the late great state of chaos
i’m a native of california. my mother is a california native as well. she’ll be 95 in september. we have roots that go way the hell back. we’ve seen any number of things. my dad too, though he’s only been out here since 1941. the brown eyed girl is a socal native. she’s seen some shit too. more shit just might hit the fan soon here in the late great state of chaos, california.
we pay our state senators and state assembly folks a lot of money. plus they get some damn nice perks. i wouldn’t mind that if they did what the fuck we paid them to do. though they can’t seem to be bothered with doing that, their job. their well paid job.
it’s been a number of years and may even go back to governor moonbeam, jerry brown, who is actually thinking about running for the job again. however, that’s a drift of major proportions and for another time. the point being, the tools we’ve elected just can’t come up with a budget for the state. well, they can but they end up raising taxes as a result and then the taxes never ever go away like they said they would. then they just waste the damn money they raised. our money. a vicious cycle if there ever was one.
the assholes are paid to do something they can’t do. fine. quit. go back to albertson’s and bag groceries or your cushy loan sharking job. just get out and let somebody else try who ain’t gonna spend all their damn time collecting skim and graft from any asshole out there. plus running for the damn re-election 24-7 like our current president. more drifting.
ok. so like the tools couldn’t come up with a budget again this year. nothing new. though this year, with other stuff in the dumpster, it wasn’t a good idea not to come up with one. not that it ever is a good idea. sooooo…the governator has called for a special election may 19th. we get to vote on 5 propositions. bleeding government by referendum. it’s been like this here for far to goddamn long.
referendum this referendum that, instead of doing WHAT THE FUCK THEY GET PAID FOR!!!!!!! run the state like some sort of thinking person and not like it’s your personnal candy store. enough of this, people. screw it and them. i’ve already sent my ballot in. no, on every damn one of em. sane folks are doing the same thing. local newspapers are calling for the same. the madness here in the late great state of chaos must come to a stop.
california is the harbinger of this once great nation. count on it. we have been for years. illegals? among other things. you got em now and their money for nothing attitude. wake up, people!!!!! take your country and state back from the money grubbing running for re-election 24-7, elected official, as a job description assholes. that includes all of em!!!!! vote them and their plague out of office. stop the madness now.
damn, now i feel better. tell you what, you’d all better heed the call and get wise before it’s too late.
jmh
the long slide
i received this in an email this morning. i’m re-posting it here with no one’s permission. i doubt they’ll mind. except for probably, mr. obama.
jmh
You don’t have to be a military veteran to appreciate the sentiments expressed here. But, if you are, and have served our Country, or have close family who DID serve or IS serving, this message may have even greater clarity. Service personnel earn VERY LITTLE in comparison to what they sacrifice. My apology to anyone who simply feels that this is ‘right-winged diatribe!” Exam closely the spoken words.
Subject: Arrogant Americans
Arrogant Americans, Mr. President?
Peter Heck – Guest Columnist – 4/14/2009 7:50:00 AM
As I was sitting in church waiting for the start of the service, my grandpa came walking towards me pointing his finger. No matter how old I get, and no matter how long he’s been out of the U.S. Navy, that’s still an intimidating sight. As he approached me, his voice quivered as he said, “We saved that continent twice…how dare my president apologize for this country’s arrogance.” My grandpa is right. Americans need not apologize to the world for their arrogance; rather, Americans should apologize to their forefathers for the arrogance of their president.
Barack Obama’s first foreign trip as President of the United States has confirmed the naiveté so many of us feared during the election cycle. But worse than that, it has also demonstrated that our president suffers from either a complete misunderstanding of our heritage and history, or an utter contempt for it. Neither is excusable.
Garnering cheers from the French of all people, President Obama declared, “In America , there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” Consider that Obama spoke THESE words just 500 miles from the beaches of Normandy , where the sand is still stained with 65-year-old blood of “arrogant Americans.”
Indeed, columnist Mark Whittington observes, “One should remind Mr. Obama and the Europeans how America has ‘shown arrogance’ by saving Europe from itself innumerable times in the 20th Century. World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the wars in the Balkans were largely resolved by American blood, treasure, and leadership.” But all that appears lost on the president’s seemingly insatiable quest to mend fences he imagines have been tarnished by the bullish George W. Bush.
