USA Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy. It is the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world; its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas have capacity for 714 million barrels.

The concept behind this oil reserve is not to provide cheap gasoline to American citizens or to reduce the price per gallon of gasolina at the pump...  IT IS THERE IN CASE THE USA GETS ATTACKED BY ITS ENEMIES...   HENCE IT IS THERE FOR MILITARY PURPOSES and MILITARY PURPOSES ONLY...

There have been several Presidents who released oil from this reserve to lower gasoline prices...  but they replaced what they removed.

Biden is the only President to remove oil from this reserve to sell to other countries.  Biden's hidden agenda on removing oil is not so much to increase revenue but to deplete the reserve so that the USA is force to go to electric vehicles.

However, will there be enough oil for our navy, air force, and army if we end up having to fight a war with CHINA???  

Reducing the reserve to force America to go green is one thing but to reduce the reserve that forces America to lose a war, is insanity...  and, it could be labeled as treason.

Of course, my opinion does not mean shit when it comes to all the politicians and power people here in the US of A...  they are the ones that we Americans turn to and believe that they will do whatever is in our best interest...

Although, the Democrats, Hollywood, Disneyland, and large tech companies seem to be kissing CHINA'S ASS TO INCREASE THEIR EARNIINGS...   which has little to do with the welfare of the American people.

I'M JUST SAYING...

Citizens Beware

 

Sound of Rain

 

Mother Love

 

2023 Index of US Military Strength

The 2023 Index concludes that the current U.S. military force is at significant risk of not being able to meet the demands of a single major regional conflict while also attending to various presence and engagement activities. The force would probably not be able to do more and is certainly ill-equipped to handle two nearly simultaneous MRCs—a situation that is made more difficult by the generally weak condition of key military allies.

In the aggregate, the United States’ military posture can only be rated as “weak.” The Air Force is rated “very weak,” the Navy and Space Force are “weak,” and the U.S. Army is “marginal.” The Marine Corps and nuclear forces are “strong,” but the Corps is a one-war force, and its overall strength is therefore not sufficient to compensate for the shortfalls of its larger fellow services. 

And if the United States should need to employ nuclear weapons, the escalation into nuclear conflict would seem to imply that handling such a crisis would challenge even a fully ready Joint Force at its current size and equipped with modern weapons. 

Additionally, the war in Ukraine, which threatens to destabilize not just Europe but the economic and political stability of other regions, shows that some actors (in this case Russia) will not necessarily be deterred from conventional action even though the U.S. maintains a strong nuclear capability. 

Thus, strong conventional forces of necessary size are essential to the ability of the U.S. to respond to emergent crises in areas of special interest.

As currently postured, the U.S. military is at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests. It is rated as weak relative to the force needed to defend national interests on a global stage against actual challenges in the world as it is rather than as we wish it were. 

This is the logical consequence of years of sustained use, underfunding, poorly defined priorities, wildly shifting security policies, exceedingly poor discipline in program execution, and a profound lack of seriousness across the national security establishment even as threats to U.S. interests have surged.  READ MORE...

Garbage Trucks

 

History

 

Telling the Truth

 

Equality & Equity For All in the USA

In the past, I have used the word American to describe us, but the residents of Central America and South America also refer to themselves as Americans...  so, now I use USA... to avoid any confusions.

So...  let's look at Equality first...

Whether or not you want to admit this fact, very few of us will ever be EQUAL...

• Different Heights
• Different Weights
• Different Natural Athletic Abilities
• Different Physical Attractiveness
• Different Mental Abilities
• Different Musical Abilities
• Different Acting Abilities
• Different Pre-Existing Medical Conditions

Simply put...

1. We cannot all be Michael Jordan no matter how hard we practice
2. We cannot all be Albert Einstein no matter how hard we study
3. We cannot all have the voice of Elvis Presley not matter how hard we train
4. We cannot all have the body of Arnold Schwarsenegger no matter how long we lift weights

Now...  let's look at EQUITY...

Simply put...  if we are going after equity then we want everyone to be given a chance at being either a success or a failure...

Under the concept of equity, advanced placement classes were stopped because not everyone had the mental abilities to be in those...  and, the school officials did not want to hurt the feelings of those who were not smart enough...

What does that actually mean?

It means we want to pull all students down to the lowest mental ability to keep from traumatizing the others...  that way no one GETS TO EXCELL...

Let's look at sports...

What if we wanted equity there?

No outstanding players because it would make the others feel bad because they do not have those skills.

Bring the skills of the team down to the level of the worst player on the team...

Damn!  That doesn't even make sense...

BUT...

This is exactly what the WOKE Movement wants to achieve...  because the USA is set up to make whites successful not blacks.  At least that is what they perceive and want us to believe because our nation has its roots in slavery.

The Democrats support the blacks because they want the black vote so that they can stay in power...

Horror

 

Standing Up

 

Making Excuses

 

Unrestricted Warfare - China's Master Plan

As incredible as it may be to believe, three years before the Sept. 11 bombing of the World Trade Center a Chinese military manual titled Unrestricted Warfare touted such an attack – suggesting it would be difficult for the U.S. military to cope with.

Here is an excerpt from Unrestricted Warfare:
“Whether it be the intrusions of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack by bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency bandwidths understood by the American military…”

Surprisingly, Osama bin Laden is mentioned frequently in this book.  Now NewsMax.com is making the CIA translation of this shocking book available to all Americans.  On Sept. 11, 2001, Americans and the world witnessed one of the most horrific acts ever to take place on American soil.

Our media and government were quick to declare the acts of that day as simply terrorism by a nationless group known as al-Qaeda.   In reading China’s military manual Unrestricted Warfare, you will learn that the events of Sept. 11 were not a random act perpetrated by independent agents.  Instead, Chinese military planners believe that terrorism is just one of the many tools at the hands of nations and their terrorist allies to wage total war against the United States.

You will be surprised to learn: 

• The two PLA colonels who authored Unrestricted Warfare have been hailed as heroes in China since Sept. 11
• The Chinese state-run propaganda machine is cashing in on the terror attacks … producing books, films and video games glorifying the strikes as a humbling blow against an arrogant nation.
• Chinese Communist Party officials are saying that President Jiang Zemin has obsessively and gleefully watched and re-watched pictures of the aircraft crashing into the World Trade Center.
• The CIA’s own translation agency reported that this book identifies the U.S. as China’s main enemy, and details how a weak nation can destroy America using unorthodox attacks – like the 9-11 attacks.
• China is preparing itself and encouraging others to engage the U.S. in total war. The book is chock full of plans and strategies, from using computers, to smuggling illegal immigrants, to manipulating the stock markets, to influencing the U.S. media, to using weapons of mass destruction – all to destroy America.

Recent press reports indicate that China has assisted and continues to assist militarily and economically the Taliban and al-Qaeda – even after Sept. 11.

The doctrine of total war outlined in Unrestricted Warfare clearly demonstrates that the People’s Republic of China is preparing to confront the United States and our allies by conducting “asymmetrical” or multidimensional attacks on almost every aspect of our social, economic and political life.

Hiding

 

National Debt of the USA

 Sometime between the ages of 55 and 60, my wife and I became debt free...  eliminating debt from mortgage, car loans, other bank loans, and credit card debt.

Because I served in the military during the Vietnam War, the GI Bill paid for all of my college education including graduate school.

Our combined income was right around $75-$80,000 which is not much in comparison to the rest of the country but sufficient to not just pay the bills in East TN, but save money, as well as go on several vacations (2 weeks plus several long weekends around holidays).

We managed to save enough money so that we could continue that same lifestyle that we had when both were working when we both retired in 2015.  If fact, we had saved enough money so that all our bills could be paid (taking inflation into consideration) until we both turned 95 years of age.

TODAY...

at the end of 2022, our national debt was $31.5 Trillion...

at the end of 2022, our gross domestic product (GDP) was $25.4 Trillion...

The GDP is the sum total value of all the goods and services produced by the USA...

WE OWE MORE THAT WE MAKE...

SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT WHICH TO THINK...

Our own Department of Defense has announced recently that our military is considered weak globally...

Our Navy needs upgrading

Our Air Force needs upgrading

Our Space Force needs upgrading

Our Army needs upgrading

Our Marine are tactically ready and prepared

WHERE WILL WE GET THE MONEY TO DO THIS UPGRADING IF WE HAVE SO MUCH DEBT

The Democrats want to take the USA green which in the long run may benefit us but in the short run will damn near ruin our economy because we simply do not have the infrastructure for instance to handle a nation of electric vehicles....

DO WE SPEND THE MONEY ON GOING GREEN OR ON THE MILITARY?

PLUS...

Our nation's highways, bridges, tunnels are outdated and need to be upgraded or else we will start to experience problems with domestic transportation and supply chain issues...

WHERE DO WE GET THE MONEY FOR INFRASRUCTURE?

The USA is not Prepared for War

Who are the major enemies of the USA?

• China
• Russia
• Iran
• North Korea

 Most of the rest of the world sees it this way too and they are sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see who/when is going to take the top position away from the USA...

All dynasties rise and fall.  It is the nature of power...  and these empires usually fall because they get too big or they try to give too many gifts to their residents.

While FREEDOMS are a good thing to have especially from the individual's perspective, it is difficult as hell to manage, control, and have power over a group of people who are free.

The easiest society to control is one that is communist or one that is under the rule of a dictator.

Interestingly, our enemies fall into one or both of these categories...  non of our enemies have anywhere near the freedoms that we have...  and that difference may end up biting us in the ass one day.

