OMMM! OMMMMM!

It's almost like living in a looney bin these days.  While they control both Houses of Congress and the White House, the Republicans are busily going about convincing America that they are as useless as teats on a a boar hog.  For seven years now, they've been chanting "We're gonna repeal and replace ObamaCare."  It kind of reminds one of a long line of monks in a jungle full of baboons chanting the same hums over and over again, "Ommmm.  We will repeal and replace ObamaCare!  Ommm!  Ommmmmmmm!"  They design a worthless piece of legislation, it fails to pass,  they come to the microphones and chant, "Ommmm.  We will repeal and replace ObamaCare!  Ommm!  Ommmmmmmm!" 

And the Democrats smile so... so demurely, nod their heads and flip their birdies.  

Followed by the Republican cretins, who predictably point fingers at each other, make excuses, stare blankly at the ceilings, sit on their thumbs and chant, "Ommmm.  We will repeal and replace ObamaCare!  Ommm!  Ommmmmmmm!"  

In between these endless chants, they make other wild gestures and crazy promises.  They're going to investigate James Comey.  They're going to depose Susan Rice.  They're going to demand another special prosecutor.  They're going to revise the tax system.  They're going to raise the debt limits.  They're going to pass the best budget ever invented in the history of mankind.  They're going to fix immigration.

And, they're going to do all of these magnificent and glorious things before Easter!  Ah, well, before the 4th of July.  Before they take a summer recess, by damn!  End of September?  Before the snow flies?  Their track record is already so putrid that it smells worse than a Schmucker Fart in a whirlwind.

That whole damned Capitol, all of the way up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, isn't worth the powder it would take to blow them all of the way back to Oz.   "Ommmm.  Ommm!  Ommmmmmmm!"

REMEMBER WHEN?

There was a day when any organized professional sport in this country required that its players conduct themselves in a manner which would reflect favorably on the team.  You didn't get busted for drugs, you didn't beat up your girlfriend... hell, you'd get fired for getting a DUI or even a speeding ticket!  These days, I don't think you could get fired for throwing a game in order to win some sports book money, so you have to really wonder how many games ARE fixed.

Roger Goodell has made it clear that  American patriotism is not one of the requirements for being on an NFL team.  He couldn't care less about how many times a player gets arrested on a rape charge as long as he beings money to the bottom line.  We used to look up at sports players; now we look down on them because they are on their knees during our National Anthem.  As far as I am concerned, any network that shows an NFL game and any "fan" who attends one or watches it on TV is just as as guilty as the player who disrespects our country.  If they dislike America all that much, why don't they just take their whole damned league to far western California where they will be much more welcomed?

Speaking of way back when, remember the good old days when everybody believed in our country, when we all supported our president even if we didn't vote for him, when no law told you who you had to go to the bathroom with, when it was legal to shoot a hungry bear that was trying to break down your door, when you didn't have to change your clocks twice a year in order to please some jackass in Washington, or when a youngster could sell a glass of lemonade without a business license?  Well, you'll certainly enjoy Heritage Day at the Park, an annual event at McArthur- Burney Falls Park that's free to the public on Sunday, October the 8th.  No politicians are scheduled to be there, so you won't need to bring your guns.

Anthony Wiener, the pervert who just happened to have many of the nation's top secrets on the laptop he shared with Huma Abedin, just got sentenced to 21 months in jail.  Oh... and he has to give up his I-Phone. Will SOMEONE please let me off this planet?  I remember the days when the bastard would have been sentenced to life in Des Moines. 

And, getting back to the opening of this post... Alejandro Villanueva is the Pittsburgh player who had the good old American courage to defy the rest of his team members who hid out in the locker room during the rendition of the National Anthem last Sunday.  Villanueva is a West Point graduate who served his country with honor and dignity, and who stood by his country in the face of adversity.  Team Coach Mike Tomlin, however, is madder than hell that Villanueva put his American patriotism before his team.  And that tells me everything I needed to know about the NFL.  Piss on them;  I'm not planning to watch the Super Bowel. 

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." ~ Oscar Wilde  

THE RESURRECTION

The Burney Mountain Hermit is coming back to life, albeit halfway.  Instead of posting six days a week, it'll only be three, being Monday, Wednesday and Friday.   So, here goes.

Let me start off by extending sincere best wishes for the far western sliver of California to have a serious earthquake and fall off into the ocean.  The radical left-wingers of the state, which includes San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, have managed to hijack the rest of the state and impose sanctuary state status on the complacent wizards who live there.  Now, every illegal alien in the country who has committed or intends to commit a felony, will be heading here.  Personally, I think it's way past the time when the rest of the state should kick their butts, (left-wing politicos), out of the country.  They're not Americans; they're all Congressional Republicans in disguise.

And while I'm at at, I have a new motto: 
To hell, with the NFL.  If they won't stand up for America, I won't stand in line to watch one of their stupid-assed games.  

Remember that terrific promise Obama made to retrain workers for new jobs when he virtually destroyed the coal industry?  He hired a tech company to administer the re-training problem.  Well, being an Obama-hired government contractor, they didn't perform worth a diddly-squat, a fact vastly under-reported in the mainstream media.   The last I heard, the firm was in Buffalo, Wyoming seeking to get more government money to expand their stellar success.  

As it so often happens in media country, so does it in the retail market.  Amazon.com has been caught playing a little hanky-panky with the book ratings of one Hillary Rodham Clinton.  It turns out that so many buyers of her latest book were trashing their reaction to the new American Bible of Idiocy that Amazon decided to suppress the negative reader ratings,  raising her results to a staggering 4.8 favorability from what probably should have been a -10.0.  Predictably, Amazon's owner, Jeff Bozo, who also owns the WASHINGTON POST and who appears ready to run for president in 2020, denied the allegations.

The Air Force is running low on bombs and missiles... so low that there's talk about continuing diplomatic negotiations with North Korea into the 22nd century.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. Andy Rooney
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"The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it.  We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress,' doesn't spread.  ~ Andy Rooney
 

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/andyrooney194051.html

THE HERMIT MAY BE COMING BACK TO LIFE

Stay tuned.  There have been many requests to rejuvenate this blog.  There are things to put back in place if that is to happen.