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Friday, September 21, 2018

You're Kidding, Right?

Cow standing in front of members of the 115th Congress.
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The Kavanaugh hearing, interview, circus, whatever-it-is, should embarrass every American citizen who has at least two brain cells to rub together.

A U.S. Senator sits on a potentially embarrassing revelation for how many months? And then springs it on us at the last minute like some freaking circus clown?

Gee, thanks California, thanks for sending those two fecking ee-jits Feinstein and Harris to the Senate, what fine human beings they are.

I'm sure there are one or two, maybe even a handful of decent human beings in the Senate and the House. But they are overshadowed by all the preening morons which the Meejah loves to quote.

I don't follow things in Washington all that closely. Events there kind of remind me of the time The Naviguesser and Your Humble Scribe were trundling down a road in Germany at the ridiculous speed of 25 mph, speed limit was 100 kph, which equates to 60 mph, ballpark. But it was very foggy, as it tends to get in that area of the world, so 25 was good enough for me.

We rounded a corner and there it was, a tractor towing a tank of liquid congress-critters, er, I mean cow manure. The Germans and the Dutch in that neck of the woods used that to fertilize their fields, very organic it is, awfully smelly it is.

Now the tractor may have been going 10 mph, tops. Tractors don't move all that fast, especially towing a tank full of crap. Liquid crap.

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We tried to back way off of that fellow. Do you see in the photo where the liquefied bovine excrement sprays from? Let me tell ya, the guy must have just done one field, reloaded and was heading back for another go. Traveling behind that was an ordeal. There was a car full of nuns right behind us, I tell ya, I'm positive those nuns were swearing a blue streak.

So, events in Washington? I try to stay aware of them, but like being behind a manure sprayer, I try and keep my distance.

What a bloody embarrassment. To our government, to our history, and most especially the people who voted those asshats into office. And believe me, the Dems have no monopoly on ass-hattery and stupidity. When's the last time Congress passed a budget? Done something in a timely manner? Done something for the good of the country? Done something which wasn't intended to lead the nightly news?

Jackasses. Most of 'em.



60 comments:

  1. Here in Wisconsin, we have the fairly decent Ron Johnson, and the loathsome Tammy Baldwin.
    I would rather drive all day behind a liquid spreader with cow manure, than fifty feet behind one carrying pig byproduct. Pig byproduct seems to be mostly ammonia. Almost as bad as penguin byproduct. ( The Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison used to have an outdoor penguin pen. My word, but pengies get ripe! )

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    1. We drive by a pig farm on the way to my Mom's, yrah we try to hustle on past that spot. Yes, penguins, beautiful animals, though they ARE stinky critters.

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    2. Here's in the Old North State, we get the benefits of both hog and turkey - sometimes in close proximity to each other! On a warm, humid summer evening, driving along a country road, or even an Interstate, can be an exquisite olfactory challenge! Of course, there are quite a lot less of both creatures since Florence's visit - many thousands fewer of each type given all the flooding.

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    3. Good to hear from you Tom. Too bad about the hog/turkey losses. Flooding ain't kind to farming of any kind!

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  2. Too many of the Congress-critters think of themselves or their party first and second then the country's interests come a distant THIRD.....holding back more comments since I don't want to violate the COC.

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    1. And that is precisely the problem. Good observation Nylon12.

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    2. FYI, here's something interesting.... can't link but visit www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/24850533/1959mcdonnell douglasf4h-1f for sale....only $3,950,000.00. It's the 11th pre-production phantom! Group buy!

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    3. Ah man, it's used...

      (But if I had that kind of money...)

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    4. Too bad the farking Gubmint killed all the F-105s and most of the F-4s, the bastiges!

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    5. Well, there are a lot of F-4s parked out there in the desert. The engines for those bad boys are still available. On the other hand, the heavy hand of the gubmint didn't destroy the F-105 airframes, they destroyed the freaking engines!

      All.
      Of.
      Them.

