A Benevolent Dictator

A recent conversation with my wife after I caught myself checking to see what color Bic lighter I was putting in my pocket because I am always absent mindedly stealing hers;

Me,
See what you have me doing now?

Her,Yeah,you did it again last night though. I'm finally getting you trained.

Me, Oh, Bustedus Domesticus huh?

Her Yeah.

Me, Really. I still have my moments.

Her, You only get away with that shit because I let ya.

Me, Oh?
Quite the Benevolent Dictator ain't ya?

Her.You love it.


Damn, she is killing my self image as a Rebel Without A Clue here.

U.S. Intelligence Reports Syria Used Poison Gas, Finally

Damn, these guys are really on the ball.

(CNN) -- The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. But numerous questions remain about the origins of the chemical and what impact its apparent use could have on the ongoing Syrian civil war and international involvement in it. When asked if the intelligence community's conclusion pushed the situation across President Barack Obama's "red line" that could potentially trigger more U.S. involvement in the war, Hagel said it's too soon to say. "We need all the facts. We need all the information," he said. "What I've just given you is what our intelligence community has said they know. As I also said, they are still assessing and they are still looking at what happened, who was responsible and the other specifics that we'll need."

The only problem I have is that this is old news.

Four fucking months ago Syrian opposition fighters reported several deaths caused by a deadly gas attack and U.S. Intelligence is just now getting around to confirming it?

Way to go fella's. This is just one more example of why I go out of country for news sources.

Constitution V1.0 Obsolete According To His Majesty Bloomberg

This fucking asshole is really starting to bother me. Who the fuck died and left this bastard King?

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”

Wait for it, waiiiiit for it......

“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11,” he said. “We have to understand that in the world going forward, we’re going to have more cameras and that kind of stuff. That’s good in some sense, but it’s different from what we are used to,” he said. The mayor pointed to the gun debate and noted the courts have allowed for increasingly stringent regulations in response to ever-more powerful weapons. “Clearly the Supreme Court has recognized that you have to have different interpretations of the Second Amendment and what it applies to and reasonable gun laws … Here we’re going to to have to live with reasonable levels of security,” he said, pointing to the use of magnetometers to catch weapons in city schools. “It really says something bad about us that we have to do it. But our obligation first and foremost is to keep our kids safe in the schools; first and foremost, to keep you safe if you go to a sporting event; first and foremost is to keep you safe if you walk down the streets or go into our parks,” he said. “We cannot let the terrorists put us in a situation where we can’t do those things. And the ways to do that is to provide what we think is an appropriate level of protection.”

For one thing, clearly the Supreme Court has shown it's self to be a group of partisan hacks that do everything in their power to avoid applying the words of the Constitution ver batim as they were written.

There should not have to be any "interpretation" of the fucking Constitution in the first place. What problem with reading comprehension do these people have anyway?

For another thing, Mayor Bloomberg, who the fuck are you to be telling anyone living outside the City of New York to do any fucking thing? Hey asshole, you are a fucking Mayor, not a fucking Senator and most definitely not a king so shut your fucking pie hole dick weed.

I could care less what you think dickhead.

You worry about your own ass and leave the law making to the other incompetent cocksuckers who are already plenty busy finding ways to strangle our God given freedoms in every way imaginable. You know, actual legislators? They don't need your help,peckerhead.

In short, Fuck You asshole. Get some help for you delusions of granduer complex you Nanny motherfucker, don't you have a city council meeting or something to keep your ass busy?

Your Police State On Full Display

Just in case some of you fucking people still had any doubts about the fact that we live in a police state and have for some time now.

Then we have little clues like this,

The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to "remain silent."; Senator Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) 

April 19, 2013

Need any more convincing?

Fuck Me Blind

Or should I say, Fuck Me, I AM blind.
I just got back from an eye exam.
It was way overdue and I have been cheating for several years now by going to the Dollar Store and getting cheap asses spectacals.
What the fuck, they work, ya know?

I have had my eyes checked twice now since I was in junior high school.
The last time was about five or six years ago.

At that time, the lady told me I was getting cataracts and gave me a prescription for the same strength glasses I was wearing that I also paid a whopping dollar for.

What a joke.

So today, they ran me through the gamut, put the drops in my eyes, yadda yadda yadda.
No signs of any fucking cataracts.

