I am almost always astounded by the fact that consequences are seldom tied in people’s perception of events to the causes. I have some understanding as to why this happens, but the phenomenon is still a surprise to me, each and every time I see it in action. I can see by the reaction I am imagining on your face that you might need a few examples of what it is that I mean with this statement.
The good people of California have passed some of the most idiotic laws known to exist anywhere concerning the creation of new energy producing facilities in their state. They have passed air emission standards laws that requires the air in their state to possess air quality not seen in Yellowstone National Park, a place with no industry, very few cars, even fewer farting cows, and probably the lowest concentration of human activity seen anywhere in our nation. When they made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with electricity, cars, industry, air conditioning, who did they blame when their state was forced to do without those things? Why they blamed the energy producers, auto manufacturers, and industrial leaders, of course. For those of you who live in Arizona, were it my coal burning power plant, I would just disconnect those transmission lines that headed off in a westerly direction and tell the residents who inhabit the land of the fruit and nut to stand under one of their windmills and blow really really hard.
We have made it a point in this country to oppose new sources of domestic oil production based on oft times discredited environmental statements. Truth in matters of the EPA’s war against energy production is considered a flexible and expendable commodity at best. I have sat at the dinner table with some of my liberal friends and listened to many of them, on multiple occasions declare that they would be perfectly willing to pay double the price for gasoline if it meant that they could tell themselves that they were cleaning up the environment, even if they really were not doing so. So, now that the gas prices have doubled at the pumps, just like Barack Obama and his DOE Chief, Steven Chu, promised they would, guess who is grumbling loudest about how this is all the fault of the big oil companies.
The reason for the disconnect from reality of course is that nobody wants, even on a subconscious level, to accept responsibility for creating the problem. Elections have consequences. Policy implementation has consequences. Politicians, in far to many cases, are able to get themselves elected by telling people that they can make the impossible, possible after all. Just like any poor soul who has ever purchased a fake painting, where the more one has paid for its purchase, the less inclined on admitting to oneself that it is in fact a forgery that person will be. Part of the art of the political swindle is how to keep spinning perception so that blame goes somewhere else, anywhere but where it belongs. Not bad work if you can get it.
What is even more exasperating to many of us is this. When these attempts to socially engineer the universe of commodities and rewrite the cold emotionless laws of economics end in the disaster that happens each and every time, why on Earth does anybody listen to the very same clowns who created the problem when they suddenly appear and start bleating about how they have the cure? All that the snake oil salesmen of our day are doing is offering solutions that will at best, somewhat mitigate the jawdroppingly disastrous results that they created in the first place. From their perspective, that’s just terrific. They get to lead lives far away from the negative impact that will be inflicted upon the rest of us. Even if perception does eventually catch up to them, and they are removed from elected office, they just get themselves appointed back to the table by their cronies.
While experiencing the horror of Thursday’s Obamacare decision, as decided by 5 of our Supreme Court Justices, (not just John Roberts.) I realized that the Constitution’s purpose of acting as a protector of we the people against a tryanical federal behemoth grown in scope and power beyond any possible conception that any of our founders could possibly have ever had, has been forever rendered null and void, (At least, this will be the case until some future court revisits this horrible mistake.) One thought struck me that I have not seen written or discussed anywhere else. Those five fine individuals, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayer, Kagan, and Roberts are in fact exempt from the consequences that they have deemed acceptable to be inflicted upon the rest of us. Again, the job of Supreme Court Justice is not bad work if you can get it.
Perhaps we should add a Constitutional Amendment which makes it illegal for any class of American, most especially federal bureaucrats and elected officials to be exempted from any law, like Social Security or Obamacare, that has been deemed good enough for you and me. If we fail to get this sucker repealed, 20 years from now, I want John Roberts to be visiting the same DMV style of office that I’ll need to visit for his hip replacement surgery, and have to fill out the very same forms pleading for his life to some bureaucrat who really could not care less if John Roberts lives or dies. I bet if he faced that prospect himself, he would have stopped this sucker dead in its tracks, just like the other four Justices would have.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Case in point, Mayor (I know watt is best for you) Bloomberg presided over this years Conney Island NY Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest yesterday. This grinning nitwit who is banning big drinks to reduce obesity is ok with placing his tacit approval of stuffing yourself with Hot Dogs until you explode.
We’ve got nothing to worry about, the Country is in the very best of hands…
The amazing number of people who know nothing about the health-care ruling
We’re Doomed™
Harvard Law strikes again.
@ Bumr50:
There is a great deal of truth about this. Most law schools in the nation attempt to point out how ill-informed the student is. They adopt a teaching technique that is archaic and requires vast amounts of knowledge outside of the case books. The Ivy League schools have an entirely different approach, starting with among the finest students in the nation, the heap praise upon the students. Constantly remind them that they will lead the nation. And grade according to how liberally enlightened one is. Extra points for Pacific Islanders, Blacks and Females. Secret points for Jews With Guilt Feelings. Less points for WASP males. Everybody gets an award. Multiple journals assure that even dolts can be on a law review.
It is a disgrace.
Bumr50 wrote:
And again,
and again,
and again,
and again…
the feds would never use drones without a warrant:
‘to LOOK for problems…see in the eyes of the govt YOU are already guilty.
@ coldwarrior:
Looking for “revenue.”
you mean like this? http://www.cafepress.com/kirly
already thought of that a couple of years ago.
but, i think all the power comes from the Navajo Generating Station which the EPA has on the shut down list anyway. so, the libs in CA will get theirs in the end.
OFF-TOPIC: Al-Jazeera (by way of USA Today) says Arafat died from Cream of Polonium Soup.
ROFLMAIAO! They’ll NEVER be able to admit that he was buggering little boys and younger men. Bosch Fawstin is right: Islam IS teh ghey!
@ coldwarrior:
Time to break out the goose guns. Pull!
Wasn’t it Charles Krauthammer who said the first farmer to down one of these things
will be a national hero?
An amazing bit of America
NatGeo is showing a sort of the building of the grand canyon skywalk right now. i must get up there someday…when it doesn’t hurt to simply walk (grrrrr).
Chuck Woolery did it again
httpv://www.youtube.com/embed/KV-RqPtT2PU
Ooops
@ Kirly:
Don’t know if it was you are M…but obama not going to France on the 4th of July…this is the second time it was reported bho was going to do something and at the very last day or two SUDDENLY he isn’t going to be where he was reported to be…like Memorial Day…I think one time …well bad reporting two times in a row..the obama administration leaks information he will do something un-American and BAM…he isn’t going to be at the place he was reported to be. I think this was deliberate on a grand scale. If it happens a 3rd time I will stand by the obama election campagin of lying and then suddenly releasing something else.
@ Kirly:
Sorry to hear your knee still hurts to walk {kirly}…..give it some more time to heal. Prayers up for you.
@ Lily:
He really hates the media that doesn’t adore him. I think he hates more than he likes and his wife is an expert on hating.
@ Lily:
it wasn’t me.
@ Lily:
Someday.
Thanks {Lily}. the surgery was a success and that recovery would be comeing along nicely except for this “Baker’s Cyst” thing. But, I got a compression brace which is helping.
whoa! it’s only 79 degrees here in Phoenix! 58% humidity ruins it all tho. heh. and it’s raining at my house… i can see the rain drops hitting the pool.
oooh, looks like we’re in for some storms until mid to late afternoon and then it should clear up for all the fireworks displays. if it clears up before sunset, you will find me in the pool.
@ Kirly:
It was M then….but I do find the mis-information coming out of the White House leaking mis-information is sickening. As usual.
Oh my another is jumping ship and not fainting. Good. As the summer rolls along I see more of them not going to the convention.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/04/yet-another-democratic-congressman-to-skip-dnc-convention/
@ Kirly:
Hot as heck here…me and hubby just going to have a lazy day….nothing on the schedule…last week was enough….
Tomorrow my grandbaby turns 1 year old. Yeah!!!
/still can’t believe I’m a grandmother (MiMi which means queenie in creole/cajun dialect according to my mother)!
Oh dear I have murdered another thread. Hmmmmm. Not good.
Oh my….well as one poster said “Call it an ObamaTax instead of Obamacare then…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/04/top-white-house-adviser-valerie-jarrett-well-take-obamacare-as-a-tax/
@ Lily:
yep, that’s what i’m doing today too…lounging around, enjoying the unusually cool weather, and resting my leg with compression sleeve so that blister of knee juice is encouraged to dissipate.
congrats on being a gramma!
Lily wrote:
naw, we got it all to ourselves!
@ Kirly:
Like hell you have this thread to yourselves.
Creeps!
(that was for you Kirlz)
@ Kirly:
We sure do have the threads all together. That cyst is called a “Bible cyst” here because you wack it with a bible and it goes away by busting the cyst. I had one on a nerve hurt as hell…didn’t have the nerve to wack it with a bible though.
@ Calo:
{Calo}!!! Ah now we have a ladies thread!
/or if anyone messes with us dear ladies we whack-em thread.
Calo wrote:
Thank you!
@ Kirly:
Yep and there is going to be another grandbaby in January.
Yep and please excuse my spelling…my fingers and mind are not working together today.
/well everyday they don’t work well together.
So I blame it on the keyborad…it’s a damn communist..I tell you!!!
@ Lily:
I’m crossing my fingers and toes that all goes well with this pregnancy.
I don’t have any words to express my sadness about this post…
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/07/02/the-end-of-civilization/
I will miss Bunk and wish him and his family well.
The OOT will never be the same for me without him.
Yep we are flying our American Flag today…and not burning it or have a obama flag…the obama’s think American are less than and detest the Flag so many have died for..so Mitt isn’t the perfect candidate..he has one quality that matters…he loves our country.
The person now in the White House doesn’t.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/04/new-mitt-vid-the-best-of-america/
Small personal milestone achieved today, 25,000 page view.
@ Calo:
Oh my goodness…please, please let him know I will miss him and I hope he comes back when things settle down in the meat world. I will miss him a great deal.
/please {Calo} pass that on for me.
@ doriangrey:
Wow congratulations dorian!!!!! That is so great!!! Someone is reading you …
/I confess I read your blog from time to time.
Calo wrote:
You and me both…she is still not out of the clear. There is a blood clot next to the baby.
Lily wrote:
isn’t there something that can be done? blood thinner??
Lily wrote:
Thank you, in the blogsphere it really is a very small milestone, but it is one that my blog has finally achieved. I am very appreciative of everyone who has stopped by over the years, my blog has been up since September 2009, nearly 3 years now. 95 posts, 265 comments and 25,000 page views later here we are…
@ Kirly:
No ….she just passed 3 months…if anything is done it may kill the baby ..the good thing is the blood clot is leaking and she is passing the blood..We will know more next week. I’m not sure but and would have to ask Calo maybe if the baby is bigger they could do something.
Although there is the blood clot..the baby is healthy and doing fine.
But they have told her…she could lose the baby still. So indeed crossing my fingers and saying my prayers.
Kirly wrote:
not if there is a pregnancy involved.
anti-coags are seriously contra-indicated during pregnancy
@ doriangrey:
Just for you! And hopefully we will be singing this song in November too.
gosh Lily! I hope it all works out ok!
coldwarrior -- i have a “Bakers Cyst”. very annoying. that was what the trip to the ER was for the other day -- they mimic blood clots in the leg apparently.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes, anti-coags are not the correct treatment…
But I don’t know enough about OB to have an opinion here.
@ Calo:
Neither do I…concerning this. She see’s a specilaist next week…will know more about it. But they have told her the signs of losing the baby and what to look for..so I’m not all that sure what will happen.
@ coldwarrior:
Happy 4th of July! Yinz doin the bbq thing this year in teh Burgh?
@ Kirly:
I am very concerned if she loses the baby…she is a very emotional young lady. I just try to keep her spirits up while also keep her ready for the worst. That is not easy at all to do!!
@ Kirly:
It’s been a nice break from the 110+ temps we’ve had the past few weeks…
@ Lily:
aw. that would difficult for anyone. i hope the worst doesn’t happen.
The Osprey wrote:
yes, it’s very pleasant. and rain in the desert is almost always needed. been gently raining all day here. not a typical monsoon at all.
Kirly wrote:
You and me both. The one good thing here is she is passing blood which means the blood clot is leaking. That is the only good thing here that the doc’s have told her.
doriangrey wrote:
DRINK!
Lily wrote:
“Heeee-uuuuul!”
WHACK!
Kirly wrote:
Same thing here in Ahwatukee.
@ Lily:
I have no allusions that there is a good possibilty she could lose the baby. Prepare for the worst and hope and pray for the best. That is the situation. Period.
@ The Osprey:
Lily wrote:
my crystal ball tells me the baby and mom are going to be fine and right on schedule…worry not
@ heysoos:
haysoos, I agree with you.
DRINK
And, Happy Birthday America.
@ heysoos:
{hey} Thank-you very much. I have a good feeling things will turn out well…but I understand things could go the other way.
That was very kind of you to say. I tell you if it isn’t one thing here it’s another.
Got a black cloud it seems covering my family…so far it isn’t working…and that is good.
Calo wrote:
{Calo} a double thank-you too. DRINK AND WAVE THE FLAG!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY and may it continue bust all attempts to break our country!!!! WE ARE STRONG!!!
@ Lily:
{{Lily}} Now you are hugging your nemesis.
I’m just gonna laugh and say the name Possum to you.
Posted on a trade earlier, but too good not to share and fits this post.
Brisket due off the pit in about 45 minutes!
Happy 4th!
Calo wrote:
Strange times huh?
Calo wrote:
just read the labels, they are almost all pregnancy category X
Kirly wrote:
ah! now you know what was bugging you! that is half the battle.
@ Lily:
It is also the southern lady thing to do.
gulfloafer wrote:
we q’d last night. its too damn hot to be outside.
@ coldwarrior:
Agreed, let nature take its course.
Are you off hospital/nsg orientation now?
@ coldwarrior:
Isn’t that the truth!!!
Just a chill day!
@ Calo:
Yep …. let nature take it’s course…
/I think she understands this..because I have talked to her much to keep her from over-thinking this. One day at a time.
GROAN! Really??????
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/04/obama-worshipping-celebrity-chris-rock-fourth-of-july-a-holiday-for-white-people/
@ Lily:
The one liners going through my mind would just
be wrong.
@ RIX:
I have a couple myself.
/racists on parade here from Chris Rock. I am surprised he didn’t say …no better not!
RIX wrote:
not mine…these cats are just as racist as any white person, but of course they get the nod…this racism shit has taken on an absurdity that will be unexplainable in the future, looking back
Lily wrote:
Racism is as endemic to African-Americans as their skin color is. Some might assert that such a statement on my part is a clear indication that I am a racist. The 2008 Presidential election where 99 percent of African-Americans voted for Barack Obama mocks that assertion. In the end, whether you love the truth or hate it makes no difference, the truth remains exactly what it is. 99 percent of African-Americans voted for Barack Obama, and they did so based on the color of his skin. That is the indisputable truth.
EEH -- Extreme Egyptian Hatred
@ 6 coldwarrior: I should think a corn farm should be able to declare itself aerial surveillance free. Unless someone asserts a criminal search warrant. creeping totalitarianism. THese are government officials who desire to make these decisions because it is the right thing to do. I rode an elevator with a few of them last week, they were trying to find a way around a law to enforce an agency goal on someone. These were low level government employees. So I assume this type of government corruption is rampant.
@ darkwords:Aerial surveillance I would approve of.
1. Catching freeway speeders
2. Tracking OJ
3. Finding lost people
4. Disaster coverage and assistance.
5. Criminal warrants
@ 75 doriangrey: There is a certain type of black sub culture where they have a fetish about skin color. Everything they perceive is built on how they perceive skin color. Maybe it’s debris from the time of slavery, but they try and project this thought process out to society through racial and social justice programs.
I never think about it unless someone makes a fuss about it. I could care less. But they also have a problem with that line of reasoning. lol.
@ 71 Lily: That is reason enough for someone to kick Chris Rock’s ass and see if the nation built on the fourth of July comes to his rescue. Or will he turn away help from white people because they imported a system of slavery created by black people in Africa.
darkwords wrote:
So what’s yer beef against freeway speeders?
@ doriangrey:
That is excatly what they did. They voted for skin color makes about as much sense as voting for someone because of the color of their hair.
Yet they get a pass. Disgusting to the extreme.
@ heysoos:
I have to agree.
darkwords wrote:
The Muslim National Anthem™ in play once again!
@ Dolphin:
Romney, Rubio, West, Bolton, Palin,
or Romeny, Bolton, West, Rubio, PALIN
POTUS, VPOTUS, DEFENSE, STATE, INTERIOR
I’d leave the position of UN Amabassafor unfilled
@ darkwords:
He needs to be whack with a parasol to be honest..he probably doesn’t even know the orgin of where the last name FREEMAN comes from. Not the civil war…that last name was before the civil war.
@ huckfunn: I’m for an autobahn….
@ darkwords:
True light skin is referred to as High Yellow & occupies
an elite status among many African Americans.
It is big in Obamas world ie Rev Wright & Valarie Jarrett.
@ darkwords:
Bolton is already an adviser to Romney as it is right now. So it is already begun.
@ darkwords: DC to LA, Hwy WoR 101
Wreck or Run 101
darkwords wrote:
Not me….too much speed on the highways..too many killed.
Calo wrote:
officially, 5 more weeks to go…my unit is really tight with great teamwork, many hands make for light work. so i am learning very quickly.
RIX wrote:
Yep so true. But in Louisiana no big deal…mixed blood is the norm here.
huckfunn wrote:
yeah…whadaboutit?…I live in the South West…fuck the speed limits….I drive through land where the view doesn’t change in one hour at 100mph
@ 91 Lily: Well it would have to be a rule that it is ok to die on that autobahn. Lawsuit free. Wild Wild West of driving. I guess that is like that Grand Theft Auto game.
@ darkwords:
we are all criminals operating ion an ever smaller box of compliance.
we need serious de-regualtion.
RIX wrote:
New Orleans Caste System 101….status based on shades of color, way back in the day that is
@ heysoos: I’m on the crowded freeways full of little kids going to Fourth of July parties. We get a lot of 2 AM speeders after the bars close, going the wrong way while high. But I’ve also hit 120 in one of my old cars on the freeway. I got busted enough to see that I was a danger on the road but didn’t think I was.
autobahn for what ails yah.
@ darkwords:
Can’t/wont argue with any of those picks!
Lily wrote:
i read a very interesting study about accidents. here what it proved, speed itself is not the main cause of accidents, the difference in speed between cars is the main cause.
if everyone on the highway is going 100mph it is safer than if everyone is going 55 and one or two are going 80.
coldwarrior wrote:
That is great news to hear CW!
darkwords wrote:
i miss driving on the autobahn. quite the way to travel.
darkwords wrote:
We’ve got an autobahn. It’s called Interstate 10. There should be no speed limits on that highway between Junction and El Paso.
darkwords wrote:
I-40 across the Texas panhandle is an autobahn as far as I’m concerned….that’s just one stretch….I don’t endanger fellow travelers, but I’m realistic and have a lead foot
@ 99 Dolphin: Watch Romney pick all old guys he knows from business or he owes favors to.
heysoos wrote:
Oh indeed. And poor white trash were hired to get trees from the swamps…they would never risk the slaves to yellow fever.
darkwords wrote:
How many of the blacks of today are descendants of slaves and how many came to the U.S.A. later (20th century) ?
The Osprey wrote:
there will be no whackage! don’t make me go all indiana jones on you crazy Bible thumpers!
just kidding. but no whackage.
@ Lily:
yeah, things are going pretty well.
huckfunn wrote:
there you have it…west of Odessa, you’re just floating along at whatever speed…when you can see 12 miles ahead of you with no cars at all, the temptation overwhelms me so I floor it….110-120
coldwarrior wrote:
A joke unrelated to anything,
A society maven was planning an upscale dinner party
at her pool.
She commissioned a young artist to do a portrait depicting
what Custer thought at the Little Big Horn.
The Bbig night came & she introduced the artist to her
guests , who removed the silk covering from the picture.
To her horror the depiction was a kneeling cow with a
halo over her head & a group of Native Americans having
intercourse with her.
The woman gasped, “What is the mening of this!”
The artist cooly said,” You wanted it to show what Custer
thought and I think that he thought Holy cow , look at
all the fuckin Indians!”
Lily wrote:
mixed races had upward mobility while the white Irish were lower than snake poop….very interesting culture over there
@ Kirly:
I hear you…I didn’t do the whackage either.
heysoos wrote:
Until an animal bolts right in your way.
@ Lily:
pink mist….coyotes can’t even live out there
heysoos wrote:
Wasn’t just the white Irish..any poor white person was at the bottom of the ladder in that caste system.
@ heysoos:
Yup, it’s been around a long time.
@ 107 Guggi: Black people I met from Nigeria and Jamaica seem to have pretty strong work ethics and family values. The Somali muslims are actually pretty nice people but they all moved into the cheap gang areas here and the drugs are eating their kids up.
As a society we have victim groups that have a vested interest in looking backwards and trying to continually inject failure into the growth of the country. Get caught up in that and become a victim by immersion. And there is a perverse psychology about that suggests to people that this is a good thing to do. Versus looking ahead and assessing ones own problems and creating some individual liberty and free choices for ones self. People have done that in the worst of times. Much worse than slavery.
@ Lily:
I just picked them off the top…there are records of Irish selling themselves to ‘people of color’ as indentured servants….NOLA has a very robust history
@ heysoos: lol
@ heysoos: There was a documentary on slavery where plantations would hire the Irish to do the most dangerous jobs. And it was to protect their investment in slaves.
darkwords wrote:
yup, the Irish really took a beating…if they didn’t move into organized crime, they certainly got into law enforcement, hence the legacy of the Irish cop in Philly, NYC etc…it gave them security and a sense of authority…to this day a huge % of NYC (and fire fighters) cops are Irish
heysoos wrote:
Not just New Orleans basically the whole southern part of Louisiana and especially along the Mississippi River. There were black plantation owners too who had slaves…very different history here. Very.
darkwords wrote:
Not just the Irish..any white poor person looking for work.
@ Lily:
I’m a cultural traveler…all that stuff interests me, but LA is chock full of cultural twists and turns….it ain’t exactly Iowa
there is no such thing as a po boy in New Mexico
@ heysoos:
No and you didn’t even mention the pirates!!! Good heavens Louisiana history is something else..maybe that is why we are a bit different.
/only state that has parishes instead of counties too.
man, I’m getting an urge here…the Gulf beckons…I love the deep south
darkwords wrote:
That’s exact how the ideology of the lefties works and it is only the other side of the racism coin. Pascal Bruckner wrote a very fine essay about this: Le Sanglot de l’homme blanc (the sobbing of the white man).
Lily wrote:
well, I’ve partied at Lafittes in the Quarter more than once…interesting character, my sort of guy…the gentleman pirate
@ Lily:
The last time that I was in new Orleans it was this
past Holloween.
We went to the parade & had a great time.
The next morning they reported the body count,
five shot dead in a gang shooting a couple of hours
after we left.
@ heysoos:
Stay in Baton Rouge and tour River Road and then go to St.Francisville….man oh man what a ton of history and beauty.
You can easily stay in Baton Rouge and not have to stay in St. Francisville since it is so close to both River Road and St. Francisville.
Eat at the resturatant at Nottoway Plantation the food is to die for.
Not to mention Nottoway is a work of art.
Plus if you wish you can actually stay at the Plantations overnight.
RIX wrote:
The crime in New Orleans is AWFUL….that is why if you really want to see the sights is stay in Baton Rouge….so close to River Road and tons of other areas.
@ Lily:
next time I go over there I’ll get some tips from you..I’m familiar with BR, Slidell, Lafayette, Houma etc but as an outsider…I’ve been treated damn well down there…I’m humble and eager and those folks seem to love that in a tourists….I am definitely getting amped up with this discussion
heysoos wrote:
He mainly stayed closer to where I am…Jean LaFitte a whole other area of history. The bridge that crosses Lake Charles has pistols as ornaments on the sides which is directly do to the history of Jean LaFitte.
@ heysoos:
We are polite to the core and have never met a stranger.
@ Lily:
Things get a little dicey off of the French Quarter at night.
The shame of it is, the parade was terrific & everybody
had a good time.
I do like New Orleans, but like other places , you
can’t get foolish
@ RIX:
They have a new mayor and they are trying to clean up the crime…but New Orleans has been corrupt for a long time. But yeah stay in the French Quarter and if you don’t make sure you are with a Native of New Orleans.
@ Lily:
Lake Charles is out there, don’t think I’ve ever come into NOLA from that way…maybe that’s where Lafittes ‘treasure’ is located
@ Lily:
I stayed at the Embassy Suites & did walk back.
Not a real good idea.
@ RIX:
When Katrina hit…so many people did not understand New Orleans people…they called them dumb. No. The levies broke and the corrupt police department couldn’t handle it and the corrupt mayor couldn’t handle and our govenor was stuck on stupid. But who cleaned it up ..why a Louisiana man General Russel Honore’ a native Louisianian.
@ RIX:
the Quarter is what it is…my second or third visit, I was armed, but I dropped that for Jazz Fest…depending on clothing, I’m usually armed when I visit DC too
@ heysoos:
Why you are missing so much. I-10 is that bridge on.
RIX wrote:
No not a good idea.
heysoos wrote:
So they say.
@ heysoos:
Lake Charles is just this side of Texas…if you are traveling I-10 you would have to go through it.
Lily wrote:
I always stay at the St Charles on Canal and St Charles…they always take good car of my car
heysoos wrote:
You get busted carrying in DC and you’re toast…
@ Lily:
the next time I visit I will probably be coming across on I-10 all the way from NM
@ heysoos:
All the times I have stayed in New Orleans I haven’t had any problems.
The 9th Ward is certainly a place you stay away from if you are an outsider..and I would be considered an outsider because I’m not from New Orleans. It’s the poor part of New Orleans and even people who live in New Orleans stay away from there.
Mike C. wrote:
whatever…I’ve tromped around DC many’s the time armed, and my buddies from VA/NC too….when you have three armed men and their wives that want to visit the Mall at 1am, we are just gonna do it…fuck the law
@ heysoos:
Okay I see why .. we are very deep south. Just about as deep as you can get before you are in the Gulf of Mexico.
@ heysoos:
:LOL:
The South welcomes anyone -- even us folks from LA, CA.
Lily wrote:
I’ve never had one lick of problem in the Quarter, whether with just my wife or with a group…but I know bad stuff is out there
Driving by and just had to say;
coldwarrior wrote:
Spot On!
@ Calo:
{{{Calo}}}!!!
Heya, Mates!
Happy Forth of July!
(Remembering all that is right with our country)
@ heysoos:
Don’t forget me if you take a Gulf Trip. Mi casa su casa.
@ heysoos:
Neither have I …but there is bad thing there…the French Quarter is a tourist attraction so it is more heavily policed.
Calo wrote:
like anywhere else, you take the pits and wrinkles…I don’t hate any place or anybody regardless of politics…talking typical folks here, not the KKK
Calo wrote:
Even us folks who aren’t really sure where we’re from.
@ Lost:
Back at ya {lost}!!! HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
That’s the beauty of the South…salt of the earth!
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
bro!…I might need someone to ride shotgun
@ Bagua’s Ghost:
You couldn’t be a Southern gentleman?
You are my man of mystery, damnit Bagua!
Lily wrote:
{Lily} Long time, no speak!
How are you?
Lost wrote:
hey! its our ex-pat from oz!
happy 4th!
heysoos wrote:
Shotgun, AK, 9mm, and a back-up. I like versatility.
Calo wrote:
Maybe he is Jean LaFitte born again!
The old gentleman southern pirate!
coldwarrior wrote:
Calo wrote:
Been called many things in years on this earth, but never a gentleman as I can recall.
@ Lost:
Doing alright! And you? Hope life is treating you well!
you can visit Columbus or Omaha and they are really nice towns…clean, relatively safe, friendly…but towns like that are so mundane, they don’t have any juice, historically and culturally…not the flash or style the vibe you get from NOLA or San Antonio where cultures have mixed and morphed into something more unique…and btw, Columbus is a really great city….it has it all
Lost wrote:
no worries!
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
cool, you be the muscle and I’ll be wheeleman…
rock and roll!…get in, do the thing, get out
@ heysoos:
You forget Baton Rouge and other towns here in Louisiana…even some of the small towns are history brought alive.
Lily wrote:
Same. Life is just so busy, I rarely get time to comment but I do fly by here every so often. I’ve been catching up on the ‘blog goss’ this morning. No Bunk but a few nics I don’t recognize. And Lily is as gracious as ever!
@ Bagua’s Ghost:
Correct -- last thing I think I called you was an ass.
Water under the bridge…
I hope.
@ Lost:
Awwwww {{{lost}}} how sweet. There will always be Lily here unless the blog owners have had enough of her!
Calo wrote:
you actually called Bags an ass?
here here
DRINK!
@ Lost:
Baby doing well too? I bet you are very busy!!!!!!
hey ya’ll
need help picking a movie
war/historical/western
any ideas
(got too many choices on vudu)
@ rain of lead:
the wild geese!
@ heysoos:
Calo has street cred now!!!
/which means don’t mess with her.
@ Lily:
I didn’t forget, I just grabbed town along the way for color…and I admit, Omaha is a real fine town, believe it or not….tons of good food
@ coldwarrior:
no got in vudu’s list
@ Lily:
Amen!
@ Lily:
Indeed. We moved house. I went back to work. I went to the states with 2 of them for my sisters wedding (just got back on the 27th). Now we have 2 weeks of school holidays and I’m starting solids with the 6 month old whilst toilet training the almost 3 year old. Busy, it is!
rain of lead wrote:
too bad, one of my favorite movies right there.
@ rain of lead:
BLACK HAWK DOWN
/most excellent even if you have seen it before.
Or…you can go with BAND OF BROTHERS
/most excellent too.
Where’s Rodan?
Hi Calo! (sorry to interrupt)
@ heysoos:
Don’t ask -- he is a very polite man.
@ heysoos:
Been there. Brother was stationed there for several years when he was in the Air Force. Nice City.
@ rain of lead:
1776
Calo wrote:
Can’t remember, but yes, that’s one of my given names, usually with the word ‘hole’ and ‘stupid’ attached. I’ve earned that name, like an Indian war name.