      Bastiges! Heartless evil bastiges!

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    6. I know. Generations exist now that haven't seen a Thud fly! Farkers!

      Like the jerks that destroyed all the M113s rather than sell them to private individuals. So we're left buying used Bank trucks for our nefarious right wing militia purposes. Fire-truckers!!!!

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  3. I am saddled with the results...............
    The next tow years cannot go by fast enough to escape this idiot locker.

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    1. I hear ya shipmate, you have to live with that crap. Every. Damn. Day.

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  4. That is particularly true with the left. They do not want to govern the country, they want to rule it. The greater fealty they show to the Party, the more power will accrue to them individually.

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    1. Well, the Left, they know better, right? Just ask 'em.

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    2. Very much so, ScotttB, very much so. Would explain why they all have this weird fascination with royalty, too, doesn't it.

      If the Dems ever get in power, I fear indentured servitude or outright serfdom for many of us.

      Good use of the word 'fealty' there, in all its medieval glory.

      Mayhaps before that happens you and a thousand of your fellow furry friends can take over the BigBadgerBoat? Please?

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  5. I guess I was a trained political operative. In high school, I had the job of cleaning out the High Plains Hog Market. Sale day was Tuesday, and I cleaned it out on Saturday. $20 bucks of folding money! Usually there were 30 or 40 wheelbarrow loads of dried political promises that I had to scrape up off the concrete slab and cart to the side near the underpass for the front end loader to come get. Clouds of dusty rhetoric floated around while I was busy. Unless it rained, and the floor got wet. Then it was more like what you experienced.

    After my first foray, I made it 2 feet into the house, and mom marched me back out and made me strip to my skivvies. It's amazing what you can get used to. I figure a few of those folks were decent humans when they went, but it didn't take long for rubbing shoulders and rolling around in DC to thoroughly stink them up. The majority, on the other hand, have been DRINKING that stuff and it oozes it out of their pores.

    We should wall the whole beltway, fill it with amber and start over in Omaha. (And how about a supreme court justice from every state? Why not 50 justices? Educated anywhere but Harvard and Yale.)

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    1. I like the anyhwere but Yale and Harvard of your idea.

      As to 30 or 40 wheelbarrow loads of dried political promises, that right there is priceless!

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    2. Our fealty, that's it. That's what we've given as a trade for a six-pack and the remote.

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    3. Pretty close to the truth, Dave!

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  6. You know the kid that used to argue every close call in stick-ball ignoring the "tie goes to the runner rule" then pulling some obscure rule out of thin air to win his argument and then finally threatening to take his ball and go home? Washington!

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    1. Yup, future politician right there. That's how things are right now, sad innit?

      Nice analogy, Joe!

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  7. "Gee, thanks California, thanks for sending those two fecking ee-jits Feinstein and Harris to the Senate, what fine human beings they are."

    Yup. Just two more of the reasons we don't live there anymore. It became obvious that if things ever went to the third (cartridge) box, if I tried to make a stand, I would be alone. At least here in Texas, the odds are fair that I would have like minded folks to my right and left. I do not want that to happen, but am also torn. On one hand it is good that all the evil crap is being exposed. One the other hand, these a$$h---s have no honor, no shame, nothing to lose, and everything to gain. They will become increasingly desperate.

    Ya know, I bet a couple of loaded spreaders would sure take the starch out of the next antifa mob.

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    1. Okay RHT447, I hearby appoint you The Chant's Official Crowd Control Guy. (The OCCG, sounds cool neh?)

      There are some with longer ranges too, kind of like crap loaded water cannon.

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    2. I accept. And I am truly honored to be considered worthy.

      THEY SHALL NOT PASS!

      Claymore mine version currently under development. Sorta like a giant fart. No doubt Beans can wield a Scottish Claymore with authority.

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    3. Here's a wonderful video of one British farmer getting even with some enviro-wackos.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr0reNnjdSE

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    4. RHT447 - I like your attitude, you're the perfect man for the job!

