Have Doughnut
Some of you may already know about the MiG-21F-13 in U.S. service, but for those who don’t: Have Doughnut was a (TS/SCI) U.S. program conducted in 1967 to test a captured MiG-21 obtained from Israel. The aircraft, redesignated YF-110, was flown at Groom Lake (Area 51) to assess its performance against American fighters. The project revealed key strengths and weaknesses of the MiG-21 and exposed gaps in U.S. air-combat training. Its findings helped shape more advanced fighter-training programs, including what later became the Navy’s Topgun school.
I wish that I had a photo of that MiG-21F-13 sitting next to the flying saucer and embalmed alien corpses at Area 51 to share with you, but they fly you in and out in a windowless airplane (called Janet Airlines, but don’t ask me why it’s called that, because I don’t know). They take your camera and phones, and somebody ought to complain about that, but since lethal force is authorized and advertised, nobody does. Do any of you know why it’s called Janet Airlines – the call sign of the aircraft? Do they also blind the pilot and co-pilot? I used to joke about that, but people shook their heads thoughtfully. We don’t joke about the blind pilot, LL. Ok then. Can I joke about the fact that the gray aliens are named Larry, Moe, and Curly? Not even that. We can all crawl back into the cone of silence if we want to discuss anything. That’s better.
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Can the Mexican Cartels be Stopped?
The question of whether the US appetite for hard street drugs can be curbed is a more appropriate way to couch the question. The seizure reported by Breitbart here is still a common occurrence despite heightened pressure from the US government against Venezuelan and Mexican seaborne traffickers.
Border Patrol agents assisted in the execution of a search warrant tied to a law enforcement operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Seattle Police Department that resulted in the arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel member and the seizure of 25 kilos of fentanyl and 90,000 fentanyl tablets. Authorities arrested nine others in the late October law enforcement operation.
The operation took place on October 28 and led to ten arrests that are related to three significant and interrelated drug and gun trafficking conspiracies, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. The operation resulting in the seizure of fentanyl, more than two dozen firearms, and those suspected of coordinating the trafficking of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and weapons was the culmination of a year-long investigation by law enforcement officers in the Seattle area.
For those who watch Mexico, the impact that the genuine “war on drugs” currently underway is squeezing them in significant ways – but the only way to cure the disease is to impact the demand that fuels the trade.
Bullet Points:
** Disney’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report showed that profits from its linear TV division, which includes ABC, fell 21% year-over-year.
** Elon Musk on homelessness (drug zombies). The drug zombie problem can be solved. The first thing one must do is de-incentivize government and NGO parasites. The second would be to remove drugs from the equation (which is even more challenging). The Homeless Industrial Complex (drug zombie farmers) needs to be gutted.
** When will the Congressman Swalwell (D-CA) Spy Files be released? I want to know more about Fang Fang. (right) Christine “Fang Fang” Fang is believed to be at home in Beijing, China, working for the Ministry of State Security (MSS), having unexpectedly left the United States in mid-2015 amid an ongoing U.S. intelligence investigation into her activities. FangX2 has not returned to the U.S. since her departure. A Chinese journalist posted a photo on Twitter in March 2024 of himself at lunch with Christine Fang in Beijing, confirming her presence in China as of that date. I’m sure that Rep. Swalwell misses being loved long time.
** A friend of mine said that the first seventy years are the hardest. Truth? Or is it the second seventy?
** Did you ever wonder how a baseball is made? Wonder no further. These profound and perplexing questions are addressed here on your favorite blog. They go for about $8.00 each, full pop retail. An average MLB game uses between 96 and 120 baseballs, with total usage across all games and practices significantly increasing this number. Should we move on to golf balls made in India? What about those little wooden ice cream spoons? (somebody stop me)
** The Russians are losing about 400 people a day on the Ukrainian Front. The Ukrainians must be losing about the same number. There are more Russians than there are Ukrainians.
** Can you tell a lot about a man by the way he eats? Do women evaluate you every time you decide to order a salad?
** CDRSAL explores Chinese Espionage in the UK. I realize that you are shocked by the notion that the Worker’s Paradise would send termites into Old Blighty to spy on the Royal Navy (among other institutions). Would the Brits ever consider deporting them as undesirable aliens? Not if they get a discounted bowl of rice! (more at the CDRSAL Blog)
** Clowns…yeah…clowns.
** I figured out the school was a scam when my P. E. teacher was ample, and my business teacher never owned a business or had to meet a payroll.
