This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Ex-PH2

  • No, Threats Don’t Work Very Well

    The dirty tricks of the leftreds never stop, do they?

    Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) office issued a statement to Breitbart News rebuking threats and other attempts to bully her into opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/12/susan-collins-rebukes-threats-attempts-bully-vote-against-scotus-nominee-brett-kavanaugh/

    Last month, progressive activist Ady Barkan pledged to make a $1.3 million donation to Sen. Collins’ 2020 opponent if the Republican senator decides to vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. The Maine senator has faced increasing threats as she continues her vetting process to decide if she will support Kavanaugh.

    Annie Clark, Collins’ spokeswoman, told Breitbart News that Sen. Collins will make her decision independent of threats or attempts to bribe her with donations.

    Clark said in a statement:  Bribery will not work on Senator Collins. Extortion will not work on Senator Collins. And anybody who thinks these tactics would work on Senator Collins, obviously doesn’t know her. This crowdfunded money to pressure her is based on a quid pro quo — you vote the way we want and we will keep more than a million dollars away from your opponent — vote against us and we give her the money. It is basically a bribe.

    At the link, the full article includes some of the heinous threats toward Sen. Collins as well as providing us with the information that some blighted idiot sent 3,000 coathangers to Sen. Collins’s office, implying that women would again have to resort to back alley abortions, which says that Roe v. Wade will automatically be overturned if Kavanaugh is on the bench.  It hasn’t been overturned in 50+ years, but it’s telling that a bunch of those moronic bitches dressed up in costumes from The Handmaid’s Tale and picketed Collins’ office. It means that those imbeciles know nothing about Atwood’s intent, nor do they understand the meaning of that story, which she self-published in the 1970s.

    The more they rattle their gourds, the more people will lose sympathy for them.

  • Da Stoopid Is Strong With This One

    I though I had seen everything. Everything. Every dogboned thing. But I was wrong. You have to read this article* yourself to get the full effect.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/16/armed-teen-demands-sex-from-woman-flees-when-concealed-permit-holder-intervenes/

    It’s clear to me now. I can’t even go to the store to get radishes, lemons and ice cream without taking along Cobra Bubbles or some version of him.

    I have truly seen everything.

    *N.B.: Kid admitted to it. Thanks to AW1Ed for the story.

     

  • Wienies, Every One of Them

    Incidents of violence and threats against the political right have escalated as the establishment media amp up its hate rhetoric against President Trump and his supporters.

    The morning after Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd compared media critics to racist segregationists and singled out Fox News as one of America’s biggest problems, a man in a “mentally agitated state,” and apparently upset over an officer involved shooting, intentionally crashed his vehicle into the studios of FOX 4 in Dallas, Texas.

    Besides Todd, many in the media, especially at far-left CNN have “othered” Fox News and presented the network as a unique danger to America.

    CNN’s Brian Stelter has gone so far as to spread conspiracy theories about Fox News controlling President Trump.

    I’ve been trying for some time to understand this utter hatred generated by Trump’s successful election. I do not recall ever seeing this kind of behavior, except during the Days of Rage in the 1970s (generated by the Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers). You might want to have a look at this blog post by someone who has tried to understand it himself but wasn’t around back then.

    Days of Rage

    Is there a real difference between the leftist/liberal violence of the 1970s and what is going on now? Yes and no. There is no way to find out how much of what happened in the 1970s was simply generated by the radical leftists like Abby Hoffman, Eldrige Cleaver and Wm. Ayers, who lived on a nice houseboat paid for by ultraliberal lawyers, and how much was just vandalism.

    The difference between now and back then, and even back in the early 1950s when those Puerto Ricanos tried to invade Congress and bump off Harry Truman, is that the minds of this current crop overgrown children have been drained of freedom of thought – thinking for themselves – and a good deal of this supposed “hatred” is bought and paid for, instead of springing from the genuine anger that brought those violent events into being in the middle of the 2oth century.

    Ayers, and Dorne, his armored car-robbing and murdering partner, were anarchists, not true leftists. They simply hated government and law and order in all their forms, and knew how to sucker idiots into going along with their plans.

    To say that CNN’s Stelter is as lame as you can get is an understatement. These 21st century “radicals”  can’t even make Maxine Waters look semi-civilized. I do not think they could have made it through the 1960s and 1970s.

    There is a fallacy about what is going on now that is intentionally dismissed by the media, and it is this kind of thing: a recent climate “protest” march, which was advertised ahead of time as having an estimated body count of hundreds of thousands, in actuality had a few dozens here and there, maybe 85 to 125 in some areas, but not the “hundreds of thousands” that were boasted about in their ads for the event. And because that failed as an event, the failure was not reported by the media. They find it necessary to either lie about what happened, or not report it at all.

    I do not believe for one microsecond that anyone currently working in the overpaid and pampered demesne of current media environs would be willing to give up their comforts and life styles to ride herd with real radicals like Cleaver and Ayers and Hoffman.  This makes them failures of a kind that would be sneered at by the men who dressed up as Indians and boarded British ships on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, and tossed 342 chests of tea overboard to protest the Stamp Tax Act.

    Let  us hope that this failure continues to grow.

     

  • You Know There’s Something Wonky When…

     

    I wrote this a while back, but now, it’s even better, ’cause fake news gets better all the time.

    – you keep telling people you’re male/female and you’re straight, and they ask “Are you sure?”

    –  you realize that some day, you’ll be able to use longhand (cursive) writing as a secret code.

    – you wonder when in the blue-eyed world Common Sense took a vacation and didn’t tell you.

    – the minute another Earth-type planet is announced, you start wondering if you could move there.

    – the media people who use the suffix ‘-gate’ for every dumb idiot thing possible, including shutting down traffic lanes as a spiteful move, weren’t even alive when Richard Nixon got fired for his approval of the Watergate Hotel break-in.

    – people think it’s okay to let illegal immigrants on welfare into this country and give them stuff, while legal immigrants spend almost forever achieving citizenship and become role models without sponging off taxpayers.

    – you realize that your dog or cat is smarter and better educated than a lot of college grads you’ve met.

    –  you go to a movie theater, see a ‘Gun Free Zone’ sign and decide to go home and watch the movie on Netflix or Amazon instead.

    – people take selfies at accidents before they call emergency services, or they make up an offense that didn’t happen, call 911, and then get hammered for it instead of getting paid for it.

    – a pregnant woman about to deliver her baby can’t cross the street to her hospital because some conceited politician’s cavalcade of cars won’t let her.

    – criminals video themselves committing a crime and post it on YouTube, or people video the crime but don’t report it.

    – the tabloids at the checkout line have fewer stupid stories than your newspaper.

    – the only thing worth reading in your newspaper is the list of farmer’s market dates, the advice and horoscope columns,  and the comics.

    – you’d rather watch shows on the Antenna TV network than the current offerings. “Leave It To Beaver” doesn’t seem so dumb nowadays.

    – when the news comes on, you’ve already found more info online than the anchors have in front of them, and you know now that 3/4 of what they say is made up out of dust bunnies, soggy napkins and empty peanut butter jars.

    – you find a news story on a foreign news service that says US troops had mustard gas launched at them, but nothing on the stateside news, and nobody does anything about it. Instead, it’s mustard gas lobbed by our troops at the Bad Guys and it’s Trump’s fault.

    – the headline in the news, and two full minutes’ worth of media attention, is that a couple of overpaid so-so actors have decided to get a divorce because one of them can’t keep his pants zipped and his wick dry, but a gas or rocket attack on US troops gets 15 seconds of air time, if that.

    – the TV weather forecaster says there’s a storm on the way to your area but it will break up before it reaches you, and 15 minutes later there’s a downpour on your street, and the rain lasts all day; and then the “weather reporters” show up after the rain is gone and post videos of themselves in ditches while people are walking behind them on concrete with water 1/2 inch deep.

    – there are six different forecasts for the winter ahead, and you sincerely wish the weather people would just admit that they don’t really know.

    – it takes longer to get through the security check-ins at airports than it does to fly or drive to your destination.

    – some douchebag braindead media twit says it’s a good thing that a jihadist used explosives instead of guns in his efforts to kill people.

    – a bunch of stank ass hippies and hyper-rich gasbags think that the population on this planet should be reduced from +/- 7 billion to about 1 billion, but when you say ‘you first’, they give you horrified looks and sputter in protest.

    – you get an e-mail from your subscription service to an earthquake reporting group that says North Korea set off a nuke, creating a seismic event that registered 5.3M, with a 20 to 30 kiloton explosion, but it’s ignored by the media until they’re forced to acknowledge it.

