Guest opinion.

This came in my email from an old classmate. It's today's post. It's true and it's a shame.

Do Black Lives Matter?
L Todd Wood

L. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U..S. Air Force Academy,

flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, 

Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued

his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street

trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of

his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd is a contributor to

Fox Business, Newsmax TV,Moscow Times, the New YorkPost,

the National Review, Zero Hedge and others. For more

information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.

 

 

 

By L. Todd Wood - - Tuesday, September 26, 2017

 

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

 

I know of no white person alive today in the United States who

has ever legally owned a black slave, or any slave for that matter.

Almost 700,000 mostly white men died 160 years ago to

end slavery. Jim Crow ended generations ago. Yet blackAmerica,

for the most part, is still locked in inner-city gang violence and

economic hardship. Why?

Is it because America is racist? 

Is it because of some overhanging white supremacy? 

Is it because of the Illuminati?

No, unfortunately, it is because of black culture and the

adoption of Democratic Party government dependency. 

We have just had eight years of the first black president. 

Black athletes, and entertainers, routinely earn multi-million 

dollar incomes. I can easily name several black billionaires

without even trying too hard. A large percentage of black

America is very successful. But, it is not enough. Too many

black youth are being left behind.

And it is no one but blackAmerica’s fault. 

No one can solve this problem but black America. 

No one can throw enough money at it.  We’ve tried that. 

Black America needs to look in the mirror and stop blaming

others, especially white people.

I am obviously white and conservative, and I served in the

military, which, during my time, was as color blind as you

could be. I can also honestly say I don’t give a damn what

color your skin is, neither do any of my friends. 

I do care about your actions. 

Blacks are around 15 percent of the population. Depending on

what study you look at, they commit around 40 percent to 50 

percent of violent crime inAmerica. Of course, there is going

to be a problem with police.  And, of course, there are some

bad policemen. However, those bad apples do not kill black

people statistically any more than they kill white people. 

Even Harvard said that recently. If you were a cop, and you 

had to work in a neighborhood infested with crime and murder,

wouldn’t you act differently than in a neighborhood where

there was little crime? The most effective thing black America

could do to improve its relationship with police is to

significantly reduce violent crime where they live. Yes, that

means change the culture of where you live and your community. 

I for one am tired of being blamed. 

I am tired of dealing with people who only want something

from others.  I don’t oppress anyone.  I don’t hold anyone down. 

I’m tired of getting on the D.C. metro and seeing white people

being harassed by roaming gangs of black youth with their

pants around their knees.  Yes, you want a white person

uncomfortable?  That makes me uncomfortable. 

It’s our nation’s capital and it’s embarrassing. 

Blacks have nothing but opportunity in America. 

Try finding the same opportunity anywhere else in the world. 

If you are born in Americayou’ve won life’s economic lottery. 

Take advantage of it. 

The problem is this generation has been taught an agenda of

cultural Marxism by our education system.  They’ve been taught

to be a victim, and it’s still going on.  All you have to do is watch

the young black, female student at Yale screaming at the

college president to understand that.  Blacks in America don’t 

even know how good they got it.

Don’t kneel when my anthem is played. 

Too many people died for that flag. 

You are free to protest but not then.  I am free to not watch,

or pay to watch you play if you do that.  The NFL should make

it a rule that you stand for the national anthem.  There is no

free speech to disobey a private employer on private property. 

This would solve the problem immediately.

The NFL has deeply offended most of America. 

They will pay an economic and reputational price, as they should.

We have a real cultural problem in this country, the result

of the Leftist multicultural agenda.  Multi-ethnicity is perfect

and should be encouraged.  Having more than one American

culture is destroying the country.  But then again, that is

what the Left wants.

 

Do Black Lives Matter

It is your job to determine if this is a racist rant or just

a review of factual data...

 

WHAT IF ALL THE BLACKS SUDDENLY LEFT AMERICA,
WHICH IS 13.3% OF THE TOTAL U.S.POPULATION:

Amount of people in poverty would drop - 34%
The prison population would go down by -37%
Welfare recipients would go down by - - - 42%
Gang members would go down by - - - - - 53%
Chlamydia cases would go down - - - - - - 54%
Homelessness would go down - - - - - - - -57%
Syphilis would go down  - - - - - - - - - - - - 58%
AIDS & HIV would go down by - - - - - - - -65%
Gonorrhea would go down - - - - - - - - - - -69%
Average ACT scores would go UP - - - - - 5.5 points
Average IQ would go UP - - - - - - - - - - - -7.4 points,
putting us 3rd in the world tied with Japan,

Average SAT scores would go UP almost - - - - -100 points,

The average income for Americans would go UP over $20,000 a year,

 

BUT DEMOCRATS WOULD LOSE 76% OF THEIR VOTING BASE!!!

And, many criminal defense attorneys would have to find

another line of work!

 

Yes, Black lives DO matter!

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Busy day

Sorry about that


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I see where some 'noted authority' claims

you are supposed to get consent before you change an infant's diapers.

