Gun Nerds Listen Here!!! Rules to Live By...

Look, I'm a gun owner. I shoot. In fact. I shoot a lot. I own guns. In fact, I own lots of guns. Liberals would think I was a nut. Liberals would be wrong. I'm not. Some people spend thousands of dollars on things they like; shoes, clothes, fishing gear, hats, figurines, baseball cards, antiques, Pez dispensers, video games, booze, model trains, and on and on. No one bats an eye at a woman with 50 pairs of shoes she'll never wear, but find disgust with a man who has 15 guns and shoots them all. This isn't even counting the shotguns. However, there is one thing I still don't get, and that's gun nerds. They seem to be gamers that take their tricked-out AR-style rifle from their virtual video game world into reality. I see these guys at the range. They scare me. Oh, and annoy me. Some dress like wanna-be military contractors complete with keffiyeh around their necks and everything from the 5.11 tactical catalog. The others are just gadget goons. Mostly overweight. Usually around 22-25 years old. They trick out their weapons with every sort of sight and grip and accessory imaginable... then go shoot on the 10-meter range. Yep, it's sad. The maximum effective range for a 5.56 caliber M16A2 is 550 meters, and these nitwits shoot at targets close enough to throw the gun and hit. They're not alone. At a range near Naples (which I won't mention so I don't piss off a bunch of people with guns) there is a group of Mexicans who shoot at these same 10 meter targets basically without even aiming. It's like a bad Eastwood movie. One day they'll just point their guns at the sky and pull the trigger and shout Ayeee!!! in which case I'll hit the deck and then never go back there because someones going to get shot. I think they do it for the whole testosterone-laden nature of just slinging some lead and making some noise, but these guys need to listen-up too. I want the gun nerds and everyone else to hear me. These are basic rules for gun ownership. It goes far beyond the "I bought it for protection" bullshit and gives the post video-gamer a little perspective. T

When the ACLU Jumps in on the Right Side, You Can Finally See Libs Out of Control.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/new-york-state-cant-be-allowed-stifle-nras-political-speech

This still doesn't excuse them for years and years (and years and years and years) of wrong-headed anti-American liberal political activities. It does, however, demonstrate how absurdly anti-American and freedom-hating some politicians and political groups have become in this country. Is it their love for Saul Alinsky and everything he espouses? Maybe it's liberal politicians love for being nothing more than stealing our air. You know, like Peter in the movie Office Space, with his dream of doing nothing. Certain politicians live that dream right now. You know who they are. Yak, yak, yak and little else. But I digress. How bad does it have to get for the ACLU to back the NRA, or any rational constitutional idea? It makes me both happy and suspicious when the ACLU finally supports freedom for regular Americans. After all, you normally have to be in one of their pet groups to hear anything at all. Muslims, LGBT, illegal alien, criminal, rinse, repeat. When they finally support a group who defends the Constitution of the United States (having to say "finally" is a bit sad), a group that is absent any other political motivation and is color, race, gender, and religion blind (but not blind to criminals), all I want to say is "it took you long enough." Welcome aboard. Fight that good fight, with us. But remember, it still doesn't absolve you for your silence on the Trump Lawyer attorney-client privilege thing.

HMS Titanic: The Do-Over: Hell No, I Won't Go!

https://citizen.co.za/news/news-world/1773878/titanic-ii-the-new-replica-ship-will-set-sail-in-2018/

At least two different organizations are building real, life-size, exact replicas of the original ship. One was Blue Star Lines, not to be confused with White Star Line. The other is a Chinese billionaire (an oxymoron and paradox in a so-called, yet surely for-show Communist country.). Yeah, China's as communist as Donald Trump's an Arab. It's called slave labor for those that supply the unwashed masses at Wal-Mart...but I digress. So I ask you, if the replica ship was going to re-do the original voyage, would you go? Not me, brother. No way, no how. Well, not unless I was trying to die. We never learn, do we. Talk about a Jinx. They should rename the boat the SS Jonah. It reeks of the stink eye, bad juju, voodoo, bad omen, a pox on passengers, the hairy eyeball, hex, whammy, malediction, distress, plague, doom, and agony to spare. No thanks. I can see it hitting another iceberg and then, magically, people would say "well, what did they expect" or "see, I told you so," and people would laugh at the way you perished more ironically than Patches O'Houlihan getting crushed by the "Luck of the Irish" sign in the Movie Dodgeball. Nah, I'd rather bet against the ship. What's next? 9/11 World Trade Center, The Ride at Universal Studios? Or "Ebola Outbreak; Death Village" in IMAX 3D? I could get worse, but I won't. Nevertheless, a ride on another Titanic? Not for me. Nope. Where once it was the Unsinkable Molly Brown, there will be the Unsinkable Brainclogger...

