Damn. I'm heading for a Safe Space.

Shots fired at Yankee Pier at SFO.

Getting a bite before my flight to IAD...
A couple guys sit at the counter with me, start to place their orders...
Ancient Asian Waitress: "Watchoo want drink?"
Guy1: "Water and coffee- black."
Guy2 (to Guy1) : "So... Hot, bitter and resentful?"
-short expectant pause-
TBG: "Wow. Check please!"

TBG- [Exit- Pursued by an elephant seal]

Please define "Safer Communities" for me?

From our "AYFKM?" File:

It seems the Obama Administration has been digging into the DEA's evidence locker and taking the tainted acid tabs again. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will be taking new actions to facilitate the re-entry of former prisoners into society, President Obama announced in a video released Saturday.

The DOJ is focusing specifically on building up "strong re-entry programs" and showing how they can "make communities safer," according to the president.

I guess Obama has a bizarre idea of how to make safe communities.
Perhaps he can employ some of his released prisoners on his Secret Service detail if they are so good at safety and security efforts....

And regarding releasing 600,000 prisoners into the mainstream every year:

"It's about making sure that we live up to our ideals as a nation."

I'm really tired of getting lectured to about American Ideals and "That's not who we are."

TBG -[Exit - pursued by a badger]

Flirting & Sexual Harassment - Definitions Please

In the local news, on of the Big Bash cricket players was twigged for an interview with a local SportsNewsHottie...

“I wanted to come and have an interview with you as well.
That’s the reason why I’m here, just to see your eyes for the first time. It’s nice so. Hopefully we can win this game and have a drink after. Don’t blush, baby.”

She recovered, got the interview back on track and aside from from snickering from the other commentators, but it wasn't any near as bad as Joe Namath and his drunken hitting on Suzy Kolber in 2003...
Granted- live TV and all that. So his timing was off. BFHD.

Obviously, all the blue hairs and feminists got their knickers in a bunch regarding this...
But geez- that's pretty tame, all things considered.
He apologized, she accepted - then the PC Police went crazy- he got fined $10,000AUD
(What's that- $25 USD?)  and they are talking suspension/firing.
For telling her she was cute and asking her out for drink?
Please.
All things being equal, if you look at female Aussie Talking Heads, every damned one is a looker. They don't hire the 5s, only 8-10s. So- to be sure they are hired for their (sex) appeal. [The male ATH? I am not qualified to judge such things...] But in as much as they are hired with such an attribute, what the fck do they expect?

Cpould someone PLEASE draw the line where banter / harmless flirting and normal male-female interactions become sexual harassment and become harmful?



TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

CNN Overload & Streetfood!

I'm in the Operations office in the Hotel in Meh-He-Co City and the level of people in the office varies between zero and 30.
Most of the time it's around 6 or 8.

I'm sitting in the front of the room, which is arranged 'classroom' style, so everyone behind me is looking over my shoulder, which can be a little disturbing, mostly for them when I'm shopping on Brownells.com or LAPoliceGear.com, or when I'm surfing DrudgeReport.com.
(As a rule, these are mostly New Yorkers or New Jersey residents that are here for the event.)

Anyway, I try to keep most of the stuff that would require a trigger warning for a Yankee hoplophobic, entitled-class climate alarmist to a minimum on my screen.

Meanwhile, on a 70" flatscreen in the front of the room, CNN International is playing constantly.
(Because it is one of the few channels in Ingles on the hotel's 35-channel network... The other 2 are Fox News [not gonna happen with this crowd] and SuperMax [a channel playing latenight Cinemax movies, including softcore 24/7])
The local sportschannel is ESPN Deportes, and it seems like they want to watch the 36 minute CNN repeating cycle featuring Anderson Cooper, Christine Amanpour and the staff of dozens that cover the news for Ted Turners bastard child than having to listen to soccer recaps in high-speed Español.

