Poke the Bear, Get A Response. Chicago Police Chief, Eddie Johnson, made a public “values” statement by not attending the “commander’s” speech at the recent International Police Chief Association conference in Chicago. This is bear bating and got a predictable response from Trump: “Chicago is, unfortunately, the worst sanctuary city in America. Chicago protects criminals […]
Read MoreMiddle East Strategy?
Waiting for instructions from the kingdom Iran? We are “locked and loaded” waiting for the word from the “kingdom” for how to proceed after drone attacks on the Saudi oil fields. We dropped out of the Iran Nuclear Deal which apparently was working as intended. Now Iran is enhancing their nuclear skills and instigating trouble […]
Read MoreReal Damage
The buffoonery is obvious. Let’s recognize it, move on, and waste no more energy reacting to each embarrassing example of this behavior. Let’s focus on the damage to: The Planet Wage Earners The Economy Our Place in the World The Planet: The EPA Administrator is a former energy lobbyist whose biggest clients included Murray Energy […]
Read MoreHuman Rights Reevaluated?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 in Paris. The U.S. State Department has something new: a Commission on Unalienable Rights to provide “fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.” The […]
Read More2020
The “Make America Great Again” experiment has issues. What should we look for in 2020? Character Needed? Honesty Yes Effort Yes Experience Yes Intelligence Yes Maturity Yes What about a combination of honesty, effort, intelligence and maturity? Despite being a “stable genius” and “very rich” the current “Commander” does poorly with the requirements above. Maybe […]
Read MoreKill Chain?
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the last of the trophy generals) reported to congress in 2018 that the U.S. is not involved in the “kill chain” in Yemen, but we are supplying the bombers, laser guided bombs, intelligence, and mid-air refueling to the Saudis and Emiratis who are involved. Is not being […]
Read MoreNew Tariff on Baseball Stars
Tariff Man Hits Cuban Ball Players! MLB and Cuban Federation Agreement The agreement reached between MLB and the Cuban Federation after three years of negotiation provided Cuban players a safe and legal path to playing professionally in the U.S. In the past some Cuban stars have risked life and limb making their way illegally to […]
Read MoreThe Mueller Report
“There’s nothing wrong with taking information from the Russians.” Quoting from the Report: “…the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a […]
Read MoreBasket of Redeemables?
How did these constituencies get cobbled together? EvangelicalsGun EnthusiastsRural CitizensPollutersWhite Nationalists The commander has demonstrated weak strategic thinking, antagonistic diplomacy and thin negotiating skills. Instead, we have a feral focus on short term targets: a Moslem ban, zero tolerance at the border, canceled aid to the Palestinians and the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Honduras and […]
Read MoreWorld Affairs
Name calling, Tariffs and Sanctions seem to come from the same lizard brain region: lazy, blunt and harsh. Tariffs and Sanctions indicate a lack of effort and a failure to grasp the risks and opportunities. Drop Outs: in the past two years we have reneged on the following without better ideas – no plan B […]
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