feelin' old

so tonight the X-Files is back for a 6 episode event. man we watched that thing RELIGIOUSLY when it was on. really felt betrayed when it ended too. went to see the movie and was disappointed. hopefully what we see tonight will  spark a fire in older and younger viewers, and give us something fun to watch again.

a few years ago some new hires came through while they were still in training, to shadow us for a day.  me, being who i am,  had them stand to introduce themselves.  a tall young man stood to tell us his name , and answered when asked why he was here, because he wanted to be an FBI agent.  short female stands, gives us her name, then says the EXACT SAME THING.

Christ people, you haven't even done a shift and you're ready to bounce?

I asked who wanted to be Mulder and who wanted to be Scully, and they at least got that right. 
ersatz agent mulder is still with us and I have no idea what has become of our aspiring agent scully.

as junior mulder is still present, I refer to him by that name.  another new guy was present recently, and asked why I call demi-mulder mulder.  the story was explained to him by our nicknamed subject employee to the under informed employee this way; "so before we could stay up late and watch tv, there was this show on about a couple of FBI agents who hunted aliens..."
"like illegals?"
me smiling.
"no, like space aliens", and he continues to explain the rest of the show, what happened on his first ride along, and why I refer to him as mulder.

newer guy turns to inform me he never saw the shows.  told him to check it out on hulu or netflix and walked away feeling my age and wondering about this new generation.  if it wasn't for office phones they would probably wonder what scully was holding in the picture at the top.

character counts

                              let them eat petit fours

                               that someone else paid for


Because power corrupts, society's demands for Moral Authority and Character increase as the importance of the position increases. -John Adams

think about it iowa.  think about it AMERICA.  

will we be the turtle or the frog?

 
many of you are probably familiar with this fable.  it's origins appear to be from the middle ages and Persia of all places.  there seems to be 2 main variations, both involve a  antagonist, the scorpion, and a protagonist, the frog (victim), and the turtle (would be victim).

both stories start out the same, the deadly scorpion wants a free ride across the water (ocean).  both the frog and the turtle are concerned that if, as solicited, they carry the known dangerous scorpion across the blue feature, they will be stung and drown.  the scorpion reminds both that it would be stupid for him to do this, as he too would drown.

allowing  the scorpion to talk them into the risky business of helping him,  both give him a ride and are predictably stung. as he drowns, the frog asks why did you do this, we both die now, to which the scorpion replies, because it is my nature.

the turtle, with his hard shell, delivers the scorpion to the far shore after being stung and tells the scorpion,  "Are you not the most wicked and ungrateful of reptiles? But for me you must either have given up your journey, or have been drowned in that stream, and what is my reward? If it had not been for the armour which God has given me, I should have been stung to death." "Blame me not," said the scorpion, in a supplicatory tone, "it is not my fault; it is that of my nature; it is a constitutional habit I have of stinging."  the turtle then drowns the scorpion.


the moral of the story is that fundamental evil can not change.

France and other parts of the EU got to see that this past friday.  AGAIN. STILL.

we got to see it in Beirut, Ft. Hood, New York, the Pentagon, Shanksville, Benghazi, Aden, Nairobi, New York again, Beirut again, Lockerbie, Port Said, Dar es Salaam, Little Rock, Chattanooga, Moore, Boston, Khobar,  Riyadh .  this list is just of the attacks i can think of, off the top of my head, (so to speak), which have occurred in my lifetime, and is probably incomplete.

as we found out, not every german was a nazi, we should believe that not every muslim is a jihadi.
please remember we discovered this after defeating the nazi's.  we also found tons of nazi sympathizers.

ask yourself if we allow the government to continue to let "refugees" into the country, under a highly suspect vetting process, if we will be able to defeat the jihadist's, and find their sympathizers.  or  will we be the frog in the fable.

i'm voting for the turtle.

 this post is dedicated to the memory of those that the politicians, media talking heads, and activists have long forgotten, and hope that you will as well.

Leon Klinghoffer
Richard Stethem
1st Battalion 8th Marines
The crew of  USS Cole
All those killed and injured on 9-11-01
Pan AM Flight 103
The 4404 Provisional Wing, USAF
Soldiers of  the U S  Army,  Ft. Hood, Texas
U S Embassy Staff Nairobi, Kenya
 U S Embassy Staff  Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The World Trade Center, 2-26-93
Boston Marathon, 4-15-13
William Long
Quentin Ezeagwula
Carson Holmquist
Randall Smith
Thomas Sullivan
Skip Wells
David Wyatt
Collen Hufford
Traci Johnson
U S Embassy Annex  Staff, Benghazi, Libya


 









  

the gun control lie rolls on (an obama production)

another sad story for families and friends of students this time at a college in Oregon.

 however i about fell out of the chair watching barry sprint to the cameras as the bodies began to cool and the shell casing stopped spinning to lecture us yet again about gun violence.

now being the son of a highly accomplished bullshiter, i recognize the smell on barry's breath, from across the room, and he was on TV.


We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.

So the notion that gun laws don't work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get their guns, is not borne out by the evidence.

now which state does Chicago squat in with it's 396 homicides so far this year?

beastiful Baltimore, with their 250 homicides year to date?  thats 39 more than all of last year.

the District of Columbia?  120 killings so far this year, which is 48% higher than the same time as last year, and 15 more than all of 2014.

two of these municipalities have been sued, had to defend themselves at TAXPAYER expense, in front of the supreme court, and lost.

Maryland consistently ranks near the top  yearly  for gun deaths due to blood in the streets Baltimore.
registering 293 homicides in 2010 as a state, 224 from Baltimore, 171 were attributed to gun violence. that's 76% kids, from 1 shithole town.

And I would particularly ask America's gun owners who are using those guns -- properly, safely, to hunt, for sport, for protecting their families — to think about whether your views are being properly represented by the organization that suggests its speaking for you.

i will tell you without hesitation mr. pRESIDENT that without the NRA, District of Columbia v Heller, and McDonald v Chicago NEVER get heard, and the people who live there would be considered criminals for exercising their 2nd amendment rights.

stop pretending to be worried about my safety barry, be honest just fucking once, and say you hate an armed citizenry.

exercise a right smartly handed down to you by the founders, and support the only group opposing the tyrannical turds on the left.

instead of stop snitching, try STOP LYING

this article is the work of  RICH  LOWRY over  National Review, and cuts directly to the heart of the matter.

 
now i personally don't want to call the perceived liar dorian johnson a liar, but the grand jury sure as fuck didn't believe the bullshit he was peddling.  the other 2 we know to be liars.  the last one is just an asshole in the company of a liar.


STOP LYING ABOUT THE POLICE

We have heard a lot lately about tensions between the police and the communities that they serve, and the urgent need to reduce them. Here’s an easy first step: Stop lying about the cops.
The “national conversation” about race and policing we’ve been having ever since Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., last summer has been based on lies. The lie that Officer Wilson shot Brown while he had his hands up and was pleading “Don’t shoot.” The lie that New York City policemen targeted Eric Garner for a violent arrest because he was black. The lie, peddled especially by the progressive prince of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio, that the police are racist.