If Obama wishes to continue trampling the presidential tradition of showing class to former office holders and publicly trash Bush for his own personal gain, so be it. But all Americans should make clear that no man – even if he is the president – will tarnish the legacy of those Americans who have gone before us. Ours is not a history of arrogance. It is a history of courage, self-sacrifice, and honor.
When abusive monarchs repressed the masses, Americans resisted and overthrew them. When misguided policies led to the unjust oppression of fellow citizens, Americans rebelled and overturned them. When millions of impoverished and destitute wretches sought a new beginning, Americans threw open the door and welcomed them. When imperial dictators were on the march, Americans surrendered their lives to stop them. When communist thugs threatened world peace, Americans bled to defeat them. When an entire continent was overwhelmed with famine and hunger, Americans gave of themselves to sustain it. When terrorist madmen killed the innocent and subjugated millions, Americans led the fight to topple them.
This is the legacy that generations of Americans have left. If President Obama seeks stronger relations with the world community, perhaps he should begin by reminding them of these very truths, rather than condemning his own countrymen on foreign shores.
This “obsessive need to put down his own country,” has caused blogger James Lewis to call President Obama a “stunningly ignorant man” who has evidently never spoken to a concentration camp survivor, a Cuban refugee, a boat person from Vietnam, a Soviet dissident, or a survivor of Mao’s purges.
Unfortunately, I can no longer bring myself to give Mr. Obama that benefit of the doubt. Not after looking at the pain in my grandpa’s eyes…a man who still carries shrapnel in his body from his service to this country.
As a student and teacher of history, I recognize that America has made mistakes…plenty of them, in fact. But one of the great things about our people has been their courage and humility in admitting and correcting those mistakes. God willing, they will prove that willingness again in four years and correct the mistake that is the presidency of Barack Obama.
water water everywhere & nary a drop to drink
the water crisis here in the great state of chaos continues as it begins the long slow slide into somebody actually doing something about it on a local and statewide basis. oh yeah. though the bread basket of the nation has been jumping on the farmers for a year or so, cutting back on their water rations. i guess lawns are more important than feeding a vast portion of the nation. but then what do i know? not much i’m sure.
the water infrastructure here is in total disarray. the main point of the whole fragile system is up in the sacramento/stockton delta area. billions need to be spent to fix it. the problem is a bi-polar mess. the dems and gop are both sad culprits in the chaos. we pay those hacks good money to take care of stuff. they take the money and don’t do anything other than piss everyone off. it’s been so for many a year. the last great water projects happened back in the early 60’s thanks to jerry brown’s dad, pat. i could tell you a story about the two of them but i won’t.
on an other note, i was talking to a local water guy this morning and he told me a tale of the current stimulus package dole out courtesy of uncle sam. the man has been involved in the water industry here in socal for a number of years in a supervisory capacity and a very bright guy as well. he told me trying to just figure out the whole convoluted process was mind numbing and stupid. no idea what was what or just how to go about it.
in my thinking that would, of course, figure. government gobbly goop to the nth degree brought on by those that would love nothing better than to make it the official language of a once great nation. but i digress. my water guy has no idea if the local water folks will get the modest $2.5 million grant. none. zip. zilch. nada. if a check shows up then the deal went down. if not. sin loi, charlie. a rather dumb ass way of doing biz but that seems to be the nature of the feds these sad end of times days.
ok. here’s a nice 180 turn. however, still water related. the current crop in power down dc way have their collective panties in a knot about the way the cia has been dealing with the current crop of terror dip-shits. fine. though i have no problem with anything they do in trying to find shit out. nothing. yep. deal with it.
let me harken back to that doomed and failed vietnam experience. failed for many a reason. but that ain’t why i’m here. nope. the langley boys had a way of dealing with the cong and nva regulars. terrorists to be sure. rape. kill. pillage. tax. impose will. scare. and otherwise totally fuck over folks. your ever friendly troops of mr wonderful, uncle ho.
the drifts pile up don’t they? the company guys had a way with the usual suspects. take a few of em up in a chopper to several thousand feet and ask em a question. no answer. toss one of em out. ask the question again. you get answers. if not, take a couple more of em up.
