Happy Thursday

Just a brief note, and I do promise to get things going again here, Real Soon Now.

Saw a report yesterday out of Knoxville, Tennessee.  Lovely area, lived there twice, miss it every day.  Wonderful people, largely.

Largely, but not all.  Some notable exceptions.  One stood out in the news yesterday.  Seems a fellow was running a company that has government contract for military boots.  Some of use remember the canvas-sided boot worn in Viet Nam era.  I find it to be comfortable, but mine all wore out long ago, which took some doing.  Anyway, it seems this guy was now operating the firm that makes the current equivalent.  There are some requirements in the contract, as anyone who has ever done business with government at any level, certainly the feds, knows.  One of which was,in this case, the products be made in America.  But they weren't.  Coming from our "good friends" in China.  So he's in A Lot Of Trouble, as are several of the officers of that company.
The news agency mentioned all of that. Oddly, I saw no mention of the potential risk to military personnel we are now wearing this sub-standard gear.   An army travels on its feet as well as its stomach, so this approximates sabotage.  Doubt that anyone will hang over it.  Too bad.