Mad John Boyd - A Sunday Sermon

 

Because this is a military blog, we have to ask, have you heard of Colonel "Mad John" Boyd? He was a fighter pilot in the Korean war, flying Sabres, then went on to become a "Top Gun" instructor and more than that, a tactician who wrote on aerial warfare and a strategist whom some liken to Sun Zhu or Clausewitz. Others disagree.

Regardless, he was hated by the military establishment of his day and never made General, doubtless because he called out paper-pushing, careerist, establishment cipher drones for what they were, paper-pushing, careerist, establishment cipher drones.

He had, apparently, a "fork in the road" speech which he invariably delivered to the people who worked with him. You have a choice, you can go this way and get promotion, money and all of that, or you can go that way and do something for your country and Air Force at the expense of preferment. Free will, you see, be somebody or do something:

“And you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go.” He raised his hand and pointed. “If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.” Then Boyd raised his other hand and pointed another direction. “Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?”

There you have it, that's the sermon.

Boyd's credited, with others, of transforming the US Military into the force which triumphed on the battleground in the Gulf. No small thing. What would he think about our preparedness today and, more importantly, would such a man even be allowed in the gilded corridors of our beloved Pentagram Pentagon.

Thanks, Wild, for the tip and God Bless,

LSP

All Hail The Phantom

 

This isn't a military blog, far from it, more of a family thing, but all hail the Phantom. Just a shot away? You be the judge.

What a plane.

Your Buddy,

LSP

Recce

 

After a hearty and delicious men's breakfast at Mission #2 I drove 'round the corner to Lake Whitney's dam spillway for a recce. What would the fish be doing? Answer. Nothing at all because the water had turned into a kind of murky, algae bloom disaster.

Fair play, there  were a couple of turtles, but the whole thing looked like a fishing eschaton, so I turned the rig 'round and headed for home, for the Compound. So, that was that and seriously, I've never seen the water look this way over the past 15 years.

clean the dam floor, LSP

Clearly someone's forgotten to pay their Weather Tax.

Ad Solem,

LSP

DFTR

 

Feel it's right to post this again.

See you at the Club,

LSP

So We've Come To This

 

What are we, a banana republic, where we lock up opposition to the ruling Party? Something like that except we're not a republic any more, which makes us a banana; don't say reserve currency and BRICS. In the meanwhile, Trump turned himself in to the Fulton County jail for a mugshot.

Here's ZeroHedge:

What to make of this mugshot? Serious as a heart attack? I’d hate to be you on that fateful day? Table turner? Energy shift? Game on? Daddy’s in da house? Good career move? You can run but you can’t hide? Please, Br’er Fox, don’t fling me in that-there briar patch…

 

All this while we're fighting a brink of WWIII proxy war with Russia; we're clearly living in an age of clownshow, demonic insanity. Check out some sober analysis from Col. MacGregor and Tucker. Via LL:

Ep. 18 Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now. pic.twitter.com/a3bGLvJC4s

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 21, 2023

Word to the wise, don't underestimate Russia. That said, part of me feels and maybe it's more than a feeling, that our beloved rulers are fueling war to cover up their crimes, which are significant. But let's not forget ideology, that's present too, we must protect the rainbow project at all costs. With the Army. Good looking out, fools.

How many of our young soldiers would give their lives for GloboHomo? Seriously, I'm going to die so that my kids can get sex change surgery and watch drag queen strip shows, all the while living in a pod and eating bugs for digital tokens. Said no young soldier ever.

You get the point, I won't bang on, though tempted.

Never Surrender,

LSP

 

Urban Hellholes

 

it was bad then

Everyone here knows it but many choose to ignore it; Europeans can scarcely comprehend much less believe it, but our major cities are urban wasteland hellholes. Seriously, I'd email pals in the UK from Detroit in '98 and I don't think they believed me. 

No, fools. The urban, asset-stripped carnage of the Motor City seemed like hyperbole, mind blogging perhaps to them, wild exaggeration. But no, I was pulling punches. Here's Detroit:

And here's Philly:

Beautiful, isn't it. Here's Chicago:

But what about Baltimore?

And let's not forget the nation's Capitol, DC:

But perhaps you're wondering what happened to Gary Indiana:

And on, and on, and on.  Everywhere you look our cities are decaying into urban, hellhole wastelands. It's America's dirty little secret if you like, but not to worry, we have trans bathrooms, rainbow hurray! 

That aside, do you think the outward and visible reflects the inward and spiritual?

Just asking.

