Former Gannett legislative reporter (grad school intern). F-14 Tomcat (Navy Vet) and Lockheed Martin avionics test engineer. Life long Democrathttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lbnmhdr7gc2gIn this 21st century civil war, doesn't President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 proclamation designating the last Thursday in Nov. a "day of thanksgiving" seem a little odd? It has turned into. Black Friday? Phidelphia cops called it that in the '60's because of shopper riots.23 Nov 2024 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbnmhdr7gc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lbmvjjdz6s2pThey smelled what I had for yesterday's lunch.23 Nov 2024 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmvjjdz6s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lblaqzshjk2eMy alarm clocks.23 Nov 2024 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblaqzshjk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lbhozstkr22gMy "Azteca" Mexican friends, please don't tell me ABBA's tune "Fernando" was a hoax.21 Nov 2024 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhozstkr22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lbhkrdgsws2kHey Hispanics...did you forget about Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata who fought for the Mexican peasants and against the wealthy land owners? "It's better to die on your feet than to live in your knees." Zapata was the original Zorro.21 Nov 2024 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhkrdgsws2khttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lbhjxs3p322kEver notice when fascists like Hitler, Putin, Muskrat, and old Bone Spurs want something and it isn't automatically handed over to them they blow it up? Like Poland, or Ukraine, or Twitter, or casinos? The Chinese, on the other hand, build a deep water port in Peru.21 Nov 2024 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhjxs3p322khttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lbfanufnqk2yChecked the trash on X this morning. All the posts were 2 days old.20 Nov 2024 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfanufnqk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lba65ewigk2dI can't talk to the hayseeds I grew up with. Nothing in common. While they were trying to figure out why momma cow could have a calf without foreplay I was helping a friend fly a Leer jet 60 miles out in the Pacific Ocean so Navy frigates could practice with their surface to air missile systems.18 Nov 2024 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lba65ewigk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lb5mog6gxs2sOnce upon a time in 1823 we had a thing called the Monroe Doctrine to keep European monarchs from carving up the Western Hemisphere. Ya know, to protect us from getting screwed up the ass. Apparently the Monroe Doctrine, 200 years later, it doesn't apply to Chinese oligarchs taking over Peru.17 Nov 2024 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb5mog6gxs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lazdowsbg22mDoes it make sense yet?15 Nov 2024 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazdowsbg22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3laxfojsby22n@atheistgirl.bsky.social gotcha followed AG.15 Nov 2024 03:10 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3laxfojsby22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3lavynqessk2n@luciferjesit.bsky.social now let's get the rest of them. I flip back an forth, put plan to use this site for tactical information to aid the resistance.14 Nov 2024 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lavynqessk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3latcos7bds26Legacy obsession in a dictatorship is absurd. Forgotten as an unknown soldier's tomb. Nobody is going to remember when Colonial Williamsburg gets bulldozed to make room for a gulag. The kids will only know it as a gulag. Dark days, folks.13 Nov 2024 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3latcos7bds26https://bsky.app/profile/fred-ash.bsky.social/post/3laqyiqqguu26The beagles are back in town. Escaped Twitter.12 Nov 2024 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:uwybva2atzcpocpgupbysbt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3laqyiqqguu26