The following video seems like a serious effort at doom porn with climate change and pollution but, what if some of these thoughts are valid ?

Patents denied that could have meaningfully changed the world, inventors killed because TPTB have the monopoly on certain products and inventions; the video ends up with human reverse engineered UAP/UFOs. A little something for everyone ?

My faith in the goodness of mankind and the way the world actually works is no longer set in stone as other thoughts and events have polluted the school taught paradigm I grew up with. The following video may be all B.S. or "What If ?"

The Military industrial Complex (MIC) has been used and spoken about since Ike gave the complex a name when he was leaving the White House. 

Most of us do not realize just how deeply the MIC is embedded in all we do as a nation. Very short video worth your time..

https://x.com/thedailyrabbit_/status/184...fRTk4TaWEg

Full title of the article is : Boeing Suffers $6 Billion Loss in 3rd Quarter, CEO Calls for Fundamental Cultural Changes

This quarter loss was $6.174 billion, compared with a $1.638 billion loss in the previous quarter. IMO it is better to hire by qualifications instead of quotas .

Quote:Boeing reported a massive loss of $6 billion in the third quarter, just hours before a labor vote on Wednesday. The company’s president and CEO, Kelly Ortberg, stated that it needs fundamental changes in its culture to return to the iconic brand it was for decades.

IMO it is about time too !

Quote:For independent-thinkers like myself, there is no home in the Democrat Party. However, there is a home for us in the Republican Party. The Republican Party of warmongering elite Dick Cheney is in the past. Trump’s GOP is a big open tent party of the people, equality, commonsense, and the party that is led by a President who has the courage and strength to fight for peace. Tonight I stood with President Trump and announced I am joining the Republican Party. President Trump is our best and only hope in this election to lead our country toward a future where every one of us can live in a truly free, peaceful, and prosperous nation. Now is the time for us to stand together, vote for Trump and save our country.

I have a question for the Rogues during this spooky Halloween season, "Where do the classic horror story monsters like vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein's monster, et al, come from?"

What is the basis of the classic old haunted house or castle, one that is usually in ruins, that is inhabited by some old eccentric aristocrat from some European family bloodline? Or some mad scientist, that one is pretty classic. I am speaking of Gothic Horror of course, as opposed to slasher or other types of stories.

Just fishing around for opinions on this subject, one I have of my own.

Let's hear what you got Rogues, Inquiring minds want to know.

I finished it! (more or less)

Previous thread with the beginings https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2139

This is not ‘fine furniture”. LOL It is me learning how to do stuff and most will consider it junk.

It can be categorized as farmhouse style, ultra rustic, shabby chic or maybe even faux antique or a vintage reproduction/replica. Whatever it is, is 100% pine and cedar with the later being simple cheap cedar fence pickets that I have run through various degrees of the milling and distressing process and the former being 10” x 6’ pine boards that have been milled, cut and glued together in some places to create 12” shelves and a 16” top.

Even using cheap lumber, materials costs probably run in the ballpark of $400 with around $120 or so just for paint, some of which I didn’t even use and some I have significant leftovers of for future endeavors. I won’t even begin to guess how many hours I have working on this but it was a lot with most of those hours in the scorching Arizona summer heat.

With this being the third actual project other than building shop furniture and doing upgrades, I am still very much in the learning process and have relied heavily on tips and tricks from YouTube woodworkers/makers to learn things I wasn’t sure or didn’t know how to do.

Every tool in my shop, table saw, compound miter saw, jointer, planer, several different routers and multiple sanders along with many hand tools along with hella amounts elbow grease, sweat, tears, cuts, bruises and sore muscles not to mention confusion and being lost at times went into this thing. It is the most complicated and difficult thing I have ever tried to do and while it’s not perfect and a bit rough in places, I am quite pleased with what I have accomplished and will approach my next project with new and better skills and confidence.

Rather than post a bunch of pictures, I put them together in a short video.

Quote:Map Shows US States Where 'Deadly' Whooping Cough Rising

A deadly disease that mostly affects young children is on the rise in the U.S., health officials have warned.
Since 2020, whooping cough cases have increased exponentially. However, these reports have not been evenly spread across the country. "Whooping cough can cause serious and sometimes deadly complications," a spokesperson from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told Newsweek.
The disease, also known as pertussis, is a contagious respiratory illness caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis. These bacteria attach to the tiny hairs in our breathing tubes and release toxins that cause our airways to swell. While whooping cough may begin like a common cold, the resulting cough can last for weeks or even months.

