"...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

"For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008

"You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2016

Ryno's Retirement & the Decomissioning of the PYB Blog


Yesterday was my retirement ceremony.  It was a small gathering.  This was fitting both because of the location, where fewer special operations forces provide superior quality effects, and also because my service has never been conventional or popular.

It was a special occasion attended by special people.  I was honored to have the best commander I have known give the invocation, an outstanding NCO who understands the meaning of public service narrate the proceedings, and the small audience included people I look up to for their defense of this nation.  It was necessarily a small yet elite group of public servants.

It was officiated by my wife who started her career protecting me and my crew in a time of war as our intelligence officer, and who has continued to help keep me survivable against the many threat rings from domestic enemies as well.  We have gone to war together both figuratively and literally and there is no other officer more worthy to stand by my side as my career was concluded.

There is no reason to recite her comments or my own in this final blog post.  The posts here have done that for years.

This blog began years ago at the request of the Air Force inviting airmen to be its voice in the blogosphere.  As my service has now concluded, so also has this blog.

May God bless and restore the United States of America.

https://www.scribd.com/document/318368355/Rynearson-Retirement-Program


Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Friday, July 8, 2016

Leaving the Dream - In 360 Video Virtual Reality

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Final sortie of Rick "Ryno" Rynearson - founder of WantsCheck.Com and your humble blogger.

"Ryno 81" flight:

00:00 - Leisurely departs NAS Pensacola
05:54 - Enters Gator MOA
08:08 - Begins formation maneuvering
16:50 - Fighting Wing ET3
21:44 - Leaves MOA with style

26:00 - Requests permission of the Great Spirits to transit airspace

29:45 - Transit request granted, begins descent into Tallahassee through weather
40:52 - Pays respects to Detachment 145 and The Tribe
44:40 - Proceeds to initial for overhead and individual pattern work
52:55 - Rejoins for wing landing -- military aviation career complete

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Ryno's Final Landing - Full Stop Where It All Started


Yesterday I finished my military aviation career, landing on the wing in Tallahassee, Florida where my flying career began at Detachment 145 at Florida State University.








A fitting way to finish twenty years of military aviation.  Thanks fellas of Ryno 81 flight for leading me back to the land of the Noles and clearing me off.



Great litho Hawks of the Night.  It's a keeper.  Especially that paragraph from Sea Bass.  Touching.


I really enjoyed my final solo flight, but this sortie was even better.  Out!

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Finally, Tony Carr Admits It! Splash One Fascist JQP Coward!



My work has paid off.  I can't illuminate a domestic enemy of America any more clearly than this fruit of years of farming.  Now there can't be even a modicum of credible doubt that Tony Carr is a fascist who has the utmost disdain for the Constitution and the rights of Americans, preferring unchecked government power that rules Americans as subjects rather than serving them as citizens.  Today it is made clear--Tony Carr is a domestic enemy of America.

Check out the comments section in Tony Carr's blog post here for the full discussion (before Tony edits or deletes it).  I cannot wait to see how he explains my "misinterpretation" of the words he finally admits he typed.  I'm no Harvard Law graduate, but damn if those words don't seem clear to me...

I'm guessing he will balk and come up with a reason to not explain my "misinterpretation."  That's what cowards do.  And Tony Carr is nothing if not a huge gaping coward politician.

ETA:  That didn't take long.  JQP = John Q. Predictable...


What a sissy.  Admits that he stated the viewpoint this blog has over the years taken him to task for and which he has until now refused to confirm or deny, having no courage of his conviction.  Finally admits that he said that a) there are no inviolate rights in our Constitution (ie all of our rights can be violated) and b) it's okay/good for government to violate our constitutional rights so long as it thinks it's doing so in accordance with the will of 51% or more majority of Americans, with no constitutional amendment needed.

