Apparently Being A Red Neck Is Not Exclusive To The Southern States Of America

Hey, the heater in my Ford is like lighting a match in a blizzard.

I have to wear gloves because of that cold assed plastic steering wheel and wear a Hoody for the fifteen minute commute.

Crazy enough, the dude got government permission to do this, like that would EVER happen in this fucking country.

 

Kinda Cross Posted at Fixer and Gordon.

This Is Why You Can't Have A Fucking Job

AP)  PANAMA CITY, Panama — A company expanding the Panama Canal has settled a strike by 6,000 workers that had paralyzed work for six days.

The multinational consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal says in a news release that the workers have agreed to a 13 percent wage increase and will return to work on Monday.

Union representative Saul Mendez says workers are not completely happy with the deal raising hourly pay to about $3.34 an hour, but still made important advances. The workers had been seeking a pay raise to as much as $10 an hour.

The company already had agreed to meet worker demands to cover delayed overtime and weekend pay. It blamed bookkeeping errors for the delay.

What this article doesn't mention, is that this project is a FIVE POINT TWO BILLION Dollar project, that will divert shipping from West Coast ports like L.A. and these fucking scumbags were paying some workers as little as two fucking fifty an hour for serious labor and had not even bothered to do that because of "book keeping errors".

Yeah, right.

This project would cost fifty times as much if they had to pay a living wage in this country,
which is why they pay these busting ass  men and women shit wages, because they can and they do.

How much you want to bet the safety and well being of these hard working people is least and last on their agenda?

It is to laugh and cry real tears that this bullshit is allowed to happen.

I am still thankful and have days when I hate getting up to a job that I am daily learning about and there is no doubt I am going to die broke but at least I make enough of a wage that I don't have to eat
rice and beans and every little varmint pieces I can get my hands on.

People in this country have been programmed by the oh, so, compliant media to distrust unions.

It goes against the old saying ,"strength in numbers"

So, take heart my fellow wage slaves, at least we don't have to worry about contracting Malaria for three fucking bucks an hour.

What Gordon Said

If ya been around here for any length of time, you will know that I have several internet buddies.

Several as in many.

There are some damn decent folks out there who pay attention to the shit we get fed on a regular basis.

The joint I go to first every Day when I can is my buds at Alternate Brain.

They are all over the latest news and I agree with their assessment of said news, especially the news of a political nature.

I do believe my pal Gord just knocked one out of the park and into a windshield.
Good on ya bud.

I would love to see Nancy Pelosi yank up her skirt, show everyone her balls and throw that dirty motherfucker Newt Gingrich under a convoy of busses.

I ain't overly enamored of Pelosi but seeing her drop a depth charge in the middle of Newt's lying ass would give me a serious chubby.

Occupy Wall Street Goes Global

Good.

It isn't like the only crooked banksters are indiginous to New York.

It is a world wide web of theivery and I am glad to see this gain strength and momentum.

As a matter of fact, right about now, my 74 year old father should be in downtown Vancouver Washington attending the protest there.

I am so proud of him.

Good on ya Pops.

If it weren't for the fact I wanted to come see the wife for a conjugal visit, I would have been standing right next to him.

Some things take precedence ya know.

All I know is what I have read as I have been sporadicly keeping up with these events but I can see at least three things.
One, it is working.

Two, there have already been changes come about politically, the PTB's are pissing down their legs because of the above point.

Three, it is bringing people who would never normally come into contact with each other close together and they all have found just how many of us are out there and Boy, Howdy, are we pissed.

All of it good, except if you are one of said Bankster or one of their hired
paid for political lackeys.

Fuck them.

So, keep the pressure on those sonsabitches and make 'em sweat.

Show them that the status quo is going to change and that it is inevitable.

When they start bailing out of the country, you will know it was all worth it.




Yes sir, we are coming for you fuckers and money won't save you, as we have seen all too many times over the course of this country, money can be taken away in a thousand different ways.

I first saw this over at my pals at Alternate Brain but I swiped it from another awesome dude, my pal Monkeyfister.

Taking A Break

I'm at Nasty Girls, watching movies.

I have been kind of keeping an eye on the shit storm going on in the Middle East but not real close.

That is some fucked up shit and that nasty little trick of shutting off the internet pissed off a whole lot of people who had nothing to do with the protests.

Smooth move, fuck heads, now ya pissed off everyone.

