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		<title>BIBLE STUDY: Is &#8220;Judge Not&#8221; Biblical?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I hear it a lot, &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge me!&#8221; or &#8220;don&#8217;t judge me for the splinter in my eye!&#8221; or &#8220;judge not least ye be judged!&#8221; But is it Biblical? The answer is no. Let&#8217;s look at the biggest one people point to in the Bible...</p>
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<p>I hear it a lot, &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge me!&#8221; or &#8220;don&#8217;t judge me for the splinter in my eye!&#8221; or &#8220;judge not least ye be judged!&#8221;</p>



<p>But is it Biblical?  The answer is no.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s look at the biggest one people point to in the Bible to try and justify to others that they shouldn&#8217;t judge:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>Judge not, that ye be not judged.</p><cite>Matthew 7:1</cite></blockquote>



<p>I mean, that looks pretty damning but the trick here is people only quote verse 1.  Have a look at verse 2:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what <strong>measure ye mete</strong>, it shall <strong>be measured to you again</strong>.</p><cite>Matthew 7:2</cite></blockquote>



<p>If I run around casting judgement on people because of their skin color, their gender, their nationality, their political affiliation, and such, I&#8217;m in big trouble with God.  You see, it says for the measure you use will be used to judge you.  In the case that I run around judging people on non-Biblical measures, means God is going to judge me on the same non-Biblical measures.  That&#8217;s a bad thing for me, because I am a sinner and for me to gain any salvation whatsoever I must be judged on the Bible.  But if I use the Bible to judge someone, that means the Bible is used to Judge me &#8211; and I&#8217;m 100% okay with that.  </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, <strong>thou shalt be saved</strong>.</p><cite>Romans 10:9</cite></blockquote>



<p>The Bible says I&#8217;m saved, that my judgement is in the Blood of Jesus Christ.  Thus I will judge people based on the measure of the Bible in and doing so point out their sin and make it clear that they need Jesus Christ.</p>



<p>But some Christians and pastors out there will tell you that this was not the real meaning that you should just follow your heart and keep quiet when you see sin.  It simply doesn&#8217;t add up &#8211; it never does.  Imagine for a moment you saw someone you didn&#8217;t even know walking down the street and as they walk past you see their coat tail on fire and the fire spreading up their back.  What would you do?  Would you shout, &#8220;Hey buddy!  Your coat is on fire!  You&#8217;re going to get burned!&#8221;</p>



<p>Or, perhaps, would you attempt to put out that fire yourself?  Some would.  Throughout the ministry of Jesus Christ the constant theme impressed upon us is the emphatic point that this life is very temporary and the next life is very eternal.  Thus He took great strides to teach us to think about the enteral and not the carnal.  In essence, Jesus taught us to keep our eyes on the prize &#8211; an eternity in Heaven with Him.</p>



<p>The point is, if you love someone enough to warn someone that their temporary body is in danger because it is on fire, why wouldn&#8217;t you warn them about their eternal soul being on fire?  That is why I submit that it is an act of selfishness to not warn someone that they are living in sin and that their soul is in danger.  If you&#8217;re afraid the person will get angry with you, you are allowing your own selfishness and pride to get into the way of the Great Commission:</p>



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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p><strong>Go ye</strong> therefore, and <strong>teach all nations</strong>, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: <strong>Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you</strong>: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.</p><cite>Matthew 28:18-20</cite></blockquote>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>And he said unto them, <strong>Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature</strong>. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but <strong>he that believeth not shall be damned</strong>.</p><cite>Mark 16:15-16</cite></blockquote>



<p>Therefor, it is not only a sin of pride to not judge someone on the Bible, it is absolute disobedience to Jesus Christ to neglect His Great Commission.  But more importantly, to not judge someone on the Bible is judgement in of itself &#8211; acceptance.  The worst judgement you can give is that sin is okay by merely saying nothing at all when you see someone living in sin.  It is an act of hate to watch someone&#8217;s immortal soul in danger and to simply say nothing at all.</p>



<p>&#8220;Yeah, but Mike; you just said you were a sinner, how does being saved make you different from the guy with the burning coat tail?&#8221;<br><br>The difference is that I don&#8217;t like to sin.  Ever since I was saved, sinning causes quite a bit of anguish in my heart and I&#8217;ll sometimes even lose sleep over it.  I&#8217;m not happy with my own sin, even the sin that I do on a regular basis sometimes like cussing (which has gotten a LOT better over the past few years).  And therein lies the difference.  Many Bible-Believing Christians say this is the Holy Spirit &#8220;gettin&#8217; ahold of you&#8221; and I believe it.  The truth is, I&#8217;m improving on a daily basis because I&#8217;m unhappy with my sinful nature.  A sheep that falls occasionally in the mud is far different from a pig that loves to wallow in it.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://michaelwells.us/2022/08/06/bible-study-is-judge-not-biblical/">BIBLE STUDY: Is &#8220;Judge Not&#8221; Biblical?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://michaelwells.us">The Blog of Michael Wells</a>.</p>
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		<title>End Of An Epic Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2022 15:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Over five years ago, someone &#8211; a script kiddy wannabe &#8211; decided to create the website https://thetruthaboutmichaelwells.com to try and dox and troll me. Well, one of the mistakes was bringing my kids into this. If you want to see Daddy-Bear go on the offensive,...</p>
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<p>Over five years ago, someone &#8211; a script kiddy wannabe &#8211; decided to create the website https://thetruthaboutmichaelwells.com to try and dox and troll me.  Well, one of the mistakes was bringing my kids into this.  If you want to see Daddy-Bear go on the offensive, throw his kids in the mix of what ever gripes you have against him.</p>



<p>That&#8217;s what I did.  I hired a law firm to go after the website and the creator.  A few months later, the website goes offline and then online again for a few weeks and then ultimately, it goes back offline after the creator claimed it was so easy to keep the website online indefinately.</p>



<p>This brings me back to this old conversation that the creator/script-kiddy touted as a victory conversation:</p>



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<p>This didn&#8217;t age well, obviously.</p>



<p>This epic now comes to a close with the law firm letting me know the domain name was taken from the person and was available to me.  I scooped it up, and directed it to my own blog, the best $9 per year one could spend.</p>



