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Fan favorites in the news

| March 2, 2023 | 38 Comments
Fan favorites in the news

Sam Brinton, he of the mustache/dress and luggage theft fixation, is stepping up to the big leagues. After Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin heard about his exploits and realized that some of the fashions he was wearing matched ones in a suitcase she had had stolen from a Washington flight, she complained to Delta and […]

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AF grounds -135 fleet over minor flaw

| February 20, 2023 | 20 Comments
AF grounds -135 fleet over minor flaw

  yeah, seems the tail, aka the “vertical stabilizer” for we earth-bound types, can literally fall off the airplane. Not something I am guessing you want to have happen in mid-flight, eh? Did I say ‘Minor flaw’? I lied. Air Force Materiel Command, which does logistics support for the service, said in a press release […]

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Thursday short takes

| February 16, 2023 | 42 Comments
Thursday short takes

Some days it’s a struggle to find something to write about, some days there are so many you just have to go with summaries. First up on our list is Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s own Beetlejuice, who says: “Everyone in our city deserves to be safe because they are safe,” she said Thursday. What have we […]

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Army now has an MOS for full time military rappers

| February 9, 2023 | 55 Comments
Army now has an MOS for full time military rappers

We have full time military bands, Esports teams (they play video games competitively), and various other “recruiting” tools. Now the US Army has two guys on active duty who are rapping. “Finally” says the author of the report. As if there was a critical shortage of dope flows in our nation’s defense. Military Times has […]

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More on ‘the balloon’

| February 4, 2023 | 50 Comments
More on ‘the balloon’

  Well, the country is atwitter over the Chinese “weather” balloon floating over the heartland of the United States. Leaving behind whether it should have been shot down as soon as it crossed the coast – why not? Worrying about a potential crash debris problem must have been an excuse invented by PINO Joe, no […]

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A Modest Proposal II

| February 3, 2023 | 10 Comments
A Modest Proposal II

One of the unicorns of the gun-grabbing left is “universal background checks” – they want every gun transaction to have to be pre-approved by the government. They couch their version as a “gun safety” proposal to limit bad folks from getting  guns. Sort of like how the Brady bill was supposed to do it, and […]

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New Army personnel system working as expected

| January 31, 2023 | 26 Comments
New Army personnel system working as expected

Let’s be clear about this…”working as expected” if you’ve spent maybe 50 years watching how ‘well’ Army personnel systems work. Working well from an objective, “gets the job done efficiently and well in a timely manner version of ‘well’?” Uh, no, not so much. The outage, which is preventing the Army from issuing DD-214 discharge […]

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Short take Monday – Mikey, Lindh, NIH

| January 30, 2023 | 15 Comments
Short take Monday – Mikey, Lindh, NIH

The US Merchant Marine Academy has covered up a large painting of Jesus walking on water after a complaint from Mikey Weinstein’s Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Weinstein claimed the painting of Jesus “clearly projects the sectarian supremacy of Jesus Christ in some sort of obvious ocean rescue scenario for what appears to be distressed mariners […]

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