If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them.
Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don’t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do no, in fact come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.
Rule Four:
I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing a “Barrier method” of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.
Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: “early.”
Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.
Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don’t you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?
Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.
Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.
Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.
Please, watch this video. It is from a former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, and was recorded back in the ’80s. He is warning us about how the Marxist-Leninists (the Soviets at the time), planned to infiltrate and takeover our country.
Fortunately for our country, Ronald Reagan and others helped defeat the Soviets and they failed to take over while they were still in power. Unfortunately, their useful idiots were left intact. These are the Hollywood morons, the professors in our schools, government bureaucrats, much of our media, and others.
The Marxist-Leninist plan has finally succeeded in getting one of themselves, Barack Obama, into the highest office in the land. They used the idiots in our society, the lazy sheep looking for government handouts and those that pay no attention to anything, to elect him.
The Soviets worked on these things for decades. Senator McCarthy, while being branded as a kook, turned out to be correct. Our Department of State was chock full of Marxists. This was sixty years ago! Since the 60s these people have gained power across our country and have taken over our institutions.
We have seen the writing on the wall. We are headed for socialism-lite in this country at a rapid pace. The three-headed mongrel dog of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, is chomping at the bit to get moving on their fundamental change. They plan to lead us into western European socialism as fast as they can.
Meanwhile the real dangerous communists are up to their old tricks. They have succeeded in their old plot to consolidate power in America around the soft American left. They have Obama to deal with. He is a weak leader, and has already proven to be soft on Russian aggression. There is more to Obama than this however, as we will look at shortly.
Seeing these developments, the communists of the world are acting. They are acting right now. Lets look at a couple of current headlines shall we.
Russian leader Medvedev heading to Cuba, VenezuelaHere we have the Russian President heading to Cuba and Venezuela. These are of course the two strongholds of Marxist-Leninist socialists in our hemisphere currently. The Russians are supplying weapons to Chavez, conducting military games with him, and moving to start oil field work there. The Russians are expanding their oil production capabilities in our hemisphere, while we sit around and worry about global warming. This will leave us defenseless in the event of a crisis, in which our foreign oil supplies are cut off. Game over.
U.S. critical of Russia’s Baltic missile threatsSo Reagan did teach the Soviet’s something about negotiating after all! What a shrewd move on the part of the Russians. Obama is going to fold like a house of cards on this one, and it WILL be only the beginning of the games. The Russians will continue to test him, and take full advantage of him as long as they can. They have judged him well I think. Hopefully they are wrong, and he will step up to defend our country and our allies from this resurgent monster. This would assume that he is in fact, not on their side.
China’s Hu to visit Washington, CubaThis one actually scares me. China and Russia have been enemies for centuries. Even though they were ideological allies for decades, they had generally rocky relations during the time of the Soviet Union. A coming together of these two, along with their western hemisphere comrades, could prove disastrous for us. This is the reason we fought communism for all those years. This is why we helped overthrow people like Allende, and fought the Sandanistas. We knew that communist expansion would be the end for us. That is why we spent so long fighting it. Now we are going to be run by sympathetic morons, just at the time we need to fight the most.
Move To Let Putin Re-Take Power”>Move To Let Putin Re-Take PowerVladimir Putin continues to consolidate his power. He is an old school communist, and former head of the KGB. This is why McCain kept saying that he saw him as such, during the debates. Unfortunately that didn’t mean anything to 52% of us. We were to interested in hope and change. Guess what? Change is coming, with it you may lose all hope.
Worried yet? You probably should be.
This brings us to the very interesting point of our discussion. Where does the American Left and their Messiah Barack Obama stand in all of this. Are they the well-meaning idiots of Jonah Goldberg, or Soviet-style totalitarian communists in disguise.
At this point I do not know the answer. There is also the question of whether or not it really matters. Good intentions don’t make up for losing one’s freedom or life after all. It would be nice to think that 52% of our populace could never be duped into voting for such a regime, but my hope in the American people was severely dashed when the picked Obama at all.
