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For lack of a better title.....

Impeachment Part Deux (that is French for two)

In the old days of government, we didn't impeach the President unless he really did something bad like high crimes and misdemeanors.  I believe that there have been only 3 in the history of our country to be impeached.  Simply being the President when the losing side wants someone else is not a crime.

Now we will have a second impeachment, trial, verdict, punishment, etc.  All of this to ensure that a man who was elected by the people to change Washington DC is never allowed to hold office again. This requires a felony conviction.

Is it legal to mandate that an individual cannot run for office?

What are they afraid of in Washington?  Draining the swamp?  And this is for both sides, both parties, Never Trumpers.  Status Quo is not a good thing.  Erasing the will of the people only makes them angry.  Telling everyone that you must speak correctly or else.  Sounds like the King.  Read the Declaration of Independence.

Take care of your own

My wife and I have discussed about and agree that we must come first, to also include our children.  All else is second.  We will take care of us and our needs before considering anything else or anyone else and there demands.

This may seem selfish and others may ask why not the rest first, why not everyone else first?  Well, if you don't take care of yourself first, you may not have the ability to take care of others.  I will have to draw the line at very immediate family.

Since our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brother, etc. are dead that means our children are the the only immediate family.

Do for yourself

Our country has been reduced to a bunch of consumers.  We don't know how to make anything anymore.  We buy parts from overseas and assemble them here as a car.  A phone.  We hire out to everyone instead of doing ourselves.  Who knows how to maintain your car?  Fix your roof?  Build a new item to use in the house?

Become a manufacturer of something.  A niche item you thought about and maybe designed on the back of a napkin.  How do you do that when the only thing you know how to do is go buy another thing to replace the broke thing?

My mother-in-law's washer lasted for 30+ years.  The washer we have today replaces a washer designed to fail.  Can't find the parts for it and have no other choice but to replace it.  The control cards cost more than the whole washer.

What can I do?????

3D printing and CNC, along with a mini-lathe and drill-press is a way to run a garage manufacturing business.  A small workshop can produce wood, plastic, and metal parts or whole products using tools that may require an investment, but will return a salary.

Basic microcontrollers and learning a little code and electronics is the heart of the computer based machinery.  Robots that cook or clean use microcontrollers, stepper motors, servos and dedicated programs to figure out what to do.

Microcontrollers include Arduino, Raspberry PI, ESP8266, ESP32, as well as several others.  Language to define  the processes and control the computer are C, C++, Python, Basic, and some other scripting languages such as LUA and Javascript.

Your telephone runs a microcontroller processor Like the Raspberry PI uses.  You can write your own programs with Java for the Android operating system.  Then you can sell the app.  Look at all of the apps you download and buy.

You can probably tell that I am well into electronics.  I am a computer programmer and understand electronics and mechanics.  I have built 2 CNC machines to better understand how to use them and what parts can be homemade.  A good machine should be able to make parts for another machine.

Build better and people will seek out your product.  Build a better mousetrap and the people will beat a path to your door.  Much Success!

Be prepared

Stay away from crowds.

Put more, if you can, into your pantry and don't forget the personal items.

Keep an eye on what is really going on, not what the media approves for you to hear and see.  Seek out the truth.

Get your skill sets honed.  Create a niche for your skills.

Stay healthy and take your vitamins.

Keep your powder dry.

Chief

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There will be more OMG moments to come

What a start...

The whole farce in DC has been producing nonsense on all sides of the war.  Yes, a war.  Republicans are trying to back away from their party as if it were hijacked and they are just victims.  Remember the Never Trumpers?

Democrats are calling this a national tragedy.  What with the rioting and defacing of public property and breaking into buildings.  Wait, that was the BLM and Antifa "peaceful" riots this past year.  Hypocrisy.

I watched and shook may head.  I do want to know why the capitol police were in on this.  Why was Antifa and BLM in on this.  Maybe a setup.  A sucker punch.

Now there will be another impeachment.  What a joke.

I wonder if Biden will get a nobel prize for being elected president.  Then biden and obama can compare to see who's prize is bigger.

Money, Money, Money, Money, Money.

Now that the current administration is almost done, the flood gates (blocked by congress) will open up and money will pour out after the inauguration.  Watch for politicians blaming the previous administration for lack of helping the american people.  Watch the new president claim the moral high ground.

They are now here to help.  However, this will require a payment to the Don (not Donald) so that protection can continue.  You understand that this is just business.  Taxes will go up and programs will be created and jobs will be handed out like candy.

Be prepared

Stay away from crowds.

Put more, if you can, into your pantry.

Keep an eye on what is really going on, not what the media approves for you to hear and see.

Get your skill sets honed.  Create a niche for your skills.

Stay healthy and take your vitamins.

Keep your powder dry.

Chief

2021

Well, it is here

2021 has arrived and Christmas is safely put away and New Years had no real day and Elections have gone a stray and riots are underway.

Can't we all just get along?  I don't think so.  Too much division in the country and no one wants to simple drop the heavy weapons and just go home.  I thought it awfully convenient that so many people could just show up and start a "peaceful" riot within the day.  As if they were being paid.  As if this was their job.  So much for 2020.

So now the right side has decided to do what the left side had been doing and take over stuff, riot, shoot, burn.  Dumb shits!  No one is going to believe you now.  The rest of us, the quiet ones are going to or already have prepared to defend ourselves.  It is needed.  No offense, just defense.

The other shoe dropped

The democrats have the house, the senate, and the presidency.  You may believe that the election was stolen by cheating with the ballot.  There is plenty to be said about this and it cuts across both parties.  If the election is a sham then the next election will bear that out and the next one after that will overturn the government again.

However, look who controls the government now.  Look who controls media.  Look who controls big tech.  Look who has their hands in vaccines and medicine.  Has 1984 come home to roost?

Make all preparations to get underway

This is the point to quietly get your affairs in order and stock up what you can.  Last year may have wiped you out.  Work to fix that.  My family and I were wiped out several times by layoffs and government shutdowns.  We worked hard to get back.

The time has past for ammo and reloading parts.  Maybe in a few weeks the industry will catch up to the demand.  A lot of people stood in lines to get their piece of the pie so they could defend themselves.  I hope they remembered the bullets.

Stay away from crowds.  Do not draw attention to yourself or your family.  Just blend in or stay locked down and quiet.  Most times this is the safe bet.  Fix up your residence against intruders and have a way to catch them on video.

If you live in a city or town that has decided to defund the police, be prepared.  Assistance will take longer.  EMT and ambulance help may take longer with the Covid issues.  Stay safe and learn to handle problems yourself.  Learn some first aid if you don't already know and by now you should be able to cook.

If you don't know how to fix stuff, learn how.  There are plenty of videos on just about everything you can imagine.  Buy some basic tools.  Try Half Priced Books for low cost DIY style books.  The same can be had online.

You know, for about 12 to 14 years many of the conspiracy theorists have been letting everyone know that the shit will hit the fan and we had better be prepared.  Early last year, the SHTF in a really big way and altered our society forever.  Simply amazing how much disruption to our way of life in a very short time was heaped upon us.  Something like shock and awe.  People were and still are dumbfounded by last year.

What will come

This year will be different than last year.  This year, the communists (progressives) will take center stage and demand that this country and its people change.  This year the forces of good and evil will clash.  We will see what becomes of this.

Keep your powder dry.

Chief 

Vaccine

Opening bell......

The Covid vaccine is here and reports are out about a nurse passing out 10 minutes after the injection, Australia seeing false positive HIV tests, 40% of a hospital's staff won't take the vaccine or allow their children to get the vaccine.

People are congratulating themselves on getting a million doses out the door.  Others see maybe 6 million more soon.  We have over 330 million people in this country.  The world has approximately 7 trillion.  Everyone needs a vaccine.

Mutants and FrankenViruses

The Covid virus is mutating.  Just like the flu virus and its' multiple strains, we will be dealing with multiple strains of Covid.  Such is life.  Gone are the days of just one bug causes one disease like Polio or one bug causes Yellow Fever.  Welcome the new engineered viruses.  Time will tell.

Drug Rush!

Well it can't be a gold rush, that has already been done.  The vaccine for Covid, like the vaccine for Swine Flu back in 1976, was rushed.  People were shot up and then people fell very ill and over 40,000 died as a result.  The Swine Flu vaccine was pulled from the market.

I want to see how well the Covid vaccine works, what it does to you in the process, and what the follow-on downside(s) is.  Since I spend most of my time at home, I am not concerned about a vaccine.  I am concerned about a forced vaccination that is backed up with no shot, no job or no shot, no social security or no shot, no shopping.

Beware anything backed by people who have no business being in or directing the medical professionals or companies involved in pharmaceuticals.

Potomac 2 Step

Very visible people have been backing away from their statements made since the election.  Watch for taxes, cancel Christmas, no New Years, etc.  Did you see the die-hard restaurant people eating outdoors in the snow of NYC?  I believe that the people in control have fear of waking a sleeping giant.  They are concerned that the crowd may become angry and do something about it.  Maybe the politicians should also do as they say we should do.  Hmmmmmm.

And the silent people continue to wait.  But for how long? Is silence acceptance?  Or are they just biding time until we have a mess so big that the time has come to act?  Who knows.

Well, keep your powder dry and watch your six.

Chief.

Almost Christmas

The Year

What a strange year this has been.  Viruses, violence, riots, politics, elections, courts, and now almost Christmas.

We celebrate the birth of Christ and also sell religion.  Seems that Christmas didn't actually show up for many hundreds of years.  Oh well, seems fine to have a birthday party every year till forever is done.

Thanksgiving gets glossed over for Black Friday.  That was a bust if you own a brick and mortar store.  Everything is online and UPS/FedEx/USPS and any other delivery service will tell you that we really do shop online and have it delivered.

But, the turkey was good as always.  Turkey breast turned upside down into a large slow cooker to bake for 6 hours or so.  Finest kind.  All of the other good stuff to go along.  Much to be thankful for.

Be careful what you hitch you're wagon to

Seems that BLM is upset that the soon to be Biden (Harris) administration isn't giving them a seat at the big table.  The Bolshevik revolution had the same problem.  You round up all of the players and go have a war.  Then after your done, you dispose of the players.  They bought you a new nation and they aren't needed anymore.

I'm sure the ex-bolsheviks were as confused.  No seat at the big table for all the hard work.  Be careful who you choose to back.

A vaccine

We now have some sort of vaccine to stick people with.  The Australians have backed down because of false positive HIV results.  How do you get a hit on HIV?  Unless the COVID genetic material actually does contain HIV as a overseas lab said it did early on in the pandemic.

Go figure.  Remember, Bill Gates wants you to take a vaccine for the team.

I am waiting for version 2.0 or maybe 3.0 . Seems Microsoft always did well with odd number software versions.  Check the body count first.

Back in 1976 while in the Navy, I had to get the Swine Flu vaccine.  That was a 2 part vaccine.  The first part had everyone at my school sick in 8 hours and we didn't come out of our barracks for 3 days.  Couldn't do anything.  That was only the first dose.

Some 40,000 people died before the government shut down the vaccine.  And it wasn't a pandemic.

Learning

I have learned a lot this year.  Roofing, how to work effectively at home, how to ensure I have a job, how to stockpile toilet paper, how to properly wear a mask, and other lesser knowledge items.

It is important to learn something new everyday.  This exercises your brain and makes new pathways.   So much better than sitting all day long drooling on your shirt.

Almost Christmas

As I stated earlier, it is almost Christmas.  Yes there will be presents and special breakfast and cooking all day and doing stuff because it is a holiday.

It is the end of the year and many are concerned what next year will bring and if there will be big problems in little towns.  However, no matter what is brought down on us, we are Americans and we have a country that everyone else wishes that they had.

So, work hard until the blessed day and then say a pray that all is OK and you can see your family and have a good day.  Maybe on a Zoom connection, but this is the way our year has shaped up.

Keep your powder dry.

Chief

Thanksgiving

Thankful

I am not sick.

My wife is not sick.

My children are not sick.

I have a good job.

We have plenty and pay for it.

We don't live in the cities.

We are not in a crowd.

No one marching through our neighborhood.

Have great Thanksgiving and be safe.

Chief

Brave New World

Living in it

Our generation will have the hardest time living in a world being ushered in by the people who swore an oath to uphold and defend the constitution. The progressives, nice and kind word for communist, have been educated to believe that the constitution is an outdated piece of paper.  Just replace it.

The constitution defines our Republic and is the only thing standing between all of our rights and an outright grab of our country.  The federal government did not come into being before the constitution.  The constitution became our framework and then the people allowed for the creation of a government.

A lot of people are fond of saying that America is an experiment and that maybe the experiment failed.  I guess we shall see what continues on into this new era of America.

Transition

We are moving from fall to winter.  In another month, there will be snow and Christmas and cold and the want to have warmth.  Soon Thanksgiving will be upon us and cities are already preparing for the next great lockdown.  They are saying that we should just stay home.

Living out on the Great Plains means that you aren't in a lockdown.  You don't have to deal with the nasty governments that have decided what you do and how you live.  All you need is food, water, shelter, clothing, defense, and some money.  The rest will take care of itself.

As we move into deep winter, we shall see how long a lockdown will last and whether or not America becomes like France or Italy or Spain or Germany.  Have you noticed that Europe seems to be the model for what the politicians want to do?

The People

The people of this country have divided themselves into two distinct groups.  On the left side of the ring are the people who vary from slightly left of moderate (socialists) to far and away communists.  On the right side of the ring are the people who vary from slightly right of moderate (socialists) and far and away fascists.  Lets get ready to rumble.............

There are groups of people for whom the 2 party system does not define them.  These people are of varied beliefs and have to choose between major representation in voting for one side or the other, or they except the fact that their beliefs are a minority view.

For these people the Freaky Fight For Power (F3P) doesn't include them and they have to settle with whoever is in power and hope their wants and desires are not bypassed or simply crushed.

A Plan

Last year at this time we were getting ready for Thanksgiving.  The politics were invading our homes and everybody had an opinion.  No one knew what was coming.  If you told me last year that a virus would cause such massive devastation, I wouldn't have believed you.

The virus was already underway before Thanksgiving.  It was headed to America and the word wasn't being spread far and wide.  The left was in disarray and had a 3 ring circus of performers jostling for visibility.  Saturday Night Live (SNL) had some wonderful skits showing these folks as fools.  Entertainment.

Then suddenly we had a virus.  We had a lockdown.  Couldn't go to work or the store or the restaurants or the bars.  People lost their jobs through layoffs and closures.  The government vowed to do something.

Wear a mask, don't wear a mask.  Buy supplies.  Don't hoard.  Shelves are empty and the trucks aren't rolling.

Suddenly a man is killed and the police look to be the bad guys.  The country doesn't unite to right the wrong.  The country erupts in flames.  We are all looking away from the real problem.  Slight of hand.

Riots from peaceful demonstrations.  Skin color now defines you as the bad people who must repent and stay quiet or else.  Many small groups of people come together for the common good and to unite under the banner of getting what they want.

A plan had been hatched.  Beware of the conspiracy theories.  Yet, the quiet people wait.

A vaccine is being developed.  It is being tested.  It kills people.  It isn't working.  Start again.

And now we are here.  Talk of stolen elections and stuffing the ballot box via mail in ballots.  People swearing affidavits alleging wrongful doing.  Court battles to make the vote lawful and correct.  January 21st will be a telling day and the quiet people wait.

Reminds me of the 60's and 70's.  So much turmoil.  I lived through that and remember it well.

So....

This Thanksgiving we should look to what we are thankful for and stop the none sense.  We should stop the battles.  We should be thankful for what we have and who we are.

Be vigilant.

Chief