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Katt Williams’ Marine claims questioned
CBS News has a story today about comedian Katt Williams. The funnyman has long claimed to have earned his EGA by finishing Marine boot camp, only to be tossed when they found out he was underage. When CBS asked the Corps for their version of events, they said, “Who?” From CBS; Katt Williams, the Emmy-winning […]
SV accusations in close Senate race in MT
October surprises abound in elections across the country. Will they derail a hopeful’s chance at becoming a millionaire dedicated public servant that wouldn’t dream of insider trading? Here’s hoping we get Congressmen that are actually interested in the public service aspect of the job. A guy can dream, right? Today’s October surprise comes from NBC […]
New Zealand loses first ship since WWII
News sources are reporting that HMNZS Manawanui has run around, caught fire, and sunk off Samoa. Whoopies. Sounds like all the crew and passengers are safe though. This is the first naval vessel lost for the small South Pacific nation since the Second World War. Yahoo! News has the story; A Royal New Zealand Navy […]
Another Trump assassination attempt?
Here we go again. Reports out of West Palm Beach are that shots were fired “in the vicinity” of Trump, who was golfing at his resort there. According to The Independent, not a very Trump-friendly outlet mind you, the target was Trump. That’s if you can believe the media, and who in this day and […]
Israelis take out Shukur, Beirut Marine bomb leader
Twelve Israeli children were killed by an Iranian Falaq rocket only supplied to Hezbollah over the weekend near the Golan Heights. The strike left a crater about 2 yards wide, breaking through the carpet of artificial grass where the children were playing. Around it were scattered burned-out bicycles and scooters, some electric bikes with their […]
Biden to award two MoHs tomorrow
On Wednesday, 3 July, two of Andrews’ Raiders will receive posthumous Medals of Honor for their role in the successful Union raid. Prior to this, Lieutenant (Brevet Lieutenant Colonel) Alonzo Cushing was the Medal of Honor recipient most divorced from the date of action (3 July 1863) and date of award (19 December 2014), at […]
Assange Released
Julian Assange Wikileaks’ creator Julian Assange was wanted by US authorities on espionage charges for publication of hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents supplied by former Army intelligence analyst Bradly Manning in 2010 and 2011. He spent the last five years in an English high security prison after being forced to leave the Ecuadorian […]
Donald Sutherland passes, age 88
We tend not to post articles about the deaths of celebrities unless they were veterans, such as yesterday’s Willie Mays post. Donald Sutherland has passed at the age of 88. Sutherland was a Canadian, and was not a veteran of their military or ours. I am mentioning his death though, because Donald Sutherland played some of the […]
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