Jack of Harts

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by on January 19, 2024 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Diaries

We found hyperspace in 2105 and the Great Space Race began. Alliances, nations, corporations, and religions reached out for the stars and humanity spread beyond the Solar System. We learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time in 2205. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and we expanded our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.

Jack grew up in a world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then an alien sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and wiped out almost everything and everybody Jack knew. He volunteered to serve and kick the alien scum back to the other side of the galaxy. But the Marines wanted more than people looking for revenge, and cybernetic partners demanded a far higher commitment. If Jack wanted to earn his commission as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he had to grow up. He had to let himself be forged into something stronger than he’d ever wanted to be. He had to live up to the name of his squadron.

The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112. The Cowboys.

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The Politics of Power

by on June 19, 2025 at 12:01 am
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We had the largest and most powerful navy and air force in the world at the end of World War II. We could have ruled the world if we wanted to. We didn’t want to. So we went back home and helped everybody that got blasted into the stone age rebuild themselves back into the industrial age.

By the time I was growing up in the 1980s, we were the arsenal of Democracy, protecting Europe and Japan and the rest of the world from the evils of Soviet Communism and burning them to the ground by the simple expedient of producing more than they could ever hope to produce. We just built them into ruin and left them shattered on the side of the road that we built at the same time just to show them we could. Because America, F Yeah.

It could have ended right there. Russia asked to join NATO and be friends. We could have just accepted the peace, helped rebuild Russia like we did the others we defeated, and gone forward as friends like we did with the others. Of course they might have been lying. But we never even gave them a chance to lie or cheat or… gasp… actually maybe even play nice with us.

Some enterprising individuals had different ideas, you see. We were the last superpower. We could just tell them what to do. We could surround them. Add every nation that was once in the Soviet Union into NATO and isolate them from everybody. What could they do about it? We were the unipower and no one could stand against us. So why let them try?

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The Politics of Power

by on June 18, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The United States of America was born out of a strong wish to just not be involved in the Old World’s politics and squabbles. One of our earliest international policies, the Monroe Doctrine, even enshrined this idea in cold hard text. You stay out of the Americas, and we’ll stay out of your business. We maintained that aggressively non-interventionist stance for the better part of two hundred years. I say aggressively because when Muslim pirates kidnapped our people, we built the biggest and baddest ships on the planet, put the most bloody minded Marines we could find on them, and went out to aggressively teach them why it was a really bad idea to get our attention. That’s how the Marines added “To the shores of Tripoli” to their anthem.

After World War II shattered every economy on the planet, sunk a third of the ships on the seas, killed an entire generation of Europeans, and shattered world order as we knew it, we grudgingly accepted the position of the world’s cop to keep another Hitler from rising and starting World War III. Americans were grudging about it. Politicians were a bit more fond of the idea. But we were the only surviving technological society so we helped everybody else rebuild. We’ve spent the last eighty years rebuilding, patrolling the oceans, and helping everybody in the world become functional modern societies.

We helped build a good world on the surface, but there were a lot of cracks if you knew where to look. Unfortunately, most of our people didn’t look. We are still fundamentally isolationist in our viewpoints, and most Americans simply don’t see beyond our borders. We have enough space here. What do we need with more? But there are always people who want more, and that is why we are where we are right now.

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The Lefties Are at it Again

by on June 17, 2025 at 12:01 am
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Mom! The Lefties are doing weird shit again!

Seriously, they’ve been preaching violence from their political pulpits for years, calling on the most impressionable of their followers to go forth and attack their enemies with extreme violence. Often those are Republicans. Other times they are other Democrats, if the Democrats in question have proven to be not loyal enough to the cause of the day.

The recent spat of keying and firebombing Teslas is a vivid example of that. The twin assassinations aimed at Trump. And the multiple shooters and victims this weekend. First we have the Lefty at the No Kings protest who brought a gun with and used it to shoot a fellow Lefty for whatever reason crossed their crazy mind at that moment. And then we have yet another Tim Walz appointment who decided to go nuts and attack his fellow Lefties. Tampon Tim sure knows how to pick the violent sociopaths for his administration.

Those victims were two Leftie Democrat lawmakers who voted in favor of taking medical care from illegal aliens mere days ago, and their respective spouses. The Leftie was fully groomed up with law enforcement-appearing gear and vehicle, allowing him to get inside his victims’ houses so he could shoot them. We’re still waiting to find out why this particular Lefty went crazier than normal, since his manifesto is being held tight by the police, but it appears to hold a lot of fellow Lefties on it if the information we have is accurate.

Is it really too much to ask that they act like civilized human beings and stop trying to kill each other? Or anyone else?

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Israel and Iran

by on June 16, 2025 at 12:01 am
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I was not looking forward to a war with Iran. I really don’t want America to be in one. There was a time I would have. Back when I was young and dumb and thought we could roll in with Freedom and help build newer and better nations. I was wrong. I now understand that the people running our government really suck at nation building. They are really good at getting young men killed, but not so good at building functional governments. And so I no longer support anything like it.

That said, I do take a general glee at the idea of watching Israel killing terrorists and the people who fund and train of terrorists. And so I am filled with mixed opinions about this recent conflict. But I absolutely love how they did it. They smuggled in drones, waited until the right time, used the drones to take out the local air defenses, and then flew their jets in to plaster their targets. F-35s in first due to their stealth, with F-16s and F-15s moving behind them as the F-35s clear the road.

It truly is amazing to see an air attack like this. NATO dirty tricks get real effective when you have a real air force to take advantage of them. I am cheering the Israelis on. I do hope the Iranians agree to end their long war with Israel. Stop pursuing the atomic bomb. Stop funding the terrorists. All the fun jazz. I don’t expect it, you understand. But I am hopeful that we will see a good end to this. Preferably before too many civilians get killed.

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Happy Father’s Day!

by on June 15, 2025 at 12:01 am
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Happy Father’s Day!

To all you men who have struggled to raise your children, and children are absolutely a struggle, thank you for all of your hard work.

We are all here now because of your efforts and your hard work.

Happy Father’s Day.

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