Rant of the Day: Omarosa Done Screwed-Up. Liberals Using Fruit of The Poison Tree

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/omarosa-releases-recording-of-john-kelly-firing-her-in-situation-room_us_5b708318e4b0bdd0620a3a44
Let me tell you how this goes. You get a government job. You apply for a security clearance. You get one. You understand the rules. Anybody tells you otherwise is lying. Like Hillary Clinton. So you go to work. There are places (call them rooms, spaces, facilities, whatever) where you work that are considered "Secure." They are specifically built and outfitted to make sure people outside those areas don't see or hear what is going on or being said inside them. There are often special machines that create "white noise" to further mask voices from outside detection. You are told NO RECORDING DEVICES, electronic devices, phones, etc. are to go into secure spaces. There are signs outside these places that tell you that. There are racks and boxes where you are TOLD to put your phones, tablets, laptops, etc., instead of bringing them into the room. They are secure for a reason. There is also an implied level of trust. First, because you have signed the documents saying you won't put security at risk, or divulge what is said or happens in these secure spaces outside these secure spaces. Second, because there is an implied level of trust expected and demanded by those personnel authorized to enter such places. They are supposed to be professionals. They are supposed to be worthy of trust. Well, Omarosa is an untrustworthy, chip-on-the-shoulder piece-of-crap spy. She's a security violator. She is a criminal. She violated the trust of everyone in the White House. She broke the law. She went into the White House with a subversive agenda and malice aforethought and purposely committed crimes. Then she sniveled some drivel about recording conversations to "protect herself." Bullshit. She had no integrity going in, and she has none coming out. She sucks. Now the Liberal press is going to help her use the fruit of the poison tree to sell her book. They suck too. I think she did all this strictly for the money. Create some drama. Create some intrigue. Sell more books. She's a hack and buffoon. The anti-American Liberal news agencies are using this illegal information to throw dirt on our president. They are as big a turd as Omarosa. She broke the law. They probably are also. They need to stop the book sales, stop the TV appearances, prosecute her for violating contractual security agreements and privacy laws, throw the book at her, and toss  her in jail. Then they should make Hillary her cellmate. We expect professional conduct from kids in their twenties with clearances. Why don't we expect even more from grown adults? Politics be damned. There is a thing called right and wrong. This is no grey area. It's time all these sniveling dipshits figured that out. 

Rant of the Day: Shopping

So I go to buy a couple fishing shirts. Columbia. You know the ones. They actually get cooler as you start to sweat. I figure I'm stuck in God's waiting room so might as well be comfy. This is the only reason why I was in a department store. No other. I'm a sniper shopper. One target at a time. The shirts are the target. One store at a time. No two on the same day. Infiltrate the store. Identify target. Acquire target, Get it, Get out. Boom. Done. So I don't find the ones I want. Figures. On the way out, I pass this guy. Well, guy-ish. Loafers with no socks. Short pants in a bubble-gum-meets-carrot color. Oxford shirt pulled out. Sleeves rolled up. And a scarf. A big, metro-sexual, my wife dressed me, flaccid attempt at euro I-don't-know-what freaking scarf. Instantly, I snort one of those "WTF is this jackass wearing" sort of giggles. It's not winter. It's not Paris. It's not a shemagh or keffiyeh, or ghutrah. He did it as a fashion accessory! Numbnut. It's 93-degree Florida! He has shorts on for shit's sake! As I pass him, someone says "nice scarf there, Nancy." Well, someone being me, judging by the mortified look on the wife's face, and the completely submissive, over-it, "I gave up long ago" look on dude. I keep my eye on them for a second or two longer, then turn and continue back out the door. Once outside, I chuckle and say "dipshit" out loud. I couldn't help it. Couldn't help the whole episode. It's like when I see a guy wearing Capri pants, I automatically and involuntarily bark "Man-pris!" It's a blurting problem. I'll do it in mid-sentence. I do the same thing for leggings, blurt "stretchy pants" and continue without missing a beat. Somebody has to stop me. Or join me. One thing I know for sure, I won't be sniper-buying a scarf anytime soon. Fish on...

