I am going to start an experiment by running alternate fuels in my 2011 LML Duramax engine

The times demand we explore possibilities for alternative fuel sources looking into an uncertain future where fuel will either be super expensive or become difficult to source. If predictions hold true, people may well be challenged to find diesel fuel.

In the past, we were reluctant to experiment with the Duramax engine with its costly injectors and high-pressure pump. I had replaced the CP4A high-pressure pump in lieu of a CP3 pump which is known as a dead reliable unit as opposed to the failure-prone more modern CP4 pumps. That experiment cost me nearly three thousand dollars for parts and three good days of labor (Since I am a novice, and it was my first time).

I know that new injectors will also cost in the thousands and for those reasons along with diesel fuel in the mid $2 range, there was little incentive to take a chance on screwing up costly parts.

So, no one really messed with the formula. Buu the cheap ULSD and run it. When things like injectors or pumps failed, anty up and pay the piper for new parts.

With fuel between $5 and $6 and rumored to go much higher, now, one can save nearly half the cost of a single injector by running a tank of something else that is, essentially, free.

About a month or so ago, I started running a single quart of ATF in the fuel, straight up. Then I ran two, then I ran two plus a quart of Marvel's mystery oil. My interest was in lubing 135K injectors to extend their life. The scar rating of the ULSD is insufficient to prevent the injectors from simply wearing out.

But while doing so, I can swear, I think the engine became more quiet and just smoother.

CIEMR: A sham of a congressional panel

So, what do you think about this debacle of a hearing on capitol hill over the Jan 6 “Uprising?” What a bunch of crap! I am highly insulted that the Pelosi crowd thinks that I am that stupid. Man, do they look down on us from their lofty perches!
Almost no republicans on an investigative panel? Really? If you staff that panel 50/50 democrat to Republican and you’ll have my attention. The way you have it set up the mission is clearly just to play a role and speak to your deranged base. I’ll switch to a rerun of nearly anything in protest, and I did just that!

No, Ms. Pelosi, you are not going to pull some faint of the hand or fancy card trick and pull my interest away from the fact that I am paying $5 a gallon for gas. Your blatant disregard for fairness will do nothing to fill the tank of ag fuel at my farm which is no longer available by the way! Even if you get some homeless illegal alien from Istanbul who just crossed the Rio Grande to testify that Mr. Trump tried to overthrow the government, I’m tone deaf. All I can hear are border cops screaming for help. I also hear thousands of people mourning the loss of family members from this out-of-control crime wave. Clue: If you defund police and try to convict them for doing their jobs, you’re going to have an out-of-control crime wave!
I am smarter than you think I am madam sorcerer! I see your game, and I am insulted. You want to pull some rabbit out of your democratic party hat to keep Mr. Trump from running again for president! Yep, you know that would crush your hopes to turn America into the newest communist nation on earth. Either that or you want to somehow lock the man up. Well good luck with that. I think you’ll soon find no one in uniform willing to do your evil bidding or to arrest the man.
 
He stood for America. He did what he said he would do. He was proud to be American and he made me proud to be one. He kicked our enemies in their collectives a$$es. He reunited NATO and finally made them pay their fair share. He allowed PhD educated Generals to do their job and we defeated enemy after enemy while he saw to supplying the material needs of our efforts.

He stood on the border with hoards camped a hundred feet away in Mexico, afraid to cross the river. He made us a nation worthy of people wanting to become citizens through a legal process, not overrun by your fentanyl carrying thugs!

That’s what you’re doing speaker Pelosi. You loaded up that so called panel to preach to we, REAL Americans your party line that you have long hoped to shove down our throats. But you know what? We’re not buying it. You’re fired madam and your panel can be a final sad footnote to seeing you happily passing into retirement. We’re going to bury the democratic party as it now exists and replace it with republicans who care about America. Then, because the blood bath, born of things like this sham of a panel, is going to so completely dethrone your sad party, I think we are going to see a change.
Politicians are mostly pigs in my view. Devoid of honor, they lie and live to further their own desires to climb ever higher. When they see what the American people is going to do to their ranks this fall, I think we may have set the stage to finally kick these unamerican progressive communists out of control. Finally, hopefully, more reasonable democrats can get a footing and return to the center where we need them to be. We need American minded lawmakers who aren’t willing to sail the whole ship over the waterfall just to appease some fringe/freak part of your party, who you, through your lack of courage, has allowed to have any voice at all.

I do not believe this “Hearing” is anything, but a sham and it only reinforces my resolve to vote all of you out of office. Democrats, I’d be getting those resumes all polished up, you’re gonna need them!

Most of the parts for a wind turbine are built in Germany.
It requires 60 gallons of oil to lubricate the turbine.
When a seal breaks, that oil goes to the ground.
Blades are made of a toxic fiberglass combination & are buried in landfills
in Wyoming (think ground water).
Turbine has to spin continually for 7+ yrs just to replace the energy it
took to manufacture it.
It would have to run continually for 50 yrs (they don't last that long) to
pay for the cost to manufacture & install the turbine....which is
approximately 2 million dollars per turbine.