So Yours Truly is stuck in front of this non-stop drivel, consisting mostly of US commentators kissing Obama's ass, lionizing Granny Clinton, and trying to scandalize or at least trivialize the conservative 2016 candidates for President. Shit-tons of coverage on Paris climate talks ("The US owes all 3rd world nations reparations! ZOMG- The Marshall Shoals Islands are going under!!), Japanese whale hunts, and the one that just boggles my mind- climate change is the reason for ISIS and the Paris attacks.
When they start in on that feature, my brain completely shuts down due to the complete stupidity of the concept. These people have gone over the edge in the cause/effect analysis.
As a matter of fact, climate change is the cause of all ills in the world...

Donald Trump? - Climate change.
Colorado PP shooting? - Climate change.
Clinton e-mail scandal? - Climate change.
China investor group buys into Manchester U FC? - Climate change.
Russian Jetliner shootdown over Turkey? - Climate change.
Cleveland Browns lost to the Ravens? - Climate change.
Michael Brown/Eric Gardner/Freddy Gray? - Climate change.
Slow Internet? - Climate change.
Burned your Thanksgiving turkey? - Climate change.
World War II? - Climate change.
.22 LR Ammo shortage? - Climate change.

Just a couple days to go...
I can get through it...
Mostly by looking forward to my nightly forays into the dark neighborhood streets behind the St. Regis, in search of Mexican street meat and michelada.



Mmmm Al pastor and onions on the Plancha



Al pastor con queso on the way...



Yeah, that's not a tennis shoe... That's lengua, beef tongue...

I'll stick with the giant Cone o' Meat-

All hail Al Pastor!

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

I Just Can't Even

Obama: "These mass shootings just don't happen in other countries."
(Spoken at a podium in Paris, where 189 people were just killed.)
The man is completely clueless and unaware.

Cue up the calls for gun confiscations from all people who aren't felons, drug addicts, mentally ill, or otherwise prohibited...


But first-
What's that battle cry from the Left when an Islamic radical goes on rampage?

Oh yeah:
"This sort of thinking — blaming an entire group for the actions of a few individuals, assuming the worst about a person just because of their identity — is the very definition of bigotry."
From Vox...here.

Moron.


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Pandering Of The Worst Kind

-or-
How fixing a 'problem' for appeasement can bite you in the ass.

Isinglass

    [ahy-zuh n-glas, -glahs, ahy-zing-]
    noun
    1. a pure, transparent or translucent form of gelatin, obtained from the  air bladders of certain fish, especially the sturgeon: used in glue and jellies and as a clarifying agent. 

 Because 'isinglass' sounds better than 'fish guts'.

So-



Guinness has folded to pressure from the vegan crowd and changed their process to make their product adhere to vegan conditions.
Specifically, taking isinglass out of the filtration process as part of the finishing of their magnificent brew.
Read here.

Really- you are changing a 256-year-old process because 1700 social justice warriors signed an on-line petition?
I wonder if they ever had a chat about or researched what happened with New Coke?
Cause that worked out so well...
Morons.

Can't wait to see how this plays out...


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Trigger Warning: Work

This is a political post. Those easily offended by insinuations of laziness or entitlements by a particular class, culture or political party should go visit Disney.com or some such other site. Kthxbai.

Ok, where was I... Oh yeah.

Why is it that the Left/Progressives/Democrats only want to talk about 'work' in only a very limited form?
To wit:
Work- The Republicans and Democrats should work together to make progress on initiatives favored by the Left.
Work- The effort performed by (usually) conservative that generates wages that are taxed in order to pay for freebies, social welfare programs, Obamaphones, and undeserved Obamacare subsidies for  entitled Leftists.
Work- the effort expended by Left - leaning politicians to develop programs to wring more and more tax dollars out of productive citizens in order to give money,  goods, services, and health/education to Illegal Immigrants, chronically unemployed, and other societal parasites.

Tell an Entitled leech that he needs to put in 20 hours of Community Service work to qualify for SNAP and you'll hear the broken falsetto voice of Maynard G Krebs - "WORK!?  Forget that. My baby - momma gets plenty on the SNAP/WIC/nameoffavoritesocialprogramhere".
FTMF

Notes From Vacationland

Been on a little family vacation in Nosebleed, Montana...

I've been keeping notes since liveblogging is impossible in the land of moose, bears, elk and non-existent WiFi.

I have a few things to share- starting on the trip out here...

