Big Boy Toys

40 thoughts on “Big Boy Toys”

1. Identify the Aircraft:
   1. Douglas A-1 Skyraider
   2. Bristol Blenheim
   3. Avro Vulcan
   4. Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant
   5. Consolidated B-24 Liberator

   1. 100%

   2. The Skyraider, last of the great WWII aircraft.

2. One of the places I used to work on the security systems was a Australian federal prison for illegal immigrants with criminal records. None of them were let out into the country.

   Do gooder organisation was complaining on the news about it this week. I can only think they have never actually met any of the inmates.

   1. The problem with do-gooders is that they don’t under the savage nature of some peoples (a cultural norm that exists across a people) who tend to enjoy victimizing productive, civilized people who live in the first world. This has been a problem in Denmark, Sweden, and Germany in particular as they embraced the arrival of military age, unaccompanied males from savage lands and cultures. Norway and Finland dodged the bullet. In the US, bringing Haitians to our shores was a monumental error. Haiti made for a suitable island prison, but they had difficulty escaping. Fixing that government action will be painful, and the do-gooders who are unscarred by the arrival of these people will not understand.

      1. This spells it out in plain, learned language by a man who knows: http://anodtothegods.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/tumblr_sis0jakv841zo7ib2_720.mp4?_=1

         1. Well put.

            1. Scary in result but simple common sense to avoid the problem altogether.
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               Now [rhetorically speaking with this audience] why it is the Biden/Harris regime is fostering illegal “immigration” from prisons and asylums across the globe?

      2. The do-gooders simply don’t understand, and can’t accept, that these invaders DO NOT belong here. Quite bluntly, they’re uncivilized savages with modern technology. They will not assimilate into The Great Melting Pot. They have no desire to do so. In fact, they get insulted quite easily about it. They have no Country. They have no morals. They have no ethics.They have no useful skills to offer our society. They’re parasites here, and very dangerous ones that would willingly kill their host.
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         They should be treated as such.

         1. X2…no more complicated than that DrJim.

            1. With respect, I think it IS more complicated than that. I agree that 90+% of the do-gooders are as you describe: well meaning but not understanding (and HBD deniers). But I think the 5% (who comprise most of the shot callers of this immigration/invasion mess) know EXACTLY what’s happening, and the long term implications that follow. And it’s not that they don’t care. They’re rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation while dancing the happy jig. To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn:
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               “You must understand, the leading do-gooders who took over America do not think of themselves as American first (if at all). They hate Americans. They hate Christians. Driven by hatred (and resentment) they wrecked America and the West without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated.”
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               Now that said, we ordinary people are muchly to blame for going along with it. Frankly I’m more angry at the (us/we) collaborators, even if unwilling/unwitting, than the perpetrators. It’s in the nature of the perpetrators to pull this shit. It’s what they do, and have done. But we should have known better, and called it out when it could have been stopped. I’m in Toronto at the moment, and compared to the Canada (even Morontario and Toronto) I knew in the 1980’s, it’s a totally unrecognizable country . And the change has not been for the better. It’s a truism that nothing was ever improved by the addition of Haitians. But the other “new Canucks” are no prize either. Not as bad (as the Haitians, obvs) but still a worsening of the nation. And there is no way of “sending them back”. And even I’m not comfortable with rounding them up and gassing them. So the bottom line is Canada is demographically fucked. (Now if we could send even, say, 5% of the excess to some plucky would-be ethnostate — that’s doing what would get ANY other nation-state pilloried, and probably embargoed up the wazoo — I’d pay bigly out of my own pocket for that. Not because I think it’d un-fuck the US or Canada. Just for spite. “From spite’s heart I spit at thee.”)

   2. Remember, the Quakers were responsible for prison reform in the early 1800’s in America, which spread to other ‘civilized’ countries.

      So no more flogging or hard labor or forced work. Instead replace all of that with isolation and prayer and believing the inmate when the inmate says he/she/it is reformed.

      Thanks, Quakers. We have such a better system than physically punishing the living dog-crap out of evil-doers, and then slabbing the ones that can’t learn to not do evil stuff.

      1. Oh … sometimes removing the problem from mortal existence is the only and best solution.

   3. Paul M> why it is the Biden/Harris regime is fostering illegal “immigration” from prisons and asylums across the globe?
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      These troops are free to the regime, and “Americans” allow themselves to be killed by them. Yet while they’re successful against “Americans”, they’re not very organized or functional so they’re easy to dispose of later.

