Recently overheard was a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the father said, 'I love you, and I wish you enough.'
The daughter replied, 'Dad, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Dad.'
They kissed and the daughter left. The Father walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, 'Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?'
'Yes, I have,' I replied. 'Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?'..
'I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral,' he said.
'When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough..' May I ask what that means?'
He began to smile. 'That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone...'
He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more. 'When we said, 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.' Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
He then began to cry and walked away.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.
Only if you wish, send this to the people you will never forget. If you don't send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a hurry that you have forgotten your friends.
*TAKE TIME TO LIVE....*
To all my Friends and Family  - *I WISH YOU ENOUGH*

Many Americans, particularly our most senior politicians and military leaders, seem to have developed a form of dementia when it comes to warfare. The result is confusion or denial about the essential ingredients of a competent military force, and the costs of major power conflict. The memory loss is largely irrespective of political bent because all too many are seduced by a Hollywood-infused sense of antiseptic warfare and push-button solutions, while forgotten are the one million casualties of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, or the almost two million in the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. 

This “warfare dementia” is a dangerous and potentially catastrophic malady, because the price for it could alter the success of the American experiment and most assuredly will be paid in blood. The condition is exacerbated and enabled when the most senior military leaders — those who ought to know better — defer to the idealistic judgments of those whose credentials are either nonexistent or formed entirely by ideology.

The purpose of this essay is to explain the fundamental tenets of a military that will either deter potential enemies or decisively win the nation’s wars, thereby preserving our way of life. What follows are the tenets of Critical Military Theory:

1. The U.S. military has two main purposes — to deter our enemies from engaging us in warfare, and if that fails, to defeat them in combat. Deterrence is only possible if the opposing force believes it will be defeated. Respect is not good enough; fear and certainty are required.

Relevant Wisdom: “If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.” George Washington.
2. To be true to its purpose, the U.S. military cannot be a mirror image of the society it serves. Values that are admirable in civilian society — sensitivity, individuality, compassion, and tolerance for the less capable — are often antithetical to the traits that deter a potential enemy and win the wars that must be fought: Conformity, discipline, unity.

Direct ground combat, of the type we must be prepared to fight, is only waged competently when actions are instinctive, almost irrationally disciplined, and wholly sacrificial when required. Consensus building, deference, and (frankly) softness have their place in polite society, but nothing about intense ground combat is polite — it is often sub-humanly coarse.

Relevant Wisdom: “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us.” Attributed to George Orwell, possibly originally from Richard Grenier.
3. There is only one overriding standard for military capability: lethality. Those officeholders who dilute this core truth with civil society’s often appropriate priorities (diversity, gender focus, etc.) undermine the military’s chances of success in combat. Reduced chances for success mean more casualties, which makes defeat more likely. Combat is the harshest meritocracy that exists, and nothing but ruthless adherence to this principle contributes to deterrence and combat effectiveness. 

Relevant Wisdom: “I shall see no officer under my command is debarred….from attending to his first duty, which is and always has been to train the private men under his command that they may without question beat any force opposed to them in the field.” The Duke of Wellington
4. A military should not be designed to win but to overwhelm. In baseball, you win if your total score is one run better than your opponent’s. In war, narrow victories incur what we call “the butcher’s bill.”  (A count of soldier casualties after a battle, sometimes used for civiliansafter a large disater.  "The fighting has ended for the night, what is the Butcher's Bill?"   "18 dead including 4 medics and another 45 wounded."

Relevant Wisdom: “But these things do not belong to war itself; they are only given conditions; and to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.” Carl Von Clausewitz.
5. Wars must be waged only with stone-cold pragmatism, not idealism, and fought only when critical national interests are at stake. Hopes for changing cultures to fit our model are both elitist and naive. The failures of our campaigns in Iraq and especially in Afghanistan confirm this.

Relevant Wisdom. “They enjoy playing poker with someone else’s chips.” B.V. Taylor
6. A military force’s greatest strengths are cohesion and discipline. Individuality or group identity is corrosive and a centrifugal force. Indeed, the military wears uniforms because uniformity is essential. The tenets of Critical Race Theory – a cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement that seeks to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States, but which has the unfortunate effect of dividing people along racial lines – undermine our military’s unity and diminish our warfighting capabilities.

