Perhaps its just me but with all the negative information finally making its way out of the government condoned cloud of censorship ….. (regarding how legal citizens have been betrayed for years by politically corrupted individuals operating within government positions, departments, agencies, bureaus, districts, etc. who utilize the power and authority of those government entities to wrongfully dismiss, silence, victimize etc all who voice opposition to the radical left agenda for America) …… even small DIY (Do It Yourself) accomplishments can help take the sting out of an administration gone mad – even if only momentarily distracting from the evil currently misdirecting and consuming OUR COUNTRY and HER CITIZENS. Yup, I do indeed pay attention to what is happening under this CROOKED ADMINISTRATION, compliments of a STOLEN ELECTION, but it can get really depressing and frustrating…..thus the old expression: IGNORANCE IS BLISS. Who worries when they don’t even know what there is to worry about?

[Psst… if you are not watching OAN you’re not getting the full story. And if you watch CNN and the like you’re only getting the radical left disinformation, but enough about that depressing stuff – this post is about a carburetor project and although certainly not “bliss”, digging into that carburetor problem was not only educational and wonderfully distracting – but hopefully rewarding as well if I can get that ATV running again.]

MIKUNI E961 CARBURETOR PROJECT

Unfortunately I failed to get a good photo of the original jet in its recessed carburetor tube housing but can assure you the soft brass screw head was “booger’d up” (slang term for “damaged beyond use”) pretty bad with no recognizable slot for THE CORRECT SIZED flat blade screwdriver. [Oh yeah, a carburetor “jet” is most often just a small threaded brass component with a specific sized hole that permits either fuel or air to enter the carburetor for mixing and eventual combustion in the engine. Just a tiny speck of material that gets into the carburetor can clog a jet making the engine run in an undesirable way if it runs at all. The reason inline fuel filters are so important. The yellow object at “5 o’clock” in the below photo is the fuel filter.]

BELOW: There she is (carburetor) – center of image with the ATV seat removed and looking down.

When I received the ATV it hadn’t been run for a year or so and everything in the carburetor was varnished and clogged due to fuel remaining in the system for so long. (Fuel had apparently leaked and/or eventually evaporated away.) I recall cleaning the carburetor and preparing to replace the jets but after cleaning them up realized they appeared to be OK – that is all but the pilot jet which had a damaged brass head making removal at the time likely impossible without some risky work I had never performed.

Since the primary objective at the time was to just get the engine running again, I decided to leave that one jet alone for the time being and focus on other necessities in getting the engine started with ultimate success.

FAST FORWARD YEARS LATER…..the carburetor was beginning to act up a bit on the last high desert adventure but I was able to keep it working satisfactorily but when I returned home to Don Pedro and started hauling broken tree branches from a recent storm, well, on the first trip the vehicle made it downhill but could not make it back up. Ultimately I could not even start the engine. (Strange….. could that month at a 3,800′ higher elevation have affected the problem somehow? Why did it work until getting back to the home elevation to protest and quit? Perhaps the elevation difference really doesn’t matter at all, and was just a coincidence?) Whatever! Engine wouldn’t start and everything pointed to the carburetor.

“No problem (My aging senior brain offered in optimistic response) just clean the carburetor and replace anything that appears broken or too worn.”

TEMP FIX OUTLASTED MEMORY OF THE EVENT

Funny how those “temporary fixes” often become permanent until the “temporary'” aspect fails long after the memory of its “temporary installation”. [Actually performed another “temporary fix” last night with some J-B Weld on a pinhole in the carb float bowl. Saw a small spot of rust from both inside and outside the bowl in the same location during cleaning and suspected a micro hole due to stains on the surrounding metal. My first thought was J-B WELD and after some research on this particular application decided on this fix verses drilling it out and tapping with a small screw. So I aggressively cleaned the rust out then applied a dab of J-B Weld on the outside – this time also including some notes and photos of the “temp fix”. Who knows what I remember when this “temp fix” fails or if I’ll still be operating myself? Leave the information for the next owner! lol]

BELOW: YET ANOTHER TEMP FIX! I didn’t want to place any epoxy inside the bowl so put a good dab of J-B Weld on the cleaned outside area. The hole underneath this “glob” was less than the diameter of a fine pencil lead – truly a “pin point hole”.

