...but I don't have Twitter anymore...
Cute idea, but as the British have found out, if you ask the internet to name a new science ship, you get a vessel named Boaty McBoatface. Seriously.
Now the US Air Force wants to crowd-source the name of a Strategic Bomber?!?
If the B2 is the Sprit, naturally the B21 should be the Wraith. Duh.
This is a weapon of war. Why are we crowd-sourcing this??
Crazed American's not loving the state of the nation right now, folks.
Crazed American, out.
21 March 2016
17 March 2016
Mandate of Heaven
China got it right when it looked at history as a large cycle of boom and bust. We're in a volatile time. I'm afraid to consult the I Ching, cause I don't want to spook the beast.
This is not a bad thing, in the slightest, speaking of China.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't that much a communist. He was a nationalist. The communists would help him where no one else would.
Also, keep in mind the Chinese were beaten, badly by the Vietnamese. Speaking as someone who's father spent a year (1968-9) fighting the NVA, the Vietnamese should never be underestimated.
It is a relationship that should be cultivated. We need as many friends as possible right now.
Crazed American, Out.
This is not a bad thing, in the slightest, speaking of China.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't that much a communist. He was a nationalist. The communists would help him where no one else would.
Also, keep in mind the Chinese were beaten, badly by the Vietnamese. Speaking as someone who's father spent a year (1968-9) fighting the NVA, the Vietnamese should never be underestimated.
It is a relationship that should be cultivated. We need as many friends as possible right now.
Crazed American, Out.
14 March 2016
Violence
So, the Crazed American just got back on Facebook after an absence of six months.
Holy S#!+, people... there is a metric f--kton of bad mojo running around out there.
Civil discourse is ALMOST gone. Calls for violence against political opponents are PLENTIFUL.
Keep in mind a lot of this is passed back and forth by normally nice middle aged (30-50 year old) folks.
This does not bode well for the overall political health of the nation. It also provides me a touch of nausea seeing it. American politics is not supposed to be violent. No tanks, or riot police rolled during the 2000 Gore/Bush debacle. American politics can be vitriolic, can be filled with invective, but I think the accepted norms of not physically attacking your political opponents are in danger of collapsing. The tome and rhetoric have changed. Peaceful transfer of political power has been a hallmark of the American Political system. Me thinks that era might be at an end.
I think it's because the average American finally feels the disenfranchisement that has been there for a long time. The political parties and their corporate masters can't hind behind the flimsy veil much longer.
I can't predict where the battle lines will be drawn. When or if this little experiment of the USA comes apart, it is not going to be like the nice, neat USA/CSA schism (650,000 dead) of 156 years ago. This will Balkanize, with entire regions going up due to several competing factions in each area and state. Cities will be criss-crossed with opposing organizations and groups, each one clamoring for control or a piece of the overall pie. To say nothing of Russian or Chinese involvement in political developments and factionalization here. We do it to them, why the hell do we think they wouldn't return the favor??
Overseas, the Russians are running what appears to be a reasoned, well thought out foreign policy. Taken at face value (which is all we have thanks to very woeful American intelligence gathering), President Putin is marking a staged withdrawal of some of his combat forces in Syria. His goals for the mission have been met, now he will pull out just enough of his forces to allow the Syrians government to stand on it's own two feet and begin opressing the hell out of opposition groups and hopefully battling ISIS, or at least coming to a standstill and not let them expand anymore.
Contrast this with American foreign policy, which is, to put it mildly, confusing and inept. Libya is a wreck, as is our support of factions in Syria. Iraq is a mess, Afghanistan a failure. The past 30 years of American Foreign policy has been ill advised, at best. That outlook does not look to change dramatically anytime soon.
America always gets the government it deserves. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump.
One of those people will be president barring martial law or a coup d'etat.
When I look into the crystal ball, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. What I am seeing is not good. More surveillance, less freedoms, more authoritarian rule. The oligarchy is tightening the grip. The economy, or what's left of it after 8 years of "RECOVERY" is a shell of it's former self.
I am concerned, friends. There's a storm coming.
Crazed American, out.
Holy S#!+, people... there is a metric f--kton of bad mojo running around out there.
Civil discourse is ALMOST gone. Calls for violence against political opponents are PLENTIFUL.
Keep in mind a lot of this is passed back and forth by normally nice middle aged (30-50 year old) folks.
This does not bode well for the overall political health of the nation. It also provides me a touch of nausea seeing it. American politics is not supposed to be violent. No tanks, or riot police rolled during the 2000 Gore/Bush debacle. American politics can be vitriolic, can be filled with invective, but I think the accepted norms of not physically attacking your political opponents are in danger of collapsing. The tome and rhetoric have changed. Peaceful transfer of political power has been a hallmark of the American Political system. Me thinks that era might be at an end.
I think it's because the average American finally feels the disenfranchisement that has been there for a long time. The political parties and their corporate masters can't hind behind the flimsy veil much longer.
I can't predict where the battle lines will be drawn. When or if this little experiment of the USA comes apart, it is not going to be like the nice, neat USA/CSA schism (650,000 dead) of 156 years ago. This will Balkanize, with entire regions going up due to several competing factions in each area and state. Cities will be criss-crossed with opposing organizations and groups, each one clamoring for control or a piece of the overall pie. To say nothing of Russian or Chinese involvement in political developments and factionalization here. We do it to them, why the hell do we think they wouldn't return the favor??
Overseas, the Russians are running what appears to be a reasoned, well thought out foreign policy. Taken at face value (which is all we have thanks to very woeful American intelligence gathering), President Putin is marking a staged withdrawal of some of his combat forces in Syria. His goals for the mission have been met, now he will pull out just enough of his forces to allow the Syrians government to stand on it's own two feet and begin opressing the hell out of opposition groups and hopefully battling ISIS, or at least coming to a standstill and not let them expand anymore.
Contrast this with American foreign policy, which is, to put it mildly, confusing and inept. Libya is a wreck, as is our support of factions in Syria. Iraq is a mess, Afghanistan a failure. The past 30 years of American Foreign policy has been ill advised, at best. That outlook does not look to change dramatically anytime soon.
America always gets the government it deserves. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump.
One of those people will be president barring martial law or a coup d'etat.
When I look into the crystal ball, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. What I am seeing is not good. More surveillance, less freedoms, more authoritarian rule. The oligarchy is tightening the grip. The economy, or what's left of it after 8 years of "RECOVERY" is a shell of it's former self.
I am concerned, friends. There's a storm coming.
Crazed American, out.
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