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I’ve posted this song before. Now that Gordon Lightfoot is gone, I think it’s appropriate again.

At least Biden isn’t doing the same unilateral nuclear disarmament that Obama did.

Pope Francis is preparing documents for couples in ‘new unions’ after divorce, failed marriage, paving the way for the church to recognize same-sex marriages in a break with thousands of years of tradition

When I was in the military, I did my six years. I did three deployments, two of them were combat deployments. I made it to the rank of E-5. With that being said, I hated the military and how it does business. Our commanding officers were largely ass kissing opportunists who would willingly kill the men in their commands for no other reason than to get promoted.

I hated the military system. I once had to move an electric motor, and it weighed quite a bit. The padeye on the overhead had a label on it saying that its working limit was 1200 pounds. The motor and its lifting rig weighed 1700 pounds. I pointed out that we would have to get a new padeye installed to do the work. Instead, the officer in charge had the label plate replaced to read 1800 pounds. He ordered me to do the move anyway, and when the rig fell apart one of my guys lost three fingers on his left hand. That’s the kind of shit I saw officers do. They give orders, but enlisted and junior NCOs pay the bill. I can count the number of officers that I actually respected on the fingers of that guy’s hand.

I had a lieutenant once tell me that he could order me to do whatever he wanted, and I would have to obey, because as far as I was concerned, he was god. The guy was a real dick.

I could tell you a hundred stories, but let’s just say that I have no love for officers. They often throw around their authority like only immature idiots can do when given some real power, taking every opportunity to abuse that power because they can. So hearing that a bunch of them are getting fucked over by the military reinterpreting regulations to their own advantage made me laugh.

To the people who think that the Walt Disney Company is going to move out of Florida, I want you to realize just how large the Disney World complex in Central Florida is:

• 25 resort hotels
• 4 theme parks
• 2 full sized water parks
• The Walt Disney World Resort complex encompasses 30,500 acres, making it approximately the same size as San Francisco.
• 25 years ago, it cost over $800 million to build Animal Kingdom, one of the 4 parks
• The Orlando airport has 4 runways, with three of them being over 10,000 feet long.
• The area is served by three interstate highways and two major airports (Tampa and Orlando)

Some of the attractions in the parks, and what they cost to build (adjusted to 2023 dollars)

• (Expedition Everest) cost $150 million and took three years to build
• The Tower of Terror cost $280 million
• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure — $120 Million
• Test Track $300 million

It’s safe to say that the Disney complex would cost a couple of hundred billion dollars. Explain to me how a company is going to build all of that and its infrastructure. They would have to find vacant land encompassing nearly 50 square miles, near major highways and airports, and with a sufficiently large city in the area that would allow for a large enough labor pool to be able to staff this park. Then they would have to come up with $200 or $300 billion in funding, then wait the five or six years it would take to build this park.

Not happening.

When you send your child to a private school, you do so because that school offers a better education than does a public school. One of the ways that they do that is by controlling the environment through different rules than are present in public schools. You agree to those rules when you enroll, and this is especially true of religious based private schools.

So for a female student to become outraged and complain when a Christian private school requires her to wear a dress in order to attend a school sponsored prom is a bit disingenuous. It would make as much sense if she was outraged when asked to pray before class. You can always go to a different school.

The 24 hour period that begins with sunrise on April 19 is a very busy day in history.

• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
• 1782- The Netherlands becomes the first nation to officially recognize the United States as being an independent nation
• 1861 First Union soldier of the Civil War is killed by rioters in Baltimore while quelling pro-secession riot
• 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral is held
• 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1976 – Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
• 1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• 1989- A gun turret of the USS Iowa explodes. I was nearby on another ship. Had friends on the crew. The Navy tried to make one of the dead sailors into a patsy.
• 1993- The Government kills 76 people in Waco, TX in revenge for the killing of 4 ATF agents. The original raid was due to the failure to pay taxes on rifles.
• 1995- Murrah Building is bombed by Tim McVeigh in revenge for the Waco killings.
• 1999- The Columbine massacre was carried out the morning of April 20th
• 2013-  Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police.
• 2020- A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest shooting rampage in the country’s history. This led directly to the Canadian Prime Minister banning the sale of all “assault weapons” immediately by fiat on May 1.
• 2021- Derek Chauvin trial ends and heads to the jury.
• 2021- The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.

So I am in the middle of changing all of my passwords. The reasons for that will be discussed in an upcoming post within the next few weeks, but it involves a data breach. I deactivated my Facebook account more than a year ago. I have not logged in since. So when I logged in to my account this morning to change the password, I was surprised to see a notification that my account has been flagged for posts that indicate I am considering suicide, and that my post was removed from my account, and reported to the authorities for possible suicidal ideation.

The post was dated December 19, 2019.

For the record:

• I don’t know anyone in the Clinton family
• I am not suicidal, nor do I have plans to hurt anyone, including myself
• I don’t even know what the post supposedly said, as I can’t even see it myself
• The supposedly offending post was from more than three years ago.
• I haven’t even logged into that account in more than a year.

There is a discussion on Twitter whereby some moron is claiming that the only contribution that refrigeration has made to mankind is to make beer cold. Check it out.

Hard to identify? It refrigerates. Kinda self-explanatory.

Guys complaining about “modernity” while engaging in the most useless, vapid, self-indulgent modern pursuit: social media influencer.

How about we keep refrigerators and you go get a real job, Adam? pic.twitter.com/0BuSJtOmb8

— Mike Kupari 🚀💥 (@RocketPulpHack) April 16, 2023

How did a Russian tank, captured in Ukraine, wind up abandoned in a Louisiana truck stop?