Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXIV
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXIV; Up, Up and Away…In My Beautiful Balloon
U.S. News/Policy
Everything Bad I Learned in Kindergarten
30 years ago Robert Fulghum published “All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” but, it omitted the dark lessons learned in childhood.
Educating For Today
Educating For Today; Someone has defined education as “that which is done to prepare a child for life.”
Book Review: Speeding Through the Fourth Turning
Book Review: Speeding Through the Fourth Turning; Getting Through the Darkness to the Other Side In 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe published a book titled The Fourth Turning, where they examine five hundred years of history and uncover a pattern, one they believe will help people better understand modern history. They claim history moves …
Child Abuse in the Name of Wokeness
Child Abuse in the Name of Wokeness has brought us to the place where the welfare of children is secondary to virtue signaling.
Curious George Santos
“Curious” George Santos. Even though 1,023 commentaries have been written about him, I couldn’t resist tossing my own two cents in.
The Decline of American Backbone and Patriotism
Americans have lost their fight and their backbones, especially in urban areas where they have gone completely anti-American in thought, word and deed.
Military Recruiting Challenges are Becoming Systemic Part 2
Disincentivizing Military Service: Undoing more than Two Decades of Public Support for the Military Without Even Trying, Stink, Stank, Stunk (Stinking)
Military Recruiting Challenges are Becoming Systemic, Part 1
Military recruiting is like any other potential ramification progression associated with this administration: Could implode, is imploding, imploded.
Floating a Trial Balloon
Floating a Trial Balloon; America is Sending Our Adversaries Another Bad Message, Rest Assured, They Heard It
The Power of the People–From Civil Rights to Salvation!
The Power of the People – From Civil Rights to Salvation! Today’s America is far different from that which I grew up in the 1960’s.
The Denial of Objective Reality
The Denial of Objective Reality; “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.” ~ Matthew 12:25 Greetings my fellow Americans! If there’s one thing that’s likely to be obvious to anyone grounded in the notion of a reality, and Creator, outside and above ourselves, …
The Deep, Deep State of Intelligence
The Deep, Deep State of Intelligence. Lede: I only had one Intelligence job in the Cold War Army. 90 days as a Brigade S-2 in the Fulda Gap got me read on monthly to the Division’s “Black Book” latest on terrorists and the Soviets. It was an eye-opener on what our people knew. As a DoD …
Watch: Farmers May Have Figured Out Exactly What’s Causing the Egg Shortage
Farmers May Have Figured Out Exactly What’s Causing the Egg Shortage; On January 12, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index for the month of December. The data showed that inflation had ticked down 0.1 percent to an annual rate of 6.5 percent. At the same time, the food index rose 0.3 …
May The Force Be With Us.
“In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.” –Yoda Defense One just printed an admission by the Navy Secretary which warns if the defense industry can’t boost production, arming both Ukraine and the US may become “challenging.” Gosh, who would have ever thought that? Could it be OSD, the JCS, and the individual …
What We’re Up Against
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine Every combat general knows he must be aware of what he is up against. The military uses intelligence sources to tell them the disposition of the enemy, where they are, how many they are, how strong they …
Why Are We Paying Able-Bodied Men To Not Work
I was just reading the US labor report for 2022. Did you know that there are over 7,000,000 men age 25-45 who have quit their jobs and live off of government benefits since 2019? Also, I see that there were 779,000 jobs posted just last month. Why? We are paying able-bodied men…to NOT work. There is a …
Anthony’s Pizza
Anthony’s Pizza; A retired Army Colonel’s observations from the AAFES Food Court. First if you know what an AAFES Food Court is, then you will appreciate this (Army Air Force Exchange System aka PX/BX) I live in DuPont, WA, located right across I-5 from JBLM (Joint Base Lewis McChord or for the Army types Ft …
Radical! Who Is Hakeem Jeffries?
The new leader of the House Democrats says to Nancy Pelosi, “Hold my beer”! The national news media has not vetted Hakeem Jeffries, and for good reason. They don’t want the American public knowing just how tame he makes Nancy Pelosi look.
The Crisis Syndrome
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” That pithy and cynical quote is attributed to Winston Churchill, but Rahm Emmanuel resurrected it during the Obama administration by saying “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Now, it has become a standing policy with the DNC. Absent a real crisis, Democrats and their …