Breaking free, walking away...

   I have never liked commercials, telemarketers, computer interruptions of my viewing, door knocking salespeople and strangers out to kill me and loot my piles of stuff... but current culture demands participation and my attention or they will send someone to find out how I am. Do they really care? Probably not - but someone will try to call or thump on their side of my viewing of my activity. If I am blogging, like now, I would be likely to just never return if I had some popup ad.

   Break free, it is a bit of a chore for some things. I have lots to think about, current books being read, memories to be recalled and taken care of, and a mind that always wants fed. Give me more of what I am searching for... so I was doing the 100 years War and wanted some diagrams beyond what was offered in my book, and I searched and found the book I remembered - not at hand. Things move, are still here but behind some pile of things not disturbed for years, and I do mean years, and I could be mistaken.

   I do become convinced that I must start liquidating my stuff, throw away, give away and gift the really good stuff. Too much, too much. I also want to redo the Computer Cave, anyone know why I have three computers there? Well, if you do you are smarter than I am. I likely have all I need, just more than I realize or am prepared to handle.

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: So you are old and afraid.. why me, LORD?

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: So you are old and afraid.. why me, LORD?:   Came back from a success, looked at Face Book feed and left a note that I was going to flee. I am reading Northwest Passage, and would rat...

So you are old and afraid.. why me, LORD?

  Came back from a success, looked at Face Book feed and left a note that I was going to flee. I am reading Northwest Passage, and would rather dwell with Rogers and his rangers coming back from wiping out a hostile French Indian camp then look at the silly stuff on FB. But can't stay reading forever I have stuff to get done, and if I don't move it won't get done and the less I do the more certain I can't handle anything on my own.. or government intervention.

  Speaking of government intervention, I went to pick up my most recent purchase, no sales tax, but there was a SAR processing fee of $18. I have no idea how they decided that that fee was an improvement in all the good the government is doing for the folks. Being in Washington State I count it another example of an attempt to extract a little more blood but leave me alive for now.  I am okay, I did enjoy the company of humans trying to please me and help me and do a fine job to put their needs in order.  My wife isn't slowing down and I am not starting up the remainder of the day, unless she goes to walk on the treadmill. Then I will head for the garage and start straightening everything up. Too much stuff!!!!

   I did have a couple interesting conversations about modern life. The clerk was telling me he didn't get his phone until 7th grade, I laughed. He said they get them younger now.... all soon to be part of the Borg.   Real fears abound most aren't based on truth, as I teach rifle marksmanship I tell the shooters not to allow their mind to fuss their shot, don't allow your mind to change many things that don't count.... but like any temptation they will take their easy miss over a difficult hit.

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: Are you programmed properly yet? Seriously, we are...

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: Are you programmed properly yet? Seriously, we are...:   It has been over a month since I broke free of the computer war game I was playing every day, no matter where or when. The designers, want...

Are you programmed properly yet? Seriously, we are being had by the borg...

  It has been over a month since I broke free of the computer war game I was playing every day, no matter where or when. The designers, wanted a international game, multi-players and all time zones. Their goal was to make money, anyone's money was good. They had a good solid design and they monitor player activity, because if they don't the players go away and speak ill of their product. So now I have more money, time and am doing productive things.... it would have been fine if I needed to watch a screen while I healed. But I am getting healthier. Adventure, learning, combat, rewards and fame for advancing in levels and power in the game.

   It does become addictive, and if you are impatient you can buy gold pieces and buy weapons, training and advancements. Getting your high much faster, but the crash is exactly the same - is that all there is? Flat - until the next struggle for success. Humans are wired that way. So after about two years of play, I said good-bye to my team and was out of there. I, my avatar is now a ghost city producing everything so that any attacker gets rewarded without bursting through my defences and troops. I still have gold that no one can touch, still have my armor and level. I would just have to play again and recover my former power and might. Not going to do that. I am free.

