Sunday, February 19, 2012

Pussification of the Western Male: Redux

I am going to break my long hiatus from blogging to re post something I think every American male over the age of 16 should read and understand. The older I get the more nanny-state chicanery I see around me, and the more I see our modern male figures becoming over-coddled beta-male sheep. After reading the news today I had a thought; "We are becoming a nation of women". This thought is not original to me. I read this several years ago in an essay written by one of my mentors Kim DuToit. Kim is an African immigrant, a soldier, (former) blogger, and a damn good writer. I felt that it is past time for me to post this for my friends to read and discuss. All of you nanny-busybodies and pleasure police take notice. I, for one am fed up with watching my great nation dying a slow death of non-leadership by a bunch of panty-waisted excuses for men. Anyway, Hie Thee Thence and enjoy today's required reading...

We have become a nation of women.

It wasn’t always this way, of course. There was a time when men put their signatures to a document, knowing full well that this single act would result in their execution if captured, and in the forfeiture of their property to the State. Their wives and children would be turned out by the soldiers, and their farms and businesses most probably given to someone who didn’t sign the document.

There was a time when men went to their certain death, with expressions like “You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas.” (Davy Crockett, to the House of Representatives, before going to the Alamo.)

There was a time when men went to war, sometimes against their own families, so that other men could be free. And there was a time when men went to war because we recognized evil when we saw it, and knew that it had to be stamped out.

There was even a time when a President of the United States threatened to punch a man in the face and kick him in the balls, because the man had the temerity to say bad things about the President’s daughter’s singing.

We’re not like that anymore.

Now, little boys in grade school are suspended for playing cowboys and Indians, cops and crooks, and all the other familiar variations of “good guy vs. bad guy” that helped them learn, at an early age, what it was like to have decent men hunt you down, because you were a lawbreaker.

Now, men are taught that violence is bad—that when a thief breaks into your house, or threatens you in the street, that the proper way to deal with this is to “give him what he wants”, instead of taking a horsewhip to the rascal or shooting him dead where he stands.

Now, men’s fashion includes not a man dressed in a three-piece suit, but a tight sweater worn by a man with breasts.

Now, warning labels are indelibly etched into gun barrels, as though men have somehow forgotten that guns are dangerous things.

Now, men are given Ritalin as little boys, so that their natural aggressiveness, curiosity and restlessness can be controlled, instead of nurtured and directed.

And finally, our President, who happens to have been a qualified fighter pilot, lands on an aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit, and is immediately dismissed with words like “swaggering”, “macho” and the favorite epithet of Euro girly-men, “cowboy”. Of course he was bound to get that reaction—and most especially from the Press in Europe, because the process of male pussification Over There is almost complete.

How did we get to this?

In the first instance, what we have to understand is that America is first and foremost, a culture dominated by one figure: Mother. It wasn’t always so: there was a time when it was Father who ruled the home, worked at his job, and voted.

But in the twentieth century, women became more and more involved in the body politic, and in industry, and in the media—and mostly, this has not been a good thing. When women got the vote, it was inevitable that government was going to become more powerful, more intrusive, and more “protective” (ie. more coddling), because women are hard-wired to treasure security more than uncertainty and danger. It was therefore inevitable that their feminine influence on politics was going to emphasize (lowercase “s") social security.

I am aware of the fury that this statement is going to arouse, and I don’t care a fig.

What I care about is the fact that since the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been a concerted campaign to denigrate men, to reduce them to figures of fun, and to render them impotent, figuratively speaking.

I’m going to illustrate this by talking about TV, because TV is a reliable barometer of our culture.

In the 1950s, the TV Dad was seen as the lovable goofball—perhaps the beginning of the trend—BUT he was still the one who brought home the bacon, and was the main source of discipline (think of the line: “Wait until your father gets home!").

From that, we went to this: the Cheerios TV ad.

