The difference between the young morons and us older morons.

Dogs…

Let me tell you a story. I’m out walking my dog on his “retracto” leash and we’re having a really good walk.

Up ahead, I see a human. The human is maybe 1/4 of a mile away, and I can see that the human is facing me due to the reflection of light on its face. I can’t tell at this distance if the human is Male or Female because they’re moving in and out of shadows cast by the trees along the trail.

Suspecting they may have a dog, and wishing to avoid my dog attempting to drag me at top speed toward the human at the very least and the potential dog, I choose another path. The new trail intersects the trail I’m on, at approximately where the human walking toward me, is at this moment.

My dog hasn’t noticed the human at this point, so I count myself lucky and think that we humans will pass well out of reach of each other. Potential dog entanglements will also be avoided.

Jesse and I continue on and he’s having a blast sniffing along the trail that we don’t usually take.

Rounding the last bend, guess what?

The human is still there. Yep they haven’t moved, and goodie! They have a full blooded husky about Jesse’s size and age who is off leash, and slowly approaching from the concealment of a thicket.

So now we have one dog on leash, and one off leash, Jesse wants to go sniff and do all the dog things, but I don’t know this dog. Will the dog be aggressive? Are we trespassing in territory that this dog considered his? How will Jesse react?

Oh and let’s not forget that part of this walking regimen for me is rehabilitation on my knees which have both been troublesome for 2 years. It’s only been in the last year that I’ve been able to really walk any distance without pain.

So I’m trying to hold Jesse back and the other dog is advancing. Jesse has his ears laid back but is still slowly wagging his tail. (Mixed Signals!)

Then things advance, now there is jumping and circling, I’m being dragged over uneven terrain, and trying to keep from becoming entangled in the leash. I hear growling beginning.

At this point the other human moseys on over to regain control of their dog.

“He’s just wanting to play,”

I have fire in my left knee. And I have .8 miles going uphill to get home. Truthfully going uphill is easier than going downhill.

Walking home, Jesse is very sweet he’s not rushing, or dragging me. He knows something is wrong with daddy’s knee.

He’s been checking on me since we got home. I’ve got the ice pack on my knee. I’m using it without the usual fabric cover because I don’t want to put a pair of shorts on. This way my sweat pants are taking the place of the cover. That’s the good news, the bad news is that I have nothing to keep it in place.

I digress…


All of the above brings me to the differences between my generation and this most current crop of “adults”.

We were taught to fucking think!

Let’s evaluate the situation shall we?

Had a Boomer been the Human approaching us on the main trail, they would have continued walking because they’d have accepted, for reasons known only to me, that I was trying to avoid them. They wouldn’t have taken it personally. The assumption would have been that I perhaps know my dog, and my physical condition better than they do, and that would have been fine.

A Boomer upon realizing that my dog was on a leash would have perhaps thought, “Maybe His dog is aggressive, Perhaps his dog isn’t off leash trained.” Either way another Boomer would have put their fucking dog on a leash, you know, the one they were carrying. Just to avoid any potential injury to either dog or humans.

Another Boomer would have thought, “If our dogs try to get to know each other, that guy is going to be fighting to not get tangled up.” And they’d have put their dog on the fucking leash in their hand.

Another Boomer seeing the obvious white beard on my face would have thought, “ You know, that guy looks a tad older, maybe it’s not going to be good for him to be at the heart of dog play or a dog fight.” Another Boomer would have put their dog on the leash as a simple courtesy.


But the other human approaching Jesse & I, was not a “Boomer”.

He was a young adult in his late 20s or early 30s and therefore completely bereft of the ability to think ahead, courtesy, or common sense.

I know youngsters think Courtesy and Common Sense are antiquated notions.

I would instruct all you children thusly.

Courtesy is an outgrowth of conflict avoidance.

If one is courteous then typically there is no conflict. If there is no conflict, then one or more people do not end up with broadswords sticking out of their chests. Barmaids are also happier because getting bloodstains out of rough hewn wooden floors is a real bitch of a job.

Courtesy goes further though.

Courtesy is an acknowledgment that no one can know all the factors at play in any encounter with another person.
Did that person have a fight with their spouse?
Did that person just get out of surgery?
Is that person grieving a loss?
Is the person trying to rebuild strength after an injury?
Does that other person have health insurance?
If they’re injured out in this rural area will paramedics be able to get to them?
What happens in the case of the unexpected?
Is the person prone to heart attacks?

These are just a few of the potential issues.

Being courteous allows you to avoid these and many other possibilities and allows you to absolve yourself of all responsibility for what happens next, to the person your’e being courteous to.

If you’re a young person who wants no responsibility…

Being courteous allows you to turn your back leave with your dog on a leash, and ignore the “Thud” you hear from behind and never look back. After all you were courteous and whatever that noise was… It’s none of your business.

See courtesy can be fun!

Just as an aside, I may have the underpinnings for courtesy all wrong, but thinking of courteous behavior this way has allowed me to implement courtesy in my daily life rather than beat or insult the living shit out of every dumbass I’ve encountered.

It’s kept me from saying things like;

“Does your whole family have the same intelligence level as you? It does? Wow, there’s a family tree that needs to be chopped down!”

“You’re a load your daddy should have jacked down the toilet, oh wait, right… your mother is a cum dump of a toilet!”

“You’re in favor of abortion? So am I… Retroactive Abortion! Here, let me put this plastic bag over your head. Now breathe deep, it will all be over soon! It’s for the planet, there, there, sleep.”

These are just a few of the things that go through my mind dealing with people. Without courtesy, imagine all the sad little snowflakes I’d have traumatized through the years.

Courtesy is a mobile safe space, it’s like a vaccine that protects us all…

 

Hmm… NewsMax is going behind a paywall

Newsmax logo 2022 origThat’s kind of a bummer.

I enjoyed the shows, There were a couple of commentators that I especially enjoyed. Retired SEALS, and Marine pilots… Funny how that works!!!

I like and appreciate those kinds of guys in my normal life, I suppose it’s no surprise that I’d appreciate hearing guys like that report on, and express their take on the news of the day.

They are no less unbiased in their reporting than MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or CNN. But at least the way they come to their conclusions follows a logic that I can understand, whether I agree with their conclusions or not.

All of the SEALS and Marine folks I know are super pragmatic and their logic follows familiar patterns which are a very similar to the lessons I was raised around. Chief among these is that there are rules. Rules must be obeyed. Rules apply to everyone.

So when these NewsMax guys start asking, “Why is it that XYZ is treated different than ABC?” I get why they’re asking the question and see their point.

Unlike what I have going on in my head listening to Jake Tapper. My brain reboots at least 6 times an hour watching his show.

To be fair, I’m sure that Super indoctrinated Democrats like my Stepfather just sit there nodding their head hanging on every word that drops from Jake Tappers lips. Were my Stepfather to attempt to watch NewMax his head would probably explode.

I get it, and honestly, I still believe that the left and right are both needed, and should work together. Ideally, when they work together they come up with a course of action that’s generally centrist and beneficial for the largest number of people.

I don’t really like other “conservative” news feeds because they’re often a bit too conspiracy theory prone. That being said, I’m not going to pay for a NewsMax subscription.

There are a couple of reasons for this.

First and foremost is that NewsMax played a lot of commercials and I think that should have been sufficient.

Second, I don’t like a subscription model especially for the “Non-Mainstream” news sources. I believe sure as shit, there will be a data breach and the customer list will end up in the hands of someone with authoritarian tendencies.

The last thing I want to deal with is someone looking for dirt on me or my family. Just because I happen to like more conservative news reporting.

I may reconsider my position in time. Especially if I kill off Hulu which I’m not watching much anyway. Maybe I’ll just spend the same money on a different subscription. But there’s still that worry about data breaches.

I hate that I feel like I have to be paranoid.

I guess years watching BLM, ANTIFA, The January 6th commission, and now hoards of Antisemitic Pro Palestine protestors, or leftist judges stripping rights from citizens because the judge doesn’t like the citizens political views, has made me start wondering if this is the way things began in Germany prior to WWII, or Russia prior to their revolution.

I don’t think any of these groups (except the government) can hurt me. Being DOXED would be annoying, having thousands of emails blasting into my in box would be really annoying but the latter is already happening and has been for the better part of a year.

Hmm it just hit me. The Pro Palestine protests actually look a lot like the BLM/ANTIFA/ABORTION/TRANS Protests. I wonder how many people from one set of idiots also exist in the second set of idiots.

Perhaps we can get Kamala to come up with a VIN diagram to answer that question.

Could this be a pattern?

Kamala Harris 1 640x480I see President “I don’t know where I am” has appointed Cackler Harris his new point person on Islamophobia.

Hooray! 

With antisemitism up 400% and followers of Islam / Supporters of Palestine, trapping Jewish students in a college library I tend to think the problem may not be Islamophobia.

I know, I know, under the umbrella of “National Strategy on Islamophobia” they’re including antisemitism. Honestly it seems more like creating a protective organization for the KKK and as an after thought, saying they’re going to work with the NAACP.

Give me a fucking break!

Antisemitism is the problem. If you want to fix Islamophobia which is a misnomer. (People aren’t generally afraid of Islam, people just don’t like the assholes who follow Islam.) 

Anyway, if you want to put an end to Islamophobia the answer is simple. Get rid of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Remove them from congress and when people aren’t being irritated or outright pissed off by these rancid cunts every fucking day, then perhaps Islamophobia will be dialed down.

Or you might consider making CAIR pay for having funneled money to Hamas, and other radical Islamist organizations. They’ve been investigated time and again, with credible outcomes suggesting that criminal charges should be brought, but nothing ever happens. The Islamic people get all up in arms and start making threats. Then politicians get worried about potential violence and the investigation is allowed to die.

By the way Americans really don’t like that shit. We don’t like that a minority group can threaten violence and get away with whatever the hell they want to. Especially when if Americans do the same, they’re branded domestic terrorists and subject to arrest.

However, the pattern I’m starting to notice is this:

Whenever the White House doesn’t want to deal with something and wants nothing to change about whatever the “It” is. They appoint Cacklea Harris to take care of it.

In other words the Powers that be make Harris the fall person and are destroying her career, (if you can call it that,) while Joe is slowly self destructing on the world stage.

Neither of them could get elected to scoop shit out of a Dog Park. The country knows it, and the world knows it. Which means that we’re going to see escalation in warfare and violence across the planet and perhaps even here at home running up to the 2024 election.

It makes sense, all the bad actors better get what they can get while they can because if a conservative Republican wins the election, there’s going to be a lot of folks having to crawl back into their festering holes, until another weak assed President gets elected. But they’ll be able to keep the new lands or resources they’ve managed to take by force.

On the other hand, if by some act of Satan, Biden gets another term, or some other Democrat sycophant is elected then the conflicts will go on, and we’ll all be run into the poor house unable to pay back the loans we took out to … Support? Appease? Conflicts and people that want nothing to do with us but take our money.

At this point I feel like we fucking OWN Ukraine. I think when this conflict is over, they’ll need to be sending us shipments of goods and raw materials to repay the debt with interest. 

I’ve asked the question for years, “Why do the American People always end up footing the bill for other peoples fuck ups?”

When you look at all the money the American Tax payer has dumped into failed countries, often filled with people who hate us the legitimate question is, “What did we get for our effort or money?”

Maybe we should have been shipping oil home from the Middle East, Perhaps we should have been mining Afghanistan and never fucking left. Their mineral resources alone are going to allow China to fuck us for decades to come.

How about us backing the Shah of Iran, and then watching that puppet government collapse into the Mullahs we have now? Those are just a few examples. Why does the UN always get access to American Troops to cool a conflict? Isn’t that what the UN peacekeeping force about? Why is it that somehow the US always ends up sending more men and resources than practically any other UN nation?

Honestly, these are some questions that Americans should be demanding answers about. Maybe from here on out, American assistance comes with a price tag!

Cackling Harris will be as ineffective on Islamophobia and Antisemitism as she’s been on everything else. She’ll be telling us that Islamophobia is caused by people not liking Islamic people and that somehow Israel is responsible for creating islamophobia because the Jews don’t get along with the Muslims and perhaps Jews should just give Palestinians more land then Islamophobia would be a thing of the past…

She’ll do it with a fucked up word salad but she’ll do it.