Month: February 2022

  • Welcome to Thursday, 17 February Conversation

     Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

    served with 

    I thought today we could have a brief chemistry lesson.

    TEACHER: Donald , what is the chemical formula for water? 

    DONALD: H I J K L M N O.. 

    TEACHER: What are you talking about? 

    DONALD: Yesterday you said it’s H to O. 

  • Malarkey-Name Game

    Malarkey-Name Game

    Everyone Not Far-Left Must Be Far-Right!

    Paul Joseph Watson: “At this point, ‘right-wing’ has basically just become a pejorative used by the regime to mean ‘anti-regime.’”
     
    Glenn Greenwald: “Only the US corporate media could take the person in this video, Joe Rogan, and claim he’s a far-right figure. It happens in part because most of Rogan’s critics never watch his show, but also because the media purposely lies and uses ‘far-right’ to malign everyone they dislike.”
     
    Greenwald: “The media moronically calls Rogan ‘right-wing’ because this is their only strategy for combatting the explosive growth of independent media taking their audience. If they can convince people that everyone independent of them is ‘far-right,’ at least liberals will be captive.”
     
    Greenwald: “That became the strategy of failing corporate media when Trump came along. They branded themselves liberal #Resistance and became captive to the DNC. Now, they have independent and heterodox platforms thriving and taking their audience, and all they can do is yell: ‘far-right!’”

    Branding Russell

    Matt Taibbi headline: “Conversation With Russell Brand, Who Isn’t ‘Right Wing’; Talking media, politics, censorship and other topics with the brilliant, irreverent, and increasingly influential British comic”
     
    Greenwald: “Here’s the life-long leftist Russell Brand similarly reacting to now being regularly branded ‘right-wing’ by an embittered media all because he’s a critic of corporate media and is thriving on independent platforms like Rumble and his own show.” 
     
    Greenwald: “Reacting to why the media now brands him ‘right-wing’ as his independent shows explode in growth, Russell Brand explains who really are the people who have abandoned corporate media and now rely on independent media. This is what scares the shit out of them and why they malign it “

    Glossary Growing

    Media Research Center: “The leftist media call anything they disagree with ‘misinformation.’”

    Arctuniol: “They can’t explain it is why, rather than have to explain it, they call it misinformation or racist. Then try to cancel you. That is the leftist playbook.”

    Seth Dillon: “A racist is a person Democrats don’t like. Misinformation is an opinion Democrats don’t like. Inclusivity is the exclusion of people and opinions Democrats don’t like.”

    James Lindsay: “Every Woke word conceals an agenda, and that agenda is Communism.”

    First, and continuing, was the over use of the term ’racist’. We can, now, add ’right wing’. Next up will be ’freedom’. There have already been some hints it is on the future pejorative list.

  • We are there, you just don’t see us

    We are there, you just don’t see us

    that’s a fair assessment of the yooper attitude, what follows are examples of what I speak of

    Down the road that way, waves the hand, the town of Iron River can be found. Bigger than a village yet smaller then a city, bout 2000 plus a few people live there.

    How many of you have given any attention to the Winter Olympics of 2022?, myself, less than zero, there is a figure skater who gave up her American citizenship and became a CHINA CHINA CHINA citizen, she fell, what a LOSER. She’s coming back to attend school. If I was in charge of stuff, she would be DENIED entry into America,

    At 40 years of age doing construction

    Iron River’s Nick Baumgartner, along with Lindsey Jacobellis, set a record at the Winter Olympics’ first ever mixed team snowboard cross competition.

    40-year-old Baumgartner and 36-year-old Jacobellis are also among the oldest snowboarders to medal during the Winter Games.

    Baumgartner says being a veteran comes with its advantages.

    He says his years of experience have made him comfortable riding very close to other competitors to use their draft, which may scare younger racers.

    “People are so amazing,” said Baumgartner. “I love that I’m from the Midwest, even more that I’m from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Yoopers are so awesome.

    When something’s good, ” they back you so hard”.

    In this journey they’ve had my back in everything, and I owe this to every single one of you guys for picking me up and helping me get through that.”

    “This reception was one of the most emotional things I’ve ever been through but so many good feelings,” said Baungartner. “So many good people and… wow. I was just surprised I was able to talk when it became my time to speak and yeah it was awesome. I’m happy and glad I was able to share this with the community and we’re going to keep having fun, we’re going to keep celebrating this.

