Wednesday Rant

Today my cold/chest infection is worse than yesterday, and I feel as though I have been beaten with a sock full of nickels. My head is clogged up with a quart of snot and my chest feels like Mr. T is doing jumping jacks on it. I hate having a fucking cold when it is so beautiful outside, it just makes me even madder. As I scrolled angrily through the days financial and geopolitical news, I find myself becoming enraged at what I am reading. Any sense that there were actually people “in charge” that actually give a rats ass about me [read: the “little people”] has left my body. It has been replaced by a deepening fear that the people “in charge” have no soul, and wish to steal mine. To quote someone from another blog, “These bastards live on the blood of our future children”. Never before have words rung so true to me.




On to the MF Global scandal, which is no closer to resolution today than it was a week ago. Our glorious senators set up a nice, telegenic conference area and proceeded to question the scumbags in charge at MF when the SHTF, and were rewarded with several hours of lies, obfuscations and memory lapses. They asked the CEO, CFO and COO what they knew about the illegal activities outlined in several complaints and were told [very gently of course] to go pound fucking salt. Really…..they did. The comedy continues in the MSM full force, with not a single word from any of the newstainment outlets about who actually benefited from this collapse. To date, not a single arrest has been made, not a single charge has been levied by the government and none of the account holders who were robbed have been made whole. We are now living in a third world corporofascist kleptocracy, where there are no rules for the rich. Sure, if you get popped with a dime bag of blow you will spend a couple of years at the graybar hotel, but if you steal a few billion, you get to retire to the Caymans. Where is the outrage people? Why is this not on the tube 24/7? When a white chick in Florida killed her kid, the trial was all we saw, nationwide, for weeks, but when a billion two goes up in smoke, vanished like a fucking magic trick, and everyone claims someone else did it, we get nothing……..crickets. Unfuckingbelievable. When it becomes possible to become so rich or so connected that prosecuting you for a crime is not possible, the republic has already fallen.



Next up, Europe. Can this get any more stupid? Unless my abacus is wrong, piling another two trillion in debt on top of what is already so untenable these countries can no longer even pay the interest on it is quite possible the stupidest plan ever concocted in the history of the universe. Who is the fucking genius that came up with this idiotic idea? I what universe does a government demand extreme austerity, then proceed to borrow more money to simply pay the interest on what they already owe? Is there something wrong with me? Am I not seeing something here that explains how this is supposed to make it all better somehow? For the love of God, someone please point it out to me, because from here in the cheap seats, this looks like nothing more than a giant bailout of anyone on the planet holding European sovereign debt, most notably, banks. Sweet! We’re going to get fucked again, I was wondering how long it was going to take before they finished us off.



Next on the docket of fury is our Congress. These rat bastards just passed legislation which includes a provision for the indefinite detention of any American citizen accused of terrorism, and that they can be taken anywhere in the world. To put this in perspec5tive, the DHS has distributed materials similar to the FBI which describes potential terrorists as anyone who dares to speak out about the government, anyone who has more than a few days food in their home, anyone who dares to support the first, second and fourth amendments and anyone who dares to be pro-life. That’s it folks, it’s all over but the tears. Since I pretty much fit all of the above, I’ll be waiting for the inevitable knock on my door, because I’m sure I’m on a list somewhere as vocal as I am about the continued abuses of our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. These son of a bitches treat the constitution like an advisory letter which they can choose to abide or ignore. They need to be reminded that this nation was formed under the pain of revolution and that there are over a hundred million of us out here who believe in the second amendment, and they need to be reminded in this election.



The sheep have been asleep far too long, and if they do not wake up soon all that remains of their liberty will have been quietly stripped away. We are being subsumed within something dark and evil, something that is trying to suck every last nickel of our money out of our pockets, and when it is finished with what we have, it will come after future earnings. Europeans are already setting themselves up to be perpetual debt slaves to the very banks that wrought this havoc, and the USA is next.



Time to put on those big boy pants and buckle up, this is going to be a rough and scary ride.

