I just read some damned melodramatic COVID 19 post from some emotional wreck of a women and the first thing that came to mind was, "Keep your shirt on Lady. This ain't no strip club and your name ain't Bubbles."
I suppose a lot of people would have laughed like hell but a lot of soccer moms would have gone totally ape$hit.
Not that I care but I think I'll save my good stuff for later.
There was a whorehouse kind of in the area that closed down around 1907 or thereabouts. I think maybe come 2 July I will go on the board and ask if it is still open.
It will likely save me a fortune in fireworks for the Fourth, compliments of practically every soccer mom that reads it.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
We are being conned
The MSM has been showing pictures they say are from New York hospitals and funeral places.
The doctors appear to be jumping through their asses and there are a double row of caskets lined up.
Fact is, you can see the exact same pictures in the Italian press where things really are like that.
Right now I have a BIG hard-on for government in general and the Democrats in specific over the way they have politicized this pandemic.
It's well past time to drop the political bullshit and get behind the President and take care of the pandemic.
Yet Nancy and company don't seem to give a damn about our lives whatsoever. If they did they would drop all of the political crap and get with the program.
as of now
The bill they handed was a total disgrace and every congressman in the house that was behind it deserved to be tarred and feathered. Frankly this is the one and only time I would like to see Nancy Pelosi naked is when she gets dipped in pine tar and gets a liberal coating of feathers slapped on her.
Actually Nancy is now talking about impeachment again and I do believe I wish she would start something because as of now President Trump has a well over 50% approval rating with the way he is handling the COVID-19 situation.
For one thing it would never get through the Senate and it would serve to really hurt the Democrats come November. There are a lot of moderate Democrats that would turn on the party over the behavior of the House.
The bill Trump just signed did have an awful lot of pork in it but I suppose it was a case of signing it just to get something done. Still it was nowhere near what the House had originally planned.
I for one am sick and tired of the lies and bullshit that government in general and the Democrats in specific are
trying to pull on us. What angers me even more is the way the Media lies to us.
I read that a democracy dies in darkness and that may be true. It probably is. However it's a whole lot worse when the public is blinded by lies, half truths and out and out bullshit.
I daresay that if the media even told a part of the truth of the good side of President Trump that there would be another Reagan with 49 states win.
Actually he'd probably lose California and New York but who cares?
Incidentally as of now I think the Dems are going to try and draft Cuomo to run and throw the results of the primary out the window.
I have a funny feeling that the American people do not like New York politicians very much. Cuomo has already stated he wants to turn the country into New York and that actually includes most of New York, all but NYC and Albany.
Someone asked me what kind of tar they could use in this day and age. They used to use pine tar but that's hard to come by these days. Feathers are also not as easy to come by as they used to be. From what I understand these days the new and improved way is to use Flex-Seal and small packing peanuts.
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The doctors appear to be jumping through their asses and there are a double row of caskets lined up.
Fact is, you can see the exact same pictures in the Italian press where things really are like that.
Right now I have a BIG hard-on for government in general and the Democrats in specific over the way they have politicized this pandemic.
It's well past time to drop the political bullshit and get behind the President and take care of the pandemic.
Yet Nancy and company don't seem to give a damn about our lives whatsoever. If they did they would drop all of the political crap and get with the program.
as of now
The bill they handed was a total disgrace and every congressman in the house that was behind it deserved to be tarred and feathered. Frankly this is the one and only time I would like to see Nancy Pelosi naked is when she gets dipped in pine tar and gets a liberal coating of feathers slapped on her.
Actually Nancy is now talking about impeachment again and I do believe I wish she would start something because as of now President Trump has a well over 50% approval rating with the way he is handling the COVID-19 situation.
For one thing it would never get through the Senate and it would serve to really hurt the Democrats come November. There are a lot of moderate Democrats that would turn on the party over the behavior of the House.
The bill Trump just signed did have an awful lot of pork in it but I suppose it was a case of signing it just to get something done. Still it was nowhere near what the House had originally planned.
I for one am sick and tired of the lies and bullshit that government in general and the Democrats in specific are
trying to pull on us. What angers me even more is the way the Media lies to us.
I read that a democracy dies in darkness and that may be true. It probably is. However it's a whole lot worse when the public is blinded by lies, half truths and out and out bullshit.
I daresay that if the media even told a part of the truth of the good side of President Trump that there would be another Reagan with 49 states win.
Actually he'd probably lose California and New York but who cares?
Incidentally as of now I think the Dems are going to try and draft Cuomo to run and throw the results of the primary out the window.
I have a funny feeling that the American people do not like New York politicians very much. Cuomo has already stated he wants to turn the country into New York and that actually includes most of New York, all but NYC and Albany.
Someone asked me what kind of tar they could use in this day and age. They used to use pine tar but that's hard to come by these days. Feathers are also not as easy to come by as they used to be. From what I understand these days the new and improved way is to use Flex-Seal and small packing peanuts.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
One group that either loves or hates me is teachers.
They are fairly easy to make fly up like a skyrocket. Actually it's mostly women that are easy to troll.
I have made my life at sea and do better financially than an awful lot and even maybe most teachers. It is because of what I do. They make what they make because of what I do.
They fail to understand that some of us are paid for our inconvenience. We don't get to go home every night.
We miss a lot. We miss the birthdays, the graduations, the holidays with the family, often including Christmas. Over the years I have spent any number of Christmases at sea. The money is generally what keeps people in the industry.
The thing I say to people that think it's unfair that things are that way is that I offer to pull a few strings to get them a seafaring job.
They invariably refuse citing being away from home as the big issue in most cases. A few play the I love my job angle also.
Then I point out that I have offered them a shot at making more money and that they have refused it so they really have nothing to complain about.
There actually is an exception. One. Many years ago when someone asked me how to get into the business I gave him a list of companies and contact information.
He got hired and left for the West Coast the day after school ended. He spent the entire summer working on a tug on the Alaska run and quit teaching and stayed on.
I had given him my phone and address and he called me a couple of times with questions about getting an AB and tankerman endorsements on his Z-card.
Apparently he likes working on the water and has not gone back to the classroom.
One thing, too. He isn't complaining about teacher's pay.
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I have made my life at sea and do better financially than an awful lot and even maybe most teachers. It is because of what I do. They make what they make because of what I do.
They fail to understand that some of us are paid for our inconvenience. We don't get to go home every night.
We miss a lot. We miss the birthdays, the graduations, the holidays with the family, often including Christmas. Over the years I have spent any number of Christmases at sea. The money is generally what keeps people in the industry.
The thing I say to people that think it's unfair that things are that way is that I offer to pull a few strings to get them a seafaring job.
They invariably refuse citing being away from home as the big issue in most cases. A few play the I love my job angle also.
Then I point out that I have offered them a shot at making more money and that they have refused it so they really have nothing to complain about.
There actually is an exception. One. Many years ago when someone asked me how to get into the business I gave him a list of companies and contact information.
He got hired and left for the West Coast the day after school ended. He spent the entire summer working on a tug on the Alaska run and quit teaching and stayed on.
I had given him my phone and address and he called me a couple of times with questions about getting an AB and tankerman endorsements on his Z-card.
Apparently he likes working on the water and has not gone back to the classroom.
One thing, too. He isn't complaining about teacher's pay.
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Why hasn't the government shut itself down yet?
It is about the least essential service out there.
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
My social security number is six.
Six?
Yes, six. Or so I tell people that ask for it either on line or when I get hit by a rare telephone scammer.
"What? Six? Six what?"
"Just plain six. Actually it's zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero six. I was one of the first ten to apply back in 1935 and President Roosevelt had us come to the White House and personally give us our cards. It was really quite exciting. I got to ride on a train for the first time in my life. There was a big ceremony as he gave us our cards. Mine was number six."
