First thing I would like to say in this post is to all the go green assholes that protest when someone decides to mine something or chain themselves to trees to stop loggers what I have to say is this FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK You! I.m going to have to prove this to most of you and guess what the ol’Warcorpse will do just that.

Recycling with the exception of cans recycling is more costly and guess what coughs up more industriale smoke and pollutants in the air than does just land filling it and starting fresh. Like I said the exception is cans where it’s actually cheaper to recycle aluminum than it is to make new. But the fact that it’s metal gives it a great advantage over it’s paper and plastic counterparts.

On to paper. Does anyone here know how paper is recycled. Well I’ll tell you first after it’s picked up at your house by a second large truck separate from the garbage truck it’s taking to a processing facility sometimes hundreds of miles away. Where it’s boiled and bleached to get the ink off and make pulp. Now the ink runs off and forms this sort of putrid black goo and who the hell knows what to do with that. The pulp is shipped again to paper making facility another big trip on a big truck. where its made into new paper and shipped to your store on yet another big truck.

Doesn’t it just seem easier to turn trees into paper. Now your going to say that well we have to conserve our beloved trees. TREES ARE PLANTS!!! All of the new virgin pulp coming from trees are and were grown on TREE FARMS!!! Trees are a renewable resource we plant the seed we grow a tree. So recycled paper 4 trips on trucks and 2 processing and manufacturing plants New paper from trees 2 trips on trucks 1 manufacturing plants.

Land filling Do you know how large a landfill would need to be to handle the entire US population for the next 1000 years? That’s right from now until November 16 3009? 35miles by 35 miles that’s it. Now it sounds like a lot but it’s a tiny dot when you look at the whole United States. Plus land filling is really a clean processes I don’t have time in this post to tell you the whole process but it’s not just putting garbage in big piles. Now the green people’s last argument is well land filling creates methane gas. Well yes it does but the landfills use that gas to power at times upwards of sixty thousand homes.

So the landfills are doing more to help the environment than any of recycling plants out there. Now before I go I’d like to say one last thing. In a earlier post on here I said that recycling paper was in fact cheaper than making new paper. Well I was wrong and didn’t do any research except what I found at the surface. I guess my point is believe almost nothing your told and for god’s sake make sure you do your research before you come to a conclusion.

Warcorpse

OK, something has been bothering me. I’ve seen it all over the news here in Philly, and from a bunch of my FaceBook friends. It ticks me off, and I need to vent.

Lately, it seems the ability to spell certain words has gone by the wayside. Now, I’m not saying it’s an indictment of the current public school system, ‘cause that’s far too easy of a target. There has been a very conscious effort on the part of the media to deliberately misspell words. And I declare it’s time to stop.

I don’t know why I’m such a stickler for spelling. Maybe it’s because I fancy myself a writer. Maybe it’s because any motard can use SpellCheck. Maybe it’s because the one word I seem to misspell the most is ,ironically enough, ‘learn’. Maybe it’s because I was the 6^th grade spelling champ. (Yea, take that, Timmy Craig. What gas station are you working at now? And are they hiring?) It’s making my city look bad, and it needs to stop.

It’s spelled ‘fever’. There is no ph.

It’s spelled ‘fun’. There is no ph.

It’s spelled ‘fucking’. There is no ph.

It’s spelled ‘fanatic’. There is no ph. Unless you are talking about the Phille Phanatic. OK, I’ll give you that one. He’s my favorite player. Ooh, there’s another one.

It’s spelled ‘favorite’. There is no ph.

It’s spelled ‘fan’. There is no ph.

It’s spelled ‘finally’. There is no ph.

I think you get my point. When I turn on the news, and see a glaring headline like “Phillies Phever”, I can’t help but feel like a motard. Enouph is enouph. Using ’ph’ makes you look like you are a 8 year old girl with a crush. Are the ‘i’s in Phillies dotted with little pink hearts? I can’t help but cringe when I see men, grown men, with wives and kids and jobs spelling ‘fan’ as ‘phan’. Honestly put, the behavior is rather ‘phay’. Besides, that poor guy who works down at the China Garden is getting all paranoid because everyone else is wearing his name on their shirts. My wall on FB is littered with such atrocities. (And, yes, I sound phay bitching about my FB wall.)