  At the YMCA, I have used two different software programs to monitor my activity, one on my home computer, and one an app on my digital distraction device (electric tether telephone w/apps). I have been a compulsive note taker for years on mileage and repetitions, not that I had ever look back at the numbers, but if you graph them you can see what is changing and any thing that changes with effort. Not much except health changes without moving. I feel good enough to think I should put my motorcycle back on the road and go visiting... so I must be feeling very good. Don't worry, I haven't started the lawn mower up yet, that will be first.

  As I sip my second cup of coffee, I hear that reverse mortgage might... whatever, they do want you to be chained by: debt, guilt, too many things and personal responsibility. Poor alternatives for love, conversation, simple games and gentle touching other lives. But they know you won't be had if you aren't on their lists - still answering a phone? No matter who calls? Did you think the Pope was calling? The President? The Queen?

  Some fool programmer is putting together a code to determine if you are going to commit mass slaughter. It will be based on known data Age, Sex, and all your financial transactions, data drops and photos on the internet and every word written, and sung by you... Social status, family, friends and political activity. To survive you will have to adapt, innovate and overcome, or just disappear.

 

 

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: Well start training as an EMT, cause the second Ci...

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: Well start training as an EMT, cause the second Ci...:   Too much hate, no compromises, the ruling elite are sure the laws don't apply to them, that they can't be punished. And none of it...

Well start training as an EMT, cause the second Civil War is on the way... no one studies history...

  Too much hate, no compromises, the ruling elite are sure the laws don't apply to them, that they can't be punished. And none of it is secret - I am on the side of the deplorables, I cling to my God, my family, and my firearm. Now if you would outlaw the medical murder of unborn humans, I might give up the firearms you are so afraid of. Because I study history and know much about warfare that Hollywood has never found sexy nor entertaining.

  Right after the next medical appointment I am registering for the First Aid then the EMT course. Why? Because y'all are going to need medical assistance. Not enough love in America, Hollywood tried to convince everyone that sex and romance are just fun, thank you Hugh Hefner, ruined a whole country preaching that everyone should be a deviant - probably created the toxic male all by himself. I will have to pray for all of us, non-clingers especially, although the reason I never followed the Walking Dead was I thought they were the supporters of the Democrats or Republican rascals. They all just grab power for enriching themselves, families and friends.

  For the fools that think any resistance will fall to the power of the police and military - who do you think is in those uniforms? And if the political leaders don't honor the Constitution and laws, how do you expect your bodyguards and security forces to obey your fool ideas? Want to do something helpful, clean the street, say hello and how are ya to your neighbors, laugh a lot more, pray and worship the LORD that cannot be bribed, bought nor conquered. Now about the uncivil war - the resistance is going after leadership, the little folks have never been the problem. First everyone not living in love and trust in the LORD will start by saying mean, untrue and ugly facts about the other side. The speed of communications will magnify the effect - just like the Media reports all of President Trump's Tweets. I am not on Twitter and remain sane- but the Media tells me what he said and what it means.... and I am somewhere else studying to save lives while all mindless, influenced by bad manners, bad language and Mainstream Media run around frothing off the latest talking points.

  Example: the AR -15 is an assault weapon, a military grade machine that shouldn't be in the hands of slaves, prisoners and the people we are about to betray because we don't trust them. May as well castrate and emasculate all men because frightened women may not trust them. And my brother knows nothing about military weapons - the reason he fears the AR is he forgot full automatic isn't a feature on the AR-15, that American military and police weapons will have a selector that will go to burst or full automatic (why police need full auto is beyond me - but I was military not police). Not enough love, manners, respect, nor pause buttons.

  What I find amazing is how the President will adopt a bad idea: suppressor banning, AR banning and has no real idea of the effect except it throws the Media off a bit. He is a political animal, feels the crowds, listens to his Twitter feed. Yes, the end is not very far off. Hope you are prepared - every institution has been compromised and seems tainted. Suggestion is that you straighten yourself up, cling closely to your loved ones and be nice. If you are already nice, talk others into that pattern of response... and stockpile bandages, and medicines. We are going to need them along with prayers.

