April 2023 - Part I
Mon 03 Apr 2023 08:06:56 PM CDT
Tornadoes Friday afternoon late. Tore stuff up good. Town got it hard, gonna be long time cleaning up. Four dead they say, that's always bad. We get used to havin'em go through and tear up a lot of stuff, but no one gets killed or hurt bad, not like it used to be. Heard the sirens in town from my place, lookin' out with a cigar and a glass of brandy. Lightning crazy over there, felt a few raindrops and went inside. Phone rings. Friend from off a ways, seenin' how I was. Few minutes a little one hit my place. Tore up the outside stuff, screen room. Figured on that. Couple of trees, one I'd been wondering to handle it, close to powerlines and gonna have to get butchered a little by the utility company in a few years. Good lookin tree too, and was figuring to have it trimmed professionally. It's gone now, couple others. Other folks not so good, old part of town with big old trees. Some of them oaks probably a hundred years old. Older than me for sure, and they there when I was a young'un. You fly over and look down, can't see much of the houses for the trees. Now the trees gone and quite a few of the houses.
Bad things happenin' close to home, you forget about the big stuff for a while. Got one story I may tell one day, but still waitin' to see how it ends up. First time I's ever in one, seen a few up close but they missed. Couple of lightning strikes probably not a hundred feet away, one time outside and the other in a vehicle. But with the window down I felt the heat and ears ringin for a while.
Anyways the foolishness goes on. The big guys always trying to arrange things findin' it harder to get'em in place. Some desperation on the part of the cabal, and while that's a good sign it also makes'em crazier. So we got Fat Alvin indictin' Trump, figured it eventually. He dithered around, or his bosses did, and pulled the trigger Thursday. It's insane, and like the desperation the insanity is a good sign but still portends trouble. Just hope we can keep most of it away from us and our preparations are adequate. Watching the cesspools blow up from a safe distance is good. The right people are safe and the bad ones on their own. Read sometimes in the news the average IQ is down. Ya think? You got a herd of cattle (or sheeple in this case, guess that'd be a flock) anyway you cull the high-quality ones, the ones that produce by taxin'em to death and they can't affore more'n a couple kids, feed the ones that ain't got sense or desire to find their own food and pay'em to propagate, yeah, quality of everything declines.
Jawbreaker from 84 I believe, ahead of its time. Mindcrime was a few years later. Screaming for Vengeance was in 82, and the opener was a bit of pre-Jawbreaker in symbolism. The surveillance state was gettin' up to speed then, but nothing like now. Even in 84 Jawbreaker didn't describe where we were, but almost forty years later you can see it. The cracks are there, the frame is bending. Some of us can see it and know what it is but those determined to control it when any of them with sense can see it's no longer controllable. Just a matter of when the boiling begins. Yeah, I know Mindcrime was said to be about this thing, but they took a dig at the Reagan administration. Wonder what they think about Joetato. Most corrupt president in history, and with LBJ, Slick Willie and Ovomit that's saying something.
You watch a pot of water when you turn to the heat on. Before long you see a few bubbles on the bottom, then some more. Then one or two and some more break loose. You leave it be and before in ain't bubbles no more, it's a full boil.
Maybe in the past they had the sense to turn it down for a while, the time wasn't right. After the OK City thing, maybe some got nervous. Of course Timmy didn't do the actual damage there, even though he intended to. That little bomb, outside the building, blow out the windows and cause some debris injuries but that about it. Plenty of people told'em so, they kept makin' the bomb bigger in the news, 3500, 4500, 7000, even heard 10K eventually. They didn't ever start claiming there were multiple trucks - that goin' a little too far - but figured once they shut up the experts the sheeple would buy it. And most did.
But it worried'em. What if some angry dude got ahold of a big bomb - not hard to do - and put it in the right place. And the fact that out of over a thousand candidates in the gulag now and planning on a thousand (or two) more, if just a few came out that angry, and no life worth living, took everything from'em except their lives, doesn't worry'em. I suspect there'll be quite a few.
They figuring they got elections locked down now at the federal level and they'll be in charge from here on. And they may, but thirty to forty million guerillas.... dunno how it ends or when it ends. But their vision is finished if that happens. As Ishmael said in MacArthur's Freehold.
Alright kiddos, got early day mañana Insurance guy supposed to be out. Later.
Thu 06 Apr 2023 06:54:56 PM CDT
More storms but no tornadoes here. No Toronados much of anywhere either. Gotta be one of the coolest cars ever made. The earliest ones the most. The eventual downsizing had to happen, because stupid and greedy people. GM fucked up so bad for so long no way to recover once the final slide began in the Sick Willie regime and by the end of it even if Bush 43 had been competent and not a puppet of the neocons probably GM wouldn't have made it much further without some serious restructuring. But you know the minions of the regime having the opportunity would inflict as much misery as possible. Only thing worse than an incompetent and crooked business is one being run by the government. So they killed off Oldsmobile and when they finally engineered another crisis for Bush it was the end for Pontiac. Someday people look at a 66 Toronado or a 75 Trans-Am they way they do at an Auburn or Cord. If there anyone around to look at'em. Not so sure these days.
