Author: BigCountryExpat

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Not gonna lie, tired AF from today. Spent it with the Gran#1, the Nookular Red Head delivering her oh so late Birfday Gifties. As you may recall, her Birfday was a while back. Problem was that for reasons that escape Ye Olde Memorybanks right now, the BIG gifts (x2) didn’t get here on time. Sapper’s gift was also running late, and then ‘other things’ like the cancer diagnosis threw everything out of whack, so this was the first chance to see her and ‘give up the goods’.

I did a last minute edition from the Zon which she went completely nuts for:

“Some assembly required, batteries not included”

Heh. (almost an hour and half to put them together)

Yet again an understatement like you read about. I’ll be the first one to say though, for $25 she absolutely adored them. Even both Gretchen and other GranMom were digging them… guess it’s a chick thing… push a button, the wings light up and flap, and it plays some sort of I dunno? Fairy Music or whatnot? Either way she was in Heaven, and that is what it’s all about.

The biggest pain in the ass was having to thread the LED light wire ALL around the damned thing… but one I got it done, well… the look on her face made it all worth it.

And then, well, I ignored the Ministry of Lies and Propaganda today. Only thing that I did check out was the Twitter feed that WiscoDave sent me this A.M. about that dead CIA Operative Navalny… seems that the “usual suspects” of the various Ministries tried to make it sound like a small memorial in Moscow was packed with people AND the “Putin Double-Secret Police” who were there to ‘clamp down on the pro-democracy protestors and Navalny supporters… a “”huge security presence in Moscow” as they called it…
HOWEVER

Western Media tells you there's a "huge security presence in Moscow" as people place flowers for Navalny? @maxseddon @AP @rte @BBC @CNN all seem to think its a "Revolutionary act" to place flowers here?

Well, I am actually here, there are 4 police officers, and 13 people. pic.twitter.com/pguu1bQE2U

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) February 17, 2024

4 Cops, 13 People
Sounds massive AF to me…
What say you?

And then they wonder why we no longer listen to them, ignore them, and ridicule them. Some dude over on Reddit the other day on the r/IHateMyJob (I think that’s the name of the group) did a post of how he’s a reporter for a “Big-name New York Newspaper that used to be important.” Seems that now, at social gathering with new people, when he introduces himself, he tells them that he’s self-employed… that even among the “cloud people” in New York Fucking City consider reporters to be right up there with pedophiles and practitioners of bestiality.

As Alf would say “HA!”

Serves the fucker right. Learn to code asshole. Die in a fire preferably. Those assholes are the main reason we’re on a slow ride to Hell. THEY were supposed to be the ones who informed US IF things went sideways so “We The People” could try to ‘adjust things’ to keep everything from going off the rails…

Instead? Well we got what we got, mainly because we didn’t start tar and feathering motherfuckers, never mind hanging them or rolling out “Madame Guillotine”, which at this point they are ALL so richly deserving of. And more if I had my way…

Jes’ Sayin’

So… about the title… been saving this…

Looks like your basic #2 Pencil:

Fairly innocuous right?
That being said, In Reality:

Yep…
It’s made out of G10, a high density fiberglass composite/laminate. It’s practically unbreakable. Sapper got a pair for us at Christmas as a stocking stuffer… Gotta love a fren like that amiright? I’m sure that carrying it is questionable at best, downright illegal at worst. However, that being taken into consideration, as they say I’d rather be “Judged by 12 than carried by 6” in a situation that causes me to need a close-in weapon.

Given that?
It’s still cool as fuck: (go to 2:06)

Plus, you want to talk about camouflaged?
Yeah, no one would realize what you’re carrying.

Ok… now one last thing.
On the way to see the Red Head, we stopped for guzzolean per usual. What I found unusual was the stickers on the pump… on ALL the pumps actually:

Besides the extortionist level of the price, they were out of 89 and 93 octane. Outside of some strange times, and the late 70s, I’ve NEVER seen a BIG station like Racetrack being completely out of two ‘flavors’ of fuel. I asked Sapper about it when I got home, as he works in the industry, and he told me he hasn’t heard anything yet… however, that could change rather quickly… makes me wonder what’s going on?

Y’all seen anything ’round your way? Let me know

Add on the Truckers theoretically not delivering ‘stuff’ to NYFC, and well, that IF they actually do manage to, you know, really not deliver anything to NYFC, well that’d be hilarious!

I mean Grocery Stores here in the ‘Burbs only have 3-4 days worth of ‘stuff’ at any given moment. In New York? Probably far less as they don’t have BIG stores like we do in the ‘Burbs, AND storage space and whatnot must cost a metric fuckload… which means, Nope, they don’t have a lot of leeway, vis-a-vis the JIT (Just In Time) Deliveries and whatnot…

IF and only IF the Truckers ACTUALLY do manage to pull this off, my Bingo Card for March is “Cannibal Niggers Eating Whitey” by the end of the month…

That or the Exodus of them all to New Jersey, which in itself promises to be a “grab the popcorn” moment…

And as a final wrap up for tonight, Gretchen is looking at starting treatment the third week of March. We’re keeping our fingers crossed and praying hard that everything works out… the lack of sleep and stress levels on both of us has been tremendous. TBH, I just want things to be mellow FFS… it’s like I can’t catch a break… although my Best Friend of 40+ years told me that when everything is over and done with, he wants to take Gretchen, me and himself on a Vacation, on his dime. Not sure if it’ll happen, but it -is- nice to have something positive to possibly look forward to… Again, our thanks to ALL y’all for your support.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
This’s the same update I just put up on the GiveSendGo, but it also is a pertinent ‘thing’ that says a lot about “Current Day Clownworld.”

The title of this is more of a interesting side note.  When we first found out about this nightmare, I started doing ALL the research I could… alternative medicine, voodoo, witchcraft and whatever… nah… I joke, I joke…  Seriously though….

