Archive for March, 2006
Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Abdul Rahman, the Afghani who was recently facing the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, has been temporarily spared (here’s a link to the story on FoxNews.com). The case against him was dismissed. The problem is, he’s still in a country where there are a lot of people out to see the [...]
Posted in Christianity, International Relations, Islam | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 26th, 2006
I found this photo of my old Spangdahlem stallion. The photo itself was at www.aeronautics.ru (a Russian web-site). I only wish I was the one flying it that day. One of the Lockheed Martin company pilots was flying for the show. The plane was in a clean configuration (no external fuel tanks, ECM [...]
Posted in USAF | 1 Comment »
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Sometimes I find that I miss the Cold War. The Soviet Union was an evil, intractable adversary. The stakes on every confrontation were high. That all ended starting in the mid- to late-80s, with Solidarity in Poland, Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, [...]
Posted in International Relations, US DoD | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
My home-town Air National Guard unit, the 131st Fighter Wing, has been flying fighters ever since I can remember. I think the 110th Fighter Squadron was flying the F-100 Super Sabre around the time I was born. In 1978 they transitioned to the F-4 Phantom. They switched to the F-15A Eagle in [...]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2006
Christina and I spent a couple hours riding our mountain bikes along the paved trails of Bad Nauheim this afternoon. We checked out the old salt-making facilities, the city park, the Usa River, and the Spa district. It was a great day! It was a bit brisk, but [...]
Posted in Europe, Fitness & Health, History | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
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