Oopsie…

One last comment on Bergdahl… “This is what happens at the end of wars,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday when he was asked about swapping American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban terrorists. “That was true for George Washington, … Continue reading

Airliner down…

Been listening to the ML17 shoot down all day on the radio, I can’t help but get chills thinking how ‘similar’ this is to the KAL007 shootdown… ‘Supposedly’ shooting at ‘something else’, but bag an airliner??? WTF??? And Geraldo had … Continue reading

Starting the slog home…

Ya just gotta love family… The biggest rattler gets a place of honor in the family room… This one is right at 6 feet… The ‘failures’ are banished to the spare bedroom… Guess where I got to sleep… sigh And … Continue reading

Halfway…

Running around the South like a chicken with my head chopped off… 14 days off turned into 9, but I still have commitments to family, so… Currently in Waco, slight changes have occurred to this plan, but in the main, … Continue reading

Pilots…

Pilots – go figure One fine hot summer afternoon there was a Cessna 150 flying in the pattern at a quiet country airfield. The Instructor was getting quite bothered with the student’s inability to maintain altitude in the thermals and … Continue reading

There ARE good folks out there…

Taking care of a vet that needed some help… Article HERE. Kudos to those gents at Lowes… h/t JP, Les, Frito Posted from my iPhone.   … Continue reading

For all the GIBs…

GIBs- Guys/Girls in the back of the bus… Pretty good video on what they thought of their first NATOPS/Stan Eval checkride in the military… I don’t think anyone ever thought they passed… 🙂 h/t Bogeydope … Continue reading

WWII Posters…

One of the ‘iconic’ posters really isn’t… And it wasn’t called Rosie the Riveter either…   It was an internal poster for Westinghouse… J Howard Miller is believed to have done the poster based on this photo of Geraldine Hoff. … Continue reading

Bird Brain???

This one will boggle your mind… I know some PEOPLE that couldn’t solve that one… 🙂 h/t JP … Continue reading

That’s weird…

Anybody else noticing a drop off in visits???  I’m seeing about a 400 visit drop in the last week or so… That’s about a quarter of my daily visitors… I’m wondering if I pissed people off that badly…