[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Nota bene: Not all feral yoots are male.
Video of a brawl between two groups of people on board a Carnival cruise ship shows a man brutally beating a woman as she laid on the ground
The incident occurred on September 9 on board the Carnival Sunrise
According to the woman who uploaded the fight video, the brawl ensued over an argument related to a 'seat'
Carnival Cruises policy dictates that anyone who engages in violent conduct is to be removed at the next port and banned for life from the company's ships
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Let me guess: Not a Morticia Addams look-alike.
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Way too many women today for whatever reason want all the assumed privileges of the male capacity for physical violence without any of the drawbacks of said violence.
And you can tell everyone in this video has done this sort of thing before.
[NYP] Three people were killed during an off-roading tour of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when their Jeep plunged over a cliff on Monday, a report said.
Arizona tourists Diana Robles, 28; Ofelia Figueroa-Perez, 60; and hired driver Don Fehd, 72, were all killed when their 2022 Jeep Gladiator drifted off the edge of Ouray County Road 361 and landed hundreds of feet below, according to The Montrose Daily Press.
The vehicle first fell 100 feet to the bottom of a cliff, according to police and the outlet. It then rolled about 140 feet down a rocky embankment, ejecting Fehd, officials said. The bodies of the two sightseers were found in the car, which rested on its roof near the bank of a creek, police said.
Before the crash, Robles, a Yuma nurse, had reportedly just snapped a picture of the iconic Imogene Pass, a "thrilling" trail that is the second highest drivable pass in Colorado,
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Beautiful area. Red Mountain pass near there is infamous for having someone go over the side every year. 1 1/2 lane road with semis driving by. If you are on the outside lane, the passenger looks out the window and only sees the valley. No ground. Bit hairy and with the avalanche sheds along the way.
[PAGESIX] Wendy Williams has checked back into rehab to treat her substance abuse issues amid her fallout with production company Debmar-Mercury, Page Six has exclusively learned.
"It’s gotten worse," our source shares. "She went from wine to straight up vodka."
It’s unknown where Williams is receiving treatment, but she previously sought help from centers in Florida and Long Island City, New York.
We’re told Williams’ health and addiction issues worsened after her former daytime talk show’s production company allegedly "refused" to get her help.
"They turned their backs on her," our source now explains. "They had too much control over someone so vulnerable."
Williams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter previously claimed to Page Six that Debmar-Mercury wouldn’t engage in any behaviors that would take the shock jock, 58, away from her once-iconic purple chair.
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Saw a picture of her recently, can't seem to find it again, where she looked like she was channeling Luther Mahoney right after Meldrick Lewis beat on him.
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[FoxNews] New guidance comes after Fox News Digital report that Navy also rolling back penalties
Key words are suspended and paused, but still wonderful news. Sunshine really is the best medicine.
The U.S. Marine Corps is rolling back strict punishments for service members seeking religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine, including ending involuntary terminations and delays of promotions for those refusing the shot.
According to a new "interim guidance," signed Sept. 14 and posted quietly online, the message "amends actions" directed toward unvaccinated Marines whose religious accommodation requests were denied and who appealed the decision.
The memo states that the amended guidance comes after a U.S. Federal District Court in Florida issued a preliminary injunction on Aug. 18 prohibiting the Marines from taking "certain actions" against those seeking religious exemptions.
The guidance says the "Marine Corps will not enforce any order to accept COVID-19 vaccination, administratively separate, or retaliate against Marines in the class for asserting statutory rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)."
RFRA is the federal law that prohibits the government from "substantially burden[ing] a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability."
"Involuntary administrative separation processing of class members for refusing COVID-19 vaccination is suspended," the memo details.
In addition, it directs commanders to "pause all administrative actions related to the involuntary separation of a class member, regardless of the current status of the separation process (e.g., no orders will be given to receive the vaccine, no counselings will be issued for refusing the vaccine, no administrative separation boards will be conducted, no DD-214s will be issued)."
The memo also states that vaccination status cannot be "considered or referenced" in fitness reports or other performance evaluations for service members.
The Marine's previous directive required commanders to delay the promotions of "any officer and delay/restrict the promotion of any enlisted member refusing the vaccine," but the updated guidance outlines a series of steps to walk that specific punishment back.
