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You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MainMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MainMilitary.com. That's Main, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that Well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You vie permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free and home? Well, uh-oh Wait a second. Do we have anybody there on the other then? Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I guess we don't have Mark so we do be cave up for whatever reason the conference line doesn't seem to be picking up any audio from us Well, we're not picking up any audio from them Okay. Well BK you run with it while I try and figure out what's going on here. Oh You can hear me though, right? Yeah, we go we got you I see mark in the conference line, but we're not getting any audio from you dad if you can hear us You may have to unmute your phone manually there or something else is going on. But we're not getting any audio from Mark, but I see him there online. Tell yours, BK, take it away. Alrighty, so here we go. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm not Mark Kornke. One day closer to victory for all our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories in various compass directions, because I don't know the compass code. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com. In Indiana Freedom Talk Radio, we're on AM and FM microstations. CB Base stations and alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're on the Hallmark network on the eastern seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed to Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include the Pitt the 3rd and the 5th, and our friends in the Civil War state of Colorado. Waving to the left coast we turn back to the east sweep across the plains back to the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and Land in the smokies where the restaurant crews, okay teams and the Ma Bell Grand Moccansordium of retired telecommunication workers work on the Golden Spike project. Do we have Mark? Yes, I'm here very good. Keep it up and The date today is the 19th of December. It is the sixth year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K and the BK I'll tell you what it's cold here not real cold guys actually we got a little bit of snow just a dusting so the grass is peeking through all over the place but it's getting colder and this might freeze up the ground the rest of the way I was hoping we'd have just a little bit Anyway, let's jump off in your neck of the woods, sir. What is happening, please? Okay, as mentioned, it is 19 December 2014. It is Friday evening, it is the last hour of the day and the week for the Intelligence Report and the last quarter, Masters Corner, before Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody. So, it is, well, it's been dark outside for a long time. Since it's past 4.30 in the evening central time it is dark. That is pretty much a given nowadays. I look forward to summer when it's all hot and sweaty but I get to see unassisted until 9pm. Oh well. Big activity in the news this week is that Bobo has decreed that we shall normalize relations with Cuba at least to a significant extent. Well, this is yet another one of those it's about flipping time sort of things, just like the reduction of the pot wars and so on and so forth. And just like the reduction of the pot wars, you can also be certain that they're not doing it for good reasons, even if it is something that is overdue. Why is that? Well, think about this in the larger context. The blockade or the embargo or whatever you want to call it against Cuba has been going on for what, about 60 years now, which is about 50 years longer than makes any sense at all. But it is an artifact of the Cold War. And during that period, Cuba had considerable economic ties with the Soviet Union, the people that we now call the Russians, and exported a lot of sugar and so on and so forth. What most Americans don't realize, of course, is that they've had an awful lot of economic traffic back and forth with the rest of Latin America. Europe and with Canada and just about everybody else on the planet just not the United States. So we've been taught that gee they've been sealed off in a pocket universe of their own and stifled which is you know hardly the case at all. And people think that well gee if we normalize relations all of those 57 Chevy's that have been polished in people's garages will suddenly hit the market in the US well If there were a big market for all those 57 Chevys, they'd be driven around by rich people in Mexico and Caracas and so on and so forth because it's not as if economic activity or transport back and forth between Cuba and all those other states is suddenly being uncorked. Rather, I would say that Cuba's relations with the Russians have probably continued, though on a lesser scale than when the Soviets were running the place. And this is just one more act in the whole financial warfare that's being staged against Russia right now. This probably has a bunch of backdoor under-the-table agreements to try to get Cuba to stop dealing with Russia. I think that's what's going on here. So do you have any comments or opinions on that? Sorry. Okay, so let's see, we have other stuff that's going on right now. Regular quartermaster type things. Centerfire has some ads out. They are offering, I have to tell you, I am not a big fan of these screwy drum magazines for pistols. I just can't think of anything that would be more awkward and goofy unless somebody managed to figure out how to do a top feed magazine stuck into the slide or something along those lines. But they're pushing these guys. They have a Korean manufactured dual feed AR drum magazine, one of these 100 round drums. These are the ones that some people call the boobies of doom. The doom boobies, these dual snail style mags for a regular AR-15 rifle. They're offering those at $120. Well, that's It's