So, because of the intricacies of DOT regulations and the way I spent my time yesterday, I ended up having to take a 10 hour rest period last night instead of my usual eight.
Trouble is, that’s going to put me well behind in terms of where I was supposed to be. You see I have a load of canned vegetables bound for Jersey City New Jersey, that was supposed to be there at 8 o’clock this morning. As it stands I’m probably not going to make it there until quarter of 12. We always planned on my being a little bit late, but the way the regulations fallout made me a great deal later.
Oh, and one more thing. When I stopped to get fuel this morning, after waiting in line for about 15 minutes for one of the pumps to open up, of a gentleman was parked in front of me also waiting for fuel, drove forward and hit the fuel pump. This caused the entire system to go offline and I didn’t get my fuel. Now fortunately, I have enough fuel to make it to the next truck stop which happens to be in New Jersey. Trouble is, I wasted additional time, making me even later.
Welcome to my world.
I said yesterday that it seems to me we face a question at this next election about who we trust less… The Democrats here in the United States or the Iranians. And then thinking about it, I think I’ve come up with the answer.
I trust the Iranians more than I do the Democrats. No, I’m not suggesting that we should complete any deals with the Iranians…not at all.
You see, the difference between the two is that of the two, the Iranian are the ones who do what they say they’re going to do. As such, I take them at their word when they say the destruction of Israel is item one on their agenda.
The Democrats, meanwhile promised us shovel-ready jobs. They promised us an economic recovery. They promised us that if we liked they promised an improved health care system. They promised us a transparent administration. That most certainly has not happened.
In short, they’ve done nothing that engender trust.
The Democrats have been successful at opening up travel to Cuba, and have put a ban on travel to Indiana. Kind of makes you wonder whose side they’re on, doesn’t it? Actually, it doesn’t make me wonder at all. I’ve known from the start.
See, the Iranians have been quite open about their goals, saying among other things “death to America”.
The problem right now is that the Democrats seem interested and beating them to that goal.
Is driving while transgendered a threat to public safety? Could it be that Saudi Arabia has the right idea, don’t let women drive?
from Demanjo:
Bruce Jenner ‘facing wrongful death lawsuit’ following horrific car crash which left one woman dead
The step-children of Kim Howe, the woman who died during the horrific car accident involving Jenner, 65, back in February, may file a wrongful death suit, according to TMZ.
Kim Howe was driving her Lexus on Pacific Coast Highway on February 7th when Bruce slammed into her, sending her car careening into the lane of oncoming traffic where a Hummer demolished her car.
from Jack Cashill, American Thinker:
Ah, you ask yourself. Just who is Ricky Shawatza Hall? Ricky is the driver of the SUV that NSA police killed as he drove wildly on the National Security Agency grounds at Fort Meade on Monday.
[…]
Hall and his passenger were dressed as women at the time of the crash. According to the FBI, they did not dress this way to disguise themselves from authorities. They did not seem to have terror in mind.
Could it be that the mere fact of dressing like a girl is enough to make an otherwise responsible man drive like a women? Does a transgender fard while he drive?
This morning I find myself at a food distributorship outside of Syracuse New York.
If snails were to design a distribution center, this place would undoubtedly be too fast for them. Not for many other humans, though.
Nothing against the people that work here, but against the people who designed the system that they work in. It can be best described by what I call the alligator theory. That being when you’re up to your backside in alligators it’s difficult to remember your original objective was to drain the swamp. Like any large organization, filled with regulations, but people are so busy dealing with regulations, that they can’t actually move freight.
To that point, I’d like you to check out Glenn Reynolds column, the other day. Glenn says “You’re most likely breaking the law right now.”
For those who have been reading along, I made a comment about laws we don’t know we’re breaking a couple of weeks ago, I still haven’t heard how that one came out, exactly, though I gather that the company paid off.
Interestingly enough, the place where that driver was delivering, is where I’m sitting as I write this.
What Reynolds describes, is what happens when you make government “cool”. Wasn’t that one of Mr Obama’s objectives? Now that we have a direct result, maybe we can learn from that mistake, and reverse course. That’s only going to happen if the GOP decides to nominate somebody who understands that the government is not the solution, but as Reagan said, government is the problem.