Recruit training teaches close order drill and the manual of arms (drill with weapons) not because they still have relevance to maneuvers on the field of battle, but because they instill a sense of how conformity creates efficiency and superior group results. Upon a firm foundation of cohesion, imaginative leaders can spark initiative and innovation. But when we highlight differences or group identity, we undermine cohesion and morale. Failure results.

Relevant Wisdom: “Four brave men who do not know each other will not dare to attack a lion. Four less brave, but knowing each other well, sure of their reliability and consequently of mutual aid, will attack resolutely. There is the science of the organization of armies in a nutshell.” Colonel Ardant du Picq.
7. “The enemy gets a vote.” An objective lens for military theory is how the nation’s foes regard our martial ethos; after all, that is what constitutes deterrence…or lack of it. Ferocity, not sensitivity, prevails.

Relevant Wisdom: “We will not fight them. They are not normal. When we shoot at them, they run towards us. If we fight them, we die. They are worse than the sons of Satan.” Taliban radio intercept after engaging U.S. forces.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I Love This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
8. Infantry and special operations forces are different. The mission of those who engage in direct ground combat is manifestly distinct, and their standards and requirements must be as well. Not necessarily better, but different. For direct ground combat units, only the highest levels of discipline, fitness, cohesion, esprit, and just plain grit are acceptable. Insist on making their conditions and standards conform to other military communities, and you weaken the temper of steel in these modern-day Spartans.

Relevant Wisdom: “It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it.” General Douglas MacArthur.
9. Those who enlist in our military swear an oath to carry out dangerous, sometimes fatal duties. We call it “being in the service,” because it’s service to others….selfless sacrifices when the other option was often more comfort, freedom, individuality, and higher pay. Those who occupy the most senior ranks of the military must repay this selflessness with courage that is even rarer — moral courage. Civilian control of the military is indisputable, but its corollary is the ordinary principle that advice is sought, offered, and seriously considered before crucial decisions are made. My personal experience provides examples — the willful exclusion of military judgments in the build-up to the Iraq War with the attendant consequence that the invasion force was too shallow (thereby creating a vacuum which the insurgents quickly filled), and the decision to disband the Iraqi Army (the single most unifying institution in that country) after the collapse of the Baathist regime. A more recent example worth considering involves the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Relevant Wisdom: “There’s a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top.  Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent.” General George S. Patton.
So what’s the problem? The problem today is one of both priorities and standards. We signal a dangerous shift in priorities (as just one example) when global warming, not preparedness to defeat aggressive global competitors, is considered the greatest problem for the Department of Defense and headquarters and rank inflation blossom out of control to the point that the support element greatly diminishes the ground combat element that wins wars. A problem of standards when every service and the Special Operations community dilute requirements based purely on merit in favor of predetermined outcomes to favor social engineering goals, and when new training requirements crowd out expectations and measurements of combat performance.

This principle is the most clearly and frequently violated in our current military environment. Although the examples are many, the most egregious sidestepping of scientific evidence occurred when the U.S. Marine Corps’ lengthy examination of the effects of integrated (coed) ground combat performance was refuted and ignored (often by those who hadn’t read it). This brings to mind the verbiage used in another context: “inconvenient truths.”

The critical tasks outlined above may omit some essentials, but these serve as a starter and perhaps as a wake-up call. We have witnessed extraordinary and sacrificial service by our Armed Forces — too good to squander by confusing our military’s purpose with those of individuals who don’t pay in blood for their errors. And too good for a foe to misjudge our intrinsic toughness. In any case, these are not Critical Military Theories; these are Critical Military Facts.

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I just purchased a 60" Diamond disc mulcher.

It is one beast of a machine capable of taking an entire standing tree and taking it down to mulch in seconds. Literally, you can take a 4" 25 foot tall tree, cut it and shred the entire thing into chips in maybe 2-3 seconds!

