10 September 2012, officially Idaho’s drought began in the Gregorian/Western/Christian calender year of 2000. It’s still on 12 years later!
According to the latest drought data, the Eastern Highlands of Idaho are in “severe drought”, while the Upper Snake River plain is suffering “extreme drought”. The rest of Idaho is in moderately dry to moderately […] Continue Reading…
10 September 2012, the smoke just won’t go away, ’cause fires just keep poppin’ up! So far, the year to date fire retardant used by fire fighting aircraft out of Pocatello airport (aka Pocatello Tanker Base) is 261,797 gallons (991,009.4 liters).
Little “seeders” 802 Air Tractors are the backbone of airborne firefighting operations out of […] Continue Reading…
07 September 2012
British Red Coat, Henry of Wales (aka Prince Harry), returned to Afghanistan as a Apache gunship co-pilot/gunner. He is part of the current rotation of British troops in Afghanistan, and should be in country four months.
The Pakistan based Haqqani Network was officially declared a terrorist organization by the Obama administration. U.S. officials […] Continue Reading…
Click pics to make bigger (sorry about quality, was using cell phone cam and trying to be discrete about it):
First issued in late 1990s, re-boxed and currently issued by Revell-Germany.
S-70 FIREHAWK CAUGHT IN RAIN STORM, POCATELLO AIRPORT 2012
“Our men and women in uniform overseas deserve the highest level of support provided by fair and honest contractors. As the Justice Department’s continuing efforts to fight procurement fraud demonstrate, those who put profits over the welfare of members of our military will pay a hefty price.”-Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil […] Continue Reading…
09 September 2012, the controversy over unnatural nuclear industry based fluoride (as opposed to the naturally occurring kind, which can also be bad in large amounts) continues in Arizona, Indiana and Oregon.
A Saint Joseph County Health Officer, in Indiana, is lambasting three cities for their ending of fluoridation of drinking water.
Walkerton town stopped fluoridation […] Continue Reading…
It seems we’ve been crewing our Saab Grippens and German F-4 Phantom 2s with the wrong pilots! PJ Production has set things right by releasing his latest 1/72 scale resin pilot figures.
Click pics to make bigger:
Use cyanoacrylate glue (super/krazy type glue) to put these guys together, and in your Grippen or Luftwaffe F-4.
2011: PJ […] Continue Reading…
Reactor 1 of the Uljin nuclear power plant, in Korea (south), was restarted on 28 August 2012.
Less than a week prior the reactor automatically shut itself down. After investigating, the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company said the emergency shut down was due to a glitch in electrical lines running to the reactor.
It was […] Continue Reading…
“…there were 884,000 discouraged workers in August…..Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.”-Employment Situation Summary, U.S. DoL Bureau of Labor Statistics
“I don’t think they’re more lazy. It’s that there are less opportunities for them. They have it rough.”-Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute
07 September 2012, […] Continue Reading…
“The government does not want to tell the truth in the Parliament. It wants to run away from the coalgate scam [a reference to a political scam involving coal allocations in India] and wants to evade the issue of corruption by raising the fuel price….Once the session is adjourned, government and the oil marketing […] Continue Reading…