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Author Archives: Chris Penningroth
Waking Up From September Eleventh
Like many Americans I commemorate with my countrymen the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September Eleventh in the Year of Our Lord Two-thousand and One. The reader will notice that I do not refer to that Day as … Continue reading
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The Travel Channel
What does one do in the dark of the early morning, unable to sleep due to jet-lag, locked into an apartment because the key broke off in the lock? Why, one would take a crack at a blog entry, that´s … Continue reading
Back to the Blog
I logged into the old weblog for the first time in quite awhile. There were over 900 comments pending, almost all of them spam. The spam entries will be the easy kills, so to say. And yet they take such … Continue reading
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Reactivating My Account
I’ve got just a nutshell’s worth of time to catch you up on everything since last June (my last blog entry). From June through October, there was nothing much going on but somehow I ended up being too busy to … Continue reading
The Return of Feudalism?
I had been updating one of my useful (not earth-shatteringly important) slide shows a couple months ago in an effort to help explain to my fellow Airmen what had been transpiring in the larger economy and to try to … Continue reading
Fighting for Our Future
The Air Force has been under considerable pressure from several different people for the past several years. Some of these folks have actually called for the Air Force to be disbanded. I penned a short apologetic piece which I posted … Continue reading
A Reduction in the Defecit? Cool!
I must admit I had my doubts that the Federal Government would be able to reduce the deficit by half within the next few years like it said it would. I thought later that I saw a possible way to make … Continue reading
My Quick Take on the Possibility of Inflation
Most of us know that the government is having Treasury spit money off the presses at the Mint fast enough to beat Jeff Gordon in the Daytona 500. Typically when this occurs, inflation rears its ugly head and devours the … Continue reading
Just One Time
I’d like to see just one article in the weekly Motley Fool e-mailings not mention Warren Buffett. Could you imagine ESPN never going without mentioning the New York Yankees once per hour? That’s kind of what it’s gotten … Continue reading
Writing Projects
I’ve been offline (obviously) for a multitude of reasons for the past three solid months. That’s not to say I haven’t been writing! I believe one or two of my efforts will be worth hanging here (they’re way too … Continue reading
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