This cover-up and disavowal by our government of those who carried out America's secret  missions should say something to all who have and will serve. 

We flew with no Dog Tags or any I.D. in Laos and thought we were hot stuff instead of thinking we were dumb shits !! 

Vietnam had fallen and I was taking a piss at Langley AFB when a General officer came in and told me there was going to be a big Reduction in force (RIF) .... He wanted to know if I wanted to stay in the service or get out as he could insure I would not have to leave the service.. I told Bob when Nam fell I hung up my guns. He said he understood.....

I felt as far as doing some governments bidding in a faraway land those days were over for me. I got out in 7/77 after refusing an offer to go down south and fly fixed and rotary wing aircraft for uncle sugar's black project ( I assume Iran Contra) and never looked back. I wasn't bitter I just knew better after watching all the government's broken promises to those who helped and worked for us in Vietnam and my many friends that were dying from agent Orange exposure.. Most continued to die with no government assistance. Bickel had just turned 40 when his nails started turning to mush and then his liver a Kidneys failed; it was not a pretty or cheap death. I had helped to get him a job with our airline; he was a good guy not because he died but because he was a good father and husband. Not sure but I believe his kid died early (a few years later) from a birth defect.
 
The government and all those high morals they want us to believe in are a one way street; for when the going gets tough the bastards will cut and officially run .... just look at history... 



Bickel flew helicopters spraying Agent Orange

I've finally committed to trying a personal AI assistant that is restricted to my computer system and network. One that I can customize and tailor to my system. Free download at the Microsoft Store. To be honest, I've been using Grammarly to check what I write, and technically, that is an AI app.

Local AI Assistant by Software Tailor (HK) Limited

Quote:Description
Local AI Assistant is an advanced, offline chatbot designed to bring AI-powered conversations and assistance directly to your desktop without needing an internet connection. Installed and run locally on Windows (requires Microsoft .Net Desktop Runtime and Microsoft VC++ Runtime, both downloadable free), this app provides a fully self-contained AI experience, ensuring total privacy and data security by keeping all interactions on your device. Built for businesses, students, and individual users alike, LocalGPT is ideal for generating insights, ideas, or engaging in natural language interactions without worrying about data privacy or network requirements.

Features
Microsoft Phi-3 Model-Powered AI: Experience the power and sophistication of the Microsoft Phi-3 model locally, optimized for high-quality conversations and responses without requiring internet access
Full Offline Functionality: No internet connection is needed to operate LocalGPT, guaranteeing 100% privacy and usability even in offline environments.
Data Privacy and Security: All interactions and data processing are conducted locally, ensuring your data remains private and is never transmitted outside your device.
Advanced Natural Language Understanding: The Phi-3 model excels at understanding complex questions and generating coherent, contextually relevant responses.
Instant Responses: Enjoy near-instant response times as the app operates directly from your device, with no network delays or interruptions.
Context Retention: The chatbot retains context within conversations, allowing for smoother and more natural multi-turn interactions.
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I don't think it will come as a shock to anyone following his appearance at "The end" show a few weeks ago but today sad news has broken that Ozzy Osbourne has succumb to the ailments that have plagued him over the last few years , a constant through my teenage years and throughout adulthood Ozzy played a big part in my musical life and will be sadly missed. 

Quote:It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love.

We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.
 
Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis
https://x.com/OzzyOsbourne/status/194773...gr%5Etweet

This story fascinate me , full credit to Jason Wilde who write this :

Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108


"So I keep going back to why UAP and NHI don't land and just walk out and say something… so what if it's because they’re not here for us at all?


Most have assumed this whole time that we’re the main characters they want. That when the craft appear, the beings inside must be trying to reach us. But what if we're just witnesses to someone else's meeting? What if the lights in the sky, weird shit in the woods, the bizarity that could be beneath the ocean... are signals not for humanity, but for another intelligence already here. Maybe older than us, deeper than us, and entirely uninterested in our awareness? Think Apkallu and Oannes...Naga....or even something else more exotic ... and not the whales from Star Trek!!


The craft don’t respond to radio. They don’t honor our airspace. They slip between dimensions like it's nothing, hover above forests, oceans, and remote mountain ranges; and vanish. Maybe not to hide. But to avoid us. Because we’re not the ones they’re talking to. The truth might be far more wild: they could be meeting another species, one that’s hidden beneath our feet or deep inside our oceans. Something the ancients remembered as gods, devas, serpents, or watchers. Beings who never left. Beings who still operate here, unseen. They wrote about all of this.


Maybe sightings aren’t mistakes. They’re ritualistic visits. Scheduled interactions per se. Not invasions, not greetings or UN summits. And us, hairy bastards scrambling for disclosure, aren’t part of the conversation. We’re the noise on the periphery. The ants near the camera lens. So what's the real message? It’s not for us. Maybe It never was. We’re just eavesdropping on a conversation we were never invited to, and if we ever truly understood what we were watching... we may wish we hadn’t."