<p>Well, that&#8217;s all folks.  If you want to know who Michael Wells is, here I am.  I have my flaws, I have my faults, but I do my best to improve who I am each and every day I wake up.  Sometimes I fail in that mission, sometimes I succeed.  But over all I live my life in a constant battle to follow a commandment left to me by Jesus Christ &#8211; to be more like Jesus Christ; an impossible commandment, but none-the-less one I strive to achieve in His name and for His glory.</p>
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		<title>The January 6 Witch Hunt</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The past 2 weeks has been somewhat &#8211; interesting &#8211; for me and the reality of this witch hunt has personally fallen upon myself. A little over a month ago I get an email in my Gmail account. Let&#8217;s just be real here: Who would...</p>
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<p>The past 2 weeks has been somewhat &#8211; interesting &#8211; for me and the reality of this witch hunt has personally fallen upon myself.</p>



<p>A little over a month ago I get an email in my Gmail account.</p>



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<p>Let&#8217;s just be real here: Who would see this in their Gmail inbox and think it was anything but a piece of spam trying to get your Social Security Number?</p>



<p>I get another a few weeks back, very similar, but this time, it&#8217;s got my full name on it.</p>



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<p>This time there was also a CC name and I Googled that name to find that it&#8217;s an actual Congressional Investigator.  This follows the above email.</p>



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<p>Obviously the email wasn&#8217;t spam.  I did what any decent human being would do as well.  I alerted my militia that I had been served by Congress.  In doing so, Sandeep sent me this email.</p>



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<p>To which I notified him:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>If we had anything to hide, we would simply copy it to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s email server because what difference does it make at this point?</p><cite>Email to House Select Committee</cite></blockquote>



<p>Groan and cringe all you want, but it&#8217;s a serious statement illustrating the sheer hypocrisy coming from this congress.  I was also sure to correct him on his &#8220;January 6 Attack on the Capitol&#8221;:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>You mean &#8216;mostly peaceful protest&#8217; at the Capitol, right?</p><cite>Email to House Select Committee</cite></blockquote>



<p>The day after I get the subpoena effectuated by the US Marshalls service through the local Sheriff&#8217;s Department, I get a visit from the FBI who want to talk to me about my January 6th involvement.  Same accusations, same questions.  They did have one other point of concern.</p>



<p>I replied to a friend on Facebook a year (or so) ago who said he had a friend who had the ATF just break down his door without a warrant and I replied:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>I wish a motherfucker would.  It would be Wako 2.0 around here.</p><cite>Facebook Post</cite></blockquote>



<p>Obviously, the mention of Wako had the FBI a little miffed but I told them straight to their face:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>You came to my door, knocked, and asked politely and respectfully to talk.  Therefor, we are talking, civilly and respectfully.  But make no mistake, if you had broken down my door &#8211; my dog told me you were in the yard as soon as you drove up, the gas can by the backdoor would have exploded within seconds and more agents would have arrived come here trying to illegally detain me.  In this state if you enter my house unlawfully you are not doing so by any authority of a badge or shield and therefor you are treated under State Law as an intruder which means I have the right to drop you where you stand.  So yes, unlawfully entering my house will result in a Wako 2.0.</p><cite>Things I actually said to the FBI.</cite></blockquote>



<p>On April 6th, I visited the US Capitol and was sure to be there at the door at 9:30am.  I&#8217;m then told by Capitol Police that they had been instructed not to let anyone with Subpoenas inside.  It wasn&#8217;t until 10:30am that Capitol Police was able to get a staffer to return their call, 30 minutes after my appearance time.  Do the math.  Thankfully this CPD Sergeant stated to the woman that I was there at 9:30 am and told me he would testify to that under oath.</p>



<p>After having my record run right then and there, being searched by the Secret Service, I was able to go home and that&#8217;s exactly what we did.</p>



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<p>On the deposition day, I was put under oath and one thing astonishing that happened, over 1/2 of the interview was questions such as:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>Do you think it is reasonable to believe that Former President Trump <em>called</em> patriots to DC to attack the  Capitol?</p><cite>Interview Question from Sandeep</cite></blockquote>



<p>Why are they asking me this question?  Especially after I presented my GPS data to them as part of the data delivery in compliance with the subpoena.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="473" height="1024" src="https://michaelwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image4125-473x1024-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-840" srcset="https://michaelwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image4125-473x1024-1.jpg 473w, https://michaelwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image4125-473x1024-1-139x300.jpg 139w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px" /><figcaption>GOOGLE MAPS GPS HISTORY SCREENSHOT FOR JANUARY 6, 2021</figcaption></figure>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>If you&#8217;re going to frame me for something, the worst possible days to do that is on Wednesday and Sunday.</p><cite>Statement to Sandeep over the Phone</cite></blockquote>



<p>Why?  I answered.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>Because it would be times which I have the most and strongest alibis &#8211; I&#8217;m almost always at Church unless I&#8217;m sick.</p><cite>Statement to Sandeep over the Phone</cite></blockquote>



<p>Obviously, this is a witch hunt.  Congress and the FBI are targeting Patriots:  Those who were not at the US Capitol and had no hand in planning it by evidence of my own subpoena.  I&#8217;m an Eagle Scout, US Army Combat Veteran, small business owner, and father of 4 young adults (and happily married) so if they would come after me a veteran who maintained a very high level security clearance, they will come after anyone.</p>



<p>Why me?  Because I lead a militia and militias challenge their power by being supported by the US Military and capable of removing them (physically) from office.  That&#8217;s why congress hates the Militias and why they want you to hate us too.</p>



<p>More on this topic <a href="https://guardiansofliberty.us/2022/03/26/i-smell-a-rat-in-washington/">here</a> and <a href="https://guardiansofliberty.us/2022/03/26/press-release-patriots-targeted-by-congress/">here</a>.</p>
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<p>As some in my group are aware, I&#8217;ve been a fan of Bushmaster AR-15&#8217;s for quite some time.  For the longest time you couldn&#8217;t argue with the fact that they just worked right out of the box.  However, it wasn&#8217;t that great for customization. </p>



<p>Bushmaster was shut down over the courts allowing people to sue gun manufacturers which became apparent when I stripped the extractor in my Bushmaster.</p>



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<p>I had to find another quality brand and someone told me to give Anderson a shot.  I did and its been 4 months now and I have yet to be disappointed with Anderson.  Anderson brand is made in Kentucky and reasonably priced, especially considering every part comes with a life-time warranty.</p>



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<p>Of course, I did go all out getting a Sig Sauer Romeo RTS Red Dot optic, Sig Sauer 3x Flip-out Maginifier, Sig Sauer laser/light system, with every other part either being Anderson or Magpul.  The stock/buffer, mags, foregrip, backup sights, and handle are all Magpul brand. </p>



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<p> This has resulted in a very epic weapon system that shoots very smoothly even 1,000 rounds later, and she&#8217;s deadly accurate.</p>



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<p>As far as a name goes, the jury is out.  However, I did pick up a sidearm, Sig Sauer P290 RS with the Corona Stimulus &#8211; which I have named &#8220;Corona&#8221;.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been called a lot of names before by people who barely know me on the internet. One of them is &#8220;crazy&#8221;. But after the last few months, boy do I understand just how uninformed those people are. Some backstory. A few months ago, my...</p>
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<p>I&#8217;ve been called a lot of names before by people who barely know me on the internet.  One of them is &#8220;crazy&#8221;.  But after the last few months, boy do I understand just how uninformed those people are.</p>



<p>Some backstory.  A few months ago, my oldest daughter&#8217;s best friend who lives just about a mile down the road came over banging on our door.  I honestly thought someone was breaking in and I instantly went for my firearm because I&#8217;ve never had someone bang on the door like that before and the only emotion I could think was behind it, was anger and people aren&#8217;t very nice when they&#8217;re angry and I don&#8217;t put up with any bullshit on my property when it comes to my family&#8217;s safety.</p>



<p>I went to the door and saw that it was my daughter&#8217;s best friend.  She was in tears, her clothes were &#8211; well &#8211; not right.  I put the firearm away and opened the door and she lunged at me like a toddler terrified of a bad storm.  I&#8217;m purposely going to withhold her name, but let me tell you, that&#8217;s never happened to me before by someone that was not my own child.</p>



<p>Her explanation was that she was abused and never wanted to return home.  Again I&#8217;m going to leave out the nature of this abuse and such.  How in the hell could any normal human being say no?  I honestly didn&#8217;t question her, my daughter is 17, her friend was 18 and legally she could leave her house and go where ever she wanted.  She did know that our house was a safe-zone and she knew I was heavily armed.   Again, I do realize I should have done some more vetting of what was going on, but I agreed to let her stay for as long as she needed.</p>



<p>Now, some things didn&#8217;t really add up for me.   She claimed that things were getting abusive, but her mother claimed it was lies.  But then she got her mother on video backing up some of her claims and then got a video of her mother destroying her room in retaliation of her leaving and claiming that she had burned all of my oldest daughter&#8217;s friend&#8217;s property including medicines, clothes, etc.</p>



<p>Then I learned this all started over a cell phone.  Now, I keep an app on my kid&#8217;s cell phones and they have a very finite amount of screentime they can use before the phone locks them into just dialing mom and dad or 911.  Also, if they don&#8217;t complete a chore, that&#8217;s an hour they lose each day for the week.  If they don&#8217;t complete their homework, that&#8217;s another 2 hours they lose and if they&#8217;re failing a class &#8211; oh they get no screentime at all.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s say that none of my kids have any attachment or &#8220;addiction&#8221; to their cell phone so the claim that this all started over a cell phone was absolutely befuddling to me &#8211; alien even.  But I started to understand a little more over the next few days of her staying at our house.  For the first couple of days after about 3 hours of us agreeing to allow her to stay with us, she walked around the house pacing back and forth with ear-buds in her ear and talking to her boyfriend who lives about 2 hours away who moved last school year.  </p>



<p>When trying to talk to her, it was hit and miss.  Sometimes you had to yell her name and even then she wanted to ignore you.  It wasn&#8217;t like we were just asking her mundane stuff, we are literally trying to see what she needed:  Clothes, toothbrush, feminine care products, backpack, medicine, etc.  She literally had nothing but the clothes on her back and her phone.</p>



<p>So, my wife and I dug into our entertainment budget after hearing the recording of her mother saying she &#8220;burned&#8221; all of her belongings and took about $670 to make her stay more comfortable including buying a new mattress, sheets, pillow, clothes, underwear, bra, shoes, socks, personal care stuff, etc. </p>



<p>A few things to keep in mind here.  She had a job working at a grocery store after school in the little town we live near.   She claimed to have paychecks coming in and that she would eventually repay everything.  Naturally, I told her, &#8220;No, it&#8217;s a gift with a string attached &#8211; stay in school, get your diploma and you&#8217;ll be welcomed here for as long as you need.&#8221;</p>



<p>But this is where some alarms started to go off.  She said her mother had canceled her cell phone and was demanding that she return it.  At first, it sounds like an out of control mother seeking revenge, but it was what my daughter&#8217;s friend said next, &#8220;Can you help me buy a cell phone, I&#8217;ll pay you back!&#8221;</p>



<p>Maybe it doesn&#8217;t sound all that odd, but it was her reaction to my reply, &#8220;I have an older phone that has 128gb of storage and 4 cpu cores in my room and I can get service turned back on in just a few minutes &#8211; it is still really fast.&#8221;</p>



<p>She then asked, &#8220;What kind of phone is it?&#8221;</p>



<p>And I replied, &#8220;Moto Turbo 2&#8221;</p>



<p>She then replied, &#8220;But that&#8217;s Android, I want an iPhone!&#8221;</p>



<p>Oh, hell no, I thought to myself and I told her right there, &#8220;Look, you want a phone, I&#8217;ll give you a phone &#8211; it&#8217;s still a badass phone, but it&#8217;s not an iPhone, besides they are years behind Android, still today! But I&#8217;m not buying you a brand new iPhone because it&#8217;s completely unnecessary!&#8221;</p>



<p>She wouldn&#8217;t have any of it, she started calling relatives, her boyfriend, her boyfriend&#8217;s mother &#8211; she literally spent 4 hours calling around trying to beg money from anyone including past boyfriends, and even other classmates (who my daughter identified).   The next day she finally asked if I could take her down to Boost Mobile.  I asked if she had the money and she said she did.  I took her down and she went into the store and lowe and behold she returned with a brand new iPhone. </p>



