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I’d Like To Buy a Rocket Ship and Move Them Out To Space….
NASA is having it rough these days, trying to search for astronomical terms that will not offend people, e.g., “dwarf galaxy” meaning smaller than usual galaxy, and Sombrero galaxy, when it does look a lot like a specific style of chapeau. https://thepostmillennial.com/nasa-wants-to-redefine-cosmic-terms-to-avoid-offending-people “The space agency only mentioned the “Eskimo Nebula” and “Siamese Twins Galaxy” in […]
Two former Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuelan raid
thebesig posted about these two back when they were arrested. Airan Berry, 42, and Luke Denman, 34, both former US Army Special Forces veterans with eight deployments to OIF/OEF between them, have now been sentenced to 20 years by a Venezuelan court. Last May they were caught by Venezuelan authorities in a botched raid to […]
A Long-Distance Dedication . . . .
Nothing new from DPAA this week – their only news release concerned a Marine they’d previously identified on their “Recently Accounted For” web page a couple of months ago and included in a “No Longer Missing” article at the time. So I thought I’d provide this instead. This one is dedicated to all those busybody […]
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. Honorable Mention goes to my pals Gerhart, Woke Infidel, AW1 Scott, AW1 Rod, and our own Cameron, Skippy, HMCS(FMF) ret, Poetrooper, Mason, Jeff LPH 3 63-66, thebesig, Keepin’ It Real, and […]
Sunday’s FGS
Sten Mk III Miami man shoots ex-lover armed with stun knuckles Prosecutors ruled that Bernard St. Pierre could not be prosecuted for fatally shooting George Addison, who was armed with “stun-gun knuckles” during a fight in July 2020. He was cleared under Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law. 1 / 0 / 0 Read the […]
Oh, the Irony Of It All….
Back in 1983, before there was even the slightest hint that the Soviet Union was bankrupting itself by trying to annex Afghanistan, we in the Free World lived under the vague threat of instant annihilation by megaton Soviet missiles being launched toward us. The irony is that by 1989, the USSR under Gorbachev had become […]
Update on Sturgis Bike Rally as of 8-8-2020
Photo: Josh Morgan/Rapid City Journal via AP. In this Aug. 5, 2016 file photo, bikers ride down Main Street in downtown Sturgis, S.D., before the 76th Sturgis motorcycle rally officially begins. This one’s for our WOT firster, 5th/77th hisself. It’s the live camera view at Sturgis. https://kstp.com/news/live-video-motorcyclists-begin-to-gather-in-sturgis-south-dakota/5820107/ There are several different camera angles, with the […]
Illinois lawmaker wants to remove history classes
You’d be mistaken for believing that this is an article from The Onion or The Babylon Bee, but this isn’t satire. Sadly. A sitting Illinois state representative, La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) is “calling for the abolishment of history classes in Illinois.” Again, this isn’t a joke. He held a press conference to announce this! Now […]
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