a lot better than the $300 that we expected in the past from this design. I do not know who the manufacturer is and I do not have data on whether this one is reliable. But I am of the opinion that $120 is a reasonable retail target. At that price, it should be possible to build a magazine that is reliable. BK. Yes. Those are called Betamags. Yes. But, well, the $300 ones were Betamags. I don't know who manufactured these. It's a similar design. Well, the design, the reference to the Betamags is just because the design looks like a B. Okay. But the brand name of the $300 ones was Betamags. These are not Betamags because you know, or they're not that brand. I don't know who did manufacture these and therefore I do not have data on how reliable these are or are not. I certainly think that you should be able to build something that's reliable for $120 retail target. But you know, if somebody gets hold of these things and gives us some feedback on how well they do or do not work, that would be a useful thing. They also have a couple of other things that are advertised. They have some of these two-cell mag pouches. They're offering ten of them for ten dollars, which is, you know, nice and cheap. They'll hold almost any pistol magazine that you want. I recall that one of our friends had a bunch of these and was selling them off a few at a time on eBay. Hope he isn't stuck sitting on a pile of them. but at $10 for $10, I'd say go ahead and vacuum out Centerfire, grab a bunch of those things and use them as utility mags. They'll handle 1911s and Glock mags and all that kind of good stuff. You may end up fishing around with your fingertips to pull your magazine out, but at least you've got a pouch of some sort. They are also offering a 10-pack of Romanian AK cleaning rods for $10. Now bear in mind that an AK-47 cleaning rod is going to be larger diameter so it will be nice and stiff. It will not be suitable for the 74s because it won't fit. And it will probably be a shorter rod than you need for some of your .308 rifles. But if you've got, you know, 30s with modest length barrels, these may serve the purpose and clean and reduce some of the load on your other cleaning kits. You know, if you have segmented rods that can be made long enough to handle your long barreled rifle, then You don't have to use those for the shorter rifles, the AKs and so on. So, you know, buck a piece is a good deal. I would recommend these things even if they are not suitable for every rifle in the inventory. Because they will be suitable for some of the rifles in your inventory and therefore reduce the load on your inventory system. Comment so far. No, no again the price is right. That's why I take advantage of them while you can Remember it's like we've talked about a lot of the mags even if you don't have one And the mags are cheap enough for the system part systems anything. I don't care what it is guys They don't stay low in price not a matter of just matter when you're gonna see things accelerate Because there's only so much surplus. There's only so much even in standard production A lot of the stuff that was common just 10 years ago, well, this consumption last year, look what happened to the prices. And while they have adjusted and come down here in certain models, others, not so much. And in some cases, simply not available at all. Oops. So that's where you have to balance it out with what it is you've got. As far as investment goes, plastic, aluminum, steel, anything that you've got in the way of precious material, support like that, somebody's going to want it down the road. So it's a good investment for the future, too. Go ahead. Okay, let's see, there are some interesting technology things. Over on Goldmine, I have mentioned Goldmine many times and I will always warn you about this. These guys consider shipping to be a profit center. If you put together an order with them, make sure you watch the shipping very, very carefully and be willing to cancel the order or not push it through if they want too much on the shipping. Because they generally do want too much on the shipping. buy their stuff if and when they give you a special offer that is so dirt cheap that it's a reasonable value even after they they hit you with the shipping. Also be advised that they will not by default use the cheaper shipping option. I forget whether it's UPS is a little cheaper than postal or the other way around but they'll always hit you with the second shipping option up from the bottom. So you will have to pay close attention to it before you hit the go button if you are ordering from these guys if you want to get the least expensive shipping option. That being the case, every once in a while they come up with interesting things. They also have a pattern. If you see something that says limit 5, that doesn't mean they're running out. That means they have so much of something they don't know what to do with it and they're trying to get you to think that they're running out so you'd better hurry up and buy some because they need the warehouse space. Anything that you see that's listed, limit 5, I guarantee you will see again in the future. Case in point, one of the things they're offering this time around is a case, 40 of them, of those radial fans. These are surplused from Apple Computer. They have offered 40 of them for $40. They have offered them for $8 a piece, they've offered them for $4 a piece, they've offered them for all kinds of different prices. Right now they're offering a case of 40 of them for $50, which is, you know, a buck 20 a piece. Plus some shipping is probably a buck and a half a piece or a buck 75 a piece by the time they get done piling on shipping charges, but it's still a good price. Typically these little radial fans will run you anywhere from $4 to $8 a piece for most vendors. These are typical Apple products. They are weird. This is a good reason not to ever buy Apple computer products, at least not new. If you buy one for five dollars at a garage sale, that's different matter. But, you