Guitar lesson Del Shannon's Runaway

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I remember this song, but the song is said to have been released in 1961. My recollection was a bit later than that. Maybe it was still getting air play in 1964 some three years later.

It is on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Hits of All Time. Number 472 it says on the Wikipedia. ( I suspect a bit of bias there. Just kidding.)

Not to make any disparaging comments here, but the song seems simple enough. But if it was so simple, how come I never learned it? Well, it may be harder to do this than it looks, but it doesn't look that hard. But I won't break out the gitfiddle and try it myself. I still got that old gitfiddle. Couldn't bring myself to get rid of it.

Here's the video for anybody interested...

Off-grid, 12-9-21

It may seem sometimes that this blog is way out there. But even being this far "out there" may not be far enough. That's because even I can be fooled sometimes. Yep, even though a person may be wary of what they're seeing and hearing, it still is possible for them to slip a weenie in on ya.

So, let's recap a bit as to WHY I set up the off-grid project in the first place. Back in 2014 or a bit sooner, I had read about the self-driving cars that were being developed. Since I was in the delivery business, I figured my job was about to become obsolete. That hasn't happened, even now. But the attempts to make self-driving cars is still there. These people aren't going to stop doing things like that. I think it is a type of economic warfare.

I got into a debate about this recently. Actually not a "debate" in a formal sense, but an argument really. That argument was about the mechanization of everything. I was attempting to put forth the notion that this isn't inevitable, that those who are pushing it can be defeated. The way is to become much more self-reliant. As with arguments in general, they don't tend to change minds. Mine wasn't changed and I didn't change anybody's mind on the self-reliance thing either. It would seem that there could be millions of people out there who will let themselves to consigned to an ever increasing dependency upon big government. It may not change anybody's mind to argue for a minimized state because they have convinced themselves of its necessity.

Now for the reason for this post. The mechanization of everything is just one aspect of it. Another aspect that I've overlooked is the medical aspect of it. Yes, it is about this COVID madness. The COVID madness is in lockstep with the generalized war against the people. They are waging it on multiple fronts. One is economic, and another is the medical. Since it is medical, it means that people are dying. Yep, the warzone is in the medical profession.

The medical will be used to affect the economic. Therefore, you won't be able to buy and sell without your med passport. All the more reason to stop depending upon them to provide the goods. The goods are just another way of controlling everybody and reducing us all to slavery. Keep in mind that slaves cannot defend themselves. Kyle Rittenhouse anyone? This push is all-encompassing, and the medical angle is but one angle of it. Or one front of the multi-front war on the people.

So I have to bone up on the medical stuff. It is a part of survivalism. If they are going to deny medical treatment because no jabs, then part of the off-grid aspect is to figure out ways to take care of your health when the health system has become degraded with corruption and government control. If it were up to me, I'd say develop a whole new infrastructure that is devoted to self-reliance, and amongst those skill sets would be the medical one. The current medical infrastructure isn't in the business of serving you, but it is in the business of serving itself at your expense--if that's necessary.

Theoretically the political system is self-correcting. But the system is starting to act totalitarian, because that option is being increasingly denied. If you think the GOP is the answer, the way it stands now, it isn't. There is a chance to correct that, but the people are disorganized and this doesn't appear to be gaining enough traction in my opinion. Folks may be getting more involved, but it may be too little and too late. Just because a politician has an "R" next to his name doesn't mean jack squat. The "R's" are not really any better right now. There may be a slight opportunity to change that now, but that window is closing fast.

Don't get too comforted that the GOP is doing better in polls. I find polls to be unreliable. Citing the latest poll shouldn't be a source of hope. In fact, it could well be another form of disinformation meant to mislead people into a false sense of hope. The way the GOP is now, they are at best only marginally better than the commies in the so-called Democrat party.

It is not meant to counsel fear and despair. Rather it is meant to inform anybody who wishes to know what is being hidden from them today. The news networks aren't news. Alternative news may be slightly better, but frankly, way too many who are supposedly on the side of freedom are themselves part of the problem. Part of this post is devoted to a sort of mea culpa about being fooled sometimes that this all pervasive propaganda net being thrown over us all.

So what does all this mean? It means that going off-grid may be the only way to fight back. They own the system and they are using all the power at their disposal to squash any real opposition to their plans. Their plans is what should concern anybody who cares about their freedom. Our freedom is under massive assault. Make no mistake. This is a war. The best way to win it is to survive it.

Off-grid, 12-8-21

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Seems like there has been some important developments since I last visited this topic. In this video, there is a ton of small batteries that goes into making a power supply which will fit into a craftsman tool box.

The video is a little over 30 minutes long. There is a ton of detail in it. In fact, it is so detailed that it may be tempting to try this myself. However, it is not exactly what I had in mind.

There are some good ideas out there. This does appear to be an interesting option, if I wanted to go that way. Probably not, though.

The video beings directly below:

Graphene Supercapacitor type products coming soon

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Capacitors are quite intriguing as they are very long lasting. Unlike batteries, they can be charged and discharged more times than you'd probably ever use it. The down side is that they don't hold as much energy. They work best at delivering quite a punch in a short amount of time.

But with this graphene development, there will be an ability to store even more energy than before. In such cases, it can become a super battery. This video discusses the future of new products with this exciting new technology which could make it to markets soon.

If it is possible to make one that would allow the replacement of conventional batteries with this superbattery, it would be nothing short of revolutionary. A supercapacitor doesn't take long to recharge. Maybe it could be recharged like a gas powered car can be refueled. Imagine that. The EcoFlow product he links to isn't that fast charging, though.

As someone once said, "faster please"...





