Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Disaster Prep Wednesday: "Turn Around Don't Drown"

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Seems like every super heavy rain storm that creates street flooding comes with a few things: (1) People who insist in driving into water t...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

RIMPAC is Coming: "World's Largest Maritime Exercise"

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Increasing the possibility of understanding and misunderstanding at the same time: 23 Nations to Participate in World's Largest Mariti...
Monday, May 05, 2014

The Slippery Slope of Thought Crimes: 'Sentence first - verdict afterwards.'

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The estimable Victor Davis Hanson offers up a peek in to the slippery slope of "Who Among Us Will Cast the First Bid for Donald Sterli...
Saturday, May 03, 2014

A Good Start to a Debate on Geopolitics

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A couple of heavies fire broadsides in a discussion of geopolitics at Foreign Affairs : First, Walter Russell Mead 's The Return of Ge...

Saturday is Heinlein Quote Day #6

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From TIme Enough for Love "Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Robert A. Heinlei...
Friday, May 02, 2014

On Midrats Sunday 4 May 14: Episode 226: "Quo vadis Putin's Novorossiya," with Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg

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 Please join us on 4 May 14 at 5pm EDT U.S. for Episode 226: "Quo vadis Putin's Novorossiya," with Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg : ...

Friday Fun Film: "Seabees: The Navy's Fighting Construction Men" (1945)

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I doubt there is anyone who has ever served with or around them that doesn't like the Seabees: Can Do!
Thursday, May 01, 2014

"The dictators are back"

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Interesting piece from Bret Stephens at WSJ Opinion, What Samuel Huntington Knew : A West that prefers debt-subsidized welfarism over ec...
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Sea Monkey Business

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Stolen Liberated from The Goat Locker : Art from here A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. Wh...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Surviving Wildfires

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If you see this, you are too close If you are on a hike and the woods catch fire - because of a lightning strike perhaps - what do you w...
Monday, April 28, 2014

A Little Monday Reading: H. Beam Piper's "Operation R.S.V.P."

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From Gutenberg.org , a 1951 classic from the pen of H.Beam Piper. Written as science fiction, some might see some parallels between Mr. Pip...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

On Midrats 27 April 14: Episode 225- "The Long War Becomes a Teenager," with Bill Roggio

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Please join us at 5pm EDT, 27 April 14 for Midrats Episode 225- "The Long War Becomes a Teenager," with Bill Roggio It hasn...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Saturday is Heinlein Quote Day #5

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From Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958) : "Die trying” is the proudest human thing.
Friday, April 25, 2014

Friday Fun Film: The Naval Gun Factory

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"Daddy, where do U.S. naval guns come from?" Back in 1952, and for about 180 years before that, the answer was "The Naval G...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Malacca Strait and South China Sea Piracy: Cargo Theft from Tankers

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Incident 1: 17 Apr 14 : A couple of reports of similar activities involving product theft. A week ago, this interesting tale of armed ...
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Disaster Prep Wednesday: Electromagnetic Pulse Stuff

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Ah, Electromagnetic Pulse. EMP. Turning out the lights, shutting down the grid, tossing man back into the dark ages. Read the books? You k...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Fire Scout? We don't need no stinkin' Fire Scout . . .

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Every now and then CDR Salamander has been known to refer to some of my posts. Turnabout being fair play, let's look at his recent post ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Easter

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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Saturday is Heinlein Quote Day #4

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From The Rolling Stones : Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by a...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Friday Fun Film: "Your Ship in Action" (1944)

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From construction to operation - U.S. Navy cruisers for the fleet: