summer patriot, winter soldier

dark clouds, storms on the horizon ....

buy the stuff to make ammo.    set aside a little cash.    lay in staples and potables.

"don't go out tonight ... ."    i sense that all is not well.

 

john jay @ 02.26.2017

 

credence clearwater revival, "bad moon rising," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE 

a wonderful map from theo spark explaining the 2016 presidential election .... hilary got a "majority," my ass ....

if you want to understand why hillary clinton did not win the 2016 presidential election, and why the demos are in trouble for a while, peruse the below map.

 

 

hillary clinton won the new york city suburbs, and mexico as it exists inside the united states.   and, some college towns.    and, that is about the size of it.    her support comes from the welfare classes:  from the poor who receive meager stipends and food stamps, and from academia who receive state supported salaries and federal research grants.   she just didn't get very much support anywhere else, from anyone else.

(and, she also won washington d.c. and contiguous areas in maryland and virginia, where all the federal bureaucrats and welfare blacks live.   maybe trump can work on that a little bit, and drain the swamp.   we'll see.)

i would suggest that she move to mexico, take up residence and citizenship there, and run for president of mexico.   she just might win.

john jay @ 02.21.2017

if they would take his worthless ass, i would propose that we give john mccain back to the vietnamese ....

i would propose that we give john mccain back to viet nam, on condition that they have to keep him always, this time.   my only concern in all of this is that someonr there has read o. henry's "the ransom of red chief," (or watched the movie), and demands a fitting payment from us for his upkeep.   let them put up with his idiocy.  and, outright insanity.

it seems to me that mccain believes, in a dark little recess of his little pea brain, that if he can run donald trump out of dodge then the grateful town's folk will make him sheriff in trump's stead.   mitch mcconnel can make coffee every morning for mccain, and mccain can sit out on the board sidewalks, put his boots up on the hitching post rails, and watch the world go by.  

ah, so many pretty young kitty's to bring them cup cakes and cookies, to soothe and woo them. 

well, this may be a bit far fetched, i'll grant you that, but if you can come up with any better ideas as to why mccain is making such an ass out of himself i would be very much appreciative.

john jay @ 02.20.2017

p.s.   this little bit of reverie was brought on by the ludicrous remarks mccain made recently about free speech and dictatorship.    he whimpered not when obama trounced his ass in a presidential campaign (in fact, he rolled over compliantly on his back when leading  after the part conventions); he said not a word about loretta lynch meeting bill clinton on the tarmac in phoenix to fix a deal w/ the obama administration; and he said nothing as obama did indeed act as a dictator unchecked by congress for eight very long years.

not one god damned word.

and, now the senile silly old fuck has to impugn trump who has been in office for mere weeks.

what a ridiculous silly old senile fuck he is.   and, it is doubtful he will ever get any better, such is his dementia.   (you know, "dementia" can be caused by cussed stupidity, it does not require an organic and/or structural problem.   just plain old stupid is as stupid does will suffice.)

supplemental update, 02.21.2017.   shortly after reading this post a friend sent me the following article on john mccain's service record.   if as set forward in the following, his flying record must be regarded as being a bit, well, "sketchy."   and, his record of promotion in light of his record must be regarded as one based upon privileged background, and most certainly not on merit either as a flyer, nor as an officer and a "gentleman."

without further editorial comment i'll set out the link, and such of the article that accompanied it.

link --  http://www.federalobserver.com/2015/07/22/true-military-record-of-john-mccain-written-by-an-active-marine/John 

excerpt from the link  --

"McCain is truly a WAR  ZERO

McCain has never really earned anything. He is from a wealth pampered
background and not fit to lead this nation.A “war hero” doesn’t
finish 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne
unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.A
“war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer
incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training
sessions.A “war hero” doesn’t get written up on
drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and
insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three
years. A “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander
of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after
crashing his third airplane.

A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover
his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored
and sealed “as a matter of national security.”A “war hero”
doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery”
for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a
celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two
acclaimed Navy admirals.A “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on
the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on
her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon
her.A “war hero” doesn’t systematically vote against every
single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout
his entire political career, all the while claiming to be “the
soldier’s Congressman,” and then take credit for the passage of a
G.I. benefits bill that he voted AGAINST.

A “war hero” McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he
plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was
knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to
the bottom. McCain’s second crash occurred while he was deployed in
the Mediterranean. “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula,”
Timberg wrote, “he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the
1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of
a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate
of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son
of an admiral.”  McCain’s third crash three occurred when he was
returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an
Army-Navy football game.

Tim Berg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and
went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting
at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before
the plane slammed into a clump of trees. McCain’s fifth loss
happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967,
when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms and a leg in the
process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi.
For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory),
the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for
Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two
Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.

McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a
veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA
Affairs the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the
1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues,
“that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent
in combat. There were infantry guys grunts on the ground ­ who had
more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were
times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked
pretty good to them by comparison.  The question really is how many
guys got that number of medals for not being shot down.” For years,
McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly
and biased news media.

The former POW turned Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to
gloss over his failures as a pilot by exaggerating his military
service and lying about his feats of heroism. McCain has sprouted a
halo and wings to become America’s POW-hero presidential
candidate.September 3, 2008NOTE: Author unknown but is known to the
person who submitted this to the Federal Observer. None of this is a
surprise to us, as twenty years ago, we interviewed the likes of Ted
Stamply. Do a Google Search – you won’t be surprised. (J.B.) Post
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1 of 5 thoughts on “True Military Record of John Mccain Written by
an Active Marine”

The Publisher Post author July 23, 2015 at 6:02 PM Submitted to me by
John Slagle, Thanks Jeff, excellent older article on our Arizona
Senator’s military accomplishments.  The latest rants by John Mccain
who called 15,000 plus people crazies for listening to Donald Trump at
a political gathering in Phoenix opened many old wounds.

Three Aviation Boatswainmate Handlers, aircraft carrier “yellow
shirts” damage control petty officers who graduated from the ABH
Navy “A” school , Philly NTC with me in 1964 were assigned to the
U.S.S. Forrestal. My orders were for WESTPAC ops Patrol Squadron 40
and CV-31.  All three friends, shipmates were killed, burned to death
on flight deck firefighting duties July 1967, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam
aboard the Forrestal along with 131 other sailors. 161 damage control
firefighters were also critically injured."

i don't know if mccain was responsible for the missile letting loose that caused the fire, and killed those who fought it.   i will do some digging around, and see if i can determine that.

it would seem to me that mccain ought to keep his mouth shut about what he considers the deficiencies of others, when his are so well documented. jjj  end update, 02.21.2017.

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why trump has such wide appeal .... guest post, by "abraxas" ....

hat tip "c."

this essay is by abraxas, and it goes a long way in explaining why donald trump is president of the united states.   and, why certain of us (and in no small numbers) will fight, as in "engage in mortal combat," to keep him president.

follows the essay:

For nearly all last year my friends begged me to listen to one of Trump's campaign speeches but I didn't.  I was too cynical to think any political harangue could be interesting - or believable.  But I was wrong and, Lord, did I discover that today when, for the first time in my life, I listened to him speak.  It blew my socks off.  I sat there in front of my computer screen listening to the live streaming of his speech on YouTube and my mouth dropped open in astonishment.  I had never heard such a riveting, thrilling speech in my life, the hairs on the back of my arms stood up.  This man has the power of speech and charisma I've not witnessed since the days of Reagan.  I was blown away, just blown away. 

What astonishes me even more is all my friends saying - 'Oh, Carolyn, he's like this ALL the time!'  Unbelievable.  For the first time, I comprehend why so many Americans love him, why soldiers are saying they'll lay down their lives for him in an instant.  The man is awesome.

