Absurd Spices

Ronin Round-Up Postponed... Indefinitely

2007-08-30T10:22:00.000-07:00

The attempt to gather Ronin has been canceled until further notice. Due to my deplorable lack of a calendar, I scheduled for the Labor Day weekend. Also, due to deplorable lack of enthusiasm outside myself, there would be no one there. I'll be taking suggestions for a possible future date though.

Everyone have a labor free Labor Day.

-JesseW

Shadows Of The Empire

2007-08-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

It is no secret that we have recently had quite the hullabaloo of late over the rather large amounts of tainted products wending their poisoned way into the US from points overseas. The main dealers of death and ill-health are the products manufactured or produced in China. The manufacture of toys has long been an overseas affair. So much so that we have taken it as an out of hand arrangement and give it no second though. Yet there is another item upon which we depend that we are bringing in from the outside. And, any American may be scratching their heads in consternation as to why and why from there. I speak of food. We are importing large amounts of food from this nation and others whom have never made it a secret that they are not fond of us or our way of life. They are, instead enamored of the cash to which we bring them. And they have built up quite a stockpile of their own.

I may be missing something here, but it is understood that we are a massive nation. We have a Midwest filled with hundreds upon thousands of miles of fertile fields for the growth of vegetables, grains, beans, etc. We have coasts that lay upon two oceans and numerous bays and gulfs. Are we lacking in seafood or in those other foodstuffs upon which we rely for our nourishment? It seems that we may. Sadly so, we have conditioned the American farmer to survive on Government subsidies to not produce rather than the product of his sweat and toil brought up from the Earth. Thus, we have been increasing our desire and need to procure the cheapest of produce from nations hostile, if not openly, to our interests and survival. This also applies to the baubles we use to surround ourselves. These are the diversions of Consumer Electronics, our clothing and our creature comforts. And we are not the first super power to have done so.

I speak of the Roman Empire. The Empire was agreeably one of the largest and most powerful nations of the ancient world. It was flung s far as the British Isles and stretched into Egypt. So varied were the locales in which they had left their footprint and their presence that numerous goods never before available were brought into and relied upon as had never been seen. It became common to assume this supply would always be there and for prices seen nowhere else outside the bounds of the Empire. This caused them to be increasingly, and in the end, totally reliant upon their charges for their very sustenance; for the very items they bought and sold as their livelihoods. This is where they stretched beyond their ability to feed their very own. Additionally, their bits and baubles were shipped from far and wide for the enrichment and entertainment of Patrician and Plebe alike.

And still, we find that there are contrasts here. The Roman Empire subjugated and made their own the lands from whence their commerce and agriculture came. We cannot speak so. We have many a nation upon which we have made ourselves dependant for our survival. Yet we find we do not have military power and control of these outposts. We rely on the benevolence of nations which are far from benevolent. In further contrast, we have the full capability to produce almost all these thing we rely upon out of our own lands and industries. However, it appears that we have lost the will to do this very thing. Or, we have been denied the right, at least agriculturally, by the Patricians of our Modern Age.

We know that the end of the aforementioned Empire was brought about by the laziness and corruption of the Patrician leaders and the willful distraction of the Plebes. This distraction held before them by the Patricians seeking to keep the mob from tearing them limb-from-limb were they to see the real danger the Empire had been placed in. Even a simple baker, were he not distracted, would have seen that it is best to grow your own grain, to mill it, and then to bake and sell the end result. In our present Nation, we find the Patricians are not the Conservatives, as the media may seek to misinform, but from the so-called Progressives who wish to surrender our sovereignty with a wink and a smile. At our roots, the Conservatives wish to keep labor and production upon our shores, but have been thwarted by the Labor Union lapdogs of the Left. The Plebes find their Circuses in our Reality Shows, vapid entertainment, and the pabulum fed to them by an ever veiled and deceiving media. Their Bread comes in the form of mandatory minimum wage laws, welfare, and the hollow and distracting promises of more to come.

The Empire was destroyed by barbarians from without and corruption within. And in this, there is no contrast. We find that even at this moment, the barbarians of our downfall come not on longboat and horse, but on the cargo ships, the boxcar and semi trailer. Steadily they pour in to our nation to bring down our populace with a taint upon our sustenance and the financial ruin of our companies. The very lifeblood of our economy I threatened as they hemorrhage cash due to, dare I say planned, negligence on the part of their foreign manufacturers. Our strength for the new day, for industry, sapped by illness due to the tainted food we have consumed. The recall of Chinese foodstuffs and the recall of shoddily, poisoned products from the same nation are seeking to tear us apart from within and without. And what other time bombs; what hidden hordes of destruction do are we in peril of from the myriad hostile nations to whom we have surrendered our means of continuing on? We see now, as the years have played out, the consequences of the granting of the Most Favored Nation status to an enemy who seeks to see us fall. We see over the horizon the much more frightening specter that this may just be the beginning.

But what is it that can be done? We have grown too accustomed to buying jeans sewn in Malaysia or Viet Nam. We buy cars electronics from China, among other things. What can we do? The answer is tough. And it will be a sacrifice, but one which we must be prepared to face to ensure our survival. We must return to days past, when our nation was strong. We must return to industry and production within our sovereign and blessed borders. And we must get the American farmer producing again. As consumers, we must say no to those things created in the countries hostile to our own, and buy our produce from those who grow within our twice-blessed shores. We have little power as individuals. And yet we have a great power which drives the systems that keep this nation thriving. We speak with our Cash. If companies find that the products they create in factories in these enemy states are no longer making money for them, they may be forced to return to the homeland for their livelihood. But we must ensure they bring them back to non-union shops. Those who sell foodstuffs must know that these things they buy from overseas will no longer move. They must be taught that the American farmers and fishers are their only hope to remain viable.

I may seem a rambling nut, but I from my heart as one from whose eyes the wool has been pulled away. Lest we become like the Empire before, we must stop the Patrician corruption. We must say no to Bread and Circuses that so distract the Plebes. We must return to the label “Made in America”. With stout hearts and staunch wallets, we may yet stem the invading Barbarian horde, and retain the splendor of a nation that slips daily into decay. It is a nation that was great and can be again. We must see to it and preserve our Republic.

Too Bad It Didn't Die OF Loneliness

2007-08-10T08:09:00.000-07:00

I love our public education system. I especially love that which we have here in the state of Arizona. Those teachers and administrators and school board members are just so darned creative and responsible and dedicated and efficient and… well, I can’t type this with a straight face anymore. It seems that our educators here in Tucson AZ, a bastion of Regressive thought, had a bright idea. If the kids won’t come to school, we’ll bribe the bastards. That’s right. Bribe the kids to actually invest in their own futures.

I remember my family’s view of education from when I was a child. I was told to go to school and get good grades. And my parents had a number of really great reasons. I’d have a better chance at a good job and a future. I’d learn to think creatively and be prepared to face the real world that lay ahead. My parents wanted better for me than they had and education was the key. And the most important reason of all: If I didn’t go to school, study and apply myself, I was gonna get an ass whoopin’ with a splintered Frat Paddle that my derriere was all too familiar with. Good reasons, all.

But, we live in a post-Dr. Spock world. We are feeling the effects of trickle-down blame-enomics. It seems that parents feel the educators should be raising their kids and the educators seem more than willing to oblige. Thus we arrive at the new Bribes-for-Books pilot program in Tucson, AZ. The gist of it is, if a child has good grades, a good attendance record, and doesn’t drop out, they get a (at least for the pilot) stipend of $25 a week to do what their parents should be beating into them the directive to do anyway.

At present, it is being funded by a non-profit organization. But I foresee this becoming a part of the already ponderous public handout Hydra. As they have selected their students from a pool of low-income kids that were already doing well, virtual guaranteeing a false positive of success for the pilot, I see an outcry, as the data is finally tabulated, for the state to fund this incentive in perpetuity. And not just in Tucson, but throughout the State’s education systems. And then, how long will it be before it creeps onto the national scene and this graft-for-grades program becomes the norm in all 50 states?

If one observes this critically, an entirely different conclusion and result can be extrapolated. And it is very different than the misguided and retarded intent of the backers of the experiment. This is starting the children off early in the Entitlement establishment. If a child learns to expect compensation for that which they should be doing anyway, they are going to take that lesson and apply it to the rest of their lives. What happens if or when they go to college? Will they demand a signing bonus? How about when they enter the job market? We already have enough people who think they have a right to work and a job regardless of their work ethic, skill level or dedication. What becomes of the workplace and the economic producers in the nation then?

No, this will not work. It will not have the desired effect. And it is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve heard this week. Unfortunately, with the Left, the next half-assed, ill-advised, brainless scheme is just around the corner.

This idea, like most that manage to rattle around in the Regressive pea-brain, should have died of loneliness like its sisters and brethren before.

-Jesse W

May The Ronin Be Gathered From The 4 Corners

2007-08-08T20:11:00.000-07:00

So, as some IMAO readers have seen, I am trying to gather the AZ and Southwestern Ronin together for a somewhat informal gathering. It all started with the Ronin Profiles feature on IMAO. It appears that we have quite a few of us here in the southwest, Arizona in general and the Greater Phoenix Area specifically. So, I figured it would be great to put faces to the screen names and smart-assed, right-minded comments that entertain and inform me everyday.

So, here is the deal. Tentatively, I would like to get together with the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona and Southwest Region if they can make it. The date, which is negotiable, I am slating as Saturday, September 1st. The location (also negotiable) will be Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe, AZ. This has the added bonus, despite the great homebrews, of being near the ASU campus, thus allowing for Hippy Punching and Libtard Tossing if the mood arises.

So, if you are a Zonie, or in the area and like to travel long distances to meet strange people you know from The Internet,. then email me at haggismachaggis@hotmail.com

Penis, Vagina or ?

2007-08-07T19:09:00.000-07:00

Yay! The nutjobs are at it again here in the epicenter of what used to be a rather solid Red State. I am speaking of a recent dust-up making local news in my beloved City and State. As those who have read here know, I live in Phoenix proper in the arid, dusty and just barely still Conservative state of Arizona. But the Leftards are encroaching. ASU seems to be spilling over its borders and daring to sully the decent people who don't take truck with any of those Liberal Arts College types.

The thing of which I speak began in November. Here in Phoenix, we have a nightclub run by a man named Tom Anderson. Tom, much like the eponymous character voiced by Mike Judge, is also dealing with a pack of buttheads. Anderson's 5th Estate, which tends to attract the college age slacker and sometimes deviant types, is under fire. I suppose the clientèle can't be helped, given the club atmosphere. Personally, I rather relish that he is parting these vapid hollow shells from their Parentally bestowed cash. But, it is under fire from the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transsexual lobby. That's right! The GLBT Lobby. Now, it may just be me, but any group that sounds like a Blue Plate special in a Jersey Diner should never be taken seriously. Yet, Arizona's leftist, Napolitano boot-licking AG, Terry Goddard has listeedn to this group of selfish hedonist and confused boygirls, and is now trying to burn Mr. Anderson at the stake.

Here's the scene. November, 2006. A normal night at the club. Men trying to score the hotties with lame pickup lines, metrosexual flair and entire cans of Tag Bodyspray. Women getting free drinks from dudes that wanna hit that, hanging with their cockblocking gaggle of hens and going to the bathroom in groups with numbers to rival the split personalities of an average Ron Paul supporter. As this herd of hootchies congregate in the Ladies Room, an odd thing is observed. Suzy with the cute miniskirt, the black sling-back heels, and the Adam's apple is standing to pee. Naturally, the women (the real ones, not those in sick mind only) are put off by this display, generally only scene performed by very limber and vulgar women. So these concerned sisters of the Double-X Chromosomes report the rather startling scene to the manager. Of course, the management was obliged to toss that cross-dressing deviant out on he/she/its ass. Not because of this alone, but because of the staunch, bend-to-my-will-or-i'll-throw-a-swishy-fit attitude. This coupled with an outright refusal to use the restroom that best matched the plumbing, rather than the mind and couture, of the apparently aggrieved.

As you have probably already guessed by now, with how very understanding of the wishes of every other GOD DAMNED PERSON IN THE PLACE!!!, the desire not to make the women (the real ones, not those in sick mind only) feel uncomfortable and unsafe... and realizing that the owner had the right to run his business whichever way he FUCKING PLEASED, the issue was put to bed. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just kidding. These are Libtards we are talking about. The individual got the Fudge-Packing/Rug-lMunching/Indecisive/He/She/It aAlliance together to slander an honest business man. One who made that oh-so-crazy decision to put the needs and desires of pretty much 99.9% of his customers above the bullshit mental gymnastics of the low spark of high-heeled boys. These imaginarily aggrieved have since filed a complaint with Liberal Attorney General, and many failed Gubernatorial candidate, Terry Goddard. And, they are howling for blood of, and seeking punishment for, Mr. Anderson due to his insensitive refusal to pander to .1% of clientèle.

This effects not only AZ, but other states as well. Make no mistake about it. Have no illusions about it. The trial lawyers are sharpening their fangs, just itching to pounce on this in the name of Almighty Legal Precedent. So, if I have any readers: EMAIL THE AG NOW. Spread the word. Email your network in the VRWC and flood this opportunist with so much of an outcry that he has to drop this ridiculous pursuit and let justice prevail.

The AZ AG's office can be reached on the web at:
Website: http://www.azag.gov/
Phone: 602.542.5025 in-state or 1-800.352.8431 (toll free) out-of-state
Email: civilrightsinfo@azag.gov

For more of the story, see the article at Phoenix's KFYI website:
http://www.kfyi.com/pages/local_news.html?feed=118695&article=2480476

I suppose, in the end, we'll have to start marking the doors with, not Male or Female, but with Penis, Vagina or ?

An InFISAble Proposition

2007-08-06T13:01:00.001-07:00

My, my, my… what an interesting change of heart the Democrats have had. I’m talking, of course, about the expansion of FISA. The Foreign Intelligence Security Act that was so maligned by the Left, their media puppets, and every nutrtoot out there. Strangely, the willingness to support this type of surveillance has shifted in the fever swap of the Liberal mind. And I have to ask myself why.

In trying to dissect this amazing turnaround, we must keep two things in mind. One is the results of the 2006 midterm election. We find ourselves witnessing a balance shift in terms of party and political ideology in the House and Senate, often at the detriment of those who are allegedly represented. The second is the rather fervent push to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine” in a so called attempt to balance political perspective in our country. A doctrine which any citizen with at least two neurons to rub together can see has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with the stifling of free and opposing speech in this Country.

A glance at recent political diatribe and dogma from the Left gives the lie that the Democrat party wants anything to do with fairness. They seek to limit it in any form not conforming to the party groupthink. We see new definitions of Hate Speech, more PC bullshit and a larger effort to stifle the smaller voice of Conservativism. They try to attack talk radio, blogs, websites supporting conservatives or maligning regressives. All the while championing the hate speech of their true socialist brethren. Thus, I feel ill at ease about the expansion of FISA. Especially as those who seek to destroy our great nation gain greater Mainstream Media influence while filling the pages of their playbooks with the diaries of DKos.

Now, I supported FISA at first and didn’t think such a large stink should have been made over it. I opposed the Dubai Ports deal. I railed against the Shamnesty bill. But this disturbing shift in the balance of power, and the increasing overtness of the Left’s attack on speech beyond their approved viewpoints, set me on knife’s edge. Make no mistake: Should the left gain the White House, though the Socialists railed against it when it was Bush’s faux pas, the very thing they decry will be the bludgeon of Free Speech’s demise. They seek to expand so that they can find whom to try and silence. Is the name Vince Foster ringing any bells? I fear something in the same vein with less lead and contrived suicide plots.

I know that this sounds like a fevered, Leftist rant. But, think about what possible reason the Dhimmicrats would seek to expand this legislation. The point may be moot, as FRED! Will mostly likely gain that fine White House in the District of Columbia. But be wary my friends. Beware Socialist bearing tools for national security.

Remember, they don’t want to be your government; they want to be your nanny.

-Jesse W.

Welcome IMAO Folk

2007-08-03T18:11:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to say Howdy to the folks from IMAO. As Shimauma has been constantly pestering me to no end about posting, I thought I'd take the moment to thank FrankJ for my 15 minutes of net fame, and the faithful readers of IMAO (who are the greatest blog readers on the Interweb) for reading my profile and dropping by to see my brain candy.

I've recently begun listening to talk radio again, and am growing more motivated to start posting again. There ARE some things that have been behind not posting, but those are resolving. For one thing, I have started a new job (well, new 4 months ago) which actually requires I work. I have less time to post, and end up only making random IMAO comments. This helps explain the second reason I haven't posted recently. As some may or may not know, I am crippled. I am a below-the knee amputee and I have a paralyzed right arm. As a result of having an ill fitted prosthetic leg, every day was a struggle with intense pain which had left me in a deep state of fatigue, thus not wanting to do anything from home but rest and be ready for the new day. But, I have a new leg, a new lease on life, new energy and a desire to vent as I have done in the past.

I'll be brain storming this weekend and promise my loyal reader (Shimauma... you rock) something new on Monday.

Additionally, if you are an AZ Ronin, email me at jwcanfield79@gmail.com. I want to set up a get together of the AZ Ronin to get to know each other and some of the fine libations this city's brewers can offer.

Again, thanks to FrankJ and the best folk on the web, the IMAO Ronin.

-JesseW

Ludicrous. Simply Ludicrous.

2007-03-14T12:50:00.000-07:00

Again, I stand before you completely unsurprised by the treasonous New York Slimes. It seems “The Paper of Record” and birdcage lining is again showing its true colors. Now, it’s not like they are lying, just being selective with the facts. In a recent article in the Slimes, covering Pelosi’s warning to President Bush that vetoing the Surrender Bill ( which is what the Democrat party in Congress has turned the latest troop funding bill into) would send the wrong message to the Iraqi leadership, we see this in action. Within the article, the Slimes plays fast and loose with the truth. The gist is that he better not slaughter her sacred cow, or else. Or else what? Exactly.

