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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Nov 17 2023
Just in case you need a reminder
You cannot trust the government. There is currently a cult of pedophiles that has dedicated itself to worshiping Satan and is blackmailing young girls into harming themselves. Alarming, right? I’m sure that you, like me, believe that something needs to be done to stop these miscreants from carrying out such twisted, evil deeds against impressionable …
Nov 12 2023
Been a little busy around the homestead lately
And quite frankly, I haven’t felt the urge to write. Hell, I haven’t felt the urge to do much except crawl into a hole and pull it in after me, but here we are. On the topic of “things that make me scream at my computer” is this headline from the garbage bird-cage liner, “Americans …
Nov 10 2023
Horse sense
I was over at Ace of Spades when I saw this graphic: Horses have incredible vision. They can almost see in 360 degrees. But that comes at a price. Their vison at that field is almost two-dimensional. So they can have an incredible field of vision, but it’s rather flat. So young Dave, living in …
Nov 08 2023
Not Schadenfreude
We all know that San Fransicko is a festering shithole of disease and filth. More proof keeps coming out every day. The viral TikTok video posted by freqmeek shows a scene in the dangerous Tenderloin district far worse than most people comprehend. “The anxiety we experience just traveling to work daily in the Tenderloin in …
Nov 03 2023
And now to shave
So just a little side note, I haven’t shaved since the day after my father’s funeral. At this point I have a goodly amount of facial hair and I was enjoying it, but today that comes to an end. There are multiple agencies that work with veterans here in the hinterlands where I live. Vets …
Nov 01 2023
Awake
I had to get up early today for a number of reasons, and since I’m somewhat daft I decided that as long as my schedule included an early awakening, I might as well make the best of it. Last Sunday I was given a batch of sourdough starter. I made English muffins with it yesterday, …
Oct 31 2023
To all the people who think the flu shot actually works….
I have some bad news for you. We randomized 115 children to trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) or placebo. Over the following 9 months, TIV recipients had an increased risk of virologically-confirmed non-influenza infections (relative risk: 4.40; 95% confidence interval: 1.31-14.8). Being protected against influenza, TIV recipients may lack temporary non-specific immunity that protected against …
Oct 27 2023
I hate to add to the heaviness
But this has been weighing on my mind for two days now, and I have to get this off my chest. 85,000 children. Does that number not look scary enough? EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND CHILDREN have been passed off by the Biden regime to unvetted, unknown adults. Some of those went into labor. Unpaid, dirty, unsafe labor, …
Oct 24 2023
Once again, we all knew the narrative was garbage
Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl wasn’t killed by the cops, and the four police officers that are currently in jail for his death were wrongly convicted for political reasons. A former Hennepin County, Minnesota, prosecutor is suing her employer, alleging that she was a victim of sex discrimination and retaliation. That’s par for the course. …
Oct 23 2023
Fences make good neighbors and happy mothers
When we last visited our intrepid country house, I had set (with some help) multiple posts for the fencing support beams. Later last week I put in all the T posts for the fencing. There might be some of you who would remember this: For those who don’t know, that’s how you pound a steel …
Oct 19 2023
The Sovietization of the USSA continues
Maybe if Hunter Biden had posted memes instead of snorting rails of coke off a Russian hooker’s ass, the DOJ would have been interested in him. HA! I kid, we all know the DOJ is just the Democrat Party’s new Gestapo. The humorless hacks at the misnamed Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) just sentenced a …
Oct 16 2023
Lessons Not Learned
One might think that after Kevin McCarthy worked a deal with the National Socialist Democrat Workers Party, and then was promptly bit in the ass by said National Socialist Democrat Workers Party, people in the GOP might step back from further deals with the National Socialist Democrat Workers Party. Sadly, the GOP establishment has far …
Oct 14 2023
Ah, the joys of country living
So, my sainted mother had some work done to the barn. That work necessitated the removal of a portion of the fence line, and so now I get to rebuild a new fence line to replace the one that came down. In order to support the end of the fenceline, as well as add a …
Oct 13 2023
Just a reminder: Nobody likes the Palestinians
Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza, is smartly refusing to allow any of those sub-human barbarians across their shared border. Don’t be fooled by the news agencies or by whatever platitudes other mooslim nations might utter. Not a single raghead nation wants to bring in the Palestinians, and they never have. Egypt has discussed …
Oct 11 2023
Self Destructive
One of the tidbits of knowledge that I’ve gained recently is that Israel, for all you see their Soldiers walking around with guns at the beach, or at a pizza joint, has severe gun control throughout the country. That actually made me stop and scratch my head. A country of millions, surrounded by BILLIONS of …
Oct 09 2023
On Israel
If you haven’t seen the news by now, then I’m sorry, but go back to sleep. For those who HAVE seen the news, we all know that this is the continuation of the genocidal war that Islam constantly wages against Judaism. Mark Steyn put up a good number of links, including videos. If you want …
Oct 09 2023
Happy Che Guevara Day
Yes, today is the anniversary of the day that Che Guevara assumed ambient temperature and became a Good Communist. I like to remind many of the people who I see wearing his visage on a shirt that Che Guevara would have most likely put them up against a wall and shot them if he was …
Oct 08 2023
The military is screwed in ways we haven’t seen since the 70’s under Jimmeh Carter
And it’s going to get worse. The Army is cutting about 3,000 troops, or about 10% from its special-operations ranks, which could include so-called trigger-pullers from the Green Beret commando units who have conducted some of the nation’s most dangerous and sensitive missions around the world, from the jungles of Vietnam to the back alleys …
Oct 04 2023
Adding on to Mr. Porretto’s post below
Joe Mannix at Ace of Spades is pleasantly surprised. So it is not surprising that McCarthy failed to uphold his agreement. The only surprising thing is that he was punished for it. Whatever comes next – and it probably won’t be some meaningful improvement – this action stands as one of the extremely rare examples …
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