And he's totally fearless.  During that speech, he did something NO political candidate has done in my memory.  He called up one of the people out of the audience and introduced him as someone who'd been interviewed by the press and had told them to stop blocking the president and just let Trump get things done.  The guy had been so excited to see Trump that he'd gotten to the hangar at 4 in the morning in order to get a spot.  And when the man was finally freed from the grip of the Secret Service to crawl up on stage and stand next to the president, Trump did something else that blew me away.  He stood back, stopped talking and let the man speak.  This was such a risky thing to do.  For God's sake, this stranger wasn't vetted, he wasn't prepared, there was no way in hell you could have known what was going to come out of his mouth - he could have started screaming obscenities or hollered he was for Hillary, for all we knew.  Which is why no career politician would ever have risked that.  But Trump isn't a politician, he's a leader and a patriot - and he loves Americans.  And because he loves them, he trusts them which is why he wasn't scared to let this total stranger speak. 

Why?  Because Trump likes people, he honestly likes them.  He's not ice cold like Hillary with her agonized grimace revealing how disgusting she finds ordinary Americans, he's not arrogant like Obama who treats people like dirt because they are dirt in his opinion, and Trump isn't racist like Michelle who sneered about having to wash herself after a white man touched her during a campaign stop.  Trump loves and respects the American people and it radiates from him like the sun, warming you and filling you with hope.  And you saw all of that, felt all of that today when he called that stranger up from the crowd to speak.  The poor guy, once he got there, was shaking so hard with this stunned 'Oh, my GOD I'm standing next to the president!' look on his face.  The guy screamed into the mike (I've never seen a person so excited), "Mr. President, thank you, sir!  We, the people, our movement, is the reason why our president of the United States is standing here in front of us today."  At this point, the man was overcome and stopped talking which made Trump come up and give him a pat, encouraging him to go on.  The man finally recovered himself.  "When President Trump during the election promised all these things that he was going to do for us, I KNEW he was going to do this for us!"  At this, the man babbled his thanks to Trump and stumbled off stage which made the crowd suddenly erupt with "USA!" loud and long.  Trump then cracked into the mike that "I wouldn't say that Secret Service was thrilled with that but we know our people, right?  We know our people."  And that says it all, folks.  He knows us and the reason he knows us is because he loves us and every last man, woman and child in that hangar knew it too.  They were loved, they were honestly and truly loved.  The crowd went wild and, frankly, so did I.  Wow, just wow.  

People, watch this video of his speech today.  It will blow you away.  It starts inside an airplane hangar in Melbourne, Florida because that was the only place that could hold such a huge crowd.  Actually, it didn't.  The hangar could only contain about 8,000 excited Americans but 35,000 showed up and so the overflow had to wait outside.  The President arrived with Melania and she introduced him on stage - but FIRST she did something that also blew me away.  Without hesitation, she calmly recited the Lord's Prayer.  Wow, just wow again. 

And then he began to talk. 

Folks, you've just got to listen to this.  It will warm you from the top of your head down to the soles of your feet.  We've got a president who's loves us and loves our country!  Oh, man, it doesn't get better than that.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIo3lBkoceU

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the thesis advanced by abraxas is quite simple.--   people respond to donald trump because he likes and admires the american people, and knows we can do much if we are not hindered and throttled by idiots who think they know better than we do.

 

i think abraxas has hit the nail squarely on the head.   he doesn't patronize, he doesn't hector, and he doesn't pontificate.   he simply calls upon us to do the best we can, and he has faith in us to do it.   simple as that.

 

john jay @ 02.19.2017

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disband the c.i.a. ....

the c.i.a. no longer serves the united states, but, serves its own agenda.

they think they know all, and they think they are above respect for and observance of the constitutional & legislative restraints under which they act.   they serve the chief executive, and this they will not do.   they have become too big for their own britches, and arrogate power to themselves to decide what the path of the united states is.

get rid of them.    cut their funding: do not fund operations, do not pay personnel, and bar them from occupying building & office space assigned to them..    disperse their personnel.    fire those who have leaked.    prosecute those who have leaked information.

those who perform essential military analysis should be laterally transferred into military intelligence agencies.   if they refuse, arrest and jail them.

they are out of control, and need to be snubbed.   as in a previous post, i suggest that they been restrained by ropes tied around their balls, so to speak.

