kenArchi wrote:
Who we at war with?
Ourselves?
That simple Statement is actually Profound...Remember during the Lockdown only Essential Workers went to work....Those Heroes were generally the People we take for granted making minimum wage or slightly more...if the Death Rate had been much much higher as it could be this Winter or in a Future P******c Essential Workers might stay home in fear, as might Hospital Workers and Law Enforcement, Water Treatment Workers, Electric and Gas Utility Workers, Food Production Workers, Truckers, etc...We take for Granted and don't realize how much we depend on each other....
They say the Grocery Stores have 3 Days worth of Food and the Average Family has about a week of Food...After multiple weeks or months without food Good People but Starving and Sick People will be ransacking the Cities before they move out into the Countryside...if our Government and the Country implodes....a Firearm is to Protect...
In the Paratroopers in the Mountains of the Central Highlands of Viet Nam during the Monsoon Season we were running Search and Destroy Missions when the weather socked us in and we could not get Helicopter Resupply....We went for three days without food the sides of my stomach felt like they had come together and were eating each other and on the fourth day when the Helicopters found us we had not blown an LZ with forty to fifty foot trees in the jungle and I heard my own Men grumble about shooting down our own Helicopters to get food....Finally they just dumped out the boxed cartons of C Rations and when they hit the jungle floor after bouncing through the trees they exploded with C Rations going everywhere...No One cared and We all got enough to eat and Re Supplied...
We live in a very Thin Veneer of Civilization,,,,and God Forbid if We all went a week or two or three without Food there is no doubt in my Mind that We would all K**l Each Other over a Candy Bar...
I once had an internet friend on one of the Gun Forums, one of his jobs in the nineteen eighties was to dispose of nuclear cold war materials the government had stockpiled...As I have been a Doomsday Prepper, I just consider it to be insurance, like house insurance, car insurance, health insurance, life insurance etc...I asked him did the government replenish and upgrade the stockpiled supplies on the Federal and/or State Level..and He said You had better to be prepared to take care of your Family and Yourself because the Government won't...With the Richest most Advanced Nation on Earth and the Worst C***d Outcome, You can see why people are worried and buying guns...but Firearms only provide Security and that is Critically Important, but People don't think about Non Hybrid Seeds, Hand Tools, a Water Supply, a Food Supply, Shelter, Timber for heat and building Supplies, Gardening and Farming and Livestock, Medical Supplies, Like Minded People with different and Critical Sk**l Sets, and a Defendable Perimeter....
I have the Nikon 1 V2 great little Camera, that 10-100 lens with the 2.7 crop factor is a 27-270 great little walk around lens...one inch sensor great pictures in good light....lot of noise in low light....
There is a subtle difference one set is more clear than the other, otherwise could not tell them apart, which might make for an even more interesting game !
Wow, So Spiritual and Beautiful.....Nice Work !!!
My Brother in Law was Driving and I was riding shotgun with the Wives in the back seat...I told my Brother in Law don't stop those Donkeys can be a Pest....So he stops and rolls down my Window a Donkey stuck his head inside and eats half my Bag of Popcorn...My Brother in Law dying Laughing pulled away with that Donkey with the most Insulted Look on its face....Yes He is still Alive and still my Brother in Law ! Great Photos !
Perfect Shots of a Great Little Bird !!!
Great Shot ! A nice Cooling Picture for a Hot July Day !
Lovely Sky Shots,,,When I get too busy,,,just have to look up to get lost for a while !
Great Photos, Have three feeders out, Wife and I love how they dive bomb us and the feeders and each other !
Those are Wonderful Photos !!! Great Drone Work !!!
I downloaded and enjoyed Every Photo....Wife and I are Birdwatchers....Wonderful Photos,,,it is interesting on shutter speed, at 3200 or higher can freeze detail, however at the lower shutter speeds detail on the eye and body of the bird, yet just enough blur on the wings for a Great Action Shot...and always having to work with available light....You did Great !!!
Those Photographs are Outstanding ! I never thought I would be interested in the Desert, now I am....