"Really? How old are you?"
"I am 107 years of age."
"You don't sound that old?"
"That is because as a young man I never drank any cheap liquor. Just top shelf spirits and as much as I could get my hands on. Cheap liquor ages a man ahead of his time."
It's really quite surprising how many people believe it.
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Yes, six. Or so I tell people that ask for it either on line or when I get hit by a rare telephone scammer.
"What? Six? Six what?"
"Just plain six. Actually it's zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero six. I was one of the first ten to apply back in 1935 and President Roosevelt had us come to the White House and personally give us our cards. It was really quite exciting. I got to ride on a train for the first time in my life. There was a big ceremony as he gave us our cards. Mine was number six."
"Really? How old are you?"
"I am 107 years of age."
"You don't sound that old?"
"That is because as a young man I never drank any cheap liquor. Just top shelf spirits and as much as I could get my hands on. Cheap liquor ages a man ahead of his time."
It's really quite surprising how many people believe it.
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Time to scrape the honor student bumper stickers off.
At the McGilliduddy household, home of not one, but TWO honor students being home schooled by Dear Old Mom things ain't lookin' too good.
So far when dad came home he found his two honor students had been suspended and he had to fire their teacher for drinking on the job.
My guess is that this family is not alone.
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On the other hand I have heard of a couple of families here and there that are actually using this as an opportunity not only to make sure the kids don't wind up behind the 8-Ball when school resumes but to teach them life skills, too.
One father reports that he sits down with his older kids and goes through the family bills with them and has taught them how to go through and read a credit card statement.
Kudos to those people.
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Back in the day I got hurt and lost about 8 weeks of school. My mom would drop by the school every couple of days and pick up assignments, books and what have you and bring them home to me.
I didn't spend all day studying, just a few hours a day. Probably an awful lot less time than I would have spent in the classroom if I wasn't laid up.
When I finally dragged my sorry ass back to class after a few days my teacher handed me a note to bring home.
The note said that I was actually at the head of my class.
Of course I was back in class and resumed my bad habits and it wasn't long before I was back to normal but it does show you that a pair of concerned parents can make quite a difference.
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I once had a sticker that said 'My kid beat up your honor student' and caught hell for it a couple of times from various outspoken soccer moms.
Of course there is nothing worse than moms telling people how wonderful their children are.
The carry on about how he/she graduated from Harvard or someplace and you know the little bastard is probably out on parole for some damned thing...unless they are still in the can.
One time I was bored enough so I told a bragging couple that I was damned proud of my youngest because he just earned his sergeant stripes in the French Foreign Legion in under four years and it usually takes over ten.
The mom replied, "I don't know what that is."
The father said he did and his eyes got huge. He looked almost slack jawed. "He made SERGEANT in the French Foreign Legion? In four years? Holy $hit!"
"My kids seem to like the road less traveled," I replied. "I have another boy that took a six month course and started at almost $250,000 per year."
"What's he do?" asked the father.
"He's a diver for an oil company," I said. "He's presently in the North Sea doing underwater welding and demolition work."
The mother jumped in. "He's making that kind of money right out of college?" she asked.
"College?" I replied. "He didn't even finish high school."
The mother went off like a skyrocket babbling how it wasn't fair to the kids who went to college wound up with expensive student loans and so on and so forth.
I feigned innocence and suggested her son try out for the diving school. The father interrupted.
"No way in hell! He's finishing college!" he snapped.
"I still don't think it's fair," whined the mother. "Paying that much money to a high school dropout."
Apparently dad decided he didn't care if he had to camp on the couch.
"Why? You went to college and you're still an idiot!"
I decided I heard my mother calling me so I took my leave.
Sometimes I have a love/hate relationship with myself. God gave me the talent to tell someone something totally outrageous with a straight face.
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So far when dad came home he found his two honor students had been suspended and he had to fire their teacher for drinking on the job.
My guess is that this family is not alone.
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On the other hand I have heard of a couple of families here and there that are actually using this as an opportunity not only to make sure the kids don't wind up behind the 8-Ball when school resumes but to teach them life skills, too.
One father reports that he sits down with his older kids and goes through the family bills with them and has taught them how to go through and read a credit card statement.
Kudos to those people.
****************************
Back in the day I got hurt and lost about 8 weeks of school. My mom would drop by the school every couple of days and pick up assignments, books and what have you and bring them home to me.
I didn't spend all day studying, just a few hours a day. Probably an awful lot less time than I would have spent in the classroom if I wasn't laid up.
When I finally dragged my sorry ass back to class after a few days my teacher handed me a note to bring home.
The note said that I was actually at the head of my class.
Of course I was back in class and resumed my bad habits and it wasn't long before I was back to normal but it does show you that a pair of concerned parents can make quite a difference.
888888888888888888888888
I once had a sticker that said 'My kid beat up your honor student' and caught hell for it a couple of times from various outspoken soccer moms.
Of course there is nothing worse than moms telling people how wonderful their children are.
The carry on about how he/she graduated from Harvard or someplace and you know the little bastard is probably out on parole for some damned thing...unless they are still in the can.
One time I was bored enough so I told a bragging couple that I was damned proud of my youngest because he just earned his sergeant stripes in the French Foreign Legion in under four years and it usually takes over ten.
The mom replied, "I don't know what that is."
The father said he did and his eyes got huge. He looked almost slack jawed. "He made SERGEANT in the French Foreign Legion? In four years? Holy $hit!"
"My kids seem to like the road less traveled," I replied. "I have another boy that took a six month course and started at almost $250,000 per year."
"What's he do?" asked the father.
"He's a diver for an oil company," I said. "He's presently in the North Sea doing underwater welding and demolition work."
The mother jumped in. "He's making that kind of money right out of college?" she asked.
"College?" I replied. "He didn't even finish high school."
The mother went off like a skyrocket babbling how it wasn't fair to the kids who went to college wound up with expensive student loans and so on and so forth.
I feigned innocence and suggested her son try out for the diving school. The father interrupted.
"No way in hell! He's finishing college!" he snapped.
"I still don't think it's fair," whined the mother. "Paying that much money to a high school dropout."
Apparently dad decided he didn't care if he had to camp on the couch.
"Why? You went to college and you're still an idiot!"
I decided I heard my mother calling me so I took my leave.
Sometimes I have a love/hate relationship with myself. God gave me the talent to tell someone something totally outrageous with a straight face.
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
Now I read where some muckety muck from the CDC outright lied to the president
in regards to the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine.
If that is the case he should simply be publicly fired by President Trump and be handed over to an angry mob outside for their entertainment.
There is nothing more entertaining than watching someone that was put in a position of public trust that he betrayed being pulled apart by an angry mob.
Then again maybe it does take second place to watching an out and out tyrant being pulled apart.
I did drive to Virginia to protest a tyrant. Maybe I will be invited to go again to see a tyrant pulled apart. Hell, I'll even loan the Virginians a Come-Along if they promise me a halfway decent seat!
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If that is the case he should simply be publicly fired by President Trump and be handed over to an angry mob outside for their entertainment.
There is nothing more entertaining than watching someone that was put in a position of public trust that he betrayed being pulled apart by an angry mob.
Then again maybe it does take second place to watching an out and out tyrant being pulled apart.
I did drive to Virginia to protest a tyrant. Maybe I will be invited to go again to see a tyrant pulled apart. Hell, I'll even loan the Virginians a Come-Along if they promise me a halfway decent seat!
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
I have started getting texts from real estate sales people
which is starting to be a pain in the ass.
I tell them I am not interested and to leave me alone.
