The Week's End of Lupercalia

-By Jim Culp

 

We, modern Pagans, have re-defined our rituals and holidays to our tastes, and taken this and that from Roman, Greek, and Celtic traditions. We don't really care whether one wants to call this weekend Lupercalia, Lykaia, or Pan. The ideas are relatively the same. The festival and ritual were about cleansing the town, community, or village of nasty spirits. Today we recognize it was a time where we purge unhealthy thoughts and give our minds new vitality. We do this in many ways. It's up to the person what they actually want to do; no one holds a gun to your head and tell you "it's what god wants."

Tomorrow Christians the world over will celebrate Valentine's Day.

It is remembered officially and the Roman Catholic Church has given a person Sainthood that no one really has any clue whether the guy officially lived or when he died, only that they think he was martyred {slain for claiming belief in Christianity} at some point and that there is a grave marker in Northern Rome. No one really knows if it was one guy or two, or really who the fuck the guy was, and so forth.  

Also tomorrow, millions of people (religious and secular) worldwide will give their lovers, wives, husbands, and even children gifts of some sort. They will spend billions, yes billions (about $13.3) buying flowers, plants, candy, stuffed animals, cards, and many other things as symbolic gestures of their love to that significant person.

The whole concept is ludicrous to me, but to each his/her own.

 Yesterday, a person told me that he was sick of hearing that all Christian holidays evolved from Pagan holidays. Well shit, dude, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Hillary Rodham Clinton

-By Jim Culp

 This article is about a very famous person that has been on our political scenes since way back; and that person is Hillary Rodham Clinton; who I will call Hillary hereafter.

In 1973, at the age of 26, Hillary received her Doctor of Law (called a J.D.; that stands for Juris Doctor) from Yale. Yes, the same college that produced her husband, William Jefferson Clinton, who I'll refer to as Bill hereafter. They met at Yale and I promise you that was no coincidence.
Hillary married Bill in 1975, and a pair was formed that would shape US politics for the next 41 years; and will for many to come. Bill was
Hillary's father was a textile man in the North; a stout Republican, and Hillary herself was a Republican until life circumstances coerced her to go Democrat, as most flip-flop people do.
I myself was a Republican until 2003, and life circumstances coerced me to become a Reformist; a radical Reformist if you want the truth. Research and events woke me the fuck up, and that probably happens to a lot of us at some point. So Hillary and I have that first flip-flop in common. After that, the others are all hers.
Hillary was involved with Law Firms and several agencies, including ties with Walmart and the Legal Services Corporation, and also the Rose Law Firm; where Hillary became the first female partner there while Bill was the Attorney General of Arkansas (1977-1979). You can only imagine the "educations" and "methodologies" that they pair gained in those years.
The first incident* I want to mention is the Whitewater scandal of 1992-1994. Everybody and their brother that can read a newspaper can tell you that they Clintons wiggled in and out of the pages of LAW 101 to get out of this thing; it stunk from day one. They got caught trying to force people out of business with big money, and lied their way out of it. This is the first time that both of their integrities were questioned, and they both used long strands of verbalisms to talk their way out of it when questioned.
Hillary was subpoenaed by a Federal Grand Jury in 1996 for Whitewater, while she was the First Lady of the US, and lied under oath.
Let me stop here for a minute. When I say that someone lied under oath, I include the person NOT ANSWERING the fucking question. I think that anytime a politician does this, they should be removed from office, and questioned by a panel of citizens, and that panel's findings taken into account.
{*: I'll mention several instances where Hillary's integrity is in severe question; but will not elaborate on the whole story; you can search and read about them online or at a library yourself; they are available from many resources..}
In 1992, Bill was elected President of the United States.
Let me say here, that although Hillary cannot control her husband's actions, I say this. A sitting President of the USA should be beyond reproach, and so should his First Lady. I don't tolerate people that say "well, he fucked up."
FUCK YOU. He's the goddamed President of the fucking USA! His wife is the First Lady, an esteemed position. I don't want to hear "well, they were just this, and well, they were just that." Bullshit. You're the fucking President; act like it or get impeached.
So Hillary becomes First Lady.
Again, she lied to a Grand Jury four years later.
In 1998, Bill was impeached for Grand Perjury about the Monica Lewinsky ordeal, where Bill had repeated John F. Kennedy's acts of having a mistress right there in the White House where his wife lays her head.
Hillary stayed suspiciously quiet. Monica was threatened with her life if she spoke outside of investigation's closed doors.
The Senate acquitted Bill and he finished his term. A sitting President of the USA had committed Grand Perjury, and it was all cool. Holy shit on a stack of pancakes. How the fuck does that shit happen?
Easy. You and your wife are lawyers. Damned good lawyers; make no mistake about it. You use legal verbalism and jargon, dance around questions, and let people take the fall for you wherever you can. That's how out government works.
So now comes 2000. Hillary is elected as Senator from the state of New York, and one year later the 911 "attacks" happen. Hillary supports the sitting President, GW Bush, in his endeavors to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, but constantly spoke in public about how old Dubya was not conducting the operations of the war as Commander in Chief. Flip-flop.
Hillary then took a long vacation, and then was re-elected to the Senate in 2006.
She ran against Obama in the 2008 election, and lost, even though she received a huge amount of votes. However, all during that campaign, she is recorded on camera hundreds (yes hundreds) of times outright lying, or "stretching" the truth when asked bout this and that.
No, I didn't say I heard that....I said it's recorded on video tape, hundreds of times. Search YouTube, you'll see.
In 2009, Obama takes up the sword of healthcare reform that Bill Clinton started years ago, and to pacify the very pissed off Hillary, awards her the prestigious honor of the being the Secretary of State, taking over that job from Condoleezza Rice, another person guilty (not charged or convicted) of Grand Perjury.
Of course, 60% of the people in that pervious administration are, because every fucking one of them lied at sometime, in some way, under oath or not, about 911 and their roles. They should all be hanging from the gallows.
So now Hillary takes up this position and starts building an enormous power base in Washington and abroad, and in March of 2011, convinces President Obama to order military intervention in Libya.
Yes, that's in Africa....If I have to tell another person that, my head will explode.
In 2012, the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked. a US Ambassador lost his life, as well as two contractors, and I think ten or so men were wounded.
Hillary claimed responsibility for this ordeal, but constantly lied about who gave who orders and when. She also used a private server at her home to send and store SECURE EMAILS.
Let me tell you that if I had done anything close to that during my tenure as a First Sergeant or a Movement Supervisor with the Army, I'd be in a cozy room at the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth for 20-30 years...not a question in my head over that...
Since that charge, Hillary constantly lies, uses that good old lawyer verbalism, and dances her way out of any conversation about Benghazi, Whitewater, Monica, or the Rose Law Firm that gets brought up. She's a professional liar.
Her husband is an ever better one, but now he's protected by Presidential pardons that Obama would certainly give him, and even if a Republican takes office in 2017, Bill will just plea the fifth, or say that he cant remember.
Hillary Clinton may very well become the President of the United States this November, but let me tell you, that will be one more step in the downfall of this country into what will inevitably be another "dark age" in the history of Democracies.

  

 

 

 

 

I am no Obama champion by any means, but people who whine all day about his use of Executive Powers annoy me, and they do it out of pure ignorance.

I've even heard statements like "he's used more than many other presidents combined." Um, yeah, if you go back to colonial times, sure.
The facts are out there; just like they are about guns, marijuana, and global warming. "All ye gotta do is read lad" is what a British friend of mine would say.
But here they are, from the President of my early childhood to the present, their name and the number of times they used Executive Orders in their presidency.

Jimmy Carter:           320

Ronald Reagan:        381

George HW Bush     166

Bill Clinton                364

George W Bush        291

Barack Obama          226

And just for comparison, a few from previous years and administrations:

 Theodore Roosevelt           1,081

Woodrow Wilson                1,803

Calvin Coolidge                   1,203

Franklin D Roosevelt          3,522

 Thank you and goodnight.

-Jim Culp, 2016

 

It's 2016.

I am not quite sure how this whole concept of work and pay got so fucked up, but let me attempt to un-fuck it in a short rant.

A man operates a machine that processes packaging of a product.

It isn't an overly complicate machine, but the operator needs to be awake, competent, mechanically minded, and willing to stand and bend for eight hours at a stretch.

