Let me tell you about Tim

 Tim was born in Canada, but don't hold that against him.  His mom was American, so he had dual citizenship.  His parents were also Christian missionaries, so as a yoot he spent a lot of time running around Nigeria and otherd parts of Africa as his parents built and worked a church.  Or churches.  Tim recalled riding around on the top of a Land Rover because there was no air conditioning and it was more comfortable to sit up top in the breeze.  He attended schools with kids from all over the world who's parents were working in those countries.  It gave him a very continental view on life.  He never drank coffee, only tea.  I blame his time amongst the Brits for that.

In time, Tim came back to North America, and became a pastor like his dad.  But Tim also had a powerful urge to serve in other capacities as well.  And thanks to his dual citizenship, he was able to become a US Army Chaplain.  He had to give up his Canadian citizenship to do it, or at least his Canadian passport.  He wanted to go Active Duty, but his wife forbade it.  There's another story that I won't get into.  Safe to say that Tim and his now-ex-wife are not on speaking terms.

But Tim did join the USAR, and the war being what it was, the 82nd Airborne Division saw him as "available" and snatched him up.  So he didn't "join" the Active Army, but by god he was part of the Active Army.  Two deployments worth, plus a bunch of other time spent on Fort Bragg where Tim had the absolute time of his life.

Eventually Tim got promoted, and with the promotion came the move out of the 82nd.  Tim was still USAR, so he took ever higher level of Chaplain positions throughout the Reserves.  He lived in Canada because his now-ex-wife refused to move to the USA, so Tim would literally fly into the USA for drill weekend and fly back home afterwards.  Honestly that's not much different than the Chaplains who live on the West Coast and then fly to their units on the East Coast.  In fact, for his last two commands, Tim's home was rather close.  One he could drive to, and the other was a short flight.

Tim ended up at a unit in Utah, where he worked with a wild-eyed, foul-mouthed crazy son of a bitch who had no regard for anyone's rank or position.  That would be me.  Just in case you missed the reference.  We two somehow got along like peas and carrots, bonding over our love of BBQ and classic rock music.  Tim always said that I gave him absolute fits when I was in the HQ building, but if we ever deployed I was the only troop he wanted next to him.  There were multiple times I let fly with my thoughts at that current moment, and Tim would walk away with a shocked look on his face muttering "I'm not sure what I just heard and I don't want to know!"  Tim's wife divorced him sometime in 2020, because she's a stupid cow.  I saw Tim struggle, but I never saw him falter.  My wife and I would fortify him with smoked meats and plenty of desserts when he was at Drill.  And despite the Covidiacy and the travel restrictions, Tim and I worked our asses off to take care of our Soldiers.,

Tim would retire in November of 2022.  At that point he had remarried to a wonderful, beautiful woman who made him deliriously happy.  He had two step kids that he adored, and who loved him back.  Apparently his step son was as much of a BBQ addict as Tim was.  He was going back to school.  He had the second part of his life ahead of him.

Five months later he was dead.  The Canadian government will tell you he died of the flu.  I say they forced him to take two fucking clot-shots, and I damn them to hell for it.  Nobody who's healthy and relatively young just "dies of the flu" without something else causing the problems.

Tim is getting buried at 1300.  I managed to force my way onto the Chief of Staff's calendar to simply say that if anybody from the command was going to go to the funeral, it had damn well better be the guy who worked with Tim for three years and more.  There was a Colonel and a Light Colonel who were on the list to represent the unit.  They looked at me, looked at the CoS and said they would take a pass this time, why don't you send Dave?  Apparently I had a look that said I would not accept NO as an answer.

So yeah.  That's where I'm going to be at.  And pardon me if I don't post much the rest of the weekend.

There's a time to nice, but it's not when the perverts are trying to take your kids

 So it's time to stop being nice, Christians.

Today you live in Negative World, and Negative World just became deadly. No longer do you live in a place where there is a distinction between being a Christian and “fighting the culture war.” Those three nine-year-olds that the monster shot were not consciously combatants in the culture war. They were not little James Dobsons. They were just Christian kids being raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord by Christian parents. But we have reached a point where simply being a Christian means participation in the culture war is unavoidable. You may not want your children involved in the culture war, but if they bear the name of Christ, they are part of it whether you like it or not. Your enemy has made them a target, if not with bullets, with a poisonous mind virus that they constantly want them exposed to.

It is well past time for Christians, particularly Christian leaders, to recognize this. You have enemies. You have enemies that want you and your children dead. You have enemies you need to fight. Your desire to “win them over” through niceness is a weapon they wield against you. They manipulate your desire to avoid conflict. They know that you are terrified of offending anyone since that will negatively affect church attendance. And so they have rolled over you, they have destroyed your culture, and have now made you a pariah in your own country. You are not going to winsome your way out of this. You can choose to remain silent out of cowardice, or you can begin to fight an evil ideology that could not be in more stark rebellion against the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Go read the whole thing.  I'm traveling today.  I'll get to that more later.