What bull$hit!

How are you going to get the OK from a three day old infant?

This sounds like a back door entry to normalize some kind of pedophelia to me. The upcoming claim is that if infants have the right to give consent to have their diapers changed then they can surely consent to other things. 

This kind of stupidity is getting pretty damned stale fast.

Infants are infants. In fact they can't even talk for several months after birth. I suppose they are supposed to give their consent using American Sign Language, huh?



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I just saw where a bunch of Garands are coming back from

the Philippines.

It will be interesting to see what kind of shape they come back in.

The Danish returns we returned in excellent condition, the Greek returns were pretty sad. However, I did get a Greek return and it was rebarreled and restocked and served me well for several Garand matches until someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse and I sold it.

The condition the Garands get returned in says a lot about the culture of the people that borrowed them.






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On red meat, smoking and drinking.

and other bull$hit.

I get tired of people with an agenda playing games and treating me like I'm stupid. It only makes THEM look stupid.

I always like the guy that has a ladder break under him or gets hit on the head with a bolt that fell off of the Space Shuttle or something.

Pow! He's knocked silly or busted up and you just KNOW that some one of these agenda people is going to try and tell him that it would not have happened if he hadn't smoked/eaten red meat/drank/whatever.

"My friend Irma doesn't eat red meat and she's never had a ladder break while she was climbing it!"

Of course, Irma weighs in at 450 pounds and knows that if she even LOOKS at a ladder she's going to snap it clean in two so she stays the hell away from them.

"Bob doesn't smoke and he's never had a piece of the Space Shuttle hit him on the head! If Joe hadn't been a smoker he's have never been hit on the head with a Space Shuttle part!"

Well, no $hit!

I get damned tired of people like that.




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One of the things that happens to a sailor at sea is

that his sleep schedule changes. This holds especially true when one is working the 12 to 6 watch.

Deep sea is somewhat different, they work a 4 on, 8 off watch system. Coastwise tug and barge is different in that they run a 6 on, 6 off watch system.

Still, it is hard on one's system and takes some serious getting used to.

You might think of that before you decide to make a career at sea.


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Someone asked me something dumb today and I told him that

I was going to reply with my stock answer for just about everything.

He asked what that answer was and I replied, "The one with the biggest tits."

"How is that going to let me know when you will be available to help me out?" he asked, reeking of confusion.

"It probably isn't going to do you any good," I replied. "But that's my answer and I'm sticking to it."

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The first time I ever gave that answer was in about 1979 sometime when I was working on a gypsy construction job.

The general contractor's kid was working there part time and for some reason liked to hang out with three of us that ate lunch together and occasionally went out for a beer after work.

The kid was still in high school and asked the three of us which girl to take to the prom as there were a couple of them pressuring him.

I told him to take the one with the biggest tits and my friend, nicknamed Filthy Herman told him to take someone else and leave the three girls high and dry.

Filthy Herman didn't get his nickname for no reason. He fixed the kid up with a 26 year old stripper he knew and to our surprise the kid took her to the prom.

Much to the young man's credit, he never ratted us out for putting him up to it when his father found out who he had taken to the prom.



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I see where the Boy Scouts just went down the crapper

It's a disgrace.

Truth is they should have held fast in the beginning and taken the heat over the gay leaders business.

Instead they sold out their integrity.

Truth is they got what they deserved in the long run. However, the young people have just been cheated out of a wonderful organization that helped a lot of boys grow into being men.

The organization started to fall when it was attacked by a legal team supported by the LGBTQ community over gay rights. 

What irks me to no end is that this never should have come up to begin with. The organization was named the BOY Scouts for a reason.

Anyway, the real reason it was taken down is because they stood for Old School genuine American values and the powers that took it down are trying to destroy those values. Truth is it goes deeper than the LGBTQ business, a lot deeper. 






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I just read about a number of complaints at the U of FL commencement

Seems that some of the graduates are upset because they got dragged off of the stage for dragging their feet while they went up to get their diplomas.

I can't blame the University people for dragging them through if they were shuffling their way to pick up their diplomas. I would have done worse. I would have simply shoved them off of the stage but that is just me.

There were 1200 students getting their diplomas. It is a long, slow uncomfortable process. When I went through my high school graduation it took me forever and a day and that was only for 200 graduating students if that.

We went through at a good clip and got it done as fast as we could but it still took a while. I hated it and wished I could have had the school mail it to me but my parents made me go through with it. It was a pain in the ass.

It was bad enough with 200 students and I have a hard time imagining 1200 students having to get their diplomas and listen to a bunch of old windbags spout off. 

Anyone that wasn't blind or crippled that dragged their feet and slowed things down for everyone else should have just plain been shoved off of the stage, period.

The people that did this are not alone. They belong to the group that believes the world revolves around them and that it's OK to wait until they get to the head of the line to make up their mind what they want. We see a lot of this type at Starbucks and fast food lines. They hold up an already long line because they have not made up their mind before they reach the head of the line after a long wait and plenty of time to figure out what they want. 

