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Indulge Me While I Piss On The Pontiff's Hypocritical Puffery

I'm done.

I was Christened, wore my hideous tartan skirt to parochial school (Hi Sister Mary Dennis!), said twelveteen thousand rosaries as penance for my incessant sixth grade lust for Chuck Waddell, and even spent the night in my car when Pope John Paul II came to Columbia, South Carolina when I was in college.

JANE HAS DONE THE CATHOLIC THANG, SO PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I WILL ENTERTAIN NO INSINUATION THAT I AM "ANTI-CATHOLIC".

I am ANTI a LOT of things, but as a matter of course, I don't like to HATE an entire GROUP of people, however misled, based on the actions of a few of their HYPOCRITICAL leaders.

But please, somebody tell me where the leader of the most corrupt religion in history gets off coming onto my soil and lecturing me on "injustices" done to minorities at the hands of my government.

"Americans have always been a people of hope," he said during his homily. "Your ancestors came to this country with the experience of finding new freedom and opportunity.

"To be sure, this promise was not experienced by all the inhabitants of this land; one thinks of the injustices endured by the native American peoples and by those brought here forcibly from Africa as slaves."

OK, then Bennie, let's cast our memory back, but not as far as colonial times. Let's go back to someplace a little easier to recall. The 40's, maybe. Germany? Ringing any liturgical bells?

To say that the Catholic Church has traced a pristine path through history is understating realty by a long chalk. So let us not continually judge, Benj, lest you be continually judged.

Even we recalcitrant Catholics are not allowed to point out that the Emperor the Church is naked or we get the label...what is it...a "Catholic basher". A Hate Crime by standards that I don't accept or recognize.  I just call it the unfortunate truth.

Latest hypocrisy: Churchmarm casts ticket scalpers into Hell for selling access to the Pope.

Georgina Stark, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Washington, tells WTOP, "You cannot sell a sacrament. This is a mass, so it is a sacrament. The tickets are not for sale."

Sacraments not for sale? Since when?

Damn that Martin Luther.

Take my DNA, I'll never use it...

This will go down in a flaming arc of "who thought THAT was a good idea?".

I HOPE.

Sure, it says "foreigners"  in the text, but imagine how easy that cracked door gets kicked open to include you, me, and Joe Lunchbucket Citizen when the time is "right".

Yes, fair citizen, can you imagine being merely ARRESTED, and your double helix is eternally "on file" in Big Brother's bushel basket of Guilty Until Proved Innocent Bad Apples.

Illegal search and seizure SHOULD cover this bone headed power grab by Nanny Sam, but I doubt anyone would stand up and scream this one down before too many innocent folks (like those in the Texas LDS compound, for instance) rights are violated.

You think its fine because its those "dirty foreigners".

Think again.

What about when they decide they need EVERYBODY'S DNA to "protect us" from some NEW global "disorder".

The only global disorder I need to be protected from is the U.N.

Wake up, folks....we are all waaaaay too sleepy at the wheel.

Just Put Your Coins In The Pickle Jar, Everybody, And Leave The Hard Stuff To Me.

This whole "preparedness survivalist" gig is a tail kicker. I feel like I should convert to LDS or something. The "garments" are a non-starter, so ....not today.

But the 180 degree shift in my focus has been liberating.

Having seen the dark underbelly of Democratics and the navel gazing of both political parties, I am now free to move on to what is important. After I called Ed at Captain's Quarters and had a heart to heart with him about blogging and political activism, I feel I have been given special vision. I see things that I am convinced that I am not alone in seeing.

It is just that no one else will admit it. Publicly.

Join me as I turn this blog BACK INTO what I wanted it to be from the start. TAKING CARE OF MY OWN NEST IN THE MOST UNAPOLOGETIC WAY POSSIBLE. That includes hints and links to ways to prepare yourselves for the coming Storm.

DO ME A FAVOR>>>just for today, SPEND LESS  than you did yesterday.

I have a little game I play with myself. I pay for everything IN CASH. EVERYTHING. So when I am in line at the Mega Hell Mart I survey my BASKET (I do NOT use a CART at WALMART. EVER.) before I check out and I edit out about 15% of it and return it to the shelves, then I race to the check out before I can change my mind. After I pay in cash, all coin change I receive goes into a huge jar at the end of the day.

This huge vintage pickle jar is decorative and attractive and serves as a daily reminder of my goal to spend less and question my motives for breaking every paper bill I spend. I ask myself if it is worth "losing" that 40 cents on the tail of that Latte to The Jar?

For that matter, is the Latte worth buying in the first place?

See? Logic at work.

And what about that pickle jar? By the end of the year, nearly a thousand bucks....yes, THOUSAND, will go a long way toward any credit card debt you might have lingering about. Or buy a WHOLE lotta stuff that you have done without, and now have the vision to decide if you really needed in the first place. And all IN CASH.

