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Army vet/tunesmith Bacharach, 94, dies
Burt Bacharach, multiple Grammy and Oscar winner, died of natural causes Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 94. Bacharach was a Kansas City boy who attended the music conservatory at MacGill in Montreal. Drafted in the late ’40s, once officers learned of his musical talents he wound up in Germany working on […]
The Festival of John Moses Browning
Today we celebrate the birthday of John Moses Browning, and his Gospel. Sit you down and harken. The Holy Gospel of JMB As translated from the original ancient manuscripts by Friar Frog. 1) In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pistol, and it was good. And behold the Lord said, “Thou […]
Culture Wars
I think my very first WTFO moment was when The Navy, in its unfathomable wisdom, decided the 0.0-4.0 evaluation ranking scale was demeaning, and changed the criteria to 1.0-5.0. Untold lost man-hours and tax dollars expended to essentially affect nothing but someone’s amorphous “feelings” about being quite correctly labeled a zero. Things have gone downhill […]
Skeet, With Prizes
The Good Idea Fairy is back, at least at Walmart. Walmart drone delivery launches in Florida, Texas, Arizona markets Cities include Tampa and Orlando, Florida; Phoenix and the Dallas-area By Daniella Genovese For the first time ever, some Walmart customers in Florida, Texas and Arizona will be able to have their packages delivered by drone. […]
State U wants YOU…r bets
According to the New York Times, multiple US universities have partnered with on-line sports betting companies and at least a dozen have signed deals with brick-and-mortar casinos. The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) says researchers estimate about three-quarters of college students gambled in the past year, and 6% have a gambling problem. In 2018, […]
Secret Service hard on Hertz
Seems Biden spent Thanksgiving on Nantucket. Nothing unusual there, nor is it that unusual that the Secret Service rented SUVs. However: The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage first obtained by the Nantucket […]
Shootings update
The Army Times reports that hero Richard Fierro was joined at the Q Nightclub in subduing that Colorado Springs shooter by a Navy petty officer, Thomas James in whacking the dogsnot out of the gunman. James is described as a U.S. Navy information systems technician stationed at the Defense Intelligence Agency base in Colorado Springs. […]
Veteran’s Day
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 making it an annual observance, and it became a national holiday in 1938. Sixteen years later, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name to Veterans Day to […]
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