Children of The Corn

I took my daughter and a friend of hers to our local fair this weekend, and was witness to the largest bunch of kids acting out of control I have ever seen. They were rambling around in medium sized packs of between five and fifteen kids, and each pack was louder and more obnoxious than the rest. The girls all seemed to be involved in a contest to see who could look the most like a low rent hooker, because I saw more skin than I was comfortable with on most of them, and more tattoos that I believe to be legal, given the age demographics. All of these feral children were completely without adult supervision, and most of them were smoking cigarettes and swearing openly. They called each other ‘bitch, ‘ho, ‘nigga, and worse. Their complete disdain for the people around them was what struck me the most. When walking in a group, they simply ignore those in their path, forcing them to go around. The black kids were the worst offenders by far, and were also the most menacing. It was a control thing, plain and simple. They clearly enjoyed making white people nervous. Needless to say, we left after about 45 minutes of this shit, and I took the girls someplace to eat sufficiently expensive so as to preclude the possibility of having to eat near these animals.

It reminded me of a scene in Children of the Corn, where the girl is trapped in the car, as her husband runs in to the church to get help, and her car is surrounded by the Corn Children who ultimately kill her. I see this behavior more and more these days. When the local high school lets out at 3:30, God help you if you want to drive down that street, as the “kids” are all walking in the street, ignoring the cars and daring you to do something about it.

Is this it people? Have we let our kids turn in to the animals portrayed on TV crime shows? Is it all about thuggery? What the fuck happened to manners and civility? How about respect? These thugs think they are automatically entitled to respect by virtue of simply existing, and anyone who does not offer it up immediately is treated like a punk. I see it in stores, I see it at sporting events here locally and I see it on the streets. It is pervasive and spreading.

I think we are witnessing not one but two lost generations of kids, all of them poisoned by the garbage portrayed as entertainment on TV. Until there is a general recognition of what has happened to our children through the rampant and rapid rise of media-raised children, and put a stop to it, I think these kids are mostly lost. They will work meaningless low-wage jobs, they will achieve nothing in life and most of the kids I see these days will never reach a station in life higher than that of restaurant manager.


How pathetic is that?

Moral Bankruptcy and Societal Breakdown Rant

As I sit here reading the indictment on Jerry Sandusky, a previously highly respected football coach/defensive coordinator for Penn State, I find myself infuriated by the collusion among the “Old Boy Network”, which was clearly complicit in what is fast becoming a disgusting, sordid story of serial child rape and a widespread cover-up of what is being labeled an open secret. The reduction of children to the status of a sexual toy by this animal is enraging under its own weight, but the ensuing cover-up is beyond infuriating. As far as I am concerned what has occurred is nothing short of a conspiracy involving the highest placed people at Penn State and local law enforcement officials who declined to prosecute [even though they had an eye witness], and those involved are just as guilty of rape as Jerry Sandusky. I’m not sure how someone is able to justify these actions to themselves for nearly two decades, and how his spouse could possibly have not known about his deviant and perverted lust for prepubescent little boys.




The disturbing picture this paints is painful to acknowledge, because to do so will validate what I have feared for a long, long time; our moral code and ethical standards have been erased, and they have been replaced with selfish desire, lust for power and greed. Watching these sickening acts come in to greater focus and intense scrutiny in the press, I am reminded of an infamous child care scandal that erupted many years ago involving a family of “caregivers” who owned a [family run] day-care center[s] who were found to have abused a large number of their toddler charges, and to have compiled a library of kiddie porn using the kids as their stars. What strikes me as familiar is the blatant abuse of power by an adult over a child and the intense denials. Just as the [guilty] family members back then did, Jerry Sandusky is sticking to his story and is being supported [for now anyway] by his loyal wife, who is either stupid as well as blind, or simply shell-shocked and unable to process what is happening.



In the end, there will be a grueling trial, many more victims will testify to deviant sexual assaults, and a deal will be cut. Will justice be served? I doubt it. Jerry Sandusky will be vigorously defended by some hot shot law firm, and every accusation will be denied. The defense will try and place blame on the boys and will go to every length to discredit them. When it is all over, he will get thirty years or so in a cup-cake prison somewhere where he will grow in to an incontinent old man, but where he will not be punished at the level justified by the acts. The level of justice required for the terrible things this disturbed pervert deserves is death. Short of that, as far as I am concerned, he’s getting off easy.



