The Wizard of iPhone Speaks (20-22)

Opening & closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church (37221)
We got hurt & the nation demanded retribution.

We lost the first battle of WW IV and we don’t know it! We don’t even know when it happened. Was it the Marine barracks in Lebanon or the USS Cole? 911 was a wake-up call.

What are we trained to do in an emergency? Dial nine - one - one of course. It’s the one thing you may do from an otherwise locked iPhone.

Our problem is our focus we employed the same strategy as in Viet Nam. We fought an amorphous enemy on his terms. The famous “seek & destroy” found nothing & destroyed the wrong stuff.

We could have played The “Great Satan” card & made Kabul vanish in a cloud of nuclear dust. Sun Tsu would have counseled patience.

“Know your enemy & in 1000 battles, you will not know defeat.”

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church
As AL Smith said -- Let's look at the record.

If they do something such as “We demand producers justify price increases” — It’s just so much eyewash. Mass Market retailers stopped caring about pricing since the advent of the product bar code
Modern writers would call it posturing!
Retailers “rent” shell space to favored producers — Consider the soft drink aisle. There’s red stuff & blue stuff with a smattering of Green Stuff. Coke & Pepsi pay for the privilege of offering a blizzard of varieties of a single product and we believe we have a choice.
For confirmation peek in at the deodorant aisle and you find Proctor & Gamble owns that section.
Consider Costco, not only do they charge you $50 for the privilege of shopping — they offer only two grades of gasoline. Low-priced regular & high priced premium.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission

Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- The Entertainer -- Piano courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian. Mark Twain once remarked, "Yes, he's a Christian and he's hardly dull at all"..
Welcome to our annual "Spring" PotHole Festival -- The MetroDunce has spent all our maintenance Money on those silly 25MPH signs.

Opening. piano. music courtesy. of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- closing courtesy of Steinway & Sons Spiro. plays The. Entertainer recorded live by iPhone at Green Hills Mall 2015 used. with. permission.
There is bad advice everywhere consider this headline:
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The preceding courtesy of the website MUO (Make Use Of) 08 - 13 (20-22)I know Pakistan used. to be part. of the British. Empire, but it's outrageous for a foreign national to "teach". English outside of his home. It just ain't Kosher. Yes, I’m indeed from a different time & place, and I treasure the printed word. Yes, I own more than a single desk dictionary and no matter where I am sitting in my office one is usually within reach.