From the “Riposa in pace, Papa Francesco!” Dept:

Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of caring for the poor and forgotten as well as the climate much like his namesake St Francis of Assisi. But I suspect it will be his humble and plain-spoken ways and deft pastoral touch that will be the defining legacy of his papacy.

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From the “How Is This *NOT* Man Overboard?” Dept:

Secretary of Defence Loose Lips is at it again posting military operational plans on Signal. But at least he didn't have a journalist seeing those details...this time, it was his wife who I'm pretty sure has less of a security clearance than the Pentagon janitors. It's man overboard and he clearly needs to go but it seems clear his boss has other ideas... :(

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From the “Mission Accomplished: He Certainly Removed All Doubt!” Dept:

The Secretary of Defence tries to defend the indefensible and fails miserably! There's no way a SecDef that no defence minister in the world can ever trust again can stay in the job after a scandal in which not only actionable intelligence of a sensitive nature was compromised, it was done in the most silly and stupid way which just beggars belief. Any junior officer or official would have already been cashiered out of the service...it's time for the "warfighter's SecDef" to actually do the honourable thing for once and resign for the good of the service.

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From the “If That’s Their Idea of Operational Security…” Dept:

Get ready for another rendition of that dance we all know as "The Potomac Two-Step". Cabinet officials discussed classified military operations details on a commercial and insecure platform called Signal and willfully violated OPSEC (operational security) if not the Espionage Act in the process...and that was before the National Security Advisor added a journalist to the chat. This is *WHY* we need people who know what they're doing minding our national security... :(

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From the “Idiocracy Was Not Supposed To Be A Documentary!” Dept:

The Uhmerican House of Representin's "budget blueprint" tells you all you need know about how stupid they think the American people are. The truly sad thing is that their view of the electorate's stupidity is probably more optimistic than it ought to be which will allow them to get away with complete dereliction of their duty to protect America's most vulnerable citizens... :(

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From the “There’s A *HUGE* Reason Superman Is A Timeless Hero!” Dept:

Last Friday, the American people and the world were witnesses to the most unabashedly savage political hit job ever seen in the Oval Office when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was ambushed by VP Vance and President Trump. In so doing, they proved themselves to be disgraceful and weak cowards who have sold every shred of honour of this country and are perfectly content to do Vladimir Putin's dirty work in destroying the most successful alliance this world has ever seen.

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From the “For Brown Nosing: Ten. For Brains: Zero!” Dept:

President Trump's hiring criteria for senior positions seems to boil down to one essential skill: how well can they stick their nose up the bum of the boss? You'd think the Senate who is supposed to use the "advise and consent" prerogatives in the Constitution would weed out the worst and most unqualified of them but you'd be utterly wrong. "Abdicate and cower", more like... :(

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From the “Dar Roberts Would Have A Field Day With This One…” Dept:

President Musk through the Office of Personnel Management pulled one of his old HR tricks out of the bag of stupid management practices when he sent a "justify your existence in five bullet points" EMAIL to the entire Federal civil service. Stupidity this blatant and contemptible really deserves only one possible answer...

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From the “Department of Defence Proves S R Hadden Right Yet Again…” Dept:

So I guess the good news is that I don't have to deal with the awkwardness of telling somewhere where I was born which was Fort Bragg NC. But did the taxpayers really need to take it in the shorts to the tune of at least $50M to rename Fort Bragg to Fort Meh and back again?!?

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From the “Seemed More Like The Super Bowel!” Dept:

Can we *FINALLY* put to rest the tired notion that the NFL is rigging games in favour of the Chiefs? *THAT* had to be the most incompetent job of rigging the game in their favour I'd ever seen! Fair dinkum and congratulations to the Eagles for executing their game plan to perfection!

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From the “You Know, You Could Actually Say No!” Dept:

Senator Tillis seemed to be taking the Senate's duty under Article II Section 2 of the Constitution very seriously when it came to the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defence until...he didn't. This shouldn't be a surprise when there is a clear record of flip-flopping on defending the prerogatives of Congress versus the Executive Branch. Advice and consent doesn't mean blindly accepting every fool and sycophant offered in nomination. You can actually show a measure of courage and say *NO*...and you really need to start doing it much more often when dealing with nominees who are being put up for office by toddlers!

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From the “How About Respecting The Fact That It’s Actually *MY* Driveway!” Dept:

The First Amendment says I've no choice in whether random people turn up on my doorstep to sell me things. But it does not mean I have to accept you parking your truck in my driveway without leave and then being disrespected on my own doorstep... :(

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From the “It’s Been A Hell Of A Year!” Dept:

After a week of pouring my soul into some very harrowing posts, what's been said about 2024 is all that needs being said. I can only hope that we can hang together as a nation in 2025...

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From the “Have As Many As You Want!” Dept:

Some Christmas messages are really easy to write and just flow from the keyboard. Others haunt your dreams for days. Three guesses and the first two don't count as to how the composition of this year's message went... :)

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From the “Tales From The Land Of The Jayhawk” Dept:
A view of the US Disciplinary Barracks.

From the “Tales From The Land Of The Jayhawk” Dept:

Sometimes inspiration can come from seemingly mundane coincidences. The 9th anniversary of my father's passing and my 9th year on Earth will do nicely... :)

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