Tom Hanks Goes Full Gump On CNN; Takes Meryl Streep With Him

https://video.kqed.org/video/amanpour-meryl-streep-and-tom-hanks-9eixkh/

It was all I could do to suffer through five minutes of this "celebri-drivel" before I felt queasy and had to turn it off. References to ancient press abuses as an allegory to what they believe President Trump is doing arrogantly spewed by the wrong-headed, rich globalist liberal living in the Hollywood bubble named Tom Hanks. He believes the press should be unfettered. I get it. He believes government controlling the press is a bad thing. I get that too. I'm with him on that one. But for all his high-brow, "look at me I learned something from Dan Brown" references to precedence (be them more theatrical than applicable), he forgets one thing; THE PRESS HAS TO BE OBJECTIVE. THEY'RE NOT. HE KNOWS IT.  Is he complicit? Is it a cover-up? Sin of omission? Calling his ignoring that little requirement "disingenuous" is like calling 9-11 a "little spot of bother." Or calling CNN objective. Or Rachel Maddow a journalist. He did it on purpose. The press is the propaganda tool of hypocrite liberal elites in this country (like Tom Hanks) and the Democratic Party. Yeah, yeah, admit it. The truth feels good. Give it a try. For Gump to ignore obvious bias and lack of objectivity is...well, Full Gump. Never go Full Gump. He knows the press is on his side and he's playing that tune like a good liberal drone piano.  He has to keep his allegiance with the likes of George Soros, Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Elizabeth Warren, Charles Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and other intolerable globalist fathead liberals (villains all) intent on ruining our country (under the direction of their late hero Saul Alinsky). Can't get kicked out of the club, so toe the party line like an obviously obedient lib. He would never admit the good things that have happened while Trump became president, or the pathetic barnacle-like clinging Hillary Clinton is doing to all her sad excuses for her loss. Does he admit she needs to accept defeat? No. They act like she's some mythical creature of legend. They deflect. They ignore truth. Well, until she shows-up somewhere and they all kiss her ass. Gotta stay on the team. Can't go on the Hollywood Blacklist with James Woods and Lieutenant Dan. Denounce Trump in Hollywood or the fascist lefties turn on you (then tell you how bad Trump is...) Then there's the sycophantic admiration for Oprah Winfrey. By "their," I mean Meryl Streep, another pompous Hollywood bore. Watching her act or listening to her speak is a combination of nails on the chalkboard and hearing the sound a bottle makes when you blow across the top. You're getting sleepy. You're getting sleepy. Meryl went so far as to say Oprah was more qualified to be president than Trump. She has to say that; Billionaire Oprah owns her own TV channel and probably half of the "celebrities" in Hollywood. But I wonder if Trump had a magazine if he would call it Trump and have only pictures of himself on the cover? That form of arrogance is strictly reserved for liberal democrats. Plus, it's really easy to be a liberal when you're wealthy. Even easier to ignore all the failures in the party and their disenfranchisement of minorities (it's a nice way to say lying to them and letting them become even more impoverished), their lack of vision, leadership, or morality, overtly playing by the dirty playbook (remember the primaries), refusal to do their jobs veiled in a movement called "resist" (which is just liberal sniveling about losing the election and child-like tantrums), and allowing the double-standard to reign supreme. They do this because the media is blatantly and un-apologetically biased and pro-democrat. To deny it is to go Full Gump.

If only we cared about kids, veterans, and our rights...

Where's the Justice? Rant of the Day.

