17 September, 2008 (06:17) | GWOT, Military | By: ricjames
If you’re down in DC over the next couple of days you might see a different breed of aircraft flying overhead. NORAD is conducting training flights in the area to practice ID and intercept procedures. The last time they did this, I got a chance to see a flight of 4 F-16′s in formation flying [...]
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16 September, 2008 (07:37) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames
Over the past few years I’ve had the chance to work with lots of Europeans far more closely than in my previous work. It’s been enlightening for both sides of that relationship. One of the more interesting conversations I had was with a young Belgian woman who shadowed me for a few days as I [...]
16 September, 2008 (07:11) | Human Interest, Science, Technology | By: ricjames
Strange events in the final frontier: The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn’t there before. In fact, they don’t even know where it is exactly located because it didn’t behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can’t be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years [...]
15 September, 2008 (22:04) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
…before his opponents will just let him fade into obscurity? Seriously, folks, once “a bum” has been thrown out, as it were, it’s time to move along. We’ve got more important matters to attend to, here.
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15 September, 2008 (20:15) | 2008 Presidential Race, The Media | By: ricjames
The Atlantic Magazine’s choice of a photographer has left them in a real fix after screw-loose photog Jill Greenberg managed to hijack the Atlantic’s photo shoot with John McCain. Greenberg took shots of McCain under a false pretense while manipulating the lighting to present a sinister aspect. She went further than that once she got [...]
15 September, 2008 (19:47) | 2008 Presidential Race, The Media | By: ricjames
The MSM sure isn’t going to make sure you know this stuff.
15 September, 2008 (12:32) | Economy, Environment, Politics | By: ricjames
Cries of gas price gouging have been something that’s been with us for the past several years, every massive upsurge on the price driving them onward and spawning talk of price controls, etc. Throughout it all, we’ve also heard the voices of people who (sometimes) patiently explain the market forces at work. The price of [...]
14 September, 2008 (10:48) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames
It seems like the news that our economy is tanking and people are falling straight into poverty faster than taking a header off the local office building has been with us for years. (8, it seems, which I’m sure is just a coincidence.) Yet, for all of the talk that we’re in a recession, that [...]
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13 September, 2008 (20:17) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames
That the Left is in panic mode over their Great One’s sudden stumble down the polling stairs is already well established, but here’s one for the books. Frankly, it ought to be in the medical books under “dementia, derangement” but that would imply Rhodes is somehow ill. She’s not. She’s just performing the typical lefty [...]
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13 September, 2008 (09:43) | 2008 Presidential Race, Religion, The Media | By: ricjames
John McCain appeared on yesterday’s “The View”, a daytime primarily-women’s talk show with such recognizable hosts as Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters. Talk about knowingly entering a hostile environment! From almost the word “go”, Walters started badgering McCain asking loaded questions and rarely letting the man answer what she’d asked. The pinnacle of this obviously [...]