Year: 2021

  • Correct me if I’m wrong

    Correct me if I’m wrong

    Looking at that picture

    President Trump was spot on Accurte

    about your Rights of Gun ownership

    Let’s look at government

    Am I right?

  • Suez Canal – Ever Given

    Suez Canal – Ever Given

    We’ve all read the recent reports on the container ship, Ever Given wedged in the Suez Canal, as a result of high winds (maybe) that knocked it off course and caused the ship to run aground in shifting sands. Recent excerpts from various publications:

    Releasing Container Ship From Suez Canal Could Capsize It

    While the global shipping industry bleeds $400 million each hour the massive Ever Given container ship stays stuck in the sand of the Suez Canal, an elite team of salvors on the ground in Egypt is facing an entirely different problem: How do you make a top-heavy ship stuck in shifting sands weigh less without capsizing it?

    Those sags could lead to the ship splitting in two, spilling the fuel and cargo—which includes COVID-19 supplies like respirators and personal protection equipment made in China en route to Europe—into the canal, making it temporarily impassable. “The risk is that it could also become top heavy and capsize,” Captain John Konrad, founder and CEO of gCaptain shipping industry website, said. “And that would be catastrophic.”

    But before anyone can even think of lightening the massive vessel, which is 1,312 feet long and 194 feet wide with 50 feet of the ship below the water, they need to download the schematics of the ship and run them through a series of computer-generated programs to determine what offloading will do to the balance. Then they would have to somehow get a maritime crane to Egypt since the country does not own one tall enough to reach the top of the Ever Given’s 20,000 containers to even begin unloading them.

    The information used to determine how to lighten the 200,000 metric-ton ship enough to nudge it out of the sand, which buries the vessel a little more with each passing tide, will largely be based on the ship’s own records—assuming they are correct and were not fudged to pass what the Maritime Anti Corruption Network once called the most corrupt port system in the world.

    Those sags could lead to the ship splitting in two, spilling the fuel and cargo—which includes COVID-19 supplies like respirators and personal protection equipment made in China en route to Europe—into the canal, making it temporarily impassable. “The risk is that it could also become top heavy and capsize,” Captain John Konrad, founder and CEO of gCaptain shipping industry website, said. “And that would be catastrophic.”

    But before anyone can even think of lightening the massive vessel, which is 1,312 feet long and 194 feet wide with 50 feet of the ship below the water, they need to download the schematics of the ship and run them through a series of computer-generated programs to determine what offloading will do to the balance. Then they would have to somehow get a maritime crane to Egypt since the country does not own one tall enough to reach the top of the Ever Given’s 20,000 containers to even begin unloading them.

    The information used to determine how to lighten the 200,000 metric-ton ship enough to nudge it out of the sand, which buries the vessel a little more with each passing tide, will largely be based on the ship’s own records—assuming they are correct and were not fudged to pass what the Maritime Anti Corruption Network once called the most corrupt port system in the world.

    The ship sails under a Panama flag, which is a common way to skirt human rights issues of great concern to its all-Indian crew, who are now unable to leave the ship. Is owned by the Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, which has apologized profusely for the rather expensive inconvenience. They say heavy winds knocked the ship into the sand banks, but data so far shows it was also traveling 13 knots in an 8 knot speed zone when the accident happened, according to Konrad.

    Several salvors have also said the most likely cause was a blackout power outage that compromised steering just as the wind gust came up. Coincidentally, this same ship was involved in an accident in Hamburg in 2019, when its owners rammed into a ferry and destroyed it. They had blamed the accident on a loss of steering power and high winds back then, too.

    Salvors say the next opportunity to move the ship will be during spring tides on Sunday and Monday. If that doesn’t work, it could take weeks to dig her out of the sand, hopefully while keeping her upright and intact.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/releasing-container-ship-from-suez-canal-could-capsize-it/ar-BB1f0aBC

    U.S. Navy offers to help clear cargo ship from Suez Canal

    The U.S. Navy has offered to help Egyptian officials to clear the Suez Canal, where a cargo ship has been stuck and blocking all traffic for days, a spokesperson said on Friday.

