Checking in...instead of checking out.

One of the interesting things about blogging is that when you start and have absolutely NO audience, you have no expectations and no sense of obligation. You can talk crap, make up stupid stuff, ramble, rant and generally carry on all by yourself. Then people find you and it is thrilling! You exchange comments, you are childishly tickled to death that they would take the time from their day to read your shit, and you think of them as friends. But friends that you must perform for. I know that sounds weird, but there always is this underlying obligation that I must write something WORTHY. This is difficult for me as I have never written anything that is WORTHY in my life, and now that I have developed this sense of responsibility to do so, I've become a recluse...waiting for the WORTHY to kick in.

It hasn't.

So, since I miss my internet friends, I'm going to just write to say hello, I miss meeting you all here, and DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK THE WORLD IS GOING NUTS???

And by nuts, I don't mean the Islamic shootings in Paris and San Bernardino. That is completely rational on their part, given their beliefs, and only to be expected. The insanity is in the West's utter inability to understand and respond appropriately to the threat we face. People are being butchered, crucified, burned alive, raped, shot, and beheaded in the name of a brutal god, and our political betters rush to the microphones to tell us low grade, bare-foot bigots to just hold onto our reactionary, uneducated hatred and settle down.

Hundreds shot dead in Paris and our Beloved President lectures us FROM PARIS about the San Bernardino shooting, saying that this simply doesn't happen anywhere else. While I love irony as much as anyone, this borders on the creepy. And the primary thing our DOJ is worried about is anti-Muslim backlash. You remember how Muslims were being dragged out into the street and set on fire by the hundreds after 9/11, don't you? It was awful. Wouldn't want THAT to happen again.

Hundreds dead in Paris and Obama tells us from Paris that it never happened. Fourteen dead, and Loretta Lynch is more worried about what has never happened than what has just happened.

The world is going nuts!!

The worst thing is that history shows us that when the world starts going nuts, there is no stopping the plunge. We don't come out of the grand mal seizure until it exhausts itself in its own time and millions are dead. I think we are going to see some Very Bad Things very soon.

But one of the things I know for certain about such insanity -- there is nothing any of us can do about it. Not a damn thing. Given that reality, and the fact that I am sitting here alone, having eaten the last of three teeny little chocolate peppermint candies, I am pissed.

But I have a little Cognac left, so I have the proper libation for pondering.

Why are we so stupid?

We refuse to admit there's a connection between the fact that every time a Muslim becomes MORE religious, innocent people end up dead. When Catholics become more religious, they become Mother Theresa. Major difference.

Why are we so scared?

The main argument against recognizing Islam for what it actually is seems to be that there are so many of them that we can't admit the truth. People look at me and gasp, "But there are over a billion of them!" My answer, "So fucking what? That just means we've got some work to do, and we'd better get started."

Why is the West so willing to commit cultural suicide?

Knowing what we do about Islam, why are we letting in hundreds of thousands of unvetted Syrian refugees? Our leaders are either retarded or dangerously treacherous.

And why is SCIENCE! the god of the liberal until it smacks their precious tolerant ideology around? Then you're a religious bigot for using SCIENCE!

Studies prove it.

I get the feeling this administration just isn't on our side. Or on the side of the Constitution. But Joe Walsh is on our side. And on the side of our Constitution. Go, Joe!

There is just so much craziness, and there simply isn't enough Cognac.

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Full Freezer

A good reason to pray.

It's Sunday so I know I shouldn't link to this but still...

He wrote it today. And it is brilliant. So I don't care, I'm linking to it. 

PJ Media's Stephen Green writes at VodkaPundit about the utter mess that is Obama.

If you’ll pardon my language, I have a simple message for the President of the United States of America.

They can’t follow if you won’t lead, asshole.

Now, I’ve said a lot of nasty things about our last three presidents. A lot of nasty things. But I don’t think I’ve ever been tempted to personally address any of them as “asshole.” Not until today. Not until witnessing the most embarrassing and embarrassingly public performance by a world leader on the world stage. Monica Lewinsky could have been giving Bill Clinton a blowjob right there at the podium during the State of the Union address, in front of all the cameras, and it still wouldn’t have been as air-suckingly horrific as the low-rent Vaudeville act we’ve watched Obama and Kerry put on these last few days. Because in the Clinton-Lewinsky scenario I just described, at least the President is the one getting serviced, instead of dropping trou, bending over, and giving the whole world an invitation to do whatever — because, “You know, whatever. It’s only foreign policy. It’s not like it’s something important, like giving public money away to some buddies of mine who just swear they can build a magic car battery.”

