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The Mother of All Messages

April 14, 2017 by Pops 27 Comments

“I love the smell of a MOAB in the morning”

The US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on eastern Afghanistan on Thursday in another dramatic show of military force by the Trump administration.

The GBU-43/B, colloquially known as the “mother of all bombs” or MOAB, targeted tunnels and bunkers in Achin district in Nangarhar province, built by fighters loyal to Islamic State who also kept prisoners there.

A GPS-guided demolition bomb with an 11-ton (US) yield of explosives, it explodes above ground with a radius of over a mile.

The bomb was dropped in the mountains close to Moman village in an area called Asadkhel. About 1.5 miles away, the impact was palpable.


President Trump has a way of getting people’s attention, doesn’t he?

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Rain on the Parade?

April 11, 2017 by Pops 27 Comments

First, let me say this:   I don’t have any special knowledge about the secret workings within the Trump administration.  Now, with that disclaimer out of the way, let’s connect the dots……

North Koreans love parades.

  • This weekend, North Korea will be celebrating the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s first nut-job leader and “eternal president,” who happens to be the late grandfather of the current nut-job leader, Kim Jong Un.  The celebration will include lots of fireworks, hundreds of dancing maidens twirling flags, and will showcase a huge military parade of tens of thousands of troops, with scores of tanks, missiles and rocket launchers.
  • Also this weekend, the United States Navy battle group featuring the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Carl Vinson, with its squadrons of fighter planes and myriad other weapons of eye-opening destructive power, will just happen to be steaming around in the Sea of Japan (which also just happens to be really, really close to North Korea).
  • President Trump thinks that Kim Jong Un is a bad guy who needs to be militarily spanked.
  • President Trump just got done militarily spanking a different bad guy on the other side of the world for doing something really stupid.
  • Kim Jong Un (who is also really stupid) will be all happy and giggly and dancing and clapping his hands while he is watching his big parade on April 15th.
  • President Trump doesn’t want Kim Jong Un to be all happy and giggly and dancing and clapping his hands while watching the big parade on April 15th, or at any other time, for that matter.

What is that noise?

SO…….

Keep your TV turned on this coming weekend. There might be something happening that you wouldn’t want to miss.

CONNECT THE DOTS, Fat Boy! 

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You’ll Never See It Coming

April 11, 2017 by Pops 27 Comments

History shows that it is not the people that you worry about that will get you – it’s the folks that act behind the scenes, in places that you never heard of before, that will end up getting you killed.

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfeld

The U.S Civil War began in 1861 when cannon fire from Confederate artillery rained down on Fort Sumter, a small island in Charleston Harbor. Over 618,000 Americans died.

World War I was sparked in 1914 when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. 17 million died.

The Ebola virus was first seen in 1976 in a dying storekeeper at a cotton factory in South Sudan. Tens of thousands have since died.

The world’s worst nuclear disaster happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, outside of Pripyat, USSR, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of miles.

The Black Death of Europe started when a ship landed at Messina, Sicily, in 1347 carrying dead and dying Genoese sailors. 20 million Europeans died over the following five years.

And prior to December 7, 1941, few people had heard of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.



Whatever it will be that gets us, we will probably never see it coming.

With that in mind, enjoy every day to the fullest. Sleep well, my friends, for tomorrow holds unknowable surprises.

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