Where is the justice? Where is this so-called "equal treatment under the law?" Bullshit. Why do only devious, lying Richard Craniums (think about it) spout-off with "we believe in the rule of law." Yeah, nice try dipshit, no you don't. You're the one getting over on the rest of us and you think we're too stupid to see that. (Buzzer sound). Sorry. We're not. Hillary Clinton started this whole mess. Yes, she did. Stop it. Stop defending her. There is no reason. She's not the Queen, and she's not your mom, so zip it. She also hates women and thinks democrats are stupid (which they have to be to justify their blind obedience). And yet she goes free thanks to a sycophantic media that would tongue her clean after a good old Clintonian number 2 riddled with fiber supplements and failure. No need to remember Hillary. She won't ever go away. You gotta love a woman who fosters the term "suiciding you," like Vince Foster, you know, Vince "died from two self-inflicted gunshots to the head" freaking Foster. But this injustice goes further than the knuckleheads on the meme. Don't forget Elizabeth (I may or may not have been a blonde-haired Native American) Warren; Bernie (oppressed people just look so unhappy out the window of my $200,000 car) Sanders; Charles ( I really stand for the thing I stood for when standing for the stand I took a stand for ) Schumer (he's changed so many times I have whiplash); John (I hope they don't remember the Russians paid me first) Podesta; Debbie (I rigged the primaries and quit in disgrace and dishonor, but elect me again for congress) Wasserman-Schultz; or Nancy (we have to pass it to know what's in it) Pelosi? What about Huma? What about Weiner? What about Christopher Steele? Funny how all these 'government employees" are millionaires now. Do special counsels go on forever? Should the standard be "keep digging until you can make up something?" Should attorney-client privilege be broken on their behalf? We know the FISA warrant was obtained using a fake dossier paid for by the democrats. Why is any of that investigation still going? IT'S ALL FRUIT OF THE POISON TREE!!!  I'd like to make up a bullshit story that gets my neighbors to commit my other neighbors to a nursing home, but that would be wrong. Well, wrong to me. Probably not to the media or a liberal. Unless my neighbors were illegals. Then the media would burn me at the stake. Why was it okay for JFK (or Bill Clinton) to bang young girls in the White House pool (delivered by the secret service), and Barney Frank to bang a male prostitute in his hotel, but the mere possibility Trump might have been with a porn star could end the world? Why did David Petraeus get blasted for three confidential emails in a locked desk drawer, but Hillary has thousands of top-secret emails, destroys even more, and nothing happens?  How would she have even gotten a security clearance if she was elected? It's called a double-standard. Politics. A select few people that are above the law. Clearly above it. Blatantly, obviously, infuriatingly above it. It's called bullshit (which is redundant). Why is it okay for a liberal to call FLOTUS the "C" word, but Rosanne Barr is the devil for...get this...praising conservatives. She didn't even insult anyone. We need some actual adult supervision. Why is it okay for politicians to ignore violence on their streets caused by poverty, injustice, drugs, etc., but if a cop shoots somebody, they throw the race card and the media goes berserk on it? More people are gunned-down in Chicago than in Afghanistan, but Obama and Rahm Emmanuel have a way of blaming everyone else for it (and protesting in the shopping district rather than the neighborhoods where the violence occurs). Baltimore is spiraling down the bowl and nothing is done. No one even points out the obvious...that Democrats didn't do that place any favors while being in charge for the last 50 years. Hell, O'Malley screwed it up so badly, in the warped mind of the democrat they thought "hey, let's reward him" and ran him for president! Typical liberals subsidizing cowardice and misbehavior while rewarding failure. Where is the media in all this? How can they be so loyal and obedient to liberals? I know. They're on the side of the snivelers. The whiners. The losing side in the election. The same one that screamed bloody murder at the thought Trump might not honor the results of the election. Repeat; Trump might not honor them. Talk about ironic. This is all made worse by the democrats pledge to do absolutely jack-shit...which is what they did during the 8 years I had to suffer through Obama. Resist. How subversive and pathetic can you get. We pay these morons to work for us and they literally pledge they won't, yet still keep their jobs. I worry about the people that would vote for these buffoons. Did the GOP snivel for years after they lost to Obama? No. Why? They were adults. They were honorable, and by and large, they weren't corrupt like the current terd pile of democrats. Little kids play better in sandboxes than these idiots do in congress. It's embarrassing. It's a daily intestinal dirge of arrogance, ineptitude, ego, and belligerence that leads to either calamity, or stalemate...followed by the same thing the next day, and the next. We won't ever have term limits. Why would a 3rd grade math teacher that finds himself in a job where he makes too much money and has too good of a retirement plan and can pledge to never do a days work while the opposition is in charge ever want to have that gravy-train to end?  It's made worse by the ego they get after we all blow smoke up their asses and tell them how special they are. They're not. They're government employees in a representative republic. They work for us. It is not the other way around no matter what Schumer thinks. The corrupt never give it up. Oh, and there should be no retirement plan for congress. Here's your mission: Go to DC for a few years and then go back and live with the people you said you'll support when they sent you, and the things you did for, or against them. If they don't kick you in the teeth, then you might have done some good. If they do, then so be it. Maybe that's justice. Maybe even a little. Definitely more than we have now.

Do Other Companies Fix Their Own Errors? Not COMCAST!!!

My father has been dead for three years. We tell Comcast over and over that he is no longer with us, therefore he is no longer the account holder at the service address.  They say they need a copy of the death certificate. Well, fuck you. Give me a copy of your father's death certificate, dipshit. Here we are offering to take the bill...asking to take the bill, practically begging, and Comcast is belligerent to us. Then there's the bill. New customer? Here are all the discounts in the world. Old customer? Yep, here's your new higher rate. Bang! For all the money you give us, eat shit, give us more. Loyalty be damned, we have a monopoly so bend over and take it!!! Seems upside-down to me. Oh, and they send the bill to the wrong address and won't change it. They made the mistake. Instead of an R2 on the bill (meaning Rear building, 2nd floor, and the identity of the mailbox), some careless philistine typed F2, which means nothing. But they won't make the change without the account holder's approval!!. You know, the guy that's been dead three years. Arrghh.

