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Tuesday morning feel good stories
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories today, the first is from Minnesota where 34-year-old Benjamin Beaudoin tried to score a two-fer for himself. After getting his ass beat at the first home, he had to push his luck on a second break-in; The sheriff says Beaudoin first broke into a home around 5 […]
When All Else Fails?
Jonn and I had a disagreement some months ago…. Turns out he was right, in large part. BUT, Jonn is not the reason I’ve been scarce here. I need to share this - because it has been consuming my on-line time. There is a FB group that is my new home. Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Look it up […]
UK conman pockets 1/2 million in cash
Mary sends us a link to a story in the UK’s Daily Mail about 51-year-old Christopher Copeland who set up collection stations for “Help For Heroes” veteran charity outside of supermarkets from 2010 to 2011 and racked in over a-half-million bucks in donations that went straight into his pockets; The teams would use Copeland’s fleet […]
Rockets over Tel Aviv
Richard sends us some pictures that his boss took and sent him of some parts from Hamas’ rockets north of Tel Aviv. Notice that some still have their manufacturing markings, in the unlikely case that you have any doubts about their origins;
We are not the world’s policeman, but…
In the Washington Post today, Editorial page editor Fred Hiatt writes “Obama’s foreign policy reveals the effects of disengagement“. Hiatt lists the scant foreign policy of this administration. While the world begged for leadership, the president, instead focused on transforming domestic policies to suit his own politics. The results of that disengagement from the world, […]
Another Dem War Hero
My reaction to the revelation that Democrat senator John Walsh, a retired brigadier general and one-time adjutant general (head) of Montana’s National Guard, had plagiarized much of his master’s thesis at the Army’s Command and General Staff War College was similar to that of most veterans. I felt a queasy disgust, not so much at […]
Gun control fails in Afghanistan
Stars & Stripes reports that the US and the government of Afghanistan has lost tens of thousands of weapons. The Washington Post reports that hundreds of thousands of weapons may be unaccounted for by the Afghan government. From S&S; Of the nearly half a million weapons registered in a U.S. Department of Defense database called […]
Times of Israel: Kerry betrayed Israel
John Kerry tried to cram a really bad deal for Israel down their collective throat the other day, but all he really did was unite the various political factions who now think that they are not only fighting a terrorist neighbor, but also their former ally against terrorism. The Times of Israel calls it “The […]
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