Saturday, November 27, 2010
BCS delenda est
The BCS must die. I want to know how in the fuck Wisconsin could go to the Rose Bowl rather than Michigan State when Michigan State beat Wisconsin head to head. Yes, I know I'm ignoring that other school. It's a matter of principle. Wisconsin cannot have a higher placement than any other team which has beaten them.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thanksgiving
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a fact I'm sure everyone is aware of. I will be having a family dinner and enjoying the day all the while remembering those who cannot be with their families.
Take a moment and be thankful for our troops who are in harm's way and away from family.
Take a moment and be thankful for our troops who are in harm's way and away from family.
NEW
It's no big secret that I'm a huge Brigid fan so it should come as no big surprise that as soon as I found out she was now a co-author at Confederate Yankee, I put a link in the blog roll.
She's going to keep writing at Mausers and Muffins, but the bulk of her gun-type thoughts will be on the other site.
She's going to keep writing at Mausers and Muffins, but the bulk of her gun-type thoughts will be on the other site.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
TSA
Obviously, the full body scans and the gubmint sanctioned groping of citizens has been all over the news. I'm right there with most everyone else when I say that I disagree with the way this "security" is being handled.
Enhanced pat down? Hell no, if anyone else did it, it would be a sexual assault. You think that's an exaggeration? Go to your local bar this weekend and try giving one to one of the other patrons.
Yes, I do think TSA is out of control. For that matter, I think most of the government is out of control. This "Department of Homeland Security" is little more than the clowns running the circus. They can't do the job either from behind a desk or by being so afraid that they might offend someone that they do almost nothing. Sadly, when they do actually do something, it's not well thought out and they wind up offending everyone.
So, what do we do? Well, I have heard of a group organizing a national opt-out day for the day before Thanksgiving. The idea being that everyone who flies should opt-out of the full body scanner and submit to the grope. The idea being that if everyone does this, it slows the system down to a slow crawl and demonstrates how terrible the idea of the body scanners is. Nice thought, I doubt the sheeple will go for it, but it's a nice thought. I have, what is in my opinion, an even better thought.
Let's have a National No Fly day. We have a very public announcement that due to the obscenity that TSA has become, we're just not going to fly. By doing this, we have the potential to cost the airlines an awful lot of money. Because we have been careful to firmly state that the reason we're not flying is the TSA and that this is a protest over both the full body scanners and the grope check if one opts out, the airline industry as a whole comes against the TSA.
Why would it work? Because the airlines are very important to the economy and they can't afford to lose millions of dollars a day because people have stopped flying in protest of the TSA going a lot too far. They'd scream bloody murder and the government would be forced to make changes so that people would fly again.
I am fully aware that this is all a dream that will never come to fruition because the American people are far too selfish. They're all in a hurry to do whatever it is they're doing and can't be bothered to re-plan their travel to an alternate method. They have to get there fast. As long as that remains the prevailing attitude in America, then the sheeple will continue to submit to the sexual assaults of the TSA. The rest of us should stop flying.
Enhanced pat down? Hell no, if anyone else did it, it would be a sexual assault. You think that's an exaggeration? Go to your local bar this weekend and try giving one to one of the other patrons.
Yes, I do think TSA is out of control. For that matter, I think most of the government is out of control. This "Department of Homeland Security" is little more than the clowns running the circus. They can't do the job either from behind a desk or by being so afraid that they might offend someone that they do almost nothing. Sadly, when they do actually do something, it's not well thought out and they wind up offending everyone.
So, what do we do? Well, I have heard of a group organizing a national opt-out day for the day before Thanksgiving. The idea being that everyone who flies should opt-out of the full body scanner and submit to the grope. The idea being that if everyone does this, it slows the system down to a slow crawl and demonstrates how terrible the idea of the body scanners is. Nice thought, I doubt the sheeple will go for it, but it's a nice thought. I have, what is in my opinion, an even better thought.
Let's have a National No Fly day. We have a very public announcement that due to the obscenity that TSA has become, we're just not going to fly. By doing this, we have the potential to cost the airlines an awful lot of money. Because we have been careful to firmly state that the reason we're not flying is the TSA and that this is a protest over both the full body scanners and the grope check if one opts out, the airline industry as a whole comes against the TSA.
Why would it work? Because the airlines are very important to the economy and they can't afford to lose millions of dollars a day because people have stopped flying in protest of the TSA going a lot too far. They'd scream bloody murder and the government would be forced to make changes so that people would fly again.
I am fully aware that this is all a dream that will never come to fruition because the American people are far too selfish. They're all in a hurry to do whatever it is they're doing and can't be bothered to re-plan their travel to an alternate method. They have to get there fast. As long as that remains the prevailing attitude in America, then the sheeple will continue to submit to the sexual assaults of the TSA. The rest of us should stop flying.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Still Alive
Just in case you miss me, I'm still alive. I'm just dealing with some minor but annoying issues here at Warthog Control.
I'll try to find a good rant or 2 soon.
I'll try to find a good rant or 2 soon.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Friday Humor
I am appalled at all my friends who are so opposed to the mosque near ground zero.
To show our tolerance, we should let them build.
Then right across the street, someone should put a topless bar, called You Mecca Me Hot.
Next to that should be a gay bar, The Turban Cowboy.
And next door to the mosque should be a pork rib restaurant, maybe Iraq o’ Ribs?
Then the Muslims could be allowed to show their tolerance.