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia. Sounds like a bullshit word, doesn't it? Like some blue-blood high-brow canape-taking a-hole should say it with a deviated septum. Ahh-Nho-Mahh-To-Peee-Yaa." Say it while holding your nostrils closed. It seems like an unnecessary word. It means the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss); also: a word formed by onomatopoeia (Miriam Webster). That last part makes it sound like the definition of "it is what it is." Like Slap. Douche. Barf. Why does naming a word after what it sounds like have to have it's own definition? It takes just as long to say "onomatopoeia" as it does "word spelled like it sounds." It's like someone saying "I dig your prose." No one except a pompous d-bag would say that. Or a wanna-be literary poser. Or any one of the numerous "I always wanted to be a critic. I just have to go trash every author I meet at Bookcon on Amazon." They suck. Wait! Is that Onomatopoeia? No. But it's the truth. And what explains "boink?"

Obamacare is the Boondoggle of all Boondoggles.

Boondoggle is defined as "work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value." I just read that the current total cost of the Affordable Care Act is $200,000 per insured recipient! How much more wasteful can you get? How can any politician look you in the eye with a straight face and tell you it's a good thing? Wait! I know the answer to that one. If private insurance would cost each person $50k, the government could buy every uninsured person a policy and save the rest of us $150,000 per person! My military pension is a shade over $40k a year and we spend $200,000 on each person for government health care no one voted for? Really? I know I ended in a preposition but what the hell! How do they get away with such politically-motivated and completely irresponsible spending? I'll tell you how; they use the construct of our nation against us. If we were a democracy, Obamacare would never have been implemented. Citizens would see the price tag. Then after a healthy dose of Pepto and some vilifying of the liberals, they would have voted it down. Not so in a representative republic. Crazies like Nancy "we have to vote on it to know what's in it" Pelosi and her socialist cohorts just rammed it down all our throats. They obviously have zero concern for spending our money. You know, the money we actually work to make. Then Big Brother made it a crime to not have the plan. Then they said "keep your doctor," and that was a lie. Then the other side took the whole thing to court. People jumped ship. Insurance companies did the same, yet liberals kept on shouting how great the program was and how it will save the world. The young people they thought were so stupid and gullible who would fund the whole debacle found insurance somewhere else, and the whole bad idea tilted over like a certain tower in Italy. Surprise! Young people are smart, much to the chagrin of liberals. Then politicians talk out of both sides of their devious heads. On one side it's "this way we can be like Canada and Cuba," while from the other it's "this way we don't have to be embarrassed by Canada and Cuba." Then they tell everyone republicans want to take away their health insurance. Too bad they fail to mention they were referring to people they believe might one day sign-up, not those already insured, and the part that was determined unconstitutional (not the tax; liberal judges got that left in).  Then they deflect. They try to shame us into taking from defense or another program to shovel more dollars into the Obamacare democrat money furnace. Then they deflect again; "the average premium under the program is only $367 dollars" they say with straight faces. So how does a family earning $2000 a month afford $1200 a month in premiums? They don't. It's a good thing the people earning below the poverty line don't know how much the program costs, or care. Democrats bought their vote on the backs of the rest of us and guaranteed their dependence on the government for generations to come. If someone explained the real situation to them, I think they'd rather just have the $50k. We should require every politician favoring the program to get their insurance through the so-called "Affordable Care Act." Didn't anyone get suspicious when the first thing democrats did was make sure they were exempt from it? Normally that would be an alarm bell (for normal people), but the corrupt liberal media decided to skip over that little tid-bit, successfully making it a republican canard rather than the fact it remains. But there is a bright spot; Obamacare funds a ton of lawyers, some enterprising internet entrepreneurs, and even more government bureaucrats. It allows drug and insurance companies to pump their prices up to skyrocketing levels, fuels malfeasance and fraud in medicare, pushes good doctors into general practice instead of their chosen specialty, allows big insurance providers to monopolize the market,  allows people that make just enough to be ineligible for Obamacare to go bankrupt paying for their families health insurance, and gives all of us a polarizing issue to fight over. So what's changed? Nothing. The biggest boondoggle of them all charges right along. Democrats pat each other on the back as they shovel our money into the fire. They think we're stupid. We're not stupid. We're just powerless. 

Trump and Putin: I call Bullshit on the Entire American Media.

It's amazing. The media still thinks they matter. They still believe we trust them. Far from it. No right-minded person believes them, nor do they accept their absurd claims of objectivity. When has Rachel Maddow ever been objective. Not a question. The media is also flabbergastingly (I think I just invented that use of the word) offering their opinion on what the president needs to do. Wow. You know what opinions are like...and the headlines couldn't be any more condescending. Here's what I mean:

Why American Spies Worry When Trump Meets Putin...

Despite Russia election bombshell, the Trump-Putin show will go on...

Putin’s Puppet

If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he’d look a lot like Donald Trump.