Asking for a friend
Fuel costs are on a spectacular rise
I am now hearing about a rolling brownout type of activity with certain gas stations in Kentucky
Ya, fuel shortages of diesel
Anyone seeing this or is it local to the Tuck?
So, this friend
Has accessibility to red diesel, farm fuel. Costs $.50-$.70 less a gallon
So he is considering running the red stuff

But he cannot legally use the agricultural fuel over the road.
As a side note he recently found out all the diesel trucks at the local high school mostly all run the red fuel!

So, back to my friend. He is sorting out a fuel system that would mount a 70ish gallon tank in the bed, then run that to a separate fuel system that plugs directly into the factory injection system at the engine.
Tank would remain with some fuel in it, the ULSD crap, but actually be powered from the "Aux" farm gas tank in the bed

He was wanting to know what the wise men on this forum had to say about that?

CIEMR: 10 weeks of wheat remaining in the world!

I just read an article about the coming food shortage. The title of the article sounds rather ominous, and by rites, it should be. It says, "!0 weeks of wheat remaining in the world."

Think about that. 10 weeks and we are tango-uniform for the stuff we use to make, well, bread for one, and ten thousand other things that we use to fill voids in our stomach. The reason that the article cites is the war in the Ukraine. Turns out they are producing, well, used to be producing, nearly a third of the world's wheat! And something like 20% of the corn FOR-THE-WHOLE-WORLD.

If you're a thinking person, you can stop reading, you can figure out what comes next and you're right there with me. You've likely already stored away for a rainy day.

But you thinkers are a rare breed. I'd wager that 75% or better of everyone who can read just waits to be told what's next. You know, BLM is good and older white people are bad. You know, that and other, good reliable information.

My money says the government will play this down and use it to confuse and disrupt the voters in the upcoming November election where the progressive lefties are about to receive a severe beating about the head and shoulders.

It will be a good diversion, but unlike Trump's Russia connection or the need to mask up your poodles immediately and get all sorts of untested vaccinations, this one is actually real.

So, the day late and dollar short crowd starts to notice something. As they depart the voter booth enroot to another riot somewhere and they stop at the grocery to get their lucky charms, well right there where the fabulously delicious sugar pills used to be, will be a bunch of "Vote Democrat" signs in the place of the actual food.

So what happens next? Do the mindless sheeple just sit back on their haunches and wait for CNN or that new brilliant WH Spokesperson to solve their woes? Nope, my money says that they will panic just like all scared sheep do when they are in trouble. Might as well burn the grocery stores while they are looting it, you know, just for fun.
 
People in America are soft. They are fat, they are sick, they can't think for themselves, they are so scared of everything that they haven't experienced anything. I'll bet those professors who believe and spew all this liberal nonsense don't even realize that plants came from seeds that you need to put in dirt. Ya, unsafe, unclean, non-processed, messy old dirt. Oh and if you're a liberal and are taking notes, the seeds don't grow in the winter, so unless you can make the supreme sacrifice to pull the pot plants out of the bucket growing in the spare bedroom and toss in some corn seeds instead, you'd better plan on eating whatever you can find starting around Thanksgiving.

Oh, and no, the burned-out grocery stores won't work anymore. And since you're not an illegal alien, the chances of you getting actual help from the guberment is pretty much nil.

Oh and another clue: People won't wait ten weeks to clean off the grocery shelves. Remember what happened during COVID with toilet paper? Ya, like that.

Yep if you haven't been keeping up, you're pretty much screwed already!

CIEMR: Fertilizer shortage

Not to be alarmist here, just sharing some information.

From some sources: Fertilizer is critically short. How short? Well normal sized farms may not have it available in some areas. You see, the cost has increased 2X to 3X since last year and that is the first part of the problem. The second, much larger part of the problem, is that there is only roughly half as much fertilizer available worldwide as there was last year...Half!

So, because there is less, and because the price has tripled, normal sized farms which run close to the margin, cannot buy it and make any money. So, they will likely not be producers like they normally would have been. Only the mega large farm corporations will be able to pay operating costs and still be in the black. They will push up the cost of their product to cover expenses.

Result: Less food available. Less food and at a greater cost. Expect it to show up in ways like this: The supermarket will still have cereal, but likely only one or a few choices, not rows of different brands. Any excess corn and wheat will be diverted into protein production or animal feed. That means ethanol production will decrease sharply. In many places, ethanol augments gasoline, and since it is cheaper than gas to produce, it can reduce the cost. That will not happen because the grains will be needed to make human and animal food. Consequently, gas prices will rise starting in October through the winter of 23.

