Greetings and Salutations!
Just a short one tonight.
In addition to the Challenger Disaster and my slight connection via my fren in High School and his cousin and the absolute horror that he saw while being a Coastie Rescue diver on that mission… there’s another close connection I have.
In this case it’s from Little Country, my partner in crime for about 20+ years. Unfortunately due to circumstances and some other stuff I won’t go into unfortunately we’re no longer on speaking terms. Middle Country and I are still tight, but L.C.? Notsomucho.
An interesting fact or two to begin with. L.C. was born and raised in the Bayou in Louisiana. Half Cajun on his pappy’s side, when I first met him, at Christmastime First Wife and I went over to his rented house in Copperas Cove while we stationed at “The Hood”. His front lawn had, no shit, a pirogue with Santa in the cockpit, being pulled by 12 little wooden cutout Gators, all painted up with lights and the whole nine yards.
Middle Country is ALSO a ‘ragin’ Cajun’ from Louisiana… he’s a retire Command Sergeant Major who used to run the NCO academy for the Guard and Reserve back in the day…
No idea why, but two of my closest brothers in arms for the Afghanistan/Iraqi time, were both Cajuns…
Worked for me…
Fuckers know how to cook that’s for damned sure…
Yeah…
Anyone north of I-10 was a goddamned Yankee.
Me?
Despite my extreme Northern birth both Middle and Little took me for what I was, which according to Middle was “”Welllll Big Country, when he was born, it was like that ole looney tune cartoon with that drunk stork… a good ole Soth’ron boy got unfortunately dropped up off in the North, and some poor damned Yankee-baby was prolly dropped in the deep south… B.C. is just here reclaiming what –should– have been his birthright!”
I’ll have to agree.
Never did fit in up there, and down here?
I’m definitely home if’n you will.
So here’s the thing about L.C. His dad? Well to look at him, he’s a short, white haired, bowlegged, bum-looking ‘old dude’ who gives off a vibe of ‘too many years/too many beers’… Cigarette stain ‘stache… hard hands with a lot of callouses… a man who know and appreciated hard work.
Now… here’s the kicker.
NEVER judge a book by it’s cover.
The man had more doctoral degrees than I can even count, and knew Dr. Willy Ley… Yeah… that Dr. Ley… the guy who helped essentially (pardon the pun) the modern space age via his writing and research. He also worked with Werner Von Braun, and I’ve seen a pic of L.C. being held by him when he was (L.C.) a toddler around 1973+/- from back in the day…
Wild right?
I once sat down with Scottie and he blew me away. I mean the guy looks like a dude who’d be asking you for spare change on a subway right? Ball cap… torn up jeans that’re ripped all-to-Hell… the guy just ‘didn’t look the part’…
At L.C.’s wedding in Costa Rica I got quite a few stories about the various “Oh Shit” incidents that NASA had during the Space Shuttle program, as Scottie was one of their -go-to’ guys for problem solving. Like how he had to go on eBay to find pieces/parts to ‘upgrade’ the remaining shuttle fleet after the Columbia Disaster…
Seems that was actually S.O.P. as the means of printing a board, or I should say the equipment that the company who originally built the Space Shuttle(s), namely North American Rockwell had, after completing the ‘run’ of the build(s), had shut down and sold off the ‘stuff’ you needed to make replacement parts.
Scottie used to have to chase down pieces/parts to do upgrades and whatnot. He worked out of Stennis and Huntsville for the most part, trying to “…avoid that damned Florida pestilence!”
Guy is (was? not sure since I lost contact if he’s kicking) one of the more fascinating Hoomons I’ve ever met. An absolute case of not judging a boot by it’s cover for sure.
So otherwise, just a wee bit of a wander down memory lane.
I’m still trying to make sense of the “rescue” (which is most NOT making any sense) so we’ll see
I have that detector that’s positively screaming at me:
DEEP in the red..
And as I get more intel, and chew it over, we’ll talk.
So Happy Easter!
More Later
Big Country
Happy Easter BCE and all community members !!
I will second that, BCE, everyone north of I-10 is a damn yankee 😆
Parents and grandparents are from Dixie.
Hopefully it won’t fall to the Palantir control grid matrix funded by Cheeto kike’s buddies.
One expensive rescue from various videos and posts.
Love the old vintage America 1.0 guys who don’t take any crap from anyone.
They are like cats, not afraid to remind you that today is non-interaction day.
yeah. I kind of wonder about the “rescue” as well. I think it was done as a PR deal. make the folks back home know “we doing all we can ” to rescue “our” guys. funny part is that history shows us that was not always the case. like back in WW2, the navy/Gov’t/whoever figured it wasn’t worth it to help/save the guys on Wake island. even so, they made a movie about how bad assed the Marines where.
I think the assholes in DC have figured out if we start losing people in this, things are going to go south
for them real fast. whatever, I don’t trust the bastards.
https://voxday.net/2026/04/06/it-wasnt-a-rescue-mission/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/war-on-iran-failed-special-operation-threat-escalation.html
Unfortunately, once you get to Texas, most of what’s south of I-10 is Mexicans…
Real yankees,those of us say in the hills/woods of new england have a lot in common with you southern rednecks,the only big difference is YOU ALL TALK FUNNY!
It’s pronounced “y’all”, James 🤣
North of US-2 it’s “youse guys”…
Agreed (from in the Hampster)!!
