Trump/Pence will win by a historic landslide

"Thank goodness we finally have a patriot in the White House trying to right all the wrongs caused by the Democrats."  Thank you, Mr. Martin. The saddest thing about the Democratic Party is they have no candidate, no platform, and no chance of beating Trump with votes... All they have is a slander campaign on the President with hopes they can dupe the Blue voters, as they always have. It won’t work this time, as Trump will win by a historic margin. Why? Because people are working all they can get and feeding their kids.

I love the deregulation and reversal of Obama's strangling actions which compromised everything the founding fathers set in motion. That loud squealing noise we are hearing and will continue to hear for the next 5 years is akin to a screaming and kicking brat kid who didn’t get their way in a candy store (it has always worked in the past, right?).

DT is the President of the United States and Trump/Pence WILL be reelected by openly denying Democratic voters, as they embrace the new prosperity his policies have brought their families. After he wins reelection, they will come out and openly admit they voted for the great man.

 I suspect the local curmudgeons will also sheepishly punch the Republican vote card and then cry and moan, but buried in their black hearts they will admit they are doing the right thing. Everyone loves a winner, right? The reason they spew so much anti-Trump rhetoric is they are perpetually angry people, blinded by the Kool-Aid they get from CNN and Huff Post, which basically means they are ignorant (read: uneducated) of the actual facts. Listening to those bias outlets is like driving past the fast food window and eating out of the dumpster. Quote is by a letter writer to the Baytown Sun.

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Current Impeachment nonsense

I don’t swallow anything as fact, especially if it comes out of the mouth of ANY liberal (not just the ones who spew vomit as words). The bully liberal public has no case, no platform, and no candidate. The reason they are clouding every issue is they know this and hope that they can pull in the blind public so they can continue to ruin American politics and choke the life out of the economy.

 Professor Karlan is what is known as a ringer. She is one-sided, pro-Liberal extremist politics, and needs to be revealed as such. In short, she basically hates men, so she is a perfect witness for the kangaroo court proceedings and unlike some other town criers, I only speak for myself.

The Democrats have so many slimy rats in charge of their party (and some are Republican too) that they protect each other or once their crimes are uncovered, they will be like a balloon with the air released, screaming foul and be guilty as Hades. It’s is their modus operandi  going back before that witch Jane Fonda committed treason and got away with it (unless you are a Vietnam Veteran). Pelosi represents SF, Schiff represents Hollywood and Los Angeles, and Nadler NYC, so how in anyone’s name can these 3 represent anything I do in Baytown, Texas? I have nothing in common with them other than we both live in the US.

The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is Hunter Biden and his dad, grinning Joe and Burisma. Talk about special interests and quid pro quo and no one will touch it? There are too many rats in that pile of wood evidently – maybe on both sides.

I believe President Trump when he claims that when the ugly truth comes out about these corrupt politicians, heads are going to roll and it may go back through Obama and Clinton’s years in the Oval Office. I hope so

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I want LESS government and less restrictive regulations that put the US at a disadvantage over other countries (Obama's plan). I want jobs and prosperity here first and if it comes at a price that third world despots don't get a free slice of money pie, so much the better. They hate us anyway, but love our money. Sound familiar? Our country borrows money and gives it away? How does that work?

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Democrat leadership, show us the Beef!

Pelosi and the rest know they have no platform and no candidate to beat Trump. They will lose the next election in a horrible route, considering they have been in charge of US politics going back before FDR. So they plan to confuse the confusable and hope against hope they don't get indicted for their own crimes in this witch hunt atmosphere.

They would do much better to have a group huddle and pick someone right now. Then go on the offensive with a true platform package 51% of the voters like. Voters elected Trump to stop this childish nonsense the Democrats are slinging, but it is obvious they didn't get the message. The polls show minority Democratic voters are jumping ship because for once, they can feed their families. There is work aplenty and overtime.
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A White Man can no longer represnt America.

BB's take: Using the oft-stated premise that a “White” man can’t represent all the people of this country is like saying a black male, or a woman of any color, or a gay person can’t represent this country and the citizens. Color or sex has nothing to do whether a person is both qualified and prepared to be President.

We citizens need to quit listening to the news and look around. Every grocery store, restaurant, business, and entertainment venue is packed with people spending the money they are making RIGHT now.

Forget the polls, forget the partisan politics. Of course there are exceptions, especially if your company is affected by tariff changes that will balance eventually or be replaced with something else. Examine your own life and then make a decision if living in the USA is for you or not, cause I'm prospering.

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The 5 stages of a geocacher

The 5 stages of a geocacher
 A geocaching primer by BaytownBert (Bert Marshall)

I love geocaching. I love planning my next string of unique geocaches and usually start compiling my list the day before – or earlier. I read the page for clues and seeing I am rapidly becoming a fossil, I use GSAK and load a pocket query into my Garmin Oregon 750. I didn’t start out that way and I also use my Android. Let me explain the 5 stages a geocacher goes through if they play the game any length of time. I’m thinking 5-10 years, but you may be a quick learner. Me? Not so quick on the upload, if you know what I mean. Murphy’s Law is my middle name.

(1) In the initial stage of geocaching, the newbie is so overwhelmed with the possibilities (and swag!) that they go to the dollar store and buy $23 worth of precious loot to spread all across the geocaching universe! Never mind that they only find Micros and nanos and are soon disillusioned and wonder if they messed up... but if they survive, they move into the next wonderful stage.

(2) It’s all about the numbers in this 2nd stage. It doesn’t matter what the D/T rating is as long as they get a bunch of them. Trackables? Are you kidding? AR0213  They bought $200 worth off of Ebay the 1st month (Note: A Jedi-geocacher may move up and down in the 5 rules over the years).  Cacher is in true form and sets person record by logging 144 LPC’s in 7 hours. Cacher calls in sick the next day.

(3)  Now we come into the Navy SEALS of geocaching and we all know who they are. These amazing folks have more hormones than Arnold and only tackle the highest D/T grid caches and are known to swoop into an unfamiliar area and wipe out the resistance. Kudos to those who can do this, but I am not that gifted.

(4)  The next stage is also an elitist bunch that have entirely specific needs, desire, wants, and aspirations in this game. They take geocaching to a level akin to a NASA moon launch. They are the puzzle makers/solvers and to be honest, I wouldn’t trust them to look in my cellphone. I love them, but know I will never join them. My brain would either melt or explode.

(5)  Finally, we are at what I like to call the black banana geocaching community. We are seasoned geocaching veterans, right? We have scars, bruises, and tales...tails? However, on any given day, we may act like a newbie and arise only to find that we can possibly zip in and literally steal FTF rights from one of our geocaching peeps! Never mind that we had to pee before we left! Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!

Or, we may team up with 4 other cachers and hit a power trail, regretting it as the miles wear us down. You get the picture that being a well-rounded cacher is more than a stat – it’s a life style.
This has been an attempt at humor, but let’s talk grown-up geocaching and it ain’t all fun and games. The game has changed and to me, it is not entirely a good thing. I think Groundspeak in their attempt to boost the already bloated game, thought that Adventure Labs would be a great addition... In my opinion it is nothing more than inflationary fluff that detracts from the original nature of the game.

Let me backtrack for a little personal history. I helped my city set up a Geotour and it is everything it is supposed to be and I have no qualms with that particular area of this game or my city. The Geotour has boosted tourism. Now that I’ve established this fact, the Geotour and cachers need to get the coin and swag severely dampened how many of my caches people looked for. I noted this in an earlier article. In other words, cachers only look for the Geotour and leave the area.

This spring I was invited to start a 5 cache Adventure Lab and I was a bit hesitant, but wanting to see the inner workings of it, I accepted. I wish I wouldn’t have.

Forget that the 7 pages of instructions were tedious and getting everything working was difficult. I consulted the grand designers a bit and possibly this has improved since I did mine in the spring. The problem is the AL info goes straight to Groundspeak and I get an excel file if I take the time to find out who played it. There is no communication between me and the players.

Last and this is a big one. Between the city Geotour (30+ caches) and the 2 Adventure Lab’s (15 caches total), no one looks for anything else in this town. Folks zip in and walk right past large caches with TB’s inside and do not bother to look for them. Take this into account when you invite this Adventure Lab/Trojan horse into your town.

In my opinion, Groundspeak would improve the game by restricting new geocache hides for newbies until they found 50 caches.

Ordered into the war, 1972

 

Sgt. Bert Marshall, Takhli RTFB, Thailand 1973

Journal entry, April 1972: Danang, Vietnam orders cancelled at the last moment and about 3 weeks later, I was at Takhli RTAFB working my hind end off. It happened so fast. I out-processed immediately, went on leave. I was 19 years old and visiting my family in Houston with no idea I was about to experience 651 days living a National Geographic wartime documentary that would mold my future.

 A call from the Air Force cut my leave short and there I was. Flying via orders to Travis AFB, California, I took a flight to Alaska. Boarding a long low and crowded Flying Tigers turbo-prop, we flew across the ocean to Yakota AFB, Japan. Being a lowly E-3 Airman 1^st class, I believe I had the lowest rank of the many troops on the plane. The reason I say this is I got the only seat on the full plane that did not recline and for over 20 hours, our plane traveled across the ocean.

We left Japan and headed for the now long-gone Clark AFB, in the Philippines.  It was full-blown monsoon and the area was under about 2 feet of water. We had an 11 hour layover and we told to not leave the base under orders. I met a black Airman at the layover in Japan and he told me he had connections at Clark, so off the base we rode... in a 1957 Chevy sedan! The water was above the floorboard as we cruised down into the red-light district. However, I was warned that I would be dealing with pros and I kept to myself, enjoying the adventure.

Back at Clark AFB with time to spare, I realized I was the lone human cargo to fly across Vietnam into Central Thailand to a primitive base just reopening called Takhli. It had closed when the F-105’s Thunderchiefs left and was going to take on the F-4’s leaving Danang, Vietnam... and that is why me, a supply clerk was sent ahead. I was assigned to the Avionics warehouse inside the Supply compound.

Wow, the smell when the door opened on the C-130.
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Understanding the standard Democratic goal

As a voter, sometimes it is difficult to figure out who is telling the truth and who is promising a non-existent Utopia.  If you like what Trump is doing for the country... vote for him again in 2020. If you are still on the fence over the other party, understanding the standard Democratic goal is simple. I say it is a simple formula because all of the Democratic candidates have the same message.
 

Through legislation, they plan to outlaw :
1. the right to own or bear firearms including revoking civilian gun permits.
2. decision to chose your own food, including beef.
3. decision to control the thermostat in your house/work place/stores
4. right of freedom of speech.
5. remove representation from taxation.
6. install rigid guidelines to enforce the "protection of the environment" over citizens rights, including mandatory community gardens co-ops.
7. Remove the choice of any healthcare other than Socialized medicine they provide, including triage of the aged, infirm, and imperfect.
8. Further restrict travel to only the State level without a passport.
9. Further dilute the abortion laws until there are none.
10. Turn every law inward to make the populace more dependent on government. Eventual confiscation of all private business.
11. Remove all reference in the English language concerning gender differences.

I couldn't find anything they want to "give" us that doesn't include first "taking" from us through higher taxes, or restricting our freedoms and all in the name of The People.
Am I wrong? Did I get something terribly wrong or did I miss something even bigger? 
Note: none of this is from copy and paste.

Spanish conquistadors killing in the name of God... for gold.

With the "Spanish" Hispanic population growing in the USA, let's take a look at an oft-claimed consensus of "We were here first". I've heard versions of this for the last 40+ years and it tells me how little folks know about the history of these two continents. Here we go and I invite reasonable discourse:

"It is estimated that during the initial Spanish conquest of the Americas up to eight million indigenous people died in a series of events that have been described as the first large-scale act of genocide of the modern era."

What is so ironic to me is how so many Hispanics are proud of their Spanish heritage when the Catholic Spaniards were invaders who wiped out the indigenous occupants for the most part. In their constant search for gold, they murdered anyone they found... or converted them from being a heathen to a good child of god. This was nothing more than a form of mental enslavement and taxes in the form of offerings.

Spanish Conquistadors exploring the Grand Canyon in the 16th Century

Yeah, it would make me proud also to claim Spain as my heritage if it were so. My people were Irish and we fled our country to assimilate into US Citizens. I might look Irish and I am and some Scottish, but I look and act like an American first. Let that sink in. I am an American first and secondly, if I was of a mind to, I would honor my past heritage.

"In August 1521 the city fell and the Aztec empire became a Spanish dominion. Temples were destroyed and the locals were reduced to the legal status of minors. In traditional accounts Spanish smallpox killed up to three quarters of the native population. Undoubtedly the European invaders were ruthless adventurers."
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Greenpeace protests Big Oil in Baytown

How is it possible an old white man wasn't involved in the felonious Greenpeace act of protesting big oil while dangling from the Fred Hartman Bridge? ? I thought old white men (OWM) were pretty much responsible for everything going wrong. Oh! I get it. It must have been planned, funded, and sanctioned by an OWM, right? Wrong!

