JamesSavik

People think I'm a militarist because I insist on a President that has military experience and, preferably combat experience. It's NOT because I am a militarist . I want a chief executive that knows and understands the consequences of pulling the trigger and NOT an impulsive blowhard who feels the need to prove that he has a pair.

Boob. Braggart. Butthead. Booger-brain.

It took me a while to read this story. I stopped and started a few time. It poked me right in the issues a few times and I retreated. A lot of what Cole was describing is the way Post Traumatic stress manifests itself. Even when you take a person out of a bad situation it's still inside them like poison. It will come out one way or the other. It could have been a much, much darker story. Due to the intelligent and compassionate actions of the hero of the story, the UNCLE in my view, the story turned out about as well as it possibly could have. There were other directions that it could have gone and most of them weren't nice. Been there. Done that. Threw away the t-shirt.

We've seen the Dark Side. It's been thoroughly mapped by probes and there really isn't much there that's any different from the side that always faces us. What the dark side would be really good for would be to put a radio observatory as it is always radio dark from earth based emissions all the time.

Believe it or not, a lot of the people here in my state are dubious about Trump. Usually they are all about conservatives, but tend to like the ones that don't bluster. A fast talking yankee from New York City? That's not selling here.

Policy is one thing. It's nice, PC and looks good on paper. The reality is often a very different matter. Like when you are a kid and terrified to complain to anybody.

As well he should be. This little slut decided it would be easier to ruin someone else's life than take responsibility for what she did with her own vagina. We have created a monster with our sex crime laws. If our protagonist didn't know his rights, his father wasn't a lawyer and aunt worked in the DA's office, he would have been well and truly screwed.

Being a republican these days must be like having a crazy uncle that lives in the basement. Uncle is a dues paying member of the John Birch society and will sally forth with the traditional rhetoric. Unfortunately, he's a heavy drinker with Tourettes.

No doubt he's a cutie but... damn.

Meh. I prefer base-16 or hex.

I usually wait a year for Microsoft's unwitting beta testers to get the worst bugs worked of Redmond's latest brain-fart. The pain and suffering you'll miss out on over security holes and plain old bad code will be your own.

In my field research the incidence of same-sex sexual behavior seems to increase in direct proportion to alcohol intake. More research is definitely called for. A paper should be written and submitted to a scholarly journal on the subject. Manhunt or the Advocate perhaps.

For those of you that are interested the Nordia Incident is indeed the start of a longer story. In fact, I'm a hundred pages in already. This is the introduction to the next book.

It is foolish to blame people today for things that happened centuries ago. All that creates is well deserved resentment.

After the slave trade was abolished in the Commonwealth and the United States, one of the chief occupations of the Royal and US Navy was the suppression of that vile institution. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron and the US Navy's African Slave Patrol began its work in 1808 and 1819 respectively. It was of particular importance for several reasons. Those two nations took upon themselves police powers in international waters. Second, they enforced international law on the high seas. Of course the suppression of piracy had been a priority for the great naval powers for centuries, this was the beginning of a partnership between the English speaking nations that created a tradition of cooperation and fostered a much safer maritime operating environment. This cooperation effectively stopped the organized slave trade. The Atlantic slave trade continued as smuggling until Brazil outlawed slavery in 1888. Outlaw slave operations out of East Africa continued until just before the start of WWi.

I am humbled by the comparison. "Jack Cambell" (John G. Hemry) and I are acquainted. He used my name as one of of his characters in Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast.

this comes up like clockwork every 10 years

There is some suggestion that this story was a plant by people associated with the AFA.

Cops really hate it when you know your rights. I've known some of them to completely ignore procedure and rough you up if you give them too much lip. Of course these were deputies and the sheriffs nephews.

Dare I point out that Islam is not a race. There are people of all races that follow that faith. While Trump's blathering is troubling, it is not racist. Asinine, yes. Racist, no.

this is why the neighbors think we're a little crazy.

Cruz and Carson are statistically close to Trump but... I'm not sure either one would be much better. The stupider the stuff he says, the more ground Trump seems to gain. I used to think he would put his hoof in his mouth and be done. Unfortunately, the deeper he steps in it, the better he seems to do. I'm absolutely sure that somewhere in DC, there is a group of political consultants getting stinking drunk and wondering WTF happened.

When you talk about Trump and Jones intellectual equals, you have to mention kumquats.