Author Archives: Holmes Oliver

Friday in Ukraine

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

It’s Friday, which means it must be time to make a few more idle Ukraine war comments. Here are several, briefly.

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Site Admin Note

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

I offer this info in response to a couple of interrogatories from the legion of Liberty Bristles stalwarts regarding progress on this site’s development and fighting the war therefrom. The site is advancing full speed ahead, a tout vapor, volle … Continue reading →

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Risk Distance and the Vantasner Danger Meridian

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

We decided to binge-watch the television series “Patriot.” The show introduced, as one of its unifying themes, a thing called the ‘Vantasner Danger Meridian.’  After not finding enough about it on plain old Google, I figured I’d talk it up with ChatPGT-4.  … Continue reading →

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Pre-Eclipse Ukraine Update

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Warfare along the front line in Eastern Ukraine has been un-dramatic. In general, mappers record a slow, methodical advance by Russian Army units in about half a dozen sectors, but no big breakthrough, no uncontrolled route of the Ukrainians. The … Continue reading →

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The Lord Is Risen

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

He is risen indeed. Hallelujah.

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Don’t Be a Climate Denier

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Don’t let them label you a skeptic, either. That’s just another syntactical ploy to steer away from the truth of the matter. Be an accuser. Be a punisher. Climate alarm and carbon-blaming is a theft scheme, a fraud, a scam, … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Opinion Update

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

My relatively ignorant uninformed take: Darkening prospects for the survival of Ukraine. Slow, grinding, accelerating Russian progress all along the front. The Ukrainians have done amazingly well in slowing the advance. The Ukrainians have mounted a combination of competent coup … Continue reading →

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Israeli and World Geography

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

I offer this small geographic note to any among my legion of fans who might for whatever reason find themselves in a friendly, open, intellectual exchange regarding the country of Israel and its future. I ask that you begin your … Continue reading →

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Things Are Messed Up

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

A couple of news items drag me in today. One is the cargo ship hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore.  Not all details in yet, but already easy to compare to the Ukrainians (with our help I assume) trying time after … Continue reading →

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Journalist Schmernalist

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

The Epoch Times has an article about Steve Baker, journalist arrested for some trumped up somethingorother related to the Jan 6 not-an-insurrection. Steve Baker, on the Jan. 6 Front Lines and in the DOJ’s Crosshairs | The Epoch Times Worth … Continue reading →

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