Saturday, August 15, 2015

Suggested Readings from Aug. 14, 2015

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 you to the page being referred to.

For various and sundry reasons, I will keep this short and just to a few highlights … and then try again tomorrow to catch up.

Very interesting piece on Iranian-sponsored terrorism ... but it seems more an effort to defuse criticism of the Iran Deal, by saying ... but the Iranians wouldn't do that. Well, I am not so sure, and I think it would be foolish to bank on it. What the author fails to really acknowledge, that while we may know the funding and backers of terrorism, that sponsored by Iran has never really sparked any kickback and they have, and I will bet will continue, escaped any meaningful consequences - other than the sanctions, which have been given away.

This is a really good way, in my humble opinion, to wind up dead ... but then that happens to foolish people.

It is interesting to read or hear first person accounts of the day the war ended, and how people reacted. Whether, like this journalist, it was in a newsroom hovering around a wire service printer or, as the case of a friend of mine, sitting a top a hill in Greenland with a co-worker, demolishing a bottle of Old Granddad.

North Korea continues to bluster ... but that is the problem ... when do you know it is not bluster and they really mean to do something. It has gotten to the point that most people just dismiss the DPRK threats as hot air, but what if Mr. Kim gets upset that nobody is paying him any attention and actually does something stupid? Scary, isn't it?

Very valid points about the lessons to be learned from the deals with North Korea, when looking at the deal with Iran.

Unfortunately, this is what happens when belief systems clash, and one group tries to stuff their beliefs down another groups’ throats ... to me, this is a mountain out of molehill ... and would have easily been resolved by the offended parties just going to another baker. But, no, they had to make a point and shove their beliefs down another person's throat, and basically destroying their business and their lives in the process.  Some tolerance for religious diversity here.

And yet another demonstration why the VA is failing veterans ... when all else fails fault the veterans for his inability to fill out all the paperwork required properly ... sometimes I wonder if the inmates are running the insane asylum

Rangers are hard core ... and it takes a lot to stop them ...

And finally for tonight ... this question: And just what was it this Marine did (which got him prosecuted) that Hillary hasn't done? And the prosecution of Hillary starts when?

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