BALTIMORE, Maryland, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - Here are a few notes and other things I've seen recently. The public high school I went to is no longer a mere district school providing an education to children living near to it. Instead, it is more of what they call a regional or target school, attracting students wanting to learn in subjects it claims to specialize in. To that end, a lot of money has been poured into the school to refurbish and renovate it. One improvement, we are told, was a new sign in front of the school displaying electronic messages in red letters against a black background. Yesterday, I noticed the sign as I drove by on my way to the jogging track. It proudly proclaimed: "First Day of Classes Wednesday, August 21."
Hillary Clinton is said to be taking every weekend and some weekdays off from campaigning. I believe Romney took time off during the final week of his campaign. Trump seems to actually enjoy campaigning and isn't taking any time off. Just saying.
Hillary campaigns like she owns a bank with unlimited funds. She spends nearly one thousand dollars on hair cuts etc. Her clothes are said to cost half the national debt. I won't be crass enough to claim she is getting ripped off if this rumor is true. But it is her policy ideas that are worst of all. The only thing she claims she will cut back on is the military, and isn't that a surprise. All of our enemies - every last one of them - is arming up and we are cutting back. Who will be the first United States President to oversee a big battlefield defeat?
Here is one topic that no one is talking about, although everybody should be: military enlistment. Right now, and for the last few decades, the United States has relied strictly on a volunteer military. There is no draft. There are no military obligations. How long would that be the case if Hillary Clinton is elected and then re-elected. Near the end of her first term in office you will begin to hear that enlistment is off. The draft will be a topic of discussion. Hillary might pass the ball by making huge cuts, thereby dropping the number of recruits necessary. But you can imagine a million things that would make further military cuts impossible.
How long will young Americans continue to enlist in the "new army" if the enemy is somebody a lot of Americans have sympathy for? How about if some country currently our ally is over-run by Russia, which then uses that country as a base of further operations? In such a scenario, the United States would be looking at attacking Poland or Estonia. It could get very complicated. We wouldn't want to attack such a place, but if a line isn't established, where will Russia's march stop?
The Orioles won last night, defeating neighborhood rival Washington, 4-3, behind brilliant pitching by Dylan Bundy and Zach Britten. They are two games behind even though they lost three of four to Houston after losing two straight to Boston. The Red Sox and Blue Jays share first place. The Orioles are third and the Yankees are fourth, seven games out. If the season ended today, the two wild card teams in the playoffs would be the Orioles and whichever team between the Red Sox and Blue Jays did not win the AL East. But no fewer than six teams are within 6.5 games of that wild card berth.
Correction: In a post about Burnley's hard-fought win over Liverpool over this past weekend, I noted that the Claret have a tournament game on Wednesday. They do, in fact, have a tournament game, but it is in the Capital One Cup or Football League Cup and not the FA Cup, as I had reported. Burnley plays Accrington-Stanley, a Lancashire-area rival which toils in League One of English Soccer, two flights below the Premier, where Burnley plays..
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