Pirates
Skeet, With Prizes
The Good Idea Fairy is back, at least at Walmart. Walmart drone delivery launches in Florida, Texas, Arizona markets Cities include Tampa and Orlando, Florida; Phoenix and the Dallas-area By Daniella Genovese For the first time ever, some Walmart customers in Florida, Texas and Arizona will be able to have their packages delivered by drone. […]
Is This Where Things Are Heading?
Digital currency again! Crypto gold is now a topic of conversation. Bitcoin is non-extant, non-physical currency, traded on the financial markets as if it were tangible and solid when it is not. What happens if the databanks that harbor this electronic currency go dark, perhaps caused by an EMP or something worse? To someone […]
Trump Signs Directive to Create a Military “Space Corps”
It seems President Trump has done what he said he would do…again. The Air Force is getting is own “Space Corps”, at least for the time being. The main goal of the Space Force is to secure and extend American dominance of the space domain, Trump and other White House officials have said. Such reasoning […]
Unexploded mine floating near Naval Base.
BROWNSVILLE, Wash. — The Coast Guard and Navy bomb technicians have detonated what they said appeared to be an unidentified mine floating in Puget Sound between Brownsville Marina and Bainbridge Island. The Kitsap Sun reports a Coast Guard spokeswoman said the object was reported at about 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Navy says initial inspection of the moored mine showed […]
Pirate gets twelve life sentences
A federal judge in Norfolk, VA handed a pirate chief 12 life sentences in the piracy case of a German merchant vessel and US yacht in 2010 during which four Americans were murdered and the crew of the German vessel were tortured to up the ransom, according to the Associated Press; “I think this case […]
So Sad…
When I read this I was concerned. Jonn works at this… It’s his hobby but he’s really not very good, I feel his pain. 60 Elvis impersonators flee fire alarm The lookalikes were attending a charity function in Rochester, Kent, when the fire alarm sounded late on Saturday night. It is believed that it was […]
4 Americans held in Mozambique
Four Americans and a briton are being held by mozambique authorities on weapons charges while they were attempting to free a pirated ship according to BBC. Nampula provincial police spokesperson Inacio Dina told the BBC that the weapons include an FN 5.5mm rifle, as well as ammunition and communications equipment. The police have named the […]
Navy: 4, Pirates: 0
From the Navy Times, a tale of woe with a happy ending; [USS] Bulkeley responded to the mayday call, first heard by a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship and relayed to Combined Maritime Forces, by launching an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Squadron Light 48, Detachment 4, to investigate. When it arrived on station — […]
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