Oh Shucks, I Never Saw THAT Coming.

Dammit, the internet needs a sarcasm tag.
;)

Yep, nobody could have predicted this one, never.

California exchange's health insurance rates to increase 4% in 2015

 

 

Heading into the second year of Obamacare healthcare coverage, California officials said more than 1.2 million consumers in the state-run insurance exchange can expect modest price increases of 4.2% on average next year.

Covered California on Thursday announced the results of its rate negotiations with Anthem Blue Cross, Kaiser Permanente and other major insurers, an important yardstick for President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.



"This is good news for Californians and an example of how Covered California and the Affordable Care Act are working to make health insurance affordable," said Peter V. Lee, Covered California's executive director.

Open enrollment for 2015 begins in November.

While many consumers will see a small bump in premiums, others may experience double-digit rate hikes depending on their age and where they live. Affordability is a crucial factor for future enrollment and renewals.

What’s more, many consumers are likely to continue to vent about the narrow doctor networks and other restrictions they are often forced to accept in exchange for lower rates under Obamacare.


These tentative rates are still subject to review by state regulators.

"We have negotiated very good rates," said Diana Dooley, chairwoman of the state-run exchange. “I think it means it’s working and there’s stability and predictability in the market.”

My emphasis.

Now there is a candidate for Whitehouse Spokesperson.

Damn straight there is stability and predictability.

We all predicted the fucking rates would go up at a steady rate, genius.

Rat Fuckers Unite! It's a Snitches Delight!

The DHS should have been still born to begin with and it still needs to be dismantled idiot by idiot until it is nothing more than a bad memory.

Get a load of this horse shit;

NY DHS Will Pay You $500 To Rat Out Fellow Citizens Buying Legal Goods

New York’s Division of Homeland Security is posting signs on businesses to encourage people to snitch on fellow citizens who buy such things as MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat), ammunition, flash lights, match containers, gas masks and other items deemed to be ‘prepper’ in nature.
In this video a girl working at LZ Army Navy Surplus store in Auburn, NY tell us how a state trooper put up a flyer in their window which encourages customers to call the New York State Terrorism Tips Line to report this ‘suspicious activity’ under the as part of the “See Something, Say Something” campaign.
This is obviously nothing more than the beginning of the cultivation of ‘average citizen snitches’ who will rat out on their fellow citizens.

That's right, the USSTAZI wants to turn everyone into an East German.

Just who's business is it if I want to stash a few supplies in order to ensure my families ability to survive the very frequent severe Winter storms we get around here?

Believe it or not, right here in America's City, Vancouver freakin' Washington, we get tornadoes occasionally!

In the last five or six years we have had three within five miles of where I am sitting right this very minute.

But the Department of the Permanently Delusional and Paranoid thinks maybe they should know about it if I go buy emergency items so they can keep an eye on me in case I suddenly decide to do what, exactly?
Throw flashlight batteries at the Mayor?

Give me a break you cretins!

You and I both know that in NY City there are more scumbags per square mile than anywhere else in the country except the ruling King of scumbag cities, Los Angeles.

So some Dirt Bag sees his neighbor haul in a box of perfectly legal MRE's to put away in case of emergency and said Dirt Bag drops a dime on their ass and some DHS flunky puts down the info and cuts Dirt Bag a check so he can either go buy some heroin or another bottle of Irish Rose Fortified Wine.

I'm sorry, this is not the country I pledged my allegiance to for over forty five years, this is Communist Bullshit, full strength.

Here's to you, Mr. DHS flunky.

 

Even Darwin Misses Once In A While

 Two potential Darwin Award winners narrowly escaped death when they were caught off guard crossing an 80 foot high railroad bridge and a train came barreling down the tracks.

Incredibly, they were skinny enough to lay down in the track bed and the train rolled right over them.

Donations are being sought to cover the expense of having their underwear surgically removed from their large intestines due to the high vacuum created when their assholes opened and then slammed shut in sheer terror.

Stupid idiots.

VIDEO: Women run over by passing train on bridge: VIDEO: Women run over by passing train on bridge

They Are All Gone Now

They will all live on in American history but the last surviving crew member of the B-29 Enola Gay that dropped the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese mainland to end WWII has passed away at 93 years of age.

Last surviving Enola Gay crewman dies in Stone Mountain

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The last surviving crewman of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died overnight at his Stone Mountain home.
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, 93, was the navigator on the Aug. 6, 1945 flight that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb.
With the 2010 death of Morris Jeppson, Van Kirk became the only one of the dozen crew members left.
For a number of years, he lived at a retirement community in Stone Mountain where by chance he found himself sharing the place with James Starnes, an Atlantan who had a front-row seat at history. Starnes was the navigator on the USS Missouri and the mighty battleship’s officer of the deck on Sept. 2, 1945 who greeted Japanese officials boarding to officially surrender.
“We were two individuals who happened to be at historic dates,” said Starnes, who said his friend died Monday after being hospitalized for a few weeks. “The passing always hurts so much. I told someone today that this was the first time I shed a tear for someone in a long time.”

It has been estimated that over a million lives would have been lost if we would have had to attack the Japanese mainland.

Certainly ushering in the Atomic Age was a historic moment but the results were indiscriminate and horrifying. Even when faced with that horror, the Japanese refused to surrender and another Nuclear Warhead had to be detonated over a Japanese city before they finally threw in the towel.
Those men were heroes then and now for putting their lives on the line, all the while knowing they might never even make it to the target.


God speed.

Boobs

Some really, really nice ones.

This Will Start Happening Here Soon

Cops seizing cell phones after a car wreck to see if you were on it when the wreck happened.
You know damn good and well this will start happening here, 4th and 5th Amendments be damned.

