Tag: Free Will

What Musk Does Right: Technical innovation isn’t always about being smart, its about daring to ask questions

One of the best tricks I’ve ever seen is how Elon Musk is pulling all this off so playfully.  I was watching the cartoon show, Rick & Morty the other night on the Cartoon Network and Elon Musk was a guest star, something he clearly didn’t have to do but felt compelled to play a part of.  All this while running one of the top car making companies in the world.  Any of these things would allow Musk to sit on a pedestal and just let the world come to him the way the Vanderbilt’s or Rothschilds might have in years past, but that’s not how he operates.  Musk is just an unpretentious person who likes to play with toys and he’d rather be thinking about how to fix the landing of the next Starship than going to awards ceremonies where people tell him how smart he is, indirectly looking for some of his money.  What Elon Musk has built in Boca Chica, Texas is a group of some of the smartest people who are just like him, young minds, playful people, and untainted adults still with the gifts of childhood governing their lives and it’s a dream come true for me.  I’ve been hoping to see more of this kind of thing in more industries for decades, but at least we are seeing it now with SpaceX.  Finally, someone with the passion of Thomas Edison, the money of Henry Ford, but the curiosity about life that a typical five-year-old has who is taking humanity to the next great places.

Recently I had to talk about the failures of Virgin Galactic as compared to SpaceX, which pained me because I had really been rooting for Richard Branson’s group to pull off space tourism.  However, the Virgin Galactic approach to space was way too adult-like.  Way too rigid, which allowed pin headed government types to stick their noses into the business of innovation and whitewash away the results.  Musk has built his company the way a child would, if one experiment goes bad, then we’ll just try again and again until we get it.  Even with the mishaps of SN10, the plans were already in place to put SN11 on the lunch pad.  After SN11 the plans for SN16, SN17 then SN20 for the scheduled orbital flight by midsummer.   If this were any other company, it would have taken 6 months to even put another Starship on the launchpad, let alone continue to push for the aggressive orbital goals that many companies would just put on the schedule as a placeholder.  With SpaceX, they intend to meet their schedule, not at the sacrifice of the product itself, but they do view time lost as time gone forever and lost opportunity that slips away each time. 

By making the rockets automated and removing the concept of a pilot from the Starship program, Elon Musk set the standard for success in this highly litigious age we live in presently where micromanagement of everything kills innovation before an idea is even born.  I often think what a shame it is that there aren’t more people like Elon Musk in any society at any given point in history because of this ratio of risk and rewards, but I am grateful to have Musk at all.  He has just the right temperament to run so many large-scale operations at the same time, and be one of the richest people on the planet without the pretense that usually comes from those titles.  Musk is just as likely to be found at a Boco Chica coffee shop with his engineering late at night scratching out ideas on a napkin than he is high rolling it with the rich and famous, and that is an unspoken part of this whole mix that is more important than anything.  As I pointed out with Virgin Galactic, people like Richard Branson use their considerable charm to schmooze the powerful in government, but because they do not have the extra gears that Elon Musk does, cannot help the real people in the trenches solve the hard problems.  That is how Musk has pulled his companies out and away from the pack so effectively and why they are so successful now.

The obsession that Elon Musk has on the Starship program reminds me a lot of Edison working out the details on the light bulb, and the endless quest to manufacture rubber that he was trying to do for the Ford Motor Company.  To people on the outside, it looks dangerous and even obsessive, but there has never been a better personality than Musk to handle it.  As great as Edison was you wouldn’t see him on a popular cartoon like Rick & Morty.  The biggest difference has been in Musk’s playful approach to the rocket business on the top end and has been a template for all future success that people will be following for years.  I can’t think of a better example of how management and problem solving in business should be done than in what SpaceX is doing presently, and under tremendous pressure.  Any other company and group of personalities would be crushed in the process, but SpaceX continues to make it all look so easy—which is because they have separated themselves from the pretentiousness of adulthood and left the realm of innovation where it belongs, with the heart of playful kids and rocket geniuses. 

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Its Time to Swing on the Noose: Let the Democrats choke on it

I feel bad even bringing it up because there wasn’t anything Trump could have done about it.  It was an election year.  Nobody had ever seen this kind of malice coming from a shadow government before.  Heck, people have a hard time admitting that there is a shadow government, let alone that its not something they are in control of.  So, It seem unfair to hold Trump to such a measure, but if we are going to be honest, Trump made a huge mistake by playing along with Covid.  The result is that a fake scientific community is still laying claim to being the authority on science and the designation of a global pandemic as something the world should be concerned with, and that is still the basic policy driver behind so much government expansion that we are seeing on a daily basis.   The effort it will take to put this genie back in the bottle will be incredibly difficult.   Its still possible, but it will be much worse now than even a year ago.  Now I wouldn’t blame Trump for it.  He was learning about this stuff along with the rest of us.  Nobody really understood how deceitful these monsters were.  Well, I did.  But I can certainly understand how and why normal people would miss the mark.  To see this stuff for what it was you must admit to some basic traits about the human race that few people are ready to admit to and that really is the essence behind the Covid scam.  Most people just don’t have it in their hearts to see the truth, and the villains are well aware of this natural cover that they always enjoy. 

That’s also why our plan must be to let them run their course and hang every mistake on their necks with their full weight.  Right now, the political left, the insurgents are just running through the bullet points on their script without considering reality at all which is interesting.  Its yet another reason that they had to tamper with the election of 2020 through Covid relief laws made up as they went along, to allow for massive election fraud to put them in power and fulfill all these goals.  Such as the notion of using Covid relief payments as a foundation for a universal wage.  Part of the script has been to just give people money, to make more dependents out of normal people and as long as the MAGA movement was in the way, they always had an excuse for why their utopian paradise wasn’t working.  Now there is no opposition.  Trump is hiding out in exile and everyone else is on their heels.  There is no opposition to speak of now with the House, Senate and the Executive—even the Judicial all in this socialist takeover long planned in America.  It’s the nightmare scenario for sure of what the world would look like if the people of Georgetown suddenly were in charge of everything, this is the world they would give to everyone.  They think it makes sense, but to the rest of us, it’s a pretentious escapade of wine drinking mixed with second generation wealth that nobody understood how the first generation made the money in the first place.  They are only good at spending it. 

I would still argue that we are a lot better off knowing what we do today.  What we were doing in 2016 wasn’t possible because there were too many malicious characters who had been hiding in plain sight to deal with.  We had no idea the FBI and Justice Departments were so corrupt; we had no idea how vile the Obama administration had been and how politically manipulative they were.  We had no real idea how deep in bed many of our own people were with China and how rich our politicians were getting off the relationships.  In hindsight, it should be very obvious.  But it was hard to see going forward.  Nobody was coming out and saying just how much they wanted to see America fall to the rest of the world, including many in our own political circles.  I was certainly there, but I understood that most people just don’t have room in their hearts for that type of hatred of people in general, because to see it, you have to hate it.  And to hate it you must be ready to make that judgment in a world where judgments are looked down upon.  So that means you must break that peer pressure and be comfortable with the ridicule.  Trump certainly wasn’t signing up for that.  He wanted to be America’s cheerleader, and the parts of his job that allowed him to do that, he was spectacularly good at.  But it was the wrong game all together that we got pulled into playing. 

That is also why I’m more reserved about all this than I might have been in the past.  Now that we’ve all hit the wall, there really isn’t anything to be afraid of.  The Democrats have done all this on their own without any help from Republicans, other than them just laying down like weaklings and letting them do their will.  That means that the script with all its flaws will be exposed for now on against a world that clearly didn’t vote for Joe Biden.  And the plan was always to just pay people off to shut up.  But it took too long to get out the $1400 checks and this is all as easy as it will ever get for them.  And its no paradise, not by a long shot.  Its hard to have power and to keep it, so now that burden is on the Democrats, and its obvious that they will choke on it.  And for our part, its time to swing on the noose to help the process along.  But nothing else. 

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A Lesson from Sports: We will have a reason to celebrate once again

Tampa Bay as I have said many times is a place, I consider to a be a second home.  I love the football team there, it’s been that way for years.  I love the Tampa Bay Buccaneers every year, even when they lose a lot like they did last year where they had a 7 and 9 season.   I think sports are important because it creates a nice little microcosm about life, what works as a culture and what doesn’t for people to see and cheer for.  As I said, most of the results fall far short of any big prize, but its fun to watch and root for something that you can share with other people.  This past season for the Bucs I was more upset because the general manager had pulled off some great contractual miracles in signing Tom Brady and some other big names and it looked to be just the thing the Buccaneers needed, veteran leadership that could finally take them over the top.   But that is if there’d be an NFL season at all.  The NFL got a lot of criticism for going so far woke, in allowing players not to stand for the national anthem, in allowing Black Lives Matters to imprint messages in the endzones, but I was more forgiving not just because I like the product, but that I appreciate the bigger game for what it is.  Roger Goodell managed to keep the NFL viable and the lunatic health people found a way to have the games even if the entire preseason was cancelled.  So the football season started, even though at first it felt as if the whole thing might come crashing down in a moment.  But up to that point, Covid was bigger than everything and I was really worried that if that ever happened to American Football, that we might never recover as a country.

Our nation needed it, the weekly games, the highlights on the news, something else to think about besides Covid lockdowns.  The Bucs did well, but not well enough.  They lost some key games to the Saints, to the Chiefs and Bears that I thought were going to ruin the entire season.  But by December Tom Brady showed why he’s much more than a quarterback by getting the team functioning on all cylinders as they continued to win the rest of the games for the year on into the playoffs.  And it was a thing of beauty to watch, even if you weren’t a Tampa Bay Buc fan.  It was good to see that part of our culture come back to life.  By the time the Bucs went to the Super Bowl in their own stadium, which has been talked about in Tampa for so many years it was so good to watch so many big gambling efforts come together perfectly only to have the Bucs beat the Chiefs so convincingly.  Really it came back as investments of the team owners, the Glazers had made into their own organization which were paying off now in a perfect storm of unlikely circumstances that just felt good.  It reminded me that with all the seasons and hoping that often go into any kind of sports support, that sometimes you do get a payoff and it is worth the effort when it does.

I couldn’t help but think of Donald Trump and the state of Republican politics through all this, because honestly, it’s a very similar game.  As hopeless as things can sometimes appear, a good play here, a good play there, and suddenly you have something to cheer for again.  As exciting as it was to see the Bucs win another Super Bowl I could see it clearly where I would feel even better about future wins in the House and Senate culminating in a new president in 2024.  That the hopeless situation of today is largely a manufactured reality that has a shelf life and our hopes, needs and dreams will outlast them easily.   I approach every season of the Bucs with enthusiasm but by the last week I’m already looking toward the next year.  And its been that way for decades.  They went to the Super Bowl in 2003 before going again this past year and every year in between I went through the same ups and downs that everyone goes through only to end up disappointed with the end result.  However, it is worth it when you invest yourself in these kinds of things to see it all come together in a nice, beautiful package of success.  And in politics, we will smile again, we will have hope again, we will have revenge for what has been done to us.  We will have revenge for the debts, we will have revenge for the wokeness, the censorship, the massive expansion of government overreach.  We will have options again and it will feel great to see those victories.

With all that value, I’m not one who just writes off sports as anything short of a important social value.  If the rest of the world could organize their sports the way we do in America, they certainly would.  But they don’t have the kind of culture that creates the circumstances.  Sports therefor becomes so reflective on the kind of values we truly have as a culture.  And its good to see that winning is still one of the most important attributes that we all still share.  Winning is still important enough to drive the sporting market and push through all the government nonsense just to play a game and see what happens.   In a year where it looked like a fantasy for anything to become bigger than Covid, the NFL managed to stay open long enough to complete a full season and to show us all that life could return to normal, somewhat.  And that people like me who have rooted for the Buccaneers every year for decades could see happiness again even if it came from unlikely places.  The lesson is that the games of life are worth playing.   Victory is just out there often with one good try here and there.   Eventually, when its due to us, we’ll get it, and we’ll love it!

