WAY back in the day… early 70s, no it’s not me in the picture, but I got to ‘enjoy’ Warner Springs in January going through SERE training… Brrr… War Criminal #25!!!
And yes, the damned rattlesnakes were PROTECTED!!! Cost us our stew… sigh
Vintage Gary Larson toon…
These were always fun, when you ‘hung’ a sonobuoy on a ‘playmate’ and listened to it banging down the hull… 🙂
Mea cupla, mea maxima cupla…
We screwed up yesterday on the YouTube live stream!
https://www.youtube.com/user/OldNFO
LawDog and I put out that the ‘new’ vax mandate DID apply to truck drivers.
And we were wrong!!! h/t to Regan for the correction.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration updated its FAQ with new information about truck drivers related to the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that could require workers at companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
A lawsuit challenging the ETS was decided in favor of staying the OSHA’s rule by the Supreme Court on Thursday, January 13, just days after OSHA began enforcing the ETS on Jan. 10. The agency had said in a statement that it would not issue citations for noncompliance with its vaccination or testing requirements before Feb. 9, as long as employers exercised “good faith efforts” to come into compliance with the ETS — efforts which are moot given the court’s ruling.
Full article HERE from Overdrive.
But, even with that, the shelves ARE getting barer by the day… dammit…
If you haven’t got at least some food back for emergencies, I’d strongly recommend you hit the store when you can. Winter is coming, and on top of everything else, who knows what that is going to bring as far as services/delivery/stocks of supplies.
Rimworld- Diplomatic Immunity is now live on Kindle!
Click on the cover for the Amazon link!
The blurb-
Fargo’s latest attempt at quiet retirement is going haywire quickly.
Hiding the officially missing Dragoon heir at his cabin is about to get interesting.
A GalPat change of command brings new attention to his militia and their capabilities, just as he’s falsely accused of murder. Facing a stacked prosecution, he finds that friends have hidden abilities when they come to his aid, including hiding the heir.
When he comes back out, he’s got an agenda and an heir to get home in one piece… A young man thought lost, whose homecoming will shake an entire empire. And hopefully Fargo will survive the experience.
The paperback version will follow in probably three or four days. Please review it, HONEST reviews are appreciated.
Sigh…
Not that I’ve ever seen this… or done this… 🙂
Getting geared up for the second in the new western series, so my visit up to Amarillo! Specifically to the panhandle plains historical museum. These are some of the original brands of Texas ranches that surround the main doors.
And this is one that got pulled for us, an 1860’s Colt Pocket Police! It’s in excellent shape for its age! Yes, it’s been well used, and no, they didn’t have front sights.
It is .36 caliber, and was literally carried in a front pocket of men’s trousers. The pockets were much deeper, and, lined with leather, became a suitable holster. Or they were carried in a jacket pocket.
The rest of the pics won’t mean anything, as they were close ups of various implements.
Go read the folks on the sidebar, I’ll be back to regular blogging on Tuesday.
Two new books by friends today!
First up is Mike Watson’s newest book in the 1632/Ring of Fire world- The Marshals
The blurb-
The New United States is about to join the United States of Europe, becoming the State of Thuringia and Franconia. The Thirty Years’ War is still being waged. Armies cross and re-cross the German states. With war comes lawlessness, and with lawlessness comes the need for law and order.
Who can fill this enforcement niche better than three retired old soldiers, known to down-timers as the Die Drei Alten Soldaten? Archie Mitchell, Harley Thomas, Max Huffman, retired US Army Master Sergeants who, with their apprentice, Dieter Issler, use their up-time experience as Deputy Sheriffs, to become the first Marshals of the newly created District Court system of the SoTF.
The Marshals are little known until Thomas Bloem and his sister, Maria D’Angelo, brother and sister journalists, arrive to interview them. They record the formation of the Marshal’s Service and the three Marshals, from their first case as Marion County Deputy Sheriffs, until they leave Grantville to provide law and order throughout the State of Thuringia and Franconia.
Mike has done some short stories around these characters, and in that world for Eric Flint’s Grantville Gazette and now has a complete and very well done novel in the world.
Next up is Peter Grant’s new western and new series, Annals of Ash- Wood, Iron, and Blood
The blurb-
Sometimes wanderlust skips a generation… but when it strikes, it strikes gold.
