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"... the greatest power trio ever, Rush."
UJ, many people over a certain age would say Cream is the greatest power trio ever.
Anti-Authoritarian Anthems
I am feeling a bit oppressed by the state. The Ministry of Truth tells me the Ministry of Plenty will ensure I have as much little as I have earned need. The looters and moochers are running things and I find myself asking "Who is John Galt?" So I needed an antidote to antipathy. And this mornin...
I'd love to believe we can put together a deception and/or "disinformation" (sic) campaign in cooperation with a news outlet like "The Nation" such that we could achieve the effects you suggest.
We don't have to do in cooperation with them. Journalists, on average, are some the most easily played people in the world. Over the last few decades, with few exceptions, they haven't been very knowledgeable people. There's a reason why every few months one or more media outlets get caught running stories based on sources like The Onion.
The Nation Shows Its Nationality
Iranian? Saud? Holy Moses, the Nation just outed a CIA counter terror operation in Somalia: Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks li...
That's a fallacious argument since there's no comparison between the two. If they are "volunteers" by your definition, why is it that it's such a hit with the prisoners? The number of prisoners wanting to do it is greater than the number of chain gain slots. And it's only available to problematic prisoners who have already been sentenced.
'Cruel and unusual' overcrowding?
The California Supreme Court ruled that the state's prisons are so overcrowded that they violate the Bill of Rights' ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The individuals above were all found guilty of committing crimes. But these men weren't: You could paint one of these overcrowded prisons ...
...put them on chain gangs
All chain gang members in Maricopa Co. are volunteers, they aren't "put" there.
BTW, anyone who's had the unfortunately experience of spending at least a night in jail knows very well that the vast majority of people in there belong there.
'Cruel and unusual' overcrowding?
The California Supreme Court ruled that the state's prisons are so overcrowded that they violate the Bill of Rights' ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The individuals above were all found guilty of committing crimes. But these men weren't: You could paint one of these overcrowded prisons ...
If you were from the South you would know that the "small town southerner" would be a Democrat just like his pals in the KKK.
Presidential candidates
Since I know you all are on pins and needles wondering who I will support, it's Herman Cain. I have heard him speak enough times to know that he can mertilize the spineless, lead-from-the rear cakeboy who curently inhabits the White House in a debate. He is an accomplished businessman in a time ...
I'm not aware of one, but then I did term my assertion as "ridiculous." But given that it's quite easy to find the education level of groups of people (including groups within the military) I maintain my assertation beats that of Rall since there is a documented difference in level of education that Rall ignores. Plus he’s douche based on general principles.
"Only Idiots Signed Up"
Over at the Burn Pit, Mothax deconstructs the incredibly imbecilic and hateful cartoonist, Ted Rall.
Tantor, not that is disputes your point, but Rommel was attacked by a Spitfire. I'm not sure if it was ever determined who the actual pilot was but the German report of the incident of the action specified that Rommel's staff car was attacked by a Spitfire, not a P-47 as was flown by the American pilot who claimed he did it. I'm not aware of any Americans still flying Spitfires that late in the war.
Why America is different
Richard Cohen wrote a nasty little piece the other day in which he essentially declared American exceptionalism a myth. There is no such thing, according to Mr. Cohen. We’re all really a bunch of dummies living in a dysfunctional society, because, you know, we were mean to the American Indians...
No, what I'm referring to that it is a documented fact that enlisted members of the military have a higher level of education than their peers not in the military. From that I extrapolate that they have a higher IQ (of course I don't know that to be a fact, but it is a reasonable guess). Thus when a military unit deploys overseas it represents a decrease in the number of people in the group that the members of the unit belong to (e.g. 18 - 25 year olds) so that the average IQ of all of those in the group who remain has slightly decreased.
My point is that Rall is a POS douche bag. Like many other members of the left who are anti-military (openly or not) they tend to believe that you have to be a dumbass to be in the military. Unfortunately for them the facts show otherwise. In other words, my ridiculous assertion that the IQ decreases back home due to a deployment is derived from a factual basis while his assertion that the IQ increases at home after a deployment is derived out of his ass.
"Only Idiots Signed Up"
Over at the Burn Pit, Mothax deconstructs the incredibly imbecilic and hateful cartoonist, Ted Rall.
Yes, Rall is a real douche, but if one were to look at the actual documented facts then it would be obvious that every time a U.S. military unit deploys the IQ back home decreases.
"Only Idiots Signed Up"
Over at the Burn Pit, Mothax deconstructs the incredibly imbecilic and hateful cartoonist, Ted Rall.
A couple of weeks ago my son spent a couple of weeks in Portugal at the "Real Thaw 2011" CAS exercise. He got to jump with the Portuguese and you can see him in this video (he's first one out beginning at about 01:35 in the video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzAZSXNLPPo&feature=related
Apparently, if nothing else, the Portuguese put a lot of effort into documenting their military exercises. There are a whole lot of photos and videos at this link (in Portuguese):
http://www.emfa.pt/realthaw/index.php?bd0b6f49=006&lang=PT
Red Horse Drop
U.S. Air Force jumpers from the 820th Red Horse squadron, airborne flight, execute a static line jump from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter April 15, over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Airborne Red Horse are significantly different than the rest of traditional Red Horse in that members are airborne qu...
The problem is that H.R. 1363 has riders to do with abortion and other "social" issues that no Democrats will vote for. What the Republicans should have done is pass it with only the CR and DoD appropriations. That way both the Senate and Obama would have to pass it or be accused of abandoning the troops. As it is now they can say they support the troops but will not vote for it beacuse of the riders. The Republicans missed a great opportunity to nail the Dems to the wall.
Even Obama can't be this dumb
The following came out of the professional messaging machine of the great communicator teleprompter-reader. The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. T...
The Collings Foundation out of Massacussetts also does shows around the country. They come to Arizona every year with a B-17, B-24, B-25 and/or P-51. You can pay to ride in them and, if you have a couple of K, they will sometimes let you fly the bombers (at least the B-25).
Downed German Fighter Rises From Its Grave
This Luftwaffe Focke-Wulfe 190 Würger ("Shrike") fighter aircraft laid unknown and unmolested in a remote forest near Voibakala, Russia for forty-six years after coming down behind Soviet lines in WWII. Somebody finally stumbled across it in 1989. It was recovered from the forest in 1...
Georg Gaertner escaped from a POW camp in 1945 and didn't turn himself in until around 1985. He got married, had kids and was the last WWII POW "captured." I think he wrote a book about his experiences.
Downed German Fighter Rises From Its Grave
This Luftwaffe Focke-Wulfe 190 Würger ("Shrike") fighter aircraft laid unknown and unmolested in a remote forest near Voibakala, Russia for forty-six years after coming down behind Soviet lines in WWII. Somebody finally stumbled across it in 1989. It was recovered from the forest in 1...
Paul Allen's group bought the old Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum at Falcon Field near Phoenix a few years back. It had the best collection of WWI and WWII warbirds I've ever seen. A hanger for each war with dozens of planes and a big room full of stuff like weapons, flight outfits, etc. It even had a letter from legendary Japanese ace Subaro Sakai when he had visited the museum. Even if the Flying Heritage Collection only had the collection from Champlin it would be quite something.
Downed German Fighter Rises From Its Grave
This Luftwaffe Focke-Wulfe 190 Würger ("Shrike") fighter aircraft laid unknown and unmolested in a remote forest near Voibakala, Russia for forty-six years after coming down behind Soviet lines in WWII. Somebody finally stumbled across it in 1989. It was recovered from the forest in 1...
SKK, maybe they don't care. After all, to them the ends justify the means.
Lying about the little leaker
UPDATE: Rally at Quantico for the pantsless wonder is Sunday at 2 pm not Saturday, my mistake. Poor Bradley Manning is being tortured and enduring conditions that make Abu Ghraib and Gitmo look like day care centers; I'm sure you've heard. Well actually, he is being held in pre-trial confinement...
Always take care of your combat multipliers.....JTAC's being waaay up there on that list.
Now, if only the Air Force felt the same way. Only in the last couple of years did TACPs even have an officer component, having previously been represented by ALOs made up of a range of attitudes from "didn't want to be there" to "if I can drop bombs I just as easily can call them in" (sorry dude, it's a little different when you're lugging around 100+ lbs of equipment & weapons, you're being shot at and you're controlling a number of different aircraft all at once). Any JTAC with a couple or more tours will have a lot more awards from the Army than the Air Force since the Air Force prefers to give them to officers sitting in TOCs rather than JTACs in the field.
Smoking Holes...
Death From Above, Swift-Silent-Deadly, Death on a Wire; use whatever phrase you like, but Close Air Support is one of the most awesome concepts ever developed in modern warfare. Bill Ardolino over at LWJ has the second installment of Sergeant Robert Ham’s documentary on military aviation, “For ...
Who are the Russians supposed to get to man all these new toys?
Really. They should spend a bunch on their soldiers and training, because the last thing I remember about the Russian army are those slovenly, undisciplined troops invading Georgia a couple of years back. All of those fancy high-tech weapons aren't going to solve the problems those guys have. At least maybe they can get better targeting systems because if I remember correctly, the Russian AF had a bit of a problem bombing the Georgian pipelines – they couldn’t hit them.