Now, for those who haven’t seen this piece of shit, I’m going to go over it, from memory, because it epitomizes everything I hate about the campaign to pussify men. The scene opens at the morning breakfast table, where the two kids are sitting with Dad at the table, while Mom prepares stuff on the kitchen counter. The dialogue goes something like this:

Little girl (note, not little boy): Daddy, why do we eat Cheerios?
Dad: Because they contain fiber, and all sorts of stuff that’s good for the heart. I eat it now, because of that.
LG: Did you always eat stuff that was bad for your heart, Daddy?
Dad (humorously): I did, until I met your mother.
Mother (not humorously): Daddy did a lot of stupid things before he met your mother.

Now, every time I see that TV ad, I have to be restrained from shooting the TV with a .45 Colt. If you want a microcosm of how men have become less than men, this is the perfect example.

What Dad should have replied to Mommy’s little dig: Yes, Sally, that’s true: I did do a lot of stupid things before I met your mother. I even slept with your Aunt Ruth a few times, before I met your mother.

That’s what I would have said, anyway, if my wife had ever attempted to castrate me in front of the kids like that.

But that’s not what men do, of course. What this guy is going to do is smile ruefully, finish his cereal, and then go and **** his secretary, who doesn’t try to cut his balls off on a daily basis. Then, when the affair is discovered, people are going to rally around the castrating bitch called his wife, and call him all sorts of names. He’ll lose custody of his kids, and they will be brought up by our ultimate modern-day figure of sympathy:

The Single Mom.

You know what? Some women deserve to be single moms.

When I first started this website, I think my primary aim was to blow off
steam at the stupidity of our society.

Because I have fairly set views on what constitutes right and wrong, I have no difficulty in calling Bill Clinton, for example, a ****ing liar and hypocrite.

But most of all, I do this website because I love being a man. Amongst other things, I talk about guns, self-defense, politics, beautiful women, sports, warfare, hunting, and power tools—all the things that being a man entails. All this stuff gives me pleasure.

And it doesn’t take much to see when all the things I love are being threatened: for instance, when Tim Allen’s excellent comedy routine on being a man is reduced to a ****ing sitcom called Home Improvement. The show should have been called Man Improvement, because that’s what every single plotline entailed: turning a man into a “better” person, instead of just leaving him alone to work on restoring the vintage sports car in his garage. I stopped watching the show after about four episodes.
("The Man Show” was better, at least for the first season—men leering at chicks, men ****ing around with ridiculous games like “pin the bra on the boobies”, men having beer-drinking competitions, and women on trampolines. Excellent stuff, only not strong enough. I don’t watch it anymore, either, because it’s plain that the idea has been subverted by girly-men, and turned into a parody of itself.)

Finally, we come to the TV show which to my mind epitomizes everything bad about what we have become: Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.

Playing on the homo Bravo Channel, this piece of excrement has taken over the popular culture by storm (and so far, the only counter has been the wonderful South Park episode which took it apart for the bullshit it is).
I’m sorry, but the premise of the show nauseates me. A bunch of homosexuals trying to “improve” ordinary men into something “better” (ie. more acceptable to women): changing the guy’s clothes, his home decor, his music—for ****’s sake, what kind of girly-man would allow these simpering butt-bandits to change his life around?

Yes, the men are, by and large, slobs. Big ****ing deal. Last time I looked, that’s normal. Men are slobs, and that only changes when women try to civilize them by marriage. That’s the natural order of things.

You know the definition of homosexual men we used in Chicago? “Men with small dogs who own very tidy apartments.”

Real men, on the other hand, have big ****ing mean-ass dogs: Rhodesian ridgebacks, bull terriers and Rottweilers, or else working dogs like pointers or retrievers which go hunting with them and slobber all over the furniture.
Women own lapdogs.

Which is why women are trying to get dog-fighting and cock-fighting banned—they’d ban boxing too, if they could—because it’s “mean and cruel”. No shit, Shirley. Hell, I don’t like the idea of fighting dogs, either, but I don’t have a problem with men who do. Dogs and cocks fight. So do men. No wonder we have an affinity for it.

My website has become fairly popular with men, and in the beginning, this really surprised me, because I didn’t think I was doing anything special.
That’s not what I think now. I must have had well over five thousand men write to me to say stuff like “Yes! I agree! I was so angry when I read about [insert atrocity of choice], but I thought I was the only one.”

No, you’re not alone, my friends, and nor am I.

