Groaners…

1. There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and asshole’s.

2. The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in college was my blood alcohol content.

3. I live in my own little world but it’s OK, everyone knows me here.

4. I saw a rather large woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said, “Thyroid problem?”

5. I don’t do drugs ’cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.

6. A sign In a Chinese Pet Store: “Buy one dog, get one flea.”

7. Money can’t buy happiness but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

8. I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.

9. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the “terminal”?

10. I don’t approve of political jokes. I’ve seen too many of them get elected.

11. The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.

12. If life deals you lemons, make lemonade. If life deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Mary’s.

13. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

14. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for a buck at bowling alleys.

15. I am a nobody; nobody is perfect, and therefore I am perfect.

16. Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

17. That Claudia Schiffer must be a genius because I told a friend my plan  to attain world peace, and he told me I have “Schiffer Brains.”

18. No one ever says, “It’s only a game!” when their team is winning.

19. Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling well?

20. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on.

21. Isn’t having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

22. Marriage changes passion… suddenly you’re in bed with a relative.

23. Why is it that most nudists are people you don’t want to see naked?

24. Snowmen fall from Heaven un-assembled.

25. Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom ‘s wise words:

“Don’t pick that up, you don’t know where it’s been.”

h/t Gerry (in other words, DON’T blame me, I just pass em along on recycled electrons…)

That military retiree pay cut???

Yeah, the congresscritters said they’d get right on that…

Sure, sure…

It’s another one that has ‘dropped off the radar’…

The only thing I’ve seen since the 27th is THIS drivel from NRO…

And the true fact is military personnel costs are STILL less than what they were in 1990 (25% in 2013 according to MOAA).

This letter is circulating on the mil-email net, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this comes to pass.  It does pretty much say what most of us feel the critters DO think about us…

Dear Service Member,

Your voice doesn’t matter to me. Your service doesn’t matter to me. The promise made with your oath doesn’t matter to me. You don’t matter.

You are expendable.

Your physical and mental wounds of war do not matter. Your marriages lost, do not matter. Your childhoods missed, do not matter.

You cannot organize and protest so your voices will remain small. You cannot lobby and pull favors so there is nothing you can give to make me see your way.

This nation is tired of you. Tired of the decade of war that they don’t understand and that we decided for you.

You are subpar. You are below. You are the easiest cut.

To take away twenty percent of a retirement that you have worked and bled for and entered into your service (and retired from) being promised, is easier than giving up my own full pension that I receive after serving just a day in my seat. My work matters more than yours. It is my job to demand where you go, when you leave, if your life will be put on the line each day. That is such difficult work. To decide to send fathers and sons, mothers and daughters to a war zone is far more trying than to actually live through war.

To have to decide to reduce the Cost-of-Living-Allowance of a Soldier who has lost his limbs because I am too scared and too selfish to rethink the corruption and abuse existing in every single entitlement program in this nation, well … surely that must be as difficult as having a propelled grenade blow off my lower extremities, if not more. I’ve earned my full pension. I’ve earned my full pension by deciding what we take from you. I’ve earned my full pension by sending you into two wars, by sending you on that mission, by putting you in the place of that explosion. Voting for that was worthy of my benefits, following that order was not worthy of yours.

I’ve earned my money.

It’s hard work. Hard choices. I’ve earned my four-week paid vacation while you prepare for your fourth twelve-month tour. Legislating is tiring work.

Your one percent vote won’t pull me from this seat. Your one percent vote won’t change my mind. Because you are expendable and the easiest section to take from. It’s simple politics.

You have chosen to take an oath and to follow a code that restricts you from speaking against me. Even with that, you are the quality of people that it is easy to take advantage of. You give beyond self. You serve in a way that most people cannot fathom. It’s easiest to take from that selflessness. Your voice does not matter. The promise I made to you – any promise I make to you – is nothing more than words that sound good, that will rally anyone belonging to the ninety-nine percent that does matter. My promises hold as much value as I hold for you.

None.

You cannot refuse to show up for work tomorrow while you picket outside the building, the FOB, the secret location in the mountains of Afghanistan. You cannot negotiate and demand and hold up this nation’s current war while we try to see eye to eye.

You don’t matter. We don’t care. “Embrace the suck” and get back to work.

