Boys

Snakes and snails and puppy dog tails.  You won’t find a boy willing to sit and watch Steel Magnolias or Beaches with a handkerchief into which to cry and emote, but give him Star Wars and he will wear out the tape, and afterward run through the house with the broom going “koosh, koosh, vvvv, vvvv,” like it was a light sabre. And if he comes to sit with dad to watch Dirty Dozen or The Big Red One, expect him to enlist out of high school.

Boys are wired to fight to win.  And it’s not just a fight to destroy.  Its the fight, the struggle, to climb the mountain all said could not be climbed, to sail into the empty that all said held nothing but sea dragons, to fight the temptation of the desire of the Ring so all can live in peace again.

So a second grade boy points a pencil at a classmate. Two day suspension for violence in the school.  Gack.

I tell you, if these liberals keep on keeping on trying to force little boys into being little girls, you’re going to end up with a lot more people who end up like the Newtown school shooter instead of the next big athlete or war hero.  No wonder why our women are flocking to the bad boy Chechen Terrorist, or like this example, the convicted felon.  They need to find testosterone somewhere.

Mayor

One of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns had one of his police officers go procure him a 20 year old male, who he then fed alcohol and tried to get to let him have sex with him.  When the guy refused his advances, the mayor shot his gun into a stack of paperwork to scare him into sex. (Am I in the United States or the heyday of Classical Greece?)

This is not the only Mayor Against Illegal Guns who cannot own his own, so he gets a political office where he can use the policemen who you pay for to be his guns for him, then uses these hired guns to help him enjoy his evil games.  Here is an article that says, “We discovered,” he continued, “one mayor convicted of perjury and embezzlement, another who was convicted of attempted child molestation, and yet another who was convicted of assault and racketeering. There was one who was convicted on bribery, fraud and money laundering, and another who was convicted of domestic violence.”

But YOU can’t be trusted with your guns.

Banish

Whenever a leftist says he wants something, remember what he says he wants has nothing to do with what he truly wants.  He will go into a bakery asking about the torte cakes but really be in there to buy doughnuts.

The push for sodomite marriage to be recognized has nothing to do with fairness, or equality, or compassion.  It is to crush those who disagree, in the name of tolerance.

So now two students want to have their college fire the chaplain (a Catholic priest) who offended them by saying this lifestyle is immoral.  Since he rejects homosexuality and their perverted relationship, they feel alienated and his firing will make them feel better.

Pope

It’s been hilarious to watch all the interest in the papal election, especially from the non-Catholics and sophisticated urban atheist secular humanists.  CNN had a smoke-cam in the corner of their broadcast, so viewers could instantly see the results of the vote.  NPR had continuous coverage, and hearing crotchety old New York liberals like Terry Gross and Diane Rheems talk about the conclave, and getting things so wrong, made me laugh so hard that my sides hurt.  It’s like me going to a tiki bar in the suburbs of Chicago, then doing a story on authentic Polynesian Tiki culture.

First, they were telling us off all the front runners, and how one of them was sure to be pope.  Then when someone on no one’s radar was chosen, they instantly were telling us everything we’d need to know about him.  Since he was Hispanic and a Jesuit, they were all over his greatness, and the hope that the Church would change its core beliefs.

Then they quit talking out of their collective ass and really did their homework, and as sure as sunrise, the next day out came the hatchets on this beast who’s not in favor of women priests, gay marriage, communism, and casual divorce.

This was the first papal election since I got back to being active as a Catholic again, instead of being the dormant, cultural Catholic, and I wasn’t as into the thing as these people.

My take is wait and see.  As soon as I heard he was a Jesuit, I thought “we’re boned.”  If you don’t know what a Jesuit is, think Nancy Pelosi, Michael Moore, etc.  Unlike Ann Barnhardt, I’ll wait for him to do something outrageous before I go crying over his election.  I was actually pulling for the African, for no reason but to stick a thumb in the eye of the West.  At first they’d have a collective orgasm over having a colored guy from colonial Africa sitting in the high chair in Rome, sticking it to the Man.  Then when they’d come out of the afterglow and find out that many African Christians are to the right of the John Birch society, they’d die of spontaneous combustion.  Africans have their idea of decent society, high punishment against deviants, and will not brook lectures from their former white masters in Europe.  Then again, seeing cardinal Tong-Hon as pope would be a good bulwalk against the Red Chinese, with the hopes of some of the magic pixie dust of what happened to communist Europe under John Paul’s time in office would work in the last big red holdouts.

