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What Musk Does Right: Technical innovation isn’t always about being smart, its about daring to ask questions

One thing that I don’t enjoy so much about these daily articles is in covering so much negative press.  By the nature of any audience, you get a small amount of time to make an impression with them, and there are so many competing concerns that if you don’t give them the news, they are looking for within about 6 minutes of the exposure, then you’ll lose them to the next thing, and that’s it.  After many years of doing this, the negative nature of it is something I have never gotten used to or accepted.  It may be the way to get news to people, but its not something I’ve ever accepted as a fixed state reality.  But no matter what it is, whether business or politics, when something goes right, its worth talking about.  That is certainly the case when it comes to SpaceX who as a company is putting out so much good news these days that they are able to manage the bad news with a casual brush off the shoulder and a parade of more good news to follow.  For instance, it was just last week where Starship SN10 made a controlled landing back to earth and actually landed without blowing up.  But it was a hard landing that compromised the craft, and it did blow up shortly after landing.  The Elon Musk team at SpaceX had quick answers for the problem and rolled out SN11 immediately putting it on the pad to prepare it for another flight.  Static fire tests were today as a matter of fact.  Such a quick turnaround on such an expensive rocket program is a standard setting approach that will have lasting positive consequences and are worth talking about in as positive of a light as possible. 

One of the best tricks I’ve ever seen is how Elon Musk is pulling all this off so playfully.  I was watching the cartoon show, Rick & Morty the other night on the Cartoon Network and Elon Musk was a guest star, something he clearly didn’t have to do but felt compelled to play a part of.  All this while running one of the top car making companies in the world.  Any of these things would allow Musk to sit on a pedestal and just let the world come to him the way the Vanderbilt’s or Rothschilds might have in years past, but that’s not how he operates.  Musk is just an unpretentious person who likes to play with toys and he’d rather be thinking about how to fix the landing of the next Starship than going to awards ceremonies where people tell him how smart he is, indirectly looking for some of his money.  What Elon Musk has built in Boca Chica, Texas is a group of some of the smartest people who are just like him, young minds, playful people, and untainted adults still with the gifts of childhood governing their lives and it’s a dream come true for me.  I’ve been hoping to see more of this kind of thing in more industries for decades, but at least we are seeing it now with SpaceX.  Finally, someone with the passion of Thomas Edison, the money of Henry Ford, but the curiosity about life that a typical five-year-old has who is taking humanity to the next great places.

Recently I had to talk about the failures of Virgin Galactic as compared to SpaceX, which pained me because I had really been rooting for Richard Branson’s group to pull off space tourism.  However, the Virgin Galactic approach to space was way too adult-like.  Way too rigid, which allowed pin headed government types to stick their noses into the business of innovation and whitewash away the results.  Musk has built his company the way a child would, if one experiment goes bad, then we’ll just try again and again until we get it.  Even with the mishaps of SN10, the plans were already in place to put SN11 on the lunch pad.  After SN11 the plans for SN16, SN17 then SN20 for the scheduled orbital flight by midsummer.   If this were any other company, it would have taken 6 months to even put another Starship on the launchpad, let alone continue to push for the aggressive orbital goals that many companies would just put on the schedule as a placeholder.  With SpaceX, they intend to meet their schedule, not at the sacrifice of the product itself, but they do view time lost as time gone forever and lost opportunity that slips away each time. 

By making the rockets automated and removing the concept of a pilot from the Starship program, Elon Musk set the standard for success in this highly litigious age we live in presently where micromanagement of everything kills innovation before an idea is even born.  I often think what a shame it is that there aren’t more people like Elon Musk in any society at any given point in history because of this ratio of risk and rewards, but I am grateful to have Musk at all.  He has just the right temperament to run so many large-scale operations at the same time, and be one of the richest people on the planet without the pretense that usually comes from those titles.  Musk is just as likely to be found at a Boco Chica coffee shop with his engineering late at night scratching out ideas on a napkin than he is high rolling it with the rich and famous, and that is an unspoken part of this whole mix that is more important than anything.  As I pointed out with Virgin Galactic, people like Richard Branson use their considerable charm to schmooze the powerful in government, but because they do not have the extra gears that Elon Musk does, cannot help the real people in the trenches solve the hard problems.  That is how Musk has pulled his companies out and away from the pack so effectively and why they are so successful now.

The obsession that Elon Musk has on the Starship program reminds me a lot of Edison working out the details on the light bulb, and the endless quest to manufacture rubber that he was trying to do for the Ford Motor Company.  To people on the outside, it looks dangerous and even obsessive, but there has never been a better personality than Musk to handle it.  As great as Edison was you wouldn’t see him on a popular cartoon like Rick & Morty.  The biggest difference has been in Musk’s playful approach to the rocket business on the top end and has been a template for all future success that people will be following for years.  I can’t think of a better example of how management and problem solving in business should be done than in what SpaceX is doing presently, and under tremendous pressure.  Any other company and group of personalities would be crushed in the process, but SpaceX continues to make it all look so easy—which is because they have separated themselves from the pretentiousness of adulthood and left the realm of innovation where it belongs, with the heart of playful kids and rocket geniuses. 

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Roswell, New Mexico Deserves a Chance: Why SpaceX worked and Virgin Galactic didn’t

It was exciting for me to finally be in the New Mexico area where the Truth or Consequences Space Port has been, and where Virgin Galactic had been headquartered for their missions to bring space tourism to our great economy. Its something I had been looking forward to for many years, but the truth of the issue was that Virgin Galactic was yet again pushing out the expectations for their program.  Across the state where we were staying at Roswell, the entire town was already poised for a complete embrace of the next space age and I had ran across some old 1990s plans for a big convention center to be built there which was to be done like a spaceport.  Add to that the plans several hundred miles to the Southeast of Roswell down in Texas for Elon Musk to build a Starbase to compliment his Starship construction there for what will prove to be the gateway to space for many decades to come.  It wasn’t hard for me to see the obvious use of Hyperloops and air taxis to connect it all into a large network of space specific infrastructure connecting everything together.  It was there, ripe for the taking with just a little effort and imagination.  