3. The Bedford Incident

   1. A cautionary tale of screwing around with nuclear torpedoes.

      1. Left me feeling like I did at the end of On The Beach.

         1. Imagine Pedo Joe or the Whore in charge of the American nuclear arsenal.

            1. Aren’t they already?

            2. No. They’re not. I have no idea who is, but it’s not them.

   2. Excellent movie. I’ve always enjoyed Richard Widmark’s acting, and he did a very good job in it.

4. Oil… Saturn’s moon Titan has seas of hydrocarbons, I wonder how that moon had dinosaurs? Unless oil is a something that is produced naturally and the dino part was just a good story…

   >>Titan has hundreds of lakes and seas that contain hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all of Earth’s oil and natural gas reserves. The lakes range in size from about a kilometer to one hundred kilometers across.<<

   1. Good point. At some time in Titan’s past, dinosaurs and lush forests must have been beset by global warming. Maybe it was global warming that did them in. Did Edgar Rice Burroughs ever explore A Princess of Titan?

      1. :)

      2. I think the Monolith had something to do with it…..

   2. A few weeks ago I was driving around in New Jersey and saw several operating Sinclair gas stations. One even had the man-high (okay a very short man) Brontosaurus in green plastic out front. I was surprised that Sinclairs were still in business, and shocked that no one had stolen the plastic bronto. Maybe they bring it into one of the auto repair bays at night.
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      A local antique mall had one of those Sinclair brontos for sale. I think it was $700 bucks. I sort of wanted it, but not $700 worth. Plus, where would I keep it? Thank goodness it wasn’t $200.

   3. Oil is a renewable resource – slowly but renewable; it is not the remnants of dinosaurs. The dinosaur story is just that, a story from the late 1800’s. Oil spills in the Gulf? UV light (from the sun) breaks oil down and naturally occurring organisms “eat” oil. The Gulf is full of natural oil “springs”. (So is/was Wyoming, parts of California, and I suspect the Gulf states). The US has a tremendous amount of oil reserves – but like unemployment figures and inflation, the govt only counts those deposits they wish to count. Other than localized, short-term damage, those oil spills dissipate fairly quickly – not that such a statement should be taken as OK’ing massive spillage.

      Now, bring on the greenies.

5. I like to mop my floors every 60 days or so
   Imagine the cost is I mopped them weekly!
   Perhaps a good first step in dealing with illegal immigrants if to go after the “coyotes”, of all stripes.

   1. If you simply put Banner’s food on the floor, he could tongue-mop it for you, saving you the trouble.

      1. “If he fires one, I’ll fire one!”……FIRE ONE!!!

6. Illegal Alien Free Rides- …and how is this not treasonous? I loved how Trump quadrupled-down on Kammy the the day at his post-4year idiocy court case, fileting her as “Border Czar”, allowing every manner of international criminal element into our country with a ‘stay out of jail’ pass and Biden/Harris goodie-bag, chock full of free gear and a lift ticket to Anywhere, USA. But you, forget to pay a parking ticket or pray in public and the local ‘police state’ SWAT tactical team shows up at 3AM banging at your door ready to take you in for offensives against The Establishment.
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   Oil is plentiful and affords less expensive energy and “stuff” made from it while giving us modern accoutrements and conveniences…which is exactly why The Demented Lefty Loons (TDLL’s) hate it…because they’re morons demanding we all return to primitive America…while they text each other on their $1000 Smart Phones.
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   WSF & His Mop- From CW over at Dailytimewaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnus2zLPJnA
   — 100 year old sledge vs. new Chinesium one…some things are simply not made as well as they used to be (some things ARE better, but damned few). My take is because the lawyers, accountants, lobbyists and politicians have gotten their grubby mitts into mix The Chinesium one is likely made from old horseshoes). There’s a big difference between inexpensive and cheap. (BTW, time to eliminate all lobbying.)

7. Saburo Saki. A most remarkable man.
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabur%C5%8D_Sakai
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   IIRC, he received one the very first “bionic eyes” to restore the sight he lost as described the Wiki link above.

   1. Here is an interesting read.
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      https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2001/april/silver-star-airplane-ride

8. That particular B-24 belongs to the Collings Foundation. Got see her in formation while looking out the left waist gun position aboard their B-17 “Nine O’ Nine” during one of their many stops in Chico, CA. How I came to be aboard on that flight is quite a story in itself. It was a very sad day when I heard that she crashed on landing. Then it pissed me off to learn that it could have been prevented–

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozic5TAvZDU&list=PL6SYmp3qb3uOoUs48Qh7I212aJzyKlI7P&index=9

9. Yeah, I’m subject to the same ‘restrictions’ you are on the torps… Re the ‘new’ police org, apparently it’s a few retired LEOs, not much else. I’d go with the FOP myself!

   1. The incarcerated Mayor Adams, former NYPD Captain, was a big fan of the Biden/Harris folks. I don’t know how he feels about it all today.

10. The bullet point about the Empire of Japan, c. 1945 is hard to understand. The first sentence offers to explain what “The Japanese thought” but devolves into blood and thunder about crashes, flames, explosions and ends without revealing Japanese thinking. The only sense that I can make of it all was that the Japanese hoped that the “result of such suicidal fanaticism was to discourage the US from further invading Japan”. That idea wouldn’t work for anyone who lived through those times. Their suicidal fanaticism when defending Japanese territory was apparent from Guadalcanal through Okinawa. What would the defense of the home islands be like? It only could be worse.

