The Pirates are in first place-and its not the begining of the season. Go BUCS!
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Hiatus
I’m going to take a break for a while and clear my head. I’ll be not blogging for about a week or so. I am mentally tired and need a break. And to put it frankly I am too depressed right now to think straight.
Continue readingI’m sure those black T-shirts will fix it.
This is unbelievable. In a slap at the fading and officially out-of-favor tradition of racy, sarcastic and irreverent aviation call signs, a just-retired Navy fighter squadron commanding officer was censured by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Wednesday for failing to halt and subsequently condoning the hazing of a junior officer at
Continue readingThe hard numbers…
And how we got to this point. With the markets getting ready to implode it is probably worth a quick review. Fortunately the New York Times has done the math for us: Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non-defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was
Continue readingGoing too far
It has been noted by some-that I may have gone too far in my anger against our evil members of Congress. That is probably a legitimate beef. I am very angry about the debt ceiling debate. The GOP’s position is completely unreasonable. They are more concerned about appeasing a group
Continue readingOut and about in the park.
I get to go home tomorrow! It is only for a about a fortnight or so-and then I will be right back here in Bucharest. I got up early-went to breakfast-then came back and went back to bed. Somehow I think I should not have bothered to get up. But
Continue readingThe folly of the GOP
James Fallows makes a great point-its time to put the blame where it belongs. On the spoiled children of the GOP who would rather take the economy down than do the right thing. It may be time for President Obama to give a “This is bullshit” speech about the debt-ceiling
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UPDATE! The more I think about it-this post should never have been written by me. Accordingly I have deleted all of my own text-leaving nothing any more. Judging by the way the markets are tanking today-we are in for a long bumpy ride, and the fact that is self inflicted
Continue readingThat light at the end of the tunnel.
Is probably an oncoming freight train. Still-the idea of Willard finally moving on from PACOM is a good one-and it would appear it may actually be safe to go back to Naples again: Adm. Jon Greenert, the current vice chief of naval operations, was formally nominated Thursday to be the
Continue readingTwo people separated by a common language….
It only seems that Americans and Australians or British speak the same language. In reality-the usages of common phrases in every day speech are often radically different. In a recent article the BBC took a look at the creeping “Americanization” of the Queen’s English: The Americans imported English wholesale, forged
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