Hanging paper degrees on the wall doesn't make a leader. All it shows is he was able to remember shit to pass a test.
If i were going in bush to fight a war id rather have john gotti or any bad ass street guy as my commanding officer then this turd ball
He didn't build any house. A contractor did or he wouldn't have gotten permits or a CO
"The off-grid house, which measures more than 4,400 square feet—with a 2,200-square-foot basement—was built by Thomas Massie, Rhonda and their children. But it isn’t just any house.
Many years ago, a neighbor had told the family about timber-framed structures. After reading a book or two and attending a weekend workshop, Thomas laid out their home on a few sheets of paper—every timber, every mortise and tenon.
They purchased a heavy-duty bulldozer and began to drag log after log out of their own woods. The family salvaged trees downed during a terrible ice storm that ripped through Kentucky in 2004.
They provided more than 95 percent of wood and stone used in their home. The only concessions were slate for the roof from Vermont—the scrap pieces they used for flooring in their bathroom and mudroom—the cabinets and some wood casings for the windows.
With chainsaws, chisels and incredible tenaciousness, they crafted each timber and beam. Thomas even created his own 3-by-3s to replace 2-by-4s, giving him more flexibility as he framed out the structure.
The off-grid house contains just four metal fasteners. Worried that the two sections of the house might come apart as the timbers dried and the foundation settled, the Massies compromised with four massive assemblies that tie the two halves together.
Supplying your own wood is one relatively easy thing, but a house is far more than that. The Massies quarried stone from various parts of their property, creating floors, roofs, window and door headers, and the centerpiece of the great room—a gigantic fireplace/hearth, complete with a wood-fueled pizza oven.
The Massies don’t just buy and grow local. They build local.
One would think the couple with two degrees from MIT were instead lifelong construction workers, given the care and craftsmanship found throughout the home. You realize when viewing the Massies’ homestead that off-grid building and living is far more about a can-do attitude than almost anything else."