These are the lies that fuel hatred for the police, because if the police routinely execute black men in cold blood and serve a thoroughly racist system, they deserve to be hated. They should be the subject of nightly protests. They should be showered with obloquy. They should be harried by Attorney General Eric Holder. They should be considered a stain on the national conscience to be extricated at all costs.
This is the line of reasoning that leads to protesters chanting: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”
His rote praise of the police notwithstanding, especially now that he is under so much political pressure after the murders of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, Mayor de Blasio is deeply invested in this smear. It is why he has made career anti-police agitator Al Sharpton practically deputy police commissioner. It is why he considers the police a clear and present danger to his biracial son, Dante. It is why he said the tragic death of Eric Garner in police custody was the product of “centuries of racism.”
The logic of the de Blasio view tends toward the conclusion that the police are unbelievably insidious: They recruit people of all races to go into dangerous neighborhoods on the pretense of protecting innocent people there, when in reality the mission is to harass black kids and, should the opportunity arise, kill them. If this were true, it would make the police as a class not just racists, but sociopaths.
It fails the basic standard of common sense, and defies the numbers. As Heather Mac Donald of City Journal writes: “Criminologists have spent decades trying to prove that the overrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics in prison demonstrates that the criminal justice system is racist. And each time they fail. Even the most left-wing academics have been forced to admit that crime, not race, determines criminal justice outcomes.”
Police go where the crime is, and at considerable risk to themselves. Surely, if their own comfort and safety were all that mattered to them, they would spend all their time patrolling the poshest neighborhoods in America.
Police critics have taken Ferguson and Garner and have woven them into a narrative of reckless disregard for the lives of blacks. After the grand jury declined to indict in the Garner case, de Blasio referred to a “profound” crisis. The numbers suggest the opposite: As crime has declined — thanks, in part, to rigorous policing — police interactions with the public have declined and have involved fewer instances of the use of force.
Our national conversation has been a national fever. Now, perhaps it will break. As Jaden Ramos, the 13-year-old son of Rafael Ramos, wrote in a heartbreaking Facebook post about his dad, “Everyone says they hate cops but they are the people that they call for help.” There is more wisdom in that simple statement than in most of the cable chatter, protest chants, and op-eds written in the wake of Ferguson and the Garner case.
If we really want to reduce tensions between the community and men like Officer Rafael Ramos, it is imperative, first, to stop lying about the police.

where are sarah's critics now?

Drill Baby Drill !!!

remember in 07 and 08 when everyone was calling Sarah Palin nuts for that sentiment?  well due to evil oil companies fracking,  fuel prices here are below $1.80 a gallon here.

oh yeah, she's crazy i forgot.  crazy like a fox.

go ahead and thank her now AMERICA, it's her and not the vacationer in chief you have to credit for cheap gas.

you are welcome ungrateful liberals.

...with your shield, or upon it.

congratulations to Mark Dantonio and the 2014 Michigan State Spartans.  down by 20 points to Baylor in this years Cotton Bowl, entering the 4th quarter, junior Connor Cook shook of earlier mistakes and led a 21 point comeback to win 42-41.  this is cook's 2nd big bowl win, having beat Stadford last year in the Rose Bowl.  the win also caps the Spartan careers of Jeremy Langford,  the probable Cotton Bowl defensive MVP Marcus Rush and coach Pat Narduzzi, under who's tutelage the Spartans beat hated in state rival Michigan 6 out of 7 tries.

it was a thrilling game and should serve as a reminder to all who watched or participated to never, ever, quit.  

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another win for the gun control crowd

gee, for about 15 minutes the MSM was all jazzed over another 50 or so kenyans getting iced at the hands of somali  ISLAMIC terrorists.  poor dudes had been sitting around swatting flies, watching world cup soccer, when al shabab terrorists rolled into the kenyan town of mpeketoni, went door to door questioning residents as to their religious beliefs, and killed men who were not muslim,  in front of their families and other town folk.

i've seen pictures like this before.

now these guys had real assault rifles, which they didn't mind using.  so i got to thinking, how come no one fought back?

so i looked up kenyan gun laws at gun policy.org. whose declared mission seems to be acting as a clearing house for researchers looking into verified stats on gun violence  prevention.  i assume that kenya gets very high marks because in kenya;  1)you have to prove a reason why you need to own a firearm, such as self defense,  (too late for the guy above).  2) the right to own a gun is not guaranteed by law. 3) private possession of semi automatic "assault weapons" is prohibited and  possession of pistols and revolvers is restricted to licenses holders.  4) you can only own the "weapons" on that government issued license and the amount of ammunition specified on your licenses.  5)  and finally, you can not carry a firearm in public, either  concealed or unconcealed.