    This is a big win for us.”

    Translation:

    Iron river will have Nick day to beheld outside with food, music, beer and of course Women!

    there was boat full of yoopers that also can be filed under

    ” we are there, you just don’t see us “

    the Battle of Leyte Gulf

    It was yoopers who fired the first shots

    “This is why we are here boys, turn this bitch into the wind & get those bastards”.

    Of course the Navy don’t speak like Marines, that part don’t matter

    Under McClintock’s command, the Darter and Dace formed a two-sub “wolf pack” patrol at two approaches into Leyte Gulf. Picking up radio reports of MacArthur’s landing, McClintock correctly guessed where his patrol might intercept Japanese naval forces coming from Singapore. The Darter made radar contact with three large Japanese warships, but couldn’t catch up to torpedo them. During the ensuing rendezvous with the Dace, radar contact indicated that they had intercepted the Japanese Imperial Second Fleet: five battleships, a dozen cruisers, and 15 destroyers. Its location hadn’t been known for a week.

    The Darter tracked down the fleet, and the Darter and Dace fired the first shots in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. They sank three heavy cruisers, including the Vice Admiral’s flagship (killing half his communications staff who devised and broke military codes). Another ship was so badly damaged that it headed back to Singapore under escort, taking the Japanese vice-admiral and half of his remaining communications staff with it, out of the action. (It was a mistake to head back, made by the vice-admiral’s lack of sleep for days.) The Darter and Dace tracked the crippled Japanese cruiser by day, and by night made an “end-around” maneuver to get ahead of it in order to attack it with their remaining torpedoes.

    Dave McClintock insisted that the Dace crew and its commander, Captain Bladen Claggett, share the honors. At the gala dedication in September, 2001, over 300 attended, despite the air travel shutdown caused by 9-11. Honored guest Nori Yoshida, a survivor of a heavy cruiser sunk by the Dace.

  • Welcome to Wednesday, 16 February Conversation

    Welcome to Wednesday, 16 February Conversation

     Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

    served with 

    Remember how Nancy Piglosi’s podium was taken January 6?
    It seems Winsome Sears’, Lt. Governor of Virginia, gavel was missing when she was to gavel the Senate to order. This did not deter her from performing her duties.


  • Welcome to Tuesday, 15 February Conversation

    Welcome to Tuesday, 15 February Conversation

     Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

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    The Canadian Freedom Convoy is a perfect representation of a Chuchillism.


  • What War Movies Do You Love

    What War Movies Do You Love

    This post was inspired by a tweet from an account called Fighting on Film, a war/historical film podcast. They asked what war films you fell in love with.

    For me the list looks something like this, in no particular order:

    • The Bridges at Toko-ri. William Holden made this film for me.
    • The Green Berets. Yah, I know it’s a bit cheesy, and is really two separate films, but I love it anyway.
    • T-34. I doubt if anyone knows this film, it is fairly new and from Belarus. It is also free on YouTube at the moment, I’ll drop a link in the comments.
    • A Bridge Too Far. Star studded cast, excellent acting, Shot on location in the Netherlands. My only issue with the film is the fact they gave Montgomery a pass for the failure of Market-Garden.
    • Breaker Morant. The story of an Aussie fighting for the British during the 2nd Boer War in South Africa. So many great quotes from that Film.
    • Full Metal Jacket. Just a good film, good story, good acting, compelling characters.

    So, what war movies do you love? Let us know in the comments. Bonus points for clips and trivia . . .

  • Welcome to Monday, 14 February Conversation

    Welcome to Monday, 14 February Conversation

     Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

    served with 

    Today is Hallmark and candy companies big day.
    This provides me a chance for my personal favorite type humor.

  • Project Farm: Tap and Die Sets

    Project Farm: Tap and Die Sets

    This week on Project Farm, Todd tests tap and die sets. He tests sets from Craftsman, GearWrench, Draper, Bosch, Tekton, Century, Irwin, Vermont American & Pittsburgh (Harbor Freight). Tap & Die sets are tested for sharpness to cut threads in aluminum, medium-hardness steel, and spring steel. After creating threads, each of the threads are compared for fit and quality.