But, it is not the ludicrous nature of the warning that gets to me. Though, that is rather amazing that a wanker Congress creature would deign to tell the President of the United States (Commander-in-Chief for the folks just joining our fine Republic, or Reality for that matter) how to prosecute a war. Even more audacious is this Botox-riddled idiot’s warning against the Big Man using his Constitutionally granted powers. But, as we’ve seen… the Left has little use for the Constitution unless it covers their asses after their many foibles return to haunt them. I doubt most have even read it. And, given the average intelligence of a Leftard, the big words probably scared them away from serious study and understanding.

The Leftards could benefit from Mrs. Du Toit’s Plain-Language Constitution Project.

As to the Illustration of the Leftie bias and the Propping up of the Dhimmicrats, read the linked article. The article states that the US General, now overseeing operations in Baghdad (General Petraeus), has stated that the war is not winnable via military action. Ladies and Genteleman, welcome to the lie of omission. The General has indeed stated that the war cannot be won by military action ALONE. And it is that alone that speaks volumes about the bias from the New York Slimes. For Petraeus’ actual comments, you can check out this article.

By the way, does anyone else find it beyond hilarious that Pelosi is warning the President about vetoing? I just get the image in my head of Silly Putty Face in an alley holding a Swiss army knife loosely and shakily while warning a much larger and stronger individual to leave her alone or else. And, just in case you were wondering, the threat is just like every Castrati Democrat threat. Empty and without backing. Maybe they can pass a non-binding resolution on it? Idiots.

Jesse W.

Well, I'll Be

2007-03-06T17:13:00.000-07:00

I suppose I might as well chime in. It's been all over the blogosphere. So, I'm gonna throw in my $.04 (Adjusted for inflation stemming from a Democrat controlled Congress.) Are you ready? Here goes...

WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK???

Wow. Ann Coulter said something off-color and insulting. Knock me over with a feather. I mean, this is so unlike Ann. She never says anything shocking. The LEFT just loves her and wishes her nothing but the best. And, as I type this, winged apes are flying directly from their nests located deep in my colon.

When the hell did we stop being the Right? You know... the party of personal responsibility, anti-PC, anti-big government, anti-wadded thong man panties. That was us. Conservatism, they hardly knew ye. At least those that are squaking like Moonbat KOSsack DUmmies. The rest of us are intact.

Ann dropped the F-Bomb. Well, not That F-Bomb. If she'd dropped that one, the Marcotte-buggering goat-lovers would have been hooting and hollering and slapping Ann on the back like an audience member at the Apollo. She used the British word for cigarette. To describe John Edwards.

Come to think of it... I really am appalled. I've known a lot of Faggots in my time. I've found them to be pleasant. They have been good friends. They've been consistent and honest and open, regardless of whether it loses them friends and support. And they always speak their minds. So.. Ann... Stop bagging on Faggots by calling John Edwards on. That's just really insulting to the rump rangers.

And speaking of Edwards and Marcotte, do you think she's gonna hate him now that he "says" faith is an important part of his life? Worthless godbag.

So, in short... everyone that was offended by what Ann said... Grow the fuck up. Read the First Amendment. Get an adult to explain the words to you. Then have them explain the meaning of a joke, of satire and fair play. After all, where are the calls of shame on those wishing that Cheney had been killed? Get over yourselves and start recognizing dangerous speech. As opposed to just tasteless, tacky, and fucking hilarious speech.

Faggots!

-Jesse W.

I Mean It This Time!

2007-03-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

Hello all you loyal reader...

I have made the determination to start blogging again regularly, but I'd like to hear what you'd like to hear me spout of on. I know I haven't posted regularly... um... ever, but I'd like to change that and share my writing. Also, as there are some of you that still drop by, I'd certainly like to hear your thoughts.

Also, If you come across any interesting news articles, essays, blog posts... send a link my way to me email address. I will make sure that I keep consistent with the posting and appreciate, in advance, the help.

jwcanfield79@gmail.com will get your input straight to my mailbox.

And for those of you that do still stop by from time to time... Thanks!

-Jesse W.

Give Me Apathy or Give Me... You Know... Whatever.

2007-01-07T10:42:00.000-07:00

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. It certainly isn’t that there wasn’t a lot to post about. There has been a veritable smorgasbord of idiocy that could serve as fodder for my misanthropic ranting. The Foley scandal, the midterm elections, the elevation of the Wicked Witch of the West to Speaker of the House, the deluded ramblings of Rangel and his draft proposal. It’s been what a malcontent such as I would call a target rich environment. I’ve been busy. But beyond that, I’ve had so much anger and rage at the stupidity of the American populace and the Republican leadership that the flood of bile trying to free itself from my mind has caused my brain to seize in an apoplexy just attempting to form the words of condemnation.

So, here we are in a new year. The new Democrat regime has been sworn in. The cut and run, gun-grabbing, isolationist cowards are now steering the Legislative. Joy of joys. About the only thing a Republican like myself (and given recent behavior of my party, I use the term loosely) can take solace in is the fact that the Left now has been given a sufficient length of rope with which to hang themselves. What happened to the Party? What happened to the Congress of Gingrich? Where did the Contract with America go? It appears that it has been inked over by pork and self-interest, and an overall detachment from and seeming contempt for the Base.

I am an Arizonan. Again, I apologize to you all out there on behalf of my state for having continually put McCain in office. Thankfully, we know we can count on Kyl, and for that I take comfort. But, overall, I’m disappointed that we have lost touch with the core values that allowed America to see the foolishness of the Leftist agenda and thus vote in those that would counteract the out-of-control spending and almost unstoppable march to a Socialist America. The Party that I grew up with brought to the table this election only the assertion that “At least we’re not AS bad as the other guys”. And for this, we now face a Democrat majority in the House and Senate and an overall disappointment from the party base. They seem to have forgotten that we aren’t the BDS crowd. We don’t make decisions based on sticking it to the other guy, but on what I best for the health and future of our nation. We are not a people that choose the lesser of two evils. We want results. A secure nation, secure borders, lower taxes, smaller government and the upholding and furtherance of Conservative values. But all we received was the assurance that as bad as the Republican leadership had been and providing and securing these things, Dems in power would be worse. And thus the base responded. And thus the Republican Congress is no more for the time being.

It appears that learning this lesson is going to be a slow path for those in power in the party. Rumsfeld was sacrificed on the altar of appeasement of those that would drag the nation down and push the will of the few at the expense of the many. The hubris continues. I read on the blog of a leftist that Pelosi wanted the House to be in session 5 days of the week. To actually work full time upon the task of national governance and lawmaking. And the largest detractors were from Republican representatives. We, the party of the work ethic. We, the party of commitment to the nation and its continued security and prosperity. We who should be committed to working every hour it takes to wrest, once again, the direction of this nation from the appeasers, nay-sayers and cowards. We, who should be committed to keeping the nation mighty and secure and a land of plenty. It was our representatives that balked at the concept. An illustration of how far our leadership has strayed from the path, and just how blind they have become to the goal.

I can only hope that our Republican reps will remember what it means to be Conservative. That our President will be reminded as well. We have little time for business as usual with these dangerous enemies of liberty at the helm. Dear god let them learn quickly, and let Bush find his Veto pen. But I’m just one guy. What do I know? Sadly, enough to feel betrayed, dismayed and waylaid by those I trusted and voted for.

May the Democrat party hang themselves with the rope they’ve been given and may the nation be freed from the mental illness of BDS. Until then, keep them loaded, close and well-oiled, because we’ve been left on our own for a while.

-Jesse W.

Oh my god! Look behind you! sucker punch

2006-10-08T11:19:00.000-07:00

Ah. October. The air is getting crisp here in Arizona and the temperature is starting to drop. Of course, that isn’t the only thing getting colder. The hearts of those on the Left continue to frost over in their desperate bid to grab the House and Senate back from Republican control. Wracked with BDS they grasp. But instead of trying to actually be relevant, and find a leg to stand on, once again the Left strikes out with ad hominem attacks tailor-made to sway the minds of the simpletons that would vote for them

We’ve all seen it happening in our respective states. An incumbent Republican is attacked by some Lib with a war chest from his own considerable fortune, or from some PAC flush with Soros bills, while our own honorable candidates look to the people for support and funds. Who was it that was the party of Billionaire, fat, White guys? Which one is Ted Kennedy in again? We try to play fair. We try to stay civil. We realize that for this country to remain strong we must have unity, as a population, behind the right actions and policies. We do. They don’t.

In my state, we have the Incumbent John Kyl running against a multi-millionaire, Jim Pedersen. While Senator Kyl is an upstanding man who has been on The Hill for many years working for our side, Jim Pedersen has been building up his fortune. And he’s using it to try and smear a man that wants to protect our borders, revoke healthcare and welfare privileges for illegals, and further other fiscal, social and security conscious policies.

Now I’m not saying that the amassing of wealth is a bad thing. Far from it. It is the wealthy that run the centers of commerce that keep most of the population (the ones who will work) in jobs to provide for themselves and family. But this millionaire is supposedly from the party that looks out for the fellow man, wants to give to the poor, wants amnesty for illegals, etc. I’m wondering what he needs his millions for if he really cares about what he says he does. What kind of man would we have making decisions on our behalf if he had to buy an election rather than win by the will of the people?

Pedersen, like most on the Left trying to unseat incumbents, know they haven’t a leg to stand on. So what do they do? They smear. They fight dirty. They play the Wizard, imploring the public to ignore the man behind the curtain. Pedersen has tried to slander Kyl over the Abramoff affair. Yet, something in my heart tells me that if Pedersen were on The Hill, he’d be lining his pockets with that filthy lucre to add to his already large collection. Probably would have grabbed for large payments too. He then goes on to state that Kyl voted against bills surrounding the very planks in Kyl’s platform. He stated he voted for amnesty for illegals, against English as an official language, etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitum. And he expects people to swallow the pill.

See, he knows anyone that would vote for a Dhimmicrat is obviously of the sort that takes everything as read and stays below the surface. He knows that his voter base won’t ask the important questions like, “What else was attached to the bill he voted against?”, or, “What rider or wording in this Bill made him vote for it?”, or, “Did the wording of the bill really mean what he said it means?” For a party that “prides” itself on nuance, the Dhims are extremely literal when it comes to slander. No nuance at all, and never, NEVER the whole picture. They just can’t trust the public to know the whole truth. If they did that, Pedersen wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell. Not like he stands a particularly good chance anyway. Though, the folks here did elect Napolitano, and keep sending McCain back to Washington. So it’s a toss-up.

So, as displeased as we may be with the manner in which certain members of our Electorate have been behaving, i.e. being pussified, back-pedaling RINO’s, we should remember to look at the whole picture. We are the party of truth. We are the ones who ask the deeper questions. We don’t take everything that is handed to us, but actually dig in and find the truth in all the spin. Don’t let your Pedersen fool you into turning against your Kyl, just as I won’t let the real turn me from the real.

By the way, want to know what Kyl’s reaction has been? He’s stuck to his own merits and refuses to play into the finger pointing spin game. We have the high ground. They say that it is good to question authority, and I agree. But when they give the right answer, then you support them all the way.

Don’t believe the hype. Don’t believe the lies. Don’t hand over the Legislature in ’06. Support your party and support what is good for our nation.

-Jesse W.

P.S. It’s been a while since I last blogged, so forgive me for being a tad rusty.

Yeah! Because That's Worked Before.

2006-08-13T15:07:00.000-07:00

Apparently the Useless Nations has finally drafted a resolution that will bring about a ceasefire in the Middle East. More specifically, the Israeli/Lebanese border. Yup, another resolution. They seem to have been so effective in the past. Like all the ones that were passed against Saddam. Worked like a charm. And they’ve done such a bang-up job preventing violence against Israel in the past, that this will be a surefire solution.

Oh. No. Wait. I meant to say the EXACT opposite. The resolutions are a joke and aren’t worth the trees that died to make the paper they were printed on. Seriously, why are the environmentalists not going after the UN for wasting paper writing up ridiculous shit that doesn’t deter anyone.

Though, I guess the threat of having UN “peacekeeping” forces in your country can be a powerful deterrent. I mean, no one really wants that. They’d hate to see their daughters and wives and sisters and mothers raped. They’d not enjoy being extorted, beaten and stolen from. Nor would they want the UN setting up a camp in their towns. After all, they’d just get turned into terrorist rocket launcher sites. And no one wants any pissed off IDF in their area when that happens.

The only thing that has come from the UN is a large amount of money from member states being paid to make KofiCo fat and happy, rather than taking care of their own national interests. But what else do you expect from a world body that is two-thirds peopled by repressive, criminal, terror-sponsoring, human rights violating states? UNIFIL has been in the Hezbollah occupied regions of Lebanon for 30+ years. They’ve been complicit in the kidnap of IDF soldiers and the cover-ups thereafter. They’ve allowed their bases to be used as launch sites for Katyusha rockets. And they are going to be overseeing this ceasefire?

I. Don’t. Think So. This ceasefire means only one thing. There will be more infinitely corruptible UN forces in the area which Hezbollah, backed financially by Iran and Syria, can put in their pockets. But the Israelis shouldn’t see this as a bad thing. The UN is creating a target-rich environment. And I pledge a case of beer to the first IDF soldier to take his Tavor and put a neat clean hole through an occupied Blue Helmet.

All that soldier need do is send me a sight picture snapshot and an aftermath snapshot.

And when this resolution fails, and Israel has its buffer zone back, I’ll rest easy. And we all know the UN will never admit its incompetence. The radical muslims have proven time and again that they cannot be trusted. After all, the Koran (now available in quilted two-ply) says it’s not a bad thing to lie to the infidel or break a promise to him. So, I’m sure we can trust Hezbollah to cease hostilities. And we can trust Lebanon to actually control its population. And we can trust the UN to not be corrupt and inept. Then the drugs will wear off and we’ll come back to reality.

What was that definition of insanity again? Oh yes: Doing the exact same thing time and again and expecting a different result.

-Jesse W.

MFL Is A Huge Fucking Asshat

2006-08-13T14:07:00.000-07:00

So I haven't posted in a while. That much is readily apparent for anyone that looks at the time/date stamps. But, I've has something building and it felt like time to vent my spleen, as it were.

.There is a jackass roaming my favorite netspots that can't shut his jizz-hole. He posts under the guise of Monkey Faced Liberal. This is the attempt of an attention seeking , adolescent-minded wanker to capitalize on a Frank J tongue-in-cheek comment and post. Whereby Frank J said that Liberals should be punched in their dumb monkey faces, this waste of space and storage took it and ran in that gimpy, retard way.

This is a complete bum boy who has no discernible talent at … well… anything, who has taken it as his crusade to try and prove to everyone but his imaginary friends, that Frank J has no talent, is violent, yada yada, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. Though, of course neither is true. Frank J has plenty of talent and keeps his faithful satisfied with goofy, absurd and fun political satire. Well, Frank J and his faithful cadre of posters.

This unabashed ass pirate enjoys trying to pick apart everything that’s posted, and he’s begun to infest one of my other favorites, fmragtops. This bloated sack of shit thinks he is anything but Helen Thomas’ used douche bag. He is, of course, mistaken. His comments are ever so witty… to a kindergarten class. Well, a kindergarten class and the other inhabitants of his Gompers Home.

So what do we do with this libtard? I wish we could think him away, or Frank J could send him into the cornfield. And, unfortunately, the .357 I shot at my PC only prompted me to have to buy a new monitor.

Thus, I am making it my goal to lob unceasing ad hominem attacks at the queen of ad hominem attacks. Monkey Faced Liberal. At FM, I can be freer with my language, which I like. For Frank J’s site, I’ll have to be more creative. So, anyone that actually reads this… and agrees with me, make it your mission too. Give him the full magazine and the two spares you have next to your concealed carry piece.

He may just be a troll, but as with all monsters, to attack and destroy is the best option. In fact, it might be quite fun. I mean, all that pent-up rage can now be given a home. So send your vitriol, your anger, your vehemence his way. It’s fun AND educational.

-Jesse W

Hiatus

2006-07-07T18:47:00.000-07:00

I know I was never a very frequent poster to my blog, but the juices, at least for the time, have begun flowing again. I shall be posting again soon.

I really, really hope that the anonymous barking mad moonbat comes back and trolls my comments. Trolls are good business.

Until then, Ta!

-Jesse W.

The "Worst News" Ever

2006-04-25T16:11:00.000-07:00

I know I’ve not posted in a while. Suffice it to say, life has gotten in the way. Which makes me a little sad, because there has been much to rant about. I’ve been following current events, just haven’t typed myself into a lather over it. Until today that is. Today I found something that really steams my glasses! I don’t even wear glasses!

See, despite what the Libs may think of us Conservatives, we tend to stay informed. This may even mean reading a lib blog to see what the nutjobs have thought up this time. So, today I read some errant posting which references an article that hints at the Government really being out to stifle free Speech. By any means necessary. The blog only ran a tidbit, but linked to the paranoia fueled tripe out of Virginia, in its entirety.

The whole of the article is as follows:

ALEXANDRIA, Va.
(AP) -- An editorial writer for the Alexandria Intelligencer, Carl Bury, was reportedly arrested by federal agents last night. Neighbors say they were awakened by shouting around midnight as Bury was taken away in an unmarked van. The men apprehending Bury identified themselves as being "with the government" and left before neighbors could question them further.

The staff at the Alexandria Intelligencer say they have been unable to learn what has happened to Bury, other than being told by police that it is a federal matter. Bury had often written controversial editorials denouncing the Bush administration as illegal and alleging that there is proof that President Bush knew about the September 11th terrorist attacks beforehand. Bury has no criminal record, and the local police are not aware of the reason for his arrest.