** Pilot vs bureaucracy – flying with MRSBRM…
** So, you want to do a home invasion robbery? Ok, let’s dance.
Too Much Tusk?
Too bad…
Slavic Ethnic Identification and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
(h/t Claudio) About 40 percent of ethnic Russians thought other Slavs, like Ukrainians or Byelorussians, were capable of becoming Russians if they lived in Russia for a few years and switched their loyalty to Russia. Fewer than 10% thought people from the Caucasus or Central Asia were capable of that.
(left, Czarist Imperial Flag) This falls in line with my experience with Great Russians, who are obsessed with pure blooded people (all of whom are Slavic, one step ahead of non-Slavic Europeans, ten steps ahead of Tartars, Central Asians, and so forth. It’s not unlike the Han Chinese, who are celestials and who consider maintaining their Han bloodline key to their identity. The Russians continually mocked Barack Obama, a mulatto whoreson, and his husband Big Mike due to their sexual picadillos and racial situations.
This xenophobia, or fear of outsiders, is nothing new for Russia. For 70 years, the communists sought to eliminate this trait but only managed to suppress it and delude themselves into thinking it was gone. This is a typical pattern in communist countries and throughout Eastern Europe.
Xenophobia returned in the 1990s because of the collapse of the communist governments in 1989. It was worst in the Balkans, where civil war erupted as the communist police state collapsed and optimists hoped for a democratic Yugoslavia. While that had long been a cherished goal in the region, it was not to be. Several years of vicious fighting between Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Albanians followed and was not halted until 1999. The Caucasus also erupted, and unlike Yugoslavia, a NATO peacekeeping force was not available to fix things there. In the Caucasus, the usual Russian application of carrot/bribes and stick/violent suppression did not work either. Eventually, in 1999, Russia had to reconquer parts of the Caucasus, especially Chechnya, to restore order. They forcibly removed (Muslim_ Chechins and replaced them with (Orthodox) Great Russians who are Slavic.
The 2014 Russian operation to take the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine had a bracing effect on the other countries that, until 1991, were part of the former Russian Empire. The Crimean operation was the second such land grab Russia had undertaken since 2008. The first was against tiny Georgia. Many of these former Russian subjects feel that the Russians are trying to regain their empire. Ask many Russians that question, and most agree that it would be a nice thing. Some Russians are more outspoken and bluntly call for the empire to be reassembled, no matter what.
In response, the forlorn fourteen nations that were part of the Soviet Union until 1991, as well as many Eastern European states that were under Russian control from the end of World War II to 1989, became very nervous. Poland was particularly agitated because large parts of Poland were part of the Russian Empire for most of the 18th and 19th centuries. The same situation with Finland, which broke away after World War I, fought off a Russian invasion in 1940, and has faced many threats to its independence since then. That makes the forlorn fourteen the scared sixteen. All of these nations have noted what happened to Georgia and Ukraine with great trepidation and are responding in expected and unexpected ways.
The fourteen former Russian imperial possessions that regained their independence are the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Poland, the Baltic States, and Finland escaped from the empire after World War I, but only Finland remained free through World War II. The Baltic States were retaken during World War II, and Poland remained nominally independent but was occupied by Russian troops and took orders from Russia until 1989.
Poland and the Baltic States joined NATO after the Cold War ended, and hope that NATO’s mutual defense commitments will deter Russia. Nevertheless, all four, plus Finland, have increased their military readiness this year and are seeking assurances from the West that they will have help against Russia. Many Finns have called for Finland to join NATO, but a significant minority has opposed it, fearing it would anger Russia. That changed after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia justified the invasion because Ukraine, like most Finns, believed that NATO membership was preferable to trusting Russia to behave. Even Sweden, never part of the Russian empire and successfully neutral since the early 19th century, joined NATO for protection from an increasingly aggressive Russia.
The Stans’ of Central Asia have another option, China. The Stans have been very receptive to Chinese diplomatic and economic cooperation. This bothers Russia, but not to the extent of issuing threats, as was the case with the former imperial provinces to the west. The Stans also have a problem with never having been democracies. When the Russians conquered them in the 19th century, the local governments were monarchies or tribes. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, former Soviet officials held elections and manipulated the vote to secure their own election as president for life. But many people in the Stans want clean government and democracy, as well as continued independence from Russia. China is no help with that because the Chinese prefer dictators.