TAKE OUT THE JETS FOR CLEANING

Naturally once the carb was opened up that old “put off until tomorrow project” reared its ugly “JET HEAD”. There was no slot for a screw driver! Just a mangled brass head. Wasn’t until I found the box with old and new ATV parts and some notes that I recalled the Pilot Jet problem when the machine and I first met. Found a brand new pilot jet in the box also so the only problem was – how to get the old one out? I knew the basics regarding broken screw heads – drilling them out and using a reverse extractor, but that was in relation to regular sized construction screws – considerably larger than these small brass (soft metal) fuel/air metering jets. I was apprehensive as to whether I could successfully perform such work – because if I failed the carb would be nothing more than an interesting paper weight or source for cannibalized parts after buying a new one which is VERY EXPENSIVE. (If the drill bit cut through the side of the jet it would damage the carburetor threads and if drilled through the bottom would damage the seat – either way a messed up and lost carburetor.)

BELOW: December 27th 2021 Successfully drilled out broken PILOT JET with reverse drill bit! (Extractor could not get a good bite for removal) No! That’s not blood on the drill bit only red magic marker to assist in NOT RUINING THE CARB by drilling too deep! lol

BELOW: FINALLY! The extracted damaged jet compared with a new one.

OH, THE LIME? That was for the celebration of the personal accomplishment in removing my first stuck carb jet!
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do believe I have injured my shoulder with all the excessive self actuated “pats on the back”! lol

BELOW: New Pilot Jet installed (Large brass Jet is the Main (needle) and next to it on right is the Pilot Jet – recessed in the round carb housing tube. The far right recessed silver screw (outside carb when float bowl is reinstalled over the the Main and Pilot Jet) is the pilot air jet or idle jet adjustment screw.

I proceeded deeper into the carburetor this time (since the first extremely cautious cleaning) and discovered an “O ring” on the the float needle assembly seat had apparently dissolved through the years which is the apparent reason I had to shut off fuel from the tank for prolonged periods of non use to prevent flooding the float bowl and having fuel possibly enter the crankcase – VERY BAD! The assembly was also missing a hidden fuel screen that is often overlooked during cleaning. (Thank Heavens for these DIY videos on YouTube – but like everything else – research is everything. Learn as much as you possibly can and then choose an approach that makes the most sense.)

Now I wait for some other crucial parts to continue the journey on reviving the ATV. Even if the entire project fails for one reason or another (and I have to purchase a new carb) I am still quite pleased with overcoming my fear and tackling the broken jet problem.

BONUS! What is especially exciting about this recent project (and new knowledge accumulated – or in the alternative relearning stuff long forgotten) is that a choke problem I have had for years (with an otherwise well functioning engine) is very common … The choke had to be engaged for proper idling AFTER ENGINE START UP – whereas it (the choke) is traditionally only operated to furnish extra fuel during a cold start). I knew something was wrong but it always started and ran well so I dismissed the issue as something to deal with later. Well, now is later.

TO THE INTERNET ROBIN!……. ATVs, UTVs, motorcycles, other internal combustion vehicles…. there were many articles and videos on

“Why must my choke be on full for the engine to run properly?”

Anyone care to take a wild guess what the answer is to this common carburetor problem?

(music and ticking clock background…..)

YES! A CLOGGED PILOT JET IN THE CARBURETOR!

TOSS THAT VIEWER A MANGLED MEMENTO PILOT JET ! lol

(Ah oh…. Just remembered…. I have a generator doing the same thing with it’s choke! Maybe just a good cleaning will work on that one?)

My best to you and yours, Lew

In this picture taken on May 11, 2017, a drone flies in the showroom of the DJI headquarters in Shenzhen, China. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images) Viewpoints

John Mills December 24, 2021 Updated: December 25, 2021 biggersmallerPrint

Commentary

Due to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach, some may think that the Chinese Communist Party is simply collecting intelligence on those Americans associated with the U.S. government. They are, and far more than that.

