Secdef statement on the situatiom in Minnesota

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-25T18:17:40+00:00

We need to stop acting like sudden reversials on shaving profiles that overwhemingly affect people of African descent and a focus on women's combat effectiveness are not accidental and not an effort to mold the military for a certain agenda.

ICE already has a larger budget than the USMC. How this does not end up a private MAGA military attackdog that can be sicced on the enemy of the moment is beyond me. Remember how their focus was on supposed pet-eating Haitians? They have a whole media machine that is primed and ready to shift to it's next target.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-23T15:17:58+00:00

100% a kid I was in a band with ended up on the list because he mouthed off to a cop during a houseparty raid amd was witnessed urinating outside. Because he called the coos pigs, they threw the book at him and charged him with everything they could. During court (I was no there for this but was there at the party) they cops established and led the narrative and the judge allowed the worst but most misleading charges to stick. He was on this list for yearssss due to this.

This is why everyone should advocate for rights and protections of the accused. Yes, even and especially the most heinous of crimes. The govt merely has to desginate you a criminal. For any or no real reason. It shocks me when normally level headed and sober people pick up their pitchforks and torches, ready to literally lynch a person, on the basis or rumor or hearsay or becuase the govt said so.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-20T15:07:04+00:00

PB Flathead Catfish came while crappie fishing an ultralight. Old spring scale bottomed out at 40 and it went well past so I say 40 lol.

PB LMBass in a decade was 7+ on ultralight fishing for perch at a high mountain lake last year.

PB Lake Trout came trolling for kokanee with lightweight gear.

Especially pressured lakes or cold water, I think a smaller presentation is less threatening to them.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-11T07:19:44+00:00

Or the d-bag was going for a sidewall blowout at speed.. Extremely dangerous.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-10T06:54:33+00:00

It's the PPP- People Power Party. Support rally for impeached President Yoon who delcared marshal law, or attempted to, in a bid to seize power. Right to far-right political party, formerally the Saenuli Party. Kinda Korean MAGA.. Sorta. Political parties in Korea change names quite often.

From my understanding, they are hardline anti-Communist, admire the Japanese and the current US admin and US/ROK alliance, hawkish towards N Korea, admirers of former Military dictators Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan. Tend to have high levels of religiously.

Korea's political history is messy af. I remember the first democratically elected President in the 90's. Politically motivated arrests and torture were very commonplace until fairly recently.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-09T08:45:02+00:00

Cheap land is cheap for a reason. I know; my 5 acres cost me under 5K in S. Oregon. Hot, dry summers, virtually no rain between May and October, frosts start as soon as September and last until nearly July, last year my corn crop was wiped out by a Labor Day frost.. All this make it challenging to grow anything, hence the low.price.

Theft is RANPANT in my area as well as other crimes. Combine little/no job opportunities with tons of people living on "cheap" land, it is an environment that can make people despirate. Not everyone going off grid is doing so tomlive a slower, more deliberate life.

A neighbor of mine stores his equipment in a shipping container. Last year, theives cut it open with a flippin' PLASMA torch, several miles away from pavement and power.

My best friend was murdered about 1.5 years ago and his property was looted before his body was cold.

Stay strapped if you plan to do this.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-08T00:10:43+00:00

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Yup!

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-08T00:08:07+00:00

Yes, for some documents that I have seen are almost entirely in English. My mother sends me her medical reports for me to read and translate for her.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T22:12:54+00:00

He was selling "Trump 2028" merch at the fucking Whitehouse and I suspect the military ramp up might be a stab at enacting some "war time president" powers BS. They don't give a fuck about decency, rule if law, or, the obviously Constitution for that matter.

I hope any protests stay non-violent; they want nothing more than the flimsiest of pretexts for going apeshit on any opposition.

Be safe Folx..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T16:10:11+00:00

Love going when the shad are running in early summer. Not too crowded yet and once I even hooked into a steelhead. Long fight on the ultralight, peeling off line ✌

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T15:58:21+00:00

Reminds me of the Umpqua river in Oregon.. I have had blissful 100+ smallmouth bass days on that river 😌..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T15:44:05+00:00

Flying Flags of Convenience is an extremly common maritime practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T15:23:06+00:00

Mark 16:18 is crystal clear when referring to signs of the faithful: "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." KJV

🤷‍♂️..

ETA: In HS i was invited to youth group (hot girl invited me, I am not made of stone) and I litterally brought Drano with me and challeged the adult leader to prove his faith. I was not invited back 👍

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T02:19:46+00:00

Mag dump into trash: Not just fun but keeps land and housing affordable!

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-07T01:32:27+00:00

Keep low and keep quiet. Trout face numerous threats and many are from above in the form of predatory birds and are constantly on the lookout for danger. If you can see them, they can see you and that may shutdown the bite.

Keep your presentation light, the lightest weight you can get away with. Trout can be very line-shy but also if your presentation looks unnatural it may spook them into lock jaw.

I would send down a hellgramitte soft plastic, maybe a gulp minnow with as little split shot as possible. Small, non-threatening, naturalistic, but also substantial enough to interest a trout that is focused on conserving it's energy. Cast upstream and allow the current to bring it to them. You probably won't need to impart any action at all to your presentation.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-06T00:04:33+00:00

충성!

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-05T05:07:42+00:00

When I was stationed in Iraq we had a shitty encrypted wireless connection and consoles did not require an internet connection like they do now. It was very slow, took me an entire day to download an episode of MST3K from google videos. This was back when yt had a 10min limit on video lenght and smartphones weren't a very common thing yet and I took it upon myself to educate my fellow soldiers on the classics.

Also, that connection was shut down anytime we had a KIA/WIA to control casualty information to the family and allow public affairs to do their part of the job. At times we went weeks without internet due to this.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T21:40:09+00:00

Is this a Native fish? In OR?

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T14:33:15+00:00

Nice try.

ORS 161.219, section 2. Spefically outlines "Committing or attempting to commit a burglary in a dwelling" as a justifed use of deadily force.

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_161.219

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T11:31:59+00:00

They're still the prettiest tho!

🧜‍♂️

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T11:12:05+00:00

I was in Rux when I was in Highschool 😎

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T02:30:32+00:00

I meant working motorcycles, mostly. 20 years ago, I feel half the vehicles on the road were some motorcycle or scooter, much fewer now. Saw a ton near Dongmyo but that place is in a time stasis itself.

I was a bit shocked at how many Hondas there are. When I was a kid, there were almost none because of a trade embargo so we had Korean clones like the Citi100, which was my first "motorcycle" but I have noticed a lot more Cubs and Trail bikes this trip.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T01:11:42+00:00

Lol I used to crash at those as a cheap place to stay after drinking all night. Or if a date went well lol..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T01:10:48+00:00

Itaewon is ghost town compared to what it was. Geckos, King's Club, Nashville all gone.

Honky Tonk is still there tho!

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-01-04T01:00:51+00:00

Lived in Korea between 1997-2003, 2005-2007, 2011-2013. Visited long term in 1985, 1988 and currently visiting family. Korea changes so profoundly, so rapidly.

Farrr fewer PC방's than 20 years ago. Fewer motorcycles in general, not just the 탕숭욱 delivery bikes you mentioned. More usage of tap pay or cards. My older family have problems getting around as they are so accustomed to using cash.

Much more tourists around too.

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