So far they have but I am waiting for the guy that doesn't know how to take 'no' as an answer.
I will invite him over and when he hands me his card I will reach for my kukri and say, "Now I know where you live. Leave. Do not ever make contact with me again."
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I tell them I am not interested and to leave me alone.
So far they have but I am waiting for the guy that doesn't know how to take 'no' as an answer.
I will invite him over and when he hands me his card I will reach for my kukri and say, "Now I know where you live. Leave. Do not ever make contact with me again."
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Some idiotic couple drank pond cleaner and one of them died. Trump's fault.
Out of COVID19 paranoia an Arizona couple decided to self medicate with what they thought was the proper chemical to prevent COVID-19.
Of course because they couldn't read and mixed up what proved to be aquarium/pond cleaner instead and drank it.
He's dead, she survived and she's blaming it on Trump.
I would actually respect her if she outright said that her stupidity cost her the life of her husband and almost cost her own life. She'd have been honest.
Yeet she insists on blaming Trump for her stupidity.
Whatever the proper chemical is to cure/prevent COVID19 is not available in medical grade except through a doctor's office. It doesn't take a person with a PhD in chemistry to know that something labeled as aquarium/pond cleaner isn't a medical grade drug.
Darwin won again.
Maybe we can get a bunch of liberals together and explain to them the benefits of drinking fresh, clean battery acid. It would likely go a long way in improving things.
While we are at it, some doctor claims 100% success rate curing COVID19 with an old WW2 era anti malarial drug that costs about 25 cents a dose.
I read where someplace inMorgantown, WV is cranking up to make it.
I had someone state that the government should start making ventilators. I suggested having private enterprise do it because they could do it cheaper and faster.
Of course I got all sorts of yada yada yada in reply so I suggested that perhaps they use the government machine shops to whip them right out.
What government machine shops? Last I heard the government isn't in the manufacturing business. When they need something what do they do?
They issue a contract to a private manufacturer. Duh!
Some people think that the government is a bunch of magic wand wavers.
They also think the government is infinitely rich.
It hasn't occurred to them that the government doesn't have a dime to it's name except for what they take from us out of taxes.
Incidentally if you don't believe the government doesn't hire private manufacturers then go look at a lot of surplus equipment out there. Most of it has the manufacturer's name on it somewhere.
A lot of radios out there have RCA, Motorola, General Dynamics are just a few tags one sees on government radios. Rifles are now by Colt and FN. Airplanes are made by Lockheed and Boeing. The list goes on and on. I used to own a pack made by some tarp and awning shop in Kansas. It was stenciled on the inside of the top flap.
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Of course because they couldn't read and mixed up what proved to be aquarium/pond cleaner instead and drank it.
He's dead, she survived and she's blaming it on Trump.
I would actually respect her if she outright said that her stupidity cost her the life of her husband and almost cost her own life. She'd have been honest.
Yeet she insists on blaming Trump for her stupidity.
Whatever the proper chemical is to cure/prevent COVID19 is not available in medical grade except through a doctor's office. It doesn't take a person with a PhD in chemistry to know that something labeled as aquarium/pond cleaner isn't a medical grade drug.
Darwin won again.
Maybe we can get a bunch of liberals together and explain to them the benefits of drinking fresh, clean battery acid. It would likely go a long way in improving things.
While we are at it, some doctor claims 100% success rate curing COVID19 with an old WW2 era anti malarial drug that costs about 25 cents a dose.
I read where someplace inMorgantown, WV is cranking up to make it.
I had someone state that the government should start making ventilators. I suggested having private enterprise do it because they could do it cheaper and faster.
Of course I got all sorts of yada yada yada in reply so I suggested that perhaps they use the government machine shops to whip them right out.
What government machine shops? Last I heard the government isn't in the manufacturing business. When they need something what do they do?
They issue a contract to a private manufacturer. Duh!
Some people think that the government is a bunch of magic wand wavers.
They also think the government is infinitely rich.
It hasn't occurred to them that the government doesn't have a dime to it's name except for what they take from us out of taxes.
Incidentally if you don't believe the government doesn't hire private manufacturers then go look at a lot of surplus equipment out there. Most of it has the manufacturer's name on it somewhere.
A lot of radios out there have RCA, Motorola, General Dynamics are just a few tags one sees on government radios. Rifles are now by Colt and FN. Airplanes are made by Lockheed and Boeing. The list goes on and on. I used to own a pack made by some tarp and awning shop in Kansas. It was stenciled on the inside of the top flap.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
I see where parts of CA are trying to herd the homeless together for the duration of the COVID epidemic
Of course they are using the good old compassion for the homeless excuses but I'd bet they are trying to kill them off by herding them all together so they can spread the infection.
Sounds to me like they are trying to organize a genocide but are planning on disguising it under the guise of public safety.
Why? They can shelter in place like the rest of us and probably even do a better job.
Actually as far as things go when you think about it the homeless that are not involved with drug and/or alcohol abuse probably have damned strong antibodies built up.
When you think about it living without running water and being seldom able to get cleaned up will do that.
Many wind up using a dark corner as a toilet and have no place to wash their hands before they go back to their camp and cook a meal.
That's enough to build up some pretty damned strong antibodies if you ask me.
But don't ask me. Ask someone in an emergency room that treats the homeless that get into accidents. They'll likely tell you the same thing.
Of course if they herd them all together and the disease spreads some will in fact die. But I'd bet the vast majority will have no real problems.
California is most likely trying to kill these people off but they will probably fail.
I'll got my money on the bums.
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Sounds to me like they are trying to organize a genocide but are planning on disguising it under the guise of public safety.
Why? They can shelter in place like the rest of us and probably even do a better job.
Actually as far as things go when you think about it the homeless that are not involved with drug and/or alcohol abuse probably have damned strong antibodies built up.
When you think about it living without running water and being seldom able to get cleaned up will do that.
Many wind up using a dark corner as a toilet and have no place to wash their hands before they go back to their camp and cook a meal.
That's enough to build up some pretty damned strong antibodies if you ask me.
But don't ask me. Ask someone in an emergency room that treats the homeless that get into accidents. They'll likely tell you the same thing.
Of course if they herd them all together and the disease spreads some will in fact die. But I'd bet the vast majority will have no real problems.
California is most likely trying to kill these people off but they will probably fail.
I'll got my money on the bums.
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Monday, March 23, 2020
I have a niece that's a nurse and I cringe when she goes in to work
But much to her credit she goes in to work with no bullshit or fanfare. She has three kids to support and that's the way it is.
She took the job pretty much the way a soldier takes his. They pray for the best, prepare for the worst and simply take what comes and accept it.
On the neighborhood web site there's now a nurse babbling about how bad she has it and how important she is and so on and so forth.
I answered her by pointing out that I have met a couple of nurses that served in Vietnam and were occasionally subject to enemy fire. Eight of them were killed in action.
Of the nurses I have run into, EVERY SINGLE ONE considered their tour in Vietnam to be the high point of their nursing career.
I suggested that this woman try and change her attitude and realize that when this COVID-19 plague is over that she will have something to be very proud of.
Of course it was not deemed 'sensitive' and the post was deleted by a moderator.
My niece is going into work now every single day because that's her job. She knew it could wind up being hazardous and to tell you the truth she has taken a pretty tough route as a nurse. She's worked in rehab units and is now a nurse in a county jail.
Yet I don't hear a peep out of her. She just goes in and does her job.
When this mess is over and done with I hope she enjoys a quiet pride in herself for doing what has to be done in very trying circumstances.
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She took the job pretty much the way a soldier takes his. They pray for the best, prepare for the worst and simply take what comes and accept it.
On the neighborhood web site there's now a nurse babbling about how bad she has it and how important she is and so on and so forth.