I want to recommend a movie:

7 days in Utopia

Watch it with your wife/family

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=7+days+in+utopia&docid=608022220902652374&mid=9996F8E82C21AD6A97109996F8E82C21AD6A9710&view=detail&FORM=VIREHT

Then go to the link at the end of the movie:

https://www.linksofutopia.com/blog/didhemaketheputt

Did he make the putt...

If this thing doesn't move you, I'd suggest you don't know our Lord...

1 Mar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Epaa_GWSX0

This is one very special aircraft. A Bell 412, it is operated by the feds. Those pods on the sides have sensors that can detect the alpha particle scatter from a Nuclear weapon. It is currently flying around Los Angles...

My cousin has two tickets for the 2022 SUPER BOWL in California both box seats. He paid $2,500 for each ticket, but he didn't realize when he bought them that it was going to be on the same day as his wedding!!! If you are interested, he is looking for someone to take his place...... It's at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Acres Home at 3pm. Her name is Tiffany she's 5'7, no kids, decent job, and a pretty good cook too..... She'll be the lady in the white dress standing at the alter...WHO DEY!! Needs to know something ASAP

My Cincinnati Bengals are going to the super Bowl!

We just made the biggest comeback in history to beat Kanas City!!!!!!!!!!!

Down 18 points and we win the thing in overtime!

Anyone hearing anything about some peoples march on the Canadian capital...Against the Trudeau guberment? I am hearing tens of thousands heading there along with thousands of truckers all fed up with Canada's liberal policies


Please let it be true...Please let it be true...Ple...

Sharing a letter I just wrote to Big Tex


I just wanted to let you know my experience with the Walton, KY and now the Covington Big Tex store. But first I'll say I have purchased many trailers from you in the past, including an equipment trailer, then another, and then a 16K Dump trailer to name the most recent.

Beginning early last year I went in shopping for a 16K equipment, bumper pull trailer to pull my rubber track machine. They didn't have any and told me they would let me know when the next one came in, and like a fool I believed them. Well, I didn't hear anything, so after some time I went back. I could see they didn't remember me at all (Although I have purchased before several times). So I again asked for a 16K equipment trailer. I think then I was given the COVID excuse, but nothing on the web site indicated the 16K was not being built. I made a bit of noise and witnessed the lady writing down my request. I suggested ordering it then.

Well the weeks and months go by and by the fall, I had nothing. I was going to work that rubber track machine for the local deer hunters, a $1500 a day proposition for land clearing. So I went back and of course, I get a bunch of excuses and now they no longer answer the phone all the time. Well yesterday I called and couldn't get the Walton store after calling several times, so I called the national number which got me in touch with someone in Louisiana, Now that person was willing to drive all over kingdom-come and find one! So I called back again but this time the phone rang in Covington, KY. I explained everything to the girl there. She was apologetic, and I don't need apologies, just a trailer. I told her she had yesterday to find me a trailer or I was ordering a Kaufman trailer. She said she would look, but she never called me back. If any company ever has not earned my business, that company is you in the hand of these non-caring dealerships.

As a retired Army officer I felt I owed you this information but I do not want to buy from you any more, as I am performance oriented and low performers ought to get cut from the team.

In closing, I hope you can fix this problem, but I fear it is systemic and representative of all America. I am not impressed with the work ethic of the current generation manning the sales counters everywhere.

This letter will be shared on social media

Don Harward

Inspired by something Shawn sent me:



Begging the ladies pardon and speaking to the males here, I think that question lies right at the core of what is wrong with America and latter day American culture. Speaking to you older folks out there, can you see your parents agreeing with any of this WOKE nonsense or going along with someone telling a bold face lie in a manner which is supposed to represent you? Not on your life would any men I knew who were older than me have anything to do with this foolishness.