know, so it goes. These guys are funny-shaped. They have mounting tabs in strange locations. You're gonna have to, you know, do some weird stuff to use them or maybe just use large quantities of epoxy and do a messy job or whatever the case may be. But they are nice little fans. They move a fair amount of air and they are fairly quiet. That being said, they also have connectors which have no analogs anywhere in the known universe. You will not be able to find connectors that fit these stupid little fans. You will end up cutting the connectors off the ends, stripping back the wires which are almost as large as a human hair, and soldering them. Having done that, you will have a nice little fan. So just be advised that there are some limitations here. On the other hand, they are cheap, They are quiet and they do move a fair amount of air, so they're not a bad buy, and those are available right now. Another thing they're offering at the moment is a 3.3 volt supply, a 9 amp switch mode power supply, 3.3 volts, $3 apiece, limit 5 of them. They've had those before, if they're saying limit 5, they will probably have them again. The reason I call that out is that 3.3 volt will work with some, not all, but some illumination grade LEDs. If you get LEDs that are active at 3.3, a lot of them are 3.6, so they won't really light up very much. But if you get something that will work well at 3.3 volts, 9 amps is an awful lot of current. And this would be a very, very inexpensive, cheap, convenient way of driving those illumination These are 3.3 volt supplies, 9 amps at $3 a piece. Now they have a couple of similar offers that are also cooking. One of them is that they've got a 12 volt LED panel, 300 milliamps, that's a third of an amp, at 2 and a quarter. and that has 8 LEDs on it and it gets a fair amount of light and it's little printed circuit boards, 2x3 inches, something like that and that's $2.25. It's not the cheapest thing you've ever seen on the planet but 2.25 is not bad. If you have little emergency standby lamps and so on that drive a 12 volt bulb, typically they will be automotive, old style automotive style bulbs and whatnot. You pull that bulb you swap one of these guys in there and that emergency lamp will drive it and will run it for an awful lot longer than it would the old incandescent bulb. So that's a worthwhile retrofit even if it is a little bit screwy looking. A couple of other items that will work with this. They have a pair of power supplies. Now I'm not recommending you buy these things because they haven't marked them down yet. But they have two of these. One of them is 28 volts, 3 amps. They're at $25 and one of them is 24 volts, 5 amps at $30. Now here's the thing, the 28 volt 3 amp guide is an analog power supply. It's an old style power supply with a big old transformer in it, simple rectifier bridge and a regulator and so on. At 28 volts you use a 317 regulator and you drop that down to a nice well regulated 24 volts. You can drive two of these LED panels in series and you've got a terrific light source. So you angle a couple of those things in different directions and you've got nice area lighting that will run off of your 120 volt AC. ultimately, but will run with the reasonable efficiency because you're not losing too, too much on the power supply and the LEDs are very efficient. The other thing they're offering is a 24 volt that's at 5 amps, which is even better current, and you're not going to have to use a secondary regulator at $30 though. So both of those are $25 and $30. It's too expensive. Don't buy them now, but do keep an eye on those. If they do not move, they will mark them down heavily and then you can pounce on those. So those would be suitable candidates for driving 12 volt LED panels as described earlier at $2.25. All you have to do is string two of those 12 volts in series and you will have some good lighting options. Those are available options and those are ways to get an awful lot of light for a small amount of power and not too too much wasted heat along the way. Available from Gold Mine Electronics. Comments? Again, if you're going to be picking up a system or building a system and need the parts, remember that power supplies, fans are things that eventually, if you're going to be in service for a long period of time, It may be the next thing to fail. You might even be replacing a system that is failing. Something needs to be ejected out and do when inserted in. Buying a second spare when they're cheap, cheap, cheap is not a bad idea. Or if you're going to be building a number of the systems anyway, start looking at, again, the next step up quantity price-wise from that source. Again, the spares need to be regimented with the unit. So if you are deploying a piece of equipment, you make up a spares kit. That's how we do it. In fact, most everything that we have, if I have duplicates or any connector cables that are extra, or a complete mimic of what we're presently using, just in case there's a fire. Something stupid, little fire, can be any kind of things that can go wrong. The idea is to have the tools and the technology on hand so you can switch out fast or repair as needed and keep the system running. Go ahead. Well, yeah, and even in routine little events like, you know, mundane power outages and things like that, it's awfully nice. And if you pick up some of these little emergency lamps that have a trickle charger and a lead gel cell battery and this sort of thing, routinely they'll run at 12 volts or whatnot. You grab one of these little 12 volt LED panels, swap that in in place of the incandescent bulb and just park it in a corner someplace plugged into the wall. Power goes out, this thing comes on, everybody's happy. The whole thing becomes a non-event and this is not even positing a major event. This is just a life comfort type thing. If you can run for 12 or 15 or whatever hours on one of these LEDs as opposed to the hour or two that the device is designed for, Then life goes on, you can even have the kids do the