Playing under the ice…
Did this a couple of times, but from the air side. It’s frikkin COLD up there this time of year!!!
-40 to -60 ambient, -160 or lower at altitude… Note the ‘guard’ with the rifle. Polar bears DO consider us ‘crunchy’ lunch…
And a short on Thule…
at the 3:30 mark, one can see some of the original barracks built in 1953, that are still heated and in use!
It’s enough to make one’s head spin…
We’ve all ‘known’, from various leaks over the years that detainees released from Gitmo have gone back to the battlefield…
Detainee transfers from the Guantánamo Bay prison have resulted in the deaths of Americans, a Defense Department official said Wednesday.
“What I can tell you is, unfortunately, there have been Americans that have died because of Gitmo detainees,” Paul Lewis, the Pentagon’s special envoy for Guantánamo closure, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Full article HERE. But ‘someone’ from the administration ‘leaked’ that it was really somebody released by Bush! So 7 years in, the administration is STILL blaming Bush, and still going forward to close Gitmo.
In other news, the Prez is vacationing and sightseeing in Argentina, and apparently using the baby AF1 to get to Bariloche for a little chocolate and tour (one wonders if they’ll give him a tour of the old Nazis homes). That is more important than coming back to address the issues that have jumped up since the Brussels attacks, and the administration is apparently STILL refusing to call it radical islam… WTF does it take? A damn attack on the White House???
And Slow Joe gave a speech today countering the “Biden Rule” for SCOTUS appointees, saying-
In a speech at Georgetown Law School, Vice President Joe Biden called the so-called Biden Rule “frankly ridiculous” and argued that Senate Republicans’ decision not to confirm a new justice to the Supreme Court is an “abdication” of their solemn constitutional duty.
Video HERE.
And he said it with a straight face!!! Can we say hypocrisy???
I’m gonna stop now before I need to duct tape the brain to keep it in my head…
Y’all have a Good Friday, and a great weekend, depending on your deity of choice.
Twenty-five years ago this week, we lost twenty-seven shipmates in a two plane crash off San Diego during routine training. I knew most of them personally.
HERE is a link to the memorial held this week. Their bodies and the airplanes were never recovered, becoming another deep water memorial to those who died.
Good folks all. Rest In Peace Shipmates. Your compatriots sons and daughters have assumed the watch…
Hand Salute!
Ready, two.
GO NAVY! 🙂
The usual suspects have started the continued the rant against *.* Puppies already…
K. Paulk put up the SP4 reading list/recommendations at MGC, with the entire list HERE.
Predictably, the POS (nee SJWs) went bat nuts, pressuring authors to deny the list, beg their name be removed, etc…
But THIS, best of Critics list seems to be fine with them…
Can somebody ‘splain that to me? Please???
Remember, nominations close on the 31st of March for the Hugos.
Just don’t change…
BO’s in Cuba, apparently with a rather large entourage, including the entire family (wonder if they brought the dog too?), and the human rights protesters ‘thought’ maybe things would be different yesterday…
Not so much…
Members of the group, known as the Ladies in White, are used to the routine. They march each Sunday after Mass at a church in a suburb of Havana called Miramar and usually get arrested and detained for hours or days.
Full article and video HERE.
On the gun control front, Hildabeast is all in now…
She’s endorsed the gun control measures sought in vain by Obama after the Sandy Hook massacre, including universal background checks; and she’s slammed Bernie Sanders for supporting legislation passed in 2005 giving firearms manufacturers protection from some lawsuits.
Interestingly, this is from a Colorado paper! HERE!!!
She’s jumping up and down on that third rail of gun control, I guess she figures she has nothing to lose, since everybody pretty much knows that’s her true position anyway.
Meanwhile, the WAPO has an oped from one of the families in the suit against Bushmaster, slamming Bernie… HERE. Hildabeast must be chuckling in her soup over this one…
It gives a nice, icy mood, perfect for December 1944, when Dahl flew his “Blaue13” on bomber intercept missions with JG 300.
By the way, the clouds at the top of the image remind me of layers of cirrus, formed by dissipating aircraft contrails. I am not sure if it was intentional, but it’s a nice hint to their creators: the hordes of allied heavy bombers Walter Dahl and his Schwarm is hunting for.
