and, i’s rainin’,,,,
so now I get to carry on with my thoughts prior. Maybe even sound coherent and not ranting,,, Yah, I know I was getting irate,,, May be there was a bit of coffee involved,,, (thats my story, and I’m stickin’ to it)
Seriously though, if you really want an insight into just how fucked up this government is, you need only look at the debackles of the Littoral ships and the F-35’s BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars for high-tech paperweights. And they aren’t even good at that function. Seriously, the MIC started down the hill to ‘useless and deadly (to the troops)’ back in the 60’s and the only DECENT thing they came up with was the Mouse gun. As a former carrier of fun-stuff, the LAW was far more reliable than the AT4, The Mark19 should never have been taken off it’s vehicle mounts and the Blooper is still the queen of the dance between hand grenade and mortar tube. (please recall, I was Marine back in the late 80’s early 90’s,,,,Uncle Sams Misguided Children, and the red-headed stepchild that always got hind teat. We were still using PRC-68’s for comms,,, Left overs from ‘Nam!!!! The Hummer was the most up to date peice of gear we were issued,,, and usually those came from the Army’s DRMO to us,,, wore out and looking like it.)
As for the ships,,, never spent a day on anything that wasn’t a troop carrier, but THAT ship was the schizznizzle to us Jarheads: the USS TARAWA, big LHA-!. I spent about a year on that ship in total, including the float to Kuwait and back. She was ‘home sweet home’ for the 2ndBn/1st MARDIV. She wasn’t fast, she wasn’t armed to the teeth, but she did the job and carried a FUCKTon of Marines and gear to the beachheads. An entire Battery of Howitzers and support gear, 10 Abrahms and support, as well as a fleet of copters and squadron of Harriers. plus all the ammo/fuel/food needed to get the party started and first line of defense as a hospital ship IF NEEDED. (she has since been decommissioned and I believe they have already started the process to strip then scuttle her 😦 )
All while they blow mad money on a ship that can’t leave sight of shore because it might run out of gas or blow one of its engines or worse; the way to connect those engines to the drive,,,, Ships ‘designed’ to replace 50% of the fleet that can’t even make a decade of service before they are JUNK. The TARAWA was over 50 when I was on her, and still kickin’ butt and moving us grunts and gunners about.
All of that. The incompetence, the corruption, the CONFUSION that the MIC has done to the Military,,, that is just a reflection of what is going on in the bigger picutre of our Government. Its a blurry reflection of whats going on with our election system.
Engineers have a saying about complicated systems. SIMPLER IS BETTER. Keep the redundant stuff to minimal and you get a more stable system. Our systems are so complicated and buried under legilstion and regulation,,,,, Tax lawyers have to specialize in ONE aspect of the tax law to be effective; to cover all aspects takes an army of lawyers,,,, Just ask Trumped how many lawyers he has on staff to keep him legal,,, (and they still can’t keep the buzzards at bay.)
and our election system,,, those machines aren’t there to make it ‘right’; they are their to make it easier to steal. They were able to tabulate the voats in one night for generations, but ‘somehow’ those machines are always making it harder and harder to get the counts right (which is my sarcastic way of saying that they are fucking with them.)
break it, burn it down, whatever, but we need to ‘restart’ the system AFTER we have stripped all the Goldberg device workarounds installed over time.
the hardest part will be teaching those that LOVE this system why they are so wrong,,, and You can’t really teach self reliance in those that have no concept of self,,,,
And here it comes,,,,
The counter-narrrative, the propaganda corps, the gas-lighting,,,,
Take a gander at the comments section and tell me that there are zero ‘agents’ involved.
Then I pop over to WRSA, and read through things there,,,, Starting to see a pattern to how this game is being played,
AND WE ARE BEING PLAYED.
it ebbs and flows like tidal pulls. And it morphs to fit the niches it missed.
AND I am pointing fingers at both sides of the debate. Both are guilty as sin of it. I get that you need to adapt your weapons to counter those of your enemy,
but there is this thing called TRUTH, I hold it in high regard personally, Despise liars, theives and other miscreants. and I don’t like being played with.
