Saving Money On The Wedding Can Save The Marriage
Costly weddings can eat up financial resources that are often needed to tide couples over during tough financial times.
Culture
“Dilbert” Bites the Dust in Hundreds of American Newspapers
I have been a fan of the Dilbert cartoon strip since it began syndication in hundreds of American newspapers back in 1989. The strip is a sassy but candid look into the management and machinations inside the walls of corporate America. Its lead character, Dilbert, is a hapless butt of management’s often inane and ill-fated …
Boundaries-How Are They Taught?
How are boundaries taught? Human beings have a herd mentality. Humans need to associate with other humans, they need feed back from other humans. Without sharing ideas and thoughts with others, humans become isolated. Solitary confinement can destroy a mind. The isolation drives humans to imaginary friends or to a machine, such as HAL from …
Why Are We Here? (Part 2)
Why are we here? why do we exist. Is it to merely live out our lives as best we can and then pass on, soon to be forgotten?
This Year the Epidemic Seems to be the Discovery of Classified Documents in the Most Surprising and Unexpected Places Part 3
Release the Big Squirrels. Difficult to Focus on Russian Pipelines, UFOs, Chinese Balloons, Derailed Trains, Crack Head Sons with Classified: so Many Squirrels
Alma Womack on the Super Bowl
No, dear hearts, I did not watch the Super Bowl on Sunday for several reasons. One, I have no television service since I am battling Directv over canceling Newsmax. Two, I wouldn’t have watched it if I had three television satellite networks, because I promised myself when ol’ Capricorn, Kapernick, whatever, was kneeling and disrespecting …
Is America Over?
Jeff Ulicny asks, Is America Over? “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our …
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.
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 …
Popcorn Bags, Shopping Carts, and Cultural Decline
Failing to return your shopping cart, driving in the fast lane on your phone & leaving your trash in the movie theater seat are indicators of cultural decline.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 30: And the Beat Goes On!
Portfolio Management of the Dream State Variety. Making projects up is not a best practice, what about a portfolio management technique?
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 29: A Crappy People Problem
There is an Old School Economics Saying that When Unemployment Goes Below ~5%, There are a lot of People Working Who Can’t Reach the Pedals. We have Some Crappy People Working for Us
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 28: Why is the Government so Terrible at What Should be a Core Skillset: Program Management?
Administration hirings and social justice signaling in government create a confused and ineffective workforce where incompetence becomes the norm.
Christmas
Once upon a time, long ago, Christmas toys were fun and simple. That day has passed to the detriment of grandparents, parents and children everywhere.
America’s Hunger Games
America’s Hunger Games Biden Nuclear Energy Secretary A Scene from The Hunger Games Samuel Brinton “I’m more than just a piece in their Games.” The Hunger Games In 2012 Americans flocked to the theater to witness the airing of a new dystopian film called The Hunger Games. In this post-apocalyptic feature, there are twelve districts …
True North
True North When You Start One Degree Off Course You End Up Lost In 1995 I was in a leadership course in Camp Ball, Louisiana, and was required to complete a land navigation course to graduate. As someone who grew up in the open spaces of Montana, I was not ready to cut through the …
Thursday Musings
I read the classics and mythologies because my grandmother put them in front of me. I would rather have been playing with friends. I ask questions because my grandmother asked me. So, in keeping with the foregoing, what concerns do I see in the country today. Middle ground. Who defines exactly where or what that …
Humanity, Humility and Humiliation
Humanity, Humility and Humiliation; The PM/Restocking Manager at the Chesapeake, VA Walmart store, killed six of his co-workers…and then himself. All of us on the outside of the story are shocked. Maybe…for a day or two. But then we move on to the next shooting, the next liar on Wall Street, the next political battle in …