Blue Collar Muse

TSA is at it again. First it’s pulling 80 year old women aside for special attention. Now it’s vacationing families with toddlers and strollers. And what do you know … they found a 5 oz. bottle of lotion - two ounces more than the maximum allowed. It was confiscated. Did I mention they missed the scissors in the kids bag? **sigh**

Yesterday’s reading included a unique military unit tasked with identifying terrorist bomb makers with a view to being able to take them out. Today’s reading includes a unit tasked with killing bomb planters that does new fangled things in the old fashioned way. The current score is something like ODIN - 2400, Bad Guys - Goose Egg. But then they should have warned the mujahedin that making and planting IEDs was going to be a dangerous biz. ‘Course, they likely only intended it to be dangerous for US troops. Sucks to be wrong, don’t it …

H/T to Wired for a decidedly comedic break, here’s a guy that figures that if we can elect Hillary and get her two terms then we’ll have had 28 years of either a Clinton or Bush in the House on Pennsylvania. Course, he says 32 years in the video so maybe I missed something. Anyway …

OK, this one is just weird! When a young man decided to join the Air Force, his mom went along to make sure the recruiter was cutting the deal square. She was prior service and knew which end of the tube the round comes out of! To the surprise of both mother and son, the recruiter wasn’t just interested in the boy but the mom as well! Seems with her age and prior service she could re-enlist. She did - a reservist with the 507th Security Forces Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base! That’s not the weird part, though. The weird part is that her son, a reservist with the 610th Security Forces Squadron from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base and who is stationed in Iraq was relieved by his own mother who took over his duties in a guard tower at Kirkuk Regional Air Base in Iraq. The family that serves together and all …

Finally, this diary sat atop the Recommended list at RedState longer than any I’ve seen to date. And with good reason, it’s a great post. If you, too, are tired of the rhetoric and requests for money and the shine-ons and the slams emanating from political campaigns these days, there’s help. Don’t just tune them out. Turn away and head in another direction! Where to? I’ll let you click through and see why I, along with most everyone else at RedState, recommended this post.

That’s it for now. Enjoy the reading and come back again soon!

Blue

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