From @FreetheRepublic intrepid Floridian, and all around nice guy.
Looks like self-shot video of the d-bag who was shooting at the Pentagon.
THIS is the face of the enemy. Not granny trying to visit the grandkids while being groped by the TSA.
As a wanna-be chef, and journeyman cook, I like good tools. I’ve been accumulating a kitchen full of cool stuff over the last couple of years, so much so that last time Dad was over, he asked me if I was going to be starting a diner.
That ain’t gonna happen for a couple of reasons.
1. You should never do what ya love for money. I have some small experience with this.
2. I hate cleaning up the kitchen.
I make beef jerky, a lot of beef jerky. And while I love my butcher, I wanted to take a crack at doing some carving of my own. Shortly before Christmas I got a call from my brother, pumping me for gift info. So I did some quick searching and came up with this:
Now that’s a knife!
18 inches long, scimitar blade, and a really skinny edge. Like less than 20 degrees. I will determine the real angle when it’s time to sharpen it.
That’s 12 inches of butterflying, carving, butchering goodness.
Cuts like butter through a chicken breast, easily cutting them into 3 thin quick cooking pieces.
I’ll let you know how it works when I get me a big ol’ roast to cut up for jerky.
Thanks Bro!!!
I got done with work this week, and I was/am in a bad mood. I walked into the house, and flipped on the tube, a ritual I have been in for years and years. Special Report has been my go to getting home news program as long as it’s been on. I’ve watched it throughout the election cycles since 1996, been with it through good and bad results, and never really had to be overly critical of the coverage I was seeing.
Until this election cycle, that is.
What I have seen this cycle has been more in-the-tank-for-the Establishment-GOP coverage than I ever remember.
When we look back at the last 2 election cycles what has been the one true defining situation that has come about? The rise of the Tea Party. That rise has thrown a monkey wrench into the politics-as-usual rise and fall of the Dems and GOP, threatening the status quo, and taking both entrenched sides off their games by having to account for the new variable.
November 2010 served as a wakeup call to the establishment GOP that the old ways of doing business were going to be shuffled off to the wayside in favor of a group of folks coming in that were no longer going to cave to the usual trappings of power to be gained by going along to get along. West, Rubio, and others were looking to be the vanguard of a movement that would start to set right the damage done from both sides of the aisle.
While a good start, the new guys have yet to unseat the entrenched power structure in the House, which is a shame because the existing “leadership” currently in the House have been a non-stop horror show of pussydom, refusing to either stand against the Administration in any meaningful way, or just rolling over and acting like a bunch of little bitches.
Fuck you, Boehner and Cantor.
You exemplify everything bad in the current structure. You cave like schoolgirls when it comes time to do something right, and then when you get called on it, you both blame your lack of having any vestige of a nut sack on the Senate. You both are the little bitches that got your asses deservedly kicked in high school, and went to the principal to cry about it, rather than taking your beating and learning from it. Or growing a set and fighting back.
Oops, did I say that out loud?
So anyway, the establishment GOP started to quash the movement during the 2010 cycle by trotting out Karl Rove and his little white board, trashing Tea Party candidates by saying shit like that winning elections by electing a RINO squish that will betray us is more important than standing on principle. That losing with a candidate that actually has principles has no inherent value. Well let me tell ya something pal, if you lose one seat with a candidate who stands up, the next cycle you have a record to run against.
The people who still adhere to the “Buckley Rule” are as much of a problem as the fucking Demonrats. We need to start drawing a line between the candidates we support, and those who represent the status quo.
Remember, the Establishment GOP has but one interest, to retain their power as long as they possibly can to continue lining their pockets. They don’t give a shit about you or your problems, and never did.
We, as conservatives need to take over the existing structure of the GOP and re-make it in the image of the Tea Party. The goals being limited Government, less regulation, dismantling useless agencies and pink slipping 1/3 of the Federal work force by shutting down the EPA, NLRB, FCC, Dept of Education. And any plan that does not include busting Federal Employee Unions is useless.
The interests of the “few” (The Senate and House) have overwhelmed the interests of the many. Nowhere is it becoming more apparent than in the punditry we see nightly. Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove are shills for the GOP establishment, and are spinning furiously to give us Mitt Romney as the most electable candidate we have. Fuck them. The good has become the enemy of the best.
And what has the GOP field done? Rather than drawing clear lines between themselves and the disaster that is the current POTUS, they fight amongst themselves, giving ammo to the MSM to use against them.
Look at the carnage incurred by the MSM currently, Cain gone, Bachmann gone, Perry on the ropes. Some committed suicide, like Pawlenty.
