I don’t normally put up videos, but this lady IS a throwback… And bless her for being one! She takes on the Carmel NY school board and it is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Kudos to her!
And Loudoun County, VA school board got slapped down by the courts, they have to give physical education teacher Byron Tanner Cross, who was suspended days after telling the school board he would not refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns because of his religious beliefs, his job back… LOL
Full article, HERE.
More specifically, grandkids… Snerk…
Grandson was ‘hiding’ from his sister to do school work, so…
He climbed into the dog’s kennel. And was soon joined by both Labs…
And he went to sleep for over an hour.
Kids… what can you say… sigh
How we spent Sunday nights… 60 years ago!
The Ed Sullivan Show! LONG before MTV, VH-1, or any of those copycats…
For most of us, it was the first time we’d actually ‘seen’ any of the bands actually sing, unless one was lucky enough to be in a big enough city to see them on tour.
Just needs to go away as a class… Spend the money on FFX and move on.
The U.S. Navy hopes to boost the number of days the littoral combat ship is operational by targeting the drivers of down time: design flaws in 32 parts that need to be replaced and a sluggish contractor-based maintenance model that needs to be made more responsive.
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He said today it can take as long as three weeks to identify the right technical experts and get them to a deployed LCS to start fixing it; he wants to trim that down to five days.
NORMAL availability 2 weeks a month? 32 parts/design flaws? WTH???
Full article HERE from Defense News.
And this isn’t ‘all’ the problems. The crews ‘routinely’ have to work 12-14 hour days at sea, if there are no major problems. And the whole ‘crew swap’ thing has been tried before with little success, as there is no ‘pride’ in ownership when you’re moving on/off anything on a regular basis. We tried that in aviation squadrons 10+ years ago with ‘combined’ maintenance staff, and three years later dumped that concept, then took a year to get airplanes back to ‘minimum’ levels of cleanliness and operational ability.
LCS is much like the F-35 in that parts/etc. are spread through so many congressional districts that no congresscritter wants to kill either program, fearing loss of jobs.
Grrrr…
Two years almost to the day apart, but signal events in the US and allied conduct of WWII…
The battle of Midway was joined after these gents found the Japanese Fleet 700 miles from Midway on 3 June 1942… They were the attack force, not the main body, but started the whole battle with that sighting.
Standing, left to right: AMM2c R. Derouin, ACRM Francis Musser, Ens. Hardeman (co-pilot), Ens. J.H. “Jack” Reid (aircraft commander) and Ens. R.A. Swan (navigator). Kneeling, left to right: AMM1c J.F. Gammel, AMM3c J. Groovers and AMM3c P.A. Fitzpatrick.
On the morning of 4 June, then LT Howard P. Ady, Jr., while flying a patrol in his PBY-5A, first spotted a single aircraft on a course to Midway. His first report on the enemy early that morning (one word: “Aircraft”) was soon followed by more detailed reports:
0534 “Enemy Carriers”
0540 “ED 180 sight 320”
0552 “Two carriers and main body of ships, carriers in front, course 135, speed 25”
In one of the ‘ironies’ if you will, NIPPI, the rework facility at Atsugi, JA, chose to paint a P-3 for the 50th anniversary of the airframes’ service. Their choice?
Yes, they painted the ‘tribute’ airplane with Strawberry 5’s numbers…
D-Day was officially called “Operation Overlord,” and combined the forces of 156,115 U.S., British and Canadian troops, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, and 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders that delivered airborne troops.
It was and still is the largest amphibious landing every attempted. While there was little for ‘patrol planes’ to do, the Navy had a large part in the landings and supporting the troops as they tried to get off the beaches.
One example is the USS Herndon (DD-638) and USS Shubrick (DD-639), built within months of each other at the Norfolk Navy Yard during the early part of the war. They were assigned to the same destroyer squadron and would fight near each other during the D-Day invasion, providing fire support and taking on the German guns, pillboxes, and machine gun nests…
Full article, HERE.
One other thing that is often missed is the work done by Beachmasters; their job was to get troops and material off the beach as quickly as possible, often under intense fire… Article, HERE. There is a podcast on the page that gives some of their stories.
The other Navy contribution(s) were landing craft of all types, HERE. The ones most used were the LCVPs, which deposited at platoon (36 men) at a time. Link HERE. Originally not armored, by the time of D-Day, most, if not all had been armored to some extent. The problem was that the Coxswain was exposed to the elements/gunfire/etc. due to the height of the bow ramp.
While the ‘initial’ assault took place on 6 June, landings continued on the beaches at Normandy through the end of June, with the Allies landing approximately 850,000 men and 150,000 vehicles in beaches.
A full collection of D-Day things are HERE at History.com
It’s amazing what you sometimes find floating around on old hard drives…
From 1996… A classic flame…
SUBJECT: Re: 30009 — Warning! Don’t download!!! DATE: 14 Mar 1996 00:06:52 GMT
ORGANIZATION: Netcom
Dear:
[x] Clueless Newbie
[x] Lamer
[ ] Me too er
[x] Perver
[x] Spammer
[ ] Nerd
[ ] Fed
[ ] Freak
You Are Being Flamed Because:
[ ] AOLer
[ ] Geek Elvis
[ ] Scientologist
[ ] You posted a “test” in a newsgroup other than alt.test
[ ] You posted warez in pieces LESS than 5000 lines
[x] You spammed an answer of a spam TO THE WRONG GROUPS
[ ] You quoted an ENTIRE post in your reply
[ ] You continued a long, stupid thread
[ ] You started an off-topic thread
[ ] You posted a “YOU ALL SUCK” message
[ ] You said “me too” to something
[x] You suck
[ ] You brag about things that never happened
[x] Your sig/alias/server sucks
[ ] You made up slang then used it in a message
[ ] You posted a phone-sex ad
[ ] I don’t like your tone of voice
[ ] I think you might be a fed
To Repent, You Must:
[ ] Be the PR guy for Canter & Siegel
[ ] Give up your AOL account
[x] Bust up your modem with a hammer and eat it
[x] Jump into a bathtub while holding your monitor
[ ] Actually post something relevant
[ ] Read the FAQ
[ ] Be Senator Exon’s love slave
[ ] Be the guest of honor in alt.flame for a month
[ ] Post your tests to alt.test
In Closing, I’d Like to Say:
[ ] Blow me
[ ] Get a life
[ x ] Never post again
[ ] I pity your dog
[ ] Go to hell
[ ] Yer mamma’s so fat/stupid/ugly that etc…
[x] Take your s**t somewhere else
[ ] Learn to post or f**k off
[ ] All of the above end flame
WELL CRAP… scheduler didn’t work… sorry…
When doctors can’t tell the truth in their own professions/hospitals/practices???
“Wokeness feels like an existential threat,” a doctor from the Northwest said. “In health care, innovation depends on open, objective inquiry into complex problems, but that’s now undermined by this simplistic and racialized worldview where racism is seen as the cause of all disparities, despite robust data showing it’s not that simple.”
“Whole research areas are off-limits,” he said, adding that some of what is being published in the nation’s top journals is “shoddy as hell.”
Full article, HERE, from Substack.
This is truly scary. Makes one long for the old country doctor that made house calls and actually ‘knew’ the patients.
I ran into an absolute cluster#$#@ yesterday at the local hospital. I had a referral from the VA to go get an x-ray on my hip so that I didn’t have to drive 2 hours each way to get it done at the VA.
I had ‘my’ paperwork with a referral number etc. Called the hospital about 1000 in the morning, was told “Oh, Radiology is a walk in. We have your paperwork, just come on it and they can do it.” I go down there at 1330, walk in and…
“Oh, we need the actual referral from your primary care doctor.”
Uh, you already have it… or had it as of 1000 this morning. Nope, mysteriously no longer there…
So I call the VA, get through to my care team and hand the phone to the admissions lady. She tells the nurse what is required, which the nurse told her had already been sent. Admissions lady goes off, comes back 10 minutes later, “No, there is nothing on file for you. You’ll have to have the VA resubmit it.”