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now, just how you go about tethering a five or six year old bull by his balls, floyd doesn't explain ....

now, as politely as i can, i am gonna tell you slickers that you haven't a clue how things were done out west in the old days.   i will suggest to you that it was a little more rough and ready than you can imagine.  i am old enough to have seen a little bit of it, and i am lucky enough to know some of the old timers who lived it.

floyd lewis is 85 years old.   he grew up in louisiana, and at age 11 hunted ducks for the family table.  by himself.   and, he's led an active life since, to put it mildly.   his dad taught him the ins and outs of trading and buying, and taking cows to market.  as a little boy he went with his dad as he traded cattle, and remembers quite vividly a rank steer putting a horn through the back window of a pickup in which he watched his dad, wide eyed, secure that steer in the back bed of an old pickup.  helping a neighbor gather some mountain cows to bring to lower pastures to winter over, he went over a deadfall log ass over tea kettle on a borrowed horse, breaking 5 ribs, 3 in front, two in the back:  the doctor remarked, looking at the x-rays taken the next day after the cattle were rounded up, that the x-rays showed old breaks for which he'd never sought treatment.   raising bulls in montana he lost over 50 cattle in a spring blizzard, when his cattle sought refuge from the driving freezing wind below a cut bank on the jefferson river, only to have the ice upon which they were standing give way under their weight, drowning them all:  they discovered the bodies when the spring thaw finally arrived.

you can read it all, in "grandpa's stories: the cow trader's kid recalls."   the cover of his little epistle notes, "bunk house approved, not for sunday school use."  you will read about tougher times, and tougher men, way before trans-gender issues became as issue.  odd, but when you are genuinely hungry, eating a deer taken illegally as the game warden sits at your supper table eating venison, such things are not worried about.

tying a bull by his balls?

"...  the bulls were tied alternately head to tail [across the truck bed], with the biggest having a tow rope on their horns, then we headed to grants pass.   this time however, the bulls stood solid.  no jostling, no fighting.

we stopped at cave junction to grab a late lunch, and as we emerged from the cafe, i noticed quite a few amused farmers and cowboys looking at the load of bulls.  only then did i realize floyd and bud had applied an added restraint on the bulls this trip.   every bull was secured by a horn rope on one end and by the testicles on the other end.   none of them wanted to move about!  tough medicine for big, rough, tough bulls, but it worked."

the author, floyd e. lewis, offers no explanation just how his dad and friend went about tying a tether around the balls of eleven full grown bulls, in order to haul them off to slaughter.   personally, i cannot think of a less favorable place to be than crouched down behind an 1800 lb. bull, tying his balls in a rope:  that would be a very good place to be kicked straight to eternity.   and, neither did floyd explain how the bulls were untied from this restraint.

john jay @ 02.13.2017

 

p.s.  it is a delightful read, full of memorable characters, to include fugitives and murderous wives, and mountain men and recluses who raised cattle.   and, of a.t.f. agents who tried to "sneak up" on bootleggers by paying for breakfast in a small oregon town with a government issue check.

you can contact floyd at the following phone number, if you would like to read more:  1.541.938.7973.  tell him that john sent you.

i am buying my copy, and happy to do it.   you can learn about a boy who was working draft horses at the plow before he was 12.    and, about what it took, and what it takes, to get breakfast and dinner on the table.

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who are, and what are the identities of the george soros bag men?

in short, who are the guys who are hauling george soros's money around, and who are paying the rioters and demonstrators to riot & destroy property, and to harass and attack speakers and the like?

they are thugs.   they should be identified by name, and by address.

john jay @ 02.11.2017

p.s.   and, to receive a little of their own medicine?   it's a thought, isn't it.

p.s.s.   it would seem that local cops, or maybe the f.b.i. (laughing at the notion), might be able to come up with the identities and names of those instigating riots and violence.   they should be able to, when this much is going on.    but, maybe they are on soros's payroll as well?   it wouldn't be the first time that cops averted their eyes to crime & thuggery.

i don't know where he gets all this "stuff."

from russ.    who authored it, i haven't a clue.   all "timeless."

Nine Important Facts to Remember as We Grow Older

#9  Death is the number one killer in the world.