We have a perfect storm coming and it doesn't seem as though people are even aware of it. The cost of meet will go up a bunch more because of the high cost of a dwindling supply of animal feed.

The poorer countries rely on food donations from the rich countries. This year that is going to start to dry up. Europe is already seeing an epic population migration from Africa. Expect it to get much, much worse. Social conditions in the western countries of Europe will devolve as nonwestern cultures start to crowd out traditional European cultures. A lack of food will ignite regional wars in the poorer regions.

Expect them to be in and all-around DRC and its 11 satellite countries. DRC has the most water in all of Europe and Asia. It also has the most aeratable land. It can easily feed all of Africa and all of Europe. DRC, however, is totally corrupt and so bad that any system of large-scale food production would be nearly impossible. But it will have some food and not many of its neighbors will, hence more wars are coming there.

Fuel prices in America will continue to rise. According to the CEO of a major petroleum supplier, the industry can no longer meet demand so prices will climb steadily to around $6 a gallon for gasoline and as high as $8 a gallon for diesel by summer’s end. The nation's produce travels to market on trucks for the most part so food costs will get another 15%-25% boost simply due to soaring energy costs.

One may conclude that most of this seems by design, but who is to say? The United Nations has for decades now, planned on depopulating the world, even published theories about how that may happen. It seems that starting with this coming harvest season, they may be getting their wish.

So, what can you do? Well, not too much as most of our population is urban based and clueless as to how to actually produce food, but that will soon change driven by raw necessity. Grow your own produce and can it. It's a fairly simple process and not costly.

Next, stockpile starting now. Buy UV resistant sealable bags and fill them with the basics. Flour, corn meal, sugar and the like. Toss in a de-oxygenator bag and seal them. Buy the kind of bags you must iron to seal. Fill up a trash can sized container with these bags. They will last a couple decades in there if the rodents can be kept at bay. If all this never happens, make cookies and pies for the next decade out of it and have a good laugh. But if things happen like they should, you have something. If you're rural, buy and house chickens. If your HOA says no, tell them to do something about it and do it anyway. We have a place for 2-6 cows, so we are doing that, and stocked a pond with fish.

There is no way that this rather extreme lack of fertilizer is going to just pass us by. No, it is going to hit hard. There will be a social and crime and just plain shock aspect to all this. If you have and you are in the vicinity of a bunch of have nots, either buy enough for all of them or learn to defend what is yours. People are already punching holes in gas tanks to get at the fuel. And we are still somewhat culturally normal. What do you think will happen when gas is at $6 a gallon and there isn't all that much food about? Just think about it.

So, crime is going to go up very quickly. The government is already hamstrung and starting just this fall we should have 1-2 million new illegal inhabitants. People coming from socialist countries are liable to be our best friends. They will likely fight to keep America from turning into the third world crap hole they just waded across the Rio-Grande to escape. But the others have come from countries where crime is a way of life. They are quietly filling up apartments in every American neighborhood there is. What they do and how they react when they realize they may not be getting free meals and a new I-phone and Cadillac is yet to be seen. But to say they will immediately become productive members of society and not become a big problem is a stretch.

America has changed. The idealistic socially progressive administration believes we are better off at $10 a gallon gas with everyone owning windmill powered cars and using their healthcare system for a sex change operation. They are no help to everyday Americans. It will take a new president to reauthorize drilling new wells to alleviate the energy crunch, but how long will all that take? 5-7 years probably. And what will have happened during that time? Will we even remember 8-10 years from now after having lived through all this self-made bull crap what the America of the 20-teens was like?

I say no way. By then things might even have gotten to the point where a state or two secedes from the union or we have a couple of regional civil wars. Certainly, we will be far more used to seeing murder and theft and living without abundance. I think we as a people will be less outgoing and more protective and secretive just to protect our own families. Sadly, America may have already sailed for a new port in some history book, never to be seen again. There is little you can do to make a difference in the macro space, but you can as I've mentioned you can make a difference for that smiling grill to your left and right. So, smart folks out there in TV land, get at it!

In lieu of doing a bike build on my adventure thread which I am saving for trip pics, I'll just build the Kawasaki here.

I thought I'd keep this one sane and simple and inexpensive. After all the KLR is an adventure bike costing 1/2 to 1/3 the price of its competition that it really does not have.

So job1 will be to just buy less or the least expensive parts. I have found that you can pay double, triple or more if you are going for the snooty very best of the very best. Come down a paltry 10%-20% in capability, or quality and you are looking at half to a third the price. So you get a lot of bang for the buck for a much lower price point.

Next, keep it sane and focused. For this summer/fall, the pre-ranger will essentially be learning. So we aren't going to do anything crazy. We have to get good on the street, get good at low speed riding, and somewhat proficient on easy trails, two and single tracks.

So, it already has everything needed to be a good commuter and street rider, so it really needs very little there. I was thinking a throttle friction device to serve as a poor man's cruise control so I can get my hands off that buzzing bar every once in awhile. Oh, and I'll need a GPS/Phone holder so I'll score one of those.

