<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>>…A navy that was useless and</span></b><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ridiculous and never could've played a part in a modern war….<u></u><u></u></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It was valuable to world peace, in that it demonstrated that a surface navy is vulnerable to modern weapons.  This demonstration may have been what convinced Xi to avoid invasion of Taiwan.</font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>It convinced<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Xi that American $20 billion nuclear aircraft carriers </span>are vulnerable to cheap but intelligent<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>drones if the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">y</span> are numerous enough<span class="gmail_default" style="">; and it demonstrated that, thanks to Donald's idiotic Iranian war, American anti-missile missiles are now in serious short supply. </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div> <span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…It isn't hard to build a 750 mile long pipeline<span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"> that is 100 feet underground?!<br><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It wouldn’t need to be that long.  John use some imagination.  Oil field, multiple rigs, multiple pipes, going various directions to some (possibly short) distance away to multiple sites.  A few miles of pipe would suffice,</i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Depending on the specific model of Iranian drone used, they have a range of between<span class="gmail_default" style=""> 600 and 1550 miles.</span> But all Iranian drones are cheap and therefore very numerous.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>where the oil can be pumped into trucks and carried over land,</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">So under wartime conditions<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>you're gonna build a new road <span class="gmail_default" style="">so you can</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>have a line of defenseless<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>trucks<span class="gmail_default" style=""> that is so long it is capable of carrying 20 million barrels of oil <u>EACH DAY</u>. A standard oil tanker truck carries about 190 barrels of oil, so you'd need 105,000 trucks. Imagine that, a straight line of 105,000 highly flammable tanker trucks. W</span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">hat a glorious sight that will be. And what a delicious target for a $20,000 drone!  </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Notice that with the strait mostly closed, the price of crude oil<span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault" style=""> is lower than it was in May 2022,</span></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Nobody burns crude oil,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> they burn gasoline and diesel oil, and both are nearing their all-time high. </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Why does the government have a policy on vaccination?  There’s nothing in the constitution which allows that.</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>There's nothing in the Constitution that<span class="gmail_default" style=""> allows the use of cell phones either. </span>Or flat screen TVs.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Or artificial intelligence. Or even indoor plumbing. </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…#1) </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">King Donald<span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"> controls USA's </span>cryptocurrency policy<span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault">…  John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Indeed? </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Yes indeed.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></font> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">> </span>A president makes law now? </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>King Donald <span class="gmail_default" style="">T</span>he <span class="gmail_default" style="">Fi</span>rst<span class="gmail_default" style=""> certainly thinks so, and so does the Republican controlled Congress, and so does the Republican controlled Supreme Court. </span> </b></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2931079252255290304"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2931079252255290304WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-2931079252255290304gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>When was the constitution overthrown please? </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">January 6, 2021<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Presidents don’t make law</font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I know. But kings do.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>