Archive for July 7th, 2019
Batter-brained IHOP can kiss my bucks goodbye
Our own Poetrooper is back, opining on expendable income and where he chooses to spend it. Seems the list of no-goes has expanded, and in his gentle, subtle way he shares his reasoning with us. Poe: I don’t go out of my way to determine the political affinities of establishments where I spend my consumer […]
Two Birds, One Stone
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An Army diver with the 569th Engineer Dive Detachment surfaces after doing an inspection during training at the Port of Tacoma, Wash., in 2016. (Spc. Adeline Witherspoon, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) The Army’s dive teams have been presented with a new mission, one that makes a bucketload of common sense. They need purpose-oriented […]
Army Revives Antiques
That sounds like Big Army is bringing back horse-drawn field artillery, doesn’t it? Well, not quite. The Army is reviving some of the weapons systems it discarded in favor of newer, more ‘glamorous’ stuff, upgrading the old with new materials and functions and training incoming troops to use MANPADS, which the newbies have never heard […]
They Need Their Own Planet
The morons styling themselves Extinction Rebellion are making threats to disrupt commercial air traffic at Heathrow with drones. The effect of a standard drone is in the video. If any of you remember the crash of the Concorde, it was caused by a small piece of debris that was missed by the runway cleaners, which […]
Another Three Return
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel. From World War II Pfc Kenneth W. Likens, USMC Reserve, assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, was lost on Tarawa on 22 November 1943. He was accounted for on 26 June 2019. From Korea SGT […]
Boomer’s Sunday
The best and latest of the ‘toons Boomer sends me. I wade through them and pick the top ten (or so) to post for your enjoyment. That they are unabashedly right wing is a given, but I’ll certainly give thought to differing opinions. After all, they have to start with a bit of truth to […]
Sunday Feel Good Stories
Fayetteville man arrested after shooting home invasion suspect By Gilbert Baez A Fayetteville man was being held Friday at the Cumberland County jail after he shot and wounded a man who he claims barged into his house earlier this week during a home invasion that went awry. Mack Jones appeared in District Court Friday as […]
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