A Very Brief Treatise On Masculinity

Our Guy

"Barry"

Their Guy

"Vlad"

Our Next Guy

"Butch"

(What the hell, we've lasted this long.  Now it's time we followed the path of the Roman Empire ...right?)

'NUFF SAID

If We Ignore It, Maybe It Will Go Away

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Governor-Brown-California-Drought-240821841.html

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Northridge-Earthquake-20th-Anniversary-239479471.html

OK, here's the plan for building the perfect city:

• find a super dry place in the middle of a desert
• if possible, make sure it is located on an earthquake fault
• channel all of the water you need from nearby rivers (perhaps the Colorado) that aren't even located in your state
• don't worry about that river ever running dry because other morons in Arizona and New Mexico are doing the same thing you are doing
• lure people to your "paradise" by stressing the "beautiful weather"
• encourage more people to move into your area by opening your arms to illegal immigrants
• spend tons of money on "social welfare" programs instead of building a supportive infrastructure (after all, just because you live on the edge of the world's largest ocean, why should you even consider spending money on those expensive desalinization plants to provide the water you require to support your chosen lifestyle)
• mock people who live where the weather isn't quite as nice as yours, because even though they have plenty of water and don't have earthquakes, they are idiots for living where the sun doesn't shine every day
• elect public officials who are more concerned with "undocumented alien" rights, gay marriage, "social welfare", "climate change", etc (Governor Jerry Brown is a perfect example - a mid-60's hippie)

Before you know it, you've got a dream megalopolis of about 20,000,000 people that is collapsing under it's own weight (no money, smog, plenty of crime, crumbling infrastructure, etc.)  Then, when it runs out of water, blame "the government", "global warming" or the phases of the moon ... ANYTHING but your own stupidity for living in the middle of an earthquake prone desert in the first place.  And about those earthquakes ... don't worry.  If another one hits, you can rely the rest of us, through our tax dollars, to bail you out.

In the meantime, just keep on telling us all how wonderful Souther California is and how stupid we are for living anywhere else.

An Alternative View Of Chris Christie ...

This guy just can't help giving the media more ammunition ...

I'm so sick of reading and hearing of this nonsense that the last thing I was going to do is comment on this.  But good God ... it just won't go away, so I just can't resist.

Let me start by saying that I never liked Christie.  I think that he is just a self important blowhard who tries passing himself off as a "Republican" who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal.  Fiscally conservative?  You mean like entitling illegal aliens to resident rates at New Jersey State Universities.  Yeah, that's sure watching the bucks.  In short, this guy isn't even a RINO ... he's worse. He's a liberal Democrat who just lies about his party loyalties and the Republicans let him.  Of course, the idiots at Republican Party HQ buy into this hook, line and sinker and think he is the great hope for Republicans to seize the White House.  Please.  This jerk couldn't win a presidential election if he was the only candidate.  And who could ever forget those heart warming pictures of Christie hugging Obama just before the election?  Literally brought tears to my eyes!  Or how about that great Ali speech at the Republican Convention?  You know, the one where he kept telling everyone why he is the greatest instead of endorsing Romney?

Moving on to the horrible traffic jams that jeopardized the very security of the entire free world (based on all of the news hubbub, what other conclusion could you draw?), the main question is whether or not Christie is lying.  Is he lying???  OF COURSE HE IS.  He is lying through his teeth!  Not only is he lying about not knowing that this stuff was happening, he is probably the one who told his chief of staff to make it happen.  Really, you have got to be kidding (or on drugs) if you claim that Christie was not aware of this.  Do you really think this self serving, self absorbed hypocrite would ever admit to ANYTHING that would make him look bad?  Seriously?  OK ... enough of casting aspersions upon his "character" ... let's me just stipulate that I think he was lying.

So now that I've set the tone here, let's move on to the REAL ISSUE, which is the horrible traffic jam that jeopardized life and limb.  In fact, I think I heard a news report that so many cars were backed up in New Jersey that their combined weight caused the earth to tilt even more on it's axis!  Really!  Well ... OK ... maybe that didn't happen, but at least we know that a 91 year old lady actually died because emergency help couldn't get through to her, so at least, according to Alan Dershowitz, Christie could very well be charged with FELONY MURDER!  Well, then there is the news report that the woman's family stated that emergency crews couldn't have helped ... she died fairly quickly.  OK, but even if nobody died because of this, they could have and as everyone knows, there are never any traffic jams in the New York megalopolis.

Now let's take a look at the "normal" conditions around the George Washington Bridge (GWB).  I know a little about this because I lived in New Jersey for 5 years and commuted into Manhattan on most workdays.  What do I think of the normal traffic situation in this area?  Fuh ged aboud it!