    It seems much more likely that the Japanese were informed by the results that a single plane and a pilot willing either to risk or to sacrifice all could achieve: USS Franklin, one bomber and two 250 kg bombs, out of the war, USS Bunker Hill, one kamikaze, out of the war, USS Enterprise, one kamikaze, out of the war. After Midway, when the IJN lost four carriers to sink one American one, in the cold equations of war those were acceptable trades. That twenty or more might have to sortie for one to get through was merely an operational necessity.

    I’m no scholar of Operation Downfall, but I’ve never come across any hint the the US considered abandoning or delaying the invasion of the home islands because of kamikaze attacks or evidence that the atomic bombings precipitated the Japanese surrender. Why would they? The fire bombings laid on by self-described war criminal Curtiss LeMay were killing tens of thousands and destroying cities. Why would two more matter? I have read that the minutes of the Japanese war council meeting on the day after the Nagasaki bombing record its intent to continue the war. It seems to me more likely that the Soviet Union’s entry into the war, which changed the strategic situation, and the prospect of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ordinary Japanese civilian deaths in defense of the homeland moved Emperor Hirohito to impose his will to end the bloodshed.

    And please, honor the gentleman by getting his damn name right: Saburo SAKAI. Fer Christ sake, he’s not rice wine, which anyway is spelled sake, and he wasn’t H. H. Munro!

    1. There were several proposals for the End of Japan as We knew It.
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       1. Invasion. That would have totally sucked because the ImpJaps had basically mobilized everyone to combat the invasion (including children and old folk,) had laid in huge stockpiles of weapons and explosives and poison gas and bio logicals and were prepared to use any and all means to fight and die until the end one way or another. It would have been bloody to us, eventually end-of-life for the Japanese people and probably taken 5-10 years to complete. We as a nation would not have survived. After Okinawa and Iwo, the number of Purple Hearts minted for the Invasion of Japan was seen as too low. After the 1946 investigation of all the Japanese preps, the number of PHs potentially needed was seen as way way way waaaay too low. That’s how bad that would have been.
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       2. Blockade. Just blockade the islands. Destroy anything that leaves the island from ships to planes to one guy in a row boat. Blow it all up.
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       3. Continued bombing campaign. Including firebombing. Destroy everything that looks like it could shelter a human by fire, explosion.
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       4. Destroy all vegetation from crops to forests by using defoliants and fire. And seed all the clouds after all ground cover is destroyed to kill off the ability of the Japanese people to grow food or fish or hunt or live.
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       5. Poison Gas and Biologicals. Yes, we thought about that. Especially if they used them against us. But we fortunately weren’t too serious about this. Much.
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       6. Leaving it to Russia and let them batter lose the troops.
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       7. Any and all combinations of the above.
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       8. Going nuclear. Which we did. In the hopes of scaring the daylights out of them. Which it did. Thankfully. The best choice for the USA and for Imperial Japan.
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       Ending Japan was nothing like ending Nazi Germany. Or even invading the USSR. It was literally either shock them into submission, which firebombing Tokyo didn’t do, or end up in an ‘End of Days’ scenario where we literally would have to kill pretty much every one of them, which we wouldn’t have survived doing.

11. I read some lefty’s view that Truman used the bomb to scare the Ruskies, not to beat Japan. He said that Japan surrendered BECAUSE Russia joined the war. This makes no sense to me. The last confrontation between Japan and Russia was the Russo-Jap war of 1905 (or thereabouts). A portion of the Jap fleet sank almost the entire Russian Navy in one battle. Furthermore, why would the Japs fear the Russians? The Russians had no ability to invade the home islands. I do not recall ever reading about a Russian amphibious assault anywhere; without lots of landing craft, Russia could not get near the Islands. Similarly, Russia had no fleet of heavy bombers to use on Japan.
    The senior partner in my law firm was on the Bunker Hill when it was hit by the kamikazee. He had some really scarey stories about that attack and tghe aftermath.

    1. Japan and the USSR fought regularly between 1932 and 1939, notably at Nomonhan and Khalkin Gol.
       Imperial Japan did not do well in these encounters.
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       Japan did not particularly fear fighting the Soveits alone (correctly or incorrectly) but the giant Red Army
       jumping in when Japan was already defeated was not something they welcomed. I’m sure it was a factor
       in the surrender, and I’m sure the atomic bombings were a factor. What the ratio was, I doubt anyone will
       ever know. The nukes certainly sent a message to the Soviets, as well.
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       In any case, Japan knew they would rather surrender to us than them… and they were gonna have to surrender
       to someone, or all die.

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       – Kle.

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