I knew a Bird Colonel in the Pentagon who was vying to be the world's leading arms merchant. He sold billions of dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia.

After the second attempt on the life of Gerald Ford, Ford said, "It is getting to be the President can no longer walk among the people," He retired to his farm in Virginia and started looking into what was going on. His first book on the subject was Barbarians Inside the Gates which is now out of print.

I had the pleasure to meet him in person when I was driving trucks back around 2007. RIP Donn deGrand Pre.

BS: Russia has weapons we can only dream of.

They can fire a rocket artillery shell and hit a MOVING TARGET 47.22 milwa distant.

US cruise missile is subsonic at Mach0.7. Russia's is Mach 9.

Kinzhl missile is Mach 12 and digs a hole 98 feet deep where its target used to be.

Murmanks BN is an Electronic Warfare system we can only dream of. Iran now has it.

The Lancet 3 and Geran 3 drones are years ahead of anything we have.

The S-500 is 50 years ahead of the Patriot II system.

The Mig 41 can shoot down US missiles and jets. But we cannot fire a missile at it as it flies well above the range of our rockets.

The Russians have killed over 600,000 Ukrainian soldiers. The West has objectives on a map to take and hold. The Russians learned from the Mongolians. Kill the opposong army's soldiers. Give up territory to save your army and find a better spot to make a stand. Zelenski says he needs 200,000 European soldiers to keep the war going.

Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. ;)

I went to college for 10 years full time. I read 350,000 pages of college level stuff the second time I went to college. At one time I read Greek and Japanese. I translated Albert Camus's L'Etranger. I can do triple Integrals. When I was 8 years-old, I independently figured out what a contrapositive was. What I did was to read "When we see Him, we shall be like him." I realized I could make a logically equivalent statement "You won't see Him until you are like Him."

Good for you. I grew up in a tough neighborhood and ended up driving trucks most of my life until I got sick with bacterial meningitis. That wiped out much of my memory. Lucky I am that much of it is returning.

If you drive it, wear it or eat it, thank a trucker.

Oh yeah, David Duke has a PhD after his name also. He said when he was Grand Wizard of the KKK he was young and dumb. ;)

I was livig in the Hunter's Point Housing Project in SF when I graduated from the best academic high school in California as measured by the GPA of its grads who attended UC Berkeley. It took me 1 1/2 hours every morning on the bus to get to school and an equal amount of time to get home.

My mother was married and divorced 5 times. All of my step-fathers were alcoholics except for one great man my mother was married to for 2 years. The only problem was that he was a professional bank robber and left us one jump ahead of the cops when I was halfway through 2nd grade. He subsequently was caught and died in prison.

My mother later told me that she married him because he had money. For 2 years we lived in a nice home which was the biggest in the neighborhood.

I did not live in the suburbs eating 3 square meals a day.

I once said to religious people:

I know 3 things for certain:

1) God made me.

2) God made me smart.

3 ) God put me here at this time to say No to a thermonuclear war.

3 ) God put me here at this time to say No to a thermonuclear war.

Xi of China told Vlad, "No nukes." Once you use them there is no turning back. ;)