What are we left with?
Mittens, who in all reality is only slightly right of Beloved Leader.
Newt, who is a trainwreck in slow motion alternately slowing or speeding up his self destruction seemingly at random.
Huntsman, never a factor, never a player, looking for a tax deduction by bankrolling his own losing campaign, I’d wager.
Perry, shot himself repeatedly by making rookie mistakes, I thought he had some promise, despite being a “reformed Democrat”, looks to be all but out of it.
Ron Paul, entirely too flawed in foreign policy to be considered for the general election, hurts all of us by not stepping down and throwing his support behind the most principled candidate we have left.
Rick Santorum, who most closely represents the majority of non-coastal America. Out of what we have to choose from this is the best of the rest. Therefore, the only logical choice at this time is Rick Santorum.
So screw the rest of the talking heads, get behind Santorum, perhaps we can move this guy into being a contender.
Is Mittens the inevitable candidate? He well may be, if so, more than likely he will be the last of the old GOP’s hand picked candidates. Will I hold my nose and pull the lever for him? Yes I will. I did it with McLame, and I will do it again.
The danger we face as a country is real, and one election will not fix it. Chances are I will not live long enough to see the USA restored to it’s Founding Principals.
The true prize for the citizens of the US is taking the Senate by a filibuster and veto proof majority. Holding and increasing the numbers in the House to offset any remaining RINOs.
At that point, we control the power to legislate, and hold the purse strings. POTUS will be rendered impotent by having a veto-proof majority, and SCOTUS will be able to be overturned by legislation.
That’s a scenario I can get behind.
I AM A FREE MAN!
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A few posts down from here, I expressed my concerns about the methods that could be used to judge whether a Citizen could be detained (go here). after re-reading that section, I’m still not very comfortable with the whole thing.
Here is a video from Allen West explaining the whole “indefinite detention” part of the act. Comforting to know, but I still have my doubts about Section 1031.
Hat Tip to Sago.com where I found it, and to Erick Brockway for the original post.
Got up this morning after sleeping way late for me, 9:00 AM.
Diggin through my morning reading, I ran across this on The Blaze
Some personal history. In 1998, the Mn. Governors race is on. We had the same old same old choices available. Norm Coleman, recent Dem turned Republican vs. Skip Humphrey (Hubert’s Kid). and those choices sucked.
Enter Jesse Ventura, local boy made good in the wrestling biz, ex-mayor of Brooklyn Park (aka Crooklyn Dark, due to massive movement in the Section 8 population from North Minneapolis), local radio talk-show host on 2 different local talkers, KSTP (news) and KFAN (sports). Member of the precursor to the current SEALs the UDT, and if you believe it, a Sargent at Arms with a national M/C chapter.
As Mayor, Jesse gave the City such stirring legislation as the “Ventura Rule” which allowed no one to take more than an 8 when playing the local golf courses. and showed up for Council meetings riding a bike and conducting the City’s business wearing a doo-rag.
After a nomination by the Reform Party, (see Ross Perot 1992) Jesse turned the general populations dissatisfaction with the business as usual candidates into a groundswell of support for an “outsider”. I was one of those who supported Jesse because I had been listening to his radio shows, and had been watching the feeds from his time as BP Mayor back in the day. It seemed like it was a time for someone to shake up the status quo, and this guy was brash enough to do it.
Jesse’s platform was Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal. That resonated with the disaffected, mostly because Mn has always been a Blue State, propelled by big Democratic support in the population centers, with more conservative folks in the outlying areas trying to keep the balance within the State Government, with varying degrees of success.
During the campaign, I had the chance to talk to Jesse directly, and I had but one question for him. Would he abolish the Metropolitan Council, which was, and is, an unelected group which has the power to tax, with no recourse by the People to hold them responsible? Absolutely, he said to me. Good enough, I thought, I am on board.
Jesse went on to win that race, and those of us who thought we were in the know, waited to see what our boy would do with the responsibility we gave him. He started out like any out of the blue Governor would, lots of media attention, many interviews. While watching it all, I began to see what I had hoped wouldn’t be the case, Jesse being more concerned with being Jesse, rather than moving towards the goal of getting the State moving forward in a more limited fashion. I’m not going to say that Jesse didn’t get some things done, He rebated the existing surplus back to the taxpayers, and did manage to get some laws repealed. The “apehanger law” was one that was sent away, so we could all put the big-boy apes back on our scooters.