China’s intelligence services are doing far more than creating the Hollywood stereotype portrayal of a manila folder with all our hard copy biographical information and a paper clipped black and white photo of us, perhaps in a compromising situation. China is establishing comprehensive electronic folders on everyone in the United States.

This can include web searching history, online purchases in totality, complete medical records, all texts, and all other evidence of our being. One component that begins to go beyond the digital are DNA structures of our physical body. How do they get that? Perhaps through unlawfully accessing our medical records, perhaps through our voluntary biological samples given in the innocent pursuit of our family lineage. Dark and disturbing intentions are in play.

Unconstrained by Legal Guardrails

You may say, “So what? Big Deal? Amazon and Google do this already.” Perhaps they do, but what Chinese intelligence is doing for all Americans and for the Chinese and non-Chinese population in the world is establishing a decisive digital dominance to map every single personae, including our DNA. This is done on a scale far beyond what Facebook and others in Big Tech aspire to. There are privacy and civil liberty, legal guardrails in the United States and Europe that constrain even the most adventurist of Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams.

This lack of legal bumper cushions for the CCP, combined with a lack of social mores, feelings, and faith-based values is what sets China apart from even the darkest of Big Tech’s goals and dreams. Although American social media (and the U.S. Intelligence Community) may have set the original framework and tenets of Big Data and Big Data analytics, the Chinese state apparatus has codified, on an exponential scale, how to use the establishment of a digital personae to control and condition behavior of the individual through simple rewards and penalties.

The public manifestation is the blooming, social credit system instituted by the CCP in China. Most human personalities will conform after a few penalties or rewards in such an environment. It’s our innate human nature, but also a slippery slope to more vicious totalitarianism.

A Chinese Digital Silk Road

The key enabler of this digital twin strategy are the vanguards of Chinese Communist Party intentions, their own social media firms such as TikTok, and other companies including DJI (the dominant drone manufacturer), and Huawei.

With the Chinese law and operating strategy, all Chinese Companies are de facto, majority owned by the state and required to always do the bidding of the state. These companies are modeled on the front companies that the United States Intelligence Community established and used sparingly since the 1950s, but in the Chinese resurrection, at a far grander scale, and all Chinese Companies are part of this ploy. It is a legal requirement of their existence.

It is odd, interesting, and amusing that the same CCP system that encouraged the birthing and expansion of these companies is now also showing concern with their growth and influence and their leaders such as Jack Ma. The Trump administration aggressively asserted trade control measures toward many Chinese Companies and so has the Biden administration with its most recent application of the obscure, but very powerful tool of the Entities list.

I have conducted a dialogue with Costco’s front office on the ill-advised corporate decision to carry DJI drones. They have often been open, transparent, and expressed concern, but at the same time have still carried DJI products, but this season have also carried a non-DJI product—a possible expression of a transition of product types on the shelves and a hat-tip of Costco liability concerns over DJI.

But if one looks very closely, the origin of the new, “non-DJI” drone is still Shenzhen, the same city where the dominant drone maker of DJI has its large and unique headquarters building. What do drones have to do with feeding our digital personae?

The DJI drones are now flying endpoints on a worldwide network and share hundreds of live or post-flight data elements with servers in China. We are allowing flying, cyber vacuum cleaners that have the data collection capabilities of modern digital flight recorders on commercial airliners, but these also collect video, audio, signals intelligence, and other sensoring capabilities that are breathtaking.

If you still say, “ho hum, big deal” with this situation, I frankly don’t know what to say. Allowing a foreign power to fly in our airspace with flying intelligence collection vacuum cleaners to map our total environment is a very bad idea. Would China allow us to do this in their airspace? I may be stepping out on a ledge on this one, but the CCP would be unlikely to reciprocate.

To What End?

All this may be true, but again, so what? I had one very senior Intelligence Official recently tell me that the Chinese state behavior makes it easier for the Five Eyes Community to steal back all this information after they collect it. This is one way of looking at the situation and a possible strategy, but not one I’d place money on.

