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The Fifth Stanza

Dear American Leftists. 

The Fifth Stanza of the Ranger Creed:

"Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is NOT a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country."

I will stand in public and recite this stanza. 

Will you?

Given the amount of subsidies that we are paying for each, we should all claim 2.9 million illegals and the entire country of Ukraine as dependents on our taxes next year. In addition to being allowed to depreciate these costs over the rest of our lifetimes.

The left are not stupid. They are diabolical. They know that if they control the narrative, they control the people.

Does anyone know how many masks you have to wear to stop monkeypox? Is the social distancing still six feet or does it increase to 8 because monkeys can jump pretty far? If we stay in our enclosures, scream, and throw feces at gawkers does that help to avoid it? Just curious. I want to stay ahead of this one.

Do politicians read to kids during non-campaign years?

How would you know if data were being manipulated if you don't understand the math that was used to derive it?

My former school district now has an anonymous tip line where community members can call in and report their neighbors for just about anything that makes them uncomfortable - from their vax status to their refusal to mask-up to their unsavory religious and political affiliations. And especially their support of 2A (I can attest to that one personally)

This is iron curtain crap...

The talking point now is that 192 Republicans voted against a bill to deliver baby formula. What is being left out of this attack is everything else that was in this bill that made it intolerable.

Let me create an analogy.

The democrats say that they want to give starving children bowls of ice cream, but they don't say that there is a dog turd at the bottom of the bowl. The Republicans find this out and vote against the ice cream - which was the sensible thing to do. The democrats and their media allies now say that the Republicans hate starving children and want them all to die.

1. Free speech and censorship cannot coexist
2. Truth is free range, it is NOT curated

They scream 'no uterus, no voice', but every single non-gun owning one of them has something to say about firearms.

Is it a more civilized country that is willing to put its women on the front lines of combat; not out of necessity, but out of a desire to provide "equal opportunity" to female soldiers?

Have you noticed that many of the world's terrorists, whether they are gangbanger street thugs here in the US or Hamas militants in Gaza, immediately claim victim status after THEY commit a crime or act of terrorism? They justify their criminal act by saying that they are the aggrieved party and that they had no other choice but to shoot that innocent family or rob/loot/burn that small business. And their sympathizers and mouthpieces on the left are quick to echo their BS excuses in order to magnify their legitimacy.

Except for campaign stops, do you think that a single member of the political class has ever been in Walmart and actually purchased items that they have used - you know like normal people?

I'm finding that when I'm scolded for not taking the vaccine, it isn't about the vaccine, it's really about my non-compliance. Rule followers want everyone else to follow the rules and despise those who don't; without ever asking if the rules to be followed make any sense.

The rules are the rules and you are expected to obey.
These are the tattletales who you see this in school all of the time. "Teacher, Johnny is drawing and not doing his assignment."

Same thing.

Remember 9 months ago when Americans and Afghan allies were left behind in Afghanistan? No Senator or Congress member or high level official flew there or stood up to get them out. Yet they are all taking vacation trips to Ukraine -- which is ostensibly as much a war zone as Afghanistan was. It makes you wonder...

Hmmm... I wonder how many natural phenomena can be spun as systemically discriminatory... For example, earthquakes impact brown people more than white people - racist; Bengal tigers kill more brown people than white people -- racist; more women die in childbirth than men -- misogynist; the Guinea River worm affects more Africans than Europeans -- racist.

I think I may have a future as a woke science book author.

Thoughts worth thinking...

I have a question for the feminists out there… When did no stop meaning no? When a woman says that she does not want the Covid shot, isn’t it coercive to pressure her into taking it? When did consent stop being the rule?

When someone wants to kill you, the time for diplomacy has ended.

When Louis Armstrong sang "What A Wonderful World", did he mean it? Or was it meant to be a wry criticism of the social inequality of the day?

Genuine question.

I'm watching a video of him performing that song right now and see a huge smile on his face, but what appears to be pain in his eyes...

Not owning or desiring an EV, I have never thought much about the logistics of them. The other day, I saw a short video that provided some very useful insights. Here are some of the things that I learned:

*The per charge mileage ratings are based upon a basically empty vehicle. The more people and stuff you are hauling, the worse your mileage.

*It takes a long time to charge them unless you pay extra for the superchargers - at which point charging is just as expensive as gas and waiting for the charge adds significantly to your travel time.

*If you are making a longer trip, you need to plan around the charging stations because they are much fewer and further between than gas stations.It would totally suck to run out of charge traveling from Phoenix to LA.

*As we all know, the charging stations are largely coal powered so is there really a net environmental benefit? Particularly when you also factor in the damage done by mining the rare earth minerals and transporting them across the ocean in diesel powered ships...

The more you know...