Government
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Will things ever be the same again? Greenland is ice and Iceland is green. Go figure. Quite a month of February 2026 we’ve had. [BREAKING US AND ISREAL STRIKE IRAN]. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-israel-launch-major-attack-120954834.html So let’s look back at the United States ambitions on the takeover of Greenland. Why would the United States risk threatening a NATO ally?…
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“So I chose freedom. Running around, trying everything new.” https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/argentina/articles/the-untold-story-behind-the-song-dont-cry-for-me-argentina So here we are again US focused on our own Western Hemisphere after decades of global intervention, particularly in the Middle East. With so much going on (Tariffs, Greenland, Iran, Los Angeles, Minneapolis) let’s look back just a few short weeks into the United States…
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“What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong” – US President George H.W. Bush The Persian Gulf conflict began with the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein ordering the invasion of its oil rich neighbor, Kuwait. Other Arab nations were fearful that they could also fall to future invasion and called on the…
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“Second verse, same as the first” “Kings” I was curious about how many monarchs existed now that we are almost 250 years past the American Revolution and we told King George III we had enough of tyranny. Wikipedia maintains a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchs_of_sovereign_states I could count 30 from this list plus Pope Leo XIV,…
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“Shouldn’t be asking, wild and scheming.Could be my Election Day.” How did we get here? In the last 80 years we had been more concerned with winning the Cold War by forming trade alliances and the US Navy protecting the world’s oceans for international trade. Only thing is the Cold War ended in 1991 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War)…
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“So wake me up when it’s all over When I’m wiser and I’m older All this time I was finding myself And I didn’t know I was lost” There are really too many happenings and highlights for this set of years. What comes around, goes around. United States Government Shutdown of 2013 and subsequent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States…
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The old breakup line from our youth coming back but this time it’s the United States breaking up with the Global Order. Here’s a Gen X classic video that fits beautifully: The new US tariffs are just the beginning of the final unwinding of globalization that was initiated by the Americans starting in 1944, through…
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Ah yes. It’s been quite a month, America. How are we feeling? One of my favorite scenes from the Animal House movie is at the very end when the Delta House, after being expelled from Faber College, sends the parade crowd into a panic. Ramming Speed! The panic is starting to rise as the second…
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Not even talking about the Donald Trump and Hunter Biden trials which are good for media ratings and that’s leading to increased monetary donations to the Trump and Biden campaigns. No, I’m talking about the big money, power, politics, corporate welfare machine “system” We The People have allowed to grow and become unmanageable. As a…
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Behold! The 1967 Sunbeam Funwagon! $4995 cash money could get you this fine piece of British Americana. These were produced exclusively for the United States market and you can enquire about this antique which only a few exist. https://davidsclassiccars.com/other-makes/2238-1967-sunbeam-funwagon-rv-motorhome-camper-van.html This one is a partial which the Craigslist reference says $1,400. Which begs the question, “What…
GenX Turns Fifty 