Monthly Archives: August 2019

The Utter Folly Of Wise Men

August 8, 2019 – 3:27 pm

Every country has a pantheon of vaunted heroes and military leaders. Their names grace universities, libraries, towns, and cities. Children bear their names in remembrance of their contribution to country. In contrast few parents bestow any honor on the knaves of a nation. Adolf and Benito were banned by an unspoken edict during my childhood. […]

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Camping Kibo Lodge # 8 – Kili Initiative 2019

August 7, 2019 – 7:45 pm

On the next days the Kili Initiative 2019 team engaged in various bonding challenges presented them by JM. Ma’we, and Fast Steve. These exercises were designed to interlocked the team into each other. Not as rivals, but as comrades. Jackman, Vanessa, Maureen, Ubah, Jaubah, Larry, Laityn, and Natatlia were young people. None of them knew […]

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A Walk At Night – Nairobi / Kili Initiative 2019 # 3

August 6, 2019 – 4:09 pm

Nairobi’s reputation for violent crime had earned the Kenyan capitol the nickname ‘Nai-rob-ee. Commander Tim and his Kili Initiative team had warned that I shouldn’t leave the grounds of the YMCA. “We can not promise your safety,” shrugged Fast Steve. “A white man is a target always after dark.” I had walked thought a slum […]

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2019 KILI INITIATIVE # 6 – Kibo Lodge Reveille

August 6, 2019 – 10:39 am

5:55am came early the next morning. Young voices issued from the Kibo Lodge gardens and I rose from bed. The entire entourage was gathered in a clearing. Loitokitok glowed on a near hilltop. The sun was rising in the East. I thought about going back to sleep, then reproached myself, “I didn’t come all this […]

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H-Bomb Fear-Mongering from the Porsche Reich.

August 6, 2019 – 8:51 am

The Manhattan Project was in a desperate race with Nazi Germany to develop an atomic bomb. The 3rd Reich ran out of time when the Soviet Union captured Berlin. The USA was able to use this ultimate weapon on the Japanese, wiping out Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The only two cities ever obliterated by nuclear weapons. […]

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