Caption Photo: D4Y2 Suisei
Bullet Points:
** A guide for attending a small, country church.
**Renting a U-Haul to California is one-third the price of renting one to leave. I’ve heard that there’s a six-month wait in some areas of the Golden State to get a U-Haul due to demand. (right)
** When it comes to high explosives, the right shape matters. Is it wrong to discriminate based on shape?
** Utah Board of Pardons and Parole denies death row inmate Ralph Menzies’ commutation petition; execution by firing squad remains scheduled for 9/5. I think that Utah is the only state that still has a firing squad for capital punishment.
** Do you prefer your rioters regular or extra crispy? Florida is loud about it. Arizona is a lot quieter, and in the mountains, where there is no Wi-Fi signal for your phone, you can riot all you want…
** FEDERAL WORKFORCE | The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement, “Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence.” VM Comment: The headline is somewhat misleading. Most of the people who work at ODNI come from other agencies and are assigned there. DNI Gabbard is sending most of them back to their point of origin. They’re still on the payroll – but elsewhere. Still lapping at the trough. ODNI has long been a dumping ground for the slugs – the lame, sick, and lazy. If you don’t want them at CIA you ship them there rather than firing them, etc.
** It’s just another day at the Golden Plate Buffet.
** Russian budgetary constraints are forcing Russia to employ alternative mechanisms to fund enlistment bonus payments and recruit soldiers for its war in Ukraine.
** Rogan’s take on donations and NGOs. I hate dragging the sack for money. While I understand that fundraisers are a part of life, and I donate almost weekly to causes like Little League and school events that my grandchildren are involved with, it can get tedious. I used to give to the Boy Scouts until they went woke. Now, not a penny.
** If you’re trying to understand women, STOP NOW. Just stop.
Chicken Tender Riot
You don’t get to pick who the other passengers on your cruise are. One commenter wrote: ‘Carnival must have some killer chicken tenders.’
Farming
On a self-sufficient farm in Akron, Ohio, during the height of the Great Depression, 80-year-old Maxine Vargo recalled how her family, comprising hardworking parents and siblings, transformed their land into a lifeline. They cultivated vast gardens full of vegetables, butchered their livestock for meat, which they smoked or canned, and churned butter from their cows’ milk, while also producing cottage cheese, apple butter, and even homemade maple syrup and root beer. Underclothes were sewn from bleached feed sacks to save every penny, and the children labored long hours shelling corn or weeding the garden until their hands blistered, ensuring nothing went to waste in a time when store-bought goods were a luxury they couldn’t afford. This relentless resourcefulness not only sustained them but also kept the farm operational despite bank threats and crop failures that plagued their neighbors.
Maxine later shared with her descendants: “We worked from sunup to sundown because the farm didn’t care about the Depression—it just needed our hands to keep going.”
The Great Depression laid bare a lot of white privilege in America… Today, there is considerable scrutiny of home producers who wish to sell what they raise, whether it is livestock, dairy, butchered meat, or produce (canned or otherwise). During the Biden Regime, there were high-profile prosecutions of the Amish, who sold beef that they raised and butchered. Nobody alleged that there was anything wrong with the meat. They just did it on their own. Maybe the concern is tax evasion?
Winners and Losers
(The New York Times) The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls. Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot. That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a significant political deficit that could take years for Democrats to overcome.
The stampede away from the Democratic Party is occurring in battleground states, the bluest states, and the reddest states, too, according to a new analysis of voter registration data by The New York Times.
The analysis used voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm. Few measurements reflect the luster of a political party’s brand more clearly than the choice by voters to identify with it — whether they register on a clipboard in a supermarket parking lot, at the Department of Motor Vehicles, or in the comfort of their own home. And fewer and fewer Americans are choosing to be Democrats. In fact, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year.” More here.
MAGA – Not tired of winning.
The Crackerbarrel Re-Brand is Going Well
The current CEO of Cracker Barrel, Julie Masino, has a total yearly compensation of $6.68 million. Do the stockholders think she’s underpaid?
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There are fifty-five million people in the US on visas today. That seems like a vast number, but the US State Department verified it. President Trump has ordered a review of all of those visas. MAGA
I’d also like to see a serious review of green cards (permanent resident status) to see how many are held by agents of hostile foreign countries (People’s Republic of China, Iran, Venezuela) who live in the United States.
Paid to Lie
Biden’s chief spokesperson and defender for two years, Ian Sams, now says that in his two years at the White House, he met Joe Biden only twice. Twice! In 2 years! Once, when he was hired for the job, and only once afterwards.
YET he came out day after day to tell us how sharp Biden was. He said, repeatedly, that in his day-to-day interactions with him, the president was SHARP!!! He lied EVERY DAY.
Identify the Armor
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Yes, the little guy in the big hat is Erwin Rommel.
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They were shot up in Ukraine. I don’t know how many remain in inventory.
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Parting Shot
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Understanding women – the version I saw earlier pointed out that God gave women all these attributes, and the women then turn around and alter all of them. Ended with…if God can’t make women happy then it’s pointless for men to try.
The Depression – my grandparents used milk and egg money to eke out surviving and keeping the farm intact.
Dad lived through the Great Depression. He said they barely noticed it; they were broke and working hard on the farm when it hit, they were broke and working hard on the farm when it was going on, and they were broke and working hard on the farm when World War II started. He was too young to serve in WW II, but he did get drafted for Korea…he gained weight in basic because they let him sleep late and didn’t work him as hard as the dairy farm had.
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Depression Anecdote: “Adapt or Die” came to mind…yet today, in some overbearing places, collecting rainwater is against the law…it is apparently THEIR rainwater first. In America, one has the Constitutional right to survive as one sees fit, as long as you’re not bothering anyone else…which is getting harder as the ninny’s among us have gotten out of hand, thinking we need their permission to do anything for ourselves.
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Cracker Barrel: ‘If it works, don’t fix it’…yet some have to meddle, especially today with these middle-aged woman wearing thick black framed glasses. (Check me on this; Maddow, Tarlov, this overpaid CEO revamping CB “so it looks like every sterile living room redecorated from Home Goods” – h/t Matt Walsh)
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Country Church: Come as you are, even if after mucking pens…and bring your Bible.
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My mother raised vegetables and rabbits in the Depression and during the War. We never had a vegetable garden, never ate rabbit, ever.
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Dad, being a Cajun, basically shot, fished and hunted food for the table after school. When he wasn’t sweeping out grain elevators (until his best friend got blown up in one, grain dust being an excellent thermobaric substance) or cowpunching.
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We had it much easier.
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Kids these days? Fugedaboutit. I have millenials look at me like I’m lying when I tell them the only way to get fresh fruit year long was to be either very rich or pay for ‘fruit of the month’ club. I mean, you can get citrus in the summer and fall, way before the local harvest is in. Strawberries year round. Green vegetables and tomatoes at almost the same price during winter as in summer.
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Contrast this to the medieval period or the renaissance period when spring was the real killer. No food left in the cupboard, no food yet grown to harvest.
You could argue that the Egyptians had a stable food supply due to the Nile deluge, or that the Tigris and Euphrates, or the Indus or Amazon, provided early cultures with reliable food supplies. The Romans lived on Egyptian grain. Climate change caused famine even then (see Biblical accounts). Today, most modern cultures have sufficient food because we can raise and store it. If we don’t have it, we trade for it globally. There are people like the North Koreans who are in a constant state of starvation, but that’s government-caused. It’s like Gaza, where there is plenty of food, but starvation is a Hamas tactic.
Agriculture also produces far more calories per acre now (and has done so in increasing amounts since the early 1700s) than in any of the historical eras preceding.
Very much so. One of the big increases is dwarf wheat. Puts majority of energy into growing the seed-head, not a 7′ stalk.
A late spring or an early winter was real bad news as that meant starvation… a tough life.
The year 1816 is known as the “Year Without a Summer” due to severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F). Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, resulting in crop failures and significant food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere. Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies. Everything was beyond their control, just as much is beyond our control. We’ve learned to compensate, but the balance is more precarious than any of us would like to admit.
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Identify the Armor:
1. Type 2 Ka-Mi
2. Panzer 38(t)
3. K30W Cheonho
4. BTR-90
5. I’m old school on this: LVTP-7. None of that newfangled AAV or AAVP-7.
AAV-7A1 is still very lacking. Now the USMC is on a wheeled vehicle kick with their Super AAV. I have my doubts because if you’re coming “from the sea” and you’re crawling up through the surf onto sand (all sand is not created equally), you will need tracks. Sorry, USMC planners.
After the failure and cancellation of the EFV, I think that there’s still some interest in a tracked amphibious assault vehicle. That’s based on rumored upcoming prototype development by a previous employer. Nothing for certain though. But agreed, wheels can’t get you as far as tracks, it’s just that tracks can get you worse-stuck.
However, the ACV (Amphibious Combat Vehicle) variants are pretty capable…
Amen on checking out the Resident Aliens (lawfully admitted for permanent residence) I-551 cards. That would be a very good move.
A guy I work with is getting his citizenship soon. Great guy. Vocal Trump supporter.
Was talking to our electrician and asking him questions on the Constitution.
Deer in headlights.
Then he turned to me and asked.
I passed.
I hope to be at his ceremony.
U-Haul. Seem to recall a similar story about NYC not long ago. Even with air fare, cheaper to fly to your new digs and rent a U-Haul round trip.
They’re reluctant to let their rigs with lift gates go. You can rent them for local commercial use – as you suggest, driving them back then flying.
**Maxine later shared with her descendants: “We worked from sunup to sundown because the farm didn’t care about the Depression—it just needed our hands to keep going.”**
I’ll bet that line describes how it was being a human for thousands of years.
**Today, there is considerable scrutiny of home producers who wish to sell what they raise … During the Biden Regime, there were high-profile prosecutions of the Amish. Nobody alleged that there was anything wrong with the meat. They just did it on their own. Maybe the concern is tax evasion?**
Food production today is owned by mega corporations-political donors, they were taking care of their competitors.
Exactly
And don’t forget the Amish didn’t have food inspectors on speed dial, nor was their milk ‘pasteurized’… That meant they didn’t have the ‘stamp’ of approval…
Effective July 1, 2026 death by firing squad will be the primary execution mode here in Idaho. FAFO! Brian Kohlberger is now wishing he chose the death penalty.
Depression era
My father, aunts, and uncles talked about surviving one winter on horse meat, beans, and poached game after a bank went under with all their seed money on deposit.
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Democrats
The party has left the Democrats, having been hijacked by the radical left and their enablers. Republicans will be wise to avoid smugness. MAGA doesn’t equal GOP. PDJT is a Populist. When he is gone the ideological ‘pure’ Republicans will go back to their circular firing squad formation, IMO.
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Cracker Barrel
I’ve dined there once. Wasn’t impressed, so don’t have a dog in the fight.
The hashbrown casserole and spices apples are alone worth a visit…and always ask for extra pancake syrup, good to have a few mini pottle on hand along with those MRE mini hot sauce bottles.
The Sunday Chicken.
The catfish.
Idiots.
When we moved my daughter from Pasadena to Salt Lake, it was cheaper to rent in Salt Lake and make a round trip to Pasadena than the one way rental, Pasadena to SLC.
It’s a crying shame when a boss can only get rid of an employee by promoting them, or shifting them to someone else to deal with. It’s a partial reason the government is a bloated tick on the financial health of the nation.
So … what’ll be over by Christmas?
Every war in history.
Jody got your girl and gone, too.
I remember hearing a story from 2020 that some Antifa types were heading up to Show Low, AZ from the Phoenix area. Apparently they posted their plans on FB and a few of the locals went to the south end of town with their 2A tools and maybe a backhoe for cleanup. In the end, things came to very little and I never heard of a skirmish. Still a good story.
Similar events occurred in Payson and Prescott – accurate accounts.
…and here’s another one where the neighbors have woken up to the anarchists among us: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/watch-attempt-antifa-thugs-start-major-riot-between/
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The tide is turning rather rapidly…either become a decent respectful moral productive member of society or gain the consequences.
(That’s my Sunday micro-sermonette)
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