The circumstantial evidence pointing to Obama at least leaning towards authoritarian control is everywhere. His relationships with the Ayers, his membership of a black liberation church (liberation theology is rooted in Marxism), his shady dealings and election tactics in Illinois, and his polished message all point towards bad things for us conservative, patriotic, gun-toting Americans.
The most shocking revelation to me was his plan for a Civilian Defense Force. I have mentioned that here before. Just the thought of such a thing brings of visions of Hitler’s Brown-shirts, or Stalin’s old NKVD thugs. Couple this with Obama’s propensity for gun control, and you have a witch’s brew of bad intentions.
Our good friend Dirtcrsher brought the following video to our attention here. Please go see his post and read the comments if you have not already.
This scares me more than anything else that has been mentioned thus far. They seem to be aiming to turn our children into indoctrinated pawns for the state. What will they do next, have them spy on us, and report any negative comments we make against the anointed one? We will discuss this little plan in more detail here in a separate post later.
After receiving my 20 C-Products magazines, I ordered some Federal XM193 last week. Natchez Shooters Supply sent me 500 rounds for about $215 shipped to my door. This weekend I plan to load up all of those magazines and figure out a way to store them.
This brings me to the point of the post. I need a bag that would hold 15-20 loaded magazines. Preferably something made specifically for the job. It would be nice if it had a shoulder strap and a zippered top, so it could be carried easily. Any suggestions?
The mags will be loaded with 28 rounds a piece, and for now they will be stored in the closed cardboard box they came in. This is our family’s primary SHTF gun, so I really want to get the mags situated in a easily transportable storage solution as soon as possible.
This song is perfect for this week. Merle wrote the song during the dark days of the late Carter administration. The times were rough, as they are now. It is eerily appropriate.
This song is special to me. My wife and I try to live a simple life, and this song represents our simple American values. All we want to do is have a good life, get ahead a little, and raise our kids, and hopefully leave the world better than we found it. We love our country, and want to preserve it. We mourn the passing of a better time, that neither of us new. The time before the county’s innocence was lost, and the hippies ruined everything.
The song does end on a high note however. This period shall end on a high note as well, as long as we do as Merle instructs.
Blogging is a big challenge for me. Most of the time my desire is to create something interesting for my few readers to enjoy. Some posts, such as embedded videos are used to make a point, or to pass on an interesting tidbit of information.
There are no illusions in my head however, that this blog will ever become “popular”. There just is not enough talent in my writing, or time to devote to realizing such an endeavor. What is the goal then? First, of course, the goal is to reach out to my fellow man, and specifically my fellow citizens with similars interests. Secondly, there is a great hope that these words will hold some value to my offspring when I part ways with this world.
Beyond those two ideas, the greatest desire I have, is to improve my writing skills. One thing that “I” constantly do, is use the pronoun “I” way to often. It is irritating, and is a crutch. In this endeavor to convey one’s experience, much of the story-telling is written in first person. This leads me to start every sentence with what I am doing, or what I think.
This link should be helpful in beating back this great impediment to my writing style. Our Creator has not blessed me with eloquence, so I have to learn to fake it.
The hits just keep on rolling. The Texas Comptroller’s Office reversed the bogus lean they put on my account yesterday. The money came back this morning. Of course now I am stuck with $560 worth of NSF charges, and the bank says there is nothing they can do to help me. I was told to call the Comptroller for help. Good luck with that, the guy at the bank said.
So the state has officially screwed me out of over $500 on a debt that I did not owe.
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.
This is an unbelievable quote. Thanks to Random Nuclear Strikes for posting about this little tidbit of pure communism. This is the definition of totalitarian communism as practiced by, the USSR, Cuba, North Korea, and others. The only way government can guaranty a job, health care, a home, an education, and “a fair playing field for business and farmers” is for the government to own it all, and force you to take this great government job that will not reward you in any way for working harder than the guy next to you.
“Fair” or “fairness” is liberal democrat code for taking away everything you have worked for and giving it to some shmuck who has spent their miserable life sitting on their ass.
The democrats are freaking communists pure and simple.
Update: Here is a video.
Here is the letter the Toledo Blade wrote to Senator Obama.
