Random Ruminations Amid War Drums and Wicked Weather While Working for Wages

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

It’s been a long year. First, we narrowly avoided World War 3. At least for now.  And, currently, we are approaching peak bullshit in the arena of American politics; as if that were even possible.

War and political bullshit: Both means of blowing smoke up our collective asses prior to author George Orwell’s dystopic vision of jackboots stomping on human faces forever. Because, either the long slow collapse will usher in an era of decentralization – which would follow a period of immediate anarchy; or, a nightmare age of global centralization that may be about to commence.

Obviously, the billionaire class and their employees in human resources departments around the globe prefer centralized control – as do the Orwellian media and government apparatchiks.  And in the Hegelian view of those peering behind the eye at the top of the pyramid, chaos brings order. But no matter what happens in the end, many people will definitely die before the new cashless age begins.

Until then fiat still has its benefits and perhaps it will for some time; even as this blogger more and more favors barter.  I’m somewhat comfortable from an asset standpoint, but having gone Galt in 2011 with no pension and being too young to draw social security, I am often cash poor personally – especially getting pups through college debt free, taking risks, occasional business setbacks, and unexpected brush fires.

Obviously, I miscalculated the timing of the nation’s fatal convulsions. Looking back, perhaps the Beginning of the Beginning of The End occurred on September 11, 2001; with the Middle of the Beginning of The End occurring around the time of the subprime crash and TARP followed by the passage of Obamacare. But my error was in believing the End of the Beginning of The End was occurring around the time of Benghazi, Edward Snowden, and Obama’s red line in Syria.

I really thought 2016 would be the last U.S. election and, obviously, I was wrong on that too.

Realizing what I now know, I might have made different business and investing decisions. But, as they say, hindsight is 2020. Literally.

But… no regrets; even amidst the long slow collapse, the Orwellian lies, and rumors of war. Because years early is better than seconds too late.  I’ve actually been grateful for the delay.

At the same time, though, I’m always looking at ways to generate monthly income, especially income that might be able to sustain itself for as long as possible amidst the ongoing decline and the forthcoming apocalypse. With that goal in mind, I added the required endorsements to my CDL last year and became a substitute school bus driver. I knew some retired guys at the bus barn and they said they needed help.  No problem, except this year, so far, it’s turned into a 20+ hour a week regular gig – in addition to all of my regular daily commitments.

So this year has seen me up early and to bed late and I would not have it any different; except for having some more time to write. It is what is.

And, every day, I steer between the lanes of open-mindedness and skepticism, optimism and realism, hope and nihilism.

As many readers know, in the fall of 2016 I started my blog as a tiny ongoing middle-finger flip to the (what I perceived then to be the certain) eventuality of President Hillary and her criminal cabal. I did so after being inspired by the courage of the writers throughout the free blogosphere. In retrospect, I was glad that Trump won and I’m proud of everything I’ve written before and since; even while understanding my meager contributions have made zero difference in the ongoing tide of events.

When I sat down to type this piece, I had all my links, notes, and outline to write a scathing article on seven (7) things that have become completely obvious since Trump’s election in 2016.

But that is not where my heart is currently.  Instead, I just have some random thoughts and observations that I’ll place here for the remnant:

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The Orwellian Surveillance Ship of State sails unencumbered with Trump at the helm. The swamp has not been drained. The only indictments have been process crimes against Team Trump while Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Rice, Lynch, Bill & Hill, et al, continue their talk show circuits and book tours.

Will justice come this year via Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham?  Maybe not.

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The criminal cabal has been in control for longer than most people realize. In an article written last year entitled “On Channel Surfing, Circus Acts, and Time Passages”, this blogger pointed out the following regarding an unseen inner circle of power:  What Abraham Lincoln foresaw, worried Woodrow Wilson, of which Dwight Eisenhower warned, that killed John F. Kennedy.

That, my friends, is an undeniable trend. And what has changed in the near six-decades since – except more power consolidation, false flags, and the construction of a global panopticon?

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The Q-anon phenomena could be a unique way to knit together a movement – or – an effective digital means to smoke out opposition; even at levels beyond the comprehension of those currently occupying powerful positions around the globe.

And it’s difficult to debate both those who trust Q and those who don’t – because some will believe and some won’t. In that respect, Q-anon is like Trump and I, personally, find that interesting in and of itself. Like Batman and Robin, Scully and Mulder, Holmes and Watson, Starsky and Hutch – they’re like a package deal; but, hopefully, real.

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In October of 2019, European businessman, Lev Parnas, who claimed to have “explosive information about corruption involving Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden”, was arrested at Dulles airport on “campaign finance violations.”

And, now, just three months later, Parnas is dropping impeachment bombshells on Trump.

What happened?

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Now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is about to preside over President Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.

In past articles, such as “Ten Ways the Democratic Northern Hemisphere Nations Became the Orwellian West”, I’ve questioned what made Justice Roberts change his vote on Obamacare and speculated it had to do with Senator Chuck Schumer’s statement during an MSNBC interview on January 3rd, 2017:

Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.

Then, last week, while filling in for Rush Limbaugh, radio host Mark Belling said someone “as close to the Supreme Court without actually being on the Supreme Court” told him on the night before the Chief Justice unilaterally changed the Obamacare mandate to a tax, that “they got to” Roberts.

It seems obvious now, doesn’t it?  Especially in the Trump era. What once was akin to viewing the effects of gravity’s tug on visible planets from unseen stars in outer space, are now daily face slaps by stringed-puppets like Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and Rachel Maddow.

Still, though, I do sometimes wonder who “they” really are.

Perhaps they have so much power they could get to the world’s most famous imprisoned pedophile? You know, the one who didn’t kill himself.

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Somehow Virginia Governor Ralph Northam survived his blackface scandal. Which, in the politically correct age of MeToo, Cancel Culture, and  Kavanaugh-ification, it doesn’t seem plausible does it?

And now Governor Northam has made very clear the Political Left’s desire to disarm the American public. Undeniably so.  It is completely out in the open now.

Quid pro quo?

Even so, it will be very difficult for the elite globalists to disarm hundreds of millions of American gun owners. They could enlist the help of the U.N. and foreign nations. Or, they could decide upon nuclear nullification. Perhaps delivered via suitcase nukes in accordance with Iran’s “red flag of revenge against America”.

If so, that would add an understandable perspective to the now infamous Deagal U.S population forecast by 2025, would it not?

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The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent finding that Trump broke the law by withholding funding to Ukraine is simply more political positioning by the legislative branch against Team Trump.  And the Orwellian Media’s trumpeting it as yet another smoking gun in the impeachment circus is merely more proof they are never to be trusted on anything they report.  Especially given that previous presidents have received similar remonstrances from the GAO and without similar media fanfare.

Just as I refuse to imbibe modicums of poison by mouth, or breathe in tiny amounts of hydrogen cyanide, so will I refuse to believe anything promoted in the mainstream press.  Anything whatsoever. Never again.

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Trump signs a trade deal with China the same day the Democrats in the U.S. House sign over their articles of impeachment to the Senate.

If optics are everything in politics, then that can’t bode well for the Dems. Trump appears to be working to make America great again while his opponents work to undermine him.

But, why can’t I ever shake this made-for-TV feeling?  Because everything always just seems so perfectly… contrived.

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Certainly, national and global events are, without a doubt, beyond the control of an American nobody like me.   Therefore, it’s important to discern between what I CAN control and what I CAN’T control.

In truth, now and in the days ahead, my influence does not, and will not, extend beyond my own immediate circle.   Therefore, perhaps localism is the way to survive in the new age –  either the era of decentralization OR the age of centralization.  Except under authoritarian centralism, any local circles will need to remain hidden.

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Have you ever noticed how easy it is to NOT see things in plain sight?  I mean really see them.  For example, school buses are noticed –  but only seen as large yellow obstacles to stop behind and get around. To the average driver or pedestrian, they become invisible – perhaps because people expect to see them.

This, even amidst the beastly growling of a Cummins diesel and the occasional catlike hiss of airbrakes.

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In Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the character Chief Bromden saw a school bus and referenced it as part of “The Combine”, which, in my view, the narrative defined as a ball-busting mechanized systemization of matriarchal power.

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Some of the second-grade boys on my bus call me Killer Doug.  It could be because I wear black leather gloves when I drive, or it’s the name of a video game character.  I’m still not sure.  When I’ve asked them to clarify, I can’t understand what they’re saying; probably because it’s too damn loud.