The White House has yet to respond to this matter.

Wow! Just about proves the AP will wire anything, doesn’t it? And, apparently, the moonbats are biting like bass on stink bait. I mean, really, If the Government were going to make people disappear, don’t you think they’d get to the leaks in the DoD first. At least make Ted Kennedy disappear. Call it a beautification project. But the reporters? It just boggles my mind. Who the hell believes them anyway? Besides barking mad moonbats that is.

The posted comments were no better. The raging Loons were adding to the paranoia inferno with their own “true stories”. Tales of folks that they protested with, or read blogs by, suddenly becoming very, very scarce, or even completely silent, according to some.

Here’s a clue to the Librofascist conspiracy wackjobs out there: We are FOR free speech and personal freedom. It’s you that are trying to stifle free speech. I don’t care if your Holy AP did send the copy through. We all know they’d print the recipe for Rice Krispie squares if it would damage the current administration.

Wankers!

-Jesse W.

Double-Standard? What Double-Standard?

2006-03-21T07:29:00.000-07:00

In the wake of renewed and continuing violence in Iraq, I wait. I sit and I wait for it. I sit and wait for the outrage at the civil strife being stirred up by our terrorist enemies. I watch the MSM for their outrage and their railing against the ethnic and sectarian violence that continues to rock the nation of Iraq. I wait for them to call a spade a spade and start decrying the murdering, wholesale, of muslims by other muslims just for worshipping in a different way. I wait for an outrage that will never come.

Don’t mistake me though. I know there is plenty of outrage. It’s just all directed at the man who is trying to provide the Iraqi people, and the Middle East itself, with the first true non Jewish democracy. Or the outrage is directed at American soldiers trying to not only protect our nation, but bring stability to those in another nation. There is plenty of outrage if it is being focused on those doing the good works. But still, there are no MSM declarations condemning the barbarous murder, violence, and rampant racism/religionism that permeate the muslim world.

The MSM wants us to understand the atrocities that are being committed by Iraqi civilians, sects and “militia” groups killing for worshipping god in the wrong way, or of being in a different ethnic group. But were the tables turned, the MSM would be all over the same thing in the States. Consider the outcry at states that have the Confederate Stars and Bars incorporated into their flags. No violence, just a symbol. Or, consider the major outcry when McVeigh took out the Murrah Building. I’m not defending him by the way, just making a point. If Protestants started bombing Catholic holy sites, cathedrals graveyards, etc., or vice versa, the indignant anchors would daily decry the violence and call for ACTION TO STOP IT. But apparently, Arabs are different.

We’ve heard the litany about it being a different region with different rules. We need to understand that the Arab culture is barbarous in nature, they say. But was not the Old West in the US also barbarous in nature? Law was brought to the settlements and new territories, and it rules there to this day. So was the difference that White folks should know better? The Left and the MSM is tipping its racist hand. The same prevails in minority communities and courtrooms to this day. The non-white man need not be held accountable for any vile actions he commits, but the white man must. And the Arabs and Iraqis need not either. They can’t be expected to live by our belief that people have the right, given by God, to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. They can’t be expected to because, by the Left’s standard, they are too backward and inferior to get these concepts and apply them.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are seeing the true Multi-cultural mindset. In the Liberal mind, we don’t want democracy and peace in the Middle East. That might mean we might have to mix with them. We can’t expect them to grasp, hold to and excel at the values we hold dear. It might mean that we aren’t superior after all. By saying that Democracy cannot take root in the Middle East; by excusing the violent behaviors of terrorist extremists as a matter of culture; by trying to sabotage the American and Coalition efforts to bring democracy and those 3 rights we hold sacred over all others, the MSM and Liberals are showing their true colors. They are bigots. They are racists. They are rampant egomaniacs. And. they are excessive ego-strokers that want to keep the non-Anglo groups of the world dependant upon the milk from their smug, superior, “progressive” teat.

I am decrying the violence. Muslims, Arabs, Kurds, Persians, the whole lot of those folks need to learn to live at peace. And it is my belief that they have the capacity to do it. They are just as much members of the human race as we of a paler bent. And if we, of the paler tone could move from violent, warring monarchies to the democratic/representative republican nations we are today, then our fellow brothers and sisters of the human race can as well. Democracy can take root in the Middle East. Monarchies, Emirates and all the other oppressive regimes can change, and the people can change with them, to love Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

So decry the violence, support the continued effort to stabilize and democratize the region and believe that we can be safer by allowing the people to be ruled by the laws of man, drafted to protect the inalienable rights of man. Believe in the cause and see the fruits of the effort.

-Jesse W.

Bu.. Why yo... Pssh... Uh... YEARGHHHHHHHH!

2006-03-15T06:45:00.000-07:00

It’s enough to give a man an apoplexy. All the things one could say about how loony the Left is/is getting. They are already in the deep end of crazy and don’t think they’ve swam out far enough. We have George Clooney and his, “Uh… DUHHHHH!”, pronouncement that he’s a Liberal as well as his amazingly historically ignorant Oscar speech. We have the obviously politically self-serving attempt of Mr. Feingold to censure the President for the NSA pseudo-fiasco. We have the continued attempt by the MSM to label Iraq a failure. And, we have the increasing ad hominem attacks on anyone even close to right of the Extreme Left establishment. The ship has been listing to port for so long, the plumb line that would normally point at the keel is centered on the hull. Anything approaching a moderate stance has been called Right-winged and anything even right of where center SHOULD be gets you labeled as Neo-con, Nazi, Brownshirt, Fascist, etc.

I hear, read and see these things in my everyday life and am dumbstruck. Well, that isn’t fully true. I have such a maelstrom of responses to the groupthink and Newspeak that are trying to get out that my tongue is held hostage by the competing arguments, corrections and pronouncements. One thought struggles with another to find its way out and I find I can’t utter even one syllable. The only thing that seems to be able to come out is a Deanesque roar. My brain, accustomed to logic, fact, and critical thinking can’t even come close to figuring out what the hell the Left thinks they are doing, or how they have the Audacity to call themselves “progressives”. Buy stock in whichever company makes Excedrine, because my head hurts so much from trying to figure out the Left’s reasoning that I’m eating the damned things like they were Pez.

It would seem that they have found a common plank though. Regression. Regression and the total dismantling of anything remotely resembling the America that our forefathers envisioned upon penning the Constitution. East Germany, The Czech Republic, The USSR, etc., and their failures, don’t seem to deter the madness of “thought” that Socialism/Communism just might work. And they are of the thought that the Government needs to provide for every citizen’s every need. Yet they hate the invasion of the Government in any part of their private lives. Two newsflashes for those ever so friendly, eloquent and intelligent folks that make up the rabid, maddened Left:

The Constitution only guarantees the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Not that you’ll be guaranteed money, even if you don’t work, or healthcare, or any of your other FDR established/promised handouts. The Framers intended this to be a nation of self-sufficient men and women free to pursue their own destinies, while not infringing on that pursuit for others.
More social programs require MORE Invasion of Privacy. With only so much in the till, Governments are well-known for getting deep into the personal lives of those who would potentially receive aid, in addition to the continuing intrusion for those that remain on the program. Keep the cake, or eat the cake. You cannot, and never will be able, to do both.

Just had to get that off my chest so my brain and my tongue could start working properly again. Thanks!

-Jesse W.

P.S. Any comments are greatly appreciated, and help me know what you all think. That and that someone is actually reading this schlock.

All Apologies

2006-03-08T06:17:00.000-07:00

I apologize for the lack of postings this week. I have had a terrible cold/flu and my brain has been fried like Tookie should have been. Regular Ranting and Raving to continue Monday. Thanks.

-Jesse W.

Propaganda And Those Neat Orange Arrows

2006-03-03T07:21:00.000-07:00

While watching reruns of Law & Order off of TiVo last night, I was once again assailed by self-righteous agitprop. I was treated to one of those “Truth” ads. You know, the anti-smoking ads created by the barking moonbats of Good Ole NYC. It’s quite amusing how amazingly thick skulled these people are. And I imagine that lung cancer and emphysema can’t be cause by Bong/Joint/Blunt smoke either? But, we can’t protest all smoking. That would be bad, and harsh out buzz. What we really want to punish is corporations. Even though they are just making money off of something that people do anyway. But, remember, these are college age neohippies.

Personally, I quite enjoy my cigarettes. My friends and I jokingly call them Cancer Sticks, Coffin Nails, etc. In England, we all know they are all called fags. So, would that mean these “Truth” kids are protesting themselves? Smoking is a social thing. It is, oddly due to its nature as a stimulant and vasoconstrictor, a relaxation thing. It’s a time filler, a time killer and a time keeper. We smoke them at bars while having a beer. We smoke after really good sex. We smoke after a good meal, or whenever our habit leads us to grab those few drags. And we do it willingly.

It would seem that these neohippies, who barely made it by into a Communications Degree, haven’t figured out that grown adults can make up their own minds. We have had warnings on cigarette packs for decades. We have heard all the propaganda. We’ve heard this and we’ve heard that and we’ve been forced to listen to this anti-smoking screed and the myths about second hand smoke ad nauseum. We’ve lost the ability to smoke in restaurants, public places and even in bars. All because the “progressives” (Insert heavily sarcastic and derisive tone of voice here) think that we need to be saved from ourselves. These are the same people that bash missionaries and deride the good works of the Body of Christ. They want to save the world when they barely were able to save themselves from failing Algebra 101. And, they sure as hell don’t want anyone profiting off of what we, of our free will, while living in a free country, have already decided that we were going to do.

Of course Librofascism hates tobacco companies. These companies actually understand the capitalist system, which they see as effective, and make it work. This will piss off a Librofascist, because they still think that socialism might still work, maybe, one day, somewhere, if they try hard, and maybe click their heels while chanting, ”There’s no man like Che. There’s no man like Che. There’s no man like Che.” But the tobacco companies see a product that is consumed, in large quantities daily, that people consciously choose to purchase, and they decide they might as well profit off of it. Are they forcing these cigarettes down someone’s throat? Nope. They are merely playing the supply-and-demand aspect of our capitalist, market driven economy. And the unwashed, protesting masses are enraged because we’re practicing our free wills, but not how they want us to. And we didn’t even ask them permission to even HAVE an independent thought. Well, that, and we can afford a pack of smokes while they’re out collecting cans for Ramen.

Here is a very important newsflash for the “Truth” people: We already know smoking has risks. But we weigh the risks, and keep on keeping on. And we are humans with vices. You are never going to end smoking, or bring “Big Tobacco” down. You are wasting your time, my TV watching enjoyment, and blocking commerce in a major American city. So, you little Librofascist, pseudo-intellectual, whiny, ballbag “truth” folks can just chill the fuck out. Maybe have a nice relaxing smoke. Stop being such a bunch of British Cigarettes!

Damn, I need a smoke!

-Jesse W.

I Owe You WHAT For That Band-Aid???

2006-03-01T09:04:00.000-07:00

Ah, the good old days! I remember them well. You’d have a certain amount of money deducted from your check every pay period for health, dental and vision insurance. Then, if you got sick, you’d use that insurance. And, oh how wonderful it was, the costs would be minimal to you. Remember that? When health care coverage actually meant that you were covered. Crazy idea, isn’t it? But gone those days seem to be. Employer sponsored healthcare plans have been whittled and whittled away, while medical costs go up and up. Yet, in another odd twist of Fate, , I see no additional funds in my paycheck to keep me healthy and financial responsible by actually being able to pay my medical bills.

What the hell happened? How did we get to the point where Healthcare costs went through the roof? I understand that insurance companies are for-profit businesses. I understand that doctors spend a lot of time learning their skills and deserve compensation for keeping us a live and healthy. I understand that Hospitals need money to stay in operation. I even understand that for the one drug that does work there are a ton more that the drug companies can’t get to safely work, thus they need to recoup financial losses. The same goes for the makers of medical machines. Though, charging a fortune for already developed tech seems a bit lame to me.

I am just wondering where the hell everything went so terribly wrong. Am I advocating socialized Healthcare? Ask me that when standing a bit closer, then you can count the bruises I leave on you later. But the cost of healthcare has SKYROCKETED. I’ve not been able to try and rehabilitate my paralyzed, but recovering, arm because my coverage is being whittled down to nearly nil. I would say that the greed of Insurance Company, Drug Company, Medical Equipment and Medical Supply company execs are partially to blame. Also, the idiots in this world that don’t quite understand that we are mortal, fragile creatures, and that medicine can’t fix everything, are adding to the problem. They drive malpractice rates to a level so high you need to train with NASA to… well, you get the idea. There is no such thing as free money, and suing for the slightest perceived wrong just might be part of the problem. And I’m sure there are a ton of other factors as well.

I wish I knew the answer. I wish that it was easy to fix. I wish it could be started now. I’m not saying that we need to take care of every little ailment, and prevent nature from taking its toll on our bodies through life. I’m just asking to be able to afford helping stay healthy for the time I’m supposed to be.

Otherwise, I’m grabbing a Cricket Bat and exercising my good arm. Maybe then they’ll get the hint, as they lie in a full body cast, that medical expenses are Too Damned High!

-Jesse W.

Otherwise, I’m grabbing a Cricket Bat and exercising my good arm. Maybe then they’ll get the hint, as they lie in a full body cast, that medical expenses are Too Damned High!

-Jesse W.

The Undeniable Scent Of Anticipation And Vindication

2006-02-28T06:40:00.000-07:00

I’ve a great opportunity coming up. I have an interview for a new position tomorrow. The nerves are already setting in. I imagine that all this day, we’ll be dealing with the giddiness of possibility, the nervousness of the interview process, and the fear that I am going to cock it up like no other.

As may have been guessed by hints I’ve made in some of my posts, and outright declarations in others, I have a couple of slight physical handicaps. I wasn’t born that way, bad motorcycle handling did it to me. Before my accident, I had worked my way up to one step under the helpdesk manager. Our helpdesk was arranged with one member catching all the calls and the rest of us running Tier II and some Tier III tickets. I was at the top of our Tech food chain, and we were touted as the best desk in the company by many of the SVPs and Board Members. This was when I worked at Bechtel, which is a very large global EPC firm. I also did all of our video conferencing, administered our third-party RAS tool users and software, built databases, and did the deskside support for the VIPs in our office. Then I hit a light pole on my Shadow, and it was all downhill from there.

When I returned from work after recovering from the accident, a few surgeries and an amputation, I was treated with Kid Gloves. They didn’t think I could do anything, so they turned me into the call catcher. Needless to say, this made it easier for them to RIF me when the time came. It also created a stigma when I went out on interviews for new jobs. Then I finally got one. Being the call catcher. But that might change soon.

I am interviewing for a server admin type position and am hoping that all goes well. I’ve felt my skills atrophy the longer I’ve sat answering calls from this queue. This new position will utilize skills I already know, and teach me skills I do not yet posses. The anticipation is killing me. Plus it will mean more money, which is always good. It also means regaining a measure of my self respect back. It’s a chance to have my own assertions that I’m not just some damned cripple verified, and understood.

I apologize that this wasn’t my normal Essay-like writing rants, but I wanted to share the hopefully good news.

-Jesse W.

A moment of anger

2006-02-27T06:39:00.000-07:00

Greetings! Today's regularly scheduled post will not be seen today due to the Normalyl focused anger of Jesse W. being a bit unfocsed today. In short, he's a tad bit bitchy.

But join us tomorrow for our regularly scheduled ranting and incoherent prose. Thank you for your loyal readership, and forgive Jesse W. from being a moody little bastard.

-The Management

Oops! We Did It Again.

2006-02-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

Yay! My city has made national news. In my lifetime, I can really only remember two other times where this has happened. The first was when the ethnic groups at the high school I attended started a race riot that spilled out into the street and had police in riot gear come out to join in the fun of quelling an asinine exercise in applied racism. Oddly enough, the South Mountain High School students left us White folk alone on this one. But we made national. Before that, there was the controversy over AZ not having an MLK Jr. Day that was officially observed. And yesterday, we really out did ourselves! We had a nutjob take several hostages in a Federal courtroom and threaten their lives. The Arizona Republic reports the situation here.

The great thing was that I live maybe 3 miles from the scene of the action, so it was nothing but police and news helicopters filling the downtown sky. There were many fine officers of the Phoenix Police Department present, both uniformed and undercover. In addition to this, there were several SWAT members and two robots used in hostage situations. On the Federal side, several FBI agents were onsite. Apparently, several hostage negotiators were all in the mix, attempting to get this wacko to surrender. He did so, dropping the two handguns he had with him, after authorities agreed to, and complied with, his demands to see his wife and sister.

No one has any idea why the hell this loon did what he did or chose the venue he chose. He stormed into a Labor Relations Board Courtroom, of the Federal bent, with just two handguns. Let me repeat that so it sinks in: The man, for no obvious reason, decided to tweak Uncle Sam’s nose by taking a Federal judge, some lawyers and plaintiff/defendant bystanders, hostage… with only two handguns. What. The. Hell?! The man had to have known that none of it would end well in the long run. He immediately ceded jurisdiction of the situation to the Feds when he decided to use government property for his little fit.

Perhaps he hadn’t really though about the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team. Ruthless, skilled, deadly professionals who know how to end hostage situations rather well and with extreme prejudice. Men who would undoubtedly be armed with H&K MP5’s, flash-bang grenades, and a whole hell of a lot of tactical training. The apparent lack of realization on his part as to what could be brought to bear to bring him down is glaringly obvious, in that HE ONLY HAD TWO HANDGUNS!!!

The good news in this story is that it has an ending. A happy one for the hostages, and on some level, for the hostage taker. He still gets to keep breathing and will see another day. The situation finally came to a close at 10:30 P.M. AZ time with no injuries to any parties involved. Though, I can imagine the therapy that the hostages will need and my sympathies and prayers go out to them. I am also grateful for the men and women of Law Enforcement, both local and Federal, that ended this potentially deadly situation with aplomb, smoothly and smartly.

