Big Country Expat

Greetings and Salutations!
So tonight’s topic is “Kalling Out The Krainian Klown Show Korpse Kount” i.e. the reason(s) for the exceptionally low count of dead Krainian Soldiers and the rationale behind it.

As of June 2025, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) “…a study in June 2025 estimated that between 60,000 and 100,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the war began.”

Which is laughable as all get out because per The Economist estimated in November 2024 that 60,000 to 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed.

Funny that it’s the same. exact. numbers. Aye?

“Well why is that Big Country?”
Well kids… it’s a evil and purely selfish economic reason for keeping the Korpse Kount low. The Kokaine Kowboy of Kiev doesn’t want to cut into his profits and grift don’t you know?

Less Money = Less Booger Sugar.

After all, it’s only dead Orthodox Christians being fed into the slaughterbox, and NOT his fellow (((tribalists))). In fact the TCC responsible for the (ahem) “recruiting” i.e. snatching ANYTHING walking and breathing off the streets, mugging them and stuffing them into trucks and then off to the front lines?

They all seem to attend Temple with Krainfeld.

And as to the economic reasons?
Well like the U.S. Army, the Krainian soldiers have a life insurance policy. In the U.S. DotMil, it’s the SGLI or Servicemember’s Group Life Insurance which pays out if you get your chips cashed in while on active duty. Back when I was in, we used to mockingly refer to it as the “SGLI Sweepstakes”. As I recall it was like $100,000 maybe back then? And it didn’t cost a dime. Per the Goolag A.I., it’s increased now, and you can maxx out at half a million simoleons if you decide to pay in extra.

Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI) provides a maximum of $500,000 of coverage for service members, in $50,000 increments. 

This maximum coverage amount increased from $400,000 to $500,000 on March 1, 2023, due to Public Law 117-209, intended to reflect the rising cost of living. This increase was automatic for eligible service members, including those who previously declined or reduced their coverage. 

The SGLI premium rate is 6 cents per $1,000 of coverage. For the maximum coverage of $500,000, the monthly premium is $30, which includes an additional $1 for Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI).

Interesting that now innitit?

Now to the crux of the matter. A week ago +/- Russia and the Krainian delegation set up a deal to exchange dead soldiers 6000 bodies for 6000 bodies. One of the Russian Negotiators shortly after pointed out to the Krainians that they probably didn’t have anywhere close to 6000 Russian KIA. And then did the “Nelson Laugh” at them

The reason I’m sure of this is that I’ve been following a LOT of ‘neutral observers’ who’ve been going out and assisting BOTH sides with carcass recovery, and truthfully, the numbers of abandoned dead Krainians has, to me, at least as a soldier, been astounding. And NOT in a good way.

I’ve also been pouring over recent satellite pictures of the various major DotMil graveyards, in BOTH countries, and well… let’s just say it ain’t looking good for the Krainians.

Which then leads me to this: As I stated before in the opening, The Krainians have their own SGLI set up.
And you can see the pay structure below:

The Ukrainian government provides financial assistance to the families of soldiers who die in action. 

Amount of Assistance:

• 15 million UAH: This is the one-time payment for the death of a servicemember during deployment or while performing combat duties.
• 2,271,000 UAH: This amount is for the death of a servicemember during the performance of service duties, specifically if the death is caused by an illness acquired during service.
• 1,514,000 UAH: This is for the death of a servicemember during their service or as a result of illness or accident that occurred during the mentioned period.

$15,000,000.00 Ukrainian hryvnia for every. dead. soldier. who was killed in action.
And as I said in the beginning, it’s a evil and purely selfish economic reason for keeping the Korpse Kount low. 15 Million UAH equals about (at current rates) $362,194.96 per KIA.

Sooo today, the Russians sent a big ole convoy of reefer trucks stacked with 1212 dead Krainians. To be brought home with honor and so they could be reunited and taken care of by their families, letting them have the peace of their passing become known…

Except the Krainians refused the delivery.
Told the truck to turn around and go back.

The Kiev bastards don't want to take the bodies of their dead soldiers. There are two reasons: it's scary to admit that there are 6,000 of them and they don't want to pay widows. What Satanic scum! Burn them in hell!

— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) June 7, 2025

Which is seriously fucked up.

Even MORESO knowing it’s just got to be about the Shekels.
1212 dead troops confirmed KIA?
That’s about $438,980,291.52 USD in death benefits
Payable NOW
Almost half a billion.

And if Ivan has 6000 confirmed dead Krainian Korpses onhand?

That’s literally $2,173,169,760 USD in death bennies

PAYABLE NOW

In a country that just defaulted on it’s national debt.
Two BILLION in payable for the Krainian SLGI Sweepstakes.

THIS is why the numbers have been artificially deflated.

There are TONS of YouToob Vidyas that have been out, and are still coming out made by former Kraininan Contract Soldiers who managed to get the fuck out, some Columbian, some Jordanian, showing that they had been getting paid off in bogus/counterfeit US Cee-Notes!

Other videos of guys ‘blowing the whistle’ on some of the reasons WHY they bailed… Speaking out about Korrupt Krainian Officers keeping the dead ‘on the books’ so as to collect the pay of the hollowed out units, thereby allowing them to keep the graft and corruption that’s Oh So Endemic to the Krainian Kokaine Fueled Klown Show, with Krainfeld at the Helm.

Clownshoes baby, Nuthin’ but Clownshoes.

<Le Sigh>
This will not end well.
The people there are even getting tired of the (((usual suspects))) ESPECIALLY The TCC. For those unfamiliar, the TCC stands for the Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support. I.E. the Krainian Draft Board. A link to a recent attack in Odessa is HERE

In this case, -someone- put a car bomb in one of the Local TTC Commander’s car, it it blew the fuck up. Per Telegram:

And a few months ago, a father who’d lost his son on the front walked up to the recruiter bully-boy who’d snatched him (his son) off the street, and sent him to the front where he was killed in action, and confronted the TCC guy.

“Confronted” as in Dad walked up behind him while he was at an ATM, and put two in the back of his casaba with a pistola, rendering him a “Good Recruiter” now.

There’ve been a BUNCH of other anti-recruiting things that have happened. Lots of ‘crowdsourcing’ if you will, when the local babushkas and such roll heavy and start beating on the recruiters until the target manages to run away while the Babushka Brigades run cover.

So yeah.
Depending on certain things… like the economic situation in the next few months worldwide, and how the Krainians themselves react to this little action from their now completely illegitimate DotGov, well… it’s going to be an interesting few months.

Add on LA is blowing up right now and the Nasty Guard is being deployed, however fucking useful those retards are… I mean any bets they get no ammo probably, and Rules of Engagement? Probably something that includes “no harsh language” is my guess…

I prefer Tony Moon’s approach:

Tony Moon being the OG RTK back in the day.
He put it out on Twitter that his kids were ready to go, and this time, He’d be in overwatch.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Finished Rogue One last night.
Not too bad… not too bad at all. The end was a bit bogus… in that at the end? The blockade runner, the Tantive IV that Leia was on just so happened oh so conveniently to be on board the Mon Calamari ship? AND that Leia was on it… albeit a really shitty CGI’d Leia?

Yeeeeah… not so much.

So tonight’s endeavor was “When Trumpets Fade”

An HBO show/movie… based on and in the Hurtgen Forrest in 1944 juuust before the Battle of the Bulge. It’s where the Pennsylvania National Guard got it’s nickname “The Bloody Bucket”. The 28th Infantry Division earned the name due to the Red ‘Keystone’ patch they wore:

The German Army started calling them that giving them that sobriquet for the bloody-minded- near insane approach to the battle. The Hurtgen battle was IMO a complete waste of manpower and time, being forced by the egos of senior officers who should have been fragged after the first week.

The movie is one of the more visceral close-to-IRL war movies in the way the characters react. Bravery, cowardliness, hopelessness… it’s all there. A great movie if you haven’t seen it. Highly Recommend.

Reason for the movie (and y’all should know it) is it’s the 81st Year of our fuck up in attacking the Krauts when we should have joined them in annihilating Communism and Zionism.

As an aside… Charles Schultz?
Per the A.I.:
‘Charles Schulz was drafted into the US Army in November 1942 and served until January 1946, reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was assigned to the 20th Armored Division and his unit participated in the liberation of Dachau.’

He was from my research a Squad Leader of a Machine Gun crew, mainly running the M1919A1 Machine Gun:

There were some cool videos this AM of members of the 101st, the 82nd and the 173rd, along with some British paras recreating the jump into Normandy waaaay back when.

Normandy itself was chockablock full of what few remaining vets there are, as well as reenactors and active duty troops there to honor their lineage. In 1994 my unit in Germany sent a group of troops for the Anniversary to march in the parades in Fwance, and maaaaaan…

They came back PISSED OFF ready to go to WAR!

Seems the local yoofs during the parade had run up and stripped off their awards and medal off of their Class A Uniforms they were marching in, and were not allowed to retaliate. They were pissed beyond measure… and that was WAY back in 1994…

I can’t even imagine nowadays.
So that’s tonight’s BS. I got in the part to fix the stock, so FINALLY I can get back to weapons repair/restoration. I’ll be back as the weekend continues.

More Later
Big Country

Appropriate Ne Ce Pas?

Greetings and Salutations!
So… it’s June 4th… Notable for a couple of things.
I know we all know about Saint Marvin of the Killdozer… but did you ALSO know that the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 happened on June 4th, as well that this date marks the passing of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the U.S, leading us on a serious downward spiral that we have yet to reach the bottom of.

Seriously.
When we gave them the ability to vote, we pretty much metaphorically cut our own throats so to speak.

But anyways.
I’m, on the last three episodes of Andor tonight. The Ghorman Massacre was crazy AF but the follow on with Mon Mothma’s escape and the whole ‘who do you trust’ underlying the escape was exceptionally well done. I’m looking forward to finishing it, and then watching Rogue One.

I never got to see Rogue One as that was the Summer of my disastrous divorce and encounter with the Authorities. I had too much on my mind than to go watch a flick.

And then Disney Star Wars under Kennedy came around and shat all over the place like a Donkey with Diarrhea further causing me to distance myself from the whole of the Star Wars Universe… I mean there have been some good things like maybe a few episodes of The Mandalorian, but for the most part? I’m in the “Han Shot First” crew and the “Death to Jar Jar” fan club.

So I’m off to cook dinner and then binge out for the rest of the night. I did gather a great selection of memes, some of which H/T to WiscoDave, so enjoy!

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
OK
Been now going on 24 hours plus or minus
NOTHING from Big Bad Vlad-The-Putler

Personally, I’m very disappointed

I wanted full on retaliation from HELL

Considering the channels I watch on Telegram, I figured it’d be a done deal. I’m watching what a lot of folks would call “Ivan Propaganda” or whatever… point is it’s a lot of war-porn, which is not cool to a certain extent, to the point I get a ‘feel’ for what’s going on from the guys who’re actually on the front line…

And let me tell you

The “Average Russian Infantryman on The Front Line?”

OMFG…
If it was up to them?
Kiev, Brussels, London, Berlin, Washington, Warsaw?
ALL would be BIG FUCKING GLOWING GOPHER HOLES
IF
The ‘grunts’ had their way……
They’d nuke the ever loving fuck out of the capitals of the major behind the scenes retard controllers …. They’re tired.

Can’t blame them…
They’ve been slogging along for almost three years now.
LOTS of casualties.
No where near the Krainin Korpse pile mind you… my contacts have told me that the Krainians have about 1.5 million KIA and about an additional 300k worth of walking wounded… the lightly wounded not even being counted… that’s from a doc who’s in charge of a post-op trauma clinic in Germany…

The Russians on the other hand have lost about 300k KIA +/- nd about 250k Wounded.

