It's All About the Benjamins!
The WNBA is still a money loser for the NBA, while the UAE deal is just pure profit for the league. It's all about the Benjamins!
Ain't hypocrisy wonderful?
Our family, especially our younger daughter, are fans of professional cycling. Our daughter knows all of the major players, and if my interest is more for the scenery on the European road races, I still know something about the sport.
How fanatic are our family? While watching the Tour of Scotland on television in 2022, my wife and daughter decided, upon seeing a quaint looking hotel in Ballater, Scotland, that they had to go there, which they did in October of that year.
I didn't get to go, but it worked out for me because, when our older daughter called from Kuwait, and said she got four days leave and was going to Jerusalem, I had a perfect excuse to join her there, and no one could object that it cost too much money!…READ MORE…
“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.”
As a infantry lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne I read a personal memoire by a WW II vet who cautioned, “Do not let slip the dogs of war.”
Shakespeare described the command that loosed soldiers and war dogs to prey on people without pity. As a infantry lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne I read a personal memoire by a WW II vet who cautioned, “Do not let slip the dogs of war.” I never forgot his injunction. The older I get, the more I understand how awful war is. Yet, when war comes, it must be fought. We should never imagine we can control it once we let slip the dogs of war. Iran let go the leash.
On October 7th 2023, the Hamas Muslim barbarians in Gaza committed a massacre in Israel. Israel is still conducting the counter-attack to eradicate Hamas in Gaza. Iran supports Hamas. Israel struck them back by bombing the Iranian consulate in Syria and killing key Iranian brass. On April 13th 2024, Iran attacked Israel in the largest drone and missile attack in history. Now, Israel will strike back…READ MORE…
Past the Point of “NO RETURN,” Civil War 2.0”
The Balkan Civil wars of the mid-1990s were not just distant conflicts in a faraway land; they were harbingers of profound lessons that we, as a nation and a military, have regrettably begun to forget…READ MORE…
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