Sending a foot dragger hurtling through space to land on the floor in front of the stage should be considered the final lesson the school teacher. It should be listed as part of the curriculum, possibly labeled as Graduation Flying Lesson 101 or something.

If the school sends them hurtling through space ending with a fifteen foot or so drop to the main deck they will likely learn not to slow everyone up.



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We ought to give Puerto Rico back to Spain

I just heard the governor of Puerto Rico babbling that the GOP sucks because they didn't do anything for them after the hurricane Maria hit.

Horse puckey!

We had ships arriving before the seas even settled down. Of course, the local longshoremen decided to take advantage of the situation and use it to negotiate a higher wage. 

Then there was the case of some of the politicos sitting on the relief supplies for some kind of mysterious reason. Could they have been selling or bartering these supplies? Could there be corruption in the governor's or mayor's offices? Really? You don't say!

I was personally in contact with a couple of people involved in the relief effort and both told me that the feds were getting the stuff in there faster than they did in Louisiana and Texas after their flooding which is quite a logistic feat.

Yet the Governor of Puerto Rico badmouths the GOP?

The truth of it is what good have the Puerto Ricans done the rest of us in the States? They have been nothing more or less than another worthless expense to the United States and don't seem to me to that they produce anything.

It also appears to me that a lot of the people they export to the states don't even bother to learn English which they should actually be speaking in Puerto Rico now. After all, we've owned the worthless little dependent island since 1898.

In short, we do just about everything that matters for Puerto Rico and they don't even pay federal income taxes.

The governor has a lot of balls griping about what we have or have not done for them since Maria. The truth is they don't even pay into the system. They have a lot of gall criticizing a system that has given them quite a lot even though they don't pay into it.

In short, Puerto Rico is complaining about a free lunch.





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count 'em up and divide by two

Here's a small portion of the shoes collected at Auschwitz. Count them up and divide by two and each pair represents a human being that was murdered by a government gone bad. 

Say what you will, but this is yet one more reason the Founding Fathers gave us a Second Amendment and one more reason to leave the Second  Amendment alone.                              

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Again, someone tried to play the Holocaust card on me.

As most of you know, every single genocide in the 20th century was preceded by civilian disarmament, AKA Gun Control.

I have used the Holocaust as an excellent example of government gone bad and a genocide following civilian disarmament.

What occasionally follows is when I use the Holocaust as an example someone jumps up and gives me lip about it because some distant relative died in a concentration camp.

Generally speaking, most people that had a relative murdered in a concentration camp then they understand the reference. SOme will occasionally give me a "Hey, I had a relative that died in a concentration camp..."

Yeah? So? It doesn't make you special. I'm not going to let you get away with something because you say you are related to a Holocaust victim.

How I treat people like that depends on how they are playing this. If they are playing some kind of victim card or acting offended I take an interesting tack on it.

"I lost an Uncle at Auschwitz," I will say.

"They threw my mother's 4th cousin twice removed into the gas chambers," is a  typical answer. They think that hiding behind the Holocaust gives them a safe place to hide. I don't play that game. It's just like a woman turning on the water works. I don't fall for that, either.

"My Uncle Fritz was machine gunning some people trying to escape when the gun mount broke and the recoil threw him out of the guard tower and he fell and broke his neck." 

I can say this SO seriously and with a sensitivity that Phil Donahue would be proud of. It generally takes several seconds for it to sink in and when it does the look of pure horror it creates is a real sight to behold.

They don't know if I am being serious or not and either way it just leaves them horrified.





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I have threatened to retire and write a book and expose the entire

maritime industry.

I threatened to do that when I was in the army and a colonel that was within earshot looked at me with a big grin and told me I'd get over it.

He then went on to explain that he had threatened to do the same damned thing when he was a lieutenant but changed his mind as he made captain.

He was a pretty good officer and I respected him for displaying a sense of humor. Most officers would have chewed me out and made fools of themselves pompously defending the dopier side of the Army.

As for threatening to expose the maritime industry, everyone I have met that is in it all give me the same answer.

"Do it!" they say.


Later on I met that same colonel again and I said that I'd bet that I knew which day was the worst in his career.

He looked at me and asked what day that was.

I told him "It was the day the bastards took your company away from you, Sir."

He said he believed I was right. That was a dark day for him.Almost every officer I have asked over the years considered that the high point of their career was being a company commander.




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Busy

Busy.

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Teachers

I couple of years ago I had a teacher try and tell me how they were so underpaid.

Of course I told them to find another job that paid better if they didn't like it and for a second they looked at me like I had three heads.

I suggested they go to sea like I do and it would probably mean they made a little more money. He really went off on me and carried on about how it was unfair that I made more than he did without a degree.

I suggested he get his seaman's papers and come on out and join me. He didn't like that. Apparently he wanted to have his cake and eat it.

I get paid what I get paid not because it requires a degree or even a lot of training. I get paid for the inconvenience of leaving home for weeks at a time coupled with the intrinsic danger of the job.

