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The five stages of blogging strike again...

Hanging out in Messico City doing IT support, basically a warm-up for next month in Sydney and I am doing way too much reading on my right-leaning RSS feeds.

I spent a good bit of the morning writing up a screed on Immigration and the battle for America, with a nice smattering of Doomsday shouting at the end.

I saved it off and went to lunch, then looked at it again a few hours later.

Ooooh that stinks. And of so very borderline racist. The razor's edge...

I'm going to cut out the inflammatory rhetoric and just leave a couple quotes and part of the doomshouting...
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Thoughtful quote regarding Immigration:

“Now, just to understand better what's going on, let's imagine the shoe on the other foot.
Let's imagine that hundreds of thousands of badly-educated Americans, white Americans, were pouring across the border into Mexico.
And let's imagine that they were insisting on instruction in school in English rather than Spanish. Let's imagine they were asking for ballot papers in English rather than Spanish, they were celebrating Fourth of July rather than Cinco de Mayo, buying up newspapers, publishing in English, television stations, radios, all publishing and broadcasting in English, and that there were so many of them coming in that they threatened to reduce Mexicans to minority.
Do you think the Mexicans could possibly be tricked into thinking that this was enrichment, this was diversity, that this was great?
No.
No. They wouldn’t stand for it for a moment.
This would be to them an impossible unacceptable invasion of their country. And you would find the same reaction in any non-white country anywhere in the world.
Can you imagine, say, the Japanese or the Nigerians, the Pakistanis, the Costa Ricans accepting this kind of wholesale demographic change that would change their country, transform their country, and reduce them to a minority?
No.
These things are impossible to imagine.”
- Jared Taylor

Truth.

The next part was basically a "What Me Worry?" paragraph to lighten the mood after I went off on the state of Immigration in the US:

Neil DeGrasse Tyson says we are screwed anyway...

"On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup, will fly so close to Earth, that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, it's named Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.
If the trajectory of Apophis at close approach passes within a narrow range of altitudes called the 'keyhole,' the precise influence of Earth's gravity on its orbit will guarantee that seven years later in 2036, on its next time around, the asteroid will hit Earth directly, slamming in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The tsunami it creates will wipe out the entire west coast of North America, bury Hawaii, and devastate all the land masses of the Pacific Rim. If Apophis misses the keyhole in 2029, then, of course, we have nothing to worry about in 2036"- NDG - Space Chronicles - Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Apophis is a huge cosmic question mark, since a shit-ton of elements will still affect it's trajectory... There's questions on it's shape, center-of-mass, spin characteristics, and a bunch of other outside influences that could affect the event.

Wonder what it would be like if the rock splashes down?
Read Larry Niven's Lucifer's Hammer... Great book on life after a meteor impact.

For more info on Apophis, have a peek at NASA's Near Earth Object Program's notes on Apophis and their much-watered-down predictions, including a date change from Friday the 13th, to Easter Sunday, 2029, read here.
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There.
Consider yourselves lucky that I thought better of subjecting you to the original
load of horseshit... You dodged a bullet.

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Complaints

Hey, you with the hair-trigger email complaint-

99.825% of the content on this website is MY personal experience or opinion...
If you are mentioned here, it's probably because you and I had some sort of interaction.
If you have issues regarding HOW you are portrayed in this narrative- well, that's in your power to control.
If you want me to write nice things about you, you should behave better.

If you have issues with the content here at Listen 2 Uncle Jay or how you are portrayed in articles herein, you might want to pay a visit our complaint department...
Helen Waite used to run the place, but we have farmed out that service to a local legal firm to be sure we fulfill any legal obligations to out readers...
If you have questions regarding deliverables or should have complaints, please contact the legal firm of Phuckov and Dye, you'll find 'em in the yellow pages.


TBG - - BLΟ ΛΛE, Asshat

Kübler-Ross Would Be Appalled - The Five Stages of Blogging

5 stages- I haz it.
Especially after re-reading that last post. Gah.
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Denial
Upon seeing or experiencing some inanity or stupidity, the thought of "I cannot believe the AssHattery I am seeing here."

Anger
"This shit is so FUBAR I must blog about it! To the Keyboard!"

Bargaining
After several hundred keystrokes, a handful of Google searches, a wiki-wander or three, missing out on going to lunch with the new receptionist, and a deadline looming for getting that new contract done and submitted- you make promises:
"Just 2 more paragraphs. And a link to that picture on fark.com...
Then I'll get back to that proposal."

Depression
On first proofread:
"What the f... Did a third grader write this?
Nope- A third grader would have done a batter job.
Why do I even try? No one reads this shit anyway. Tam probably wrote about this weeks ago and probably did the job 10 times better."

Acceptance
Fuck it. (presses send)
Like I said- no one reads my shit anyway.
Who gives a shit. At least it's free ice cream.


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Tired of Your Bullshit, Asshat. (Australia Gun Control Edition)

A long-time friend and dis-honorary guest member of the ODMQD Breakfast Club, is a staunch repeal-the-second-amendment, Gunz-R-Bad, dope-smoking, granola munching, NYC/LA wannabe, and as such, we just let him babble on and pretty much ignore his crap...
He usually confines himself to basic inanities about how guns should be outlawed, then just collected up like in Australia and all will be right with the world.
Seems a lot of politicians (Obama included) would embrace the Australian model...
Unfortunately, they only hear anecdotal evidence, not hard facts-
(Like that famous '97%' of scientists that feel the science is settled about Anthropological Global Change [obvious horseshit - read HERE], and that 40% of guns are sold without background checks. [Again- Bullshit - Here.)

