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  5. Reminds me of the “tail hook” scandal in our US Navy aircore … when the brass did everything in their power to STOP mens (hetero) sexuality. Good luck with that.

  7. AGW Kills.
    “We’re Back.”
    …-
    “Some Ontarians regret putting away winter coat, snow tires” (weathernet)
    …-
    “April cold threatens ‘significant losses’ of fruit crop in northeastern US”
    “We expect significant losses, 90-100 percent of peaches and plums, now at full bloom,” according to Chris Harner, of Harner Farms in State College, Pennsylvania.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/april-cold-threatens-significant-losses-of-fruit-crop-northeastern-us/56491741

  8. Justthinkin: There has long been a truism in the Armed Forces, “Our job is to defend democracy, not practice it”. That said, this policy stretch by a Base Commander/Wing Commander (depends on which hat is in vogue) is a leap too far.

  10. Iran. Implausible deniability.
    Give a rogue nation $billions, access to oil markets, and freedom to develop nukes. What could go wrong, like attempted hegemonies in the middle east?
    If we just show them we trust them to do the right thing, they will; what else would they do?
    “U.S. Navy confiscates 1,500 Kalashnikov rifles, 200 grenade launchers from Iran at sea.”
    The U.S. Navy has confiscated a cache of weapons that it believes was being transported from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen, marking at least the third time in two months that such a shipment was stopped, Navy officials said.”
    Naval forces aboard the USS Sirocco, a coastal patrol ship, intercepted and seized the weapons March 28 from a small craft commonly known as a dhow in the Arabian Sea, the Navy announced Monday. The cache included 1,500 Kalashnikov rifles, 200 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and 21 .50-caliber machine guns, the Navy said.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/u-s-navy-confiscates-1500-kalashnikov-rifles-200-grenade-launchers-from-iran-at-sea

  13. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/new-order-for-20-jets-is-good-news-for-bombardier-34598360.html
    Bombardier,who was bailed out by the Quebec government last year,to the tune of $1 billion,and who have applied to the Federal government for another $1 billion, has a plant in Ireland which makes part of the fuselage,and is into the Irish government for at least $70 million in industrial grants. I see from this article,Bombardier is also in a partnership with Shenyang of China.
    But meanwhile,back at the ranch,they’ve laid off 1000 workers in Quebec,and are begging for more taxpayer’s bucks!
    This whole damned deal stinks to high hell!

  14. AGW RIP.
    “The City of Guelph also hit a record low early Tuesday (-16.7C), smashing a record of -12.8C set over 100 years ago.”
    …-
    “New storm to hit Ontario with ‘significant snow'”
    “WILL SPRING EVER ARRIVE?
    “Below seasonal temperatures will dominate from the eastern prairies to southern Quebec over the next couple of weeks,” says Weather Network meteorologist Dr. Doug Gillham.”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/snowy-weekend-looms-for-southern-ontario-details-here/65850/

  16. Any military force is the furthest thing from democracy.
    I learned *that* truth my first half hour on base for boot
    camp with the Queen’s Own Rifles, in 1960.
    My education in things military was kick-started by the
    one who at that time was on the lowest rung of military
    “chain of command.” Sixteen years earlier this fellow
    had been a terrified, barely 18-year old child volunteer,
    hitting the Normandy beaches on D-Day. And miraculously
    surviving.
    In 1960 he was an aging Lance Corporal, one step up
    from Rifleman. Through his stint,ay one time, once, he had
    raised himself to rank of Staff Sargeant, I eventually learned.
    In time, I eventually learned that he had been busted
    down to Rifleman, under Canadian Q.R. Army, Rules and Regulations,
    specifically that good old fashioned Canadian variation of
    literature’s famous “Catch 22.” Namely: Section One-Eighteen,
    to wit: “…Conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline….”
    Harsh? Yes. But “that’s what you volunteered for, isn’t it, Buck-o?”
    In that harrowing 22-hour hell-hole madness of Induction
    Day, this now-bitter L/Cpl first introduced us all to the reality of
    “good order and discipline,” then-in good time, and very loudly,
    introduced us to the idea of the wond’rously-silencing effects of
    “The Official Secrets Act.”
    So no, today, I don’t see commie bogeymen in the recently discovered
    developments.
    The real wonder to me is the almost absolute “silence of the lambs,”
    be they of the left, the right or of the MSM persuasion, regarding the
    present government’s muzzling of bureaucrats, civil servants and
    scientists.
    This, especially galling in light of how the left, and the MSM,
    self-named “progressives,” (- HA!! “progressives?” It is to larff!)
    brayed and bellowed at the previous government for supposedly
    being evil sorcerers incarnate,apparently for allegedly doing
    something similar, during *their* watch at the the helm in the
    wheelhouse of the ship of state.
    t.e. & o.e.

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