Disaster Averted
Not the ‘climate change’ disaster, that’s still on. The averted disaster was the premature end to the UN generated climate change Ponzi Scheme. For a short while it looked like the announcement of a successful nuclear fusion demonstration would slam the breaks on that money generating power grab. Here (below) is the corner of the rapidly wetted blanket that’s being thrown on that little glimmer of hope/sanity.
The latest: Despite the scientists conducting the experiment stating that there was a 20 percent net gain in energy the climate cartel is saying that it actually used 100 times as much energy as it produced. I’m no math pro, but these two sets of numbers don’t do much to reinforce my faith in the scientific community.
Just to make sure you stay the course on funding the madness, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change continues to say the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 if it is to avoid warming to the point that irreversible and catastrophic climate change effects, such as massive glacier collapse, are virtually guaranteed.
Damn, this sounds serious. I’ve got some late breaking new on this front that I think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change might want to be aware of: cutting emissions in half by 2030 ain’t gonna hap’n. And because it ain’t gonna hap’n and these clowns ain’t gonna go quietly into the night (as long as there is money to be made), I’ve got to put up with the endless tales of doom and gloom for the rest of my natural life.
Shit, this is worse than having the crabs.
Inflammation
Damn. I knew Drudge had become pretty much a joke, but this Chicken Little BS is likely to to touch off a panic with those who are imbalanced and impressionable. Perhaps we should restart the schoolhouse air raid drills from the 60’s?
Good News: It Runs on Renewables !
Got a few extra buck lying around? An ‘ Elite Package’ allows you to genetically engineer the embryo before implanting it into the artificial womb. Everything from eye and hair color to strength, height, and intelligence can be chosen, and inherited genetic diseases can be avoided.
It sounds terrible and impersonal, but before passing judgement consider this:
Breitbart on AOC
You gotta love Breitbarts bottom line.
Did you know Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Lunatic) has a new movie out? Don’t feel bad. Neither did anyone else. Her Climate Change (which is a hoax) documentary grossed just $81 per screen.
Director Rachel Lears’ To the End screened at Sundance, features AOC and made its weekend debut on 120 screens.
On those 120 screens, it grossed just $9,667, which averages to $81 per screen.
If you do that math, To the End probably played four or five times daily on those 120 screens. So you’re talking about an average of two people per screening… You’re talking empty matinees.
Had this been a movie where AOC opened her blouse instead of her mouth, I see much better box office results. But what do I know? I’m no hotshot producer.
A Sad State
I’m really surprised that they would fire this fuckin deviant from his cushy job within the DOE. I thought sure they would send him to counseling or couch him as a victim of some sort or another (capitalism made he/she/it steal).
The tragedy is not that he was fired, the tragedy is that the administration put this sicko out in front of our kids and touted his behavior as acceptable while clearly he is product of a society in deep decline. What a sad nation we have become.
“Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters,” says the DOE.
Brinton, who was appointed to his former position in June, was caught on surveillance cameras making off with a $320 bag from Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport’s baggage claim area — a bag that contained more than $3,500 worth of jewelry, clothing and makeup, according to police.
The Way we Were | Big Hair
Remember the posters in the barber shop?
Reminds Me of My Ex
Numb
I guess we’ve grown numb to this national crisis. For more than 40 years our wonderful congresscritters have pontificated on both the foreign causes and the appropriate domestic response: and yet here we are.
I guess (also) that I’m of two minds on this entire ‘immigration’ conundrum. The nationalist* in me demands they use ‘the broken system’ while my humanitarian side would like to bomb the fuck out of the governing bodies in multiple Latin American nations for the hopelessness they’ve created for their own populations.
I’m concerned about the tremendous cost to support these multi-millions of new Americans, it’s apparent to me that it is now impossible to ship them back to their nation of origin. It’s bad, bad, bad right now and about to get a whole lot worse.
*Somehow ‘nationalism’ has fallen from favor: how long can such a sentiment continue before the nation itself falls?
A Quick Note to Santa | Rarefied Air
Almost There
A good early winter weather pattern is setting in and I’m almost all set to hit Wheeler reservoir and the Elk River. Here is what the out week looks like:
I’ve invested in a good set of insulated weather gear and once Amazon sees fit to deliver my watertight boots I’ll be all set. I changed the engine oil and gear oil in the bottom end and took the boat out two weeks ago. Surprisingly, I landed a 3 or 4 pound very aggressive large mouth on the large chartreuse (yeller) spinner-bait shown below.
