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Eleven, Eleven, Eleven
When the Bell Tolls Tuesday, November 11th at 11 a.m. we pause to honor all who have served in our armed forces. That now famous hour signaled the end of the First World War in 1918. This 11/11/11 is...
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Pope Francis as Company Officer
Francis Anybody hanging around a firehouse for a bit has come across the unhappy crew intent on driving their leader crazy. Perhaps it is the unfortunate officer’s first posting or possibly a mutiny in...
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Vic, AU: CFA Cuts, UFUA Howls
“…job cuts are ill-conceived and stupid” CFA at work Victoria, Australia’s Country Fire Authority (CFA), the state agency providing fire service outside Melbourne, Geelong, and other cities is cutting...
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A Tar Baby and a Rented Mule
All the World’s a Slur Former Governor and GOP stalwart Haley Barbour was (partially) hung out to dry last week over employing the term “tar babies” in describing some of President Obama’s policy...
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Legacy of the Big Black Buck
Race, Sex and Social Media The most powerful southern racist narrative involves swarthy and virile black men, slaves originally, having their way with lily white belles while the master is out. The...
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Twittercide: The Social Media Transaction
A Van and A Flag This week saw the sacking of Emily Thornberg, British Member of Parliament, from her job as a “shadow minister” because of an uproar over a photo she tweeted, sans caption. The photo:...
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Safety: Hillsborough at 25
Crowd Control or Part of One? Pay Attention. Hillsborough 1989 2014 is the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough football disaster when 96 fans were killed and 766 injured in a crowd crush in Sheffield,...
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A Tale of Two Wars: JFK and Obama
Nobody Likes to Lose, Especially Generals John Kennedy was shot and killed 51 years ago this week. He had served in WWII in the South Pacific and been seriously injured when his torpedo patrol boat,...
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FDNY History: A Roar Amidst the Flames
Steamer Tremont The Tremont was a 260-foot long, side-wheel paddle-steamer plying the waters between Providence, RI and New York. She originally made the Boston to New York run but the burgeoning...
View ArticleFerguson: Two Wrongs, No Right
Michael Brown The video of the theft using force and violence from the shop is crucial. It proves that Brown was capable of aggressive, threatening and physical behavior. It also clearly shows his...
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The Safety Fix: Learning From Cockpit Operations
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Politics and Patriotism: Torture, Religion & Truth
This week the US Senate released a report detailing CIA abuses related to torture and other mistreatment of detainees. Partisan lines are drawn around the issue of the disclosure of the report where...
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Some Kimchi Blow Back
Sony “Un” Done “Pass the Cheese” Leave it to Hollywood to assume that they can make a film depicting the assassination of the world’s most vicious dictator and that he would happily go along with it,...
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DCFD, the West End and “Air Rights”
Washington’s West End is tucked in between Foggy Bottom and the Dupont/Kalorama neighborhoods. It also perches on the edge of the now fashionable Georgetown. Early on the area was a modest Black...
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All In The Family
Make That A #4 To Go Life may be one big tragedy but where kids and guns are concerned there is a hierarchy of devastation. 1) The worst has to be a parent killing a child; 2) Then any adult killing a...
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Selma
Lyndon and Martin at the Movies In this 50th anniversary year of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, a new film directed by Ava DuVernay tells a version of the story of the march from Selma to...
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Winning: Battle NOLA @ 200 Years
Seesaw on the Mississippi War consists of two basic options: defense or offense. The middle ground is the perilous transition between the two, mastered only by the truly expert. Two hundred years ago...
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“Fairy” Tale Atlanta: Kelvin and the Beasts
Daniel in the Den: Rubens According to media, Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran, a former US Fire Administrator, has been terminated for lack of judgment in publishing and disseminating a book which...
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Train Safety: The Lessons of 9/11
Stay or Go? In this era of terror mayhem it behooves us all to think through how we would react in a potentially lethal environment. This past Monday afternoon a Washington, D.C., metrorail train...
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Australian Firefighters Score Major Victory
United Firefighters Union (UFUA) Over Country Fire Authority (CFA) CFA at work The Federal Court in Australia recently overturned an earlier lower court decision governing staffing in the Country Fire...
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