The lesson: If you’re going to put your dick out in the chopping block, you’d better damn well know the reasons for which you’re doing it, and remember the big knives that are coming your way. Might make you think twice.

-Jesse W.

I Am Jack's Complete Lack Of Surprise.

2006-02-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

I don’t know why I am still surprised anymore by the erratic behavior that takes place in any part of the Middle East. Yet, for some reason, I am. When I read the news or hear of more violence, it throws me for a loop. I guess it comes from living in a society where I’m really not too skittish about extremists of any bent coming after me. Though, I had a Pakistani hit to this site from a non-flattering comment about Islam, made on another blog. So, my day may be coming. It just astounds me to read headline after headline of mindless violence. It’s almost like reading a local New York newspaper.

The reason for my incredulity is this article that was posted at Foxnews.com. It appears that the “Religion of Peace” just keeps on proving what a truly peaceful and reasonable faith it is. 47 Iraqi workers, who were just trying to get to earn a living for their families, were removed from their bus by angry religious extremists. The article didn’t make clear whether the victims were Shiite, Sunni, or Kurd, but you can guarantee they were not the same sect of Islam that the gunmen were. And this is just the death toll for one incident in Baqouba. This doesn’t even touch upon the other senseless deaths being committed in the name of “the true followers” of this “Religion of Peace”.

It would seem that the bombing of a shrine sparked the latest round of violence. However, given the deep-seated resentment that the sects/tribes/ethnic groups/families/gangs/militias/thugs bear towards each other, violence could be sparked and rage on, for no reason beyond a Sunni accidentally stepping on a Shiite’s toe. Amazingly, well, not really, the Left is silent and does nothing to try and get the muslims to practice “Religious Tolerance”. I’m sure this will be used as an “example” that Iraq has become a quagmire. Well, if the cause of liberating a people that has only known oppression, and violently so, is a quagmire, then I say, “Giggity”. But what if this happened here?

Since the Left seems to hate traditional Christianity, we’ll use the example of a couple of compromised “Christian” denominations. What would the Left do if a Presbyterian fire-bombed an Episcopal or United Methodist church? What if Anglicans were killing United Methodists by dragging them from subway stops in New York City and executing them? They’d be up in arms. They’d be screaming about religious tolerance and ceasing the violence. They’d be demanding the Harshest penalties the Law provides. Yet, since we are dealing with Arab muslims, they don’t say a word. They pass it off as just being the only culture they know, and that we could never understand. These so-called defenders of Human Rights and “Religious Tolerance” are amazingly, again, not really, silent.

We are over there, risking our selfless young men and women of the armed forces, to bring change to that region. To try to let the rule of Law reign. To establish democracy in a region where it has been unimaginable. To bring hope and stability to a tumultuous people. I salute these brave soldiers and all who support the effort in Iraq. I also pray that the people will learn to live within the rule of law, and look past sectarian differences to establish a lasting peace for Shiite, Sunni and Kurd alike. And may God have mercy on those that slaughter the innocent in the name of a false religion, a false god, and their own greed and lust for power.

They will certainly burn, baby, burn… but this ain’t no disco inferno.

-Jesse W.

What The Hell?!?!?

2006-02-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

I find myself agreeing with DhimmiCratic leadership, and it’s disconcerting. The only saving grace is that most Republicans are also in agreement, so it mitigates some of the urge to empty my stomach. When I first heard the news that the U.S. was allowing control of 6 Major U.S. ports to be sold to the UAE, I nearly went through the roof. Security in seaports is bad enough without an Islamic Arab nation holding the reigns. I thought to myself, “Surely President Bush will put a stop to this!”

And, my friends, I was dead wrong. The Washington Post and other “news” outlets of the MSM, as well as numerous blogs from both sides, are reporting a very different stance. Now, as we all know, the president has the power to veto any bill set before him. The Legislature can overturn a veto with enough votes, but there we are. This veto power is being wielded as a threat by the President to try and keep the UAE deal alive. Threatening to veto any bill quashing a deal he himself should have taken care of and blocked. I checked my calendar. It’s not April Fools’ Day, or Opposite day. The man is serious.

This of all things, the Prez is going to use his veto on. Well, I say, “Step up to the plate and swing.” In an unprecedented show of bipartisanship on behalf of the War on Terrorism and National Security, Congressional Dhimmis and Republicans have both sworn to strike down this sale. This comes as a major surprise since the goal of the DNC and seated Dhimmis has appeared to be the slow weakening of our ability to prosecute the War on Terrorism and to make the nation more secure. This is a rare case of the elected actually making decisions based on their constituents and not their own whims. Don’t pass out from shock!

So, Mr. President, how dare you? What the hell are you thinking? I’ve supported you on nearly everything in your administration, but this is unconscionable. It is time to stand up and quash this whole fiasco. We don’t negotiate with terrorists… especially not in business negotiations.

-Jesse W.

We Love You Muslims, Oh Yes We Do...

2006-02-22T07:36:00.000-07:00

Another lovely example of the wisdom of European Multi-cultural policy. Courtesy of none other than the “Religion of Peace.”. Some how, I don’t see this trend reversing unless the EU pulls its head out of its rectum. The Crinioanal Interfacing could explain why these countries can’t see clearly the situation in front of them. Let us bring back the old days of Immigrant Assimilation and halt the march of European Sharia.

Can you say, “Swedenstine”?

-Jesse W.

As The Stomach Turns

2006-02-22T07:10:00.000-07:00

Anger. Disgust. Resentment. Disgust. Barely-contained rage. These are the things I think about when I think about partial-birth abortion. When the huge debates over this self same issue were raging in the 90’s, I was a bit too young or too self-absorbed to pay attention. You’d think a teen with raging hormones might pay attention to topics like this. But now I’ve been reminded of it, obviously, by the news that the SCOTUS is going to be voting on the issue of whether or not to reinstitute a ban on this type of “procedure” (Read: Murder). And, it has my blood boiling now that I’m more aware of things.

Now, this may come as a shock, but I am a White, Christian, Republican Male, and therefore am seen by the Left as having no opinion worth listening to as I’m “The Oppressor”. Of course they choose to Lionize Ted Kennedy, who is not only a White Male, but a Womanizing, Elitist Filthy, Stinking (emphasis on stinking… sort of a scotch/gin odor) Rich Hypocrite. So, because of my view on murdering infants, the Left states I’m trying to control a woman’s body. In actuality, I am a huge fan of equal rights. For woman AND child.

Wikipedia has an entry all about the “procedure” here and here. Considering the description of this procedure, it astounds me that anyone that claims to be for the people, as well as compassionate and caring, as the Left does, would defend this in anyway. The procedure is described as:

National Right to Life Description of an Intact D & X

This section provides the description that the Right to Life advocacy group uses for the procedure.

Partial-Birth Abortion

Abortionists sometimes refer to these or similar types of abortions using obscure, clinical-sounding euphemisms such as "Dilation and Extraction" (D&X), or "intact D&E" (IDE) which mask the realities of how the abortions are actually performed.

This procedure is used to abort women who are 20 to 32 weeks pregnant -- or even later into pregnancy.* Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist reaches into the uterus, grabs the unborn baby’s leg with forceps, and pulls the baby into the birth canal, except for the head, which is deliberately kept just inside the womb. (At this point in a partial-birth abortion, the baby is alive.) Then the abortionist jams scissors into the back of the baby’s skull and spreads the tips of the scissors apart to enlarge the wound. After removing the scissors, a suction catheter is inserted into the skull and the baby’s brains are sucked out. The collapsed head is then removed from the uterus.

American Pregnancy Association Description of an Intact D & X

This section provides the description that the American Pregnancy Association uses for the procedure.

Dilation and Extraction

The dilation and extraction procedure is used after 21 weeks gestation. The procedure is also known as D & X, Intact D & X, Intrauterine Cranial Decompression and Partial Birth Abortion. Two days before the procedure, laminaria is inserted vaginally to dilate the cervix. Your water should break on the third day and you should return to the clinic. The fetus is rotated and forceps are used to grasp and pull the legs, shoulders and arms through the birth canal. A small incision is made at the base of the skull to allow a suction catheter inside. The catheter removes the cerebral material until the skull collapses. Then the fetus is completely removed.

So, as we can see, the little fellow/gal is kept partially inside the womb so the procedure can be performed and the doctor can’t be carted away in handcuffs for murder. Just reading the entry to post it made me want to vomit. I’m really puzzled as to where the, “First do no harm.” Clause fits in to all this. I sure am glad I won’t have an MD next to my name come Judgment Day.

Now I understand that there are situations where both the baby and the mother will die if a child is not aborted. And I mean it when I say child, as life begins at conception. But this “procedure” is being used for unwanted children. The women have waited well past the 1^st Trimester, being well aware that they were pregnant, and dragged their feet on the decision. Considering how the child might inconvenience their lives, then decide to rid themselves of him/her. At this point, the only way to do it legally, since the child has a small chance at being viable outside of the womb, is this “procedure”. Murder served up with just enough technicality thrown into the mix to not be called such. And lawyers wonder why the rest of us with souls hate them.

But hopefully, with the good sense that now happens to be on the SCOTUS bench, we will see an end to this slaughter. How any doctor, with even a thimble’s full of conscience, can do this “procedure” is beyond me. The definitions above even point to the fact that there are fully formed legs, arms, and a head. This is a child and not a mass of cells people on both sides of the debate can be morally ambiguous about. And they are being murdered because this procedure has been claimed as legal as a child of the very bad law presented by the Roe v. Wade decision. But as a white guy, I guess I have no say.

Let us just hope that nine men and women, of disparate racial makeup, wearing the black robes of the highest Judicial office of the land, will make the right choice. Dear Justices, please pull your heads out of your collective asses and call a spade a spade. Call a murder a murder. And call out to God for the guidance and the strength to do so. Protect those with life that cannot defend their own! End Partial-Birth abortion now!

-Jesse W.

What Happes To A Dream Deferred? Does It Acquire Bling?

2006-02-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

Turn on your TV at any given point in the day, and you’ll see those ever so wonderful commercials. They’re on radio, too oddly enough. Oh, and then there are print ads. And they seem to have a common thread of late that I find disturbing. It would seem that any company wanting to sell its product is forced to pander to a rather despicable part of “American” culture. The hip-hop set. This oh so wonderful “culture” that has spat in the eye of Joe Lewis, Jesse Owens, The Tuskegee Airmen, The Massachusetts 54^th Regiment, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, etc., and their struggles and victories, is being lauded as acceptable, and good. I find this grossly offensive and dishonorable to the memories of those who have fought so hard to provide freedom, rights, and equal standing in the eyes of a past segregationist White population. If you listen closely, you can here the low rumbling of these pioneers and heroes turning in their graves.

It is a shame that so-called “Black” culture is equated with this hip-hip trend. Hip-hop itself glorifies the degradation of women, the relentless pursuit of easy cash, violence amongst one’s own people and anyone else that doesn’t give them “respect,” and an overall skewing toward the violent and criminal. Young Black children, teens, and even 20-30-something adults are forced to accept this culture or be ostracized for being “White” or selling out. Hip-hop artist are claiming it’s just an image to sell records, but they have become role models of the worst kind.

It is a shameful fact that in North American, South American, Caribbean and even European cultures, Black folks were treated as a subclass of the human race and thus oppressed. But there is a shining light there. Many noble Black folks fought against that viewpoint and ideology to show that the difference was only skin deep. They fought harder than their White counterparts and established a legacy to be praised and admired. The Tuskegee Airmen, in their zeal to prove that they were equals or betters of any White pilot in the air, fought fiercely and with aplomb, never having lost a single bomber on their numerous escort sorties.

No one enjoys being associated with a stereotype, or judged just by the way they look, but it is happening. The prevalence of the hip-hop culture is creating a generation of Black, White etc. folks that look like disreputable thugs. The focus is on fast money and getting “respect”, rather than on academic achievement and living as a contributing part of society. There are cries of, “Racism! Racism!”, but the culture refuses to come to terms with the fact that equality does exist. Those with the application of one’s self, any American can achieve their dreams. Those that try to live as valuable members of society and seek to live within the system, the culture mocks as “Uncle Toms”, or “Oreos”.

Those who came before, those who laid the foundation of a better world for future generations of Black men and women are being made a mockery. Their hard work and perseverance to set themselves up as equals, governed by the rule of law, by the rules of society, by reason and zeal for equality, is being twisted to naught by those that have been riled by race-baiters seeking to further their influence at the cost of their people. The men and women that went before, I salute; the “men“ and “women” who have torn the good works down with the shameful hip-hop “culture”, I shake my head at in shame.

It is my hope that this cultural fad will soon pass, and the honor, integrity, service, selflessness and valor of previous generations will once again enter and permeate the zeitgeist and we can live as a civilized society again. I pray that the poison that has permeated the minds of Black youth, choking their enormous potential, subsides. Slavery has been over for over a hundred years. Jim Crow laws have been over for over 50 years; and segregation as reality for over 40. It is time to take off the mental yoke, and be accepted into the fold of American society, rather than make a mockery of your own people.

-Jesse W.

A Blank Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

2006-02-16T06:23:00.000-07:00

It’s amazing how easily the daily bloggers make this all seem. Daily they issue new content that is on point, entertaining and well-worded. It is not as if I don’t have a rather large stack of axes to grind, it merely seems they never come to me when bidden, and tend to hit my mind at the worst possible moments. I get the topic, my mind ranges over it, and I’m stuck in traffic, away from a pen or anything else with which to write the though down. So, what might have ended up a rather well-crafted rant end up aborted and flushed out of my mind by the time any device for recording my thoughts is available.

Perhaps a tape recorded or electronic reminder. Of course, I could also keep a list of my rants and choose from the menu from day to day. But I’m lazy, so perhaps I’ll hire a migrant worker (read: Completely Illegal Alien) to follow me around and record what I need to have recorded. It could end up cheaper in the long run. Of course I’d have to let them into my car, since that’s when inspiration strikes. Good thing I keep a .357 in the glove box.

Have a good day all and remember: Never accept a ride from Ted Kennedy.

-Jesse W.

Like $50 for Chocolate

2006-02-14T06:26:00.000-07:00

Today is Valentine’s Day. It is a day where we decide to celebrate love and also jack up the prices on roses, fancy dinners and chocolates. It’s a day that we set aside time and money to let the man/woman in our life know that we love them. Though, if we are very smart, and really in love, we let them know every day. I have a love that I’ll be spending the evening with and showering with what gifts I can afford.

So, in honor of the day, I am refraining from the vitriol that I normally offer on these pages and sending a message of love. Let that special someone know how much you really care. Do something extremely thoughtful and special to only you two. You don’t have to spend gobs of money, just be generous with your love!

And then, tomorrow, we’ll rip on something else that cheeses me off. Until then:

Happy Valentine’s Day!

-Jesse W.

P.S. If any one says, “Happy Valen"times" Day to me, they are getting a boot to the teeth.

Just Found Out

2006-02-13T09:16:00.000-07:00

The Carnival of Comedy is up! Visit Right Wing Duck's place for "Teh Funny".

Click, Click, Boom!

2006-02-13T07:17:00.000-07:00

“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” Sometimes it’s quoted as the Bill of Rights not being so. Either way, it’s truth. These were the famous words written by Justice Robert H. Jackson in a dissenting opinion while he sat upon the bench of the United States Supreme Court. I’m sure I’m not the first to use this phrase, nor will I be the last. As Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) states, “There is nothing new under the Sun…”, so I’m not really treading on new territory.

It would seem that we are heading headlong toward the proverbial tubes. And the most out-front, easily-seen culprits are the leftist, “progressive” politicians. But the greater evil is the Judicial System. Rulings like Kelo, opinions on the death penalty, and the increasingly tighter restraints being placed on local law enforcement in the name of “constitutionality”. I’ve placed that last word without capitalization because I tend to disagree that the Constitution was meant to be used in such dishonorable ways. We’ve become a society of laws, but the laws are trampling the people.

Judicial activism has led numerous voter initiatives to be for naught by overturning them as “unconstitutional”, despite any evidence proving that they indeed are. Then we have the scum of the Earth: Defense Attorneys. Theses are men and women that claim they are really just fighting for American civil rights, but are, in truth, fighting for their own notoriety, and having their names placed upon “ground-breaking” new legal precedent. But, is not the Constitution for us all? Are we, the citizens and victims, not to be allowed the right to not have these degenerates and societal detritus in our neighborhoods? Is the Government for the whole and not for the few who refuse to respect her and her children, the local, state, and federal statutes? If the government wants to restrict our access to fire arms, they sure as hell better start keeping our streets safe. And the more precedent that is set, the more restrictions are made on the average American, the more criminal daily life is becoming.

It was said that those that would give up freedom for safety will often find they have neither. Well, we have given up safety, thanks to these “pioneers” of law, with no security thrown in. The courts are finding new and exciting ways to describe away behavior and forgive egregious sins and degradation that half a century ago would have been rigidly punished. We haven’t asked that the police be given carte blanche, but we’ve also not asked them to have their hands tied. The manner in which police have to jump through hoop after hoop after hoop just to get admissible evidence against a suspect is appalling. And this all in the name of “protecting our civil rights.” By keeping the courts and truth in separate rooms? Juries rarely hear the truth. They hear what has actually been airtight enough to make it into a court proceeding, while the defense is allowed to present practically anything they want and directly attack the victim of crimes.

We are sitting with a revolver to our collective heads. Not sure if we have the empty chamber, or if the thud of the .38 slug against our temples will soon echo in the room. We need a new breed of lawyer, a new breed of patriots who work the law. We need a generation of attorneys that say, “ENOUGH!”, a judiciary that says ,“This is for the Legislature, and the people to decide.”, and a Bar as a whole that know that Precedent is written upon the paper, and not stone. The Constitution is not a Living document open to the interpretation of the times. You cannot make end runs around it, and you cannot bend it to your political view. It IS written in stone, with just enough room left on the tablets for Amendments ratified only by the methods described within itself. The Constitution is NOT now, nor will it ever be, a suicide pact. And those that thank that it is put that revolver to their own head and pull the trigger. Either that or wait for their clients, whom they’ve gotten off on a technicality, to.