Pay attention to what is going on over there and remember, they don't even have a Second Amendment. Of course, they don't really need it.
They can buy everything from an AK 47 to a fucking rocket launcher if they have the dough.

Entire governments are getting their asses handed to them.
It is not without blood shed and violence but it is not anything near what it could be.

Starving The Beast Works

You know when the bankers are whining about people using cash instead of plastic, you have hit a nerve.

H/T Cryptogon

Italian Banks Upset with Level of Cash Use; Underground Economy 22% of GDP


January 4th, 2011



Via: Reuters:

The Italian Banking Association has declared “war on cash” in a country where credit-card usage is less than half the European Union average, according to the Bank of Italy. The association, known by its Italian acronym ABI, says it costs banks and companies as much as 10 billion euros ($13.3 billion) a year to process cash payments, mainly in increased security and labor. Rome-based ABI aims to cut those expenses by promoting electronic payments with credit and debit cards and wire transfers in both the public and private sectors.



“Italy urgently needs these changes to catch up with other countries like France, which has allowed non-cash payments for public services for more than two decades,” said Rita Camporeale, head of payment systems and services at ABI.



Italy’s culture of cash is deeply rooted. Italians are the euro region’s least-indebted consumers and among its biggest savers, according to 2009 Eurostat data. Companies often pay salaries in banknotes to evade taxes, particularly in the country’s southern region, where organized crime is prevalent.

My heart bleeds for those scum sucking asshole bankers.

Not.

So, the underground economy over there is estimated at 22%?

That is surely putting a crimp in those sonsabitch money exchangers wallets.

This is what we need to do people, starve those motherfuckers, make them pay extra because using cash costs them money. Besides that, the PTB can't trace the stuff. They can't search your electronic trail to see what you have bought at Safeway or whether you paid the neighbor to fix your car under the table or bought a couple of bags of potatoes from the local Farmers market.
 Of course, they will try to find a way to get that money back, as we see here, by getting the government involved but hey, this little example of Fuck You, made my day.

Some Times I Can Be An Idiot

God dammit, I am cussing at myself right now.

I came up here to the girl friends and didn't bother to get any propane to keep the Weasel Den going.
Checked the weather and Holy Shit!

It's supposed to get down to 15 fucking degrees tomorrow night.
That's where I live. It's already fucking freezing here and I don't have studded tires.
75 fucking miles away and it's not supposed to thaw out until Thanksgiving.

I tried getting a hold of every damn neighbor I could, plus my Buddy and no luck. I finally resorted to calling my Dad.
He had to drive ten miles to my place, doesn't know where the fucking propane tanks are, found them and then went down the street to get them filled.
Goddamn neighbors weren't home either. The Chevron has a four fucking thousand gallon propane tank and they told him they were out.

Suuuuure.
He went to another joint and they told him the same story.

I am thinking there are some lazy bitches that don't want to go out in the cold.
he is 73 fucking years old and can't see shit when it gets dark.
So, he went home and got my Mom to drive and two fucking hours later, they are still fucking around with this.

Fuck.

I thought I had a buddy staying there while I was gone to take care of the cat but fuck no.

There are going to be some fucking beatings handed out when I finally get home.

In the mean time, I am worried sick about my folks, out there fucking around trying to cover my ass in the dark.

Fuck me.

Damn, I Missed It!

Sometime earlier, I had my Hundred and Fifty Thousandth hit!

With all my heart, thank you all fer stopping by.

I Needed That

Someone you know does too.

Go read this .

Thanks Labrys.

Peace be upon ya.

The New Guy Gets It

Say what you will, Al Franken is trying to protect our Constitutional Rights against Unreasonable Search and Seizure, while Obama is trying to get sections of the (SPIT) Patriot Act extended.

Good on ya dude.
The Patriot Act gutted our Constitution and is anathema to a free society.


Al Franken Reads the 4th Amendment to Justice Department Official

Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, who was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today to urge reauthorization of expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

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Noting that he received a copy of the Constitution when he was sworn in as a senator, he proceeded to read it to Kris, emphasizing this part: “no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

“That’s pretty explicit language,” noted Franken, asking Kris how the “roving wiretap” provision of the Patriot Act can meet that requirement if it doesn’t require the government to name its target.

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Excerpts from an article in The Washington Independent by Daphne Eviatar.

H/T Rawstory for the link.

