A nice photo of the special ops version of the Marine Corps Osprey, courtesy of Defense Link. This bird has been adapted to search and rescue, or recovery of people in the wilds. This photo is from a training mission over the Florida coast. The Osprey has been a very ambitious project that has taken […]
Just watch and enjoy: Hat tip to The Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys. ..bruce w..
[UPDATED 02/04/09 — 1124 MST] It appears that Josh Marshall (see below) is just echoing President Obama (maybe that’s what Josh means by “Talking Points Memo”), who said in different interviews yesterday (scroll down to “Little Pork Spending in Bill”) that “most of the programs that have been criticized, as part of this package amount […]
The wonderful Stimulus Watch website gives you an opportunity to see what funding is proposed in the House Stimulus package for any part of the country. I decided to look up Colorado, and in particular Parker, which is where I live, in hopes of doing some first-person investigation of any proposed projects. Nothing. In Parker, […]
Let’s look at the track record so far, two weeks into the Obama Administration: Tom Daschle, now-former nominee for Sec’y of Health and Human Services, leaves the Senate, earns millions of dollars per year for uncertain work, fails to pay taxes and has heavy lobbying-like involvement from the health industry; his withdrawal was announced after […]
Now that they are beginning to see that the original bailouts and TARP is not working, your government is preparing yet another exotic scheme to try and rescue the financial industry. From the Financial Times: US set for ‘big bang’ financial clean-up Barack Obama is gearing up for a “big bang” announcement next week that […]
Visualization is the key to comprehension: Hat tip to Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher? ..bruce w..
China has undergone unprecedented growth over the last 15 years, as the communist government worked hard to convince the west to ship entire production industries to their country to be performed cheaply (if at somewhat reduced quality) in exchange for the means to higher profit margins. As a result a vast amount of rural chinese […]
The new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael S. Steele, is giving his acceptance speech as I type this: What’s appalling (still) is that the #2 vote getter was a white Southerner, Katon Dawson, who had belonged to a whites-only country club all the way up until last September. Sheesh, have they no clue? […]
