Empty Bag of Ducks📎

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Ex-Army officer. Retired DoD civil service/SES. Historian. Battling advanced metastatic bile duct cancer. Hoya. Diehard Packer fan. Fighting the dying of the light, the dying of liberal democracy and the death of the American Republic.

Topographic map of Bandar Abbas showing 6-7000 mountains that have to be crossed to get to Teheran. Limited road networks
Scene from Diner with main characters siring around a diner table
Picture behind me of a red haired/wheaten Norwich terrier asleep on top my sofa
Photo of a black, wall mounted rotary phone
A sequence of three photos of a large female brown bear rushing a male she thought was too close to her cubs.
Picture of a man’s bare foot in an airplane.
Photo along Seward Highway. Mountains on both sides
Aerial photo Denali National Park
Photograph of mountains rising next to the Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, AK
Photo of Trump looking at model of proposed East Wing ballroom
Nazi officials looking at a mock up of a proposed triumphal arch.
4 panel Calvin and Hobbes with inserted text. Panel 1: Calvin’s dad says “Listening to some punk rock? That's cool, but did you know?” Panel 2: Chumbawumba was an anarchist collective formed in the early 80s They spent many years bouncing between squats while putting the bulk of their energy into animal rights and anticapitalist causes Panel 3: Even their biggest song was a working class protest anthem hiding under the ironic veneer of palatable pop radio, and even when that very song generated them more money than they ever thought they'd see, they kept pouring it into the things they believed in. So when you think about it, Chumbawumba is ten times more punk rock than The Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, and the exploited all put together- it isn't even CLOSE! Panel 4: Calvin unable to sleep as the lyrics to Tubthumping play in his head I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down
Picture of a small terrier laying his head across his owner’s iPad as his owner is scrolling on BlueSky
Cartoon character Pogo saying, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Painting of the declaration of the German Empire at Versailles. 1870
Photo of a large 3 panel sliding door with two doors open overlooking a deck with woods beyond
Package of brisket priced at $147. Sticker of Trump pointing to the price and saying “I did that!”
General Grant. Dedicated by Eisenhower as a living national shrine to our war dead
Bridalveil Falls
Tioga Lake
Picture of Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, CA
Lab/black and tan hound mix and Norwich terrier looking out a window.
Norwich terrier puppy with paws in food bowl
Picture of a small frog on a planter
Key Historical Events (April 14th): • 1865 (April 14): President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre, later dying on April 15. • 1912 (April 14): The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time, sinking early the next morning. • 1935 (April 14): One of the worst storms in American history, "Black Sunday," occurred, intensifying the Dust Bowl. Longreads
View of Olympic Mountains looking west across the Puget Sound
Photo of Arleigh Burke class destroyer headed for Indian Island in the Puget Sound
Picture of a Bald Eagle in a tree
Supertramp album cover. Man (in color) sitting in a lawn chair next to a beach umbrella enjoying a drink against a b&w background of factories spewing pollution into the air
Carolina Blue tshirt with WWI era artwork of the female figure of Columbia holding her sword upright and the words “We Bow to No King
Photo of a three panel sliding door with two open. View is of a deck and trees
After the very first word, “The” there is a footnote.
Styrofoam food container with “Potatoe Salad” written on it.
Photograph of a pile of dog hair
Supertramp “Crisis, What Crisis?” Album cover.
Gas pump with a “We did that” sticker featuring Trump and Epstein
Graphic showing 91% of Iranian oil goes to China
Sen. Joe McCarthy brandishing a piece of paper which he alleged had the names of communists in the U.S. government
From the movie Casablanca. Rick and Captain Renault walk off into the fog. Rick saying, “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Photo of a convoy of ISIS militants in pickup trucks up trucks and flags