But gentleman? Never! I’d find that offensive.
@ Lily:
Blackhawk Down was flat out awesome…maybe the best combat film ever
@ Lost:
Oh my goodness!!! You are BUSY! May God send angels to help you!
winds kicking up, temps are dropping….
looks like it might rain on my head…
a once or twice a year phenom
Lily wrote:
heysoos wrote:
Well, fine attitude and all that, but just remember the price if you do get caught. Lorton is reputedly not very nice…
Calo wrote:
we go back a ways….Bags is a good guy
found one thanks
me and the girl are gonna watch Independance day
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
/but he is sweet as apple pie to me.
@ Lost:
THAT is one I was trying to remember
thanks
Mike C. wrote:
I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Words to live by.
Mike C. wrote:
I’ve risked the law for far more drastic offenses…I get your point tho, and it’s good advice especially at my age…I used to pursue conflict, now I avoid it…old age I guess
@ huckfunn:
{huck} good one!
@ rain of lead:
No problem! It’s one of my favorites.
/(Had a bad crush on John Adams)
Off to get the baby weighted. I’ll be back for the night thread, if there is anyone sober enough to be on it!
Lily wrote:
That’s really one of my Stones favs. And Happy Independence Day to you, {Lily}.
@ huckfunn:
Right back at you too {huck}!!
Lost wrote:
So he/she won’t float? Here… wot’s all this?
heysoos wrote:
Me too, mellowed with age also.
Never liked to pursue conflict, rather I like to wait for it in the closed with a baseball bat. I like the element of surprise.
*closet
@ Bagua’s Ghost:
If a parasol will not work I have found the sound of clicking a shot-gun whether armed or empty works very well.
Lily wrote:
As long as he’s nice to you {Lily}, he’s safe from me.
@ Lily:
If empty works as well as a baseball bat too.
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
brawl…heh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=gL9rUIAv9H8
@ Bagua’s Ghost:
Well how nice {Bagua}! He would never abuse me, ever.
Well time for me to go…HAPPY 4TH OF JULY everyone…and may you all have a wonderful evening.
/not to mention I think I’ve killed the thread again….so I better be going.
Lily wrote:
Just human nature, I suppose, something about looking down the barrel is very calming. Better than Valium.
True story; I once had an enraged man running at me waving a crow bar over his head. I dropped to my right knee and a snub nosed .38 revolver appeared in my hand pointed at his chest. He calmed down right quick, became a real gentleman.
Like a lamb really. It was like therapy for him.
everyone out watching fireworks?
it’s still light here. i’m watching The Patriot. No matter how crazy Mel Gibson was/is/might be in the future, this is a pretty good movie.
@ Kirly:
I got a box of 12g trap loads…I shoot them into my barn…fun
Kirly wrote:
it is, but not nearly as good as ‘Last Of The Mohicans’…the rescue scene at the end is epic
@ heysoos:
sounds like it might mess up your barn. but, it is your barn. have a blast! (no pun intended there)
@ heysoos:
yeah, Last of the Mohicans is terrific!
Kirly wrote:
it’s mostly noise, but I dig the sound, it doesn’t hurt anything
Kirly wrote:
it’s the music, combined with the violence is epic
@ heysoos:
well then, it’s a win-win for ya!
@ huckfunn:
LOL! PIMF!
Kirly wrote:
these cats here in New Mexico really dig their fireworks…lots of big booms all over town…a few rounds out the Stoeger doesn’t account for much
heysoos wrote:
agreed. there is some amazing music out there in soundtracks.
heysoos wrote:
nothing here in phoenix yet. clouds never fully cleared out either.
@ Kirly:
I finally saw The Patriot a couple of nights ago on Netflix. Very impressive!
rain of lead wrote:
That’s the movie where OS 8 Saves The World, isn’t it. 8)
Macker wrote:
There for a few years, I watched it every Independence Day.
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
OOT is up, yinz!
Macker wrote:
love that movie
have to overlook the glaring plot holes and just enjoy
heysoos wrote:
In a couple hours after it get dark, round bout these parts, the dude up the street from me will probable roll his M60A1 out of the barn and start sending 105mm parade rounds down range. He usual kicks about 4 or 5 of them off one the 4th.
rain of lead wrote:
What glaring plot holes? Hasn’t anyone ever explained to you that you cannot have glaring plot hole unless you first have something that at least vaguely resembles a plot…
Macker wrote:
Kirly wrote:
Great movie. BraveFart comes to America.