Wednesday, July 3, 2013

I Need a Used Stryker, or MRAP, or Something.

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Anything heavy and armored will do. This afternoon, I was sitting at a traffic light. The intersection is a four way on a major four-l...
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Well, Forget the Anonymity of the Postal Service

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They're recording the face of every envelope sent through the mail. It's called the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program . ...
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Two Days that Effectively Signaled the End of the Civil War

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July 3, 1863: At the Battle of Gettysburg, the multi-divisional Confederate infantry charge, popularly known as "Pickett's Charge,...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

NSA Chief: "I Forgot About the Patriot Act"; Ayup, Tell Me Another One Edition

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The Director of the NSA, James Clapper, claimed that he forgot all about the Patriot Act when he told Congress last March that the NSA didn...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

German Outrage Over NSA Spying

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Der Spiegel has a lengthy story about NSA surveillance of "friendly" nations, including Germany . This is the point where I star...
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When Airplane Technology Advanced Rapidly

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About eight years separated these two airplanes: A Hanriot and a Fokker D.VII. Both are reproductions at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome . Th...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Sunset

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I wasn't the only one who thought that it looked a little like someone had detonated a nuke.
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Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

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Mig-29: You can see the doors that cover the engine intakes on the ground. They were the Soviet solution to foreign objects on the airf...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

A Little More Nature

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The morning mist moves over a lake. Gone from there, now. Soon it will be back to the World. I had a week of not thinking of anything ot...

Caturday

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There is a Jake-sized lump somewhere there.