homework, much to their dismay, and so on and so forth. It's a straightforward thing and you can justify it to the spouse or whatnot, even under normal circumstances, and it becomes useful for other things in more extreme circumstances. There is a possibility right there. There's another event. that occurred in the national news and we'll get to the drawing in a little bit. But I wanted to mention this before it disappears into the Orwell Hole. One of the things they're yapping about, the talking heads are going on about, is that Burger King has decided that it's going to move out of the United States. It's moving its headquarters to Canada because it bought a hamburger chain up in Canada. And it decided, well, there's a tax advantage to move to Canada. Well, talking heads, especially on the so-called conservative side or the financial side or whatnot are saying, see, see, this proves that we have to lower the corporate taxes because America has the highest corporate taxes and we're driving all of this business out of America and so on and so forth. Well, this is a lie. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a couple of reasons why this is a lie. First off, is that the US has the highest published tax rates on corporations. But the reality is that big corporations don't actually have to pay that. All they have to do is to be big enough to have an accounting department with lots of tax lawyers and stuff. And then they get to avoid most of that stuff through paperwork and nonsense. The other thing is that what they're not saying is that the system in the US is a little bit different from other countries. In the US, we publish these high tax rates and encourage companies to leave and so on, and they do so because there's absolutely no cost whatsoever to them to do that. They can move out of the country and operate their stores and whatnot in the US exactly the same way as if they were a US corporation. Remember, corporations are not people no matter what the lawyers have to say about it. corporations have no souls. They are simple organizations mostly controlled by sociopaths. The people at the top of the corporation tend to be sociopaths. They have no principles, they have no conscience, they are driven entirely by desire to maximize their own pocketbook with no regard to any other consideration. So if you make them the deal and say, hey, you know, you can do anything you want just as if you are a US corporation. Just don't be a US corporation and you can get lower tax rates. What do you expect they're going to do? On the other hand, in other countries, if you're a foreign company and you want to come in, it's going to cost you something. You probably will not get access to all the same preferences as a local company. You will not have the same tax tables. You will not have all the same benefits. There is a benefit to actually becoming a corporation under that nationality if you want to operate in that state. Whereas we let these guys flee and operate exactly the same. There is no distinction between a US company operating in the US and a foreign company operating in the US. What's more, foreign companies with subsidiaries and so on don't have to pay US taxes because all they have to do is engage in a very simple and transparent job of exporting their income. Apple does this. Microsoft does this. All of these guys do this. Here's the way it works. Excuse me a moment. If you have a supplier outside the country, you can control that supplier's pricing. So suppose whole butter knife is running the butter knife conglomerate and I am buying beans in Mexico for 20 cents a pound and selling them in the US for a dollar a pound. Okay, that's a 80 cent markup. I will have some business expenses, but suppose I'm making 30 cents a pound on these things after all of my miscellaneous expenses. Okay, if I don't want to pay taxes in the US on that 30 cents, All I do is I tell my Mexican subsidiary to charge me 50 cents for the things and then I show no profit whatsoever inside the US and I don't have to pay any taxes. that the Mexican subsidiary is buying them at 20 cents and turning right around and doing a little bit of paperwork and selling it to me for 50 cents. Everybody else in Mexico would love to sell it to me for 20 cents, but they don't get to, only my subsidiary gets to, and the subsidiary in Mexico is the one that shows all of the profits. So, you know, that's the simplest method that you can use, and it's totally transparent. A six-year-old would understand it. And the feds pretend that they don't understand it. Of course, it's a big pretense. And there are other ways you can do it. You can say, oh, well, maybe I'm not dealing with a subsidiary. Maybe I'm dealing with some other corporation, but they're a conglomerate, and they do things that we need. So I will let them make an artificial profit on the beans, but they happen to give us a ridiculous discount on train car rentals or something like that. So there are ways to obscure and hide these things even more complexly than simply creating a subsidiary that sells things to you at an artificially inflated price. But the simple fact of the matter is that these corporations hide their money and move it away. They don't have to pay the taxes. So the whole thing is a great big joke and a charade. On top of that, think about the way corporations do business. They will jack up the price of their products to the absolute maximum limit they can imagine that anybody might conceivably pay, and then they'll nudge it down a little bit in order to winkle a few buyers out of the woodwork, until eventually they get some sales. They decide how much sales they want. They'll nudge the price down a little bit. They charge the absolute maximum they possibly can. They're not interested in serving everybody. They're just interested in serving the people who are willing to pay the absolute most. They're certainly free to do that. That's business, that's free enterprise, all this kind of good stuff. But what they do is they will