People who shouldn't be allowed to drive.

Look...I get tired of the near misses I'm involved in every damn day. I know my truck driving friends are waaay passed aggravated about this and have been for a long while now.
What is one of the most BASIC rules of driving you should learn, memorize and follow if you want to avoid fender benders?
How about the Speed/distanced maintained rule. Or as some call it the 2 [or 3] second rule.  What it amounts to is this. For every 5mph of speed you drive, you must maintain a car length of separation distance between you and the car in front of you. So in most urban areas where the speed limit tends to be 30-35mph on those surface roads...you need to maintain at least 7 car lengths between you and the car in front of you.  On the Freeways, where here in Texas the freeway speed limit runs at 65mph most places you need to keep 13 car lengths of separation between you and the car in front of you. I try but it ends up being pointless because people take it as an invitation to fill the space.  Which so long as I can maintain at least 7 car lengths...I really try not to stress about it too much.  I know that even at 7lengths @ 65 mph I'm still gonna likely hit the stupid bastard who cut me off then slammed on his brakes...but it also might give me just enough time to SWERVE. 
Lets look at another rule of the road.  STAY RIGHT. What this means is that if your on a divided 2 lane highway[one lane going either direction] in order to keep from head onning with oncoming traffic you STAY RIGHT! IOW you stupid twits STAY IN YOUR GODDAMN LANE!  It also means on surface roads you need to do this, in regards to medians...
 holy crap! common sense?

Hell if people would just follow those 2 simple rules and A. stay off the goddamn cellphones/ B.stop putting on your makeup while you drive...ladies. C.stop eating and driving. ...okay mea culpa, mea culpa on that last one...but not often...

I'd be willing to bet that everyone following those 5 simple stupid little rules of the road...would probably drop traffic fatalities by at least 1/3, if not by half.

So everyone...lets follow these little rules of the road and not be dickheads shall we?

If you CAN'T at least TRY?  give your license back, sell your car and stay home.

*small footnote on the distance maintained rule. It also depends on whether you have wet or dry conditions. [if the road is wet  DOUBLE the distance] and what kind and how heavy/long a vehicle you drive.

Earth Day Celebration.

So what are you doing to be anti celebratory about Earth Day, friends?

Let's see I started celebrating earlier this week by cutting the back yard.  Yesterday I anti celebrated some more by starting to hack on the big tree out in my front yard with a  pole saw.  I will do some more of that today.  I will also if I have the energy afterwords hack on the chunk of tree that over hangs waaaay low from my neighbors yard into mine.  After that I'm going to grill some steaks.  If I have energy left after that?  I might wash the cars. 

What are YOU going to do?  Get out there and ANTI celebrate Earth Day you pikers! Cut the grass and edge and trim with EVIL gas powered movers, edgers and trimmers.  Get out there and wash your cars with EVIL harmful chemicals like *gasp!*.............................. 
SOAP!   Get out there and cut down a tree! Or at least Prune it some.   Hell get out there and GRILL some MEAT on a charcoal or gas grill dang it!  Make the Earth Day twerps outraged and make the Fire God[and your tummy] happy!

Yep lets all be EVIL, logical, inventive tool using human beings! Rape, Loot, Pillage and THEN Burn! 
Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Edit:
the point being children I don't mind "conservancy", not at all.  I do however absolutely loathe the "Earth First, Humans a distant second"  back stabbing elitist halfwits who seem to have this delusion that technology is a bad thing. all the, like the lamentable and hypocritical "occupy" movement spread their messages of ignorance using computers and phones, while sipping on triple iced latte frappes from Starbucks.

This concludes my Maniacal,
Evil, Anti Earth post for the day..

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

Freedom. A short post

Someone on one of the communities I frequent who was a former coastie and is now a Medic in the Military,, started a post about Communism which led another member to ask the question of "

OTOH, it pains me to say that I see something similar in the US. We have 
the Patriot Act, TSA Inspectors, our government attempting to dictate 
policies of the church through unconstitutional rules, and yet the mantra 
remains "We're free." I have to wonder do we even know what it means to 
be free anymore."

A very Good question. Are we as  FREE as we think we are?  As a nation? As a people?  On a personal level? Do we even understand what the word free means any more?  For the 1st two, I just don't know. As the quote above indicates with all the stuff that come down the pike in the past 10yrs, and even more so in just the last 3 years, (The Healthcare Bill, the repeated attempts to regulate and control the 'net,  some other stuff which I may post links to later) I'm not so sure any more.  I haven't been sure in years frankly.  
The one thing I'm absolutely dead certain about is that if we allow our government to continue down the path it's on, be it under Obama, or Romney..we're screwed. It's not all the President's fault though.  Clinton for his first 2 years, Bush from 2001 on, and Obama from the beginning, have had mostly willing accomplices en masse in the Body of Government we refer to in general, simply as...Congress. 

The House of Representatives, in the past, now and always has controlled the nations purse strings if you will.  Which is a good thing generally.  At the moment though it seems that, that historical fact and point of law is ignored and our government just spends, spends, spends.  Seriously?  Not a single budget passed for the last 3 goddamn years?  

Ach..I've gone to rambling again.  So much for a short post. :p
Back to the matter at hand.  So long as our current president in particular and especial, and our "government of, for and by the people" continue to ignore the people who provide the funds and pay their salaries...our current path can and will end only one way........badly. We will NOT be free.

As for on a personal level, freedom to me has a different meaning that it does to, it seems, the population at large.  Freedom to me is the ability, the freedom if you will, to make my own choices and decisions.  It means that I will freely, honorably and with integrity accept the responsibility for my actions.  In other words I'll live with the consequences. I won't and will never say I won't bitch unmercifully about those consequences and my own stupidity in bringing about the bad ones.  I can and will however accept responsibility for my own screw ups.

To too many people it seems to me the word freedom means
1.Never taking responsibility for your own situation. It's always someone else's fault.
2. Never working a day, letting other people pay your bills, pay your debts and pay for your 6 kids by 5 different baby daddy's.

I could continue to make an itemized list but I won't bother since most of you know the list as well as I do.

So anyway, that's my thoughts on FREEDOM today.

Remember TANSTAAFL and as always...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

*headshake*

I present a "me me me" post for your un enjoyment. Some days I wonder why I bother. I get frustrated, speaking out, over and over again, about the EXACT SAME SHIT that happens over and over again to deaf ears. I get exceedingly frustrated trying to pound common sense into thick skulls. I get down right tired of trying to make the willfully blind, see the blindingly obvious.
Nowadays I feel like I'm beating my head into a brick wall for no return. It's why my posts here have been so sporadic lately. I feel like a broken record, or a cd locked into 'repeat track.' I feel that way in so many of my online communities and electronic homes away from home, now. So sorry boys and girls but my posts will continue to be sporadic for a while.

Trayvon Martin Case

I have been commenting elsewhere on this case vociferously. I have come to the conclusion that I'm not commenting anymore. Why? A couple reasons...
1. The MEDIA is distorting the few facts of this case that are known.
2. The "race" baiters are trying..I swear, to start a "race war." Good luck to you if you succeed boys..if you succeed in starting that war...your names WILL be at the top of someones kill list...THAT you can bet on. If they do succeed it will never end and it will completely tear this country apart. The USA would likely end up being no more. Which is what I believe what certain people want.
3. NONE of us were there. So arguing about it is a pointless waste of time...which is in itself a point
4. as previously mentioned many people, the "race" baiters, Trayvon Martins' family lawyer and the main stream media as well as others on the left are COMPLETELY distorting everything.
5. Newsflash We don't have all the facts children.
So seeing as how 5 is definitively true, and the rest as far as I'm concerned is absolutely accurate....I have a suggestion for BOTH sides

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT THE FUCK DOWN! YOU WERE NOT THERE SO ALL YOU ARE DOING IS SPREADING GOSSIP, RUMOR, INNUENDO AND BULLSHIT. ENOUGH ALREADY!