Or siphoning money to your half brother who is in charge of the monies for the Muslim Brotherhood, which is backing the terrorists in Syria, who are Al Qaeda.

During Dick Nixon’s impeachment hearings, the question was, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” Turned out, Nixon knew plenty, and knew it all quite early enough to get him driven out of the White House. With Obama the question is, “WTF? I mean WTeffingF? Doesn’t this asshole know anything?” And the answer is no, and yet we’re still stuck with this SCoaMF for three and a half more years.

I’m sure the Republic will survive. But I’m not sure we’ll recover unless the next President is Ronald Reagan crossed with Chuck Norris crossed with George Patton crossed with Jesus.

I know just the guy. Allen West. Am I right?

Actually, as funny as this piece is and as tempting as it is to look at what Obama is doing and conclude that he's a complete and utter dumbass, my take is that this has all been carefully orchestrated (oh, not by Obama..he really IS an utter dumbass) and that we are likely seeing the

pieces being moved on the chess board to bring about the destruction of Israel, eliminate the threat of a Shiite power grab via Iran, and ultimately consolidate a new Caliphate in the Middle East under the powers of the Sunnis via Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Oh...and destroy the last vestiges of our Constitutional Republic with its separation of powers.

Nice little trifecta on foreign policy with a little added bonus of ending freedom in the United States.

Here's my gut-level analysis:

Journey to the End of the World in 20 easy steps.

1. Obama has, since taking office in 2008, systemically and deliberately been destroying the energy producing sector of our country. This has to make Saudi Arabia happy. And it puts us as at a SERIOUS disadvantage to fight a protracted war in the Middle East.
2. Obama's family members have strong ties to Marxism, violent revolutions in Africa, Sunni Islam, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Not the kind of background that makes you feel he's on our side.
3. Within Islam, the Shiites and the Sunnis hate each other and are struggling for ultimate power - the new Caliphate.
4. Saudi and Turkey are Sunni. Iran is largely Shiite, and though Syria is predominately Sunni, its rulers are Shiites. In other words, Syria and Iran are damn upstarts and need to get whacked.
5. Obama allowed Mubarak's government to be overthrown. He did nothing when the Muslim Brotherhood took over (which everyone saw coming)...except to approve. When the army stepped in, he got all pissy about "coups" and democratic elections. 
6. Obama toppled Gaddafi and completely destabilized that region, a region that provides more terrorists fighters to Al Qaeda and crew than almost any other in the Middle East.
7. The last person Ambassador Chris Stevens met with on the evening of his death was the Consul of Turkey.
8. There is strong evidence that our government was running guns and weaponry through the Benghazi consulate with Turkey's involvement -- to the Syrian "freedom fighters."
9. If we strike Syria, Iran has already stated that it will retaliate -- by hitting Israel.
10. Israel has given them all the finger and promised massive reprisal if Iran pulls any shit.
11. Russia and China have warned Obama to stay out of it -- or something really bad might happen.
12. Obama is saying he just wants to throw some bombs around. He doesn't really want to get involved. WTF?
13. Russia is explaining to Prince Dumbass that would be "involved."
14. Approval for this stupidity is at around 9% among an American electorate that can't usually distinguish their ass from a hole in the ground, but this one time they seem to be paying attention.
15. But this resistance from the American people just plays into Obama's hands because now, to appear conciliatory and diplomatic, he is going to politely twiddle his thumbs and wait for Congress to reconvene in another week so that he can ask them to handle this CRISIS by giving him the go ahead. They will say no. Then Obama will say, "Fuck you" and go ahead anyway.
16. This will effectively destroy any power Congress has left against the Obama juggernaut of tyranny because it is an altogether different critter to just go ahead and start shit (lots of presidents have before Obama), then it is to ASK FOR PERMISSION AND THEN GO AHEAD AND START SHIT ANYWAY AGAINST CONGRESS' STATED "NO WAY, JOSE. SIT THE FUCK DOWN."
17. This is like our Prince Dumbass saying, "If Congress doesn't act, than I will." Really, bucko? REALLY? Yes, really.
18. So we hit Syria. Iran hits Israel. Israel rains death and destruction on their picnic cloth heads. Russia and China step in. It's game on.
19. BOOOM!
20. The End

It's Sunday, so I suggest you all start praying.

If Jesus is coming back soon, he's going to encounter a few difficulties.

If he has any plans to recycle old miracles, he's going to learn that they don't play as well in 2013 as they did back in the day.

It's Sunday and Joe Dan is discussing God.

And the Lord said, "Let there be light!"

...camera!...ACTION!

I told you so.

This is the post where I "out" myself as a hate-filled, homophobic, reactionary, intolerant Christian. But before I regurgitate my bile on this page in a spew of hating hatefulness against everyone who leads an "alternative" lifestyle, let me say that some of the nicest, most decent, kindest and most generous people I have ever known were also people who led "alternative" lifestyles. 

When I was a little girl, my mom knew a young woman who had been brutalized by her father, both physically and sexually. She then had a series of relationships with men that all were replays of her relationship with her father. She finally became a lesbian. It was literally a matter of self-preservation...of survival. Her partner was a classic dyke - masculine and completely lacking in any feminine sensibilities. The pair were delightful. They were simply wonderful people and great fun to be around. As a child, I didn't care or give it much thought. Certainly no one explained anything to me and everyone acted as if it all was completely normal. It wasn't until I was much, much older that I realized that they were a lesbian couple. It never mattered to me. It still doesn't.

Straight out of college, I worked for a major international airline. I probably don't have to reassure anyone that most of the men who work as flight attendants are gay. If you were ever uncertain...they are. I knew lots of gay men during my time in the airlines. Some were complete jerks. Some were fantastic and I loved them. In either case, I didn't care whether they were homosexual or not.

But when the movement began on the left to decriminalize sodomy, I said then that this was only a first step and they wouldn't stop until they had NORMALIZED homosexuality. I told everyone, despite their incredulity, that the left wouldn't stop until they had legalized gay marriage. I even went so far out in the weeds as to predict that the left was really after the children. I predicted that the left would fight for gay marriage, and then they would carry the fight to normalize pedophilia. Everyone said I was a horrible person. I shrugged, agreeing, in a general sense, with that assessment. But still I stood by my prediction.

I was right.

Pat Dollard brings us this story:

Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals.

Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that once it became acceptable to identify homosexuality as simply an “alternative lifestyle” or sexual orientation, logically nothing would be off limits. “Gay” advocates have taken offense at such a position insisting this would never happen. However, psychiatrists are now beginning to advocate redefining pedophilia in the same way homosexuality was redefined several years ago.

I told you so. A decade ago gay activists took offense at the suggestion that they were going after marriage when they insisted that they only wanted to not be criminals in their own bedrooms. Remember, with the left, you're always the loon if you can see where they are really going.

In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. A group of psychiatrists with B4U-Act recently held a symposium proposing a new definition of pedophilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of

Mental Health Disorders of the APA.

B4U-Act calls pedophiles “minor-attracted people.” The organization’s website states its purpose is to, “help mental health professionals learn more about attraction to minors and to consider the effects of stereotyping, stigma and fear.”

"Minor-attracted people". It would be funny if it weren't so hideously, sickeningly degenerate.

In 1998 The APA issued a report claiming “that the ‘negative potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated’ and that ‘the vast majority of both men and women reported no negative sexual effects from childhood sexual abuse experiences.”

This is pure, unadulterated hooey. We are a sick, sick nation if we let this move even one, tiny, baby step forward. This must stop. Now.

But wait. Pedophiles...and any and all other sexual deviants, are already protected by our government.

Pedophilia has already been granted protected status by the Federal Government. The Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act lists “sexual orientation” as a protected class; however, it does not define the term.

Republicans attempted to add an amendment specifying that “pedophilia is not covered as an orientation;” however, the amendment was defeated by Democrats. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) stated that all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law. “This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these ‘philias’ and fetishes and ‘isms’ that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule.”

Get that? "...all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected..." All. No distinction. No line in the sand. No bridge too far. No point at which you are outraged and want to throw up at the ungodly hideousness of it all.

When the laws against sodomy were struck down, they weren't being used to persecute gays, and they hadn't been used against gays for decades. But they did stand as a legal line of demarcation beyond which we, as a society, could not go. When they were struck down, sexual behavior was no longer seen as properly regulated by the law. It was a brave new world. Anyone could do anything with anyone at any time. Of course everyone said that was crazy talk.

Who's crazy now?

I am angry. Really, really angry. The final destruction of society will be evidenced in our willingness to sacrifice our own children to our basest, more prurient natures. We already can kill them as they attempt to draw their first breath under the protection of the law. Why not prey on them once they are born?

This is pure evil. There is no other word for it.

Mystery Solved.

The Breaking Point

A nun walked into the Mother Superior's office and plunked down into a chair. She let out a sigh heavy with frustration.

