Duke
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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False Flag in General
In 1995 as the wing crew, we had “spared” for a squadron that was going to Aviano Italy as the Bosnia business heated up. Meaning we were the 5th jet, and going along just in case anything happ...
Timeless The end of the first episode was a bit sad. Fuck around with history, and history will fuck around with you. I can’t help feeling like everything on TV now has already been done. Ra...
Together as One in General
Yesterday, is far away, so take me out to sea Far away, I’ve been what never will be Check me in, to lose or win, I’m livin’ memories The drift begins, the dream of it sets me free… One of my fa...
I have never watched the Late Late Show with James Corden, because I am usually not up at this time. That guy is really funny! I used to watch the Daily Show but now it is just political crap. Ev...
Well, yesterday I was expecting a dreary, rainy day so set out to binge watch Luke Cage. The show liberals love to hate because black people are supposed to be victims instead of having control...
The Day We Meet Again in General
The Day We Meet Again But just in case you’re wondering What was really on my mind It wasn’t what you took my love It’s what you left behind It is actually raining. Not just drizzling. Not jus...
Soulworthy? in General
This girl drives me absolutely nuts, and I have no idea who she is - just a picture that showed up in my Faceplant feed. It is that combination of sexy and innocence. Yes I would sell my soul...
Faster Horses in General
Faster Horses I told him I was a poet, I was lookin’ for the truth, I do not care for horses, whiskey, women or the loot. I said I was a writer, my soul was all on fire, He looked at me an’ said...
Ridge Cresting in General
How cool is that! Ridge cresting in the northern Cascades. I did manage to knock a few things off the to-do list. Not as many as I should have. I have all the time in the world right now. B...
Kinda Fail Day in General
I stayed up too late last night. I left the windows open, then opened the doors this morning. And. Allergies rushed in. My nose was running, my eyes were watering. I was sneezing. I blame it...
Damn it Feels Good to be Me in General
Nobody blowin’ up my phone I ain’t buzzin’ and I ain’t stoned But I’m ridin’, flyin’ higher than the blue sky If you don’t like me brother that’s okay I ain’t gonna let it wreck my day I keep st...
Flora-Bama in General
Flora-Bama In 1989 I was just out of AOCS, starting flight school. Initially I was living in the BOQ until I got back together with X1 for the next to the last time. My bud, Mike had found an ...
So I am watching Oculus, because I can and have nothing better to do. There is a scene where Karen Gillan is leaning against a Jaguar in heels and a short skirt. Her red hair hanging down over ...
Good one, Bro in General
Posted on Faceplant by a brother I went through AOCS and flight school with. He went on to become Navy EOD, then became a Private Military Contractor working in Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan. N...
I’ll call this summer the summer of “Splat.” Because any time it has rained it rained for ten minutes, and then the sun came out. I will admit it has been pleasant. A perfect summer, other tha...
I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado in General
The strange Maine weather continues. Both dry and humid. Dry in that we have not really had any real rain all summer. Humid in that it is sticky as hell out there. I am running both air cond...
The Church of Your Heart in General
Well. Poop. I added B12 to my vitamin mix and now guess who can’t, despite not having any problems going to sleep for the better part of six months, can’t get to sleep? Damn, there is nothing l...
Nothing hotter than a partially covered female nipple. Great body. I can get over the belly button ring. But what the fuck is inked on her belly? Is that a smiley face? A dead bird laying...
Thursday is Gonna Suck for Someone! in General
Isabel is waiting In a room of many shadows Her eyes like flashing diamonds Shining brightly from the sea Her hair in silken tresses Like a robe around her shoulders Hiding tantalising treasures...
The Death of Naval Aviation Culture in General
” . . . Those attributes of naval aviators—willingness to take intelligent calculated risk, self-confidence, even a certain swagger—that are invaluable in wartime are the very ones that make them...
Survey 8 31 16 in Surveys and Quotes (Not REAL Writing!)
Some odd coding issues here. If I cut this out and post it to notepad, the numbering is correct and there are no indents. But after I save it here, the numbering gets all wacked and there are r...
Eldorado “The painted ladies of the Avalon Play in the sun, Take to the road, To the North there lies the chills of cold, To the South there lies the tales untold. But in between there lies T...
Letter from Spain in General
I read the papers this morning I saw your photograph You look good in the movie It must be so much fun. Letter from Spain From someone I once knew Letter from Spain. I got a letter this morning...
