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On eating at top-of-the-top restaurants
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Copyright 2015 John T. Reed Gary Danko My wife and I like to eat at restaurants. Last night, we went to Gary Danko in San Francisco. It is THE number one restaurant in San Francisco according to those who rate such things. You can see its various awards and honors at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Danko. It has one star from Guide Michelin. There is another north of San Francisco in Yountville called the French Laundry which is supposed to be hot stuff, too. That one has been rated the best restaurant in the world a couple of times. It has three stars from...
Any criminal Latin American country citizen who does not come to the U.S. is an idiot
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Copyright 2015 John T. Reed If you are a citizen of a Latin American country, and you have a propensity to commit crimes and/or a criminal record, you are nuts if you do not come to the US. Here is a comparison of three types of Latin Americans, and the reasons why being an illegal immigrant in the US is the only way for the criminals among the three types to go. If he… criminal who is a Latin American country citizen in Latin America criminal who is an American citizen of Latin American descent in the U.S. criminal who...
Comments on The Silencing by Kirsten Powers and By the People by Charles Murray
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Copyright 2015 John T. Reed I recently read The Silencing by Kirsten Powers. Excellent. She is a liberal writing about how liberals, and only liberals, refuse to let others even speak either by shouting them down or assassinating their character. It is just a collection of pertinent news stories of recent years—all familiar to high-information voters. But it was still a useful exercise to collect them and organize them by category. Her words interspersed with the anecdotes are excellent articulations of the problem, but not revelations. I also read By the People by Charles Murray, one of my fellow FreedomFest...
Vehicle service check list
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This is a check list I created for my own use. It occurred to me that others could benefit from it so why not put it at my Web site. I took my car in for a recall and service this morning, drove all the way home in a loaner car and realized my house key was with my car key at the dealership. A wasted hour of driving back to get the house key. I also forgot to take one of my Coke Zero’s out of the trunk and thereby blew my diet at McDonalds drinking a regular Coke....
Using the Army’s Ranger School as another exercise in polticial correctness
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Copyright 2015 John T. Reed A pilot and a military policewoman? I just read in today’s paper about the branches of the two female rangers: aviation and military police. WTF? The school’s purpose is to train leaders of foot patrols behind enemy lines (remember those?—you can see them in movies about World War II). No pilot or MP would ever do such a thing. Uninhabited jungle only In my article on ranger, I said you can’t use rangers or SEALs in a land area where there are dogs, farm animals (see my comments on Lone Survivor movie), or people who have...