Shutdown Day 3…

Posted on by October 3, 2013

Well yesterday was ‘full’ of surprises… NOT…

Gun to the head rhetoric from the White House, no negotiation; but it’s the Pubs fault…

Real guns came out as the Capitol Police shot and killed a ‘black female’ in a black Infinity that apparently tried to run a barricade in DC.  Apparently multiple shots were fired by the LEOs as the car was considered a weapon.  Apparently there was a small child in the back seat during the whole time.  Interestingly, NONE of the major media identified the woman as black, and when questioned the police refused to state the ethnicity…

I can’t help but wonder how this one is going to be spun…  And it’s pretty sad when I have to make that statement.

However, in other news, people STILL can’t register for obummercare; must have an email address, and apparently a ‘traceable’ IP address…

Access to MCAS Miramar for the upcoming airshow was cancelled, e.g. NO airshow (there were not going to be any military acft performing anyway).

Oh yeah, and if you’re in TN, you get a free Obamaphone too!

Community Health Alliance, Tennessee’s health insurance co-op, is running a unique promotional program to drive enrollment in its plans for sale on the exchange: health insurance in exchange for a smartphone.

As part of its Community Health Connection Program, CHA is offering qualified individuals an LG Lucid 2 4G smart phone (or equivalent model), a phone plan and tech support, included as a cost of their health plan benefits. The phone plan includes unlimited talk, unlimited texting and 1.2GB of data. 

The idea is to make it easier for providers and patients to stay connected, but it will also help CHA keep track of its member population, many of whom are expected to be new to the health insurance market.

Bold/highlight is mine…

Read the full article HERE.

And more WWII vets ‘crashed’ the barricades, and BO and his minions sent protesters out from SEIU… For $15…

They never give up…

Prescient???

Posted on by October 2, 2013

A friend pointed this out to me last night…

Those kids are now around early 20’s…  And it gives me chills…

And they voted for BO…

Nuff said…

Shutdown Day 2…

Posted on by October 2, 2013

A couple of interesting points have been raised today in various conversations…

First, is this shutdown just one more ‘distraction’ to minimize the failure of Obummercare sign-ups?  If everybody is concentrating on that, they’re not paying attention to all the problems with trying to sign up.

If you want to try something interesting, try accessing healthcare.gov through a TOR browser…

Second, in the make it hurt category, they closed all military commissaries world-wide today.

Third, the whole thing surrounding the WWII vets and the Memorial…  It’s now coming out that the people tried to get the administration’s permission and were denied and THEN the barriers went up (WHY?  Park Service is NOT furloughed). This is about as petty as the White House tour thing…

And in the YGTBSM category, I get a work related call just now with a set of what about… questions, after about the sixth one, I finally cut the guy off and told him to go see the guy in charge, it was all already discussed and if he’d been at the meeting he would have know that.  And ‘that’ was the reason he wasn’t in charge… Sigh…

With my deepest thanks…

Posted on by October 1, 2013

I didn’t do much for KTKC this year, but thanks to all who donated I actually made my goal.

I cannot express how much I appreciate that, and your willingness to help out a great cause.

Thank You!

Shutdown Day 1…

Posted on by October 1, 2013

And we’re off…

And apparently the new ‘online’ signup was ‘off’ too…

Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted to refuse to enter into official negotiations with the House on a spending bill, saying there can be no talks until the GOP agrees to end the shutdown that began Tuesday morning.

The 54-46 vote showed Senate Democrats remain united, and the vote shoves the issue back over to House Republicans, who have now seen the senior chamber kill four different proposals to end the shutdown.

But Republicans said Democrats now own the shutdown by refusing even to talk.

“They literally just voted against working out a compromise,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republicans’ leader.

Democrats have been insistent on a “clean” stopgap funding bill that doesn’t affect President Obama’s health law. House Republicans, meanwhile, have said there must be conditions.

Full article HERE.

So people are being sent home with no pay, and the possibility of NO backpay!  I can’t help but wonder how many will come back?  And what happens if this runs 2, 3, 4 weeks???

Could ‘you’ survive a week or a month without a paycheck?

Shut em down…

Posted on by September 30, 2013

My $.02 worth here, I’d do if I were in the House is I’d send a bill up that makes EVERYBODY come under obamacare, no exclusions for Congress, unions, nobody…

And I’d go home.  Put it in Reid and BOs court…

The democratic version of compromise is WE (the little people) give up everything, they give up nothing, then take more (in taxes)…

Screw em all…

2014 will be the fourth try at the ballot box, what next???

