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Let the Games Begin

So, tomorrow, the good people of Iowa will go to their caucuseseses, thus officially starting the slightly less silly political season in the United States by browbeating their neighbors and family into a bad decision in a high school gymnasium.

On one side, we have Comrade Greeting Card, who promises free admission to the bread lines for those who have a party membership card.   He is opposed by the Wicked Witch of Benghazi, who promises to provide federal subsidies for the bill she plans to send our families for the bullets it takes to execute us.

On the other side, we have a multi-faceted goat rope.  The front runner appears to be the fuzzy brain parasite that feeds from what used to be a liberal Manhattanite real estate mogul.  Hot on his trail is the product of a wild weekend between Richard Nixon and Patty Duke in Calgary.  Behind them is a collection of, well, a bunch of misfits, and I don’t mean the lovable kind.

Really, America?  Is this the best we can do?

Somebody wake me up in June when all of this is done.

by daddybear71 on January 31, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized

Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/31/let-the-games-begin-2/

Cynical Musings

  • Our new snow shovels arrived today.  You may thank me now for the mild winter we will now enjoy.
    • Last time I bought new snow shovels, we didn’t get a shovel-worthy snow fall for two winters.
  • If you refer to yourself as a ‘lone wolf’ seven times in three minutes, then you may indeed be an isolated creature, but I very much doubt that you are the alpha.
  • Apparently a few thousand people had the same idea I did to get around the massive backup on the freeway.
    • It should not take over two hours to drive across Louisville.
  • I was informed today that I am not allowed to install a door bell that plays “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!”.  I never get to have any fun.
  • With all the talk about the new ‘correct’  Barbie dolls, I’m wondering when they’re going to ‘correct’ GI Joe.  We could have the “Married a stripper and adopted her kids” action figure, the “Alcohol and Drug Control Program NCO who OD’s on heroin” action figure, and of course, the “Been in long enough to have debilitating arthritis, nicotine stained fingers, and a raging problem with alcohol” action figure.
  • I hate high school politics.  If Donald Trump is unable to stand up to a reporter in a relatively friendly debate environment, how is he going to survive the debates in the general election where the game is visibly rigged against him?  For that matter, how is he going to handle the first time a foreign leader scores points against him in a face-to-face, televised meeting?
  • On that subject, I will vote for the first candidate to hand Candy Crowley a candy bar during a debate and ask her to eat it because she becomes a loathsome political hack when she’s hungry.
  • My first thought when watching this was “Wow, they’ve really improved the roads in Russia!”  My second was “Wow, they really haven’t improved the drivers!”
by daddybear71 on January 30, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in Thought for the day, Uncategorized

Posted by daddybear71 on January 30, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/30/cynical-musings-4/

Today in History

January 28, 1986

 

 

 

 

 

by daddybear71 on January 28, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in history, Thought for the day, Uncategorized

Posted by daddybear71 on January 28, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/28/today-in-history-13/

Musings

  • Boo got in trouble at school today for offering one of his buddies $15 if he would push the button to open the handicapped door as they were going into the chapel.
    • So, that happened.
    • Where do they come up with this?
  • When trying out a new jam cake recipe, it is probably a good idea to make a single batch before trying to make a double batch.
  • In other news, a jam cake made with homemade apple butter is pretty much the equivalent to an applesauce spice cake.
    • With caramel fudge icing
  • I had to remind Girlie Bear tonight that “Please make coffee in the morning.” does not mean make herself a single cup of coffee and leave her poor old father high and dry.
  • I’m listening to the 1981 Star Wars radio drama.  It’s interesting, and they went more in-depth on certain aspects of the story than you get in the movies.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
    • They do, however, linger a lot more on the burgeoning… infatuation between Luke and Leia.  In retrospect, it’s even creepier than the movies.
    • Did it ever occur to anyone in the Rebel Alliance that R2D2 had not only brought the plans for the Death Star, but had also been roaming the Imperial network for a while?
    • Also, did nobody in the entirety of the Alliance ever look at Luke and say “Skywalker?  Hey, I remember your father.   He was all over the vid screens during the war.  Good man.  Shame about how he turned out.”
  • I’m alpha reading for someone while I wait on beta readers.  I’ve said “I wish I’d written that” so often it’s becoming a mantra.
  • When we have met multiple times over multiple months, exchanged emails, and spoken about a thing several times in passing, use of the “First time I heard of it” defense when I try to actually do the thing causes your co-worker to have a blood pressure event.
by daddybear71 on January 26, 2016  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on January 26, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/26/musings-179/

Today’s Earworm

Mild language warning on this one.

 

by daddybear71 on January 23, 2016  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/23/todays-earworm-695/

Sneak Peek

“Escort Duty” should be available for pre-order in a couple of weeks.  While I get final comments and do one last read through and edit, here are the hard-copy and ebook covers.

 

Ebook
Hard Copy
by daddybear71 on January 22, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in book, crayons, Uncategorized

Posted by daddybear71 on January 22, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/22/sneak-peek-2/

You Make The Call

Which of the following was the most indulgent thing I did today while the kids had a snow day and I worked from home:

  1. Giving in and letting Boo watch a movie after breakfast
  2. Making hot apple cider and hot chocolate for the kids to enjoy after they came in from playing outside
  3. Baking a dark chocolate cake with chocolate chips for dessert
  4. Purchasing the NPR “Star Wars” radio play for Boo to listen to
  5. Offering to pay for the kids’ tickets for an hour at the trampoline gym tomorrow while they have their second snow day so that Irish Woman doesn’t axe murder me as a consequence of my childrens’ behavior
by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized

Posted by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/20/you-make-the-call-3/

Cynical Musings

  • The technology world is full of people who want to be artisans and craftsmen.  Unfortunately, what we need are more mechanics and janitors.
  • It is rather difficult to do research for one book while the characters from another book are yelling in your ear.  There may be a slight deviation from my planned order of publication.
  • Death by Powerpoint is preferable to Death by Project Planning.
  • Either the truck in front of me on the drive home was brining the road in anticipation of snow tonight, or someone just cleaned out a septic tank.
  • Did you ever notice that very few of the people who say “I would have joined the military, but I can’t imagine being told what to do all the time.” are self-employed?
    • For the record, I do not care why you didn’t join the military, because I don’t care if you joined the military.
by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/20/cynical-musings-3/

Good Man Gone

One of the odd things about this new-fangled world we live in is that we have the ability to sorta get to know someone and like them without having much, if any interaction with them, much less meet them face to face.  There are a lot of people who I know from a few comments and a whole lot of writing, and who I would love to sit down and share a meal with.

Zach Hill, author of the Minimum Wage Historian page, has been on that list for a long time.

Friday, Larry Correia, who had the pleasure of knowing him in real life, announced that Hill had passed away.  He leaves behind a young wife, his family, and a long line of friends and people who liked his writing and thinking.

I can’t eulogize Zach the way that Larry and others have done, but I can say that I regret not meeting him and I will miss the smiles and nods his writing brought to me.

Zach’s friends have set up a donation site for Zach’s family, and I’ve chipped in a few dukats.  If you have it to spare, I’m sure any donation would be appreciated.

 

by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/18/good-man-gone-2/

Today’s Earworm

by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in Earworm, Uncategorized

Posted by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016

https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/18/todays-earworm-694/

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