Point is IF we don’t see a response, well……..

Like I said last night, I worry that Putin will be KIA’d and replaced by an “Ivan The Even MOAR Terrible”.

All the assholes here in the states keep talking up Vlad like he’s Satan or someone equivalent… do the NOT know Russian History???
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OH!

Of course they don’t.
They went to Harvard for the most part
Which means their functionally historically illiterate and retarded. Fuck we are sooooooooooooooo fucked as long as these Ivy-League Fucktards are ‘promoted ahead of peers’ in everything.

I’d prefer the bum who lives behind the dumpster at 7-11 who ‘talks to aliens’ running the fucking show… At least HE has a clue amiright?????

Make of it what you will….

So then.. we’ve got the French Riots over the weekend:

What blows my mind is –why– do the keep doing the same ole same ole? Meaning the police? Fire tear gas, break some heads, wash rinse repeat…

Every few weeks it seems.

It’s a good thing I’m not in charge.
I mean the majority of the fuckers rioting/looting and pillaging are obviously not French. They all seem a mite dark wouldn’t you say? I’d have the fuzz pull back, and roll the Legion in hot with belt feds and just gun the fuckers down. Then roll the trash trucks out, dig a mass grave and roll the corpses in with a good helping of pig blood just to remind them Who’s Yer Daddy Haji?

I mean look at the Muslim Moro Uprising in the Philippines

“Black Jack” Pershing as I recall snapped the spine of the Moros metaphorically speaking by having his men grease their ammo and weapons with pig lard and burying the corpses of the enemy dead in freshly killed pig skins. The Haj shut right the fuck down soon after that.

Interesting side note:
The 1911 in .45 became a ‘thing’ because of that Uprising. The Moros wore bamboo armor that the Dot.Mil .38 specials couldn’t penetrate. Hence the adopting of the 1911.

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Sorry gang
Been binging the series “Andor” b/c Sapper said it’s great
Hence my distraction.
It’s been a great series TBH… far better than Disney has put out in the past. The Ghorman Massacre was off the charts as far as drama, good acting, phenomenal writing and resolution. Tomorrow night we watch the last 3 out of 12 episodes.

So otherwise… that what I got…
Not thinking much… sort of blasé about shytte right now
Let me know what you think

More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So due to popular demand, I’ll revamp this place in the next week or so. Far be it for me to not heed the will of the Vox Populi.

Now.. a few answers to the questions that were thrown out there.
#1) Sapper’s Truck: According to the fucking grifting POS mechanics who shall remain nameless, the problem again was the Mass Air-Flow Sensor. Now this strikes me as a wee bit odd as Sapper bought an OEM (Toyota) one off of the Zon, rather than going with the supposedly ‘Warrantied’ one that they wanted to install at a heinous upcharge.

Funny how that OEM sensor failed within two weeks Aye?

And another thing that convinces me that they possibly ‘monkied’ with shit? I didn’t mention it but the day after we got the truck back? Sapper’s Air Conditioning fan shit the bed out of nowhere. In Florida that’s a no-go. However, a few youtoob vidyas later, one $60 aftermarket fan, and a wee bit of elbow grease and we got that resolved.

I’m pretty sure they did something to cause that failure… not that we can prove it or anything at this point.

Then
#2) The Krainian “Pearl Harbor Gambit”
Oof.
First off, fantastic operation. Very well done. No leaks, and a great hit over all.

The problem?

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeh…

Ivan just had one of the ‘legs’ of his “Strategic Deterrence” tri/tripod ‘kicked out’ from under him, namely his bomber fleet. Ivan only has/had about 100-125 of the Tupolov Tu-95 ‘Bear’ bombers (the Rus equivalent of our B-52, except prop-powered) still running, and supposedly the Krainians got a bunch of them in this raid:

They also hit a bunch of Tu-22M ‘Backfire’ bombers as well.

According to the Wiki, there’s only about 54 of the Tu-22M variants still in service…

And then there (supposedly) were a few An-50s hit as well… which is a Russian version of AWACs (Airborne Warning/Airborne Controller) aircraft:

Roughly $2,000,000,000.00 USD worth of equipment.

You knew that was coming…
Seriously tho…
Ivan has certain rules regarding nukes, the use of nukes and war when it comes to “The Proper Way of Dealing With Shit” so to speak…

Namely that IF and only IF there appears to be and EXISTENTIAL THREAT to the Rodina, then nukes? Oh fuck yeah, they’re on the table with a vengeance.

Now Aesop, while I’ll give him his respect due, as some things he’s been right about, his cold-War-Warrior mentality vis-a-vis IMO has been dead wrong. A couple of times he’s stated that the Russians would get sick of Putin running this shitshow, and off his ass, and make peace.

The problem with that?

Putin is positively sane as fuck compared to the majority of the Ivans over there. He’s been positively the ‘Voice of Reason’ in keeping things symmetrical in responses to Krainian bullshit.

Right now? The stuff I’ve been reading and watching has me thinking that there’s a strong possibility that THIS TIME the “Kill Them All” elements of his government are going to get their way and waste a significant portion of….well I’m not sure…

I know… I know… very ‘waffle-y’ on my part…

The thing of it is, I’m not Russian, nor have I recently stayed at a Holiday Inn Express… That being said, I’m pretty sure that if Putin doesn’t do something ‘spectacular’ that the Hardliners WILL off his ass as being a weakling, and we’ll end up with a “Ivan-the-Terrible-er” that decides that it’s time to make BIIIIIG Glowing Gopher Holes allllll over the E.U. and in the US.

So yeah, I went out with Sapper today and we dropped $200 each at CostCo re-upping the shitpaper and paper towels, (plus ‘other stuff’) and on payday, I’ll do it again. Better safe than sorry. It’s the same vibe I got right before Covid became a ‘thing’ and the lockdowns happened. Never ignore that ‘little voice’… mine said to make sure our shit is secure and up to speed.

This shit is NOT going to end well… that’s for damned sure.

I wouldn’t put it past that tomorrow, during the “Peace Conference” that the Russian Envoy opens a laptop, and tells everyone there to watch, and as they do, it opens to a drone feed from 25 miles away in the Krain, obviously outside of Kiev… Then there’s a sudden -flash- and then a GIANT mushroom cloud over Kiev… and then tells all present:

“OK… who’s fucking next? We’re done playing retard games… the first of you fuckers who blinks, your capital goes up like Kiev. Surrender now, dissolve NATO, shut down all the bullshit, or we launch in 20 minutes, and guess what? We’ll win. You assholes have been playing Fuck Around for 3 years… it’s time you Found Out.”

I mean far fetched?
You tell me.
Ivan is pissed
AND|
There’s plenty of evidence things are going on that NO ONE has a clue about:

🇷🇺 There were as many as 8 messages on UVB-76 today, the famous Russian military doomsday day radio.

1st 15:44 Moscow time:
NZhTI 09849 UTKOROY 5470 9627

2nd 11:52 Moscow time:
NZhTI 65636 MOROZHOVYY 3119 6315

3rd 13:12 Moscow time:
NZhTI 97118 LUGOVOY 6816 0243

4th 14:11… pic.twitter.com/r12AKoAjPI

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 1, 2025

Uhhhh… Yeah.

That channel has –barely- any traffic on it usually

The fact that per T.L Davis HERE talks about how last Wednesday the Russians sent their Continuance of Government folks out to the bunker-cities in the Siberian Tundra.

For fun, I ran the all the word thru the Goolag Translate. Only the first three came up with English translations, being #1 “Opened”, #2 “Ice Cream” and #3 “Meadow”. I mean no fucking idea, but interesting nonetheless.

So I’d say we may (or not… hopefully not) see something happen in the next 48-72 hours. Ivan is, if anything patient unlike OUR fucktards who can’t stop moving at the speed of a soundbite. That being a major problem with our supposed Leadershit Class… fuckers are too stupid, venal and retarded to understand just what the fuck is going on… until it’s too late.

So otherwise, let me share a story from days gone by:

When I got out of the Army we ended up moving into the ‘family home’, my Xwife and 2x Spawn, both Spawn being wee-ones at the time. The Xwife’s fam had the original duplex that the family bought when they came over on the Olive Oil boat in the 1920s… Not a bad place really… The Xwife’s Great Aunt lived next door as family Matriarch/Landlord and we got to move in as the ‘kids who needed a hand up’ while I got established on civvie street paying WAAAY below market rent while I worked to get in a position to get our own place.

The neighborhood unfortunately had NOT retained it’s original Italian ‘flavor’ so to speak. It’d gone pretty low-end ghetto with the majority of the “Adult” males hanging out I shit you not at 7 a.m. drinking beer and smoking weed on the stoops while I, Mister “Trying to Get Ahead” in life would walk past them to catch public transportation to get to my entry-level IT job. These wastes of Oxygen and Skin would STILL be out there when I came home at 18:00 nightly. They regularly made a few snide comments until I let them know that I wasn’t to be trifled with. (Airborne Infantry, Combat Experienced)

The next door neighbor(s) were the most entertaining scumbags I’d ever seen.

It started one night in the spring right after we moved in when I heard the male, Tony start fighting with his wife Corrine. The screaming was off the chart. I was positively AMAZED that the cops didn’t get called. I asked Great Auntie about it and she shrugged and said “That’s the way they are!” She was very non-confrontational in dealing with shit like this….
Anyways… the screaming matches?

This over time devolved into physical fighting.

What was hilarious was they’d beat the shit out of each other, using frying pans, brooms… what have you…

It was like clockwork. Tony would get drunk AF, and Corrine would start getting on his case and Presto!!! Instant fisticuffs.

The house had like 6 windows facing my back yard. One night a buddy of mine came over, and no shit, we sat outside watching this shitshow as Corrine chased Tony with a frying pan, back and forth, hitting him in the head “BONG!BONG!BONG!”

He in turn grabbed I don’t know what, but she beat feet back the other way really quickly… My buddy Chuck couldn’t resist and started cheering on Corrine to “Hit that sumbitch harder!!!!” which caused them to stop, look out, and well… they shut the blinds as it must has sparked -some- form of embarrassment. (As if they were even capable of the idea)

So much for the show that night.

This happened on and off for the three years we lived there. The “Friday Night Fights” were legend after a while… it got to the point where I’d set up lawnchairs with a cooler of beer and realize how good I had it with my family… made me appreciate things yannow??? The ONLY time things got tense with me and Tony was when a drunk driver had taken out a power pole which nuked the neighborhood power via one of the BIG transformers blowing up… it took the city like 5 days to get a replacement.

Now as you know, since I was/am a prepper, I have a smol generator. I busted it out, powered it up, and viola, we had juice.

This meant keeping our fridge powered, and enough juice to then run the VCR and TV (and yeah, it was that long ago) to keep the spawn entertained. I was able to work remotely via my cell phone and lappie, so life was good for the moment. Even Great Auntie was getting some power, so that was a good thing. Keeping the family Matriarch helped right?

However
A problem developed when I heard the gennie on Day Two of the outage start ‘bogging down’ i.e. having too heavy a load on it. Like it made me go “WTF!?!” and since things were a wee bit Mad Max-ish, I grabbed my 12 gauge Mossberg and went to check.

I go outside, and what do I see? I found a power cord connected to the generator running in my yard, over the fence, and into Tony’s house!

Entitled much?

