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You’ll fall for anything
The fever swamp rats are drinking their own bathwater again:
During the journalism conference event, I asked (Sy) Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals (sic) [...]
Work of course, and billable hours. Enough about that. CrossFit called for a 15k run today. That’s 9.3 miles, and totally out of the question for a Clydesdale like your correspondent. I nevertheless determined to grind out 6 miles or so, just for the calorie burn that was in it.
Went three miles out [...]
I guess 360,000 dead yankees didn’t quite make the point:
The House yesterday apologized to black Americans, more than 140 years after slavery was abolished, for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow” segregation.
The resolution, which passed on a voice vote late in the day, was sponsored by [...]
Bad news in the email box today, we are informed of the passing of Jennifer, sister to AW1 Tim, a frequent commenter in these our humble digs. Himself might write a bit more, but he has been sore afflicted of late with a vision problem which the doctor informs him will be rectified in [...]
The second draft of history, the first being found manifestly deficient.
H/T to Greyhawk, who’s been in the mix all along. Who never gave up. Who refused to let anyone seize the message.
Many in the media wanted to make this fit into a Vietnam narrative. They wanted the Samara golden mosque bombing [...]
Comes this in the mail box:
I have a request: Could you share a time when you were able to just ‘tear it up’ in the skies?
No mission really, but a time where you oculd dance in the skies, full throttle, tearing whatever holes in the sky that you wished…?
Thanks Captain!
How’s [...]
Man has envied the birds of the air since they first lifted their eyes to the sky on a weary trek across the veldt. Ancient Icarus escaped from Minoan Crete with a set of wax bound wings his father made him, but struck with the sheer joy of flying ignored his father’s warnings and [...]
Until you’re not:
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
The WSJ points out that the German love affair with Barack Obama didn’t last the night:
One day after his speech before an adulating Berlin crowd last week, Barack Obama said more NATO troops would allow the U.S. to cut its presence in Afghanistan. The “billions of dollars” saved, he told CNN on Friday, [...]
Not recommended.
For your SA we had an P-3 Class A today (not a mishap but by the material condition of the aircraft they are calling it a class A). Here’s the preliminary info I have:
At Whidbey, BN 161331 was doing a FCF and shut down #1 engine, with #1 off, #2 engine [...]
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