Well, now that we have that out of the way and can dismiss that stupid notion, regardless if the media loves to try to make it so. Getting over the Houston Ship Channel only has a couple options and stopping traffic at any time of the day will make anyone sympathetic to Greenpeace HATE THEIR GUTS!

The reason for this is we are still in summer here and it is hot. Stopping traffic to protest big oil after arriving in a gas-powered van and causing a rear-end collision is hardly an earth-friendly start to their protest. Many people were stuck in their idling cars without their medicine or bathroom facilities. We have many hospitals here and traffic was at a near stop for many hours. No, we hate Greenpeace zealots and many here wish they would have cut the ropes, no joke.

Annie Leonard - Greenpeace

Greenpeace is not directed by an OWM, but a female and of the total number of felons involved is growing with warrants issued. Texas passed a law earlier this month over unauthorized protests that include this one, making the crime a felony. I would be willing to bet Greenpeace didn't know that. However, they have other people's money to burn, so big deal. The Greenpeace protesters, who were involved in Thursday’s incident in which 11 individuals suspended themselves from the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel, were identified Friday and arrested or warrants were issued.
 
The protesters, from 13 states and the District of Columbia, have been identified as:

• Mary F Zeiser
• Sarah Francis Newman
• Cole Taylor Martin
• Tyler N McFarland
• Shavone Torres
• Dakota Paige Schee
• Jonathan Butler
• Chelcee Price
• Piper Werle
• Jayden Chayanne Allen
• Sydney Lae Cliffard not in custody to-be-warrant
• Ryan Harris
• Zeph Fishlyn
• Heidi Nybroten
• Christian d Bufford
• Heather Glasgow Doyle
• Amanda Lee
• Mariah De Los Santos
• Stephanie Hillman
• Brianna Latrell Gibson
• Graham Evan Clumpner not in custody to-be-warrant
• Daniel James Rudie not in custody to-be-warrant
• Mitchell Wenkus not in custody to-be-warrant
• Tamura Russel Seiji
• David Lynn Mcnew not in custody to-be-warrant
• Tracye Redd
• Richard Alex Sisney
• Julie Ann McElvain
• David A Rappelet not in custody to-be-warrant
• Irene Kim
• Michael Anthony Hebert

I am all for peaceful protests that comply with the law. What these folks did amounted to a crime, plain and simple and in this area, hurt their cause more than helped it. By the way, my Bride and I were some of the thousands who sat in our vehicles for hours waiting for our law officials to handle these people in such a manner that would be accepted world wide.

Sharpie-Gate in not Journalism

This was submitted in the Baytown Sun September 11th issue of the Baytown Sun. Note this is the 9-11 anniversary, but this cartoon was more important.

The Baytown Sun management really came out providing a valuable opinion on a timely issue - this "biggie story" Sharpie-gate! Using what appeared to be a self-made Presidential stupidness-scale as a guide, they declared the “fiasco has gone on long enough”. If they really believe this, why write more on the subject? Did they find something really earth-shattering to inform us Baytownians? I thought we have Washington politics covered in about a thousand other outlets, so why once again is this in our paper?

How about editorials about Baytown politics and our issues? The good Lord knows there is fodder enough for actual local journalism rather than copy and paste opinions off the Internet. I suspect the majority of the Sun’s subscribers have already locked into a political party and the choices are so wide, nothing will budge a voter to change.  

What we as subscribers need is what goes on here in our city.
With newspapers failing around the world, our Baytown Sun needs to stop choosing sides over silly editorials and write about our city. 

My opinion is the paper is so out of touch with its readership, that in the ten years I wrote for the Sun, none of the clerks knew who I was when I visited AND when asked, they admitted they did not read the paper or my column!

“Sharpie-gate is simply politically motivated obfuscation to justify a serious mistake by Trump”.
 

The dubious photo

The last sentence of the editorial is the most perplexing because Conservatives have learned that no amount of apologies or concessions would allow Trump to move on in the eyes of the Liberals. Their goal is resistance regardless. They are looking at losing the next election, so their only recourse will be to up the violence and destructive Constitutional behavior and make living in this country worse.

In other words, nothing the man does will get the nod of approval from the Liberal Socialist-driven agenda they want to cram down everyone's throat.

They will not be happy as long as any Republican or non-Liberal sits in the big chair. Then they will reach back and blame, Trump, then Bush, then... This “editorial” on Sharpie-gate is simply politically motivated obfuscation to justify a Liberal agenda by our local media. It is yet another example that what this city really needs is a newspaper that is more concerned with Baytown and the surrounding areas than anything all of us can pull off the Internet.
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