However, if the preliminary injunction by the federal court is terminated, the guidance says Marines may still be subject to separation from the military for refusing to meet the vaccination requirement.
"The Marine Corps is aware of the class-wide preliminary injunction issued by a District Court judge for the Middle District of Florida preventing the Marine Corps from enforcing any order to accept the COVID-19 vaccine or administratively separating Marines who refused to receive the COVID vaccine after their religious accommodation appeal was denied," Marine Corps spokesperson Maj. Jay Hernandez told Fox News Digital.
"We are working to ensure our current guidance aligns with the injunction and will publish more information when available," he continued.
The Marine Corp's walking back of their strict guidelines comes the day after Fox News Digital reported that the Navy had quietly rolled back punishments for SEALs seeking religious exemptions and additionally that the Pentagon's inspector general said the Department of Defense is in "potential noncompliance" with standards for reviewing and denying religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
According to an internal memo by the Pentagon's Acting Inspector General Sean O'Donnell to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the IG writes that he reviewed "concerning denials of religious liberty accommodation requests from COVID-19 vaccination requirements."
"We found a trend of generalized assessments rather than the individualized assessment that is required by Federal law and DoD and Military Service policies," the IG said in the report.
In addition, Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a pair of U.S. Army fragmentary orders (FRAGOs) from multiple sources detailing COVID-19 guidance issued on July 8 and 19, 2022, which restricted unvaccinated soldiers from engaging in any official travel without express approval from the upper echelons of the Army.
[ET] The governor of Illinois on Wednesday issued an emergency disaster proclamation after several hundred illegal immigrants were bused from the U.S.—Mexico border to Illinois. And after some were bused to a nearby suburb with a (R) mayor. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, issued an executive order to send 75 members of the state National Guard to assist in making sure "all state resources are available to support asylum seekers arriving nearly daily to Chicago from the state of Texas."
The order also "enables the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and other state agencies, in close coordination with the City of Chicago, Cook County, and other local governments, to ensure the individuals and families receive the assistance they need," according to Pritzker’s order. "This includes transport, emergency shelter and housing, food, health screenings, medical assessments, treatments, and other necessary care and services." Welcome to the rewards of virtue signaling, Gov.
"Today, I signed a disaster proclamation allowing the state to speed up the procurement of the immediate resources needed to help Chicago, Cook County, and other jurisdictions provide humanitarian assistance to the asylum seekers who are being sent to our state with no official advance notice by the Governor of Texas," Pritzker said in a statement on Wednesday.
He added that "while other states may be treating these vulnerable families as pawns, here in Illinois, we are treating them as people." I am so impressed, Gov. and delighted I left your state for good in 1978.
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I bet the people with squatters on their property where it is literally against the law to prevent them access to their property are super impressed right now.
A Chick-fil-A employee manhandled a would-be carjacker using an MMA style headlock to prevent him from stealing a car at a location in Fort Walton Beach in Florida's Panhandle
The near victims of the crime were a woman and her young child
At the time of the incident, the carjacker, William Branch, 43, was armed with a stick
During the incident, the employee was punched in the face but not seriously injured
The suspect is facing attempted carjacking with a weapon and battery charges
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When I read the list of things Chuck has done for him daily by staff, including the requirement that his valet squeeze exactly 1 inch of toothpaste on his morning toothbrush, I knew he was exactly the privileged, clueless dingbat he appeared. God Help the UK, because he won't!
Blaze broke out in a building housing an office of state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom in Changsha city
Video shows dozens of people fleeing the building as flaming debris fell from the upper floors
Local officials said the fire has been extinguished and they have not yet discovered any casualties
The city's fire department said it sent 280 firefighters who were able to quickly extinguish the blaze in the 720ft building.
Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, has a population of about 10 million people.
The 720ft building was completed in 2000 and is located near a major ring road, according to CCTV.
Deadly fires are common in China, where lax enforcement of building codes and rampant unauthorised construction can make it difficult for people to flee burning buildings.
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The more I read about the landings the more ...Insane choosing it as an invasion site. Looking at The Big Map™ it is an obvious choice -- all, repeat all the communication routes cross between Inchon and Seoul. Take that nexus and supply to the south is near impossible, but taking the place is so hard the North Koreans barely garrisoned at all.
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#3 As I recall the Marine commander, General O.P. Smith, when he was asked why the landing was so successful, replied that "it was done by professionals", i.e., the USMC and the USN. The Chinese might want to ponder that comment before they launch the million-man swim.