But, he says, I misinterpreted his words.  Right.  And while he provides a defense of character for his fascist wingman who shares Tony's thin skin and hatred of America, he can't be bothered to explain what his Mussolini-esque words actually meant.  Hiding under the guise of "interpretation" without providing one, as white collar fascist pansies like him so often do, turning words into weapons.  But his attempt has been unmasked and his fascist America-hating core has been exposed.  He can't hide that fact now try as he may.  That pisses him off, but he can't do anything about it.  I have said for years now that Tony Carr is a fascist and a coward.  I have said he was unworthy of the military uniform he disgraced.  It is proven today and the defense of America rests.


ETA: As JQPredicted, Tony has begun stealth editing and deleting the conversation in his attempt at damage control.  Gotta manicure that message -- in his mind, it's less important what he said, and more important to make the conversation look a certain way.  Propaganda and politics.  Most certainly not the stuff of intellectual discussion.  To think he criticizes Public Affairs...

He added conversation after the fact to his post where he admits professing the fascist un-American viewpoint he's been called out on, and he's stealth edited it (see his edits in the link above with the original comments posted in the image at the top of this blog post).  His stealth edit tries to make it seem like he ended the exchange before being asked to explain my "misinterpretation" of his clear words.  Because it looks bad if he broke off the exchange as predicted when asked to explain what he meant by his words.  No, he had already decided to break off that discussion.  That's what he'd have readers believe.  He lies to them constantly.  They are simply sheep to be herded in his view.  He has no respect for them and certainly none for truth.


He's unsuccessfully trying to shore up his loser position now that he's kicking himself for not sticking to his years of avoiding talking about his fascist revelations (those who wish to run for office as he does know that isn't something you want on the record).  He's also since "decided" that posting his social media comments (which were not private) is a strike against me in his inevitable decision to ban me from commenting on his blog.  It has nothing to do with supporting the meme above and showing that Tony, a Harvard Law student at the time, didn't know that Thomas Jefferson didn't author the Constitution and, of course, it has nothing to do with Tony utterly failing to admit that he was wrong when he used his non-fact to insult me and was corrected.  Of course not!  It must be because his social media exchange was "private" even though it was not.  So here is that conversation reproduced:

Tony Carr:  You tout Jefferson as a hero ... I've done a lot of reading about the man, and he would have considered you unworthy of his effort for your inability to accomplish anything on civil terms.
August 31 at 10:49am · Like
Rick Rynearson: Jefferson had his high points, but he doesn't impress me much. If he were before me, I would leave him black and bruised and bloody.
August 31 at 10:51am · Like

Tony Carr: Without your endorsement, Jefferson is an empty historical suit. I'll be back, I'm gonna go burn all my Jefferson books because Rick doesn't like him.

(not sure if you realize it, but he wrote the document you claim to be defending).

(I take it back, I know you don't realize it. Carry on humiliating yourself.)
August 31 at 10:55am · Like

Rick Rynearson: Tony, you are such a lightweight. You don't know the BASICS of the Constitution, as you demonstrated about your blog post on declaring war, and now with your error about Jefferson writing the Constitution. You're thinking Declaration of Independence. You really need to close your sewer and do some study before you talk about America. Honestly.
August 31 at 10:56am · Like

Tony Carr: You're right, Rick. I am a such a loser. God, when you said that ... I just realized how much I hate myself without your approval.
August 31 at 11:00am · Like

Tony Carr: Just for the record, I am aware the Thomas Jefferson (and John Adams) were on diplomatic missions when our US Constitution was signed, and therefore were not present for its final validation. I'm also aware -- as I'm sure you are given your chair between God and the Big Electron in the center of the universe -- that Jefferson is credited by virtually every historian with having centrally and fundamentally influenced the text and the meaning of the US Constitution.

You've broken the spirit of that document here tonight, as you generally do when confronted by opinions that you find disagreeable and facts, theories, and logic you find inconvenient.

I really wish you wouldn't do that, because it just ruins an otherwise good time. It's quite possible you need to drink more rather than less. But thanks for the insults -- it's been real.
August 31 at 11:05am · Like
Rick Rynearson: Tony Carr: "(not sure if you realize it, but he wrote the document you claim to be defending)."

It takes character to admit when you're wrong. I understand, it's tough.
August 31 at 11:08am · Like

ETA
:  And now a day later he's deleted just about all the conversation there including his admission to his fascism and disdain for the Constitutional rights of Americans.  Goebbels couldn't do any better than Tony at peddling propaganda under the guise of patriotism.  But all he has done with his latest historical revisionism is demonstrate that it wasn't a matter of misinterpreting his clear words.  If it were that, he wouldn't have deleted his fascist confession.  But the internet has memory, so Tony fails.


Victory.  Sure, it's like clubbing a baby seal when debating Tony, but it's still a nice feeling.  It was a long digital furball, but splash one fascist politician.  This is the closest Tony Carr has ever gotten to actual combat.  He didn't fare very well.  The engraving on his Mort Monument is reproduced below:

Blue Irony, Did Tony Carr Deem the USAF Fascist? 

Check Your Six - Tony Carr Will Use Your Service Against You

Tony Carr - an OPR Made Flesh (Prequel) 

Criticizing Tony Carr is Against Community Standards

Tony Carr, the Ultimate Political Animal, Out PAs Public Affairs 

Finally, a One on One Debate with Tony Carr

Tony Carr Sold His JQP Blog to a Corporation in Exchange for Cash and Stock

Tony Carr & the Rule of Law

Tony Carr, JQP & Freedom of Speech So Long As I Agree With It

Somebody Call a Whaambulance - A Squadron Commander Got Fired!

Naomi Wolf - the Anti Tony Carr

Tony Carr - an Elite JET Pilot!

Constitution Day Quiz

Our Constitution is on the Terror List

Tony Carr Says He's Now Ready "To Guide Your Electoral Decisions."

Tony Carr Not Allowed to Play in the Digital PlayPen?

Tony Carr Thinks #BlackLivesMatter is a Source of Humor?

The United States Needs a Concentration Camp Board

Monday, July 4, 2016

Listen to the Explosions Tonight and Remember the Sound


Think about what your service is about.  Think about the serenity destroying sound of the fireworks and what they signify.  Public service isn't supposed to be easy and placid.  It's supposed to involve risk.  It does if you're doing it right.

Don't treat this Fourth of July like just another commercialized holiday.  Ponder.  Reach back and remember.  And BE the greatness of America.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Arguments From Fascist Gun Grabbers Are Complete Bullshit


As happens frequently and with increasing fervency, those who wish to violate the rights of the American people to keep and bear arms are hitting the media to spread their propaganda.  On the whole, I have found that these fascists throw any semblance of integrity out the window and have no issue uttering absurdities about clear textual language, clear historical record, and whipping their echo chambers into a paranoid frenzy without regard to statistical reality.  In short, their position is complete fascist bullshit.

Let me try to support and defend the Constitution against domestic enemies.  First, the textual argument.  The Second Amendment states:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The rights-deniers' argument, if it can be called that, is that the 2A grammatically acknowledges rights not of individual people, but rather of officials in a government sanctioned and controlled army.  Not only do they assume that definition of "militia," but they also assume that those not in that government controlled organization are not privy to any right to keep and bear arms without infringement.  These assumptions are absurd and contrary to the text of the amendment itself.

The 2A gives a preface to explain the reasoning behind the law and then it proceeds to lay down the law after it was debated and discussed.  The reasoning of the final amendment considers that the security of a free State is protected by a well regulated militia, and in order to have a well regulated militia, it was necessary to make it law that the right of the people to keep and bear arms will not be infringed.

But somebody who has not taken grade school history might ask, if the reasoning was to have a militia that could bolster the security of a free State, why did the anti-federalist Founders give the legal right to keep and bear arms to the people?  Well, the obvious answer from the text itself is that they viewed the militia and the people to be the same.  The people were the militia.  If that were not the case, then they would have written that the right of the militia to keep and bear arms would not be infringed.  But they did not do that.

