Have at it. I’m busy working on a fairly significant change on the home front, which is why I’ve been slack with the posts.
Beer’s in the fridge, snacks on the table.
Put your empties in the bin and remember to pick up your spent rounds.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
CrusaderRabbit
Here I sit,7:00 Friday night end of a long work week,well not quite,there is still tomorrow.
Having lost faith in society and my fellow man long ago,I have reverted back to a dream of mine from when I was younger.I want to get away from it all,far away from it all and live off my own independence.
Alaska looks ideal.It’s cold,remote,still has large swaths of land with few or no people and has everything needed to be self sufficient.
Yep,by age 50 if things haven’t improved here socially,or morally(those two aren’t exclusive are they?) I’m headed out.Of course anyone here who wants to come visit can, it’s just the rest of the world needs to get stuffed.If you show up in winter you may have to haul some firewood,fishing will be good,hunting will be better :popcorn
Darin,
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
(T. E. Lawrence)
Thanks for that Seneca,T.E.Lawrence is a whole area of reading I have yet to explore.I’m currently knee deep in Von Mises
Darin, Von Mises is indeed an interesting man, but do beware the ‘Austrian School of Economics’ in general and ‘praxeology’ in particular.
I am of the opinion that former is but a later manifestation of the ‘Frankfurt School’ and the latter nothing more than a neologism created to encapsulate a vague, undefined concept which, essentially, lacks any firm philosophical or practical content.
I tend to view both as nothing more than the faint ideological precursors of the nihilistic doctrine of political correctness. And I haven’t even metioned Gore Vidal!
( But, then again, I could be wrong on all counts as usual.
)
Best Regards, SIII.
One of my very favorite quotes, Seneca. I would add that it takes courage to dream in the waking hours.
Long may we all be dreamers.
My favourite T.E. Lawrence quote. :whoop
I would recommend Kalispell, Montana if you’re looking for a remote place to regroup.
Great bunch of well armed patriots up there in the Flathead Valley of the Constitution Party, and I understand they just about have all the political offices in patriot hands.
In fact, aside from those commies in Missoula and a few “Red Spots” – the mountain state has pretty much been secured by the Tea Party….The largest state in land area of the lower 48, aside from Texas.
And the winters are cold, long and pretty much like Alaska. The hunting and fishing are tops. And if the Feds invade, Canada is not far away…
If you’re interested then stop by the Hilton in Kalispell on U.S. 93 at 2 p.m. any Sunday.
Ronbo,
I am pretty sure that some thirty five years ago or more I drove through or close to Kalispell. It is a long time ago now and the memories are faint but I remember leaving southern Ontario, passing through Chicago (Sky Bridge?), Detroit (on advice, without stopping), Mineapolis/St. Paul and then westward on Interstate 94.
I think somehow we ended up on Interstate 2, went through Rugby, North Dakota (another vague memory – is this where the source of the Mississippi rises?) and on westward until we met Interstate 93 and turned north for our final destination which was Calgary.
I will always remember the beautiful countryside of Montana; would I have passed close to where you live?
Regards, SIII
Colin Craig has fired up the press and the usual rightwing-haters, the heterophobes and malcontents by saying that factors other than genetics such as upbringing and outside influences were factors in determining one’s sexual orientation. He’s quite right of course but the paper has published all the nasty accusations like “dangerous, homophobic and ignorant” from twitter, etc.
The left is soooo full of hate
and the press will never publish a balanced report of responses in the social media. :roll
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10824564
Think ‘Epigenetics’ mawm; it is the emerging understanding (derived from the study of identical twins and of small, isolated ethnic groups) that illustrates why and how genetic mechanisms alone cannot explain how some cellular and behavioural traits are propagated.
Rapid advances in the field of epigenetics are now revealing a molecular basis for how heritable information other than DNA sequence can influence gene function. These advances also add to our understanding of transcriptional regulation, nuclear organization and the development of both physical and psychological disease. Try Wiki on the subject (for once it is not a bad article but it does avoid mention of any implications for sexual predilection).
Here’s a link to a Youtube contribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI
Rgds, SIII.
Don’t get mad,get even-
http://www.wcax.com/story/19180748/man-on-tractor-crushes-vt-police-cruisers
That’s a stylish way of expressing yourself I suppose.
Witnesses had to dial 911 to tell the cops their cruisers were being crushed.You just can’t make this stuff up
to be facetious…”remember to pick up your spent rounds.” ?
“outback mortuary “…used buckshot.
shit,in my day, we would have been happy with the brass.
