Just had a great morning experience. I dropped my son off at the train station. Went for coffee at a Starbucks close to base. Saw a table of yard clams speaking a bit too loud. These civilian contractors to Navy shipyards are typically enlisted veterans who go straight from the military to directly supporting the military but with great heaving bellies, bushy beards, and a funk that comes from loose living and tight quarters.
I waited for my decaf and fiddled with my trash, and eavesdropped on a fascinating conversation.
They were discussing Trump, and while they had a great many pros and cons, the cons always seemed to get washed away as minor compared to the audacious goals and worthy strikes.
The group was five, with a gaunt … Continue reading
And just who will pay all of these pensions, retirement plans, benefits? Certainly not the next generation or the one after that. Just because Roosevelt decreed it, that does not, in fact, lay a burden upon as-yet unborn grandchildren to suck up the debt for our comfy ending days. When we are gone and the debt remains, there will be a “pinch” generation; those who try to retire in the face of (and on the backs of) an angry, indignant generation which both outnumbers and out-influences them. By then, the once-powerful AARP might as well be NAMBLA. By then, debt will be unsustainable, and the sacrosanct 50% of government spending, the supposedly untouchable entitlements, will suddenly be very touchable.
If you think this generation’s constitutional awakening is impressive, … Continue reading
President Trump’s first 100+ days are marked by strokes of courage and falls of surrender. Where domestic policy is concerned we are coming to a fork in the road where Mr. Trump will either solidify himself as an astute successful business man citizen president or he will surrender to darker forcers, risk the chance of a 2nd term, and be cast aside as a relic of what is formerly known as conservatism.
From The Hill:
President Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal would completely eliminate 66 federal programs, for a savings of $26.7 billion.
Some of the programs would receive funding for 2018 as part of a phasing-out plan.
Here are the programs the administration wants on the chopping … Continue reading
It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another townhall meeting in the Village of the Darned.
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I am a fan of Jordan Peterson. He was giving a talk at Harvard and was talking about a forum he had at Toronto. He told the college administration how to limit protests. He told them, “Have it in the morning.” So they have it at 9 AM and one MP shows up to pass somethings out. He believes there would be zero protests if these things happened at 7 AM.
Anyone know what is going on with the Seth Rich story? Hannity promised a bombshell for Wednesday night, then Manchester tragically happened and his show was all about that. Now media is saying Fox has retracted it’s previous story that tied Rich to Wikileaks, but Hannity’s tweeting he’s not retracting anything, will drop the bombshell tonight, and he’ll tell how Media Matters and others are trying to shut him up and get him ejected from his job. Have you heard more?
?Anyone notice Trump’s speech in Saudi. ?How about his visit to Israel.
There is a distinct change in attitude towards the world, and our position in it, from Obummer. Where Obummer denigrated America, talked a lot of hot air, and pretty much threw everyone under the bus, Trump is making no excuses for who we are, no “accommodations” to foreign rituals, and clearly stating both our interests and what WE think we and they should be doing.
For the first time there is exhortation to throw the thugs out of the mosques, to name them apostasy, to get on with “normal” life.
In short, it is doing what is practical, noting the world as it is, not as we think it ought to be.
I have a … Continue reading
I was asked if I would post book reviews here by someone on both this and another site. I have nearly a dozen years worth of reviews I did for the Galveston Daily News since I first started reviewing books for them in 2006. So, I figured I would start putting up some of the early reviews. Kind of a re-review. A good book only improves with age, and the ones I post will be ones I believe need a fresh look.
This week’s entry follows:
By Mark Lardas
The Daily News
Published November 19, 2006
“Texas Zydeco,” by Roger Wood, University of Texas Press, 2006, 336 pages, $34.95
In the first 20 pages of Roger Wood’s book, “Texas Zydeco,” a … Continue reading
The Great [Snow Color] North is having the debate about gender. Jordan B Peterson is fighting the good fight. He is saying enough is enough.
What do you think? Can the law force a person to address a person in a certain way?
We all are offended by others beliefs. Orwell had it right. “Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others.” Here all beliefs are equal but some are more equal than others.