For trail riding, I already think the stock rubber foot pegs are a non starter and with my height, standing and riding in the attack position forces me to lean slight forward placing more weight over the forks. That's not good, so I'll have to raise my handlebars. Next up it needs just a touch of armor. I am thinking a good bash plate and maybe just ride that for awhile before deciding to buy crash bars.

It already has panniers although they are small at 21 liters. They never the less fit the bike so I'll see how to develop that. I'll need some tools and things like a spare tube or two, an inflator, some irons, a hillbilly center-stand, some duct tape, spare nuts and bolts, and locktite.

I always like a bit of an exhaust note so I think I'll lead off this build with a cool exhaust.

So, today I did something really cool
I purchased two Kawasaki KLR-650's
Yea

During the 100 days of prayer, I consistently prayed for the men who come here to be blessed, and strengthened, and protected. I asked God to send us lots of men, so that they, too might be strengthened.

But here's what actually happened: We are declining, and rapidly. No new men save for one I can point to. So I am wondering what is happening here? I mean if we really were effectively reaching men and strengthening them in the name of Jesus? You see, God promises to do all things we pray for in accordance with his will. So what is going wrong?

I shouldered almost the entire financial burden of paying for this place this year, and that's no big deal. I feel the site is beneficial to lots of folks and I like doing it. But it points to a lack of enthusiasm of the membership here, at least I think so. Strike two...

So if God answers prayers we pray earnestly to the benefit of his will, and the site during that time of prayer showed about a 30% contraction, then what am I supposed to take from that? I don't know exactly what to think about it and that's why I made this entry. Perhaps some of you see something that I am not?

Am I missing something here?
Am I doing something wrong?
Is, this site somehow not honoring the Lord?
Am I not the one to lead it?

Seems clear that something has happened and it started when we started the 100 days of prayer. And I am not aware of too many members joining in on the 100 days of prayer. Just a few actually. I may be wrong about that, but even if I am right I know 2-3% of the people can make a pretty significance difference. History records those percentages made the difference during the American Revolution.

So, then I think, what would happen and who might benefit should this web site close down? One name immediately pops in my head, Satan. He would benefit. He likes to destroy. He would have destroyed this oasis in the interweb. He likes to tear apart families. We have a family here. Just look at Kens million plus chat room...All good stuff there. Satan likes to diminish the reach and effectiveness of the gospel. If we were gone, Matt's word of the day and a thousand other scriptural references would be lost. In the sense that we have been a "church" for some, well, that would be gone and those few would not have this safe place of fellowship.

So what is going on here?

Perspective...

The lesson here is in the way we approach things. Someone wrote a book about thinking along lines of mathematical probabilities to discover the truth about things.

Our church, a big one, has asked the normal members to please not go to the Sunday Easter service. Even though there are over 1000 seats in the main sanctuary we wouldn't have room for all the "Christers." Our Easter services started Friday night (tonight). Tomorrow there are several services and I think they have one big one planned for Sunday. Out of the several offered on Saturday, we selected the 1500 service to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus this year.

We are going to go to the one hour 1500 service, then return home to our house and eat a big Easter dinner. Following that we will host an Easter egg hunt in our 2.5 acre yard. I think Kat has a couple thousand eggs for me to put out. Today I mowed and picked up a ton of things from the lawn. We put candy or coins inside the eggs. This year I am putting a silver one dollar coin in one egg (Value around $20 I think) as the grand prize. I hope a younger child finds it.

The church has gone totally insane. They are going to do a 10,000 Easter egg drop from a couple of helicopters at a baseball field for hundreds of kids. That should be pretty cool!

So, what are all of you planning to do?

Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code


1. Never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
2. Never go back on your word, or a trust confided in you.
3.  Always tell the truth.
4.  Be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
5.  Must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
6.  Help people in distress.
7.  Be a good worker.
8.  Keep yourself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
9.  Respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.
10. The Cowboy is a patriot.

I recently decided to change up the way I use money.

For many years I was always cautious to keep a bunch of credit accounts active. I did it to keep my credit score very high, which it has pretty much, always been. But one day I started to add up the amount in finance charges I was paying just to maintain that lofty score. It turned out to be a lot. Enough to simply pay cash for something big, like a short block for my Suburban.

That's when I decided to change my tact completely. Finally taking the advice of Dave Ramsey, I decided to just payoff  everything and just make pure cash purchases. I began the process last year.

So one by one, I'd pick out an account, then simply pay it off. I maintain a healthy income, even in retirement, so it wasn't all that difficult. But something interesting started happening. As I paid off successive accounts, my credit score would drop. It would later start to recover, but then I'd pay another one off, and I'd be down again.

