Humor and politics in the Toledo area and around the world. Pop a few Rolaids, crack a beer and enjoy! Put your thick skin on if you're easily offended and, be warned, the oppinion and commentary here hit close to the edge are unpolished and honest. Feel free to disagree!
My son's school had a "primer" for the district's 6th graders to all attend on Friday. As a parent and, from experience of going myself and, sending my 3 older kids off to 6th grade camp, I assumed it was going to be an informational type meeting that tells the kids what to expect from leaving home for a week for the first time by themselves.
Nope!
It was a "primer" alright...my son was subjected to activities such as "hug tag" where all the kids are on the gym floor while music plays and when it stops...they have to be hugging the first kid they get their hands on or, be "frozen"...IE "bad". It didn't matter who you were hugging...boys with boys...just so long as you didn't end up "frozen" and frowned upon...and "out".
The next "activity" was touching your knees with another student and gazing into his / her eyes for a timed 2 minutes.
Next came the "anyone who has ever been bullied or, made fun of...stand up and tell your story" time.
My son said that 3 kids who nobody from his school knew, stood up and told stories about being bullied or, picked on and, began to cry halfway through their stories.
What the hell does any of that shit have to do with going to 6th grade camp? Acting gay and doing obviously gay things is good but, if you're repulsed by it..."you're bad and somethings wrong with you" and, you're just like the villians in the stories those other kids told?
What next? "If Johnny touches your weiner in the bathroom and you don't like it, somethings wrong with you" indoctrination crap?
Fucking liberals. I'm fed up with the crap they try to push on adults but, when they start trying to ram their shit down the throats of kids, I draw the fucking line.
My son was told that the function was "to enhance the kids in mixing with other students as opposed to spending the week hanging with their friends."
Guess what? Kids who decide to go to the archery range or, ride horses or, go hiking...ARE going to meet other kids due to shared interests!
And this entire "school bully" bullshit just teaches kids to continue to be cowards while using "the government" as their crutch. We're breeding the next generation of anonymus tipsters to every problem people have deep into adulthood.
I myself, saw the former "school bully" from my own school last year. He took my money...at the carwash he works at! Wanna teach kids about school bullies? Explain karma to them and, how it works!
The assholes I went to school with all seem to be 43 years old and still working entry level jobs. Karma baby...don't forget to wash the wheels!
I teach my kids that if Johnny is an asshole, stay away from Johnny! And, if Johnny is an asshole to them, kick Johnny's ass and let Johnny know the actual pecking order...backing down from Johnny and telling on him just emboldens him and gets you the "pussy" label.
As for qweers...which it seems this entire "meeting" was all about anyways, I find it disgusting that an adult agenda is being forced onto kids in the 6th grade.
Guess what? If a boy is repulsed by the idea that another boy is sexually atrracted to him, it isn't he that is the odd man out and worthy of public scorn. He's reacting in a natural way to something that isn't natural. So liberals feel the need to step in and criminalize the natural instincts of a child and force him to feel an awkward shame for being human as opposed to being a socially engineered drone who is afraid of thinking opposed to what the flock has been conditioned to think?
Liberalism and political correctness...the art of knowing better but, afraid of being honest for fear of being cast out of the flock. Going along to get along while knowing the truth is supressed in order to save feelings.
I can't see any culture surviving when it's forced to lie to itsself to save people from the bitter truths that surround it.
My 6th grader son described the "meeting" as "awkward and creepy for everyone". Everyone who didn't have an agenda to push I suppose!
About a year ago, I told one of the moonbat posters at a liberal blog about a theory I had about Iran / Islamists interrupting the flow of oil to Europe and that the Obama administration instigated "Arab spring" would have nasty results.
Naturally, the expected bombardment of slurs followed indicating their displeasure that I would concoct such a foolish theory.
Now, we have Islamist nutcakes ruling in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia that were previously stable places and, Iran cutting off it's supply of oil to Europe.
