summer patriot, winter soldier

several ironies in the "black lives matter" riots ....

rioters in the "black lives matter" protests believe that they are attacking an entrenched white power structure, and that they do so in the name progress.

one white power structure encourages and entices protestors to commit acts of violence and destruction in order to bring down another white power structure, and that they do so in the name of historical progress, which will leave them in power.

"black lives matter" protests believe that they gain influence and power.  the white "progressive" power structure believes that they gain power over an outmoded "capitalistic" system.

nothing much changes.   watts is still there, and watts hasn't changed much.

i suspect that no college professor will endanger his or her faculty tenure participating in the civil violence that he or she has inspired, incited and encouraged, and that he or she has described as a new truth of the new epoch.   some old truths of the old epoch still obtain: it is for others to take the risks of history.

john jay @ 05.31.2020

p.s.  oh, yes, some of us have seen this before.  and, it is still an open question whether this country will survive the 1960's, as it remains an open question who won the civil war, if anyone.

update.  06.01.2020.   historical note.    soros.   obama/acorn.   bill gates.

6.8mm "hybrid" .... pretty "simple," really ....

a new cartridge of .277" caliber, said to be of better performance than the current 6.8x43 remington spc cartridge, and to be used in the next iteration of the m-16 type rifle.  (i've seen sig sauer's new rifles  ...  they look very little different from the m-16/m-4 lineage in layout.   why fix it, if it ain't broke ...  just gussy it up, and charge more for it.)

what i have not been able to find about the 6.8mm "hybrid" cartridge is anything other than a picture, which shows a bullet sticking out of a plastic case, and certain manufacturer's assertions that it offers enhanced performance over the 6.8mm remington spc, spec ii.   i am underwhelmed at this point.

if it goes into a rifle with magazine proportions and dimensions about the same as presently made, w/ "standard" dimensions, i would expect little performance gain.  you can only get ten gallons into a 10 gallon hat, after all, and the capacity of a cartridge case for a given amount of powder yields a certain performance level, for a certain bullet weight.   the size of the cartridge, and its internal capacity, is determined to a very great extent by the size and volume of its magazines.

simple as that.

so, unless the 6.8 "hybrid"'s case has more volume, there will be little or no performance increase.  simple as that.

we shall see.   time will tell.  simple as that.

john jay @ 05.31.2020

the left, and rioting, burning, looting and stabbing and shooting .....

please go here, to the geller report, if you want full coverage of the rioting and burning and savagery being carried on by the left over the death of george loyd.

https://gellerreport.com/ .   you will not find it in your news, or your local newspapers.

this is not spontaneous.   it is planned, and organized.  i smell obama spore.   plain and simple.   this is acorn.

john jay @ 05.3.2020

update.  06.01.2020.  obama/acorn.  soros.   gates.

dear fedex ....

i ordered something on the net, to be shipped from ohio to milton freewater, oregon.  now, this is basically an east to west transaction, over mostly i-84.

you drove my package to pendleton, oregon roughly 30 miles from my home.   so good, so far, .... , and you basically kept pace with the pony express.

but, having reached pendleton you continued my package another 230 miles or so to troutdale (portland), oregon to the west, and directly away from my home.  by the time you get done with all this, you will have added another 500 miles to the route to my home.

not so impressive, fed ex.  from my vantage, no so very smart at all.   if you follow form, you will ship to pasco, washington for final delivery to my house (thank you, btw), some 45 miles distance.   would it not have made more sense to have dropped it at pendleton for final delivery, and saved yourself 500 miles of lugging it around?

john jay @  05.31.2020

p.s.   such is life in the hinterlands.  it is not uncommon receiving packages from the mid-west to have them routed through the tacoma, washington hub, five or six hours northeasterly beyond milton freewater, shipped there via spokane, washington roughly 150 miles directly north of my home.

i can tell you that tacoma, washington is a black hole, from which things seemingly never emerge.

to put this into perspective, please be reminded that philadelphia, p.a. is about 150 miles distant from washington d.c.   would you drive something 20 miles past washington d.c. another 150 miles north to philly, just to turn around and drive it back to d.c.?   just asking?

update, 06.02.2020.  4 days, 4 days from rupert, idaho to troutdale, oregon.  now this, this the pony express could have equaled.   coronavirus, my butt.

the left reveals itself for what it is, a bunch of rampaging thugs & assholes .....

a black man dies at the hands of the police, and while it may not reach the legal standards to justify prosecution of the officer for murder circumstances suggest something along the line of criminally negligent homicide  ...  it just looks & smells bad.

so, how does the left react?

in minnesota a police station is attacked and burned, in new york police cars are burned, and in portland oregon downtown businesses suffer arson, vandalism and looting.   i live in oregon, because this is just the regular course of the reaction of the left in portland, and the city police and law enforcement do nothing   ...   someday i fully expect to see officers join in the fun, and cart off t.v.'s and smash plate glass.

how do the dimmo's and left react?   well, they enable and encourage it, the idiot michael moore suggesting that other public facilities be burned to "even up the score," as it were.

the left reveals itself for what it is, a bunch of thugs and assholes.--   i hold my breath until nancy pelosi urges calm, and a.o.c. condemns this largely juvenile behavior.   and, what about bare-ass obama and his community organizers, eh?

thugs and assholes.  from top to bottom.

john jay @ 05.30.2020

some simple repairs on my peavey rage 158 guitar amp ....

i have been struggling with the guitar and accoutrements for more years than i care to relate, and i am still incapable of learning how to play with any style and grace.  oh, i know a lot of chords, and a lot of music theory, and all kinds of interesting "stuff," but i am not much with the instrument.

and, i seem not to care very much.  i still enjoy the instruments, fascinated by them, actually, and work on them:  i seem to like nothing better than to buy an old beat up guitar, and rebuild it with good seymour duncan pickups, and good tuners, and have even gone so far as to strip one guitar body to prep it for painting.  it's a hoot.

which brings me to my peavey rage 158 guitar amp.  it's what peavy calls a "transtube" amp, with transistors emulating tubes.  (you'll have to ask peavy, it's all a little mysterious to me.)  i've always liked it.   but, a friend has been giving me the raspberry for several years, saying that it hummed and buzzed.   the stock peavey speaker was 3.2 ohms resistance, and 15 watts output, and 8" in diameter.  but, my friend has good ears, so i determined to to replace the speaker.

i purchased a larger speaker from eminence, a model 820h, ... , 8 inches, 20 amps output at 4.0 ohms resistance.   not hugely more powerful, but with a very much larger magnet, and hemp speaker cone.  to make a long story short, the amp as upgraded sounds immensely better than the old amp.   not so much that i am gonna force the retirement of eric clapton, but, now my friend offers the considered opinion that when and if i ever get good enough to appear at the local jam sessions, the amp is good to go (too).

but, no good deed goes unpunished.

sound is vibration, and enough vibration shakes things loose.   and, the speaker was coming loose in its mounts, and manifesting itself in a high pitched sound, like a reverberation.  (not pleasant to my ears, trust me.)   the upshot of this was that i tightened the mounting screws, too much, in an effort to anchor the speaker.  i partially stripped the mounting holes.   bad, very bad.

so, today i took the speaker from the cabinet, drilled 4 fresh holes for hardware store screws, and refurbished the old stripped out holes but the use of toothpicks stuffed in the old holes, held fast by elmer's glue.  (nothing but the cow for me, thank you very much.)   well, the speaker is back in, held in place by 8 screws instead of 4, and it sounds wonderful, with good clarity and no distortion.   the guitar sounds the way a good semi-hollowbody should when equipped with two humbuckers.  (no whammy bar distortion, no wah wah peddles, string bending, or reverbs for me.   i am a disciple, .... , well, that's a strong word for me, i am not even an acolyte, barely good enough to qualify as a putterer, .... , of joe pass and herbie ellis, and tal farlow.  you can toss in barney kessel.

i like nice tone, and for the time being, i have very nice tone.   it is a pleasure to listen to, and if i cannot play well or adeptly, at least i make nice sounds.   not music especially, but, hey, a person does not get to choose his or her gifts.  you make do with what you have, which for me is an appreciation of good music and the instruments that make it  ...  or, come moderately close, on occasion and for brief interludes.  *sigh*

but, i am good with my hands, and with simple repair.   and, for me, that is a source of joy.

life is good.

john jay @ 05.28.2020

i have a bunny rabbit in my backyard ....

just that, nothing more, a bunny is frequenting my backyard.  he hops around and eats, and then goes through a fence in neighbor georgia's yard.  that's it.

he is fun to watch.

well, that's the pandemic in milton freewater, oregon.  bunny watching.   all things considered, he seems brighter than joe biden .... good lord, what if that dimbulb gets elected.   friends, if you feel the same way i do about that prospect, give money to the republicans, no matter how you feel about their efficacy in washington d.c.

it will be far worse if the dimmo's take power.  no amount of bunny watching will help the days go by.  trust me on this.

john jay @ 05.28.2020

can you imagine what donald trump will do to "sleepy joe" biden in a presidential debate?

if the dimmo's truly intend to nominate biden to run for president on the dimmo ticket, then they truly haven't considered the prospect of biden getting up on a stage, alone, and taking on donald trump.   if biden is his opposition, he will tear him limb from limb, and beat him over the head with the bloody arms and legs.   it won't be pretty, and it won't be nice.

hillary clinton was supposed to be a wily and seasoned pol.   donald trump totally unnerved her, and intimidated her, and it was observable and readily apparent.   joe biden cannot carry on in television interviews playing softball with talking heads who coddle and prompt him with the answers.   clinton's campaign was forced to arrange the moderators to ask clinton "canned questions" to which she gave "canned answers," and one such "questioner" was rewarded the position of chairperson of the dimmo national committee.

what are they gonna do with biden, read the questions and answers to him on cue cards?

how in the world are they gonna prevent him from saying some totally stupid, to every question he is asked?  it's hard to look presidential when you are a laughing stock.

and, how in the world is biden going to stand up to the thrusts and jabs that he will receive from an old savvy jousters like trump?  how will he stand to the insults, and the demeaning labels?

the clear answer is that he won't, because he cannot, he hasn't the native wit nor the presence of mind to stand up to trump's withering assault.

so, when are the dimmo's gonna tumble to this?  and, "tumble to it" they better, because no prearranged connivance between the media and the dimmo's can rescue joe biden.  no matter how hard the dimmo's and their propaganda arm try.    ....     stick a fork in joe biden, he is done.

john jay @ 05.24.2020

prominent dimmo's openly suggesting joe biden to be dumped before or during convention .... an "open" dimmo convention ....

"open convention" is just a phrase, as in typical dimmo fashion it will be rigged in advance.

but, that issue aside, it is becoming clear that the dimmocrats are going to dump joe biden.  just like in the old westerns, when someone wanted to know if the train was coming, they put their ears to the rails.   well, put your ears to the rails, and you'll hear the tell tale sounds of biden going down in flames.

john jay @ 05.16.2020

p.s.   hint:  listen to the dimmo national committee types. 

keep those judicial appointments rolling, donald and mitch ....

apparently rgb is back in the hospital.   the second she goes into the ground, if she does, an appointment should be before the senate to take her place.  and, expedited.

and, mitch and donald make a deadly mistake not pushing the federal judicial appointments, right up to the election.   power not used, when its use is available, is power squandered.   plain and simple.

john jay @ 05.14.2020