And the hits keep coming…

Posted on by March 17, 2013
This one is ‘really’ not a surprise, but it still sucks for the Navy…

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.  

Various History Links…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Not necessarily for everybody, but a compilation of links for various aviation things from pre-WWI through WWII and Vietnam.

o        Aviation Pioneers
o        World War I Aces
o        Hall of Fame of the Air
o        WW2 Pacific Theater (PTO)
o        WW2 US Marine Corps
o        WW2 US Navy Aces
o        WW2 Mediterranean (MTO)
o        WW2 German Aces
o        Korean War Aces
o        Russian Aces
o        Vietnam Era Aces
·         Airplanes
o        World War I Planes
o        1930s Aircraft photos
o        WW2 Fighters
o        WW2 Bombers
o        WW2 German Planes
o        WW2 Airplane Pictures
o        History of Airplanes blog
o        Nose Art
o        Postwar Jets
·         World War Two
o        WW2 Facts and Firsts
o        WW2 Medals
o        WW2 Museums
o        WW2 Pictures
o        WW2 Ships
        WW2 Weapons
h/t JP

And then there were four…

Posted on by March 17, 2013

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

WH tours cancelled…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

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…

California Nursing Home letting woman die…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

Nanny State to the max!!!

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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.

Sometimes you just gotta wonder…

ZOMG Elevensies (Again)!!!

Posted on by March 17, 2013
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…

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…

ZOMG Elevensies (Again)!!!

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

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…

QOTD!!!

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Quote of the day-

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

The nose under the tent???

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Babs (call me Senator) Boxer is trying to sneak one in on us…

I don’t know about anyone else, but this was the first I’d heard about ‘this‘ little gem…


JANUARY 24 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013
Mrs. BOXER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To establish minimum standards for States that allow the
carrying of concealed firearms.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Common Sense Con
5 cealed Firearms Permit Act of 2013’’.
6 SEC. 2. CONCEALED FIREARMS PERMITS.
7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United
8 States Code, is amended by inserting after section 926C
9 the following:

1 ‘‘§ 926D. Concealed firearms permits
2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each State that allows residents
3 of the State to carry concealed firearms shall—
4 ‘‘(1) establish a process to issue permits to resi
5 dents of the State to carry concealed firearms; and
6 ‘‘(2) require that each resident of the State
7 seeking to carry a concealed firearm in the State ob
8 tain a permit through the process established under
9 paragraph (1).
10 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In establishing a process to
11 issue permits to carry concealed firearms under subsection
12 (a), a State shall—
13 ‘‘(1) ensure that a local law enforcement agency
14 participates in the process; and
15 ‘‘(2) at a minimum, require that an applicant
16 for a permit to carry a concealed firearm—
17 ‘‘(A) be a legal resident of the United
18 States;
19 ‘‘(B) be not less than 21 years of age;
20 ‘‘(C) demonstrate good cause for request
21 ing a concealed firearm permit; and
22 ‘‘(D) demonstrate that the applicant is
23 worthy of the public trust to carry a concealed
24 firearm in public.
25 ‘‘(c) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY REPORT.—If a
26 State establishes a process under subsection (a) that al-

1 lows for an agency other than a law enforcement agency
2 to issue permits to carry concealed firearms, the process
3 shall require that—
4 ‘‘(1) a local law enforcement agency submit to
5 the agency responsible for issuing permits a written
6 report that describes whether the applicant meets
7 the standards of the State to carry a concealed fire
8 arm; and
9 ‘‘(2) the agency responsible for issuing permits
10 maintain a report submitted under paragraph (1) in
11 the file of the applicant.
12 ‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘local
13 law enforcement agency’ means a law enforcement agency
14 of the unit of local government with jurisdiction of the
15 area in which the applicant for a permit to carry a con
16 cealed firearm resides.
17 ‘‘(e) COMPLIANCE.—Not later than 270 days after
18 the date of enactment of this section, each State described
19 in subsection (a) shall be in compliance with this section.’’.
20 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
21 The table of sections for chapter 44 of title 18, United
22 States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relat
23 ing to section 926C the following:
‘‘926D. Concealed firearms permits.’’.


Lines 10-24 my highlight and underline…

And 18 USC 926C is HERE.

“MY” take I think this bill is proposing to take away states rights to “Shall Issue and replace it with a federal “Good & Substantial” definition.

To me it does this two ways, one it would now require a ‘good reason’, and it brings local police into the mix officially…

So basically, the states can remain shall issue by defining G&S to be ???  But the local LEOs also have to approve your app rather than at the State level.  So a possibility would be let’s say Philly- Local police would always deny, where the rural places would continue to be shall issue.

Another problem is states that have NO wording in their state constitutions supporting 2A, e.g. Maryland, other than that the US Constitution is the law of the land. Depending on how they ‘parse’ that, it ‘could’ exclude the Bill of Rights, and poof, no 2A and no issue.  

Am I being totally stupid here, or reading too much into this??? Or just overly paranoid???