Wow...the "idiot / asshole / jerk / etc" once again correctly forecasted the outcome that the moonbats denied would happen.
I would think that after warning them the Obama's idiotic policies and ideas would result in a shitty economy and, high gas prices would have tipped them off too... but, when I said that, I was a "racist".
It must really SUCK to live in denial while watching everything you've been denying happening before your eyes!
It's gotta sting like hell after touting your boy's green energy program as the gospel only to see billions of dollars funding scam operations masquerading as "green energy" that all have one thing in common besides being scams...they were all Obama campaign doners! I believe I called those for what they were long ago too while the nut gallery cat-called from the outer rim.
I think it's funny that my moonbat friends accepted every wiki leaks that "exposed Bush" as true but, cry "liar!" at the ones that expose Obama as a fraud! Selective beliefs, selective facts! I remember certain moonbats stating that Bush would cause a civil war in Iraq...while cheering Obama while he was bombing Libya and creating anarchy with factional warfare raging today for control or, the Obama administration training, funding and, equipping subversives in Egypt which is now in a state of anarchy.
Oddly, moonbats derided anyone who questioned that Obama was a muslim as a "racist" but, looking at his mideast follies, he's replaced the goverments of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and comming soon, Syria with hardcore Islamist governments where they didn't exist before.
Why would anyone...especially a so-called liberal...who is supposed to be pro-minority, pro-gay, pro-women's rights engineer the atmosphere for those who believe in the exact opposite to gain power? Why would liberals who undoubtedly know and understand this continue to make excuses for him?
My guess is racism. Not the "racism" label a person carrys for hating people because of race but, the "racism" label that liberals have created for anyone who dares carry an independent thought apart fom the Obama worshipping flock.
You see, being pro-gay, pro-women, pro-minority's rights is hip and liberal...until Obama tosses every one of those groups under a bus and allows Islamists to seize control and openly shit on those people while liberals remain silent due to their self-imposed / defined "racism" rules where disagreeing with Obama is concerned.
Fear of another moonbat calling them a "racist" trumps their prior beliefs that women, gays, minorities, etc should be allowed to live in peace or, in some cases, live at all.
God forbid that some idiot moonbat would call me a "racist" for noticing that the Obama administration set the stage for radicals to kill or, subjugate the people I claim to stand with on any other given day and I keep my mouth shut in fear of a word I've helped paint myself AND my beliefs into a corner with.
Then again, moonbats themselves were the ones who were saying that the muslim brotherhood was some benign entity and, it was...act suprised..."racist" to call them what they are.
Any liberals out there ready to say... "Sorry, gay people...for putting you lives at risk."
"Sorry, women who have been living for decades in a moderate Egypt and, Libya for putting you in back in burkas."
"Sorry, Christians and Jews who have been living in those countries openly for decades for supporting your homes and places of worship being torched by the people we put in power!"
"Sorry for believing the propaganda of the Obama administration and it's puppets working at msnbc and cnn!"
"Sorry, female American reporter who was raped as a "western jew whore" by the Isalmaists we keep covering for!"
"Sorry, American reporters who were murdered last week for being western and white!"
"Sorry, Israelis for supporting the idiot who orchestrated the overthrow of a country you were at peace with!"
"Sorry, middle east for setting you up for Islamic rule while we libnuts in America bawl about nativity scenes!"
Odd isn't it?
Liberals will bitch, whine and, go to court over a nativity scene as if it it's a direct threat to their atheism but, will support Islamic nutcases who have not minced words about their plans for liberalism. Proof that liberals are self-destructive idiots!
They hate conservatives who will defend their right to be moronic liberals while supporting Islamic nuts who have vowed to eradicate them. Typical liberalism.
Which forces me to believe that in every country that Islam has taken hold, they must have been chock full of liberals who were willingly submissive in ordr to "prove" that they weren't "racists" or, "Islamophobes".
