{"id":9600,"date":"2026-05-16T03:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9600"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:57:05","slug":"quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Sorry for some breaks in the transmission so to speak. Been busy-busy as you can well imagine with Muldoon as well as &#8216;other things&#8217;. In this case helping G get set up so she can study for the real estate exam as her BFF&#8217;s family owns a highly successful R.E. company, and her BFF wants to bring her on ASAP well&#8230; since we&#8217;re BOTH currently among the &#8216;jobless&#8217; I mean, we&#8217;ll take anything we can get<br><br>And if that means -I- become &#8220;Mr. Mom&#8221; then so be it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mrmom.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mrmom.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mrmom-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">TELL me Terri Garr <strong>wasn&#8217;t<\/strong> a TOTAL SMOKESHOW back then and I&#8217;ll call you Gottverdammt LIAR!!! <br><br>So a big difference would be that THIS Mr. Mom will be toting a Flammenwerfer and enough ammunition to fight off a Horde O&#8217;Hajjis or the like&#8230; Orcs Beware!<br><br>We&#8217;re making it. I&#8217;ve been now rejected by 42 jobs out of a tracked 60 I&#8217;ve applied for, with no real response. The other thing I&#8217;ve noticed in this fake-as-fuck Economy and Ghey as Hell Employment or ATTEMPT to BECOME employed is just <strong>how many fucking scammers there out there now.<\/strong><br><br>To the point I&#8217;m <em>reeeeally hoping<\/em> G pulls off this real esate thing, as well&#8230; I&#8217;m &#8220;too male, too pale, and too stale&#8221; to be marketable apparently. Thing of it is, the forgotten part is guys like me? We <strong>persevere.<\/strong> We <strong>adapt.<\/strong> We <strong>improvise.<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t survive being a Gen X kid drinking from a hose outside by being a fucking quitter nor pussy. I&#8217;ll figure it out. I always do&#8230;<br><br>Now otherwise, because of the current &#8220;Muldoon Business&#8221; I haven&#8217;t been able to really pay attention to the &#8216;current thing&#8217; and this is a good thing.<br><br>HOWEVER<br><br>One of y&#8217;all in the comments pointed out that the surveillance? The &#8216;watchers&#8217; as I call them? That I have no fucking clue who these people are, but in my own eyes, I sure AF am NOT important enough to warrant such attention IMO&#8230;. that &#8216;they&#8217; for lack of a better definition and the dumping of the stolen ride in my yard <em>may<\/em> have been a probe?<br><br>Well&#8230; I&#8217;m starting to lean in on that.<br><br>&#8216;Cos there was three days BEFORE that when I was prepping for Gretchen and Muldoon to visit with her BFF by loading the car&#8230; The guy who lives across the street? Yeeeeeeeah <strong>that <\/strong>fucking guy&#8230;. the one who if you threatened to kill me horrifically UNLESS I could give you his first name? <br><br>Yeah, I&#8217;d be a dead Mo&#8217;Fo&#8230;. The same fukkin&#8217; guy who after I met him for four minutes, two years later goes &#8220;Hey Billy&#8221; one fine day as I was bringing my trash in&#8230;. THAT was a &#8216;tell&#8217;&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t have told you this motherfucker&#8217;s name if I was threatened with death like I said&#8230;<br><br>Now mind you, I was told, and as memory serves, during that <strong>initial meeting<\/strong> I was told he had been a medical INTERN at UPENN Medical Center, which <em>just so happens <\/em>to be where at the time, my Loader from my Tank was working as a Captain of the UPENNMC and knew <strong>everybody<\/strong>! Popeye, to this DAY, is closer to me than my own flesh and blood TBH.<br><br>Hence the shortness of the meeting, &#8216;cos as soon as I mentioned Popeye, these motherfuckers popped smoke and actively avoided me until two years later when I was bringing in the trash cans&#8230;<br><br>Cut to 4, maybe 5 days ago.<br><br>Moving a 5 month old bebe requires a LOT of planning and logistics, nevermind gear and bullshit, especially for an overnight visit.<br><br>So I made one trip, then a second.<br><br>On the second one, let&#8217;s call him &#8220;The Watcher&#8221; is out in the front yard (his), <em>directly across from my loading the car<\/em> <strong>RAKING THE LEAVES. <\/strong>The reason for the bolding on that? <br><br>That motherfucker has <strong>never. ever. EVER. done ANY yard work in the ENTIRE time him and his &#8216;fiancee&#8217; have lived there.<\/strong> <br><br>Like no shit, 5+ plus years, NEVER raked\/mowed&#8230; NADA!<br><br>And trust me, I know.<br>So I broke cover. <br>Said &#8220;Fuck it&#8221; to myself.<br>Went over.<br>Filled him in on &#8216;current events&#8217;<br><br>During that, this&#8217;s when he slipped&#8230; again. Instead of being an &#8216;Internist\/Doc&#8217; like I was originally told on our first meeting, he&#8217;s a Nurse Anesthesiologist now? Now I have <strong>no idea<\/strong> if he was an Intern for that per se, but I was led to believe BEFORE he and his female partner bailed on when I mentioned that I might know someone who could confirm their bonafides, that he was a sawbones-in-training &#8216;cos I mentioned how I&#8217;d LOVE for a doc to be in the neighborhood if things go to shit&#8230;<br><br>Then 3? days later, Mister Mystery Monkeyman drops a stolen hoopty in my yard? And rolls out WITHOUT looking at my crib AT ALL?