-Jesse W.

A Very Special Absurd Spices

2006-02-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

I am new to this blogging thing, as I’m sure my number of posts will testify to. Some days I don’t know what to write about, or what direction to take this thing in. I mean, there are literally blogs about everything. But, I knew in my heart of hearts that this sure as hell wasn’t going to be a LiveJournal. I’ll leave that to the angsty, over privileged teens who have everything, but still bitch that life is so unfair and dark for them.

The goal, of course, being what it is, has developed this blog into a bit of a rant factory. And you know what? I really like it that way. Daily, when I read about the state of the world, my country, someone else’s crap 3^rd world barrel of graft, corruption, and the oh so fantastic socialist/Islamist masses; I nearly have an apoplexy trying to contain my rage. I’ve come to the conclusion that Earthquakes in these regions are just God shaking the hell out of these people in hopes that they’ll snap out of it.

That being said, now I can move on to some thank-yous to folk that have inspired or at least encouraged me to keep going. Firstly would be my good friend in Connecticut who continues to nag me to post. He’s my readership, mostly. Then there is Jimmy from The Conservative UAW Guy, who actually enjoys reading my diatribes whether they are coherent or not. Jimmy, I’ve called your doc to up your meds. Also, Peace Moonbeam of the Peace Moonbeam Chronicles for linking to my rather insignificant flyspeck of a blog. Her stuff is pretty damned good in the Satire arena, so check it out. Also, they would be Frank J. and team at IMAO, Scott Ott at Scrappleface and Buckley F. Williams at The Nose on Your Face.. As I’m a fan of Satire, the stuff they post is humorous, but links to the real impetus behind the satire, which helps me get angry enough to write a rant about how cock-eyed leftist perception is.

So, Thanks to you all, and to those who actually pop by to read this schlock! You’re the best! Tune in next week for more Absurd Spices!

-Jesse W.

Test Pattern

2006-02-09T06:29:00.000-07:00

I try to be topical, and do my write-ups for posting when I’ve a full head of steam. Even with all the fodder being provided by the left and the muslims, I’m coming up sort. Suppose I’m choking on choice! But I have a semi-promise:

Barring the prevention of by rogue computers, guerilla software and insurgent servers; a new message, with content will be up tomorrow morning, AZ Time.

So, accept this apology, and remember that there will be a good old vitriolic rambling for ya tomorrow. Also, the carnival should be up is Spacemonkey got any volunteers. I’ll post on that later.

-Jesse W.

The Burkaed Truth

2006-02-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

So we finally get a response from a muslim group that condemns the widespread violence. Well, at least that is what they’ve told us. The Ulama Council of clerics, in Afghanistan, has made a statement on radio and TV stating that the violence is defaming Islam. Well good for them. I’ll just go grab the salt shaker for this one. Yup, a grain of salt should just about do it.

As a non-muslim citizen of civilized Western Society, and more importantly, of the United States of America, I’m dubious. We’ve grown rather accustomed to the Arab/Persian/Insert Islamic people group here party line. We’ve started watching and listening to both sides of these “religious leaders’” mouths as they are ever so fond of talking out of both sides of them. The linked article mentions maybe two or three groups, out of the thousands of Islamic organizations, which are “speaking out” concerning this absurd, childish and unconscionable response to these Dutch cartoons. Just two or three. That’s about it folks. And they say that it’s all the radical groups’ fault for taking advantage of the furor.

Now, let’s take a moment to think this through. If you were raised from childhood worshipping (And no matter what burka you put on the truth, they are still worshipping) some man who claimed to be a prophet and built a religion, you’d be pretty committed, right? From the time you could read (Sorry girls, no reading for you!), you’ve been taught this religion, been made to practice it everyday, been told be religious leaders that the infidel is evil and subhuman, that the infidel must convert or die and basically had violence imbued in the religion that permeates your life. Then something like this happens, and all the years of violent programming come out. All the hate-filled messages from the religious leaders bursts forth, because, after all, we are merely the infidel and therefore subhuman and outside of “allah’s” favor. You are just doing what you were taught your whole life.

So maybe, just maybe, the issue is not the cartoons. Maybe the issue is not the “radical groups”. Maybe the issue is not the geo-political state of things. Maybe it’s not the infidel. Maybe, and follow with me here, the issue is Islam. Period. End of story. No sequel, no spin-offs. The issue just might be Islam itself. Teaching hatred for all things not Arab, for Islam is merely the cruel Arab culture peppered with “god” stuff to make it seem respectable, stating that the lives of non-muslims are worth much less than muslims. Stating that there is no law above allah’s, that democracy and the will of the people are evil, and the people shouldn’t be allowed to decide for themselves. Permeating every aspect of muslim life so there is no escape and no differing viewpoint. Giving permission to kill, nay a mandate to kill, anyone who is muslim that chooses a different faith. Maybe it’s Islam that is the problem.

So these “religious leaders” can decry he violence and uncultured Arab behavior all they want. It is the equivalent of putting a fingertip band-aid on a vivisection victim and sending the on their way. The Protestants, The Jews, The Catholics have all taken stock of the violence they perpetrated, and have considered the doctrinal issues that led there. They figured out how to live with the world, not convert it all to a cruel Roman/American/Israeli/German/English/etc. theocracy. It’s about time Islam stepped up to the plate, stopped acting like the poor, red-headed stepchild, and actually learn how to get on in this world. The issue isn’t Poverty. The issue isn’t Extremists. The issue isn’t the Western World and Culture. The problem, my ululating friends, is Islam. Own it, then fix it!

-Jesse W.

Islam: It's The Bomb or The Amazing Adventures Of Jihadis

2006-02-07T07:13:00.000-07:00

Seething mad. My blood boils. My mind races to find logic where there is none. My mind scrambles to make sense of the mindless killings, burnings, kidnappings, etc. But nothing comes. Nothing but blind rage! That and the desire to respond in kind. To set ablaze that which they value. To make their compatriots live in fear. I speak, of course, of the muslim response to some goddamned cartoons!

I’ve been reading, in the past few days, about all the furor over the illustrations of Mohammed. The “religion of peace” is sure showing us uncultured, warmongering infidels just what it means to have culture and desire peace. They have burned an embassy, kidnapped foreigners, and issued effete and ineffective fatwa after fatwa, all for painting the dickless mole-covered pedophile that would start a religion of terrorism. This whole thing is over a cartoon. Or at least, a collection of cartoons.

Now there are some unflattering depictions of the epileptic, hallucinating jackass of Islam, but that really just seems like a little goes-around-comes-around to me. Arab media consistently depicts Jews and Christians in an immensely unfavorable light, but where are our torchings of mosques and shrines? Where is our response of random kidnappings of muslims visiting foreign countries? There is none, but goddamnit, there damn well should be! Instead of taking images like the “prophet” with a bomb in his turban as a satire and perhaps look inwardly at the shithole that Islam has become, they enforce the image by acting like violent, petulant little children.

Civilization may have started in the Middle East, but it left a long, long time ago. We have treated the adherents to Islam as regular citizens in our country, as have the Dutch and other European nations. And the thanks that are given in return are the angry rioting and destruction of said adopted country because of, and let me repeat this, A FEW GODDAMNED CARTOONS! So, let’s start revoking their equal status. Let all muslims become Dhimmi in our nations. One would ask, “Well, what about the moderate muslims?” To which I would say that we’d treat them just as the Germans were treated wen we were liberating Europe in WW II. They may not have been running the death camps, but their asses did nothing to stop them either. No muslim can claim innocence and peace on one hand, and receive literature and funding for their mosque from Saudi Arabia with the other.

This may seem an angry diatribe, and damnit it is! I would be offended by an unflattering depiction of The Lord, but I’d not start rioting, looting, burning, pillaging, or kidnapping. But this violent reaction and wanton destruction of their adopted lands, or of embassies that try to bring trade and an actual future to those countries, makes me mad enough to start grabbing for the Molotov cocktails. There is no excuse, there is no reason, and there is no forgiving the other muslims that don’t do shit to try and quell the extremism, though a careful study proves their whole religion as extremist.

So, no forgiveness for muslims. No more tolerance. They have often cried, falsely so, that we have declared war on Islam. Well, it’s about damned time that we did. Protest a mosque. Disrupt the 5 times a day prayer. Call a muslim to account for what the rest of his “brethren” are doing. It is time we well and truly declare war on Islam. We haven’t had a decent Crusade in a while, and they have already declared war on us and seek to enslave us to Sharia or send us to our eternal reward. It’s time to fight the fuck back. It’s time to make Militant Islam such a dangerous choice that no one dare follow that route again.

It is time to call in the chits that Islam owes for the acts of the past. Time to call in Munich. Time to call in Beirut. Time to call in Kobar Towers. Time to call in the U.S.S Cole. Time to call in The Pentagon. Time to call in the World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7. Time to call in Madrid. Time to call in London. Time to call in the hundreds of chits for Israel. No more Mister Nice Western World. It is time to officially declare War on the “religion of peace”. They declared it on us a long time ago.

-Jesse W.

The Way We Are. The Way They Aren't

2006-02-06T07:46:00.000-07:00

I must offer apologies for my lack of posts last week. I know that there are a couple of you folks out there that check up on this site every now and then, and it is my fault that there haven’t been any updates for your consideration. I had a rather nasty sinus infection that made me less that enthusiastic about stringing together the fluid, yet somehow rambling prose of the political malcontent. But I’m feeling better and am back!

So the latest thing to chap my ass concerns, surprise of surprises, a wrong-headed view held by the Left concerning our troops in Iraq and in general. The impetus for this post was a rather obscene item in a rerun of Family Guy that I watched last night. The episode featured a Regatta in which, at the beginning of the race, a rather overt bash on our troops occurred. The announcer stated that he was welcoming all the parents who had children stationed in Iraq… waited a few moments… then laughed. Since this was at a Regatta chalk full of the uber rich, the connotation was that no sons or daughters of the affluent were fighting overseas.

So, this was just another knock from the Left against our troops. The message was that Bush is only sending the poor to fight and die, but the rich don’t have to. The News Flash for the Left is this: We Have A Volunteer Armed Forces! Of course that will go right over their heads, but had to be stated anyway. And let us observe and pick apart this assumption.

As it is well known by those who care to know; the Uber Rich generally are those filling the upper echelon, and even some of the rank and file of the Democratic Party. Ted Kennedy, George Soros, John Kerry, etc, etc. spring to mind. Within the affluent circles, so-called “progressive” thought rules the day. And, as we know, the Lefty “progressives” enjoy, bend, abuse and crap on the freedoms provided by our troops, but spit on the very idea of armed conflict and the military.

Those in the Middle to Lower classes tend to realize that our freedom comes with the price of the blood, sweat and tears of patriots. Thusly, they see military service as an honor and a privilege. Since these folk (most anyway) know the full price, they are more likely to sign up, or dare I say, volunteer, for the Armed Forces. Since, you know, it’s a volunteer organization.

So, the next time a leftist asshole tries to rain on your parade, or state that Bush sends only the poor to fight, remind them that their Billionaire Heroes kids don’t have the balls, the strength, the intelligence or the courage to fight for what this Country stands for. And just to add insult to injury, remind them that these boys are so very much morally superior to their puppet masters because they choose to fight for the moonbats and patriots alike, rather than leaving them to rot in their own devices and schemes.

The Men and Women of the United States Armed Forces have courage and know the meaning of the words Honor, Duty and Sacrifice. The Left cannot begin to understand these words as their tactics have shown. When faced with even the slightest opposition, they cry foul and slander, and yell and rail that their First Amendment Rights are being quashed. Then, in their next breath, they slander and malign those dedicated to preserving that right, even if it goes to some slimeball money man with cowardly progeny, so lacking of the moral fortitude and courage to actually fight for this country. The reason there are few Rich men and women in the armed forces? The pussified doctrine of the Left has made them the effete assholes and morally bankrupt lay-abouts to the point that they haven’t the guts or honor to fight for something. They’ve never had to before anyway. Their rich Leftist Mommies and Daddies have given them everything and made them into the ballbag sissies that they are.

So, Leftist Tosspots, remember a couple of things:

The Armed Forces are Voluntary
Most of your membership consists of the super rich and part of the 1% they say are fucking you over.
Their children have no honor and thusly will never volunteer for the armed services.
They will point out that Bush has sent few sons and daughters of the rich to fight.
This is their fault for being cowards with no sense of duty, honor and patriotism, and raising their kids in the same vein.
They will pull the wool over your eyes and obfuscate the facts by saying Bush favors the Rich when the truth is, we Middle and Lower classes have the Upper class beat by far and will defend their candy-asses from harm by joining the armed forces.

So, despite Abramoff, who, by the way, bribed on BOTH sides of the aisle, the Right will have the Moral high ground almost all the time. The Left surrendered it a long time ago for easy fixes and selling out to the lowest common denominator for votes. We may not be perfect, but we are more committed to this Nation and its goals of freedom and democracy than the Left has been for a LONG TIME. My Right-wing friends, the next time the Left states that Bush only sends the poor to die, ask them why Chelsey Clinton isn’t in the Air Force, or why George Soros’ brood, if anyone could stomach sleeping with the jackass, aren’t marching to a cadence called out in the Corps. The Left loves shucking stones though their palaces are glass.

But that’s just my $.02. I could be wrong.

-Jesse W.

The Miasma Of The International Community

2006-01-26T09:27:00.000-07:00

I’ll admit it and be the first to do so: I don’t really pay attention to the world news unless it spills over the walls of my American paradigm. I’m guilty as charged. I’m told by folk to keep up with what is going on in the world, but frankly, with the Left as screwy as it is, I’ve my hands full just figuring out what those Terrorists of Slander and Character Assassination are doing to fuck up my pristine Lady Liberty. But occasionally, things do slop over the walls and I’ve got to acknowledge them.

The most recent pool of fetid miasma that gathered itself inside my sanctum sanctorum is the election of Hamas to the majority in the “Palestinian” territories. Take a moment for that to sink in, then let me repeat myself. HAMAS HAS THE MAJORITY IN THE PLA!!! At least I can breathe a semi-fresh breath of air knowing that at least the Jordanians, Egyptians, and various other Arab detritus calling themselves Palestinians will now be exposed as the Jew-hating, Israel-destroying pieces of Amoeba shit that they are. Of course the MSM will continue to Ostrich on it, but that is SOP and has been since Viet Nam and before.

The most shocking part of this is that the Fatah party has called it quits before the official tallies are completed and that they conceding in all races. I am happy that the farcical “Peace Process” has now official ended. Israel has nothing to apologize for and deserves all the land they gained during their defense of themselves from Rag-head, Mecca-facing bastards that want only to kill the Jew. In fact, I think Israel should renege and yank back the land they’ve given up. The surrender of land did nothing but give PIJ and Hamas more forward operating bases from which to attack the only democratic state, besides the newly forming Iraqi government that you never hear about outside of Blogs, that exists in that region. Expect a Caliphate in the very near future.

So, I’ve been forced by this horrible miscarriage of “democracy” amongst the Arab rubbish collection, to consider the world stage for a few moments and try not to let my stomach roil at the possibilities of Hamas having Unilateral control over a “nation” recognized by the UN. Of course, should we need to attack the “Palestinian” areas WHEN they start to constitute a very, very real danger to the US and Israel, since the “Palestinians are rather lacking on Bribe Money, the UN would probably be slower than usual (is that possible?) to respond. God Bless that bloated, corrupt, anachronistic, despotically peopled “Organization”.

To the boys and girls of the IDF and the US Military, better clean those guns and stock up on Ammo. It’s “Palestinian” Season!

P.S. Carnival of Comedy is pending at Taleen’s site, Sun Comprehending Glass. Keep looking and hitting that F5 key!

-Jesse W.

Update: The Carnival is at FIAR's Radioactive Liberty. Go see the Funny!

Fairy Tales and Fables

2006-01-20T08:48:00.000-07:00

An interesting thought occurred to me as I was preparing to leave for work this AM. I know this might seem strange, but I have deep thoughts and, well, shallow thoughts too, coursing through my brain from wake up to bed down. So today’s thought, rattling around in my head, was centered on Government. With my House Representative about to become Majority Leader, I began thinking about the role of Government in my life.

I don’t believe in Local Government over Federal Government. In concept I believe that it is the way things should be, but I just mean that I’ve never any evidence that it exists in fact rather than theory. State’s Rights over Federal Rights is a grand concept to be sure. I just don’t believe that States’ rights happen to presently exist. Much like a child and Santa Clause, I want so hard for it to be real and for States to be able to self govern like the Founding Fathers put explicitly in the FUCKING CONSTITUTION of THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA.

So whenever I think about government, and how I’m affected by it, I think of the Fed. I have no idea what the Representatives and Senators in my own state are doing. I’ve no concept of our local government except the 3 steps of lawmaking, which gives us citizens the power to affect changes to the law and directly vote on what makes it into the books. Initiative, Referendum and Recall. We, as citizens in this Red State, can get whatever we want on a ballot and make law without waiting for the Legislature to get of its collective ass. We also have the ability to counter REALLY bad decisions made by the electorate. Except for some bad citizen led decisions that have been passed into law, like the cigarette tax hike and the Glendale Stadium for the Cardinals, it’s been an effective system.

