>>12029934 (PB)
Or learn how to use a straight edge and stop paying for blades altogether.
>>12030193 (PB)
A surrounding motion runs the risk of spreading assets too thin. It requires anihilation to be effective. Sun Tzu (it is claimed) says to allow your enemy at least the appearance of an escape route. It's okay if you are actually funneling them into a cave that you are prepared to set on fire, as happened to the Arawok Indians on Aruba, but you must force the denouement to happen on your terms. I've been watching for many years, contributing wherever I saw a chance ... money, mind and time. I've been around long enough to know that no battle is certain until all the enemy fallen have been bayoneted and stripped of their arms, their communications cut and their headquarters destroyed.
If we can pull this election off, we are about 1/3 of the way there. We still have to mop up the leaders and then set the country (and the world) on a renewed path to individual freedoms and rights balanced (lightly) against the need of the herd to survive. We are well into the fourth turning and fighting hard to push the inevitable back another generation or two while we search for ways out of the cycle. I lack power and, at my advanced age, am not likely to obtain much, so I feel no pressures to guide others through this. My only goal at the moment is to get me and mine into a situation where we can live out a normal lifespan with a reasonable chance of achieving reasonable goals. After the terrific battles of Inchon a young Marine was asked what he would wish for if he could have anything at all. The Marine, hungry, caked with mud, having seen many of his brothers turned inside out and exhausted, reflected a moment and said "Tomorrow". And then started walking toward the safety of the rear again.
Right now, I'd like to know that if I make the trip to Atlanta to see my 89 year old Mom for Christmas, I'll be able to return home to the Piedmonts of NC, my wife and our cats.