Jack Howard

@AlanRMacLeod Any condemnation of the Indian Ocean slave trade? The Arab slave trade? Thought so.

BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.

@TONYxTWO I spent last night trying to get my laser printer to print on transparencies to use on an overhead projector.

Kids today have no idea what this is I’m officially old 😭

@Vidiyocontexts Not doing it hurts the horse more. Just like going to a dentist.

Does this process hurt the horse?

@CynicalPublius I worked for a company that collected retired officers, even flag officers. 5 completely stymied them. You can't just express Commander's Intent and let the subordinates run wild. You have to manage directly and make things happen.

RE: Thoughts for ETSing Military Members One of the great misconceptions I had as a career Army officer was the conceit that the day I retired I was fully qualified to run a business—any business. I knew I had great management and leadership skills. I figured all I needed to do was take a one credit accounting course and I was ready to roll as a CEO. I know many of my peers felt the same way. Gosh were we all wrong. As I culminate my second career as a corporate lawyer, I realize that this is a message I should share with career military NCOs and officers who are facing an upcoming ETS date. YES, you have excellent management and leadership skills. YES, you have dealt with stress that most people will never experience. All of these skills and experiences DO give you a leg up on being a business leader—they do. But let me tell you ten incredibly important things the military never taught you: 1. Profit and loss. No profit? No business. 2. Managing personnel under the incredibly complex web of state and federal employment and HR policies and laws. 3. Accounting. You need to deeply understand balance sheets, profit/loss statements & statements of cash flows. (If your business is big enough, a good CFO matters.) 4. Navigating the myriad of exceptionally complex corporate and securities laws that govern any business entity. 5. Dealing with employees who expect to be treated with kid gloves. That underperforming employee? You can’t tell him/her to drop and give you 20. 6. Creating a product or service that people ACTUALLY VALUE and therefore WANT TO PURCHASE. 7. Marketing and sales. You have to make people want to buy what you are selling. 8. Dealing with ruthless, cutthroat, no-holds-barred competition. 9. Keeping boards of directors and stockholders happy. 10. IT. Maybe you did IT stuff in the military, but running digital commerce for the average civilian is not the same thing. I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing this to tell you to not be overconfident when you take off the uniform and put on a suit. You DO possess management and leadership skills that are a valuable and rare commodity. But be honest about what you don’t know, and study up on it. Take classes. Educate yourself. Read. Assemble a team of advisors who will walk the walk with you—a good accountant; a good business lawyer; a good financial advisor; regulatory compliance specialists in your business area; PR, marketing and IT advisors. Trust and rely on these people. Most especially, be honest about what you don’t know. If you are starting out working for someone else, don’t blow smoke in an interview—be confident about your strengths, but don’t pretend to know what you don’t know. You have done amazing things in uniform. If you train yourself in the areas the military did not train you in, you WILL succeed in business. Good luck.

@CBSEveningNews How is that a 'fired back'? Chili's is a slop house. Dress accordingly.

Dress code debate: Steakhouse chain Ruth’s Chris says it will ban hats and gym wear. Chili’s fired back, saying their only dress code “is that you have to be dressed.”

@AutoFfox @AtomicCoyote61 @SandyofCthulhu Then don't build them on the main island. The rest are volcanically inert.

@AtomicCoyote61 @SandyofCthulhu I imagine volcanoes are an issue.

I'm actually okay with Hawaii's ban. Seems like the riskiest place to put a nuclear plant of any US state. With cyclones, volcanoes, tsunamis, Stitch, and Jason Momoa it seems unsafe. The other bans are dumb though. Note: in the 1980s, a young friend of mine attended Berkeley High School. The school declared itself a "nuclear free zone" which my friend (emphatically NOT a right winger) thought was the stupidest thing he'd ever heard of.

@AtomicCoyote61 @SandyofCthulhu So don't build them on the shore.

@SandyofCthulhu Hawaii's actually pretty safe from hurricanes relative to the east coast and gulf. Tsunamis are an issue, though. (They tend to get bad ones from big quakes in the Aleutians.)

@WallStreetApes People who can pay get to pay for those who don't. Illegals. Indigents. That's what 'Health Mandates' cause. Somebody is going to pay and it's not going to be the provider.

American has Cigna health insurance Her daughter was sick, she takes her to the doctor thinking it would likely be at most a couple hundred bucks with insurance All they did was a nose swab for the flu She just got the bill It’s $984 “What the f*ck is going on, what do you mean by a thousand dollars for a Q-tip up a nostril” The American healthcare system is legalized robbery

@newstart_2024 Wokeness is a manifestation of Progressivism. Progressivism is a religion. Wokeness is a manifestation of a religion that looked at the 7 Deadly Sins and made them Virtues. The Woke commit sadistic abuse of others and think themselves virtuous. That's not going to go away soon.

Wokeness isn’t an ideology you can argue away. Helen Andrews: “If wokeness is the inevitable result of demographic feminization — if any organization or institution that reaches a critical mass of women starts behaving this way, regardless of stated ideology — then we can’t assume it’s over just because the 2020 insanity has quieted down. Better arguments won’t necessarily win. The vibe shift may not stick.” She warns it’s more resilient than people think because it’s rooted in deeper demographic and cultural shifts. Do you see wokeness as primarily an ideology that can be defeated with better ideas? Or is it tied to something more structural like the feminization of institutions that makes it harder to root out? Your take 👇

@MrAndyNgo The center of Anglican Church is in North Africa. Their missionaries had far more luck finding converts there than in U.K. No surprise their ceremony includes African dancers. There is a schism growing between social conservative African Anglicans and UK "Progressives".

A multicultural celebration was held at Canterbury Cathedral to celebrate the installation of the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in Anglican history in England.

@RickyDoggin Looks like typical light industrial factory work. Just like my first jobs.

How would you like to do this all day??

@lamps_apple "Progressivism" is a religion, not a political philosophy. Belief is what drives it in the face of all evidence to the contrary. And it is a religion diametrically opposed to the Christian culture it developed in. Progressives embrace the 7 Deadly Sins as Virtues.

“At one point, I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it. Therefore, I thought it was a mental problem. I mean, some kind of block that doesn't even let them see the numbers. They are enemies of numbers. They hate numbers. I don't know if lefties hate water or numbers more. I mean, I don't know if they hate bathing more than numbers. But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence. Lefties always, let's say, resort to physical violence and all kinds of violent manifestations because they are unable to refute the arguments.”

@OnDisasters I worked with a retired naval aviator who flew F-8 over Vietnam. Said it was the best plane in the World for going from point A to point B (fast). He did have one shot out from under him though and had swim for a bit.

Happy birthday to the F-8 Crusader, who flew for the first time on March 25 1955. The Last of the Gunfighters" earned that nickname as it was the final US fighter that had guns as the primary weapon, but also fired missiles. It saw heavy combat with the US in Vietnam and had a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis as a Photo Reconnaissance platorm, as seen in this dramatization, in the movie "13 Days."

@ThomasSowell Then she supports eliminating women's sports and just have everyone compete together? How can that not be what she's advocating?

Lindsey Williams: “Female bodies are just as strong and fast and capable as male bodies.”

@AprilSpark1890 Traditionally, the religious service pennant (flown when service are being held, i.e. Sunday mornings, flies above the U.S. flag. So chaplain before rank makes sense.

✝️🇺🇸Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on March 24, 2026, that military chaplains will no longer display their rank insignia on uniforms.🇺🇸✝️ 🙏🏼Hegseth stated that chaplains "will be seen among the highest ranks because of their divine calling," emphasizing that they are "an officer second" and prioritizing their spiritual role over military hierarchy in appearance.🙏🏼 👏🏼The goal, per Hegseth, is to restore chaplains as ministers and moral anchors rather than "emotional support officers" or therapists, while fostering better spiritual care for service members.👏🏼

@wil_da_beast630 Never underestimate the awesome power of a fully operational 'and'. Woke AND a racist.

Almost impossible to tell, at 1st glance, whether a woke or a racist wrote something.

@IanJaeger29 So Booker says 5-10% of the voting population is illegal.

BREAKING: Democratic Senator Cory Booker warns that the SAVE AMERICA ACT would reduce the Voter Rolls by 5-10%.

@SenatorCantwell Illegals don't have to vote. They're on the voter roles. The Dems will send other operatives to vote in their name since no ID is required.

Every WA voter attests they are a U.S. citizen. The penalty for lying is ≤5 yrs in prison &/or a $10k fine. And somehow people think that immigrants who won’t even go to the grocery store, who are afraid take their kids to school, are signing up for a felony by voting illegally?

@Noirchick1 A Classic. Back when Hollywood could tell a story.

December 26, 1951 this film was released and went on to become awarded and greatly loved. Are you a fan?

@RippleXrpie "Tehran Bob"

HOLY SH****T! 👀 🇮🇷 Iranian military Spokesperson has sent a new message: “If your criminal army reveals the true number of dead and wounded, it will shatter the order of your cowardly and panicked army.” “You have confused this war with Hollywood movies.”