My stuff - Costco - Men

    I had an interesting encounter at the Costco the other day. I was wearing a "Civil War Generals" coat. At least that is what I call it. and I was wearing what I have come to understand is an Australian "Cowboy" style hat. This get up does get attention. I was stopped waiting for some traffic to clear and there was a young boy standing next to his father. He had the same look on his face that the kid in the movie Top Gun Maverick had at the dinner after Captain Mitchel has wrecked the Darkstar Hyper sonic jet. He said to his father "Dad its a Cowboy". I was flattered by that. It was fun. We exchanged smiles and went about our days. 

    There is much said about how men appreciate compliments. We don't get them that often. We are generally expected to suck up the terrors of the day and shrug off emotional experiences an annoyance. And carry on business as usual going on. Its a terrible thing. But it has worked for men for generations In memoriam. Suck it up get on the ship or plane and be ready to die for your country. Men are generally taught through societal pressures that we are only good if we are useful somehow at best and expendable at worst. That is just how things are. Now the mental health people are taking notice of the mentally ill among us. They are picking up on the idea that Trans people and women are at risk for mental health issues. Men are not included on this roster of at risk groups. There isn't even much lip service to the idea of men's mental health. When there is any talk about the men's loneliness epidemic most people laugh at best and say that it is what men deserve at worst. But when it really comes down to it Queer Nation takes front and center stage every time because they are well... off their nut.

    There is a Mother's day and a little lip service to Father's day. Mothers day is oh so much more important. Not too many fathers get much more than a card that reads "This is a day, this is a card". Not so much hoopla made about "Call your Father" as is the Hoopla made about Call your mother" and if for what ever reason you find yourself on TV the first thing out of your mouth is "Hi Mom". Your father teaches you to ride a bicycle and it "Look Ma, No hands". I am on an email list that sends me an email telling me what the day is. It is called the "Brighter side of the news". There is ALL Manner of days dedicated to all manner of goofy stuff. Talk like a pirate day, Guacamole day. Of course the typical stuff Mothers day, International Woman's day, there is Pride Month. There are days for Ice cream, for tacos, you name it there is probably a day for it. Secretaries day Bosses day. Years ago they tried unsuccessfully to institute Men's day. Dalmatian day and peanut butter day won out. Even though peanut butter can kill you or at the very least make you break out in hives. Everybody has an allergy these days. There was a goofy study about gluten intolerance done. A group of random people were all assembled for some reason or another and served lunch. All of these individuals ate the lunch with no issue. Until it was announced that the bread or something had gluten in it. People immediately started getting violently ill and shitting themselves uncontrollably. There was NO gluten in the building, Nothing, Nada, zip. But because they believed it their bodies manifested the symptoms.  

     [UPDATE: These are some of the days that beat out Men's Day for prominence.                                           

Today is National Homemade Soup Day. Enjoy a bowl of gazpacho and some good news today!  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZTCgLKBTplZvKqvZCHhqcQKdC

Today is National Sock Day. Grab a pair of mismatched or holiday socks and share some good news!  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/Brighter/FMfcgzQXKWjfhbRMXKPpGLJnGDVPcBjw

Today is National Happy Hour Day. Grab a beer with friends after work and share some good news.  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/Brighter/FMfcgzQXKDdHQHpbkfmvtRQzZVnqhqCR

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. Share some emphatically good news with others today!  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/Brighter/FMfcgzQXJkXsBTGvVPwcqlqqstnJFwQf

Today is National Fart Day. Enjoy a quiet release of tension and some good news today!  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZTChTLgNKNVmpRbdnMjPHJchP

 

    You see what I mean.]    But I digress.

    Real men aren't allowed to have emotions. Women always cry about how they want their man to share their feelings. Don't do it. Its a trap. If you expose your weakness you are done for and ditched. We are expected my 'Law' to remain stoic at all times. I think that is how my father was able to be on the first boat to hit the beach at Inchon Korea and make it back from the Chosin Reservoir. return to Korea one more time then visited Vietnam three times and go onto be a very successful private citizen with no Outward manifestation of any sort of PTSD. None that I am aware of. As per the usual he never talked about anything like that. Just once. He was close to death, emphysema, and he had chosen to be cremated. He said to me that I would know that they gave to me HIS cremains by the inclusion of three titanium screws that were holding his knee together. Those screws are two inches long and at least 1/4 inch in diameter. I thought I was a bad ass because through a series of unfortunate/stupid event I manage to acquire nearly 20 inches of scar tissue. I was Shocked and amazed on sunny summer in Phoenix Arizona where he was living he was wearing shorts at the time and I saw what had to be an eighteen inch scar on his right knee. He told me about that incident. Seems that was one of his Purple Heart medals. He seemed to become a bit animated about some of his war stories and battle scars. There were many. He had a deep fold on his left cheek. I thought it a natural fold. Turns out it was a huge deep scar that was the result of a grenade fragment. He told me of a time he was in command of a group of tanks. He was at the back of a tank calling in directions to the tank gunners. It seems that the gunner misunderstood the direction of the order by 180 degrees. So when the gunner fired the cannon the mussel flash and concussive shock wave happened all of his exposed skin was second degree burned and all of the expose hair gone in smoke he was deafened for three weeks. He was shipped off to the offshore hospital ship for that. When he could hear again it was back to the front. He told me about training to use briefcase sized nuclear weapons. He figured that by the time he told me that that technology had been declassified. He was one of the only enlisted men to raise to the rank of Captain. He told me a story of how he was 'One Shot' away from being awarded the prestigious Lauchheimer Award. basically the best of the best of the best shooting award. It seems that the guys figured out that alcohol slowed down your heart rate. And heart rate is a key factor in high precision shooting/snipping. So after each round they would head to the parking lot and have a shot. In the final round when it was the handgun round he was standing with the sidearm at the ready. When the range master announced "Ready on the line" over the loud speaker he twitched of a shot that narrowly missed his ankle. If that shot had been just about anywhere on the target he had enough points to win. But with out that shot he missed it by that much.

    Those are some of the humorous stories. The rest he kept bottled up very very tight and pushed that shit way, Way, WAY down. He might have pushed that shit right out of his own memory. You know how the memory can do things like that. 

    So anyway men are by and large considered expendable in society. If you serve no purpose in society there is no place for you in society. Of course there are those guys that can't keep that shit bottled up and it comes spilling out in the worst of ways. And the promise of the government to help the veterans is sadly, woefully, horribly insufficient to the task of helping many like Mr. Charles Whitman. The suicide rate among veterans is Astronomical. But that is the way it is and the way it has been and likely the way it will always be. Nobody will touch that, its too expensive. People whine and wale on about the military budget. But nobody gives a shit about the Abominable, Colossal waste it money that occurs on the floor of congress or in senate committee meetings, liars and obfuscations general lack of preparedness. I though I would like to see how the government works. It turns out that I don't. I found out. At first I was amazed sort of like seeing a plane crashing into a derailing train carrying nuclear waste, High explosives and nerve gas. You just cant take your eyes off of it. Then you see the same bad actors doing the same shit again and again and again. Under oath in front of a panel of Senators and they lie and dodge and put on tap dancing lessons that Fred Astaire would be amazed by. At first it was good youtube fodder but then you realize that lots of oxygen is wasted and NOT and Damn thing ever happens.    But I digress.

