Saw this over at Bayou Renaissance Man and had to repost here. Fun and interesting video to watch. I guessed 5.
A hat tip to Peter for finding that one.
All the best,
Glenn B
A hat tip to Peter for finding that one.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sunday, February 8, 2015
It Will Be Like Preaching To The Choir But...
...in the event I have even one leftist anti-gun person, or someone sitting on the fence betwixt the Right To Keep And Bear Arms and Gun Control, stop by and watch this, I figured it would be worth embedding here.
Then again, some things she said sank home even with me especially the lesson to be learned (or reminded of in my case) at 11:01 of the video.
All the best,
Glenn B
Then again, some things she said sank home even with me especially the lesson to be learned (or reminded of in my case) at 11:01 of the video.
All the best,
Glenn B
Oldest Survivor Of USS Arizona Has Passed
Joe Langdell, the oldest survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 100 when he passed away last Wednesday. Take a moment to read the linked article and to say a prayer or have a thought in his honor and to honor all of them who lost their lives protecting the USA.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/02/05/pearl-harbor-uss-arizona-survivor-langdell/22953077/
All the best,
Glenn B
When It's Too Good To Be True - Expect To Get Screwed...
...as in fucked over and definitely not as in sexually. I don't know what these Brazilian prison guards were thinking (really I do know) but it surely wasn't with the brains in their bigger heads when three scantily clad women, in police dominatrix type outfits, seduced them inside the jail they were guarding. The women got the cops snockered, handcuffed them and freed 28 prisoners who then stole guns and ammo from the jail before fleeing.
It is not the plot twist of a comedy movie - it reportedly really happened (source & second source). Imagine being one of those jailers, they are going to get screwed alright - just not the way they had hoped. Serves them right I suppose, you have got to be pretty friggin stupid to think that those women showed up there, dressed like that, just to have sex with them in a jail and not suspect that something else was up. Morons but I suppose such is the power of the brainless head once it realizes that the possibility of sex is nigh. It drives men to do things they would never do had they used the head on their shoulders but somehow it often overpowers that head regardless of its smaller size.
All the best,
Glenn B
It is not the plot twist of a comedy movie - it reportedly really happened (source & second source). Imagine being one of those jailers, they are going to get screwed alright - just not the way they had hoped. Serves them right I suppose, you have got to be pretty friggin stupid to think that those women showed up there, dressed like that, just to have sex with them in a jail and not suspect that something else was up. Morons but I suppose such is the power of the brainless head once it realizes that the possibility of sex is nigh. It drives men to do things they would never do had they used the head on their shoulders but somehow it often overpowers that head regardless of its smaller size.
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, February 7, 2015
I Had Peered Into Hell
"It's hard to imagine um, for a a normal human mind uh, I had peered into hell and that's (sobbing a couple or few seconds) it's not, ah, something you quickly forget and it's a little hard for me to describe."
Those were the words of Sgt. Benjamin Ferencz, U.S. Third Army, speaking on the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the documentary Night Will Fall right after he described things he had seen there. To say the least, it is a hauntingly memorable documentary about the making of another lost documentary
covering the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps near the end of WWII. Much of the footage in the documentary was from that so called lost film - German Concentration Camps. That documentary was made by the allies contemporaneously with the liberation of many of the camps 1945 (and one made in 1944 by the Russians) but was shelved before it was completed. To say the least, the images portrayed are horrific and burn themselves into your brain. There were also some clips from the American documentary Death Mills.
Night Will Fall, along with the imbedded German Concentrations Camps documentary, illustrates the ghastly things that men can do unto other men. Regardless of the horror, or more precisely exactly because of it, it is a film that should be watched by every living soul in the hopes we never repeat the mass executions of 13 million fellow human beings. There are scenes in it that will shock you and that you are unlikely to forget. One for me was seeing the bodies at Belsen-Bergen Camp, I could only think that sights like that were in some way used as models for zombies in todays horror movies. Another and possibly one of the most shocking scenes for me showed only buildings. It was an aerial film of Auschwitz Concentration Camp - it was the largest of the concentration camps and seeing its size in this film was chilling considering what took place therein. I won't go on more about it except to strongly suggest that you watch it. It is an eye opener. It is currently showing on HBO.
My hope is that I will one day be able to see German Concentration Camps in its entirety. Despite being shelved right after the war, it was resurrected by a British museum that completed it the way they believe it was meant to be done.
All the best,
Glenn B
Those were the words of Sgt. Benjamin Ferencz, U.S. Third Army, speaking on the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the documentary Night Will Fall right after he described things he had seen there. To say the least, it is a hauntingly memorable documentary about the making of another lost documentary
covering the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps near the end of WWII. Much of the footage in the documentary was from that so called lost film - German Concentration Camps. That documentary was made by the allies contemporaneously with the liberation of many of the camps 1945 (and one made in 1944 by the Russians) but was shelved before it was completed. To say the least, the images portrayed are horrific and burn themselves into your brain. There were also some clips from the American documentary Death Mills.
