Afghan Training
Afghan soldiers train with wooden rifles.
Don’t you just love their slings.
–And you thought we had a funding problem.
Afghan soldiers train with wooden rifles.
Don’t you just love their slings.
–And you thought we had a funding problem.
Just a little bit of info from Las Vegas, Nevada by Steve Miller writing for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com:
Rick and Lisa Rizzolo found a brilliant way to hide their personal wealth and inspire the court to substitute the Crazy Horse building and property as a means of generating the $28 million. They hired the brother of [...]
This is from the NYT:
For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they would no longer be at high risk of dying from heart disease. But a major federal study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with Type 2 diabetes has found that lowering blood [...]
For a long time I’ve made fun of ole “Walnuts” McCain, but as I look around at the various candidates I think I’m going to vote for him.
I was going to vote for Ron Paul, not because I think he has a chance, but because none-of-the-above doesn’t count.
I watch the back room BS that you [...]
There’s a bug of some kind going around. It doesn’t feel like a normal head cold and it isn’t really like the flu.
I’ve had a sore throat, a sinus headache, drainage, a persistent cough and so on. Benadryl cold and allergy seems to help, but hot tea with lemon and honey does almost as much [...]
This is from this morning’s NYT:
Mrs. Clinton scored a clear victory measured in the number of people attending the caucuses on her behalf. But Mr. Obama’s campaign was successful by another measure — in the allocation of delegates to the national nominating convention, a result of a complex formula that gave more weight to votes [...]
Just a brief note on the gerrymandering here on the strip.
The caucus takes place on Saturday morning. –This leaves out Observant Jews.
The votes cast in these new at large precincts carry five times as much weight as normal precincts. –In other words, for every two votes cast in the hotels there must be 10 votes [...]
ger·ry·man·dered, ger·ry·man·der·ing, ger·ry·man·ders
To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party or group in elections.
Obama will win Nevada because a judge has decided that gerrymandering is ok by him.
Mr Obama won the endorsement of the Culinary Workers Union, the biggest service sector union, earlier this month. Giving [...]
In July 2007, President Bush signed a controversial executive order on the treatment of suspects detained by the CIA which did not outlaw the agency’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as water-boarding.
In December, the House of Representatives approved a bill that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding.
President George [...]
Nevada Supreme Court Justice Saitta again in the news
This is another blog on our most beloved Supreme Court Judge.
Why would anyone want to cast aspersions on the reputation of such a respected civil servant.
Just because, while she sat on the District Court bench, she was the most reversed judge in the state.
Just because the Nevada [...]