But while SpaceX was doing well and was accelerating their plans, Virgin Galactic looks to never recover from a few of the tragedies they had been mired with.  And that is the warning of what happens when government gets involved in your business, they typically destroy a process with too much regulation and bureaucracy with pinheads getting in the way, before killing a project with a pre-mature death.  Richard Branson had chosen wrong to make friends with all these progressive politicians over they years, so he was stuck playing by the kind of dumb rules they always come up with, whereas Elon Musk had kept a healthy distance from the politicians and his approach to space allowed him to aggressively develop his vision.  With Virgin Galactic, people were required to pilot the experimental craft, and when things go wrong with people, government feels it must stick its nose in all our lives to protect them.  So the lesson couldn’t be more obvious.   Emerging into space would have to involve robots and automation.  The grand old days of adventure and flying by the seat of our pants weren’t going to work with modern government hell bent on micromanagement.  And the results had played themselves out on the deserts of the American Southwest.

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Roswell really would be the best place for the tourist access point to space.  Boca Chica, Texas for most people is still a long way south, which is where SpaceX is.  As the Hyperloop tech comes online, I can’t think of a better first application.  Elon Musk is already planning to build his own city there, so Roswell is the best location to really get people moving around in a part of the country that currently has almost no economic development.  And it has a lot of land to test out new vehicle prototypes.  Of course, there is a lot of planning and corporation that would have to take place first and lots of people with billions of dollars of investment would have to be attracted to the idea.  Roswell is already making the transition from a town of conspiracy to an open embrace to the kind of alien tech that will take the human race to the next level, whether we inherited it from some other space immigrant, or whether we have built the tech ourselves.  The thrill of adventure is what space needs to be igniting and for the benefit of aerospace, it would be great to unite those efforts in some cohesive way.

For every rocket that goes into space, for every yearning for a new thing to go there, there needs to be literally hundreds of millions of hours of people thinking about space, such as in entertainment culture, conventions, science workshops, something like what they have been trying to do in Roswell for a long time, make it the home base for open contemplation about anything strange and out there, and to have a little scientific fun with it.  That is how an embrace of new tech is best sold, when people are already out on the edge a bit anyway.  The plans for the spaceport convention center that I saw planned for Roswell is likely a $500 million investment, and by itself it wouldn’t make much sense.  But to connect it with hyperloops to Elon Musk’s SpaceX facilities in Texas then to Spaceport over in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico would be groundbreaking.  Yet I was disappointed that Virgin Galactic just wasn’t making the cut.  Their approach to their part of it was just too far behind and likely was never going to get there due to the way they played the game.  I still think the Roswell project is worth doing, as a way to bridge all these emerging technologies into a single space story.  It’s a part of the world where political alignment would be achievable for something that involves multiple states and a lot of land.  But there needs to be more of a hook than just SpaceX, and right now, there isn’t anybody.

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Space tourism would have been perfect about 4 or 5 years ago.  People need to get into space and come back to talk about it.  Virgin Galactic could have done such great things, but their rigid concept just involves too many real people and one mistake by any of them and the whole thing is mired down in bureaucratic investigations.  Elon Musk was smart, he developed automation so when there is a mistake, a rocket blows up and nobody really cares.  It’s a loss of money for him, but so long as lives aren’t lost, the government pinheads could care less what happens.  So that has kept SpaceX moving while Virgin Galactic has just fizzled out.  It’s a shame took, because the Spaceport in New Mexico was built to accommodate, but nobody delivered, and all that stuff is now just sitting around looking to be part of a greater story.  I went to New Mexico hoping to connect some of the pieces, at least at an imaginative investment end.  But without Virgin Galactic up and running, that leaves only SpaceX out there doing anything really exciting.  By the time half a billion dollars is raised to make some of these projects possible Virgin Galactic will likely be gone from anybody’s plans and that New Mexico Spaceport will continue to whither away into dust from a lack of use. 

For me the biggest surprise was in Roswell itself.  That is a town that wants to live.  It wants to be part of a bigger story.  Its hungry for a chance.  The problem for them is that they are literally in the middle of nowhere.  That’s great for a space industry, but not great for attracting investments.  It’s probably a little early to be thinking about these kinds of things but when it comes to new, groundbreaking technology, a few decades of early thought is appropriate on these matters, and if any town deserves a crack at the bat, its certainly Roswell, New Mexico. 

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Its Time to Swing on the Noose: Let the Democrats choke on it

More and more, which isn’t at all a surprise, we are seeing the scripted nature of a massive global government movement—such as the Soros Open Society people, play out in the opening months of the Beijing Biden administration.  Remember all those stories I told you dear reader, remember my report on the China exhibit at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.  All this was set in motion a long time ago and much of the anger toward President Trump was in that he represented a deviation from those plans.  Then of course, we all assumed that we were in charge of our own elections in America, which it was clear that we weren’t by the time the 2020 election was over, so we are getting what we are getting.  And we can talk about it better now than we could have before.  Its all on the table now for all of us to look at.  We can now admit that Trump made a critical error when he allowed himself as President to get pulled into the Covid scam.  It was meant to harm him either way he played the game, so there was only one real option, not to play at all.  But that’s not what Trump did with Covid.  He yielded to it then tried to turn it on his political enemies with sheer performance.  But by doing so he had to admit that it was real, and once that happened, they had him.  And that continues to be the case to this very day.  

I feel bad even bringing it up because there wasn’t anything Trump could have done about it.  It was an election year.  Nobody had ever seen this kind of malice coming from a shadow government before.  Heck, people have a hard time admitting that there is a shadow government, let alone that its not something they are in control of.  So, It seem unfair to hold Trump to such a measure, but if we are going to be honest, Trump made a huge mistake by playing along with Covid.  The result is that a fake scientific community is still laying claim to being the authority on science and the designation of a global pandemic as something the world should be concerned with, and that is still the basic policy driver behind so much government expansion that we are seeing on a daily basis.   The effort it will take to put this genie back in the bottle will be incredibly difficult.   Its still possible, but it will be much worse now than even a year ago.  Now I wouldn’t blame Trump for it.  He was learning about this stuff along with the rest of us.  Nobody really understood how deceitful these monsters were.  Well, I did.  But I can certainly understand how and why normal people would miss the mark.  To see this stuff for what it was you must admit to some basic traits about the human race that few people are ready to admit to and that really is the essence behind the Covid scam.  Most people just don’t have it in their hearts to see the truth, and the villains are well aware of this natural cover that they always enjoy. 

That’s also why our plan must be to let them run their course and hang every mistake on their necks with their full weight.  Right now, the political left, the insurgents are just running through the bullet points on their script without considering reality at all which is interesting.  Its yet another reason that they had to tamper with the election of 2020 through Covid relief laws made up as they went along, to allow for massive election fraud to put them in power and fulfill all these goals.  Such as the notion of using Covid relief payments as a foundation for a universal wage.  Part of the script has been to just give people money, to make more dependents out of normal people and as long as the MAGA movement was in the way, they always had an excuse for why their utopian paradise wasn’t working.  Now there is no opposition.  Trump is hiding out in exile and everyone else is on their heels.  There is no opposition to speak of now with the House, Senate and the Executive—even the Judicial all in this socialist takeover long planned in America.  It’s the nightmare scenario for sure of what the world would look like if the people of Georgetown suddenly were in charge of everything, this is the world they would give to everyone.  They think it makes sense, but to the rest of us, it’s a pretentious escapade of wine drinking mixed with second generation wealth that nobody understood how the first generation made the money in the first place.  They are only good at spending it. 

I would still argue that we are a lot better off knowing what we do today.  What we were doing in 2016 wasn’t possible because there were too many malicious characters who had been hiding in plain sight to deal with.  We had no idea the FBI and Justice Departments were so corrupt; we had no idea how vile the Obama administration had been and how politically manipulative they were.  We had no real idea how deep in bed many of our own people were with China and how rich our politicians were getting off the relationships.  In hindsight, it should be very obvious.  But it was hard to see going forward.  Nobody was coming out and saying just how much they wanted to see America fall to the rest of the world, including many in our own political circles.  I was certainly there, but I understood that most people just don’t have room in their hearts for that type of hatred of people in general, because to see it, you have to hate it.  And to hate it you must be ready to make that judgment in a world where judgments are looked down upon.  So that means you must break that peer pressure and be comfortable with the ridicule.  Trump certainly wasn’t signing up for that.  He wanted to be America’s cheerleader, and the parts of his job that allowed him to do that, he was spectacularly good at.  But it was the wrong game all together that we got pulled into playing. 

That is also why I’m more reserved about all this than I might have been in the past.  Now that we’ve all hit the wall, there really isn’t anything to be afraid of.  The Democrats have done all this on their own without any help from Republicans, other than them just laying down like weaklings and letting them do their will.  That means that the script with all its flaws will be exposed for now on against a world that clearly didn’t vote for Joe Biden.  And the plan was always to just pay people off to shut up.  But it took too long to get out the $1400 checks and this is all as easy as it will ever get for them.  And its no paradise, not by a long shot.  Its hard to have power and to keep it, so now that burden is on the Democrats, and its obvious that they will choke on it.  And for our part, its time to swing on the noose to help the process along.  But nothing else. 

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A Lesson from Sports: We will have a reason to celebrate once again

I’m still enjoying the results of the 2021 Super Bowl where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won in a dominating fashion at their home stadium against a team that had been much more heavily favored.  I do love a good sports story and out of all my years you only get a few times here and there where something positive happens.  Usually, you pick the team you like and you watch them try to get to a championship game season after season for decades, and the big game usually never comes.  Sports like politics often end their season with disappointment, then we get pulled into the next attempt, the draft parties, the free agency moves, all the rebuilding stuff only to hope again and usually follow the same cycle of disappointment all over.  People say its fun, I guess it is. I think it makes for an interesting culture.  I think I have a pretty healthy take on the whole business but after this past year where Covid shut down everything, I was feeling pretty upset about seeing something survive a season and to not be shut down by the government.

Tampa Bay as I have said many times is a place, I consider to a be a second home.  I love the football team there, it’s been that way for years.  I love the Tampa Bay Buccaneers every year, even when they lose a lot like they did last year where they had a 7 and 9 season.   I think sports are important because it creates a nice little microcosm about life, what works as a culture and what doesn’t for people to see and cheer for.  As I said, most of the results fall far short of any big prize, but its fun to watch and root for something that you can share with other people.  This past season for the Bucs I was more upset because the general manager had pulled off some great contractual miracles in signing Tom Brady and some other big names and it looked to be just the thing the Buccaneers needed, veteran leadership that could finally take them over the top.   But that is if there’d be an NFL season at all.  The NFL got a lot of criticism for going so far woke, in allowing players not to stand for the national anthem, in allowing Black Lives Matters to imprint messages in the endzones, but I was more forgiving not just because I like the product, but that I appreciate the bigger game for what it is.  Roger Goodell managed to keep the NFL viable and the lunatic health people found a way to have the games even if the entire preseason was cancelled.  So the football season started, even though at first it felt as if the whole thing might come crashing down in a moment.  But up to that point, Covid was bigger than everything and I was really worried that if that ever happened to American Football, that we might never recover as a country.

Our nation needed it, the weekly games, the highlights on the news, something else to think about besides Covid lockdowns.  The Bucs did well, but not well enough.  They lost some key games to the Saints, to the Chiefs and Bears that I thought were going to ruin the entire season.  But by December Tom Brady showed why he’s much more than a quarterback by getting the team functioning on all cylinders as they continued to win the rest of the games for the year on into the playoffs.  And it was a thing of beauty to watch, even if you weren’t a Tampa Bay Buc fan.  It was good to see that part of our culture come back to life.  By the time the Bucs went to the Super Bowl in their own stadium, which has been talked about in Tampa for so many years it was so good to watch so many big gambling efforts come together perfectly only to have the Bucs beat the Chiefs so convincingly.  Really it came back as investments of the team owners, the Glazers had made into their own organization which were paying off now in a perfect storm of unlikely circumstances that just felt good.  It reminded me that with all the seasons and hoping that often go into any kind of sports support, that sometimes you do get a payoff and it is worth the effort when it does.

I couldn’t help but think of Donald Trump and the state of Republican politics through all this, because honestly, it’s a very similar game.  As hopeless as things can sometimes appear, a good play here, a good play there, and suddenly you have something to cheer for again.  As exciting as it was to see the Bucs win another Super Bowl I could see it clearly where I would feel even better about future wins in the House and Senate culminating in a new president in 2024.  That the hopeless situation of today is largely a manufactured reality that has a shelf life and our hopes, needs and dreams will outlast them easily.   I approach every season of the Bucs with enthusiasm but by the last week I’m already looking toward the next year.  And its been that way for decades.  They went to the Super Bowl in 2003 before going again this past year and every year in between I went through the same ups and downs that everyone goes through only to end up disappointed with the end result.  However, it is worth it when you invest yourself in these kinds of things to see it all come together in a nice, beautiful package of success.  And in politics, we will smile again, we will have hope again, we will have revenge for what has been done to us.  We will have revenge for the debts, we will have revenge for the wokeness, the censorship, the massive expansion of government overreach.  We will have options again and it will feel great to see those victories.