We goin' away soon? Beats me. Don't do omens, that for pagans. But you can see signs of where things are headed, but have no idea if that there they end up. Lookin' at the big picture, the 95% of the world that ain't us, they seem to be going their own way, leavin' us behind. China looks more and more like it means to continue the slide we're in, keepin' Joetato and his type in the driver's seat, so we end up in the ditch eventually and don't run over too many pedestrians along the way. Like if you a cop following a drunk driver, know it's the mayor's no-good kid, don't want to stop him cause that's trouble. He on a road without much traffic, just a few miles to go and he's home and goin' in to pass out. That's how you want it to end, but if all of a sudden he goin' ninety down Bella Vista and missed his turn, you gotta do something, like it or now. Otherwise somebody about to get dead. Be nice if it's just him, and if his squeeze is in there she shoulda known better. But then he about to headon with Mrs. Stewart on her way home from the charity auction for the orphanage. No bueno.
So China and Russia, and their pals in BRICSIA+UOIP whatever it is now, it keeps growin' if that tells you anything, are trying to survive and they got plenty of problems of their own internally. Same for Saudi Arabia, Iran, Brazil, India, little countries all over, Middle East, Latin America, Africa - most of them have little in the way of common interests except survival. Some of'em don't like each other much. Sure, some of them are corrupt as all getout, some are somewhere in between real bad and most nowhere real good, but they don't want the US/Euro cabal constantly making trouble for them. As long as we're not causing any serious damage or about to, they'll let us head on for the ditch. Or the tree. Hope it's the ditch, we might survive that.
So they buy as much as they can, and avoid confrontation. Whether the cabal runs out of toys to break before something really bad happens we'll have to wait and see. Vox Day said a day or two ago, we read the a lot of the same tea leaves but he got access to better sources than this ole hick, said "But the global superpower is no more. Everyone can see that the Empire has no army. Which means the nations are now free to buy and sell as they choose, in whatever medium of exchange they choose, rather than having to pay a tax to the US bankers on every single transaction. And the rapidity with which each of the steps taken by countries from Argentina to India, and from Brazil to Malaysia, indicates the eagerness with which the peoples of the world seek to free themselves from their dollar chains."
It is looking like the dollar is about done. The fact that the U.S. has no army now is a good thing. Not just for the people in other countries will be safe from our masters' projects, but our own people. This is about a year old, and it's no doubt gotten worse as even if they keep enlistment up the quality continues to decline:
The Marines got about 180K, maybe 200K including reserves. That army number is all - active, reserves, national guard - and of that about 25% are combat personnel. So you figure 300K total for the army and most of the Marines, 500K and under 5K aircraft (almost all helicopters) and that's what you got to fight with. Except just about none of the guard and few of the reserves gonna come when Joetato or whoever they put in next calls. Desertions, now that's a fun one. The old Army - 20 years ago - you'da had a lot of desertions. What 10-20%? Figure that to be low. What would the desertion rate be with the new army? The number of misfits and human debris, with the good ones left or leaving as fast as they can, they wouldn't need that level of desertion to cripple them the way 20% would. Havin' them NOT desert would be the greater liability.
So the Red Dawn thing, well the Russians and their Cuban and Nicaraguan minions didn't desert and join the partisans. When hundreds of thousands of Army and (probably at a higher rate) Marines desert and join the freedom fighters, bringing not only weapons but knowledge of the regime's plans, and probably contacts with some who don't desert for just that purpose, the Army is not just useless but probably worse.
The thirty million or so partisans wouldn't even need their help, although it would be welcomed. And the effect on the regime would be demoralizing, not to the bosses but the underlings. And in their pigheadedness they would never give up. And it would get bloody no doubt about it. Once you've pushed them too far there's no going back.
Opinions vary out here, and there are those who want it. I'm not talking about the crazies, and most of them have already been rounded up and incarcerated. They're so rare the regime has to manufacture them and even then their own agents provocateur have to do some of the operational work.
No, it ain't the crazies. It's the ones that are scared. Of what will happen if it does get to the point of gun confiscations and hauling people off to detention camps. And the ones that are scared are also angry, that they have been put in this position. And figuring that there'll be a bloodbath they want to get it going, take some of the enemy with them if they go.
The ones who aren't scared, not much anyway, but are concerned and don't see any way out will be just as dangerous when the time comes. Because they have cooler heads and are better organized.
It's not hard to see how the people celebrated the deaths of their (actual or perceived) oppressors, and the mass guillotinings of the French Revolution probably than any other showed the bloodlust and complete lack of empathy for the ones perishing. And many did not deserve the fate but were merely part of the class perceived as being the aggrievers. The French Revolution is probably unique from the spectacle aspect, ther revolutions and civil wars are less well documented in modern times. But the current regime seems much like our drunk driving mayor's kid - but millions are watching the wreck about to happen and even knowing that the saintly Mrs. Stewart (representing that part of the population that is not corrupt, venal, evil or much of anything bad) is about to get run over.`
And on that depressing note, seeya.
Mon 10 Apr 2023 10:47:45 PM CDT
Pretty much it. Dad used to say in figurin' out a fellow it was as important to know who his ememies are, maybe more so. Of course you gonna have enemies, anywhoever you happen to be. Your enemies should be the right kind. Dunno about the author, looking at his bio seems to have been a right sensible fellow. Probably why his poem making the rounds among the subversive chat venues, Twitter being one, now that the bird has been freed. Try to find a copy of his major work, probably on Gutenberg being as old as it is, and of Longbeard. Feller it was about was apparently a martyr for justice, and Wickedpedia (should I make some more pejoratives for the wicked pedia, Wicked-peed-onya, something like that?) says he holed up in St Mary-le-Bow afore he was done away with in medieval manner
The things you learn, reading stuff all the time way I do. St Mary was the venue for a very nice concert with the late John Wetton and his Asia bandmate Geoff Downes few years ago. Not the same one where Longbeard made his last stand - it been burnt down couple of times. Bein' around a thousand years or so ain't easy. Tom Harwood seems sensible too. OK, smitin' on the hip, dunno if Mr. Mackay was thinkin' on Samson, going medieval on the Philistines a few millennia or millenniums, whichever is right these days, before medieval was. You never know, and I'm gettin too old to keep up with it. We pretty much done lost the language, as El Rushbo used to say. Like to think it something like that. Dashin' the cup from perjured lips, there plenty or perjuring lips to dash cups from these days. Them as does it gets to be enemies of the state real quick.
Well, a third of the month done gone, nice weather. Tornado damage big time got the town nearby hoppin' and they wantin me to modify the house. Screen room blew off the back deck, expect that kinda stuff. Fact that I was sittin' in it sippin brandy and havin' a cigar ten minutes earlier ain't important. I seen the rain comin and went inside. Thinkin' girlfriend want me more civilized in accommodations, furniture and stuff. I ain't indoors enough to use much of it, 'cept in winter and then my favorite chair (indoors) is the one I'm sittin in writin' stuff and snoozing a lot in between. Think on it some I guess.
Buenas noches, muchachos.
Wed 12 Apr 2023 09:36:53 PM CDT
We thought that kinda funny back in the day, lotta good humor in country music then, fore it went to pot like everything else. Dunno what the regular people, performers or fans, think about it. Probably the folks own Anheuser Busch gonna lose money big time, never get it back. Does the idiot they hired to do it to them pay? Nope, just go on like Disney pretending it ain't happening.
Dunno when it got that way, I mean in a serious way. Started workin' in the corporate world in the 70s, small bank, nothing hi-falutin. They thought they was though. Still they'd fire people eventually they fuck up enough. Got in on some of the stuff, not because I wanted to but people drag you into their messes. Nepotism bad of course, but if they could give the director's no-good kid some kinda make-work job with a fancy title and keep him happy they's just out the money and not much more.
They used what they could get for what they paid where they could. Head bookkeeper quit, she was no prize but semi-competent, gave it to the one with reasonable seniority that politicked the best. Others took up the slack and if nothing broke it's all right. Most must women working there for the insurance - they had husbands was self-employed and couldn't afford it (they made more than the wife did but if they had to pay the insurance it'd cut into it big time) and nobody got exercised, usually.
Did a hitch in the Air Force, decided not to stay. Easy enough do do twenty or more, nice pension and insurance and all, and still time to go work some more. Thought sometimes I shoulda, but seein what it is today, dunno. Coulda retired '98, not too bad, Slick Willie had come in and woulda hated that. Anyway I didn't and made a lot more money and picked useful skills that made me money. Couple of employers got smart enough and luck enough at the right time and then couldn't handle the changes, went under. Last one I worked for almost 20 years, not only did I and the other guy that ran the tech side giv'em 10-20 times what they was payin' for, they thought it was them bein' smart that got them there and when we left about the same time they found out. My sympathy reservoir, if it ever had much in it, ran dry long ago.
Now we got a government run by people dumber than them, and the only thing that just might save us is their ineptitude, because then can't figure out an efficient way to break things. Interesting times ahead.
