It’s Monday as I write this. I’ve been back from our no notice getaway for roughly 3 hours now having left So. Padre literally at (or with) the crack of dawn. We were making great time and probably would have been home in about 5 hours were it not for the hour we spent in line at the Brownsville ICE station which interestingly is no where close to Brownsville to be asked 4 questions over the course of 30 seconds and sent on our way.

This delay meant we hit heavy traffic pretty much the rest of the way back with a couple brief respites largely due to excessive amount of Monday Morning &/or I’m late for work again commuter stupidity. For example, if you’re driving a Mini Cooper DO NOT attempt to get cute/pushy/aggressive with a full loaded fuel tanker, even if it is a convertible in the rare green color. They can and most likely will drive right over you, literally in fact.

There is a simple law of the road I graphically saw demonstrated at Fort Benning in Georgia where a driver in a jeep attempted to cut diagonally across the line of travel of a tank instead of waiting for the tank to pass. The tank predictable not able to stop on the required dime ran up and over the back of the jeep totally destroying it, the dimwitted driver barely managing to escape the vehicle unscathed. He began screaming at the tank driver and throwing parts from his wrecked vehicle at the tank. This pissed the tank commander off who popped his hatch and retorted “Most metal rules asshole!” before proceeding to  order the driver to drive over the remainder of the jeep and continue on his way.

If a few more Texas drivers learned the immutable law of physics and the road there’d be far fewer accidents, far fewer road/lane closures at peak commute times and one less harried Leprechaun w/o time to stop and chat.

Damn Ninja Cats are sending me messages in my coffee now! It’s been a month since there was any Anchovy Pizzas in the house so they’ve apparently taken to dropping hints.

Six trivia questions to see how much history you really know.  Be honest; it’s kind of fun and revealing. If you don’t know the answer make your best guess.  Answer all of the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers

DON’T SELECT THE OBVIOUS!

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

A. Karl Marx                   

B. Adolph Hitler                 

C.Joseph Stalin

D. Barack Obama          

E. None of the above

2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few.. And to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity.”

A. Lenin                         

B. Mussolini

C. Idi Amin

D. Barack Obama

E. None of the above

3) “(We)…. Can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”

A. Nikita  Khrushchev     

B.  Joseph Goebbels           

C. Boris Yeltsin

D. Barack Obama          

E. None of the above

4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own … In order to create this common ground.”

A. Mao Tse Tung           

B  Hugo Chavez                   

C. Kim Jong II

D. Barack Obama          

E. None of the above

5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”

A.  Karl Marx                 

B. Lenin

C. Stalin

D. Barack Obama    

E. None of the above

6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”

A. Pinochet                   

B. Milosevic

C. Saddam Hussein

D. Barack Obama          

E. None of the above

No peeking!

Scroll down for answers … and the answers are:

(1)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004

(2)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007

(3)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(4)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(5)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(6)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

My Four Part Long Term Plan for Liberal Eradication

A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.

B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.

C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.

D. In three generations … there will be no Democrats.

I love it when a plan comes together … don’t you?!

Here’s a Warning for All you Liberals and Muslims out there!

Turkish Red Lentil Soup

While soup wouldn’t seem to be a summer time dish this is one of those rare exceptions. It’s equally good hot or room temp. It’s also fairly fast cooking and can be made start to finish in under an hour which means no prolonged stays in hot kitchens!

1 pound red lentils
1 medium carrot, shredded
2 medium onions, chopped
9 cups water, divided
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon tomato paste
¾ tablespoon dried mint
¼ tablespoon salt
¼ tablespoon pepper

Lemon wedges

Put lentils, carrot, onions and 4½ cups water in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low until lentils are cooked. Put aside.

In a second pot, heat olive oil and butter on high until butter is melted. Lower heat to medium and add flour, tomato paste, mint, salt and pepper. Mix well. Add 4½ cups water and bring to a boil. Add the boiled lentil mixture to the pot and return to a boil. Reduce to medium-low heat and cook for 20 minutes. Continue to stir so soup does not become too thick. Serve with lemon wedges for squeezing into soup. Makes 8 servings.

One meteorite and two $4.5 million dollar guns

That’s right. You get 2 guns after you pay four point five million dollars.

An American company named Cabot Guns has created these 2 fully functional pistols. Craftsmanship is one thing but you are paying for the material that created these guns.

Back in the 1830’s a bunch of rocks were discovered in Namibia, Africa. Those rocks were from meteorites which struck the Earth an estimated 4.5 billion years ago.

Over the years, scientist have studied the “Gibeon” region meteorites to answer questions about the origins of our universe.

The Cabot company has taken a piece of this meteorite to make a pair of 1911 pistols which they have named the, “Big Bang Pistol Set”.

The guns were created using electron-beam welding and EDM wire cutting to forge every detail of the guns. Every detail except one, they left the triggers untouched.

A price of $4.5 million has been set by the company. If they find a buyer, this would set a record. They would become the most expensive guns ever sold.

Unfortunately this price is just a tad too steep even for your favorite gun toting Leprechaun, Of course I’ll happily accept donations toward paying for them!

Just so he isn’t crying about buses running him over I’d better toss Impish a bone after that last one. I sort of promised I’d include this video because he’s such a big fan of them anyway.

Been chewing on these items for a couple weeks now. I haven’t posted them in favor/protection of my blood pressure and due to the fact I often get told that I’m preaching to the choir.

However after reading Impish’s issue Saturday and seeing how he presented those issues that were burning his tail I decided I’d try something similar though I think I failed on the brevity part with the exception of my comments.

Joe Biden Writes Open Letter to Stanford Rape Survivor

‘You will never be defined by what the defendant’s father callously termed “20 minutes of action,”‘ the vice president wrote. ‘His son will be.’

The sentencing of convicted rapist and former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner has incited widespread discussion about rape culture and privilege in the U.S.

On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden lent his voice to the chorus of people showing support for Turner’s victim.

The woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, read a letter addressed directly to Turner at his sentencing, the full text of which was published on BuzzFeed Friday.

Biden, who has worked tirelessly throughout his career in the Senate to end violence against women and who has also spoken extensively about sexual assault on college campuses, penned an open letter to Turner’s victim. It was published in full on BuzzFeed.

If you had ever tried to tell me that I would be proud of someone in the Obama Administration much less that it would be Joe Biden I would have first had your sanity checked. First you were found sane I them would have thought you were making a slur at me or trying to insult me. In either case I would have dragged you out to an unused deer lease and we would have dueled over the insult.

Say what you want, even blind dogs occasionally find a bone, 100 monkey banging away on 100 typewriters excreta excreta Joe hit a bases loaded home run with his response and shows why he and not Hillary should be the Democratic Presidential Candidate. Where was Hillary on this woman’s issue? Dead silent. Well not ol’ Joe who has it turns out has been a champion of the college rape issue since his days in Congress.

BRAVO ZULU JOE! Bloody well said and done. At this moment I’d be damned right PROUD to shake your hand and stand for a photo with you and believe me that is saying something.

Why? Because of comments he made like these:

Here are five of the most inspiring quotes from Biden’s letter:

It’s plain to see where the kid gets it from as his father is obviously a lying sack of shit as well…there is NO WAY IN HELL his kid lasted for “20 minutes of action”.  I’d be willing to concede something more in line with  20 seconds, unless it’s a case of it taking him that long to find his ‘manhood’ in his pants.

OK yes that is a bad joke I agree. I challenge you complainers to try injecting any levity or lightheartedness into something like this and see if you can do better. Yes I know it’s a serious matter trust me I know it. However given that its about to get even MORE serious I felt a tension/disgust/mood leveling comment of (dubious) levity really was in order.

Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker

Read it.

READ IT ALL.  Every. Last. Nauseating. Disgusting. Sordid. Word.

Be sure not to miss any of the part on the red background up top taken from her interrogation by the defense lawyer in an attempt to get his client off from the responsibility for his crime. Excuse me for stopping this commentary right here. I honestly have fears and concerns for my health and blood pressure should I not.

Before I do leave however let me just say, if there ever was a crime &/or case deserving of legislated minimum sentencing laws this is it. What he got is a travesty of justice. Both the sentence and the sentencing judge need to be reviewed.

Since the case was full of ‘privileged people’ I doubt this will ever happen. So I can only say that at this time I pray God Almighty is in fact female and that in her infinite wisdom she grants Brock Allen Turner at least one experience similar to the victims while he is in prison.

For the sin of asking for such a boon, I’d gladly spend extra time in Purgatory.

Democrats’ new line on gun control: Do it for national security

Democrats pushing for gun curbs after the latest mass shooting in the United States are co-opting a Republican mantra to build public support and defang opposition: it’s time to get tough on national security.

Shoring up national security has long been a pillar of Republican orthodoxy, as has staunch opposition to gun control.

But the massacre of 49 people in Orlando, Florida, last Sunday, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, by a gunman who pledged loyalty to Islamist militants may be leaving Republicans on shakier ground.

I’m sorry but it seems to me as if the Dems are again blaming the rest of us for their failures while chugging happily around on their choo-choo train of circular illogic once again.

In a nutshell here is my take on this should have been avoidable tragedy.

1. Liberals hate guns.
2. The preponderance of people open about the sexual preference to the point of going to an openly Gay night club are also liberals. (Republicans tend to be closet gays by and large)
3. Ergo by extension, Gays hate Guns. This is unfortunate because one or two gun loving NRA membership card toting concealed weapon permitted Gays could have made a huge change in the outcome of this tragedy. What do I base this position on? Two things, first sans anyone shooting back at him and restricting his movements he had free reign in that club to shoot and do what he would. Secondly the first time a police office did fire at he he fled to hide in the the men’s room. Now consider if his cowardly flight had occurred  after the first  four or 5 rounds had been fired instead of after the first hundred because someone whistled on past his ear.
4. This self proclaimed terrorist had a known history of violent rage and been on a watch list because of considerable evidence that he harbored pro Radical Islamic Fundamentalist beliefs.
5. The Dems who control the Justice Department removed him from the watch list. Those same Dems who are all touchy-feelie about profiling &/or offending Muslims of course had all records regarding the terrorist’s being on a watch list, rage issues, etcetera expunged and destroyed instead or erring on the side of abundant caution. IN OTHER WORDS THEY GAVE HIM A CLEAN SLATE SO THAT WHEN WE WAS BACKGROUND CHECKED FOR THE SALE OF WEAPONS NO FLAGS CAME UP.
6. Ergo by logical extension the Dems are at least partially culpable for enabling this asshat to carry out his bigoted chicken shit act of terrorism! Now in order to prevent themselves from looking like a bunch of asses again in the future with a (potentially) more serious act of terrorism because people they investigated were allowed to buy guns they want the very guns you’d use to defend yourself again their screw up!

My end take on this?

If you’re really worried about National Security do the following:

1. Pass a law that states that the right to purchase or possess firearms is restricted to AMERICAN CITIZENS. No citizenship papers? No firearms for you. Caught with one and no papers? You are declared ‘Personna Non Grata’ and summarily deported, no appeal, no hearing just a hob nailed boot in your ripped up green carded backside. If you enter the USA again for any reason you are subject to immediate arrest and permanent incarceration.
2. Sell to a non citizen lose your FFL license and all the weapons in your store are confiscated. It was a private party sale? All your firearms and ammo are confiscated and you lose your right to possess any more just like a convicted felon.
3. Continue to investigate those who wind up on watch lists, keep records, make nation wide readily accessible data bases, not only of the Watch lists but the investigations and any subsequent activities or brushes with the law.

4. Round up all the Liberals and Dems in office who made this debacle possible in the first place and render them harmless. THEY are the TRUE threat to national security! Require the DNC to contribute to a fund for the victims every time their Touchy-Feelie PC policies of Appeasing Muslims and Islam allows something like this to happen on American soil. See how fast funds for Democratic political campaigns wind up in short supply and just how fast the get their heads of of their asses.