As is the norm for many a writer at year’s end-I have been doing a lot of thinking about the year past-and since the coming year will celebrate the 55th anniversary of my birth ( God willing), a heck of a lot of time is also being devoted to the
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Confiscatory Conservatism
A recent post on the “Campaign Stops” blog on the Washington Post caught my eye recently. It seems the that the Romney campaign has decided to trash once and for all the idea of so called compassionate conservatism-in favor of the idea that “anyone who uses any government program is a
Continue readingHappy Boxing Day!
A quiet Christmas was had by the S.O. and yours truly at Gasthaus Skippy. We got out oven to work reasonably well and I made a ham-and potatoes, salad, and a nice wine to top things off. I also found some time to work on the science project a bit-but
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Today is Christmas Eve. Im Deutsch they call it Heilige Abend. Here in Stuttgart we discovered a few new things: 1) EVERYTHING shuts down at 2PM. We were out at Breunigerland shopping mall, and a store person came up to me when I least expected it, “Entshuldigung, wir schliessen.” (Excuse
Continue readingLies, and the lying liars who tell them.
Life on the end of an internet “stick” can be more than a little frustrating. Sometimes it’s quite fast-other times, excruciatingly slow. Thus I have been more than a little remiss in making my usual round of holiday postings. Integrating into life here in Germany has been quite a unique
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Got back from Israel-late but none the worse for wear. The storms in Europe delayed departures out of Istanbul, but luckily enough for me, I did not get strip searched going through Israeli security. They actually do things differently than our TSA brethern-and while you go through a lot of
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The last forces are leaving Iraq. about 9 years too late-but they are leaving, thanks be to God. Now if you peruse my archives, you will find that I have not been a fan of the adventure since day 1. And now-I still believe, that for whatever tactical successes we
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Is worth what you pay for it.I had the unique experience a while back, of being asked for advice about life in command. That caused me to do a lot of thinking-both for good and for bad. So here for your information and comment are the comments I sent back:
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How I spent my Saturday: Prowling the Holy City of Yerushalim! The Wailing Wall: And of course we spent a fair amount of time in the church of the Holy Sepuchre:
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Was on one side of the Atlantic in Washington DC. Now I am about as far away from there as you can get. Flight over here was pretty OK-save for the fact that the services on the airline sucked. Fortunately the flight was only about half full-so I had room
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