I’ve been trying to get promoted since February. The process for a Georgia National Guardsman to be promoted is convoluted to say the least.
In our unit, the lynchpin to my achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant is one knowledgeable individual I work with who knows the paperwork involved and which people to lean on to [...]
Archives for the Month of July, 2006
Special promotion board
Thursday, 27 July 2006
Quotas, bureaucrats and abominations
Thursday, 27 July 2006
The Department of Homeland Security is a parasite living on the backs of the American taxpayer.
Did you know that air marshals are required to fill a monthly quota of entries into their secret “suspicious persons” database. Here’s hoping your name or mine doesn’t end up there just to meet some bureaucratic requirement.
The power of unchecked [...]
The Daily Radar
Thursday, 27 July 2006
For Dedicated Gamers, a PC With an Unearthly Look
I would love one of these.
The Alienware Area-51 7500 is the kind of computer that kicks sand in the face of wimpier PC’s. Based on Intel’s latest processor and motherboard — code-named Conroe for those who are keeping track — the 7500 has a processor speed of [...]
Fair Tax update from the man himself
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
We’ll let the man himself, Neal Boortz, write the burst this week. Well, not really. From Neal’s Nuze of 24-Jul-06 at his web site:
FAIRTAX STATUS REPORT
The FairTax movement is going strong my friends, stronger than you might imagine. I can assure you that the FairTax is attracting an ever-increasing degree of attention in Washington. I [...]
Garbage lawsuits
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Does the United States have a responsibility to evacuate you from a foreign nation if war breaks out while you are there?
Apparently some spoiled American Arabs think so.
An Arab-American group sued top Bush administration officials, claiming it bungled the evacuation from Lebanon of US nationals, leaving them vulnerable to the Israeli military offensive.
In their suit [...]