#8  Life is sexually transmitted.

#7  Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

#6   Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky panky, and they can't tell them apart. Ladies, if you see a gleam in 

his eyes, make him a sandwich.

#5  Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years unless you give them your email address.

 

#4  Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

#3  All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

#2  In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

#1  Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow.
 
 
Please share this wisdom with others while I go to the bathroom.

 

john jay @ 02.11.2017

leftist enemies of donald trump ....

public enemies.

no. 1.)  george soros.  he is paying for the commission of property destruction and violence against persons who support trump.

no. 1a.)  obama.  "ofa."    this is just soros's front man.   the window dressing.   he does not intend to slip quietly into the night, now, does he.

no. 1b.)  bill gates.   you think that the big time lefties are exchanging bbq recipes when they fly into seattle for gates's big time soiree of the left, every year on lake washington?

no.'s 1c. & 1d.)   john mccain, the more than slightly daft cancer med addled old relic who just refuses to die, and paul ryan, the poster boy of the "r.i.n.o.'s ."   they are not true blue bolsheviks like clinton, podesta and the like, and i doubt if they are pedophiles like the rest of the clinton "establishment."    but, they are members of the "establishment, never trump" wing of the republican party, and they mean trump no good.   their loss on the public scene would be just as welcome and no greater loss than whatever might befall soros/clinton/podesta and the like.

no. 2.)  the southern poverty law center.

no. 3.)  the daily kos

no. 4.)  the washington post, and all editors and reporters.

no.5.)  the new york times, and all editors and reporters.

no. 6.)  cnn

no. 7.)  the federal judiciary, most obviously circuit 9 trial judge james robarts, who fashioned his ruling against trumps immigration order out of "whole cloth."   a usurpation of power of the executive, if there ever was one.     the biggest threat to self governance we face in this country, because they feel that they can make law by fiat, any damned time they want.    and, they do.    and,there is no relief from it.   none.

no. 9.)  whatsherface?   the blonde reporter.

no. 10.)  whatsherface no. 2?   jane fonda.    just because.

no. 11.)  the other really really washed up whatsherface no.3?   not meryl streep, no, she's not worth the bother.   but, the one who should be 6'5" by weight, and who thinks that metal doesn't melt.   you know, the expert on smelting.   and, structural steel.  (if she has the slightest inclination as to what structural steel is.)

no. 12.)  the american university.   every last damned one of them, save liberty university, in my estimate.    sadly, i graduated from the same school, about two classes behind him, as did james robarts, u.s. district court judge, 9th circuit.  

no. 13.)   the clintons.   al gore.   if you don't think that they are still in the ball game, then you have serious conceptual deficiencies.   period.    end of discussion.    (to include the idiot chelsea.)

no. 14.)  and, just in case anyone pays any attention to it, or even reads it, the seattle times, its editors and reporters.   idiots, all.  (and, friends of judge robarts.   bet on it.) 

no. 15.)  governor kate brown of the state of oregon.   she engineered and demanded the arrest of lavoy finnicum, that botched operation resulting in his execution, shot repeatedly by oregon state patrol swat team members and an accompanying detachment of f.b.i. agents.   finnicum was armed, as was his absolute right, but, it has never been alleged by the state & federal worthies that he ever brandished or pointed a gun at them, nor even had it ever in his hand at any time relevant to his shooting.   kate brown has his blood on her hands.    this was done to leverage a federal purchase of land owned by finnicum which had/has a considerable amount of uranium ore on it, subsequently sold by hillary clinton to a russian controlled candadian company.

does this sound just too wierd?   well, you can look it all up.

john jay @ 02.11.2017

p.s.  please feel free to add your nominations in comments, if you feel like it.

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rickey c. kimbrough on politics .... "it all depends on whose ox is getting gored."

rickey c. didn't miss too often.   on this particular point, he hit the nail square on the head.

i've always said when they are being self righteous, and entirely inconsistent with what they've said before, "and, you cannot embarrass the bastards."*

john jay @ 02.06.2017

*** "oh, did i say that?  well, ... ."

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