That kind of pissed me off even though it was a relief.
Nothing like living with the thought of something as serious as that nibbling away in the back of your mind for nothing.

Cheerful fucking bunch, I gotta give 'em credit for that.
The one chick who was having me look at frame samples was obviously distracted by something the whole time I was talking to her though.
This is where it got ,interesting, shall I say.

I need bifocals. OK.
I also have to have safety glasses for work.

I don't want to fuck around with multiple pairs of glasses either.
So she hauls out these boxes of frames, there are hundreds in display cases on the walls, and basically gives me a limited choice of some butt ugly mother, fuckers.
Seriously ugly.

What the fuck ever.
I finally picked out the least hideous set that were some ugly assed tiger striped brown shit. I asked if they came in basic black.
Big mistake.
The old,head to shoulder, head to other shoulder Valley Girl Bleach Blonde, "I dunno, I'll have to go look" answer.

Here we fucking go.

A full five minutes this idiot is gone.
She finally comes back and says no.

What a surprise.
I finally just got some that are smoke colored.
Now the fun part.
Bifocals.
Do I want "progressive" lenses.
yes.
Scratch resistant?
yes.
Glare free coating?
Yes.
OK.
Tapetty tappety on the calculator annnnnd.....

The grand total for one basic ,ugly fucking pair of bifocals with the aforemention accouterments?
$745!!

Uhh, yeah.

That is when I leaned across the table to get her attention and said, "O.K., let's get serious now".

"You see these glasses I am wearing? They cost a dollar. They work just fine.
I'm not paying seven hundred and fifty dollars for those glasses, insurance or not".

The look of cognitive dissonance on her face was quickly followed by shock, disbelief and juuust a flash of anger.
I'll give her credit though, she recovered quickly.

She did get a little pissy but she said that if I just wanted what the insurance covered without having anything other than the copay come out of my ass pocket then they would be bifocals with the line across and none of the fancy coatings.
"Fine" I says.

What a fucking racket.

With a little help, I can see with 20/20 vision.
In two weeks I will get those ugly motherfuckers and call it good for now.
Later down the line I may change my mind but I just can't see paying that kind of money for some butt ugly fucking glasses.

I saw Gucci and Calvin Klein frames on display while I was waiting and my asshole puckers just imagining what they charge for that shit!

Putting The Pressure On

Now that some Republicans caved in the pressure is getting pumped up in the gun control department.

It's looking like universal background checks are coming but nothing is set in stone yet.

Harry Reid doesn't have the votes he needs locked up quite yet.

You can be assured that some sneaky cocksucker is going to try and weasel through some kind of shit so I am hoping at the very least someone is watching like a hawk what is in the language of any fucking amendments they want to come up for a vote.

The Whitehhouse has been getting a lot of mileage out of the parents of those dead children from Sandy Hook.
Obama has even gone so far as to have one woman substitute for him in his weekly address.


THE WHITEHOUSE
WASHINGTON

Hello, everybody --

Each week, like many presidents before me, I sit down to record a short address to the nation. It's something I take very seriously because it offers a chance to bring focus to an issue that needs to be part of the national dialogue.

But today, I've asked someone to take my place.

Francine Wheeler is a mother. She and her family live in Newtown, Connecticut. Four months ago, her six year-old son Ben was murdered in his elementary school, along with 19 other children and six brave educators.

Joined by her husband David, Francine shares her perspective about the steps we can take to reduce gun violence and prevent the kind of tragedy she understands all too well.

It's a message that every American should hear:

Watch Francine, then join her in speaking out to make our country safer.

This week, because people like Francine and like you got involved, the U.S. Senate took a step forward on commonsense reforms to reduce gun violence.

And that's good. Because this shouldn't be about politics. This is about doing the right thing for families that have been torn apart by gun violence, and for all our families going forward.

But we've got a lot of work to do before Congress finishes the job.

So if you believe that we can take sensible steps to protect more of our kids from gun violence and protect our Second Amendment rights, stand up and join us.

Just visit WhiteHouse.gov to get started:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/newtown-address

Thanks,

President Obama

Politics at it finest.

Of course Obama is going to use these people to maximum advantage.

My heart goes out to them in their grief but I'm afraid they misunderstand that their proposals will do jack shit when it comes to gun crime.

