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The Post is talking about a guy from Arkansas who scaled the White House fence today. Not entirely sure why the Arkansas connection is in the lead of the story, but I guess they don’t much else. Reminds me of a trip to the White House a few years ago when I talked to a Secret Service agent about ‘crazies’ trying to visit the White House. He said “We don’t get that many crazy people, but you’d be suprised how many people ‘God tells’ to go talk to the President.” By the way, did you know the Secret Service has a SWAT team called The Counter Assault team. Pretty spooky name.]]>

The Post reports that the Commanders in Chief trophy was stolen from the Naval Academy the other day. Of course Army (who has a 4 game win streak underway) is suspected as being the culprit. All that the note said is that it is somewhere on the way to West Point right now. Still not as good as when Navy stole the mules a few years back, but at least their trying….]]>

How many have you heard of? I have to confess I’d only heard of two, and wasn’t that familiar with the exploits of the others. But Medal of Honor winners and famous generals are now the subject of a new set of stamps from the Post Office. Sometimes if you get bored with Tom Clancy, you should check out the Medal of Honor citation logs. They are pretty impressive stories of brave guys in the face of serious trouble. Medal of Honor Citation listings
Iraq Medal of Honor (only one, so far)
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Washington Post has finally come out and confirmed what I’ve been talking about for awhile. A late October inspection sweep of 400 buses by a task force of federal, state and local authorities turned up more than 500 safety-related violations, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates interstate bus and truck companies. This came in response to two recent bus burnings on the popular DC-NY-Boston corridor. Needlesss to say, I have a big case of “I told you so” today.]]>