    The cargo ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday after a gust of wind pushed it sideways. With the ship lodged in the canal, no traffic can pass through. The blockage is costing the global economy about $400 million per hour, according to some estimates.

    The Navy is prepared to help Egyptian officials clear the canal and has offered assistance, Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement.

    “We have offered and stand ready to assist Egypt, and will look to support any specific request we receive. We continue to monitor and assess the situation, but have nothing to provide on any potential specific support at this time.”
    Continued: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/26/us-navy-help-ship-stuck-suez-canal-478182

    Are Alternative Routes Feasible or Too Dangerous:

    Suez Canal crisis sparks piracy fears off Cape of Good Hope – US Navy on standby

    THE SUEZ CANAL has continued to cause havoc, with vessels now rerouting around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the huge jam caused by a wedged container ship – but the US Navy say there are fears over the heightened risks of piracy.

    Fresh efforts are under way to refloat Ever Given – the huge container ship that has been blocked in Egypt’s Suez Canal since Tuesday. There are currently 14 tugboats trying to take advantage of a high tide – and more are on their way to help dislodge the Panama-flagged vessel operated by Taiwanese company Evergreen. More than 300 ships are stuck on either side of the blockage – and some tankers have now started travelling around South Africa instead, adding weeks to their journeys.
    Continued: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/releasing-container-ship-from-suez-canal-could-capsize-it/ar-BB1f0aBC

    See Also: making due

  • making due

    So there I was outside in 17 degree weather frying up bacon yesterday

    pay no mind to the snow
    I don’t

    Now before anyone of you roll your eyes or ask questions of the illogical kind

    like what’s wrong with your stove Chance?

    “it’s inside”

    Shall we continue without interruption?

    alrighty then

    Knowing yesterday that today would be Palm Sunday

    there’s gotta be some sort of food Christians love

    think in these terms

    you eat bacon

    God loves you

    I think in such terms

    it’s not often I share recipes but!

    Today being Palm Sunday & me being a Christian

    it’s a good day for sharing

    1 pound of Bacon / one inch pieces

    1 onion / finely chopped

    4 shallots minced 1/2 cup of brown sugar

    1/4 cup of Maple syrup

    a splash of Balsamic vinegar

    a tsp. of the Carolina Reaper

    Well hell

    I musta used the Balsamic for something else I made and ate

    then I found I was out of the Brown sugar

    I’d say a good portion of the populace would have given up on making the Bacon Jam right there & then

    I ain’t no NON -Hacker or quitter or leftist scumbaglowlifePOS

    give credit where is credit is due

    ( thanks mom )

    What is Brown sugar?

    it’s white sugar with molasses

    I got those items

    apple cider vinegar around here is like a staple

    got it

    wanna know what else I got?

    Bacon Jam for this Palm Sunday

    chili powder or cayenne powder will work for you if the Reaper is to hot for your taste

    wanna know something else?

    while I’m frying up the bacon I was thinking

    India & Pakistan have nukes pointed at each other pretty much over water

    if the Pakistanee type can afford nukes

    seems very odd they cannot afford to fund thier own gender studies

    Walk in Peace

  • Welcome to Sunday Conversation

    Welcome to Sunday Conversation

      Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

    served with


  • Mind numbed robots or Brothers

    Mind numbed robots or Brothers

    Thinking in such terms shouldn’t even be a thing

    yet here we are

    USSOCOM welcomes our new Chief of Diversity & Inclusion, Mr. Richard Torres-Estrada. We look forward to his contribution in enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of #SOF through diversity of talent, helping us recruit the best of the best. #QuietProfessionals

    Mr. Torres-Estrada would never be hired if the goal was to improve the military and our future as a country.

    The man is a bigot and far-left Never Trumper. 

    His previous actions should have disqualified him.

