Opinion

Make yourself into a target?

This was the defiant refusal by the greeks at Thermopylae when told to lay down their arms by Persian invaders. While the defenders were eventually annihilated by overwhelming numbers, the three day battle enabled the evacuation of Athens and saved many lives.

We feed, clothe, house and educate our children so they can eventually fend for themselves. “Cutting the cord” happens in stages. Potty training is an event that signals progress along this path. Getting a drivers license is another as is moving out.

It manifests itself in many ways but the root cause is western culture’s profit-focused determination that forms the core of most of our lives. That desire to be better, to make more profit, to beat the other guy, is why products based on closed source efforts will always beat those based on open source.

Data Points:

• 2402 people died at Pearl Harbor on December 7th.
• 2966 died on September 11th.

Fact: More people died in the terrorist attack on 9/11 than in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

The electoral college meets and casts votes in two weeks, on December 17th.

Why do you have firearms?

• For meat, and
• Because not all of the natives are friendly.

Why do I have firearms?

With the demise of Hostess, will all the Twinkies leave America?

This is the Chapel at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland.

The future is up there, not back here.

Class to teach. Road to drive. 1800 to shoot. Another class to teach.