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It will be close to Earth 2029 , 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) . The size is about Eiffel tower or Empire State Building and it will enter our orbital neighborhood .

The Moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away from Earth.

If something would happen , so that it  would deviate 13,000 kilometers closer ....it would enter the Roche limit where Earth’s gravity would start breaking it .If it enter about to 18,000 km it could hit Earth.


Sure, they say no danger....that it cant hit Earth . But i dont think we can be 100% sure can we.

God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more years


Just small deviation, and that asteroid could potentially reach the Roche limit.....what if other asteroid would hit  Apophis, changing the direction ?

Quote:There is a slim but overlooked risk that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis could hit Earth as it makes a super close approach to our planet in 2029, a new study reveals. The odds of such a calamitous collision are more than one-in-a-billion — but we won't be able to rule it out for at least three more years.

Quote:But large asteroids like Apophis can be nudged off course by impacts from smaller asteroids, similar to how NASA's DART mission successfully redirected the asteroid Dimorphos by smashing a spacecraft into it in 2022. Researchers have previously warned that this could be a possibility with Apophis over the next five years, potentially bumping the city-killer onto a collision course with Earth.

In the new study, published Aug. 26 in The Planetary Science Journal, astronomer Paul Wiegert — an expert in solar system dynamics at Western University in Canada — calculated the odds of such a scenario happening and found that while it was extremely unlikely, it is still possible.

Quote:In March, Weigert was part of a similar study assessing the risk of Apophis being deflected by any known asteroids and found that there was "zero chance" of this happening. However, at the time, the researchers did warn that there was still a chance that an undiscovered asteroid could collide with Apophis.
But we will have to wait until 2027 to find out if Apophis has been knocked off course because it is currently out of sight due to its close proximity to the sun. When it does reappear, astronomers will be better able to calculate the odds of potential change of course between then and 2029, Weigert wrote.

Oleksandr Usyk came into the ring already holding the WBO, WBC and WBA belts to face Britain's Daniel Dubois who held the IBF belt Usyk had previously vacated , at Wembly Stadium last night Usyk stopped Dubois in the 5th round to regain the IDF belt and become the undisputed Heavy weight Champion of the World for the second time.

Following this victory Usyk remains undefeated in his 24 fight professional career , 15 wins by knockout / 5 by decision.
Commiserations to Daniel Dubois but like his Country the Ukrainian is unstoppable.

Post fight interview.

CERN isn’t just about smashing particles. From Shiva statues to wild internet theories, it’s become a magnet for conspiracies. Did the world end in 2012? Are scientists messing with dimensions they don’t understand? This episode dives headfirst into the rabbit hole to find out what’s really going on at the world’s most powerful scientific facility.

If you need 30 minutes of entertaining give Terror Ted's Tales a watch...

The building 7 collapse and the government explanation is still being called B.S. by those who are supposedly in the know.  

Quote:It's been clear to anyone paying attention for any length of time that airplanes didn't bring down the Twin Towers, and they certainly didn't bring down building seven. It's clear to the firefighters on the ground, the 156 of them that have gone on the record to say what they witnessed that day had nothing to do with airplanes bringing those buildings down.

When the news of Kiki (DEA) being captured and tortured for 30 hours I remember just how pissed that made me.

Quote:The United States has quietly deployed over 100 agents on the ground inside Mexico operating out of a network of 11 offices strategically located near border towns. From here they lead kill or capture missions against the worst cartel bosses. Why is that we never hear about this? Because these aren’t special forces soldiers, it's foreign stationed American civilian agents from the DEA, FBI and CIA. These covert missions are conducted with full approval and invitation of the Mexican government to work in partnership on their soil.

Oh boy!  Here's an opportunity to tell some real "whoppers" for fish tales.  I have a couple of fun ones, both true.  Probably two of my greatest fishing stories.  I have spent many, many, years as a fisherman, and even thought of going Pro for a while when I was younger.  So, some pretty solid fishing background and experiences.  Ironically, both of these stories happened within a week of each other too!...(Pretty unusual, as fishing stories go).  Both stories took place in southern Florida on the Gulf side (where I did a fair amount of my serious fishing).  The location for both of these stories was Marco Island, which was then considerably less populated than it is now (much of the island was just old fishing villages, with a modern kind of ritzy section being built).  Now it's a thriving metropolis.

