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…
Oops, gotta violate that… Go read THIS from Jeb Kinnison…
And from PPP
Vito wasted NO time in getting comfortable…
This is the second ‘Super Tuesday’…
Quoted from the WAPO oped, HERE, on Trump’s rise.
Good countries can sometimes go bad. Donald Trump’s supporters implicitly make this argument when they proclaim, “Make America Great Again.” And so do those who loathe Trump and see in him a dangerous populist response to the anger of frustrated middle-class voters.
The ‘silent majority’ has finally had enough of the Washington ‘politics as usual’. This more than anything else, I believe, is what is fueling the Trump phenomenon. Politicians have been lying to the public since there have been politicians, that’s pretty much a given… However, when the Pubs got a clear mandate in 2014 to clean up the crap, they basically blew off the people that elected them.
This time around, the people have gone outside political circles in a big way, when Trump actually did decide to run. The ‘elites’ figured he would be flash in the pan, and go away/get bored after a month or two.
BUT…
Crowds came out, and got bigger, and kept coming out. From 17 candidates, including the ‘anointed’ GOP candidate, Jeb Bush, it’s now down to 4 (realistically 2- Trump and Cruz). And Trump is still leading…
How could this unqualified, foul-mouthed, argumentative ‘upstart’ possibly be in the lead. He ‘incites’ violence at his rallies, telling people to beat up those who disagree and he’ll pay the lawyers, he’s not ‘Presidential’, etc!!! And the MSM, the elites and old line Pubs are having hissy fits, including calling the Pubs race a ‘clown show’ and predicting a brokered convention (where the elites can and will influence the outcome in their favor). OBTW, the elites hate Cruz too…
But he’s still leading…
Why? In my opinion (yeah, yeah, I know what that’s worth), Trump has touched the nerve of the silent majority and is jumping up and down on it by saying the things they say at home and to others they know. He doesn’t pander to the elites, isn’t taking money, so he isn’t beholding to a specific group, and tells folks to stand up for what they believe. He wants America to be the world power it once was, and he is PROUD to be an American.
Things came to a nasty head in Chicago, nee Chiraq, the other night with something approaching 1000 protesters forcing a rally to be cancelled. At least ‘some’ reports say there were ‘paid’ agitators there for the purpose of fomenting a riot…
At another rally, at least one person tried to rush the stage, and got taken down by the USSS detail.
Why doesn’t this happen at the Dems rallies? Think about it, one of the candidates is under the cloud of a pending indictment, the other an out and out socialist and this is the BEST the Dems can do? Where are the protesters on that side? Maybe because they are either paid to stay away, or they don’t want to upset their gravy train of freebies/entitlements that allow them to do nothing but protest and incite violence…
What if, just for the sake of argument, Trump’s base DOES start beating these protestors, or having them arrested, rather than just ushered out? When the agitators (anybody remember the SEIU kerfluffles from a couple of years ago) start taking it on the chin literally, I’m betting they’d disappear into the woodwork…
Will Trump win? I honestly have no idea…
But at this point, I’ll be satisfied to see him at least get a fair chance at the nomination. Otherwise, I believe this will be the end of the GOP as a viable party in the USA…
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