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Delta suing over software problems

| October 28, 2024 | 17 Comments
Delta suing over software problems

And, more on the question of software, Delta is suing cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike over its outage last summer which, it claims, caused Delta to cancel over 7,000 flights, and cost the company $500,000,000. The airline is asking for compensation and punitive damages from the outage, which started with a faulty update sent to several million […]

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Columbus Day shorts, aka Monday Morsels

| October 14, 2024 | 28 Comments
Columbus Day shorts, aka Monday Morsels

Been almost a week since the news hit that potential First Gentleman Doug Emhoff smacked his lady friend around in Cannes back before he was married to Kamala. One would expect a media firestorm over it… after all, Justice Kavanaugh got grilled heavily over his behavior while still a teenager, right? Let’s be honest…since TAH […]

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Big wins for the Anti-Pronoun crowd

| October 11, 2024 | 13 Comments
Big wins for the Anti-Pronoun crowd

The school district insisted that the teacher address a student by their desired pronouns. He refused, and they fired him. The Virginia-based West Point School Board agreed to pay a former high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, $575,000 in damages and attorney’s fees after he refused to call a transgender student by their preferred pronouns. The […]

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Private that defected to North Korea gets time served, and the Navy solves their retention issues

| September 22, 2024 | 52 Comments
Private that defected to North Korea gets time served, and the Navy solves their retention issues

You’ll remember Travis King, soon to be formerly a private in the US Army, was the boneheaded turd that was supposed to be escorted to the airport to fly back to the states from South Korea. As I recall he was being chaptered out. Somehow he slipped his guard, snuck into a tour group visiting […]

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Friday short takes – Kamala adviser, Kochul adviser, HPE, and the running dirtbag

| September 6, 2024 | 32 Comments
Friday short takes – Kamala adviser, Kochul adviser, HPE, and the running dirtbag

Kamala has hire a new senior advisor, Rev. Jennifer Butler, to court people of faith onto the Harris-Walz ticket. But: “The many-headed beasts reveal the corruption of the imperial system around us. The imperial cult of the United States of America, whose stock market booms while unemployment skyrockets, had numbed many of us to our […]

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Scathing report indicts LCS’s entire Chief’s Mess in WiFi scandal

| September 4, 2024 | 93 Comments
Scathing report indicts LCS’s entire Chief’s Mess in WiFi scandal

A while back, in one of my Stupid people of the week features, I mentioned the above pictured sailor. In June she was convicted at court martial and reduced in grade to E-7 for installing and utilizing an unauthorized WiFi set up while her ship (USS Manchester [LCS-14]) was under way. Her bio indicates she has […]

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Monday Bottomless Briefs

| August 19, 2024 | 46 Comments
Monday Bottomless Briefs

First up, the Navy has a draft problem. No, not that they need to institute one –  their sailors are about to FEEL one. Specifically, service officials confirmed Friday that pants for the Navy Working Uniform, or NWU, the go-to uniform for most sailors, are out of stock at Navy Exchanges. Courtney Williams, a spokeswoman […]

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Kamala puffery gets silly

| July 30, 2024 | 30 Comments
Kamala puffery gets silly

As thebesig mentioned last week, the media is rallying around the presumptive Dem candidate, Kamala Harris. One of their first campaigns is to deny that she was ever the “border czar” despite the White House having put her in over-all charge of finding a solution to the border flood of illegals. Here’s an example from […]

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