“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Wednesday Mini-rants
A little DOGE: TSA K-9 bomb sniffer dog units have become the latest victims of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, just as the White House celebrated a national day honoring the heroic animals. Workers at the TSA were informed via email that “new guidance” meant that requests for costs including vet visits, kenneling and […]
Tuesday tidbits
Let’s open with Jack Texeira, the enlisted Air Force kid who posted thousands of pages of classified material for his game=playing buddies to read. He got 15 years for that little trick last fall – but he’s back. Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information […]
Vets – “not fit to have a job”? and Covid update
White House adviser Alena Habba stuck her foot right in it when she was asked about the thousands of people, many of whom are vets, who have lost their jobs in DOGE-led firings. Habba defended the cuts and said she had no sympathy for the thousands of people who have lost their jobs. “I […]
Confused? You Should Be.
Doubling down on re-naming US. Army posts BACK to the names we are familiar with, SecDef Hegseth has re-named Ft. Moore to Ft. Benning. “The Army awarded CPL Benning the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in action south of Exermont, France, on October 9, 1918,” read a memo signed by Hegseth directing the […]
Dems oppose Fentanyl restrictions
Loopholes in US law which enable fentanyl smuggling should be closed, right? With 74,000 people killed by fentanyl last year, seems like a no-brainer. Unless you have a D after your name, apparently. Democrats in Congress are facing backlash for their opposition to bipartisan legislation aimed at closing loopholes in U.S. drug laws taken advantage […]
Political Friday
Opening with some good news – our favorite Chicago-area mayor, Tiffany Henyard, is gonna be gone. The incumbent and embattled Henyard lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary to Trustee Jason House by a landslide, with House winning nearly 90% of the vote. Ms. Henyard, you may recall, is the mayor who spent literally millions against a small […]
I worry a bit
The first month of the second Trump administration has certainly been momentous, hasn’t it? Lots of sweeping financial cuts floated, lots of governmental layoffs, lots of action on immigration… but maybe we know to slow our roll a little. These widespread government worker layoffs and firings have all the marks of the Good Idea Fairy. […]
Let them eat cake!
Better take your blood pressure meds… I know mine were insufficient. We all know how BAS is supposed to work, right? You live in the barracks, you eat in the chow halls free – because you have ‘the card’. Now, you pay for the card – it costs your monthly BAS payment but you should […]
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