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Greetings and Salutations!
To all those who’ve asked, Gretchen is doing well post-surgery.

Of course she’s milking the whole “I just had surgery thing” to the max. The nice thing is the way the doc inserted the ‘bubble’ for her eyeball, it seems that the best way for her to be is straight upright, which saves on having her face-down non-stop for the next two weeks. It also allows her some mobility, and her sleeping is done via wrapping her up in pillows, upright.

Works for me.

Of course her right eye is currently is “Hellraiser” mode.
Scary looking AF.
It’s a good thing that Red isn’t here currently to see this ‘cos it’s enough to give ME the heeby-jeebies. I can SEE how they cut on her… think “Event Horizon” sort of surgery… Ugh!

And I’ve seen some horrific stuff over the years… Even the words “Eyeball” and “Surgery” are two that in my book should never be put together… stuff that nightmare fuel is made of.

Now a quick note: I have to give my man Borepatch some props. He made 17 years in the blogosphere the other day, which is impressive as all get-out. Far too many people like JL pack it in early, or others who like Mike Vanderboegh of the “Sipsey Street Irregulars” blog, who unfortunately ‘die in the saddle’ so to speak. Another one who passed FAR too early, who was the inspiration of this blog, Bob Owens of “Confederate Yankee” who was a GREAT friend and the guy who actually got me started in blogging WAAAAAY back in the day.

Requiescat in Pace, my fren… you will be avenged.

I’ve personally never bought in that Bob “aced himself out”.

It was waaaaay to convenient. Bob was the guy who busted open the entire “Baghdad Diarist” Bullshit Story back in the day, with me being his on-the-ground in-person witness and gopher. His expose pretty much fried the editor at the time of the New Republic, Franklin Foer… We got to be frens from that, and as he grew as a major 2nd Amendment Rights advocate, I always found his quote “Suicide” unquote to be BEYOND sus.

Just another casualty of the truth…

Anyways
Tonight’s rant while I’m in between taking care of Gretchen, the dogs, the cats, the garbage and dinner is about Wasson Watches. Now by no means do I have a dog in the hunt per se.

HOWEVER
Wasson Watches, which is/WAS a right wing ‘based’ watch selling company just committed “Brand Suicide” over the “Jewish Question”.

I.E. In their opinion, anyone who questions Israel, the Jews, the Holocaust or Gaza is a Nazi who needs to have their head bashed in. Unfortunately, I didn’t grab a screenshot of it, but OMG… for a ‘supposed Christian’ former Infantryman, this guy is out of fucking control for his absolutism when it comes to the Izzies.

Case in point: Dissident Soaps: They happened to make a couple of comments on Wasson Watch’s twitter account… calling them out for the extreme support of what any normal person would…. i.e. the incessant bombing/killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians…

Now me being me? I’ll tell your right off the bat:

I think what’s going on there is a crime against humanity. My fellow bloggers can roast me all day long, but I grew up with a Palestinian ‘older brother’ if you will… one of DeadDad’s students who moved in for about a year at the house, and I learned a LOT about the Infitada, and about Islam in general. I had a VAST exposure to BOTH sides and I CAN NOT allow nor ignore the deaths of children…. I don’t care who’s side you’re on… If the Palestinians attacked little kids, I’ll condemn them and rightfully so… and when I see lil baby-kids sitting either by their dead parents, or blown up in an airstrike, well then fuck them fuckers dropping the bombs…

Side rant complete.
So anyways… Dissident soaps Poasted the following after some serious foreskin sucking by Wasson Watches:

Funny right?
Lord knows the Mel Gibson Meme of the same lettering?
That was mine… about 3-4 years ago.
If I had a dollar for every time someone poasted it….

Anyways to continue…

DS (Dissident Soaps) pulled the meme shortly after as -someone- from Wasson Watches complained about a potential copyright violation.
BUT
That wasn’t enough
Nope.
The foreskin-suckers COMPLETELY doubled down:

Yep.
They doxxed the fuck out of the owner of Dissident Soaps

Not that it wasn’t public info.

HOWEVER!!!
The public backlash is/has/has been INSANE.

First off, there were some assholes who made some memes that completely mis-read the fucking audience:

Specifically, some asshole made this:

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
The overall reaction was “Where/When can I buy this!?!”

I even said it needed to be a T-Shirt.
Other Memes Quickly Followed:

and then:

as well as this:

and:

and lastly:

Now mind you, This is a SAMPLING of what I found…

The amount of sheer destruction of the brand is something for the ages… this’s even worse than Black Rifle Coffee stepping on their cocks when they decided to shit on and disavow Kyle Rittenhouse… and yes, interestingly enough, the CEO of Black Rifle Faggotry is a Jew. Go figure.

If BRC had ‘stepped up’ and backed Rittenhouse INSTEAD of going the OTHER way, they’d STILL be at $24.45 or a share on the NYSE or HIGHER, as opposed to the current $1.24. So yeah, Fuck those guys… seriously.

So Wasson Watches, AFTER doxxing the owner of Dissident Soaps, kept it up…

For a while.

Until as they say, “turnabout is fair play” and people doxxed the fuck out of the guy who owns and runs Wasson Watches. And add on that Musk actually shut down Wasson’s Twitter account for a couple of days, well… it doesn’t look good for the guy.

Add on that EVERYONE… from ‘normies’ to ‘right wingers’ have jumped on board? I mean sheeeeeeeeeeeee-it…………

NOBODY like a narc.

So I give it about 30/45 days before Was-son Was-Watches are out of biddness… I mean when you have normie articles out of the Wall Street Journal calling out Twitter Battle and your own e self destruction of your own brand?

Yeeeeeeeeeeeah… you’re dead…
You just need to get instructions on just -where- to lay down.

‘Cos you’re a fucking corpse.

“Dead Man Walking!” Aye?

But anyways… I’m glad some of y’all enjoyed Karl’s post. I’m grateful he stepped in, and I’ll see about having others come onboard in the future as guests. I invited JL (the “Bitter Centurion”) but he unfortunately declined…. (Dude… note to you: Your input and thoughts are missed you Canuk Cockfag!)

So let me know in the comments
More Later
Big Country

My guest post for Big Country while he takes some time off. I’ve been a big fan of his Army stories and have been inspired to share a couple of mine. I won’t reach BCE’s high bar here, but I hope to come close.

I’ve never been to war, but I nearly died in an exercise. This is my story.
I attended the 6-week Army PSYOP course at Ft. Bragg in the summer of 92 as a 2LT reservist. That was the PSYOP heyday after their incredible successes in Desert Storm the previous year. One PSYOP campaign had a leaflet that led to 66,000 Iraqi desertions. One side of the leaflet had all the flags of the coalition. The message: It is you against the world. The other side had surrender instructions: 1) When you see coalition troops, sling your rifle upside down, 2) hold this leaflet over your head, 3) follow instructions. A simple message matched perfectly to the conditions the Iraqi conscripts on the front lines were facing.

That’s 66k we didn’t have to engage or avoid. That’s 66k that didn’t try to slow or kill our guys.

Matching a message to an audience is the key to PSYOP success. I had a chance to give it a try.

February 93 – Team Spirit, Korea.

I wasn’t your typical reservist. I maxed out my active duty time each year to fund college. I’d work as a clerk or some other duty for the total allowed 6 months per year, then do one or two semesters. Rinse, repeat. I had been doing this for the 5 years I was enlisted, and continued after earning my commission. The Team Spirit duty was available, and about 8 from my unit volunteered for the 3-week assignment. I was the senior man. I figured I’d be working for some field-grade types doing what all 2LTs do – shit work.

Nope.

The active duty PSYOP command didn’t send anyone to the exercise. So I was the senior PSYOP guy – a butter bar in a LTC slot. Talk about a weapon of mass destruction! In hindsight, I could have brought the whole system down with one “good” idea.

I was assigned to the Corps HQ (3 star command) at the Suwan air base – the top command for the Team Spirit exercise. And in this role, I had to introduce myself to the Chief of Staff, a bird colonel. The guy was all business, and his business was killing commies first, and eating lieutenants for lunch a close second. And he was all out of commies. The look of disgust when I reported to him was epic, and I remember it as if it were yesterday.

But there was a mismatch. He didn’t know who he was dealing with.

I thrived on his disgust. It fueled me. A prior NCO, I knew the Army, the system, the bureaucracy, and I knew them well. For example: A guy with only 2 years of college, I beat out a hundred OCS applicants, all older and all with degrees including some graduate-level guys. And I smoked OCS as the youngest and least-educated in my class, not only surviving my class’s 66% attrition but finishing 2nd in PT and 8th in leadership. But my finest traits as a officer, IMO: I was confident of my abilities and I didn’t care about the career. I loved the Army and my fellow troops, and I was in it only until it wasn’t fun. Seriously. Unlike practically every other LT, retirement wasn’t my goal, nor was a target rank. Which means I couldn’t be manipulated through conventional methods, such as living in fear of the Chief of Staff colonel. My only career goal, since the second week of basic training if you’ll believe it, was to be a company commander. As a 2LT, company command was a sure thing at this point in my career. I was just marking time.

I was an anomaly, and the chief of staff didn’t make any effort to explore this possibility.