With all that value, I’m not one who just writes off sports as anything short of a important social value.  If the rest of the world could organize their sports the way we do in America, they certainly would.  But they don’t have the kind of culture that creates the circumstances.  Sports therefor becomes so reflective on the kind of values we truly have as a culture.  And its good to see that winning is still one of the most important attributes that we all still share.  Winning is still important enough to drive the sporting market and push through all the government nonsense just to play a game and see what happens.   In a year where it looked like a fantasy for anything to become bigger than Covid, the NFL managed to stay open long enough to complete a full season and to show us all that life could return to normal, somewhat.  And that people like me who have rooted for the Buccaneers every year for decades could see happiness again even if it came from unlikely places.  The lesson is that the games of life are worth playing.   Victory is just out there often with one good try here and there.   Eventually, when its due to us, we’ll get it, and we’ll love it!

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Wokeness Will Soon Be Out of Fashion: And not a moment too soon

I know everything looks so scary and the ominous presence of an out-of-control government is overwhelming.  With all the new woke rules, the fear of an end of our free society is an obvious concern.  But I’ll remind everyone that just like everything else, these stupid woke rules are a very temporary thing.  It won’t take long before people get tired of them and all these new woke concerns will go the way of bell bottoms and disco shoes.  This experiment with creating social policy disguised as new social trends is purely a Chinese experiment that they use in their communist countries and it only works in an unimaginative society full of compliant people.  That does not describe the United States.  So while the media culture has gone all in on the wokeness trends of our day, the people participating aren’t so invested.  That is why it will fall apart much faster than anybody is anticipating, because its not a trend born from necessity or market pleasure. Its an artificial social trend meant to control people, which is not conducive to a social buy-in. 

People will do a great many things to survive, if they think there is a real danger to themselves and the people they care about, they’ll follow the rules of a loser government up to a point.  During the last year of Covid we have watched most people take a wait and see approach to the perceived danger.  If that culture says to watch what you say about some woke aspect of a culture, they’ll play along as long as it doesn’t cost them anything.  But the minute that the government can no longer prove that there is a danger, or that the danger is noticeably overblown, people will quickly move to their own values.  That means this massive investment in social construct, into accepting transgender politics, equalization among the sexes, in open border advocacy, are false constructs that do not represent the values of normal people.  They will only listen to such arguments out of self-preservation from an overreaching set of government bureaucrats.  When the values of a society are not aligned with the needs of that society, rule breaking will then become the respectable norm.  But blind adherence to a social norm that is created by a tyrannical government is not natural and will be abandoned by a population at the first opportunity. 

Just as the belief from the government was that Covid would bring us all a new normal, where the rules of Covid protocols would dictate a change in social norms.  As if people would accept for the rest of their lives that we would have to wear masks, that we would have to socially distance.  That all the ridiculousness in avoiding Covid would become the standard government procedure.  I have been enjoying lately watching people come back to life, one year after Covid was shoved into our lives we can see the signs of a world post Covid returning to normal.  Its little things here and there, like the Tampa Bay Bucs parade for winning the Super Bowl where people enjoyed life without socially distancing or wearing the dumb masks and the media had very little to say about it. I was at a few restaurants this past week while the NCAA tournaments were on and they were packed.  People were ready to spend money.  The idea of going to baseball games and actually filling up stadiums again are very much on people’s minds.  This was not the intention of the government doomsayers who were intent to change our society to a new normal.  People want normal again, and nothing else.  And that will be the same type of situation with wokeness.  People must want the market trends; they can’t be imposed on everyone just to stick out of regulation.  Without people believing in why we do things, any trend that is put forth will lack its own energy to maintain itself for any kind of duration. 

Whenever I watch one of these academic approaches to social mind control, I find it bewildering that the participants are so stupid.  I mean we all have access to the same books, the same history of human behavior.  Much of this stuff is well studied, yet time and time again they think that they have mastered the efforts for change and that people will drop their need for personal rebellion and suddenly seek instructions for their basic existence.  And that is always at the heart of most progressive governments where they believe that at the heart of all management problems among a society is a large central government to manage the affairs of everyone.  They have no evidence that states that such a large central government was ever successful, yet they plan as if it’s always been the case ignoring the obvious warning signs of social discontent.  China for their own problems has clearly bitten off too much for themselves.  They now have the world captivated to their cause, but they do not have a history of success to display they actually know what they are doing.  China has problems managing their society everywhere.  Particularly among their men.  They have feminized their males; they have too tightly controlled their females.  They are not inventive and are showing massive problems on the horizon that a large government will never be able to inspire growth out of.  Yet they are the ones setting policy controls through the media to steer society from one woke policy to another. 

It will be with the same lack of fanfare that the woke trends of our times now will fall away into ridiculousness as the social controls of today are scrutinized beyond defense.  People will accept the opposite of what we call wokeness now, the default mode will be the opposite—everything but wokeness.  It just takes too much work to think about all these pronoun problems, and all the overly sensitive modes of engagement meant to make lazy people feel less bad about themselves.  There will be a day not so far away where people will make fun of woke terms the way people now make fun of bell bottoms and other outdated social trends that in hindsight make us wonder what we were thinking when we came up with them.  History will remember the criticism, it won’t remember the act itself or what caused it, because neither was created out of necessity, but in an arrogant attempt at social engineering by inferior academic pin heads.  And when it does, we will all have a good, needed laugh.  We will make fun of the losers who created so much trouble for us because they’ll deserve the ridicule.  They’ll deserve our criticism spectacularly.  And the more we do it, the more healthy our society will be as a warning to those future micromanagers, to keep their dumb ideas to themselves and not to transfer to the rest of us all their neurosis.  For as thick as it feels today, we will surely enjoy the snap back into reality for which we are all owed.  It will be a good day when that happens, and we all certainly deserve to see woke culture ridiculed to the ends of the earth with great fanfare.

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Why the Left is Turning on Andrew Cuomo: Protecting themselves from crimes committed under Covid

Everyone is asking the question, yet the answer doesn’t make much sense.  Why has the liberal world suddenly turned on Andrew Cuomo, the defunct governor of New York?  Well, the answer is that the political left can’t afford to have the nursing home deaths caused by Cuomo bring down the rest of the blue state governors by association, because there was some gross mismanagement there that people have a right to be upset about.  The political left cannot afford to have Cuomo take down their entire political apparatus now that people are wore out on Covid and are suddenly looking for people to be angry at.  So that is why suddenly these sex scandals are coming at Cuomo from every direction.  The left must sacrifice the governor so to save the rest of them, so it’s a no brainer.  Cuomo has outlived his usefulness and has now been designated as the sacrificial lamb to the gods of liberalism. 

For me, everything about Covid-19 is a joke.  The entire 2020 government response was a joke at best, incompetent governments trying to suddenly tie their stupidity to the mask of illnesses.  It was always going to be a disaster for losers like Andrew Cuomo to give them that kind of power under emergency health orders.  Of course, they were going to screw it up.  As did all the blue state governors.  When Biden gave his little speech on the Covid mess this past week they know they must continue soft selling the scandemic by setting little goals to get out of it, like setting objectives to be able to gather in small groups on the 4th of July.  As Biden said that you could almost hear the speech writers begging for a day when all this would be over.  They’ve all gone all in on using this virus for election fraud and they are desperately trying to keep the wheels from falling off before the government says that its safe to return to normal life.  People are heading there anyway so time is running out fast. 

And that’s where people like Andrew Cuomo really failed, in making decisions for people based on their sheer incompetence.  People like him should never be in a position to rule over other people.  That’s ultimately what nobody can afford in the wake of all the problems, is people realizing that the blue state governors and mayors are just diabolically flawed that people may never trust them the same way again.  Even after all we’ve been through, Biden is asking for us to continue the ruse for just a few more months, until July 4th where government might give us permission to live once again.  Well, at my house just like last year, the 4th of July wasn’t about asking the government for permission to celebrate.  I didn’t ask the CDC if I could have family over to my house to have a hamburger.  We just did it and we will continue to do it.  The government is irrelevant in the process.  But for the political class that has their ugly fingerprints over so many deaths, they must show a managed recovery out of the mess in order to sell the commitment to the mess in the first place. 

It’s the same game with Cuomo, he killed people by sending Covid patients to nursing homes.  But so did many government types who abused their authority in the same way for the same result.  So, to hide that from the public, they have thrown Cuomo to the wolves on this sex scandal lining up a long list of women who are now declaring that the governor has been sexually abusing them for years.  Obviously, this conduct has been going on for a long time, but suddenly now in 2021 we are supposed to care about it.  It’s the way the political left plays the game, do you see it dear reader?  It’s the same deflection that they always use.  It’s the same way that Biden used the 4th of July to attempt to reassure people that Covid is still real, but that the government that put us in trouble with it will always be the government that takes us out of it.  And if Andrew Cuomo must go down in a blaze of glory because of his scandal with the nursing homes, then the political left will pick the means for which he must go down.  A sex scandal rather than murder. 

In 2020 one of the biggest things I lost was my cans of Mello Yello because the Coke bottling company needed the aluminum for their other, more popular productions.  The only way I could get Mello Yello was in plastic bottles.  I always knew that life would start getting back to normal when I could get Mello Yello in cans again.  Well, this past week, that happened for the first time in nearly a year.  Mello Yello was in cans again!  And you know for that to happen, government had to reassure a lot of people up and down the supply chain that Covid was coming to an end and that artificial restrictions such as aluminum shortages caused by government reaction to Covid were almost finished.  I always felt that the aluminum shortage was a stupid problem because like all the rest of the Covid problems it was caused by the stupidity of government, not by anything real, such as a supply chain problem.  The problem wasn’t that there wasn’t any aluminum but that due to too many government restrictions imposed by an out-of-control health department, the Coke company couldn’t get enough of it to manufacture all their products.  So, I had to go without Mello Yello in cans for most of his past year.  But like magic, suddenly cans were back, and everyone understands why.  Government has lost the will now that the election is over to continue using Covid as a ruse.  They hope to make it to July 4th just to continue selling the virus as if it were ever a real problem. But truly, it has always been an excuse for blue state governors to pad their egos and abuse their authority under emergency powers.  Then to cover up the bad behavior, to use Covid to avoid justice.  When that didn’t work, well then, a sex scandal would do the rest of the job. 

The thing that people continue to forget on Covid and the government is that really bad people will lie to you, and these have been really bad people.  Andrew Cuomo has been a really bad person.  Its not like he woke up yesterday and suddenly abused all these women with sexual foul play.  But admitting to that problem is far less costly than in admitting to what extent Cuomo and many others like him abused Covid and are now at risk of ruining the ruse forever.  They held on to that power too long.  People did die, and now that the world is returning to normal faster than the government would like there is a very real danger of the whole house of cards coming down around them.  And if that happens, the classic sex scandal defense won’t save any of them.  Not this time.

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The Puppet President: Proof of a shadow government every time Biden talks

We’ve talked about it in movies and in books, but the reality of it is actually quite disconcerting.   Up until Joe Biden we have never seen a more blatant example of a puppet president in the history of our country.  It’s embarrassing to watch but its quite clear that Joe Biden traded away everything to the people who run him to qualify to be president at least one time in his life.  And after President Trump the controllers don’t even feel like dressing up the position anymore.  They are open about their controls on the president.  They wanted and expected to control Trump and never liked him because he carried the position the way an executive would, as if he were in charge.  But for those who truly run our country, such an illusion is never to be accepted again.  When it comes to Biden, they aren’t even hiding the fact that they control every aspect of his administration and that our nation is a mere formality of control to a board of directors whom none of us really know or who voted for them to run our country. 

