Francis plugged the Vid first, and then did another plug of the group HERE

And I had already done a bit of a dive into the groups Utoob entries.    I can understand why they want to keep the group ‘exclusive’, though I find the mentality a bit misleading: almost a repeat of what got us into the messes we are in today, with group think from ‘exclusive Class groups’ from Ivy-league and hereditary ranks.  

That being said though, the messages are NOT exclusive and are being broadcast for the benefit of others.  Thats quite a bit more than I can say for our “governing class” that hides behind legislations, being handled by unknown actors and monetary interests,,,,   As some comedian (Carlin?) stated once “Our Representatives should be forced to wear overalls like Nascar and Formula One drivers, so that we know who sponsors them,,,“

and with THAT being said, I am going to take one peice of advice from GRIM,,,  It’s not even that hard to do, since it will be a mere evolution of something I have been doing already.   The suggestion is to have a day of SILENCE once a week, and a week of it, once a year.   Well, I go kayaking once a week, usually solo (Most always solo, actually) and that silence isn’t external, its INTERNAL.   Slow down, listen to the world (not the human world) and the world will talk to you: BUT YOU HAVE TO SHUT UP AND LISTEN FIRST.

There are other points well worth considering in that clip,,,,

As I said over in comments (awaiting moderation currently) “The actor, playing the Russian mob boss, gives ‘street cred’ to the younger generation, that look up to ‘Thug Life’  ”  (adlibed but the gist of what I said)  And if these guys can touch and correct just 1% of the target audience, they are doing SO so much more than other groups,,,,    

I wish I had heard/heeded the things being said, thirty-five plus years ago.  Things would be quite different in my little reality.   Things that are being touched on, I had to learn the hard way because I didn’t have mentors that knew it.  

Live, learn, laugh and LOAD dangit!!!   They are still planning on Fuggin’ this country over NO MATTER WHO WINS IN NOVEMBER.

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Not too long a read, and for those inclined to listen over read, a video is in the post as well.

We have a problem. You don’t know everything that’s going on, and if you start voting in populist candidates, you’re going to end up knocking out load-bearing walls that you don’t understand.”

That last was the end of the article.  Think about what the person is ACTUALLY saying,,, break it down into chunks if need be and re-read it.  

Gonna hat-tip to Francis for this next part/embed,,,,

Nothing new to me,,, been on that educational slide since 2008, have even said some of his points here, on occasion.  

NOW, go back and re-read that quote above and tell me; Do you feel represented by our “Democracy”?  (it’s NOT Democracy, and they keep shoving that non-truth in your face because “repeat the lie so often, it becomes ‘truth’, that which is accepted as ‘common knowledge’.)

Go to your county election board, volunteer as an observer or what not, get in the system to help confront whatever they are gonna try to do.   If you are in the BLUE cities, this action becomes even more important, because that is where the steal is going to to happen, ‘hardest’.   I have read where a couple of places have purged thier voter roles, to find them back in place the next day/week.   And that is something so easy for anyone with access and certian priviledges of access can do with a simple copy paste from a data file.   Hell, it may be written into the code to reactivate certaIn files with NO interaction from some ‘bad actor’.   Back when I was in IT, I wrote a very simple three line script for a windows unit to restart every night and to update only certain files, ignoring all others.   There were zero inputs for the staff to use as it was just computer running a monitor of patient charts for the nurses to see ‘in real time’.    All the chart activity was through other points.   To keep ‘glitches’ down, we had the unit reboot every night at dead shift switch over.

If I could do that, and I have little programming skill (or I would be doing it more for a living) why not have a certain file regenerate at will, whenever the  file is ‘fiddled with’.

(and I am sure there is someone that reads this, whom will tell me that its even easier than that,,,,  and I know it is, but I am so far removed from playing with windoze units, I’m rusty as hell on file management protocols.)

apologies for the digression there.

