For me there is an almost palatable difference between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. The Pacific is home to me and I still love it. But, the high Rocky Mountains are where I find peace.
Snakepit KansasApril 1, 2024, 10:16 AM
I have clients in Carlsbad I see a few times per year. I always take my shoes off and roll up my slacks to walk the beach a few hours before a client meeting.
Insurance or not, the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Dali, which destroyed the Francis Scott Keyes bridge in Baltimore, was having electrical problems before it even set sail. With this in mind you have to ask why in the world would this ship be heading to its next destination, Colombo, Sri Lanka, with electrical problems when the trip would take 27 days and it would be traveling over open seas.
Yeah, that’s been out for awhile now but thanks for posting it.
To me, the more incredible part is the missing 2 mins.
THAT is not possible.
Did they do that to draw attention?
Why?
To intentionally draw doubt?
Why?
I had a volunteer pepper plant pop up in the garden last fall. It got half robust and a rabbit ate it to the ground. It came back. Rabbit did round two on it. Ate it down like a python at a daycare. The volunteer did not give up. I dug it up before the first frost and put it in a large ceramic pot and kept it inside over the winter. It grew back slowly and even started to put on blossoms. Took it outside a month ago on a warm February day and the wind broke off its main stem. Clipped that off and brought it back inside. It started growing back and now it has several nice days per week in the sun by the window or outside. Chilis started growing on it and they are the Peter Peppers. Look like a wrinkly old male appendage. There are five of them growing currently. That plant has a dozen stubs at its base and three thriving branches.
I suppose some of our lives have been like that pepper plant and there is a possible lesson to be learned. It a dog pisses on you, a rabbit eats you to the ground or the wind blows off your largest branch, you can still recover in spite of visible scars. You probably have a hell of a root system from all of that drama too.
ghostsniperApril 2, 2024, 6:34 AM
Good story Snake!
(call me Plissken!)
That pepper is a tuff geezer.
ghostsniperApril 2, 2024, 6:41 AM
Why the Empire Always Falls
====================
Philip K. Dick called it The Empire That Never Ended. Miles Mathis called them the Phoenecian Navy. I call them the Prometheans. Most people today call them globalists, but Jesus Christ called them the Synagogue of Satan. We don’t know what they call themselves, but they a) often appear to identify publicly as Jews and b) always criminalize expressions of Christianity and antisemitism.
And the latter points toward why they always fail, and why they have never, in more than 1,500 years, been able to successfully establish or maintain their own society or civilization despite occasionally possessing all the necessary instruments of power and influence in societies as powerful as pre-Imperial Spain, Tsarist Russia, post-Imperial Britain, or the post-Cold War USA. This cartoon sums up the essential cause of the failure.
For some inexplicable reason known only to themselves, the Prometheans always insist on a completely subjective law. And while that’s very useful for acquiring power, it is absolutely fatal to preserving it, because subjective law necessarily imposes the very sort of inequality that renders a society unstable. This is why every society that has successfully developed into a civilization has an elite that not only practices some form of noblesse oblige, but holds the members of the elite fully accountable to objective laws that are not substantially different than the laws the plebs must obey.
In short, to rule, one will be held responsible. To rule successfully, one must be capable of responsibly looking after the interests of the ruled.
Any elite that does not do so is viewed, correctly, as parasitical and illegitimate, and in Chinese terms, does not hold the Mandate of Heaven. And if there is one thing that is clear about the current Clown World super-regime, it is that it is illegitimate by its own self-proclaimed standard of democracy and its laws are entirely subjective. Which is why Clown World, like Babylon, is going to fall.
Some of my friends still call me Snake. It all started when a couple young sons of one of my best friends started calling me by my first name. Not cool. I didn’t grow up like that. I told them I would not answer them if they called me by my first name. I told them they had to call me “Mr. Bartlett” or “Snake”. They opted for the latter. Called me that all the time until some other people heard it and also started calling me “Snake”. It stuck.
Haven’t heard from William ‘Little Billy’ Ayers for quite a while.
I bet he’s a major strategist for Obama and Co.