By definition criminals ignore the law.

What is being proposed will only make more criminals, the opposite of their objective.

It has been proven beyond the shadow of doubt that even people who fail the background check are not prosecuted in any meaningful numbers.

It goes right back to what has been said about so many other laws and proposed legislation and it needs to be hammered right back in their faces repeatedly until someone finally fucking gets the message we are trying to send.

ENFORCE THE MOTHER FUCKING LAWS ALREADY ON THE BOOKS.

It's like they think this is some kind of sick game of who can pass the most laws and who can pass the most restrictive laws when the ignorant cocksuckers won't mandate that the laws they have already passed be enforced properly.

Look at how many laws that sick fucking bastard Adam Lanza broke before he even pulled into the parking lot at that school.

Didn't make one fucking bit of difference did it?

But no.
Let's pass some more fucking laws.

The police, the legislators and every criminal in this country knows they don't even have the resources to enforce the laws we have now and these misguided idiots seem to think passing another bucket full is going to cure all their ills.

Instead of spending money hiring more law enforcement personnel they spend it on equipment militarizing the forces we have already.

Local podunk police departments who have assault vehicles and weapons to use while breaking down peoples doors and shooting their dogs but not enough bodies to even bother sending someone out to take a report on stolen property should tell you someones priorities are completely fucked up.

But no.
Let's pass some more fucking laws.

The definition of insanity has been described as doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

I submit this country fits that definition.

Junk Yard Find

I went to a junk yard Tuesday to pick up a spare tire and wheel for The RatMoblie.
Not having a spare isn't too cool.

While I was there I saw what I thought was a pretty decent looking mid 80's El Camino they had up front for sale as a "builder".

I didn't pay a lot of attention to it because it was raining and hailing and shit. I got caught in a hail storm while I was out there and had to take shelter in the nearest junker that turned out to be full of green mold but it didn't last long.

I also saw a station wagon that had the instrument cluster I wanted but didn't have the right tools so I wound up going back later.
I took a longer look at the El Camino that turned out to be an 83 GMC Caballero.


Damn was it clean. Good paint, nice interior and completely original. It even had brand new tires on it.
Of course it only had a V6 in it.
It had a price of $1999.00 on the windshield.

After I got back home I called them up and asked about it.
The guy didn't know anything about it because it had just came in but said it ran and drove and they would sell it for $1600.

That started it.
I started telling the wife about it.
She , of course, wanted nothing to do with it.
I told her whatever was wrong with it was worth fixing because this thing was nice!

Yeah, yeah.
Being the persistent little fucker I am, I wasn't dropping it.
Yeah, we could come up with the money.
I wheedled, begged, cajoled and generally turned into a pest but she finally relented.
I went down and looked at it again to make sure everything worked.
I noticed the lid to a quart bottle of transmission fluid under the hood and that gave me a serious pause but when I started it up it went right into gear.
This thing had the original radio in it and everything.
Completely bone stock.
Somebody took good care of it.
I gambled and paid the money.


I had to go to work so I asked them to store it for me one day.
I went back with my dad to pick it up and sure as shit as the guy is trying to back it up to pull it up front I hear the engine revving and it not moving.

Fuck, the tranny is messed up.
He gets it out and I thank him. He tells me they put a little fluid in the transmission but not much.

I get it around the corner to a gas station and have Dad go to Freddy's and pick up 3 quarts and a funnel.
He comes back and I dump in 2 quarts and it goes right into gear.
I tell him to follow me and I went straight to my buddy who has a transmission shop.
The thing is trailing blue smoke the whole way and I can hear my wife bitching every inch of it.

It runs like a top though. It was so quiet I could hear the clock on the dashboard ticking when I was sitting at a light!
I get to the transmission shop and my buddy puts it on the hoist and there is fluid dripping on the floor. We thought maybe just the pan bolts were loose but no dice.
He cleans it up and runs it for a bit then picks it back up and finds a pressure switch puking. The blue smoke was from the switch puking fluid right onto the catalytic converter.
He says it is probably for the back up lights. He pulled it out, stuck a plug in it and charged me $20.
I love that guy.
Filled it back up and off I went.

While I was under it it I took a look around.
New tires, new shocks all the way around, new exhaust from from to back.
This thing looks like it's brand new underneath.
Runs like a champ, everything but the A/C works.