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    5. Beans - Farmer - 1, Emma - nil.

      Game, set, and CRAPPPPPP!

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    6. Let the chips fall as they may.

      Good actress, she should keep her fat trap shut. Dance, monkeyette, dance!

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    7. "I like your attitude, you're the perfect man for the job!"

      I gotta warn you--

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09IYsh1TIng

      We've (wife and I) had this same shinola shoved down our throats before. The below article pretty well lays it out. Smelled as bad then as it does today.

      http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-21/news/mn-1795_1_republican-bruce-herschensohn-boxer-campaign-officials-boxer-fund-raiser

      We lived in Chico from '79 until moving to Texas. Bob Mulholland lived in Chico and is still a plumber/hatchet man for the Dems.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mulholland

      Yeah. I'm you're man.

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    8. Beans, she is a good actress. She should stay in her lane.

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    9. She is a great actress. Just like with so many other great actresses and actors, I don't think that being able to recite lines and emote for a living qualifies one to suddenly become an expert on a subject.

      Heddy Lamar, now that was one hot and brainy dame. I'd rather enjoy going back in time and getting shot down by her in an attempt to chat her up. She gots the chops to stand behind her actions.

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    10. As to wielding a Claymore, well, yes, I know how to run one. I prefer a bastard sword, myself (for really long swords) as it allows one to get closer and it moves faster, especially if you half-hand (grab the blade about half-way up and use the sword as a short spear.)

      Now, a glaive or a billhook? Heck, yeah! Otherwise a nice kite shield and a broadsword... Good times, good times...

      A Dungmore sounds like a wonderful instrument to make. Hmmm.. some 12g sheet steel for the backer plate and half a plastic pickle barrel, scored internally and externally... fill with Dung and a sheet of C4 on the inside of the backer plate... Hmmmmm.. Hmmmm..

      Or, do a dung-fougasse. Metal or plastic drum, buried at a 30 degree angle into the ground, or propped up in a rubble pile. Blasting charge on bottom, Dung on top, cover of cloth or the lid lightly put on. Command actuated. Hmmmm.. Hmmmmmmm.. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.. Substitute any old rotting carcass or bags of blood or internal organs for dung, maybe use the dung as additional material. Now that would be a Shite-Storm! Blasting huge barrels of blood and poop all over Pantyfa! Ahahahahahahaha.

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    11. RTH447, one of my friends is, no-kidding, a serious authority on medieval Mongols. He'd sit and tell me all the nice ways to punish criminals, expecting to gross me out. I'd start listing all the wonderful and inventive ways of Northern Europe... I'd win. Hands down. I mean, defenestration is bad. But to have some guy jump out the same window twice after stabbing himself in the back while his family watched? Come on... Like that "Bad Spock/Good Spock" episode of Star Trek - The Original. Barbarism is bad, but it takes a civilized mind to be really screwed up. And unfortunately, California is at the height of civilized screwed up.

      An honest politician stands no chance in California, nor in Chicago. Or in most big cities anymore. Sad, so sad.

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  8. And I thought it couldn't get worse than the previous week, but this last week sure topped 2 weeks ago in senatorial stupidity. The more information that comes out of the accusation, and on the accuser, makes the whole Fahrzeug das schießt Scheiße seem that much less valid.

    He-yah in these United States, by the way, we also have chip spreaders, a large hopper on trailer that has a feed belt on the bottom and rotating tines at the rear. Load vast quantities of (Congresscritters) into the hopper, hook up the trailer to your favorite farm steed (including the PTO) and drive around flinging small clumps of carp out the rear of the whole shebang much like a hippo does with it's little propeller tail and, well, you get the picture. It is amazing how small the chunks of senate can get and how far from the flinger they can be flung! And on a nice ripe Florida summer day, where the humidity is so high the mosquitos have Mae-Wests on, the smell can get kinda ripe.

