- Apparently because I’m willing to entertain the possibility that Brown might have deserved to get shot, I’m a boot licking, holster sniffing, racist.
- Apparently because I think armored vehicles, flash bang grenades, CS gas, and rubber bullets are an inappropriate response to protesters, I’m an anti-cop, hipster, anarchist.
- Apparently because I think it’s right that people who want to protect their property from looters and arsonists stand out in front with shotguns and rifles, I’m a racist, murderous knuckledragger.
- Someday I’m going to get tired of being pigeon-holed and insulted.
- Ifyour style of argument is to demand that I define terms like “socialist” or “Cloward-Piven” and “assbag”, I’m going to hand you a business card with “www.google.com” on it and let you sit in your own drool for a while.
- Trying to grind me down by forcing me to get into the weeds on definitions does nothing but demonstrate either your ignorance or your inability to argue your side of an issue.
- Some people need to learn that my definition of ‘flexible’ does not equal their definition of ‘limp’.
- On a happy note, I wish to thank the police of greater Louisville for running a speed trap on my way home, and for some reason, only pulling over high-end import cars.
- By my count, in a 10 mile stretch of freeway, I saw 2 Lexus (Lexi?”), 1 BMW, 3 Mercedes, and 1 Audi.
All posts for the month August, 2014
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on August 19, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 231
Ellen Brody:I just want to know one thing – when do I get to become an islander?
Mrs. Taft:Ellen, never, never! You’re not born here, you’re not an islander, that’s it.— Jaws
I may be in Louisville, but I am not of Louisville. I guess you can say that about most places if you’re not born and raised there. It doesn’t matter how I learn to speak, or how I get involved with local issues, I’m not a native, and there are still a lot of places where that counts more than most things.
Even after almost a decade and a half here, I stick out like a sore thumb sometimes. I don’t care about college basketball, nor do I care about football games played between two Catholic high schools. I think Kentucky Hot Brown sandwiches are disgusting, although cheese grits have been a favorite of mine since I first lived in the South. I don’t remember where the Sears used to be, nor do I follow directions based on where Bacon’s used to be. I don’t get excited over horse racing every spring, and once you’ve watched Warthogs, Abram’s, Spectre, and a bunch of other cool stuff send stuff downrange, Thunder Over Louisville isn’t that big a deal.
But this is a good place to live, and to raise kids. I can be at Knob Creek on Saturday morning, have lunch downtown, then go to a show out in the suburbs without breaking a sweat. I know my neighbors, and they know me. That alone is worth the price of admission.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 19, 2014
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on August 18, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/08/18/todays-earworm-544/
Movie Quotes – Day 230
Morality sucks. – A Nightmare On Elm Street
It’s hard to be a good person, at least a lot of time. It’s hard to turn the other cheek, when your baser instincts tell you to rip the other guy’s head off. You want to drink and party and enjoy every moment, but you know you have to get up to go to work tomorrow morning because others depend on you. Yeah, that pretty young thing is pretty, hot, and tempting, but one look across the dinner table or at the photo in your wallet reminds you of your commitment. You want to give in to all the temptations that life throws at you, but most of them are a bad idea, and a huge majority of them stand on the other side of lines that you dare not cross. It’s hard, and you rarely get credit for making the correct choices, but everything that you love depends on you making them.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 18, 2014
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News Roundup
- From the “Big Government” Department – The governor of Missouri has called out the National Guard in response to renewed strife in the Saint Louis suburb of Ferguson. I’m curious to see if the actual soldiers are as well equipped as the county police that showed up earlier in the crisis. My gut tells me that they won’t have as much body armor and night vision, and their MRAP’s, if they even have them, won’t be as polished and clean. Of course, they will be wearing camouflage for a reason.
- From the “Pros from Dover” Department – In related news, Arabs in Gaza are tweeting pointers to the rioters in Ferguson. Advice on how to deal with tear gas and rubber bullets are intermixed with encouraging words. You know, if you’re going to have to stand up to police when you’re burning down gas stations and looting businesses that don’t have armed people in front of them, you could do worse than to listen to those guys.
- From the “Bad Law” Department – A man in Texas is about to go on trial for the murder of the drunk driver who killed two of his children. It is alleged that the gentleman went to his home after the accident, got a gun, and killed the man who ran down his sons while they were pushing a car down a dark road. The gun in the case has never been found, the accused had no gunshot residue on him after the shooting, and no witness has come forward to say that he was the one who killed the decedent. Prosecutors seem to be basing their case on the fact that the father was seen at the scene of the accident that killed his sons, and that he had bullets in his house that were of the same type and caliber of the ones used to kill the drunk driver. Why the prosecutors are taking such flimsy evidence to trial is beyond me. This smacks of “yeah, probably, but can you prove it?” to me.
- From the “Bad Things” Department – A police department in Illinois is under fire after two M-16A1 assault rifles (And yes, in this circumstance, that term is appropriate), which the department received from the federal government, went missing. It appears that Officers Harpo, Chico, and Groucho have no idea who had access to the rifles, who lost the rifles, and when they lost them. Now, Illinois is one of those states that have pretty onerous licensing of guns and gun owners. What would happen to one of the common plebs if they couldn’t account for the whereabouts of their guns?
- From the “Par for the Course” Department – The mayor of Monticello, New York, has been arrested on corruption charges, along with the cities building inspector. The mayor was a member of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, so him being accused of a crime follows a pattern followed by other MAIG members. Honestly, if I was on a jury, and was told that the accused was an active member of MAIG, I’d give that information the same weight as I would if I were told they were a member of MS-13.