But he failed in his promise to me, and even went so far as to not abolish the Met Council, but to install Walter Mondale’s kid, Ted as the Head of the Council. So why would I be so pissed about a broken promise to one guy in 1998? Well, I’ll tell ya why. The Met Council handles mass transit here in the Twin Cities. Under Jesse’s administration, large amounts of residential property was purchased on Hiawatha Ave in South Mpls. This was for the express purpose of creating a light rail line from Bloomington to Downtown Mpls. Or as I like to call it, Ventura’s Folly. This project was to usher in a better way to move people around, and alleviate traffic congestion in and out of Downtown.
What really happened? Scores of private residences were razed, traffic was snarled for the duration of the project, (the traffic didn’t get better by the way, in some ways it’s worse) and when completed urban crime, now with the chance to become mobile moved out to the suburbs. Within 5 years of the projects completion, commuters at the far end of the line, in Bloomington were treated to leaflets on their cars in the lots where they parked to catch the train, stating they (the lot owners) could not guarantee their safety any more. During a recent transportation strike (thanks unions!) shoplifting at the Mall of America was reduced by 85%. And I am sure you all have read about the recent flash mob semi-riot at the Mall in the last couple of weeks. those were not Bloomington residents doing that.
The failure by the Met Council to recognize that simple fact that when you make it easier to criminals to move around, they will choose to do so is one of the great shames of the last 20 years. And they haven’t learned anything yet, they created the North Star line from the outlaying suburbs to Downtown Mpls. They are in currently the midst of connecting Mpls and St Paul by another corridor going right down University Ave. Yep, progress, mighty progress will drag us back to the days of the streetcar, allowing scum and riffraff to easily move from spot to spot.
As time progresses, we will see that businesses along the rail lines will become affected and will move away as it becomes less possible to keep them secure, making those areas more run down than before. Easy pickins for gang and criminal takeovers. I’m sure that most of you have seen films of the decaying parts of New York along the train lines. That, my friends is what the glorious future planning of the Met Council will bring to the Twin Cities.
So, you may quite rightly ask, what the hell does have to do with Jesse Ventura? To me it was a broken promise that set into motion a series of events that will have the good citizens of the Twin Cities paying for the Met Council’s vision of urban transportation control. That vision, carried out to it’s logical end will change the University Avenue corridor into a deteriorating morass of crime and squalor. Likewise will go the Hiawatha Corridor, and out to the northern suburbs down the North Star line.
Hell of a legacy for our hometown hero, yes?
Jesse as time has passed, has collapsed under the weight of his own ego, and become a cartoon image of himself. As illustrated below, he lost touch with what was important, true and right. He had what he got coming to him, and it’s just sad.
This is a long one kids, I’ve been fiddling with this for about a week, and it got out of hand in a hurry. the best way to view it is to pop it out into it’s own window by clicking the upper right hand corner of the viewer.
Crap, looks like you can’t access the links in google docs, hit the download button and it’s all gravy, to coin a phrase.
Special props to Livious, The_Q_is, and sNapPpeRHeaD for their valuable input.
Today has been a good day, my tattoo guy, Kevin McPherson made his semi-annual trip back to the People’s Republic from his home base currently in Renton, Washington.
Just so ya know, Kevin is the ONLY guy who does my work. My first wife/current girlfriend hooked me up with Kevin about 10 years ago, when some work I had done in Denver needed to be freshened up. (Actually, I think she just wanted to see me take the needle for 3 hours. 
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It was time for a freshen-up and some new flames for the coming together of the individual pieces I’ve had done over the years.
Sooooo, here we are!!!!!
And a close-up
And moving to the inside
The fireball around the WLB will need a bit more definition. And it’s kind of swollen due to the location.
Here’s a link to Kevin’s Website
Check this out.
This is not a good thing. Read it for yourself and decide if you are prepared for the upcoming shitstorm.
Time that we take it back from the powers that be. I will be damned before I view another American Citizen as the enemy. Nor will I look in the mirror to see what some ass-kissing, desk jockey, bought and paid for by George Soros Senator (I’m looking at you Al “The Clown” Franken) has defined as the “enemy”.
I am a FREE MAN
Adam Corolla, this is a guy I have been watching for years.
From the Man Show, to the Car Show this guy has been pretty solid the whole way through. He does radio as well, although I not been able to catch it here in the frozen Midwest.
What I have seen is that, as the years have progressed he has let his inner conservative/ curmudgeon come out, and I am diggin it in a large fashion. Besides, any guy who collects and restores old obscure race cars, and them takes them out on the track and flogs them is alright by me.
Here, he explains where the OWS generation goes wrong, and who did it to them.
Enjoy!
Props to fotop06
I am a free man.
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