Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Music isn't better or worse
From Youtube comments;
Lenora S. 9 months ago (edited) To those confused by this clip, it is from a movie "Our Shining Days" on Netflix. The basic premise of it is that in this school the students who study traditional Chinese instruments are looked down at, while those who study western instruments get better treatment. The students who study traditional music form their own orchestra to match the western one, and this scene is both of the groups facing off. This clip is NOT showing that one group is better than the other. It is actually showing that both groups of instruments are good, and even can be more similar than one might think. As you can see in the clip, each instrument has a similar equivalent in the other group. However the Traditional instrument group should not be dismissed so easily, because they have the unique horn shown at the end that does not have a Western orchestral equivalent. That is why the horn player's entrance was so shocking, because the Western group did not know how to "compete" with this unique instrument. Its a really interesting scene that has a more complex story than it might appear, I would highly recommend watching the movie to get a better understanding!
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
St. Louis Memories - Sunday Brunch at The Parkmoor
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
I'm back online as you may have noticed.
I moved into my new home Christmas Eve 2020. My daughter and Son in Law moved in at the other end of the house, and they are helping with the bills and the pay for the internet. I finally have high speed internet, whereas before I had DSL or cable internet at the low bandwidth plan.
We made it through the big freeze, although having to repair my water line where the county turned off the water and the lines froze wasn't fun after they turned water back on and flooded the rear half of my property. I'm afraid of what my water bill will be next month.
I've finally gotten 3 of my lowers built and 1 of my uppers is done. I need to get my vise bolted back down to finish the other one. And I need to get the parts to build the third upper and finish the 4th lower. I lost so many parts after the hurricane. People not knowing what things were, me being injured so I couldn't be there to supervise and enough parts to build 2 rifles either got thrown away or someone pocketed. NOT any lowers. THOSE were secured in one of the safes. But I'm missing two collapsing butt stocks, one a 4 position the other a 6 position, a stripped A3 upper. A Lee Load All in 12 ga with it's 20 ga conversion disappeared in addition to about 170 lbs of lead ingots and my melting pot, bullet molds and other reloading gear.
But I have a new home. I have food on the table and my bills are mostly paid, although property taxes and some vehicle repairs are are making it hard to pay things.
So for the most part. Life is good. And I have the creator to thank that none of my kids are in a bad way.
So look for some new posts here soon as I dig out the cameras and get back to work.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Canada to ban Airsoft - House Gamers Airsoft - The End Of AIRSOFT! | Bill C-21
They are coming for Air Soft in Canada now. And you just KNOW they will try to do the same here in the US.
Friday, February 5, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
From the Inbox - This manifesto was found in 1919 by allied troops in Germany
This manifesto was found in 1919 by allied troops in Germany
Over the weekend, my family went hiking in Beaver, UT.
Beaver is a small town of about 3,000 people.
We ate at one of the local diners and I picked up their newspaper called The Beaver County Journal.
Inside, there was a letter to the editor about the coming Communist takeover in America.
The author wrote about the 10 Rules of a Communist revolution that were supposedly found in 1919 in Germany by the allied forces.
Take a look and see how many of them are currently playing out…
1. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial. Destroy their ruggedness.
2. Get control of all means of publicity.
3. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, and other trivialities.
4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
5. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule, and obloquy.
6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit and produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
8. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
9. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, and ruggedness.
10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.
Well, what do you think? Pretty scary, right? Notice that two times they mention the word "ruggedness." Soft and weak people are obviously easier to conquer than tough people with awesome guns like this. And so are people who don't have faith in God. Remember, some of our most important duties are to defend truth, defend God, defend freedom and defend the family. I believe it was Albert Einstein who said… "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." With inauguration day being tomorrow, it will be up to you and me to share our voices and not cower over the next 4 years. And, of course, it is up to us to continually prepare to be self-reliant, because you and I know it will be an "interesting" 4 years. (If I used foul language, I would change the word "interesting" to something else.)
Stay safe,
Jason Hanson
Former CIA Officer Editor, Spy & Survival Briefing Editor, Black Bag Confidential
Modesto Shooting
This officer shows professionalism, that according to certain folks this is his 5th OIS (Officer Involved Shooting).