Duty, Honor, Country

Well summers here faster than a one legged man in a butt kicking competition Antoinette. 

Good morning America... not the show, but rather my heartfelt appreciation to all my fellow American brethren who have and are Making America Great. Though Memorial Day is unfortunately more often thought of as an extended weekend, the start of summer🏖 pool opener🏊‍♂️, the beginning of dangerous grilling 🔥practices and a chance to take advantage of sale prices💲 that match other corrupted holidays like Washington and Lincoln's Birthday, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and even the 4th... it's important to remember that we have a holiday today because of the many courageous souls that were willing to pay the full price⚰. It's also a good day to remember that Memorial Day was intended to honor a particular type of person...a hero. 

A word that has lost its meaning as many superlatives have, because they're too easily bandied about. Day to day life can be hard, and requires strength, fortitude, perseverance, faith and effort. Those are traits that should be taught and instilled in our young. Virtues that should be extolled in classrooms. And aspirations for all, but they aren't heroic...they should just be S.O.P. Just like Duty, Honor, Country is championed at West Point...it's expected...not over and above the call of duty. Actions like words should be carefully chosen...and the most superlative should be reserved for the deserving. Speaking of superlatives, yesterday also marked John Wayne's birthday. The Duke is the most iconic American to much of the world🤠🇺🇸. When he died the headline in a Japanese newspaper said,  "Mr. America is dead!" 😪John Wayne spent a lifetime extolling the virtues of, and expressing his gratitude for being an American the best way he knew how... through his art...movies📽. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal shortly before his death and was also awarded the President's Medal of Freedom by President Carter posthumously...the two highest non military awards...for his unique contributions to the United States. The people who championed these awards came from Hollywood and covered the political spectrum, but mostly as opposites...a far different time. John Wayne attended President Carter's inauguration as, "the loyal opposition."🥂 Hard to imagine these days. However, one thing I feel certain about is that if you asked John Wayne whether he was a hero, he would have given you that trademark look and possibly thought, "I'm not gonna hit you, I'm not gonna hit you... the hell I ain't!" 🤜Now of course he wouldn't have hit you, but he would tell you he's no hero... just doing what he's supposed to be doing... his Duty to Honor our Country by doing what we should without being told or with expectation of praise. Unlike the ridiculous exhaltations of many of today's athletes after a routine play they're paid millions of dollars to make, we need to remember what is our duty. Just do your job. Instead we're creating a culture of floppers, victims, whiners, expectants and those looking for a handout. The term heroic is overused, but effort never is. Toughness never is. Fortitude never is. Courage never is. The reason Michael Jordan⛹️‍♂️ is the greatest basketball player ever is he didn't flop. He took the team he was dealt and made them stronger and better. To win in those days you had to be tough...a virtue...today toughness is replaced by wimpiness. Courage is replaced by victimhood. I'm not talking the false courage of Hollywood movies, but the kind John Wayne extolled when he said,  "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." In other words, Do Your Duty to Honor your country. Don't confuse Heroism with duty and in the immortal words of Oddball remember, "A hero [isn't] some kind of sandwich!" If you still don't understand just Google Pat Tillman. He's an American who without "virtue signaling" gave up a multi million dollar NFL contract, fame, notoriety, the comforts of safety and a Twitter handle and joined his brother to enlist in the army following 9/11 because he felt it was his duty to give back because he had been blessed with so much. While serving in the special forces in Afghanistan he was killed. He also received numerous military awards including the Silver Star. Even though Tillman was only doing his Duty to Honor our Country... he is the epitome of Hero because he sacrificed all for what we all get to enjoy🙏. Have a great day my Fellow Americans. Enjoy the fruits of our bounty🥧🌭🍺. Rest peacefully in the safety of our borders🇺🇸. And don't cheapen words by using them too frivolously, nor substitute victimhood for duty😭. Encourage toughness, fortitude, and manliness in our boys, and the equivalent in our girls...life isn't played on the soccer pitch after all⚽️🙈🙉🙊. And remember that Freedom isn't Free! It needs to be protected at all costs and has been by men and women in American cemeteries⚰ around the world by those who paid the full cost. Like John Wayne attending President Carter's inauguration...what's required of Americans isn't agreeing on politics...it's agreeing on the need to fulfill the promises of the greatest political document ever... the Constitution📜... paid in full by the blood of many Americans. Now let's get this celebration started because like the Duke said, "I'm here to kick ass and drink whiskey, and Pilgrim, I'm out of whiskey!" Also remember while you're swimming around in this American Aquarium, Tough times don't last, tough people do...

Where I'm from a man's only worth the weight of his word and
Respect ain't handed out, it's earned
I've been runnin' with my back to the wall for seventeen years now
And if it's one thing that I've learned, it's ...

Life ain't fair
Saddle up, boy, and see it through
Tough times don't last
But tough folks do

Finally, the Final Finale!

If you're driving remember that not all cars autocorrect Antoinette!

Good morning boys and girls... the doctor is in!👨‍⚕️ While my degree might not actually say Doctor, my experience in solving life's dilemmas has certainly qualified me for an honorary doctorate... besides, I drink wine🥂, I know things😉. And why would you need a doctor you might be asking? 🤔Well judging from the twittersphere and other social mediums of  "madness" I can tell the world is in need of some doctoring, the right therapy, and of course the appropriate Rx💉 to cure life's ills and to succor those afflicted with "finally the final finale" of G.O.T. 🐉I hope everyone had a great weekend, but for those of you who didn't sleep well last night because of the future or lack thereof for the Seven Kingdoms👑, this week should provide the solution for you. That's right... this week ends with the vaccine that even anti-vaxxers aren't afraid to indulge... wine🍷,  celebrated by National Wine Day.🍾 If wine can't right all that's wrong then you need to change your problems. I'm also declaring by executive fiat that today will be National Whine Day.😭 That way the week will be bookended by homophonic solutions (easy there LGBTxpalidocious🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️)... first get it off your chest then drink it down past your chest. Furthermore, You don't have to wait until the end of the week to fill your subscription just start drowning your whine 🍷🍷🍷today and you should feel better immediately. Now for the whiners...of course a rational mind knows that no matter how G.O.T. ended somebody somewhere was gonna be upset and whine 😱about it which of course is fine in and of itself. The difference though is that in the old days if you wanted to make your opinion known and actually have it published for all to see, you would actually have to write it out and send in to some op/ed page which would require some degree of thought and civility or it wouldn't be published📰.  Now of course you can share your thoughts immediately without thought, regardless of your level of inebriation😜, sanity, degree of civility or IQ level 🥴and be protected by both the right of free speech (unless of course your views don't correspond with the Big Brothers of Google, Twitter and Facebook's views of life👹) and the internet firewall which means less bar fights perhaps, but leaves more people in need of an ass whoopin'. 🤼‍♂️🤛You're also not protected from your own stupidity🙃. And the rest of us have to endure your 1984's Two Minutes of Hate!👺☠💀 Of course you have the freedom to say what you want, but that doesn't mean you should. We all have knee jerk reactions, but so called "adulting" requires a little temperance to our response. Declaring what's wrong and screaming at anyone who might disagree... this is where we are today. 😪Social media has become the first resort for the "mob." The place where people shielded in anonymity, informed by their echo chamber of choice, encouraged to shock, regurgitate whatever nonsense, hate, and vitriol their unfiltered minds can come up with in limited space and thought. Instead of social media working as a boon to democracy and as a forum of discussion and the sharing of ideas, it's become the means to antagonize or appease and get votes from the sheep🐑. Social media has become the den of polarized factions where cogent and coherent arguments go to die, minority views get overweighted and the hate machine spends its time doxing enemies and publishing teenage quotes of those they disagree with and discounting those that don't feed their narrative!🐀 Now if that doesn't make you want to pop a cork on a 1.5 liter bottle of cab sauvignon then I don't know what will🍷.

The seven kingdoms might have dragons and "intimate" family relations🙈🙉🙊, but we have to deal with the hyper shrill voices crying and screaming and wailing about what happened🥵, or didn't happen... yeah #metoo and #ImWithHered. Oh well, moving on... time to poop or get off the pot as my Grandma would say. And since we're speaking of Democracy and the G.O.T... and everybody gets a say because they sit on a metaphorical throne... it's a good time to remember the difference is that the normal person's throne isn't made of iron... it's generally porcelain🚽. And according to all leading scientific publications, Washington Post and lab tests on rats (the real ones not the myriad candidates for the party of AYFKM), ...COFFEE causes you to poop☕! Go figure. If only I had known that was the reason for my morning sojourn to read the sports section📰, I might have done...EXACTLY THE SAME THING! Somebody pays money for this?💵 The odds of this not being the case was about the same as Beto or Corey becoming a viable presidential candidate... otherwise known as 2%ers. You know...the skim milk boys🍼... who are about as popular as cod liver oil and Joffrey Lannister. But hey... that's why they invented wine🍷. Don't sweat the small stuff. It doesn't matter who rules the Seven Kingdoms...it's a TV show... and as for social media pontificating...have a big cup of STFU... nobody's listening and nobody cares... but they will care if you offer wine... lighten up, loosen up, and drink up🍷... then everybody's happy... otherwise you're just following a bunch of TALKING HEADS on the Road to Nowhere...

Well we know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowing
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out

Yeah

We're on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Taking that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride
I'm feeling okay this morning
And you know
We're on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

The Mother Lode

If you take the art out of earth you're just left with eh, Antoinette.

Spoiler alert

Well it's May 13 and you know what that means...If you're a regular G.O.T. viewer then chances are you went on the Mother of all Benders last night 🍸and per chance woke up with the Mother of all Hangovers 🤕this morning especially if you think Mother's Day should be revered😇. Of course it's also National Fruit Cocktail Day, but I'm not talking about wannabe mothers Caitlyn J, I'm talking about the kind of drinks moms should be having🍹 not these new fangled ideas. When did it become normal for sons to be sharing a bottle of Crown Royal with moms? Next you'll start seeing commercials for "I don't always drink tequila, but when I do it's with mi madre." Huh? Mothers milk shouldn't be harsh!🍼🙈 Apparently, the powers that be behind the G.O.T. got their idea of mothers from Mommie Dearest! And in so doing committed an epic fail by showcasing the Mother of Dragons🐲, in the Mother of All Battles🤺, or should I say Mother of all Massacres, to create the Mother of All Bombs💣💥 to premier on Mother's Day. Hey mom, have a nice day... ain't that a mother#$%@!🙊 Is this where gender equality is taking us? What about harmony? Yin and Yang. Male and Female? Plug and Receptacle? 🙉We're creating a world where the most fearsome thing a kid can hear is their father saying, "I don't know... go ask your mother." 😰 Bring back the WhiteWalkers🧟‍♂️ cuz them "beatches be cray" and way colder than those northern winters above the wall❄! All the mothers and potential mothers are portrayed as cold hearted killers, teetering on the edge of sanity, with psychopathic lusts, single minded vengeance and passive aggressive scheming. In a show that's evolved to where all the top positions of power are held by women you're glad aren't your mother😢...it's a fitting reminder of what gender equality gets you...the equality of death⚰. Yeah I hear you SPCA types, worms gotta eat like everybody else... but if moms are no longer gonna be nurturing, what's gonna happen to "high school" movies like American Pie and classic music like Stacey's Mom where MILFS 👙are central to the overall plot development? 🙈🙉🙊 You know.... the good ol days like around One Million Years BC and mothers like Raquel Welch! 

Apparently, in G.O.T., not only do the XX's want equal pay for equal mayhem, they want to outdo Saddam Hussein for the title of Mother of all Villains🧛‍♀️...Mother#$%@! Not to mention in 8 years of character development, viewers were prepared for Cersei's lunatic fringe behavior🧟‍♀️... you always have to have one Femme Fatale Mean Girl, but to send Dani over the edge in just 2 shows, hint at Sansa's scheming for power, and reveal that Arya would rather kill with her dainty sword🤺 than settle for the love of a Sword making🗡 King🤴, with Princess 👸status and a palace full of Louboutins.👠 Huh? That ain't reality TV in the 90210! Instead, Arya's slippers are only ruby cuz they're filled with blood. Hmm? Call me sexist if you like, but I prefer my mothers and potential mothers (not you Caitlyn J) to be a little more motherly, and not in the cold blooded I gave birth to 3 flying reptiles🐲 with flame thrower 🔥breath mold. Remember G.O.T. folks... it's equality of opportunity not likeness or outcome. Leave the Gotterdamerung to Wagner, the Norse Gods and Siegfried, and let Brunhilde and the Rhine Maidens provide the soft pillows... yeah #metoo. Scheming is allowed, but loving the smell of napalm in the morning should not be high on the list for mother's little helper. Go with a nice Rosé, or sparkling brut🍾. Remember guys are gonna be guys. They're gonna drink whiskey, chug beers, scratch in public, get in fights, lie about their golf game, use the outdoor facilities, etc. But in order for harmony to exist, the world is gonna need the balance that only the yin can give the yang... you know a place to come home🔩. The yin provides the new (think birth... mothers👶) and the yang provides the solidity🗼 (think about all those embarrassing commercials at dinner time...fatherhood). Now you have harmony! Save the miseries of Gotterdamerung and the apocalypse to bad nachtmares and R.E.M. and don't ruin Mother's Day by crying It's The End of the World As We Know It...

Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower

Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline

It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)

Go ask your Mother!

Politicians and diapers need to be changed often and for the same reason Antoinette!

