“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Hypocrisy? Or idiocy? So hard to tell…
Got a few headshakers today. Kind of a Chesty Puller day, so many targets we’re surrounded. Got ’em right where we want ’em. Let’s open up with one of our favorites, Jasmine Crockett. Ms. Crockett likes to talk of her ‘street’ cred, which given her high-dollar upbringing in posh St. Louis schools is a bit […]
Acquisition news
Some stories on military acquisitions struck me. Not surprisingly, at the top of the heap are drones – lots and lots of drones. The Pentagon has created a new program to spend $1 billion over the next two years to buy hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones for the military. Dubbed the Drone […]
Tuesday Follow-ups
Zachary Young, the Navy vet who took CNN to the woodpile over their reporting of his actions during the botched Afghan withdrawal, is back in the news. He sued, but had his suit dismissed, against AP for saying he “smuggled” people out of Afghanistan, as “smuggling people” is a highly pejorative term nowadays. That […]
Navy- LCS Lesson Learned?
Constellation Class Frigate US Navy nixes Constellation frigate program after two ships half-built By Tom Kington ROME — The US Navy is cancelling its Constellation frigate program following months of cost overruns and delays but plans to keep two vessels that are already being built in Wisconsin. “We’re reshaping how we build and field the […]
Wednesday shorts
Yep, tomorrow is tryptophan day. Well, it’s thought of as such – but it turns out that is an urban legend and turkey doesn’t put you to sleep. I may, but not the turkey. The sleepy feeling is basically overeating causing your blood sugar to go a little nuts. Leading into the holiday: The Muslim […]
Censure fever
The government is back to work, and lawmakers are busy – attacking each other. While on the surface, this keeps them messing up other things, it also means they are spending a lot of time not doing what they are supposed to. The perfect example of a mixed blessing, I guess. Not a good look […]
Following the Science – or Not
Two parter today. Part one is all about an old human-ancestor skull. Old, as in REAL old – recent analysis suggests it is not only the oldest skull known, but that the human race is twice as old as previously thought, 1,300,000 years old. Gee, you’d think we’d have learned something useful by now. The […]
Francis Scott Key Bridge update
You should recall this case – in March 2024 a cargo ship lost power, drifted into the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, totalling the bridge and killing six workers on the bridge. We’ve had bad luck with mid-Atlantic coast bridges – this May the tall ship Cuauhtémoc drifted into the Brooklyn Bridge, fortunately […]
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