The redish colored spinner above the yellow one I tied on earlier today after watching a couple of videos by Alex Rudd and saw the mass of bass he was pulling in from like type waters (he’s in eastern Tennessee) with a lure that color. I had one like type (kinda/sorta like) lure in my tackle box but it resembled a fish and I wanted to get a closer match to the crawdad so I picked up the one on the right above from Wally-world yesterday.
Here are a couple of video’s that demonstrate how well this type of lure is working right now.
Here is lure that I already had: colors are a good match, but (again) mine is fish like and I needed one that resembles a crawdad.
I’ve got several spots marked out where all the smart folk say the bass are hanging around this time of year. On the map below it’s about 6 miles from the star to the right most triangle. The ‘star’ on the map is where I launch, triangles are where I intend on filling the live well.
In Other News. . . .
The Gnostic Bible
Token White Folk
Interpretations
Some two or so years ago I downloaded a paper from a site that asked if I wanted to receive other papers or articles on the same subject. I accidentally selected the yes button (something I never do). Now, every morning I receive an email with a link to a new paper or book or lengthy article that is related to Thomas, Jesus, Gnostic, Early Christian, or other same such topics. Frankly, many of the papers could benefit (as could my own writing) from perusal by an editor or, for that matter, a senior HS student with a few spare minutes and a red pen.
The paper that arrived this AM is titled : YOU ARE GODS: AT THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY by Vincenzo Belmonte.
One of the interesting currents in this read is the idea that Jesus not only took on the physical appearance of man, but also the intellectual qualities of man. A pretty radical thought in my mind. Here is a short extract that is not so much about Jesus as it is about ‘interpretations’.
Jesus’ self-awareness was born fundamentally from his personal relationship with the Father, but it got hold of documentary support in the Tanakh, which was creatively interpreted. From this we may infer a principle of general validity: the ‘truth’ of the sacred scriptures of any religion resides not so much in their historical and scientific reliability as in the effectiveness of their emotional and moral grasp in view of the experience of God based on openness to the infinite.
They are but fruitful instruments for setting up and implementing the personal project of perfecting one’s own humanity. As such, they involve the interpretative intervention of those who ad modum recipientis*, that is, in keeping with individual needs, expectations and limitations, draw from them.
Jesus (as a man) and the apostles discovered new meanings in the Hebrew Scriptures, on the grounds that, since they were already bearers of a more radical existential project, they could only read them with new eyes.
Regardless of the authors’ intent, in them they sought and found themselves, their own personal aspirations dictated by the Spirit.
*The Latin maxim is ‘quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur’ — literally, “what is received is received according to the mode [or manner, or condition] of the receiver.” Less literally, the maxim holds that our predispositions (our mental filters) color our perceptions.
It Don’t Make no MoFo Sense
Tis Da Season
If There’s a Heaven
All Things are New Again
Is this how it begins anew? Are we at the beginning of the next revolution of a slowly turning wheel in time where enough of the past has been forgotten that we can stumble into repeating failures. Have we totally lost our awareness of how dangerous the world really is?
What the hell has happened to our collective memory? Here is a sampling of the major digital news outlets for today, Pearl Harbor Day
Not a word. Not a photo. The collapse of our national memory puts me in mind of the 18th Sayings in the Gospel of Thomas:
The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us how our end will be.”
Jesus said, “Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”
So, ‘the day that will live in infamy’ existed only as long as our ADD’d society could hold the thought. I’m guessing there’s a new terrible event just over the horizon, something we swear we’ll never forget and then let it also slip into the dustbin of history.
As an afterthought it occurs that there are also slices of our society that are being stripped from our collective conscious by the relentless march of time. Some may take comfort in a little reminder of our simpler life by Shorty and Slim:
30 Years of Hard Time
‘Cause it’s good to see from others eyes (every now and again)
On the Upper East Side
There’s a stench emanating from what should be our shining city on a hill. It proceeds from the rot that permeates a government that has become self serving. A place where honor and patriotism have fallen away and a perpetual political class manipulate the levers of power to confuse and gaslight the balance of the nation. We should decentralize the government and take a wrecking ball to the marble palaces they have dedicated to themselves and their posterity.