So let’s review some of those lies that have been spoken over all of us. I remember President Obama saying that we were a Muslim nation, and I remember him telling us how Islam played an important part of our cultural development in the days of Thomas Jefferson. Errr, check that. The only things Muslims did for us then were to raid our commercial shipping and serve as targets for our new US Marine Corps Marksmen. Oh and just a week ago, this sitting president made another statement I find reprehensible. He said that one George Floyd had a greater impact on American culture than Martin Luther King has had. Preposterous! What a buffoon! Sadly he and his cronies probably believe that to be true! So do any of you subscribe to nonsense like that? If you’re still reading this, I’m guessing not. Good! But that means the executive branch of our guberment does not align with our thinking. Yea, I know, big surprise there.

Back to my point, are you a man or just an adult male? You should know straight up. Further, that woman sitting near you can also tell you whether or not you are a man, unless of course, she is listening to Black Lives matter podcasts and is sporting some unusual never-before-seen hair color. I know who I am, I am a man of God. It’s quite simple really. I do what a man does, and on a fair number of occasions fail miserably in the execution of doing so, but let’s continue. I am grounded in my faith. I am strong in my beliefs. Know me and you will either have no better friend, nor no worse enemy. I will stand up for what is right in the face of overwhelming opposition, heck, I’m doing it right here. I am patriotic and no flag burning weasel will ever get grace from me as I have a few life defining moments involving that flag to my credit.

I am a man. I aspire to be a real man. I am not there. The greatest Real man I have ever known is Jesus, our Christ. He took it and took it and never gave it back. You know he could have simply wished it and the thought alone could have burned mankind off the face of the planet? Now that is strength, but what I see that is greater than that is the fact that he withheld. So that must be a part of being a man. You have the power, but you control it, so from this example we could say that self-control is an indicator of being a man. And in full disclosure, someone else needs to talk about that one, since I would be a frequent failure in that area.

A man loves and he cares for his own. He nurtures and sacrifices for his wife and his children, his friends, extended family, and even his neighbors. Sometimes he sacrifices for someone who he does not know. Right this very second some sailor is manning the watch on a US warship off the coast of Taiwan staring down the Chinese navy. Although he does it because it is his duty, he, unfortunately is also doing it for that hate filled purple hair BLM pod-cast listener as well.

A man can usually point to the place where he became an actual man. Could have been when first striking out on his own or the day he completed Marine Corps basic which is anything but. It could have been the moment he took a knee before the most beautiful woman in the world, or perhaps it was the day he watched a parent or friend pass on into eternity. It is oftentimes personal with experiences as sorted as life itself. But similar to surrendering to the overwhelming love of God in the act of salvation, becoming a man is a point in time when you are no longer a boy or just a full grown drone, errr, male and you become a man.

The women out there will be in the greatest agreement with me. They are sick and tired of boys playing on their X-box and talking like a bunch of hens. They want us to be men, need us to be. And so does our nation. If there were actual men and not a bunch of grown boys filling the streets, well for one thing, we wouldn’t see much crime any more. We wouldn’t have open borders. We would dam well know who we are as a nation and so would everyone else. Places like Iran would be one huge training camp for the US Army.

Men have courage and can take a reasonable beating and still land on their feet. They are powerful and God intended them to be. I believe the devil wants men to find their feminine side. I believe he wants men to have desire for other men and for us to cower away from big challenges. What is that popular phrase? Evil exists because good men did nothing to stop it. Think that isn’t true?

So here’s the thing. Men respect the law, follow rules and try not to be much trouble to anyone. We are content to just love our families and nation and live peaceful, reasonable lives. But what happens when the walls start to push in on us? Our willingness to comply with the law is one thing, but in a rational and civil society, the other side ought to respect our lives the way we are asked to accommodate theirs. But what is happening is that over long stretches of time the devil has been pushing in. In some places, well, many places now, he says you do not have the right to personal safety but need to sacrifice so that criminal elements of our society can more freely express themselves.

That is bull crap and it can no longer be tolerated. These laws and rules and social pressures have done just about nothing to quell the spirit of a real man. He is pressed too far and will soon explode, this author believes. Force is about to be met with asymmetric force because make no mistake ten of these shims (She/him neutral gender thing) is out matched by even one of us. Like I said before we are strong.

A man is a man, and in the absence of a field of men holding the line, the few real men remaining are going to make a profound difference all across America if the direction of change is not halted or changed.