That is all.

Edit 4/4/12 @5:25pm- Okay I changed my mind.
Read it and weep race haters...
http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/02/zimmerman-family-member-calls-naacp-racists-says-there-will-be-blood-on-your-hands-if-george-is-hurt/

What is Racsim?

A crock of shit meant for one purpose...to divide people. To keep us at each others throat.
Actually that could be said for several 'isms'. Sex'ism' for one, but back to the topic at hand.
I have said this repeatedly. I get into arguments over this on the web all the time. Racism is a misnomer. The word racism as we know it and use it today...wasn't first used til 1933 or 34 by an American Fascist, whose name escapes me at the moment. I actually had a site for it but I lost it when I lost the old computer. [I think it's in my archives here somewhere. I'll dig later for it]
Racism today is defined as " a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"

Think about it though...that..definition' is inherently flawed. We're not different 'races', we are many different cultures, tribes and nationalities. What everyone else defines as "race, I define as tribalism for that is what it TRULY is.
How is Tribalism defined?
tribal consciousness and loyalty; especially : exaltation of the tribe above other groups
or
strong in-group loyalty


We have both, and that is all wrapped and writ HUGE and transcends into

Nationalism: loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.

See, people either through lack of education or refusal to see the truth for what it is, or as I call it..willful stupidity..are the problem. It's why we have this confusion about race, and what it truly is.
Chinese isn't a race. It's descriptive of a persons nationality, culture and nation of origin. Mexican isn't a race. It's a descriptive of a persons nationality, culture and nation of origin. Irish isn't a race, it's a descriptive of a persons national and cultural origins, or that of their fore fathers. Native American...isn't a race. It's a description of the tribes that were here, before Europeans and others discovered this continent. Asian isn't a race, simply a descriptive used to define a persons continent of origin.

Tribalism starts small. Small tribes or families, cultures. Then is grows into national identity as families and tribes band together for mutual benefit. This then grows as more and more will join the original tribes and families to form Nations. [definition #2 is the applicable one.

Those nations form governments, councils and ruling bodies, to oversee big day to day things, like defense.

Look, the short version? Anyone who uses the word RACISM, or RACIST...is simply name calling because he has no logical, fact based argument to back up his position. S/he is simply seeking to lull people into a false sense of outrage, a false feeling of being attacked simply because of the color of their skin. To cause them to 'think' a certain way, to 'act' a certain way, even[and this is the big one in America because of politics] to 'vote' a certain way. Understand this if you understand nothing else, any modern politician, especially those with a D after their names, who plays the 'race' card is simply trying to distract you from what they are up to. They don't truly give a shit about you. They only care for their own petty interests, power and wealth. The only time they see 'the people' they're supposed to be representing is when they look down to see what they're stepping on. It's like the 'immigration/border' issue. Democrats will try and say that the 'Republican' reaction to illegal immigration is racism. It's not, we've already established racism is a misnomer. What is about then? It's as I've already stated. And from the Republican or Libertarian side...it's about protecting our country, and upholding/defending our national interests. Protecting our big polyglot TRIBE. Keeping our people safe from those outside interests who would do us harm.

Understand this as well. The history of slavery is, because of people with an agenda, all wrapped up in the 'meme' of racism as well.
Slavery as it's historically understood, was never about color of skin. It was about wealth, power and territory among the tribes of Africa and Asia. To start. Here's a newsflash boys and girls. White Europeans didn't send raiding parties to the African continent to scour the country side for tribal members to enslave. They didn't have to. Why? AFRICANS sold themselves into slavery. For power, wealth and territory. Competing tribes went to war. The losers, at least those who weren't massacred during the fighting, were then sold to Arab slavers who in turn sold them to "Europeans". Don't believe me? READ. YOUR. HISTORY BOOKS! Is slavery still alive today? Oh yes. It is about what it's always been about : wealth, power and territory. Although...by and large I don't think territory has as much to do with it anymore. Just the wealth and power. Oh and CONTROL.