Mind you, I didn’t think I’d have a success at Team Spirit. I just had a well-developed talent for giving it my best based on years of successes with exposure to many solid leaders and leadership styles. While a reservist, I didn’t have the years of grind like the active guys. But those 5 years of temporary active assignments exposed me to great leaders, big exercises and big challenges. It is only in hindsight that I see that I offered far more than the rank on my collar suggested.

Chief of Staff: “Welllll FUCK! Bragg didn’t send me anybody so you’re it [until you’re dead or I find someone better]. I know what it’s like to be a second lieutenant. I don’t expect ANYTHING from you, nor do I want you to do ANYTHING other than watch and learn. Attend the morning briefings, stay quiet, and stay out of the way. Clear?”

Me: “Yes sir.”

I could have left it at that. Who doesn’t like being told to do nothing?

Those morning briefings were incredible. The officers briefing the 3-star were the creme. I had seen more than my share of field-grade officers who only wore the rank because they stayed out of trouble and did the time. Still mostly good guys, but these weren’t them. That general was getting the best service from his staff and I had a front-row seat. And I was getting paid! Stupid Army – I would have paid for the experience.

One morning the intel guy is briefing the enemy units. Where they’re at. What they are doing. What they are expected to do. Just a routine review of the battlefield. Then he gets to a battalion-size unit that has suffered 40% losses. That is combat ineffective in military-speak, but it is something else to PSYOP. His message to the general and the message the general correctly took: Ignore this unit.

But I heard a different message. That unit is ripe for desertion/surrender. A PSYOP campaign, targeted to that unit’s unique characteristics and conditions, could remove it from the general’s big map board altogether.

We all know what happens when a 2LT gets an idea…

After the briefing I go to the intel guy and get the unit info. Their conditions: food quality and quantity, medical care, hygiene, leadership, what part of N. Korea they are from, etc.

My team and I then develop a leaflet similar to the one used in Iraq.

I then go to the Air Force guys and ask for 2 bomb slots on a fighter for the next day. My plan is to use two leaflet bombs, similar in size to a 500lb bomb that can be delivered by an F-16. They ask what I’m dropping and why, and when I tell them, they laugh at the stupid lieutenant and tell me they only drop things that go “boom”. “Come back when you’re ready to inflict more damage than a paper cut.”

The NK battalion is too far from friendly lines to conduct a loud-speaker campaign. In this case, playing the tape of one or more interviews with recently surrendered NK soldiers over the loudspeakers would produce similar results as the leaflets. But the loudspeakers weren’t an option.

A radio campaign wasn’t an option either. If we could drop radios, we could drop leaflets. A radio campaign, in this scenario, is where we’d parachute radios pre-programmed to our frequency into the unit’s area and then broadcast those same interviews. Imagine hearing the voice of a fellow countryman explaining a shower, seeing a doctor, 3 meals a day, etc. as you’re picking lice out of your hair, eating your daily bowl of rice water, and being reminded by your officers that you will be shot if you run in any direction other than towards the US and ROK forces.

I have two options left. 1) figuratively (as this is a computer exercise) I could hike out there and accept the unit’s surrender. Or balloons.

I go to the weather guy and ask for weather conditions for the next 24 hours. Specifically, I want to know the predictions for wind speed and direction. In 12 hours, overnight, the wind will be moving NE.

Perfect.

I then go to the supply guy and order 1,000 leaflet balloons. Yep, it was an Army supply item. I order the balloons released SE of the target unit at the appropriate time. The order is entered into the computer. And then I call it a day.

And I forget about it. This was just a project that gave me something to do for the day. Remember, I was under orders to achieve the absolute lowest expectations possible.

The next morning the intel guy is briefing the general again. He gives his update on enemy units, gets to my target unit and mentions the entire unit surrendered. The general asks why. The Intel guy says “PSYOP dropped leaflets on the unit and convinced them to surrender.” The chief of staff snap-looks at me from across the room with the most blood-curdling hateful look ever. If he had been within bayonet range of me, I’d be dead right there.

I still have scars from that look. As we used to say: “PSYOP, because physical wounds heal.”

And that is how I nearly died in an exercise.

Photos: Me at a DMZ tour, and me at a leaflet collection box in Seoul.

X: @KarlUshanka
Also published at Substack.

Greetings and Salutations!
Not sure if I mentioned it a while back, but Gretchen had a minor/major issue going on with her vision a ways back. A fully detached retina. This A.M. was her surgery.

It went well. LOOOOONG AF though.
3 Hours Long.
We didn’t get a debrief from the doc after as her coming out of the general anesthesia took a while longer than expected. In truth I’m just as wasted as she is. No blog last night as we went to bed for the 0500 wakeup. Most of my best writing is at night as y’all have noticed. The surgery was also alllll the way over in St. Petersburg, which is about an hour from the Casa without the morning commuter traffic. We SP’d and crossed the phaseline at 0600 for the 0800 pre-op physical.

THAT took seemingly forever.
Her potassium was bit low, so they added a mini-bag to her I.V. to get it up to snuff, and then she was cleared. It was looooong morning/afternoon, made worse for me because of the shitty furniture in the “Family Waiting Room”

It was so bad I went out to the car to sit there as it at least had lower back support and better air conditioning. Plus I could charge my phone. THAT surprised me as almost every other hospital I’ve been in in the past 4-5 years has had places to plug your charging cable into. Some even provide charging cables permanently affixed to the wall…

I know, I know… First World Problems.
It’s just living in the First World in these times, I’m surprised when things AREN’T “modernized” Call me spoiled I guess.

So after, we got orders that she’s to be on her belly for the next two weeks at least. I had to shell out $200 for a massage table so she can be comfortable, and I set up a tablet (Red’s Fire Tablet) with Youtube and all the other TV show channels so she can put that on the little ‘table/stand’ below the open faced ring/pillow.

I figure in two weeks I’ll be a sleaze and return the table to the ‘Zon… I mean we have no need for it after she gets done right?

Worst case scenario if the $$$ gets tight per usual, I can do another raffle or direct sale of one of the many Enfields I’ve restored. Let me know if you’re interested. The last one went very well and the winner told me his wife is pissed as he’s been buying more ammo that usual due to shooting up his stocks with the Ishapore. Now for that matter, would anyone be interested in me doing another Ishapore? Sarco STILL has the barreled receivers:

I may just do one for the funsies of it.
AFTER my next paycheck of course.
Again, let me know.

So now I’m on ‘Beck and Call’ detail with Gretchen, so I’ll do what I can to keep up with the news and other things happening around here, and everywhere else.

The only interesting news out as of late is they finally released the name of the wannabe Church Shooter, and lo and behold, much to my surprise, he is a white guy and not a 3 named man. I haven’t done too much of a deep dive, but he seems to be a legit headcase… used to attend the place with his mom, and was known as a froot-loop to his family.

And the big airstrike in Iran and the subsequent ‘retaliatory strikes?’ Well it seems BOTH sides warned each other ahead of time BEFORE launching the mission(s) so I think we’re looking at Kabuki Theater.

MOAR Fake and Ghey Clownshoes baby.

Go figure.
So that’s what I got for tonight.
I’ll try to get some more stuff out in the next few, but I will be busier than usual. So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
A wee bit of a different note
It’s Gretchen’s Birthday!!!

OK
Under duress I’m putting that up.

“Never ask a woman her age, body count, waist size or IQ.”
Big Country’s Proverbs

Keep it that way if you want to live.

Seriously, she is only a year younger than me (me = 56), but DAAAYUM if she doesn’t look good for her age. For the celebration I had gotten us tickets to Aquatica Orlando:

It’s one of the best water parks in the country supposedly. I will say we DID have a ball! They ARE unique in that they have a set of very rare Dolphins in captivity, which I’ll go into in a few.

The tickets I got via the Waves of Honor program.

It used to be a yearly thing here in Florida back during the ‘bad old war days’ so to speak. It allowed a veteran to get 4 tickets to one of the theme parks like Busch Gardens and SeaWorld Orlando for free. They use ID.me to verify your service so the poseurs don’t take advantage. ID.me verifies through the DoD and DEERs. For a number of years they had shut the program down for whatever reason… maybe COVID? Not sure. However I get notifications via email, and this year they had turned the program back ‘on’ if you will.

OF COURSE I signed up for my 4 freebies to Busch Gardens. I still have the Busch Gardens tix, but unfortunately, they leave the window to use them pretty smol. As in we have to use them by July 6th. NORMALLY this wouldn’t be an issue, as in go next weekend, but Gretchen has eye surgery on Monday, and will be in recovery during that timeframe.

And there ain’t no way on God’s Green Erf that I’m going to try and take on the Redhead by myself at Busch Gardens. I’m offering up the tix to OtherGrans to see if they want to use them. Anyways… for whatever reason, (probably competitiveness) Aquatica offered up free tickets about two weeks later. Naturally I jumped on those as well.

So we went today.

We left at 0645 as it opened at 0900, and I wanted to make sure we got primo poolside seats as I was not shelling out $500 for a fucking ‘cabana’. We actually ended up getting GREAT seats on the far side of the pool that’s marked on the map above as “Cutback Cove” a big honking wave pool.

Literally on the farthest left side, abutting the edge of the sand on the “beach” as seen here from my seat:

And BTW: That pic was taken at like 11:30.

It got waaaaaay more crowded as the day went on.
That was a light crowd

It got like unpleasantly crowded later in the day with a LOT of blaq-water buffalo nasty fat-rolled Disgustapotamuses roaming around bellowing mating calls out at top volume or cackling. Needless to say, one of us was ‘with the gear’ on guard duty at all times.

Also FAR too many whytte McNasty Tatted Fuglysauruses also running around in WAAAAY too smol bikinis without the benefit of either a Leash or Shock Collar, all of which I think should have been mandatory. Nevermind the obligatory sampling of the wild Streetshitteraptors or the Burrito Goblins.

And tats?
FAR too many tats.
In fact at one point I saw a drop-dead gorgeous girl… probably mid-twenties, and called her out to Gretchen as being particularly attractive. When Gretchen asked why in particular, I told her “No tats… Notice she isn’t all scribbled up like a fucking piece of waste-paper? That right there makes her a 10.”

Even she had to agree on that. I still got in trouble for looking at a hawt 20-something and called a dirty old bastid.

Guilty as Charged.

But yeah, the overall vibe in the park changed around 13:00 so we bailed early after the dolphin show. I didn’t want to get potentially hemmed up as there have been ‘incidents’ in the past with the ‘Yoots’ getting “jiggy wid it” and I was unarmed.

As Divemedic poasted back about June 12th of this year (last week) a bunch of feral niggers went feral at Aquatica, so I had my head on a swivel. The story is HERE.

Thankfully we had a great day.

Me and Red at the Wave Pool
Red taking a break FWIW.
For all of .0005 picoseconds.
MAN she never slows down I swear.

Only one minor untoward incident all day really… considering the crowd? This was a ‘win’. Said incident was when I was in the wave pool taking my turn making sure Red didn’t do something stupid (like trying to go as far out as she could in the deep water with the other kids her age that she was playing with who’s ‘rents were not as cautionary). I had at one point gone to the concession stand to ‘borrow’ one of the ‘regular’ steel chairs they had there, sort of like this:

That’s pretty close to what I scored, as I needed the arms and back support. The ‘regular beach chairs’ they offered didn’t work for me, between the blow’d up left knee and my fucked up back:

Not really functional nor easy for me to get in and out of.
WAY too low to the ground.

So I ‘borrowed’ a chair from the concession.

No idea if it was allowed but some of the other ‘bigger guys’ who had the same issues were admiring my chutzpah if you will… The families around us seemed to be made up of vets like myself, so that was cool. Good times trading “/when/where were you?” stories…

What wasn’t cool was, as I said, I was in the wave pool looking back occasionally to check on Gretchen. I was keeping an eye on Red, when I saw -something- that didn’t look right.

There was a guy holding my fucking chair standing between Gretchen, who looked pissed and the sister of a fellow veteran, (who was off getting drinks at the time I found out later) a really cool Puerto Rican chick who’s son was Red’s age, and she too looked pissed AF. I told Red that we needed to get out of the water, as Papi had biddness to handle it looked like.

Red is well trained at 7… “Stay close, stay low and hit the dirt if’n I tell you”… she’s great like that.

I waded out and as I closed in and got within hearing distance, I heard three things: The PR Chicka yelling at dis fukkin guy to “…put the fucking chair down!”, and then the unmistakable accent of a Call Support Streetshitter saying to the girls “I bring back in a bit… is OK! Is no problem!!!”

This from the maybe 100 pound soaking-wet Hindu guy who apparently decided to (unknowingly) abscond with the 340 pound gorilla’s chair, and tell the lower caste women to get fucked, albeit nicely. Gretchen, who saw me and as I closed the gap, told Punjab “In about 3 seconds you’re about to have a big problem!!!”

The fucking guy must have seen Gretchen’s eyes lock on my approaching, and turned around (his back was to me) to see just what this broad was looking at, and saw me closing in.

Grinning like a fucking psycho.

He, no shit, went white as a sheet. He immediately dropped the chair and bolted for safer pastures. Like literally ran away. The whole time babbling -I think- apologies. I got no idea. I don’t speak streetshitter.

I’m just glad he didn’t poop in our A.O. out of fear.

Both ladies laughed their asses off on that one.
Fun times.
I mean I probably wouldn’t have actually done anything, as that’s beneath me, but intimidating some asshole who’s stealing the fucking chair that -I- had worked so hard to ‘reallocate’?

Fuck that guy for real.
So anyways.
As I was saying…

Dolphins: One of the ‘extras’ that I did pay for (besides the extortionist parking and meal plan) was a meet and greet with two of the only Commerson’s Dolphins in captivity. According to the trainer, there are these two and maybe six others in captivity period worldwide. This was a really cool experience and it was a bit pricey (like all things Orlando) but to make some great memories? Sure… why not? $50 per person for a total of $100.

A QUICK NEWSFLASH

Not for nothing, money just may become worthless…

Seems OrangeManFuckingRetarded just announced we dropped bombs on the Mullahs despite damned near ALL of his base NOT wanting ANYTHING to do with this particular shitshow, and Russia and china saying “Don’t fuck around, lest you find the fuck out!”.

<Le Sigh>

That’s a wrinkle I didn’t expect.

The only thing I’ll say about this ENTIRE DEBACLE is this:
This is a case where the Little Smartass Brother goes and picks a fight with the BIGGEST Bully in the neighborhood. The Little Brother has NEVER truly had his ass properly kicked because of Big Brother, despite the fact that Big Brother is sort of slow and retarded compared to Little Brother. So, in this case the Little Brother sucker punches the Bully. The Bully gets up, dusts himself off, and proceeds to utterly wreck the Little Brother, which is a first for him and scary AF. Scared to death, Little Brother screams for help. Big Brother listens to the screams for help for a few, hoping it might educate the little fucker, but after a few, goes over and starts beating on the Bully, despite knowing the Bully has a LOT of bigger frens who’re tired of BOTH the Little Brother and Big Brother throwing their weight around, and are now willing to kick BOTH their asses and curbstomp them into oblivion.

Does that sound about right?

Possibly more on that in a later poast dammit.

Well… back to the pleasantness of a good day. I’ll deal with the potential blowback later. And it WAS a pleasant day.

The dolphin interaction was cool AF. I got to sit in on the ‘briefing’ before the meet and greet. Gretchen and Red were the only ones on this particular Meet and Greet. It turns out that Commerson’s are a rare and threatened dolphin species from the extreme South Atlantic/Pacific. A full writeup is here on the Wiki. And for those who TL;DR, this is a Commerson’s Dolphin:

They look like mini-Orcas (as Red kept calling them).

The two that were there/are here? are only 2 out of 6/8? in captivity. These guys are both male, as the females were released a ways back. One of them is named Pepe and the other I can’t remember. There was a breeding program to bring them back from the brink so to speak which worked pretty well. The ‘almost extinct’ issue was surprisingly not because of humans, but that as the trainer said, “…for Dolphins, these guys are on the lower end of the brainpower side, and therefore pretty low on the food chain.”

So I didn’t say it, but I figure they must be the Somalians of the Dolphin Race so to speak, whereas Bottlenose is your average Whytte Guy? I mean a pretty good metaphor I think.

So for whatever reason, as I said Gretchen and Red were the only ones on this little meet and greet, so they got a LOT of up close and in person ‘stuff’. Gretchen found out she couldn’t take pictures during it, as they had their insanely overpriced photographer taking pictures. I mean $250 starting for the pix package???
REALLY!?! After ALREADY dropping a Cee Note and porking my wallet into stupidsville?

Why not just club me over the head like a baby seal and outright rob my ass amiright? I’m NOT going to go into a rant on how these parks are assholes for essentially pricing out ‘average folks’… I will mention that when I put the tickets in the basket online, and went to check out that the price for 3 tickets was over $500 with tax for one day. Add on parking ($40), food ($70 for the passes… which was a good thing as a shitty cheeseburger was no shit $17.99 EACH!!!!) and then the extra $100 plus tax for the Dolphin Experience? Add on the gas back and forth?

We’re talking a FUCKING GRAND almost for ONE DAY!

Sheesh.

Well anyways…
It went well.
We started by getting the photo op with Pepe and his bro:

(Like I said, for an old bag, she looks great.)

…and ended up topside with Pepe doing tricks for Red at close range:

That was the one picture Gretchen managed to get BEFORE they told her “NO PICTURES!” as they wanted to maximize the profit margin I guess.

I OTOH got a few at long range, the best being this one:

Initially Red was afraid to touch the dolphin, but after a bit of coaxing, she ended up giving belly rubs and becoming besties with Pepe.

Afterwards, we scuttled back to the car for EXFIL.
Too much sun and too many ferals.
The place at that point was utterly infested.

Better safe than sorry.

So we bailed. What I did notice was that when we got there at 0900, there was ONE Sherriff’s Deputy Vehicle ‘on duty’ when we got there.

When we left
Try six that I could see.
I’m not good at maffs, but a five-fold increase from 0900 to 14:00 in Cop Presence? In five hours, it’s a one-Cop-an-Hour addition which begs the question as to what the demographic increase in niggers to cop ratio is… Either way we got the fuck out of Dodge before there could be ANY potential real unpleasantness to be had.

So I do thank everyone who’s bought the MREs as of late… you should actually thank yourselves. As one commenter put it, a $3 +/- MRE right now is cheaper than even regular food at this point. I checked my stats with the Zon for the Financial Quarter (April to Now) and it seems I’ve sold $54k worth of MREs with my cut being about $700 and change. So that’s the numbers for those of you who were asking.