In reality, I settled on some ‘stuff’ (ands told y’all about) that a LOT of people suggested here in response to the announcement.  I got (or already had on hand) all of what I deemed appropriate for her, none of which could really harm her.  Everything She’s getting now is over-the-counter… most of which are LOTS of vitamins and some of these treatments that got the ‘short shrift’ during the Kung Flu.  Ivermectin, Fenbendazole and a few others…  I wrote about this as you probably remember, and Lo and Behold!

A couple of day ago I got an email…
The Goolag demonetized my ad revenue on those particular pages.

Told me I needed to “correct” the information I was talking about, or the $$$ for those particular pages would be shut off….  No biggie really as it’s only $2 or $3 that I’d earn on those pages.  Not worrying about the $$$ on that, as its really not a LOT of $$$ that I make through the monetization.  What I found highly interesting was the reason. 

“Inappropriate Content” 

Wow… 
So in my eyes, this means that doing and talking about
–anything– outside of “The ¡Science!” (also known as “the standard cancer protocols”) is considered “inappropriate” Just how fucked up is that? Here’s something that possibly –might– be effective in combatting Cancer, and oh noes! Can’t have the proles hear about cheaper and possibly better treatments than Radiation and Chemo!!! Quick! Pressure him into taking the bad stuff down!

Jesus Wept.

You know, Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning.
NOT as an Instruction Manual.
Jes’ Sayin’

So that interesting part out of the way, YESTERDAYS fire that we had to put out was Gretchen’s MomUnit almost got scammed out of $3000.00. Seems she got a phone call from “The FBI” and she fell for it hook, line and sinker. She went as far as taking the $3k out of the bank, and almost deposited it in the scammers account!!!!

Thankfully, Divine Intervention happened by way of Dad found out, and called Gretchen. MomUnit didn’t tell Dad what was going on, and up until then, she’d been on Autopilot, clueless as can be. Once we got involved we stopped this shit cold. Gretchen had to go as far as getting the Bank President of their branch on a three-way call to explain that MomUnit had gotten rooked.

Now, normally, the rule is “Don’t Talk To The Cops” but in this case, it was initiated by someone Identifying as an FBI agent, and I know those fuckers don’t like shit like that. We reported it to them, and their attitude was like “Meh.” Sooooooo

Because of that I figure turnabout is fair fucking play. Mom got the account info and such, which I’ll share here as hey, this fucking guy was oh so kind to share the info with Mom, and considering he tried to steal $3k from the elderly, I consider it fair game to put out HIS bank info to y’all:

Name: ROAN REID
Bank of America Account Number: 383027070507
Routing Number: 031202084

Now, not that any of you would do any nefarious things like possibly looting this assholes shit IF there is anything to be looted, but if you manage to, please be as kind to make a donation to Gretchen’s GiveSendGo, as it would be appreciated.

Yeah, I’m a dick.

Besides, the name of the ‘scammer’? Gawd… sounds like a bad WWE heels name. And the routing number is out of the Arlington Virginia area. So fuck that guy…

In fact I find it humorous that happened yesterday, as we watched “The Beekeeper”. Which, if you haven’t seen it, is all about Jason Statham going all Rambo because some folks fucked over an elderly lady friend of his… The story and secondary folks in it were sort of meh. I really hated the daughter character of the lady who Statham was avenging. She also happened to be an FBI agent, and was utterly worthless and annoying throughout the whole thing…

The action sequences were aight… not enough in my book, but the killing of the guy with the truck and the ratchet strap had me and Sapper HOWLING with laughter. It’s in the trailer:

Not bad IMO.
I’d watch it again if I had nothing better to do.

Now, on the Krainian Front: Seems General Sleazy called for an ‘evacuation’ from Andeevka… which turned into, according to multiple sources a full-on pants-shitting rout. Which makes sense as there were blocking units to the West who’s entire job was to make sure that the Krainian Infantry -couldn’t- retreat… very much like the Commissars in the Soviet Army back in the bad old days, “not one step back” meant if you retreated without orders, you’d be killed by the “Blue Hats” as they were called.

Yep…
The Krainians are Russian As Fuck when it suits them.
And another thing from the Drone Wars, Russia showed off a new war-drone:

I can’t embed the video as it’s all in Russian with no translation available. It also is mostly an interview with the designer of that fucking monstrosity. From my own investigations, that orange Inert Shell is about 80-85mm across. I get that number by the size of the engines.

Thats a seriously big Ka-Boomy-Boom.

Looks like that days of Obamarigging RPG warheads to a commercial drone are -done-.

I mean granted, they already did start, but these new ones?

As far as I can tell, these suckers are the first drones to be specifically designed to be warfighting machines. It was one thing when they strapped some C-4 or RDX to a commercial drone. When they wired up RPG-7 warheads, that too was progress.

Now?
That thing above looks like a flying torpedo for fucks sakes.
God help us if they start doing the ‘autonomous AI guidance’ stuff with them… I mean it’s bad enough that some of the videos that have been coming out of the Krain, from both sides, show a “Terminator” looking hellscape. Guys running as individual FPS Drones circle around, hunting, lurking, and looking for the best target they can find…

So yeah…
Interesting times I suppose.

So, again, our thanks, Gretchen and I, for all the good thoughts, prayers and donations. It’s making a world of difference, and I’ll update y’all next week as we -should- have a better grasp as to when she’ll be starting the ‘real part’ of her treatment(s).

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!

So, just to get straight into it. I was doing some reading and hearing how General “Deadman” Austin is back in the hospital in the critical care unit for ‘an emergent bladder issue’. Now those who’ve been following along here for a while, I’ve posited that the fucker is DOA, and the current guy they’ve been using for photo ops and whatnot is a fairly similar body double.

Now, to be honest, the Secretary of Defense, in particular dis fukkin’ guy is about as useful as teats on a boar hog. He really hasn’t done anything if you look at his record. In fact, the majority of “things” that have been implemented could have been done by a subordinate. Considering just how this seems to becoming a pattern with this current illegitimate (mal)administration, (they positively love them some puppets) IMO this ain’t too far a reach.