A prime example of the mischief these inbreds scatter about like pixie dust is the letter 4 of these creatures crafted to tamp down on the story about a dope snorting, prostitute whoring, money grubbing, golom looking son-o-joe named Hunter. Remember?
More than 50 former intelligence officials then published an open letter on October 19, 2020, that argued that, based on their experience and expertise, the story about Hunter’s laptop came from the Russian government.
“If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this,” they wrote.
The good folk over at the New York Post circled back around yesterday and Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary, John Brennan a former CIA director, Mike Hayden, a former CIA director, and Jim Clapper, a former director of national intelligence — who all once said The Post’s reporting had ‘all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,’ — declined or did not respond to request for comment about whether the latest disclosures had changed their opinion.
Perhaps the J6 fiasco is/was designed to draw attention away from the real usurpers. There’s been a real stench coming out of Washington for the last 6 years or so. God help these folk when the winds change.
Feeling the Bern | NSFW or for Younglings
One shouldn’t end a Saturday evening pondering on his place in this universe, the frailties of life or wondering what cryptic meaning exists in words jotted down some many hundred upon hundreds of years ago. It’s not right and just ain’t healthy.
So, in the interest of your health and well being, I give you Bernie Mac. But before slapping the start button on the video consider the context in which Bernie is performing. He is just starting out and really is unknown. The venue is Def Comedy Jam and the crowd is notorious for ripping comics apart. The comedian that performed just before him was Martin Lawrence and they ate him alive. Lawrence was unable to calm the crowd and walked off of the stage.
And then Bernie appeared.
If you can see beyond the profanity he was a loud but good man (by all reports) that died far to young at 50. The wiki people have a good write-up on him here.
Enjoy. You can thank me later.
On 6 and 20 | Or Pissing off Athanasius
It’s no mystery that the Church Fathers undertook extraordinary efforts to squelch what they viewed as heretical teachings. They were more than just a little good at this and did a bang-up job of deep 6ing the Gospel of Thomas. Here is how good a job they did: for more than 1,500 years no one, absolutely no one knew of it’s existence.
Around 1900 3 fragments of a Greek document were found that demonstrated that a larger text once existed. The fragments are in terrible condition and only a part of the overall document survives today. It was found in Oxyrhynchus Egypt.
In 1947 the full document was discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It is written in Coptic and is supposed to be complete.
One copy? One copy only! One single copy buried and hidden from the world for more than 1,500 years. It was quite a dangerous document back in the day as it pooh poohs all over the New Testament teachings and runs directly against the what the early church fathers were intent on establishing: an all powerful church that ruled over all of man.
I’ve been thinking; if it had not been for it’s vanity (and those pesky Muslims) the Church really could have succeeded in becoming the only world power and we would all be it’s subjects. The Nazi’s were bad, but they were saints compared to the crazy bad these holy folk demonstrated during the inquisition(s).
The entire volume of this gospel is a giant riddle that begins with the prologue and continues through what the smart minds believe is the 114th saying. (Which of course itself a suspect number if one includes Saying 1 as actually being a portion of the prologue.) It’s not a set of riddles in the same vein as Revelations, rather It’s a scratch your head kinda thing over something as innocuous as the mustard seed in saying 20 (Smallest seed? Nope. Shelter for ‘birds of the sky’? Nope.) Surely the author knew this was not so, so why state it?
Here is another example: Saying 6 and Saying 14. In 6 the apostles ask 4 questions that Jesus (seemingly) does not answer. In Saying 14 he answers the questions asked in 6. Why in the world would someone write a testimony this way?
I’ve merged (and edited) 6 and 14 below
Question from 6
–Response from 14
Should we fast?
— Fasting begets sin.
How shall we pray?
— Prayer begets condemnation
How shall we give alms?
— Giving begets harm
What diet shall we observe?
— It matters not.
I’ve taken liberties with the balance of Sayings 6 and 14 and came up with a very short 2 part saying. Again, Saying 6 statement followed by a Saying 14 statement.
Do not tell lies. Don’t do what you hate.
— This world cannot defile you, but you can defile yourself.
Finally, here is the bottom line (again my paraphrase) from 6:
— — — All things will be known. — — —
Coming full circle on all of this: The bottom line statement of Saying 6 is so poignant considering the resurfacing of the Gospel of Thomas. Just another part of the mystery of Thomas.
