When in Vietnam I cut hair because it was something that needed to be done and I could do it. Had to do it early in the day because the above-ground piping got the water pretty hot by midday, but most of the time I was working nights, so that worked out OK.
Well, I’ve said before that if we were ever able to take a large broom and sweep the incumbents en masse out of Washington I’d leave Bill Posey there. It is a rare day that I disagree with his votes, and I review them regularly.
From here:
A California congressman has introduced a resolution calling for airlines to waive baggage fees for all U.S. troops deployed for service — and those commercial airlines that refuse to do so could have their contracts reevaluated.
So, there’s the road, a causeway according to The Daily Mail, that is subject to tidal flow.
Well, that’s rather like driving on the beach, isn’t it? I mean, you don’t drive your car way down to water’s edge and leave it there, do you? Can you say, “Tide’s coming in!”?
Think maybe they’ve been hanging together…
Emergency situation to them means go loot the place.
Three firefighters are fired and the Baxter Springs fire chief is placed on administrative leave while an investigation is underway into the looting of Joplin businesses on the night of the May 22nd tornado.
After 40 years, Lt. David A. Thorpe is finally home. Welcome home, Sir.
Remains of missing Vietnam War serviceman identified
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 17, 2011Washington (CNN) — It’s been more than 40 years since Air Force 1st Lt. David A Thorpe was declared missing in action from the Vietnam War. Today, his family will finally receive some closure.
It was time again to order emergency preparedness items, one of which, and certainly the largest and most expensive of which, was food.
Recently, outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates laid into many NATO members while praising a few others. Here is part of the best article I’ve read on the subject, and I have read many. And if you don’t think our membership in the NATO alliance is worthy of note, you are trillions of dollars and thousands of lives off the mark. Our NATO membership is tremendously important, not necessarily in either a good or bad way, depending on your viewpoint, but important and of major impact nevertheless.
So, Delta is in PR hot water for charging soldiers returning from Afghanistan for their 4th bag of luggage, something they were not prepared to pay because first, they understandably didn’t have that much cash ($200), and second, who needs a credit card in a war zone?
Missing since June 21, 1967, Captain Darrell J. Spinier finally comes home.
Welcome home, sir. It’s never too late.
