Operation vote for anyone not the incumbent in the county council election is a go. Anyone. Hitler. Stalin. Any adherents to either belief system. If you voted to approve the newest 300 house subdivision on an already overcrowded road zoned for already overcrowded schools, it’s vote for anyone else time regardless of their other political views. Even if that means having that person on the council for a term.

I guess the only questions left are if we stay in Venezuela and if we do are the people who are currently celebrating willing to take casualties 10-15 to 1 for 20 years until we lose our appetite for it and leave. Those numbers being fairly consistent for previous conflicts in the past 75 years. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq. Sure the people there are celebrating now. Let’s see what it looks like 6 months into a puppet ruler people who ain’t from there put in power or someone who ain’t from there being a military governor. Or a year in. Or 18 months in.

The four pedestals mark the landing point of each of the four flights. Any bets on whether Orville ever let Wilbur forget he flew first or Wilbur ever let Orville forget he had the longest flight of the day?

Dang. I like a 20 inch barrel for 5.56 but I might have to buy one of these just to stick it to the man.

Biggest lie in modern society: the outcomes of an action or the outcomes of not taking the same action are in anyway relevant to the ethics of taking that action. Examples include taxing people to feed their less fortunate neighbors or to stop a foreign genocide. One might still do it but if taxes are theft or extortion if one prefers, one will answer for it come judgement day especially since it’s a choice one will make countless times over their life. The fact that someone else does the actual taking is also irrelevant to their culpability. Merely voting for the candidate and thinking it’s a necessity to fund the system that way, even if it is a necessity, is enough to establish moral culpability. TLDR: however necessary an action is or however much good it does, is irrelevant to the ethics of taking that action if you violate the person or property of a third party to take it.

If the balloon goes up the three jerry cans of stabilized gas I have pre staged with my parents is for my dad’s generator and *not * for riding around the apocalypse on his 1976 Harley Davidson Shovelhead with straight pipes. Honest.

Supper last night. Flank steak with homemade salsa verde and roast pineapple with brown sugar and cinnamon. Just enough leftover for my buddy’s dog to get a few slices on his food and me a small burrito for breakfast this morning.