We are all one 'race'..The HUMAN one. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is selling something.


I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
TANSTAAFL.

Quote of the Day.

The following is the best line I've heard all day.
"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a 40ounce beer and a crack pipe, and he'll vote democrat for the rest of his life." Wild Bill for America.

ROFL...man that was AWESOME!

America loses another hero...

Colonel Van T. Barfoot. One of the last surviving members of the "Greatest Generation" to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, passed away. The nation as a whole should be mourning his loss. Sadly with all the political crap going on, and the fact it's an election year, his passing won't be much more than a blip. A quick mention and then forgotten forever more. I don't know which disturbs me more...the fact that he's gone and as I said....will be nothing more than a quick blip and then forgotten? Or the thought that has just passed through my brain that candidates for one side or the other will use him, and his death to score political points. Don't tell me that's not possible, because you folks know damn well that it is.
Sigh...Which is sad, the elder CMH winners aren't exactly thick on the ground, and we seem to lose a couple every year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/decorated-world-war-ii-vet-who-later-fought-for-right-to-fly-us-flag-at-home-in-va-dies-at-92/2012/03/03/gIQA7aRuoR_story.html


Rest Easy Colonel. We salute you.

Teddy Roosevelt was right

Oh my yes-

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic"

That speech was made back in Teddy's day when the bulk o the immigrants were European. But it holds even MORE true today when everywhere you see the terms such as African-American, Mexican-American, predominantly but also the various Asian cultures. Vietnamese-American, Chinese-American...hell or just Asian-American; used EVERYWHERE. Same with the various latin backgrounds...but Mexican is the predominant one. It's become so prevalent it makes my mind and my gut churn with rage.

We have all these various self selected sub sets of people who insist on putting the appellations of their ethnic or country of origin backgrounds before the hyphen and before American. What has that netted us as a country? As a people? We are a nation divided. The country positively seethes with dissension, loathing, hatred and discontent. We as an American people have always had various troubles between the various..cultures. That's no great secret. But now it seems it's a deeper divide, a more solid thick wall and everyone has blinders on and earplugs firmly in place going 'la la la, I am not listening". The various cultures have been co opted and are no longer trying to acclimate themselves to America, they're trying to change it into what they left in the first place. All this factionalism does fuck all and accomplishes nothing except letting our enemies and those who hate our exceptionalism and freedom, creep further into the main and divide us all the more.

I don't know folks. Sometimes I wonder if we're not doomed after all. I've studied a fuckton of history over the years, I take the long view, and a pessimistic view at that; of the tides of time and history. The fate of our country. The willfully blind and stupid, and the frighteningly growing numbers of them, don't give me much hope. They rarely surprise me in their willful ignorance. Frustrate and annoy the hell out of me, oh yes. Surprise me?...not really. It's like the factions of old Rome, conniving to come up with more supposedly elegant, but in reality truly vicious plans to stab our brother in the back. And fuck ourselves over in the bargain as well because we fail to see the consequences. Too busy looking at the most immediate gains, and wanting instant gratification.

Aaach. I could keep going and ramble on even longer but you don't wanna listen to it I expect. go on, go out and enjoy your families, and this beautiful Sunday afternoon. However, keep what I've said in the back of your mind.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity. TANSTAAFL

History repeats itself

SAdly it's been repeating it self, well.....repeatedly since Ol Barry took office. Enacting some of the worst things from some of the most "interesting"[in the chinese curse sense of the word] times in history.

Anyway...away we go again.

Truth Teams? Nope doesn't sound like he's taken lessons from Hitler's propaganda master Joseph Goebbels at all! Nope...not at all.

c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

Hmmm...Obama hasn't stopped campaigning since 07. That might be a problem as far as this one goes...

On the other hand, maybe not...

Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.

Hmmm...yep they've got that one down. Love the next one...
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

Sigh....idiots



I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity