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Another ration of interesting articles, etc. for you to peruse … and I hope you find thought provoking, if not fodder for thought.
A tribute to the men and women who served in Vietnam, so many years ago. I have some clue how wounds of service can seem to go unhealed.
For those of us who grew up on him, he remains an icon of the good guy standing up in sneaky ways.
The war on police officers continues ... I don't know what else to say.
Two young people get to meet their hero in person ... sweet story ... especially since heroes today seem to be in such short supply
Go Scaled Composites! I hope this behemoth does everything the Scaled Composites people want and then some. They are so innovative in their thinking.
Sad commentary on American politics today ... it has become such a furball fight ...
Ok, the first of a series of story on the lion saga. First: Contrary to internet hysteria, Jericho is still alive, although it is questionable whether he is Cecil's brother, or just brother-in-arms.
It seems a lot of Zimbabweans could give a rat's derriere if some lion got killed. They got bigger problems.
PETA however has its panties in a wad and want's the hunter executed for killing a lion.
The government of Zimbabwe, ever on the look out for things to distract the world from Mugabe's dictatorship, claims it wants another hunter extradited back to face charges ...
A very tongue in cheek what-if about Cecil the Lion
Gee, the Earth's magnetosphere goes back more than 4 billion years ...
This sounds like something out of Animal Farm ... give me a break ... are the classless communists/socialists really making that big a comeback in our society? How many times does a system have to fail for people to realize its basic premises are false and entirely unworkable?
MH 370 debris might not tell us much ... other than the plane crashed, and we already knew that.
I am not going to go into crisis mode over this. As far back as I can remember, California has been one great big tinderbox and wildfires have the capacity to be monsters.
The funny thing about this story is its assumptions. But I guess it just applies to the "professional class" and not the rest of the plebian world.
The problem with this editorial in defense of Planned Parenthood is that it bases its argument solely on the first video, and then morphs into an attack on people who are opposed to abortions. Look, I accept that women in the US have a right to have an abortion up to the 14th week of their pregnancy - the SCOTUS has said that is so and I will not challenge it - but I do wonder at what point the life form in the womb becomes "human" and at what point does that human become entitled to all the rights and protections due a citizen of the United States. Unfortunately, the pro-abortionists never seem to want to answer that question with any specific definition.
An excellent job of parsing the language, however, like the above referenced editorial by the New York Times, it suffers from the same defects. Now, what bothers me is that it does not answer the revelations in videos released later and it repeats the canard that Planned Parenthood receives no federal dollars for its abortion centers. If that is the case, then I really hope there is no co-mingling of funds received from its federal grants with any of the funds it receive from any other sources, or that blows that whole argument out of the water.
More questions about the role of Planned Parenthood ... ok, if they are not doing something illegal, they apparently admit they are doing everything they can to get right up to the edge. Is that moral? Is that right? Just asking these questions because I don't know.
This story actually makes me kind of laugh ... Rep. Paul doesn't want the GOP to go to the wall and shut down the government over funding Planned Parenthood, because even if it passed over the objections of the president and the Liberal Democrats, it would be the actions of the Democrats that would shut the government down ... or wasn't that what we were told when the Republicans threatened the exact same tactics a few years ago. Darn, I really get so tired of this bovine scatology.
Sanders is Obi Wan? I really am amazed that the socialist doctrine still has followers - Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot ... heck even Hitler was a National Socialist. The EU is going bankrupt ... and people still think socialism is the way to go?
Now you can take Bernie Sanders position two ways ... but unfortunately, neither are any good. Folks, even those of you who think the Constitution should "evolve", the Second Amendment really is the last defense against tyranny ... but then if tyranny is your thing to keep all those stupid masses from hurting themselves, well, I guess the world is your platter.
It seems that at least some Brits would like our president to shut up and butt out of the internal politics of their nation. ... It won't stop President Obama, he is on a roll.
Shifting focus to Iran ... and, remind me now, why is we are supposed to trust these people and not take them at their word?
Oh, yeah, this is the reason why ... I forgot ... but then I don't think US or Israeli nukes are going to being aimed at urban centers ... that strategy died even before the Cold War ended.
But then it seems, the French are busy talking out both sides of their mouths again ... I wonder which story is true?
Deal or no deal ... I guess the bomb is getting to be more of a threat.
Speaking of war and nuclear weapons ... it is time for the usual round of stories about the impact of the bomb on Japan.
The ins and outs of who is fighting whom and who is bombing who ... gives a whole new meaning to the the old term Byzantine
I guess this strategy of President Obama just went in the crapper ... cannon fodder ... such a quaint term.
Oh my goodness! I think the world has just come to an end. Those evil Koch Brothers are calling for an end of "corporate welfare." Gasp, say it ain't so. You mean stop using government tax breaks, credits, etc., and doling out federal subsidies to special interests in the corporate world. I think I am going to faint. But then, maybe we should do that with then entire federal tax codes and payoffs to special interests.
The Teflon Dame ... ain't this the truth?
And while we get all emotionally involved in events in the past that this group or that group, etc., should apologize for ... consider this column ...
Understand, I am all for reducing emissions ... call it enlightened self-interest. But at the same time, I am sorry, but wind and solar really aren't ready to pick up the slack that you get if you destroy all the coal-fired electrical plants in the US ... regardless of what it will do to the economies in coal-mining regions. You know there are only so many call centers that are needed. Besides, I fail to see the logic of crippling our economy while others just keep adding more plants. Final note: I posted a piece by the co-founder of Greenpeace on the perils of carbon dioxide the other day ... I commend it to your viewing.
And last, but definitely not least, 91-year-old George HW Bush is recovering nicely from trying to break his neck. Big salute from this old Desert Shield/Desert Storm trooper.
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