As far as economics and inflation goes,

maybe what the Tooth Fairy is paying out might be an indicator.

In my day it was a dime.

What's the going rate these days?

Please let me know as a comment.

I'm working on something high level for an economic indicator.

I figure that if you look at what the tooth fairy is paying out these days you have just as good of an indicator of the economy as anything else.

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I hear where a Hedge Fund billionaire and a supermarket magate are planning on leaving NYC

due to their 'tax the rich' climate. 

Good for them! I think it's hilarious.

Every tax the rich scheme that's been tried ends up with lower tax revenues. Norway tried it a while back. Tax revenue dropped. Surprise!

I see where Ken Griffen is most likely going to pull a 6 billion dollar investment plan out of NYC and go elsewhere where it will be greatly appreciated instead of being looked at as free lunch to Mamdani and Company. 

John Catsimatidiais (Sp?) is another one that is considering pulling out of NYC. John C owns, among other things a couple of supermarket chains, It would be interesting to see what would happen if he decided to close a few unprofitable stores in NYC on the way out of town. I can picture Mamdani screeching about that one. In addition to accusing a rich person for leaving he can screech about food deserts. A two-fer!

FWIW Chicago had 8 Walmarts in 2020. They currently have only 4 left citing large losses to shoplifting among other things that closed the 4 stores. 

People don't understand that the truly wealthy got that way for a reason and they also seem to forget that when billionaires were creating their empire that they took an awful lot of people up with them.

God only knows how many millionaires that Bill Gates created on his way to the top.  knows how many damned good jobs he created when he built Microsoft. He hired people from high level engineers all the way down to the guys that swept the floors.

That doesn't include the jobs the Microsoft suppliers created or the local increase in wealth Microsoft created. Employees need to eat and get gas for their vehicles. They need places to live and the list is endless. A LOT of wealth was created and God only many people don't even realize their paychecks were made possible by Microsoft.

When Jeff Bezos wanted to open HQ2 on the east coast he first looked into NYC. He asked for a deal for a limited time tax relief. AOC and a few others screeched about giving Bezos an incentive to open HQ2 there so he decided to open it in Arlington, VA.

When he chose not to open in NYC AOC and company stood there agape in outrage, showing their stupidity. What did they think would happen? 

NYC lost out on a lot of good jobs and all the local wealth that came with it. Arlington would up with a valuable asset and some serious wealth.

NY Governor Kathy Hochul is now among the ranks of those stading there agape begging for wealthy people that left to return to New York. Please come back to New York so I can tax you into poverty. Of course those that had left laughed in her face. I would have.

Besides the weather in Miami is nicer. New York winters suck.

A lot of people don't realize that fortunes have been made from ideas and the actual products generate the income are simply developed to make the idea work.

A pretty good example is Henry Ford. His idea was to put the working man in an automobile by making it affordable. The Model T was the product of the idea and became the vehicle that made owning a car affordable. In the mid 20s the price dropped to about $260 for a new Model T. That's about $4300 today. The machines were a lot simpler back then.

The price dropped because of increased effiency in the assembly process. He was the first carmaker to use the assembly line. Previously cars had been built one at a time.

Ford also created wealth by paying his people the (then) princely sum of $5/day, almost double of what his competitors were paying and that opened yet another market, his employees.

Ford not only got rich he created wealth. His model T started being used as ad hoc taxis, some were converted to pickup trucks and other types of vehicles and became the infancy of our non railroad land transportation industry. We ALL became better off for it.

Currently the top 1% pay between between 38 and 45% of all federal income tax. The bottom 30-40% pay nothing. 

The other thing most people fail to realize is the very rich don't have a huge vault of cash somewhere like Scrooge McDuck. The money is in assets. They have no cash value until they are sold. You can't take stock certificates or real estate to Walmart to buy a pair of pants with. 

Although they may increase in value, they may also decrease in value. If they increase the increase is figured in unrealized capital gains. An example of unrealized capital gains is one's house. Most people's (but not everyone's) gain in value over time. The $100K home you bought 20 years ago may now be worth twice as much which means you now have $100K in unrealized capital gains.

You can't buy a new car (or anything else) with unrealized capital gains. It's just a paper gain until you sell.

Back to the very wealthy. 

I see where Bernie and Liz Warren are screaming about billionaires. If those two circus clowns get their way t LOT of capital will be out of here like a shot. They forget that there's a lot of opportunity overseas and with less government interference and fewer taxes. A billion here and there would be welcome in Vietnam, (electronic manufacturing) Argentina,(beef) Venezuela (oil) and other places that have a fairly stable government and a desire to grow.

The United States isn't the only place with opportunity. Big money can generally cut a reasonable deal in most countries.

Besides, if someone cashes out a billion dollars and decides to retire they can build a compound and live practically anywhere. 

Djibouti...Four things live there. Snakes, scorpions, Foreign Legionnaires and J.Pooply Potts, Billionaire.

Hell, if Iran ditches the regime thet's a lot of work there to be done there since the US Military has plastered the hell out of it.

Tax their incomes the same way you tax everyone else's income. I propose a flat percentage for everyone. 

As far as the lame excuse of 'they don't need all that money' I'll say neither do you. You don't NEED to go out to dinner three times a week or even once. You don't NEED to go on a fancy vacation. All you NEED are 3 hots and a cot. It's their money. They earned it and taking it from them with confiscatory taxation is just plain wrong.

 

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Every time I see a non-weekend protest

it serves as a reminder of how many people don't have jobs and are supported by the rest of us that do have jobs.

I suppose that later on today and tomorrow we will see social media meltdowns of people that took the day off and came in to find out that life went on, their workplace went on without them and found out that they really were not needed and fired them.

A handful will figure it out. They have a right to protest AND the boss has a right to fire them for not showing up for work.

Pick one.

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May Day.

People are supposed to skip work and not go shopping today.

I will go out shopping later because the stores supposedly won't be full of customers.

I think I am going to be sadly disappointed because what is likely to happen is a LOT of people will have the same idea and it will be like Black Friday.

Update: Business as usual.

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I wonder how many of the people that are upset over the Iraq doings

would, given the choice take $50K here and now over a penny doubled every day for 30 days.

People don't look down the road very much. 

A penny doubled for 30 days is well over five million bucks.

A lot of good will come of this in terms of long term security, and on top of that, UAE just dropped out of OPEC which means most likely that they will compete against them and possibly undersell OPEC.

Although we buy very little middle east oil, it is sold on a worldwide basis and that will likely drop the worldwide price down resulting in cheaper gas. If we can get back to $2 gas the economy here will  skyrocket.

This is good but the real reason for our visit to Iran is for long term security. It's somewhat of a given that a nuclear Iran would amount to the US getting nuked almost immediately after they get a warhead and a delivery system. Truth is we should have done this to the Norks years ago. Kim Jong Un isn't the sharpest tool in the shed and is most likely waiting for the time to plaster South Korea. Nobody had the balls to stop Kim Jong Un.

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One of the big reasons the Iranians have not thrown in the towel is because of the American left. The left would probably cheerfully sacrifice 2 aircraft carriers and 20,000 of our troops if it would embarrass President Trump.

The Iranians are holding out praying that the left will stop Trump from continuing with the conflict. 

While not likely to happen, they are holding out.

According to what I have been reading, as soon as Iran runs out of storage space the pumps will stop running and things will plug up and they will have to redrill. They'll be out of the oil business for quite a while.

When that happens they will be totally screwed and the gnarled peasants will throw take the remmenants of the Mullahs and Ayatollahs out to the nearest lamp pole and use them as decorations.

I keep asking leftists who's side are they on? I don't expect them to support the president but I DO expect them to support the troops and the American people.

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WOW!

April tore through me like a dose of salts!

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Wow! What luck!

I just put Pakistan in the logbook.

AP5ARS.1227Z> 26 April2026> 40M> 2x2> Pakistan.

Getting confirmation is going to be a pain in the neck but I think I can get a card by going directly to the station. Google says the Pakistani PO system works although it's slow.

It's not considered confirmed unless you get a QSL card.

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A quiet day for a change.

Pulled weeds and started the annual fight with the hillside.

It's been overrun with small vines so I hosed a chunk of it down with weed killer. In the next couple of days I will probably rake as much of it as I can and spread grass seed on it. 

The eventual plan is to have it grass covered.

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Our guys just took some kind of Iranian tanker over. They fast roped off a helicopter and seized the vessel.

An argument broke out as to if the boat was seized by the SEALS or the Marines. What a petty argument!

All military work/battle uniforms have their branch on them, preceded by the letters US.

I don't care which branch took the damned thing into custody. 

They're all the Good Guys.

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A lot of this crap is getting stale.

Recently I saw a video of a trio of black girls picking on a white girl for being white in the subway. The victim quietly took it until the subway got to her stop and she left the car leaving the three black girls behind. 

As the subway doors closed she threw in a parting shot and shouted "Ni&&ers!" and I got to watch a screeching meltdown of outrage. Her timing was perfect. She couldn't be followed.

I'll admit. I laughed. The meltdown was hilarious. 

As a casual observer I have noticed that for the most part, the people in the black community that screech the loudest over the dreaded N-word are the least successful part of the community. That's because the successful part of the community are far more emotionally mature. They're too busy being productive to bother with something as petty as a racial slur.

I got to watch Hakeem Jeffries get all worked up over the sombrero Trump put on his head. He acted like a little kid. So did Tim Walz when he got called a retard. Both of these idiots are emotionally immature. Neither of them should be in a position of any responsibility. 

