Sailors enjoy a certain reputation

that they have had for centuries.

They are supposed to be drinking, fighting, whore chasing hell raising Popeyes.

Sorree! 

Most are family men.



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Loooosssssy I'm home! Wha's for dinner!

I won the neighborhood lottery.

As you know I am a sailor and the other night when I pulled into the driveway I saw three of the neighborhood women out and when I got out of the car I shouted "Loosey I'm home! Wha's for dinner?"

The woman weeding her garden laughed and shouter "Welcome home!"

The woman watching her young kids laughed and said, "Glad to see you!"

The other women that is best described as a retired army nurse but was never in the army (Army nurse is not only a job but a personality) shouted "Leftover spaghetti!"

Coming home to leftover spaghetti isn't a bad deal.

Not only does it speak highly of her, it speaks highly of me.

I really did win the neighborhood lottery.


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The lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying.

They say scent is the greatest trigger of memories. 

Now, I wear Old Spice. I like the idea that the stripper is grinding away on me for money for her kid's formula, gets a whiff of my Old Spice, and starts thinking of her stepdad's wandering hands. It's like a bonus for me and my old boy down there.



I stole this from somewhere else and just had to post it because it's just so damned sick. (and funny)

I was thinking  of posting it on Facebook and still may just to watch the schism. Half will believe it the rest will laugh like hell.

That's because half of us have not had sarcasm meters installed.

Actually what sailormen often do is say something like that in front of a boy on his first day at sea. Generally he blushes and wonders what he has gotten himself into.

What's funny about it is that for the most part sailors are family man types and most of them don't hand out in strip clubs. They go home to their wives and kids. 

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Someone just pointed out something that is rather annoying.

You know where you are filling something out on line and they ask for you birth year?

Us older guys have to scroll and scroll and scroll to get down to our birth year. It's rather annoying.

I just wish they would leave it for us to fill in on our own. It would be a lot less hassle.




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It's getting to be a long day already and it has just gotten started.

We'll see how it turns out but don't expect much of a post today.

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It's later and I have a little time to do something.

I see where Maxine Waters is running her mouth about how people should start getting violent toward conservatives.

Some people think she should be brought up on charges and for a second I was hoping some lunatic would whack her but on second thought I figure we just ought to let her keep running her mouth.

She's driving an awful lot of middle of the road Democrats out of the party because they don't believe in hassling people either if for no other reason than they don't want things to turn into a brawl.

I have said for some time that we are on our way to a civil war and outbursts from people like Maxine are indicating that I am not wrong.

Then you have to look at Maxine as a congresscritter.

Her district isn't overflowing with PhDs and manufacturing company CEOs. Instead it's a district rife with welfare recipients, poor, indigent and just plain lazy. There is no shortage of ignorant people, drug cripples and criminals in her area.

This makes it easier for her to keep control with the simple threat of taking away welfare. Her constituents are easy to keep in line and are likely to keep her in office for office for the rest of her life.

Now one should take serious notice that she doesn't live there.

Anyway, I figure that for a while longer we ought to let her run her mouth as she is hurting  her party.



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I see where Sarah Huckabee Sanders got booted out of

the Little Red Hen restaurant in Virginia.

I wonder what would have happened if Obama's press secretary had it happen to him.

We would never hear the end of it.

Update: Someone posted this about the owner. Sounds like a winner to me.

https://www.stdregistry.com/stephanie-wilkinson-of-red-hen-restaurant.html




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Times are changing

As time passes I find that a lot of things change. Some for the better, some for the worse.

I'm glad I got to spend a weekend with my nephew a few years back as he is now busy raising a couple of kids. I do wish I could have hung out with my niece for a weekend but she started her family earlier as she is older than my nephew.

This next visit may be one of my last ones as a house guest as kids are starting to grow up and occupy the former guest rooms at their houses.

Besides things are getting crowded and I am finding I sometimes get in the way. It's hard to get into the rhythm of things as families with kids tend to be fast moving.

I know they'll let me crap out on the couch if push comes to shove and I might do that on Thanksgiving night as nobody should have to drive after a huge feast and a couple of snorts of cognac.

I'm going to start to scout out bed and breakfasts as an inexpensive way to go. The hotel/motel rates there are damned prohibitive, especially in the summer season.