Can you believe my Bengals?????

Going on the the AFC Championship

So, for years, decades, actually we have not had a coach and have suffered with a lackluster performance. But finally with a new Quarterback and a New Head Coach and a host of new and good players, well, finally they are playing football.

I had an ancient 1991 division championship hoodie that I wore in Afghanistan every time I flew when the Bengals were playing ten thousand miles away. Last Sunday, I was finally able to retire that ragged thing when we won the division title, first time since 1991. That was Desert Storm, I'll remind you. And now we just followed that up by making it to the AFC Championship game next week.

I won't even begin to hope we show up in the Superbowl, no this is a blessing all in itself. But folks, we are looking good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREmnsungVM

Camels on the Horizon

 

 

Interesting take on history.

 

Didn’t Thomas Jefferson say something like, “My great grandfather was a warrior so my grandfather could be a farmer so that my father could be a merchant so that I could be a scholar”?

Read a kaleidoscope of truth and reality below.

 

Camels on the Horizon:

 

The founder of Dubai, Sheik Rashid, was asked about the future of his country, and he replied, "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again. “Why is that, he was asked?

 

And his reply was, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men, weak men create difficult times.

Many will not understand it, but you have to raise warriors, not parasites.”

 

And add to that the historical reality that all great empires...the Persians, the Trojans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and in later years, the British...all rose and perished within 240 years.

 

They were not conquered by external enemies; they rotted from within.

America has now passed that 240 year mark, and the rot is starting to be visible and is accelerating.

 

We are past the Mercedes and Land Rover Years….the camels are on the horizon.

The greatest generation consisted of 18 year old kids storming the beaches at “Normandy”.

 

And now, two generations later, some 18-year-old kids want to hide in safe rooms when they hear words that hurt their feelings.

They also want free stuff from the government because they think they are entitled to it.

 

The "camels are on the horizon" for sure…

OK Folks, I am throwing in the towel on this Burb as a gasser project.

After a super effort spanning a couple of years, I have finally come to the conclusion that the gas 6.0 will never work in this application.

Stock, the truck could get out of its own way, barely but suffered from poor mileage and I doubt it would be worth a crap pulling a camper up over the divide.

Even with a supercharger, it has been only marginally better. A lot more power, but still mileage so poor as to relegate it to a truck to be used on short trips only.

I looked into converting it over to a 12 valve Cummins and I could do that but not with retaining the stock gage cluster and all those wonderful features that make the suburban a great truck to drive and own.

As Charles has said all along, the only thing that would make sense and last would be to transplant a Duramax which the 2400 Silverado's came with.

So, moving forward, I will purchase a donor silverado and remove everything duramax related from it, then just plug all that back together inside the Suburban. I'll probably rebuild the motor and trans and maybe the T-case too, since I think the D-max uses a 63 T-case in lieu of the 46 case I currently own. Anyway, standby for a standby as I source a donor truck

Pay close attention:
Particularly about the Huawei 5G

I was waiting from something useful from this president...Took awhile but finally we have it!

Good thing too. Jane has been lonely all these years in there by herself.

If you followed my thread about writing a book to entertain my pre-ranger son who was in Infantry school at Ft. Benning, well I did that. I wrote 10 chapters around 90,000 words and am presently finishing the final three chapters to finish the work.

I originally wrote it just for him, but with an eye toward perhaps publishing the work so that many could enjoy as well. It was read by recruits in his basic training and advanced infantry training company over the months and was widely liked.

So I contacted three publishing companies to see it it was something worthy of publishing. There is a process there and incase there are any aspiring novelists here, I'll share what the process looks like if you also have a work of some kind you'd like to get on a shelf somewhere.

As of today all three companies like the work and have submitted it to their people for an evaluation. I just got an acceptance letter from the first company, so this just became a real possibility.

The book is called "Thoren" It is an epic story roughly akin to the lord of the rings trilogy. Like Tolkien's work, mine will also be told in three separate full books. It's just too big a story to fit into one book which I'd like to keep to around 250 pages.