Wandering through the inter-tubes
I save a lot of stories in tabs on my browser that I plan on blogging on later and then, well, they become overcome by events. So I thought I’d start throwing a few of them up here with a short blurb so readers can discuss them, hit the link and read about them in depth or, if they prefer, jus...
What surprises me is that with the MSM fawning all over him for years and him using them as the propaganda arm of the White House and the Democrat Party, Obama isn't prescient enough to know that their coverage of the Tea Party movement is complete BS without any evidence that "race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency." It is one thing for a politician at his level to assert such things in public to garner support and sympathy, but to indicate in a relatively private setting that he actually believes the propaganda on his behalf demonstrates a detachment from reality that is outright dangerous in the hands of a president. It has always been obvious that Obama is tremendously ideological but a disconnection from the real world of that magnitude is shocking!
Dinner Foreign Policy for Schmucks?
From our own Subsunk (who is probably really cold and frosty somewhere) comes this post from Instapundit: ROGER SIMON: Obama And The Tea Party: The Race Card Keeps On Turning. Obama would rather believe that his problems stem from the fact that he’s black, rather than from the fact that he’s pr...
No only different colors but with the blades offset at odd angles and tassels hanging off the ends! :)
S.F. Soldiers Search for I.E.D. Caches
All photos were takend by Sgt. Benjamin Watson of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan Media Operations Center: A U.S. Special Forces intelligence sergeant assigned to Special Operations Task Force – South climbs over the ruins of an abandoned compound during a securi...
When my son (USAF JTAC) was attached to A-Teams they used him as one of the Commo sergeants. His gear looks cooler than that. :)
S.F. Soldiers Search for I.E.D. Caches
All photos were takend by Sgt. Benjamin Watson of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan Media Operations Center: A U.S. Special Forces intelligence sergeant assigned to Special Operations Task Force – South climbs over the ruins of an abandoned compound during a securi...
B5,
Under your nomenclature my son is a "Doggie Zoomie" since he is always deploys and trains with Army units, but he calls you guys "Joes."
Columbia University brings shame and dishonor to the Ivy League
Update: Alums are speaking out. From the NY Post: Hero's unwelcome Wounded Iraq vet jeered at Columbia By ANNIE KARNI Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus. "Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Masche...
The Liberal by temperament is a person who is a liberal for all sorts of non-ideological reasons. ... Further, they denigrate those who are unsophisticated, dumb, and trashy, often without appreciating that some of those they so denigrate are smart enough not to desire to conform to the latest media mediated intellectual and social classism.
This reminds me of something I heard a few years back: Conservatives think they have better ideas while liberals think they are better people.
The Confusion of the "Liberal by Temperament"
There is a small, hard core committed cohort on the Left who firmly believe in using the power of the state to control how people live their lives. Those who are admittedly socialist or communist are a very small number, however a much larger number believe in using the power of the state to co...
Penn & Teller's BS did an episode a few years back where they got a bunch of US environmental do-gooders to sign a petition to ban di-hydrogen monoxide. Just like these international tools they had no clue what they were doing.
Almost Beyond Belief
These are the geniuses who believe they have the expertise to tell us how to manage our energy policies and economy; watch, laugh, and marvel at the cluelessness of the international, and transnational, elites. The first half is wonderful; we should be forced into a recession worse than the one...
To see how truly demented these so-called academics are, one need only look at point 10 in Professor Blake's letter:
10. Veterans' memories of their own experiences in the war are suspect and influenced by media and their own self-delusion (Rosenberg, 18, 24). Therefore, it is the role of academics to "correct" their history. As one organizer commented, this will be more easily accomplished once the WWII generation has passed away. Another wrote, "America's nostalgic war memories are beginning to fray around the edges" (White, 267).
Disgusting.
BTW, I presume with these types of academics it would be futile to point out that without the veteran's memories of what happened there would be little history for them to be able to "correct."
The Continuing Mental Illness of Satan's Handmaidens....
How monumentally stupid do you have to be to get tenure and teach at a university? I ask this because one of the few professors who has evidently either not met the Dark Lord or is immune to the corruption of the Dark Lord, Penelope Blake encountered a new level of academic mental illness and g...
Since National Socialism, Fascism and Soviet communism are all collectivist ideologies, I'd say it's pretty obvious that they all belong on the same side of the political spectrum. So while they have some major differences (e.g. nationalism vs. internationalism, institutional racism or not), their statist collectivism makes them all left-wing by American standards.
Responding to "Inherently Violent"
Cassandra of Villainous Company asked me to respond to a piece by one Prof. Corey Robin, apparently an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College as well as CUNY's Graduate Center. I am, of course, always at Cassandra's service. Nevertheless, I have to admit that I doubt the r...
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