I took my electric-shock proof wire clippers (a lesson needed to be made here) and cut the power cord. I then went onto the porch, leaving the end of the cord still plugged in. That way the fucker couldn’t just re-plug it in.

Within 2 minutes Tony jumped the fence (apparently again) and came to see what was going on with his ‘loss of power’. He saw the cable was cut, not just unplugged and started ranting like a raped ape, at which point I appeared in the doorway of the porch… he started going off on me, my mother, my family… you name it. He must have been High AF as he started coming towards me, at which point I let Mister 12gauge lean out from behind my left leg… that pretty much got him stopped cold…

He chilled pretty fucking quick at that point…

Mind you, this was in Massachusetts, and the “Rules” of weapons ownership kept most folks from having weapons. They weren’t and to this day not very common outside of illegal stuff… Me? I had what at the time they would have classed as an Eeeee-vil Arsenal (i.e. more than 5 rifles/pistols)

Tony practically shit himself at the sight of the gauge… to be fair, it was a DotMil M590 with Bayonet Lug and Heat Shield. NOT your daddy’s hunting shottie to say the least. What REALLY cracked me up was that he kept saying how “It wasn’t FAIR!” that I had a generator and that I should share it with him… the entitlement was off the charts. I told him it wouldn’t be fair to Corrine if I had to spatter his stupid all over my back yard if he didn’t GTFO of said-yard, and to STFU and have a nice day…

Pretty much the last interaction I had with him until we moved three months later…

So that’s the fun for tonight.
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
We have a winner!
IF said winner allows I’ll name him here. I’m waiting on FFL Info for him. If you haven’t heard from me, I have to thank you for the entries, but y’all didn’t win this time. Maybe the next time around.

I’ve also asked that when the Winner gets said Rifle if’n he’d send me a pic of him with it, and maybe a review of it I’d appreciate it. I want a third-party outsider’s POV of shewtin’ one of these refurbs I’m doing.

Speaking of which, I’m still waiting on them damned brass screw pins to fix that broken stock. Until I get that/them I’m literally at a stand-still. Otherwise, I’ve just been worn out as of late.

Sapper’s son and Gran made it out safely on Wednesday. It’s then the whole ‘clean up the wreckage’ and the house overall as the place was/is a wreck. Finding lots of little piles of ‘stuff’ …water bottles, food wrappers and the like from where the kid hid his stuff rather than throwing it away… Not that it’s unusual… just unexpected.

Catching Chili with ‘things the puppy should NOT be chewing on’ like OUR Gran’s dolls/stuffies and such because Sapper’s Gran had taken them out, and not secured them… one of which I had to replace and THANK GOD for eBay… One of them which I -did not- catch on time was her favorite pink bunny rabbit stuffie.

By the time I caught her, the puppy had effectively blinded the poor thing by eating the eyes off of it. As well as the majority of it’s face. And it’s an older model… hence why finding it on eBay was a key factor… ‘gently used’ was a plus and $19 w/free shipping? Yeah… express that fucker to me ASAP. It got here and she was thankfully unaware of “Ye Olde Switcheroo”

Thank the Good Lord for smol favors Aye?

Hence why I’ve been exhausted.
As of late, I’ve been in full on “nonstop running around putting out fucking fires” mode. Like “hair-on-fucking-fire” running around. Plus working full time at People’s Glorious Tractor Factory, which thankfully, we’re in the between-season lull which has allowed me some flexibility with getting minor issues handled around here.

Tomorrow I have to dig out the lawn mower to get the jungle under control… the HOA went from hitting me with a violation for “bare spots” on the lawn” to “Yer shit is overgrown and looks like Vietnam!”

“Make up yer fookin’ mind!” said Steven the Irishman.

Amen to that.
We were going to do it early this AM< however, since we haven’t had any rain for the past few weeks, of COURSE the morning I have yardwork to do, it rained like a MoFo…

So anyways, it’s time to get into the groove and issue a bit of a red flag warning I’m seeing.

Tonight there’s an article on the Daily Fail, BritLand’s premier bird cage liner. I know they consider it a tabloid, and because of the amount of celebutard stuff they cover, I’m inclined to agree.
HOWEVER
One thing about it is they have a hell of a lot of real stories that get barely a mention here in OUR Ministries of Lies and Propaganda which allow an analyst like myself to get a better idea of what’s happening by the LACK of news here on our side. If they run it, and there’s absolutely ZERO mention of it here, well, I’ll cross reference it, and if I get two or more confirmations, it means whatever is happening, well… if OUR asshole Enemedia aren’t talking about it, it probably means that they don’t want to spook the Sheepole.
So hence we got this:

Link HERE
This’s the guy that the movie “The Big Short” was based on back in 2008 for predicting the big 07/08 stock wipeout. He made $800 MILLION during that timeframe. Currently, his holdings are this:

As the cool kids say “follow the money”
Twitter is blowing up all over the place about this too… That’s enough for me to take notice as this being a potentially significant problem/warning.

And since I don’t have a pot to piss in, well… most of us don’t, what -I- take from this is home-boi is positioning himself to make a LOT of dinero when the market takes a gigantic shit all over again.

In the extremely near future is my guess.

Add on that Warren Buffett’s moves as of late?
I’m barely cognizant of shit in the market, HOWEVER my training, experiences and ability to see patterns tells me things are getting a wee bit ‘squirrelly’ in the market. Hell… my Ex-FIL and Uncle In Law never forgave me for calling the dot-com bubble busting back 3 months before it actually happened. I told them flat the fuck out to get out of the market ASAP if they were smart…

They looked at me like I was retarded, as I was only a recently medically retired grunt with ZERO market experience/education nor any investing experience… I can’t blame them per se from their POV…

All I had was some data points that screamed at me that the ‘dot com’ “Thing” was about to take a shit… one of the biggest warnings to me was the IPO for “Doctor Koop Dot Com”…

When drkoop.com went public at $9 per share in 1999, the company raised $88.5 million and was ranked as the top health care content site on the internet. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop founded the website during the height of the Dot Com bubble, and a partnership with AOL soon had the stock trading at an all-time high of $45.75 per share.

