Monthly Archives: January 2021

Remember your first meeting with your financial advisor and the “advice” you received? “Determine your goals.”  “Buy for the long term.”  “Do your research.  Buy quality.” Right. This week the boys in the basement inhabiting Reddit and the chatroom “Wallstreetbets” … Continue reading →

Behind Toritto’s House And so my brother texted me “Stay home and be well They won’t waste a ventilator on either one of us” And so it was; the people stayed home and were still, learning a new way of … Continue reading →

Every once in a while, in the midst of the darkness and hunkering down waiting for better times, something happens which makes you smile. And so it happened today. Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback to ever play the game … Continue reading →

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry. A sea we must wade. We braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the … Continue reading →

  Indiana State Prison, Jeffersonville, 1912 Those Socialists were wrong Poverty is not a social condition. People do not become criminals as a product of social and economic conditions. They are born that way.  People are poor an criminal because … Continue reading →

Toritto in Eritrea  – 1965 I never thought much about my military service after it was over. My young wife and I were glad I was out, discharged after four years in the army on November 17, 1967.  We disposed … Continue reading →

Ike only needed his stars How many of you have heard any speech by our leaders recently concerning the military or in front of the military. Usually nothing important is said outside of the usual pap. Shout outs to the … Continue reading →

🙂 Courtesy of Marie who knows her daddy needs a good laugh every day.

Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler has already … Continue reading →

An annual Re-Post.  We cannot remember them all; but each year we can remember one. The Minsk Ghetto – 1941 “For God’s sake child! Flee Minsk before it’s too late!” the wounded Red Army Major she tended urged her. “Be still!” Anya said. “I’m … Continue reading →