Somehow we have survived again. I am referring to the nationwide test of the emergency broadcasting system that happened at 1:00 PM CST (local) here. It was supposed to shutdown or interrupt all radio and TV broadcasting in the USA for about 3 minutes. The concern was that some folks would think it was some kind of real thing. Little fear, but they would have had a real panic if they shutdown the Internet (or...
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Terror in the Neighborhood
It used to be a friendly little neighborhood. Then the riff-raft moved in. Maybe riff-raft is not a “Politically Correct” statement about our neighbors these days but, what’s going to happen to them? “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”, is what Rhett told Charlotte in Gone with the Wind. It works for me too. Some neighbors don’t deserve respect no mater what’s deemed sociably proper. The neighborhood of which I speak is the...
Continue reading...Terrorist 1 – Model Airplane Pilot 0
I am saddened to see more American freedoms taken away by American government decision makers. Because the president of the USA (code name V.I.P) may fly into either Dallas or Austin Texas on Monday afternoon August 9, 2010, it has been deemed necessary to forbid (among a lot of real aircraft operations) the operations (flying) of ANY model airplanes within a 30 mile radius of these towns, from the ground up to but not including...
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