Out there, there is a huge number of men who are sick of it. We’re sick of being made figures of fun and ridicule; we’re sick of having girly-men like journalists, advertising agency execs and movie stars decide on “what is a man”; we’re sick of women treating us like children, and we’re really ****ing sick of girly-men politicians who pander to women by passing an ever-increasing raft of Nanny laws and regulations (the legal equivalent of public-school Ritalin), which prevent us from hunting, racing our cars and motorcycles, smoking, flirting with women at the office, getting into fistfights over women, shooting criminals and doing all the fine things which being a man entails.

When Annika Sorenstam was allowed to play in that tournament on the men’s PGA tour, all the men should have refused to play—Vijay Singh was the only one with balls to stand up for a principle, and he was absolutely excoriated for being a “chauvinist”. Bullshit. He wasn’t a chauvinist, he was being a man. All the rest of the players—Woods, Mickelson, the lot—are girls by comparison. And, needless to say, Vijay isn’t an American, nor a European, which is probably why he still has a pair hanging between his legs, and they’re not hanging on the wall as his wife’s trophy.

**** this, I’m sick of it.

I don’t see why I should put up with this bullshit any longer—hell, I don’t see why any man should put up with this bullshit any longer.

I don’t see why men should have become feminized, except that we allowed it to happen—and you know why we let it happen? Because it’s goddamned easier to do so. Unfortunately, we’ve allowed it to go too far, and our maleness has become too pussified for words.

At this point, I could have gone two ways: the first would be to say, “...and I don’t know if we’ll get it back. The process has become too entrenched, the cultural zeitgeist of men as girls has become part of the social fabric, and there’s not much we can do about it.”

But I’m not going to do that. To quote John Belushi (who was, incidentally, a real man and not a ****ing woman): “Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

Well, I’m not going to quit. **** that. One of the characteristics of the non-pussified man (and this should strike fear into the hearts of women and girly-men everywhere) is that he never quits just because the odds seem overwhelming. Omaha Beach, guys.

I want a real man as President—not Al Gore, who had to hire a consultant to show him how to be an Alpha male, and french-kiss his wife on live TV to “prove” to the world that he was a man, when we all knew that real men don’t have to do that shit.

And I want the Real Man President to surround himself with other Real Men, like Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft, and yes, Rice (who is more of a Real Man than those asswipes Colin Powell and Norman Mineta).

I want our government to be more like Dad—kind, helpful, but not afraid to punish us when we **** up, instead of helping us excuse our actions.

I want our government of real men to start rolling back the Nanny State, in all its horrible manifestations of over-protectiveness, intrusiveness and “Mommy Knows Best What’s Good For You” regulations.

I want our culture to become more male—and not the satirical kind of male, like The Man Show, or the cartoonish figures of Stallone, Van Damme or Schwartzenegger. (Note to the Hollywood execs: We absolutely ****ing loathe chick movies about feelings and relationships and all that feminine jive. We want more John Waynes, Robert Mitchums, Bruce Willises, and Clint Eastwoods. Never mind that it’s simplistic— we like simple, we are simple, we are men—our lives are uncomplicated, and we like it that way. We Were Soldiers was a great movie, and you know why? Because you could have cut out all the female parts, and it still would have been a great movie, because it was about Real Men. Try cutting out all the female parts in a Woody Allen movie—you’d end up with the opening and closing credits.)

I want our literature to become more male, less female. Men shouldn’t buy “self-help” books unless the subject matter is car maintenance, golf swing improvement or how to disassemble a ****ing Browning BAR. We don’t improve ourselves, we improve our stuff.

And finally, I want men everywhere to going back to being Real Men. To open doors for women, to drive fast cars, to smoke cigars after a meal, to get drunk occasionally and, in the words of Col. Jeff Cooper, one of the last of the Real Men: “to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth.”
In every sense of the word. We know what the word “is” means.
Because that’s all that being a Real Man involves. You don’t have to become a ****ing cartoon male, either: I’m not going back to stoning women for adultery like those Muslim *******s do, nor am I suggesting we support that perversion of being a Real Man, gangsta rap artists (those ****ing pussies—they wouldn’t last thirty seconds against a couple of genuine tough guys that I know).

