If too few Latinos qualify for admission, the criteria for Latinos will be lowered, until enough of them are included.

The contrast between justice and fairness goes deeper than the primary focus. Justice involves an individual who is being evaluated against an objective standard. Fairness, on the other hand, is a comparative term which involves analyzing the results achieved by two or more people. In other words justice pertains to an individual while fairness carries an implicit 'group' orientation. It's this last fact which makes fairness the darling of the multiculturalists who are so busy promoting group think in every aspect of our society.

Multiculturalists refuse to face the unalterable fact that life, by its very nature, is inherently unfair. However, not even these group think morons can realistically claim that life is, inherently, unjust. Should I go around bemoaning the fact that I can't play basketball like a Kobe Bryant, can't throw a football with the skill of a Peyton Manning, can't shoot a hockey puck like Wayne Gretsky? Should I protest this inequity as 'unfair'? Or, should I accept the fact that, when evaluated by an objective standard of performance I'm just not good enough?

Oppressor-Americans - heterosexual white males - aren't usually given a choice in these things, but should some multicultural mutant ask me, I'd choose justice over fairness...every time. Unlike those who define their alleged lives by their victim status, I prefer to succeed or fail on my individual merits, thank you very much.

Enough Already

The list of infuriating bullshit that MAJORLY pisses me off is getting longer.

* I'm fed up with Kim Kardashian, whose only claim to fame is a pathetic sex tape on which her flopping and moaning evoked images of the frantic final moments of a beached whale's life.

* I'm fed up with the Marxist assholes pretending to be objective journalists. They seem to be the ONLY ones who don't know that they'll be the first ones rounded up, if/when Marxism reigns from sea to shining sea: goodbye newsroom; hello gulag.

* I'm fed up with the lab coated hooligans who whore themselves out for Nanny State bribes, by spewing junk science whoppers like Global Warming, and Secondhand Smoke.

* I'm fed up with the "no justice, no peaceniks" whose only 'accomplishment' is turning American cities, from sea to shining sea into open sewers which are infested by rapists, muggers, drug dealers, disease-ridden urban campers, and property destroying assholes.

* I'm fed up with celebrity 'justice' which talks tough, then wimps out when it comes to making the legend in his, her, hisher, or its own mind reap what he, she, heshe, or it sowed.

* I'm fed up with the bait and switch bullshit that the Republican Party calls a presidential primary.

* I'm disgusted with the Republican Party scam artists who perpetrate this sham of a primary, making voters think they have a choice, when it comes to picking the Oval Office candidate.

* I'm infuriated that the Republicans will play 'it's his turn', by ramming another liberal loser - Jeb Bush - down the throats of Elephant Clan primary voters.

* I'm outraged by Elected Tormentors, who feign shock and dismay over America's sorry condition, then brazenly pretend that they didn't play a critical role in flushing this once great nation down the crapper.

* I'm beyond pissed when it comes to a Dumbo-earred Commie who obviously despises the job he was elected to do, but refuses to get out of the damn way so somebody with legitimate POTUS credentials can take over then put America back on the right track.

* I'm infuriated by the Gaystapo's goose-stepping over the inalienable rights of small business owners who won't knuckle under to their intimidation.

* I'm fed up with Ivory Towers that foist off "micro aggression", "trigger warnings", and "white privilege" and other Korrectnik Krap as higher education.

Enough already...it's time for Old Betsy, Big Bang, and I to load up then go do what we gotta do.

The 'Hail Mary'

A Hail Mary pass is a very long forward pass in American football, made in desperation with only a small chance of success, especially at or near the end of a half. The term became widespread after a December 28, 1975 NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings, when Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach (a Roman Catholic) said about his game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson, "I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary."

The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, being used publicly in that decade by two former members of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, Elmer Layden and Jim Crowley. Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a "Hail Mary" gradually came to denote a long, low-probability pass attempted at the end of a half when a team is too far from the end zone to execute a more conventional play, and that it took divine intervention for it to happen.

A Political 'Hail Mary'

[I contend that where POTUS is concerned, the Pachyderm Punks are losing with time running out on them. They need a miracle...they need a political Hail Mary. Maybe this will do.]

I'm fed up with the Establishment Republicans who have a nervous breakdown whenever they encounter a MSM hit squad. The pachyderm pussies make the French seem fearless and resolute. Enough already.

It's time for a bold new approach. It's time to reboot the Party of Lincoln and Reagan as the ASSHOLE PARTY. We the People need to send a solid, no bullshit, core of SERIOUS ASSHOLES to D.C. Once there, they'd do what comes naturally, to RINOs, Jackass Party pukes and the MSM.

In the short term, they would make the Obamunists miserable. If/when they wrested control from the Commie Bastard, our ASSHOLE PARTY legicrats would fulfill their only campaign promise: when we're in charge, we'll make those Marxist shits our bitch. We'll show them why they never want to f**k with us in this, or any other lifetime.

Let's be real, trying to appease the Marxist bastards never works. It's a given that the Libertards will never like, or respect, the jellyfish who control the GOP. I get that, so let's go the other way and terrify the crap out of them with our SERIOUS ASSHOLES.

Borrowed Time

[Chalky, not his real name, is a friend who is no Hambo shit a future crime statistic. Late last year, he divorced his wife after nearly two decades of wedded 'bliss'. Ka-Boom, his ex-wife, is a tropical female with an evil temper and a very short fuse whose more memorable eruptions registered on the seismometer at JPL.

More than 4 months after the split in which she got one of the family cars and nothing else, she's still living with Chalky. Why? Good question, given the fact that she has, repeatedly, threatened to Bobbitt him. The latest incident happened this weekend.]

Me: "How's my favorite future crime statistic?"

Him: "I've been better. She's insane and getting steadily worse."

Me: "More threats about chopping off your business?"

Him: "That, too. She was very convincing, so convincing that I almost called the cops."

Me: "Why didn't you, since the police station is across the street?"

Him: "She stormed out, so I decided to call you, instead."

Me: "The lease for the house is in your name, isn't it?"

Him: "Yes. Why?"

Me: "Kick the insane bitch out, immediately change all the locks."

Him: "The landlord..."

Me: "You told me he knows, and understands, your situation."

Him: "Yes."

Me: "The important step involves changing the locks. If you need to go through him, do it, but do it right now."

Him: "I don't know. I want her out, but not like that."

Me: "She's playing you, dude. She knows that, where she's concerned, you can't get out of your own way."

Him: "I...After all this time together..."

Me: "She knows you won't evict her, so she feels free to do anything...say anything she wants."

Him: "I gave her until July 1st."

Me: "At this rate, she'll still be torturing you like this for another 20 years."

Him: "I put my foot down, this time."

Me: "I'm not impressed. Every morning that she wakes up in that house, SHE WINS. Be a man while you still have your gear. You're living on borrowed time. It's not a question of if she'll Bobbitt you, but when."

Him: "You make it sound so easy."

Me: "Admittedly, the next move, the obvious and necessary next move, is up to you. The fact that it's obvious doesn't automatically mean it's easy."

Him: "I'll think about it."

Me: "Let me know which hospital you're in and I'll send you a 'see I told you so' card."

Him: "That's not funny,."

Me: "It wasn't meant to be funny."

[I share this real life drama as a warning to other men in a similar situation. Don't be a Chalky. Get away from the insane, vengeful, bitch, before it's too late.

For more Chalky fun, scroll down to December 27, 2014.]

MUSINGS

When it comes to picking our nation's leaders, We the People can't seem to get it right. Blinded by idealism and optimism, we've elected reprobates, retards and rank amateurs. While searching for the second coming of a Founding Father, we've elected meatheads, morons and Moonbats. In our zeal who pick someone to represents the best in us, we've elected Caesars and appeasers.

Our motives were noble and the underlying idea was a good one, in the abstract. We reasoned that someone who represented the very best in us, would inspire our friends and favorable impress our foes with their dignity, intellect and inner strength. It should have worked, but it didn't.

We, quite rightly, tried to elect a rational adult, but it's a bigger challenge than we realized, because no self-respecting rational adult wants any part of that three-ring circus we call our nation's capitol. After giving this some thought, I decided We the People need to adjust our thinking.

In these troubled times...in this dangerous world, I'm no longer convinced that a rational adult is what we need. If our nation is going to come out of its malaise, we need to pick a leader who makes a the right kind of impression. We don't need the second coming of Thomas Jefferson. I think we need the second coming of inspiringly insane lunatic like Sam Kinison. Why? If you were leader of a nation like Iran or North Korea, how secure would you feel knowing that an explosively unstable, terminally fun, guy like Sam has his finger on the nuclear trigger? Given his explosive nature, the last thing you want to do is attract his attention.

There are at least two things that make this idea viable. First of all, by picking an irrational adult we have a much better chance of finding one that fits the bill. Moreover, an irrational adult is so easy to spot, he, she, heshe, or it won't try to baffle us with a load of political bullshit.

The dark underbelly of this pagan notion is obvious. There are a lot of irrational adults, but most of them are the wrong kind of irrational: Congress is infested with them. We need to find the right one. It's no piece of cake, but, not impossible, because we have a large pool of certifiably irrational adults. The other obvious problem is the fact that Sam Kinison is dead. That's a tragedy, because he always made me laugh.

Sam's gone, but I'm not discouraged. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free? Nah. Give me your ranters, your ravers, and your Kinisons, yearning to set us free. The sooner we get started on this search, the sooner we get 'er done.

Come out...come out, wherever you are, while there's still time to save America from a Harpy named Shrillary.

Eligibility

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Constitution of the United States Article II, Section 1, Clause 5

How does Shrillary match up with these qualifications?

Resided within USA for 14 years? Yup, and then some.

Attained the age of 35 years? Yup, and then some.

Natural born Citizen? I have issues with this one, where Shrillary is concerned. I won't dispute the 'born' part, but I doubt that there was anything 'natural' about it. This Harpy is to put it bluntly the proverbial bat out off hell.

I doubt that any of the low information voters who are eager to punch a chad [or two or three or four ] for Shrillary know, or care about the requirements in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. In fact, I doubt that they've ever heard of the Constitution of the United States.

For Shrillary loving intellectual flatliners, the Harpy has the two overriding qualifications for office: she's [allegedly] female and she's alive. I know they get giddy over her [presumed] gender, BUT I seriously doubt that any of them is a stickler for details, when it comes to 'she's alive'. Based on recent images of Shrillary, I have my own reasonable doubt concerning 'alive'.

Will she raise her hand and intone the Oath of Office?

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States? Yes, she'll say it, but she won't mean it. She got this far, by ignoring our founding document, why would she change that, now?

Can she win? You bet, and here's why:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgement to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
– Vaclav Klaus (former Premier of the Czech Republic)

The Ten Cannots

[Written and published in 1916, by William John Henry Boetcker (1873–1962) who was an American religious leader and influential public speaker.]

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves

Freedom

Liberty is under assault around the world. In places like Iran, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Malaysia, Kenya, Iraq, Libya, and Somalia the tyranny is motivated by supernaturalism. In places like China, Myanmar, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela and Bolivia, the tyranny is strictly secular and, invariably, Marxist.

The citizens suffering from both types of tyranny, might find the following quote by an American free thinker named Robert G. Ingersoll a source of inspiration:

"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world - not even in infinite space. I was free - free to think, to express my thoughts - free to live to my own ideal - free to live for myself and those I loved - free to use all my faculties, all my senses - free to spread imagination's wings - free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope - free to judge and determine for myself - free to reject all ignorant creeds...free from the fear of eternal pain - free from the winged monsters of the night - free from devils, ghosts and gods."

"For the first time, I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of thought - no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings - no chains for my limbs - no lashes for my back - no fires for my flesh - no master's frown or threat - no following another's steps - no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds."

There's one thing that sets this land conceived in liberty apart from the nations I cited earlier. If anyone stated the forgoing passage publically, in any of those blights on the globe, they would be tortured, jailed, or simply executed on the spot. During his lifetime, Mr. Ingersoll butted heads with many Americans who vehemently disagreed with him, but, no matter how much they hated his ideas, nobody tortured, dismembered, crucified, burned at the stake or beheaded him. That critical distinction is what sets us apart from the rest of the world. It's the source of our strength and we must preserve it, by any means necessary.

Nostalgia

Am I the only one who remembers that the primary function of a telephone is to allow you to SPEAK to someone else who is well beyond effective bellowing distance?

Am I the only one who thinks strings of consonants in search of some vowels are GIBBERISH?

Am I the only one who thinks putting a microcomputer in charge of critical automotive functions like braking, shifting gears, and accelerating is a stupendously crappy idea?

Am I the only one who thinks it's asinine to surf cyberspace on a screen the size of a post-it note?

Am I the only one who remembers how pathetic boom box fare was BEFORE Internet radio served up all those nifty-shifty choices?

Obviously, modern technology is a mixed blessing.

Troubling Signs That You're Too Fat

Your ponderous plodding registers on Cal Tech's seismometers.

Your 'land mass' is so big you generate your own weather pattern. (Stolen from Boortz)

When you're near a body of water larger than a toilet bowl, your presence disrupts the tide tables.

The Bitch is Back

Shrillary is back for another run at the Presidency. I'm trying to be thrilled spitless, but I left it in my other pants. I hate it when that happens.

So Shrillary Clinton thinks she deserves to be president...isn't that special. I think I deserve 15-inch wang. It looks like we both came up short.

Her primary qualification is she's female and we've never had one of those as POTUS. I'm a male and I've never had a monster wang. We're still tied bitch.

She's deserving because her hubby was POTUS, so she has proximity going for her. I have proximity too, since my dad was hung like a Clydesdale. Still tied.

Call me names if you must, but, so far, I have a stronger case for John Holmes' class nads than Shrillary does for being POTUS. Maybe we need to try harder.

Let's look at her resume.

She was little more than a seat warmer, during her unremarkable stint in the U.S. Senate. We need to keep looking.

As Secretary of State, she was more than unimpressive. In fact, her foreign policy antics look more like a blooper reel than a stepping stone to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Nothing here either, so we'll move along.

A hard core Marxist, with no meaningful leadership experience, her 'best' case for high office is an immutable trait (gender). That sounds alarmingly familiar. We've traveled down that road for more than 6 years, now and it SUCKS.

Like that Marxist in the Red Shed, Shrillary has a badly kept secret. In Barry's case, we're not supposed to notice - or mention - that he's an Islamikaze. Similarly, we're not supposed to notice -or mention - that Shrillary is a lesbian. Ironically, 'first lesbian' POTUS is slightly less frivolous than 'first female' POTUS. Lesbians are a much smaller demographic - thus more exclusive - than 'female'.

It's time to get real about a President Shrillary.

"My husband was President." So what?

"I am woman hear me roar" is equally irrelevant as a valid qualification for POTUS.

"It's my turn." It was your turn in 2008 and you muffed it by losing to a Dumbo-eared rookie.

Lesbian isn't a valid qualification either, but campaigning under a dyke banner does have some salacious potential.

Shrillary is too much like Barry for comfort. America can't endure 4 or 8 more years of that.

I could do without the mental image generated by a Porcus vow to pull down Shrillary's pants and expose her.

Equally disturbing is the fun fact that, as First Dude, career horndog Bubba will have a clear shot at the wives and daughters of visiting heads of state.

If Shrillary is trying for Obama in drag, it will be a tough row to hoe since she's just a vile, foul tempered Harpy who doesn't have Barry's well documented Malignant Narcissism to hide behind.

Is it too soon to run 'just shoot the insane bitch' up the flag pole? Probably, besides which she's such a hard core Harpy that bullets might just bounce off.

Last word: Shrillary is going 'all in' on her Oval Office run, and so is PIG, because you know the Pachyderm Punks don't have the balls to put her feet to the fire.

Distinctions.

One of the primary consequences of Political Correctness is the lionizing of the 'what' and the demonizing of the 'who'. Did I just lose you? Don't sweat the small stuff.

The 'what', in this context, denotes the immutable traits which are the foundation of the group identity: race, gender, ethnicity/national origin. All of them are issued at birth, and are thus beyond a person's control. Maybe it's that lack of control over it which makes an immutable trait based identity so enticing. Someone who obsesses on immutable traits is saying, in essence, that they haven't made a single meaningful contribution to their own life, since a doctor slapped them on the butt in the delivery room. The only significance, and/or virtue, they find in themselves is what they were 'issued' at birth

The 'who' ,in this context, includes the unique combination of thoughts, words, and actions which make each of us a 'one of' entity. Unlike the 'what', the 'who' includes all those elements over which a person has exercised control. The 'who' is all about individuals.

When I meet someone, I don't give a rat's ass what they are, because it's essentially irrelevant. I am, however, very interested in who they are.

I hate all these word games whose only purpose is tricking you into pigeonholing yourself, making it easy for someone to dismiss you with a sneering, 'Oh, you're one of them'. That's why I refuse to be pigeonholed. I am not a gender. I am not a race. I am not an ethnicity. I am the sum total of all my experiences, choices, and thoughts so, if you ask me "what are you", bring a lunch because the answer to that question is a stem-winder.

Wonderland Fun

Today, Chiquita, Wonderland's English-challenged receptionist, explained the new phone answering rules of engagement to me. I'll let you imagine how that went.

Essential fun phone facts:

Wonderland has 4 phone lines.

The big guy, Mister Fix It, Wonderland's fearless leader, personally wired up the phone connections.

Wonderland's phone technology is older than God and may predate the big bang.

Phone ROE

* Line 1: if it rings, it's usually for Wonderland.

* Line 2: if line 1 is lit when it rings, it should be for Wonderland. But, if line 1 isn't in use when it rings, there's a 50% chance it's for Wonderland.

* Line 3: if lines 1 & 2 are lit when it rings, it might be for Wonderland. But, if lines 1 & 2 aren't in use when it rings, there's a 25% chance it's for Wonderland.

* Line 4: If the other 3 lines are in use when it rings it's rarely for Wonderland, but just in case, answer it anyway. If no lines are in use when it rings, the chances of it being for Wonderland are too low to measure. Answering it is optional.

Consequences

We've all heard the mantra that says we must be responsible for our own actions. This axiom means weighing our options, making our decision, then playing that hand until objective reality gives us our report card. How? Life grades us by rewarding, or punishing, us with the consequences for our own actions. Those consequences are a vital part of the ongoing learning process that's a thrill-inducing feature of life.

This repetitive cycle of actions and consequences is a great character builder. It's also a spiffy way to build your vocabulary, when you start learning - and deploying - all those highly expressive, cathartic, four-letter words. Like it or not, you're not in full blown character building mode until you start swearing. That's a sure sign that you've just added a whole new level to your character.

As painful as consequences can be, they are a necessary part of life. That's why it majorly pisses me off when the Nanny State interferes by softening the blow of adverse consequences, or bringing you down if the consequences are beneficial, enriching.

* I don't need some Fat Nazi wiener getting between me and what I choose to eat. I don't need their help on transfats, calorie counts or fat content. I know what's good and what isn't. I'll pick my own foods and let life's report card - those consequences - tell me how I did.

* I don't need some Smoke Nazi scumbag hounding me about those cancer sticks. The consequences of smoking are no secret, so they need to get the hell off my back and let me make my own life choices. As a non-smoker - MY CHOICE, not THEIRS - I'm tempted to start smoking, just to piss off the bastards.

* I don't need some job-for-life Elected Tormentors telling me that lying about my net worth to purchase a house in a market that reeks of 'bubble about to burst' is a crappy idea. If I'm that stupid, I deserve to lose my shirt, and my house. Their assistance is not wanted or needed.

* I don't need some Nanny State Nitwit to tell me that yammering on a cell phone, or texting, while driving is an accident waiting to happen. If I do either, or both, sooner or later I'm going to cause an accident, then the justice system, and my insurance company, will add several levels to my character with some very adverse consequences.

* I know what I'm willing to watch and can determine if a given program is acceptable for any tykes who might be in the room. I'll handle those decisions, and any adverse, 'they said a bad word' consequences. I don't need the Nanny State's help with my boob tube and boom box choices.

A lot of times, consequences suck. I get that, but they're my consequences and I'll deal with them, myself, without the Nanny State's help. Unhappily, too many Americans like letting the Nanny State soften life's blows. That's why this nation conceived in liberty is rapidly losing its competitive edge.

It's time to get back to basics. It's time to kick the Nanny State out of our lives. It's time to grow the stones to face life's ups and downs without some Elected Tormentor rat bastard sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. Butt out, Elected Tormentor Sparky. That goes double for you, Prompter Punk.

Memories Pizza

Here are some random notions on the Indiana pizza parlor.

* This battle is being waged under the wrong banner. The primary issue is not and should not be religion and/or religious beliefs. As Larry Elder, and other rational adults, explained, the primary issue is, in fact, property rights. In reality, it's a simple matter of a business owner being free from Nanny State coercion when it comes to deciding whom he, she, heshe, or it will serve. If they get it wrong, the marketplace will teach them the errors of their ways.

* The real measure of public sentiment isn't reflected in the MSM, or in the caterwauling of the Gay KK. A better measure of public sentiment is the gofundme pot of gold which adults from sea to shining sea had elevated to at least $550,000. Those donations speak much louder than all the MSM bellowing.

* Yesterday, the owners were talking about closing the business, forever. Today, bolstered by the generosity of strangers, they're vowing to reopen.

* I wonder how high the gofundme pot of gold needs to get, before the MSM reports it?

Inalienable Individual Liberty

It can be, and frequently is, downright ugly.

It's guaranteed to piss you off, sooner or later.

It allows individuals to discriminate, even when they have their head shoved up their ass.

Cutting to the chase, it allows individuals to act like utter and complete assholes.

I warned you it's ugly.

It's not for the thin skinned or faint hearted...I guess that's why Progtards can't handle it.

They don't...won't confront the fact that we are born with our full compliment of rights which are not a gift from a benevolent Nanny State. Inalienable individual liberty is our birthright. Even when Progtards understand that, they don't want to hear it.

For me, inalienable individual liberty is a mixture of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The bad and the ugly are the price we pay for the good. Is it worth it? You better believe it.

Scientology Exposed In HBO Special

Here, in no particular order are a few impressions.

* L Ron Hubbard had the instincts of a grifter. That's why he perpetrated his 'Auditing' scheme. First, you get the 'mark' to rat themselves out while being audited. Next, you use the 'dirt' to sign the mark up for an endless sequence of future sessions, each of which costs slightly more than the last.

* L Ron was a bat shit crazy son of a bitch and his 'religion' is about what you'd expect from a dude who belonged in a padded cell.

* Scientology has some of the characteristics of a cult. It was founded by a 'charismatic' leader. It's reflexively secretive to the point of paranoia. It's much, much, easier to bring Scientology into your life than it is to completely evict them from it, after an adherent decides to quit Scientology. If you do extricate yourself, and leave family members behind, they will disown you.

* I had the impression that some of the former leaders who were featured in this special, while utterly truthful in what they said, would still be shilling for Scientology, if they hadn't been deposed in an internal power struggle.

* Over the years Scientology has been exposed as a dangerously manipulative, oppressive, organization. If, knowing that, someone gets involved with it, they only have themselves to blame.

Bottom line: If you get the chance, watch this show.

March Madness

I watched the Kentucky - Notre Dame game, yesterday. I 'knew' U.K. would probably win, but I dared to root for an upset. The only thing that got upset, was me, when the Irish gave up their first turnover in 29 minutes, at the worst possible time. They lost ugly and I hate that.

My lovely bride who hails from the Bluegrass State didn't gloat, that much, so I'm thankful for small favors.

Martial Law

Speaking of my lovely bride, she's more convinced than ever that Barry is getting ready to pull something. In this case, 'something' translates as a tyrannical ploy to keep himself in power, indefinitely.

Is she on to something? I'm not certain. There are, I admit, signs that something is up.

Barry's actions keep getting more outrageous, more infuriating, more indefensible, with each passing day. What's up?

Some Barry watchers think he has a screw loose, and his erratic actions are tangible signs of a mental disorder.

Some Barry watchers think he's a petulant child having a tantrum. What he needs, they opine, is a stern parent to smack him hard and order him to 'knock it off'.

It appears to this Pagan scribbler that Barry will ratchet up his antics until he gets the desired response from We the People. When the people reach their boiling point - he's hoping they'll take to the streets - he will use the ensuing civil unrest as a justification for declaring martial law from sea to shining sea. One of the first casualties will be the 2016 election cycle.

Possible? YUP.

Probable? Don't know yet, but it's in play.

 

Answering the Call

[When I'm visiting Wonderland - a small high tech firm which is one of my clients - I do more than play consulting engineer. Much too often, I'm asked to handle incoming calls for them. Why, because Chiquita - their official phone monkey - isn't as proficient in English as that task, being the receptionist, requires.

When she has a language breakdown, she usually asks me to find out what's on the caller's agenda.]

* Going Schultz "I Know Nothing..."
[This happened on Wednesday and it prompted me to put together this posting.]

Chiquita seemed a tad frantic when she asked me to take the call.

Her: "You talk please? I no understand."

Me: "Ok"

Me: "Good afternoon, how may I assist you."

Female Caller: Obviously irritated. "Who are you?"

Me: I identified myself.

Her: Still pissed. "What do you do there?"

Me: "I'm an engineer."

Her: "Oh."

Me: "Mom was thrilled too."

Her: "Yeah. I'm Liz, your landlord, and I need to speak with [Wonderland's fearless leader]".

Me: "He's out of the building, but I'll make sure he gets your message, as soon as he returns."

Her: "Ok. What's the point of having a receptionist who can't take messages."

Me: Silence, fighting an urge to say "Chiquita has other talents."

Her: Laughs "Never mind."

[Here are a few memorable calls I answered over the past few years.]

* V. J. Steve

I had a close encounter with V. J. "Steve", while I was at Wonderland - a customer site - today. My client - that legendary computer wrangler, The Big Guy - was out of the building and asked me to pick up the phone for him, because he was expecting an important call.

When the phone rang, I, foolishly, picked it up and got mouse-trapped into one of those phone surveys. I could tell by his tattletale accent that I was talking to V.J. Steve - real name - Ramalamadingdong - and he was a veritable pit bull, when it came to keeping me on the phone. I accidentally hung up on him once, when I meant to put him on hold, but he called me back. In fact, he called me back TWICE.

V. J. Steve shrugged it off, when I explained that I'm an independent contractor, not an employee of Wonderland. He shrugged it off, when I told him that I didn't have the information he needed. He was determined to fritter away 30 minutes (minimum of my life) and he wouldn't be denied.

I hope he enjoyed the answers I gave him, because, other than a rough estimate about the number of P.C. s at Wonderland, nothing I said was an on-going element of Objective Reality.

When I got done, I had a pressing need for a SMOKE 'EM, a MASH 'EM, plus assorted other items from our PIGco catalogue that didn't make the Top Story cut.

I know you're out there V. J. Steve. I'm going to track your miserable ass down and kick you in the nuts so hard, your whole family will feel it.

* Worlds Apart

While toiling away at Wonderland, I got a call from a vendor whom I've known for years. After a relatively brief exchange of technology-related pleasantries, the yammering veered off into politics.

He got it rolling, when he noted how much more civilized his Arizona outpost of capitalism is than his primary capitalistic outpost in Mexifornia.

Him: "When it comes to taxes and regulations, Arizonia seems like another country."

Me: "Which country? Mexico?"

Him: "That too. Why is California so fucked up?"

Me: "A Jackass Party legislature. A Jackass Party governor. Plus, a critical mass of chad punching Moonbats who keep them in control."

Him: "That explains it. Arizona seems to have avoided that problem. I only remember one really bad governor - a woman named Napolitano - but she's long gone. I have no idea where she went."

Me: "She's the head of DHS."

Him: "Oh my god."

Me: "You'd know this stuff, if you read my scribblings at the Politically Incorrect Gazette. WWW DOT P I G A Z E T T E DOT COM."