I call the care team back, they say they sent another copy to the fax number they were given. I waited another fifteen minutes and called the hospital schedulers back. Nope… Nothing received…
I left, needless to say NOT in a good mood. I talked to the OKC VA folks on the way home, and they told me the document had been resent at 1350 (WHILE I WAS SITTING THERE)…
I’m going to make some calls on Monday to the Ombudsman at the horsepistol and give them a piece of my mind. And if they can’t find the #@$%% referral again, I’ll be driving to OKC to get the damn x-ray…
Oh, and the horsepistol is requiring everyone be masked… except all the employees have theirs pulled down until you walk up to their desks… !@#$$#@ WuFlu theater!!!
Ammo.com isn’t just a site for ammunition, they have been broadening their articles in their base, and the latest is Pat Buchanan. From what ‘I’ remember, Buchanan was always a hard line conservative, never wavering in his beliefs.
Pat Buchanan continues to be a conservative icon for generations in the United States, holding the line on conservative issues at a time when conventional wisdom said that it was time to give up the ship. While many on the right hate the very idea of journalism today, Pat Buchanan is a journalist through and through – he received his training in journalism and continues to work in it to this very day.
Full article, HERE.
But if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there is a rather interesting set of names under the Ammo.com’s Resistance Library: Unsung Heroes
There are very well researched short bios that span both years and ‘interests’, from Annie Oakly, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojurner Truth to Roof Koreans by way of Butch O’hare and others. Well worth the time to read them.
Kinda, sorta… Author unknown on this one, but pretty much how I feel anymore…
I grew up and spent most of my life basing my interactions with people on their character, NOT their color or beliefs. In the military all we cared about was that the other people did their jobs so we could do ours and make it home to fly again the next day. I’ve spent considerable time outside the USA, including in 3rd world countries and seen man’s inhumanity to man. In business, it was about professionalism, honesty, and integrity. Now???
I never cared about your political affiliation, until you started to condemn me for mine.
I never cared where you were from in this great Republic, until you began condemning people based on where they were born and the history that makes them who they are.
I have never cared if you were well off or poor, because I’ve been both, until you started calling me names for working hard and bettering myself.
I’ve never cared if your beliefs are different than mine – until you said my beliefs are wrong.
I’ve never cared if you don’t like guns, until you tried to take my guns away.
I’ve never cared about race matters, until you called be a racist for being white.
But, now I care.
I’ve given all the tolerance I have to give. This is no longer my problem. It’s your problem. You can still fix it. It’s not too late. But it will be. Soon.
I’m a very patient person at times. But I’m out of patience. There are literally Tens of Millions of people just like me that are sick of all your Anti-American crap!
I’ve always cared about life, and all lives, but now you try to force the notion on me and my other fellow citizens and patriots that certain lives matter more than others. You protest, riot, attack, burn and loot. Your so-called “movement” has become a radical out-of-control bunch of thugs, criminals and anarchists who are doing harm to our Country.
We have had enough! America is the greatest country on Earth, and if you don’t like America, then you can LEAVE. We are done caring about your misguided “feelings”.
You don’t have the right to enjoy American freedoms if you are trying to take that right away from other Americans.
Is that where we’re headed?
If you’re vaccinated you are in this line, allowed to do x,y,z… and you get this nicky-neat little ‘passport’ that allows you to go places and do things.
If you’re not- Go over there, mask up, sit in the corner until we call you and browbeat you to take the vaccine for the chilluns… And we’re gonna give it to your chilluns whether you like it or not. And no school for you or your chilluns, or travel, or venues…
But yet… State Department travel advisories state you must STILL have a negative test, even if vaccinated…
Referenced from HERE.
And then there’s the whole ‘lack’ of prosecution of ‘minor’ crimes, no bond, immediate release for ‘minor’ crimes, etc. Reduction in traffic stops, etc. Chicago just came out with a ‘new’ directive stopping foot pursuits for anything less than a Class A misdemeanor. You can go HERE and see a list of what will no longer be chased either on foot or by patrol vehicles… sigh…
And in Texas, the Dems took their ball and went home because they didn’t like the fact that the ‘new’ voting laws take away their one time good deal of 24 hour voting and drive up voting (done because of the WuFlu). So Gov Abbott is expected to call them back or just not pay them, article HERE. The question is, where will they run this time? Mexico again? Oklahoma? I wonder if you can extradite a state rep for malfeasance in office???