Asymmetric Warfare – The situation where the puppy decides that he isn’t going to have any success in getting hold of your hand and biting it during playtime and decides to just bite you on the nose instead.
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A Definition
Posted by daddybear71 on October 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/31/a-definition/
Thoughts on the Day
- The universe knew I wanted to cut out of work early today, and the universe hates me.
- We got a total of six trick or treaters tonight.
- Anyone interested in 10 pounds of red licorice cut into 3 inch strips and shrink wrapped?
- How do you answer your wife when she asks why you have a pistol in your pocket for trick or treating?
- “Because Halloween is a slut walk for pedophiles and other sickos.” seemed to do the trick.
- Blessed be he who gives out full-sized candy bars, for his house shall stay free of eggs and toilet paper.
- Moonshine the puppy isn’t very happy about his new collar and leash, but eventually he’s going to get too big to carry.
- Boo’s endurance tonight seemed to be three blocks before his bag was too heavy and his legs were too tired to go on.
- Need to work on his endurance for next year. He’s nowhere near the “four hours and two pillow cases” goal I set as a young lad.
- No, I did not dress up this year. I always look like this.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/31/thoughts-on-the-day-58/
30 Days of Obama – Day 27
Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we’re going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous. — 1990
My Take – In this day and age, if you’re saying that someone is systematically trying to take the American Dream away from you and you don’t do something about it, then you have no-one to blame but yourself. It’s been a generation since systematic racial discrimination became actionable in court. If someone keeps you from getting a job, buying a house, or getting an education because of the color of your skin, your religion, or whatever, then you drag their butts into court and get satisfaction. Maybe you won’t be CEO, or live in the mansion, or get that advanced degree in particle physics that you crave, but if you’re willing to work hard and not take crap from anyone, you will advance in life.
If, on the other hand, you choose to whine that someone else is keeping you down, you will go nowhere. And if you come to me looking for sympathy that you don’t feel that your story is somehow part of this larger story, all I’m going to do is offer you some sand to go pound. Quit looking for the rest of us to boost you up and start climbing on your own.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/31/30-days-of-obama-day-27/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on October 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/31/todays-earworm-252/
Repost – Question of the Day
This was originally posted on September 9, 2011
Yesterday, when the TelePrompTer in Chief was set up in the halls of Congress for the President’s speech, were Democrats required to genuflect towards it as they crossed the middle aisle of the hall?
Posted by daddybear71 on October 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/31/repost-question-of-the-day/
Thought for the Day
The new puppy appears to be an Apple fanboi. He thinks all of their products taste wonderful.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 30, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/30/thought-for-the-day-175/
News Roundup
- From the “Get A Rope” Department – Two men in Louisiana are under arrest and charged with animal cruelty and violations of hunting regulations. The men are specifically charged with shooting deer without a license, from a vehicle, while said vehicle is on a road, after dark. In addition to that, they shot someone’s dog while they did it. Assuming that the men are guilty as charged, I hope the judge throws the book, as well as the bookcase the book sat in, at these two yutzes. Crap like this is one of the reasons that it’s so hard to get people to let considerate hunters hunt on private land. It also paints a bad picture of hunters and gun owners to everyone else.
- From the “No Good Deed….” Department – A bartender in San Fransisco was cleaning up his bar recently when he found a cell phone someone had left behind. Apparently this isn’t that big a deal, but when he tried to figure out whose it was, it had no SIM and no way to unlock it. He showed it to someone, who figured out that it was an example of a yet unreleased cell phone from Google. After alerting Google that their prototype had been left in a bar, the friend and the bartender had a run-in with the “Google Police”, which I take to mean that they were threatened with huge civil penalties if they breathed a word to anyone about what they had found. Eventually, the phone was returned to Google. If it had been me, it would have gone back in about 50 small sandwich bags, component by component, after I caught grief from the mega-corporation that lost the bloody thing in the first place. I seem to remember us doing the same thing with the Mig fighter that a Soviet pilot used to defect with during the Cold War, and I would want it to have the same effect.
- From the “Useless Endeavor” Department – Secretary of State Clinton, along with her European Union counterparts, is leaning on the governments of Kosovo, Serbia, and Bosnia Herzegovina to try to get them to start cooperating more and fighting less. Apparently the crowning achievement of her husband’s foreign policy, the Dayton Accords, didn’t do much more than get the three-cornered fight in Bosnia to stop being a shooting war. The Serbs still don’t like the Muslims and the Croats, and the other two share not only animosity toward the Serbs, but also don’t care for each other. The Serbs and Kosovars aren’t exactly chums either, so that 1999 air war that gave a copy of our stealth bomber to the Chinese seems to have done not much more than stop the shooting, if only for a generation or two. I suggest that Secretary Clinton go to Sarajevo and Belgrade, try the local slivovitz, and get the heck out of dodge before the next shooting war flares up. I predict it will happen about 8 seconds after a new generation of Serbs, Croats, Muslims, and Kosovars reaches military age in 2014 or 2015.
- From the “Someone Needs A Hug” Department – A man in Florida is under arrest after making online threats to blow up his neighborhood and a school. Apparently Mr. Rogers had been the target of frequent complaints about noise and believed that his neighbors had killed his dog. As I look around my little village, I can say I’m happy that we can work out our difference without the use of high explosives. We reserve those for demolition and entertainment.
- From the “Sea Kittens” Department – A California woman is asking that the city of Irvine erect a sign memorializing the truckload of fish that died when the truck got into an accident. The city has declined the request. I’m sure that PETA, an organization for which the woman volunteers, will go ahead with their own pescetarian vigil, complete with speeches about how fish are people too. I can see their point. I also love all the creatures under heaven, including fish. I guess the difference is that I love my fish with wide cut fried potatoes and malt vinegar. And people wonder why I never moved back to California.
- From the “Darth Mickey” Department – George Lucas, creator of both Luke Skywalker and Howard the Duck, has sold his companies to Disney for over four billion dollars. Disney will now control LucasFilm, Industrial Light and Magic, and Skywalker Sound, as well as the rights to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. Disney also announced plans to release at least three more Star Wars films. My sources advise me that Episode 7 will be entitled “The Quest for the Unholy Abomination”, which will entail what happens after Return of the Jedi, and will include new characters like Goofinimus, the illegitimate offspring of Jar Jar Binks, who has worked in a spice mine for 30 years, and Princess Minnia, a diminutive lass with a high squeaky voice. For those of you who can hear that high-pitched keening, it’s my childhood being violated in ways both unholy and unwholesome.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 30, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/30/news-roundup-156/
30 Days of Obama – Day 26
When we send our young men and women into harm’s way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they’re going, to care for their families while they’re gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world. — 2004
My Take – To be honest, I don’t care about the respect of the world. OK, I hope that countries with which we share common values, such as Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, and some of the new democracies in Eastern Europe, respect us, but I think that’s an easy one. It’s easy to respect someone when you have a lot in common with them.
As for the rest of the world, I couldn’t care less about whether they respect us, much less love us. Our foreign policy for a long time has been “Hey, we’re nice guys! Look at all the shiny hardware and food we brought. Now please like us. Pretty please!”. I guess that’s partly because we’re still doing the things we did to compete for hearts and minds during the Cold War, and some of it is because Americans, at least a lot of the time, see their role as the world’s last best hope and want to prove that to everyone.
Me? I’m tired of pouring money into kleptocratic sinkholes. I’m tired of watching flag draped coffins get unloaded off of airplanes. And I’m tired of watching the American flag get burnt by people who wouldn’t be able to feed their children if not for the largess of the American people. If I were President, my foreign aid policy would pretty much be “For our true friends, we will give the shirts off our backs. Everyone else pays cash.”. As for our foreign policy toward those who don’t respect us and we hold a reciprocal feeling, I say it’s better to be feared than respected. I guess my idea boils down to “No better friend; no worse enemy”, or for those of you who watch MSNBC, “Leave us alone, and we’ll leave you alone. Raise a hand to us, and we will cut off your arm.”. Americans truly are a peace loving people, but killing people and breaking stuff is something at which we’re very adept, and if someone can’t respect us for the good we do, then they should tremble at our ability to turn their place into a parking lot.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 30, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/30/30-days-of-obama-day-26/
Repost – Quote of the Day
This was originally posted on March 3, 2012
At GM’s Hamtramck plant in Detroit . . . I got to get inside a brand new Chevy Volt fresh off the line, even though Secret Service wouldn’t let me drive it. But I liked sitting in it. It was nice. I bet it drives real good. And five years from now when I’m not president anymore, I’ll buy one and drive it myself. –President Barack Obama, 2011
GeneralMotors will suspend Chevrolet Volt production from March 19th to April 23rd in order to bring supply of the plug-in hybrid car in line with demand, according to the Detroit Free Press. Chevrolet sold 1,023 Volts in February, which up from 603 in January, but far from the 60,000-unit annual output originally planned for when the car was launched in December, 2010. Less than 8,000 Volts were sold in all of 2011. Fox News, 2012
Posted by daddybear71 on October 30, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/30/repost-quote-of-the-day/
Thoughts on the Evening
- I have been shot, blown up, thrown to the ground, cuffed, and yelled at tonight. In other words, it was a great night.
- Tonight, under interrogation, I gave my name as Mohammed abu Normal. No-one got the joke.
- Leadership rule #123412 – Occasionally, count your people to make sure you still have all of them.
- A simulated 5.56 round to the elbow at close range is nature’s way of telling you that you’re not quite as tactical and stealthy as you think you are.
- Rule #1 for having a new puppy – Get a good mop.
- The outer winds of the hurricane were hitting us in the middle of training. Made it downright chilly.
- I don’t think we’ll have any real problems, but just in case, I filled up the tanks on the van and truck, as well as all of our gas cans. Ouch my wallet.
- We needed to rotate anyway.
- Hope everyone back east is doing OK.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 30, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/30/thoughts-on-the-evening-9/
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