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Saturday Smoke

| January 18, 2025 | 65 Comments
Saturday Smoke

Or not, if Biden has his way. The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a significant new step on Wednesday that would effectively ban cigarettes currently on the market in favor of those with lower levels of nicotine. Kiss those traditional  Marlboros and Winstons good bye… the he-man’s cigarette of choice is gonna […]

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Wednesday follow-ups. Red dots, destroyers, Sabotage, Mangione, Kavanaugh

| January 15, 2025 | 15 Comments
Wednesday follow-ups. Red dots, destroyers, Sabotage, Mangione, Kavanaugh

  Gotta love it – the Sig-Sauer Romeo, one of the most popular red-dot sights, mostly used on pistols,  is facing a mandatory recall from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Why? CPSC says that because the button cell batteries can currently be easily accessed, it poses an ingestion hazard which can cause serious injuries, […]

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Christmas Eve Updates

| December 24, 2024 | 34 Comments
Christmas Eve Updates

Start with 81-year old Kay Granger (R- Dallas). She hasn’t cast a vote in Congress since July this year, and according to the Dallas Express, she is living at a care home dealing with dementia issues. And beginning in January 2023 she spent more than a year as the chairperson of the powerful House appropriations […]

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Court stuff

| December 18, 2024 | 49 Comments
Court stuff

Well, the biggest item has to be that Trump’s suit against George Stephanopoulus settled without a trial, and ABC got socked with a cool $15 million which goes to the Trump Library (if and when it gets built. Can Don read?) Trump filed a defamation suit against Stephanopoulos after he asserted that Trump was found […]

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They just approach things differently

| December 17, 2024 | 12 Comments
They just approach things differently

  I keep seeing all these articles on China’s rapidly increasing capabilities. Now, in the past, manufacturers called the Chinese the best thieves on the planet  – not innovators at all, but let a prototype or plan each them and they would “liberate” the designs, and have a version of the product hitting the market […]

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Monday updates

| December 16, 2024 | 40 Comments
Monday updates

Let’s follow up on some stories from the past. First up – thebesig just did a story about some Washington, D.C. area servers and waitstaff who announced their intention to give lousy service to incoming administration people. One laudable result: “I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as […]

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Self-delusion on two legs: Anthony Blinken

| December 13, 2024 | 20 Comments
Self-delusion on two legs: Anthony Blinken

Or maybe self-righteousness? Anthony Blinken, our Secretary of State, defended the Biden administration’s action in Afghanistan…the Washington Times says it “didn’t  go too bad.” Yep, that’s the bar we all aspire to – “Joe Biden: The Inferiorily Mediocre Administration.” “I firmly believe the president’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was the right one,” he told […]

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Monday, Monday… short bits

| December 9, 2024 | 15 Comments
Monday, Monday… short bits

First up, a familiar name from the ’80s – Major General Richard Secord of the Air Force has died, age 92. Major-General Richard Secord, who has died aged 92, was a highly decorated US Air Force bomber pilot who worked with the CIA organising covert operations, directing the only successful rescue of prisoners during the […]

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