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Mike Benz explains the government funded and coordinated censorship apparatus that has been used to crush citizens' free speech rights

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Due to a sport boycott during the apartheid era, South Africa only participated in eight Rugby World Cup tournaments, which is two less than the other first tier rugby playing nations. Yet, our national rugby team, aka the Springboks, won the Webb Ellis Cup four times, which is more than anybody else - even though they had less opportunity to do so, effectively winning the world cup 50% of the times they participated.

They won every single final they played. They made it to the semi finals five or six times. Regrettably I cannot find the exact number but I'm sure somebody will correct me. And, together with France and New Zealand, they never failed to make it to the quarter finals.

Twice they lost a pool game and still went on to win the Rugby World cup; something else nobody else could do.

But the most remarkable thing is that there are no big names in the Springbok team, nobody that is best in the world in his position; just a very efficient rugby machine running on all cylinders. A team of selfless players playing for their country. A team that never gives up.

In a country like South Africa where there is very little to be proud of, this is huge; a sport that has never failed to unite our rainbow nation.

My Giant is a citizen of the USA and follows his Government policies (for the most parts). And Kalpataru is a citizen of Indonesia and follows her Government policies.

Regarding what's happening in the Middle East, my Giant is with innocents in Israel while Kalpataru is with innocents in Palestine.

Here is where Indonesia stands.


Now, what's gonna happen to Giant-Kalpataru relationship?

My recent trip to Dayton, Ohio has markings everywhere as reminders of the Wright brothers being the first to have a powered aircraft successfully take a man into flight. I got to see a reconstruction of their workshop, wind tunnel for airfoil testing, some of their original aircraft and videos of some of their failures and successes.
The desire they had was great, but they were by no means great designers and it took a few years of testing and retesting to get a engine powered plane to fly more than a few seconds with control.

I've started watching a few YouTube videos about their work, the secrecy as they learned others globally were attempting the same thing. They had a patent in the United States for the design, but that means nothing in Europe and other experimenters were right behind the Wrights.

The one thing I read/saw was they based some of the steering in wing bending that was evident in soaring birds. A competitor had a fixed wing and used adjustable flaps called ailerons to control the steering. Fortunately for the Wright brothers, their documented flights were the first.

Probably the smartest thing the Wright brothers did was to avoid a flapping wing design as it proved to be the biggest flop in mankind attempting to fly like a bird!

I came across this video of such disasters in the early days of manned flight.
Funny now, but I'm sure many were injured and killed in their attempts.



It's amazing how many 'test pilots' wore suits and ties.

It looks like we missed having Halloween with a Full Moon by a few days. I was out walking at 7am and the western sky was lit up by a full moon and only a few clouds.

Perry was a well loved actor in Friends and several other TV progs and films, he will be greatly missed.

RIP Matthew

So my mother suggested giving the music room a facelift. That was perfectly fine with me. Been gutting it out the last 3 days (I have to do it in bite size pieces on account of the pinched nerve in my back). Having commercial sound gear is awesome . . . until its time to unhook and move it lol. Nightmare of cables and cords plus the big heavy amps and speaker cabinets. If I ever replace my gear, it will be smaller and lighter than what I have now (one amp is almost 40 lbs, the subwoofer is almost 80 lbs, too much for someone with back issues). I got it figured out though how to set everything back up that will be a lot more user friendly plus not have a matrix of cables running all over the place randomly as a eyesore.

I'm just glad its not a system from the 70s/80s. To have anything close to the performance of what I got now, it would be a lot bigger and much much heavier, you would need a full size van towing a trailer (and I still wouldn't have the deep low end I got now) so I can't complain looking at it that way lol.

Gonna be alright

It's reported that former vice-president Mike Pence dropped out of the race to win the Republican presidential nomination today. He's quoted as saying: “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today."
Sorry Mike, you didn't have a prayer to begin with...
While many think you shouldn't have tried for a campaign, being at the bottom of the polls and never gaining traction. This decision is months overdue.

I like Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Watch this video and I am sure you will like her too! Feel free to leave comments and questions. Oh, Go Blue!