I was once asked by a reader why drivers tend to be so very anti-government. Without even pausing for breath, my response was because they’re the ones that deal with it most often.
Described another way, the situation in terms of governments can be described as the government instilling fear in the people. They are afraid to move, to do what people do normally, for fear of running afoul of some government regulation or other. Is there any way such a situation cannot be described as a lack of freedom, and the lack of progress?
I believe it was Jefferson who suggested that when people fear the government there is tyranny and when the government fears the people there is freedom. Which of those two situations would you say we have now?
Meanwhile, the Iranian peace deal has predictably fallen apart. Iran has refused to give up its nuclear material, and we have at least one general and record saying that the destruction of Israel is non-negotiable.
At some point in the distant future, somebody, somewhere, will be able to explain to me perhaps the reason Obama has been playing this game. They may even be able to give me a reason that involves actual peace, but, I doubt it.
I doubt that there was anybody in this administration who wasn’t smart enough to recognize that the Iranian wouldn’t change their direction at the negotiation table. As I suggested repeatedly negotiated peace never works. Not for long, anyway. And with these animals not at all.
History has shown very clearly the path to take. Let’s consider a couple of high points. We removed Saddam Hussein, we removed Moammar Qaddafi we remove the Shah of Iran, why again? Because they were brutal dictators and we freedom-loving people don’t like brutal dictators.
Our current dealings with Iran, the Palestinians, and so on suggest however that brutality and naked aggression is all that some people… Some cultures… understand.
How is it that clear mindedness and thinking unadulterated by emotion, so completely escaped us in the West?
If a western style democracy had a hope in hell of succeeding anywhere in the Middle East it was going to be in Iraq, and that was going to be a decade-long situation. But because the current resident of the White House gave all that up, and all the blood that was spilled to that end, when he prematurely pulled us off the plan supposedly for the benefit of his own political future we are now in a much more volatile situation. Exactly the opposite of his stated purpose, granted, but it was widely predicted. He didn’t listen.
The bumbling of this administration has now pushed us into a situation where military action is the only solution. Even absent Iran getting nuclear capability, that would be happening within the next decade. But because of the bumbling of this administration, our opponent will be having and using nuclear weapons.
Welcome to hope and change.
And down the road I go. See you tomorrow. Maybe.
New super bug meets Granny, Granny wins, from Liz Neporent, Good Morning American:
A relatively new super bug may have met its match in a 1,000-year-old eye treatment, according to researchers from the University of Nottingham.
[…]
The tenth-century concoction contained two species of allium (garlic, plus either onion or leek), wine from a vineyard that has existed since the ninth century and oxgall, the bile from a cow’s stomach. A very specific set of instructions included brewing the solution in a brass vessel, straining it through a cloth and then letting the mixture sit for nine days before use
Don’t doubt those old wives tales.
The Snark of the Day, Dagny’s Law, from Aurora Dagny:
“One way to define the difference between a regular belief and a sacred belief is that people who hold sacred beliefs think it is morally wrong for anyone to question those beliefs,” Dagny wrote. “If someone does question those beliefs, they’re not just being stupid or even depraved, they’re actively doing violence. They might as well be kicking a puppy. When people hold sacred beliefs, there is no disagreement without animosity.”
Hat tips: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit; Ashe Schow, Washington Examiner.
Dagny’s Law not only explains the mythology of the so-called rape culture, it also explains the liberal’s blind insistence on anthropogenic global warming. Moreover, the law explains why attempting to reason with liberals in nigh on impossible. Alas all we can do is to mock them.
Today, I’m running a load from Batavia New York to Carlisle Pennsylvania. From there, I will most likely run a load into New York City. Trust me, not exactly my favorite place to be, but the money is reasonable, so I take the job.
My truck was in the shop for a good deal of yesterday, having a complete preventive maintenance done, along with a new set of steer tires, a repair on another tire, a repair of my tail lights, and a couple other adjustments. With all of that, its handling very nicely indeed, and I’m quite pleased with it.
I’ve been adding little do dads here and there, and it’s looking very promising. I figure by the end of the summer, I’ll have something that will be running exactly the way I want it to be, and that will last for about a month until the snow flies. Welcome to my world.
It occurs to me that the question before us in the next election is who we trust less….. The Democrats, or the Iranian Mullahs.