So, I think we need to start thinking long and hard before we hit the polls. We need to review the records of the officials for their views on Big Government. It’s time to let our votes say States’ rights first or no one wins the seat. Just my $.02, but that's how I feel. I want my local news to cover my local government, because it’s the central seat of decision making for my state. Just say no to a bigger Fed, but yes to The Fed defending our borders and only making the decisions that are prudent for the whole nation, and not just a special interest minority. A Democratic Representative Republic is there for the electorate to represent and be a voice for their constituents, not lobby groups and their ilk.

I may not be the first to say this, of this I’m sure. But, it was on my chest, and now is on the page. Let us say ,”Fuck Off” to environMENTALists, to Big Oil, to Big Tobacco, to Big Anti-Tobacco, to the rest of the groups that have no say in how the states affect their Constitutional right to govern themselves. And we really need a big, “Fuck Off” to the judicial appointees that legislate from the bench. But, I’m just one man, and I could be wrong. It’s happened before.

-Jesse W.

Did I Say Chocolate City? My Bad!

2006-01-18T07:28:00.000-07:00

Apparently, someone was nice enough to hand New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, a shoehorn. In a speech made during MLK Day observances, Mr. Nagin, that ever so competent of public officials, said he wanted to make sure that NO was a “chocolate city” once again. The veiled claim, of course, being that the White folk of the city were being treated more fairly than the Black folk, and rebuilding was happening much more quickly “uptown”. The gist is that he wants to ensure the Black voters return and he doesn’t lose his seat in the election that was postponed after Katrina. Oh yeah! He also said God was pissed at us and punishing us for liberating Iraq. Obviously Nagin’s description was less flattering than mine.

Well, yesterday, the 17^th, Nagin attempted to gently ease the foot out of his mouth. Which is a nice way of saying he did the Democrat Shuffle. You know the steps; dodge left, dodge right, backpedal, repeat. He decided to recant, or at least make a half-hearted attempt to in the form of a sort of apology. His song-and-dance goes a bit like this:

"If I offended anyone, I sincerely apologize," the mayor, who is black, said on Tuesday. "I need to be more sensitive and more aware of what I'm saying.

"I want everybody to be welcome in New Orleans -- black, white, Hispanic, Asian -- because that's the kind of city that we deserve going forward," he said. "I was trying to, and didn't do it very well, to deal with this whole notion, the undercurrent what's being talked about, and what's being talked about is who is going to come back to New Orleans at the end of the day."

How nice. After accusing the folks of his OWN CITY of blatant racism and apathy, he tells us what he “really meant”. He also, uncharacteristic of the left, acknowledges that he tends to speak without thinking. If only we could get Pelosi, Kennedy, Durbin, etc. to do the same. If only. However, with his response to Katrina, the evidence that he thinks at all is a bit thin. Evidence to the contrary actually shows he might not be firing on all cylinders:

"Surely God is mad at America," he said. "Surely he's not approving of us being in Iraq under false pretense. But surely he's upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."

What a sensitive, intelligent fellow. In another article, Nagin tried an even lamer attempt at backpedaling by saying he meant the chocolate comment to mean the peaceful commingling of Blacks and Whites. So let’s have three cheers for the incompetent, less than bright Mayor of New Orleans! Hip, Hip, Go Away! Hip, Hip, Go Away! Hip, Hip, Go Away!

-Jesse W.

Near Riot? What Near Riot? Whistles

2006-01-17T13:44:00.000-07:00

More Liberal Media carpet sweeping comes today from the Arizona Republic. The funny thing is that this newspaper used to be called The Arizona Republican. Now it’s nothing but a liberal Rag clogging up the clean and right minds of this Red State’s citizenry.

Here is the final blurb on the MLK Day proceedings as glowingly listed in the article:

Several hundred people showed up for the day's events. People from all over the state and Marchers from out of state made a statement with a fairly peaceful celebration

Folks, this “Fairly Peaceful” event consisted of a large number of black gangsters throwing signs at each other, blocking all traffic and terrorizing commuters, and the necessity of having (at least as many as I could see) 10 cops in a single intersection with 2 of the police helicopters circling to keep the violence to a minimum.

I’m sure good old Marty would be proud of the rampant stupidity that his “brothers and sister” were showing. I mean, the man was a two-faced, preferentialist womanizer that stumbled ass backwards into equal rights, but I think he’d still be appalled at what has become of his fellow Blacks today.

And I’m not surprised the Lib Media didn’t report it, since it might paint Blacks as violent and belligerent on MLK Day. One might think that they would report it to show the opposite of what they purport King stood for. But we can’t call Blacks out for their behavior on their special day. That might hurts feelings or be deemed racist. Or, maybe, just maybe, it might make them seem like an actual news agency again.

Deja Vu... All Over Again

2006-01-17T09:31:00.000-07:00

Interesting things have been developing in that oh so stable Islam(ofacist)ic republic of Iran. Their President, Mahmoud Ahdmadinejad, is just such a wonderfully pleasant little peach. I mean, who wouldn’t love a guy that denies the Holocaust despite mountains of Empirical Evidence? Why could we not adore a man that says that Israel should be wiped off the map? This sounds like a guy that really can be trusted to keep his word to only use the Iranian Nuclear Program for energy and not, say, building radioactive WMDs.

What really strikes me as a tad on the Déjà vu side is the German reaction to Iran continuing its nuclear program, despite the UN moratorium. Not that the UN has been an effective body for decades now, but we have to have the appearance of actually doing something. Hmm, Germany, through their voice in the IAEA has been dragging their feet in terms of taking the Iran situation in front of the UN Security Council. My guess is that we have history repeating itself. I mean, they failed at wiping out the Jews in the 40’s, why not let Iran have a try. Not that I’m really buying the conspiracy, but it makes you wonder.

The past decade or two, we have seen a steep increase in Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in the Liberal and European Community. But why am I repeating myself? Statements like Ahdmadinejad’s, which would have been met with horror and revulsion mere decades ago, are now accepted and just a natural expression of “Islamic” anger over Big Bag Israel occupying “Palestinian” land. Even though a Palestinian is a wholly fictional creation of the Islamic world to play 3-card Monty with public perception, people still feel sorry for these castoffs that the compassionate, religion of peace Arab world can’t give two shits about.. It would seem that Germany is going along with this mad man, trying to make up for its “failure” in the 40’s. They are our ally why again? We helped them rebuild and democratize again only to have them stab us in the back or what reason now?

I fully support Israel’s right to exist. I fully believe these Turks, Egyptians, and various other Arab detritus that call themselves “Palestinians” should shut the hell up and go to their REAL homes. I also think that the UN damned well better do something about Iran, and pretty fucking quickly. And if they don’t, the US or Israel is fully in the right taking the nuclear research sites down. If Ahdmadinejad doesn’t back down, then that loony nut juggler can expect a new Osirak at the very least. Or, if I had it my way, we’d have a beautiful lake of pebbled glass just slightly north and to the East of Iraq.

-Jesse W.

A Very Special Thanks!

2006-01-16T08:12:00.000-07:00

I would just like to take a moment and thank all the folks that made the Carnival of Comedy #37 a success

I’d first like to thank all the folks at IMAO for allowing me to host the collection of entries from around the blogododecahedron. Special thanks to SpaceMonkey for providing me the necessary info and the links and for drafting me into service for hosting. And final thanks go to all those that submitted entries. My apologies about the rating; it’s part of the rules. Also a special thanks to Peace Moonbeam for pointing out my oversight of her fantastic entry and allowing me to have a chance to correct that error.

Keep up the good work and keep up with the funny.

Thanks,

Jesse W.

An Oversight Corrected

2006-01-13T09:04:00.000-07:00

Once again, Peace Moonbeam of The Peace Moonbeam Chronicles recounts her New Years Eve revelry and knavery. Good enough to get you in trouble with the Boss Man. Think of this as an appendix to the Carnival.

Apologies to PM for missing her fantastic entry.

-Jesse W.

Carnival of Comedy #37 Delayed, but available!

2006-01-12T21:45:00.000-07:00

Welcome one and all to the 37th Carnival of Comedy. It's a tad delayed, but here we have it all laid out for your viewing pleasure.

The Carnival is brought to you by:IMAO, The IMAudiO Podcast, The IMAO Carnival of Comedy and, of course, The Conservative Cat.

Since most of us good Conservatives work for a living, I’ve rated the entries as to the Level in which you might get in trouble for laughing in the cube farm.

Guaranteed to get you reprimanded by the Boss Man:

Buckley F. Williams gives us a play book for the loony left in The Nose on Your Face’s Year 2006 Predictions. Be prepared my conservative friends. Parts of the list might be nsfw.

A test that only the MSM could love. Media Bias? What Media Bias? Mr. Right at The Right Place certainly hasn’t found any.

The Assimilated Negro debunks what we tell little Johnny or Suzy about where babies come from. Deninitely NSFW!

Our friend NOTR of ROFASix shares with us the wisdom in sending cranky old farts to solvethe "al Qaeda" issue.

Joan Conde, the Mamacita, very kindly gives us a road map to the confirmation of Justice Alito.

Good for a chuckle, but not enough to get you looked at strangely at work:

Our friend, Mr. Strain, of Personal Finance Advice offers his Friday collection of monetary oopsies and faux pas.

Another gift from Miriam. She gives us a tongue-in-cheek missive to our Commander-in-Cheek... I mean Chief.

Peakah show's us Kim Jong Il opressing it gangsta style at Peakah’s Provocations.

TMH’s Bacon Bits share a sure fire way to get rid of the "Ted Kennedy Situation". Methinks The MaryHunter reads too much Rowling.

More fun with screen caps and bribery from Tommy at Striving for average.

A rather humorous duet between Deanie Weenie and Justice Alito. Courtesy of Sean Gleeson.

A rather telling transcript taken at great risk by FIAR and Radioactive Liberty’s operatives. Thank God we have Democrats looking out for the terrorists, I mean our, Civil Liberties!

You might laugh, but no one will hear you:

JustinC. at Perrero brings us an interesting mathematical view of his life.

SulDog-O-Rama’s Sully brings us a wonderful narrative of off-road rage. Pray his bones heal!

The Brothers Dim lay upon us some rather strange equations. Must be that NewMath from Sean S.

Our Canadian centrist friend, Lecentre offers a cryptic quote as food for thought.

Holly of Soldiers’ Angel shares the dangers of the Smiling Frog Solar Light.

From Miriam’s Ideas, Miriam shares the peculiarities of condiments and other items her hubby gets neurotic about.

A list of working titles from a Hollywood circling the drain. Courtesy of NewsGuy from Anti-Racist Losers.

Don’t forget to visit the other hosts for future carnivals. The Schedule is as follows:

Jan 19 – Rachel Pereira at Pereiraville.
Jan 26 – Still up for grabs! Contact Spacemonkey and you ca host your very own Carnival.
Feb 01 – Taleena at Sun Comprehending Glass.

Thanks for stopping by folks!

Watch This Space

2006-01-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

All apologies! The Carnival will be delayed until this evening, but I will get the funny rolling to all you faithful Ronin. Keep your eyes peeled for the full boat this evening.

Jesse W.

Salt Of The Earth. City On A Hill.

2006-01-06T07:47:00.000-07:00

Persistence. Commitment. Determination. Am I talking about the latest multi-million dollar contract signer for whatever sports team is burning up the stats in their field? Am I talking about the latest Rags to Business Riches success story to hit the financial news? Or, perhaps, whatever politician is in the limelight fighting for what they tell their constituents they really believe in. Would you believe none of the above?

You see, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the everymen out there. The fathers, mothers, construction workers, accountants, etc. who make up part of our world, just everyday folks like you and I. We face our daily struggles and hardships and soldier on. We get knocked down by personal tragedy and we get up and keep moving. And we do it without grasping for that sense of entitlement. We don’t believe that the world owes us something.

My life hasn’t been wine and roses. I haven’t had things handed to me on a silver platter. In fact, some days it seems like I’m trying to ice skate uphill. I’ve lost very close family in untimely and unfortunate circumstances. I’ve been crippled permanently because of a few short moments of high-speed stupidity and overcalculation. I have had people judge me just by sight on a daily basis and decide what I’m capable of without even talking to me. But I continue to get up. I continue to go to work. I haven’t asked for a hand out because life owes me something. I continue to treat my fellow man the way I’d like to be treated. I continue to try and do as I’d have done to me and to contribute what little I can to the society around me.

I am, by far, not the only one in this modern age like this either. Nor am I even close to being an everyday hero like most that walk our streets and work in our workplaces. We are strong, determined, and many. The resilience of the American people continues to boggle my mind and make me proud to live here. The father that barely can feed his family after breaking his back all day, but still manages to love all of his family and keep them together, humbles me. The mother who has had the short end of the stick handed to her almost at every turn in her life, yet still manages to look after her neighbors and care for friends in need, leaves me speechless. We call them the Salt of the Earth, and they are. They add flavor and hope to our dismal present world, and they preserve us, our way of life, and the hope that we will make it as a nation and people to another day. And another. And another.

We will probably never hear about them on the evening news, because a man that provides for his family and DOESN’T leave them isn’t “good copy”. Nor is the couple that has managed to stay married and raise well-disciplined kids, even though they don’t have much. But these everyday heroes are out there and deserve a moment’s thought and a quick prayer to God as thanks. They are the glue that holds us together and the cogs that make the machine work. They are the ordinary heroes whose main virtue is that they never stay down when they fall. They get back up and keep walking on. There will be no parades in their honor, but they are the heroes of this day and each one that comes after it. May we never forget them and always honor them.

-JesseW.

A Brave (and Terrifying) New World

2006-01-03T13:16:00.000-07:00

Beheadings of Kuffars and bombs strapped to children. Persecutionist rantings and failure to be relevant. Zionist plotters all hung up with string. These are Islamofacists’ favorite things.

Ah, the “Religion of Peace”. I could go for the obvious “Religion of Pieces” pun, but that would be too easy. I’m really curious as to how a religion of “Peace” has written into its scriptures clauses that create a default lower, nay, a despised class. We all know that systematic discrimination against a people group by religion and law only incites violence and rage. Look at Apartheid, though the overthrowers threw in with communism, or the way Jim Crow laws created the civil unrest that led to the Civil Rights Movement. Sidenote: It was an effective movement, so black folk can stop playing the race card because we finally see them as equals. So how can this be a Religion of Peace? I suppose that is an argument for another day.

The issue at hand is when the hell we are going to get serious about this issue? We’ve played by the rules of war regardless of what Dick Turban, Ninny Pelosi and the rest of their ilk decry to gain personal political points at the expense of national safety, security and just plain human decency. Oh, and not to mention their casual wiping of their feet on the Constitution. But our enemy is far from playing by the rules. They couldn’t care less about the Geneva Convention. It wasn’t written by some centuries dead charlatan, criminal, fraud, bastard sand rat called Mohammad. Make no mistakes, I do know we are stemming the tide and our boys are fighting effectively against folks in a region with an alarming rate of mental retardation under the guise of “culture” and “religion”.

I’m reminded of the movie Swordfish. Rather a big box office stinker, but cheesy action flicks are a guilty pleasure. I love Travolta’s character. I love his mission. To terrorize the terrorists. We’ve deluded ourselves. We’ve actually convinced ourselves that the Middle Eastern culture isn’t the root cause of terrorism. It is. Not the socio-economic bullshit that some tweed-jacketed college wanker will throw at you, but the real and historical truth that Mideast culture is a culture of barbarism. “Honor killings” and kidnapping as a valid method of negotiation are not the signs of a mentally well region folks. So what would happen if we started to strike back eye for an eye style. Really get it on?

For every suicide bombing by Hamas at a Jerusalem cafe, the US destroys an entire “Palestinian” marketplace, civilians and all. For every car bomb that goes off and kills police in Iraq, the US shells, destroys and decimates the ministries of Justice for Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc… you know, the countries that condemn the terrorists’ actions in Iraq from one side of their mouth while doing nothing to stop the flow of wanton jihadists. For every attack by foreign terrorists on the soil of the US or a US ally, a tactical nuke roasts the eyes and insides of every wahabist man, woman and child in that person’s home village. The larger the group responsible, the greater the devastation. We need to make terrorizing the western world so unthinkable that even the thought of getting a little miffed and blaming the West for the shortcomings of their own defunct culture and hypocritical religion causes them to shit very large quantities into their pants.

I am tired of the kid gloves. Unless these bastards have something to fear, no diplomacy, understanding, or cooperation is going to eradicate the issue. Until we call a spade a spade and admit that these jerkwater rejects shouldn’t be holding the world for ransom; until we are willing to do the unthinkable to stop the unthinkable; until we are willing to make all who harbor, idolize, collaborate with, or give comfort to terrorist hurt 10-fold for the pain they’ve caused the west, then we will see no end to terrorism on the world stage.

Mr. President, for the love of all things Red, White and Blue, bring terror unimaginable to the terrorists. Treat them like the animals that they are. If they are so willing to die, let us give it to them, on our terms, with as much interminable pain as possible. And please do this with all necessary speed.

-Jesse W.

Striving for Subpar

2005-12-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

So it would seem that I have a blog now. I have a grand readership of one and the occasional check for updates by my lovely girlfriend. But, I’m trying to get better at this whole posting-regularly-and-not-just-about-what-I-had-for-lunch deal. I’ve never been good at journaling, nor being topical, so this is a huge double-whammy super challenge for me. C’est la vie. Oh, and I have to manufacture some content before the Carnival of comedy hits me here. It would be a shame to have so many guests and a bare cupboard. I answered the call of the great monkey from space, and he decided to let this lil’ fella host.

I’ve been reading blogs for about two years now. I frequent IMAO the most and tend to check for updates about every 2 hours or so. Frank J., ruler of the blogododecahedron, and his cadre of posters keep the funny rolling all day long. I wish I could have that kind of humor/satire skills, but I’m relegated to sounding semi-intellectual/thoughtful on whatever topic catches my attention. This is hard to do as I am often distracted by shiny objects and work. But, on the upside, I’m being paid for blogging by my unwitting employers. Take that Capitalist Banker Pigs.

I believe that the first time I found IMAO; I was following a link from a blog that was listed on the FrontpageMag.com blogwatch. If you’ve not checked it out, be sure to. Frontpage takes the best from the blogs and gives it to you in an easy collection of right minded posts. They also have a fantastic collection of essays posted daily about the health of our nation and the fight to preserve our way of life. Anyhow, after following the IMAO link, I ended up reading the entire archives in about 3-4 days. The stuff was just that good. It was just my style too. Since I’m rather right-wing and sarcastic, it was like a hand and glove. I’ve also found some rather great links to other humor blogs, as well as news that I’d not been aware of. Though Frank J. puts a lot of the funny into his site, he always provides links to the inspiring articles. Well, Frank J., Harvey, RWD, SpaceMonkey, Laurence Simon (The token Jew) and Cadet Happy/mud shoelace/whatever name suits his fancy. I tend to learn and also to get rather steamed at the latest fun and games wafting rather odiferous from the other side of the political spectrum. But I’m staying informed and entertained in one fell swoop.

To those of you out there who use the power of the blog to expose the hypocrisy of the Left, the “moderates” and the RINOS: I salute you. To IMAO, Michelle Malkin, Rightwing News, Powerline, LGF and the rest, my thanks for giving me the truth, the lies and the funny. I rest comfortably every new day in my political beliefs knowing that I have picked the side of the patriots, freethinkers and speakers of truth. Plus, we have the coolest guns. Thank you all so very much for all that you do.

-Jesse W.

That's How Cohesion Crumbles

2005-12-06T07:59:00.000-07:00

It’s a funny thing our personal interactions today. We seem to have mysteriously lost the ability to truly communicate with each other. Picture it in your mind. Sit and think of your total number of interactions last week as compared to the number of people you casually passed here or there, the time spent with family and friends, and your time at work. If you really stop and think about it, it’s a rather abysmal commentary on where we are as a society these days.

First, we have the wonderful miracle of multi-culturalism. We don’t have to be a melting pot, or blend in, because we have the right to make our adopted homeland just like the hole we escaped from to get there. It’s only fair. So, this leads to division, enclavism and general unrest laid upon racial and cultural lines. White folk won’t talk to Black Folks, who won’t talk to Hispanic/Chicano (See, multi-culturalism again) folks, who won’t talk to Asian folks, who won’t talk to Slavic folks, etc. We see someone who is different and barriers go up. Distrust is built-in and is fomented by groups that want to divide everything, base everything, and blame everything on race. And no one takes more blame than White men, but that’s another essay on Racism actually being color-blind. Let us try to stay on point.

Next we get division based on fear. There is a world of violence out there and the “Criminal Justice” system isn’t really stemming the tide. Felons get off on technicalities and the police are more handcuffed than those they are supposed to keep us safe from. So, we’ve been taught by a society that refuses to see the victim and give them rights, to not make eye contact. Don’t say hi by any means, you’ll just provoke the madman giggling in the head of the next person in line at the supermarket. If you get attacked, hey, we told you to keep everything to yourself. So we don’t really smile at each other, say hi, be friendly or even act like we actually live in a society together.

Finally we come to the fear of the other side of the coin, the lawsuit. We don’t care to part with our hard earned cash because someone got offended at something we’ve said. It’s funny that we have this Bill of Rights thing that specifically states that the freedom of speech shall not be infringed upon. I’ve read it, and I find it funny when compared to today’s laws. It’s funny because you can actually become a criminal just for making a comment to someone that they, in turn, took the wrong way. Boy was I surprised when I found out Sexual Harassment was three words. Apparently the Judicial System picks and chooses the Amendments it’s got a hard-on for that day and ignores the rest. So we don’t talk to folks, don’t communicate, because we are afraid that the process server will come and deliver us a nice lawsuit, and possible criminal charges.

The amazing thing about all these barriers, all these roadblocks to communication, is that we have no idea they are there. We, most of the time, don’t make the conscious decision to be closed off. The high idea of a Utopia for all has drained us of our social capital. We have nothing to trade on to keep us interacting. By wanting to exclude no group, we’ve managed to alienate each one. A society is defined by Webster’s as, “An enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another.” We have lost our relationships and our interactions. The patterns have been shattered and we’ve lost the knowledge to put them back together.

Unless we learn how to communicate again, we’ll have no society left at all.

-Jesse W.

Some Beatles Song I Heard

2005-12-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

Ah, the thrill of the chase. I Love romance and Love and all that comes with it. Hell, I even enjoy the headaches that accompany any relationship of a romantic nature. So long as I have someone to call my own, I am quite content. And, as long as she has her annual psych evaluation and takes her subsequent prescribed doses of medication. Of course, you’d have to be a bit batty to get involved with me.

Relationships can be fun, exhilarating, enjoyable, frustrating, maddening and enraging, along with a host of other emotions. They are hard work. I know this, because in the past, I had been willing to work through any problem that arose, and the woman was not. Or the other way around. I’ve found that Love can be a strange duck.

People tend to use the phrase, “Fell in Love”, way too often. I believe that there is an initial attraction phase that could be described as this falling, but that only covers infatuation really. Love is something that I believe one chooses to feel. It means work. It means staying together even after the wheels fall off. When things get strained, Love stretches but never breaks. Anything else is just a passing phase or pure passion.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that Love is without passion. Love is FULL of passion and romance and fun, but it also carries pain and vulnerability and frustration. And man is it worth it. The getting there is half the fun too. You have the subtle flirting, then the dates, then the cuddling, then the snogging, then the REALLY fun part. And then you find that you have chosen Love and that you want to be with that person everyday for the rest of your lives. Love is the best feeling and best state of being in the world. The best description of Love was made by Paul the Apostle in his letters to the Corinthian Church. I’ll let You look it up.

I’ve never experienced Love to its fullest, but I have seen it many times in action. I’ve seen it with my oldest friend, Ben and his wife, RaLynn. I’ve seen it in the marriage of my best Friend Chris. And I have seen it the most in the marriage of my really good friend, Chris. No matter what comes at him and Kim, they stick together, back-to-back to face whatever comes at them. They care enough to sacrifice their own desires for each other and their children. I only hope that one day I can find Love in its entirety, just like the examples I have seen from my friends.

Until next time, Ta.

-Jesse W.

Of Mice and Memes

2005-11-28T13:29:00.000-07:00

I am not a meme. A meme is defined by Webster’s thusly: A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. I am a man. Which is defined by Webster’s as an adult male human. I’m not a virus that spreads itself from host to host, infecting a whole room. But, for some reason, I tend to get blamed when people around me act out.

This makes for interesting social interaction. I say interesting, because it is one of the strangest dichotomies I’ve experienced. When thrown in to a new group, I tend to be quiet, I observe, and then I choose a person or two to get to know. This allows me to relax a bit more and gauge what is acceptable in a group. But sometimes, this doesn’t work. Observe the phenomenon in action.

This Saturday, I went to the birthday party of a friend of mine whom I used to date. When I arrived, I was rather soft-spoken and spent time getting to know the folks that were there already. Started out with small talk, then we started making jokes. It was great. Folks hanging out, drinking and cracking wise. As more people showed up, more jokes were made and more fun was had. Mind that in all of this, we are at a person’s house, plenty of booze is available, and everyone is laughing with everyone else. As the evening progressed, and more alcohol flowed, the comments got bawdier and more outrageous and odd. The capper, and what completely stuffed it for me, was when the hostess decided to move a perfectly decent house party to a bar. I may not have the rule book with me, but that sounds like a party foul if ever one could be called.

Now, to the REALLY fun part; today on IM, I learned of the sordid aftermath of the seemingly successful shindig. Hint for you menfolk out there: Never ask a drama queen if her party went okay, because anything that went wrong will invariably be your fault. I asked the hostess if she enjoyed the party and the “truth” came out. It wasn’t as fun as it could have been because I was there. I was making everyone be dirty and bawdy. I was making everyone be loud. I should have been enough of an adult to realize that the party wasn’t meant to be fun.

I was supposed to have psychic powers and realize that when people are laughing at a joke and joining along, they are really deeply offended and really find that kind of humor offensive. Oh, I also learned that I have a pied piper affect on folk. They really didn’t want to be loud and naughty… they didn’t act that way because of personal propensities… they didn’t act out because of being tipsy from the drink. No my friends. They were this way because I started it. I was the puppet master of ceremonies pulling the strings in my wicked little ways to offend to maximum result.

Bullshit.

I am a man, not a meme. If you’re offended speak the fuck up or SHUT THE FUCK UP.

-Jesse W.

Holiday Wishes

2005-11-23T07:57:00.000-07:00

Today is the day before Thanksgiving. A time when we reflect on the fortunes that have befallen us in the midst of daily Peril. The First Thanksgiving is a story we all know well, at least until the ACLU does something about it. Though the Pilgrims suffered innumerable hardships in the new world, they took the time to give thanks for those things that lined that dark storm cloud with silver.

So, I’m going to take this holiday to focus on the fact that I am now working again after 6 months of unemployment. That I love where I work and that the people here are great. That, though I’m missing a foot, I can still walk. That, though my right arm is paralyzed, I can function like a normal person with just one arm. That, though my friends are scattered all over the place, the Net keeps us together.

For all the Libs, Lefties and Democretins who decry this holiday as racist; go sit naked in a tub full of sharp, yet rusty, scissors and razor blades. This holiday season; give us the gift we’ve been wanting for years: The gift of you shutting the FUCK up.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

-Jesse W.

Another Brick in the Wall

2005-11-22T09:07:00.000-07:00

I started blogging because I thought I had a lot to get off of my chest. I’d often interject my unwanted, and oft times unappreciated, two cents into any conversation within hearing range. Thus I started to rant in this forum. Thankfully my readership is so small that my reader shouldn’t be too disappointed that there is no new stuff today.

But wait! Something has popped into the noggin!

See, I’ve just started seeing a new woman. We met at a Halloween party that was being thrown by a friend from High School. I was dressed as a dashing Pirate and she was in a nifty little Kitty costume. We had a rather frank discussion about our sexual proclivities, what we did for work, adoption, etc. And, we had an all around enjoyable, drunken time. I got her number after the party.

We started talking somewhat regularly on the phone, and it was during these conversations that I found that she had voted for Kerry. I was somewhat appalled and taken aback, immediately knee-jerking that she was a frothing Lib. So, ready for a good argument, I started to point out the inconsistencies, lies and treason that were the very fiber of her candidate. Later she confessed that she didn’t really follow politics, so didn’t know what any candidate stood for except by 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th hand accounts. But now that I know she doesn’t follow politics, I know how to deal with her when it comes to election choices. And she has a sweet ass, so I let the political stuff slide.

But the thing is, she isn’t the only one. Rock the Vote, Vote or Die, etc. are vehicles setup by a mass media that caters to the lowest common denominator. Today’s 18-29 demographic would rather get their news from John Stewart than any other source. I would find this humorous were it not so sad. Major decisions that will effect the future survival of our great nation, and the protections of our Civil Liberties from extremist “pro”gressive groups, are half in the hands of the uninformed and brainwashed.. They accept the things that they are told as mother’s milk.

It’s actually interesting to watch. I’ve spoken with quite a few Kerry voters (Who still have their Kerry – Edwards stickers on by the way. Can you say, “The dream is dead.”?) and have asked them why they voted for the treasonous son-of-a-bitch. The reasons they gave me were nothing more than the regurgitated agitprop of the DNC and the far Left with a little Michael Moore sprinkled in. When confronted by this lunacy, I would ask the individuals where they got their facts and were they from reputable sources. This made them either wither or get very, very angry and reactionary. Asking a liberal to support their decisions with facts is like kicking The Hulk in the rocks. The reaction isn’t good. However to the uninformed a request to support their strongly-stated assertions is like Kryptonite.

So remember, when confronted by a seeming Lib, Lefty or Democretin, always ask for the facts to back up their groupthink.. This will help you determine if you’re dealing with a propaganda zombie, or merely an uninformed citizen in need of gentle guidance. Remind them that if they don’t research their political views, then they need to do a couple of things:

Don’t just repeat what you have heard and state it as God’s truth.
Do a little research from both ends of the spectrum
Try having an original though, it might be refreshingly different
Stay the FUCK out of the voting booths, because you don’t deserve to decide anything concerning the future of my country.

So remember that the uninformed aren’t that bad…they just need to be quiet on subjects about which they have no knowledge. Also, they need to remember to not foment strife by repeating unverified info that they are just passing down the line. A good talk will help. Sometimes also a baseball bat.

Until we meet again,

-Jesse W.

The Big Picture

2005-11-18T10:07:00.000-07:00

Random thoughts will often skitter across the forefront of my brain on a day-to-day, hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute basis. And the thoughts will come at the strangest times. My brain is no respecter of time, location or propriety. I mean, I really don’t want to be having thoughts of planning my grandmother’s birthday party while in the shower detailing the undercarriage.

Today, while driving to work, I thought about what I would give, what I would ultimately sacrifice for the good of the nation and its future survival. Now, not everyone who will read this knows me personally. They don’t know how I came to be in my current condition. They don’t even know that I do all of my typing one-handed because my right arm doesn’t work below the elbow. They don’t know that if I walk, I do so only with the aid of a prosthetic lower Right Leg because mine was taken from me due to a brief moment of stupidity. To put it in terms that bureaucrats and the general public can grasp (Labels and all, you know), I am disabled.

It’s not a bad gig, the handicapped thing. I get great parking spots, lots of understanding, and loads of sympathy from the ladies. I’m not complaining. Well, At least not too loudly. I do have diminished balance, have to do everything with one hand, look a little odd due to the scars and missing limb, and have excruciating hand pain. Thankfully I have Schedule 2 narcotics that take care of that. So, what is the point of all of this? Simple. I work every weekday for a full eight hour shift and deal with rush hour traffic just like you.

I could be sitting pretty at home, watching movies, eating whatever whilst suckling the Social Security teat. However, I choose to work rather than take the benefit. One of the biggest reasons I decide to work is the pitiful stipend afford to one by the Social Security Administration. The sum is pathetic. Lots of Government run social programs are under-funded. And the administration is trying to cut back more and restructure them with a mind toward fixing the issues in the system. And I, as a Handicapped person, might be affected one day by these decisions. So why did I vote Bush into a 2^nd term?

As you know from my previous writings, I registered Republican when I was 17 and have never, and will never, jump ship… unless a Kennedy starts running the party. With a Kennedy driving anything you know it is just going to end up in the water anyway. I was a Republican before my accident, and remain one after. And it was a hard struggle coping and learning how little the SSA would pony up were I never able to work again. I was also unemployed for 6 months after that whole fiasco, and the stipend there was atrociously small as well.

But, dear reader, do not think that I am saying that Bush is heartless and doesn’t care about the poor or minorities or the disabled. Though, people did ask me how I could vote the man back into power who was cutting back on social problems. The answer was simple: He WAS supporting every program and every agency, state or federal, that existed in these United States. Bush was supporting every French (Shudder), German, Spanish, English, etc. social program and government agency. Save of course for those proven to be giving aid and/or comfort to extremist Islamic organizations. He was protecting the very societies that these programs existed in. No society, no social programs.

The Left and even members of the Right are concerned about social issues and the continual funding of all to most to some of the social programs the government supports. I also am concerned and know that some of these programs are worthwhile and worth saving. I also think they need to be tweaked and reworked to maximize the cost benefit to the government and the support to the recipient. But, I also think that there are terrorists out there that want to FUCKING kill us.

They want to destroy our society. To the Islamofacists, we Americans are The Great Satan, and the rest of the western world is a collection of little satans. And the zealot nutjobs want to destroy every vestige of said “satans”, with their pesky democratic rule, and replace it with their Sharia Law. Daily they send suicide bombers who are clueless and hapless as to their handlers’ true motives, to kill civilians who are clueless and hapless as to what the bomber has on under his jacket, in order to destroy and cause chaos. They want to force us into appeasing them which has been the stance of the US and Europe since the 70’s. The ultimate goal is a world consumed by Sharia Law and ruled by Imams from horizon to horizon. But the appeasement has ended in America. At least it has where the executive is concerned. The waverers in Congress can all sit on a malfunctioning electric butt plug while wading in knee deep water.

So, when I think of this, I realize that it is pretty stupid to squabble about where the silverware goes when the house is collapsing. Or in danger of collapsing. Or being set on fire. The Left and the RINOs wants to play a dangerous game, using political sleight of hand, to make the very clear and present danger disappear in order to focus voters on the minutiae of life and their wrongly founded sense of entitlement. I think I can give up a little bit of a potential benefit if it means that America will continue to soldier on, long after I’m gone, after the fashion our Founding Fathers intended. I think I just might be willing to give up whatever is asked of me, if it means that this bastion of freedom will survive and continue to be the strength of the Western World.

Except for France. Fuck France.

Have a good weekend!

-Jesse W.

Woops!

2005-11-17T14:20:00.000-07:00

A fab excerpt from the President’s Veteran’s Day Speech:

Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims. Its leaders pretend to be an aggrieved party, representing the powerless against imperial enemies. In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination -- and they wish to make everyone powerless, except themselves. Under their rule, they have banned books, and desecrated historical monuments, and brutalized women. They seek to end dissent in every form, to control every aspect of life, to rule the soul itself. While promising a future of justice and holiness, the terrorists are preparing a future of oppression and misery.

I had to read more before I realized this wasn’t talking about the ACLU

How I Grew Up: Revolutions

2005-11-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

Today marks the 3^rd installment in my well-written, but completely irrelevant personal narrative.