Speaking of rap music, do you want to know why more White boys buy that crap than Black boys do? You know why rape is such a problem on college campuses? Why binge drinking is a problem among college freshmen?

It’s a reaction: a reaction against being pussified. And I understand it, completely. Young males are aggressive, they do fight amongst themselves, they are destructive, and all this does happen for a purpose.

Because only the strong men propagate.

And women know it. You want to know why I know this to be true?

Because powerful men still attract women. Women, even liberal women, swooned over George Bush in a naval aviator’s uniform. Donald Trump still gets access to some of the most beautiful pussy available, despite looking like a medieval gargoyle. Donald Rumsfeld, if he wanted to, could **** 90% of all women over 50 if he wanted to, and a goodly portion of younger ones too.

And he won’t. Because Rummy’s been married to the same woman for fifty years, and he wouldn’t toss that away for a quickie. He’s a Real Man. No wonder the Euros hate and fear him.

We’d better get more like him, we’d better become more like him, because if we don’t, men will become a footnote to history.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Almost Dark

Almost dark: a short story:

Hello Ellen. By now you’ve probably heard that I’m not coming back. That’s probably true, but it ain’t of my choosing. I’m OK for now, as the heat has died down a bit and I have to say I’m comfortable if a bit tired from the running. Jimmy cashed in over on the rim rock, took a fall where I couldn’t get to him to help and really couldn’t stop long to think about either that or him. He was game and stuck with me even when we knew we were done for. Funny though, I always took ol’ Jim for a yellow fellow, but he bucked up and fought like the wind when the chips were down. It’s just a shame that a poor lout like me makes it through when a kid like that doesn’t. I’ll never forget the sight of that whirling pool of ‘apaches twisting and biting into the dust from a full raging charge to a disconnected scatter when old Jim came out of those woods just a whoopin’ and hollerin’ with a six-gun blazing fire from each hand. I don’t remember whether I even fired or not. I think I was just as scared and awed by Jimmy as the reds were. Hell he must’ve plugged three of them before they figured the score. Oh Ellen, he was a sight! Well Jim he got em’ turned long enough to let me get around the rim and he knew it! I lit a shuck out of there like my hair was on fire but I saw him, our quiet Jimmy, holding back the rushing tide of flowing savages like he was Hell’s fury alive.

They finally got enough lead in him to knock him over the edge of the rock. I got dusted with a few but Jim took the wuss of it as I ran past him. I swear to you, Ellen, he looked at me with a fire in his eyes and a grim smile on his face that said to me “it’s OK old man, this is my fight”. Well I guess it was considerin’ how them reds did his folks and all, but I reckon he took it real personally. I know his body is a layin’ down in that ravine right now but I bet his carcass is still wearing a smile after the show he put on!

How we made it through this wretched piece of country this far I’ll never know. They must’ve let us come knowing we’d eventually be trapped behind this barren rim rock. Doesn’t really matter though; now it’s down to me against what feels like the whole damned apache nation and it is what it is.

These last days of being the hunted have taken a toll on this body. I’m laid up in a draw of an old canyon. I have this pain in my side that you wouldn’t believe! I never run so damn hard in my life. I can hear em’ Ellen, stalking around like whisps of wind. There are squirrels and birds, sure, stirring the leaves and pine needle patches but the sound is different. These reds make so little noise sweeping around that you know it’s them when you don’t hear it. The way I figure it they’ve got me surrounded by now. I could make a dash for it through the arroyo but that’s a fool’s game. They’d have me dead to rights before I even got up a good head of steam. No, I’m going to stay here and rest as I finish this here letter to you. I hope baby Jesus don’t mind that I’m writing you this on the back of bible pages but it’s the only damn thing I got left.

Well, anyway, it’s almost dark and I’m powerful tired. Funny that dark comes so soon here as it seems we just took off a runnin’ at daybreak. The sun has a way to go before it touches the rim but I swear it’s getting darker by the minute. I’m done writing for now as I cain't hardly see the paper and my side is wet and hurting mighty bad. Tell them boys at home to leave it alone. All the gold in the world ain’t worth this kind of Hell. I guess that’s all. I’m all in and I can see them cussed redskins poking over the ridge.

