This ominous portent from California last week: Giant oarfish washed up on the beach. Second one since I-don’t-know-when.
“Beware the feafhoref and tremble in your homef when ferpentf of the deep emerge with their mouthf miffing.” Josephus Minimus
I was fairly certain this was written down somewhere. Maybe the Bible, or Nostradamas, or Mother Shipley, or some other trustworthy source. Turned out it was Josephus Minimus. Or would be Josephus Minimus once I post this.
Old Jules
Hi Readers:
I’ve got this box of US Archives microfilm of all the US Army Civil War correspondence for the Department of New Mexico and Arizona staring at me. Wasted a phone call to the Arizona State Archives, talked to a clerk who’d have her boss get back to me if they wanted them.
Microfilm of Yankee Army Civil War correspondence
No joy. I suppose I might yet find a university, or the NM or Texans might want them for their State Archives. It’s got the California Volunteers activities, and the Union perspectives on what all those Texas troops were doing raising hell up the Rio Grande. Nice description of how, when the last Texans had retreated to Fort Davis, left their wounded in the hospital there for the Union to treat when they arrived.
Apache got there between the exit of the Texans and the arrival of the Union troops. Slaughtered them all in their beds, mutilated the corpses.
We’re talking good stuff here. Somebody sure as hell ought to want it.
Maybe I can swing up by Ruidoso and blackmail the Mescalero with it.
Or maybe it’s time for all that stuff to go into the burn pile.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, History
Tagged apache, Civil War, culture, Events, fort davis, History, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, microfilm, Native Americans, New Mexico, society, sociology, us archives
Hi readers.
An email acquaintance who has a mining claim on Federal land in New Mexico sent out an anecdote to his email friends about an incident this weekend.
He headed out to his claim, bypassed a barricade, and began doing what he always does there. He was spang in the midst of doing it when he looked up and a guy in a USFS law enforcement uniform wearing mirror sunglasses was scowling down with his hands on his hips. “Come out of there. You are going to jail.”
He scrambled up onto the bank and stood face-to-face with the sneering mirror sunglasses. “This is a filed mining claim. My fees are all paid, everything’s legal here. I have a right to be here. What law do you think I’m breaking?”
Mirror sunglasses ran his fingers over his holster. “This is Federal land. You are trespassing. You’re either leaving or going to jail. “
“I’m armed too. Get your hand away from that holster and don’t even think about pointing a pistol at me unless you want to shoot me. I’m not doing anything illegal. You are. Get the hell out of here, or try handcuffing me and we’ll see what happens. It’s just you and me here. Do we want to go to war?”
Mirror sunglasses stepped back and assumed a gunfighter stance, the ghost of Billy the Kid in a USFS uniform. Then he must have considered what he was doing and come to his senses. “I can have backup out here in half-an-hour. If you’re still here you’ll be in a lot of trouble.”
He backed to his vehicle, glared again, and drove away.
The miner did some thinking on his own part and decided the price of a shootout with the Forces of Darkness wasn’t the lesser of evils in this situation. Loaded his gear and headed back to civilization, figuring he’d meet the US Cavalry on the road.
But he didn’t encounter anyone. He says he hasn’t decided whether to try it again next weekend.
Claude Dallas is evidently alive and well in the boondocks.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Government, Police
Tagged culture, environment, Events, government shutdown, Human Behavior, Law Enforcement, mining claims, New Mexico, philosophy, Police, politics, society, sociology
Good morning readers. Thanks for coming by for a read.
For reasons not fully understood two competing species of our space alien breeders are in a slugout over the mothballed NASA space shuttle launch site in Florida. Evidently they’re after a backup plan to get the hell out of Dodge in case human beings become restive about being selectively bred for food.
This, of course, is of no consequence to most of us because we’re loyal to the general concept and do everything we can to cooperate with their goals. We don’t know enough about the differences in the aliens to prefer one set over the other.
For that reason, the battle between the two species offers a rare opportunity to study and recognize subtle differences in appearance between the ones who prefer fat human meat in their diets, and those who enjoy the offspring of beefy football types joined with cheerleaders.
Notice the subtle differences.
These rare photos depict examples of the two species currently competing for the Get-the-hell-out-of-Dodge bolt hole NASA’s offering to lease.
As you can see, species #1 makes no attempt to disguise the fact hair doesn’t grow easily, whereas careful examination of species #2 at the hairline clearly shows the artificial surgical placement of entire scalp. The eyes and lips are a dead giveaway to allow us to recognize the differences, as well.
But pay particular attention to the ears of species #1. That ear was obviously taken from one of the food items after a certain amount of struggle, probably during the course of a meal. Meanwhile, species #2 has natural ears that only needed trimming to allow for adequate disguise as human ears.
For we menu items the issue of which species gets the Space Shuttle launchpad is probably of no consequence. But it does provide a means to better understand the sort of creatures we’ll end up providing sustenance for.
We are, after all, what we get eaten by.
Old Jules
Tagged culture, Events, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, NASA, philosophy, psychology, science, society, sociology, space program, space shuttle
That gorilla’s loaded to the gills with nose candy. It’s no mystery why that war’s lasted 50 years.
Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a read this morning.
I saw on Yahoo news yesterday there’s a gorilla war going on in Columbia. The what? President? Prime Minister? Dicktater? anyway the sadly weakened strong-man in Columbia was saying they needed help from Cuba or Venzu-whatchallit-wala to put an end to it.
Help from Cuba? Hell man, we can send General Arnold Swartzkopff some trucks and move Fort Hood Texas straight through Mexico be down to help them in a New York minute. While the government’s shut down.
Corner the market on addictive drugs worldwide quicker than you can tell about it. Have the rest of the world vomiting and trembling and begging us for something to snort or shoot that’s more satisfying than shooting Muslims.
Sure, there’s the shale oil probably in Mexico we’ll pick off on the way down there, but oil is so damned 20th Century. Cocaine’s where the future is.
Strike while the iron’s hot and Congress can claim they didn’t know because they were fretting about the budget.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Current Issues, Government
Tagged columbia, culture, drug war, economy, Events, History, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, philosophy, politics, society, sociology
My friend Chuck in Illinois read the previous previous post and emailed me this. Evidently there are other people out there among the citizenry who don’t trust the government and the two-part harmony being hummed by Democrats and Republicans in Washinton DC.
As the Corporation of the United States (D.C.) skates by on the verge of bankruptcy, military activity has been ramping up in FEMA Region III
FEMA and Military equipment [not related] (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)FEMA REGION III (DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) — Major U.S. military equipment movements have been documented over the last week. However, surprisingly enough, it appears the build-up could potentially be for use in domestic martial law rather than the looming conflict in Syria.
According to one report, 3 large military trucks driving in a secure convoy delivered thousands of signs to a few various military installations reading, “Martial Law in Effect”. It was said that the 3 trucks traveled only in an organized convoy even after making several stops at local military bases to offload. It was reported that one leery military employee questioned his superior about the signs and got a response back that the signs were for use in another country. The employee then asked why the signs were written in english.[1]
This all falls lockstep with major military vehicle and equipment movements spotted in Delaware on Monday.[2]
Some wonder if the recent activity somehow ties to the coming simulated cyber-attack drill which some believe will go live initiating martial law in America as a beta test. The drill is set to take place November 13-14, 2013. The NYTimes.comreported, “One goal of the drill, called GridEx II, is to explore how governments would react as the loss of the grid crippled the supply chain for everyday necessities.”[3] [4] Although it is unknown at this time what may truly happen, all of this comes at an opportune time.
The Heritage Foundation recently held a conference where Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council, spoke on the coming Russian crisis and how it will drastically affect America. Berman broke down his thoughts about what we will soon be looking at on a “world stage”. “Russia may appear strong now internationally, but internally it’s approaching a transformation […] every bit as earth-shattering as the collapse of the Soviet Union was some two decades ago.”[6] Berman went on to talk about sustainable population rates, explaining that countries need to main a population rate of at least 2.1 to sustain human growth. Russia falls at 1.6, meaning that by 2050 the “entire Russian Federation will shrink down to one-quarter.”
Sources:
[1] Thousands of MARTIAL LAW Signs Spotted By Truck Load In Illinois –YouTube.com
[2] Alert: Strange Activity in FEMA Region 3 – YouTube.com
[3] As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow –NYTimes.com
[4] GridEx II / GridSecCon Update, Grid Security Exercise / Grid Security Conference 2013 – SPP.org
[5] Region III: DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV – FEMA.gov
[6] Implosion: The End of Russia and What It Means for America
Tagged culture, economy, Events, government, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, politics, psychology, society, sociology
Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a read. Apologies in advance to those of you who never saw or read Deliverance.
One of the problems that comes from ten generations of intermarried first cousins running the country is they all begin to think it’s about Dueling Banjos. They start believing it’s perfectly natural Bobby’s over there squealing like a pig. Nobody wants to rock the canoe.
But at the moment the reason Bobby’s over there in the White House squealing like a pig is that Saudi Arabia and their cousins in Israel are pressuring the hell out of him to bomb their other cousins in Syria. Same as they’re doing over there in Congress where they understand all about squealing like pigs for the White House, Israel, Saudi Arabia, anyone with the money to buy a quickie.
It’s all become a habit. Nobody 75 years ago would have dreamed there’d come a time when the President of the US could believe he could bomb the bejesus out of anyone he wanted to anytime he wanted to without anyone raising an eyebrow. Nobody would have believed US Presidents could take the country into a series of endless wars without consulting Congress. Nobody would have believed any president could believe he could do it and get by with it.
But that all changed with a lot of other things. And now we’ve got a guy in the White House hysterical because he wants to give a war and nobody’s willing to come. Standing on one leg, then the other saying he’s going to get permission from Congress, then saying he doesn’t have to. Saying he’s the only one needs to pick the tune for all of us.
And all those hydrocephalic banjo players over in Congress listening to Israel lobbyists handing them nice stuff under the table, Saudi Arabian lobbyists giving them free trips to Tahiti and porn stars in their hotel rooms to help them remember where their loyalty belongs.
Meanwhile, the world’s died laughing and decided they’ve had enough of US Presidents and their big-headed advisors telling them who needs the bejesus bombed out of them. Which puts Bobby into a hell of a fix.
Bobby knows if he doesn’t do what Israel and Saudi Arabia tell him to do, he’s got a Vice President who will. He knows he can be LBJed same as Kennedy was. LBJed and J. Edgar Hoovered by one of the packs of goons and snipers he’s helped put into place on all the rooftops. He never figured he’d be the one in the crosshairs he helped create.
It’s no wonder he’s squealing like a pig.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Government, History, Military, Police, Politics
Tagged Congress, Deliverance, Dueling Banjos, Events, History, Human Behavior, musings, Obama, politics, random, Reflections, Saudi Arabia, Syria
Hi readers. Thanks for coming by.
My friend Rich explained on the phone last night that this guy in the White House had his heart set on embarking on a new military adventure. Wants to bomb the bejesus out of Syria, of all places. Sounds as though he wants to take a page out of the Bush book and use the second-cousin of WMD to justify it.
But at least the Brits have some questions in their minds left over from the last time they believed a lying US president and got themselves into a stewpot. Plus, no doubt the ‘What’s in if for me?‘ part of the equation didn’t work out.
Evidently Israel, who probably provided the chemical weapons to the party who used them, and the French are just about the only people in the world with any enthusiasm forselective humanitarianism.
The Chinese say, “Hey, let’s have a closer look at all this crap and find out whether anyone’s telling the truth about any part of it before we jump in chasing imaginary WMDs.” Likely the Chinese are well aware of the propensity of US presidents for stretching the truth and trotting off into military interventions, false flag terrorism, and just lying for the sake of lying. And no doubt they’ve got a fair idea who is hiding next door blowing into the coals of “Let’s you and him fight.” Probably figuring they might be able to come out of it with a few inadvertent more miles of territory belonging to someone else.
Sheeze. Sounds as though for once a presidential war might be avoided, and that the Brits might be a crucial part of the reason.
Wonders never cease. Maybe if everyone but the French can keep their testosteronies under control, and if the Israeli Security people can’t find an Archduke Ferdinand to off, WWI can be prevented this time around.
Old Jules
Tags: Syria, Israel, presidential war, US government, britain, france, WMD, Bush, false flag, chemical weapons, humanitarian
Posted in 2013, America, Government, History, Politics, US Army
Tagged China, Chinese, Events, French, Great Britain, Human Behavior, military, miscellaneous, musings, politics, society, Syria, thoughts
An open letter to President Wossname, the guy in the White House
Backward South American countries gave right-wing death squads a bad name during the last half of the 20th Century. Naturally nobody wanted to be identified with anything backward Mexicans in Chile or Argentina did, so for a while the United States People In Power tried to find lower profile alternatives to accomplish the same goals.
But the truth is that throwing the baby out with the bathwater just narrows the options more than is required.
Henry Ford, the US mining industry, the US lumber industry, and during the Vietnam War, the US government all used right-wing death squads for the greater good of all. The industries would have had a lot more difficulties busting the unions if it hadn’t been for right-wing death squads. The US government couldn’t have killed off all the Black Panthers without them. The Vietnam War protests would have gone on and on ad infinitum if the Ohio National Guard’s right-wing death squad hadn’t opened up on those students at Ohio State and showed them what-for.
Bill Clinton and Janet Reno ran up a trial balloon at Waco, then again at Ruby Ridge in an attempt to restore the usefulness of right-wing death squads, clean up the image. But for reasons not fully understood, the practice was then dropped.
Hopefully this guy in there now will examine the benefits the US has reaped in the past through the use of right-wing death squads and see it’s time to bring it back for the greater good of all.
Right wing death squads aren’t a solution to every problem, as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno demonstrated. But that only means they didn’t use the right tool for the right job.
Right-wing death squads worked admirably for Henry Ford and the mining and lumber industries. They worked great in South America, despite the bad press. And history proves they can work well again in the United States if properly applied.
Yours truly,
Old Jules
Posted in Adventure
Tagged Argentina, Bill Clinton, Black Panthers, Chile, death squads, Events, Henry Ford, History, Human Behavior, humor, Janet Reno, Kent State, Mexicans, miscellaneous, musings, other, politics, random, society, South America, thoughts, United States, Vietnam War
Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a read.
Back before 9/11 the airline flights over the US almost always had a few terrorists aboard. You’d see them hanging around DFW or Atlanta, or LAX wandering around the boarding areas looking hopefully at the other passengers. A couple of typical Turks, or Iranians, or Arabs, or Israelis, or Northern Irishmen. Just wandering around watching people in hopes some of their fellow passengers would be worth killing, or even getting themselves into trouble, wasting a bomb on.
Aside from an occasional hijacking they mostly never did anything. Fact was, the people sharing their flights were just a bunch of bureaucrats, bleating women, corporate zombies, and people going somewhere to meet people of the opposite sex they’d become acquainted with on the Internet. Just typical Americans. Worthless as hell, and certainly not worth the life of a highly trained terrorist.
But when 9/11 came along it made all those non-terrorist passengers feel a lot better about themselves. Nothing changed with the terrorists, but the typical Americans were generally elevated by the whole thing. Suddenly it seemed to them that someone thought they were worth killing.
Turned out it was such an uplifting experience for them the government decided they liked having all the spinoff benefits …. trotted out a lot of airport security, Homeland Security, 87 new layers of cops and surveillance, and legions of new guys wearing berets carrying machine guns to go off places terrorists came from and blow away anyone who might think Americans were worth killing.
Worked out fairly well, all in all. Win-win-win. Only downside is that so many of the Americans who use to be not be worth killing decided it might be better not to get on airplanes if they could avoid it. Those people over there where terrorists come from might begin to be pissed off, eventually. Might start killing some people who aren’t over in those countries they come from and aren’t just wearing berets, battle dress uniforms, and dropping grenades into the market places full of women and kids.
Going back to not being worth killing might be nice. But you can’t get there from here, I reckons.
Old Jules
Posted in 2013, America, Current Issues, Government, Human Behavior, Military, Police, Politics, US Army
Tagged culture, Events, government, History, Human Behavior, humor, Life, lifestyle, politics, psychology, society, sociology, terrorism, terrorists
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