ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY

Make that seventh biting and way past shy now.
 I had been bitten 6 times by dogs, 5 times it was on the job.  The bites all occurred on the property where the dog lived.  Sunday we were down at our lake property where we would  be spending the whole week.  


My stepson brought his almost 2 year old German Shepard.  My almost 20 years of working in other peoples homes has pretty much turned me off from wanting pets these days. I know this opinion has me at odds with most other people but let me take a bite out of you 5 or 6 times and see how long you want to keep me around.  Anyway I was fine with the dog being here I just tried to keep a little distance and hope he didn't want to shove his snout up my ass as dogs are want to do.
  We had all been having a great time and me and the dog were getting on fine, sans nose up the arse for the whole day.  Late in the day the dog was lying on the ground in front of our fishing shed/cabin. I walked by him unaccosted to get to the cooler where the Rocky Mountain goodness is kept, I walked out of the shed and all hell broke loose.


  The 85 pound German Shepard barked and leaped at me with the wailing and gnashing of teeth. I was wailing and the dog was the one doing all the gnashing.  He nailed me on the thigh and took me down like a (I need a good simile here, feel free to add your own).  He took me downtown and continued to try and gnaw on my thigh. I had a beer in my good hand and my right shoulder is still in recovery mode from rotator cuff surgery  With both hands unavailable,  I was defenseless. Finally I was rescued by my stepson, I laid on the ground covered in dirt and let out a big "W T F ! ? ! ????" I was still in my swimming trunks which didn't offer much in the way of protection, but I still lucked out and managed to only get a pretty nasty bruise from the dogs teeth.  No punctures and luckily I fell on my good shoulder  [well comparatively good] and spared my rotator cuff repair.


  The dog was taken to time out and I resisted the tremendous urge to walk back in the shed and trade my beer in for my 9mm or my 38special. So I jumped in the lake to wash the dirt off and to cool off.  Jojo walked down to the dock to check on me, I said "and people wonder why I don't love their fuckin pets!" So now the count is up to 7. I have been bitten worse, much worse. One of the bites I received on the job was by a German Shepard that would have made 2 of this dog. And he got me good, that dog got me in the same place and with one bite he put 8 deep punctures wounds and a bruise about 7 inches in diameter on my thigh.  But this time was the first time I have been chomped on my own land.  I thought back to the bites I got while at work and everyone of those dog owners told me that I was the first person that the dog has ever bitten, like I brought it on myself.  And even if a dog doesn't bite you they can still be a pain in the ass.  I can't tell you haw many customers have told me "oh he won't bother you he just like to jump on people, or he just want to smell you".  Ok what qualifies as bothering me then? Having your dog hump my leg, or shove his nose up my ass?
  I was laying in some women's floor trying to fix her refrigerator with her big dumbass dog jumping all over me and trying to date me. This went on for a good while with the lady watching me and I kept expecting her to deal with her damned dog, she didn't  do a thing. I ask her if she could please put the dog up as it was making it very difficult to finish the repair.  The lady took the dog away and she was pissed that I refused to mate with her mutt. She acted like I was the rude one.  A had another customer whose dog bit HER while I was there. It was a smaller breed not too sure what kind. It was kind of a mutty poodle looking thing.  I arrive on the call and this older lady was holding a very spastic mutt in her arms doing everything she can to keep the dog from jumping out of her arms.  She shows me to the kitchen where I would be repairing her refrigerator. The fricking dog is by this time going postal and the old lady throws the damned thing out the back door.
 About 2 seconds later Cujo jumps through the screen of the kitchen window and heads for the repairman.  I'm looking through my bag of tricks to see what tool might serve as an instrument of horror for a dog. I do a quick inventory of my tool bag, lets see, multimeter? nix, sling psychrometer? nix, nut driver set? nix, razor knife? bingo!   Before I could bring any weapon to bear, the old lady had deftly corralled the beast.  Cujo hellbent on biting someone turned on the hand that feeds it and promptly chomped the old lady's hand.  Now I'm not talking about a nip, or even a little love nibble.  I'm talking full on gator chomp I'm going to the ER later to tend to this wound kind of bite. She put Cujo in the physc ward of the house and I finished the repair glad she got nailed and not me.
 Well , it's her damned dog!  A few months later I got a furnace call at the same house. Oh boy, here we go! I get to the door and sure enough the old lady greets me holding Cujo. The dog is going spastic again. The old lady doesn't remember I'm the same tech that watched her dog make a meal out of her hand just a few short months ago.  "Oh don't worry come on in, he doesn't bite." That's when I lost my professionalism and said, "Bullshit lady, last time I was here he bit you!" "Oh I mean he doesn't bite other people,  he just bites me"  {My eyes roll to the back of my head}.  "Ok ma'am, I will be in to fix your furnace just as soon as you put Cujo in lockdown".
 My stepson knew it was was past time to do something with his overly aggressive dog. So the day after he bit me, he took him to a local vet down here and had his nuts chopped off. The dogs nuts that is.  They stopped by here on their way to take the dog back home. With the dog securely locked in the car I couldn't resist a smile and told the dog "see that's how it works when your on my territory,  you bite this old dog and you lose your balls" "grrrrrr ruff ruff" was his reply.