There are 3 ways to get from NJ to NYC in a wheeled vehicle other than a train ... The GWB, the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel.  Every stinking day during the workweek, these things back up and are God awful nightmares.  To pass the time, I often read a newspaper while crawling along a few inches at a time in a never ending line of stop and go traffic.  So, if you choose to live in this area and you have, say a heart attack, expect that your chance of croaking are in fact higher than if you have the same condition on Albany.  In short, the damn ambulance is still very likely to be delayed, whether Chris Christie is playing political grab ass or not.  And how about all of the environmental whining about the greenhouse gas emitted during this fiasco?  Listen, if you're worried about CO2, try to figure out how to eliminate the daily backup at the bridges and tunnels.  As far as Christie creating an atmosphere of intimidation and using his power to punish his opponents, this is all probably true.  Certainly, this heinous practice has no historical equivalent .... well, unless you consider the Daley machine in Chicago (where Obama spent his early years suckling at the political teat) or Obama using the IRS to hamstring his political opponents.  No sir, these don't even come close to creating a traffic jam!  Not only that, but Christie was acting like some sort of Mafia Don, which is shocking in an area that has no record at all of organized crime!  As John Stewart said ... he is from NJ and this "scandal" was so minor, he was embarrassed.

So here's the wrap up.  Chris Christie is a lying, liberal politician who is guilty as hell of creating the traffic jam in question.  So what?  He caused a traffic jam in an area that is the intergalactic center for traffic jams.  Everybody is whining their collective asses of for different reasons ... the press because they want to divert attention from the real disaster that is Obamacare, Christie's opponents because he kicked their collective asses, the Democrat Party (yes, I purposely did not say Democratic) because they think he is a presidential contender (boy, are they wrong) and finally, the drivers in the New York Metro Area because they FINALLY have someone who they can identify that can be crucified for making their lousy lives miserable.  Really, if you don't like to spend a significant part of your life sitting in traffic, if you don't want to experience road rage, if you don't want to be a victim of mob like political tactics and if you don't want to risk your life by living in an area where emergency care often can't reach you, move out of the cesspool that you live in.  Otherwise, quit you bitching and keep honking your horn!

Oh yeah, and to our "impartial" news media, try reporting on something that the rest of the country (and world) really cares about.

Think the radical left is currently in charge? The "new" left makes the current regime look like moderates ... Mo' money and less freedom.

A very interesting video from Dick Morris.  Think that the "The Nanny State",  "Redistribution of Wealth" and "The Entitlement Class" are just political abstractions?  Think again.  Where do you suppose that this leaves your kids and grandkids?  THIS is the legacy we are bequeathing to future generations.  Don't ask what the far left has done ... ask what WE have allowed them to do.

http://www.dickmorris.com/will-the-radical-left-take-over-the-democratic-party-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports

We have allowed these radicals to gradually infect our society and destroy our basic tenets of freedom, personal responsibility and capitalism.  Also (a comment guaranteed to infuriate many), the "Greatest Generation" ended the Depression and won World War II (our eternal gratitude is certainly with them), but they, perhaps more than any other group, destroyed America with excessive "tolerance" and with the outlandish indulgence of their children, all under the banner of "I want my children to have what I never did".  Remember, this is the generation that raised and allowed the disaster that was the '60's generation (that's "us" and our kids running the country/world now).  This is where it's gotten us.

                                      

                                                Bill BeBlasio & Harry Belafonte

It doesn't really matter what side your favorite radicals are on ... far left ... far right ... doesn't matter.  Both are destructive because both cater to relatively small groups of people with a very specific agenda at the expense of the many.  The amazing thing to me is that "the many" let them get away with it.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

Every now and then, an irresistible story pops up ...

OK ... so now that we know Scruffy has a sense of direction, what is his carbon footprint?

Yes, I know that there are many critical issues facing mankind, but that doesn't mean we should neglect some serious questions that may not be earth shattering but certainly must be answered.  It also means we shouldn't lose our sense of humor.

You have GOT to ask yourself, "who even thinks of doing stuff like this?".  I mean, really.  Somebody with years of expensive scientific education actually wondered if dogs crap along magnetic lines!  In all seriousness, is this study real?  You bet!

I came across this article:

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/04/study-dogs-relieve-themselves-in-line-with-earths-magnetic-field/

I thought, no this can't be real.  So I went to the actual research site:

http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/pdf/1742-9994-10-80.pdf

For those of you who demand proof of every single statement that is made, here it is!  I mean, this is serious, detailed research carried out by scientists from Czechoslovakia and Denmark.  Look at the data ... I must say, I'm impressed!  I also was encouraged to know that the US government didn't fund this piece of crap.  Get it ... piece of crap?  Well, anyway, we didn't directly fund it but who knows if some of our "foreign aid" dollars went into this or not.

By the way, despite all of the very detailed analysis contained in this landmark study, I personally can say that it is nothing but a flawed piece of doggy poo.  I did my own study and can attest to the fact that I have seen my dog facing WEST while doing her thing.  So there!

Got to run ... time to let the dog out and study her defecation habits.