To the ones who give the orders,
I read today that Russia is beginning it’s withdrawal from Georgia after beating a violent path to the city of Gori. But what destruction came at the hands of the Russians was nothing compared to the destruction caused by the Ossetia, Russia, and, in one case, Chechnya looters [...] Read more »
There’s not much that happens these days that actually makes me waggle my hairy eyebrows but yesterday’s news about Julia Child made me not only waggle them, I actually read two full articles and today, the just released CIA report about her work in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII; the forerunner [...] Read more »
Back on November 3rd I put up a small post about abandoned Cold War missile silos referencing an original article at WebUrbanist. And after the post had been published, Laurie and I began wondering if there were any of these early Cold War Missile silos had ever planted here in Vermont or anywhere within [...] Read more »
Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II
It was over a month ago when I called in sick for the last time at work. Much to my disgruntled self the injuries I sustained while in the Submarine Force during the ol’ Cold War finally took me out of work place for good. Okay! so more time for blogging yes? Well not quite.
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The mail came in the other day and with it came the renewal notice for my blog’s domain name. Hard to believe it’s that time already and I’ve been banging away at this iteration of my blog for nearly a year now. Seems like I’m still starting out in a lot of ways.
So what have [...] Read more »
Continue reading about Just Thinkin’ renewed another 2 years. So what have I accomplished?
As some of you may have realized by now, I’m a veteran of the Cold War, a submariner to be exact. I was assigned to a very special boat out of Norfolk VA that had a bad habit of spending an average of 300 days out of the year at sea and in the strangest [...] Read more »
Warning—Heavy sarcasm ahead So here you go folks. What we’ve all been waiting for. The phrase; Cold War II, if not the actual turning of the tide (yet), has now been offered up to the public nice and solid. By an article in the New York Times no less.
The problem is, Cold War II could [...] Read more »
Continue reading about "Cold War II" Phrase Is Coined–A Sarcastic, Cynical Post