Now for whatever reason, I started wondering about General (3 star) Antonio Aguto. If you remember, I did a poast about him HERE where I was questioning just why they put what I considered to be an underqualified dude to be put in charge of the loftily named “Commander, Security Assistance Group-Ukraine, Operation ATLANTIC RESOLVE, Germany”. Now… funny thing that I noticed.

There ain’t been hide nor hare of this dude in public since he left for the Krain on December 12th. No interviews. No testifying in front of CONgress nor the Senate. Literally dead air/radio silence. Which strikes me as very odd because if anything, the current brou-ha-ha that the Criminal Corruptocrats are raising about trying to get more shekels to the Krain?

You would think that you’d want the man who’s been on the ground, theoretically observing the Krainians up close and personal, in the battlespace, to come an testify that “Why yes Senator Lickadicksuckacock, we absolutely need to pass this bill to insure that our Greatest Ally ever… errr… the Krainian Kokaine Kid gets his money and that you get your kickback(s)… minus 10% for the “Big Guy.”

But nope.
Nada.
Nichts.
Zero
Zip.
And the reason for that?

I think the fucker got caught in the same airstrike that took out Austin. Hence his complete lack of presence anywhere. December 13th of last year was an extremely odd strike in that the Krainians were absolutely positive and to this day claim that they shot down ALL 20 of the missiles and drones that came in.

Even I remember it because they (the Rus) used 10 Ballistic Missiles, both Iskandars and s400s. Thing is, the Krain’s ‘batting average’ on actual real shoot downs of ballistic targets is like 18%. They ain’t hit shit, and now they ain’t got shit to even –try– to stop shit. So it struck me as very odd for them to be so adamant that they shot down ALL the incoming…

But now, in retrospect? Using my theory? It makes sense that they claimed they shot them all down. Can’t be admitting that not only did they utterly fail to shoot down -any- of the missiles, but they also (very likely IMO) got two very important people killed.

So what do you think? Am I onto something?

Now, other things…
I totally missed the pink buffer tube that y’all pointed out. Which means there was a weapon that didn’t come into play. Now that being said, just how many people were there playing “hose the crowd?”

Inquiring minds and all that donchaknow?
Great catch from y’all tho… I’m a mite embarrassed I didn’t notice meself. Now on that note I’m going to go watch “The Beekeeper” with Jason Statham… it looks cheesy and stupid, but violence filled, which after today, I could use some of that to relax. I’ll tell y’all about it tomorrow.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Whew… again, busy busy… taking care of Gretch, and working 10+ hours a day so I can take time off when needed, and also to try and get some O.T. to supplement ye olde income. Unfortunately that takes away from here, so I’m going to try harder…

First on the list is a direct message to all y’all written by Gretchen to all you deplorables reading this. So, here it is:

Dear all you kind readers.

I am NOT the writer in our family.  So please be patient with me. 

 These last couple weeks have been heart wrenching to say the least. However w all the kind words prayers and so many donations you have made things a little better.  I’m feeling very positive about treatment and ready to do battle with this invasion of my body. I’ve been trained by my husband in the art of battle. Now there is nothing to do now but to engage the enemies. 

Thank you all so much I am humble again by your generosity.  Please don’t give up on us. I haven’t yet begun to fight. 
Love
Gretchen

So that’s straight from the heart from her. No changes by me at all. She’s absolutely grateful as I am as well for everybody’s support. This particular battle?

Damned Straight.

Now, with that out of the way… OMFG. The news cycle and teh stoopid seems to be spiraling waaaaay out of control.

It’s like every. single. dumbass, moron, malcontent and reeee-tard out there have all decided to go batshit insane, in spades, simultaneously.

The big crowd shooting at the Stuporbowl Parade in Kansas City for example. I saw this on Twitter:

Now, they’re trying like hell to say it was a “beef” between two individuals. Problem is “Sahil Omar” ain’t exactly a homeboy name. The other thing is they’re reeeeally pushing this “Gang Beef” angle…to the point numerous accounts on Twitter have been saying the above pic and whatnot? Yeah “…that guy wasn’t the shooter!” and other such statements to debunk that above poast.

Thing is?
I’ve seen that look before.
That right there is not the face of a ‘gangbanger’.
Nope.
Last time I saw a hardened, flat eyed, emotionless look like that was at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay specifically. From hardcore Jihadis.
That and dude above is not a homeboi by any means.
His Compatriot that they nabbed:

Now him? He does pass as blaq, however looking closely, that pencil thin ‘stache that he has? Plus the facial structure? Guy looks Egyptian as fuck to me… And according to sources there were three of these guys.

Lastly, there’s one pic of one of the weapons that was used:

It appears to be your basic AR.

Can’t tell if there’s a stock or not on it. Art Sido over at his place said that to him, it looks like just the buffer toob, and nothing else. What he didn’t comment on, or maybe didn’t realize is the magazine?

That’s a 40+ round ProMag AR-15 5.56mm 40-Round Steel-Lined Magazine with Roller Follower

Compare the pic above to this:

Can’t see the dimpling, BUT the two rails running down the side, and the ‘blank space’ at the bottom portion of the mag?
Yeah. That’s a ProMag 40.

It’s also not what one would expect Homie the Clown to pull out and ‘gat up’ while attending a fucking Victory Parade for the Stuporbowl. I mean even I wouldn’t be rolling that hot unless we were in full-on Mad Max Mode, and even then? I wouldn’t be there. The only reason I think that the Aloha-Snackbar-bois were carrying that amount of firepower was that they were trying for a mass casualty event.

I also want to ask: “What’s in the Bag Egg?” I mean the weapon had to fit in the bag, so the question is did he have reloads? If so, well, as my old Drill Sgt used to say “There it is!”

MY opinion, and YMMV, is that this was a test run. “They” (for lack of a better identifier) had three assholes show up to start killing folks at a parade, specifically to see what would happen. 1 dead, 21 wounded with 12 kids among the wounded.

Even your basic gangbanger is a worse/better shot than that.