<p>I asked, &#8220;How did you get the money?  No one came by and you didn&#8217;t go anywhere!&#8221;</p>



<p>She replied, &#8220;Oh [your sons] loaned me the money!&#8221;</p>



<p>Oh, yeah.  I was pissed by this point.  But you know what.  It was my boys&#8217; money, not mine so there wasn&#8217;t much I was going to say other than what I did, &#8220;Well, you better pay them back when you can.&#8221;</p>



<p>From this point forward, things really turned for the worst and I mean the dire straights.  She slept in her earbuds, I know this because she would sometimes sleep on the couch when I was working late at night and I would see her fast asleep with the earbuds in.  Other nights she would be talking to her boyfriend upwards of 3am.  I know, I&#8217;ve been there &#8211; I&#8217;ve stayed up a few times fairly late to talk to a girl, but not consistently, day after day and then fall asleep with the earbuds in my ear with the line open.</p>



<p>I knew at this point something was very, very wrong and I also knew it was time for a talk.  I did just that and explained to her that it was simply unhealthy to keep earbuds in the ear that long throughout the day.  I&#8217;m not even joking, on the weekend she would wake up with the earbuds in her ear, ignore everything and everyone in the house all day and then go to sleep with those earbuds in her ear all the while talking with her boyfriend on the other end. </p>



<p>I was then alerted by the principal that she was using her phone in class and in the hallways and not paying attention in class.  Then she started claiming she was sick.  I would take her to the doctor and they would prescribe an allergy medication change and she would then get a doctor&#8217;s note and stay home the rest of the day.  Lately, she would just stay home for no other reason than, &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel good.&#8221;</p>



<p>However, right at 8am, she was up, moving around without issues (even after her visits to the doctor) on the phone.  How in the hell can her boyfriend even do any schoolwork himself if she was on the phone with him for almost a week straight like that?  Seriously!</p>



<p>If ignoring everyone trying to help her wasn&#8217;t bad enough, in the small bouts of her not being on the phone, she was making demands: &#8220;I need to go to the store&#8221;, &#8220;I need to go here and do this&#8221;, &#8220;I want something other than what you cooked tonight&#8221; &#8211; No, I&#8217;m dead serious &#8211; just a quick background here &#8211; up until a few months ago my wife worked as an administrator for Case Farms &#8211; the supplier of Chicken to KFC and other restaurants.  Every month they would do a chicken sale and employees could buy that chicken for pennies on the dollar, 100lbs of &#8220;parfry&#8221; (or partially fried) chicken = just $40.00.  We ordered the chicken nuggets intended for Dominos, the chicken patties for Olive Garden, and some other nice cuts.  It was likely the biggest variety of fried chicken that most people keep in their deep freezer and we had A LOT!  We still have approx 80lbs left still months after my wife left for a new, much better paying job.</p>



<p>No one goes hungry at my house because of this.  But, this was not satisfactory for this girl.  Even though this was literal restaurant food, she HAD to go to a restaurant to eat.  I don&#8217;t know maybe it was our kitchen wasn&#8217;t clean enough even though our counters and table are sprayed down with Clorox brand disinfectant and all-purpose cleaner after every meal (I&#8217;m a germophobe when it comes to what I put in my body and fear salmonella poisoning)?  For the life of me, I couldn&#8217;t figure this out.  Now, that&#8217;s not to say we had chicken every night, we didn&#8217;t.  We also had homemade chili, tacos, hamburger helper, spaghetti, etc.   But she refused to eat anywhere but a restaurant.   In fact, I&#8217;ll end this one tidbit on one fact:  Not once did I ever see her eat any food we or my kids had prepared.</p>



<p>It was a few weeks later I overheard her talking to one of my kids just after she had gotten back from her boyfriend&#8217;s house that weekend.  My daughter came running into my room and slammed the door and shouted, &#8220;Dad, we have a problem!  She&#8217;s trying to get pregnant!&#8221;</p>



<p>That confirmed what I thought I heard.  My wife then had a talk with her and said very specifically, &#8220;Look, our agreement doesn&#8217;t include a baby.  You should be focused solely on school.&#8221;</p>



<p>My daughter&#8217;s friend also made it extremely clear that her boyfriend didn&#8217;t really know what she was &#8220;trying&#8221; either, whether it be ignorance on her part or intentionally trying to &#8220;hook&#8221; the boy for 18 years of child support, I don&#8217;t know and can&#8217;t say.  I can only assume.</p>



<p>A few hours later I had a talk with her, as far as I know, she&#8217;s never had a father figure in her life before and I was very candid &#8211; I told her that boys her age don&#8217;t give a rats ass about the long-term they only care about the short-term sex.  I told her, &#8220;If you get pregnant, there is a very good chance you won&#8217;t have a boyfriend the moment you tell him, no matter how much you think he loves you, I can guarantee you that if he thinks he will be committed to you for the rest of his life, he will bolt at this age.&#8221;</p>



<p>She at least pretended to listen, abet with headphones in her ears.  Yeah, I can imagine that she and I weren&#8217;t the only ones in the conversation but I also didn&#8217;t give a flying fuck either.  It was words she needed to hear if anything I can say I tried to impart some wisdom as an experienced and never-again teenage boy &#8211; young dumb and full of &#8211; you know how that saying goes.</p>



<p>At this point, we had caught her in a lie.  She claimed she wasn&#8217;t talking to anyone and instead she was listening to music, even as she was telling us that with earbuds in.  But as my wife begins talking to her she replies, &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m here&#8221;, really softly.  Oh yeah, Kim doesn&#8217;t like it when someone lies to her and neither do I.</p>



<p>Needless to say, it took her a while to pay my sons back, late but paid.  They both have part-time jobs working for the guy who owns most of the land around here and rents out the lots around this area.  His name is Donnie Allen, he&#8217;s a great guy and loves the boys and thoroughly enjoys their company and comedy, so he has said himself.  I&#8217;ll admit, the boys are interesting characters and even put me in stitches sometimes. </p>



<p>As it turns out, she couldn&#8217;t have paid the boys a moment too late.  Unbeknown to me, she had had problems at her work.  Again I didn&#8217;t know it, but she had been skipping work to go to her boyfriends almost every weekend when they wanted her to work.  I know this because Donnie Allen knows her manager and the store&#8217;s owner &#8211; it&#8217;s a small town and Donnie and I are good friends.   Essentially, she would take excessive bathroom breaks, or even make excuses to leave her register and get on her phone.  She was even reprimanded SEVERAL times for having earbuds in her ears and talking while ringing up customers.</p>