Bed and breakfasts run the gamut of being luxurious and expensive to semi primitive and inexpensive.

I suppose if I were looking for a luxury vacation some would be nice but all I really need is a simple bed and a cup of coffee in the morning. An old GI cot in a closet is fine by me.

At Camp Perry I generally stay in a barracks room and it works for me. 

I really don't like fancy starched sheets and fluffy pillows. They do nothing for me. I can pretty much sleep anywhere and if the weather isn't too cold I can clean up in a creek of push comes to shove.

I remember visiting my family and hearing them tell me I looked fresh as a daisy after a long 10 of 12 hour drive. When I told them that I had just bathed in a creek a couple of hours earlier they just shook their heads.

Once I arrived at a class reunion after cleaning up for it in a creek. Nobody was the wiser until someone asked me about the drive. I told them I had just arrived in town a few minutes earlier and they told me I looked pretty fresh for such a long drive. I casually told her I had cleaned up in Silver Lake and she looked shocked. The guy with her told me I hadn't changed much. He knew as a kid I was a camper.

I had left my home in basically rags and an hour or two before I arrived I cleaned up in a creek and slipped on a well pressed shirt and nice pair of slacks.

Yeah, a hot shower would have been nice but I can easily make do with a creek, a bar of soap and my old double edged razor. 

I did find a bed and breakfast that made me laugh and if the schedule fits I very well may use it in the warmer months. It's actually a screened in porch! Actually between St. Patrick's Day and Thanksgiving it ought to be just fine and kind of a case of life going full circle.

When I was in about 6th grade I moved out onto the family screened in porch and that was my room between St. Pat's and well after Thanksgiving. A couple of years I stayed there year round.

There would be a couple of feet of snow on the ground outside and I would be tucked into a warm sleeping bag out like a light and waking up feeling like a million bucks.

I don't think I'd stay in the porch in January now but I suppose if push came to shove I wouldn't think to much about it and just crap out there.

Still, I do think that I am going to find one of the less extravagant bed and breakfasts out there and try and build a good relationship with the hosts so I can have them look forward to my visits. All I really need is a place out of the rain and an outlet to charge my cell phone and run my laptop.

The thing about bed and breakfasts is that I just need a place to sleep, a cup of coffee and a morning shower as I am going to be out and about and busy. It's not like I want to hang out there and need to be entertained.

Maybe when I retire I'll set up one of my unused rooms and open my own little bed and breakfast and serve biscuits and gravy for breakfast.

Betcha I'll get an interesting clientele.





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Screw Peter Fonda. He deserves jail time

All the time Obama was in office I raised hell with people trying to drag his kids into the limelight.

I also defended doing that to the Wookie until she ran her mouth and dragged herself into the limelight.

Peter Fonda advocated harm on Barron Trump. He deserves to pay dearly.

I hope the Secret Service charges him with something and jails him. In the very least they ought to leave him with a felony conviction even if he gets no real jail time. 

I would rather see him get some kind of jail time, though.

In the absence of justice from the legal system I hope he gets the living shit beat out of him.



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Starbucks to close over 150 stores

according to what I read.

The stores will be mostly in large, liberal areas that have high minimum wage laws and other stringent business requirements that tear into profits and make running a business unprofitable.

I personally see the irony in it because Starbucks has historically supported practically every leftist do-good program that has come down the pike and now it is coming to kick them squarely in the ass.

I have said for years that when government steps in things generally go to hell in a handbasket. Ronald Reagan had it right when he said the most frightening words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."


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I have had people ask me where I got my attitude.

I generally tell them I bought it at an army surplus store.

Truth is my attitude is not much different that that of most people. I simply don't like being told what to do by others. Most people are the same way.

I just don't hide it.


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Time has passed and there are changes to reckon with.

I used to be able to not think twice about dropping in on the niece and nephew. That was before they started having children.

As their families grew the amount of usable visitor space had dropped as kids moved into the formerly unused rooms.

I suppose I can get a room when I visit but as I get older and go on a fixed income I wonder if I will be able to afford to visit.





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It's not my problem.

But...but...but kids are getting separated from their parents...

It's not my problem. If this happened in the process of entering the country illegally then this is not my problem. If you don't want to be separated from your kids then don't enter the country illegally.

It is as simple as that. You are not entitled to anything whatsoever if you are here illegally.

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There are a lot of things that are not my problem and a large part of them are things that are the result of criminal or outright stupid behavior. 

Stupid hurts. Stupid SHOULD hurt.


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Anyone watching the Union of South Africa?

The usual cycle has started there and I do believe that a lot of liberals here share some blame in it by sticking their noses in like Carter did to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) years ago.

Right now the big cheese what's in charge of the Union of South Africa is babbling that there is not enough land in the hands of blacks and demands it change hands. Expect a blood bath soon.

What is going to happen there is that the land is going to change hands and blacks will be running things. The Union of South Africa, presently the breadbasket of Africa will become yet another poorly run African sewer. They will start demanding that we send aid to it. Needless to say Uncle Sam will probably send money over there to be stolen and make the fat corrupt officials there fatter.

Of course nobody bothers to look at the late great country of Rhodesia that was run by a white minority and treated the blacks there very well. It's presently Zimbabwe and and older black Zimbabwean can tell you that it was a lot better place to live when it was Rhodesia.

A part of what happened we can thank Jimmy Carter for because he thought things there were not fair and threw in with the rebels. Robert Mugabe took charge and things went rapidly downhill from there.

Same thing is in the process of happening in South Africa under promises of socialism and 'land reform'. Land reform generally means taking land from someone and giving it to someone else. More often than not the land will be given to someone that isn't as capable as the original owner of working it and things will go rapidly downhill.

Expect South Africa to be a sewer of starvation inside a few years.















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Ex military, retired police

I know someone that thinks the solution to just about everything is to hire 'ex military or retired police' for just about everything under the sun. This is especially true on security type issues.

What he doesn't realize is that there are an awful lot of service people that are simple administrative types.

A guy I went through basic with back in the day was a clerk that was sent to my outfit. In basic he had a hell of a time qualifying with the service rifle. He wondered how well he would do when he got to the 4th ID. Three years later as I was getting out I ran into him and asked him how he made out and he reported that he had never picked up a rifle after basic training. I wasn't surprised.

I ran into another guy that spent his four years in the Navy at a depot in Indiana fixing things. I don't think he picked up a firearm during his entire enlistment. He eventually got a job on a tug but had to learn about as much as the farm boy flatlander they hired with him.

He was actually hired because he had been in the Navy but the hiring guy didn't understand the way the services work. He was one of those people that thought that everyone that was in the Navy was a mariner. 

Oddly enough a former army guy that ran a boat for the Corps of Engineers proved to be a great fit in the tug and barge business. Explaining how the Corps of Engineers and the Army worked took up about 95% of his hiring interview. This former soldier was a great boat handler.

An old friend that served in the Air Force actually WAS a badass back in the day. He served as an Air Commando.

I work with a Marine that was a parachute rigger and qualified annually but spent most of his time in the parachute loft. He fired annual rifle qualification, period. 

A former policeman I used to run into actually worked in a small town park and never even unsnapped his holster or pulled out his baton for his entire career.

Point is that simply being a veteran or former cop means very little as far as knowing things goes. What one did in the service is what can be considered useful on the outside. 

Incidentally hiring a hardened infantryman for a job as a school security guard may not he the best choice out there, nor would a former Military policeman. The infantryman may be a little too wired and the MP probably knows little about being a school guard. MPs are responsible for routing and protecting convoys and securing enemy POWs. 

Simply being a former Marine or soldier does not mean someone is a firearm expert or badass.







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That's a lot of hate for one person to carry

Why do you carry so much hate with you? It’s sad the hate you carry with you for that man. Why are you letting Donald Trump live in your head rent free?

Do you really want President Trump to be unsuccessful?

Would you really rather have a nuclear war and lose your entire family then see Donald Trump be successful? You insult the man for doing what no president in my entire lifetime has. He has picked up the North Korea can and dealt with it instead of kicking it further down the road.

He’s working on preventing a nuclear war. Have  a son of military age?  You do?  You have let your hate fester so bad so you don’t care if he is shipped off to war? What’s wrong with you?

You insulted the recent tax break we got from his administration by saying it wasn’t near enough and that the corporations got too much. I suppose the individual rate can use a little more tuning up but let’s look at what you said.

You said it was not enough.

OK, let’s look at the people that ran against Mr. Trump. Had Hillary won, taxes would have gone UP slightly. Had Bernie won taxes would have gone through the roof. You likely voted for one of these people which says you voted for a tax increase. Yet you become enraged with a tax CUT because it isn’t big enough for you. Why do you hate the man that just gave you a pay raise?

You got angry because the corporate tax rate dropped, yet you fail to see that the result was jobs returning from overseas.

President Obama stated that manufacturing jobs in the country were gone forever and we had better get used to it. Well, surprise! Almost immediately after Mr. Trump took office an awful lot of manufacturing jobs just jumped onto the scene out of nowhere.

Are you one of the people that don’t see the increase in employment? Perhaps that’s because you are either working at a government job or are retired on a government pension of some sort and are not paying attention. I can see that. So long as you are being taken care of the rest of the world can crater.

Let’s look at Donald Trump a minute. He’s an incredible overachiever that took a million dollar load and turned it into a couple of billion. Before you start in on how he got the loan from his father let’s ask what YOU would have done with a million dollar loan. Would you have done the same thing? Would you have been as wildly successful?

Yes, Donald Trump IS a loudmouth New York Realtor. Yes he can be obnoxious. Yes he can be a little crude at times. So what?

He gets the job done. We have needed someone like him in office for decades.

We’re a lot better off for having him, economically and security wise. ISIS is no longer a threat to the point of one doesn’t hear of them much these days. If you recall, ISIS flourished under the Obama presidency.

I watch you haters carrying so much hate that you become very self destructive. You remind me of an airline passenger that knows the pilot and hates him so much that he hopes the plane he is sitting in will crash and destroy him.

I suppose that’s OK if it was only between you and the pilot but it really makes me wonder about what kind of person you are if your hate will make you drag the rest of us down with you.

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Test 1. 2

Testing one two.

I need a good keyboard To use a kindle


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Take a toaster and turn it around 180 degrees so the controls face the

wall and the blank side is showing.

On the blank side put a sticker that says 'voice activated'.

Stand back. Hilarity is sure to ensue.





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Unbelievable!

North Korea has signed and said they will denuclearize!

Trump has done it with one of the most unlikely helpers, Dennis Rodman.

This is a very interesting age we live in.

A loudmouth New York realtor turned POTUS and the one time Bad Boy of the NBA have done what every president since Ike have failed to do. The president has gotten North Korea to end its arms race and settle down.







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I tend to be a person that focuses on one thing at a time

Someone asks me to find out how much a gallon of such and such a brand oil is when I am heading to the parts house. I come back and report it's price.  Then they ask me how much a filter is and wonder why I don't know.

It is because I didn't look. They wanted the price of oil. If they wanted the price of filters they should have asked me to find that out also.

And no. I shouldn't have known.

You should have known to tell me.



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My Godson is about three and my niece put him on a horse.

He lasted a few minutes and got off. Apparently he wasn't too impressed with it. I can see that one.

Of course someone wanted to hear about it so I told them, "He put the reins in his teeth and with his Colt SAA in one hand, and spin-cocking his Winchester with the other he shouted 'Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!' and charged the entire Ned Pepper gang."

He's three. You tell me what happened.

Incidentally, that's MY story and I'm sticking to it. I kinda like having a three year old gallop after Ned Pepper so why not? 

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I use Voskhod razor blades.

They work for me.

I get a great shave, they last and are reasonably priced. 

I am NOT recommending them for anyone else, though because if I do inevitably someone will report back to me that he looks like he lost a chain saw fight after using one. 

Not only is is possible but it is likely that someone will have terrible luck with the blades that serve me well. Things like razor blades are a personal thing. What works for one guy may not work for the next person.

Still, for me Voskhod blades give a good shave and last a long time before I have to replace them.

Incidentally the packaging is all written in Russian as are the directions. Fortunately Vladimir Putin was really kind in taking time out of his busy schedule to send me an interpretation from Russian to English so I know how to use these razor blades.

It's not often a head of state will take time out of a busy schedule for such a small thing as interpreting a set of 'how to use' directions for an overseas customer of a product his nation produces and I am grateful. Maybe that's why President Trump wants the Russians back at the next G-7 Summit meeting. 