    Then there's the on SR 40 that used to be a supplier of Brown Cow fertilizer. How do I know that? They advertised, right next to the 20ft piles of proto-fertilizer being slowly processed into fertilizer. Gee, if a tornado ever hit that place it would have been a real shite-storm!

    But back to real politics. Ever-more, Congress (both houses) has shown itself to be a pile of feckless, irresponsible, corrupt degenerates. Reminds me of the last days of the Republic of Rome, with the Senate becoming ever less usefull to the existence of the State. But dissolving that pile of compressed feces is what led us to Imperial Rome (which resembled much of the governance shown during the Worst President EVAH's term of offalice.) I don't want us to become These Imperial States. But something must be done to break this cycle of stupidity in Congress.

    Baah. I just need to take a senator. And a nice long representative. So off to the 'Little Capital Room' for me.

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    1. Heh, love that last line.

      I am sort of holding my breath until November. Either the American people vote with intelligence or they vote with CNN.

      If'n you get my drift.

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    2. We he-yah in the Great State of Florida are eagerly (not) anticipating finding out if someone left of Bernie will become our new gubner, or if some semblance of common sense will hit and we'll get the Hispanic guy. Oh, wait, he has no color or race or anything as he's an ebil rethuglican.

      Sometimes I really can pin the beginning of the end of Florida on the Peanut Farmer and the Marielito boat lift. Thanks, Jimmeh, for accepting all the criminals and insane people that Castro (may he rest in pieces) could foist off. Bastiges! Feckless Bastige the Magnificent, Barky the First (and, prey to God, the only) didn't help anything with his islamification plans. Bastiges!

      Well, we're hoping that a hurricane or sanity hits Mijami.

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    3. I do not envy you guys down there. And yes, a pox on the Feckless Jimmeh and his ilk.

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    4. It may sound, well, it does to me, that I have something against a Hispanic candidate. I do not. I have no problem with someone's genetic makeup, sex, religion (within reason) or legal sexual affinity. I just want competent candidates. So do most of the right-leaning people. The very definition of traditional 'liberalism,' literally live and let live. See this Prager University video for difference between leftist and liberalism: https://www.prageru.com/videos/left-or-liberal

      The Left, on the other hand, cares so very much about the race, sex, sex attitude, etc of individuals, as long as they aren't right-leaning. (See treatment of Justice Clarence Thomas for that one, should have been celebrated by the Leftists, but noooooo.(butt-heads.))

      So I was referring to the Leftist candidate for gubner, who is a black, vs the Rightist candidate, whose racial background doesn't matter because he's a Rethuglican.

      I hate this bull scat.

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    5. I understood what you meant. I don't care what color someone's skin is, are they competent, compassionate, and honest. That's all I ask. (Most politicians fail on 2 out of 3, many bat .000!)

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  9. Tooootally off-topic, Bayou Renaissance Man has a post that trumps one that I was working on, about the Nazi Germany Cruiser KMS Prinz Eugen. The finklestein did everything I was going to do, but better, and also brought up a new issue with the great lady.

    Go here: https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-blast-from-past-naval-history-edition.html

    There's even a comment from some loud-mouthed jerk who has touched that beautiful, but doomed, ship.

    Go. Go read.

    The issues now with her is an issue that is affecting lots of places around the Pacific and the Atlantic as old ships deteriorate.

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    1. I read that post earlier today. Loved your comment, you've actually been there, touched that.

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    2. Yep. She, unfortunately, seemed to lead an un-charmed life. Beautiful, graceful, with that gorgeous clipper bow... Sigh.

      During the mid 70's, a bunch of marine biologist students at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL, did an analysis of the tar balls being washed up on the beaches. Folk lore was that the tar balls were from sunken ships from WWII. Turns out, ONLY about a 1/4 of the tar was from sunken ships, the rest from natural seeps off the East Coast. Florida could be right up there with Texas as a crude oil and natural gas producing state, for at least 100 years, but, nooooooo, that would 'mar' the beauty. Yeah, the beauty of walking on hot sand and having tar stick to your skin. Yay. Even though lots of studies have shown it would actually increase offshore biodiversity by at least 100%, and that would be just from the well heads and pipelines providing shelter, not including the drill platforms or offshore terminals. More like increase by 200% or more.

