Busy, busy times for all

Sorry so long since last post - got a lot of irons in the fire right now. May be changing jobs, locales, etc. And so it goes...

Anyway, I recently finished Frank Rich's 'The Greatest Story Ever Sold,' and am about to tuck into Tenet's latest book, his perhaps McNamara-esque tell-all of the lead-up and execution of the Iraq War. I'm sure it will make me scream a couple times.

Had a good discussion on an airplane recently with a fellow who reads a lot of military history (much more than I do, and I read a lot)...he was of the opinion that indeed, we are in a dark time in this country's evolution, and that the current leadership is "sub-par," to say the least. It's good to know I'm not the only one out there.

I could go into the last week's events, but you've probably read all about it by now, so I won't. I'll just pick up the drumbeat from here.

On a sad note, I note the passing of another of our Mercury astronauts, Wally Schirra (the only man to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo). Yah, I'm a space nut, and it's a bummer seeing the pioneers - American and Russian - dying off.

Not much to say tonight, yet there is a lot on my mind. Just wanted to let you good readers now I'm still here.

OH, and the fake vets are still out there...one of my older posts was removed per court order of a 'vet' I've blogged about before - but it seems a LOT of others are going after this guy. He's a gasbag, and he will get his. Yeah, the guy, whom we will call "PH," is an Iraq Vet, if only for having spent about a month there before being disarmed and sent home by our unit's chain of command.

I've yet to see PH submit proof of his SF training.

Yep, the IV is still here, full of piss and vinegar as usual.