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Heavy US Gov’t influencers anti-fossil fuel group in Chinese pocket
Fox News reports that a major influencer of US energy policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, is an anti-fossil fuel group with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. They sued the Trump administration multiple times, excoriate fossil-fuel use, the Keystone XL pipeline – basically if it is fossil related, they’re agin’ it. Unless, of […]
Biden Apologizes
Here’s a good memory test for you: see the above photo? Remember when the Border Patrol was accused of whipping Haitian immigrants with the reins of their horses? It’s been a year. On Sept. 24, 2021, Biden spoke out days after an incident amid the Haitian migrant crisis in Del Rio. Border Patrol agents had […]
Some good news for a change!
Vet Suicide rate dips It isn’t a final solution, but it is encouraging that the suicide rate for veterans dropped for 2020, down to about 17 a day in the most recent year for which data has been compiled. That is still a suicide rate roughly double that of our civilian brethren, but the decrease […]
Bribery and Corruption on the Red River
Two vendors to the Red River Army Depot, Jeffrey Harrison, 44, and Justin Bishop, 52, were convicted of submitting false bids and bribery to the equipment mechanic supervisor at RRAD, Jimmy Scarbrough, 69, and two others. Harrison was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $300,000. Bishop was sentenced to 12 […]
And you thought Iron Man and Starship Troopers were just movies
There are multiple articles out about the new Rostec body armor, which they say “will stop .50 BMG bullets”! They mean .50 BMG from our beloved Ma Deuce, the longest serving machine gun in history, designed late in WWI, adopted in 1933, and still in enthusiastic use today. While Rostec’s official release was vague regarding […]
F-16 pilot’s widow sues AF over counterfeit ejection seat parts
We talked about Lieutenant David Schmitz a while back when he tragically died in an F-16 accident. You’ll recall he crashed while on a nighttime aerial refueling training exercise (his first ever AR operation for some reason). As we discussed earlier, there was a cascade of failures, any one of which might have saved the […]
More quick updates
Magnet Fishers cleared of charges – three folks made the news magnet fishing near Ft. Stewart recently who pulled up a duffel bag containing 86 rockets, .50 cal ammo belts and a tank tracer round from the river. They were charged by authotities: The group found the ammunition and 86 rockets in a Delta […]
Possible railroad strike looming
Just what we need with the ports starting to limp along – railroad workers and the big train companies are at loggerheads and if they do not agree by 12:01 AM Friday, the workers say they will strike. At midday on Tuesday, Norfolk Southern will stop accepting intermodal cargo: goods that move by combinations of […]
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