Liberal princples and values must sell at a cheap price since they're so easily disposable whenever the need to maintain apearances trumps their beliefs.
I.E they will sell out any belief they profess to have in order to support whatever belief they're told to have at any given time.
"Fuck the gays!" It's a worse burden to have a moonbat call me a "racist"! Pathetic! But, typical!
I was talking cars with a kid at work last night and the conversation turned on some of the cars I'd had years back.
My favorite car is, always has been and, always will be the 1969 Dodge Charger. It was my favorite when my Dad had one when I was a kid and, it was my favorite when I bought one myself the summer of 1988.
The car just had a look and a feel to it that I loved and still do.
When I bought mine, I'd scrimped $900 bucks together and, banged on the door of the guy who had it for sale, took it for a test drive and, paid for it in cash.
As soon as we got back from the bank and the title was notorized, I hopped in and was ready to go do some good old fashioned stoplight to stoplight drag racing down Glendale avenue and, the Anthony Wayne trail...after all, it was Friday night!
As I slid the shifter into drive, the guy I'd bought the car from yelled..."hey man, you're leaking something!"
Leaving the car running, I leaned out the door and looked under the car and, yes...I was leaking something...tranny fluid by the gallon it seemed!
After hauling ass home and parking in the back yard, I learned that I would not be doing any drag racing that night. The next week was spent pulling the transmission, replacing the front seal and, replacing a dead torque converter.
Never one to leave well enough alone, I noticed that a valve cover gasket was leaking...and if I'm gonna replace that, well I may as well repaint the valve covers and, that carb is crap so I may as well pull the intake and repaint it too and, toss my rebuilt thermo-quad on there while I'm at it...if you're a gearhead...you get the picture.
About a month later after fixing the trans, rebuilding the top end and a rigamaroll of other odds and ends to make it all "just right" while working nights on it in the backyard with a tarp / tent draped over the hood, a junk lamp from the basement for a light and, many forgotten cups of coffee that froze solid in the cups while I was too busy to drink them...at about 4 am one morning, it was ready to be cranked over!
I hopped in the driver's seat, got comfortable, lit a smoke and, turned the key... RRRR...rrrrr.rrrrr.rrr....click,click,click,click,click!
The fucking battery! After all that work, I'd never once considered the battery as being a weak link in the chain of insanity!
I put the battery charger on quick-fry and went in the house to warm up and grab a cup of non-frozen coffee while I waited...and ended up dozing off until 0730 and went outside to crank it up.
I turned the key and after about 10 seconds, it came to life!
I then grabbed the flashlight and looked under the car...no leaks!
Next, I was checking for valve cover leaks, air leaks, tire leaks, fuel leaks, coolant leaks...nothing! Woo-hoo!
After about 15 minutes of shock that everything was working perfectly, I put it in 1st, then 2nd, then drive to see that the tranny shifted properly...good to go!
So, what does a 18 year old kid do next? I layed a patch in the driveway! Tires screeching, tires smoking like a 4 alarm fire and, me watching my neighbor's porch lights all comming on in succession and looking out their doors pretty pissed that some asshole was smoking his tires at 8ish in the morning!
That car was my baby and, I loved driving it and, racing all the suckers at the stoplights on weekends...back when people used to just do that for fun...unlike nowadays.
The car in the picture isn't mine.
Mine was originally the same color but, in doing the body work on it, I'd sprayed the car primer gray and the hood flat primer black while saving for the funds to have it repainted in the original blue.
In August of 1990, a guy I knew wanted the car and I ended up trading it to him for a '72 Barracuda that needed it's un-original 4 speed rebuilt and, top-end work on the 440 motor that was also not the original 318 it came with...and some cash.
Long story short, girlfriend ended up pregnant on the day I got laid off from my refinery job and, I stored the car at my dad's house when I joined the army and left in the fall of 1990.
4 years, I'll be back with a pocket full of cash and, knock it back together...nope.
My Dad was sick of looking at it in his yard under a tarp after 2 years and sold it. My "4 quick years" away in the Army ended up lasting over a decade and, once back with kids and a wife to support, my mopar lust went from taking the back seat on the priority list to being a "one of these days I'll get another one" back burner ideas.
It may still be on my back burner but, gaddmmit, it's still on my stove!
The hundreds of pallets represent what the Greek government has already borrowed...which is about to double with the next bailout.
Only a complete moonbat would look at what Greece needs to borrow in order to sustain it's freebie programs and, see nothing wrong with it.
Greece is about to get it's second bailout because after getting the first one, they continued to keep on doing what they'd been doing that had bankrupted them in the first place.
If we continue to allow the democrat's ( and to some extent their enabling republican allies) moonbattish spending to continue unchecked, we'll be the next Greek tragedy being played out on the evening news. Anyone with a sound mind would want to prevent that but, all you have to do is read a few lefty blogs or, pay attention to what the OWS clowns are also saying to see that they're indeed cheering on and calling for the demise of the United States as a constitutional republic and, wish to replace it with a another slow-dying socialist system of spending and mandate infested living.
Only in moonbatland can you be mandated to piss in your own drinking water and then, mandated to believe it tastes good.
Hopefully someone here recognizes our own future being played out by the Greeks and, moves to stop it before we too have angry moonbats in the streets burning buildings and tossing bricks and firebombs at the cops "protesting" for the government to keep the handout system rolling.
Then again, the cops in America are armed with more than just shields and fire extinguishers and would probably put a cap in the ass of the first moonbat to toss a molotov cocktail their direction as would a property owner who's home or, business was being set ablaze.
Newsflash...the Greek communists and trade unions are "striking" (vandalizing everything in sight) again in opposition of losing their beloved unsustainable welfare state.
The whole thing seems insane to me since the country is going to go belly up unless the other Eurozone nations bail them out of their self-constructed mess while the communists and unionists are demanding that nothing changes...just keep right on doing the same crap that has caused the entire mess in the first place!
That seems to be a main theme with most leftists. Create an unrealistic and unsustainable model, Go deep into debt while trying to sustain it, Refuse to believe that it never works, Refuse to believe that it's too expensive, Resist trimming costs, Pretend nothing is wrong, Find scapegoats to blame problems on, And do the exact same thing all over again when it fails!
It seems to me that the Greeks have become so deeply dependent on the government freebies that they're willing to destroy Greece and lose everything before accepting the fact that their welfare state can't possibly continue. The rioters seem to think that they should get a bailout while changing nothing...as though the Eurozone will just keep sending a stipend. THAT is the entitlement mentality hard at work. We see the same style of idiots here in America who balk at the idea that their freebies could be reduced.
Sadly, America could also be seeing the same problems as the Greeks in the future if we continue down the same path we're on.
The national debt over the last 3 years has almost doubled from 8.5 trillion to just under 16 trillion...and few are asking how that is even possible! The CBO's estimate is that by 2016, we'll be hitting about 18 trillion which judging from the last 3 years, sounds a bit short.
What our government is doing is no more sustainable than what Greece is doing. We may not be in the same boat but, we're busily rowing behind them while trying to get our motor started so we can pass them. The problem for America is the fact that there is no country that can bail us out if worst comes to worst.
Obamacare and the Catholic church had a nice little pitbull / owner relationship until the church recently discovered that the rules apply to them too. In other words, the church supported something that turned right around and bit it in the ass.
I can still remember the star-struck idiots who belong to the Catholic churches here in Toledo blabbering the democrat party line about Obamacare. They foolishly believed (as many other idiots out there still seem to) that only the "good parts" of the law that they agree with will apply to them even though the law is pretty cut and dry...but who needs to read a law when the politicians who are trying to pass it are assuring you that nothing is rotten in Denmark?