Back to that quote,,, IF factual, and I firmly believe it to be,,, then Trumped’s statements about “Deep State” are not strong enough.   This goes back to my opinion that there is a civil war going on WITHIN our government, between INtel and State, and some other groups, with shifting alliances,,,,

and what we get to see is just window dressings, just like the guy in the video illustrates; to keep us distracted and placant, given the ILLUSION of choices decided by people that have no accountability

and apparently no ethics either.

People like that don’t see us as human: they see widgets that make ‘money’ and will do whatever needs done to keep the machine those widgets power, running.

And I have no solutions for you.    Find the walls,,, when you see the walls, you’ll know and nothing I say or do will prove it to you otherwise.   But knowing the walls exist,,,  the rest,,,  dunno.   How to escape a prison planet?   Because thats the fact,,,  dunno,,,,

I was going to do a rant or something, but to be honest, I think the tipping point is past and the revival of AmeriCAN thinkers is well at hand.   I have no predictions about the upcoming (S)election cycle other than ‘they are gonna try like hell to steal it’ and

well

Dunno,,, what happens then may be the other tipping point in our history.

I’m watching the Kabuki theater and seeing signs of reality creeping in,  Maybe this time will spell out a different outcome.   Watch the numbers,,,   It’s gonna be obvious and I doubt that even the most loyal MSM is gonna be able to say ‘Fair and honest election’ with a straight face (even if Trumped wins, its gonna be so close that the numbers won’t match actual voater roles.)

I got nuthin today.    What I wanna talk about is unimportant and what I should discuss is not ringing my bell.   Feeling just a little sickened by the whole mess: the “democracy” chant (THIS COUNTRY IS NOT A DAMNED DEMOCRACY, QUIT WITH THE BULLSHIT PLEASE) the ‘fair and honest’ chant when the lies are so damned obvious. 

just wanna hit the water and keep paddling, set up camp and feel the REAL EARTH move under my feet. Thats reality, ‘that’ doesn’t give a hoot about us two-legged pest infesting Mama-Gaia’s skin.  it just IS.

thats where my sanity is, and the weeklong hamster wheel,,,,

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And damned glad I did.

Found ALL the little issues with my gear. 

And I’m gonna need a bigger boat.

Mehbe not cuz of the fishies though,,,,

Volume and speed,  more volume than speed.   Fully loaded, Lyssa maxed at 4 and cruised at 3.4.  Those are BlueJeans numbers.  Granted, it was wyld water day and paddling uphill slows a body down,  but I could feel how sluggish she was.   Aft waves had more control over her than usual: might have been a balance of weight issue, she was pretty loaded,,,

Longer is faster, longer with higher decks means more (or in my case, better loaded) gear.  Needz a bigger boat if I wanna get serious about playing with kayakamping,,,,

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Back at the Buffalo now.  Lyssa n gear all loaded up; just takin’ a minute to re-orient meself.   Just paddled 4 miles of open water, straight line right down the middle of the lake.  No boat traffic to speak of today (yet).   Time to go home and set it all back up and get some fans blowing the moisture out, get some other stuff cleaned up (including me).

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and home now,,,, porch looks like a damned rummage sale with gear stretched out on lines to dry and a tent set up on one side.   Voo is truly cunfuzzed about all the smells of woods and lake and fishes and Dawg only knows what else was out there.   At least he isn’t trying to mark everything as his,,,, I might get a bit miffed if that leg hikes up,,,,

I’d love to give y’all an exciting story of adventure and what not, but,,, Hell, I was cooped up in a tent for 12 stinking hours, mostly sleeping it away, sitting out storms.   I think there were three that blew through overnight.   I know come 5 AM, it was silent as the grave out there, no boat traffic, no winds, no thunder, no flashing dancing lights in the sky.

and WET!!!  