(From Sunday AM Flight)

On the flight from MCO to ORD,
I have the Weather Channel on the in-flight entertainment system...
They are ginning up all the enthusiasm they can muster for a very marginal tropical storm (Guillermo) in the Pacific...

You know, it's got to be killing them that they don't have a Cat-4 or 5 storm so far in the 2015 hurricane season.
(Considering that they have way overestimated the number of Cat3+ storms the past few years  this is quite an embarrassment for them.)

Sadly (for them) all they can doomshout about is the "record-breaking heat" and the probable effects on the Arctic icecap.

Of course, when  a Climate Denier mentions record cold or consecutive below - zero calendar weeks, he is admonished that "current weather is NOT 'climate'", and not to mistake months of record breaking cold over large areas as any kind of indicator of climate trend...

=============================

There are 2 flies buzzing around the cabin of this aircraft.
They will have quite the story to tell their new fly friends on arrival in Chicago...

ChiFly: "Hey. You're new around this shithole. Where are you from?"
FlaFly: "Hi. I'm from Florida."
ChiFly: "Wow. How'd you get here?"
FlaFly: "I flew, of course."
ChiFly: "Damn. Respect."

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Immoral Imperative - It Must Be Blogged Immediately

We are in lovely Pennsylvania - just outside Lancaster for the US Women's Open.

This place is just teeming with Mennonites and Amish.

Throwing a bunch of our guys into this kind of environment is just asking for trouble, since some of our folks don't have filters, or at least don't use them, while talking/interacting in public...

Case in point...
Just to the east of Lancaster is a place named (to the delight of snickering schoolboys everywhere) Intercourse PA.


 Of course, this becomes a topic of conversation at lunch-

Uncouth Guy1 "Intercourse? Why the fuck would they name the place that? Ha!"
Uncouth Guy2 "I wonder if all the stores & streets are as inappropriately named?"
UG1: "Edith's House of Sex Toys and Apple Butter!"
UG2: "At the corner of Rusty Trombone and Angry Dragon?"
UG1: "Yeah- right next to Dirty Sanchez Plumbing Supply."

Gah.
This is why we can't go anywhere nice.


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - Part X - Finally finished! Ooh rah!

"My State" by a Local


Best gun laws in the US.


A/k/a Starbucks.


Cheese and Labor Unions


West, by God...


I hear Kansas is nice and flat...

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - #9...#9...#9...

"My State" by a Local





...Jack Daniels for Governor!


Don't mess...well, you know the rest...





(Old Money and political corruption will do that for you.)

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - - #8 in the Collection.

"My State" by a Local


Oklahoma IS OK


...and rain.


Fuck Interstate 76.







TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - #7 in the series.

"My State" by a Local


"What exit?"








"It only seems like a shithole because of most of New Jersey works here."


'Hi' in the middle and round on both ends.

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - #6

"My State" by a Local


'Freak Bear Accident' is the name of a local band in Bozeman.


Next stop- the Bronze Age


Minot, why not?


Everyone gets their Federal agricultural subsidy check subscription along with their birth certificate. (But you can trade it in for a meth lab operator's license)




TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - #5

"My State" by a Local


Horror stories and lobsters. (And the seafood isn't too bad either.)


Welcome to Detroit - 4 Bedroom houses for $3,000. Bring your own AR15 modern sporting rifle.


Being a Vikings fan means never having to say 'I'm sorry'.


Show me.


I love Mississippi- it means I'm almost to New Orleans.


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - #4 in the Series

"My State" by a Local





But their jelly is awful on toast.


Low gas prices=worst roads in the US.


Everyone commits 5 felonies a day.


...Or confiscate it.



TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States- #3 in the Collection

"My State" by a Local


Home of falsified birth certificates and dope-smoking Presidents.


Not sure of where this is.





"Other Stuff" =  World-class political corruption and organized crime


So untrue. They have St. Elmo's and the Broad Ripple Brewpub...



TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The States - #2 in a Series

"My State" by a Local

Hey, you're the ones who legalized dope. I have no sympathy for you.


Yeah- I would want to get too far from my guns either.


Two words: Joe Biden


And the further south you go, the further north you are. Welcome to Dade-Broward, the 6th Borough of NYC.


The truth doesn't always have to hurt...

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE