Linda Brady Traynham
Stick Close to Your Desks
Monday, March 1st, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Stick Close to Your Desks and never go to sea and you all may become rulers of the Queen’s Naaavvvvvy.” Gilbert and Sullivan are timeless.
Consider Admiral Mike Mullen, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a prime example of G&S, although it is improbable that he is surrounded by his [...]
Inept Terrorists, Wasted Lives, and Fuzzy Thinking
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
I never heard of Joseph A. Stack until yesterday, despite the fact that he lived about a hundred miles South and West of me. I would have preferred never to hear of Joseph A. Stack.
Asia–our segundo, not the continent–came in to say he had heard of the crash on the radio, [...]
TEOT-WAWKI FICTION AND FACT
Monday, February 8th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Those of you who keep up with my ramblings over on Whiskey and Gunpowder know that I’ve been reviewing writings on TEOT-WAWKI, and so far I have covered two by James Howard Kunstler, two by James Wesley comma Rawes, and a horrifying one by Forstchen entitled One Second After. A fiendish [...]
Charity Can Be Crippling
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
I wrote, recently, over on Whiskey and Gunpowder, about why I am so opposed to US government aid to Haiti. It isn’t our country, we have no strategic interest there–not even Kruschev thought it worth putting missile silos on–and we have been flinging billions at those people since the time of [...]
Climate Control Is An Economic Issue
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Author Linda Brady Traynham
Economic matters are far easier to understand if we view the entire thrust of statist politics and policies as intended to destroy wealth and freedom. It doesn’t matter what the money is spent on, so long as it lowers the standard of living of the citizenry and increases control over the [...]
Survivalist Weekend: Practice for a Disaster
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Author Linda Brady Traynham
I always loathed fire drills in school. I saw no point in practicing perfectly simple escape plans when we could be learning instead–something that really dates me. My deceased husband, John, a highly decorated combat veteran and well-known mountain climb leader, was wont to say that he didn’t have to [...]
TEXAS: The Home of Magic Bullets Part 2
Monday, November 9th, 2009Author Linda Brady Traynham
The on-going saga is so completely politically correct and nonsensical that the Whiskey Redan rings with indignant eruptions of “That cannot possibly be true!” And that is putting it very politely.
Once upon a time, like yesterday, there was a vast military post 87 miles from where I am sitting. (The [...]
TEXAS: The Home of Magic Bullets
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Author Linda Brady Traynham
Whatever it is in Texas that creates “magic bullets” has struck again. According to reports, Major Nigal Malik Hassan, a psychiatrist, killed 12 people and wounded 31–unless no one is telling us about “friendly fire,”–with two pistols, “one of them a semiautomatic,” according to AOL.
Most of America shivers in delicious horror [...]
What’s YOUR Credit Rating?
Friday, October 16th, 2009By Author Linda Brady Traynham
My internet provider is fond of asking me that every time I log on and from time to time while cluttering up space I have better use for. My answer may surprise you: “I hope very much that my credit rating is lousy. It ought to be. [...]
All ashore who’re going ashore
Saturday, October 10th, 2009By Author Linda Brady Traynham
My darling Charles tossed out one of his great one-liners: “Why don’t they teach geography any more? Most of history stems from geography.”