<p>When Donnie told me this, I knew she was literally out of control and had absolutely no grasp on reality.   Now, before you ask, it&#8217;s not like Donnie and I just sit around and shoot the shit and gossip about girls working at the local grocery store.  Oh no, what brought this up was Donnie&#8217;s concern of what happened just the day before, as he told me, &#8220;Mike, I think she&#8217;s asking for a lawsuit or something like she&#8217;s trying to get money out of people.  She was just walking down the road here with her earphones in her ear on the asphalt and caused a semi to lock up and made me have to stop too.  She saw both of us stopped and she just looked at us and didn&#8217;t even stop or get off the road, she just kept going like she had every right to be there!&#8221;</p>



<p>Let me just say that this road is somewhat narrow and rural with a speed limit of 55mph.   I told Donnie then I didn&#8217;t think it was her trying to get a lawsuit out of someone, I told him I think she has a problem with the phone and that&#8217;s when he told me when he said he agreed with that assessment.  When I told him about our experiences thus far, he said, &#8220;Why are you still allowing her to stay with you?&#8221;</p>



<p>I honestly couldn&#8217;t answer that.  This is also where we caught her in a very big lie.  She told us over and over again that nothing was wrong at work and that her manager &#8220;removed me from the schedule because I missed work one day when we were getting my state ID.&#8221;</p>



<p>Yeah, no.  According to Donnie, she missed an entire week but only notified her manager of the one day she missed.  The other days were &#8220;surprise I&#8217;m just not showing up&#8221; and she ignored the manger&#8217;s calls.  She had essentially &#8211; quit.  Never mind she swore up and down in a bald-faced lie to our faces that she was still working.</p>



<p>I should have known a little before this that something was off when she asked me to take her down to the Social Security Administration building.  This was a little confusing but her explanation was that her mother was getting a Social Security check on her behalf and she had to transfer the beneficiary to herself.   Now, I&#8217;ve never known a child to get a Social Security check, especially one in school.  But this told me, this girl is not at all against living on someone else&#8217;s tit &#8211; she has no shame in being a thankless freeloader.</p>



<p>But I&#8217;ll also just say once more.  It was constantly, &#8220;Take me here, Take me there.&#8221; with this girl.  If I wasn&#8217;t taking her in my truck, my wife was taking her in the SUV every day, if not multiple times per day except when she was at her boyfriends which seemed to be about the only time we ever really got any break from driving!</p>



<p>I know that her relationship with my daughter had also deteriorated to the point my daughter wanted her gone.  My daughter is much like her parents, she hates a liar and she is pretty slick at catching someone in a lie (maybe even better than I am).  She also caught her friend lying to Kim a few times and started fessing up to knowing about this time (a few weeks ago)  My youngest daughter was neutral to her until just a few weeks ago and now she too is very negative.  As she will tell people, &#8220;She&#8217;s an ungrateful bitch.&#8221;  My oldest two boys definitely want her gone and was really pissed off when she was a month late at paying them back.</p>



<p>So, this girl had lost her previous home, she had lost her job, and she had lost her relationship with her best friend over the phone.   Her mother&#8217;s story was becoming more and more believable by the day and made me regret ever allowing her to stay with us.</p>



<p>A few times we tried to talk to her, we even sat her down and told her, &#8220;No earbuds on the road, no earbuds when someone is talking to you&#8221; etc.  But she didn&#8217;t stop until my wife, Kimberly finally had enough of it and confiscated her earbuds and told her, &#8220;For the weekend, you will live like a normal human being.&#8221; (LOL, my wife is so fucking awesome!)</p>



<p>This enraged the girl so much so that she spent nearly 99% of her time outside.  On speakerphone.  Yelling. </p>



<p>I then got another call from the principal &#8211; again I&#8217;ll remind you this girl is 18 and she&#8217;s not my daughter, the worst I can do is kick her out of my house which the thought of ding that gnawed away at my insides.  This call, however, was different &#8211; she&#8217;s missed too much school and she cannot pass her classes for the semester (the school will hold the grades hostage for this semester until she attends a semester with a better-than-normal attendance record &#8211; ie no more than 3 days missed). </p>



<p>We had yet another talk, I sat down and told her, as nicely as I could (which I will willingly admit that I can rub against someone like sandpaper with my words) and told her very specifically, &#8220;The terms of you staying with us is that you have to attend school and work toward your diploma.  You&#8217;re not doing this.   You have a choice to make, today, either you become an adult or remain a student.   If you become an adult, I will expect that you find a job and start saving your money for a deposit so you can have your own place to stay within 3 months.&#8221; </p>



<p>She then went to her boyfriends &#8211; again.  It was Friday and she had pretty much done that every weekend and even missed 2 days of school to attend his relative&#8217;s wedding in Georgia.  So she had now many attendance strikes against her.  Several &#8220;I&#8217;m not feeling good&#8221; absences and now 2 more days of unexcused absences for attending a wedding (yeah, not excused in this state, funerals are though).  Sunday night the clocks rolled right over 11pm and she did not return.  We called her and she told Kim, &#8220;My boyfriend&#8217;s mother was sick and couldn&#8217;t bring me back, I&#8217;ll come back tomorrow night.&#8221;</p>



<p> At this very moment, she just threw everything we had done for her, every bit of advice and help we tried to give her in our faces and my wife lost it on the phone.   She had just shown us that she didn&#8217;t give a shit about the school, she didn&#8217;t give a shit about anything we had tried to avise her of.  She didn&#8217;t give a shit about the house rules.  Literally everything we had done was thrown right back in our faces. </p>



<p>Long conversation short, my wife told her that she had just convinced her that she is just not going to follow any advice and told her, that&#8217;s fine &#8211; so it will now be rules and demands, the time for advice has ended and told her, &#8220;I&#8217;ll come to pick you up or she can bring you home, but you&#8217;re going to school tomorrow.&#8221;</p>