Because that's what us Thousandaires do.

>>>>>>>>>>SPECIAL NOTE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT take your savings to a COINSTAR kiosk. The ULTRA fine print on the machine in my local grocery store states that COINSTAR charges an 8% fee of the total coins you dump in to be "counted"! It is a brilliant marketing scam---like Federal withholding----that if you don't know what you have at the start, you'll never miss it! These "conveniences" are for illiterate mouth breathers, of which you are not one.

My credit union has a coin counter in the lobby and it is free. Find one.

Be free.

CHILDREN OF THE CORN: Petrol based fertilizers for Ethanol corn crops? Say it ain't so!

As the days tick rapidly toward the day Hunky Husband and I will blissfully drop out of society this hedonistic wasteland, I have been dusting off my farm girl skill set. In addition to a (fabulous birthday gift, Hunkster!) Magpul Masada , I hope to add a few books on organic vegetable gardening to the list of must haves before I take a final header off the grid.

There is nothing in any of these books that I did not grow up learning at the knee of my agrarian grandparents, though as I re-read my tattered copy of The Victory Garden Companion, I was reminded that my favorite cultivar of corn, Silver Queen, is a heavy feeder. (To remedy this, I intend on farming meat rabbits for their "brown gold" by-products. Plus they are just damned tasty.) That started me thinking in the circuitous manner of most adults riddled with A.D.D.

Since all corn is a "heavy feeder" that means that it must be heavily fertilized. This is not to be confused with the corn farmers themselves. They are heavily subsidized.

Since most fertilizer is petroleum based, then the corn used for Ethanol relies on the very oil that it is grown to replace. Washington logic if ever there was.

When I asked a truly good friend and loyal acolyte of The Goracle about that whole "butt smooching Iowa corn farmers/ Primary voting block" thing with regards to Ethanol, she was speechless.

It had never occurred to her that there was ANY CONNECTION WHATSOEVER with Iowa corn farmers, Washington power wonks, Iowa Primaries, petroleum based fertilizers, corn, Ethanol, and the exploding price of everything from the gas it takes her to go buy her Crack priced Cheerios to the milk she pours on them.

We haven't been truly free in this country since the days before FDR crunched some statistics and realized he could personally create an endowment of social programs that would return an exponential voting block of dependent sluggards on which the Democrat party could build their power base and, over time, steadily marginalize hard working, freedom loving THINKERS.

Emperically, his was a brilliant political move from which America will never recover. Ever.

"The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of which the government is shepherd."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

BEHOLD. A new hobby for Jane.

Chickens are dumb. Politicians are dumber.

At least when you have had enough of listening to the sqwaking of an overgrown cock, you can eat the chicken.

I am reading my flock Atlas Shrugged for the fourth time. It makes them more succulent.

HUFFINGTON POST Clinton Leftists Compare Michelle Obama to "Zira" from PLANET OF THE APES!

I gotta admit, though...I wouldn't have found the racist remark by Hillary Clinton's Leftist throats at The Huffington Post comment thread if after about too many glasses of cheap Reisling over BUNCO dice, the conversation hadn't turned to brown football helmets and bad hair. The two sisters in our group (one terribly drunk) were busting on sister Michelle Obama's "dirty kitchen" and made the same observation. Two clicks later...

Can't you just see the Hillary Refusenik T-Shirt (available on eBay):

Such conflict among enlightened souls, all "Hoping" for the same thing....Just sayin'.

>>>>UPDATE>>>>> THE HILLARY LOVERS AT HUFFPO are at it again!

Jane, being cynical again. SURPRISE.

For about the TWELVE THOUSANDTH time, I have witnessed the "Mainstream" Righty blogosphere blatantly STEALING ideas from many of us little guys, passing them off as their own, with NO CREDIT OR REGARD for their origins, then sometimes even luxuriating in the resulting tongue baths from the REALLY BIG MEDIA GUYS for their stolen brilliance.

Though I have heard grumblings and witnessed it (at least six times I can remember, and to me, personally, TWICE), it is happening with shameless frequency as the election cycle revs. A stint at J school surely includes a chapter on plagerism. But some of these assholes are just "famous", not real pencil necks, so it is understandable that they are just cut and paste hacks. Its an Obamanation. (Lets see how long THAT takes.)

Perhaps that is why I am more than anxious than ever to "shrug" and take my creativity (how ever meager) off the Net entirely>>>from EVERY venue. No more salient comments, no more thoughtful blog, no more paid "back work" for the big sites, no more pen names>>>NO NOTHIN' from this Jane.

Google "McCain vice president" and see who comes up number four in the search. It ain't because I don't get read, linked and FILCTHED. DAILY.

The Mainstream Righty blogosphere sucks donkey dick and I want my reach around, damn it.

(In the Technorati tags, in no particular order, are red herrings and blantant misleads sprinkled with naked tattletales. I grouse, you decide.)