Stop me if you've heard this one...

Three Choir boys break into the house of an off duty police officer.
Sound familiar?
Said officer is awakened by the sound of breaking glass.  The police officer shoots at all three, kills one.
The news this evening refers to the recently deceased as the "alleged home invader". Let's see, breaking and entering and the room temperature choir boy is in dahouse!  "Alleged" seems a stretch.

Two of the perps escaped. Whether they had extra orifices is unknown at this point.
If so, they'll turn up at Ben Taub Hospital before too long.

Another case of really poor victim selection.*  The house was occupied. This is Texas. The odds of the homeowner having a gun of some type is extremely high. The intended victim happened to be a police officer.
And, there's this little thing called the "Castle Doctrine" which does not require the homeowner to run-hide nor ask what the uninvited "guest's" intentions are prior to shooting him dead.

Kudos to the cop for removing one miscreant from the gene pool.  
Eventually the vunables will decided the risk is to great and maybe a starter job at McDonalds isn't so bad after all, or they will be thinned out by "natural" selection.  The crime rate in states with armed citizens continues to decline.


* I am surprised that no Democrat strategist has seized upon the obvious need for a federal government funded training program for the vunable home invaders to make better choices in their victims. The whole background check / gun registration / gun confiscation thing just isn't working out.
The program obviously will need funding of at least one billion dollars, but they'll settle for 455 million if Al Sharpton is made director of the program.  Oh, and Charlie Rangel too.

Al Gore's next gig

If you were wondering what was going to come after Global Worming, wonder no more.

As the global worming schtick has waned, temperatures have refused to rise and the polar icecaps have increased at record rates, the UN saw the writing on the wall and attempted to get some traction with "biodiversity".  The Wormists and the skeptics* were too far gone in a rut induced horn lock to even take notice.  Whatev.

So what's the next ozoneholethermageddon tax dollar gravy train?  Ocean Acidification.

"This Summary for Policymakers states with "very high confidence" that increasing acidification is caused by human activities which are adding 24 million tonnes of CO2 to oceans every day."

Very high confidence. 
Human activities.
Indeed.
Where have I heard that before?

So, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and global average temperatures now appear to have no correlation whatsoever. One thing the wormists poo poo that has managed to, begrudgingly, creep into the nooz is the sun seems to be taking a nap.  Sun spots are almost nonexistent.  Could it be? Nah, Sun activity couldn't possibly have anything to do with temperatures on earth could it? Perish the thought cretin, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.


So now the PH level of the oceans is rising because atmospheric CO2!!!111eleventy!11.

Really?
Which tree ring will the sciency-tists point at as the safe PH baseline?
Has anyone thought to look into volcanic activity on the ocean floor? I'm just asking, ya know. Personally, I think we need some federal legislation against those nasty, mega-polluting volcanoes.**

I am officially calling bullshit right here, right now. I no more trust "scientists" whoring for government grants than I do obama.








* I am a skeptic.  Well, actually that's an understatement. I think global worming is unmitigated bullshit.

** When Mount Pinatubo erupted, it put more pollution into the atmosphere in that one event than all of mankind from the beginning of the industrial revolution up to that very moment in time.
We should file a class action lawsuit against the earth for polluting itself.

An Armed Society

Is a polite society. So said Robert Heinlein.
I do believe he was correct.
Chicago, gun free-est zone in the world - murder capital of the U.S. continues to devolve.
With a little more work they can catch up to Detroit Wayne County.*

The ultimate game of chicken

Who will crack first? Boehner or obummer?  Now the ChiComs have enjoined the stand off.
 If the GOP can manage to find their balls in their wives' unmentionables dresser drawer, it will be barak.

History, if there is a history of this once great free Republic, will not be kind to bho.
Surely he must know that the only positive legacy he will have is that he was our first black half black president.*
Other than that, it's been a total slow motion train wreck.





*nevermind, I just reread the definition of "narcissist". It's the tea party's fault. It's Boooosh's fault.
HALIBURTON! NO BID CONTRACTS! THAT! WHICH! SOME OTHER DANGLING PARTICIPLE!

There's some thinking outside to box....

The pine box you will be buried in.