<p>My daughter&#8217;s friend hung up on my wife.  Oh, even my kids aren&#8217;t that fucking brave, trust me.  Even I AM NOT THAT BRAVE!  My wife tried to call back and each time it rang and rang.  She didn&#8217;t lose signal, she didn&#8217;t lose battery, it was ignored.  Kim sat and stewed for a moment and finally she called Kim back and told her, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to stay with my boyfriend now because I don&#8217;t think [your kids] like me.&#8221;</p>



<p>At this point, I couldn&#8217;t help but reply out loud, &#8220;Good.&#8221; But Kim launches in and raises a chuckle from me again and shouts, &#8220;You know what? I don&#8217;t recall the agreement for you staying here involving [my kids].  If if it is true it&#8217;s not like I can force them to like you.  You&#8217;ve brought any disdain they have for you on yourself.  But they have nothing to do with this, it&#8217;s simply a convenient excuse.  But you&#8217;re 18, you can do what you want, so good luck!&#8221;</p>



<p>The only thing going through my head is it would only take a few days for her boyfriend&#8217;s mother to see what she&#8217;s up to &#8211; the money-grabbing princess lifestyle she demands to be happy and at that point, I thought, she too will kick her out.  So maybe, I think, just maybe at the point of her boyfriend&#8217;s mother kicking her out, the girl will get the hint.</p>



<p>That&#8217;s where we are right now.  We&#8217;re still waiting for her to come by and get the stuff (mostly what we&#8217;ve bought for her) from our house and go stay with her boyfriend though it still isn&#8217;t quite clear if his mother has agreed to allow her to stay indefinitely.  I can tell you as a matter of fact that if she does go through with her plans and has a child, her son will never get ahead in life and that girl has absolutely zero willingness to work which means, mom is going to be full-time supporting two grown-ass adults and ONE OR MORE infants/children well into her retirement.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m really unsure what the takeaway here is.  Perhaps it&#8217;s that I shouldn&#8217;t ever open my home to anyone again?  It seems a little wrong.  But I can conclude with one thing &#8211; that girl is batshit crazy but it&#8217;s not the kind of crazy that should require medication, it is the kind that should have required the severe use of a leather strap long, long ago.  I thought I&#8217;ve seen crazy before but I&#8217;m telling you she makes the combined lunacy of an asylum look as sane as the Dalai Lama. </p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I just got news that the Virginia III&#8217;ers were planning a rebellion on July 9th, 2019. In those plans they were going straight up against their state government. This promises to be a deadly clash they can&#8217;t win. I&#8217;m hoping that by writing this and...</p>
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<p>I just got news that the Virginia III&#8217;ers were planning a rebellion on July 9th, 2019.   In those plans they were going straight up against their state government.   This promises to be a deadly clash they can&#8217;t win.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m hoping that by writing this and getting this post to some of my brothers in Virginia, maybe we can do things the right way and with minimal loss of life.</p>



<p>Seriously, what are your plans, guys/gals?  Do you even have a goal?  What I mean by that, have you defined what it is you consider victory?  Do you have  Terms of Surrender?  You really need to be thinking about these things before you run off half-cocked.   And this has to be approached smart.</p>



<p>In the US Army, I was in the Signal Corps.  One of my jobs was designing analytical programs for modeling war games.   As a result I was often a participant in these war games.  Sometimes I was Blue, sometimes Red.  But one war game is very important right now.  It was code named, &#8220;Red Rebellion&#8221;. </p>



<p>As you might guess it was a Sedition War-game where the political Right of the US rebelled against the US Government.  In almost every case, the US Government lost except in one scenario &#8211; head-on, honorable fight.  Why?  Because the US doesn&#8217;t fight honorably.  We fight to win.<br><br>However, another scenario was greatly effective and provided ZERO chance of a win to the US Government.   I&#8217;m going to list this out, step-by-step.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">KILL THE POWER &#8211; THE PEOPLE WILL DO THE REST</h2>



<p>In every major city, you have several cruxes.  In this case, people are heavily reliant on power.  Kill the power, and they will riot within days and the Democrats lose their voting base (who are all very concentrated in these cities) after just days of rioting among themselves.</p>



<p>It sounds brutal and barbaric but this is a method that is the most efficient way of winning any government confrontation and forces a near immediate surrender.  Not to mention, any loss of life is not your fault.  It will be a morally bankrupt populace that the city has codified.</p>



<p>This means that any PR that comes out of this minimizes the demonization of the organization.  The PR will quickly illuminate the problems of our society and will immediately give you legitimacy.   In the war games this was a critical failure of the Blue team.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">CONTROL THE SUPPLIES, CONTROL THE PEOPLE</h2>



<p>Once the power grid is down for these major cities, they will be reliant on supplies from outside the city for both repairing the power grid, staying up-to-date on current events, and even replenishing their food supplies. </p>



<p>Cutting this supply line puts a lot of strain on the people in the city.  People who may not have been rioting, will.   When they begin to realize they can&#8217;t have access to Facebook, CNN, and food, their sociopathic nature will shine brightly for the world to see.   This is the point in our war game where the Blue team seemed to be inhuman to the rest of the world &#8211; alien, even.  When the reporters start broadcasting 400lbs people killing each other over a loaf of bread, the entire world will question the legitimacy of the government and the people&#8217;s ability to make rational choices in its leadership.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">TALK TO THE NCO&#8217;S AND OFFICERS OF THE ARMED FORCES</h2>



<p>Believe it or not, there are more people in the military that would back the Red team.  Nearly 2/3&#8217;s of the military would (mostly enlisted) to the point of defection.  This was a critical problem for the Blue team that the Red team constantly had an advantage over.   In fact, it only takes one Nuclear Sub captain to defect to really change the outcome of a revolution.  Once the red team has control of a sub, we&#8217;re then viewed by the rest of the world as a nuclear-capable-sovereignty and that&#8217;s going to shine the limelight on you.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO DECLARE WAR</h2>



<p>That was the show-stopper.  That also means that it is very unlikely our government will ever do this.  But if you can at least get the government to acknowledge there is a war, no matter the PR optics used, they lose legitimacy.   No one, anywhere in the world, wants to see any government killing their own people, especially when those people aren&#8217;t directly involved in physical violence.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">LEVERAGE YOUR ALLIES</h2>



<p>Believe it or not, we have them.  While the US Media has largely blacked it out, Russia has promised air support, ground support, and communications support should at any point the &#8220;Political Right&#8221; in the USA ever commit to an act of organized sedition.</p>



