RUISSIA POISED TO INVADE UKRAINE?

Breaking yesterday came news that Russia has for months been establishing missile launch facilities which could enable them to deploy S-400 surface-to-air missiles and that those facilities have recently been loaded with missile batteries.  In other words, there is strong evidence that the Russian seizure of Ukraine ships and sailors has been in the planning stages for weeks, if not months.  

This escalation in military posture and activity is mostly like the precursor to another invasion, similar to the one that Putin undertook against Crimea. 

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Somewhere around November 11th about miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island that sits between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar, seismic waves began to work their way around the planet; they went largely undetected.  It's features were uncommon, from its low-frequency ring to the way it spread.  Maybe Elton John has finally been learning how to play the piano?

Never walk into an Anchorage bar and ask, "What's shakin'?"

Remember that Stoneman-Douglas school shooting in Parkland, Florida, where the commanding officer froze while kids died?  Turns out the only reason she was hired was to fill diversity requirements.  Captain Jan Jordan, the commanding officer on the scene of the shooting, instead of instructing officers to rush into the building to find the shooter, evidently was focused on setting up a perimeter and directed emergency responders to “stage” outside.  And they're blaming your and my guns?   

I am shocked to discover that it is now legal in California for paid political campaign workers to go to homes and collect absentee ballots that were not mailed in and take them to polling places, effectively eliminating chain of custody controls by election officials.  Such workers were caught in the mid-terms completing or altering those ballots, and that doesn't appear to be against the law, either. 

An Air Force Lt. Colonel in charge of a B-52 Squadron has been fired for drawing pictures of penises inside the cockpit of his airplane.  I do not know if he is related to Bill Clinton or Anthony Weiner.  

Remember the days when you'd buy the lightest possible fold-over tissue stationery,  write your letter, pay a high price per half-ounce, mail it overseas and then expect it to be delivered in a couple of weeks... if it was sent airmail?  These days, you can hunt and peck on your keyboard and send your email over the Internet to arrive within seconds and it doesn't cost you anything.  No wonder the post office is in a sea of red ink.  Maybe they should reinvent themselves as dinosaurs?  

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes." ~ Julius Caesar