Here's a review of one of the products mentioned in the above video:

Reconquista time

New party in France

Twitter purges "right-wing" accounts

It has been a long term rant here about the so-called "right v left" divide. So I really am not too disturbed about banning of so-called "right-wing" accounts on Twitter per se. That's because I don't subscribe to that paradigm based upon that false dialectic.

But Twitter is supposed to be a neutral platform. Therefore it cannot ban anybody without being decidedly non-neutral. The law says it has to be neutral. Twitter is in violation of that law.

But back to the dialectics--- Ronald Reagan defined the correct paradigm with the following dialectic: ( A dialectic is a model based upon the following-- a thesis, its opposite known as an anti-thesis, and a composite with elements of both, which is called the synthesis) Reagan's dialectic is like this--- maximal freedom v totalitarianism, and the synthesis is an ordered civilization. It is therefore not based upon this idea that freedom is somehow "right wing" and that totalitarianism is necessarily "left wing". No, totalitarianism could be "right or left". For all intents and purposes, it matters not that it is right or left if it is totalitarian. They are not opposites because the end result is the same damned thing-totalitarianism.

This all may seem unnecessarily academic. Or splitting hairs. But keep in mind that the left ( which I use that part of their dialectic to describe them because it is THEIR terminology -- not mine), aka communists, like to call ANYBODY who disagrees with them as "right wing" and therefore FASCIST, even if that person objects to fascism just as much as against COMMUNISM, because they are both totalitarian systems that all freedom-lovers should abhor. In other words, it is a slanderous accusation, and it is propaganda meant to further their agenda of conquest and subjugation to the totalitarian state. It happens every time.

Therefore Twitter is acting like communists did. It matters not that they are purportedly a "capitalist" organization. This is just a nominal appearance of freedom with the suppression of all counter viewpoints as the hallmark of a totalitarian mindset. This is what communism does in all its iterations everywhere a country has fallen to its depredations.

If we are going to take back our country and our culture ( Reconquista), then we'd better know who the enemy is and how to fight him. Hopefully this distinction--- with a real difference, as opposed to the distinctions without a difference--- that the liars and frauds use to muddy the water, will aid in this goal of reconquest of our heritage of freedom.

NPR, COVID and Politics

 

This comment won't be linking to the article. It won't get one, but there will be something written here in response to it.

Trump has been out for nearly a year, but somehow NPR is blaming Trump for the so-called "vaccine-hesitancy"? The article claims politics is now driving the polarization. On that account, I would agree. This so-called "pandemic" has been politicized since the beginning. On that account, I decided to hold everything being put forth from Democrats negetively with extreme prejudice.

That should also go for articles like this. How does it have anything to do with Trump? He's been gone. Actually it was Trump who rushed the so-called "vaccine" into production. If it were about politics, then it should be Trump voters who would be all over it singing its praises. In my opinion, Trump was too hasty in bringing it online, but it was at least driven by the politics of the time. They had a so-called "Trump Death Clock" on Times Square. It was that kind of thing that made me realize that the whole thing was political from the start, and still is.

The article attempts to make a connection between death rates, politics, and the "vaccine hesitancy". Those who don't get it are doing it because of politics, it is claimed. It is also claimed that those who aren't getting the jab are at the greatest risk for death. I don't buy it because of Florida and my home state of Texas. Florida never had a mask mandate. Texas did, but there is no jab passports as of this time. Hopefully, there never will be. I can relate that as a non-jabbed person, that I am not dead. If by any chance I get the 'rona, I will guarantee you that I will not have an deathbed conversion. People are dying, but they always have, and always will. You'd think nobody ever died of anything until the dreaded 'rona came along. Hardly no masks in Texas either. Florida seems to be doing well. You'd think from the article that people were dropping like flies.

For the upteenth time, the "vaccine" isn't a vaccine. The "vaccine" doesn't work, and may do harm. No other legitimate vaccine ever was developed for a corona virus. Only this one purportedly does, and it was done in record time. For that reason, I am very skeptical. That would be true if Trump were still president. For me, politics doesn't have a damned thing to do with it. If 90 percent of Dems have gotten it, and only about 60 percent of the Republicans, I'd say it was because of politics. I think it is pretty dumb to make health decisions because of politics. If you really believe the so-called "vaccine" will save your buns, then go for it. I have my doubts, thank you very much. I don't appreciate being told that I am too dumb to understand what is good for me. But it looks like Democrats need someone to tell them what is good for them cuz evidently they don't think for themselves.

The article is just playing politics with COVID as the commies have been doing all along. I'm not falling for it.

Eurhythmics--Sweet Dreams

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An oldie and maybe a goodie. Not everyone would agree with that. It seems a bit gritty. It is a statement about human nature. "Everybody is looking for something". But all those "something's" mentioned in the lyrics aren't such good things to look for--such as the use and abuse of others for personal gain.

Why isn't it a goodie if it is the truth? That is the measuring stick. If it conforms to truth then it cannot be bad. To get someone to believe something that is false is evil. If Satan is the father of all lies, then how can the truth be bad? Lies are for those who worship the evil one.

A statement like that is likely to draw some fire from somebody somewhere. For a post- modernist, there is no truth. All things are subjective and nothing is objectively true or false; one perceptions, feelings, and beliefs transcend all others. But if you're doing things like that, and can get away with it, why care?

And there you have it. Like Mark Twain said, it is mind over matter- if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Or as the sixties generation said--- if it feels good, do it. But there is always the opposing line-- like where's the standards? Where's the ethics? Where's the morality? It may feel good, but does that make it good? And so it goes... The video follows directly below: