On October 31, 2017, there was another Jihadist attack on New York. This time it was an Uzbeki on a quest to meet virgins and dispatch the Great Satan. The usual morons paraded out and warned us to quit being Islamophobic. The head moron, in my viewing, was Geraldo Rivera. I had to turn the television off when he started a branch of his argument with, “I’m a war correspondent!”
Uh, no. You’re a moron who tried to turn an empty safe into a new career. You’re a guy who got chucked out of the combat zone for disclosing troop positions on live television. You’re an incessant loudmouth who tries to shout his way out of almost every argument I’ve ever seen you engage in on television.
In short, you’re the obnoxious twit on the barstool next to me with all of the answers. Everyone knows I’ve got them, so why are you wasting my time.
Seriously, Geraldo, Shut Up! If you and Shepard Smith had a race to the bottom of the intellectual barrel, and set the single rule as letting emotion rule over fact – oh – – – Sorry, that is what you do. I apologize for not fully recognizing it at first.
My betters in the media are out of time. I routinely turned off the tube when Alan Colmes came on. I now hit the mute button every time Juan Williams takes a cleansing breath and opens his mouth more than 1/4 of an inch. I watch MSNBC & CNN only to elevate my blood pressure enough to blow the plaque out of my circulatory system.
I’m not asking that Kurt Schlichter and Tyrus be the only people on television. But it’s getting there fast.
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I watched the Pentagon briefing the other day and couldn’t decide if I wanted to laugh, throw stuff at the screen, or mock the imbeciles in the press. I have now made up my mind and the first two choices didn’t seem to fit.
It would probably be sad if any of them had ever been in the military, as that would indicate some sort of head trauma that caused them to be that drifty. In that case, I wouldn’t be mocking them. But none of the morons who asked questions had ever served. That was painfully obvious.
Oh, and the picture of Stormy was random. I have heard that pictures draw interest to a blog. But, I digress.
I will paraphrase the question, and then give my answer. My apologies to General Dunford. He’s too much of a gentleman to answer like I do.
General Dunford
Question: Are these Special Forces soldiers taking too many risks?
Answer: Are you a moron. These guys live for this stuff. They’re really good at it. They volunteered. Look up “adrenaline junkie” and “professional soldier” and you’ll find a picture of them. They know their limits. I don’t think they reach them very often, and when they do, they let us know.
Question: Were they wearing body armor?
Answer: I don’t know. But it’s hotter than hell where they’re operating, they’re working with troops that don’t have body armor, and I’d guess probably not. They don’t have a bunch of risk-averse mommy types like you screwing up their day and making them wear their raincoats if it gets cloudy.
Question: Why haven’t we heard about these operations before?
Answer: Jeebus. We brief on this stuff all the time. It’s even in our Twitter feed. But you clowns only run from fire to fire, and so when nothing bad happens you don’t care. Your contempt for our world is just freaking fabulous.
Question: General, isn’t this Trump’s Benghazi?
Answer: Now I know the short bus is outside. No. This isn’t a consulate being attacked and ignored for almost a day by a National Command Authority that ignored Flash traffic about the incident. This was a bunch of Green Berets who were working in the middle of nowhere and things went to hell. We’re still trying to find out exactly what happened, but our guys got killed so it’s going to take a while to get the answers. But once we knew there was an issue, we moved heaven and earth to help them. We don’t, by the way, wake the President up every time there’s a fire fight anywhere in the world. But then again, he wasn’t heading to Vegas to fundraise, so we would have told him if it was warranted.
Question: Given the controversy about his call of condolence to the widow, isn’t this just emblematic of President Trump’s disparaging of the military?
Answer: Gunnery Sergeant: go do knife hands on that idiot.
That’s all I can stomach from you twits. If you have any real questions, give them to the Lance Corporal here, and she’ll kick your butt for me.
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Thank you, General Dunford. You’re a better man than I.
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Minnesotans obsess about the end of Winter. It’s not yet upon us in this moment, but our survival mechanism has kicked in and we’re already planning for Spring. It’s the only way you get through 5-6 months of freezing weather, icy sidewalks, frozen skin, and a lack of sunlight. Part of that obsession, in my case, is planning a garden.
Last year I had accumulated a bunch of gift cards for Amazon. I used them to buy seeds. Lots of seeds. (And Cliff bars…) I thought about how to lay out the garden, where it would go, and how to tend it. It filled many a frozen hour.