The younger boys sit up front and are rowdy and hilarious, but some of the older boys seem lost. They look unhealthy and are either too skinny or fat.  A couple of them even seem like they could be on the autism spectrum. Either that or they are burgeoning school shooters. It’s hard to tell.

Regardless, I address all of the kids I can by their first name.

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Many communities will not plow roads for less than two inches of snow, which is fine when temperatures later rise above freezing. But, when temperatures drop and remain below freezing for days or even weeks, the unplowed snow becomes dirty white ice.

This is bad enough, except now add into the mix an impromptu ice storm at the perfectly wrong time – an hour before school starts; too late to cancel.  Some of the buses were already gone as I began my pre-inspection. By the time I latched my seat-belt, the pitch of the radio chatter became elevated.  In short, it was bad.  Real bad.  Freezing rain on previously unplowed, and now completely packed, snow was not a good combination.

While navigating the route, some of the older and younger boys heard the tense tones on the CB radio and came up to sit in the front seats to listen and watch. One of the drivers slid into a snow-plow on rural-route and called into base for instructions. Another driver reported that a city-bus collided with a car.  I showed the boys how I drove slow and steady, while testing the brakes well before stops and at the top of hills.  An 84-passenger, eleven-ton bus can find traction on hills until the wheels break and spin. I pointed out how the tachometer spiked as the wheels spun.  When I commented on how I wished my bus had roto-chains, they were curious, so I described how they worked as I drove.

When one boy asked if we were all going to die, I replied:  “Not today.  Unless we slide off that hill right there”.  They laughed. We were on the edge.

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In the afternoon, when picking up the youngsters from school, a couple of the third-grade boys were followed onto my bus by an attractive 40-something platinum blonde matron wearing gray slacks. They looked like men’s pants.  She had an air of smugness and calmly told the boys to never run from the school doors to the bus, but, rather, to always walk slowly.  I ignored her and she didn’t mind.  She was Nurse Ratched.

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In my home, our laundry is on the lower level in an unfinished area of our basement.  Through the years I’ve added shelving to accompany laminate countertops and stainless sink basins as well as some inventive ways for which to hang the clothes my wife wants to air dry.

I noticed she was using a metal folding chair to reach some of the higher hooks and areas and, rather than purchasing a stool for $30 or more, I decided to utilize some rag-tag two-by-fours in my shop to make a small platform.

I had a spare full 8-foot board and one about 6-foot; both were acceptably straight. After charging two power tool batteries, I selected the bit for one of the drills and decided to embed any extra deck screws using my impact driver.  Needing about an 8-inch platform, I chose to make it 11’W x 15”L x 8.5”H – with the 3.5” cuts stacked and with three 15” x 3.5” x 1.5” cuts across the top as the platform. Using the spare screws I used four 3” x 3.5” blocks to tie in all boards at the corners and braced the inside center (underneath) with an 8-inch cut that secured the stacked sideboards. The center brace also served as a perfect carrying handle when transporting the unit (upside down).

Everyone’s happy.  It was my labor of love.

Actually, I could use such a platform down at the bus garage for cleaning the side flat mirrors, back glass, and areas of the windshield where the wipers don’t reach. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the other drivers would be interested. The unit would support the weight of the heavier-set drivers – at least more than the $30 Wal-mart units, and the platform would be safer and easier to use too.

Let’s see…. $4-5 in wood, plus maybe thirty minutes labor.  Perhaps I could sell my platform for $25 which would be a $20 profit. Then, maybe by producing in volume I could utilize economy of scale to save on raw materials.  Then I could find ways to increase the efficiency of the entire process in order to maximize profit.

I know. I know.  Just thinking out loud and using a poor example.

But isn’t that the way Capitalism works?  By benefiting my fellow man via my own labor of love and (hopefully) getting paid in the process.

Gorden Gekko was right: Greed is good.

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To Bernie Sanders and his supporters, however, greed is the driving force of corporate raiders; even as the plundering greed of collectivist envy saves the world. Yes, that is the logic of Bernie Claus believers. In fact, one of Sanders’ Iowa campaign staffers was recently caught on video by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas admitting that free education is about indoctrinating people, soviet-style gulags were not bad, and cities will burn if Trump wins in 2020.

Perhaps that is what is to be expected from a generation of participation trophy winners.

Chief Bromden was right.  The Combine is ever-ready and the fields are ripe for harvest.  America’s federal education system has immunized once fresh and fertile young minds against common sense and self-reliance.  All that remains for them now is lawlessness, violence and anarchy.

Can you envision a President Sanders, or Warren, adorning the nation’s youth with arm-bands?

I can.

Just imagine. It’s easy if you try.

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As for me, though, I grew up in the Seventies listening to Skynyrd, Zeppelin, Zappa, and Petty; amidst 22’s, 12 gauges, and custom mini-bike races with no helmets. Early skateboards, skinning frogs alive in the summer sun and shooting at bats in moonlight. Stealing Playboys and cigarettes. Flipping off high-dives at the pool and pummeling perverts in the park. Ditchweed, peppermint schnapps, sloe gin, and Old Milwaukee. Fist-fights by fire-light.

Not sure why it happened or what it meant. But I do know nothing will ever surprise me.

Nothing. Ever.

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Author: Uncola

I am one who has found the road less traveled while remaining a whiskered, whispering witness to the world. I hope what you just considered was worth the price and time spent. www.TheTollOnline.com

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M G
M G
January 19, 2020 7:24 am

A nice collection of collectable comments. I think it says as much as any of us can say right now, without choking up a bit.

I’ve discovered the calm voice of Carl Sagan to be calming amidst the storm.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  M G
January 19, 2020 8:01 am

I found that to be both eloquent and completely meaningless.

No small trick.

M G
M G
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 8:50 am

But, calming.

My cousin retired to Arizona and drove the school bus for years. He loved it and the kids wrote stories about him.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  M G
January 19, 2020 9:45 am

I meant the Carl Sagan video, not Uncola.

M G
M G
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 10:09 am

I knew that. You did too.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  M G
January 19, 2020 10:14 am

I know, but not everyone who reads what I write understands what I’m saying.

You know what I’m saying?

Undeniable
Undeniable
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 2:22 pm

You could have been a comedian. ?

Anno Domini
Anno Domini
  Undeniable
January 19, 2020 2:39 pm

He coulda been somebody

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  Anno Domini
January 19, 2020 2:50 pm

I’m much happier as a nobody.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 3:12 pm

Did you read Homer’s Odyssey?

I’m nobody too, don’t tell.

Coyote knows the rest.

Everardo Cifuentes (EC)
Everardo Cifuentes (EC)
  Anonymous
January 19, 2020 3:37 pm

Whatchu talking ’bout, Lamont?

(EC)
(EC)
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 3:30 pm

featuring John Lennon

BL
BL
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 8:33 pm

HF- I’ve always been a nobody so I don’t know the difference….bliss.

22winmag - TBP's top-secret Jew
22winmag - TBP's top-secret Jew
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 10:45 am

Humans are reduced to machines, just like automobiles, satellites, or smart phones.

God hath done his work, and humans have taken the reins.

But for the forked-tongue promises of peeping wizards(tm) and sciencetards.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 11:49 am

I didn’t even find Sagan to be eloquent there, because I can’t call something eloquent if the proposition being expounded doesn’t flow logically. He denigrates man for imposing man’s experience onto our theology, but his own judgment starts with certain arbitrary premises. Why should extrapolating from our social experiences in the realm of, say, justice be inherently invalid? Why should the immensity of creation argue against a Creator or detract from our importance within creation? The universe is big, therefore we’re unimportant and there is no meaning? That doesn’t follow. You could just as logically argue that our importance is even more strongly demonstrated if God had to create an entire expanding universe in order for us to be situated within it. Sagan starts with his animus toward religion and works backwards.

Undeniable
Undeniable
  Iska Waran
January 19, 2020 2:26 pm

What if Sagan’s whole point was…. perspective.

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug
  Undeniable
January 20, 2020 7:27 pm

Preeminent faith is a lack of perspective.

Needless to say, most of the readership here cannot understand this supposed quote from another recent TBP post:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

Paulita Senorita!
Paulita Senorita!
  Iska Waran
January 19, 2020 3:06 pm

someone with their animus pointed toward religion deserves to get backended!

(EC)
(EC)
  Paulita Senorita!
January 19, 2020 3:40 pm

Your no good for me, Paulita. How’s your Priapus animus?

Paulita Senorita!
Paulita Senorita!
  (EC)
January 19, 2020 4:32 pm

comment image

holy smokers that guy is hung… are you propositioning me
http://box5415.temp.domains/~sacreeh5/category/greek-mythology/
Priapus- between circa 50 and 79 AD. Naples National Archaeological Museum. US Public Domain.

M G
M G
  Paulita Senorita!
January 19, 2020 8:51 pm

OH MY GOD

You did NOT!

TS
TS
  Paulita Senorita!
January 19, 2020 9:55 pm

Hey, free the tip.
Hmm, that’s a whole new area of expanding men’s rights.

(EC)
(EC)
  TS
January 20, 2020 7:47 pm

Obviously an Air Force dude.

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug
  Paulita Senorita!
January 20, 2020 7:24 pm

I agree, witch. If you want high stakes, I think we can arrange that using the Salem protocol.

Diogenes
Diogenes
  Iska Waran
January 19, 2020 6:29 pm

Reminds me of a quote from some philosopher. “If the gods can’t hear or respond to our prayers then we need not concern ourselves with them.” And no, he was not speaking as an atheist.

Raphael Lepiane
Raphael Lepiane
  M G
January 19, 2020 6:31 pm

Interesting rambling type of Readers Digest coffee table magazine article, good widow washer brains.

Paulita Senorita!
Paulita Senorita!
  Raphael Lepiane
January 19, 2020 6:44 pm

what widows have you been washing

Uncola
Uncola
  Paulita Senorita!
January 19, 2020 9:13 pm

Readers Digest? Not bad! I’ll take it. My future’s looking up

Paul Bunyon
Paul Bunyon
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 10:35 pm

Suggestion: forget building with the 2/4s for profit (some user will fall and sue you, or the goobermint will show up with 100 reasons why you are wrong and you have to pay some kind of fine to get right with them).

Instead, build bird houses and enjoy your new neighbors.

(EC)
(EC)
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 10:47 pm

Don’t get excited, there’s a glass ceiling called The Dome.

Solutions Are Obvious
Solutions Are Obvious
January 19, 2020 7:26 am

If you’re into building things, consider learning how to weld and move from wood to steel.

Uncola
Uncola
  Solutions Are Obvious
January 19, 2020 9:48 am

Definitely a viable alternative, SAO. But, in the end, I ended up working with what I had at the time. Besides, in my opinion, wood is just….. warmer.

Gloriously Deplorable Paul
Gloriously Deplorable Paul
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 3:53 pm

A truck dealership I worked for for 23 years got slapped by CalOSHA for allowing mechanics to stand on platforms they had made themselves to reach into the engine compartments of tall vehicles. It is not permitted to use anything to stand on that was not expressly made for that purpose and approved by some number of alphabet busybody government agencies.
That cribbing made of 4×6 oak dunnage used to piggyback new cab and chassis to the dealership which held up trees weighing many thousands of pounds? Verbotten!
That welded 1×1 square steel tube cage with genuine fuel tank step treads bolted to the top? No way Jose!
The useless pricks even outlawed any electrical device that didn’t come with a 3-pronged power cord.
That 20″ box fan used to move air during 100 degree days? Get rid of it. If I install a 3-wire cord with a grounded plug and the ground attached to the metal frame? Nope- the manufacturer didn’t do it so I can’t either.
Maybe I’ll live long enough to see it all burn down.
Won’t shed a tear.

Solutions Are Obvious
Solutions Are Obvious
  Gloriously Deplorable Paul
January 19, 2020 5:15 pm

And just think, they found a prick to go out and enforce such nonsense for a paycheck. But then, being California, the prick might actually believe he’s helping humanity.

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug
  Solutions Are Obvious
January 20, 2020 7:42 pm

Police officers are the worst.

Nobody
Nobody
  Solutions Are Obvious
January 22, 2020 3:24 am

Maybe uncola should just make tar and feather canons instead. No regulations on those and the product sets the tone for any would-be enforcers.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 7:51 am

It’s hard for people to understand how gratifying it is to work at humble tasks. Bus drivers have a very subtle influence on the kids that ride with them especially if they are someone like you. I know I have no reason to feel this way, but I’m proud of you nonetheless.

TS
TS
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 9:20 am

I rode the bus for 6 years, from our place 11 miles out. The drivers made all the difference. Our favorite was a woman who was much like what Uncola seems to be. She continued to be our friend, years after graduation.

Anno Domini
Anno Domini
  TS
January 19, 2020 2:42 pm
e.d. ott
e.d. ott
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 9:50 am

As a school bus driver you can be respected or ignored, depending on your passengers. I tend to like the small ones whose parents have taught some basic manners and respect at a young age. They make my day. If you’d like to know where insufferable East Coast pricks come from, I can give you a hint. Rotten apples don’t fall far from the tree. You’ll find the good with the bad among the many and sometimes wish you were hauling black water hazmat. Some days are better than others, definitely.
A couple of my favorite things to do is hand out Halloween treats to little ones who never expect them or return lost items. One of my younglings once lost a wallet on the bus two weeks before Christmas. I returned it personally and concealed a silver Eagle into a hidden pocket. One of my past routes was for a Catholic school. When the kids would cluster near the exit and jabber on distractedly I’d secretly deposit small change in pockets they’d later find as snack money. One of my wee ones who never caught on fearlessly and solemnly declared the Tooth Fairy had been rewarding her. Some of the best times were discussions of Lego Batman, comic books, the Tooth Fairy, and pets. Enjoy the small ones, they can be jewels.

swimologist
swimologist
  e.d. ott
January 19, 2020 3:02 pm

Yes, enjoy them until the mandatory indoctrination begins.

Uncola
Uncola
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 9:52 am

Very nice of you to say, Hardscrabble. I appreciate it. I actually once wrote a tribute and mailed it to the wife of one of my kids’ bus drivers who had passed. She later called me and said she had those words read at his funeral. Ripples in the pond.

mark
mark
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 3:51 pm

For three years I rode a HS bus 7 miles one way, to and from an all boy inner city trade school. Rough place, blackboard jungle was the non PC term back in the day. The driver was retied Airforce, we nicknamed him the ‘Colonel’. I have no idea what his real rank was or what he did in the Airforce, he never, ever gave any details that I heard.

It was a rumbustious, often rowdy, testosterone fueled, Lord of the Flies bus. We had a regular dice game in the back, occasional explosive fists fights, that he would pull over and run back and break up – but he never turned anyone in for, and a lot of banter that he would chime in on or start.

He told occasional jokes that were always funny, and had a usually sunny personality.

As we left to face the day at school on the morning in trip…he would stand up facing us exiting and pass a quip or nod or shoulder pat or smile or finger waving warning wag to each one of us on the way out.

We almost to a kid said a passing comment on the way out back… “Ok Colonel,” See you on the Flip Colonel,” “Later Colonel,” “Take it easy Colonel,” etc.

A collection was taken up for him when he retired my senior year, I think he was 70. Everyone contributed.

Overall I’d say the Colonel was ‘beloved’.

I can still see his smiling face, and thick gray almost handle bar moustache after over 50 years.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 10:53 pm

Indeed, why i continue to paint houses, as i like to say, “at least it’s honest work”

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 20, 2020 7:44 pm

With all the bullions and bullions of ways to feel, no doubt the way you feel is correct and sanctified by the divine spark of the universe.

Steve C.
Steve C.
January 19, 2020 8:08 am

Doug – As always, an enjoyable read.

To learn how to pick our fights is one of the most important lessons we can learn.

Fight when you can make a difference. Sit back and simply watch, and sometimes enjoy the show when you know that you can’t.

It’s a little like boxing actually. When you are losing big, it’s better to take a knee and be counted out.

You lose that fight, but you survive, heal, and re-train for another fight. Listen to those morons that never fought a day in their lives that tell you that you always have to get up is when you get your brains beat out and spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair taking your meals through a straw.

Wisdom comes with age and experience. Be glad that you have it.

ragman
ragman
  Steve C.
January 19, 2020 9:25 am

All good points and the biggest fight in my 70+ yrs on this Big Blue Marble could very well begin tomorrow in Richmond. Disarmament of White Patriots must be accomplished at all costs. Notice that Blackface Ralphie the Baby Killer has no intent to disarm the Swarzers that commit almost all of the violent crime in the state. Nope, it’s all about disarming the White country folks because they are the real threat to the communists. But this time the country folks are extending the middle finger and saying “Fuck You” to Ralphie and his minions. I don’t believe that the commies expected a pushback of this proportion. The reaction of the Great Unwashed has their panties in a fucking wad and if the expected crowd of tens of thousands actually show up, a message will be sent to Ralphie and the rest of the communist gun grabbers. “We’re not playing your game anymore, asshole”!

M G
M G
  ragman
January 19, 2020 9:39 am

A Pale Blue Dot

This excerpt from Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan’s suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.

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Isn’t it amazing you can only see EARTH?

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  M G
January 19, 2020 9:50 am

Well that settles it. No way you could fake a picture like that.

M G
M G
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 10:13 am

I actually pasted the link to this above, but for your convenience, will repeat here as a block quote…

This excerpt from Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan’s suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.

Do you see what I see?

As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system (4 billion miles) Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size … a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun.

So, is the Sun on the fringes or did Carl lose track of his own bucket of hogwash?

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  M G
January 19, 2020 11:00 am

I think he means the Earth was so close to the Sun.

Of course I’m far less interested in the alleged snapshot of Mother Earth than in those gargantuan lavender colored bars that dominate the photograph.

M G
M G
  Hardscrabble Farmer
January 19, 2020 11:33 am

It is why I asked for input as to whether it is a true digital image or a computerized graphic…

In this day and time? How are we able to discern except by our own experience and background understanding?

So, when a whole generation (say X, Y2K and/or Z), has been exposed to a nonstop barrage of images suggesting what their parents believe is pure nonsense (corn-shucking losers! he called us!), how can we compete with either their advanced grasp of quantum theory while gripping our Winchesters and Bibles at the same time?

Generation X sees the world in a whole different way. I realize (now) I attended the bulk of my college in the presence of Gen X. I thought I set the curve in most of my classes because I was motivated to do well after ten years in the military. Turns out, Generation X was so wrapped up in X-files and 90210 crapola, they made me look smart to college professors at OU.

Why do people just accept these images as the real thing? I spent a few minutes on the NASA site reading their policy on linking to their images. Just to see if there is any artistic license implied. I think there is…

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow
  ragman
January 19, 2020 9:55 am

Good luck tomorrow. We’ll be watching and hoping for your success. Please come back and give us a first person report on what it was like. I know the MSM will not cover it truthfully… Chip

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  ragman
January 19, 2020 12:07 pm

Be careful, Ragman, if you’re going to Richmond. It seems highly probable that a trap has been lain for the 2A defenders. The opponents of the inherent right to bear arms want trouble to erupt so they can misrepresent it as they have Charlottesville, the shooting of Michael Brown and so many other things. There will almost certainly be left wing and Deep State (as if there’s a difference) “plants” in the crowd, some in MAGA hats and others with swastikas. Don’t take the bait. The fight has to be waged through the ballot box – which is why Soros and Bloomberg pump so much money into races for Secretaries of State (who supervise elections). Anyone who tussles in Richmond is just an unpaid extra in someone else’s movie.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  Steve C.
January 19, 2020 12:11 pm

Yes indeed Steve C, and very, very true. I have always been somewhat non-competitive relying on the fact that the early bird doesn’t always get to win, but the second mouse always gets the cheese.

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 19, 2020 9:11 am

The extremely wealthy control figures and their puppets that play the well paid role of elected representatives who then hire the connected few enforcers of their control policies armed and otherwise have over played their hand ! Especially in American society , look to Virginia and the fear instilled to government ass wipes because armed citizens intend to show up for a protest rally . Of course the liberal media and the political class are telling citizens not to be violent . What do they the connected expect after average Americans are treated like a financial road kill for the government buzzards and parasites to pick clean always with the threat of armed force if citizens fail to comply .
Time to choose sides LEO’s , the excuse of Just doing my job doesn’t cut it . You are now the force for the abuse of the American citizens assured rights to continue to be eroded and many are fighting back . Recently a policeman in Baltimore had a crowd attempt to stop what he claims was a legal arrest ! Maybe it was but Baltimore police are not at the top of the list of reliable and truthful police departments .
Refusing an unlawful or vague order is not resisting or interfering with police it’s forcing police to be professional and a servant paid for by the people not an armed government minion !
Richmond Virginia will be an interesting litmus test to government force and free people !
Remember your fenced off free speech protest areas are fucking BULL SHIT !
America’s free speech zone is from sea to shining sea , do not forget that LEO

Jaz
Jaz
  Anonymous
January 19, 2020 9:48 am

I have heard from some L.E.O’s : when the SHTF they are taking off their badge and uniform to save their family and own lives.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer
  Anonymous
January 19, 2020 10:15 am

Have you called or written to this guy?

http://www.richmondgov.com/Police/PoliceChief.aspx

City PD’s are usually aligned with the politics/power of the city and in the case of Richmond, just like C-Ville…..the politics skew heavily left. So, unfortunately, Chief William C. Smith is unlikely to be helpful, thus protest cages, the emergency orders (aka martial law) and I bet they will use the old channel the Nazi protestors (aka real Americans) into the loving arms of the club-wielding ANTIFA. A buffalo jump and the Patriots are the buffalo.

I hope the patriots are thinking this through, a last-minute change of venue, refusal to go into the cage…..tearing down the cage to exit an unexpected direction….lots of choices to hold the rally and not be the buffalo.

Will Richmond be the start of the new American Revolution? I doubt it, usually, sparks are serendipitous but you never know. The original patriots were semi-prepared, remember Paul Revere’s ride was to alert the surrounding communities that the British were coming to confiscate firearms. The skirmishes of Lexington and Concord followed the next day and the war was on.

The VA scenario is deeply similar to Boston and the Massachusets colony. A foreign/alien/ZOG government, not of the people ruling from afar and from the major metro area (Boston, DC/Richmond) attempting to prevent push back to their rule by disarming the rural citizens…..sounds familiar.

I share Doug’s ambivalence….went Galt a bit early and left money on the table to do so, oh well there is plenty to love in the simple things as HSF points out. We as individuals likely cannot change the course of events but we all have our part to play…and some will rise to make historic contributions for good or ill.

We can only stay true to our principles (you go Flat earthers!) and set our minds to doing the “right” things understanding that we have lots of overlap but not 100% congruence (you go Flat earthers!)…..I am perfectly content standing with the cultural fascists who have odd views on the shape of the planet vs.the police state tyrants. How about you?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Anonymous
January 19, 2020 12:13 pm

The fences have been erected to herd the 2A defenders and the Antifa types into the same space so they’ll clash on camera. If the real 2A defenders stay out of the fray then purported “right wingers” will provably be actors.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer
  Iska Waran
January 19, 2020 9:14 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=GnHC1FBEEN4&feature=emb_logo

AGW’s working overtime….drove 100 miles to harras an old dude who went to the capital…..because he was “credibly engaged in pre-operational planning”…..you worthless MFers!

flash
flash
January 19, 2020 9:14 am
TS
TS
January 19, 2020 9:16 am

What a combination. Basic life and yet profound. But those two go hand-in-hand, in the hands of an artist.
Almost sounds like a cultural swan song, Doug. And yet a paean to every day reality.
Always a pleasure to read, and mull over.

edit:
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence. Oswald Chambers.

niebo
niebo
January 19, 2020 9:19 am

But, why can’t I ever shake this made-for-TV feeling? Because everything always just seems so perfectly… contrived.

“It” does seem to have an air of “controlled opposition” about it, does it not? Reminds me of the odor of mothballs in old theater clothes; no matter the characters, neither roles, nor the actors involved and how well-suited each is to his fiction, everyone works together to suspend disbelief and sell PRETENSE . . . stinking all the while.

M G
M G
  niebo
January 19, 2020 9:45 am

niebo, on the carl sagan video I linked above (not promoting, just summarizing a thought), he comments on how patterns are seen throughout the cosmos (whether they are actually seen or imagined in a scientific way is the debate) and believed to prove Intelligent Design.

He suggests humans try to see purpose where there is only pattern.

So, what I think Doug means is that either we are seeing a story writing itself badly or truth really is stranger than fiction.

Either way? It appears we have very little control over the contriving.

(EC)
(EC)
  niebo
January 19, 2020 10:41 pm

niebs, willing suspension of disbelief is up to the viewer and is not a characteristic of actors. Actors merely have to portray a seemingly real person.

flash
flash
January 19, 2020 9:41 am

Trust is the key to a stable and productive society. If we can’t trust academia, government, organized religion, markets or the free press to provide a fact based social, civic and commercial framework going forward, who can we trust ?

http://knuckledraggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fail-3.mp4?_=3

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug
  flash
January 21, 2020 12:30 am

Sincerity is the key, not trust. There is too much trust, and it’s being used for all it’s worth.

Nobody
Nobody
  'Reality' Doug
January 22, 2020 4:13 am

Great point. It seems to be both though. Too much blind trust enables the tyrants and keeps the charade going. Those who awaken to the lack of sincerity, lose their trust and realize the institutions are actually criminal parasites enslaving us to pay them. Once the trust is gone it doesn’t come back. If the trust of masses evaporates then the whole thing is over. The zombie masses don’t see the lack of sincerity (actually the conniving manipulation of criminal operators) thus have blind trust that the institutions (criminal rackets) are necessary.

Robert Gore
Robert Gore
January 19, 2020 9:42 am

An intellectual shotgun blast that hits the right targets. Those of us proudly on the outside know perhaps 5 percent, and that may be optimistic, of what goes on in the inside. Fortunately, the one thing we know is that something is very wrong, very evil, and evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. You incorporate that perspective in your articles, a useful and necessary reminder that there are things much more important than the flow of headlines. I especially appreciated the following:

The criminal cabal has been in control for longer than most people realize. In an article written last year entitled “On Channel Surfing, Circus Acts, and Time Passages”, this blogger pointed out the following regarding an unseen inner circle of power: What Abraham Lincoln foresaw, worried Woodrow Wilson, of which Dwight Eisenhower warned, that killed John F. Kennedy.

That, my friends, is an undeniable trend. And what has changed in the near six-decades since – except more power consolidation, false flags, and the construction of a global panopticon?

Perspective is priceless, and the only way to get it is to study the past, the real past, not the garbage being taught in schools.

Thanks for a great article. I’ll post it tonight.

Uncola
Uncola
  Robert Gore
January 19, 2020 9:57 am

Wow. Thank you, Robert. I honestly didn’t think this one would make SLL. I appreciate it very much.

Robert Gore
Robert Gore
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 10:21 am

Doug

You’re a good writer and I post most of what you write, even when I don’t agree with, or occasionally, understand it. Almost all the ones I miss are because I’m traveling and I can’t keep up with the websites I usually monitor. Keep up the good work.

(EC)
(EC)
  Robert Gore
January 19, 2020 10:44 pm

I occasionally understand his articles too. Most often, they are above my pay grade.

NtroP
NtroP
January 19, 2020 9:53 am

I found that to be a nice collection of tiny pearls of wisdom. Enjoyed the bus tales, those are some lucky kids to have a literary gifted driver. They’ll realize somewhat later that there’s a lot you learn outside the classroom.
As for the entrepreneurial stool idea, without trying to be pessimistic, the FIRE complex will crush you!
Keep on truckin’……

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow
January 19, 2020 9:59 am

Nice work Doug… Chip

BB
BB
  SmallerGovNow
January 19, 2020 10:37 am

I might be wrong but I think no one is going to jail. Maybe some low hanging fruit but that’s about it. The vast majority of the political class are all members of
Secret societies that are all based in the 33th degrees of Freemasonary. All these men have vowed to protect each other. This is the main reason none of the Wall Street criminals never go to jail.Most are Freemasons. Only down side is these men are worshiping Satan .Most don’t realize it but that’s what they are doing. Nothing is going to change .Only after a total collapse and much pain ,suffering and death . Most Americans have been deceived about God and His wrath. The destruction of America is a judgement from God . Only thing we can do is try to prepare as best we can.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  BB
January 19, 2020 10:56 am

True master masons are not politically involved the way many seem to think . My brothers in the past were even found to be undercover in the NAZI Command , working in the shadows to free people from tyranny as today !
FORGET ME NOT

Nobody
Nobody
  BB
January 22, 2020 4:41 am

“The destruction of America is a judgement from God”

Not enough people understand this. Many would even think that bringing God into this is irrational or intellectually inferior to the true cause. I once was arrogant and ignorant enough to believe it was only man and that God was irrational. After decades of deep research into law and the history of law, that is by far superior to every lawyer,judge,prosecutor I have ever debated with, it is clear that my original assumptions about God was exactly the opposite of the truth. God is the deepest of intellectual vigor and disregarding God is the intellectual shortcut/inferior position. The really hard part though is understanding how God fits into the picture – God is not some man in a cloud directing things, that is ridiculous. The best I can describe God is as a yin/yang type source of creation out of which unfolds all of nature where man’s conscious intent and actions is in a feedback loop into the source of creation where the “loop” itself is the law which instrinsically governs every -what goes around comes around – that is the judgement. God’s interface to man is via inspiration – the most subtle but being the divine spark that ends up shaping nature.

Lager
Lager
January 19, 2020 10:37 am

Loved this line, DL:

“, every day, I steer between the lanes of open-mindedness and skepticism, optimism and realism, hope and nihilism.”

Indeed. Avoid drifting, and white line fever, eh?

Distractions to the Left and the Right.

Watch your speed, & pay attention.

Nowadays, one wonders how many other drivers close to us are
fuzzy headed users of the more potent ganja that’s now legalized for
recreational use in more and more States.

“Be careful out there”
– The Sgt., from Hill Street Blues

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Lager
January 19, 2020 4:13 pm

Lager – I am more worried about those drivers who cannot go more than a block without consulting their electronic device to see who “liked” their latest post. I have seen too many cross the center line on the 2-lane highway I drive daily. There are a lot of stretches where there is no shoulder and you end up in swampy water or hardwood trees, if you leave the pavement.

M G
M G
  TN Patriot
January 19, 2020 4:17 pm

Well, keep your car in TN and stay off the SEMO roads.

GAZ
GAZ
January 19, 2020 11:16 am

Never let the meat know it’s going into the grinder. It is easier to control scared people because they still care, that’s why they are scared. Angry people don’t give a fuck and will fight. Starving people are passive. Scared and hungry gets everyone on the same page. The recent news on the SARS corona virus makes me think a global wide pandemic sure would be convenient to deflect blame for this shit show and have people BEGGING for Martial law. Interesting times.

Cow Doctor
Cow Doctor
January 19, 2020 11:20 am

Well put Sir, well put.

Foot in the Forest
Foot in the Forest
January 19, 2020 11:27 am

Though provoking on a beautiful morning in the forest. Mrs. Welton who baked her own bread daily and shared both the bread and recipe with a 10 year old who liked to bake. Mrs. Stone who wanted us to push the bus up the ice coated hill to the junior high. Some were wonderful and caring and some not so much. Monday will bring who knows what but most who peruse the words here are ready either way it goes. In the end it will not matter. The swamp will not be drained and the evil that exists there will not be vanquished until enough have awoken to demand it at the point of a gun. {yes I know about Mao and little books| I wish no more than to be left to my own devices to live life as I choose but the ptb will not allow it. Follow the old scout motto: BE PREPARED !

ursel doran
ursel doran
January 19, 2020 11:47 am

Global weather changes coming looks like. A ten minute video on the Grand Solar Minimum that appears to have begun with some history on the last one.
Armstrong and some others have commented on this long cycle.
MSM is naturally absent as only blood, fires, mass shootings, take the lead.

Anno Domini
Anno Domini
  ursel doran
January 19, 2020 2:44 pm

Historic for you is just a hiccup for the sun.

gilberts
gilberts
January 19, 2020 11:56 am

Well-written, Sir. Thank you.

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 19, 2020 12:02 pm

I have a push broom dedicated to snow clearing on large vehicles,works good.
***

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 19, 2020 12:19 pm

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out. At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Gotterdammerung.’ Ashley Wilkes, Gone With The Wind

If it makes you feel any better, it has been and will continue to be interesting to live in these times.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
January 19, 2020 12:33 pm

Thanks Doug, a great read and for a Brit most entertaining and interesting – our bus drivers would do well to learn from you; and snow? Well in UK, I remember that in the 60s and sometimes in the 80s but since then, global warming ya know!