I have to take it to the State Police to have it inspected because it came out of a wrecking yard but I scored big time with this thing.
The guy at the wrecking yard said it was a one owner rig and had a huge stack of receipts going way back for all the maintenance and I believe him.
I even got the window sticker that has the estimated mileage on it from when it was new.

That picture up top?
That is the cover of the brochure from the dealer. I even got that with it!


It looks just like this.


Notice the price in the windshield.......
Same color and everything. I do have to put a windshield in it eventually because it has a crack in it.
BFD.

I went from driving a POS looking like this,

with no carpets, bad wiring, water oil and noisy exhaust leaks, to a cream puff like this.

Do I have an awesome wife or what?
The fact that she puts up with my ass alone should give you a pretty good idea.

It's Toe Tappin' Time

I do believe it's time to cut loose a bit and let my friend George tear the place up.
If you never got to see George Thorogood in concert back in the day then you have no idea what you missed out on.

That dude rocked, hard.

This is real rock and roll baby.

In Case You Are New Here

What's It Going To Take For You Pussy Motherfuckers To Feel Safe?

Jesus, that's all I hear lately, a bunch of bleating fucking sheep crying about every goddamn thing under the sun.
Take a fucking minute and start counting all the goddamn laws you Nanny motherfuckers have passed in the last thirty years trying to make yourselves feel safe from everything you can fucking think of.
It makes my fucking head spin.

Just off the top of my thick head;

Gotta wear seat belts,check.
Gotta wear helmets on a motorcycle, check.
Kids gotta wear helmets when riding bikes or skateboarding, check.
School safety zones, check.
Gotta have car insurance, check.
Free Speech zones, check and double check, more on that shit later.
Gotta have two dozen fucking air bags in your cars, check.
Can't park your own fucking car, they manufacture one that parks by it's self so you don't run over some other idiot trying, check.
Five mile an hour crash bumpers on your car, check. (made out of styrofoam inside, idiots), check.
Gun free zones, check. (how's that workin' for ya?)
Child safety caps, check.
Baby proofing products all over your goddamn house, check.
Child protective services taking peoples children on someones say so evidence, check.
Militarized police departments, check.
Can't take liquids on air planes, check.
Have to take your fucking shoes off to get on an air plane, check.
Body scanners to get on a fucking airplane, check.
Metal detectors in every federal building, check.
Metal detectors in schools, check.
Parental guidance ratings on movies and music, check.
License plate scanners, check.
Red light cameras, check.
Warrantless wiretaps, check.
Public utilities monitoring your electricity use and reporting high usage to police for drug interdiction, check.
Sobriety checkpoints, check.
The government's ability to track you with the GPS in your phone, check.
Swat teams stopping you in the street and demanding identification, check.
Mandatory bicycle lanes, check.
Being able to vote or join the service at eighteen but not able to drink, check.
Draconian drunk driving laws, check.
Mandatory sentencing, check.
Three strikes laws, check.
Mobile Xray vehicles to scan parked cars on the street, check.
No smoking in public laws, check.
No smoking in your own fucking vehicle laws, check.
No smoking in your own fucking residence laws, check.
No barbed wire in city limits laws, check.
Code enforcement laws that allow the city to tow your car out of your own driveway laws, check.
Bank transactions that have to be reported to the government, check.(anything over ten thousand dollars)
Mandatory Federal Identification requirements with back ground checks to enter our nations ports or airports to perform work, check.(Transportation Workers Identification card)
Mandatory Coast Guard approved training class to operate a fucking outboard motor on a dinghy, check.
Mandatory Hunters safety class to purchase ammunition, check.
Mandatory Drivers Education class to get a drivers license, check.
Huge fines for using off road diesel in your vehicle, check.
Mandatory recycling, check.

I think you get my fucking point here, besides this is pissing me off the more I think about it and now I have a fucking headache.
Back to those Free Speech Zones that Reagan had crammed down our throats.
Where ever I happen to be standing is a goddamn Free Speech zone and if you don't like it, you can feel free to mozy down the fucking road out of hearing.

I swear it's getting to the point these Nanny motherfuckers just want you to wrap yourself head to toe in bubble wrap and just stay on the fucking couch for your own good.

I got news for you sonsabitches, it don't work that way.

