Dick Cheney; "we are at war"...is it so?


President Obama is spot on. We should pound lSIS, we will pound ISIS, and in the long run I am convinced we are going to devastate ISIS. But as to the statement by Dick Cheney that "we are at war", I have questions. For example, if we were truly really in an all out war, wouldn't Dick Cheney (5 previous), George Bush (4 previous), and John Ashcroft (7 previous) be working on their next set of draft deferments? And not leaving gullible folks like me on the ground walking with a rifle in uniform.

On a world in focus 

ISIS is still creating its medieval terrorist havoc in the Middle East. For the moment, there is relative calm in the Gaza area. Russia is still - despite a fragile cease fire -doing some damage in the Ukraine, but that's not where the big headlines are today. No, it's what to do if you have a Ray Rice jersey and want to trade it in. Oh my G-d, does this world lose its attention span so quickly?

Better Gun Safety???

We all know about the tragedy in which the nine year-old girl fatally shot her gun range instructor with an Uzi in Phoenix, Arizona. In Los Angeles however, there are  parents that take a much "saner" view of gun safety; they just get their child a 22 caliber rifle. What could go wrong? Well, since he is the ripe old age of seven, something did and he got shot; he's been airlifted to a hospital, no word yet on his condition. As far as the condition of his parents, that would take a different article. A much longer psychiatric one.

How to make money?


What's the best way to eventually make money for yourself, after you've previously cost others lots of money? Be a politician and then retire, see Eric Cantor and the Republicans are still 10 short of a minyan.