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The new generation....

Ever stopped and wondered why our world is so messed up?

We went out for a short drive today to get lunch and run a few errands.  Started out by the dollar store for munchies and stuff, and when I was waiting for someone to get out of a spot to park, the kid (20-22 y/o) seemed to have a beef with me when he drove by. He had lots of room and I didn’t beep the horn or anything, but gave me the stink eye. I got out to see what his problem was, and I guess he didn’t expect a guy my shape coming out of the wife’s little Hyundai, because he fled like the little wannabe gangster he thinks he is.  So you give me the ‘’stare’’ and drive off???  Ohhhhhhhhhhhh tough guy, aren’t we?

So we decide to hit Burger King, but go the extra mile because the one closer to us sucks ass. I mean really suck ass. It’s dilapidated, the service is just……awful, and the cleanliness is not what you would expect from say the clown-feed chain.

Here I must give you fair warning, you may read the following and think: ‘’well, that’s RAAAAAcist’’. It’s not. I’m just describing what is going on in one of America’s biggest chains. 

So we get to the restaurant and order our food. The cash register kept on freezing up and it took several minutes to order. We waited for our order and I watched the kids working the kitchen for a bit. They are 98% black. Out of 7 employees, only one white girl and one Hispanic girl (the girl at the register).  The black kids are disorganized, they are dragging their feet, are loud and obnoxious, and couldn’t be bothered to get the order out as fast as it should in a fast food joint. They’re walking around, chatting and showing off their phones…..

When we finally get our food, we realize the PLAIN double cheeseburger my wife ordered is dressed.

( Let me open a can of worms here: Why is it that it takes LONGER to get a plain burger at the 2 leading chains of fast food??? It’s LESS stuff, not more!!!!)

So off I go to the counter to tell the white girl, who is not the one who put the food in the tray ‘’Hey, the plain cheeseburger we ordered is dressed. She said we’re sorry and told the black girl working the plate. The black girl shouts at me from the kitchen that I got what I ordered…. So I tell her no, and pull out my receipt. She then proceeds to rip it out of my hands and shove it in the white girl’s face telling her she always gets blamed for her mistakes, even if she didn’t know who served us. I told the black girl to ease off, she’s not the one, and the little bitch gave me the hand.

I let her have it. And her team lead, and the owner of the franchise who came out of the office when he heard me telling the employees off.  I told the owner that if he was any kind of a good owner, he would fire most of the staff he had on the floor that day. He replied that I must be a racist, and that of course I would only keep the whites, right?

I was livid. Not my fault the only employees there that day that did their jobs were white.

So I’m the rAAAAAcist in this, am I?? 

So I begin to educate him on how playing the race card is NOT gonna fly with me. I’m not gonna be accused of racism when I’m stating facts, and said EMPLOYEES and not BLACK EMPLOYEES. To call me a racist when the restaurant is half full is not going to be left alone either. And I went back to the table, because frankly I was gonna punch him in the face and throw him in the deep-fryer.

Then I got to look at the customers. 98% blacks. 3 families of Caucasian people including us, and a few middle eastern families. Kids are running in the restaurant, unsupervised and wild between the legs of people coming with trays full of semi-hot food and beverages, screaming and being wild. Not in the play room, in the damn restaurant. The 2 other kids, (white) were sitting quietly and eating their food before going to the structure, removing their shoes (the others didn’t even though there is a clear sign at the door) and playing ‘’normally’’, while the others walked in and out of the room with their food dripping ketchup and stuff all over the place. Not one….I repeat, NOT ONE PARENT said a word. NONE! 

Back when I was a young pup, my dad or mom would’ve grabbed me by the arm, drag me back to the table with my feet barely touching the ground, and sat me down with a warning of an incoming kick in the ass. Most parents would have. My kids know never to act like brats in public, and not to get fresh with me, or the wife. It was part of their upbringing.

Don’t think for a minute that I am blaming the kids. I am not. Kids need guidance and discipline.

I blame the parents. And yes, I blame the BLACK PARENTS in this case. If it was white folks doing the same thing, I would speak up as loud. But today, it was NOT white people…

What happened to the world?? Where is the politeness and respect that was forced on us way back when? Where is the courtesy when driving??

On the drive home, people were cutting in line with no signal, weaving in and out of lanes. It made me furious, because I used to think it was only airheads doing that kind of stuff….today I realized that no, it’s not only a few idiots, it’s the VAST MAJORITY of the generation coming up now.

I’m not some old crusty, bitter man….I’m 41!!

Why? What happened??

Did all of a sudden decency disappear?  What caused this? Isn’t parenting your kids the most important thing you can do with your life?? NO???

We were raised right…why aren’t we raising our kids right??

And then you get the father of the 2 Boston Bombers telling the world that they were framed….say what??  How can they be framed when throwing EXPLOSIVES at police and shooting at them?? SELF-DEFENSE???

I hate this world we’re in……..

 




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Under the fedora: Boston Gosnell & Doctors

The topic of the day is the Boston Marathon Massacre

When I started writing this we didn’t know who had done this.

With the level of camera and smart phones it was highly unlikely that the placement of the bombing wouldn’t have been caught on camera, When it comes down to it we actually found out who did this pretty quick.

Things continue to be happening fast, the best thing we can do right now is:

1.        If there is anything we know or can do to help contact authorities & do so

2.       If we can’t be of help to the authorities then stay the hell out of their way

As for the Chris Matthews, Alex Jones and Michael Moore and Jansing& Co and NPR who have all made allusions to nonsense without evidence I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I don’t think I should be lying to you.

Instapundit linked to a piece in the NY Post from last year by Gabriel Malor about the media trying to blame the right seven times in the last 3 years

The media’s habitual blaming of the political right is endemic and incurable. Media figures sincerely believe the right wing is violent, so naturally assume that violent people must be right-wing. This won’t be the last time they make that mistake.

Sooner or later a person on the right is actually going to do something like this and when it happens the left will never let us forget it.  It will be the exception that proves the rule, that’s why they’re called Exceptions.

The Senate Campaigns Democrat & Republican have been suspended in the wake of the Bombing of Boston but oddly enough the Senate Campaign of Gabriel Gomez was almost permanently suspended.

Gomez ran the Boston Marathon finishing  before the bombs went off but not by much

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez is reflecting on yesterday's explosions at the Boston Marathon, giving thanks for the safety of his family and staff and offering condolences for the injured and deceased

Think for a second if he had chosen to wade into the crowd and shake a few hands near the finish line we might be reading about the dead or maimed GOP candidate for senate.

Life and death can be a very arbitrary thing.

Speaking of life and death there was an awful lot of death going on in Philly at the practice of Kermit Gosnell but the mainstream media didn’t really care.

NBC-10 Philadelphia reported that, Stephen Massof, a former Gosnell worker, "described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, 'literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body." One former worker, Adrienne Moton, testified that Gosnell taught her his "snipping" technique to use on infants born alive.

Massof, who, like other witnesses, has himself pleaded guilty to serious crimes, testified "It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."

The media was dragged screaming and kicking to the story:

The grisly details drew mainly local attention. But after an online furor that the case was being ignored by the national news media because of troubling accounts of late-term abortions, reporters from major newspapers and television networks descended Monday on the Court of Common Pleas

James Tarento at the WSJ was amazed

What an amazing headline that is. The editors of the New York Times declare that they're covering the trial under protest, yielding their news judgment to an angry online mob. It's probably the most honest thing they've ever published.

I’m not, the MSM absolutely hates the Gosnell story but they certainly don’t want to BE the story.

On the bright side for the MSM thanks to the Boston Bombing they now have an excuse to put something else on the front page.

What a difference a couple of weeks make, a few weeks ago the gun control debate was all about how nothing was going to happen, then last week it was all about how suddenly it had all the momentum and this week suddenly the Same Senators who won a vote to advance the bill as saying it’s doomed.

The MSM would like to continue their full court press for gun control that has been going on since Newtown after all it keeps the press away from the economy but just as the Boston bombing gave the press a reason to keep Gosnell off the front page it also prevents them from keeping gun control ON the front page.

Pressure cooker control, well that’s a different debate.

This was tax week and I got my taxes in Friday.  I still do them myself, it’s a bit of a pain in the neck but it saves me at least hundreds and when money is tight that counts.  I still send in Paper copies on my federal return but on the state version due to current laws and the nature of my return I’m required to file them online. 

I generally don’t have a lot good to say about the Massachusetts tax system but I have to say their free online filing system is one of the most user friendly programs I’ve ever used. 

It’s nice when  state government does something right.

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There are all kinds of tricks you find when money is tight, here is one story out of DC:

The Panel Crasher lost his job at a nonprofit organization at the end of March when a federal grant that was funding his position expired. He suspects it might have been hacked off because of the mandatory budget cuts that went into effect because of sequestration.

After losing his job, the Panel Crasher says he started joking with his friends about how to fill his time between now and the fall, when he enters grad school. Finding a full-time job for just a few months seemed unlikely. But with the loss of income, he needed to figure out how to feed himself, and remembered all the lunch events he attended.

"I said, 'Oh, I won't have to worry about feeding myself because I can go to all these panels around town',

He goes on to critique the various meals.

This really gets me A person who had a job that at a "non-profit" that was funded by taxpayers loses his job and then when the government won't pay for his food (except for the unemployment check and foodstamps if the person qualifies) decides to find organizations that have free lunches for eats, the critiques the food if it isn't good enough.

Now THAT's what I call the entitlement culture.

A while back I did a piece on The Good Wife and liberal propaganda, we saw another example of this from this week’s episode trying to turn Anonymous into heroes.

The problem with noticing this stuff is that once you learn to see it you see it everywhere.  The trick is to make sure you aren’t creating it in your mind.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar but you general y aren’t going to lose if you bet on media bias.

I’ve been following the Doctor Who 50^th anniversary stuff with great interest.  So far the only former Doctor who has been confirmed is the 10^th Doctor David Tennant

I understand that historically the Doctor Who staff wants to keep details secret but if you have none of the living doctors (Doctors 4-8) then it’s not a 50^th anniversary of Doctor Who, it’s the 9^th anniversary of the new series.

Additionally everyone EXPECTS the past doctors to be in the show,  it wouldn’t be a huge spoiler if the team announced they would be there and if they are not including them what’s the point?

I’d really appreciate it if they didn’t yank us around.

Finally on Friday while Boston was locked down I took my wife to the Golden Geese Quit shop up in Concord NH,   I don’t like the idea of being locked down on principle, especially by a terrorist but forget that for a second, there is always a big story to cover, an internet discussion to have or something so important that you just have to say something, but in the end you only have one wife and so much time in a life to spend with her.

There are a lot of people who recommend investments, but the investment of a half day with the wife or husband, even if it’s shopping for fabric or at a Doctor Who convention, is the best investment you can make in your life

See you all next week.

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Holocaust in Philadelphia

By Amy Lidster

Now that I have your attention, let’s discuss the many reasons you should know and recoil in horror at the name Doctor, and I use that term very loosely here Kermit Gosnell.

Gosnell has been practicing his brand of butchery on women since the early seventies. But it was the bipartisan breakdown of lax regulation that enabled this monster to really shine in his chamber of horrors until his 2011 arrest.

Boasting 46 lawsuits over a 32-year period, the list of allegations against him is long and horrendous and begs the question of why is this one medical procedure held so far below that of all others?

Lets compare abortions to tonsillectomies. Both are surgical, invasive and generally speaking in many cases non-emergencies.  All cases involving the removal of tonsils require a licensed phyisian and if being plucked from a minor; parental consent. The same cannot be said of abortions. Abortion is the only invasive surgical procedure that can be done by someone who is not a surgeon and in some cases, not a doctor. This Holocaust in Philadelphia has shown that abortion is still a back alley practice, but thanks to Roe V Wade, it’s a front door one. And thanks to abortion leviathan Planned Parenthood, it’s an extremely profitable one.

Let’s move on to the veritable media blackout of this trial. The details of this case are grisly and need to be known. In a report dated Nov 3, 2011, one witness Steven Masoof who pled guilty to two counts of third degree murder testified at Gosnell’s grand jury that he snipped the spines with assault scissors of 100 born alive infants as part of standard operating procedure as detailed here. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8417220

In Redstate, http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/04/12/even-if-saves-just-one-life-abortion-regulation-now/ 

Dana Loesch included in her April 12, 2013 op/ed

the complete transcript with pictures of babies easily identifiable by gender and old enough to be sustained outside the womb. No matter ones position on abortion, this was murder and by turning a blind eye, the pro-choice side of the debate does it self a huge disservice. By providing it’s usual duck and cover, the media continues to discredit itself with its steadfast refusal to make the Den of Horror front-page news while they dutifully chirp falsehoods about ‘assault weapons’ upon command.

Which brings us to my final point. On August 24 2012 disgruntled Jeffrey Johnson killed a former coworker with five rounds. The police took down Johnson, who made no further threats in busy midtown Manhattan with 16 rounds injuring 9 bystanders. Before the dust settled Mayor Michael Bloomberg was thrilled to be screaming a for gun control while smart New Yorkers were screaming for shooting lessons for New York’s finest.  

In similar fashion, the same thing happened on that tragic day in December while the tears of a nation flowed and the blood not yet dried the same bells started tolling.  Obama showed up for the memorial service and used the occasion to set his predictable narrative. Gun control would have stopped this, when will these awful conservatives see the light? How many more children need to die?

How many indeed? Is the left willing to trade Roe vs. Wade for the 2^nd Amendment? Are we? The only thing the two remotely have in common is one camels nose into one tent for another. I am quite sure the founding fathers were FAR smarter than the supremes of 1973 and I am not willing to gamble the selfless foresight of the founding fathers against the beholden Supreme.

Kermit Gosnell needs to face finish his process and face a jury of his peers. If found guilty, Pennsylvania does have the death penalty and I for one will be standing in what I imagine will be a long line brandishing rusty scissors, because no one is calling for a ban on scissors now are they?

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Taking Down ObamaCare One Tweet At A Time

Low information Obama voters are beginning to hum the conservative anthem that Obama care is bad for your health, wallet and job.

Even worse, for all three are stampeding RINOs determined to hang onto their jobs by quelling conservative voices better able to take down the monstrosity of this bill. It is relevant to note, no voting senator, of any political stripe will ever have to suffer under Obamacare, yet Conservatives like Senator Ted Cruz are willing to hang their entire career on taking it down. Who do YOU trust?

Looming in the near future are 130 billion dollars in new taxes from medical devices, restaurants, and retailers, all of which will be passed on to the already beleaguered consumer.  Overturning of the medical device tax even has Democrat support at this point as a number of said senators are facing re-election in 2014 and their constituents are awakening from their stupor. Free birth control suddenly doesn’t seem so free anymore.

In a grass roots effort to show the sheer enormity of this California redwood sized bill, Atlanta based actor and director Jake McClain has taken it upon himself to tweet each and every word of this 900 page bill. With each tweet bearing the hashtag #TCO McClain has a few volunteers * stepping in as needed, the hashtag #tweetobamcare is used to chronicle the efforts of the endeavor and should be used when tweeting senators urging them to get off their duffs and take this thing down in pieces. If Jake McClain can show Americans in 140 characters what an intrusive, economic disaster Obamacare is, surely our Republican senators, besides Ted Cruz can pause from their photo ops to take this thing down.

Nancy Pelosi got her wish, the bill was passed, we’ve seen what’s in it, and that is exactly what conservatives knew all along.

*Volunteers include this blogger

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Under the fedora: Baseball has returned

An amazing thing happened at the Supermarket yesterday.

I was in the 12 items or less line when a family of three were behind me started talking to the cashier.  I tend to hear all kinds of things that I store away but when the young lady named Catlin told her friend about her father talking about putting a TV in the shower for her it stopped me cold.

I had to turn and inquire.  “What about water on the set”

“It would be high”

“The water is going to splash off of you and up”

“We’re going to put plexiglass over the screen.”

As my head continued to spin I finally turned to this young 15 year old girl standing with her parents  and asked the following question:

“Young lady, can you tell me one thing that is going to be on your television set that is so important, so critical and so unavailable in repeats thatit can’t wait for a time when you are not wet and naked in the shower?”

She silenced me in three words:

“Red Sox Games”

How does any New Englander answer that?

It is totally impossible to explain Red Sox fandom to a person from outside New England but let’s put it this way…

When you’ve lived in New England in General and Massachusetts in particular there is one fact that is incontrovertible.

No matter how bad things get in Massachusetts and their pretty bad, when the Red Sox open with two wins in Yankee stadium all is right in the world.

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Totally unrelated, next time you feel sorry for a career minor leaguer just remember if they have at least one day of MLB experience the minimum wage is $67,300.

Don’t tell Elizabeth Warren

Weasel Zippers reports on a new FATWA out of Saudi Arabia:

a Saudi cleric, Sheikh Abdullah Da ‘ud, took it a step further on live Arabic TV  by insisting that “it is forbidden to be around handsome youth, those beardless boys who have a touch of temptation in them [fitna].”

No word on if this is going to be extended to homely teen boys.  I can imagine the teen insults now: 

You’re so ugly the ban on “handsome” beardless boys doesn’t apply

Do they have crucifixion for teen bullying in Saudi Arabia?

April Fools day I only tweeted out jokes or things I considered funny.

Although some of them were really good  a quick read though the lot confirms that my future is not in Standup.

Michael Graham had an event this week to try to figure out what the GOP should do in the state.

http://youtu.be/BCHWIH2InuI

The thing is the GOP has figured it out, they left and became powerful elsewhere.  Why do you think Massachusetts has lost 5 electoral votes since they took control of the state legislature and never lost it?

If Massachusetts in particular & New England in general doesn’t change they’ll be down to 24 EV or less and then  the GOP won’t care if we have power in the state or not.

Maryland has decided they want to pass tough guns laws even though Barettamay have reached their limit and is thinking of pulling a magpull on them.

Who Knew Maryland was doing so well they could spare the jobs?  Then again they abut DC so since Obamaconomy is all about growing government they might have a few extra jobs to spare

I wonder if CPAC will consider moving as well?

Speaking of CPAC it’s been two weeks since CPAC and I’m still posting video, boy I shot a lot down there.

The sudden re-definition of acceptable belief concerning Gay Marriage is putting a defacto religious test on all sorts of walks of life.  That nobody in the media seems to have a problem with this tells you how disconnected the media has become with the other have of US culture.

In fact we’re already seeing it:

Two homosexual students at George Washington University have announced a coordinated campaign to try to rid the campus of its Catholic chaplain, the GW Hatchet, the school’s independent newspaper reports.
Seniors Damian Legacy and Blake Bergen said they can no longer tolerate what they describe as Father Greg Shaffer’s anti-homosexual and anti-abortion beliefs. They say they are upset that Fr. Shaffer counsels homosexual students to lead a celibate lifestyle.

As this IS the official belief and doctrine of the Catholic Church this complaint if upheld would effective bar Catholic teaching and Catholic chaplains at George Washington University

Well at least Catholic Universities aren’t doing this, I mean you wouldn’t see a Catholic University like Gonzaga for example refuse to recognize the Knights of Columbus or something:

“The Knights of Columbus, by their very nature, is a men’s organization in which only Catholics may participate via membership,” says a letter obtained by The Cardinal Newman Society written by Sue Weitz, Vice President for Student Life. “These criteria are inconsistent with the policy and practice of student organization recognition at Gonzaga University, as well as the University’s commitment to non-discrimination based on certain characteristics, one of which is religion.”

I wonder how much money Gonzaga gets from endowments and donations from Catholics who think it is a Catholic University?

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There are two ways to look at this story, the first is the idea that political correctness has gone crazy

There’s a good reason the city is hiring lifeguards that can’t swim. Public pools are largely used by Latino and African-American kids, but most of the lifeguards are white and this creates a huge problem. “The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don’t like that,” says a Phoenix official quoted in the story. She added that “the kids don’t relate; there’s language issues.”

The second is more incredible, the idea that officials care so little about the lives of their own citizens they are willing to put Latino and black children in danger of death in order to shut them up.

Words can’t adequately describe this.

Finally film critic Roger Ebert has died.  There are three movie reviews he did that should be read by everyone.  The first is his review of the Passion of the Christ:

This isn't a movie about performances, although it has powerful ones, or about technique, although it is awesome, or about cinematography (although Caleb Deschanel paints with an artist's eye), or music (although John Debney supports the content without distracting from it).

It is a film about an idea. An idea that it is necessary to fully comprehend the Passion if Christianity is to make any sense. Gibson has communicated his idea with a singleminded urgency. Many will disagree. Some will agree, but be horrified by the graphic treatment. I myself am no longer religious in the sense that a long-ago altar boy thought he should be, but I can respond to the power of belief whether I agree or not, and when I find it in a film, I must respect it.

The Brown Bunny (the re-cut version):

Chambers might in fairness have explained that I was responding to Gallo calling me a "fat pig" -- and, for that matter, since I made that statement I have lost 86 pounds and Gallo is indeed still the director of "The Brown Bunny."
But he is not the director of the same "Brown Bunny" I saw at Cannes, and the film now plays so differently that I suggest the original Cannes cut be included as part of the eventual DVD, so that viewers can see for themselves how 26 minutes of aggressively pointless and empty footage can sink a potentially successful film.

And Birth of a Nation:

Some of the film's most objectionable scenes show the Ku Klux Klan riding to the rescue of a white family trapped in a cabin by sexually predatory blacks and their white manipulators. These scenes are credited with the revival of the popularity of the Klan, which was all but extinct when the movie appeared. Watching them today, we are appalled. But audiences in 1915 were witnessing the invention of intercutting in a chase scene. Nothing like it had ever been seen before: Parallel action building to a suspense climax. Do you think they were thinking about blackface? They were thrilled out of their minds.

Today, what they saw for the first time, we cannot see at all. Griffith assembled and perfected the early discoveries of film language, and his cinematic techniques that have influenced the visual strategies of virtually every film made since; they have become so familiar we are not even aware of them. We, on the other hand, are astonished by racist attitudes that were equally invisible to most white audiences in 1915

Politically I disagreed with Ebert a LOT, but in his field which was movie reviews and analysis he was a master and no amount of disagreements on other subjects will ever change that.

Rest in peace.

There will be no Under the Fedora next week in honor of my 25^th Anniversary.  Thanks Val.

 



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