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Just the beginning; had to overcome some river crossings quickly as well.
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We have nurses going there now for the money. Seems like this is strike time of the year. Nursing shortages here also. Brutal work schedules. One worked 80 hours and was asked to stay over but foot pain prevented her. She went home and looked at her foot and the bottom was black. She goes to her doctor and she is sent to the hospital. While in hospital work called as to when she could return. She was discharged to rehab stay in Nursing home. Might lose her foot. 30 years in Nursing and now this. She just turned 50 years old.
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Do you need to have a nursing license in Minnesota? If not they are probably tapping a small pool of willing nurses since they'd probably have to work alongside the strikers at some point.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter and review records seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month.
In her order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused a Justice Department request to lift her temporary prohibition on the department’s use of the roughly 100 classified records that were taken during the Aug. 8 search. She also granted the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, access to the entire tranche of documents seized from the property even though the department had said the arbiter shouldn’t be permitted to inspect the batch of classified records.
The Justice Department is expected to contest the judge’s order to a federal appeals court. It had given Cannon until Thursday to put on hold her order barring the continued review of classified records, and said it would ask the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene if she did not do so then. "It had given Cannon until Thursday to put on hold her order" sounds like an arrogant out-of-control tyranny trying to affect the November midterms..and yes, it is
Isn’t that reversing the roles of master (mistress) and servant? After all, lawyer proposes, judge disposes.
A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a message Thursday evening.
The selection of Dearie, a former federal prosecutor who for years served as the chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, came after both the Justice Department and Trump’s lawyers made clear that they would be satisfied with his appointment as a so-called special master.
In that role, Dearie will be responsible for reviewing the documents taken during the search of Mar-a-Lago and segregating out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. It is not clear how long the work will take but the special master process has already delayed the investigation, with Cannon directing the Justice Department to temporarily pause core aspects of its probe.
The Justice Department is investigating the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. The FBI says it recovered more than 11,000 documents from the home during its search, including roughly 100 with classification markings.
Less than 1% should be of any interest to the FBI/DOJ...
Trump’s lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and segregate any that may be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege. The Justice Department argued the appointment was unnecessary, saying it had already done its own review and Trump had no right to raise executive privilege claims that ordinarily permit the president to withhold certain information from the public and Congress.
Cannon, a Trump appointee, disagreed and directed both sides to name potential candidates for the role. She also ordered the Justice Department to halt its review of the documents for investigative purposes until "further Court order" or until the special master completes their review.
The Trump team recommended either Dearie or a Florida lawyer for the job. The Justice Department said that, in addition to the two retired judges whose names it submitted, it would also be satisfied with a Dearie appointment.
Dearie served as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York from 1982 to 1986, at which point he was appointed to the federal bench by then-President Ronald Reagan. He has also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes Justice Department wiretap applications in investigations involving suspected agents of a foreign power.
He took senior status in 2011, but the Justice Department has said he remains active and had indicated to officials that he was available for the position and could work expeditiously if appointed to it.
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The Justice Department said that, in addition to the two retired judges whose names it submitted, it would also be satisfied with a Dearie appointment.
Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann declined due to health reasons.
[Times of San Diego] The Navy decommissioned the littoral combat ship USS Coronado on Wednesday in a cost-saving move affecting the earliest versions of service’s small warship class.
"Today we recognize the great contribution Coronado and its crew made in developing the operational concepts foundational to the current configuration and deployment of littoral combat ships," said Rear Adm. Wayne Baze, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3. "Thanks to Coronado, the future of LCS looks bright." Word Salad of BS
The Coronado, the second trimaran-variant in the littoral class, was commissioned eight years ago in April 2014.
It’s the third littoral ship the Navy has decommissioned, and the service wants to deactivate another 10, primarily the East Coast-based monohull-variant, in a cost-saving move.
Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, has said the Navy would rather put funds toward the new Constellation-class frigates, which are larger and more capable warships, instead of upgrading older littoral ships.
If Congress approves the Navy’s decommissioning plan, then a total of 21 littoral combat ships would remain, most of them the trimaran-variant based in San Diego.
The littoral ships were designed as fast, agile platforms for conflicts in near-shore environments.
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...in a cost-saving move.