  Seems like someone lost his sense of humor along with his nuts. Heh heh heh.


  And it's not just dogs that have attacked me. When I lived out in the country I drove down the road a piece to talk with a buddy, I was there long enough for it to turn from dusk to pitch dark. I was heading back home and his stupid cat had become a stowaway in the back seat unbeknownst to me.
  Well the cat got it in its head that he was being kidnapped or catniped or what ever and the little bastard leaped onto my shoulder and started wailing on my head and face with its claws. I'm trying to keep the car on the road and fight off whatever the hell was trying to scratch my eyeballs out.  I had no idea what had ahold of me and I had no idea how it happen to be in my car and I had no idea why the hell this thing was so pissed off at me.  I finally grabbed the thing by one of its 30 legs and flung the demon creature out the window and let out a big WTFJH ? ! ? ! ?       WTFWT ? ! ? ! ? I understand how attached people get to their pets, I have had pets years ago and grew up with cats and dogs and I got very attached to some of those animals.  It's just that I'm to a point now with getting accosted and bit over the years, I just don't want to deal with it anymore.


  Does that make me a bad guy? The answer is yes, to many cat and dog lovers I am a bad guy. But hey this is a free country, well it used to be.  I'm not the Obama administration though, I don't want the Government to interfere with your right to have pets just because I'm over the pet thing. I just don't want to be bit anymore, or nose-raped, or thigh-raped by any dog.  I'm up to 7 now on the bite count and enough is enough. I'm done, I'm over it, I don't  want any of it any more, please! Dog and cat lovers of the world, tell you pets to stop biting me, I mean them no harm. I don't deserve this treatment. I have never bit any of them......... Uhhhhh wait a minute.  Cue the wavy scene breakup and harp music indicating a memory flashback.
  Ok there was a reported incident some 55 years ago when I was still a crawler.  I don't remember the event but it was related to me over the years that way back when, I was watching a bug crawl on the floor, well they didn't have electronic baby toys back then. Anyway as I sat there fixated on this amazing bug our dog casually comes by and slurps up the bug. Then I did what comes naturally when a baby has its toy taken away. I bit the dog.  If this incident actually occurred then I will admit maybe I over-reacted a little and I apologize to the long gone dog.
 Hell I apologize to all dogkind!
 Could I be a victim of some type of dog karma?


 Damn, I never thought of that.

GOD'S WAITING ROOM

Disclaimer: Bobby is sleeping and not looking at that beach babe

That's what some call the state of Florida due to the number of old people who move to Florida after they retire and spend the remainder of life here on Earth.  Me and Bob (hubby of Ordinary Life's Rita), have been hanging out at Fort Myers beach all week and with the shocking Supreme Courts decision on socialized medicine I have been trying to envision what an Obama America would be like. Specifically his government run healthcare.

  Much as been made of Sarah Palin's reference to "Death Panels" that will be needed to make decisions regarding who will be deemed worthy to receive treatment in a medical rationed system.  The left mocked her relentlessly for using that term but deep down in that dark little cubby hole of their brain they, we all know such decision makers will be needed.  The term "Death Panel" is such an ugly phrase.  I think something like say, "End Of Life Engineers",  has a nice little ring to it. It's a marketing thing you see, kind of like like calling the dismemberment of pre-born babies, "Reproductive Rights".   As I whiled away the hours looking at the surf and the sand and all the other old geezers, I had a moment of clarity.  An old 70's movie Logan's Run, came to mind.
 
The basic premise was a futuristic society that didn't allow the population to get old and sick.
When you reached the age of 30 you had to go to "Carousel" and hope for "renewal". In the carousel room the ceiling would rotate and the 30 year olds would float up in the air and one by one their bodies would get zapped and disappear.  The hope was if you had faith in the system,  your essence would be renewed in a new birth. Of course no one knew if  A carouselee made renewal or not.  The protagonist of the film was Logan 6, a "Sandman" whose job was to chase down "runners". A runner was someone approaching 30 who did not have faith in the system and in lieu of going for renewal decided to make a run for it.  Runners were hunted down by the Sandman and terminated with extreme prejudice.  With that plot summery in mind here is my idea of Obama's brave new world.
  Florida is annexed by Obamacare and renamed "Carousel". When a person reaches the age of 50, instead of getting all that AARP bullshit in the mail, the End of Life Engineers send you a one way airline ticket to the state of Carousel where you spend your remaining days playing golf and shuffleboard and searching for the best early bird special. But no hip replacements,  no Walmart 90 day prescription clubs, no arthritis pain relief formulas, no healthcare.
 And if you feel the need to holler "I've fallen and can't get up!" don't reach for your Life Alert, your ass is stayin down.

  In the movie Logan's Run the government was able to lead the people to Carousel like sheep to the slaughter house with the promise that if they just had faith in the system they could hope for Renewal.  Logan 6 found out that no one had ever made Renewal, it was all a big hoax just to get people to get out of the way and end up in certain death so as not to overburden the system.  In Obama's horror flick,  he will lead all the old geezers to the state of Carousel (formally Florida) with the ever allusive possibility that if you just have enough faith in the system, if you just go along with the program,  you just may luck out and scrape up a few crumbs of Obamacare.
Yeah, good luck with your Renewal efforts and good luck with that Hoax And Chains. 

One advantage for obamas  Sandmen, they won't have any trouble rounding up any Runners down here.  It will just be a matter of catching up to them as they try to make their getaway on their Hoverounds.

COMFORTABLY NUMB

"There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb"



Laying here in my hammock at the lake, miles away from Fox News and Talk Radio is a nice respite from the goings on in Washington and Greece and Iran and Syria.
I'm kind of a news junkie and political wonk, so my central nervous system gets a daily injection of bleak news when I'm in cable land.
I've built a digital antenna and tried to no avail to get local news here. Fortunately TV is not a possibility down here in my austere setting.
I use the word fortunately because it's for my own good to get away from the Eric Holder's, Nancy Pelosi's, Barrack Obama's, Harry Reid's, and Muslim Brotherhoods of the world for a few days.
Here at the little lake cabin/shed getaway, I alternate my auditory reception between a Stevie Ray Vaughn CD,  Pink Floyd on my Iphone or just the sounds of the breeze making its way through the tree tops and across the lake interspersed with the songs of birds that I can't identify.

Sometimes when I'm at home, the daily meat grinder of bad news emanating from my TV and radio can bring on a fair amount of apathy. I try to find solace by telling myself that at least I'm entering the Golden Age of my life and the planet may hold out and give me a few more decent years.
Then I think about my kids and especially my grandson (s).
Any solace that I may have conjured up quickly evaporates.
I think "well we had a good run, over 200 years as the greatest nation ever conceived on planet Earth".
Now we are a nation angrily divided along party and moral lines.
We were a great country until some decided they didn't want to be anymore.
The ones that didn't subscribe to that notion didn't have to participate in our demise, they just got tired of being vilified so they capitulated. 
 That's all it takes, just give up the keys and let the blind take the wheel.
So that's how we got here today, in this 200 plus year old vehicle running down the highway with deep trenches on either side and a road raged blind man behind the wheel.

Ahh, but that's all out of my purview just this minute as I swing back and forth on my hammock.
There is a cooler full of Rocky Mountain goodness in the shed and a bottle of Crown sitting on the picnic table.

I know the tone of this post is less than upbeat and inspiring.
Early this morning I laid here on the hammock and finished reading "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly, thoughts of that tragic event may be adding to my bleak mood.
Fear not though for my melancholy is about to make a hasty retreat.
Roger Waters breaks my minds connection to the dismal headlines of the day and it's time make a drink and return to the hammock where I have become comfortably numb. 


"There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
And I have become
Comfortably numb"


Waters/Gilmour

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PRESIDENTIAL PROMISE

2008, The new Obama Administration promises to "have the most open and transparent administration in the history of the U.S.

“My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

The Obama Department Of Justice refuses to prosecute The New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation when there was overwhelming evidence and video proving the case. Obama appointee Attorney General Eric Holder refused to elaborate as to why.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama creates an enemies list of corporations he deems unfavorable and blackballs any attempts to be awarded government contracts.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama makes secret deals with corrupt unions such as the SEIU that use thug tactics to intimidate opposition.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama administration refusal or non-response to thousands of request for FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) documents.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama allows national security leaks that promotes an image of a strong leader, for campaign purposes including giving a friendly film maker  unprecedented national security information to produce a "Obama Kills Bin Laden" film to be released right before the 2012 election. 
Obama appointee Attorney General Eric Holder D.O.J. refuses
to appoint a special prosecute, he thinks they should investigate themselves.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama appointee Attorney General Eric Holder D.O.J. lied to Congress and the American people about Fast and Furious. What he knew and when he knew it. They also lied when they said this operation was begun by the Bush administration. Holder is close to being held in Contempt of Congress for his refusal to turn over incriminating documents. 
Obama upped the ante on June 20^th by invoking “Executive Privilege”  in an apparent attempt to cover up White House involvement in operation Fast and Furious and it’s cover up of  responsibility in the deaths of a border agent and innocent civilians. 
Obama appointee Attorney General Eric Holder D.O.J. refuses
to appoint a special prosecutor, he thinks they should investigate themselves.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama refuses to answer questions regarding the over half billion dollars of taxpayer monies lost by Solyndra, a supposed “Green Jobs” program.

One of many companies that enjoy a “special’ relationship with Obama campaign coffers, that get sweetheart deals and stimulus money.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Obama uses ACORN a corrupt “community organizing group” to commit voter fraud across the nation. This group was exposed several times for other crimes such as promoting underage prostitution and obtaining taxpayers dollars by fraud.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Last year 4 organizations whose focus is transparency in the Government honored Obama by bestowing upon him an award for his administrations deep commitment to transparency. 
The act of giving such an award to a president who is in charge of the most corrupt and closed off administration in the history of the U.S. defines the word irony. 
The fact that Obama accepted that award behind closed White House doors with no press allowed, makes the word "irony" inadequate.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

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“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

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going

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

gone

CONSTITUTION ? HE DON'T NEED NO DAMNED CONSTITUTION !

Fiat:
1. a make of automobile
2. a command or act of will that creates something without or as if without further effort
3. an authoritive determination : dictate <a fiat of conscience>
4. an authoritive or arbitrary order : decree <government by fiat>
That's it !

THE FOOD STAMP GAMES

"You just hate poor people! You want to starve children! You want old people to starve and die!"
I just wanted to get all that lefty rhetoric out of the way before I started this post.

It's the same old shtick they use against someone who uses logic to make an argument against a sacred cow such as welfare or food stamps. They have neither facts nor reasoning in their arsenal so they resort to this old regurgitated muck to obfuscate their true agenda.
I'm getting ahead of myself. The subject of this cauldron of lava making its way to the volcano vent was inspired by the young adult trilogy Suzanne Collins novels starting with " The Hunger Games".

When the movie came out I thought, ehhh kids movie.
Ordinary Life's Rita, gave me the book and said it was a good book and a quick read that only took her one day to devour.
I figure that means I could get through it in about 4 days.
But I told her I had just started the other book she loaned me by Bill O'Reilly "Killing Lincoln".
She convinced me to read the easy one first so I did, whilst still picking away at the very intriguing O'Reilly work.
I have to admit the story didn't take long to hook me. With my love of dystopian stories added to the sci-fi element of the novel, it was right up my alley. Seems me and baby sis share common interest in literature and politics.

We are so much alike in many ways it baffles me why I tormented the hell out of her when we were kids. Oh yeah, it was because she was my little sister which automatically qualifies her for such abuses.
 Oh well, that's water under the old trestle bridge and another post.
After I read the first book of the trilogy I got the other 2, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, which I burnt through pretty quickly. Even though I'm a little past being a young adult who this story was geared to, I really enjoyed the read. As I am convalescing with much time on my hands I considered going to see the movie by myself, but the thought of some old codger strapped in an arm sling in a theater filled with kids by himself made me feel creepy so I figure I will just wait and get the Blu Ray instead.
I started reading this book about the same time that a local TV station broke the story about food stamp fraud going on here in Indiana.


The term "food stamp" is a misnomer these days as stamps have been replaced with a debit type card and food is usually the last thing associated with this program. The fraud in question was a program that was supposed to be an extension of food stamps, with cards drawing out money as needed with little or no oversight to prevent abuses. In other words it was but another veiled method to redistribute wealth.
These cards were and most likely still are being used
at casinos, bars, liquor stores, Las Vegas and Hawaiian vacations.

Of course if you bring up the abuses in the entitlement sector you are branded racist and uncaring. It doesn't matter how much free stuff you give to the non-producers of this nation it is never enough. The "we need to do more to end hunger" spiel looses credibility if you spend a little time in the inner city. I have worked in welfare country for decades and have yet to see any emaciated people with fly’s crawling on their faces. The opposite is true leading me to believe most are being over fed. This idea is reinforced when you consider that food stamps are also used as currency for booze, drugs and anything else you can imagine.
The Food Stamp Games are just one of many scams that the left has used to perpetuate their power. "Vote for me and all your shits free!”
Entitlements were sold as a safety net. That safety net is more like a spider web that guarantees a growing and never ending class of people who have no incentive to be weaned off the government teat.
You just keep pulling that lever for the Democrats and the lactating continues without fail.

As bad as this system was, it has grown many times worse under Obama. His redistribution policies serve two purposes.
The most obvious being the same old vote buying scam that has been a staple of Democratic politics for decades. But it's the second purpose that is the most sinister and the most telling.
They say you can learn a lot about a man by the company he keeps. Do I have to go through the list?
Ok, here goes:
Bill Ayres: avowed communist, domestic terrorist, traitor, liar.
The so-called Rev. Wright: racist, black liberation theologian, liar.
Valerie Jarred: communist, racist, liar.
Tony Rezco: swindler, influence peddler, partnered with Obama on some shady land deals, convict, liar.
Van Jones: communist, racist, liar.
Ok this is the short list, but trust me his circle of friends and associates are a who's who of radical Alinsky followers.
The point I'm trying to make is Obama wouldn't surround himself with these meatheads if he wasn't just like them. And ultimately their goal is to destroy the America that was intended by the Founding Fathers, then rebuild it in their own socialist dystopian fantasy.

Obama is known as "the food stamp president", which makes The Food Stamp Games hard to compare to the Hunger Games which had no governmental assistance for the starving.

The only comparison I can make is the Hunger Games main antagonist, the evil President Snow.
In the story of The Food Stamp Games our antagonist is the evil President Snowjob.

THE 99 PERCENT

That's what I waited up to see way late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morn.  I waited up even after the race was called, concession had been made and victory speech completed.  I wanted to wait till 99 % of the precincts had reported in.

 I wanted to see not only a Gov. Walker victory, but I wanted the victory to be sound enough to pound sand in the asses of the union thugs, the socialists that thinks Greece has all the answers, and Obama and his lackeys.
  I wanted to see the talking heads of the left winged mainstream liberal news media pissing and moaning about the failure of the recall of Gov. Scott Walker.  I was not disappointed.

When my magic number of 99 % of ballots counted, common sense had ruled the day.  I reviewed the many commentaries made by the liberal news media and pundits before the obvious became obvious.
  "This impending recall of Walker will be a referendum on the Obama election".
  "The exit polls show a race too close to call".
  "This will reinvigorate the unions and the rest of the Democratic base".

When the actual vote count began to come in and the reversal of fortune was dawning on the left, the tastes of sour grapes was palatable thru my TV.
   "The recall failure doesn't mean anything".
   "Walker will be indicted soon".
   "The Republicans outspent the Democrats".
   "The electorate was weary of the recall process"
   "The exit polling showed strong support for Obama",
  (the same exit polling that showed the race was too close to call.)

 The amazing thing was the size of the victory was large even though there was undoubtedly much voter fraud committed by the radical left as there always is.