<p>But be careful here.  China has also promised the same to the Left.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">SUMMARY</h2>



<p>No matter the scenario, when you fight an asymmetrical war against the US or State Governments, it&#8217;s too easy to win and I highly suspect that&#8217;s why the electoral college didn&#8217;t rebel against the people when we selected Trump &#8211; oh, they wanted to, but the US Government is scared to death that a scenario like I just described will be used.  Hopefully, thanks to me, it will be as an alternative to a bloody war.</p>



<p>That means simply this &#8211; going toe-to-toe with the US Government or a State Government will only get you killed.  However, taking out the power grid, infrastructure, runways, airports &#8211; in other words, completely shutting down a city and forcing it&#8217;s inhabitants to survive on their own for a few weeks, will cause so much chaos the government will be forced to a) Surrender or b) Lose their entire liberal voting base and become incapable of winning an election for the next 64 years.</p>



<p>If you want to affect change by force, abandon your plans &#8211; follow the plan I outlined for guaranteed success. </p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We hear a lot of people tell us there are &#8220;moderate Muslims&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic Extremists&#8221;. But what is the difference, ideologically speaking? The short answer is, nothing. Both believe in the same things, but the extremist is simply the one that acts on what they...</p>
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<p>We hear a lot of people tell us there are &#8220;moderate Muslims&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic Extremists&#8221;.<br><br>But what is the difference, ideologically speaking?  The short answer is, nothing.  Both believe in the same things, but the extremist is simply the one that acts on what they believe.</p>



<p>You have to understand a few things about Islam to fully grasp the facts of what I just stated and how wrong it is to call any Muslim &#8220;moderate&#8221; and how that can even be an insult to a practicing Muslim.</p>



<p>Firstly, you need to know that Islam respects the God of Abraham as the &#8220;one true God&#8221;, the same as Judaism does, the same as Christianity does.   What&#8217;s the difference?</p>



<p>Well, as we all know Judaism came first.  Essentially the religion was created by Moses or at least put on stone by him.  Moses is responsible for most of the writings in the Torah and the Old Testament in the Holy Bible.  Then Jesus came along and his followers and disciples added the New Testament and gave us Christianity.  But then, a fellow named Muhammad came along, a pedophile, rapist, and brutal dictator and warlord and created the Qur&#8217;on.</p>



<p>Whereas Jesus Christ taught his followers to offer forgiveness to their trespassers and to turn the other cheek, Muhammad taught his followers to be vengeful, dominate the world through force and guerrilla warfare. </p>



<p>Muslims believe in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.   They even believe that Jesus Christ was a messiah, but much like Christians believe that Jesus came to set the record straight, Muslims believe that Muhammad did the same thing AFTER Jesus Christ did, therefor, Muhammad&#8217;s very radical words is final.</p>



<p>So, what is a Moderate Muslim?  Well, the only way you can be a Moderate Muslim is if you don&#8217;t practice or believe in the radical teachings of Muhammad, and that makes you a Christian.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>As some in North Carolina are aware from recent news reports, the North Carolina General Assembly just banned Sharia Law for GOOD in North Carolina by disallowing any interference from &#8220;foreign laws and courts&#8221; into North Carolina Courts. And I couldn&#8217;t be happier. What is...</p>
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<p>As some in North Carolina are aware from recent news reports, the North Carolina General Assembly just banned Sharia Law for GOOD in North Carolina by disallowing <em>any</em> interference from &#8220;foreign laws and courts&#8221; into North Carolina Courts.  And I couldn&#8217;t be happier.</p>



<p>What is Sharia Law?</p>



<p>Sharia Law is a composite of laws that were composed by  Muhammed in order to control the population during Muhammed&#8217;s time and force compliance with his teachings.   That needs to be said once more for emphasis, <strong>to force compliance</strong>.  Sharia, in Arabic, means &#8220;<em>The Only Way</em>&#8220;.</p>



<p>Sharia law includes many barbaric punishments for simple and minor crimes.  Theft for instance is punishable by amputation of the hands.  Lying is punishable by amputation of the tongue.</p>



<p>Sharia Law and the United States are intrinsically incompatible.  It goes without saying that the fraction of punishments I just listed are certainly considered &#8220;Cruel and Unusual&#8221; punishments in direct contradiction to our 8th Amendment in the Bill of Rights, but women are considered to be subhuman and does not possess the same rights as males.  In fact, she must provide multiple witnesses if she claims to have been raped and if she makes this claim and has one of the witnesses recant, she is subject to be stoned to death for infidelity. </p>



<p>Sharia Law does not mandate due process, therefore anyone can enforce it, such as a jealous brother, vengeful father, or a coveting neighbor.  There is no justice in Sharia Law, only vengeance which is what our constitution specifically prohibits.</p>



