Bayou Renaissance Man

The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Friday, July 22, 2022

This may make US borrowing much, much more expensive

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  Until very recently, the US dollar has been the only reserve currency trusted by most of the rest of the world.  That's helped us sell...
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More about that missile-versus-C-47 encounter

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  Readers may remember that ten years ago, I published an article about a South African Air Force C-47 transport that was hit by a SA-7 miss...
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A movie mash-up that made me laugh out loud

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  I found this on MeWe last night.  Let's see how many of my readers are movie buffs, and old enough to connect both pictures and see wh...
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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Schools as propaganda and indoctrination mills

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  I haven't spoken much about the crisis of indoctrination and political correctness at our schools, because I don't have children o...
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The anti-meat propaganda war is dialing up

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  We've discussed on several occasions how the World Economic Forum's "Build Back Better" initiative includes discouraging...
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He's become a semi-permanent feature of the road network . . .

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  It seems a protester (apparently in France?) decided that supergluing himself to the road wasn't good enough.  (He may have been assis...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Own goal

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  This must be embarrassing for the Russian armed forces . . . if not career-ending for some of them. Russia took delivery on a handful of ...
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A Polish-Ukrainian "commonwealth"? Now there's a thought...

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  I was intrigued to read an article over at Al Fin - Next Level titled " Emerging Polish-Ukrainian Commonwealth ".  In it, the au...
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"Money talks, bull**** walks"

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  I note with interest - and concern - a step that's a very clear forecast of what lies ahead for consumers in the US economy. Wells Fa...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Exercise with less than half a back

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  As most readers are aware, back in 2004 I was seriously injured in a work-related accident.  After two surgeries, culminating in a spinal ...
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Don't be roadkill

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  It's long been a staple illustration of nuclear fission to show what happens when a lot of mousetraps are set up with ping-pong balls ...
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Let's hear it for technology!

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  Scott Adams brings the snark in his "Dilbert" comic strip last Sunday.  Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the s...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

The "deafening media silence" about global protests

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  We've mentioned the global protests and uprisings against the "Build Back Better" agenda sponsored by the World Economic For...
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An acute failure of the victim selection process

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  It seems that over the past weekend, a number of Antifa cells/chapters/whatever decided to demonstrate against the Honky Tonk Bar in Salem...
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Memes that made me laugh 117

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  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Sunday morning music

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  This morning we remember a singer who wasn't quite a one-hit wonder, but was forever defined by his first big hit.  Subsequent songs (...
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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Saturday Snippet: A 19th-century view of money, interest and investment

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  Today's Snippet is from a book that's not yet published.  It's " The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest " by ...
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