Forget the CH-53 Super Stallion, there’s a new heavy lift Marine coming onboard; CH-53K King Stallion.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ethan Pumphret.Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron-1 load the main gear box of the new CH-53K King Stallion onto the aircraft, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North […] Continue Reading…
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in April 2018:
EdSurge: Computer Science Degrees and Technology’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle
California: Maker of “electromechanical and solid state switch gear for aircraft” Leach International-Esterline Power Systems suddenly eliminated 46 jobs in Buena Park. Social media camera company Snap suddenly eliminated 90 […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of April, 2018: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.
China began imposing tariffs on more than a hundred […] Continue Reading…
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The Washington Post: Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died.
Yes, another school shooting, don’t blame guns (this latest Texas shooting involved a low-rate of fire pump action shotgun and a revolver, no assault weapons […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for April 2018:
Alabama: The state Department of Public Health discovered that immigrant girls under the age of 15, in Montgomery, are getting taxpayer funded abortions: “When a 13-year-old child–with non-English speaking parents–is given an abortion, without a third-party counselor and no suspicion of sexual abuse and no […] Continue Reading…
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“It is a sad time for the model building community… I have not seen anything ‘official’ from Revell, but It has been confirmed to me by a reliable source that Revell USA has in fact closed their doors.”-UP Scale Hobbies facebook post
Another victim […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of April 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018
The official National Drug Take Back Day was 28APR2018, proving that the government is behind the drug epidemic […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in April 2018:
A study by Crowe Horwath says for-profit insurance companies take 30 days longer to reimburse a healthcare provider than taxpayer funded Medicare.
According to The Economist it cost the royal family of England less money to give birth than it does the average ‘commoner’ family in […] Continue Reading…
“The stores are slowly closing and where am I going to go shopping. I don’t want to shop online.”-Loretta Olsen, pissed off loyal Kmart shopper in Minnesota
“We have been strategically and aggressively evaluating our store space and productivity, and have accelerated the closing of unprofitable stores.”-Howard Riefs, Sears Holdings
After losing $424-million USD in its […] Continue Reading…
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Washington […] Continue Reading…