This scandal will come to illustrate the precipitous decline in our moral fabric and the absence of ethics in those who we trust to instill these very things in our impressionable children. It will further illustrate that the bottom line here was and is, money. That’s right; money. The fallout is already starting, as sponsors flee the wreckage coming at them. I foresee an exodus of donations from alumni as the disgusting conspiracy of silence is broken open and the complicit parties are exposed. What they all tried so hard to ignore and cover-up will unravel a football powerhouse and destroy the reputation of one of the most respected state colleges in the country. I say fuck ‘em, they deserve it. Shame on these bastards and their lust for power, money and fame. Shame on the administrators for not crushing Sandyskys nuts a decade ago. Shame on all of them for their depraved indifference for the welfare of these vulnerable little boys. And finally, shame on society for placing such an incredible importance on wealth and fame, as cheering the avarice that breeds this immorality.

It's all done but the crying

Up is down and down is up. At least that’s the way I’ve been watching things happen lately. I look at the clusterfuck that Europe has become, and have to look inward, toward my own country, because I see that we’re headed down the same road; debt serfdom. The European leaders have decided after much deliberation and wringing of hands, that creating imaginary money [leverage] and giving it to deeply indebted nations is the solution for all that ails them. They have also unilaterally declared that all those who hold Greek sovereign debt have “volunteered” to take a 50% ass beating in order to “participate” in the Greek rescue. Sound like bullshit to you? I thought so.




So now, every single entity that bought these supposedly “safe” investments, will instantaneously be 50% poorer as a result of these actions. There is to be no debt for equity, no extension of payback period. Just a straight up ass beating. Let’s think about this for a minute, because Greece is only the tip of a mighty iceberg, and the ramifications of this going feral in the EU periphery are tremendous and frightening. Greek banks, already fundamentally insolvent, hold a great deal of this debt. This means they must raise an equivalent sum in new capital to replace the lost cash. From what I can gather, Greek banks alone hold over 73 billion dollars of this toxic waste. There are some estimates that go much higher than that, but I used the mid-line number I found on The Economist. The Greek public sector pension fund holds another 25 billion dollars worth, meaning the taxpayers will be on the hook for promised pension payments coming from this [now 12.5 bbn] fund. All in all, it is a very grim picture.



All of the ugliness we’re witnessing over the Greek situation is about to be repeated in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland. When those folks see Greece walk away from their obligations with few repercussions, expect everyone else to demand the same treatment under threat of default and Eurozone exit. In other words, we are about to see the disintegration of the European Union.



Now, look at our own country, the massive debts we have amassed, and tell me how exactly we’re going to pay off 16 trillion in acknowledged debt with so few workers actually paying in to the tax revenue stream. Answer: we won’t. Just like Greece, we’re going to default on this mountain of debt because no elected official has the balls to make the hard choices. The Brotherhood of Darkness is working overtime to suck whatever remains of the wealth held by American Citizens out and in to their own pockets, and so far, it’s working out pretty well for them.



I look at the cost of maintaining our empire and cringe at the thoughts popping up in my head. I look at the behemoth that is DHS and wonder just how in the hell we permitted them to morph in to the single most invasive, constitution ignoring organization in the nation. I look at the subsidized housing giants [black holes would likely be a better description] and wonder how we allowed these behemoths to be subsumed within the sprawling government complex with their debts now guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the taxpaying public.



All of this shit costs money. War costs money. “Security” costs money……even if we never asked for it. When I read about the cuts being debated by the unconstitutional Super Committee, I only see cuts to Medicare, cuts to education, cuts to food stamps and other safety net items. Where are the cuts to the military industrial complex? Where are the withdraw timetables for the two unconstitutional wars, two undeclared wars and one “kinetic military action”?? The military and DHS suck up an incredible amount of total tax receipts yet provide zero tangible benefits. I am not saying we do not need an army, and I am not saying we do not need to do some due diligence at our airports and seaports. What I am saying is that our time as the sole superpower is at an end, and if we do not withdraw from the 750 or so foreign bases we currently support and remove ourselves from the MINA, there is absolutely no hope we can survive as a nation, let alone a superpower.



Those who think change will be achieved peacefully are disillusioned. Our police state will align itself with the government and put down any movement with force. Our police have become a tactically trained and equipped army within the State and will do as they are told.



I believe it will take the complete economic collapse of the United States to effect any real change. I further believe that until it becomes impossible to concentrate incredible wealth among just a few people, we will never have justice, because it currently only goes to the highest bidder with the deepest pockets. Just ask any of the millions of folks languishing in prison because they were found with a lid of pot and a couple of Quaaludes.



I am sad today. I thought Europe was smart enough to kick Greece to the curb and let her default. It is not to be. I am sad because the once mighty U.S.A. is going down the same road, led to her demise by the same Keynseian fucktards as Europe.



I weep for my daughter and the dystopian future I fear she has in store for her.

Air Travel Exploding Skull Rant

As most folks know, I do a fair bit of traveling for my business and for pleasure. When traveling alone, I have it down to an exact science. I joined Clear Traveler, which permits me to fast-lane through security at OIA, much to the chagrin of people waiting four hundred deep in line after a weekend of visiting the “Mouse”, and never spend more than a few minutes going from curb to gate. For thirty five years, I have had the traveling thing ‘down like Charlie Brown’.

A few weeks back, my buddy called me and said his sister was arranging a surprise birthday party for their mother who will be turning 75 years old, and that I was to be invited because I am a family friend for two decades and they wanted me to be there. I was asked to bring the wife and daughter as well. Having completed the madness of bidding hundreds of projects as the government finished up the federal fourth fiscal quarter money dump, and having completed required submittals for all of the near term projects, I felt the time was perfect for a four day weekend with the family and some close friends in Plymouth Mass and Cape Cod. Lobster, scallops on the beach and good local beer, it just doesn’t get any better than that. Well, I guess if you had lobster, scallops and beer while simultaneously having mad sex on the beach, that would be better, but since there will be children with us……..never mind.


I had my admin set me up with four tickets, one each for myself, The Boss and my daughter, and one for her little friend Dawn. My daughter came to me in tears a few nights ago and said that Dawn could not go now because her grades were poor and her dad was very angry. The kids were both extremely disappointed, so I told my daughter she could ask another friend and I would simply change the ticket. Easy……right?


I get on the phone and call Orbitz®, who I have used for travel in my office forever, and with whom I have a great relationship [having been helped out of a few squeakers by them on more than one occasion for no fee]. After waiting out the usual “Press one for English, Press three if you want to cancel a flight, etc. etc., I got to an “associate” who was not American but spoke perfect English with perfect manners. I explained my problem and was greeted with a moment of silence before she stated that “There are only two airlines that will allow you to change a name on a ticket, and none of your flights are with them”. OK I said, so what do we do from here? She explained that not only could I not change the name on a ticket that I purchased with my credit card, but that the credit for it could only be used by the person named on the ticket and a 150$ fee for changing it would be levied and a 25$ booking fee would have to be paid. So, for a 365 dollar ticket, Dawn would have to pay 175 dollars to utilize the credit leaving a value of only 190. She said “That is correct, except this airline requires you to pay the 175 dollars first, and they will not simply deduct it from the flight credit.


I was starting to get angry now, however, because the “associate” was so nice and apologetic, I maintained my cool and asked what my options were. She explained that I would have to book a new flight, but because of the proximity to my departure date, it would be best to leave the original itinerary alone and simply buy a new ticket for Helen. I agreed. After listening to the clatter of her keyboard for a minute she came on and said she needed name, date of birth and so on. When I gave her the birth date she said, “That’s going to be a problem, because Continental will not allow her to book a ticket for a minor under twelve [Helen will be twelve in 33 days]. She further explained that she would have to book directly with Continental and explain the whole thing to them because I am not a custodial parent. So, I scanned and e-mailed the letter [notarized permitting Helen to travel with us and she said she would call me back in ten minutes.


By the time I was through, I had spent $561 dollars and two hours dealing with a simple name change on a fucking airline ticket. The most frustrating part was that no one seems to know what the damn rules are and no one seems to give a shit about how difficult it has been made to go on what should be a simple trip. I cannot fault the Orbitz girl, rather, I give her praise for handling this for me because I am certain that at some point I would have exploded in outrage over the phone. I am angry at the airlines, for advertising one thing and then charging ala carte for every single thing besides the actual plane ride. The baggage fees, the drink fee, a fee for a window seat, a fee for a snack, etc. etc. It’s beyond stupid and it infuriates me. I am also furious at our government for making little girls out to be terrorists by forcing me to essentially eat a perfectly good ticket because they don’t want airlines to allow name changes on a ticket. What the fuck is that? How exactly does that make us safer? It’s not like I am changing the name from Dawn to Achmed Mohammed Al Talibani, I want to change it to Helen, another little freakin’ girl.


Can anyone here remember the last time a white, middle class little girl tried to smuggle a bomb or a gun on a plane? In fact, when was the last time any middle class full-on, natural born third generation or better American Citizen even tried to hijack an airplane? The last one I remember was D.B. Cooper, and he jumped out of the fucker at fifteen thousand feet or some shit like that. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.


The same goes for putting me through a full body search which includes the forced and involuntary act of requiring the homosexual fondling of my genitals, and the same perversion on my daughter, simply to go on vacation. Let’s not forget the multiple doses of radiation we are required to endure as well. On this particular trip, I can expect up to four doses of radiation to rip apart my DNA. Thanks TSA, you bunch of ass lickers. Political correctness has gone waaaaay too far in this country and has become a greater danger to our security and freedoms than any single other thing. Our freedoms have been curtailed in a lot of cases and eliminated in others. And what’s with the assholes on the way to the gate and at the gate who do random re-screenings? What the fuck is up with that? Are they afraid their high school drop-out loser pedophile dick feelers missed something? Do they just need another dose of genital sweat to achieve a proper orgasm in the employee bathroom while masturbating to mental images of my under-age daughter? It makes me so mad I want to crack open a skull. I am presumed to be a murderous criminal simply by virtue of purchasing a plane ticket. All of the freedom hating crybabies out there who are so afraid of their own shadow that they sympathize with this outrageous practice can go fuck themselves; I have no feeling whatsoever for you outside of blind hatred. Want to live in a country that controls your every move? Go live in Burma [Myanmar]. They are probably suitably paranoid enough for you. You’ll probably like it there.


My day actually started out pretty damn good. I was notified that we were chosen as subcontractor on a rather large project, and that our share was 750K. This allowed me to call back a dozen workers who desperately need a paycheck, and it made me feel pretty damn happy to be able to do. Later in the morning we were notified that we won the water/waste water upgrade project as the remedial action contractor and that our share would be a healthy 377K spread our over 18 months or so. It was all going well until I had to deal with some of the most ridiculous, government designed roadblocks ever conceived. Who the hell is in charge of this clusterfuck anyway? Who do I write to explain my valid and ever present frustrations to? Would it even accomplish anything besides getting my name in bold print on a no-fly list?


I think I am going to talk to some friends of mine and see if they are interested in forming a new company. We will call it the No Bullshit Airlines. Seriously, it will be fantastic. When we sell you a ticket, it will include everything, without exception. When you get to our airport, there will be a minor screening only. You will be asked to show that you are who you say you are with a drivers license or something similar. You will have a luggage screening and will be asked if you are carrying a weapon. If you are or appear to be of Middle East/North Africa/Indonesia/Malasian descent, or have a middle eastern name like Achmed Mohammed, you will be subject to intense screening, and I mean Israeli style. You will then board your plane, be served free beverages and a snack on longer duration hops. That is it. No luggage or other garbage fees; everything is included in the price. Wife can’t go and you want to take your buddy instead? OK, the ticket is as good as cash for one year, we don’t give a shit who uses it, just as long as they have a bit of ID so we can change the name, even up to an hour before flight so the flight manifest is correct.


If you don’t feel safe flying my airline, then fuck off asshole and fly Nazi Airlines. Take your luggage and your pathetic lickspittle life and walk for all we care. Perhaps Freedom Airlines would be a better name. We will fly out of Freedom Airport.


May God have mercy on the souls of the Globalists if I ever become President of this Nation.