Putin looms for Trump after reality-bending visit with US allies

Stars are aligning' for Putin before Trump summit — indictments notwithstanding

The Memo: Fears rise about Trump-Putin meeting

...and on and on it goes. How arrogant and egotistic does someone need to be to never, and I mean NEVER cut the President any sort of slack or give him even an ounce of credit? My 401K is up. My taxes went down. My VA experience is much better. My friends in the Middle East don't seem to feel the need to apologize for their tacit approval of our president or hold the opinion we are about to crack. For the first time, our president went to NATO and gave them a firm talking to instead of a firm reach-around. He gave his honest opinion as a businessman regarding Brexit. Our president isn't apologizing for us. We have nothing for him to apologize for and our last president was a bit on the presumptuous and less-than-patriotic side in his great snivel tour of the world. Lest these a-hole liberals forget, the losing party (in this case the sniveling, cowardly, subversive, sore-loser can't get over-it party) has no stake in foreign policy. Sorry, but you don't. The news needs to at least fake some objectivity. Go ahead, try it on. Just for a moment. You know, just the tip. Never before has the American media just gone full retard (remember Tropic Thunder) on the freely-elected President of the United States. I'm embarrassed with them. I'm embarrassed by them. I have nothing but disdain for them.

Papa Johns and The Year-Long PC Vendetta Against John Schnatter

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44823852

I smell the smelly smell of the L-word. First they condemn him for exercising his right to free speech as one of the biggest sponsors of the NFL and shit-can him from the company, then Trump-up this new thing and toss him from the board. It's sad. They take an out-of-context reference to the oh-so-tragic double-standard laden liberal white guilt-addled "N-word," the apparent mother of all taboos and fry the guy? I call bullshit. Or rather, I call the B-Word, S-Word. The double-standard sucks some serious D-Word.  "Hi Samantha Bee. Thanks for calling the First Lady of the United States the C-Word, here's a free pass for you. We know you said it directly, but it's not as bad as a training session second-hand reference to the N-word and you're one of us libs, so there you go. Arrghh. Well here's another N-word for you...Nonsense. Take a reference to a pathetically, and unglaublich verboten word (depending on who says it, hence the double-standard) out of context and make Schnatter a pariah. Label him a racist. Let your sniveling, decrepit liberal souls feel the warm salve of politically-correct smear and slander. Have at it. Did he actually call someone the "word that must not be spoken lest ye a racist?" I don't see any reference to that anywhere, going back to the commentary about the NFL flag protests. Who then, is out to get him? Are the A-Words on the board of directors, whose jobs wouldn't exist if not for John Schnatter creating the company, ganging-up on him? Are they as big a bunch of P-Words as they appear? Is everybody really that sensitive? Or that spineless? Context is important, isn't it? So when blacks spread the N-word around, all is well, but Schnatter making a historic reference to it (not calling someone it) is racist? B-Word S-Word Flag. I think they were just out to get him and they saw this as their chance to get completely rid of him. Funny how he isn't taken-down by competition from another pizza chain, but rather, by internal hatred, scheming, greed, and PC. Liberals (L-Words) are so disgustingly disingenuous and cowardly they should consider the word "Liberal" as grossly overused and paradoxically scandalized as the "N-word." Yep, the L-word is what got John Schnatter. We really need to figure out what is truly offensive, and what isn't. W-Word, T-Word, F-Word...

Trump NATO Summit: Leftist Media Reaches Lowest Point in History

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-blasts-nato-allies-says-germany-captive-russia-n890471

"Trump said it is not fair to American taxpayers that Germany buys oil and gas from Russia while enjoying the umbrella of defense provided by U.S. dollars." He's right. It's not. Why should we pay for it? Scarborough said he was practicing "diplomatic malpractice?" Hey Joe, STFU, dipshit. For the first time we have a president that goes over and expresses the concerns of the American people instead of going over and kissing their asses and apologizing because we're doing better than they are and had to bail them out of trouble over and over. Joe, maybe you can do something with that ridiculous hair instead of running that sewer. MSNBC says Trump "demonized" our allies. Hey! Put that bathwater down! Stop drinking it! Okay liberal idiots, no one worships weakness like you do.  I know you cry at the thought of American exceptionalism and wouldn't be caught dead flying Old Glory, but your liberal spin on Trump's activities is subversive, pathetic, comedic and cowardly. Yes, you suck. President Trump took a leadership position and made our grievances known to a number of countries that not only don't pull their own weight in NATO, but enjoy trade imbalances with us. If they don't want to pay their fair share or have fair trade, then too bad if they get their panties in a wad. Governor Cuomo says trade and security don't relate? Wow, how do stupid people get elected. Wait! Never mind answering. Maybe they all need to watch the movie "Occupied" on Netflix. Basically, Norway tries to switch to alternative fuels for power, and Russia does a "silk-glove" takeover. Is that something Germany wants? How do we defend NATO countries from NATO bases against Russia if Russia can turn off the power? Why do we pay for the defense of wealthy nations while they make deals with the very country we're paying to protect them against? It's crazy. The fact liberals don't see that is just sad. And dishonest. And...

