The Times are Changing

dylanShits about to get real my friends.

I am sorry my updates have been slowing down the last couple of months. Sometimes life gets to a certain speed and things become reorganized in a way that prevents us from following up in a timely manner. I make no excuses for the things I can change, I’ll just march forward.

I have a shit ton on my mind this morning. I will warn you now, I have a gut feeling this update is going into the TLDR stratosphere. I’ll try and organize my thoughts in a way that you Monday to Friday nine to fiver types may be able to break out bits and pieces and enjoy my awesomeness all week. If you can’t get a good laugh, a “fuck yeah” or a tear out of this then my mojo is severely lacking.

Might as well attack the first thing on my mind. This government shut down.

I personally don’t give a shit about the shut down. What I find interesting is how our mainstream media reports about it and the general idiocy of the population of this country. The blame game going back and forth is laughable. Republicans this Democrats that.

There is good and bad on both sides of the political aisle. There is equal blame to be placed on both republicans and democrats. This isn’t a new development. This has been true for more years then any of us reading this have been alive. The real problem we have as a country is the shit bird we elected into the White House. I am sorry folks he’s the President and our Commander in Chief and rightfully I should show a hell of a lot more respect for the office then referring to him as a shit bird but I simply can not. Not as an American. Not as a Marine Corps veteran, not as a patriot and certainly not as a simple law abiding (most of the time anyway) tax paying citizen.

President Obama (and I use the term loosely) was elected to office on the promise of reforming medical care insurance and coverage to people of all walks of life. A nice idea in principal but none the less we ended up with the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare for short. Its essentially an abortion of a law/bill. It doesn’t fix the problems with healthcare costs or insurance but merely places (mandates) more risk onto the insurance carriers and the free market healthcare industry. Anyway its a shitty bill and law. Does anyone here remember the “we have to pass the bill to find out whats in it.” Yes that ought to give you an idea of the capacity of our elected representatives that should be looking out for our interests.

Anyway in a nutshell Obamacare through smoke and mirrors and a heavy dose of “party” bullshit gives the illusion that healthcare is affordable and cheap and now everyone can be covered. If you have half a brain and have done the least bit of research into this subject furthermore you are capable of balancing your checkbook, then you know Obamacare is a pack of fucking lies. Someone HAS to pay for the additional coverage. Someone now has to pay for all the people with existing health related problems the insurance companies have to by law cover. Obamacare does NOT work. Its not fiscally sustainable. President Obama going on five years of holding the highest office in the land can not and has not put together a fiscal budget to run this country yet wants us to believe that Obamacare will somehow magically work?! Come on, say it with me folks. “What the Motherfuck?”

During President Obama’s first term when the bill was signed into law, many states tried to fight it. The bill went to the supreme court. None the less parts of the bill were deemed legal, and we found ourselves stuck with it legally for the time being anyway.

Now we’re in the middle of its implementation. The only option left to our representatives to try and save ourselves from this abomination of a healthcare law is to deal with its actual funding. The idea is if we can’t repeal the horrible law, then we can simply not fund the law. It would theoretically go nowhere. Money makes the word go around.

Our congress which by our very own CONSTITUTION is in place to dictate via a vote of our elected representatives, what we (United States Government because WE are the Government) can spend money on. In a last ditch effort congress decided NOT to fund Obamacare. We expect our congress to do this. Our constitution mandates that congress decides where our money goes. Well our congress voted not to fund Obamacare. Our congress also voted not to fund any other government activity until some of the more detrimental to our economy and freedom portions of Obamacare are repealed and or modified. The only problem is our President whom we elected to lead our nation of both democrats and republicans will NOT in any way sit down and listen and or adjust his very personal but equally bad healthcare law to something more economically feasible and sustainable for future generations.

Here is what the media who loves Obama does not tell you. Our congress has decided and voted affirmatively to fund all the other important parts of the government with the exception of Obamacare and keep things moving. Mr Harry Reid in the Senate will not bring to a vote to ratify any of the congressional votes/bills to keep the government running while the Obamacare law gets no funding. He wants an everything or nothing type of deal from congress. Mr. Harry Reid is a democrat long on the dick of Mr. Obama for all you keeping score at home.

You’re probably now thinking “Brock what exactly is the Presidents place in all this, why the unadulterated hatred and disdain?” I’ll tell you. A President can be either a democrat or republican but once you get to office your job as President is to represent all of us. This one does NOT.

The President refuses to sit down with congress and adjust Obamcare. He will not even talk about its adjustment or modification. Its his baby and in his warped mind his legacy. President Obama thinks if he sits with congress and adjusts portions of it to more suitably do what its supposed to do, it will as a bad and horrible law, go away and in the end Mr. Obama is nothing. That part remains to be seen but that is what this egomaniac thinks in his head.

But wait there is more!

Now that the government is shut down and at a standstill President Obama in his lack to admit to his fallibility and that his healthcare law is severely flawed, wants to somehow place the blame on the republicans and congress for the shut down. Remember kids our Constitution mandates our congress decides where our money goes. Remember kids our congress voted and came up with plans to fund all other important parts of our government while we fix Obamacare. Can you guess who says “no” and keeps things as they are?

But wait there is even more!

To try and sway the idiocy of the population of this country even more (the dumb ones are generally supporters of President Obama) President Obama has chosen to use the government shut down to place MORE and undue strain on the american people. President Obama wants to hurt the american people with the shut down (needlessly mind you) to try and place more stress on congress and the republicans and get them to concede to his horrible healthcare law as is. The law simply does not work as written. A child with an eighth grade education in simple economics can tell you this.

Since the government shut down, national parks, monuments, and memorials all around the country do not have the staff or infrastructure to run. (duh government employees) However some of these parks, monuments, and memorials have no (ZERO) personnel to run them anyway and should be open to the public. More importantly have remained open to the pubic in the past during similar shut downs. This time to place more pressure on you and me the american people, President Obama has ordered the barricade and shut down of important memorials such as the World War II memorial in Washington. The Lincoln Memorial, The MARINE CORPS Memorial, The Vietnam Wall the list goes on. The most important thing to understand is these memorials didn’t in the past have any real personnel to run. They are outdoor monuments and memorials.

These memorials and monuments belong to you and me. For Christ sakes private citizens are taking over the grounds maintenance with their own lawnmowers!  They have never been shut down in the past. But to somehow inflict more pain on you and me and get us to somehow mistake and place the blame on our congress for this shut down Obama has barricaded the memorials and monuments away from mostly veterans who fought and served this country.  All this over a fucking horrible healthcare law he refuses to sit down and try and adjust and fix. Obama is having 90 year old world war two veterans arrested who chose to ignore his asinine barricades and enter the monuments and memorials. Did you just fucking read what I wrote? Please for the love of Christ, read this paragraph three times!

Well this weekend some veterans showed up to Washington and they had a message for President Obama.Barrycades

Take your barricades and GO FUCK YOURSELF!

What do I think about the shut down? Let it stay shut the hell down. Don’t let the mainstream media fool you into thinking this mess isn’t the President’s fault. He does not represent all of us. He is not a leader, and frankly he is an embarrassment to this nation to which the likes of William Taft and Jimmy Carter can sit back and say “Jesus this guy truly is a world class asshole!”

All this because President Obama refuses to sit down and talk about his baby, the AHA. Remember kids the man claims his Obamacare is so perfect and deserves not even the slightest of review that he is willing to arrest 90 year old veterans who fought and gave parts of their bodies for this country and freedom. Remember the same program that had three and a half years and $600+ million dollars to set up the online exchanges that in two weeks have yet to be able to sign up people for the fucking insurance that is being mandated upon us.

“Well Brock, so many people believe in Obamacare and are trying to sign up they are overloading the system.” BULL FUCKING SHIT. Do NOT let the mainstream media or the Obama administration trick you into believing this load of crap.

Yes the system is being overloaded. Not because we believe and want it. Its because Obama made it the goddamn LAW! Most of us even in our disdain for Obama are law abiding citizens. Of course we are going to sign up. He made it law. Yet in three and a half years and spending over $600 million dollars to put a system in place this administration couldn’t make a system to support the load it would be under starting on day one? Are you kidding me? When was the last time Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, came out with a product that after two weeks still couldn’t do its most basic and fundamental task? Yet we should all think Obamacare deserves no scrutiny!? President Obama can’t even sign us up into his fucking system, yet somehow magically it will not bankrupt the nation into oblivion.

