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Think before you get on that Army chopper in the future

| January 25, 2023 | 52 Comments
Think before you get on that Army chopper in the future

Apparently the Army is now OK with letting cheaters get their wings and fly multi-million dollar aircraft. Is there some shortage of applicants for flight school now? If I lose a few years and a couple stone in weight I’ll go! From Army Times; Flight school cheating ring ends in second chances for hopeful pilots […]

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Joe, Sheila… and then there’s SanFran sans Nan

| January 17, 2023 | 71 Comments
Joe,  Sheila… and then there’s SanFran sans Nan

Been a good day for political stupid. In the first item, Mr. Gun Expert Joe Biden weighed in on police shootings, questioning why they don’t just shoot for the leg or some such. “Instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg,” […]

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Remember the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

| January 14, 2023 | 21 Comments
Remember the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

Once upon a time, long,  long ago in a country almost forgotten, wise leaders in that oil-using place decided that having some emergency supplies of usable oil was a good idea. Gee, what a good idea! Then, the new leader of that then-oil-independent country decided to turn them oil-import-dependent, so he killed permitting for a […]

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Get woke, fly safer, right?

| January 14, 2023 | 22 Comments
Get woke, fly safer, right?

Hopefully none of our DWs and DWettes were flying Wednesday when virtually all continental air traffic was shut down or the first time since 9/11 by “serious FAA system failures”. In December 2021, the FAA, under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, changed the “Notice to Airman” (NOTAM) to “Notice to Air Missions” — preserving the same […]

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Scratching his wife’s fleas

| January 12, 2023 | 5 Comments
Scratching his wife’s fleas

This year should be a banner year for the Manchins. Joe is comfortably in office, and his wife gets to oversee $1,200,000,000 her hubby helped bring to the table. West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III backed the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill in December which included a $200 million increase in funding for a […]

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FBI RAIDS BIDEN HOUSES! HOUSE CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT! DEATH PENALTY PROPOSED FOR BIDEN!

| January 10, 2023 | 35 Comments
FBI RAIDS BIDEN HOUSES! HOUSE CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT! DEATH PENALTY PROPOSED FOR BIDEN!

  In an astonishing turn of headline-dominating events, classified documents dating from President Biden’s term as Vice-Preisdent were found in office space he used to use when a figurehead publicity ploy to funnel dark money to an old pol visiting professor at Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. House Democrats were especially enraged, […]

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Korean War Memorial. Get it right!

| January 10, 2023 | 15 Comments
Korean War Memorial. Get it right!

36, 634 names are etched into $22,000,000 worth of black marble slabs added as part of the Korean War Memorial. Two historians named Barker in Dallas estimate that there are over 1,000 spelling errors, 245 people who should not be there, and that there are another 500 or so who should be on there but […]

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Habemas Papam… well, Speaker

| January 7, 2023 | 27 Comments
Habemas Papam… well, Speaker

Finaly, after 15 rounds, the election for Speaker of the House is over. Kevin McCarthy,, California’s biggest GOP fundraiser, was elected late Friday night after s slew of previous hold-outs from the rightist Freeedom Caucus decided to vote for him. One of his first acts was to swear in all the Congresscritters Saturday at oh-dark-thirty […]

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