dial up the price and then they'll just kind of wait and see how long you can hold your breath and whether you can tolerate their price and see how many people will bite. Consider this is the way it is done on a national basis too when you're dealing with a corporation. All of these countries do the same thing to the corporations as what the corporations do to us. They say, well, we've got a tax rate. We're going to insist on certain terms. You have to hire our nationals. You have to obey our rules. You have to do this, that, and the other thing. And they pile up the requirements there. Up until the threshold that the companies would kind of grit their teeth and say, okay fine, I guess we'll sign the deal. So they drive a hard bargain with the corporations and require that the corporations meet their standards. Everybody does this, except the United States. The Feds just roll over. The Feds say, oh, you can have anything you want. We will subsidize your underpaid employees. and you can pocket the profits. Walmart is famous for doing this. We will give you tax breaks to move into our country and operate here and then we'll let you play games to move your profits out of the country and not be taxed. We will provide you with water and electricity and sewer and roads and police protection and all of these things. And we won't insist that you actually pay for them. So, you know, we've got this game going where the feds in the US pretend to be the stupidest chumps that were ever born. allow these corporations to do anything they please to poison people, to lie, to fiddle around, to not label products honestly and so on and so forth, to make as much as they want to move the profits away. And then they say, oh well, you know, we're just going to have to lower the taxes even more if we want to entice these guys to be in the US because see how they're leaving. Well, They're leaving because we made it profitable for them to leave. We made them a deal that said, hey, you can do anything you want without any cost to speak of, and what's more, if you move out of the country, there is no penalty whatsoever. There is no loss when you declare that you are no longer a US corporation. You can operate here completely freely in total competition to actual US corporations that actually follow the rules and so on and so forth. So if you believe the stuff that is being shoveled to you over the corporate press, you will buy the line that, oh well, the only way we can possibly keep any business in the US is by giving the corporations everything they possibly want over and above what they already have is the ability to expatriate. their profits and push their expenses off onto the public and so on and so forth. It's all a big fat lie and the people that are participating in it know it and it's just a big game. This is just more of the program to export as much of our industry and business as possibly can be done. And, you know, these people, it doesn't matter whether it's a Bush who says he's conservative or a Feinstein who says she's a communist, whatever, they're all in the same gang. They're doing the same thing. They're operating in the same direction to the same purpose. They are shutting us down. And as long as we put up with it, they will continue to do that stuff. That's the propaganda cover that's underway right now. We have seen that in our boom tubes, I mean our television devices, and they are pumping that out as if it is adult economic and political philosophy. It is not. It is just propaganda and BS. So, having had a nice good rant, I'm running out of voice, so I'm going to let you and Ed do the drawing. But do you have any comments or thoughts? No, you're right on track. One of the things we've been touching on this week is step by step, the weird or bizarre angles they're taking to pretty much all of these stories. Things have gone so twilight zone. There is nothing they can do to fix it. I think number one, the best laid plans are rats and rodents. What they planned on doing, which apparently the emperor has no clothes and with the shyster mafia out of Chicago, these characters have talked themselves into whatever disaster slash slow motion shipwreck is now in play. The thing is, a lot of other people can see what is going on all over this country and not only here but across the world. They're not working in a vacuum. Everything that they've done to this economy is obvious. Everything they've done which is hurting America, hurting all the people out there listening, understand what's going on. Yeah, you don't have to be an MBA to understand the scam that's going on. Your old butter knife can explain it in half an hour. If I can explain it, anybody could. So there you go. Yep, exactly. and everybody out there is preparing accordingly. It's interesting the discussion about what's moving in the market and what isn't. The frivolous stuff just isn't moving out there. They're already doing sales way before Christmas where a lot of the Christmas-oriented stuff is in place, and they actually have less inventory than last year. Yeah, I don't think they laid on very much inventory to start with and even with that, all of the Black Friday stuff went for a week past, you'll notice. Exactly. One of the things I've been watching is to look behind the fronting and we're down to less than a case of items typically in most places where you go to shop. If you look at the inventory, used to be we'd fill a shelf up. I don't care what it is. I don't care if it's electronics, I don't care if it's canned goods, I don't care if it's pomegranates. The vegetable section usually is pretty full because they've got to make it look full out there even though many stores look thin if you think back and you pay attention to how they're stacking and racking. That reminds me of another story I saw today. Target was paying people to harass other shoppers over the items that they were purchasing on Black Friday to try to create the Well, not the numbers, but the drama that someone wants that product other than