March 2011 - Argghhh!

Boq

I haven't been ignoring this - everybody in the world is talking about it, and I didn't really have anything to add, and figured this isn't where you were coming for your tsunami news. Over at Blackfive, they actually *do* have something to add, however. SENDAI, Japan (March 12, 2011) An SH-60B helicopter assigned to the Chargers of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 14 from Naval Air Facility Atsugi flies over the city of Sendai to deliver more than 1,500 pounds of food to survivors...

Almost too many notable days in a row. Miles, SWWBO, Mom. Thanks, Love, John...

I am not much of a Country Music fan...

A U.S. Army soldier and Pronto, his Special Forces military working dog, jump off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of Emerald Warrior, March 1, 2011. The soldier is assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group. Emerald Warrior is a U.S. Special Operations Command-sponsored, multiservice exercise to leverage lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez. Whether it's Pronto, jumping into the...

I have to be the first to admit that I had no idea that the original ( well almost, more on that latter ) Screaming Eagle sits proudly overlooking the Hemicyle of Madison's Capitol...

Does anyone find it odd that the President, who wants us to wean ourselves from fossil fuels, learn to love the Volt, and that he wants to do that by raising the cost of fossil fuels via cap-and-trade to a point where we'll all rush to our unicycles and electro-cars, is now considering tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because... gas costs too much?Oh, right - he doesn't like this spike because it's market-driven, but the market wasn't driven by his policies (well, one can argue...