I’m not a big fan of HBO most of the time, but this trailer does hit the nail on the head…
Although they are acting, everything said is pretty much true!!!
h/t Ev
Although they are acting, everything said is pretty much true!!!
h/t Ev
This one is ‘really’ not a surprise, but it still sucks for the Navy…
From the UT San Diego-
From the UT San Diego-
The California Coastal Commission has roundly rejected the U.S. Navy’s sonar program, saying that what the Navy sees as its “theater” — in other words, the ocean – has some seats reserved for whales and dolphins.
The unanimous vote, taken at a commission meeting Friday morning in San Diego, sets up a possible repeat of a federal lawsuit that ultimately involved the White House and the Supreme Court in 2008.
The Navy is applying for a five-year renewal of its federal marine permit to conduct training over a huge swath of ocean between Hawaii and Southern California. For the California piece, it is required to run the plan past the Coastal Commission.
The commission didn’t like what it saw. Commissioners said the Navy didn’t supply enough information to support its conclusions that the overall marine mammal count isn’t affected by sonar technology used by the Navy to locate ships or by detonations at sea.
Full article HERE.
I see, in addition to the usual dem suspects, the NRDC and China’s hands all over this…
Now is their chance to truly hose the Navy over on allowed training…
I swear if I was in charge, I’d pull every damn ship, airplane, Army, Air Force and Marine unit out of California and move them North and West. They ‘love’ the military money, but ‘hate’ the military and do every thing they can out there to thwart realistic (or for that matter ANY) training.
Not necessarily for everybody, but a compilation of links for various aviation things from pre-WWI through WWII and Vietnam.
o Nose Art
h/t JP
Another Veteran is gone…
Major Thomas Griffin, a navigator on the Doolittle Raid was called home Tuesday. He passed in a VA home in northern Kentucky at age 96. At the next reunion of the surviving Doolittle Raiders in Fort Walton Beach, where they trained for the mission, they will turn Maj. Griffin’s goblet upside down, and there will be only four left upright.
Maj. Griffin parachuted to safety over China and eluded capture, eventually making it back stateside. He later flew bombing missions over North Africa until he was shot down in 1943, spending the remainder of the war in a German POW camp.
Years ago the President of Hennessy Company presented a bottle of 1896 vintage “Very Special Hennessy” cognac to General Jimmy Doolittle, in honor of his birth year and it was decided that the last two survivors would toast the fallen with it. Due to their advanced age it was decided that they would make the toast this year, before there were none left.
The private ceremony will be attended only by the surviving Raiders, the Raiders’ historian, Tom Casey, manager of the Doolittle Raiders Association, and two Air Force cadets. They will conduct a roll call of the names of all the Raiders, and when Griffin’s name is called, Lt. Col. Richard Cole, at age 97 the oldest survivor, will give a report on Griffin, announcing that he has left us.
At the end of the reading of names, the white-gloved cadets will pour the cognac into the goblets of the survivors, and they will drink their special toast: “To those who have gone.”
The final four survivors are Lt. Col. Cole of Comfort, Texas; Lt. Col. Robert Hite of Nashville, Tennessee; Lt. Col. Edward Saylor of Puyallup, Washington, and Master Sgt. David Thatcher of Missoula, Montana.
RIP Major, know that you were an example to an entire country and gave America hope!
h/t JP
Supposedly the White House tours are cancelled due to sequestration…
From the Washington Times-
The White House
announced Tuesday that it was canceling all public tours of the president’s home because of the sequester spending cuts.
“Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House Tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013 until further notice. Unfortunately, we will not be able to reschedule affected tours,” the White House said in an email.
Full article HERE. And Ramirez hits a homer with this one…
From the Washington Times-
The White House
announced Tuesday that it was canceling all public tours of the president’s home because of the sequester spending cuts.“Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House Tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013 until further notice. Unfortunately, we will not be able to reschedule affected tours,” the White House said in an email.
Full article HERE. And Ramirez hits a homer with this one…
But the interesting part is that according to sources, the docents that give the tours are VOLUNTEERS!!!
So how can you fire/layoff volunteers???