With the fusion of DNA information, could (or has) China been tailoring follow on releases of viruses to target non-Han personalities? As a career planner and strategist, this posit is well within the boundaries of the realistic and possible. In the end, nothing good comes out of a ruthless, totalitarian state, bent on world domination and the elimination of the United States as the world leader establishing digital (and biological) twins of our bodies. Nothing.

and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My best to you and yours, Lew

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks at a news conference in Lansing, Mich., on March 5, 2020. (David Eggert/AP Photo) Election Integrity

By Steven Kovac December 19, 2021 Updated: December 20, 2021 biggersmallerPrint

How many dead people should remain on Michigan voter rolls? The answer may be determined by a federal judge.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) on Nov. 3 sued Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, for allegedly failing to remove from the state’s voter rolls the names of 26,000 registered voters who have either died or moved away.

According to PILF President J. Christian Adams, the failure to remove the names “creates an opportunity for fraud.”

The lawsuit also alleges that 334 people registered to vote after they died, with 15 of those registrations occurring in 2020.

Benson’s office told The Epoch Times that it doesn’t comment on pending litigation. However, Tracy Wimmer, a spokesperson for Benson, told Fox News: “Michigan maintains its voter registration list in accordance with all state and federal laws.

“As we’ve seen throughout the past year, meritless lawsuits serve as press releases for those seeking to further election misinformation and undermine American democracy.”

The office of the Michigan Attorney General filed a response to PILF’s complaint and a motion to dismiss the case on Dec. 13. In the reply, Benson denies any failures to perform list maintenance activities required by federal law.

Her lawyers point out that the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) requires only that a state conduct a general program and make a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official voter registration list by notice of death, change of residence, or the voter’s request.

“The NVRA does not require a state to enact an exhaustive program to remove every voter who becomes ineligible,” Benson’s counsel wrote.

The complaint alleges that “when more than 25,000 deceased registrants are identified on the qualified voter list and not removed for an extended period of years, the list maintenance program is not only unreasonable, it is failing.”

“The NVRA does not simply require a percentage or portion of dead registrants to be removed, it requires a program that actually detects dead registrants and removes them.”

Among other requests, PILF is asking the court to require Benson to remove the names of deceased voters from the rolls and to order her to allow inspection of records pertaining to the implementation of programs and activities used in cleaning up the voter list.

Adams said the numbers speak for themselves and is confident the suit will survive the motion to dismiss.

Well, shall we try again? Tweaked the material a bit (in hopes it will pass the censors) but it’s difficult to convey the same feeling and expression when forced to use alternative words due to the sensitivity of other viewers, but I understand. Again, it is YouTube equipment and those who utilize it must conform to what the YouTube “community” determines to be appropriate and acceptable.

Those who have visited lakedonpedro.org through the years know very well I do not “two way communicate” (emails, chats, telephone, etc.) with viewers. Tried it in the beginning but it interrupted what I was trying to accomplish. The problem was primarily due to the “haters” who constantly attempted to destroy that which they did not understand or agree. You know, that’s probably the the biggest difference between the “LEFT” and “RIGHT” which has been made crystal clear with the outrageous corruption of our elections. A real nightmare yeah?

All the talk about democracy, freedom, justice, rule of law, etc. are just words without meaning when our Nation’s legitimate voting voice has been silenced as effectively as one of Fauci’s COVID-19 tortured laboratory Beagles! (Disgusting images)

Democrats talk and talk about how they work for the rights of “the people” yet when “the people” honestly don’t support the Democrat agenda (which is now quite clearly unAmerican) in favor of something else more conducive to their concept of a FREE AMERICA (for which their family members, friends and/or other citizens have paid the ultimate price or suffered injury), well, it’s open season for total corruption and betrayal! These leftist-Demo Rats/Rhinos, socialists, communists, anarchists, whatever…..etc…. actively and effectively suppress and prevent “the people” from choosing the learders and direction of their own……f rigg’n country!