His book, Prairie Fire, says it all. The rage. The arrogance. The nihilism. The vengeance. The hubris. The hatred. The general outlines of a plan. https://archive.org/details/PrairieFire_20170422
Seems clear to me, that, as has been said here, they seek to destroy and replace. Maybe enforce using an army of illegals.
The plan seems to be: confuse (“What the hell is going on?”); weaken solidarity/community by fracturing the whole into adversarial groups; weaken traditions and institutions (schools, families, jobs, religion, medical, reason, basic definitions) to be replaced by subjectivity, relativism, and egoism, government agencies and agents; physically weaken the population (“I got [cancer, long covid, heart problems]; demoralization; isolation; helplessness in the face of gov. force, public condemnation, relentless insults; sapping of the will; dependence on government as infrastructure collapses.
But, moron that I am, I am not afraid of an army of foreign enforcers. Their actions will create militias. As squads or platoons, they will be vulnerable to attack. Where will they live? How will they resupply? Officials will become targets. I believe (more than just hope) that their presence and actions, in combination with the long train of abuses and usurpations, will release the rage so long held in check by ordinary American with nothing to lose–a rage that will be frightening to see, and worse to feel. What tools of oppression would a “government” then have left, and its officials fearless to use? Do they want to be next?
So glad to be back and to be reading y’all.
ghostsniperApril 2, 2024, 3:42 PM
Get your street sweepers ready gentlemens, it’s almost time to go to work.
What’s that?
You don’t know what a street sweeper is?
Well take a look, then go find one. Two is exponentially better.
Duke University Helps Man Chestfeed His Grandchild
The USA’s CDC and UK’s NHS both endorse male breastfeeding (or as we are instructed to call it, “chestfeeding”). Academia helps bring this grotesque nightmare to life:
A trans woman [i.e., sexually psychotic man] has been helped to breastfeed [his] grandchild, in what is thought to be a world first.
Not even Sodom and Gomorrah could have come up an abomination so profoundly obscene.
The unidentified 50-year-old was helped to express up to 30ml of milk at a time, after a four week course of hormone treatment.
Researchers from Duke University reported the [man] ‘lactated for a total of two weeks’ and was able to feed the four-month-old baby.
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine calls the disgusting substance that is secreted by transsexuals and fed to innocent babies in furtherance of the LGBT agenda “father’s milk.” The healthcare establishment has been subverted.
I breakdown in the middle and lose my thread
No one can understand a word that I say
When I breakdown just a little and lose my head
Nothing I try to do can work the same way
Any time it happened, I’d get over it
With a little help from all my friends
Anybody else could see what’s wrong with me
But they walk away and just pretend
Where are all the friends who used to talk to me?
All they ever told me was good news
People that I’ve never seen are kind to me
Is it any wonder I’m confused?
Freedom, freedom, we will not obey
Freedom, freedom, take the wall away
“…wanted in fifteen counties of this state, the condemned standing before us… sitting before us… Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez has been found guilty by the third district circuit court of the following crimes: Murder, assaulting a justice of the peace, raping a virgin of the white race, statuatory rape of a minor of the black race… derailing a train in order to rob the passengers, bank robbery, highway robbery, robbing an unknown number of Post Offices, breaking out of the state prison, using marked cards and loaded dice, promoting prostitution, blackmail, intention of selling fugitive slaves, and counterfeiting. Crimes against places of high authority include burning down the courthouse and sheriff’s office in Sonora. The accused is also guilty of cattle rustling, horse thievery, supplying Indians with firearms… misrepresenting himself as a Mexican General, unlawfully drawing salarly and living allowances from the Union Army. For all these crimes the accused has made a full and spontaneous confession. Therefore we condemn him to be hung by the neck until dead… may the lord have mercy on his soul… proceed.”
Tuco ‘the Ugly’ is actually the hero and the main character of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Everyone is always Team Clint Eastwood, but I believe that Tuco is actually the main character in that film. He’s a greater fighter definitely on the same level as the others, but he’s not a force of nature like Blondie or Angel Eyes. One example is the scene where Angel Eyes decides not to torture Blondie because he knows that Blondie is the same type of person as he, AKA something different than human. Tuco however didn’t endure the torture and Angel Eyes knew he would crack.
