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Advancment by IG complaint.

In Star Trek's alternate universe, people moved up in the Terran Empire by assassination. Over here in this universe, it appears to be happening via the vehicle of the IG complaint: News about the...

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More than little familiar………

Scott Adams has to be spending his days at our office: There is a serious point here. Travel always is the first thing that gets cut-even when its not the root cause of the financial problem. Our new,...

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Uh excuse me, this is what you said you wanted.

Remember in the run up after the Gulf War, when the first big push for dropping the combat exclusion laws started and women said they "just wanted to be treated like the men". It seems someone did not...

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Greetings from Berlin

When you are depressed, what is the cure? Road Trip! Currently in Berlin, seeing the sights and admiring the construction on going in the "East". This is a city undergoing loads of change. Since it...

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Vindication!!!!! In other words, today, I was proven right after all. The...

Yesterday and today were really good days for me-even though I had just gotten back from a long drive back from Berlin. ( Pictures and narrative to follow). As you get more seasoned in a profession (...

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Happy May Day! Power Point Rangers of the world unite!

Dilbert captures the art of briefing a flag officer: Serious point to be made-I have always shaken my head at flags who insisted that their briefing products be" dumbed down." They usually never...

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Berlin

I have to admit, I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Berlin-and I am ready to go back and do some "prowling". Berlin as a city-has much to recommend it, especially now that those pesky Russians have been...

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More Berlin Pix

It is Saturday and doing errands today for the S.O. while she is out shopping for pottery. ( Like she really needs any more of it!). So a stop at the library seemed in order. The great internet...

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The paradox.

Out the door this morning for an early am departure for the land of milk and honey ( of which in all my trips to Eretz Yisrael I have seen neither). Suprisingly the airport was packed at 5:30 am,...

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Busy week.

Still here-just it has been a busy week. out of the hotel at 7:15 and home at 8PM. By the time one eats dinner and gets to bed, there is not time for anything else. Day off today though-then back to...

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Musings of a moron

David Brooks, also known here by the not so affectionate moniker of “Chunky Bobo”, has written a column so absurd that you just have to shake your head in stupefaction that this man still has a...

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First of two Memorial Day posts

Today is Memorial Day-and fortunately for me, I am alive, and spending it at home. For a lot of Soldiers, Sailors, Airman and Marines that is not true.  So it is very important that we remember their...

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Second of two Memorial Day Posts

I paraphrased this bit of writing from Herman Wouk a couple of years back. I still think its a marvelous bit of writing and particularly appropriate as "America begins to leave the world stage". Not...

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There is such a thing as decorum.

I once again, marvel at the stupidity of the pro gun community. The bodies from the Santa Barbara are hardly even cold-and yet we have to hear this: "Your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional...

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Stupidity on Parade

Some things just set me off. Today was a day where I came across something quite innocently posted by someone on the old Facebook page, that when one reads it, you just have to shake your head in...

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TV worth watching

It took the S.O. and I a long time to get Internet connectivity to the house , besides our cell phones and a stick for the computer. While I was away, it was installed-but our bandwidth is severely...

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Sideshow Bowe

It is with sad and undisguised disgust that I watch the collective conservative freak out of the release of SGT Bowe Berghdahl, the only prisoner of war held by the Taliban. In the early morning of...

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The ease with which some people abandon their conviction.

Today was a sad day for me. It is probably the first day since I graduated from the Citadel, that I was ashamed to wear my ring. A ring I worked hard to earn-and usually wear with pride. Why? Because...

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Because I like beating a dead horse.

This will be my second and hopefully last post on the abomination that is the Harry Harris sponsored assrape investigation into the Blue Angels "command climate". Also known as its more common name,...

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The real winner on Tuesday night.

Apathy, hypocrisy, laziness, sloth, selfishness, and greed. They are all still hung over from celebrating their victory on Tuesday night.  Another election season in the United States has come and...

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