12 Kids?

And the fact that the KIA was a female? I wonder if she was there with her family, as in her kids? This to me screams a ‘dry run’ to see how the crowd would react. Considering the fact that within damned near 15 seconds of the initial outburst of fire, the fucking mob of real men i.e. them misogynist, toxic males jumped the shooters, disarmed them and held them for the fuzz to pick them up.

NOW “They” have an idea of what –might– happen the next time they “Go Live” ‘cos mark my words gang, this’s just the fucking beginning. The next one I have a hunch will be worse… leaps and bounds worse. I’d say stay strapped or get clapped when out in public.

Avoid Crowds.
Let me know what you think.

Next:

Who had “Russian Nookular Weapons in Space” on their Bingo Card for February? Bueller? Bueller?

Yeah… these being the same exact set of assholes who absolutely assured us (pinky fucking swear) that Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” was a Russian disinfo operation.

Why haven’t these guys been beaten/shunned yet?

It’s gotta be that they’re all still in the District O’ Criminals. I mean otherwise? They’d be getting their asses beat, and righteously so. They’re ALL traitors and scum. I hope I live to see them hang.

Otherwise, despite the denials and whatnot of the Krainian Cheerleaders out there, Avdeevka has been cut off.

I’m trying to find a better map shot, but right there in the middle is “Fortress Avdeevka”. The arrows up North are where the Russians were moving two days ago, in a classic pincer movement to cut off the defenders. They already cut the Main Log Roads, so they can’t evac wounded, and they also can’t get supplies, like food/ammo and water in.

Classic Ivan Strategy.

Seal them in a “Firesack” and blow the fuck out of them. Seems that they’re using upwards of 100+ FAB Glide Bombs daily, to the point the defenders are losing their minds.

To add insult to injury (or maybe vice-versa) The 3rd Azov Brigade was ordered in to -try- to relieve the city and it’s dwindling defenders… To do so, they met up in an Assembly Area about 35 kilometers to the west of Avdeevka proper. The A.A. was in a town called Selidovo. Google maps said it’s 42.6 kliks:

Call it about 500-800 guys, getting ready to mount up to be sent to Avdeevka at the orders of General Sleazy (aka Syrski), who’s apparently called “The Butcher of Bahkmut” by his troops…

Not for butchering Russians mind you, but for having his own men butchered in a futile defense of Bahkmut. Word is they hate his ass. So anyways…

Russia, well…

They hit them with Iskandars and Cluster Bombs…

As it said above, about 600 +/- casualties. Problem is, it’s hard to get an accurate count when your Brigade just got turned into spaghetti sauce… Sort of like when the Haji blew up an Iraqi Police Recruiting center when I was there… I talked to one of the forensic people who told me the body count was done like “How many left feet do we have?”

And lastly…
Pretty sure y’all have heard of one of our ‘valiant police protectors’ here in Florida shooting da fuq out of his cruiser? If not, here’s the tweet:

Everyone is giving their opinions on this video so here is mine. Given the context, "Acorn comes into frame" might be the funniest sentence I have ever read. https://t.co/GW8b5bm9HR pic.twitter.com/l67uuDKXlW

— Braxton McCoy (@braxton_mccoy) February 13, 2024

Watch the video…
And what -isn’t- mentioned is that there was a guy in cuffs in the back seat!!!. Yay! Back the Blue!!!

Yep. Mighty fine police work there Lou… Even worse is he was a vet… from Special Forces supposedly… an Occifer… with two tours in Afghanistan… supposedly he’d never been in combat, which makes me highly skeptical. Menaing I reeeeally wonder if he -was- in S.F.

“What color is the boathouse in Hereford?”

But that’s just me.
He quit the force before they could hem his ass up like they should have… guys like that are a fucking menace. He has -no place- wearing a badge nor carrying a weapon, ever. any. time. any. where.
Top. Men.

So that’s it for tonight.
Let me know what you think
More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
So the Stuporbowl finally finished… I mean man, the hype this year was far beyond anything I can remember in the past. My call, if you remember was:

Chiefs 42, Other (I don’t even know who they’re playing) 38, with some oh so close calls and a last minute WIN!

Big Country’s Prognostication, January 31st

I was a wee bit off…
Chiefs 25, 49’ers 22.
One point off the spread that I guessed.

Thankfully that particular shitshow is over.

Next!!!!
Now that all the ‘current thing’ i.e. the finale of the National Felons League for this season. Not sure what’s next? Is it baseball? Not even sure these days as I just DGAF.

Never been into any of the sportsball.
Initially it was because I was a D&D geek.
Then, as I grew up (literally) and started getting fuckin’ swole, the Foozball Coach wanted me to play. MomUnit forbid it, as her concern was potential lifelong issues from physical damage.

Heh.
She sure as shit had no idea what the Infantry was going to do to me 5 years later. Pretty sure she was right though. If I had dinged myself up doing Foozball, I wouldn’t have been able to go Army. Hell, the only reason even entertained the idea was to get the social cred I so desperately wanted.

Heh.
Fat lot i knew back then. In fact, we all entertain ourselves with “if we could go back in time, and tell ourselves something” believe it or not, it wouldn’t have been anything regarding social issues/whammenz.

Nope…
I would have told my young PFC ass not to party, and use te money to buy a franchise.

What franchise you ask?

If you were a smart young Private in 1990/1991, you would have bought in on a Self-Storage franchise. You want to talk about a license to print money? Imagine setting this up at your first duty station, letting it start building revenue, and then when you PCS, you expand.

By the time you get done?
Twenty years? 4-5 PCS’s?
Yeah. You’d be a rich motherfucker

I myself in 10 years, was stationed at Ft. Campbell, Ft. Hood, and Germany. The time at Knox doesn’t really count… and I don’t count OSUT either. But at least two locations? And then after getting out with 10 years? Roll the $$$ over and head to another DotMil post (maybe Bragg?) and wash, rinse, repeat.