Night Will Fall, along with the imbedded German Concentrations Camps documentary, illustrates the ghastly things that men can do unto other men. Regardless of the horror, or more precisely exactly because of it, it is a film that should be watched by every living soul in the hopes we never repeat the mass executions of 13 million fellow human beings. There are scenes in it that will shock you and that you are unlikely to forget. One for me was seeing the bodies at Belsen-Bergen Camp, I could only think that sights like that were in some way used as models for zombies in todays horror movies. Another and possibly one of the most shocking scenes for me showed only buildings. It was an aerial film of Auschwitz Concentration Camp - it was the largest of the concentration camps and seeing its size in this film was chilling considering what took place therein. I won't go on more about it except to strongly suggest that you watch it. It is an eye opener. It is currently showing on HBO.
My hope is that I will one day be able to see German Concentration Camps in its entirety. Despite being shelved right after the war, it was resurrected by a British museum that completed it the way they believe it was meant to be done.
All the best,
Glenn B
Catholic League Slams Obama Over His Uninformed Crusades Remark
During his speech at the recent national prayer breakfast, the Barack Hussein Obama the NIC (nincompoop in charge) had this to say about the crusades:
"Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Now while evil may have been done in the name of Christ during the Inquisitions (yes Mr. President that is plural because there were more than one of them, such as the Spanish Inquisition of 1478 and the Roman Inquisition [aka: Italian Inquisition] of 1542), the Crusades were of another ilk. They were, in fact, not evil committed in the name of Christ but were instead a response to the hundreds of years of evil persecutions of Christians that had been committed by Muslims, in the name of Islam.
The goal of the Crusades was to end such persecution and to restore Christian access to Christian holy places in and near Jerusalem - access that had been denied to Christians (and access denied to Jews to Jewish holy places) by Muslims after Muslims conquered those lands in the name of Islam hundreds of years before the first Crusade. Here, Mr. President, is a little time line to help you and your leftist cronies figure it out:
More information about the Crusades can be found here: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/crash-course-on-the-crusades.
It sickens me at just how easy it is for an apologist and tyrant like Barack Hussein Obama to overlook history in an attack he makes on religion while at the National Prayer Breakfast. It also angers me how much he seems to be in sympathy with recent acts of barbarism carried out by Islamic Terrorists!
A hat tip to my friend Kevin B for the Crusades chart above.
All the best,
Glenn B
"Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Now while evil may have been done in the name of Christ during the Inquisitions (yes Mr. President that is plural because there were more than one of them, such as the Spanish Inquisition of 1478 and the Roman Inquisition [aka: Italian Inquisition] of 1542), the Crusades were of another ilk. They were, in fact, not evil committed in the name of Christ but were instead a response to the hundreds of years of evil persecutions of Christians that had been committed by Muslims, in the name of Islam.
The goal of the Crusades was to end such persecution and to restore Christian access to Christian holy places in and near Jerusalem - access that had been denied to Christians (and access denied to Jews to Jewish holy places) by Muslims after Muslims conquered those lands in the name of Islam hundreds of years before the first Crusade. Here, Mr. President, is a little time line to help you and your leftist cronies figure it out:
More information about the Crusades can be found here: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/crash-course-on-the-crusades.
It sickens me at just how easy it is for an apologist and tyrant like Barack Hussein Obama to overlook history in an attack he makes on religion while at the National Prayer Breakfast. It also angers me how much he seems to be in sympathy with recent acts of barbarism carried out by Islamic Terrorists!
A hat tip to my friend Kevin B for the Crusades chart above.
All the best,
Glenn B
IRS Hiring - Illicit Racketeering Shitheads
One would think that the government agency tasked with collecting and protecting the tax revenues of the United States of America would strive to hire individuals who are trustworthy, who have an excellent history of a good work ethic and who are on the record as always paying their taxes promptly and in full. One would be wrong though in the case of the Internal Revenue Service.
It has been reported here, that between January 2010 and September 2013 the IRS rehired 7,000 (that number is actually rounded off to the nearest thousand, it was 7,123 in that time frame - source) former IRS employees and of that number 824 of them had "a checkered work history". According to the report, that number includes people who were fired, or otherwise let go, by the IRS for such things as: not paying their taxes, fraud, unauthorized accessing of taxpayer information, falsifying documents, disrupting the work place, being away without official leave (one person supposedly disappeared from the job for 8 weeks), threats, sexual harassment, unprofessional conduct, off-duty misconduct, and criminal misconduct. Of those people, 141 of them had "problems" paying their taxes!
So what has the IRS said about all of these problematic rehires. They in sum and substance say it is not a problem! According to a report by the Treasury Inspector General (IG) For Tax Administration, "the IRS stated that, during the process of evaluating qualifications of applicants, prior IRS conduct and performance issues do not play a significant role in deciding the candidates who are best qualified for hiring. In addition, IRS officials stated that prior performance issues should be considered during the eligibility phase, while conduct issues should be considered during the suitability phase." The same report went on to say that: "We are concerned that the IRS may not be adequately considering prior performance issues when selecting former employees for hire." and I say DAH! I also say - who wouldn't be concerned except for the IRS under the administration of Barack Hussein Obama. It is truly as if we are living in Bizarro World under thisclown commander in chief.
