Caught this unusual and stunning Sept 11th tribute from the UK’s Daily Mail today. Photographer, Norman Kent, had a birds-eye view as nine members of Team Fastrax released the flags at 10:28AM over the Middletown Regional Airport in Ohio on … Continue reading
Last year, the Department of Energy gave Solyndra a $535 million loan guarantee funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Five-year-old Solyndra was the first company to receive a loan guarantee, and it has become a poster child for the success of federal stimulus spending and its ripple effects on the economy.
It’s become a poster child for certain, but hardly in that manner. Continue reading
One of our First Sergeants did what many 1SGs didn’t do when Outback Steakhouse and Carraba’s was feeding troops on main FOBs. Unfortunately, many troops aren’t on the FOBs and are busy taking the fight to the enemy where they … Continue reading
“When I was a child, I understood as a child and spake as a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:
Elmer Gantry arrived as a womanizing drunk with a good singing voice, a knowledge of the bible, and a charismatic manner that allowed him to charm people into believing he was a saintly man. He led women, his church, and himself to ruin and destruction by pretending to be something he wasn’t.
It was easy for him, he had a charming manner and people loved him; until, he was exposed as a liar and a hypocrite.
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The word “unique” is overused, but I think my experience on 9/11/01 may have been unique. I was actually on a plane, flying from Charlotte to Houston, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. There were thousands of people in the air when the attacks happened, but what made my case unusual was that I was traveling on a business trip with a coworker, who happened to be Muslim. Continue reading
Five years ago I signed up with the 2,996 project in which bloggers were assigned one of those who died on 9/11 to remember. I was given Aram Iskendarian. Aram was 41 the day he died. He was a vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he headed the global risk management group. That day he would have been working on the 101st floor of building 1. Continue reading
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“The NFL season kicks off Thursday night right here on NBC, right after the season finale of President Obama.” –Jay Leno
“New statistics show the U.S. economy added 0 jobs in August. The White House cautioned Americans not to read too much into those numbers. What numbers?” –Jay Leno
Biden seems to enjoy his role as court jester. No one doubts that his ham fisted material is original and spontaneous; surely no one would pay for that kind of material. He is fortunate, the public doesn’t remember or gives a damn about vice presidents: but since everything Obama says is archived and carefully scripted, his loyal supporters must be wondering if there is a conspiracy to expose him as an incompetent boob. Continue reading
Outback Steakhouse was here today to provide delicious tastes from home to the troops on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Soldiers were lined up at every dining facility to get a taste of the first real steak many of them … Continue reading