GOD DAMN, no wonder these guys are all dead, chuck schumer and michael bloomberg apparently wrote their laws.

remember this the next time some asshole democrat gets in front of a camera and starts talking about "common sense gun control measures".

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i know, you are not supposed to use a word to define itself, so save the comments about asshole democrats, i'm already there.  additionally, i'm totally comfortable posting the last picture, from the westland mall atrocity,  as the al shabab terroists responsible for both attacks told news outlets that they used "a meticulous vetting process ... to separate the Muslims from the Kuffar".

i know, it's our fault, again. we really must try harder to

the militarization of police

from what i can tell, it's been this way for a while.

i've seen much recently about how our local cops (nationwide), are too heavily armed, and a threat to all of our safety. how they are getting ready to kick in everyone's  front door, and seize our soup and nuts, guns and water, and throw us into fema concentration camps.

time to settle the fuck down AMERICA, and realize the cops are you, or your neighbor, your kids little league coach, whatever, and feels the same anger at the feds that you do.

many seem to think this is how the cops are doing their job day in and day out, for EVERYTHING. car accidents? SWAT call out. burglary report? send TAC and the armored car. dog menacing the neighbors kids? get a sniper, STAT.

looks like dave threw the snow from the sidewalk back into the street, he's truly fucked now.

pay attention to history, and you will find that AMERICAN police have generally been out gunned by the CRIMINAL element in this country.  bootleggers in the 20's had thompson sub machine guns and sem-auto pistols, while the cop on the beat carried a revolver, and maybe had access to a shotgun.  recent history shows what happens when cops show up to take over style bank robberies, armed only with a hand gun and shotgun.

remember these assholes? they robbed a bank of America in hollywood in 1997, shooting 11 cops and 7 civilians. they were armed with a fully auto, illegally modified ak, an ar15 variant, and an hk91. cops started out with their sidearms and shotguns, until they requisitioned some ar's from local gun stores. a SWAT team also made the scene and killed 1 of the suspects, the other chose the cowards way out.

how 'bout these two boy scouts? they killed 11 and wounded 21 others, armed with cheap, but effective, shotguns and a carbine and 99 bombs. initial cop on scene had a handgun.  responding officers had the same type of arms and had to wait for swat to arrive and assemble, giving these 2, overcome with teenage angst, time to do much of their killing.

how about these two misunderstood youths, looking for a brighter future here in the states, they spark any memories? they just used their cooking utensils, in an unapproved manner, killing 3 and wounding 264, then killed a cop and wounded 16 more officers who were trying to end their reign of terror.  the outcry from this incident REALLY chaps my ass. guys are out looking for dedicated terrorists and in serious jeopardy, and all many still have to do is complain, about a "police state" because citizens were asked to stay in, out of the line of fire.

many of the complaints center around uniforms, modes of transportation and armament. the above photo doesn't seem to illicit much of a response, nor do these, unless you hate cops.

but man, these sure get folks hot under the collar;

riot breaks out, well send the police, but lets not give them ANY tools to keep them from getting their heads split by thrown rocks or bottles. a man gets fired then returns to his former place of employment, kills a supervisor and then takes hostages at rifle point. let's just send in 2 traffic officers and a burglray

detective armed with their 9mm pistols to ferret him out of the 7,500 square foot warehouse.  that seems to be the attitude of many of law enforcements critics.

now i'm going to guess that if some serious shit breaks out near you, you will pray the cops roll in heavy.

i'm not talking about this, but rather what happens next.

oh, i know, this would never happen to you, MR. FUCK THE POLICE, cuz your street smart and tough, plus you carry.  sometimes.  just not at work.  cuz you'll get fired.  i don't agree with that, but i'm not your boss.  and i also know the cops abandoned south central at the beginning of the riots, so don't waste my time bringing it up.

all this bring us up to speed on current events, which i will discuss in part 2 of this post.

