So one of my staff showed up for work today looking like …well, like shit. Tired, bags under her eyes, dragging around, generally not herself.
“Are you sick?” I asked?
“Nope, Daylight savings time really gets me.”
“Really? It’s only an hour” I replied
“It’s not the hour loss, it’s the staying up ’til 2 AM to set the clocks forward that gets to me” she answered.
Yep, she’s blonde.
A revolution?
Fighting in the streets and drumhead courts-martial and such? Ropes and lampposts? Killing our country to save it? Or is it already dead?
‘Cause we no longer have a Republic. We are no longer a Democratic Republic. Your vote no longer counts. The rule of law is no longer what governs us, and is no longer what limits and controls those in power.
Benjamin Franklin was correct. “A Republic, if you can keep it”. We haven’t kept it…….our fathers and their fathers (and, perhaps, their fathers) allowed the rot to begin….. and the following generations allowed it to continue. I am not so sure that my generation and those that follow me can even stop it, much less reverse it.
Perhaps we need to chop it down and let a new tree grow from the stump.
Seems that Germany can’t meet it’s NATO commitments, should it become necessary:
This is what happens when the State chooses to spend all of it’s money on social programs and none on defense. (Sorta like what is happening here is the US (warning: DNC PROPAGANDA ), only the Germans started a few years earlier). Some call it the “Peace Dividend” except that that works only as long as there is peace…
The lessons of the (pre) Korean War fiasco, wherein military budget cuts had grown so huge that the Navy and Army were unable to do the job when Truman called on them to blockade North Korea and turn the tide of the invading NK army……UNABLE to do the job because of massive budget cuts years before.
Germany is seeing this today. as will other countries who have chosen to let their Military wither on the vine while spending that money on Social programs. In about 3 more years, we in the US may find that our Military is reduced to a “Paper Tiger” force, unable to do the job we will call upon them to do because there is no money for training and equipment.
Paging Mr. George Orwell:
Is that she is allowed to vote.The fact than anyone would write such an article (and not as satire) should mean that she is automatically proscribed from voting.
Not saying that everything is wrong, but really, when your entire article can be boiled down to “men bad, Patriarchy, and women better”…. it is sad. Even sadder that this is published in the WSJ.
I’ll not get into the whole “women work from emotion rather than logic” argument, nor the fact that women’s motivations change as they grow older, from childbearing years to post menopause…..to the illogic they exhibit though their cycles, etc.
Instead I’ll just find it sad that a once prestigious publication like the Wall Street Journal would even publish such an article, for any reason.
Even “because Patriarchy”.
before the Las Vegas NACAR race, I gotta say that I am embarrassed for Michael Waltrip. Not only is he a failed has-been racer (but one still worthy of respect for his accomplishments) but he is now played as a complete fool by whoever is paying his salary. He is no longer respected by the racers and their support staff, but obviously no longer by NASCAR officials nor the producers. He voluntarily plays the Court Jester and the Fool.
I mean, it makes as much sense as any other explanation.
Go HERE. to find what I am talking about.
About 10 days ago, the Obama administration GAVE AWAY 3+ BILLION DOLLARS of your money to private insurance firms. Gave.It.Away……Illegally.
And it was only because of the Internet that you even heard about it.
The Big Media didn’t tell you….Not a single TV news organization… NBC, not CBS, not ABC…not even FOX. …no major newspaper told you either…Not the Times, (NY nor LA) not the Tribune. Nor the Register, nor even the WSJ. Certainly not the Christian Science Monitor.
It was the interenet. That last open, unregulated means of communication. Invented by AlGore, it has brought freedom of communication to nearly everyone in the US and Canada.
Until, of course, the Feds start to change that.
But I digress. Back to my original topic. I have to ask, where are our legislators? Why aren’t they stopping Barry from his illegal acts? He can’t isn’t supposed to give away billions of US government (which means ours, BTW) dollars to private firms without the advice and consent of Congress. IN fact, it takes and act of legislation that BEGINS in the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES to spend money like that. And yet our Congress just looks the other way and lets him act….
WHY IS THAT?
It appears that we will, for the first time this winter, be above freezing today.
Which is good, as we are nearly out of firewood….
And running low on C2H5OH..
That later tonight, Brian Williams will be telling us about his experience with J Bowie at the Alamo.
Apparently it was harrowing.
Philm at 11.