Our government in chaos

Your government at work. US Park Police lost track of huge supply of weapons, report says The U.S. Park Police has lost track of a huge supply of handguns, rifles and shotguns, according to a report released Thursday on the law enforcement agency responsible for safeguarding the National Mall and critical American landmarks. In the …

Trying out a tablet, not the kind you think

I bought a WACOM Bamboo tablet.  These are not the IPAD or Android tablets but a drawing tablet.  I like to draw and love some of the digital art I’ve seen but haven’t really tried the digital tablet till now.  The toughest thing about a tablet is the fact that you watch the screen and …

Colorado Heat

It’s been a tough couple of weeks with wildfires and heat.  Today it’s forecasted to hit 92 degrees in Colorado Springs and Pueblo should hit 100.  Nice huh?  You know all that talk about “dry heat” and how much better that is?  Well don’t believe it. This is of course bad news for the fire …

Current Reading

Ok, I just finished Alex Berenson’s The Night Ranger.  This is one more novel featuring John Wells, a Muslim and former CIA operative.  In previous novels John spent a lot of time in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaida, this time out he’s asked by his estranged son to help located some kidnapped friends in …

Secretary Defense Hagel, great choice

Smooth move. “your not a member of the Taliban are you?” No, Chuck he’s Indian and a Professor at the University your speaking at. Only the brightest need apply SoD Hagel probably didn’t mean anything by the remark but can you imagine say Rand Paul Saying something like that?  Is this the smartest guy for …

Syria, I’m sure it will all work out as planned

John Kerry apparently wants to bomb the Syrian airfields and John McCain want’s to hang out with the rebels all the while according to Reuters the hardline Islamist have pretty much taken over the rebels. Kerry was shot down by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, who said the Pentagon would not …

NSA got your number?

  The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could …

Did he even have access?

Many funny things come out of Washington. This week with the Leak of NSA programs I’ve heard a few pundits, congressmen and administration officials say that they didn’t think Snowden would have access to the information he’s talking about. Now I’ve seen Snowden’s job described a System Administrator (SA). If Snowden was a system administrator …

Looks like fire season in upon us.  There are two fires near Colorado Springs, the Black Forest Fire(#BlackForestFire) and the Royal Gorge Fire (#RoyalGorgeFire) near Canon City.  There is also a fire in La Veta (#KlikusFire) and the Rocky Mountain National Park (#BigMeadowsFire). Twitchy has some good pictures and tweets.  Not that there is anything good about it. …

Why we don’t win.

Why we don’t win by Angelo M. Codevilla.  It’s a good read.   For decades, under Democrats and Republicans, liberal internationalists, neoconservatives, and realists, the U.S. government let the terrorist wave build. Then after 9/11 it spent over 5,000 American lives in Afghanistan and Iraq without achieving anything that it had promised, while conducting a …