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Built by North American Aviation, the B-25 first flew in 1940 and the U.S. Army Air Corps had accepted the first five in 1941. It was named in honor of Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell (
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A shorter entry this week as I am recovering from a health scare late last week. I am feeling better, thank you, but have a fair number of unpleasant tests to get through to discover the root cause. (As an aside: pay attention to what your body and...
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"Once again we hear the word precision from people who think bombs can be precise...” - The Prince Myshkins, Ministry of Oil Brilliant opening line to a heartrending song from 2003. Full lyrics and a Holly Near cover after the text. Ms. Near’s version...
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Good morning, trial chickadees. As always, my comments and those of DRo will be in the comments not updates. We both appreciate the great input from the community at large. I will add a link to Mark Sumner’s diary at the top of this intro when he...
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With the exception of the early years of the NBA, there have not been large numbers of Jewish players in the 4 professional sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL). That is quickly changing in the NHL (National Hockey League), where there are now more...
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A Severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to lash at earth around 03:00 — 09:00 UTC Friday night / Saturday morning. A series of strong solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections took place Wed and Thu, directed towards Earth. These originated from a...
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If you are like me, you will need mental health breaks to maintain your sanity this year. For my part, I am starting my day with a great song, working alphabetically by song title (note: this does ...
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This�isn’t my typical photography. I took these photos�with an iPhone —�of flowers to begin with. But Ms. JG and I were so taken with the colors on our walk this morning, and I wanted to share ...
by Jeff Graham
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. You can find our collection of public data at dailykosdata.com .
Please note: The Live Digest is a ...
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CNN has published a deeply troubling report on the torture that Israel is committing on Gazan detainees at the Sde Teiman prison in Israel’s Negev desert. The Israeli whistleblower revealed that detainees, some of whom are innocent surgeons and...
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A lot has changed since I first wrote about E-bikes back in 2020. Today sales of E-bikes are vastly outpacing sales of electric cars. Seems like they’re everywhere now. In 2023 roughly 40 million E-bikes were sold worldwide. I was just at the local...
by Major Kong
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When I saw the photo of the stranded horse atop a roof in the Brazilian floods I was heart broken as I tend to care a bit more for non-human animals. But Caramelo has been rescued! The full story and even a video of the rescue is here. The fact that...
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Is the gag order working? Donald Trump’s attorneys attempted Thursday to throw out his hush-money case on the basis that the trial had unnecessarily turned into an evolving tale about Trump’s less than stellar sexual trysts. During testimony delivered...
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by PresidentOso
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n WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…
I am reading:
Slow Horses by ...
by Chitown Kev
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Most of these � Boosting Biden � posts deal with ways that Joe Biden has helped all Americans. But Biden has also done a lot of targeted things that only local folks know about. Honestly, too often ...
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Sometimes the corruption at the core of right-wing politics is so blatant, it just takes your breath away. �That is certainly the case with the Washington Post’...
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Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News!
I admit, sometimes the news scares me.
Thereâs a lot of evil in the world. When I look at Hamas, when I look at Russia, when I look at Iran and the ...
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Cheers everyone and welcome to Friday’s Morning Open Thread. Yesterday, the grandson of the owner of the company I work for got me a laptop for home use—so�I am not confined to the small screen ...
by P Carey
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