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Valour-IT Challenge Update: Fight’s On…
Mike over at No Angst Zone has picked up the gauntlet and dares to think the Junior Service can prevail. Ha! He even tries to resurrect that phony test off VA Capes. Remember that? The one where not only the targets were, well, you know, "fixed". Afterall, when they had to go against a real…
Cooking With The Troops – Update & Final Push
Folks – the “official” fundraiser finishes tomorrow, but don’t let that artificial calendar mark stop you from adding CWtT to your holiday contribution list. Attached below is one more reason to for pitching in to this worthy cause: Thanks to all of you for the multitude of posts about Cooking with the Troops.  As a…
A Sign For The Times…
“DON’T SMILE” (sign spotted at a Manassas, VA DMV): As part of the DMV’s effort to develop super-secure driver’s licenses and foolproof identification cards, the agency has issued a smile ban, directing customers to adopt a “neutral expression” in their portraits, thereby extinguishing whatever happiness comes with finally hearing one’s number called. “It’s weird that…
Look What Slithered Out from Under the Rock…
In case you missed it yesterday, the American al Qaeda Adam Gadahn, home-grown convert to Islamofacism, loosed a video that talks to jihad in America. Now some have likened him to Lord Haw Haw, noted buffoon and erstwhile propogandist of WWII fame. I, on the other hand, think he is more of the Goebbels mode…
Looking for Homarus Americanus
(OK, confess — how many of you knew of homarus americanus without having to Google it?) Seems many these days are going EMCON Alfa (or Bravo as the case may be) whilst off in various and sundry pursuits. YHS intends to join the late summer sojourns and show some parts of the country heretofore unseen…
INS Vikramaditya Floated
RTB today from our Midwestern sojourn. Some news we will be posting on the morrow – in the meantime an update on the Vikramaditya (“Brave as the Sun”) via Barents Observer shows that it has been floated from dry dock (or beaching as was the case):

