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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Well, the ballot box battle is o'er and Scotland is still a vassal state in the UK.

However, over 40 percent who voted for secession  Stop with that fact for a moment. The modern age is one of massive mobility. Here in Virginia, the Commonwealth is full of Non-Virginians. Many people don't see the value of state or regional heritage. With The War (1860-1865), the wars of the 20th century, the changes to the definition of citzenship in the constitution and generally the mobility of our population....that has been lost. Most people call themselves "Americans, it is difficult today to find enough "Virginians" to have a lawn dart game. Never mind finding enough to vote for secession.

But Scotland had 40 percent who, after 300 hundred years of being part of the Empire, after serving in her military, after being taught the English version of history and all that came with being "British"....wanted to be separate. I am impressed.

I am also hopeful they will hold to the faith and come back for another round at independence. This time maybe they can study up on the foundational concepts of sovereignty and win over the rest of the nation to being truly nationally and personally free.

In the honor of the Scots, we shall place a modified version of their flag in our mast head for a while. May God Bless the Scots....

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Ok, short post......the questions that surround the Scottish vote are countless. Are they really voting for national and personal freedom? Or are they actually trading one form of socialism for another form of socialism....or worse.

Every Scottish (Irish, Virginiain, and Confederate) part of my heritage and background says give Britain the heave ho....take back the fields from Culloden.......and in the end I pray they will.

I also pray they will turn back from socialism, turn away from the EU, the UN, the IMF, The FUSA......to say nothing of the former soviets and chinese .........I pray to Heaven the Scots will reach out for true national freedom and set the Scots free........

I pray it sets the world on fire for true freedom, not this  "arab spring", "muslim uprising" or the western driven chaos in the Ukraine all driven by our very own CIA/IMF/ western banker.

I know the status quo is not sustainable, so change is coming one way or another......

So today I lift a virtual pint to the Scots, vote for freedom, total freedom and maybe next stop will be Spain.....

Here are some current links hereherehere, and here

Monday, June 16, 2014


Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...must be a duck 
or in this case an 'murican army of oppression....

h/t The Journal and Prof Whitehead.  Link here

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison

“Here [in New Mexico], we are moving more toward a national police force. Homeland Security is involved with a lot of little things around town. Somebody in Washington needs to call a timeout.”—Dan Klein, retired Albuquerque Police Department sergeant

Salient point......"If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS’ governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, it is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to building what the Founders feared most—a standing army on American soil."

Read it all......we fail to remember when this government took it as a mission to kill our own. Southerners and Indians remember all to well the hundreds of thousands who died. In fact, the US government has been a solid performing killing machine for generations....the world over. 

Look at the southern border...bringing in thousands upon thousands of illegal, illiterate, and violent aliens amoung thousands of sick and indigent people who have nothing in common with any of the normal population in any state in the disunion.........this government means to kill, steal, and destroy. That folks is a biblical phrase and it has one specific owner...








Sunday, June 15, 2014


Fathers Day.....

I know he has gone home, but I do and will always hear, see, and feel my Dad in my heart and head. And I am glad. I feel his presence as I walk, work, and live on our farm. Even now, when I go to work, I feel his smile and hear his interest and excitement in my work. Each time my career took a step, he was proud of his son, especially when he called me to ask how that last interview went. I think he as was excited as I was to hear I was headed back to Tech where we both got our engineering degrees. In fact, in spite of many things, he was always proud of all of his sons. He did not always understand us, but he was proud. He hurt those years there was so much strife. I chose a photo from 1972, we were younger and times were tough for the two of us. Times were tough in the family in general. That would get tougher for all of us before they got better. As I got older I came to realize just how difficult life can be and rearing three head strong boys can be a challenge for parents. And I know he did the best he knew how to do. Based on the three of his sons, he (and Mom) did not fail. For my part of the relationship, I thank God that I grew up and times got better between Dad and I. Through his examples (good and “less than good”), he set a standard for me as a person, a man, a husband and engineer.  