Have known only one person from New Hampshire, but he was a riot. Played bass for a local musician here in south Alabama. He even played a wash tub bass when the gig required. Very cool dude…awesome person as far as I was concerned. Great memories. Thanks for the reminder. 🤘
I’m from PA and of old Scots-Irish stock that makes up coal country.
PA is Philly at one end Pittsburgh at the other with Kentucky in the middle (and a bit of Bavaria in-between Philly and the Susquehanna and Poland in the NE)
The stupid around Philadelphia give the rest of the state a bad rap.
true that. grew up in Philly. both parents from elsewhere. Dad was a eastern KY hillbilly. Mom was from long island. work was in Philly. left in 74. came back in 90 as I needed help with the kids. stayed until ‘
both parents passed on and then left. hills of PA. 5 hours from Philly and 1.5 from Pittsburg..
and UPHILL ! even the wife says it like stepping back in time here. we have GREAT neighbors !
Philly WAS a great city. but that was back in the 1960’s by 1968, projects where going in all over the place. factories started to close down. good people left. shit birds moved in. by 1975 , most of the big tool shops and factories moved south or just closed up. then the stores started to close up.
by 1990, most of what once was a great shopping area became a open air drug market.
look up zombie land on ytube to see just how bad it is.
The stone was rolled away … and a chick was onsite 😀
Can someone explain how swooping in and taking this uranium is worth the military lives in the long term? I mean the Iranians can just covertly buy some uranium from the North Koreans or the Pakistanis or probably a couple other rogue actors. Likely in a short time span. So what is the urgency? Unless you occupy the entire country indefinitely what does this get anybody? If stupid old me can see that why can’t the experts? What am I missing here? Just an excuse to use up our weapons and buy more from the military industrial complex for perpetual wars?
Let them eat yellowcake.
The tilting at WMD is not for the empires sake. Its for us. The narrative eaters. Military “lives” are less meaningful than the FF&E they regularly litter some suitable with before leaving it behind for the savages to enjoy like some Johnny rotten apple seeds so another generation of kids can grow up in war. Lives are measured in PR terms, ratings.
Which is the real curious aspect of this chapter. The empire has gone full disney-netflix and taken everything that worked for fusa war, Inc on the home front and turned it gay and black. So either some new faction is running things, likely into the ground, or the old faction no longer sees a reason to hold up some pretense to capture the mind of their primary audience. Either way, not good.
The flip floppy objectives should not be that surprising given fake trump is just as fake as Biden and has seen his PR role become that of unhinged Twitter chic. But within that surreal and ridiculous charade we get a constant stream of “I have to return some videotapes” as Patrick Bateman steps out to axe some hookers while the Real World dines and drinks and trans acts.
The realities are totally bifurcated and they know it as much as we here know it. Which isn’t to say its not all unraveling but that in an empire run by demonic psychopaths say a lot of things for reasons that can only be understood as fleeting attempts to skin suit average americanism, which no longer exists, which is the real issue that should have us stretching necks.
@Checkers, I postulate two reasons:
1. Because israel wants it (for whatever selfish and satanic reasons they may have).
2. Because the MIC wants it (for destruction of existing stocks of equipment and armaments, and profit from the manufacture of replacement of same).
Outside of that, any further rationale are probably indistinguishable from insanity, to people like us.
Annnnd…looks like TACOs for dinner tonight, purportedly the Iranians have agreed to reopen the straight of Hormuz (no word on the gays of Hormuz at this hour) and a tentative 2 week ceasefire is in effect. So, the fake and ghey American empire lives another day.
I guess I can forego calling the psycho chick that kept hitting me up a few months ago, since I won’t need an end of the world blowjob after all.
drumpf has put all of us in a bad predicament. fucking asshole..
the scumbag gives zero fucks about anyone but himself, his precious billion$, and his jew family…
he is evil and he’ll do as he’s told by his master and fellow chabad buddy bibi, which is to unleash nukes on iran, destroy amerikah, and start the 3rd world war to usher in the antichrist
funny part is how he suckered 80 million morons to voat for him.
tfA-t tried to tell y’all back in’16…………………..
“Trump epitomizes everything we hate about some Jews. He is a rapist, pedophile, thief and cheat. Basically a gangster.”
https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/april-5–world-in-a-strait-jacket.html
“ADVISOR TO IRAN’S GHALIBAF: TRUMP HAS ABOUT 20 HOURS TO EITHER SURRENDER TO IRAN OR HIS ALLIES WILL RETURN TO THE STONE AGE; WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/7-49-pm-edt-iran-trump-has-about-20-hours?catid=17&Itemid=101
BC, check density altitudes… Im thinking thats the reason for 130’s to support lil birds… need a way way closer fob to the action…
Now if the uranium was a sode gog and or proof of concept here may had just been a happy coincidence…
Happy easter!
Have you seen these Flock surveillance cameras popping up all over the place? It’s way more than just license plate readers, it’s facial recognition, it’s the dents in your car, the logo on your t-shirt, the Glock bumper sticker in your rear windshield, and they’re on the side of the highway, Walmart parking lots, Lowes hardware, Bass Pro, and many others.
TSA x-ray scanners as soon as you walk outside of the house.
I read your blog regularly. You mention Von Braun, My dad met and worked with him while at the space center at Huntsville Al, while he was in the army. He actually came to the house and had supper with him and mom. Dad was in the Army and was sent to Alaska and was there during the big earthquake. He said that Von Braun was arrogant and hard to get along with like most Germans. That was the early 60’s, that’s all i can remember. I’m old.