Yes, well as is many times the case, it was a bad connection.
I traced it to the positive battery cable, did as Walt suggested, tried starting it with the lights on, they went off, you could tell that this was a short after that as it killed everything.
Usually, you'll get the white/green powdery oxidation at the battery terminals, and sometimes a bad connection at least in my experiences, many times I've wedged a battery connection tight when the ends were shot, to get by temporarily, sometime you'd have to wiggle em around a bit, but it always seemed to work.
This one was a dull gray on the inside, no oxidation and I thought I gave them a decent cleaning 2 months ago, well maybe I was distracted when I did the + terminal or something, as it seemed to have a glaze coat on it, the wire brush terminal tool did not take it off, and that was the problem, so I took a somewhat coarse round file to it, there was a significant amount of dust before it was shined up.
Honest, I'm not a dunce most of the time, and I think I've always known to keep these terminals clean, well except this time, must be age, sure had me fooled.... LOL !!!
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