Author: JGillman

Counter Insurgency message number 5

Sorry if you didn’t see the first four..  One and Three being written between the lines of other postings, and Two and Four were cartoons.

Michigan Winters Affordable again?

Congratulations to customers who use Natural Gas to heat their homes in Michigan!  Earlier this year suppliers said they would be ramping up production a little to help keep costs at an affordable level.  That was considered good news, particularly…

OK lets try a different angle..

All the time we have been beating ourselves up trying to fight the inevitable rise to the presidency of a man who was singularly set on that goal.  A man who along the way has lied, filled in half the…

Five Stages of Grief…

1. Denial and Isolation. This stage I think I must have found as the first states were being called for Obama, with as little as 1% of the precincts reporting, I yelled at the TV and probably sulked.. (would have…

Betrayed but not beaten

I cannot this morning bring myself to turn on the TV.  To see the gloating face of what I fear is the enemy within.  I feel betrayed.  I feel betrayed by a daughter, who while brought up in a household…

My Sign

My Wife and I have a piece of property in Traverse City with 400′ on a major road.  20,000 cars daily pass, and one of the main polling locations is a mile up further.  This sign I put up tonight. …

What DOES Michigan want? Michigan.. you paying attention?

Tuesday, Michigan voters can salvage what little decency they have left by pulling for the right folks, and thinking seriously about the two proposals which likely will guide us forward for years to come.  The people, the politicians, the wannabe…

"New and Improved" Liberal 8 Ball

Now that I have had a little time I have found a few more sides to the little thing inside the Magic 8 ball for Liberals and Leftists..  I present the second incarnation of Liberal 8-Ball.. The Liberals seem to…

Dignity.

I have selected a number of common nouns along with particular definitions.  While I could elaborate beyond the meanings of the words for each, a Latin phrase ipse loquitor (“it speaks for itself’) seems more appropriate.  However, I will still…

A Vampire, Igor, The Mummy, and a Pumpkin

Fear is a funny thing.  Halloween brings out demonstrations of the things we fear, and some of those we do not.  This year Halloween has a whole host of new characters, some of whom we fear, and some perhaps not. …