UK police to start seizing drivers' mobile phones after all crashes;

 

Previously mobiles have only been taken when drivers are seriously injured or killed in a crash, but new guidelines issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers says that officers should check drivers’ mobiles even in the event of a minor shunt.
The intent is to crack down on mobile distractions while driving, with recent reports suggesting that more than 500 people are killed or seriously injured each year in the UK because drivers have been calling, texting or posting to social media.
Road safety charity Brake welcomed the new guidelines, with spokesperson Ed Morrow saying: "We are fully supportive of the efforts by the police to clamp down on mobile phone use at the wheel. Offenders need to know they will be caught, they will be prosecuted, and there will be serious consequences."
The crackdown might also be accompanied by an increase in the penalty for texting at the wheel to six points on drivers’ licenses instead of three. This would mean that drivers could be banned if they are caught using their phones just twice while driving.
However, some individuals are concerned that the new powers could be abused. Hugh Bladon of the Alliance of British Divers told Yahoo News: "I am 100 per cent against anyone texting while driving and those caught deserve everything they get. But I'm worried police could overdo it, just because someone is involved in a minor shunt, surely it shouldn't mean they should lose their phone."

 

Good Lord.
On the one hand you have some stupid ninny who is more than happy to have the Police State help it's self to anything it wants in the name of safety. Note to you pal, stay the fuck over there and makes some room for the similar pussies we have here that need to go away.

On the other hand you have another ninny who's only concern is people losing their phones.


This is what remains of what was once the greatest empire on the face of the earth.

Get Outta My Way

There is always some slacker doing the speed limit in the fast lane.

Look me up, I'll be the one with the ice cream stand.

Until I Needed Traction

Obama Thinks You Are Too Stupid To Take Care Of Yourselves.

Obama's speaking for the Bilderberg Group (masters of New World Order) conference in Brussels, Belgium, May 23, 2014.

I would like to remind your narrow little elitist ass that some of us simple minded folks as you call us have other plans.

Canadian Swat Team Swarms Airplane After Passenger Issues Direct Threat

That's one stupid Muslim we won't have to worry about any time soon.
They even scrambled fighter jets.

There is video at the link if you can stand Anderson Cooper..

If you listen to the video you can hear the list of charges and boy do they have some strange ones.

(CNN) -- A passenger captured dramatic cell phone video of a Canadian SWAT team storming onto a Sunwing flight at Toronto's Pearson International Airport Friday. The video shows the police tactical team swarming onto the plane with their weapons drawn, yelling at passengers to get their hands up, and forcefully removing a 25-year-old man from the aircraft.

The airline said the Panama-bound plane was forced to return to Toronto Friday morning about 45 minutes into the flight after a passenger, identified by authorities as Ali Shahi, made a "direct threat against the aircraft."
Ali Shahi's Facebook pageAli Shahi's Facebook page

Witnesses told CNN affiliate CTV that Shahi said he wanted to bomb Canada.

"The Sunwing flight crew followed the appropriate procedures and turned the flight around in cooperation with the FAA and Canadian authorities," said Sunwing Travel Group Spokeswoman Janine Chapman.

Shahi, a Canadian citizen, was jailed on charges including mischief to property and endangering the safety of an aircraft, police said. He was scheduled for a bail hearing in Brampton, Ontario, on Saturday.

No one on the flight was injured, the airline said.

Waiter, There Is A Crab In My Soup

I will bet money you have never seen this before, or even imagined it.

I'm Sure You Do

I laughed out loud yesterday after getting woke up from a nap while on vacation by a text message from my boss.

In case you missed my hissy fit bitch fest about what has been going on there that I posted just before going on vacation, you can read it here , so you can understand the heaping bowlful of Schadenfrude that this text message really was;

"Holy shit we are missing you.
Hurry up and get back here."

After a hearty laugh I finished my nap without bothering to reply.

How's that working out for ya now?

Either Way There Is Hell To Pay

I Think They Are Trying To Tell Me Something

And scroll and scroll.....



I have been getting told how old I look a great deal too many times lately.

I'm thinking I am going to go buy me a real thin cane and give the next sonofabitch that tells me that a good whack.

Then tell them to get the fuck off my lawn.

Punk ass bitches anyways.

Don't Be This Guy, He Is Fucked Now

First of all, it's against the law to shoot people in the back when they are running away.
Secondly, don't be a fucking dumbass and brag about shooting a pregnant woman pleading for her life a second time to "finish her off" on camera to a fucking television crew!
( You can watch the same video interview the jury is going to watch over and over again at the link)

Old man is going to jail for that shit unless he gets a spare lawyer from O.J. Simpson.

A Long Beach homeowner has no regrets after shooting and killing a woman who said she was pregnant after he got into a confrontation with her and another man who were ransacking his sprawling home.

Tom Greer, an 80-year-old retiree, arrived to his upscale Bixby Knolls neighborhood Tuesday night to find a couple in the middle of a late-night break-in.



"When I went in there, they tackled me," Greer told NBC4 Wednesday. "Both of them jumped up on top of me."

The intruders, a man and woman, may have underestimated Greer, he said, as they ransacked his safe and yanked the door open right in front of him.



The intruders threw Greer to the ground, but they didn't know he'd gotten his .22-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver.


"I come back and they see me with a gun, and they run," he said.

The man escaped, but the woman fell after being struck by Greer's gunfire in an alley behind the house.

"She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway," Greer said.

When asked what he saw happen to the woman after he fired shots, Greer responded: "She was dead. I shot her twice, she best be dead ... (The man) had run off and left her."



"I've never in my life shot anybody, killed anybody," Greer said.

Greer was being treated at the hospital Wednesday for a severe shoulder and collarbone injury, but he hoped to send a warning to the man who got away.

"I shot her so that's going to leave a message on his mind for the rest of his life," Greer said.

Long Beach police said they were investigating the incident. It was not immediately clear whether any charges would be filed against Greer for the shooting.