When pondering your thoughts on making a business out of shelving, you reminded me of that Wall Street banker on holiday in a fishing village in Chile. He was idly watching a fisherman sitting quietly after having come ashore at lunchtime with a bag of fish. he approached him and asked if they were not many fish around. The fisherman said there were plenty and carried on staring into space.

Then why aren’t you fishing asked the banker. Well, he replied, I’m done for the day and I have enough – I will go home soon, relax, enjoy my wife and kids company. have a beer and supper, watch TV or play games and go to bed ready for tomorrow. But if there are so many fish says the banker, you could be out there getting more and have a surplus that you could sell – get more money and be richer.

So what happens then, says the fisherman. Well explains the banker, you could go on doing this and then save lots of money – enough to buy another boat. Then what, asks the fisherman. Well continues the banker, getting a little heated, you could get even more money and maybe get a fleet of boats and become a millionaire; what’s the matter with you – can’t you see that you are sitting on a goldmine.

The fisherman gazes into the distance and quietly says, so what happens then. Well replies the frustrated banker, you could be running an empire and you could invest all your money and have riches enough to sit around and do whatever you like – it would be like heaven for the rest of your life. But But, say the fisherman – I am doing that already!

There’s a message there somewhere for those who wish to see.

Uncola
Uncola
  Austrian Peter
January 19, 2020 2:59 pm

Thanks, Peter.

Then there was the guy who applied for the janitor position at a church. When they found out he couldn’t read, they sent him packing. To survive, the guy bought some apples and sold them for a profit on a street corner. Pretty soon he had vendor carts all around the city. Then he expanded to other cities before buying his own apple orchards. After a while, he was supplying national grocery chains.

Years later, he was asked to read the purchase agreement for a yacht that he was buying. When he told the salesman he couldn’t read, the salesman exclaimed:

“What?! You can’t read? Yet look how successful you’ve become. Imagine what you’d be doing if you could read!”

To which the guy replied: “I’d be a janitor at a church”.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 3:58 pm

Thanks Doug, what a laugh, clearly we share the same sense of idiotness that is needed here with all the monkeys!

M G
M G
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 4:20 pm

Hillary and Bill pulled into a gas station in Arkansas and the attendant leaned in the window and asked Hillary if she remembered him. She did… they dated in college before she met Bill.

As they pulled away, Bill asked Hillary how different her life would have been if she’d ended up with that guy.

Hillary said she guessed that guy would have been President of the United States and Bill would be pumping gas in Arkansas.

Johnnie Gray
Johnnie Gray
  M G
January 19, 2020 11:03 pm

Slight correction: Bill would be running his mother’s whore house in Hot Springs.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 7:49 pm

That is 99% of the plot of the short story “The Verger.” A Verger was sort of the janitor and a couple of other duties apparently in English churches. In the Verger, he cannot find tobacco and realizes he could do well by setting up a tobacco shop on this busy street lacking one. There is also a short film of “The Verger” starring Victor McLaglen. He was the big shouldered Irishman who played a sergeant in all the John Ford Cavalry movies with John Wayne.

impermanence
impermanence
January 19, 2020 12:42 pm

Uncola, you might wish to consider zooming-out your perspective somewhat as you will find that your concerns [along with your fears] will dissolve into nothingness.

Uncola
Uncola
  impermanence
January 19, 2020 3:00 pm

Thanks Impermanence, but the people I’ve known who have done that ended up drinking vodka out of a plastic jug.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 4:01 pm

you make that sound like a bad thing

Uncola
Uncola
  Anonymous
January 19, 2020 4:40 pm

Lol A guy told me one time he was checking out of a wal-mart with a bottle of vodka and a bag of flour and the cashier was some smart-ass old dude who asked him: “Cheap date?”

Arthur W. Simpson
Arthur W. Simpson
January 19, 2020 12:47 pm

Want the end? Read MAKING SENSE OF REVELATION, A VERSE BY VERSE LITHOPHANE by A.W. Simpson

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 1:08 pm

The video posted by MG and narrated by voice of atheist Carl Sagan is nothing less than condescending. Based on Vogt, Dunning, and many others, we are reaching the end of a 12,000 yr cycle rapidly, the Earth’s magnetic field growing weaker each year, the magnetic poles shifting toward the equator preparing to flip, the Earth’s rotation likely to cease (linked to the magnetic field btw, and do any of you recognize the significance of such an event?), even Einstein knew this would occur and the CIA decided to classify these facts until recently – probably because the population has been dumbed down enough not to understand or believe & the CIA propaganda machine (the MSM) are now at peak influence.
The video suggesting God made mistakes or errors is quite amusing, does it bring you solace? What is occurring is so obvious and painful. Better focus on the time you have left, which may be less than 20 – 30 years.

The world is on self destruct and we are about to slam face first into the end times. Those of you who choose to believe the NWO/UN Globalist propaganda, the left’s useful idiots, sheep, ignorance is your only solace.

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 3:21 pm

Please provide a reputable source for your evidence…

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 6:25 pm

Let’s make it simple.:
All the references, scientists, journals etc. are detailed in one or all the following:
Suspicious0bservers websites:

https://Suspicious0bservers.org
https://SpaceWeatherNews.com
https://QuakeWatch.net
https://ObservatoryProject.com
https://MagneticReversal.org
CLIMATE FORCING:

CLIMATE FORCING [Short]:

PLASMA COSMOLOGY:

PLASMA COSMOLOGY [Short]:

COSMIC DISASTER:

Plasma Climate Forcing | Tropical Storms

via @YouTube
Recurrent Nova, CME Nostalgia, Climate Forcing | S0 News Jan.2.2020

via @YouTube

***There is much, much more. Ben Davidson does an excellent job detailing everything in his videos. He also lists all the scientists, scientific papers & journals supporting what I stated. Take your time and watch all of the videos, check the websites listed as well. This is a good start.

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 8:06 pm

I have just seen this list… I will probably review and comment later… sorry it was delayed so long.

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 8:27 pm

No problem, great. When you have the time, let me know. I’m interested in knowing what you think. I’ve been researching this for quite a while, until Stan Deyo pointed me in this direction. This really makes sense, the science is there! Although I’m not so happy about the conclusions.

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 8:53 pm

The Deyos! I have some of their books.

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 6:36 pm

I posted the information you requested. Guess it’s being moderated first?

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 6:41 pm

here?

Sometimes links alone go to spam. did you make a comment along with the url?

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 6:43 pm

Yes. I listed quite a few links etc.. When I posted it said under moderation? That was about 10 minutes ago.

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 6:46 pm

I will ask the bossman to check…

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 6:47 pm

It’s excellent information.

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 7:52 pm

Let me know what think after you’ve reviewed everything. I have more, but Ben Davidson covers everything quite well.

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 8:07 pm

I will do so as I can… I hope others pick up the chore too… a lot of information here LA…

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 7:56 pm

Here is a new video: The Sun & Earth | Rapid Temperature Forcing

via @YouTube

Lachesis Atropis
Lachesis Atropis
  M G
January 19, 2020 8:04 pm

Are you suggesting the information I posted is not reputable?

M G
M G
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 8:08 pm

No. There’s just a lot to sort through and determine what I can reply to and what I should punt, hoping Uncola cares enough to welcome you to the platform.

Uncola
Uncola
  M G
January 20, 2020 1:57 pm

Welcome, Lachesis Atropis, to the Burning Platform.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  Lachesis Atropis
January 19, 2020 4:02 pm

OH, Thank goodness, LA, for a moment there you had me going, now at least I can rest easy – 20-30 years you say, Phew that was a close one.

Nobody
Nobody
  Lachesis Atropis
January 23, 2020 12:00 am

” we are reaching the end of a 12,000 yr cycle rapidly” looks like some of the TBP tribe is finally starting to catch up.

“CIA decided to classify these facts until recently ” This is only partially true. If you are explicitly refering to Adam and Eve story as portrayed by Suspicious Observers that is NOT true – their portrayal of Adam and Eve story and its author being classified is mis/disinformation, not sure which intent by them. But the Adam and Eve story by Chan Thomas is a really good short patchwork of discoveries/research that shows how mankind unravelled the picture. However, Doug Vogt is really the one who put all the pieces together up to the time of his works. However, Vogt doesn’t touch many many other pieces more up to date.

They are however, other issues surrounding the underground cities/bases that related to prep for 2046 micronova (final judgement day-the psychos think it will be sooner but that is probably to justify expediting the theft for building preparation) that are STILL mostly classified but there was some fairly recent ?accidental? information releases that revealed over 10,000 underground “bases” already built but there is much more info regarding vast tunnel network construction going back to the 1960’s.

I can’t remember which writer here recently attempted to make claims that noah flood didn’t align with the quick freezing of mammoths but that writer was just flat out wrong on the timelines.

Ultimately I believe all of this means it is time to build the stargate -the underground cities will do little to help man survive what is coming in about 26.5 years-rockets will do nothing to help and anything less than warp drive will do nothing to help as far as space travel escape – we are talking probably over a 1000 years of disrupted terrestial habitat. We now have the scientific foundations for building a real stargate and by my calculations we already have all the necessary hardware but it has never been put together, the academic physicists call the scientific foundation bullshit but the new foundation predicted proton mass measurements the physicists missed, shatters the standard model while elegantly describing all forces in terms of gravity but the worst part of all is the psychos have control of the resources necessary to build the stargate prototype which a first version big enough for a human would cost ~$50 million -just for the parts. The few people who know what to build won’t work with bankster or gov/military psychos so they can’t get the resources to build it at this time.

This means the only way out I see for humanity at this time is that there MUST BE JUSTICE, the bankster and MIC psychos must be brought to trial convicted and executed. The military needs to be stripped of its resources, a strong patriot force needs to man defenses to protect the genius that will build the stargates for use by all just people and we leave Earth to the “chosen ones” whom claim they are to inherit the Earth. This is what needs to happen RIGHT NOW but we are too busy with trailer park daycare where the daycare bullies and faux tech ‘guru’ Musk’s mkultra’d ass to lead everyone by the noses that we can’t even do what mankind is capable of and destined to do right now.

People are so far behind where we as a species are at in real time that most are instead fighting over red/blue, guns, abortion, immigration, lgbtxyz nonsense that people can’t even exercise the protections of law with a quick and speedy trial to remove the psychos out of the way so that we can achieve our destiny of building and opening the stargate to connect with ALL other intelligent beings in the universes.

I know billionaires who could easily fund the first proof of concept and have had deep conversations with them about the science, tech etc. but they are so confused that they literally want communism just to have the gov provide base squalor of life that will keep the youth from revolting so that they and their kids get to enjoy their lifestyle. I have had deep conversation with the top research scientists at the largest oil company in US and they say do not bring important tech to them because the company will gain rights and knowledge and then withdraw funding to shelve and use lawyers to keep the inventors from pulling off the shelf . The military will see it as a weapon and destroy our chance at being welcomed by all star people/beings. The stargate must be developed by those were endowed with divine inspiration, that IS the lawful order and to violate that is lawless -what goes around comes around.

Most of you literally have no clue what is ACTUALLY going on. You can’t know until you master law which includes divine law, natural law, common law, organic law, constitutional law and statutory law. God IS law. Since you didn’t master law and play your role to uphold the PROPER APPLICATION OF LAW at all times your judgement, the end of your lineage, will be the divine justice rendered.

I know this may sound arrogant but only those who mastered the law will comprehend how humble one must be to say I DON’T KNOW and then work dilligently EVERYDAY to find the truth of existence. It’s not arrogance, it’s PASSION.

GLAD TO SEE OTHERS AT LEAST COMING INTO VIEW OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
January 19, 2020 2:00 pm

Doug, my favorite part by far is the Onspot link! Way cool, man. I love seeing new (and useful) widgets in use.

Uncola
Uncola
  Articles of Confederation
January 19, 2020 3:09 pm

Indeed, A.O.C. No doubt another labor of love delivered other greedy Capitalists. For those who may have missed the embedded link in the piece, here is the video:

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 4:05 pm

Wow, clever stuff, thanks Doug

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 19, 2020 2:12 pm

Life is like a school bus day job
With an driver that’s so brave
We must make this run successful
From the cradle to the grave
Watch the ice, the snowy bridges
Never falter, never fail
Keep your hand upon that big wheel
And your eye upon the swale

Oh, blessed Savior, thou wilt guide us
Til we reach that blissful shore
Where the families wait to join us
In God’s grace forever more

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
January 19, 2020 2:29 pm

I thought of posting something by Travis Tritt but I come back to this guy:
(Don’t forget to say a small prayer for Stucky.)

Paulita Senorita!
Paulita Senorita!
  EL Coyote
January 19, 2020 3:18 pm

i remember the guy in my prayers now and i barely met him…

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  EL Coyote
January 19, 2020 7:57 pm

Tompal & The Glaser Brothers have a kickass cover of this song.

M G
M G
  EL Coyote
January 19, 2020 8:55 pm

I ended up with a big assignment from LA above. That’ll teach me to post some chic Carl Sagan video trying to look smart.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
January 19, 2020 4:30 pm

My brother drove a school bus for a couple of years after he was forcibly retired at the age of 58 in one of the many “restructuring/downsizing” events that seemed to happen over and over again beginning in the 90’s. He was a curmudgeon before he was old enough to be a curmudgeon. I think there is a requirement in writing some where that says you have to be at least 65 before you are allowed to be a curmudgeon. He was born a curmudgeon. There must be a word for someone who is a curmudgeon at age 17. He was probably a good driver but not so much good with the kids. I think he called them rugrats and curtain hangers.

A good school bus driver is worth their weight in gold. Have you seen many people run the “stop” sign when the bus is stopped? I see it all the time and this happened just the other day at the stop where my grandkids get on at the end of the driveway of their rural home. I sometimes…well most of the time… do a Hollywood stop at a four-way where there are no other cars but I would never run a school bus stop sign.

“But, why can’t I ever shake this made-for-TV feeling? Because everything always just seems so perfectly… contrived.”

Well, there is the famous quote from William Casey

Flashback: “We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.”

Which Pompeo repeated, not in the same words but still admitted they lie, cheat and steal. And if that weren’t enough, Mr. Evangelical Christian Pompeo thought it was funny and so did everyone there.

However, President Trump is supposed to be at war with the intelligence agencies. Isn’t he?

(EC)
(EC)
  Mary Christine
January 20, 2020 7:51 pm

It’s called a California stop over here. A safety comic suggested we wait until all four wheels stop rolling.

Frank
Frank
January 19, 2020 5:29 pm

The master planners hate the semi-chaos that the US used to thrive on.
While my personality prefers things being well ordered and predictable, the semi-chaos seems to bring the most benefit for most of the people, so I just shrug and go with it.
Total control and predictability only benefits the totalitarians; who either don’t see that it brings its own demise, or think that this time they can make it work because they are SOO much smarter than anyone who came before.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Frank
January 19, 2020 11:20 pm

“Semi-chaos” reminds a little of Maslov and the hierarchy of needs.

motley
motley
January 19, 2020 6:51 pm

Hey Stucky … you DID say you would be reading & watching. Hope you are okay (so to speak). Still praying for you and thinking of you. As a single guy, I can’t imagine what you are going through. Do your best. Turn to Jesus Christ. He will comfort you …. He promises. Just wanted you to know you are not forgotten …

M G
M G
  motley
January 19, 2020 6:56 pm

What motley said… double dee for me…

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This guy was a pilot once but is now a chicken whisperer! a good guy from Misery too!

M G 99
M G 99
  M G
January 19, 2020 6:56 pm

But, who is counting?

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  M G 99
January 19, 2020 7:04 pm

Me?

M G hahaha!
M G hahaha!
  Mary Christine
January 19, 2020 7:15 pm

I downloaded the information from Joe Tippens’s blog regarding the dewormer medicine that cures cancer.

I cleaned it up… a LOT of really good information there and pretty well written. However, he’s a bit of a novice regarding formatting, spacing, et. al.

Printed 3 copies so they will be able to read all of it before being on his really messy blog.

He needs an editor. If I knew a good one, I’d send a link.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  M G hahaha!
January 19, 2020 10:07 pm

One of my cats ate a bird and got diarrhea. The vet put him on an anti-diarrhea med and an anti-parasitic similar to the dog anti-parasitic and it made his dia…dia…I’m tired of trying to spell it correctly. So it made his runs worse. It didn’t stop until we stopped giving him the anti-parasitic. It might cure cancer but you might die of dehydration. I suppose if you got nothin to lose then you may as well try it. Believe me when you have cancer you start thinking about trying all kinds of things.

