Here are some entertaining takes on former Vice President Al Gore’s "Carbon Footprint":
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Chris’s Market Watch
Yesterday’s market action was a bit of a surprise. I wouldn’t quite say it’s time to go short on all positions, but it certainly looks like cash is king right now!
Never forget, all you stock investors out there, if the big money is leaving stocks, it’s got to be going somewhere. The housing market in many areas is in a slump, and the Trumps and Kiyosakis of the world tend to be big in real estate anyway. Gold has been steadily increasing since the last series of sell-offs ended last October. Bonds don’t look too good right now unless you’re already holding them (but then, new issues may be better than nothing, at least in the short run).
But then, the market could rally tomorrow, too!
Good Company
I found someone out there with more artistic talent than me who seems to agree with my opinion about MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann: Chris Muir.
Homeward Bound
The Ready First Combat Team has transferred authority for the fight in Ramadi to the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division.
Welcome home, soldiers! Thanks for a job well done!
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In the Fight
Here’s what the squadron I normally fly with is doing. . . helping to win the war.
Me? I only managed to sandbag a local area orientation flight from RJSM last Friday. I’ve got a little ways to go before I get to be mission-ready.
Posted in "Downrange", F-16 Operations, Military Affairs, USAF
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Why I Don’t Read Newsweek
I’ve tried in other places to explain some of the issues I’ve had with legacy media (what other bloggers refer to as ‘Mainstream Media’ or MSM — the larger daily newspapers, the big three TV networks, and cable TV news). As usual, Victor Davis Hanson does a much better job rationalizing what I think. He specifically took on Newsweek, a publication I stopped trusting long before I learned I had to watch the televised news reporters with unhealthy doses of skepticism.
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Return to Okunakayama
Christina and I hit the slopes for our anniversary today. Christina taught a couple kids the basics of skiing while I warmed up. I’m getting better at the black slopes, and I even got to try some powder today. I felt like I was doing pretty well.
Christina finished her class and we broke for lunch together. Christina usually gets some sort of Japanese soup with noodles. I always end up eating curry and rice (with some sort of meat, usually pork cutlet). I can see us whiling away our future on slopes in Austria or Colorado, and I’ll end up missing curry. I wonder if there are any Indian restaurants in Telluride?
After lunch, we hit the slopes together. After falling down a total of once all morning, I counted at least five falls in the afternoon. I was starting to get really frustrated, but after about six runs I finally got my feet back and quit falling. Christina didn’t want to try powder or moguls today, which was a bit disappointing, but she watched me on two runs and reminded me to face down-slope (I guess with moguls I was tending to face the oncoming hill). Other than the early afternoon tumbling spells, today worked out pretty well.
I think I’m almost ready to buy my first set of skis ever! I’m just waiting until the season is over so I can get a $900 set for 75% off.
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Fitness & Health
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Great Song
I first viewed this website a couple years ago. Things like this always choke me up. It’s a little more poignant now that I’ve lost friends in the war.
I wish I had the time to develop the talent to create these songs and videos. I’ll have to be content to link to the masters out there.
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New News is Good News!
In case any of you are interested, I just ran across a new web-based news site called OneNewsNow.com. It’s got a Christian bent to it (read "Right Wing" for those of my friends who also abhor FoxNews).
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Commanding Leads
The US Department of Defense plans to stand up a new Africa Command. I’m guessing the Air Force component will be Air Force Africa Command (AFAFCOM). This also means a number of new General Officer positions will be opening up. There is no word I’ve seen as to whether these will be new billets, or whether there will be some personnel end-strength gymnastics in order to make four-stars out of current authorizations elsewhere in the military. There will be a four-star unified combatant commander, and probably a four-star service commander, what the Air Force calls a Major Command (MAJCOM) commander; the Army has a similar construct which seems to always be double-billed as a unified Army commander (for example, Gen McKiernan is currently commander of US Army Europe and also commander, Seventh US Army).
This is a larger effort than the USAF standing up its new Cyber Command, which will be dedicated to information warfare. The current plan appears to have 8th Air Force transform into a cyber warfighting organization. The aim appears to be to have Cyber Command eventually be a MAJCOM unto itself.
It’s kind of exciting to see a peek at what’s around the block, but frankly, the peek is all the excitement I think I’m going to get. I’m just going to kick back and enjoy flying the worlds’ greatest legacy fourth generation fighter jet!
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23 Feb 2007 Update: The Combatant Command will be AFRICOM. There is a transition team at HQ EUCOM in Stuttgart, Germany that will determine whether USAFE will continue to play a role in AFRICOM as well as EUCOM, or whether a separate MAJCOM will be needed.
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