- From the “Same As It Ever Was” Department – Over the weekend an isolation facility in Liberia was ransacked and many of its patients, who were being screened for Ebola, fled into the neighboring slum. Some of those patients have come to other hospitals, but it is unknown how many people they have come into contact with and subsequently put at risk for hemorrhagic fever. Additionally, it is unknown how many looters have infected themselves by using equipment, including mattresses and bedding, which they stole from the isolation facility. If you’ve seen this movie before, you’ll understand why I’m hoping international flights out of Liberia and the other countries dealing with the epidemic become very rare and very controlled.
- From the “Just Happy To See Me” Department – A man in New Mexico was arrested after a police officer noticed a meth pipe in his waistband. The man had asked the officer for help after a bug flew into his eye, but having drug paraphernalia in plain sight led to a search, which led to drugs and other pipe, as well as a two-foot sword. The sword was being carried down the suspect’s leg, which leads to questions of a sheath, but I’ll let you go down that path yourself.
- From the “Familiar Story” Department – A man in Florida, who makes his living as a player in the only real sport in North America, was arrested recently after police found cocaine in the back pocket of his jeans. The man claims to be shocked, yes, shocked I say, that there were drugs in his pants, since he had been wearing them for three days and had no idea how it got there. His cousin Mookie and the criminal mastermind Sumdood were unavailable for comment.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 18, 2014
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on August 17, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 229
I’m a religious man, Captain, and I believe we’ll get through if the Good Lord puts His mind to it. Of course, He’ll have to give us His undivided attention. – Operation Petticoat
“The Lord shall provide” is a common mantra among some people. So long as the manna keeps on raining down, everything’s fine. Problem is, it’s usually more accurate to say “The Lord takes care of those who take care of themselves”, and every so often, no matter how long the free lunches have magically arrived, they stop. If you’re not prepared to fend for yourself, and the gravy train jumps the track, you have no business throwing your hands in the air and screaming “Why, God, Why!?”.
You aren’t a slave to be given largesse. You aren’t a parasite to be suckled. You are a living, breathing, embodiment of the divine light that is God. Get off your ass and act like it.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 17, 2014
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Lessons From A Former Life (Repost)
I originally posted this in 2010. It’s appropriate for today, which would have been my 25th anniversary in the Army.
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I came up with these shortly after I left the military. I was thinking recently about how much I’ve changed since I joined up, and since I left the Army. But these still hold true for me. Enjoy.
- Even when you rest, scan the horizon.
- You only truly appreciate sunrise if you’ve endured the cold night.
- It only takes a few grains of carbon to turn a sophisticated weapon system into a club.
- It doesn’t matter how good the truck looks if it breaks down constantly.
- You are never given a promotion or award that matters. You earn the ones that count.
- No job operates independently. The Intel weenie doesn’t directly engage the enemy, but the infantryman can’t be utilized effectively if he doesn’t know where the enemy is.
- A march is only long if you haven’t done it before.
- Sometimes it’s a blast, sometimes it’s just a paycheck. If you can’t remember the last time it was a blast, get another job.
- It doesn’t matter how heavy a load you carry at the beginning of the march.
- Any moron can shoot. It takes skill to hit.
- If you’re not willing to maintain and fix it, you don’t get to drive it.
- Take pleasure from the small things. They may be all you get.
- Leadership is more than giving orders.
- Sometimes you have to be at the bottom of a well to see the light.
- Genetics doesn’t make a family.
- Say hello as if you haven’t seen them in years.
- Say good-bye as if you’ll never see them again.
- Cherish the ones that are there, honor the ones that came before, and train the ones that are new.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 17, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/08/17/lessons-from-a-former-life-repost/
Musings
- If you’re in Indiana and are considering getting into deer hunting, the DNR is hosting a series of classes that look pretty good. They’re being held in Bloomington, and registration is necessary.
- It occurred to me that it’s likely that more black males have been aborted since 1973 than have been killed through lynching or at the hands of police.
- You know you like your neighbors when you spend your Friday evening picking, cleaning, and cutting up tomatoes from her garden for her.
- We’re making spaghetti sauce and canning it for her, if you’re asking.
- The sounds of Saturday mornings in Kentucky include two-stroke engines, all started up at exactly 8 AM. Seriously, it sounded like the beginning of a funny car race out there.
- The ‘purge’ thing last night seems to have been isolated to a few incidents that might just be part of background noise anyway.
- It’s been a long time since I’ve slept with an AR-15 next to the bed, but that’s what Irish Woman wanted.
- Taking a drive across town and back with Moonshine gave me two new tasks: vacuum out the cab of the truck and take a shower.
- In unrelated news, Moonshine is a wonderful conversationist during drives, and he made a new friend at a stoplight when the mutt in the truck next to us started barking.
- Ladies working the drive-thru at hamburger joints think it’s cute when you buy a small french fry for your dog so he’ll lay down on the passenger seat and take a nap.
- If you’re going to do a lot of research, know what you’re talking about, and put up short videos on those subjects on YouTube, please make sure that you’re not one of the most annoying people on the planet before putting forth so much effort.
- Seriously, if you can’t stop playing golf long enough to attend the funeral of a general who was killed in combat, then maybe you need to just drop the pretense of giving a damn about the military.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 16, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/08/16/musings-70/
Movie Quotes – Day 228
Rizzo: Terrific. Captured by crazed wild pigs and sacrificed hideously before a pagan altar.
Gonzo: Are we lucky or what?
Attitude is everything in a tough situation. I’ve had jobs that well and truly sucked, but being able to find some fun in it gave me hope, and hope gave me what I needed to get through it. Once you stop finding those nuggets of fun, no matter how small, you are well on your way to a crash landing.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 16, 2014
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