Today, I honor my Dad all he taught me and how he loved me as his son.


Oct 19, 1930 - March 19, 2011

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Blackhawks, kiowas....and Stooges.....

It seems that the government doesn't sell the sand fleas everything. Some military stuff we just leave unguarded and let them drop by to pick them up. (LINK). It seems the mighty Iraq army that we have feed, clothed, trained....well you get the point.... have collapsed and run like dogs from Mosul. Leaving behind all kinds of things and lives.



Do we really care, after all it is really just a civil war in a foreign country that is basically Muslim on Muslim infighting. Well yes, we should care because, now they have a new and better toy than before. We have given them air power after all. And the US are the source of these toys as well as the unrest that results in the war. 

We know they can fly, remember 9/11? We taught them how. So we may very well see these helos show up in Syria or anywhere in the sand box. But then we are supplying both sides, war is good business you know....



Ding Dong, a demo-rat is gone .....(Link). lets all wish Mr Puckett a well deserved good by...

And it seems that losing a demo-rat has already paid dividends in a state that had been operating pretty well until the election put the demo-rats into power. 

Now, it seems Virginians who live in the 38th District (Bland County (All); Buchanan County (All); Dickenson County (All); Montgomery County (Part); Norton City (All); Pulaski County (All); Radford City (All); Russell County(All); Smyth County (Part); Tazewell County (All); Wise County (Part)) have the chance to make amends for voting for the current democratic carpetbagger and replace former Senator Puckett with a true Virginiaian conservative, assuming they can find one in the district. 

In addition, while all good Virginians can celebrate the end of Senator Pucketts term in office, it seems to have some interesting side show opportunities if the AG has any moral foundation. (Link)

Wait, he is a demo-rat as well.....one who has already enlisted the federales in a war against other Virginians. 

Elections have consequences...

Wednesday, May 14, 2014


If ever there was a better indication of the malinvestment boom created by an interfering Fed, this is it. As demand for shipping collapses on real slowing in the global economy - markets have "told" shipbuilders to "build it and they will come"... here is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.

(Taken verbatium from Zero Hedge who gives credit to NMMGreenwich)

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The news has recorded a number of Russian bomber flights over Europe and now over the Pacific near Kalifornia. Links to recent stories are here, here, and here for a sampling. Google the topic and there are a lot more reports.

What is somewhere between sad and funny is the west wondering what to make of it. The problem is no more complex than the bully in the school yard or the new tough guy on the block marking his territory.

But in the west, where the age old concepts of power and force have been rejected for a weak form of "diplomacy", we are stunned by the show of force. The west struts around like a bunch of powerful peacocks while in fact they have no real ability to project power. It is simple old world big stick diplomacy and they know they have the upper hand.

The Russians and their allies have in fact bank rolled the west, and the west has become soft and dependent. They know we can not afford to even talk about shooting one of them down, much less actually do it.  Imagine for a moment what would happen if they decide to cause an economic collapse. This is not 1939 or 1940....this time when the money dries up, the cities will devolve into anarchy. the nation will go into grid lock. There is no "'merica" that will gel into a solid fighting force as it did after Pearl Harbour. Oh, they would suffer some economic loss, but not nearly what we would feel.

Unfortunately, there is no easy or quick way out of this jam. The west has been on a track that has created a weak, short sighted, narcissist  self serving and self indulgent society. It has a shallow understanding of right and wrong so there is no inner or moral strength. There is no depth of character or patience. Meals are fast food and the news is sound bites. There is little honor or respect. Many of our people are ashamed to be what they are. The PETA folks honor animals more than humans, the left progressive "earthers" honor "nature" over mankind. White guilt, black power, La Raza....all are signs of hatred and disunity hidden behind "diversity". Too many people celebrate the option to kill children through abortion and older folks through euthanasia. Either way, it is celebrating death, not life.. 

