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The Repealicans

Boner says not to judge them on how many laws they pass, but how many they repeal. Well, in both instances the score is ZERO!!!!!!!!

If Only This Was True!!

Now We Know Where It Started

One Of The Usual Suspects

This morning The Old Lady looked out and saw one of the rats that has been eating her flowers and grapevines, etc. He is a nice looking "rat with antlers". An eight point buck.

Took this picture thru the storm door on the back door. Didn't want to scare him away as he was only about 15 feet away and I wanted to get a clear picture. I usually don't see bucks around, just the does, but this guy hasn't been bothered here and I guess he feels pretty safe in coming around in daylight.

Here he is browsing on an apple tree. Or as The Old Lady would say, "Giraffe eating the acacia tree". All the apple trees have all the lower branches stripped of leaves.

This I think is a picture of the same guy taken two years ago. That time he was with his sister and mother.

On Being Treated Like a Greek God

As long as we've been together The Old Lady has been treating me like a Greek God. She gives me burnt offerings. Yesterday she had a legitimate excuse, the oven fucked up. She was baking a pie and checked on it halfway thru the time for baking and it was already starting to burn. She turned the oven down and I checked a few minutes later. Even with the oven set at 300* the temp was over 500*. Looks like the control valve for the oven isn't working properly. The gas stove is 40 years old and we've had to replace the control valve once before (that time it had the opposite problem, the burner would come on until it reached the set temp and then wouldn't come on again even when the oven cooled), but that was when the stove was still under warranty. Now the question is whether we get the old stove repaired or break down and buy a new stove. One of the things we've liked about this stove is when the power goes out, it still works. Gas stoves with a clock or other electrical stuff won't work when the power goes out. You may be able to light the burners with a match, but that is about it, the oven won't work. The Old Lady is starting to look at stoves online. She found one that uses batteries to ignite the burners, so that may work when the power goes out. (Actually we are pretty fortunate with the power situation, it's not very often that we are without power and when it does go out it is restored in a matter of hours.)

It's A Mystery

Saw this comment on a post on Gin and Tacos:

Australia got all the criminals, America got the Puritans.

By all accounts Australia got the better deal.

(This was kinda of off topic as the post was about racism.)

The thought that occurred to me was how in the fuck did one small boatload of religious assholes fuck up such a huge country????

I've seen the replica of the Mayflower and actually been on it. Also I have read history books and know about the Puritans and how many of them there were on that ship. So my question still is: How in the fuck did such a small number of religious assholes fuck up a country as big as ours???? Part of the answer is other religious assholes took some of the Puritan ideas and ran with them and are still running with them. Some of them actually out-Puritan the Puritans. Other than their whining about the "War on Christmas" as the Puritans didn't celebrate Christmas.

My question still remains. How in the fuck did such a small group of religious assholes fuck up a country this big???

I Don't Need A Stinking Parade, I Want A Fucking Apology!!

Recently my cousin's wife did a comment on facebook about how my cousin liked marching with veterans at the local Pow-Wow because Vietnam era vets never got any parades when they came home. Actually, I don't need a stinking parade, I want a Fucking Apology from any and all politicians and others that got us into that fiasco called Vietnam. I still remember hearing BULLSHIT like "If we don't stop the dirty, fucking commies over there, we'll be fighting them on the beach in Long Beach!!" Well after over 50,000 dead Americans we finally left Vietnam and the only ones on the beaches of Long Beach and other places were refugees.

Most people put most of the blame on JFK and LBJ, but I say the one that started that fiasco was DDE. He had US there helping the French leave and then had our troops there secretly. JFK admitted we had troops there as "advisors", yeah right. Then LBJ increased the level and the massive build-up in '65 kinda fucked up my plans for the future as I was getting out of high school. LBJ had the balls to pass Civil Rights bills and Medicare, wish he'd had the balls to get out of Vietnam, but he knew if he pulled out he'd never be re-elected and that was more important I guess.

Another one that pisses me off is Tricky Dicky. He interfered with the peace talks in hopes of winning the election in '68, which he did. Imagine how many American lives would have been saved if the war had ended in '69?? (I sure as hell would have made me breathe easier for the rest on my hitch.) Then the bastard dragged it out in order to get re-elected.  (Tricky Dicky cut the budget and they kicked me out 4 months early because of "budgetary limitations", and I still didn't vote for the Fucking Crook!!) Hell that shit would probably still be going on if he hadn't resigned.

There are those that believe the real reason we were in Vietnam was because they thought there was a huge oil reserve in the South China Sea. That is probably true, I remember hearing how the oil companies were bidding on drilling rights in the South China Sea a couple years after the war ended. Don't remember hearing anything about it after that. So, was this the first war for oil, I think so. Have seen articles about how after WWII the pentagon concentrated planning on oil, insuring a steady supply of oil because that was the main reason Germany lost the war, not enough oil and its refined products. But I guess that's another rant.

I know I'll never get an apology:
1. Most of the ones responsible are dead.
2. Those that are still alive will never admit they Fucked Up!!

We Go Green Bay

We went Green Bay. Didn't see a game because training camp just started today. We went to the shareholders meeting.

This is a video I shot showing the crowd at the shareholders meeting. There is no sound as my old camera does video but without sound.

The money from buying my share probably went to pay for one of the seats in this picture and the one below, but I doubt if I'll ever be able to sit in one (did sign up for a drawing for tickets to a game in Sept). Tickets for Packer games are some of the hardest tickets to get. When season tickets for these seats went on sale, they went to people who had been on a waiting list for an average of 30 years. Now those are die-hard fans!!

Some of the improvements were new seats and the giant screens on both ends of the field.

These signs are on the streets around the stadium. Not sure how many blocks from the stadium they go, but first noticed them about a half dozen blocks away.