Does that trump a degree?

Apparently in this case it does because I make more than most teachers. It also does in many construction fields that work in remote areas. One can get paid a tidy sum for being inconvenienced. It galls them, too but the truth is that teachers make what they do because that's what they are worth. Someone offers that much and the teacher accepts that much. Both parties deem that to be what it's worth otherwise the job would go unfilled. 

Teachers generally go home every night and that's something that they fail to take into consideration when they look at non college degree careers that are well paid. 

In my world the same holds true.

A shipping company offers so much per day and if someone qualified accepts the job then that's what the job is worth.

As for the guy that I started this epistle about, he was livid when I suggested he pack a seabag and come out here and do a days work at sea and get a seaman's day's pay. He said it wasn't worth it to him to go to sea.

"But it's worth it to go to the classroom every day for a lot less," I replied.

"No it's not!" he snapped back.

"Sure it is," I replied. "If it wasn't worth it you wouldn't go in to the classroom."

Much hemming and hawing followed. 

Then I decided to watch his head explode. I pointed out that the guy that teaches one of the trades locally only had a GED...he never finished high school and only got  his GED so he could teach in one of the trade schools.

Much to the credit of the trade school teacher, an awful lot of his students are snapped up my employers long before they finish his course. Most public educators can't say that.

What is interesting is the trade school teacher had spent 4 years in the Army and had made sergeant. Most educators don't understand this but sergeants are not only grass roots leaders but grass toots teachers.

I told Mr. Public school teacher that the best teachers I ever studied under all had the same first name. It was 'Sergeant'. I got the usual answer one gets from someone that's losing.

"Oh, well. That's different."

No, it isn't different. Teaching is teaching. It is getting something  useful into someone else's head.


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Piccolo on gun control.

Amendment 2 was enacted to give the people the tools to resist a tyrannical government. Got it? We have the natural right (some say a duty) to throw out a government that gets too tyrannical.

Of course, as we not see the government is starting to get a little overbearing as evidenced by recent gun laws enacted in various places.

The truth is the Founding Fathers believed in liberty. For years Americans roared like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for safety. In actuality these days they deserve neither liberty or safety.

Liberty is a bitch. For on thing it entails permitting anyone that wants one access to firearms.

Anybody?

Yeah, anybody that isn't in jail or seriously mentally ill. If they are not in jail they deserve to have their rights like everyone else. If there is a reason they can't have their rights they should not have been released from jail.

Back in the day the Territorial prison would return a man his guns after he sentence was served.

I seriously believe that if we went back to the way it was before FDR enacted the NFA that the number  non gang related gun deaths would drop. Suicides and gang violence would probably stay the same.

One thing that would probably happen is the government would be a lot slower to chip at our individual liberties.


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It is ethically inappropriate for the government

and medical organizations to describe breast feeding as 'natural' because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study.

Yeah, right.

My man boobs are quite small and very dry. I can't feed a fly with both of them put together. However, a young lady that has a pair not much bigger than mine seems to do a pretty adequate job of feeding her child.

This is politically correct nonsense that I am getting pretty sick and tired of.

You can't fool Mother Nature. Men are not capable of breast feeding babies without some serious replumbing and I am not even sure they can do that these days. I understand that almost all boob jobs are for appearance's sake and not to get the breasts to produce milk. In the case of a man transgendering to a woman I doubt the new woman is going to have functioning breasts.

Truth is that to a woman that has just given birth, breast feeding IS a natural thing. It is the way the woman was created in the first place and the real reason God gave women breasts. 



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I stayed out of it but it was damned hard doing so.

One of the tools I work with is a handy-talkie radio.

Being a radio you can't see who you are talking to. Years ago an advertising campaign for radio advertising sang "You don't hafta look at pitchers (pictures) on the ra-a-a-dio!"

So someone realized that the radio could give him a bit of anonymity, keyed the mic and said, "This place sucks!"

Some suit heard it, keyed in and demanded to know "Who said that?"

For the first time in decades I did NOT lower my voice several decades and croak "He did!"

Someone took up my slack and said "He did!" and the usual stupidity took off like a shot. Guys were blaming people that were not at work (giving them an alibi) and generally carrying on.

Why suits take the bait is beyond me. They just make fools of themselves. Actually they provide the workers with much needed entertainment when you think of it.

There are guys that come to work in suits that are not suits. They are guys that are one of the guys.

The guys commonly referred to as suits are those sad bastards that no matter what will never be one of the guys and are horribly resentful about it. When they walk in to an area the temperature drops about thirty degrees.

However, these people more often than not provide hours of entertainment for the rank and file. It seldom makes up for the misery they cause but it actually is funny.

Later when I saw my shoreside peer face to face he asked why I didn't jump in and say "He did." He said he waited a few seconds before he jumped in and teased me about having to let him take up my slack.

Truth is I do not know why I kept out of it. I must be getting old or something.



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The next few days are going to be pretty busy

Any writing will be catch as catch can.



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One of the things I think I will go over when I find time is the

county sheriff system which in a lot of places needs a complete overhaul.

It's too prone to both political crap and outright corruption.



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We're still back to hippie stuff

I mentioned recently that a 45/70 is an adequate rifle for bear country. There are better but the old 45/70 seems OK even in this day and age.

I was mentioning that to a friend and some hippie type explained to me like I was a backward child that the proper thing to do in bear country is wear a bell and carry pepper spray.

I explained to him the difference brown bear and black bear scat.

Black bear scat has small bones, hair othernon digestibles in it.

Brown bear scat contains bells and smells like pepper spray.

Hippie was not amused.

My friend was.


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We always go back to our training and instinct.

Last summer I was home in the old neighborhood. The street I grew up on is still pretty sleepy.It gives me the opportunity to ghost down the hill slowly in neutral.

Nature called while I was daydreaming about a long ago fought neighborhood apple fight and what happened is interesting as I was preoccupied at the time looking at the old neighborhood.

For the period of a couple of seconds I took a mental inventory of what I had. There were paper towels that could double for bathroom tissue, a folded up e-tool behind the seat of my pickup, there was a decent thicket on the side of the fire road...HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! You are not 11 years old anymore! They throw people in jail for that kind of thing these days!

I made a fast mental search nd inside a very few minutes I found a public facility and took care of business. No big deal.

Still, I was amazed with how I can fall into training and instinct that is well over fifty years old.

Then again back in the day a 10-12 year old kid wasn't going to let something like the call of nature take him from something like a war game or and apple fight.











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I had to met someone at a hotel yesterday

When I approached the front desk the young woman there asked me if I had reservations.

"Just beastiality," I replied. She looked confused.

The older woman in the next station started immediately.

After a few seconds the younger woman turned beet red.

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Someone emailed me and told me

that I was the only person in the world that would try and get a duffel bag full of dirty wash laundered at a whorehouse in Nevada.

Maybe, maybe not.

A part of my success is I try to look at ALL the possible assets available. 

Whorehouses go through a lot of sheets and they have to be laundered somewhere. Having a couple of in-house washers and dryers makes sense when you think about it.

It's probably cheaper to have an in-house system than hire a laundry service. Whorehouses are in the business of making money and the   less you spend the more you have.


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Whores use a lot of sheets.

I just remembered the forgotten part of one of the Las Vegas trips my friend and I pulled in the early 80s.

On the way back to Fisherman's Terminal we pulled into an Elko whorehouse for a couple of drinks and as we entered I got a bright idea.

"Let's see if we can get these people to do our wash," I said. "We can sit in the bar and have a couple of drinks while we get the wash done."

"There's a laundromat in Elko," replied my friend. "It's kinda gross, but we used it once before. What makes you think a whorehouse is going to have laundry facilities?"

"Whores use lots and lots of sheets," I said.

"Good point," he said. "Let's ask."

We entered, sat down at the bar and talked to the bartender and asked about having our wash done while we ate and had a couple of drinks.

The bartender sent someone over to us, a guy. He asked me what I wanted and I told him I wanted to have some wash done while we ate. I said I figured they had washing machines to wash the sheets that got used there. 

"I'll get back with you in a minute," he said. He was gone for about that and when he returned he asked "What do you have? A duffel  and a sleeping bag each?"

I nodded and he turned to the bartender. "Anything for a buck.Take twenty five bucks from these guys for their laundry."

We hauled our wash into the bar and someone immediately took it and it disappeared.

A little over an hour later we were back on the road with a duffel bag each of fresh, neatly folded laundry and clean sleeping bags. If I recall the total price of laundry, lunch and a couple beers was around fifty bucks.

Not bad.





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One of the biggest mistakes the United States ever made was universal suffrage.

First of all you ought to be alive.
Secondly you should be a citizen
Next you should be registered
You should provide an ID
And you can only vote ONCE.

Those are the basics.

There really is more than that, though.

A voter should have some kind of skin in the game. They should be legitimate taxpayers.

It's really not too fair for someone sitting on their ass loafing and collecting every government freebie out there to be allowed to vote themselves more and more out of the treasury that collects from the treasury that is provided by people that go to work every day.

The requirements to vote should include paying taxes, being self-supporting and a contributing member of the country.

It's as simple as that.
  


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The couch.

is always open to all of my guests if needed.

I have let thrown a blanket and a pillow at a number of my guests because I won't let them drive after a few drinks. It's best to just sack out and get some sleep and be sober when you go home.

The current policies regarding DUI are nowhere near like what they were back in the day when it was a regular ritual of passage. 

Back when I was in my twenties and early thirties one truly had to work damned hard to get taken up for drunk driving. The old joke about the cop holding your beer while you got your license out has more than a kernel of truth to it. Truth is , often times they would let you park your car and give you a ride home.

I won't argue if the newer policies are better or worse, I'm simply telling it like it is now.

If you are a host that serves more than one or two beers you really ought to encourage your guests to sack out for a few hours to insure they get home safely.

