Random Stuff…

Posted on by March 31, 2016

In the WANT category… Sigh…

XKSS

I have seen ONE real one in the Goodwood Museum in England…

But it appears Jaguar is actually going to ‘finish’ the build run of nine ‘continuation’ models built on original chassis, to original specs, with correct VIN codes…

The remaining nine will now be rebuilt and sold as continuation models, each with an expected price tag of more than £1 million (approximately $1.44 million). Handling the project is the recently announced Jaguar Land Rover Classic department. 

Full article HERE!

Anybody got a spare $1.5M laying around they aren’t using??? 🙂

Another Oopsie…

Posted on by March 31, 2016

You gotta wonder sometimes…

“During a routine maintenance procedure Wednesday, a Loudoun County transportation employee found an explosive training material on a school bus used in an exercise by a Federal Government agency last week,” the initial email stated. “The explosive training material was in a benign state and could not be activated through normal operation of the bus.”

First it was TSA ‘forgetting’ to take ‘training’ drugs out of a bag, then it was the Fibbies, now it’s the CIA…

Full article HERE.

It appears ‘somebody’ can’t follow, or just DIDN’T follow a checklist and actually confirm ALL the training material has been recovered before they leave the training site? And it makes one wonder why train on a school bus???

h/t Les

TBT…

Posted on by March 29, 2016

Detachment flight schedules sometimes got interesting…

Det flight sked

Jeddah more so than most… Stuck off in the far right corner of the airport, you never knew who or what might show up in the middle of the night…

Jeddah

Dets tended, over the years, to be ‘interesting’ regardless of when/where one ended up. They ranged from one crew/one airplane, to 6-7 airplanes from multiple locations with minimal support, basically whatever could be scrounged at that particular location. Air Force C-130s were always a good source of parts for the P-3s, as we had the same engines… Just the 130s had theirs upside down! 🙂

h/t Frito

Posted in TBT

Liberal ‘logic’…

Posted on by March 28, 2016

It’s ‘official’, not all pigs are equal…

In response to a question on one of the morning shows, Ron Fournier said-

“I do understand that when somebody is running for president, there is a higher bar that you have to get over because we can’t have a system in which we are constantly charging people who are running for president of crimes.” 

Before you go read the article, make sure you’ve taken your BP meds…

Full article HERE.

If this were ANYBODY else, they would already be in jail, multiple times over!!! Anybody that, at this point, doesn’t believe there is a double standard in effect, is either blind or willfully ignorant of what is going on…

The WAPO is actually putting up a an article, HERE, with a rough timeline and some of the people involved, along with email snippets, but interesting maintains the claims that ‘no one knew this was a private server’… BS!!!

I simply cannot believe this has drug out as long as it has. I’ve seen people hung out to dry/prosecuted MUCH faster, but then again they weren’t political figures…

A blast from the past!!!

Posted on by March 26, 2016

Anybody remember Mall Ninjas???

Gecko45???

Miguel over at GunFreeZone has a link up HERE to the compilation of derp that was Gecko45…

If you need a good laugh, or wondered where the terms came from, this thread on Glock Talk is what started it all in 2001!

Sadly, this one doesn’t include all the comebacks/questions/BS calls from many on GT to Gecko45, those were as humorous, cynical and sarcastic in turns and amazingly Gecko45 never got the fact that none of us believed him after the first couple of posts…

There was another go-round on this back in 2007, and this graphic popped up on THR, in THIS thread…

MallNinja

In 2010, this one showed up, courtesy of CalGuns forum HERE.

geardo

There are others floating around out there, including the fat kid with all the crap hanging off him and an airsoft M4… sigh…

Anyhoo, thanks to Miguel for giving us a laugh!!! 🙂

 

Aviation Art…

Posted on by March 24, 2016

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The group first activated in August 1942 as the 325th Fighter Group at Mitchel Field, New York. After training, the group moved to North Africa in 1943, where it flew combat missions with the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation for actions over Sardinia for engaging a superior force of enemy aircraft and destroying more than half of them. The group was withdrawn from combat in the fall of 1943 and re-equipped with the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. After moving to Italy, the group re-entered combat, earning a second Distinguished Unit Citation in January 1944. The group continued in combat until VE Day, returning to the United States in the fall for inactivation.

If you had or knew anyone in the 325th, HERE is a link to their organizational webpage.

The lineage still exists, as this unit flys today as the 325th Operations Group out of Tyndall Field in Florida, flying the F-22.

Happy Easter!!!

Posted on by March 24, 2016

He is risen!

The Formula of the Council of Nicaea

In A.D. 325, the Council of Nicaea set the date of Easter as the Sunday following the paschal full moon, which is the full moon that falls on or after the vernal (spring) equinox. In practice, that means that Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or after March 21. Easter can occur as early as March 22 and as late as April 25, depending on when the paschal full moon falls.

The other confusing fact is that Eastern Orthodox faiths use the Julian calendar, which calculates differently from the Gregorian calendar we use here in the States, so today is Easter ‘here’, while Easter doesn’t occur until April 3rd…

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And if you’re going Easter egg hunting…

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Remember these times, because when you get old, you can hide your OWN Easter eggs… Sigh…

It’s that time of year…

Posted on by March 25, 2016

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!

Bizarro land…

Posted on by March 24, 2016

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.