I still see many old veterans here, Vietnam era now. They often wear those hats which indicate which war, branch of service and dates. I don’t think much of it as I can understand that their period of time in the service was most likely the high point of their life’s achievement. I can’t get into that mindset, but I won’t belittle what pride they have in such. Getting old ain’t for sissies. Life’s hard enough as it is, then it’s over. Escape back into the past has its benefits.

pedestalization. I’ll have to remember that one.

Well, you wonder whyI always dress in blackWhy you never seeBright colors on my backAnd why does my appearanceSeem to have a somber tone?Well, there’s a reason for the thingsThat I have onI wear the blackFor the poor and the beaten downLivin’ in the hopelessHungry side of townI wear it for the prisonerWho has long paid for his crimeBut is there becauseHe’s a victim of the timesI wear the blackFor those who’ve never readOr listenedTo the words that Jesus saidAbout the road to happinessThrough love and charityWhy you’d think He’s talkingStraight to you and meWell, we’re doin’ mighty fineI do supposeIn our streak of lightnin’ carsAnd fancy clothesBut just so we’re remindedOf the ones who are held backUp front there ought to beA man in blackI wear itFor the sick and lonely oldFor the reckless onesWhose bad trip left them coldI wear the black in mournin’For the lives that could have beenEach week we loseA hundred fine young menAnd, I wear itFor the thousands who have diedBelievin’ that the LordWas on their sideI wear it for anotherHundred thousand who have diedBelievin’ that we allWere on their sideWell, there’s thingsThat never will be right, I knowAnd things need changin’Everywhere you goBut till we start to make a moveTo make a few things rightYou’ll never see meWear a suit of whiteAh, I’d love to wear a rainbowEvery dayAnd tell the worldThat everything’s okayBut I’ll try to carry offA little darkness on my backTill things are brighterI’m the man in black

Since it’s become an all-volunteer force, the US military has essentially become the largest and best-equipped mercenary force on the planet. Almost everybody who joins does so for opportunity. Education benefits, a pension (even the new one is 40%), a VA-backed home loan, being able to earn money while accruing no debt (assuming you avoid the skeezy dealership selling Camaros at 30% APR just outside the gates of the base), and other benefits make the military pretty lucrative. If you’re smart, you can buy a house everywhere you get stationed at and rent it when you move so somebody else is paying your mortgage for it. Plenty of people leave at 20 with a full pension and 3 or more properties fully paid off. Military service is one of the only ways for a straight white guy to get ahead and one of the only protected classes he can belong to. With the exception of the years immediately after 9/11, nobody joins the military for abstract reasons like patriotism. The closest you get is “it’s the family profession.” Nobody says a 4th generation farmer is a patriot for continuing the tradition.

Vietnam looms with the “Thank you for your service” stuff. Soldiers are supposed to follow orders and not question, so I don’t much hold them accountable. War is atrocious business. I imagine most who fight do or see unspeakable things. It’s the nature of the beast, and I imagine living with it is enough. At least that’s the impression I got from my grandfathers and vets I know. Leadership can take the criticism and the false glory, and the rank and file can be left alone by a public that doesn’t get it (including me). IMO.

Haha then you won’t enjoy the lyrics i posted above 😉

Ok , onto chatgdp I go to ask about the origins of Memorial Day. My guess post ww1 at least if not ww2:wow, it’s worse than I thought:Memorial Day originated in the United States as a way to honor and remember military personnel who died in service to the country. Its roots go back to the aftermath of the Civil War, a conflict that claimed more American lives than any other, leading to the establishment of national cemeteries.Key points in its origin:Early Commemorations (1860s): Various towns and cities held springtime tributes to fallen soldiers, decorating graves with flowers and reciting prayers. One of the earliest recorded observances was in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, organized by formerly enslaved people to honor Union soldiers who had died in a Confederate prison camp.“Decoration Day”: In 1868, General John A. Logan, leader of a Union veterans’ group, declared May 30 as “Decoration Day” — a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. The date was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of a particular battle.Evolution into Memorial Day: Over time, Decoration Day expanded to honor those who died in all American wars, not just the Civil War.The name “Memorial Day” gradually became more common and was officially recognized by federal law in 1967.Federal Holiday (1971): In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by Congress and was set to be observed on the last Monday in May, ensuring a three-day weekend for many Americans.While Memorial Day is often marked by ceremonies at cemeteries and monuments, parades, and moments of silence, it has also become associated with the unofficial start of summer in the U.S.

The Mexican-American War was pretty meritorious. We were suffering from insurgent warfare from across the border and innocent American civilians were getting killed regularly by border-hopping Mexicans (some things haven’t changed). A lot of the greatest military minds and patriots of the Mexican American War went on to defend their country…as Confederate Soldiers.

Not only was the US the last economic powerhouse standing, the worst aspects of the managerialism that characterized the war effort and the immediate postwar economy hadn’t yet overshadowed the efficiency and coordination gains it provided. Chiefly because, instead of ideologues using the business to push some utopian social dream, it was (mostly) still being run by practical men with an eye on what works. In many ways it was a heyday of engineering. Guys in white short sleeve shirts and ties, doing math with sliderules… or tinkering in their garage after work.

I was driving down the road a couple months ago and they were using blowers on a site on the street. From 3 blocks away I could see this giant dust cloud engulfing the road. Despite it being a beautiful early Spring day, I had to roll my windows up to prevent having to choke on this damn dust. Of course, it had to be on a section of the road where traffic backs up and moves slowly.

While I, too, detested the noise of leaf blowers (always wielded by mestizos) when I lived in the ‘burbs, I bless the tool’s existence now that I live in the middle of the forest. The first fall out here I raked . . . and raked and raked. We have tons of trees and just trying to keep the lawn clear left me with massive piles that could have filled my house many times over. And the battery operated blower we bought for the move didn’t cut it. I bought a gas-powered backpack husqvarna last summer ($280 then, $400 now) and thank God for it. The level of leaves out in the woods (where we blow our leaves to) is years’ old, and we’re leaving it to the Forestry gentlemen to come do a controlled burn.

Leaf blowers are just noisy brooms. They don’t remove debris. They merely move it from here to there. That said, I love my Stihl backpack blower. I manage a property that has a large asphalt parking lot under old pines and cedars, and I couldn’t collect the weekly dander without one.

They don’t fear nukes, bioweapons etc. as long as they are the ones who control them. But nukes weren’t the point of my post. Enterprising and ingenious individuals or organizations wishing to strike a blow at the regime were. As the regime is well aware it richly deserves to have done to it.

Generally speaking I agree that the Belichick thing is creepy, but that’s partly because she’s a bitch who treats him badly in public and disrespects him.But in the natural order of things, when a woman is in her natural place, she needs to be younger than her man but also deferential to him and his status. Grover Cleveland married a 19-year old who bore him three kids when he was in the White House (I think he was 52).Aristotle argued that the ideal ages for marriage were 36 for the male, and 18 for the female. A man is not supposed to have much “in common” with his woman other than his children. You see this with a lot of truly powerful men (like Trump). Guys who are that high status and that high-achieving cannot waste time and energy dealing with a woman’s petty, stupid bullshit.

Nothing wrong with enjoying the view. I was going to say of belichik that it is unbecoming, but otherwise not a big deal. However, imagining a hypothetical daughter or granddaughter in that situation makes me reconsider.

A reggler Marsilio Ficino with spurs.

Reed was one of the very few guys that Atkins gave the CGP designation, Certified Guitar Player, So the master himself recognized just how good Reed was.

I’m goin’ through the big D and don’t mean Dallas/I can’t believe what the judge had to tell us/I got the Jeep, she got the palace/I’m goin’ through the big D and don’t mean Dallas.

“When you’re hot you’re hot!”

