Are the Essays of Henry Rollins on Gen. "Thoroughly Modern" Milley's (™Mark Steyn) reading list? As a punk, he may have some familiarity with "white rage".
I’m surprised you haven’t made more of the fact that you have visual proof that Barack Obama is actually a white guy who once served with you in the Army (extreme right in the first photo) and seems to have been a fan of books by Jeff Foxworthy 🤣
In basic we were ordered to clean the showers a couple of recruits decided to use their own money to buy cleaner from the PX some bought ammonia and others went with bleach. Use your imagination on how that went.
That's what bats did for the 3 million years while they comingled with our earliest ancestors. But now it's different.
As Ralph Baric predicted (coincidently when he needed funding to support this theory), any day now, bats and humans would mingle MORE and unleash DEADLY variants of Coronaviruses that nature hadn't bothered to produce in the 300 million years of their existence (that's how long Baric says they've been here FYI).
Logically, time was clearly running out for humanity, so it made sense for Baric to make the more infectious and deadly Coronaviruses in labs before Nature did it. It's basic statistics. Just like flipping 3 heads in a row doesn't predict your next coin flip will be tails, 300 million years of harmless coronaviruses doesn't mean tomorrow isn't Judgment Day from Bats.
I wont tolerate your racism sir! They need to consume pangolin blood to cure balance to the yin and yang! Don't bring your anti-science to this substack!
here in nyc we have lots of chinese pharmacies - technically they're herb stores but they have everything you need for whatever ails you. i hardly ever get sick but many years ago a guy crushed up a cold cure for me and it worked magically. i later found out that the primary ingredient was dried earthworms. lumbrokinase!
As I look way back into hallowed antiquity to when I spent 9 fun filled weeks in Navy boot camp in Orlando FL, we were allowed 2 items to read...the Bluejackets Manual and the Holy Bible...it’s the most scripture I’ve ever read in my life...
As an aside, my youngest son was also in Easy Co, 1-19th Infantry at Ft Benning although a few years after you were there...I’ll have to ask him if he ever mopped Sgt Major’s walls...or bulkheads as us squids would say...
When I was a company commander in 1st Ranger Battalion, we got a tranche of new soldiers. One of them was reading Dostoevsky in Russian. I immediately told the 1SG, he is the company clerk. Turned out he was a great Soldier. Lots of great memories from my time in service to the nation
It’s obvious that the guy on the right reading the “book” by Jeff Foxworthy is in actuality Barack Obama.
I see what you’re doing here. Very subversive.
I find It’s good to do menial labor, as long as I don’t have to do it everyday. It’s meditative and clears my brain out of all the detritus from incessant contemplation of ponderous nonsense.
Because of sheer stupidity on the part of past legislature/s here in Vermont - and regularly affirmed by the morons in office since then - our state is far too heavily reliant on tourism, TPTB having chased out the industries that actually produced anything useful. Except for craft beers, upscale restaurants owned by out-of-staters from large blue cities, and artisanal whatnot.
Occasionally, I make the three-mile drive to that Very Famous Country Store beloved of tourists, while dressed in barn clothes, to purchase a bit of the local artisanal cheese (really very good) and to mention, by the way, a little louder than I probably should, that anyone who wants the genuine Vermont experience can come help muck out our barn. So far no takers.
Physical labor is a good thing and there's no shortage of it around here; I find it takes my mind off the mess that is the rest of the world, if only for a little while.
Columbus Day weekend is Peak Leaf™ in our part of the state so we are soon to be overrun, pity all the tourists can't be a little more useful. Maybe a few of them would actually learn that there is, in fact, a difference between males and females, and that it's not a good idea to try to milk a bull.
I don't know when our "Peak Leaf" time is exactly. I think it kinda depends on what part of the state you're in. It is a pity that tourists can't won't be of help.
Obviously your state's tourism board is way behind the curve. We here in Vermont pay high taxes for just this kind of expertise. Behold: the Vermont Foliage Forecaster to help you plan your trip to our lovely, but badly managed, state:
Could be. I've seen very few tourism ads, but I don't watch the main stations, I don't read any magazines that have those in them (if any are still published.), and I wouldn't pay for the newspaper if it was free. I'd think most of that would be in the capitol anyway.
Enjoyed this a lot. Especially the pic w Mom. Aww!! Chris I wonder if you know of Stan Goff who retired from the army, special ops. He has taken some interesting intellectual and spiritual turns in retirement that he writes a lot about. Keep your writing coming please and thank you
Lol, love to see this- thanks, man, and thank you for your service. My hubs tells me some pretty interesting stories about cleaning things with toothbrushes and being woken up at 4 am by a chainsaw-wielding drill instructor, but the bat story really takes the cake.
Hey Chris, would you mind starting a list of some recommended reads. Particularly those you’ve mentioned in previous articles? I read “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” because of a well done article you wrote months ago that used its story as a backdrop theme. It was a great read! Just wondering, in light of this post, and your obvious love for books and reading, if you would make a list a guy like me can refer to.
Sure! I’m not sure how many good recommendations I have, but the more the merrier! In this cultural war, one method of fighting can be by reading/cataloging/preserving good works by authors critical to the shaping and maintaining of a free republic (and maybe bits of pieces of the shit stain “republic” of Canada I live in). You know, before they start removing them from shelves and libraries because they’re racist and only Nazis read!
I also bought that book on Chris’ recommendation. My dad served in the Navy in WWII and it really moved me reading about some of the hell these people went through. Passed it on to a friend.
A welcome diversion from all the madness. 😊 Thanks.
I figured we could all use a break.
At ease Private Bray.
This is not madness? I coulda sworn...
Are the Essays of Henry Rollins on Gen. "Thoroughly Modern" Milley's (™Mark Steyn) reading list? As a punk, he may have some familiarity with "white rage".
I’m surprised you haven’t made more of the fact that you have visual proof that Barack Obama is actually a white guy who once served with you in the Army (extreme right in the first photo) and seems to have been a fan of books by Jeff Foxworthy 🤣
Now we know where he was when he was supposed to be at Columbia.
I was there and I never saw him! Glad you found him at Ft. Benning
That first glance threw me for a loop😅
Exactly what I thought! I swear that does look like Obummer.
Love old photos & trips down memory lane. Thank you for this!
As a former infantry officer intimately familiar with Sand Hill and all its glory, I heartily salute this post.
Had good times there. And not good times!
I laughed out loud at that picture too.
In basic we were ordered to clean the showers a couple of recruits decided to use their own money to buy cleaner from the PX some bought ammonia and others went with bleach. Use your imagination on how that went.
OH SHIT
That sounds like the time I accidentally created WMDs cleaning my toilet bowl
A soldier who reads? Why, not in my Army! 😀
1) Was the dork on the right holding up the Jeff Foxworthy book to be ironic? (I actually owned that at some point)
2) "If bat guano is good fertilizer, I know a source." - You must have been terrified of catching Covid 98!
IIRC, he was quite genuinely enthused by the Jeff Foxworthy book.
Two years in those barracks, up the road at Benning, and not a single bat ever so much as brushed against me. Like walking through water -- they part.
That's what bats did for the 3 million years while they comingled with our earliest ancestors. But now it's different.
As Ralph Baric predicted (coincidently when he needed funding to support this theory), any day now, bats and humans would mingle MORE and unleash DEADLY variants of Coronaviruses that nature hadn't bothered to produce in the 300 million years of their existence (that's how long Baric says they've been here FYI).
Logically, time was clearly running out for humanity, so it made sense for Baric to make the more infectious and deadly Coronaviruses in labs before Nature did it. It's basic statistics. Just like flipping 3 heads in a row doesn't predict your next coin flip will be tails, 300 million years of harmless coronaviruses doesn't mean tomorrow isn't Judgment Day from Bats.
Bats eat mosquitoes so they are alright by me.
Have no fear, we have genetically modified mosquitos to not be a threat [1]. What could go wrong? [2]
__________
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/health/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-us-scn-wellness/index.html
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-malaria-case-florida-brings-national-total-8-first-us-cases-20-yea-rcna94899
🙌
bats only like chinese people in cities where 5g has just been rolled out
I wont tolerate your racism sir! They need to consume pangolin blood to cure balance to the yin and yang! Don't bring your anti-science to this substack!
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/these-chinese-medicines-actually-contain-body-parts-from-animals.html
here in nyc we have lots of chinese pharmacies - technically they're herb stores but they have everything you need for whatever ails you. i hardly ever get sick but many years ago a guy crushed up a cold cure for me and it worked magically. i later found out that the primary ingredient was dried earthworms. lumbrokinase!
#1. The dork on the right looks like White Obama
#2. I love your army photos
#3. I'm not up to the minute on the rules, did I just commit a hate crime with #1?
Re: #3, I think that maybe FBI WE HAVE A WARRANT
As I look way back into hallowed antiquity to when I spent 9 fun filled weeks in Navy boot camp in Orlando FL, we were allowed 2 items to read...the Bluejackets Manual and the Holy Bible...it’s the most scripture I’ve ever read in my life...
