Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Far Too True
My grandkids, Noah and Paul, will have to pay for this.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Air Power to Have Larger Role in Iraq
July 30, 2008 International Herald Tribune The commander of U.S. and allied air forces in the Middle East has completed a detailed plan for how air power would be refocused in Iraq if, as is widely anticipated, the number of U.S. ground troops is reduced in the final months of the Bush presidency and beyond. […]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Why Am I Not Surprised?
July 31, 2008 United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — The Army can’t verify that all of the civilian security guards it hires to protect military bases have been screened for criminal records, records show. Congress mandated two years ago that the Army conduct thorough criminal background checks and give proper training to base security […]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Feast of Ignatius of Loyola
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Why Am I Not Surprised?
July 31, 2008 For White House, Hiring Is Political By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — On May 17, 2005, the White House’s political affairs office sent an e-mail message to agencies throughout the executive branch directing them to find jobs for 108 people on a list of “priority candidates” who had “loyally served the president.” “We […]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A New Generation of Republicans in Alaska
July 31, 2008 By WILLIAM YARDLEY ANCHORAGE — For the first time in four decades, politics in Alaska is a brand-new game for both Republicans and Democrats because of the indictment of Senator Ted Stevens, the state’s longtime Republican patriarch. Gov. Sarah Palin was a political upstart and Mr. Stevens was still the powerful, irascible […]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
One of my Airplanes!
CMC Electronics supplies mission displays for Air Force special operations aircraft SAINT-LAURENT, Quebec, 30 July 2008. CMC Electronics in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, finished delivering its TacView portable mission display to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (ASSOC) for AC-130 gunship aircraft. TacView enables paperless cockpit operations like aircraft data and procedures manuals, interactive electronic charts […]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Lest We Forget
Afghanistan surpasses Iraq as deadliest spot for U.S. troops By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers BAGHDAD — Nearly twice as many U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq so far this month, marking the lowest death toll of any month since the U.S. invaded Iraq and putting July on course to […]