On the other hand when someone made a meme showing JD Vance as a wolfman he embraced it and used it as his Halloween costume. It died off rapidly. I'm sure the left was sadly disappointed.

Recently I read a rant of sorts from a black woman that was horribly offended because someone six days older than dirt used the term 'colored', a term I heard used commonly in my younger years that faded out rapidly in the late 60s and early 70s. It was replaced by the term 'Black'. Black is still used although Afro-American appears to be newer and improved. 

I don't use Afro-American because it's unwieldy and besides, my attitude is pick one. You're either an African or an American. I don't use the term 'colored' because it is dated but as dated as it is, it is still a respectful term. I would imagine that the people that occasionally still use the term are the handful of the WW2/Korea generation that didn't get the news the term was obsolete.

Come to think about it I seldom identify people by color. I'm usually saying something like "He's the guy in the blue shirt." Of course if they are all wearing blue shirts I might identify someone as the black  brown or Asian guy. It's a matter of convenience. Sometimes I refer to Indians as dot or feather to distinguish the difference between people from India and Native Americans. Most 'dot' Indians I've met simply look at it as an identifier. Even it they see it as a slur most are too busy doing something constructive to bother getting worked up.

Years ago in Canada I heard the term 'East Indian' used as a designator people with roots from India. 

(It's interesting to note I have not seen anyone wearing a prayer dot in a long time. Still, most people understand the reference) 

One of the things I have not figured out yet is why so many blacks are triggered by the dreaded N-word. Of course the successful part of the black community has better things to worry about because they are too busy taking care of families and business, but a large portion of them go completely wild if they hear it. They immediately want to burn down half of the city, generally the half they live in.

Why? It makes no sense to me because just about everybody in the entire country has a racial slur associated with their race, religion, nationality of origin.

Hebe, wop, spic, dago, mick, harp, kike, mackerel snapper, frog, limey, flip, you name it. The list is pretty much endless. Most people pretty much ignore being called a slur name. They simply figure the slur user is an idiot. (For the most part, the Irish tend to be self effacing and sometimes use the slur 'mick' to refer to themselves. Sometimes I do.)

Come to think of it, I have not heard these slurs used in quite a while now. Why? Because they seem to have lost all real meaning because everyone ignores them.

It seems to me like the black community are to the most part the only part of this country that get triggered by a simple slur. 

Why? Partly because many blacks use it so they can claim 'victim status'. Oh, poor me. Someone called me the dreaded N-word."

So what? You got called a mean name. So what? Cry me a river, call a highly trained crack team of combat engineers to build a bridge across said river and GET OVER IT. Someone called you a mean name. Big deal.

By continuing to over react you are giving power to everyone and their cousin to insult and abuse you. The best way the black community can take the power from everyone that uses it against them is to simply ignore it. 

The reason the slur the slur has lasted this long is because it gets a rise out of a large part of the community.  

Ever watch a little kid get picked on in a schoolyard? It's the same damned thing. 

Ever watch a kid in the same schoolyard ignore their tormentors?  What happens when kid being picked on ignores his tormentors? Simple. The tormentors go looking for someone else and the prospective victim gets left alone. He doesn't give his tormentors the chance to berate him.

As for the woman that got upset with the word 'colored', there's finding trouble and looking for trouble. While he man called you a very dated term, it was by no means disrespectful whatsoever. He treated you with courtesy and respect. Stop looking for trouble where there isn't any. You can find enough without even looking.

To the portion of the black community that is foolish enough to be triggered by a simple slur all I have to say is grow up. Most of us are tired listening to you moan, wail and gnash your teeth over nothing.

Of course there is also a side of me that enjoys watching people have meltdowns over absolutely nothing. It's really rather entertaining watchs grownups carry on like little kids.

  

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Karma's going to get you

said some dreamer that found out that the ICE agent that shot Renee Good in self defense isn't being charged.

I've listened to the 'Karma's going to get you' line for decades. It's usually the last parting shot of someone that has lost the battle.

The thing I have always wanted to know is what kind of Karma?

Instant karma? Microwave karma? Freeze dried karma? There's also dehydrated karma, just add water. There's canned karma, vacuum packed karma, karma in a jar, bottled karma, karma in a box, toaster karma, Chicken fried karma. It's a long list.  Back in my day we made our karma from scratch and slaved all day over a hot stove. 

Pray tell, which karma are you speaking of?

Be specific.

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Hung Cao is the new SecNav.

I don't know a whole lot about the guy but I already like him.

He's a Vietnamese refugee, a retired Navy Captain and has a very dry sense of humor.

When some leftist called him a white supremist he remarked that he was going to have to have his Klan hood made with slits instead of circles for the eye holes so he could see.

In my opinion he's already off to a good start.

We'll see how he works out.

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Piccolo's assimilation test.

A longtime immigrant citizen from Cambodia posted about going through hell to get here. I'm sure it was no picnic.

My reply was "Cambodian?! I tot you wuz Irish!"

If I get called an asshole my reply is going to be "Perfect assimilation!" 

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War crimes.

seems to be what the left is accusing Trump of now which is a joke.

Anything militarily useful is a legitimate target. Anything.

A power plant that so much as supplies a military organization so much as one single watt second to the military becomes a bona fide military target. If a bridge is crossed by anything military it becomes a legitimate target. 

During WW2 Notre Dame was not flattened because the Germans did not use it for military purposes. For example they stored no ammunition in it.

The IDF hit a building a while back in (IIRC) Gaza. The wire services, AP and Al Jazeera  that had offices there moaned and groaned about it claiming that bombing a wire service was a crime. The IDF pointed out that Hamas had intelligence assets in the same building and so to speak told them to settle it with their landlord. The complaints died down fairly quickly when it was pointed out that it was a bona fide target. (Choose your landlords carefully)

What IS a war crime is 'Human Shielding' which is hiding behind non combatant's backs. Iran is threatening to put thousands of civilians on their bridges in what will probably be a futile attempt to protect them. If the US or the IDF destroy the bridges they bear no responsibility. The responsibility is Iran's and Iran's only for using human shields. The school that got hit and killed a large number of children was next door to a military asset of some sort. 

Iran has made a large number of police/military installations close to schools, hospitals and dense residential areas.

Of course the left will screech about civilian deaths but their anger will be misdirected. War is an ugly game.

WW2 claimed about 80 million lives. Of these about 25 million were combatants. Civilian deaths were about 2.5 time the number of military deaths.

To be fair about it, the US military appears to be pretty good at making an honest effort to keep civilian casualties down. Precision munitions have contributed to this also. We don't have to flatten a large area to hit a specific target anymore. Still, things happen.

Pete Hegseth gets accused of war crimes every time we sink a drug runner. It's not a war crime although some people say it is. The workaround is that cocaine and fentanyl being smuggled in is a clear and present to danger the people of the United States and that holds water. It most certainly is NOT a war crime.

As far as Mark Kelly's subtle 'reminder' regarding illegal orders, (his comments long these lines were an attempt to spread disharmony among the troops) no illegal orders have been given. have been issued.

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Haircuts.

For the past 15 years I have kept my hair very short. 

If I let it grow out I look like Einstein so I simply keep it clipped. 

About 15 years ago at Camp Perry one of the Marine NCOs gave me a 'Navy Reg' haircut which was my style for a couple of years until I decided it was also too much maintenance and simply went to a high and tight which was easier to maintain. 

A few years ago I went to a shave everything but the top and clip that down to about a quarter inch which looks stupid for a couple of days but grows in nicely. It works and makes sense to me and looks OK.

Truth is the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is about two weeks.

Back in the service I never could understand all the stupidity regarding hair. I was a GI and figured I was expected to look like one. I ran with 'presentable' as my standard and eventually was told to get a haircut which I did only I simply got myself a basic training shaved head which I sported until just before I got out.

One day my battery commander casually asked me about it. He was just curious. I simply said that hair was the stupidest thing in the world to worry about and I just wanted to shut everybody up. I had better things to do than measure hair length and argue with Top about it which many soldiers did. I told him I thought the whole thing was ridiculous and it saved me money because I could grow it more between haircuts. 

He shrugged and said it was fine by him. He said that a specific length was mandated simply because something like 'neat and well groomed' was subject to interpretation and then we're all in trouble. I agreed.

I think the whole haircut thing came to a head when some private told Top "If the army wanted my hair cut they would give it to me for free."

That was about the stupidest thing I ever heard someone say in the Army. 

I was the unit armorer and was in the supply room. There was a barber kit there that was allegedly for 'field use', it had hand clippers that looked like they were for shearing sheep. There was also a set of electric clippers elsewhere. I seriously doubt they had ever been used.

I got a call from Top and he told me to give Private Gino a haircut. 

I protested. "I'm a pretty lousy barber, Top."

"That's why I picked you." he said. "Peel him like a grape."

Private Gino walked in and asked me how long I had been cutting hair. "First time," I replied. "I'm just going to shear you like a sheep because that's all I know how to do. Don't worry. It'll probably grow back in in OK."

Private Gino turned around and ran to the barber shop. 

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I just got reminded of a small incident that happened to me in the Army.

I was probably still an E-2 and was coming out of the chow line and an officer stopped me and took my tray and told me to get myself another one. For a second I was WTF? 

The lieutenant said to me "I want a typical meal to eat. I'm OOD and am checking out the mess hall."

"Fair enough, Sir. It's actually in my best interest. For a half second I thought you were too lazy to go through the chow line but figured there was probably a pretty good reason."