Also: Minor note: Let’s not turn the comments into a “bash the shit out of Aesop” or anyone else for that matter.

THEORETICALLY we’re all on the same side, so keep it civil, lest I get the ban hammer out, of which I’m very loathe to do. It’s only happened in extreme cases…. I even let that Hedge guy poast IF he’s not being an incendiary asshole with personal attacks. Get too far ghone, and you will not be missed ok?

Aesop and I have different opinions on MANY things… for one he thinks the red crayons taste better, and I think the green do… so fuck that guy because of that, but we still keep it cool. Y’all do the same if’n you would. I’d surely appreciate it.

And as far as why MREs are in surrender-monkey speak?

US-made MREs often include French translations due to their potential use in international contexts, particularly with NATO allies. The French language is used because it is one of the official languages of NATO and many NATO documents, including casualty cards, are written in French. Furthermore, some MREs are also intended for sale in Canada, which has a large French-speaking population, particularly in Quebec. 

Seems surrender-monkey speak is one of the big NATO languages, so thus, surrender-monkey speak is printed on the MREs… which I find really worthless as the majority of surrender-monkey speak motherfuckers already know English… it’s that they don’t want to admit it.

So fuck those guys too.

So be of good cheer. I’m getting ready to start doing the new Enfield again. Got the parts… just been lacking the energy and motivation. This week there’ll be some updates, so heads up.

So your thoughts?
Especially on the BETRAYAL of OMFR of his base with this jew bullshit? Let me know in the comments.

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Big Country
(no idea why this got cut off so apollygeez)

Link HERE

Ok at this point, I’m really beginning to suspect that someone, somewhere knows something. ALL these MREs floating around ‘randomly’ and the price cut going down to $31.48 a Case!?!

Tell me this isn’t a ‘back-door Civil Defense’ thing.

PLEASE.

Currently the official reason is:

“MREs are available at much lower prices than usual for several reasons. These lower prices have been holding steady for around two months now. The most common is that many surplus stores, vendors, and resellers have acquired large stockpiles from numerous GSA auctions, where thousands of full pallets of MREs have been sold. These MREs have reached or are close to reaching their 2024/2025 inspection dates and are being rotated out to make room for newer stock, even though the majority are still completely safe to eat. There are also stockpiles of MREs that were not fully distributed by FEMA/DOD during natural disasters, emergency responses, conflicts, etc.”

Despite the claims that these are ‘surplus to needs’ I have to ask. I mean HOW do we have such a surplus now???

Why not years ago like in say 2022 or 2023 or 2024 when we had a noticeable decrease in demand due to ALL the wars being over?

My problem with this is that almost ALL of these things were made in 2022. That’s almost a year after the Afghanistan pullout in August of 2021. The pullout, while being really fucked up, was a known quantity in respect to that the DotMil (meaning the GSA) knew that they’d be ramping down the need for MREs for the troops as the war was over either way. In fact the contract to supply MREs is on a modifiable year-to-year contract so as to allow the purchase order to either ‘contract’ or ‘expand’ depending on the needs of the service.

And the line of ‘stockpiles of MREs that were not fully distributed by FEMA/DOD during natural disasters, emergency responses’ rings false as we had a TON of hurricanes and natural disasters, to include fires and whatnot that these would or should have seen distribution in. I mean here in Florida as I documented, they handed out those foul-as-fuck less that “Humanitarian Rations” that are probably part of the reason the Ether-nope-ians and Paleo-stainians hate our asses so much. REAL edible MREs being handed out to US citizens who paid for them? Notsomucho.

Add on that the line about “…close to reaching their 2024/2025 inspection dates and are being rotated out to make room for newer stock…” strikes me as crap as well. Even when I was on Active Duty back in the day, the MREs when we went to the field? The ones we got were never ‘new’ but close to if even past the 5 year rotational date. Not once even in Iraq did I see ‘new’ MREs. “Oldest first was” and is the standard, so the question remains:

Just what in the Hell is going on?

I had a discussion with Sapper many weeks ago when these ‘fire sale’ prices started showing up. I questioned (jokingly at the time) if this might be a ‘backdoor Civil Defense Initiative’ of a sort. My question was pretty off-the-cuff… but now?

I mean back post World War Two, the US used to be a DotGov OF the People, BY the People and most importantly FOR the People.

Somewhere in all the bullshit this’s been forgotten in the name of Greed, Graft and Corruption. I mean see the interview with Tucker Carlson with that female former DotGov Secretary of -Something Important- blew the whistle and who talks about MASSIVE deep underground shelters and hideouts for the Elites and DotGov Members and their families for potential upcoming badness.

I mean the 48 Trillion $$$ had to go somewhere Aye?

Whether it’s true or not, the fact of the matter is that the general population of the United States, if in the event of a MASSIVE catastrophe, be it Polar Excursion, Solar Flare(s) and/or Nuclear Exchange, the GenPop is out on its ass and on its own. At least in the 1950’s they attempted to have ‘stuff’ set aside for such events.

It was called Civil Defense and is a quaint leftover from the Cold War. I actually have a small collection in the ‘BCE Museum of Mayhem’ of some items from back then. One is a can of water that was stockpiled for long-term storage in a bunker -somewhere-

It’s sitting on a Civil Defense Geiger Counter as you can see.

Which also was provided in public shelters if the Rooskies decided to bomb our ears off….

A an aside: The ‘Radioactive Material’ card leaning against the handle of the counter is a test card to see if the Geiger Counter works (it does). A Funny/Gross thing about that water… it’s still sealed and full. Like new. It was, according to the markings, canned in December of 1952.

The thing is… well… that when you shake it? It feels like a solid thing of like ‘Jello’ or something. Gross AF TBH. Like a ‘squishy-clunk’ of a solid hitting the sides of the can rather than if you were shaking what’s labeled a can of Water. “ThunkThunkThunk” as opposed to “ShookaShookaShooka!” like water would make… I mean y’all know I’m crazy and have eaten 20 year old MREs for this here place, but I’ll be damned if’n I open that particular biohazard in the making. Got me a hunch it’s a chunk of solid slime or something by now… when I show it off to visitors here at the Casa, and when they shake it, they get the same queasy look on their face that I get when doing the same…

But anyways.

There’s plenty of Civil Defense ‘souvenirs’ out there on eBay that one can find. It’s where I found the can o’water. There used to be BIG bunkers FILLED to the brim with survival supplies, all funded by Tax Dollars to assist the population of the US to weather potential Nuclear Wars and whatever.

However: Somewhere around the late 60s, the Powers That Be decided that the average American was expendable, and they sold off/closed down and shuttered all the Civil Defense networks and bunkers. The majority of the posters I have hanging on the wall of the Casa are (for the most part) collected by me from my Junior High School Cellar, which in the 50s was the Town’s primary bunker for Civil Defense.

And yeah, a lot of those are framed originals.

My ‘Social Studies’ Teacher Mr. Cooper (rest in peace Mr. C.) was a Korean War vet and we (the ‘war/gun geeks’) were his favorite kids. He had a key to the shelter, and when word came down they were going to shitcan everything and let us loot it ahead of the clean-out. I just wish I had know just how rare and valuable some of that ‘crap’ was going to become.

Nowadays?

There’s nothing in place for “CFivil Defense” except a “put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye” plan. Literally despite the outrageous amount of money us tax-slaves/serfs dump into the FedGov coffers, there ain’t FUCK-ALL for US, the Taxpayer/Common Joe in case of a MASSIVE worldwide disaster. How this doesn’t piss more people off makes me wonder just what (besides fluoride) they put in the fucking water these days… even the fucking Russians still maintain their civilian bunkers in case of ‘Shitfullness’ so to speak. In fact as of late they’ve been on a crash-rebuilding/refurbing project ALL over Russia…

Makes you wonder Aye?

Hence my questioning if this is sort of an “IQ Test” slash-backdoor Civil Defense Measure… meaning those of us smart enough to potentially recognize that shit might get a wee bit dicey in the next few months, that ‘they’ve’ provided us with some means of possibly surviving… or at least dodging starvation? Going along the lines of the Luciferian Gambit: “We Warned Them/Gave Them Fair Warning and if They Failed to Act on It, Our Hands Are Clean” sort of thing… “They” seem to like to play that card a lot IMO.

Granted this’s a real roundabout way of doing so, but in my ENTIRE Life I’ve never ever seen the prices go this fucking low.

I mean $31 a case!?!

Even in Army Surplus stores, an old-old MRE sells for $10 PER MRE. Make it make sense will you? And I do not want to hear the usual stories about supply and demand. I’ve worked logistics for the DotGov remember? Even what few frens I have who’re even remotely still in the ‘game’ are wondering what the fuck is going on? Nobody has ever seen anything remotely like this ever.

So your thoughts?
I know that Gretchen is pissed because I’m picking up ANOTHER 2 cases this payday… but my line of thought is tis better to have, than to have not.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Am I nuts or………..

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Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Was out sick after eating some dodgy Hindu Food the other night. Both Gretchen and myself were doing our own personal imitation of AT-4 Rocket Launchers, namely ‘bazooka barfing’ out the front, and then rushing to the bathroom for the ‘backblast’.

The tummies are doing better but I had to bang out of Glorious People’s Tractor factor an hour after I got there. Spent most of the day sweating out the “ugh” so to speak. I DID have one cool thing today that showed up in the mail however!