Maybe skipping the whole thing would have been an even greater cost-saving move. You think? That's the problem with group think and welfare for Senators and their states.
Maybe should have looked around and checked what other nations have come up with that filled 80% of your mission needs, then found a validated builder who had proven they could actually build one? BTW, that what naval construction looked like a century ago as countries paid attention what someone else had come up with already.
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A rare case of a gummint agency not doubling down on a bad idea.
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#3 A rare case of a gummint agency not doubling down on a bad idea.
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MM,
Sadly, however, they had already quadrupled down on it long before this.
There is some - some - chimerical hope that the remaining LCS's can be hammered into some vaguely useful niche. I wouldn't count on it. The Constellations started out as a good idea but in the time since they were announced the USN has quietly started turning these things into hideously expensive Swiss army knives that won't be able to do anything well. It's so bad that one article I read the other day quoted a defense writer as saying, "The Navy is making these things into the Death Star."
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So...what's the net cost, after salvage, over the eight-year life of this boondoggle example?
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"Cost-saving move"?
Get the f*** out of here.
The military is urging service members to apply for food stamps, but the US is sending how many billions of dollars to that HAZMAT dump called Ukraine. Give me a f***ing break.
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Should've started out as a Clittoral Stealth Ship. Men couldn't find it.
/Rimshot
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Once their main weapon systems were cancelled, there was little for these ships to do. Brief talk of using them as minesweeper/layer ships, but then the hull and propulsion problems killed that idea.
ICYMI: Police in northern #India arrest six people in connection with the alleged #rape and #murder of two girls from a lower-caste community who were found hanging from a tree, local officials say.https://t.co/AmHp7N3G6I
[AFNS] Adversaries are moving aggressively to dominate in space and put U.S. interests there at risk, the general nominated to lead the U.S. Space Force said.
"The most immediate threat, in my opinion, is the pace with which our strategic challengers - first and foremost the Chinese - are aggressively pursuing capabilities that can disrupt, degrade and ultimately even destroy our satellite capabilities and disrupt our ground infrastructure," Space Force Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman
...more formally Bradley Chance Saltzman, known to his friends as Salty, which may or may not have anything to do with a career spent among missiles and satellites...
said during a nomination hearing today before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
If confirmed, Saltzman will serve as the second chief of space operations. He told lawmakers that the Chinese have paid attention to how the U.S. fights and how important space is to its operations, and they have adjusted to take advantage.
"They have watched how we perform joint force operations; they know how critical ... U.S. space capabilities are to the joint force; they've learned from that, and they recognize that it is an asymmetric advantage of theirs to go after our space capabilities and deny them to the joint force," he said. "They've invested heavily and demonstrated capabilities that can deny us this."
Saltzman said it would be a priority of his to ensure the Space Force is on track to build and field effective space capabilities and to also ensure guardians are trained to operate in a contested domain to be able to counter activity by strategic competitors.
Recognizing the small size of the Space Force and the level of skills that are required for the mission, the general also acknowledged there would be challenges in ensuring individuals with the right skills are both accessed and retained. Those challenges would be something he said he'd need to take on if confirmed as the service's new chief.
"We're also looking at flexible and innovative ways to make sure that we have viable and flexible career paths for our guardians," Saltzman said. "It's important that we retain this talent for an extended period of time to get the most out of them. If confirmed as CSO, I would certainly welcome the opportunity to continue to work with members of this committee and other stakeholders to make sure that we get the right organizational structure to take advantage of these capabilities."
Saltzman told senators that while he expects the Space Force will primarily provide forces to U.S. Space Command, but other combatant commands will also need what he can provide. Commanders there could expect his cooperation.
"The responsibilities of the chief of space operations are to make sure there are ready forces that have the flexibility, the agility, the training and experience necessary to support all combatant commanders," he said. "Of note, of course, is that U.S. Space Command has primary responsibilities for that space area of responsibilities, as well as some key missions of providing capabilities for the joint force. While over 90% of the Space Force capabilities are presented to U.S. Space Command, there are critical other capabilities, regional capabilities, that are also presented to the other combatant commands to fulfill their missions as well."
Saltzman serves now as the deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear within the Space Force. Pending confirmation, he will replace Space Force Gen. John W. Raymond, who is the first to fill the role.