Here’s a little something to rile up your ire–The eight-page “Colorado Wildlife and Biodiversity Protection Act”seeks to create theWildlife and Ecosystem Conservation Commission(WECC).Astonishingly, the WECC would consist ofnine appointed members, with the petition strictly stipulating that no member can have any financial ties to agriculture, energy, or development. The petition then goes on to (laughably) assert that these supposed “elite” members – without “financial ties” – will be appointed by universities, environmental groups, and policy institutes. Naturally, this commission will havetotal control over agriculture, energy, and all future development in Colorado.Deal with the DevilBut, have no fear landowners, the petition miraculously provides 25-50% tax abatement for those willing to hand over 49-100% of their private lands asdesignated wildlands…in perpetuity.Given the sheer naivete, and themultitudes of legal errorsmade by petitioners Jessica Presso and Cameron Porter, most would rightly assume the petition would be dead on arrival.Not so fast.Within days, the Colorado Legislative Council Staff and Office of Legislative Legal Servicessent Presso and Portera nineteen-page how-to guide, effectivelygiving free legal adviceby outlining the requirements for a final draft.Similar to court filings,when initiated petitions fail to meet filing requirementsfor single subjects, or properly address statutory amendments, they’resimply refused by the Secretary of State– placing the onus upon the petitioner(s) to seek legal advice.However, this departure from the norm now appears to be part of a growing trend in radical leftist states.OregonLeading up to the 2022 election in Oregon, a similarly wonkyInitiative Petition 13 was introduced to make raising, riding, eating or owning domestic livestock illegal.Similarly, the state donated resources to the petitioners by sending back a lengthyhow-to guide.After significant tweaks,that Initiative Petition isback as IP28and greenlit for signature collection ahead of the 2026 election.In addition tomaking it illegal to own companion animals such as dogs or cats, the IP would make it illegal to render animals for meat in the State of Oregon.While some might be quick to dismiss the actions of a few, seemingly lone environmental zealots, others cite bigger-picture concerns for connections to IGOs and dark money influence.

I’d be much obliged if you’d transship a load of that weather southwest a couple thousand miles.

Similar here in Chicago. I wore a down puffy yesterday just to walk Lincoln Park. It’s been continually overcast and chilly. Glad I decided not to grow tomatoes this year. Happy holiday to all non-bots here.

He’s got his people’s pursed lips thing too

I remember this broad making the rounds more than a decade ago. She also prominently wears a star of david and was making her living as a “magician” in Vegas, if memory serves correctly. No doubt she did the disappearing trick on many a hot dog.

He’s probably getting ready to offer her a porn contract.

So strange how I was just thinking about this. In detail.Now, of course women are the font of all evil and such, but…Who told us this? Who has a book filled with example after example of what utterly atrocious creatures they are? Surely such a book is objective.Who tells us that this must be some scheme cooked up solely by women, suddenly and for no reason at all?In fact, who graced us with Critical Theory?And Civil Rights? And Affirmative Action?And then snaked their way into colleges…and then pushed, pushed, pushed women into college, so Affirmative Action could make damn sure they were prepped to become lawyers, and judges, and “education leaders”, and Certified Professors themselves, when…when…well, there was a time when not many women were interested in college.It was a place for nerdy guys to do cool stuff.Now it’s chicks learning about Marginalized Oppression and Radical Organizing and all those uniquely Anglo-Saxon cultural contributions.Odd too how none of this radical women’s stuff really got any traction until after 1881, or popped up in any other culture.Almost as if a culture whose forté of radicalizing identity groups seems to have set the gameboard that informed our women to become something else.Somebody really good at marketing…looking at women as a consoomer class eager to spend their newly liberated money buying stuff because Equality, Equity, and Empowerment. The same messaging unions do!Somebody really good at selling the sizzle.Maybe somebody that has a bone to pick with us?Or maybe, wants to seize power by different means?Or even just to make a butt-ton of money marketing hopes and fears to a different kind of buyer.Can’t put my finger on it.I guess our gals just decided one day with nobody prompting them.

I’m shocked that she’s not tatted nor pierced. She just needs a little direction. There’s your tradwife, fellas

Those are so fake. Natural breasts are terrible looking. They may not be real, but they are pretty spectacular.

The only alternative promising a swift fix involves violence against the state, and state-adjacent actors, and all that entails. A dicey proposition. Low odds of success. And regardless, the state apparatus is designed specifically to prevent leaders from coming up, and killing off those that do arise. Organization is a big challenge. Lots of normal ‘griller’ white guys hate this regime, but aren’t going to throw their lives away to save AINO. Collapse is going to fix this. If whites still exist they’ll survive better than the others. Best we can hope for.

Probably right about being fake, but come on, even with a top on she’d be a looker.

The cold tends to make ’em perkier.