<p>Therefor, it is a good thing the state of North Carolina has outright banned Sharia Law.  Perhaps it should be done at the Federal level as well.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>For the past couple of weeks my company has been testing new hardware.&#160; Well, more like &#8211; I &#8211; have been doing the testing, mostly.&#160; When the folks at Mikrotik heard about our situation with connection flooding DDOS attacks a while back, Joel, a rep...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the past couple of weeks my company has been testing new hardware.&nbsp; Well, more like &#8211; I &#8211; have been doing the testing, mostly.&nbsp; When the folks at Mikrotik heard about our situation with connection flooding DDOS attacks a while back, Joel, a rep I had been in contact with, pretty much sent me a new model of their router that he says is specifically meant to take on a HUGE connection load.</p>
<p>Not only that, but he got me in touch with Spectrum and we had a sit down on how to link up the router to broadcast attackers back to Spectrum&#8217;s firewalls.&nbsp; I must say, the past 2 weeks have been an absolute success.</p>
<p>Have a look at this.</p>
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<p>This shows a few important things.&nbsp; Firstly, you can see our ISP begin to throttle the incoming packets to hold the connection below 1gps so that our modem is never flooded.&nbsp; Because net neutrality no longer exists, Spectrum Business now throttles connections from networks with poor reputations or known black holes and use a stricter RP Filter which means they&#8217;re aggressively fighting people that spoof IP addresses to carry out attacks.</p>
<p>I show a great example of the reputation filtering when I speed test the network based on the .com domain vs the .edu domain.&nbsp; Edu and Gov are considered trustworthy networks and given the highest priority.&nbsp; During the 100Gbps DDOS you can see that Spectrum allows about 5Mbps to come through from their own IP and over 200Mbps to come through on Duke&#8217;s network.</p>
<p>The second thing you see is even at 100,000 packets per second, the router still responds lightning fast.&nbsp; The last router would choke at about 20,000 packets per second before the single core 600Mhz CPU maxed itself out at 100%.&nbsp; At 100,000 PPS, this router&#8217;s 4 1.9Ghz cores are only at about 5% utilization.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve tried a lot of attacks on this beast, and so far, I haven&#8217;t found any attack that will bring it down which is why I&#8217;m going to be deploying this router for our company.&nbsp; I was an idiot and left it for about 2 days unsecured, but the only 2 things plugged directly into it was my home router and the printer.&nbsp; So someone did get into it and reset the configuration as well as disable the printer&#8217;s network interface.&nbsp; Easy enough to fix &#8211; quick restore on the router and re-enabling the printer&#8217;s interface and it was back up and running in about 3 minutes.</p>
<p>I believe that in the future this will make our company much harder to take offline.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In 2003, while in Stuttgart, Germany, I started my first rounds of college classes since High School.&#160; I had already taken Calculus and Psychology in High School as College Transfers, but this was my first real setting in a college environment.&#160; I&#8217;ll never forget my...</p>
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<p>In 2003, while in Stuttgart, Germany, I started my first rounds of college classes since High School.&nbsp; I had already taken Calculus and Psychology in High School as College Transfers, but this was my first real setting in a college environment.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I&#8217;ll never forget my professor of my first class after I got off of work, Doctor Stanley Wilkes, a professor of Institutional Socioeconomics.&nbsp; &nbsp;I learned a lot about economies and how they differ.&nbsp; But it was our second quarter that a soldier, Specialist Trent, asked, &#8220;Professor, we haven&#8217;t studied much socialism or communism.&nbsp; What is the difference between those two?&#8221;</p>



<p>Doctor Wilkes smiled back at him and replied, &#8220;I held the best for last.&nbsp; For the next three weeks, you will receive 3 tests on Friday.&nbsp; &nbsp;Most everything will be a review but the tests will be long and monotonous.&nbsp; I will be grading these tests differently.&nbsp; I will average all of the grades and everyone will receive the class average.</p>



<p>Many students rejoiced, others weren&#8217;t as happy.&nbsp; One student argued, &#8220;Professor, I&#8217;m liable to ruin my strait-A average!&#8221;</p>



<p>The Doctor Wilkes shouted, &#8220;Foust, sit down and stop being so greedy!&#8221;</p>



<p>The students that were rejoicing were now cheering.&nbsp; I thought to myself, &#8220;There is no way I&#8217;m getting an A, all those cheering are those barely passing.&#8221;</p>



<p>The first test came around.&nbsp; Sure enough, those that were cheering didn&#8217;t even show up.&nbsp; I was a straight-A student (in College &#8211; hand to God).&nbsp; I arrived and sat down and did my test which lasted the entire 3 hours.&nbsp; My fingers were numb from holding the pen and my arm felt like I had just done thousands of 4-counts of windmills.</p>



<p>The next Monday the grade came in.&nbsp; It was a D.&nbsp; My test was given back to me and it was a 100.&nbsp; Those that were complaining scored between 95 and 100.&nbsp; Almost no one else showed up for the test, especially those cheering the professor when he announced this new grading system.</p>



<p>The next Friday, I said, &#8220;fuck it!&#8221;</p>



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<p>I didn&#8217;t show up, neither did any of the other A-Students as it turns out.&nbsp; That Monday we returned to his class and he remarked to the class, &#8220;Congratulations, you are all receiving an F.&nbsp; No one showed for the test.&nbsp; Welcome to socialism.&#8221;</p>



<p>He then remarked, &#8220;But we can&#8217;t have that.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t have a failing class. So, I&#8217;m passing out these wrist bands.&nbsp; These wrist bands will allow me to track your whereabouts so if you don&#8217;t show for class I can have the MP&#8217;s pick you up and forcefully bring you to the class.&nbsp; I can also dispatch them to pick you up and put you in jail.&nbsp; This wrist band will also keep you up at night ensuring that you are doing your home work.&#8221;</p>



<p>I speak up and shout, &#8220;Professor, with all due respect, this is inhumane.&nbsp; The US Army isn&#8217;t that bad in basic combat training.&#8221;</p>



<p>The professor then looks at me and smiles, then replies, &#8220;Welcome to communism.&#8221;</p>



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<p>This provoked a lot of thought from everyone in the class that day.&nbsp; The professor passed us with the scores we had before his new rules, but we still thought about that quarter.&nbsp; The one thing that struck me was how quick I was to give up when I&#8217;m not rewarded with the fruits of my labor and risk.&nbsp; &nbsp;Some of the students even remarked, &#8220;But this is a classroom.&#8221;</p>



<p>I was very quick to speak back up and reply, &#8220;But our scores are currency, the test was our labor, and the professor&#8217;s review is the class GDP.&nbsp; The GDP was not sustainable, and therefor he had to impose communism to force us to turn in our work.&nbsp; &nbsp;The point of this was obviously to show us that socialism leads to only two possible paths &#8211; communism or revolution.&#8221;</p>



<p>That is how socialism works.&nbsp; It is a one-way street.&nbsp; If a citizenry isn&#8217;t capable of fighting, then there is communism.&nbsp; If they are, there is a revolution and generally a republic is established &#8212; if they win.&nbsp; If not, welcome to China.</p>



<p>&#8220;But Democratic Socialism is different!&#8221;</p>



<p>Besides the word &#8220;Democratic&#8221; it is not.&nbsp; It still has a hierarchy, it still distributes the wealth equally (except to that hierarchy and high echelon which is why Hollywood stars love to promote socialism &#8212; they would be exempt) giving hard working individuals willing to take risks in the economy no incentives to continue their efforts.&nbsp; Eventually, it will devolve to communism or a revolution.</p>



<p>No matter how many words you put in front of &#8220;Socialism&#8221; to dress it up, it&#8217;s still socialism with the same paths.&nbsp; It is the suicide note of a nation.</p>
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