GUNS: Never tolerate anyone actively rooting for the killing of our grunts

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

FROM THE BOOK OF FACES by a high school chum and fellow vet.

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S Kent Troy
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I was watching a documentary last night on the late Dick Gregory. I’d always admired his biting humor and social commentary though I disagreed with many of his political opinions. I’d actually been at a concert of his in 1967 at a student convention. When it came to racial issues the guy had it down absolutely right. Anyway, they covered his attendance at the Lincoln Memoroial/Pentagon protests against the Viet-nam war. As the cameras panned the crowds from behind the speakers platform, I was stunned again, just as I was back then by the number of VC and NVA flags being waived. In the American left, there is no and was no lack of hatred for the country and rooting for our enemies. One thing to be against the war, quite another to actively root for the enemy killing your neighbors in the jungle OR the deserts.

Still on Facebook’s s**t list for some reason.

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Good Luck getting out of the Book of Faces jail. Been in and out and never ever understood why. 

As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian vet, I’d never tolerate anyone actively rooting for the killing of our grunts. That’s why Jane Fonda, even today, is still on my <synonym for excrement> list.

I’m anti-war or whatever the Gooferment politicians, bureaucrats, “celebrities”, “influencers”, “commentators”, “journalists”, or Dummheits use as a euphemism for someone shooting at our troops. Unless it’s a “Red Dawn” scenario, we should “stand down”.

The Dead Old White Guys knew that a “standing army” was a recipe for endless wars fought by politicians with no skin in the game and no morality. That’s why they wanted only the States to have an organized militia under the control of the State Governor.

And, the Second Amendment to ensure that everyone could defend themselves against ALL enemies — foreign and domestic. i remember Waco and Ruby Ridge. The armed Gooferment bureaucrats are no friends of liberty.

“Those who do not view armed self defense as a basic human right, ignore the mass graves of those who died on their knees at the hands of tyrants.” –unknown

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DISCOURAGING: “Rent Control” is dumb Gooferment policy

Friday, January 2, 2026

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The Bronx burned in the 1970’s because of many factors but the primary one was Rent controls which froze rents in 1942 and only loosened them in 1971! Hence, no turnover, no bank lending, no money for maintenance, no money for the heating fuel crisis. Prove me wrong and do NOT use that old chestnut about landlords burning down their own buildings. The smaller owners couldn’t even sell their properties and just walked away.

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If rent caps worked, cities using them would have abundant, well maintained housing.
 
They do not.
 
Housing improves when building is allowed, supply can respond, and people are free to create solutions instead of freezing failure in place.
 
Shortages are not a market failure.
 
They are a policy outcome.

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I remember my (enlightened?) uncles sitting around the dinner table after a few beers portray the then current bunch of politicians and bureaucrats as “stupid communists”.  And how they “couldn’t buy a building and live off the rents in their old age”.

I was too young to really understand how right they were.  The politicians were the modern equivalent of the old “snake oil” salesman who promised a remedy for all things and everything.  Even if you didn’t know what ails you. Argh!

Now in my old age, I realize how right they were on a mutlitude of topics.

I can’t imagine what they’d think of a REAL COMMUNIST (aka “democratic socialist) being elected the mayor of New York City.  What are those SHEEPLE in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk thinking?

Argh!

“Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.”  —  Frank Sonnenberg

Seems like the “rent control” lesson will be repeated again in NYC!

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