you. Give the appearance of competition for the wonderful bargain. Right. Yeah. Well, Dad, when you're ready... Yeah, but we can... I'll tell you what we're going to do. Okay, hold on here. Let me grab my other pen. And, bah-dah-bum-bum-bum, bah-dah-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-d i don't know but hopefully she did okay she'll be in the drawing for the t-shirt and don't worry you won't be left out and there's lots of good things in the next drawing we just had some donations come in today i'll say thank you little things everybody we don't expect anything to be really super big but some pricey items so again we got some really great stuff this is a uh to take care of basic bills replace components that just get tired we run 24 7 non-stop Those little wheels and those little pulleys and those little belts and those little gears and those are just the electrons. They get tired going around in circles then over and over again. So eventually you got to change stuff out and we upgrade the process. We don't upgrade cutting edge state of the art, we just go what we can afford and still end up with an upgrade. Just not brand brand brand new. Anyway, number one. Okay, we're going to start. Ed has the box and Ed is stirring up the pot even as we speak. I've been stirring it this whole time. And the first item is the Bowie knife. This is the last one of this model of Bowie knife. The other one went to, of course, our truck driver friend and it's already in the mail and on its way down south. So it should be there. It spikes any time. Actually, I have to. I'm going to ask this on air because we've already been talking about it on air. Did you use the address that Spike emailed you? Uh, yeah, no. I didn't catch it fast enough because of the thousand emails it was clearing out. Hopefully that will be returned and we'll be able to send it to the location. Or they'll forward it, I hope. He did do a forward on it, right? Uh, it's been a while, Dad. Remember that was the old address from where he lost the house to the bank even though they were paying on time. Well, okay, let me double check that because it seems to me that's newer than that. So I should have the odd cross reference. It'll be in his email. Just check it and get back with me or get a hold of Spike after you check it with the email address with the email that Spike. Very good. And again, the first first item up is the Bowie knife. Let's find out who we have that's going to be accessing. John D gets the Bowie knife. And that's John. What's the last letter? D David is well not David, but John D. He knows who he is. It's the only John who signed up for the raffle. So Mr. Rockefeller got it is what you're saying. Oh God he has enough of it is no, this is John D. So John D. You got the Bowie knife. There we go. And next on the list of the is the double folding knife set. These are a camouflage body and a flat black tactical blade. There are two knives in the set. and who gets those? Let's see, and that would be Curtis B. Curtis B gets, what was that again? That's the double set, double knife tactical set. Curtis B as in Bravo? Yes. Very good. Okay, so Curtis B you've got the double knife set. Next is a set of the soaks. and these are of course a donation. They're tactical, actually they're the fuel soaps. They're actually still pretty good. There's a pine and then there's an earth scent. Both of them are actually pretty nice soaps. They're glycerin soap to begin with guys and they're homemade but they're made in pretty, you know, they're a production standard item that they do for around the country. So the next person up. For the soap, that would be Jim S. And Jim S. has one of the sets of soaps. Now we're going to go to one of the hats. And the next item up is one of the Duckville Woodland Camel Patriots, militia baseball caps. And these are really nice. Some of the guys have been posting these as pictures on YouTube and in YouTube videos because I've already seen several of them. The only place I could have gotten them from was from here. It's pretty cool. So. And the winner is for a hat. Randy W. Randy W. Very good. And so that means one of the hats is now we're going to go next to a soap item again. This is a double bar set of soaps. And everybody who's got those, well of course it'll vary depending on what your mission is. If you want to smell like pine trees and the woods, then you can do that any day of the week without having to go and dig in the snow for what you need. That's the whole idea. And that would be Curtis B. again. Okay, Curtis has got both a knife set and a bar of soap. Well, two bars of soap. Very good. And then the next will be another hat. Shake it up really good. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, Richard S. Very good. Alright, so Richard S. has the other baseball cap for this drawing. These aren't the only baseball caps, guys. We just got a number of the men. Well, not that many, but we have some from, again, the source. I don't know how many we're going to be able to access or how many are left. We'll find out soon enough. So the two hats are gone. Now we're going to go back to the last of the soap sets. And we're shaking up the numbers and pulling out the slip. We'll see about our boys from the Malabar front. I don't know if they got soap that off. Of course, that's down towards India. And the last soap set goes to Marlene D. Marlene, very good. And Marlene D is in Delta? Yep. All right, so Marlene, you got the last of the three soaps. Actually, those are the last of the soaps we have in this cycle, guys. So, everybody's, of course, levels are spread out. Many people can try them out and call in or at least get into the chat room and say hi and let everybody know what they think of them. Of course, don't throw them at anybody, especially when they don't throw them back at us. Yep, we got one more. And this is a cargo kit this includes tactical rope tactical budget board it goes to Randy W again Randy a hat and a cargo kit Randy W there we go guys so again