If you have kids you kind of owe it to them because the other kids at school can be pretty malicious when they hear a classmate's dad or mom got taken up on a DUI.

This is one of the very, very few times I'll say do it for the children. 


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New neighbor coming

and hopefully not a jerk but I am very wary. This is a very scary time.

It will be entirely up to them how they get treated by me. It will be a case of best friend or worst enemy and their choice. It really IS that simple.

The problem lies that I have been an outlaw of sorts since Day One here and have been accepted because the locals here know the difference between an outlaw and a criminal. It's been about 25 years and it's been a good run.

I explained to someone last night that I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the laws enacted by our elected officials. If I decide I want to make whisky in my backyard or basement I will and it is as simple as that. I won't sell it and it will be for personal consumption as I don't want to accept the responsibility for what others do with it. Still, if I feel like it I'll make it.

One of the other things I do for the most part is ignore speed limit signs. I let the neighborhood dictate my speed. If it is a dense residential neighborhood I will drive slowly and keep and eye peeled for people, especially kids. It's because I don't want to inflict injury on anyone.

As far as drugs go, I don't use them because I don't want to use them. There are a number of reasons I can give for this. None of which are the usual addiction/health issues/do-good stuff.

My employer conducts drug tests. It's their company and their rules. If I want to continue employment I play by their rules. (Why they drug test is a separate argument. I'm not going to get into that.) 

That's a big reason. I suppose I could find another line of work if I wanted to but I like what I do.

The BIG reason I have not gotten into the drug world is actually from observations that go as far back as high school.

I noticed that most of the users seem to have a lot more headaches than non users. They always seem to be broke. They have legal troubles and are always seeming to be victimized one way or another. Beatings, rip-offs and this sort of thing seem to occur to druggies at a pretty big rate. Their entire life centers around drugs. Because of the legal status of drugs they really have no recourse. Try reporting that someone stole an 8-ball of coke from you. Tell me what happened because I can always use a good laugh.

I simply didn't want to live that way. I still don't.

Actually I consider the entire war on drugs to be a colossal waste of time and money. My nature says that that kind of behavior, as stupid as it is, should not be criminalized. A person has a right to be stupid if they so desire so long as they keep it to themselves.

While I really don't have much of an arsenal anymore because I sold my scary stuff for a hellacious profit after Sandy Hook, I do own a couple of firearms, mainly target guns. I enjoy shooting an occasional competitive match.

The arms I do have are for a number of purposes. Like I said, I enjoy the use of firearms for sport. I do keep a couple for defensive purposes. I have the right to self-defense against a number of dangers and truly believe it is the duty of the individual to defend himself, his family, neighborhood, town, county,state and nation against any danger, be it criminal, natural or tyrannical.

In short I have nothing whatsoever with any citizen in good standing owning and maintaining the basic infantryman's load of a rifle and ammunition. A citizen between the ages of 18 and 65 should be able to buckle on his rig, grab his rifle and go off to take care of his/her lawful defensive business. 

It is interesting to note the number of lootings and thefts in New York and New Jersey  after Hurricane Sandy a few years ago. A handful of well placed shots or a pitched grenade or two would have brought that kind of behavior to a complete halt rather quickly.

Incidentally if you are a DA trying to secure a conviction on a simple outlawed firearms case you might think twice about putting me on the jury. That goes for an awful lot of other stupid so-called crimes. A couple of dumb college kids pooling their money to buy a bag of weed does NOT constitute organized crime. In fact I don't consider that to be much of a crime at all.The fact that a case like that is even IN a court of law wasting people's time and money is a bad joke.

The entire country would be a whole lot better off if we would simply take care of ourselves and our immediate neighbors.



Yet we have a lot of people that want to tell others what to do and how to act. I am presently praying that my new neighbors are not in that category.

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Something to calm me down.

The deer are in the yard again and they are fifteen feet from me through the window.





















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I am a libertarian by nature, anyway.

I said that to someone and told them that in addition to that I am an outlaw.

Most people can't really differentiate between an outlaw and a criminal. I am an outlaw. I am NOT  criminal.

To be a criminal one has to have a victim.






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I get my pickup back today

The Toyota Motor company replaced the frame free and fer nothin'.

I got to sneak a couple peeks during the process and they replaced a LOT more than the frame.

The mechanic says the body etc is in excellent shape so I figure I'm good for another 125,000 miles.

Update later on


UPDATE.

The old ride is back to being 100%.

Toyota put an entire new frame  on the pickup and gave it a new lease on life. I figure that after all was said and done they put maybe $15,000 into a truck that sells for about $4500.

Why, I don't know but because they stand by their products I would buy another one.  


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Gunny Ermey passed the other day.

I used to shoot with him at Camp Perry and he was one of the most entertaining people to shoot there.

I have one of his challenge coins and treasure it. It hangs on my wall next to a picture of the two of us that was taken at Perry.

The Gunny will be missed by anyone that ever wore a uniform.


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Morning

It looks like the deer like to nap in thee wayback as for the past few days I have spotted them. The herd is now running between four and six depending on whatever. They are still in winter coat but that's changing.

I owe some correspondence and hope to get to it soon.

I am wondering which T-shirt to wear today. 

Maybe I'll just wear one at random but keep an offensive one handy in case I need a trip to the convenience store that's next to the local college. That sounds like a plan.

I actually had one of the clerks tell me that she loves to see me come in and stir up things with the college kids. She's a real Trump supporter that's a retired nurse and is working there to keep busy.

I see her point of view. She worked for decades and knows what the college kids are going to find out in a decade or so.



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I had a nice chat with and older black woman the other morning.

She was a social worker doing what I was. We were getting our cars fixed an waiting for the work to be done.

She saw my Camp Perry T-shirt and asked me if I was a gun owner. I told her I was and she mentioned her sister and brother in law shoot fairly regularly and she is thinking of getting a firearm for personal protection. I suggested a simple revolver as she didn't seem to be a 'gun person'.

We talked a bit and I laughed and said, "Look at us all," looking at the crowd in the waiting room. "We're all waiting here for our cars to get fixed and we all get along. Now all we need is a government person or some Social Justice Warrior to come in and explain to us how different we are from each other."

She looked stunned for a second, looked down thoughtfully and when she looked up she said, "You're absolutely right."




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We have come full circle with the way cops are treated.

In the 60s it was "Off the Pigs!" and cops became the target. Things settled down a bit in the 80s.

Half a century later it's "Kill the cops." It's come full circle.

The other day I posted on another board that anyone that wanted to be a cop in this day and age ought to have their head examined first because something may very well be wrong with them.

It was one thing a few years back when a cop could just be a cop, but not in this day and age.

The inner city mentality strikes again and politicians pander to it for votes. First they gripe about cops beating criminals up and demanding they stay out of the neighborhood.

The cops stay clear, crime goes up and the neighborhood whines there is no law enforcement.

Before I became a policeman in this day and age I would fly to Aubagne, France and join the Foreign Legion. 

Besides being a little safer it is likely a lot less frustrating and confusing



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Yesterday I made a a peach cobbler in the Dutch oven

It came out OK but it was a cold oven. 

I have to learn to get the heat up a little higher to speed things up a bit.

Maybe before I try baking a cheesecake I might try and roast a chicken.

We'll see



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It doesn't take a whole lot to see what is going on

and in which direction we are headed.

Open your eyes and look at Europe and Venezuela and you'll figure it out.


LLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Last night I was dealing with a kid in his twenties.

His eyes opened really wide when I told him that at my age a life sentence really doesn't mean a hell of a lot.

Just a little something for Social Justice Warriors to think about.








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I do not know where to begin

therefore I do not know where this post is going to end.

It is just an open keyboard and will stay open until I fill out this post. I have much to do today. I did get a pretty good shave from the thrice (now 4) times used Russian made razor blade. I have said before that maybe they made the blade out of Red October's sister ship. Who knows?

Yesterday I made corn bread in the Dutch oven and if came out OK. A small spot on the bottom burned a bit but all in all not bad considering it was the first time I have used one in over 40 years.

When the corn bread is gone I'll try brownies as another step toward making a Dutch oven cheesecake.

Today's breakfast sucked. It was a Foreign Legion breakfast consisting of a large cup of coffee and a chunk of bread. Lunch will be the big meal of the day, probably a chicken and rice and a piece of yesterday's cornbread.












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As usual we are doing it all wrong.

I am sick and tired of paying other people's bills.

We always wind up working our way down to the lowest level out there.

If stupid people wouldn't shoot places up we would not have liberals screaming for gun control. If people were responsible we would not need safety stickers on things.

The raw deal we always seem to wind up with is that everything gets dumbed down and the responsible guy always winds up paying for the stupidity, greed or laziness of the irresponsible jerk.

Because someone in California decided to trim his hedges by lifting up his lawn mower and getting himself hacked up in the process I wind up having to have an automatic shut-off installed in my lawn mower.

It gets old and I am sick and tired of having to pay for other people's stupidity.





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Before you insult Melania Trump you might do a little thinking..

If YOUR wife doesn't speak several languages and YOU badmouth Melania Trump then YOU look pretty stupid

If YOUR wife isn't a supermodel that made $50 million bucks on her and YOU badmouth Melania Trump then YOU look pretty stupid

If YOUR wife can't show grace under fire and YOU badmouth Melania Trump then YOU look pretty stupid

If YOUR wife is morbidly obese and YOU badmouth Melania Trump then YOU look pretty stupid.

If YOUR wife works in a minimum wage job and YOU badmouth Melania Trump then YOU look pretty stupid.

If your wife doesn't speak English very well and YOU badmouth Melania Trump then YOU look pretty stupid.

Make sure you are married to a very rich supermodel that speaks several languages and made herself 50 million bucks before you insult her or you are going to look pretty damned stupid.



