Ronsday – Pre-Christmas Rant

What’s on Ron’s mind today?

Threw a basket of socks ‘n’ stuff into the washer, then sat down to read the news. Not a good idea . . . the news, I mean. Like, America . . . where people on welfare check their foodstamp balance on their $800 cellphones and complain about being oppressed.

And Christmas. We’ve managed to turn December 25th from a religious celebration to a deadline, or a contest to see who can be the most gravely offended by something other people are just having fun with.

And once you’ve offended a leftista, or a gay, or a lesbian, or Heaven forbid a tranny, you’ve committed a mortal, unforgivable sin which demands eternal punishment. Instead of a red letter A on your forehead, you get H, or T.

Kneeling at the pagan altar of Political Correctness . . . crouching tiger, hidden snowflake . . . these days only certain people can be targeted for shame or criticism or condemnation . . . mostly gun owners, Trump supporters, Southerners, White guys, Conservatives, Christians.

Obviously the classic liberal twit gets up each morning with a categorical imperative clamoring in his tweaked and twaddled little mind to seek out and condemn some new and exciting way to be offended

Long Jim Comey, the man with the photographic memory, sat in questioning by Congress for 3 hours about his behavior while FBI Director . . . and said over 300 times “I can’t recall” or words to that effect.

He has worked tirelessly over the past 2 years to expose the FBI as a thoroughly biased agent of the Soros-funded left and working full-time to delegitimize and unseat an elected president. That same left who work tirelessly to scrap the 2nd Amendment. “Common Sense gun control” my butt.

Oh, yeah . . . Billary’s vaunted “Evening With” tour. It is to laugh. They’re drawing smaller audiences than a cow-chip-tossing festival in Calgary. All it’s accomplishing is focusing people’s awareness of the rapist and his enabler’s inability to grasp their own anosognosia, or unawareness of their own unimportance, their denial of the reality that their sell-by dates have long since expired.

They’re not touring and inspiring people with a charity-fund drive, or to channel awareness for some noble cause, or to combat racism or misogyny. The tour is in no way inspirational in the manner of Billy Graham or Jerry Lewis or even Al Gore; it’s just to make money for them and keep their faces on the front page of the Tweety-Bird cage liner.

No one is terribly interested in hearing has-beens brag about their past activities, often magically converting misdeeds into good deeds and foxpaws into folklore. The reason Hillary’s face became so glum and cold at Shrub I’s funeral was that it finally dawned on her that it wasn’t Slick in the coffin. Had nothin to do with DJT’s arrival.

HRC seems happiest when she’s either lying or getting away with something criminal. And she wants to run for president? Yeah, right . . . during the last campaign she couldn’t even walk unassisted.

And DingleBarry . . . taking credit for the economic reversal that began as soon as he left office. I think the guy has slipped back into his old choom and crack habits. As a president, he was more wasted than a liberal arts degree from a community college in Arkansas. He seems to genuinely enjoy being wasted.

Also seems to me that over 90% of the Democrats he campaigned for in the mid-terms, LOST. Kinda like Hillary – who’s a shoe-in for the award for sustained and exemplary meritorious service in the tradition of how not to run a political campaign. Certain inductee into the loser hall of fame.

Oh, and speaking of awards, there’s Jimmah – poor guy. SO-O-O depressed over losing the WUSPY trophy to DingleBarry (Worst US President Yet).

Ah, well . . . it’s as The Regg often tells me – “Times have changed.” She spent hunnerts and hunnerts of bucks in the past week . . . not on Xmas gifts, but just food and household stuff, like TP and soaps.

And I was readin an article just a few minnitsago . . . guy complainin about prices of sports tickets and pay-per-view for “big games.” Way down at the bottom of his article was a compilation of prices on various stuff. Here’s one:

Movie ticket: $25 – Drink — $15 – Popcorn — $12 – Junior Mints — $10 – bottled water — $5 – parking the car for 3 hours — $4. (That’s over $70, for just one person.)

Jay-Zeus! I can remember gettin up before dawn, workin 10 hours for some farmer, makin $5, goin home, havin a quick bath, and takin my current girlfriend to the Avon theatre, some popcorn and a Coke and maybe a candy bar, then goin out to the drive-in restaurant at the edge of town for some burgers, fries, and a shake for each of us . . . and comin home with at least a dollar in my jeans.

Yep! Tempi cambi. And I gotta put somethin in my belly. And get them socks outta the dryer.

13 comments on “Ronsday – Pre-Christmas Rant

  1. Hillary is not running for President. She is afraid that the DOJ is going to indict her for one of her too-many-to-count felonious activities, and her immediate defense will be to scream that it’s a political move by Trump against one of his potential opponents in 2020, and she’s confident the media will back her up on that 100%. And, of course, they will, and she’ll probably get away with it.

    But in order to do that she has to keep herself in the limelight, and drop hints every other week that she’s thinking of running.

    Denny – you should think about writing about this on your blog and getting the word out – if enough people start talking abut this, maybe we can shut that idea down.

          • Old enough to have shared reminisces of the IBM VM operating system with Denny, must have been right after he retired, because before then IBM was “the company that must not be named”.

            Just BTW, IIRC, I don’t share your admiration of, ah, certain-sized breasts, preferring nice, firm baseball-sized ones myself. But anybody old enough to remember VM doesn’t always RC everything perfectly anymore, so maybe you prefer something different (?)

          • Actually it was TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name). I retired in 2004 at the age of 58. Never looked back and turned down two offers to return to my old job as a contractor. Even though I was primarily an MVS sysprog, I was also able to install and run VM systems as well. I loved VM!

          • Meant no offense with the question. Had a sneaky suspicion may be Gen X due to the cynicism. Not many Boomers walk that way.

            Again, no offense.

  2. Okay, Ron, as good as this one is I think what’ll stick with me longest is the crouching tiger, hidden snowflake line.

  3. It is a changed world. Probably the most notable difference is how the reprobates are allowed to function without being beaten, and thrown into a deep ditch. That, and children are expected to grow up and be wimps.

    One good thing about Hillary is she’s reaching that age where a hangnail can lead to her last ride. To be respectful, they should bury her with her broom.

  4. Thanks, Denny, for proving me right – anybody old enough to remember VM doesn’t remember everything perfectly anymore. Now I remember TCIDNN.

    I don’t suppose you ever ran VM under VM, did you? Not that there was any point to it, but supposedly it was doable. But then, you weren’t running a production system, were you? My miserable little shop had a 4331, but with different vice-presidents constantly taking control and clearing out everybody loyal to the former VP (i.e. making their lives miserable if they wouldn’t quit) …. well, you get the idea.

    • Actually, I’m so old that I forgot to use my usual comeback line “I’m so old I used to have to chisel 1’s and 0’s onto stone tablets”.

      Aging jocks sit around and boast how big their manhood is; aging computer nerds sit around and boast how small their first corporate computer system was. (96K and 27 meg; beat that if you can).

      Tell AlphaDelta no offense taken.

      • The first mainframe I was trained on as a CE was the 3033. IIRC the first ones installed at my account, McDonnell Douglas Automation, only had 2M of RAM. They upgraded some of them to 8M using CDC storage. A 3033 took 72 hours to install, 4 CE’s, 2 per 12 hour shift. I made a lot of overtime money installing 3033’s. The next mainframe was the 3081 which only took 24 hours to install. I moved to Atlanta as an instructor and I taught the 3081.

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