I just went to the head of the line and filled up another tray for myself.

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I just saw a video of someone stealing shoes

from Muslims as they prayed. He was stealing them in pairs which is the badge of a rank amateur.

If you are doing that the best way is to steal only one shoe from each pair and really piss them off. It's far more maddening to find you have only one shoe as opposed to having none at all. Add insult to injury!

If you are going to do something like that at least do it right. It's far more entertaining watching 20 people with one shoe than 10 people with no shoes.

Besides you can piss off twice as many people per armload as you carry them off.

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Oh yeah, the best way to get rid stolen shoes is to wait until you go on a long road trip and every couple of hours throw one into the breakdown lane.

Nothing gets people wondering more than seeing one shoe in the breakdown lane. They stay alert and keep their eyes open looking for the other one to show up.

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Why?

should I get new truck?

I really don't want one and the one I have is comfortable enough. I like it and it does everything I want it to. It's as comfortable as the well worn Topsiders on my feet. It is what it is.

Look at me and figure out who I am. I am an old guy living out my life with things I have grown comfortable with. Look at my vehicles. I own a 2009 Tacoma, basic non extended pickup and a 1991 Mazda Miata.

Both of these fit me to a T.

Old School.

What is interesting to note is the local car lot has a 2011 low mileage duplicate of my pickup for $15K and in the back of my head I would actually consider paying for it if the one I have $hits the bed.

I like simple machinery and over the past ump-teen years have seen only two new car features that interest me, heads up GPS and backup cameras. I put an aftermarket backup camera in my 2009 ride.

Anyway, the power steering went on me and I have to get it fixed. 

Years ago when I first got the damned thing someone asked me about why I didn't get all the cool features, the bright, shiny objects. 

"Because if you don't have them they can't break and have to be fixed," I replied.

He was kind of stunned for a few seconds and admitted "There's something to be said for that."

I suppose if the truck came with manual steering I would not be getting it fixed. A Tacoma is a lightweight truck and really doesn't need power steering. It's just one of those things carmakers have sold for so long that most people would not know what to do without it.

What do you do without it?

You simply drive it the same way you do with power steering. The manual steering box ratios are a little different which tends to compensate. 

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Trump vs The Pope.

Don't get me started.

The Pope fired the opening salvo and Trump returned fire.

Tango Sierra. Fair enough. Trump defended himself.

I am of the ilk that believes that when a church enters the political fray they should lose their tax-exempt status. See how he likes that one!

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I see where the ballroom is on hold again because of a federal judge.

What they ought to do to those judges that keep obstructing the President is have them put some skin in the game.

It the case against the president stands the  test of SCOTUS then it stands. Fair enough.

OTOH if the case is overturned by higher authority the losing judge should be busted to Justice of the Peace and assigned to someplace like Mayberry County where he spends the rest of his career dealing with small town drunks, missing pets, noise complaints and intervening in squabbles between Karens..

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Thank you, God

For sending me three miserable pain in the a$$ orange cats in my life.

And thank you Jesus for dying for my sins even though I haven't finished committing them. I'll try to throttle back.

Amen.

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I got my ass chewed out years ago.

Ever seen a Hollywood Joe Swashbuckler pull a hand grenade pin with his teeth ala Sergeant Rock?

If he did that in real life he would most likely yank a couple of his teeth out and be standing there with grenade with the pin still in it.

A grenade pin is nothing more than a cotter pin with a ring in it. The ends of the pin are bent over to keep the pin from falling out and causing pain and suffering to the owner.

Before you even get ready to pull the pin one should flatten out the bent over ends of the cotter pin to make it pullable.

Grenades are an accident prone tricky weapon and there are 1,000,001 different ways they can endanger the user. They're dangerous and are only used in training under very supervised situations. 

Anyway, I was a safety NCO a couple of times at the grenade range. I posted the other incident here years ago. This time actually turned out to little more than a nothingburger except it started a pretty good rumor about me.

The safety NCOs went first. We went through the motions and chucked out grenades as a refresher familiarization on how the process worked.

When it was my turn I went by the book, threw my grenade, ducked and too the pin off off my finger, put the ring in my teeth and after the grenade went off I stood up.

The guy, Sgt Brinholder, next to me spotted it and asked me how many teeth I had lost and looked again. He naturally assumed I had pulled the pin with my teeth. I had not lost any, of course and he cringed.

I knew he'd tell someone I had pulled the pin with my teeth and it would go through the battery like a dose of salts. I felt pretty good knowing the rumor would put me in the badass/out of my mind category.

Later on Lieutenant Phil approached me. Lieutenant Phil was a pretty good junior officer and I respected him because he paid attention.

He said he has been watching things through binoculars and asked me "What's with this badness of making it look like you pulled the pin with your teeth? It's a bad example. I saw you pull it with your finger but you just had to show Sergeant Brinholder you had pulled the pin with your teeth like John Wayne. It sets a bad example because Brinholder will say something and it will go through the entire battery!"