This is a track that is self destructive. The Russians or Chinese don't need to attack as much as they need to simply collect the remains of what was great people. But we were great due to our faith and freedom in God and the disciplines taught through the scriptures. Principles of honoring the one God and his Son who died for us, through prayer and worship. Applying the scripture lessons of truth, faith, respect, responsibility,  honor.....everything we have tossed out the window. 

We can not fix this problem through government. No we must change it at home. We must go to church, a church that teaches a true faith. That will eliminate almost all of the denominational churches, most of them make bargains around the 10 commandments of one sort or another. Pay down debts and stop borrowing. Invest locally and stop banking in the big banking system. Stop flying and avoid all government travel search operations  Do not give your consent, restrict government at every turn. Get off the grid. Resist the government at every turn as they try to stop us from making them irrelevant  Stop taking children to public school....home school and church school. Allow boys to be boys and girls to be girls.....and expect fathers to be men who love and respect their wives and teach respect to the children. Expect children to obey parents and tell Child Protective services they are out of a job in almost all cases. Take strong sovereign freedom stands in every situation. It will be a long long road,....but there is no option. 

The scriptures are full of accounts where Israel turned from God, turned from the teachings of God and the result was a weak society and ruin for generations. Returning to the teachings of God brings us back to the basic principles that lead to a strong society and a society he can bless as a result. 

I don't worry about the bombers, I worry about the damage we have done and are doing to ourselves.  

Wednesday, April 23, 2014


2013, Stolen Elections...

So, we seem to have a number of people who are not exactly sure where they lived when it was time to vote last year....was it Maryland or Virginia....Here is the link to the Fox story.

So, maybe its just me, but those areas close to Maryland are some of the same areas that are very densely populated and very blue or democratic in color.....They think the actual cross over voters were small in number, but before now, we did not even know of the dual registrations  How about carpetbaggers from DC or West VA or the blue sections of NC? Could there have been enough illegal yankee carpet baggers voters to make a difference. I think it is a pretty good bet that it could, it seems that every recent close election seems to "find" enough last minute democratic votes to come up the winner.

Thomas Jefferson was a Virginian, Governor Letcher was a Virginian  the current governor is no more a Virginian in heritage or beliefs than the man in the moon and should be recalled from office and sent home to whatever part of yankeedom he was spawned from.




Friday, April 18, 2014


From Pastor Eric Willoughby of Triedstone Christian Center of Blacksburg, Virginia to the congregation...

"I was pondering this statement after it was said on the Radio this morning; "It wasn't the nails that kept Jesus on the cross — but love."  

He voluntarily gave Himself up, becuase He loved you. 

As we go about our business this weekend, let us meditate on the question "What is so good about Good Friday?"  Jesus was beaten and tortured to the point where he was unrecognizable.  As John 19 says, "Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.Pilate came out again and *said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.” Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate *said to them, “Behold, the Man!” So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”
Eternal life is available to us, if we ask Him.  In Him, we have victory because our Savior took all our pain, sorrow, shame, guilt and sin and buried it once and eternally.  Let us walk forward today reminded of the love He has for each of us.  Let us walk with confidence that we have a Risen Lord!  He has defeated death, sin and the grave.  So what is so good about Good Friday?  How has Jesus brought you out of darkness and into light?  Let us reflect on God's goodness today and how He has brought life into each of our own lives.  Jesus was a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" (Isaiah 53:3).  If you feel grief in your own life today, please be reminded that Jesus will never leave nor forsake you.  Let us look up and Praise the King of Kings as we go about our weekend, remembering what the true reason for this season is! "

May all who hear this be blessed, may those who do not know Him be stirred to reach out this weekend, and may those who do know Him be lead those who love and reach out to those who need His saving grace......

Monday, April 14, 2014

Russian Air force makes fools play with the US Navy.....and all the US can do is whine....


Article attached.............(Hat tip to Free North Carolina Blog Site)

The Russian Air Force made a number of fly-bys around the USS Donald Cook. They are doing the same thing I do when I tease my cats. See I know that no mater how much I tease them, I am bigger and I will always be the winner......they just get teased.

