I don’t know. The one above is only 12″ tall.
The big ones are designed to be kept under the bed. Deluxe model comes with double, kingsize or queensized US flag bedspread.
I suppose it’s probably the Chinese making them so you can probably find them on a web search.
Likely they’ll have Asian-looking eyes though.
Posted in 2013, America, Government
Tagged culture, Human Behavior, humor, inflatable dolls, Life, patriotism, patriots, politics, psychology, society, sociology
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We’ve all been concerned, world wide, about the tensions the shutdown of military operations as a result of the budget thing would cause US patriots. Thankfully, the Chinese have rushed to provide a solution. Factories in China will begin working three shifts immediately in hopes of preventing catastrophic nervious conditions among US patriots by prioritizing shipping container shiploads of GI Joe Dolls as soon as possible.
In addition to these, a new line of target action figures wearing robes, turbans and burnooses, with butcherknives clinched in their teeth will be available. Village life scene settings will be offered as well, both pre-drone attack, and afterward.
Chinese psychologists believe that, properly used at home by US patriots, these action figures and settings can reduce road rage and shopping mall shootings likely to occur as a result of frustration tensions when military operations overseas aren’t happening.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Government, Military
Tagged action figures, culture, gi joe dolls, Human Behavior, humor, patriotism, patriots, politics, psychology, society, sociology
That gorilla’s loaded to the gills with nose candy. It’s no mystery why that war’s lasted 50 years.
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I saw on Yahoo news yesterday there’s a gorilla war going on in Columbia. The what? President? Prime Minister? Dicktater? anyway the sadly weakened strong-man in Columbia was saying they needed help from Cuba or Venzu-whatchallit-wala to put an end to it.
Help from Cuba? Hell man, we can send General Arnold Swartzkopff some trucks and move Fort Hood Texas straight through Mexico be down to help them in a New York minute. While the government’s shut down.
Corner the market on addictive drugs worldwide quicker than you can tell about it. Have the rest of the world vomiting and trembling and begging us for something to snort or shoot that’s more satisfying than shooting Muslims.
Sure, there’s the shale oil probably in Mexico we’ll pick off on the way down there, but oil is so damned 20th Century. Cocaine’s where the future is.
Strike while the iron’s hot and Congress can claim they didn’t know because they were fretting about the budget.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Current Issues, Government
Tagged columbia, culture, drug war, economy, Events, History, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, philosophy, politics, society, sociology
See readers, there you are. I haven’t even barely just wrapped my atrophied mind around the USSR spang being a little bitty pissant place but what damned if it doesn’t threaten to get smaller.
And naturally it’s worrying the bejesus out of the same people who used to fret and chew their fingernails about it being the WHEW great big old USSR. And then the ones who discovered they were scared crapless of it when it was little bitty.
So now, nobody less than the freaking Heritage Foundation’s running around in increasingly small circles because Oh shit oh dear it might get even smaller.
But you gotta remember these are the same people who fret over the threat North freaking Korea is to the peace and dignity of the United States. And the threat Iran is to the United States. And the ugly threat Syria is to the United States.
I’m thinking the whole damned thing is an effort to keep the Chosen People from recognizing the obvious fact we need to invade Mexico, soonest. Then wossname, Guatamala. And anything else that gets in the way between there and the Panama Canal.
Russia? Haaaa! Russia’s never done anything for the US besides Catherine the Great fornicating with famous US sailor sailor John Paul Jones reverse cowboy style. It’s all been downhill since then. Unless we can find another John Paul Jones to send over there what the hell does a little bitty pissant Russia have to do with anything?
Old Jules
Posted in America, Current Issues, Government, Politics
Tagged catherine the great, culture, Education, History, Human Behavior, humor, john paul jones, Life, lifestyle, reverse cowboy, society, sociology
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The hmmm government is shut down. Federal holiday of sorts, I reckons.
NSA’s almost certainly still bugging your phone today. Homeland Security people are sitting around backyard barbeques bouncing around ideas for the next terrorist scare. The war profiteers are still working three shifts trying to find computers fast enough to tally up the money they’re making, but months behind in doing it. International Bankers are sitting around boardrooms thinking up reasons they need bailing out with a government injection.
But, the hmm government’s shut down. Scary stuff.
Imagine all the stuff government does that won’t get done today. Without anyone noticing it, all kinds of stuff I can’t think of right now isn’t getting done, and if I had any inkling what it was it would probably rattle me down to my bootheels.
Heck, what if that stuff doesn’t get done tomorrow? Or ten years from now? Hells bells, eventually someone would notice. Scaryscaryscary.
But what’s going on is intended to fill the heads of people who pay attention to what the government is doing. Assume, for the sake of the argument, this whole thing is theater. An illusion of drama to keep everyone focused.
Where is the goat with the golden horns? What is ACTUALLY going on someone doesn’t want you seeing because you’re too busy worrying the FDA and US Department of Agriculture are home not protecting you from genetic modified food grains and Monsanto?
Where’s the goat with the gold plated horns?
I don’t know the answer and I’m not searching for one. But if I were I’d stand as much chance for success as I’d have going to Israel collecting money for the Palestinian Relief Fund.
Likely as not it’s something fairly large though. The dust will settle, the government will go back to work, and you can bet there’ll be something brand, spanking new crept onto the scene when you weren’t looking.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Government, Human Behavior
Tagged culture, economy, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, politics, senior citizens, society, sociology
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When our sainted once-king Ronald Reagan wasn’t parking small Volkswagens under his hair next to his scalp he was fond of saying the Soviet Union was an evil empire. But Reagan meant this in a good way. What Reagan intended to communicate was, compared to not being an empire, the Soviet Union was evil.
As the somewhat temporary monarch of his own empire extending from Guam to Hawaii to Alaska to the contiguous states of the continent to Puerto Rico, Reagan had noticed the condition of being part of an empire wasn’t an unmitigated blessing for all the non-aristocrats living inside it.
Reagan was wise enough to know that he couldn’t do much about the ills of being non-aristocrats in an empire, but he wanted to do something good anyway, or something someone might call good in the history books. And since he couldn’t do it for the non-aristocrats, hell, at least he could be a popular cult-figure doer-of-good-deeds for the aristocrats.
He decided if those aristocrats could be turned absolutely loose to acquire wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams they might be satisfied and allow some of the good to trickle down into the pockets and households of the peasantry who were mowing their lawns, flipping their hamburgers and doing tune-ups on their Rolls Royces.
The result was profound. The nature of his empire went through a lot of subtle changes and the texture of the evil was distilled in some unexpected subtle directions. In no time at all US jobs, businesses and small industry were swirling down the toilet headed for China and other countries where the labor was less expensive. His aristocrats discovered the multi-national grass was a heluva lot greener than the stuff under the purple mountains majesties on the fruited plains.
So in a sense it can be said Reagan destroyed his own evil empire in favor of a much larger one owned by banks and multi-national corporations. And somehow in the process he managed to make the rednecks and semi-literates lower their voices in reverence when they spoke his name.
Today he’s still remembered that way, but more within the legions of Oliver North clones serving his multi-national aristocrats.
Finding something that rhymes with empire that isn’t evil is a tough gig.
Old Jules
Posted in America, Communication, Government, History
Tagged culture, empire, evil empire, History, Human Behavior, humor, Life, philosophy, politics, Ronald Reagan, society, sociology, soviet union
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Boswell told the story of how he and Johnson were in a group with a lot of aristocrats when a woman sitting near Johnson passed noisy gas. She immediately began rubbing her own leg against a table leg to create the illusion the noise was a friction sound vibration resulting from the two legs in two-part harmony.
“We heard you the first time, Lady. You don’t have to find something that rhymes with it,” Johnson pointed out.
Which sums up a lot of the problems we human beings have trying to solve what we believe are our major issues on any day. We fudge on our rhymes. On big issues we’re especially bad about boxing ourselves into lousy rhymes.
For instance, after Roosky peasantry had been beaten and starved by their aristocrats a few hundred years they wanted to find something that rhymed with the French Revolution. They talked about it endlessly, batted it around, finally created a poem with rhyme and rhythm of their own.
But it took Joe Stalin to write the last stanza. The one about Napoleon.
For some reason that particular poem always ends with Napoleon. Evidently no way of avoiding it.
Today in the US and a lot of the world the folks in power are trying to find something that rhymes with Edward II and the Dispensers. The folks who aren’t in power are trying to find something that rhymes with the American Revolution. And both agree there’s a sidebar hope of finding something that rhymes with the crusades.
You don’t hear much out of Washington DC about Edward II and the Dispensers these days, but you see a lot of attempts to find things that rhyme with it. But nobody’s doing much thinking about the final stanza of that one, either.
For the ones trying to find the US Constitution behind trees and under rocks, the final stanza to the American Revolution was probably the Civil War.
I can’t recall the final stanza of the Crusades, but I suspect a piece of it had to do with the massacre and looting of the Templars [and Edward II and the Dispensers].
When human beings passed gas back in the time of Johnson, or Edward II, or the French Revolution I’m betting it smelled and sounded pretty similar to when they do it today. We aren’t much better at rhyming today than we were then.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, Education, Government, Human Behavior, Science
Tagged Boswell, crusades, Dispensers, Edward II, flatulence, french revolution, History, revolution, Russian Revolution
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The wise men who framed the US Constitution knew all about how power, wealth and decadence caused every generation of aristocracy, every generation of human being born to power and wealth was weaker, lazier, stupider, more arrogant and shiftless than the previous one.
They knew, those men writing the Constitution, the time would come when the White House and both houses of the US Congress would be filled with the descendants of black slaves. Because they recognized the only alpha-males left in some future time would be those same black descendants of slavery. That was obvious to them. They knew representative democracy was the only way they could assure that when blacks outnumbered whites they’d be able to bloodlessly emerge as the dominant power.
Of course, they didn’t know about Hispanics and other prolific minorities, but they had the general idea. It was a tough, courageous decision because all of them were white. But they knew there’d come a time when their own progeny were a herd of worthless, stupid, lazy followers and worshipers of anything resembling an alpha male, no matter what ethnicity.
History proved them wise. Football was the first hint the dream of the forefathers was coming true, followed by rap music and population explosions in ethnic ghettos. The long-awaited takeover of the US government was moving right along in accordance with the plan of the founding fathers. And concurrently with similar emergence of alpha-types from minorities in other cultural fields.
It’s on the doorstep now. Finally ethnic minorities will soon be in a position to assume the reins of power, wealth, prosperity and government.
Patriots and believers in representative democracy should be preparing for the victory parades and celebrations. The sooner a full slate of ethnic minority candidates is offered up in a general election the more rapidly the aspirations of the founding fathers will be fulfilled.
Finally our great nation will once again be run by alpha males and females, same as music and sports. Rejoice! Up the [r]evolution!
We white males can finally get back to getting our hands dirty doing the grunt work, stoop-labor and heavy lifting we degenerate betas are best suited for, aside from toadying to alphas. And white females can try to find open minded alpha ethnics to procreate with without being criticized.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Government, History, Human Behavior
Tagged culture, History, Human Behavior, humor, Life, Nature, other, philosophy, politics, society, sociology
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Probably some of you have noticed as I have that things in Washington D.C. aren’t always as they appear to be.
The reasons for this reach deeply into the psyche of the people who call themselves Americans. They’re entrenched in the idealized construct of the US Constitution and the romantic, dehumanized cardboard cutouts of the ‘founding fathers’, US presidents, generals, politicians and jurists. By definition their motives were pure, their decisions and actions were entirely driven by the desire to protect the rights of the future citizenry.