Love, Jean.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Gun Rights explained to CNN anchor



This video is chock full of awesomeness. I've seen it before but it still got a good belly laugh out of me when I saw it again. Do yourself a favor and give it a quick once over.

Now my take on the salient points:

00:00: Both Ms. Costello and Mr. Muller are wrong in calling his giveaway an "AK-47". The AK-47, or Kalashnikov 1947 is a FULLY AUTOMATIC intermediate caliber weapon. What he is giving away with this promotion is an AK-47 clone, which is, for all intents and purposes the same as the assault rifle, only it's semi-automatic. Just like yo' daddy's deer rifle.

01:15: The wife and her husband who were murdered execution style (Byrd and Melanie Billings)in front of their 12 children happened exactly 11 miles from my front door. There have been 3 shootings in my neighborhood in the last 3 days. I don't know about you but every time I've ever called the cops I've had to wait more than 5 minutes for the cavalry to arrive. Armed home invasion is nothing to make fun of being worried about.

01:30: Ms. Costello notes that police officers are "shot in the line of duty all the time". Ms. CNN News anchor please answer me this; when was the last time a law abiding citizen who has filled out an ATF form 4473, been background checked by the FBI and, by the way, just purchased a new vehicle from a dealership in rural Missouri gone postal and shot a police officer? Go check your records, I'll wait...

02:30: Also to Ms. CNN. So you grew up in rural America and had guns in your home, but they weren't (evil) AK-47's. Really? What were they? I'm willing to bet you had ol' Grandpappy's lever action 30-30 cowboy rifle behind the door like nearly every rural household has done in the last 150 years. Guess what; other than looking mean and dangerous there are no differences between your "old hunting gun" and what Mr. car dealer is peddling. Zip, Nada, Zero. Both shoot a .30 caliber bullet, both have the same bullet weight and velocity, and yes, both only go bang once every time you pull the trigger.

Note to CNN, Ms. Costello, Sarah Brady, Diane Feinstein, Carolyn McCarthy, and Chuckles Schumer; Making a gun look ugly or scaaawwy or like the much maligned "assault weapon" does not increase it's lethality. It is only the loose nut behind the trigger what makes a simple tool a weapon.

03:10: What in the Hell is a "semi assault weapon"? Did you just pull that out of your keister? What, pray tell does make up said quasi weapon of almost-doom which may or may not shoot through schools? Does it only assault random people at odd intervals? Sheesh.

03:30: "Because we sell cars". Ok, insert belly laugh from me here. That's damn funny.

03:46: "You don't have a problem with God, do you?"

04:30: "You don't think God wants us to defend ourselves?"

4:45: Costello "What would Jesus do, would he carry a gun?" Muller "No, they didn't have guns back then." (OK, I'm busting a gut here, boss)

The bottom line: Just doing a quick and dirty Google check shows that the violent crime rate in New Yawk New Yawk is roughly 3 TIMES that of Bates, MO; and that with NYC having some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. HMMM. Maybe Ms. Costello would be better off just interviewing Mayor Bloomberg next time.

Maybe CNN should stick to their bailiwick of pop culture, human interest stories of the pore' an' starvin', and general conservative value hatin'. Oh, never mind, they are.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Opera Company of Philadelphia "Hallelujah!" Random Act of Culture

Egads, they've done it again. Wouldn't you just love to be milling about a public place and have this happen around you. As my gentle readers know, I'm a real softy for beautiful women and beautiful music. Present either to me and I just go to putty. Although the Philadelphia Opera Company may not posses any angelic flat-bellies, they certainlyhave the market cornered on the "Calliope". Bravo.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Election 2010

OK, so I’m seeing a lot of commentary on last night’s election results. Now I understand that I have friends on both sides of the isle. Many of you have asked me for my take on the current political situation so here’s a few off the cuff thoughts from yours truly:

Marco Rubio: Here in Flawda’ we’ve just about had enough of the Uber tanned RINO Charlie Crist. South FL may lean over to the pro-illegal immigration democratic side but the majority of Sunshine Staters are inherently conservative, rural minded, family types. As I watched Marco Rubio stomp the dog squeeze put of Senor Crist last night and give his acceptance speech a couple of things stuck with me. First and foremost was the noticeable lack of TelePrompters on the stage. Marco don’t need no stinkin’ dummy boards to convey his conservative ideals. They are simple, they are understandable. If you get confused just reference the Constitution; it’s that simple. Secondly was his statement that the people did not, in fact, vote FOR Republicans, they voted AGAINST Democrats. The stupid party will forget that salient point at their own peril.