One of you donated a gift to the “Big Country Museum of Mayhem” that showed up today. Sapper went to walk the doggos and came in and told me a package had shown up. It was a 2 foot cube. Basic cardboard but he was struggling to balance it what with the two dogs on the leads. “It’s heavy dude!” so I got up and sure enough… WOW. Like almost a 30 pound box!

When I opened it, much to my delight and surprise was a pair of TA-312A Field Telephones!

Both of them appear to be in magnificent shape.
The note said that they worked when they were last tested. Seem his Granddad had brought them back from Vietnam, and no one in the fam wanted them, so he donated them to me.

How cool is that?

Besides the awesome addition to the Museum, a TA-312 has a LOT of uses if things go sideways. Having a field phone allows you to have cabled non-interceptable communications, and as long as the wire strands aren’t cut or tapped, you’ve got a nice closed loop commo system.

For those of you non-military folks, a TA-312 is an Analog Field Telephone that was put into production after World War 2. It utilizes either 2 D Cell Batteries, called the BA-30 in military nomenclature and is a hardwired phone that can be used in a one-on-one closed telephone circuit, or be used in a larger Plain Old Telephone System or POTS which used a military switchboard and a wider use in units across an area of operations.

Now on these two, the battery compartments are clean of any corrosion, which was and still is a problem with these things. Troops forget to pull the batteries which corrode, and then rot the internals, so a LOT of them on the surplus market are nonfunctional because of just that. As you can see:

BOTH of mine are just like that… ZERO corrosion or even signs of it. Both battery compartment gaskets are like new, and tight too, which is a bonus.

The TA-312 was used from the 1950s through the 1980s. Replaced by the TA-838 which is the current (2003) analog field phone. And yep, they’re STILL in use. This is one of those Army products that’s made to be indestructible and last forever.

The operation of these requires a roll of two-strand shielded wire called WD-1 that’s on half a mile long rolls.

Those are the small rolls that are usually issued to platoon sized elements. In our TOW platoon, we had One 312 per truck, and one roll of wire between each two trucks. We’d then run a wire from truck to truck so we had comms that didn’t require us to use our radios, which could be used to triangulate our position IF the bad guys were looking for us.

Radio Direction Finding has been a BIG THING in the Krain. Between handheld Motorolas or their Russian/Krainian counterparts and the like, both sides use RDF to find and fire up the other side with Artillery to great effect. Having a wired Field Telephone negates that hazard, which is why these are sooooo cool in my book.

Like as in an End of the World or Without Rule of Law scenario, running a phone to a lookout and back to the radio watch means NOT having a radio going that could be picked up if the potential hostiles in your area are monitoring communications with a broadband scanner. If they can’t hear you, then they might not know you’re there, or that you have eyes on them, or are even coordinating action against them.

These are all good things.

It’s funny… I’ve actually been negotiating with a Fren on Twatter who’s got a German World War Two field phone that HIS either Great Granddad or Granddad brought back when he came home from the war. Now I do know that that’d be compatible with the TA-312 because WE essentially took the same exact design, and MADE the 312 from the German one. If I manage to get that hammered out, well that’s going to be an AWESOME addition as well, as well as add another potential comm unit if things go even MOAR pear shaped.

That’s the parts breakdown.
It’s really easy to use. I also know that the two I have are the newer/later models as they have a little LED bar-light that’s connected to the ‘bat binding post’

That’s the LED off hook indicator. This is a warning that the handset is not “on hook”.   Warning people nearby that the phone is live and anything they say can be heard along the line as these are sound-based…

SO yeah.
Ended the day on a great note to say the least.

Now as it is, the rest of the world?
Don’t really know. I do know that the Propaganda Spin Machine is in overdrive on ALL sides, and that’s to be expected. I was just glad to wake up and see that OrangeManBad, despite the rhetoric and shit that’s been blasted out there has not so far gotten us absolutely involved via direct action. I’m beginning to think that Satanyahoo when he said that OMB had essentially set up all the Iranian Leadership for a fall, that it was bullshit, and that it pissed off OMB. I mean really…

Can you imagine being someone trying to negotiate with the Iranian High Command?

(calls Iranian High Command)
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Iranian General. The terms as previously laid out are…”

WHAM!
(Phone disconnect sound here)

“FUUUUUUUUCK!” (waits one day to resume calling)

“Okay, Mr. Next Iranian General, the terms as laid out with your predecessor’s predecessor are…”

WHAM!
(Phone disconnect sound here again)

“GOD DAMNIT ISRAEL! CAN YOU JUST LET ME FINISH THE SENTENCE?”

Now the latest is that he’s said that he’s looking at making a decision on whether to bomb or not bomb in two weeks? That’s cold and brilliant. And the reason?

What’s not being said is that for every missile Iran is lobbing, it takes between 10-20 counter-battery missiles (and yeah PLURAL) at between $200 and up to $1 million at throw to shoot down… and Hypersonics? Those have been unstoppable despite claims to the contrary.

They, like out DDS’s off the coast of Yemen ran out of ammunition pretty quickly. I think the Izzies are too now.

My take? I think the Izzies were counting on a HUUUUGE counterstrike after their initial hit on the 14th. Per the news:

…and that “Holocaust-y Level” of deaths in that counterstrike would have been the motivator to get the US to jump in with both feet (blindly per usual) and do “Our Master’s Bidding” per usual. H/T to Simplicius76 for the screenshots.

Instead?
Weeeeell now. Two weeks?
Do the Izzies even have two weeks worth of ammo left?
They’re going to be in deep shit if this’s true

Even with the US trying to resupply them, to the point of diverting the ammo that was meant to keep the Krainians in the fight, I’d have to say, per that released/leaked TS Documentation by that National Guardsman last year, that now?

I’d guess OUR cupboard is bare AF by now.

Despite all the “Rah Rah! we’re rebuilding our DotMil Infrastructure” bullshit, as far as -I- have heard and known, there’s nothing outside of what we’ve alreadybeen doing which is trying desperately to ramp up our domestic production of Artillery Shells… and even THAT has been fraught with all sorts of bureaucratic bullshit and problems.

I’m laughing about this mind you.

“What if they threw a war, and nobody showed up?”

Looks like it might go that way. Too many people are ‘bowing out’ on this one. Twitter, which in the past was a ravening horde of Leftwing Thought Policing has even gotten on the “We won’t die for Israel” bandwagon. Despite the folks who still try and hold a grudge for what happened in 1979 when the Shah got overthrown and the US Embassy got hemmed up for 444 days, I say they don’t know their history very well…

The enmity between the US and Iran started in 1953, when under the guise of being worried about communism, the CIA and Brits overthrew the legally elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. MI6 and the CIA then installed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Ostensibly about creeping communism, which was the favorite bugaboo of the time, it was really about Big Mo wanting to nationalize the Iranian Oil Production, and keep the profits for the Iranian People so to speak… whether that would have worked or if he’d have done like ALL the rest of the Middle Eastern leadershit did and still does (namely keep the profits for himself and his close associates) remains a question lost to time.

The fact is the Brits and BP, British Petroleum were pretty pissed off on getting freezed out of a cut of the action, as THEY were the ones who initially set up the Iranian Oil biz. From what I’ve read and studied, Big Mo was “The Man in Iran” and really loved by the population, so when the figurehead Shah was ‘installed’ via a coup, well… the people weren’t happy about it. The Brits were the motivators behind it, and used the CIA as the muscle, and the Iranians never forgave us for that.

Say what you want, but I lived with these people, and let me tell you… Babylonians (Iraqis) or Persians (Iranian)? They have loooooong memories and blood feud is literally deeply imbued in their cultures. This shit runs deep.

It got worse when the Shah went “Full Dictator” and was essentially the same sort of asshole Saddam was in Iraq. Torture, Executions, Disappearances and the like became the norm under the Shah. It was when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini showed that things went pear-shaped, the Shah bailed and we got left holding the bag so to speak… A

And unfortunately, because of the shitty education system we have here in the States, OUR people have no fucking clue just why and how justified the Iranians are in being pissed off at the US for fucking them over forever and a damned day.

All our folks, including the majority of Boomercons remember is the embarrassing Hostage Crisis and the Failed Rescue Attempt which was NOT the Iranian’s fault (although the parading our our guys dead was not cool). Iran didn’t help throughout the 80s blowing up our folks whenever they saw a chance, and it’s been a lo-key back and forth ever since.

Before it was Britain manipulating the whole shebang.
Now it’s the Izzies.

So no matter what, we’re damned if we do, and damned if we don’t. They even trotted out the late Shah’s Son to give a recorded speech calling on “All Right Thinking Iranians to Rise Up Against The Mullahs” and, as one would have expected, landed like a wet shart after a night of drinking cheap beer.

What the strikes did was the exact opposite.

The Mullahs, while having issues with the younger generations wanting more access to the world and a slacking off of Sharia Law, have now been empowered by a wave of nationalism. AGAIN our intel agencies done went and screwed the pooch, as well as the Izzies, who look like the fucking clowns that they are, and instead of an overthrow, the Iranian People, as a whole, are now digging in for the long haul.

And considering the size of the country?
Ain’t no way to stop the Iranians IF they decide to end this. The only way to stop them IF they decide to go ‘all in’ is “canned sunshine” from the Izzies, and at that point? All bets are off.

