Here’s one facet from Francis, not the first I’ve read of this,,,,

Second is rumor (all I can find on it says rumor, but hear it out) that a well-to-do community near Eagle Pass pressured Abbott to ‘do something’,, There is also past performance to show how little Abbott displays patriotism, so there is some suspicion in motives: unless he had a divine intervention or something,, I’m not saying his actions are contrived, just that there is reason for questions. Those questions make me wonder if this isn’t collusion with the WH to push that Bill through,,,,

Now, we have a prime point for LEGAL RECOURSE. There are 26 Guvnuhs aligned in the right direction. That’s enough (more would be even better, but,,,) IF,,, IF they would file actions against the Executive Branch in General and the sitting Exec specifically for Derilictuon of Duty, blatant extortion of the Amercan populace (blithely withholding duties as specified under the Constitution, so you can get a particular product bill passed isn’t bribery, it’s extortion. ),,,, Hell, spell it out if they want. T R E A S O N,,,,

They have grounds,,, send a letter to YOUR Guv spelling it out as above,,, link here if ya want, I’m not pushing this for credit, but WANTING THIS SHIT RESOLVED BEFORE WE FALL FACE FIRST INTO BLOOD AND DESTRUCTION. I’d send my Guv, but he ain’t one of those on board with Texas,

More later, when I have a real keyboard under my boogerhooks,,,,

Tha’s to me,,,, Little ta nuthin’ all weekend,,,,

And thats to the ALL OF US. Storms brewin’ up right quick, and I am watching like a hawk at how this pans out. Does the Shaministration push forward so they don’t look weak? In pushing forward, do they go full Potato? When and where does the spark KICK? And, I have a feeling there is going to be one,,, dunno if its gonna be patriots standing ground, or some Krystalnacht event,,,, Guess we’re gonna find out , and probably not for decades to come, will the actual truth be told,,, Yeah, I’m a cynic,,,(and there is plenty of flip-flopping goin’ on out there, people saying this is a set up to draw out ‘subversives’ for round up and neutralization,,, )

It’s back to the shop for me, lots of panels and doors that need made, one project in need of finishing, but its an ‘as able’, lo-priority sorta thing. It’s already swinging back to winter here, as expected, but that’s alright,,, I can sloth my way through another month of so of Ol’man Winters antics,,, Our spring cycles are coming on fast and I keep watch for the lilies,,,

Drysuit is on US soil officially. FexEx has the shipping info and waiting for Customs to clear it,,,then its on its way to me. Should be this week (sat in customs all weekend, govagency, so,,,,) Itchy to get my grubby paws on the thing,, But I won’t bore ya with details of why or what,,, y’all got that figgered out already (ya ya, borin’ kayak-y stuff,,, blah blah blah,,,,) LOL (oooorrrrrrr,,,, FedEx has slow servers,,, it shows it arrived in Chicago this AM,,,,)

Might have more up laters as events unfold here in CONUS… Hoping my ears I was talking to in Tejas over weekend keep the lines clear. Really wanna know if what we are seeing is being portrayed accurately across the feeds, so did some callin’ round to make some old connections new again. I’m sure there are more than a few calls being made there this week. Some point, some time, the people of this country are going to have to stand UP, stand GROUND, and DEMAND some changes,,, We can’t keep giving into the harpies and slores of woke-dom and Communism (of which the first are useful tools to the second.) One of Petersons Twelve Rules: Tell the truth, or at least, Don’t lie. WE are failing because we continue to lie by ommission. We let certain mentally ill types continue to gain ground because its ‘easier’ to carry on with our lives than to confront them. “Easy Choices, Hard Life: Hard Choices, Easy Life” We have been making the easy choices, all of us, self included, because it was ‘better’ than dealing with confrontation. Well, that beast has grown, the Grifters have gained positions where they are almost ready to push the final leg of their agenda, and we, those with love of this country are so damned paranoid of,,,, Hell, do damned paranoid of losing freedom, we contintue to give it away piece meal,,,,

This confrontation in Texas is showing all of the cracks, ALL OF THE CRACKS, in our current world. I’m watching the fracturing of Patriots in real time on WRSA as one side gears up to go, and three others are spouting ‘this is Jan6 on Steroids’ or sum-such.

When,,,

WE can’t even get OUR shit straight because we are so AFEARED of losing what little we have left.

Sacred honors and fortune,,,,

I’m not so sure this country even knows what “HONOR” means anymore,,,,

I gotta get to work,,,,

Update: I read this,,,

and think,,, Are we duped by feigned incompetence, or do people really think certain groups are that effective,,, I dunno,,,

The only thing I do know,,,, Evil walks amongst us, and much it no longer wears a mask, and we still try to act like ‘nothing is wrong’,,,,,

Maybe more than two,  but two specifically,,,,

Watch this first,,

She states (and I don’t disagree!) that ” a government that is no longer fulfilling its Constitutionally dirived powers, powers that are spelled out in clear wording: then that Government is no longer valid and all of its mandates and laws are null and void” (paraphrased from memory, but the gist is accurate enough)

First thought: If the Fed Gov is null and void as she states, (and I agree) than we have ZERO OBLIGATION TO PERFORM TO THIER DECREES. Stop paying Federal taxes NOW,,, Everyone that agrees this Shaministration is off the rails, then stop paying Fed taxes,,, pull the plug,,,, Get with HR and tell them that you want to change your W2 to “exempt” and list the reason on the W2 as such above. Keep paying the state taxes but kill the Federal level bullshit. If you are in a state that has no State Tax (good on you) do the same. IF you feel the need to ‘cover your ass’ set up an escrow account with your bank and self deduct the amount into it with stipulation when the FedGov starts following the Constitution of the United States as it is written, than you will release the funds.

But that is only one step. One that needs to be far spread and wide reaching to be effective.

I don’t see that happening, AND, you do so at your own risk. IF you are it in your company, there is risk of visits by the Rectum Stuffers,,, Make sure you have your papers in order (just as if we were in a full on Socialist Republic of Years gone by,,, Because, technically, WE ARE!)

Thought Two: and this one is quite personal to me. IF, and its a big if right now, This powder keg blows, and those 25 States aligned with Texas currently follow them off the Reservation and make a new Country,,,, where do I stand? Let me spell it out a little further. I live in KY: KY is NOT one of those states and we have a very Blue Guv at the helm. IF those states do seccede, I am ‘behind enemy lines’ so to speak. Granted, its only a 20 mile run to the border from here, but when times get crazy (they aren’t? coulda fooled me) 20 miles may as well be 1000.

And I ain’t exactly Steve McQueen,,, ROFL.

Oh, and if you think I am not on some lists,,,,, I’ve been quite vocal about the current schlepp in office in Frankfort, as well as TurtleBOY McDouche of Federal office (in)famy. If the round ups of ‘subversives’ starts, I am can gar-an-damn-tee you, I am on the first set of lists. (and NO, I have no plans of going, let along going quietly,,, and I definitely WILL send an honorgaurd ahead of me,,,)

and that leads me to another question. WOULD, assuming such case listed were to happen, would I be better off serving the ‘right side’ from behind the lines? War fronts are NEVER as concrete as the lines drawn on maps. there is always a ‘grey area’ where you have sabatouers, resistance, etal that operate independently in opposition to the occupiers.

I dunno,,, thinking right now, not making any plans of any sort, but sorting out options. And right now, thats the best course to follow because this mess could go any which way but loose, and there is no finite timeline for it to ‘change track’.

from Irish, and X

People are starting to wake up, maybe: pic.twitter.com/lPxQOlbDW0

— AlphaFo𝕏 (@Alphafox78) January 27, 2024

SO SO CLOSE,,,, Don’t ‘forget it’ honey,,, DON’T forget it,,, let that little red pill fester and you are gonna WAKE UP, not be ‘woke’,,,, Its one hell of a rabbit hole you are about to fall into, but the end result is FREEDOM!!!!!

Loaded up for doin’ laundry and such.  gonna just slide through the day and do as I will, no rush, no muss, no diggin’ up trash on the netz.   Relax out my short weekend of pre-spring WET weather,,,, (its starting to get cold out there again)

And I wanna talk about YOU and your’n for a quick minute.

Dunno what level of ‘Prep’ you are in, doesn’t really concern me and believe me, I DO NOT WANT YOU ADVERTISING IT,,, Don’t post in comments about how you have enough ammo to supply a platoon for three weeks of heavy combat,,,, Don’t do it!!!   Apply that across the board; don’t tell your neighbors either, not their business, and you don’t want to be the target before the storm,,,,

Ok,,, First off   WEAPONS.   Any weapon, as defined by common-folk, is merely a TOOL in my book.  I have covered this before,,, I AM THE WEAPON,,, The tools of death and mayhem are the extension of my WEAPON that I use to fulfill my mission of “SHUT ‘EM DOWN”.    I just saw over at Irish’s place that Hom0Depot has a sale on “Braveheart Sword”s.   Now, I personally wouldn’t spend $5 on a stainless steel factory line stamped out mass produced peice of cutlery like that.  One good swipe at a person with a kevlar helmet and the thing becomes a stainless steel strap around their head, anchoring you to that person where they can pull you in closer and slip a shiv into your spleen.(honestly, if you want to run with edged weapons as a backup, a good quality machete from a reliable maker is cheaper and more effective, and has an ‘oh shit!’ factor built in.)   No,,, I’d rather hold that E-tool I kept from the Marines if I had nothing else.   It may be cumbersome, but by GOD, its still effective (and you do sharpen your E-tool, right?   I do,,,  Makes it easier to cut roots for one, and makes it really wicked in its other aspects.)