"Investigators have to look at both sides of this coin," said legal analyst Royal Oakes. "On the one hand a frail man in his 80s is being attacked in his own home by intruders, he has a right to self-defense. On the other hand, he did shoot a person who was trying to get away, so he wasn't in imminent danger himself and the law says you can't shoot somebody under those circumstances."

Updated 7/25/2014;

A new twist,

A Long Beach man whose female accomplice might have been pregnant when she was fatally shot by the owner of a home they broke into was arrested on suspicion of murder in the woman’s death, police said.

Update II,
From the LA Times;

Suspected burglar killed by homeowner was not pregnant, coroner says

This is notable because if she had been, then there would have been another murder charge added on.

By The Truck Load

Economics 101

Are there any questions?

Where Did Everybody Go?

Let me tell ya something.
I have been on vacation.
We spent two days at a very famous multimillion dollar casino on the coast of Oregon in a freaking suite with a fireplace, it's own deck with a view of two gorgeous sunsets in a row and ZERO FUCKING INTERNET ACCESS!

The first thing they said when I asked if they had WIFI was yes but......


Yes but fucking no is what they should have said, instead they told me that the service had been "spotty".

Spotty means you might actually have some chance, not a good chance, but a chance.

After 24 hours, I will admit I did finally get connected to the internet.

It was SO SLOW, that I literally fell asleep with my laptop open on my lap while I was waiting for my fucking Emails to load.

I kid you not.

This is exactly what that internet service was like compared to what I have right now, from the same fucking provider, sixty miles up the road.



We have been doing the tourist thing in a big way but it was really weird being a tourist in a town I used to live in.

You see, I grew up on the Southern coast of Oregon and we landed smack dab in a town on the Central Coast that I lived and worked in for a while right out of high school.

As a matter of fact, there is a little town six miles inland from there where I went to first grade.

My wife had been to Newport before but her kid hadn't so we had to go do the entire tourist routine, me seeing stuff I lived around every day and tourist traps I have been visiting for 50 years now.

it's all good, we stopped at an air museum and a maritime museum farther up the coast today, both were freaking cooler than hell.
We also got an extremely rare treat on the way up here.

We were tooling through this Podunk little nothing town and looked over to see a really small steam locomotive going down the tracks the other way.

I whipped a yooee right on the main drag and followed it back to the train station where we got pictures of it and I got to stand right next to it while it had a full head of steam and lay a serious eyeball on it from a mechanics viewpoint.

That thing was way cool!
There were also two other and bigger steam locomotives right there and all three were in running condition.

The air museum was something else. Some way cool old planes and helicopters in there.

I have to get a phone with a camera on it, I swear.

It is actually one of only 7 blimp hangars left in the country and this one dates way back. Moffett Field just South of San Francisco has one and I have seen it too.

It is quite literally the biggest free standing wood structure in the entire world.
It's been certified by the Guiness Book of World Records.

It is one of two that used to be there but the other one burned to the ground in one hour back in '92.


That must have been one hot fire man, there was 300 tons of hay bales in it when it went up.

Imagine a wooden hangar that is so massive that it covers SEVEN ACRES!

So anyways, we have more touristy stuff to do tomorrow and I am beat.
Thanks for stopping by.

Pray For Obama

It's the right thing to do after all.

Psalm 109:8 ~

"Let his days be few and brief;
And let others step forward to replace him."

Sent to me Via Email from a wonderful 80 year old lady.

That Explains It

I can laugh, I was a registered Democrat for a lot of years.

Then I got sober.....

True story.

Going To Da Beach

And I will be seeing absolutely zero of this;

It was ninety fucking degrees here yesterday, today is overcast and about 75.
It will be overcast and in the sixties at the beach. Until the day we come back.

It never fucking fails.

I have no clue if the hotel down there has WIFI, their website doesn't say but I am getting the fuck out of Dodge for some mandatory R&R.

It used to be I&I, intoxication and intercourse but I quit drinking and got married.
You know how that works.
So if it gets quiet around here know this, that means there is no WIFI and those responsible are going to be more miserable than I am, guaranteed.

For Irish

It's titled Winter Solstice.

Static Cling

I Made It, Barely

There has been more bullshit going on where I work than you would believe if I told you.
Un possible shit like when my supervisor quit unexpectedly last month and left me and the other guy hanging high and dry on swingshift, they stick a guy who has been a carpenter his whole life and had been there a whopping three weeks to help us out.
That's not the unpossible part though.

He is out of a temp agency just like I was and everyone they hire.

Come to find out, this guy is buddies with the maintenence supervisor.

Here we go.

So after the one guy quits, we are right in the middle of a nasty machinist union campaign, they were trying to unionize the plant, management pulls some corporate horseshit maneuver and says they are going to "reorganize" the maintenance positions.

The NLRB has federal laws stating that they can not change the working conditions in any way after the union has been voted in, which they were, until a fucking contract has been signed.

So this "reorganization" involves eliminating the swingshift supervisor position.

Now they pin up a notice that they are going to appoint a "shift lead" position on every shift and you can feel free to apply for it.

Yeah, fuck you assholes, I ain't a dummy.

What they did was take the title away, the pay scale away and the authority away when they eliminated the position but if you are the "lead man", you are the guy that people contact when they have a problem over the radio or on the company supplied cell phone after hours.

There is a small pay rate increase that goes along with this but you ain't a boss.

What you are is a whipping boy when shit goes bad. Someone who they can tell what they want done but ain't a boss yet is a fucking see something say something motherfucker who is between management and the rest of us peons.

Being the guy with the most seniority on that shift I am absolutely positive that they expected me to jump at this opportunity.

Instead I let anyone with a set of working ears in that whole plant know that I didn't want a fucking thing to do with it.

I have been a "Lead guy".

I have also been a "team Leader", another corporate chicken shit move that is very popular and I have been a "Maintenance Supervisor" for an entire company.

Fuck you, very much.
I want none of it.
It would be impossible for them to pay me enough to put up with that bullshit again.
Being on call 24/7 and getting hammered by management every single fucking day while at the same time babysitting a whole crew of whiny assed titty babies who don't want to do this or do that either.,

Fuck you, been there, done that.

So, the other guy I work with has only been there aboiut six months but has years of experience as a millwright in a lumber mill and is a kick ass guy. Right before all this happened, he was slotted to go to week end graveyard all by himself but that got put on hold.

That leaves the Fucking New Guy.
I mentioned he is buddy buddy with the Super.

Yesterday, the guy in charge of ALL of the maintenance for the whole plant waits until everyone on Day shift has left and sits us down to inform us that this NFG is the only one who put in an application for the Lead position and they accepted him.

The temp guy with zero experience is now the Lead.
He hasn't even been hired permanently yet.



I have been stressed clear the fuck out for weeks trying to keep their equipment running with very minimal support and last Sunday I got called in and wound up there for 13 fucking hours straight.

By the time I got done with that fucking disaster I had used up every last molecule of patience that I posessed.

All week long I have been a complete asshole, yelling at stupid mother fuckers that I have to deal with left and right.
The littlest fucking thing and I am going off. People are making wide circles going around me all week and walking on egg shells.

I am actually trying to train this fucking new guy while also trying to take care of shit my old supervisor used to do and it's just too much.

Right this fucking minute, I am on vacation for nine fucking days. I  shut my fucking phone off so the cock suckers can't call me and if their shiny new " lead guy" gets a phone call in the middle of the night or has some fucking disaster occur next week then thems that created this monster can have themselves a ball cleaning up the mess. They can call me until their face turns blue, I ain't answering.

Sink or swim pal.

I ain't your Huckleberry bitches and have a nice day.

So it may get a bit quiet around here the first part of next week. Going to the beach for two days while the Nephew stays here to take care of all the fucking cats.


No big plans except to avoid any mention of That Place  for nine days and try to recover my sanity.

Shit Just Got Real, Malaysian Airliner Downed By Missile Over Russian/ Ukrainian Border

Hooooooooly fuck.

This the Email alert I got from the LA Times;

Malaysian Airlines jet with 295 aboard crashes near Ukraine-Russia border, reports say

Los Angeles Times | July 17, 2014 | 9:07 AM

A Malaysian Airlines jet carrying 295 people crashed near the Ukraine-Russia border today, Russian and Ukrainian media reported, citing aviation sources and officials.
Ukraine's interior minister said the plane, carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members, was shot down, the Associated Press reported.
The Boeing 777 was on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it failed to confirm its entry into Russian airspace on schedule at 5:20 p.m. Moscow time, the Interfax news agency said.
The plane "disappeared from radar" at 33,000 feet and crashed near the city of Shakhtarsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, a source in Ukrainian law enforcement said,  according to Interfax-Ukraine.





I subscribe to this service because when there is breaking news like this, they will send out an Email blast long before it hits their main page.

This is that LA Times article that followed;

A Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 295 people crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday and may have been shot down, Russian and Ukrainian media reported.
An advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said the Boeing 777-200ER was downed by a ground-to-air missile over territory controlled by pro-Russia separatists near the city of Donetsk.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it failed to confirm its entry into Russian airspace on schedule at 5:20 p.m., Russia’s Interfax news agency said.
The plane began losing altitude about 35 miles before entering Russian airspace and “fell down,” minutes later, setting off its emergency beacon, the Itar-Tass news agency said.
The aviation website Flightaware said the last recorded position of MH17 was made at 6:20 a.m. PDT just west of the eastern border of Ukraine.
“This part of the world has limited coverage for us, so gaps of minutes or even an hour are not uncommon,” Flightaware said.

A Russian emergency response team was dispatched to the crash site in the village of Torez, near Shakhtarsk, about 25 miles west of the Russian border. The area has been the scene of fierce fighting between pro-Russia militants who have seized and occupied much of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Ukrainian government troops trying to recover control of the eastern territory.

The plane “disappeared from radar at 10,000 meters [33,000 feet] and then crashed near the city of Shakhtarsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, a source in the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities said,” according to Interfax-Ukraine.
Ukrainian Interior Ministry advisor Anton Gerashchenko said the plane was hit by a rocket fired from a Buk anti-aircraft system provided to the rebels by Russia. Ukrainian officials have accused the Kremlin of supporting the separatist rebels, an accusation Moscow denies.
“The cynicism of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his terrorists has no limits,” Gerashchenko said in a post on his Facebook page in Russian.

The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his nation’s armed forces “did not take action against any airborne targets.”
State-controlled Russia Today television said it had been told by officials of the separatist-proclaimed Peoples Republic of Donetsk that the rebels had nothing to do with the Malaysian jet crash.
Malaysia Airlines reported on Twitter that it lost contact with a plane after its last known position over Ukrainian territory.
Russian news agencies said an emergency assistance team had been dispatched to the crash site.

I Ain't Laughing

Because this joke ain't funny.

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new
immigrant to the United States . He stops the first
person he sees walking down the street and says,
"Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country,
giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care and a free education!"

The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican."

The man goes on and encounters another passerby.
"Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America."
The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese."

The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees
he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for
wonderful America !"

That person puts up his hand and says, "I am
from Middle East . I am not American."

He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an
American?"

She says, "No, I am from Africa .."

Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?"

The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."

IF YOU DON'T PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS, TOMORROW AT
11:30
AM YOU WILL RECEIVE THREE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ABSOLUTELY
FREE.

Speaking Truth To Power

I thoroughly enjoy reading Ol' Remus.

You should too as there is often a certain harkening back in his words to when the citizens of this country had no illusions about what was right and what was wrong.