So they're not releasing the Nashville shooter's manifesto

 The cops say they're not releasing it in the middle of an active investigation.  Okie-dokie.

I've heard rumors that Biden's personal Gestapo has told Nashville not to release it.

While I can understand the Nashville's explanation, I'm still kinda in this mind-set.

Must be some seriously fucked up material in that there 'manifesto'...

Like pure-dee gasoline that the Leviathan Powers-That-Be abso-fucking-lutely do NOT want let out 'into the wild'...  My own personal opinion is they're going to stall like motherfuckers 'cos methinks it may have to do with the "Tranny Day of Revenge" or whatever that psychoshitfestivus is going on on April 1st...  Hope it fades as they muddle the waters and the obedient pets of the various Organs of the State and Ministries of Propaganda and Lies dutifully fall in line....

Yeah, the tranny day of rage coming up this Friday.  That'll totally help the mentally ill get accepted into society.

My take?  The shooter's manifesto contains verbiage that is word for word being taught in the publik skool sistim today, and if it was released too many parents would recognize the indoctrination from the manifesto that is being shoved on to their kids.  And parents would react accordingly.  The  narrative MUST BE PUSHED!

And having a mentally ill woman who called herself a man shoot up a Christian school doesn't help the narrative.  Having said mentally ill woman write out a manifesto that uses words like "Inclusivity" and "diversity" doesn't help the narrative.  Hell, the cops already put out that this crackpot avoided another school because they had armed guards there.  That kinda shoots down the gun control narrative that they're pushing, doesn't it?  Crackpot went to the Christian school because it was UNARMED.

The won't release the crackpot's manifesto, but the George Floyd vids were out on the street pretty damn quick.  And the Left got what it wanted out of that.

Weird shit in my head

 Had a dream last night where I was cleaning out my parent's garage.  Just doing maintenance and crap like that.  Had a huge spider in the corner, dragging along an egg case.  I'm trying to remember the horror movie from the 90's that had spiders in it, but it was kind of like that.  Think massive tarantula sized spider but fast.  I cleaned out the corner the spider was in, and it ran away, only to come back from a different direction and run at me.  Someone in the garage with me tried to stomp on it but it dodged, then ran right at my feet, and I swear to you I woke up feeling that little bastard biting me.  Full on, feet kicking, wake me from the dead of sleep nightmare about a fucking spider.

I think I have a lot of shit in my head that needs to be unpacked.

I'm not even arachnophobic.  Spiders don't bother me.

The drooling Chinese hand puppet cracks jokes about ice cream when talking about dead kids

 Fucking classy.  But even before he was a senile dementia patient, Drooling Joe was always a classless moron.

President Biden called on Congress to ban assault weapons during the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Women Summit at the White House. Before mentioning the shooting, though, Biden cracked jokes about ice cream.

“My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband, and I enjoy ice cream, chocolate chip. I came down because it was chocolate chip ice cream. By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I’m kidding. I’m not,” he said.

As someone else on the internet has said, we're all very aware that Joey the Kid-Sniffer has ice-cream everywhere, because dementia patients get a short-term cognitive boost from ice cream, which is why you see that drooling, pants-shitting puppet eating ice cream at every public event.

As bad as reading the words are, it's nothing compared to actually listening to Biden try to slur and mumble through a speech when he clearly has problems reading the world's largest teleprompter.  No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse.

But of course they did

 ESPN, the world leader in Woke, awarded a man during Women's History Month.

It's Women's History Month, everyone! And to celebrate, ESPN of course had to honor the most beautiful and most brave "woman" of modern history - Lia Thomas.

Lia Thomas, who is a man, is a pathetic cheat who competes against women, and who uses the women's locker room where he exposes his penis, because he is a man and has a penis, to the women who actually belong in the women's locker room UNLIKE Lia Thomas, who is a man and belongs nowhere near the women's locker room.

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who had to compete against and share a locker room with Thomas last year, has been quite outspoken about Thomas in the past. Specifically about seeing their male genitalia in her locker room. Gaines spoke out about this particular segment, tweeting, "Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The @ncaa is responsible. If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You're spineless @espn"

If I had a daughter who was forced to see Lia Thomas the man and his penis in a female locker room?  I would hunt Lia Thomas down and cut his penis off.  HIS penis.  Because he is a man.  A pathetic man, but still a man with a penis which should be cut off, preferably with a rusty butter knife.

More *&^%$#@ snow!

 Gotta go shovel again.  I went to bed around midnight.  There was a very light dusting of snow on my car, and none falling from the sky.

Woke up today and there's four to six inches on the ground.  Hopefully it's the light, fluffy, pushable snow.

Just FYI, Utah broke the record for accumulated snowpack up in the mountains.  So this is literally a record-setting year for snowfall.