I'm back from vacation. You did not even know I was gone, that is how dedicated I am to this piece o'crap blog of mine. Even though I was in the most beautiful place on Earth I posted nearly every day for you.
Not really. Almost every post for the past ten or twelve days was canned. I think I put up one fresh post. I imagine that is a comment on the quality of the content around here.
What? Oh, the wife and I will celebrate 30 years of marriage later this month. It has been her dream as long as I have known her to go to Hawaii. So we spent a glorious week on Oahu. And yes, as part of the deal she had to agree to go to Pearl Harbor with me. I may or may not post pictures of the trip in future posts.
At least I know you did not miss me too much. I wish you had stopped by to water the plants though.
May 31, 2014
May 30, 2014
May 28, 2014
Another day, another scandal
I suspect the Democrats in Congress will be demanding a Special Prosecutor to investigate who in the administration outed a CIA officer and Station Chief.
You remember the outrage when the Bush Administration quoted a reporter about CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame? Certainly naming the CIA Station Chiief in Kabul is worse?
Oh never mind, I forgot Democrats are by nature f-ing hypocrites.
You remember the outrage when the Bush Administration quoted a reporter about CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame? Certainly naming the CIA Station Chiief in Kabul is worse?
Oh never mind, I forgot Democrats are by nature f-ing hypocrites.
The gift that keeps on giving
Let that tune occupy your mind on a Wednesday. Good luck washing that from your skull.
May 27, 2014
Why Iwould never send my Kids to Rutgers University
I have been thinking about something way more than it deserves. You may or may not be aware that I am an avid student of history. While my major was history (my degree is Liberal Arts), I claim only rudimentary skills or training as a historian. Still, I am certain that if I was a parent of a student taking a history class at Rutgers University I would demand answers from the faculty, the President, and the Board of Trustees.
Several members of the faculty that lead the protest against honoring former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice as a commencement speaker and an honorary degree were members of the history department -- including Professor Jackson Lears and Rudolph Bell. I find it utterly amazing a purported historian would forgo an opportunity to discuss and hear the words of someone intimately involved in a significant historical event of the past decade. Politics aside, here is a chance to see and hear the words of person who was a decision maker in world politics. Further, it is an opportunity interact with the first female African-American Secretary of State. This is a case of historians literally holding their hands over their ears and chanting nah, nah, nah in order to keep from possibly hearing something with which they personally disagree.
One of the first lessons I learned in my upper-level historiography classes* was that a historian must recognize and try to eliminate his inherent bias'. Clearly, the members of the history department at Rutgers skipped class to watch General Hospital the day that lesson was taught. Ignoring history because you do not like the outcome is malpractice at best. What historian would skip the opportunity to witness Hitler's Munich Rally? Who would protest a chance to listen to Robert E. Lee? What real historian would ignore a chance to listen to Bin Laden express his reasons for 9/11? I am certainly not making any historical equations, but only a greater point. Would I skip a opportunity to listen to President Obama had he spoke at my commencement? No, I would go if only to view the words in a historical framework.
The role of a legitimate historian is not ignoring facts and evidence and historical personages that he does not like. Would a legitimate historian ignore the words of Castro, or would she contrast his words with events of the Cuban Revolution as described by those who fled the Island? Documenting the past is the job of a historian. Refusal to listen to a person intimately involved in history is beyond my comprehension. Are these so-called historians ignorant of the term "primary source"?
I bet Professor Lears** or his equally outspoken fellow in the history department at Rutgers, Rudolph Bell*** occasionally publish in magazines, scholarly works, or perhaps write books. How can any reader believe any of their findings and research? Clearly these so-called historians are so filled with political bias they are suspect of leaving out key facts and pieces of evidence in order to support their thesis. That is not scholarly academic work. That is not history. That is propaganda.
As such, Rutgers is cheating its history students.
Notes a re below the jump
Several members of the faculty that lead the protest against honoring former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice as a commencement speaker and an honorary degree were members of the history department -- including Professor Jackson Lears and Rudolph Bell. I find it utterly amazing a purported historian would forgo an opportunity to discuss and hear the words of someone intimately involved in a significant historical event of the past decade. Politics aside, here is a chance to see and hear the words of person who was a decision maker in world politics. Further, it is an opportunity interact with the first female African-American Secretary of State. This is a case of historians literally holding their hands over their ears and chanting nah, nah, nah in order to keep from possibly hearing something with which they personally disagree.
One of the first lessons I learned in my upper-level historiography classes* was that a historian must recognize and try to eliminate his inherent bias'. Clearly, the members of the history department at Rutgers skipped class to watch General Hospital the day that lesson was taught. Ignoring history because you do not like the outcome is malpractice at best. What historian would skip the opportunity to witness Hitler's Munich Rally? Who would protest a chance to listen to Robert E. Lee? What real historian would ignore a chance to listen to Bin Laden express his reasons for 9/11? I am certainly not making any historical equations, but only a greater point. Would I skip a opportunity to listen to President Obama had he spoke at my commencement? No, I would go if only to view the words in a historical framework.
The role of a legitimate historian is not ignoring facts and evidence and historical personages that he does not like. Would a legitimate historian ignore the words of Castro, or would she contrast his words with events of the Cuban Revolution as described by those who fled the Island? Documenting the past is the job of a historian. Refusal to listen to a person intimately involved in history is beyond my comprehension. Are these so-called historians ignorant of the term "primary source"?
