The shit has hit the fan.

I started my last post days before the Parkland shooting that killed 17 young people. I rushed to finish it so I could move on. As a result it's not great writing, disorganized and sloppy but there is a theme. It's loosely connected to what I'm about to write.

I've never owned a firearm in my life. I simply don't believe we ( Read more... )

Daniel Pearl, James Foley and Steven Sotloff have a few things in common. They're all men, Americans, journalists, and were all murdered by beheading at the hands of Islamic nutjobs. Their murders were videotaped and distributed as evidence of their murderers meaning business. The west should take them seriously.

These men were bold journalists, ( Read more... )

.... since I last posted in LJ.

Not much has changed since my last batch of blogs back in the first quarter. The Russians are still causing trouble in the Ukraine, the Tea Party still hates Obama, the middle east is still a cluster fuck, our nation is being constantly exposed for the police state it is ... and the media is just part of the system, ( Read more... )

After getting over my initial phase of fascination, then disbelief, disgust, and finally acceptance that Herman Cain is a serial molester of women and a pathological liar .... I entered the final phase of amusement. When something pisses me off I'll rant and complain but I'll eventually get down to the business of ridicule.

This final fun phase ( Read more... )

For the past week I've been following the Herman Cain sexual harassment story with great interest. Once again a politician failed to understand a basic principal of public trust. If you admit to your mistakes and deal with them in an up-front honest way, most of the public will forgive you and move on to other issues.

When the news broke last ( Read more... )

The police action in Oakland and other cities are only temporary set backs. Local governments are paying millions in overtime for police keeping and eye on the OWS people and they're cracking down for reasons other than the 'sanity defense'. The mayor of Oakland is a spineless snake for offering lip service in support of OO, then unleashing the ( Read more... )

I've never been to a demonstration, protest, a march or rally of any kind ..... until today.


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In a late Friday news dump the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department released a statement regarding the firing of Joe Arpaio's second and third in command. Dave Hendershott and Larry Black had been on administrative leave since September when accusations surfaced and an investigation began. The list of misdeeds and corruption is long, and it was all ( Read more... )

If you ignored my first no-fly-zone blog written long before the UN decided to take my advice you'll no doubt ignore this one. I realize enforcing a no-fly-zone is a logistical action very few nations can undertake. I also know NATO is the second most capable alliance to handle such a task. The fact one member in 28 .... Turkey .... can prevent a ( Read more... )

The more I read the local news the more this state seems like bad fiction. There's a bill in the AZ state legislature to make the Colt 45 Revolver the 'Official State Gun of Arizona.'

In Glendale a single man purchased nearly 200 assault rifles, dozens of handguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition over several months .... from the same store. ( Read more... )