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Nebraskans Helping Out, A BlegPost updated on 9-3-2005! Now accepting PayPal donations! Scroll down for details. Last night I mentioned that I was helping out on a cool project to get a truckload of relief supplies delivered to Mississippi from my local community. Today,...What You Bought
Time for a Sheriff's Relief Fund update. Today I wrote a check and took it to the bank for deposit. Y'all donated $55 so far. The deposit slip is available for the donors to look at. If you wish to...*ALERT*
SD War College: *ALERT* Save the state GOP from taking a step backwards!...The Sheriff's Relief Fund
As you may know if you've been reading this blog, I'm trying to help out a local law enforcement agency get some relief supplies to Mississippi. Click here for my post with all the details. Here is a local news...Flight 93 Memorial to Honor Islam?!
Johnson takes undeserved credit"Crescent of Embrace" Selected Design
Few would protest the appropriateness of a memorial at the site of the crash of United Flight 93 near Shanksville, PA on 9-11. More than a few are apparently appalled, as is the Chief, by the design that was selected:
What in the world possesses some of these people when they do something like this. Here's the group of people featured on this evening's TV special (Discovery ch.) THE FLIGHT THAT FOUGHT BACK, being supposedly honored by a design that effectively creates a large Islamic crescent on the landscape using red-leaved trees.
Are they REALLY so dense as to be oblivious to the reactions to this, or is there some other agenda of uber-political correctness? One has to wonder.
Michelle Malkin has about as complete a presentation on this as anywhere, with links to other explanatory sites.
The Argus Leader has a report on a huge expansion of the Sioux Fgalls Morrell meat packing plant:Local and state leaders on Friday lauded John Morrell Co.'s $100 million expansion plans and emphasized the plant's importance to the city and...My Ongoing Bleg
I'm tremendously touched by the donations I've received so far for our local Sheriff's Relief Fund, a venture that aims to get a truckload of supplies delivered to Mississippi for distribution to local law enforcement/fire/EMT folks. (Click the link for...BRAC Report Goes to President
Base-closure panel finds overestimation of savings
The final Base Re-alignment and Closing Commission report has been sent to the President. The final version notably maintains Ellsworth AFB of South Dakota as a going concern. Hopefully, the report is accepted.
The Pentagon overestimated savings from base closings by $30 billion and some of its plans for streamlining the Army, Navy and Air Force might have made the services less efficient, a federal commission that reviewed the process said yesterday.With its five months of work complete, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voiced its concerns even as it approved roughly 86 percent of what Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld recommended as he sought to save money by getting rid of extra space in the domestic military network. That's on par with previous years, when commissions changed only about 15 percent of what the Pentagon proposed.
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