And another Ramirez winner…
But you can BUY access… To ‘our’ house…
I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but I’m really beginning to wonder what his real goals are…
Just had a chat with #2 daughter, who is a Paramedic in Kali about THIS story…
She said this is COMMON practice in a lot of the convalescent homes and nursing homes in Kali. She said the problem is many of the ‘nurses’ are in fact one level below nurses, and a lot of them are non-US born (e.g. barely speak English). They may only have ONE real nurse for the entire facility (80-100 beds) and one ‘corporate’ doctor who may ‘cover’ 500 patients, most of who he/she’s never even seen. And that most of the nurses have no idea if the patients are DNR or not, because they don’t bother to actually READ the patient’s records.
She said in many cases, they don’t even call 911 until they’ve called the doctor to get permission to call…
She said she has lost patients for this very reason.
I told her if they decide to put me in a nursing home, just shoot me and save the time and trouble… Sigh…
I just DO NOT understand how a person can just stand there and let someone die in front of them!
I worked something over 70 CPR cases over the years, and we only saved about 10%, but by God we TRIED to save everyone of those folks…
She said this is COMMON practice in a lot of the convalescent homes and nursing homes in Kali. She said the problem is many of the ‘nurses’ are in fact one level below nurses, and a lot of them are non-US born (e.g. barely speak English). They may only have ONE real nurse for the entire facility (80-100 beds) and one ‘corporate’ doctor who may ‘cover’ 500 patients, most of who he/she’s never even seen. And that most of the nurses have no idea if the patients are DNR or not, because they don’t bother to actually READ the patient’s records.
She said in many cases, they don’t even call 911 until they’ve called the doctor to get permission to call…
She said she has lost patients for this very reason.
I told her if they decide to put me in a nursing home, just shoot me and save the time and trouble… Sigh…
I just DO NOT understand how a person can just stand there and let someone die in front of them!
I worked something over 70 CPR cases over the years, and we only saved about 10%, but by God we TRIED to save everyone of those folks…
Now Kalifornia wants to ban smoking in ANY multi-unit building…
e.g. your apartment, your condo, your townhome.
But ONLY for tobacco, not for dope…
Link HERE.
e.g. your apartment, your condo, your townhome.
But ONLY for tobacco, not for dope…
Link HERE.
Sometimes you just gotta wonder…
Well, they’re predicting ‘snowmageddon’ again today, it’s now spitting a little bit…
It’s going to SNOW, 3-7 inches (maybe) and it’s going to be wet and heavy, and your power’s going to go out, and your roof is going to collapse under the weight, so you need to clean your trees and roof off, but you’ll have a heart attack, go buy toilet paper, milk and bread… ZOMG…
It’s going to SNOW, 3-7 inches (maybe) and it’s going to be wet and heavy, and your power’s going to go out, and your roof is going to collapse under the weight, so you need to clean your trees and roof off, but you’ll have a heart attack, go buy toilet paper, milk and bread… ZOMG…
Coming home, the line of cars was a BLOCK long to get into the grocery store parking lot…
Sigh…
And the next one, TSA is now going to ‘allow’ Victronix sized knives in carry on (probably because they normally miss them anyway) and of course flight attendants are in PSH… Story HERE.
And next, Chavez is dead, ZOMG what is going to happen in Venezuela??? Are they going to cut off our oil???
And lastly, and the one that got my and some other folks attention, North Korea (Kim Jong-Un) stated then will cancel the 1953 cease fire on 11 March and conduct ‘surgical strikes’ to reunify the Korean peninsula.
Full article HERE.
So my question is, where will the Prez and Kerry be??? And will they answer the phone call at 0300??? Or will we see another Benghazi response while our troops in South Korea die???
We ARE in sequestration, so there is no Fleet support available to Seventh Fleet (they’re tying up to the piers), and the USAF is cutting flight hours, and the Marines are stuck in Okinawa, and with no airlift, the Army is hosed…
Now what???
And then there is THIS…
This woman testifies against a Colorado gun ban bill. she was raped by an armed man, in a GUN FREE ZONE on campus.