I was watching this DVD last night and little T’s boyfriend got interested but my DVD didn’t have English subtitles.
We found it on Youtube with subtitles and it was greatly enjoyed because it is a darn good movie.
If you want a good movie for a cold wet night ……
You will have to click cc for the subtitles
This is the deadest pub in town tonight! :wtf I’ll kick off with a story that I’m sure Mara will approve of.
A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.
He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he’s in there, the husband tells his wife:
“Listen, this guy’s an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn’t seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don’t resist, don’t complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he’ll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you.”
To which his wife responds: “He wasn’t kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!!”
!!!OMG!!!Please furgive me that sounds like D Whyte Hoouse!!!Want a position at D Whyte Hoouse? OOPS gotta go here comes Diplomatic Pouch 4 more OMG tata Yours Verily Trurily HarvardPotatoHead
ps: more gossip later chaps.
Nice one Mawm
Anyone, anyone seen Pat Condell having a go at the Guardian?
Cracking stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOgV6Fvc8wc&feature=player_embedded
Good as always.
Medical advice for men from the makers of Viagra…
If you have an erection lasting more than four hours, seek medical
attention, or click on the link below:
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0dNI2Ge0slbxP/x610.jpg
Around here we fertilize our crops with Viagra.
Better than that, call your local pornographer. 4 hour erection? You can have a promising but short career.
:popcorn :cheers
Did you hear about the 13 year old boy that took Viagra?
He went to the hospital with third degree burns on both palms :whoop
What? No hair growing on the palms?
mawm …. jeez you must be bored right now!! An old couple get married after many years of courtship. On their honeymoon night the husband takes off his glasses and goes to clean his teeth. In the meantime his bride decides to limber up. She strips naked and does a stretching exercise, lying on her back and lifting her legs up over her head. Unfortunately, her feet get stuck in the headboard and she cries out for help.
Her husband dashes in, peers at her and says “For God’s sake Agnes! Brush your hair and put in your teeth … You look just like your mother!”
IF a revolution were to occur which general would you want to lead it?
Patton
Grant
RE Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Rommel, etc.
IF a war broke out would it be led by small groups leading to a general insurrection?
HOW well would they be armed?
And so forth…
Without a doubt Patton,he was a soldier’s soldier and never asked his troops to do anything he wouldn’t do.
Death squads,15-20 man teams,covert tactics 101.
Add Omar Bradley to that list. A general who gave a damn about his troops.
Too many troubled personalities on the list for me.
Patton – borderline psychotic. [I think he hit his head once too often when younger and keenly active in adventure sports.]
Grant – alcoholic.
Lee – he was on the losing side, right?
Jackson – so good at tactics he get shot doing them.
Rommel – sunshine Nazi, winter patriot.
If one had to pick a top all-round conventional and guerrilla warfare general, it would have to be Vo Nguyen Giap. In my book, one of the few heavy weight generals of the 20th Century.
1. Out thought and generalled the hapless Frogs.
2. Faster, smarter and more persistent than that generation of US military commanders imbued with Patton’s 2-up 1-back, shell-em-to-shit then hey-diddle-diddle-straight-up-the-middle tactical playbook.
Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore?
The Outlaw Josie Wales.
“Time to send the left on a Missouri boat ride”
http://youtu.be/IkfgOHmNZss?t=7m43s
Darin, watched that movie about 50 times. A good one every time too.
Add to the list the following from the IDF
Lt. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Rabin served as Chief of Staff between 1964-1968, commanding, among other things, over the Six-Day War. He went on to become Prime Minister and win the Nobel Peace Prize for the Oslo Accords, until his assassination in 1995.
“We’ll fight terror like there’s no peace, and make peace like there’s no terror.”
–Yitzhak Rabin
Lt. Gen. (res.) David “Dado” Elazar served as Chief of Staff between 1972–1974, commanding over, among other things, over the Yom Kippur War, after serving as a military man all his life. He died of a heart attack in 1974.
“As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don’t need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada, Tel-Hai, and the Warsaw Ghetto – where the battle was lost, but the war of Jewish existence was won.”
–David Elazar
AND
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military warrior who became a crusader for peace. He was skilled in both battle and diplomacy. He played a key role in four wars, but also helped negotiate the historic Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
Israeli officers are all taken from enlisted ranks. There is no West Point, no military academy. Tactics are learned from battle, from the bible, from history. Their best asset are their troops, not technology.
