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Random notes on the news
Iread recently that the Air Force doesn't plan to retire the B-52 bomber until 2037. That will be about 80 years since it first went into service, and surely the longest-lived airframe in the history of our military and possibly anyone else's for that matter.

From the Editor's Desk Arthur McLean
The B-52 stratofortress, that icon of Vietnam and the nuclear cold war still sees active duty in places like Afghanistan, and thanks to rebuilt airframes, new, computer driven avionics and satellite-guided smart bombs, they're more effective than ever before.

Maybe it's true what they say, you're not getting older, you're getting better. I think they may be right. I've been around a few 80-year-olds who've dropped a few deadly bombs - silent, but deadly.

Iran

Does anyone think Iran's ever going to play nice once they actually do have a nuke? Look at what's happening now with the British sailors captured in the open ocean. This is only going to get worse. If there really is an Iranian populace that's ready to throw off the shackles of its current government and give democracy and capitalism a try, then we should by all means encourage them to do so.

Iraq

The thought occurred to me the other day. There's a civil war going on in Iraq. How long after we pull out of Iraq before the U.N. calls for peace keepers to be stationed there?

Ashes to ashes

There's a line in one of David Bowie's songs that goes "ashes to ashes" and some say it was after Bowie had moved past his drug excesses of the 1970s, looking back and saying goodbye to that lifestyle. Well, Keith Richards obviously isn't nearly as introspective as the thin white duke, reportedly admitting that he snorted some of his father's cremated ashes with some cocaine about five years ago.

Update: just before press time, Richards' press flack denied the story.
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