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Friday Open Thread – Gas Budget? Blown

December 3, 2021 Skip

Have had to do a fair amount to driving last couple of weeks and my wallet is getting WAY too light from it. Thanks, President Asterisk, for making my life harder and more expensive. Shriveling up my finances daily – was this what you meant by returning us to “normal”? You coulda mentioned that it was … Read more

So, This Means We Can Still Impeach Barack Obama?

January 27, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Let’s pretend you just got a phone call. It’s from a place you used to work. You’re retired now, and it’s not your boss on the phone, but some other ’employee.’ They had a meeting and decided to fire you, even though you don’t work there anymore. How exactly do they do that, you wonder, or better yet, why?

Ignoring Threats Invites Aggression and Raises the Death Toll

September 26, 2018December 13, 2012 Don

Without warning, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor seventy-one years ago. Because of this sneak attack, President Roosevelt said that December 7, 1941 would be remembered as a “day of infamy”.

December 7^th revealed our naivety and our lack of preparedness that unnecessarily caused many tens of thousands of American war deaths. Despite years of war in Europe and Asia, our country’s leaders refused to accept the fact that war was imminent and failed to counter the modern weapons, tactics, and skills that would be used to kill Americans.

Failing to face reality, the United States entered WWII surprised and unprepared, just like we entered WWI, Korea, and the war on terror. People died unnecessarily because we extended “peace dividends” too long.