“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Never-ending repairs… ended
We have mentioned in multiple earlier columns how major refits on Navy ships have been running years behind schedule. While COVID no doubt played a role, it seems that simple lack of shipyards and capacity are more to blame. (I suspect changing specs plays a role too, knowing how government works. “What, we are replacing […]
The Right to Repair
Anyone follow the recent John Deere controversy, in which Big Green/Yellow is supposed to allow folks to fix their own equipment? Buy a Deere, have a problem – and find out it is a factory-only repair, regardless of whether you could make said repair blindfolded and suspended upside down. This one seems to be […]
Hardware Monday
The A-10 just keeps getting better than ever. Seems they are testing refueling A-10s with aerial refueling probes (as opposed to the traditional high-altitude booms.) (First off – there are those of you who really know this topic – and I don’t – so if I make a stupid error, call me on it. My […]
Tuesday tidbits
Seems the DOJ just threw ICE under the bus. We’ve all seen the stories in which someone is arrested at the courthouse where they are attending a government mandated appointment with the judge. Instead of taking a step forward in the process, they find themselves on a plane to elsewhere – like an ICE facility […]
Saturday Shorts
Apparently some form of sanity is infecting the International Olympic Committee. Its President, two-time swimming gold medalist Kirsty Coventry said: “At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat,” Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said in a statement. “So, it is absolutely clear that it […]
As long as we’re there…
Okay, yesterday was about gun stuff. Still a few stories out there to take note of. Anyone remember the National Firearms Act of 1934? That’s the first big Federal gun control bill, which made automatic weapons, silencers, short barreled rifles, etc. unlawful to buy without paying an exorbitant tax ($200 then, worth around $4600 […]
A gun topic or two
The ATF is still trying to say that arm braces on things like rifle caliber pistols makes them short barreled rifles. Guess they can also say why a rifle which reduces muzzle velocity and accuracy makes the rifle more dangerous? Ah, wait, it’s more concealable… which actually accomplishes what? IF someone is bent on […]
Money, Honey
I see an old-time government practice is hitting the news. Not that it is unusual, of course, but because this time a Republican did it, and we all know that is just wrong. It does have a somewhat outrageous aspect to it, though. I refer, of course, to “use it or lose it.” Congress mandates […]
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