So, this all stems from our original Socialist in Chief, FDR. What a shock. This is the change we are going to get America. More failed socialist policies that have already doomed us to overwhelming debt, that will make us look back to today and smile fondly. Change my ass.
This has already been the week from hell. Yesterday I totaled my new ‘99 Tahoe, and today I accessed my checking account online, and found that it was negative $1,000! What the heck?
So I look into the details and I have a court ordered lien on my account for almost $3,000. This wiped out my checking, and savings account I use for overdraft protection, and incurred about a dozen NSF fees at $35 a piece. Great, I thought. What the hell is this all about. I owed the IRS a bit of money after last year, and set up a payment plan with them so that couldn’t be it. After calling them, they confirmed this. So who could it be? I don’t owe anyone money or anything.
At lunch I went to the bank to find out what the hell was going on. It turns out the Texas Comptroller’s Office put the lien on my account. Now here comes the scary part. Back in June I set up a business to sell fireworks. After applying for the necessary Tax ID number, I decided against it, and never sent in the required signature form. So I was never issued a Tax ID, or permit to conduct business. I also never conducted any business.
I thought the matter was over with seeing as how I never completed the process. I was wrong on that thought. A couple of weeks ago I got a sales tax bill for $200. Having not collected or filed any returns I was puzzled and made an inquiry to the government office in question. They replied that they could close the account, and asked me to send my ID number on the letter I received. I did that last week, and left Thursday night for our anniversary trip. We went camping and came back Monday.
Well apparently, they neither closed the account, or canceled the supposed fee. Instead they decided that I somehow owed them $2,343 and somehow got a government order to seize the money in my savings and checking accounts! So, the government provided no form of due process for me, no intent to levy letter or anything like that, and arbitrarily decided it would be OK to steal $2,300 out of a private citizens personal account.
This is unbelievable to me. Of course they have reversed the levy after I called and raised hell with them. How this is legal is beyond me however. The bank is going to try to get my NSFs cancelled, so that is good. What a complete nightmare and pain in the ass though. It scares me that the government can just come in and seize whatever they want, whether they are owed it or not.
Update: Meh, this turned out to be complete BS. Apparently the girl scratched herself in the face while looking at a mirror, and was not at the ATM at the time she said the robbery occured.
Our new blogger buddy Bore Patch has brought up a recent trend in bacon-blogging. He says all the cool kids are doing it, so I have succumbed to peer pressure once again.
I will say to begin with that I am in fact not a heretic, as I may soon be accused. Please read all of what I have to say before casting thy stone my way. We are here simply to point out that there is a higher level of nirvana than our normal American bacon (shall it be praised forever). The product of which I speak certainly does not come from Canada, where they eat that back-meat they sacrilegiously dare to call bacon. No, this beloved deity of culinary delight comes to us from across the pond. The big pond. It in fact hails mainly from Italy, although it is known in other parts as well. The delectable pork product of which I speak of course is the lovely pancetta.
Ah sweet pancetta, your glorious aroma fills my soul with glee. The thought of rendering you in a dutch oven with a miripoix is heaven on earth. Thy saintly perfume fills my kitchen as I embark on a most remarkable culinary journey. There is nothing that can go wrong once you are in my pan, as long as I do my duty to treat you as you are to be treated. Surely God had you in mind when he blessed us with His most tasty of creatures.
Well, enough of that. I got a little carried away there. Pancetta is a dry-cured product that is made ONLY from the belly of the pig. Our bacon comes from the sides as well at times. There is nothing wrong with that of course, but pancetta is in a different league than normal bacon. It has a consistent layer of dense wonderful pork fat. It also is not smoked, all the flavor comes from the fat, muscle, and the spices it is dried with. It is usually sold rolled up like a sausage or just as a flat belly. Pancetta is more aromatic than our smoked bacon. Think if it like a nice dry-aged steak, as compared with the typical rib-eye you get at the grocer. The pork flavor is concentrated more in pancetta.
This delicacy is often dried for months, before being sold. With this investment in time comes a substantial increase in price. If you have never cooked with pancetta I urge you to give it a try sometime. It is great in pasta sauces, and I use it with great effect when I make Mario Batali’s Lasagna Bolognese, which just might be the food of all foods.
