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Who Is a Terrorist?
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 04/28/2013 14:24:49

Velveeta is angry this morning. How is that different from any other Sunday you ask? I don't have an answer for you, sorry.

I've been thinking lately - [Note: it's really not good to allow me to think for too very long] about terrorism, flag waving and republicans and I can't help finding some very scary similarities. I did try to find some comparisons with liberals, but other than going to an extreme, extremes liberals just seem to be quietly tending their gardens instead of making bombs. And really, someone needs to do that- tending gardens is a lot more therapeutic than bomb-making.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 04/28/2013 22:07:13 by Raine)

Why I'd vote " NO ".
Author: TriSec    Date: 04/27/2013 11:49:21

This may shock you. I have decided to oppose the BSA's proposed changes regarding our national membership policy. I have to applaud the BSA's shrewd move in utilizing the Friday News Dump to the fullest extent last week. Not only was it Friday, but it was this Friday and at the height of the lockdown when this all came out. The Nation had riveted it's attention on my backyard, so this was easy to overlook.
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 05/01/2013 01:49:14 by Raine)

THEY take care of Themselves.
Author: Raine    Date: 04/26/2013 15:14:48

Last night the Senate voted to end the furloughs for Air Traffic Controllers. Today it appears to be heading toward the House for a vote.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed by unanimous consent a bill that would end the furloughs of air traffic controllers. The furloughs have been blamed for widespread delays at the nation's airports.

The bill approved late Thursday would allow the transportation secretary to move up to $253 million during the rest of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.


You know what the Senate didn't vote to end?
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54 comments (Latest Comment: 04/27/2013 00:20:17 by Raine)

Reliving the Lessons of the Past
Author: BobR    Date: 04/25/2013 12:55:33

As mentioned in yesterday's blog by Raine, the disaster at the West, TX fertilizer plant was the result of lax oversight provided by the TX government, and lax adherence to rules by the factory owners. This is all by intention, to hear Governor Rick Perry tell it. This is all part of the Republican mantra - let the free market decide. The factory in TX apparently "free-marketed" itself into a smoldering hole in the ground, taking 35 people with it.

That just seems to be part of the Libertarian "I-got-mine" concept, where everyone is free to grab whatever they can as fast as they can, and who cares who gets stepped on along the way. This is essentially how America operated 100 years ago during the "gilded" age, where children worked long hours at factories, and deaths were common. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair describes these conditions at meat packing plants in Chicago, but that pattern was repeated everywhere across America. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 resulted in 146 deaths, and the beginning of a turnaround for worker safety.
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32 comments (Latest Comment: 04/26/2013 03:16:01 by Will in Chicago)

Deep in the Heart of Taxless
Author: Raine    Date: 04/24/2013 15:25:44

Amid the chaos of last week, Many were watching westward, towards the small town of West, Texas.
The number of people who died in a fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last week now stands at 15, officials said Tuesday. Some earlier reports had indicated that 14 people had lost their lives. At least 200 more were injured.

In Waco, TV station KXXV says that officials believe they have found all the victims, quoting Mayor Pro Tem Steve Vanek saying "No more victims. Everything is searched," in a news conference today.

The latest death toll comes as investigators continue to study the catastrophe and the fire that preceded it. The explosion left a crater 93 feet wide and 10 feet deep, investigators said Tuesday.

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70 comments (Latest Comment: 04/24/2013 21:49:55 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 04/23/2013 10:32:04

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,216th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,196
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,081

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 445, 834, 675, 000 .00


It's been an interesting week around here, that's for sure. As a friend of mine commented, this is zero degrees of separation...everybody in this city knows somebody that ran, worked, or was there. No exceptions. My friend from Scouts, a Mr. Mark Fisette, is also a Guardsman and was there at the scene.
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49 comments (Latest Comment: 04/23/2013 22:40:59 by livingonli)

Just a Theory
Author: BobR    Date: 2013-04-22 12:00:00

Last week's series of events in Boston was the stuff of Hollywood movies. An iconic marathon on Patriot's Day... 2 bombs go off killing 3 and injuring over 100... wild speculation as to the culprits... photos released... said culprits do a Thelma and Louise, with one brother down and the other wounded and hiding... a city on lock down as hundreds of police scour neighborhoods looking for the second brother, who is finally found hiding and bleeding out in a boat in someone's backyard with a possibly self-inflicted gun shot wound.

Except, of course, that it was all real. The released photos and video were all it took for acquaintances of the two to put names to faces. Once that happened, the rest of it was only a matter of time. Left to their own devices and with few options, they tried to escape, but were unable to. With one brother dead and the other incommunicado in the hospital, the big question still remains: why?
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86 comments (Latest Comment: 04/23/2013 01:26:31 by TriSec)

Corrections
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 04/21/2013 14:27:21

Good morning! Velveeta is sipping her morning coffee bundled up by the fire. Wait, what?!! I really, truly do not know how to explain this weather; it is not only late April - we're past the date of "no brown after Hiltler's birthday - we also are blessed to reside in the South, which doesn't have cold weather! Someone get Al Gore on the phone, I want answers.

Anyway, I thought I'd do a public service today and make some corrections. During and after the horrific events in Boston the last few days many public statements came out about terrorism, immigration and even gun laws. Now that the, figurative and literal, smoke is clearing we should go back and adjust these statements. I've removed offensive words and replaced them with something more accurate.
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7 comments (Latest Comment: 04/21/2013 19:36:56 by Raine)

Compare and Contrast
Author: TriSec    Date: 04/20/2013 13:08:25

Good Morning. As our city gets back to normal today, I had a passing thought. This won't take long.

The last time we were attacked on our own soil, the response was quite different.

We started two wars.
Thousands of US Soldiers were killed
Untold trillions of dollars were wasted
We became a virtual pariah state around the world.
And the guy responsible? It took more than a decade to hunt him down.

This time?
The city of Boston and it's environs were 'locked down' for 16 hours.
Nobody was killed during the hunt. (Although two police officers were shot, one killed, during the early going of the investigation.)
The rest of the United States stood by our side and cheered.
And we got the guys in less than a week; one alive!

OF course there's more to it than simplistic observations....but cooperation and competent leadership sure makes a world of difference, doesn't it?
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 04/21/2013 00:30:26 by velveeta jones)

Mayhem near my house
Author: TriSec    Date: 04/19/2013 11:34:54

Just opening something for all the goings-on overnight, less than 4 miles from here.

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