Well boys and girls and others who think they're different though really they're just boys and girls🙊...it's the first Monday of May and we all know what that means... yup International No Diet Day which means we get to eat and drink whatever we want and as much as we want which is probably not dissimilar to yesterday, Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for "I'll have the all you can eat Pancho Platter and a bottle of tequila!" It's also important to note that if you don't get your fill today, Saturday is National Eat What You Want Day. A day set aside to indulge your sweet tooth, have breakfast for dinner and beer for breakfast, a bacon milkshake, or you can decide to just ruin your dinner and eat a snack right before you sit down at the dining room table🤮.

Now all this is well and good, but do we really need anyone telling us what we can or can't, should or shouldn't, are allowed or not allowed to do☠. I'm a grown man, and more importantly an American man🇺🇸MAGA. This is the America of the can do, self-reliant, hard working, rugged individual, don't tread on me types. The nation founded on the Enlightenment principles that liberty and justice⚖ are based on the freedom of the individual which should be fiercely guarded at all costs... you probably heard about that... it's called the BILL OF RIGHTS! Now we live in a time where "we are a given days to eat what we want," are castigated because we like cheetos with our merlot, funions with our bourbon, and ice cream with our beer. What is the world coming to?  Who anointed themselves nutritionist of our diet👨‍🍳? Policeman of correctness👮‍♂️? Political scientist of our weather👨‍🔬? Social scientist of our sexuality🧚‍♂️? And moral arbiter of anything "they" find offensive🦸‍♂️? What's more... who the heck are they? What hubris. Well "they" of course refers to the self anointed group of elitist (in the worst sense of the word) who have taken upon themselves to inflict their presumed moral superiority on the rest of us hapless souls. They are made up of a cabal of the dim media, witless politicians, amoral hollyweirders, and ivory tower do nothing's. They believe it is their job to correct the "wrongs" of society and punish the sane with their puerile rants, hyperbolic screeds, and shrill condemnations of things that don't align with their 1st grade intellect and nefarious agenda👹🙈. Just think 1984. You know that Orwellian world of official deception, misrepresentation, surveillance, manipulation of history and misleading and redefined terminology ...Newspeak. In other words, a world run by the moronic in an oxymoronic way🙉. You know these people from the lofty towers of academia👨‍🏫, say anything to get elected swamp creatures🐍, I'm important cuz I'm pretty entertainers💃, and we control all information media disinformationists🗣. Well Herr Goebbels, Dr Jekyll, Alyssa Milano, and AOC, Ilhan, Tlaib, Schiff and all the other sombrero de culos out there... have a big mug of STFU☕. We don't need your snowflake agenda of microaggressions, weakness manifested into the need to control, and accusatory blame 👉for you're own inabilities. Feel free to pray to your false gods of socialism, wallow in your Hollywood amorality, or drown in the tears of your own pool of righteous indignation. The front of the herd will just keep marching forward🐂, unfettered by the weakness of those who couldn't survive without the strength of the herd❄, nor have success without the weakness of the sheep🐑. Us Individuals need to protect the country from those leading us towards mass government, mass media, and mass sheep herding before 1984 isn't a year but a way of life. Those of you who feel comfortable in your echo chambers of cognitive dissonance where facts are burdens #AOC, who desire to create victims instead of achievers, and thrive on divisiveness instead of success to ensure power... have a drink🍸. In fact, have a whole night. Do some keg stands🍺. Get happy. Hook up👅💋! Get in a fight🤺. Maybe a good punch in the nose 👊👃will slap some sense in you and you'll realize that concentrating more money and more power in the hands of big brother is just stupid. Remember what theologian/philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned while in prison and before being executed by the National Socialist Workers Party (NAZIS), "the power of one depends on the stupidity of the other... and we must guard against stupidity." And as another great philosopher/comedian Ron White said,  "you can't fix stupid." Guard against stupid. Eat and drink what you think is best. Get your morality from church and or your family instead of Hollywood and the swamp. You're an adult now and can choose for yourself... unless your mother says otherwise... always listen to your mother. Besides this weekend is Mother's Day and National Limerick Day... but you don't have to wait... celebrate limericks anytime and mother's all the time just like dragons do:

There once was a mother of house targaryen

Who was the mom of 3 ungrateful reptilians

But on mother's day they remembered

That if they didn't want to be dismembered

They had better get her the iron throne-to-sit-in.

Have a great week. Eat, drink hearty and go anywhere you want cuz you decide to on your own volition unless of course your mother says differently. You can ask any Three Eyed Raven, or better yet any  Three Dogs in the Night and they'll tell you the same: If Mama Tells You Not To Go... don't 

Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea
What are these crazy questions
That they're asking of me
This is the craziest party
That there ever could be
Oh, don't turn on the light
'Cause I don't want to see

Mama told me not to come

Mama told me not to come

That ain't the way to have fun