I can haz my fucking rights back now?

UPDATE;

Russ Fiengold rips this guy a new asshole too, when he finds out that the "Sneek And Peek" provision has been used for drug enforcement 760 time out of 763.
That's THREE times they have used the Patriot Act provision to break into peoples homes without a warrant in their War on Terror, actually looking for terrorists!

Found via Huffpo, go read this,

WATCH: DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act

In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.

Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after drug dealers.

Only three of the 763 "sneak-and-peek" requests in fiscal year 2008 involved terrorism cases, according to a July 2009 report from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Sixty-five percent were drug cases.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) quizzed Assistant Attorney General David Kris about the discrepancy at a hearing on the PATRIOT Act Wednesday. One might expect Kris to argue that there is a connection between drug trafficking and terrorism or that the administration is otherwise justified to use the authority by virtue of some other connection to terrorism.

He didn't even try. "This authority here on the sneak-and-peek side, on the criminal side, is not meant for intelligence. It's for criminal cases. So I guess it's not surprising to me that it applies in drug cases," Kris said.

"As I recall it was in something called the USA PATRIOT Act," Feingold quipped, "which was passed in a rush after an attack on 9/11 that had to do with terrorism it didn't have to do with regular, run-of-the-mill criminal cases. Let me tell you why I'm concerned about these numbers: That's not how this was sold to the American people. It was sold as stated on DoJ's website in 2005 as being necessary - quote - to conduct investigations without tipping off terrorists."

Kris responded by saying that some courts had already granted the Justice Department authority to conduct sneak-and-peeks. But Feingold countered that the PATRIOT Act codified and expanded that authority -- all under the guise of the war on terror.

Feingold, the lone vote against the PATRIOT Act when it was first passed, is introducing an amendment to curb its reach. "I'm going to say it's quite extraordinary to grant government agents the statutory authority to secretly break into Americans homes," he said.

Dirty sonsabitches.

Now Then, Can We All Understand Health Care Is Killing Us?

Sorry, I have been indisposed and I damn near missed this link from Elizabeth, I got my feeble mind jogged when I just saw it on the front page at Crooks and Liars.

Thank you dear. BTW, Yer on the Blogroll.

This ain't you and me, this shit is us.

As Much As This Pains Me

Yeah, I just found out about Ted Kennedy kicking the bucket.

Y'all Right Wingers that have had a fucking Hard On fer the guy all these years, I have a question for ya,

How many fucking times since 1965 have you read in the paper about some young person getting killed before their time?

Ask an Iraqi Mother, Father, Uncle or Sister.

Yes, I know about Chappaquiddick.

Y'all will never let that go, I can't wait for Version 4,286.

I guess that Forty years of trying to do the right thing for us average fucks, nobody will ever forget that Ted Fucked Up and drowned his girl friend and panicked like a kid who never ever had any responsibility or knew what to do in a panic situation ten miles out of town, forty years before cell phones and the advent of calling 911.

I will not forgive or try to equal the life of one young lady and I can certainly relate to the never ending outrage, I would never forget the fucking guy who killed my baby girl.

I would just remind you that what is a huge , compelling force in our society is Redemption.
That thing that the Judicial system crams down the throat of everybody like him and I, to be a productive member of society. Hell yes he had preferential treatment, his brother was the President of the United Fucking States. What, ya never seen some asshole get preferential treatment because his/her father was a Big Wig? Gimme a fuckin' break.


It's not just the judicial system either, I got the same message after I had my lower back fused when I was twenty five years old.The Medical system is absolutely as corrupt as the political system is, get real here.
We are going to do our best to fix you so that you can be a productive member of society.

Let me tell you something, I have been busting my ass for twenty five years after I was told that and if I was a lazy fucker, I could have been collecting Disability. Wrenching on Heavy Equipment, getting a College Degree with honors and generally staying alive ever fucking since 1985.

Ted Kennedy was no different in the fact that he had a huge liability with the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, she was an unfortunate victim of bad judgment. He went through hell and no one let him forget that the rest of his life, I sure as fuck wouldn't have.
He did redeem himself in the fact that he championed the average American the rest of his life, Google Champion sometime, it ain't what you might think it is.

Ted Kennedy died tonight.

The Kennedy family has had more than it's share of sorrow in the last forty fucking years, in my opinion. Jesus Christ, his sister just died.

