Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Veteran suicide

As a combat veteran, well and truly shot at a fair amount in the unfriendly skies of the Vietnam war, I am amazed at the non-veteran, catch-all campaign against veteran suicide.

Please consider this ONE salient point here: The vast majority of combat veterans are NOT afraid of death. Their training removed that worry, and successful combat operations reinforced it. In fact, dying heroically has been glorified in all military structures since the beginning of organized warfare. Dying in combat IS the ultimate expression of a soldier's duty performed. Why then, are these non-combat REMFs (look that slang up) so insistent that a veteran CHOOSING death over life are so puzzled by veterans who make that ultimate choice?

My last blog-post, maybe...

Patriots can ignore this post, it's meant for Liberals.

 

One day soon, well before this Nation gets into the lazy, hazy days of summer, every adult in the country will be forced by circumstances mostly NOT under their control to make a stark choice: when the shooting starts for the now-inevitable Civil War, which side will you join up to fight for?

 

Sitting it out will NOT be an option. The fighting will be nasty, CV-19 will be a walk in the park by comparison.

 

YOU.WILL.HAVE.TO.CHOOSE!

 

First of all, you will have to feed yourself and your loved ones. This will be a logistical war. Think the TP shortage, only all the FOOD will be gone, not just paper products and hand sanitizer. After the first week of war, there will be no more food, then the combatants will begin killing each other for food supplies.

 

Regardless of your political persuasion, you'd better make some war-buddy alliances. Start a Militia if you have the leadership skills to run it. If not, find one and JOIN it, following ORDERS of your leaders. Those orders WILL involve you risking your life on a frequent basis to accomplish the missions of that Militia.

 

Liberals, in case you still believe that your political leaders wouldn't START a Civil War, you're wrong. They already HAVE started it. All large-scale wars start on economic bases, and the Democratic Party decided to destroy this Nation's economy to serve their end of destroying the Nation's President, Mr. Trump.

 

Such a broad-scale plan of national treachery can't be called anything but war. Most of the large-scale wars of the past two centuries started with a lot less provocation than #PlanDemic.

 

The Left outnumbers the Right in total people available to fight, but the Right has the Force Multiplier: millions of experienced military veterans, most of them well-armed. They will count coup at least five-to-one over the Left.

 

The Left is doomed to lose this war, mostly because their only potential ally which could make a difference, China, is 6500 miles away, and lacks the ability to project their large army over that distance in the face of our Navy and Air Force.

 

No, the Left will have to slug it out in the cities, and the Right will control the logistical infrastructure, and will simply starve the Left out. The Right will let the Left have the Cities, with their starvation and disease. CV-19 Version 2, will kill far more of the Left's forces off than the well-aimed bullets from the Right's rifles.

 

The only controversial thing about this post is that this future should have been obvious to the Left for the last 3 years, but they just kept making sharper Left turns, and now have succeeded in creating the perfect Loxodromic Curve, in which they've flown up their own butts.

 

Can this war be forestalled? Possibly, but the Left's leaders, worldwide, would have to, in the next week or so, admit that they've warred on Trump and his 63 million voters, totally fold up the #scamdemic, and offer reparations to repair the damage caused so far. Political momentum says that won't happen, so now the world WILL experience World War Three and degenerate into smaller nation-states, NONE of which will be the Socialist Utopias the Left was trying for.

 

Most will be city-states run by warlords. Global commerce won't recover for at least a century. Your cell phone won't work after July. It will be a beans and bullets barter system in what's left of the USA.

 

You won't want to live here anymore, Liberals, but the rest of the planet will be worse off.

 

You made your bed, now lie in it, Liberals.

 

If any Patriots got this far in my post, remember, save one bullet for yourself. The Warrior's Code says we have that right.

 

May God have mercy on our Souls.

 

Post-script: Hard copy available in case the Left can't stand to face the future they brought and shuts my account down. If you want one, most know where to find me, for the next two weeks anyway, after which it won't matter who is writing History, will it?

The "New" World Order and why it must die

A somber subject to be sure.

Eighty years ago, most of the world went to war with National Socialists. The National Socialists, aka "Fascists", declared their "1,000-year Reich", a World Order, and were then totally defeated.

 

The victorious Nations got together, formed the United Nations, declared that National Socialism would never again besmirch the world, but the collegial diplomats did NOTHING to protect their planet.

 

Today, we have the "New" World Order, a shadowy group very much dedicated to achieving the same goals of Socialism that were defeated 74 years ago and were outlawed by those United Nations 70 years ago.

 

In the meanwhile, the United Nations has now become the biggest enabler of National Socialism, which masquerades as other things, but on it's face, real socialism can't hide it's face, even when it tries hard to do that.

 

We're about to have another war to defeat Socialism right here in this USA, and the "New" World Order will see to it that the war is again, a World War.

 

My father fought in WW2, won that VICTORY, and passed the ensuing Mantle of Peace down to me. I did MY military duty and protected it, as best as I could, and the Oaths I swore are as sacred as the Oaths my father swore before me and my Daughter swore after me.

 

Every day, in many ways, the "New" World Order of Socialism tries to blunt my Oath, and I will eventually have to take up arms again to make good on that Oath.

 

The "New" World Order has an objective: after destroying the world as we now know it, rebuild a nation-less global society, no borders, no ethnic differences, total fealty to the Order and it's leaders. There are over 6.5 billion people on this planet now, and the "New" World Order has decided that all but a billion of them are surplus, and famines and war is the best way to reduce the populations to their target level. Oh, abortion, also.

 

Maybe 30-50 people sit in the top rank of the "New" World Order, and at their behest, five and a half billion people must die, if their goal is to be met.

 

Unless that 30-50 people in the "New" World Order top rank dies first, the depopulation of the planet will happen.

 

YOU face a choice of whose side to take in this conflict.

 

I'm already sworn as to which side I will take.

 

Yes, the choice has come down to this.

Infringements

...by the bushel!

Time to reiterate the idea that WE the People have the ABSOLUTE AND NATURAL RIGHT to Keep and Bear Arms via our Second Amendment to our Constitution, and that 2A ends in the words, "shall not be infringed".

Infringements Equal Tyranny, and Tyranny is why we have the Second amendment in the first place, so it's ALMOST time to use it and ORDER the Infringers to desist upon pain of being REMOVED, by use of the 2A and Militia.

That said, there are some preps we have to make first:

1. Practice, practice, practice. You need to be able to HIT what you aim at, and if you can't guarantee that, Practice until you CAN!
2. Get in shape. Militia duty will be mostly out-of-doors, in whatever weather presents itself. You will have to be able to move around and still fight.
3. Prepare your gear. When you report for your Militia Muster, you should be prepared to fight and live on the move, in the outdoors. Get that Gear if you don't have it now.
4. THINK about Militia. If you are ex-military, it's structure will be familiar, if not, talk to a veteran, preferably Army or Marine, about Small Unit warfare.
5. Maintain your awareness level of events. In my case, gun-grabbing laws are in the Legislature's hopper, so I am preparing to DISPERSE my weapons and ammo.
6. Political discussion is NOT your friend. It takes too much time and distracts you from gathering militarily-useful information which your Militia unit will need.
7. Start to consider that any and ALL State and Local armed forces will be your ENEMIES, not your friends when your Militia Unit musters. Eventually some policing agencies might tolerate Militia as allies, but from the get-go, they will NOT.
8. Militia Service might last for a few hours, or it could go on for years. changing the direction of tyrannical Government might happen overnight, or it might devolve into bloody Civil War, we won't know until those tyrants have to face the fact that they have ARMED opposition.

Get Ready, we are almost at the Point of No Return, the point beyond which we may NOT tolerate any further Tyranny. 

Thugball takes the Field AND the Court.

Racial Divide in the USA? Maybe.

Racial Divide in Professional Sports? Guaranteed

• In the NBA, 74.4% of the players are black.
• In the NFL, 70% are black. (Stat is in the title, disregard the HuffPo article, it's racist).
• Commissioner of the NFL says that the "Take a Knee" (cute-speak for Disrespect our National Flag and all it Stands for) is encouraged as an expression of "Free Speech".
• That's not how/why Colin Kaepernick started this movement. He started it as a Statement of Black Racism. His ladyfriend is a Marxist who started Black Lives Matter.
• When Stephan Curry, an NBA star player, said that he would carry this racist message to the White House because he was a member of the championship team that is traditionally invited, the President ordered that the invitation of his team be rescinded. The President was and is fighting Racism.

Here's the nub of it: Just because you are in a racial minority, you don't get a pass when you act racist. The Black Lives Matter Movement is racist and was founded to be racist as an adjunct of world Marxist revolution. Take that to the bank, I have.

I have fought Marxism, both here with this pen and in 'Nam from a B-52. Not about to let them win now....

Cue the Lee Greenwood. "Stand Up"!

Ask for the Style Book

Most news media use a code of rules known as a "Style Book". This code tells them how to write, what to include in an article and what to leave out of it. The problem is, very few of these "Style Books" have ever been published, in fact, the only one I've heard of is the one for the New York Times (no link to the Enemy).

I think I've caught my local fishwrap, the Oregonian, in a Style-Book violation in this article. The article, referring to a Left vs. Right protest scheduled this weekend, allows the Black Bloc (their chosen name before they started taking Soros Bucks) to call itself "Antifa", and then amplifies on that by letting them say that they are anti-fascist. This is a classic  propaganda trick to label the entire Right with a historically-hateful name.

Numerous articles (here is just one of many) have pointed out that "Antifa" is actually closer politically to Fascism than those who march under the US Flag, but you will NOT find that in the Oregonian article. On the other hand, you find that Patriot Prayer USA, the oppo in this protest, is referred to without the "USA" attached, but their Facebook site specifically refers to them WITH the USA attached. The editing of Patriot Prayer USA's name, while allowing Antifa not only to use THEIRS,  but to give THEIR definition of it, is nothing less than editorializing on the Front Page, a deceptive practice.

I wrote the Editors and demanded to see their Style Book:

Editors:

Have you ever published your Style Book? I am curious to see if it actually allows a Leftist faction unchallenged use of their adopted sobriquet, but not a faction from the Right. I refer to Saturday's article on changing strategies of protesters. The Black Bloc is referred to by "Antifa", but the other side, which would use some variation of "America" in their name, is not allowed to. When you do this, you have abandoned objective reportage in favor of editorializing, your privilege, but not on the front page.

Publish the Style Book please. If you refuse, we may be assured that you have violated it's rules.

I give myself a 35% chance of having the paper publish this letter.

I give the paper a zero chance of publishing their Style Book.

Tyrants never admit their errors.

Transgender dysphoria in the US military.

Dysphoria definition from the dictionary.

Part of the deliberate effort to suppress American Nationalism during the Obama years was the neutering of the US military as a moral AND a power-projection institution. I am a military veteran (a retiree, actually), and my military service harks from the days when the military would never have even considered putting transgender people into it's uniforms. To show readers what current military WORKING leaders think, here is an NCO acquaintance of mine. 

The issue is straightforward (pun intended). The mission of the military involves killing people, following orders to kill people, and making plans to kill people and destroy property. The military USED to correctly believe that such a stark departure from the usual pre-enlistment up-bringing of it's members meant that it had to reject most psychological abnormalities it found during pre-enlistment testing. It's obvious: when the military is going to make kill-on-command the prominent concept of it's training, psychological barriers to that training such as gender dysphoria can't get in the way. Those are fatal flaws in the enlistment selection process, and up until Obama became Commander-In-Chief, those fatal flaws kept people who suffered from gender dysphoria out of the military. Under Obama, those afflicted people were ENCOURAGED to enlist, and now the US military has over 15,000 of them serving in Active and Reserve components. That's 1 percent of the 1.5 million serving actively, with another .8 million or so in the Reserves. That math shows that the gender-dysphorics constitute only two-thirds of one percent of the total force, so no big deal, right?

Wrong.

When it's considered that large amounts of administrative time has to be dedicated to supporting these dysphorics, new rules for handling them, etc, plus their impact on the forces FAR outweigh their total numbers. By intent, the military is a homogeneous group activity. The simple reason for that is that it's far less complex to control a homogeneous force than a force with disparate mental states. In fact, homogeneity is an absolute MUST-HAVE concept for the military. Maybe disparate mental states give the society at large a better chance at mental health, maybe not, but the military has no time for such debates when the bullets are flying, hopefully our bullets toward the enemies we want to kill.

Now comes a Service Commander, the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, telling the world that he intends to ignore his Commander-In-Chief's directive that the US military services will not use gender-dysphorics any longer. Good-bye, Admiral, have a nice retirement. I hope that this starts an Exodus of all the "Obama Generals" (and Admirals) from the services. A better, stronger US military will result.

Six Little Words

Happy Independence Day. #241 if my math is any good.

I got up this morning, dressed and took out my Flag, covered my head and proceeded outdoors to put up Old Glory at 0700 local time. I mounted my wobbly old metal step-ladder, even more wobbly now than I remember it being when I bought it 30 years ago, and hung the Flag on it's two hooks mounted to the soffit of the front porch. I dismounted the ladder, folded it and leaned it up against a porch pillar. I descended the front steps to the level ground, came to Attention, did About Face and Presented Arms (unarmed, it was a Hand Salute).

I held my salute, mentally reflecting on the image of the Colors and my military life so far*.

Six words rang in my consciousness like a bugle's call: "They Died to Make us Free" I noted those words, they would be my Words of Today. As I dismissed myself from Attention and moved around the back of the house to do some outdoor chores (soaking the lawn so falling illegal fireworks won't start a grass-fire), I kept thinking of my Words of Today.

"They Died to Make us Free"

A great wave of sadness rolled over my Spirit. I knew then, exactly knew, to whom I should explain the significance of those words - my grandson. Problem is, I have no contact with my grandson, an edict of his mother, who, for some reason** has with-held my right of visiting my grandchildren.

Somehow, I need to express the Six Little Words to my grandson, but I will have to do it posthumously. I am re-writing my will, and will make a Conditional Trust for my grandson. The primary condition of that Trust will be that his mother and father bring him before my my attorney, who will read him a letter from me.

The subject of that letter will be the significance of the Six Little Words.

Money can be used in a lot of different ways, eh?

 

Trump the Healer?

I hope not. Here it is, two days before the Inauguration, and we all know, because Mr. Trump told us, that he has already written his speech. I wouldn't have done that. I would have waited until today, so I could more effectively answer Barack O'Blowhard's smarmy "final presser".

No matter. POTUS45 will say what he is going to say. I put together a little list, in no particular order, of what I hope he DOESN'T say.

Mr. Trump, Rule #1 says "keep your base together". You don't do that with concessions. Here is what I don't want to see:

• No talk of "Healing", please. In the fighting biz, and I fought in the 'Nam and in the Cold War for 22 years in the Air Force, then put in 25 years fighting crime and crooks on the mean streets/rivers with the Multnomah County Sheriff as a Patrol Deputy, you don't offer "healing" until the conflict is concluded. Period. Full Stop. The oppo gets to deal with our best conflict styles until the oppo decides that they don't want to conflict any more. THEN, and only then, do we talk Conflict Resolution. The democraps are still in full-blown conflict mode, hell, a significant number of them are even refusing to attend the Inauguration, and many of them are spouting the idiotarian "he's not MY President". Here's a clue, ass-nuggets, the Hillaroid wouldn't have been your President, either. Nope, no "healing" with the Democrats until they grow up. What would indicate that they want to grow up? For starters, the Party could dump the Hard Left. Plenty of room for the Hard Left with the Commies and/or Socialists/Greens. Yep, dump that faction right out of the Party and start over with Americans, many of whom voted for DJT this year. Yes, those Blue-collar Unionists, who SHOULD be a part of this Great America, because they are going to re-build it, partly for Mr. Trump, but mostly for all of us.
• No Accommodation with Islam. No "Healing" words there, either. Yes, there ARE Imams and Mosques who/which practice the actual RELIGION of Islam, which has it's flaws, (and so does mine), but as of now, those Imams/Mosques refuse to stand up to the small minority of radicals amongst them, so yes, that IS a "Poisonous Tree". Refusing to "Heal" this rift means absolutely excluding any more refugees from Islamic nations until a full vetting dossier can be established on each and every one. It will be expensive, but we must also go back and "vet" every Muslim refugee Obama had admitted in his attempt to give radical Islam cover in this country. A simple hot-line with a "turn them all in, Mr. and Mrs. America" will work for identifying the Obama Hijrah infiltrators.
• No Accommodation for "Sanctuary Cities" (and Counties and States). Withdraw as much Federal Funding from cities refusing to accommodate ALL Federal law, including Immigration, as the Courts will allow. Sound the Deguello on these Leftist enclaves, and that will help with both the illegal immigration issue AND the Obama Hijrah.
• No Accommodation with Marxists at all. Forget the radical professors of Academia, the Black Thugs Matter, Radical Envirowhackos, even the Congressional Black Caucus, which is more about Marx than Equality these days. Just let the fools drool and babble in their beards, ride their bikes naked and pub-crawl in baby-sleepers.