Look, I am not actively rooting against the Phils. I actually hope they win. I think it would be great for the city, great for the fans and great for morale. Plus, I absolutely love watching sports fans doing stupid things when their team wins the championship. Fighting, rowdiness, drunken mayhem, general destruction. I’m not ragging on Philly here, it happens in every town. I just don’t know whose fans are more obnoxious; Philly’s or New York’s. Yea, I’ll pull for the Phils here. But it won’t be enough tonight to take me away from my usual Wednesday night routine of Ghost Hunters, The Ultimate Fighter, then crawling up into a ball and crying myself to sleep. But I might tune in between commercials.

Call me crazy but I think $1.43 trillion is a lot of money and that is exactly the amount the federal deficit has reached. I have a tough time imagining a couple of thousand dollars, much less a number with twelve zeros in it. Just think nine years ago, then President Clinton left office with a budget surplus but it only took King Bush less than a year to wipe that out and start adding the red. Now we have a crazy African-American who just keep adding to it while paying off his campaign promises, needless to say, the American voter isn’t on that IOU list. First he bailed out AIG, then other insurance companies, then the banks and finally the auto makers while flipping Americans the bird and lying through his white teeth.

Now he wants to reward the health insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies, all noble ideas, if his proposed programs benefited the American public, which it won’t. I just don’t cotton to the idea that we’ll be giving free medical services to undocumented workers (read that as illegal immigrants). Talk about opening the flood gates, that alone will do it. Under his proposed program, each American family would be required to purchase health insurance or face a hefty fine at tax time. Now how fair is that? Of course our elected representatives would be immune from this requirement, as we’re already paying for their excellent coverage. I don’t know about anyone else but I can’t afford health insurance, I’m living on a fixed income and supporting my daughter and her two kids as it is, she’s been out of work for a year the job prospects don’t look good. That doesn’t leave any money left for such luxuries as health insurance.

There are so many government mandated “must haves” that littler money is left. The state of Colorado mandates car insurance, a law that the insurance companies jumped on like a frog on a June bug. Jack the prices out of sight because the average driver can’t complain. Look closely at your utility bill (gas, electric, phone, internet, etc) and count up all the little charges that’s tacked on. They add up in a hurry. To date, our local utility company, Xcel Energy, has shut off power to more than 38,000 customers for non-payment and winter is coming on. I under stand that its even worse in the mid-northern states. Do they care? you bet they don’t.

So, yes, I’m going crazy trying to keep my head above water, to survive from one week to the next, scratching my head bald figuring out where the money is going to come from. As so many people have done so far, I’m thinking about just ending it all and let the state bury me. Serves them right.

Colorado has a “Make My Day” law. In a nut shell, it simply means that you won’t be prosecuted for defending your home, your family or your life with deadly force. It doesn’t mean that you can chase the suspect down in the street and kill him, as one homeowner did. It does mean that if someone breaks into your home with the intent to do you and your family bodily harm and rob you, the homeowner can use deadly force. In other words, blow them out of their socks. While I would prefer to cause them great bodily harm, I would not hesitate to open up with my shotgun at close range. This has two advantages; 1) it is a final solution to a home robbery and 2) the suspect can’t come back and sue for damages (that’s been done on numerous occasions).

While Colorado doesn’t have the shootouts in the streets like some Texas border towns do, we do have our share of home invasions by scumbags looking for easy pickings. I realize that the police can’t be everywhere at all times (they get there after the fact most times), it is realistic that the homeowner be prepared to protect themselves against any eventuality. I have my shotgun handy but I also have my walking stick, a six foot length of Aspen, hard as a rock and can break an arm or bust a head in one easy swing. To quote an old saying, “I’d rather be judged by twelve of my peers than be carried by six of my friends.”

The bad guys of today are getting younger and younger, knowing they can’t be tried as an adult and most likely, at the most, be sentenced to a juvenile detention center until they are twenty-one, will be released and out on the streets to continue their life of crime, often with an advanced degree in crime. Whenever I move into a new place, I always make sure that the neighbors know that I’m armed and will use my firearms; I’ve seldom had trouble from the local hoods. If I’m forced to use deadly force, I won’t apologize for doing so, I won’t feel sorry that someone is dead and I won’t apologize to his family for the loss of their child. They raised him, saw where he was heading and did nothing to turn him around. Some will see that attitude as callus and uncaring. Far from it, I care but my family comes first. If the cops can’t handle the crime rate, it is up to the individual to be prepared to do so and just call them to haul away the trash.

On a national scale, the crime rate has increased, in spite of what the Justice Department says, and more and more homeowners are being caught in the middle. We’ve been told to just call the police and let them handle it but while you’re on the phone, they’re breaking in and terrorizing your family. I have a shotgun and they have automatic weapons, like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Very unequal, unless the shotgun is loaded with turkey loads. That’s nine pieces of lead the size of a small ball bearing going out at over 1,000 ft per second. Now that can do some serious damage and discourage any intruder because they want to rob, not be killed.

