I am a member of the greatest brotherhood of man in all of human history: The US Military Brotherhood. I am a Combat Veteran, a Tanker, Tank Commander, and Abrams Master Gunner. I have served my time in hell (multiple combat and hardship tours over more than 11 years of service) in defense of YOUR individual rights and our collective society. I am a proud Patriot and Defender of the Flag. I have literally sacrificed my own blood, sweat, and tears, my time, my physical, my emotional, and some of my mental well-being for the ideals of the American Nation and the American Democratic Republic. If any or all of this bothers you or you object to the military on “moral” grounds and you oppose war in the interest of your freedom and the national defense then you can go fuck yourself, preferably with a large cactus coated liberally with herpeghonasyphilaids (or as my best friend says it: ghonaherpesyphilaids).

Peace through superior firepower and making the other poor bastard die for his country is the ONLY way to obtain and maintain peace. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly and carry a big stick. There is NO way to obtain or maintain peace without having a military. Those VERY FEW countries in history that were neutral and military-less were ONLY able to maintain that military-less neutrality through beneficent action on the part of neighboring and allied countries who DID maintain a military. If you think otherwise you are not only stunningly, staggeringly naive but also you are a moronic dumbass who clearly has not read, much less studied human history. I don’t care if you think that is “mean” or any other applicable adjective. You are a fucktarded moron if you think peace, love, and putting flowers in gun barrels can stop an aggressive and hostile army. The ONLY thing that can stop an armed and hostile nation’s military from destroying you, us, our society, and our way of life is an equal or better armed, better equipped, better trained and larger military force than theirs to prevent them from carrying out their hostile intent. This does NOT mean that I am in favor of un-provoked attacking of other nations and the “nation building” the US Government seems to be a huge fan of in the last 200 years. In fact my personal inclination is Jeffersonian and non-interventionist (but NOT isolationist) in nature following John Stuart Mills’ writing on the subject. Basically: leave them alone to their own devices as much as they leave us alone and only interact when necessary for trade or international cooperation (preferably for humanitarian and scientific goals). In his words:

There seems to be no little need that the whole doctrine of non-interference with foreign nations should be reconsidered, if it can be said to have as yet been considered as a really moral question at all… To go to war for an idea, if the war is aggressive, not defensive, is as criminal as to go to war for territory or revenue; for it is as little justifiable to force our ideas on other people, as to compel them to submit to our will in any other respect. But there assuredly are cases in which it is allowable to go to war, without having been ourselves attacked, or threatened with attack; and it is very important that nations should make up their minds in time, as to what these cases are… To suppose that the same international customs, and the same rules of international morality, can obtain between one civilized nation and another, and between civilized nations and barbarians, is a grave error…

The disputed question is that of interfering in the regulation of another country’s internal concerns; the question whether a nation is justified in taking part, on either side, in the civil wars or party contests of another: and chiefly, whether it may justifiably aid the people of another country in struggling for liberty; or may impose on a country any particular government or institutions, either as being best for the country itself, or as necessary for the security of its neighbours.

When the contest is only with native rulers, and with such native strength as those rulers can enlist in their defence, the answer I should give to the question of the legitimacy of intervention is, as a general rule, No. The reason is, that there can seldom be anything approaching to assurance that intervention, even if successful, would be for the good of the people themselves. The only test possessing any real value, of a people’s having become fit for popular institutions, is that they, or a sufficient portion of them to prevail in the contest, are willing to brave labour and danger for their liberation. I know all that may be said, I know it may be urged that the virtues of freemen cannot be learnt in the school of slavery, and that if a people are not fit for freedom, to have any chance of becoming so they must first be free. And this would be conclusive, if the intervention recommended would really give them freedom. But the evil is, that if they have not sufficient love of liberty to be able to wrest it from merely domestic oppressors, the liberty which is bestowed on them by other hands than their own, will have nothing real, nothing permanent. No people ever was and remained free, but because it was determined to be so…

This does NOT mean I am anti-peace or pro-war. Not in the least. In fact, I am very pro-peace. But as I stated, and as Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus wrote: Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war).

As a Veteran I am fluent in sarcasm, and cursing, in multiple languages. I am not afraid of words and I will use whatever words I deem necessary to make whatever point I am making. Words themselves are inherently offense-less. Any offense that words may or may not convey are 100% the perception of the hearer of those words. I don’t care if you have delicate sensibilities. YOUR delicate sensibilities are NOT MY problem. They are YOURS. If your poor little feelers get hurt, well…too fucking bad. Offense is taken not given. Grow up, build a bridge, get the fuck over it, and welcome to the adult world of Reality and Life-Is-Not-Fair. If any or all of these bother you or you object to these, do not follow any of my social media accounts or read this blog. If you have delicate sensibilities and are offended by sounds emitting from the mouth of another human or letter shapes on a page, you wont like me, you wont like what I have to say, you wont like my writing, you wont like what I write about, and you wont like how I write about it…and all of this bothers me not the least bit.

I speak, and write EXACTLY what I think and know. I pull no punches and I cut no slack for anyone regardless of their title, position, age, gender, sexual orientation, paygrade, life status, religious beliefs, or anything else. I don’t care if you are the POTUS, Pope, Einstein, or the lowest IQ, burger-flipping, high-school-drop-out.

I am a Libertarian and an Egalitarian and I advocate for the rights of every individual’s rights over any groups’ collective rights, and every groups’ collective human rights over ANY governmental rights. I believe in EVERY American’s Constitutional rights WITHOUT EXCEPTION. These include, but are not limited to, Freedom OF & FROM Religion, The Right to Bear Arms, Equality and Equal Protection Under The Law For Every Person. I am Pro-Gun and Pro-Choice. Black Lives Matter. Period. NO lives can matter until the lives of those who are “least valued” by a given society are elevated to equal value and status. The Blue Lives Matter movement is a white supremacist counter-argument against Black Lives Matter. That does not mean that the lives of Police do not matter. Not at all. What it means is that the entire argument of Blue versus Black lives matter is that the Blue Lives Matter argument is an intention dissembling and obfuscation intended to distract and repudiate the claim that Black Lives Matter. I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I don’t give a flying fuck what you think of ANY of these statements. If these things bother you, do not read this blog, You clearly cannot handle it. You will not like me, and I will not like you and I am totally cool with that.

I am an atheist inclinations. I have been in combat and the whole “No atheists in foxholes” thing…yeah that’s complete bullshit. Anyone that says is is either a moronic dumbass whose never been in combat, a moronic dumbass whose bible thumping is blocking their view of reality, or is just a plain moronic dumbass who spouts unfounded, unsupported, and fact-defying bullshit just to drown out the idiocy barreling around in their own head. I am a secular humanist NOT a Satanist. Satan worshiping is just as bullshit as the rest of every single other bullshit religion. “Atheist” and “Agnostic” are NOT synonyms with devil worshiper, Satanist, or “evil,” and if you think they are you are too stupid to be alive. Anyone that tells you they are synonyms has clearly not picked up a dictionary and is clearly not well versed in the English language. If you don’t know the difference you are too stupid to reproduce. Go buy a dictionary you dumb fucking moron. Idiot torah/bible/koran-thumpers claim that atheists simply have not read the (insert specific bullshit religious book flavor here) and that is why they are atheist. The reality of the situation is the majority of Agnostic and Atheist inclined persons have actually read those bullshit religious books and the critical-reading and analysis of those bullshit religious books is 100% WHY those non-believers are non-believers.

Every American has a Constitutional right to believe whatever belief they want. I fought for and will always fight for, every Americans’ continuing right to believe whatever religious belief they want. BUT, if you believe in religious writings from desert-dwelling, unwashed, uneducated, stone-age, goat-fucking, sheepherders and also think they were inspired by any sort of deity rather than suffering from nothing more than dehydration induced hallucination, I will severely doubt your logic, your rationality, your reason, and your critical thinking skills. If you think organized religion is about ANYTHING other than money and attempting to control people, especially their thoughts and actions. You are too stupid to reproduce. In addition, I am not only NOT afraid to call you on your mythological bullshit and religious hypocrisy, I will do so at length and I will do so with sources, evidence, data, and proof to back up why you are wrong, including but not limited to, using your own holy books’ words against you. Because, yes, I have read them, probably more of them, from more different religions, and probably more times than you have (pretty much all of them at least once and most of them more than once) and yes, I am fully aware that they are absolutely CHOCK FULL of contradictions (of which there are more than 145 major and more than 2500 minor in the KJV of JUST the christian’s bible alone…and lets ignore the literally hundreds of biblical claims that have been completely proven false by modern science). And let us not ignore (like all the believers) the rampant, inveterate, perpetual, hypocrisy, racism, sexism, misogyny, that all of these religious books contain. These things combined are probably the single most important factor in why I was raised religious, but I am not only not religious anymore, but I am indeed, anti-religion.