Problem solved
Friday, September 17, 2010
Constitution Day
Today is Constitution Day...I frankly think every day is, but today is special so, as a celebration, GO READ IT!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Fear
"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us and our lives slip away, moment by moment. Lost in that vast terrible in between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment." Emperor Turhan - Babylon 5
Every now and again, I sneak a Babylon 5 quote into the mix here. Please take a moment to contemplate this one. I believe you'll find that, while it was written by Joe Straczynski back in the 90's, that it burns very true today.
The questions that I have been contemplating lately are these:
What does our future now hold? Has too much damage already been done to the Republic? Do the citizens of this nation even have the stomach to do what must be done in order to save what's left?
The forces of evil have been working on us for decades. This is not something that started with Carter or Clinton or Bush Jr. or Obama, this has been brewing for decades. Slow gradual creeping of government into our lives, the slow erosion of the Constitution, the step by step process that made "political correctness" mainstream, schools slowly teaching children not to think for themselves and/or that any hint of imagination or true creativity must be ADD and therefore treated with drugs to suppress it.
James Madison said it best:
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
Here is one of the things I fear:
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
I know, I'm throwing a lot of quotes in here but wiser men have said it better than I ever could. Something else that frightens me these days is that some of these wiser men said it almost 300 years ago and we seem to have forgotten the message. Here's yet another message from the past that we have forgotten:
"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
True, the rot within may have started with a combination of greedy government and inattentive sheeple but the rot is there and it runs deep. It has infected almost every aspect of our great Republic and there will be no easy fix. In fact, I begin to wonder if it can be fixed. Could it be that we have let this rot creep for far too long?
Yes, there have been calls for change but change to what?
OK, just for discussion, let's say that the final line gets crossed and a civil war starts. Because this is purely hypothetical, let's say that those who would see the government restored to it's original power under the Constitution win. Now what? The government is restored to original specifications. The people are back in control as they are supposed to be. What exactly did we fix?
On the other hand, can we fix this through a thoroughly corrupt system that panders to political survival and world opinion rather than the good of our Republic?
We need to have more people employed but how do we do that? We need to rebuild our manufacturing base so we can produce more goods that people want and need but can we do that with a populace that has been educated away from original thought?
It's easy to carry a soap box to the corner of Main and Center and hop on it to call for dismantling the system but it's gonna be a hell of a lot harder to rebuild that which has been lost. I hope you're not going to look to me for an answer because, like many of you, all I have are questions and fears.
What is our nation becoming and why have we let it happen? What will happen to us? How can we fix it? Plenty of questions and no answers. So how exactly do we seize that "one last fragile moment"? I don't have answers for all of it but the couple of things I do know is that "We the People" had better wake up and start paying attention and that we need to be much better educated about what these folks running for office really stand for. There's a hell of a lot more to be done, but this is a start. This and to remember, the government can't do it all for you, at some point, you will have to get up off your couch and get involved yourself.
Every now and again, I sneak a Babylon 5 quote into the mix here. Please take a moment to contemplate this one. I believe you'll find that, while it was written by Joe Straczynski back in the 90's, that it burns very true today.
The questions that I have been contemplating lately are these:
What does our future now hold? Has too much damage already been done to the Republic? Do the citizens of this nation even have the stomach to do what must be done in order to save what's left?
The forces of evil have been working on us for decades. This is not something that started with Carter or Clinton or Bush Jr. or Obama, this has been brewing for decades. Slow gradual creeping of government into our lives, the slow erosion of the Constitution, the step by step process that made "political correctness" mainstream, schools slowly teaching children not to think for themselves and/or that any hint of imagination or true creativity must be ADD and therefore treated with drugs to suppress it.
James Madison said it best:
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
Here is one of the things I fear:
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
I know, I'm throwing a lot of quotes in here but wiser men have said it better than I ever could. Something else that frightens me these days is that some of these wiser men said it almost 300 years ago and we seem to have forgotten the message. Here's yet another message from the past that we have forgotten:
"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
True, the rot within may have started with a combination of greedy government and inattentive sheeple but the rot is there and it runs deep. It has infected almost every aspect of our great Republic and there will be no easy fix. In fact, I begin to wonder if it can be fixed. Could it be that we have let this rot creep for far too long?
Yes, there have been calls for change but change to what?
OK, just for discussion, let's say that the final line gets crossed and a civil war starts. Because this is purely hypothetical, let's say that those who would see the government restored to it's original power under the Constitution win. Now what? The government is restored to original specifications. The people are back in control as they are supposed to be. What exactly did we fix?
On the other hand, can we fix this through a thoroughly corrupt system that panders to political survival and world opinion rather than the good of our Republic?
We need to have more people employed but how do we do that? We need to rebuild our manufacturing base so we can produce more goods that people want and need but can we do that with a populace that has been educated away from original thought?
It's easy to carry a soap box to the corner of Main and Center and hop on it to call for dismantling the system but it's gonna be a hell of a lot harder to rebuild that which has been lost. I hope you're not going to look to me for an answer because, like many of you, all I have are questions and fears.
What is our nation becoming and why have we let it happen? What will happen to us? How can we fix it? Plenty of questions and no answers. So how exactly do we seize that "one last fragile moment"? I don't have answers for all of it but the couple of things I do know is that "We the People" had better wake up and start paying attention and that we need to be much better educated about what these folks running for office really stand for. There's a hell of a lot more to be done, but this is a start. This and to remember, the government can't do it all for you, at some point, you will have to get up off your couch and get involved yourself.
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