I thought this was a perfect example of what I am talking about.

A note

A couple of generations ago forthrightness was expected, every day, in every thing. It was a measure of maturity. Nobody got away with mushmouth spin, everyone kept to the simple truth as they knew it or they got eased out of adult society and sat at the kid's table come Thanksgiving. We owe each other our true thoughts in a straightforward way. We don't have to be right but we do have to be honest. Absent that, we devolve into frillery and artifice. This notion is mostly past tense now, as confirmed by political correctness—social anesthesia if you will. But there are those who carry on, convinced by experience that optimism is warranted only if you see things as they are, or close enough. They carry on not as a heroic mission mind you, it's just the way they are. We'll not name names here, they know who they are, it's a small club.

Papers Please. No, Not That One, Not That One Either.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.
How fucking ridiculous is it that Kentucky drivers licenses aren't issued by ONE state agency, but rather by every little podunk local circuit court clerk?

But, back to the main issue that is being ignored here and is just business as usual with the fucking Fed's, the mandatory showing of your identification papers to even enter a Federal building.

Tighter security requirements for driver's licenses could keep Kentucky residents from federal facilities.

When Alex DeSha was making arrangements for about 50 Kentuckians to attend an Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Atlanta later this month, he found out their driver's licenses wouldn't be accepted as identification.
New security provisions that take effect July 21 will require that people with driver's licenses from Kentucky and nine other states show a passport or some other kind of federal identification, such as a military ID, the EPA said.
And by 2016 the implications could spread well beyond EPA hearings as Kentucky driver's licenses risk falling out of compliance for boarding airplanes.
Kentucky officials have been working to tighten 39 procedures to satisfy the REAL ID Act of 2005, signed by President George W. Bush as a way to make it difficult for terrorists to obtain state-issued identification. Implementation of the act has been delayed several times and Kentucky is seeking an extension from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security until 2016 to comply.
One big issue, said Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokeswoman Lisa Tolliver, is that unlike many states where driver's licenses are issued by a single state agency, Kentucky's licenses are handled by local Circuit Court clerk's offices at 145 locations, making it more difficult to standardize procedures.

If you think going to the airport is a good time, you should go try and visit a fucking Federal building.

It's a blast dude.

Not.

Empty your pockets, no knives, no cell phones, take your belt off and throw everything on the belt so it can be X rayed and you get the old metal detector trick.


I almost got arrested once because I had a damn flask of whiskey in my inner coat pocket that I completely forgot about.

It was a Big Deal.


They had to write up an incident report and the whole fucking razzle dazzle. Assholes with guns, everything.

I got lucky and the pricks let me go pour it out in the gutter instead of locking my ass up.

Yeah, that's my idea of a great time.

It really freaked 'em out when I had to go on a service call at a court house and showed up with a bunch of tools and a work radio strapped on.

Another, BIG DEAL.

Cocksuckers threatening me with Felony charges and shit.

I told 'em to take it up with the muckety muck motherfucker that called me there in the first place.

Ten minutes later there was a whole group of chastized Brown Shirts huddled around their precious metal detector giving me evil looks as I was being personally escorted past it by the head man himself.

See, that's the thing about all this security bullshit.

It's all a big show.

False security and every pompous dick head you ever wanted to avoid meeting in your entire life all wrapped into one very expensive package.

III2III Norman OK. Area Moving Help Needed

Sometimes it's not about money.

Our friend and fellow Patriot Xenolith has bought a piece of property that had a house burn down on it and with only one useable arm has been working his ass off getting it cleared off so he could move to it and start getting more self sufficient.

I don't know how he managed it, but he came up with an awesome score of a huge portable building on wheels for free that was even delivered.

Looks can be deceiving.....

Now the time has come for him to start moving his things to his new property and he needs some help with it.

As I mentioned, the guy only has one arm that he can use and really doesn't have a proper vehicle or trailer.

He has found an older gentleman with a truck and a trailer so now he just basically needs some strong backs.

If you live near this area and would like to help out a fellow American Patriot it would be greatly appreciated.

He has posted a start time of 8:00 A.M. this Thursday and is mumbling something about BBQue so he will feed you for your efforts.

His contact info is Xenolith1964 AT yahoo Dot Com and can be found at his site.

I can tell you without hesitation that if I was within 50 miles instead of the 2500 I am, I would be there.
Guarantee it.

If for no other reason that I know it probably could be done in one day but for the fact that I would get to meet the man and his most excellent wife so I could tease him to his face instead of over the internet.

Much more satisfying that way. Lol!

I thank you for stopping by and any help you can give the man.

He is good people.

I Feel So Much Safer Now

Why does this not surprise me?

Posted: 4:46 p.m. Monday, July 14, 2014

Orlando TSA agents getting geography refresher

 

 

ORLANDO, Fla. —

It's something most of most students learn in elementary school -- the United States is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia. But Channel 9's Justin Gray found out it's a lesson that an Orlando agent with the Transportation Safety Administration seems to have missed.

Gray, who lives in Washington, D.C., was flying out of Orlando International Airport when a TSA agent said Gray's District of Columbia driver's license wasn't a valid form of identification. Gray said his license is legal and up-to-date, but the TSA agent didn't seem to know what the District of Columbia was when Gray arrived at the security checkpoint over the weekend.

When Gray handed the man his driver's license the agent demanded to see Gray's passport.
Grays told the agent he wasn't carrying his passport and asked why he needed it.

The agent said he didn't recognize the license.

Gray said he asked the agent if he knew what the District of Columbia is, and after a brief conversation Gray realized the man did not know.

Gray was able to get through security and then stopped to complain to a TSA supervisor.

Critics of the TSA said that what happened to Gray is a sign that the problems at TSA are bigger than just not knowing geography.