    At one time the Roman Army had more gothes, visgothes

    along with other sub categories of so-called barbarians then actual Romans

    so diluted it wasn’t Roman

    America isn’t Rome

    Rome kept everything and everyone they conquered

    If America was like Rome

    there would be no Mexico or Canada along with many other places

    the similarities between the two are everywhere in today’s society

    all we asked was for a little bit of dirt to bury our dead

    In a way, ya’ll! ( waves the hand)

    remind me of Barbarians

    How so Chance?

    Don’t we just want to live our lives

    without Imperial d.c.

    dictating on how we should live our lives

    there some words connected to

    Isoroku Yamamoto

    I’d betcha you a nickle

    you know them by heart

    The left is turning America into giant shithole

    what’s a shithole sound like?

    welcome to West Pokot County

    we need a new category choice

    if I may be so bold I suggest

    SSDD

  • Welcome to Saturday Conversation

    Welcome to Saturday Conversation

      Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea
    served with


    Thought for the weekend.

    No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
    Thought to be by Charles Dickens

  • Defeatism

    Defeatism

    Defeatism

    is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations

    democrats have the country where they want it.

    They’re going for the kill shot.

    After the election debacle where they managed to steal a landslide election from the most popular president in modern history, Democrats are pushing every program they can think of to seal the deal.

    If HRI is pushed into law it’s all over.  The country is gone.

    All words quoted there are not my words

    We all know the tale

    known as the

    shot heard round the world

    there is another story just as important

    the 1777 Saratoga Campaign.

    Rally Shot

    On Oct. 7, 1777, British Brigadier General Simon Fraser boldly rode onto Bemis Heights, rallying his troops in a desperate fight with rebel sharpshooters. American Major General Benedict Arnold marveled at Fraser’s audacity but feared it, too. “That man on the gray horse is a host unto himself and must be disposed of,” Arnold told Colonel Daniel Morgan, the sharpshooters’ commander.

    Morgan sent a trusted marksman up a tree to target Fraser, who soon fell from the saddle, shot in the guts. The rally sputtered, the redcoats fled and the rebels won the Saratoga Campaign

    It was the first major victory of Americans over a similarly sized British force and proved the might of General George Washington’s “amateur” army. But Saratoga also inspired France, a longtime foe of England, to ally with the colonists. It set the stage for America’s Revolutionary War victory, which motivated liberty seekers across the globe

    thanks to one rifleman

    Tradition says he was an Irish backwoodsman from Pennsylvania

    one Sergeant Timothy Murphy

    I am a great fan of Timothy Murphy

    even White feather would smile at the name

    Defeatism is a word that would have been Foreign to Chris

    Tim takes the shot

    Saratoga was a month-long campaign involving two major battles at Freeman’s Farm and Bemis Heights, where Fraser galloped onto scene, impressing Morgan as much as Arnold. After receiving his general’s order, Morgan, according to tradition, turned to Murphy and said, “That gallant officer is General Fraser. I admire him, but it is necessary that he should die. Do your duty.”

    estimated the range at 330 yards

    Nowadays, any competent rifleman could have hit General Fraser

    but firing a rifle accurately back then was far more complicated.

    There was more to it than just holding high and squeezing the trigger

    Think of it this way:

    Murphy squeezes trigger, but for a short time

    he has to physically and mentally follow-through

    The rifle may have gone click, but it still has to go through a whoosh and a bang

    That might take a second or more, Timothy had to stay on target the entire time or his shot would be off.

    Today

    modern guns and ammo let a shooter launch a bullet in the fraction of a second.

    New riflescopes, rangefinders and bullet technology also boost accuracy.

    But back then, there was no such thing as match ammo. So what about a guy shooting with open sights with what was basically a shotgun slug? You’re starting with a very low ballistic coefficient. You’re shooting a bowling ball instead of a javelin. It would only be worse if it was square.

    some more quoted words that are

    Deadnuts Accurate

    Nothing is over!

    Nothing!

    Chris Kyle day is February 2

    I don’t even live in Texas

    much in common

    Now we have an understanding of the posted picture

  • American Election Integrity: ‘Overwhelming Evidence’…

    American Election Integrity: ‘Overwhelming Evidence’…

    Analyzing American Election Integrity: ‘Overwhelming Evidence’ of Voter Fraud

    Ben Carson, Peter Navarro, Mark Steyn, John Fund make case on 2020 election

    A group of America’s leading experts has come together to present their findings and conclude that there is “overwhelming evidence” that voter fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election.

    Election integrity experts joined former high-level government officials for a seven-hour virtual conference on Tuesday called “Analyzing American Election Integrity.”

    The event was set up by Michele Bachmann, a former Republican member of Congress who also ran for president.

    Bachmann is now the dean of the graduate school of government at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

    Noting some polls show nearly half the country still doesn’t believe Joe Biden won the election, Bachmann said she organized the conference to allow experts to have their evidence heard by the public.

    “Analyzing American Election Integrity” is a “forum for letting speakers put evidence out – it’s their opinion, not ours – and then let people decide for themselves,” she told WND in an interview Wednesday.

    Some presenters, such as election experts John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, addressed the general issue of fraud and the Democrats’ controversial For the People Act while making no judgment about the outcome of the 2020 vote, according to WND.

    Others, such as former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, presented evidence to back their insistence that President Trump was the true winner.

    Bachmann said her aim was to pull together the evidence “and let people decide for themselves: Was this a true and legitimate outcome or not?”

    “And I’ll tell you the evidence was overwhelming that it was not,” she said.

    “People want truth and they want justice.”

    Bachmann said the reaction to the conference so far has been “profound” and people are “overwhelmingly grateful.”

    “Even among the presenters, you got a sense of how joyous they were that there was a free space, a safe space where people could speak freely about what they had observed about the election, what their research found about the election,” she said.

    The former congresswoman noted that according to her IT team at Regent, the people who watched the conference online saw nearly three-fourths of the seven hours of presentations.

    “My phone blew up afterwards,” she told WND, “and people were saying I only intended to watch a little bit – I watched the entire seven hours.”

    Bachmann said she hopes the presentations will get an even bigger audience now that they are posted in separate videos on a page on Regent University’s website.

    See the virtual conference
    https://www.regent.edu/misc/analyzing-american-election-integrity/

    She said conservatives need to stop playing defense.

    “You can go on offense when you have the truth,” she said.

    “We have information, and this is us just the down payment on telling the truth.”

    The conference, she said, is “the opening salvo.”

    Anyone who has questioned the election results, she said, has felt like they “were being beaten by a rubber hose by the media and told to get into a cage and shut up.”

    “What we did yesterday is we didn’t shut up,” Bachmann said.

    “And we started to talk.”

    Excerpts

    Keynote: Dr. Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, neurosurgeon

    Carson said that even speaking about having honest elections “causes all kinds of uproar today.”

    Americans must have confidence in our institutions, he said, but the 2020 election “was a national disgrace and the media still refuses to tell the truth about it.”

    He said the opposition to voter ID laws, insisting they amount to a racist “suppression” of minority voters, is racist in itself.

    “What is racist is saying certain people don’t have the common sense or the ability to get the ID,” he said.

    “What a bunch of garbage.”

    Carson said that whether America “remains a free and prosperous nation or it turns into something else,” will depend on how its citizens address the issue of election integrity.

    He said there was “plenty of fraud” in the 2020 election, but the courts “really haven’t looked at the evidence.”

    “It’s almost as if they are afraid,” he said.

    “We must insist on looking at the evidence.”

    Panel: HR1 “An Effort to Correct the Irregularities, or Institutionalize Them?”

    Moderator: Dean Michele Bachmann

    • John Fund, national affairs reporter for National Review Online, author of “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.”
    • Hans von Spakovsky, former member of the Federal Election Commission, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative.
    • Jay Ashcroft, Missouri secretary of state; member of the Elections Committee and former Executive Board Member of the National Association of Secretaries of State

    Fund called HR1, the For the People Act, “rancid” and “the most dangerous bill ever when it comes to elections.”

    It’s a complete federal takeover of the election process, he said, that hurts minorities more than anyone else.

    He argued that all industrialized countries require ID at polls, including Mexico and Canada.

