Author: Zero Ponsdorf
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Cue The Village People!
Two stories that makes me proud to be a Navy Vet… and not be currently serving!
Our fleet will smell like fried chicken.
Domestically produced biofuels will lessen the military’s dependence on petroleum form overseas and “make us better war fighters,” Mabus said. What it won’t do – at least in the short term – is save any money in an era of constrained budgets. The $12 million purchase equates to a per-gallon cost of about $26. Mixed 50/50 with conventional fuel, as the Navy plans to use it, the cost is around $15 a gallon, Mabus said.
Our Sailors will be well dressed for the occasion. NOT!
What’s black and white and in short supply all over? The service dress blue jumper.
For the past three months, a production problem has left the Navy shorthanded in five common sizes of the SDB jumper, the top half of the winter crackerjacks. These male-only uniforms are missing from the racks of some uniform stores, and some recruits are graduating from boot camp without jumpers in their size.
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Just an Oversight? Maybe for Some.
Many years ago a group of vets returned to this country. Reviled and treated by some as pariahs they sought the comradeship of fellow veterans at their local VSOs only to be told they didn’t qualify.
Over the years that did change, and that group of vets invested mightily in seeing that future vets never again faced those hurdles.
But it did leave a touch of bitterness, and likely some sore spots too easily picked at.
Like this:
Vietnam War Omitted in DAV Fundraising LetterThe omission of any reference to Vietnam in a fundraising letter from a national veterans organization has some local vets feeling left out.
The letter from Cold Spring, Ky.-based Disabled American Veterans, which includes Christmas cards depicting a World War II Soldier decorating a tree, mentions World War II and the Korean War, and veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“A veteran is a veteran is a veteran,” said Skip Haswell, president of the 500-plus-member local chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, based in Beaver Falls. “Anytime somebody is soliciting and they leave (Vietnam) out in error, I resent that.”
The letter is signed by DAV National Commander Donald Samuels. The DAV website identifies him as a Vietnam War veteran. Samuels could not be reached for comment on Monday.
Tracey Burgoon, who works in the DAV fundraising department, said a donor sent the agency the picture that appears on the card. She said World War II and the Korean War were mentioned in the letter because those veterans are “the naturally aging — those who are in nursing homes now.” Veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq were mentioned to address “recent wars.”
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Bizzaro World – Reprised
This getting boring… or something?
Obama Fundraiser and Ambassador Blames Israel for Anti-Semitism
“A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” Gutman reportedly said, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “He also argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism.”
According to the account in the Israeli paper, “The legal experts at the event were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words, and the next speaker offered a scathing rebuttal to the envoy’s remarks.”
What The F**K is traditional anti-Semitism? In the real world a fool and position would be soon parted.
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Sometimes There are Cannon Nearby
From The Donovan
The story is inspiring, the picture tasty.
BTW, I don’t have a cannon. Not on my list of “leave me alone” items. I would like a M-79… if and only if… It is the season of giving!
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The Secret Squirrels Actually Exist
Contrary to Jonn’s opinion.
Click the Pic.
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Our Bizzaro World Writ Large.
There is simply not much to add.
Yet another disconnect for me. I’m so far beyond WTF that I MUST be wrong. Or maybe I’m having a stroke?
A local group’s plan to buy ads on Metro buses urging people to “Buy American” and “Shop Locally” has been rejected by King County as too political.
Yet another h/t to Don Surber