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I had kind of a rough sleep last night which is odd

I woke up in the middle of the night and didn't drop back off for a while.

Anyway, when I got up I shaved, a Voskhod blade was in the old Gillette Trak (pre WW2 razor) and got a pretty good shave considering it was the third shave off of that blade. 

I wonder if the Russians make their razor blades out of old navy ships like we do here in the States.

Maybe I got a blade made out of Red October's sister ship.

If any of you readers can get in touch with Vladmir Putin why don't you ask him what they make razor blades out of.

They are not the sharpest blades out there but they are pretty sharp and, like a lot of Russian goods, are quite durable.  



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4/7/2018

Another day, another project.

The pump room gets cleaned out or partially, anyway.

I swept it, pressure washed the walls and floors and when it dries it gets a re sweep as the pressure washing pulled up a lot of dug in stuff.



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The well casing caved in a few years back

Before the days of city water people had wells.

When we moved in we had city water but the well and the pump were still installed. It worked and supplied water if I wanted to use it. I occasionally used it for washing cars and such. My project for the day is to yank it and haul it off.

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Noon update.

What a dirty Herculean mess that was!

 It is a woeful tale of dirt, grease, and a couple of worn out and busted Sawzall blades.

The tank came out in a few minutes. The electric motor came off easily enough. The gearbox was a small slug fest but the actual pump itself was a horror show of laying on my side with a Sawzall cutting through a pipe.

Before I tackled that I removed the now unused wires leading to the breaker sub-panel  (which I yanked first)

I hate unused wires being left anywhere. If it isn't any good then get rid of it.

Cutting the pipe would have been easy enough but the pump piston was in it so I had to chew through the entire mess. It was no fun.

The pump itself was connected to maybe 100 feet of pipe and finally it let go and fell into the casing with a loud, very satisfying noise that was pleasing to the ear as it rattled down the casing taking the piston down with it.

Right now I am cooking lunch/dinner. I'll have the leftovers tonight.

After noon chow I will go down and cap the casing off and take care of the leftover wire that is hot. I'll use the hot wire to mount a light on the overhead of the pump nook. In addition to saving me having to trace the damned thing I'll get a useful light out of it.

A visitor dropped by and asked me where I learned to do all of this stuff and I told her that I helped cap blowouts for Red Adair.

Actually it is simple. I'll put a piece of plate steel over the casing head and be done with it.

After I cap it off I think I'll drop in on Ginger Rogers and have a drink with her seeing how Red Adair is dead and gone.

Come to think of it maybe I won't.

Ginger Rogers is dead and gone, too.

Oh, well.....











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Home from the sea.

to an immaculate home.

Someone busted  their ass and really did one hell of a job  cleaning the old place up.

I was shocked at first because a lot of things were moved around but I will either  rearrange or get used to things.

All in all  it is a wonderfully clean place to come home  to.


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I answered a poll

Should authorities be allowed to remove all guns and weapons of people deemed as potentially posing a threat to others?

Yes
No.

The way that one was written I gave it a loud and clear NO because it is far too vague.

First of all who are the authorities and how do they deem who is a threat to others?

The poll as written leaves far too many unanswered questions and either it is a clear poll with clear definitions it Piccolo gives it a NO.

There are too many problems with something like that. 

Who are the so-called authorities? If we are looking at some fourth grade educated inbred yay-hoot hillbilly tin horn sheriff with a dime store badge that got the job because the mayor owed his daddy a favor then no way in hell.

Same holds for a judge that was put on the bench by someone as a political favor that has alliances to someone with a political agenda.

Incidentally finding fair and reasonable judges these days is getting harder and harder because judges have seemed to have gotten themselves into politics which is wrong.

A lot of politicians have weaponized judges along with law enforcement to do their dirty work for them. Both sides are probably guilty of this.

Would I accept the word of a competent lawman with street experience? Yeah, probably.

Still, the accused deserves to have things checked out and gone over so he can get his rights reinstated if the initial assessment was wrong.

The question the poll asked was too vague, far too vague for me to support.







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I am at a major crossroads now and

I think that it would be nice to simply sell everything, retire and either live on the road in a pup tent or buy a small sailboat and live in a marina somewhere.

I suppose option three would be to buy a Royal Enfield with a sidecar and just travel the backroads of America.

This house business is seriously getting on my nerves.



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Well, well, well. What have we here?

One of these days I will probably retire and do old man things.

We will see how that one goes.

I just found a pretty interesting website of Medal of Honor winners and it's interesting how many of them are around.

http://www.cmohs.org/
http://www.cmohs.org/





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Mr. David Hogg

How does it feel knowing that in a short time that all of the excitement is going to die down and in a few months nobody is going to remember who you were.

On top of that even with your bullying you didn't get into the college you wanted.

What you need, Mr. Hogg is a good old fashioned spanking. Someone ought to jerk your skinny little ass off your feet, take you over their knee, pull your pants down and spank you until your ass cheeks turn red in front of God and everybody.

That would be one video that would go totally viral





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