Category Archives: History

DD214 on iphone

Posted on February 7, 2021 | Comments Off on DD214 on iphone

I was keeping the paper copy in the car, until someone suggested photographing it for the phone. Probably best to keep it there to avoid losing it, though I have several copies. Mostly I use my VA card for discounts when asked but AT&T asked for the full 214. And it was worth it, shaving $70 from my monthly bill. Veteran bennies, such as parking spaces and discounts, are a new thing. Wasn’t so long ago being a veteran was no benefit at all.

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CIA, etc, are corrupt

Posted on January 15, 2021 | Comments Off on CIA, etc, are corrupt

Made the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax seem legitimate.

“Ric Grenell on @Newsmax just told the American people that the intel community weaponized intel against President Trump to make the Russia Collusion hoax seem legitimate. And they did it by classifying the warnings that the info was bogus.”

Via Emerald Robinson Newsmax WH correspondent

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Trump kept us out of war

Posted on January 13, 2021 | Comments Off on Trump kept us out of war

A new war, that is, as he tried to end Iraq and Afghanistan, despite the military-industrial complex fighting to maintain the fighting and spending and profiting. First president in many years not to start a new war.

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Posted in Afghanistan, History, Iraq

Capitol Invasion Not The First

Posted on January 7, 2021 | 5 comments

At least six other times have people invaded the so-called People’s House. It’s really the home of the monied elite, many crooks, and enough contradictory politics to gag a goose. But the current invaders, including Antifa, aren’t likely to come out ahead this time either. Kruiser at PJMedia has the usual funny take: Media finally finds a mob it doesn’t like. These perpetually lying and exaggerating enemies of the people are the real problem.

Via PJMedia

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Gun bans

Posted on December 21, 2020 | Comments Off on Gun bans

“If you don’t see the irony of a gun ban being enforced by men with guns, then you fail to understand why the 2nd amendment was written in the first place.”

Via Kevin Sorbo on Twitter

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Outlander, book 6

Posted on November 13, 2020 | Comments Off on Outlander, book 6

In which the chief heroine and time-traveler is gang-raped in 1774. Very shocking and saddening. Yet, perhaps, because she’s an m.d. and in her early forties, she takes it rather philosophically. Recalling that only one was not rough. “I was just a hole,” she said. That’s in A Breath of Snow and Ashes, by Diana Gabaldon.

“You’re not afraid of men,” one 18th century rapist observes of her 20th century demeanor. “You should act like you’re afraid.”

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Blacks at D-Day

Posted on September 13, 2020 | Comments Off on Blacks at D-Day

You never hear about blacks in WW2, other than the Tuskegee Airmen, since all of them were in segregated units. But one canard, that blacks did not land on Omaha Beach, is exploded by the Army, itself. In this cool story about barrage balloons to thwart strafing fighter planes manned by an all-black battalion.

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