We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:00:53 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...when you rename a program, it's usually because it has garnered enough bad publicity that you are trying to drop the baggage. Which means, of course, as an analyst, you dig deeper to see what's being hidden. Sounds like they do that elsewhwere, too. I see that Gunner noticed, as well. While we're doing this - let's link to Alphecca's Weekly Check on the Bias, too! (Worth it for the pics alone!) Then there's this - calling all old farts! Remember those old Desk, Double Pedestal, Steel, that inhabited the Dayroom, CQ station, First Sergeant's and CO's offices? Guess what!... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:59:06 -0600 I had one of those desk in college...got it for $10, just like you, only mine came from the Lawrence Livermore Lab's version of DRMO. I'll bet you can still get them there, too. And some offices (like, say, the one I just vacated) still have them. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29905 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29905 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:47:49 -0600 I have an old from the forties oak desk with the Indiana Oak logo in the middle drawer. That desk is where we stash the desk top PC, the bills and I wouldn't part with it at all. It is the best desk we have ever had. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29874 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29874 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:05:30 -0600 "Everything old is new again..." ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29869 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29869 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:41:08 -0600 I'm reading and laughing because I'm sitting in one of those swivel chairs right now! Everybody asks why I don't get a new one, but I ensist on sitting on a 'real' Army chair when I do Army work. I guess if civilians have accepted $22m for an airplane & $600 for a hammer, $1200 for a dumpy chair is not unreasonable... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29868 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29868 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:38:15 -0600 Heh. Gee, Beth, I get the impression you are *not* impressed with my frugality... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29859 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29859 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:23:32 -0600 Thanks so much, John, I really appreciate your mentions of my "Weekly Check". You're one of the few that still do. And yes! Robert Langham's (Blackfork6) calendar photos are things of beauties; I'm lucky he offered them to me to post. --Jeff http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29858 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29858 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:22:36 -0600 darn thing antique desk up from our house, though.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29856 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/07/hmmm_changing_programs_checking_guns_and_surplus_sales.html#comment-29856 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:57:52 -0600