It Has Been Quiet Here.

Well, here at the blog, but not in my personal life. There has been a lot going on. Stay abreast of what is going on in world.

I will have new posts soon.

The Great Unmasking, Part VI. Elections Have Consequences.

The dust is still settling from yesterday's elections. Some results were expected. Others were surprises. We are no longer one nation. We are a country of competing beliefs and desired outcomes. Half the country seeks lesser government. Half the country seeks socialism/communism in all of its various forms. It is a war for your heart and mind between diverse values.

Go Vote.

I did about an hour ago. The line was small, but the booths were busy. Not a empty one at the polling location.

A Blast From The Past: 80 Years Ago Today.

I have loved this radio drama since the first time I heard it. By listening to it, I was curious about other radio dramas. I then learned about The Shadow and others. I got to share my love of old radio shows with my 2nd son during our free trial of satellite radio. He really enjoyed them as well.

The Great Unmasking, Part V

Depending on the sources, the caravan of "refugees" from Central America, trekking across Mexico, has grown to somewhere between 7,000 and 14,000 people. The logistics of such a group is staggering to comprehend. This was not just an ad-hoc group. This has planning written all over it. With planning comes money. A LOT OF MONEY. And as the saying goes, Always follow the money.

Happy 25th Anniversary to Mrs. Arminius!

I wanted to share something positive with you all today. Today my wife and I celebrate 25 years of being married. We met on our very first day of college, but we did not start dating until the following spring. We started our marriage with hopes and dreams. Although we wanted children, it was several years before we brought into this world our oldest son. He is now out on his own, making his own unique mark on the world. Four more children would follow, a daughter and three more sons who are still at home.

The Great Unmasking, Part IV

In the era of the Great Unmasking, do not forget your local communities either. The unmasking is not just on the national and world scene. It is also occurring in your states, nearby cities, and in your local communities as well. Case in point, Madison, Wisconsin.

The Great Unmasking, Part III

Just when you think that situations could not get any more insane, the leftist progressives say "hold my light foam, half caf, organic only, fair trade only, soy milk iced latte."

I am reminded of VADM James Stockdale's stoic motto: "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

The Great Unmasking, Part II

I tired rather quickly of the non stop coverage of the deaths and funerals of two people this week.

While they were people of note, none the less, their prolonged exits from this plane, even after sloughing off this mortal coil, would have put some of the death celebrations from the pagans of old to shame.

The Great Unmasking.

I have long said that we live in very interesting times. But lately, it has become breathtaking. Literally take your pick of the subject and you will be hard pressed to not discuss radical change, news, or some such "extreme" opinions.

I want to suggest a slightly different take on what is really going on.

Live Life. Additional Thoughts.

https://wearethenewbarbarians.blogspot.com/2014/09/you-dont-choose-life-you-live-one.html

"You Don't Choose A Life, You Live One."

This quote comes from a line the movie "The Way" that I watched this summer while at Fort Knox. In a nutshell, the story follows a widower whose only child dies on the Camino De Santiago (CDS) in Europe. As a last minute change of mind and heart, the father chooses to finish his son's pilgrimage, challenging and changing his own life. The CDS is a pilgrimage of about seven hundred miles. Many have died on the trail. Parts of the story are told through flashback discussions between the father and his son. The above quote is from one of those discussions.

In many ways our life's journey is much like a pilgrimage. Much like the father in The Way, we may think that we have our lives down pat. A career, a house, some adversity (but not too much) on the way, a family, yet, many people yearn for a more meaningful life. Some attempt to find this through faith, volunteerism, or diving more deeply into their career. Others chose drugs to "open" their mind. Sometimes we have to allow our lives to be altered in other ways. But what if there was a more profound way to change our lives and find meaning in it. One that accepts the journey, not just the destination.

Lewis and Clark. A Small Musical Interlude For A Different Time And World.

Sing to my heart for a time when there were still undiscovered horizons to be explored.

A Jacobin of this Age.

In light of the article by Michael Sean Winters at The National Catholic (or schismatic) Reporter: A Grim Fourth of July Arrives in the Age of Trump. Typical of the unhinged left, Winters tries to sound humane and aloof, right up to the very end. In a classic mask removal, Winters exposes his true belief, that he is in fact a Neo-Jacobin.

"Normally, when I get into a debate with a conservative friend and we are at an impasse, with no hope for resolution, I try to ease the tension with levity, and say, "Well, when the revolution comes, I will put in a good word for you and your family." To my friends in the Republican political and legal establishment who have not stood up to Trump: When the revolution comes, you are on your own, and I will be clamoring not for mercy but for a seat next to the guillotine, where I can do my knitting."