But unlike the press, I’ll say “damn, what do I know” and hope for the best.

Dillinger, Again

The press is soft-pedaling this story, since it goes totally against the grain of their narratives.  Every single one of them.  Enough for another post.  But Vox Popoli explains that it isn’t the Hyperbolic Chamber in isolation who’s in a way pulling for The Dude to last, to endure, to make total monkeys out of the elite force of the new Second City.  Vox senses a general mood, and says,

I noticed how much things had changed when I started hearing conservative white business executives in their sixties talking about the police in a manner all but indistinguishable from NWA. Something is wrong, something is deeply and structurally wrong, when the mere fact of being involved in the law enforcement system at any level is enough to engender contempt in the eyes of those who are upstanding, law-abiding citizens.

I come from a county whose sitting sheriff went into Witness Protection, and whose Chief of Police went to prison for the murder of a man turning evidence of rampant corruption over to the US Attorney.  The city of Gary regularly has its cops doing the perp walk for corrupt acts such as keeping rival drug lords off the corners of the drug lords with whom they’re in the bag.  We just had a county mountie arrested last week for the usual bullshit.  You know what I call a clean cop?  Cadet.

I read The Dude’s “manifesto.”  It is not a jumble of madman rantings; actually, it’s quite erudite and lucent.  I’d like to know if it’s true, the list of allegations.  If so, I can’t officially and publicly condone his actions for legal reasons, so I don’t, but I can surely see from where he comes.  Dude fails to cover for a bad cop, he in turn gets written up while she gets off free, his bad counsel ruins his career, while he sees the corrupt prosper.

People in the 1930′s who had their savings wiped out in the banking tomfoolery leading up to the Depression felt no compassion for the banksters getting in the gut what they got from the banks in financial ruin.

In the meantime, here’s what a police riot looks like:

two women had a truck whose make and color did not match the ex-cop’s, but the po-po shot it up any fricking way.  The Torrance P.D. likewise shot up a truck of their own.  Like Jimmy Durante used to say, “Everybody’s got to get into the act.”  When it’s time to defend their families, they lock and load and will shoot anything that moves with true assault weapons on full automatic.  When it’s time for you to defend your family, they crow for gun control.  You do this and you’re branded a whack job nut case off his meds who blogged too much, and they will seek the death penalty if they don’t kill you at the scene first.  They do this and it’s Standard Operating Procedure.  Dude knew there would be a police riot, and such things would necessarily happen.  Shame for the women who were shot in the hand and back, respectfully, but I’m sure The Dude knew this would go down, and that his former co-workers would out themselves as out of control nutters once they were at danger, and not the in control pros they like to front to the public.

A lot of folk think it’s the Armed Forces that would end democracy and provide the muscle for a potential dictator.  The high command will split, but the lower ranks and enlisted men won’t go for it.  I always expected Law Enforcement to be the bully to do this, and now we see what little regard they have for the general population as they stomp all over them in search of The Dude.  He advocates gun control, but he proves how LE needs to be disarmed before anyone else.  After all, the British Bobbies, the first police force, was only allowed to form once it was agreed that they would be unarmed, and thus unable to become a domestic army.  It’s hard to be an asshole with a badge when everyone around you outarms you.  THAT’S the true origin of their unarmed police, not some idea of a more gentlemanly culture where armed police weren’t needed.

The Dude abides.  And as long as he does so , I’ll be watching to see who nods his head or even fist pumps in the appliance store as the news covers his continued abiding.

Forum

When words such as these come from not only people who look like your older relatives and next door neighbors, but who are your older relatives and next door neighbors, people with plenty of skin in the game who nonetheless are fed up, not some idealistic college kid in love with a movement until it gets in his way, then you got something to fear.

I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto

Altamont

I first heard about the free Rolling Stones concert at Altamont eons ago.  It was the infamous concert, the one where the Stones seriously messed up by hiring Hells Angels for security guards, and the Angels stayed close to script and did what they are famous for doing; going ape on people for no good reason, and eventually stabbing a guy in Altamont, to paraphrase Folsom Prison Blues, just to watch him die.  It was an example of the Stones’ failed effort to butch up and keep being the bad boy alternate to the Beatles.  It was the day the 60′s never ending Summer of Love died.

Then I recently thought about this evil concert after Gimme Shelter was on the radio, and searched the Internet for any video of the concert, and lookie here, everything is online anymore:

It even comes with a detailed run-through of the whole thing.

As with anything entertainment industry related, the whole story is FUBAR from beginning to end.  The soon to be dead man pulled out a long barreled pistol, after allegedly trying to rush the stage.  No wonder you had a critical mass of Angels there already.  They didn’t just bunch up at that end of the stage for the hell of it.  Who brings a pistol into a concert?  You got one in the car so you don’t get carjacked in the lot afterward, understandable.

So naturally, a member of the security detail whipped out a long bladed knife and made quick work of the guy.  Three stabs and he was most assuredly dead.  The stupid girlfriend is crying how she wants to be with him, and his body is cooling to room temperature under the wrap of the coroner as she speaks.  The guy never got off a shot, the band was protected, as the Angels were hired to do, and continued to perform.  The crowd was safe.

The Angels did the job they were hired to do.  Period.  They quickly identified and pacified a deadly threat to the band, the attendees, and the security staff.  Mick Jagger is probably alive due to the quick action by these guys.  You know what were tragedies? The 100+ burned to death in a nightclub during a Great White concert, and the crushing of others at concerts too numerous to mention.

It just goes to show:  only a Hells Angel can take a knife to a gunfight, and win.

Beating

This got me riled tonight.  If a harridan does all she can to badger a man until he finally gives, and he gives her a whack, he’s toast.  If she lays into him, “you go girl.”  Good for her.  Let him have it.  A 4’10″ woman can handle a bottle or knife as well as a 5’10″ man.  Lay it to her, and she’s not seen lesser for it; in fact, as a victim she’s felt sorry for and sympathized with, and gets plenty of love.  Him?  He loses all ground in the viewer’s eyes.  If he wants to be the gentleman and not hit back as she’s wailing at him, he still loses.  Grab her wrists and push her away to make it stop, and you’re the one going to jail for domestic violence and watching your permit to carry get voided.  I’m not for the abuse of women, or for their abuse of us; it would be nice to see other women get involved and back a man who’s being ripped by a woman, the way men have an instinctive drive to ride his white steed to the defense of the injured woman.  That way, the woman’s desire to do harm to the guy would be tempered so he doesn’t have to bear it, the same way a guy thinks twice about giving a problem woman a taste of her medicine, since he doesn’t want to deal with the legal and social ramifications.  It would be rather nice to see women rally to the man’s defense like that, but alas the world has its own opinion on this.

Crap like this makes a confirmed bachelor out of me.  I’m as straight as the man who’s been married and divorced three times who’s not even allowed to see his children but on every other weekend.  I just don’t want to deal with the crap.  The older I get, the more I think ole Shawty Lo has the right idea:

Put the babies out there, make no commitment, and the women revere you.  Get married before God, and she kicks you out to be the modern equivalent of her field n***er, go to work and make sure the payments come in, forget the receipts to make sure the money goes where it’s supposed to; after all, the new boyfriend needs a good lawyer to stay out of jail.

Heat

Currently in Australia, they added two new colors to the weather map to show how hot the temperatures have gotten.  Black was not enough.  Now there’s purple and pink, to reflect temperatures over 50 and 54 degrees.  Celsius.  Since 100 Celsius is 212 Fahrenheit, 50 Celsius is obviously 106 Fahrenheit.

Update:  I should’ve used the formulae that I was taught in high school sophomore Physical Science class:

Fahrenheit to Celsius

Celsius to Fahrenheit

The correct conversion is 50C = 122F.  Thank you Joe.

Australia Heat Map 2013

Angels

No one wants to speak of the worst school mass killing in the United States; the 1958 Our Lady of the Angels grade school fire, started by a 10 year old arsonist.  95 dead.

OLA Dead