Look, let’s face it. No matter how you slice this, the Iranians have been playing the Democrats in this country like old Fiddles. Thing is, like it or not the GOP leadership has been enabling them to do exactly that. I honestly don’t know if running us right out to the edge of our destruction is part of the GOP establishment plan, but it’s certainly what they’ve been successful with doing, thus far.
At the same time,it appears to me that at this point handing the Democrats the power of government again, is a mandate for them to finish the job. They seem more interested in putting sanctions on Indiana then they do Iran. Telling, that.
Speaking of that, I see the governor of Connecticut has decided to impose a travel ban from Connecticut to Indiana. First of all, fat lot of chance he’s going to have enforcing that, but let’s look at why all this noise and spittle. Supposedly this is because of the Religious Freedom Act that was just signed out there. We are, I guess, supposed to ignore the fact that Connecticut has even more stringent laws in this regard than Indiana does. Yet he’s making a show of pointing a finger at Indiana. Are you getting the picture yet?
Oil: The American Interest says in part today…
Beijing lays claim to the world’s largest shale gas reserves and third-largest shale oil reserves. Yet, as countries like Poland,Lithuania, Romania, South Africa, and the UK are all learning, simply possessing the resource isn’t enough. The American energy renaissance has not come gift-wrapped; rather it has been a product of a great number of favorable factors and innovative efforts.
What they don’t say is that the other thing that the Americans have that nobody else does including all those listed, is a reliance on free enterprise which fosters the kind of innovative efforts and random favourable factors but they’re talking about here. In fact, it’s that history that caused out advances in oil exploration in spite of an administration band on stifling such exploration.
The more government gets involved, the less success such efforts have. If you doubt me, consider that China can’t frack , but then again either can New York State and for the same reason.
It’s heartbreaking to drive along the New York / Pennsylvania border, and see all of the jobs being created in Pennsylvania surrounding the oil industry. Jobs we could also be creating a New York State. These are good paying jobs. Jobs that New York desperately needs. But of course, Cuomo, being a wonderfully solid liberal, wants nothing to do with them.
Is Ted Cruz the best choice for president? I don’t know.
Is he better than what we’ve got? Undoubtedly.
Is he better than anything the establishment GOP has been coming up with? Without any question whatsoever in my mind.
If there’s one reason that I would like to see Ted Cruz in the White House it’s that it would allow for a direct A to B comparison of governing philosophies. Big government, vs constitutional conservatism.
Consider…They have similar pre-presidential experience, so the only markable difference between Obama and Cruz, other than of course their race, is the idea that whereas Obama came into office with the goal of making government cool again, Cruz knows that government isn’t the solution, it is in fact the problem. Now, if the economy takes off, and things get set to rights very quickly after the election of a Ted Cruz to the White House, it seems to me that the American people will have an explicit reason not to trust the Democrats ever again. Because the only difference between the two of them is going to be their governing philosophy. It’s my guess, that such an a/b comparison is the Liberals greatest fear about Ted Cruz. And for that matter, it’s probably the biggest fear amongst the establishment GOP as well.
To my mind that’s the biggest explanation for the similarity of response to candidates like Cruz.
And down the road I go. See you tomorrow.
From Taegan Goddard,Political Wire
Former New York Gov. George Pataki (R) is likely to run for president, Bloomberg reports.
Reax, Joseph Spector, Politics on the Hudson
There’s little home-state support for a presidential run for former Gov. George Pataki and current Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Quinnipiac University poll today said.
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On the Republican side in New York, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had 13 percent each, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 12 percent, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 10 percent and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 8 percent.
Pataki, who has said he’s contemplating a run and is traveling the country for a potential bid, got 6 percent in the poll. He was the Republican governor from 1995 through 2006.
The is not a single republican who holds state wide office in New York State. We have a chronic wannabee in the statehouse, Andrew “Mario, Jr.” Cuomo, a weasel for our senior senator, Charles Schumer, and a man hating bitch for junior senator, Kristen Gillebrand.
Pataki has been out of office for nine years. He had plenty to time to remove on these rats from state wide office, and was either unwilling or unable to do so. Pataki has shown he can’t get the job done in New York. He sure isn’t going to get chance to so impotent in Washington.