In 1852, fourteen-year-old Jeremy Ash rises to his grandfather’s challenge and sets out on the adventure of a lifetime – the California Trail.
It’s four deadly months and 1,600 merciless miles from the Missouri River to the goldfields of the Sierra Nevada. There’s alkali water that’ll poison you; desert heat that’ll fry your brains; mountain passes that’ll crush you; swarms of biting insects that’ll drive you mad; deadly diseases that’ll plague you; and warrior tribes that may make it lethally clear they don’t want you there.
Will the California Trail kill Jeremy, like so many others before him? Or will it make a man out of him?
This one snuck up on Peter, and his muse drove him like a rented mule! It’s a great read!
Apparently there is a ‘move’ afoot to quash certain kinds of paleogenetic research into where ‘we’ came from…
And it’s being ‘fought’ by the native American tribes!
But this is where events took a strange turn: It was when Duggan’s group announced that they’d gained the capacity to analyze aDNA, and made known their plans to apply this technology to the male genome of their Labrador/Newfoundland skeletal sample, that a sense of apprehension seemed to spread through some quarters of the paleogenetic community.
During the summer of 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, Duggan’s project went noticeably quiet. I inquired among team members with whom I regularly communicated, but received oblique and evasive responses about the pace of research and publication.
Full article, HERE from Quillette. It’s a bit of a read, but very interesting in what it reveals. And, IMHO, it is truly sad that this is happening, especially with more and more people researching their family histories and the ongoing DNA studies.
Hard to believe this was 50 years ago…
Still the best feel good story, I think, out of Vietnam, and probably the ultimate beer run!
Sadly, stuff like that will never happen again due to the ‘changes’ in policy and the zero tolerance mentality…
Personally, I’m glad there weren’t any cellphones and very few with cameras back when I was on active duty. I ‘think’ the statute of limitations is out on everything we did…
I think… 🙂
These came over the transom from the Mil-email side…
Military bumpersnickers…
“Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, WAR has Never Solved Anything.”
“U.S. Marines – Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club.”
“U.S. Air Force – Travel Agents To Allah”
“Stop Global Whining”
“When In Doubt, Empty The Magazine”
Naval Corollary: Dead Men Don’t Testify.
“The Marine Corps – When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight”
“Death Smiles At Everyone – Marines Smile Back”
“Marine Sniper – You can run, but you’ll just die tired!”
“What Do I Feel When I Kill A Terrorist? A Little Recoil”
“Marines – Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity To Die For their Country Since 1775”
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It”
“Happiness Is a Belt-Fed Weapon”
“It’s God’s Job to Forgive Bin Laden – It’s Our Job To Arrange The Meeting”
“Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl”
“One Shot, Twelve Kills – U.S. Naval Gun Fire Support”
“My Kid Fought In Iraq So Your Kid Can Party In College”
“Machine Gunners – Accuracy By Volume”
“A Dead Enemy Is a Peaceful Enemy – Blessed Be The Peacemakers”
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Did You Know This About Leather Dresses?
Do you know that when a woman wears a leather dress, a man’s heart beats quicker, his throat gets dry, he gets weak in the knees, and he begins to think irrationally???
Ever wonder why?
It’s because she smells like a new Truck…
B over at In the Middle of the Right posted this link yesterday, and it’s definitely worth sharing…
Appears our friends to the north are getting the SAME type of push/BS from their government…
This RCMP officer wasn’t having any of it, and is now done. He says he’s on ‘unpaid’ leave, but he’s got his 20, so I’m guessing he will be retired shortly.
His departure letter is HERE!
I went wandering trying to find accurate numbers of healthcare, EMS, or Fire/Police that have been fired but you can’t find anything ‘accurate’. Some reports say as many as 30% of healthcare workers are not vaccinated, others are saying ‘up to’ 1-2% of workers have been fired.
I wasn’t going to slog through each individual story to try to count them up, as this is just one more incidence of skewed/missing data. The more I look at this, the worse it looks, compared to the previous .gov ability to count job losses…
And for your dose of humor… Now that I no longer live in NOVA…
You know you’re from the DC Metro area if….
You can go to school or work every day and see at least 5 people you’ve never seen before. The same number of people have suddenly moved away.
h/t Stretch (another escapee)