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i live yet, and, intend to live free, or die in the attempt.
Interests: thought. history. politics. current affairs. liberty. naked ladies. older naked ladies, as i age. and, as i age, thinking about naked ladies.
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grog:
yes, agreed. pretty much all fabricated, as the rich and the elites (and dimmos) knew full well. if covid-19 had been the danger as broadcast, they would have worn mask and stayed sequestered. they did not. they flaunted the regulations, because they knew that for the average person, they were bullshit.
gonna be some pissed off people when they wake to the realization theyve been gulled.
john
assessing the covid-19 "pandemic" ....
1. the dimmos used it effectively to oust donald john trump from the white house. the republicans never figured out how to counter the strategy, though it was pitifully obvious. 2. i can speak only to the state of oregon, but, here is how seriously the state of oregon assessed the "pandemic....
drew:
well said. truth. it was all about benjamins, and about securing political power for the dimbulbs. plain and simple.
john
assessing the covid-19 "pandemic" ....
1. the dimmos used it effectively to oust donald john trump from the white house. the republicans never figured out how to counter the strategy, though it was pitifully obvious. 2. i can speak only to the state of oregon, but, here is how seriously the state of oregon assessed the "pandemic....
laughing. point well taken.
assessing the covid-19 "pandemic" ....
1. the dimmos used it effectively to oust donald john trump from the white house. the republicans never figured out how to counter the strategy, though it was pitifully obvious. 2. i can speak only to the state of oregon, but, here is how seriously the state of oregon assessed the "pandemic....
grog:
as w/ most of the guitars made marketed here, they are made all over asia, ... , china, indonesia, the philippines, some in japan, ... , and in various factories. all made to contract specs. all made w/ cnc routers and machine tools, and all finished and put together with varying degrees of skill and attention. much as in the united states, but with decidedly cheaper labor rates.
if you want a gibson, you pay the labor rate.
if you will settle for a similar guitar at way cheaper prices, you will buy an epiphone.
with the gibson, (and now this dangelico,), you get maple and poplar laminates, with the chinese and asian guitars, you get linden (ash) which they favor.
they are all pretty good instruments, and way way way way above my skills, but i like wood. if i made guitars, they would be maple and walnut. not so much sparkle, but with a very mellow and substantial tone.
the dangelico has an interesting tone wood, harvested in the cameroon, called ovangkol, which they use in the neck. it has a very dark heart wood, very dense, and it has to be pretty good stuff because taylor guitar uses it to make high end acoustics .... i suppose martin will not be far behind.
i am very interested to put the dangelico together, side by side, w/ my ibanez. i wouldnt be too surprised to see them almost identical, except in tone wood and furniture. if made with any skill, (and, who knows), the dangelico should be a slightly better guitar. ill let you know if it appears that they were made on the same assembly line, by the same machines and skilled hands.
john
who makes d'angelico guitars? ..... in particular, the d'angelico mini premier dc xt now issuing .....
my guess is that the new mini premier dcxt d'angelico guitar, a semi-hollow body obviously modeled on the gibson es-339, is gonna look quite a bit like my ibanez artcore am93, also inspired by the gibson. my ibanez is also constructed of laminated layers of wood, in the case of the ibanez that b...
grog:
ticker is healthy. the l.a.d. hasnt gotten any worse. and, the aneurysms are all holding steady, none growing. i could drop dead at any instant, but, in that, i am no different from anyone else on earth. holding steady.
john
work hard, stay humble .....
traveling from yakima, washington to home, i pulled off the freeway at zillah, washington to supplement breakfast, and to hit the head. back to the freeway, and across the street from the local mickie d's, i saw this sign at a construction site. "work hard, stay humble" it said. and, i though...
drew: yes. all true. in another age, i would have written yea, verily to all of your observations.
i am 73 years old. read a lot of stuff. none of it holds truth as dostoyevskys conversation between god/christ and the bishop of seville in the brothers karamazov, when the bishop explains to god that the spirit takes 2nd place to full bellies and comforting falsehood, and that is what the church now sells, and not salvation. e.g., material security wins out over truth.
bread and circus. and lies. the epitaph on the gravestone of democracy. john
computer modem chips hooking voting machines to the net, and to control over the net .... photo proof ....
https://gellerreport.com/2021/04/mi-election-fraud-modem-chips.html/ you want proof of computer control of voting machines over the internet? look to the above article. if you don't understand that "the steal" was real, you need to reassess your position. it is as simple as that. and...
paul:
will do. laughing. but, i aint holding my breath. this is a biden/dimbulb promise you know, and they may be getting a bit worried on how they are gonna pay for all of this. laughing. dumbshits.
john
i want my "stimulus money," and i want it now ... i want "reparations," and i'll think of something ... i want to look like tom sellack in "magnum p.i.," and i want that when i wake in the morning ... and, oh yeah, since i am 73 ...
and, oh yeah, since i am 73 years old, have 4 bypasses, 6 stents, 3 active aneurysms and a host of other ailments, i would very much like to wake in the morning. but, i want, i want, i want, i want a whole bunch. what in the world am i willing to do to work for any of this? well, nothing a...
drew:
you know, i think maybe i like your outfit for fauci better than mine. laughing. and, fer sures, as we say out these parts, being fauci has gone to his head. he is surely infatuated with himself.
john
just in case you haven't got the drift of things (covid) .... and, the "drift" of anthony fauci ....
i don't know much about anthony fauci's medical and professional credentials, and really do not have to, to formulate the several opinions voiced below.-- 1.)he has an enormous appetite to be noticed. 2.)he is intensely political. and, 3.)he is a committed leftist, probably a marxist/leninist, a...
paul:
a famous bank robber was asked why he robbed banks. he replied, because, thats where the money is.
same w/ phone phishers. they go after the old people, because that is where the money is. the money that is loose, anyways.
john
old duffers (that's you & me) .... beware the phone phrauders ....
i got a phone call this morning from some dildo wanted to let me know someone was coming after my assets, and i was gonna be sued for something, and would i please talk to some person on the phone about what to do about it. i hung up. what the bastards are phishing for is your social security ...
atsa jess fine. tanks. as we say these parts.
how old you getting to be, and when is your b-day coming up?
tomorrow marks my 73rd year on the planet .....
it's been interesting. not always pleasant, not always fun. and, yet, sometimes very enjoyable, very pleasurable. but, always interesting. when it comes my time to leave, ... , well, i'd just as soon not. but, just as things begin, so they end. i'd like another 20 years to learn how t...
drew:
good to see you are still kicking. actually, it looks like i am gonna survive the pandemic, good lord willing and the creek dont rise, and ive been thinking of just using my covid-19 filters for coffee filters, using the melita funnel. and, i still maintain that doing nothing more than pouring nearly boiling water over coffee in the bottom of the cup makes a fairly decent cup of coffee. out this way, we have seattles best, which i think is head and shoulders above starbucks. to me, starbucks has had the living shit baked out of it, and it is bitter and far too acidic. we have a bunch of local brewers in the northwest, including a couple in walla walla and yakima, that make way better coffee than starbucks, and on a par w/ seattles best.
i dont know where all this cachet bullshit comes from. if it tastes good, it tastes good, and if it tastes bitter, it is bitter. i suppose that is just fine and dandy if you like bitter, but, i dont like bitter. i dont like bitter toast, i dont know why i should like bitter coffee.
now, enough of this silliness. what do you think of the whole 6.5mm craze? seems to me that we had it during the 1890s and early 1900s, but that most of the countries that adopted the 6.5mms switched over to more powerful rounds after less than stellar battlefield performance from the rounds. italy, japan, austria, portugal, you name it, most all of the 6.5mm countries went up to larger calibers, and more powerful cartridges, save for the swedes. the swedes kept the 6.5x55mm, but, of course, that was the most powerful of all the 6.5s adopted by the various militaries involved. unless people kill easier these days i think the military experimentation will go the same way as history might predict, and the deer hunting crowd will follow, but a little more reluctantly. personally, if i were to go the 6.5mm route, id go with the 6.5x55mm, or the .260 remington, which i think a much better round than all the hornady stuff. (in the financial markets, they call it churning, or stirring the pot, to scare up the loose change in a slow market.) i know that you like the parallel walls in the chamber mouth and leades, and all that, but if you want em, get a barrel machined with those dimensions to your satisfaction, and forget about having to have an entirely new cartridge. i doubt very much if your average nimrod is going to shoot a hornady gee willy whizbang any better over 200 yards than if equipped with the old fashioned .260, which in my view is a much better cartridge.
well, enough. have a good day, and enjoy your breakfast coffee on the morrow.
john
how to make a good cup of coffee .....
(i refuse to any longer use the phrase "cuppa joe," due to obvious & current circumstances. i detest the word "joe" in any form right now. that's my little problem, obviously, not yours, unless you want it to be.) but, the link following is about how to make a good cup of coffee, written by ...
grog: it would, indeed, be nice if good health accompanied it, and not debilitation. laughing. john
tomorrow marks my 73rd year on the planet .....
it's been interesting. not always pleasant, not always fun. and, yet, sometimes very enjoyable, very pleasurable. but, always interesting. when it comes my time to leave, ... , well, i'd just as soon not. but, just as things begin, so they end. i'd like another 20 years to learn how t...
oh, my goodness paul, i have only gotten this far by luck and special dispensation. i think that i would be pushing it to ask for another 27 years ..... though 5 or 6 of mental and physical competency would let me learn how to play the guitar passably well. i listened to joe pass and herbie ellis play duets last night before i went to sleep. goodness gracious, but they were awesome. both very very very very very good, and completely at sync and enjoying each the others playing. magnificance.
(for that, god will have to grant me another 100 years, or more. make that 150.)
tomorrow marks my 73rd year on the planet .....
it's been interesting. not always pleasant, not always fun. and, yet, sometimes very enjoyable, very pleasurable. but, always interesting. when it comes my time to leave, ... , well, i'd just as soon not. but, just as things begin, so they end. i'd like another 20 years to learn how t...
tanks, old guy. muchos gracias.
tomorrow marks my 73rd year on the planet .....
it's been interesting. not always pleasant, not always fun. and, yet, sometimes very enjoyable, very pleasurable. but, always interesting. when it comes my time to leave, ... , well, i'd just as soon not. but, just as things begin, so they end. i'd like another 20 years to learn how t...
p.s. honey traps were likely more successful in waylaying german soldiers than the liberator. using that stratagem involved the german selecting an obscure place, away from prying eyes, in which to meet his doom. a better plan.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 5:40 PM John Jay jjatty.jay@gmail.com wrote:
paul:
agreed, on all particulars.
my namesake (not a forebearer that i am aware of), the colonial john jay, thence to become first chief justice of the united states, back when the position meant something, was not involved directly in the fighting of the revolution. that is not to say he did not participate. before the shooting war commenced, and during, he was involved in what were called committees of correspondence, in which the various luminaries of the time wrote and considered whats to be done. he played a key role in this. during the war, apparently figuring that he was not a military type, he was actively engaged in counter espionage, being pretty adept at flushing out those who were cooperating w/ the british, and exposing them. a spy master, in other words.
those who stand and wait, also serve, .... , after a fashion.
myself, i just putter, casting boooooolits the other day. getting pretty adept at it.
i may take a shot, (forgive the pun, please) at developing something analogous to the wwii liberator single shot, which was dropped in considerable numbers in france prior to the normandy invasion. it was chambered in .45 acp, was about the size of a deringer, and was designed so that a resistance fighter could sidle up to a german soldier, shoot him, and liberate his carcass of rifle and pistol, if any. it wasnt a great success, btw. apparently it was harder to find a single german soldier off in the middle of nowhere to kill, than met the eye. laughing.
john
guitar practice, special projects coming along just fine ..... the world as we all knew it is going to hell in a handbasket, but i am doing o.k. .....
eating and sleeping. reloading ammo. making sure the rifles are still sighted in. condition 3. preparing mentally. you cannot do what you cannot conceptualize. plain and simple. you must be prepared before things happen, as you cannot depend upon inspiration at your door jam. or, wh...
paul:
agreed, on all particulars.
my namesake (not a forebearer that i am aware of), the colonial john jay, thence to become first chief justice of the united states, back when the position meant something, was not involved directly in the fighting of the revolution. that is not to say he did not participate. before the shooting war commenced, and during, he was involved in what were called committees of correspondence, in which the various luminaries of the time wrote and considered whats to be done. he played a key role in this. during the war, apparently figuring that he was not a military type, he was actively engaged in counter espionage, being pretty adept at flushing out those who were cooperating w/ the british, and exposing them. a spy master, in other words.
those who stand and wait, also serve, .... , after a fashion.
myself, i just putter, casting boooooolits the other day. getting pretty adept at it.
i may take a shot, (forgive the pun, please) at developing something analogous to the wwii liberator single shot, which was dropped in considerable numbers in france prior to the normandy invasion. it was chambered in .45 acp, was about the size of a deringer, and was designed so that a resistance fighter could sidle up to a german soldier, shoot him, and liberate his carcass of rifle and pistol, if any. it wasnt a great success, btw. apparently it was harder to find a single german soldier off in the middle of nowhere to kill, than met the eye. laughing.
john
guitar practice, special projects coming along just fine ..... the world as we all knew it is going to hell in a handbasket, but i am doing o.k. .....
eating and sleeping. reloading ammo. making sure the rifles are still sighted in. condition 3. preparing mentally. you cannot do what you cannot conceptualize. plain and simple. you must be prepared before things happen, as you cannot depend upon inspiration at your door jam. or, wh...
paul:
laughing.
1.)thanks for the visit.
2.)ive never let a little thing such as not knowing very much, frighten me off a topic. i always figure that if i am talking complete nonsense, someone will inform me of such, in no uncertain terms. ... people are very obliging like that.
3.)i read an article that other day explaining why a theoretical physicist is explaining to other like persons why time is real. to me, if is simple. time is a physical occurrence ..... you are born, you get older, you eat proteins and turn it into muscle, fat and a silly way of looking at the world, there are wars, car wrecks, and pumpkins rot after thanksgiving, but it takes a long time. (i know this, because i watched on rot on a balcony just to see how long it would take .... more than several months, as it turned out.) and, then you die, and your little bits and pieces that put you together amble off somewhere else. this is not imagination, it is real, and it depends upon the sequence of physical occurrence, and this is time.
some scientists are not convinced of this.
then, again, science used to argue that critters cannot think, that their behavior was instinctual. they obviously never hunted elk, which are clever enough, by any measure.
4.)some scientists argue that the big bang is still banging, and creating more at an ever increasing pace. on the other hand, i havent noticed more land around these parts, so this creating part must be taking place some place far away .... how convenient for the theorists. laughing.
well, enough of this. i am sticking with let there be light. would the scientist have been have been satisfied had god shouted bang!!! after let there be light. let there be light, bang!!! just like emril lagassee. laughing.
again, well enough of this. see ya, and hows the weather in houstan, besides wet and horrible?
john
the origin of the universe .....
i have no explanation for the creation of the universe, for its sheer size and complexity gives one with any whit whatsoever considerable pause. but, here it is, and the "is" is not only almost impossible to conceive, but equally resistant of measure by our limited means. i find "the big bang t...
paul:
same hotel, adjoining rooms, i am thinking. concrete is impervious to weather and heat waves, very comfy.
john
where is gina haspel?
i am not gonna forget, and i am gonna keep asking. sooner or later, "the lid" has to come off the fix. john jay @ 02.24.2021
jeb:
that certainly is a worthy candidate.
who has more jets? that would make a handy scale for hypocrisy, though my all time favorite is prince charles, who likes to point out that he drives his bentley on alcohol. distilled of course, from his sub-standard brandy. now, that is a SJW without much insight or critical facility. laughing.
but, al gore is most certainly worthy of mention in the same breath as john kerry. birds of a feather, as it were.
john jay
toe-nail clippings and john kerry .....