In fact I would not doubt that as we speak, they’re putting together a Nuke right now. Lord knows they got the materials… and in their case, they may not have had one before, but any bets under the latest circumstances that they probably have one now or will have one within a week or two?

I’m not taking those odds.

So let me know your thoughts.
And By the way, Happy Juneteenth.
It’s nice to see that THIS year at least, it hasn’t been shoved down our fucking throats like it was in years past.
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Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Whelp yesterday’s discussion here was pretty good. It would seem that I don’t have any Lawyers who’re willing to speak out about the subject of “homebrewed” toys. Not that I blame them around this here place… this’s a rough neighborhood and under surveillance if the statistics are reading correctly.

LOTS of pings from the Virginia Area of Operations on the regular so to speak, as well as… well… I should say until a few nights ago, from Israel. Unless some of you clowns are VPN’ing out of Tel Aviv that is.

Tonight there’s like NO Middle Eastern Visitors in the house, or at least so far.
Things that make you go Hmmmn…

Aye that…

Methinks they are either too busy or the RUMINT about the Unit 8200 Mossad HQ taking a solid Hypersonic hit is real.

Either way…

Now as to clarifying what exactly the current legislation means in regards to the ‘WHY’ of my question. It is, from what I can read, as well as from what I’ve watched on the GunTuber’s channels, is that the repeal of the National Firearms Act excise taxes on suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs. This means two things.

1) It literally does what it means. That is it repeals and removes the odious $200 Tax Stamp nominally (for now) required to purchase a suppressor/short barrel rifle/short barreled shotgun/and AOW. The biggest obstacle to buying one of these happy-fun-time toys is getting the tax stamp. It’s a particularly loooong and punishing set of steps to get what amounts to a ‘checkbox’ for you to own and possess an “NFA” item. Literally getting the stamp is part of the punishment so to speak. Back in the day, said punishment (as I explained) was financial more than anything else. Now? It’s a time-thing as the ATF seemed to willfully and intentionally d-r-a-g out he process which made your average purchaser think twice about buying on.

2) And then: By removing the stamp, and declaring them the same as a “firearm or firearm accessory” in purchasing it, you ONLY have to do a ‘standard Form 4473’ to get approval to buy it. Depending on your background check, this can take as little as 30 minutes, or like in my case, a day as the “Imperial Entanglements” tend to make my purchases a wee bit more difficult. Ergo: by ‘declassifying’ them as ‘firearm or firearm accessories’ that means that you can “homebrew your own” so to speak.

Now with that explained, I have to describe the various forms involved. A standard Form 4473 is used during the purchase of a firearm. The short version is that a Form 4473’s (also known as a Firearms Transaction Record) “primary purpose is to document the purchase or transfer of a firearm from a licensed dealer (FFL) to a purchaser, and to ensure compliance with federal laws regarding firearm sales. This form acts as a record of the transaction, verifying the buyer’s identity, eligibility to purchase, and the specific firearm involved.”

This is not a “registration” per se.
Leastways that’s what the Feds say.

HOWEVER a Form 4473 DOES record the transaction, and notes the purchase and IF the person that is purchasing the firearm is NOT a “prohibited person” per the ATF and Federal Law via the NCIS check that they perform. NCIS stands for National Instant Criminal Background Check System. If you pass that OR already have a concealed carry license in your state (if applicable), then you’re good to go.

So this means that

THEORETICALLY the 4473 is NOT supposed to be a ‘registry’.
The Form 4473 serves as Legal Documentation for the purchase of your weapon. A completed and properly maintained Form 4473 serves as legal documentation of the firearm transfer and is retained by the FFL for a specified period.  Per the ATF, that period?

The dealer must keep the Form 4473 on file for the lifetime of the FFL, and is required to surrender the log book to the ATF upon retirement from the firearms business. The ATF is allowed to inspect, as well as request a copy of, the Form 4473 from the dealer during the course of a criminal investigation.

And mind you, they do.

An example from personal experience:

I had a run-in tangentially with the ATF when a rifle I had sold turned up in a crime in Miami. I had sold one of the NCOs an AR that I had built back when I was an armorer. Like 5 years later, I got a call from GunGirl to come down to the shop, as there were “people with badges who wanted to talk to me.”

She gave me the low-down via text so that I didn’t freak and to allow me to prepare, and I immediately grabbed my paperwork. I thankfully, as I do with any of my sales, kept a copy of the sales receipt, as well as a copy of the dudes drivers license, which I require when I do a ‘person-to-person’ transfer juuuuuust to cover my ass. The reader who won my Ishapore?

Yep. I got a receipt AND a copy of his license.

You positively have to do this when even possibly dealing with the Imperials. To do anything less would be retarded. Like them.

I was fine… TBH the ATF guys in question were OK.
Surprised the fuck out of me.
I expected Jackboots and Blackjacks.
I gave them what then wanted, and that was it.

A while later, I got word from GunGirl. Seems that they went and chased down this NCO, who in turn had sold it a year later, to a guy who from what I heard had reported it ‘stolen.’ It was ‘off the radar’ until not long after THAT, it turned up after a Mass Shooting in Miami (which sucks).

At least I can say I dindu nuffin. They (the ATF) HAD gotten the ‘trace back’ to the manufacturer via the serial number, who in turn said “…we sold it to GunGirl’s shop”, and then they had checked her 4473s, and found lil ole Me.

It wasn’t like they pulled up a gun registry and knew -I- was the owner of the rifle initially. In fact it wasn’t even the rifle, as I had built this one and it was a Carbon Fiber lower I had tried out and purely hated… which is why I sold the fucker.

It had too much ‘flex’ in the lower… it made me realize the majority of rifles due to their size need to be made of of metal, unlike a Glock or ‘other’ handgun. That’s just my opinion man…

So anyways, The ATF? They had to do the good old fashion “chase the lead down” police work. For which TBH proved that they didn’t have a National Registry as they had to actually go to GunGirl, and ask “who bought this?” So no, (FOR NOW) there’s no centralized gun registry.

Which leads me to my ORIGINAL HYPOTHESIS.

Now because they’re changing the status of the suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs, and ONLY requiring a Form 4473 and since there is NO official “gun registry” well then… since an 80% rifle/pistol that you make at home DO NOT NEED a 4473, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think that since they’re getting rid of the tax stamp requirement which requires a Form 4 to get, that a “homebrewed” suppressor/short barrel rifle/short barreled shotgun/and AOW would be EXEMPT from any filing requirement?

I do.

See… the Form 4 is what you need to get your Tax Stamp.

THAT then creates a TAX RECORD which IS a registry of sorts.

Now, to “homebrew” a ‘toy’? Currently one needs an ATF Form 5320.1 which is better known as a “Form 1” which is a form for the “Application to Make and Register a Firearm”. It is used by individuals who are not licensed Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL) to manufacture or modify National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms. This includes items like silencers (suppressors), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and Any Other Weapons (AOWs). 

To MY line of thought:
Since they’re essentially removing the NFA Classification for suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs in order to get rid of the tax, which thereby eliminates the need for a Form 4, wouldn’t it follow that this would ALSO invalidate the need for one to fill out a Form 1?

I mean if they’re no longer NFA Items, well then so much for any forms at all as building a firearm at home REQUIRES NO PAPERWORK WHATSOEVER?

Why require a form to build something that’s no longer an NFA Item?
Right?
Maybe it’s a case of wishful thinking
But I do that a lot.

I mean they might still require a Form 1, but those were intended to ADD THEM to the Tax Stamp Requirement, which according to the potential new ruling, means that there would be no Tax Requirement hence eliminating the Form 1, as well as the Form 4. It’s going to be interesting to say the least.

Like I said, I’m not a lawyer and have ZERO interest in being the test case for this. To me this’s a purely mental exercise. That and I also DO look forward to cheaper and more plentiful ‘toys’ out there to purchase. The main reason I haven’t bought any of the above is that the price range is, as I stated last night, extortionist in my opinion. As I stated before, I just know Palmetto State is positively drooling at the thought of this happening.

So let me know your ideas and thoughts now that I’ve expanded on it. Maybe you have better ideas or insights?

More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So besides all the other international crap going on all day, all night 24-7 because “Israel”!!! and “Iran”!!! it seems that the OrangeManBad Bill AKA “The Big Bootiful Bill” got tweaked by the Senate Finance Committee to fully repeal the NFA on some ‘stuff’…

Said update came via Gun Owners of America via this tweet:

🚨BREAKING🚨

The @SenFinance Cmte. has improved the One Big Beautiful Bill to FULLY REPEAL the National Firearms Act excise taxes on:

✅Suppressors
✅Short-Barreled Rifles
✅Short-Barreled Shotguns
✅Any other Weapons

This is a massive victory for the Second Amendment!

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) June 16, 2025

Cool that they seem to be finally getting past the whole argument about hushpuppies and sbrs. I fully expected that the addition on the short barreled shotties would get on there no problem, as the laws regarding those ‘types’ of toys have slacked off ever since a guy I know, “RA Bear”, managed to come up with and slip under the ATF radar, what’s now known as the Mossberg “Shockwave”

My buddy “Bear” essentially and without going too deep into it, kept going back to the ATF asking “Hey, if I do this is this cool?” to which the ATF in all it’s genius went “Yeah, sure, why not?”.

He did this so many times that by the time he got done, that eventually and ‘all of a sudden’ a pistol-gripped 14.3in barreled shotty with an overall length of 26.8 inches (much to the horror of the slow-on-the-uptake ATF tards) was now legal across the board.

Now granted, I’m oversimplifying the whole thing like a mother, but you catch my drift. Those bad boys, and MANY others are now ‘common use’ so that particular barn door wasn’t getting closed anytime soon.

For that matter, ALL of them fun-time toys listed are now going to be legal. The only requirement is that IF you buy one, you have to fill out a standard 4473 like you do when you purchase any other rifle/pistol.

Which leads me to the crux of my legal question.

Now we’ve seen, and found out over the past few years that the ATF went after 80% firearms HARD. In fact that’s an understatement. They’ve ALSO have gone after home-made 3D printed weapons as well. LOTS of court cases, most of which ended up being found in the “Favor of Freedom” so to speak…

HOWEVER, due to the LONG HISTORY of “Guns in America” and the damned near sacrosanct ability for common ‘Muricans! to make their own guns at home, without interference and the like from overzealous DotGov Minions and Karens, my question is this:

If it’s legal to “homebrew” so to speak in the vernacular, a home-made 3D Printed or complete an 80% handgun and or rifle, WITHOUT DOTGOV PERMISSION OR PAPERWORK then, by extent, wouldn’t the same exact legality apply to “homebrewed” hushpuppies and all the rest of the happy-time fun toys???

It’s an interesting concept.

I, for one, am NOT willing to be the ‘test case’ in regards to this. I’ve had enough “Imperial Entanglements” over the past few years, so pardon the pun, but I’m gun-shy LOL. That being said however, to my mind and critical thinking, that by repealing any and all tax stamps and/or registration of and for suppressors/short barrel rifles/short barreled shotguns/and AOWs that then there is no stopping someone from building their own right?

I mean an SBR?

Hell… I owned (until the Tragic Canoe Accident of 2022) what are currently considered “AR Pistols”… I had ‘braces’ on them. However, IF I were to ‘replace the brace’ on them with a M-4 standard Folding stock, it then becomes a “Homebrewed” (so to speak) SBR. If one were to buy a 10.75 inch “Colt Commando” barreled upper and slap it on your pseudo-M-4 lower? BOOM! SBR. Oh so many examples!

Buy a $125 dollar H&R “Granny Clampett” side-by-side 12 gauge and saw it down? Short Barreled Sawed Off Shotgun. And as an aside BTW: Not that I’d EVER recommend ever doing THAT… I had a fren in the 1st Cav who did exactly that… he sawed a 12 Gauge Double Barrel side-by-side down to maybe 12 inches? And then he sawed the buttstock down and practically off… he wanted to make and try a “Mad Max” 12ga. Pistol… let me tell you… LOUD AF and utterly useless unless the person you’re aiming at is within 10 feet. The spread of pellets was retardedly wide… plus the recoil was brutal. Anywho…

My line of reasoning I –think- is solid.
And no, I have NOT seen anyone openly positing this theory.

By the elimination of these items from the National Firearms Act, and now considering them as “firearms” ONLY and having them classed as such that you ONLY need to file a 4473 to buy one, wouldn’t it follow that if you make your own, then there’s no need for any paperwork?

JUST like an 80% home built pistol/rifle or 3D printed?

Like I said, a question for the Legal Eagles out there.

I mean the $200 tax stamp, when initially put in place in I believe 1934, that was the equivalent of $4,797.99 in todays money. Consider this: The average national salary in 1934 was $1,368!!!! SO a $200 tax stamp was not just prohibitive, it was an OUTRAGEOUS amount at the time!!! 14% of your YEARLY SALARY! So, of course, that only allowed the extraordinarily wealthy and/or criminal class (which in truth are pretty much the same fucking thing) could afford such nice things.

In fact, IF this is the case, we might actually see the price of a hushpuppy FINALLY drop to a reasonable price, as demand will go through the roof, as will production. This means a boon to the folks who can ramp up production for a quality suppressor without totally porking the consumer, as I find a LOT of the companies out here using the existing NFA artificial bottleneck as a means to keep the price point elevated to the stratosphere.

Palmetto State will be LIT over this, you watch.

And ‘homebrewing’?
Oh… that’ll be the new hawtness. I guarantee it.
LOTS of 3D print files for baffles out there and with the newer metal sintering 3D printers? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah….

Go figure.
So your thoughts on this interesting conundrum?
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Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So the bastards finally shut down my Google AdSense shekels.

What kills me is they say I had “excessive policy violations”

“Dangerous and/or Derogatory commentary”

Excessive? Like I think in the past year I’ve had maybe 5 violations, and surprise surprise… guess what and or who I was critical of and that they probably had issue(s) with?

Yeah…
This is my shocked face.
I appealed it of course and wrote essentially the 1st Amendment still exists, but I’m sure somewhere in the ‘fine print’ there’s a specific rule about criticizing the Jews. I mean more of an annoyance although the $200+/- I made via the ads was a nice padding monthly. One I did NOT count on…

Not these days.
Although this past few months Ye Olde ‘Zon Links for the MREs helped significantly. Or will I should say. The problem with the associates program is it take like 3 months to see a payout. Meaning the few items people clicked on and bought via my links that I got this pay-period (provided I made enough to even get paid… there’s a $100 threshold) well that payment is from March. Which means my April/May June ‘stuff’ won’t pay until like maybe starting in August.

The House ALWAYS wins right?

So not much commentary on the current Middle Eastern Dumbasshattery except to say I personally think Nutjobyayhoo bit off a wee too much this time, and IF OrangeManBad doesn’t jump in to help, then it might get very “canned sunshiny” as they’ve put themselves in a very tight corner. The Izzies are very overstretched right now.

Everyone and their brother thought the Iranians were going to do what they did last time, which was some minor performative tit-for-ta strikes, but instead? They appear to being ‘going for broke’ and the fact that Nutjobyayhoo first begged for US assistance (as they can’t hit the really deep shelters that the Iranians have) AND THEN came out with the “The Iranians directly threatened to Kill OrangeManBad!”

Which is about as transparent as you can get. “Help us do this thing or we JFK you there OMB!” Personally, not our circus, not our monkeys, despite ALL the warmongering that’s being pushed. I will say one thing that people haven’t notcied yet though and it’s this:

Yep.
They either slink back to Tel Aviv, tail between legs OR they lie, and never get to use the “Iranians Got Nukes (or are about to again!)

A Catch-22.

Hence why I think ‘canned sunshine’ might be on the menu, and they’ll spin it as a “Look! The Iranian defective nuclear weapon went off as they were getting ready to fire it at us!!!” as the Israeli DotMil and DotGov are NOT exactly known for stepping down and admitting that they fucked up.

FFS they keep saying that there’s only 7 known dead from ALL them hypersonic missile strikes. Just looking at a few of the post-strike pictures?

Some of those buildings are just wrecked like a motherfucker. Others are far worse. And before anyone tries to say “But but but… they were in Bomb Shelters!~!~!” I’d say maybe but when the Iranians launched the strike, the videos and initial reports were that the Izzies were ‘asleep at the wheel’ and that the “Iron Dome” failed pretty spectacularly. I’d say they’re modeling their bodycount like the Krainian Kasualty Korpse Kount… if’n you don’t count ’em, then they ain’t dead.

Add on that it tunes out a LOT of the ‘civilian buildings’ hit had ‘Iron Dome’ launchers either on top of the building (thereby making it a legit target) or, like their BIG underground Headquarters?

Well, it’s built under a fucking Hospital

JUST like Hamas put theirs under a Hospital, and because of that, the Izzies justified blowing it the fuck up, so no, I do NOT want to hear any kvetching and whining when the Iranians drop their version of a Khinzal on it and waste all the patients and Docs there.

So anyways… that’s MY take on that crap.
And as far as the “No Kings” march here locally?
Geez… it looked like they emptied out all the Geriatric Wards and dropped ’em all off in a BIG parking lot off of Bloomingdale. Nothing but really old has-been Hippies trying to relive the “glory days”… I swear I heard at one point a chant of “Hey Ho! Nixon has got to go!”

Uhhhhh….
Wow… just wow.

Now on a happier note.
Literally!
I found something very important to me that I thought had been lost a waaaays back. A souvenir from my 2004 Baghdad Tour. I had gotten word that there were a bunch of pretty well known (and some not-so-well known) cartoonists that had gotten a tour of the Al Faw Palace while doing the USO thing, and were doing a meet and greet.

Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man occasionally puts up one of my favorite cartoonists, Steve Pastis, who does “Pearls Before Swine” This being todays strip:

Now in 2004, Pastis was a pretty new cartoonist. He’d been around nationally for about 2? maybe 3 years at that point? Per the wiki: “On January 7, 2002, Pearls was running in approximately 150 papers.” He started in 2001 so yeah, I was right… anyways…

When I got in the main hall where they were doing the meet and greet, when I saw him, I was pretty pleased as I love his work. His cartoons never fail to crack me up. His line was like non-existent for whatever reason,. so I actually got to go up and shoot the shit with him for a few. He’s a really cool guy IRL. And for that matter, he offered to draw me a cartoon right then and there. Shocked the Hell out of me let me tell you! He asked what I’d like, so the first thing that popped into my head was “A drunk Larry!”