Welcome to the PIGdom, Dave.

* Life in the Fast Lane

I was plying my trade [consulting Test Engineer] at Wonderland when my phone rang. It was Chiquita and she needed my assistance with an incoming call. I'm her 'go to' choice, when her faltering English isn't up to the challenge.

I answered the call and blundered into the fast lane of Progtard Politics.

Eager and ernest, the caller identified herself as Tiffany and explained that she was calling from far off Massachusetts on behalf of some Progtard activist group. [I think it was Progressive Change Campaign.] Since Wonderland is in a notoriously lefty metropolis in a VERY lefty state, Tiffany made the rash assumption that I would be sympathetic to her cause.

Wrong, but I let her yammer about the corporate Demoncrats who lost the 2014 election. I listened to her trot out all those sad stories of tykes who aren't getting supper, and assorted other egregiously emotional Progtard pleas. I listened to her entire pitch, waiting for the punchline.

Eventually, she cut to the chase. The whole sob story was a pitch for a donation to Fauxcahontis - Senator Elizabeth Warren. For 'as little as $150' I could help the Jackass Party plunge America much farther into the Progtard abyss.

I'd heard enough, so I told her, "I wouldn't give your Jackass Party a penny if my life depended on it."

She asked "Why?"

"Because you Progtards inflicted that Dumbo-eared Kenyan Marxist on us to help you finish destroying this nation. Enough is enough." I replied, before hanging up.

Hyphenation

I have 'unresolved issues' with the hyphen.

Are we limited to just one?

If we get more than one - (Irish-Italian)-American, how do we know which to list first?

If we get more than one, is there a limit on them? I.E. (Left-handed) - Irish - Italian - Carnivorous - American).

These hyphens give me a headache. I think I'll drop them like a bad habit and continue to be that American classic: an individual.

I am not defined by my born with it pedigree. I am defined by my thoughts, words, and deeds over the course of my life.

Gibberish Decoded

Today, I'll paint a PIGish bull's-eye on the synapse-suffocating tidal wave of gibberish, jargon, and 'coded' messages that bombard us from all sides, every waking minute of our lives. It's everywhere we go and it's getting worse, with each passing minute.

Food labeling: Most of us ignore this dose of Nanny State imposed gibberish, but that's destined to change, under the DeathCare scheme. Aided and abetted by their toadies in Congress, Fat Nazis are determined to rub our noses in it.

Gibberish: Calories, Transfats, Sugars, Salt, blah, blah, blah.
PIGish Alternative: The nutrition label should show one, or more, Louisville Sluggers, along with the prose: "This is how many baseball bats your doctor will use to beat some sense in your lard ass, if you eat this."

The sneakiest outburst of food labeling gibberish that I ever encountered relates to 'serving size'. Normally, the nutritional information is 'per serving. On the off chance that you read the 'calories' and 'calories from fat' information, some shack food wranglers play games by tweaking the number of servings. For example, I recently purchased a snack which contained 4 mini cupcakes. The damage 'per serving' seemed acceptable, until I noticed the number of servings: 12. In other words, I had to multiply the nutritional information by 3 to compute the 'per mini cupcake' damage.

Programmable Electronic Devices: For a long time, this kind of gibberish was confined to your computer. Admittedly, computers (computer programs) are still a prime offender, but - as headline grabbing thrill rides demonstrate - it's now popping up in your car. It's also in your cell phone, and assorted other programmable items.

Computerized devices torture users with assorted beeps and bells, plus the processor-generated messages which accompany them. It's infuriating, because it doesn't tell you what went wrong. The FSOP favors something much more helpful.

"Oops - I forgot to carry my one, but I'm okay, now."

"D'Oh - Some random event made me lose my place, but it's obviously a one-time occurrence."

"Uh-oh - That random event happened again, so stop what you're doing and do something useful, like rebooting me."

"Damn It! - Rebooting didn't help, so it's time to bring in a trained, computer geek, professional."

"I see what you're doing and it won't work. Let me know how that works out, Einstein, because I am O-U-T of here."

Instead of those 'Error NNNNNN' messages, we favor something more descriptive like: "Your hard drive just ate itself", "My mind is going", or "I'm melting...I'm melting".

If you get a series of beeps when you boot up, here's a PIGish Translation: Demonic laughter, "YOU'RE SO SCREWED."

Boob Tube and Movie Ratings: When it comes to incomprehensible gibberish, this mess is at, or near, the top of the heap. I know 'they' are - allegedly - trying to be helpful, but this is ridiculous. As insane as movie ratings are, boob tube ratings with their expanded categories and subcategories take gibberish off the cliff.

Gibberish: "G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17". "TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-Y7-FV, TV-G, TV-PG (D,S,L,V), TV-14 (D,S,L,V), TV-MA (S,L,V)

PIGish Alternative: Categories like: "You're getting sleepy", "Minor, clothes on, groping", "TITS!", "You're going straight to hell, pervert.", plus subcategories like: "Bang, you're dead", "Buckets of blood and gore", "Talk dirty to me".

Boom Box and Boob Tube Ads: On the radio, the warp speed shyster spew is where the action is. On television, that laundry list of possible side effects and/or the small, impossible to read, print is where the rubber hits the road. In both cases, the shyster spew is the functional equivalent of 'What we really mean to say is this: take everything we told you with a very LARGE grain of salt.'

PIGish Alternative: Since advertisers refuse to play it straight, we'll simply cite Hambo's Laws: The suckage of a product touted on the radio [or television] is inversely proportional to the speed and length of the shyster spew at the end of the ad. (The faster they talk, the longer it lasts, the more likely it is that the product reeks.)

Automotive Gibberish: With most cars infested with 5,000 kinds of hellish computerized functions - including breaking, accelerating, starting, shutting down, shifting gears - this category is alarmingly similar to 'Programmable Electronic Devices'. Aside from minor - essentially inconsequential - details, the same error message rants apply. For those who drive more traditional - yer outta here cyber punk - transportation, there is one example of automotive gibberish which demands our undivided attention.

Gibberish: "Check Engine."
PIGish Alternative: "Some government mandated, performance-degrading, piece of Smog Nazi crap is having a bad day. Go ahead, ask me if I care."

Admittedly, gibberish isn't a fate worse than death. At worst, it's an annoyance which is imposed on us by nerds, who never got over that daily wedgie he got in high school, and/or Nanny State Nitwits who love yanking our chain. It would be nice if they cut the crap and gave it to us, straight, simple, and direct. It would be very nice, and very out of character. If it's no frills doses of objective reality you crave, you're in the right place, because the Free State of PIG gives you all of THAT you can handle, on a daily basis.

Insulting My Intelligence

Admittedly Barry is trying to 'settle' the immigration debacle by Imperial Decree. He's getting his way, more or less, but the Boehner-McConnell-McCain wing of the Elephant Clan hopes that Federal judge in Mexas will put them back in the game. If that happens, it will be business as usual in fantasyland.

Once again all the D.C. scumbags will start insulting my intelligence on this border jumping scumbag disaster. First, they set up a strawman by putting words in my mouth: "they" - that's me, I suppose - "want to deport 20 million 'undocumented' immigrants". First of all, the number is closer to 40 million. Furthermore, nobody in their right mind is talking about deporting each and every one of them. We are, however, discussing ways to make it less appealing for all of them to stay here and continue to colonize us. Finally, and most important, I want them to take meaningful steps to stop the tidal wave of border jumpers who keep swarming into our nation, un-damn- invited.

The best way to explain this is with a little parable. You come home one fine day and find that a water pipe has burst and your basement is flooded. You call up RINO Plumbing to take care of the problem.

RINO: "It's just water and it serves a useful purpose. Why are you so irrational about it?"

You: "I have nothing against the water, however, I don't want the damn stuff here."

RINO: "You can't just toss that water out in one big dump. It can't be done. I'm very disappointed with your attitude."

You: "I want you to shut off the damn water, fix the broken pipe, and stop any more water from flooding into my basement."

RINO: "You're not thinking clearly. We need a comprehensive approach to this problem. If you want, I can start bailing out the water with a teaspoon, while we discuss strategies to deal with the broken pipe."

You: "Get the hell out of here, you moron. If you can't see that it's pointless to deal with the water BEFORE you fix the broken pipe, you're a bigger fool that I thought possible."

We've got a broken pipe on our border, PIGsters. I don't want to discuss how to cope with the water that filled our nation's basement until that broken pipe is fixed. Fixing that broken pipe is the only way to keep more water from flooding in faster than I can bail out my basement. If I can see that, why the hell can't those motherless rat bastards in our nation's capitol?

You Know You're A PIGster, If...

You laughed, when you realized Cesar Chavez speed bump on the calendar coincided with April Fools' Day, this year.

You cracked open a cold one to salute the MSM, when you learned that nobody is willing to hire Keith Olbermann.

Your assigned Elected Tormentor muttered darkly about 'harassment', the last time you told him a thrillingly real version of Landmine Lotto would resolve all our pesky border issues.

You were sentenced to sensitivity training, after calling the boss's secretary 'sweet cheeks'.

You got kicked out of sensitivity training, because you refused to stop laughing.

You're convinced that C-SPAN's live coverage of Congress is the most horrifying programming on television.

You think it's time to commute America's sentence, by limiting Barry's reign of terror to 'time served'.

Your rabid Libertard relatives have a panic attack, every time you show up at a family gathering.

Your legendary 'heckling' exploits got you permanently banned from your friends' and family's weddings.

You answered "The Congressional Record", when a pollster asked you to name the last work of fiction you read.

Quotes Worth Repeating

* David Zirin

If you've never heard of David Zirin, don't feel like the Lone Ranger. According to 'informed' internet sources, he's a sportswriter...a sportswriter for that way lefty rag, The Nation.

During a stint on MSNBC he spouted this drivel about March Madness [the NCAA Tounament]

DAVID ZIRIN on NCAA Tournament: "It's an incredible spectacle. It's absolutely narcotic. It's a national obsession.

"Who is wearing the corporate logos as they run up and down the court? It's players who we are watching and yet they don't get paid for it and we all become party to this rank exploitation.

"When we stop trying to speak in politically correct language, what we're looking at is the organized theft of black wealth. And if we want to talk about it more broadly, the organized theft of youth wealth."

BULLSHIT!

*Juan McCain

On one of the Sunday interview shows, McCain ripped into The One:

[Fox] Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Obama is letting his personal issues with newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affect his decision-making and shared policy goals.

"It's time that we work together with our Israeli friends and try to stem the tide of ISIS and Iranian movement throughout the region, which is threatening the very fabric of the region," McCain, R-Ariz., said on "State of the Union."

During the interview, McCain called out Obama and told him: "Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President."

McCain went on to call out the administration's Middle East policies and said Obama's priorities are "so screwed up that it's unbelievable."

Question: Where was this attack dog shit in 2008?

Recommended Reading

Dick 'Darth' Cheney?

Interviewed for Playboy Magazine?

Interviewed by James Rosen of -GASP - FOX News?

WTF?

Here's a sample:

Playboy Interview: Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney likes lattes. Seated in his favorite brown-leather chair in the sunlit study of his home in McLean, Virginia, the former vice president of the United States can toss back two of the warm java blasts in an hour…

At different points, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have suggested that racism is a factor in criticism of them. Is there any truth in that?

I think they're playing the race card, in my view. Certainly we haven't given up—nor should we give up—the right to criticize an administration and public officials. To say that we criticize, or that I criticize, Barack Obama or Eric Holder because of race, I just think it's obviously not true. My view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance—or lack of performance, because of incompetence. It hasn't got anything to do with race.

Do you feel Obama, either intentionally or inadvertently, has undone your and President Bush's work?

Oh absolutely. Where do you start? I think with respect to the situation in Iraq, his precipitous withdrawal and refusal to leave any stay-behind forces, to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqis, was a huge mistake; we are paying a price for it now. He's having to go back in now, and the guy who campaigned on the basis of bring the boys home and get out of Iraq is now redeploying forces to Iraq. I think his apology tour, when he went to Cairo in the summer of 2009 and said the U.S. overreacted to the events of 9/11, was a huge mistake. I don't think he ever bought into the notion that we're at war, in terms of a war on terrorism; I think he always wanted to treat it as a law-enforcement problem.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL INTERVIEW

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is that day of the year when we have our sanity assaulted by a bunch of inane nitwits, most of whom aren't Irish, couldn't find Ireland on a globe if their life depended on it, and have a pathological hatred for green every other day of the year.

Green Beer? Leprechauns? Stupid looking hats? Family, friends, co-workers and strangers nagging you about the lack of green in your attire? A frontal assault on your sanity by musical terrorists who bellow out "Danny Boy" every 3 minutes? Is this the best Ireland, the Irish, have to offer? Give me a break.

I get the part about national/ethnic pride running amok. I get the fact that, for one day of the year, it's cool to be Irish. I get the fact that, after you cut through all the crap, St. Patrick's Day has nothing to do with snakes, or holy rollers who chased them from the storied isle. For most of us, St. Patrick's Day is an excuse to get blasted and slur our speech with a faux Irish accent. Ireland, the Irish, deserve better, and quite frankly, so do we. Besides, we already set aside a date on the calendar to get blasted, New Year's Eve.

Employee Trouble

I am a 'stockholder' of one of the largest enterprises in the world. I am one of approximately 320 million stockholders of this enterprise. I take my ownership seriously, as do millions of other stockholders. The enterprise is in trouble, serious trouble, and something needs to be done.

A little over 6 years ago, there was a change in the top leadership. Over my strenuous objections, a man with no meaningful leadership experience was given a 4-year contract. It turned out about as well as you think. He was/still is a complete and utter disaster who has run this enterprise into the ground. Believe it or not, when his contract came up for renewal in 2012, they gave him a 4 year extension. Unbelievable!

I believe he should be fired, but that's not a slam dunk. It's not that hard to demonstrate his unsuitability for his position, because his duties are set forth, explicitly, in the enterprise's founding document. He hasn't performed any of them even minimally. In fact, the only thing he has done that's above the norm, is rack up his expense account with an endless series of trips, and vacations. He's one of the most glib, shameless, liars in human history, a fact which has badly tarnished the enterprise's reputation.

So what's keep him on the job? His contract, which was written by the enterprise itself, is damn near 'ironclad'. It takes overwhelming voting majorities in two different 'councils' to get him out, and neither of them has the balls to even discuss the prospect.

This fool is going to destroy this venerable enterprise and nobody is willing to stop the bastard.

Actions Have Consequences

Thanks to the race mongering agitators who infest the Obama Regime, Ferguson (Missouri) is back in the news. Holder and Barry have, once again, whipped the Melanin-Enriched - near and far - into a frenzy. As a result, two police officers were shot by a sniper, in Ferguson.

The Obama regime has convinced the factually challenged that Ferguson police are racist. True or not, the accusation will have consequences. The most likely result is obvious, to me. If the protesters, the cop shooters, want a less aggressive police force, they might get it.

Let's say I'm a Ferguson cop and doing my sworn duty endangers my life and gets me nothing but grief from the citizens I'm sworn to protect and serve. Given that, I'm going to do as little as possible, without losing my job.

In other words, if you're demanding less law enforcement, don't be shocked...don't you dare whine, when you get it.

The same is true, when it comes to Ferguson's local businesses. If you keep, looting, burning, and robbing local businesses, eventually, the store owner will close up shop and move his business to a more hospitable town. Actions have consequences.

The Obama Regime will vilify these consequences as racist, so what else is new. The correct term is 'cause and effect'.

A Few Things Talya Needs To Know

It's coming from all points of the political spectrum and we're fed up with it.

Few days pass without a news report, from somewhere in the world, that shows it's alive, well, and EVERYWHERE.

Enough already!

I've had my fill of whining, whimpering, bitching, blubbering, complaining, and caterwauling.

I've had my fill of alleged humans who think their hypersensitivity gives them the right to dictate what sovereign individuals can say, write, do, read, watch on the boob tube, see in a movie theater, or listen to on the radio.

They can't, or won't, wrap their mind around a non-negotiable element of objective reality: there is no inherent right which prevents you from being offended. No matter how bitter that pill is to swallow, you must cope with the fact that the right not to be offended DOES NOT EXIST.

Since so many of the world's alleged humans aren't paying attention, I'll, once again, give you the non-negotiable facts about your inalienable individual liberty birthright:

* There is no Constitutional "right" that protects you from being offended.

* You don't have the right to criminalize all speech, all images, all activities that you deem inappropriate for your rugrat.

* You don't have the right to silence others because you don't want to hear what they say.

* You don't have the right to stop others from creating and displaying certain images because you don't want to see them. (Are you paying attention, CAIR? Am I coming through loud and clear Donny?)

* You don't have the right to stop consenting adults from engaging in private, consensual, sexual activities because you disapprove of them.

* You don't have the right to invoke the government's monopoly on the use of force to coerce other individuals to surrender their inalienable right to their own life, their own liberty or the pursuit of their own happiness.

* You do not have the right to use coercive Nanny State power to force them to adhere to your narrow, puritanical, view of propriety.

Inalienable individual liberty in general, and freedom of speech in particular, is a real pisser. It's an unrelenting thrill ride during which all concepts - including your sacred cows - are tested, molested and denigrated. The ensuing free exchange of ideas - all ideas...sacred to profane and everything in between - is an equal opportunity offender, especially for certain notoriously thin-skinned individuals. Like it or not, it's part and parcel of inalienable individual liberty.

Blah, blah, blah. I'm putting myself to sleep with this abstract bull crap. It's time to kick it up several notches and deal with some specifics:

If you're an Atheist in the Freedom From Religion Foundation who got a painful boo-boo over the USPS' Mother Theresa stamp, that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, banning it to 'make it all better' isn't an option. Just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a stoned on Old Ka-Boom supernaturalist who goes postal because a Mexifornia landmark, Mt. Diablo, is named after the Devil, that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, forcing a name change on rational adults who like 'Mt. Diablo' is not an option. Just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a 'ginger' who lives down under and got a boo-boo over an Aussie zoo's advert about 'rangas' (Aussie speak for orangutans AND slang for red-heads), that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, making them pull the advert is not an option. If 'ranga' is too much to bear, just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're so pathetic that a brief glimpse of Janet Jackson's coco-colored hooter during a Super Bowl broadcast makes you queasy, that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, using it as an excuse to dictate what I can watch is not an option. If peek-a-boob makes you catatonic, just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you detect hidden - from any rational adult - GLAAD BAAG imagery in a character on a lame kiddie program, Teletubbies, that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, trying to have it banned from the tube is not an option. If you're too stressed to handle it, just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a slacker who gets huffy over job adverts which ask for applicants who are 'reliable' and 'hard working', that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, demanding that the Nanny State slap a 'discriminatory' label on it is not an option. It's time to do what you gotta do: cower in mom's basement, close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a properly pious pinhead who has a memorable meltdown, when you encounter a bikini or lingerie clad wench at your local coffee kiosk, that's your personal problem. I don't give a dam how much it offends you, dictating a coffee barista's dress code is not an option. If you can't handle a coffee wrangler's dangerous curves, just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a gutless wonder who has a hyperventilating hissy fit over shock jocks whose standard fare is Frat Boy prattle and locker room humor, that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, using the Nanny State's monopoly on the use of force to drive them off the airwaves is not an option. If you can't handle it, and you're too technologically challenged to change the station, just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a Morality Nazi who is outraged that the Merriam Webster dictionary in Moonbeam's or Testeronny's classroom defines "oral sex" as "oral stimulation of the genitals", that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, having an essential learning tool like a dictionary pulled from the classroom is not an option. If you can't handle the fun fact that your precious snowflakes discussed this topic, in much more graphic terms, on the playground, just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT.

If you're a Colonista who thinks it's racist, when an American proudly declares that the USA has one flag, and one language, that's your personal problem. I don't give a damn how much it offends you, replacing the Stars & Stripes with another flag and/or replacing English as the language of this land, is not an option. If you don't like it, then slither back to that beloved blight on the globe where you can GET OVER IT, under the flag of your choice, in any language that thrills you spitless.

Admittedly, the preferred solution - just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, hum REAL LOUD, and GET OVER IT - has its limitations. There are some cases where a more drastic solution, one specifically tailored for a given situation, is required.

For example, what about certain alleged humans who have turned being chronically offended into their life's work? In some cases - those paragons of tolerance who make 'the Arab street' so thrilling - the answer is simple. Since these liberty phobic Islamikazes are perpetually offended, the solution is obvious. Fit them all out in their finest homicide bomber explosive vest, entice the entire insane Islamikaze mob into those precious Arab streets, then blow them to the hell they deserve, simultaneously. No closed eyes needed. No fingers in the ears. No loud humming. LOTS OF GETTING OVER IT.

There are, I'm compelled to admit, other charter members of the professionally offended, for whom there is no cure. Why isn't there a cure? Because for them, being chronically offended is their profession. I refer to Ethnocrats who make a nifty living from being offended: Je$$e, Al Sharpton, Calypso Louie, and others of that ilk. I also refer to Morality Nazis who have carved out a lucrative market niche while being offended, on behalf of the children and/or 'for the Lord'. For all of them 'getting over it' is not an option, so it's time to bring out the FSOP's heavy artillery: STFU, asshole...Don't make us come over there.

You have the right to be a chronically offended, caterwauling piece of crap. It's no skin off my nose. You do NOT have the right to force me to change MY life, because my choices as a sovereign individual are 'offensive' to a hypersensive asshat like you. If you can't wrap your mind around that, I'll simplify it for you: sit down, STFU, and GET OVER IT.

Bait & Switch

During the 2014 Midterms the Pachyderm Punks talked the talk. They said, in essence: 'Give us control of the Senate, plus a bigger majority in the House and we'll rein in Obama'. We the People had our doubts, but, hoping for the best, we gave the Elephant Clan control of the Senate.

Most of us rationalized it, looking forward to a Senate where Harry Reid wasn't in charge. Did we get our wish? Not exactly. Harry Reid isn't Senate Majority Leader anymore, but he's still in control, because McConnell isn't willing to play hardball.

In the House, Speaker Boehner has a sizeable chunk of his fellow Republicans out for his scalp. Is he about to be deposed? Nope, because he cut a deal with Pelosi, who has promised to deliver the Demoncrat votes needed to keep Republican Boehner as Speaker.

The upshot of all this is interesting. In a Congress led by Boehner and McConnell, the Jackass Party calls the shots and sets the legislative agenda. BUT, when it hits the fan, when We the People get riled up, it's the Pachyderm Punks who get the blame.

Drilling Round The Clock

Porn Star Kardashian and hubby Scowly are humping relentlessly so they can give daughter Nori a brother or sister. So what? Good question.

Shorty and Porny [Kim] is quoted as saying she's having her furrow plowed "500 times a day". I think that's amazing. Do the math and you'll agree:

500 humps divided by 24 [hours in a day] equals 20.8 boinkings PER HOUR.

If Scowly has that much stamina, I'm VERY impressed. I suspect that he's engaged the services of a team of pros to help him with the drilling.

Irreconcilable Differences

[In the wake of recent events - legalizing border jumpers, Net Neutrality, banning AK-47 ammo - this rant is more on point than ever.]

If America's political system is like a marriage, we seem headed for a bitterly contested divorce. The two sides only share one thing, an unrelenting hostility for each other. For the purposes of this rant, I'll call these warring parties Obamunists and Sovereign Individuals.

To show how far apart the two sides have drifted, here are a few bones of contention:

Item 1:
Sovereign Individuals believe that the primary purpose of government is to create an environment which maximizes individual liberty. Sovereign individuals call this 'an equality of opportunity'.

Obamunists believe that the primary purpose of government is to impose an equality of results through the coercive power of the Nanny State.

Item 2:
Sovereign Individuals believe in the U.S. Constitution, as the Founding Fathers intended it: a document which sets strict, non-negotiable limits on the Nanny State, by clearly delineating the government's limited powers.

Obamunists view the U.S. Constitution as an archaic relic of America's ignoble, white racist past which needs to be abolished, to unleash the full, coercive power of the Nanny State.

Item 3:
Sovereign Individuals, as their name implies, believe that the basic unit of American political life is the individual. America is/was created to maximize INDIVIDUAL liberty. Under this philosophy, all individuals are, in the eyes of the government, created equal.

Obamunists believe that the basic unit of American political life is the group. Under their scheme, the Nanny State pigeonholes Americans using immutable traits and/or lifestyle choices. Under this Orwellian scheme, some - depending on how the Nanny State ranks a given group - are more equal than others.

Item 4:
Sovereign Individuals believe that wealth is dynamic and is only limited by the intelligence and hard work put in by sovereign individuals who strive to maximize their potential.

Obamunists believe that wealth is a static commodity which must be controlled, redistributed, by the Nanny State.

Item 5:
Sovereign Individuals believe that each individual is, must be, accountable for his, her, hisher, or its own actions.

Obamunists are convinced that dark forces - racists, capitalist, sexists, homophobes - are constantly conspiring against them.

Item 6:
Sovereign Individuals believe that they, and they alone, are the best, the only, ones who have the right, the power, to decide how to conduct their own life and dispense with their own property.

Obamunists know how pathetic they are and have convinced themselves that they're too stupid, too inept to conduct their own life. Since misery loves company, they insist that the Nanny State run everyone's life, including those smartass Sovereign Individuals.

I could continue, but you get the idea.

The good news is that, if Sovereign Individuals prevail, the worst that will happen is that Obamunists will lose their bogus, group-specific, rights and will be forced to fend for themselves as GASP individuals.

The bad news is that Obamunists greatly outnumber the Sovereign Individual and are using Nanny State coercion to, systematically, strip Sovereign Individuals of their inalienable individual liberty birthright.

This Sovereign Individual thinks it's time for a political divorce, a nasty process which must, necessarily, divide the community property - America. Sovereign Individuals would move to their portion of America and restore the kind of government, the bastion of individual liberty, that the Founding Fathers created. The Obamunists would be free to devour each other, when they discover that all the achievers live in the Sovereign Individual part of America.

Questions

Why won't the FCC release any detailsCONTAINED in the Net Neutrality edict it just passed?

What's in it that they don't want We the People to know?

How far have they exceeded their authority, this time?

Is, as many have reported, this a George Soros assault on our liberty?

Is, as seems likely, Net Neutrality a ploy by the Obama Regime to muzzle any/all vestiges of Freedom of Speech in cyberspace.

Now that Obama has gutted the First and Second Amendments, what's next?

When will he disband congress and declare himself Dictator/Tyrant for Life?

Does his agenda for the 'last' two years of his presidency include cancelling the 2016 election?

When will the FCC banish the following items from OBAMA'S INTERNET?

* Criticism of the One

* -We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

* Criticism and/or inconvenient truths about Obama's ISIS cohorts?

When will the fucking Republicans grow a set of balls and mount a vigorous, unrelenting defense of the Republic against this despot's systematic destruction of our nation?

Why hasn't the militantly Marxist Jackass Party been identified for what it is: a TERRORIST organization?

Life in the Fast Lane

I was plying my trade [consulting Test Engineer] at Wonderland when my phone rang. It was Chiquita and she needed my assistance with an incoming call. I'm her 'go to' choice, when her faltering English isn't up to the challenge.

I answered the call and blundered into the fast lane of Progtard Politics.

Eager and ernest, the caller identified herself as Tiffany and explained that she was calling from far off Massachusetts on behalf of some Progtard activist group. [I think it was Progressive Change Campaign.] Since Wonderland is in a notoriously lefty metropolis in a VERY lefty state, Tiffany made the rash assumption that I would be sympathetic to her cause.

Wrong, but I let her yammer about the corporate Demoncrats who lost the 2014 election. I listened to her trot out all those sad stories of tykes who aren't getting supper, and assorted other egregiously emotional Progtard pleas. I listened to her entire pitch, waiting for the punchline.