Fri 14 Apr 2023 10:54:04 PM CDT
Old one, but might as well. Chaos what we got for sure now. Sure looks like nobody in charge, they slinging stuff at the wall and see if anything sticks. I's the Air Force six months before my clearance came through, on account of they had to go visit the place I lived and ask everybody ever knew me what they knew, see if I likely to screw up. Then I couldn't just go look at whatever I wanted, need to know and authorization and accounting for it all that. So they drug out a onestar to read something sounded like it was written by whatever regime minion was in charge of this particular fire for the moment and right off he said (read) that somebody broke in and got the stuff. Well it ain't like an E-3 (not even regular AF) had any need to know about the Ukrainian quagmire. Must've been unintentional though, since they pretty quick said it wasn't accurate on account of how it had been changed some. Probably the worst was the official word that the US/EURO cabal got forces in there. Just at the embassy, they said. Remember them advisers in Vietnam. So whatever it is something got loose and maybe they'll just hang it on this kid and leave it at that. Maybe it was just a dumb kid gettin' into something he shouldn've. But somebody screwed the pooch to let it happen. Thought at first it might be a Snowden-type thing, kid with a conscience tryin' to help out. Like you'd find something with a conscience in there today.
Why they'll have a draft soon this keeps up. State media wouldn't even mention it otherwise. There ain't no fightin' gonna get done with the crowd they got now. Best if the monopoly money runs out first and everything crashes than to go through that again. The high-quality young men they need just might not go. And you know they start that they'll come after the red states. That could get real ugly.
Tue 18 Apr 2023 07:56:44 PM CDT
Yuri was one of those guys that the indoctrination didn't stick on, like numerous others. And like the others his warnings were first unheeded by the sheeple, who thought it couldn't happen here. Now it did, and we're near fucked. Fox settled the big lawsuit for telling inconvenient truths, or for allowing them to be said (it was either that or go to the kangaroo court with a predetermined outcome), and now the other arms of the election fraud machine will take a shot. Probably end up with a big chunk as well. Not that it will put Fox out of business, which is the goal, but Fox is largely ineffective anyway. They do still report the news, most of it, and don't propagandize for the state, but in the end what they do matters little. The decision will be made by the ones who have the only real power, and whether they exercise it in time or don't will determine what is left and how much.
It looks an awful lot like the infrastructure the regime depends on both to exert control over the unwilling and to keep its own tools fed and watered (and entertained) so they don't burn down their cities. They can't do both when it comes time, and may not be able to do either. Which would be a very good thing.
We've run the numbers all different ways, and while they're all bad to some degree for most people, they're less bad for the survivors. Still too many variables and some are unknowable. Because the ones who'll do them don't yet know that they'll do.
Mon 03 Apr 2023 08:06:56 PM CDT
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Tornadoes Friday afternoon late. Tore stuff up good. Town got it hard, gonna be long time cleaning up. Four dead they say, that's always bad. We get used to havin'em go through and tear up a lot of stuff, but no one gets killed or hurt bad, not like it used to be. Heard the sirens in town from my place, lookin' out with a cigar and a glass of brandy. Lightning crazy over there, felt a few raindrops and went inside. Phone rings. Friend from off a ways, seenin' how I was. Few minutes a little one hit my place. Tore up the outside stuff, screen room. Figured on that. Couple of trees, one I'd been wondering to handle it, close to powerlines and gonna have to get butchered a little by the utility company in a few years. Good lookin tree too, and was figuring to have it trimmed professionally. It's gone now, couple others. Other folks not so good, old part of town with big old trees. Some of them oaks probably a hundred years old. Older than me for sure, and they there when I was a young'un. You fly over and look down, can't see much of the houses for the trees. Now the trees gone and quite a few of the houses.
Bad things happenin' close to home, you forget about the big stuff for a while. Got one story I may tell one day, but still waitin' to see how it ends up. First time I's ever in one, seen a few up close but they missed. Couple of lightning strikes probably not a hundred feet away, one time outside and the other in a vehicle. But with the window down I felt the heat and ears ringin for a while.
Anyways the foolishness goes on. The big guys always trying to arrange things findin' it harder to get'em in place. Some desperation on the part of the cabal, and while that's a good sign it also makes'em crazier. So we got Fat Alvin indictin' Trump, figured it eventually. He dithered around, or his bosses did, and pulled the trigger Thursday. It's insane, and like the desperation the insanity is a good sign but still portends trouble. Just hope we can keep most of it away from us and our preparations are adequate. Watching the cesspools blow up from a safe distance is good. The right people are safe and the bad ones on their own. Read sometimes in the news the average IQ is down. Ya think? You got a herd of cattle (or sheeple in this case, guess that'd be a flock) anyway you cull the high-quality ones, the ones that produce by taxin'em to death and they can't affore more'n a couple kids, feed the ones that ain't got sense or desire to find their own food and pay'em to propagate, yeah, quality of everything declines.
