The title is from my favorite poem by some strange coincidence. It starts a bit slowly but will take you on the emotional roller coaster that I have been on both literally and figuratively at least a few times too many. I just watched it for the first time a few days ago because someone … Continue reading Friday Night Movie Recommendation: The Thin Red Line
Category: The Simon Tao
Funniest Movie Scene I’ve Seen Since Forever
https://youtu.be/SlA9hmrC8DU 2 minutes 53 seconds of Hollywood gold
The Harrowing of Hell
In the non-canonical Gospel of Nicodemus, during the 3 days between the Crucifuxion and the Resurrection, Jesus and John the Baptist go to Hell to release the souls of the blessèd, good people who couldn’t go to Heaven cuz they lived before Jesus’ birth. “ Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates! Behold, the King … Continue reading The Harrowing of Hell
Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 5) Redux
A feel good but secondary mission is to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the citizens of the various Partner Nations. Winning the Peace (WtP) Foreign Area Officers (FAOs) may support when feasible, freedom of religion with the end-state being that a Muslim could convert to Christianity and not face death for … Continue reading Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 5) Redux
Plan Mexico: In Honor of the Fallen AKA Winning the Peace
In case you have forgotten, I have written 9 or 10 OPs entitled “Winning the Peace.” D'Nanda, God bless her, has boiled all of them down to the following: As I may have said in this space once or twice, since the end of World War II, our nation’s military has won almost all the … Continue reading Plan Mexico: In Honor of the Fallen AKA Winning the Peace
Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 8)
The Pentagon is forever planning and procuring for the war that the military industrial complex wants to fight instead of the war that we’re actually fighting. The Pentagon dreams of fighting China and/or Russia with really dreamy dog fights and dom-submarine versus sub-submarine stalk and kills, but gets no joy from fighting the kinds of … Continue reading Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 8)
Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux
Winning the Peace (WTP and/or WP – Willy Pete?), and the FAOs in the program are organized within each partner nation similarly to an infantry platoon reinforced. Platoon commander (O-5), platoon sergeant (E-8), corpsman, radio telephone operator (RTOs), squad leaders (O-4), fire team leaders (O-3), and grunts (enlisted advisors). The total number of individuals deployed … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux
Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux
Winning the Peace (WTP and/or WP – Willy Pete?), and the FAOs in the program are organized within each partner nation similarly to an infantry platoon reinforced. Platoon commander (O-5), platoon sergeant (E-8), corpsman, radio telephone operator (RTOs), squad leaders (O-4), fire team leaders (O-3), and grunts (enlisted advisors). The total number of individuals deployed … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux
Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 2)
Anyone who believes that we are winning the so called “Global War on Terrorism” has not endured an airport screening lately. Winning the peace would mean that you could board a plane as stress free as you did before 9-11. No, what we see and feel in today’s America is not what peace looks like. … Continue reading Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 2)
Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 8)
The Pentagon is forever planning and procuring for the war that the military industrial complex wants to fight instead of the war that we’re actually fighting. The Pentagon dreams of fighting China and/or Russia with really dreamy dog fights and dom-submarine versus sub-submarine stalk and kills, but gets no joy from fighting the kinds of … Continue reading Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 8)
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