Ford swings the axe

Well how ironic I was going to blog about the Corvette plant and in todays headlines Ford is swinging the axe. This hot on the heels of GM swinging the axe a few months ago is a major blow to the UAW and thousands of workers who trusted their unions to take care of them.

I am sure it is shocking news to many but it should hardly be suprising. Now before you have too much sympathy for the UAW workers ponder this from a recent article about the Delphi Plant:

UAW
Skilled workers average $30.77 an hour
Production wages average $26.35 an hour

Now compare that to the national average for:

Paramedic $13.43
RN $26.77
Police Officer $22.40
Fire Fighter $19.22

Source

Now if you think a job building cars, trucks or dildos should pay better than the four jobs above, you are a complete and utter piece of shit.

Buy a Ford and support terrorism!

Okay so maybe thats a stretch but bear with me for minute or three and let me explain where I am coming from.

I was in traffic behind a slow moving Ford truck decorated with UMWA, Proud Democrat and Kerry Edwards 2002 stickers. Naturally my first thoughts were another assclown that votes with the straight ticket button.

So then it all started to come together in my head. This guy works and pays union dues for wages and benefits he would still get or better if he worked at a non union mine. The union then gives generously to the DNC. He then takes whats left of his wages and buys a Ford F-whatever for $40,000 made by the UAW who also dumps large sums of money into the DNC and urges its members to vote for the Democrats. Apparently its because people like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy can really appreciate the working man. So the UAW is trying to get people into office whose plan seems to be placating our enemies.

So not only is that supporting our enemies who want us dead still no matter if you are from a blue or red state but also supporting the whining UAW members.

Next up lets talk about the Corvette plant.

In the dark of night

I was going to blog about the leak about the NSA snooping going on but Froggy has it covered much better than I could. All I have to say is that the US spy agencies seem to be leaking like sieves lately and its time to "plug" some leaks.


So I spotted the name Cory Maye over at the Instapundit last night but did not read up on it until tonight here

I feel bad for Cory, I feel bad for the family of the policeman and I feel bad for the dumbass on the narcotics task force who though it was a good idea to let young officer tag along on the raid. The fact this guy is in prison now just goes to show how poor the educational system in Miss really is. Was he in reasonable fear of his life at the time he fired? Anyone without their head firmly planted in their ass could see that.

Now sitting here in the house alone at night it leads me to do some thinking. The odds of the police raiding my house by accident are not good but it could happen. So if they did what is the probable outcome? At midnight I would be asleep in the bedroom with a ceiling fan running and my personal fan because I like the noise as I cannot sleep well when its too quiet and I can't hear the dog if she decides she is gonna start grooming at 3am. So cops say Police at he same instant they smash the front door. I would probably hear something but not have time to figure out what is going on. The dog who is old (10 1/2) and fat (140lbs) might have time to motivate her ass off the floor but probably not as she tends to take a wait and see attitude. As the team bursts into the bedroom and spot this big ass bewildered Rottweiler and open fire I will not hear anything other than gun fire and see movement in the doorway. So now I have intruders opening fire in the bed room, one dead mans best friend, and now I can't hear.

Right now there are several items on my bedside table: a lamp, alarm, Motorola Razr, Surefire G2 and a handgun. The wifes bedside table looks pretty much the same with the addition of a bottle of hand lotion. Under the bed is my new Bushmaster M4A3 and 3 clips of 5.56mm. So after gunning down the dog and spotting weapons who do you think is gonna get it next? SO my choice here is get gunned down in my own home or defend myself and take my chances in court. I think I will take my chances in court.

Of course here in KY things are not much better than they are in Miss. Just 2 years ago a young man in a wheel chair who shot and killed an intruder was charged with manslaughter. What kind of pinhead would sit on a grand jury and indict a paraplegic for defending himself in his own home?

Wow has it been that long?