CENSORING OF WORDS BECAUSE YOUTUBE UTILIZED TO CONVEY MESSAGE ON lakedonpedro.org

I do not “two way communicate” on YouTube either. A few times viewers were somehow able to get a message through (fortunately all positive) and I freaked out. How did this happen when closed to comments? Seriously, I don’t understand most of this technology stuff but realize there are exceptions to (and ways around) every rule. (I’m attempting one right now with “F cking”)

When uploading to YouTube I usually check the box indicating “not for kids” even if no “foul/vulgar” language has been used for effect because my website is intended for adult viewing and I would prefer children not be exposed to something their parents/guardians would likely object. (I would too actually)

None of my material “made for kids”
Website geared for adults
But that doesn’t mean kids are excluded
Should depend on the final result

I’ll bet money, marbles or chalk, most “kids” are far more familiar with such language than many adults believe. (I was shocked at some of the language overheard at a stoplight near an elementary school once when students were headed off campus walking and chatting. Such words coming out of such cute innocent looking little faces?)

Anyway, due to how I configured the objectionable words in this particular video, the YouTube check snagged the image as a thumbnail that I could not remove and was flagged thus not permitting the video to play on my website and requiring a check entry log on into YouTube for viewing. (sorry) I guess that’s the part that bothered me so much last night (lack of sleep didn’t help matters), but then I realized, how would YouTube know where that “objectionable video” via a YouTube link would be played and for what sort of audience? (I can hear the parents/guardians now……”That trash was on a YouTube video my children were watching! YouTube should not sponsor such filth for children to see!”)

Funny, I’ve been really trying to reduce expenses yet last night I was researching home website servers like I really need another expensive and difficult project right now! lol (Especially when tech challenged!) Sure sounded like it would be cool though. Maybe someday.

Again, I don’t use YouTube to “socialize with others” or argue back and forth, but rather as a convenient method to store huge audio/video files that my current configuration can’t handle. I present my “LAME material” as a “take it or leave it” proposition on my site. Don’t like my perspective? No problem, don’t view or listen. True, I miss out on meeting a lot of “good people” by using this DIM LAME echo chamber concept (Do It Myself Lew’s Almost Music Expression) “one way street” approach, but I also avoid the haters and as the 2020 election has revealed – they’re everywhere doing their evil little deeds. Life is too short to waste on such activity.

“F – ing” doesn’t rhyme with luck
“Screwing” not what I chose
Words convey specific meaning
Based on what people know

How did the word “discrimination”
Become immoral and wrong?
Take a deep breath and let me explain
In another little LAME song

The preceding word is the qualifier
In determining what discrimination means
We all discriminate every day
“Can you see the forest through the trees?”

What food to eat, words to speak
Whether to feed a park duck
Or how to publicly express a view?
Assuming we even …….

a) “give a coitus” (error signal)
b) “give a screwing” (error signal)
c) “give a frack” (error signal)
d) “give a care” (error signal)
e) “give a fuck” (ta da!—)

My F’n best to you and yours, Lew

28 days camping without television and all the distressing news regarding DEMO-RAT/RHINO BETRAYAL of America AND ALL HER LEGAL CITIZENS! Absolutely wonderful. Sure a few times I wondered what the latest appointed “commander and thief” gaff was or what Anti-American foolish legislation was being pushed in the House of Reprehensibles, but absent a broiling orange-red-yellow-brown and grey mushroom cloud over the Nevada desert…….didn’t really give a rat’s ass for what those traitors are doing. I already know their general game plan……destroy America by whatever means available. When you really stop and think about what is happening to OUR COUNTRY and who are the “movers and shakers” who have pushed this ANTI-FREEDOM MOVEMENT, the most dangerous criminals in this country hold public office and were not actually elected by legal voters. Rather like a long running “quiet war” yeah? My best to you and yours, Lew

Apparently because of using the word “FUCK” and “FUCKING” in this LAME PROJECT, YOUTUBE (in order to prevent a child from seeing or hearing such language) forces everyone else to “sign in” to view the material. OK. It’s their platform. Guess I’ll have to purchase my own home server (so Youtube is not involved) if I want to express myself in adult language on my own website with audio/video. After all, someone must protect the children if parents and legal guardians are incapable of the task – despite the fact our entire country has been hijacked and is needlessly suffering because of that fucking demented crooked politician appointed as president. This is insane but at least the little ones are safe from bad words. This may be my last project utilizing youtube, whether I use foul language or not.

