The term “cannon fodder” is a expression used to describe combatants that are regarded as expendable by their superiors. The expression means, literally, “food for cannons” and, in my mind, reflects badly, not on the unfortunate combatants that are held in such low regard, but, rather on the callousness and lack of empathy of the leaders and commanders that hold
First, let me say that title shown above is only partially meant as homage to Elmer Fudd (“There’s something very skwuwee around here!”). As some of you will recall, the cartoon character Mr. Elmer Fudd chronically mispronounced the term “screwy” as “skwuwee”! Although not appreciated at the time, Mr. Fudd’s mispronunciation of “screw” and “screwy” as “skwuw” and “skwuwee” leads
What will it take, America, to awaken you? How many acts of violence? How often? How brutal? How brazen? How can you slumber, America? How is sleep possible? The warships are on the horizon. The barbarians are at the gate. The wolf is, indeed, at the door. What might you be thinking? How might you be distracting yourself? Football? Baseball?
It turns out that many media sources EDITED Hillary’s interview on the New York bombings. I came across the full video this morning, and learned that Hillary opened her comments with a sentence that was CUT by a number of media outlets. Now why, dear reader, would they cut her opening sentence? It turns out that they had very good
Although 2016 pales in comparison to 2001 for the severity of jihadi attacks on American soil (due, of course, to the events of 9/11), it is, none-the-less proving itself to be another bumper year for attacks. According to Johnston’s Archive, 2016 can, thus far, boast 10 separate terror attacks with the body count now standing at 63! These attacks, in
Freedom of speech is, perhaps, the most important freedom enumerated in the Bill of Rights. With out freedom of speech society can not better itself. In order to better itself, society must solve existing problems and improve upon intrenched but deficient customs that bog it down. In order to solve problems and correct maladaptive customs, however, individuals in that society
Over this past weekend, quite a bit of water had passed under the bridge. A brief recap: 1) Two bombings occurred yesterday in the NY Metro area, one in a dumpster in the Chelsea area of Manhattan and one in a trash barrel along the planned route of a charity run in New Jersey. The race had been, thankfully, delayed,
As children we were taught a simple lesson: In the face of name calling, we were to refrain from fighting and return an insult with the response: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me.” Good advice, to be sure. And as we matured into adults most of us rose above the name calling of
Runaway immigration has it’s advocates. The democrats like it because they believe that it will, in the future, generate huge numbers of, presumably grateful and loyal democrat voters. Big agriculture and big business like it because it will provide lots of workers willing, presumably, to work for very low wages, keeping the cost of farming and production low. Idealists like
There is a group of American Muslims that have been fulminating over a 911 memorial built in Owego, New York. The reason for their displeasure is a plaque on that memorial that uses the term “Islamic Extremists”. The group says that term would mislead people into thinking that ALL Muslims are extremists, although there is NO mention of the word