Month: July 2023

Who Will Fight Joe Biden’s Wars?

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The Neo-Cons want to fight Russia and China.  Well, that’s a bold ambition.  The question I have is fight them with what?  Or should I say with whom?  Because despite all the gear and munitions we’ve handed over to the Ukraine I’m sure we could ratchet up domestic production of weapons and munitions if we decided we want to.  But I don’t think we have an army to use those weapons.

Recruiting doesn’t seem to be going well.  The demographic that the military has always depended on to fill their ranks has been declared the enemy.  Straight white men are white supremacists and not to be trusted or promoted in the ranks.  So, it looks like minorities, women and sexual deviants will have to take up the slack.

But will they?  I’m guessing they won’t.  And if war seems imminent, I think the shortfall will get much, much worse.  And that’s as it should be.  Fighting for your country is a duty.  But when you’ve been told it’s no longer your country then it goes without saying that you must step aside and let the new owners bear the burden and make Joe Biden proud.

And I think it’s important that the new country use its new flag.  I think the rainbow flag should be hoisted high over the ranks of the high heeled drag queen warriors.  Why, if the Russians and Chinese even hear that these fierce soldiers are going to be the tip of the spear, I doubt they even show up.  They’ll surrender unconditionally and allow the victorious army to sashay through downtown Moskow and Beijing to the marshal beat of that proud anthem, “It’s Raining Men.”

Seriously, I think Washington is hoping to get the Poles and Baltic nations to attack Russia for us.  The question is whether we’re willing to start chucking nukes when the Russians start using them on these NATO partners.  I can’t make up my mind.  But chances seem good I may find out.

As far as the Chinese, I don’t think it will get beyond a war of words.  I don’t believe the US navy still commands the respect that it used to.  The Chinese won’t even have to call our bluff.  Taiwan does not want to be drawn into a confrontation with China.  They want the status quo to go on for as long as it can.  And in fact, I believe that the Koreans and Japanese probably feel the same way.

But as I said, I think it’s extremely likely that Biden’s neo-con military and state department may manage to trigger World War III.  How exactly it starts; Ukraine or Kaliningrad or the Baltics or Poland is unclear.  But the options are all there and it doesn’t look like there’s anyone smart enough or sane enough to prevent it.

It’s sort of ironic that while madmen like Stalin and Mao were in charge of Russia and China guys like Eisenhower and Nixon were smart and sane enough to prevent the situation from boiling over into nuclear war.  But now fate has given us Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  I guess I should be able to see the humor in this.  And I guess I do.  But the laughter is a little like hysteria and the smile is more like a grimace.

Well, hail to the chief.  Go get them Joe and good luck, you’ll need it.

Guest Contributor – ArthurinCali – 21JUL2023 – California Sights

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Here is a photo I took on our last road trip to the coast around the Big Sur area. Anyone who gets an opportunity to travel the Pacific Coast Hwy (PCR) while in California should take full advantage of it. The views and landscape is stunning.

Also, Here is a photo of the main Hearst Castle swimming pool I took while taking the tour. Another site worth visiting.

 

 

21JUL2023 – OCF Update

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Once again I will be uprooted from my cushy lair and hurled into the outer void.  I must travel and unravel my tangled skein of thought while keeping track of time, space, and parking meters.  I will return sometime today after many frustrating and mind-deadening minutes of forced waiting.  I shall bring my new omnibus Shakespeare to while away the time.  The Bard will comfort me with his timeless prose and poetry;

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
See you soon.
photog, the idiot.

PublicSq Now Listed on the NY Stock Exchange

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Public Square (PublicSq) today becomes a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).  Their business is providing a marketplace of companies that respect rather than denigrate traditional values.  According to their website they want to provide alternatives to woke companies in as many categories as they can find.

Looking at their “Swap” listings I see they highlight:

Buy Seven Weeks Coffee, Ditch Starbucks

Buy American Woman Beauty, Ditch Sephora

Buy Good Ranchers, Ditch Butcherbox

So, in each case for a well-known company that has a woke or progressive ideology they are providing an alternative company that in PublicSq’s judgement is not woke.

I am interested in PublicSq and their efforts.  I know very little about their methods and even less about their results.  I know that in the past some less than honest people have tried to jump on the social conservative bandwagon and the results were disappointing.  So, I’m trying to figure out if PublicSq is for real.  But the fact that they were able to get listed on the NYSE is at least an indication that they aren’t a complete fly-by-night outfit.

If nothing else I think I’ll join the site and maybe list myself as a business and see what comes of it.  I’m curious if there is a high foot traffic associated with the buzz coming from their listing on the NYSE.  Between this and what’s going on with Tucker Carlson trying to form his own media company there is at least some hopeful signs that non-woke life still exists in corporate America.

Who knows maybe I’ll soon be touting the miraculous emergence of a right-wing business phoenix rising out of the ashes of old America.  In that case, as an emerging titan of industry I’ll immediately move to crush my woke foes with ruthless speed.  Left-wing photography and fiction writing will be laid waste and “them that dies will be the lucky ones!”

But I digress.

I’ve never understood why no one has made a serious attempt to cater to the traditionist side of the market.  I guess they figured that losing the Left was a more dangerous risk than losing the Right.  After all the Left is the youth market and they’re the hip, with-it sector and worth more.  I think they’re wrong.  Most young people are poor.  The people on the Right work and have families.  They should have seen this reaction coming.  I only hope the people trying to capitalize on this trend are smart enough to do a good job.  I feel if it’s done correctly, it will have a major impact on the market place and that in turn could throw an enormous scare into the large corporations that have jumped on the woke bandwagon and at heart are fools and cowards.  A little idea of what could happen is on display with the Bud Light boycott.  If the Right ever learned to coordinate its action it could be a powerful force that corporations would fear to insult.