Sincerely,

The United States Congress

h/t JP, Frito, Snake and others…

Edit- Email from Flake-

Congress is debating a 3 month unemployment extension for $6 billion. Isn’t that the same cost as the “savings” over 10 years for the military retiree COLA reductions. What a shame that we are looking to move 10 years worth of earned benefits, from people who have sacrificed, who we had a commitment to and dump that same amount on people who are not working?  WTF???

What are the Fibbies up to???

Interesting little piece of info…

FBIIt’s enough to make one wonder…

The FBI’s creeping advance into the world of counterterrorism is nothing new. But quietly and without notice, the agency has finally decided to make it official in one of its organizational fact sheets. Instead of declaring “law enforcement” as its “primary function,” as it has for years, the FBI fact sheet now lists “national security” as its chief mission.

Full article HERE at Foreign Policy. com…

So if the FBI is getting out of the law enforcement business, who’s going to step in??? Brownshirts???

Free Cheese…

In a nutshell…

Class war/wealth distribution at its best.

The folks who are getting the free stuff don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

And the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.

And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more Free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now… The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So… The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the Free stuff.

Now understand this.

All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded.

The reason?

The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 236 1788. 225 (Thanks Angus) years.years ago.

The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff (Remember the 47% Romney talked about? People are now saying it’s 51%).

Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

So it’s literally do or die for America… 2014 is our LAST chance to reverse the trends…

Another slap down to Chicago…

U.S. District Court Strikes Down Chicago’s Unconstitutional Ban on Firearms Sales

Upholds Second Amendment Rights

Today, Judge Edmond E. Chang of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, ruled that the City of Chicago’s ordinance banning virtually all sales and transfers of firearms inside city limits violates the Second Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. In his ruling, Judge Chang noted the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” includes the right to acquire firearms.

As the court stated, “Chicago’s ordinance goes too far in outright banning legal buyers and legal dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions and lawful sales of firearms, and at the same time the evidence does not support that the complete ban sufficiently furthers the purposes that the ordinance tries to serve [protecting its citizens].”

The case was brought against the City of Chicago and Mayor Rahm Emanuel by the Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers; Kenneth Pacholski; Kathryn Tyler; and Michael Hall, with the strong support of the National Rifle Association.

“Today’s ruling is a vindication of the constitutional freedoms of Chicago’s law-abiding citizens,” said Chris W. Cox, Executive Director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. “Chicago’s continued refusal to follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s clear directive in its landmark ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago is unacceptable, and the NRA will continue to challenge the City until it fully respects the right of its law-abiding residents to keep and bear arms.”

Gotta love it when an Obama appointed judge says this… 🙂

It’s COLD out there…

So much for ‘globull warming’…

From 5 Jan from the ISS.

3 Jan cold snap from ISSAnd I hear the eco-nazis are complaining about the carbon footprints of the ice breakers down in Antarctica and are ‘demanding’ trees be planted to offset them…

Sigh…

 

Back in Battery…

I’m ‘really’ beginning beginning to get tired of folks that “overshare”…

Coming back last night on the airplane, the 30something behind us was sharing her life/frustrations/hopes/dreams damn near everything but her bowel movement, periods and sexual proclivities with her seatmate, and everybody within two rows…

dear karma

My seatmate was a Texas lady in her 50s and she was rolling her eyes for most of the flight, in addition to a couple of the little bottles of wine to drown out the spew from the seat behind us…

When we finally got into Dulles and to the gate, as we were unloading, the nice lady next to me ‘unloaded’ on the 30something with words to the effect of, “Honey, if you shared a little less and didn’t spread it, or anything else as wide as you have tonight, you just might have better luck in life.”  All delivered in a honeyed Texas twang…

I damn near pissed my pants trying to keep from laughing…

And Aaron has the monthly gun giveaways up HERE.

All good things…

Have to come to an end… Dammit…

Back to the rat race today.   Back in battery, but at least a good weekend was had by all.  The rejuvenation worked and I’m only semi-grouchy today…

Fun times, good food and now back on the diet.  I’ll get back to commenting tonight.

Down time…

In this day and age down time is a precious commodity…

Spent the weekend chilling with Lawdog, Phlegmmy, Farm Fam, JPG and his lovely lady, Evyl and Jenn, and basically trying to stop laughing as the conversations veered hither and yon.

An example, Red rubber gloves segues into Wallace and Grommit, into movies, to Christmas, to food… to too much pot spoils the cook…  🙂

The early morning was oh so peaceful, quiet, no wind… IMG_1506

 

Christmas socks, dogs running amok, great food, fudge…

It’s all good!!! 🙂