i personally have no problem with that action. none what so ever. they were women and children killers. pure and simple. just as the current crop are. sad little shits. fight fire with fire. simple as that.
whether it be water or a chopper way up above the trees, all is fair. it’s us or them. there is no compromise. we limp along in these end of times days. but then what do i know? not much i’m sure.
the stockton delta with crops.
the delta again and what usually happens after days of heavy rain.
vietnam and a chopper above the trees.
jmh
southern infantry and northern artillery
the title of this blog is something i’m fond of saying. however, i didn’t come up with it. the late novelist and civil wear historian, shelby foote, came up with it years ago. it’s a pretty much true statement. at any rate, it means with southern infantry and northern artillery the us of a could win just about any war with anybody.
i was sent the following in an email by a friend a week or so ago. i’d been wanting to stick it up here and share it with you but i’ve been busy with the brown eyed girl. things are going well on that front so i’m back home for a few days of r and r on my own. i have no idea where it came about or who originated the email. all i know is that it’s funny as hell and there just might be a few grains of truth to it as well. the point being is, the photo combines southern infantry and northern artillery in a 21st century way. i hope you enjoy it as much as i did.
The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF). These mostly Southern boys will be dropped off into Iraq and will be given only the following facts about terrorists:
1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don’t like beer, pickups, country music, or Jesus.
5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt.
The Pentagon expects the problem in Iraq to be over by Friday. Applications are available at your local Wal-Mart sporting goods counter.
rock and roll!!!
jmh
adios, molly
molly got her start in music on the old rex allen radio show singing covers of hank williams tunes. she was only 10 years old. at 13 she had her first hit in 1952 singing the novelty tune, ‘i saw mommy kissing santa claus’.
i mostly remember her from the old so calif tv show called ‘hometown jamboree’ which starred the late great, tennessee ernie ford. i cut my country and western teeth on that old show and the music generated by it. along with the show ‘the hoffman hayride’ starring spade cooley. both shows were local staples on los angeles tv in the 1950’s.
adios, molly bee, RIP.
the cast of ’hometown jamboree’. molly, seated in the front row to the right of ernie ford.
molly later in her career.
jmh
i’ll pass on the kool aid
i sort of touched on this yesterday in a comment or something. i guess it bears repeating.
i was more than willing to give our new president the benefit of the doubt and just let him do his thing. then i’d make some sort of decision about the guy somewhere down the road. somewhere down the road is already here.
he’s pissed me off. already. i was never a fan of the last guy. not by a long shot. i really didn’t care for his dad that much either. though i proudly display a letter from said dad in the living room.
anyway, back to the new guy. first off his very first tv interview was on arab tv. excuse me? i guess i’m just a bit to old school for that kind of stupid move. but then what do i know?
then there’s the sanctimonious stuff oozing about him. he comes off more sanctimonious than algore on a bad day. i just can’t take it. sorry. it was the feeble attempt at humor and his comparison of dc and chicago weather that got that me going on that angle. gawd, please send us adlai again. he was a barrel of laughs compared to this guy. ah, no. scratch that. this guy is adlai incarnate. one was more than enough, thanks anyways.
we also have the stimulus package that is just so full of pork and dubious crap that it’s unfathomable why any sane person would want it to come to pass.
next, and i missed this one when it hit the bricks, was his statement that republicans should stop listening to rush limbaugh. for some sort of vague non-partisan reasons i guess. ok. i stopped listening to rush years ago. i just couldn’t take him any more. say what you want about rush and it might be true. i just don’t care. but nobody tells me who or what not to listen to be it political thoughts or whatever. that would also include reading material.
i mean what if i were the new guy and told you not to listen to al franken or barbara streisand or any number of their ilk. you’d call me a nazi like you called the last guy. the last guy wasn’t a nazi. he just wasn’t very bright. the new guy is bright. he should know better. then again i guess not. either that or it’s just a glimpse of the shit to come. i think it’s the latter.
i put up with bubba and his antics. at least he was entertaining in some sort of odd train wreck kind of a way. the new guy? no, thanks. i’ll pass. the kool aid? you drink it.
i pounded this out last night. i wasn’t really sure that if in the semi light of the new day i would still want to publish it. yeah, i might as well.