I answered her by pointing out that I have met a couple of nurses that served in Vietnam and were occasionally subject to enemy fire. Eight of them were killed in action.
Of the nurses I have run into, EVERY SINGLE ONE considered their tour in Vietnam to be the high point of their nursing career.
I suggested that this woman try and change her attitude and realize that when this COVID-19 plague is over that she will have something to be very proud of.
Of course it was not deemed 'sensitive' and the post was deleted by a moderator.
My niece is going into work now every single day because that's her job. She knew it could wind up being hazardous and to tell you the truth she has taken a pretty tough route as a nurse. She's worked in rehab units and is now a nurse in a county jail.
Yet I don't hear a peep out of her. She just goes in and does her job.
When this mess is over and done with I hope she enjoys a quiet pride in herself for doing what has to be done in very trying circumstances.
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Sunday, March 22, 2020
For some reason I am either loved or hated on Neighborhood dot com.
Because I don't do stupid and do not suffer fools very well.
A couple of weeks ago someone was griping (legitimately) about some kind of solicitor handing out on their front porch. Most of the early replies suggested calling the police which I thought was reasonable.
Of course I suggested answering the door while wielding a Kukri because it sends the message that not only is he going to get killed but he is also going to get hacked up and thrown into the family stew pot.
Of course some woman took the bait and demanded to know how hacking someone up would serve a legitimate purpose. She also expressed a displeasure with the idea of cannibalisn.
I pointed out that food these days is getting expensive and I have a large family to support and cutting a corner here and there is necessary to make both ends meet.
She went off and babbled the police ought to get a warrant and dig up my back yard.
I told her I certainly hope someone digs up my back yard because it would save me a lot of work in a couple of weeks when I plant my annual marijuana crop.
I remember when I thought God hated me and kept sending me idiots to deal with. Finally I discovered God's love for me. He was really sending those idiots my way to keep me entertained.
Thank you, God, for sending me yet another blithering idiot and making me laugh.
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A couple of weeks ago someone was griping (legitimately) about some kind of solicitor handing out on their front porch. Most of the early replies suggested calling the police which I thought was reasonable.
Of course I suggested answering the door while wielding a Kukri because it sends the message that not only is he going to get killed but he is also going to get hacked up and thrown into the family stew pot.
Of course some woman took the bait and demanded to know how hacking someone up would serve a legitimate purpose. She also expressed a displeasure with the idea of cannibalisn.
I pointed out that food these days is getting expensive and I have a large family to support and cutting a corner here and there is necessary to make both ends meet.
She went off and babbled the police ought to get a warrant and dig up my back yard.
I told her I certainly hope someone digs up my back yard because it would save me a lot of work in a couple of weeks when I plant my annual marijuana crop.
I remember when I thought God hated me and kept sending me idiots to deal with. Finally I discovered God's love for me. He was really sending those idiots my way to keep me entertained.
Thank you, God, for sending me yet another blithering idiot and making me laugh.
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Saturday, March 21, 2020
Kudos to the International Chain company (or whoever made the chain)
In this corner cutting world I must give the International chain people extra credit for spending a lousy quarter cent or so to make my life a LOT easier.
I recently needed a bucket of 3/8s inch chain and bought a 250 foot pail. It was about the size of a 5 gallon pail and heavy as hell.
Now anyone that has bought a pail full of chain knows that you open it up and look for the end. Of course you can't find it so you simply grab a piece of chain and start pulling it out until you find the end. Theoretically one could pull out 125 feet out of a 250 foot length until BOTH ends come out.
Still, I generally find the end after pulling out about 40 or 50 feet.
Not THIS time!
The International people bought a big spool of thin pink ribbon and tied a piece to the end link of the chain.
When I opened the pail, Lo and Behold! I sat a piece of pink ribbon and PRESTO! it was on the end.
It didn't take much, less than a penny which is the lowest coin of the realm to make life easier for me.
It made things much easier and saved me time.
Thanks, International!
Hey, when some asshole writes you complaining that the ribbon cheated him out of his overtime please don't ruin it for the rest of us and stop putting the ribbon on the end link!
Tahnks, International!
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I recently needed a bucket of 3/8s inch chain and bought a 250 foot pail. It was about the size of a 5 gallon pail and heavy as hell.
Now anyone that has bought a pail full of chain knows that you open it up and look for the end. Of course you can't find it so you simply grab a piece of chain and start pulling it out until you find the end. Theoretically one could pull out 125 feet out of a 250 foot length until BOTH ends come out.
Still, I generally find the end after pulling out about 40 or 50 feet.
Not THIS time!
The International people bought a big spool of thin pink ribbon and tied a piece to the end link of the chain.
When I opened the pail, Lo and Behold! I sat a piece of pink ribbon and PRESTO! it was on the end.
It didn't take much, less than a penny which is the lowest coin of the realm to make life easier for me.
It made things much easier and saved me time.
Thanks, International!
Hey, when some asshole writes you complaining that the ribbon cheated him out of his overtime please don't ruin it for the rest of us and stop putting the ribbon on the end link!
Tahnks, International!
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Friday, March 20, 2020
I got into trouble
Because I told someone I assumed they had at least half a brain.
Apparently I was wrong.
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Apparently I was wrong.
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
One of these days I am going to post every singe racial slur I can find
just to get a lot of stupid people jumping up and down.
Actually one of my all time favorite racial slur is used on Native Americans. The reason for this is that I heard it in Alaska where it made no sense whatsoever.
I was in Alaska when I heard some jerk refer to the Natives as being a bunch of wagon burners. It took me a few minutes to figure that one out. When I finally did figure it out it made no sense to me whatsoever in Alaska.
I don't think a single covered wagon ever made the trek to Alaska and I seriously doubt the Natives there ever burned one.
I suppose the slur might have made some kind of sense in the plains states of the Lower 48 but certainly not in Alaska. I'm sure a number of Lower 48 tribes attacked a wagon train here and there and maybe even set a few covered wagons on fire.
Still, in Alaska? There wasn't a covered wagon within 750 miles of the place!
If you are going to use a racial slur at least have it make some kind of sense!
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Actually one of my all time favorite racial slur is used on Native Americans. The reason for this is that I heard it in Alaska where it made no sense whatsoever.
I was in Alaska when I heard some jerk refer to the Natives as being a bunch of wagon burners. It took me a few minutes to figure that one out. When I finally did figure it out it made no sense to me whatsoever in Alaska.
I don't think a single covered wagon ever made the trek to Alaska and I seriously doubt the Natives there ever burned one.
I suppose the slur might have made some kind of sense in the plains states of the Lower 48 but certainly not in Alaska. I'm sure a number of Lower 48 tribes attacked a wagon train here and there and maybe even set a few covered wagons on fire.
Still, in Alaska? There wasn't a covered wagon within 750 miles of the place!
If you are going to use a racial slur at least have it make some kind of sense!
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COVID-19
Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease- discovered in 2019.
That is what the disease is and what it is named.
It originated in China, it is viral and it is an infectious disease. There is nothing racist about the disease nor its given name. It is what it is.
When the President refers to it as the Chinese disease he is being 100% correct.
If he were referring to it as something like the Chink Crud or something demeaning along these lines I would probably be as upset as any do-good dip-shit liberal out there.
However, he is not. He is calling it the Chinese disease and that is pretty spot on. It came from China and it is a disease.
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That is what the disease is and what it is named.
It originated in China, it is viral and it is an infectious disease. There is nothing racist about the disease nor its given name. It is what it is.
When the President refers to it as the Chinese disease he is being 100% correct.
If he were referring to it as something like the Chink Crud or something demeaning along these lines I would probably be as upset as any do-good dip-shit liberal out there.