Air Travel: A New Perspective
Dystopian Doublespeak
A Quick Conversion of $1.3B to $2K
This just in from the world of fantasy: The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance had the potential to reap mega earnings from Terra’s UST algorithmic stablecoin before it crashed last week, along with its sister cryptocurrency Luna.
In 2018, Binance put $3 million into Luna and received 15 million tokens in return. At Luna’s price peak in April, those tokens were worth $1.6 billion, Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a Monday tweet. At Luna’s price now, the tokens are worth about $2,391.
Last week, Terraform Labs’ algorithmic stablecoin UST, which was theoretically tied to the price of the U.S. dollar, tanked to about 13 cents. As a result of the crash, Luna, the cryptocurrency that was meant to help the UST stablecoin keep its dollar peg, also collapsed. Luna went from trading at a high of around $119 just last month to being worth a mere fraction of a cent.
The Hive and The Cowboy
I was scanning the news this morning and ran across an article on an old time cowboy named Frank Bogart. He was being erased and part of that erasure is to remove a statue in his honor from it’s place of honor in front of the city hall.
I wondered what great shame Frank brought on himself and the city of Palm Springs. There was not much darkness in Frank’s life. Could some small slip somewhere in his past tripped him up? Nope, what brought about Dead Frank’s downfall is/was his manliness.
Here are extracts from the biographical sketches that the mayor and city council(men) have posted to the Palm Springs City website:
City Councilman Dennis Woods: A former resident of Santa Monica, Woods moved to Palm Springs’ Little Tuscany neighborhood seven years ago with his husband of 21 years, Robert Rotman. He has spent the last 30 years volunteering for a host of LGBTQ non-profit and community organizations.
Christy Holstege was re-elected to the Palm Springs City Council in November 2020, representing District 4. In December 2020, she was appointed to serve as Mayor for a one-year term by the City Council. She is the first woman to serve as mayor in the history of Palm Springs – and is also the first openly bisexual mayor in the country.
Mayor Lisa Middleton was first elected to the Palm Springs City Council in November 2017. . Her current term on City Council ends in December 2024. On December 9, 2021 she became the Mayor of Palm Springs. Palm Springs Council Members rotate annually the Mayor’s responsibility. She is the third transgender person in U.S. history to serve as Mayor of an American city, the first transgender person to serve as Mayor in the state of California.
City Councilman Geoff Kors served for nine years as Executive Director of Equality California where he led the effort to transform California from a state with almost no legal protections for the LGBT community to the state with the broadest protections in the nation. Geoff lives in Palm Springs with his husband, James Williamson
OBTW, an interesting aside on Ms Christy, her bio states that she lives with her husband Adam Gilbert and their newborn son. How fucking embarrassing that must be for Adam to have his wife openly advertise that she entertains affairs outside of the marriage (else wise how could she be bisexual?).
All of this brings us back to poor Dead Frank. His crime was being a straight white male cowboy with his statue on the doorstep of the House of Queer.
Sorry Frank, the age of masculinity has ended in Palm Springs.
Our Brave New World | Ghosts/Machine
Think that folk in our gubbermit aren’t totally wacked out? Here is a neat little proof of point put out by a PSYOP group.
It’s damn scary the way these folk view themselves and the world.
You Are Being Mocked
If ever there were a mom that needed baby formula, it’s our vibrant and out of the closet Secretary of Transportation.
His response to the crisis that moms are facing with empty formula shelves? “The government does not make baby formula.”
This entire administration is a startling array of idiots and freaks. Damn, we are in a dangerous place as a nation right now
Well, That’s Got To Be Embarrassing
Don’t worry about Matt being embarrassed by the near total collapse of the product he had been hawking, he got his money. No, those most deserving of ridicule should be all of those ‘more than mere cocky’ assholes that bought into this obvious pyramid scheme. Bitcoin and other make believe currencies have always been nothing more than a gamble. I could never really understand what underlying value exists in these non-existent ‘coins’. If you thought paper currency is/was a shaky proposition, what of a ‘currency’ that only exists in the notional world of cyber?
These currencies, BTW, are not a single product pyramid scheme, there is a whole world of gambling behind a vast array of ‘coins’ in this fantasy world. Here are a few of the valueless products available. Place your bets folks.