For what it is worth, I wonder which old Russian Navy ships the Voskhod people use for their razor blades. Come to think of it I wonder if the Russians even make razor blades out of old Navy ships.

I have heard that we do. It's a Hollywood staple. Some sailor is always saying that this ship or that had been turned into razor blades so it must be true. 

After all, would Hollywood lie to you?



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THis has a few leaks but holds at least SOME water

Someone is miffed because of the number of people that are ignoring the 'Do Not Call' list.

I suppose there is a solution.

Make it legal to hunt then down and burn them out. Why not? 

Anyone that has put their name on the Do Not Call list is not a happy camper when someone ignores them and calls them up. Not too many of us on the list would be terribly upset to hear that a couple of bored retired commandos and CIA spooks tracked them down and knocked them out of operation.

Say what you will, but the people making the calls have no respect for the average guy that wants peace, quiet and no calls. Why should the average guy show any respect in return?

Yeah, I know. We gotta try them first...

Still, it gets pretty tempting to just string some people up just because of who they are.



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I don't remember what it was but the lieutenant told me to take if off of my helmet.

We were stateside on a field problem so I did. I outright told him I was doing it just to shut him up. I then said to him that if he had told me to remove it in a bona fide combat zone I would have told him to shove it and double dog dared him to court martial me for it.

He seemed shocked and I explained to him that I was stateside and in no danger and really had a lousy hand to play so it was in my best interest to simply take the pin off of my helmet. In the situation I was in I would be made less comfortable if I disobeyed him. In short, I had something to lose and nothing to win.

I said that in a combat zone it I would be the one with the good hand. 

I told the lieutenant that if he tried something that chickenshit on me in a combat zone I'd probably tell him to piss up a rope and publicly double dog dare him to court martial me. I pointed out that a nice, warm jail cell is probably a lot more comfortable and safer than slogging around in a nasty combat zone. All trying to make me remove my pin was going to do is make me safer and him weaker. He'd be down a man.

He tried to tell me he was bigger than me and he was. I replied that I didn't care how big he was. If he ever pushed or struck me that he would never be able to get any sleep, ever.

He reported the entire thing to my First Sergeant and to his credit he told the entire story. The old soldier looked at him asked the lieutenant if he had bothered to start off by asking me nicely to remove the pin. He hadn't. 

Top also told the lieutenant that a lot of little things mean an awful lot to deployed soldiers and he would probably be a lot better off if he learned to overlook the small stuff.

I'd like to say the lieutenant became some kind of cool guy after that but I can't. He was a West Pointer and did whatever it is West Pointers did and maybe still do to wangle a transfer to a firing battery because he was gone shortly afterwards.

Transferring to a firing battery from a headquarters battery was really a step in the wrong direction career wise. There's far more to learn in a headquarters battery but I guess he just wanted to go to where the guns were. Whatever.

Still, it was what it was.

Incidentally that old First Shirt had never gotten out of grammar school and had to learn to read by being taught by a college educated draftee but he was one of the best teachers I ever had.

















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It's the day after D-Day and I wonder how the steak and eggs they ate fared?

Steak and eggs was generally the pre invasion fare and I wonder how long it was before GI Joe was hungry again on D-Day.

A number of guys out of nervousness or seasickness puked the breakfast up in the landing craft, I'm sure.

Still there were some that held their chow and hit the beach with full stomachs.

When you throw all the adrenaline and everything else there really isn't a fair way of trying to figure out if steak and eggs was the best way to go in the real world of an invasion.

In the real world of an ordinary guy with a lot of hard work to do in a short time, it probably IS the way to go. I do this a couple of times each year.

Putting myself in the twin buckle combat boots of GI Joe on 6 June, 1944 I do believe I would have tried to maybe get another steak or maybe have the cook toss another egg or two on top.

Then I would have hoped to holy hell I could hold it down because it sure was going to be a long, hard day. 



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Busy busy busy

Busy.

I know I am a small government kind of guy but they ought to enact a federal law making it a capital offense for fat women to wear yoga pants.

It is fix my inflatable life vest day thanks to aome Coastie that commented on it.

The little tab you jerk was hanging out where it could snag on it and accidentally inflate the vest. I had it taped out of the way and a while back some Coastie that saw it during an inspection commented that it was against the rules. I removed the tape.

