“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Navy- LCS Lesson Learned?
Constellation Class Frigate US Navy nixes Constellation frigate program after two ships half-built By Tom Kington ROME — The US Navy is cancelling its Constellation frigate program following months of cost overruns and delays but plans to keep two vessels that are already being built in Wisconsin. “We’re reshaping how we build and field the […]
Wednesday shorts
Yep, tomorrow is tryptophan day. Well, it’s thought of as such – but it turns out that is an urban legend and turkey doesn’t put you to sleep. I may, but not the turkey. The sleepy feeling is basically overeating causing your blood sugar to go a little nuts. Leading into the holiday: The Muslim […]
Censure fever
The government is back to work, and lawmakers are busy – attacking each other. While on the surface, this keeps them messing up other things, it also means they are spending a lot of time not doing what they are supposed to. The perfect example of a mixed blessing, I guess. Not a good look […]
Following the Science – or Not
Two parter today. Part one is all about an old human-ancestor skull. Old, as in REAL old – recent analysis suggests it is not only the oldest skull known, but that the human race is twice as old as previously thought, 1,300,000 years old. Gee, you’d think we’d have learned something useful by now. The […]
Francis Scott Key Bridge update
You should recall this case – in March 2024 a cargo ship lost power, drifted into the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, totalling the bridge and killing six workers on the bridge. We’ve had bad luck with mid-Atlantic coast bridges – this May the tall ship Cuauhtémoc drifted into the Brooklyn Bridge, fortunately […]
Army going nukular
Ah, the old days when Jimmy Carter had been a nuclear officer but couldn’t even pronounce it. Well, the Army is getting into the nuclear business. Not with ‘special weapons’ (somewhere I have a photo of a Special Weapons transport truck driving by some clueless German anti-nuke demonstrators) although some of the heavy arty […]
Quick update down South
As we have been hearing, the current administration is taking a MUCH harder stance on South American drug smugglers. To date, 20 drug smuggling boats (so they say) have been sunk. The attack brings the total number of people killed by the US military’s strikes on the alleged drug boats to 80. CNN has reported […]
Shutdown and Money
We’d better hope the pols in DC get their acts together. An update on the Defense Commissary Agency (DECA): Some military leaders are telling their troops to prepare for their on-base commissaries to close by early December if the government shutdown continues. As many as 168 locations at bases across the continental U.S. could be […]
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