Its been almost a month since I have had time to post here. Lets have a quick rundown on what you have missed. I stopped shaving and grew a nice winter Grizzly Adams beard. I have officially moved into the new compound. Little brother is now safely tucked away in the apartment across the yard. That reminds me where did I put that potato gun? I got the fence put up in the side yard for the dogs. The new washers spin cycle at 1100 RPM is fascinating to watch after a few drinks. There is something therapeutic about spliting your own firewood by hand. Blazing Saddles is still pretty damn funny. I bought a 1986 Yamaha Big Wheel and Honda Fatcat. I decided I liked the Big Wheel better so I sold the Fatcat on Ebay. The Rottweiler is not liking the house full of hardwood flooring and ceramic tile at all.

I havent been able to stay up on the news like I would like. I am encouraged by the 70% turn out for the vote in Iraq. I am puzzled as to why we would want to stop using "waterboarding" if it is as effective as they say. Iran still wants nuclear weapons and now for some reason wants to yank Israels chain. Hell if they want nukes that bad lets give them some. The President wants to spend $3 billion dollars on the levee system in New Orleans? Why in the hell would that be a good idea?

Just another day

So I took a little day for myself and went to the gun store. Bought myself a brand spanking new Bushmaster. Damn I love this country. Too bad its full of people who want to take away my rights.

I came home to find my house (and I'm sure everyones house in my neighborhood)full of the smell of smoke because some assclown is burning a huge pile of leaves in his ditch. Now I am about as Libertarian as you can get but damn. Have you not heard about the mulching mowers? So if I have an asthma attack and have to go to the ER can I sue the guy? I don't really want money so how about just the legal right to beat the hell out him with a cluebat?

I cannot wait to get this move over with so I will not have to deal with neighbors.

Home world

Made it back home last Sunday night and have been busy. Then on Tuesday afternoon we had a F4 tornado zip through town and have been without power and internet until late last night. Will get caught up here and then hopefully have time to post more.

Bloggin on the road

Been in Nashville since Tuesday. Had a family member here at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Those BK-117's they have with their lifeflight are sweet. I think I saw somewhere they do 2500 flights a year and I believe it they are super busy. Their 22 bed neuro ICU is pretty nice and having a cute redhead with an Alabama accent doesnt hurt either. I managed to make it over to the childrens hospital last night to hit the Subway. I don't think I have ever been in a childrens hospital quite like this one before.

Have not seen much of the national news or been able to get much webtime here. Come to think of it have not gotten much sleep either. But I can tell you not to stay at the Days Inn at 1800 West End. The air conditioning return was clogged up with dirt/dust and the vents themselves has mold all over them. Needless to say my allergies were in rare form when I got up.

In the local paper someones panties are in a wad over a report that members of the Nashville SAR team *gasp* posed with Hooters girls. Holy shit people get a life. They went down and did a hard dirty job you candy asses wouldnt want. Looks like other allegations have been emailed to channel 2 WKRN that can not be backed up.

Looks like in Cali they voted down all the propositions on the ballot. So lets see they voted out a Governor because he could not get anywhere with the idiots they keep electing to the statehouse. Then they reelect said idiots and the new governor cannot accomplish anything so he puts the plans on the ballot to bypass elected idiots. Okay then that makes sense only if you live in Cali I suppose.

Speaking of Cali looks like Nissan is tired of all the bullshit there and is moving their headquarters to Nashville. Well good for Nashville. Can we vote Cali off the island now? Speaking of Nissan ...hey UAW guys hows that union at the Smyrna Nissan plant coming along? *snicker* Don't worry guys you still have GM and you can ride that company right into the ground...which should not be much longer now.

Busy busy

Been a little busy here and neglecting the blog. I have been working on the new house everyday for weeks and really cannot tell what I have accomplished. I was thinking we would be moved in my now but maybe before Thanksgiving is a more realistic goal. If not then I always liked Groundhog day anyway.

Checking up on the news I can't help notice the tornado 30 miles north of me. Shame about the loss of life at the trailer park and as I understand it they are still looking for people.