Mind you, I never missed anything, nor was late, nor defaulted. The only thing I did was to start to make huge payments. If I would have, for example, a payment on the wife's Honda Talon, I'd make a $5,000 payment in lieu of the monthly one of $396. My credit report would post a note showing that my balance had decreased with Honda, but the FICO score remained the same. Then when I'd pay it off altogether the following month, my score would drop 6 points!

So I got fed up with doing the right thing and getting dinged by it so I started really taking big bites out of all my remaining debt. Two months ago I got pi$$ed at the "unfairness" of the system and paid off three of my remaining  accounts leaving me with only a car and a tractor payment. As a result my credit score dropped 31 points, to one of the lowest scores ever!

I'm in better shape than ever with the lowest score I have seen in decades!

Think about it. I reduced my debt substantially and made myself financially healthier than ever, and killed my credit by doing it! Bad thing, right? Killing one's credit score? Thinking about it, I don't think so. Because now I am in a position to  simply pay cash for anything we might need or want!

But the "system" doesn't like me doing that.

It seems that the credit system only works to your benefit if you stay in debt. Isn't that curious! Seems as though by reducing debt load you create more personal freedom. The powers to be do not like that very much and punish you. But in the same breath, I don't really need credit all that much any longer.

I buckled down for a good chunk of my life and actually paid cash for my farm, so I don't need credit to buy a place. When we sell our current home, and after paying off the balance, we should have enough cash left over to build a modest home on our farm for cash. So no need for a mortgage there, nope, we'll just pay for it.

This system we have is all about controlling people. Stay in debt and we'll reward you with the ability to carry even more debt. And while you're getting a bigger credit score with, likely an increasing debt load, the interest you pay monthly is enslaving you. It is stealing your ability to pay off that mountain of debt.

That's good according to our system and on and on you go subject to a mountain of debt while living in a country which has regulated away a good portion of the rest of your so called freedoms.

The American Dream?...Or is it something else?

Notice the subtle differences

One must know the base truths and anchor their life in them or you can easily be led by whomever to anyplace, for any reason

I sold my Kobelco SKC-250 Excavator machine this week.

That leaves me with no excavator down farmside...Hmmm

I have the majority of the big work completed, and now have a long line of chores to complete with an excavator

I'll need to:

Pick up and stack stones into retaining walls
Dig drainage ditches
Dig ditches to bury pipe and conduit for electrical cables
Dig the foundation/basement space for the new house
Pull up trees
Lift semi heavy things onto the second floor/roof of my buildings
Smash up poachers trucks I find on my property
Pick up and stack logs
and a variery of other tasks

So I think I need a "Midi", something bigger than the minis because I need more power and something smaller than the massive big excavator I used to own.

Looking around the Kubota KX80 was my first pick followed by something near a Cat 308 or a Deere of the same size.

But there happens to be a SANY dealership about three miles from me and they actually still have a couple 80's in stock

They will sell me a rubber track machine with a 36" bucket and a hydraulic thumb for $96K

And get this, it has a 5-year/5,000 hour bumper to bumper warranty!!!!!!!!!!

Ya, if something happens they will send a truck out and repair my machine on site for free...for 5 very long and abusive years...

So I am considering purchasing one.

Gents,
Its that time again. I am only putting it out there, not asking for any help
The renewal costs are around $750 for the hosting and the Clementine security services that we use. I'll have to pay the fee in mid April.
OK, back to the mission in progress.

Could it be that the liberal left is the greatest existential threat to our lives? I’d like to raise that question because I believe there is ample proof to support that possibility. First of all, let me define the left. It is embodied in the Biden administration and all its incompetent leaders. Practically every department or cabinet head he chose is incompetent, has no prior experience to lead their area of focus, or is a closet communist. Look no further than day to day demonstrations of this incompetence from him or his vice president who talks to us as though we were in kindergarten. Recently we saw a transportation secretary who took paternity leave to care for a baby while American industry was melting down due to a supply chain mega-problem. We are forced to listen to a press secretary outright lie to us about almost everything. I mean, seriously, how much of this are we going to put up with?

I think Biden is an empty suit. He is senile and managed by who? His chief of staff? Other players outside the government? Who is running our government? When Trump was in office everyone and I mean everyone knew that man was large and in charge. Sure he had ankle biters hounding at him every waking second, but he still did so much to make us great again. We can still not quite fathom exactly what we lost when the election was stolen. OK, confession here: I do not believe Biden won a legitimate election. There is just a mounting mountain of evidence to the contrary.
Biden and what he represents is a great threat to our moral self, to our outright safety, to our freedoms, and to our dignity as a nation. He has created a very dangerous world out of one that stayed in check under Trump. Just like ISIS learned one Donald Trump will squash you in a New York minute if you try to cross us.