We don’t live in the Old West any longer, we’re supposed to be a civilized nation of laws but the only law to date that makes any sense is the Make My Day law. More and more gun laws are passed each day and not one does any good because the criminals ignore them and they just take away yet another right of the law abiding citizen. I, for one, will not live scared in my home behind locked doors and shuttered windows. I will not be made to live in fear of venturing outside and enjoying life. And I refuse to relie on someone who won’t be there in my time of need to protect me and my family, I’ll do it myself and explain later.

Why am I ranting about this subject? because crime is hitting closer and closer to home. A new neighbor just moved in next door and while they were gone, someone broke in and stole a couple of TVs and a laptop computer (I could have told them it was unsafe to live here but they didn’t ask). I don’t believe that I could live anywhere that is completely safe and no one in their right mind would think so either. All one can do is make their home as safe as possible and refuse to live in fear. To that end, I keep my shotgun handy and loaded.

A “winter lawn” they call it; that means it looks lush and green in the winter.  In the summer, my lawn looks like a desert.  It doesn’t grow, so there’s no mowing to be done, but even watering the requisite 2x a week doesn’t help.  Might as well not water at all because it is brown, spotty with dirt patches where the weeds died away, and overall it looks like crap. 

The Orange County Water Department has decreed that residents can only water 2 x a week and there can be no overspray onto sidewalks, and all hoses must have a control nozzle.  I’ve spent $30 in sprinkler caps and control nozzles but this still won’t help our grass grow.  I give up.

About a year ago, I fell in love with the idea that rocks– huge, landscaping rocks and round, river-bed style rocks– would save our lawn by redecorating it.  So a couple of months ago, I took on the project.  I think I am a genius; my husband is skeptical.  I had a few mishaps attempting to get five 300 lb rocks delivered to our house by local gardeners, but in the end it got done.  I even moved the rocks into pre-dug holes with a shovel.  Have you ever moved a 300 lb rock with only a shovel?  I hadn’t before, but it feels awesome to have done it myself. 

 So, let it be said that I am creating — single-handedly– a dry river bed from our driveway upward toward the front of the house with salvaged rocks (thanks to my brother and sister-in-law, Craigslist, and public land sources) and drought tolerant plants.  What used to be a dry, ugly front lawn space is turning into a summer dry-rock bed I am proud of.  And, had I hired a landscaper to do this for me, I could be spending a thousand dollars by the time our lawn is finished!

Next step: looking for a bridge to go over the rock bed.

Yes a man who was light years ahead of his time penned this opening to one of the MOST influential documents ever written in history.

Sadly, today this means nothing to the elected officials governing our once great country. No it didn’t start sliding downhill when the Novelty Obama-nation uttered the statement, “We live in the greatest country in the world; help me change it, but that non hacker sure as fuck hasn’t HELPED things out a whole lot has he?

Motherfuckers (and father fuckers for you ladies who feel left out when I say it) Are lining up to defend this shitbird with statements like “No one can expect him to deliver on all of his campaign promises”. Then WHY the FUCK was he elected by a majority vote? If it doen’t matter what they say, why aren’t we picking a President’s name out of a fucking Fez? (Yeah a turban would just be a freaking hand towel with a bunch of clumps of paper inside it wouldn’t it?)

I’m getting off track here. HEALTH CARE for ALL should be FOR all not just one for us and one for them. I’f I’m having their shit crammed down my throat then at least tell me that they are getting the same lack of condiments that I am. REGULATIONS and REFORM are what the current System needs and not a Socialist, Eastern Block replacement for it.

While we’re at it, lets think about this. Nancy Pelosi and the fucking DNC is all over this shit about Leveling out the WEALTH of the nation. Lets call this what it REALLY is. They want You and I to be in the poorest 85% of the nation so THEY can be in the RICHEST 15% (if they will allow that many people to be as “privileged” as they are for being good enough to get you fucking moronic, mouth breathing masses to vote them into office.

“From Each According to His Abilities and To Each According to His Needs” is the mantra that these fuckaholics are chanting and the Public is chewing that up like it is a NEW concept. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov brought forth REFORM via these means in a little place that used to be called Russia with these EXACT words.

The FIRST thing that these radicals who wish to infringe upon OUR Inalienable Rights do is to take away the guns of the people that they wish to enslave.

Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

This was written by men who had to shed blood to have the right to protect themselves from all enemies Foreign AND Domestic.

