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I think I have this watch, the physical watch, somewhere among "my stuff".The image below is actually a video with Mao waving his hand to the masses. I don't know why the video became a still image.
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Not being discussed much - FFOTUS is opening what smells a lot like a new Viet Nam - in particular the massive and useless bombings.The FF administration is trying to keep it secret, even from...
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Q: Is FFOTUS an agent of Bin Laden or an agent of Putin?Both of those people desire(d) an emasculated, crippled United States and FFOTUS is delivering, and wow is he delivering!
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FFOTUS in his first term managed to drive China to move its purchases of farm crops, such as soy beans, from the US to places like Argentina.China, being smarter than the US (hey, they have essentially...
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I do not think today's protests will have the desired effect.The nazis, magas, white-nationists all saw that they actually won elections a mere five months ago. And twitter still has lots of users,...
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Hogwash. Indeed a judge can order the wrongfully deported person returned. And that judge can sanction every person in the chain of command that lead to that inhuman, unlawful, despicable act.So, were...
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I wrote this in 2007 about "W", it seems applicable to FFOTUS as well:"A Toast to G. W. B"Mr. President, I offer you a toast.May you have a long life; may your mind remain lucid.May you live to see the...
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The Atlantic republished this piece from December 1945 about the capture and death of Mussolini.I have a vague sense that the decision to use this article was not based purely of historical interest; I...
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We are now all passengers on Flight 93 - that was the United flight that was hijacked on Sept 11 on which the passengers revolted and took over (although the could not save the flight.)Our country has...
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The internet is largely built of privately owned pieces. The interconnection of these pieces is done via private interconnection, transit, peering arrangements.Now, it strikes me that it would be...
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It would not surprise me if we were to learn sometime in the future that FFOTUS advance-leaked to his "friends" that he was going to relax his trade war on a certain date so that they could snap up...
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OK, I admit that this does not quite reach the scene in the film "The Godfather" with the severed horse head in the bed.But this act by the maga-nutz is close. It is clearly a threat wrapped in the...
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My grandfather's stamp collection had some of the hyper-inflation era stamps from Germany in the 1920's. They are overprinted, perhaps multiple times, with ever increasing numbers.Well, we added a "US...
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There have been several postings recently regarding the power of Congress to revoke the tariff powers FFOTUS has been using to cause chaos.In the recent SCOTUS case of Loper Bright Enterprises v....
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An investigation is needed, but with all the investigators under FFOTUS's thumb or in the maga-slaves in Congress, an actual investigation is unlikely.However, a set of State *civil* and criminal...
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Given that our Federal government has collapsed - we have a non-functioning Congress that refuses to assert its powers to "balance" an ultra vires - and unlawful/unconstitutional - president - and a...
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Still my choice for the song for our times..."Bella Ciao" - Mitski [cover]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyI4vmds5o
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I am rather fond of these two paragraphs from John Stuart Mill..."I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be...
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Choices? We've got choices! We've just installed our fifth car charging port at our house.(Which some might find odd given that we have only two EV's.)If we fire 'em all up at the same time PG&E...
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