Grumbles

Below are the original posts from my original ‘Grumbles’ blog. I’ve been told those posts tend to be racist and obnoxious, but they are not. It’s just that some people hate hearing the truth. FAIR WARNING!!!!! IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, LEAVE NOW!!!!

Shakin’ Update

20 April 2008 @ 8:44 am by Alan

Pretty interesting… my parents live about 10 miles due south from the epicenter of Friday’s quake; the pictures in their home hanging on the East/West facing walls were all crooked while those on the North/South facing walls were not affected. Glad to hear there were no injuries anywhere from this quake!

Like AC/DC said…

18 April 2008 @ 3:59 am by Alan

…well it wasn’t all night long but we definately got shook. This mornings eathquake lasted 30-45 seconds and woke me out of a sound sleep. USGS says it was a 5.4 according to preliminary estimates and was centered in Illinois. It was felt from Louisville, KY in the east to Portage, IN in the north. It was definately low frequency surface waves, as the house swayed back and forth and dishes rattled, and small items fell from shelves on the walls. That was fun, now I’m going back to bed.

OK, I decided just to go ahead and get it out of the way. Here are the posts from my old “Grumbles” blog. The original first post was made on April 16, 2005, so alot of this is really old stuff.

ATTENTION all RPG players/groups

Friday, Mar 7, 2008

GaryCon08 this weekend

http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9322

The idea is, gamers across the world play D&D this Friday/Saturday night, as a tribute to the great man’s passing. Any ruleset, just a classic D&D style dungeon bash.
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Here We Go Again

Friday, Jan 4, 2008

Hillary Clinton is using the old “insurance for all Americans” pitch again. Isn’t this the same laugh track as was used for her husband’s campaign…..TWICE? Right off the top of my head I can name at least 40 people that don’t have insurance, including me. My workplace doesn’t offer anything but LaughAct…I mean AFLAC. Talk about a joke! Figure up what you pay into it and what they’ll pay out and you will be smart to run like hell from this offering. Ole Bill C. got elected twice on the insurance for all bandwagon; I can see why Hillary is using it. I bet I misunderstood and she said for all illegal immigrants living in the good old generous US of A.

I’ll believe it when I have it: an affordable comprehensive insurance plan.

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I Rest My Case…for now

Monday, Oct 15, 2007

Sept. 2007

BIG CREEK, W.Va. - For at least a week, authorities say, a young Black woman was held captive in a mobile home, forced to eat animal waste, stabbed, choked and repeatedly sexually abused, all while being peppered with a racial slur.

NO! I’m not saying that she deserved it because she was black or for any other reason, I’m saying that if she had been white and her captors had been black, this case probably would never have made the national news.

AND…you can be damned sure that Sharpton, Jackson, the ACLU, NAACP would never have given it a second thought.

Ditto with the Jena 6 case. The nooses in the tree were uncalled for, but to physically beat another youth because he called them names is also uncalled for. I have racial slurs hurled at me every day at work by blacks and mexicans but that doesn’t give me the right to physically abuse them for it. I simply refuse them service and then I’M being prejudiced. Go figure.

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Only in America 2

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

If 5 white people were to kidnap, mutilate, torture, rape, and murder a young black couple, Rev. Sharp and Rev. Jackson, as well as the NAACP, CLU and all the rest would be all over it. It would be called a HATE CRIME.

BUT!

If the roles were reversed, and it was 5 blacks that commited the deeds against a young white couple, it would not even gain a mention on the major news networks. That is exactly what happened in Knoxville, TN beginning on January 6, 2007.

See the whole story and relevant links here.

Google search results are here.
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And what did Clinton do?

Saturday, Apr 28, 2007

Hillary Clinton has been blasting Bush for the conduct of the war in Iraq. That’s pretty easy to do when her own husband didn’t do ANYTHING for eight years. Oh, excuse me, that’s not quite right is it? He did the White House interns. Every terrorist attack that occurred during his administration(s) was met with what? NOTHING!
I remember being promised during TWO campaigns that every American citizen would have insurance. I just checked, and I still don’t have any. But by God the illegals that are here can get food stamps and medicaid. Not me, though, I’m just a poor working slob that pays taxes so people that aren’t supposed to be here and can’t speak English can get food stamps and medicaid.
Now the Democrats are back in control of congress, so guess what? They want to grant citizenship and/or rights to those that don’t and never have helped pay for them.

You know what?

I was here first and I want mine while there’s still some left!

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Only in America

Sunday, Apr 15, 2007

Only in America do you have to be white to be racist. A black, Mexican, or anyone else not of the pale persuasion can say what they want, when they want, and where they want, regardless of circumstances and it’s okay. BUT….let a white man say something intended as a joke and O.M.G.!!!! bring on the Sharptonites and Jacksonites to condemn the whole of the white race! Every time I’m out in my neighborhood, or at Wal-Mart, or even a grocery store, I hear blacks calling each other the “N” word, even to the point of yelling it across the street or across the store. I don’t want to hear that shit, but do I get a choice in the matter? Hell no, I don’t, except maybe the choice to never leave my house. I don’t f_cking think so, BRO! I f you you don’t want to hear hear me or any other white person use such “derogatory” language then I suggest you begin by setting an example. How often do you hear us running around calling each other “Whitey”, or “Honky”, or “Cracker”? Chances are you don’t. “Why would that be?” you might ask. Well, guess what? Those derogatory names for whites come from who? Whites? I think not! They come from the same blacks that that don’t want to be called the same names by white folk that blacks call themselves.
Now, where’s the double standard?

Two more things from a white guy. A little history lesson, if you will., but first: I DO NOT CONDONE SLAVERY IN ANY FORM, PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE!

ONE: It was not the whites that sold the blacks into slavery. It was the blacks in Africa that sold their black brethren to the white man. I’m not saying this made it right for whites to buy other humans, regardless of color, but put the blame where it belongs: It started with blacks selling blacks. PERIOD!

TWO: Just because people don’t always do what you want, or you don’t always get your way, DOES NOT MAKE IT A “BLACK THING”!!!

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Lebanon Evacuations

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Ok, let’s see…for months the US State Dept and others have been warning Americans NOT to go to Lebanon. Now we have some 20,000+ people over there whining that the American government is moving too slowly in the effort to evacuate them. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? When the government says not to go somewhere, it’s usually for a reason. You ought to thanking the government for ignoring the law that says you are responsible for your passage back to the states, but no, y’all just bitch that your free ride to get you out of where you shouldn’t be isn’t happening fast enough.

It seems to me that the mid-east is a no-brainer as a place to stay away from. You’ve got Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian area all right next door to Israel, with Iraq, and Iran within missile-lobbing range and all of them home to fanatics that are willing to blow themselves up just to kill your sorry ass.

Get a clue, people! Our military has enough to do without having to rescue you morons.

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Guantanamo Bay Suicides

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Ok now, let’s see how this works….3 Arabs commit suicide at Guantanamo Bay Prison as a form of protest, so now we should shut down the prison. By this reasoning then, any prison in which prisoners have committed suicide should be shut down. Then, I suppose, the next step in this train of logic is that any schools, roadways, railroad tracks and anyplace else that people have committed suicide should be shut down.
And NO, I’m not prejudiced towards Arabs. I think we should be happy for them and the world should be thanking the US for helping them get to heaven! Or do they only get a free pass to heaven if they kill innocents en route? I AM, however, prejudiced against anyone that corrupts a religion to the point where wanton killing and destruction are encouraged!

If that makes me an infidel then I rejoice and revel in my new status as such!

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Poor New Orleans

Sunday, May 21, 2006

It seems the poor, misguided folks of New Orleans, God bless their souls, have chosen to keep their whining, crybaby mayor in office.

Remember him? The one who spent his time on TV crying about no-one doing anything in the wake of Katrina while he himself was busy doing what? Oh yeah, spending his time on TV crying about no-one doing anything in the wake of Katrina.

And in other news…..(I love this one!) The French were voted the world’s most unfriendly, the most boring, and most ungenerous nation in a new British poll. You’ve just got to love those Britts!

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Movies & Reality

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

So the experts are freaking out! “Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America” was on last night and the only people panicking seem to be the “experts” worrying about the movie causing people to panic.

Guess what? The American public is just a tad bit smarter than y’all seem to give credit for. It’s a M-O-V-I-E! Like it said at the beginning of the movie: A FICTIONAL portrayal of events that MAY happen. A “What if?” scenario.

Just because you have a PhD in Intellectual Flatulence doesn’t mean everyone else is a moron!

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Katrina

Tuesday, Sep 6, 2005

My thoughts, hopes, and prayers to all the victims and their families that were affected by Katrina!

To Kanye West and all the other A-Holes that bitch about everything being a “black thing”, it’s a tragedy of unseen proportions in the US of A! It has nothing to do with race. The way they talk there is noone but blacks in New Orleans…WRONG!!!! To put this in perspective, get out a map of the United States and look at the state of Kansas. That is the size of the affected area, it’s not just New Orleans and it’s not just blacks. 90,000 square miles of utter devastation.

It takes time to assess the magnitude of the disaster and assemble the forces necessary to cope with something like this. And money. And supplies. But some pea-brains like Kanye can’t comprehend that. A week after the disaster I still don’t see HIM coming up off of any of HIS money to help the victims. Put your money where you’re mouth is as_wipe! Better yet, haul your ass down there and wade amongst the water moccasins and croc’s and gators and help in the rescue…I don’t see THAT happening either. I agree that some kind of response should have come sooner, like 3-4 days before Katrina hit why wasn’t a mandatory evacuation ordered? Because of 2 previous false alarms? Bull sh_t! Instead we see the mayor or whatever of New Orleans on TV crying about help and relief not coming soon enough. Step up and take some responsibility: how many lives would have been saved had the mandatory evacuation been ordered sooner rather than 1 day before the storm hit? Why didn’t the Govenor of Louisiana order the National Guard out the day after landfall? Why was the New Orleans police force holed up instead of out immediately to start helping people?

Yes, mistakes were made but it wasn’t just at the national level. First response should have been at the local and state level. Noone wants taxes raised and expenses have to be cut somewhere. This time it was for levees in New Orleans. Not that it would have helped for a category 4 hurricane.

The best we can do is get in there and help those affected and learn for next time and pray that there will never be a next time!

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Movies and Music

Tuesday, Aug 16, 2005

Haven’t been pissed off about much lately. HOWEVER! The entertainment industry has shut down most of the p2p activity so now they are bitching about CD and DVD burning! Well, I’ve got the solution for them:

1st: Outlaw all CD and DVD burners, cassette recorders, etc.,
2nd: Make it a felony to possess burned CD’s and DVD’s,
3rd: Shut down the FCC and let the entertainment industry take control of all communications,
4th: Prohibit TV and cable broadcasts of music videos and movies (wouldn’t want anyone to tape those!),
5th: Move the nations’ capitol to Hollywood (after all, they will be controlling and regulating EVERYTHING!),
6th: Everyone move to Russia so we can enjoy some freedom.

Come on folks, most everyone has downloaded something that might maybe should have possibly been paid for and wasn’t. I have, but it has been to try before I buy. The quality of the blackmarket dl’s pretty much sucks and anyone that wants to build a library of inferior music and videos should be allowed to. Personally I want to preview what I’m buying (like test driving a car), but when I want to listen to music or watch a movie I want the full quality experience that the entertainment industry provides. Therefore I go out and buy what I like and trash the rest. What is so wrong with that?

The way they carry on about it, you’d think no-one ever taped an LP and gave their friends a copy. Wasn’t a problem then. I never once worried about getting busted for swapping tapes of LPs with my friends, and I did a hell-of-a lot more of that than I do sharing inferior digital copies now.

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Second Hand Smoke, Rock, and Video games

Monday, May 30, 2005

First thing I’d like to say about this subject is:

Thank you for holding your breath while I smoke!

Second thing is: If you don’t smoke, I’m happy for you. You enjoy not smoking, I enjoy smoking. When is the last time you heard me complain about you doing what you like? Leave me the F___ alone! Personally, I’m more concerned with the sulfuric acid YOUR car is putting into the air I breathe. Are you gonna’ stop driving? I didn’t think so! So, get off my ass! If everyone in the world quit smoking right now, you would be bitching about something else before 10 minutes were up. You know it, I know it and so does everyone else. I don’t like your breath, but you keep breathing.

I like hard rock music. I have listened to it for over 30 years and I have yet to go out and kill someone because of it. I like country music too, and I’ll tell you right now, if anything was going to depress me to the point of hurting someone it would be country music!
Ditto the video games, though not for so long. Just because I kill a cop or strangle a hooker in a video game, I haven’t done it with real people. Why should I? I can tell reality from fantasy and if I can’t then I have no business playing them in the first place.

The parents that blame their kids behavior on the music they listen to or the games they play need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. THEY are responsible for their kids actions. NOT the entertainment industry. I used to play Army when I was a kid. I haven’t massacred a crowd at McDonald’s or anywhere else; hell, I don’t even have a desire to. Maybe I need help because I’M not normal.

There are a lot more important issues to worry about than to sit around figuring out how to blame someone else for your failings and problems. Get a life before your neighbors kid gets up from a rousing game of Super Mario Brothers and decides to jump on your head, you dumb-ass!

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Teens again!

Sunday, May 22, 2005

The magic age of 18. The age at which one is granted all knowledge, and becomes fully capable of independence (though not necessarily financial) in both thought and deed.
Wouldn’t that make a hell-uv-a dictionary entry? And once again it seems that it is the female of the human species that suffers the most from this affliction.

Have you seen the anti-drug commercial about: “At age 4 you can’t get them to stop talking….At age 16 you can’t get them to start”? I believe the reason that you can’t get them to start talking is because they don’t want to prove to you just how stupid you are compared with their ever expanding intellect. By the time they reach 18, someone over 30 barely has the cognitive skills to realize these youngsters are speaking the same language we are, let alone being capable of understanding them. After all, NOTHING is the same as it was 20 or so years ago! We NEVER had to face any peer pressure regarding drugs, alcohol, sex, you-name-it.
Is it possible that today’s youth don’t understand that we attacked and embraced these things with the same, if not more, abandon than them? That it just might be possible that we might have learned some obscure truth along the way, that we are trying to pass these truths on in order to keep from them the pain of the lessons we have already suffered?

Can’t wait for the grandkids to get older (though I hope it doesn’t happen too fast!). Boy will they teach their parents something! rotflmao!!!!!

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Are We Having Spring Yet?

Friday, May 6, 2005

Well, maybe! Went out yesterday and pulled up all the damaged tomato plants. The hard freeze the last full weekend of April took it’s toll, followed by three nights of frost this past weekend. The nights are finally staying in the 50’s or higher and the days are getting into the 70’s and 80’s. About friggin’ time!

After pulling the 50+ tomato plants I managed to get another 72 put out along with 25 habanero pepper plants, and some yellow banana peppers. The exotic hot peppers have finally started sprouting and should get out in a few weeks. (Malaysian Cayenne, African Bird, and an unknown from the the Peruvian Andes, among others.)

Backups have also been started just in case we get a mid May or June frost, which, though I’ve never seen it happen here, would not suprise me this year!

Not much else to bitch about right now, so, til next time: Bite Me!

LMAO!

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Vacation’s Over

Saturday, Apr 30, 2005

Well, the vacation is over. It rained 4 out of the 5 days I was off, but visiting with my 6 1/2 month old granddaughter provided all the sunshine I needed! Her and her parents are on thier way back to Rammstein AFB, Germany. Looking forward to thier next visit later this summer!

It may have rained 4 days this week but by God, I BBQ’d anyway! 2 pork shoulders, 4 racks of ribs, 6 chuck steaks (the store calls them roasts, I call them steaks!), and a heap of chicken breasts, kept me busy.

Last weekend the friggin’ temp dropped to 29 degrees F. I lost around 2/3 of my tomatoe plants (roma, beefsteak, and cherry), and all my Cayenne peppers. At least I saved the corn, peas, carrots, radishes, and bell peppers. Still have 40 habaneros, 8 nosegay, 4 pepperoncini, 4 Malaysian cayenne, and several hot peppers (thanks to my buddy George in Missouri!) from Africa and the Peruvian Andes to put out.
Hopefully this week I can get ‘em all out! The compost pile is working faster than I can feed it grass clippings and leaves….I’m getting too old for this crap! lol

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Girls Turning 18

Friday, Apr 22, 2005

Ever had a daughter that turned 18? If so you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. If not, listen up!

Having raised two girls and one boy to age 18 (and beyond), I have come to the conclusion that the insurance companies are WRONG! My stepson, now 23 (almost), was NEVER the problem that the two girls were, individually or jointly. He was given his first car and took care of it, and when he was ready for a different car, he got a loan and bought one. He was never much of one for partying (I know he did but he wasn’t in-your-face defiant about it), but when he did get caught he came clean: he understood the punishment for lying was worse than for the actual act. Girls don’t understand that! They also seem to think that a car is like clothes: use it untill you wear it out or get tired of it and then someone should buy you another one! But, girls get the insurance discounts, because girls are more mature at a given age! rotflmmfao!!!!!!!!

They will lie to get out to party: about where they are going, who they will be with, and when caught, that they did the deed. They will give you a friends phone number to call to speak to a (supposed) parent(actually a friend masquerading as such), or have you drop them off at a ballgame (they can’t find a ride TO it) so they can meet thier friends to go to a motel room party (which they can ALWAYS find a ride to and from!).

There is something about turning 18 that turns girls into the most intelligent and knowlegeable experts on all things in life. They can automatically support themselves (as long as handouts are available), become aware that the rent and utilities can be put off for SHOPPING, yet not understand how the landlord/utility companies can send them a shut off notice and really mean it when they say services will cut if not paid by a certain date!

The NERVE of some people.

Maybe they aren’t all like that but a lot of them are, and if your daughter is spending an inordinate amount of time a a certain friends house, or at ballgames that they know nothing about when they get home, BEWARE! You are being played (the symptoms of partyanimalitis usually start showing around age 15 or 16)! It’s amazing how many parents don’t catch on until it’s too late. We were lucky. Ours didn’t come home pregnant, or with some dread disease.

Don’t lose heart though, they will grow out of it, or at least ours did. We did spend many MISERABLE weeks with young hormonal females doing every annoying thing possible to get out of being grounded. The results weren’t always immediatley obvious and often it took repeated groundings, but eventually it will pay off.

I love these two girls with all my heart, but in our case, boys are so much easier to raise!

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My weekend

Tuesday, Apr 19, 2005

Well, my weekend runs from Tuesday morning at 8am untill Thursday evening at 8pm.

A couple of days off work to do what? Relax? Yeah, right! More like weed the garden, mow the yard, think about getting started with spring cleaning, sand the Blazer and primer it (like Chevrolet should have done in the first place!), get exhausted, crash, wake up, and then realize it’s time to go back to work. Thank God my vacation is next week! So then I’ll actually get to start on the spring cleaning, and do some serious damage to the weeds in the gardens!

Actually, my vacation next week means I get to see my step-son Anthony. He’ll be back in country from Germany where he proudly serves his country in the US Air Force! Thanks and prayers to him and all the other American service men and women here and around the world! God bless ‘em all!!!

If you’re a pacifistic pansy and don’t appreciate our men and women in uniform…..go live in Iran or Libya, hell, I’ll even start a collection for your ticket! I’m not a warmonger, but I’ll be damned if I want to see our people and buildings get blown up by some misguided morons that think suicide is a ticket to heaven! HEY, dumbass, suicide is a one way ticket to hell and I hope you enjoy your stay!

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Why is it?

Monday, Apr 18, 2005

Working 3rd shift, I get to see a lot of “Infomercials” (who in the hell thought of that!?).

One that I get a big kick out of is for the Girls Gone Wild videos. Come on ladies, why is it that when you bare your breasts you have to scream? Does it ease the thought of knowing that your brother, father, MOTHER, or other family member is going to see you while channel surfing? Or perhaps the clasp of your bra is digging into your back! Anyway, it’s hilarious, especially when you are obviously so ashamed of yourself that you can’t even look at the camera while doing so. But don’t stop on my account! There ought to be more girls like you! lol

I work for a towing company that has the city & county towing contracts. In other words: if the police impound your car, we’re the ones that haul it. What bastards we are! Somehow it’s always our fault that your vehicle was towed in! Apparently we purchased your alcohol for you or forced you to drink and drive; or we prevented you from buying tags for your vehicle, or made you drive like an idiot! Also why is it you always got pulled over for a tail light being out or some other minor offense, when the police report CLEARLY states that you were busted for DUI, soliciting a prostitute (read as undercover police officer, you dumbass), or for the drugs in your front seat or that you threw out the window while somehow being unaware of your being in possession of them! We aren’t stupid and if you treat us as such, you just may find yourself being embarrassed in our facility when we correct you in front of the other people waiting in line listening to you cuss and scream at us for “taking” your vehicle!

Well, that’s enough for now. Catch ya’ laters!