i just finished a "death's mistress" fantasy novel by john goodkind. a bit tedious on the extended dialog and belly button contemplating in spots, but, overall, an engrossing read. and, ever since, all i have been able to think about is john kerry, and how preoccupied he must be worrying about ...
yacht:
i used to be a fan of the san francisco bay area bombers (living in n.e. oregon we were a little short on local roller derby) with charlie oconnor and jackie robinsons son, i cannot remeber his first name, and anis/annyss/anus big red jenson on the ladies scrum. i loved it when they went over the rail. laughing.
way better than professional wrestling, as far as hokum went. or, goes. whichever you prefer.
you may not realize it, but it is popular again w/ women, and they use flat track gymnasium floors to skate on. not the same as the curved elevated corner tracks of the old days. and, no rails to flop over and fall off of. not as much fun.
h.l. mccurchison (sic) put it best. money is like horse shit. you pile it up, it stinks. you spread it around, it makes things grow. gates, buffet, and others, having huge stinking piles of it. it stinks. they make some stuff grow, insofar as it generates them more income wealth, but, they do precious little of the spreading it around part. the only one of the boy billionaires i have much admiration of is elon musk ..... but, i am certain he will prove disappointing as soon as he discovers he is god. it will come to him soon enough, i suppose.
john jay
the natural consequence of the combination of wealth, influence and power ....
a previous post had, as a center piece, an article by lee smith which examined the tie between america's elites and the democratic party, a phenomena of recent development. it will not last long.-- persons like gates, bezos and zuckerberg being pretty long on smarts will have noticed something a...
sir:
thank you very much for your kind words, your visits to the blog, and your readership. it really does make everything worth the effort. very much so!!
john jay
an absolutely brilliant essay at the "geller report" re: america's elites partnering up w/ china, to the detriment of the rest of us .....
https://gellerreport.com/2021/02/the-deal-that-the-democrats-chose-to-make-with-china-has-a-precedent-in-the-history-of-athens-and-sparta.html/ the essay is by lee smith, tablet magazine, feb. 3, 2021. the essay very cogently and clearly sets forth how america's elites have partnered up with the...
paul:
i figured out the missing wife part. and, knowing the scots, i was not surprised by the pub part. laughing. a very practical people, the scots.
john
about wet and wool ..... and, cold .....
back in the day i was an enthusiastic elk hunter, if not a particularly successful one. i will not tell you about all the stupid things i did, but i will tell you about one of the things that i did right. and, that was to stay warm, .... , not always easy at 6,000 feet elevation in the centra...
hal
i would venture to say that you do not voice that concern around the news rooms of the new york times. :-) kind of mysterious, isnt it, that no legacy media type has noticed her absence. it seems to me an obvious thing to inquire about. but, then again, i dont usually walk around with my head up my ass like most journalists.
john
why is no one else in the whole wide world interested on whit about gina haspel, save for yours truly?
i have dubbed her "the rosetta stone" of the "steal." the c.i.a. played a major role in it, probably planning it via john brennan and haspel, and providing the skill and expertise in manipulating the voting machines to "manage" the vote and siphoning trump votes and giving them to biden. c.i...
rwt: ones principles cannot stand in the way of collecting ones pork. in their view, life goes on. it takes a while for the train wreck to reach the caboose. jjj
well, the dimmo's have commenced open war .... we counter with the narrow shoulders and wide hips of mitch mcconnell .... am i worried? ....
i have not declared open war just yet. i am hoping for a political miracle. (see mitch mcconnell's big butt comment in the headline.) but, the dimmo's have openly assaulted us, shot at and hit some of our congress people, have threatened a gulag of "re-education camps), reviled us, ridiculed u...
put simply, well said, and agreed.
well, the dimmo's have commenced open war .... we counter with the narrow shoulders and wide hips of mitch mcconnell .... am i worried? ....
i have not declared open war just yet. i am hoping for a political miracle. (see mitch mcconnell's big butt comment in the headline.) but, the dimmo's have openly assaulted us, shot at and hit some of our congress people, have threatened a gulag of "re-education camps), reviled us, ridiculed u...
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