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guered troops weary from their march back to calais for convoy to england to achieve one of the greatest military upsets in history outnumbered 5 to 1 over fields freshly planted with winter wheat the english victory proved decisive in the hundred years war and crippled the french army we few we happy few we band of brothers for he to day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother be he ne er so vile this day shall gentle his condition and gentlemen in england now a bed shall think themselves accurs d they were not here and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon saint crispin s day posted by deichmans 05 00 0 comments 11 9 15 never forget posted by deichmans 06 46 1 comments 11 9 14 never forget posted by deichmans 06 46 0 comments 11 9 13 never forget posted by deichmans 06 30 0 comments 23 3 13 reagan s star wars 30 years later in february 2011 my blogfriends at chicago boyz hosted a reagan centenary roundtable in honor of the 100th birthday of our 40th president my contribution to that round table was a celebration of president reagan s star wars speech a speech that he gave thirty years ago today it is ironic that sequestration per the budget control act of 2011 risks trimm ing to the limits of safety our defense budget which is exactly what president reagan was trying to undo his logic was simple a strong military was a credible deterrent and deterrence was the basis by which weapons of mass destruction could become obsolete so to commemorate the 30th anniversary of reagan s compelling speech on global security is a blast from the wayback machine 6 2 11 a new hope for our children in the 21st century crossposted from chicagoboyz net which is hosting a reagan centenary roundtable in honor of the 100th birthday of our 40th president tomorrow afternoon monday february 7th 2011 the first monday in february president obama will deliver his fiscal year 2012 presidential budget to the congress this is the opening act of our annual budgetary tango with copious debate over the coming months of the necessary trades between programs on march 23rd 1983 a few weeks after president reagan presented his fiscal 1984 budget to congress he gave his famous star wars speech to a national televised audience although star wars was the derisive name opponents used to mock the fantastic nature of the president s vision president reagan s speech was singularly focused on restoring american military strength and credibility and to pave the way for arms control measures to eliminate the nuclear weapons themselves ironically unlike president kennedy s 1962 speech at rice university that was fully focused on the seemingly impossible challenge of putting a man on the moon and rice defeating texas in football reagan s call to the scientific community in our country those who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete warranted only a couple of sentences in an otherwise lengthy speech rather this speech was part of a careful long term plan to make america strong again after too many years of neglect and mistakes and when coupled with president reagan s evil empire speech to the national association of evangelicals in orlando just two weeks prior was a deliberate escalation of cold war rhetoric president reagan was rightfully concerned that the defense budget had been trimmed to the limits of safety by congress this decay of u s armed forces led reagan to improve the basic readiness and staying power of our conventional forces so they could meet and therefore help deter a crisis but his confidence in the logic of deterrence had limits the star wars speech presented to the world reagan s realization that deterrence based solely on commensurate offensive capabilities was fallacious over the course of these discussions i have become more and more deeply convinced that the human spirit must be capable of rising above dealing with other nations and human beings by threatening their existence wouldn t it be better to save lives than to avenge them are we not capable of demonstrating our peaceful intentions by applying all our abilities and our ingenuity to achieving a truly lasting stability i think we are indeed we must the strategic defense initiative organization sdio precursor to today s missile defense agency was founded the following year 1984 reagan realized the complexity of the task noting in his speech that it may not be accomplished before the end of this century yet the u s army patriot terminal defense system performed admirably in early 1991 during desert storm and today s u s navy standard missile 3 sm 3 has been used to destroy a failing satellite operation burnt frost february 2008 as well as form the future foundation of land based european missile defense and our nation s phased adaptive approach addendum as of march 2013 secdef hagel has announced a nearly 50 increase in our ground based interceptor arsenal at fort greely alaska as a hedge against a nascent north korean threat the magnitude of the technical challenge caused many to blanche in 1983 and to ridicule the president yet today s successes would never have been possible if president reagan had not had the faith to launch an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history for that we have a new hope for our children in the 21st century posted by deichmans 02 00 0 comments 5 3 13 open letter to congress now that the sequester the by product of the budget control act of 2011 has been invoked i have sent an open letter to my congressman cong doug lamborn co 05 and senators sen michael bennet and sen mark udall explaining the negative impact of their delayed implementation of such a drastic measure while i do believe a 10 cut in discretionary spending accounts is a good idea waiting until the waning months of a fiscal year to invoke it profoundly magnifies the consequences dear senator bennet senator udall and congressman lamborn i am writing as a constituent a federal employee and a concerned citizen our current state of sequestration is a dangerous condition that risks derailing our tenuous economic recovery the delays in enforcing the budget control act of 2011 while seemingly good in the short term are compounding the effects on those who serve our nation as civilian employees now that the sequester has been invoked my employer the missile defense agency at schriever afb is planning 22 days of federal furloughs in the final few months of the fiscal year the only way to be compliant with the law as now written is one day per week furloughs of civilian employees in my case that 20 reduction in duty hours translates to a 27 net loss in take home pay since health benefits and life insurance costs are constant i urge you and your fellow senators and representatives on both sides of the aisle to consider the ripple effects of such a drastic cut in take home pay for the tens of thousands of federal employees in colorado please work to resolve this issue on behalf of all of your constituents sincerely yours shane deichman posted by deichmans 06 14 2 comments 1 2 13 starbucks fail i admit it we re addicted to caffeine trimethylxanthine freshly pulled espresso with a layer of coda del topo crema nearly 12 years ago we made a major appliance upgrade dropping 175 at starbucks in early 2001 for their barista espresso machine this barista model was based on the vapore brand from italy and for years