SO here is my take. The narrative on these shores has taken a turn against the party of evil, looking like the black horse in the race is going to start gaining leads despite the obstacles SHOWERED upon him,,,, ruh-roh shaggy,,, gotz to goose the boiler plate to keep the frogs from jumpin’
so split the narrtive out that Vodkamanbad is about to become Professor Atomic on the world, by using the current “Administered” events over there, and have some shills hit key red hives with counter-counter-narrative to spin the thinks back towards ‘home’,,, Lets show how POSITIVE the Uke war has been and how its allowed new industry to pop up out of the muck and mire of the Russian meatgrinder. (yes, that is entirely possible, but its NOT THE POINT. ITs damned talking point to distract and confuse!!!!)
Here is AMERICA’S problem. We are sunk financially and the Shaminstration is Sinking us further. We know this is completely with the blessing off the banksters of the world because, hey, who would’t want a customer that you can use with impunity,,, (so long as your ethics are fluid like jello.) Said same Shaministration is showing every sign that the current (S)election cycle is already in the bag, DESPITE growing opposition. This is either a confidence ploy, or there are other factors in play alongside the fraud already planned: and don’t think assassination is off the table of options. (they just killed a couple hundred innocents to ‘send a message’, whats one more body on the stack they have been building.)
We Ameri-CANS need to focus, our problem is NOT “Over there”,, Its RIGHT THE FUCK HERE AND ON THE BOOBUS-TOOOBUS EVERY DAMNED DAY. Our own ‘government’ or more like: that thing that is wearing the flag in its stead,,,, Yes, we voated for this, only, no, we didn’t,,,, not when I see even democrats running for safer shores trying to figure out what went sour,,,,
more laters after I do the J.O.B. thing,,,
Muhndaze gone,,,,
I have the setting sun illuminating my desk as I tap this out,,,
Wee Sis is in town with her daughter and two grans,,, Wonderful kids,,,, gave this old codger a boost of hope for the futures,,,, I worry at the same time though. Bright souls like that could easily become bitter and grudging souls if things keep going in certain directions.
BUT, I can not let that shit eat at me or I blackpill,,,, Don’wanna go dere!!
Spent a bit on the porch talkin’ to Da while Wee Sis and kids took a walk (to wear the littles out,,, man are they the energizer bunny incarnate!!) Frustrations abound,,, Da’s frustrated, wants to see resolution before he dies, knows that may not be possible, wants to see Joe Biden and Crew Swinging, and then tosses up hands, ‘but what can WE do,,,,”
Boring Old Man commented on last post, Same thing “Frustration tank is filled to overflowing” ,,,
Hear it from a former Democrat, Bossman,,, Won’t ever vote Democrat again, is blown away by how CORRUPT and OFF-BASE this current ‘regime’ is,,, says it reminds him of things he read when a kid about Korea and other Dicatorships,,, “Never thought I would see it HERE,,,,”
HOW?
Claire Wolfe had the saying “too soon to shoot the bastards”, but how far down that road do we have to go before that is “The only option”,,,, Seems to me that the longer it takes to get to that point, the tighter the grip gets and the less likely we are to succeed.
I dunno,,, I see options, pre-kinetic ones, that can be taken: Like a massive tax revolt where everyone just stops paying into the system. That may not shut them down, but its going to give them pause, maybe even bring some adults into the room to straighten out the mess before things DO go kinetic.
The real question lay at this: Does that side have any adults LEFT to take control?
I’m going to hazard a guess: ‘No, they don’t.’ As one other writer put it, “the asylum inmates are running the show and the Joker is now the Chief of Police in Gotham.”
But what can we do?