Harry Reid: So I see Harry Reid nudged out Sharron Angle in Nevada and immediately began to call on republicans to “compromise” with democrats. Yep, we’ll compromise with you just like you did with us on ObamaCare, Stimulus, and sundry other major legislative issues over the last 2 years…

The "Tea Party": Now a quick aside to the new “conservatives” in office: as Mr. Rubio said, we didn’t vote for you, we voted the other bums out. You have exactly 2 years to jump back on the limited government bandwagon of Newt Gingrich in ’94. If you go back to your usual RINO big spending milque toast ways we’ll send your sorry asses back home, too. The Tea Party is not a “party” at all. We’re a grass roots band of run-of-the-mill conservative producers, who are tired of the moochers being fed the fruits of our labor by the looters. We hold no allegiance to (small r) republicans or anyone else. Cut spending NOW. Cut pork barrel projects NOW. Extend current tax rates NOW (BTW, they are not “Bush” tax cuts. Bush happened to be holding the keys to the Kingdom when they were passed).

I also see that Alan Grayson “Republicans want you to die early” was sent home with his tail between his legs; good. Why don’t you and Cathy Castor sit around and read passages from Trotsky and Marx together over the smoldering campfire of lost jobs in Florida. You’re lucky we didn’t tar and feather your big government ass just for measure.

In lighter news, Lt. Col. Allen West wins in FL’s 22nd district. Good on ya sir. The thought of a John Bolton/ Allen West Presidential ticket in 2012 gives me a stirrin’ in my loins. Just saying.

And the Coup d’état is this little jewel: ACORN Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

LOL. Talk about “The Chickens Coning Home to Roost”. So how’s that voter fraud/ Chicago style politics/ SEIU/ Black Panther Thug-at the polling place thing working out for you, anyway?

That is all.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

In honor of Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller




Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller was a weapons sergeant with Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 3312, Special Operations Task Force-33, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan, when he was killed in Gowardesh, Afghanistan, in a battle with enemy forces using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

He died saving his fellow soldiers in an act of heroism that is honored as courage above and beyond the call of duty.

God Speed Sgt. Miller, we are forever in your debt.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Nincompoopery

So as some of you may know I'm the proud parent of a beaming 1 year old. As I was raised in the "old school" I am finding out through observation that my perceptions of what kids should learn and experience through their youth may be a bit off kilter with the new norm. This all started as I was reading this column in Boston.com

Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? ...are some of these things simply the result of kids growing up with push-button technology in an era when mechanical devices are gradually being replaced by electronics?

Susan Maushart, a mother of three, says her teenage daughter “literally does not know how to use a can opener. Most cans come with pull-tops these days. I see her reaching for a can that requires a can opener, and her shoulders slump and she goes for something else.”

Teenagers are so accustomed to either throwing their clothes on the floor or hanging them on hooks that Maushart says her “kids actually struggle with the mechanics of a clothes hanger.”

..."Having so much comfort and ease is what has led to this situation—the Velcro sneakers, the Pull-Ups generation. You can pee in your pants and we’ll take care of it for you!”


Now I'm not going to go off on the old "I used to walk to school in the snow 5 miles uphill both ways" rant here, but I believe there are some marked differences between the way I was raised and the more modern styling of child rearing such as:

My daddy was a farmer as a boy so we had a garden. I learned how to plant, weed, pick, and pull/shuck/shell/preserve food.

I got my first shotgun at the ripe old age of 4. I never used it to shoot up a school, terrorize a neighborhood, popped a cap in a gang member, or robbed a bank. I did, however, murder and eat hoards of squirrels, rabbits, and dove.

