10:42 – We’re working today on getting the downstairs better organized and on making up chemicals and filling bottles for science kits.
More primary elections today, none of which matter in any real sense. No matter what, we’re going to end up with two psychopaths in the November election.
Have we ever had a president who wasn’t a psychopath?
Rick in Portland
Have I been hanging out here for too long? In a Trump vs. Clinton contest or a Trump vs. Sanders contest I’m thinking of voting for Gary Johnson.
Jefferson, certainly. Washington, who turned down the kingship. Maybe some other early presidents. Starting with Jackson, I doubt it.
Johnson is a libertarian. Real libertarians are, by definition, not psychopaths. They neither want anyone controlling them nor to control others.
“Have we ever had a president who wasn’t a psychopath?”
Added to RBT’s short list: Grover Cleveland, our best President. Twice.
“Real libertarians are, by definition, not psychopaths.”
Usually true. But have you ever witnessed an argument between two or more libertarians on some fine and wickedly obscure arcana of economic theory?
Sunny today and in the lower teens for now, may rocket up into the twenties later, and the weather liars inform us of a very messy snow-sleet-rain-snow storm coming our way late tonight, making tomorrow’s commuting a horror, which I don’t have to worry about, lol-not, and dumping four to eight inches on us. One of the radio chatterboxes jokingly wondered how it is we’re finally getting a winta storm up this way and it waits until friggin’ March to hit us. But this is not unusual in the slightest; we’ve had monster snowstorms in March, April and May, and I’ve seen snow squalls in mountain passes in May and June. Last freeze date for planting is a total crap shoot.
Had to get blood drawn for lab tests at the VA down in Burlap early this AM and on the way back I stopped off to vote; local offices and issues, but since we had to choose between a Dumbocrat or Redumblican ballot, I grabbed the latter and wrote in “Patrick J. Buchanan” per usual. The turnout was heavy and steady, just as I predicted a while back after our town’s special election, where hardly anyone showed up, for actual fucking local issues, like the highway department building and salt shed proposals. Sure enough, for the Sock Puppet celebrity contest, so-called, they come out in droves. Morons. Cretins. I can’t wait to see the turnout figures in the local nooz rag tomorrow; I bet it’s at least ten times what the special election brought out.
And walking out to the parking lot to the cah, I was almost run over by some sunglasses-wearing beotch treating the corner like she was at Le Mans and looking at me like I was the lunatic. She maybe never got the word that pedestrians up here are as deities when in the road. I realize I’m hard to miss at nearly six and a half feet tall and WAY over 200 pounds…
Speaking of weight; wife reports that her entire class down there in eastern KY is morbidly obese, many over 400 pounds and up. A guy at her hotel told her the water is bad there and peeps swill soda pop and other junk and just blow right up. Wife was also squicked out a bit by the topography in driving from Lexington to her training site, across coal country, one deep holler after another. The class is getting a kick out of her north-country NY accent and she told them they haven’t lived until they’ve heard mine. I tone it down up here but when on trips back down to MA, like I’ll be taking again next month, it gets pretty thick again the closer I get to the state line. Wife thinks it’s funny as chit.
I may write in Pat Paulsen
Mr. Paulsen became a household name in 1968 when he announced on ”The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” that he was running for President under the Straight Talking American Government Party, or the S.T.A.G. Party.
The joke took on a life of its own, as he campaigned in one election after another, using slogans like ”We Cannot Stand Pat,” ”We Can Be Decisive, Probably,” and ”United We Sit.” At last summer’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he promised: ”If elected, I will win.”
I’ll get my fill of politics today so how about a good dog story to cheers us all up
http://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/this-dog-looks-very-cool-while-on-the-job-keeping-airport-ru#.xwLdn72NGR
I was gonna train our dog to chase away bill collectors, lawyers, politicians, financiers, banksters and criminals (but I repeat myself) but there’s just one problem: he’s a golden retriever. Nice for retrieving dead waterfowl and that’s about it.
Oh, forgot to mention; a dozen or more town offices were uncontested or no one was running, so I may just take a shot at one of them this year, besides the usual meatspace activities of attending various town meetings.
And on the radio nooz they said that the Sanders crowd was having a rally down in Essex or Essex Junction today at the Champlain Fairgrounds complex and the Cankles mob was gonna be doing their “watch” party at the phony Irish bar in Burlap. I wish I’d known about the latter deal as I would have been sorely tempted to play some dirty tricks, such as taping shrimp and sardines to the undersides of chairs a couple of days in advance.