I would direct your attention to the South Carolina primary where Biden was on the ropes and had to win.  If you’ll remember about that time all the other candidates decided to rally behind Biden and he ended up winning that primary and suddenly from there on he was the front runner.  Clearly the entire event was orchestrated by invisible handlers who were not part of the presidential story.  Then it got worse from there as the Biden campaign refused to let him hit the road, kept him locked in his house while they used Covid-19 as an excuse not to campaign traditionally.  Then we saw Trump work his ass off to win 75 million votes only to have the election stolen away with an impossible number of voters being counted days after the election to eventually give Biden the presidency.  The message to all of us was that the handlers were never going to allow us to have President Trump.  They were clear in letting us all know that the presidency was not controlled by the people of America.  Even though its supposed to be, the message was clear to us, they were going to give us Biden, even as dumb and slow as he was, and we were going to live with it.  They were almost rubbing our faces in it. 

Of course, this isn’t a sustainable position.  We have all assumed for centuries that we elect our presidents through elections, and people are going to resent not having control of their government.  They won’t put up with this caricature set-up that we see now.  In the short run people will go along because they are civil, but as things go, the expectation will be that a shadow government unelected is not going to be acceptable.  I have no fear that this caricature style president that we have with Joe Biden will last long.  But that it is so obvious is an excellent learning opportunity to take what we are seeing and apply it to the theory of conspiracy theories going back decades.  When people have said that all American presidents, except for President Trump have been owned and operated by a shadow government since the beginning, there is now proof of that behavior.  Its no longer a theory.  What is new though is the lack of hiding it from the public any longer.

It will be interesting to see how long this Biden caricature can continue, how much or how long people will put up with it.  Typically, people don’t care about government positions unless they get in the way of people’s lives.  But even the ceremonial stuff like Biden addressing the nation on the 1-year anniversary of Covid is flat and eventless.  People get that the silly Covid speech was only constructed to help sell that the government needed to do what it did to alleviate the crises—for which they created—but Biden could barely even deliver the lines.  He can’t even play the puppet well without all the stuffing coming out during the performance.  And people won’t put up with that.  If they are going to be lied to, they expect the politicians to at least put on a show about it so not to make people look like such suckers following such an oaf.  Joe Biden is no Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan, people who could at least read the script and make people feel like the president was in charge instead of an army of unelected bureaucrats hiding in the shadows. 

We also know now why Trump was so successful and was able to achieve so much in a short period of time.  Because as an executive, he was able to actually solve problems.  In the past, the shadow government people proved to be incompetent and presidents didn’t know to question things.  They just read the speeches that were provided to them.  But Trump didn’t need any of them and was able to actually fix things the way normal people would.  Yet that was never the way it was supposed to be, presidents were not supposed to be in charge.  We were only supposed to believe they were.  In reality, they were to remain controlled by the shadow government.  What’s good is that at least now, we are talking about the actual shadow government instead of speculating about its existence.  Everyone can see it; they are just off stage from where Joe Biden is, and they now have to spend all their time trying to hold him up.  And when he drifts off message, they are the ones who put up the color bars and cut the transmission.  We are seeing the shadow government more than we ever have before.  So, if there is anything good to come out of all this it’s that we no longer think of such things as a conspiracy. 

I often measuring things by pressure, you can learn about the truth of something as pressure will reveal behavior based on the forces acting on it.  As a response to President Trump being elected in 2016, which nobody thought would happen apparently, the shadow government got caught flat footed.  This forced them to double and triple down during this election season of 2020.  They didn’t even care if they got caught tip toeing through the paint in the corner.  They just wanted control back, which is what we are seeing.  They picked Joe Biden way back at the South Carolina primary because he wasn’t very smart, wasn’t going to cause them trouble, and wouldn’t be a challenge to them in the least.  And we are seeing the cost of that decision.  The cost to them is in the lack of credibility.  It costs them everyday to send Joe Biden out to talk nonsense only to stumble through the lines aimlessly.  It hurts the brand of the shadow government to have such a knuckle dragger representing them.  But to have a nice compliant puppet they had to pick Joe Biden.  Their need for control exceeds their need for credibility.  Obviously, they have realized that when it comes to presidents, they can’t have both. 

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HR1 is an Attack: Changing voting laws is a military strategy, not an increase in voter representation

Of course, HR1 is unconstitutional, but the attackers of our country don’t care about that.  They seek to destroy the constitution so one more legal challenge to upset the applecart is fine with them.   Its no skin off their back. As I said in the video above, the voting rules changes that were the result of Covid-19 was a military attack.  It was a different way to destroy our country not with armaments, but with procedural discourse.  The goal of HRI is to make permanent all the voter rules changes that were made possible in 2020 under the emergency powers.  Now that Democrats have gained both houses of congress and the presidency under those rules changes, allowing them to cheat massively by counting votes that would have otherwise been illegal, they want to institutionalize that fraud so that they never lose power again.  When you find that there is great reluctance in talking about voter fraud during the 2020 election at the center of it is this premise that nobody really wants to admit to.  Republicans don’t want to believe that its possible, and Democrats are hoping to get away with it before someone stops them.  But the intent is of course to make election fraud the future of voting. 

Truthfully, voting must have an I.D.  Anyone looking for less wants to cheat.  There must be signature verification.  Again, anyone arguing otherwise wants to cheat.  There should be one election day, not months and months of early voting which opens up more opportunities to tamper with the results.  Mail in voting must have a strong chain of custody.  And they can’t be counted for weeks after the election as was the case with the 2020 presidential race where they just kept counting until Joe Biden was the winner.  That the cheaters in that election expect to get away with the most extensive voter fraud case in the history of America should alarm everyone.  That no court wanted to admit that it actually happened reveals a lack of will to protect constitutional needs, which is precisely why HR1 is so dangerous.  But if we can’t agree to these very basic things, we simply can’t have an honest election because there is too much power to be gained in cheating and obviously we have all seen the consequences now.  There is no honor system that will keep everything honest.   We need rigid voting laws and we must stick to them.

Its not just a matter of standing up to HRI but it’s the Democrats in general who want more than anything to empower their base, which has a hard time doing anything on time, to vote.  They started this mess with early voting so that their base might find time to cast early since they can’t be relied on election day to do their job.  Democrats must cheat to win and they like early voting because it gives their people more time to get off the couch and to vote.  Of course, the question is do we have any responsibility to lead a voter to the water to drink.  Should our society be guided by those who really don’t care to follow the rules?  Well, for Democrats, of course that’s how they feel.  Republicans must return to challenging the merits of even early voting because it has cheapened our election system in the wrong direction and opened the door for election fraud as an expectation, not an exception. 