I've been saying this for some time


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/20/us-closer-to-civil-war-new-book-barbara-walter-trump-capitol-attack

What happened to White People in America?

 

We've all noticed this-- but I'm glad someone put it together...

If you haven't noticed this trend....you haven't been paying attention!!

What suddenly happened to the White People in America?

 

Of the 328.2 million total citizens, there are 236.5 million Whites in the United States or 72% of the population!

A spreadsheet of TV commercials shows the following over a 4-month period:

White men have all but disappeared!

 

When they are in commercials they are either:

 

·       Old, ugly and sick or:

·       They are the partner of a Black Woman

·       And have no speaking part!

 

In 3 of the commercials, the white men are doing laundry and always paired with a little girl to whom they are delivering the clean clothes.

 

There were zero commercials of White Fathers and Sons. None!

 

Equally disturbing, young White Boys and teens have also disappeared.

 

The study found a majority of the children were White Girls with a Black "Brother"!

 

Mostly TV commercial couples consist of a White Woman with a Black Man.

 

Are they trying to program the young people of today?

 

Amazingly, in the month of December there was an uptick in good looking White Male models. Research determined that in each and every case it was a cologne commercial and every one of those commercials were made in Europe where they still use muscular, masculine White Men.

 

One insurance commercial featured a good-looking White Guy in his 20's.

He was so mind-numbingly stupid that he was incapable of delivering his lines and couldn't even say "Liberty Mutual" the insurance company featured in the commercial.

 

Over a period of 4-months it concluded that:

·       While the African-American population in America is only 12%, they were in 84.3% of the commercials.

·       Black Males are only 5% of our population yet were in 79.7% of the ads.

 

White Males make up the largest segment of our population:

·       Yet were only in 4% of the TV commercials!

·       In most of those cases they are in their 60's to 80's and were pushing medication for debilitating diseases, reverse mortgages (i.e. Tom Selleck) or Medicare Plans.

·       While the study had many, many more alarming facts, one that really stands out is that:

 

·       Each and every ad for new cars featured a Woman driver except for Lincoln.

 

·       Only one ad included a White Male passenger and he is not behind the wheel, a Black Woman is.

 

·       In the commercials for automobiles there were more Black Women drivers than White Women.

 

·       Again, Europe was the exception here Mercedes and BMW had NO VISIBLE DRIVERS!! They showed the cars cruising highways with license plates that were obviously European but never allowed a view where the driver was visible. I found that very interesting.

 

These questions:

·       Who casts these commercial shoots?

·       Who directs the directors to cast certain ‘types’?

·       How did this trend in commercials happen all at the same time?

·       Was it at federal government direction?

 

Can you say conspiracy?

·       What is going on here?

·       De-masculinization of the White American Male?

 

Looks like White lives don’t matter and Black privilege has taken over!




BEST MEME EVER:     If you believe that Joe Biden, who lost two attempted presidential runs, then on his third attempt, hid in his basement and refused to campaign, got the most votes in history … you’re way too stupid to argue with!

By James L. Holly

I have a Master’s Degree in History and I did not know this.

John Guy writes: "What God did at Pearl Harbor that day is interesting and I never knew this little bit of history.
Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time.

In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941— Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington, DC. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone.

He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection, and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.

On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?"

Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?"

Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?
Nimitz explained:

Mistake number one:

The Japanese attacked Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.

Mistake number two:

When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.

Mistake number three:

Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply.

That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or, God was taking care of America.
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredericksburg, Texas -- he was a born optimist.

But any way you look at it -- Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism.

President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see a silver lining in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair, and defeat.

There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST.

                                                                                                  MADNESS

Our Culture in America is falling apart. I would give the left very high marks for being so completely effective. They control messaging and therefore the news we hear is mostly good. But the reality is that we are very sick. Our nation has become dangerous, depraved, and except for holding out for the return of Jesus the future is not all that bright.

