{"id":8082,"date":"2025-10-02T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:42:00","slug":"sorry-about-that-im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/sorry-about-that-im-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry About That…. I’m Back."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations
Yeeeeeeah… I had step waaaay awayto adjust my ‘timing and headspace’ as things around here got a wee bit depressing. A LOT of different things that just pretty much left me utterly mentally drained. To the point I even quit drinking completely<\/strong>.

Which is a plus, but not conducive to my creativity as a little ‘synaptic lubrication’ via some ethanol intake makes it a wee bit easier to cogitate some of my ‘stuff’ when I put the fingers to the keyboard. So, I had to ‘reset’ the thinking meat back into the ‘on’ position…

I’m really sorry to have freaked y’all out.

It makes me feel really appreciated and I thank you all for the concern. To the point I got a text from her (as she is checking this thing on occasion) saying y’all were wondering if she tried to poison me. Nope. Not the case. She did come by and gather a bunch of her stuff w\/her brother (he’s a great dude for a Navy guy), which left quite a few open ‘holes’ around the house… furniture and whathaveyou which was part of the bummer, as I know it’s done-done now.

Hence my radio silence.
However, I am resilient so onward.
The other things that have gone on around the world as of late have been so utterly insane <\/strong>as to leave even one normally loquacious sumbitch such as myself as to be speechless. LOTS of weirdness… One of the only things (outside of SecWar’s speech, which I’ll go into in a bit) that I’ve been closely monitoring<\/em> has been the prices of silver and gold.

Currently, as of this moment, silver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which is down<\/strong> from an all time high of $48.22 at opening today at 08:13EST. And gold? Hoo boy…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which is down<\/strong> from an all time high of$3908.90.

The fact that they’ve gone down as it did tells me -someone- intentionally tried<\/strong> to get it to go into a slide. I’ve monitored precious metals since I was a kid. DeadDad and MomUnit got Fedbro and myself into it at a young age as a way for us to ‘invest’ our $$$. Instead of buying stupid shit when we got $50.00 from Grandma for Christmas, we’d either save up for a one ounce Gold Coin or get a few ounces of silver.

Man… selling that shit oh so many years ago…
Young and dumb I was…
I had amassed quite a treasure chest worth of coins from back in those days… like 75 ounces of silver and like 5 ounces of gold… in American Eagles, Maple Leaves and one China Panda. After Spawn #1 was born, and I had gotten out of the Army, I sold it all in 1996 for what by today’s standard was a fucking pittance (like $200 per oz for the gold and $8-10 for the silver) but I needed the cash at the time, so hey… It’s only money.

By today’s standard that would have been a LOT of money…$3500 in silver and $19k worth of gold…

Ugh.

It is what it is.
I’m debating on getting a tattoo of that on my chest in 3 inch boldface font… I swear I am….

The killer is even now, those prices, accounting for the fake and ghey markets and manipulation of inflationary standards, gold and silver have always<\/strong> been sorely underestimated and undervalued. It’s intentional<\/strong> as when we were<\/strong> on a true one-for-one silver and gold standard for money, and not the current “Money Printer Go BRRRT!” fiatbux the economy was faaar more stable and operative. There is, outside of some insane jubilee (never going to happen IMO) or a conversion over to some electronic bullshit crypto-coin (what they appear to want<\/strong> to have happen) the economy is on it’s last legs.

Myself, I think we’re going to keep seeing a sloooow unwind.

Of everything<\/strong>.

The economy, morals, laws… you name it.

It’s going to be more “Bladerunner” than “Mad Max” I think… Leastways I also hope it’s that… that’d be better than “The Day After” for damned sure…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now…
Pete Hegseth, love him or hated him gave a “Out with the fatasses” speech to the 800 oh so fat and worthless senior “Perfumed Princes on the Potomac” aka Generals and Senior NCOs in a meeting. He came right out and said the Warrior Spirit is going to be first and foremost on the new agenda, and anyone not onboard was welcome to GTFO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a bad speech IMO.

And what do you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The four star,\u00a0the Vice Chairman of the US Air Force Global Strike Command up and retired the next day.

One down, several to go.<\/strong>

I will give the guy credit however… he didn’t come right out against anything that was said in the speech… he didn’t burn any bridges per se. In fact this retirement maybe for personal and family reasons… but personally I think it has more to do with the regulations regarding his retirement…

Which a LOT of these fucktards seem to be forgetting about.

Miley could be and needs to be <\/strong>stripped of his retirement for treason<\/strong> which is exactly what he did<\/strong> when he went behind OrangeManBad’s back and told his counterpart General Joe Chink that he’d warn the chinks if OMB was going to try something with them… That’s fucking treason<\/strong>.

And as a retarded Gen’rul, he should know he can still be called back to active duty and charged with treason, stripped of ALL his retirement, rank, and in this case, put up against a wall and shot. Which in this case I think that fat fuck deserves no less.

Because Fuck That Guy.

So yeah… that’s about as much ‘steam’ as I have for today.
Again sorry to worry you guys so much but hey… sometimes a dood gets wore the fuck out. I’ll try to do better

And to the fuckers commenting on the cleanliness of the kitchen? Considering the maid has been gone for a while, yeah, its a wee bit funky, but fuck it… we used to drink from garden hoses and eat dirt when I was a kid, never mind how nasty it was in Iraq, so this ain’t shit. GFY.

More Later
The “I’m not dead yet’ Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n

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