"They simply have not been either applying or maintaining standards for good personnel," said Douglas Kidd, with the National Association of Airline Passengers.

 

Pulse?

Check.

Breathing?

Check.

What is today's date?

WAAAARHGARBLE!!!


"You're Hired".

"You start next ZOMBOFUDDLE".



I swear on my Mothers grave I won't even get within a country mile of an airport, let alone fly,unless it is some family emergency.

Yet this is what our fucking government considers good enough to give a security clearance to and the authority to make your life a living Hell because terrist's ya know.

It's for the children, or whatever horseshit excuse they decide is the buzzword of the day.

I see some of the employees of the TSA once in a while at a 7-11 I stop at and it is all I can do to not point and laugh.

I swear the stupid radiates off of them like heat waves when they waddle by on the way to the donut section.

Thud

I got called in to work yesterday, my day off, wound up there beating my head against the wall doing some absolutely infuriating shit using junk parts on a multimillion dollar piece of equipment that they have known is fucked up for months, for thirteen fucking hours straight.

I am not going to go into details, I'm not going to rant and rave and I'm not going to threaten anyone with physical violence, yet.

I am too fucking tired.

Someone is going to get an earful tomorrow though.

Fucking cunts.

I Win You SonofaBitch!

Finally.

It came down to a trial and error thing trying to find what in the holy fuck messed up the lay out of the Blog.

I deleted everything except the Blogroll and I trimmed that fucker down viciously.

Still nothing.

Then I started going back through the posts themselves and reverting them back to a draft one by one.

Bingo.


I have no idea what Blogger has against The Ramones but that was the winner, my post about Tommy the drummer for The Ramones passing away.
Some damn thing in the code somewhere.

Miserable shit was pissing me off something fierce and I make it worse because I am so stubborn.

I win though.

Fuuuuuuuuck you I win.

Thanks for your patience.

Excuse The Mess

Aggravating cocksucker anyway.

I think I have the issue of the disappearing side bars figured out.

Fixing that is another matter.

According to the Blogger Help Page, (spit), this occasionally occurs when the side bars get too wide and it kicks them down stairs.

Seeings how I did not change anything on my layout page when I put up that one post, I have no fucking clue how something got kattywampus.

I dicked around with this problem for several hours and I think what the fucking parameter problem is actually boiling down to is the size of my Blogroll, because I completely got rid of everything else and it is still fucked up.

This is going to be one time consuming little task and I ain't in the mood to sit for fucking hours and hours culling my Blogroll. Opening up a link, copying that link, going into my layout, opening a new gadget window, naming it, then paste the new link into it, then go open old gadget window, find that fucking link and delete it.

All this so that I can trim down the size of the box my Blogroll is in and I would have to do that over FIFTY FUCKING TIMES!!

So you folks are just going to have to be patient with me on this.

I already culled a shit load of Blogs that hadn't been updated for over six months and I'm thinking that number is going to grow just to save me time.

If you are on my Blogroll and you haven't posted in the last month, you had better get with the program or you are going to be history.

I am also going to be fucking with the template so don't freak out if it is a mess when you stop by.
I'll get it where I want eventually.

Now WTF?

After the last post, when the page loaded, all my side bar shit disappeared.
Well, not disappeared, it's still there according to my layout page.

It just won't load.

No matter how many times I refresh the page.

No Blog roll to cruise through?
How the fuck am I supposed to keep up with what's going on?

Fucking Blogger, again.

Update.

All my side bar shit is at the bottom of the page now, despite what the layout says and despite my efforts to rearrange it.

Why me?

What the fuck did I do?

Mother. fucker.

Update 2.

OK, now this is just pissing me off.

Don't be surprised if you swing by and find yellow and pink fucking polka dots on the back ground.

I am going to fuck with the template until I get this bullshit fixed.

Update 3.

It just keeps getting more bizarre.

If you go to the bottom of the page and click on Older Posts, when it comes back everything is normal to last Wednesday.

It is only affecting the current page.

There may be some unpleasant messages exchanged with the nice people at Blogger here shortly.

3.5 Billion Would Buy A Lot Of Fence

I don't know who the fuck Obama thinks he is trying to kid with this bullshit.
I really don't.
There have been so damn many illegal immigrants saunter across our border that even the United Fucking Nations has started calling it a refugee crisis and here peckerhead wants to spend three and half billion dollars to coddle these motherfuckers before he will even think about stopping the invasion.

Even a dumb shit knows that when someone is bleeding to the point it is life threatening, the first thing you do is try to stop the hemorrhaging.

But no.

The part that should piss you off is that the government has been issuing purchase orders for supplies to give these people since the beginning of the year, well before it got played up in the news that it was a flood of young people coming from South America, complete with all kinds of nasty fucking diseases.

Not Mexico, South America.

They had to go THROUGH Mexico to get here. Must not be too damn hard to go clear the fuck through a shit hole of a corrupt fucking country if kids are doing it, eh?

Bullshit. Don't believe that for one fucking second.

There is big money getting passed around to get that kind of service.

Where in the fuck was that meddlesome bunch of Do Gooders at the U.N. while this refugee crisis was building?

Fiddle fucking around in someone else's business some where else probably.

Dick heads.

For Three and a Half Billion dollars, a guy could buy enough fence to go around this entire country, twice.
There would be enough left over to pay our own unemployed workers to put the shit up too.


The fence manufacturers would piss down their legs with joy at the prospect of selling that much motherfucking fence.

The trucking industry people would be pissing down their legs with joy at the prospect of hauling all that motherfucking fence.

There would be jobs out the wazoo building all that motherfucking fence.

It would stop all these "refugees" dead in their tracks at the motherfucking fence.

The unemployment rate would go down.

Barack Obama would have to find some other way to getting his fucking nation transforming agenda done.

It's that fucking easy.

But no.

