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Praying Mantis
Well it’s Saturday and this hurricane is ruining the weather so I am sitting in front of the idiot box watching and listening to some of the most idiotic drivel I have ever heard. I am constantly amazed at how uniformly stupid these “commentators” on TV really are. Just to piss myself off, I cruised the mainstream for over an hour going from CNN to ABC then to CBS and finally MSNBC. Each and every one of the channels were going on and on about Hurricane Sandy, speculating on possible effects on voting, possible flooding of NYC subway tunnels and so on and so on. What struck me as odd was how every single mention of Obama and voting day were speculating on how there was a possibility that Obama could lose the election as a result of damaged infrastructure and the notion that while Romney supporters would likely go out in bad weather to vote, Obama supporters would not. One commentator went as far as to say that perhaps the election should be moved to December so that voters in the affected region would not be “disenfranchised”. What a load of bullshit. I say bring it on. Did they cancel elections after Andrew? How about Katrina, Ike and Ivan? No they did not, and they should not do so this time. If this storm was headed for Texas, there would be zero of this speculation because Obama is a sure loser there, but since this storm is headed deep into democrat territory, the sycophantic media are all over it. I say fuck ‘em and feed ‘em fish heads.
Have you seen the video put out by that leftarded chick comparing voting for Obama to her first sexual encounter? I say it was spot on. According to her, voting Obama was like losing her virginity, so that means it hurt like hell, left her all bloody, and the next day after she sobered up, she felt ashamed and used. Yup, I’d say that about sums it up.
On to the self-misery section of this rant. It seems that a huge project that we won a significant portion of sub-contract remediation work on has been placed in limbo due to sour grapes by one of the losing bidders who “protested” the award. This work, 75% of which could have been billed out by January or early February, also represented a full quarter of our work backlog, which has now been significantly reduced. In fact, without this project, I will be forced to lay off nearly two dozen more employees, just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Shit is really starting to get out of hand with the federal side of our business, and award protests have become the norm rather than the rarity they once were. All of this merely serves to fuck the little guys [like me for instance] and place the project in eternal limbo. The protest process, including all of the permitted appeals, can go on for over a year, and I simply do not have that kind of float time. This project, renovations to the Multi Payload Processing Facility [the MPPF] is a critical clean room utilized to load, encapsulate and test/prepare satellites etc. for space flight, to include loading of hypergolic fuels [monomethyl hydrazine] and oxidizers [nitrogen tetroxide] which help adjust and maintain the desired altitude when inserted in to orbit. The rationale behind protests is that they often result in a project being re-bid, making it difficult for the original winner to re-win the project without making even more cuts to their price, and ultimately forcing me to lower my prices as well. I’m so totally sick and tired of this horseshit that I can barely contain myself.
Moving from self-pity to sheer anger, I find myself contemplating the fate of our financial system, which seems to be teetering on the edge of the abyss, and which any single black swan could be the impetus for collapse. Greece must decide by Sunday night whether or not to permit the Troika to become their slave overlords by accepting the radical terms required to disburse the next tranche of international loan money. This money by the way is cash they are borrowing merely to meet their interest and payment obligation on the bonds they sold to major European banking centers. It is beyond absurd to presume that feeding Greece even more debt to pay off interest on existing debts and to pay off maturing debts resolves anything whatsoever. I think that if Greece goes Iceland on the banksters it will start a waterfall of debt repudiations throughout the Eurozone, wiping out the entire world banking system as it is currently constructed. That is one event that is scarier than any other thing on this planet. A banking collapse and the attending loss of all faith in fiat currency will be the end of the world as we know it. I guess we’ll have to wait and see who blinks first.
On to the neighborhood. There is a pack of miscreant little juvenile fucktarded prick-monsters at the end of our street that for all intents and purposes, are unsupervised in any meaningful way. These little bastards have broken in to my vehicles, my shed and more recently, they have attempted to break in to my home. When I showed their parents the video of two of them trying to use a bump key on my front door, I got the deer in the headlights response. When I told them I was getting the States Attorney and Sherriff involved they actually had the temerity to get defensive and angry, insisting that the video meant nothing and that I was misinterpreting it. Unfuckingbelievable. When I informed them [in the presence of the Sherriff no less] that if this happens again and I am at home that I intend to shoot the fuckers through the door with 12 gauge shotgun slugs, they decided to cooperate. So, two of the older boys copped to stealing change from the console in my truck and to stealing and snorting some pills I put in an old oxycodone prescription bottle that were in fact birth control pills, since they are in fact dumbasses and didn’t think I knew they were pilfering from my truck. The Sherriff got a pretty good chuckle out of that one. Anyway, they were both processed and given a home detention sentence of 14 months while wearing an ankle bracelet with a GPS unit. Now that the parents have been severely inconvenienced they seem to have taken more interest in these punks’ activities, and hopefully that leads to better supervision. I may have just painted a target on my back but……fuck it man, a little schaudenfreude goes a long way with me.