    – you wake up one morning and realize that the Cold War Triad (USA, China, Russia/USSR) has been revived and the threat of nuclear war has raised its ugly head again, but this time it includes Iran, Syria, Turkey and maybe North Korea (maybe not), and now you wonder if your friends with the underground bunker are really as nutty as you thought they were.

    Those are just a few items. I’m sure you all have more.

  • A Room With a View

    The author of this article, Duke Barrett, is a friend of Pdoggbiker, the owner of the Cherries Writer blog. Very much worth your time to read it.  Pdoggbiker was kind enough to consent to my reposting it here.

    From the article at Cherries Writer….

    Room With a View

    “At approximately 3 PM on yet another hot and humid September day, we, the 2nd squad of Delta Co.’s recon platoon of the 1st airborne brigade/8th Cavalry/1st Air Cavalry Division, left the relative security of our firebase and headed down a steep, heavily forested hillside to set up an ambush. The mission…… I mean there had to be a purpose, right? To kill bad guys I guess. As an army Specialist Fourth Class I wasn’t privy to much inside information. The one thing I did know, it was dead on monsoon season and we’d be sleeping out in the rain again.”

    You can read the rest of the article here:

    https://cherrieswriter.com/2018/09/04/room-with-a-view-guest-post/

    If you go to Pdoggbiker’s blog, he’ll appreciate it a lot.

     

  • Additional Feel Good Stories

    Thank you, Hondo. Sorry I am late with this. And my thanks to AW1Ed for the 2nd and 3rd stories.

    Here are some more “feel good” stories for you. The 1st one is something that will make you angry, so take a deep breath first.

    https://www.wftv.com/news/local/police-body-of-missing-2-year-old-florida-boy-found-in-woods/825816969

    Police say Florida mom killed son, made up abduction story: ‘Parts of her story didn’t make sense’

    The Largo Police Department shared more details about the death of two-year-old Jordan Belliveau, including the evidence stacking up against the boy’s mother, who is in custody for her son’s death.

    Maj. Stephen Slaughter said Charisse Stinson “made significant admissions” about the death of her son, leading police to arrest her Tuesday night. Stinson initially told police her son had been abducted by a stranger, prompting a statewide Amber Alert.

    According to an arrest affidavit, Stinson admitted to causing her son’s death during a “moment of frustration,” when she struck the boy in the face with back of her hand.

    Go to the WFTV link. That is the baby boy she slapped around and killed.

    https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/man-shoots-daughter-s-former-boyfriend-during-alleged-home-invasion/article_8063f4da-1a1d-55c1-b3ce-94b64dadf019.html

    Tulsa police are investigating after a man shot his daughter’s former boyfriend during an alleged home invasion at a midtown residence Wednesday, police said.

    Tulsa Police Sgt. Kurt Dodd said the father opened fire after the ex-boyfriend forced his way into the family’s home at about 4:35 p.m. in the 2300 block of South College Avenue. The man, whose named wasn’t released but is believed to be in his 20s, was struck twice in the chest.

    The shooting victim was taken to a hospital in emergent condition, meaning serious or critical, according to an EMSA spokesman.

    Well, he was told to not come back by the girl’s father.

    And finally, there is this one:

    https://www.wftv.com/news/local/deputies-man-fatally-shoots-man-who-stabbed-his-brother-during-fight-at-gas-station/827329323

    A 25-year-old man fatally shot a 28-year-old man who stabbed the younger man’s brother Tuesday evening during a fight at a gas station in the DeLeon Springs neighborhood, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.

    Deputies were called shortly after 7:30 p.m. to the Valero gas station on North U.S. Highway 17 near West Baxter Street after Tony Berriozabal stabbed a man before being shot by Jesus Romero, the stabbing victim’s brother, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Andrew Gant said.

    Gee whiz, could the gene pool possibly be allowed to clean itself out a bit? If people want to get into “honor duels” or something equally medieval, let them duke it out or whatever, but keep the spectators out of harm’s way.

     

     

     

     

     

  • Thursdays are for cooking…

     

    Owing to the increasingly strange behavior of Those Who Insist Trump Stinks (TWITS), and because the President has sort of reddish hair and is getting picked on a lot, I have provided a photo of the noble orange.

    For anyone who likes red beans and rice, here’s how I fix it:

    1 can (14.5 oz) red beans canned in chili sauce

    1 smoked sausage of your choice

    1/2 to 1 cup of rice

    1 14.5 oz can of beef or chicken broth

    1 chorizo sausage, mild or hot – your choice

    Olive oil

    A cooking pan of your choice.

