RSS- Open Thread – Inauguration Day 2024
- On December 19, 2024 Congress tried to suspend the federal debt limit until 2027 but the vote failed. The January 2 limit is full. What now?
- Dave Chappelle’s SNL Monologue
- Aurimas Mockus and his grueling quest to row from San Diego to Brisbane – mostly naked
- Drone Industry: American Style
- What really happened with the Pacific Palisades water hydrants?
- Two big launches scheduled for this week
- DeSantis Pitches Moving NASA Headquarters to Florida
- A renewed Ukrainian offensive in Kursk?
- True story of “Anna of Kyiv”: SBI launches investigation into formation of 155th Brigade
Monthly Archives: November 2024
Trump names Mike Waltz as national security adviser
President-elect Donald Trump has named Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida to serve as his national security adviser. As national security adviser, Waltz will play an integral role in shaping U.S. policy on geopolitical conflicts ranging from the war in Ukraine … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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A U.S. Government employee is arrested in Cambodia for leaking the two documents describing Israeli military activity before it would attack Iran
By Robert Willmann As has been widely reported today, Asif William Rahman was arrested in Cambodia and charged with leaking the two documents that were published on the Internet which described preparations by the Israeli military before it would attack … Continue reading
“Ditty Dum Dum Ditty” by Alan Farrell
Years ago Colonel Lang, with Alan Farrell’s permission, made Alan’s book of poetry available on his blog “The Atheneum.” I provided the link below. Enjoy. I find most of his works very Viet Nam War specific, but I can truly … Continue reading
More Alan Farrell …
Ladies and Gentlemens: Thanks for having me here to honor those who’ve served. I was a soldier. Then I was a teacher. Now I’m just a… well, a citizen, I guess. A teacher. One day I’m dozing through a meeting of the English … Continue reading
Posted in Farrell, Prose, TTG
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The Solitude of Combat Veterans – Alan Farrell
Ladies and Gentlemens: Kurt Vonnegut — Corporal Vonnegut — famously told an assembly like this one that his wife had begged him to “bring light into their tunnels” that night. “Can’t do that,” said Vonnegut, since, according to him, the … Continue reading
Posted in Farrell, Prose, TTG
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Remnant Soviet Union and the search for past glory
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Sistema project released an investigation on November 4 detailing Russia’s initial 2022 demands for Ukraine’s total capitulation, further supporting ISW’s long-standing assessment that Russia has never been willing to engage in good-faith negotiations with Ukraine … Continue reading
Posted in Russia, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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Dow surges by 1,300 points as Trump is reelected
New York CNN — US stocks rose sharply Wednesday morning following a decisive and consequential victory for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s US presidential election. The Dow soared 1,309 points, or 3% in morning trading, reaching a new high. This … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, government, Politics, TTG
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Black voters may have cast Virginia ballots in 1864
ERIC KOLENICH | Richmond Times-Dispatch In November 1864, a regiment of Black soldiers in thenUnion army was deployed to southeastern Henrico County. On election day, 194 of the soldiers stood in a single-file line and dropped paper ballots into a … Continue reading
Posted in TTG, WBS
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The 2024 federal fiscal year ended. $35.46 trillion in debt. A $1.83 trillion deficit. $1.13 trillion in gross interest payments. The presidential candidates are silent.
By Robert Willmann Like Mother Nature, mathematics is impartial. The financial or fiscal year of the U.S. government starts on 1 October and ends on 30 September of the following year, with its name being the year of the last … Continue reading
On the Lunatic Fringe
In the modern era, the proa cause was first taken up by multihull designer Dick Newick, who in 1967 designed CHEERS, a 36-footer he called the “Atlantic proa.”Unlike a traditional Pacific proa, which always keeps the ama on the windward … Continue reading
Posted in Messing about in boats, TTG
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