In the Caucasus, Georgia still seeks closer ties with the West. Armenia, due to disputes with Azerbaijan and long-standing fears of Turkey, remains a close ally of Russia. Azerbaijan maintains good relations with Russia, mainly because Iran claims Azerbaijan was a lost province stolen by Russia in the 19th century.
Russia was quite open about wanting to rebuild the old Tsarist Empire that the communists lost in 1991 when the Soviet Union came apart, and half the population of that empire went on to form 14 new countries. Russia proposed measures such as customs unions, military cooperation, and rebuilding the old Soviet air defense system that once protected the entire empire. There’s been some progress, but most of the 14 nations want nothing to do with Russia.
Meanwhile, Russia has to face the fact that, when the Soviet Union broke up, half the population enthusiastically joined the 14 new countries, and most of those people were quite pleased with the Soviet Union’s demise. Thus, if you asked all citizens of the former Soviet Union what they thought of the breakup, you would find that most had no regrets. That’s because the Soviet Union was basically the Russian Empire cobbled together by the old czarist monarchy over more than two centuries of conquest and expansion.
Aging and Financial Security
A lady lives on the mountain where I live. She’s pushing 80 years and lives in a home her third husband built by hand. He died a decade or so ago, before I moved to the White Wolf Mine. Since his passing, she has done little or no maintenance on the structure. Unsurprisingly, it’s falling apart. I have helped her with her propane and water systems (her husband built the house; I’m not asserting that he did a great job in the first place). I did this because I believe in helping your neighbor. Now she needs a new roof. She has one daughter whom I have met who has been diagnosed with mental illness. The daughter is married to an undiagnosed man. She relies on Social Security for income.
A 50-year-old man also lives on the mountain in a trailer, off the grid. I’ve helped him get Social Security disability. Before his accident, he was a heavy equipment operator. He was in an automobile accident several years ago and “got his head squished.” He had a difficult youth. His mother was a whore – I’ve spoken to her; she lives elsewhere in Arizona, but he doesn’t have a family. He fathered a son out of wedlock many years ago, who is now a tranny residing in Phoenix. Without belaboring the situation, he has a lot of problems. I’ve helped him with this and that (non-financial) over the years that I’ve lived on the mountain.
There are 100 million such people in the US who are scratching by. Maybe more than 100 million. They don’t have family to fall back on, and they rely on government payments. Neither of the people above is among the approximately 42 million people who receive SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits. The guy above grazes at food banks, and there are many in Northern Arizona. He didn’t have a working car, and I had a friend who owned a beater (a running beater) with a quarter million miles on it to loan him the spare car, so he’s on wheels, not begging rides to the food bank anymore.
I don’t think the government owes anyone a living beyond earned pensions and contribution systems like Medicare and Social Security, where they have forced us to pay into these boondoggles and now need to make good on those payments that Congress squandered. Social Security, billed as a “supplement,” is all that many older Americans have to live on. In the case of the lady above, she worked for a well-known electronics manufacturer (a long time ago, during her working years). Bad decisions and marriages ensured that she wouldn’t have much if she lived past about 50 – and she’s three decades past that.
The answer of “it sucks to be you” is not a good one, but absent the kindness of strangers, that is precisely where many people are. The US National Debt has been stretched to the breaking point. There’s no more largess available from the government. Churches and charities, such as food banks, do what they can, but they’re stretched too. Deporting illegal aliens will help relieve some pressure on the system, but we won’t get them all, and once that effort ends or as the surge subsides, is there a solution to this dilemma?
Identify the Ship
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Identify the Aircraft
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Parting Shot
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(1) USS Buchanan, DDG-14. C.F. Adams class. IDK about the merchant on the horizon.
(2) USS Briscoe, DD-977. Spruance class.
(3) Fairchild C-82 Packet.
– Kle.
I need to make them harder. Nine minutes…
You got me pretty good with those auxiliaries the other day.
– Kle.
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2 is USS Briscoe a Spruance-class destroyer.
3 is Fairchild C-82 Packet.
1 – USS Buchanan A Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer
2 – USS Briscoe A Spruance-class destroyer
3 – Fairchild C-82 Packet
Well, the Cartels can certainly be killed, anyway.
But like you say; as long as we are desperately throwing all the money
in the world at them in hopes of getting any poison at all back, there
will always be new Cartels to replace the dead ones.
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Every day, Mexico seems to be getting closer to the Somalia break.
Unless one of the Cartels rapidly comes out on top in a big way, and
proves able to rule better than the “legitimate government” has (which
is not unbelievable) then the US will have to intervene. On the bright side,
we are well overdue to conquer Mexico again on a historical basis.
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Creepy Van Guy – that is all I can ever think of when people start talking
about (octothorpe) Vanlife… Fortunately, that weird trend seems to be fading.
– Kle.
America does not need, that’s need, to visit Mexico militarily again. That’s messy but not as messy as shooting illegals crossing the border or pumping explosive gas into the tunnels along with an igniter at the proper time. Remove the illegals — all of them.
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The farm laborers were welcomed to pick crops in West Coast states to keep the cost of food down. The idea was that foreign nationals would be given short term visas to pick and then return to their homes at the end of the season. The door opened as vine dressers and orchardists were needed both at the front and rear end of the growing season so some were given extended visas and then everyone just started staying. My Washington apple growing buddies noted that even though they grew up working their orchards with their buddies, to keep the cost of food down, hiring foreign nationals at a much lower cost than Americans was considered the answer. That backfired and now we have illegals in a multitude of businesses, including those standing outside Lowes or Home Depot living on the taxpayers dime.
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-In the 70s, the ACLU sued the Colorado prison system because it allowed prisoners to farm, ranch and do other jobs which kept the cost of feeding and maintaining prisoners down claiming that the prisoners were indentured servants or slaves to the Colorado government. So, the work programs rehabilitating men and women for work in polite society ended and guys with contacts got lucrative contracts to feed the prisons.
-Fast forward to the past, just a bit more recent, our government ran a few raids on the eastern portions of the Rockies from Canada to Mexico picking up illegals. That caused a huge loss of labor in agriculture of all varieties, so the Colorado agriculture lobby went to the legislature to allow prisoners to work again. Of course, a law was passed and on the steps of the Colorado capital, the cronies gathered for a press conference. The outstanding comment was that using prisoners was more expensive than illegals, but still less expensive than hiring Coloradans.
-In 2018, the Colorado legislature passed a law that forced labor was illegal in all aspects. In August, ’25 Colorado was again sued for letting prisoners work.
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My long winded point is that there is no need for America to send armed troops into Mexico or to bomb that country from on high. Just close the border. Get rid of all the illegals. That will cause a huge spike in food prices and other areas until Americans decide that they will work again cutting lawns, shoveling walks, working in the trades and such instead of sitting at home getting paid to be high.
Mexico is going through a tough time now. Keep in mind that the “cartels” – not a great or particularly accurate word – better to use “narcos”- are part of every single activity in the country. They own or have an ownership interest in everything. And when you squeeze them, the trickle down is horrible. And the American (and developed world) supply side drives the market. The wall, the activity to find and dismantle cross-border tunnels, the destruction of narco vessels on the high seas and what appears to be a more serious war on drugs than we have ever seen, is causing social upheaval in Mexico.
My point wasn’t that we need to invade now, it’s that if Mexico continues it’s trajectory
and becomes a collapsed warlord state like Somalia, that will not be a tenable situation
on the border, and we’ll have to go in.
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Unless one of the gangs wins big, and can stabilize the place better than the current (recent)
governments, which if not likely is at least plausible.
– Kle.
I saw something about this a few days ago and wasn’t sure of it’s provenance.
I guess if the BBC says it, it must be true.
Thousands protest against government in Mexico as clashes leave 120 injured:
https://youtu.be/p15nqtk0-28?si=M8ZibfVUS1Rqy8GX
The almost homeless problem is certainly not new, but appears to be getting worse as time goes on. My brother and I put many a low cost as possible metal roof on places as you have described, with not much profit for us, in between much better paying jobs by clients who could afford it. If you can stop the roof from leaking you can usually add 20 years of life to an otherwise dilapidated hovel, often outlasting the lifespan of the resident. Jobs such as these needed to be done on the sly to keep from driving up the costs with inspection and regulations by the guvment. Everyone we did this for was eternally grateful. Sometimes that’s the best payment.
The White Wolf Mine has a steel roof. I don’t know why you’d do otherwise in the middle of a pine forest, but there are a surprising number of composite roofs that are impacted in fire situations or with hail (hard rain). I’m working at browbeating her insurance company at the moment.
JANET: Just Another Non Existant Terminal
Thanks Militarized.
Identify the Ship:
1. USS Buchanan (DDG-14), