Vitriol Espresso "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." General James Mattis

Yeah, I guess it's summer now. Or something like it. Unfortunately, this summer heralds in a new flooding season. The 10-15 year kind of flood. The Mississippi has decided to overflow it's banks thanks to an excess of water from the north. It's been a long monsoon season this time around. Just one of those things. Of course, this is the fault of Climate Change, don'cha know. Okay, that's bullshit. It's something that happens every 10-15 years and it's been something that's happened every 10-15 years for centuries. People along the Miss expect this kind of thing and the only ones who are caught without flood insurance are those that listened to the government when they said the levees would hold or they weren't living in a flood zone. Times change, the government stays the same. Some of those old flood maps were made in the early 1900's and there hasn't been an update in quite some time.

Omg..the government lied?!?!?!? Hahahahahahahaha...

I have my own sinkhole problems here, but thankfully I don't own the property. All I have to do is avoid it and keep a careful watch that it doesn't get too deep before the housing authority can come out and fill up the hole. It's got standing water in it so I'm gonna go out and bleach it up a bit after the next rain so the mosquitoes don't get a chance to breed. Hopefully when the nutball neighbor stumbles into the hole on acci-purpose her pantsleg will bleach out white. Maybe she can sue me, too, for damaging her precious antique pants. Seriously, those relics are pure polyester from the '70s. She looks like an octagenerian dancing queen.

Anyhoos, the surge is headed our way. Oh wow, I just got the image of 3000 or so military men rushing down the Mississippi in tight camo and carting really big guns. There's a wet dream for you. Well, for me. ;) *cough* The river is cresting today or tomorrow and there's a slight rise expected afterwards as it rains in the next couple of days. The river road and it's railway are already covered. I can tell because the trains outside the house are running backwards from time to time, doubling up on the tracks because there's nowhere else for them to run. Obviously some of the train trestles over the river to the south are still okay or there would be no trains running at all outside the north-south lines. Out here we only usually get from south to north traffic a few times a day. Though there's 2 tracks, only 1 is usually operative to give the other room for turning about and storage of cars. Plus there's a sinkhole in my yard filled with water.

There's a sinkhole in my yard filled with water. Jeeze. It's getting bigger, too. The garden spike I shoved in the center of it is tipping over as the bottom drops out. Apparently we've been undermined (in the truest sense of the word) and with all the water everywhere it's sucking my lawn down to the depths of hell. Ah well. If it gets too bad I'll get to move out of here and away from the dippety-do next door.

Think positive...think positive...think positive...

I'm not sure if people screaming 'Free Tibet' know what it is they're screaming about. I agree that any country should be free, in the way that democracy or a republic would make one free. But Tibet has never in it's history been, in the western definition, 'free.'

Under the rule of the Dalai Lama Tibet was run by an iron fisted theocracy that split society into the ruling class and the slave class. And there was no in-between. If you were part of the slave class you could be killed, tortured, forced to work, raped, maimed, threatened....for no reason. Other than that you aren't part of the ruling class. Go look it up. And not just on wikipedia. The Dalai Lama was in charge of a regime so brutal it puts even the Chinese to shame. So screaming 'free Tibet' without knowing what you're screaming about could toss them right back into the same theocratic regime.

Which would you prefer? To be a slave from birth to grave or to have a fighting chance in a socialist society? And if you say there's no difference between the two you need to take a look at how victims of the Taliban live as opposed to even the poorest people of China. Pretty big difference there, huh?

If these 'Free Tibet' people are trying to free them from BOTH the Dalai Lama AND China, that's great. But don't give me the lie that the Dalai Lama just wants his comfy chair back. Because that isn't, and never was, the case. The Dalai Lama is one of the biggest liars in the history of lying. Only second to the biggest liar in theology, in my opinion. If they want to 'Free Tibet' they need to free it from HIM, too.

So there.

...that nobody will read, most likely. tl;dr etc etc etc.

Had my surgery and will have pictures as soon as I can scan them somewhere intelligible. Maybe I'll bust out my scanner when I'm feeling better. That might be a bit, tho. They scrambled my guts up pretty good. For good reason. To say I'm in pain would be sort of an understatement. When your stomach muscles are split in half you will be in pain for a while because almost everything you do has something to do with your stomach muscles. It becomes painfully apparent that even the act of picking up a root beer has something to do with your core muscles. Ow.

Anyway, a myriad of things pops into mind while on painkillers. Like, finally asking the housing authority what to do when your neighbor is batshit insane and won't leave you alone (stalking). About to lose yet another good neighbor due to the stalking of the neighbor in the next building. The old bitch has stood out front looking in windows, knocked with her cane incessantly when nobody answers, gets mad and throws things in the yard, tells pointless stupid rumors about people (including me), and generally acts as a complete pest. Now that this good neighbor is leaving the complex and there's nobody else, I'll be the main target for harassment. Last year I had to call the police twice on this twit. And I'll do it again. Not looking forward to this summer's confrontation.

If rootbeer wasn't so yummy I wouldn't reach for it. But it's yummitude correlates vastly to the level of liquid in the brown bottle. o_o;

I think in my next home I will adopt a pet pig. No particular reason. They're just cute. Or a pug dog.

The yard needs to be mowed, but being laid up for another week will make it hard to get out and take care of it. Kind of hoping that the heavy rains will stunt growth a bit until I can get out there and walk the mower about. Looking forward to spending time in the sun for a change.

Ice cream is good.

Can't play games much lately. Since the surgery ended up being much more radical than first predicted. I'm still feeling chopped up and spit out even a week after the procedure. In two weeks I should be free'd from much of my restrictions. Everyone worries about hernias and ruptures and whatnot. Blahblahblah. I'll be a lump until someone says I can be something else. I'm okay with that.

...right on Allah's demonic pointed horned head.



He won't live long, I'm afraid. Satan will have his revenge.

...with the Federal Reserve.

I know a lot of people didn't 'read between the lines' of what is happening with this Bear Sterns, Inc. stuff and all the financial shouting around it. Most people that I personally know would watch this on a talking head program like CNN or Fox and not glean a single thing from anything anybody was saying. It's a bunch of rich bastards bailing out another bunch of rich bastards. Right? In /this/ case, however, the rich bastards are using YOUR money to do it. As in, the Federal Reserve. Something that has not happened since the crash in the 1930's.

That alone should give you an indication of something horrible on the horizon. Seriously. The businesses who marketed subprime housing mortgages/loans not only fucked over millions of people with 'adjustable' mortgage payments they couldn't possibly hope to repay. Oh no. They fucked /themselves/. Suddenly those millions of mortgage holders can't afford to repay. The company is saddled with debt out the wazoo and a ton of acreage with buildings that are, in essence, worthless. The companies you see that are failing? THESE ARE THE ASSHOLES THAT ENGINEERED THE HOMELESSNESS OF MILLIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. And suddenly the Federal Reserve is pulled out to save them? Why? If a business does BAD business, that business fails and dies. Right? Not in this case. And if you care to read what's happening you can see why.

Federal Reserve Board Press Release

Read that carefully. If you're like me you'll see it for what it is instead of what it looks like. It's /not/ mumbo jumbo and it /does/ impact your life. This is the failure of the Dollar in computer print. Right there before your eyes. While you read, keep a few things in mind.

-- Once you get to 0% you can't get any lower. You can't, in these sorts of terms, go below 0. Once you reach 0% discount rate (right now they are dangerously close at 2.75% [down from 3.25% yesterday]) you eventually run out of money.

-- The Federal Reserve does NOT 'lend' money for long term buyouts. Ever. That's a rule. They only 'lend' for the short-term, intended for one day transactions. Yet they have broken this rule for J.P. Morgan. They have loaned $30 MILLION to buyout Bear Sterns Inc., thus breaking their own rules and the rules that govern every other company on the planet when dealing with the Fed. In essence, the Federal Reserve issued a long-term loan to J.P. Morgan it would never have given to anybody else under any circumstances. Is it beginning to come together yet?

-- Bear Sterns Inc. should have failed. It should have sold it's assets at bargain basement prices and gone completely under. Period. It should NOT continue to exist. But for some odd reason, the Federal Reserve Board has decided to keep it's horrific business deals/practices and continue to allow it to run under J.P. Morgan. This is not how capitalism works, kids.

My determination? Hahahahaha. I'm not a conspiracy theory kook by any stretch of the imagination, but my friends...this smacks heavily of NWO and Old Boy Banker shady business deals. On a /global/ scale. Think about it.

Love,

Moonbat

This is about the funniest thing I've read all week. If you live in a box somewhere you won't know (or if you watch Network TV, they'd never document this kind of thing) that in Berkeley, they have been trying to get rid of their local Marine recruiting station. Pretty much by saying that Marines are baby killers, murderers, warmongerers, that they lie to recruit, among other nasty things. The city has even given the protesters, called Code Pink, a free parking space across from the Marine recruiting station in order to directly protest. The parking on that side of the street is restricted for anybody /else/, mind you. So acting negatively towards our soldiers is pretty much Berkeley City policy simply by their actions. Read about it on Gateway Pundit with plenty of links in the story. It's interesting how vehement they can be to the people who ensure their ability to be vehement.

This prompted plenty of reverse protests as well as members of Congress to make up a bill reversing federal funding for earmark programs headed to Berkeley. You know, no more designer school lunches and shit.

Well, to top all that, when a Berkeley cop can't be found (also guilty of complicity), what do the Code Pink whackos do? They call for the Marines. I couldn't make this kind of shit up. It's totally serious. This complete 'tard, so totally anti-military she's willing to split herself in half in front of a Sherman to make sure a Marine can't go to support her right to freedom, calls for a Marine when a cop can't come to her aid.

Irony's a bitch, ain't it?