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Tuesday tidbits

| September 24, 2024 | 30 Comments
Tuesday tidbits

Oh no! A staple in years past of PCSing folks, Motel 6 is being sold to an Indian (dot, not feather) group. The budget motel chain Motel 6 is being acquired by the parent company of Oyo, a hotel operator based in India. The New York-based investment firm Blackstone, which owns Motel 6’s parent company […]

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Stupid people of the week

| September 21, 2024 | 22 Comments
Stupid people of the week

My cup runneth over this week with stupid. Auto theft suspect allegedly tries to sell a moped back to original owner An Evansville man is facing auto theft charges when he allegedly tried to sell a stolen moped back to the original owner. Evansville Police say the victim was in contact with Charles Connolly on […]

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Locomotive Friday

| September 20, 2024 | 11 Comments
Locomotive Friday

UP’s famous Big Boy is making a sweep around middle America, and I was fortunate enough to see it. It was four hours late (ain’t that like a railroad!) due to issues with other trains with higher priorities, but despite the wait, was impressive as could be wished for. First, a few facts: The locomotive […]

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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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ISIS Redux

| August 31, 2024 | 15 Comments
ISIS Redux

US, Iraq team up to kill 15 ISIS operatives in early morning raid, US military says The US military said that the operatives were armed with weapons, grenades and ‘suicide’ belts Sarah Rumpf-Whitten A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, the U.S. military […]

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Naughty Navy Admonished. Again.

| August 16, 2024 | 15 Comments
Naughty Navy Admonished. Again.

E-6B Mercury Airborne Strategic Command Post Navy tells aircrews to question ‘inappropriate’ call signs after lewd flight name One of the Navy’s ‘Doomsday’ planes was assigned an unintentionally lewd call sign for a recent flight by an automated process, officials said. The crew changed it over Texas. Jeff Schogol The Navy is telling its aircrews […]

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Walzing Into Audit Hell

| August 11, 2024 | 32 Comments
Walzing Into Audit Hell

Our main ninja, who is a licensed private investigator, has spent the last two days responding to an audit, complete with compiling research and justification for recent inquiries to a private investigation database. What prompted this audit, you may or may not ask? 1) Phone number inquiry – This was to an FBI field office […]

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Texas Ranger rehired post Uvalde firing

| August 7, 2024 | 20 Comments
Texas Ranger rehired post Uvalde firing

  Christopher Ryan Kindall was rehired by the Texas Department of Public Safety (that’s our Highway Patrol, y’all) after being let go due to the Uvalde shooting. Kindell was suspended in October 2022 and the department had moved to terminate him in January 2023. “I have decided to alter my preliminary decision based upon a […]

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