Reflections From a Murky Pond

Times change and men or, at least, their perceptions and outlooks change with the shifting of the circumstances. This seems to be especially true of men who become fathers…

It’s All A Matter Of Perspective

Don’t get me wrong, mothers of girls have their worries too. It’s just that they’re a bit less comically hypocritical. 😉

Liberals and Progressives, the Leftists promulgating their neo-Socialist ideology in America, talk a lot about “sharing the wealth.” The major problem with this is that they have no understanding of the word “sharing” and what it means.

They cannot accept that sharing is a voluntary act and not something that can be forced.

It’s really quite amazingly simple, yet it’s beyond the ken of the Leftists:

1. It’s not sharing if it forced at the point of a gun. It’s theft.
2. It doesn’t matter if the gun is held by a thug or an officer of the law.
3. The credible threat of force is the same as using force.

They can’t understand this though and must be treated in exactly the same manner as any thief or extortionist must needs be treated by Americans protecting their families and property from assault.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

After the ever ethnoguiltist MSM publicized the race-baiting and grievance rant by the ghetto thug rapper, Xzibit we haven’t heard much about planking.

Admittedly, there’s little or no purpose in this odd fad. Yet, it also posed little risk and cause little harm – except to the sensibilities of a few of life’s failures which should be ignored.

Creatures, the like of which this Xzibit is just a singular example, cannot seem to help but look at the world through the eyes of victimology, irresponsibility, a envy. They are not things that humanity should pay attention to beyond taking such actions as are necessary to limit the harm they do to people.

So I say that we should revisit, revitalize, and greatly improve this harmless fad. Doing so would not be difficult at all. 🙂

The way I figure it, adding bikinis and babes to the mix will bring planking right back to fore of pop culture. It’s worked for almost everything else…

By many people’s standards I’m quite wealthy, one of the Rich that they want to enslave for the subsistence of the less- and non-productive. I’m not, however truly one of the “Rich People” despite my income and the material comforts it brings. I can’t buy and/or do anything that pleases me.

If and when I’m rich enough to do utterly as I please, insofar as housing and spending is concerned, I’m going to do this:

Someday, If I Can Swing It, I’m Going To Have One Of These

Yes, as foolish and seemingly wasteful as it seems, I want to install a slide that in my home – if I don’t chuck it all in and move my family into a ger somewhere – yes, my wives would cheerfully agree to that.

Ger is the Mongolian term for their felt tents. If in their presence, call then yurts at your own peril. Their past “dealings” with the Ottomans and Russians have left them sensitive to that word.

That’s the true boon of significant material wealth. It’s not just that you can afford such foolish luxuries; it’s that few will look at you too askance for indulging in them.

One thing that everyone should count upon is that soldiers and sailors will be creative and reuse and misuse any and materiel at their disposal in order to achieve their ends. Many of these field expedients are for direct combat or support operations but even more are creative – sometimes overly so 😉 – means of providing basic comforts that personnel in combat zones normally lack.

A case in point…

When you’ve seen: bunkers made of cases of beer; chess, checkers, and cribbage sets made out of anything and everything; nearly every place in every vehicle’s engine compartment used for warming rations; and just about every possible part of small arms used as bottle openers, the fact that some serviceman decided to send his TALON EOD Robot to get him a beer is not shocking.

Of course I always thought the purpose of the TALON was to keep our soldiers from getting bombed. 😆