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Monday update

| February 24, 2025 | 54 Comments
Monday update

By reader request from Hack Stone, here’s a bit more on  everyone’s Georgian gap-toothed porker perennial candidate. The EPA reports that it had $20,000,000,000 to give away. Eight entities controlling a twenty billion taxpayer giveaway, no strings attached (other than presumably some sort of environmental connection.) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently made a revelation […]

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Money for … well, seemingly everyone.

| February 22, 2025 | 28 Comments
Money for … well, seemingly everyone.

Yeah, a good way to fire up the weekend. I get the general sense that Health and Human Services may not be one of our favorite government agencies – it may have once had a narrowly focused mission with clear-cut goals of helping Americans, but like the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and many other things, it has […]

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A federal judge doesn’t believe that transgenders would negatively impact the military

| February 19, 2025 | 48 Comments
A federal judge doesn’t believe that transgenders would negatively impact the military

Donald Trump’s executive order regarding transgendered personnel is in front of a U.S. district judge. The judge, Ana Reyes, appears skeptical of the executive order’s intent. Reyes pointed to the less than 1% of the military service members, who use a different pronoun, and argued that these service members would not impact the military. She […]

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Sick Lame or Lazy? Air Force Recruiting- There’s a Waiver For That

| December 19, 2024 | 85 Comments
Sick Lame or Lazy? Air Force Recruiting- There’s a Waiver For That

Aim High…With Waivers Air Force expands waivers for recruits with asthma, food allergies By Riley Ceder The Air Force has expanded medical waivers to cover asthma, food allergies and hearing loss in an effort to boost recruitment, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine. The Air Force Recruiting Service’s Accessions Medical Waiver Division decided to […]

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Self-delusion on two legs: Anthony Blinken

| December 13, 2024 | 20 Comments
Self-delusion on two legs: Anthony Blinken

Or maybe self-righteousness? Anthony Blinken, our Secretary of State, defended the Biden administration’s action in Afghanistan…the Washington Times says it “didn’t  go too bad.” Yep, that’s the bar we all aspire to – “Joe Biden: The Inferiorily Mediocre Administration.” “I firmly believe the president’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was the right one,” he told […]

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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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