I got a fren who’s retired from the Navy. Full on Chief of the Boat. He did 25+ years and then retired. HE went and every place he was stationed at, HE bought the house he was living in. He invited me to his second retirement party/Christmas party(we met working together at a call center). It was a great time.

Small aside. I took Sapper with me, as Gretchen had a mad migraine. We got there, and I think I wrote about this in the previous blogg, I got hit on by some chick. She got to asking me about my politics, and since I’m married, and she was an obnoxious liberal (she let me know that early on), I decided to kind of obfuscate, as she was a fren of Chiefs. She unfortunately wasn’t having any of it, especially after both Chief AND Sapper let her know I was a pretty well known blogger… she just had to et to the bottom of it.

So, I gave her what she wanted:

Her: “So what are your politics? They must be interesting as if you have that large a following…” (at the time I was at 20k a day readership)
Me: “OK… well… To be honest, I’m a NAZI.”
Her: “Whhhut!?!”
(Sapper who was present, choked on his drink… double nostril shot… blew Mai-Tai all over the table…)
Me: “Yep. Full on NAZI. Sieg Heil everyone!” (Mimes Roman Salute.)

You’d think that would’ve ended it.
Nope.
Fucking Whammez these days…
Sapper said he could (metaphorically speaking) hear her ‘sploosh’ with the ‘want the bad boy’ monkeybranching.

I had to tell Chief not to give her my number.
Anyways…

Chief? He had sold off all his properties (at the height of the market bubble) and then had his dream house built. I’d say it was ANYONES Dream House. Like the garage has an underground Motorcycle parking area with his Harley Collection. It also has an elevator to put his wife’s Porsche 718 convertible coupe up towards the roof so her SUV (Range Rover) could park below it.

No hate, just wish I had his foresight and mad financial skills.

<Snip>
Fell asleep mid writing last night.
Now, where was I?
Ah another prediction looks like it may be coming true:

Next thing we’ll hear is that he’s “retiring due to health issues” and then quietly announce a few weeks (six at the most is my call) that he’s died ‘unexpectedly after a long illness’.

Then, they’re still melting down over the Tucker interview with VodkaManBad. Talk of not letting him back in the US. Personally if -I- were him, I’d be good with that, and ask Putin for asylum. THEN start actively working against the narrative in a far more abrasive manner. Of course word is Tucker is ‘controlled opposition’ but TBH I don’t care either way.

Got enough on my plate.

Although I did get a chuckle on this which was the headlie from this morning’s Faux News:

The twatter in question:

THIS from a Jew representing Tennessee
Link is HERE
The best is to head over there and read the absolute dragging he’s been taking. To the point of him blocking his own constituents. Which according to some recent court cases (specifically against Trump) is illegal.

Doubt he’ll feel any pain for it though.

One last thing. The Montana National Guard is under a bit of fire:

You’ll know when you see it…

So again, SO sorry for the miss last night. I’m either not sleeping, or sleeping too much. My whole pattern is off right now. Again I do want to thank everyone for all the support. Gretchen has really appreciated it, and we’re still positive and maintaining our outlook.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Wow… just… wow.
I can’t thank everyone enough. 10k in 48 hours. Contact and setting things up with Dr. Samizdat to get Gretchen the treatment she needs. Finding out her BFF from High School is a professional medical advocate, who’s taken on the case to help navigate and beat the metaphorical shit out of the recalcitrant insurance company…

All and all, so far, the past 48 have been awesome in no small part to you all. I’m feeling better about the whole thing. Thank God for small miracles and large.

Funniest part of the day was Doc Samizdat needed a picture of Gretchens ta-tas. I mean he -is- going to be the breast oncologist so sure? Why not? Beside, TBH I’m not a guy who gets all bent about his woman being nekkid anyways. SO she send him a pic and apparently he was pretty impressed and told her “I can work with those!”

So that’s great news there.

Otherwise, the only fly in the ointment was DumbC found out (probably from Fecesbook) and called up all dramatic like, wanting to ‘come back into her (Gretchens) life’ after –I– had very specifically made sure that the permanent line in the sand had been drawn: Her or Me.

So, she can beg to come back here allllll day long.
I ain’t budging.

So, with the drama out of the way, onward!

Now, more info has come out about the new General of the Krain, General Syrsky, or as I’ll refer to him as “Sleazy.” Seems that Sleazy is actually a ethnic Russian. He’s from a small ville named Vladimir 200 kliks outside of Moscow.

He barely speaks Ukrainian apparently, and is purely hated by the troops. His track record as a commander is less than sub-par. In fact this shitheel couldn’t lead a pack of cub scouts IMO. He was responsible for the absolute devastation at Bahkmut, and from what I’ve heard already, he’s planning on “Bahkmut 2: Complete Annihilation” in Andeevka.

Andeevka has been a lost cause for a while.
The Russians, doing what they do best, started by sloooowly forming what they call a “fire sack” by maneuvering around the outskirts and sloooowly pinching off the exit behind them. Simplicius had a map from 5 days ago showing the current (at that time) sit-rep:

Even more up-to-date intel said that they’ve cut off the Main LOG train road, which means now the Krainians are trapped. No ammo/food in, no troops/wounded out. This’s essentially the same thing the Russians did against the Germans at Kursk in World War 2. There’s an insanely small window IF the Krainians wanted to save what is left of their troops there

HOWEVER
Sleazy, rather than call for a fall back, has decided to go ‘all in’ and reinforce defeat in depth so to speak. This’s because Krainfeld, just like in Bahkmut, wants what is going to be another pyrrhic “victory”.

FFS!!!

According to BOTH sides, the Krainians lost 6000+ troops KIA last week alone. Supposedly, some number cruncher said that if another 250,000 Krainians get KIA’d, the Krain is absolutely done as a viable ethic demographic. No great loss IMO. I guess this fight -is- going to continue to the Last Krainian Standing.

And on the home front

Hey Assholes!
Yeah, you, you Ivy League Morons!
It’s either he’s too old, frail, and demented to be in charge
OR
He’s too old frail and demented to be running the fucking country!!!