i think it’s a wonderful thing a black person has been elected to the office. though i can’t help but wonder if maybe willie mays, hank aaron, tiger woods, joe morgan, charlie sifford, lee elder, joe ‘the jet’ perry and a slew of others may have filled the bill a bit better.
the chicago political machine rolls on. much to the dismay of any number of us.
wake up, america.
jmh
a state of mind(?)
i’ve carried this one over from one of my other places.
seems myspaced out is having more of their ususal problems
today. i can’t stick up any links or urls or photos. fine.
screw it. now i have this print. whatever.
drifting along here…i had been saving all of my crv(calif
redemtion value) plastic stuff since i moved in here. like 6
months worth. my shed was pretty much full of plastic
bottles. i took the stuff to the re-cycle center and it was a
pain in the ass. loading and unloading all of the shit. bottom
line is i got $20.60 for my troubles.
i went to the market and purchased $30 worth of decent calif
cabernet with my ‘winnings’. i won’t be doing that anymore.
screw it. the stuff is going in the trash re-cycle bin from now
on.
i’m going to go wash my car now and maybe pull a few weeds
or spray the damn things. i need the zen work out. damn
near desperately.
a friend sent me what appears below. it comes from the l.a.
times. i’m actually surprised they let it get through the
editing process.
we here in the land of the la las have know this for ages. this
dumb ass state spends a bazillion dollars on illegals every
year. various governators have tried their best to get the feds
to help out. the feds refuse. then tell the stae we have to
support them.
the illegals are breaking federal law but the feds are too damn
busy trying to give money away for and to every other damn
thing on the planet. something is rotten in the ship of state,
my friends. read on macduff…
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(All 10 of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
We are a bunch of fools for letting this continue
wake up, america.
jmh
the doom of gloom(?)
the impending collapse of everything we know and love is still upon us. our new president would have us all belly up to the washington dc bar and order up a double shot of my baby’s love. no, wait that’s an old song by the mccoys. sorry. but it might not be a bad idea any the ways. at least it or that will keep you warm and distracted for a spell. something we all might need.
the latest stimulus package party is still being catered by the chinese. we are running up one hellacious bill with those folks, my friends. one needs to wonder when that bill is going to come due and just what the fuck we are going to have to do to get out from under the bill.
it’s not unlike running up a massive visa or mastercard bill then playing the slip and slide with their ‘no interest’ money to pay off one bill or a portion of the bill or another bill. all the while saying to yourself, i’ll pay them off eventually. thing is most folks never do who find themselves in that sorta trap. of course, there’s always bankruptcy. however, the way i was raised that ain’t an option. but i digress.
sure, uncle sam isn’t or can’t go insolvent and declare bankruptcy. he can just continue to print money. more money for more bailouts. hell, he can even bail himself out while sending us to the poor house with piles of useless monopoly money. yes, i’m on that riff again. maybe if i and a few others keep it up somebody will start listening and/or pay attention.
kids, the titanic is sinking. the nimrods in dc can toss all the money they want at the sinking ship of state but it ain’t gonna stop the water from rushing in and the ship from sinking.
most of the pols in washington are like the pols here in california. oh, the school system sucks. i know. let’s throw more money at it. we’ll give em bushel baskets full of cash. that will fix things. no, it hasn’t. the vast majority of kids are still morons and the fools they send the money to pour gas on it, set it on fire, then they ask for more money.
money for nothing and your chicks for free. that might as well be the new u s of a motto. because that’s what all this amounts to. no more ‘in god we trust’ or ‘e pluribus unum’ or any of the other latin phrases that appear on our monopoly money.
what follows has been around for a while. a friend sent it to me in an email. i didn’t write it and i have no idea who did. but it’s one of those things that rings of truth and pain…
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element
yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has
one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198
assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which
are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called
peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be
detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into
contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that
would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4
years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not
decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of
the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact,
Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each
reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming
isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to
believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical
concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical
morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium
(symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as
Governmentium, since it has half as many peons but twice as many
morons.
wake up, america.
jmh
a parable(?)
a friend of mine sent me this in an email. i didn’t write it. i have no idea where it comes from or who wrote it. if i’m not mistaken it’s been around for a number of years. due to the current sticky situation i think it bears repeating. yeah, the ‘ c ‘ word used. however, you could also substitute the ‘ f ‘ word. doesn’t really matter much. once your soul is lost it’s lost, well in this regard any ways.