The startup aims to scale the battery up to a palm-sized 'pouch cell' – which has components enclosed in an aluminium-coated film – and then toward a full-scale vehicle battery in the next three to five years.
Maybe Brandon sent so green dollars their way.
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Scaled up to practical size ...easily and economically mass-produced. Talk to me again when those happen until then it is Vaporware™ ("Buy, BUY the IPO!).
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We'll have fusion engines before these are actually used in cars. After all Fusion was just 10 years away in the 90s so it must be about ready for deployment now.
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Three fat multiracial geeks,
sitting in their lab for weeks,
and eating pure cholesterol.
When they were asked
what they've been doing,
they yelled 'Free energy for all!'
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5 bucks says it's a chink scam to sideline real research and waste everybody's time and attention on an undeliverable. Grants from the technoczars, hoopla in the press, then... embarrassment. And they laugh in Beijing at the stupid Yanks.
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It's a bit soon to get all breathless. It takes a couple decades to go from the lab to the shelves of America. The first laser was built in 1960. The first CD player came out in the early '80s and cost $1000.
It may be "game-changing", but the game has a lot of inertia.
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R&D is always longer and more complex than it appears at the beginning, and most brilliant ideas turn out to be either altogether unworkable or unable to be scaled up to mass production. On the other hand, I’d be thrilled by a cell phone, tablet, and Apple watch that could be recharged in minutes and that would hold that charge for days — so even if the thing was never useful for cars, we could still all benefit from it.
I was once in a course with the scientist who took the anti-scale technology for laundry detergent and reworked it to give us orange juice with calcium and Vitamin D. A minor bit of cleverness in the grand scheme of things, but still life-enhancing, especially for those lactose intolerant.
[The Drive] The U.S. Navy has revealed that it recently demonstrated a road-mobile ground-based launching system for multi-purpose SM-6 missiles at an as-yet undisclosed location in Europe. The containerized launcher module, in this case loaded onto a tractor-trailer, is all but certainly the same type, or a variant thereof, as the one that was installed on the unmanned test ship Ranger for a live-fire test last year. This launcher system is also set to be a component of the U.S. Army's future Typhon system, which is expected to be able to fire SM-6s, as well as Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles.
Photographs of what the Navy described as a "modular SM-6 launcher system" appeared on official social media accounts belonging to the service's Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet (NAVFOREUR-AF/Sixth Fleet) earlier today.
"U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet personnel conducted convoy protection rehearsals with a U.S. Navy modular SM-6 launcher system within the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) area of responsibility on Sunday," according to the post on NAVFOREUR-AF/Sixth Fleet's Facebook page. "This U.S. Navy capability enables rapid defense of the maritime domain."
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Now miniaturize the AN/SPY-6 radar of the Aegis system and put it on a set of trucks. The combination with mobile SM-6 would be powerful in the field.
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Why is the Navy mounting weapons on trucks? The Marines I could understand, but they're not mentioned.
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Why is the Navy involved? Partly Beltway budget shenanigans: the Army and Air Force have their own programs as well. Partly the fact that the Navy has shore installations that need protecting and they don't want to have Army units doing it. Lastly, remember Tom Clancy?, the Navy doesn't want their ships anchored as semi-permanent ABM platforms and stuck there...
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Considering that the SM-6 is a Navy weapon system, it does make some sense for them to run it. Otherwise you're going to have to be sending Army/Airforce/Marines to a navy weapons school to use the thing.
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In my era the only important truck in the navy was the exchange mobile Cantonese AKA the roach coach.
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It's nice, but it seems a bit bulky. Can we have a precision-guided missile that launches from the back of an F-150? A MLRS variant would be nice for skirmishing with the neighbors or holiday celebrations.
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The SM-6 Program is "Evolutionary not Revolutionary"... maybe that's why it doesn't seem to be a 'hot mess' like the LCS, or an 'trouble program' like the F-35 or V-22 Osprey.
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.
[NYP] Three people were killed during an off-roading tour of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when their Jeep plunged over a cliff on Monday, a report said.
Gov. 
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[Times of San Diego] The Navy decommissioned the littoral combat ship USS Coronado on Wednesday in a cost-saving move affecting the earliest versions of service’s small warship class.
[AFNS] Adversaries are moving aggressively to dominate in space and put U.S. interests there at risk, the general nominated to lead the U.S. Space Force said.
