Author Archives: TKC1101

We do have a really good showman in the oval office.

Cruise missiles in Syria while dining with the Chinese Leader

Carrier battlegroup to the region off North Korea.

US coal now replacing North Korean Coal to China. (Such a deal I got for you!)

Kim threatening a nuke test Saturday.

We just happen to demo one of the more unique weapons in the arsenal against the almost universally accepted foe in Afghanistan.

I expect ten or twenty of these might really screw up that artillery aimed at Seoul.

Weapon Safety On                                                                      Weapon Safety Off

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Decision Desk just rolled out a new 2016 election map, this one by precinct. Given there is no national database at that level, it took serious shoeleather to assemble.

It shows the blue islands are being swallowed.

Now, why do I care? I live in a blue state that is committing North Korea like suicide economically. $15 minimum wage, more feel good regulation, sanctuary state, anarchist pothole brigades.

I see the local politics getting quite extreme in these little Venezuelas without the Oil and it may be time to skedaddle across the Columbia to a blue state that has more brakes on the insanity … Continue reading →

My youngest child turned 40 today.

At dinner at his favorite restaurant, a really fine Lebanese place with excellent lamb, he turned to me and said

“I remember avoiding time spent with my parents. It always seemed cooler to go out and get high or hang out. Now I enjoy having dinner with you, I look forward to it.”

I wanted desperately to say something funny, or profound but I could not find the words.

I just looked at him with new eyes and “I know. I wish my Dad could be here too.”

Life goes round in a circle while moving on.

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Sitting in my favorite diner, nice and comfortable, I see we need to say a prayer for our men and women in harms way.

May God be with you.

So far, not too bad. The economy is picking up steam, we found out Paul Ryan is not a demigod,  the massive proof of Russian influence keeps promising to be right around the corner and suddenly the whole intelligence services will destroy the new guy looks to be a rather large boomerang.

The lesson being taught is how to keep moving forward and never apologize.

The opposition keeps talking to their own bubble.

I truly believe the progressive pols and media are thinking  this may not have the ending they thought…

When you annoy the beast, the beast acts, well, you know….. Beastly.

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This is number one Granddaughter on the new playground near her home in Seattle.

The kiddie zipline is fun and she loves the place.

I found a photo of a playground I remember enjoying  which was built by the WPA in the 1930s.

This one was clearly built before we had a surplus of lawyers and kids were sent out in the morning and told to be home by dinner.

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People seem to be getting on with it. Time to get back to work, to play,  plan a vacation, start a new job , normal life stuff.

We dodged a bullet and while Washington is still a sucking , festering swamp, it is not out to kill us every day. I no longer worry about some new thing that will make another part of my life illegal or worse.

Time perspectives are moving longer, people are not expecting results every day.

I sense it in the conversations I have with folks. The greeter at the car dealer, the office manager at the excavation company, the waiter at the local diner, the eye doctor and the lathe operator. A calmness , a feeling that things are okay.

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I am one of those folks who really needs to avoid carbs. I found out the hard way that if I cut out carbs and do moderate exercise I lose weight and feel great, and if I eat carbs and do moderate exercise I gain weight.

It gets worse as I age.

So I got into paleo eating and found it cut my arthritis pain by 80% and for those stretches where work has me sitting too much, I do not gain weight. It also serves my predilection for grilled meat.

A crisis had me cut a deal with the Red Headed Irish Wisecracker, when I needed her to get back in the saddle and run a client’s office who lost a long time employee while teetering on … Continue reading →

 Is it me or are we getting as a nation a bit crazy on the Russian thing? They are a people badly led who are trying to get some for their country with a lousy hand of cards. Is anyone here worried that they are doing anything we do not expect?

The fix to beat back Russia is letting them know where we will stop them and oil in the $40 range. Are they going to play cyber games? Of course, along with every other nation and private groups, including us.

What am I missing? If Trump was a Russian stooge, his moves on oil … Continue reading →

In a war of images with actual voters, not news junkies following every daily crisis, a man is lucky to have some opponents.

Like this one. The imagery you want on the other side.