Eventually, she cut to the chase. The whole sob story was a pitch for a donation to Fauxcahontis - Senator Elizabeth Warren. For 'as little as $150' I could help the Jackass Party plunge America much farther into the Progtard abyss.

I'd heard enough, so I told her, "I wouldn't give your Jackass Party a penny if my life depended on it."

She asked "Why?"

"Because you Progtards inflicted that Dumbo-eared Kenyan Marxist on us to help you finish destroying this nation. Enough is enough." I replied, before hanging up.

Enemy.

I love the America of my birth.

Its solid foundation of capitalism and the inalienable individual liberty it fosters rocks my world.

It's a country where an individual can climb as high as his intellect, skills and work ethic will take him.

It's a country where an individual is evaluated based on his thoughts [beliefs], words, and deeds, not immutable traits and/or lifestyle choices.

I've stumbled many times in my life, but the America of my birth let me get up, dust myself off and keep trying, until I got it right.

The America of my birth fostered an environment that encouraged individuals to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

At one point in my life, I put on the uniform in its defense. Despite the passage of years, I would do so again, because the country of my birth, the America I love, is being destroyed by the enemy in our midst.

The enemy in our midst is winning.

The America of my birth is being destroyed, piece by piece.

Can it be saved?

I'm not sure, but as far as I can tell Levin's Article V solution will get it done, a long shot, a best.

I need a drink!

You Can't Make This Up

* Baby it's cold outside

A Global Warming protest was cancelled at Yale University because of the cold weather and snow. Such cancellations seem to be rather frequent, as the weather just does not seem to cooperate with the Global Warming promoters. [LI]

According to the Ruskies, they've got it all wrong:

Russian scientists are now predicting that a major Ice Age of several hundred years duration has now begun. Colder winters and later springs seem to support their prediction.

* Egypt

When the Islamic Brotherhood Jihadikazes ruled Egypt Obama got them new F-16 s in record time.

Now that al-Sisi is using those same F-16s to kill ISIS, Obama is refusing o send Egypt spare parts.

That seems to answer the oft asked question: whose side is he on?

* Giving

Obama is doing everything in his power to give our mortal enemy, Iran, nukes.

Obama is doing everything in his power to give our best friend in the region, Israel, the shaft.

A Handy-dandy Guide to All Those Pesky Political Labels.

Conservative
A moribund political philosophy that was the big kid on the block for a short span of time. Its decline came quickly, after it was mortally wounded by neglect then thrown over the side by a political clan that put politics ahead of principle.

The primary problem with conservatism is that there's nobody around to articulate its core tenets since its two foremost promoters, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater shed this mortal coil, years ago.

Liberal
A political philosophy that was so demonized by rational adults that it tried to recreate itself by renaming itself "progressive".

Progressive
Everything that rational adults said about liberals applies to progressives. No longer saddled by the legacy of those 'classical liberals', progressives can give free rein to their inner Socialist. The cutting edge of this movement is so far ahead of the pack, they are eagerly stampeding over the cliff into unabashed Marxism.

Moderate
The popular myth about "moderate" states that this is an indecisive individual who can't or won't choose between the two political options: conservative, liberal. That might be true in some cases, but many who call themselves "moderate" are seeking political cover. Mexifornia's Action Hero former governor is a prime example. He's a liberal, but admitting that in public might have damaged his plans to run for the U.S. Senate - as a Republican. "Moderate", he insists, applies to "thoughtful" people. Bull crap. Moderate applies to stealth liberals who need conservatives to punch a chad for them in some future election.

Independent
Often confused with a "moderate" an Independent is a politically-savvy rational adult who has taken a long hard look at both of America's political clans. Seeing through all the political smoke and mirrors, the Independent issues a non negotiable "Bite Me, Nanny State punks" to both clans. An Independent is the political equivalent of the Rugged American Individual.

Centrist
Depending on the individual, a Centrist will, by and large, find a perfect fit among either Moderates or Independents. It's a matter of core convictions. If he, she, heshe, or it has them, "Independent" is a better political label. If he, she, heshe, or it is a Juan McCain class 'whichever way the political wind blows' twerp, "Moderate" is the appropriate political label.

Word Games

[The two dominant mantras which are all the rage among Elected Tormentors are "civility" and "keep an open mind". We'll set aside 'civility' for now, and concentrate on "keep an open mind". Why? Because, "keep an open mind" is, invariably, pair up with another popular Capitol Hill mantra: bipartisanship, a political ploy which reaches critical mass, whenever Demoncrats feel their power slipping away.

With "keep an open mind" on the political agenda, I decided to disinter this Hambo rant which will serve as a refresher course on this mission critical concept.]

One of the most overused mantras - Lefties and Righties are equally guilty - is that noxious canard: "You need to keep an open mind." Whenever I hear that, the infamous Hambo bullshit alarm starts blaring inside my head. Why? Because 'keep an open mind', is zealot code for "I have this nifty political/intellectual Kool-Aid that you'll learn to love as much as I do."

In this Obamunist Error, the primary Kool-Aid dispensing clowns are the Nanny State Nitwits, who have some Socialized Medicine flavored Kool-Aid they're eager to force-feed 'open minded' Americans.

Before you drink anyone's 'open mind' Kool-Aid, do yourself a favor and spend a few moments consulting Hambo's primary muse, Ayn Rand:

"Open Mind" and "Closed Mind"

[There is a] dangerous little catch phrase which advises you to keep an "open mind." This is a very ambiguous term—as demonstrated by a man who once accused a famous politician of having "a wide open mind." That term is an anti-concept: it is usually taken to mean an objective, unbiased approach to ideas, but it is used as a call for perpetual skepticism, for holding no firm convictions and granting plausibility to anything. A "closed mind" is usually taken to mean the attitude of a man impervious to ideas, arguments, facts and logic, who clings stubbornly to some mixture of unwarranted assumptions, fashionable catch phrases, tribal prejudices—and emotions. But this is not a "closed" mind, it is a passive one. It is a mind that has dispensed with (or never acquired) the practice of thinking or judging, and feels threatened by any request to consider anything.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy require is not an "open mind," but an active mind—a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them critically. An active mind does not grant equal status to truth and falsehood; it does not remain floating forever in a stagnant vacuum of neutrality and uncertainty; by assuming the responsibility of judgment, it reaches firm convictions and holds to them. Since it is able to prove its convictions, an active mind achieves an unassailable certainty in confrontations with assailants—a certainty untainted by spots of blind faith, approximation, evasion and fear.

Ayn Rand, 'Philosophy: Who Needs It'

Open Mind = Kool-Aid! Everyone loves Kool-Aid. I never say 'no' to Kool-Aid. Fill me up, Sparky.

Closed Mind = Not no, but hell no. I don't give a rat's ass what flavor it is, or who made it.

Active Mind = Why are you pushing it so obsessively? Who made it? What are its side effects? What are its long term impacts? Where can I find out all about it? I'll need a lot more information, before I drink it.

For those who still don't get it, try this:

Open Mind: Susceptible to peer pressure it's a 'go with the flow' mindset, AKA 'civility'.

Closed Mind: "Bite me, I'm right, end of discussion."

Active mind: A rational individual who dares to deploy an 'active mind' gives opposing ideas thoughtful consideration. After evaluating the opposing idea the rational adult might integrate some, or all of it into his, her, hisher, or its knowledge base. On other occasions, he, she, heshe, or it will challenge the flawed idea, before politely rejecting them. It's called 'thinking' and/or 'reasoning' and it can be a painful pitstop on the road to enlightenment.

When it comes to the Nanny State Nitwits, set your reason free and make an active mind your first line of defense against political/intellectual poison festooned in deceptive packaging.

This Made Me Laugh

Why I'll never win on Wheel of Fortune

 

Apparently, the correct answer is "LUCK BE IN THE AIR TONIGHT"…

Who knew?

(Come on! Get your mind out of the gutter!)

Was my mind in the gutter? You better believe it.

False Alarm

When I spotted this headline on Fox News, for one giddy moment my hopes soared.

"Kenyan lawmaker shot and killed by masked gunmen"

Alas, the room temperature Kenyan isn't our Kenyan.

DAMN!

News Page

I finally got real about our News Digest. Instead of waging a losing battle trying to breathe new life into it, I created our Headliners page, which is easier to manage and thus amenable to frequent updates.

Unlike the Digest, Headliners is very 'of the moment'. It's user friendly for images and links to especially compelling You Tube videos.

The old News Digest became much too time consuming, for a variety of reasons, the main one being the loss of several essential news sources.

Although it still needs refining, the Headliners page is up and running now. To access it, click on the News banner at the top of page one.

 

Poles & holes.

[Now that Bruce Jenner is in 'transition' from male to whatever, I decided to bring him up to speed on the perks of being genderally confused. Lord knows, after 'servicing' a Harpy like big mama Kardashian, I can understand why he'd be so disgusted by where his wang has been, that he'd want to lop it off. Decades in that Kardashian hell would emasculate the most macho dude, 'most macho' being a term I wouldn't apply to this cupcake.

I do have one issue to raise. After seeing the Harpy's daughters - Sasquatch, Urpy, and Pornstar - why the f**k would you even consider spawning with her TWICE? No wonder you want to chop it off.

Anyway, Bruce, here is some information that might guide you over some forthcoming speedbumps.]

A 9th grade Mexifornia wenchlet thinks she's a guy, so she's demanding the 'right' to use the boy's restroom. Herhis hissy fit was so memorable that Eric the Red (Attorney General Holder) has declared this gender bending brain fart a 'civil rights issue'.

What's herhis damage? It's called Gender Identity Disorder and it's the cause celebre among Victocrats. Here's how Wikipedia describes it:

Gender identity disorder (GID), also known as gender dysphoria, is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe persons who experience significant dysphoria (discontent) with the sex they were assigned at birth and/or the gender roles associated with that sex. It describes the symptoms related to transsexualism, as well as less extreme manifestations. Affected individuals are commonly referred to as transgender.

In real life, GID involves some wingnut who isn't thrilled spitless with their plumbing. I don't give a damn what THEY call it. I call it Mad [at my] Nads Disorder. Is it real? Probably, for 1 in 30,000 individuals. For the rest, Mad Nads is just one of those disorder of the month brain farts. It's hip...it's the in thing...it puts you on the cutting edge of victimhood.

It's primary 'perk' is a thrilling one: Mad Nads lets you use any locker room, any restroom, that the tranny wants to use.

If you're thinking this is strictly an adult brain fart guess again. School districts in Mexifornia and Massachusetts have done away with gender-defined restrooms. Anyone can use any restroom in any grade school, middle school or high school. Why? 'We' must coddle Mad Nad nitwits, by letting them swap gender roles, whenever the mood strikes them.

Mad Nads may, or may not, be real. Real or not, rational adults need to bitch slap Mad Nads coddlers and tell them to STFU. The solution to this restroom/locker room debacle isn't rocket science.

Your imaginary gender is irrelevant. If you've got a hole - original equipment or a tribute to modern medicine - you do your business in hole city - the women/ladies/girls facilities.

Your imaginary gender is irrelevant. If you've got a pole - original equipment or a tribute to modern medicine - you do your business in pole city - the men/boys facilities.

For consenting ADULTS, public, UNISEX, bathrooms and locker rooms could sooth those bruised Mad Nads egos.

If you cut to the chase, you are what you're packing: a pole, or a hole. Why make it more complicated, when it's as easy as that?

Paying Homage To My Muse.

Saturday, February 2nd, is the 110th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth. The least I can do is to thank her for helping me take my mind out of neutral. I give her credit for lifting the mental fog which clouded my thinking, when I was young, full of myself, and clueless.

Admittedly, my introduction to Ayn Rand was a painful one. It happened while I was working for a company that made a primordial form of computer memory devices. At the time, two of us shared a small test room, where we performed some mindless tasks that left ample time for conversations.

My co-worker was an Objectivist, who always managed to humiliate me during our discussions of various ideas and/or events. Eventually, I got the message. I was spouting drivel that had been jammed into my brain, unprocessed. Since I never fully analyzed my 'beliefs', I didn't have a snowball's chances in hell of defending them. Okay, let's be real...the mush that filled my brain at that time was indefensible.

Eventually, my co-worker took pity on me and gave me a guidebook to lead me out of my mental fog. It was 'Atlas Shrugged', a book which, in every possible way, rocked my world. Ayn Rand's wisdom still rocks my world, decades after she has shuffled off this mortal coil.

Thanks to Ayn Rand and her compelling wisdom, I know what I believe, and why. Admittedly, my understanding of, mastery of, her philosophy is imperfect, but I still have ample time to drag myself onward, upward, to a more complete understanding of her Objectivism.

I owe her, big time, for helping me switch on my brain. Before I thank her for that, I will do a Nixon and make one thing perfectly clear. Ayn Rand gets credit for my metal clarity, such as it is, but I do NOT blame her for my regular brain-farts. With that in mind I say, "Thank you Ayn, and Happy Birthday."

Something Familiar

The other day, Mark Levin went off on liberals and their asinine ideas. Eventually, he hit upon a familiar sounding notion.

Levin said a 40% hunk of the USA's landmass should be set aside for them. Inside their Utopian real they would be free to inflict all of their asinine brainfarts on their fellow, Utopia dwelling libs.

Mark fumbled for a name, then settled on Libtopia.

I like his idea. In fact, I liked it at least as much, more than a year ago, when I wrote something very similar.

I called mine 'Progtopia'.

Progtopia
Turning a blind eye to the law of unintended consequences, Libertards are much too eager to pull a half-baked, hair brained, notion out of their ass then inflict it on free ranging sovereign individuals. I think these Libertard brainfarts should go through a 'road testing' phase in a 'controlled' environment.

We need to create a special enclave - Progtopia - to road test these fetid Libertard notions. We must isolate it, then populate it with off the cliff lefties. Let them find out, the hard way, that CFL's become a mercury spilling biohazard when you break one. Let them figure out the downside of doing away with paper and plastic shopping bags. Let them get that special thrill when they convert two lanes of a busy byway into 'bikes only lanes'. Let them get those 'who knew that would happen' reality checks. I'm just sayin'.

How The Government Should Work

Whenever someone proposes a new government program, a rational adult in a position of authority should demand answers for questions like these:

1) What is this program and what, precisely do you expect it to accomplish?

2) Is this a proper [Constitutional] function of government? Prove it.

3) Could the marketplace accomplish your objective more efficiently than the government? Has it been attempted? Did unwarranted government interference - red tape, regulations, taxes & fees - doom the effort?

4) Even if the government can do it [is allowed Constitutionally], is it something the government should do? In other words, is this 'problem' merely one possible consequence of a free people exercising their liberty?

Parting Shot: A rational approach to government? When hell freezes over.

Hambo's Annual Tax Season Tirade.

[Spawned by Barry's soak the rich tantrum at his State of the Union whine-a-thon.]

If you watch any Capitol Hill Clown Posse debate about pending tax legislation, you're destined to hear one of the Demoncrat Elected Tormentors say 'it'. They'll launch a lengthy, high volume, self-righteous tirade about 'tax cuts for the rich' and spout bull crap that 'the rich don't pay their fair share'.

Whenever I hear that crap, it's, instantly, obvious that the bloviating Elected Tormentor - like all the class warfare punks in congress - thinks everyone's rightful property, including yours and mine, really belongs to the Nanny State. In their alleged minds, the Elephant Clan steals the government's money and gives it to the undeserving fat cats. That twisted attitude stands reality on its head, because, when you steal a guy's wallet then hand him back two dollars for bus fare, you're not giving him any damn thing. You're returning a small portion of the wealth that you stole from him.

Some rational adult needs to grab these greedy, public trough swilling, pissants by the scruff of the neck and lay some unvarnished facts on them. Since there aren't any rational adults available, I'll administer this reality check:

* Contrary to popular parasite-coddling myth, money earned by sovereign American individuals is not government property. It's not the government's damn money; it belongs, first and foremost, to those individuals who earned it. The government likes to gloss over this fact by calling an individual's hard-earned money a 'resource' or 'revenue'.

* You need to get real about tax refund checks. When you 'get money back', you didn't put one over on Uncle Sam's Tax Nazis. That refund means that THEY STOLE TOO MUCH MONEY FROM YOU, the prior year. It means that they stole it, used it, then returned it, WITHOUT PAYING ONE DAMN PENNY OF INTEREST.

* The only thing that stands between Uncle Sam and an armed revolt by outraged taxpayers is the withholding scam. They take it a little at a time, and they get THEIR cut of your hard earned money FIRST. They've got you so distracted that you don't even count that part of your check as YOUR MONEY. If every American taxpayer had to write a check on April 15th for the FULL AMOUNT that Uncle Sam is stealing from you, those tax revolt barricades would be manned in a New York minute.

* A tax cut, by definition, goes to those who pay taxes. Since the top 10 percent of wage earners pay the lion's share of taxes collected [the data on this contention has been widely distributed and remains unrefuted] they will, quite rightly, get a bigger tax cut than those who pay little or nothing.

* Giving a tax cut to those who don't pay taxes is not a tax cut, it's a wealth transfer scheme. We need to call this by its proper name: WELFARE. The 'earned income tax credit' is a prime example. Let's say a family of four earning $29,000 pays $1,500 in withholding. When they file their taxes, they will get a $3,200 refund, thanks to this earned income scam. In other words, this welfare payment scheme gives them all of their withholding back, plus and additional $1,700 'donation' from kindly Uncle Sam. When you cut through all the bovine excrement, the EITC works this way: If you earn less than $33,000 a year and have kids, the IRS will give you back 2 or 3 times what they withheld for taxes. Ka-ching! When you get back more than you paid - double or triple what you paid - it's not a tax refund, it's a welfare check that was 'laundered' by the IRS.

* America's tax system punishes, criminalizes, achievement and rewards failure. If you're a born parasite, a loser who can't get out of his own damn way, kindly Uncle Sam will steal somebody else's hard earned money and give it to you. All you need to do is whine for it. If you're an achiever, Uncle Sam will tax you into the poorhouse. If, by some miracle you leave a sizeable estate, Uncle Sam will snatch it away from your rightful heirs, sell it and give the proceeds to the parasites who are feeding off the rotting corpse of the American dream. Stealing money from the one who earned it and giving it to someone who didn't isn't 'class warfare'; it's an old fashioned mugging, with Uncle Sam's Tax Nazis doing the dirty work.

* Achievers who transform ideas and hard work into big bucks aren't the parasites. The real parasites are the political punks who spend decades swilling at the public trough. The real parasites are congressional class warfare cretins who steal the rightful property of America's achievers and use it for their own benefit, by distributing it to their friends, supporters and the chronically-greedy losers who keep re-electing them to congress.

My hard-earned income is not a government resource. My hard-earned money belongs first, last and always to me. You're not doing me any favors when you announce that the next time you mug me, you're going to steal a little less of my money. Class warfare and the transfer of wealth scheme these congressional class warriors perpetrate is straight out of the Marxist playbook: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." That might thrill the Capitol Hill class warrior clowns spitless, but it has this pagan scribbler seriously contemplating a second American Revolution. Enough is enough!

'No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as "the right to enslave."

A right does not include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.'
(The essay, 'Man's Rights' by Ayn Rand)

At War with Islam?

It's interesting, to say the least, to hear professional yammer jammers - talking heads, plus their boombox counterparts - tie themselves in knots over Jihadikazes. Today, I heard three radio prattlers, running off at the mouth about the toxic phrase 'at war with Islam'. Ironically, the prattlers are as leery of the phrase, as the Elected, Selected, and Appointed Tormentors in positions of authority who also take great pains to steer clear of it.

Q: Are 'we', Uncle Sam if you will, at war with Islam?

Yes, and no.

Yes, our enemy in the on going war is motivated by the well-documented militant elements of the religion. They follow their prophet's actions in this matter.

No. Our government isn't taking their self-professed motivation into consideration. If our enemy is downgraded to 'inexplicably cranky individuals who probably just need a hug',then we are a much greater threat to our own inalienable individual liberty than the Islamikazes. It's the same as us fighting an old fashioned - pistols at 10 paces - duel, blindfolded, while our opponent's vision is unimpeded.

Q: Are we - Uncle Sam - at war with 'terror'?

No. Terror is a tactic.

Once again, I am compelled to state the obvious.

Point One: Obama and all the other assholes of his ilk may not like it, but the inconvenient truth is that millions of Islamikazes, inspired by their flavor of Islam, are at war with us. It is a religious war BECAUSE THEY SAY SO. We ignore that at our peril.

Point Two: Islam - any and all flavors of it - is, inherently incompatible with inalienable individual liberty. Islam means - and requires - submission, surrender, of control over one's life. It micromanages all aspects of a believer's and unbelievers life via Shariah Law. There's no way to make that coexist, peacefully, with inalienable individual liberty.

This willful myopia is what causes vile bullshit, like the murders in France, and elsewhere, in the name of Islam.

Required Reading

[PIGster J sent this to me. It's long - I'll post it over several days.]

Media Fear Tactics
BY Gavin De Becker

Part III

OFFICIALS ADMIT…
"Officials admit that the incident could have developed into a full-fledged riot…" In this context, admit means that when a reporter asked, "If police had never reached the scene, and if a hundred other factors had fallen into place in an extraordinarily unlikely way, couldn't this have developed into a full-scale riot?" Yes, it could have – an admission.

EXPERTS…
It may seem you are getting expert advice on the news, but that's far from so. The moment you edit what an expert says, it's just words you might as well put in the blender. Would you let a TV news crew mediate your doctor's advice? Imagine being challenged by a difficult illness and your doctor's compassionate and complete 30-minute presentation was edited down to 23 seconds.

That's what the local news brings you: expert opinion edited, mediated, and minimized by non-experts who ask questions designed to elicit the most alarming responses. "Yes, yes, Dr. Stevens, but if it did happen, it would be terrible wouldn't it?

NAMES
MONIKERS
When the news media assign a nickname to a wanted criminal (e.g., The Night-stalker, The Hillside Strangler) or to a disease (Legionaire's or Flesh-Eating Diseases), it is indicative of a hoped-for series of reports. When it's a type of crime (Follow-home Robberies), a trend is not far behind.

For example, freeway shootings and "Road Rage" led to all these headlines: "AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS TURN FREEWAYS INTO FREE-FOR-ALLS," "ROAD RAGE: DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION," "HIGHWAY VIOLENCE SPREADING LIKE AN EPIDEMIC."

Next comes "Officials are concerned," and soon enough –as with Road Rage, you've got hearings before the House Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, and somebody (in this case, committee staff member Jeff Nelligan) calling the issue, "A national disaster." Presumably, Mr. Nelligan would tone that down a bit today – all of us having found a new meaning for the words "national disaster."

I TOLD YOU SO…
An NBC News story quotes a member of a university task force on weapons of mass destruction: "We've been talking about this for years and people in general have not been interested." Is there some surprise there – that someone on a task force about weapons would be talking about weapons? The intended implication of these stories is that if someone had just listened, this could all have been prevented. How could discussions at some college task force have been used to prevent anthrax scares? If we had listened, what would be different? This is like an earthquake happening and earthquake experts saying, "We warned you." Yes, you did; you said there'd be an earthquake sometime. If only we'd listened.

DISASTER UNREADINESS…
These are stories where TV news people cannot lose. They ask hospitals or public health officials or the utility company or the fire department if they can handle a disaster of X magnitude. If the response is yes, they just keep upping the disaster magnitude until the response is no.

Here's an example from NBC News: "A survey of 30 hospitals in four states and Washington, D.C., found them ill-equipped to handle a widespread biological disaster." A guaranteed fear-inducer, pokes right at our insecurity. First off, just asking the question implies that a "widespread disaster" is coming, and it's even better if the survey was part of a "new study," because that implies that the question itself is well founded.

Either way, the basic premise of the story is true: If hospitals currently able to handle 500 patients an hour get 5000 patients in some terrible hour, they will be unprepared. The standard of care will drop. Is there something surprising about that? Do TV news writers think Americans assume there is some extra team of 200 doctors and an extra 5000 fully-equipped hospital beds waiting in their community somewhere just out of sight?

Indeed, hospitals are unprepared for that which they have never had to be prepared. Being able to deal with what predictably comes down the pike and putting your resources where they are most likely to be needed is good planning. An emergency room would have to trade some daily-used resource to be ready for mass casualties that don't appear to be coming. Yes, as the world changes and events change, so does preparation – but expecting hospitals to be fully prepared, for example, to treat thousands of inhalation anthrax casualties when there's been a few lethal cases in 30 years would constitute bad planning.

One can make an "unprepared" story about anything; America's police are unprepared for a "widespread crime disaster;" our supermarkets are unprepared for a "widespread food shortage." It all depends upon how you define the word widespread. Put a microphone in some official's face and ask if he's adequately prepared for an attack on the harbor by Godzilla, and you've got an unreadiness story.

WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN…
"Being stuck in the elevator for six days is an experience Betty Hamilton will never forget." This is used as a measure of how serious an incident it was, but did anyone imagine she was going to forget it? "I think I was stuck in an elevator for six days, but I can't quite remember."

THE WRAP-UP…
Pay attention to the very last line in news reports. They are rarely summaries, but rather are designed to keep the story open for more reports. Most often, the closing line takes a last bite at the fear apple, one final effort to add uncertainty and worry. "Many here are left wondering if it will ever be safe." "Fear continues its tight grip on this tiny community." "Whether more will die remains to be seen." In the world of TV news, frightening stories never end. We never hear the words "And that's that."

Let's put a few of these newsroom strategies together into a story and see how it looks. As the basis for our mock TV news report, I'll draw on something that actually happened to my assistant. Earlier this year, her wrist was injured when a dog bit her.

THE TEASER:
"NEXT UP: DOGBITES! THE BONE-CRUSHING POWER OF DOGS. Experts warn that even friendly dogs can bite, sometimes without provocation. And they're everywhere. A new Government study estimates as many as 300 dogs per square mile, with the numbers climbing each year. How many backyards in your neighborhood are hiding a deadly menace? We'll tell you what experts say – when we come back.

THE STORY:
A shocking bite from the dog everyone described as "a little angel" leaves one area woman nursing her wounds. Dog-jaw experts say that even a small dog can produce as much as 500 pounds of biting force, and given the rate at which dogs breed, it's just a matter of time before more people are placed at risk. A former employee with the Department of Health says hospitals are unprepared for a major increase in dogbites, and officials are closely monitoring this situation that could pose a deadly threat to our nation's neighborhoods. Disturbing questions have been raised about loopholes in the licensing system, and observers point out that dogs who bite can receive licenses and be released into neighborhoods.

THE WRAP UP:
It's no surprise that many local residents are living in fear: "You never know when somebody is walking their dog right behind you. We're scared." Officials say links between the recent dogbite and one that occurred in the tiny town of Ames, Iowa have not been confirmed, but either way, it's a nightmare few will ever forget. And one that many fear will not be over in the morning."

Coming to understand these popular phrases and strategies, and being able to see around them has made me appreciate those news reports that are direct, clear, and informative. Since many news people use these tricks, those who do not stand out as all the more special and valuable.

If you watch TV news, you're probably going to spot lots of sensationalizing tactics I've missed, and maybe even start a list of your own. If finding them becomes an occasionally enjoyable part of your news-viewing experience, that in itself will be great news.

Required Reading

[PIGster J sent this to me. It's long - I'll post it over several days.]

Media Fear Tactics
BY Gavin De Becker

Part II

OFFICIALS ARE CLOSELY MONITORING…
Implies that something is imminent, and worthy of being closely monitored. "Closely monitoring" is like "Officials are on the lookout for…" Both phrases suggest that something bad is surely coming, as if officials are standing outside looking around with binoculars.

COULD
PERHAPS
POTENTIAL
MIGHT

"NASA reports that a large piece of space junk -PERHAPS as big as a freighter– COULD enter the Earth's atmosphere sometime tonight over North America. Experts warn that it is could potentially slam into the earth."

What are we to do with this report? Move a little to the left or right? They don't say, of course, that every night, thousands of pieces of space junk enter the Earth's atmosphere and completely burn up before ever hitting the ground, or that no person on Earth has ever been struck and killed by a piece of space junk. Or that if something's as big as a freighter before entry, it might end up as small as a grain of sand – but it could potentially hit your house, I suppose.

AN ALARMING PERCENTAGE…
15%, 20%, 25%…
"15% of Americans are at risk of being seriously injured in car accidents on our nation's highways this year." Whenever you see a percentage cited, reverse it and think about the other share in the equation. For example, from the story above you can conclude that 85% of Americans are not at risk of being seriously injured in car accidents this year. Sort of good news, all things considered. Also, phrases such "a sizeable percentage," or "an alarming percentage" can be applied to just about any percentage. Get the actual number, and then you decide if it's sizeable or alarming to you.

AS MANY AS:
"Experts warn that as many as 25,000 people in America may be carrying the deadly gene…" or "As many as twenty states may be susceptible to radiation leakage disasters."

"As many as" means somewhere between zero and the number given.

"IN A DEVELOPING STORY…"
A phrase used when they don't really have the story yet.

FORMER EMPLOYEES:
"But one former employee at the doomed refinery reveals shocking new information…"

What does he reveal? That they fired him because he was too ethical, or because they didn't want to hear the truth? Or that he knew all along? Anyway, he wasn't there the night of the fire, so is he the best source of information? Truth in advertising would require the reporter to say: "We interviewed one man who hasn't been to the refinery in three months – his opinion, next."

LANGUAGE FROM ONE STORY BEING USED IN ANOTHER:
As certain words and phrases become symbolic or evocative from one type of story, they'll use them in another. In the days after 9/11 I saw a TV news report about a tropical storm making "a direct hit" on a tiny coastal community, as if the hurricane were aiming. (And the word tiny is used because it implies vulnerability. Storms that make direct hits on tiny places are frightening bullies.) A story about a flight that experienced extreme turbulence is headlined "Terror in the Sky."

DEADLY:
As in the popular "deadly virus;" this word is used to imply that everyone who gets the virus perishes, when the truth is that very few people die from the virus. If a really serious virus ends up being fatal for 20 percent of the people who contract it, then truth in advertising would require language such as: "Next up, a local man is stricken with a highly survivable virus."

It's quite a bit shy of deadly when someone tests negative for anthrax, yet in the weeks after 9/11, even a negative test for a "deadly" virus was presented as a frightening thing.

To put this into perspective, flu-related disorders killed 5000 times as many people as anthrax in 2001. Is anthrax still scary? Yes, and all the more so because of the implication that it was everywhere (colored maps showing the places in the U.S. where anthrax was found or suspected). It wasn't everywhere. Reports were everywhere. And the same report repeated seventy-five times is still the same report. But you wouldn't know that by the excited delivery: "New details emerge in that anthrax case." Details maybe, but not new – far more likely when you watch TV news, they'll be the same "new" details for the tenth time that day.

A storm is described as deadly: "We'll have new information on that deadly hurricane that's heading up the coast." A hurricane qualifies for the word "deadly" when someone, somewhere on the hurricane's round-the-hemisphere journey dies as a result of the storm. That does not mean the hurricane tries to kill all people it encounters, but that's the implication – that something dangerous is coming. You'll note that the people who die are usually in a situation far different than yours: They are on a small fishing boat at night off the coast of Peru, and you're at home 1200 feet above sea level.

"IN A LAST MINUTE DEVELOPMENT…"
"IN A SURPRISE DEVELOPMENT…"
Usually means they didn't get a news crew there in time. Or they didn't warn you about it yet, which actually is interesting, since there's only two or three possible awful outcomes involving human beings and they haven't warned us about yet.

DISTURBING QUESTIONS:
As in "Disturbing questions have been raised about the safety of our nation's…" Yes, the questions are disturbing. They're disturbing everyone. Please stop raising them.

"A NEW STUDY REVEALS…"
"A NEW REPORT WARNS…"
"EXPERTS FEAR…"
"EXPERTS WORRY…"

Yes, reports and experts do seem to warn, fear, and worry a lot.

"EXPERTS SAY IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE…"

They sure do.

BUT NEW YORKERS FEEL…
Global conclusions drawn from man-on-the-street interviews represent literally nothing. You can edit a story into "New Yorkers feel terrified," or "New Yorkers are ready to move on" – and it all depends upon which of the five interviews you cut into the piece broadcast.

Here are two quotes brought back by one NBC News crew:

"I think if you change your life, they're winning," says Captain Frank Carver. "So the more we continue our daily routine, better off we all are."

At Pat's Country Bakery nearby, Joann Charters concedes she's still apprehensive. "It's a really scary feeling with kids in school. You don't know what's gonna happen," says Charters."

To accurately summarize these quotes you'd have to say: "Some people feel one way and some other people feel another way. Back to you, Tricia."

Joann Charters citing that it's scary because "you don't know what's going to happen" is right on. That's why it's scary: because you don't know what's going to happen – not because you do know, not because danger is advancing toward you, but because it is not.

TV news stories like this are filler, background, static, irrelevant. You don't need a reporter and a video crew to bring you man-in-the-street opinions. There are men on your street you can get opinions from. Or you could just talk to your friends and family.

WARNING SIGNS…
Any list of warning signs implies great risk. I recall a rash of reports about car-jacking in Los Angeles, and this list of warning signs:

Armed stranger approaches car;
Taps on closed window;
Looks around suspiciously.

And then they offered the checklist of precautions, given by an "expert on car-jacking." (Is there a college course on that?) The checklist:

Keep doors locked;
Don't let strangers into your car;
Drive away.

This is tantamount to:

"NEXT UP: CRIMINALS WHO HIDE OUT IN YOUR PURSE AND ROB YOU WHEN YOU GET HOME!"

Warning Signs:
Purse feels extra heavy;
Strange noises coming from purse.

Required Reading

[PIGster J sent this to me. It's long - I'll post it over several days.]

Media Fear Tactics
BY Gavin De Becker

Part I
It would be interesting if the standards of Truth in Advertising were applied to television news as they sometimes are to television commercials. In that unlikely situation, TV news writers would be required to use phrases and words that convey accurate information – as opposed to the phrases and words they use today.

I want to help you break the code of alarming newspeak so that you can more easily find the valuable information that may (or may not) be part of a story.

Given the disturbing reasons we've all been watching so much TV news, it would be understandable to overlook the sheer ridiculousness that is inherent in some of the sensationalism. Occasionally, the way TV news is delivered can be downright funny, and indeed, the ability to laugh at something indicates that we are beginning to gain perspective on it. Accordingly, some of what follows is funny, and I have a very clear purpose in offering it: I want to help change your experience of television news, help you actually watch it differently. I want to provide some tools you can use to ensure that when you watch TV news, only actual information gets through.

Though not offered as a comprehensive glossary, here are some examples of words and phrases I think you'll quickly recognize:

POSSIBLE: As in "Next Up: Possible links between Saddam Hussein and tooth decay…"

The word "possible" doesn't really have the specificity one hopes for in journalism, given that it is completely accurate when applied to anything anyone can possibly imagine. "A possible outbreak of…" means there has been no outbreak. "A possible connection between memory loss and the air you breathe…" means there is no confirmed connection.

"Officials are worried about possible attacks against…" means there have been no such attacks.

Anytime you hear the word possible, it's probably not happening right now.

LINKS:
"Next up: Possible links between convicted murderer Charles Manson and yesterday's traffic jams in the downtown area."

Are these two things linked? Absolutely, if you loosen your criteria enough, everything is linked by its presence on the same planet at the same moment in time – but only a very few links are instructive or meaningful.

Links are a great news trick, because you can tie a remote, unconfirmed, or even unimportant story to something that's really pushing buttons. "Next up: Possible links to Bin Laden" is all you have to say to get attention these days.

Almost always when you hear the word link, there is no confirmed link.

"OUR NATION'S…"

"...our Nation's water supplies…"
"...our Nation's roadways…"
"...our Nation's shipping ports…"

They use this trick to imply some large scale to a story. "A new threat to our nation's water supplies" won't be a threat to our nation's anything. Our nation is enormous. Nothing, not even nuclear bombs, poses a threat to all of any system in our society at the same time. When they say "our nation's" anything, they are usually trying to give grand significance to something that doesn't have grand significance. We might not perk up as much if they said, "A new threat to Klopp County's water supply…" The incident in which old Doc Ames truck leaked oil into the reservoir just isn't gonna scare up enough ratings. But it could: "Next up, a new threat to our nation's water supply. An alarming incident that experts say could happen anywhere!"

SHOCKING NEW DETAILS:
"Shocking new details when we come back." Well, first of all, the details are not likely to be new, and if so critical, why are we waiting till after the commercial, and anyway, what does shocking mean at this point? Unless the news anchor reaches through the screen and pulls my hair, I don't imagine he could shock me. They've ruined another word for themselves.

AUDITORS
OBSERVERS
ANALYSTS
INSPECTORS
LOOPHOLES

"Auditors cite loopholes in security at our nation's libraries."

That's right, anytime you have an audit or an inspection, you're going to find something. Auditors are people who've been hired to write reports identifying deficiencies. Have you ever heard of a one-line audit report? "The auditors didn't a find one damn thing that could possibly be improved." Did you ever hear of an inspector who said: 'We've wasted six months on this inspection, because the place is bloomin' perfect. Whoever's running this show sure thought of everything."

The implication projected in a story about a security loophole is that someone will come crashing through the loophole – but that is not necessarily so. They tell you (and the terrorists) about the loophole because it is frightening, not because it's enlightening.

"IN A CAREFULLY WORDED STATEMENT…"
"In a carefully worded statement, the President said…" Is this as distinct from those statements that world leaders just have the kids throw together? "Carefully worded" is often used to imply that something is being hidden.

SERIOUS…
"Officials consider the threat to be serious." Is that to distinguish this threat from the threats they laugh about over lunch? Taking something seriously does not mean the risk is great or imminent. It just means officials are doing what anyone would do.

"Officials here are taking no chances when it comes to school safety." Sort of. More likely, they're taking no chances that reporters will broadcast a report accusing them of taking chances.

READ IT ALL HERE

Things I'd Like To See, in 2015

Another new year? So f-ing what? I asked the same question, and the answer I got isn't suitable for our - so sayeth Porcus - 'family-friendly' publication. My laughter and a not so subtle reference to his prescious 'Pinups Page' elicited a memorable outpouring of publisher profanity. Unfortunately, THAT isn't FSOP street legal either...sigh.

With the onset of a new year, there are certain 'givens'. The most important 'given' is a time-honored PIG ritual. What ritual? You'll love it. Once again, I ushered in this annual speed bump on our agenda, by hanging a new 'Hotties Who Hit Us With A Restraining Order' calendar on the wall of the top secret PIG bunker.

Out in 'the world', the usual suspects are disinterring old dirt, with those 'year in review', stories. Blah, blah, blah. Other News Nitwits swim in the shallow end of the journalism pool, by posting a list of socially acceptable New Year's resolutions.

Will I join this pathetic parade? You should know better, by now. If you expect me to take a long, fond, look back at 2014, get over it. I've been there, done that and have no interest in running that up the flagpole one last time.

Instead I'll indulge in wishful thinking. For me, a 'happy' 2015 will include one, or more, of the following items:

I'd like to see Uncle Sam cut Hawaii loose and grant them nationhood/sovereignty, IF...they agree to keep Obama.

I'd like to see Miley Cyrus' career flame out due to a drug-fueled scandal that involves a sex tape and farm animals.

I'd like to see Bieber get his lights punched out, when he gets snarky with some seriously badass dude.

I'd like to see my friend Chalky WTFU and let his BIG head do the thinking for a change.

I'd like to see: A "you first" amendment to all state and federal constitutions which would require the Elected Tormentor sponsor of any/all 'intrusive/Nanny' legicrap to 'road test' the proposed law, personally, for 6 to 12 months. If he, she, heshe, or it still thinks it's spiffy, after living it, the bill can be considered by the full legislature. [You first would also apply to regulation spawning government bureaucrats.]

I'd like to see an Elephant Clan that was more afraid of We The People than they are of the MSM.

I'd like to see Food Nazis forced to eat only the tasteless slop that they try to cram down our throats.

I'd like to see: A Rapture-like event which beams all those rabid, rampaging, Marxist Moonbats (Jackass Party & its low information chad punchers) to their own, off planet, circle of hell.

I'd like to see: Tuesday TA TAs. On the first Tuesday of each month, the women named by the TA TA Selection Committee [the PIG staff] would, as a patriotic gesture, lift American uh spirits by publically baring their TA TAs.

I'd like to see: The chronically offended [believes the Constitution protects them from being offended] must wear a sensory deprivation helmet which will block out all outside sights and sounds.

I'd like to see: Rational adult commuters get some firepower. Certified - by PIG - rational adults will be authorized to equip their rides with those miracles of modern weaponry: asshat-seeking missiles.

Have a Happy New Year PIGsters

Suicidal Tendencies?

Chalky - my friend who is destined to be immortalized as a chalk outline on his living room floor - called me this week.

Me: Chalky! You're still alive.

Him: That's my preliminary assessment, too, but it's subject to change, any minute now.

Me: Speaking of insanely murderous females, congratulations on your divorce. Are you still co-habitating?

Him: In theory, she's looking for her own place, but I'm not pressuring her.

Me: Chalky! Don't even think about it, or I'll take my show on the road and kill you myself.

Him: [Guilty laugh] It's a phase I'm going through, on two fronts.

Me: Let me give my coffee a jolt of character before I go down THAT road with you.

Him: Okay.

Me: I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

Him: I had a dinner with both my ex-wives plus my offspring. Both women had gone all out and were looking fine, especially ex-wife the first, who was really coming on to me.

Me: So Hell 1, the mother of your child, is making a play for you in front of Hell 2, the woman who just divorced you, who is also making a play for you?

Him: [Sounding too smug] That's the joy of it. She...Hell 1 looked damn good.

Me: When I do the math on your 'social' life, it doesn't add up: Hell 1 plus Hell 2 equals HELL NO. And, that doesn't even include your girlfriend who is still married. Three is a full dance card dude.

Him: You're taking this better than I thought. My Armenian hottie will be thrilled.

Me: Hell 1 is Asian. Hell 2 is an Exotic of another stripe. Girlfriend is a Sushi Slammer. Now there's an Armenian in the picture?

Him: Wanna hear about it?

Me: Nope.

Him: No guts, no glory.

Me: Your love life is a line from a movie.

Him: Go ahead, hit me with your best shot.

Me: "DEAD MAN WALKING."

Him: Good one.

Odds & Ends

PIG's Terrorism Warning System

Lowest level: Nothing to see here, move along

Level 3: Uh Oh!

Level 2: Holy Crap

Level 1: We are SO SCREWED!

People asked for simple, straightforward, and easy to understand, and I nailed it. It's time to deploy the 'Mission Accomplished' banner.

*

When the Islamists are acting frightful
I've got an idea that's quite delightful
Send our nukes in to say "hello"
Make 'em glow
Make 'em glow
Make 'em glow

*
O Give Me A Home Where The Colonistas Roam
Where The Coyotes And Anchor Babies Play
Where Seldom Is Heard A Single English Word
And the Password Is Always 'Ole'

*

MSNBC Defined
Moonbats, Socialists, Nitwits, Blowhards & Cretins

If you're blissfully unaware of this steaming cable pitstop load, I can give you the BIG, MSNBC, picture with three statements:

If it's liberal, they admire it.

If it's socialist, they love it.

If it's Marxist, they worship it.

*
Back To Basics

A Is, And Always Will Be, A

Today, I'm going to, once again, state the obvious. Why? Because I can, AND, because it's necessary.

* The government doesn't produce anything. It's essentially an armed and dangerous parasite that uses its monopoly on the legal use of force to take wealth OUT of the economy, so it can be redeployed to serve the political agenda of the Elected Tormentors in charge.

* Although the Elected Tormentors do their best to exempt themselves from the laws they pass, there's one law that they can't escape: The Law of Unintended Consequences.

* The Nanny State operates, for the most part, in the political equivalent of slow motion. By the time a situation registers on their radar, the window of opportunity for useful action has already closed. When they finally do act, their antics come much too late and, invariably, make matters worse, instead of better.

* It is not a proper function of government to save sovereign individuals from themselves. Individuals, in a properly constitutional nation, get to make their own decisions, then reap the rewards, or pay the price, for their actions. It's our life and the proper function of government is to let we the people live it, without relentless Nanny State interference.

* If you punish something, via regulations, taxes and relentless interference, you'll get less of it. This is especially true if 'it' is a business which is able to seek more business-friendly surroundings in another city, county, state or nation.

* It's impossible to conserve your way to energy independence. Unless you're willing to move into a cave where your energy footprint approaches, as a limit, zero, you'll never be able to conserve enough to make this work.

* Green energy firms are boondoggles which need a steady infusion of taxpayer funded subsidies to show a 'profit' on their balance sheet.

* That ethically challenged windbag, who pretends to be your best friend, at chad punching time, is, in reality, a used car salesman - the one who sold you that clunker - who finally hit the big time.

* The Elephant Clan and the Donkey Clan are, in reality, the two rival wings of what must be viewed as the GOVERNMENT PARTY.

* Term limits aren't a silver bullet that will, magically, cure what ails government. Kicking out the scumbags via term limits is attacking the symptom and ignoring the real problem. Term limits don't alter the fact that, on a daily basis, government, at all levels, exceeds the authority that we the people delegated to it.

* A Dumbo-eared, clueless, rookie whose idea of leadership is voting 'present' on hard issues is going to get us killed, because he thinks that a charm offensive will make Jihadikaze asshats stop trying to murder every damn one of us.

* The Nanny State can't spend us out of an economic meltdown. No matter how much money they print...no matter how much money the Chinese spend buying up our debt, it will never be enough. Sooner or later, the bill becomes 'now due and payable', and when it does it has your name on it, taxpayer Sparky.

* The only meaningful difference between the Obamunist SEIU head-breakers and the Nazi brownshirts is the swastika on the Nazi uniform.

* Giving the 20,000,000 border jumping invaders in our midst 'amnesty' will set off a border jumping scumbag stamped that will flood this on great nation with 50 to 100 MILLION new mouths to feed.

* Iran's first nuke will be launched at Israel. Their second nuke will have OUR name on it, radioactive Sparky.

There! I doubt that any of you were motivated, informed or enlightened by that prose, but venting was very therapeutic for this pagan scribbler.

Breaking Wonderland News

For you rookies I'll set the stage, by defining some terms for you.

Fact One: I'm self-employed as a Test Engineer

Fact Two: One of my primary clients is a semiconductor firm I call Wonderland.

Fact Three: One of Wonderland's top dogs is a miserly dude whom I will call "Pincher".

Fact Four: Typhoid Mary is a perpetually wheezing, sneezing and disease-ridden quasi-permanent 'guest' in Wonderland. Guest? You bet, because, although she doesn't draw a paycheck from Wonderland, she does have office space there. Why? Because she's Pincher's live-in girl friend.

This blast from the past will get you up to speed:

[Classic Episode 4

One of the irrational adults running my primary client, Wonderland, is the poster punk for 'Miser'. Since he pinches his pennies so hard he makes Honest Abe bleed, I'll call him 'Pincher' to protect the name of the guilty. I know what you're thinking and you're wrong. Pincher isn't cheap out of necessity. He's cheap because he's hard-wired for it.

There is, needless to say, a serious down side to Pincher's aversion to spending money. How serious? I'll let you be the judge. Before we get to the fun stuff, I need to bring you up to speed on one of Pincher's prime directives:

* Never hire a trained professional, when you hire someone who is relentlessly clueless for a fraction of the price.

The unwritten corollary for the foregoing Pincher mantra is this: when hiring the relentlessly clueless to wrangle something primal like electricity or plumbing, Pincher himself supplies the technical expertise. In all honesty, Pincher isn't a complete novice in such matters, but he is, bless his miserly heart, dangerously enthusiastic. Is that as thrilling as it sounds? You better believe it, Sparky.

When it comes to his relentlessly clueless hired guns, Pincher has an impressive collection of them, but lately, his goto guy is a dude named Chico. I wouldn't call Chico 'relentlessly clueless'. I would, on the other hand, say that Chico knows just enough to be dangerous about a wide variety of Mr. Fixit tasks. Pincher could care less about that, because Chico's primary claim to fame for Pincher is 'works cheap'.

Now that we have all the players identified, it's time to get down to business.

For the past two weeks, Pincher and his goto guy, Chico, have been working on a pesky plumbing issue at Pincher's home. It started as a simple problem - a leaky pipe - but, after more than a week of Pincher's inspirational expertise, and Chico's 'works cheap' magic, this dynamic duo managed to seriously f**k things up. How seriously? Very:

* The toilets no longer flush.

* There is poop floating in the bathtub.

* As for the laundry room, you really don't want to know what happened, when they tried to run a load through the washer.

How did they manage all this in such a short period of time? I don't know, but along the way they ripped open walls, dug holes in the floor, crossed several pipes, and created a gap in the plumbing that neither Chico or Pincher knows how to close.

Today, after nearly two weeks of unrelenting, amateur plumber, fun, the novelty of toilets that won't flush and bathtubs filled with poop has worn off. Humbled, to say the least, Pincher swallowed his pride and summoned a trained, plumbing professional.

Has he learned his lesson, after turning a relatively inexpensive plumbing fix into a very costly plumbing nightmare? I doubt it.

Parting shot: Pincher just spent an obscene - for him - amount of money on new outdoor barbeque grill. It's BIG and it's GAS POWERED and it requires a solid foundation (preferably a cement slab). If Pincher and Chico start playing with GAS, it's going to be a very hot time in Pincherville. I can't wait to hear all about THAT ONE. Fire in the hole? You better believe it, Sparky.]

Why did I make you slog through all that? Because, once again, Pincher is molesting the plumbing in his home.

Digging In

Today, during a pitstop at Wonderland, I was approached by Pincher's live-in squeeze,Typhoid Mary. The fun hit high gear, after I resolved her technical issue.

Among other things, she reported that the plumbing in Pincher's home was out of commission, a situation which is now into its second week (9 days, to be exact). She had my undivided attention when she said Pincher is 'fixing' it himself, with a trio of helpers we'll call Larry, Curley and Moe. I don't know if they're an upgrade from Chico, who is no longer on Pincher's radar.

According to Typhoid Mary, the Stooges have excavated an impressive ditch, so they can replace the main drain pipe running from the house to the main line in the street. I'm sure the local water department will be thrilled, when Pincher and his 'crew' spread their special brand of 'no functional plumbing' joy to the entire neighborhood. Since Pincher assured Typhoid Mary that it would be 'fixed' today, I'm guessing the Stooges are on final approach. Their date with destiny might be delayed, however, because the weather hooligans are spouting drivel about rain.

I could, maybe should, give the water department a heads up, but I'd hate myself if I denied them the thrill of 'he's and idiot' discovery. Stay tuned for more 'he did WHAT' fun.

One final tidbit seems in order. While Pincher and his Stooges molest the plumbing in Pincher's home, Pincher and his squeeze are hunkering down with Typhoid Mary's ex-husband. Don't even ask, because I'm not going to touch that one.

The Hambo Awards
(Awards that recognize tragically neglected areas of human achievement.)

Award Title : Vlad The Impaler Sacrificial Lacky Award
Award : The Golden Pike
Recognizes : Those faithful lackeys whose job it is to fall on the sword for their masters
Past Recipient : Carl Douglas, of O.J's dream team
Nominee : Julia Pierson, Lois Lerner

Award Title : Edward M. Kennedy Alcoholic Has Been Award
Award : Silver Swizzle Stick
Recognizes : Someone who has drunk/drugged themselves into obscurity
Past Recipient : Robert Downey Jr.
Nominee : Lindsay Lohan

Award Title : Damian Williams, I Was Framed Award
Award : Bloody Brick
Recognizes : The Most Notable Victim of Society
Past Recipient : Everyone's favorite double murderer, O.J. Simpson
Nominee : Nidal Hasan, Tsarnaev brothers

Award Title : Leslie Abramson Abuse Excuse Award
Award : Platinum Shotgun
Recognizes : A so-called criminal forced into the illegal act by their victim
Past Recipient : Famous feminist heroine and cover wench, Lorena Bobbitt
Nominee : Jodi Arias

Award Title : Roy Bean Madam Justice Award
Award : Crystal Blindfold
Recognizes : A Judge, shyster or Justice System official who takes the law where it was never intended to go.
Past Recipient :U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts (Obamacare ruling)
Nominee :Eric Holder

Award Title : Charles Darwin Thwarting Deserved Extinction Award
Award : Diamond Dodo
Recognizes : A person or group which gives aid and comfort to the terminally incompetent
Past Recipient : Those who perpetrated the Americans with Disabilities Act, which made chronic lateness syndrom a recognized disability, The U.S. Congress
Nominee : The Trial Lawyers of America who perpetrate obesity lawsuits, tobacco lawsuits

Award Title : Nathan Bedford Forest Diversity Award
Award : White Cowl
Recognizes : A person or group which has the greatest effect on race relations
Past Recipient : Rodney King, Saint Skittles
Nominee(s) : Mike 'Gentle Giant' Brown

Award Title : James T. Kirk Spirit of Star Trek Award
Award : Bronze Toupee
Recognizes : A person or group who boldly goes where no 'man'(or woman) has gone before in their zeal to the expand the limit of human stupidity
Past Recipient : Hank 'Guam Capsizes' Johnson.
Nominee : Joe Biden - Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Title : George B. McClellan Leadership Award
Award : Tin Saber
Recognizes : A person or group who has snatched defeat from the jaws of certain victory
Past Recipient : Mitt Romney for his epic fail in 2012.
Nominee : "Line in the Sand" Barry for his pathetic CIC performance in the Middle East

Award Title : Andy Warhol's Fleeting Fame Award
Award : The Ruby Soup Can
Recognizes : A person or group whose 15 minutes of fame is up, whether they know it or not
Past Recipient : Kendra Wilkinson
Nominee(s) : Twerky & Jerky

Hate Speech Revisited

Objective reality exists whether we like it or not. Its properties don't change because we aren't thrilled spitless with one or more elements of it. Daring to improve on a stellar dose Ayn Rand's wisdom, I boldly proclaim that "A is still A, whether we like it or not". These days, those who insist that A is actually B will accuse you of hate speech when you dare to set them straight.

Hate speech is an entirely subjective concept. When you shrug off all the panty wadding caterwauling and get to the heart of the matter, you find out that 'hate speech' is anything that the listener doesn't want to hear. Wrapping themselves in the mythical 'right not to be offended', the hypersensitive listener impugns anything that gives them a psychological boo-boo as 'hate speech'. In other words, 'hate speech' is any speech that the hypersensitive listener thinks is 'too real'. When did calling a spade a spade become 'hate speech'?

If you tell a liberal (progressive) that Messiah Barry, the Botox Bitch, and Dingy Harry are 'Marxists', you'll be hammered for hate speech. They might forgive you for the last two, but don't you dare say it about Messiah Barry. Is it really hateful to call him a Marxist? Not really, because his bloviating about "spreading the wealth" and "leveling the playing field" are nothing more than the 21st century equivalent of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

If you tell a conservative that the political brain-farts espoused by Bush I, Bush II, Karl Rove, Juan McCain, and the RINO horde are promoting The Great American Nanny State in disguise, you'll get a boatload "that's hateful" blowback from VRWC Kool-Aid drinkers. The speech is "hateful" because they really don't want to hear about it. You'll get the same "that's hateful" blowback when you tell them that two-fisted spending, Nanny State promoting conservatives are no better than their big spending, Nanny State adoring liberal counterparts.

