Brother Bluto came by to smack some sense into me and shake me out of my lethargy: (I am in the orange sweater by the way in case you were wondering). Its time to snap out of my funk, get back in the saddle and start lambasting stupid people again.
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This week is my tenth blogging birthday. It is a bittersweet time for me for a bunch of reasons. First of all- it is because I am at a loss to explain recent actions I took to rather vociferously fight a pretty stupid fight. Definitely alcohol fueled-poorly thought out, but
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An FB friend posted a link to the following blog post: entitled “Why I almost walked out of American Sniper“. No, it’s not a quote from Michael Moore-its a quote from a supporter of the country and the military. I can agree with her logic, up to a point : Stated plainly, we
Continue readingPutting Fox News in their place.
I am back in “terrorized” Europe-having spent the last week in the Whining States of America, who-if judging by the news coverage- is collectively losing its mind about what’s going on in Europe. And let me be clear, I am not in anyway diminishing the severity of the incidents that
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And what a sad week it has been too. The news from Paris is sad, tragic and sadly, all too expected in this day and age. In solidarity with the right of a free press to publish what it wants to and not be subject to censorship at the point of a
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Happy New Year to all. Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! Kotoshi mo yorishku onegai shimasu. I , unfortunately had a quiet new years, definitely not the one I wanted to spend skiing. You can thank the S.O. for that because of continued inabilty to make a decision and her repeated failure to
Continue readingSayonara 2014
And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. As years go, 2014 was not really a good one for me. I won’t be sorry to see it go. It started living under the burden of a poorly thought out merger at work, engineered by
Continue readingThe tragedy of the American Military
James Fallow’s of The Atlantic magazine has written a must-read, thought-provoking article, on the current state of civil-military relations. It is a long read, but it is well worth your time. In it, he highlights the real hypocrisy of a country that fawns over its military to the point of idolatry, yet
Continue readingThe Hagel Mess
Listen up boys and girls, because contrary to the opinion of some ( and you know you are), I can , in fact, be critical of the President of the United States. And today is a good day to be critical of Mr. Obama, since just two days ago-he made a
Continue readingBut I thought we lost the war during Obama’s West Point speech?
LTG Daniel Bolger (Citadel Class of 1978) has a very good book out chronicling the truth that a whole lot of people don’t want to admit. For them, the wars were lost when the President of the United States decided to :1) not hang US troops out to dry with a
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