we have relied on the pre tamped filtered espresso pods you see in the foreground of the barista a package of 12 regular or decaf has always been 4 95 or less than 45 cents per pod after taxes unfortunately the introduction of the recently released verismo system has made finding my old barista pods a challenge having tried the verismo espresso at a store demo i was very impressed perfect coda del topo stream of delicate light brown crema cascading into a perfect shot of espresso however i was reluctant to make the plunge due to the steep price point 1 07 per pod after taxes compounded by the fact that each verismo pod only produces one 1 fl oz 10g now those of you who know a fluid ounce is just 29g must be marveling at that variance but it is exactly what we observed at home once we bought the system starbucks sweetened the deal by tossing in four boxes of pods with the purchase of the system and for the first week we were quite pleased i even took it to a neighbor s party burning through a good portion of our inventory but then we started to see the warts on this system pods inserted into the top slot and then mechanically inserted into the brewing housing would slip and fall unused into the internal waste bin the latte pods which i did not sample during the earlier demo tasty tinny and bitter and we noticed the variance in the final product volume which was always less than expected in fact it took 3 4 pods to replicate a grande latte 3 00 each not very different from the price at starbucks and i m not getting any stars on my goldcard when i called the dedicated verismo service center they told me that the faulty feeder mechanism is a known issue and refused to exchange my system for that purpose they also said that if i wanted to return my system through them i would have to purchase a new system plus shipping then use their provided return label to ship my old system back and only after their receipt of the old system would they credit my account yeah uh not so yesterday i cleaned our verismo repacked it in the box which cinchouse saved despite my initial enamored state and took it back to the starbucks where i bought it and we re now back to searching for barista pods posted by deichmans 19 17 0 comments 11 11 12 veterans remembrance day reposting from my veterans day post of 2007 the armistice that ended the great war world war i was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month november 11th 1918 europeans commemorate this day as armistice day americans as veterans day and citizens of the commonwealth as remembrance day poppies grow in profusion in flanders northern belgium where many many casualties of the war were buried the poem in flanders fields was written by a canadian physician lieutenant colonel john mccrae in the trenches on the battle front a day after he witnessed the death of his friend lieutenant alexis helmer the poem in flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses row on row that mark our place and in the sky the larks still bravely singing fly scarce heard amid the guns below we are the dead short days ago we lived felt dawn saw sunset glow loved and were loved and now we lie in flanders fields take up our quarrel with the foe to you from failing hands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high if ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep though poppies grow in flanders fields as we honor the service of those who ensure our security let us also remember those who gave their last full measure of devotion in flanders fields and elsewhere posted by deichmans 11 00 0 comments 10 11 12 happy birthday devil dogs posted by deichmans 00 01 0 comments 4 11 12 liberty marching band claims 2nd among colorado 4a bands the liberty high school pride of the lancers marching band did their best performance of the year in the colorado bandmasters association 4a final winning 2nd place for the first time in school history go lancers posted by deichmans 01 18 0 comments 3 10 12 go a s the oakland a s swept the texas rangers to win the american league west overcoming a five game deficit just a week ago now if the red sox can get it together and beat the yankees then oakland will become the 1 seed in the a l playoffs for this 2012 season and props to the baltimore orioles here s to an oakland baltimore alcs in a couple weeks posted by deichmans 17 56 0 comments 11 9 12 never forget posted by deichmans 06 41 0 comments 25 8 12 united states of arrogance u s gymnast mckayla maroney s frown on the podium following her silver medal women s vault performance represents a common theme in america these days nobody likes second best ap photo julie jacobson referenced from wtop fm in washington dc http wtop com in track and field team usa sprinters who came in second cried in anguish at losing rather than elation at being the second fastest in the world and michael phelps who has won more gold medals than anyone in olympic history has won medals was also visibly amazed that he didn t add to his fort knox haul of olympic precious metals in one of the early events in london last month while usa basketball fields an all star lineup of nba professionals i must admit i get bored with lebron and kobe trouncing opponent after opponent and would have been thrilled to see an upset so that s the other extreme coupled with an expectation of utter dominance given the superhuman dedication these athletes commit to their sports i suppose it s understandable when they discover that their tens of thousands of hours of sweat and tears isn t good enough for a wheaties box or a cover photo on sports illustrated though mckayla seems to have cracked the code for going viral even with silver but this underscores an irony in american sports today we want shut out victories with wide margins to proclaim our significance yet we disdain those who take performance enhancing drugs at least that s what the u s anti doping agency usada would have you believe check out the usada website their banner proclaims they are protecting the rights of athletes and inspiring true sport and their logo truncates two stripes of the american flag into a equal sign yet their behavior demonstrates otherwise which is why i applaud lance armstrong for challenging their legitimacy in international competition especially when usada s charter specifies that their role is to serve as the official anti doping agency for olympic pan american and paralympic sport in the united states they are a non profit non government agency that is a subcontractor to the u s olympic committee and the office of national drug control policy i had the privilege of sharing an office floor with them when my team was in a commercially managed government leased site we had suite 210 of tech center ii in the colorado springs technological park while usada had suite 200 so this is an agency i ve been aware of for the past couple of years when they first moved into their 18 000 square foot class a office suite at tc ii usada is admittedly working in an evolving field where prohibited substances are frequently added to and removed from the world anti doping agency s wada s list in fact wada updates their list annually with easy to access search tools and even iphone and ipad apps but usada has taken on an attitude of entitlement and authority that is well beyond their olympic pan american and paralympic charter bottom line the list of banned substances is dyna...