Shortly after 9/11, the country was almost a utopian dream. Partisanship took a backseat for a little while as the nation mourned its losses and planned its retribution. The Legislative approved nearly whole-heartedly to go into Afghanistan and kick the living Hell out of al Qaeda and their Taliban buddies. We pursued bin Laden to Tora Bora and the proceeded to pound the hell out of the Extremist strongholds there. And as we did this, we continued to gather intelligence on World Terrorism. We, along with every goddamned country in the Western World, had agreed for some time that Hussein was a huge threat and was harboring weapons of mass destruction. The previous administration thought this as well, and spoke to it; but never took a moment’s time from using interns as humidors to do a damned thing to fix it.

My favorite Texan, however, saw this threat for what it was and started to take the steps to defuse the situation and make the Civilized World just a little safer place to live. He went to the UN first. As silly as this was considering that its membership was nearly 2/3’s despotic, dictatorial, or theocratic nations, Dubya made the effort to show that we had the interests of free and oppressed nations at heart, and were not just itching to act unilaterally. And for 8 months the UN spoke mightily but acted infinitesimally to cull this madman’s actions. 8 months of warnings that if nothing was done about his WMDs, the international community might get pissy. Kinda brings the reported satellite photos of covered truck convoys booking it to Syria into perspective. So, after trying to convince “Kickback” Kofi and the avaricious French and Russian governments, who had been salivating at the thought of the Hussein promised Iraqi Oil contracts, Bush put on his ass-kicking boots and started a ramp-up.

Suddenly, all the Dims in Dimville got antsy. Utopia went bye-bye. And, wonder of wonders, the supposedly objective MSM started to spew polemic as if they were being financed by the DNC and Soros. I was starving for news that told the whole story. News that shed light on the facts hidden by the dominant agencies. Luckily, I had Eric L. as a good friend and co-worker. Eric is a stanch Republican and abhors hypocrisy as much as I do. He is the man that pointed to news sites that shed the truth on what wasn’t being said in the MSM. The ones that would call Dims and Pubs on the carpet when it was needed. Mostly it was the Dims though, because most of their causes and arguments were ill-advised and detrimental to our health as a Nation. And I learned of all of the blatant doublespeak and groupthink that was being foisted upon the unsuspecting public. The Dims from all ranges of the spectrum cried against the liberation of Iraq and the War on Terror in general.

Rome was burning while Donkeys fiddled a tune of racial profiling, socio-economic causes, imperialism, blood for oil, and puppet governments. The MSM danced and clapped and sang to the tune. And the hoodwinked masses, duped college students and white liberals rife with non-existent, unprovoked guilt cut a fine jig and rang out the choruses to the pieces played for them. They danced all the way to the election and beyond; lost in should have, would have and all the other songs they knew so well.

And I heard the music, but I just couldn’t dance. I couldn’t get the steps right as my mind dwelled on the thousands lost in The Towers and The Pentagon. As I dwelled on the gassed Kurds, murdered Kuwaitis and dissenters, tortured soccer players who didn’t bring home the gold. Pondered the “honor killings”, the justified rapes of unveiled women, the beheadings of “infidels” and the other senseless crimes committed in religion’s name against the Jews, the Christians, The Hindus, women and homosexuals. I couldn’t sing the song, “Evil America.”.

I had died and a new person had emerged. My eyes were finally open to see the world, not as the MSM wanted me to see it, but the way it really was. I was born again as a free-thinker who saw that the Pubs had their act together, mostly; and I knew which team I was going to play for. I had had my Conservative Birth.

Thus is my story. Tomorrow, something completely different.

-Jesse W.

How I Grew Up: Part 2

2005-11-16T10:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I started a tale of my birth into conservatism (South Park style) and my growing distrust of the MSM. So, let me continue my little anecdote for all my loyal readeR:

The election was finally over and we had an outstanding man in office that was surrounded by a committed and competent cabinet and advisors. Go Rovey! Then things died down a bit. Bush made us Conservatives proud with not only a tax cut, but a refund as well. I was so proud of my President. This was a new feeling as I had been numb to the Executive for the past 8 years. And then the unthinkable happened.

Saudi Muslim Terrorists with a few cohorts from other backwards as hell Islamic, theocratic nations committed an atrocious act. Fully laden passenger airliners were hijacked and used as flying bombs. These jihadist guided missiles struck the World Trade Center Towers 1 & 2. The nation watched in horror as people flung themselves from nearly a hundred stories to escape the burning and death that was approaching them. The towers collapsed under the weight of the no longer supported upper floors. Over 3000 voices were silenced that day by madmen following false promises and spurious philosophies. In addition to the loss of thousands of innocent Civilians of all races and religions, the warped mujes attacked the nerve center of the American Military. A portion of the Pentagon was consumed in fire from another passenger liner filled near to full with highly volatile jet fuel. Yet, the bastion of our Military power stood. When the news was given to our Commander-In-Chief, I saw the man do an extraordinary thing given his surrounding and circumstances. He finished his reading of a book to a group of innocent school children. In a moment where Americans were panicking, phone circuits were packed and tears flowed like rivers, this man that would lead us to the fierce retribution for these deeds kept his cool. He showed the nation that even though we were under attack, we had a steady hand at the helm. With calm resolve, he would spearhead our retribution.

The tail had been pulled. The nose had been tweaked. The Lion was awakened. Seeking to bring the collapse of the “Great Satan”, the mohammadites, instead pulled the roof of their jihadist beliefs down upon their heads. The President made a bold statement that no spineless, concessionist, appeasement monkey Leftist could do. He declared war on Terror. He stated, in no uncertain terms, with no wiggle room, that any terrorist anywhere, anyone who harbored a terrorist anywhere and any nation that harbored, gave aid and comfort to or supported any terrorist would be dealt with decisively and with swift retribution.

The fact that Our Right-wing Republican President was bold enough to speak those words rather than cower only strengthened my political leanings. I knew that the inbreeder with the saxophone could not, would not and DID not have the strength to identify rightly, and deal with decisively, this threat to out nation. Nor would his would-be protégé, The Plank of the Democratic Party, Al “The Animated Corpse” Gore.

But more would transpire to shape me into the Right-minded Patriot that I am.

More on this tomorrow. Feel free to comment if you wish.

-Jesse W.

How I Grew Up: Part 1

2005-11-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

I’ve had some trouble figuring out what to post here, so I thought I might share how I came to believe what I believe in terms of the way the Nation is run. To follow is the tail of my political birth and raising. So, sit a spell and let me tell you about my growth into the Political Adult that I have become:

You know, I wasn’t always political. There was a time that I didn’t care. I was blissfully unaware of the blatant hypocrisy, dirty tricks and outright partisan lies being spewed by the MSM. I was very much like modern day liberals, democrats, “pro”gressives, etc. The world was wonderful..

Then the strangest thing happened. I suddenly was awakened to the craziness that is the Left. It all happened one fateful November in 2000. Of course the beginning of this awakening started much early but, it came to fruition that month.

I had seen all of the horribly hypocritical, illegal, immoral things that the 2-term hillbilly and his harpy had gotten away with. I was amazed that perjury remained a crime after the supreme enforcer of the law of this land was caught smack in the middle of a lie in an official judicial proceeding. I was struck dumb as the country bumpkins got away with defrauding tons of Arkansanians with the lure of (marshy) real estate offerings. And when a White House aide who was found in a park had his death ruled a suicide, around about the same time as the rip-off artists were getting the 3^rd degree, something started to stir.

And then the Dims went and did it. They tried to elect the nation’s first robotic president. And then they lost. But…they… they just couldn’t fathom it. They lost. So the country went weeks without knowing *wink* who the president was. The Dims complained about confusing ballots; the race baiters claimed that Blacks (Oh yes I said Blacks and not African Americans because their asses where born here and not on the continent) were cheated out of their votes. And the party full of morons that can’t read a ballot and racists that can’t play fair whined and sued and dragged out the process denying the obvious win.

The awakening finally came when the Supreme Court was dragged in and was forced to bitch slap the corrupted, fat, rich, fascist Left by holding up the TRUE results of the election. I realized I wasn’t getting the full story. The MSM was trying to pull the wool over my eyes. The ship of American Politics was so extremely listed to the left that any plumb line would never fall to center. My world and the information in it had shifted so far to one side that barely a person around me could stand. They fell and tumbled and landed in a pile of vicious, angry, erroneous polemic.

It was in that struggle to get the truth of the election results through the Dim-o-c-RAT haze of self-delusion and messianic dreams, that I had my Political Birthday. I knew when I first registered to vote, 5 months before my 18^th birthday (My birthday was in August, the election 3 months later), I knew that the GOP was the place to hang my hat. The 2000 election made me realize why.

More on my Political Childhood next post.

-Jesse W.

Crickets Chirping

2005-11-14T12:02:00.000-07:00

Not feeling very riled or topical at the moment. Perhaps some news and a blog or two and my blood will be sufficiently hot enough for something.

Stay tuned, kiddies.

Credit Where it is Due

2005-11-11T14:14:00.000-07:00

Today marks Veteran's day in the U.S. A day to honor the valiant men and women who fought and died, who fought and were maimed, who fought and continue to do so. There will never be enough words with enough eloquence to those who place booted foot on foreign soil to ensure that no enemy boot sets down on ours.

I thank God that I live in a countrysuch as this. I think God that Heroes agree everyday to protect it. They fight for the long term safety of our nation, one terrorists' nest after another.

I am not even worthy of saluting these gallant Americans as I have never served. All I can offer is a simple thanks and my prayers for their continues safety.

To the Men and Women of the United States Armed Forces: Give 'em Hell and come back safe after the job is done! God Bless you all.

-Jesse W.

P.S. Forgive the lateness on the Veteran' Day wishes, this is only my 3rd day blogging.

Scouting the Future

2005-11-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

Scouts. Not Army scouts or frontiersmen, but the Scouts Movement. The Scout Movement that has been shaping young men in 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell of the good old UK decided to shape young boys the world over into men of society. The Girl Scouts who soon followed in 1912 did the same for young girls. I know they’ve had some bad press on occasion, but on the whole they are an organization with a rich and noble history.

Now, I was involved in Cub Scouts for a short time, and in was Boy Scouts for a much shorter time later in my life. Looking back, I realize that they are a great organization. They teach young men and women self-reliance, life-skills and a proper respect for this country, its laws and its heritage and culture. And the major players/host of Scouts today is the Mormon Church.

It used to be that every denomination had some involvement with this group. This support ranged from loaning facilities, to announcing meetings at the end of sermons to a number of other things. But now, most Protestant denominations have their own little groups that are denomination first, civic and life skills second. So, instead of having a unified group which would speak to all children regardless of belief, they gave rise to a pantheon of dogmatic organizations like the Assemblies of God’s Royal Rangers and Missionettes, as well as the Baptist Royal Ambassadors, Mission Kids and Challengers.

Now, before you think that I am bagging on church organizations, take a breath. I am a Christian. I believe in the assembly of the saints together. I believe that the churches have done a lot of great things in their neighborhoods and communities. I believe that the national bodies for the denomination also do good works on the national and global scale. I believe that children do need to hear the Gospel and seek salvation.

My beef is that not all children in Scouts are Christian. So, if these church based kids clubs are doing the same thing, they are doing it for a limited audience. It is the Mormon Church, out of all the denominations, that has chosen to set aside proselytizing for the betterment of our nation.

The Scouts teaches these young minds about civic duty, patriotism, personal responsibility and self-reliance. These are the very values we used to hold dear and 50% of this nation still does. By instilling these values into our young Americans at an early age, we are helping to prevent, in part, the decay of our national values.

So, why in the world would today’s churches not want to be a part of this? Why, when each day brings a new attack on the Christian churches and Jewish synagogues which are kept safe only in a society that espouses the values taught and preserved by the Scouting organization? Is our dogma at the moment so precious that we are not willing to lay it aside to help guarantee the continued right to believe, to preach and to spread said dogma for years to come?

I personally salute the Scouting organization, as well as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for all their hard work and support of these packs and troops. The rest of us Christians could do well to follow their example if we ever plan on raising a new generation of Americans that will preserve our way of life.

But that is just my $.02.

-Jesse W.

Family Owned, but not Family Operated.

2005-11-10T12:06:00.000-07:00

Afternoon Folks,

So here I sit today, wondering what the hell to write here. Should I express my political outrage? Share an amusing anecdote? This blog thing is a lot of pressure.

Actually, I’ve been thinking about work and, more on point, teamwork. See, I work for a smallish/medium-sized bank here in AZ. I am not sure what the total employee count is, but it is nowhere near the total count for the company I used work for.

Said previous employer is a juggernaut in their field. Who, by the way, does mega projects in Engineering, Procurement and Construction, including, in their history some notable projects. The Chunnel. Boston’s Big Dig. The Hoover Dam. Palo Verde Nuclear (nuke-u-ler) Power Plant. Also, several infrastructure rebuilding jobs in the land of burgeoning Mideast Democracy, Iraq.

Both the company I used to work for and where I work now are privately owned. The latter has, within its company values, a clause that we endeavor to have fun 80% of the time. The former had no such proclamation. The latter is a smallish company, but the former is a huge multi-national.

So, the question that forms in my malcontent mind is, “Why was I so happy at a company where I was one face in tens of thousands, rather than the cozy small business to which I give my 40 hours a week?” There is a constant sense that something is rather wrong here. With the 80% fun time mission statement, even.

I think the difference is the sense of Community. It boggles my mind that a behemoth such as my former company had a feel just like a huge happy family. Here, I feel like it’s a family reunion where everyone is a third cousin. There is no bond there. Here, Happy Hour is ignored and opportunities to team build seem little to nil.

Now, I’m not whining because we aren’t all having pajama parties and telling ghost stories. I am merely noting how the family effect helped keep the machine well-oiled and on the road.

The benefits of the Family-type workplace:

You can be yourself with family and not have to be wrappped in your PC shroud.
You are more apt to take a minute and really listen to a family member’s problems or issues.
You tend to want to see family member succeed and don’t undermine or sabotage their success with whining, complaining or talking behind their back.
You will always go the extra mile for family.
With family, The Buck Stops Here!

So, here I sit; manning the helpdesk phones, watching the buck get passed from group to group, steering clear of any sensitive subjects that might actually allow me to know and bond with my co-workers. Blogging all of this.

My advice: Ask personal questions. Never turn down a lunch invitation. Always say yes to Happy Hour. Go the extra mile.

You see these people sometime more than you own real family. Get to know them. Get to like them. Get to trust them. Get together outside of work. With this, you’ll get a job you can stand, and group of folks that you can trust to help, no matter how big the issue.

But that’s just my $.02. Happy working!

-Jesse W.

P.S. Carnival of Comedy here at Striving for Average. I first found out about this on Frank J’s IMAO. Good reading. Give the Carnival and Frank a visit.

What was I Thinking?

2005-11-09T15:54:00.000-07:00

Greetings Friends,

Well, I never thought I’d do it. For the past couple of years I’ve been from blog to blog observing, occasionally commenting. I said to myself, “This is great for them, but will never fly for me.” I didn’t feel like I really had anything to say; didn’t think my opinion mattered.

I watched the pundits and the comics ply their intellectual wares for the web connoisseur. They cited articles, weblogs, essays… media from the four corners of the web. I though that I couldn’t do that. I don’t have anything profound to say. Mt life just wasn’t that interesting. My opinions just didn’t matter enough. I’d never get anyone to read it anyway.

And this is still true today. But, Hey! It worked for the other guys.

So here is to a mediocre collection of the rantings of a desert-bound Elephant, surrounded by a sea of Absurdity.

Remember… absurdity is the Spice of Life.

Cheers,

-Jesse W.

Absurd Spices

Ronin Round-Up Postponed... Indefinitely

Shadows Of The Empire

Too Bad It Didn't Die OF Loneliness

May The Ronin Be Gathered From The 4 Corners

Penis, Vagina or ?

An InFISAble Proposition

Welcome IMAO Folk

Ludicrous. Simply Ludicrous.

Well, I'll Be

I Mean It This Time!

Give Me Apathy or Give Me... You Know... Whatever.

Oh my god! Look behind you! *sucker punch*

Yeah! Because That's Worked Before.

MFL Is A Huge Fucking Asshat

Hiatus

The "Worst News" Ever

Double-Standard? What Double-Standard?

Bu.. Why yo... Pssh... Uh... YEARGHHHHHHHH!

All Apologies

Propaganda And Those Neat Orange Arrows

I Owe You WHAT For That Band-Aid???

The Undeniable Scent Of Anticipation And Vindication

A moment of anger

Oops! We Did It Again.

I Am Jack's Complete Lack Of Surprise.

What The Hell?!?!?

We Love You Muslims, Oh Yes We Do...

As The Stomach Turns

National Right to Life Description of an Intact D & X

American Pregnancy Association Description of an Intact D & X

What Happes To A Dream Deferred? Does It Acquire Bling?

A Blank Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

Like $50 for Chocolate

Just Found Out

Click, Click, Boom!

A Very Special Absurd Spices

*Test Pattern*

The Burkaed Truth

Islam: It's The Bomb or The Amazing Adventures Of Jihadis

The Way We Are. The Way They Aren't

The Miasma Of The International Community

Fairy Tales and Fables

Did I Say Chocolate City? My Bad!

Near Riot? What Near Riot? *Whistles*

Deja Vu... All Over Again

A Very Special Thanks!

An Oversight Corrected

Carnival of Comedy #37 Delayed, but available!

Watch This Space

Salt Of The Earth. City On A Hill.

A Brave (and Terrifying) New World

Striving for Subpar

That's How Cohesion Crumbles

Some Beatles Song I Heard

Of Mice and Memes

Holiday Wishes

Another Brick in the Wall

The Big Picture

Woops!

How I Grew Up: Revolutions

How I Grew Up: Part 2

How I Grew Up: Part 1

*Crickets Chirping*

Credit Where it is Due

Scouting the Future

Family Owned, but not Family Operated.

What was I Thinking?

Oh my god! Look behind you! sucker punch

Test Pattern

Near Riot? What Near Riot? Whistles

Crickets Chirping