Archive for January, 2012

So why are you telling ME?

| January 27, 2012 | 37 Comments
So why are you telling ME?

So I get this email from the Obama 2012 campaign telling me about a tax deduction that corporations get for outsourcing jobs overseas. Jonn — Here’s something that President Obama laid out in his State of the Union that I think deserves special attention: Under current law, American companies can actually get a tax deduction […]

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Are “Doomsday Preppers” Just Paranoid Nuts?

| January 27, 2012 | 20 Comments
Are “Doomsday Preppers” Just Paranoid Nuts?

So The National Geographic Channel is about to premiere Doomsday Preppers to the world. Long a rather quiet subculture it will be fascinating to see what kind of attention this exposure will bring. I should note here that I have been a survivalist (the OLD name) for quite some time. If some television producer asked ME to […]

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Pointless, dimbulb terrorist pleads guilty

| January 27, 2012 | 5 Comments
Pointless, dimbulb terrorist pleads guilty

This is the video that Yonathan Melaku, the stupidest terrorist on the face of the earth took of himself as he drove by and shot at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Melaku pleaded guilty to three counts of terrorism in his one-man campaign of “fear and terror,” according to federal prosecutors. The Washington […]

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Back to the future

| January 27, 2012 | 28 Comments
Back to the future

Leon Panetta unfurled his plan for slashing defense spending yesterday. I got the feeling that we are now in the post-Korean War era, with Eisenhower touting the “bigger bang for the buck” strategy of relying on our nuclear dominance for our defense. Except now Panetta thinks that relying on our technological dominance is the cure-all […]

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Video of Zoomies beating their girlfriends investigated by OSI

| January 27, 2012 | 12 Comments
Video of Zoomies beating their girlfriends investigated by OSI

According to Stars & Stripes, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) has taken over the investigation of the video you guys have been emailing me for a week. Initially, the Army was investigating until it was determined that the members of the military who were abusing the sheep were wearing Air Force uniforms. […]

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Dog Collar SF soldier

| January 26, 2012 | 26 Comments
Dog Collar SF soldier

ROS sent us this link to an article I’ve seen around the internet about a guy named Michael Lee Mitchell near Eglin AFB who was arrested for using an electric dog collar on his two small girls. Michael Lee Mitchell, 28 — an Army Special Forces soldier living in Crestview — was arrested this week […]

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Police face “special risks” from Vets

| January 26, 2012 | 46 Comments
Police face “special risks” from Vets

Yeah, this is getting out of control. The Australian publication, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that “Troubled veterans pose special risk for US police” (apparently it was reprinted from the LA Times, but I can’t find that one); The Department of Justice, which is developing the program, said there was an ”urgent need” to defuse […]

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Their fair share

| January 26, 2012 | 26 Comments
Their fair share

Yeah, you rich Americans are expected to pay your fair share, well, unless you rich Americans work for the Obama White House (Investors’ Business Daily link fixed); A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people […]

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