HA HA Maxine Waters claims 700 Billion people will lose their health care. Time for this bitch to be led off to the home for the mentally bewildered.

Feeling a little better at least well enough to copy and paste one of Ron’s rants. In spite of the pain, I managed to get to sleep since I was dead tired and then had the pain incorporated into my dreams. Weird.

Ron on.

Still havin trouble figurin out what the hell the left WANTS. I know they don’t like Trump and wanna get shet of him, but then what next? Do they want Pence? Or do they just wanna make the leap to repeal 22 and re-install the Magic Negro, who did SO much for blacks, economic stability, worldwide prestige, national security, and national debt reduction.

And I’m really weary of all the goddam gender bewilderment goin on today. Wholly Freakin Wow! What percentage of the population is either trans or homosexual? Anybody know fer shure? Betcha you check ‘n’ you’ll find it’s W-A-Y under 10% . . . in fact, closer to 2 or 3%, overall, including the whole category of non-heteros. The transgender community is less than 1%, BTW, down around .3%.

Listening to the noise on the news, tho, you’d get the impression that at LEAST a third of Americans are gay, lesbian, bi, tranny, or whatever. And if you watch TV, you’ll be convinced that half the country is black, when only 13% are Amfricans.

So . . . what does that mean, arithmetically – well, obviously over 90%, prob’ly closer to 95%, has very traditional habits and customs where marriage and child-rearing are concerned. Which begs the question . . . in a free society, why is less than 5% of the population making all the rules for bathrooms, customer service, gender identity, pronoun usage, and so on?

Now, I realize that most gays/lesbians/trans have no control over what they are and how they feel in terms of sex or gender or behavior, and most of them live their lives quietly, respectably, without annoying or attacking straights. It’s kinda like being left-handed, or tall, or dwarfed, or red-haired – not a whole helluva lot an individual can do about it.

But left-handed or bald or green-eyed people don’t demand special treatment and insist that society accede or conform to their particular needs. Historically, and as a rule, they either adapt to the dominant behavioral paradigms or join enclaves where their non-traditional attitudes and behaviors are understood and welcomed, birds of a feather type thing.

I just don’t think that making a big public deal out of demanding that 90 to 95% of the population acquiesce to the special needs of the very small minority when it comes to marriage, restrooms, free speech, and reserving the right to refuse service to anybody you damned well please is the best strategy in the long run. And I can see NO reason for punishing a Christian baker for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex couple. How goddam difficult would it be to just go find another friggin baker? Why put the guy out of business for having a religious conviction?

Frankly, I don’t feel the slightest bit enlightened by the constant bombardment from the media broadcasting Bruce Jenner’s gender bewilderment. BFD! I’m sure he’s had some inner turmoil over it thru the years, but Jesus Christ, who HASN’T had some indecision and angst about SOMEthing in his own life – business, marriage, loss of loved one, disfigurement, amputation, sexual dysfunction, congenital abnormality, 6 toes, spina bifida, birthmarks . . . . . . . .

Dammit, a check of Jenner’s DNA will show one X and one Y chromosome, and Chaz Bono’s will show two Xs. All the surgery in the Mayo Clinic ain’t gonna change that. This country has MUCH bigger fish to fry than what Jenner does or doesn’t have between his legs, and I’m about as interested in the final resolution of his sexuality as I am in the bottom line on Hillary’s election failure or the Trump/Russian collusion absurdity. And that goes for the photographs, too.

What exactly are we accomplishing by inconveniencing the great majority of the society by rules and special considerations for less than 5% of the people? How exactly would we be better off if the government was the single payer for ALL health care, ALL education, ALL social justice demands? What DOES the BLM actually want, a splinter group of a few thousand destroying property and disrupting business, mostly in black neighborhoods? Who profits?

I grew up in small-town America where we never locked our doors at night and didn’t even carry house keys when we went somewhere. We didn’t have cops in our schools, and our crossing guards weren’t taxpayer-funded adults but 11-yr-old kids with web belts and little badges, smart enough to help 6-yr-olds get across the street.

Murder, rape, drug addiction, grand theft, terrorism . . . those happened only in the big cities, or in the minds of the people who wrote for movies and television. And everybody knew which restroom to use and how to mind their own goddam business and stop asserting personal rights where the other person’s began.

We have puh-LENTY of laws concerning public indecency, drugs, mayhem, immigration, assault, theft, public nuisance, even terrorism . . . but we don’t enFORCE the damned things. If you trashed a police car and set fire to a pharmacy where I grew up, you’d find your ass properly and repeatedly kicked before landing in jail for a very long time. Today that simply doesn’t happen because of “freedom of speech” and “social justice.”

Well . . . social justice don’t feed the kitty. Wars aren’t won by Miranda rights or 5th Amendment protection or Political Correctness. They’re won by tired, dirty, hungry, frustrated grunts in strange situations far from home with boots, guns, bullets, and strong leaders . . . and strong convictions.

People in the coastal megalopolises, including Chicongo, STILL don’t understand why WE, the flyover majority, don’t get it and how wonderful it was to have an incompetent half-breed Kenyan as PotUS and what a travesty it is that we denied ourselves the glory of an allegedly female PotUS to follow his lead in so MANY marvelous adventures, both foreign and domestic.

And those coastal megalopolises, including Chicongo, are STILL where most of the crimes, terrorism, and drug problems originate. Hey, Noo Yaw . . . Chi-town . . . City of the Angels – we have rights, too. Stop exporting your friggin failed socialism and political correctness to the heartland. Clean up your own neighborhoods and take a long, adult, critical look at the leadership which has taken you to debt, depravity, drugs, and deadbeats. Quit pampering the assholes and start takin names and kickin ass on troublemakers and parasites. Why should people who live in and tolerate crime, corruption, and fraud be allowed to elect government officials for the rest of us on a national basis?

And don’t come to small-town American to see for yourself how to do it. Just stay where you are ‘til you get your act together. We’ll fax you instructions on how to hire the proper leadership and fire the criminals in city hall. And D.C. . . . . you might wanna take a long, hard look at term and age limits for legislators and jurists, kinda similar to that 22nd Amendment thingie.

O.K. Rant out. Yes, I feel better now.

Ron off.

Got another pain episode. At least I know what kicked this one off. Too tired to post anything. Not even one of Ron’s Rants. Haven’t slept much but I’m tired enough that I may finally get to sleep this off. We’ll see.

Howza ’bout that collision between the container ship and the USN destroyer in Japan? How could that happen? Simple. Incompetence. The captain was prolly asleep in his sea cabin but he’s ultimately responsible so his career is over. Depending on how far the shit rolled down hill the XO might be done. Certainly the OOD (Officer of the Deck) is finished.

I don’t know how things work today but 50 years ago when I was in the Navy the following would have happened.

1. The tube jockey in CIC would have spotted the contact and put a mark on top of it with a grease pencil.
2. Two minutes later, he would have put another mark on top of it.
3. Two minutes after that he would have put a third mark on it and drawn a line through the three marks past the center of the screen. That would have given him the range and bearing of the CPA (closest point of approach.)
4. Meanwhile he would have given the range and bearing of each mark to one of his buddies who would have put them on a maneuvering board (or if he was by himself like we were on the Iredell County he would have put marks on the maneuvering board himself). It would only take another minute to figger out the course and speed using simple geometry, a parallel rule, and a pair of dividers.
5. Then the tube jockey would say over his sound powered phones, “Conn Combat. Contact designated (designation) bearing (the bearing) distance (the distance) CPA (number of yards and bearing to CPA) Course (the course) speed (the speed).”
6. This info would be passed to the OOD who would now take appropriate action. There was also a radar repeater on the Conn so the OOD could easily figger out CPA all by himself. Even officers can do it.

All of this should take no more than eight minutes if your radar dudes have anything on the ball. Hell, I was an ET and I could do this shit in eight minutes easy.

What prolly happened was there was an ensign on his first deployment standing OOD and he figgered he wasn’t gonna turn aside for any ship. This is the US Navy. I know the type.

Back in 1967 we were traveling from Long Beach back to San Diego. I happened to be in CIC when a whole crap load of contacts appeared on the radar repeater. We had a snot nosed ensign who wanted course, speed, and CPA of every single contact. There were over 40 of them. It was a freakin’ sailboat race. We told him that and said he might want to consider not driving through the middle of a sailboat race and sail had right of way over power. Didn’t do a bit of good. He chugged right through the race at twelve knots. How we managed not to hit any of the sailboats was a stroke of luck. We did get a lot of fingers from the sailors. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when the Captain chewed his ass out. I’m sure the Navy heard from the sailing association.

I figger sumpin’ like that happened in Japan. How can a destroyer not avoid a container ship? Especially with all of the warnings unless the dudes in CIC were asleep and the OOD was totally incompetent.

Any squids wanna check in?

Here’s an interesting fact about the 6th District race in Georgia. In 2016 a Dimocrat named Rodney Stooksbury, who some people think might not even exist, spent 0$ running against Tom Price. He received 124,917 votes. The Dimocrats and Jon Osshole spent $30 million and he received 124,893. All that money and all of that campaigning for 34 less votes. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Talk about flushing money down the toilet. I’m sporting a big ol’ schadenboner!

Please Dimocrats do not replace Nancy Pelosi. I’m begging you. Take the party further to the left. Don’t run phony centrists like Osshole. Run rat bastard commies!

Ya mean “nigger”? Or maybe it’s “nigga”. Just like it’s OK for Dimocrats to lie, cheat, steal, commit murder (the Floater), and be virulent racists (Robert Byrd Kleagle of the KKK) it’s OK for Negros to use “nigger” and “nigga”. It’s in the Constitution somewhere right there beside abortion and gay marriage.

From Russ P.

This was one of my friend Cliff’s favorite bands back in the late 60’s early 70’s. The only original member is the dude on guitar and vocals. Jimmy Kunes who was lead singer for Savoy Brown for a year is now the lead singer for my all time favorite boogie band, Cactus.

Here is Cliff’s favorite Savoy Brown song. I don’t know why we never saw them live.

Compare this with the shit they call rock nowadays. Don’t even get me started on rap “music”. NWA in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Neil E. sent me this suggestion for Saturday Guitar.

Wow!

I really miss blue water sailing. Before my accident I used to skipper bare boat charters in the British Virgin Islands. Unfortunately, I never had a bare lady like this one on the sailboat. (more…)