France is still burning I see. I am suprised they have not surrendered yet but having read some of the statements in the press it sounds like they blame themselves. How about blaming the assholes burning stuff? If the immigrants are that unhappy in France maybe they should go back to Turdistan or wherever they came from.

After taking a test to see what political group I lean towards I discovered I was a libertarian. But then in surfing the net I read about the South Park Conservatives. They hate conservatives but hate liberals more! I think I have found a home and I like South Park as well. Every episode does have a point in the end and usually one I agree with. I have noticed that most people that don't like South Park I don't tend to like them very much. Doing a yahoo search for the term I ran across an editoral from Michelle Malkin who is not a fan of the show because of the foul language. Well grow the fuck up its not a Disney production. I liked Team America as well but mostly because of watching the celebrity know-it-alls get theirs in the end. I dunno I may have to explore this a bit more.

Porkbusters 2.0 update

Looks like according The Truth Laid Bear PorkBusters tracking page that shows Senate support they have tallied 8-3 in favor.

In favor are:

John McCain(R - AZ)
Sam Brownback(R - KS)
John Ensign(R - NV)
John E. Sununu(R - NH)
Tom Coburn(R - OK)
Lindsey Graham(R - SC)
Jim DeMint(R - SC)
John Cornyn(R - TX)

Against are:

Edward Kennedy(D - MA)
John Kerry(D - MA)
Harry Reid(D - NV)

Well well well if it isn't the three little pigs themselves. What a bunch of turds from the shallow end of the gene pool. They only beings lower on the food chain than them are the morons that keep putting them back in office.

French Muslim Rebellion spreads

So Paris is burning for what the 7th day now? Not shedding many tears for the French govt at this point but I do feel for the local populace, who were probably thinking their govt would have gotten a handle on this by now. I saw in one snippet where the French had deployed 1300 police and had arrested 30. Wow those are impressive numbers. Almost a great set up for a "How many French cops does it take to.." joke.

StrategyPage has a good read here.

Meanwhile the instapundit points us to
this article from the New York Times.

Back in the 1990s, the French sneered at America for the Los Angeles riots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported in 1992: "the consensus of French pundits is that something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs." President Mitterrand, the Washington Post reported in 1992, blamed the riots on the "conservative society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created and said France is different because it "is the country where the level of social protection is the highest in the world."

Wow 1992 has it been that long? I remember watching that mess unfold on CNN back in the day. Thank god now there are other news outlets to watch. I remember thinking then what I do now watching Paris and Denmark burn. In this neighborhood those assclowns would be in deep deep shit as I am certain my neighbors would be more than happy to return fire into the rampaging crowd of thugs. It is comforting to live in a state where you are allowed to defend your own home.

Sky News is reporting that "youths" burned a disabled woman in France. Ah the religion of peace at work. Can't you just feel the love they project? What's with the media insisting on calling them "youths" anyway? Can we not call a spade a spade here and call them the rampaging goat fucking muslim extremists they are? These are not children they are adults and should be treated at such. Big Boy rules should apply when you go throwing bricks and fire bombs at the police. I'm sorry but some assclown lobs a brick at my head I'm shooting back and its not going to be rubber bullets. Speaking of burning for those that missed my earlier post about Burning Bodies.

Is it the modus operandi in the muslim world to migrate to a region and after having established a majority to then try to proclaim their own state? That seems to be a common theme.

Porkbusters episode 2 Revenge of the Pig

I Support the Fiscal Watch Team Offset Package !

Porkbusters is back! The Truth Laid Bear has put up a PorkBusters tracking page that shows Senator support for and against by state. Check it out here.

Thoughts on the previous Coburn amendment here.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and six senate colleagues today unveiled their proposal to offset government spending on relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The senators announced their proposed government spending cuts during a Capitol Hill press conference this afternoon.

“Congress is learning what the American people already know – charity requires sacrifice. Congress can help those in need in the Gulf Coast without putting the bill on a credit card the next generation will have to pay back. Among the American people there is a growing rumble about our unsustainable fiscal course. I believe this package will help quiet that rumble and build a bridge to fiscal sanity and responsibility,” Dr. Coburn said.

Dr. Coburn, joined by Senators Sam Brownback, Jim DeMint, John Ensign, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and John Sununu, proposed the following actions to offset hurricane relief spending:

• A freeze on cost-of-living adjustments for federal employees, including members of Congress, with the exception of law enforcement and military personnel.

• A two-year delay in implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit except for low-income seniors who would receive $1,200 in assistance with their drug discount cards.

• A requirement that those with higher incomes pay higher Medicare Part B premiums in 2006, rather than in 2007 as currently scheduled.

• Eliminate $24 billion in special project spending in the recently passed highway bill.

• A cut of 5% to all federal spending programs except those which impact national security, with 1% set aside for funding of essential programs.

The package of offsets proposed today could save the American taxpayers nearly $130 billion over two years

Only Sith deal in absolutes

Well that may be so but we can also call bullshit when we see it. I love how you can just string a few news articles together.

So in across the pond Prince Chuck is in the news. I will cut him some slack as I have not seen him quoted directly in the articles. Anyway it seems he and the Duchess of Cornhole are going to pay the US a visit. Honestly I do not understand why US citizens give a shit about the Royal inbred family...okay okay back to the point. I need to get back on my Strattera.

The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11.

The Prince, who leaves on Tuesday for an eight-day tour of the US, has voiced private concerns over America's "confrontational" approach to Muslim countries and its failure to appreciate Islam's strengths.


The Duchess of Cornwall will accompany her husband
The Prince raised his concerns when he met senior Muslims in London in November 2001. The gathering took place just two months after the attacks on New York and Washington. "I find the language and rhetoric coming from America too confrontational," the Prince said, according to one leader at the meeting.

Okay so we are taking too hard a line against muslims. So 19 hijackers do not represent the whole of islam. Okay I can deal with that but you know what Chuck? Who gives a rats ass what you think? Some great Americans fought a war to be rid of your pompous asses back in 1776. If you could get your nose out of the Duchesses Cornhole for a bit you might take notice that YOUR country is now under attack from these assclowns.

Meanwhile in Indonesia the religion of peace has been busy. Maybe its just me but it seems the MSM here in the US is reporting on the deaths of 3 school girls. Where overseas the headline tells it like it is "3 Christian School Girls Beheaded". I suppose we couldn't add in that they were Christians as it might offend some of the non pork eating citizens. Not that Christians have not ever beheaded anyone or burned them at the stake but this is 2005 isn't it?

How about a zero-tolerance policy on stupid laws?

Wow this is just an incredible read . The war on drugs is obviously going down the toilet and it seems the harder the govt tries to clamp down the more these kinds of things are bound to happen. How amazing this is in the same state of the Terri Schiavo clusterfuck. So let me get this straight. In the great grey hair state they were bound and determined to keep an obviously brain damaged woman alive at all costs. Yet they have locked up this harmless wheelchair ridden man for drug distribution although they admit he never sold any drugs? To top that off the prison is threatening to not refill his morphine pump to try to get him to stop talking to the press?

I felt a tremor in the Force

While everyone else is yacking about the Harriet Miers I found that the news just keeps getting stranger.

Reuters digging for something to bash Bush with comes up with this.

Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona promised Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday he would be at the front of an anti-Bush march in Argentina next week.

I'm sorry who? Oh I see, a washed up soccer player (who just got over his gastric bypass surgery), a 2 bit dictator and Argentina (Faulklands anyone?). Americans give a rats ass because?

Meanwhile here in that states if you want to kill yourself maybe Halloween is not a good time according to
this.

Wow what do the other yards in the neighborhood look like?

Burning bodies?

Been seeing lots of coverage on the net of the burning of the terrorist bodies in Afghanistan. Much ado about nothing is what I thought at the time and now that seems to be the case.

Good information on Strategy Page.