Second, history supports this readily apparent textual reality.  George Mason and Patrick Henry were two of the most influential anti-federalists behind the Bill of Rights.  Anti-federalists did not want States to ratify the Constitution (this may shock some of the fascists who also share a disdain for the Constitution).  Unlike our domestic enemies today, the anti-federalists did not want the Constitution ratified because they believed it created a government that was far too powerful and which would destroy the rights of States and the people.  So in a compromise to get States to ratify the Constitution, it was agreed that some amendments would be voted on.  The anti-federalists offered up several amendments and ultimately only twelve were brought by James Madison to the floor and only ten were eventually adopted.  The Bill of Rights.  It is beyond insane to think that these anti-federalists would orchestrate ten amendments that all secured rights of individuals against the government (free speech, press, worship, assembly, quartered soldiers, due process, self incrimination, unreasonable searches and seizures, jury trial, etc), excepting for one amendment to secure the right of government to have armed militias.  Rather, just as the law they wrote makes clear with its text, their purpose was to secure the right of the people to be armed.  Not only did they say so in the Second Amendment itself, but George Mason addressed the Constitutional Convention in 1788 stating:

Mr. Chairman — A worthy member has asked, who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country, and if we are not to be protected from the fate of the Germans, Prussians, &c. by our representation? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people. If we should ever see that day, the most ignominious punishments and heavy fines may be expected. Under the present government all ranks of people are subject to militia duty.

His concerns that some people of means would actually avoid their duty as militia, were addressed in 1791 when the Second Amendment was finally ratified.  Patrick Henry, of "give me liberty or give me death" fame, also offered the following in a debate at a state convention:

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? 

The Second Amendment means what it says.  Now, to be fair, there are some gun control goons who acknowledge the Second Amendment means what it says, and they propose that our Constitution should be amended again to remove the right to keep and bear arms.  These individuals believe themselves to have superior reasoning ability and a superior understanding of history and human nature than the Founders and, very often, have little to no respect for those individuals from hundreds of years ago.  After all, some of them owned slaves.

Regardless, they they are correct that our Constitution would have to be amended to get rid of the legal right to keep and bear arms.  The problem, however, is that not even a government amendment removes the right of the people to the means of self defense, as rights come from our Creator and not from any government.  Just as an amendment today overturning the 13th Amendment and making it legal for black Americans to be thrown again in shackles would destroy a right made legal through our Constitution.  Still such a tyrannical move would not change the fact that all Americans, to include those of color, have the inalienable right to be free people and to be unmolested by a tyrannical majority.  Even the Constitution itself, in the same anti-federalist Bill of Rights, says as much.  The Ninth Amendment states:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The reality is that the vocal domestic enemies of our nation today do not care about the Constitution or the rule of law.  They do not share the concern for rights that many Americans in the 1960s had and demonstrated with courageous action.  They certainly do not care to live and let live, or to respect the choices of others and they do not value a diversity of people with different lifestyles making various decisions.  Rather, they simply and ironically want to use government violence through the barrel of a government gun (as all laws are enforced with) to force individuals to behave or act or think or express themselves or own property in a way that they personally approve of.  After all the Constitution, in their minds, was written by conservatives who they have been taught are evil people and they have eagerly ingested the hatred of that group of their neighbors.

These people are the tyrants that early Americans tried to defend us from with their supreme law.  These people attempt to utilize the machinery of armed government to infringe on the rights of the people as tyrants from history typically do.  This is the tyranny of the majority that the anti-federalists went to work to secure our rights against to include that most fundamental right; the right of self defense.  Patrick Henry stated, "The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."  This was a great object indeed because it is essential to liberty and freedom.  Few if any oppressed people have ever escaped the evils of tyrannical government power without the tools of defense against violence.

