[Boston Herald] Two more Catholic churches in Boston have been vandalized yet again, an "unsettling" pattern of incidents that police are investigating.
Both Dorchester’s St. Teresa of Calcutta Church and Southie’s St. Monica-Saint Augustine Church recently had their locks damaged on the same night, and a statue of the Virgin Mary was toppled at Saint Monica’s.
"It’s a sacred house, and it shouldn’t be damaged," said Rich Gribaudo of Saint Teresa’s, adding, "It’s unsettling."
Boston Police officers on Friday at 6:30 a.m. responded to St.Teresa’s and St. John Paul II Catholic Academy in the area of 800 Columbia Road. An unknown substance — some sort of sealant or putty — had been found on several door locks, preventing people from using keys to unlock the church and school building.
Then 90 minutes later, officers responded to another vandalism call at St. Monica’s. The same unknown substance had been found on all four door locks of the church, and a statue of the Virgin Mary had been knocked over. The same statue had also been toppled a week earlier, but that the incident had not been reported.
[19fortyfive] There have been plenty of films that tell of a retired and aging veteran called back to military service, yet in reality, it probably doesn’t happen all that much. However, it isn’t that uncommon for older military hardware to return to service after being mothballed or sent out to the not-so proverbial pasture.
In the case of military aircraft, there is the "Boneyard," located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) where retired aircraft are in fact preserved for such occasions. This month Minot AFB, N.D. announced that a once-retired B-52 will soon be back in action and flying high again. The strategic bomber, nicknamed "Wise Guy," has been brought back from retirement and "resurrected" for service at the base.
Minot AFB’s public affairs unit released a video on social media of Wise Guy’s arrival of the base on March 9 and noted that it will replace another B-52 that had been destroyed in a fire in Guam.
Retired in 2008, and sent to the Boneyard, Wise Guy is only the second B-52H ever to be returned to duty after being sent to the Boneyard. The first, "Ghost Rider," was returned to service and sent to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana in 2015. Not a quick process, however.
The Air Force reported that Wise Guy began its regeneration process in 2019 with the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMRG) at the Aircraft Maintenance And Regeneration Center (AMARC), Davis-Monthan AFB before being flown to Barksdale AFB for additional repairs. It then went to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma last spring for additional depot maintenance.
With its arrival at Minot, the aircraft will receive a few more final tweaks over the next few weeks and then it will be mission ready.
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Seems like such mixed messages from DC pols lately. Sucking up / knuckling under to China. Building B-21 Raider and Colombia Class SSBNs. Lets see how GBSD and LRSM go (or don't) to get a feel for the longer term.
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Having worked USAFB'S.
The B52's were usually refered to as BUF's by many personnel. Depending on the model SOME could survive a HEMP and still deliver.
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...Curtis LeMay (Peace is His Profession Unto Him)smiles.
Mike
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Damn straight, I worked with a retired BUFF pilot that flew his Buff back from Vietnam with no hydraulics! Also found out Dr Strangelove got the frying chickens in the barnyard right but he had three parcels he was supposed to deliver somewhere by ground burst. Sort of ruins a CNC bunker's day.
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This Florida Guy, Took Shakespeare, a little too literally and quite of a distance to far laterally...
Seems appropriate to comment thusly, given that Caesar bought the farm today, several millenniums ago, this day 'The Ides of March'
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II
Antony speaks at Caesar’s funeral
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest
(For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men),
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me,
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?—
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason!—Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
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[ToloNews] A decision by the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) to add 54 new ethnic designations to the already existing 14 ethnic groups used on the electronic national identity cards has sparked a controversy, with critics saying the additions will fuel division among Afghans at this critical juncture in the nation's history.
The 54 ethnic group designations were added to the NSIA website that is used for online applications for the national identity cards.
Good. No need to surrender to the Taliban, et al before they’ve actually put in the hard work of conquest.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Education on Saturday retreated from its decision to ban public singing by schoolgirls above 12 years of age at public and private schools across the country.
The move was first announced by the ministry on March 10. In a statement, the ministry announced to ban girls 12 years old and up from singing the national anthem or other group songs in mixed company.
The ministry said in a statement on Saturday that a recent letter by the head of the education directorate of Kabul "does not reflect the official stance and policy of the Ministry of Education."
But the statement added that the issue is under review and that it will act against it if needed.
The statement also said that the leadership of the ministry is committed to supporting the rights of all students, including girls and boys, to participate in cultural, arts and sports events.
The decision by the Ministry of Education to ban schoolgirls from public singing sparked reactions from activists and social media users who shared their clips, singing songs from the early 1990s and beyond to criticize the move.
[AfricaNews] The Central African Republic began voting in the second round of a legislative election on Sunday as it battles back against a rebel insurgency the government has called an attempted coup.
It will be the first time many will be able to vote after only one in three of those registered were able to cast their ballots in the first round in December due to the security fears.