Did you see that report on OANN? Tossing those poor dogs around like they were sacks of garbage while torturing them in the name of science. Reprehensible conduct but what do we hear from all the animal rights activists sworn to the DEMO RAT PARTY? Crickets. FUCKING CRICKETS! Absolutely disgusting but par for Demo RATS! VOTE THEM ALL OUT TO SAVE YOUR COUNTRY! (And the lovable Beagle – used for this routine COVID-19 experimentation because they are easier to handle when tortured.)

A tall security fence surrounds the US Capitol ahead of US President Joe Bidens address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, on April 28, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) Thinking About China

Proposed protections in the House stalled by Democrats Anders Corr November 27, 2021 Updated: November 30, 2021 biggersmallerPrint

News Analysis

Members of Congress are finally pushing to remove the malign influence of foreign money from the U.S. political system.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) recently introduced legislation to require think tanks to disclose foreign money they’ve received, according to a statement by Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who’s pushing for a Truth in Testimony resolution that requires congressional witnesses to divulge their sources of foreign funding.

Those funded by the adversaries of the United States—including China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba—would face extra scrutiny.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) has proposed to prohibit lobbying by former members of Congress on the part of communist regimes. A group of House Republicans wants to strengthen the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Some Democrats support these measures, but have done so quietly thus far. Josh Rogin, a journalist for the Washington Post who often writes on foreign influence issues, wrote an opinion piece published on Nov. 23, demanding that Democrats use their majority to take action on this bipartisan issue.

“Dozens of D.C. think tanks and other policy organizations take money from foreign countries and corporations without ever disclosing the details,” Rogin wrote. “The staffers who have received this financing then write policy papers and testify before Congress, posing as objective, disinterested experts.”

Banks said the proposed rules “would allow Committees to know when individuals are being paid for consulting or advising services to Chinese companies with internal CCP [Chinese Communist Party] committees or companies such as Huawei and Tencent.”

“It would also encompass witnesses who perform consulting work for oligarchs in … adversarial nations, which is often not disclosed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act [LDA] or FARA,” he said.

The lack of transparency is even worse in the Senate, which doesn’t require witnesses to divulge foreign conflicts of interest—and apparently has no plans to do so.

Think tanks that refuse foreign funding, such as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the American Foreign Policy Council, support additional transparency on the Hill.

Banks is leading demands for the House reform effort.

“Witnesses appearing before committees are often able to skirt disclosure requirements. … This is problematic considering [the] Chinese Communist Party’s disinformation operations in the United States include funding Washington D.C. think tanks,” he said.

“The U.S. China Security and Economic Commission has noted that a number of Washington D.C. think tanks and universities have received funding from Tung Chee-hwa, a vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which is a group that directs the United Front Work Department.”

The rule changes would be a step in the right direction, but even they don’t go far enough.

U.S. Air Force Academy professor Jahara Matisek, whose forthcoming book, “Old and New Battlespaces,” addresses the issue of foreign influence in the United States, said, “From a national security perspective, all foreign money (and even big corporate money) should be kept out because it skews American democracy, not to mention skewing domestic and foreign policies that benefit other countries and elites at the expense of the average American.”

The most effective lobbyists for Beijing in Washington are U.S. corporations that export to China and want the U.S. government to look the other way on certain issues—the CCP’s multiple genocides, for example—so as to not derail the gravy train of $600 billion in annual U.S.–China trade and $2.3 trillion in U.S. institutional investments in China.

“U.S. national security is not taken that seriously by either political party in the US, precisely because the incentive structures are upside down,” Matisek wrote. “No politicians seem to be punished by their electorate for [bad] national security outcomes.”