Government have a very difficult time controlling wealthy people...  and while being wealthy is relative, I would say that you are wealthy if you have a net worth of $5 million or more...   $2-$5 million networth there is marginal control...  From a net worth of $1 million or less, then you can easily be controlled by the government.

Right now, in the USA, 80% of the people can be controlled by the government because of their low net worth.

HOWEVER...

the money that the government must spend in order to keep the population under control, means that there is not enough money left over to STRENGTHEN THE MILITARY...

Consequently, we have a:

• poorly prepared Army
• poorly prepared Navy
• poorly prepared Air Force
• poorly prepared Space Force

Interestingly, before we got into OUR CURRENT SITUATION, the USA did create a stockpile of nuclear weapons.  Nuclear weapons never go out of style so the nukes we had in 1960 - 1980 - 2000 are just as good as the nukes that our enemies have in 2023...

It is doubtful, that the world will get itself into a nuclear war because that would kill about 90%+ of everything...  and, while there may be survivors, life will be like it was in 1776 when we won our independence from Great Britain...

• No cars
• No electricity
• No restaurants
• No land suitable for farming
• No livestock, fish, or fowl
• No television
• No radio
• No computers
• No telephones or cell phones
• No electric stoves
• No gas heaters
• No airplanes or trains

Boots

 

Depth of Field Vision

February 2023 is almost half over which means, at least to historical weather patterns, that we have about 4 more weeks of winter...  and, while that may or may not be accurate, we all know that there can be cold days in April which is typically a warm month...

So, what is all this leading up to?

I am more fond of warm weather than I am of cold...  and the fact that we had a day of 70 degrees a couple of days ago, pleased the hell out of me, causing me to feel more anxious about the warm weather soon to arrive.

Most of us have an aversion to cold weather, even those that live in the northern USA and Canada who prefer the cold to warm actually get tired of the cold weather themselves because of the snow and ice through which they must drive more often than not.  Not really fearing their skills behind the wheel but the skill of others who are also on the road.

More and more people these days, or so it seems to me, show they are lacking with their driving skills even though they have been driving for years...  Perhaps, this is because they never learned any skills from the getgo.  They just got in their cars and started driving.

What I notice more than anything else among these other drivers is that they do not seem to have any concept of DEPTH OF FIELD VISION.  I will be driving along and someone will come barrelling ass up behind me and swing to the left to go around me, but fail to grasp or perceive their distance from the car in front of them, forcing them to apply their brakes and then pull back in behind me.

When this happens, I just smile to myself and think IDIOT...

Super Bowl

 

Being Born in 2000

If you were born in 2000 then you are 22/23 years old...  and, I feel very, very sorry for you and all the shit that you were born into...

You are yet to be a quarter of a century old and you have already experienced:

• COVID
• Lies of government
• Inflation
• Stagnant Economy
• Russian Aggression
• Chinese Dominance
• The USA and its impotent military
• Endless Congressional hearings
• The suppression of information by Twitter
• The politicalization of the FBI
• The lies of Democrats
• The highest National debt ever
• The dumbing down of education
• Practices So As Not To Offend Blacks
• Trans males competing against real females
• The claim of white supremacy
• Do as I say not as I do politicians

Bear in mind that when I was your age, we were paying the following:

• $0.30 for a pack of cigarettes
• $0.18 to $0.25 for a gallon of gasoline
• $0.15 for a McDonald's hamburger
• $1.25 for a 6 pack of expensive beer
• $1.00 for a movie ticket

AND...  we were driving Muscle Cars...  that could outperform police cruisers in a chase...

1. We had no problems finding places where we could work without worrying about some racial quotas.
2. We did not have to worry about AIDS.
3. We did not have to worry about drugs that killed even though there were plenty of drugs around.
4. We did not have to stay with our parents after high school because it was too expensive.
5. We did not have to worry about inflation.
6. We did not have to worry about electric cars.
7. We did not have to worry about China's desire to dominate the world.
8. We did not worry about white cops killing blacks.
9. We did not have to worry about media censorship.
10. Our education was not dumbed down and it was the best in the world.

It is true that I am 75 years old...  over 3 times your age...  and, there is a good possibility that I will not live for another 20 years...   but, there is a damn good possibility that I have lived better than you because of what has happened to our society.  And, your parents allowed all this shit to happen...  It was not my generation...  I am from the VIETNAM generation...  And, my first car was a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda with a 383 under the hood...  it was fire engine red and was a convertible.  I paid $3,500 for it...  and, when I was on the interstate, I drove like a bat out of hell.  Musical lyrics were sophisticated poetry that stimulated our imaginations.  We respected each other regardless of your color, religious beliefs, or ethnicity.  It was an era of FREE LOVE...   We all lived FREE and CLEAR of everything and everyone.  We were children and young adults of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.   

WHAT'S YOU GOT?