In 1999, drkoop.com reported about 1.4 million unique visitors per month. When the Dot Com bubble burst, drkoop.com was one of its many victims. Investors were skeptical of health care websites that relied on advertising revenue. Drkoop.com reported tens of millions of losses per quarter throughout 2000. The company declared bankruptcy in December 2001, less than three years after its IPO.

finance.yahoo.com

When I heard about the whole ‘drkoop dot com’ thing, I was like yeaaaah…. “there’s yer sign…”

My reasoning for this was I at the time was working one of my first post-DotMil jobs at a “Bricks-to-Clicks” company that was making websites for companies… like BIG companies… HUUUUGE ones… and the business model, from an insider’s point of view was fucked…

I mean it was bad-bad…

I was working for a company that was essentially selling webpages that an experienced basement dwelling troll with mad HTML skills could put together, and that the majority of these dot-com websites were doomed ultimately to fail. Hell… my own company was a prime example of heady dot-com excess… pizza and beer every. single. Friday Afternoon for ALL staff… elaborate parties… top end office furniture… like ALL of us had Hermann-Miller Aeron chairs ($1200 a throw, and I still have mine, and you bet your ass when I got laid off I stole that fucker…) I mean they rented out the ENTIRE Roxy in Boston for the corporate Halloween party with open bar ALL NIGHT!

So yeah, I got laid off by the end of 2000.

Good experiences, and good friends, but damn if it wasn’t a fucking circus the whole time. I knew that the dot-com ‘thing’ was going to blow up. I tried to tell the ILs but hey, what did I know?

I was right of course.

Sort of like when I see a dude who made $800 mil the last go-around shorting shit hard and other ‘things’ telling me that things are about to go weird? Well… When The Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro… (thank Dr. Hunter S. for that quote).

So I’m going long in MOR ammo and canned goods, as well as MREs. The MRE’s being still exceptionally cheap considering the normal price… Link HERE

I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t intentional in a way
As in ‘they’ (without knowing who ‘they’ may be) don’t or can’t come right out and say “Hey y’all, the shit is most def aboot to hit the oscillation device, so best you get yourself prepped ASAP as food is going to be an issue sooner, rather than later!”

Since that’s not allowed, I think they’re dumping soooooomany MREs that even normies are buying them. The r/MRE board has been questioning it hard as to the rationale and logistics behind it as well… Seeing that the majority of these were manufactured as the war was winding down 4+ years ago, there shouldn’t be this much surplus available, as if there’s ONE THING to DotMil normally gets right is food logistics… call it the ‘food actuarial tables’…. “X” amount of troops DotMil wide, with “Y” amount of possible field time equals “Z” projected MRE needs”

This’s literally unheard of.
I mean never have I seen TWO cases for $76 w/free shipping. Hell, when I was on Active duty, a case at the commissary (if you didn’t have a ‘hookup’ with supply to get you some) a case of MREs ran $50 a throw per case. That was in 1996!!!!!!!

Mayhaps a “down low” Civil Defense thing???

Hard to say these days.
I know I just ordered ANOTHER Set of Cases and will be getting ANOTHER Set of Cases on Friday of this coming week on payday. The next stop is CostCo for a recharge on Paper Towels and Toilet Paper. Believe it or not, and I’m not sure if I mentioned it, but we’re finally getting to the bottom of the COVID Stockpile I laid in back in 2020.

When that shit started, Sapper and I dropped about $400 on Charmin and Bounty. The BIIIIG Honking Packs… That was before anyone had an idea that this was going to become a ‘thing’. To a point we actually had to send out care packages to the Parental Units as they didn’t have a back up to their normal stockpile when the retardation went into “Ludicrous Stupid”. We actually had to box up and mail shitpaper and paper towels. To be honest, that’s when it went from “Ludicrous” to “Plaid”…

So make of it what you will.
That’s what I got tonight.
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Whew…. the weekend was great… somber, but great. Lots of folks to remember… lots of ‘recent losses’ too. I got word not one, but two of my bros cashed in recently, one being my roommate from Germany…

A tough weekend.
That being said Monday we -did- have a good time.
We went to this bowling/vidya game/pool place that was NOT Dave and Busters… the name eludes me for the moment… The Redhead had a blast,

…and was really pissed that I beat her (out of five of us playing) by one point…

Lord knows I was trying to lose…
I’m a shitty bowler anyways… it was purely luck that I spared on the final throw… I won, 75 to her 74 and everyone else was just sucking behind the two of us…

GiGi consoled her.

So otherwise, I’m still waiting on my stock screws to come in before I can resume the Lee Enfield work. Those went from ‘currently in stock’ to ‘backordered’ which irks me a wee bit. They were in stock when I ordered them, but I’m unsure if it was me who nulled them out? Either way I’ll pick that up later when I can.

Then, well… I’ve been off my news following as of late.

Just too much bullshit out there.

It grinds you down after a while. The only issue I had was Sapper’s truck shit the bed again today, except while -I- was driving it. Same exact issue. I can’t remember if I had told you what the resolution was supposedly, which now I question deeply as the breakdown was IDENTICAL to the original breakdown… >SPUTTER!<>SPUTTER!<>SPUTTER!< (Engine Dies, Unable to Restart). The original issue was Mickey Fuckign Rat had ate up a bunch of ‘stuff’.

Now? Not sure. What really pissed me off was that I had taken an early break from Glorious People’s Tractor Factory to go grab ( and yeah, I know… pure goyslop) a Mickey D’s Steak Bagel sammich… while enroute, the truck died while pulling into the parking lot.