So it would seem that even the Republican proposals don’t go far enough.

The penalty for lying on disclosure forms that they’ve proposed is only a ban on speaking before the same committee for three years. Perjury is a more serious offense, especially on matters of national security. Anyone who purposefully lies to Congress should spend time in prison.

Professors at U.S. universities, which receive extensive funding from China through individual student tuition that the CCP can turn on or off, would likely be exempt under the new rules.

Politically influential professors, who can make millions of dollars in outside contracts with foreign governments, should have to report this publicly. Professors at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government aren’t required to publicly disclose foreign funding, even as they often appear as media and congressional experts on national security matters.

Greater transparency about foreign revenues should also apply to corporate experts. Everyone who’s politically influential in the United States, if they receive any foreign money, should have to disclose that funding. At risk is the future of freedom.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Only saw one vehicle/individual twice in 28 days while camping this time – obviously not counting a few necessary trips into town for food and supplies after deciding to extend the previously planned week of activities. (Just can’t work like I used to when younger and being stuck in the mud on a county road for a couple of days cut into the planned work schedule.) Undoubtedly another successful (though very challenging) desert retreat. Still evaluating what I learned from this most recent experience. There were challenging obstacles, frightening failures, and a host of disappointments that were ultimately and successfully negotiated under a simple one word suggestion of action (by a recently acquired and very good friend already): IMPROVISE.

Various carefully constructed plans unequivocally failed (primarily due to environmental elements such as rain, snow, ice and of course extremely strong rotating winds) with potential danger lurking at each subsequent step, so any approach to this situation had to be flexible in order to meander through the developing and quickly changing maze of difficulties. Prior plans were immediately abandoned to make room for the new approach. Yup, the answer was simple, logical and effective: TRASH PRIOR PLANS and IMPROVISE! Strange how in that deep pit of physical and emotional exhaustion, the angst and feelings of helplessness almost magically disappeared with just hearing that familiar word spoken by another. Especially when the activity is something I have always enjoyed, yet for whatever reasons, that simple solution had completely bypassed my cognitive awareness in that pit of despair. The feeling of growing helplessness gradually vanished with hearing that one word. IMPROVISE was a shinning beacon through the fog of doubt and apprehension and put everything into a crystal clear perspective for not only basic survival, but the continuation of a journey planned for months. [Wonder if “BIG D” truly appreciates how important and meaningful his one word suggestion was? Guess I’ll just have to keep thanking him until joining the blowing dust of this planet myself?]

FEELS GOOD WHEN YOU STOP BANGING YOUR HEAD AGAINST A BRICK WALL

So many things have become as clear as the stars in the Nevada desert sky. I’m through with wasting precious time and effort on matters without a chance of correction due to decades of systemic fraud, corruption and betrayal of MR WECs (Merced River Water Entitled Customers) of the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision. Haven’t changed my opinion on this STATE SUPPORTED CRIMINAL CORRUPTION OF A PUBLIC AGENCY one bit, but rather, only how much more time I am willing to sacrifice in the failed attempt to educate/motivate other victims of this subsidized special benefit groundwater substitution program created to circumvent clear PLACE OF USE restrictions contained in water license 11395 which regulates use and consumption of Merced River water. (Mouthful yeah? lol) When the holders of such a precious license actually cooperate with intentional violators – well, that’s a big clue as to what is actually happening behind the scenes and the probability for corrective action under the current DEMO RAT political environment is minimal. Such obstructionism to the RULE OF LAW goes all the way to the STATE WATER BOARD where employees in particular divisions of expertise/authority can quite effectively prevent and/or sabotage legitimate investigations and corrective actions with impunity to the benefit of their third party special interests. All the while taxpayers pay for the grand deception of honesty in government and rule of law as they are routinely cheated and lied to on a daily basis. The Demo Rat method of operation.