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Wokeness Will Soon Be Out of Fashion: And not a moment too soon

People will do a great many things to survive, if they think there is a real danger to themselves and the people they care about, they’ll follow the rules of a loser government up to a point.  During the last year of Covid we have watched most people take a wait and see approach to the perceived danger.  If that culture says to watch what you say about some woke aspect of a culture, they’ll play along as long as it doesn’t cost them anything.  But the minute that the government can no longer prove that there is a danger, or that the danger is noticeably overblown, people will quickly move to their own values.  That means this massive investment in social construct, into accepting transgender politics, equalization among the sexes, in open border advocacy, are false constructs that do not represent the values of normal people.  They will only listen to such arguments out of self-preservation from an overreaching set of government bureaucrats.  When the values of a society are not aligned with the needs of that society, rule breaking will then become the respectable norm.  But blind adherence to a social norm that is created by a tyrannical government is not natural and will be abandoned by a population at the first opportunity. 

Just as the belief from the government was that Covid would bring us all a new normal, where the rules of Covid protocols would dictate a change in social norms.  As if people would accept for the rest of their lives that we would have to wear masks, that we would have to socially distance.  That all the ridiculousness in avoiding Covid would become the standard government procedure.  I have been enjoying lately watching people come back to life, one year after Covid was shoved into our lives we can see the signs of a world post Covid returning to normal.  Its little things here and there, like the Tampa Bay Bucs parade for winning the Super Bowl where people enjoyed life without socially distancing or wearing the dumb masks and the media had very little to say about it. I was at a few restaurants this past week while the NCAA tournaments were on and they were packed.  People were ready to spend money.  The idea of going to baseball games and actually filling up stadiums again are very much on people’s minds.  This was not the intention of the government doomsayers who were intent to change our society to a new normal.  People want normal again, and nothing else.  And that will be the same type of situation with wokeness.  People must want the market trends; they can’t be imposed on everyone just to stick out of regulation.  Without people believing in why we do things, any trend that is put forth will lack its own energy to maintain itself for any kind of duration. 

Whenever I watch one of these academic approaches to social mind control, I find it bewildering that the participants are so stupid.  I mean we all have access to the same books, the same history of human behavior.  Much of this stuff is well studied, yet time and time again they think that they have mastered the efforts for change and that people will drop their need for personal rebellion and suddenly seek instructions for their basic existence.  And that is always at the heart of most progressive governments where they believe that at the heart of all management problems among a society is a large central government to manage the affairs of everyone.  They have no evidence that states that such a large central government was ever successful, yet they plan as if it’s always been the case ignoring the obvious warning signs of social discontent.  China for their own problems has clearly bitten off too much for themselves.  They now have the world captivated to their cause, but they do not have a history of success to display they actually know what they are doing.  China has problems managing their society everywhere.  Particularly among their men.  They have feminized their males; they have too tightly controlled their females.  They are not inventive and are showing massive problems on the horizon that a large government will never be able to inspire growth out of.  Yet they are the ones setting policy controls through the media to steer society from one woke policy to another. 

It will be with the same lack of fanfare that the woke trends of our times now will fall away into ridiculousness as the social controls of today are scrutinized beyond defense.  People will accept the opposite of what we call wokeness now, the default mode will be the opposite—everything but wokeness.  It just takes too much work to think about all these pronoun problems, and all the overly sensitive modes of engagement meant to make lazy people feel less bad about themselves.  There will be a day not so far away where people will make fun of woke terms the way people now make fun of bell bottoms and other outdated social trends that in hindsight make us wonder what we were thinking when we came up with them.  History will remember the criticism, it won’t remember the act itself or what caused it, because neither was created out of necessity, but in an arrogant attempt at social engineering by inferior academic pin heads.  And when it does, we will all have a good, needed laugh.  We will make fun of the losers who created so much trouble for us because they’ll deserve the ridicule.  They’ll deserve our criticism spectacularly.  And the more we do it, the more healthy our society will be as a warning to those future micromanagers, to keep their dumb ideas to themselves and not to transfer to the rest of us all their neurosis.  For as thick as it feels today, we will surely enjoy the snap back into reality for which we are all owed.  It will be a good day when that happens, and we all certainly deserve to see woke culture ridiculed to the ends of the earth with great fanfare.

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A “Coat of Many Colors” at The Big Texan: Perspective in an unusual place

I thought this little video was worth a little more comment than just for personal use.  We were at The Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas which was a place I really wanted to visit while we were in that part of the world.  I would have liked to have said that I enjoyed it more than I did.  In truth, it was a tough day.  We had come into town with our RV just one day after the second major snowstorm had ravaged the area and I had our rig wedged into our campsite in a way that I wasn’t sure I would ever get it out of until the snow melted.  We had picked the RV park next to The Big Texan because they offered free limo rides to the restaurant and they had a nice indoor heated pool.  I was hoping to get really refreshed during our stay there but as it turned out the pool was broken, the limos were all snowed in, and I spent most of the day digging a path for our RV to park in 6 inches of snow.  By the time we arrived at The Big Texan to eat I had just had an important oversea call that went on for nearly 2 hours and with everything else, I was pretty stressed out, worried that we might end up stuck in Amarillo for several days.  The food was great, the atmosphere was wonderful, and these guys came to our table to sing whatever song we wanted.  My wife picked Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” and for a moment, we were really touched by these guys.  It was a tough day but during that song, I was reminded of several good things that are worth a mention. 