      Oil seeps are becoming a problem all along the "torpedo alley" areas. I have no earthly idea how bad they are up around the NY area.

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    3. The Kriegsmarine was very busy off the East Coast in early '42. The U-Boot crews called it "The Happy Time."

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  10. So, now you may understand the reasons many in California want to divide the state. It’s so the representation in DC isn’t so biased.
    Regretfully, the lines being drawn worsen, rather than improve, the situation. And, sadly, the nature of the situation now, with open voting, means, even if Feinstein loses this November, there will be a Dem elected. Worse, the opponent is more left than Feinstein.

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    1. Yup, California is a complete mess politically. Is Jerry Brown trying to out-Venezuela Venezuela? That's the road the progs want to go down. Dumb asses.

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    2. Well, when the State starts defaulting, downgrade it from a State to a Territory. All those juicy votes will disappear in a flash, at least for the Senate seats.

      And, yeah, only the 2-state solution has the breakaway portion not controlled by one of the big cities. All other solutions all broke the state up with San Fran, or Sacramento, being the titular seat of one of the new states. YIKES! Like having a virus reproduce itself!

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    3. Martial law. That's my solution. Let the Marines run the place for a year or so. Might straighten things up a bit.

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    4. Marines running California? Man, you'd see "Wagner loves the (rooster)" and "Unit" pictures everywhere. Might actually improve the scenery in some places.

      Turn large portions of LA into shooting ranges. Might actually cut down on the amount of guns being fired.

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    5. Kevin "Ghost Gun" de Leon makes even Pelosi look sane and rational.

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    6. Yes, but so far he's been kept quarantined within California. He is weapon-grade stupid. (de Leon isn't his real name either, drop the accent and the "de" he's just plain "Leon.")

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  11. Lol! Marine running California! That would be great to see!! You would have entire counties worth of population fainting dead away going on. Would need the Air Force to drop smelling salts.

    I totally understand about following manure spreaders/tankers down the road. MI has a lot of farmers in my next of the woods, and not only is it difficult to breath "good country air" following them around, but for several days after it has been spread on the fields the air remains thick. But it grows great corn/hay/soybeans.

    When I was a teenager, the lady next door had a herd of French Alpine Dairy goats. Several were blue ribbon winners at the country fair every year. Anyhow, she didn't believe in mucking out the barn but once a year...and her stepson and I got nominated for the job. She pain $5/hour back when minimum wage was $2.25. The first 4 feet down weren't too bad, but after that it was pure ammonia. Her tomatoes grew like mad on the piles of manure, but the stink could be smelled for what seemed like miles.
    And, no, Mom wouldn't let me in the house in my barn clothes either...had to strip down to skivvies in the garage and go straight up to the guest bathroom and take a shower.

    As far as Congress goes...I can't wait until November gets here so we can vote and end the nonsense. Hopefully. Hubbie refuses to listen to any of it on the news, says it raises his blood pressure up too much.

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    1. Same here. I have to get the "news" second hand and a couple of days removed. By then the smell has lessened.

      But like unmucked stables, the smell never really goes away.

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  12. The Big D toddlers in the Upper House are still stomping their feet and throwing their tantrum because the woman who, for over 40 years, has enabled and shielded a serial rapist wasn't handed the keys to the White House she bought and paid for.

    As a Californian bred and born I offer my apologies to the rest of our Republic for the antics of both my Senators.

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    1. Yup, it was, after all, Shrillary's "turn." That's how they actually perceive things. Asshats.

      No apologies needed for what the ee-jits in San Fran, LA and the rest have inflicted on the rest of that fine state.

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