Catching Wild Pigs, author unknown.
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.The professor asked the young man what was the matter.
The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country, while they were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punchline. The young man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.
When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as corporate bail outs, supplemental income, tax credit for20unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms — just a little at a time.
If you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”
Thomas Jefferson
wake up, America.
jmh
excuse me(?)
the brown eyed girl does volunteer tax preparation at a senior center here in so calif. she keeps badgering me about taking the course and doing the volunteer work with her. i always say no. mainly because my math skills are from like caveman days and i’d probably end up sending some poor old granny to jail by screwing up her tax return. the brown eyed girl says not to worry, things are checked. i would worry and i wouldn’t enjoy it. trust me.
at any rate, she was going over some stuff late last week the irs had sent her in an email. new stuff for the current tax year. or april 15th of this year. or some damn thing or another.
seems that i could or you could get a tax rebate or something cause i or you maybe bought some damn new place last year during the time the offer is being offered. yeah, that makes about as much sense as the irs does.
any the ways, seems i or you can get in on some of the business bail-out dough. sweet jesus. come to poppa! except the thing is the good old congress is making us regular tax paying law abiding normal working stiff back bone of the nation pay it back!!!!! yep, i or you, can cash in but…we have to pay it back.
every other stooge business ass hole is lining up for some cash money bail-out dough. which they don’t have to fucking pay back. i see it in the paper every damn day. oh, lehman bros went out of business. it cost us a pile. please, send bail-out money, uncle sam. i’ll tell you what, that’s what you get for trusting wall street and or the government for that matter.
larry flint and the porn industry want bail-out cash too. why not? i guess there’s a dearth of boners since the ‘first’ crash. apparently not even larry and his semi sorta professional hardcore porn can even get broke dicks up. so now he wants money because his sales are down. just like gm or ford or another damn business in the country. except for maybe the fire arms and ammo folks.
every swinging dick in the country and those sans said swinging dick want cash money bail-out money post bleeding haste. they will all probably get it. then they can spend it on re-treats in vegas complete with vintage china white smack and high dollar high end hookers if they damn well want to. oh, yeah, there’s gonna be over sight. yeah, right, and i have bridges in nyc i can sell you. wholesale.
you and me? we might get some bail-out cash if we jump through the hoops just right and meet all the small print crapola. then by god, we get to pay it back!!! interest free of course but what the fuck point is that? sure we could go to vegas and blow our cash money from uncle sam too.
but the thing is we won’t be getting billions let alone millions. we would only be entitled to up to like around $170,000 for the home buying rebate deal. then it might not even be in cash money to blow on loose women and heavy duty drugs in vegas. let alone enough for doubling down on a pair of deuces at the black-jack table in some sort of smack/alcohol induced purple haze. yeah. that’s right!! it might be just pretend irs money and some sort of other gobbly goop irs mumbo jumbo stuff but the bottom line is you gonna have to pay it back!!!
it turns out to be just another bill you will have every damn month until it is paid back. why on earth would you even consider the deal? also, it wouldn’t surprise me if in the very very small print of this rebate whatever tax deal you avoided by using this useless rebate would also mean you would have to pay it as well. plain language? the damn tax you avoided with the rebate will probably be due as well!!
the irs being what it is would probably charge you interest on the avoidance beginning from whatever time it was you realized you could actually afford to buy a home beginning last year and up until the time it became clear you were probably lucky you did and even more so don’t have a mortgage on the new digs. yeah, god bless the irs and uncle sam.
damn, i guess i’m just getting old. that must be it. i guess i ought to send my congressman a nice bouquet of flowers and a few $20’s for getting me this little bon mot fucking piece of shit bonbon pay it back you dumb sucker supposed bail-out cash table scrap for the the backbone of this once great nation.
crap, i need a potato sack full of that useless monopoly money or wiemar republic money or what used to be know as legal tender, so i can go to the store and buy a loaf of bread. that is if any of them are still in business.
for the history impaired here’s a nice graph of what went down in the wiemar republic back in the day. the shape of thingsto come?
wake-up america before it’s too damn late.
jmh
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