I had to get out and push that heavy fucker on my own out of the lane and onto the curb. It’s nice to know I still have the ability to do such heavy pushing/lifting despite my rather lazy lifestyle as of late.

I then spent two hours waiting for the tow.
Sweating my ass off.
No AC in Ye Olde Deade Truckage donchaknow?
After the tow, well
THEN I had a mile to walk home from the repair shop.

Good exercise that I desperately needed, but OMG… 92 degrees dressed in all black? When I finally got back to the Casa, when I removed my gear to hop in the shower, the shorts and tee ‘splashed’ when they hit the tile floor. I looked like I had just climbed out of the pool…

A cold shower never felt so good.
Had me some flashbacks to similar circumstances after a hard day in Iraq in the desert heat… a cold shower after being oh-so-hawt feels good man…

Sapper of course is less than thrilled.
We’ll have to see what comes of it.

His son and his Gran are headed out early in the AM. Safe travels to them both. It’s been a good visit all around.

So More Later
Big Country

Special Operations Center Memorial Wall
Remembrance Ceremony Monday, May 26th

Until We Form Again Rakkasan
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So Sapper’s Son got here… Not sure if I had mentioned that but he has his son (Sapper’s Gran) for his summer visitation. Sapper’s son, now codenamed Iapetus (as he’s the father of Atlas) drove here over the end of the weekend, and got in late last night/early this A.M.? Hard to say… the week sort of ‘blended together’…

Because of this, we went and got the Nukular Redhead for the long weekend. She and At are “practically siblings” per the Redhead’s own measure. They’re OMG tighter than ticks on a coon dawg’s ass. Hence my lack of a yesterday poast.

Today we went to the pool. I got sunburned. The kids (hopefully) are going to crash out and NOT do the whole ‘waking up at 3am’ and sneaking around playing Twister like they did before… FFS…

I know, I know, I’m becoming an even saltier older version of my already Curmudgeonly Gruntpa self… I did not expect find myself in this particular position. It is however worth it. The two of them are a blast.

Red also finally lost one of her LAST snaggle-toofuses that she refused to let ANY of us take out. She had a dangling baby toofus that’s been like that for a long minute. Iapetus made her a hot-dog for dinner, and while chowing down, the thing finally decided to come out.

I still expect to be doing a fundraiser at some point to assist with braces… not sure why but ALL the littles I run across these days need grill-work in the future. Hers aren’t bad per se… it’s just that whole ‘worrying about it’ thing… I thought BOTH my spawn were going to need braces, but in the end, everything came together… It’ll probably go the same for Red… Either way… Not a biggie… Big Papi Chulo’ll help out when needed… we can’t have Red run around with Jacked Up Chompers… Her getting rid of that hanger will go a loooong way in fixing that.

And also, the Drawing for the Raffle is being pushed by ONE WEEK! My reason is I sent about 8 folks the mailing address via DM, and I’ve gotten only 3 entries. In fairness to those who said they’re going to mail me entries, I need to hold off a week, as TBH I didn’t get the first one until Tuesday of this past week despite the announcement being the Week-and-a-Day BEFORE!

Either the snail-mail is that fucking slow OR someone at the fucking Post Orifice figured out which envelopes had cash and ‘liberated’ said mail. Any of y’all who mailed me something, DM me again so I can account for entries if you would, with the amount sent so I know where I stand. I want to make sure I’m not dealing with retardation… so another week should suffice. I’ll do the drawing next Friday.

Otherwise, I’m too busy to bullshit like normal, so here’s some memes for everyone:

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Well last night was a “Fallout London” sort of night. I needed to do some killin’ so Virtually being the only socially acceptable version I could participate in (for now) I went all in.

A pretty good body count for the night. Lots of Feral Ghouls.

A night killing ghouls is a plus.

It was -that- sort of work day that drove me to mass slaughter. Some days and some of the Glorious Tractor Factory Clients I have to deal with just proves to be without any doubt that we are in the ‘Decline of Empire’ days… the only saving grace we have is OUR “Nero” a.k.a. The FORMER Pretender to the Glorious and Harmonious P&PBUH (Plus 10%) Orifice of The (p)Resident, The Ex-Dementor-in-Chief, Emperor Poopypants the First, Post-Chief Executive of the Kidsmeller Pursuivant, Good Ole Slo Xi-Den did NOT get to utilize his fiddle, and possibly our OrangeCaesar may eventually cross the Rubicon, and get shit straightened out.

Anyways… this’s a bit of a “Throwback Thursday”
I recently while cleaning up the Museum Area, I found a set of cabling that I bought years ago that allows one to check old hard drives by hooking up a power supply and a i/o cable that allows you to then plug it into your PC via USB, and see what exactly what you have on said-aforementioned drive.

Now I don’t know about you, but I never throw away a Hard Drive until I go back and make sure I’ve pulled everything off of it that I can. A very handy tool to have. Only after that do I then do a full T/S Level Demil, to include drilling, degaussing, and finally a sledgehammer to the drive to get rid of it for good.

To go with this, I recently found a stack of forgotten HDDs that have been laying around. One labeled mine, another labeled (in the X’s handwriting) backup and storage, and a few smaller laptop HHDs. Now the laptop ones are problematic in that I lost the power coupler for those that goes with the cabling set.

So for now, I still have to wait to see what’s on them. The other full size ATA drives? One of them is an 80 gig drive, and dated from the early 2000s… so that means at the time that was a HUGE storage device. It reminded me of one of my first USB memory stick drives I bought in Baghdad in 2004. 256 megabytes and I paid some stupidly large amount for it… like almost $200 as I recall. The X’s storage drive is a terabyte, so I think she got that while I was still overseas.

Either way, I cracked open the ones I could, and pulled what I wanted.

TBH it was really fucking depressing.
It was hard.
It Hurt truth be told.

ALL the pictures of the Spawn when they were littles… TONS of pics of ALL the holidays I missed… The X was and may still be a prolific photographer. I let her buy any camera equipment she wanted back then… and the very few holidays or whatever when I -was- home, damned few pictures of me.