If you tell an Islamikaze that their Mecca Mania is fundamentally incompatible with inalienable individual liberty, you'll be slammed for "hate speech". Don't even bother to point out all the ways that Sharia law drives a stake through the heart of your inalienable individual liberty birthright, because it's a complete waste of time. Your speech is hateful, because they really don't want to hear about it.

When you cut through all the self serving, "stop saying that" bull crap, you get to this dose of pagan scribbler reality: If the truth hurts, it's hate speech.

[What brought this on? This item from our awards page:]

Braying Jackass of the Week

Zach Traynor is an inmate at Dartmouth, and that fun fact raises numerous questions. For example, how is he able to function in an educational environment with his head shoved up his ass. How did he qualify for Dartmouth if he can't wrap his synapses around this unambiguous prose:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...

I don't know how Zach feels about religion, and I don't care. When it comes to freedom of speech his attitude is
very simple: STFU.

In an editorial in The Dartmouth titled " Fixing Free Speech," Traynor claims the extent in which the First Amendment protects American's right to express their views and ideas is "distasteful."

"[T]his country has gone too far in allowing people to say whatever they want, and should curtail speech that is obviously harmful to society, such as hate speech."

"[T]his country has gone too far in allowing people to say whatever they want, and should curtail speech that is obviously harmful to society, such as hate speech," writes Traynor. "This kind of speech, despite being clearly distasteful, has long been upheld as legal in America because of the First Amendment."

"[G]iven America's deeply-held cultural norms and the power of the Internet and social media, such a scenario is highly unlikely," writes Traynor. "We need only small but significant change to the freedom of speech in this country: namely, the prohibition of unambiguously destructive, hateful speech." [Campus Reform]

MORON! Hate Speech laws criminalize THOUGHT.

Thanksgiving

I have a simple request that Id like you to consider. When you sit down to that dinner and start giving your thanks for all the blessings this nation conceived in liberty bestows upon us, don't forget to thank those who are putting it all on the line defending our liberty. On this day of giving thanks, give thanks to those who are far from home, defending America.

If you see one of our men or women in uniform, take the time to shake their hand, and thank them from the bottom of your heart for their service to our country. Given the attitude at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they're probably feeling unappreciated, so take the time to thank them.

In a perfect world, you'd set an extra place at your table and invite them to join you, but that's your decision, your call. All we ask, is that you remember our fighting men and women on this day of giving thanks.

Parting shot: The good news is that the turkey coma will wear off. The bad news is that you have less than tad over 30 days to get ready for Turkey Coma II, the sequel on Christmas Day.

Bill Cosby

Where's Gloria Allred? Given the number of women involved, she should have reeled one in by now.

Ferguson

If the destructive tantrum continues to destroy the town piece by piece, Ferguson will turn into another urban wasteland, like Detroit.

 

My lovely bride got this and ask how I would answer it.

First Item:
.
Now, you're on the clock. In 9 minutes something will make you happy. Please share this with 15 girls you love. Remember, only for *girls*. If I don't get this back I'm obviously not a close friend.

My answer: The 15 girls requirement would be a slam dunk, if it wasn't for that [expletives deleted] Hooters restraining order.

Besides, in the requisite 9 minutes, the only meaningful change in my life is the malfunction of my other ride while my Paganmobile is in the shop.

Needless to say, neither of these fun facts makes me happy.

Second Item

Now, I have a game for you, it's been played since 1977.

My response: Why?

Once you read this, you have to send it to 15 people.

My response: Why would I alienate 15 of my friends with this drivel?

Your next 5 days will be like this:

Day 1 - you will wake up to the biggest shock of your life.

My response: If that means an unscheduled regime change at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, count me in.

Day 2 - you will cross paths with an old friend you have missed.

My response: If you mean Iggy, give me time to reload.

Day 3 - you will find yourself with a lot of money.

My response: Iggy keeps saying this too, the lying bastard. That's why I shot at him the last time.

Day 4 - your day will be perfect.

My response: Obviously my time at the shooting range was well spent.

Day 5 - the love of your life will kiss you.

My response: Okay, but, if my lovely bride catches me there will be hell to pay.

....if you don't forward this, your next 5 days will be the exact opposite.

My response: The opposite? Been there, done that.

Don't break this. Send it to 14 friends in 10 minutes. It's not that hard. Whoever sent this to you must care about you.

My response: Don't hold your breath.

Hambo conclusion: For some reason, my lovely bride wasn't charmed by my responses. Win some, lose some.

Turkey Fryers

The season is upon us and that means everyone better make damn sure they have several fully loaded fire extinguishers at the ready. Why? How soon we forget. Tis the season when the male of the species decided to make a holiday meal memorable by cranking up the weapon of mass culinary destruction, the turkey fryer.

This years primer on this implement of male insanity will begin with a brief description of this annual pestilence. The newest household weapon of mass destruction is a cooking implement that had to be created by some deranged, real life Tim the Toolman: the turkey fryer. Essentially a deep fryer on steroids, it's the kind of toy that certain men can't resist, and, in too many cases can't be trusted to operate safely. This popular device is so fraught with peril that Underwriters Laboratories won't touch them with 10-foot toolman tongs.

To illustrate the thrill a minute potential of this infamous turkey charring inferno, here are a few of too, too true turkey fryer epics.

Jackson, Mississippi
Taking a page from Tim Allen's popular show, Mississippi denizen George Glenn staged a scene worthy of the toolman himself. His key props included a turkey, a plus-size pot filled with boiling oil, and two left feet.

'...After flambéing his bare hand on the turkey fryer's hot lid, Glenn flung the bird into the bubbling grease with a bit too much gusto. "It exploded like a cannon," said the Rankin County resident. "Grease shot up and I got second-degree burns on my forearms and hands."... (Sun Herald)

The Readers Digest version goes: oops, sizzle, expletive-replete 'ouch', splash, OUCH, extra crispy George. Don't try this at home.

ST. Cloud, Minnesota
He wanted to surprise his lovely bride by deep frying a turkey for her. She passed go on surprised and then some when the tally for his deep fried turkey adventure reached $14,000. His idea started when he borrowed the turkey fryer from a pal. After carefully reading the directions his friend provided, our hero purchased a thermometer to measure the oil temperature, because getting it too hot is not an option. Using his garage as turkey fryer central, he launched his gold d'oh adventure.

'...[Bill] Fickett said he was heating up about 3 gallons of oil before the fire started. He adjusted the temperature to the recommended 350 degrees, then stepped into the house to get the bird. Next thing he knew, smoke was pouring out of the garage...' (Fox News)

That's right, this flaming 'turkey frying' idiot managed to burn down his garage. Only a timely intrusion by the fire department saved the rest of his domicile from getting extra crispy. Am I the only one who questions the rationality of heating oil to the boiling point in an enclosed space like a garage?

Macon (Georgia)
Stop me if this sounds familiar: an unattended turkey fryer reached critical mass and "boom", it ignited the turkey fryer pinhead's house on fire. Fortunately, for the turkey fryer bright bulb, a neighbor, 21-year-old Brance Young, heard the damn thing explode. Running to the neighbor's house, he broke a window, then pulled a woman and her daughter out of harm's way.

The ultimate irony of this epic is the fact that Brance was turned down by the local fire department when applied for a firefighter job. Maybe the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department should take a long hard look at their hiring criteria, because PIG thinks Brance has the right stuff.

Chicago (Illinois)
Some bright bulbs decided to beat that wintery Windy City weather by setting up their turkey fryer in their garage. The unattended turkey fryer did what comes naturally, set the house on fire and resulted in a hefty $230,000 worth of damage to the turkey frying fatheads' abode.

Keizer (Oregon)
While heating up the peanut oil in the turkey fryer, the turkey fryer caught fire and might have done considerable damage, if a rational adult hadn't intervened. After trying to put out the inferno with a fire extinguisher, the rational adult tried to smother the flames by putting a garbage can over it. This worked will enough to confine the blaze until the fire department arrived to put out the stubborn blaze.

Fortunately, the home owner got off easily, with a mere $2,000 worth of damage.

The following triple dose of flaming turkey fryer insanity happened on the same day:

Euguene, Oregon: a newly completed house became a pile of well-done ashes when an unattended turkey fryer with a broken thermometer caught fire.

El Paso, Mexas: A turkey fryer was being used, inside the house and left unattended. Fire, plus boiling oil turned the domicile extra crispy.

Nolensville, Tennessee: A turkey fryer left unattended on the house's rear deck, overheats, catches fire and turns the log home into charcoal.

Finally, here are some warning signs that will SCREAM "Just say no" when your man suggests playing Ruskie Roulette, with your homestead:

You've been forced to hid the matches and lighters, because he's worse that your 3 year old when it comes to playing with fire.

His signature phrase is 'hold my beer and watch this'.

He's a Tim the Toolman 'more power' kind of guy.

His favorite BBQ has scorch marks from the last time he fired up the grill.

His most predictable comment when cooking is "I don't think this is hot enough".

Your insurance agent started sobbing uncontrollably when you told him that 'he' just bought a new, bigger, turkey fryer.

The fire department calls you by your first name, before you identify yourself, every time you call the station.

I've done my duty, PIGsters. I tried to warn you. If you persist in this turkey fryer insanity, Hambo will keep the appropriate parts of his body crossed. Don't hold your breath waiting for me to leave a light on for you, because it was YOU, not ME who let that fool fire up this implement of culinary destruction.

FTF Update

[Last year, I posted this dose of dialog.]

Christmas Eve [2013]

* FTF 1

While attending a Christmas Eve gathering with friends, I exchanged pleasantries with a dude whom I'll call FTF (First Time Father). He was holding his 11 month old son, while telling me about the tyke's memorable teething problems, including the noisy outbursts which the pain elicited.

Me: Noting the multicolored anklet on the tyke's leg, I asked: "What's that? Is it decorative or functional?"

FTF: "[FTM - First Time Mother] put it on him, to help with the teething pain."

Me: Noting the rolled eyes which accompanied his reply, I asked: "Does it work?"

FTF: "Uh, maybe. He's not crying today."

Me: "Perhaps, there's another explanation."

FTF: "Such as."

Me: "Maybe, by the time a tyke's otherwise rational parents get desperate enough to try something that irrational, the worst of the teething episode is over, giving the magic anklet credit it doesn't deserve.

FTF: "You might be right, but it stays on until he's done teething."

Me: "It can't hurt."

* FTF 2

Later, FTF had surrendered the Tyke to one of FTF's sisters. While she held the tyke, FTF entertained the nipper with a variety of objects.

FTF: He showed his sister some books the tyke had received as presents. "He likes books. He likes to turn the pages, even though he can't understand any of the words in it."

Me: "There are millions of government schooled inmates who have similar issues with their text books. Like your son, they turn the pages, while making inarticulate sounds about a book they're incapable of reading."

FTF: He stared, almost laughed out loud, then walked away to bask in my compelling wisdom in some quiet corner.

That's when I decided to dial it back a notch before he went into enlightenment overload.

Another Encounter [2014]

On Sunday, I attended another gathering of First Time Father's family. FTF was there with his offspring. First Time Mom, a young lady whom he brought back home with him, after spending a few years living in Japan, was with him.

The nipper, who turns 2 in January, isn't talking yet, leaving my burning question unanswered. What burning question? I'm very anxious to find out if the nipper will speak Japanese, English, or both. The jury is still out, but I did get a strong hint, on Sunday.

One of FTF's sisters was holding the nipper feeding him rice balls. She kept chatting with him - English, of course - but the kid didn't respond. On the other hand, the nipper was very responsive when mom showed up to reel off long bursts of Japanese.

FTF's Japanese bride is raising a Japanese son. In America. Bold New Concept.

I can't wait to see how that works out, over time.

Stay tuned.

Veterans Day

If you have friends or relatives who are combat veterans, you know that the experience changed them. In some instances, combat leaves physical scars. For most combats vets, it's the other, non physical changes that have the biggest impact.

One of my lovely bride's relatives is a WWII vet who survived the fiercest battles in the Italian Campaign. He was in one of those 'tip of the spear' outfits which put them in the hottest part of every battle. Eventually, his luck ran out. His wounds eventually healed, but his combat days were over, due to an arm rendered useless, in any meaningful way.

He returned home, and got on with his life, but he exhibited two traits I've encountered in other combat vets. He never complained about his combat-induced infirmities. Secondly, he never talked about his combat experiences.

Many members of my lovely bride's family served our country. One, a Marine, was severely wounded twice. Those wounds healed. The worst damage he incurred was caused by repeated dousing of Agent Orange that tormented him for decades, until he was given medication to control his demons. He, too, never complains about his combat-induced maladies and he never discusses his actions in combat.

Veterans Day is a day when we honor all our veterans, especially those living among us. It's important that we thank those who came back to resume their lives. They put themselves in harm's way, for us, and the experience forever changed their lives. Thanking them doesn't seem like it's enough, but it's all we've got.

It is with my deepest respect that I thank you for your service, veterans.

Another Take On Scapegoating

When it comes to scapegoating, this pernicious personality flaw is as old as humanity itself. Finger-pointing, blame-shifting, scapegoating and accountability avoidance are as venerable as the Garden of Eden where Adam pioneered it, by blaming Eve for making him eat the apple. Before you can say 'fig leaf', Eve pinned a 'scapegoat' tag on the snake. "The devil made me do it."

Not much has changed, since the infamous scapegoating exploits of Adam and Eve. Our excuses have evolved, otherwise, it's still "to err is human and so is blaming it on someone else". When it comes to the blame game, everyone gets to play. Need proof? No problem.

Are you having a terminally crappy day? No problem, Sunshine. "Everything was spiffy, until the dog pissed on my Wheaties."

Did you squander too much time on an awesome new electronic game, instead of studying? No problem. "The dog ate my homework."

Did your mom grab you by the ear for fighting with you brother? No problem. "He started it."

Did you come up short while paying your bills? No problem. "The check got lost in the mail."

Did your boss catch you porn surfing on your company computer? No problem. "Those I. T. slackers let this computer virus break through our firewall."

Does modern, 21st century life get on your last, raw, Islamikaze, nerve? No problem. "Everything was peachy, until those damn Crusades."

Did the proper authorities bust you for that kiddie porn on your computer? No problem. You can emulate a tragically real pervert and blame the family feline: "The cat jumped on my keyboard."

Did political setbacks make you snap, then murder the Blight by the Bay's Mayor and a County Supervisor? No problem, you can emulate the annoyingly real Dan White. "I ate too many Twinkies and the sugar shock warped my mind."

Did you rob a bank and kill several innocent people? No problem. "Poverty oppressed me into a life of crime."

Did you snap your back while participating in a refrigerator race? No problem. "Refrigerator manufacturer warning labels didn't tell me not to lift it."

Did you get fired for being HOURS LATE, every work day, for months on end? No problem. "My shrink says I've suffering from chronic lateness syndrome, which qualifies me for ADA disability protection."

Did you get busted for lurking in the ladies room, testosterone poisoned, Sparky? No problem. "According to the GLAAD BAAGS, I'm having a gender identity crisis."

Did the unflinching, you're not qualified, rules of marketplace engagement prevent you from getting that cushy job, that promotion, that raise, or the desk by the window, Melanin-Enriched Sparky? No problem. "It's blatant, 400 years of oppression, racism"

Are you so humongous that you set off earthquake detectors every time you move? No problem. "I'd be a lean, mean fighting machine, if Lard Burger put nutritional information on their menu and stopped FORCE FEEDING me transfats."

If all else fails, blame Bush 43. Why should Barry have all the fun beating that dead horse?

Observations

Today I met a young couple who stopped to thank us for our record-shattering pop corn adventure. They moved into a house one street over this April. Armed with a plastic garbage bag, the couple and their grade school age tykes were going through the neighborhood, picking up Halloween Night trash. That's a good neighbor. It's also setting an excellent example for their young 'uns.

We had at least 400 visitors on Halloween. We kept the pop corn machine going until we ran out of pop corn boxes. The good news is that, according to our pop corn clients, 'you're the best house in the neighborhood'. The bad news is that, according to our pop corn clients, 'you're the best house in the neighborhood'.

On behalf of the Free State of PIG, I'm delight to tell Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi: Welcome Home, Marine. Welcome Home.

On a related note, Montel Williams deserves our profound respect for his empassioned support for Andrew Tahmooressi. I am not a Montel fan, but that might change, after his unwavering quest to liberate our Marine from that Mexican prison.

The Walking Dead

I have a friend, who for reasons you'll soon understand, must remain anonymous. He lives somewhere in the USA. As far as his age goes, 'over 40' is the best I can do. Suffice it to say he's old enough to know better. Let's wrap this sketchy bio up by dubbing him 'Chalky'.

He called me over the weekend:

Me: Good afternoon.

Him: Do you have time to talk.

Me. Chalky!

Him: Chalky?

Me: For some reason, every time I see one of those chalk body outlines on a cop show, I think of you.

Him: So you think I'm living on borrowed time?

Me: [Laughing] I know it and so should you.

Him: I'm listening.

Me: True or false, you're married to an insanely jealous, notoriously homicidal woman?

Him: [Reluctantly] True, but you're exaggerating, as usual.

Me: Oh really? After another 'domestic disturbance' pitstop in response to a call from your wife, didn't a police officer of the female persuasion warn 'that woman is going to kill you'?

Him: Yes

Me: True or false, you have a girlfriend, and your wife knows all about her?

Him: True, but I won't own up to 'girlfriend'.

Me: Would you prefer Mistress?

Him: Girlfriend will suffice.

Me: True or false, your girlfriend is married to an 'old school' kind of dude who isn't buying the 'he's an old friend' fertilizer wifey is spreading?

Him: Yes, so what?

Me: So, now that we're on the same page, what's up, CHALKY?

Him: The Mormons are back.

Me: I thought you got rid of those dudes?

Him: I did. This time, a pair of Mormon women showed up and offered to do some chores for me. I'm seriously considering it.

Me: One of them must be a mega hottie, if you're willing to endure the standard LDS sales pitch, again.

Him: She's smoking hot, but her companion is there to protect her partner's virtue.

Me: [Laughing] 'Local Man Gunned Down By His Wife and Mistress, Who Teamed Up When He Boned a Mormon Hottie'

Him: She's worth the risk.

Me: Unless the LDS rules of engagement have changed, drastically, it's not going to happen.

Him: It can't hurt to try.

Me: What should I put on your tombstone?

Him: I can take care of myself.

Me: Let me write it down: He Said I Can Take Care of Myself

Me: Have someone make a video when you tell wifey how you promoted your married playmate to 'Mistress' to create an opening for a 'Girlfriend'.

Him: I'll look into that.

Me: Good man.

Him: About the Mormons...

Me: Same end game. Same sales pitch, but the huckster is much more enticing.

Him: I know...but she is so...

Me: You're hopeless. Instead of wasting time with you, I might cybersurf to Amazon and stream a movie.

Him: [Riddled with uncalled for suspicion] Ok, give me the punch line. What's the movie title?

Me: 'To Die For'.

Him: [Laughing] Nicely done, we're right back where we started.

Progtopia
Turning a blind eye to the law of unintended consequences, Libertards are much too eager to pull a half-baked, hair brained, notion out of their ass then inflict it on free ranging sovereign individuals. I think these Libertard brainfarts should go through a 'road testing' phase in a 'controlled' environment.

We need to create a special enclave - Progtopia - to road test these fetid Libertard notions. We must isolate it, then populate it with off the cliff lefties. Let them find out, the hard way, that CFL's become a mercury spilling biohazard when you break one. Let them figure out the downside of doing away with paper and plastic shopping bags. Let them get that special thrill when they convert two lanes of a busy byway into 'bikes only lanes'. Let them get those 'who knew that would happen' reality checks. I'm just sayin'.

Special Interests
With the chad-a-thon looming large, the airways are saturated with political ads. Predictably, supporters of a candidate or ballot initiative are vilifying the backer$ of the opposition as $pecial Interests. Don't get your knickers in a knot over THAT. $pecial Interests denote the deep pocketed individuals or organizations backing one's political opponents.

The deep pocketed individuals or organizations backing them are $upportive Constituents.

RINO Senate
If the Elephant Clan wins the Senate, don't get your hopes up for a rational adult revival. With Majority Leader Mitch in charge, only the rate of change will slow. It's like down-shifting from 5th gear to 4th. The engine will make more noise, and you'll slow slightly, but you're still going to be haulin' ass, and the gas pedal is a lot more responsive.

You Can't Make This Shit Up

[This is a very twisted tale, so I'll use this NRO posting to give you the big picture.]

A student who was born female felt perfectly comfortable identifying as a man at Wellesley College — until people said he shouldn't be class diversity officer because he is now a white male.

Timothy Boatwright was born a girl, and checked off the "female" box when applying to the Massachusetts all-women's school, according to an article in the New York Times. But when he got there, he introduced himself as a "masculine-of-center genderqueer" person named "Timothy" (the name he picked for himself) and asked them to use male pronouns when referring to him.

And, by all accounts, Boatwright felt welcome on campus — until the day he announced that he wanted to run for the school's office of multicultural affairs coordinator, whose job is to promote a "culture of diversity" on campus.

But some students thought that allowing Boatwright to have the position would just perpetuate patriarchy. They were so opposed, in fact, that when the other three candidates (all women of color) dropped out, they started an anonymous Facebook campaign encouraging people not to vote at all to keep him from winning the position.

"I thought he'd do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man there," the student behind the so-called "Campaign to Abstain" said.

"It's not just about that position either," the student added. "Having men in elected leadership positions undermines the idea of this being a place where women are the leaders."

Boatwright told the Times that his high-school friends knew he was transgender, but he identified himself as female on the application to Wellesley because he didn't want his mom to know. Of course, Wellesley is also a female school, and "it seemed awkward to write an application essay for a women's college on why you were not a woman," he said.

Okay we have a biological female who had one of those trendy, 'I'm really a guy named Timothy' brain farts.

Since she/he hadn't copied mom on that memo, she/he checked off 'girl', on the relevant Wellesley College paperwork.

Once she/he got settled in at the Estrogen Tower, she/he went all in on Timothy. So far, so good.

Timothy's saga hit a speed bump when 'he' decided to run for the school's office of multicultural affairs coordinator.

Unwilling to sully themselves three other candidates dropped out.

A backlash movement 'Campaign to Abstain' made 'him' bow out, too. So be it.

And now we arrive at the 'punchline', courtesy of the NYT:

"It wasn't about Timothy," the student behind the Abstain campaign told me. "I thought he'd do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man there. It's not just about that position either. Having men in elected leadership positions undermines the idea of this being a place where women are the leaders."

A white male? You're half right, cupcake, because she/he is melanin-challenged. BUT no matter what name she/he uses, Timothy is FEMALE

I asked Timothy what he thought about that argument, as we sat on a bench overlooking the tranquil lake on campus during orientation. He pointed out that he has important contributions to make to the MAC position. After all, at Wellesley, masculine-of-center students are cultural minorities; by numbers alone, they're about as minor as a minority can be. And yet Timothy said he felt conflicted about taking a leadership spot. "The patriarchy is alive and well," he said. "I don't want to perpetuate it."

"The patriarchy is alive and well. I don't want to perpetuate it." WTF! You're still FEMALE, gender-bender Sparky.

Everyone at Wellesley College is drinking the gender-bender Kool-Aid which is obviously TOXIC!

PIGish Wisdom

PIGish wisdom is everywhere, if you know where to look for it. This batch was harvested from t-shirts:

"I like my middle finger best because it always sticks up for me."

"My people skills are just fine. It's my tolerance to idiots that needs work."

"Why do I have to press 'ONE' for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I don't understand anyway?"

"OOPS! Did I roll my eyes out loud?"

"If God wanted me to touch my toes he would have put them on my knees."

"You're about to EXCEED the limits of my MEDICATION."

Asides

* According to the gossip rags, Justin Bieber recently bedded one of Bruce Jenner's teenage daughters. If Bruce hasn't already decided to lop off his 'business', learning that this twerp is shagging his baby girl will have him chopping off his nads in record time.

* Another gossip rag gleefully reports that Pornstar Kardashian was in such a hurry to catch a plane that she dashed out of her hotel, leaving her nipper - North West - behind. I think we have our Mother of the Year.

* According to a news report, Uncle Sam is yammering about transferring the Secret Service from the Treasury Department to the Department of Homeland Stupidity. Does Barry want to do for presidential protection what transferring the Border Patrol to DHS did for border enforcement? Interesting! Maybe he's more anxious to get himself out of the Oval Office than we thought.
[Remember, Progtards, if BHS has an unscheduled 'eviction' it's not an 'assassination' it's 'regime change'.]

* It would be very refreshing if the Pachyderm Punk Establishment was as unremittingly hostile toward the Jackass Party and Obama as they are towards the TEA Party.

MUSINGS

On Sunday, something odd happened on CBS. The viewership for '60 Minutes' plummeted 69% from the previous Sunday. According to MSM news reports, there's no way to explain this precipitous drop. Hmm.

What is it that they, know but won't...can't mention? If you're a rational adult, you already know the answer. Barry's minions made sure that everyone knew The One would be on the show yammering about ISIS. Do you suppose that Barry's face time nuked the show's viewership? Yup, but linking the two will prompt them to call you a racist. They'd much rather discuss that dude who invaded the White House.

*
Michael Brown became a household name, after he robbed a Ferguson (Missouri) store then had a fatal encounter with a local cop who shot and killed him. Since Mikey is black, you know what comes next.

What nobody wants to discuss is the fact that the cop who is vilified as a cold blooded killer, was severely beaten and ended up in the hospital with serious facial injuries. Holy self defense, Batman. You bet, but bringing this up is racist.

*
A standout on defense for the University of Missouri, Michael Sam probably knew he didn't have the right stuff to make an NFL roster via the 2014 draft. Nobody's fool, he wetted a finger and extended it to test the prevailing political winds and found what he needed. Days before the draft, he came out - I'm gay - hoping it would increase his chances. It worked, barely, since he was the last player picked.

He had his shot during the pre-season and he came up short. After nobody picked him up, he finally found a 'better than nothing' gig with the Dallas Cowboy's on their off the roster 'taxi squad'. Since he can only stay there 2-3 years, he shouldn't get too comfortable. Hired for being gay? Yup.

*
This year, there have been outbreaks of heretofore unknown diseases. One is concentrated in the Midwest where it has infected 300 people, most of them tykes. In Minnesota another disease is also targeting tykes. It's described as polio like, since it causes paralysis. There have been isolated cases of things like tuberculosis.

What's going on? I think these diseases were brought in by the border jumping 'refugees'. This is what happens when you don't subject 'visitors' [invited or not] to a health screening. It's no accident that nobody - MSM or government tool - has mentioned this likelihood.

In bygone days, we stopped disease spreaders at the border, but now we roll out the red carpet for them.

*
During his appearance on '60 Minutes' the Buckpasser in chief pinned the blame for ISIS on the American intelligence agencies who never saw them coming. What's he supposed to do about that now?

Lies! If he'd bothered to pay attention to his intelligence briefings, he'd have seen this shit coming, For at least two years, intelligence agencies sounded the warning. The report writers nailed it, on ISIS whose actions they predicted with compelling precision. What's going on? Here are a few possibilities:

He's lazy and never read the briefings.

Arrogant to a fault, he thinks he's smarter than the briefing authors, so he ignore their warnings of 'coming attractions'.

ISIS and its bloody rampage are just what he wanted, because it makes America look inept and he loves denigrating America.

*
Colleges do a lot of things, these days, but instilling knowledge isn't one of them. They tell you what you can, or can't say. They tell you when and where you're allowed to say it. They tell you what to think. As thrilling as that sounds, one school - University of Denver - kicked this intrusive crap up several notches.

As you'll read below, the University of Denver doesn't seem to trust students to form new ideas and relationships on their own.