We weren't poor, but we didn't summer in Barbados either. I had patches on my jeans, and they became cutoff shorts for the summer. My mother, God bless her, always wanted to buy me nice name brand clothes but it wasn't in the cards. I have spent the last 35 years in Wal Mart clothes and haven't died of shame yet. I still wear shoes I had in college...

When I got my first car I hadn't a nickel to my name. So when it broke down (frequently) I had to learn how to work on it myself. I packed wheel bearings, changed oil, rebuilt engines, and generally became intimate with the inner workings of the internal combustion engine. Now that I have the money to pay someone else to do it for me, I find it easier and more satisfying to just do it myself.

Speaking of cars, I learned to drive at 12 years old. Back then, my dad would send me down to the local stop-n-rob in our old Hooptie-Deville to buy him a pack of cigarettes and a 6 pack of beer. (Yes, they let me buy them) My, how times have
changed.

As Ron White would say "I told you all of that so I could tell you this":

Through all of the things we had and experienced as kids we seemed to turn out OK. As an adult now I am an avid gun enthusiast, a hunter, am involved in self defense matters, very politically active, and community minded. I am polite to everyone I meet, yet I tolerate no disrespect towards me or my family. I like cowboy westerns and cowboy morals, and I'll be damned if my son will miss out on any of that as long as I'm still sucking breath. Old ways and ideas are not necessarily bad because they're "old". I think this new batch of no-load panty waisted no-goodnick yoots is a valid testament to that.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to check on the chickens and watch an old John Wayne flick.


“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Milton Friedman - Socialism vs. Capitalism

Herein lies the rub between the right and left. Phil espouses the usual liberal drool about fairness and proper distribution of "wealth". Facts of life notwithstanding, his argument reeks with the well meaning ideology of the repentant nuevo riche. Mr Freidman makes quick work of the misplaced redistributionist desires of the like of Phil Donahue and Mr. Obama. Ahh, the cool breeze of rationality blows yet amid the tempest in a teapot that is the "progressive" movement. Capitalism built our house, folks.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

"Yeah, I play guitar". "Oh yeah? Can you play "Humble?""

Holy Crapamole. As a once fair and now spotty guitar player, I have to hang my head in shame of this beautiful performance. If the Norks are good at one thing its making child prodigies into state symbols of prowess and ability. Without politicising the issue all I can muster is a humble "BRAVO; BELLISSIMO"!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Basil Marceaux : The Next Governor of Tennessee

OK someone has to say it. Am I the only one that wants to see this guy and Alvin Greene in a debate? Maybe we can have the guy from "Slingblade" as the moderator. Take a minute to watch it and thank me later. I dun tol' yall wut gubment edukachun duz to yo mind...

You folks in the Volunteer State must be proud...

Todaze Doggy Karma

If this doesn't make you smile and scratch the ears of your best friend then I guess you're just not human...

NJ Governor Christie on "Morning Joe"

Sometimes, just when you think all politics and politicians have been cast from the molds of the demons from Hell, a small glimmer of righteous light emanates from of all places, New Jersey? Charlie Crist, pay attention; you WILL see this again.

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Got The Time?

So everyone asks how it's been going lately. Rather than trying to describe my daily life in mundane detail, I thought this old video from our friends at Anthrax summed it up quite nicely. (aside) I didn't remember the bouffant hairdos and skin tight jeans looking that gay back then. I guess times change our perceptions, no?

Anyway, it's a good cover of the old Joe Jackson bit. Enjoy. The lyrics are good, but you better be on your third cup o' joe to keep up with it.


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Firearms Refresher Course

1. "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. "Thomas Jefferson"
2. "Those who trade liberty for security have neither." ~ John Adams
3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
6. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
9. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
14. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you NOT understand?
15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
16. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

That is all. You're welcome.

Monday, June 28, 2010

News from the oil front. Well it seems that the beach health advisory has been lifted, but it hasn't? According to the Escambia County website, all beach advisories have been lifted as of 6/28/10. According to the Pensacola News Journal and Health Department health advisories are in place for Pensacola Beach. WTF? Is anyone in charge here?

In other news, according to the local Mullet Wrapper:
Pensacola Beach is seeing a higher coverage of tar balls and tar patties today.