    Fund, noting Senate hearings begin this week on the bill, said it doesn’t appear to have enough votes to overcome the 60-vote filibuster.

    But it will “hang out there for quite some time,” and when the Democrats think they can pass it, they will try.

    And they may try to get rid of the filibuster.

    Von Spakovsky countered the claim by Democrats that there is no significant voter fraud.

    “We have enough fraud in this country that we need to worry about it,” he said, noting the Supreme Court has said it’s concerned that there is enough fraud to impact a close election

    “We have close elections all the time,” he said.

    HR1, he said, would “cement the worst aspects of the 2020 election into federal law and make them worse than that.”

    It would “gut” state voter ID laws and require every state to implement same-day voter registration.

    Election officials, therefore, would have no time to verify the information and they couldn’t ask for an ID when the person votes.

    “If you have enough people [exploiting those loopholes], you can change the outcome of the election,” he said.

    Von Spakovsky warned that Senate Democrats might try to get rid of the filibuster for “civil rights legislation” and argue that the For the People Act fits that description.

    Ashcroft, the Missouri AG and son of the former U.S. attorney general, governor and senator John Ashcroft, said that if HR1 passes, he will immediately file a lawsuit.

    He said the bill is “unworkable, immoral and unconstitutional,” calling it a “swamp trifecta.”

    Peter Navarro, former director of trade and manufacturing policy for President Trump

    Navarro is the author of a three-part report presenting evidence from six battleground states he believes Trump won.

    He said he presented his report to Trump in the Oval Office and the president had it transmitted to every member of Congress.

    “History wants to know if this election was indeed stolen,” he said.

    Evidence of Vote Fraud

    Jim and Joe Hoft, The Gateway Pundit

    The Hoft brothers presented evidence, including video footage they obtained from Detroit’s TCF Center on election night, that they have compiled from among the 1,700 articles they have published on the election.

    Panel: Is Voter ID a Solution?

    Moderator: Professor Henry Jones

    • Kris Kobach,  former Kansas secretary of state, vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity; former counsel to the attorney general of the United States; former professor of law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City
    • William Wachtel, managing partner, Wachtel Missry, LLP
    • Robert Neal Hunter Jr. , attorney; retired North Carolina Supreme Court justice and retired North Carolina Court of Appeals jurist
    • Patricia Nation, civil rights attorney and appellate advocate; former head of Civil Rights Division of the Department of Homeland Security

    Nation, a civil rights attorney, pointed out that 75% of Americans support voter ID laws and 35 states have implemented them.

    Mark Steyn, political commentator, and author

    Steyn pointed out that to steal a national election, it’s necessary only to steal a relatively small number of votes in six Democratic strongholds.

    He noted that Philadelphia has been running corrupt elections since the Civil War, citing a 1904 book, “The Shame of the Cities.”

    Since then, thanks to technology, it’s become easier to steal elections, he said.

    During the 1920 election, Democrats in Atlanta prevented black women from voting, throwing their votes in the trash.

    Steyn noted Democrats are saying “America is back” and now has a true “leader of the free world.”

    But Steyn said an Australian friend wrote to him and argued, “You can’t be the leader of the free world if you don’t have fair elections.”

    Steyn said election integrity is a “threshold issue.”

    There’s no point talking about foreign policy or any issue “if you don’t have fair elections.”

    HR 1, he said takes all the things that make cities like Philadelphia and Atlanta corrupt “and imposes them on the country at large.”

    Bachmann asked Steyn if he thought it could be proved that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

    Steyn said, yes, saying that more cases should be brought by citizens.

    He said he found it interesting that since the cases have become moot, more judges have been ruling in Trump’s favor.

    David Clements, law professor, New Mexico State University, former trial attorney

    Clements examined 85 cases brought by Trump and his allies and found that in cases in which the evidence was heard, Trump prevailed on the merits.

    He pointed to more than 5,000 sworn affidavits from witnesses across the country who are willing to testify under penalty of perjury.

    “Not one person has been found to have provided false testimony,” he said.