Fly the Eagles of freedom, be Proffessor Bernardo de le Paz from ‘The Moon is a harsh Mistress”, Obey what makes sense and tell the rest to take a flying leap, preferably into a running Morbark, feet first,,,
Don’t Frickin’ Comply!! take your taxes back, stop feeding the beast. Figure out what sort of sand you can create that messes with whatever gears you can find exposed. Get into local politics if you can stomach such. Fight from the inside (again, if you can stomach such,,, I can not) We know that protesting is beyond worthless, we know ‘calling our representatives’ has as much effect as scratching that itch on your ass by scratching your nose. We know that they are no longer hiding the fact that they don’t give a damn about ‘some peice of paper’ sequestered under heavy glass in the archives of a museum. In fact, by their attitudes about it, I think they would prefer to wipe their asses with it than read it and or even acknowledge its existance.
Keep up the fight, keep up the preps, you do NOT have enough ammo,,, and be ready for when November hits and ALL OF THIS comes to a head. It may not happen immediately, but Me thinks that when it gets rolling, its going to be the avalanche that can not be stopped; it must expend its energy in its own way.
Never EVER forget, we outnumber them.
and we still have our guns. ( and you can bet that keeps them up at nights,,,,)
Optimistic rationale
Turn of phrase for my wrap up post tonight,,,
Made it to Church, but didn’t get Lyssa wet. Winds whipping out of the east had the lake in chaos and saw more bassboats pulling out sayin’, “don’t bother, that winds killin’ it”
Solo, yeah, no go,,, Don’t wanna be a statistic,,, That was the rationale anyways,,,
the optimism was sitting in a lee spot on shore and looking at the world that I could have been on and thinking,,,
about absolutely nothing,,,
just sitting, looking at the world, the water, the waves, the clear skies and the formations of forest and rocks that make up the shorelines.
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I ended the last post rather ubruptly, essentially yelling STOP, I am starting to see more and more of that from Normals,,, People getting frustrated by all the shenanigans,,,, Like spending bills of 1000 pages with only 24 hours to be put to vote and then the thing passes,,, SAY WHAT?!?!? WHY? that shit has been going on for far too long and that needs to STOP ASAP, and those bills that were passed in this way need retracted,,, its bullshit,,, its the Pee-lousy “we have to pass it to see whats in it” crap that has carried us down this road since 2001. If you don’t know whats in the bill, the response should be an automatic “NOPE!”. or “NOT UNTIL WE HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THE DETAILS”
Oh, and we know the two characters that started that shit,,, Screw’emmore, and McTurtle,,,, Key faces to the UniParty front.
STOP!!!
we need to shut it down, shut it down, get a grip on the levers, and start the machine back up on its original foundations; not this jacked up, jacked around, Goldberg device that works to enrich an oligarchy. I keep hearing ‘term limits’ bandied about, and I would like to add “EVEN FOR THE BUREAUCRATS!!!” No Career runs,,, 10 years max for the office workers,,, And their ability to ‘add’ to the Federal Register MUST CEASE!!!! if’n it doesn’t go through the Legislature or the Executive, its NULL AND VOID.
And whatever happened to paying the Legislators Per DIem, Not salaries? They, at one time, actually lived in thier districts between sessions, not just vacationed there while residing in the district. There are reasons this montrosity has grown so horrid.
Too many things that can be merely ‘tweaked’ to fix this shit, but it takes getting rid of the current problem and starting the machine over,,, Not an overhaul, just a reduction of extraneous moving parts. SERIOUS REDUCTION, but reduction nonetheless.
And here it is, the last week of March, and the clock is ticking. No predictions, still too early, but I has feelings,,,, NOV-Jan25 is going to be, not a tipping point: A PIVOT POINT. The whole direction of this country turns on what happens in those three months. That is about as prognositcator as I am going to get. I only hope that Trumped has GOOD, and I do mean GOOD security. Not just the Secret Service protection.
I couldn’t give a shit less about the animitronic corpse TBH,,,,
I just want my country back,,,
Keep on livin’
rational optimism
(HT to Matt Ridley for his book)
Read a post by Orvan Taurus and left a longish comment, and now, takin’ it a step further here.
I have to keep this in my hind brain or I really start to lose it with the doings of the days worlds,,, REALLY, we have it DAMNED GOOD, and the only thing wrong is the same thing that is ALWAYS WRONG: GOVERNMENT OVERREACH, alternatively, depending on your proclivity to contrarianism; GOVERNMENT AS A WHOLE,,,,
Look around you. Swing by the strip mall, look at ALL of the things that people take for granted today, the stores, the restaurants, the autoparts places, the hardware stores,,,,,
and like I pointed out in that comment; the Chinese Restaurants. Places that you can go, eat ALL YOU WANT for not all that much cash, and eat things that King Louis XIV would never have dreamed of,,, And you can do this hundreds of miles from any coastal fisheries and have an entire meal of seafood (day dependent in most cases,,)
We have toys, that we carry around with us, that feed us music as a backing track to our days, communications that can reach world wide at the touch of a button, from almost anywhere on land, even at sea in some cases, and can access information that rivals and surpasses that of the libraries of the not so recent past: in a package that fits in the backpocket of your jeans.
Heck, the fact that jeans are now so ubiquitous in our daily lives,,,,
I live off-grid (for the most part, cell service ties me in) I have a comfortable home with running water, hot and cold, heat sources to keep it warm in the winter, and insulated solidly enough that I don’t need AC in the summer months. A house that is heads higher in quality than those that were built 100 years ago in these parts, but by todays standards is still “a shack”,,, (size wise mostly; 16’X24′ floorplan with large porch,,,) It has ammenities that weren’t available 100 years ago, though not up to todays standards for most. I prefer it that way. Don’t like microwaves, don’t want the Boobtoob,,,,, It could have those things, but I would need to upgrade to a larger power system; more solar panels, larger battery bank, bigger inverter,,,,
BUT I COULD DO IT,,, Thats the point, we have the means!!! We HAVE THE MEANS!!!
And its all fudged up by regulations legislations, ‘politically correct thinking’ that protects those that need a good swift punch to the face and taught how to have skin thicker than a wet tissue.
Look at Elon Musk. Dood is blowing up more hardware at a faster rate than NASA ever did, making LEAPS of engineering feats due the great information gleaned from those failures. HE HAS THE MEANS,,,, Those means were not just handed to him, they were accumulated over decades and decades of ‘hm, that’s interesting’ growth. He is doing what all the others before have done: Standing on those shoulders of Giants and reaching for the stars (literally in his case)
Most people just go through life lounging on those shoulders, taking it for granted that ‘this is how it is’.
Until it “Ain’t”
I mentioned in that comment at Ox’s, that ‘if there is a reduction in population greater than 65%, we are in trouble. The chances of the likes of Elon Musk and his engineers being a large part of the survivors is slim. Chances are that the lower rungs would make up a greater portion of the survivors and how many of those would know ‘How to make a toaster”
That was the drive behind this Blog so many years ago: The How-To’s. Its part of why I was making bows from whatever was at hand. Its how I came to start making Kayaks. It IS STILL very much a part of my daily thinking “How Can I…?” instead of “Can’t do it”. It’s why I am an asset at the J.O.B. Why Son of Bossman hands me a list of ‘things to do’ and gets the fuck out of my way,,, If I have questions arise, I call/text him and we clarify things and back at it. But for the most part, I am on my own. Same for the rest of my life,,,, I am IT!!!
I am the solution,
I am the weapon.
I am the reason, the fault, the cause, the screw-up, and the fix.
And I have thousands of years of expert mentors to draw on, IF I ASK,,,,
and as long as government stays the fuck out of the way,,,,
Stop holding down the inventors, the creators, the COMPETITION that drives the inovations. STOP holding back the conversations that NEED TO TAKE PLACE so that we can reach agreement. Let the arguments flow so that there is NO dissent, but understanding. Stop taking the lifeblood of those that produce, so they can produce MORE,,,,
Stop supporting those that only drag us down.
Stop inviting in those that only want a free-ride.
Stop,,,,
just STOP,,, (I think that last was to m’self,,,,)
more laters,,,, gotta get to church,,,,,
Remember when Mama said, “you can’t have both”?