Jawbreaker from 84 I believe, ahead of its time. Mindcrime was a few years later. Screaming for Vengeance was in 82, and the opener was a bit of pre-Jawbreaker in symbolism. The surveillance state was gettin' up to speed then, but nothing like now. Even in 84 Jawbreaker didn't describe where we were, but almost forty years later you can see it. The cracks are there, the frame is bending. Some of us can see it and know what it is but those determined to control it when any of them with sense can see it's no longer controllable. Just a matter of when the boiling begins. Yeah, I know Mindcrime was said to be about this thing, but they took a dig at the Reagan administration. Wonder what they think about Joetato. Most corrupt president in history, and with LBJ, Slick Willie and Ovomit that's saying something.
You watch a pot of water when you turn to the heat on. Before long you see a few bubbles on the bottom, then some more. Then one or two and some more break loose. You leave it be and before in ain't bubbles no more, it's a full boil.
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Maybe in the past they had the sense to turn it down for a while, the time wasn't right. After the OK City thing, maybe some got nervous. Of course Timmy didn't do the actual damage there, even though he intended to. That little bomb, outside the building, blow out the windows and cause some debris injuries but that about it. Plenty of people told'em so, they kept makin' the bomb bigger in the news, 3500, 4500, 7000, even heard 10K eventually. They didn't ever start claiming there were multiple trucks - that goin' a little too far - but figured once they shut up the experts the sheeple would buy it. And most did.
But it worried'em. What if some angry dude got ahold of a big bomb - not hard to do - and put it in the right place. And the fact that out of over a thousand candidates in the gulag now and planning on a thousand (or two) more, if just a few came out that angry, and no life worth living, took everything from'em except their lives, doesn't worry'em. I suspect there'll be quite a few.
They figuring they got elections locked down now at the federal level and they'll be in charge from here on. And they may, but thirty to forty million guerillas.... dunno how it ends or when it ends. But their vision is finished if that happens. As Ishmael said in MacArthur's Freehold.
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Alright kiddos, got early day mañana Insurance guy supposed to be out. Later.
Thu 06 Apr 2023 06:54:56 PM CDT
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More storms but no tornadoes here. No Toronados much of anywhere either. Gotta be one of the coolest cars ever made. The earliest ones the most. The eventual downsizing had to happen, because stupid and greedy people. GM fucked up so bad for so long no way to recover once the final slide began in the Sick Willie regime and by the end of it even if Bush 43 had been competent and not a puppet of the neocons probably GM wouldn't have made it much further without some serious restructuring. But you know the minions of the regime having the opportunity would inflict as much misery as possible. Only thing worse than an incompetent and crooked business is one being run by the government. So they killed off Oldsmobile and when they finally engineered another crisis for Bush it was the end for Pontiac. Someday people look at a 66 Toronado or a 75 Trans-Am they way they do at an Auburn or Cord. If there anyone around to look at'em. Not so sure these days.
We goin' away soon? Beats me. Don't do omens, that for pagans. But you can see signs of where things are headed, but have no idea if that there they end up. Lookin' at the big picture, the 95% of the world that ain't us, they seem to be going their own way, leavin' us behind. China looks more and more like it means to continue the slide we're in, keepin' Joetato and his type in the driver's seat, so we end up in the ditch eventually and don't run over too many pedestrians along the way. Like if you a cop following a drunk driver, know it's the mayor's no-good kid, don't want to stop him cause that's trouble. He on a road without much traffic, just a few miles to go and he's home and goin' in to pass out. That's how you want it to end, but if all of a sudden he goin' ninety down Bella Vista and missed his turn, you gotta do something, like it or now. Otherwise somebody about to get dead. Be nice if it's just him, and if his squeeze is in there she shoulda known better. But then he about to headon with Mrs. Stewart on her way home from the charity auction for the orphanage. No bueno.
So China and Russia, and their pals in BRICSIA+UOIP whatever it is now, it keeps growin' if that tells you anything, are trying to survive and they got plenty of problems of their own internally. Same for Saudi Arabia, Iran, Brazil, India, little countries all over, Middle East, Latin America, Africa - most of them have little in the way of common interests except survival. Some of'em don't like each other much. Sure, some of them are corrupt as all getout, some are somewhere in between real bad and most nowhere real good, but they don't want the US/Euro cabal constantly making trouble for them. As long as we're not causing any serious damage or about to, they'll let us head on for the ditch. Or the tree. Hope it's the ditch, we might survive that.