Strawberry Fields Forever,

LSP

The Feast of St. Bartholomew

 

Today's the Feast of St. Batholomew, Apostle and Martyr. In John's Gospel he's known as Nathaniel, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." (Jn 1:47) Tradition has it that he preached the Faith to heathen Armenian, where he was flayed. But his work wasn't in vain, St. Gregory the Illuminator baptized Armenia's king, Dertad, in 302 AD, and the country claims to be the first Christian state.

Here's a prayer:

O ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who didst give to thine Apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and preach thy Word; Grant, we beseech thee, unto thy Church, to love that Word which he believed, and both to preach and receive the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

St. Bartholomew, pray for us and for the conversion of our wicked and Godless state. Be sure as you do that the gates of Hell shall not prevail.

Faithfully,

LSP

Sugaree

 

What a band. Please disregard Bob Weir's shorts in other videos, a terrible indiscretion. Speaking of which, I knew a couple of nuns who used to dance at the Fillmore, before being nuns, obvs. One of them, all very Habit and no kidding, denied this, like Peter in the face of further questioning, we were on a Retreat. 

"Hey now, sister, in a gadda da vida, eh?" pause, "No, I was never there." Eagle-eye glance, "But last night you said you had been, what changed?" Who knows, good question. Her Mother Superior was transparently holy, seriously, and if she went to Woodstock it didn't matter.

See you at the Laager,

LSP

PS. Are you watching the bogus GOP Primaries? I'm not, I choose to stand against the GloboHomo NWO.

Elections Are Bad For Democracy

 

Elections Are Bad For Democracy, opines the repellent NYT in a witty, Ivy League, condescending, smug, mendacious Op Ed. Perhaps that's harsh, the author argues that our current system encourages narcissistic power-heads to seek office. Why? So they can get rich off having power over you. Here's a concluding snapshot, Adam Grant's arguing for an Athenian lottery viz. electors:

A lottery would give a fair shot to people who aren’t tall enough or male enough to win. It would also open the door to people who aren’t connected or wealthy enough to run. Our broken campaign finance system lets the rich and powerful buy their way into races while preventing people without money or influence from getting on the ballot. They’re probably better candidates: Research suggests that on average, people who grow up in low-income families tend to be more effective leaders and less likely to cheat — they’re less prone to narcissism and entitlement.

 

Fair play, our governance is clearly broken, so let's get rid of Dominion, yes, they call themselves that, voting machines and do it all by chance and draw. Would things be better or worse? Hardly either which way, the same unelected satrapy being in control of the vast organism that is the secular super state.

Regardless, the optics are telling, don't you think, and how many of you are going to vote in the next totally free and fair election?

Your Old Monarchist Pal,

LSP

Royal Family

 

Your Old Pal,

LSP

Do Not Comply

 

Do you remember COVID? How we were all supposed to stay indoors, keep 6' "social distancing" when we managed to get outside and had to wear masks when we did? 

Yes, the same masks which their Made in China boxes said were of no use at all against influenza. Not unlike the experimental vaccines which everyone had to take at the risk of their lives or jobs. Sure you remember, we all do, and it looks like the Bat Bug's back.

Thanks to newly discovered mutated strains of the lab grown, Fauci funded, not-so-killer virus, like Eris and BS 1.5, our beloved rulers in the White House are urging another round of booster shots. Get those booster jabs, serfs, or Pfizer, Moderna & Co. will run out of money and Big Pharma won't be there to look after you and you'll all die.

Or something like that. On cue, National Treasure Alex Jones tells us whistleblower sources have discovered the Biden Administration plans to roll out COVID restrictions on Federal workers in the Fall, such as masking, vaxxing and distancing. All this by way of going full throttle Covid freakout in time for the next election. Hey, if you can do it once, why not again and again and again. Said the boy who cried wolf.

That in mind, #DoNotComply is trending on the time sink formerly known as Twitter and I'm in sympathy. You, of course, will disagree. We must trust our Inside-the-Beltway Rainbow Overlords because they want what's best for us, as do their alchemical Viziers.

I'm reminded of taking a friend to hospital in Fort Worth on election day 2020 where we had to put on those stupid masks. I checked in at the perspex defended nurses' station and matronly Ms. Scrubs stared at my not-over-the-nose maskery. "It's really good," she announced with that healthcare, educate toddler condescension we so despise and hate, "that you're protecting yourself, but shouldn't you protect everyone else?"

Resisting the heady temptation to dial in a trebuchet strike against the Science, I pulled up the idiotic mask and off we went. Today? Not so inclined. I say again, boy who called wolf, and that's putting it mildly.

#DoNotComply,

LSP

Ain't No God In Mexico

 

Well there is, but whatever, rock on.

Your Old Country Friend,

LSP