The church's leadership either didn't bother to study the law or, were convinced that they would get a free pass on areas they disagreed with...as opposed to simply demanding the removal of those parts.
Now they look foolish for believing that the rattlesnake wouldn't bite them while crossing the river.
They also look foolish for ditching God and placing their faith in the word of self-serving politicians while they ignored the evidence that the populace was placing before them.
Even if you're not a Catholic or even religious, this overstep by the government should concern you because, in the mind of a politician, anything they can take from you, regardless of how small is always going to be used as the stepping stone to take something else later.
And, as witnessed over the last few years, any law that is or, has the potential to be unpopular or, unconstitutional is either buried by the media or, propagandized by the media in order to deflect possible public outrage. And, you can usually bet that if a democrat is involved in the creation of a law, there will always be crap stuffed between the pages that have nothing to do with the law or, be reflected in the law's title. The Catholic church's leadership swallowed the obamacare propaganda hook, line and, sinker and advised it's membership to support it. They're obviously just as foolish as the left wingers who seem to believe that supporting a bad idea will somehow prevent it's bad effects from touching their own values later on.
The Soviet gulags and, the Nazi concentration camps were full of idiots who supported the very ideas that came back around to bite them in the ass. Why? Because they were dumb enough to believe that whatever they advocated that would harm others, could never possibly be used on them too.
I wasn't around for the WW2 drive that encouraged Americans to plant "Victory" gardens in order to lighten the demand on the food system and, free up foodstuff for our troops abroad.
Today we have different "fronts" to fight on...inflation, high prices and, the odd chemicals that wind up as unlisted ingredients on the supermarket shelves.
My grandparents were master gardeners before there was such a thing in everyday jargon. Their yard was packed with the nicest flower beds in the neighborhood and, a vegetable garden with a bit of everything in it. In fact, while I was growing up it seemed that every older person who lived through the war all had vegetables growing all summer long. It wasn't uncommon in the fall to smell vinegar in the air that told us there were pickles being canned in someone's kitchen.
The old guy a few houses away grew tomatoes like a madman and, his wife would cook them into a sauce, can them and, send me home with an armload of tomatoes.
When they started doing this stuff back in the 1940's, many of them kept doing it years after it was a "patriotic duty" because it was also common sense and, low cost.
What does a jar of Ragu cost in the store? 3 bucks?
For about 7 bucks, you can raise enough tomatoes, garlic, onions and assorted herbs to fill about 50 mason jars of the same thing (minus the cost of the jars, lids and bands) and, have a year's worth of sauce for spaghetti, salsa, a chili add-in, etc. The only additional cost is the time you invest in it.
A tv show called Crockett's victory garden was on back in the mid 70's that catered to the old school victory gardeners and, was supposed to spur the next generation into fighting inflation and high food prices via planting a garden.
Over the last few years, I've had the space to plant some wonderfull gardens. I also had the opportunity to stop by a friend's place and pick sweetcorn and hour before we cooked it. If you've never had fresh sweetcorn, you've never really tasted sweetcorn since the sugars begin turning to starch as soon as you pick it and, after a week in a store, it isn't the same.
It's also nice to look out the window and see my kids out in the yard munching on a tomato that caught their eye as opposed to other things that kids would rather rot their teeth with.
My garden this summer should be an ass kicker since I have been composting my lawn clippings, egg shells, coffee grounds, vegatable waste, chicken and rabbit shit, straw and shaved pine in a pile that my chickens have been scratching up and I stirred with a pitchfork for the last 3 seasons. The stuff falling from the bottom through the fencing is the blackest soil I've seen in years and, contains enough worms to open a bait shop with. My tomato crop should break records this year!
LIBERALISM is a doctrine fostered by a dillusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous main stream media which holds forth the proposition that it IS entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Born and raised in south Toledo. I spent 10 years abroad in Europe while in the military. Toledo is one of those places that you miss when you're away from it for a long time but, makes you understand why you left in the first place when you've returned!