Hyperloop

Evacuated Tube Transport. A mag-lev in vacuum tube.
You can go zinging along like the characters in the opening credits of Futurama.*
The article waxes lyrical about running these vacuum tubes under the ocean.  Considering that we cannot build a pipeline that does not occasionally leak...or explode, I don't think I'd want to be under hundreds of feet of water pressure in a vacuum tube.  A pinpoint leak that produces a water stream that will cut through steel due to extreme water pressure it just not enough. We need a better disaster.
I know, we'll put it under vacuum to suck the water in!
I can see the headlines now; " O-ring manufacturer sued over failure, Federal government considers criminal charges"
Wait, the back half of that is implausible. it's green technology dontchaknow, cuz the 'letricity to power the magnetic levitation system and ginormous vacuum pumps would be provided by solar panel arrays, or wind farms, or tidal current generators, or, or...unicorn farts!**


Oh screw it. I can't go on. Not enough snark left in the tank.
I know science fiction has predicted many scientific accomplishments by imagining the seemingly impossible, but this is just plain stupid.







* bad analogy, they are stuck in foot to head tube traffic.
** oh, wait, that probably has CO2 in it and that causes global worming. my bad.

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Good Bye Old Friend

My road weary berf case* decided it had enough. It's seen a lot of miles and a lot of sunsets from the top side.

One morning, not too long ago I hit the latches to open it, and it threw in the towel.  Well actually it flung it's latch across the room.
Well s*&#t. **

The lovely Belle bought that case for me.  It carried me through some tough years of horrific projects.
I haven't had the heart to trash it just yet. It still has some crap in it that I "might" want.
My grand daughter Scooter took possession of the previous berf case. It only had one latch left that worked as well. I dare not throw that one away.  That child has a memory like a steal trap.
Perhaps she'll give berf case 2.0 a good home and the case my father bought me after college can finally rest in peace.

*loiyas carry "brief cases". My berf case carries things that add value to something.

**  Some BAR major stockholder got wind of the new AP style book in which the words "illegal" and "alien" are not to be used in close proximity to one another, ever, again, mmmkay. The edict came down that I am no longer allowed to type the words "well fuck" unless the words "well fuck" are in quotes. [ example given, well fuck is inappropriate. "Well fuck", with attribution is acceptable.]

Junk Mail via Fedex?

Has the US Postal Service sunk that low? They can't even deliver junk mail adequately?
I got a Fedex envelope containing an offer for a mortgage refinance from  CitiBank.

Not having ordered anything on line lately, nor expecting any bidness documents, at first I thought I was the recipient of some kind of legal nasty-gram.

I am so pleased to note that this was delivered via Fedex's carbon neutral envelope shipping.  Must have been carried by the Pony Unicorn Express.

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead - Citgo Sucks

Yes, Hugo Chavez has died.  Yay!!

Apparently, the Citgo building in downtown Houston is flying an American Flag at half mast!

WTF is that all about?

First off, that slimeball was NOT an American.. in fact he hated America.

Secondly, that bastard did not stand for liberty and freedom, he was an opressive, murderous dictator.

Third...   well, need I really say more?

What a slap in the face of every single person who has defended our civil liberties and who have served the public ( emergency responders included) both living and dead, who truly deserve to have our flag at half mast in their honor.

Shame on Citgo (owned by Venezuela btw, so I stopped buying their gas years ago) for their insulting actions.

To Hugo Chavez... may you rot in the depths of hell for eternity... too bad it didn't happen sooner.


/end rant

Oh How Times Change

Diplomatic trips to Berlin have been going on since the beginning of the Cold War.

I happened to be listening to Rush Limbaugh today and so I'm stealing his brain power in this oh so true comparison.

John F. Kennedy at the Berlin Wall
 

Then we have the eloquent Ronald Reagan with his classic challenge:

 

And now enter John Kerry and his little tidbit of brilliance (snark)

Do you think he was referring to his dumb ass?

Geez......   I never thought I would say this, but can we have Hillary back, please?


Oye.

Because Proud Hillbilly said so

And PH is right, this should go viral.
If for no other reason than facts annoy the shit out of liberals and mush heads, because they can't remember them.  Math is hard. Women's Vaginal Studies is a much easier degree to get.

Sorry, too busy working on Assault Vagina Legislation

Watch dog group asks Congresscritters to reform burdensome tax system.

Congress Responds:
Nope, no can do.  We just spent an inordinate amount of time debating free birth control and now we have the legal battles to fight over separation of church and state. Btw, thanks for the props ladies, especially you Ms. Fluke. Your, "OMG, I just bought my birth control pills and they were FREE! No COPAY!" tweet really warmed our hearts.