Needless to say today it snagged and the damned thing blew up on me. There was a loud snap, a whoosh and I felt instant pressure on both sides of my face as it inflated.

Part of this is on me. I should have hidden the damned thing before the inspection and when the Coastie said something I should have asked the Chief for an over rule. The Coastie in question was a new petty officer that the ink had not even dried on his promotion orders.

I have sent for another re arm kit and it will be here tomorrow or the next day.

Oh, well.




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Only two good drinks in a half pint.

said someone to me about 40 years ago.

It was his way of looking at if from the point of view of one of those Old School guys I grew up with.

Back in the day a half-pint was 8 ounces and one day I sat down and measured out two each four ounce dallops of brandy and I knocked one back.

In a few seconds I was fully aware that I had just had a drink!

I waited quite a while before I had the second.

I guess everything is how you look at things. That four ounce shot was one hell of a snort but those Old School WW2 guys figured that if you have a drink you should know it.

A couple of days later I had a 1.5 ounce drink of the same thing and really didn't feel much. I thought back and figured that if a guy wants to have a drink and know he has had one then I suppose there really are only two good drinks in a half pint.

It depends on how you look at things.


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I wonder if the aliens in Area 54 are registered to vote?

Interesting question.

Anyone got an answer?

My guess is most of them will vote Democrat.

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Someone said to me "You Republicans..."

For the umpteenth time I am NOT a Republican. I tend to vote that way because the closest thing to my political beliefs that has any chance of winning are Republicans.

I am basically a Constitutional Libertarian of which her is no party out there for me to join.

I want less government than the Republicans want.

My government would print an honest currency, keep the beaches secure, mediate differences between the states, insure our Constitutional rights and simply do things that the states or the people can't do for themselves. An example of which is the Interstate Highway System.

Most of our day to day stuff would be the responsibility of the state, county, town or individual.

Someone once suggested I was an Anarchist but I am not. I do see the need for government to keep us from total chaos.



A while back someone said that I was of a true conservative because of my attitude toward abortion.

I asked him how he could call himself a true conservative if he believed that government actually had the authority to regulate such a personal matter. 

Crickets.

I handled the gay marriage issue pretty much the same way by telling him that government should get out of the marriage business entirely and offer 'civil unions' to any two people that want one. If you want to get married, go see the preacher. If the preacher won't perform the wedding (his right to refuse)  find one that will.













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Sunday.

A day of many things and little time.

Sorry.


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Saaturday and gearing up.

A lot to be done today. I do believe it is a good day for an invasion breakfast consisting of steak and eggs.

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We need an American Foreign Legion.

The French have one and it may very well be one of the few things the French do right. They give people both a chance to start over and a path to citizenship.

The Legion doesn't accept hardened criminals anymore but they do overlook a lot of things.

While they also don't accept French citizen as such they do permit about 25% of their total force to be Frenchmen under false passports.

Years ago the American services used to accept people with minor criminal records and give young people a start over but those days have long passed and in a way it's a shame. We could slip some Americans in the ranks and give them a start over. 

Legionnaires wear the famous white kepi and maybe our Legion ought to sport something distinctive along those lines to make it clear as to the fact that they are foreigners serving the United States.

Anyway, it would be a path to citizenship that not too many people could gripe about.







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So how come every time I sit down to write I seem to have forgotten

what I wanted to write about.

It always shows to go you that there is something not working as well as it should.

It always seems that during the day I have a great idea about something to write about and come the morning the idea has disappeared. This happens a lot.

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The deer seem to have changed their march route as I have not seen them in a couple of days. This happens from time to time.

It's probably that the does are hiding their fawns for a while or some damned thing because it always seems to happen about this time of year.

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Someone started talking about the coming civil war the other night like it was something to be looked forward to.

I didn't even bother to answer them. Anyone that wanted to discuss that in the tone of voice he used is an idiot and doesn't have a clue as to what he is in for.

Someone once commented that the right may have the small arms but the left has the cruelty was probably right.

One thing about it, civil wars are cruel.

A lot of people with big mouths are not going to have the stomach for such an event.

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I just read where ABC hired a child molester.

They fired Roseanne for her politics and then hired a child molester.

I expect nothing less from big media.


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