    “So we should feel very very good about the folks that risked their reputations to tell what they observed.”

    dr  ben carson said the 2020 election  was a national disgrace and the media still refuses to tell the truth about it
    Dr. Ben Carson said the 2020 election ‘was a national disgrace and the media still refuses to tell the truth about it’

    Clements said every one of them should have the opportunity to “sit in a chair, raise their hand, swear to tell the truth and give their story.”

    He said he discussed with Bachmann the possibility of holding a mock trial “if the courts won’t do the right thing.”

    “It would take eight months because there is so much evidence out there,” he said.

    He said there also are 450 cases that touch on election integrity that don’t involve Donald Trump.

    Clements said that when skeptics confront him, he urges them to comb through the evidence and then get back to him.

    They don’t get back to me, he said.

    “If you did your homework you would come back and arrive at a verdict … that your election was compromised.”
    By: Jay Greenberg – March 25, 2021 https://neonnettle.com/news/14648-analyzing-american-election-integrity-overwhelming-evidence-of-voter-fraud

    Comment: Please, take the time to listen to the compelling information presented with regards to the 2020 election fraud. 5000 of your fellow Americans filed affidavits under penalty of perjury, willing to testify under oath the irregularities they witnessed. It is also my belief this was perpetuated upon the American citizens not only, by fellow Americans (Democrat); but more importantly foreign or International countries. Some you many anticipate, such as China – others, you will not.
    (The presentation is 7 hours in length)

  • Timothy Dale Ackerman you are not JACK

    Timothy Dale Ackerman you are not JACK

    The posted picture looks like America these days

    it’s 14 degrees, grey, cloudy with fog hanging around

    it was snowing yesterday ffs

    well …

    at least I have the proper drinking vessel to match my mood

    so that’s a positive

    see this flying shyt bird

    is why a SOG tomahawk is in the truck

    that would be one dead flying shytbird

    the deterrence must match the threat level

    no use going overboard

    speaking of the dead

    I see they released his name

    Timothy Dale Ackerman

    ole young timmy boy died after plunging from a 14th floor balcony at a Florida hotel

    after his parachute failed to open in time during a base jump.

    Emergency services were called out yesterday evening to deal with reports of a man having fallen to his death.

    enough of that wanna-be

    At 17 ( lied about his age he was 14 )

    Jack was given the MOH

    a short summary

    The first grenade detonated, injuring Jack. Thankfully, the second grenade did not explode. The remaining 3 Marines killed all the Japanese combatants from the larger enemy squad and fortified pillbox. Assuming Jack was dead, and fearing an enemy counter attack, they immediately left the area. However, Jack Lucas, who was only 17, was not dead. He laid there, barely breathing, and awake.

    Fortunately, a Marine unit passing through saw him and called their Navy Corpsman. The Corpsman tended to the massive wounds. He did everything to keep Jack alive and safe, even killing an approaching enemy soldier. Lucas had over 250 pieces of shrapnel throughout his body. Nearly every organ was hit, including his brain and heart. He was evacuated via stretcher to the beach. There were over 26,000 American casualties on Iwo Jima.

    Despite his near brush with death, Jack wanted to continue to challenge himself. In 1961 he joined the US Army. Jack volunteered for jump school to conquer his fear of heights. However, bad luck struck Lucas again. Both his parachutes failed to open and he plummeted to the ground. Remarkably, he survived. A witness said, “He was the last one out of the airplane and the first one on the ground.”

    So…

    I want take this opportunity to remember the 14 year old boy who lied to serve his country

    as well as the 17 year old Man

    who was unflinching in the face of staggering danger. Jack Lucas, you were the very embodiment of American Grit, this beer is for you.

    In wine

    there’s suppose to be wisdom

    in water

    there is bacteria

    in Beer

    there is Freedom

    choose wisely America

  • QUIZ: Friday Music – One Hit Wonders

    QUIZ: Friday Music – One Hit Wonders

    There have been quite a few artists with “one hit wonders” over the years.

    How many do you remember?

    Take the quiz below and share your results, then post YOUR favorite one-hit wonder!

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