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Retired general: Iran should take President Trump’s strike threats seriously

Retired general: Iran should take President Trump’s strike threats seriously

| January 10, 2026 | 21 Comments

Jack Keane, senior strategic analyst for Fox News, answered questions about President Donald Trump’s recent warning to Iran. Keane said that if he were in the Iranian regime, he’d take Trump seriously. Trump previously warned that if Iran killed peaceful protesters, that the U.S. was locked, loaded, and ready to go. Keane referenced the U.S. […]

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DOGE cuts impact Ft. Greeely chow

DOGE cuts impact Ft. Greeely chow

| January 10, 2026 | 10 Comments

Where is Ft. Greely? Try back-of-beyond, Alaska.  NNE of Anchorage in that largely empty part of the map… yeah, not someplace people flock to – unless they are under orders. 350 or so permanent party, more when some of the frequent exercises take place there. I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it is a […]

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Daily FGS

Daily FGS

| January 10, 2026 | 5 Comments

KelTec P17 North Texas teen was killed in self-defense during armed robbery, police say By Shambhavi Rimal A North Texas teen was shot and killed Monday during an armed robbery, after a 20-year-old fired in self-defense, police said. The North Texas Emergency Communications Center received a call shortly after 7 p.m. about a weapon-related incident […]

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Weekend Open Thread

Weekend Open Thread

| January 9, 2026 | 86 Comments

Plenty happened since the last weekend open thread. Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the U.S., two tankers were boarded, the Somali fraud in Minnesota continued to receive coverage with Somali fraud elsewhere in the U.S. mentioned, the list goes on. The Russians didn’t want us to board one of those tankers, but we […]

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Major funding source for NPR and other public programing voted to dissolve

Major funding source for NPR and other public programing voted to dissolve

| January 9, 2026 | 32 Comments

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board voted to dissolve CPB in response to a lack of funding from Congress. This organization funded public programing, including Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street. One justification they used for this move was to prevent CPB, idle without funding, from being used for purposes other than what it was […]

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Disgraced Vet Removed from Cemetery

Disgraced Vet Removed from Cemetery

| January 9, 2026 | 15 Comments

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Body of Texas veteran suspected of killing as many as six women to be exhumed from his military grave Fernando Cota, who was convicted of rape in 1975 and released in 1983, took his own life and was buried at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio Mike […]

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Valor Friday

Valor Friday

| January 9, 2026 | 3 Comments

Jeff LPH sent an article to me about Lloyd Burke. I’ll post that below, but I did very briefly talk about Colonel Burke before. During my series on the “Most Decorated” men for the various wars and branches, he came up by my count as the most decorated Army officer of the Korean War. Starting […]

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Money, honey

Money, honey

| January 9, 2026 | 17 Comments

  Well, you know what they say: Life is a lot like a sh** sandwich, the more bread ya got the less sh** you have ta eat. Let’s look at a couple of folks: MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. She’s worth an estimated $40,000,000,000 (mostly from the divorce) […]

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