However, he is not. He is calling it the Chinese disease and that is pretty spot on. It came from China and it is a disease.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Sometimes I wonder about stuff like our present COVID virus.
It is what it is.
Why are we all hoarding toilet paper, hand sanitizer and canned goods?
It is ridiculous.
Someone asked me what I thought he ought to stock up on and I told him to buy 100 cans of Spam, 100 pineapple rings, 100 cherries and he should be good to go.
If push comes to shove that hard then we're all in trouble, anyway.
If that's the case I suppose having guns and ammo on hand would make more sense.
Then again I see where gun sales to first time owners are skyrocketing. Shooters and most serious hunters are most likely squared away.
This post was written some time ago. I would imagine people ought to pick up a few things.
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Why are we all hoarding toilet paper, hand sanitizer and canned goods?
It is ridiculous.
Someone asked me what I thought he ought to stock up on and I told him to buy 100 cans of Spam, 100 pineapple rings, 100 cherries and he should be good to go.
If push comes to shove that hard then we're all in trouble, anyway.
If that's the case I suppose having guns and ammo on hand would make more sense.
Then again I see where gun sales to first time owners are skyrocketing. Shooters and most serious hunters are most likely squared away.
This post was written some time ago. I would imagine people ought to pick up a few things.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
At the airport
where I met a couple female attendants, the kind we used to call stewardesses.
"Ahh, yes," I said. "A couple of fine young ladies from the glamorous travel industry."
Actually they both smirked.
"Women who jet set all over the world and meet all sorts of charming eligible bachelors...You know, people like ME."
When you see I am a short, somewhat dumpy 68 year old guy you can figure out what they thought was so damned funny.
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"Ahh, yes," I said. "A couple of fine young ladies from the glamorous travel industry."
Actually they both smirked.
"Women who jet set all over the world and meet all sorts of charming eligible bachelors...You know, people like ME."
When you see I am a short, somewhat dumpy 68 year old guy you can figure out what they thought was so damned funny.
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
Ya got two posts yesterday
So I'm taking the day off.
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Saturday, March 14, 2020
Every day the sun comes up and there's something new to deal with
Right now I wonder how paranoid and hysterical the public is going to get over the current virus.
I've seen on a couple of shooters where the very people that have been screaming for gun control are approaching their neighbors and trying to borrow the very things they want to outlaw.
A similar thing happened to me shortly after Columbine shooting. I got blamed for it and told how everything I owned should be outlawed. A couple of months later when some hatchet murderer was floating around the people that tried to hold me responsible for Columbine wanted to borrow a rifle.
When I offered them a bolt action Arisaka they wanted an autoloader instead.
The shooter/gun boards now report ammunition sales are going through the roof now and gun sales are up with a LOT of first time owners buying.
I wish the hell everyone would simply calm down.
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I've seen on a couple of shooters where the very people that have been screaming for gun control are approaching their neighbors and trying to borrow the very things they want to outlaw.
A similar thing happened to me shortly after Columbine shooting. I got blamed for it and told how everything I owned should be outlawed. A couple of months later when some hatchet murderer was floating around the people that tried to hold me responsible for Columbine wanted to borrow a rifle.
When I offered them a bolt action Arisaka they wanted an autoloader instead.
The shooter/gun boards now report ammunition sales are going through the roof now and gun sales are up with a LOT of first time owners buying.
I wish the hell everyone would simply calm down.
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So how come I
Don't have a decent post today?
C
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C
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Friday, March 13, 2020
I see where the Corona virus is creating panic buys of guns
and ammunition.
My guess is that the panic stricken want to guard the hand sanitizer and toilet paper they have hoarded.
God knows what kind of guards the people that bought 100 cans of Spam are going to post!
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My guess is that the panic stricken want to guard the hand sanitizer and toilet paper they have hoarded.
God knows what kind of guards the people that bought 100 cans of Spam are going to post!
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So how come
I always seem to get to board the plane in the last group with all the cripples, dwarfs, hunchbacks, criminals, beggars and lepers?
One of these days I swear I will walk down the aisle to my assigned seat begging.
"Alms! Alms for the poor! Alms!"
Boarding a damned airplane is chaotic and inefficient enough to begin with. What they OUGHT to do is board passengers from the rear to the front.
Of course it they do that the First Class passengers don't get to sit there smugly and watch us poor people pass by.
I suppose it we poor folks get obnoxious enough by begging them for alms,spare change, you got a couple of bucks so I can get a sandwich etc they will insist on being boarded last and we can make this work.
Hell, crop dust them. Make them WANT to be boarded last!
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One of these days I swear I will walk down the aisle to my assigned seat begging.
"Alms! Alms for the poor! Alms!"
Boarding a damned airplane is chaotic and inefficient enough to begin with. What they OUGHT to do is board passengers from the rear to the front.
Of course it they do that the First Class passengers don't get to sit there smugly and watch us poor people pass by.
I suppose it we poor folks get obnoxious enough by begging them for alms,spare change, you got a couple of bucks so I can get a sandwich etc they will insist on being boarded last and we can make this work.
Hell, crop dust them. Make them WANT to be boarded last!
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
What's with all the hand sanitizer being bought up?
More hysteria over another flu strain going around.
Right now I see where there are a few recorded deaths over it and now everyone is in a panic mode.
The recorded deaths are running well under 1% and those are generally people with compromised immune systems. Note I said recorded.
The stats have to be much lower because there are quite likely a lot of people that have had this particular flu come and go and not even know it. Some may not have even had any real symptoms and have had it pass through with maybe sniffles for a couple of days and that's it.
Of course the media has whipped a lot of people up into a hysterical frenzy and now there is a rush on hand sanitizers, toilet paper and alcohol.
Yesterday I spoke with the woman that runs the drug aisle at the local supermarket and she reported that not only are they out of hand sanitizer but the improvisers have cleaned them out of aloe and alcohol. She even said the liquor stores are out of Everclear!
It's ridiculous. I have never seen such idiocy in my entire life.
Of course these very germaphobes that will sanitize their hands several dozen times a day for no reason would be a whole lot better off spending time shoveling manure somewhere and getting their antibodies up.
I worked opposite a germaphobe once and he was constantly catching colds and got the flu every time I turned around.
The opposite end of the spectrum was a guy nicknames Pig Pen Ben who was just like his name says. He lived like a total animal and never spent a sick day in his life.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
It is scary selling things on line
because of some people's expectations.
When you use words like 'serviceable' and 'adequate' they mean just that. It does not necessarily mean brand new.
CMP Garands are sold in various grades. The grades run between unissued all the way down to parade and drill use only. Rack grade is the lowest grade used to indicate the rifle is serviceable.
Yet an unissued rifle may not be 100% perfect. There may be storage dings on it or maybe mismatched wood. Unissued means the rifle had never been issued for use.
Rack grade simply means the rifle is safe to shoot.
All this is fine and dandy until someone wants more than they bargained for. They purchase, say, a service grade and expect it to be perfect and are disappointed when it isn't.
Of course when they bring it up on a shooter's board they get no sympathy. The experienced people point out that the item in question is seventy year old military surplus and has been shipped all over the country and maybe rebuilt more than once.
Most experienced Garand guys are well aware of this.
When you purchase something sight unseen you have to have realistic expectations.
I just sold a box of stuff that I had decreed as excess to my needs. It's a bunch of odds and ends I have collected over the years and simply described the stuff as being in 'pretty good shape'. Everything is at least serviceable. Some of it is new but some of it isn't. It will be interesting to see how the buyer reacts when he opens the box.
Hopefully his expectations were realistic when he bought it.
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When you use words like 'serviceable' and 'adequate' they mean just that. It does not necessarily mean brand new.