Great.

Also apparently Vice President "smart-ass" will be visiting our slice-o-heaven tomorrow for a photo-op situation-report of the cleanup operations. If this goes as well as the President's visit we can look forward to an entire day of road closures and loss of business. I wish these guys would go try to "help" someone else. It's mass chaos every time one of these no-load apparatchiks comes to town.

Now everyone is asking about the potential effects of TS Alex on the oil leak. Some say it will be the apocolypse, others think it will help to dissipate the oil. I don't think anyone knows beyond a SWAG whatinthehell it will do. I guess we're about to find out.



My resolve remains unshaken. I have adopted a new mantra today from of all people, Monsieur Bonaparte: “Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”

No victim status here, boss. I have some sneaky ideas in the works which I think will help me offset some of my lost revenue. Story at 11:00.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Damn...

Well, it's finally come ashore in a big way. I spent the better part of yesterday defending my position on the positive side of this oil fiasco, only to wake up to several thousand pounds of it on our beach this morning. Everybody is using the same descriptors for how they feel about it; "sickening, tragic, horrible, et. al." I'm just tired. It's been rough going so far, but all in all I can't complain too much. Today was a "crude awakening" (bad pun). I think things are about to get a lot worse for us here. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to give in; not now not ever. Setbacks are disheartening and watching what's happening to our marine environment is painful on a personal level. The bottom line is that I have quite a few folks depending on me and my decisions for their livelihood and well being through this mess, and I'm just not going to get distracted. A little motorcycle ride this afternoon eased me up a little, but I think I'm going to start really steeling myself for some harder times to come. Breathe in, out, in, AW the Hell with it. Bring it on and let's get's this party over with. I'm game.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Nuge does it again.

Yet again in as many tries the Nuge is pulling at my heartstrings with his colorful commentary. If the WaTimes had asked me to write the same article, my only difference in verbage may have included some gratuitous profanity. (I don't like being crude, I'm just a passionate writer with a limited vernacular). Good on ya' Mr. Nugent, you are truly a "blood brother".*

* If you don't get the joke, you may have to read up on more Nugent goodness. Hint: it's not an evil terrorist redneck bloodthirsty code word...

To my Oil Spill "Truthers"

Well, I've had a few folks slinging spears and arrows in my direction since I started giving my perspective on the media bias of the oil spill fiasco. It's disturbing to see the outright anger from some directed at anyone who doesn't jump on the fatalistic bandwagon. I've been call a "denier" and "absurd". HMM. I don't remember referencing any conspiracy, only the usual media bias. At any rate, I've never said it isn't bad. It's really F***ing bad. Got it, not a problem. The salient point to remember is that the negative images of our area have been well covered already by EVERYONE, thank you very much. I get calls every day from people who think we're covered from head to toe in this shit. I am going to balance that out with anything positive I can find. Remember, the world is watching. If you want to scare them off for good, then keep it up. If you refuse to believe that we're not all going to die from this, so be it. But if you can't stand the positive energy I'm cooking up, you need to get out of my kitchen. If it's really that bad already, why don't we just give up, close up our doors, rollover and die? Maybe everyone would be happier if I did just that. We may end up jobless, homeless, and eating cat food under the I-110 underpass, but at least we acknowledged how terrible things are. FUCK THAT.

Funny though, I just looked up water sampling data from EPA right where we were swimming, and levels for every chemical associated with oil product and dispersants showed up ND (None Detected). Maybe they're just not sampling right.

We all have our own soapboxes, so feel free to use yours any way you want. That's just what I intend to do.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Wastin' Away Again in PensacolaVille

Well, another "Chamber of Commerce" day out on the old Gulf of Florida. (No, that's not a typo, Mexico has their part, this part is MINE) Amidst myriad news reports of tarballs, sheen, boom, skimmers, and general B.P. tomfoolery we managed to have a wonderful afternoon on the beach. We did a little swimming, snorkeling, laying out in the sand, and rum-n-coke sipping. The Coup de Gras was the live music at the boardwalk with a little sunset action. Oh BTW, not a tarball to be found. Ooh boy, how I love summertime in P'Cola.