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Can’t believe your eyes

| September 26, 2024 | 28 Comments
Can’t believe your eyes

  Someone I know was all excited… happily touting a story going around that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif had been stripped of all her titles after failing some sort of gender test. She had been proven to be a guy, had been stripped of all her titles including the Olympic gold, and seemingly sentenced to […]

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Thursday thoughts – Biden, RNC, SF Patch, Abortion travel

| March 28, 2024 | 74 Comments
Thursday thoughts – Biden, RNC, SF Patch, Abortion travel

Well, that was fast. President Biden says the US Government will pay the cost to rebuild the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore…seems he has traveled over it many times on his way to or back from home in  Delaware, whether driving or by train. “At about 1:30 [a.m. Tuesday], a container ship struck the […]

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West Point gets rid of “Duty, Honor, Country”

| March 13, 2024 | 86 Comments
West Point gets rid of “Duty, Honor, Country”

The Long Grey Line removed “Duty, Honor, Country” from their mission statement this week. It was replaced with “Army Values.” The three words were made the official motto for the US Military Academy at West Point more than 100 years ago. It was adopted as part of the school’s official coat of arms in 1898. […]

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Odds and sods part I

| February 22, 2024 | 23 Comments
Odds and sods part I

Remember we mentioned the government suit against DPE, the folks who are the sole source for a key component of neoprene January 12 and February 2nd? The key to the government case was a letter, purportedly from Michael Morton, an EPA Science Liaison, calling off an investigation – except Morton said he never wrote the […]

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Tuesday Euromadness

| December 5, 2023 | 14 Comments
Tuesday Euromadness

Follow-on to Slow Joe’s AI comments on Monday – several weather-forecasting groups in France are striking, because forecasting algorithm’s predictions are  considered so accurate that no human vetting or intervention is needed. Unions have blamed staff cuts for the debacle. Mr Lartisant told Libération that previously, “seven people assessed supercomputer bulletins, one for each major […]

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SECDEF- Israel Facing Strategic Defeat

| December 5, 2023 | 35 Comments
SECDEF- Israel Facing Strategic Defeat

Lost Confidence Lindsey Graham says he’s ‘lost all confidence’ in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin by Jenny Goldsberry Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed his disappointment in Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s strategy when it comes to the war between Israel and Hamas. Graham appeared on State of the Union Sunday to offer his critique of Austin’s […]

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Hitting what you aim at… not

| November 28, 2023 | 26 Comments
Hitting what you aim at… not

Remember that “Israeli air strike” which supposedly killed 500 in a Gaza hospital? Most of the non-Hamas folks said at the time it was more likely a Palestinian missile which went awry…but that hasn’t stopped the Palestinian-supporting world from repeating it. Well, you know your propaganda is pretty sad when even Human Rights Watch calls […]

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US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’ sees pilot eject.

| September 18, 2023 | 92 Comments
US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’ sees pilot eject.

Search for F-35B Lightning II fighter jet focused on two lakes after Marine Corps pilot ejected over North Charleston for unknown reason. US military officials have appealed to the public for help to find a fighter jet after losing track of it somewhere over South Carolina when the pilot ejected. A Marine Corps pilot safely escaped the […]

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