Grumpy retired Army guy. I was grumpy before I retired, I just am old enough now for it to be in character.
David Mangan
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Mar 17 2025
Tis the high and holy feast day of St. Patrick
When I was stationed in Lost Angeles, my bishop there had spent many of his formative years in Ireland with his family. He didn’t have an accent, but there were vocal tells. He would always say that someone was “at hospital”, not “in the hospital”, and every time he said the word Saint, it would …
Feb 23 2025
Fr. Dan Reehil
If you have not had a chance to see the various interviews with Father Dan Reehil, please take some time and do so. The interview with Sean Ryan is two and a half hours of theological reality laid bare. Sean Ryan Fr Dan Reehil interview God exists. And Satan also exists. But people today celebrate …
Feb 13 2025
Sometimes life gets in the way
I’ve been slacking in my duties. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I think I can explain it by using Monday as an example. I had my alarm set for 0600. I woke up at 0540 because the room was un-naturally quiet. And that was because several breakers had flipped in the electrical panel …
Jan 30 2025
Government money spigot turned off, “Christian” charities hardest hit
The government has frozen all funds going to the NGOs that are facilitating the illegal invasion of the USA. See how simple that was? Who’s bringing in the illegals? Those guys? And they’re using our money? Yeah, let’s stop doing that. Also, the weeping and wailing from the Left about “Christian” charities getting their funding …
Jan 29 2025
It’s time to go scorched earth on RINOs.
That last minute smear attack on Pete Hegseth? It was brought by Thom Tillis, the Republican shitbag from North Carolina. Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth in a call on Jan. 19, witnessed by two other people, that if she signed the statement testifying that she believed her former brother-in-law Pete Hegseth has an alcohol abuse …
Jan 29 2025
A whole lot of people said the mRNA jabs were poison
We just didn’t know how poisonous they really were. The troubling study found that people’s emotions, personalities, feelings, fears, stress levels, mental well-being, and general outlook changed after they were injected with the “vaccine.” The peer-reviewed study, which included over 2 million participants, was published in the renowned Nature Journal. The study was led by Professor Hong …
Jan 27 2025
The malfeasance of the Left, or quick thoughts randomly written down
The Army Corps of Engineers is rolling into North Carolina, four months after the hurricane hit. Why did it take four months? We all know. Because the Biden regime, controlled by the jug-eared communist, hates white Americans, hates the GOP voters, hates anything and anyone that interferes with their glorious Marxist dreams, and Western North …
Jan 25 2025
Pete Hegseth confirmed as Secretary of Defense
Mitch McConnell confirmed that he’s a deep-state shitbag. Pete Hegseth will have enough votes to become Secretary of Defense, which is a tremendous victory for Donald Trump. The vote was 50-50, and Vice President JD Vance is expected to break the tie. Being a military man, this is huge for me. For decades, the military …
Jan 23 2025
Another school shooting that the media will ignore
The legacy media, also known as the Democrat-Media Complex, loves them a school shooting that they can use to attack the right. If it’s white people shooting up kids or people of color, the calls for gun control will ring from the Left before the bodies have even cooled. However, I’m guessing that this particular …
Jan 23 2025
Winter Apocalypse
Now that Florida has had snowfall, this year marks a point where every state has had snowfall in the winter. Yes, Hawai’i gets snow every year on the mountains of the Big Island. They even have a ski resort. Having been stationed in the South multiple times in my career, I can only wince in …
Jan 18 2025
It’s funny because it’s true
From the Babylon Bee of course, which has become less of a satire site and more of a prophecy/soothsayer/prognosticator website. Not that it ever intended to become prophetic, but when the real world approaches insane levels of stupidity and Marxism, eventually even the most satirical take will become reality. There are people who document every …
Jan 13 2025
The times they are a changin’
Back when I purchased my very first M1911A1, you couldn’t walk into a gun store without seeing a plethora of parts for that platform. Slide locks, triggers, grip safeties in various configurations, backstraps, more triggers, the list goes on. However, when I have to purchase a new slide lock for that very same pistol, now …
Jan 09 2025
Perhaps a bit heartless, but perhaps not.
Just for the record, I agree with this 100%. I do not care how many people lose homes in Los Angeles. Especially in Pacific Palisades, or Malibu, or Santa Monica. Because I’ve lived in LA, I’ve been to those areas, and I know without a single doubt that damn near every single person living there, …
Jan 07 2025
Another funeral
On Friday, I went to the funeral of a mentor of mine. John was the music teacher when I was in high school. He was a hard-ass. He was a perfectionist. He demanded excellence, and he got it. We won damn near every competition we were in. We had to hold our high school band …
Jan 01 2025
New Year, Same Problems
Some terrorist asswipe decided to go all jihadi in New Orleans. Some goat-screwing asshole named Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street. Until enough people have the balls to tell these pedophile savages to GTFO, events like this will continue to occur. Islam is incompatible with civilization. There is no country …
Dec 30 2024
Jimmy Carter is dead
Look, I’m not going to attack the man’s character at this juncture. However, I can say that he’s the fourth worst US President, behind Woodrow Wilson, Joe Biden and Barry O’Bath-house. His fecklessness gave us the radical Iranian theocracy, chaos across the globe, and ended up giving China the Panama Canal. I can recall during …
Dec 28 2024
I’ve been chewing on this for a while
Teens are doing less homework and earning higher grades. Teens’ homework time fell significantly in the pandemic era, writes Jean M. Twenge on Generation Tech. new data from 2022 and 2023 shows the average time spent on homework fell 24 percent for 10th-graders — from an hour to about 45 minutes — and 17 percent …
Dec 19 2024
Let me add on to what our gracious host has posted.
Dear back-stabbing, two-faced GOP squishes: Perhaps now is a good time to remind you that the people who put Trump back into the White House, and who gave the Senate back to the Republicans, did so because they were TRUMP voters and not Republican voters. So when you try to play the same silly games …
Dec 18 2024
Worth your time
I’ve seen clips of Shawn Ryan’s show for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve ever stopped what I was doing and sat through an entire episode. Fr. Dan Reehil is an exorcist here in the United States, and listening to him describe his job is like having Einstein explain math to …
Dec 11 2024
It turns out that Haiti is indeed a shithole
Who woulda thunk it? American Airlines is no longer resuming its daily service out of Miami into Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport. American had initially suspended flights through February 12. The suspension is now indefinite. A spokesperson for the U.S.-based carrier said that it will evaluate a possible resumption in late 2025 of the only …
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