As anyone who follows Virtual Mirage knows, the Chinese continue to build out military bases in the Spratley and Parcels Islands in the South China Sea. This video gives a deeper explanation including the infamous 9 dash line and Cabbage … Continue reading
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Our friend Alma Boykin has a new novel out and it’s… Steampunk!!! Click the cover to go to the Amazon page to get it! The blurb- Antalia — Where queens and Huntresses rule. Antalia — Where magic is anathema and … Continue reading
My friend Peter, over at Bayou Renaissance Man is up for a literary award! Quoting him here- I was happily surprised to find that my first Western novel, ‘Brings The Lightning‘, has been nominated for the Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance‘s Book … Continue reading
Haven’t done a car lately, and a side conversation today got me thinking about Hurst branded cars… Back in the 60s/70s, if you had a 4 speed, and could afford it, you put a Hurst shifter on it. Hurst also … Continue reading
I almost hit a woman yesterday in OKC when she blindly stepped out into traffic while fiddling with her phone… So it’s kinda ironic that I get this in a email last night… PLEASE get off the damn phones if … Continue reading
Hyperbole or just plain old tantrums??? The President is giving an address to Congress tomorrow night and the Dems/Media are continuing to meltdown… Some are supposedly going to not attend, some supposedly are going to crowd the aisle then turn … Continue reading
If you’re an engineer that is… 🙂 ENGINEER IDENTIFICATION TEST You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked. You… Straighten it. Ignore it. Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a … Continue reading
The unsung (on purpose) heroes of the intelligence world… Many sailors and airmen have been lost on ‘missions’ that never existed, or were never actually attributed, their deaths noted as ‘training accidents’ in some cases… Today, I’d like to draw … Continue reading
The VA has finally gotten regulations out for the water issues at Camp LeJeune! VA has published regulations to establish presumptions for the service connection (SC) of eight diseases associated with exposure to contaminants in the water supply at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The … Continue reading
As if anybody trusted Wiki-anything, there is this… Bot wars over changes… Yasseri believes the work serves as an early warning to companies developing bots and more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools. An AI that works well in the lab … Continue reading