I’ll never be the one who will say that vacations are meant for relaxing.  For me, they are opportunities to push yourself and to come out of our comfort zone a bit.  And we certainly did that during an RV trip through the American Southwest.  We are new to the RV life so when my wife wanted to go to the desert for this particular trip, we had no idea that it was going to be zero degrees every day we were traveling and that we would only see temperatures above freezing a few times.  But we survived and figured things out as we went along.  Our RV did really well in the snow and extreme cold and I was proud of our trip as we headed north back toward Texas.  But we were also very tired by that point and the snowstorm that had just hit there was a bit too much.  We had no choice but to have a good attitude about it, because we had a long way to get home and letting down our vigilance just wasn’t an option.  But to say the least, I was on pins and needles.  Coming into that campground we were literally driving on a sheet of ice.  Nobody in Amarillo was doing much of anything so leaving our campground for The Big Texan was tough.  It would have been easier to just stay at the RV and cook some dinner, go to bed and get up early hoping to get out of our site.  Getting into the site was tough, getting out would be worse.  But I’m glad we did end up going to The Big Texan.  If for no other reason but to hear that song played at our table. 

My wife has always liked that Dolly Parton song, but given all that has been going on, it had more meaning this time for me.  It was cool to see so many cowboy hats moving around in the background.  It was such a great American atmosphere and the content of the song reminded me how resilient Americans are.  With all the victimhood that is behind progressive politics, the real solution to our future was in the contents of that song, where if you have a good family and some love in the people around you, then you are one of the richest people in the world.  With progressives being so anti-family this song was a reminder that no matter what they tried to do in order to change the nature of America, people would always be people.  People would always love a coat of many colors just because their mamma made it.  Hearing that song in such a cool place after such a terribly hard day, it just rang home.  It reminded me that was precisely why were traveled so far, was to change our perspective in such a way that a treasured old song like that would take on new meaning.  Over the years, some of my best ideas have come from such pressure extremes, which is why I’m always so eager to do things out of the box so often.  But they don’t often come out so positively.  

We went home from The Big Texan that night feeling pretty good about things.  We went to bed at a reasonable hour, even though it was -2 below outside we had the temp inside the RV at 80 degrees.  We had our TV running to help us sleep and once 5 AM came around I watched The Weather Channel to see how our day’s drive would be and started working to hook up the rig to leave.  It took quite a lot of work to get out of that spot, but after a while, we eventually made it out to the sheet of ice and were able to spin our wheels enough to inch our way to some decent traction.  We checked out before daybreak and were headed back down the highway within a few minutes, never to look back.  For the next 500 miles travel was rough, the water lines were burst everywhere, especially around Oklahoma City.  There was nowhere to use the restroom.  We were at least able to get fuel, but our trip all the way to Springfield Missouri as I have said in a previous post was pretty rough.  That was the second day in a row where we had white knuckled the driving and we needed a decent night’s sleep.  That is why our trip to Bass Pro Shops in Missouri was so wonderful. 

However, the difficulty under which we heard that song at The Big Texan is an evening I will never forget.  It was far from the best night of my life, but under the tenuous conditions, that song sounded like a little bit of heaven with some fresh perspective that I found very useful.   My wife of course loved hearing the song, but even beyond that, it had an otherworldly kind of feel to it, as if everything we had done during the trip culminated into that little message.  It wouldn’t have felt that way if we just heard the song on the radio.  I think we needed all the trouble to go with it.  And I’m glad we did.  Days later after we were home and back to our normal comforts, I think we both reflected on that night with some reverence that we otherwise wouldn’t have had.  Certainly, we were much richer from the experience, just like that Coat of Many Colors. 

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Bass Pro Shops in Springfield Missouri: Heaven on earth

Yes, I can say that I’ve been to Heaven and back.  I’ve been wanting to go to the Bass Pro in Springfield Missouri since the 1980s, which is the headquarters of all the stores.  Its just that being right in the middle of the country like it is, I was never really near that area.  If I travel to that part of the world traditionally, it would be by plane.  But one of the things my wife and I wanted to experience when we bought our new RV last year was all the little things in our nation that you don’t typically get to see, because they are off the beaten path.  Yet we knew from experience that those were the best things in the world.  When you travel you only really get to see what has been set up for you to see.  If you really want to get to know your nation, you need a way to get away from the hotels and airports to grab the essence of those far-flung places by convenience.  In this case, with RV travel, when you have your hotel room with you at all times, and a place to eat and shower, the world really opens up to you.  And that’s how after a big trip my wife and I found the opportunity to stop by the Springfield Missouri Bass Pro and camp nearby to break up the long drive and I have to report, it was well worth the effort.

 

After the rough election season, even though I do one of these postings and video recordings every day for my readers, I needed a recharge.  I came out of the New Year very flat and disappointed in the Trump situation and I needed to find something good to remind me why these political fights were worth doing.  It was in fact because of the poorly managed 2020 with the Covid situation that my wife and I decided to buy an RV.  We didn’t want to be plugged into the system for travel as much as possible, and RV travel allows you to stay on the outskirts of society while traveling great distances.  There are no TSA lines, there is no city navigation, you just drive around all the pain in the ass stuff and you don’t have to be plugged in to a hotel room which I often find dirty, noisy and filled with incompetent people.  I have come to like RV travel quite a lot, with my own bed, My Pillow products going with me everywhere I want to go.  Having all the comforts of home there but being able to pick up the whole thing and leave day after day no matter where you are.  So we headed for the desert of New Mexico to get away from as many people as possible, to read books and to think about the things I like to think about for a solid week and it was well worth the effort.  Let me tell you.

I love Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s, and go to them several times a week just to see what’s new and to be in that atmosphere.  The popular outdoor stores are geared toward those who want a little adventure in their lives, they inspire visitors to do something outside and to make their lives more interesting by encouraging them to go out of their comfort zones and live a little.  For most people such a life is kind of a fantasy that they may never get around to.  But when you decide to take the plunge and join the RV life, you find places like Bass Pro Shops helps that lifestyle so much that another gear of appreciation is obvious from the start.  They are very supportive of RV life at Bass Pro.  We originally planned to camp at the Springfield site which is how the visit got on the map.  We ended up enjoying ourselves so much that we found a really nice campsite nearby though where we could plug in and enjoy all the comforts instead of boondocking making our time at Bass Pro Shops really memorable.  It was the biggest store of all the Bass Pro Shops and was the most exquisitely decorated.  I was a bit astonished how much the place reminded me of Disney World’s Animal Kingdom, only without the liberalism taint.  Bass Pro Shops is all American and unapologetic of it, which was for me, exactly what I needed at that particular time after living like a nomad in the desert of America’s southwest for over a week.

Most of the time when you look forward to visiting someplace like Bass Pro Shops from a great distance, you end up somewhat disappointed, because you see the pictures and they never live up to the hype.  But in this case the store was far better than any of the pictures or online marketing.  Everything was much bigger and nicer than I could have imagined.  It was a brilliant display of what a marriage between capitalism and adventure could produce.  It was a purely American thing.  Its not that the Springfield store was any different than a typical Cabela’s or Bass Pro Shop, but it was much larger and more audacious for sure.  It was a vacation destination of its own on par with Disney World, only without all the long lines.  The quality was certainly there.  And the main thing I wanted to see was the NRA Museum they had.  It was top class as well.  We spent much of a day enjoying the visit.  We could have spent the entire weekend.  It was that good.  If you ever want to visit such a place as a destination vacation, I couldn’t recommend it more. 

Often it’s the little things that make these places so much more valuable.  For instance, as my wife and I were traveling through Oklahoma City after all the massive power outages and massive freezing temperatures had split so many water lines that there wasn’t any pressure in the city for many miles in every direction.  When we got off the highway to gas up, we couldn’t find a restroom that was open anywhere for about 100 miles.  So we used the restroom in our RV.  What other people were doing, I have no idea, but we were in good shape.  All the campsites were frozen on the way home, including at Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, so we ended up carrying our waste water all the way back home.  Once back home I felt very happy to have an excuse to go to our local Cabela’s to dump my tanks.  Its one of the things that these big stores offer for RVers, a special place to park the rigs and to dump tanks and I really wasn’t sure why such a thing would have been valuable.  Well, after that trip, I perfectly understood, and it only continued my good feelings toward the great Springfield store.  It was a nice network that embraced American lifestyles in ways that most people hadn’t found a way to tap in to yet.  Yet for me, it was the perfect timing for how I felt after the election.  It certainly restored my thoughts about things.  Tomorrow looks much better because of my visit to Bass Pro Shops in Springfield Missouri. 

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John Weaver is What’s Wrong with Politics: The Lincoln Project was always a smokescreen for sexual perversion and a Washington culture wanting to abuse power

Of course, we all remember The Lincoln Project ads meant to harm President Trump by claiming there is some immoral aspect to the White House approach to politics.  Yet now we know as is usually the case that all the goodness that politicians and political action organizations truly intended which is to lay cover for their sexually perverted desires.  That was certainly the case with The Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver who now proclaims that he is a homosexual and that is why he was manipulating toward sex at least 20 young men abusing his relationship with them under the premise of employment.  Weaver on the outside was preaching morality under the Republican Party, but on the inside, he was cheating on his wife and kids with gay relationships with young male staffers which dictates that we address this issue for what it is.  Whether its John Weaver, Andrew Cuomo, or the secret list of participants on Jeffrey Epstein‘s orgy island, it is obvious that many if not most of the politicians in Washington D.C. are addicted to power which they can only get from political appointments and the abuse of that power for sexual addictions that are on the top of their minds at all times.  And the more an organization like The Lincoln Project preaches morality, the more they are actually trying to hide as deviants and sadistic sexual abusers. 

What is most disgusting about all this behavior is that the perpetrators have a belief that they are of a higher order than the rest of us, that what they do is on a different set of rules.  Such as the Epstein situation where he supposedly committed suicide and just sort of disappeared from the criminal scene after he was caught having sexual relationships with underaged girls.  Epstein was facilitating sex with very high-level people and because of it, the justice he should have had coming just disappeared from the news, just like the election fraud of President Trump.  Regarding The Lincoln Project, many people knew what John Weaver was doing, but they didn’t say anything about it.  Even during the 2020 campaign as people were aware that Weaver was abusing young boys who were working for him, nobody said anything.  It was behavior that people accepted.  Yet we were supposed to accept that President Trump’s behavior was reprehensible and that he should be removed from office. 

The truth of the matter is that most of these people get into political positions not so they can help manage the country, but because they want to control the law so that they can fulfill their sexual fantasies.  Its not like John Weaver is alone in his actions.  Likely there are many more people just like him than not, and that most of the young people serving in these political apprentice positions are finding themselves abused frequently.  Its not a remote occurrence, and the politicians get away with it because they are the law.  They get into those positions so they can be abusive, and their stations give them a cover story toward their aims at sex abuse.  Even if you take John Weaver’s poor excuse for his behavior by saying that he loves his wife and kids but that he’s a homosexual, nobody who is that confused about what they are should be telling anybody how to live or advise them on political matters.  The Anti-Trump Lincoln Project was never about making the Republican party better, it was always about preserving a system of abuse that the political class enjoyed, and Trump was unraveling that in front of their faces, and they hated him for it. 

As a former Playboy, I have always trusted Trump because much of that behavior is a phase in people’s lives, and obviously being married to Melania was good for Donald Trump.  It was the focus he needed to do bigger and better things in his life.  And with him, he never ran from his past.  But when it comes to these do-gooder John Weaver types, I always worry about them.  I would like to believe they are what they say they are, but often their activism for goodness is a smokescreen for perversions that they are trying to hide from even themselves.  And the ease for which other people knowingly accepted the behavior says that they too have the same problems.  Nobody who enters their adulthoods still thinking about stupid sex issues should be in a position to legislate or shape public policy about anything.  Anybody who is a homosexual trying to still maintain a fake marriage and being a fake father to fake kids is doing far more damage to our societal network than President Trump ever could have under any malicious circumstances.  People like John Weaver are what’s wrong with the world, or the Prince Andrews of the world looking for underaged sex under the tutelage of Jeffery Epstein. 