Adam Kissel of Minding the Campus reports.

Freshmen: Here Are the Friends and Values We Want You to Have

For years, some colleges assigned new students roommates from different regions, races or classes. The idea, not very controversial, was to broaden the horizons of freshmen.

Now a more intrusive version of that plan has turned up via the University of Denver, where the chancellor believes a bit of social engineering will push students toward a diverse range of friendships. The chancellor, Rebecca Chopp, argued, "I don't think it is enough to leave new relationships to chance. … Let's cultivate practices in which students make friends not by chance but because we are cultivating friendships around community values."

In other words, 'we need to make these moves to maximize your Marxist indoctrination'.

Remembering James Traficant

James Traficant was a congressman from Ohio's17th district for17 years, until the feds sent him to the slammer for, 10 felony counts including bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion.

Demoncrat? Yup.

Worst hairpiece in history? Yup.

A bribe taking, tax evading racketeering crooked political hack? Yup.

Despite that, I liked him. Flawed or not, he was colorful and prone to serving up a PIG-worthy quote.

Here's one:

July 29, 1999

Mr. Speaker, John Hinckley shot President Reagan, James Brady, and two security guards with intent to kill. Hinckley also planned to kill President Carter.

Deemed insane, Hinckley was put in the hospital. And now that hospital says Hinckley has regained his health, he is no longer insane, and he should be entitled to and they are granting him `supervised leave.' And the Government will not appeal it. Unbelievable. What is next, Mr. Speaker? White House tours? Disney World? Beam me up.

If we can't have a government comprised of rational adults a dude like James Traficant does at least entertain us.

Rest in peace James, or as you'd say, "Beam me up, Saint Pete".

Asides

When Twerky (Miley Cyrus) was in Mexico, perpetrating whatever the fuck you call what she does, she pissed off the Sombrero Stomper officials. The offense had nothing to do with the peep show elements of her musical twitching. The offense was something else entirely: one of Twerky's gyrating tarts smacked Miley's twitching butt with the Mexican flag. That's a no-no, but what makes this foolishness memorable is the fun fact that it transpired on Mexico's Independence Day. Big, big fun.

I have an idea. Why doesn't Uncle Sam offer a straight-up trade. If they'll turn loose of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, we'll give them Twerky. It's a winner all around, because Twerky would be a much more amusing Gray Bar Hotel guest than Sgt. Tahmooressi.

* Japan

I'm not likely to take a trip to another country, for a variety of reasons. But, if I did venture that far from the PIG Bunker, my destination would be Japan. Why Japan?

Here's one compelling reason:

KYOTO, Japan, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Japanese police have seized hundreds of pairs of shoes with built-in upskirt cameras by visiting buyers' homes and asking them to voluntarily give up the items.

Kyoto Prefectural Police said they received a list of about 1,500 customers when they raided a company July 1 specializing in the voyeuristic footwear, known as "tosatsu shoes," and they have since been visiting the homes of customers and asking them to voluntarily give up the shoes.

Police said they believe they have collected nearly all pairs of the shoes in Kyoto Prefecture, save for some said to have been thrown away. The customers were asked to surrender the shoes and fill out a "disposal request" that asked them to state why they purchased them.

Police said the company, which also sold camera supplies, had sold about 2,500 pairs of tosatsu shoes between 2012 and 2014. A 26-year-old company manager was charged with "aiding voyeurism," a violation of the nuisance prevention ordinance, and fined about $4,500.

Hambo sez:

I love that bit in the 3rd paragraph where the police ask the shoe owners 'why did you buy these'. I get 'for the official record', but it's still an asinine question.

When I stumbled over this gem, I had a 'the more things change, the more they stay the same' reaction. In the middle of the last century - hormone gorillas deployed a very low tech version of the tosatsu shoe when they affixed mirrors to the top of their shoes.

Japan is so amusingly twisted that I might put a trip there on my bucket list.

* Jenner

I see that Bruce Jenner and Big Mama Kardashian are splitsville. It's about time.

I have unresolved issues with Jenner, none of which involve his rumored sex change. I chalk that one up to the stress of living with that shrew and her hellish horde.

Anyway, about those issues.

* He was, in his younger (Olympics) days, a good looking dude. Given that, why did he get all that unsightly cosmetic surgery?

* He got a horrifyingly close look at Big Mama's brood then reproduced with her anyway? Twice! If he gets his wang lopped off, I'd like to think it's his way of atoning for this frontal assault on the human gene pool.

Matthew Miller

He went to North Korea deliberately.

The American who tore up his own tourist visa on landing in North Korea and demanded to be arrested so that he could experience prison life in the communist nation has been sentenced to six years hard labor for entering the country illegally to commit espionage.

Matthew Miller, 24, of Bakersfield, California, looked thin and pale at his trial in Pyongyang on Sunday, as he was handed out his sentence. [Daily Mail]

Now, he wants out.

Earlier this month, Miller told CNN's Will Ripley that he "prepared to violate the law of DPRK before coming here. And I deliberately committed my crime."

But Miller didn't elaborate on what his "crime" was. He said he wouldn't learn of his charges until he went to trial.

It's unclear whether his statements were made freely or under coercion.

"My situation is very urgent," Miller told CNN. "... Very soon, I'm going to trial and I will directly be sent to prison. I think this interview is my final chance to push the American government into helping me." [CNN]

Uncle Sam is on the job.

Early Monday, the U.S. State Department demanded that North Korea release Miller and fellow American prisoner Kenneth Bae.

"The charges for which he (Miller) and the other detained U.S. citizens were arrested and imprisoned would not give rise to arrest or imprisonment in the United States or in many other countries around the world," said spokesman Darby Holladay. [CNN]

Bullshit!

Marine Sgt Andrew Tahmooressi

He's been a political prisoner in Mexico, since March 31st. The Mexican authorities are screwing with him. What passes for a judicial system in that pestilence keeps jerking him around. Making this particular circle of hell especially thrilling, his fellow prisoners are ready, willing, and eager to kill him.

What did he do to deserve this? Nothing. He landed in that hell hole for several reasons.

He made a wrong turn at the U.S. - Mexican border and ended up in Mexico.

He warned Mexican officials about the legally purchased and registered [in the USA] firearms in his truck.

He's an American.

He's a United States Marine.

Sgt. Tahmooressi did two tours of duty in Afghanistan, a service to his country that saddled him with PTSD. He deserves more from his nation than this crap.

Nobody in the Obama Regime has lifted a finger to help Sgt. Tahmooressi.

The Duffer In Chief traded 5 top terrorist leaders for Bowe Berghdal. a man who is, many believe, a deserter.

This same Oval Office Pussy won't lift a finger to free Marine Sgt Andrew Tahmooressi, whose only 'crime' is making a wrong turn at the U.S.-Mexican border. That just ain't right.

Parting shot: That fool, Miller asked for it, so I say let him rot, until Sgt. Tahmooressi is freed. Once that's done, maybe...but not a moment sooner.

Hysteria Channel Musings

[One of my lovely bride's social media chums risked crime statistic status, when they kept yammering about the so-called 'History Channel'. After she, ever so gently, tried to enlighten them, she pinned a 'lost cause' on the topic, and I don't blame her.

The incident prodded me into dredging up my scribblings on this cable blight, so here goes nothing.]

The History Channel

Long ago, We the PIGs dubbed this one the 'Hysteria Channel', due to its penchant for histrionics. It does poop out the occasional 'history' program, but even those are so replete with political correctness and self-serving bullshit that labeling it 'history' is erroneous in the extreme.

If you haven't made a pitstop at the Hysteria Channel lately, here are some hard core 'history' fare that you're missing:

American Pickers, Ax Men, The Bible Code: Predicting Armageddon, Big Shrimpin', Cajun Pawn Stars, Extreme Marksmen, Full Metal Jousting, Ice Road Truckers, Jurassic Fight Club, Life After People, Mega Disasters, Monster Quest, More Extreme Marksmen, Nostradamus Effect, Pawn Stars, Sharp Shooters, Swamp People, UFO Hunters

Two of the aforementioned programs deserve special attention:

'Life After People' is a humanity hating, tree boinking Greeniac's wet dream, since it makes them orgasmic with views of a world were all those pesky humans have been expunged. If you listen closely, you can hear the heavy breathing of all those people hating Greeniacs.

'Monster Quest' features some of the stupidest alleged humans ever born doing moronic things that make you nostalgic for the relative sanity of junk science. It might not be in the same universe as science, and it's perpetrated by morons, but it does have one redeeming element: Monster Quest is, unintentionally a real hoot.

My favorite episode deployed the Monster Quest 'Team' to New Guinea to track down a flying monster that's big enough to pluck a grown man off the ground and dump his carcass in the top of a very tall tree. Faster than you can say 'tinfoil hat zone' they decided it's a pterodactyl, one of those flying reptiles that's a fixture in dinosaur flicks.

During the show, several magic moments put my lovely bride on the floor, laughing like a mental patient. For some reason, elements of objective reality that perplexed the Monster Quest Team seemed perfectly obvious to us. For example, the Monster Quest Team seem shocked, dismayed and horrified by the evil New Guinea climate, not to mention all the insects, snakes and other vermin. If they'd bothered to ask a rational adult - one of us - we would have explained that New Guinea is an entomologist's wet dream that has three weather seasons: Sucks, Turbo Sucks, & Don't Even Think About It.

We'll finish our look at this episode by sharing two magic, Monster Quest, moments. The first involved their 'bought it on sale at eBay' heat signature camera which dazzled them by detecting a GIANT heat source. TA-DA? Not exactly. It was an 'elephant bug' which is a flying, self illuminating, June Bug size critter who took pity on these morons and decided to give them a thrill by landing on their camera lens.

The second laugh-inducing gem happened while the breathless narrator tried to ramp up the drama by describing how remote, treacherous and inhospitable the jungle trail up the side of a 'mountain' was. The prose, the tone, and the music might have worked, if the camera wasn't trained a rugrat size kid who was handling the trail effortlessly, while toting a large, white, plastic tub.

Isn't it 'false advertising' to operate as the 'History' Channel when you perpetrate this reality-insulated crap? Enquiring minds what to know.

* More Hysteria

The Hysteria Channel - some of you might insist on using its hilariously ironic name, the 'History Channel' - perpetrated an especially uplifting show this evening. The usual suspects, a sorry collection of slobbering sad sacks, were playing a rousing game of 'what if'. Regular viewers of this cable blight know that 'what if' is a Hysteria Channel favorite.

Today's what if was, in essence, a 'how to paralyze America' show that featured the chaos which would ensue if the Jihadikazes set off a small nuke in our nation's capitol. The talking heads were so over the top on this crap that they made the film 'Independence Day' seem like walk in the park.

Proving that great minds work alike, my lovely bride and I laughed together, when the 'experts' fretted over the untimely demise of our Elected Tormentors, job for life bureaucrats, plus assorted other D.C. dwelling pests. We almost said it in unison, but she got there first: "If there's a downside here, I'm not seeing it."

Setting aside the annoying - 'an Egghead's wet dream' - aspects of this piece, I still had issues with their scenario. For example, they didn't come close to resolving the Barry factor. The Barry factor? That's Hamboese for the incontrovertible fact that an alive and kicking Barry is the Jihadikazes' ace in the hole. The Jihadikazes don't dare kill him, because it's a virtual certainty that America would never find a useful idiot of his ilk to replace him. Admittedly, they could wait until he's on another personal appearance tour, before they nuke the botox induced smirk off San Fran Nan's face.

Asides

Barry: "No religion condones the killing of innocents,"

Therefore, according to The One, ISIS is not Islamic.

Oh Really!

The ISIS murderers call their blood-soaked domain a 'caliphate'.

I looked up 'caliphate' and got this:

Caliphate, n.
Dominon of a caliph.

Undeterred, I looked up Caliph and Yahtzee!

Caliph, n.
The chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad

Since the butcher-in-chief for ISIS deemed himself 'the successor of Muhammad', AND since ISIS stands for ISLAMIC State (in) Iraq and Syria, it's GAME, SET, MATCH in Barryville

Barry is free to believe whatever thrills him spitless. BUT, if he tries to sell me on his "inexplicably cranky victims of American Imperialism who really just need a hug...maybe two hugs", he's delusional.

ISIS is whatever it says it is. If ISIS says it is motivated by Islam, THEOLOGICAL ISLAM, who the fuck is Barry to say no?

* Islam

'Hijacked one of the world's great religions'- This on harkens back to W, I think, but The One has used similar rheoric.

The other 'nothing to see here' canard opines that the 'Huggies' are just a small percentage of Muslims. Okay...let's look at that.

Using everyone's favorite bullshit figure - 10%- we'll do the math.

There are 1.6 billion [1,600,000,000] Muslims.

10% of 1.6 billion is 160 million [160,000,000]

That would put 160 million insane, toddler murdering, butchers loose on civilized society. Does that make anyone feel safe? If we made it 1% of Muslims that's still 16 million [16,000,000] raving, head lopping lunatics.

Regime Change Options

It probably won't thrill the Secret Service spitless, and I 'get' that. HOWEVER, they don't need to interrupt the next Colombian Hooker Mixer at Secret Service HQ to investigate it. What the hell am I talking about, this time? What indeed.

A critical mass of rational adults long for...pray for?...an earlier than normal regime change at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When their frustration peaks, some might even blurt out "I wish somebody would shoot that bastard". I understand their frustration and I share it, however I see 'unintended consequences' inexorably tied to "I wish somebody would shoot that bastard".

Option 1: "I wish somebody would shoot that bastard".

First and foremost, it would turn The One into a martyr. If, as many opine, Barry is, in his heart, an Islamist, martyrdom kind of works. BUT, his Obamunist minions would have a memorable hissy fit over The One's untimely demise.

Second, and equally problematic, his Jackass Party would 'honor' his memory, by ramming through Draconian legicrap that's so extreme it would make Marxist regimes like Stalin's, Mao's, and North Korea's seem tame, liberty-affirming, by comparison.

That's why death, even from natural causes, just won't get 'er done. The one exception to this assertion is covered in Option 4.

Option 2: "He went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned."

Admittedly VERY unlikely, a disappearing act, would spare us martyrdom and the Draconian legicrap deluge martyrdom invites.

The downside is the obvious one. Since he'd still be on this planet, he might return at any time.

Option 3: "He's gone, Jim. The president is incurably insane."

This one sounds inviting, until you delve into those Devilish Details.

First, and foremost, given The One's erratic behavior, how would we know the difference between Erratic Obama and Insane Obama? Could anyone detect the difference.

Second, if he was incurably insane, would anyone in his POTUS Posse, do anything about it? Nope. Most likely, they would hide it from EVERYONE and continue their destruction of this once great nation.

Option 4: "INCOMING!"

This is the most practical, most efficient solution, since it puts D.C. - Elected Tormentors, bureaucracies, etc. - out of our misery. I'm talking about an asteroid strike on D.C. In theory, an asteroid strike would be ideal, but...

The Good:

If it's just the right size - about 50 meters wide and it hit, it would create a mile wide crater, and lay waste to suitably larger area beyond the crater.

The Bad:

Getting it to hit land is iffy, and having it hit D.C. is a longshot with nearly impossible odds.

The Ugly:

[A]n asteroid flies past Earth, on average, every 40 years, yet actually hits the planet once every 1200 years or so.

Option 5: "Beam him...them up...ET"

When I add it all up - Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Their Joy Riding All Over Our Planet, Abducting Humans For Painful Prodding, Poking, and Puncturing - I conclude that E.T. has abused our hospitality. You owe us, Space Punks, and we're declaring your debt due, immediately.

We the PIGs are whipped with guilt that We the People are hogging all this Marxist Messiah joy. Suitably guilt-ridden, we're ready to mark your debt 'paid in full', if you take HIM off our hands. There are, however a few 'conditions':

* You must keep him. We don't want him back.

* We don't want him on this planet. He might come back.

* We don't want him left elsewhere in our solar system. Some Moonbat might go get him.

* If you must leave him elsewhere in our galaxy, the closest we'll tolerate is on the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy.

If you have the room, we have other potential 'passengers' in mind. If you want a full list, let us know.

Parting shot: My first choice is Option 4. Option 5 is my second choice, followed by Option 2.

Bitter Fruit

Being a rational adult in an increasingly irrational world is, at best, a serious pain in the ass. That's one of the fun-filled consequences of confronting objective reality with your eyes wide open. When you attempt this, with the shackles removed from your brain, it's not for the faint hearted.

I strongly suggest that you have an ample supply of your preferred adult beverage on hand, because the ride down reality street is a very bumpy one. You'll be sad, when you take stock of all damage that's been done. You'll get mad when you confront what lies ahead of you. You'll see things you don't want to see. You'll hear things you don't want to hear. You'll read things you don't want to read. Worst of all you'll reach conclusions you don't want to reach.

I've been converting oxygen into carbon dioxide for quite a while, so I'm painfully aware of where we are, where we've been and how we got our once great nation so completely fucked up. If my notions about where we're heading prove valid, the worst is looming large on the near horizon.

Because I'm a heartless bastard, I'm going to make a few stops on this highway to hell. Why? So we can look at some of the noteworthy features on Reality Street.

I might as well get this one out of the way, now, and be done with it. Using 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' as your measurement criteria, the world, especially the USA, that you'll leave behind will be worse than the one which existed when you took your first breath. How much worse? That depends on your age. Why? Because your awareness of the degradation is increased or decreased by when you attended school and if certain turning point events occurred before or after your birth.

No matter when you were born, your life was changed, for the worse, by the anti-war movement of the 1960s.,which did a lot more than thrill Tricky Dicky spitless. It made LBJ a one-term (one full term) president, but that one full term was enough time to let him poop out that Victimhood steaming pile, Affirmative Action. Most important of all, for this discussion, the anti-war movement transformed colleges and universities from institutions of higher learning into political korrectness factories. For a variety of reasons, the anti-war movement's aftershocks are still felt half a century later. John Kerry, for example, jump started his political career with his back-stabbing anti-war antics.

As the anti-war movement wound down, a critical mass of the participants sought refuge in America's Ivory Towers, where many of them remain, to this day. Wielding considerable power, they are the prime movers who scuttled 'a free exchange of ideas' to make room for that mantra of the moment 'check your privilege'.

How do they impact your life? How indeed.

Those Korrectness Factories pooped out that Marxist Moonbat Educrat who is trying to brainwash your children into brain-dead Progtard.

Those relics from the 60's are taking jobs for life in the Nanny State bureaucracy, where they can impose their twisted notions via regulations.

America is losing its competitive edge, because our Ivory Towers have stopped teaching and started indoctrinating.

Before we leave the 1960s behind, I'm compelled to point out another event which produced shockwaves that still shape our political landscape. In 1964 the Elephant Clan nominated Barry Goldwater. His acceptance speech reasonates with bold visions of a government that would fulfill its obligations without straying beyond its Constitutionally mandated limits. Goldwater didn't deserve the character assassination that ensued. This great man deserved better, then, and he deserves better, now. His candidacy represents a missed opportunity to undo at least some of the damage inflicted by the Lunatic Left. His candidacy also marks the moment in time when the Elephant Clan's DC establishment began its on-going war with Conservatives and anyone else who espouses limited government.

In 1976, the Jackass Party had a memorable brain fart name Jimmy Carter. He's worth mention for two reasons. First and foremost, he's the harbinger of things to come: loves Islamikazes so much he refuses to put up an effective fight; hates Israel; does his best to destroy our military.

Jihad Jimmy's other 'accomplishment' is setting the stage for Ronald Reagan. Smoother than Goldwater, Reagan was close enough to Goldwater, politically, to scare the crap out of the Elephant Clan's DC establishment. Many rational adults persuaded themselves that Reagan could turn things around. Some kidded themselves into believing that Reagan was the new prototype for a pachyderm POTUS. His successor, Bush I, quicky dispelled such notions. Papa Bush made us face the bitter truth. Reagan, alas, was an anomaly

The End Game

The 2008 election cycle marks a key point in America's headlong plunge in to Marxist tyranny. When the pachyderm punks virtually conceded the election, by nominating a RINO fossil - Juan McCain - the Jackass Party seized the moment. With an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress, the Jackass Party threw away the rule book (the U.S. Constitution), then put the pedal to the metal on the razing of American liberty.

In the 2010 Midterm, a new political force - The TEA Party - arrived on the scene and due primarily to their efforts, the Jackass Party lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Their margin in the U.S. Senate was also reduced, putting the pachyderm punks - theoretically - back in the game.

The One took this setback in stride, prompting him to blaze a new trail to a Progtard Holy Grail called an imperial presidency. By the 2012 Election Cycle, his rule by presidential decree was well established. Despite the best efforts of rational adults, he won, primarily, because Mitt Romney didn't put up much of a fight. Unwilling to take Obama to the woodshed, on any of Barry's glaring deficiencies, Mitt Romney lost an election that was his for the taking.

If you believe in the venerable political pendulum, the Obama regime's wild swing to the lunatic left should create a swing of equal intensity toward the right. We the People are up for that, but it won't happen, if the Pachyderm Establishment gets its way. The RNC is much more interested in obliterating the TEA Party than defeating the Jackass Party.

If you're drawing your inspiration from the fact that Jimmy made things perfect for a Reagan, I have troubling news for you, history repeats itself Sparky. Anyone with Reagan-like credentials would be eviscerated by Beltway Republicans. Additionally, if there's someone like that 'out there' he, she, heshe, or it is taking 'low profile' to new levels.

It's time to put this rambling rant out of my misery. So, here's my parting shot. As this rant indicates, The One isn't a one man wrecking crew who is destroying America. Obama is just an undertaker who is nailing the last few nails in America's coffin.

Labor Day Musings

In the pantheon of Americans who are singled out for special recognition we seemed to have covered all the bases.

The Irish get their due on St. Patrick's Day, when we get shit-faced on green beer and paste shamrocks on every flat surface.

The Italians get the due, when we celebrate the antics of a severely lost, directionally challenged Italian who blundered into the new world without knowing where he was. In fact, he never did understand where he'd been. Despite it all we honor his blunder on Columbus Day.

Lovers, and the relentlessly horny, get to strut their stuff for that special him, her, himher or it on Valentine's Day.

Presidents - good, bad and indifferent - get our attention on - DUH - Presidents Day.

Mom gets her own special day, not to mention that killer heartburn, when she chokes down the breakfast the tykes made for her.

America's honored dead, who died defending our liberty, get our heartfelt thanks on Memorial Day.

Dad earned his own day in the sun, plus another batch of ugly 'I wouldn't wear this on a bet' ties for his impressive collection.

The Founding Father's get the our richly deserved respect for our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness on Independence Day.

The Pilgrims get some TLC on Thanksgiving Day.

The properly-hyphenated, and assorted other chronic whiners, get to strut their stuff and make rational adults miserable with a plethora of 'pride', 'history' and 'appreciation' days, weeks or months.

Sally Steno has what was, in terminally inkorrect times, called Secretaries Day - later Secretaries Week.

On the first Monday in September, Larry Lunchpail gets his turn in the spotlight with the Labor Day festivities.

Everybody seems to get their turn in the spotlight, except those egregiously maligned achievers, who are vilified by the Neo-Marxist horde. All they did was turn an idea into a product or service, then expand it into the industries where we work to feed our families. When are these achievers - Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and countless others - going to be given the respect they deserve? When will the writers, thinkers, and scientists who entertain, enlighten, inspire and inform us going to be given their just reward with a day of their own? It's time for America to cut to the chase and honor such men and women with an Achievers Day, a day on which we salute excellence, in all its diverse forms?

I won't put words in your mouth, but this Labor Day, I'm going to take a moment to honor those unsung heros of excellence, who made this great nation what Ronald Reagan called 'the shining city on a hill'. After all they've given us, it's the least we can do to thank them.

F**K Labor Day

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money to spend."
Margaret Thatcher
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If you've ever wondered why the Free State of PIG doesn't usually commemorate Labor Day with a Top Story, wonder no more. Quite frankly, especially in this second decade of the of the 21st century, the labor unions that exemplify this faux holiday aren't thrilling us spitless. No matter what essential topic you name, they're on the wrong side of it. Given organized labor's deleterious impact on a sovereign individual's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, the FSOP won't set aside a picosecond on the first Monday in September to hoist a brewskie to honor BIG LABOR. Why? We refuse to give PIG props to the public employees unions, teachers unions, auto workers unions, or any other organized labor group which are key players in this increasingly oppressive Obamunist Error.

What, exactly, is Labor Day? If you cyber surf to the Department of Labor Internet speed bump, you'll learn that the American version of Labor Day dates back to 1882. You'll also find this high sounding, bureaucratic, bull crap to justify this salute to BIG LABOR:

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

Social and economic achievements? Let's take a closer look at that.

Teachers unions are high on our list of groups that deserve to be nuked out of our misery. First, and foremost, being a tenured member of a teacher's union means you'll never have to hear the words "You're fired." No matter what you do, you'll never have to pay the piper for your incompetence. Hell, in most government cess schools, the only way you'll get in serious trouble with your union happens if you're foolish enough to educate your young charges instead of indoctrinating them.

In liberty-impoverished blights like Mexifornia, teachers unions are powerful political players who, routinely, impose their will on feckless Elected Tormentors and brain dead chad punchers. They shape the political landscape, with unrelenting advertising campaigns, which inhibit liberty and impoverish unwary achievers.

When it comes to unionized teachers, their primary social and economic achievements involve producing properly indoctrinated, neo-Marxist meatheads who can't read, write or compute but are brimming with inexplicable self-esteem.

As fun as the teachers unions are, they're bush league, when compared to the pernicious social and economic achievements of unionized, job-for-life, public employees. When it comes to memorable social and economic achievements, public employee unions, like the SEIU, are without peer. For example, at every level of government in Mexifornia - city, county, state - one budget-busting item is drowning them in a tidal wave of budgetary red ink. What is it? It's public employee retirement plans. Generous to a fault, these scams allow the union worker to retire at 50 with, at least, 90% of their pay, then return to their job, THE NEXT DAY, at, virtually, the same pay.

From sea to shining sea, public employee unions, like the SEIU, dictate public policy, using bought and paid for Elected Tormentors, including Prompter Punk himself. They say "jump" and their Elected Tormentor toadies bellow "how high". If those pesky sovereign individuals try to take back their government, the SEIU's merry band of thugs goose-step into peaceable public assemblies to shout, and/or beat, the sovereign individuals into compliance.

Don't wait for the FSOP to get warm and fuzzy over the social and economic 'achievements' of unionized teachers and public employees. Any alleged good they do is overwhelmed by their destructive impact on our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Screw them, and the sorry nag they rode in on.

Jealous of the social and economic achievements perpetrated by unionized teachers and public employees, so-called 'civilian' unions made a compelling, annoyingly successful, bid for their piece of the taxpayer funded pie. Did it work? You better believe it, Sparky.

Eager to please, the Demoncrats doled out billions via make-work projects funded by the Porkulus Bill, all of which will reward labor unions.

The same Demoncrat horde worked feverishly, to pass the 'card check' bill which would make it much, MUCH, easier for union organizers to intimidate recalcitrant, rogue individuals into 'agreeing' to be unionized.

The auto industry bailout bill handed two of the Big Three automakers to the United Auto Workers Union on a Commie Red, Obamunist platter.

When Boeing built a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina, a right to work state, instead of the state of Washington, the company let its new employees decide if they wanted to unionize. When the South Carolina workers voted against unionization, union bosses whined to their Demoncrat lackeys in D.C. In record time, the Obamunist regime unleashed the National Labor Relations Board which accused Boeing of unfair labor practices. It took a while, but Boeing prevailed, however, it wasn't bloodless, since they had to give the union a few concessions.

