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And there goes the “brass” ceiling…

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It’s good to see that there’s finally a four-star female general, General Ann Dunwoody, the new Commanding General, Army Material Command.
Congratulations General Dunwoody!
Oh, and in case if any of you haters thought she made it as some HR fluff chick or something like that, check out her bio, she was a battalion commander in the [...]

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Speaking truth to TSA power

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GREAT blog entry in the NYT’s Jet Lagged blog entitled: The Airport Security Follies written by a commercial pilot. He calls shenanigans on TSA’s Kabuki performance otherwise known as “airport security.”
I strongly encourage people to read this…some highlights:

“No matter that a deadly sharp can be fashioned from virtually anything found on a plane, be it [...]

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Amen. And amen.

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On today, being Black Friday, I’d like to bring to the attention of this blog, an ad which appeared in the Chicago Tribune the other day:

Lord (and people who know me) knows that I am not an anti-capitalist, but I have become more and more upset with the abject consumerism that society engages in (to [...]

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Have you no shame?

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Sir Edmund smacks the ball out of the park on this one…
“I think you have to have your priorities. If the priority is just to get to the summit and let another man die, okay, you do it.
“But if you have someone who is in great need and you are still strong and energetic, then [...]

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Support Magen David Adom

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Let it never be said that the “world community” is early. Only 60 years late, the signatories of the Geneva Conventions approved a new “Red Crystal” emblem that will allow Magen David Adom to finally officially join the Red Cross.
That it took sixty years is, to me, at least, prima facie evidence that the latent [...]

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