The assumption that voting should be open in all these different forms to as many people as possible shows a complete lack of respect for the rules, because it’s the results that are only desired.  Voting integrity is not important so long as voting options can get a victory.  Rather than learning to have elections that follow the rules, we have thrown out the rules to get the results that Democrats want and that was only solidified in 2020 when the courts showed no will to challenge the premise.  It was more important that people believe in our elections, not that they would have many reasons to question the results if they admitted that the process was deeply flawed.  This is how a military operation who would want to destroy the objective would want us to think about such things, to have everything so murky that we wouldn’t understand the conditions of victory.  So to win an election do you work to get the votes from voters who follow the rules, or do you find a way to get as many different forms of voters to throw input into the chaos and count everything over extended periods of time. 

A preview of how this type of voting could destroy our country could be seen in the Senate runoffs in January.  The Democrats easily won applying all these new rules, even though the race had been much closer.  Once you started counting from all the different sources, and applying unverified signatures with mail in votes it was easy to beat the Republicans who typically play things straight.  Since Republicans do play by the rules they will always be harmed when the rules aren’t clear, which is what HR1 is all about.  Republicans could cheat the way that Democrats do, but that goes against the way they do business.  Democrats are so audacious about it they dare Republicans to try and cheat knowing that because of their love of rules, Republicans will never feel comfortable cheating.   So, there is nothing in HRI for Republicans.  There is nothing “constitutional” about it either.  There is only a path to victory for those willing to exploit chaos by utilizing all the options to get the result needed to win. 

It was never about fairness, in getting as many people to vote to see what kind of representatives our country really wants in government.  It was and always will be a military strategy to undermine our rules so to topple our republic into chaos for which we could be easily conquered.  Then to sell the voter fraud, Covid from the beginning was designed to allow for this election fraud by causing chaos that could be exploited by all these various voting methods, no signature verification, weak chain of custody on mail ins allowing for tampering.  And of course, changing the nature of the deadlines making it so that the final count was left in limbo allowing the counter to keep counting until they had the results they wanted is the core of the problem, and is what is most at stake.  Democrats remember cannot live within the rules, and if forced to, may never be able to win another election.  But if they can remove the rules, and make it so that anything goes when it comes to election conduct where it’s the amount of votes counted in whatever means they can get them, then they will never lose.  And that’s how you destroy a republic, using chaos and Covid to alter the rules for the benefit of those who intended insurgency.  Was their election fraud in 2020, yes, massive amounts of it.  But because of the way Democrats conducted it, as if the fraud allowed more voters a “voice” Republicans to their own detriment were unable to overcome the objection, so in the wake of that, HRI is a very real problem. 

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There is Nothing Scientific About Masks: Government is as Neanderthal as it gets

There is nothing quite so spectacularly ridiculous than an idiot politician wearing a stupid mask who says to follow the science and that anybody who doesn’t is a Neanderthal.   Yet that’s what we have been hearing from Joe Biden as more and more states are lifting their Covid mask mandates.  Frustrated that the federal grip on the emergency crises mode of the made-up pandemic was weakening, he called Texas governor Greg Abbott a Neanderthal along with the governors of Alabama and Mississippi for turning away from the unscientific panic of wearing masks and accepting the reality that people are sick of wearing masks and never should have started in the first place.  Liberals are always about calling others what they truly are especially in this case.  There is nothing scientific about mask mandates.  Every one of the CDC commercials you hear on the radio or on television where they talk about masks working is a complete lie.  Masks do nothing to help stop the spread of any kind of virus.  They are token approaches to crises management that have as much value as Dumbo’s feather.  Its purely psychological in nature, it has nothing to do with science. 

To say that masks work it would require some kind of statistical baseline from known history.  Considering that its just been for the first time in history that we have decided to approach virus management the way we did in 2020 is the first problem.  The second is that from state to state, there wasn’t any real consistency about virus containment.  There were states where people were on full lockdowns, wearing masks and doing social distancing to the extremes while there were other places where very few people wore masks even at the height of the virus.  I would point back to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August of 2020 where half a million people ignored Covid all together and it didn’t turn out to be a super spreader event.  During the Trump campaign he often had rallies where nobody wore masks, or some people wore masks, and those places didn’t have more or less case counts than places where people were wearing masks like a psycho.  To say that masks work to stop the spread of coronavirus any analysis would have to take all these statistical variations into account and make some sense of them, which of course nobody has done.  All we have is governors like Dummy Mike DeWine say to us that masks work based on some voodoo belief system arrived at by the way they interpret faulty data. 

This is the kind of stupidity that you get when your society doesn’t have a functioning education system.  This is common core math, or the same kind of nutty behavior that we get from Bill and Melinda Gates who now want to get rid of advanced math from schools because they say its “racists” to have “right” answers.  They propose that people just memorize whatever answer the government gives them and to stop thinking for themselves.  Reality is what we tell you it is, you don’t need to do all this statistical evaluation.  Just listen to what we say and leave it alone.  If we tell you that masks work, then masks work.  End of story.  That the danger of a society that has lost the ability to think.  And that is how mask mandates became a thing in 2020 to start with.  People just did what the government told them to without considering the consequences.  What nobody wanted to admit to themselves was that the government screwed up so bad with Covid-19 that they kept digging themselves deeper and deeper in the whole of credibility.  Each lie they told required them to keep up with the story in the media and to support their conclusions with phony data by phony doctors for phony outcomes.  And that so many people followed blindly says everything as to the danger. 

But science was never the guiding light.  It was always voodoo belief that made people think that masks could help at all with the Covid virus, which was only different from other viral outbreaks in the way that we measured our reaction to it.  We had never counted case counts the way that we did with Covid and it is that which drove the public narrative so that we would accept a change in our voting laws, which was the point of Covid from the beginning.  Democrats knew they needed to cheat in the elections in 2020 so they got behind Covid as a way to change election law.  That was the cause of the change in how we dealt with this virus.  The masks only made everything seem more real.  The masks were a visual reminder that there was a virus, otherwise we could ignore the concern and continue living our lives.  By believing that there was a deadly virus, the masks made us feel that constant reminder that there was a danger out there, even if it was all made up.  But feelings are not science.  Science would require evidence, and for mask mandates, there is no science anywhere by anybody who can say that masks did anything to help stop the spread of Covid.  All masks did was remind people that the government wanted us to always be thinking about Covid-19, about the case counts so that when they changed the election laws for the November elections, that we would accept the results of that chaos. 