Lots of fun reading here:
http://www.woodpilereport.com/html/index-416.htm
One of the tidbit links:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/23/the-gun-grabbers-are-coming-lexington-massachusetts-now-faces-semi-automatic-gun-confiscation/
Truly obscene. And once again, bastard that I am, I note the surname of the prime instigator and his employment at Harvard. Don’t these fucking assholes have anything else to DO??
such as taping shrimp and sardines to the undersides of chairs a couple of days in advance
Or just let me know a day before so I could stock on Taco Bell fare and show up incognito.
In celebration of the gun grabbers, I may have gotten a new maroon AR-15 today in 223 Wylde. With the serial number of TAMU (insert my graduation year here for the digits 5, 6, 7, and 8). From Texian Firearms.
http://texags.com/forums/34/topics/2626580
Definitely a scary looking gun.
Another aromatic idea from Comrade Ray! Excellent! We have a Taco Bell up here near the Saint Albans/Swanton town line, very near the interstate on-ramps. Man, I wish I’d known about that event! I would have bagged up several pounds of shrimp and sardines and begun taping them to chairs at that place in advance, and then I woulda loaded up on Taco Bell stuff and washed it down with Mug Root Beer and headed on down to the event, with my long ponytail, beard and Cankles buttons.
“In celebration of the gun grabbers, I may have gotten a new maroon AR-15 today in 223 Wylde.”
MAROON??? .223 Wylde??? Going after prairie dawgs?
I’ll be cutting my own serial numbers eventually, thank you very much.
Anyone try Cerakote on their stuff by any chance? How about Leupold optics?
My alma mater is Texas A&M University, colors are maroon and white.
.223 Wylde is a tight 5.56. Shoots a standard .223 or 5.56 cartridge as the only difference is in the firing chamber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Wylde
Aha. My alma mater is the USAF, so I guess I could get one in AF blue. But wait–I was in the Army, too, so maybe OD green would be a much smahta choice. I’m thinking about Cerakoting one of my toyz in some shade of green or brown; I was looking out at our wunnerful early March landscape here just now and recalling that that is how it looks a good six months of the year; brown, with no leaves on the trees, at least outside of the conifers. But it’s mostly brown, the trees and the mud, often frozen, under the snow and ice. My old Woodland Camo doesn’t really fit up here like it would further south. And neither does that stupid-looking Army Digital. Or zebra stripes.
Here’s some Taki for this afternoon:
“It seems we normal types never get a break.”
“http://takimag.com/article/out_of_bounds_taki/print#axzz41gkssF4b”
The Western world continues to go completely batshit crazy. Or at least the prevailing zeitgeist does.
Here I sit broken hearted tried to… in LA. The conference folks told us we can’t sell books until Thursday, so I have nothing to do (well, I can read the ton of ebooks I brought). Maybe I’ll set up a book stand up in the lobby with a tin cup to keep busy. MrsAtoz and I had breakfast in the little cafe, only $80, what a bargain! I brought a case of aqua and 3 gallons of distilled for drinking. The hotel can shove their $2 a bottle water. Ha! The hotel is right next to LAX. Sweet! I’m looking at the smog covered runway right now. I guess you get used to it after 2-3 years. lol!
Yeah, I have slack time like that while waiting at various places, such as an hour this morning at the VA, or while wife is teaching her classes when we hit Woosta, MA and staying at an air-b-n-b joint in the little town where I learned to read, write and do ‘rithmetic and socialize with other little brats, Whitinsville. So I always bring my Kindle Fire, on which I have about a hundred books. And I can check email with it and surf the web with one of three browsers, including FF, Silk and Chrome. Or run Pandora on it through the Bluetooth stereo speakers.
I truly hope dat breakfast was worth eighty bucks, yikes. I’d have to have one of my big ol’ manly “farmers” breakfasts with a good toot of blow on the table and speaking of blow…but never mind.
“I’m looking at the smog covered runway right now. I guess you get used to it after 2-3 years. ”
Nice. Youse sure know how to live out there! I remember being up in the San Gabriel mountains over forty years ago and looking down at the greater L.A. basin and it was covered THEN with a brown smog haze. Wife gets back here after various trips around the country, what with the aircraft and hotel air, plus commuting traffic, and to her it’s like breathing pure oxygen on arrival in the great Green Mountain State. It takes her a couple of days to wind down and re-acclimate herself.
Lots of journalists beginning to talk about Trump rolling the Super Tuesday table. If so, the race is over.
Which race? The Repub side of the Party? They can still find a way to dump Trump. These ain’t dolts just fallen off the turnip truck or banana boat; they’re slick political operators. If the fix is in to LOSE to Cankles, which I suspect, they’ll get rid of him somehow and push Cruz or Mittens forward, guaranteed losses. Or the numbers may be such now that the nabobs might figure they’ll swallow it and run Trump and hope to control him later.
As RBT said earlier; either way we get another psychopath Sock Puppet in the WH to pretend to run the country.
That name is a microaggression. It should be changed to Checkyourprivilegeville.
Couple of local morons:
“In Franklin County, the race for president drew St. Albans City voters from across the political spectrum to the polls.”Bernie’s the man we need for Vermont. We need him for everywhere. Actually he’s got good ideas and I agree with everything he does,” said Weltha Cross of St. Albans.”I voted for Marco Rubio,” said Lincoln Barbieri of St. Albans. “I think if anybody has the ability to get both parties together, he would be the best candidate.”
Dolts. I will put them to work in the fields after the revolution, thus stealing a page from the Khmer Rouge playbook.
[snip] I’m looking at the smog covered runway right now. [snip]
Probably 20 years ago I was visiting a good friend who was living (and still does) out there. At the time he was living in one of the small beach towns south of LAX. It was possible to watch planes take off and disappear into the brown scum they call air. And the beach was more or less the same nasty brown color. Yech!
“That name is a microaggression. It should be changed to Checkyourprivilegeville.”
Haha, fah from it; it’s yet another depressed New England mill town; the Whitin family built the mills there and my dad worked at Whitin Machine Works down the street from us; our back yard extended into a big swampy area still there and still known today as “The Badlands.” It was, and still is, mostly working-class slobs, very few of whom are in any sense “privileged.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitinsville,_Massachusetts
The article mentions how many Irish there are there, but I mainly remember the Armenians, French-Canadians and Dutch kids. Further west toward Springfield you find more of them plus Polish. As old New England Yankees, like the Whitin family, we kinda stood out at the time. We were also Episcopalians, and the majority were by fah Roman Catholic.
I woulda loaded up on Taco Bell stuff and washed it down with Mug Root Beer and headed on down to the event, with my long ponytail, beard and Cankles buttons.
So, fit right in?
The liberal media keeps trying to claim T-rump the winner. He’s the only one the polls show Cankles beating. I’m almost ready to buy the idea that he’s a ruse by the Clintons.
I still say if you’re getting about one third and not a solid majority, or at least approaching 50%, you’re not winning.
There’s nothing good about him. He’s a con man, an egotist and really not too well educated no matter what he says. I can’t believe anyone, no matter how fed up you are, can support him.
“So, fit right in?”
Hahd to say; you’d think so, up here, but my age and demeanor would likely give me away; I still have, after thirty years, the cop stare and gait and peeps around me pick that up right away. Despite Visigoth appearance. That crowd at the Cankles mob site is probably mostly middle-aged harpies who just want a vagina in the WH, although I suspect they’re really stretching it when it comes to their idol, and the usual crew of besotted and submissive metrosexual cretins and hipsters. It must be tough for them, because a lot of the hipster and hippie types are backing Bernie the Bolshevik.
“I’m almost ready to buy the idea that he’s a ruse by the Clintons.”
And I think Sanders is the Klintons’ ruse. I dunno about those polls as any of the other Repubs besides Trump would lose badly to Cankles; they don’t come across very well at all and they’re in low percents. I agree, though, Trump ought to be pulling a solid majority by now to be considered winning away with it.
“There’s nothing good about him. He’s a con man, an egotist and really not too well educated no matter what he says. I can’t believe anyone, no matter how fed up you are, can support him.”
+100
It goes back to what I said before; we have no one. And what RBT said before; a choice of psychopaths. If you get down to saying “which one would do the least damage” or “which one is the lesser evil” you run into the same old crap again. Once they get in, anything they said or claimed out here at this stage goes right out the window. It must have been a shock to all the Obola acolytes and fans to see him dump them under the bus almost immediately and continue to do so. Ditto back in ancient times when the elder Bush war criminal blurted “Read my lips,” and almost right away did what he said he wouldn’t ever do. Or Wilson telling American mothers he wouldn’t send their boys off to a foreign war.
This system doesn’t work for us anymore; we work for it, and that’s just blatantly and self-evidently wrong. Time to break up the Empire and go our separate ways and on to our local towns and communities and regions seceding, for all practical purposes, from it. Do it in as many ways as possible now and hope that it will come about de facto eventually, and peacefully.
LA and the South Coast Air Quality Management District have done a great job cleaning up the air in the LA basin. A really truly stunning job. Not that it’s fresh and clean, but soooo much better. And they only needed to trample on the constitution and property rights, and institute a whole crapton of fascist jackbootery…. But it did work. Drove out business and industry, but it worked.
I lived for years in the landing pattern at San Diego International Airport, only a few blocks away. Got to the point I no longer even heard the planes, and the exhaust soot smelled like home. Seriously, once I got off a plane in Vegas, and it smelled like home on the runway. It was kind of overwhelming.