from top to bottom the boy knife goes to John D The two knife set goes to Curtis B the first subset goes to Jim S The first hat goes to Randy W The next soap set goes to Curtis B. The second hat goes to Richard S. The next soap set goes to Marlene D. And then the cargo kit goes to Randy W. So Randy W got the hat and the cargo kit. And Curtis B, the two knife set, and the soap, one of the soap sets. So there you go, guys. We appreciate that. Well, we're going to add more items and again this will help you get the hard drive and the other shipping bills covered. Also taking care of a few other replacement items and I one of the smaller bills which is the whole idea here the next Everybody pitches in the next drawing that we are going to do is going to be on the second of next month it'll be the first Friday of the new year and That drawing will be the grand prize will be the t-shirt that everybody signed and the guys actually are Well, the thing here again, I'll get a hold of Don. I was expecting him tonight. I have to find out what's going on there. Actually, this afternoon, as you know. I would remind everybody again that if we can, it'll send us the addresses tonight and I will box them up and we will hopefully have them in the mail tomorrow, midday. And they'll be actually in motion by midday. So headed on down the road. So wherever you guys are, keep on... Thank you. I'm going to drop off the mic and you're in the chat room on the same computer? Right. Okay, I'll send it the same way I did last time. Very good. Okadoke. And for everybody out there listening, it is Quartermaster Friday. BK, anything else before we go any farther, please? Sure, a couple of things. I've done a quick little survey. It looks like LT-32 and 4064 remain the powders that are currently available. Both of those are wide range, fairly versatile powders, particularly useful for the 30 caliber stuff. Don't go all the way up into the heavy belted Magnum 30 calibers, but they will do the range of 22330-8. That seems to me to be a validation of my speculations from previous weeks that with Christmas season running and people distracted in other directions and so on, I think the pressure is off the powder supply a little bit. We have in the past seen those things appear and then, foop, they just vanish. I think that things are slowing down a little bit because You still have to buy grandpa that bag of socks and you may have to buy the family a television or whatever the case is. On Christmas, there's still a certain amount of that sort of stuff has to be done just to maintain peace on the domestic front. I think some of these things where dad is putting some stocks aside for the reloading bench have been put on hold for a couple of weeks. seeing those items available for the last two or three weeks running. It has not followed the pattern of being vacuumed out immediately this time around. So I think there's probably a slowdown in that area for the moment. Expect that to pick up again after Christmas. Well, right after Christmas, everybody's kind of gasping looking at the credit card bills or the heating bills, etc., trying to recover from that. So January and February always really lean, however, I expect those to pick up, but the pattern we have seen all summer and fall of any of these powders appearing and then just disappearing immediately seems to have been broken for the moment. That's an opportunity if you've got any FRNs lying around, strike while the iron is hot as it were, LT32 and 4064. If they're available, Powder Valley, they're available at other vendors as well. The other one I normally check, I didn't do it this time, is graphs. Usually they tend to have pretty much the same things in stock at the same time. I'm sure they are on the same tier as far as priority for shipments from the distributors or manufacturers. So, LT32 and 4064, the two that are available right now, both of them very versatile. The 406-4 is a little bit more economical and a more traditional better known powder since LT-32 is relatively new. Very good. I've got another thing there about the powder variances that remember there have been a few foreign powder elements that have been coming in mostly from the Baltic. I understand we're going to see some Lithuanian powder coming in. I would assume that's one of the variations on the Lapua contractors. We'll see what happens, although again, if it's Lapua, it isn't cheap, but at least it's out there. So if you're looking for different powders that you've used before, or you have a particular preference for a custom load, if you see it, hey, try to see if somebody can get it for you for a Christmas present under the tree. Just don't put it near the light plug and pay attention to who might be smoking near it. That's all. Other than that, again, more is better. This Christmas should be a heavy Christmas, people. and minimize the amount that's within arm's reach at any given moment is one of our basic safety procedures, right? And again, the big thing is you can depo it in different ways. You can draw a percentage, which is typical of what people do, is they'll have a reservoir that's on standby based upon what you're going to be doing with your load on the bench for the day or the night. And if you're doing a Well, a production press, then you still want to keep your powder separate for obvious reasons, having to do with safety, and also, again, just basic use and abuse. You don't want any more exposed to the environment than you have to. Better to be a little short and have to draw more from your primary reservoir rather than have a whole bunch out and then have to seal it all back up later because usually when you're in production runs with a lot of the Dylan mechanical, the big mechanicals, you're looking at 10,000 rounds being able to be produced tonight. Well, if you're feeding a monster like that, then you're just running back and forth trying to feed the thing. If you're using more traditional hand tools, that's an opportunity for your assistant to