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By Ted Dunlap, on September 22nd, 2023 
Early this week I shared bits of a personal exercise wherein I attempted to quantify, weigh my time management. As I mentioned there, blogging did not land anywhere near the top. It in fact seems to be near or at the bottom of things I objectively think I should be doing. Yet here I am. I just finished a review of the list I created, made some modifications, but still came up with no justification for doing what I am doing at this moment. My difficulty lies in quantifying community service, building a team with survivable potential, calling out warnings, or some Paul Revere-ish driving mechanism inherent in my psyche. There is another part of me that HATES BULLIES. […]
By Ted Dunlap, on September 20th, 2023 
This semester I am offering three classes through the Darby Adult Education program. Their local reach is great with direct mail flyers going to every mailbox in the Darby zip code. I notice their website is not functioning, so I will do a little boosting of my class offerings here. Community Threat Workshop-Probability/Severity Exercise Instructor will explain the Probability/Severity exercise format, then lead a participatory workshop designed to assess and with potential disruptions to our community. The group with then develop action items for highest level threats. Instructor: Ted Dunlap Day(s): Saturday Dates: September 30 (1 class) Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 am Location: Darby Community Public Library Meeting Room Student Fee: $4.00/$2.00 seniors 60+ Materials/Material Fee: None Two Way […]
By Ted Dunlap, on July 28th, 2023 
While my last post was about a long-ago Sunday morning ride, the tradition lives on … for fifty years or more. As far as days of the regular week go, Sunday is a good one for sharing worshiping the blends of man, machine and roads that sport bikes or touring-sport bikes meld into a cosmic beauty that only the bikers can understand. Recollecting a rather famous one from the 1970 Northern California somehow triggered finding an ongoing one in my neck of the woods in the here and now. I joined my first Sunday Morning Breakfast Club (SMBC) ride on July 29th. It was EVERYTHING I HOPED FOR… and more. I rode quite a bit farther downstream to the starting […]
By Ted Dunlap, on July 20th, 2023 
alter of the basilica of Santa Maria Assunta I meant to change the subject for today, but had a lot of links, articles and bits to share on the subject. Here, as well as my recent two posts, I will keep it out of the gross zone. Even this cursory view is awful, but the totality is awfuller. The good news is that, thanks to The Sound of Freedom and other efforts, there is some public awareness building, and with that some hope for reducing the scourge. While human slavery and trafficking in slaves is many centuries old the modern power brokers have raised the volume and sadism to what I suspect are new heights. Hopefully public awareness can […]
By Ted Dunlap, on July 15th, 2023 
It is officially Bitterroot motorcycle riding season. Tourist bikes have been exploring up and down The Bitterroot River on Highway 93 for most of a month now. A skosh tardy in getting my bikes where I wanted them for this season, I started a little behind the early bikers, but not too much. Right at the top of my 2023 bike ride bucket list was a reconnoiter of Highway 38 between Grantsdale and Phillipsburg, Montana. It is right in my neighborhood, lightly traveled and reputed to be quite scenic. I was also warned repeatedly by people who have been there, done that, to explore it on my more maneuverable, agile Dr Zee (350 pounds) rather than jumping right in […]
By Ted Dunlap, on June 4th, 2023 
A courageous movie scheduled for theatrical release July 4th from Angel Studios. This short trailer gives us a good idea of what it is about. Timely and important. Angel studios is trying for a huge opening day audience … two million to match the number of children they estimate are lost into slavery, torture and death every year. Below is the video trailer they produced advertising this film. I am sure we COULD watch it home alone via the Internet, but who knows what great people you might meet if you turn out to a real theater for the July 4th opening day. Not to mention the message of support that would help signal. Visit the Angel Studios website to […]
By Ted Dunlap, on June 1st, 2023 
I was rattling around my Brighteon video channel and ran across this one I created and published there three years ago. Other than some inconsequential details, it has withstood the test of time. It also serves as a good reminder that struggling to awaken the sleepers not only lies somewhere between the very difficult and the impossible, it also may not be a kindness, a service, or helpful to them. If you find yourself in the company of people who are comfortable with their shackles, leave them in peace. Move on to those who share you views regarding life, liberty, property, and most importantly, resistance to those who would kill or enslave us all. You might even take a […]
By Ted Dunlap, on April 24th, 2023
A 30-million-dollar resort is under development in Darby Montana, current population 801. The KPAX-News article linked below includes a video previously aired on their Channel 8 television show. Proposed Darby resort subject of heated debate (includes video) “Developer Brooks Pace says he wants to build a $30 million luxury resort in Darby.” Brooks, founder and president of The Dammeron Corporation, says he moved to Darby a year ago to get away from the excessive development of his prior home in Dammeron Valley Utah. I understand that. Bare lots there are now selling for $100,000 with modest 1,200-sq-ft homes well over half-a-million bucks. The “develop-able land” he picked up in Darby was an ex-sawmill, recently known as an unafordable EPA […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 14th, 2023 
Okay, I can come up with several questions, or relevant statements of fact. Of course you can, Ted. That’s who you are. For starters: What kind of librarians facilitate these perverse acts across this once-upon-a-time great country? Nearly all of our country’s public libraries are funded via local tax dollars. Does the tax paying community in each of these hosting facilities actually think this crap is a good idea? Librarian WAS a respected position. No longer. Now mere products of the K-thru-Kollege perverse government indoctrination system… an Illuminati cornerstone for destroying a healthy society. Between that, their media monopoly and ownership of most politicians, they can and do sell some absolutely ridiculous stuff. Do Jiggs the plumber, Jake the […]
By Ted Dunlap, on January 4th, 2023 
Though not widely understood, we are at war. The other side is doing all the attacking, and lining up their weapons of 4th-generation war for the surge on to planned victory; crushing humanity, nature, honor, integrity and all that is beautiful in our world. If our response is as they hope, it will be haphazard, sporadic and ineffective. They win. We lose. If they do their job right, and are lucky, that will be the result regardless of our responses. I am rooting for, and continually work towards making them be unlucky instead. I long ago adopted the electronic engineering schematic symbol to the left as it represents a resistor. At the very least, that is what I am […]
By Ted Dunlap, on January 1st, 2023 
According to Investopedia, Metrics are measures of quantitative assessment commonly used for assessing, comparing, and tracking performance or production. Generally, a group of metrics will typically be used to build a dashboard that management or analysts review on a regular basis to maintain performance assessments, opinions, and business strategies. There are various definitions, but in this post I intend you consider metrics as Your measure of value for your labor and your assets. What you will willingly exchange to others for things you value more. Now is a wonderful time to establish against the currency that has been the world standard metric for a century. While we are accustomed to using dollars and cents, as they decline towards uselessness […]
By Ted Dunlap, on December 30th, 2022 
For my heading, I purposefully modified NC Scout’s bestselling book title that I am discussing in this post. The Guerrilla’s Guide To The Baofeng Radio goes far beyond the make/model amateur radio he recommends in it. I and a fellow active licensed radio operator (HAM) took a local class from him a few years ago. It was extremely informative and valuable. I expect this book to have much of what we learned in that class, and quite a bit more packed into it. I have ordered my own copy, so this is a recommendation in advance of being able to review it, based on what I know of the author and of the subject matter. He created and operates Brushbeater […]
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