One of the reasons I left LA was a Dr visit, where I asked about the state of my sinuses and the Dr replied that I didn’t have any problems “that the rest of the people living in LA didn’t have.” In other words, just living there was bad for your health. Some weekends we’d get up into the Angeles Crest Nat’l Forest and rock climb, and the difference being above the smog level made was incredible. Crisp clear pine scented air, and below you a grey brown soup filled all the valleys.
Steady stream of voters and some crowded polling places here in Houston. I guess we’ll see what the news says. If Cruz can’t win here, he’s done.
nick
Living in any huge metro area is bad for your health, on several levels, and increasingly so as time passes.
Rumor has it, per Roger Stone, et. al., that if Rubio can’t win his home state, he’s out and Romney’s back in it.
Wrote the above before I read this just now.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432178/super-tuesday-republican-convention-will-decide-nomination
I know some of y’all don’t like NRO but I think this is the way it will go.
TEXAS TURNOUT THROUGH THE ROOF!… Officials Running Out of Ballots, Wait Times 1.5 Hours
Well, I don’t kn ow about that, in Harris county we use the much more amenable to cheating electronic balloting….
I did see lots of traffic at other polling places, but mine was quiet. I chose the time specifically to be quiet, and wasn’t disapointed. Although, I can’t remember having 5 people behind me waiting to vote, and the woman in front of me had registered a couple of days too late to vote this time, so new voters are coming out….
ncik
“I know some of y’all don’t like NRO but I think this is the way it will go.”
Donovan is probably correct that it will be “bedlam” and confusion and rule changes all over the landscape; but he also sounds sorta desperate. They HOPE it’s bedlam and in all the confusion and media hoopla the Party can rig up some kind of candidate besides Trump to lose against Cankles, whose machine, is of course, gearing up. It should be boffo entertainment for the Moxie-and-pretzels crowd out here.
As for NR or NRO, I gave up on them a long time ago. A mix of RINO, establishment and neocon tools since they got rid of the only genuine conservatives they once had.
The VT turnout I personally witnessed or heard about was/is brisk. Polls should be closing shortly or have already closed. Maybe the local tee-vee outlets will have some figures later…oh wait…
Stats in so fah show Sanders demolishing Cankles (big surprise) and on the Stupid Half of the Party side Trump is only eight points ahead of Kasich. But this is Vermont so whaddya expect?
“it really doesn’t matter what you call them—the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter which party occupies the White House in 2017, the unelected bureaucracy that actually calls the shots will continue to do so.”
http://freedomoutpost.com/reality-check-no-matter-who-wins-the-white-house-the-new-boss-will-be-the-same-as-the-old-boss/
Looks like Chump is now only five points ahead of Kasich here; the egghead lefties here WOULD go for somebody like Kasich, of course, among the local RINO pop. The same ol’ “beautiful losers” I saw in the other Northeast states over the years. RINO is the best they can manage on the Stupid side of the Party. While neocon ex-Trotskyites run Mordor.
And the Bolshevik Sanders, from Brooklyn originally, is now at 86% to the 12% of Cankles; it must be pretty dismal down at the Irish bar tonight even without the shrimp and sardines under the seats.
In other nooz, wife told me she had been considering going to visit Butcher Holler, home of Loretta Lynn, but the class warned her off that; it ain’t coal mining anymore. Meth labs and dealers and the resulting social carnage. “Justified” country, I reckon. Just the other side of the Blue Ridge from the RBT Compound.
Community intel:
https://readfomag.com/
“The complete guide to fleeing President Donald Trump’s America”
http://www.nydailynews.com/complete-guide-fleeing-president-donald-trump-america-article-1.2549397
Better start prepping if you are so inclined.
Papoon for President!
You know he’s not insane!
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/papoon/
Wow, I had to check more than once to be sure that wasn’t an Onion article. Anywhere else, I’d assume tongue in cheek, but they seemed serious enough.
If they are, all I have to say is “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out….”
nick
Ted Cruz gave his speech tonight from the infamous “Redneck Country Club”. Otherwise known as one of our local honky tonks. My son and another one of my employees are members there:
https://theredneckcountryclub.com/
Trump and Cruz 2016!
Regarding Lexington, how come so many parts of the US are crazy rich but vote solidly Democrat?
“…the sixth wealthiest small city in the United States.”
That’s a fine question, Miles_Teg. One explanation is guilt, as fostered by the public schools, hollywood, and many other institutions. If you’re rich, you must be bad. Some of the rich are either buying indulgences or simply attempting to signal their moral virtue.
Another way to look at it is as a refutation of the notion that wealth and intelligence go together. Yes, there’s a correlation, but it’s by no means absolute.