A classical view of all this would note a few contradictions inside the fog of idealism. The supposed ability of the judiciary, for instance, to shed the skin of partisanship and self-interest once sworn into office. The fact a substantial portion of the humanity born inside the borders, the ‘Indians’, were not to be included in the census, not to be taxed. In fact, were not citizens at all when it came to the protected rights of citizenship. The only protections the US Constitution provided them were treaty obligations approved by the US Congress. Even the 14th Amendment to the Constitution in 1868 pretended the tribes governed themselves and the US Government had no jurisdiction over them. Excluded for automatic citizenship even those who gave up tribal affiliations.
Keeping the options open, those realists. Kept them open until 1924, by which time the protection of any rights they might have had as citizens couldn’t do them a hell of a lot of good.
Not to say impartial or non-partisan Supreme Court jurists, or what happened to the rights of American Indians has anything to do with anything except reality.
The reality. Washington D.C. is inhabited by human beings looking out for their own best interests. They’ve pared the environment down so it’s contained in a two-party system to protect itself from intruders, outsiders, invaders. They’re all singing from the same songbook inside the conch shell where the only sound you hear is their ocean.
Whining about taxes, rights protected by Constitutional amendments, undeclared wars and candidates for National elected offices who aren’t blessed with chins can’t penetrate the walls of the conch shell.
The reality is that if any of that can be changed it can’t happen in a capsule of romantic form anchored to a past that never existed, celluloid people canonized in myth and a piece of paper with less substance than a US dollar.
Playing nicknack tallywack inside Washington’s two-party system only results in them throwing the dog a bone. But the dogs do love it.
That’s reality.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Government, Politics
Tagged 14th Amendment, American Indians, citizenship, Congress, Constitution, culture, History, lifestyle, politics, Reflections, US Constitution, White House
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I keep hearing about something called WossnameCare, which I don’t know what is and honestly don’t want to know. Anything that names itself after a US president tends to arouse suspicion for me. Strikes me as an attempt by someone who sees himself as the most powerful person in the world to inject his name into history books, along with a particular slant. The fact an enormous lot of US citizens are opposed to is suggests it would be worthy of a lot of careful study before anyone formed an opinion.
But it also brings to mind something I believe is a flaw in the way we remember US presidents of the past, figuring out whether they did anything good, and remembering them for that. The entire world and the citizenry of the US would probably be better served if we all remembered US presidents for the absolutely awful, terrible, long-range disasterous things they did and decisions they made. An object lesson to anyone holding that office as a warning he’ll be remembered by history for his follies.
A few examples, in case I’m not expressing myself clearly.
Franklin Rooseveltcare might be a good place to begin. Roosevelt gave us the Manhattan Project and the nuclear bomb. Franklin Roosevelt can be said to be responsible for the Cold War Mutual Assured Destruction, that whole nest of horrors, as well as all that damned radiation contamination the Japanese are dumping into the sky and the Pacific Ocean.
Harry Trumancare. The endless serious of undeclared presidential wars he began.
Lyndon Johnsoncare. The Vietnam War legacy and more importantly, the welfare state.
Richard Nixoncare. A Chinese toaster in every kitchen and a dead US toaster-making industry.
Ronald Reagancare. Generations of an endless War on Drugs, a prison industry and the US becoming the country with more prisoners held in prisons than any other country in the world.
Bill Clintoncare. The careful planting and nurturing of the US police state.
Father and Son Bushcare. Endless wars and military adventures in the Middle East.
US presidents are in office because they are attracted to the thought of being the most powerful person in the world. US presidents want their names in history books. Naturally most of them are functionally illiterate and haven’t spent a lot of time reading history books. They just have to ride along on gut feel and what they think previous presidents are praised for doing, remembered for doing.
And if US presidents are remembered for the ways they’ve managed to convert the United States to the country it has become, is still becoming, they might well take a deeper look at what they are about. Give a few thoughts to consequences.
Old Jules
74 years old, a resident of Leavenworth, KS, in an apartment located on the VA campus. Partnered with a black shorthaired cat named Mister Midnight. (1943-2020)
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