I bet Professor Lears** or his equally outspoken fellow in the history department at Rutgers, Rudolph Bell*** occasionally publish in magazines, scholarly works, or perhaps write books. How can any reader believe any of their findings and research? Clearly these so-called historians are so filled with political bias they are suspect of leaving out key facts and pieces of evidence in order to support their thesis. That is not scholarly academic work. That is not history. That is propaganda.
As such, Rutgers is cheating its history students.
Notes a re below the jump
May 26, 2014
May 24, 2014
May 23, 2014
Cause and effect
The wife and I were in WalMart the other night. A woman on one of those electric carts nearly ran us over. Did I mention she was a large woman? So fat her ass and thighs kind of just flopped over the sides of the seat. In her cart was five cases of Coke, three bags of Cheetos, and several cans of Pringles.
Draw your own conclusion.
She will probably sit next to me the next time I have to fly
Draw your own conclusion.
She will probably sit next to me the next time I have to fly
May 22, 2014
Whether the weather
The last ice age was at its maximum peak about 20,000 years ago. Ice sheets covered much of North America, Europe, and Asia.
The ice sheets and glaciers have been melting ever since, with a few periods of cold spells and warm spells. But in general, the ice has been melting for twenty millennia like the Wicked Witch of the West in a hot tub.
When did this melting go from being a good thing, allowing us to grow food, live, and watch bikini-clad girls in summer to the modernglobal warming, climate change, climate chaos we-are-all-going-to-die panic? A "consensus" of scientist agrees there have actually been several periods in the long history of the Earth where there were ice ages; times where glaciers and ice sheets covered a significant portion of the land. In time those glaciers and ice sheets retreated (you know, melted).
There was cold glacial periods. There was global warming. Then global cooling. Then warming. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
It seems to me this melting and warming has been going on long, long, before we started the Industrial Revolution, eons before Duke Energy and ConEd fired up their first coal burning power plants, hundreds of centuries before Monsanto screwed with the DNA of a kernel of corn, way before we started raping Mother Nature like a Nigerian school girl sex slave.
Maybe, just maybe, my refusal to drive a Prius is not to be blamed.
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When did this melting go from being a good thing, allowing us to grow food, live, and watch bikini-clad girls in summer to the modern
There was cold glacial periods. There was global warming. Then global cooling. Then warming. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
It seems to me this melting and warming has been going on long, long, before we started the Industrial Revolution, eons before Duke Energy and ConEd fired up their first coal burning power plants, hundreds of centuries before Monsanto screwed with the DNA of a kernel of corn, way before we started raping Mother Nature like a Nigerian school girl sex slave.
Maybe, just maybe, my refusal to drive a Prius is not to be blamed.
May 21, 2014
Representative Louis Gutierrez' should be impeached
Mr Gutierrez took an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America. If this article is true, The Democratic representative from Illinois is actively encouraging Government employees to break the law.
In my book that makes him a liar and a man without honor. His oath is not worth a piece of used toilet paper. If the Congressman does not like the law, he should work to change it. If the law cannot be changed, then Mr. Gutierrez should heed the words of President Obama -- "Elections have consequences. Get over it".
When the people who govern us choose what is legal and not we no longer live in a Republic, we live in a oligarchy. When our representatives make their own laws it is tyranny. Jefferson would weep tears if he could see what his Party has become.
In my book that makes him a liar and a man without honor. His oath is not worth a piece of used toilet paper. If the Congressman does not like the law, he should work to change it. If the law cannot be changed, then Mr. Gutierrez should heed the words of President Obama -- "Elections have consequences. Get over it".
When the people who govern us choose what is legal and not we no longer live in a Republic, we live in a oligarchy. When our representatives make their own laws it is tyranny. Jefferson would weep tears if he could see what his Party has become.
May 20, 2014
The Big Government Liberals Were Right
Remember when critics of ObamaCare said that the law would result in wait lists, bureaucrats deciding medical issues instead of doctors and overcrowded, understaffed hospitals?
Remember when the supporters of ObamaCare held up the VA Hospital system as the proof of how things would work in the new world of Big Government Medicine?
I think they were right. All of them.
Remember when the supporters of ObamaCare held up the VA Hospital system as the proof of how things would work in the new world of Big Government Medicine?
I think they were right. All of them.
May 19, 2014
Don't put a title on me
I had a great weekend. I did not do anything of note that I can remember. I walked 4-plus miles both Saturday and Sunday morning. I watched a couple of baseball games, pulled some weeds. I even took a short nap on Saturday when the wife went to the mall to do whatever she does at the mall.
Last night I threw a couple of thick ribeye steaks on the grill. Baked spuds, corn and some rolls rounded out a great meal.
I guess the weekend was kinda like this post -- a whole lot of nothing.
Last night I threw a couple of thick ribeye steaks on the grill. Baked spuds, corn and some rolls rounded out a great meal.
I guess the weekend was kinda like this post -- a whole lot of nothing.
May 18, 2014
And you where there
May 17, 2014
More old ads
One sure way to ensure you do not get any nookie for a few
May 16, 2014
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