I strongly recommend reading the IG's report, it is an eye opener and is relatively brief at 20 pages (a good amount of which are references and footnotes). You can make a lot more sense of the numbers in the news article by reading the whole report. It also gives additional information to some of the "problems" that led to the employees either being fired, voluntarily leaving the IRS after discovery of their wrongdoings or otherwise being out of a job with said agency. For instance, of the 141 who had problems paying their taxes, five of those employees were found by the IRS management "...to have willfully not filed their tax returns."! Yet these tax cheats were rehired by the agency responsible for taking our money out of our pockets to pay the salaries for what is seemingly, at least to me, the most corrupt collection of cronies to have ever run our government. So much so that the IRS stated that not rehiring these people after consideration of their former transgressions could be against government regulations! If that doesn't beat all, as one of the worst excuses ever for inept bumbling fools rehiring people that should never should have been rehired, then nothing does.
One other thing you will get out of reading the whole report is the bottom line as to what the IRS plans to do to change its hiring procedures. In essence it was that the IRS determined that they would in sum and substance do nothing as far as I could make of it and that they consider the matter closed.
If you are even considering a vote for a democrat or a RINO in 2016, either for the presidency or for Congress, you are out of your mind or a leftist lunatic or both. Folks, the only way you can run a government the way it is being done now is to run it into the ground and the current administration is doing just that at full speed ahead.
All the best,
Glenn B
It has been reported here, that between January 2010 and September 2013 the IRS rehired 7,000 (that number is actually rounded off to the nearest thousand, it was 7,123 in that time frame - source) former IRS employees and of that number 824 of them had "a checkered work history". According to the report, that number includes people who were fired, or otherwise let go, by the IRS for such things as: not paying their taxes, fraud, unauthorized accessing of taxpayer information, falsifying documents, disrupting the work place, being away without official leave (one person supposedly disappeared from the job for 8 weeks), threats, sexual harassment, unprofessional conduct, off-duty misconduct, and criminal misconduct. Of those people, 141 of them had "problems" paying their taxes!
So what has the IRS said about all of these problematic rehires. They in sum and substance say it is not a problem! According to a report by the Treasury Inspector General (IG) For Tax Administration, "the IRS stated that, during the process of evaluating qualifications of applicants, prior IRS conduct and performance issues do not play a significant role in deciding the candidates who are best qualified for hiring. In addition, IRS officials stated that prior performance issues should be considered during the eligibility phase, while conduct issues should be considered during the suitability phase." The same report went on to say that: "We are concerned that the IRS may not be adequately considering prior performance issues when selecting former employees for hire." and I say DAH! I also say - who wouldn't be concerned except for the IRS under the administration of Barack Hussein Obama. It is truly as if we are living in Bizarro World under this
I strongly recommend reading the IG's report, it is an eye opener and is relatively brief at 20 pages (a good amount of which are references and footnotes). You can make a lot more sense of the numbers in the news article by reading the whole report. It also gives additional information to some of the "problems" that led to the employees either being fired, voluntarily leaving the IRS after discovery of their wrongdoings or otherwise being out of a job with said agency. For instance, of the 141 who had problems paying their taxes, five of those employees were found by the IRS management "...to have willfully not filed their tax returns."! Yet these tax cheats were rehired by the agency responsible for taking our money out of our pockets to pay the salaries for what is seemingly, at least to me, the most corrupt collection of cronies to have ever run our government. So much so that the IRS stated that not rehiring these people after consideration of their former transgressions could be against government regulations! If that doesn't beat all, as one of the worst excuses ever for inept bumbling fools rehiring people that should never should have been rehired, then nothing does.
One other thing you will get out of reading the whole report is the bottom line as to what the IRS plans to do to change its hiring procedures. In essence it was that the IRS determined that they would in sum and substance do nothing as far as I could make of it and that they consider the matter closed.
If you are even considering a vote for a democrat or a RINO in 2016, either for the presidency or for Congress, you are out of your mind or a leftist lunatic or both. Folks, the only way you can run a government the way it is being done now is to run it into the ground and the current administration is doing just that at full speed ahead.
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, February 6, 2015
Happy Birthday Mr. President - You Were The Best
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All the best,
Glenn B
Obama To Ask For Congressional Authorization To Combat ISIS
According to a Fox news report, President Obama is set to formally Congress to authorize the use of military force against ISIS. See: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/06/white-house-says-obama-will-ask-congress-to-authorize-military-force-against/
I don't have to wonder why we are doing so because ISIS needs to be completely destroyed for the good of the world. However, I do wonder if Obama in essence will ask for more than air strikes such as have already been carried out against ISIS. After all, isn't ISIS the terrorist group that he compared to a Junior Varsity (JV) basketball team! Then after that, wasn't it the White House mouthpiece who tried to spin it to say that all Obama meant was that ISIS did not pose a worldwide threat but was only a local one (source). Strange isn't it how within a span of just months, since that spin back in August, ISIS suddenly is worthy of our full attention. Could it be that Obama outright got his estimation of ISIS wrong?
I would think so, not only due to their acts of terror in the Middle East but due to their spreading influence outside of that region. According to another Fox news article, ISIS is hoping to expand its influence in Afghanistan. In addition to Afghanistan they name several other countries wherein the influence of ISIS already has reached and wherein now exist ISIS affiliated terror groups. These include Middle Eastern countries such as Israel and the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Jordan but also include African nations like: Egypt, Algeria, and Libya. Some east Asian nations are also harboring groups with ties to ISIS, these include: Pakistan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Finally, there are purported to be many lone wolf type individuals in such countries as the USA, Canada, Australia, and many if not most of the Western European nations (source).
No Mr. President, ISIS is not a JV team at all and if they were when you referred to them as one then they sure have grown quickly despite the paltry efforts you have made to stop them. Then why would you try since you considered them an insignificant treat. Seems though maybe you are changing your mind but that is yet to be seen dependent upon what you ask of Congress to stop ISIS and by what you actually do in order to put and end to their reign of terror. Yes sir, they are in the big leagues and rapidly expanding. They are doing it much akin to the way Nazi Germany expanded during the 1930s. Hopefully, you and Congress will realize that, and act appropriately on it before it is too late and before ISIS commits a genocide to rival that committed by the Nazis.
All the best,
Glenn
I don't have to wonder why we are doing so because ISIS needs to be completely destroyed for the good of the world. However, I do wonder if Obama in essence will ask for more than air strikes such as have already been carried out against ISIS. After all, isn't ISIS the terrorist group that he compared to a Junior Varsity (JV) basketball team! Then after that, wasn't it the White House mouthpiece who tried to spin it to say that all Obama meant was that ISIS did not pose a worldwide threat but was only a local one (source). Strange isn't it how within a span of just months, since that spin back in August, ISIS suddenly is worthy of our full attention. Could it be that Obama outright got his estimation of ISIS wrong?
I would think so, not only due to their acts of terror in the Middle East but due to their spreading influence outside of that region. According to another Fox news article, ISIS is hoping to expand its influence in Afghanistan. In addition to Afghanistan they name several other countries wherein the influence of ISIS already has reached and wherein now exist ISIS affiliated terror groups. These include Middle Eastern countries such as Israel and the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Jordan but also include African nations like: Egypt, Algeria, and Libya. Some east Asian nations are also harboring groups with ties to ISIS, these include: Pakistan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Finally, there are purported to be many lone wolf type individuals in such countries as the USA, Canada, Australia, and many if not most of the Western European nations (source).
No Mr. President, ISIS is not a JV team at all and if they were when you referred to them as one then they sure have grown quickly despite the paltry efforts you have made to stop them. Then why would you try since you considered them an insignificant treat. Seems though maybe you are changing your mind but that is yet to be seen dependent upon what you ask of Congress to stop ISIS and by what you actually do in order to put and end to their reign of terror. Yes sir, they are in the big leagues and rapidly expanding. They are doing it much akin to the way Nazi Germany expanded during the 1930s. Hopefully, you and Congress will realize that, and act appropriately on it before it is too late and before ISIS commits a genocide to rival that committed by the Nazis.
All the best,
Glenn
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Too Bad They Did Not Put It Out Of Its Misery...
...with a single well placed shot. Everything about it looks like a naked bear to me except for what appear to be very long forelegs but then again I have never seen a hairless bear. Whatever it was, plantation workers came across it near Sibu, Malaysia (source). Maybe it's an alien zombie bear from planet PSR B1620-26 b, nicknamed Methuselah (source).
All the best,
GB
Decent Deal on 45 ACP Ammo At SurplusAmmo.com
SurplusAmmo.com has a decent deal on Armscor USA: 45 ACP ammunition. It is 230 grain, FMJ ammo. They are offering it at $15.99 per box, or at $156.99 per 500 rounds or $299.99 (this one is a 24 hour deal) for a case of 1,000 rounds. I ordered some and shipping was reasonable considering it is coming from WA and as compared to shipping prices at other dealers who are even closer to my home than that.
Armscor USA ammo is made here in the USA. I have used Armscor ammo before and have had no complaints. It is certainly good to go for use at the range for self defense and tactical training. These are the specs for it straight from the Armscor USA site:
Specifications and Features: Caliber: .45 Auto
Grain Weight: 230
Bullet Type: FMJ
Muzzle Velocity: 830 fps
Velocity at 50 yards: 802 fps
Velocity at 100 yards: 776 fps
Muzzle Energy: 352 ft/lbs
Energy at 50 yards: 328 ft/lbs
Energy at 100 yards: 307 ft/lbs
Uses: Target Practice, Plinking
(source)
I think that this ammo would put a memorable hurting on a bad guy against whom you had to legally defend yourself. I must admit I prefer jacketed hollow points for that or at least a mixture of FMJ and JHP rounds in my mags but this might suffice in a pinch.
Hopefully there will not be any hitches with my order. I sent Surplus Ammo an email to inquire if they have my local FFL's license on file. They replied within an hour and said they did not but to go ahead and place the order and then have the FFL send them the copy of their license. So that is exactly what I did. My guess is that my FFL will send the copy to them tomorrow and the shipment will be with UPS soon.
As a follow-up note to my previous post, this was even less expensive than what I could have gotten at SportsmansGuide before they cancelled my order because they refuse to ship to NY State. Fuck them, I have found a yet another new source of ammo.
All the best,
Glenn B
Armscor USA ammo is made here in the USA. I have used Armscor ammo before and have had no complaints. It is certainly good to go for use at the range for self defense and tactical training. These are the specs for it straight from the Armscor USA site:
Specifications and Features: Caliber: .45 Auto
Grain Weight: 230
Bullet Type: FMJ
Muzzle Velocity: 830 fps
Velocity at 50 yards: 802 fps
Velocity at 100 yards: 776 fps
Muzzle Energy: 352 ft/lbs
Energy at 50 yards: 328 ft/lbs
Energy at 100 yards: 307 ft/lbs
Uses: Target Practice, Plinking
(source)
I think that this ammo would put a memorable hurting on a bad guy against whom you had to legally defend yourself. I must admit I prefer jacketed hollow points for that or at least a mixture of FMJ and JHP rounds in my mags but this might suffice in a pinch.
Hopefully there will not be any hitches with my order. I sent Surplus Ammo an email to inquire if they have my local FFL's license on file. They replied within an hour and said they did not but to go ahead and place the order and then have the FFL send them the copy of their license. So that is exactly what I did. My guess is that my FFL will send the copy to them tomorrow and the shipment will be with UPS soon.
As a follow-up note to my previous post, this was even less expensive than what I could have gotten at SportsmansGuide before they cancelled my order because they refuse to ship to NY State. Fuck them, I have found a yet another new source of ammo.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sportsman's Guide Has Abandoned New York Ammo Buyers...
...who seek to legally purchase ammunition from them and then have it legally shipped to a FFL here in NY (as required under the NY unSafe Act). I have not bought or tried to buy any ammunition from them in awhile am in need of some 45ACP so I looked to them for it. While they did not have the best price on the actual ammo by a long shot, they did have the best bottom line. Even if I bought it at a competitor who offered a lower price, I would have paid less at Sportsman's Guide because today they were offering free shipping and the way it worked out - they had the best deal. So, I placed my order or tried to and the response I got from the Sportsman's Guide system was that they do not ship to the zip code I had input for my FFL holder. I sent them an email asking what was up with that and they replied that they do not ship ammunition to New York State.
Since it is perfectly legal to ship us ammo (excluding residents of NYC), as long as it goes through an FFL on this end, that was one disrespectful slap in the face to their customers here in NY. I shot back another email to hem letting them know so. I also reminded them that other ammunition dealers are very ready, willing and able to do so and I can only see myself using them exclusively in the future. I am even considering not shopping at Sportsman's Guide for anything once my current membership runs out. My single email may not do much by itself but if they get enough negative feedback on this from other NY'ers then maybe they will reconsider.
For now though, it's time to look elsewhere and pay more for ammo I suppose.
All the best,
Glenn B
Since it is perfectly legal to ship us ammo (excluding residents of NYC), as long as it goes through an FFL on this end, that was one disrespectful slap in the face to their customers here in NY. I shot back another email to hem letting them know so. I also reminded them that other ammunition dealers are very ready, willing and able to do so and I can only see myself using them exclusively in the future. I am even considering not shopping at Sportsman's Guide for anything once my current membership runs out. My single email may not do much by itself but if they get enough negative feedback on this from other NY'ers then maybe they will reconsider.
For now though, it's time to look elsewhere and pay more for ammo I suppose.
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
What Would Happen If We Started To Execute Muslims...
...in response to the extremely cruel and barbaric executions carried out by them against Christians, Jews, Hindus, Taoists, Atheists, Gays and even other Muslims? I wonder, is it about time we respond to them in like manner because cruelty and abhorrent behavior are all they understand? Today, with the news of the Jordanian pilot having been burned to death in a cage (source), it has become evident that it is the case. That is all they understand. See, the linked video but be advised it gets very graphic and shows a man being burned to death by Muslim/ISIS barbarians:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4030583977001/warning-extremely-graphic-video-isis-burns-hostage-alive/?#sp=show-clips
Would Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and all other religious folks stand for us responding in like fashion without raising an outcry just as MOST Muslims will not raise an outcry over the recent unfathomably cruel beheadings nor even over the psychopathic burning to death of the Jordanian pilot. You can bet they would not stand for it because most folks would be very much opposed to it if our government forces or individuals within our society suddenly started kidnapping, torturing and butchering random Muslims.
Yet, you can also bet something else - if it was done with enough frequency then the fucking Islamists would get the idea, sooner than later, and after enough Muslims had been killed off in similar fashions they would cease and desist. Why - if only because the it truly would be all they could understand and they would fear being next.
I am not advocating such behavior on our part - just thinking about how it would likely work out if we were to act in like fashion.
All the best,
Glenn B
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4030583977001/warning-extremely-graphic-video-isis-burns-hostage-alive/?#sp=show-clips
Would Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and all other religious folks stand for us responding in like fashion without raising an outcry just as MOST Muslims will not raise an outcry over the recent unfathomably cruel beheadings nor even over the psychopathic burning to death of the Jordanian pilot. You can bet they would not stand for it because most folks would be very much opposed to it if our government forces or individuals within our society suddenly started kidnapping, torturing and butchering random Muslims.
Yet, you can also bet something else - if it was done with enough frequency then the fucking Islamists would get the idea, sooner than later, and after enough Muslims had been killed off in similar fashions they would cease and desist. Why - if only because the it truly would be all they could understand and they would fear being next.
I am not advocating such behavior on our part - just thinking about how it would likely work out if we were to act in like fashion.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sure Has Been Cold Up This Way
In fact, it's gone from freezing to freezingerrrrrr.
All the best,
GB
Sharia Law Coming To A Campus Near You
In an unprecedented move at a California university, a Muslim (aka: Islamic terrorist, in my opinion) reportedly has declared that "Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis." (source) So now we not only need to worry about Dearbornistan, MI or Islamberg, NY but also evidently have Islam in full anti-Jewish fervor running rampant at the University of California, Davis Campus. Yet, in California, the state and local governments are continuing to restrict the ownership of firearms by citizens who may soon need to defend themselves against these Muslim interlopers.
