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I just recently reread Huckleberry Finn for a book club and it made me wonder. Why does the left hate Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn? They claim it’s due to the liberal use of the “N-word,” but they have no problem with Tarantino movies. Besides, any sensible person can tell the difference between a racist work…
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As a follow-up to my previous thoughts on the Peter Principle there is one area I think I should touch. In the Air Force we often referred to there being four types of officers. Type One officers were those with a great deal of ability and a great deal of ambition. These were the ones…
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The Peter Principle, for those who don’t know, is the theory postulated by Lawerance Peter that organizations will promote an employee to his (or her) level of incompetence and leave him there. The claim being that he won’t be promoted any further and the company won’t fire him. This theory is accepted as a given…
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Now that it has been almost a month since the Election, I’ve heard a lot of people trying to figure out what happened. Many can’t understand why the Democrats lost so badly. Some blame Harris, others Biden, and some just the “stupidity” of the American people. I think they are all wrong. Why the Democrats…
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I’ve been viewing the YouTube channel TIKHistory. Which I highly recommend for anyone who has an interest in World War II. The man who runs the channel is a British historian who specialized in that era. He has several videos where he explains the Nazi and Fascist theories in order to explain their actions and…
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When I was living in Colorado Springs my house was a few blocks from the South Gate of the Air Force Academy, and I would drive by it every day going to work. Then about three years before I moved away, I noticed they were bulldozing an area next to the gate. They had stripped…
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Back when I was in the military there were times when a decision had to be made but all the options were bad. I’d refer to such things as an “Ugly Baby Contest.” Because you hated all the choices and there was no clear good choice. Still, you had to pick something and afterwards you…
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Ever notice how a sports figure may be a terrible person whose actions border on criminal, but the fans will defend him. They’ll claim his actions aren’t really that bad and will excuse him for almost anything as long as he’s helping the team make a run for the championship. But then when he goes…
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Please excuse some of the language I’m about to use, but I really can’t find a better word to express my complete feeling on the subject. Every generation has its stand-up guys and its chickens***s. My father was a World War II vet and the Greatest Generation had its chickens***s too. My dad enlisted in…
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I remember looking at various photographs from the Holocaust. In the pictures it wasn’t the victims that caught my eye but the guards. They didn’t look like monsters, but like normal people. People who would play ball with their sons or take their spouses to a restaurant for an evening. They looked like normal people,…
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There are several friends who assume I’m a Trump man, but I’m really not. Trump was far from my first choice in 2016. As a matter of fact, when there were about fifteen candidates for the GOP nomination, Trump was at best my seventeenth choice. However, I did vote for Trump because I didn’t see…
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In the previous post I laid out the case how the segregation of the chosen few by Nazism and Communism invariably led to mass murder. Some will want to point out that the setting aside (or sanctification) of the chosen few is also an aspect of religion, such as Christianity. Which is true. They would…