Now for anyone who’s ever read ‘Pearls’ Larry the Crocodile and his son are regulars in the strip. He’s frequently shit-faced and hilariously stupid. SO as we chatted, he whipped this out for me:

As my movie Guy Dan Monroe would say “How cool is that!?!”
BTW go check out Dan’s channel… LOTS of great videos there! HIGHLY recommend if you’re GenX and a bit of a geek like me.

I framed it in that free-floating style because I think it looks best that way. There’s also a wee bit of a blood stain on it down in the lower right… no idea how or when it got a drip on it, but “Iraq” and “My dumbass” means I probably cut myself and was showing off the drawing to a friend. I’m just so tickled to have found it. And it’s still in pretty damned good shape, considering the provenance.

I thought I’d lost it years ago.
Of all places it was halfway behind a door and bureau and positively encased in dust and dust bunnies. So a positive end to an otherwise shitty weekend. Not for nothing we had ‘issues’ around here again with Gretchen’s parents… it’s unfortunate but eh… Old Age comes to us all… we just got to deal with it.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!

You knew it was coming.
What people didn’t see coming including the Izzies and the United States was Iran coming out of the corner, swinging haymakers or in this case, throwing a shit-ton of ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv.

My Goodness!

Over on twitter DotMil Twatters have pretty much all been having the “Well… these tweets didn’t age well…” after the fact. The majority of them ALL seemed to take the stance that the Iranians were going to roll over and show their nuts like a dog who’s lost the fight…

Instead they got a wounded and angry bunch of Persians who’ve decided to take a few more swings at their enemies. Me? I wasn’t sure as for the most part its ALL performative theater. I mean FFS the HEAD of the Al Quds Brigade? General Suliman Al-Snakbar or whatever the Hell his name is was deep cover a spy for the Izzys ALL ALONG!!! The Izzys put out on Twitter (of course) that this Honcho had been successfully Exfilled from Iran riiiight before the shit hit the fan.

H/T to Old Jack’s Spirit on Twitter for giving me this…

Any wonder how the Izzys have been able to pull off so many of the so-called “Intelligence Coups” that they have over the past few years? It helps when the Head Honcho of their enemies has been “on the payroll” forever and a day… Al Quds being Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). Theoretical Bad Asses but either way, call them the Iranian “Praetorians” if anything… they’re the power behind the Mullahs.

So now it would seem we’re at a ‘wait and see’ sort of thing. Word is s-l-o-w-l-y leaking out that yes, the US and OrangeManBad did know about this, and willingly aided and abetted them in this bullshit. Which means again we’re doing the whole “Die for Israel” thing….
AGAIN.

So because of this, I’m doing a full on battery check and test and recharge of ALL my rechargeables. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you do the same. At least while we STILL have available power right?? I’am also testing all my comms systems and realigning what works, and doesn’t work.

You should too.

Anyways…
It means that they’re prepping us… As you may have noticed, just like clockwork as this happened we saw a a few months right after we started seeing MASSIVE advertisements aimed primarily at Southern White Males to get them to join the DotMil.

And unfortunately, it worked.

The Army, for the first time in like forever, made and/or exceeded their recruiting efforts to get men into the pipeline to die in the Middle East for a bunch of ungrateful curs.

What part of (to paraphrase) “”Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Soldiers for Israel” did you not understand?

Like I said last night.

“Tell you what… IF and only IF in the past ten years (or even the past 60 years FFS) they even tried to build a SINGLE monument dedicated to the sacrifices that the American Infantryman had done to save their worthless jew (sic) asses during the Holohoax, I might feel differently.”

Big Country espousing on Jewish Lack of Gratitude, 2025

It’s one of my BIGGEST Complaints.

I don’t know if you are aware, (as we have a LOT of newbies here due to my sudden new readers from the Twitterverse) but here in the United States, there are approximately over 300 Museums and or Memorials to the Holocaust in the untied States currently.

Per the Goolag AI:

States with prominent Holocaust memorials and museums are: 

• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• Washington
• Washington, D.C.
• Wisconsin 

States with a higher concentration of memorials include:

• California: Wikipedia lists several memorials and museums in California.
• Florida: Florida is home to the Florida Holocaust Museum, one of the largest in the US.
• New Jersey: Wikipedia lists several memorials and museums in New Jersey.
• New York: Wikipedia lists several memorials and museums in New York, including the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
• Ohio: Ohio has several significant memorials and museums.
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is home to the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, among others.
• Texas: Texas has several Holocaust museums, including one in Dallas and Houston.

Mind you I looked it up for Florida… there’s 14 LARGE memorials to the Holocaust here in this state.

A curious thing don’t you think?

WHY Is what I ask…

I mean, after all, WE were the ones, along with the Soviets, who STOPPED the ‘Holocaust’ and ‘rescued’ all them poor bastards who were supposedly there. I mean WHY???

WE were the ones who saved them and yet we have to continually buld memorials as if it was OUR fault??? Even Germany doesn’t have this many memorials for fucks sakes.

Nope….
It’s a humiliation and submission ritual.
They know it, and now, maybe some of YOU now know it.

And knowing is half the battle.

Now for one, I am NOT going to deny that -something- happened. I’ve visited some of the locations and yeah…something happened… in fact TBH Mauthausen? THAT motherfucker genuinely had some bad shit happen there… I could feel it. Unlike Birkenau. The vibe at Birkenau was like a summer camp so to speak, which sounds fucked up, but you had to be there yannow? On the other hand? Mauthausen was another level spooky so to speak… the Dead ‘talked there’ so to speak… I could hear them I swear…

However…

That isn’t the point I’m trying to get at…

What personally ‘steams my clams’ so to speak… what really grinds the fuck out of my gears is the utter lack of memorials to the United States Troops and the Soviet Troops who DIED in the rescue of their worthless and UTTERLY ungrateful asses.

Not. A. Single. Memorial. paid for, nor even situated in Israel for ALL the guys from BOTH major ‘players’ who fought in World War Two, who because of the efforts and their sacrifices, allowed them the ability for them to go out now and fully commit genocide against the Palestinian People without fear of repercussion.

And Nope… not a big fan of the Palestinians as a group either. I don’t care who did what to whom but them brainwashing their kids at such young ages to embrace “martyrdom” and the bullshit they push? That shit is right up there on my “shit that’s fucked up, and you get what you fucked deserve” because of it…

As far as -I’m- concerned?

We need to cut ALL the $$$ off period fucking point fucking blank to the ENTIRE Area of Operations. Cut them ALL off AND if we had even a modicum of self respect, tell them both to fuck off, thanks for all the Gefilte fish and Hummus, and lots of luck in the future… write if you get work. We got bigger issues here.

But

All them sex videos of our politicians either fucking little kids or, even worse, depending on who you listen to, our politicians participating in some of the most depraved and dark shit that humans are capable of doing, and well….

You get where we’re at right now.

Go figure right?

So let’s go on and change over to another more pleasant and favorite subject of mine.
FOOD.
Namely Dinner Tonight:

It looks like a regular meal amiright?

No so mucho. The steak is a gift from Sailor Steve. Every once in a great while, I’ll get a notification that he’s sent me a ‘care package’ as he appreciates my writing and entertaining adventures. He usually sends it to me after I get a ‘kick in the balls’ metaphorically speaking. In this case, it was a Snake River Farms care package that he got on sale… (I hope!) as it had some pork chops (the most tender infidel meat-pork chops I’ve even had in my life) and then, a genuine Waygu Beef Flank Steak, as seen above and below:

Now, flank is a pure bitch to cook properly.

Somehow, someway, I managed to do it, and NOT fuck it up. As you can see, it came out a perfect medium rare which is the all-around preference for everyone in the house. I used my Ninja XL Air Fryer set to “grill”:

We, (Gretchen and myself) with the brother-in-law had bought this together for Gretchen’s Mom and Da for a gift… can’t remember if it was the anniversary gift or Christmas… either way Mom didn’t want it, and BIL was like “You guys keep it!” so hey… I got like a $300 (at the time) top end grill/air fryer out of the deal.

I’ve learned how to master it.
As seen, I knocked cooking that Flank Steak out of the fucking park tonight man… PERFECTLY done. 3 minutes at 400 degrees flipped at a minute and a half, and then flipped again… total flips was 4. Two on each side for about a minute and a half all on each with a LOT of monitoring… together so figure 6 minutes in all… Then I pulled it, wrapped it in foil, and let it set for 5 minutes, then carved it.

OMG

Sooooooooooo tender.
And to be honest, it was a BIG cut of meat… like a slab…
So we have leftovers. Those are going to be chopped up and made into a Waygu-based Soba Soup that I’ve made in the past, but I didn’t have genuine Waygu. I could also tell it was genuine Waygu in that you could see the smol pockets of creamy fat alllll the way through the cut of the meat… which added to the flavor… and man, Now that I have some real meat? Oh Hell yeah… I might even make eggrolls and dumplings with rice as sides…

I love me some cooking… I really do.

So that’s tonights rant and rave.
It’s pouring rain here right now… might put a damper on the potential festivities tomorrow. And Father’s Day is Sunday… Gretchen’s Dad wants me to visit… I’ve not been visiting as DC is living there, and I want to avoid the overwhelming urge to give into my base instincts and shoot that bitch out of hand, as she is oh so richly deserving of… But it IS Father’s Day, and he’s disowned one out of the two legit sons he has, and Adopted me, so I sort of have to go… dammit.

So that’s my weekend in a nutshell.
Hope yours is good.
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Big Country