A little over a week before that vote, six of the armed groups that control two thirds of the country joined forces vowing to disrupt the election, march on the capital and overthrow the government of President Faustin Archange Touadera.
But the presidential and legislative elections went ahead on December 27, with
President Faustin Archange Touadera got relected in december from a vote slammed by the opposition as fraudulent as so few were able to cast a ballot.
The rebel offensive went on to seize a series of northern and western towns and even reached the outskirts of the capital Bangui in January.
But Central African troops, bolstered by Russian and Rwandan reinforcements, have since waged a counteroffensive, retaking many of the towns and reopening a key trade route to neighbouring Cameroon.
Touadera's party is expected to easily retain its majority in the National Assembly in Sunday's election, but there are fears the vote could again be disrupted by the rebels, who have withdrawn to the countryside but are still threatening to overthrow the government. More at the link
It’s because of this kind of nonsense that the headquarters of the Baha’i movement ended up in Haifa. The Shah of Iran exiled the founder, Baha’u’llah, to the Ottoman empire, which eventually sent him to their penal colony in Acre, where he died at the end of the 19th century.
[IsraelTimes] Leaked document instructs authorities to ’conduct strict patrols’ on education of children in religious sect that says its followers are persecuted as heretics.
A leaked document from September ordered authorities in the northern Iranian city of Sari to "conduct strict patrols" to monitor the Baha’i and identify students to "bring them to Islam," said the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (LDDHI) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
The document was issued by the Commission on Ethnicities, Sects and Religions in Sari, which operates under the aegis of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, a body chaired by Iran’s president.
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Pillow-Biter's Unite!!
[MRC] Whatever happened after all the media hype about gun-control activist David Hogg starting a pillow company? We haven't heard a peep in more than a month, since several outlets sounded the trumpets of hope....and ka-ching.
Meryl Kornfield of the Washington Post went into a state of high gush on February 10 as she excitedly announced that "Parkland survivor David Hogg launches his own company in a ’pillow fight’ against Mike Lindell." There is a GoodPillow handle on Twitter but it has been as silent as Hogg himself since the day you gushed over both.
...he is attempting to create a pillow company to compete against MyPillow, which is led by staunch Trump supporter Mike Lindell. The idea for the company, first tweeted as a joke by Hogg’s partner, software developer William LeGate, is becoming increasingly firm: The pair announced the name of their company, Good Pillow, on Tuesday night. Yet many aspects of the company are not fully formed and critics have thrown a wet blanket on the plan.
The CBS station in Miami echoed the hopes:
Newsweek's Matt Cannon triumphantly announced on February 10 (remember that date) that "David Hogg's Good Pillow Already Has More Twitter Followers Than MyPillow Ever Did."
Wow! Good Pillow has more Twitter followers than MyPillow? So does this mean instant revenue for a company that was started as a joke?
Cannon goes on to blow a note of triumph for a victory that has yet to happen...and thanks to his Newsweek story will probably never happen under the Good Pillow name.
Two progressives have struck the first blow in their pillow fight with Donald Trump supporter Mike Lindell.
Good Pillow was launched online this week to rival the Lindell-run bedding giant MyPillow.
The startup was established by gun-control activist David Hogg and software engineer William LeGate as Lindell continues to face heavy criticism for spreading election conspiracy theories.
Okay, and now we come to the sentence in which Cannon probably destroyed Hogg's Good Pillow before it was even born:
A search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database does not reveal any new company being registered under the name Good Pillow or a variant.
Hmmm... So anybody reading that article would be alerted to the fact that Hogg and partner had not even bothered to register the name of their company. Therefore somebody who wanted to could go ahead and register that name, thus depriving Hogg of its use unless he paid (dearly?) for it.
Well, guess what? A subsequent search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database reveals that on February 11, a day after the heads up provided by Newsweek, that "Good Pillow" was indeed registered by a Mr. Robert Holland of North Carolina. Congratulations, Bob! You might be the only person who ends up making money from "Good Pillow."
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When Picard says "make it so" that's a fantasy tv show. Leftists like Hogg never have any idea what starting a business without deep pocketed, politically motivated backers is like. Now he's finding out that there's more to it than money and PR.
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His company tweets being silent for a few months does not necessarily mean the company is dead.
#5
He won't build it. He's waiting for someone else to make it happen.
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What? Nancy didn't give him a few Billion to get him started?
Life's hard when you've been kicked to the curb and don't realize it.
(Or maybe she did...)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Minot AFB’s public affairs unit released a video on social media of Wise Guy’s arrival of the base on March 9 and noted that it will replace another B-52 that had been destroyed in a fire in Guam.
[AfricaNews] The Central African Republic began voting in the second round of a legislative election on Sunday as it battles back against a rebel insurgency the government has called an attempted coup.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