I am a full grown adult male, over fifty years of age and I don't need you pansy cocksuckers passing ten thousand god damn laws trying to protect me from myself.

There is this thing called Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest, look into that sometime.
This country is chock full of people too fucking stupid to tie their own shoes and that is who these fucking Nanny bastards are trying to protect themselves from.
Sorry for your luck but I think you are seriously outnumbered.

Let nature take it's course and we will all be better off in the long run.
In the mean time, get a fucking life and stay the hell out of mine you pussy bastards.

Blogroll Amnesty Day

Yes, B.A.D. has come once again.
I try to participate every year because for one, it is the right thing to do and two, I can remember when I first started Blogging and the frustration of getting zero traffic OR comments for a long time.

I can also remember when Good Ol' Skippy put me on his Blogroll.
That was a huge thrill. Skippy was the first big name Blogger to add my humble little rant hole to his extensive Blogroll, put up a link to me on his Blog and the rest is history.
I haven't shut my fucking mouth since.

The origins of this little exercise are a lesson in back stabbing that caught a lot of people by surprise and pissed even more completely off.

The short version is back in '07, DKOS and ATRIOS decided to slash their blogrolls of all the little blogs that were on their Blogrolls and all hell broke loose.
I ain't linking to either one of those dickheads.
This is where Skippy and the late AL Weisel step up to the plate for all of Blogtopia. (Y!SCTP)

"...in blogtopia, and yes, we coined that phrase, the coinage of the realm is linkage. and versa visa. the only way to give value to your peers is thru links. and a spot on your permanent blogroll is the highest value you can give.

so, in spite of the protestations that it's "nothing personal," it's quite literally the opposite: you cut a blog from your roll, you are stating to your readers that you don't find that blog of any value. that cut blog is no longer your peer."

Skippy and Al have between them, helped give much needed traffic and exposure to literally hundreds of Blogs.
I consider Skippy to be my Blogfather (I coined that one!) and will never forget what his linkage did for me.

So here is the deal and anyone can play.

once again, it's time for our yearly celebration of blogroll amnesty day!
B.A.D. is the holiday wherein we ask everyone in blogtopia (and yes, we coined that phrase) to link to 5 smaller blogs w/less traffic than theirs (no bad jokes about no blogs having less traffic than yours, please).
this way we all can introduce our readers to new voices in blogtopia (and yes, we coined that phrase)' as well as giving greater exposure to blogs which may otherwise go unnoticed.

to begin this year's festivities, we'll let our other partner in this endeavor, Blue Gal, introduce some ground rules:
small and newbie bloggers please be aware of the ironclad rule that you are not allowed to make "hey no blog is as small as mine" jokes regarding blogroll amnesty day. the rule is, straight from the queen of the indy blogs herself (ahem), that you are not allowed to complain or mention your blog's low traffic until you have been posting daily for a year. if you're little, link other blogs that are new or still growing their audience, and encourage them to practice their craft daily. then, show them how.

truthfully. not only is the "there are no blogs smaller than mine" joke unoriginal, it's not funny, and is seriously whiny. unless you have a blog with literally zero traffic, which means that even you don't bother to read it, then you can bet there are blogs with traffic smller than yours. be a mensch. find them. link to them. help each other out.

one two more favors: you may write this post any time during this four-day festivus, but when you do, please forward a link of it to us, and we'll happily include it in one of several posts we'll be doing all thu-out the celebration.

also, if you would be so kind, please include a link to this very blog post in your own. last year we actually got a headline @ memeorandum (here), and, truth be told, we're itching for another.

That would be a link back to Skippy.

Without further ado, as they say, here is my list of five.

Un-Original Thoughts

BJ is a hoot.
We seem to have very similar tastes in what we find humorous, the sick bastard.

The Ultimate Answer To Kings.

Joel is a real live crusty old desert hermit, he built his own place to live and chronicles his daily struggles and his decidedly outspoken opinions. All with one leg. He recently found out he has glaucoma too but he is one stoic sumbitch and I say that with all due respect.Tougher than beef jerky, that guy.
He rocks in my opinion and I had the honor of being picked out of a list of suggestions to name his new website address. (Joel's Gulch)

Herlander Walking.
Syrbal is a fellow Washingtonian farther up North and she is a no nonsense lady with an incredibly developed sense of what is right and what is wrong  and she isn't afraid of anything.
A damn nice lady, just don't fuck with her.She's allergic to bullshit.