Here’s an example. Major cities are all, not mostly, but all of those controlled by a left leaning administration are experiencing record levels of crime led by murder. Since Biden took over, the numbers have been skyrocketing. Philadelphia is leading the nation. Murders up 58% since when Trump was president. LA is so bad the word coming from families there to their loved ones living elsewhere is “Don’t come home, it’s too dangerous.” It’s not the cops, it’s the DA in that and in most cities backed up by a liberal mayor. Police catch a good number of the criminals, but if those who are caught fit a certain profile, they are released. If they represent a group of the electorate that those in power need to remain in power, they are released because of a zero bail policy! Madness, just madness!

Do you see why gun control is so important to the left? Their policies usher in record crime. Obviously an empowered public could end all that Ricky-tick if we all were packing .45’s on our hip. But no, according to the left, we need to disarm and then the police who have been defunded can do their job and catch your murderer and keep him off the streets for several hours while they take his picture for the 70th time! Again, Madness!
Our border is the widest open gate for everyone in the world. Hundreds of miles of doorway just sitting there. It’s not a border, it’s a processing point where people heading north bound are processed. A place where one commits a crime by entering but is then quickly treated better than many of our own residents. Don’t bother applying and going through any process, simply fly into Mexico from anywhere, hire a service which will transport you directly to a known border crossing, then cross over and be picked up by US border control agents. You can later sue these officers if you want to, just find a good lawyer. These Border Police are really just baggage boys like we had when I flew jets. They will toss your bags and get you to the gate agent who will escort you to your leather seat. Once in that comfy seat you will be processed for Medicare, social security, given food stamps, a place to live, and likely even be bussed there. Then you can vote several times in the next election and help the cheating left install idiots into office like this Biden who will then introduce legislation to award you $450K for all your troubles at the hands of all those terrible law enforcement people.

People, if you can’t see a fight, an outright revolution coming you are friggin blind! A reasonable approach goes out the window when logic and reason is tossed out of the room. A 71 year old is executed during his morning walk just for fun by thugs who ought to be in school and the District Attorney tells you that is not a problem.

It is a problem when Black Lives matter criminals can loot and burn and kill for months and months and the feds/state do little to nothing to protect the actual citizens, and then at a school board meeting where Christian parents complain about a racist policy they are labeled terrorists! And that event becomes the basis for these same crooked left leaning and wacked out of reality administrations to take action against them that is harsher than toward those who burn cities for fun! We have the Attorney General of the US, the highest ranking law enforcement man in the country concur and sick the FBI on we the people. Something here is wrong, and worth fighting against on any level that is necessary to remove it or change it.

You are flat out stupid if you think all this is miraculously going to heal itself, that we are going to elect another congress of Republicans to fix it. No thank you, I have seen our republican electorate fail us time and time again. In the aggregate, they can’t tie their own shoe laces and are a magnificent failure and show zero courage in the face of adversity. The answer to something like what is going on is, unfortunately, plain old blunt force and resistance. Should a BLM movement arise and then they suddenly find themselves surrounded by a strong armed militia who is committed to law and order and justice you’d see change. Do you think there may be a different outcome? I do. I have served in many combat theaters for literally years and years. I know what happens when force meets force. The more powerful wins every time.

Americans win every time, eventually. We win because not only are we committed, well trained and well equipped, but we win because we stand for what is right and good. During a fight, you have to feel that it, your sacrifice, is worth the price. The cause of righteousness, and freedom, and goodness, and love are all good things. Admittedly, during a fight it often gets down to just the guy on your right and left, but something got you there in the first place. When I push the button to start the engine in my helicopter, the helo that is transporting a raiding party onto an enemy objective, I need to know what I am doing is just and right and good. If I thought it was evil, I would not push that button, and at least my helo would not be participating.

This government is gone, fell off the Clift with a corrupted election. Now these Marxists are in and on the run F’ing up everything. They are destroying our culture. They’re attempting to rewrite history. They are going to use any means possible to turn this country into a socialist, and that really means a communist nation. Enough is enough. Like Nancy Regan used to say to drugs, “Just say no.” Perhaps that needs to be our battle cry. If someone tells you that you can no longer own guns, we refuse to accept that. Then, say thirty thousand of us show up at the capital and use the streets there for a big block party for, say a week or two, do you think the corrupt leaders will actually still come for the guns? What if that happened all over the US of A? And if they do come, how many of those who would come are in reality one of we, the good people of America?

