To ticked to talk.

Mayberry has a couple of posts and massive amounts of links.

I posted a couple of comments but really have not much to add(that doesn't weigh in around 200 grains and travels about a 1000 feet per second) right now. I have said it before, I say it again. This shit can't fall apart fast enough. People NEED to see how much the lies have been layered over the last 150 years and just how far down the path we have traveled into that whole Marxist mentality. Maybe the trepidations over the next two holiday seasons will be enough to start something much bigger.

Things in my neck of the woods.

I have been having a bit of fun with my new netbook, I highly recommend one to all that want to simplify their net experience. Best keep your bookmarks handy though; your gonna want them. If you are using Firefox(and you should be if not) the following folder transferred over to the new Opsys will make the change seamless.

type this into your runbox. %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and you will have all of your bookmarks, cookies, and passwords. Just copy this to a thumbdrive then do the same thing on the new machine and paste EVERYTHING in that file in the new file.(delete the others first) Shh, I didn't tell you how to do that.

Anyway, since I have this new powerhouse, I have been getting more posts in due to the fact that I can now access the net here at the house. I am really enjoying sitting on the back porch listening to streaming audio while posting. I am picking up my cousins wireless up the hill (over 1000' away!!!!! )and getting great reception to boot. One of my cousins found out I was connected and told me about a local that is an avid YouTube user. (I can't think of what you would call that,,,) If you get a chance, check out his uploads. He goes by Madbadvoodo. He interviews locals and comments about things around here that I leave well enough alone.(don't want any enemies. Want to get established here first) He is from up north, same as me, and seems amused by the locals where I take 'em at face value. There are many around here that will give you the shirt off their backs and know how to do most anything (short of monkeying with PC's I am finding.) There are also the usual pieces of dreck that are completely absorbed into the collective and those I steer clear of.

Little update. Was listening to NPR this morning. I can only tolerate so much of it but I do try to listen to the other side of the coins flying around the airwaves. There was some liberal POS talking about reinstating the draft 'so that the young of this country could understand the sacrifices made by soldiers today'.
Umm, excuse me, was this POS EVER!?!? in the military. He sounded old enough to have witnessed Vietnam but young enough to have missed out on that debacle of 'volunteerism'. I don't use the term POS lightly either. This guy was WAY out on the leftist limb. I could tell he hadn't a fricken clue about what soldiers really do nor how much sacrifice is actually paid even if that sacrifice isn't the ultimate one. I was screaming at the radio for about 10 minutes.

I try to be open minded, Really, I do. But to be open minded enough to accept Turds like that, my brains would fall out.

This shit can't collapse fast enough some days.

Anywhoos, here is a little something of melancholy to warm your soul. I love her voice.

Post with a 99 cent heartattack.

Sitting in that evil place that starts with an M and has a clown for a spokesperson. Hey, when on the road, Free WiFi is a plus no matter how bad the food is.

Sadly, they have CNN on the box and I am getting to watch a lot of liberal drivel about "Rights and safety" and how the TSA is getting slammed for reaching a bit too far into places that make Mommy and Daddy uncomfortable. Big Sis is in for a wake up call on this one.

Here is my advice to all of those that want to raise a fuss about this.

DON'T F@#KIN FLY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET TOUCHED!!!!!!

Now, that's not to say I agree with the policy. Hell, I stopped flying when I found out I couldn't carry a daggum pocket knife! Or a lighter!!!! These go with me everywhere I go since they are essential tools 'that could save my life' in a bad spot. I am forced to carry insurance but I am not allowed to carry my own version of insurance? Don't think so, no thank you, you can keep the "Friendly Skies" to yourselves in that case.

Fact is, if there is a 50% reduction in passengers, over the holidays, due to this mess: Do you think the airlines are going to tolerate it? Of course there are so many sheep that are willing to tolerate body cavity searches in the misleading name of 'passenger safety'; this isn't going away easily. It may go away easier than the PATRIOT Act though. (BTW, O'boy signed the extension on that during the election runs at the beginning of the month. Yeah, we are still stuck with that BS for a while longer)

Another point I found interesting was the further Seek and Destroy ploy against the founder of Wikileaks. They can't nail him for information flows so they are going after him in what appears to be a Character Assault. I don't know that this guy did or didn't rape someone. Doesn't really matter to me one way or another, but the timing is rather interesting. It really seems like a character attack to me. That is one I will keep a note on, just'cuz I find stuff like that interesting.

Mayb has a post that I found disturbing but not one bit surprising. Go read, follow his links. May not apply to you directly but it WILL apply to all of us soon enough, if it continues. Then again, Maybe, just maybe, we need to have this 'further encroachment' upon all of the people in this country. I think the only way some people will wake up is when the kids are crying they are hungry and cold, and the parents haven't any solutions except to 'break the rules'. Real change takes place when people have had enough. So far, people have been far too tolerant of this crap.(and too many are receiving bribes to keep them quiet.)

Here is a little tidbit I overheard last week.
The cost of cotton is going up. China, the biggest producer of cotton is having issues with exports, so the prices will start to rise. Predictions of 30% are being tossed around: Think about what that means to the consumers. If you are a smoker, expect a rise in the cost of your Cigs since they use cotton in the filters. Clothes will be on the rise. Hell, everything is going up. Coffee is predicted to be going over $20 for a 5lb can by the middle of next year. Fuel costs are going to go up.

And the Congress Critters are talking about a National Sales tax (without repealing the income taxes or any others)

Hmm, Does anyone feel "represented"? Didn't the founders of this country have a war because of lack of representation? And heavy(3% cough)Taxes?


And on that note, back to the road for me. I really should be working since I am on the clock. LOL

Not a losing battle, but,,,,,

When I hear the words "Obama could be a good President if people would give him a chance," I just walk away anymore.

The statement shows just how far down the rabbit hole these people have fallen. How much dis-information they have received and how ignorant of the real situation in politics. I was never a G.W. Bush fan and I REALLY didn't like Clinton but O'boy makes both of those guys look fairly decent. (note, I didn't say Good, just decent)
You can educate all you want, but ignorance of this level is nearly irrepairable: Especially when the age of the person is taken into account.(retired usually)
This particular person(s) has been so indoctrinated with socialist ideas, they think people that are trying to become self-reliant, are insane. 'The guberment will take care of all that when things get rough!'
Dependency is slavery. PERIOD. These people are slaves to the system and are so ignorant of it they continue to push for the agendas that enslave us all.
I don't know who said this but "if America falls, there is nowhere else to turn for freedom' had it pretty close to the truth. The only fault I have with that statement is that Freedom begins in your own head. If you think about it, you will see how to be free even in our "Responsibility Cop" age.(thanks to Mountain Rifleman for that little idea) How long we can get away with that freedom is up to us and how low under the radar we are willing to live. It ain't easy though.

Even so, until the current generation of slaves falls the wayside, we will have an uphill fight on our hands. The 'Entitled' will cry for the gooberment to fix thier woes and of course, the gooberment will be more than happy to comply; at a price.

I have given up trying to explain the reasons for refusing to go through a bank for building my home. I have given up trying to explain why I won't open up a savings account or a 401K. I have given up trying to explain why my lockbox is so damned heavy with silver(hard to find gold coin locally) (they used to call silver coins cartwheels for a reason: You needed a damned cart to carry them around in any value over local grocery purchases) BUT, I don't have to explain it anymore, I just have to live it. Let those that don't understand, fall under the bus. Family included. I sounds cruel but if you wish to be free, there are hard sacrifices that have to be made.

PS: I would like to thank a young lady in Texas for a wonderful gift I received yesterday. You know who you are and I won't list your name here. Again, Thank You very much.

A thought, on Freedom, Liberty, and Responsibility.

So many times do we hear the words above in conversation amongst Americans. Yet how many really understand that the above are not buzz words, or , more specifically, solitary in nature? I hear people near me discussing things that deal with the above, never realizing that they are contradicting themselves. You can't have freedom without liberties, nor can you have either without responsibility. PERIOD. The Freedoms that so many take for granted were fought for and paid for with BLOOD. Maybe not in our lifetimes (and I don't count any war after WWII as a freedom war. No ill intentions to those that fought in them, just a fact. This could be debated all the way back to the Civil War but I digress) but definitely in blood and lives and livelihoods. Those that paid that price, more than likely made the decision without qualms or hesitation when the time came to them. As in anything, there are probably exceptions but we need not view them for this thought. Only the fact that somewhere, sometime, and someplace, someone died so that others could wake in the morning and make decisions for themselves. Those that have joined the military may not always make that choice through patriotism. Most haven't actually. Many make the choice(since we started a truly voluntary military) to better their position in life. Some to get out of the ghettos, or the bario. Others to get away from "seeing the backside of a mule everyday". It really doesn't matter. As anyone who has served(at least as far back as 20 years ago, it was like this) the instructors will instill in the recruit, some sense of belonging to something much bigger than themselves; something with history, national sense of belonging, Esprit de Corps, etc etc.
Most people never really get that in public schools. They teach history but that really can't instill the responsibility that is required to be truly free.
I am not saying that you have to give up a life to be a free person in this world. Not at all, but somewhere, someone will have to do that to make sure that others can stay free. The other side of that responsibility is knowing that freedom isn't even remotely free, even if you don't pay that ultimate price for it. It requires attention to those that would take it away from you. It requires you to accept responsibility for your own actions.

We are at an extremely poor time in our countries history. When the people chosen to (Mis) represent this country, can't even take acceptance of their own failures; we have reached a new level of lows. Maybe these people are truly representative of the American people as they have evolved over the last 200+ years. I won't lie to myself about that possibility. All it takes is a quick glance in the papers to see the deceptions and greed that run rampant in this country, at every level of society.

I know that, again, there are exceptions out there. Maybe more than a few(and I think there are a great deal more than a 'few'.) and that may be the saving grace of this country: near future or not.

I would love to hear thoughts on what others define "Freedom", "Liberty", and "responsibility" as. I know that many of my definitions come from a mixture of Heinlein (the discussions in Starship Troopers especially) various passages from the bible on reliance and self reliance('God helps those that help themselves' kind of thing.)and other places, many of them from our history, others from overseas(Locke, Machiavelli, etc). I have read other writings on "Rights" and what not, I don't want to discuss "rights" as I think there is only one true right available anyway. I want to hear about your definitions of freedom, liberty, and responsibility, as it applies to the prior subjects.
You can post in comments if you wish or you can email me at James Maynard 4 0 AT gmail.com (all one lowercase word with the numerals.) Fair warning, I reserve the right to quote you in a future post, good or ill. You will be given credit unless you request anonymity in your email.

I'M BACK!!!!!!!

It cost me but I think its going to be better this way. I splurged on a netbook and figure it will be easier to carry it around than lugging that monster laptop that I own that let me down. This little beastie is pretty amazing all in all but it has a surprise headed at it.

Linux Mint.

(I know I could have spent a bit less but I figure I can squeeze a couple more years out of the old book if I don't go lugging it around the countryside everyday when it doesn't get on the net now without a USB dongle.)


I hate all of the proprietary crapware that most manufacturers are installing on units nowadays. That and dedicating a large section of the HDD to a recovery portion is just silly. I know how to back up my files and do so religiously. I keep 2 1Tbyte externals for just that purpose(now that they are getting within a reasonable monetary range. Used to be a couple of old drives that I salvaged out of other PC's) One is dedicated to disc images and the other only to media. I have quite a bit of music and movies and scanned books that I really don't want to have to replace. It also allows me to leave quite a bit of room in the onboard disc for when I need to download.

Yeah, I know; I am a geek. LOL

Anywhoos, I am back, once I catch up, I will be posting again. Tonight is dedicated to making this little monster into something the techs at HP have night sweats about. MuuuaHahahahHHAHHHHaaaaaa!


Will be back on soon. Time to go play catch up before I warp this things world.

phone post

network adaptor on my laptop imploded over weekend. Since I don't have a hardwired access point, phone posts are it for a couple of weeks.
Only one comment from me about all of this. "This sucks big green and greasy donkey dick." Will try to stay in touch but it will be trying to say the least.