Tuco is the sympathetic eye to which we see a multiple ideals and ways of life take place. He just wants his piece of the pie, and does whatever is necessary to get the job done. Angel Eyes and Blondie want the money, but you really get the feeling that no matter how much money it is it wouldn’t improve or affect their life very much. They will keep living how they’re living for the rest of their lives.
One thing I noticed after a recent watching, Angel Eyes has got to be the basis for the modern truly terrible villain. When he kills the two guys who hired him as a mercenary it really showed that he’s about more than just getting paid, about sending a message to the world, for himself maybe. Modern villains like this are characters like Joker and Anton Chigurh.
Blondie many people consider to be the main character and the hero of the story, but he actually seems worse than Tuco. Many points through the movie he betrays Tuco, never respecting him (despite Tuco being a very strong, skilled fighter), and betraying him multiple times. You never really know what motivation Blondie has for anything. Through the movie you see that he has some sympathy for normal humans, in a way that people might have for a dying animal. Blondie understands Tuco’s pain after the visit to his missionary brother, and he helps the dying man pass on as easy as he can.
Tuco seems almost genuinely surprised every time Blondie fucks him over. This makes me think that had Blondie been forthright with him that they could have had a lasting friendship and partnership. However this is made impossible by the fact that Blondie doesn’t respect him, and considers him to be less than he is. I think however the director makes good comparison visually between them in the shootout in the abandoned town. They are allies, and on the same side, and fight with equal ability, and they’re shown regularly on the same level and in similar poses.
Maybe I’m over-thinking it, but it seems to be like, Tuco is a man who acknowledges himself for who he truly is, and could be a trustworthy and good man if given the opportunity to climb out of the filth.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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For me there is an almost palatable difference between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. The Pacific is home to me and I still love it. But, the high Rocky Mountains are where I find peace.
I have clients in Carlsbad I see a few times per year. I always take my shoes off and roll up my slacks to walk the beach a few hours before a client meeting.
My guy, Sal Mercogliano, explains marine insurance.
https://youtu.be/2Wim-_Q_59o?si=Rhd0tp9BF4eSVpr-
After watching this, I’ll contradict myself by saying that I now better understand marine insurance without understanding it at all.
Insurance or not, the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Dali, which destroyed the Francis Scott Keyes bridge in Baltimore, was having electrical problems before it even set sail. With this in mind you have to ask why in the world would this ship be heading to its next destination, Colombo, Sri Lanka, with electrical problems when the trip would take 27 days and it would be traveling over open seas.
Anchor drop.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5GwCM3OWp6/?igsh=ZzF3b2tzY2huZWxo
Yeah, that’s been out for awhile now but thanks for posting it.
To me, the more incredible part is the missing 2 mins.
THAT is not possible.
Did they do that to draw attention?
Why?
To intentionally draw doubt?
Why?
Now this is just deviously funny:
https://westernrifleshooters.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5041575353564894928.jpg
Surf is up!
I had a volunteer pepper plant pop up in the garden last fall. It got half robust and a rabbit ate it to the ground. It came back. Rabbit did round two on it. Ate it down like a python at a daycare. The volunteer did not give up. I dug it up before the first frost and put it in a large ceramic pot and kept it inside over the winter. It grew back slowly and even started to put on blossoms. Took it outside a month ago on a warm February day and the wind broke off its main stem. Clipped that off and brought it back inside. It started growing back and now it has several nice days per week in the sun by the window or outside. Chilis started growing on it and they are the Peter Peppers. Look like a wrinkly old male appendage. There are five of them growing currently. That plant has a dozen stubs at its base and three thriving branches.
I suppose some of our lives have been like that pepper plant and there is a possible lesson to be learned. It a dog pisses on you, a rabbit eats you to the ground or the wind blows off your largest branch, you can still recover in spite of visible scars. You probably have a hell of a root system from all of that drama too.
Good story Snake!
(call me Plissken!)
That pepper is a tuff geezer.