The first story begins with a fishing contest me and my buddy, Todd, used to enter on an annual basis.  We both consistently placed in this contest, and even won a few championships between us.  We were both very competitive (with each other).  This particular contest was sponsored by a big fishing tackle and commercial fishing supply place, and they generally had some pretty nice prizes (i.e. expensive tackle, cash prizes and high-end gear).  They generally had multiple categories you could enter, and I generally always entered the saltwater contest in three fish categories, Snook, Redfish, and Grouper.  I was a pretty good Snook fisherman at the time, so I could usually plan on catching at least one good sized Snook.  The rules were (3) fish, and you could have any combination of fish in the (3) categories.  Each category was judged by size and weight in that category (or class), and then you also entered a total combined weight across all (3) classes...but only (3) fish max.  The contest ran for 7 days and you could bring an entry on any of the days, BUT once you entered a fish you couldn't 'un-enter' it and substitute a bigger/different fish.  Again, (3) fish total.

Days 1 -3:  Normally, I always caught fish, but then the question became should I enter that fish or try for a bigger one?  On the first three days I got totally skunked!  Aside from junk fish, or species outside the classes, I had 'zippo' at the end of day #3 (this was really rare for me).  

Day 4:  Changed some tactics (and tackle) and caught several fish before Noon.  Most were small Snook which I had to cut loose.  (18" min. legal size).  Then I boated a Redfish and a Snook which were both keepers, but nothing special.  I knew, at very best, neither of these fish would probably place (based on past experience...the competition was pretty intense, as you were up against local guides and everyone else).  After a few minutes of deliberation I decided to toss both in the fish locker and keep them, to fillet out the Redfish and eat it, and I'd take a chance on entering the Snook.

Day 5:  Nothin!  Wow!  A couple small ones, no keepers and a complete zippo for the day!  Checked in with my buddy (and a couple others I knew); everyone was struggling.  At least I didn't feel so bad.

Day 6:  Nothing in the morning.  Then I caught a good sized Grouper when I decided to hit a man made reef offshore for a while to break up the pace.  Grouper, being quite a bit bigger, was still good sized.  12 lbs as I recall.  He was going in the locker for sure and would be entered.  This was really unusual for me, because normally I'd have all (3) fish as Snook and they'd be turned in already (and this had been my goal up to this point).  Well, I wasn't having any results at all with Snook (or Redfish, which I didn't fish a lot anyway), so thought I should focus on Grouper.  That was it for day #6.  Turned in the Grouper and found out someone had turned in one bigger than my fish already (dammit!).  

Day 7:  Final day.  Time to put up, or shut up; the heat was on.  My buddy Todd had entered the freshwater category, so the whole time I was out on the boat, he was onshore fishing for Bass (and two other fish, which I forget).  Fished up until about 2pm.  I was fried to a crisp, as I'd been out all (7) days.  I was really about ready to call it a day.  5pm was the deadline.  I was done, and wasn't going to even place.  Decided to try this one last spot I knew of in the Marco River Channel.  There was a hole in this channel and if there were fish (at all) they were generally big, and often Grouper.  All of a sudden I snagged both lines big-time.  I was hung up bad.  This tackle was kind of expensive, so I didn't want to lose it.  I'd finish my day trying to get un-snagged.  That was UNTIL...my "snag" started to move!  No way could this be a fish.  I figured maybe I'd hooked a manatee or something, but it was pretty deep for a manatee (about 30').  It was definitely moving.  Holy crap!  Long story short...it was indeed a fish.

Got the fish up to the boat, and it was a Goliath Grouper, and it was WAY too big to get in the boat myself!  Now what??  Running out of time.  I didn't know exactly how big this fish really was, but he was a monster!  I managed to get a rope through his mouth and out his gills on one side and tied him off to the stern cleat.  Time was running out.  I would have to go very slow if I was going to pull this off, but I managed to get him to the Marco River Marina which was the closest place I had any hope of getting this fish out of the water.

Once out of the water and hanging from the scale, he weighed in a 397 lbs!!  No lie either!  Had to call the contest place and tell them I had this fish.  By this time the Miami Herald had showed up along with a pretty big crowd.  Some quick checks and I was 75 lbs short of a Florida State Record fish (bummer), but he was still a bomber!  Unless someone had caught another one like him, the contest would be in the bag.  

The contest folks sent someone to the marina to verify the catch.  Won the contest, hand's down, got my picture in the Miami Herald and even sold the fish to a local restaurant who had shown up.  Didn't take the State Record, but still, biggest fish I ever caught in Florida...by far!  Won a bunch of cool stuff in the contest (which was nice), and best of all...blew my buddy, Todd, out of the water!!

True story too, folks!

My 2nd story isn't about a big fish, nor an even particularly notable fish; it's just the story of catching it (sort of).  ...

(to be continued in Part II (next))  
(Note - It will be interesting to see if my next post "merges" with this one as a single post, or if it shows up separately).