Come Spring, I had a couple of yards of garden soil trucked in, spread it on a vacant lot next to my house (the city didn’t seem to care if it was mowed or shoveled, I figured they wouldn’t object to a garden) and it was close to my garden hose. We had some warm days in April and I put in the seeds very early.
Now, months later, I’m on the second planting. I have harvested corn, watermelons, beets, zucchini, onions, and dill. Soon I will harvest sweet potatoes and the last of the zucchini. Most of all, I have harvested about a forty pounds of carrots, carefully shredded and stored to make carrot cake for the homeless meals.
God, can you explain to me why you let me do this? I have so much food that I’m dehydrating, freezing, and giving away at a furious pace. I haul zucchini in my backpack to the food shelf nearby. I have enough shredded carrots to make carrot cake for 150 and will soon have zucchini in an equal amount to make zucchini cake and muffins for a second gigantic Good Neighbor Meal.
I also have jars of vegetable chips I made in the dehydrator. Oh, how I love that wonderful machine from Cabelas. (Its making dehydrated cinnamon apple strips right now.)
Did I mention Rhubarb? Yeah, I have about 100 times as much of that as I can use as well.
Is this a message? Yes – I am blessed. I am able to kill off my stress and grow great things to eat. Not much better than a carrot fresh from the earth.
But next year, God, can you at least send someone to help with the weeding?
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I was going to write a blog last week that criticized several major figures in the news. I was going to make it completely generic, and then at the very end point out that those of you who agreed with me just didn’t like the people involved and were ignorant of their actual positions. I never got the shot – real life events are even stranger.
Yesterday the internet’s sewer, social media, lit up with a Social Justice Warrior bashing of Dove soap. There was a gif posted that was condemned as racist. In the gif, a black woman took her shirt off over her head and transformed to a white woman. Oooohhhh – black people are dirty and Dove is evil. Memes abounded, minds were lost, Dove apologized.
Except… well, there was a third panel to the gif where a “woman of color” emerged when the white woman peeled her shirt off over her head. Yeah. I guess the message might have been “We’re all the same underneath, but the skin on top sure could use some Dove to get it clean.” That never happened, because someone edited the gif and destroyed Dove before noon.
The saddest part is that the minute I saw the crap-storm, I knew it was a fake. How? Because it was too obvious. Major corporations almost never attempt to destroy their brand that way- except the NFL. They seem hell-bent on driving away the fans. But Dove got screwed by the lunatic left.
Why is that sad? Because all sorts of otherwise thoughtful people I know hopped on the wagon and started throwing moldy turnips. There was no pause for thought, no questioning the hate they had been fed. In some cases it was clear that because their black friend had posted the screed, the white person had to be more outraged or be adjudged racist. Really? Wow. If not going nuts and jumping right in over a controversy dooms you to being a racist, just get me a hood. Some of you have decided that I must wear one when nobody is looking anyway, and it’s getting cold out. My head could use the warmth.
Back to the real world. Don’t believe everything you see on Facebook. Whether it’s Alex Jones and Infowars, or Black Lives Matter, they (everyone repeat after me) all have a product to sell, and want your money. I think I’ve said that about 10 times on this blog over the past few years. Every extreme position wants you to fund them. Period.
So, back to the original post – it’s just too choice not to post it after working up all the people above. (Yeah, I lose readers everytime I spout the truth. The truth, that is, that most of what you see on the internet is absolute crap.)
A whole bunch of the same people lost their minds when President Trump took action on DACA. If you’d like to learn a bit, and perhaps expand your horizons, read on. If you prefer to spew leftist talking points and sound bites, pretending that they are rational, adult views, you can return to your on-line copy of The Nation and use that new cover as a dartboard.
DACA, as the link above stated, was a decision by the Obama administration to not prosecute illegal aliens. Mind you, they were smallish illegal aliens, but none-the-less they were not born here, and therefore not entitled to be here without going through the immigration process. Because calling it the “We’re not going to enforce the law and let this bunch of future voters slide decision” would be a mouthful, and all-too-truthful, the marketing whizzes at the Democrat party called it the Dreamers Act. Now, in the United States, acts are usually by Congress and known as laws. By mislabeling this thing (*not officially, but in all the public statements*) it made it sound like all of these little children (some of whom were 31 at the time of this decision – that’s a mighty big kid in my opinion…) were merely being protected from the evil government, and all would grow up to be doctors, lawyers (we have enough of that group), and nuclear rocket surgeons. Never was it mentioned that a “dreamer” might be a seriously underpaid indentured servant, a janitor, a painter, a roofer, a sales clerk… nope, all were future stars of society.
