Merry CHRISTmas

To each and every one of my readers.

Please, no matter what your religion, remember why this holiday exists.

For some, the birth of their savior, for others the end of one season and the beginning of another: Then end of the transfer to greater darkness, and the beginning of the transition to greater light.

And really, at one scale, there isn’t that much difference, is there?

Even a stopped clock….

So for years, my youngest brother (who doesn’t get much right, IMO) has been extolling the need for every car to have heated seats and a heated steering wheel.

Yeah, right, I says to myself, what kind pussified man who doesn’t live above the arctic circle need a heated seat and a heated steering wheel for, really? ….Especially on a TRUCK? (Note: My car has heated seats as part of the package, but I never use ’em….)

So my new Ram Laramie has heated seats and a heated steering wheel. And I never used either because (see above) I’m not that much of a wuss and it isn’t that cold.

Then the other day, I started the truck remotely, with the key fob, to let the engine warm up for a few. Unbeknownst to me, the default for the remote start includes the heated seats and the steering wheel heater to activate below 30 degrees F.

Kinda nice when one is cold.
I may have been wrong about this….
Or, it could be that I am just getting old and weak. 

So where does the UN get off?

Telling the US what they can and cannot recognize as a country, or it’s capitol, or where we can put our embassy?

Just who the hell do they think they are? (yes that was Rhetorical)….I know that they think they can run the US…but Barry is gone, so that ain’t the case no more….

I am pleased by Nikki Haley’s response. And I would LOVE to see the US cut Foreign Aid….. Pretty much everywhere, but especially (and first) to all those that think that they are entitled to an opinion as to how and where the US conducts it’s business.

Fuck ’em.

Reposting ’cause I think it is important that the women see this. They are the only ones that can stop it from crashing and burning.

This Sexual Harassment witch hunt is going to backfire on you ladies.
Badly.

I’m not talking the Matt Lauers or the H. Weinsteins (although Weinstein appears to have paid his debts to the women who used him for advancement with sex…they got movies and screen tests and such See also Uma Turman in “Kill Bill”), I‘m talking all the other “Mee Too” whines from women against every man they can find to complain about. Just so those women can feel like part of the victimhood club.

I guarantee that every man is evaluating this…Every single one.

The lesson he is learning today is that every single joke can have consequences, even 20 or 30 years down the line. Even if HE didn’t mean it in a naughty connotation, it is how the WOMAN perceives it that matters. No matter how innocent the remark, it is how she takes it that matters. Like “Coded Racism” even if you have to look for it, it is there. If she is looking for it.

If he mistakes interest from a woman, and asks her out to lunch to see where it might go, and he is wrong, it might come back to haunt him when he is successful later in life.

If she declines, but doesn’t say “no” (“I can’t today”) and he asks again a week or so later, then she might write it down and use it against him 15 or 20 years down the road. Especially if another woman suggests that she was “harassed” by him also.

And it is a fact that women are attracted to power and money and flirt with those men who have it. Even if they aren’t serious about it. And he will be required to know when she is and when she isn’t serious…. And if she is, and he isn’t interested, that can come back and haunt him too……’Cause “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.

So, the lesson being learned here is that women are unable to defend themselves (and aren’t strong enough to say “No”), but rather will fester resentment and hate for years. And when she gets the chance, she will do her best to drive a stake through his heart, especially if she can find a sister or two to help her .

And, the real lesson is that it is best to not to hire women, or interact with them in the workplace. Ever. So women, who are just starting to become part of higher level management and higher level engineering and such, mentored by men, will suffer. Because they won’t ever get a chance. Attorneys, managers, financiers, engineers, bankers, etc. They will not be let into the club, won’t ever interact with men (or will have fewer opportunities to network  and be mentored) and will, ultimately, be hurt because the women in the previous generation couldn’t say “no, I won’t go out with you”….or couldn’t say “if you ever touch me again, I will break your balls” or “I don’t find that joke funny, please be more considerate next time”….or who couldn’t go to the police when something worse happened…..Or just couldn’t deal with life and interactions with people, especially males, in the workplace. Because they were cowards and Fragile Flowers. ( Real Women know how to handle things and still be ladies and engender respect…not so these women)

So, ultimately, women in the next generation, who are just now entering the workplace, will have fewer chances to advance, grow, learn and gain skills.

***And it is happening. Men now refuse to work with women at gyms, Attorneys won’t meet with women without another woman as a witness. I will be willing to bet that there will be fewer hirings of women for internships and fewer lady clerks for judges. Fewer women will be hired for Engineering internships next summer (and the women already cry that there aren’t enough STEM positions for women). And there will be fewer opprotunities from this day forward.

So VP Pence was a Victorian and a fool because he won’t meet with a woman alone……

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And we’re back to “Women shouldn’t be let out without a keeper, either their fathers or another male family member” because they can’t defend themselves. Or even make decisions that they won’t regret later and use against the male….

“I am Woman, Hear me roar” my ass.

I think I’m getting there…..

So my IP pulls the throttle about midfield on the downwind. Says:

“Engine failure, hit the 1000 foot marker don’t land short, don’t land long”.

I make the trim, do the turn, line up final, trim, add flaps as I cross over the fence, and hit the marker in the first 20 feet ON Centerline…. greased it too. 

“Didn’t hit the center of the marker”.

“you didn’t say the center of the marker, dude…., you said “The marker”. I Hit The Marker”

2 weeks ago I’d have been lucky to hit the marker, and likely woulda been off center.

Aim small, miss small.

Not there yet, but improving.

Who knew?

Here, all along, I thought a Pedometer was for finding those terrible folks who like small children in a not so savory way…..