Expat at Large (see link on the right……) posed an interesting history question. Can you guess the right answer? Someone said this of a President of the United States of America: Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze on the exceeding brightness of military glory—that attractive rainbow, that
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What is the main stream media anyway?
Today was a beautiful day today. Weather was gorgeous, if just a TAD warm, work was….well it was work. However any day you can end your day shagging balls at the driving range, can’t be all bad…… Took a nap at lunch time, having gone back to my apartment, having
Continue readingThe 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 readingThe 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
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