I tried to squirm out of it by asking him if he thought everyone else was stupid enough to follow my example.

"Yes I do! You know damned well there are privates out there that will try that! How about Private Globie?"

"Hmm... you got a point there, Sir." 

"Don't worry," said the Lieutenant. "I'll just let the rumor run its course. The guys always figure it out after a while. Still, stop doing $hil like that."

"Yes, Sir."

 

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If you are an Iranian American

then your work is cut out for you. 

If you are a citizen and a registered voter it's time to help keep the Republicans in charge of Congress. Vote Republican.

If the Democrats take the house Trump is probably going to be impeached. The Democrats will cease any action against Iran and the people there will be screwed.

If you are not a citizen then there is something you can do and that's to put the shoe leather to the pavement and go door to door and see if you can gather votes supporting Republican candidates. No law against that.

If you are an Iranian-American citizen and a voter you, too can slap the shoe leather down and gather votes.

If you are an American citizen registered to vote as a Democrat you can switch parties and send a message that you support our military efforts in Iran.

If your congress critter is a Democrat you can call his office and tell him to support the President. Make it clear that if they don't you will make a concerted effort to vote them out.

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A part of Iran's laundry list. Why we fight.

John Roberts FOX News compiles an impressive list of Iran’s reign of terror over the years. This can all be verified. This is why it matters.

Here’s a short list (1/2)

•November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff .

•April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.

•October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.

•March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year.

•September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people — including two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.

•December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials.

•June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.

•July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

•April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip.

•August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others.

•February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans.

•March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed 20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center.

•May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank.

•June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

•September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.

•August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people — including a dozen American citizens.

•August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans.

•January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.

•July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

•June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem.

•October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.

•Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.”

•August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American.

•August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict.

(2/2)

•January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.

•March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.

•July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF.

•October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.

•December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.

•January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.

•September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.

•February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.

•July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.

•September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.

•November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.

•March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.

•October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.

•December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.

•January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.

•Between October 2023 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.

•November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump.

•June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.

520 killed, countless wounded and this doesn't include the 2977 killed on 9/11 which Iran helped fund.

This war has been LONG overdue.

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Piccolo does a good deed

I was working construction south of Seattle and my partner and I had just finished a siding contract, had our pay in out pocket and were getting ready to leave for Alaska. We dropped into a tavern for a late lunch. We were both pretty keyed up. We were headed north in my old pickup.

We walked in and I said the the bartender as we headed to a table "I'm the Pro from Dover and this here's the Ghost of Smoky Joe. He wants a Lite beer and a ham and cheese sandwich and I want a roast beef sandwich and a Heineken." I turned to the waitress nearby and said, "And I want you to know that you have about a half an hour to get your stuff packed it you want to come to Kodiak, Alaska with us."

She approached me and asked me, "Are you for real?"

I saw a brief look of desperation in here eyes and turned to my partner, "Whaddya say?"

"I don't care." he said.

What happened is we bolted lunch and took her home which was nearby. She was in and out of that house MOST riki-tik with a sleeping bag and a small backpack, threw her stuff into the bed of the pickup and hopped into the cab.

She rode with us up the Alaska Highway all the way to Kodiak. Upon arrival she was on her own.  

Later she married a Native, had a couple of kids and we lost track of her. I think she moved to either Old Harbor, Port Lions or Ouzinkie.

I always think that it was one of the few halfway decent things I have done that truly made a difference in someone's life by giving them a second chance at life.

It cost me nothing.

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So far it has been an interesting year.

In January I got a brief note from someone letting me know a woman I met in my travels had just died. I believe it was from her daughter.

I had met this woman during one of my sailboat adventures and to put it in a nutshell we had a several day fling of some sort. There was quite a spark between us but there were just too many differences between us for it to go anywhere. Still, over the years we sort of stayed in touch with a rare quick note or something several years apart.

The note from the daughter said she had mentioned me a couple of times over the years as the man that taught her to sail. In her address book there was the word 'sailor' under my address.

I was and still am humbled.

A few weeks ago I had a mental alarm that told me to get on touch with my ex-wife. I chased her phone number down and gave her a call. Her son answered and told me she was in very bad health and not expected to live much longer and would pass my greetings on to her. 

Three days later her son called me and told me she had passed and then handed the phone over to his father, her husband. He told me that she had always spoken highly of me and never said a bad word about me. He said she was glad to hear from me before she passed.

I briefly considered going out to help bury her but they are going the cremation route.

Between the two of these events I got a call from a man in his very early fifties. When he identified himself I recognized him instantly. The last time I had seen him he was just turning five. He asked me if it was OK for his mother to call me. It was and shortly after she called.