Considering the Gin Hag Pelousy kept screaming “25th Amendment!!!” over supposed issues with OrangeManBad (more on that in a second) and now?

ZOMG!!! It’s a partisan attack and ageist to be calling it what it is.

Hey Pot, this’s the Kettle you’re a Nigger!

Jesus Wept.
As far as the Gin Hag wanting to invoke the 25th, it, in her alcohol-soaked mind at least, the concept was legit. In that anyone who stood in the way of their plans, criminality, and shenanigans had to be certifiably insane. Hence why she wanted (as well as anyone else) on “Team Retard” wanted him relieved of duty. It’s the old Soviet trick of declaring the opposing side insane, and for their own good lock them away in a nut house, as anyone who would oppose The State™ just had to be nuts.

Karmas a bitch ain’t it?

So, the Stuporbowl is up on Sunday?
No idea. Don’t know, don’t care. My call on the spread stands.
Again, Thanks for the support, and just being here.
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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Yep…. had me a bunchabeerz tonight.
Who can blame me?

“And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Matthew 23:39 New Testament English Standard Version

Seriously…
I really need a break
Anyways… enough whining

Earlier I talked with Mike from Cold Fury. I had missed a call from him a couple of days ago, as, well… reasons right? I gave him a call back. He was looking for a sit-rep as Gretchen is one of his favorite people. (I personally think it’s the titties) He knows I’ve been busy/fucked up by what’s happening, so he proceeded to chew my ear off and kept me laughing a bit in light of the situation… Mike’s damned good people, and I’m proud to call him friend.

In fact I got a lot of good friends out there in the Intarwhebz, some of whom I’ve faced-to-faced with. Some I haven’t but would LOVE to see IRL and if I have my way, I’ma going to make an effort to do so, if only to look them in the eye, shake their respective hand, and thank them for having Gretchen’s back.

It’s a pretty distinguished list of a ‘Whos-Who’ of r/ourguys bloggs… Wirecutter, DiveMedic, Borepatch, Dio, Concerned American, Normal American, Art Sido, Phil and Cederq from BustedKnuckles, WendyWorn… and Mike from Cold Fury as I mentioned before…

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,

This day shall gentle his condition

from Henry V, spoken by King Henry, William Shakespeare

These are my people

I’m not sure if some of them understand the depth of my gratitude, but to use an old line:

A good friend helps you hide a body
A great friend brings a shovel and doesn’t ask questions

I lean towards the second side.
It’s a honor thing.

That and We’re all in the same fight.
The world has gotten waaay further gone in such a short period of time that even I in my most pessimistic didn’t expect this particular shit show, what with a barely-sentient Alzheimers Patient theoretically ‘running the country’ for ‘fun and profit’ (10% for the Big Guy donchaknow?) I mean it’s so obvious now that even DemoncRats are saying they’re going to have to 25th his pantshitting ass.

And hate to say I told you so, but I did. They’re saying the best candidate out there is Nancy Pelosi’s nephew, Governor Hairgel of Califrutopia. I called that if you remember a ways back… Now this I personally find hilarious as that fucktard is even stupider than the Veep, Kamel Toe “Cumguzzler” Harris. No wonder Putin isn’t worried for shit about shit, as we’re not fielding our best.

Yep.
I’m just a broken old bastard who screams into the ethers.

30 or 40 years ago, Pre-Internet I might be doing it on a street corner, and being called a derelict. Boston used to have quite a few of them… in college there was one I knew as Crazy Tommy who I used to give spare change to… he was always polite, lived in an alley up the street from my apartment in Murderpan… err sorry Mattapan. Homeless, whytte, schizophrenic, but content, and occasionally when I’d be walking home stoned out of my mind, I’d buy an entire pizza from Cappy’s, and as I walked home, Tommy’d invariably show up, (guy had ‘pizza radar I swear) and walk with me, sharing the pizza. Kept me from getting mugged by having the two of us, one being a known ‘crazy street person’ with me… I hope he’s ok, or at peace…

Good Memories.

But all my fellow bloggers I’ve mentioned, and a few others, well… these are people I’d go the distance for. Like I said, haven’t met all of them F2F yet but I’ll be damned if I don’t make the time to in the very near future.

Got a hunch Phil and Cederq’ll take that as a threat LOL.

But as I was saying, those of us, the happy few I mentioned, are all those who have decided to stand up and be counted. As stated in the Constitution “…(we) Pledge Our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” to continue to expose the lies and propaganda set out by the enemy.

By doing so these days there is the distinct potential to have our lives fucked up because of the intolerance of the Left. Despite these threats and hazards, we band of brothers continue to chip away at the foundation of Lies and Propaganda set forth under the growing intolerance of our supposed “betters”.

They know they’re losing.
We just have to stand tall and fast.
A lesser known verse, Nehemiah 4:14

“And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”

New Testament, Standard English Version

That’s us.
And if you’re here, That’s you too
Fighting for your family, your homes, your way of life
One Step/Action/Meme at a time
BFYTY

So yes, I’m allllll over the place… been studying the Bible… as one in wont to do when you’ve got some heavy shit to deal with… reading favorite passages as you can see… bet y’all didn’t know I have a Masters in Comparative Religion did ya? Yep. Love me some religion/philosophy and the various “why” of it all…

So, I’ma gonna go crash… Gretchen just came out ‘cos I wasn’t in bed yet. To all who’ve donated, all I can say is two things: One HOLY SHIT! and Two, Thank you from the bottom of my blackened heart. This is going to help enormously. The prayers also offered are exceptionally welcome, as every voice lifted in prayer is a force multiplier.

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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
And from what I can tell, ZERO mention in any western Ministries of Propaganda and lies. Guess the Revolution will NOT be broadcast…

Link HERE

According to that, one confirmed dead.
Seems that there was a protest that formed up over the replacement of Krazypants aka Zaluzhnyi or however you spell that dudes name.

Looks like Poroshenko, the guy -we- (the GAE) ran out of town was speaking, and depending on the wording in the article, some of the Krainfeld Bully Boys showed up and shots have been fired.

Match to fuse moment?
I’ll update as I find more things out
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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Only about 45 minutes (as I type this) ’til the interview with VodkaManBad and FormerFoxManBad and possibly some interesting ‘stuff’ to come out.

Supposedly there was a leak of the transcript of the interview, which I’m throwing here:

TUCKER: What would you tell the people running America?

PUTIN: Our message is Russia is not your enemy. We don’t want war. We’re ready for peace. Your leaders seek conflict. This is not what we want. Russia stands for its own people. We do not want what is not ours.

Ok…

Seems this’s bullshit.

OK… far be it for me to spread fake news.
I’ll leave that to the professionals like CNN/CBS/ABC/ and the worst perpetrator, MSNBC. Either way though, the interview has had people on the side of the current (Mal)Administration and its cheerleaders shitting in their collective depends.

To the point that some pundits have been openly calling for Tucker to be kept out of the States, despite never having done anything, except like, you know, his fucking job.

Sweet Jeebus come and squeeze us.

So, guess we’ll see IF there are any revelations to be had.
Next:
The Midget Dicked Krazed Kokaine Kowboy of the Krain, Krainfeld –finally– shit and got off the fucking pot by relieving General “Krazypants” Zaluzhny. Reason I call him Krazypants was that interview he did? The one where he started talking about A.I. controlled fusion powered tunneling robots?
Yeeeah.
Krazy AF IMO.
Now, interestingly, he did not replace him with Kyrylo Budanov, now to be known as “Kylo Badenov”, Boris’s lil Krainian Brother.

Kylo, because he –is– an evil Sith Like Motherfucker by all reports. Nope… instead they replaced him with what would be considered Krazypants direct subordinate, Oleksandr Syrskyi to being the Headman over ALL of the (remaining) forces. Before that, he was the Krainian Ground (meat) Forces Commander. I think this was to keep the idea of having too much slime dragged around as Kylo has a rep for that sort of thing…

Right now they’re hoping this doesn’t cause a revolt in the (depleted) ranks. Reason I’m saying this is I found a tidbit on Moon of Alabama with the quote:

“They come in waves,” said Lt. Oleksandr Shyrshyn, 29, the deputy battalion commander in the 47th Mechanized Brigade. “And they do not stop.”

Moon of Alabama via The New Yawk Slimes

And, just as MoA noticed…
The deputy battalion commander is fucking 29!?!
AND only an El-Tee!?!

They got a FAR bigger problem than who the head man is.
For those of you who’re civilians… a deputy battalion commander -should- be a Major by US Army standards… the Battalion Executive Officer or X.O….

Now in Krainian formations? Not sure of their rank/command structure… could be the equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel or as we call it a “Light Bird” as the former Soviet Republic(s) tended to be ‘heavy’ rank wise on command positions. US Battalions are usually commanded by a Light Bird, with Brigades being a full Colonel (the eagle insignia) which is why we call it a “Full Bird” Colonel.

If they got a Butterbar (brown rank bar) or a 2nd LT playing at a Battalion X.O. slot? OMFG… they are soooooooo utterly and completely fucked. I do doubt it though, as 29? That’d be a well seasoned 1st LT who’d normally be a Platoon Leader. A Platoon of Infantry (US Sized) is normally between 40-50 troops, with 4-5 squads at 10 men each +/-. The platoon is a pretty small bunch.

A Battalion?
Battalions consist of four to six companies and can include up to about 1,000 soldiers. And it ALSO means a hell of a lot more officers.

Lets say for Funsies:
One Battalion commanded by a Lt. Colonel, a Major for the X.O.
4 Companies in this Unit. Which means 4 Captains, and their X.O.s.
Not sure what role this guy –had– but either way, he got command by every. single. officer. above. him. getting. killed.

Last man standing and all that.
As I said, They’re fucked.
When a LT, no matter how good he is is left ‘holding the bag’, your DotMil is in some seriously deep shit. Granted, this guy? He’s -got- to be good to have lasted this long, so my hat off to you LT, wherever you are.

So, lastly.
Couple of y’all have said to do a fundraiser.
Maaan… I’d rather rip my eyes out. That being said though, after today, it became mandatory. For the record, Gretchen has been diagnosed with Stage 2 Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer. Now the good news is her biopsy for the Lymph Nodes came back clean.
That however is underlined with a big “for now”.
If we don’t get humping on this, if that changes, then shit goes fucking pear shaped (like today). She was supposed to get a BRCA genetic test, which I already know she’s going to ‘fail’ so to speak.

The BRCA gene test looks for DNA changes that increase the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. That’s the test that caused a LOT of Hollyweird chicks to lop off Ye Olde Boobies preemptively. In Gretch’s case, BOTH her Grannies died of BC, and her Mom survived it, but sans boobage.

The fucking Gyno Shop she’d been going to wanted $400 on top of everything else to do what I figure -should- nominally be a simple test. We left and are exploring other options. My own is to go back and bar and lock the doors and windows, and burn the thieving fucks alive, but I have been known to be a bit ‘reactionary’. So yeah, Copays and a 10k Out of Pocket? Nevermind having to repair the damage to that magnificent rack?

That was when she was one of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Pirate Crew… we got to go on the Pirate Ship (me and Sapper) while she did the whole entertainment thing…

Thanks so much Obama!
May You Forever Smoke a Turd in Hell You Asshole.
The Link -should- be at the top, but if not:

https://www.givesendgo.com/helpthehairdiva

If you can help, it’s appreciated. If not and only prayers are offered, double the thanks. Shit is old and wearing, so hey… I’ll get through it.

… Oh, I get by with a little help from my frens
Mm, get high with a little help from my frens
Oh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my frens

… Do you need anybody?
I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love

… Oh, I get by with a little help from my frens
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my frens
Oh, I get high with a little help from my frens
Yes, I get by with a little help from my frens
With a little help from my frens”

My Thanks and Love to You All for being here and just allowing me to vent.
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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
So, a small metaphor for tonight:

Become A Swiss Army Knife.