So they buy as much as they can, and avoid confrontation. Whether the cabal runs out of toys to break before something really bad happens we'll have to wait and see. Vox Day said a day or two ago, we read the a lot of the same tea leaves but he got access to better sources than this ole hick, said "But the global superpower is no more. Everyone can see that the Empire has no army. Which means the nations are now free to buy and sell as they choose, in whatever medium of exchange they choose, rather than having to pay a tax to the US bankers on every single transaction. And the rapidity with which each of the steps taken by countries from Argentina to India, and from Brazil to Malaysia, indicates the eagerness with which the peoples of the world seek to free themselves from their dollar chains."
It is looking like the dollar is about done. The fact that the U.S. has no army now is a good thing. Not just for the people in other countries will be safe from our masters' projects, but our own people. This is about a year old, and it's no doubt gotten worse as even if they keep enlistment up the quality continues to decline:
| 463,083 active duty personnel |
| 327,358 Army National Guard personnel |
| 175,752 Army Reserve personnel |
| 966,193 total uniformed personnel |
| 252,747 civilian personnel |
| 1,258,472 total |
| 4,406 crewed aircraft |
The Marines got about 180K, maybe 200K including reserves. That army number is all - active, reserves, national guard - and of that about 25% are combat personnel. So you figure 300K total for the army and most of the Marines, 500K and under 5K aircraft (almost all helicopters) and that's what you got to fight with. Except just about none of the guard and few of the reserves gonna come when Joetato or whoever they put in next calls. Desertions, now that's a fun one. The old Army - 20 years ago - you'da had a lot of desertions. What 10-20%? Figure that to be low. What would the desertion rate be with the new army? The number of misfits and human debris, with the good ones left or leaving as fast as they can, they wouldn't need that level of desertion to cripple them the way 20% would. Havin' them NOT desert would be the greater liability.
So the Red Dawn thing, well the Russians and their Cuban and Nicaraguan minions didn't desert and join the partisans. When hundreds of thousands of Army and (probably at a higher rate) Marines desert and join the freedom fighters, bringing not only weapons but knowledge of the regime's plans, and probably contacts with some who don't desert for just that purpose, the Army is not just useless but probably worse.
The thirty million or so partisans wouldn't even need their help, although it would be welcomed. And the effect on the regime would be demoralizing, not to the bosses but the underlings. And in their pigheadedness they would never give up. And it would get bloody no doubt about it. Once you've pushed them too far there's no going back.
Opinions vary out here, and there are those who want it. I'm not talking about the crazies, and most of them have already been rounded up and incarcerated. They're so rare the regime has to manufacture them and even then their own agents provocateur have to do some of the operational work.
No, it ain't the crazies. It's the ones that are scared. Of what will happen if it does get to the point of gun confiscations and hauling people off to detention camps. And the ones that are scared are also angry, that they have been put in this position. And figuring that there'll be a bloodbath they want to get it going, take some of the enemy with them if they go.
The ones who aren't scared, not much anyway, but are concerned and don't see any way out will be just as dangerous when the time comes. Because they have cooler heads and are better organized.
It's not hard to see how the people celebrated the deaths of their (actual or perceived) oppressors, and the mass guillotinings of the French Revolution probably than any other showed the bloodlust and complete lack of empathy for the ones perishing. And many did not deserve the fate but were merely part of the class perceived as being the aggrievers. The French Revolution is probably unique from the spectacle aspect, ther revolutions and civil wars are less well documented in modern times. But the current regime seems much like our drunk driving mayor's kid - but millions are watching the wreck about to happen and even knowing that the saintly Mrs. Stewart (representing that part of the population that is not corrupt, venal, evil or much of anything bad) is about to get run over.`
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And on that depressing note, seeya.
Mon 10 Apr 2023 10:47:45 PM CDT
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Pretty much it. Dad used to say in figurin' out a fellow it was as important to know who his ememies are, maybe more so. Of course you gonna have enemies, anywhoever you happen to be. Your enemies should be the right kind. Dunno about the author, looking at his bio seems to have been a right sensible fellow. Probably why his poem making the rounds among the subversive chat venues, Twitter being one, now that the bird has been freed. Try to find a copy of his major work, probably on Gutenberg being as old as it is, and of Longbeard. Feller it was about was apparently a martyr for justice, and Wickedpedia (should I make some more pejoratives for the wicked pedia, Wicked-peed-onya, something like that?) says he holed up in St Mary-le-Bow afore he was done away with in medieval manner
The things you learn, reading stuff all the time way I do. St Mary was the venue for a very nice concert with the late John Wetton and his Asia bandmate Geoff Downes few years ago. Not the same one where Longbeard made his last stand - it been burnt down couple of times. Bein' around a thousand years or so ain't easy. Tom Harwood seems sensible too. OK, smitin' on the hip, dunno if Mr. Mackay was thinkin' on Samson, going medieval on the Philistines a few millennia or millenniums, whichever is right these days, before medieval was. You never know, and I'm gettin too old to keep up with it. We pretty much done lost the language, as El Rushbo used to say. Like to think it something like that. Dashin' the cup from perjured lips, there plenty or perjuring lips to dash cups from these days. Them as does it gets to be enemies of the state real quick.
