Volume Four: Number Fifty-Two

Te Tamari No Atua
Paul Gauguin
(1896)

Peace Be With You
That's it, except ...


Doom and Gloom

93%

<1000

874,000

Al Shabaab

Consumers 

Data Breach

Drones

Ground Turkey

Methane 

Photographs

Planes

Rocks

Roommates

Socialists

Stowaways

Terrorism, State Sponsored

Terrorism

Tsunami

U.S. Postal Service 

Vampires

Width

Wives

Wrongfully Convicted


Things You Might Want to Think About

7,000
According to some of the folks I read, Democrats and some Republicans Liberals that opposed the invasion, build up of troops, and bashed Bush 43, are now all for keeping troops in Afghanistan.

Me?

I oppose reducing troop strengths because I'm a so-called American Imperialist

$428 billion
Ignore the "Trump Bashing" in the very beginning and read further down to all of the handouts, ...

That our government will go into debt to pay.

Armed Guards
How about Armed Citizens?

Oooh, ...

Sorry, it's, formerly, Great Britain. 

Automation
One good thing about automation. It's another reason to reduce the number of illegal immigrants, in this country, because we won't need them to pick our food.

Cruetzfeldt-Jackob Disease
My condolences to the family because it is just a matter of time before Mr. Gibson passes away.

Currency
Let me get this straight, ...

A group that can ban you from their site, wipe your account information, and allows others to delete your comments is trying to get you and your family to use their digital currency.

Oooh, ...

They are using the WhatsApp that has gotten people beaten up and killed.

Diplomatic Cables
I know a little about 'spying,' really intelligence gathering.

The whole idea is to sweep up all the information that you can, analysis it, plan courses of action, then take steps to confront/assist our adversaries and allies.

Of course, you're asking, ... Why is this article important to you and your family?

Our adversaries could use this information to influence European leaders to turn away from these United States and the ideals of Democracy, Freedom, and Liberty.

End of Days
It hasn't happened, ... yet.

Enslavement
Have you heard about the 'Green New Deal' put forth by young activists and people like Al Gore, Saikat Chakrabarti, Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others?

It's pretty simple, ...

1) The plan must decarbonize the economy.

2) The plan must include a federal jobs guarantee and large-scale public investments.

3) The plan must include a just transition.

Yeah, ... You need to take the time to read the whole thing

Fake News, German Version
Wow, this quote says it all, ...

"what kind of institutional breakdown led to the supposedly world-class Der Spiegel fact-checking team completely dropping the ball ..."

Government Shutdown
Damn, ... I wanted it all to shutdown.

Green Technology
Yeap, ... In our rush to embrace so-called green technology, people will use it to commit fraud.

Huh?
Two articles about the same event, one from the Huffington Post and the other from Fow News.

Either way you read it.

FaceBook and other social media sites, Twitter, Gab, WhatsApp, InstaGram, and many others and the supporting tech companies such as ABC, Google, Microsoft, MSN, and many others are a danger to you and your family, our nation, and our freedoms.

Harvard
A Fascists is still a Fascists, no matter which school they attend.

Illegals and Criminals 
I don't care who you are.

If you and your family are here in this country illegally or have been granted asylum/sanctuary but have committed murder, rape, armed robbery, and other similar crimes, you need to go back to your home country.

Isolation
There is a danger to these United States becoming isolationists. Look at WW II

Italy
What, ... You thought the financial crisis in Europe was over?

Niceness
Be careful.

Not everybody deserves a helping hand from you and your family, much less a room in your home.

Pharmaceuticals
Folks, ... For companies to stay in business, they need to make a profit. If they can't make a profit in Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, or, in this case, any other place with Socialized Medicine, then they need to make a bigger profit in these United States.

Prison Reform
This reform will also force many prison workers to move to more violent prison, if they want to stay in those careers.

Question?
Let me get this right, ...

The government displaces several hundred farmers, paves over 83 square miles of farmland, is going to concentrate 11 million people in one place, so the new city can be “the best destination in the world for technology, infrastructure and also human resource development."

What are the people going to eat?

Rates
Inflation in the critical items, food, shelter, and other items, you and your family purchase is already increasing.

Now, ...

It's going to happen to everything else.

Ring
That's probably the ugliest ring, I've ever seen

With that said, ...

They should have gone to school to be Pharmacists then they wouldn't be looking at 10 to 25 years in prison for selling heroin

Slavery
I understand what he is saying.

The only problem, ...

He's making $35,000,000 a year for nine months of work, if his team makes it to the Big Game.

SLBM
Submarine launched ballistic missiles are for so-called soft-target weapons like factory, military bases, and ... cities

Socialists
It's what they do

Solar Storms
Ha, Ha, Ha, ... $16,000,000,000 in damages!

What about the number of dead, from a coronal mass ejection (CME)?

Witchcraft
Protestantism made this country great. Their ideals, along with others, helped propel our country to greatness.

Losing that majority will have consequences.

Wonderland
To be able to survive an event, you and your family need five things. The first is an emergency evacuation kit with a place to go, appropriate shelter, water to drink, and food to eat.

Well, ...

We have two out of four, so let us go to Mars.

Worldview
In other worlds, ...

It's the cool kids against their parents

With that said, ...

I wish the article had equally bashed the Democrats and the Republicans, instead of just the Republicans.


Overheard

"Bake as many cookies as you can while the fixings are still there and stuff a few in your ammunition box for the fretful days ahed."

"Each side will support the other as long as it remains in their national interest to do so,"

"More than five percent of the population has fled the country due to shortages of basic necessities such as food and medicine."

"All the players on the Lebanese side have something to hide."

"... loneliness is distress because of a discrepancy between actual social relationships and desired social relationships."

The authors also noted that Facebook remains the top social networking site in the world and the third most visited site on the Internet, after Google and YouTube, despite market fluctuations and controversies.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-facebook-year.html#jCp

"The authors also noted that Facebook remains the top social networking site in the world and the third most visited site on the internet, after Google and YouTube, despite market fluctuation and controversies."

"It's happened before, and it could happen again."

"It would require government intervention on a scale arguably not seen in U.S. history and inevitably force Congress to raise taxes on energy."

"I am compelled to drop this note to thank the filmmakers for having made this film … I knew Don Shirley, and, in fact, had an office across the street from his at Carnegie Hall, and I experienced much of what he did at the same time. This movie is accurate, it is true, and it's a wonderful movie that everyone should see. The few people who appear to be objecting to the film's depiction of the time and the man are dead wrong, and, if the basis of their resentment stems from it having been written and/or directed by someone who isn't African American, I disagree with them even more … I personally thank the filmmakers for having told this important story from a very different lens, one no less compelling than any other."

"It was too good to check."


What Others Wrote

Ace of Spades HQ: The Morning Report, 12/21/18

Ace of Spades HQ - Gun Thread: 

Active Response Training: Weekend Knowledge Dump, December 21, 2018

Defense One: The D Brief, 20 December 2018

Defense One - Radio: Episode ?? (They don't Say)

Shall Not Be Questioned: Thursday News Dump, May 24, 2018

Survival Blog: The Survivalist's Odds n' Sods, 327 

Yer Ol' Woodpile Report: Index 558

The Z Blog: December Grab Bag


That's Just the Way it Was: Childersburg, Alabama (ca 1941)

Landscape near one of the entrances to the powder plant near Childersburg. The dust in the back ground in caused by a great stream of traffic coming out of the powder plant.

A Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

Children playing the Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

Tomato juice is served to the children at 10 a.m. in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

Children washing in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

Lunch period in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

A Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

Rest period in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children

A Works Progress Administration (WPA) day nursey for defense workers' children