Archives for the ‘Citizen Soldier’ Category

Aim high: your tax dollars at work

Career bureaucrats are making America safer. At least for career bureaucrats.
The Air Force’s top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on “comfort capsules” to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such as the [...]

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Obama as a monkey spurs cries of racism

A Marietta, Georgia man is stirring up controversy because he has printed up some t-shirts that say Obama in ‘08 with a monkey picture above the text.
I find it funny that none of the media furies are comparing this instance to the many images I’ve seen in past years of George W. Bush depicted as [...]

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Video illustrating the idiocy of the bureaucrats at TSA

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No self-respecting firearms instructor stores a weapon with any type of system remotely resembling the idiotic one the TSA has devised. Only from the minds of bureaucrats who don’t know shit about weapons.
When you allow strangers to be completely entrusted with your safety you set yourself up for disaster. That’s [...]

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Homeless man in the airport

I flew from Atlanta to Dallas Monday. The trip is normally fairly boring. This particular trip held no major surprises. As always, though, I people watch when traveling. I had ample opportunity at the Atlanta airport because the “security” line was more than an hour long. In fact, it was so long that the geniuses [...]

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A typical weekend

Friday evening I flew home from Denver. Home for me is the Atlanta airport followed by a 70-mile commute up I-75 and into the Appalachian foothills.
I sat next to a crazy lady on the plane. OK, not really crazy but really, really nervous. She had her shirt pulled up over her face half the flight. [...]

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