It's scary getting a call from one's past, especially from a woman. The mental questions are scary. Do I have a child out there I was unaware of? Am I getting hit for back child support? WTF is going on?

Nope. It was strictly a curiosity call. She was simply wondering what I had done over the past half century. We had a nice talk. I told her about fishing, sailing, meeting my wife and my career at sea.

I had an odd and interesting relationship with this woman. I actually met her at a K-Mart and after we chatted I simply asked her out to a movie and we wound up back at her place. 

I had just arrived in town and was looking for a place that rented by the month. When I told her that she simply said, "Stay here until you find something." It turned into about four months. 

I was up front with my status from the beginning. When I got the word I was going to head back to Alaska without warning. I would simply go and she could expect a call or a letter inside a month or two. My life was that unstable at that time.

Sure enough, she wound up coming home to my stuff missing and a note on the kitchen table. Later I called her a couple of times and for the next year or two we exchanged very occasional letters. We lost touch.

About a month later I got a quick call from her son. She had passed and I had managed to catch her during a brief period of coherence. She's seven years older than I am which puts her in her 80s.

Funny how things work. She never held it against me that I left without warning. I had been up front and made it clear. She simply said she was glad I fixed the cabinet before I left. She also thanked me for being good to her son. Go figure.

What's next? It's only the middle of April.

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I think that after I vacuum the living room I am going to go through a box of old letters and shred some of them. 

While there is nothing incriminating in them whatsoever, I just don't want to leave any 'what's that all abouts' behind.

I will leave behind all correspondence (what little of it there is) with my ex-wife. My sisters remember her fondly because she was good to them when they were little and I think they would like to know that we got along well after we divorced.

  

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Sir I have JAG on my speed dial.

Whips out phone, calls and asks "Do I have to stand at attention when reporting to my Battery Commander? Is that a legal order? Just checking.

I can picture my Battery Commander dealing with that one, AND my First Sergeant. 

My BC would have simply said "Good one!"

Top would have said, "You asshole."

The BC would have taken that one to the O club.

Top would have taken it to the NCO club.

Neither of those two men would have EVER given me an illegal order.

In fact the BC stuck up for me when I questioned a 2LT giving a rah rah go for the team class on riot control. The 2LT even breathed a word on shooting protesters. I told him that i would shoot him before I fired on Americans.

Yeah. I was a pain in the ass soldier but for some reason I made E-5 in 25 months. 

Fact is it doesn't speak highly of me. It means I was in the right place at the right time.

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A beautiful day

I got to enjoy some of it outside and then opened the windows and did some spring cleaning. I also made slow cooker chili.

The chili is sitting in the fridge and tomorrow it gets put in containers and frozen. 

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War crimes.

Hospitals, public utilities, schools and orphanages are considered off limits so long as they are not used for military purposes.

However people forget the rest of the story. The 'so long as they are not being used for military purposes' part is often forgotten. That instantly changes things.

A power  plant that supplies any electricity to any military facility or unit whatsoever loses their protection and becomes a legitimate target.

Some time ago one of the wire services had an office in a building that was also being used to store ammunition that got bombed. They complained to Israel and in so many words told the wire service to settle it with the landlord because military hardware was being stored there.

Israel bombed a hospital because it was being used for military purposes. 

Currently the left is accusing Trump and Hegseth of war crimes which is a joke.

Two faced Mark Kelly flew air cover for people bombing utilities during Desert Storm so that makes him complacent in war crimes. Maybe we ought to charge him with war crimes and then watch the left stand there agape. Of course it would be a waste of time because some federal judge would likely throw any conviction out. That's probably a big part of the reason Hegseth didn't recall Kelly and courts-martial him. I would imagine the paperwork overturning anything done to him was already filled out and sitting in some judges desk drawer.

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The A-10 Warthog is headed for the dustbin soon

and I would imagine that the Air Force is going to babble incoherently about how the replacement is twice as good and so on and so forth. My guess is the slow moving Warthog is going to be replaced by a fast mover that can't stay on site as long as the old Warthog can.

OTOH maybe drones will replace it. Technology changes incredibly fast these days. It's hard to keep up with.

While the replacement may very well wind up being a good deal, I have my doubts. OTOH I am no expert in the field of close air support.

What interests me is the A-10 has been considered obsolete for a long time now and it seems that every time something pops up the Warthog keeps showing up and tearing up ground targets like it's supposed to. 

It is the prince of close in air support.

I wonder if the Air Force bothered to ask the grunts and ground pounders what they think of it. Probably not but they should have.

Before anyone starts carrying on about the old beast being 70s technology don't forget that the BUFF (B-52) is well over 70 years old and projected to last until at least 2050. 

The M2 Browning is over 100 years old and is still being used. In fact with the WW2 leftover parts and guns we don't even have to order spare parts or new guns.

