President Obama is catching flak for saluting his Marine guards with a coffee cup in his hand. Okay, granted, it was a lousy visual by a president who should know better than to give the media and his political enemies a PR gaffe like this. But let’s not pretend he’s the only preside[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Military’
September 18th, 2014 - 6:42 pm § in America
Yes, the U.S. Navy has searched your computer looking for kiddie porn
Buried under a small headline in today’s Seattle Times is a story about sensational military and police misconduct. “'[I]t has become a routine practice for the Navy to conduct surveillance of all the civilian computers in an entire state to see whether any child pornography can be found on them[...]
December 7th, 2013 - 12:45 pm § in America
Is the US Now Too Poor for War?
The wars fought in the the twentieth century showed the limits of national budgets in supporting conventional warfare. Britain, even without WWII, was bankrupted by vain efforts to keep mits colonial empire together, The same happened to the USSR. Now the US is saying this as well. Playi[...]
November 21st, 2013 - 11:24 am § in America
America’s first next-gen aircraft carrier takes high tech to sea
SOME QUESTIONS: I wonder how well the Obamacare site would work if the US Navy had been in charge? Is tjis the the first virtual battleship? Naming a high tech ship after Gerry Ford? Hmmm? Will the next “smart carrier? be called the GW Bush? READMORE [...]
May 14th, 2012 - 1:08 pm § in America
BREAKING NEWS: House of Representayives Trying to Force War with Iran!
A CALL FOR HELP FROM PEACE NOW! The House is scheduled to vote tomorrow on H. Res. 568, an Iran-focused resolution that seeks to lower the bar for war, to tie the President’s hands in negotiations, and to effectively take all options, except the military option, off the table. It appears to be no [...]
February 23rd, 2012 - 1:41 am § in Misc.
Holy Batman! What is that?
Code Red | 19 December 2012 Stealth drone hits new frontiers The US Navy’s cutting-edge robot fighter plane aims to be the first unmanned aerial vehicle to take-off and land at sea. Read[...]
December 7th, 2011 - 12:01 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Dec 7
I was 10 years-old that Sunday morning, coming out of church with my elder sister to discover the congregation much chattering about events at Pearl Harbor. We were in a Navy town, and nearly all of us had fathers or husbands directly affected. That was the first time I saw a portable radio, by [...]
ACADEME: Note to Rick Perry: The US National Academy is Full of Liberals!
Turkish Academy of Sciences to Lose Its Independence The decree, issued on 27th August, which was just after the start of a nine-day holiday in Turkey, says that one-third of the members of the academy will now be appointed by the government and a further one-third by the Council of Higher Education[...]
Who would you guess pays more in federal taxes: you or Boeing?
Danny Westneat, Seattle Times (excerpted) “It’s not even close,” says Bob McIntyre. “In the past three years, you have paid way more into the system than Boeing.” McIntyre is a tax wonk, the director of … Citizens for Tax Justice, released a study showing that 12 [...]
Flying With Jesus By Our Airmen’s Sides
A member of the US Airforce was told that he could not reenlist unless he added phrase “so help me God” to his contract. The airman was “told by his superiors that he must swear to God or leave the Air Force,” according to a complaint filed by the American Humanist Assoc[...]