So Skippy (an obvious nom de idiot, since I don't want to embarrass him too badly) is going on and on about USA shootings in Virginia, Charleston, Aurora, ad infinitum and speaking in glowing terms about Australia, and I just want to smack him in the head and remind him about the Lindt cafe incident last December...

I keep hearing all about how the Australia mandatory gun buy-back confiscation program is just the model we should embrace...Mostly because Obama said so on a podcast with a bullshit moron unfunny soi-disant 'comedian'. (I'm not going to link to it- fuck 'em. You want to read it, GIMF.)

It was soooooo effective...
They got about 1/3 of the outlawed weapons, so in the US it might be about 100 million of the 300+ million guns. And if history is any indicator, US gun owners will not go quietly into that good night. (I do hope that my man Skippy, Bloomberg, Pelosi, Obama, Feinstein, and Sarah Brady are the people going door-to-door to ask people for their guns.)
Interestingly, if somehow, you get a special dispensation to have a gun in Australia, the ploice can come at any time and search your house and property without any kind of a warrant. Is that REALLY what people want?

People think gun crime is non-existent in Australia...
Think again.

Exercise a little Google-fu:
Here, I 'll even help you out. (Gotta be specific about what KIND of shooting or you'll get basketball results for Woollarra and Bundaburg...)

Brisbane
Melbourne
Sydney

How's about these apples for 2014:


Is Australia staring down the barrel of a gun crisis? (news.com.au)

* There have been 39 people shot in Sydney (in 2014), most related to an ongoing bikie war.
* Conservative estimates say there are more than a quarter-of-a-million illegal firearms in Australia.
* Gun ownership in Australia is back at pre-Port Arthur massacre levels.
* Carrying a gun is becoming more common and ingrained in outlaw culture.
* Gun amnesties barely put a dent in the number of weapons.
* Innocent people are being caught up in gun battles.
* There has been a steady increase in gun-related crimes over the past seven years.

Sydney gun crime: city suffers three shootings in three hours

Sydney home invasions and drive-by shootings whitewashed by NSW Police

Look, Oz isn't the gun-free utopia that Obama, Bloomberg and the rest of the anti-gun proponents believe it to be. Firearm-related incidents don't get the airplay on the US MSM because it doesn't fit the narrative...

Back to Skippy for a minute-
His position is the need to implement the Aussie-style Draconian measures, force a buy-back on a national level, then after the results are sofa-king ridiculously poor, then go door to door to get the rest of the 200 million firearms that possession was, until this little imaginary exercise, a God-give and constitutionally protected right. And he thinks that's doable.

But, on another note, he doesn't believe rounding up the 11 million (more like 20 million, amirite?) illegal aliens (you fuckin'-a right I said it - ILLEGAL. ALIEN.) is remotely possible. We shouldn't even try.
I really don't think he know what a really motivated gun-owning, 2A proponent is capable of, and prepared to do... Because when push comes to knock-knock-give-me-your-guns, I have a feeling Joe USCitizen will not go all round-heel like the Sheilas Down Under.

Gah- I am surrounded by morons.

- Or... Wait. Is it just me?
A fictional Deputy Marshall, Raylan Givens (more on him in a later post) had some great writers doing his dialog from the TV show Justified on Fox.
He once opined:
"...you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
Lots of truth there, it seems.

I'm going to have to rethink my whole personality evaluation paradigm.
Seems like there are some inconsistencies in it...

(Shit- This post wandered quite a bit... Sorry for the digressions.)

tl:dr  Hey Skippy: Fuck off and die in a fire.


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The Czar Will Set Your Mind Right...

The Czar reminds you to get pissed about the right things over at the Gormogons:

So if you want to be outraged because ISIS destroyed a beautiful piece of architecture, have at at. But be outraged at everything else, too, and push to do something about it.
Because we can always rebuild a ruin and say “this is what it looked like,” but we can’t undo the murder of thousands.

Fuckin'-A right Johnny.

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Still in Montana...

(Montana manatee in Swiftcurrent Lake, near Many Glacier in Glacier NP)

Friendly Advice*:
Don't taunt the moose.
Don't feed the moose.
Don't get near the moose.

They look like doofy horses, but they're bad-tempered, weighty, and strong.
If you want to simulate the after effects of a moose attack, hoist a pallet of cinder blocks two stories up, then drop it on your chest.

Just because it won't eat you afterwards, it doesn't mean it won't kill you.




A Møøse once bit my sister.
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse...

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
*Really true this time. Not kidding.

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

OMD Needs A Motorcycle

However delightful this activity may be,
Old Money Dog will bite you if you blow in his face...
(Hint: You may need a breath mint.)

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

OMD - Dining Alfresco

Old Money Dog is going out to eat tonight...




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

OMD - Slander!

Old Money Dog will not put up with such an affront!



TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Vaccines & Autism

It's about time you morons get the actual facts on how vaccines cause autism.

Click the link for the facts.

HOWDOVACCINESCAUSEAUTISM.COM

You're welcome.

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Truth - The Retro Look

The Collective over at Castle G retweeted a good one last night...

(You ARE familiar with the boys at G, yes? If not, here's the Guide)



The tweet in question:

I had never noticed before tonight that Katy Perry looks like she should be painted on the side of a WW2 plane. She's old school hot.
— Kelly (@flyoverangel) February 2, 2015

Yeah buddy-
Between her and Christina Aguilera, I like this trend in bringing back the 40's-Style pin-up girls.



Gwen Stefani of No Doubt is pulling her weight too, however miniscule that is...



I would love to hang any one of these girls on a wall in my office.

Hell, I'd even settle for hanging a picture of one of them on the wall of the office...


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE