News from the Northwoods

[...] ship in Norfolk Virginia, steamed across the submarine invested Atlantic, and landed in North Africa.  To provide air support after landing, an airfield was located, near the sea and on a river [...]

[...] in his "Army at Dawn" gives examples.  He is telling the story of the US Army in North Africa.  The Americans had recognized the effectiveness of the German Panzer divisions and had [...]

[...] and the  AUMF is useless.  Something like "All armed groups in the Middle East and North Africa who are not part of a UN recognized government, and, any UN recognized governments that [...]

[...] repasses them in the current lame duck session.  Fox is covering this. Question for you TV newsies.  What is in that $45 billion package?  More special favors for hedge funds and Wall St?  Let's [...]

[...] Garner and choking him to death is horrible.  I'm surprised it didn't get more airplay. If the TV newsies were doing their jobs, they would tell us who is organizing the demos, perhaps interview [...]

[...] TV newsies have been totally consumed by the "Torture Report".  The report itself is 6000 pages [...]

[...] epidemic starting at Disney land.  Lot of alarmist talk, including from Obama.  Lots of TV newsies talking about it. They didn't have those vaccines when I was a kid.  All kids had a case [...]

We got two, maybe three inches of new snow yesterday and last night.  It's below freezing (just barely) right now.  What with the seven inches we go [...]

We got 3.5 inches of  fresh powder last night.  It's 2 below zero this morning, and colder is promised for tomorrow. [...]

It snowed all day Tuesday, and we have 9 inches of fresh powder this morning.  No wind, so the snow is still on the trails rather than in the woods.� [...]

Mountain is is fine shape.  We got a sprinkling of new snow yesterday.  Sun is out this morning, and it's COLD.  Snow is forecast for the weekend.� [...]

Nothing happened yesterday until noon, when it started to snow, lightly.  Nothing worth mentioning until the sun went down.  By this morning I had 7 [...]

We got maybe two inches of fresh snow last night.  Temperature this morning is just below freezing.  [...]

After a steady all day yesterday hype on TV, the snow did start to fall up here just about 7 AM this morning.  No snow fell overnight.  It's cold, 1 [...]

It's snowing right now.  We have maybe 2-3 inches down and it's still falling.  What with the 9 inches we got on Tuesday, the mountain will be in gr [...]

[...] Issa's committee has Gruber up on TV and they are doing him medium rare.  Gruber made the TV news for a number of speeches in which he called the American voters "dumb" or " [...]

[...] TV news is full of the Allan Gross story.  The Cubans released Gross from a Cuban jail and allowed him to [...]

[...] that is.  When some unnamed group[s] ran off some demos on Manhattan.  The demos made the TV news.  The video of four or five cops piling onto Garner and choking him to death is horrible.  I'm [...]

[...] CIA Torture Report is getting released today.  The executive summary (introduction for Congress critters) is 480 pages long!!!  The whole report is 6000 pages.  Who in their right mind can wade [...]

[...] for hedge funds and Wall St?  Let's have some details.  Otherwise we should be calling our Congress critters to urge them to vote no.  [...]

[...] .  It was the Democrat Congress critters that Gruber was able to flim flam into sticking us with Obamacare.  The voters weren't dumb, [...]