'What troubles you, Sister?' asked the Mother Superior. 'I thought this was the day you spent with your family.'

'It was,' sighed the Sister. 'And I went to play golf with my brother. We try to play golf as often as we can. You know I was quite a talented golfer before I devoted my life to Christ.'

'I seem to recall that,' the Mother Superior agreed. 'So I take it your day of recreation was not totally relaxing?'

'Far from it,' snorted the Sister. 'In fact, I even took the Lord's name in vain today!'

'Goodness, Sister!' gasped the Mother Superior, astonished. 'You must tell me all about it!'

'Well, we were on the fifth tee... and this hole is a monster, Mother Superior - 540 yard Par 5, with a nasty dog leg left and a hidden green....and I hit the drive of my life. I creamed it. The sweetest swing I ever made. And it's flying straight and true, right along the line I wanted...and it hits a bird in mid-flight!'

'Oh my!' commiserated the Mother. 'How unfortunate! But surely that didn't make you blaspheme, Sister!'

'No, that wasn't it,' admitted Sister. 'While I was still trying to fathom what had happened, this squirrel runs out of the woods, grabs my ball and runs off down the fairway!'

'Oh, that would have made me blaspheme!' sympathized the Mother.

'But I didn't, Mother!' sobbed the Sister. 'And I was so proud of myself! And while I was pondering whether this was a sign from God, this hawk swoops out of the sky and grabs the squirrel and flies off, with my ball still clutched in his paws!'

'So that's when you cursed,' said the Mother with a knowing smile.

'Nope, that wasn't it either,' cried the Sister, anguished, 'because as the hawk started to fly out of sight, the squirrel started struggling, and the hawk dropped him right there on the green, and the ball popped out of his paws and rolled to about 18 inches from the cup!'

Mother Superior sat back in her chair, folded her arms across her chest, fixed the Sister with a baleful stare and said...

'You missed the fuckin' putt, didn't you?'

This is my church.

It's a lovely day and I'm going riding.

Have a great Sunday!!!

Oh...and if you've a mind to, the final stadium jumping phase of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event is live streaming here. Yesterday's cross country is available in segmented videos at the USEF Network website as well.

Kick on!

Even a blind chicken gets a few acorns.

After all the ridiculously stupid things Maher has said over the last few years, he was due for an "acorn." The kernel of truth, if you will.

"You're wrong about that. And you're wrong about your facts. Now, obviously, most Muslim people are not terrorists. But ask most Muslim people in the world if you insult the Prophet, do you have what's coming to ya?" 

This is it in a nutshell, kittens. All other arguments, protestations, accusations of intolerance shown by other religions, past behavior, historical references -- all of it -- is quite simply bullshit. Islam does not require that every single practicing Muslim throw a bomb or slit a throat, but it DOES require that every single practicing Muslim BELIEVE that bomb throwing and throat slitting are right and proper according to the LAWS of their religion.

Point out the passages in the Bible where it says that a Christian should behead, maim, rape, pillage, terrorize or in any way harm someone for their faith or lack thereof.  I'll wait.

Oh...and while I'm waiting, does anyone else find it hysterically funny that the Director for the Center of Hate and Extremism is himself insinuating that we should hate -- with extremism -- Pamela Geller, author of the well known blog, Atlas Shrugs, by calling her an Islamophobe without even attempting to offer any context or facts for his accusation? Seems we are supposed to take him at his word.  

HAHAHAHA! Is irony always completely lost on liberals?

With Easter over, contemplating the idea of immortality and sin.

I know many religions teach that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and that He shed His blood to pay our debt. Heretical as this may be, I don't believe this is accurate. I believe Jesus died because we were too stupid to figure out what He was trying to teach us. One might say His choice of death was a bit theatrical, but for the times it was pretty normal. You have to admit being officially sentenced by a Roman governor and then executed would insure that the event would be recorded for history. Thousands of years later no one can question whether it happened or not. We've got Pontius Pilate and the Romans and the whole cast of characters involved and on record, so it happened...even though there were no pictures possible at the time. What good would it have done if Jesus had died and been resurrected just for His loyal followers? Who would have cared in 30 years...50? No one. He would have been forgotten. An official death was necessary to make His point...for all time.

Because we are just that stupid. We needed something over-the-top, miraculous, memorable to penetrate our thick skulls. Unfortunately for the Son of God, it was not a fun way to teach a very important lesson. It kinda sucked, actually. That's where His love for us came in. I would have said, "Are you joking? I have to do what for these retards? I've been showing them the truth for THREE YEARS...fishes and loaves, calming the waters, healings, Lazarus...and they just don't get it. Now I'm expected to do what???"

But that's why Jesus was the real deal. And I'm not.

Here is an interesting video of a orthopedic surgeon getting a glimpse of what Jesus was trying to tell us. We really should start paying attention. We're not getting any younger.

Hoppy Easter

You were expecting something serious?

Forgiveness starts with understanding.

Bloody Brilliant

Joan of Argghh at Primordial Slack has written a post that everyone MUST read. Right now. And read all the links, mostly to Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, who is also brilliant.

This is where she nails it:

The Muslim dilemma is as old as time itself, and their corporate history is our own spiritual condition writ personal. Much of that condition may be ascribed to generational abuses and cruelties, but so much of it is chosen freely, or mindlessly. However arrived at, it’s easily preferred because it requires so little accountability, so little thought or self-reflection. It’s an on/off switch that reacts to one thing: power.

To the outside observer accustomed to self-direction, the Muslim way of life seems miserable, cruel and oppressive. Inside that Borg-swarm mentality, however, it is an uncomplicated life when it’s not a hungry one. To be a part of the swarm is to move on pure reflex. No need to tax the thought processes, the auto-pilot of the culture is much to be preferred to the exhaustion of thoughtful reflection upon one’s existential dilemma.

I have spent far too many hours contemplating how whole nations could become so absorbed by a belief that they could allow it to take them down into Hell and not pause, just for a minute, and ask, "Hey, this doesn't even FEEL good? What are we doing?"

I believe adamantly that every single thing we do as creatures, mammals, humans is because we belief there is some benefit. No matter how crazy, self-destructive, non-productive or just plain nutty something is, we do it because we believe it has a benefit to us. No one ever does anything that is absolutely believed to be without benefit. Even Jeffrey Dahmer had his reasons.

So when you look at a belief system like Islam which has delivered nothing but misery to its followers for CENTURIES, you have to start wondering, "What is UP with that?"

Joan nails it.

Islam provides the sweet absolution of absolute conformity to the collective. Nothing is your fault because nothing is under your control. Therefore nothing requires any effort; there is no risk. And all rewards imaginable are promised if you just lose yourself to the group. Sweet submission. It is no wonder that Islam does not mean "peace", it means "submission."

So go read it. All of it. 

People, this is why my head explodes.

I live a dual life. In my "normal" life my husband and I own a company and interact with people on Facebook, Twitter, our website, and a blog that promotes our company to our customers. In this life I am apolitical. In other words, I keep my mouth shut and my fingers OFF the keyboards except to be a good little company rep. I know...I know...it would seem impossible..and it nearly is. The price of my restraint is my head routinely blows right off my shoulders.

Messy. If this keeps up, I'm going to get a housekeeper.

As my alter ego, I have a personal Facebook account in our company's name, as well as a corporate page. On the "personal" page, I have to endure posts day after day that make me WISH the result would be -- instantaneously -- THIS! ^^^^  Please. Dear God. Misery. Sweet release. Oblivion.

One post came through today. This from an outspoken liberal.

I read this and I wanted to laugh through the reflexive, involuntary screaming. This is Liberalism 101. You couldn't wrap liberalism and all its disastrous beliefs up with a prettier ribbon. But the woman who posted it...didn't get it! She thought this described conservatives.

And I couldn't say a thing.

SPLAT! My head. Gone.

WEALTH WITHOUT WORK -- the welfare state
PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE -- War on Women for free birth control and unrestricted abortions
KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT CHARACTER -- overeducated intellectuals
BUSINESS WITHOUT ETHICS -- the corruption of big business aligned with big government
SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY -- liberals don't even LIKE humanity, it's only SCIENCE!
RELIGION WITHOUT SACRIFICE -- Deepak Chopra. 'Nuff said.
POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE -- President Precious Drone-Strike 18-Hole (thanks Rachel, that was brilliant!)

What am I missing? How do liberals point the finger at others for the very things they have endorsed, supported, FOUGHT FOR for decades? How?

I would be drinking right now, but my head has not regenerated like a lizard tail.

Looking for wisdom and inner peace on Sunday...

...but, if not, the hat will do.

I never get away with anything.

It's Sunday Morning

Think about it. That is exactly the answer we should all give.

Spiritual vs. Realistic

First, the more spiritual take...

Now, the same idea, only more realistic...

Same song; different words. And I'm just a lot more likely to stick my tongue out. Besides, serene isn't a good look for me.