Well, a third of the month done gone, nice weather. Tornado damage big time got the town nearby hoppin' and they wantin me to modify the house. Screen room blew off the back deck, expect that kinda stuff. Fact that I was sittin' in it sippin brandy and havin' a cigar ten minutes earlier ain't important. I seen the rain comin and went inside. Thinkin' girlfriend want me more civilized in accommodations, furniture and stuff. I ain't indoors enough to use much of it, 'cept in winter and then my favorite chair (indoors) is the one I'm sittin in writin' stuff and snoozing a lot in between. Think on it some I guess.
Buenas noches, muchachos.
Wed 12 Apr 2023 09:36:53 PM CDT
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We thought that kinda funny back in the day, lotta good humor in country music then, fore it went to pot like everything else. Dunno what the regular people, performers or fans, think about it. Probably the folks own Anheuser Busch gonna lose money big time, never get it back. Does the idiot they hired to do it to them pay? Nope, just go on like Disney pretending it ain't happening.
Dunno when it got that way, I mean in a serious way. Started workin' in the corporate world in the 70s, small bank, nothing hi-falutin. They thought they was though. Still they'd fire people eventually they fuck up enough. Got in on some of the stuff, not because I wanted to but people drag you into their messes. Nepotism bad of course, but if they could give the director's no-good kid some kinda make-work job with a fancy title and keep him happy they's just out the money and not much more.
They used what they could get for what they paid where they could. Head bookkeeper quit, she was no prize but semi-competent, gave it to the one with reasonable seniority that politicked the best. Others took up the slack and if nothing broke it's all right. Most must women working there for the insurance - they had husbands was self-employed and couldn't afford it (they made more than the wife did but if they had to pay the insurance it'd cut into it big time) and nobody got exercised, usually.
Did a hitch in the Air Force, decided not to stay. Easy enough do do twenty or more, nice pension and insurance and all, and still time to go work some more. Thought sometimes I shoulda, but seein what it is today, dunno. Coulda retired '98, not too bad, Slick Willie had come in and woulda hated that. Anyway I didn't and made a lot more money and picked useful skills that made me money. Couple of employers got smart enough and luck enough at the right time and then couldn't handle the changes, went under. Last one I worked for almost 20 years, not only did I and the other guy that ran the tech side giv'em 10-20 times what they was payin' for, they thought it was them bein' smart that got them there and when we left about the same time they found out. My sympathy reservoir, if it ever had much in it, ran dry long ago.
Now we got a government run by people dumber than them, and the only thing that just might save us is their ineptitude, because then can't figure out an efficient way to break things. Interesting times ahead.
Fri 14 Apr 2023 10:54:04 PM CDT
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Old one, but might as well. Chaos what we got for sure now. Sure looks like nobody in charge, they slinging stuff at the wall and see if anything sticks. I's the Air Force six months before my clearance came through, on account of they had to go visit the place I lived and ask everybody ever knew me what they knew, see if I likely to screw up. Then I couldn't just go look at whatever I wanted, need to know and authorization and accounting for it all that. So they drug out a onestar to read something sounded like it was written by whatever regime minion was in charge of this particular fire for the moment and right off he said (read) that somebody broke in and got the stuff. Well it ain't like an E-3 (not even regular AF) had any need to know about the Ukrainian quagmire. Must've been unintentional though, since they pretty quick said it wasn't accurate on account of how it had been changed some. Probably the worst was the official word that the US/EURO cabal got forces in there. Just at the embassy, they said. Remember them advisers in Vietnam. So whatever it is something got loose and maybe they'll just hang it on this kid and leave it at that. Maybe it was just a dumb kid gettin' into something he shouldn've. But somebody screwed the pooch to let it happen. Thought at first it might be a Snowden-type thing, kid with a conscience tryin' to help out. Like you'd find something with a conscience in there today.
Why they'll have a draft soon this keeps up. State media wouldn't even mention it otherwise. There ain't no fightin' gonna get done with the crowd they got now. Best if the monopoly money runs out first and everything crashes than to go through that again. The high-quality young men they need just might not go. And you know they start that they'll come after the red states. That could get real ugly.