Sometimes the government screws up and does something right.

Look at the P-38 can opener, for example. The government belted one out of the park when they made that one.

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ONE GUY. One single man.

Say what you will about the war but remember nobody said a damned thing when Biden lost 13 of our guys withdrawing from Afghanistan. Nobody said anything when Clinton lost 18 of our guys in Somalia. Nobody said anything about Obama abandoning our people at Benghazi.

Yet look what Donald Trump did just to save ONE GUY!

ONE SINGLE GUY!

....and Jesus said 'a good Shepherd will leave the 99 to go and look for the one lost. Key word - A good Shepherd!

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I just read where a Swiss butcher got caught selling pork as Halal veal.

Seems he labeled it as veal and got away with it for three years and it is estimated he moved 3.1 tons of it.

He was selling inexpensive pork at veal prices to boot.

Nobody that bought it seemed to know the difference. It was discovered by a sharp-eyed inspector during a routine inspection.

He got six months and a fine. From a financial angle he probably came out on top.

For some reason I think this is hilarious. The irony of it.

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I see where Pete Hegseth bounced about 30 generals

which is no surprise because on Day One he called a meeting of all generals, sat them down in an auditorium and announce he was going to be getting rid of a lot of dead wood in the near future. 

Most likely they won't be replaced. He's said we're top-heavy with generals and he's probably right. I see more getting put out to pasture.

I would bet that of the 30 that have been retires that there is no shortage of Obama and Biden appointees in the ranks. 

One of the things that many generals start to think is that they are indispensable which is a joke. If a planeload of generals crashed it would not really mean a whole lot. It would mean that a bunch of colonels got promoted and things would go back to normal almost immediately.

The problem lies with some with big egos that think they are running the show and their civilian boss isn't really in charge. Guess again.

If an officer can not or will not support the orders given to him then it becomes his duty to resign or retire. Period. There's no room for foot dragging, shirking or malicious compliance. It's a black and white issue.

Another thing is the military is no place for party politics of any party. A promotion to flag rank is not a reward for being a party hack. However, like the federal courts, Obama and Biden appointed any number of federal judges that were supposed to hamstring Trump or other Republicans in case one got elected again. 

They seem to have done the same thing with their appointment of general officers. Obama and Biden appointed a number of generals based on their political views. These most likely are the generals that think they are above SecWars orders. while they may not go toe to toe with him they will undermine him every chance they get.

That leaves Hegseth with no choice but to fire them. I would and so would anyone else that has half of a brain.

One of the things the generals always seem to forget. They forget who they are working for. They are not working with Pete Hegseth. They are working for the Secretary of War.

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Looks like today has the makings of a pretty good day.

It actually was. I spent 5 hours in the Miata booming and zooming the two lane blacktop and just plain losing myself. 

 A Neighbor with a 6 speed ND had offered to let me try his out.

Curiosity intrigues me and I think I will take him up on his kind offer. 

I am not discounting any thing but you have to realize IMO that an NA Miata is as close to perfect for a sports car as an MGB. OTOH the Miata has a defroster that actually works.

Let's look at it this way. If I won the Powerball jackpot my daily driver would be a Dodge '62 half ton stepside pickup with a Slant Six, four speed (manual) transmission, manual choke no radio, heater only basic farm vehicle.  

  

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I see we lost a jet

and both aircrewmen were rescued.

I read we have flown over 13,000 sorties and so far lost six airplanes and no crewmen. Three were casualties of friendly fire on the part of the Kuwaitis. The tanker was involved in a mid air accident with another airplane that got down safely.

The other day we lost an F15E and an A-10 Warthog.

Iran claims they shot both down, we attribute the F15E to engine failure. Pretty much the same hold true for the warthog. No telling.

What is astonishing is that we have suffered so few casualties since the fighting has started. Our guys, from the janitor that sweeps the floor at the airplane factory to the flyboys in the aircraft are really quite amazing.

We can cram more death and destruction in a small jet than we could have in a B-24 and they can strike and get back to base a lot safer.

In 1943 we lost 60 aircraft with another 17 sent to the bone yard along with over 650 aviators on a single mission to bomb a ball bearing plant.

When you put it in that context it's amazing how light our casualties actually are.

Before you jump up and down, a single casualty is a tragedy. I'm just pointing out that casualties are far lower than expected so far. 

             

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Another good morning.

I decided to take my morning coffee at my favorite convenience store and my unindicted co conspirator was there behind the register.

I walked in and said to him "Trump just announced he isn't the least bit interested in the gays of Hormuz. He's only concerned with the Straits of Hormuz."

Everyone within earshot immediately looked confused but most appeared to figure it out immedately and smirked. A couple of people chuckled.

However it was not all in vain because two people went off and the rest of us were treated go a gay rights rant and a semi meltdown by somemone with TDS.

Not bad.

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