Also a little background seems to be coming out on the imbedded journalists as well. Looks like at least one of them went with his mind already made up since he already wrote a book bashing the Iraq war. Doesn't someone do background checks on these guys? A google search of the pricks name would have turned up his book at Amazon.com

All the leftists in this country are shocked and disgusted our troops would burn rotting corpses that no one would collect but I haven't seen any outrage from them about live contractors being burned ALIVE in Iraq.

In a shocking turn of events I see the insurgents in Iraq seem to have turned on thier greatest allies in the region.

On a final note. I have been puzzled as to what Trudeau has been trying to accomplish over the last year or so with B.D.'s misfortune in Iraq but what he is trying to accomplish here I can understand and appreciate.

RICA Ranger Roundup St Louis AAR

Couple of pics from the event. The 1st is me with Col Robert Black and the 2nd is me wish Major General Singlaub.





Well I made if home from St Louis. Some random thoughts and observations.

Never before have I seen so many black berets worn so many different ways.....with Members Only jackets.

If you get enough 70+ year old Rangers together suddenly they are 50 years younger.

After the dinner on Thursday night when I sat with the 2 men from 2nd Ranger Company I went back to the room and could not sleep. I cracked open my copy of Rangers in Korea somewhere in the next few hours I ran across the list of Silver Star recipients and the name Posey, Edward L. I did a google search when I got home turning up the Ranger Hall of Fame link. I was honored to buy him a drink Saturday night and even more honored for the wisdom he imparted on me on that Thurday.

RICA-KW has started a new organization whose title I think was finally decided to be Descendants and Friends of Korean War Rangers. Anyone interested shoot me a message.

The next reunion is scheduled for 2007 at Ft Benning, GA during the time of the Best Ranger Competition.

Are there any Conservatives in Washington?

Well not very many it seems as the Coburn bill was voted down today. The Senate voted 82-15 to defeat Coburn's amendment which is pretty much what I thought would happen. I found this 2 snippets interesting:

Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record), R-Alaska, vowed Thursday to resign from the Senate if his fellow lawmakers followed through on threats to cancel spending on a $230 million "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska that was stuck into a pork-filled highway bill earlier this year.

The bridge, longer than the Golden Gate, would cross from Ketchikan (pop. 8,000) to Gravina Island (pop. 50), replacing a seven-minute ferry that connects the town with the regional airport. Its main critic, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., argued that the bridge money is enough to buy each island resident a Lear jet.

That was followed by this tidbit of info:

"If the Senate decides to discriminate against our state, to take money only from our state, I'll resign from this body," said Stevens, a pugnacious Alaskan who's held his seat for 37 years.

37 years? I think its time someone got a real job. Maybe the next Coburn amendment should be for term limits. I need to run down a list of who voted against this for future reference like say maybe the next elections. I'm sure the good voters will no doubt forgive the fact that the same assclowns they keep putting in office are spending us into oblivion.

Well I just stopped in to check my messages. I'm heading back down to the bar to hang out with some real Americans. No not some asshole politicians but some Korean War Rangers.

On the road with the Korean Ranger Companies

In STL hanging out with the Ranger Infantry Companies Airborne of the Korean War. They are having their national reunion and its a blast. How did I end up here? Well thats complicated but here I am anyway.

Met some outstanding Rangers many of whom are mentioned in Rangers in Korea by Col Robert Black. Speaking of which I did get a chance to meet Ranger author Col Robert Black who has some outstanding books available at that link from Amazon. Amazing having read about some of these men and then meeting them in person like this.

At dinner tonight I got a great history lesson first hand from 2 men who were in the 2nd Ranger Company. The 2nd Ranger Company was the only all black Ranger unit in American history. Those guys were a hoot and I learned a great deal in a short time. Both went on to SF and stayed for their 20. Both also said being a Ranger opened doors for them in the Army that would not have been there had they not earned the title of Ranger. The one gentleman told me back then things were much different in America but with the Rangers it did not matter they were all friends and looked out for each other.

I think the lesson I will take from that is that no matter who they were as individuals together they were Rangers. Too bad Americans today have a great deal of trouble standing together as simply Americans.

Tonights thoughts and run down

Great article on the wasting of our tax dollars and military resources in Korea Here. Pretty much tells what I always thought. South Korea should have enough money to train and equip an army to defend itself and should not need the USA to do it for them. Now I know many an American GI spilled blood on the battlefield to keep Korea free. But would pulling out our troops cause the North Koreans to come streaming over the border hopping over the bazillion land mines in no mans land? For some reason I do not think so. Without all the aid from South Korea the North would have starved to death already. One would think freeing up all the troops defending Germany from ??? and the troops in South Korea would help to solve the many problems. Yeah I know pulling our troops out of Germany would cause chaos in their nifty financial arrangement of spending way too much money on welfare. Like I give 2 shits about the German economy what about the US economy thats supporting their welfare system?

BTW this article puts to rest the dire predictions of mass carnage on the streets as the so called Assault Weapons ban died over a year ago. Remember how it was supposed to be? Cops would be outgunned and mowed down on the beat by gang bangers toting Ak-47's!

I would wager the reason crime is down and drug arrests are up has more to do with the assload of money being spent on law enforcement. Tiny police depts getting Homeland Security grants to buy nightvision goggles. To do what with you might ask, perhaps catch terrorists plotting death and destruction? No how about sitting in parking lots trying to catch people not wearing their seatbelts. On my way home in my little city of 20,000 I counted 3 cops in parking lots with their radar guns on. Common fella's get a life will ya? Almost every day I see the same cop sitting in a parking lot under a tree where the speed limit drops from 45 to 35. Then at 2:30 the little yellow lights come on because its a school zone and the limit is 25. Never mind the fact its a PRE-SCHOOL! Anybody that lets a preschooler walk to school should be the one arrested so whats the need here? My favorite though was last year during spring break when he was there writing tickets at 2:30 cause the little yellow lights were still coming on. Now I know these guys have a shitty thankless job but damn this really is a small city and they are certainly not winning hearts and minds of the local populace pulling that kind of shit.

It is funny that the State Police seem to be running in short supply and do not have the time to write tickets on the highway because they have real crimes to tend to. But here we are in the city up to our ears in cops with radar guns. Things that make you go hmmm. I would get started on the money squandered on this D.A.R.E bullshit but I think I will savor that for another post.

Much assclownery afoot I sense

I felt a disturbance in the Force. As if thousands of assclowns had gathered together. I went online to see what it could have been and found this Assclowns . Wow Farrakhan, Jackson and Sharpton all in one place. Its funny in all the rambling there was one theme I thought was good. It was the black Americans need to clean up their neighborhood and take responsibility for their actions. Of course then they had to dick it all up by bitching about the Federal response to Katrina. So much for personal responsibility eh Louis? Personally I think the Nation of Islam should be added to the list of Terrorist groups.

Speaking of which a completely different group of assclowns descended on Ohio Here. Looks like the Nazi's didn't even manage to march before all hell broke loose. I saw the live footage and was very impressed with the counterprotesters. Well that is if they were trying to prove the Nazi's right.

Organizers of the march said they were demonstrating against black gangs they said were harassing white residents in the neighbourhood.

Well good job crowd. The Nazi's were there to protest "black crime" and it resulted in more black crime. I do not have any love of Nazi's but it would seem they were not the ones breaking the law and acting like idiots. Granted they were there to cause a scene and looks like they got it.

Much of the anger boiled over because people were upset that city leaders were willing to allow the supremacists to walk through the neighborhood and shout insults, residents and authorities said.

Yeah well thats called the 1st amendment. Its in the Bill of Rights you guys should try reading it. Maybe there is a Dummies Guide to it somewhere. Even assclowns have First Amendment rights or else how would ole Louis say things like..

"I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25-foot deep crater under the levee breach," Farrakhan said. "It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry."

Uh huh I see, was that reliable source one of those guys I saw on CNN packing off a plasma screen tv?