Tons of the other members of the fam… the In Laws in particular. Her family… even when -I- was home on the rare visit. <Sigh>

However, ONE drive was kind of cool. Lost pictures of mine from Iraq and of all places, pics from Guantanamo Bay… like all of a handful but still… the reason for such a paucity of the pics in Gitmo was the damned near absolute ban on taking pictures didn’t make one want to take pictures. After Abu Ghraib and all the shit that went on there, unauthorized photography was a one-way ticket to either unemployment or a cell depending on the circumstances.

In fact the ban was so strict that IF you were leaving Gitmo, even for a short period of time, ALL your electronics, and I mean ALL of them… laptop, thumb drives, CDs… ALL of it had to be turned in to be scanned and/or censored like they used to censor the mail in WW2. That meant dropping yer shit off two weeks in advance and hope to Hell it was ready to go home with you by the time you were supposed to leave.

I got around that by NOT taking any electronic items home with me. I rawdogged it so to speak without a Laptop during the trip. I mean I had one at home so it worked out. The pics I did take made it past the censor board, so hey, at least I have a few pics.

Here’s one of me waiting for the Bus to take me to work:

….and one of me on a day off from work:

Gitmo: Where one attempts to erase one’s liver.

Then another Iraq Photo set I had features the Late Great Toby Keith on a USO tour… This was taken behind 1st Cav HQ on Liberty in 2005:

The bald old man in from of me is (God Rest him) my bro Skip who died of Cancer about 6 years after he got home… he was a good dude but wouldn’t get the fuck out of my picture framing LOL. Here’s another maybe better? one:

TK was a cool showman I have to give him that…

I personally wonder if the stomach cancer he got was because he spent so much time over there with us… I mean he seemed to always be in Baghdad every time I turned around…

And the number of US who got cancer?
Sheeeee-it!
Let me tell you now:
Depleted Uranium?
Its going to be the Agent Orange of the GWOT
Just watch.

On the same Hard Drive I also found videos I shot at my house in Iraq, as well as vids of various missions from there, to include some better shots of my rather cool and extensive weapons collection. Let me start off with that:

Now I’ve poasted that one before.
Some of you might remember seeing it.
HOWEVER the copy I had sucked. A picture-of-a-picture.
VERY bad quality.
This One? MUCH BETTER!

So, As you can see, this’s a pretty cool selection of the various toys I had. The problem is I had no idea where the rest of the pictures were. By looking on that drive I found one of them, specifically of one of the rarer pistol? rifle? You can decide:

The AK in the upper left?
A Sterling Silver (plated?) Saddam “Krinkov” so to speak.
My understanding is those were used by his bodyguards.
That particular one was a paperweight as the operating rod was cracked and broken, rendering it useless outside of a pretty wall-hanger.

Then there are a few other cool examples. The .38 at the bottom was a Smith and Wesson Pre-Model 10 Military and Police Revolver marked (on the other side of the barrel) “Property of Iraqi National Police”

And the far right semi-auto is not a Belgian Helwan nor a Beretta M1951. It’s a cheap shitty copy of those, a 9mm made in Iraq called a “Tariq” named after some Muj General from eons past. The silver medallion has his face on it. A total piece of shit that I never fired for fear it’d self-detonate. Didn’t want to lose anything critical so to speak…

Jes’ Sayin’

The others were cool too.
The SVD was a Chinese NDM-86 that had formerly been the property of Uday Hussein himself. I even had paperwork man…

The PPsh-43 was made in 1943 and marked “Stalingrad”.

The FN-MAS was unfired and unfireable, as I didn’t have a proprietary mag that’d fit it.

The FN-FAL was neat.

The folder AK was a Chinese Type 56.

The AK with the Blonde Furniture was an of all things made by a company called “American Eagle” but was select fire with full auto ability. Someone told me thast that was a CIA-sponsored and manufactured weapon…

I have no real idea.
My MP-5 folder is in there too, well worn, and I also found this pic of me w/my MP-5K:

Good Lord I make that thing look like a cap gun…
And I still have that particular helmet:

A little more worse for the wear, 20 years later
(OMG!!!! It’s LITERALLY BEEN 20 YEARS since that first pic was taken!!!! OLD OLD I GOT OLD!!!!)

So yeah… kind of cool.
I had a literal metric shit-pot more of them, but the majority of them were just ‘normal’… nothing that stood out per se. I mean like who cares about 23 more AK-47s right? I for real, I had AKs to burn back then…

And then we come to the videos.
Now keep in mind the following are digital video(s) shot in 2005… the quality isn’t the best, despite me having the ‘latest and greatest’ gear that WASN’T $4k or better… I wanted good equipment, but I wasn’t going to go nuts… sooooo…

Here’s some videos of some “Iraqi things” namely a video tour of part of the Palace Complex of Victory Base in Baghdad:

And then, there’s a Convoy I rode shotgun on to get to Abu G and our entry in:

And lastly, a shot of the Ziggurat at Ur:

Man I’ve been to some pretty cool places and seen some pretty cool stuff Aye? Watching these, I realized that I lived history man… Kind of wild TBH…

Now I’m HOPING those uploaded
If not
Well dammit. I let this thing sit for a LOOOOONG minute to get everything done ‘right’. And in the end, I ended up uploading it to my Yewtoob Channel and embedding them to get them out to you all.

Dammit.
AGAIN

Anyways…
Finding long lost ‘stuff’ like that is pleasing.
I’m going to have to figure out how to crack open the laptop HHDs as I know those are from my Iraq Adventures and who know how much forgotten ‘stuff’ is on them? I’ll keep y’all up to date as I get things done.

So hope you enjoyed Throwback Thursday… Maybe I’ll make it a regular thing? Let me know in the comments

More Later
Big Country