More follies from the Random Thoughts Public Affairs shop (inside joke there) … I hope you find this list of some use, fun, or just silliness.
Note: Each block of text actually is a link to a story or a web page that I am commenting on. Click on that text and it will take to the page being referred to.
Obama says IRS didn't target Tea Party; if it did, it was Congress's fault ... Good grief, how long will the main stream media put up with this ... it is incredible. Obama either is totally delusional or he just knows that progressives and liberals will never call him on his flat out, demonstrably false, lies.
Interesting article by George Friedman on Turkey's Byzantine position in the pivot of several of the world's crisis points.
Obama's first wave of US-trained Syrian rebels seem to reflect the disarray his whole policy in the Middle East is in.
Anti-drone gun ... another Army idea that probably will founder on getting gold plated
This is a serious issue - Army military recruiters, etc., - but I find it interesting that the local Air National Guard center here has steadily been ramping up its security. Today, a local police car was parked inside its compound on the road leading into it.
PACOM flies on patrol in the South China Sea - China calls it a provocation. Dang, what isn't a provocation to the Chinese or the North Koreans.
Another view on the Iran Deal ... sort of explains why the Russians were so eager to get it.
And more wood for the fire burning in the Ukraine ... Granted, we are talking 1,800 troops from 18 countries ... that is like a speed bump to any thing larger than a mech brigade
Interesting view on the women tackling Army Ranger School ... and it probably is a very valid criticism. I understand the point about not having the basic skills ... and that should be provided ... I just still have qualms about women in combat arms ... but that is my own personal experience in a non-combat arm unit in a combat zone, with women ... (It really didn't work all that well, although to the women involved, they all were very technically competent ... it was all the other issues)
I hope, for all our sakes, that conclusions being drawn here by Prof. Sowell are wrong ... because ... well, the unthinkable has then become thinkable.
Disparate impact: Is it a desperate attempt to enforce a particular world view or create a utopia? One wonders what ever happened to freedom of association, but I suppose that is an archaic concept that deserves to be placed on the junkpile of history.
To me it is common sense ... but then I am a generalist and not a specialist ... but I am among those who were forced (and that is the only way to put it) to shed my debt and restructure my life to face economic realities. It cost me a bunch, but I survived. I don't think there is anyway the federal government, and pretty much all the other levels that have themselves leveraged for disaster, can escape. Only time will tell.
Let's see just how sympathetic we can make the Tennessee shooter look. Give me a break people ... find all the excuses you want to try to explain his actions but it comes down to "Allah Akbar" ... just like the Charleston shooter was a white supremacist idiot ... the Chattanooga shooter was an Islamic Jihadi wannabee idiot.
Arming the troops .... there is some sense in this ... but then you could do like the senior NCOs did at Army headquarters in Riyadh during the Gulf War I ... we chose very carefully when and who were allow to carry bullets, but everybody had to carry their weapon.
Trophy Tee Shirt - While I understand - and in many ways agree with - those who don't like this shirt ... I find the whole thing a bit of a tempest in a teapot, as Pappy used to say, in our world where we are consumed with being politically and socially correct. Unfortunately, the freedom and liberty to be an idiot in this country has become too offensive for some people. GET OVER IT people. Nobody is forcing you to buy or wear the dang thing.
I actually think this is a good story ... more news papers should do it ... not sensationalizing but just the boring factual reporting ... it is good for our republic.
With all due respect to Gov. O'Malley, but he had absolutely nothing to apologize for for saying that all lives matter ... and if that offends you or you think it minimizes some problem ... then you got the problem. But that is just my opinion and you are welcome to tell me to stuff it. ... but ALL lives DO matter.
Better late to the party than never arriving at all ... I guess he had to wait until the furor got stirred up enough
More kids in poverty ... I guess this is all the fault of the mean old Republicans ... but I am getting to the point of asking: When will the liberals and progressives ever take any ownership of any of the massive failures of their plans and ideas to solve the world's problems?
GO! GO! GO! ... don't stop, just get that wagon train moving now, as fast as you can NASA.
Another bad news story for those who think single-payer health care is the answer ... the VA right now is as close as it gets in the US and see how screwed up it is.
This story presents a very tragic picture ... one I blame on the liberals and progressives in the United States ... sorry, but if the shoe fits wear it.
Why is the Pope focused on the Devil? Because it is his job? He is here to fight the Devil and its evil influences. Of course, if you don't want to believe in the Devil, that is your business, but it IS the Pope's business to fight the Devil.
And last but not least: The true force for goodness on the planet
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