Yeah, I think every child from every generation has some memory of that experiance,,, Wanted that icecream sandwich and the fudgecicle, “can’t have both, choose one”,,,,
And here we have a government that is acting all of five years old,,,,, They want this.
AND THIS,,,
Choose one, (and we know which they wish to choose,,,,)
Only thing I have to say about it,,,, If I, a veteran, aren’t ‘allowed’ to own a gun, but some jackass that triapsed his/her way across a border without permission is allowed to,,, WE GOTS A PROBLEM.
Not that them ‘giving me permission’ is even on the table. I have said and said and said, “I AM THE WEAPON“,,,, Whats in this cranium has more firepower potential than some mouse gun from Mattel,,, LOTS more destructive power. And if they take away one option, they open three others,,,,
Choose one, you can’t have both,,,
and make that choice with some forethought,,,, consequences and all,,, seems to me, they hadn’t thought that far ahead yet, obviously,,,
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I think it’s getting more and more apparent that there is going to be catastrophe in our future. We have an economy that is so diluted as to be worthless, still holding onto its world currency status by the skin of its teeth. An electorate that is in power by questionable methods, that defends their place by criminalizing anyone in dissent, even needed to corral the Capitol in razor wire for the initial swearing in,,, War breaking out in corners of the world that make 1985 Cold War scenarios look downright tame,,, (we only get better at killing each other. As Einstein stated when asked how WW3 would be fought: “I don’t know, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones,,,,”)
It’s real easy and tempting to swallow that blackpill these days, and honestly, the only reason I haven’t is a ‘feeling’ I keep picking up. It hits me at odd times,,, Almost never when I am ‘connected’, usually in the odd moments like at work where the phone is making like an mp3 player, not comms. Or when its just tracking what I am doing while paddling,,,, My Zen moments in other words,,,, Those moments, the feeling hits, I look out towards whatever horizon I have available, and I smile,,,,, I can feel a future, one that is REAL, just waiting out there in time for those of us that BELIEVE in a better world,,, not the figmented derangement “utopian nightmare” of the lefts design, but one where people are really free to BE THEMSELVES, free to speak their minds and not be shouted down, or have their lives ‘canceled’ for ‘wrongthink’. I don’t worry about all that too much in my world, but I am so small a voice in the void,,,,
But I at least keep showing up, ‘telling my stories’ even if they aren’t much, and getting my mind aired out in a time that doesn’t look kindly on people of my sort.
You can’t have both.
And they had better choice “RIGHTLY”, or there WILL be fallout,,,,(there is some NOW, expect more and in increasing intensity as time goes by)
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On other fronts: Terrorist attack in Moscow. I am not going to delve into this much, but I find it most telling that this took place RIGHT AFTER Putin’s re-election. First thought that went through my head was CIA cooperative with Uke assests,,, Dunno if that’s the case, but with the way things have been coming out about ‘intel’ manipulations, and the fact that our GOV insists on maintaining cold war apathies,,,,, Dunno, just some thinks from a little fish in a REALLY BIG ocean. Actual truth may never come out in our lifetimes, but then, there are many of those, no?
Some other things I wanted to talk about, but don’t want to dive into right now, as I don’t yet trust what I have picked up: I haven’t verified sources/facts YET,,, But if real, we are probably alot closer to total meltdown of world politcs than most would believe.
Only one way out,,, through,,,,, That, and my occasional ‘feelings’ are about the only things keeping me from just walking my ass off the stage and out the back exit of the theater. (not suicidal,,, just saying going dark gets mighty tempting,,,,)
So, downer post in a sense, but not, since there are tremors of better forthcoming, I know many that see this, and carry on as if nothing were skewed,,, heck, I do in some ways myself, but I can’t NOT see it as so many around me do. Or worse, believe the narrative as if the Gospel from on High,,,,
tomorrow is “church it day”; didn’t get as much done as I should have, (lazy Dio Day,,,,LOL) but what’s remaining is miniscule,,, SO’ssssss Yup, I get to paddle through the church of my choosing tomorrow,,,
Keep on livin’
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