I am disappointed with Ship Craft 17 Iowa Class Battleships, while it is still a good overview for somebody just getting into building the iconic battleships it doesn’t pack the information that the excellent Ship Craft 16 Hipper Class Ships does, and in the same number of pages.
Ship Craft 17 (copyright 2012 Seaforth Publishing) fails […] Continue Reading…
During the last full week of February 2018, hundreds of National Guard personnel from Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, South Dakota, Utah and Washington deployed to Valdez, Alaska, in response to a major CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) event.
Two M1135 NBCRV—Strykers search for the fictional Russian satellite that has hit near […] Continue Reading…
“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
On 28FEB2018, personnel from the now stretched thin South Carolina Army National Guard landed in Ansbach, Deutschland.
It should be noted that in 2016 a refugee from Syria blew himself up in Ansbach, no thanks to NATO Germany’s pro-immigrant […] Continue Reading…
Albany Business Review: Shopping mall ViaPort Rotterdam (Rotterdam Square) suing Sears for half-a-million in back due rent!
Hardware Retailing: Sears Continues to See Dropping Sales and Revenue
Kankakee Daily Journal: Sears Logistics now Innovel
Chicago Tribune: Sears slashed more than 50,000 jobs last year!
CNNMoney: Sears downgraded to default status
The Real Deal: Half of vacant Santa Monica Mega Sears store sold for $50-million USD, to pay […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of U.S. model kit/hobby shop, retail/wholesale industry shutdowns from 2016 through 2017:
“The local hobby shop was closed up….No big deal, I thought….I can always go to another. Wrong. When I looked, every hobby shop within 50 miles of my house had been closed.”
California: After 45 years brick-n-mortar chain store, as well as mail […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of February, 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.
While I don’t like most of the crazy stuff […] Continue Reading…
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“The threat environment has changed.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Bowling, explaining that the new ‘threat’ is not terrorists using guns or bombs, or even vehicles, but using drugs
South Carolina Army National Guard’s 43rd Civil Support Team took part in a ‘multi-agency’ drug lab training session. […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of February 2018.
“Teaching kids about the harms of drugs isn’t really a prevention tactic, it doesn’t really work. They know that drugs are dangerous.”-Alfgeir Kristjansson, School of Public Health at West Virginia University, making a statement about something that’s actually common knowledge but […] Continue Reading…
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“…some of our wing’s personnel are deployed worldwide almost every day of the year, this is an especially busy time for us. Every two years, we enter a deployment cycle when we know the Air Force will ask more of us, and now […] Continue Reading…
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“Savers has made it quite clear to us that they do not want these items. So in the spirit of good gift giving and charity, please remove your drugs before donating your clothing.”-Crestwood Police Department
In Crestwood, Missouri, the for-profit Savers Donation Center got something it […] Continue Reading…