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: We need to get beyond fears, especially the ones t...

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: We need to get beyond fears, especially the ones t...:   Folks in government do like to be powerful, at least enough that you would be afraid, very afraid. So a fool politician says he would nuke...

We need to get beyond fears, especially the ones that make you change...

  Folks in government do like to be powerful, at least enough that you would be afraid, very afraid. So a fool politician says he would nuke anyone that resisted disarmament. He couldn't launch a nuke, can't compute for using one, and he has no power to start a war beyond his one vote. Idle threat, like I mentioned he is a fool. His threat may have destroyed his Presidential campaign, but helped his reelection.

   I am an old fat man, many reasons but for sure too many carbs eaten and a finely tuned body that stores everything in layers of fat. I do not run ten miles a day, five days a week. I am like too many modern fools, sitting and watching a screen, which burns few calories. I am in danger of heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, shingles, flu, headaches, fevers, many kinds of sexually transmitted diseases and ED. Now I do have a family doctor, who has sent me to taking daily pills and has increased my life by a few more years. Or at least my blood pressure has gone down. I have it good and will suffer for it, I don't look like the beautiful people on the screen unless you watch television to see the audience on WWE. I have no fears of the few, but like the fat, I will suffer for them.

    I am not believing the media, I will continue to find entertainment value on it, but normally I will put my cable on to music, light classical in the day, and Blues in the evening. I would like to start playing cards (Canasta, Bridge or some Rummy) but no one has time when they show up. I will read prose and poetry in my lonely. I will be fine and I will have little fear. I did say I am not believing the media, didn't I?

   About the whole gun culture, I would be happier if they weren't so scary trying to look like operators with lots of magazines and tons of bullets to shoot and three sets of aiming in the dark and the dangerous devices taking their rifle from seven pounds to twelve. But most of that has little reality in how they shoot. How well they shoot, what targets they shoot and most of them aren't making their shot based on fear. But then I don't do cowboy action shooting, nor any of the other fast shooting competitions. Now safe competition is fine, but not something fat old men would do well at. If I were a techy, I would shoot bench, and reload and become an expert but the benches are all the wrong size, too heavy to move easily and get in the way of my shooting mat and prone positions. I can never be satisfied. And sitting on a bench does not make one more mobile and flexible, where position shooting would.

   How many murders have you been witness to? Hopefully no real ones, but I once saw Marshall Dillon kill the same man every Sunday evening, for years and years. And don't get me started on the war drama, the police dramas, and the gangsta stories. My mind can't tell the difference between illusion and reality - remember everything on the screen is a binary representation of something created, or recorded to be transmitted to your eyes, ears and mind. They can build fears, you have enough of your own but with the speed of transmission and the money the carriers will gain, you will be fed fears until you are too feeble to resist another episode of Law and Order. Now I really do know that only one robbery happened in the local area and the burglar was caught and charged with a lot of ones that aren't covered because only so much time in a broadcasting day.

   Being basically a shy young man, I never believed the romantic stories, cause that isn't the way love is... but I can see how the cultural norms and social expectations are destroyed by media, Enough media overload and you might as well be part of the matrix, because you aren't in reality. And in the end, realize that the advertisers, are fueling the obsession with the screen and the entertainment.

  For a destruction of the mass killer culture, get it off the screen, allow no advertising during news and commentary and education programming. Our fears are being fed by media, I suggest more reading of real books less watching screens meant to sell you something you really don't need.

I am so bad, evil, sinful and then God spoke to me....

