“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
What are we paying for?
News on two related fronts says we, the taxpayers, are getting screwed. First up: Over a million F-35 parts are unaccountable. Meaning they are lost, in the wrong place, not in the right inventory, something – $85,000,000 worth of wheredaheckisit. Auditors said that because the government doesn’t have its own system tracking those parts, […]
USAF unleashes AI, AI then kills human operator
So the Air Force programmed an AI to operate a drone to take out surface-to-air missile sites. The human operator behind the drone would give the drone final approval to launch the attack once a site was identified by the drone. They decided to let it loose in a simulated combat environment. To entice the […]
Friday short takes – AF Grad Miss Colorado, hunters win, more Hunter whistleblowers
Madison Marsh had a busy week. A three day competition to become Miss Colorado Saturday, marched in a Memorial Day march Monday, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant Wednesday, then her official graduation was yesterday. Marsh said she’s a physics major with an astrophysics focus, and then over the semester, she began to switch over […]
Want to make $168,000? Herd goats
Only in California…Someone smart said “hey, we have all these fire-hazard brush lands around homes and apartments that are hard to clear in an ecologically sound manner – let’s let critters graze there!” Quieter than weedwhackers and brush-hogs, more ecologically sound, and what the hey – when your grazers are inefficient, dinner on the hoof. […]
The Debt Default
We’ve been seeing it bandied about for weeks now – that the US may wind up in a position where it is unable to pay out what it needs to. The Republicans blame the Democrats for spending money like a horny frat boy who found a C-note on the sidewalk in front of a $50 […]
It’s False! It’s False!
Recently there was a story, widely touted on Fox News and the NY Post, about a group of homeless vets being housed at a Choice Hotel, evicted so illegal immigrants could be housed instead. Raised my blood pressure (which can ill afford it) and irritated a good chunk of our target demographic, I’m sure. Only […]
AF adds jammer to Reaper
As an old EW guy I gotta tell you – I think the Air Force is hitting a home run here. They have announced putting an ALQ-167 jammer into an MQ-9A Reaper drone. The successful trials at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, focused on providing electronic attack from the Reaper, a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems […]
Durham Report, FBI ignored contrary evidence during Crossfire Hurricane
The FBI launched “Crossfire Hurricane” to look into claimed connections between Russian actors and members of Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2016. The Durham Report described the FBI as failing in its duties involving proper critical vetting of information that they received related to Crossfire Hurricane. The Durham Report addresses the Clinton Plan intelligence, the […]
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