No, Mr. Trump, first you establish your strength, and when you have proven that strength to Make America Great Again, then you can think about healing some rifts. Until then, those rifts are tearing the Left apart, not our #MAGA coalition, so let the rifts continue.

Islamic Terrorism & how to fight it

Note: that title can NOT mean "Islamic Terrorism and how to END it", because until and unless the entire Qu'ran is re-written to exclude it's main inclusionary theme of "convert or die", defeating Islamic Terrorism is not possible if ONE true believer is left alive with freedom to move around. The best we non-islamics can do is corner the Islamist killers in far-away places, applying continual and heavy enough force to keep them cornered.

The Paris attacks of 11-13-2015 are significant, because many citizens in many free nations will now realize the serious difficulty of keeping their citizens safe.

This question must be answered: What does it take to convince the leaders, parliaments, congresses and judiciaries of these free nations to put their War Faces on and effectively fight Islamism in toto?

Your blogger has had plenty of military leadership training, including (enlisted) Basic Leadership School, advanced leadership courses such as Train the Trainer, etc; (Commissioned officer) Officer Training School, Squadron Officer School (didn't finish it, skipped to Air Command & Staff College instead, per regulation). All these schools prepared me the same way, to manage conflict and lead people in conflict with a goal of winning the conflict. I received many more months of training in conflict management as a Deputy Sheriff; about 9 months' worth of formal training including 9 graduate hours of Abnormal Psych courses.

So much for me. I can lead, but I'm a bit too old to take the field, except in a gross emergency, but perhaps not all my readers have my handicaps, so here's what THIS Major thinks will work and what won't work, in short-format:

• Works: First, Identify the Enemy. People, you MUST know who you are fighting. Simple concept, yes? Simple enough, but our President REFUSES to utter the words "Islamic Terrorist". Since elected, he has "talked around" the issue of enemy identification. His obfuscation here has hurt our cause by diluting our efforts in the eyes of the Islamic world.
• Works: Partner with all prospective allies, and engage THEM as well as yourself. We have done a poor job here as well. WE are the "spine" of NATO, and NATO has paid lip-service only to the idea of fighting Islamism. Russia could be a great partner, but we have maneuvered them into the position of enemy instead - a huge mistake.
• Works: Show your Flag. Flags have one purpose, to raise emotions for a cause. This Cause is perhaps the most important that all of Civilized Earth has ever faced, and the cause itself deserves a flag, but figuratively, our leadership has prohibited flag-making.
• Works: Armor up. This is a basic, grunt-level war. Where is the USA's vaunted wartime production? There isn't any. Where is the large Army which will be needed? Our leaders are shrinking it, not building it up. Where is the military Intelligence apparatus required for this fight? Mostly missing, and what is there is riddled with spies for Islam.

What needs re-working? Here, we might do better by simply taking the brightest 10% of Second Lieutenants with fresh "butter-bars" and give them the job of re-working our military mission against Radical Islam. They WILL do a better job than all the PeeCee Generals we have running the show right now.

• Fails: We support the Enemy. Our current Foreign Policy supports Islamic nations, including most of the nations which bring this Jihad, this "Holy War", to the shores of our free Nations.
• Fails: We have NOT partnered with all our prospective allies, and those we HAVE partnered with cannot abide our present leadership and it's failures in this war.
• Fails: We don't HAVE a flag. We have Leaders who don't even show proper respect for our National Flag, let alone any possible anti-Islamist flags.
• Fails: We have relegated our Military to idiotic roles in this "fight". Senator Cruz said that we are only flying 20 to 30 air missions per day against ISIS, where we used 1,100 per day against Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. What Cruz DIDN'T say was that 80% of the missions we DO fly are coming back with the bombs still on the wings because of insane Rules of Engagement, so we may actualy be dropping bombs from less than 5 aircraft per day. Russia, on the other hand, is flying DOZENS of missions per day, and all their aircraft come back in condition Winchester*.

This advice Ain't No Big Thing, as the troops used to say in MY war, Vietnam. No big thing, very elemental, but until we begin to respect the knowledge and leadership which starts with Corporals and Second Lieutenants, we will continue to LOSE this war. Losing is not an option if we are to remain Free Nations. The price of losing is that we will LOSE OUR FREEDOM.

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*Condition Winchester. USAF fighter-pilot slang for "out of ammo".