As an aside, my youngest son was also in Easy Co, 1-19th Infantry at Ft Benning although a few years after you were there...I’ll have to ask him if he ever mopped Sgt Major’s walls...or bulkheads as us squids would say...
I love your stuff Chris, keep up the good work!!
When I was a company commander in 1st Ranger Battalion, we got a tranche of new soldiers. One of them was reading Dostoevsky in Russian. I immediately told the 1SG, he is the company clerk. Turned out he was a great Soldier. Lots of great memories from my time in service to the nation
NO ONE EVER WARNS YOU THAT BECOMING THE COMPANY CLERK IS A POSSIBILITY
A first sergeant asked me if I knew how to use a computer. I gave the wrong answer.
So true
It’s obvious that the guy on the right reading the “book” by Jeff Foxworthy is in actuality Barack Obama.
I see what you’re doing here. Very subversive.
I find It’s good to do menial labor, as long as I don’t have to do it everyday. It’s meditative and clears my brain out of all the detritus from incessant contemplation of ponderous nonsense.
Because of sheer stupidity on the part of past legislature/s here in Vermont - and regularly affirmed by the morons in office since then - our state is far too heavily reliant on tourism, TPTB having chased out the industries that actually produced anything useful. Except for craft beers, upscale restaurants owned by out-of-staters from large blue cities, and artisanal whatnot.
Occasionally, I make the three-mile drive to that Very Famous Country Store beloved of tourists, while dressed in barn clothes, to purchase a bit of the local artisanal cheese (really very good) and to mention, by the way, a little louder than I probably should, that anyone who wants the genuine Vermont experience can come help muck out our barn. So far no takers.
Physical labor is a good thing and there's no shortage of it around here; I find it takes my mind off the mess that is the rest of the world, if only for a little while.
We've got barns to muck out here in the Midwest, too. No need to travel. 😉
Columbus Day weekend is Peak Leaf™ in our part of the state so we are soon to be overrun, pity all the tourists can't be a little more useful. Maybe a few of them would actually learn that there is, in fact, a difference between males and females, and that it's not a good idea to try to milk a bull.
I don't know when our "Peak Leaf" time is exactly. I think it kinda depends on what part of the state you're in. It is a pity that tourists can't won't be of help.
Obviously your state's tourism board is way behind the curve. We here in Vermont pay high taxes for just this kind of expertise. Behold: the Vermont Foliage Forecaster to help you plan your trip to our lovely, but badly managed, state:
https://www.vermontvacation.com/landing-pages/recreation/foliage/foliage-forecaster
Could be. I've seen very few tourism ads, but I don't watch the main stations, I don't read any magazines that have those in them (if any are still published.), and I wouldn't pay for the newspaper if it was free. I'd think most of that would be in the capitol anyway.
Enjoyed this a lot. Especially the pic w Mom. Aww!! Chris I wonder if you know of Stan Goff who retired from the army, special ops. He has taken some interesting intellectual and spiritual turns in retirement that he writes a lot about. Keep your writing coming please and thank you
I hadn't thought about Jeff Foxworthy in quite a while.
That’s your sign.
Bill Engvall.
Lol, love to see this- thanks, man, and thank you for your service. My hubs tells me some pretty interesting stories about cleaning things with toothbrushes and being woken up at 4 am by a chainsaw-wielding drill instructor, but the bat story really takes the cake.
Ah, the smell of starched woodland BDUs. But they weren't supposed to be starched, said so on the tag. I still have a set.
I starched those suckers like a board. It kept people off a PFC's back. "Looking sharp, son."
You could cut yourself on the seams down the front of my trousers.
That was ok for the winter BDU, but I hated it on the ripstop.
Hey Chris, would you mind starting a list of some recommended reads. Particularly those you’ve mentioned in previous articles? I read “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” because of a well done article you wrote months ago that used its story as a backdrop theme. It was a great read! Just wondering, in light of this post, and your obvious love for books and reading, if you would make a list a guy like me can refer to.
Cheers!
That's a good idea! And we can crowdsource it to make it bigger.
Sure! I’m not sure how many good recommendations I have, but the more the merrier! In this cultural war, one method of fighting can be by reading/cataloging/preserving good works by authors critical to the shaping and maintaining of a free republic (and maybe bits of pieces of the shit stain “republic” of Canada I live in). You know, before they start removing them from shelves and libraries because they’re racist and only Nazis read!
I also bought that book on Chris’ recommendation. My dad served in the Navy in WWII and it really moved me reading about some of the hell these people went through. Passed it on to a friend.