I'm Just Saying...

Well folks I'm having a "Monkey Brain" day again so ask the kids to leave the room until the attack is over and let's see what's in the swinging vines today....

Oh, I see our little buddies in North Korea are at it again.... More than 250 flights in and out of South Korea have experienced GPS signal jamming since the weekend, with North Korea high on the list of suspects. Similar jamming in the past was traced to the reclusive North, which last month breached U.N. Security Council resolutions with a failed long-range rocket launch and was blamed for cyber attacks on South Korean financial institutions last year. Fortunately, none of the flights, including 11 operated by foreign airlines, was in danger with automatic switching of navigation to alternative systems. News reports said North Korea operates vehicle-mounted jamming devices that can disrupt signals up to 100 km (60 miles) away and is developing systems with further reach.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Kabul hours after President Obama left the country. The Taliban, what a wonderful bunch of people. I'll bet they are a lot of fun to be around. You know who I mean... the guys that, when they were in control in Afghanistan, executed men for not growing beards, stoned women for prostitution -women who had been widowed, had no money or income and were not allowed to get jobs and work without their husbands permission (how's that for a catch 22?). The same guys that have been poisoning little girls to keep them from going to school and who have sent suicide bombers to several peace negotiations over the past couple of years... And we (the US) are now asking them to come and talk about how they can rejoin Afghan society as we withdraw in order the ensure peace... Makes your head hurt? Yeah, me too.

The battleship USS Iowa (BB 61) has been taken out of mothballs and donated to the "Pacific Battleship Center". That's a good thing because it will become a museum at the Port of Los Angeles later this year (and I'll get to visit it). The really interesting part to me was that, in order to donate the ship, the Navy and the Pacific Battleship Center had to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act -and meeting all the federal regulations involved cost tens of thousands of dollars and took many months. It just goes to prove that, when it comes to the Federal Government -Nothing is Easy....

OK, - 'noughs enough. I'll quite for today. Ya'll have a great day, hear?

Live Long and Prosper...