Woke Relations - Identity

    Woke relations: forcing your identity upon the public and pitching a fucking fit if that public has the unmitigated gall to reject your Self identifiedness. You strike out with words like intolerant, bigot and other unflattering terms. But what the woke community forgets in their rush to the fore front of society's attention and acceptance is that they are much less tolerant that those they would label intolerant of bigoted. There is NO place for alternative beliefs in their universe. A universe they are trying to bend to their will. And they have bullied their way into every nook and cranny of society. biden helped this along by bringing a trans person to the White House for some big gala or celebration of something or other. As I recall this trans person had her bits out on full display. A total disgrace. On the Whit House lawn. On TV. Being applauded for her bravery. I rather doubt that biden knew what was happening or why. Although he might have seen her tits and tried to move in for a sniff. Which is how I believe he coasted through the last 12 years in one office or another. President vice-president He really wont recall. Getting his memoir out of him will have to be a surgical thing. He doesn't recall what happened two weeks ago. Two Fucking Weeks. The Fucking President. OH Fuck two weeks... OOOOH  Fuck Two minutes ago on live on a debate stage. TV HOOO LEEE Shit!  Fuck I went looking for the two week goof and feel down a long deep dark rabbit hole of fuck ups and hot mic moments. Too deep dark and depressing to think about.

     In the Monty Python movie "The Meaning of Life" there is a scene where a woman is all stirruped up to deliver a baby. After the baby is rather unceremoniously delivered and cleaned up rather overly vigorously because after all this is medicine by the minute medical attention. The mother has the unmitigated gall to ask if her baby is a boy or a girl. The doctor says to her "Its rather early to be imposing rolls on it". And proceeds to prescribe a regimen of "Happy Pills" on his way out. Leaving her still all stirruped and alone.    

    Can the rest of society have opinions that disagree with yours? OH hell NO that is un-woke. But I saw a youtube video of the fuckwits of the TV show "the view"where in either Sunny Hostin or woopie goldfarb are lamenting the loss of ownership of the word or term or what ever the fuck woke is. Telling the audience that true wokeness is for the bringing to the fore front of society's attention matters of the Black Community. Not as it has been appropriated by the trans and gay and the rest of the letter cob salad of the lgbtqrstuvwxyz assholes. Oh wait the Cobb salad has meat in it... Cant have a salad with meat in it. What would the vegans say? Nothing worth listening... And they are offended by this Cultural Appropriation. This theft of the weapon of the Black culture. The weapon that they use to bludgeon the totality of the white race with.

    I just discovered this amazingly bitingly witty comedian Leonarda Jonie. HOOOO LEEEE Shit She is the very definition of off the Chain. NOTHING and NOBODY is safe NObody.

  

Society - Pregnancy

    The "Miracle" of life.

    I must be a jaded old fuck but the idea of women "Creating" life is a horrible misplacement of the Miraculousness of life. In the human condition pregnancy is a parasitic infection. I don't know what the statistics of wanted vs unwanted pregnancies is. A woman doesn't really have much control of what happens after the parasitic infection takes hold. There are shit tonne of demonstrations with women screeching loudly about my body my choice. A woman can't decide to exercise her "Choice" to not be pregnant once she is pregnant. That requires some level of medical assistance.

    This choice that they are banging on about is just ONE of all the choices involved with this particular parasitic infection. The Nuclear option/choice; Abortion. But these women ALSO have the Choice to be more selective about her sexual activity, she has the choice to use the plethora of parasitic infection prevention options. The Pill, condoms, diaphragm, blah blah blah. The list in extensive. And every one of the options has its inherent risks from efficacy to convenience to ick factor. The pill is generally the most simple least icky option. BUT it is a Hormone driven option and as such a fairly risky option health wise as we are suddenly learning. The old standby the condom is a bit on the icky side and doesn't have but something like a 90% efficacy. It does require a stop and apply period of time. The Diaphragm has a bit better efficacy but is WAY high on the ICK factor and requires a a lot  more forethought. Which brings us back to the choice to be a bit more selective with your sexual activity. In the past Girls, young women and adult woman have been the gating factor for sexual activity. Sex and the threat of parasitic infection are much more pertinent to a woman and much more of a threat to her health and well being. But with the a fore mentioned Pill the gates were, for all intents and purposes, thrown wide open. Relegating the condoms and the diaphragms and sponges and and and... to second tier options. It does strike me that the women in these marches and demonstrations are at a much lower risk of this parasitic infection than those without blue and purple hair shaved clean on one side of their head, missing one eyebrow or the other with enough hardware in their faces alone to set off an airport metal detector, boasting the LOUDEST and most Shrill of the voices of the group.

    But a woman does nothing but host this parasite for nine months and when the time comes her body without her choice of time or location expels the parasite in a process called birth. In general this is a Horrifically painful process that can in some extreme instances last for days. And always has all manner of inherent risks associated with it. The list of these risks is two blocks long so I will not be listing them here.

    Because some women are excited by this process they may take 'prenatal' vitamins and involve herself in all manner of activities intended to help this parasite develop in a more positive manner. Vitamins for health, playing Mozart through headphones over her belly to calm, sooth and theoretically improve the parasite's cognition. There loads of different birthing methods. Natural (no drugs  of any kind) partial natural (epidural drugs) C section the list goes on. In general the birthing process goes smoothly. But as it turns out America is way down the list of infant mortality. Which is bad. And unexpected to me anyway.

    After the birthing process starts another plethora of activities involved with the care and upkeep with the birthed parasite. The first thing is the feeding of the new born. Breast feeding has long been regarded as the very best option. Like any parasitic infection this infection causes many changes to occur in the woman's body. Again with out her choosing to allow or disallow these changes. They just happen to her not by her. Breast enlargement, nipple color changes goofy food cravings both before birth and after. 

    And don't get me started on the process that is typically involved with becoming the host of this little parasitic infection. Used to be there weren't that many options for this sort of thing. Now... Wow!

 

 

Society - Sex - Media

     I had a thought this morning. 

    I recently saw a youtube showing a great (great fat guy meaning BIG Fat guy) fat guy with no shirt on. He had rather large, for lack of a better word, breasts. Bigger than many possessed by women. Now His (I lean heavily on HIS for a reason) breasts were not at all attractive in the way a womanly breast might be. But they were easily a D cup if not larger. And they were hair covered. But they were breasts none the less complete with nipples.

    Having said that, I saw a TV show some years ago called "Botched" where in a woman undergone some version of mastectomy for some reason. In this segment of the episode this woman was there on the show for breast reconstruction work. The Botched Guys had done a spectacular job re-manufacturing her some new breasts. All shapely and round. Some might say Award winning breasts. I did. I imagine that the Botched Guys had used the silicone/saline breast insert method. There are so many methods for the mastectomy reconstruction work any more. So the point of this bit is that they showed her bare chest complete with full lovely breasts Sans nipples. The Botched Guys were in the room with the woman examining their handy work. The woman was all the way over joyed by the results. I think there were even tears. The were discussing the next step in the process, Nipple reconstruction. Since this was no regular 'boob job' there there were no actual nipples at hand to put into place. Her now lovely re-manufactured breasts just needed to be topped of with nipples. As I recall they opted to do some light suture work to create a simulated erect nipple then they had a nipple tattoo specialist come in and consult with the Botched Guys and the woman to get an idea of the size, shape, color, location and all that is involved with nipples, They all handled her breasts had her lie down to see where the nipples would be when she was lying down and standing up all that sort of thing. Things I might add most women don't get to choose with their own nipples. So they all finished up made their markings and got on with the next phase of the job. This is where the cut away for a commercial break. Upon the return to the show it was some weeks later the sutures were all out and the tattoos were complete. This time however when the cameras showed the woman's breasts they were for modesty and FCC required blurred out. And not just the nipples. It seems when you out-fit a breast with a nipple it renders the entire breast unfit for public consumption. I thought that was an interesting turn of events. Maybe it was the damned old FCC or maybe it was the woman. The rest of poor slobs will never know. "Is it natural or is it "Clairol" only her hair dresser knows for sure as the tag-line used to go.

    So it seems that the gating factor for showing breasts on the TV is Female nipples. Female nipples real or aftermarket it doesn't seem to matter. Nipples on a woman's body are out as far as public consumption is concerned. Big fat hairy breasts with nipples on a man no issue. I do wish that there was a rule about that though.

    Strippers with pasties and big X's of tape are ok. Women with body pain covering her nipples is ok. There are you-tubes of women fully nude and fully body painted going about in public. There was even a video of a woman fully nude fully body painted with gym attire looking paint. The rest of the gym goers caught on pretty quick because there was a camera guy following her about filming the entire thing. I imagine that the point of this video was to catch the public reaction and to grab up lots of clicks and likes. I think that is the point with most youtube videos any more. But the gym goers alerted the management to the spectacle and tried to have her removed. There was a bit of a kerfuffle, there words exchanged, there were laws cited, the cops were called, she was ejected. Probably to the tune of several million clicks, shit tonne of likes and much commentary. Again just what every youtube video loves. There was a case in Georgia I think where a strip club featured women on stage with clear body paint that was cited for too much nudity for the zoning of the establishment. I don't recall the disposition of that case and I don't much care.

    This isn't a remarkable bit of news to anybody I don't guess. But it does beg the question what about this new crop of self identifying women. Men that self identify or pretend to be women. Or the women who self identify or pretend to be men. How will the FCC deal with this conundrum? 

    I imagine that there is a case simmering somewhere, probably in San Francisco or LA California or New York City just waiting to boil over, waiting to adjudicate this very question. This will be a very interesting case indeed. I hope it makes it to Thee Supreme Court. If biden were still in office I am more that certain that the case would fall down on the side of trans men or is it women, I will never get this straight, (women who insist that they are men) and allow women who self-identifying as men to go around topless in public. They already allow men that self-identify as women to use the woman's restrooms and locker rooms so why stop there? This isn't a giant leap. I wonder if there would be some cup size limitation on the going around topless in public of women. Where do you draw that line? B cup, C cup, G cup? Will there be some sort of length and weight restriction? What about women who want to keep their breasts and want to go about topless can they sign up for a nipple-ectomy to get  passed the laws?

    I say that if biden were still in office. But he isn't. I hear that there is a New Sheriff in town.

    In days gone by I would have been a champion for the law to accommodate women who self-identify as men (who ever that translates word wise with the trans thing) to go about topless. I can just see it. Women with their breasts out on a construction site. Who is going to be whistling at who? (or is that whom) But then there are the poor unfortunate women with the less attractive breasts. As 'men' will they opt to keep their shirts on?  I know in London whistling at a woman, fully dressed, is illegal. Punishable by a fine and some time behind bars.

        Its a brave new world out there. There are so many issues to grapple with when you open up This Particular Pandora's Box.

Government - Media

    Some years ago during an election cycle the media dipped it first toe into the dealings of the government, and thus was born an unholy alliance. Red became blue and Blue became red with the stroke of a pen.

    You see at the time the color red was associated with the Red Menace. The Commies. Maps showing the advancement of the Commies were always drawn with dripping blood Red arrows sweeping down from the north. Infiltrating the peaceful countries of southeast Asia. 

    Some young creative desk jockey artist got it in his head that the color Red was a bad association and he must have been a Democrat because at that time the colors that represented the Democratic party was Red. He must have seen this an affront to his artistic and political sensibilities. So during the election cycle he switched the color scheme of the Democratic party Blue for Red. Thus associating his arch enemy the Republicans with the Commie Red in a news report and the new color scheme stuck and thus Red became Blue and Blue became Red.

    I believed that this color swap happened probably under the watchful eye of the likes of Walter Cronkite or possibly Chet Huntley. But it seems that it was John Chancellor. Maybe.

    Who knows and by now who cares. Its not going to be changed back now.