Every business that was lost in 2020, every life lost to suicide, to misery over the government’s mismanagement of Covid-19 was a cost of the Democrat desire to take back power from the populous movement of President Trump.  It was war, it was an attack on all of us to impose new Covid rules on the nature of virus outbreaks and to tie our society up in senseless bureaucracy.  But it was the masks that reminded us that life was not normal and that we had to operate each day as if it would be our last, because the government told us so.  For the government, Covid was a heist of our election system.  For the rest of us, it was just one more pain in the ass that increased our misery index which government caused us.  And instead of paying attention to the real thing we were distracted by the wearing of masks.  But it was always fake, it was always superstition.  It was never about science.  Not back then and certainly not today.  There isn’t a single scientist who can tell us legitimately that masks do anything scientifically to help with the virus.  If anything, they make the spread much worse with their contaminated fall out.  A hand that touches a mask then touches a door is a much surer way to spread a virus than not having the mask at all and exposing a face to plenty of ultraviolet light. 

But to call people who don’t wear masks Neanderthals?  That is a stretch.  To point to the government and to say “follow the science.”  No thanks.  There is nothing scientific about government work or their results.  They say what they must in order to get funding.  That doesn’t mean their results can be trusted.  And it certainly doesn’t make them qualified to make policy decisions for the rest of us.  They can’t even run a BMV correctly.  They certainly aren’t able to determine the science of mask wearing. 

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A “Coat of Many Colors” at The Big Texan: Perspective in an unusual place

I thought this little video was worth a little more comment than just for personal use.  We were at The Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas which was a place I really wanted to visit while we were in that part of the world.  I would have liked to have said that I enjoyed it more than I did.  In truth, it was a tough day.  We had come into town with our RV just one day after the second major snowstorm had ravaged the area and I had our rig wedged into our campsite in a way that I wasn’t sure I would ever get it out of until the snow melted.  We had picked the RV park next to The Big Texan because they offered free limo rides to the restaurant and they had a nice indoor heated pool.  I was hoping to get really refreshed during our stay there but as it turned out the pool was broken, the limos were all snowed in, and I spent most of the day digging a path for our RV to park in 6 inches of snow.  By the time we arrived at The Big Texan to eat I had just had an important oversea call that went on for nearly 2 hours and with everything else, I was pretty stressed out, worried that we might end up stuck in Amarillo for several days.  The food was great, the atmosphere was wonderful, and these guys came to our table to sing whatever song we wanted.  My wife picked Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” and for a moment, we were really touched by these guys.  It was a tough day but during that song, I was reminded of several good things that are worth a mention. 

I’ll never be the one who will say that vacations are meant for relaxing.  For me, they are opportunities to push yourself and to come out of our comfort zone a bit.  And we certainly did that during an RV trip through the American Southwest.  We are new to the RV life so when my wife wanted to go to the desert for this particular trip, we had no idea that it was going to be zero degrees every day we were traveling and that we would only see temperatures above freezing a few times.  But we survived and figured things out as we went along.  Our RV did really well in the snow and extreme cold and I was proud of our trip as we headed north back toward Texas.  But we were also very tired by that point and the snowstorm that had just hit there was a bit too much.  We had no choice but to have a good attitude about it, because we had a long way to get home and letting down our vigilance just wasn’t an option.  But to say the least, I was on pins and needles.  Coming into that campground we were literally driving on a sheet of ice.  Nobody in Amarillo was doing much of anything so leaving our campground for The Big Texan was tough.  It would have been easier to just stay at the RV and cook some dinner, go to bed and get up early hoping to get out of our site.  Getting into the site was tough, getting out would be worse.  But I’m glad we did end up going to The Big Texan.  If for no other reason but to hear that song played at our table. 

My wife has always liked that Dolly Parton song, but given all that has been going on, it had more meaning this time for me.  It was cool to see so many cowboy hats moving around in the background.  It was such a great American atmosphere and the content of the song reminded me how resilient Americans are.  With all the victimhood that is behind progressive politics, the real solution to our future was in the contents of that song, where if you have a good family and some love in the people around you, then you are one of the richest people in the world.  With progressives being so anti-family this song was a reminder that no matter what they tried to do in order to change the nature of America, people would always be people.  People would always love a coat of many colors just because their mamma made it.  Hearing that song in such a cool place after such a terribly hard day, it just rang home.  It reminded me that was precisely why were traveled so far, was to change our perspective in such a way that a treasured old song like that would take on new meaning.  Over the years, some of my best ideas have come from such pressure extremes, which is why I’m always so eager to do things out of the box so often.  But they don’t often come out so positively.  

We went home from The Big Texan that night feeling pretty good about things.  We went to bed at a reasonable hour, even though it was -2 below outside we had the temp inside the RV at 80 degrees.  We had our TV running to help us sleep and once 5 AM came around I watched The Weather Channel to see how our day’s drive would be and started working to hook up the rig to leave.  It took quite a lot of work to get out of that spot, but after a while, we eventually made it out to the sheet of ice and were able to spin our wheels enough to inch our way to some decent traction.  We checked out before daybreak and were headed back down the highway within a few minutes, never to look back.  For the next 500 miles travel was rough, the water lines were burst everywhere, especially around Oklahoma City.  There was nowhere to use the restroom.  We were at least able to get fuel, but our trip all the way to Springfield Missouri as I have said in a previous post was pretty rough.  That was the second day in a row where we had white knuckled the driving and we needed a decent night’s sleep.  That is why our trip to Bass Pro Shops in Missouri was so wonderful. 

However, the difficulty under which we heard that song at The Big Texan is an evening I will never forget.  It was far from the best night of my life, but under the tenuous conditions, that song sounded like a little bit of heaven with some fresh perspective that I found very useful.   My wife of course loved hearing the song, but even beyond that, it had an otherworldly kind of feel to it, as if everything we had done during the trip culminated into that little message.  It wouldn’t have felt that way if we just heard the song on the radio.  I think we needed all the trouble to go with it.  And I’m glad we did.  Days later after we were home and back to our normal comforts, I think we both reflected on that night with some reverence that we otherwise wouldn’t have had.  Certainly, we were much richer from the experience, just like that Coat of Many Colors. 

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior
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