So the Russians did the same....they teased knowing that we could not respond. But we did whine...thats about all this government can do in the face of the Russians anyway.

Honestly, does any sane person think that the milk toast modern hollowed out military forces of the west can even start to win a old fashion loss taking slug match with an old fashion military doctrine like the Chinese or Russians. Whining and begging the other guy to stop is not a winning strategy (ask WWII Europeans defeated in early WWII) and beating a bunch of camel jocks who have no significant industry or air superiority in the desert is not a military feat....even that we don't do well (we are still in the sandbox)......the Russians and Chinese have actual industries and all the same toys we do, some of them paid for or developed by us.....

The succession of people elected to the yankee congresses and white house, with a special tip of the big red clown nose to the kenyan living there now has made a joke of the us. We have squandered our economic power and no owe our way of living to the very people who mock us. Daily the government takes a special opportunity to terrorize the people who live here.

And on the other hand, what do you think we would do if they sailed a warship in the Chesapeake Bay or Gulf of Mexico ......oh yeah.......whine about it and beg them to leave....

The ole' Confederate Solider in my heart laughs at this yankee governments failures, the Virginian in my heart bleeds for the waste and damage this yankee government creates around the world.




Sunday, March 30, 2014

 Communist Health Care.....Maryland looking to dump $125 million failed program....

For you that live in the peoples Soviet Socialist Dominion of Maryland...news is on top of the money  taken from us all in fed taxes and wasted by the feds on destroying and socializing health care...

Your state money...read $125 million in state taxes ...read an another $125 million taken from you by force....is also being tossed into the dumper.....See this link....

And the reaction by the power elite in DC to your wasted funds....


and just think, many of you voted for this......and the damage continues....

Monday, March 3, 2014

The photo is of VA Techs new Center for the Performing Arts. It was a random photo selection based on it being a new building with a lot of glass and working on a LEED certification. I use it as an example of Virginia's state building program. Many governors back, the use of LEED building concepts were required by the governor. I have long believed, we waste a lot of money by paying for the certification while telling ourselves our buildings are more efficient. I have always doubted the meme. Only time and an honest appraisal will tell. 

Why did I go for glass? Well, glass is normally a pretty poor wall material for energy conservation when compared to other wall system.  They also often enclose an atrium, which are more expensive to heat and cool.

I watched as a huge array of solar panels were installed on several campuses in Virginia. In talking with those who knew the numbers for one, the payback was set at around 90 years. But that was defined as green or sustainable. 

Don't get me wrong, I know sometimes the concepts are workable. Why I even used solar in my horse barn because it was less expensive, all in, than running an underground line from my existing panel or the cost of a new service. On the other hand, I don't run my house on it.

But for government work, in the end, it all ends up in the tax rate.

Here is the link that resulted in this post. It seems that in DC, LEED buildings are energy consumers and not efficient at all. Here is the ...Link to the Daily Caller report

As a mechanical engineer over 50 years old with experience in power generation, building design, and construction, I am resisting the urge to say "I told you so"

Sunday, February 9, 2014

To use a term I learned from Bill Nye (I think I got the name right), we need to get our attention off the sparklies provided for us to address by those whom will us harm. For years now the governments and main stream media have created news and events to keep us busy. Meanwhile, under our feet the world was turned. Whether it is the resident in the White House saying saying he would work under the radar, or do his will with a pen and a phone, or the news using shootings, both large and small, to scream about registration, confiscation,, we can limit the Constitution, no we cant, maybe we should just dump the constitution....on and on, all designed to keep everyone in a dither ... sparklies.

Look around, speaking as a born Virginian, what we used to call carpet baggers and scalewags have largly destoyed our southern culture. Across the total breadth of the (less than) united states, progressives and liberals of all type are in full control of public, private, and military institutions and running them all to gorund, and this nation with them. And we have done nothing, for generations.....