Let's play fucky fuck political games with all this bullshit , all the while more and more of these motherfuckers keep pouring across an imaginary border, bringing nasty fucking diseases that our fucked up Obamacare system isn't the slightest bit ready to deal with and keep all this hush hush so the fucking Sheeple don't get a clue as to how bad a fucking they are taking, again.


Then sic the fucking Feds on those who ARE wise to the game and are trying to keep these flea bit Typhoid Mary's and  T.B.  Thomases from being bussed into their communities  as part of the plan to spread the numbers out.

At this point we should just invade Mexico and turn it into another territory like Guam or Puerto Rico so we can have all the cheap fucking labor the Oligarch societies want and be done with it.

We should just keep going South  until we hit the Panama Canal and THEN build a motherfucking fence.
It would be way cheaper by then.


What the fuck, we are paying for them anyway, let's get some cheap shit cranked out here and we can stick a thumb in China's eye while we are at it.

In all seriousness, there is a point of diminishing return to all of this.

Eventually there will be so many of them here, that here is going to be exactly like there, where they came from.

At that point someone is going to ask where the fuck are they going to go now?

There ain't no way out other than up or back where they came from.

Do you think for one second that Canada is going to put up with this kind of shit?

I don't.

They will be spending 1.25 Billion, bigger than shit.

And they will be building a motherfucking fence, Jack.

Update, Og and Mr. B have the answer to the fence issue nailed down.

High And Tight

With just the right amount of jiggle.

Remington to settle lawsuits over rifle’s trigger mechanism

The articles says that millions of the Remington 700's have been sold since 1962 and that they have been aware of the problem with them firing when the safety is clicked off or when the bolt is opened or closed since at least 1979.

There are currently 3 class action suits against Remington for this issue and this one has been settled now but the details have not been released.

It seems at the very least there will be a recall.

I bet the dinks at GM hope the news cycle picks this up and runs with it for a while.

The Remington Arms Co. has reached a nationwide settlement of claims that most of its Model 700 bolt-action hunting rifles have a defective trigger mechanism — a settlement likely to include the recall of millions of the popular firearm.

Attorneys for Remington and the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit against the company did not respond Monday to requests for comment on a “notice of settlement” filed last week in federal court in Missouri.

Yet Richard Barber, a Montana man who’s been saying for a dozen years that many of the Model 700 are defective and should be recalled, indicated Monday that a recall is part of the settlement.

“It does accomplish what I want to accomplish,” he told the Lee Newspapers State Bureau. “I guess it’s safe to say, it’s better late than never. …

“As a whole, (the settlement) represents the best interests of the public. It will save lives, it will save limbs.”

The lawsuit says more than 5 million Model 700 bolt-action rifles have been sold since 1962.

This is just a snippet from the article.

There are more details of what exactly they believe is causing the problem and more information about the lawsuits at the link.



H/T to FARK news for the link.

You Knew It Was Coming

Never let a good crisis go to waste, even if you have to create that crisis out of thin air.

President Obama will seek $3.7 billion in emergency funds from Congress  to meet the country's  “moral obligation” to care for unaccompanied minors who have flooded in recent months to the southwestern border, White House officials said Tuesday.
Nearly half the money would go to the Department of Health and Human Services for food, housing and medical care for the tens of thousands of children and teenagers who have arrived at the border, senior administration officials told reporters.

Video: President Obama invites Texas Gov. Rick Perry to meet and discuss the immigration crisis.

The rest of the money would be aimed at deterring further migrants by strengthening law enforcement, going after smuggling networks that ferry people from Central America and expanding the number of deportation hearings.
The spending plan, nearly double the $2 billion the White House initially said was the minimum amount it would seek, is certain to raise concern among budget hawks in Congress.
The request reflects the president’s dilemma in responding to the estimated 52,000 children who have crossed the border since October, many of them reporting that they’re fleeing violence in their home countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

 

Obama has called the border situation a humanitarian crisis and is under pressure from advocates for immigrants to treat the arriving children humanely. At the same time, White House officials say they need to quickly find a way to stop the flood of new arrivals and send a message to families in Central America that the migrants are not welcome and will be returned to their home countries.
Advisors to the president are mindful of both tasks -- and of the varying constituencies paying close attention.

Read more at the LA Times site.

Delusions of Grandeur

And I Am Supporting At Least Two

Patience My Ass

The Cat is Going Outside.

I asked the wife how much longer I had to put up with the motherfucker out in my garage and she said Monday.

Uh, no.
I told her I was letting the damn thing out a day early for good behavior, it hasn't hissed at me for three days now and it is healed up good enough to hit the fucking bricks.

I have the engine for my Sprite tore down out there and the things I need to do to it so I can prep it for new piston rings are going to involve stuff that stinks.

You know, chemicals and lubricants.

I didn't dare go out there and try to do it and just crack the window, that cat would have been scattering shit all over the place trying to get out.

No more.

Bye bye kitty.

It ain't like it's going anywhere now, she is too used to getting fed regularly.

She will be out on the back porch staking out territory and battling the rest of the furballs out there.

The last thing I am going to see from her is her asshole and the bottoms of her feet as she high tails it out the fucking back door.
I think she has been cooped up in there for a month and a half at least.

That's a month and a half I am behind schedule on that fucking car which tightens my jaw no fucking end.
Damn am I mad about that.


That garage is about to become a very hostile environment for fur bearing animals of any description, two or four legged.
Actually, hostile may be a tad bit of an understatement.

Get the fuck out and stay the fuck out while you can do so under your own power.

This Is Why Men Do Not Vacuum The House

We can't get the fucker started.

Sent to me in an Email, I couldn't resist.

The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave

The wife wanted to go to my old stomping grounds yesterday for their Fourth of July celebration at a water front park.
The plan was to get there a bit earlier than the rest of the Sheeple so we could grab a spot with a Barbeque pit that was advertised on their website.

Long story short, it turned into a logistical fucking nightmare.
First off, this shindig was at a large public marina with enough parking for hundreds of cars.
But no.

The boat ramp was right smack dab next to the music stage and it was open. They wouldn't let you park there. You had to park about five hundred yards away and then take a hay ride on a trailer to get in. The trailer cut right in front of and dropped you off right next to trucks loading and unloading boats on the ramp.

Not knowing this, we had packed all kinds of shit for a picnic and fishing outing.

All of that had to be hauled out of the car, carried about eighty feet and deposited on this trailer full of people.

When they dropped us off, we had no idea what was where and had to do a scouting foray to find a place to carry all our gear to.

This is when we find out that the advertised Barbeque pits (plural) is actually one fucking barbeque pit for what I would estimate later to be close to a thousand people and was of course, taken.
We had the charcoal, the lighter fluid and my case full of BBQ items but no fucking barbeque.

Remember now, this is the Fourth of July in a small town. By the way, just for fun I find out my debit card shit the bed earlier, the magnetic strip somehow has a huge gouge in it from something I stuck in my back pocket, most likely a crescent wrench.

I tell the wife that I will go try and find a small disposable grill at Safeway.
It is to laugh.
Not a chance. There was a small SEARS outlet open though and by golly they had a full size grill, on sale,for 40 bucks.

Of course the stupid kid who got stuck working had no clue how to just punch in the numbers on my card. I found a ten spot I didn't remember having and between that, the twenty I knew about and the cash my wife had, I had enough to get the damn thing.

This is after we just spent 80 bucks at Walmart getting the rest of the shit.

Now the fun part.
I am in her car. A small, Ford Focus that brought four people, a large cooler, two fishing poles, two tackle boxes blankets and a fucking watermelon to this park.

The only place this grill fit was across the back seat so in it goes and off we go back to the no parking hell zone.

I got lucky and found a spot on the main drag and packed that dirty fucker all the way in.

The wife ain't happy.
What a surprise.

We go round and round because we would have had to set all that up in a different spot from where we had already packed all our shit to and then would miss a good viewing spot for the fireworks later, plus, now I have to figure out how I am going to get the damn thing home.

She now decides to scrap the barbeque idea all together and just buy some burgers from a vendor there.

If you knew me, you would rightly guess that about this point, I am right at the point of no return and the results are not going to be pretty.

Instead, I just say fuck it, whatever, I don't give a fuck.

So we finally eat.

Now the boy wants to go fishing. I got him his very first fishing license just about an hour ago.

This should be a no brainer. Got the poles, the worms, the licenses and the gear.

We head out to go fishing. It's a fucking marina.
There are docks everywhere.

Nope.

Can't fucking fish off the docks in the marina.

Fine, I'll just go on the other side to the bank where I have fished at least a dozen times in the past.

Nope, can't do that either, they have closed that access to the public for this fucking shindig.

I am now rapidly approaching nuclear meltdown.

Some guy that works for the Port there must have seen the murder in my eyes when he told me that because he volunteered that he wouldn't see us just this one day if we went farther upriver and went past a no trespassing sign about a hundred yards away and ducked over the bank.

Fine. I thanked him and over the bank we went.


Didn't even get a bite.

I don't care, I went fishing and got away from the madness for a while.

We head back and the kid disappears, 16 years old and lots of girls around, I know what he is up to but the wife can't cut the apron strings and keeps fretting because he isn't right there where she can keep tabs on his narrow ass.

Then a guy I work with calls me on the phone.
Him and some other co workers are going to come down and want to know where we are at.

Double plus mother fucking bonus points, I can tell on the phone, the dude is half drunk.

Here, we go.

Sure as shit, a bunch of them show up and some of them can barely stand up.

Thank God it was starting to get dark finally.

Of course they want to sit right next to us but luckily it had gotten fairly packed by the time they got there so they had to fall down a few yards away.

I visited with them for a bit but since I don't drink anymore the charm left that scene rather quickly.

Six and a half hours after we left the house, the music had been going for over an hour and they are finally going to get with the program. The fireworks barge is sitting out front in the river, they sing the pledge of allegiance, never heard that before and then they start singing the Star Spangled banner.

The whole time this is going on I am quietly reflecting to myself on the shape this country is in while I am looking around and just how pitiful it is to see all these people who couldn't give a flying fuck if the NSA is reading their Emails or recording their phone calls, or all the other abuses our government is heaping on us and here they are just singing away.

I couldn't do it.
I couldn't even mouth the words. I was busy choking on the irony of the whole scene. Let's all pretend all is right in our world for a couple of hours on one day out of the year.

When they got to the part about the land of the free and the home of the brave? The bile started rising.There I was, surrounded by blissfully ignorant idiots, my fellow citizens. No fucking clue, I could see it in their vacant eyes.

Mercifully they all finally shut up, the lights went out and the fireworks started.

Twenty two minutes later the show was over and people were heading out in droves like Lemmings headed to the cliffs.
I let a bunch of them get ahead of me and started packing shit up.

I had taken the fucking grill back to the car earlier to save myself that hassle, there was still plenty to lug across a parking lot longer than a foot ball field as it was. The cooler doesn't have wheels and I had to hoist the fucker up on my shoulder and muscle it the whole way.

Finally got to the little car, pulled the grill out of the back seat, crammed everything I could into the trunk, had the wife and the boy get in the back seat while her oldest son who is autistic piled in the front and then crammed that fucking brand new grill right back in over the top of them and drove home to find several freaked out cats and the neighborhood fireworks show going full blast.

The land of the free and the home of the brave my aching ass. More clueless idiots literally watching their money go up in smoke for mere seconds of entertainment.

I'm taking the day off.
I think I might go fishing Sunday too.

A guy has to know his limits and I just red lined mine.