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Don’t find much I disagree with.

Right now China is pushing into the South China Sea claiming most of it as territorial waters. The Philippines and Vietnam are most impacted. And as of last year, China has the world’s largest navy, and can cover most the South China Sea with their new generation of anti ship missles. Not a good scenario for the US Navy and one causing heartburn at the Pentagon. It has nothing to do with Guerrilla movements the Old PRC sponsored. This is pure military expansion. Is it worth the US getting into a major war over? Biden is making a lot of noise supporting Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The question is; Is it our fight or not? Especially one we could suffer major naval losses in? It is compounded by the fact that currently China has three times the ship building capacity the US does, and has been churning out warships at a prodigious rate. They could replace their losses a lot faster then we could. As compared to WW2 with Japan, this time the shoe is on the other foot.We are now playing catchup to the Chinese in anti ship missle technology as well. Our concern with the mideast caused us to take our eye off the ball. Unless China backs down we may have to decide if it is worth a war or not.

I laugh at that too because you can bet Russia spent time and resources getting that film accomplished. I have nothing against Russians or Chinese, but it is pretty clear both Putin and Xi want to displace the U.S as the top dogs in the world. Now putting ego aside, that may be for the best, if it happened, but I kind of doubt it. I think we better figure out what the new world order will be before it comes to a shooting war, because it would be the world’s best three armies going at it, not some radical groups. Think World War 2 type of potential damage. Including the United States. It is time for us to quit being the world’s policeman. The Ukraine needs to learn to live with Russia and the Philippines and Vietnam need to learn to live with China. And Russia, China and the US need to work out an agreement that keeps things relatively stable.

China is the big problem no doubt in more ways than one. We will be at war with them and Russia within 10 years if not sooner. They were planning for it all the while we were distracted in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. When that starts climate changenwill be an afterthought.

Well I have tried this out a couple of times. It works slick. Will be camping with it in the near future. Got my pirtable outdoor kitchen set up.

I was yelling for people to do this when the Pandemic started. I ordered a side, got it within a month, and by then my butcher was a year out on orders. I just ordered a whole beef as I am buying for my son and nephew as well for September delivery. JT is correct that it is a huge investment to start. And getting tougher to do as finding help is difficult. I thank my lucky stars I have known this butcher for 30 years and consider him a friend. He and his wife are doing it alone now because they can’t find good help. Fortunately I am on his list as an old and valued customer. The brother in law of my propane guy raises the beef and does a great job, the quality is much better then what you get in chain stores. I do the same with a commercial fisherman up here so I get three kinds of locally caught fish. The healthy way to buy and eat.

So a 2016 thread. What new technology in headlamps in the last five years?

Learned something. A 2 stroke backpack leaf blower in half an hour releases more hydrocarbons then a Ford F150 driven from Florida to Alaska.Worst polluting implement made for its size by far. Got an excuse not to use mine.

Had to go go Minneapolis yesterday to honor and say goodbye to an old friend who is my son's Godfather. It was 100F I roasted to death. Got back to Superior at 6 pm, it was 62F. That Lake protects us from temperatue extremes year around.

Thank God for Superior. Otherwise we would be 92F.

Welcome Bruce. Still in Minnesota? Lived there for 50 years before becoming a cheesehead.

After seeing this I had to get in on the action. I got this on closeout to add to my trailer kit.

I noticed that. Might be right.

This was reposted on the Wisconsin Outdoor News Facebook page. I do not know the originator. Always inspect your ammo. Even new. I posted this on my hog hunters group. Seemed it caught a lot of attention. For all of you out buying ammo? The two pictures are a recent purchase at a walmart. After purchasing the ammo it was noticed that the neck was cracked on one of the shell casings. So every round was inspected and 13 out of 60 of the shells had cracked necks. This isnt walmarts fault. This is the fault of the new manufacturer of remington ammo since post bankruptcy purchase. Vista outdoors purchased Remington ammunition post bankruptcy and seems to have no quailty control. Please check your ammo before purchasing. A cracked shell casing will cause the firearm to exploded and cause severe injury..even death. Just wanted to pass along this info. A lot of first time gun buyers out there and dont know what a danger this is! Please inspect your ammo!

🇺🇸 Amen great pictures.

With my paws that “shelf” would be in the middle of my palm.

Not real thick, I like it to crisp up.

Home smoked bacon for breakfast. Why do I even bother with the store bought stuff?

Figuring something out for this year.

Sweet! Range time with a good rifle is good for the soul.

Outstanding!

I got there. I got the warning from my Doc: “keep going and You will have type 2 Diabetes”. So two weeks ago I cut out bread, potatoes, sugar, and most processed foods. Animal protein, leafy vegetables, vegetables, nuts, peanut butter, coffee, water and sparkling water are the only things I eat now. Dropped 11 pounds in a week. Thank God I can still eat meat.

I waded through a mile of brush to find this place in 1987. Glad I did.Didn’t have a neighbor within a mile for the first four years. Now it is a suburban development and all the wildlife has moved out. Still have views though. This is the Coast Guard dropping the navigation Buoy Tuesday.

Well done Grasshopper!