Rafael Marquez Online

I’m doing 31 days of videos in August for several of my sites. This is video #2 for my airplane site as well as for my regular blog site.

This is an F-22 Raptor and an F-15 Eagle going vertical. I wanted to post this to remind you that I’m a huge airplane nerd, lest my recent political rants make you forget. Amplify’d from www.strategypage.com Going Vertical Posted 8/4/2010 An F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle from the U.S. Air Force Weapons School’s 433rd Weapons Squadron pull into a vertical climb over the Nevada Test and Training Range July 16, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald) Read [...]

I’ve seen other people engage in a 31 day this, or 31 day that type of challenge and have always wanted to try it for myself. The most recent person that I saw do this was Wayne Sutton, and I liked what he did. Soo, here’s my thing, and my reason for wanting to do this: I need to focus. I feel like I have too many different stews, with too many rabbits in them. Right now, I’m not focusing [...]

This post was inspired by an article over on The Huffington Post. Much to my disappointment, the author of the article never bothered to reply to my comment, so I decided to make a post here to preserve my position on racial profiling. “Dr.” Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote a piece that was published on the HuffPo where she made the argument that in order to have safe airports and safe air travel, the US government needed to engage in racial profiling. [...]