Rusty Shackleford 🦜

God blessed me, my wife loves me, and the dog doesn’t bite me.

What is the greatest moustache in movies?

Another drill in the books. Just enough time for a power nap before watch. Advancing clocks on drill day is a drag.

Hic Sunt Dracones

Couple degrees of port list and 6’ of trim by the stern keeps the livestock drains flowing. Haven’t lost a cow yet, starting to wonder if we’ll make it the whole way to Oakland with the full load.

This man is the Patron Saint of California.

Chasing the sunrise.

This is how the system wipes out 5 generations with the swipe of a pen. Foreign Solar Giant @Orsted Wipes Out Arizona Rancher @caseymurph1 – This Is Legal?! youtu.be/RZvy7yC9S6k?si…

Sunday morning at sea. Just about time to start digging into the voyage OT. But first, coffee.

Fire season is upon us. My watch duty app has been blowing up all day. Always fun when you’re on a ship in the middle of the pacific.

@Imagodei01 @Electroversenet Nuclear IS green. Reliable Small footprint.

In the mid '80s when the major expansion of wind power in the Tehachapi mountains came about, in order to get everybody to approve all of the windmills, the power companies told everyone they would have the lowest electricity rates in the country if not the state. Then, and the 2000s, the solar farms expanded in the Mojave desert and the same thing was told to all the voters and various members of the Board of Supervisors etc that they would have the lowest electricity rates in California if not the country. Here we are in 2026 and when has anyone in California seen a substantial reduction in their electricity rates? Lie after lie after lie with the green new scam. All of the solar and all of the wind has proven to be a very expensive endeavor in California. Just think how inexpensive electricity could be in California if nuclear power was expanded greatly

California has built one of the largest solar fleets in the world. Panels are strewn across deserts, rooftops and valleys, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. It was promised as the power of the future. But then the duck curve hit. Solar floods the grid during the height of the day, far more than California can use, so operators are forced to dump gigawatts of "green" power. Then the sun sets and solar output collapses to zero, just as evening demand spikes. California then scrambles to fire up gas plants to keep the lights on, with billions more spent on this backup generation. The world's solar capital ends every day running on fossil fuels. A 24-7 gas grid would cost far less to construct and maintain than solar, and it would actually work 24-7.

The downside of heading eastbound is all the sunsets are off the port quarter. It also means we’re headed to Oakland and that just about the worst port on earth.

Non-Americans will never understand that Americans hate our government just as much as they do, but we love our country more than they can ever comprehend.

Cheeseburger day! 6 cheeseburgers to go, for those who are keeping track at home.

@CRRJA5 @MAGAVoice @GuntherEagleman @NanLee1124 @WallStreetApes @DefiyantlyFree @_SmokeyGirl25 @RickyDoggin @45LVNancy @SandraXFreedom @SweetPeaBell326 Turns out 40 years of nonstop attacks on cattle ranching has had an effect. A million independent cattle ranches are gone, replaced with development and wind/solar installations. Now we rely on foreign sources

@shadowJ47 We need to remember that all these wind and solar companies are foreign owned as well, and they are covering tens of thousands of acres of American open lands

@GoWestMagazine That’s super rad!

Shigeru Sugiura

Cargo complete. Waiting on my final paperwork and a pilot then it’s off to Oakland. Cattle drive across the pacific.

Ya live by the contract, ya die by the contract. The longshoremen are breaking for lunch with about 10 moves to go…

The Trump Admin proposed a 37% cut in FY2026 and a 25% cut in FY2027. I realize I’m an annoying single issue poaster and voter but this isn’t right. The FY27 budget slashes construction and maintenance, so jobs for our young guys. Our National Parks are worth protecting.