Why the Empire Always Falls
====================
Philip K. Dick called it The Empire That Never Ended. Miles Mathis called them the Phoenecian Navy. I call them the Prometheans. Most people today call them globalists, but Jesus Christ called them the Synagogue of Satan. We don’t know what they call themselves, but they a) often appear to identify publicly as Jews and b) always criminalize expressions of Christianity and antisemitism.
And the latter points toward why they always fail, and why they have never, in more than 1,500 years, been able to successfully establish or maintain their own society or civilization despite occasionally possessing all the necessary instruments of power and influence in societies as powerful as pre-Imperial Spain, Tsarist Russia, post-Imperial Britain, or the post-Cold War USA. This cartoon sums up the essential cause of the failure.
https://tinyurl.com/4f4tsh2d
For some inexplicable reason known only to themselves, the Prometheans always insist on a completely subjective law. And while that’s very useful for acquiring power, it is absolutely fatal to preserving it, because subjective law necessarily imposes the very sort of inequality that renders a society unstable. This is why every society that has successfully developed into a civilization has an elite that not only practices some form of noblesse oblige, but holds the members of the elite fully accountable to objective laws that are not substantially different than the laws the plebs must obey.
In short, to rule, one will be held responsible. To rule successfully, one must be capable of responsibly looking after the interests of the ruled.
Any elite that does not do so is viewed, correctly, as parasitical and illegitimate, and in Chinese terms, does not hold the Mandate of Heaven. And if there is one thing that is clear about the current Clown World super-regime, it is that it is illegitimate by its own self-proclaimed standard of democracy and its laws are entirely subjective. Which is why Clown World, like Babylon, is going to fall.
https://tinyurl.com/zve3k36h
Some of my friends still call me Snake. It all started when a couple young sons of one of my best friends started calling me by my first name. Not cool. I didn’t grow up like that. I told them I would not answer them if they called me by my first name. I told them they had to call me “Mr. Bartlett” or “Snake”. They opted for the latter. Called me that all the time until some other people heard it and also started calling me “Snake”. It stuck.
Haven’t heard from William ‘Little Billy’ Ayers for quite a while.
I bet he’s a major strategist for Obama and Co.
His book, Prairie Fire, says it all. The rage. The arrogance. The nihilism. The vengeance. The hubris. The hatred. The general outlines of a plan.
https://archive.org/details/PrairieFire_20170422
Seems clear to me, that, as has been said here, they seek to destroy and replace. Maybe enforce using an army of illegals.
The plan seems to be: confuse (“What the hell is going on?”); weaken solidarity/community by fracturing the whole into adversarial groups; weaken traditions and institutions (schools, families, jobs, religion, medical, reason, basic definitions) to be replaced by subjectivity, relativism, and egoism, government agencies and agents; physically weaken the population (“I got [cancer, long covid, heart problems]; demoralization; isolation; helplessness in the face of gov. force, public condemnation, relentless insults; sapping of the will; dependence on government as infrastructure collapses.
But, moron that I am, I am not afraid of an army of foreign enforcers. Their actions will create militias. As squads or platoons, they will be vulnerable to attack. Where will they live? How will they resupply? Officials will become targets. I believe (more than just hope) that their presence and actions, in combination with the long train of abuses and usurpations, will release the rage so long held in check by ordinary American with nothing to lose–a rage that will be frightening to see, and worse to feel. What tools of oppression would a “government” then have left, and its officials fearless to use? Do they want to be next?
So glad to be back and to be reading y’all.
Get your street sweepers ready gentlemens, it’s almost time to go to work.
What’s that?
You don’t know what a street sweeper is?
Well take a look, then go find one. Two is exponentially better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhI5iisN-uA
========================
Duke University Helps Man Chestfeed His Grandchild
The USA’s CDC and UK’s NHS both endorse male breastfeeding (or as we are instructed to call it, “chestfeeding”). Academia helps bring this grotesque nightmare to life:
A trans woman [i.e., sexually psychotic man] has been helped to breastfeed [his] grandchild, in what is thought to be a world first.
Not even Sodom and Gomorrah could have come up an abomination so profoundly obscene.
The unidentified 50-year-old was helped to express up to 30ml of milk at a time, after a four week course of hormone treatment.
Researchers from Duke University reported the [man] ‘lactated for a total of two weeks’ and was able to feed the four-month-old baby.
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine calls the disgusting substance that is secreted by transsexuals and fed to innocent babies in furtherance of the LGBT agenda “father’s milk.” The healthcare establishment has been subverted.
https://moonbattery.com/duke-university-helps-man-chestfeed-his-grandchild/
I breakdown in the middle and lose my thread
No one can understand a word that I say
When I breakdown just a little and lose my head
Nothing I try to do can work the same way
Any time it happened, I’d get over it
With a little help from all my friends
Anybody else could see what’s wrong with me
But they walk away and just pretend
Where are all the friends who used to talk to me?
All they ever told me was good news
People that I’ve never seen are kind to me
Is it any wonder I’m confused?
Freedom, freedom, we will not obey
Freedom, freedom, take the wall away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJBTOC3Mfpk
“…wanted in fifteen counties of this state, the condemned standing before us… sitting before us… Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez has been found guilty by the third district circuit court of the following crimes: Murder, assaulting a justice of the peace, raping a virgin of the white race, statuatory rape of a minor of the black race… derailing a train in order to rob the passengers, bank robbery, highway robbery, robbing an unknown number of Post Offices, breaking out of the state prison, using marked cards and loaded dice, promoting prostitution, blackmail, intention of selling fugitive slaves, and counterfeiting. Crimes against places of high authority include burning down the courthouse and sheriff’s office in Sonora. The accused is also guilty of cattle rustling, horse thievery, supplying Indians with firearms… misrepresenting himself as a Mexican General, unlawfully drawing salarly and living allowances from the Union Army. For all these crimes the accused has made a full and spontaneous confession. Therefore we condemn him to be hung by the neck until dead… may the lord have mercy on his soul… proceed.”
Tuco ‘the Ugly’ is actually the hero and the main character of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Everyone is always Team Clint Eastwood, but I believe that Tuco is actually the main character in that film. He’s a greater fighter definitely on the same level as the others, but he’s not a force of nature like Blondie or Angel Eyes. One example is the scene where Angel Eyes decides not to torture Blondie because he knows that Blondie is the same type of person as he, AKA something different than human. Tuco however didn’t endure the torture and Angel Eyes knew he would crack.
Tuco is the sympathetic eye to which we see a multiple ideals and ways of life take place. He just wants his piece of the pie, and does whatever is necessary to get the job done. Angel Eyes and Blondie want the money, but you really get the feeling that no matter how much money it is it wouldn’t improve or affect their life very much. They will keep living how they’re living for the rest of their lives.
One thing I noticed after a recent watching, Angel Eyes has got to be the basis for the modern truly terrible villain. When he kills the two guys who hired him as a mercenary it really showed that he’s about more than just getting paid, about sending a message to the world, for himself maybe. Modern villains like this are characters like Joker and Anton Chigurh.
Blondie many people consider to be the main character and the hero of the story, but he actually seems worse than Tuco. Many points through the movie he betrays Tuco, never respecting him (despite Tuco being a very strong, skilled fighter), and betraying him multiple times. You never really know what motivation Blondie has for anything. Through the movie you see that he has some sympathy for normal humans, in a way that people might have for a dying animal. Blondie understands Tuco’s pain after the visit to his missionary brother, and he helps the dying man pass on as easy as he can.
Tuco seems almost genuinely surprised every time Blondie fucks him over. This makes me think that had Blondie been forthright with him that they could have had a lasting friendship and partnership. However this is made impossible by the fact that Blondie doesn’t respect him, and considers him to be less than he is. I think however the director makes good comparison visually between them in the shootout in the abandoned town. They are allies, and on the same side, and fight with equal ability, and they’re shown regularly on the same level and in similar poses.
Maybe I’m over-thinking it, but it seems to be like, Tuco is a man who acknowledges himself for who he truly is, and could be a trustworthy and good man if given the opportunity to climb out of the filth.