Sorry folks, I’ll be the first person to say I generally hate all politicians since they’re all scumbags, but this is not a congress or a republican problem or their fault. This is a last ditch effort to save us from the abyss of fiscal insanity and erosions of simple personal freedoms. What we are lacking as a nation is a true leader who has all of our interests at heart.

How hard is it to see the emperors real clothes when he sends coffee and port a potties to occupy wall street, but arrests 90 year old war veterans outside memorials and monuments erected to the very freedoms this scumbag has never in his life worked for nor earned? Not by birthright, not by action, and certainly not be deed.

We have come a long way, and times are a changing thats for sure. Which side will you come down on? Me? I try and rely on no one but when it comes time and time will come, I’ll do what needs to be done for me, my family, and friends. I will not surrender to this bullshit and allow those to take from me that of which I have earned. Not my money, not my freedom.

We’re mid way through October. My month, the awesome month. The weather is breaking so part of me thinks about firing up the oven and cake. I like cake. I like pie too. Then part of me thinks, eh. I don’t know what I am in the mood for. Everything looks nice nothing looks nice. Except a nice meatball sub. Nothing in the world is as nice as a good meatball sub except maybe the Indy 500.

I do not usually pass out candy on Halloween. I mean I have tried in the past to show some spirit. I love Halloween and the holiday. I have bought the candy with intentions to pass it out. I usually end up eating 3/4 of the shit myself. I know I am going to do it when I buy the candy too. Yet I still go through the motions. I buy one of the big bags of candy, eat most of the contents leading up to Halloween with the rationalization I’ll just buy more. I never buy more. I get to Halloween look and see that I only have a small amount left and figure to myself no sense in passing this little bit out. I just turn out lights, not answer the door and keep the last bit for myself. A viscous cycle that repeats itself year after year. See I have no kids to whore out and pull in my own pillow case of sugary goodness. My eternal bachelorhood and freedom to do what I want when I want and all the toys that go along with that lifestyle does have some draw backs.

Mostly I love Halloween for the parties. My birthday is October 30th (shameless plug mark your calendars) Devils night. When I tell people this, usually its a look and response like “yeah no shit, it all makes sense now.” Anyway, my birthday and then Halloween how can one go wrong with that? Generally over the years I have combined the celebrations together. There’s a few of us all with birthdays within a week of each other so more times then not we combine the parties into one night somewhere between all of us getting together and its nice. What I like most about Halloween however is now that I have some young nieces to see and enjoy the wickedness and teach to egg houses and light bags of dog shit on fire. I also enjoy the adult component of Halloween. What I have learned in life is that for the most part adult Halloween is women dressing like sluts.

Its the one day of the year that its perfectly ok for girls to dress rather provocatively. Now most of the women reading this right now are rolling their eyes in their head thinking “Brock doesn’t know shit.” No its true there are a few things I am a master at, and sexy sluts are one of them. You can try and convince yourself otherwise but I KNOW. Going to go as Sookie Stackhouse? mmmm hmmm. Or maybe little Bo Peep and her Sheep from the childhood nursery rhyme? Sure but in my Bo Peep or Little Red Ridinghoods in childhood neither of those ladies were skipping down the lane in sexy as hell thigh high stockings with the seam on the back and fuck me pumps. And all you ladies that have done this look I thank you and love you so goddamn much.

This year I want to see cowboy boots, shorts, and titties. I am on a country kick.  Pretend you’re Taylor Swift, or Daisy Duke I don’t care. Now that I think about it and if I am going to be truthful this has nothing to do with Halloween and I’d call this a Friday night. However if you need an excuse to dress up a little outside of your comfort zone and have the stems to pull it off, know that Halloween is there for you. I am there for you! I know slutty and Halloween is here for you.

These are the things on my brain this Monday morning. I should probably close this up before I cross the line of unmanageably too long and fuck this I am not reading that manifesto garbage.

Let ‘er rip tater chips.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY makes Sheriff Buford T. Justice look like a possum’s pecker.

BufordTJusticeBy now we all know George Zimmerman has been declared innocent and once again a free man. Personally I am not shocked after hearing most of the facts. You know the actual case facts that were not manipulated by NBC news or purposely withheld by the states attorney’s office where they had to fire the IT director for blowing the whistle on the withheld photos and texts from Trayvon’s cell phone? Yea those facts. Well when I listened to those parts of the case, I can see why charges were not brought up against Zimmerman initially.

The DOJ spent our tax dollars getting emotional ignorant people motivated in marches and civil unrest. Our own government bullshitted people into believing this case was something it was not.

In the end I am glad political grandstanding and agenda can still not withstand a legal system so full of bullshit regulations and rules of evidence that something so simple as defending your life cant be stripped away no matter how half assed and a cockamamie reason you think you were defending it to start with.

Heres the bottom line and you can bitch and complain until you pass out things wont change.

Zimmerman had a right to watch and follow after Martin. The 911 operator was a nobody and had no legal authority to order Zimmerman to not pick his nose much less not follow or pursue Martin.

Martin had a right to tell Zimmerman to go fuck himself and continue walking home, into his house without fear of Zimmerman touching him or ordering him to do anything short of telling him to have a nice night.

Martin didn’t have a right to place hands on Zimmerman any more then Zimmerman had a right to touch or detain Martin.

Did an asshole guy watch and follow a punk kid? Yep. And its not against the law.

That is until the punk kid chose to beat a creepy crackers ass. Then all bets are off. Law provides for that protection and Zimmerman exercised it. Mostly though a jury has now recognized that Zimmerman’s actions were appropriate and legal. No matter the circumstances to how the two got to the final act of Zimmerman killing Martin.

Bottom line? No matter the reason or circumstances that get you to the point of choosing to beat another persons ass, you better make sure the fight you chose is a fight you can win.

Any racial issue or undertone to this entire saga was simply a manipulation by the mainstream media.

“A seemingly white guy kills a black unarmed kid.”

The blacks don’t give two shits about black kids getting killed. Look at Chicago on any given weekend. How many blacks have killed white people in the time this Zimmerman / Martin trial has been going on? Wheres the outrage? Wheres the NAACP? Wheres the DOJ Eric Holder and that idiot Obama? Where are the whites marching in the streets with DOJ tax dollars screaming about mercilessly being killed by blacks?

But you get the scumbags at NBC to manipulate a 911 recording making it sound as if Zimmerman is targeting blacks, throw in a little Al Sharpton and Rainbow Push, with $20,000 of tax dollars getting thrown in the streets around Sanford, Florida by the DOJ to march in protest and race relations takes a five year step back because some section of the population sees a nice fucking payday. It doesn’t get any simpler then that.

Justice for Trayvon? Are you goddamn kidding me? How about justice for all of us from a corrupt national media system? How about justice for all of us from a corrupt Department of Justice and Federal Government?

Let ‘er rip, tater chips.

I met a gin soaked barroom queen in Memphis

morecowbell She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.

Well HELLO 2013! I can already tell we need more cowbell around here.

Hope everyone had a nice safe Holidays and new year. Me? It was quiet calm and relaxing. Not a bad way to end the year.

So its a new year and it seems off to a nice bang in Washington. Say what you will about John Boehner but I support anyone telling Harry Reid to “Go fuck himself” outside the oval office, not once, but a loud and clear twice when Reid ask for clarification about what Boehner was talking about. Congress and Senate leadership is in a complete mess in this country at the moment. Any time we can get down to the brass tacks, and tell one of these asshole elitist political scumbags that has made a living taking from the honest and hard work of the citizens of this country, “to go fuck himself” even if it was by one of an other asshole elitist political scumbag, then I am in complete agreement. I cheer on the blunt honesty while saluting the flag and singing the national anthem. The only thing that would make me more excited about politics in this country is if Boehner cold cocked Reid’s old ass right in his suck and floored him into Obama’s office door. I’d happily donate money to  a congressional bail bond fund for assault against each other then any re-election campaign.

In fact I fully support the notion of having congress fist fight in a caged ring to pass legislation. To hell with voting!

Mrs. Feinstein wants to submit and pass a new gun bill? (I call it a gun bill because if you haven’t been paying attention to this bullshit, her bill has nothing to do with assault weapons, as its an all out attack on the 2nd Amendment to tax and then seize or “buy” back all guns period the fucking end….don’t say I didn’t warn you!) Then she gets into ring with another opposing congressional member to fist fight it out untill there is one man or woman standing. She kicks ass she gets her bill, she gets knocked out, no bill, she goes home and has to shut the heck up. I think if you want to make laws to impose on the citizens of this nation (which more times then not makes you money) then you should be willing to stand up and fight for that law with your blood sweat and tears to see it pass.

Extreme? Maybe, but I’ll ask this question in response. Why is it ok for say a young Marine or Army Ranger to go into combat willing to give his or her life for the laws of this country, and the people that make and pass the laws have nothing more to do with the idea then ride on over to capital hill in their limo’s and $1500 suites, while having other people draft the damn lawn for them, and then grandstanding about its passage? Fuck them, they have no skin in the game. Let ’em start taking an ass whipping for their pet project legislation. Then they can have a pay raise, a life long pension, and special healthcare you and I could only fantasize about.

I think thats fair. Or at the very least will cut out a whole heck of a lot of crap going on in Washington. Other then that I don’t feel too strongly on the matter. 😉

In unrelated news….

Someone dropped off a Golden Retriever and an English Bulldog at the shelter. Both males both between 5-7 years old and I’m crushing on both of them. SHIT! I am going to have a house full I know it. I’m going to be like the male equivalent of the crazy cat lady, only I’ll have a pack of damn dogs.

Lucas is already looking at me with the “look”. The don’t you bring no more dogs around here you bastard, this is my home now look.

Ugh, people suck who give up pets. Especially beautiful ones like these. These guys will get homes fast though, even if I don’t intervene in a moment of weakness. So thats some good news.

I’ll close this up for now. I’ll catch you mother scratchers towards the end of he week.

In the words of the Almighty Beastie Boys…….

HIT IT!

Gangway Thursday! Coming Through Nothing to See Here

Haven’t made a Thursday post in while so here we go. Another milestone. Go me. Go you. We’re awesome.

What’s new?

Kate is still pregnant, puking and shitting herself.

Rex Ryan is still an idiot and starting Sanchez against Jacksonville. This will certainly put the final nail into the wildcard playoff coffin chances of the year.

Homeless people in New York really are stupid. You give them shoes in the winter, and they trade them for booze the next day. You tell them to go get a job and they push you in front of a subway. Meanwhile every other fire, police, power company, and other tradesmen from around the country are voluntarily helping with the recovery of Hurricane Sandy in NJ/NY while the bums sit and freeze their asses off doing nothing. Go figure.

Syria is loading aerial bombs with the base components of sarin gas. I hope they use it on each other. Not because I want to see people die in the most gruesome way possible, because trust me, it will be gruesome and it will not be pretty. I want to see it happen because its a permanent and lasting solution to a problem that will take care of everything within hours over there. It will be one less headache for Israel and it will consume the Obama administration for at least a year in bullshit politics of shifting blame, making excuses and hiding truth and fact, that Washington wont have time to ruin the economy further. Well for a bit of time anyway. One can hope. HOPE AND CHANGE YO!

I suppose I should start thinking about Christmas shopping this year. That fact that I am thinking about thinking about the shopping shows I am maturing with age. My goal is do something in the way of Christmas presents before the 23rd. We’ll see how all that pans out. My modus operandi is start my shopping on December 24th. By that time Im so ridiculously late that I can’t even be stressed about it anymore and only laugh as I battle my way through the crowds of other ridiculously late procrastinators out on Christmas Eve doing the same exact thing. We’re a small group, a band of brothers if you will. You know us by the smiles on our faces, walking through the Targets and Best Buys with Starbucks cups full of scotch. We all live knowing that all can be made well with our significant others by the mere and simple stop by the mall jewelry store and the purchase of flashy stones and gold metal that will prove us worthy for another year. Merry Christmas!

Thats it. I need coffee.

Let ‘er rip, tater chip!

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Lots of adjectives to describe this weekend. None more then melancholy that its over, but probably the two that most come to mind as I sit back and think about the weekend are interesting and grateful.

I’ll start with the interesting. Yesterday it seems that the President was in town, glad handing and drumming up support for his attempt at re-election. This wouldn’t be out of the ordinary except that yesterday as he was making his way from Melbourne to West Palm Beach he was was stopping at seemingly random businesses to speak with patrons and establishment owners. One of his stops was about a mile as the crow flies from my home to some local restaurant bar. The police activity, secret service convoy, Obama’s motorcade, helicopters is a sight to see, once you get over the fact its a complete damned catastrophe waiting to happen. Traffic is stopped in all directions within a mile of wherever the President decides to jump out for his photo opportunity. Its interesting to see the logistics to move this guy around and at what costs to the communities and people around him to do it. Yesterday during his movement one of the poor bastard motorcycle police whom was attempting to “Stop” traffic on interstate 95 (yes you read that right, stop traffic on Interstate 95) was creamed by a pickup truck and subsequently DRT. (Dead Right There) President Obama’s  thoughts are with his family of course!

What else is interesting to me is how and at what establishments the President decides to randomly stop in and visit. The news and White House would have you believe that the President while traveling through the region to kill some time just decides to pull off the road here and there all willy nilly to shake hands and kiss babies. I call bullshit on that every day till Sunday. Secret service knows all about these stops well in advance. Secret service even calls the establishments owners forty minutes prior and announce that the President will be stopping in. This is all logical and fine.

To me this tells you a little about the establishment the President is visiting. Do you think the President, during his most crucial re-election campaign, would just stop in to visit a business owner who is a through and through republican? Or maybe a business owner whom is trying to figure out how in the hell he/she is going to afford to pay for mandatory healthcare with all the bells and whistles under Obamacare and remain in business? No, this tells me one thing. The particular places President Obama decides to stop in and visit, are staunch supporters of his. I’ll even go so far as to say, I’d bet a million internet bucks that these business owners have made $$$ contributions to Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there is anything wrong with that being the case, it just for me it shines these businesses in a different light. It could be argued that this President is the most polarizing President we as a nation have had in a very long time. There are those that say, President Obama will clearly unseat former President Jimmy Carter as the worst President the nation has had in modern times. I tend to agree personally which is why I don’t see how some of these local business can support such a threat to simple free market enterprise as this President.

Lastly in the interesting department it was posed to me in conversation, what would I have done if I was a local business owner and President Obama just showed up. It’s a good question to ponder. I maintain that President Obama wouldn’t just show up to my business, his intel and recon would know that I am not a democrat, nor a supporter of his. However if  he did come into my establishment how would I react to him? I wouldn’t turn him away, he is the President for Christ’s sake. As a Marine, he’s the commander in chief. Good or bad he’ll get his due respect the office in which he holds deserves from me. All things being equal, he wouldn’t be getting much of a photo opportunity with me and if given the chance, respectfully told nor my vote.

Enough interesting, lets discuss grateful.

I was also grateful this weekend. I got a chance to get breakfast / lunch with some friends Saturday. We hung for a few hours discussing such important topics as fishing, motorcycles, food, the annual Christmas party, and how and when to fly in fresh crawdads from Louisiana this spring for a serious boil.

I am grateful because these friends as are most of mine, are on the board of directors of this internet content conglomerate that is What’s up Brock. While this blog is still young and in its infancy, it helps me to get feedback and direction from folks who are regularly reading what I am typing. So far everything is positive and the general consensus is to keep going, give them more more more. Not a problem there at all. I got some ideas for content and spreading the sickness to the masses. I am excited to see where this goes. So far as I stated earlier the response has been overwhelmingly positive. I haven’t even gotten to the hunting and killing or tools and horsepower yet. Furthermore you know I haven’t reached the end of the internet toilet flush of having a lack of content or ideas yet because we all know that ace in the hole is tits and porn. I am a long way from playing that card. I hope. Not that I would. Well tits and porn are ok. Wait, I am supposed to be making and thinking about what kind of brand I am creating here. I want all people to read and enjoy this site. Thongs, panties, (shut up devil).

Lets close this up before my head explodes.

Be good to each other. We get back what we give out and if you cant be with the one you love, then love the one you’re with.

Come here Lucas!