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Quote:A father put his 3-year-old  daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Grandma and goodbye Grandpa."


The father asked, "Why did you say goodbye Grandpa?" The little girl said, "I don't know, Daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."
The next day grandpa died.  
The father thought it was a strange coincidence.

A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this: "God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and goodbye Grandma.

The next day the grandmother died.

"Holy Moly, " thought the father, "this kid is in contact with the other side."

Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say:

"God bless Mommy and goodbye Daddy.."

He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the Crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight, he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound.

Finally, midnight arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.

When he got home his wife said, "I've never seen you work so late, what's the matter?"

He said, "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life."

She said, "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me this morning. My golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson.

Freedom has been twisted, along with everything else we live by, in our modern day upside-down clown show. People have been so subjected to subliminal implants and propaganda that Freedom doesn't even truly exist anymore.

At least not in the minds of the people who are "free."

People's idea of freedom is the right to vote and thus force thier own opinions and ideologies on others. They believe that is freedom. The freedom to impose on others their own leaning views. They speak propaganda as their native tongue, all under the guise of free speech and their rights and freedoms. 

I had a conversation the other day with a young man. He was saying how driving was the greatest privilege in the world. He was saying how he won't be having a relationship with his cousin, because they didn't want a driver's license, and didn't want to drive. I asked the question: what if you and them had a few other things in common and had other interests you could bond over? The answer was a hard no. No, they wouldn't hangout or have any interest in having a relationship with the cousin because of how important driving (and cars) were to him. That driving was a great privilege, and so everyone should be driving, and that it was a part of our freedom. I asked, if it's our freedom to drive, isn't it our freedom to choose not to drive?

I got a resounding no.....then silence. (I just let it go)

I've had many conversations with Vietnam vets. The conversation always goes one of two ways, depending on how much war time was actually  fought, and if the person had gotten injured or not. Tunes change very quickly, if they'd seen real battle, and especially of they were badly injured. One thing I do hear a lot, though. I hear, "Every young man should have to serve at least X amount of years in the military. It would do them some good." (X is varying years)

North Korea implements this rule. Every young man "has to serve" 6 (or 10, I can't quite recall exactly at the moment) years in the military. 

I noticed how these people, who are American, believe in the same ideology as North Korean communism. I've always seen that rhetoric for exactly what it was. Communist propaganda. 

Religion. 

The folks who are the church loving religious types. These people bask in their freedom of religion. There is every spectrum and color of Christianity and churches out there in freedom land. Hundreds of different sects of religion, and they all love the freedom to express that religion in broad daylight, as they so choose.

But, try and open up a church of Satan and all of a sudden it's not okay to express your religious freedom. So long as your religion aligns with their's, it's okay. But oppose their ideology and its one sided "freedom."

This also resembles communistic ideology. (Imo)

Here's the kicker that always makes me laugh. On the matter of voting. I always here, "you have to vote." With a strong emphasis on this. If we have a right to vote, we have a right not to vote. Yet, somehow this angers those who are saying, "You have to vote." After they are finally convinced that, someone "doesn't have to" vote, you will usually hear, "If you dont vote, you don't have a ""right to complain."" (Notice a "right" was stripped; for exercising your own "freedom").

I'm good with not "complaining." I'm good with not arguing politics, as well. I had a guy tell me one time after this conversation, "You don't even have the right to speak about any of it, since you don't vote."

Wow...

As I have observed and listened to all these hypocrisies, and twisted ideas of freedom, and now that I'm old enough to truly be aware of what truth is, versus some manipulated version of it, I have come to realize that we don't even know the difference between freedom and communism anymore. 

The good news is, we don't have to worry about communist ideas ever taking over the minds of the citizens of freedom. 

Because, it already has¿

Not usually a topic I am interested in yet I found some of this interesting.

Quote:COMPILATION: The Science of Ghosts and Ghost Hunting A driver sees a strange light floating above an empty road at night. At the same time, a researcher works on a machine to contact the dead. These events might seem unrelated, but they're part of humanity's long-standing interest in the supernatural. People have always been curious about ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and the possibility of life after death. Even famous inventors like Tesla and Edison were interested in the paranormal. Their competition went beyond just creating new technologies - they also tried to build devices to communicate with spirits. Throughout history, people have reported seeing shadow figures during sleep and mysterious lights in the sky. These experiences push the boundaries of what we understand about the world. Scientists continue to study these phenomena, trying to find explanations. As we learn more about our past, we discover how closely linked science and the supernatural have always been. #GhostHunting #ParanormalScience #HauntedHistory