Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 3 of 128)

Let’s rent Greenland.

Greenland must be good for something. 

It’s 50 times bigger than regular Denmark, so they need it to maintain a significant footprint on the globe.  If the US owns Greenland, Canada feels claustrophobic, but otherwise, who cares?

Whatever resources or strategic advantages there are in Greenland, the US can access with a long-term lease.  The US maintains Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, and we don’t even like them.  If an American thinks about Denmark, we think of those butter cookies in the blue cookie tin or we are thinking about the Netherlands by mistake.

Trump has a Greenland strategy that isn’t obvious, but we don’t need to be concerned.

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Sparky is checking out his sniper’s nest.

Sparky says this is a high-traffic pinch point because it’s the easiest way to get passed the highway fence.  If I can get him a Mosin–Nagant, he says the coyote problem will be resolved.

Karl may have one.  Hell, Karl may have Häyhä old rifle.  He collects all kinds of stuff, and has a good opinion of Sparky.  Karl could have a Suomi KP/-31, but he’d never let a dog use a submachine gun.

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Sparky goes full winter wolf.

We had a thunder blizzard for a few minutes today.  Sparky says that thunder and lightning don’t frighten him, but it does get him keyed up and ready for action.

When we went outside, Sparky went all winter wolf.  Now he wants me to make him a winter camo jacket like a Finnish sniper.

In this photo, he looks more like a Swedish meatball.

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Star Fleet Academy probably won’t last.

Star Trek:  Star Fleet Academy should lean into that premise.

Star Trek technology was always based on dilithium crystals as a power source.  The Burn, was a catastrophic event in which all the dilithium crystals became inert.  All star ships that were deployed lost power, resulting in the deaths of a vast number of Star Fleet personnel.

Star Fleet personnel were always the best of the best, because in a post-scarcity society, people could pursue any career or endeavor that appealed to them.  After The Burn, the best of the best were gone, and their courageous and competent genes were gone too.

A hundred years after The Burn, when Star Fleet is ready to reestablish Star Fleet Academy, all they have left are these theater kids.   

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