In addition I take great personal pleasure in pointing out all of those problems to anyone and everyone that feels the need to post some dumbfuckery religious crap in a public forum. If you comment on this blog you will NOT be immune from having the “bullshit card” thrown at you when you post ridiculous bullshit religious crap AND I do not give one shit about your feelings. I have no problem with people having their own opinion, you can pick whichever your favorite flavor of bullshit is and swallow as much of it as you want, but don’t expect any of the rest of us to chow down the same stupid bullshit you want to stuff you empty head with. If your OPINION is contradicted by actual real facts, I will 1) make fun of you, 2) point out EXACTLY how stupid your opinion and lack of facts makes you, 3) delete your idiotic comments to save others from having to read your idiocy, and 4) eventually block you if you are stupid enough to piss me off that much. Yes, you have a First Amendment right to have your opinion, and to express same opinion, but this is MY blog and I will delete your idiotic comments out of hand if they are unacquainted with facts, and reality. This includes but is not limited to religious fucktardery, and conspiracy theorist idiocy. If you are a basement-dwelling, farrady-cage-building, tinfoil-hat-wearing, moronic fucktard you will be summarily deleted and blocked after one dumbass comment. If you are a bible-thumping, holier-than-everyone-else, judgmental, fucktard you will be blocked and deleted after one such comment. Further, if you post bullshit dumbfuckery on this blog your comments will be summarily deleted. I own this blog and as such I am the SOLE decider of what is and is not considered deletion worthy. If you don’t like it…too fucking bad. Make your own blog if you want to spew your bullshit fact-devoid OPINIONS.

If you have an opinion that is contradicted by FACTS and you remain firmly convinced that your OPINION is correct and the FACTS are wrong, you are a dumbass. I have no mercy or sympathy for you or on you. Intelligent people recognize when their opinions have been damaged or destroyed by FACTS, and as soon as this happens intelligent people modify and update their opinions to reflect the most current and reliable FACTS. If you do anything OTHER than this you are a fucking idiot and I have no respect for you or your opinions.

I am a full time Professional & Technical Writer and also a high-ranking Grammar Nazi (like Field Marshall level). I get paid to proofread and edit other peoples’ writing. I get paid to READ stuff for FACTUAL, TRUTHFUL content, correct grammar, and clear unambiguous meaning. Heavy emphasis on FACTUAL. Among my personal goals as an English Language Professional is to work to improve every person’s individual writing and communication skills. If these things don’t bother you (then apparently I’m not trying hard enough) and the amount of butthurt you will be is not too much for you to handle, then feel free to read and follow this blog, otherwise, have a great life.

Another of my personal goals is to improve the number and quality of FACTUAL information sources and articles available on the web. Another is to thoroughly and completely debunk BULLSHIT, mis-information, dis-information, propaganda, and so called “alternative facts.” While we are on the topic, there is no such thing as “alternative-facts.” Trump and all his lying, uneducated, stupid fucking toadies are moronic dumbasses. And before you jump to the conclusion that I am a Hell-Liary Flimpton cheerleader, let me firmly dis-abuse you of that idiotic assumption. The Clintons’ level of corruption, dishonesty, and sleaze has only been topped in American Politics by ONE person to ever run for public office, and he is the current Moron-in-Chief. It is a toss-up which one of these despicable and useless criminal Russian stooges was a worse choice for President. Both of them are about equally corrupt. Both are about equally sleazy. Both are about equally guilty of being bought and paid for bribed stooges of multiple foreign governments and entities. Both have a near non-existent relationship with truth, facts, and reality. Both of them liberally blame everyone around them for their own failings and mis-steps (except the actually responsible parties…themselves). Both of them are totally and completely morally and ethically bankrupt. I voted for Johnson. I’d rather have a guy who can’t figure out what an “Aleppo” is than have a guy (or girl) who sucks Putin’s dick and takes it on the face, and gets paid under the table by all the most despicable, human-rights-violating enemies of the US (err…I mean allies, like Saudi Arabia), in the interest of maintaining “good relations” for reasons of overseas corporate interests.

There are FACTS that are demonstrably provable through evidence, experiments, math, logic, reason, critical thinking, and the scientific method, and then there is everything else. If it is part of “everything else” it is commonly known as any one or more of the following descriptors: bullshit, lies, propaganda, mis-information, dis-information, Trumpisms, idiocy, dumbfuckery, fucktardery, moronic vomit, and mouth diarhea. I don’t care how strongly you believe whatever bullshit is your favorite flavor, nor whose ass, shit your favorite flavored bullshit out. If it isn’t fact, it is nothing more than bullshit. Yes, by the Constitution, you are entitled to your opinion. But NO, I am NOT required, by that same Constitution, to entertain, honor, respect, or publish your bullshit opinion. If your opinion has no basis in fact, then it is inherently worthless. If you make a claim that is unsupportable or unsupported by evidence or any other kind of proofs, it can be, and will be, discarded and ridiculed out of hand without mercy.

IF I like you, I will be “constructive” in my criticism, if not, well…You have been warned. (This does NOT mean everything I post is free from grammatical mistakes and typos…we are all human after all and I am no more mistake free than anyone else).

Welcome to my blog, enjoy, and Carpe Diem, or Fuck Off, whichever is applicable to your choice.

Ranticus Maximus