The bottom the limit for these women, from Andrea Denhoed, New York:
For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive might last around two minutes and take them as deep as ten metres underwater. Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster. A round flotation device called a tewak, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest. Some use a sharp tool to dig conch, abalone, and other creatures from the crevices on the seafloor.
Hat tip: Ann Althouse
I’ve started out this week, doing some local work while my truck gets a full service and some much needed repair. At the moment I’m sitting in a warehouse outside Geneva New York, looking at more canned vegetables than I’ve ever seen in my life.
This afternoon, I’ll go out on the road again.
I’m looking forward to that a little less than I might be otherwise, because my wife is home with some kind of flu bug, and my mom was in the hospital over the weekend, for observation.
Nothing serious, in either case. But, it’s made me attend to the idea that I’m kind of helpless to help those I love when I’m out earning a living. Welcome to my world.
At some point in the distant future someday someone somewhere maybe able to explain to me why it is that are press is fixated on the idea of the copilot of that Germanwings plane was clinically depressed as opposed to the fact that he was associated with a radical Mosque.
Maybe. But I doubt it.
I tuned up on Tom Sullivans Show from Fox News Radio the other day, and he spent significant time examining the depression angle. Never once did I hear him mention Islam. Never once did I hear him mention that the mosque that he was associated with had been closed down at least once by the government there. Not once.
I mean, come on. Priorities, people. Depression is not the enemy.
This is not to say that clinical depression isn’t a serious problem. Of course it is. But it’s not the problem in this case I don’t believe. It seems to me that this is a cover for something to read our governments, both United States and Germany, don’t want to discuss. And certainly the press isn’t interested in it.
Its to the point now where the meme drilled into our heads since the middle of the Bush administration that Islam is a religion of peace, and that terrorism couldn’t be the result of Islam, but of some other socioeconomic or mental health factor has taken over even ostensibly fact-based places like Fox. It’s nothing short of disgusting, and more than a little frightening. When we can’t even speak the truth in terms of enemy identification, what chance have we of defeating it?
Yes and No. I know John Anderson can be a pain in the ass at times, but I find his replacement in Yes to be offensive. Whatever else he might be, Anderson has always been at the center of that group. Whatever personal were behind the front man, Anderson was always the front man. He has been the one constant in all the projects under that name. For the band to be going on without him, doesn’t seem fitting somehow.
And, yes I know I said the same thing a few years ago when Lou Gramm got the axe. The thing is, that in both those cases it was the combination the meshing of the gears that made the whole thing interesting. Remove one of those elements, and the magic is gone. The magic smoke has escaped. Proficient musicians? Proficient vocalist? If that’s the measure, the replacement was a success. If on the other hand the goal was to continue in the same old, both those have been object failures. Sorry, what it is.
I see where Rush Limbaugh and his comments of Harry Reid getting beat up over something or another, are starting to gain some traction. I think it ought to be fairly said that a number of people including myself suggested that scenario back on January the first when this story of Reid’s first hit the papers.
Along comes by Byron York this morning who has added some pieces to the puzzle.
In 1998, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid paid $400,000 for two pieces of residential land outside Las Vegas. It was a complicated deal. Reid secretly transferred ownership of the property to a company set up by his friend and lawyer Jay Brown, who then convinced the local government to re-zone the land for commercial development. In 2004, Brown sold it to a group of developers and Reid walked away with $1.1 million.
“The complex dealings allowed Reid to transfer ownership, legal liability and some tax consequences to Brown’s company without public knowledge, but still collect a seven-figure payoff nearly three years later,” the Associated Press reported in 2006. “Reid hung up the phone when questioned about the deal during an AP interview.”
It was a classic Harry Reid transaction: legal but a little shady, and undoubtedly lucrative. Business deals like that allowed Reid to do very well during his years in the Senate, spent of late in a luxury condominium in Washington’s Ritz Carlton.
When you play those kind of games, particularly in the position that read found himself in politically, it’s got to wash back up on you. Particularly when you’ve got players like Obama and the Clintons involved. And yes, I know what I’m implying there. Let’s face it, you wouldn’t put it past either one of them, either.
This has become the new norm in Washington, and for that matter state capitals around the country of late. So amazing the changes that can happen in 6 years, isn’t it? And of course, all of this is under the guise of fighting for the working family.
