For my day off I drove down to Los Angeles and Hollywood.
My first stop was the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood. I got there right at opening and got really good service. The waitress informed me that the Los Angeles location was temporarily shut down; the landlord had raised the rent, and the HRC [...]
AP reports that Barack Obama told military vets that he would not lower the drinking age.
Army veteran Ernest Johnson, 23, of Connecticut, said one of the things that peeved him before he turned 21 was that he couldn’t come home and drink a beer — even though he was old enough to serve in the [...]
The discovery and publication of the whereabouts of Prince Harry of Wales involves interesting ethical issues on the part of the media and the military.
BBC reports that the British army will likely move Prince Harry out of Afghanistan for fear that he would become a prized target for the Taliban.
A famous personality in the military [...]
HT: The Corner
The Toledo Blade reports that Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (D) prevented a U.S. Marine company from Grand Rapids, Michigan, from staging training exercises in downtown Toledo.
Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday [...]
I was unable to reach Sgt. Bulmer for a followup interview to last year’s, so as a thank you to my dad and father-in-law who were drafted and who served, as well as my uncle who is a Master Sergeant in the Kansas Reserves and nearing retirement, here some choice phrases from Martin Luther’s “Whether [...]
It’s times like these where I’m not the most enthusiastic about state holidays. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, I’m teaching a class that nobody wants to attend but for force of keeping their job. The janitors have taken the weekend and today off, so the trash has piled up and the bathrooms need cleaning. Two-thirds of [...]
Class wasn’t in session Wednesday so we went to the beach a couple of hours early. Just south of Corpus Christi Beach is the U.S.S. Lexington, an aircraft carrier that had been converted to a museum. I was too cheap to buy a ticket and didn’t have enough time to see the whole thing, so [...]
The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Ohio and other veterans groups are seeking a ballot initiative to exempt VFW halls from the smoking ban passed last November.
Members-only VFW halls, which veterans believed fell under an exemption clause that appeared on the November ballot, shouldn’t have to comply, said William Seagraves, [...]