Now we have this scary black rifle thing to deal with since Obama has more flexibility, being in his second term.  Yes, we know, scary black rifles,we refer to them as Assault Rifles, are involved in murders far less often than hammers, but our faithful useful idiots respond to the images in a way that increase our lands and titles.

If we are unsuccessful in confiscating guns this time, next election cycle, we will be rolling out the "Assault Vagina" platform as these two words appear to define the fundamentals of American Political discourse.  We are already hard at work on this Legislation and therefore cannot acquiesce to your request.

Sincerely,
Your Overlords





** The money shot quote from the article, "“If tax compliance were an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States,” the report states."  If tax compliance were an industry?  Strike up a conversation about a flat tax with no deductions for individuals and corporations with my CPA sister.  I recommend bringing a hard hat.

Buying your way into Heaven

Just write a big fat check to the Lord Almighty.

"Rabinovitch says that similar checks previously 

placed in the wall have bounced."

No kidding. Huh, who would'a thought. I mean, really, some of them came from Nigeria.

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Oh, yeah...almost forgot

Tomorrow's the end of the world.

According to the Mayans.

So either we can kiss our collective asses goodbye, or I'll see you at the same BAR time, same BAR place on 12/22.

I'm prepped. I have a beer in hand.

Socialism works if you do it right

Take Sweden for example:

"We had an unemployment rate of over 25 per cent, so we had to find solutions,"

Solution?  Outsource your unemployment to Norway.


25%.  Back in the Day, they referred to that as the Great Depression.

A Good Problem

Oxymoron? Maybe.
Posting has gotten a bit spotty because things at work have gotten very busy.
And it only looks to get worse better.  If Romney wins the election, the flood gates may open.
If all the projects that went on hold came back online, and by hold I mean it was like someone flipped the prosperity switch to full off with no concern about a graceful shutdown, back in 2008, we'd need to double our staff in very short order.

Wouldn't that be a shame?

It still angers me......

Yes, I'm still royally pissed off about 9/11.

That day was surreal to me, and I will never forget where I was when I heard about it. I was at home, watching GMA and saw the whole thing unfold, live.

I will never, ever forget, nor will I forgive.

I hope those bastards end up with 72 male computer geek virgins......    fuckers.

After all, there's nothing in the Quran that says what KIND of virgins they will get in paradise.

fuck'em......

What pisses me off even more is how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been handled and how it's been politicized.

Whether or not you believe that we should have gone there in the first place is irrelevent.  Once we put our men and women in harm's way, by God they need to be allowed to do their job and fight to win.

Instead, they are constantly reigned in and sometimes demonized when something goes wrong.  Let those who have sworn to serve and protect DO THEIR JOB because they are the best in the world.

Never ever send them to fight a war that you have no intention of winning.  You send them?  Make damn sure that you allow them to fight and accept nothing less than unconditional surrender.  You cannot fight a war while tieing the hands of our troops and making them wear kid gloves... we should have learned that in Vietnam.

Once again to those of you who are serving, or who have served....  I can't thank you enough for what you do.  God Bless.

 

 

Sharecroppers

were apparently living here til I cut the front lawn after work this evening.
It was pretty bad.  I have a brown thumb, and no other excuse than my kitchen and yard slaves are all grown and off at college or out on their own.
As soon as college is done and paid for, I'm getting myself a fast,  shiny, new,

lawn service.

And maybe some professional landscaping. Our yard needs an intervention.

It might even save a tree a year considering all the nastygrams the homeowner's association sends me regarding weed eating the joints growing weeds in the sidewalk. I mean, jeez, I mow them down to standard fairway rough height.

busybodies.

The Nooz picks its Nose

 The Weather Channel meteorologists are just about to wet themselves over Hurricane Isaac.  They have eight meteorologists in the field, spread along the Gulf Coast covering the event.
Even Frozone Paul Goodloe was motivated to get out of the studio to get some street cred.

Temporary Job Listing

Wanted: Project oriented  individuals that can adhere to a strict schedule.   Job offers low pay and no possibility of future advancement.. Benefits include 72 virgins.  Must be capable of pushing a button.

Al-Qaeda’s ‘suicide bombers wanted’ ad

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I feel..... dirty

Yeah, am feeling a little unclean right now.  Just had to enter a donation to be paid to the Mittens campaign for President.

UGH...  

Sometimes work is just....    work...


Good news is that in two days time, i will be on the water fishing.....