And I figured out, a tarp does NOT work as a ground cloth for a tent.   The only thing DRY around that campsite was UNDER THAT TARP and everything over it was wet or damp as hell.  Including inside the tent.   I had standing water under the sleep-pad when I packed out.   SO,,,, Either the tent had a leak (one very small one I did see) or I kept tracking it in with me when I braved the downpours to take a leak (most likely scenario).  Normally when I camp, I use a rainfly and a hammock.   I would have done so this trip, but I wanted that ‘wet test’ of the tent.   If I am kayakamping, there may be times where I won’t have access to trees that will support a hammock so I keep that tent as an ‘alternate’.   It didn’t fail, but my ‘delight’ in it is less than stellar.   I do like my hammock though, so I am a bit biased.

All in all, was a good shake-down run of my gear, and only one item is getting changed out.   Would like a folding skillet instead of the 10″ kitchen skillet I took, but it worked, worked well and stowed “well enough” (that handle was the glitch in stowage.) 

No bear run-ins (did see tracks on the beach) no punked skunks trying to raid my food,,,,      Actually, I didn’t see a damned thing as for wildlife yesterday.   I did see a flock of geese on the wing this morning, but that was it.   I guess all the traffic ran everyone under cover,,,,

Home, safe, dry and clean; all the gear is getting in the same shape, slowly.

and tomorrow is socialists day,,, Thinking of my post for that and will tap it out laters.    

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ROFLMAO UPDATE!   Finished putting the last of things away, rolled up and back in thier respective bags, and RRRRuuummmmBBBBLlelleesss!!!   Bam!!! Kentucky Monsoon hits,,,, Sitting here on the porch watching the water fall, but it sure is a pleasant change being able to look out at it while dry, compared to being cooped up in an enclosed tent with only hearing (of which, mine is faulty) to warn of dangers.

Good start, WYLD waters, loved the paddle out.   

About 2-ish, I started looking at camps.   3-ish, was setting up and getting squaw wood for my fire.   Good thing too.

As  I was getting a good bed of coals for cooking, I heard the rumbles,,,,

As I was finishing that meal, (mmmnomnomnom) the first sprinkles hit.  

and here I am, 6 oclock, stuck in a tent with rain.   A SMALL tent at that.   You can see it in the above pic, single man tent, with a vestibule area, where all the stuff that can’t get wet is hiding out, as there is no room inside with my long-ass carcass.  The PFD and dishes are outside hanging from a tree, my little camp chair is out there too; leaned against a tree so as to not have it puddling water. (I brought everything except the kitchen sink,,,,  Even brought my keyboard 😉  )

Lyssa is on shore, pulled up high behind a bush and layed on her side so no water build up in the cockpit.

I’m dry, I’m safe, and I’m BORED!!!  LOL   good sleepin’ weather as the old timers like to say.   Not hot (now) comfortable in the tent with the sleeping pad inflated and a nice pillow  the rainfly is doing what rainfly’s should do, keep the water OUT,,, and the pitter-patter of rain on it will help me sleep, if I weren’t all wound up like a top.  Too early for bed dammit!!!

Limited signal here, hard to upload pics, and weather app is sluggish as all get out.  Can’t see the radar to find out how long this is going to be on me.  Earlier I checked and it showed it rolling off over night, and clear early morning.    Just have to get through till then right? and hope it doesn’t change for the worst between now and then.

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Recall the broken Kat thing?  Mentioned that Zoomies is a scaredy-kat about mice. That Mama is ‘semi-retired’ from the mouser game.  Will watch them and only pounces when they happen to cross paths, but won’t pursue,,,

So I bought THIS (yes I get a kickback if ya buy)

DAMN GINA!!!!

Knew I had mice,  but the first kill shocked me! (Not the trap, its occupant)  damned packrat!!! Big’un too!!!   I’m certain the batteries took a hit pushing those electrons through that brute.  Minus tail,  must have been 3 1/2″ long.

Since then, its been a steady stream of ded-meeses.  4 so far.   Damned Kats rilly have been suckin’ hind teat at their jobs.  I’ve a handle on the situation now.  With cold and wet months coming,  the woodland residents wanna move in even more so than they have,  and I may just pick up a second unit.  Cleaner and apparently MORE reliable than spring traps.  They walk in, they don’t come out on their own.

Muhahahaha!!¡!!!