Hitler immediately took away every gun from the Jews and I hope you fucking idiots do remember what happened to them during his rise to power. NOW the Democrats have sought to take guns out of the hands of the people for many years and they always come back to the same thing. They SAY it is for OUR own good so that “Criminals” cannot get their hands on guns to harm us. WAKE THE FUCK UP. They are the criminals that wish to enslave YOU and make you work so that you get just enough to get by and they get MORE than they can possibly expect their grandchildren to be able to spend. if GUNS are so BAD, why are these people all Guarded by agents who have them?

AGAIN… WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE! Our society is being dumbed down by the lack of a true Education System. Our Wages and Income are being attacked, we are being led like lambs to the slaughter and the apathy and brainwashing that our leaders MUST be right just because they hold that position is sickening.

We are soon going to need a Revolution to get the Government out of our wallets, schools, and privacy of our own bedrooms because the MASSES can no longer think for themselves or ask the simple questions and react to the answers that are given to them rather than just going with the flow.

I can no longer sit idly by and watch the destruction of the greatest nation in the world. Who has the guts to speak out with me?

It’s been a while since I’ve been here to spread my insights of great ponderence, but this made me take pause and write.  So, a potentially racist situation goes down that results in a man’s arrest and Barack Obama immediately comes to the defense of his friend…Yale Professor of African Studies, Henry Louis Gates in the midst of the frey.

It has been an unnecessary crap storm if you will, that Obama has backed himself into regarding this incident having not been availed of the proper facts.  I’ve heard it said that there were mostly egos involved that got out of hand.  It is more a case of ONE ego, that of Professor Gates.  As the police reports have stated, Gates became belligerent the moment the white officer (there was also a black and Hispanic officer on the scene, as well) began asking routine questions that one would ask on a B&E (breaking and entering) call (i.e. Is there anyone else in the house? May we look around?, etc.).  These are all standard procedure for a call of this nature.  However, the YALE professor felt it beneath him to be questioned in any manner regarding suspicion of any kind. The “educated” and I believe correct response would have been…”Thank you for coming to my home when called in regard to something this serious. Certainly, you may check around. I’m happy to do whatever I can to help rectify any misunderstanding by the neighbor as well as the police department. In fact, I probably should thank the neighbor for his conscientiousness, as well.”

Instead, he was most likely irritable when the officers arrived, having been absent minded enough to lock himself out of his home. That disgruntled attitude (coupled with a predisposition toward racism as an African Studies Prof.) then manifest itself in the form of indignant arrogance toward an innocent officer who was simply trying to do his job.  In order for this to be even remotely considered racial profiling, Gates would have to have been randomly stopped.  This was a B&E call, plain and simple.  When the officer asked for Gates’ ID, he went ballistic prior to complying with the officer’s request. Then the officer was satisfied and began to leave with the other officers and Gates continued to berate and malign the officer all the way to the front door with racial epithets. The officer warned him to let it go and asked him to stand down.  Gates refused and the officer took out his cuffs and warned him a last time.  Gates, was relentless and as a result was arrested.  The only reason that the charges were dropped, in my opinion, is because not only was race introduced (by Gates) but also, because he is a high profile individual. It’s bad press for the department any way you look at it and the higher ups don’t need Obama’s camp looking down at their fair city.  They had no choice, even though it would have been a simple misdemeanor.

Adding insult to injury, Obama proceeded to call the officer “stupid” without having read even so much as a newsclipping on the incident.  The educated and proper response here, in my opinion, should have been…”I have not read the police report on the incident so, I won’t speculate and will reserve my comments until such time.”  His arrogance wouldn’t let him do that.  Instead, he chose to get out ahead of the situation and make it about defense of a friend over defense of the facts.

In closing, what this said to me is that both Gates and his buddy Barack arrogantly overstated their cases.  It continues to be revealed that Obama has some pretty outspoken friends (Rev. Wright, communist party devotees, etc.).  Being outspoken is not a bad thing in and of itself, mind you.  However, the destructive words of an outspoken person who is not intent on speaking words that teach, heal or inform for the progression and edification of the whole over self…is quite dangerous.  This further indicates to me that birds of a feather flock together. These “friends” of Obama’s that continue to pop up can only cause one to think…Who is the real man beneath the spit and polished President?  Is there an outspoken radical buried someplace deep down in there who thinks that every irresponsible, harsh and divisive situation can be excused and brushed off by simply sitting down and sharing a beer together?  Great idea, until the beer starts talking…then what?  Seriously, though, Obama and other educated black men such as himself have a huge responsibility to speak intelligently to such issues as racism…not perpetuate its destructiveness themsevles by viewing every given incident from a racially-motivate point of view absent of the facts.      

That’s my take.

Benman out!

I’m disgusted. What’s more depressing than the economy? What’s more of a bummer than all the people losing their jobs, their homes, their hope, their fucking everything?

I’ll tell you what. Walking down to Stillwater’s infamous FORMERLY FREE Lumberjack Days celebration and seeing it barred shut. Getting a load of the massive quantities of youngsters, huddled in huge groups, loitering, bored, and bummed on every curb just OUTSIDE the chainlink fences and gates barring them from the formerly FREE TO ALL Lumberjack Days celebration. I can’t think of too many teenagers that are going to fork over $10 so that they can then fork over another $5-$6 on the hotdog they were planning on scoring while watching a few interesting acts onstage and looking for familiar faces in the fun, festive, normally packed, sometimes weird, always entertaining crowd.

Teenagers weren’t the only people turning away from the ridiculously prison-like barrage of chain-linkfencing. In case you hadn’t picked up on it, for the first time, they’re charging a $10 cover to get inside what was before, a down-home, local, fun, free, old-fashioned small town annual celebration.

Yeah so it got out of hand when Lynard Skynard played a few years back. Whatever. Bad planning.

Hell, I won’t even pay $10 to get into the State Fair and that’s pretty big-time.

All I have to say is (edit this): City of Stillwater, you just fucked all your Lumberjack Days Vendors in the ASS. Way to stick it to the little guy trying to make a buck.

Major fucking Bummer. Guess I’ll go take my usual hike in a state park - the fee for that is only $25 a YEAR (not counting the $105 fine I had to pay for forgetting to update my annual pass in time.)

What a fucking money grubbing pathetic world we live in. I’m disgusted and ashamed Stillwater. Fucking disgusted. Take your infamous celebration and shove it up your money-grubbing touristy ass.

I swear, sometimes in my life I can hear those old Budweiser type commercials. For example, before 8:30 AM this morning, I heard this going through my head; “Here’s to you, Mr. Early Weekend Morning Lawn Cutter Guy.” Really? At 8 fricking thirty, someone feels compelled to cut their lawn now?

                Now I don’t know about you, but wherever I’ve lived, I’ve always somehow known the rule is to not make much noise before 10 AM. Don’t ask me why I know this, it’s certainly not like some welcoming committee dropped by and told me so. It’s just something that’s always been somehow known. I am sure our town forefathers put something in the town charter like “No racket shall thusly be made previous to the hour of ten on any given weekend morning.”  So no cutting of the lawn, no kids boinging on trampolines, no blaring of the radios, etc.

                So it always pisses me off when people cut their lawn so fricking early in the GD morning. There I am, lying in my slumber on what will surely be a lovely 4^th of July Saturday. The sun is out, the birds are chirping. We weren’t even out all that late-or got all that drunk-last night. Ah, all is well. A cool, comfortable summer morning to just lull about.

                Then I hear it. Someone is starting their fucking lawnmower. Seriously, you have got to be kidding me, it’s not even 8:30. I get out of bed to see who has committed this most heinous of fouls. Of course, it’s my next door neighbor. Damn, I don’t ever recall him doing this, so why now? I live in a fairly age-diverse neighborhood. An elderly couple might live right next door to a young family. There are just all kinds of reasons to not be waking everyone up so you can have your lawn freshly cut before fucking 9. I have half a mind to let the dog out so he can bark at Mr. Early Morning Lawn Cutter guy.

                Now I’m up and in a pissy mood. Why can’t people just fucking think for a second? I am sure Mr. EMLCG wouldn’t appreciate me waking him up on a weekend morning cutting my grass. No, I always make sure to make my noise after 10. So I guess I can’t go over there to yell for another half hour…

Yet another pearl of wisdom from the Obama Nation:

He proposed a plan to save the US Taxpayer 540 million dollars a year by making our Enlisted Men and Women carry PRIVATE health coverage! Then the dumb fuck is surprised that the outcry from Vets and people who actually LOVE this country and respect those who put their lives on the line so that we have the RIGHT to bitch about him being a fucking Douchebag.

I mean its a Voluntary Force after all, Right Barry? I know, Lets see if they can pony up for their own Tanks and Ammunition while you embrace the motherfuckers who want to see Americans burning in Hell?

Am I the ONLY person in the country that is ALREADY fed up with this Arabic Alfred E Newman knock off running a cheap Flea Market Circus in the White House?