CMP Garands are sold in various grades. The grades run between unissued all the way down to parade and drill use only. Rack grade is the lowest grade used to indicate the rifle is serviceable.
Yet an unissued rifle may not be 100% perfect. There may be storage dings on it or maybe mismatched wood. Unissued means the rifle had never been issued for use.
Rack grade simply means the rifle is safe to shoot.
All this is fine and dandy until someone wants more than they bargained for. They purchase, say, a service grade and expect it to be perfect and are disappointed when it isn't.
Of course when they bring it up on a shooter's board they get no sympathy. The experienced people point out that the item in question is seventy year old military surplus and has been shipped all over the country and maybe rebuilt more than once.
Most experienced Garand guys are well aware of this.
When you purchase something sight unseen you have to have realistic expectations.
I just sold a box of stuff that I had decreed as excess to my needs. It's a bunch of odds and ends I have collected over the years and simply described the stuff as being in 'pretty good shape'. Everything is at least serviceable. Some of it is new but some of it isn't. It will be interesting to see how the buyer reacts when he opens the box.
Hopefully his expectations were realistic when he bought it.
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Monday, March 9, 2020
A pretty good summation of Elizabeth Warren.
who has been returned to her tribal lands.
A pretty good summation of Elizabeth Warren.
The very fact that she declared herself a Native American for financial gain should be enough for people to realize she's dishonest. Yet the imbeciles in Massachusetts reelected her.
BTW the link is hot.
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A pretty good summation of Elizabeth Warren.
The very fact that she declared herself a Native American for financial gain should be enough for people to realize she's dishonest. Yet the imbeciles in Massachusetts reelected her.
BTW the link is hot.
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Sunday, March 8, 2020
I am rereading 'The Ugly American'
which originally came out in about 1958 during the Cold War.
I believe it is still in print. If it's not it is readily available in new condition on Amazon.
The book actually helped shape some of JFK's foreign policy and should be required reading for practically everyone in office and especially for field grade and above military officers. Everyone that draws a paycheck from the state department should read it including the janitor
The book was actually written before we wandered into Vietnam and I do believe JFK was using a few of the ideas expressed in it. Kennedy had shipped a few Peace Corps members there along with a few teams of the newly energized Special Forces. Many of there people were fluent in the local language and respected the local customs unlike a lot of people from the State Department.
Years later in the service a couple of old soldiers told me that this approach was actually making progress. I met a couple of old soldiers that had been there in the very early 60s and they commented that the results, while not dramatic were successful.
It was about this time the Vietnam M1 Garand rebuild plan started. M1 rifles were being rebuilt to be shipped to Vietnam as foreign aid to various villages. All in all it was pretty much a low budget operation of small Special Forces teams and surplus small arms. Surprisingly it was actually working, although slowly.
I would imagine that as usual the State Department people were waxing pretty fat, though. As usual the State Department types lived in excellent housing, had access to the PX where they could buy anything American including good liquor at cut-rate prices, American food of all types and were pretty much insulated from the people they were supposed to be helping. Even the janitor was living a lot better than most of the locals.
Of course the State Department types in their arrogance more often than not alienate their hosts. They act like everyone wants to be converted into being an American and drinking Coca Cola. Surprise! A lot of people would simply rather live their lives as simple people.
Anyway, it's water under the bridge now. JFK was murdered and that arrogant insensitive bully LBJ took the helm and promptly poured on the coal. He threw billions of dollars and 58,000 lives into the fray and when it was over we were sent lacking.
Of course it wasn't HIS money or any of HIS kids that got killed so no skin off of his nose.
Of course not only did it cost us lives, the financial cost was appalling. Johnson plundered the sacred Social Security fund and it has never really recovered. The money had to come from somewhere and Social Security was there just waiting to be plundered.
Of course, the lessons learned were simply forgotten and as usual we plowed and still plow into foreign aid with an open check book and very few brains.
A while ago I believe it was the MIT boys that developed a computer that would enable African villagers to have internet access for under $100 per unit. They were pretty proud of themselves until it was pointed out that a lot of small villages didn't have electricity.
Back to the drawing board. Next they came out with some kind of toilet that would keep the village a little more sanitary and prevent disease. That was a little more practical until someone pointed out that in order to use a toilet one has to eat first.
Some genetically altered to resist drought condition seeds and maybe maybe a few chickens to breed with the chickens on hand would have been far more useful and a damned sight more inexpensive in improving the lives of the villagers. They certainly would have done more towards getting American support from the villagers that a dam or superhighway to nowhere would have.
Yet the politicians seem to think that big roads, huge dams and other costly and quite often useless things are the answer. A village in the middle of nowhere doesn't need a dam. A couple of simple wells would be a lot more practical and convenient. Basic clean water goes a long way in a mud hut dweller's way of life.
Besides dams have to be built and maintained and the majority of these people probably don't have the skills. If a dam is built for them it will likely not last very long without the proper maintenance.
One of the things I have heard that actually makes sense is setting up a loan program for farmers at a local bank of some sort. We're not talking about giving a poor village farmer a $250,000 loan or some such stupid thing. We're talking about micro loans in the $100 area. It's something he cold actually use and realistically repay.
A huge highway is also a pretty much useless commodity in a place where transportation consists of feet and maybe bicycles. A couple of finger roads and footpaths would make more sense and be easier to maintain. After a couple years in a jungle terrain a superhighway gets awfully overgrown. In a desert it covers over with the constantly shifting sands and in a moderate clime with a real winter the frost heaves buckle it.
Of course the embassy people don't venture out to where the help is needed outside of city limits so they have no clue.
I guess it starts at the top where Ambassadorships are actually political gifts handed out to whichever party members belong to the party in power. That means that a person is qualified entirely on his ability to kiss the ass of his higher-ups. In many cases this is nothing more than another rung on the political ladder of success.
We keep throwing more and more money at failure.
You can bet your ass the Russians send qualified people out to serve in embassy type positions and you can bet they know the language and customs before they get sent abroad.Most other countries do this. Foreign embassy employees generally speak American English fluently before they arrive here and not just the top dogs. The secretaries and clerical types further down the chain speak American English, too. Bet on it. I bet even the janitor does!
Hell, the sign in front of the Russian embassy is in Russian AND one or more of languages used in the host country. The US Embassy's sign is only in English. That's pretty arrogant. Most people in the host country have no clue what it says.
A lot of American foreign policy should change as far as who and what we send overseas.
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I believe it is still in print. If it's not it is readily available in new condition on Amazon.
The book actually helped shape some of JFK's foreign policy and should be required reading for practically everyone in office and especially for field grade and above military officers. Everyone that draws a paycheck from the state department should read it including the janitor
The book was actually written before we wandered into Vietnam and I do believe JFK was using a few of the ideas expressed in it. Kennedy had shipped a few Peace Corps members there along with a few teams of the newly energized Special Forces. Many of there people were fluent in the local language and respected the local customs unlike a lot of people from the State Department.
Years later in the service a couple of old soldiers told me that this approach was actually making progress. I met a couple of old soldiers that had been there in the very early 60s and they commented that the results, while not dramatic were successful.
It was about this time the Vietnam M1 Garand rebuild plan started. M1 rifles were being rebuilt to be shipped to Vietnam as foreign aid to various villages. All in all it was pretty much a low budget operation of small Special Forces teams and surplus small arms. Surprisingly it was actually working, although slowly.
I would imagine that as usual the State Department people were waxing pretty fat, though. As usual the State Department types lived in excellent housing, had access to the PX where they could buy anything American including good liquor at cut-rate prices, American food of all types and were pretty much insulated from the people they were supposed to be helping. Even the janitor was living a lot better than most of the locals.
Of course the State Department types in their arrogance more often than not alienate their hosts. They act like everyone wants to be converted into being an American and drinking Coca Cola. Surprise! A lot of people would simply rather live their lives as simple people.
Anyway, it's water under the bridge now. JFK was murdered and that arrogant insensitive bully LBJ took the helm and promptly poured on the coal. He threw billions of dollars and 58,000 lives into the fray and when it was over we were sent lacking.
Of course it wasn't HIS money or any of HIS kids that got killed so no skin off of his nose.
Of course not only did it cost us lives, the financial cost was appalling. Johnson plundered the sacred Social Security fund and it has never really recovered. The money had to come from somewhere and Social Security was there just waiting to be plundered.
Of course, the lessons learned were simply forgotten and as usual we plowed and still plow into foreign aid with an open check book and very few brains.
A while ago I believe it was the MIT boys that developed a computer that would enable African villagers to have internet access for under $100 per unit. They were pretty proud of themselves until it was pointed out that a lot of small villages didn't have electricity.
Back to the drawing board. Next they came out with some kind of toilet that would keep the village a little more sanitary and prevent disease. That was a little more practical until someone pointed out that in order to use a toilet one has to eat first.
Some genetically altered to resist drought condition seeds and maybe maybe a few chickens to breed with the chickens on hand would have been far more useful and a damned sight more inexpensive in improving the lives of the villagers. They certainly would have done more towards getting American support from the villagers that a dam or superhighway to nowhere would have.
Yet the politicians seem to think that big roads, huge dams and other costly and quite often useless things are the answer. A village in the middle of nowhere doesn't need a dam. A couple of simple wells would be a lot more practical and convenient. Basic clean water goes a long way in a mud hut dweller's way of life.
Besides dams have to be built and maintained and the majority of these people probably don't have the skills. If a dam is built for them it will likely not last very long without the proper maintenance.
One of the things I have heard that actually makes sense is setting up a loan program for farmers at a local bank of some sort. We're not talking about giving a poor village farmer a $250,000 loan or some such stupid thing. We're talking about micro loans in the $100 area. It's something he cold actually use and realistically repay.
A huge highway is also a pretty much useless commodity in a place where transportation consists of feet and maybe bicycles. A couple of finger roads and footpaths would make more sense and be easier to maintain. After a couple years in a jungle terrain a superhighway gets awfully overgrown. In a desert it covers over with the constantly shifting sands and in a moderate clime with a real winter the frost heaves buckle it.
Of course the embassy people don't venture out to where the help is needed outside of city limits so they have no clue.
I guess it starts at the top where Ambassadorships are actually political gifts handed out to whichever party members belong to the party in power. That means that a person is qualified entirely on his ability to kiss the ass of his higher-ups. In many cases this is nothing more than another rung on the political ladder of success.
We keep throwing more and more money at failure.
You can bet your ass the Russians send qualified people out to serve in embassy type positions and you can bet they know the language and customs before they get sent abroad.Most other countries do this. Foreign embassy employees generally speak American English fluently before they arrive here and not just the top dogs. The secretaries and clerical types further down the chain speak American English, too. Bet on it. I bet even the janitor does!
Hell, the sign in front of the Russian embassy is in Russian AND one or more of languages used in the host country. The US Embassy's sign is only in English. That's pretty arrogant. Most people in the host country have no clue what it says.
A lot of American foreign policy should change as far as who and what we send overseas.
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Saturday, March 7, 2020
One person that refused to accept the race card.
When the employee in question went to her boss and claimed racial prejudice she was asked, "What color were you when I hired you?"
Kinda brings things to a screeching halt, doesn't it?
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Kinda brings things to a screeching halt, doesn't it?
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Friday, March 6, 2020
Adios, Pocahontas
"From where the sun now stands, I will campaign no more forever."
-Elizabeth Warren
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-Elizabeth Warren
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
Every now and then I run into a teenager that reminds me of me.
Overheard at a drug store:
Some woman rhetorically asked the pharmacist "What are we going to do about this terrible Corona virus?"
The teenager behind her piped up in a helpful voice, "I don't know. Maybe we're going to have to start burning down Chinese restaurants and shooting Chinese."
The woman turned around with a look of shock on her face.
I'm going straight to hell because I laughed.
Of course I have no desire to destroy anyone's property or harm anyone and I am sure that neither did the kid it was pretty funny to see the woman go into shock. It was funny watching a teenager do it to her. I feel like someone gave me the day off.
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Some woman rhetorically asked the pharmacist "What are we going to do about this terrible Corona virus?"
The teenager behind her piped up in a helpful voice, "I don't know. Maybe we're going to have to start burning down Chinese restaurants and shooting Chinese."
The woman turned around with a look of shock on her face.
I'm going straight to hell because I laughed.
Of course I have no desire to destroy anyone's property or harm anyone and I am sure that neither did the kid it was pretty funny to see the woman go into shock. It was funny watching a teenager do it to her. I feel like someone gave me the day off.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
My guess is that Keith Richards is actually going to die some day.
I just read where he stopped drinking and smoking and I think it is likely that the shock may actually kill him.
Then again maybe he did that so he can snort the Corona virus and kill it for us.
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Then again maybe he did that so he can snort the Corona virus and kill it for us.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
An interesting point of view.
"When I sign this bill we'll have those ni&&ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!"
Said Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-sixth President of the Untied States, before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
For quite some time I have thought that the Left really doesn't have a whole lot of respect for minorities. But they DO have a use for them. The use is votes.
The inner city cycle seems to continue like it has for decades.
A couple of months before an election the Democrats venture into the inner cities, promise the people there all sorts of things and hand out a few trinkets. Obama phones are a good example. To put a point on it, these people are being bribed with someone else's money.
On election day they are herded into various vans and buses and are carted to the polls where they generally live up to LBJ's comment. They vote Democrat.
After they vote they are hauled back to their neighborhoods and unceremoniously get dropped off until they are needed for the next election.
As far as anything useful that may enable these people to climb out of poverty they really get nothing. No job opportunities, no education, nothing but another period of welfare and more governmental assistance.
Rinse. Repeat.
It's really sad when you think about it.
Those people are not being raised from poverty. They're just being left there and will remain there just so long as they are politically useful. Then who knows what will happen to them.
The last thing the Left wants is for these people to become successful. Then they would no longer be easily manipulated because they would start thinking for themselves.
The link from a former member of the Left and is worth the read.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/6/25/90-of-the-racism-in-america-comes-from-the-democratic-party-and-the-left/?fbclid=IwAR3NvNlS4d-nJ0pHs7AG_lYUeqvhsmt8EdbB5d851cihv0wggNAGWC75qMM
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Said Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-sixth President of the Untied States, before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
For quite some time I have thought that the Left really doesn't have a whole lot of respect for minorities. But they DO have a use for them. The use is votes.
The inner city cycle seems to continue like it has for decades.
A couple of months before an election the Democrats venture into the inner cities, promise the people there all sorts of things and hand out a few trinkets. Obama phones are a good example. To put a point on it, these people are being bribed with someone else's money.
On election day they are herded into various vans and buses and are carted to the polls where they generally live up to LBJ's comment. They vote Democrat.
After they vote they are hauled back to their neighborhoods and unceremoniously get dropped off until they are needed for the next election.
As far as anything useful that may enable these people to climb out of poverty they really get nothing. No job opportunities, no education, nothing but another period of welfare and more governmental assistance.
Rinse. Repeat.
It's really sad when you think about it.
Those people are not being raised from poverty. They're just being left there and will remain there just so long as they are politically useful. Then who knows what will happen to them.
The last thing the Left wants is for these people to become successful. Then they would no longer be easily manipulated because they would start thinking for themselves.