Nope. Haven’t changed my political opinion at all, and not surrendering, rather just focusing on what I believe to be the best course of action for me personally at this juncture in my life as I certainly am not getting younger. (Although the desert in some ways does simulate such feelings as being young again – possibly due to all the new things being learned?) Life is too precious to waste on state protected cheats, liars and bureaucratic criminals. I’m tired of the ANTI-AMERICAN DEMO RAT DRAMA (impossible without a corrupted Main Stream Media – finally unmasked as the crucial co-conspirator it is) they talk and talk and talk about American values and the good things they do while waving the red, white and blue and screwing the American Citizen and Patriot at every imaginable opportunity.

Yes indeed, multiply my previous comments and opinions a 100 times or so as these DEMO RAT TRAITORS AND SUBTLE TERRORISTS MUST BE REMOVED FROM ANY POSITION OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY ASAP IF WE ARE TO SAVE THIS GREAT NATION from its obvious direction towards destruction. THEY (DEMS) ARE WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHING WHO CONTINUALLY STRIVE TO DESTROY OUR AMERICA (emphasis on the all inclusive “OUR”) in any way they believe might be effective which necessarily operates through disinformation and surreptitious betrayal of legal American citizens at every level of government. And what have public schools been teaching impressionable students for many years? Effective correction takes time.

DEMO RATS will continue to fail miserably and will eventually exhaust the supply of traditional American compassion, sensitivity and understanding for activities now clearly identified and recognized as Anti-American, unconstitutional and an assault on our system of justice and Rule of Law. Freedom of Speech and the speaking of truth has been suppressed long enough by these tyrants and the time for public accountability is rapidly approaching. Stay informed and do what you can to save YOUR AMERICA……. but enjoy life and appreciate the blessings we all will continue to receive as American Citizens and Patriots of this indeed exceptional and God Blessed Nation.

My best to you and yours, Lew

Yup, well worth the time it takes to enlarge each image and read the narrative. Frankly, this material has confirmed a number of things I have believed about this COVID-19 nightmare since the beginning and how it fits quite well with everything else these TRAITORS HAVE DONE, AND ARE CONTINUING TO DO to OUR COUNTRY. What do you think about such documented betrayal of the AMERICAN TAXPAYING CITIZEN by their own government and officials? – (Not to mention the threat to life on this planet with such “Gain A Function” research.) And not just that one treacherous politician either – don’t forget the commissioned and appointed vast armies of private consultants, corporations, companies, , blah blah blah….. all blurring the lines of responsibility and accountability for that coveted sanctuary of plausible deniability when the shroud of conspiracy is lifted. What about the Leftist brainwashing of our children in public school? (Referencing those schools not carefully monitored by TRUE EDUCATORS, parents, guardians, etc. Although this Anti-American process had certainly been slumbering in our public schools for decades despite clear warnings, only recently has “the country” as a whole observed and truly appreciated the resulting societal harm triggering yet another positive GREAT AWAKENING with proposed corrective action. )

The Rule of Law has been transformed into non regulated/enforced suggestions for the elite special interests while taxpayers are compelled to increasingly fund organizations and activities that are clearly in opposition to their own CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? Have you considered all the rigged elections at every level of government in every State in OUR UNION? The outrageous and politically LEFT MOTIVATED Presidential impeachment frauds utilizing carefully constructed fabrications of truth mixed with the traditional propaganda of foreign governments? AND THEN THE EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION OF SUCH DISINFORMATION ACROSS AMERICA by a corrupted Main Stream Media? (Well, perhaps once “main stream” but increasingly less so with each passing day.) Open borders which only fuel a host of other very serious economic and social problems for OUR COUNTRY and OUR LEGAL CITIZENS? Law enforcement and intelligence entities intended to DEFEND OUR COUNTRY reconfigured to target political opponents while true American patriots are fed a consistent barrage of disinformation from the current ANTI-AMERICAN appointed administration that is destroying OUR COUNTRY with DECISIONS AND ACTIVITIES that defy any basic concept of COMMON SENSE?

Sorry, bad day for self expression. I need to do something else. Later.

My best to you and yours, Lew

Right click the below image, open in new tab/window, then you can enlarge each image and read the narrative. Such utter betrayal!