You decide to pay this person nine dollars ($9 USD) per hour. He gladly accepts the wage and hours, and in one week, excels at the operation of this machine, and has perfect attendance, goal adherence, and overall employee attitude.

One month goes by. Your company makes fifty thousand dollars ($50,000 USD) from this man's efforts, minus his wages, materials, and so forth.

The man, after Uncle Sam's raping and his beloved State's ass fucking, makes a whopping eleven hundred dollars ($1,100.00 USD) that month.

After about another week, you ask that same man, a dedicated employee as of now, to be the lead person on three other persons running similar machines, and bear the burden of answering questions of operation, production, and operator errors for the next month.

He accepts this duty, with no request of raise in wages or advancement, and continues on like things are okey-dokey.

You offer this man no raise in wages, no benefits to "sweeten the pot" of his position, and even dock him twice for being late two minutes late from lunch.

He doesn't complain and drives on. He has about thirty dollars ($30.00 USD) a week left over after bills (not luxuries).

Some say that man is a good trooper, a man with the American spirit, a real good joe.

I say that man is a slave to a fucking overlord that needs to be overthrown; but I'm probably just an asshole.

 

HATE

January 15, 2016

"HATE"

Many today on one side are saying that they hate guns; while yet another is saying they hate Muslims.

Never wanting to be left out or go unheard, here's a list of my Hates:

1) I hate being invited to a "party" and there are no alcoholic beverages or Rock and Roll music. Why didn't you say "can you come over so I can bore you to death?"

2) I hate ignorance. Please stop talking about things, or posting things on Facebook, if you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Read and learn, that's how you overcome ignorance.

3) I hate pedophiles. I don't want them placed in mental institutions, or sent to prison, or last but not least, set free to re-join communities. I want them crucified in the town square for all their sick ass buddies to see, and maybe it'll scare the fuck out of them and they wont want sex with children. If not, just shoot their buddies.

4) I hate Racism. It all started with people being called "Black" or "White". Why not just call each other people?

5) I hate ignorant mother fuckers who think that everything from a target pistol to a sport rifle is a machine gun that shoots two million rounds per second. Again, read and learn.

6) I really hate stupid ass people that don't think Green Chile is the tastiest fruit in the universe. What the hell is the matter with you?

Peace, Love, and Please Don't Be Foolish Enough to THINK you will Get my Guns...

-Jim Culp, 2016

January 11, 2016

Readers, bloggers, friends and family.

Happy New Year to you and yours. Blog time again.

Just as I am always happy to see an NFL season come in a year, I am always ready for it to be gone by Superbowl time.

The games this weekend make my point. Did Mike Munchak pull Reggie Nelson's hair? I don't know, and I don't fucking care. I consider it trivial and think that NFL players shouldn't have long hair in the first place.

Did the Steelers do some stupid shit as well as the Bengals? Yes. Anyone that knows me knows damn well that I will call out my boys for their offences, just as I would for my soldiers or my own kid. I am and was never that guy that would say "Oh, she/he'd never do that." People get excited and do stupid shit. It happens. Give everyone a fine and let's move on. As for the referees in our modern NFL, I view them like I do our Congress. Fire every fucking one of them and start over. When a referee makes an invalid call, he needs to be penalized. Fair is fair.

-Jim Culp

An unnamed person suggested yesterday that I vote for Hillary Clinton for President of the U.S.A.

Funny.

Three quick points:

A) We've had enough dictators. The President of the United States isn't a king or an emperor. Yes, the current one and the one before him acted like they are(were), but that is not because they have the power to do that, it is because we let them. 

B) Even if I voted, Presidents that come from wealthy families would never get my vote. Hillary is a Rodham, just as George was a Bush. Research those families. You'll get it. Rich people cant think like Poor folks, my friends, and they never will. When you don't know what it is like to send your kids to bed hungry, you wont give a flying shit about those that do.

C) You obviously thought I might be a Democrat or a Liberal. I am neither. Have you read one of my Blog posts? Please do at http://jimculp.blogspot.com/

There, I answered you and didn't go on an endless diatribe. See? I am growing.

Sincerely,

Jim