tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66876712609586425932011-12-31T12:59:36.552-05:00Miscellaneous ideas, thoughts and sometimes, ramblings about politics, geopolitical events, terrorism, religion, you name it from a retired business consultant. As the theme title reflects, these thoughts are not necessarily always what you would say in public. :)Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125blogspot/MGJnhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-83750533970681884872011-08-15T10:59:00.005-04:002011-08-15T11:08:01.763-04:002011-08-15T11:08:01.763-04:00

From the Rhodesian Insurgent War The "crippled eagle" badge was designed by Robin Moore to represent the approximately 300 American volunteers who fought alongside the Rhodesians during the bush war, most of them in the RLI. Contrary to the popular conception abroad (and guerrilla propaganda), these men were not mercenaries, but signed up in the Rhodesian Army under the same conditions and at

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Can it be I've neglected my blog so long? Probably because much has been going on and I haven't had time to get thoughts on paper. At any rate, it is August, hot virtually everywhere in the country and I am writing off the cuff. The US is in an economic mess...no denying. Everyone wants to blame the Republicans or the Democrats, but mostly, the "tea partiers". To quote most left leaning

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-78575147852262620862011-02-25T18:28:00.002-05:002011-02-25T18:30:43.557-05:002011-02-25T18:30:43.557-05:00

an editorial (I didn't write this, it was anonymous, but it sums my sentiments exactly.) “So, with all the kindness I can muster, I give this one piece of advice to the next pop star who is asked to sing the national anthem at a sporting event: save the vocal gymnastics and the physical gyrations for your concerts. Just sing this song the way you were taught to sing it in kindergarten —

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-56658776891746350222011-01-05T11:57:00.003-05:002011-01-05T12:07:54.976-05:002011-01-05T12:07:54.976-05:00

What a wonderful picture. At last, Pelosi is out as speaker. Too bad she isn't gone completely.One wonders now, just what will the new majority Repubs do with the House. I, for one, hope they don't play a bunch of partisan junk, but rather move forward to meet the needs of the people they were elected to serve.In my mind, this means pushing ahead to get JOBS back into the economy and cutting this

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-32908155757906403292010-09-06T12:07:00.004-04:002010-09-06T12:13:08.997-04:002010-09-06T12:13:08.997-04:00

Thank You From Your Queen: For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country. I want to thank the hard working American people for paying $242,000 plus additional expenses for my vacation in Spain. My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time. Honestly, you just haven't lived until you have stayed in

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-37076591109726648332010-06-18T11:11:00.003-04:002010-06-18T11:19:12.290-04:002010-06-18T11:19:12.290-04:00

Each day that goes by with oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico we see how poorly a manager Obama is. Let's face it with no managerial or governing experience, how could he possibly be expected to know what to do except what he has always done, which is to chair panels, distribute leaflets and campaign. Even his Democrats have lost faith in him.Following is a post by Dick Morris that plainly puts

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-10176973687165499982010-04-24T09:37:00.002-04:002010-04-24T09:50:42.920-04:002010-04-24T09:50:42.920-04:00

Two weeks ago, I watched the Masters Golf Tournament on the final Sunday. I've been to the Masters once many years ago. It is, to me, the most beautiful and wonderfully traditional tournament of all. To win is to put one into the company of some very accomplished people.As I watched the tv coverage which was so slanted toward the return of Tiger Woods, I found it really tiresome. On the other

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-33979073618306676252010-04-03T17:27:00.003-04:002011-08-15T11:13:00.746-04:002011-08-15T11:13:00.746-04:00

Sitting here today as I recover from my surgery. This past Monday, I had a dual chamber pacemaker implanted. Made me think a lot about my own mortality, of course. I didn't have a choice, I needed this. So, 5 days later, here are some reflective thoughts. My wife has been an angel taking care of me. For 6 weeks, I can't raise my left hand above shoulder height and must not lift nor push much

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-63350954985122575742010-02-18T10:58:00.003-05:002010-02-18T11:16:59.609-05:002010-02-18T11:16:59.609-05:00

While pondering blogging this morning I considered my blogspot Title: Notes from the Underground. My thoughts on first naming the blog such centered around posting thoughts and ideas coming from out of the mainstream, so to speak. Today I remembered the original Notes from the Underground was written by Dostoyevsky. When I looked that up on google, I found this interesting review."Fyodor

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It has long been my belief that our elected politicians have displayed an extrememly arrogant attitude toward their constituents. They demonstrate this in their refusal to "listen" to anything that does not conform to their idea of where the country should move, be it Health care, abortion, security, or whatever. We have "representing" us, a class of politcos who represent, almost exclusively,

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-49525549676094958412010-01-06T10:22:00.005-05:002010-01-06T10:37:25.488-05:002010-01-06T10:37:25.488-05:00

We are entering a new decade (and generation) of technology driven by such things as social networks, mobile devices, and cloud computing. Much of this is consumer IT driven, causing concern over cyber security as business and government seek to secure their data while, at the same time, making use of the new technologies.Marketers are continually touting the "new marketing wave" of Twitter,

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-48688929670630937672009-12-24T08:38:00.003-05:002009-12-24T08:47:28.231-05:002009-12-24T08:47:28.231-05:00

This morning, the Democratic Senators forced through the Obamacare nightmare of a healthcare bill. Just one more example of why the current political systems does not work. Despite the unpopularity of the bill from the public at large, those in power who think they know more than the people are going to spoon feed everyone with their load of garbage and bankrupt the country in the process.The

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-23410108282471406192009-12-16T18:25:00.005-05:002009-12-16T18:59:28.300-05:002009-12-16T18:59:28.300-05:00

Excerpts from an article by Warner Huston on Biggovernment.comObama is expected to be The One to fix the economy. We are all looking to him and his administration to come up with the ideas that will solve the economic woes of this counrty. However, his administration is full of cronies, government hacks, placemen, and hangerson. He himself has never held a private sector job. He knows nothing

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-52630075793309337562009-09-16T14:55:00.001-04:002009-09-16T14:59:57.022-04:002009-09-16T14:59:57.022-04:00

Reflecting on the recent passing of 3 notables in the entertainment industry.Funny how we "honor" some.Ed, Farrah and Michael...PerspectiveEd McMahon died last week. He was a great entertainer, known primarily for his "sidekick" role to Johnny Carson. But prior to his stage accomplishments he was a distinguished Marine Corps fighter pilot in WWII, earning six Air Medals and attaining the rank of

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-6679954273559631672009-06-27T10:30:00.004-04:002009-06-29T10:26:24.675-04:002009-06-29T10:26:24.675-04:00

I received the following from a friend. Don't know who wrote it, but I agree completely. One should always respect the office of President, no matter who is in it. This is a thought unrecognized by liberals or radicals, the far left and far right.It is my belief that B. Hussein Obama is taking this country down the road to destruction and I intend to do my part to stop it.Here is the message

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-34293592678196833092009-06-09T11:42:00.002-04:002009-06-09T11:44:31.623-04:002009-06-09T11:44:31.623-04:00

Amidst all the stimulus, government control of the auto industry and virtually everything else, consider the following statement. "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-74847620159254375922009-06-04T10:25:00.007-04:002009-06-04T13:53:35.670-04:002009-06-04T13:53:35.670-04:00

These are only my first impressions. I have only just concluded reading the text of his speech. It will take some time to digest. But, there some things that jumped out at me. Here they are.First: I don't understand the purpose of this speech to begin with. He is not President of the World. I can only assume he is trying to, as we used to say in VietNam, "win the hearts and minds of" Muslims in

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-44769696228331010902009-05-19T13:56:00.003-04:002009-05-19T14:07:37.164-04:002009-05-19T14:07:37.164-04:00

It's simple......someone is lying. And, the consequences for either is anathema to the American public. We have a Crisis in Confidence. A. Pelosi is correct. The CIA lies and misleads Congress. How then are we to assess the information the CIA then tells us? We can't trust them. And, they are in charge of developing the intel that keeps us safe? B. The CIA is correct. Then, Pelosi, Speaker of the

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-60678387473264268532009-05-12T17:24:00.003-04:002009-05-12T17:33:41.545-04:002009-05-12T17:33:41.545-04:00

The following is a letter from a Canadian woman who wrote to her local newspaper in New Brunswick.She is one ticked off lady. Here is a woman who should run for Prime Minister!Letter Begins:"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?Were people

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-56961091264662665132009-05-06T15:31:00.002-04:002009-05-06T15:38:24.976-04:002009-05-06T15:38:24.976-04:00

Just had a thought this morning after reading an email from a friend. He mentioned that he found it interesting that Ford did not take any money from the Government as did GM. Now we find that Ford can continue as a company without intervention from the government while General Motors is pretty much run by the US Government and the Unions. It will be interesting to see how both fare over the next

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-55866924414175570732009-04-08T14:04:00.002-04:002009-04-08T14:16:14.716-04:002009-04-08T14:16:14.716-04:00

While driving in to the office, I caught just a few minutes of the Laura Ingraham show on my radio. As Laura is often want to do, she was railing about Obama's trip to Europe. She feels he weakens us as a nation because the essentially was pandering to the Europeans, Hat in Hand, so to speak. He was humble and contrite, apoligising, somewhat for the past administration's bad posturing toward

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-31456465634329596252009-03-31T08:12:00.002-04:002009-03-31T08:16:11.569-04:002009-03-31T08:16:11.569-04:00

Here's a thought to ponder. If GM and Chrysler are allowed to take Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructure, what are the costs to the economy? That is the real question. Forget about industry survival, jobs, and so on in the equation. What would be the real impact? Think on that for a while and list all the possibilities.I'll be back later on with my assumptions and see if we agree.The Gray Ghost

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Well, it's been a while since my last blog. Not that I haven't had much to say, but rather the time to write.My biggest concern at this time is that companies/businesses are spending so much effort examining their financial status (a not unworthy pursuit) that they disregard the need to expend as much energy and resources determining the status within their marketplace. Are the rules changing?

Jerry Spencernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687671260958642593.post-19257575456213342902009-02-02T09:59:00.006-05:002009-02-02T10:34:44.757-05:002009-02-02T10:34:44.757-05:00

I just finished reading the latest blog from Gerry Spence (no relation) about the river we are paddling down which he calls "Turd River". Basically, he is lamenting the mess this country is in and how people of today don't know how to really cope without money and the trappings it buys. This caused me to pause and give thought to how I was raised.My family experienced the great depression of

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