   Really, but you don't believe me. It is alright your disbelief won't hurt me, change me nor count against you in the final judgement.  Calling me a White Nationalist, a hill billy, a toxic male, or just a really 'not one of us' kind of guy I once would have fought about it, teenage boy stuff. But I grew out of all that long, long ago. I don't value the opinions of people that look at me with their fears in front of their eyes. Their fears are only in their mind. I am counting on love and forgiveness, but sure that there is an evil government employee that will try to make me bend to their way of doing stuff. I have met them, and avoid them.

   The same way I don't count opinions in the news as truth. I know they slant their reporting, and all for audience and money. Is there truth out there? Sure count the bodies, find the shooter and the guns and bullets. But listen carefully while the police and medical community hide facts from the public, to keep tourists coming to Vegas, and people taking drugs to stop smoking or other mental traumas. Although the warnings are always given mood swings, depression and suicidal thoughts seek help. As I remember depression, I aspired to be a potato. I would guess that most of the suicides of veterans are because they don't feel important, loved, part of the community around them... lonely does end badly. With the speed of communications today, I once learned more about my family around a Canasta table than I ever did watching the network evening news.

   You all need to be good working on best that you can, do it all with love, and remember that no one can fix the fears inside of another person, the best you can do is listen politely and respect their attempts to make the fears go away. Speak kindly, use good manners and be kind.
 
 

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: So i-1639 went into effect on 1 July 2019... for f...

Earl's View, focus on the front sight: So i-1639 went into effect on 1 July 2019... for f...:   When I realized that the new (improved by fool committee and unknowing and not participating voters) anti-gun owners law was in effect it ...

So i-1639 went into effect on 1 July 2019... for fear of the few, and good intentions misdirected

  When I realized that the new (improved by fool committee and unknowing and not participating voters) anti-gun owners law was in effect it was time to buy an AR-15, that evil black rifle. So I quit my online wargame (March of Empires, War of Lords) of a couple years. And found my freedom again. Those lovely little distraction devices are almost as bad as drugs and alcohol used beyond moderation. 

Shooting KD at DRRC

    I went to our local Base Exchange where they sell firearms to military service connected people. They didn't have a 20 inch rifle, lots of 16 inch carbines. The helpful clerk told me I could order one and I found the one I liked and ordered it, after producing my Certification certificate for my firearms safety education. Colt AR-15A4 should provide a fine answer to my desire to help the new law overcome the fears of the few. Once I placed my order, 6 Jul 2019, I would have to wait for the rifle to arrive to continue the paperwork. On 26 July, I returned to the base to pick up a prescription. And I found during my stop by the firearms counter that my rifle had come in, I hadn't checked my messages on my telephone. So another helpful clerk went back to find my rifle and bring it out so I could handle it and start the additional paperwork. I filled out everything, then the clerk checked and we printed out the filled forms and they would be sent off electronically and kept with the purchase paperwork and rifle. My next event will be waiting for the cooling off period, ten working days, so on Saturday the 10th of August, I will be able to pay for and pick up my new rifle.
   Nicest thing about the waiting period, I can read more, order extra magazines and ammunition for the rifle. Which I did, so easily on the internet.
    I have been watching the CMP shooting events on the Facebook feed, lots of lovely stuff and great competition. I will not be joining their ranks, but will continue to work with RWVA at Appleseed events where we help train folks in rifle marksmanship safety and heritage. I am also a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, and love the magazine but not the politics at the Headquarters too close to the DC swamps. Isn't that like any place of power, the wrong folks go to claim leadership and then ruin the basic fine organization and apathy means that nothing changes. Pay attention and talk, write and vote. And since you know I think you should - get your rifle and the skills needed to be a citizen of Liberty.

