WOW…

Something tells me the Catholics are NOT happy…



Matter of fact, I think they are just flat PISSED!  I can never remember anything this ‘strong’ coming out from the Catholic Church in my lifetime.

Old School…

I don’t ‘think’ this was driven to the hotel, but one just NEVER knows what you’re liable to find in the parking lot…

This is either a 64 or 65 Chevy II, tricked out ‘almost’ like a C/FX car, but I couldn’t see under the hood.  As a matter of fact, it didn’t have the correct hood on it, but this car obviously has seen some track time. 


A closer look at the rear window shows this car is an LA car (Area 1), and probably raced at Lions (probably the most famous LA track, even though the last race was 40 years ago). It’s also sporting Pomona competitor stickers from 1970 and 1971, so this car did compete at the highest levels of the sport back in the day. And that old B&M Hydro sticker probably dates to the late 60’s (I did look at the interior, and yes there was that old B&M sitting on the tunnel). 

Sadly, I have no idea who it belongs to, or the rest of the story, but DAMN it brought back some fond memories…

Cowboy Wisdom…

I can agree with ALL of these… 🙂

Cowboy rules for:
1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Turn your cap right, your head ain’t crooked.

3. Let’s get this straight: it’s called a ‘gravel road.’ I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you’re gonna get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

4. They are cattle. That’s why they smell like cattle. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? I-10 & I-40 go east and west, I-17 & I-15 goes north and south. Pick one and go.

5. So you have a $60,000 car. We’re impressed. We have $250,000 Combines that are driven only 3 weeks a year.

6. Every person in the Wild West waves. It’s called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of geese/pheasants/ducks/doves are comin’ in during a hunt, we WILL shoot it outta your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.

8. Yeah. We eat trout, salmon, deer and elk. You really want sushi and caviar? It’s available at the corner bait shop.

9. The ‘Opener’ refers to the first day of deer season. It’s a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

10. We open doors for women. That’s applied to all women, regardless of age.

11. No, there’s no ‘vegetarian special’ on the menu. Order steak, or you can order the Chef’s Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey.

12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup! Oh, yeah … We don’t care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat… IT AIN’T REAL CHILI!!

13. You bring ‘Coke’ into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring ‘Mary Jane’ into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

14. College and High School Football is as important here as the Giants, the Yankees, the Mets, the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.

15. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don’t hit the water hazards – it spooks the fish.

16. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump ain’t music, anyway. We don’t want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers! Refer back to #1!

And there is more………….
The COWBOY Solution to save Gasoline.

OBAMA wants us to cut the amount of gasoline we use…..

The best way to stop using so much gasoline is to deport 20 million illegal immigrants!

That would be 20 million less people using our gas. The price of gas would come down…..
Bring our troops home from Afghanistan to guard the borders. When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the Border, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo and ship him to Afghanistan ….

Tell him if he wants to come to AMERICA then he must serve a tour in OUR military….

Give him a soldier’s pay while he’s there and tax him on it.

After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country.
He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal resident.
This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Afghanistan and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves.

If they refuse to serve, ship them to Afghanistan anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo.

Problem solved.


Any/all of these would work for me…

Just sayin…

I’m SOOOooo Confused…

Random collection from the net today…

What the hell is she smoking???

Another proud moment is Army history- NOT!

I’m soooo glad he’s finally got his priorities straight.  Only took 3 ½ years!

Did she, or didn’t she??  Even her hairdresser doesn’t know!

Isn’t that the same year Al Gore “Invented” the Internet?!?!?!  Damn, he sure was a busy beaver!

Election junk mail barely spares Postal Service from insolvency.  We have finally found the solution to save the Post Office.  Hold Presidential Elections EVERY Year!!! (No, nevermind... THAT would drive all of us nuts!)

I can’t even begin to comprehend how this occurred… , unless he had some “help”!

I hope someone checks for Voter IDs.
And now on a more serious note:  This guy took “One Hell of a 1st Step”. 
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH...Video

One to think about...


It's getting down to the 'nut cuttin' as they say out West...

Teh Debate…

You lie, no YOU lie… Liar, liar, pants on fire…

Lather, rinse, repeat…

I’m gonna go get a beer…

And Crowley has totally lost control, if she ever had it…

Gee, I ‘Wonder’ who I believe…

It appears the Prez is too busy trying to mitigate the feud between the Idol hosts to get his facts right…

From CNS News-

President Barack Obama said on Thursday that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system.”
According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout.
“We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but we also passed a historic law to end taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts for good,” Obama said in Miami Thursday.
The Congressional Budget Office–based on figures from Obama’s own Office of Management and Budget—gives a different assessment.
“The cost to the federal government of the TARP’s transactions (also referred to as the subsidy cost), including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $24 billion,” said the CBO report, which was released on the same day Obama spoke.

Full Article HERE.

The hole just keeps getting deeper, and the threats are rising…

Paw has links HERE to all the riot threats.  All I can say is load up extra mags, print pics of the perps and be ready to go to town…

Oopsie…

Something tells me there were some asses chewed in the WH over this faux pas…



Can you imagine??? Some Pub governor getting Streisand’s and Brolin’s seats???