Biden has a decade’s-long history of gaffs, bad decisions, sexual harassment, possible pedophilia, and weakness. He could have only survived as a senator who came from a “State” which only has three counties! Yea, three! People like Kim II in Korea, some fanatic in the Iran, Putin, of course and President Xi of China all saw weakness. Heck, for that matter, everyone else knew that with Biden came an era of uncertainty, poor decisions, a super divided America. He telegraphed a coming flood of refugees, and a quick return of all of those Obama favs like ANTIFA, LBTGQ!@#%$, BLM, radical Islam and every other Anti-American organization you can name on several sets of hands and feet.

Putin is invading Ukraine. He did not fear a west led by a feeble idiot, so he went for it. He openly bombs refugees fleeing in pre-negotiated corridors. (Hope the man burns in hell for just that one, but that’s just me). Putin knows Biden is a fool and he knows he can do anything he likes or wants to do while the best support man he could have hoped for goes about screwing up the United States. That is the biggest reason he will probably be the first to use battlefield nuclear weapons. What has Putin to fear? More harsh language from the old fumbler? Grab Putin by the throat, shove him into a corner, close up eyeball to eyeball and tell the man, “You do that, and I’m going to immediately bury you in a thermonuclear hole.” Do that, show some manhood, and Putin will understand. Oh and Xi, Kim, and those Persians will also get the hint.

But wait, there’s more! Now this unbelievably incompetent fool is asking Iran, and Venezuela to ease our oil shortages? The same oil shortages stupid little joe created in the first place??????? Ask enemy states to please help us out, pretty please? UNBELIEVABLE! Venezuela is a communist nation. Allow me to explain: Speaking like our equally capable VP, Venezuela is a small country. They have oil and that is good. But they are killing and starving their people and that is bad. But now they will help us and everything is good once again!

And what of this peace loving Iran who is always the first to help the world with aid and comfort? You do consider women and children wearing bomb vests as an act of aid and a good thing, right? Sorry, just making a point. But, seriously, could a nation who believes in such an obscenely hideous practice somehow be trusted to keep their future nuclear weapons safely locked down and under control? NO! They will develop one or more, then use them while the paint is still drying on the “death to America” ink stamp on the side of the thing.

Now should Iran start selling this oil to us, I’m sure they wouldn’t bargain away any of their sanctions, now would they? We can all agree that they fully realize they are “Bad” and not “Good,” right? Of course they will take every last dime of that US coin and put it into the finishing touches of the Islam fission bomb. But hey, that may still be a good thing! Biden’s thinking: if at least one middle class American household converts from their 2008 Buick to that shiny new $150,000 Tesla then it’s a step in the right direction. Man I hope these new EV’s all have good radiation detection systems installed along with the heated steering wheels!

We could shortly relieve the oil supply crunch by simply easing regulations. I think that alone gets us back to even. Then we turn on Keystone and with that, start to supply most of Europe. We push some holes into the ground off shore and we are pumping natural gas as well. We become the primary supplier of energy to Europe giving us unimaginable leverage there, we keep Putin in his corner until his people figure all this out and replace him, and we give notice to the Saudis that we will be dictating the oil terms from now on.

Yea, call me an American bigot, because I am bigoted toward all things America first. That makes me a bad guy? Hold your opinion, I don’t care. We need to do some things pretty quick in the America we love before it’s all regulated into stupidity. First, just say no to stupid. That means no to everyone who is not aligned with the America first thinking. Fire them, recall them, vote them out of office and make life a bit more “Real” for them. An example of the latter that the Sherriff of LA and the Police Chief of New York could do today is to release every criminal released back to the streets by those left leaning communist DA’s directly in front of the homes of those two communists. That might clue them in. Oh, and let’s include the addresses of all the super-rich left leaning people financing those campaigns, yea, them too!

Next, arm yourself, and I mean everyone. Most states have open carry laws, so mommas when you go shopping for those pampers, carry your purse, handbag and an AR or Glock. Next let’s stop accommodating idiots speaking hatred toward our nation. When they start to talk, just walk away. Turn a back on stupidity. Hey, that’s a good name for a new movement, “Turn a back on STUPIDITY.”

Next, challenge them everywhere. They like to use the courts to frighten us and push their agendas. Let’s use the same courts against them. I’ll bet if you just read the employment agreements, code of conducts, accepted rules for conduct or something like those, you’ll find ample justification to file something against one of these idiots from the left.

If we don’t do something soon, people like Biden are going to literally get us all in such a mess as we may not be able to get out of, short of actually fighting. Last time we did that the country was a general mess for a long time afterward and a lot of good folks died. We don’t need that. Biden will recreate a strong communist presence in our hemisphere in the persons of Cuba and Venezuela. They will try to threaten us. They may even pull out the 1963 Khrushchev’s play book of stationing Russian nukes in their countries. Next, get a copy of “Red Storm Rising and watch/read it. It’s about to transition from fiction to reality.

These artificially created (Purposely?) rising oil prices will just crush people already suffering under 7% inflation and business will fail. Electric cars are not sustainable now, nor will they be as a viable replacement for fossil fuel for decades. Sorry, but it’s just a fact, and I like the Tesla’s. I also like my diesel truck, so that’s a wash. Should Putin extend his land grab then more and more people will suffer, and Europe will destabilize. Add to that my two boys who dream of becoming Army Rangers soon will be at risk. I’d like for them to wear that coveted tab, but somewhere around the continental US, pretty please. I don’t want to see American blood spilled in some god forsaken place with a name none of us can even pronounce.

Could I get a little help here? Could we all get busy getting rid of these fools and begin righting our ship? Worse things are coming. After the movie review suggested earlier, give Ezekiel 38 a read. Gog is Russia BTW…

Totally believable!

I'm there!

I'll try and track this developing war in the Ukraine. I will just add to this first post as things develop.
Red notes refer to (red)China/Taiwan operations

The night of fighting with heavy shell attacks has taken a great toll on both sides, with estimates suggesting between 1,000 and 3,500 Russian soldiers have been killed.

Live – Kiev is surrounded by: Follow the news of the war in Ukraine

A Japanese-owned cargo ship has been shelled in the Black Sea, south of Ukraine. One crewmember has been injured.

The State Dept advises US citizens not to travel to Belarus and urges US citizens in Belarus to depart immediately. Minsk airport has flights to limited international destinations. Land borders with Lithuania, Latvia & Poland work at normal capacity.

NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Tod Wolters activated the multinational force consisting of land, air, sea and special operations forces from the allies that can deploy quickly in support of the NATO alliance. The activation of the response troops does not mean that any US or NATO troops will go into Ukraine, which is not a member.

China announces maritime drills starting tomorrow off their coast near Taiwan

1059 02262022   115,000 people cross from Ukraine to Poland since invasion

1840 02262022  Russia-Ukraine latest news: western allies to cut some Russian banks out of Swift payments system

1907 02262022  Elon Musk has said SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are now active over Ukraine after a request from Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov.

Eight countries, including Czech Republic, Poland and the UK, have now introduced full or partial bans on Russian flights.

Anti-war sentiment grows in Russia despite government crackdown

1943 02262022  After reading a bunch of tweets out of the Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers killed: Something around 200 with 400 injured. Russian far worse with 3500 killed/wounded and 200 POW's. One person walked through an abandoned Russian BM-21 multiple launch rocket system unit which were all out of fuel. Other reports of Russians running out of gas and Ukrainian forces hitting them hard near the border on the supply routes.

2021 02262022  According to United States military information, Russia now has at least 50 percent of its estimated 150,000-strong invasion force inside Ukraine.

0834 02272022  Russia-Ukraine latest: Putin orders nuclear deterrence forces on high alert; Zelenskiy says Ukrainian and Russian delegations to meet

0830ish 02272022  Belarus special forces are believed to be preparing to assault the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the Daily Mirror can reveal. Ukrainian intelligence has learned from within Belarus that “special ops” troops have been spotted loading up planes for a major attack.

0940 02272022  There are 'no Russian troops in the capital,' Kyiv mayor says

1700 02272022  BUDAPEST, Hungary - Some 66,000 refugees have entered Hungary from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on Thursday, with more than 23,000 entering on Saturday alone, according to the Hungarian police and Hungary’s foreign minster

1700 02272022 Soviet shuttle carrier aircraft destroyed in Russian attack on Ukraine (Note: This is a big deal. There was only one AN-225 in the world, and it was the largest cargo carrier on earth. Many a specialized load was carried around the planet in that thing. That will leave a vacuum that won't be filled)

Evening 02272022  Ukraine could tip balance of war if it resists Russian forces a few more days, expert says
AM 02282022  Radioactive waste disposal site near Kyiv hit by airstrike, Ukraine officials say (I actually wrote a paper once about this facility which has a history of leaks and fires)

Even Godzilla is in danger from these!

It happened again!

This is sobering, and aside from the fact that God is in control, this is frightening and unsettling!


Studying the sobering results of Dr. George Barna's research, "Millennials in America," I felt fear for the future considering the views of the largest generation in our history.

I listened intently as he shared some of his key findings. Here are some of the startling discoveries:


Almost one-half of young adults prefer socialism to capitalism.
Foundation of absolute truth has been replaced by relativism, with feelings and friends forming one's worldview.
9 of 10 are syncretists, picking a mixture of beliefs from different religions so as not to appear "intolerant."
Being "born again" doesn't result from repentance and faith in Christ's sacrificial, substitutionary death and Resurrection but refers to being a good person, doing good deeds to merit one's salvation.
Only 28% believe the Bible is the Word of God.
The overwhelming majority reject the concept of an all-knowing, all-powerful Creator and do not accept the biblical/historical view of Scripture, sin and salvation.

Two portions of Scripture come to mind in light of the younger generation drifting dramatically from God.

"That entire generation passed away, and after them grew up a generation who did not know the Lord or the deeds that He had done. …" (Judges 2:10)

"Moreover, in those days I also saw Jews who had married the women of Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. Half of their children spoke in the language of Ashdod, yet none of them could recognize the language of the Jews." (Nehemiah 13:23-24)

Upon assessing the situation in his day, Nehemiah was definitely not complacent as he confronted some of them with righteous anger. He "cursed" … "beat" … and "plucked out the hair" of those responsible for "doing all this great evil who are behaving unfaithfully against our God. …" (Nehemiah 13:25-7)

Scripture does not rejoice over Nehemiah's actions but does record them! In our day of comfortable, compromising and cowardly "Christianity," it's refreshing to see a leader not being silent and submitting to the fear of man.

Years ago when President Obama and LGBTQ activists were aggressively pushing for same-sex marriage, I partnered with a professional videographer on a biblical instructional video entitled "Is Gay OK?" From a biblically informed worldview it addressed questions like "Is a person born gay? Can someone be a Christian and practice homosexuality? Is same-sex marriage allowed by God?"

I was subsequently let go by the church where I served in leadership for five years, being told by the leader to "just go and don't come back." Previously, he'd warned me in no uncertain terms that to continue the project was a "deal-breaker" and "we don't want to go there because we could incur death threats."

A primary reason I worked on the resource video was to help rescue millennials being bombarded by an avalanche of deceitful propaganda on this and multitudes of cultural hot-button issues. Because many pastors decided to be "seeker sensitive" and play it safe, steering clear of controversy ("We don't get into areas like abortion, living together, homosexuality, transgender stuff, voting, elections … you know, anything political") we now have a generation like in the time of Judges.

More sobering data

Apart from deception assaulting the younger generation in the area of morality, Dr. Barna's research reveals chilling beliefs in the realm of spirituality:

Two out of three millennials believe they are "Christians," yet their responses indicate they are not true disciples following Jesus as Lord.
Three out of four believe all religious faiths are of equal value.
56% reject the existence of absolute truth.
A scant 4% of millennials hold to a biblical worldview regarding God, life and morality.
Only one in four millennials believe they can trust Christian pastors.
A high percentage identify themselves as "DONTS," meaning they don't know or even care if God exists.
Inspiration from 5 divine interventions

Before anyone succumbs to cynicism and pessimism concerning the future of the millennial generation, let's remind ourselves of God's sovereign intervention in similar seasons of history where outpourings of His Spirit broke through the darkness.

First Great Awakening. I've been to Northampton, Massachusetts, where Jonathan Edwards helped ignite God's miraculous intervention in the darkest period of the 1700s, which resulted in unbelievable societal transformation.

Second Great Awakening. I've had the privilege of ministering repeatedly at Oberlin College, a ground zero destination where in the 1800s Charles Finney was catalytic with others in bringing sweeping revival fire to America in what is now known as another great awakening that revolutionized society.

Azusa Street Revival. I've been to Bonnie Brae Street with revivalist Lou Engle where at the turn of the 20th century a handful of people gathered, and soon God poured out His Spirit in an unprecedented way in Los Angeles birthing the Pentecostal movement that today has reached almost a half billion people worldwide! And God used a humble, one-eyed black man, ironically named William Seymour ("see more"), who wanted to see more of God in his day!

The Jesus Movement. In one of the most turbulent times in America's history, God rescued me from a '60s "Lost Souls" rock band and swept me into a revolutionary youth-centered Jesus revolution that saw millions of sons and daughters converted and changed by the power of the living God! I joined with Dr. Michael Brown, Mike Bickle, Greg Laurie, Keith Green and others in a heaven-sent move of God that birthed Calvary Chapel, The Vineyard, Contemporary Christian music and a cover story in Time magazine!

Brownsville Revival. Revival broke out in Pensacola, Florida, and providentially God planted me in the midst of a divinely orchestrated move of His Spirit where in a five-year period 2 million came from across the world and 200,000 were converted – to the glory of God!

7 common denominators

Dr. Barna's excellent research revealed sobering data. It's our time to seize the opportunity, remembering God's sovereignty and the church's responsibility. Historically, we find common denominators to guide us.

1. Passionate and prevailing prayer.

2. Genuine repentance and living lives of happy holiness.

3. Freedom for the Holy Spirit to move in spontaneity under godly oversight.

4. Rekindling lifestyle evangelism and consistent, compassionate outreach to the lost and those suffering in poverty, persecution and exploitation.

5. Rediscovering the passionate preaching of the Word of God.

6. Restoring a healthy fear of the Lord through a revelation of divine judgment and experience of Holy Spirit conviction.

7. Most importantly, rekindling the fire of first-love zeal and simple devotion to Jesus as our Lord and Savior.

Here's the deal: "In the last days it shall be, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:17).

What a deal!