    Todd purchases all products tested to ensure an unbiased result. Please consider supporting him on Patreon.

  • Pentagon to Host Lecture…

    https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/02/12/pentagon-to-host-lecture-on-bending-to-china-the-case-for-global-justice-and-democratic-socialism-n521073?

    Pentagon to Host Lecture on Bending to China:

    ‘The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism’

    Mike MillerFeb 12, 2022 1:45 PM ET

    AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko

    This report would have been inconceivable little more than a year ago, America. And it is chilling.

    The Defense Department’s National Defense University (NDU) — the premier educational institution in the country for military and civilian leaders on all things defense — is planning to host what should be a controversial as hell lecture on how the U.S. and other Western countries should in effect bow to China and adopt socialism in response to the growing challenge from the expansionist Communists in Beijing.

    Let that sink it.

    summary of the lecture is chilling, although for reasons different than the obvious (emphasis, mine):

    Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime.

    In this talk on February 22, 2022, Thomas Piketty will argue that the right answer lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism.

    If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge.

    The above is insane on its face, of course, but the really chilling part is not as much about a serious geopolitical threat to the United States and Western Europe from China, but rather about the left’s capitulation and gleeful willingness to submit to the subservience of totalitarianism.

    That is not a hyperbolic statement. (See: “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”)

    I mean, hell, give these low-information clowns a taste of a whacked-out old socialist like Bernie Sanders and they’re star-struck — and more than ready to fold up to the ChiComs like a cheap Mao suit.

    The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online on February 16, as reported by Breitbart, is titled, Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism, and will be given by French crackpoteconomist Thomas Piketty, the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism.

    Again, let’s let that sink in. The U.S. Pentagon is sponsoring a lecture, written and delivered by a French Socialist, who promotes replacing Western Capitalism with so-called “Democratic Socialism” for the all-but-express purpose of kowtowing to Communist China — out of fear.

    Sebastian Gorka, who served as a Deputy Assistant to the President in the Trump administration, as well as the associate dean at the NDU for five years, discussed the lecture on his podcast, “AMERICA First with Sebastian Gorka” on Friday. “NDU is where colonels go to become generals,” Gorka said, adamantly.

    “This event is presented by the Pentagon’s Strategic Multilayer Assessment program in collaboration with National Defense University’s Eisenhower School of National Security.

    Eisenhower’s name. His institution is being used to host an event promoting socialism in America. I’m not even disgusted — that’s not even a strong enough word. I’m horrified.

    Did I mention that the event is funded by U.S. taxpayers?

    Gorka might have been justifiably horrified, but anyone surprised by any of this has not been paying attention to Joe Biden and various members his radical-left administration for more than a year.

    As my colleague, streiff reported in June 2021, Department of Defense Chairman Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley have demonstrated repeatedly that they are far more interested in “exploring” Marist-derived “Critical Race Theory” and “white rage” than in focusing on combat readiness — not to mention avoiding catastrophes like the purposely-created Biden Afghanistan Debacle.

    As I reported on Thursday, with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on the verge of launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and China ratcheting up its normal rhetoric about forcibly “reunifying” Taiwan with the mainland, a senior advisor to Austin issued a report titled Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Are Necessities in U.S. Militaryin which the advisor argues that diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) are essential in “making the U.S. military more successful in achieving critical missions and in making forces more lethal.”

    Finally, as the Pentagon concerns itself with lectures on “global justice” and “Democratic Socialism,” as my colleague Dennis Santiago wrote in November 2021, China continues to prepare to challenge the U.S. Navy.

    As Sebastian Gorka correctly and chillingly observed, this is horrifying. All of it. And it is being perpetrated by an ever-more-radical Democrat Party.

    Mumbling and confused Joe Biden might not know where the hell he is, half the time — let alone who’s there with him — but this treasonous “bullcrap” is for real.

    Worst of all, it is being carried out by people who swore an oath to protect and defend America. And if that doesn’t give you pause, nothing will.

    The last sentence says it all. We have hoped what we saw from Pentagon ’leaders’ was not an accurate picture of their political positions. It would seem our hopes were for naught!

  • Welcome to Sunday, 13 February Conversation

    Welcome to Sunday, 13 February Conversation

     Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

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