The More Blades, The Better.

Like I say about myself “Jack of All, Master of None” (or thereabouts). The concept came to me tonight whilst prepping Gretchen’s Ivermectin shot. It sort of came to me…

I got a lot of varied skills.
Like a really huge amount.
I knew what size needle gauge and syringe we needed to ‘do’ her shot up correctly (the lil diabetic 100 minis are waaay too small) as well as, well hell the fact that I’ve had the Ivermectin on hand for emergencies i.e. any of us getting hit with a more potent Phase 3, 4 or 5 variant of the ‘Vid, well it’s kind of reassuring for her to know I have an encyclopedic pile of intel crammed in the thinkin’ meat.

True Fact: After about our 2nd or 3rd Anniversary, Gretchen broke up with me. “Reasons and sheeee-it” as I called it. IRL she was playing ‘dread game’ (fear of losing someone forever) the female variant, but honestly? That shit doesn’t work on me. FAR too many younger and tighter out there dying to get with a guy like myself…

So, I told her “OK, you get ONE break, and after that, it’s the streets for you. HOWEVER… best not fuck around too long ‘cos your ass’ll find out hard because I’ve never had an issue finding a replacement.” I then pointed out that I had told the X the same exact thing… the X ignored it and well, almost 30 days to the day the X and I were done, I had Gretchen and about 2 other plates spinning…

Sometimes as cruel as it may be, ya gotta remind ’em:

“Men age like a Fine Cognac, Women age like Milk”

She was back within 2 weeks.
It was nice to have a break TBH.
Anyways… point is, that tonight?
Tonight, while I was reassuring her shit was going to be fine, she thanked me profusely for taking her back. I had to ask what the hell she was talking about as, well, I’m a guy. I’d forgotten that shit 5 minutes after she got back. She also told me she’d realized the world was going to be seriously pear shaped, and she could do far worse as far as an “Apocalypse Boyfriend/Husband” than me.

So yeah.
Besides a minor ego trip, and yeah, allow me… it’s been a rough patch lately… but yeah. If anything that’s happening, you need “blades on your knife.” Ergo the Swiss Army Knife.

The more skills you know and have, the better.

It’s great if you’ve got some medical skills… it’s better if you have medical certifications… BEST if you have IRL experience dealing with Medical Issues either under fire/stress or under ‘austere conditions’. Being able to suture someone is valuable not if, but when shit does eventually go retarded.

Same goes for your boomstick. Great if you can do minor repairs on your AR. Best if you can tear one down and/or build one from a pile of pieces-parts… or, BEST if you’re given 4 burned up, battle damaged M-4s and can make as many functional rifles with bare minimum tools.

Godlike Level is unlocked and achieved if you can make a weapon from basic Harbor Freight tools and scrap metal like Phil from BustedKnuckles. Gunsmithing and Reloading are going to be serious ‘must have’ skills post whatever-the-fuck is coming.

So, my advice:
To reiterate
Get some skills.
The More, The Better.

Note to this also: All these guys running around doing ‘tactical training’ and whatnot for hundreds of dollars? Yeah… I suppose if you have had ZERO training EVER then , yep… it might be advisable. Thing of it is, is that if you served in the DotMil, or are an avid hunter/fisherman/wilderness kind of guy, then, unless you’re planning on forming up a squad of wannabe Militia, then no, I’d say avoid that crap.

First, it’s pricey.

Secondly, especially in light of some of the new ‘Anti-Training/Anti-Militia’ legislation they’re trying to push, I’m pretty sure that -somewhere- in those bills is something about mandatory intel gathering and whatnot to make lists of those who do or have done some form of advanced tacticool rifle/pistol training. Easier to round up folks to kill ’em later if they feel the need.

Your best sources you can do use simple.
First Aid stuff at Community Colleges or the “Y”
Appleseed Rifle Marksmanship Courses as so far that’s not on the ‘bad guy list’ as of yet. Of course that’ll probably change knowing our current maladministration.

And Books…

Boy oh Boy oh Boy.

Get Hardcopy of Everything You Think You >Might< Need

Can’t emphasize this enough
Unfortunately for us, we’ve all gotten waaay too cozy with our electronic gizmos, doodads and whatchamacallits. God forbid, we get a EMP/Grid Down/No More Net situation, most motherfuckers won’t know how to get home without the Goolag.

Land Nav? What is this Land Nav of which you speak?

Costly?
Can be. That’s what used book stores online are for. As long as they’re not missing pages and/or tore the fuck up to illegibility, used books are fucking mint for these purposes. My own ‘operational immediate’ library is this:

Shakespeare, Religion (Shintoism and Buddhism, plus ‘other’ meditative stuff…) Philosophy and poetry, Basho in particular. Medical Books to include Survival Medicine and the incomparable “Where There Are No Doctors”. Reloading Manuals. Intel Gathering books. How to use Commo (Thanks to Brushbeater for those). Uncle Ted’s books (all of them… fascinating how brilliant but cracked he was… a true visionary, albeit pretty fucked in the head) and then also, Field Manuals, DotMil, multibranch. The grey “survival guides” up there are alll the pre-Y2K stuff I printed off when I first found out about prepping and Y2K… all off of USENET believe it or not (tell me I’m dating myself Aye?) It contains articles and how-to stuff about animal husbandry, skinning animals properly, egg storage and the like.

And that’s just the “OMFG The house is on fire!!!! Quick get these in the truck so’s we at least have them!!!” collection. The third bedroom has literally 8 bookcases stuffed with books, from Gardening (18th Century Florida Style) to Sniping by John Plaster.

Each skill you have is a blade in your knife.
Each book you have sharpens that blade.
Each blade can help you live better and survive.

As Sapper pointed out the relevant quote to me, which I had forgotten (Bad BC, Bad BC!) from the Master, Robert Heinlien:

“Specialization is for Ants”

Hope you enjoyed.
Thoughts?
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