When the grope-a-dopes in the TSA were allowed to join a public employee union, the TSA twerps responded by waging war on that individualist pestilence, the pay for performance evaluation system. Mediocrity triumphed over excellence. Now, passengers get to pay for the ineptitude of the public employee asshat who is assaulting them.

Marching to the beat of organized labor's drummer, the Nanny State has shackled business owning individuals with suffocating restrictions and unrelenting interference. In addition to complying with minium wage - and 'living' wage - laws, business owning individuals must eke out a profit, while the Nanny State second-guesses every staffing decision, then micro-manages the business' benefits package.

Our antipathy to labor unions goes beyond the aforementioned social and economic achievements. That's only half the story. Organized labor's underlying principles are, in the FSOP's considered opinion, diametrically opposed to the individual liberty on which this nation is built.

Under the union's 'collective' bargaining rules of engagement, longevity trumps individual excellence. It doesn't matter if you're the best at your job, your pay raise will be exactly the same as those three slackers who foist off their work on you. If, however you're a relative newbie, you'll always be earning less than those slackers, whose paycheck is based, exclusively, on longevity.

Union rhetoric is infused with anti-capitalist diatribes which denigrate the achiever(s) who rolled fate's dice by going all in on a new business. Instead of saluting the achiever for risking everything he had on his personal version of the American Dream, the union thugs vilify the achiever as an 'exploiter'. Instead of honoring the achiever who made their own job(s) possible, the union thugs do their utmost to bring the achiever down. For example: the biggest, noisiest union thug celebration I've ever witnessed happened after the union's insatiable demands and prolonged strike forced the company they targeted to close its doors, permanently. They were out of a job, but they called it a victory, because an achiever, a capitalist, went down for the count.

If you need the smoking gun on anti-capitalist union leaders, you're in luck. Exhibit 'A' is AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, an FOB (Friend Of Barry) who proudly proclaims that he's a Communist. Furthermore, Trumka boldly declares his antipathy to America's inalienable individual liberty. He's ready, willing, and eager to sacrifice our liberty, our prosperity, and our property as a down payment on the Marxist America that he's working tirelessly to impose on us.

Summing it up, labor unions are anti-capitalist, anti-excellence, and anti-individual. Don't hold your breath waiting for us to salute THAT bull crap on Labor Day. Does that mean we won't take some time out from our summer ending festivities to honor America's working men and women? Hardly. The FSOP is ready, willing and eager to honor America's hard-working men and women. BUT, we insist on saluting the right hard-working people, for the right reasons.

On Labor Day, on many other days, we salute that dirt under the fingernails individual who keeps our ride in top working order, without sending us to the poor house. It's a dirty job - especially keeping Hambo's paganmobile functional - but it's accomplished with compelling expertise.

On Labor Day, we salute the food wrangler at our local deli who greets us by name, knows our preferences, and serves us with friendly efficiency.

On Labor Day, we salute the support we get from our web hosting service. We know we're small potatoes on their ledger sheet, but, no matter how busy they are, they take the time to answer our pesky questions and still manage to convince us that they appreciate our business.

On Labor Day, we hoist a brewskie to honor the computer gurus at our internet service provider, who spotted a problem we had with our e-mail, then sent us the answer to our question, before we had time to ask it.

On Labor Day, we give a shout out to the dude who toiled in the oppressive heat, on the hottest day of the year, to replace a fried component that shut down our air conditioner. He didn't complain, didn't gouge us, and he got the job done with compelling efficiency.

On Labor Day, we honor all the working men and women who understand our, occasional, financial limitations, prompting them to suggest a bang-for-the-buck solution, without making us feel like a charity case.

On Labor Day, we salute the working men and women who keep their outpost of capitalism open for an extra half hour, allowing us to meet our own pressing schedule.

On Labor Day, we take a moment to thank the working men and women who understand the importance of excellent customer service. This, in our estimation, is a major social and economic achievement, since it allows us to reward excellence with our continuing patronage.

On Labor Day, we send a heartfelt shout out to the working men and women who take the time to help us solve our pressing problem with a referral, when their outpost of capitalism doesn't offer the goods and/or services that we need.

What's the difference between these achievements by America's working stiffs and the overblown social and economic achievements attributed to organized labor? The actions the FSOP honors, salutes, and venerates are examples of individual excellence. It's the kind of individual pride in one's work, which is sorely lacking in a unionized environment. They're mundane examples of the individual excellence which helped forge the solid foundation on which this once great nation was built.

The Free State of PIG refuses to play killjoy, by ruining your Labor Day. If you still decided to hoist your brewskie to honor organized labor, so be it, but do it with your eyes wide open. If, like us, you choose to salute those real working stiff heroes who make your life a little bit more liveable, one transaction at a time, that's an utterly PIG-worthy idea.

Labor Day still isn't our idea of a good time, and it never will be. On the other hand, if we could create a Capitalism Rocks holiday, that's a whole new ball game.

ISIS/ISIL

The One's popular - self-serving - mantra spouts drivel about 'extremists' "hijacking a great religion". It's crap, but it serves a purpose for a POTUS who I suspect is, at heart, still a Mecca Maniac. The object of this exercise is obvious.

* Expunge the term 'terrorist' when used in conjunction with Jihadikaze bastards like al qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and those fuzz ball Palestinians.

* Disassociate the Jihadikazes from Islam.

* Promote the notion that these inexplicably cranky fuzzballs, who just need a hug, were, in fact, 'oppressed' by dastardly Uncle Sam, into 'acting out'.

It was working, more or less, until ISIS/ISIL took butchery to obscene levels.

Confronted with this ISIS/ISIL savagery, Barry, and craven non-Islamikaze cowards scrambled for some politically expedient rhetoric. They need to convince John & Jane Q. Public that it's terminally savage SECULAR asshats who butchered their way through parts Syria and Iraq.

Barry and others of his ilk might fool themselves, and the myopic meatheads who swill their Marxist 'America Sucks' Kool-Aid, but I'm not impressed. Unlike al qaeda, Hamas, and the rest, ISIS/ISIL are old school Jihadikazes. Their savagery, the headless children, the women they gang rape to death, the zeal with which the butcher, and/or destroy anything/anyone who doesn't pass their Islamikaze purity test isn't something new.

ISIS/ISIL represents Islam, 7th Century Islam, Mohammad's Islam in its purist form. In other words, ISIS/ISIL is practicing the REAL Islam. If anyone has 'hijacked' Islam, it's all the pretenders who preceded ISIS/ISIL.

If ISIS/ISIL isn't properly Islamic, why aren't the 'real' Islamikazes condemning them.

An ISIS/ISIL butcher proudly holds up the headless body of a little girl. I listen carefully for a noisy condemnation from CAIR, that Islamikaze Congresspuke, Keith Ellison, or any of the Mecca Maniacs on Barry's payroll. The only sound I hear is crickets.

ISIS/ISIL is full tilt Mecca Mania. Islam wasn't hijacked by our enemy. Islam IS our enemy. The longer we ignore that inconvenient truth, the worse it's going to get.

For What It's Worth

[I found this gem on my favorite gossip site, The Superficial. He got it from Radar.

Is it true?

Is it based on some satire posting that fooled Radar?

Is it a clever hoax?

I don't know and I don't really care. Why? Because I like the level of writing at The Superficial. The last paragraph of this Superficial rant is a classic.

Here's the full text from The Superficial]

O.J. Simpson Is Obsessed With Kim Kardashian, Yesssssssssss

It's been a week of shitty news followed by shitheads capitalizing on said shit, so here's a ray of sunshine piercing through the storm: O.J. Simpson is sitting in jail obsessing over Kim Kardashian and could get out as early as 2017! Is anyone else doing the pee-pee dance? I'm doing the pee-pee dance. Radar reports:

"He has several sexy pictures of Kim hanging up in his prison cell from her 2007 Playboy shot and he isn't shy about showing her picture to fellow inmates," an insider told us.
…
Simpson joked to a pal, "She likes black ball players, I am a Hall of Famer — and I still have my Heisman award," a dig at Kardashian's former boyfriend Reggie Bush who gave back his college football Heisman trophy after it came to light of some unethical dealings he was involved during his college playing days.

Not creepy enough for you? Let me check in the back. Wait one second.

As far as her recent wedding to Kanye West, Simpson doesn't think that it's any big deal saying, "As long as I am in prison, I can't be with her so Kanye can have her for now.
"But when I get out she's mine."

And I also found these. They're a size murder.

"He reads every magazine he can about her and when she is on TV he demands silence from his fellow inmates so he can watch without interruption. He's even tried to get in contact with her, but so far she hasn't responded to him."

So anyone know how I can get in touch with the parole board and testify on O.J.'s behalf? Because I feel like he's truly rehabilitated himself and, I dunno, found Jesus. Also, I'm going to need his current glove size. For winter. Juice hates frostbite.

Wading In The Shallow End Of The Gene Pool?

[I heard some boom box babblers talking about indulgent parents who let their offspring misbehave in public eateries and it reminded me of this rant.

The following story is true and only moderately embellished. I still say it's proof that Old Ka-Boom's egregiously playful wife (the dreaded Mrs. Old Ka-Boom) has singled me out for special treatment. Or, to put it in words that my lovely bride will understand "A".]

Eating out isn't supposed to be an action/adventure, but for reasons known only to HER, that mean-spirited deity with the warped sense of humor, it usually turns out to be. Case in point...

It was feeding time on the 'farm', in this particular case, a popular eating establishment that serves the best breakfast in town. The baby factory was wearing that classically bovine expression that the tragically misguided, prospective fathers and grandmothers to be call 'radiant' or 'serene'. She had on one of those hideous, moronic 'I'm pregnant' t-shirts that say 'baby' and have an arrow pointing down towards her grotesquely distended belly. What the hell is so wonderful about a fat chick with a stupid look on her face? Radiant my ass!

Daddy was living proof that anyone can, and will, become a father. His so-called expression was glassy-eyed and vacant - nobody has a cute name for it when a man does it - which is about what I'd expect from a man wearing an Ozzy Osborne t-shirt. If Darwin is right, the gene pool is in deep doo doo!

Completing this poignant family ensemble was their last project, a brat of indeterminate age and sex - for the sake of this discussion we'll call it male - who used his strategically located high chair perch to shower all of the nearby tables with recycled food. The cow viewed her offspring from hell's antics with an indulgent smile while daddy was too zoned out for it to register. That all changed when this future Nolan Ryan started to zero in on dear old dad. Before long he'd found the range and scored several direct hits in succession, the final one of which hit dad right between the eyes.

Daddy un-zoned, took a brief side trip to reality and assessed the damage. After removing the food projectile - a partially chewed bit of syrup coated pancake - from his face, he studied it. Eventually, his lone synapse fired and he identified the projectile. That's when, daddy made his move and did the logical thing - a no shit first for this mutant - by impounding the kid's ammo.

In an instant, the brat's face clouded over and he started to build up to his usual response with a long series of deep breaths. Giving daddy a brat class 'eat shit and die' look, the little terror cut loose with a glass-shattering scream. While it reloaded for another blast, mama's pride and joy cleared the high chair's tray with a sweep of it's cubby arm. Water, food and dishes re-affirmed the laws of gravity, as they clattered to the floor.

Ready to give his voice and my ears a total workout, the little fiend cut loose with an impressive series of shrieks, each one being louder that the one before.

If I concede that children are 'necessary' and that this is all part of growing up, will you answer a question for me? Why do they seat these little horrors next to me? I swear, if there are 47 empty tables in a restaurant and one of these mega-brats shows up, they always seat it next to me. Someone up there doesn't like me, and I know who she is.

A Forgotten Man

The Duffer In Chief traded 5 top terrorist leaders for a man who is, many believe, a deserter.

This same Oval Office Pussy won't lift a finger to free Marine Sgt Andrew Tahmooressi, whose only 'crime' is making a wrong turn at the U.S.-Mexican border.

He has been in that Mexican hell hole since March 31st.

Enough already. Call your Elected Tormentor and demand that Uncle Sam forces Mexico to set this political prisoner free.

Redemption

If Jesse Ventura wants to redeem himself, he'll use the money he whined out of Chris Kyle's widow and children to liberate Sgt. Tahmooressi from his Mexican cell.

Lesson Learned

If a two-star American General (U.S. Army) isn't safe among our 'allies' at an Afghan military academy, then it's time to face the facts.

We don't have any fully trustworthy Afghan allies.

Give the insane restrictions Barry imposes on our warriors, it's impossible for them to do what's necessary to get the job done.

All we're doing is pissing away the lives of brave men and women.

It's time to GTFO of that circle of Jihadikaze hell.

Asides

Only a state as willfully irrational as Mexifornia would elect a brain transplant donor as Governor.

Why do technological terrorists get orgasmic over each new expansion of 'high definition' [HD], when the screen they watch it on keeps getting smaller? HD makes sense on a wall-filling boob tube monitor. It still makes sense on a large desktop computer monitor. It's somewhat less nifty on a laptop. But a tablet computer isn't getting it done and watching it on a cell phone is asinine.

Why are legal immigrants subjected to a comprehensive screening which checks for contagious diseases and criminal or terrorist activity/affiliations, but the criminal, disease-ridden, border jumpers aren't screened at all?

If the asshats in La Raza, et al, get their way...if they drive whitey out, then seize control of some/all of America...if they import their critical mass of poverty-ridden, unskilled, born parasites, who is going to create the wealth to $upport them?

With Congresspukes like Gutierrez, Rangel, Cardenas, San Fran Nan, Jackson Lee and all the rest, the Jackass Party has the biggest collection of loathsome assholes in the known universe.

The Black Helicopter Club's High Commissioner for Human Rights accused Israel of war crimes, because, among other things, Israel didn't share its Iron Dome defense system with Hamas.

Diminishing Returns, Hambo Law
The definition of a video signal is inversely proportional to the size of the screen used to watch it. [As the definition of a video signal climbs higher and higher, the screen a technotard uses to view it gets smaller and smaller.]

The 'refugee' deluge might be a self-resolving problem. Why? Because, while they're isolated in 'detention' the ones who aren't taken out by MS-13 gangsters will be struck down by one of the nasty diseases they brought with them. That's the downside of bringing your problems with you when you run away from home.

This Is War

All you need to know is that, in my OTHER life, the life outside the FSOP, a group of Austrians succeeded in really pissing me off. I tried to cut them some slack, but they insisted on pushing it, again, and again.

I'm willing to let bygones be bygones, more or less, over their homeboy Adolph. I'm trying to 'be a man' about the steaming load who left Austria and ended up in Mexifornia's governor's mansion. BUT, I draw the line, when THEIR badly planned bullshit interferes with my duties here in the FSOP. As bad as that was, it got worse when they threatened the most important day of the year at Hambo's homestead: Halloween.

Enough was enough, so I declared war on Austria. That's right, PIGsters, Hambo is OFFICIALLY at WAR with this pissant, Eurotrash infested, pimple on humanity's butt.

Willing to wallow in the muck and the mire, I tried to enlist help. Where? I started at the top, by placing a call to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Red Shed: "White House switchboard, how may I assist you?"

Me: "This is Hambo. I need to yammer at Barry, so grab his Dumbo ears and drag his scrawny butt to the phone."

R.S.: "If you mean PRESIDENT Obama, I must demand an apology."

Me: "Don't give me that crap, I'm not one of Barry's leg-humping asshats like Chris Matthews. I need Barry and I need him now. Don't make me come over there."

R.S.: "If you don't change your tone, you'll be very sorry."

Me: "Don't hold your breath. I only need a minute of his time. How long can it take to declare war on Austria, then nuke them back to the stone age?"

R.S.: "Declare war on Austria? You must be insane. President Obama is much too busy for the likes of you."

Me: "Just put him on the phone, while he practices his putting in the Oval Office. I need Austria nuked, and I need it RIGHT NOW!"

R.S.: "You're INSANE! We are not going to declare war on Austria, period."

Me: "Would it help things along, if I told you that Austrians LOVE the Fox News Channel?"

R.S.: "It can't hurt, but I still can't connect you with President Obama. I might get you on Valerie's call back list."

Me: "I have no use for Jihad Jarrett, since she hasn't got her finger on the nuclear trigger."

R.S.: "She has the president's ear."

Me: "Barry's ear? Admittedly, that's quite a handful, but it's not much help. I don't want, or need, Barry's ear. I need his nuclear trigger finger so he can nail Austria for me. If he does this favor for me, I'll pretend to believe it when he blames the nuking of Austria on George Bush."

R.S.: "I will NOT connect you with President Obama, PERIOD. End. Of. Discussion!"

Me: I knew this was a waste of time. What's the point in making a Messiah president, if he's not up for a smiting, when a patriotic American of my caliber needs one pesky little favor? He's supposed to do his part to perpetuate our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Trust me when I tell you that, if he lobs a couple nukes at those Austrian bastards, I'm a happy camper."

R.S.: "I'm going to report this call to our Secret Service detail."

Me: "Whatever floats your boat, darlin'. By the way, do you have Messiah Al Gore's home phone number? I hear the Austrians are dastardly greenhouse gas spewing eco-terrorists. Maybe he can muster the right messianic stuff to smite those Austrian bastards for me."

R.S.: "You are INSANE."

Me: "Agreed, but I'm not answering the phones for a Dumbo-eared narcissist."

R.S.: "[Profane pleasantries.] Click. Dialtone.

I want to nuke Austria out of my misery and I want it NOW. If you have the right stuff to help me get the job done, put in a good word with the nuclear-armed smiter on your Christmas list.

A Hambo Classic

[I wrote this as commentary on a company I worked in, for more than a decade. It explains, to my satisfaction, many improbable events I personally witnessed.

I think this rant also applies, in too damn many ways, to the Nanny State's modus operandi.]

WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL SOCIALISM?

Industrial Socialism is an amalgamation of tried and true business axioms which are being fitted together to form a new, revolutionary concept in business management. The cornerstone of this new concept is Sirrom's Theorem, a real world solution to the age old tug-of-war between a company's management and it's subordinates. Sirrom's Theorem, along with its supporting corollaries, is the solid foundation upon which Industrial Socialism and it's remarkable performance is built.

It is the purpose of Industrial Socialism to provide management with a stable, easy to control workforce with which to realize its corporate goals. The easiest workforce to manage is one person. Under Industrial Socialism, the entire workforce, no matter how large or small, can be reduced to a single entity. This entity, while made up of many individual components- the workers, has but one performance level and a single standard by which it is measured. Through the liberal application of the various techniques detailed in subsequent chapters, the workers will not only strive to achieve this single level of performance, they will fight to stay there. Already, we can easily see that changing the company's output level, is as easy as shifting the current level of performance for the workforce entity.

For all its wide-ranging implications, Sirrom's Theorem is remarkably straight forward: Promote from the bottom; trim at the top. This simple axiom is the foundation of successful management. Each manager applies this theorem to his direct subordinates. Promotion from the bottom means exactly what it says: take the greenest, least efficient member of a group reporting to you and make him a manger over the rest. Trim at the top is just as simple: any necessary reductions in the workforce should be done at the top. I.E., Fire or lay off the top workers of the group. Before you reject this proposition, let me explain how it works. Because, as unlikely as it seems, Sirrom's Theorem does work!

The key to fully understanding and appreciating Sirrom's Theorem is to keep the purpose of Industrial Socialism fixed in our minds: to provide management with a stable, easy to control workforce. Or, put another way, the goal of Industrial Socialism is to rid the manager of all those troublesome, employee-related aspects of his job: performance reviews, promotion, pay administration, discipline, and motivation. With Sirrom's Theorem, we put these bothersome tasks back where they belong: with our subordinates. Let the worker worry about these things, the manager has more important things to do with his valuable time.

Now that we've got our goal fresh in our minds, we can take a closer look at Sirrom's Theorem. Promotion from the bottom increases productivity by removing the poorest worker, the one who contributes the least while he drags down the his co-workers with is time consuming questions and mistakes. (Note: a cell is a group of workers performing the same or very similar tasks while reporting to the same manager. Companies using Industrial Socialism prefer the term 'cell' to team or group. From this point forward we shall employ this term.) Trimming at the top also promotes cell stability. By removing the over-achiever, we rid the cell of its chief complainer, the main source of the cell's discontentment. Top workers are not only very expensive, they are extremely difficult to manage, especially for a manager selected via Sirrom's Theorem. Not only are top workers eccentric, they have the uncanny knack of identifying the company's short-comings. These trouble makers finish their allotted work so quickly that they have plenty of time to spread the word about the company's problems to the rest of the cell. The only way to cure a diseased cell is to cut out the infected part: the top worker, the discontenter. Cell stability is now within your grasp.

There's a beautiful geometry to Sirrom's Theorem: If a worker slacks off, he's in danger of being promoted; if he speeds up, he's in danger of losing his job. The threat of promotion is a powerful one. Recent studies show that fully 95% of all average performers rated promotion into management as second only to being fired on their list of chief fears. Confronted with a choice of being fired or put into management if he alters his performance, the worker will strive to avoid being identified as at the bottom or the top. Moreover, he and the other members of his cell will struggle to be exactly alike, indistinguishable from each other. They will all settle in at the midpoint of the performance range, clinging to it for dear life! To give the cell even more incentive to stay exactly alike, the manager never defines what constitutes the top or bottom. Thus the boundaries of the center, safety zone are unknown to the elements of the cell, making the mid point all the more desirable. The desired cell attitude orientation is now achieved: the elements of the cell are too insecure to cause trouble or leave. With this stable workforce, production changes are a simple matter of moving the mid-performance point to the desired level; the workers will follow without question.

The benefits of cell stability are many and varied. Performance reviews, that time gobbling exercise that all managers dread, are no longer a problem. Since each element of the cell is performing alike, only one evaluation is called for. Once written, the review can be used for every cell element, review after review, without changes. Another benefit of cell stability is elimination of cell complaints. Complaints are widely recognized as a early warning sign of a top performer. Being identified as a top performer is the last thing a cell element wants; thus, complaints are non-existent. Once established, cell stability forces the cell elements to take care of troublesome tasks like motivation and discipline. Cell elements are so obsessed with maintaining their midpoint status, that a manager isn't required to interrupt his busy schedule of meetings and computer interfacing to bother with either motivation or discipline.

Industrial Socialism is much more than a management philosophy; it's a social system, a mind set under which a company and all its employees operate. This social system must be ruthlessly policed; any and all alien thinking must be tracked down then eliminated. Within this Industrial Socialist culture, the smallest addressable unit is the cell. Under no circumstances must the elements of the cell be dealt with individually. Discipline, when called for, must be administered to the cell, not the offending individual element. This dictates that a single punishment be applied to the entire cell, without identifying the guilty element. This tactic serves two purposes: it reinforces the concept of the workforce entity, plus it introduces a useful sense of paranoia into the cell. To further enhance this essential cell insecurity, the manager must never clearly identify the exact nature of the offense. In this way, each element of the cell is left to wonder what he did wrong. Each element of the cell will look at his co-workers with suspicion, wondering if he was the one who brought this punishment down on them.

Many enlightened managers periodically chastise their cell when no offense has been detected. Periodic reinforcement of the cell paranoia is strongly urged. The Industrial Socialist culture cannot tolerate individualism. Individualism and it's traveling companion, self-esteem, must be ruthlessly stamped out the moment they are detected. Unless this is done quickly, they will spread throughout the cell structure with lightning speed, destroying the smooth running mechanism of Industrial Socialism wherever it occurs. Only by purging the infected cells of it's diseased elements can the workforce entity be cured. The most reliable purge method is to eliminate entire cells, thus insuring that no diseased element remains undetected. Such purges serve a secondary purpose: they instill in the surviving cell elements the unshakable belief that they are merely one of a large number of identical, easily-replaceable cogs in a complex enterprise. If properly administered, Industrial Socialism can convince these elements that the company is doing him a big favor by letting him continue to work for them.

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Sirrom gives a great deal of credit to his mentor who wrote the Peter Principle. Under Sirrom's Theorem, this principle must be altered, modified to fit an S.T.H. [Sirrom's Theorem Hierarchy] 'In an S.T.H. a manager will rise until he reaches a level of relative competence vis a vis his peers, whereupon he will likely be fired.' The truly successful managers in this scheme stay at the bottom all the way to the top.

Once Industrial Socialism is fully implemented, it is, literally, a turn-key management philosophy. Any element of the company's management team can be replaced, at any time, without the usual loss of efficiency inherent in such personnel changes. It is a prime example of 'even a child could do it'. However, a child is much too enlightened to put up with the intellectual drudgery of Industrial Socialism. It's much more efficient to work with jaded adults.

Industrial Socialism will be viewed as a 'new' philosophy of business. In reality, it's a gloves off view of the way all the lofty ideals management espouses are actually implemented. Industrial Socialism is a frank look at what is, not an Edenesque treatise on what 'ought to be'.

Parting Shots: 'Stay at the bottom all the way to the top'? Do 'we' know anybody who 'failed' his way into the Oval Office? Exactly.

The next time you deal with a Nanny State minion, look for tattletale signs of Sirrom's Theorem and Industrial Socialism. They're everywhere.

Murphy

No matter how perfect things are made to appear, Murphy's law will take effect and screw it up.

You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

The chance of the buttered side of the bread falling face down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Laws of Selective Gravitation.

A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage.

A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) - unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, it will hit the sink, breaking the dish and chipping or denting the sink in the process.

A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) - or into the garbage disposal while it is running.

If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver's side of your car windshield.

The greater the value of the rug, the greater the probability that the cat will throw up on it.

Assorted Murphy

You will always find something in the last place you look.

If your looking for more than one thing, you'll find the most important one last.

It is never in the last place you look. It is in the first place you look, but never discovered on the first attempt.

After you bought a replacement for something you've lost and searched for everywhere, you'll find the original.

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

The other line always moves faster

In order to get a persona loan, you must first prove you don't need it.

Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost you more than you thought.

If you fool around with a thing for very long you will screw it up.

If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly.

In any hierarchy, each individual rises to his own level of incompetence, and then remains there.

There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.

When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.

Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Murphy's golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Stupidity is the fundamental driving force of the Universe, which explains why stupid people always go wrong.

Get the picture, PIGsters?

Fatal Flaws?

One of the most memorable lines from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech is, ironically, more venerated by 'whitey' than it is by the Melanin-Enriched. I refer, as if you haven't guessed, to this memorable prose:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Normally, whenever a scribbler builds a rant around that quote the topic under discussion is race. If you think we are going down that road, get over it. We've been there, done that, and we'll do it again, but not today. Instead, I am going to take a look at "the content of their character".

By and large, whenever this subject - 'character' - crops up, it involves a public official, or some other person in a position of authority, whose flawed character has created a newsworthy scandal. It also arises, whenever an election cycle reaches critical mass, and we're forced to punch a chad for the lesser of two evils.

All of that is still in play, but it isn't the primary focus of this rant. Given the sorry condition of this once great nation...given the precarious status of our inalienable individual liberty, I think it's time for some self evaluation. It's time to assess the American Character of that grinning fool in our mirror, We the People Sparky. It's time to confront our own character flaws, then evaluate the role they play in America's sorry condition.

If, as some afternoon drive boom box babblers proclaim, our government - local, state, and federal - is infested with 'liars, thieves, and whores', I wonder what that says about us. These liars, thieves and whores didn't find their job in government at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box. If they're an Elected Tormentor, We the People put them in that position. If they're a bureaucrat, We the People punched a chad for the scumbag(s) who created their job for life position at the public trough.

'Liars, thieves, and whores' begs the question, "What are the descriptors that apply to rank and file Americans."

In this Obamunist Error, the American Character isn't a pretty sight. Self-reliance, voluntary cooperation between sovereign individual, individual accountability, the work ethic, and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps are on the wane, as rugged American individuals become the USA's newest endangered species. In too many cases, the American Character is tainted, by gullibility, envy, sloth, lies, thievery, dependency, self deception, and thuggish intimidation.

