Jack R. Noel September 21, 2023 This is not National Think Outside the Box Day but I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway. Have any of you wondered? >> Why “primary debates season” is going on when most candidates are barely getting started with campaign fundraising?? Why are…

Jack R. Noel September 20, 2023 When I say “poly sci model” I mean the way of thinking among those of us who are interested in politics. I do not mean “one side has it wrong” because all sides have it wrong. …

Jack R. Noel September 18, 2023 Just this morning I went online to access my bank account. But I decided to be extra safe and turned on my VPN and used the “Private Window” feature on my Firefox Browser. I then entered my “User Name” in the required Sign In…

Jack R. Noel September 16, 2023 It is common today to see blame-aiming ideologues blaming either “White people” or “Europeans” for “destroying” Native American cultures, which, according to them once had “thriving cultures and human values.” The blame-aiming is what triggered me. On the face of it, this is divisive…

Jack R. Noel September 13, 2023 Twenty-two years ago, we all had something very different on our minds, didn’t we? Twenty-two years ago, no one had heard of Elon Musk who was still a year away from owning PayPal. Twenty-two years ago, Donald Trump was not running for President of…

I can confirm the effectiveness of even tiny lasers in temporarily or even permanently blinding people. I was nearly the victim twice - just riding my bicycle around this college town. Once was by a "student" sitting on a roof top purposely trying to shine his little pointer-laser in people's eyes. The other was just after I left the store I worked in then when some imbecile standing outside a dentists office a block away pointed his little pointer laser at my eyes. He was out of pistol range or I'd have shot the bastard.

This is excellent, Martin. I especially like your take about Elon Musk. It's slowly become apparent that he was born an outsider (South Africa) and is using his wealth to massively mislead the people's who ignored him. He thinks he has become Lucy in Peanuts - he snatched Starlink away from the Ukrainian military just as they were about to use it again to attack the Russians in Crimea.

The Russian generals... have cleverly arranged for dense, black smoke from the burning tires to overwhelm and kill Ukrainian attackers as much as 50 meters away. (snicker)

Jack R. Noel September 9, 2023 [Foreword: I plead for everyone to read all the way through this article and pray it will be of some value to you. …