Demeur

Don't ask me, I looked it up once and it's French for something, I can't remember.
Demeur is another fellow Washingtonian and yes, it is just a coincidence.

He is in HAZMAT and is also all over what is going on, he is still even keeping track of how many banks are going belly up!
I like his theory of how to gauge how bad the economy and the unemployment rate is by counting how many cars are in the driveways of his neighborhood during the work week.
Pretty smart, that.


Last but certainly not least, I would like to introduce you to Sixbears In The Woods.
A very interesting fella, this guy.
He lives way up in the North East where it gets colder than a well diggers ass in the winter time, as in minus twenty degrees.
I especially enjoy reading him because he is very much down to earth, used to be a fire fighter at one time even and lives out in the boonies.
Smart as hell and handy like  if it's messed up, call him first.
He even rigged up an old ambulance with a diesel engine to run on used cooking oil!
He and his wife have a small sail boat and when winter hits they bail out and head South and putt around on the sailboat just kickin' it and having a grand old time.
A real nice guy.

Well, there it is.

Once again, I would like to thank Skippy for all he does for us out here in Blogtopia.

If you would like to be added to my Blogroll, drop me a line in the comments with a link and I'll get on it ASAP.
All I ask is reciprocity.
The same goes for Skippy. Just ask and he will add you to his too.

Now go click on those links up there and get busy .Leave them a comment so they will know you were there and tell 'em Busted sent ya.

You'll feel better for it I guarantee ya.



BTW, don't forget that this is basically an archive site. I Blog all the time over at my Wordpress site with the same name.
Leave me a comment and your link here and I will add it to both sites!

Someone Owes Me A New Hypocrisy Meter

I'd tell them to kiss my ass but I don't know who's cock they just spit out.
Shameless fucking whores.

And yes, they can go Fuck Themselves.

It Be Toe Tappin' Time Again

Warren Haynes is one under appreciated motherfucker is all I can say. The man touches my soul with his musical renditions like few others ever have in my entire life.
Pair him up with another master guitarist like Derek Trucks and magic happens.

I can listen to this one tune on a loop for an hour it is so good.

Have some Soulshine folks.



Wait!
If you act now, I will double down on the good stuff.

I have always liked a good Slackjaw Jezebel too ya know. This is one of my personal favorite tunes.



This one is off the charts awesome.
Beautifully Broken

Somebody Needs A Swift Kick In The Crotch

Of all the irresponsible,stupidly dangerous things a fucking news outlet could do, this has to be number one on the list.
I still can't believe it.
Some asshole back East thought it would be clever to post a FUCKING MAP of all the people who have a concealed carry permit in Westchester County, New York, just to the North of New York City.
Yes, you can click on one of the highlighted icons and see the NAME and ADDRESS of the permit holder!
They got the information through a Freedom of Information request.
Not only did they post a map of an entire county, they have plans to add even more counties as they get their hands on the information.
Let me explain something to you fucking idiots.
You just possibly put every single person on that list at risk.
What, the fuck, were you thinking?
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, you dumb cocksuckers.
I could link to the map, I have it open in another tab but I really don't think it is a good idea to spread that information around.
I know I would be incensed if I was on that fucking thing.
You see,now that it is out there, it is like the genie in the bottle and you can't make it go away.
Some crazy motherfucker can now randomly zoom in and pick a name and an address like a fucking grocery list and God only knows what can happen then.
I won't link to it but here is a screen grab, so it isn't interactive anymore.
As usual, click it to make it bigger.
Why don't you just use the default supposition that everyone in that county has a concealed carry permit, has a .44 Desert Eagle in their underwear and just not fuck with people?
I still can't get over how fucking irresponsible  that was.

The Fucking Unions Didn't Kill Hostess, Bad Management Did, More Than Once

But you will never hear that from the MSM.
No, when Hostess went tits up finally, all the Very Serious People dutifully lined up and lied their asses off right to your fucking faces and  to a man swore that unions were the sole reason that Hostess had to close up shop.
For a typical example, George Fucking Will from the Washington Post;

Hostess, which had 18,500 employees making and distributing more than 30 brands made in 36 plants, had been in and out of bankruptcy several times since 2004. Its terminal crisis began Nov. 9, when thousands of members of the bakers union went out on strike to protest wage, health-care and pension cuts imposed by a court. The bakers objected to a 17 percent increase in their contribution for their health-care benefits.

That's it, that is all he had to say factually.
Not a fucking word about the management voting themselves huge fucking pay raises right before they filed for bankruptcy or the outrageous bonuses they were getting.
Not one fucking word about that shit, it was all on the unions.
Now we find out that Hostess had been diverting union pension payments to use for day to day operations.

Hostess Brands acknowledged for the first time in a news report Monday that the company diverted workers' pension money for other company uses.
The bankrupt baker told The Wall Street Journal that money taken out of workers' paychecks, intended for their retirement funds, was used for company operations instead. Hostess, which was under different management at the time the diversions began in August 2011, said it does not know how much money it took.
"It's not a good situation to have," Hostess CEO Gregory Rayburn told the WSJ.
"Whatever the circumstances were, whatever those decisions were, I wasn't there," Rayburn added. As the founder and owner of Kobi Partners, a restructuring advisory firm, Rayburn was appointed acting CEO in March 2012.
Hostess Brands, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in January, started liquidating its operations in November after the bakers' union refused to take another pay cut and went on strike. The liquidation will leave about 18,000 workers without jobs.
In November, a judge approved Hostess' plan to pay $1.8 million in bonuses to 19 executives, according to CNBC. Rayburn declined to take a bonus but also avoided a company-wide pay cut that he imposed, Hostess told HuffPost.

Boy those no good fucking union fellers must be some real mean motherfuckers to make them do that too.
Uh huh.
I smell a lawsuit and what is that word I am looking for, embezzlement?

It's Toe Tappin' Time Again

This is really, really nice, almost, pretty.

Midnight In Harlem like you have never heard before.

Headphones are highly recommended.
Susan Tedeschi just nails this and Derek Trucks brings it home.



If you didn't enjoy that you are a walking bag of meat with no soul or appreciation of beauty.

Seeing Is Believing

I'm sure you have all heard about the electronic voting machines being fucked with.
See it with your own eyes.





From Crooks and Liars,

I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.

Then it just gets weird.

I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said "It's nothing to worry about, everything will be OK." and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.

Everything is going to be OK? Are you fucking kidding me?!
The guy should have called the fucking cops so they could quarantine the obviously fucked up machine instead of letting it go so some other motherfucker  could have the same thing happen.
The fucking Republicans know they can't win in a straight up contest, which is why I have heard at least thirty stories this election of dirty fucking tricks they have pulled  trying to to keep people from voting.
This shit needs to stop and some people need to go to fucking prison for a long God Damn time.

Fuck You, Ya Spammin' Cocksuckers.

God damn the rotten fuckers have been busy lately.
Every fucking day I get five or six of the motherfuckers leaving Spam comments on posts that are over two damn years old, at least!
They seem to have fixated on one in particular and I have better things to do than fuck with those assholes every fucking day.
So, I am now moderating all comments that show up here and turned the fucking word verification back on. That oughtta  shut 'em the hell up.

I mean WTF?
There really isn't anything new to comment on and if someone happens upon an old post and wants to say something that's cool but enough of those dickhead spamming sonsabitches.

Bite me, you worthless cocksuckers.

Please Update Your Blogrolls

                                               ORNERY BASTARD


As I am surfing around my Blogroll. I see quite a few people still on Blogger who haven't updated theirs to reflect that I moved to Wordpress clear back in April and I see also that I still get traffic here.
So, I thought I would throw up a quick post here and ask that if I am on your Blogroll, please update it for me to the link above.
Also, if you are on this one and don't see yours on my new one, leave a comment here or over there and I will cure that toot sweet.

As always, thanks fer stopping by.

You Are Here But I Am Not Anymore

In case you missed it, I am done here and have moved to Wordpress.
Please adjust your Bookmarks and head on over to this link for your usual dose of outraged ranting and cursing at Ornery Bastard.

I will be updating the Blogroll over there in bits and pieces over time.
For some reason I keep getting an error message when I try to import it all at once.

Keep your pants on if you are on this one and don't see it over there yet.

Thank you,
The Management.