To illustrate what I view as a degradation of the American Character, I will discuss some of these character flaws in greater detail.

Gullibility: The healthy skepticism which was a vital part of the American Character has fallen into disfavor. When our Elected Tormentors, accompanied by a suitable fanfare, proclaim their devotion to fiscal discipline, this character flaw makes too many otherwise intelligent individuals believe them. Willfully myopic, gullible Americans ignore the tsunami of red ink poised to sweep over this land conceived in liberty. Instead, we swallow the budgetary bull crap, which, magically, transforms a slight decrease in the GROWTH of Nanny State spending into a Draconian budget cut.

When we're told that America has every scrap of energy producing fossil fuels in full production, too many of us believe it.

When we're assured that our porous borders are fully protected to an unprecedented degree, too many of us believe it.

Dependency: The inherent need to be self-sufficient has been government-schooled out of a depressingly large percentage of Americans. Why? Self-sufficiency means each individual is responsible for the conduct of their own life. For the properly-indoctrinated, government-schooled idiot with self esteem, making all your own decisions is much too hard. Why bother, when the Nanny State is willing to seize control of your life and micromanage it from the cradle to the grave.

Big Nanny State Daddy will 'protect' you from games you shouldn't play on the school playground. Big Nanny State Daddy will 'protect' you, by dictating what you should, and shouldn't, eat. Big Nanny State Daddy will take care of your loser ass, by providing food, shelter, free health care, and pay you for not working. Big Nanny State Daddy will, in short, attempt to remove 'failure' from a 'cooperative' person's life, but the price is high, since the process also removes 'success'.

Coercion/Intimidation: As envisioned by the Founding Fathers, America's national government's actions were strictly limited, by the U.S. Constitution. That fostered an environment where success often required cooperation - sovereign individuals teaming up, voluntarily, to achieve a mutually-beneficial purpose. It also made for the kind of friendly rivalry between competitors that leads to innovation and efficiency, both of which provide a customer with a better product at a lower cost.

When the Nanny State broke out of its Constitutional cage, and grew into the bloated behemoth it is today, it did what all overgrown asshats do, it started throwing its weight around. That bully boy side of Uncle Sam attracted the attention of certain businessmen, who didn't have the patience to compete in the marketplace. Instead, they 'rented' access to the Nanny State's monopoly on the use of force, then used Nanny State power to give them a competitive advantage. Why bust your ass to beat your competitor, when you can buy a Nanny State minion to 'regulate' your business rival out of the market? This obscenity is called 'crony capitalism' and it's what Ayn Rand meant when she stated that "Government regulation is corrupt and corrupting."

Envy: In a bygone era, America's sovereign individuals greeted an achiever's success with a measure of respect for a the ingenuity and hard word it involved. In many cases, an achiever's success would inspire others to strive for their own personal brass ring. You start with an idea, apply some hard work and long hours. When you do it right, you join the ranks of the achievers.

In this Obamunist Error, achievement, success, and a willingness to reap the rewards for your hard work, are viewed with jealousy, distrust, and hatred. Success is a cardinal sin that must be punished severely. If the achievement is academic, the punishment is denying one of our best and brightest a slot in a top university where he, she, heshe or it can flourish. If the achievement is in the business arena, the punishment is the outright theft of the achiever's rightful property, after which the spoils will be divided between the Nanny State 'collector' and the parasite who isn't bothered by receiving stolen goods.

Are America's sovereign individuals destined for history's scrap heap, and a brief footnote in some history book with a readership in the single digits? I hope not, but the possibility is too, too real.

Am I painting ALL Americans with this broad brush? Hardly. I am, however, confronting the reality that more than four decades of government cess-school indoctrination, cultural Marxism, and Political Korrectness have slowly, inexorably, eroded the American character. I'm also warning that the flaws become more widespread, more discernable, with each new generation.

Is this degradation of the American character a serious problem for America and its future? It played a significant role in putting an America hating, capitalism despising Marxist in the Oval Office, not once, but twice,so what do you think?

Our character is under attack and we aren't all that we once were. We are, I hope not so far gone that we can make things right again.

Hambo the Optimist? Holy crap, do I need a drink.

Random Notions

The genius of the Jackass Party is their ability to induce enough shame/guilt in otherwise rational adults to make them pony up the money that the Progtards use to coddle their horde of parasites.

If the Progtards are so hot and bothered over the fate of border jumping MS 13 gangsters, uh, children, I have a suggestion. Each border jumper coddling bleeding heart will be assigned a 'child'. The bleeding heart will hand over the deed to any/all property they own, as a guarantee that their border jumping 'child' will show up for their hearing.

Is there any level of Progtard induced suckage...can things in our country ever reach such hellish levels, that even the rank and file Jackass Party chad puncher will gasp, 'holy crap'?

How much more of this Progtard induced destruction of our once great nation will rational American adults take, before We the People get seriously, 'knock that shit off or it's going to get ugly', pissed?

Why has George Soros dropped off the radar? Has his Marxist Messiah managed to exceed George's wildest expectations, when it comes to destroying America?

Is there any way to prevent the USA from splintering into several mini nations, some rational, some Moonbat?

Given the unrelenting hostility inside the Beltway rat bastards shower on We the People and our inalienable individual liberty, will you be sad or glad when ISIS nukes it our of our misery?

Is the RNC stupid enough to run Mitt "I really don't want the job" Romney, again, in 2016?

A Day Dedicated to Our Liberty

July 4th is the day we remember that this nation is founded on the bedrock called inalienable individual liberty. It's the day we remember America's core tenet: each individual is born with inalienable rights that no government, no group, no other individual has the right to infringe. It's the day we pause to honor the inalienable individual liberty that sets America apart from all other nations:

"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness ."

July 4th is the day we stop to pay homage to that classically American creation - the rugged individual - by saluting the courage and wisdom of 56 classically-American individuals who, 230 years ago, wrote a timeless document called "The Declaration of Independence". This legendary Declaration is an exceptional document whose soaring prose still inspires us. On this day, we honor these 56 rugged American individuals for drawing the proverbial line in the sand and telling King George: "Listen up and listen good, Sporty. You're no better than we are and we're done letting you push us around. If you don't knock that crap off, right damn now, we're gonna kick royal punk butt."

PIG is more than a little smug about the fact that in their time, those 56 courageous Americans were the ultimate politically incorrect dudes. That's gotta get a rousing "Amen" from the American congregation. Did we call the Founding Fathers politically incorrect? You better damn believe it. For example:

Limited Government: Swimming against the authoritarian tide, the Founding Fathers promoted, and ultimately established a government that was, in essence, the agent of a sovereign people. The sole function of this limited government: maximize the inalienable liberty of the individuals it served.

Individual Liberty: These 56 exceptional individuals set individual liberty above, beyond, the reach of the government. They defied conventional wisdom and prevailing political philosophy by stating that our liberty is not a gift from government but is, in fact, each individual's birthright.

Respect for Authority: When it came to royalty, they were politically incorrect with a vengeance. They defied a king. They defied his tax collectors. They defied the most powerful military force on earth. This is mind-boggling political incorrectness.

What makes their achievement remarkable is that they were mere mortals. They were flawed individuals who, working together, managed to promulgate a government based on a lofty, untested idea: inalienable individual liberty. Unable to implement this ideal in their own lives, they nevertheless dared to build a new form of government based on this politically incorrect concept.

In the 238 years that followed this singular moment in human history, the nation they conceived at such great personal cost has lost its way. Our Founding Fathers and their timeless principles are politically incorrect again. If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they would be horrified by what their successors have done with the liberty they risked everything to create. They would be outraged by a Nanny State that steals an achiever's rightful property and gives it to parasites . They would be outraged that the elected tormentors don't even give lip service to the inalienable individual liberty that was established at such a high price. They would be outraged that the nation they built upon the bedrock of inalienable individual liberty has devolved into a neo-socialist blight. They would stand as one and reject this 21st century America with its class warfare, privileged minorities, and parasite coddling.

After enduring as much of this devolved America as they could stand, our Founding Fathers would repeat the politically incorrect feat that we celebrate on July 4th. They would send Thomas Jefferson back to his writer's loft and tell him to compose a new Declaration of Independence. The same broad concepts would take center stage, but this time around, the outrages cited in the new declaration would be addressed to the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with a cc to the elected tormentors infesting Capitol Hill.

The Founding Fathers are, regrettably, long gone and they're never coming back. But, we can borrow a page from their playbook and seize the moment in the same politically incorrect spirit. We can tell the newest incarnation of King George , and his Marxist minions on Capitol Hill, to restore a properly Constitutional government, or else. We can demand an end to group think, parasite coddling and class warfare. We can demand that our elected tormentors get back to the basics as established by our Founding Fathers. If all else fails, we can find a 21st century Thomas Jefferson and get him started on that 21st century Declaration of Independence. There is nothing wrong with the Founding Fathers original concept; it's the long term execution that got us where we are. If at first, you don't succeed

Arena Football

If you're drunk, or high, watching this sport will give you a headache.

If you're a football purist who enjoys a tense defensive struggle, it will piss you off.

If you hate the snail's pace of real football, you're going to love it.

It's the way real football would look if your DVR was stuck in fast forward.

The last game I watched had a final score of 83 to 47.

Call me names if you must, but I'm starting to like it.

Just Wondering

She's been hunkered down a few feet from my front door. She never makes a sound but she's always watching every move I make. She's been there for the better part of a month, always sitting, always watching.

I'm not sure what she wants, because we don't speak the same language. I'm not sure she speaks any language, but my lovely bride swears she heard her making the usual Mourning Dove sounds. That's right our 'guest' is a bird.

So what? So, my preliminary assessment is that she's a lesbian bird.

Item 1: She built a nest in a potted tree on our patio.

Item 2: She's been sitting on the damn thing for the better part of a month.

Item 3: Mourning Dove eggs hatch in14-15 days.

Item 4: There's no male Dove lurking near her nest.

Item 5: One night, I thought I saw a teeny pair of birkenstocks and a flannel shirt neatly folded on a lower branch. Do I need to spell it out for you?

Alternative Theory:

She is really a HE who has convinced himself that he's female. That's right it's a Transgender bird who is so deranged on this gender identity crap that heshe is incubating a pair of imaginary eggs. I hope heshe imagines them hatching and leaving the nest soon.

What do you think? Lesbo or Tranny?

UPDATE: The answer appears to be Lesbo, because I found her 2 almost flight ready young 'uns on the ground, after lesbian mom was the victim of a hate crime. Lesbo mom is gone, presumed dead (hawk or cat probably) and the young 'uns are on their own in the nest.

Am I the only one who didn't know that they make turkey basters that are user-friendly for Doves?

Gender Bending

Gender bending - transsexual fun and games - is the next big thing in Victimhood. It's so trendy, even the AMA jumped onto the bandwagon.

In other action Monday, the AMA said transgender people should be able to switch the sex designation on their birth certificates without having sex-change surgery.

Most states make the operations a prerequisite. But the new AMA policy acknowledges that gender identity doesn't always match a person's birth anatomy.

An AMA report says identification documents that are consistent with gender identity rather than anatomy is essential to basic social and economic functioning. …

The new policy won praise from the National Center for Transgender Equality.
[NBC]

How does this work in real life? How indeed.

This Daily Mail story will get you up to speed on gender bending:

An ABC news producer who changed gender three times has been fired for 'performance-related issues', according to reports.

Dawn Ennis, who was once known as Don Ennis, identified as both a man and a woman during a long career at the company.

The producer, from Danbury, Connecticut, lost her job in May just a few weeks after transforming from her male identity.

An industry source told the New York Daily News that Ennis losing the job was not because of gender-identity issues.

ABC News declined to comment to MailOnline on Tuesday.

In May 2013, Don Ennis appeared at work wearing a black dress and an auburn wig, and asked that co-workers call him Dawn.

She reportedly received a very public show of support from her longtime colleagues.

The father-of-three explained to colleagues that she believed her gender mix-up was linked to her mother giving her oestrogen as a child to prolong a childhood acting career.

Ennis said she ended up developing breasts and thinking as a woman.

Soon afterwards, the producer separated from wife Wendy after 17 years. Then three months after revealing her new identity to colleagues, the senior ABC employee returned to work as Don and claimed to have suffered from 'transient global amnesia'.

Ennis said he had believed it was 1999 and thought that his wife had tricked him into dressing up as a woman.

According to the New York Post, Ennis posted a memo on the newsroom bulletin board which read: 'I accused my wife of playing some kind of cruel joke, dressing me up in a wig and bra and making fake ID's with the name ''Dawn'' on it. Seriously.'

The journalist explained that while his memories of the last 14 years had returned, his female identity did not.

In the memo, first reported on gossip site NewsBlues, Ennis added: 'I am writing to let you know I'm changing my name . . . to Don Ennis. That will be my name again, now and forever. And it appears I'm not transgender after all.'

The producer thanked colleagues at ABC for their support and said that he hoped the experience would make it easier for the next transgender person at ABC.

In May, 49-year-old Ennis became Dawn again. She was let go from the company soon afterwards.

On May 31, she posted on Facebook: 'It is all going to work out.' On June 2, Dawn Ennis then published lines from Shakespeare's King Lear on her Facebook page, which read: 'No, I will weep no more. In such a night/ To shut me out? Pour on; I will endure.'

Even the hardcore leftists at ABC have their limits.

As usual, I have a couple questions.

Q: If Dawn Ellis is beset by serious, SERIOUS, prostrate problems will SHE consult HER gynecologist?

Q: What advice does the AMA have for Dawn?

A: [P]atients deserve medical care that is appropriate to their birth anatomy even if they self-identify as the opposite sex. [NBC]

Q: If gender is no longer immutable, and is now whatever a moonbat says it is, why can't the same rules of engagement apply to race? Why isn't my race as flexible as my gender? Why can't I be whatever I say I am?

I'm tired of gender bending. I think it's time for race bending. I'm just sayin'.

Fond Memories

For a long time, an Internet speedbump named Ananova was always my first stop when I launched my daily search for PIG-worthy material. Ananova always came through with gems like these:

Why Some People Make Fun of Kentucky:
Ananova
One of my lovely bride's home boys made the news. He's from Ashland, a city that's within spitting distance of the Ms. Just Shoot The Bastard birthplace and historical landmark. How many dudes do you know that challenges a snowman to a quick draw contest and loses? His name is Bob Bowling. We're thrilled to report that we don't know him:

'...Bob Bowling suffered a wound to his right thigh. The embarrassed 32-year-old initially told state police his gun was in his holster and it went off when he sat down. But after being taken to hospital he told a state trooper the weapon went off while he was quick-drawing on a snowman...'

A tad higher on his 'thigh' and we could file this under human gene pool improvement, special circumstances. If at first you don't succeed...

From Our Home and Family File:
Ananova
This one is too fun, so I'll let Ananova do the honors:

'...A man has banned his daughter from the family home after he saw her in a porn film. The unnamed Italian said he recognised her voice and bum. The film's director said her fiancé had also complained about her part in the film which was shot with amateur actors in the cities of Ferrara and Modena...'

Let me try to get this straight...Daddy doesn't mind watching somebody else's baby girl in a porn flick, but heaven forbid he'd be watching his own pride and joy. In the first place, what is this pillar of morality doing watching a porn flick? In the second place, would somebody explain why he'd be able to pick his baby girl's bare boom-boom out of a lineup? Enquiring minds want to know.

Naughty Romanian Knickers:
Source: Ananova
Romania is back on this pagan's wingnut country radar, after a prolonged spell of unscheduled rationality. A Bucharest lingerie shop scandalized the true believers by selling knickers - I am not making this up - with portraits of the cross dude himself and his cherry mommy on them. Needless to say, the bovine excrement hit the proverbial fan with a resounding 'splat'.

'...The underwear generated scores of calls from angry shoppers and landed the unnamed store in Bucharest's main shopping centre with a £200 fine. The Consumer's Protection Office was inundated with complaints after the new line of knickers, produced in Turkey, went on sale in Bucharest this week. The CPO has ordered the sale of the knickers to be stopped...' (Ananova)

Tasteless? You bet. A crime? Only in certain supernaturalist-coddling pest holes, but try to explain that to the god squad or humor-challenged bureaucrats. (Our top secret Stealth Wisdom research reveals that bureaucrats get a humor-ectomy, as part of the hiring process.) Okay, so maybe the sight of the cherry mama's mug shot spread across the vast, blubbery expanse of some wide-load Romanian wench's butt isn't exactly a delight to behold. Look on the bright side, packing the cross dude or cherry mama's image on her undies might remind an eager to get horizontal wench to take a rain check, the next time some horndog makes his move. Can I get a big amen from the congregation...

Celibacy...Once Removed:
Ananova
Celibacy isn't the kind of gig where 'close, but no cigar' applies. Obviously, somebody forgot to pass this along to a certain Italian god squad padre. Being that kind of pagan, I'm more than a tad relieved to trip over a horndog priest who is getting eagerly horizontal with a female. A female! Now I've heard everything. His name is Father Ugo Moretto...and he's a 'father' in every sense of the word, or soon will be. While working on the broadcast images of the dirt kisser, plus traveling with our loam-loving holy father, Ugo found the time for various outside interests:

'...Father Ugo Moretto has been living in a Milan suburb since December with the woman, identified only as B B. The 45-year-old is the former head of the Vatican's CTV which distributes broadcast images of the Pope. He's leaving the priesthood. The Daily Telegraph quotes the Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest daily newspaper, as saying Father Moretto's girlfriend is a 35-year-old journalist who was been separated from her husband for a year. "My friend is three months pregnant. We are not married, but we are living together and as soon as we can we will marry," Father Moretto...'

Apparently, being an inmate of a butt monkey infested organization like the rosary true believer priesthood didn't make our dude, Ugo, forget that he was born Italian. Good for you, Ugo. This pagan hopes your love story has a happy ending.

Parting shot: Ananova got swallowed up by another publication which promised to keep up the Ananova tradition. They lied.

Oldie, But Goodie

[Stellar prose. What a shame my talent is so under-appreciated. I know...I know, I'm working on getting over myself. Some of these things take time.]

The Master Race, I Don't Think So, Tim:
Only Ananova could provide a story of this...magnitude. It appears, that when the rubber hits the...road, the kraut dudes just don't have...it:

Germany has demanded a rethink on EU guidelines on condom size after finding its average penis did not measure up. Doctors around Essen were ordered by the government's health department to check out the average size suggested by Brussels. Urologist Gunther Hagler, head of the team compiling the research, said: "By checking hundreds of patients we found German penises were too small for standard EU condoms."

Call me names all you want, but I way love this shit. According to the krauts, the EU has 'overestimated' the dimensions of the average winkie by a good 20%. The EU officials insist that none of the other countries have reported the same problem. Well duh! How many dudes do you know who would tell anyone that the average size condom was too big for their...gear? Exactly! For that matter, only a kraut would show up to let some quack measure his...business. I can't think of any inducement that would make me submit to that. No fucking way. Only the krauts, with their notorious fetish for precision would be stupid enough to set themselves up for ridicule like this. This has to be those pesky, Jerry Lewis worshiping frogs idea of a side-splitter. Do the misery mongers know about this?

Attention, misery mongers! Are you paying attention out there? If you want to make the krauts miserable, stop with all these misery shrines. If I were you, I'd be issuing a press release, right damn now, declaring that old thunderbolt is punishing the krauts for their many sins with this plague of pygmy winkies. This makes the alleged plagues he dished on Egypt look like kid stuff. Actually, now that I think about it, this is much too subtle for old ka-boom. This has all the earmarks of that sick celestial bitch, Mrs. Ka-boom. She's finally bested that way fun apple caper she pulled on the Eve wench.

Things That Amuse Me

* Gender Studies, Out. U.S. Founding Documents, In

The Center for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of South Carolina Upstate (USCU) will close on July 1 and the funding, previously allocated for CWGS, will be used to teach the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Federalist Papers.

The South Carolina House of Representatives wanted further cuts at both USCU and the College of Charleston, which had already seen budget cuts over mandated gay literature for freshmen students. However, the Senate was hesitant to cut funds for fear of academic censorship.

The chambers compromised by allotting the discussed funds toward teaching the provisions and principles of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Federalist Papers, as well as "the study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals.

The move puts South Carolina colleges back in compliance with a 90-year-old state law which requires colleges to teach students a year's worth of courses on the nation's founding documents. [College Reform]

Now that's funny.

* 'They' complain that I laugh at all the wrong things, the Human Gene Pool Improvement stories being a prime example. Product warning labels provide the same kind of holy crap moment, plus the laughter that goes with it.

Here are some prime examples of that:

Warning: Do not attempt to remove blade while lawnmower is running or plugged into an outlet.
Craftsman Push Mower

Do not attempt to stop chain with hands.
Jonsreds Chainsaw

Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.
Swedish Chainsaw

Description reads "WARNING – May cause cancer in California"
Roll-A-Hose

Do not use as an ice cream topping.
Unknown Hair Coloring

Warning: May contain traces of nuts
Hershey's Almond Bar

Caution: Ice cream is cold
Hagan Ice Cream

Instructions: Put on food
Heinz Ketchup

Do not turn upside down (Printed on the bottom of the box).
Tesco's Tirimisu Desert

Things That Annoy Me

* Before you get on the expressway, you tune in to a traffic report. They tell you about two incidents on your expressway which are already in the clearing stages and not on the section you're using. They don't tell you about the pickup truck that smashed into the center divider and has traffic STOPPED on the section of that expressway you will be using.

* I was chatting with a woman who works for some kind of health insurance cabal (something nonprofit). During her yammering she mentioned that the firm was paying special attention to the 'income impaired'. Income impaired? When did 'poor' become a banned word? Do they think that those labeled income impaired don't know they are poor?

The Wave Sweeps Across America 2014.

I am convinced that America is in the throes of a stupidity plague. It's everywhere you look and it's getting worse. It appears to be highly contagious and has reached epidemic proportions in this land conceived in liberty.

If you need examples, I give you a few:

* The stupidity plague found fertile ground among the Elephant Clan fossils who infest D.C. It folded, spindled and mutilated their synapses into an insane belief that the fast lane to election cycle success turned likely Elephant Clan voters, the TEA Party into road kill.

* The stupidity plague makes allegedly sentient individuals, from sea to shining sea, seek wisdom from the bellowing buttheads on 'The View'. This stupidity plague pestilence is so powerful, it makes some watchers of 'The View' mistake the Howling Harpies for intelligent life. Stupidity plague of this magnitude is incurable, so we'll probably need to put this group down, for their own good.

* In Colorado's Boulder County, the stupidity plague has reached epic proportions:

Boulder County is considering adopting language to its comprehensive plan recognizing that nature — including plants and insects — has rights. The idea comes at the behest of a group called Boulder Rights of Nature, which is urging the planning commission to go even further and extend legal rights for humans to animals and trees.

* A college-age caller to a boom box show blurted out that he, she, heshe or it, and everyone this fool knows, get all their hard news from those icons of objectivity, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Instead of doing their own fact seeking, in books, news reports, and other reliable sources, this fool's primary connection with objective reality is Comedy Central. No need to put this group down, their stupidity plague will take care of it for us, sooner or later.

* In Mexifornia, where the stupidity epidemic is horrific, voters who were infected with this malady, gave unrestrained, budgetary power to the neo-Marxist Legicrats who are responsible for the states' 20 to 50 BILLION dollar debt. It's impossible to imagine a more virulent outbreak of the stupidity plague.

* Speaking of Mexifornia, Congressmoron Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said that she supports raising minimum wage in the state of California to $26 an hour, adding that she doesn't think such a hike would hurt small businesses.

We might need to quarantine Mexifornia, for a million years or so, until this stupidity plague has run its course and resolves our problem for us.

* On his MSNBC blight, Hardball, Chris "The Tingler" Matthews demonstrated the level of insanity this stupidity plague brings. He did it, when he blamed the Elephant Clan for "FORCING" Messiah Barry to move to the extreme left then implement a neo-Marxist, anti-capitalist, anti America philosophy. The Elephant Clan FORCED Mister "I Won" into making a hard left turn? That's gotta be the worst stupidity plague outbreak in human history. We need to put this fool down, stat.

How the hell did we get in this sorry 'stuck on stupid' state? How indeed. In too many cases, the infected individuals are born clueless and, for one reason or another never out grow it. Why? The answer to that question involves one of the great, underappreciated, truths. Little morons, if they survive a childhood infused with unrelenting, stupidity, grow up to become human gene pool improvement volunteer-class intellectual flatliners. Little Donny Dumbass becomes Big Donny Dumbass. He is, until fate stamps his human gene pool improvement volunteer application 'accepted', the gift that keeps on giving.

The snot gobbling tyke, whose first encounter with electricity happened, when the young Einstein stuck a paper clip into a wall socket, is destined for bigger and better things. Young Einstein will, if he, she, heshe, or it survives that initial electrifying encounter, become the alleged adult who improves the human gene pool, while trying to steal a copper wire that's packing 20,000 'kiss your ass goodbye, dumbass' volts.

The prepubescent genius, who began his quest for stupidity plague glory, by poking a rattlesnake with a stick, is destined for bigger and better things. If he lives in them thar hills, he might become a member of that outpost of snake handling Cross Cult supernaturalism, which places too much 'faith' in Old Ka-Boom's infuriating 'fools and drunks exemption'. Or, he might grow up to be the rain-soaked, Oregon, nitwit who got gassed to the gills, then thrilled his friends by shoving the head of his pet rattlesnake into his mouth. He nearly died, when the snake did what comes naturally and bit him.

Some of these young snake wranglers grab their rightful share of immortality by winning a Darwin Award. In one memorable adventure, an alleged adult got gassed to the gills, then decided to play with his pet cobra. A pet cobra? Who the hell in their right mind has one of those for a pet? In this case 'in his right mind' is the last thing we can say about a dude who manhandled the cobra, got bit several times, then decided that the cure to what ailed him could be found in a bar, not the local emergency room. Snake bit - literally - he headed to the local tavern for some booze to chase down that cobra venom. He hoisted a few, then got the thrilling, human gene pool improvement volunteer application accepted, news when he died with his brewskie boots on.

Believe it or not, this stupidity plague is contagious. We've already given you one example, those hillbilly, snake wrangling, Cross Cultists, who place too much faith in a fickle deity's fools and drunks exemption. Another, equally compelling, example of a mass stupidity plague outbreak is something called - we are not making this up - the William Tell Club.

What is it? Happy you asked. It's a group of card-carrying, bona fide boneheads, who stand against a tree, with an empty beer can on their head, then let some drunk as a skunk archer use him for target practice. How? The bleary-eyed archer picks up his trusty-dusty crossbow and attempts, with laugh-inducing ineptitude, to shoot the arrow though the can on the top of an even bigger fool's head. No harm, no foul? Perhaps, but this teenage dude class prank achieved critical mass, when one willing dope got shot with an arrow right through the forehead. Out of our misery? Nope, he, too, survived to spawn morons like himself.

Are Americans, in alarming numbers devolving into lumbering, brain dead brutes, due to this stupidity plague? Yup. Is this the dirty little secret that explains why government cess-schools keep graduating idiots with self-esteem? I'll get back to you on that one. Should we be doing something to cure these stupidity plague asshats? Yes, but not the way you think.

The way to put an end to the stupidity plague is obvious. Since stupidity - be it a plague or the plain vanilla variety - is a self-correcting problem, the solution is relatively simple. If we can persuade the Nanny State to stop saving the relentlessly stupid from themselves, the stupidity plague eventually resolves itself. Morons who get their hard news from Comedy Central...Mexifornia Meatheads who put the lunatics in charge of the asylum...Elected Tormentor Fossils with delusions of grandeur...all the intellectual flatliners, will evict themselves from the human gene pool, sooner or later. All we need to do is stand clear, then enjoy the carnage, when they do what comes naturally.

Like Hannibal Smith, I love it when a plan comes together