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Oh my achin’ (insert multiple body parts here)…
Remember those days when we could work all day and not give it a second thought?
Me neither…
Half pallet of sod here… And my neighbor’s daughter took pity on me and came over to help me get it out. I didn’t turn her down either!!!
Various other locations took the other half pallet. Including unknown asshat that didn’t make the corner sometime last week… Sigh…
All done! The goal was to get it down before the rain came…
Only problem is, no rain… Dammit! So now I’ve gotta water.
600mg Ibuprofen will have gone down the hatch by the time you read this just so I can get mobile this morning…
Courtesy of the NRA.
SCOTUS Nomination: Merrick Garland
“With Justice Scalia’s tragic passing, there is no longer a majority of support among the justices for the fundamental, individual right to own a firearm for self-defense. Four justices believe law-abiding Americans have that right – and four justices do not. President Obama has nothing but contempt for the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners. Obama has already nominated two Supreme Court justices who oppose the right to own firearms and there is absolutely no reason to think he has changed his approach this time. In fact, a basic analysis of Merrick Garland’s judicial record shows that he does not respect our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Therefore, the National Rifle Association, on behalf of our five million members and tens of millions of supporters across the country, strongly opposes the nomination of Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court.” Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA-
Merrick Garland’s record on the Second Amendment is unacceptable to anyone who respects the U.S. Constitution and an individual’s fundamental right to self-protection.
He is the most anti-gun nominee in recent history. This should come as no surprise, given President Obama’s disdain for the Second Amendment. He has consistently shown a complete disregard of the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Garland’s history of anti-Second Amendment rulings support the conclusion that were he to be confirmed he would vote to overturn Heller. In 2007, he voted to give D.C. a second chance to have its handgun ban upheld after a three-judge panel struck it down. At the time, this was the most significant Second Amendment case in America.
In 2004, Garland voted against rehearing another Second Amendment case (Seegars v. Gonzales), effectively casting a vote against the individual right to keep and bear arms.
Justice Scalia was the author of Heller v McDonald. Heller affirmed that the Second Amendment is an individual right. The Heller decision stands in the way of gun-control supporters’ ultimate goal of banning and confiscating guns.
If Heller is overturned, the Second Amendment for all intents and purposes would cease to exist.
In 2000, Garland voted in favor of the federal government’s plan to retain Americans’ personal information from gun purchase background checks despite federal laws prohibiting national firearm registration and requiring the destruction of these records.
Judge Garland weighed in on several significant firearms-related cases, including Parker, Seegars, NRA v. Reno,. He voted against the rights of firearm owners on each occasion.
The examples of Garland’s disdain for the right to keep and bear arms go on and on, including in a major case upholding the then-existing Clinton “assault weapons” ban against a constitutional challenge
It’s almost certain that Garland agrees with Hillary Clinton when she said “the Supreme Court is wrong” that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
In his nomination, President Obama has again placed partisanship and antagonism towards gun owners above the higher callings of his office.
If Garland is confirmed, Obama would be taking America back in time to an era where Supreme Court justices uphold the anti-gun policies of the president. Obama is hoping Garland will overturn the Supreme Court precedent that stands in the way of confiscatory gun control, like the gun ban and confiscation programs implemented in Australia.
Sigh… There is ALWAYS more to the story than what is making it into the MSM… I haven’t seen ANY coverage of Garland’s 2A stance, has anyone else???
Hopefully the Pubs grow a set and do what the Dems have done to Bush and Reagan. Stop the process until a new President is sworn in. Nothing can happen until next year anyway, since the court is still in session…
Sigh… DAMN these interesting times…
Another set of pictures from my grandfather’s days as an investigator for the railroad…
The sign appears to say Elmore, but I can’t come up with any details as to ‘which’ Elmore…
Looking at the vehicles, I think this was after 1913. The steam wrecker was built up in Michigan, starting in 1907. One still exists with Nevada Northern Railway.
My googlefu sucks. I couldn’t come up with any additional data on this, and there was nothing written on the back of the pictures either…