This clearly was unconstitutional. The President has prosecutorial discretion, but to take on an entire class of people breaking the law (yes, if you slip across the border, you are illegal) and use this as a replacement for the legally mandated immigration process, is clearly a violation. He (Obama) flaunted the law after repeatedly promising not to do what he actually did with this decision. Here’s his position before running for President:
So what, exactly, did Satan… I mean President Trump (Sorry, I was listening to NPR a while ago and it must have “earwigged” me) do that was so terrible? He said that this unconstitutional circumvention of legal process regarding immigration was going to be curtailed regarding enrollment immediately, and ended completely in six months with all prosecutorial items on the table once again. Further, he advised that during the next six months, the collection of lying and self-important idiots (my opinion, not NPR) that constitutes Congress, had best do their danged jobs and pass some kind of immigration reform that he would actually sign. If they want to preserve the status of any small kids dragged here against their will, he would consider it, but they (the lying/selfish/puffed-up idiots in Congress) had to actually pass a bill and send it to him.
Holy Crap! He’s asking the governmental process to do what it should… He is not just taking unilateral action to circumvent the law – unlike his predecessor.
Here’s the deal: he’s trying to uphold the law. Now, you might not like the law, but what he’s doing is the right thing. If you fault him for not “just fixing it” on this item, you must then accept his unilateral action on other things that you like even less. That’s the beauty of our system: it has checks and balances. He cannot/should not just make things happen when they belong to the legislative process. Obama did that frequently, and the wimps in Congress didn’t have enough spine to fight it. He (President Trump) is more-or-less double-dog-daring Congress to do their jobs and uphold the rule of law.
Me? I like the rule of law. One set of rules for everyone. This enforcement of federal immigration law does not deport any children born in the United States. But it does present a dilemma to their families – do we abandon the child and leave because we’re here illegally, or do we take them along. This is a situation completely of their own doing. Nobody forced them over the border at gunpoint and made them give birth here in the United States. Sound harsh? I don’t think so. You see, we have been tacitly rewarding people for breaking our laws by not enforcing them. They are now going to be enforced. It is up to the Congress to decide what law will be enforced six months from now when President Trump’s decision takes effect.
You see, all he is doing is upholding the law and not acting like an authoritarian. Isn’t that what you wanted?
Oh, and before you unfollow me, or send me nasty comments/emails, I’d like to remind you that the nation without laws is no nation at all – it is a hopeless cause. I want the laws enforced fairly for all. This being said, I will miss you as a reader if you go. But if you are intellectually honest, President Trump is not the problem here, he’s merely trying to get the system back on track. Don’t believe me? Listen to his opponents:
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Last week I was in Dallas. I taught a couple of classes on police work and weapons. The last 24 hours have been nothing but weapons and police on television and the internet.
My congratulations to all of the writers who attended my classes at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference. Each and every one of you clearly know more than the mainstream media about weaponry and how the police work by virtue of those two classes. That strikes me as very sad.
I am reserving my input on the Las Vegas attack, as it proves nothing except I know what to look for, and it would inflame some people. But there will be some facts coming out that will make the media jackals really look bad. One pundit has said (and I’ll mangle the quote to be sure) “For the first 72 hours, you’re better off getting your information from the crazy lady that talks to the statues in the park instead of the media.” I think he’s correct.
But for the love of all that is sanity, the media needs to take a deep breath, call on people that actually have fired a weapon as consultants, who understand the gun laws, and how difficult it is to obtain an actual machine gun, and knock off the politicization of every incident involving a gun.
If any members of the media are reading this post, please feel free to contact me for an interview. I’d love to help you get the story straight. My rates are surprisingly low, and I’m good on camera.
In the meantime, ain’t nobody got it right from what I’ve seen. Including some retired police officials who are “consultants” to the major networks.
It’s truly sad just how poorly our news is researched and reported.
As to Las Vegas, I mourn for the families of the fallen.