The link from a former member of the Left and is worth the read.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/6/25/90-of-the-racism-in-america-comes-from-the-democratic-party-and-the-left/?fbclid=IwAR3NvNlS4d-nJ0pHs7AG_lYUeqvhsmt8EdbB5d851cihv0wggNAGWC75qMM
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Monday, March 2, 2020
Trump and the Corona virus
He's on it. He put Pence in charge of a task force of some sort and the CDC is working on it.
Today I want to pour a cup of coffee all over a smug teenager but I can not do this because he reminds me of me.
Earlier today I saw a certain police cruiser in front of the convenience store and pulled in to bust his chops a bit. He's a good cop and a character of sorts and because he can retire at will he's really easygoing. I suppose a few years back he might have been a little more serious but I think he loves the uproar.
I wandered in and asked him if he's found a phone booth for me to steal yet and he reported he had not.
"I guess Superman is still out of luck," I replied.
Some teenaged girl asked him about Superman and phone booths. He told her that Superman changed from Clark Kent into Superman in phone booths. She looked a touch confused and said they don't have phone booths anymore and that she had seen them in old movies but had never seen one.
The cop asked her, "Have you seen Superman lately?"
"No," she replied.
"Now you know why," he responded.
Hmmm... off to search for a phone booth.
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The reloading bench is now operational which
is a good thing. It feels good to see it.
It also got me rolling on cleaning up the basement which I will continue on after I post this.
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It also got me rolling on cleaning up the basement which I will continue on after I post this.
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Sunday, March 1, 2020
I am cleaning out the reloading bench today part 2
I started yesterday and got interrupted too many times to get anything done. I did manage to put a pretty good dent in it, though.
There's a lot of just plain stuff I have collected over the years and I think I will give a partial inventory, cram it into a box and try and sell it as a package. It ought to be fun as it will be listed as somewhat of a mystery box. Actually some of it is pretty good stuff. Own an M1 carbine? There's 2 pretty good magazines in the box.
Today I will likely go through the various powders that I have collected over the years that I did not have good luck with but other people do. I have not figured out what to do with them as I won't sell an opened powder container for liability reasons.
Years ago I probably would have made a huge pipe bomb or something and cranked it off in the woods somewhere. These days I suppose it is not an option because getting caught doing this would probably mean a court appearance or three on terrorism charges or some damned thing. I might dump it all onto an old gallon jar and use it to fertilize the spring flowers.
It's kind of funny where I have the powders stored now. They are on a shelf that is labeled 'Sacrifices to the gods of accuracy'.
As a reloader my tinkering days are somewhat at an end. I have a couple of pet loads and they will serve me shooting matches until the end of my days.
Another reason I am doing this is because I am getting old and do not want to leave this mess behind me for my relatives to clean up. There is a lot of stuff there from various experiments and alterations. Not everything on the bench is what it looks like.
For example there is a box of .38/200 for a Webley revolver that the cases are head stamped 38 S&W. The .38/200 used the S&W case but is loaded a lot hotter than the S&W.
All this is fine and dandy until the widow sells the cartridges at a garage sale and the idiot that buys them takes one look at the headstamp and digs out Grandpa's old Iver Johnson top break, cranks one off and the revolver shatters into smithereens.
Of course in this day and age it is a no brainer that that will end up in court and the $3 you got for the ammo at the garage sale in the first place doesn't look very good anymore.
It doesn't matter if you sold the ammo with fair warning and that it is for components only and the person is responsible to disassemble the ammo and reload it himself. It doesn't matter if you warn him it is ONLY for a Webley MkIV and not for an antique top break revolver.
Some idiot won't pay attention and will ignore repeated warnings and blows his grandpa's revolver up. He will stammer and stutter "But it says on the cartridge it's a .38 S&W!"
A jury will award him a fat settlement because, dammit, it said on the cartridge it's .38 S&W.
Actually what the jury SHOULD do is award the defendant their legal costs and all twelve should point at the idiot sitting there and shout, "Ha!Ha!"
Anyway, the best way to protect your loved ones is simply get rid of this stuff. That's a huge part of what I want to get done today.
I do have a rifle that needs sighting in and that's always good for a laugh. There is a neat trick I use to guarantee that the first shot is at least on the paper. You take four full sized pieces of newspaper and create a four or five foot square at fifty yards and put the target in the center of it. The first shot will invariably land in the black.
If you do not do this your first shot will miss the target altogether and you're screwed.
Murphy knew what he was talking about.
I once did this when I tested an M1 that supposedly had a bad barrel. I was glad I did. The rifle shot a group of over three feet!
Of course I promptly re-barreled it and it shot fine but that's another story.
Well, off to spin the wheels of industry.
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There's a lot of just plain stuff I have collected over the years and I think I will give a partial inventory, cram it into a box and try and sell it as a package. It ought to be fun as it will be listed as somewhat of a mystery box. Actually some of it is pretty good stuff. Own an M1 carbine? There's 2 pretty good magazines in the box.
Today I will likely go through the various powders that I have collected over the years that I did not have good luck with but other people do. I have not figured out what to do with them as I won't sell an opened powder container for liability reasons.
Years ago I probably would have made a huge pipe bomb or something and cranked it off in the woods somewhere. These days I suppose it is not an option because getting caught doing this would probably mean a court appearance or three on terrorism charges or some damned thing. I might dump it all onto an old gallon jar and use it to fertilize the spring flowers.
It's kind of funny where I have the powders stored now. They are on a shelf that is labeled 'Sacrifices to the gods of accuracy'.
As a reloader my tinkering days are somewhat at an end. I have a couple of pet loads and they will serve me shooting matches until the end of my days.
Another reason I am doing this is because I am getting old and do not want to leave this mess behind me for my relatives to clean up. There is a lot of stuff there from various experiments and alterations. Not everything on the bench is what it looks like.
For example there is a box of .38/200 for a Webley revolver that the cases are head stamped 38 S&W. The .38/200 used the S&W case but is loaded a lot hotter than the S&W.
All this is fine and dandy until the widow sells the cartridges at a garage sale and the idiot that buys them takes one look at the headstamp and digs out Grandpa's old Iver Johnson top break, cranks one off and the revolver shatters into smithereens.
Of course in this day and age it is a no brainer that that will end up in court and the $3 you got for the ammo at the garage sale in the first place doesn't look very good anymore.
It doesn't matter if you sold the ammo with fair warning and that it is for components only and the person is responsible to disassemble the ammo and reload it himself. It doesn't matter if you warn him it is ONLY for a Webley MkIV and not for an antique top break revolver.
Some idiot won't pay attention and will ignore repeated warnings and blows his grandpa's revolver up. He will stammer and stutter "But it says on the cartridge it's a .38 S&W!"
A jury will award him a fat settlement because, dammit, it said on the cartridge it's .38 S&W.
Actually what the jury SHOULD do is award the defendant their legal costs and all twelve should point at the idiot sitting there and shout, "Ha!Ha!"
Anyway, the best way to protect your loved ones is simply get rid of this stuff. That's a huge part of what I want to get done today.
I do have a rifle that needs sighting in and that's always good for a laugh. There is a neat trick I use to guarantee that the first shot is at least on the paper. You take four full sized pieces of newspaper and create a four or five foot square at fifty yards and put the target in the center of it. The first shot will invariably land in the black.
If you do not do this your first shot will miss the target altogether and you're screwed.
Murphy knew what he was talking about.
I once did this when I tested an M1 that supposedly had a bad barrel. I was glad I did. The rifle shot a group of over three feet!
Of course I promptly re-barreled it and it shot fine but that's another story.
Well, off to spin the wheels of industry.
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