Tue 18 Apr 2023 07:56:44 PM CDT
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Yuri was one of those guys that the indoctrination didn't stick on, like numerous others. And like the others his warnings were first unheeded by the sheeple, who thought it couldn't happen here. Now it did, and we're near fucked. Fox settled the big lawsuit for telling inconvenient truths, or for allowing them to be said (it was either that or go to the kangaroo court with a predetermined outcome), and now the other arms of the election fraud machine will take a shot. Probably end up with a big chunk as well. Not that it will put Fox out of business, which is the goal, but Fox is largely ineffective anyway. They do still report the news, most of it, and don't propagandize for the state, but in the end what they do matters little. The decision will be made by the ones who have the only real power, and whether they exercise it in time or don't will determine what is left and how much.
It looks an awful lot like the infrastructure the regime depends on both to exert control over the unwilling and to keep its own tools fed and watered (and entertained) so they don't burn down their cities. They can't do both when it comes time, and may not be able to do either. Which would be a very good thing.
We've run the numbers all different ways, and while they're all bad to some degree for most people, they're less bad for the survivors. Still too many variables and some are unknowable. Because the ones who'll do them don't yet know that they'll do.
Deadly as the viper
Peering from its coil
The poison there is coming to the boil
Ticking like a time bomb
The fuse is running short
On the verge of snapping if it's caught
And all the pressure that's been building up
For all the years it bore the load
The cracks appear, the frame starts to distort
It's ready to explode
Jawbreaker
Crouching in the corner
Wound up as a spring
Piercing eyes that flash are shimmering
Muscles are all contorted
Claws dug in the dirt
Every ounce of fiber on alert
And all the pressure that's been building up
For all the years it bore the load
The cracks appear, the frame starts to distort
It's ready to explode
Jawbreaker
Jawbreaker ~~ Judas Priest (Defenders of the Faith - 1984)
The room was silent. Ishmael leaned back, inscrutable, the dark glasses hiding any indications of his emotions. His eyes could be closed for all they knew. Obviously the others were waiting for the president, who seemed for the first time to appreciate his situation. He at least had the good sense not to look around at his advisers. They had gotten him into this situation and they would be unable to offer a way out. He knew he had to say something, but what? He believed Ishmael's words.
At last Ishmael spoke, giving him a temporary reprieve.
"Mr. President," he said, "you and your associates find yourselves now, at the end of generations of calculated destruction of the great republic that was founded almost two hundred and forty years ago. Founded by men of such intellect and character as you and your generation can not even comprehend, much less aspire to. You are the last pitiful remnants of a once great people who squandered their heritage, generation after generation, never believing you could fail.
"Now here you are, with little left to salvage. And even if you could comprehend what you have done, it matters not to you. With your delusions of grandeur and omnipotence you have destroyed almost all that is good in what the founders and generations of our ancestors left for us.
"And until now, none of this mattered, even if you understood it. You are such people of whom it has been said that will burn their own nation to the ground if only they can rule the ashes. We will leave you with ashes, if that is what you wish. But you will not be here to see it. You will be part of the ashes."
MacArthur's Freehold (Enak Nomolos)
TENNESSEE Published April 6, 2023 12:06pm EDT
Chaos erupts again at Tennessee Capitol amid vote to expel Dem lawmakers from office over House floor protest
Demonstrators returned to the Tennessee State Capitol to protest expulsion of three Democratic lawmakers
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This would be a good time for Tennessee to open up its own April 6 gulag. Start throwing these miscreants, who are actual criminals and human debris, into 4x6 cells with a pile of straw and a bucket. If a federal judge orders them released, tell whatever pronoun it is to come and get them. If they try, respond appropriately. Like they will, more than once anyway.
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Sandra1 4 minutes ago
If the republicans did that to the democrats, the democrats would expel the republicans and call for them to be arrested and jailed
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MickeyScheister21 5 minutes ago
Shouldn't they now be locked in prison without bail for 2 years? If equal justice was a thing, sure.
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The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. True terror will arrive at these peoples' door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone."
Tom Harwood @tomhfh
No Enemies
Charles Mackay
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray Of duty,
that the brave endure,
Must have made foes!
If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You've hit no traitor on the hip,
You've dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You 've never turned the wrong to right,
You've been a coward in the fight.
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In his quest for truth Daddy was moved by the spirit To take up a snake
In a moment of doubt the venom turned out Stronger than daddy's faith
But I'll never forget his dying breath The last words that he said
We never walked on the moon Elvis ain't dead
You ain't going crazy It's all in your head Let me tell ya
It's all in your head
(Diamond Rio - 1996)
A farmer, architect, and economist were debating whose profession was the oldest.
The farmer pointed out the fact that Adam and Eve and their sons were farmers.
The architect then related how the Master Architect hung the planets and the stars and created order out of chaos.
The architect looked smugly at the economist who just shrugged his shoulders and said, "who do you think created the chaos?"
The highest form of the art of war is not to fight but to corrupt everything of value in your enemy's country until the perception of your enemy is so distorted that he doesn't even perceive you as an enemy anymore.
Yuri Bezmenov