It was a pretty lame year.
But it’s behind us now, and there’s always next year.
I hope y’all have a great one.
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Weapons system acquisitions are fraught with danger generally, both from a programmatic perspective and professionally. I successfully dodged Pentagon duty for three decades, but when I was growing up, I often heard from grizzled veterans wearing Navy blue “inside the building,” that the Air Force had a tendency to beat the pants off the [...] Eight CIA agents were killed yesterday at a Forward Operating Base in Khowst: A bomber slipped into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday and detonated a suicide vest, killing eight CIA officers in one of the deadliest days in the agency’s history, current and former U.S. officials said. The attack took place [...] In response to the attempted Christmas Day attack, the White House is conducting a furious investigation, according to a source at the American Spectator: On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it [...] Along with Juan Williams, one of my must reads, especially on the topic of race in America. The president has been perhaps unfairly criticized in various quarters for his deliberate response to the latest domestic terror attempt. That said, it seems an odd defense for Democrats feeling wrong-footed by that criticism to defend Hope ‘n Change with, well: That’s the way Bush did it. It was six days before President George [...] It pays to study the manual (click the link for a short vid). Airbike An interesting article in Wired on the neurological biases imposed upon everyone, generally, and scientists in particular. Top 10 lists are all the rage at the end of the year, more so perhaps at the end of a decade. But who does a “Top 9″ list, especially when it comes to aviation? Popular Mechanics does. I’m not especially fond of the “next step” in item number 3. If you take the [...] Via Betsy’s Page, the obituary of a remarkable man. |
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