Usual Suspects
Bob Glaves: Stolen Valor Hurts Everyone
Greg Taylor of the Peninsula Daily News wrote a Point of View article about how Veterans Day is special and he talks about a recent “development” in their community… This summer, the Peninsula Daily News featured a front-page story about a Vietnam veteran riding his motorcycle to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to […]
Three From Ex
US Meets China Russia and Pakistan to Talk Peace in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD — Representatives of Russia, China, the United States and Pakistan have agreed that negotiation is the only road to peace in Afghanistan, including an early resumption of direct U.S. talks with the Taliban. The day-long talks in Moscow on Friday came ahead of […]
Boomer’s Sunday
It’s time once again, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, for Boomer’s Sunday, where I cull through his weekly offering of ‘toons, and pick the best of many. twenty forty fifty so. Honorable Mention goes to my pal AW1 Scott These are from the right, but I am more than willing to post up differing points of view […]
Trial date set for 5 men responsible for 9/11 attacks…
Alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in detention at Guantanamo, in a 2009 file image. (Photo courtesy Jarret Brachman via Miami Herald/TNS) …20 years later in 2021 Hmmmmm…..wonder if the new Sheriff in the White House and his Attorney General has anything to do with the sea-change on board GITMO. From the article: A […]
Hi, Spy!
There is a joint agreement about spy plane flyovers that was in the news. They get to do it to us, but we also get to do it to them. https://wgntv.com/2019/08/14/russian-spy-plane-spotted-flying-over-chicago/ From the WGN article: CHICAGO — Just as Chicagoans were settling into dinner, and the White Sox were in the middle of a doubleheader […]
US Upgrades Ukrainian Ports To Fit American Warships
USS Carney, DDG 64, prepares to go underway in Odesa, Ukraine. Our own Poetrooper sent us an interesting link: seems the US is modifying Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea to better fit US and NATO ships. That these ports are near Russian controlled Crimea is sure to rankle the Russians, who deem the Black […]
The Fourth Amendment…
…to the Constitution of the United States of America. Our own Veritas Omnia Vincit comes through once again. Truth be told I’m in the ‘Feast’ part of the ‘…or Famine’ work cycle and haven’t been able to do much more than the daily FGS. So anyway I blinked hard and thought I saw VOV’s next […]
U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet Aids Tankers After ‘Torpedo Attack’
Seems the Mad Mullahs of Iran are feeling free to cause a little havoc in what they consider “Their” pond. Last month four oil tankers anchored in the Gulf were damaged by what officials described as sabotage, and now this, claimed as a torpedo attack on two more tankers. Iran’s belligerence in the Gulf in […]
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