Bitcoin (BTC)
Terra (LUNA)
Avalanche (AVAX)
PancakeSwap (CAKE)
ThorChain (RUNE)
Dogecoin (DOGE)
FTX Token (FTT)
Cosmos (ATOM)
Ethereum (ETH)
Decentraland (MANA)
Ripple (XRP)
Solana (SOL)
Apecoin (APE)
WAVES
WhaleFin
Here are just a couple of charts that demonstrate the pain:
There are a whole lot of folk that got extremely rich working this scheme. All of those folk that set up the markets and sold the vapors to a population eager to see double (and sometime triple) digit returns are sitting pretty. As for the smucks left holding an empty bag here is a little free advice:: “a fool and his fortune. . . .”
2 Percent
Oh what an absolutely fucked up population we’ve created
Yes he is trying to demonstrate how asinine the conversation has become, but the ideas that he is articulating are ones that are on the lips of the protected classes.
Technology Update From Risitas
When Comedy Was King
Stolen Valor | Another Shipley Beat-Down
Our Woke World
Sympathy
The acting by this bitch is so poor that I sympathize with the jury. I’m thinking that having to listen to this drivel would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment were the jury under some odd sentence.
Even though I pretty much dislike Depp (an egotistical asshole if ever there was one), what the hell was he thinking when he tied the knot with crazzzzzzy. What a friggin nightmare.
And I guess that the jury will evaluate both of these two and determine who’s testimony is more truthful. I’m guessing Amber is gonna hope they have short memories:
A Real Beating
I’m out of the market.
I heard that it did real well yesterday.
Today it looks rough. Some -1,000 Dow rough
Over the last 3 months some NASDAQ Techs are in a painful place.
Be careful out there, some folk are betting heavy on the downside.
Y’all Need To Buck Up
There is no doubt about it, you folk that are still doing the daily grind need to put your nose to the stone and shoulder to the wheel. Those of us that have baled are counting on you and the tax dollars you generate!
Here is how poorly you’re doing: productivity fell 7.5 percent in the first three months of this year, the sharpest decline since 1947. NINETEEN FORTIE SEBEN ! Here is how bad 1947 was:
Not only are you not getting shit done, stuff built or papers passed from one desk to the next, you are charging more for not doing it. Labor costs jumped 11.6 percent in the last year. That’s the largest gain since 1982. Remember 1982? That’s the year Reagan finally made headway against the malaise the Jimmy Carter introduced. Let’s not forget how that communist SOB tried to lead us away from a competitive economy with his socialist drivel.
WTF, are we really are back to that shitty economy of the Carter years?
I guess a shitty economy and the promise of WW-Three is about all this ass-hat and the crowd of clowns that infest this administration can muster. Here’s the good news, should his last few brain cell vaporize we all get the consolation prize:
The Fast Lane Pt2
The folk from Loretto Telecom just left and I rushed to the computer to do a speed test. Damn, I’m impressed. 235 (5G) and 108 (2.4) is cooking!
Life in the Fast Lane
I could throw a bucket of bits and bites into my Jeep and drive them to where they needed to go and it would be faster than my internet service is this morning.
Ping (Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper) measures the time to query and respond between two IP addresses. The test above was to and from HughesNet. A ping speed under 20ms is true goodness, acceptable is between 50 and 100. Ping above 150ms is bad. Measured from one speed test provider (above) showed that I’m double ungood very bad at 1045 ms. A test from another test provider (below) verified this suckedness.
My ‘jitter’ also sucks: Jitter is a measure of the time delay in the sending of data packets over a network. Essentially, the longer data packets take the more jitter can negatively impact video and audio quality. 150 ms (I guess) is considered the maximum tolerable jitter.
I’ll not go into my upload/download speeds. Numbers this bad remind me of the dark ages of computing and my Commodore 64 with a dial up modem.
The fiber optic install guy is scheduled for 10 this morning. He will be bringing a new ‘whole home’ modem that I assume is WiFi 6 enabled. I’ve ordered two Amazon Firestick 4K plus (WiFi 6) for my older TVs. They will arrive this afternoon. I’ve shopped around and found a TP-Link’s ‘ WiFi internet adapter for the computer that is rated at speeds greater than my planned fiber speed ( 2.4 GHz at 400 Mbps and 5 GHz at 867 Mbps). 250 Mbps is what I’m slated to have installed. Frankly, they could install a 20 year old mule and I’d have faster action than I currently ‘enjoy’. More to follow.
