Monthly Archives: March 2011
Since it’s simpler to keep an open thread for the fast moving story of Japan’s crisis, I’m starting the third open news thread on the subject for everyone to add their thoughts and updates to. Since the event has happened, … Continue reading
Certainly there has been no love fest between SOS Hillary Clinton and Obama. But now, even civility may be rapidly disappearing as a frustrated and snubbed Sec’y of State declares she has no intention of a second term in the … Continue reading
What I find interesting about this story isn’t the fact that some Democrats were charged with this crime, that isn’t surprising in the least. What’s interesting is the fact that the media are playing up the fact that they were former Democrat officials.
When these two committed the crimes they weren’t “former” officials, they were ACTIVE officials of the party. They only became “former” officials when the crimes were discovered. Continue reading
My best friend, Knarley Manners and I were fishermen. We didn’t fish for men’s souls, we fished for dinner. Once the creeks and rivers settled down from spring run off, about the first of June, fishing was serious business. Most … Continue reading
My father is a retired Navy Command Master Chief. He spent 32 years in the Navy, so I’ve literally been in the military my entire life. My grandfather fought in WWII with the Army Air Corps in the European Theater (if you’re interested, I wrote about him after he died here, here, and here based off his journals). My dad was stationed in Japan twice growing up.
The first time we lived there, I was about 11 years old the first time we moved to Japan. We lived on a small communications base called Kamiseya. The entire base is only a little more than 100 acres large. Continue reading
I am a conservative and admittedly long past the age of maturity where I would be competing for floor space with these dudes but there is something decidedly wrong with carrying the title “prince” here in the United States; yet, nevertheless, a glossy ad-on fashion picture magazine of the New York Post has a spread on “The Fresh Princes of NY”. This challenges my ethics because never being introduced to any of these guys would I address them by their royal title. The notion of breaking ranks and asking Prince Amedeo to shoot a game of 8-Ball just seems ludicrous. What is problematic, after witnessing a U.S. President almost break his back bowing to the Mikado of Japan and bend and kiss the ring of a Saudi Arabian King, the notion of subterfuge and servitude is the plausible reaction of many Americans when confronted by royalty. Continue reading
Over the last few years Barack Obama has frequently been described as “detached.”
Charles Krauthammer in 2009- Obama is “cool and detached and unconcerned” : Continue reading
Criticism is hard on a Narcissist; especially, if he is the president of a country that allows dissent. Our National Narcissist has a fragile ego, when he makes mistakes that are being analyzed by an informed public that is unafraid to speak out, he can’t help but to wonder what happened to the myth of the creation of Obama: unfortunately, the public is increasingly skeptical of this man who was elected with hype over substance and they are left wondering when they will see evidence of the superior intelligence that was so openly promoted during the campaign, but this innate intelligence is kept carefully hidden, like the scholastic records of the most intelligent man in the world. Continue reading
The five of us kids grew up in rural Pennsylvania. The nearest town was nearly 10 miles away. When we were not working on the farm, we explored the woods making huts and catching the small brook trout that lived in the streams that passed through the valley. Our nearest neighbor lived a half mile away. My parents never worried about where we were as long as we were back for dinner. Continue reading