    Pour some olive oil into the pan. Squeeze the chorizo out of its tube. Start with medium heat. Let the chorizo start to disperse, then add the chili beans, rice and broth. Keep simmering on medium heat, stirring occasionally, and cover when you are not stirring it. Add the smoked sausage when the rice is truly cooked. Brown rice will take longer to cook than milled white rice, so you may need to add more broth.

    The cook time should take about 30 to 45 minutes. Very filling, and good on a cold winter day. Add some cornbread (and lots of butter)  plus favorite beverage, a side of cut-up veggies and a good book or pry some dinner conversation out of your kids while you eat. For dessert: your choice, but apple pie with ice cream is always good.

    This is a quick and inexpensive solution to feeding a large crowd, too.  The portions per item are below.

    Note: one can of beans provides two servings. The same thing with broth: you may need to add more liquid if you use brown rice instead of milled white rice. The hot or mild chorizo will provide all the flavor you need, and the smoked sausage ditto. One big link of smoked sausage will give you two to three servings, or you can stretch it by slicing it into coins. Drop some cut up green stuff from green onion tails on top of the red beans and rice.

  • The Truth Is Out There – Pt. II

    On September 9, I wrote an article about the 24th MEU being deployed to engage in a joint exercise with other allies in Norway.  https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/09/06/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise/

    Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, are slated to participate in one of the largest NATO exercises later this fall hosted by Norway, according to Marine officials.

    Yesterday, I was surprised to find an article on WattsUpWithThat, a climate blog, informing us that the FBI guys had shut down the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Observatory in New Mexico with no explanation, chased all personnel out, and closed the two post offices that serve that site.  The same thing has happened at several other solar observatories.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/12/weird-fbi-closes-national-solar-observatory-over-mysterious-security-issue/

    WEIRD: FBI closes National Solar Observatory over mysterious ‘security issue’

    Unless I miss my guess, this tower/antenna construction around a solar ‘scope, which solar physicists use to study the sun, is a throwback to the listening posts that used to be called the DEW (Distant Early Warning) system.  My guess is that it’s the same thing: set up a network of listening posts to tune into the Chinese/Russian war games, monitor the activity, and be alert for a missile from that area “going off course by accident” (sure, Vlad!) and heading this way.

    While this is puzzling to the general public, and especially to the people who are sure space aliens are involved in this somehow, I think it’s more likely this and the other sites are being set up to mimic the DEW system managed by NORAD back in the long ago, when we were still in the midst of the Cold War, when a nuclear missile from the Soviet Union reaching the USA was a real threat, and is still a threat today.

    Since Vlad Putin and Xi JinPing are engaging in joint war games of their own, prompting the USA to engage in the same joint exercises in Norway, I see nothing mysterious at all about the co-opting of a solar scope, or several, as listening posts for the Feebies.

    The Inouye Solar Observatory is in New Mexico, not far from White Sands, which is a missile testing range as well as a military base. There are military bases in Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Nebraska. You name the state, and there’s a base somewhere. NS Great Lakes may be a recruit training command, but the art of seamanship is being taught there now. It would take no effort, as I have noted before, to turn Waukegan International Airport and Mitchell Airport near Milwaukee into military air bases. The Great Lakes are deep enough to accommodate ships like destroyers and aircraft carriers and with modern-day ships, the problems that plagued the 1939 training program on Lake Michigan (not enough wind for lift for the planes)  are no long an issue.

    As others have noted, when the interstate highway system was constructed during the Eisenhower administration, the object was partly to provide adequate runways for military aircraft. On a six-lane highway, how many troop transport trucks could you move efficiently to a waiting troop carrier aircraft?

    In addition, we all know (because we can see those videos) that the  people at Minot AFB practice the 15-second MITO exercises and scrambles constantly, as do all aircraft carrier crews and all military air bases.  (Cue the MITO video from ‘Gathering of Eagles.)

    I’m guessing, of course, but if towers and antennas are being set up at these solar observatories, it’s because there is something going on, and the observatories are in the perfect location to set up a network mimicking the DEW system from the Cold War.

    There used to be a ring of Minuteman missile silos around Lincoln, NE, where my paternal grandmother lived. When we went to visit her, she’d take us there for dinner and we had a ringside seat to watch the fighter jets taking off.  Frankly, I felt much more secure about such things during the Cold War than I do now.

    I kind of miss those days.