Archives for the Month of July, 2006

Special promotion board

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 [...]

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Quotas, bureaucrats and abominations

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 [...]

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The Daily Radar

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 [...]

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Fair Tax update from the man himself

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 [...]

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Garbage lawsuits

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 [...]

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