I’m just a dumb old warrant officer, but it seems to me, to be ten minutes past midnight on the nation’s clock. Perhaps it’s time to see if this latest generation of wusses has any fight in it.

So here is where the BitCoin and Ethereum running average seems to be right now:

I have roughly half/half split between the two. In the past month I have seen a couple lows around 31K and one dipping to $30,500 and a high of around $40,800 with a bunch of $37K-and a couple higher.

So there are your markers.

Bitcoin ran from 66K down to 46K. Buy when it approaches say $47 and sell above $64K I think it may take two to possibly three-month intervals but that is a 30% gain 6 times a year. That should nearly triple your money in a year...

https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-armys-160-soar-night-stalkers-special-operations-pilots-2020-10

 

 Pipelines vs. Trains vs. Cargo Ships

 

 

 1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 pounds.

 

·        1 Train carries 3,000,000 gallons of oil.

 

·        1 train uses 55.5 gallons of diesel per mile.

 

·        It takes 119,000 gallons of diesel to go 2150 miles from Hardidsy, AB to Freeport, TX.

 

Keystone pipeline was to deliver 34,860,000 gallons of oil per day.

 

It would take 12 trains and 1,428,000 gallons of diesel to deliver that amount. PER DAY!

 

·        521,220,000 gallons of dieselburned per year.

 

The oil will still go to market with or without the pipeline.

 

By stopping the pipeline billions of gallons of diesel will be wasted and pollute needlessly.

 

Stop the Tar Sands all together? Then we must ship the oil from the overseas sandbox.

 

·        1 large oil tanker can haul 120,000,000 gallons of oil

 

·        1 boat takes 15 days to float across the Atlantic.

 

·        1 boat uses 63,000 gallons of fuel PER DAY, that is about 1 million gallons of the most polluting type fuel in the world PER TRIP.*(See below) 

 

Or take 3.5 days of Keystone Pipeline to move the same amount of oil with a fraction of the pollution.

 

In international waters ship emissions remains one of the least regulated parts of our global transportation system. The fuel used in ships is waste oil, basically what is left over after the crude oil refining process. It is the same as asphalt and is so thick that when cold it can be walked upon . It's the cheapest and most polluting fuel available and the world's 90,000 ships chew through an astonishing 7.29 million barrels of it each day, or more than 84% of all exported oil production from Saudi Arabia.

 

Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world. There are 760 million cars in the world today emitting approx 78,599 tons of Sulfur Oxides (SOx) annually. The world's 90,000 vessels burn approx 370 million tons of fuel per year emitting 20 million tons of Sulfur Oxides. That equates to 260 times more Sulfur Oxides being emitted by ships than the worlds entire car fleet. One large ship alone can generate approx 5,200 tones of sulfur oxide pollution in a year, meaning that 15 of the largest ships now emit as much SOx as the worlds 760 million cars

 

Eliminate all gas consuming cars and diesel vehicles?

 

Worldwide car gas consumption is 403,583,712,000 gallons a year. That's billion.

 

Worldwide oil consumption is 1,500,000,000,000 gallons a year. That's trillion.

 

It takes 2.15 gallons of oil to make 1 gallon of gasoline, and 06 gal of diesel.

 

So it takes 867,704,980,800 gallons of oil to run the worlds cars, most diesel vehicles for a year and some ships

 

That leaves 632,295,019,200 gallons of oil for other uses.

 

Passenger vehicles are only a very small percentage of the problem. If emissions are the problem why not just capture them at the exhaust? Create an industry to clean exhaust instead of crushing an entire industry and building a complete untested, replacement industry?

 

So are we willing to dramatically increase mining to get all the minerals necessary to make all these batteries and electric motors?   Mining is far worse for the environment than oil extraction.

 

Killing Keystone was glibly decided by emotional idiots without brains! Destructive idiots who are fooling America to boost their standing with Foreign paymasters.