I would go as far to say that if a legislator is thinking about sexual fantasies at all, they are not qualified to be in any kind of power and should be removed.  If someone is in their middle ages and they are still looking for sex with boys and girls, they should not be in politics.  The art of politics should involve people who no longer care about those kinds of things.  Sex is a small part of our overall lives, its safe to say that if anybody is spending more than 1% of their week thinking about any kind of sex, they are facilitating a mental deficiency.  They certainly shouldn’t be running a political group like The Lincoln Project.  Instead, we have learned that John Weaver isn’t the exception, he’s the norm. 

We should all be insulted that all the action against Trump was intent to provide cover for these sexual escapades while trying to transfer psychologically the crime to the President when in all actuality, he was totally innocent.  It’s a sign of our troubling times where the people who are most guilty of the crimes of our nation are in fact the policy makers and legal minds shaping our culture.  And that they aren’t making policy for the good of mankind, but for the ability to have sex with an underaged kid and to hide the vile behavior behind morality.  By criticizing Trump for his approach to management, it provides an illusion that the critics are on the up and up, hiding from the public that they are really much more evil than what they accuse others of being.  And we get a full understanding from the John Weaver case within The Lincoln Project, that these sexual abuse stories are just the tip of the iceberg, that there is much more to these stories than what we are told, because nobody has the courage to address them in public.  Because in all honesty, there are more people functioning from sexual disfunction than there are out of truth, justice, and the American way.  President Trump tried hard to be honorable and respectful to the office of the president, but what The Lincoln Project losers really wanted is a JFK, an imperfect person who had sexual problems too and functioned from those types of weaknesses.  Knowing that, should concern us all about everything political. 

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The Windmills of Texas was a Terrible, Liberal Idea: When Democrats want to kill people to save their idea of the earth worship

I’ve seen them before, the windmills that are now part of so many power grids all across the nation.  Recently on a long drive through the American West I was able to see them up close as many truckers who supply our many businesses do, driving down from Kansas into Oklahoma and on into Texas and New Mexico you can’t miss them.  There are vast expanses of those windmills for as far as you can see.  It was a major investment that was impressive.  The size of them was impressive.  But after a while they lose their mystique and they just become eye pollution.  Now, if they worked wonderfully, perhaps all that eye noise on the vast landscape would be worth it.  But as we learned especially in Texas as they were hit with a century unique snowstorm, which I was right in the middle of, that the windmills froze up and became useless making many people in Texas completely vulnerable to the zero-degree temperatures.  It was a complete disaster to allow wind power to become such a part of the Texan power grid, its no wonder that the governor Greg Abbott was the first state in the country this week in removing the statewide mask mandate.  After that mess, he owed the people of Texas some relief, which he’s a good governor and was smart enough to realize.  The lesson here was that if you follow liberal policies, even a little bit, that doom is soon to follow and that is precisely what happened to Texas with its over commitment to wind power. 

Fortunately, I was there to be able to see that disaster up close, the windmill failures.  I felt sorry for everyone, but luckily, Texas was able to get back to warmer weather much faster than other parts of the country would have been, if not the deaths would have been much higher.  This was just another example of how stupid liberal energy policies are, or just mitigations for what they perceive as climate change.  Every year California goes through their wildfire season which is essentially a massive case of mismanagement of forest undergrowth because they put perceived environmental concerns over the logic of real science that is beneficial to human beings.  The desire to eliminate human energy footprints in the world due to superstitious concerns has proved to be the most treacherous aspect of their energy policies, which can be seen obviously in the loss of power in Texas during the 2021 unique snowstorm.  Its exactly the same kind of lunacy as we have experienced under Covid-19.  Bad liberal management of resources and future forecasts of crises management.  The amount of failures that we are seeing that come from liberal policies should terrify anybody downstream of their mistakes and the evidence is now impossible to ignore. 

In Ohio, there was much scandal made of the Ohio Republicans in conjunction with the bailouts of two nuclear power plants.  In spite of the FBI assisting efforts of liberals to torpedo the deal that would preserve nuclear energy in Ohio it should be obvious to everyone what was really going on.  The same greenie weenie policies from environmentalists who want to cover Ohio with windmills and solar power, without really understanding the long-term consequences should be obvious to everyone by now.  They want more than anything to control the people of Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma—everywhere by controlling how much power people can get, so that they can forcibly remove human beings carbon footprint as the end result of their activism.  Its not about providing successful energy needs in a next generation state, its about limiting the power consumption of the human race by weening them off the needs for power.  But while all that activism is applied, nobody thinks about not having power for weeks on end when the temperature outside a home is below zero, and there is a very real chance of people dying.  The dysfunctional desire to preserve the earth while killing off human beings is something every legislator should be concerned about.  We continue to see time and time again that liberals do not care about the results of their decisions as they may inconvenience human beings.   They see humans as an impediment to their case of earth worship and their politics and science is bent to reflect their intellectual deficiencies.

Based on what we know now, we should understand that nothing liberals propose in regard to energy source maintenance is for anybody’s good.  We should see every proposal made by liberals as antagonistic toward human endeavor.  The wind power energy generation is a horrendous expense and a technical blemish on reality.  If liberals really cared about the environment, they wouldn’t consider building that many windmills dotting the entire countryside for miles and miles in all directions just to avoid a few nuclear power plants that most people would never see, and would be a lot more reliable in power maintenance.  Just as if they didn’t want to see forest fires every year in the West, they would do grounds maintenance to clear up all the undergrowth and protect people’s homes.  Instead, they secretly want people’s homes destroyed because liberals don’t think the homes should have been built at all in the first place.  The less that humans populate the earth, the better the policy as far as liberals are concerned, and the evidence of their actions comes out every time there is one of these natural disasters, crazy snowstorms, forest fires, hurricanes, etc.  Then when they are caught, the argue that snowstorms are caused by global warming, they say that forest fires are caused by global warming, they say that hurricanes are caused by global warming and that there are only 10 years to correct the situation without a shred of evidence that they can point to for testimony of truth.  There is a whole lot more evidence of election fraud in the 2020 elections than there is that climate change is even a remote concern for our present day.  Yet we are making decisions based on liberal views on climate change while we ignore the other issues that are far more certain.  Meanwhile, people are suffering every time a liberal policy fails, as it did in Texas.

Its one thing to be politically critical of the other side for all kinds of reasons, but its another to be up close and personal when everything fails.  Usually, I only see the liberal stupidity from a television or radio broadcast, from the safety of my home.  But for the windmills freezing up in Texas, I was right there in the middle of it watching it in live time.  And the mass stupidity was obvious.  Without question, the Republicans of Texas got suckered into accepting these greenie weenie proposals from liberals in order to shut them up over some other issue by giving a little here to protect something over there.  But the totality of the failure is that windmills should have never been a part of any deal.  Its easier to say that in hindsight now that the tragedy has occurred.  Nobody knew what would happen to the windmills should a zero-degree snowstorm ever hit Texas.  But now that it happened, the lessons can’t be ignored.  And what we do going forward should be understood for the day after tomorrow.

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A Speakeasy in New Mexico: When living a normal life is against the law

One of the reasons I wanted to go so far away for vacation this year was because I was sick and tired of the government mismanagement of Covid.  I wanted to be around as few people as possible, so my wife and I headed to the deserts of New Mexico in our RV to get away from the world and its stupidity to read books and relax.  The election year of 2020 was rough, I was involved at too many levels over such a long period of time and after I needed to recalibrate.  So, it was a good time to travel out into the far reaches of the country and get a sense of things, which we did.  But I didn’t know that New Mexico was still on lockdowns much the way New York and Michigan had been.  Their governor there was an idiot Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham, who like most of the Democrats during Covid showed exactly why governors can’t be trusted with emergency powers for long periods of time.  They couldn’t handle the pressure and the roots of their political party, always pointed toward personal tyranny revealed itself in policies that were destroying industry.  It was a good thing we were traveling by RV because we had our own kitchen and could eat all of our meals there, because still after all this time Governor Grisham had all the lockdowns in place and there was literally no place to eat.  Struggling restaurants could sell takeout, but there was no seating in a dining room, and the people I talked to were furious about it. 

We traveled all over the state going to see things that I had always wanted to see, but in all those places, dining rooms were closed forcing restaurants to get creative in how they served food just to stay open. In one such instance we stopped by a really small-town way out in the desert.  I won’t say where because one thing all these restaurants are terrified of are narks on Yelp giving them reviews that tip off health terrorists who then come to their places and shut them down for not adhering to the unconstitutional rules of these mindless governors.  Its easy to say to people to fight their challenges out in court, but most of them are operating their businesses day to day, they don’t have the money for a court fight which has only made the blue state governors that much more abusive in their rule making.  Anyway, in this town there was literally only one restaurant and it looked like it had been closed for a very long time.  However, we were 100 miles from anywhere else so we parked the car and walked around it looking for any signs of life within.  My wife was ready to walk away and look for an alternative even though as I said, the next place was literally many miles away so before giving up I pulled on the door, and it came open.

Inside were a surprising number of people, the restaurant was open and there were signs of life.  Now we knew where everyone was in the town, because until that point we saw nobody out walking around.  But with the windows blackened out to the outside world, the owners of this restaurant were openly defying the governor.  And they weren’t even wearing masks.  They were being so defiant.  They were weary to see us at first, but we made fast friends as I let them know how grateful I was to see them open and not mandating masks.  Once we understood each other I was able to get a couple of really delicious hamburgers for $5 each.  Sure, my wife and I were hungry, we had been hiking around in the mountains all day and had very little food up to that point, but that hamburger was as good as any gourmet hamburger I had ever had.  As we ate there were families with their kids coming and going, everything was very festive.  The sheriff came in and made a purchase, so it was good to see the town supporting this little place, and the law defying the tyranny of the incompetent governor.  It was a very happy day and exactly what I had gone on vacation to see.  People behaving as normal, defying the stupid Covid restrictions that our out-of-control government had been using to provide cover for their election fraud intentions of 2020.  It was a step back to the way the world was, and how it should be again. 

Everyone knows my opinion on Covid-19.  Its always been a scam, a method of putting a muzzle on humanity by changing the rules of the game.  In 2019 people would have called Covid a cold and people would have fought through it only to get better again.  In 2020 to pave the way for election fraud later that year the government changed the rules of how we measure a cold and tried an experiment which has impacted most everyone in North America and cost them many billions of dollars in value.  Especially restaurants who like this little place in New Mexico were unfairly targeted barely hanging on to their livelihoods.  And the government will never admit to their complicity in the matter, into the many lives they have destroyed just so they could control the election results with mail-in ballots.  Democrats were hoping to cancel all in person voting in 2020, but Trump was already showing the hypocrisy of the mask mandates and the social distancing by hosting full on maskless rallies where people were packed together concert style.  My opinion about Covid isn’t popular because people don’t want to admit to themselves just how evil government can be and was during 2020 just to gain more political power, but history will remember it all well, and my opinion will become more popular as time progresses.  That’s how we arrived here, but even now, over a year later, with a vaccine out and an obvious end to Covid well on the horizon, case counts are dropping, but the liberal governors are still clamoring to their emergency powers because they love the authority, and have abused their power terribly, to much cost of the people they are supposed to represent.  As long as people believe there is danger, they can get away with their abuse of power.  But the moment people realize its all been a scam, well then that’s where the problems start. 

It was good for me to see so many people calling bullshit on the Covid virus.  They were open, the whole town was supportive of the decision, and they weren’t even wearing masks because they had figured out the obvious.  It helped them that they were in the middle of nowhere, far away from Albuquerque and the Marxist college towns that made New Mexico a blue state.  But given that remoteness, they were also the first to see the truth of the scam, and to defy unconstitutional rules that cost them but cost the government nothing to issue.  It may have been one of the best hamburgers I had ever had, and we did give them a very big tip.  I didn’t mind, I felt compelled to support them for their bold decision, a decision that the rest of the world will eventually have to arrive to.  For me, in the middle of the desert far away from everything, I had found what I was looking for and it gave me hope, which was very much needed.

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Trump and the Legend of Billy the Kid: Lessons learned from history of what people really value in government

In the video above I discuss some of the reasons that Billy the Kid remains a beloved outlaw as I recently traveled to Lincoln County New Mexico to study some of the real locations of the Lincoln County War.  The thoughts I had about Billy the Kid were very much ignited as I watched President Trump give his speech at CPAC where he didn’t back off the election fraud claims he had as we all had watched the official government bought and paid for by the communist Chinese do much of what Sheriff Brady had done during the Lincoln County War, acting as a cover for the villain Murphy and the antagonists of peace and justice in 1878.  Billy the Kid and his band of outlaws the Regulators killed the Sheriff in an ambush, in revenge for the killing of John Tunstall.  It’s a bit more complicated than that, but for this story, this is enough for context.  By the point of view of the law, the murder of the sheriff was clear villainy.  But by the point of view of the Regulators, it was justice for the criminals who had hijacked the legal system.   The resulted historical perspective is what we all remember, and what time and history sifted through as acceptable honor.  In history, Trump will be remembered much the same way as Billy the Kid.  Not because of any outlaw behavior on Trump’s part, but in the way that people recognize justice and how forgiving they are of people they perceive are fighting for justice, even if the legal measures of the day think of them as outlaws and villains.

 My wife and I were hungry as we had been exploring the Ruidoso mountain town all morning after a snowstorm had ripped through the area earlier that night before and the whole town was fighting through the covered roadways.  We managed to find a really cool little Mexican restaurant on the main strip.  We couldn’t eat inside so from the hood of our car we ate our food and watched the activity in the deep valley of the popular ski resort.   Most everywhere I looked there was some memento to Billy the Kid.  Everyone wanted to attach themselves to the popular outlaw as modern society seemed to have no problem with the Kid character, even though his actions could easily be aligned with the terrorism of Timothy McVeigh or the Unabomber.  Billy the Kid was an outlaw, as was Jesse James, but even well over a hundred years had passed and people remembered them fondly forgiving the many people they had killed for the pleasant memory of freedom fighters who recognized an oppressive legal system and acted against it for the good of humanity.  In the Kid’s case, Sheriff Bradly was bought and paid for by the Murphy clan and understood the politics of what Murphy was trying to do in Lincoln, buying up the law and using it to crush his political enemies. 

Who could say anything less about our modern political system, most people understand how our government has turned criminal and they see Trump as the freedom fighter who is stepping out of the boundaries to bring justice to our nation, even if it gets a little messy.  They value the vigilance and see that the greater good is at work behind the actions of an outlaw.  With Trump its in insisting that the election of 2020 was stolen by the legal system, and he intends to challenge it and undo it so long as he can.  People see it as a similar necessity as Billy the Kid and the Regulators killing off Sheriff Bradly and slowly destroying the political grip that Murphy had on the legal system, so that justice might return to Lincoln County with such outlaw actions.  Of course, the lesson of such outlaws in America is that people are more than willing to forgive them so long as justice is the result—real justice.  Not the justice that politicians contemplate, but the kind of justice that people understand, even if people die in the interim.  The lesson of Billy the Kid is just that kind of story.  Many of the things people remember about Billy the Kid may not have happened at all.  But its more what people want to remember that counts, and which lasts the centuries. 

People have long forgotten most of the characters of the Lincoln County War, but they remember Billy the Kid because for a short period of his young life he managed to live free of the ominous presence of an oppressive and corrupt legal system.   People will remember President Trump 100 years from now or 2000 years from now as the person who took on global corruption in much the way that Billy the Kid shot Sheriff Bradly in 1878.  The truth of the matter won’t matter at all, what makes a legend a legend is what people want to remember about it.  And Trump has given people the right to have such thoughts, and they will take on a life of their own.  That is the result of things that liberals and micromanaging political types always forget about people.  China has its own problems even as they attempt through the Biden administration to make themselves look like the best option for the world, they have serious masculinity problems in their own way.  They are a culture drowning from a lack of creativity and strong family culture and those population traits will reveal themselves in the next decade as the first signs of trouble are obvious now.  People and their legends exist beyond borders and government rules, they live in the imaginations of hopes and dreams.  The people of Hong Kong understand, as do the descendants of the Lincoln County War.  Presently the MAGA movement is writing tomorrow’s history in spite what modern media wants us to believe.  In truth, people will worship the outlaws, not the compliant government officials and the manufactured truth of those who wish to hijack justice right in front of our faces.

As we finished our meal on the hood of our car, I could feel a great deal of hope in that Ruidoso mountain town as the snow thawed and people came back out on the streets to resume their lives.  Like Billy the Kid who was a murderer and an outlaw who did as many terrible things as he did good, people will forgive the bad for the memory of the good.  President Trump to my eyes has only done good.  Any bad that has been attached to him is manufactured by political enemies who wish to do bad but can’t so long as he is in the way.  But either way, people will only remember the good in Trump, not the poor messages that modern villains try to paint on him which should be a lesson to all of us in understanding how our present times will be remembered.  I would say to you, remember the lesson of Billy the Kid, and understand that Trump will no matter what, be remembered much better and for many more reasons.  And with that as an indicator, the future looks quite bright and it should be.  Because we deserve Trump and America is better because he’s in it.

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