“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Friday quickies
Well, we have seen repeatedly that crime doesn’t pay . There are penalties! Like how Jussie Smollett walks on a DA’s blunder, or the Navy guy who has to serve 19 months instead of 125 years, Alec Baldwin’s case – okay, maybe crime only goes with punishment in book titles. Remember in May, the two […]
Saturday Shorts – Iran, Zephyr, Gaetz, DEA
A few quickies for the day: Seems Iran is hiding chunks of its missile programs as civilian companies to evade sanctions. Whoever would have thought sanctions would work… The NCRI is sounding the alarm that at least three companies in Iran, including the Kaveh Mobadel Industrial Co., also known as Kaveh Machinery Co. (KMC), Sanaye […]
Pentagon fails audit. Again.
I am starting to feel like William Proxmire, who annually handed out Golden Fleeces for wasteful government spending. Mid November, the predictable column comes out – the Pentagon failed its audit…again. It’s not like we haven’t noticed ’em before – we even congratulated the Marines for being the first service to pass an audit in […]
Fired FEMA employee says FEMA’s story wrong
Ah, yes, the FEMA supervisor who told employees in Florida to skip Trump-signaged yards. Was quite an uproar after Hurricane Milton over this. FEMA basically denied, denied, denied, and claimed this supervisor was an outlier, doing this on her own, not representative of FEMA policy. The supervisor, Marn’i Washington, was fired by FEMA after outrage […]
Tuesday shorts
OK, folks. Holiday’s over, those of you who glom onto freebies should be well stuffed – back to the grind. In a big, and welcome, win, Judge Stephen McGlynn, a Federal District Court a lower court and declared the Illinois “assault weapons” ban unconstitutional. He banned enforcement of the law as well, but allowed 30 […]
FEMA Ignores Florida Trump Supporters
Report: FEMA Official Instructed Hurricane Relief Workers to Skip Trump Supporters Homes Elizabeth Weibel An official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instructed hurricane relief workers to skip over the homes of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a recent report. Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, reportedly informed hurricane relief workers “verbally and […]
New toys
MBDA, the European defense contractor (part of their MIC, in other words) just announced a new variant on the venerable Exocet anti-ship missile. Sounds like a winner on paper. “It features a doubled range in the class of 120km with a new turbojet engine, to regain the stand-off distance in anti-submarine warfare,” Pierre-Marie Bealleau, head […]
Boeing again
I realized that I really am old when I was telling one of my kids that Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas ruled the skies. Why? Because they pretty much made GREAT product, led the way in aviation (especially commercial aviation) and generally whatever they made, one of those two was the best in class. Nowadays the old […]
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