And a gratuitous video of Vito and the ‘ball’…

In order to keep it from getting monotonous I cut this down to one catch…

He did this 9 of 10 ten times the only failure was when I kicked it over his head and he couldn’t jump fast enough!  And I don’t think the neighbor kids will kick the ball in the street anymore…

Three weeks ago that was a bright, shiny new ball, but it got away from the kids and Vito ‘caught’ it for them; except for the bite it was fine, if a little flat…LOL

PP replaced the ball and now he has a bigger play toy than the tennis balls!

Catch up pics…

Posted on by September 30, 2013

A couple of catch up pics from the continuing roadtrip…

Another version of point and click interface!

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Yes, they’re all plastic, and the ‘real’ food comes out looking exactly the same! They take pains to do the same ‘design’…

Hello Kitty…

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There is another one floating around with Pokemon both outside AND inside on the upholstery…

And the Walmartians are now flying…

IMG_1385She had the obligatory nose ring, stud in the eyebrow, and metal studs in the shoes to go with the hot pink highlights in the hair.  I wonder how she got through the metal detector!

Along with ‘that’ package, the obligatory high whiney voice and complaining constantly…

Range Report…

Posted on by September 29, 2013

Well, Keads and I snuck out and took a training course with Bill this weekend…

Money was turned into smoke, noise and knowledge and a fun time was had by all…

DSC00382“You VILL do as I say…”

Keads needs a haircut…

DSC00380And I did my normal screw up, dropped one round…

DSC0038710x double taps, and I did this not once but TWICE!!!

But I met the qual, so I guess I’ll take that and be happy.  Bill did an excellent job of instructing, and there was a lot of back and forth between the four of us students. Well worth the $$, and the time!

And then Bill took us out for a ‘good’ dinner… First we went to Norway, and took a left, went to the middle of nowhere and took a right, and ended up in Amana.  Yes ‘that’ Amana…

And that was WITH the shortcuts…

The Amana Colonies were founded 150 years ago, are a National Historic Landmark and are visited by people from all over the United States.

Originally, all land and buildings were owned by the community. Families were assigned living quarters, and each person over school age worked at assigned tasks in the kitchens, fields, factories or shops. In 1932, the people voted to end the communal way of life. Today, many of the businesses in the Amana Colonies are independently owned and operated.

We ate at the Ox Yoke Inn, a German restaurant and man, it was GOOD (scratch the damn diet again)!!!

I’ve got a couple of videos, but with the bandwidth at the hotel, I’ll wait till I get home to put them up…

Tomorrow it’s back to the grind…

For all y’all that didn’t grow up out where folks actually drive more than ten miles a day, it was about an hour there, and an hour back.  So a ‘shortish’ drive to dinner… 🙂

A different view…

Posted on by September 28, 2013

This is what it’s like to get a ride with the Blues…

As you watch this, look at how the nurse is reacting, then think about the fact that the pilot is talking the ENTIRE ten minutes in what is a pretty normal tone of voice…

However…

April 9, 2013

U.S. Navy Cancels Blue Angels 2013 Performances
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy has cancelled the remaining 2013 performances of its
Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels. The squadron will continue to train to  maintain flying proficiency until further notice at its home station in Pensacola, Fla.

Recognizing budget realities, current Defense policy states that outreach events can only be supported with local assets at no cost to the government.  This is one of many steps the Navy is taking to ensure resources are in place to support forces operating forward now and those training to relieve them.

The Navy believes there is value in demonstrating the professionalism and capabilities of our Navy and Marine Corps Naval Aviation team, thus inspiring future generations of Sailors and Marines. The Navy intends to continue aerial demonstrations in the future as the budget situation permits.

And it’s NOT looking good for FY-14…

Memories…

Posted on by September 26, 2013

Back in the day stuff…

Turning over at sunrise…

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You got it, we’re outta here… Only four hours to homebase…

And yes, there WERE form flights, in a P-3 even…

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And one more, from back in the day when the Navy wasn’t PC and all touchy feely…

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Got this in 1977 on a Misawa, Japan deployment.  Some guys did a Korea run and had them made up, another crew picked them up.  Solid brass a weighs a bunch… Also the exact size of 105mm shell case… 🙂