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Vladimir Putin is a clever lad, but I think he’s mistaking expenditures for relevancy:
Russian Navy plans to buy the first batch of MiG-29K fighters set to be deployed on an aircraft carrier later this year, said a Navy official on Friday.
“This year we are planning to buy the first batch of several machines,” [...]
This, actually, is not as bad as it sounds:
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have [...]
This is one of those days when I don’t have anything to say, so I’ll go ahead and say it anyway:
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Up early this morning, and down to the NAVNET (naval networking) breakfast in Mission Valley. The breakfasts start at 0700, and I hadn’t been to one since I experimentally dipped my toe in [...]
The flotsam and jetsam from things that have come into my scan. Updated throughout the day, maybe.
Welcome Ace of Spade readers! Consider signing this petition to name the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier after a fighting ship rather than a politician!
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The North Vietnamese were cruel tormentors of the American POWs that came into their [...]
Under the heading of “politicians are funny, some funnier than others and some not in a ‘ha-ha’ funny kind of way,” our girl Sara responds to John Kerry’s Sanford/Palin joke.
It is to laugh.
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The WSJ has an interesting post up about the Capping Trade legislation being pushed through Congress. The tide seems to be [...]
This is going to be short, he said. And she nodded, knowingly.
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“Worked” from home today. Had lunch at the UTC. “Miami Grille,” it was, and a lovely Churrasco Chopp. Latin music, and that. Grilled, marinated steak, saffron rice, black beans, romaine lettuce, tomatoes topped with chimichurri sauce. Fried plantains for garnish. I forwent [...]
Your correspondent considers that whole taildragger endorsement to be unfinished bidness. I don’t like starting things and not finishing, even if – like the master’s thesis from hell – it takes a hideously extended time.
But sitting there on the runway with the spinner stopped in a 65-HP Champ that really wasn’t up to the task [...]
So, I don’t know what’s worse. The fact that your host unintentionally forwarded a frank and open discussion about the manifest cultural deficiencies of the organization he purports to support, or the fact that no one seems to have noticed it.
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Generation Kill is out on Netflix, for those who don’t get [...]
So, got the holler from the weekend employer that there was a cancellation for the 1300 go, ergo an empty seat. Would Son Number One like a hack at it?
He would.
Turned the corner into the airport parking lot today and saw something bizarre on final. Couldn’t make out if it was a helicopter or a [...]
Premium gas is back below $3.00 per gallon in San Diego, and I filled the tank up on the GS for $12 and a bit. That’ll last me through the next work week.
There’s change you can believe in.
So, yah, I’m back to commuting via moto, these days. Perforce, actually. On account of the fender benders [...]
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