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Thanks to my 20-year career in the armed forces, I have Tricare for Life. Whatever Medicare doesn't pay, Tricare does. My quad bypass cost around $600K. I didn't pay a dime of it. Tricare also picks up my medications, and I get them from the base pharmacy. Having said all that, I would still be in dire straits if SS goes away. My wife gets less than I do, but I've been paying into it since 1961, when I enlisted, until 2004 when I finally retired (at 62). Now that both of us are octogenarians, we'd both get hurt by the loss of ANY of these programs.

Bill

Here's a really hilarious juxtaposition: Felon47's speech follows, at least on the East Coast, the game show "The Price is Right." How fitting!!

Bill

The military mind is an odd mix of duty and conscience. In the majority of situations, the duty will kick in and without doubt they will run to the sound of guns. Length of service, amount of satisfaction they have with their environment, compensations when off-duty, and the support of family--either accompanying or remote, will determine the outcome of their course of action.

If I were still in the saddle, I would definitely be in the "no way" corner. My security clearances were the highest in the land, and I would do nothing to jeopardize them. Having said that, it would take a force bigger than just my immediate superior to get me to betray my oath to the Constitution and NOT to the Felon in Chief.

As you postulate, MJ, should the order come down to fight FOR Russia (not the bad, old USSR) against the beleaguered Ukraine, I would have to decline. Turkey has the right idea. Go in, finish the conflict, and get the Hell out. We should have done that in Vietnam, and probably would have had not Johnson sent those two destroyers (I was ON one of them) into the Gulf of Tonkin and forced North Vietnam to retaliate. This was his aim, to force Congress to allocate more men and equipment as targets. But I digress.

Russia is, by far, even more dangerous than the USSR was. They now have only loose control of all their firepower. They've lost their satellite countries, and are now desperate. Putin viewed Felon47 as an ally his first term, working to get him elected. Then, the second round was orchestrated by another oligarch who wants nothing more than to tear our government apart in order to make Felon47 even stronger.

The effects are even now being felt down at my level. Every contract doctor/nurse at the base hospital has been terminated. They're kicking every one of us who have been accepting care from the base (In my case for 32 years) out into the cold world of Medicare, which is itself under bombardment from Felon47.

Sorry. I rambled a bit, but to summarize: No way would I fight FOR Russia. I would fight as a common guerrilla FOR the Ukraine before I'd do that.

Bill

I'm not so sure Putin has anything on Felon47. It could very well be that Putin is a role model for him. He wants to be set up a dictator just like Putin.

Bill

I plan to do the same. No nothing except stay at home and do some reading.

Bill

Felon47 should have been there before the election. If the court system hadn't been handcuffed by big business and the like, this would have happened. The biggest problem would have been the Supreme Court, already bought and paid for my Felon47.

Bill

Well, there is a "check and balance" that takes effect if Felon47 attempts this. It is called "Posse Comitatus" and, so far, it is still a law firmly embedded in our land.

Take a look at this: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ … -explained

Bill

It is a sorry state of affairs when the good citizens of any country begin thinking of moving to anywhere else purely due to political pressures and outright hooliganism. My ties are here. My father fought in WW2, not directly against aggressors, but monitoring weather conditions in Alaska and analyzing their physical contents to see if the Soviet Union had developed nuclear energy. He remained in service for a total of 31 years, retiring as a full colonel is what was now being called the Air Force. I was born in 1942, so I've never been a civilian. To my way of thinking, no right-minded military man could even think of signing up for a cup of Kool-Aide from Felon47. It runs against my grain every time I hear his comments that we are losers and incompetents. I worked damn hard for my twenty years, retired with honors, and I'll be damned if I'll just knuckle under. I'm here, and here I plan to stay. If I have to use the storm shelter, so be it. But, Felon47 isn't digging me out of my position. I think I can handle four years. If he ever gets that third term, then all bets are off.

Bill

Good work, MJ. Who made the name change, you or the publisher? I've left a review.

Bill

Here's something that has bugged me for quite a while. It's probably easy for me to offer it, but much harder to implement.

Every posting I read has the "Write Regular Review" and the "Write In-Line Review" button at the END of the post. Unless you're the type that will always write one or the other, when you finally decide, you have to scroll all the way down the post, click one button of the other, then find your way back to where you were when you decided to post In-Line.

If you always post Regular, then this isn't a problem at all. It only becomes a pain if you write an In-Line, for the reasons stated.

Putting the two buttons in a frame to one side of the post would be a way of doing it. This way you can read the whole thing, then click, or you can find something you want to comment on and click the In-Line button right at that point without having to scroll all the way down and back up.

Once you select In-Line, the post is put into a frame of its own anyway, so why couldn't you do this a little earlier before you have to decide on a review type?

Bill