I was telling my daughter, the nurse, about that stuff. She has a pretty open mind. She said “Don’t believe everything you read on the interwebz.” I told her to research it but she just got off of a 12 hour shit..oops..I mean shift. The Chiefs won the playoffs and she said everyone at her house was already drunk. I don’t think she will go home and research it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Mary Christine
January 19, 2020 11:30 pm

I was researching a little Chiefs history and found that the name comes from H. Roe Bartle’s nickname: The Chief. (He was mayor and was instrumental in H. L. Hunt’s decision to move his AFL team from Dallas to KC). For years and years I thought it had something to do with the statue of The Scout, a warrior high up on a bluff overlooking the river.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Anonymous
January 20, 2020 10:39 am

Yeah, because Arrowhead Stadium, and arrowhead emblem, all kinds of Indian references, it’s hard to not think it’s related. I’m surprised they haven’t had to change the name.

Rumor has it that a local tribe put a curse on the team and that’s why they have never won another Super Bowl Championship.

M G
M G
  Mary Christine
January 21, 2020 2:52 pm

Is why I cleaned it up and printed the whole thing out. These are smart people… they can do the research themselves.

However, there are some very good reasons to believe it have some validity.

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 19, 2020 7:00 pm

100!
Shoot! It came up anon!
MC

StackingStock
StackingStock
January 19, 2020 7:41 pm

It was a good read Doug, hopefully you can make difference in those kids lives.

But, why can’t I ever shake this made-for-TV feeling? Because everything always just seems so perfectly… contrived.

I feel the same way and those people you transport daily might also, shape them, mold them, we could benefit from a lot of little Doug’s in the future.

Spike4187
Spike4187
January 19, 2020 8:10 pm

You are right about so many things. What is coming is coming and its no surprise because the Bible has warned us . The baby butchering, luciferian demoncraps will stop at nothing to sell America out to a New World Order run by the Antichrist. I say to you, know Jesus. Read the 1st Chapter in the book of John. Pretty much the gospel message in one tidy chapter.

BL
BL
January 19, 2020 8:31 pm

Unc-I knew it , I knew it….you live in Martha’s Vineyard. Is that where you keep the yacht? Don’t worry about the collapse, I happen to know MV is going to be as secure as possible . Can’t believe kids ride the bus in MV.

Uncola
Uncola
  BL
January 19, 2020 9:19 pm

Dang, Bea. Nothin gets by you

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BL
BL
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 9:28 pm

Yup!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Uncola
January 19, 2020 11:39 pm

During the Depression my father worked summers on MV-bell hop during the day and bottle getter for the fat cats after the sun went down. First in his family to go to college (MIT); had little/no financial support from family. Summer earnings + ROTC scholarship got him through during the darkest days of the Depression.

gm
gm
January 19, 2020 9:44 pm

please educate those young folks on the dangers of Privately Owned Central Bankers !
Im not sure where I read that before but they do seem to be behind most of the evil that consumes this world ! hehe . Just a cook that really likes to read the recipes that global POCB’s like to feed the masses and the resulting lack of nutrition from their said bullshit .
Be well all .

BL
BL
  gm
January 19, 2020 10:04 pm

gm- Long time no see, hope you are well. How are the kids?

Did you know Unc is a bus driver? Me either.

(EC)
(EC)
  BL
January 21, 2020 2:47 pm

Uncola is multi-talented and he’s a friend of mine. I iz proud of him and Maggie even more since she raised him when he was a young gup.

M G
M G
  (EC)
January 21, 2020 2:54 pm

I cut the whippersnapper loose whilst he was barely a tadpole kneehigh to a whippersnapper.

Now, I hear he’s a bus-driving whippersnapper.

(EC)
(EC)
January 19, 2020 11:13 pm

I got my own Nurse Ratchet to deal with, Unc. I watched a vid where the guy says that doing everything a controller wants is being a participant in your own enslavement and that the right thing to do is the Gandhi thing. Not the passive-aggressive thing but nonviolent resistance. Because controllers suffer anger and frustration when people don’t do as they wish (my boss was like that) and they have to learn that such anger is the price they pay for their controlling ways.

My daughter was still smart when she told me, you don’t know how good it feels to just say no.

But we fear controllers like Trump and Pelosi. We fear blacks and gays and everybody who might be offended. We imagine all sorts of backlash and raging anger directed as us.

You know why they made a big stink about the tiki torch parade? Because it was threatening, real men pushing back scares the bullies. They had to put that shit back in the box. But the tikis will be back when they try to shove a dick in their mouth, telling them that it’s offensive to reject the attention of trannies and queers. Or when the pedophiles come to pick up your kids to take on a play date.

Until then, we are just going to let them control us and we will cower before their rage.

Then the tikis will parade with rifles and nobody will be mocking them. Book it, Unc.

Uncola
Uncola
  (EC)
January 19, 2020 11:59 pm

Because controllers suffer anger and frustration when people don’t do as they wish…

Indeed, EC. Controllers don’t like the word “no”. Maybe that’s why everything is permitted until it all breaks down. Then…. either anarchy and decentralization or centralization administered by technological switches and gates. Personally, I believe the latter to be more plausible. The reason the future will be cashless is because slavery is rooted in economics. Just my too common cents.

M G
M G
  Uncola
January 21, 2020 3:05 pm

My son,as a teen, refused to take his grocery bagging tip money (big bucks at a military commissary on a payday weekend) to the bank and saved it in cash to pay for his first full year of “Big Boy” College from 2-year Jr. College to University of Missouri Science & Tech. Because he would have had to pay taxes on it and that was just flat out wrong, in my opinion.

Now that he has graduated, works for the biggest database manager of medical records in the world (and research data) as a software engineer? He doesn’t really see the need for any sort of physical money, he says. Of course, when I asked him what I should do with that tube of Silver Eagles he bought ten years ago, he told me to hang onto it for him.

M G
M G
  Uncola
January 21, 2020 3:11 pm

If there were two common sense people I might ask about sniffing too common scents to find the way to common sins with too few common repents or recompense. Personally, I wish common sense were a lot more common costing a lot fewer cents.

Here’s some not only random ruminations but on lovely oil-toned parchment background.

My aunt lost her husband four years after he returned from WWII. An aneurism burst in his head.

Eventually, she returned to college (with her two children) and became an artist. Then, she learned to write words on parchment.

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BL
BL
  (EC)
January 20, 2020 11:06 am

EC- Recently a friend of ours (70+ female) said she never heard of Tranny storytime at the public libraries. She also related that her children (Gen Xers) with small children would say it is OK.

I asked if she/they would be OK with the Tranny thing when her grandchildren had a Tran for their teacher every day dressed in a dress, wig, makeup, hairy legs and heels? Would she be OK if the Tran taught them to cross dress and be gay?

She looked panicked as the average maroon never considers where this could go in the future. Typical sheep and all that woman watches all day is FuXXNews.

I hope you are right buddy.

RiNS
RiNS
January 20, 2020 10:31 am

A random quote that I liked…

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle

Almost Saintly in its incision..

BL
BL
  RiNS
January 20, 2020 11:08 am

RiNS- It is the mark of the educated logical mind to know when you are being played_____Saint Bea

RiNS
RiNS
  BL
January 21, 2020 2:44 pm

Come on Bea! Now you are making me laugh!

ursel doran
ursel doran
January 20, 2020 10:57 am

New book hit piece on Trump from Washing Post hacks, reveals why the Deep State, Pelosi and pals, along with the AIPAC, MICC, Neocon Warmonger forever WAR’s mob is after his scalp. Keep the cash flowing!!

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2020/01/the-betrayal-of-trump-by-larry-c-johnson.html

fisheye
fisheye
January 20, 2020 7:27 pm

why did you scrub my comment

RiNS
RiNS
  fisheye
January 21, 2020 2:46 pm

you musta scrubbed it yerself fisheye after the last hit on the bong!

Horseless Headsman
Horseless Headsman
January 21, 2020 10:06 am

I’m cool if Bernie’s group wants to torch the cities. They’re that dumb, too.

RiNS
RiNS
January 21, 2020 2:40 pm

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(EC)
(EC)
  RiNS
January 21, 2020 2:45 pm

Who killed America?

RiNS
RiNS
  (EC)
January 21, 2020 2:49 pm

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Unaffiliated
Unaffiliated
  RiNS
January 21, 2020 3:50 pm

Lol I always enjoy the post-party conversations

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