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Bridge collapses at inopportune time
While officials were gathered to officially open a foot-bridge in Kinshasa, Congo Monday, the bridge collapsed. During the ribbon-cutting. When the structure gave out, the woman who cut the ribbon was seen clutching a man in a suit who had been holding the ribbon for her. Two other men immediately rushed to her aid to […]
Quick updates
Want to know why I am pretty sure a recklessly careless killer will face few criminal consequences? No real updated info on Alec Baldwin, but a quick Google search for the phrase “probation for manslaughter” turned up 4,440,000 hits. Unless it turns out he was staggering drunk, I’m predicting he will do little if any […]
Run Leonard, Run!
“Fat Leonard” Francis A scant three weeks before facing sentence in a Federal District Court, Malaysian contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, known as Fat Leonard cut his monitor and slipped away from house arrest. He was cooperating with prosecutors on his orchestration of the largest corruption scandal in US Navy history. Security at Fat Leonard’s place […]
VA to begin offering abortions in cases of rape/health risks to veteran
The Supreme Courth overturned Roe v. Wade, so Department of Veteran’s Affairs has announced they will begin offering abortions to select veterans and dependents. Huh? The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer abortion access to veterans and eligible dependents in cases of rape, incest and pregnancies that endanger the life or health of an […]
Everyone wants to work for DHS. Or not.
Homeland Security is reporting problems filling their Cyber Talent pool via their Cybersecurity Talent Management System. They are supposed to fill 150 slots by then end of the fiscal year. As of this writing, they have filled four. Yep, four. One issue facing the department is a mismatch between the entry-level candidates who want to […]
Navy looking for a few good … thumbs
In an outreach effort to reach out to potential gamer recruits, the Navy is actively seeking gamers to join its esports team. Navy officials are hoping its esports team — Goats and Glory, a part of the service’s recruiting command — will be one small part of a solution to attract a younger audience. “Centennials […]
NJ VA home Covid death suits
Lawsuits filed over the high number of deaths at two NJ VA homes are showing how bad decisions by unqualified people killed off hundreds of patients. One nurse at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial at Menlo Park …went to Walmart to buy fabric to make her own (mask), she was threatened that “there could be […]
Ft. Bragg barracks update
Well, the solution is….well, they haven’t figured one out yet. Two weeks ago, after an inspection by SMA Grinston, Ft. Bragg was ordered to re-house 1200 soldiers living in the Smoke Bomb barracks due to excessive mold from leaking “mid-20th-century” A/C systems. Ft. Bragg says it would cost more to fix the A/Cs than to […]
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