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P-8A recovered, Oil, and Gold Bars

| December 7, 2023 | 27 Comments
P-8A recovered, Oil, and Gold Bars

As someone observed in the comments a few days back, the Navy managed to get its wannabe flying boat P8A out of the waters off Kaneohe Bay The plane was floated from where it had come to rest using inflatable airbags and then slowly rolled – sometimes at a pace of just five feet per […]

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Be thankful

| November 23, 2023 | 41 Comments
Be thankful

Happy Thanksgiving to all. It’s a big old goofy world, to quote one of our best songwriters. But there are a lot of things to be thankful for: No matter how weird and seemingly insane some of our fellow citizens are, be thankful we have a pretty much free country in which people CAN disagree. […]

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Oldest Living Woman Marine Honored

| November 11, 2023 | 11 Comments
Oldest Living Woman Marine Honored

104-year-old is oldest living woman Marine, honored as remarkable Veteran Betty Printz Sims, 104, volunteered after Pearl Harbor and served during World War II as a fixed gunnery instructor, teaching men how to shoot while flying, a rare role for women at the time.

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Linguists not cunning

| November 8, 2023 | 14 Comments
Linguists not cunning

The Army Times says  fewer than half of Army and Marine special operations personnel competed any of their mandatory annual.linguistic special training in the last five years. The Government Accountability Office reviewed five years’ worth of data and interviewed various special operators and commanders following a fiscal year 2022 congressional request for a report on […]

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Monday Miscellaneous

| November 6, 2023 | 34 Comments
Monday Miscellaneous

Ah yes, the dawn of a new week. From the TV ads, time to start practicing “Bah, Humbug!” to be sure it snarls appropriately, like am unmuffled Triumph. First up (or down, depending on Willie Brown’s whereabouts) our Vice President showed off her exquisite sense of timing again. Evidently, beside curing the border and walking […]

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A-10 vs. F-35 report released – sorta

| November 3, 2023 | 35 Comments
A-10 vs. F-35 report released – sorta

  OK, let’s make one thing clear: I am a dry-land kinda guy. No amphobious (intentional misspelling) stuff, no higher’n corn, no lower than potato(e)s,  not a wingwipe and could probably barely fly a plane to the scene of the crash. Now we all know the Air Force has been trying to get rid of […]

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The end is nigh!

| October 30, 2023 | 34 Comments
The end is nigh!

I mean the Biblical-style end. End of times, Hell freezing over – you know, the unimaginable. Yes, it’s in process. A task force in San Francisco, California, long the looniest tune on the Left Coast, is doing something sensible. A new task force for San Francisco’s opioid crisis will empower law enforcement to investigate fatal […]

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Nike Launches New Kaepernick Collection

| October 29, 2023 | 39 Comments
Nike Launches New Kaepernick Collection

To be fair, Nike is calling it a “capsule” and not a “collection.” In the parlance of fashion and sports memorabilia, Nike deems “capsule” more appropriate. I’m trying to convey an accurate image to all you knuckle-draggers out there so strip me down naked and beat me with barbed wire if you take exception to […]

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