Those afraid of tyranny of government, or tyranny of a lunatic in a public place, all have the same remedy.  Arm yourself and protect yourself!  It is ludicrous that all Americans can't agree on the value of this right.  As Thomas Jefferson stated,  "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."  If you want to be free, arm yourself!  If you want to remain free, arm yourself.  Every person benefits from the tools of self defense, regardless of religion or color or gender or politics or sexuality except for those who wish to violate the rights of others with whom they differ.  But this common sense value has been programmed out of a large portion of our lemming-like American population and people who may have potentially had good intentions have turned themselves into domestic enemies of America who, like Senator Joe McCarthy, wish to use the machinery of public government to violate the rights of their innocent countrymen.

Samuel Bryan noted, "the men of the greatest purity of intention may be made instruments of despotism in the hands of the artful and designing."  The domestic enemies today may have had some purity of intention, but they have been filled with hatred for those they have been told to fear, a conservative bogeyman.  And because they have ingested and swallowed down this hateful nonsense, in pure divide and conquer fashion, these fascists have given up their integrity, concern for our rule of law, and they rely exclusively on arguments comprised of complete un-American bullshit.

Friday, June 17, 2016

The Draft is Unconstitutional



It would appear Congress is going to pass a law requiring females to register with the Selective Service so that they can be forced into involuntary service in order to do violence on behalf of those who forced them into involuntary service.  There is bipartisan support for this insanely immoral practice and ironically some float the justification that a draft would equally pull people from all walks of American life and throw them into the thresher of war, which would then prevent war because it would touch the lives of more Americans. 

Or to put it more succinctly, the argument is that government violence forcing people to inflict government violence will prevent government violence.

Regardless of the justifications for or against the draft's involuntary service, the reality is that it's just plain ole unlawful via our Constitution.  Full stop.  The Thirteenth Amendment states:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Of course Americans have extremely little concern for their constitutional rights, so pointing out that government is doing something unlawful is met with a collective yawn.

Land of the free.  Where people are forced through threat of government violence to go inflict violence, because the war isn't so obviously in America's interests that people would sign up to defend those interests voluntarily.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Don't Tread On Us


As Usual, Hurlburt Field Leads the Way


I am three weeks and change from retiring, but I am glad to know that I can now be protected when I drive on base for my retirement ceremony in the coming weeks.

For some time now, military members have had to drive to and from work disarmed, setting themselves apart from civilians in the same location driving to work at Wal-Mart or wherever.  Fortunately Congress reiterated its previous stance, in light of military members being targeted and murdered here at home, that installation commanders can allow military members to have weapons on base.

Still, few commanders were and are willing to allow their members to be armed while waiting in long lines at the front gate like sitting ducks.

Not so at the gates of Hurlburt Field.  In a new policy decision, members with concealed carry licenses are able to keep weapons in their vehicles.  It's a great decision and I believe reflects the superior leadership culture of the premiere combat community of our service.  Combat breeds courage and common sense.  Non-combat breeds convention and careerism and risk aversion.

Great job AFSOC leadership for setting the example yet again.  Let's hope other installation commanders follow instead of continuing to risk the lives of their service members and their families.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

SCRIBD Ghost Bans FOIA Released Documents


Years ago I uploaded FOIA approved and released documents to SCRIBD, a site that allows you to share documents online.  The documents were a response to my latest Letter of Reprimand (LOR) issued for refusing an unlawful order, the resignation of my commission from the military along with supporting documentation for that resignation.  Again, these documents and others were officially released by the U.S. government through a Freedom of Information Act request.  So there should be no issues and I should not have to be exiled to Russia after the government shared this information with the public.

I even redacted the documents further, on my own, prior to uploading to SCRIBD where with little reference to them on my part, they somehow amassed 2.4K views.  I thought that was kind of strange for a quiet section of the internet to get so much attention.  At any rate, I noticed several weeks ago that the documents were gone and SCRIBD provided a message stating:

So I uploaded a new copy of the documents and emailed SCRIBD support and asked them if they removed my documents due to government request.  They wrote back just over a week later stating:

Hey there!

Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us! Unfortunately, and I'm truly sorry for this, we've received a higher than normal amount of emails recently and have been unable to respond as quickly as we'd like to. We know what a pain it is to have to wait in line, but appreciate your patience and understanding none-the-less!

Sorry for any trouble here, but I am still seeing that document appearing on our site normally (https://www.scribd.com/doc/266297955/What-Faithful-Public-Service-Looks-Like). If you're still having trouble with it, let me know.

So I went to the link and the documents were back.  Well, for me they were.  Or perhaps for somebody using my IP address.  But not for everybody as the screenshot message above was taken by somebody else showing that the documents were still removed for other users.  Several users reported the documents were banned for them, so I used a different IP address to check and, sure enough, SCRIBD made the documents available for me to view but not for others.

That's something called "ghost banning" and it's apparently an increasingly popular technique for the censorship and message manipulation that we are seeing reported concerning social media giants like Facebook and others.  If you can control the information, you can control the population.  People are cause and effect, nature/nurture, and if you can shape the reality of a person you can get them to do your bidding.  It's really that simple.  Advertisers have known this for quite some time now.

Now this instance is obviously not about ad revenue or anything commercial.  So what's it about?  It's possible, though unlikely, that it's just a mistake on the part of SCRIBD.  And at the end of the day, it's their right to show what they want as they are a private company.

But if it turns out this private company is censoring the internet on behalf of a government body, that would not be surprising, but it would reflect very poorly on this internet company.  I hope that isn't the case.  I will keep readers posted when SCRIBD customer service gets back to me about this ghost banning.

ETA:  Just got this response back from SCRIBD:

Hi there,

Thank you for following up and letting me know that doc still wasn't appearing normally. I double checked from a browser while logged out and noted it was not appearing correctly as I had originally seen. I apologize for any confusion or frustration this may have caused!

It looks like I missed this the first time around, and for that you have my sincerest apologies for the mix-up. Our automated spam-prevention system became a little oversensitive and misidentified your document as spam. I've overridden this and you should soon find it in the expected locations in your profile. I have also flagged your document in our spam-detection system as non-spam to help prevent similar occurrences in the future.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, thanks!

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Six Weeks Until PYB is De-Commissioned


Amazing to think my time in the Air Force is the same as the time I spent at field training more than twenty years ago.  I chose to go to a six week camp because I thought I would have a better chance of getting Distinguished Graduate (DG).  Yeah, not so much.

The wife had this engraving made for my retirement shadow box.  The quote is taken from an AFCAF ruling after I refused a blatantly unlawful order and resigned my commission with just over fifteen years of service.

Had it not been for the nameless person who issued that ruling and wrote that quote, I would not be retiring in six weeks.

I hope those in public service will remember those who gave all in their fulfillment of their oaths of office.  I hope we who serve realize that not being willing to give our careers to defend America here at home is a horrible disservice to the memory of the fallen.

Faithful public service ain't no chump game.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

For Fascists Like John Tringali, Respect for the Constitution is Mental Illness


Interesting exchange with a relatively recently retired O-5 over on my Facebook page.  With just a few posts, he managed to explain that he doesn't support a) the First Amendment when it comes to shirts advocating for Constitutional rights in public school, b) the Fourth Amendment right not to be searched without a warrant, c) the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate yourself, and d) the Sixth Amendment right to a jury.

And in his view, my defense of the Constitution is apparently a sign of mental illness so glaring that he claims to have contacted the Veterans Administration on my behalf and claims he was told by somebody there that my "tirade" in support of constitutional rights raised many flags of serious mental health issues.  He then provided her email address and invited me to contact her.  So, I've reproduced my "tirade" here.

This theme that those who support the Constitution, and who criticize those in public service who do not, are mentally ill is one I am familiar with.  It's interesting to me how so many fascist unprofessional public servants equate valuing constitutional rights with indication of mental illness.

So, John Tringali, makes his first post here...


And then moments later continues his brilliance in this thread:


 

Then he defriends me, and turns around and sends me this message:



Then he blocks me.  Thanks for the lesson on mental illness, John Tringali.