Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Extremism redux: what's happening in Washington D.C.

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  About ten days ago I published an article titled " The tragic poison of extremism ".  I quoted Rod Dreher at length, and his war...
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Armistice Day

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  All over the world (except the United States), this date, November 11th, is solemnly commemorated as Armistice Day.  On the eleventh day o...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

Happy birthday, USMC - and thanks for helping to keep me alive

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  Today is the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps , founded on 10 November 1775.  Congratulations to the Corps and all its mem...
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Memes that made me laugh 285

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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, November 9, 2025

Sunday morning music

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  Back in 1988, the world was more than usually in turmoil.  The Soviet Union was in its death throes, with political instability the order ...
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Friday, November 7, 2025

"The Internet was a mistake"

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  So postulates Stephan Pastis, anyway.  Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the "Pearls Before Swine" Web page. On...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Too cute!

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  I had to laugh out loud while watching this. Good dogs! Peter
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

An unforeseen danger in a sleep supplement

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  I've used a melatonin supplement as a sleep aid for over a year.  I take one tablet at night before going to bed, and have found it h...
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Health update

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  I figured it was time to give you all an update on how my health situation is progressing (particularly those generous souls who donated t...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Electoral fraud that preceded the election: hijacking the 2020 census

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  It seems that the 2020 census deliberately mis-apportioned state populations, which in turn led to mis-allocation of electoral seats per s...
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Monday, November 3, 2025

Yet more evidence of how US taxpayers have been robbed blind by left-wing progressive policies

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  Two reports caught my eye over the weekend.  Just remind yourself as you read them that they are the fruit of four years of the Biden admi...
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Memes that made me laugh 284

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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, November 2, 2025

Sunday morning music

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  I tend to be rather old-fashioned in my music tastes.  I'm unlikely to enjoy most songs written this century (with a few notable excep...
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Friday, October 31, 2025

Happy (or horrible) Halloween, depending on your taste!

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  Peter
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The wheels on the trucks... are falling off?

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  The CEO of Freightwaves warns that the " Largest capacity purge in history " is coming to the US commercial trucking market. The...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Good question!

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  Found in several places on social media: Perhaps, if enough SNAP/EBT recipients lose their heads and riot over the suspension of those ben...
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The tragic poison of extremism

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  I've been worried for years about how the extremes of American politics, both left- and right-wing, have been growing stronger, and er...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Sad news

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  Regular readers will remember my bleg a few weeks ago to help James and Tirzah Burns .  James was suffering from pancreatic and other prob...
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The convoluted world of international arms deals

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  It's been reported that Turkey is to buy 20 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft from Britain . It is the largest fighter jet export deal in a...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Is the US intelligence apparatus deliberately playing us false?

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  From Larry Lambert over at Virtual Mirage : (h/t Sam Fadis ) Steve Witkoff called out CIA for providing him and Jared Kushner with complet...
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