Here’s another one,,,,

I just picked this up for my camping gear supplies, and let me tell you, MUCH IMPRESSED.    This thing is very much the Tomahawk of yore,,,  Yeah, it has that saw blade that stores in the handle, but the head on this thing is wicked mean when NOT in saw mode.  

if ya have to use it as that tool, the recipient is gonna KNOW they were hit,,,

Still,,, Never take only a ‘hawk to a gun-fight,,, rule one, right?  

As for home defense,,, in comments over there at Irishs’, one person mentions a lady that found the drawer to her pistol stuck and used a Katana to subdue and hold the perp until Police arrived.   THIS is an example of “YOU ARE THE WEAPON” IMO,,,   Whatever is at hand, WITH INTENT is usually all you need.   NOTE: WITH INTENT!!!!    That does NOT mean ‘intent to harm’,,,  get it?  

Maybe I should expand on that for the slower crowd:   WITH INTENT means “I‘m gonna kill  your ass so dead, your great grandchildren will fear my genetic code!!!” INTENT.  Yes, it’s silly sounding in mixed company while sippin’ on coffee over breakfast, but when that war face is on you, the adrenals are pumpin’ and the ears shut down to minimum duty status,,,,,,

BCE has an article (re-released BTW) about a toy you can make for ‘fun’ and IS LEGAL TO OWN in 48 of 50 states (you can probably figure out the 2 that restrict such,,,)  YMMV, and I have NOT gone down this route meself,,,   But its one for the books (literally, print it out dammit!!!!) and may or may not be something our future needs more of,,,   Personally, after seeing the Highway of Death in Kuwait, being downwind of it for 24 hours,,,,   I get a little quesy thinking of the effects of Big’s toy.

SO, the weapon is YOU,,, Always,,, get that in your head NOW because it certainly looks like this show is about to gain momentum,,,   Be ready to flip that switch in your head from ‘civil Joey’ to ‘KrazzzeeeKarl’ of gnashing teeth and bloodspattered face,,,

But how to keep that engine that carries both “joey and Karl” along,,,,   FOODIES,,,,

There currently isn’t any showing of restricting our food supplies in market.  Other than the recently normal slow resupply that is,,,  Get a little here, a little there,,, I have been saying this since 2008 and if you have spent $5/wk since then, you should have quite a bit of stores in place.  IF NOT, get on it.   There are disruptions coming,   let me restate that: there ARE disruptions coming.   These things take time to come to fruition, but when they do, they seem UBRUPT,,, prepare now and you will be sitting multiple levels above joeyaverage,,,,

Comms. even if what you can get is a set of family radios at wallyworld, and spread them out among like minded folk in your AO, than you are one step forward to a network that can’t be shut-down easily. If you are counting on your Fon/internet,,,

As resilient as the nets are, they are NOT in your control,,, One drunken fool can take out a substation and knock out net access to a couple of counties of people. We found that out recently. (why I had shitty comms a week or so ago) Netz go down, local economies shut down (if they are not person to person on a cash exchange)

Get some comms that work when everything else goes dark. battery powered and get lots of extra of those too. Even if one of your ‘friends’ is that handicapped can’t get out of the house old lady up the street, She can at least send word that ‘theres a strange vehicle headed your way,,,,’ 5 minutes before you can see it. That is the sort of comms I’m talking about. Like we used to have when the Fon’s were bolted to the walls and people still interacted with neighbors,,,, (yup, dating myself and my childhood in the 70’s/80’s)

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Be the weapon,,,

Learn (relearn) how to communicate with your neighbors: get some way to make that communication more resilient.

Stock up on things that keep you going when everything else shuts down,,,

Take the time to learn something new, some new knot that you didn’t know, some way of fudging a distillation of water, how to bandage up gunshot wounds with what you have on hand, something,,, learn something new everyday while we still have this wonderful tool called the netz. If you can’t find it on Utoob or Rumble, keep looking, its out there somewhere,,, Just keep wording your search string until you break through the AI blockers. (Yes, you can learn how to make the Tannerite Dog protector on Utoob,,, )

DO NOT BE “THAT” GUY,,,,,

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

WHAT PART OF THIS DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND????