They just haven't had a fucking Drone drop a damn HellFire Missile on them during a wedding ,yet.

Close, I was seriously saddened when JFK Jr. went down with his wife in a little bitty air plane.

I am really not liking living in these times lately.

Either way, we just lost a very influential advocate for us fucking peons, like him or not, the man did great things for us little people and I will be damned if I can come up with a name that comes close to what he did for us, maybe Fiengold can get busy.

With any luck, some Grandstanding sonofabitch will use his death as a giant opportunity to connect Ted Kennedy's life's work towards equality in health care to this fucked up abortion that is being strangled by the Retards and cram reform down their fucking throats with it.

What the fuck, I would approve of that strategy.

Got A Garden Yet?

I went out and worked in mine a little this evening, did some weeding and planted some seeds.Lots and lots of weeding to do yet but I actually enjoy it, in small doses.

Two different kinds of squash, peas,pole beans and some Basil.

I still have a lot of work to do making new raised beds and short time to do it.
There are several things that I want to put in yet but the dang weather has not been cooperating.

I just ran across a most excellent article on gardening basics by a lady I absolutely adore from afar, Jackie Clay.

She is affiliated with Backwoods Home Magazine and has her very own spot where she answers just about any question you can think of when it comes to gardening, canning or raising critters, she is one very independent lady. Go take a look at ASK JACKIE.

I swear on my mothers grave that if I ever get a chance to meet her, I won't even say hello, I will just run up and give her the biggest hug, ever.
What an awesome lady.

Here is the link to the article on starting a garden, it is very thorough and she tells you that it is not some back breaking chore. It takes time, sure, but not hours and hours of manual labor, like I said, I just love this lady.

Get yer hands dirty and start enjoying the fruits of yer labor, as they say.

I waited half a year to get into this spot just so I could put in a real garden and I have a long ways to go to where I want it to be, I bookmarked the link so I could use it for future reference.

There is no reason for anyone not to, at the very least, grow a dang tomato in their apartment.

Take my word for it, it will be the best tasting vegetable you have ever had.

There Be A New Blogger On The Block

I Am Prepared has put his shingle out.
If you are of a mind, go give ScareCrow some love.

A little encouragement goes a long way in this endeavor.

Bravo!

Nunya has got it going on!

I just love a snarky post but she threw up the links to make her point in a beautiful way.

Good on ya honey!

Go visit PolitickyBitch.

Yeah, yeah, I love the name too, what can I say?

Just Fer Shits And Gigggles

I flipped the Blogroll upside down for something to do.
Ya might want to check some of them out that have been at the bottom.

Thank You

I kid you not, I am a very lucky sumbich.This move went off with only a half hour of dicking around trying to get the Weasel Den into its new home. Thank you Mark, my neighbor, for hauling the fucking thing for me and having to back the fucker up clear through a Motel parking lot and a trailer park because the fucking thing is so long.The extra half hour of backing up over boulders and shit, trying to get the bastard moved over sixteen inches, was above and beyond.

I need to extend some very sincere thanks to some friends and relatives and I am all over that, right fucking now.
Thank you Kevin, my brother.
The man got up at the crack of dawn and drove three fucking hours , just so he could bust his ass.
Bust his ass he did, I am forever in your debt dude.
Then he got to drive three fucking hours to get home.
Wow!
I do believe I owe ya , as long as it ain't heavy.

Another brother, BP, showed up with a buddy and there was a buttload of heavy lifting going on shortly.
Thanks B. and Mike!
Kevin made sure the fucking thing was level, the water did not leak, the furnace worked and generally kicked fucking ass.
By the way, the water line started leaking at the faucet, my neighbor Roger pointed that out right as I was leaving.
It probably needs a new washer, fuck it until tomorrow.
Let me just say that I am one lucky guy to have friends and relatives to come help me move without a whole bunch of notice and do it well.
I have a neighbor couple who kind of gave me a hard time last year when I was trying to garden, let me just say that that has changed and there will be a garden this year with more than two hands, right on.

OK, it is time fort me to fall down now, oh yeah we has pictures. Thanks Steve, for running home to get yer camera;

The Rat Hole,




Hell, I even met a couple of neighbors that pitched in and My sincere thanks to them for that!

The whole time we were getting with this program, there was a crew right next to us demolishing another trailer and I am here to tell you,these guys do NOT fuck around!
There was a huge pile of shit and they were still going at it when I left!




The Weasel Den











I still have to go yank out the dishes and pots and pans tomorrow, then I am calling it a done deal for this round.
There is a shitload of cleaning that has to be done, moving all my shit into the nooks and crannies snd getting rid of o few items that do not fit.

Well, I am pretty much exhausted, Gthud.

Blogroll Amnesty, Round Two!

I know there is a certain slant that this supposed to take, linking to liberal Blogs, etc, etc, I have always been a fucking rebel and have always done what I want, this is my Blog.
Therefore, I am going to throw a curveball into this endeavor and start linking to some Preparedness sites because the economy is very much taking a shit like a newbie after a hard night of drinking hard likker.
This is a good thing, these are excellent people and ya might learn a thing or two.
If you are truly a liberal then that means you should have somewhat of an open mind to new ideas, here ya go.....

Meet Mr. Michael Boone.
There is no Bullshit where he is concerned.Straight up, he is a good guy.

Staying Alive is a no nonsense place to get your attitude adjusted.

Just because I am an equal opportunity kind of guy, now meet his wife, Patricia, The Handmaiden.


I get a kick out of this lady, I am here to tell ya.

She has it going on when it comes to herbal recipes and living the life. She knows her stuff and will show you how to find vegetables growing in your own back yard.

This next one has it going on.
Pretty much every post has some excellent information that could save your life. Go read all of it and start paying attention,

RiverWalker is a down home, do yer homework kind of guy.

This isn't play time anymore. Some parts of the country that just got hammered with the biggest ice storm in recorded history are not expected to have their electricity restored until some time next month.
This shit is real.

The next three are from real people who are dealing with the situation in real time.
Coffee With The Hermit, Degringolade, and The View From Treesongs.

All I am trying to do is help spread these voices and remind you that the economy has already started taking a toll. These are our neighbors and they are telling their story about how they are dealing with it.
By the way, I Googled Degringolade because I had never heard of it, how very fucking appropriate my man.

This list would not be complete without Mayberry.
This is living on the edge in the new America.
Get 'em Tiger.

DING!

Nicely said.

I could fill this in with several descriptive four letter adjectives but I can appreciate some straight forward advice.

Someone just got Blogrolled.

Liberal Whackaloons Turning Into Survivalists?

Even Rawles is seeing it. Hey, I am a left winger and I have been working on it about a year now!
All politics is off the table when it comes down to who is left living and breathing after the SHTF as far as I am concerned.

"The movement's definitely growing," Rawles, manager of the site survivalblog.com, told AFP by telephone from what he described as a survival-ready ranch "somewhere west of the Rocky Mountains."

Survivalists have a long history in the United States. But what used to be the preserve of anti-establishment loners, cultists and gun nuts has gone mainstream.

Government agencies are encouraging citizens to prepare evacuation plans and food supplies in case of myriad disasters.

Firearms, gold pieces, and long-storage food are reportedly flying off the shelves, and the Internet is flooded with sites like survivalblog.com, where the like-minded exchange tips on everything from marksmanship to cheese making.

"We're seeing three times the number of readers we had just nine months ago," Rawles said.

"The cross section of the readership is changing too. Before, most of my readership was conservative Christians. We're seeing a lot more left of center."

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The more radical survivalists are getting ready for what they call EOTWAA, the End-Of-The-World-Armageddon-Apocalypse, or the niftier SHTF, as in Shit Hits The Fan.

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Big government bureaucracies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security want people to prepare for trouble, even if there is no official mention of EOTWAA and SHTF.

The ready.gov website urges citizens to store at least three days' worth of water and food, to prepare an escape plan from their city, and to have means of filtering out contaminated air.

"Practice earthquake and tornado drills at home, school and work," ready.gov says, also warning that pets will not be allowed into public evacuation centers.

New York-based specialist Aton Edwards says the government's stand proves survivalists were right all along.

"People ran away from it at first, saying it was alarmist and fearmongering. They didn't realize that the government is saying much the same thing," he said.

Yet Rawles estimates that not more than five percent of Americans are ready -- at least by his high standards.

"I'm surrounded by national forest. A river runs through the back end of the property, so there's no shortage of water and no shortage of fish or game to shoot," he told AFP.

"If Western civilization were to collapse tomorrow, I'd have to read about it on the Internet. I just wouldn't notice."

Click Here to read the whole article at Raw Story.