Summer Gone By

Another summer runs by, and me without any backpacking/backwoods time to show for it.

Growing up is annoying. It used to be that Summer was a wondrous time, full of happiness, laughter, and friends, tempered only by the looming presence of Autumn and its FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

Nowadays, my life is work, work, head off newest disaster that's befallen us, check on last great disaster that befell us, and make sure that disaster that befold us ain't coming back to befall us again, and work.

Sure, I get money now, but think on this: What use is money if I can't enjoy it without multiple Dooms of Damocles hanging over it my head?

Where have they gone, the days of carefree wonder?

Election Thoughts

There was a rant here about how tough it is to be a Kalifornian Republican, but when I reviewed it, it sounded silly, especially when I see how far Right the GOP has swung these last few years. So instead, I'm laying out some principles.

Who/what I vote for is decided by who/what most closely adheres to the below statements:

If I leave you alone, you leave me alone.

Abortion? The fetus is a parasite on the mother's body until it pops out and becomes it's own person. The mother can decide what to do with it as she wills. 

I know you need money to do things, but stop wasting it on crap no-one but special interest groups give a crap about. And seriously, for the amount of taxes I pay, you shouldn't need to come "ask" for more.

If you want to be intolerant about this or that, that's your business. It ain't, however, the business of my government to treat anyone different from anyone else, unless they ain't paying into the system; if you ain't paying for it, you don't get to complain about the service.

You get my guns when I run out of bullets.

I don't like drugs, but even I see that the War on Drugs is a losing proposition. Make the most of it and tax the hell out of that shit.

The other War is patriotic and good and all, but do we always have to do it in a way that cost so damn much? For God's(that I don't believe in, keep your wonky religions outta my government) sake, we spend more on defense than the next 26 nations combined, 25 of which are allies(according to The Newsroom(great show)). Why?! Are there actually hostile extraterrestrials out there than the government ain't telling us about?

Regulation has its place. Environmental regulation is rather important, but don't overdo it. When the EPA tells me that hunting with lead shot is dangerous to wildfowl, I will say that it's kind of the point.

Unions make shit more expensive than it ought to be. And service is shittier than I'd expect at the price point.

And seriously, corporations don't give a damn about this country. They care about making money, and don't give a damn about any irreparable harm they may or may not do. Regulate so that entrepreneurship and class-mobility is still reasonably possible.


Basically, to sum it all up:

STOP FORCING YOUR RELIGIOUS VIEW ON ME AND MINE!
STOP FORCING YOUR LIBERAL VALUES AND PROPAGANDA DOWN MY THROAT!
STOP TRYING TO TAKE MY GUNS!
STOP POLLUTING MY WORLD!
STOP  PANDERING TO THE CORPORATIONS AND THE UNIONS!
STOP OTHER PEOPLE FROM FUCKING THINGS UP FOR THE REST OF US!
        
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STOP SPENDING SO MUCH GODDAMN MONEY! PEOPLE WORKED FOR THAT MONEY, YOU KNOW!

SB249

Stoppit SB249.

I don't want you, I didn't vote for you, and I certainly didn't vote for Senator Yee, who wrote you.

Why Super-Anti-Gun San Francisco is trying to push laws that affect my rights some 400 miles to their south is beyond me.

What's the point of making Mag-locked firearms illegal, when, if you are truly so concerned, there are hundreds of other models of firearms that are ballistically  and functionally identical to these mag-locked firearms? Why not ban those first? That is, if you are truly concerned with the "danger" these "Assault Weapons" pose.

I'm going out to get me an AR. Gonna pull money from everywhere and scrape up enough for that Colt AR. And when the time comes and the gun is required to be confiscated(ex-post facto, can you believe it?!), I'll hand it over. And I will know that this country is has truly gone to the pits, that our politicians wrap themselves in the flag, yet burn the Constitution, and that I should start expatriation.

Munchkin Business

Ain't Much Done Doing.

It Is Also Hot.

Munchkin is probably very lucrative for Steve Jackson.
Played lots of it this week. Will be playing more of it for the coming weeks as well.

Thinking about getting Zombie Munchkin.

Also: The Newsroom has my vote for best show of the year.