LOL…

Slow weekend in Chi-Town…

Looks like it was a ‘quiet’ weekend in Chi-town…

ONLY 5 killed…

Aa 73-year-old man, a 34-year-old man getting ready to celebrate his brother’s birthday, and a 20-year-old woman in a “domestic” incident, and two teenagers (one 17, the other 18) on their way to meet a girl…

And the ‘other’ shootings…


• About 7:04 a.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the knee near the intersection of North and Central Park avenues in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

• A 31-year-old man was shot at 5:30 a.m. at his home in the 0-100 block of West 112th Street in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side.

• About 5 a.m., a male walked into Holy Cross Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm, someone shot him in the 6400 block of South Albany Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

• A man was shot about 3:30 a.m. in the 1700 block of South Wolcott Avenue in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the South Side.

• A male was shot about 3:25 a.m. in the 2800 block of North Mason Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

• Two men were hospitalized after someone shot at them about 2:30 a.m. on the 600 block of North Central Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side. 

• At about 2:20 a.m., a male was shot in the left shoulder while inside a vehicle in the 4800 block of West Chicago Avenue in South Austin.

• At about 1:30 a.m., a 25-year-old man was approached by two males and shot on the 1100 block of North Monticello Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side.

• At about 1 a.m. in the 1600 block of South Lawndale Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood on the South Side, a 20-year-old man was shot in the hand after someone approached him and started hitting him. The 20-year-old tried to run and heard a gunshot, and was shot in the hand.

• Two people in a van were shot about 12:30 a.m. today in Rogers Park and one of them returned fire, hitting their 21-year-old attacker, police said. The 21-year-old first approached the van on foot near Morse and Greenview avenues and opened fire, police said. Two men inside the van were struck, and one of them shot back, hitting the first shooter in the face and neck.

So one can only wonder why all these law abiding gun owners were out shooting up the neighborhoo…

Oh wait, Rahmbo would NEVER let illegal guns be used on the streets would he???

After all, this is the city with the toughest gun laws in the US, right???  

And yet they want to take OUR guns away…

How about enforcing the @#^$@* laws and getting after the CRIMINALS???

A Soldier’s Deck of Cards…

I’d actually seen this performed a number of years ago at a conference in Las Vegas, but NOT with the ending this young gent does…



As I’ve heard more than once, there is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole…

FWIW, I’m positive this administration would have a hissy fit if someone actually did this in theater…

Bailout above Mach…

Felix Baugartner is attempting to be the first man to purposfully exeed Mach 1 without an airplane and parachute safely to the ground.

It can be watched live HERE.

He will exceed Capt Joe Kittinger’s record of 102,800 feet on August 16, 1960. Capt Kittinger’s speed was ‘only’ 614 mph… It took over 4 minutes for him to freefall to 10,000 feet.

But he won’t be the first to bailout at more than Mach 1…

Bill Weaver did that (not on purpose) Jan 25, 1966 after an SR-71 came apart around him at Mach 3+.

From his recollections-

On the planned test profile, we entered a programmed 35-deg. bank turn to the right. An immediate unstart occurred on the right engine, forcing the aircraft to roll further right and start to pitch up. I jammed the control stick as far left and forward as it would go. No response. I instantly knew we were in for a wild ride.

I attempted to tell Jim what was happening and to stay with the airplane until we reached a lower speed and altitude. I didn’t think the chances of surviving an ejection at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 ft. were very good. However, g-forces built up so rapidly that my words came out garbled and unintelligible, as confirmed later by the cockpit voice recorder.

The cumulative effects of system malfunctions, reduced longitudinal stability, increased angle-of-attack in the turn, supersonic speed, high altitude and other factors imposed forces on the airframe that exceeded flight control authority and the Stability Augmentation System’s ability to restore control.

Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us. From that point, I was just along for the ride.

My next recollection was a hazy thought that I was having a bad dream. Maybe I’ll wake up and get out of this mess, I mused. Gradually regaining consciousness, I realized this was no dream; it had really happened. That also was disturbing, because I could not have survived what had just happened. Therefore, I must be dead. Since I didn’t feel bad–just a detached sense of euphoria–I decided being dead wasn’t so bad after all. AS FULL AWARENESS took hold, I realized I was not dead, but had somehow separated from the airplane. I had no idea how this could have happened; I hadn’t initiated an ejection. The sound of rushing air and what sounded like straps flapping in the wind confirmed I was falling, but I couldn’t see anything. My pressure suit’s face plate had frozen over and I was staring at a layer of ice.

The pressure suit was inflated, so I knew an emergency oxygen cylinder in the seat kit attached to my parachute harness was functioning. It not only supplied breathing oxygen, but also pressurized the suit, preventing my blood from boiling at extremely high altitudes. I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but the suit’s pressurization had also provided physical protection from intense buffeting and g-forces. That inflated suit had become my own escape capsule.

My next concern was about stability and tumbling. Air density at high altitude is insufficient to resist a body’s tumbling motions, and centrifugal forces high enough to cause physical injury could develop quickly. For that reason, the SR-71′s parachute system was designed to automatically deploy a small-diameter stabilizing chute shortly after ejection and seat separation. Since I had not intentionally activated the ejection system–and assuming all automatic functions depended on a proper ejection sequence–it occurred to me the stabilizing chute may not have deployed.

You can read the full recollection HERE.

Here’s hoping Mr. Baumgartner succeeds, we need more people like him who are willing to push the limits!

Edit- At 1910Z he jumped from 128,000 feet and got to 725Mph in free fall!

CONGRATULATIONS Mr. Baumgartner!!!