It is time to take it all ......... back.It may be long past the road to civil war, but at least we can set up some of the terms....We need to stop allowing the enemy to set the terms of the conversation. We need to stop trying to be so civil. We need to be activist in all we do.

Stop and decide, here and now, will you or will you not make a difference. Today. Get grounded in God, in a deep faith that will take you through hard times for they are a coming. As men such as Jefferson understood, the bedrock of this society was founded in the tenets of Christian teachings. Stand for faith, for God, Christ and the church where there is a heaven and hell not just a "wishy washy" message of social goodness and relative humanism. Stand for personal soverignty, stand for the freedoms listed in the Declaration of Independence. Learn, preach, and live Jefferson style independence. Become a loud voice for the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursiut of happiness.

You can not watch the sparklies and let things happen. You will have to take stands, stands that many, including friends, folks at work and church, social friends, almost everyone will not understand or even like. Stop going to stores that support the enemy and tell other to do the same...I said tell, don't ask. Get involved in local groups and clubs and get them to walk away from the enemy facilities. And make sure the enemy knows you are working against them. Isolate them and isolate your resources. Get off the grid as much as possible to safeguard your assets. Stop playing the game by their rules.

And know that if you say yes to do this, you will quickly be on the front line. They will try to ridicule you and cut you from the heard. Turn on them, use ridicule to isolate them. They are killers, call them killers. They destroy lives by making slaves of people, call them out as slavers. Remember socialism/communism/big government kills people. Tell everyone of the deaths in the 20th century due to government. Work to win converts or at least make people pause before allowing that next TSA body scan, but don't try to change the liberal mind, it is a waste of your time and energy. Like pigs, they like wallowing in the mud slinging. With them, isolate them and change the conversation, it confuses them. 

It is long past time to get engaged. Find a like minded tribe and get on with it.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Upcoming Events...Gen'ls Lee and Jackson Day

In Virginia, this Friday is Lee-Jackson Day. Some Virginians will have the day off, others will take the day off. Regardless, if you do nothing else, take a moment to recognize the achievements and stature of these two Virginia natives. They fought for the absolute bedrock principles of the original intent of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution. They fought for and believed in the sovereignty of the states from the federal government.....state sovereignty.

As for me, I will be headed for Lexington, Virginia, to join in the Lee-Jackson Symposium and weather permitting parade on Saturday.

In spite of revisionist history, neither of these men fought for or even owned slaves, and in fact for most on both sides, that was not the issue. The issue was who would hold the reigns of power...an all powerful federal government or a lesser federal government contained by sovereign states. Power ......... the actual roots of all conflict.

The passage of history has proved these men right. The total power they saw would one day destroy the very homes they defended. Today the state governments are toadies for the federal government. Feds bark and states jump fearing the loss of funds. Federal regulators operate within staes like an occupying army. Here in Virginia, we have not had a truly native government since 1865. (And in Virginia, with the socialist-statist McAulliff and company in power, the next four years will prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt!)

In 1861, there were enough strong and independent Virginians who understood the impact of powerful government and were able to chose a new path. After the war, the Commonwealth was invaded by carpetbaggers and turncoats. As a result, today, the rules are very different. There are few Virginians who understand the original intent from the Revolutionary War, the danger of the all powerful federal government and who are independent enough to be able to see or chose real freedom, real personal, local, or state sovereignty.

As the federal government continues to show its hand, that may change. Domestic spying, internal graft, heavy handed regulation.....harsh truths that destroy the fairytale veneer of "land of the free".

So Friday, remember the two of Virginia's greatest leaders...General Lee and Gen Jackson. 

Friday, January 10, 2014

Who's working, our recovery and what people fail to see....

(Please read the article at Zero Hedge here ( link to Zero Hedge ))
 
Today, I had a conversation with another engineer. We were discussing the potential to work on a new project. His comment was that he felt that things were finally picking up.....I smiled and said, that was doubtful.



