My letter to Beretta Customer Service

Before I kick off this tirade, a little backstory:

I was on R&R from Afghanistan (means I had to go back, it wasmid-tour leave) and I went to some gun store in Omaha with my family. I saw this Beretta pack ("Hunting Pack with Vertical Rifle Carrier") on the racks, and knowing how uncomfortable issued assault packs were,I purchased this unit to "upgrade" (hahaha!).  I wore it once to adjust it,and had the wife try it out to see if she liked it for hiking use later.
That's it.The 3rd time I put it on at the airport, the bottom of the shoulder strap,where it meets the pack broke clean off.  It popped, and when I looked at it, it looks like somebody had cut it with a knife.  They had the strap going in at a perpendicular  angle to the pack itself.  As soon as I put it on with any amount of weight in it, the fibers of the strap broke in a cascading manner, causing sudden and catastrophic failure.  I spent the next 4 days going back to FOB Salerno with a lopsided pack.I filed a complaint immediately upon reaching an internet connection.  It went ignored for 3 months, and I actually forgot about it.  I got a reply soon before going back to Nebraska for Block Leave at the end of my our in A'stan.  I derided them a bit, and let them know how displeased I was.  They mailed a pre-paid box to Nebraska for me to mail it back to them in.  I haven't seen hide nor hair from them since.  I sent several inquiring emails for the next 3 months until I get this beauty on JUNE16th!!

I have been out of the office on business travel the entire month of May 

and just recently arrived back in the office. I see a memo from our 

Virginia warehouse that they received your pack while I was away. It is 

being sent up to my office for  evaluation / replacement and will arrive 

next week.  We will move on it as soon as I have it in hand. 
 

Well, fuck me, right?  3 months, and it was because this asshole was 

out of town for ONE MONTH.  Did he take two weeks off after his 

business trip?  Christ...

I haven't heard anything from them since, despite sending more emails to 

them.  I finally decided enough was enough and sent them this beauty today:  

Nothing?  Nothing at all yet?  It's been almost 7 full months now, and allyou guys have managed to do is steal my pack back from me, and I'm still out the money I spent on it.  Christ, I could at least have a broken pack, but you guys didn't seem content with just selling me garbage, you must have felt compelled to stick me in Afghanistan with a crappy pack so it could break the 3rd time I used it, and then steal my crappy pack from me once I got home with it.  You also managed to throw in a complaint ticket of some other dude with a broken Stoeger Cougar handgun who had been ignored for a loooooong time as well.  I guess at least I'm not getting special treatment.  Is that why you felt compelled to throw that in? "Hey Justin, don't feel down.  We treat all our customers like crap.  We have military contracts!"

Keep your crappy pack.  Don't even bother replying.  I'm going to go shout from the mountain tops, and to every one I know what a bunch of crooks you guys are.  You told me that you didn't get around to my complaint because of a backlog of problem tickets.  Now I know why. YOUR STUFF IS GARBAGE!

Screw Beretta.  Seriously.

Shooting the .460 Rowland and ACOG

I finally got out to a desolate strip mine out in Jonesville last weekend, and put some rounds through my .460 converted 1911 Mil-Spec and my SR-556 with the ACOG TA31RCO.  I don't have any pictures, but things went very well.


.460 Rowland

Wowee!  I don't believe how soft this gun shot with CorBon 230 grain FMJ rounds advertised as running at 1250 FPS for 750-ish foot-pounds of energy.  Seriously, I don't believe it.  My mission for next week is to get out to the range with my chronograph and clock these babies, because if they're running near what their advertised, and it's actually shooting as soft as it did, I've found my new favorite handgun round.
The compensator almost entirely eliminated muzzle rise.  Recoil was almost directly backwards in line with my forearm.  I don't have any hard numbers, but every round of .460 I fired felt softer than any round of .45 ACP I've ever fired through my Mil-Spec.  I've heard people say to be ready to have mainspring housing lines in your palm, but unless CorBon is lying BIG TIME, I'm wondering what was going on with their .460 Rowlands.  More to come on this later.
I didn't get any groups, but I did notice that most rounds at a close-ish range were hitting low and the left.  If this continues at the range, swapping out of the arched mainspring housing for a flat one may be in order.  I'll also need a vice to drift the rear sight to keep it on target.  *argh* I need to put some rounds through paper with this gun!
Using a Wilson Combat 8 round magazine, I did have one instance where the slide apparently failed to eject the round, but managed to catch the mouth of the cartridge on the upper right edge of the barrel.  It dinged the brass, but a simple tap, rack, bang (as simple as it can be with a 24# spring) cleared it up no problem.  The brass didn't fly that far either.  Most landed a foot or so to my right from standing, one even landed on my forearm.  Again, if these CorBon loads are, in fact, moving at the speed they say, I'm going to have to bump down to the included 21# spring for non red-line loads to ensure smooth operation.  I'm going to low-load a few rounds and see what happens down the line.  Could you imagine what a GREAT combat pistol a 1911 throwing 230 grain slugs @1000 FPS would make, so long as reliability doesn't suffer?

...I've got wood.


SR-556 with Trijicon ACOG TA31RCO

I've found another new favorite this weekend in rifles, as well.  My SR-556, with it's 16" barrel, free float rails, bull barrel, and ACOG is going to make a wonderful "recon" type rifle.  Again, I don't have any hard data (yet) with the ACOG on, but after doing some playing and semi-accurate zeroing by just spotting for splash, I was quite literally walking my way down beer bottles using Tula's "Hunting Cartridge" brand 55gn. FMJ steel-cased .223 ammo.  I'm interested to see how fast these are moving, because they won't properly cycle my SR-556 on gas setting "1" while all my mid-high power handloads do. 

In closing, I'd like to apologize for not having ANY hard data here.  I hope to redeem myself with a cornucopia of datum on my 69gn. MatchKings run through the 1/9 barrel with the ACOG, 52gn. Speer Match HPBT rounds, 55 gn. FMJs, and the revealing of the mystery on this .460 Rowland recoil (or lack thereof) issue...

.460 Rowland conversion kit is here! EEEEEEEE!!

Clark's barrel smith finally got in last week and freed this bad boy from the billet steel it had been imprisoned in until just now.  I have to say she's glad to be free!  I had to specify exactly what model this barrel is going into, but I can see why now.  The barrel matches up with the slide and locking lugs absolutely flawlessly, and with the compensator matching up very nicely with the bushing and slide, there's absolutely no play in the pistol when rolled from side to side. I also installed the Wolff 24# spring and extra-strength firing pin spring.  A thing of beauty to be seen.  Despite all the brouhaha about the heavy spring making it hard to reassemble and work the slide, I don't think it's all that difficult after you get the technique down for reassembly, and I have big gorilla hands, and I'm not really a weakling, so the slide doesn't seem like that big of a deal, either.  If you're smallish, weakish, or an average woman (no offense intended) I could see it possibly posing a problem.
I absolutely can't wait to get this gun out to the range and put some rounds through it and see if this tightness affects reliability, and can't wait to see what kind of groups it posts.

Unfortunately, Clark Custom Guns either forgot the .460 brass, or are themselves backordered because the 200 I ordered with the barrel did not arrive, and I was never charged for them onto my card.  Midway USA is backordered, as is Starline Brass.  This does not bode well.  Somebody on one of my outdoors forums has put me onto the trail of some pre-loaded ammunition (factory or local loads, I don't know yet) but I'm a little worried as to price.  $25 for 100 brass ain't that bad, considering it can use bullets, powder, primers, and dies for .45 ACP I already have, but I can only guess as to what a local shop might charge for what could be considered "custom" or "niche" ammunition.

ETA:  I got some ammunition from Wild West Guns (for $30 a box, 230 gn. FMJs @ 1250 FPS).  Just waiting for my off time and the sport fire range on Ft. Rich to cooperate.  They're non-accessible today due to a unit using the range.  Weak.

4th of July in Anchorage

Got out to the 4th of July parade with the family today to see the sights and taste the food that is Anchorage on our Independence Day.  Turned out to be a bit more interesting of a day than I had initially planned.

I had the good fortune of visiting both the booths of Governor Candidate Rob Parnell and the Alaska Democrat Party.  My first visit and discussion was at the Rob Parnell booth, with his representative there.

I started off by informing him that we were new to the area, and were looking for information on the current candidates.  I asked him Mr. Parnell's stances on concealed carry, gun control, and abortion.

The response: keep it as it us, NO!, and FUCK NO!  He then asked me what I think of the issues, to which I told him I wholeheartedly agree.

Then I headed over to the Alaska Democrat Party shed.

Yes, that is Cezar Chavez they're quoting on the side of their shed.  Go figure.

So, I walk over and begin talking to the southern Anchorage District Chair, Lupa something-or-other, I believe her name was.  She was very nice, and very agreeable, in a bad way.  I started off by asking her what the Alaska Democrat Party's position was on the current Alaska Concealed Carry law.  She stated that she was for it, and the party didn't see any need to change it.  She assured me that she and many democrats were gun-owning sportsmen, and fully supported our rights to keep and bear arms.  I then asked her about open carry within the limits of Anchorage.  At this point her face drew a blank, and I then had to run over ALL the concealed carry laws, and the fact that open carry is not legal within the city limits of Anchorage.  Turns out she was in support of something she had no idea about.  After explaining all this, and what I thought about it, she looked at me, and said "that sounds like a very reasonable position."
I then asked her on what she and the Alaska Democrat Party thought about hunting regulations and the enforcement thereof.  Despite her earlier assurances about being a sportsman she had no idea as to the current methods of attaining harvest and hunting tags/permits, or the differences between "assault weapons" and sporting weapons, other than a scary appearance.  That last should have been a given, with the Democrat Party's past escapades with the 2nd Amendment and the "shoulder thing that goes
up."
Right after this last discussion, my wife showed up with a turkey leg and some fries, and seeing her out, Lupa quickly thanked me for my time, and shook my hand.  But not before I was able to score some sweet bumper stickers!  I can't find the pictures right now, but one said "HATE is NEVER a family value!" and "Republican healthcare plan: Don't get sick!"  Because it's solely for the .gov to help you out when you're sick, right?  FUCK private industry!

A few heroes and pinheads:

The 2nd Amendment support group.  Yeah, that's a Barrett M82A1.  I want it.  Sadly, they felt the need to march in support of 2A because they don't feel adequately represented by these assholes...

The ACLU, we don't hate religion, just Christianity!  Bringing white guilt to you since... whenever.

Yes, those are little kids on boat called "Lady Gay-Gay" in the gay parade.  You see, when conservatives do this, it's "indoctrination," "brain washing," and "teaching hate."  With anything "progressive" it's "open young children's minds."  INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!

OK, guys we get it.  You're homosexuals.  Is it just me, or does this just seem to be such a double standard?  If I were to get upset at one of these guys, and call them fairies, and tell them to go put on hot pants and dance behind a float on their pride day, I'd be called a bigot, intolerant, and guilty of stereotyping gays.  1) Usually we have stereotypes for a reason.  I'm a stereotypical gun-owning, Catholic, 20-something, white male.  Who gives a fuck?  2)  These aren't gays, these are fags.  Gay people have sex with other gay people of the same sex for fun.  Fags do faggy shit like dance on a float in hot pants/in drag.

The dykes on bikes hauled ass too quickly by for me to snap a picture in time.  They were seriously driving dangerously for a closed parade route.  They had very fine flannel shirts on, and shiny shiny buzz cuts.

People Watching:

This is most unapologetically my favorite activity after shooting, sex, and playing with myself.   Here's a few pictures of interesting people I saw.

First off, we have "East German Camo Jacket Guy."  Not all that weird in an of itself, just the way he went about getting something out of his pocket while attempting to keep some sort of brochure in his back pocket.  Also wearing a jacket in East German camouflage pattern.  WTF?

Next, we have the iPod Hippy.  Just one look at this guy had flashes of Jane's Addiction and Yes! concerts flashing through my head.  Despite his moderately eye-catching dress, his biggest weirdness factor was the way he walked around loudly laughing to himself for no apparent reason in pronounced "HA-HA!  HA-HA!" spurts.  Not quite as weird as the guy we saw on C street yesterday barking at cars.  I really wish I'd gotten a picture of him...

Rosary Wearing Phat Beat Boy.  The he didn't move to the music, he and the music moved TOGETHER.  Unfortunately, I missed an opportunity to photograph him with the rest of his suburban, grain-eating family, as their sheer WASPiness served as an excellent foil to his "don't test my gangsta" attitude.  I think his father needs to Harden the Fuck Up.

Buddy, the Dancing Blood Drop.  In the parade, not not technically a person in and of himself, but still creepy as hell to see a representation of donor blood prancing down the street.  The announcer of the Parade consistently (and predictably) mis-pronounced his name as "Bloody the Blood Drop."

The Bead Sucker Sisters.  Dunno what was up with them, but they were just milling about, with some beads in their mouths.  The blank look on the first one makes me think she's on something, and is a blank slate.  The second one was probably contemplating Twinkies, or wishing the beads were a nice, big turkey leg.

My Argument with a White Supremacist

     I was perusing my beloved Arthur's Hall of Viking Manliness forum the other day when I noticed that an old thread calling attention to the severe overuse of the word "nigger" had been bumped back up to the top.  The previous posting was from September 16 of the previous year when the thread wound down.  The latest tidbit of joy in the necropost:

"In summation:

Knock off the use of n----r, use Kaffir instead. "

      For those of you unaware of the word "kaffir," it is originally an Arabic word (كافر, transliterated as 'kafir') meaning "infidel," "faithless," or "unbeliever."  It's historic use has been for anything and everything non-Abrahimic, non-Muslim, and has even been used to describe some Muslims who just weren't awesome enough.
     It's use has been enthusiastically picked up by the South Africans (adding a second "f"), Kings of Equal Opportunity that they are, and been recycled and loaned to Afrikaans and recently to English as a new, hip form of "nigger" to sling at anyone of a dark complexion you don't like but can't state any specific grievance against.
     Arthur's Hall has been slowly and steadily infiltrated by the lowest of the low, to include Skinhead Fucks, Stormfront Pukes, and Neo-Nazi Assholes.  There's been all sorts of n00bz with names along the line of "Germanic_________Machine,"  "Austrian________Killer," "__________MachineOfDeath," and avatars of SS insignia and supremacist figureheads.  Real original stuff, I know.  If you visit the site now, and do a search of "Jew," "Zion," or "Kaffir," the results are likely to turn your stomach.
     Feeling the creative juices stir, I can't help but try to right the wrongs that I've seen on my beloved interwebz site.  Somebody on the Internet is wrong, and I must rectify the situation!

     I decide the best course of action is sarcasm, piss, bile, and biting wit:

"Foolproof! Between the racist fucks here doing the 'ol switcheroo, and the Taliban using the coverterm "wood" for rockets (as in "Habib, put the wood on the donkey, and bring it to me so we may shoot it at the base and kill the Americans.) nobody will ever be the wiser.

It's been really grand seeing "kaffir" phased in while the n-bomb is phased out and all the doc-martin wearing, stormfront wanna-be's giggle in the corner, thinking they're just being sooooooo fucking clever. Nobody's noticed the transliteration of the Arab word being plugged in and used in the exact same context as "nigger." Keep up the good work guy, I'm thinking next y'all should start subbing in "shylock" or "big nose" for "jew."

A bunch of modern-day Wind Talkers up in here, I tell ya what. Where's Nicholas Cage?"

     Stunner punched and mouth agape at having somebody potentially white disagree with him, the Nazi Stormtrooper's first reaction is to try to defer and defuse the situation.  I mean, they've been throwing the K-word around for quite awhile now, and nobody's said shit.  This guy's small fish compared to many of the other people using this word, so it seems kinda unfair he should be the one called upon to defend his pejorative racism, am I right?

"The reality is that only South Africans and members of this forum know what that term means."

      Well thank God for the internet, right?  There's no fucking way that somebody could ever possibly see the word used as "To them any crack ho kaffir sow with nigglets constitutes a 'family'," (verbatim from The Hall) "Given a no-way-out choice, what would you rather fuck? 1 - An average kaffir chick. 2 - A latina chick with a mega-fucked up face and a stinky pussy. 3 - A white midget with VD." This was written by a major contributor to The Hall, and host of the "Fosgail Caith" webradio program, which has tiraded against jews and black in the past.  The Hall's founder, Arthur replied he'd prefer have sex with a white chick with a VD.  The site is very heavy on hyperbole and sarcam, however.  My main point here is the word "kaffir's" uber-secret usage, as a code word that nobody could EVER figure out.
     Regardless of prior usage, somebody else on the site (a real cool cat, in my humble opinion) pitches in:

"Or anybody that's seen Lethal Weapon 2."

      To which we get the reply:

We aren't coming up as a result on a Google search for it, I checked.

Call a random black person a kaffir and you will be met with puzzlement.

     Well thank God for that, eh?  Imagine if we HAD used the word so often that The Hall came up on a Google search for random racial slur words.  I think we'd have to set it as a collective mission to out-do Stormfront.org in order to achieve that beauty!
     I bring up the word's prior usage, and the obvious context of the word's usage to which I am rewarded with the uber-eloquent:

"I don't think that matters.

Also, choke on a dick."

     At this point, the thread is locked by The Hall's resident eugenicist and genocide advocate "MotivationMan," A.K.A. "Bill Kephart," A.K.A. "The Most Unnecessarily Narcissistic Guy in the Universe."  Why, do you ask?  Well, I wish he would tell us why:

"Just so I can have the last word:

I don't use kaffir because it is less offensive than nigger. I use it because it is more offensive.

Kaffir implies soulless animal, worthless sub human creature not even fit to be a slave. If you look at the etymology it is basically the worst thing you can call a person."

     Well, thanks, I guess.

It went into a lengthy messaging session after the lock, with me and my being right, and the other guy with his being wrong, and admitting it in slow spurts.  A few highlights:

They don't need to be drawn to the forum by the word Kaffir in order to see it being used as a simple plug-n-play option in lieu of "nigger."

That doesn't matter.

Where are you from? I am guessing there aren't many black people.

...I grew up in rural Nebraska, away from black people. I had one in my highschool, and one on a rival highschool football team... How the hell does my growing up in a rural place away from blacks make me any less right, and you any less wrong?

It doesn't make you any more wrong or me any less right. It does indicate that you are very likely ignorant of them and their culture. Wanna know what it would take for you to become racist if you moved to a city that was 50% black? 2 weeks.

 Using the equivalent of the term "nigger" to sit around and rip on black people is a bad thing unless you want Arthur's Hall to be more like Stormfront.org. Nazis and White Supremacists are socialists by the way.

I'm the one using facts and logic, you thick moron. All you've done for the last 3 I.M.s is say "I don't think so" and think your OPINION is trumping my experience and fact. Jog off, fuck stick.

I'd venture to say I know quite a bit more about black culture than you do. You see, that's what happens when you don't go around calling them "niggers" and "kaffirs" and actually interact with them. Your argument is tantamount (that means "equal" or "the same as" by the way) to saying I don't know how to swim because I'm not from somewhere near a body of water, or I don't know what Heavy Metal is because there's no Heavy Metal bands from Nebraska. There were refugees from Liberia in my town, and I hung out with that one black kid in my highschool, who moved there from the Bahamas his senior year. I've lived the last 3 years in Savannah, Georgia, for Christ's sakes. I've been living and working with every color of the rainbow for the last 7 years of my life, you ignorant fuck. Hell, we have this thing called the INTERNET where you can research things, and not just look at porn and download e-copies of "Mein Kampf" and "The Turner Diaries." Imagine that!

Overt racial prejudice is just one of the many facets of Arthur's Hall. Like you say white supremacists are socialists. They wouldn't care for our libertarian/atheistic tendencies. Besides, Shatner dials back that stuff back when it gets out of hand. You are exaggerating how much Kaffir is used on this site.
Pretty obvious you that don't know what you are talking about. I can help educate you though.

12% of the US is black, while 44% of our prison population is black.

After digesting that FACT, take a look at the national IQ map on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_Global_Inequality

BTW, I am not a white supremacist or Nazi.

Yes, statistically speaking they're more likely to be criminals. That means... What exactly? We live in a free society (for now) where you still have to commit a crime to be locked away in prison. Criminals go to jail, law abiding citizens don't. I think we can both agree to that.

Are you saying that the blacks not in prison are somehow defective or inferior? Does this (apparent) insight into the 12%/44% anomaly make you more knowledgeable than I about blacks by some sort of joo magick? Above all, I'm just wondering what the fuck you're trying to get at.

Also, get some hard numbers, because looking at percentages like that are exactly what stormfront.org wants you to do. They say that true statistics never lie, but liars will almost always use true statistics.

 What I am getting at is that, blacks are genetically driven towards crime and stupidity.

 ...and you're not a white supremacist, you say? 

 If hating blacks makes you a white supremacist, then I suppose so.

So let me get this straight, you believe all races are equal?

 Don't make it seem like I'm the one labeling you as a white supremacist. By your own admission, you believe blacks are far more likely to be in prison than whites. Unless you're indifferent or believe convicts are better people than non-convicts, that makes you believe that whites are superior to blacks. The textbook definition of a White Supremacist. You've also said you hate blacks, so you're also prejudiced and/or a hate monger. Wonderful. We've beaten around the bush about me, and what I think when all of this has been triggered about you, your use of pejorative terms, and the fact that you're a black-hating white supremacist. At least you're out of the closet now.

As for me, fuck no I don't think that all races are equal. If we were well and truly equal, we wouldn't be a different race now would we? (And you keep saying you're not thick...) Did I ever say that I thought we were all equal? I don't recall ever saying that, and I would appreciate it if you could find where you think I said that.

Now that we've established that I'm right, and you're wrong, I'm willing to accept your apology.

Man, it sure is a real burn, being right all the time!

 Do you think that blacks are genetically inferior to whites or Asians? As far as intelligence and criminality.

 Inferior is a subjective term, and in your case, and attempt at a trap. You're using the basis of criminality and intelligence to determine overall superiority and if I were to agree with you, you'd spring forth with an "ah ha! you're a white supremacist too!" Despite this being a logical ad hominem fallacy, as proving me a hypocrite does nothing to spurn the fact that you've been wrong, and I've been right this whole, big, long, convoluted PM session, it would probably make you feel better.

Here's what I'm going to say to your stupid fucking question: criminality is subjective. If I had my way, abortion doctors and the women getting elective abortions would be in jail for murder as well. Drug dealers with no other charges would be released and set free. People in prison for felonious possession of controlled substances and non-violent weapons charges (Class III, concealed carry without a permit, while intoxicated, etc) would be released as well.
Intelligence is also subjective to a degree. Some people and even some cultures are very good at math and terrible at music, despite music being a derivative function of math expressed though an auditory medium. Other people are wonderful at music, and terrible at math. Tomas Haake of Meshuggah would be a rocket scientist if the two were mutually intelligible. You're using a standardized IQ test again as your basis for inferiority. I'll give a bunch of chinese rocket scientists the IQ test in english and come to the conclusion that they are all severely retarded, because they couldn't even spell their names right, for frak's sake!

That would skew all the numbers, and your beloved "white is right" statistics up.

You're pretty much asking me which of the 3 races are more attractive, and I'm saying "no." Just to clarify, for you, because I think you're going to have a hard time interpreting what I just wrote up there.

And I'm still waiting on that apology.

 That's the long and short of it.  It's not that the idiots argue like Democrats, it's that Democrats argue like idiots, because this guy claims to be a Libertarian.  Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to get him out of the "the closet" on his socialist ideals as well...

Until next time, Harden The Fuck Up America!

Moron of the week, Installment 1

"Leftist Grandpa"

These are the writings of a middle-aged guy trying to be as moderate as I possibly can. Here is where I put down in words the stuff that comes pourin' outta my head, and do my bitchin' and complainin' about the government or whatever else pisses me off. Everything and everyone are fair game. These are my ramblings, rantings and ravings with the occasional twist of humor and/or sarcasm. All this while doing my part to fight the Fascists.

http://forthegrandkids.blogspot.com/2010/06/gift-for-unemployed-from-gop.html

Here we're going to do a quick look at an idiot who quite obviously started his blogging out of frustration at the Bush regime (see his summary about bitching about the government) and distrust of said government.  Now that his boy is in office, the government is suddenly not only to be trusted, but it's to be our vewy bestest fwiend! Check out the following comments:

2 comments:

Riot Kitty said...

I know. My spouse has been out of work for a year and a half, and I say "Fuck them!" I hope people remember this during election time.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:52:00 PM

Grandpa Eddie said...

I know what you and Mr RK are going through, RK. Mrs GE has been out of work two weeks short of a year, and her unemployment will run out then. I've been laid off since Dec 3, 2009 and ran out of UC the end of May. All this with no end in sight. I don't know what we will do when my wife's UC runs out, probably lose the house.

The Republicans are evil because they're not stealing enough money, and giving it to these two asshats!  It's very entertaining to see two unproductive morons whining and griping over the interwebz about how they're entitled to a guaranteed income while apparently only one out of the 4 people in the bitch session are employed.  It can't be all that bad, Grandpa Eddie apparently isn't worrying about losing his house enough to cancel his internet.  A 10 spot says he gets more than 3 channels on his TV as well... 

...oh, almost forgot, despite being able to ram through healthcare "reform" without any Republican support, those evil Republithugs are somehow the only thing standing between these losers and the Cash Bunny.  It's fun to pretend isn't it?

But enough about this one posting from the gainfully unemployed Grandpa Eddie.  He's got a few more real gems in store for us:

1) Perversion of labels and affiliations to pejorative terms. Use of the term "teabaggers," "Fukz Newz," and "Rethuglicans."  I find it insulting enough to refer to people as "Liberals" or "Democrats" and sometimes "Republicans."  Once again, the arguments hinge upon turning labels generalizing core political beliefs and stances on issues into something the childish mind finds amusing and may laugh about.

2) It's only OK when we do it! When "progressives," "liberals," or "democrats"expand governmental power, it's OK.  We're making strides towards the future! (comrade!)  HOWEVER, whenever anything or anyone "right wing" tries to increase their power or influence it suddenly turns into "tyrrany," "fascism," and he even starts throwing around the term "fuhrer" to describe the leadership of people he doesn't agree with, but have made nowhere near the power grab his once-beloved Obama has.


3) Portrayal of the U.S. Military as "terrorists."  I dunno what the hell it is, but it seems to be a very common thread in the line of left-leaning thought to despise the people who stand up and defend the country, and safeguard the very rights they love to use to trounce service members.

4) "I'm a unique and special fucking snowflake."  Epic poems that smack of "TL:DR,"  entitlement syndrome (see posting about Republithugs being evil for not handing him cash).  Everybody ought to work hard and pay taxes so that he can reap enough unemployment benefits to foot the bill for his internet fees and house payments...

5) Right Wingers are racists and Bush is the cause of all problems. From the dude's epic poem:

 Foulmouthed frauds and rabid racists never see. How Bush took us to the brink, the loss of prosperity. They’d rather heap blame on the new-sworn black man, Regurgitating lies about birth, gays and god they can.

The guy's also probably not also an atheist (nothing wrong with that), but he's probably one of those asshole virulent atheists who hates evangelical religious people, but will stop at nothing to tell you about how your religion is a sham, and you're an idiot for thinking anything happens after you die. 

6) The belief that only "Rethuglicans" have special interests on Wall Street.

(got to love the irony on that last picture, with his being an Obama supporter, and all)


OK, I gotta wrap this up at some point, because I could just go down the line and point out one stupid hypocrisy and contradiction after another.  The whole blog can pretty much be summed up in one giant "IT'S ONLY OK WHEN WE DO IT, NOW GIVE ME HEALTHCARE AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS."

So, in closing, I just posit this question: Why all the self-deception?  The guy's self-description of the blog labels himself as attempting to stay "moderate" yet all he does is rant and rave about "The Right Wingers," and complain about President Obama, by far the most hardline leftist and socialist President we've ever had being too moderate himself.  As a leftist is it a common thing to never undergo self-scrutiny, believing oneself a good, tolerant, progressive, all the while not tolerating any disagreement or differing views while touting the old-world values of the U.S.S.R.?  Just wondering...

Dude needs to Harden The Fuck Up.

The '80s, and the Golden Age of Mankind

"The Terminator" was on AMC today, and that got me thinking of the greatest societal era humankind and their ilk shall ever hope to see: The Eighties.

Everybody was a little bit tougher back then, and sissy liberals were not the Neo-Socialists they are now.  You could smoke indoors, if you didn't like it, go somewhere else, it was still a relatively free country where a person could decide to have smoking in their own damn restaurant or bar.  Portable electronics were being integrated into our daily lives for the very first time, and were still seen as a convenience.  They were not the attention-span crutches and brain-mushification devices of a Ritalin-dependent "Holy shit, god forbid I not be able to watch cartoon people fuck every second of the day" generation that they are now.  Do you really need to watch YouTube while talking to your buddy Tra?  If you wanted to play some vidya-games you got your ass on a bike and rode to the Arcade and at least socialized with other kids.
If you wanted to, you could still go fly to a shooting war proper and stomp some Pinko-Commie faces into muddy shit-holes.  Fuck, it was Commie Open Season in Afghanistan!  Speaking of Commies, it was still OK to hate them, they were even called "Reds" or "The Enemy."  How damn cool is that?  You were allowed to feel animosity towards the people who aspired to kill our leaders, bomb our cities, and force us into their way of life.

The rise of Arnold, when he was still a man and not the Gummy-bear of Candy-cornia.

Our greatest President of the Modern Era.  If anybody ever says anything bad about him in your presence, hit them in the mouth.  If the police try to arrest you for this, tell them why you did it.  If they still try to arrest you, hit them in the mouth.  They are Anti-Reaganites, and must be dealt with.

I'm going to let this little rant of the good 'ol days peter out with a small list of the many ups, and a few of the downs.  The downs are still ups compared to the shit going on today, so it's cool to me.

Ups:

Leg-Warmers and Thong Leotards on ladies working out.

MTV actually played Music Videos.  They even had Headbangers Ball, WITH 3 HOUR EPISODES!!1!

Playboy had more tan-lines and bush was well-tended bush, not just an indicator the chick never shaved.  In addition, you could get a girl with a bush that still shaved her pits.  Not as prevalent today.

Downs:

The Mullet had been born in the 60's, been an awkward teen in the 70's, but in the 80's it turned 21 and got to leave it's parents place on weekends to PAAAAAAAARTY!

Jimmy Carter, FUCK YOU!  Thankfully this ass-clown sullied the Golden Age for a year, then returned to his Peanut Farm a cool million in debt.  What did we learn about how other people treat your money?

Thank God for shoulder pads and puffy sleeves!  What else could ladies do to make their shoulders look broader or their arms bigger if not dress like a football player?