Do sometimes get together. If you have been coming here for a decent interval you know that I hold both the National Review and the Weekly Standard in utter contempt. I read them to find out how the ill informed voter thinks and to find satire worthy materials. But every
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USS Liberty
As I have mentioned I travel to the land of milk and honey quite a bit. One of the messages I continually hear is about how Israel is surrounded and always under attack. And I don’t really dispute it-having been on the road twice when the sirens went off and
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It took the S.O. and I a long time to get Internet connectivity to the house, besides our cell phones and a stick for the computer. While I was away, it was installed-but our bandwidth is severely limited due to the lack of fiber (and cable) to our little village.
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It is Saturday and doing errands today for the S.O. while she is out shopping for pottery. ( Like she really needs any more of it!). So a stop at the library seemed in order. The great internet drought may be ending next week, Vodafone is supposed to install a
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Is still a bad thing-no matter how many times you do it. The usual suspects have come out, and seized upon Robert Gates’ new book to criticize the effort to get the US out of the worthless hellhole that is Afghanistan, and to rewrite the history of the US fiasco in Iraq. I
Continue readingCountdown to catastrophe-January 6th 1914
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded. After almost a 100 years of existence and avoiding the fate of Lehman brothers-the firm was merged into Bank of America in 2013. ( The evil empire wins again!) Arnold Richardson, composer was born. So too was, Danny Thomas-later of television fame in
Continue readingThere was never a chance………..
Phib, in one of his repeated themes, bemoans the fact that we did not give ourselves a chance to “succeed” in Afghanistan. “All it required was about another four-five years of patience. Of course, that 4-5 from now is based on an alternative history where we did not announce our
Continue readingCountdown to catastrophe-January 5th, 1914
Back in 1914: Henry Ford, unlike his current day counterparts, recognized that a well-paid workforce made for better workforce-and more consumers. So wages were doubled from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day. George Reeves, the actor who would play Superman in the 1950’s was born. So too was Nicolas de Staël, a French-Russian
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2014 will mark 100 years since the start of World War I. I recently finished a book entitled 1913: The Eve of War by Paul Ham. The book recounts the year before the beginning of the World War and how the powers were anticipating even then the idea of going to
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Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95 yesterday. Clearly, the world has lost a great man. He was great not just because he struggled against apartheid -but when the tables finally turned; he did not give in to the instincts to take vengeance on his oppressors-but to seek
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