Personal camo outfit local purchase, dressed for OPFOR

  In 1968, I was an infantryman, 11B assigned to an artillery unit, C Battery 7th Battalion of the 17th Field Artillery. Where I would attempt to do the best I could, but I was always learning how much I didn't know as I tried to get in charge of my life. I became a real 13B corporal by another corporal being busted for breaking a rule, and the senior sergeants and the commander thinking I could handle others as I learned about the artillery on a  howitzer, 105mm towed. I went to a school to learn ballistic computations and become part of the Fire Direction Center, then another school for small unit leadership and tactics, called the Advanced Combat Training Academy, My commander and his driver/clerk came to visit half way through the course. Saw I was doing well and they put in my promotion to Sergeant the following Monday. Come graduation day, I was number two in the class and to be honored for that with four others. All would be called and presented promotions by their battalion Commanders, The best in class actually got staff sergeant stripes, and I was given acting sergeant stripes by my battalion commander (which he kindly apologized for the not having real ones). Get back to the battery and the Battery Commander and the clerk would give me orders for a real promotion to Sergeant 13F Recon Sergeant dated ten days earlier than the graduation. I was also given the Fire Direction Center/section to be in charge of after forgetting most of my computation skills from that earlier school. Ugh! back to the books and the additional duty of Training NCO for the 1SG/BC, as well as periodically being the Recon Sergeant for when we fielded a FO team for our Infantry Battalion. Times were good!
   In 1969 my mother wrote and said my cousin was getting married in Seoul Korea, and I was the closest relative and I needed to get there and see the wedding and write her all about it. So I asked for

Fixing cousin's uniform, day of the Moon landing

and got a pass, put on some blue jeans and some kind of shirt with buttons and a cigarette pocket and went to find my cousin. My mother loved family, and weddings in general. I went boldly, and found him, he lent me a civilian suit (I wasn't a fat old man then) and I became a best man at his wedding, an honor I have never repeated in my life, says something about how anti-social I have been. It was cool and as soon as I could I broke free and returned to my unit and my girl friend that was sure I was getting married to another woman - language lag is amazing, must have corrected her confusion. Since yesterday I left an Appleseed after lunch and some Dangerous Old Men story, drove home, cleaned up, picked her up (my girl friend became my wife) and we went to a party, which I reported in for the final five minutes and we spent the next four hours catching up and reliving long ago and far away. The good things become the best things when they cost just a little effort and are done with love. Remember this story will disappear when Google decides they don't like it, marriage, military, families and not making a dime on it. But the marriages and lives mentioned march on. Y'all be great, because you have already mastered good!

Well, I have been driven to test and use the new improved denial of my rights...

  So I stopped by the Exchange to see if they had what I wanted, they didn't but I started to ask to see the Ruger Mini-14, looked so beautiful with wood instead of polymer or aluminum. Would come with two five round magazines (I immediately wondered if Magpul made ten round magazines for it).
So I said what I was interested in, they looked up on hand inventory, no joy... but no problem they would order it for me. I told them I would return and went off to the YMCA to work the body a bit and talk. Sweat and talk was very good made a lunch date with another member, an older Vietnamese gentleman. Who looks like he is wasting away.
   Back home to clean up and do some research about what I wanted to order, wrote it out and I grabbed my paperwork and such and went back to the Exchange. Okay, very helpful woman looked it up, found the price, placed the order --- only after making sure I had a certificate of completion of training for compliance with I-1639, well, I showed her my free one from Sporting Systems and Daniel G. Mitchell, she had to call and see if it was good. It was, they did show me one from RifleClass.com where for twenty dollars and the time spent watching a video and taking a test I would be certified. Mine was accepted, I will have to come back and fill out the other required forms when there is a rifle serial number to match me with it. Then there is also a waiting period after I buy the rifle and they approved the purchase... more bumps. Now I do have time, I can wait. Just more hoops to jump through for someone's fears.  The NRA and the other organization need to keep pushing in court to kill i-1639 as in violation of the Constitution of Washington and the United States of America.

   In my news feed from the Media, it seems politicians, states and even the President are never going to be charged and convicted of any crimes committed. I am sure since I am not breaking any laws, including the really stupid and badly crafted ones, I will be punished by watching helplessly as the fools continue to break up a nation that once worked. But remember, no one is responsible and everyone does it.... current lack of values. God bless us when we do our best.