Yeah, riiiiight.
If there’s anything that trips my trigger about him, it is the phony soldier business where in Reid got the whole of the Democrats in the Senate to sign off on a letter to the then Clear Channel program director, threatening Clear Channel with action against it’s “regulated properties” if they didn’t silence Limbaugh on the matter. First Amendment be damned, I suppose. Of course, Limbaugh was right, that McBeth was in fact a phony soldier, never having served today in uniform as a soldier, never having made it past basic training.
The silence from the Democrat was deafening.
That cast the die, for me. Of course, that whole scenario is of a kind with Bergdhal and a few other like incidents. It’s also the kind with the Democrat screaming about how Chris Kyle, was a coward.
From my viewpoint that infidelity should not go on challenged, and frankly it’s been party wide these last couple of decades. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when I see the traitor John Kerry as Secretary of State when he should have been at the end of the rope.
As for Reid, he got about a quarter of what he deserved. The sad part is, we’ll never know who to thank.
And down the road I go. See you tomorrow.
The Snark of the Day, from Adriana Cohen, Boston Herald:
Hillary Clinton is a public servant, not a queen. Perhaps she deleted the memo.
Hat tip: Lucianne.
I’m at College Point, Queens New York this morning. I’m delivering a load of Gatorade to the local Pepsi distribution center. Extremely narrow streets around this place, and as a result I’ve never come in here where I haven’t done some very serious side walk driving. That’s an accomplishment with a big rig.
I have to tell you, in all honesty that I have never had a more intense driving experience then coming into New York. Understand, I’ve lived in Rochester all my life. I’ve driven in just about every state in the Union, most of it in a big rig. The funny part is, I in all that time had never been to New York City.
Yes, I know, for most of you the conception is that if you live in New York State, you are quite familiar with New York City. What you need to understand is that Rochester is some 400 miles from New York City. And until such time as I picked up this job, I never had a reason to go to New York.
So it was that my first experience with new york city was pilot ing a 53 foot trailer down the BQE. And let me tell you, there is nothing on the face of this planet that will cure a case of constipation faster than driving a 13 6 truck under a bridge that’s marked 12:2 that happens to be a national monument. Those familiar with New York will understand that I’m talking about the Brooklyn Bridge.
New York you see has a habit of marking bridges in a manner that is unlike any place else in the country. Its a guessing game by which standard they are marking such bridges anymore. So if you haven’t been down a particular road before you really have to watch what you’re doing.
I finally did figure out the formula though. And it’s a rather simple one. If you’re not sure of the route, park yourself behind another 13 6 truck. Do what he does. If he makes it under the bridge, the chances are you will too. If he doesn’t like it, chances are you’ll be entertained for about an hour and a half. Either way you’ll remain on unhurt.
From here, I will likely run down to South Jersey to pick up another inbound load, though I don’t know. It sounds like things are changing on the itineraries. after awhile you pick things up and I understand the feel of things. I don’t know how to describe it better than that, but anyone who’s worked at a job for any length of time will know what I mean. Welcome to my world.
I see where Obama’s budget proposal got knocked 98-2. Okay, maybe presidential budgets being turned down is not an unusual occurrence. Most of them don’t make it past square one. But, 98 and one? That’s not going to buff out.
I see also where the evidence points to the German plane crash the other day being deliberately caused by the co-pilot.
The moment I heard that news, I knew what had happened. Islam again. Mere hours later this story came out, and I was unfortunately proven correct. The co-pilot it seems was a recent conversion to Islam.
I suggested here on BitsBlog, when the policy makers first came up with the idea of making the cockpit inaccessible during flight, made the assumption that those in the cockpit are trustworthy. We’ve seen several times where that’s a questionable assumption, and in this case it proved the fatal one.
Back in 06, I wrote a piece that attempted to address the issue of governmental corruption. The lead into the article, though, is I think equally applicable here. You’ll see what I’m driving at in a minute.
One of the biggest problems I have in my garden is keeping the squirrels out of my bird feeder. The tehnological war between us and the squirells has gone to insane levels. But, nothing we do keeps them out; eventually, they figure a way around the security systems in place to get at the food. Eventually, I just took down the bird feeder. Darned rodents, anyway.
Even in the human world, security experts will tell you that there is no security system on the face of this planet, that cannot be broken down and bypassed by a determined criminal, no matter how high a wall you put up, no matter how many safeguards you put in place. If somebody’s determined to get by them, they will. Systemic answers to security simply do not work, in the end.
The kind of situation we see in this German wings thing, is precisely what I’m worried about when I say there is only one enemy. Islam.
Any open society, depends on a certain level of trust existing, or there is no openness. The copilot was trusted based on his activities and his attitudes prior to his recent conversion to Islam. It’s the recent conversions that are the most dangerous, because they are the most easily manipulated.
So the question becomes now, how do we defend against this? Is there a way without hanging Muslims on sight, to deal with the problem?
Unless we can change our cockamamie gun laws, and permit concealed carry without license, I honestly don’t see how we can fight this.
Further, this event provides further proof that Iran, being driven by the same philosophies that the copilot was, cannot be trusted with any weapon above the size of a lady finger. Even assuming that some mastermind within the world of Islam didn’t program this copilot to do what he did, it raises the question of assorted crazies acting independently should Iran ever get a hold of atomic weaponry.
Understand, the nation of Iraq are not our enemy, not at least of any consequence. It’s the philosophy that is our enemy. It operates above and beyond the level of national borders. That’s precisely why I found the argument that Bush attacked the wrong country back in the day to be so incredible. This isn’t about countries, this isn’t about national borders. I honestly don’t think we can win if we don’t change the game. We can’t win this war fighting by our rules. It’s not going to happen. There has to be a game changer.
In any event, but it would seem that Germany has now had its 9/11. It will be interesting to see how they react. I wonder if it will prompt the rules being changed. Frankly, I hope so.
Breaking, Dirty Harry Reid can not see way to re-election, announces retirement, from Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:
“I want to be able to go out at the top of my game,” Harry Reid told the New York Times’ Carl Hulse in announcing his retirement. The former Senate Majority Leader, forced to the minority for the first time in eight years, has had enough. Facing a tough re-election bid next year while still recuperating from a bad accident at home, Reid will instead stand down:
Sorry Dirty Harry, it is too late to leave at the top of your game. It does appear that Harry did get the message from the thugs who wanted him gone. Do Daffy Dicky Durbin, or Chuckles Schumer have an alibi?
A Bowe Bergdahl, and Barack Obama, take from north of the border, video:
All very sad.
Addendum: south of the border commentary, video:
Still sad.
Change the victim and the left stream media has an all new perspective. If liberals but were consistent they would condemn California Attorney General Kamala Harris for being pro-rape. Alas.
From Sacramento Bee:
California Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a court Wednesday to intervene and allow her to block an incendiary planned ballot measure authorizing the killing of gays and lesbians.
Calling the proposed “Sodomite Suppression Act” patently unconstitutional and utterly reprehensible, Harris filed a request with the Superior Court in Sacramento seeking to be relieved of her ministerial duty to prepare a title and summary for the measure before it advances to the signature-gathering stage. Harris argues that readying it for circulation would waste state resources, generate unnecessary divisions and mislead the public.
The SSA, as I will call it, seeks to protect the public from unwanted sexual assault from an identified population. The SSA seeks to punish anybody who “who touches another person of the same gender for sexual gratification” and to impose such punishment without due process.
Yet punishing a particular population from unwanted touching is precisely the goal of the regime’s war on sexual assault. Of course the regime gathered data on sexual assault, then called it rape.
From Ashe Schow, Washington Examiner:
Salon (because of course) has published an article titled “Fraternities plan to lobby Congress to prevent campus rape investigations.” The website’s Twitter account called the fraternities a “rape lobby.”
The article claims that the lobbying group, FratPAC, is trying to “make it more difficult for colleges and universities to investigate sexual assault allegations.”
The inference, of course, is that fraternities are trying to make it easier to rape.
Except in the case of the regime, they are waging the war on men.
Harris condemned the SSA for promoting vigilante justice. Yet the regime’s Department of Justice promoted vigilante justice by encouraging mandating colleges impose punishment on guilty accused males rather using the existing criminal justice system.
I’ve been asked if I write all these things out by hand on my laptop. The truth is, no I don’t.