Schadenfreude and the Current #Uber Shitshow

https://www.fastcompany.com/40573981/uber-is-airing-tv-ads-with-its-ceo-to-help-improve-its-reputation

So there I am, having early morning coffee, and on comes a new Uber TV commercial. (The link is from May and there's been some head-rolling since then) They're funny. And sad. "We have to be better citizens." We have to do things better" "We're re-inventing ourselves." Yeah. Sure you are. Like Wells Fargo said they were doing. Then had to say it again when more crap hit the fan. Right? Waving the bullshit flag. This bad juju and stepping on your air hose at Uber just keeps going and going. It comes down to computer geeks who read a copy of Fortune and let it go to  their head. They let a company get too big, too fast, try to do too many things at once, not perfecting "first things first," and not do that old standby, "keeping the main thing, the main thing." Okay, cliche' time is over. Did you figure out that tech weenies might not be leaders? Did you finally make the connection between people with anger control issues and negative perception of the people in charge? Will the self-driving car sexually assault people too? Realizing you need to know who's behind the wheel was a hard lesson, eh? Seems that should have been the easy one. It's the typical, American, in a hurry "let's implement number three before we have one and two figured out." It doesn't work. It never works. Well, unless you're Jeff Bezos, but that's a different animal entirely. So I'm at least getting some amusement out of all this. Schadenfreude- deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune. Yep, that about sums it up.

Lunatic Fringe, I Know You're Out There!

In another music-themed entry involving crazy liberals, the lunatic in question is obviously off her meds. Or maybe she's over-medicating from the bottle of vodka she substitutes for water. Typical democrat, more concerned with the "rights" of those who break the law as their first act upon illegally entering this country than the safety, security, and prosperity of those of us either citizens or here legally. She's nuts. It's glaringly obvious. Both oars don't touch the water. Elevator doesn't go all the way up. A few donuts short of a dozen. All that and more. Also the one that dozes-off at State of the Union addresses and vilifies other democrats less-crazy than herself (with the rest of the lunatic fringe's approval). I see her reaching for the marbles in her pocket like "Captain Queeg" in The Caine Mutiny. Paranoid, delusional, the whole bit. Only Bogie did it better. It's pathetic how Nancy bothers herself with illegals more so than addressing why 22 veterans commit suicide every day (one every 65 minutes). She never served. The most likely reason? Never had the mental or physical toughness or the moral courage or character. It wasn't something her husband's money could buy for her. The song "Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider fits ironically well into this issue, especially considering the culprit.

Lunatic fringe

I know you're out there

You're in hiding

And you hold your meetings

I can hear you coming

I know what you're after

We're wise to you this time (wise to you this time)

We won't let you kill the laughter

Lunatic fringe

In the twilight's last gleaming

But this is open season

But you won't get too far

'Cause you've got to blame someone

For your own confusion

We're on guard this time (on guard this time)

Against your final solution

We can hear you coming (we can hear you coming)

The Day...the Fitness...Died...

"Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, You're So Freaking Heavy That The Buddha Would Cry, You Think 4XL Stretchy Pants Hide All The Donuts and Pie, You Suntan and We All Wonder Why? You Suntan and We All Wonder Why?"  So I go out to the beach this morning in my post-insomnia daze to get some air and stretch my legs, fishing rod in-hand (just in case). No breakfast, trying to cut down a bit with just a little protein powder on-board, I feel a slight twinge of empty stomach churn as I pass a couple "walk of shamers" coming the other way. I hear the familiar slap of my bare feet on the wooden ramp leading to the beach and pick up the scent of salt air and dry seaweed. Walking out on the sand, I'm suddenly struck with a sense of horror! It's a mass marine mammal stranding! But wait! Whales can't walk upright. What? Whales can't sit up like Buddha slathering sunblock on large-curd cottage cheese thighs and bingo-winged appendages. What gives? I walk carefully, slowly, so not to alarm the wildlife. One beached creature is laying with it's tail fins in the water. I peer out into the early morning Gulf of Mexico, hoping to see the rescue boats coming to throw lines around these things tails and drag them back out to sea. Help them!  Help them! I silently plead in vain. Then I hear a crunch! A sick, nauseating crunch! I turn and to my amazement, one of them is holding a giant-sized bag of potato chips and voraciously stuffing them into it's gaping mouth like it's the last meal they'll ever get and they've stopped making original Lays! I'm aghast! Gobsmacked! Frozen in disbelief and disgust. Arrrgh. Brrrr. Yikes! Eeek! OMG!!! WTF... How have people gotten so fat? Do we blame it on leggings big enough to put on a hippo? Walmart swimsuits in sizes 2XL, 4XL, and Volkswagen? Do we blame it on TV shows with 400-pound women both pre and post heart attack, tragically proclaiming how good their lives are? Bullshit flag. You can tell they're lying. The "bleeding heart channel" put them up to it. It can't be that good if the term "morbidly obese" would describe someone half that size. Chips? What? Stuffing chips (crisps to my European friends) in your craw like you're starving at 8:30 in the morning? At a minimum 200 pounds overweight and stuffing chips? Ever hear of a salad? How about an apple? I'm no fitness model, but what the f---?  Seriously? Now don't give me your diagnosis of the mental pathology. Save it. Spare me. It's gluttony. Overindulgence. Nothing more. Gourmandism. Reprehensible overeating. Why not just stop using your hands entirely and bury your face in whatever you're eating. How about some restraint? Get rid of the fun-house mirror you obviously have in your house that says you're thin and those legging are "working for you." They're not. Or have a welcoming party for all the medical ailments, the stroke and heart attack that will eventually come your way. This morning, it might just be the day the very idea of fitness died. Don't worry though, for every person out their struck queasy by the sight of the beached whales (both male and female), there is somebody screwed-up enough to look at that person in their Volkswagen swimwear and say "yeah, I'd do that," which is another conversation entirely.

Abolish ICE? How about Abolish Democrats and take your Subversion With You...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/some-democrats-want-go-war-over-abolishing-ice-so-does-n888606

How about taking your drink straight up? In the Middle East, they ask if you want your water "still" or "sparkling," but never include ICE. $300 dollar scotch never gets ICE. Drinking something while standing in front of the open refrigerator never gets ICE. And liberal democrats don't get it either. It's the mother of all bad ideas. To abolish the organization that battles #illegal immigration, #terrorists infiltrating across the border, #illegal gangs coming into the country, and #drugs like #heroin and #fentanyl coming in is just lunacy. Then again, people like #Elizabeth Warren, #Kamala Harris, and #Kirsten Gillibrand are lunatics. They're obviously just trying to get their faces in the news, albeit for an incredibly asinine reason. I can't help to think this just helps the GOP and law-and-order democratic citizens pull off another big win come election day. We spend billions of dollars a year to protect the borders of other countries, yet these morons think we should give away our sovereignty and our safety for some deluded idea of morality. I say no. Vote out these knuckleheads and get people who live on this planet in their seats. They're not doing this on moral grounds. Do you really think plastic woman #Nancy Pelosi is worried about that? No. They just want to illegally make more democrats. Their party is lacking leadership, those at the wheel are driving off the cliff, the rest are following these miscreants like lemmings, and this is their best, worst idea. It appears lefties are taking their drinks no ICE, straight up. A lot of them. Booze mixed with the democrat bathwater.

I Know a Guy

I know a guy that has nine kids. Wait, need for exclamation points!!! Yep, nine, four from his first marriage, four step-kids from the second wife, and a new one from the both of them. I know a guy that works like an animal dawn to dusk, then goes home to the big family. They live in a modest house they rent, but no one goes wanting. I know a guy that other people might look down their noses at, thinking he's some sort of white trash. I also know a guy that has an 840 credit score. Guess what...SAME GUY!" Yep, his shit is definitely together. He may not look like most people's idea of upper-middle class, but fuck those people, those pretentious judgmental douche-bags. When he goes by in his new boat, all those people might think he's one of them. I know a guy, gold Rolex. Real estate guy. You know the type. A hint of some fake blue-blood accent, fuchsia color shorts, red and white striped seersucker shirt. Big house, new car, wife all silicone and nip/tuck. You've seen it, face stuck in his phone at the restaurant, car dealer, in traffic, in the bathroom, boat shoes with no socks on a workday making it look like he's on top of the world.  And he's in hock up to his eyeballs. One false move, one accident, one unforeseen expenditure, one more uptick in his credit card percentage rate, and dude's tits-up. His credit rating is oddly still high. Lenders love someone leveraged to the max, but any moment, the sword of Damocles will fall. Bye bye private schools. See ya later long vacations. Trade the Mercedes for that Mitsu. Someone else is going by in your boat. Oddly though, ask someone who they would like to be, and they'd probably tell you guy number two. Not me. I'm just guy number one with a little different history and a bunch fewer kids. It changes the meanings of "Look out for number one," and "Don't be number two."

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