I keep hearing this term ‘federalizing Texas National Gaurd’,,,,

my response and I am sure it would be the same with Abbott and other Guvnah’s: 9th Amendment, 10th Amendment,,,, KISS OUR ASSES!!!

This is going to explode, count on it. As for what the mouthpiece of the white house (intentionally lower cased) kept spouting,,,, Article 14 section 3,,, SHALL no weasel words there…. No border, no Country, No Country, NO GOVERNMENT,,,, Simple choice,,, be the power or destroy the power, and I think there is little doubt which way they are headed,,,

you thoughts please,,,,, Comments are open.

a small nod to Chicago for the title,,,

Its warm(ish) this weekend, at least in relation to the last two weekends in Anarctica,,,   WET, rilly wet like.   Local river is what we call ‘washed out’ though still in her banks.   any disturbance of rock formation is dead flat right now.   That also means that all the dead tree fall, is shifting around or breaking loose and those cause boating hazards.    Won’t be on that ol’gal,,,,

Seriously thinking “vakay wknd” is in order; do some wet boating on the lake, get some miles in and work out the kinks in the shoulders and lower back.  Tone up these flaccid muscles: winter always gets a little slower, but this one has been worse between weather and Buffalo issues.  

Just chceked on the Drysuit status,,, loaded onto plane last night and is one way to Los Angeles (should have arrived by now if thier numbers are accurate,,, Just not keyed into system yet,,) and so’ssssss  I should have my Drysuit by the end of this coming week.   JUST IN TIME for that return of Antarctic conditions, and perfect conditions to test it and my ideas of whats goes on UNDER it.   And if you think I won’t,,,   

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(S)election Cycle 2024: the great CON.    I am not paying attention to the debates or primaries so much as I am paying attention to DNC and DOJ antics,,,   Something is going on, and its not just ‘the fix is in the bag’ sorta stuff.    There may be a last minute change of faces on one side.   There may be last minute changes to election law, same as we saw in 2020,   There may be lawfare removing any and all choices from certain States rolls (you can’t vote for that one,,,,)  which should SCREAM at the residents of that state that there is no longer any ‘democracy’, but absolutely a Totaltarian Regime.   (democracy=peoples choice,,, right?   Not that its a good thing either, but,,,,,)

I started this year (shit, only 27 days into it,,,) refusing to do any prognositcation and this is why,,,, 27 days in and there have been things that have already railroaded others forecasts: Texas making a stand for one,,,, Half the states standing behind them (of which red KY with its Bluer than Blue Guv ain’t one of them.  😦  ,)(I would say though, that KY does stand with TX, but the gov of KY is the keepin’ it off that list.)

They say EVERY Selection cycle is the most important EVAH!,,,

Me thinks this one is going to be one on the books right up there with 1860, mehbe even the spark of a Redux as seen then.   But with more colors and factions along with external forces,,,   FUGLY would be apt, but so far understated,,,,

The various sides striving so hard for power and to keep it ‘legal like’ so “NOT kinetic”, are ginning up Kinetics like no one has seen on these shores EVER.   Thing Bosnia/Sarajevo+Liberia+,,,,,,, 

Not EVERYWHERE mind you, but if you live within 20 minutes of a metropolis, I would highly suggest a relocation is in order.   Turn your house into a VRBO or BNB and find you a cheap rental in the country, or cut your losses and just walk away, but.,,,,

Dunno,,,  just a suggestion,,, to each their own, and then again, I could be completey off base in my guess work.   and that is EXACTLY what this this,  my guessing,,,,

Live in interesting times,,, Chinese Curse, and boy-howdy, what interesting times are these,,,,  

ONLY GOING TO ADD ONE THING HERE:   There will be no Canned sunshine UNLESS its instigated by the Puppet Regime,,,, The NORKs, RUSSIA and CHINA (the only ones supposedly against us) have shown GREAT Restraint so far and I honestly see no reason they would break that restraint against an enemy that has shown weakness such as this government has shown the last 4 years.   IF A NUKE GOES OFF OVER CONUS, IT WILL BE BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.   (Update: There is the possibility of Iran gaining nukes,,, I would like to point out that our current Shaministration has been funding these asshats while acting like they are an enemy, and if ‘Iran’ gets a nuke, I would NOT be surprised if it has US fingerprints all over it,,,, Jes-sayin.)

that is all,,,,