El Risitas Rides Again
Light Posting
I kicked my own ass yesterday with the weed-eater. I knew better than to get out during the heat of the day, but was jammed up on time and wanted to make sure that the ‘fiber guy’ could access the clam shell they put in on the edge of my property a couple of weeks ago. I started at 9 AM and by 3 PM the body started pushing back with heavy cramping in the fingers and toes; it was time to quit for the day.
Today, if the weather holds this afternoon, I’ll finish what I started yesterday and trim up some around the house. I also need to get the water line cover back in place from my ‘improbable’ water leak from last week. It’s improbable because the place that the leak occurred was a crack in brass connector between a 3/4 inch PEC tube and the pressure regulator adjacent to the cabin. I have no idea how that brass cracked/split.
And so with the promise of rain, the need to reinstall the water cover, trim around the house, finish trimming the fence line on the front of the property, run to the vet to get the dog her pharmaceuticals, clean up the mess I made while the wife spent the last couple of days at the kids house, and cucumbers/egg plants/potatoes/beans that need to put into the ground (all of which needs to be done today) I’m thinking the posting will be light for the next day or two.
One thing for certain though, I’m going to slow down enough to experience the beauty and wonder of this place. Have a great week.
More on Musk
Hitler Does Biden
An Absolute Nightmare
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you your new ‘Chief of Disinformation’.
Tramp Stamps
Technology Hell
Well, I’m scheduled to have fiber optic cable completely installed in my home this coming Wednesday. Until then I’m still hamstrung by both very expensive HughesNet satellite service and total systems failure due to rain or clouds or whatever atmospheric anomalies parade themselves between the dish adjacent my home and a satellite some 22,000 miles (or so) above my head.
Here is a recent speed test.
I had to double check my math on the download speed. It’s 680 K. It’s 680 K most of the time when it works. Once a month my usage meter resets and I gain high speed (supposedly 25 Mbps). but that last for about 2 days as which point I’m throttled back again.
The ‘ping’ and ‘jitter’ figures are terrible. Shit don’t happen anywhere near real-time on my system!
Hughes is charging me a little more that $100 monthly for internet access and VOIP telephone service. My new cost will $90 with unlimited long distance. Importantly the speed is an unlimited 250 Mbps (both ways). The speed of fiber optic means that I can now stream vice pay Dish Network $150+ monthly for their lousy TV Line up (190 channels of Home Shopping Network and Come to Jesus TV). A Youtube Live package is $65 monthly and covers all the stations I need covered.
All and all a no brainer, more than 10 times the speed day in and day out while reducing monthly costs by almost a hundred bucks. There will be a small fee for equipment rental tagged onto the bill for the modem, but I’m willing to spend the 10 bucks or so just to be able to check email without taking a nap between the send/receive cycles.
Patience.
The Quiet Warrior
When I think about military heroes, images from movies about Audi Murphy and Alvin York come to mind. Until yesterday I thought that the highest/most decorated US serviceman was Audi Murphy. Then I stumbled across this write up at a site dedicated to verifying the service claims of US Special Forces operators.
Here is a name that you may have never heard of, the name of a quiet warrior: Col Robert Howard. He was wounded 14 times over 54 months of combat and awarded 8 purple hearts.
He was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times over a 13-month period but received lesser medals for the first two nominations, which were for actions performed in Cambodia where the U.S. was fighting covertly. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on December 30, 1968, his third nomination. It is noteworthy that many of his awards were earned while Col Howard was a NCO in Army Special Forces.
You might think of yourself as a tough SOB, but there are very, very few 8 purple heart awards tough SOB’s out there (living or dead). In addition to the awards, medals, and appurtenances shown below, he also earned or was awarded: Ranger Tab, Special Forces Tab, Combat Infantryman Badge, Aircrew Badge, Master Parachutist Badge, Pathfinder Badge, Air Assault Badge, Expert Infantryman’s Badge
Vietnamese Ranger Badge, Vietnamese Master Parachute Badge, Thai Master Parachute Wings, Korean Master Parachute Badge, Thai Balloonist Badge, French Parachutist Badge.
And of course the government in Vietnam showered him with objects of their gratitude as well. They include: Campaign Medal with 60 device, Cross of Gallantry with Gold Star (Corps citation), Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star (Division citation), Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star (Regiment/Brigade citation), Armed Forces Honor Medal 2nd Award, Wound Medal, Civil Actions Medal 2nd Award, Cross of Gallantry Unit Citation with Palm, 1st Oak Leaf Cluster.