George W. Bush is giving a speech about Iraq in the US tonight. Before I get to my commentary, thinking about the speech makes me remember my daughter…(before she stopped speaking to me after I walked out on the ex………on her birthday.). There was a comedienne that she really loved
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The President is on! He's on every channel, we're gonna miss Flipper!
George W. Bush is giving a speech about Iraq in the US tonight. Before I get to my commentary, thinking about the speech makes me remember my daughter…(before she stopped speaking to me after I walked out on the ex………on her birthday.). There was a comedienne that she really loved
Continue readingPick your fights……life lessons and the nomination of John Bolton.
I know you folks are going to find this hard to believe, but in my younger days I was something of a rebel. I was full of rage against the machine. So in an argument, I would continue long past the point of any possible return, because I did not
Continue readingGitmo and Gulags.
I’ve watched the ongoing controversy about Guantanamo prison camps with a bit of nostalgia ( I was there several times to fly counter-drug operations) and bewilderment. On the one hand you have some grand standing Senators and Congressmen who say that GTMO must be closed down because there is treatment
Continue readingThe real meaning of “The human capital strategy”.
Its starting, albeit slowly, give it a few years to spread to all the services: Seems like we have been here before…….. Subscribe in a reader
Continue readingThe real meaning of "The human capital strategy".
Its starting, albeit slowly, give it a few years to spread to all the services: Seems like we have been here before…….. Subscribe in a reader
Continue readingPoint, Counterpoint
There is a certain logic here: Then again, who ever heard of a nice looking Democrat woman? Don’t believe me? Check this out!. Beautiful to look at that, then they open their mouths and wreck the ambiance. Skippy-san Subscribe in a reader
Continue readingJumping Jehosaphat! What the hell were those boys thinking!
Any one who spent time around Naval Aviation in “the good old days” ( Namely anytime prior to 1991 and the witchhunts and crucifixions that followed…) remembers Grampaw Pettibone. Gramps as he was affectionately known, was the quinticential and timeless caricature of the Naval Aviator. ( And he looked NOTHING
Continue readingPutin vs Bush—Where does the truth lie?
Shades of the Cold War! Conservative pundits are asking a question straight out of the Reagan years, ” When are we going to get tough with Russia?” and ” Human Rights in Russia should be a top priority”. You would think I am back in 1980……wish I felt as genki
Continue readingWhich is more important, democracy in the Middle East or progress for people?
JD Whitlock has made an excellent point about the march of democracy in the middle east. Citing a very good article in the New Republic . JD points out that democracy only matters in its effect on the future and how that future supports the interests of the United States.
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