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Navy shipbuilding woes

| September 23, 2024 | 45 Comments
Navy shipbuilding woes

Let’s pick on the Navy. Barely able to squeak out enough crew to man/person/whatever the total ships they have, the Navy’s build programs all show one consistency. They’re late and over budget.  First up, submarines – the Virginia-class boats are currently building 1.3 a year versus projected needs of 2 a year. And that doesn’t […]

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Private that defected to North Korea gets time served, and the Navy solves their retention issues

| September 22, 2024 | 52 Comments
Private that defected to North Korea gets time served, and the Navy solves their retention issues

You’ll remember Travis King, soon to be formerly a private in the US Army, was the boneheaded turd that was supposed to be escorted to the airport to fly back to the states from South Korea. As I recall he was being chaptered out. Somehow he slipped his guard, snuck into a tour group visiting […]

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Chicago schools: Pass, amigo

| September 21, 2024 | 37 Comments
Chicago schools: Pass, amigo

WGN News Chicago reports that multiple public schools have reported that they have been instructed to pass immigrant kids without regard to how well they do or don’t do in school. Note that Chicago has some of  the highest-spending school districts in the country – so where is the education money being spent? Chicago Public […]

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Tuesday tidbits

| September 17, 2024 | 57 Comments
Tuesday tidbits

Mucho controversy over Springfield, OHs overstock of Haitian refugees. No, no one credible alleges they are stealing Fido and Puss-puss to make breakfast (maybe a few ducks or swans allegedly missing but no one sleeps with their pet swan. We,, you wouldn’t think so, but with more genders appearing daily, who know if eiderborking is […]

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Friday short takes – Kamala adviser, Kochul adviser, HPE, and the running dirtbag

| September 6, 2024 | 32 Comments
Friday short takes – Kamala adviser, Kochul adviser, HPE, and the running dirtbag

Kamala has hire a new senior advisor, Rev. Jennifer Butler, to court people of faith onto the Harris-Walz ticket. But: “The many-headed beasts reveal the corruption of the imperial system around us. The imperial cult of the United States of America, whose stock market booms while unemployment skyrockets, had numbed many of us to our […]

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Wednesday updates

| September 4, 2024 | 5 Comments
Wednesday updates

Came on to read all the morning good stuff and find my scheduled column didn’t drop….damn. Better late than never!   Remember the Navy ship commander who was famously photographed on his fantail firing an M-4 with the scope rear mounted forward? The image brought the Navy considerable ridicule on social media. The San Diego […]

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Wednesday short takes – Mass school buses and rockets

| August 28, 2024 | 21 Comments
Wednesday short takes – Mass school buses and rockets

Let’s get the old blood pressure up, shall we? Fox has an article headlining a license-less woman who is unable to get her kid on a bus to school and can’t afford to Uber him dozensof  times a week. The school district says it is unable to provide busing from more than K-6 grades to […]

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The Navy’s turn

| August 27, 2024 | 27 Comments
The Navy’s turn

Well, my other post today talked about how three Army vessels sent to the Med to support the Hamas pier have to thumb a ride home. Like a clapped out Yugo, seems their craft are not seaworthy enough to be trusted to make it home. Well, might not entirely be the Army’s fault they have […]

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