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At the farm messing around with my blue Thistle, I do impressions of Roger Barnes' style of "homely" dinghy cruising to amuse myself. I use my tan canvas cover as Barnes' Ilur boom tent. On the same...

Now you have done it. Left leaning Bilge shippies don't like it when you quote established Leftist sources. When some used to say no War for Texaco and now find themselves almost shouting "Shell and...

We have gone away from our famous Vietnam era Green Berets who have several specialty roles derived from and expanded upon your Commandos. In this new era US State and CIA use former special forces...

I can sense the US State Department Sixth floor is hatching a plan to replace placeholder Joe Biden with a new President that will take Ukraine from the current similar advisors and American...

How many more times must this happen when a majority of Democrats and RINO Republicans in Congress have stated they support immigration reforms.

I do not want the Moderate Republican "Guest...

It was disputed. But yes. The Electoral College is designed as JW stated in the constitution that states' allotted electoral representatives are counted and determine the winner. It is why many say...

I get asked about her often in my Midwest household. I try to explain what Maine's political demographics are like. It all gets forgotten and then she's in the spotlight again and the same questions...

Lol never. Its like there really is only one reality!

Not so true. We used and abused our religious right social conservative wing of the party. They were often the only manpower the mainstream moderate GOP had. Usually only translating into the...

I think Historians will think the current Electoral College was a great aid to the Democrat Party succeeding in President Biden being installed. It did really give us a president with certainty and...

Choose one reform. Seek to implement it through a Constitutional Amendment. Should be easier that the Religious Right's multi decade political activism to eventually have the Presidential court...

Back in the day, I respected the Chechens because the mainstream news said they were blowing up targets in Moscow. At the time, I would have liked to think I would have stood up to a foreign invader...

I have said it before on this forum that the institutions, or the "establishment", however you want to label the distributed and shared power in the United States will not allow increasing the number...

I was foolishly going to run away to mountain wilderness in Canada (before Prime Minister Trudeau realized I was coming) and I figured I needed a guide gun for bear defense (why Canada and Europe's...

It should be a natural subject and pic for the Bilge. I look at is and decades of mandated OSHA job training briefings and all I can think of is where is their PPE? And what heavy metals and...

I would like to think that courts are insulated from the political mood of the moment. Of course I know that is a humanly impossible expectation of them. That is why the news being reported here of...

just this afternoon on a calm day and flat water, I had more than a few minutes of terror and wondered again if my 17 foot thistle is too big for me. Its times like that when Yrvind's ocean cruising...

And don't forget guns! The most American Latins are our brothers in Mexico and having the right to have a gun turns someone instantly from a serf or subject into a citizen. Something Mexican men have...

I do not know who won the popular vote. As a layman reading the constitution it is fairly clear to me that once the states reported their official counts the election was resolved. This is by design...

If Klaus Schwab's man Pedro Sánche can win over Spain, then the US Democrat Party can keep the hispanic vote on the depopulation reservation....

I know that Wall Street is an industry and its product was about the only thing America produced or exported from the 1990's onward. But exceptional, underline "exceptional" returns like 20% to a...

Early on in this thread, I maintained that Russia would win after great losses but would not take Kiev, due to the the continuing legacy of Dr. Mikhail Kalashnikov combining the lessons of...

Yes. What is fueling the run up in White Oak? Is it us? Why can't they stick to their pin oaks, jack oaks, and whatever other red oaks they use in their nice dry house interiors?

We learned from a decade of shadow banning and stronger "safe guards' built into the Internet by our bureaucratic dictatorship that a message based "currency" or medium of exchange can be simply shut...

Silver isn't sexy but it is a scarce asset unlike cryptos with both manufacturing use demand and accepted store of wealth value. Unlike crypto's libertarian promise, silver and gold both have value...

I used to misunderstand Bob Dylan's radio play song "Idiot Wind" for "Aeolian Wind" and thought it would make a great boat name. Now I am warming up to SV Idiot Wind....
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I just rode to the regional metropolis, no way to do it in time unless I take the superhighways, my bike is a big Suzuki designed with a detuned sport engine and a shaft drive so I don't have the...

Even after a decade of just reserve component Infantry service, I could only ever pass a small number of stations on the Expert Infantryman badge course. Over additional years I got worse. These are...

I thought it was good for what it was. I saw it in one of those theaters that the seats move and air blows in your face during programed times in the film. It caught me by surprise and I hadn't...

She was at one time famous with Jaguar enthusiasts for her choice of being regularly driven in an XJ40. Of course, unlike our President, she really was a truck driver in her...

I think a good level flat bottom plank that is the full length of a boat like your design has would be a good way to make a boat project easier to tackle. I couldn't figure out the penalty for lack...

I think more emphasis needs to be placed upon planning for sociological factors in the traditional retirement ages. My grandparents' generation, the first Social Security benefit recipients at age 65...

I think it is mistaken to evaluate Russia's current use of the T-62 as a lesser main battle tank to engage Ukrainian tanks. I think they see it as a modern and much improved version of the WWII...

The M-113 does the job in battlefield transport and some limited chemical protection. Carries all the food and rounds needed to go a few days. It is also small enough to fit on village roads and...

Same here. His videos were coming up a lot on my YouTube home page and I followed a link to his plans and saw the message. last year I was thinking about taking his online boating certification...

It was this forum that has consistently made an argument that tanks are technologically obsolete due to missiles. I don't really include Dragon or export TOW atgm missiles in tipping the balance, but...

I am often guilty of exaggeration. The switchblade drone is talked about a lot. Uncle Sam tends to give big money to contractors to advance new technologies. Real volume production of battlefield...

I think Russia's current plan is that Kiev eventually gets blockaded (on land we call it seige and part of that is because Ukraine's PM gets spared to become the face of the concession Ukraine...

What is Russia cut off from? Italian designer goods? Russia suddenly has the most valuable energy and food abundances in the world and is now free to accept payment in its own currency, raising the...

What did you ask about? Certainly everything else is well documented by Snopes, like there never were any bio labs in Ukraine? FACT CHECKER The truth about Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian ‘bio labs’...

They never take that in to consideration! And, as you know Keith, it is so especially difficult for me to read your fake news to find what I'm trying to say...

The 2004-2021 overview of US influence in Ukraine's politics: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War...

And as of late, we have been shaken by how things are working there too. I get your point. It truly is self deception on my part to think an electorate can determine what foreign policy goals are...

Ukraine wasn't a fully functioning democracy. The USA and NATO were doing things there in 2014 and through today that Ukraine voters, the US citizenry, and the electorates of EU nations had no clue...

Long before the war started, it was NATO that planned and prepared the "rope a dope" strategy, fully knowing the cost Ukrainian civilians would pay. And, while witnessing that cost play out exactly...

Norman, "Dark Decade" would be a good catch phrase for President Biden's next speech. "Dark Winter" didn't quite catch enough attention....

I took my "Springfield" XD 9mm down the other night from the shelf and saw I had unintentionally left it cocked (but the magazine not completely inserted and no round in the chamber). I distrust the...

Everyone probably has heard Heart's tributary cover of Stairway to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk, but a Youtuber Professor of Rock...

Reminds me of War as I understood it as a child. http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/stevenson/dumb_soldier.html https://generalist.academy/2020/05/06/little-wars-and-great-wars/ . I remember...

Sort of leads back to the mystery of why low trained non first line troops and older generation tanks were used. Even in North Ireland, the British used first rate troops during most of their police...