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Shady Schait: Facing the Music
First Time Ever Harold Schaitberger There are a few people, Kelly Fox, Jim Lee and Kevin O’Connor among them, who were in Harold Schaitberger’s original “Inner Circle” and who recall how he dominated...
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War: Deadly Kabul Hospital Attack
Never-Ending Afghanistan Yesterday’s Attack We may have gone to war in Afghanistan in 2001 to destroy Bin Laden and al Qaeda, but yesterday’s deadly attack on a military hospital in Kabul which killed...
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Great Wall: Trump Targets FEMA
Proposed $370M Cut Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise, a multi-billion dollar wall on the southern border, will apparently be paid for, at least in part, by steep cuts to FEMA. Politico reports...
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History: Some Presidential Tweets
General George Washington on Traitor Benedict Arnold Damn that Arnold, traitor turn-coat, left wife behind too, no worry-we will treat her well–pretty young thing. SO SAD! Adams to Jefferson on...
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Ethics: The Navy and Fat Leonard
7th Fleet Mafia The US Justice Department has charged nine more senior Navy officials in the long-running scandal where the Japan-based 7th fleet staff conducted what amounts to a continuing criminal...
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Guiding: Springtime, Sort Of
Out and About The snow is nearly melted from the other day’s surprise weather and the pace of the guiding season is picking up. To wit, some images from around town. Scaffolding is up at the Jefferson...
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IAFF in Court: Shady Schait Goes Fishing
Forty-One Years My Union Card That’s how long I have been a proud member of the IAFF, I joined in 1976 when I was nineteen-years-old and W.H. “Howie” McClennan was our International President; I met...
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IAFF Spying and Corruption: Backdraft Writes In
“As a 38 year IAFF member, I have to confess that I must not have been paying attention. As close as I am to retirement, it would be so easy to ignore this stuff. However, if we can’t operate our...
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Joe Blow on Pete Gorman
“Joe Blow”, a sometimes commenter who often takes me to the woodshed, at least metaphorically, wrote in responding to a recent Dave Anders rant about me, the IAFF and Gorman. Pete Gorman He had this to...
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James Jackson and His Emmett Till Thing
Sexual Rage and Deadly Racism Timothy Caughman Last week, James Jackson of Baltimore, an Army veteran, traveled to New York and stabbed Timothy Caughman to death on a city street “in order to launch a...
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Guiding: The Longest Day
George Mason, Invaded. Yesterday afternoon was the end of a 4-day tour of Washington, DC, with thirty of the most exuberant seventh grade boys ever collected into a single group, I think. I hollered...
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Guiding: St. Pete and a Global Mom
I toured with fifth-graders and their parents the other day and we concluded with an evening visit to the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. Daily News (The Pentagon was struck by a commercial jet on that day and...
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Guiding: Arlington Seen and Heard
This past Wednesday was a glorious day here in Washington with the sky cloudless and the temperature a sweet 75 degrees, a superb day to be out and about. Those familiar with DC will know that the city...
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War: Boys and Their Toys
July Fourth, Early This past Thursday the US military deployed the GBU-43, the largest non-nuclear weapon in the arsenal, at a cave site reputed to be used by ISIS in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province....
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Guiding: The Wall and Ritual
The Vietnam Veterans Wall, opened in 1982, is a shade under 500 feet long with over 58,000 names of those killed or missing etched into its shiny black panels. While other war memorials also list...
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Schaitberger on USFA’s Onieal: “Take Him Out”
Harold Schaitberger IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger has reportedly indicated that he will “take out” Denis Onieal, the acting administrator of the United States Fire Administration (USFA)....
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Trump and the Civil War: He’s Right
Give the Douche Bag His Due Regarding the Civil War, Trump asked “why it could not have been worked out” and then observed that he “always felt that the South overplayed their hand.” In Trumpian...
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Guiding: Bring Out the Bilge Pump
A basic tenet of guiding is that, with a few exceptions, if the client wishes to venture forth, we do. Many is the day I have looked outside from my glassed-in porch and breathed a sigh of relief that...
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Comey (Mostly) Self Destructs
Comey Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey because the short-term political stars aligned nearly perfectly in the president’s favor. Comey is to blame for the circumstances. In the Clinton email...
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Fairfax: The Best of “Family Night”
No Moms Left Behind Peggy Fox, a WUSA reporter, talked to a parent who confirmed that during a recent Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Family Night for recruit firefighters, a “captain said that “some...
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