<br><br>Well today &#8216;iced the cake&#8217;<br><br>There&#8217;s been a couple of &#8216;new faces&#8217; in the neighborhood. Unfamiliar faces. <br><br>Rarely do I see some of them more than once.<br><br> Most are doing the &#8216;exercise walking&#8217; thing&#8230; some are walking dogs. One particular asshole who HAS been recurring as of late, has a <strong>seriously<\/strong> dog-aggressive Pitbull that he <strong>barely<\/strong> has control over, which is a MAJOR red flag to me. I try to watch out for the pair of them, as they are NOT from my part of the neighborhood&#8230; In fact I&#8217;ve never seen where they are actually living, which means I need to up my own surveillance and find out where he calls &#8216;home&#8217;&#8230; and find out WHO owns it and HOW LONG this particular unpleasant fuckstain has lived in there.<br><br>See&#8230; I let The Sausage Princess off lead &#8216;cos she&#8217;s <strong>great.<\/strong> <br>BEST trained Sausage <strong>EVVAR.<\/strong><br><br>She&#8217;s HIGHLY trained due to the first Wife teaching ME how to properly train a doggo (credit where credit is due). Chili is learning, but gets too hyper. TBH, she&#8217;s a fucking spazz&#8230;. <br><br>USUALLY They stay close to me, but today, Dis Fuckin&#8217; Dood was on the edge of my property, (apparently already having gone past the house according to the video on the cameras when I checked) walking HIS mutt, when Chili, doing the HYPER Black Lab puppy thing, charged towards him and his psychomutt&#8230; who goes berserk while on his lead&#8230; |<br><br>Hence why I try NOT to walk my pooches when he&#8217;s oot and aboot.<br><br>I yell at both my doggos, who slink back towards me &#8216;cos they know &#8220;Daddy&#8217;s mad!&#8221; Should have been the end of it right? <br>Nope<br>Not so mucho.<br>This is the point he starts yelling at me about &#8220;&#8230;.keeping my\/the dogs on a leash, and that this is the second time! and that next time, he&#8217;ll shoot my dogs if&#8217;n he sees them running around loose!&#8221; or threats to that effect&#8230;<br><br><strong>WHOA there Tex<\/strong><br>What the <strong>fuck<\/strong> did you say????<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bugs-bunny-war.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9602\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I <strong>immediately <\/strong>dragged BOTH doggos back into the house.<br>I then sat on it, raging inside.<br>Like white hot <strong>killing rage.<\/strong><br><strong>You utterly dumb fucktard<\/strong>.<br><br>Thankfully<br>G saw my fury, and reminded me that Muldoon needs a Dada here, not behind bars&#8230;. which granted considering how murder-filled I was what with some fucking scumbag threatening MY dogs in MY part of the neighborhood on MY property???<br><br>I think, on reflection, I need to call Jimmy at the Sherriff&#8217;s Department, as ALL the HCSO know and LOVE the Sausage Princess, and I&#8217;m going to start open carrying the AK when we have doggo-doo-doo time&#8230; Just to make a statement. Let that fucker say or come near my A.O.<br><br>I mean it&#8217;d be ONE THING if my dogs were a potential threat&#8230;.<br><br>However, Stella is OLD and SLOW. <br>Chili, besides pupper hyperactivity is the BIGGEST coward in the known Doggie-verse. (it&#8217;s the mini-french poodle in her&#8230; VERY afraid and hi-strung) that&#8217;s a WHOOOOOLE other thing&#8230;.. when some jumped up &#8216;tard with an out of control dog wants to tell ME how to handle MY dogs on MY property???<br><br>Oh fuck no.<br><br>I&#8217;ll alert and let the &#8216;Imperials&#8217; handle it<br>I&#8217;m too busy for jail-time.<br><br>But yeah, I <strong>feel<\/strong> like I&#8217;m being provoked.<br>MAYBE I&#8217;m not, but that lil voice in my head, the one that kept me alive in Iraq and Affy for so long? It&#8217;s <em><strong>rarely<\/strong><\/em> been wrong so my head is on a swivel, I&#8217;m upping my carry game, and watching my six.  It&#8217;s all I can do&#8230;.<br><br>FFS, All I want is <strong>to be left alone.<\/strong><br>What part of that do they NOT understand?<br><br>More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60000001.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60000001.webp 568w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60000001-206x300.webp 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 85vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Sorry for some breaks in the transmission so to speak. Been busy-busy as you can well imagine with Muldoon as well as &#8216;other things&#8217;. In this case helping G get set up so she can study for the real estate exam as her BFF&#8217;s family owns a highly successful R.E. company, and her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9600"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9622,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}