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Well, it’s ‘official’ the Army investigation of Hasan has come out with their report and guess what???

The military investigation into the Ft. Hood terrorist attack has concluded what the rest of us already knew–that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was allowed to regularly violate his oath and openly promote subversive Islamic extremism since 2005…to protect “diversity.” link
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And this whole brouhaha over the laptops in PA is, I think, the tip of the iceburg… First the kid who was ‘confronted’ by the asst. principal over a photo saying he was doing drugs, that now the school system says doesn’t exist and the student “made up” the whole thing, to an admission that the software was used 42 times “to recover lost or stolen laptops”…

And they have disabled the functionality…

And oops, they’re sorry they didn’t tell anyone (students OR parents) about it…

Now other students are coming forward saying that they saw the green light (signifying the camera was on) at various times. Now lemme see, these were take home units, so they probably ended up in the kid’s bedrooms (male AND female)…

And now the FBI is involved…

And the school district has released a statement HERE

One can only wonder how many OTHER times that software has been used and what was seen??? I’m betting if the truth EVER comes out, this system was used on a regular basis, and somebody or somebodies probably got an eye full on more than one occasion… I’d also bet that even though the school system is saying they will preserve the “evidence”; some people at that school are sweating bullets and hoping that erase feature really DOES work on those monitoring computers…

Just sayin…

And in the latest retraction on the globull warming front…

A study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report’s author now says true estimate is still unknown!

“Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.”


The link is HERE in part the article states, “Siddall said that he did not know whether the retracted paper’s estimate of sea level rise was an overestimate or an underestimate.”

Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: “It’s one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science.” He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study’s conclusion.

“Retraction is a regular part of the publication process,” he said. “Science is a complicated game and there are set procedures in place that act as checks and balances.”


I find it rather interesting that I have seen NOTHING in the US press about this retraction… Anybody??? (crickets)

And some more history- This time WWII specifically Iwo Jima in photographs taken mostly by Air Corps photogs the link is HERE

There are some duplicates, but worth the time. I thought I had seen/studied a good bit about Iwo and Saipan, but I’ve never seen a lot of these!!!

Some of them are NOT pretty, included are some rare photos of aftermath of the last Banzi charge after the island had been declared “secure”

Think about it Squadron Commander at 23 years of age. About 100 hours of flight time when they went into air combat. This also shows the terrible conditions these guys had to live and fight in. They wrecked more P-51’s than probably today exist!

High winds, cross winds, shot up airplanes, 8 hour missions, volcanic dust and sand took their toll… AND THEY KEPT FLYING!


God Bless Them!!!

Sorry for the scattershots today, but I’m back on the road, so trying to get things on ‘paper’ that I’ve heard yesterday and today…

Comments

In Other News… — 6 Comments

  1. I couldn’t belong to the John Birch Society, yet this douche bag can make radical statements and belong to radical groups.

    Yeah,I’d say the PC police are in full swing in the military.

    As to the kids and laptops – welcome to Big Brother kids – now get use to it – or do something about it other than bitch about it.

  2. When I served in the early 60’s I believed officers and senior NCO’s would put their careers on the line for what was right. Was I just young and naivete?

  3. To think of all the public schools my son attended in different states, not a single public school would allow the students to bring home school books to help them improved their grades. This school let them bring school computers home? I wonder if school in the article allowed school books to taken home or just the special web cam computers?

    S

  4. CS- Good points!

    WSF- Yes and no… There were politicians even in those days, but ‘most’ of the senior NCO’s had been in combat, and they DID stand up for the troops.

    Julie- yeah, home Thurs…

    S Phillips- you comment stunned me- I ALWAYS took books home! Some schools now have e books, so they are ALL on the laptops, I don’t know where this school district falls out.

  5. Military moves are always an adventure! I had to go the principal of one school to get permission to bring his school books to motel to catch my son up to the new school because they didn’t allow books to come home. The school had 3 teachers for each grade. Each teacher taught 2 subjects. This way the school only had to buy one set of books for a classroom on a subject. That’s why books were not allowed to come home.
    S. Phillips