Your little attempt at "levity" was more of a self centering bullseye. It reminds me of the scene in Henry V, when the Dauphin of France attempts to insult Henry V with tennis balls.

Instead sir, you should, in all humility, be reminded of this.

155 Years Ago, If You Remember.

155 years ago today the Battle of Gettysburg started. While I will not argue the rights and wrongs of the American Civil War, I will say that some, if not many, of the views I once held about the war have changed over the last 30 years.

Some Very Interesting Classes from Tier 1 Citizen.

I have followed Abner Miranda for many years, since he wrote articles for various gun rags. More recently I follow his youtube channel and checkout his personal website from time to time. Today I was made aware of several new classes that he offering, all with the AR Pistol as the basis of the various classes.

The Kit Badger KBAT.

Kit Badger usually has something interesting to consider. Here is a target system, with links to why he did what did.

The beauty of this system is that you can print it out easily yourself on 8.5 x 11 normal paper.

More Thoughts On The AR GPP Concept.

5.56 AR GPP Concept. Gunstruction has not added the new SB
Tactical pistol braces yet. 

I have noticed an uptick on views of my initial post about the AR GPP (General Purpose Pistol) Concept that I have playing with for a while now. Especially with the explosion in pistol brace ideas out there, I am more and more in the camp of the utilitarian use of a 11.5-12.5 inch barrel AR pistol.

In Honor Of May Day.

Something That I Wrote For Another Platform: Fixing The Focus.

Fixing The Focus. 

I enjoy shooting. I always have. I find it challenging, relaxing, and fun. I think the skills learned and acquired in shooting compares to Fixing the Focus in our own lives. I will not get too technical in my descriptions in order to keep this piece shorter than what it could be.

Generally, when shooting, you are shooting at a target, whether it is a static paper target, or some sort of reactive target. Hitting the target is your goal. Next, most firearms have a set of sights on them, most of the time a front and rear sight. When these sights are properly aligned with the target, you know that having the shot strike the target is highly probable. In our life, the target is the goal. The rear sight, which we look through first, is our priorities. Priorities sharpen our focus forward to the front sight, which are our plans. So, when our priorities, plans, and goals all line up, we know that we CAN reach the goal.

But there is more to it, more possibility. Stick with me here.

A Repost From Almost A Year Ago. With Additional Thoughts.

https://wearethenewbarbarians.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-think-i-was-wrong.html

I had thought that with the election of Donald Trump we were going to have a small (2-6 year) reprieve. A buffer zone so to speak in order to finalize what we needed to have done in preparing for a resurgent Left. I think I was wrong. Instead, the timetable has been sped up.

What we are seeing this week is an attempt at a perfect storm to dump the will the people. Mob rule, shepherded by the elites, is always very ugly. There is so much at play right now, with outright fiction being created by the media to cover up other explosive stories, the feeding frenzy of the media smelling blood in the water is sickening to behold.

Why I Was Dark Lately.

Lately I took a short sabbatical from writing and posting here. Actually, except for checking a few blogs, a couple of news sites, and a few consumer sites of interest, I avoided my computer and phone altogether.

Why?

A Lot to Contemplate and Reflect On.

This month has been trying.

Especially in this last week.

Xenophobic is the word Sultan Knish has used to describe those who what to take advantage of the bloody situation.

Phobic of another another culture. That's about right. They are afraid of us. They despise us. And they will attempt anything to destroy us.

What Is It That You Want? And A Quick Thought On Customer Service In The Social Media Age.

Lately I have changed a behavior of mine. I am a news and talk radio junkie. I love listening to talk radio on my way to and from work. Twenty years ago I was introduced to the weird world of Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM. That show was my audio companion during the overnight security shift that worked at the time. More recently I have been introduced to Clyde Lewis's Ground Zero program. His analysis, to me, has always been entertaining.

So where does this fit with the title question? By and large I have stopped listening to the radio on my drive into work. I have replaced it with two podcasts that force my thoughts to that question and what may help give answers to that question.

One Year Ago Today.

One year today is when we left our home of 6+ years in west Texas to start over in Arizona. Never did we expect that not even one hour into our move would our lives take such a serious turn. There are moments even now that the whole scene replays in my mind.

Loss. Other Thoughts.

Yesterday we received news that a very close family friend passed after a fight with brain cancer. He will be missed.

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Quite a week politically and in the news cycles. However, I always try to dig deeper and find the stories we are being distracted from. There are some doozies out there.

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Shot Show is coming up. There are some interesting products being introduced already.

Restart, Refocus, and Reengage.

4 Goals this year:
1. Be Grateful.
2. Be Fit.
3. Get Published.
4. Fix My Trajectory. (Multiple ideas-one theme)