I am willing to wager that it will soon turn nastier with outright violence against Jews (and that others cannot be far behind) in that community if these Islamists get away with their most recent disgraceful behavior without being expelled from UC Davis and I also would be willing to bet that the school administration will take no such action. Yet, Sharia law has no justified place in our society but you can bet that UC Davis administrators will play the tolerance card for these Muslim students even though these Muslims are being extremely intolerant of others.
All the best,
Glenn B
I am willing to wager that it will soon turn nastier with outright violence against Jews (and that others cannot be far behind) in that community if these Islamists get away with their most recent disgraceful behavior without being expelled from UC Davis and I also would be willing to bet that the school administration will take no such action. Yet, Sharia law has no justified place in our society but you can bet that UC Davis administrators will play the tolerance card for these Muslim students even though these Muslims are being extremely intolerant of others.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Would I Be Way Out Of Line...
...after only watching three (3) playoff football games, the two divisional championships and the Super Bowl, per year for the last 3 or 4 years, to say that it was either that the Seattle coach or the quarterback called the worst play of recent playoff history by calling for a pass when they had time for at least two ground plays tonight. Or was it that it had to have been outright payola that led to them giving the game to the Patriots?
I have seen many an arsehat football play in my life and that pass, that was intercepted with what maybe 20 seconds left in the game, had to have been one of the biggest fuckups in NFL history! Yeah, granted I am no football wizard but neither was the jerkoff that called for that play to be run. A pass! A PASS! A FUCKING PASS!!! They were simply disgraceful under pressure (or corrupt) to have called for a loser of a play as to pass in that situation - and to pass into a tight defensive field. The quarterback would have been better off just falling on the ball and moving onto the next play - they had two downs left after that one in which to try to run it in. Friggin Seattle Sore Losers (as they then started a fight as if it would help) should be their new name.
Anyway, I played $175 in pools and got $100 back. Better than losing it all. My son and I enjoyed the game at Zum's and the bill was only $90 with the tip. Considering I had to pay a 10% tip on the pool money, that left me with the $90. That was just exactly enough to pay for Zum's! Yeah, I know, had I not bet the $175 I would have been better off but the $175 wagered was already written off as a loss as soon as I bet it on Super Bowl boxes.
Luckily Brendan drove us home, I had been expecting to drive but got to have a few more biers than I expected after he made it obvious he was not drinking more than one. He had only one weiss bier during the game and drank soda and water after that. He also enjoyed a roast duck dinner, a cup bowl of goulash soup (I had the soup too) and a freshly baked soft pretzel. But I digress, so let me get back to him driving us home. Nice to know the old man can sometimes depend on the young buck as the undesignated but self appointed driver. The only real downside for me is that it is now snowing and tomorrow morning should be a mess on the way to work (shit, I have to work tomorrow). Yet, that is another day and another story. Tonight with my son, that was GREAT!
All the best,
Glenn B
I have seen many an arsehat football play in my life and that pass, that was intercepted with what maybe 20 seconds left in the game, had to have been one of the biggest fuckups in NFL history! Yeah, granted I am no football wizard but neither was the jerkoff that called for that play to be run. A pass! A PASS! A FUCKING PASS!!! They were simply disgraceful under pressure (or corrupt) to have called for a loser of a play as to pass in that situation - and to pass into a tight defensive field. The quarterback would have been better off just falling on the ball and moving onto the next play - they had two downs left after that one in which to try to run it in. Friggin Seattle Sore Losers (as they then started a fight as if it would help) should be their new name.
Anyway, I played $175 in pools and got $100 back. Better than losing it all. My son and I enjoyed the game at Zum's and the bill was only $90 with the tip. Considering I had to pay a 10% tip on the pool money, that left me with the $90. That was just exactly enough to pay for Zum's! Yeah, I know, had I not bet the $175 I would have been better off but the $175 wagered was already written off as a loss as soon as I bet it on Super Bowl boxes.
Luckily Brendan drove us home, I had been expecting to drive but got to have a few more biers than I expected after he made it obvious he was not drinking more than one. He had only one weiss bier during the game and drank soda and water after that. He also enjoyed a roast duck dinner, a cup bowl of goulash soup (I had the soup too) and a freshly baked soft pretzel. But I digress, so let me get back to him driving us home. Nice to know the old man can sometimes depend on the young buck as the undesignated but self appointed driver. The only real downside for me is that it is now snowing and tomorrow morning should be a mess on the way to work (shit, I have to work tomorrow). Yet, that is another day and another story. Tonight with my son, that was GREAT!
All the best,
Glenn B
Decisions - Decisions - Decisions...
Here I am about one hour before game time with not a beer in the house but yet I do have a decent but small selection of hard stuff. Was supposed to go to Zum Stammtisch Restaurant in Glendale, with Brendan, to meet up with my brothers-in-law but they are both sick and the male heir is out cold I think and is almost definitely hung-over. Now I have to decide if I want to be bothered to go out to get some decent ale or just stay home and hit the spirits. Thing is, I am just about broke, was depending on a gift certificate I have for Zums to cover most of it for the big game. Now I have to make a decision - a tough decision at that, considering I just stuffed my face with a roast tenderloin, dumplings kraut and snow pea pods and have an apple turnover, that is still warm, awaiting me upstairs. Decisions, decisions, decisions............
Hark what is that I hear at this precise moment? It is the voice of the male heir calling me from above asking me if I still want to go to Zums. To what act of the Heavens do I owe this miracle? I guess we are going to Zums and I will use my gift certificate there after all!
All the best,
GB
Hark what is that I hear at this precise moment? It is the voice of the male heir calling me from above asking me if I still want to go to Zums. To what act of the Heavens do I owe this miracle? I guess we are going to Zums and I will use my gift certificate there after all!
All the best,
GB
Tomorrow - The Best Holiday of Them All
Remember folks - tomorrow is the best holiday of them all. Why? Even though it's not an official holiday it is the best holiday in my book because I don't need to give gifts, thus I don't need to shop for any gifts, don't have to shop for food, don't have to cook for guests or do the dishes, don't need to dress up for anyone, don't have to go to services, don't have to put up with any arsehat relatives who come to mooch for holiday dinner and presents, don't have to put up with any guests at all (mainly because virtually no one especially relations would bother celebrating it with me) and I don't have to drive to grandma's house (and back again) or go to see the mother-in-law (well maybe for you, mine lives with me). As opposed to even that other great holiday known as Festivus: you don't need to put up the pole, air grievances or put yourself through any feats of strength.
Yes, tomorrow is my favorite holiday of them all by far because I can celebrate it however the heck I want and so can you. In fact you don't have to celebrate it at all if you don't want to - it's optional.
All hail the Ground Hog and his shadow! All hail Ground Hog Day!
All the best,
Glenn B
Yes, tomorrow is my favorite holiday of them all by far because I can celebrate it however the heck I want and so can you. In fact you don't have to celebrate it at all if you don't want to - it's optional.
All hail the Ground Hog and his shadow! All hail Ground Hog Day!
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Visiting The Old Neighborhood - Was An Excellent Use of My Time Yesterday...
...when I made a trip to Glendale and Ridgewood, NY. First I stopped at Rudy's Bakery on Seneca Avenue but have to admit that was a waste of time. They wanted $3 apiece for Linzer tarts that I was going to buy but I just walked out the door probably never to return. That is unless she who must be adored wants them badly enough; yesterday I checked with her via a text msg and she told me to forget them at that price but today it seemed she wished I had bought some (they are heavenly delicious)..
My next stop was Queens Wines & Liquors on Myrtle Avenue. I picked up three bottles of Nurnberger Gluhwein for the wife. It's a German spiced wine and is pretty good, especially when you warm it up a bit on a chilly winter's night. It's too bad I had to pay about the top dollar I have ever seen asked for it but this is the only place I know of convenient to me to buy it. It was likewise for the bottle of Schladerer Kirschwasser, it was way too expensive but it was convenient at the moment so I got one bottle. It's for me and for whomever else will drink it with me. Schladerer Kirshwasser is absolutely the best commercially made hard spirit that has ever passed my lips.
Then I hit up Morscher's Pork Store on Catalpa Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens (part of NYC). This place is a pork lover's treasure chest. If you like smoked pork, pork deli meats and fresh pork - this is the place to get it. Of course, they have beef too (and I think even some lamb and chicken). They have everything you might want to go with your main dish of pork too like Light Lithuanian bread, dumpling mixes, Bowers mustard including horseradish mustard, various krauts, and lots of other European (German, Gottschee and Polish) delectables. They also have very courteous, genuinely nice, folks working there who are honest too. In fact, I handed the guy behind the counter $20 too much and he promptly told me I had given him the wrong amount when he told me the price was 'one hundred dollars and thirty eight' and I thought he had said $138.00. What he meant was $100.38. That was a big plus for me, it also is a plus for them as it assures I will be going back again and again when I get in that way, just as I have been doing for many years. (Now, I cannot wait for the wife to cook the schweinefleisch tomorrow, it's a fresh pork tenderloin roast - and I bought two of them, about 2.5 pounds more than she had wanted, to assure we could literally pig out.)
I made one more stop at a commercial establishment and that was at Zum Stammtisch Restaurant in Glendale. While there, I enjoyed a hefe-weissbier and a shot of kirschwasser. Then another bier followed by a huge portion of boiled beef under horseradish sauce that was accompanied by red kraut, two potato dumplings and my last bier. I was actually grateful that the bartender, Pat, did not think of bringing me the usual bread and butter before the entrée, there was so much food as it was that I could not finish it. It was so delicious that regardless of how much there was on my plate, I almost go it all down; I probably left only a mouthful or two at most behind. After that, I finished off what was left of my last bier and headed out but not toward home.
My next and last stop was at a dear friend's home in Glendale. I visited Joe Y and his mom and as a bonus for me his sister I-I-I was there (inside joke). We had a nice time just BS'ing and I cracked open the Kirschwasser for me and Joe. The ladies did not want a drop although Joe's mom tasted just about that much of it. Joe was about to open a bottle of Jack, but I insisted we have the kirschwasser and told him it reminded me much of the booze a friend's dad used to make. Joe had a shot and was duly impressed and agreed with me, it indeed tastes like the nectar that our friend's dad used to make and that he also insisted we imbibe back in our earlier years. Joe liked it so much he had three nice dollops of it. I had two small ones that I made sure to keep well below the amount I gave Joe. After all, I had to drive home and Joe was already home. Anyway, it was a nice time seeing Joe and his family, and it was a visit that was way overdue on my part.
