Archive for October, 2019
Monday Feel Good Stories
From the Pew Report: Violent crime in the U.S. has fallen sharply over the past quarter century. The two most commonly cited sources of crime statistics in the U.S. both show a substantial decline in the violent crime rate since it peaked in the early 1990s. One is an annual report by the FBI of serious crimes reported […]
No Excuse For It – EVER
The effort track down and try guards at Nazi concentration camps has never stopped. The two incidents below involve men in their 90s who were in their teens when they were at the concentration camp in Stutthoff, which is now Gdansk, in Poland. The articles at the links give the full story on each of […]
Boomer Sunday
It’s another Boomer’s Sunday. Take your pick. You’ll be pleased to know that the UK welfare recipients who style themselves Extinction Rebellion are being sent packing by business owners and other people who have had just about enough of their crap. The videos embedded in the link below say a lot about it, and note […]
Two More Come Home
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel. From World War II 2nd Lt. Earl Ferguson, US Army, assigned to 329th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force, US Army Air Forces, was lost in Romania on 1 August 1943. His accounting was announced on 17 October 2019. Pfc Quentin […]
Sunday Feel Good Stories
It appears that crooks gotta crook, some bank robbers are just not very good at their chosen trade, and murderers sometimes get themselves arrested. A homeless man was accused of robbing a string of banks for the second time in 14 months, police said. https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/homeless-man-arrested-for-second-time-for-bank-robbery/ Spencer Heelan was arrested about an hour after police say he […]
Alfred Mahan, US Navy, Officer and Shipwrecker
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a naval historian, widely regarded as an expert in all things Navy, but he was, in fact, more inept on board a ship than a recruit at Great Mistakes on the first day. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/10/14/alfred-thayer-mahan-and-his-vain-quest-to-keep-ships-straight/ Not only was CAPT Mahan a poor seaman, he was also afraid of being run into and […]
US and Korea to Hold Talks
Korea and US will hold defense talks in Hawaii next week. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20191018000691 South Korea and the United States plan to hold a new round of negotiations on sharing the cost of the upkeep for the 28,500-strong US Forces Korea in Hawaii next week, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday. Seoul’s top negotiator, Jeong Eun-bo, and his […]
We Have A Dreadnought or Two
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to the Jolly Rogers of Strike Fighter Squadron 103 launches Aug. 27 off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which was operating in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Singley/Navy) I did not know that an aircraft carrier was so intimidating to the […]
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