The first brain dead senator tells her that this bill is not about protecting them from violent criminals, it is about MAKING PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE because they are UNCOMFORTABLE knowing that someone on campus might have a concealed gun, and THE people who FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE TRUMP HER NEED FOR SELF DEFENSE.
Troll #2 tells her it was better that she didn’t have a gun, because she couldn’t do anything anyway, statistics are not on her side.
Unfrikkingbelievable…
And since I’m on a roll, one more from the SPLC…
The number of hate groups counted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last year reached a total of 1,018, up slightly from the year before but continuing a trend of significant growth that is now more than a decade old. The truly stunning growth came in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement — conspiracy-minded groups that see the federal government as their primary enemy.
The Patriot movement first emerged in 1994, a response to what was seen as violent government repression of dissident groups at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and near Waco, Texas, in 1993, along with anger at gun control and the Democratic Clinton Administration in general. It peaked in 1996, a year after the Oklahoma City bombing, with 858 groups, then began to fade. By the turn of the millennium, the Patriot movement was reduced to fewer than 150 relatively inactive groups.
Full article HERE. Actually I think this one goes in the YGTBSM bucket…
Well, they’re predicting ‘snowmageddon’ again today, it’s now spitting a little bit…
It’s going to SNOW, 3-7 inches (maybe) and it’s going to be wet and heavy, and your power’s going to go out, and your roof is going to collapse under the weight, so you need to clean your trees and roof off, but you’ll have a heart attack, go buy toilet paper, milk and bread… ZOMG…
It’s going to SNOW, 3-7 inches (maybe) and it’s going to be wet and heavy, and your power’s going to go out, and your roof is going to collapse under the weight, so you need to clean your trees and roof off, but you’ll have a heart attack, go buy toilet paper, milk and bread… ZOMG…
Coming home, the line of cars was a BLOCK long to get into the grocery store parking lot…
Sigh…
And the next one, TSA is now going to ‘allow’ Victronix sized knives in carry on (probably because they normally miss them anyway) and of course flight attendants are in PSH… Story HERE.
And next, Chavez is dead, ZOMG what is going to happen in Venezuela??? Are they going to cut off our oil???
And lastly, and the one that got my and some other folks attention, North Korea (Kim Jong-Un) stated then will cancel the 1953 cease fire on 11 March and conduct ‘surgical strikes’ to reunify the Korean peninsula.
Full article HERE.
So my question is, where will the Prez and Kerry be??? And will they answer the phone call at 0300??? Or will we see another Benghazi response while our troops in South Korea die???
We ARE in sequestration, so there is no Fleet support available to Seventh Fleet (they’re tying up to the piers), and the USAF is cutting flight hours, and the Marines are stuck in Okinawa, and with no airlift, the Army is hosed…
Now what???
And then there is THIS…
This woman testifies against a Colorado gun ban bill. she was raped by an armed man, in a GUN FREE ZONE on campus.
The first brain dead senator tells her that this bill is not about protecting them from violent criminals, it is about MAKING PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE because they are UNCOMFORTABLE knowing that someone on campus might have a concealed gun, and THE people who FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE TRUMP HER NEED FOR SELF DEFENSE.
Troll #2 tells her it was better that she didn’t have a gun, because she couldn’t do anything anyway, statistics are not on her side.
Unfrikkingbelievable…
And since I’m on a roll, one more from the SPLC…
The number of hate groups counted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last year reached a total of 1,018, up slightly from the year before but continuing a trend of significant growth that is now more than a decade old. The truly stunning growth came in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement — conspiracy-minded groups that see the federal government as their primary enemy.
The Patriot movement first emerged in 1994, a response to what was seen as violent government repression of dissident groups at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and near Waco, Texas, in 1993, along with anger at gun control and the Democratic Clinton Administration in general. It peaked in 1996, a year after the Oklahoma City bombing, with 858 groups, then began to fade. By the turn of the millennium, the Patriot movement was reduced to fewer than 150 relatively inactive groups.
Full article HERE. Actually I think this one goes in the YGTBSM bucket…
Quote of the day-
One sentence editorial that appeared in today’s Peoria Journal Star-
One sentence editorial that appeared in today’s Peoria Journal Star-
“A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens.”
h/t JP