Craig Campbell - Fish

check it, got to see him the other night perrty damn good and not very suggestive at all. nothing wrong with a good fihin' partner.

Merry Christmas

a Christmas carol written by a Jesuit missionary among the Huron and Wendat Indians at sainte marie in the 1640's.  it embraces our Christian, hunting and for me, Canadian heritage.

                                      HURON CAROL

it's called mythomania

  i only stretched the truth this much, and it was for your own good.



Compulsive lying, also called Mythomania, is a rather common symptom of mental illness. This disorder presents an acute challenge by its very nature because health care professionals cannot always tell if the patient is telling the truth with regard to symptoms. Compulsive or pathological liars are often so convincing that they consistently beat polygraph tests and convince themselves that their lies are the truth.


 The Difference Between Habitual Lying and Mythomania
 

It is hard to separate these two cases, because some people engage in “white” lies to avoid hurting other’s feelings. The pathological liar, by contrast, cannot help lying, even when the lie cause’s harm. It is this aspect of Mythomania that distinguishes it as a form of illness, rather than a habit. Those who lie regularly and without compunction to achieve desired results may need to consider some form of therapy to change these habits.

there ya go kids, now you know what's wrong with him, and this is apparently caused by,  'The complex issues involved include self esteem, feelings of inadequacy, early life issues including physical or verbal abuse, drug and alcohol addiction and more.'

i took the top two paragraphs as well as the causation statement from the Helping Psychology site, it was authored by Marc Pickren and appeared in Intro to Psychology.

we have heard this for years about this guy,  maybe through static and in the background, but it was there.  we tuned it out or only glanced at it in passing, but it was there, under our noses, hiding in the open.  how we handle it is up to us.

sorta lends credence to the theories about his birth certificate and draft registration card now don't it?

Veterans Day 2013

this veterans day will be a bitter sweet day off for me.  normally i would work, but the wife and i get such little time together these days i decided to take it off.  the last year has seen the loss of 2 men who were very dear to me, my dad, and my uncle.

dad is at the top, as shown in his NAVY uniform during the Korean War.  the next picture is my uncle, probably in the  "tan and pinks" of the ARMY during WW2.  they weren't "great men" as defined by thomas carlyle, but they were  wonderful to me, and their families. 

dad was a bit acerbic at times, but i truly grew to appreciate him after i left home and joined the ARMY myself.  until you are out on your own, working to put a roof over other's heads and pay bills, worrying about kids health and grades, i don't think a man can honestly understand the pressure of being a dad.  the sunday mornings when he would return home after delivering papers most of the night, and wake me up to go fishing meant so much to me.  i think i must have been quite a bemusement to dad as he was SUCH a liberal, and i turned out to be SO conservative, despite his best efforts.  i really miss calling and heckling him over the the many screw ups of his buddies clinton, reid and pelosi, teddy swim meet, and the annointed one.  dad claimed i couldn't get under his skin, but he sure did get good at hanging up on me when i called to razz him about the great job the dems were doing.

my uncle was huge when i was a kid, with a deep gruff voice and cigars who was sorta scary.  outward appearance aside, he was one of the kindest, gentlest men i have ever known.  he grew up tough working with my grandfather on rental properties the family owned and collecting money from over due renters.  he was almost stabbed once doing this.  before and after the war he worked for one of the bell's stringing telephone lines, and based on that experience he rose to the rank of master sergeant in the ARMY's signal corps.  i could always stop by and see and see him and my aunt,  an ARMY nurse during the war, when i was a kid and get a soda and sandwich if i was out running around.  as i no longer live where i grew up,i was so glad i took the time out of a busy schedule to stop and visit with my uncle after dad's funeral, as he passed just 6 months later.

so today as the wife and i get a little us time, we will be remembering these 2 sons of the republic, and their service. we miss you everyday.