say, okay, Tommy, bring over another pound. Tommy's job is to be on the other side of the room with the eight-pound jug and to pour out a half a pound or a pound and bring it over when... Let's not forget all the primers should face the same way. North? All the primers should face the same way. Most common again. Oh, up and down. Okay, I get it. Cap, cap, remember cap up, cap up. Guys, depending on how you're loading the hopper, otherwise you get those embarrassing things where, what the heck, there's a dimple at the bottom of my case. Yeah, the primer's upside down. That's okay, don't worry. So we don't need that happening. But again, it's common sense. The Dillon machines, we haven't talked about those in a while, the Dillon machines are out there when they first came out. You've got to remember Dillon also does GE miniguns, does Gatlings. So they had a lot of experience with high speed machinery. That kind of helped a lot when it came to switching to something that everybody wanted, which was increased ammunition production. I guess if you're doing 3000 rounds a second, or forgive me, 3000 rounds a minute, it probably would be a good idea to be able to reload a lot of ammo. The Dylan machines used to be about $10,000 to $11,000 a unit for their Mark I's. And actually, that's not a crazy goal back when we had American industry and we actually had jobs. I mean, in the 80s, I know men that paid cash for their Dylan, you know, mechanicals, for their Dylan production presses. We've got a lot of them in the area here, actually. Yeah, one of the things that drives me nutty is that, you know, people get all entranced in the equipment catalogs and they're looking at these machines that'll do, you know, a thousand rounds an hour and all this kind of good stuff. And the inventory of materials they have on hand would feed the machine for an hour. Hey, come on guys, if your inventory of materials will not run your existing machinery for at least 50 hours, you need to put the money into the materials not into more machinery. Well, the important thing there is back in the day too, we had greater access to what was the post-World War II and post-Vietnam surplus, which helped a lot. Today, the problem you've got is with the production being made overseas, a lot of it, The biggest volume producer in country is First Lake City that we've seen a lot of loaded surplus come from. That's take UNAML. Go to UNAML.com. Take a look at how many Lake City in 2011, 2013 and even some of the ammo overrun from 2014. Now otherwise it's going to be federal but the foreign contractors, their excess components don't come over here guys. That's the biggest problem. What we have is the primary bullet producers and maybe their seconds as far as stuff that they do when they do pot runs and they have so much left in the hoppers, they don't throw it back in the bin. They toss it over into the five gallon pails. For that reason, It's not like it used to be with regard to either bullets, primer, or powder in general. We don't have access to a tremendous industrial surplus that we were able to feed upon for, heck, what, 40, 50 years. We have it out there. It bleeds out. Example, probably the best example are the latest .50 caliber bullets, loaded projectiles. The stuff that's coming out like the incendiary and the tracer and all that, that's all from the 90s. The bullets were pulled back in the 90s back when there was that last big wave where they were destroying the ammo and because the Environmental Protection Agency said they couldn't burn it anymore, then they contracted to have it disassembled. And so the bullets were of course pulled and sold by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands if not millions of projectiles and those are still coming back at us where fortunately people preserved them and saved them up for those rainy days. So that's how we're going to find it, is in clutches and pods now. We're not going to see the surplus because Bosnia is a long ways away from the US. Or, say, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which they've been getting a lot of the contracts to. And then other parts of the planet. Even FN, which builds stuff here, most all of their other production, they keep it outside the United States. Anything ever happens, or even if there's any excess, it doesn't get to us here. Well, even if they wanted to sell into the U.S. market, you can be sure the Commerce Department has been tasked with the job of keeping as much out as possible. Doing everything they can to slow it down and return it. We are past the top. Anything else? BK, jump in there. No, we're good. We are going into the weekend, guys, with a whole bunch of stuff going on. Camp Emmerich, you got the big lasagna fest going on up there. I've sent you the list of who got what Curtis I don't have his address for because he is the one that mailed in his entry. You guys should have that up there. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, we've got him right here. We're good. Yeah, don't worry about that. I've got that right away. Okay, good. Yeah, I should have recognized that. Forgive me. Now, another thing, I am not in the chat room because about the time that I mentioned that to you, is about the time it decided to act up on me. So I have to get back into the chat room. Ed, you might have to send that again. Oh, lovely. Okay. Hold on a second. I'm going to find out right now. Hold on. Sometimes it's burped. It hiccuped here while we were doing the program. I'm going to find out right now. Okay. Well, there's Facebook automatically locked in, but it doesn't look like... Yeah, go ahead and resend it, please. Okay. Hang on. I'm just going to paste everything again. Alright, but close. We're good. We are at the top. Yes we are. We're gonna hear the music in a moment. Ed's taking care of that. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march for day and night. We'll be back next Friday, Quartermaster Friday. Thank you, BK. You're welcome. Your conference recording has stopped. Goodbye.