So, I continue to stack, store and prep, all with the hope that me and mine can make it through whatever crazy shit goes down on, around or After this election. If the entitled class melts down and decides to burn down the inner cities as they have extensively “tweeted”, I WILL be ready.
Sorry for the rant.
Have you seen the video put out by that leftarded chick comparing voting for Obama to her first sexual encounter? I say it was spot on. According to her, voting Obama was like losing her virginity, so that means it hurt like hell, left her all bloody, and the next day after she sobered up, she felt ashamed and used. Yup, I’d say that about sums it up.
On to the self-misery section of this rant. It seems that a huge project that we won a significant portion of sub-contract remediation work on has been placed in limbo due to sour grapes by one of the losing bidders who “protested” the award. This work, 75% of which could have been billed out by January or early February, also represented a full quarter of our work backlog, which has now been significantly reduced. In fact, without this project, I will be forced to lay off nearly two dozen more employees, just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Shit is really starting to get out of hand with the federal side of our business, and award protests have become the norm rather than the rarity they once were. All of this merely serves to fuck the little guys [like me for instance] and place the project in eternal limbo. The protest process, including all of the permitted appeals, can go on for over a year, and I simply do not have that kind of float time. This project, renovations to the Multi Payload Processing Facility [the MPPF] is a critical clean room utilized to load, encapsulate and test/prepare satellites etc. for space flight, to include loading of hypergolic fuels [monomethyl hydrazine] and oxidizers [nitrogen tetroxide] which help adjust and maintain the desired altitude when inserted in to orbit. The rationale behind protests is that they often result in a project being re-bid, making it difficult for the original winner to re-win the project without making even more cuts to their price, and ultimately forcing me to lower my prices as well. I’m so totally sick and tired of this horseshit that I can barely contain myself.
Moving from self-pity to sheer anger, I find myself contemplating the fate of our financial system, which seems to be teetering on the edge of the abyss, and which any single black swan could be the impetus for collapse. Greece must decide by Sunday night whether or not to permit the Troika to become their slave overlords by accepting the radical terms required to disburse the next tranche of international loan money. This money by the way is cash they are borrowing merely to meet their interest and payment obligation on the bonds they sold to major European banking centers. It is beyond absurd to presume that feeding Greece even more debt to pay off interest on existing debts and to pay off maturing debts resolves anything whatsoever. I think that if Greece goes Iceland on the banksters it will start a waterfall of debt repudiations throughout the Eurozone, wiping out the entire world banking system as it is currently constructed. That is one event that is scarier than any other thing on this planet. A banking collapse and the attending loss of all faith in fiat currency will be the end of the world as we know it. I guess we’ll have to wait and see who blinks first.
On to the neighborhood. There is a pack of miscreant little juvenile fucktarded prick-monsters at the end of our street that for all intents and purposes, are unsupervised in any meaningful way. These little bastards have broken in to my vehicles, my shed and more recently, they have attempted to break in to my home. When I showed their parents the video of two of them trying to use a bump key on my front door, I got the deer in the headlights response. When I told them I was getting the States Attorney and Sherriff involved they actually had the temerity to get defensive and angry, insisting that the video meant nothing and that I was misinterpreting it. Unfuckingbelievable. When I informed them [in the presence of the Sherriff no less] that if this happens again and I am at home that I intend to shoot the fuckers through the door with 12 gauge shotgun slugs, they decided to cooperate. So, two of the older boys copped to stealing change from the console in my truck and to stealing and snorting some pills I put in an old oxycodone prescription bottle that were in fact birth control pills, since they are in fact dumbasses and didn’t think I knew they were pilfering from my truck. The Sherriff got a pretty good chuckle out of that one. Anyway, they were both processed and given a home detention sentence of 14 months while wearing an ankle bracelet with a GPS unit. Now that the parents have been severely inconvenienced they seem to have taken more interest in these punks’ activities, and hopefully that leads to better supervision. I may have just painted a target on my back but……fuck it man, a little schaudenfreude goes a long way with me.
So, I continue to stack, store and prep, all with the hope that me and mine can make it through whatever crazy shit goes down on, around or After this election. If the entitled class melts down and decides to burn down the inner cities as they have extensively “tweeted”, I WILL be ready.
Sorry for the rant.