While I expressed my doubt, he indicated that, not including the project I had mentioned, he had two other inquries about doing some engineering. My retort was to look at the funding, I bet it is government funding or speculation funding. First he said no, but then he paused.....then he remembered, one was a rescue squad bulding, one a hotel, and the third one a governement building renovation.........Nailed it......two of three are money from government sources and the other is a private company who I bet is speculating at best. I did not ask him where the hotel is, but if it is near DC, Richmond, or some large metro area....it is living off a government sponsored bubble....still a false economy.

Until I pointed it out, he did not think about it, in the daily shuffle of family, work, and church it was lost. He lives in an area propped up by government money, an area with a large state university that gets millions in grants and funds for research from both state and federal sources. Even the private funds they get often has its origination back in one of the alphabet agencies. He is part of the city population within a bubble.

But with people falling out of the labor participation rate, how can there be any money to invest. People with no income can not spend or save, by definition. Without spending from the results of true production there is no short term recovery and without saving to create investment capital there can be no long term recovery. Without demand, there is no reason to have supply. No production...no work. No work....no recovery. So what money there is, is mostly being taxed from the productive class, mixed with printed money and then spent by the government. The local, state and federal governments fund wars, government functionaries, regulations, wasted programs, entitlements, little or nothing that creates long term or lasting wealth.

Often Karl Denniger will ask his readers when are going to step out of our slumber, when are we going to demand an end to militarism, cronyism, to graft, to legalized fraud. Based on what I see and hear around me, very few people see the economic, political, or legal facts in front of them. Few stand on the walls seeing the signs of failure of an epic proportion, and they are too often considered radical or  paranoid. We fail to teach history and demonstrate that nations and empires do fail....in fact that is the norm from Greece (ancient) to the Soviet Union, they have all failed. Many think things are bad, but all will be better....one day soon. Many feel powerless to make any impact and have elected to try to "ride it out". Most of those seem to be ranchers, farmers, and my neighbors in the country! Will Virginians begin to look deeper and be motivated to action, either personal or public......only time will tell.

And that time will be sooner than later.....the curve above does not predict a healthy outcome.....


Saturday, January 4, 2014

Well, it seems I have been away from my blog for quite a while. And I have. At this point, the only people who may be seeing this site are me the goons with the NSA! So be it.

I have to say that I respect the time and work that bloggers put into the craft and the regular dedication they give to the task. While I have not been writing, I have been reading. Writers such as Brock Townsend, Karl Denninger, WRSA, MaxV, and others are regular reads for me. I appreciate their time and many of their insights.

I found in 2013, that first, the time to write simply overcame me. Then with duties and life around the farm, my "regular in-town" job along with the long held personal avocations, I  became so very busy that blogging had to step back...way back.

With that set back, what followed was time to search out why I would even care to write out my thoughts for anyone to read......I had a few readers, but not many. not even relatives! Was I going to change the world, or even my little corner of it?...not likely. Was that the point? What was the purpose and just how much of my soul do I need to bare and share.......especially in light of everything being made a permanent part of the public domain. Don't take me wrong, I have some pretty fixed opinions and I share them pretty well privately with my wife and some close associates......but generally I am a "you leave my opinions alone and I will leave your opinions alone, even if your wrong" type of guy.

But I suppose I got an answer as to "why" recently. I have a Facebook page, for no specific reason, just have one. I connect with family and friends from the past there on occasion, but again, I do not write a lot there either.  But what happens is that sometimes I get motivated to respond. And when I do, I end up responding on their site. However, I lose control of the comment and even had one deleted because the person did not like the comment.

Well, ok, it is their page so they can do that. However, I was right (or at least I think so!). So rather than engage, they just cut me off. (Bad thing here was that it was a younger under-educated relative who needed some education from an elder........!). But then, generally I do not like the limitations of FaceBook anyway.

So, maybe this blog site is my better option. it is now the top of 2014, so I am going to give it another go. Start small and see what happens. I will aim for a weekly update, most likely on Sundays since that is the least busy day normally. If is me and the goons, then so be it. In the end, I will get a chance to get it off my chest in a forum I can better control......