In all, I had a great afternoon and evening in the old neighborhood. I look forward to my next visit there which I plan to make sooner than later.
All the best,
Glenn B
My next stop was Queens Wines & Liquors on Myrtle Avenue. I picked up three bottles of Nurnberger Gluhwein for the wife. It's a German spiced wine and is pretty good, especially when you warm it up a bit on a chilly winter's night. It's too bad I had to pay about the top dollar I have ever seen asked for it but this is the only place I know of convenient to me to buy it. It was likewise for the bottle of Schladerer Kirschwasser, it was way too expensive but it was convenient at the moment so I got one bottle. It's for me and for whomever else will drink it with me. Schladerer Kirshwasser is absolutely the best commercially made hard spirit that has ever passed my lips.
Then I hit up Morscher's Pork Store on Catalpa Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens (part of NYC). This place is a pork lover's treasure chest. If you like smoked pork, pork deli meats and fresh pork - this is the place to get it. Of course, they have beef too (and I think even some lamb and chicken). They have everything you might want to go with your main dish of pork too like Light Lithuanian bread, dumpling mixes, Bowers mustard including horseradish mustard, various krauts, and lots of other European (German, Gottschee and Polish) delectables. They also have very courteous, genuinely nice, folks working there who are honest too. In fact, I handed the guy behind the counter $20 too much and he promptly told me I had given him the wrong amount when he told me the price was 'one hundred dollars and thirty eight' and I thought he had said $138.00. What he meant was $100.38. That was a big plus for me, it also is a plus for them as it assures I will be going back again and again when I get in that way, just as I have been doing for many years. (Now, I cannot wait for the wife to cook the schweinefleisch tomorrow, it's a fresh pork tenderloin roast - and I bought two of them, about 2.5 pounds more than she had wanted, to assure we could literally pig out.)
I made one more stop at a commercial establishment and that was at Zum Stammtisch Restaurant in Glendale. While there, I enjoyed a hefe-weissbier and a shot of kirschwasser. Then another bier followed by a huge portion of boiled beef under horseradish sauce that was accompanied by red kraut, two potato dumplings and my last bier. I was actually grateful that the bartender, Pat, did not think of bringing me the usual bread and butter before the entrée, there was so much food as it was that I could not finish it. It was so delicious that regardless of how much there was on my plate, I almost go it all down; I probably left only a mouthful or two at most behind. After that, I finished off what was left of my last bier and headed out but not toward home.
My next and last stop was at a dear friend's home in Glendale. I visited Joe Y and his mom and as a bonus for me his sister I-I-I was there (inside joke). We had a nice time just BS'ing and I cracked open the Kirschwasser for me and Joe. The ladies did not want a drop although Joe's mom tasted just about that much of it. Joe was about to open a bottle of Jack, but I insisted we have the kirschwasser and told him it reminded me much of the booze a friend's dad used to make. Joe had a shot and was duly impressed and agreed with me, it indeed tastes like the nectar that our friend's dad used to make and that he also insisted we imbibe back in our earlier years. Joe liked it so much he had three nice dollops of it. I had two small ones that I made sure to keep well below the amount I gave Joe. After all, I had to drive home and Joe was already home. Anyway, it was a nice time seeing Joe and his family, and it was a visit that was way overdue on my part.
In all, I had a great afternoon and evening in the old neighborhood. I look forward to my next visit there which I plan to make sooner than later.
All the best,
Glenn B
That's A Lot Of Bacon, Ribs & Sausage
A father and son team in North Carolina bagged a charging 700 pound plus feral hog (source). Just the thought of all that pork makes me hungry. I would have to not only buy a big chest type freezer to store it out in my garage, I'd still likely have to give an awful lot of it away.
I'd probably also have to do a good pants cleaning after being charged by a hog of that size.
All the best,
GB
I'd probably also have to do a good pants cleaning after being charged by a hog of that size.
All the best,
GB
On Nuking The Chinese
Which one of these two do you think had the better idea about nuking the Chinese. I love Chinese food and sometimes nuke it till it glows just to heat it up but I'll have to admit, I see some merits to the other idea.
All the best,
Glenn B
Politics Explained
Finally somebody explained politics to me
Right or left doesn't matter. It is really up or down in politics.
When top level people look down, they see only shit-heads;
When the bottom level people look up, they see only assholes.
You will Never see another Flow Chart that describes politics so clearly.
Once again, a hat tip and my thanks to Herr Rich M for this one.
All the best,
Glenn B
"Let There Be No Doubt...
Islam is part of America" were words spoken by the Great Appeaser, Barack Hussein Obama, and I must agree with him in as much as I believe it a cancer on America that must be surgically excised without delay. He also said we are not at war with Islam and I could not disagree more.
Along those lines, here is a video that may help awaken even the most skeptical among you to the fact that Obama has it all wrong about Islam:
A hat tip to Herr Rich M for this one.
All the best,
Glenn B
Along those lines, here is a video that may help awaken even the most skeptical among you to the fact that Obama has it all wrong about Islam:
A hat tip to Herr Rich M for this one.
All the best,
Glenn B
A 100,000% Profit On A 5K Investment - Some Folks Have All The Luck
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All the best,
Glenn B
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