From the web:
W.J. Astore Mar 27, 2025
The U.S. Military Is a Global Strike Force
Our take: The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Understandable why young people & their parents & grandparents would take a dim view on all this. Continuing on this path will wear down the energy American families once had for encouraging young people to enlist.
Some will say obese teens and young adults are to blame for the big recruiting crisis. Thousands of young, intelligent and athletic Americans participate in college athletics each year. Certainly, they would qualify to enlist- no rehab/prep program required.
Why are these people not showing up at the recruiting office?
Any questions from newspeople?
Social Security
Forced to pay into social security:
Forced to pay to send big cash to Ukraine several times over.
Forced to pay for decades of undeclared/unwon wars.
Forced to pay:
$6.3 million in federal cash for a used Ocean Shores hotel.
Any questions from newspeople?
December 8, 2022 The Daily World
Dept. of Ag invests $6.3M to purchase Ocean Shores hotel
$6.3 million “to fund the acquisition of an existing hotel. Marathon Enterprises Inc. is located in Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County, Washington. The project is expected to result in saving eight jobs and creating one full time job.”
Zero questions from small or large newspapers. Zero questions from TV newspeople.
Forced to pay for a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security that fails to create any shortage of cartel product in the Puget Sound area.
Giant Homeland Security Vote of Confidence:
Thurston County, WA officials investigate 2 fentanyl overdoses in jail
By AJ Janavel FOX 13 Seattle Mar 25, 2025
Our take: Go with a social security grandfather clause. Let people who become adults (18 and up) in the year XXXX know that the program will work differently for them.
Consider making it a voluntary program.
Recommendation for budget savings:
Phase out ongoing undeclared/unwon wars overseas.
The Department of Defense track record for winning undeclared wars goes back to 1949.
Whatever happened to the formal congressional declaration of war?
This would be the time to hear from elected leaders and top generals on all the issues that have doomed the Department of Defense track record for winning wars since DOD was established in 1949.
Seattle Gun Violence Progress Report
In the news:
New Seattle ordinance mandates security measures for after-hours lounges to curb violence
KOMO News Mar 25, 2025
KOMO allows comments. Several have been posted with the story above.
Our take-
Would any newsperson ever ask:
Has any WA gun control measure or public policy effort of the past 20 years slowed down the gunfire between say, Everett and Tacoma?
What works? What fails?
Newspeople remain silent.
Everett updates here.
Seattle updates here.
Tacoma updates here.
Voting is highly emphasized in American culture. Newspeople asking questions related to public policy takes a lower priority.
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Sound Publishing And Black Press Media
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Plenty of lonely beach out there.
North of Perego’s Lagoon, looking towards Fort Ebey.
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