First of all, because I don’t have the time, generally. But, and more importantly, I tend to have ideas at strange times for things that I ought to be writing. So what I do is I dictate into my phone, and then go back later and touch it up some. It usually needs some substantial correction, and sometimes I even think better of things that I say, or a better way of saying them . So, it gives me a chance to refine what I write here.
Yes, that means that I’m editing the whole blessed thing on a smartphone. I guess that’s not so unusual anymore, but when I started writing this blog years ago, I could never have envisioned making entries this way, and certainly not from the road.
For you to understand the time constraints involved, understand that I am driving 11 hours per day and usually on duty for 14 hours a day. You know that eight hour period that you call your job? I call that my sleep period. And that might come at any hour of the day or night. So in a toss up between getting some sack time and writing these Nightly Rambles, guess which one is going to win out?
Usually, the rewriting process only takes about 20 minutes a pop. so it’s not as bad as it seems. Still, I tend to make my money in the time margins. Now you understand that part of it.
My intention in these Rambles is to each day give you a little taste of life on the road, as well as some observations on what I see going on around us.
These posts are not intended to be for the devotees of “short attention span theater”. Some days they’ll be longer than others. That’s driven largely by what I happen to notice around us.
I also want you to understand this… This is not only why I write these rambles, it’s why I started this website in the first place. You’d better hold on to something.
I make no apologies for what I say, here, I make no apologies for the positions I take. As such, and I’ll make this perfectly clear to you. I say it’s time for the GOP establishment to be replaced by somebody that will actually fight for the Constitution. I totally reject the GOP establishment. The Rockefeller Republicans. The RINOs.The people who are too busy going along to get along to actually uphold their oath of office. I’m done with them. No more Bushes, no more Romney’s, no more John Boehners, no more John McCain’s, no more Chris Christies, it’s time for conservatives. Constitutional conservatives. No more compromise. None. If they say something right, if they act correctly, they will have my support to that extent. And that goes for anybody. If they are not correct they will not have my support. Nor should they yours. They either act as conservatives or they don’t belong in office.
If you think that sounds harsh, consider the idea of the compromise is exactly how we got to where we are. If you want to reverse that situation and get us back on the track that the founders put us on, then we have to stop compromising our principles with those who would move us away from them.
I will not back off, I will not sit down, I will not shut up. I will not moderate my views. Too much depends on my speaking my mind as I see it. I’m going to ask you to hold to that as well.
The fact is, we the Conservatives are the majority. The majority of the people in this country are far more conservative than anything that either party has coughed up since Reagan. That’s why the voting numbers year over year as a percentage of the overall eligible voting public, have been dropping off. Its to the point now, or nobody votes because there’s nobody to vote for. Literally our future is being decided by a vocal leftist minority I’m about 35 percent of the public. This has to change. The first step, of course, is getting actual conservatives through the nomination process that’s always been rigged against us. We have a chance this time around to turn this country around and put it back on the path that our founders intended. & I intend to fight to the last to see it done. I ask you to join me.
If you have problems with that you can find someplace else to read, it matters not a whit to me. All I can promise you is that I’ll try to keep it from being boring. Let me know what you think of these by the way in private messaging or via email.
Other matters…
I wrote yesterday, how strident the opposition to genuine conservatism has become from both the GOP establishment and the Democrats, who frankly have become totally indistinguishable , one from the other. For my money there is no dimes worth the difference between Peter King and whoever the Democrat run against him in the next cycle.
When both groups get this shrill, this far out from the main race, it’s a sure sign that even they know they are in serious and probably terminal trouble.
I urge my fellow conservatives to hold the course. Keep their feet in the fire. Do not back off, do not apologize, do not moderate your views to accommodate the left. That’s how we ended up with the Rockefeller establishment Republicans being in charge of our party. It’s time for that to end.
I see that moron Bergdahl is being court martialed. As he should. You might want to give yourself a little background here.
I’ve been saying since they traded for the sleaze bag, now that this whole thing stinks, and there’s a lot more going on that we’re not being told. One thing that’s never been adequately explained is why our community organizer in chief, along with the rest of the Democrats, gave the traitor a hero’s welcome. As Billy Beck says yesterday, if Obama were an enemy agent, how would he act any differently at all?
Life in prison is too good for either one.
And for the same reasons.
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.