Moshe Dayan is an intresting character and on the short list of people I consider heros of humanity :cheers
How the Aggressives view the world.
http://www.moonbattery.com/democrat-map_big.jpg
To those born before 1970:
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drunk alcohol while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in cots covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had caps, not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no child restraints, no booster seats, no seat belts and no airbags. Riding in the back of the ute on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank soft drinks made with real white sugar. And we weren’t overweight. Why? Because we were always outside playing, that’s why! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were fine.
We would spend hours building our trolleys out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos or X-boxes. There were no video games, no Sky TV, no DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no smart phones, no PCs, no internet and no Facebook. We had friends and we went outside and found them.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and nobody got too excited about it. We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, ping-pong bats, or just a bare hand, and no one would call the authorities to report abuse.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, 22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and – although we were told it could happen – we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Sports teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever, with an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?
Yeh, but my cousin did poke out her eye with a pair of scissors. Both my elder brothers broke their front teeth, my younger brother broke his left, then his right and then his left arm…..all in the space of 9 months, my horse trod in an aardvark hole and I got thrown and broke my wrist, another time a stirrup broke when at full throttle and I got a good graze on my shoulder and was concussed from sliding into a rock, my brother somehow shot me in the leg with his BB, we collected snakes (most were poisonous) and would sell them for evenomation to the snake park 25 miles away (just a quick bike ride away with the snakes in sacks tied to the handle bars), etc…………..gee we had some fun as kids. :whoop :whoop
I grew up in a township built for returning servicemen so there were just so many kids around. We knew everybody in the street and the adults knew all of us. We swam in their pools, played cricket or soccer on their lawns, etc. Even the dogs weren’t fenced in and I can’t recall anyone getting bitten.
No wonder we’re so phuct up.
Lets hear it for Vic :cheers
In his own words….
“I hit him agin, and I put err, 3 more in him”
” I’m a average workin person…ya know”
No, Vic…… you’re a hero in my book :cheers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4g1n8cmwhIY#!
Mint!
IT’S NOT BUSH’S FAULT! :whoop :whoop :whoop
This is how a “man” behaves:-
NETANYAHU: I’LL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONSEQUENCES IF ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN :wtf
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/netanyahu-ill-take-responsibility-for-the-consequences-if-israel-strikes-iran/
I suspect there’s a Lost in Translation thingie happening there, mawm. I think when correctly translated from Hebrew, Bibi’s statemt was
“I will take the glory when Israel strikes and crushes Iran”
That too. But the buck does stop with him. It is in the Israeli Constitution that the Prime Minister takes all the blame or all the glory for anything the IDF does.
Oops! The Constitution was NEVER ratified and Israel is the only nation in the Middle East without a Constitution. Democracy and Freedom YES, but no Constitution.
:whoop :cheers
Meh! Even Haaretz is reporting the Blaze translation.
Mark Hubbard said…
Shit, I’d rather have a communist, than the Christ freak. If Craig was part of any government, then I’d be putting the retirement plan in very early
Seems to me that the guy is not the full quid.
Hubbard is a fucking idiot. He has absolutely no clue about the Bible or Christianity (other than the watered-down “liberal” version he sees from the leftists running the mainstream denominations, all of which have fundamentally and deliberately misinterpreted the Bible to fit their own twisted worldview), and gets his information about Colin Craig from what his mates in the MSM report him as having said (as opposed to what he actually says).
Well said Gantt.
Intellectual midget comes to mind, but i guess he has never heard of Solzhenitsyn.These people with no sense of history should really STFU.
Clint Eastwood to Obama-
http://youtu.be/RSAyz5c3JmM
http://news.yahoo.com/clint-eastwood-endorsing-romneys-presidential-bid-234505229.html
FFS
http://barenakedislam.com/2012/08/03/uk-encourages-polygamy-by-giving-muslim-parasites-even-more-welfare-benefits-for-their-harems-of-multiple-wives/
Coming soon to a South Seas Paradise near you…
My thoughts on the Olympics this far:
http://pinkofreezone.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/olympic-reflections/
- The Olympics are economic suicide. If a politician in your country starts talking about making a bid for them and the “economic benefits”, tell them to kindly shut up.
- In Eventing the horses should get the medals. The riders simply tell the ones competing what to do. This is called coaching – and coaches don’t get medals.
- Traithlon is great but Ironmans are better. I’d love there to be an event where the competitors say, “we swim 3.8 km, ride 180 km, oh and then we run a marathon.”
- There are too many things on a bike. Road, track, mountain and BMX. From 250km to a few hundred metres. Just have one race, about 40km, on the track, on a BMX.
NZ has had a good Olympics, it’s good to see so many of our athletes competitive. The number of medals and top 20 finishes is pretty amazing for a small country. Lets remember why we do well, it isn’t because of any inherent brillance as a group (certianly individual brillance is on display) but because of a culture of sport and a system of society where people are free (at least in a sporting context) to follow their passions. These things along with the wealth that enables the training required can be lost.
Olympic shooting is a joke,a .177 caliber?Really?
Let’s make it an event worth watching,have the compeditors hump five miles toting an M60E4 and a few belts of ammo and then sign their names with it at 100yards :popcorn
why not throw in some live targets, then we can have Olympic BBQ :cheers
Genius I tells ya,pure genius
:cheers
Young woman with a very pleasant voice expressing her frustration at being born into a muslim family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li9IbltsagM&feature=player_detailpage
LONDON CABBIE
A devout Muslim entered a black cab in London.
He curtly asked the cabbie to turn off the radio because as decreed by his religious teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the prophet there was no music, especially Western music which is the music of the infidel.
The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and opened the door.
The Arab asked him, “What are you doing?
The cabbie answered, “In the time of the prophet there were no taxis, so f… off and wait for a camel” !!
Little Bruce and Margaret are only 10 years old, but they know they are in love.
One day they decide that they want to get married, so Bruce goes to Margaret’s father to ask him for her hand.
Bruce bravely walks up to him and says, “Mr. Smith, me and Margaret are in love and I want to ask you for her hand in marriage.”
Thinking that this was just the cutest thing,
Mr. Smith replies,
“Well Bruce, you are only 10.. Where will you two live?”
Without even taking a moment to think about it, Bruce replies,
“In Margaret’s room. It’s bigger than mine and we can both fit there nicely.”
Still thinking this is just adorable,
Mr. Smith says with a huge grin, “Okay, then how will you live? You’re not old enough to get a job. You’ll need to support Margaret.”
Again, Bruce instantly replies, “Our allowance, Margaret makes five bucks a week and I make 10 bucks a week. That’s about 60 bucks a month, so that should do us just fine.”
Mr. Smith is impressed
Bruce has put so much thought into this.
“Well Bruce, it seems like you have everything figured out.
I just have one more question. What will you do if the two of you should have little children of your own?”
Bruce just shrugs his shoulders and says,
“Well, we’ve been lucky so far.”
Mr. Smith no longer thinks this little shit is adorable.
Hey, you know how Bush Lied and Children Died? How Sodom Hussein’s WMDs were all destroyed in 1991? How there’s no way a dictator as benevolent as Sodom would ever store chemicals weapons near population centres?
Then how come the Brits are going to help the “new” Iraqis get rid of them?
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-experts-help-iraq-destroy-chemical-residues-144204378.html
My eldest cousin has seen those “Bunkers” first hand.There are about 40 bunkers spread out over 60 acres at each location.The bunkers are full and there is live ordinance stacked outside.
To make matters worse,Saddam’s boys didn’t label everything right so some HE rounds are painted up as CB and some CB is labeled and painted up as HE.One EOD tech he knows said those places are like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates-”you never know what your going to get”
Course all the good stuff ended up in Syria or on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/did-syria-receive-its-chemical-weapons-saddam/55142/#
Sorry, late to the party – a comment I read recently that I appreciated :
“A Liberal is like a naive childhood friend. While standing on street corner a pervert pulls up in an old dirty van with tinted windows and no license plates. The pervert promises you both delicious candies if you get in the van. You tell your friend not to enter the van. You plead with him not to trust the deceitful stranger. You even warn him of the potential horrible fate that may await him. Sadly your friend blankly stares at you and says “but he has candy” and then happily he skips towards the van.
A Liberal is retarded child. How can you be angry with a retarded child?”
To which someone else responded with:
“While your analogy is apt, liberals only act like retarded children. In reality they are adults who force us all, at gunpoint, into the van with them.
That’s why we can be angry at them. If they were willing to get into the van themselves but leave the rest of us alone, I would merely have pity on them.”
Vox Day compares Romney and Obama – and skewers both.
Great line: “His political positions are actually to the left of Obama on some issues; he signed a rifle ban as the governor of Massachusetts and has been open about his support for a federal ban as well. The Obama administration, quite to the contrary, is known to have actually distributed thousands of assault rifles, although, unfortunately, most of them went to Mexicans rather than Americans.” :gunner
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/willard-is-even-worse/
sorry, Anon was me