Haiku Thursday
Poke the Russian Bear, Wag the Wuhan Chinese Bat, Nuclear Chicken.
Message for the Commander in Chief!
Dear Mr. President: Why should you listen to me? Because I am an independent. I will likely vote for neither a Republican nor a Democrat in November. You can trust me because I will be straight with you. I have no allegiance to any political party—only to the truth and what is best for my country. Not someone else’s. So here it is, Mr. President: All empires end. Including ours. And what you are engaging in is accelerating that inevitable…
Message for Those Who Are Still Watching ABC and NBC Network News!
Here is what you missed last week . . . It’s a “little” story about the U.S. War in Afghanistan. The Washington Post put out a series of articles last week entitled, “The Afghanistan Papers.” A not-so subtle reference to Daniel Ellsberg’s famous revelation about the Pentagon’s “papers” during the Vietnam War. It may require some actual reading, but in case you’re interested, the series is about how you were systematically lied to concerning your $2 trillion in taxes that…
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Friends, Washingtonians, and Countrymen, Lend Me Your Open Minds; I come to bash Trump, not to praise him. The evil that Presidents do live after them. The noble Schiff hath told you Trump was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault; a phone call! One that delayed the shipment of weapons for making war on foreign soil; And a war deferred is a grievous and unpardonable sin. For Schiff is an honorable man, so are his colleagues,…
My Veterans’ Day Wish List
• That Veterans get everything they need without regard to cost. • That all budgetary requirements for Veterans and their care is allocated before a single dollar is spent on the next overseas military adventure. • That the total number of U.S. citizens (140,000 in 2014) who volunteered to assist our Veterans this year increase in 2015. (We are a nation of 317 million people; we can do better.) • That adults who have children take their kids to visit…
Happy Armistice Day!
I wholeheartedly join in the commemoration of U.S. Veterans today. Having volunteered at a Veterans Home of California and trained staffs at VA hospitals in L.A., Palo Alto, and Fresno, I appreciate what this day means to Vets. Every year at this time, I also take the opportunity to ask myself an important question—why today? Lost in all of the noise during the rest of the year about protecting this group, and moving these troops, and pulling out those troops,…
Good News for Parents, Children, and other Human Beings!
According to a newspaper in the UK, the FBI is set to arrest four co-conspirators in the Jeffrey Epstein case. And while they’re at it, I humbly suggest they raid Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. If the FBI and any of the three-letter TV networks need help finding it, I’ll happily start a Go Fund Me page and get them a GPS. Why would this post show up on an anti-war Blog? Because the Epstein case is not only about…
This Just In: “Hell Has Frozen Over”
Rush Limbaugh—a powerful advocate for both Wars on Iraq—has become a peacenik. Yes, for the record, I heard him advocate for peace yesterday on his radio show. Rush says we should “end the endless wars” in the Middle East. He even went so far as to say, “I don’t mean to be cynical about this, but there’s lots of money to be made off these wars.” I nearly crashed my vehicle when those words came out of my car radio…
Does This Sound like Trump to You?
“Many men — on both sides of the struggle — will be lost. A nation that has already suffered 20 years of warfare will suffer once again. Armies on both sides will take new casualties. And the war will go on. There is no need for this to be so. There is no need to delay the talks that could bring an end to this long and this bloody war.” President Lyndon Johnson asserted this prophecy 41 years ago in…
“Thank You for Your Service”
Dear Trevor and Samantha: You are 19 years old, twins of the late Ambassador Joe Wilson. I have never had the pleasure of meeting you, so I hope you’ll forgive me if I think of you as young children because that’s what you were when the world first learned about you and your mom and dad. I am very sorry to learn about the passing of your father, Ambassador Wilson, this week. It just so happens that last weekend I…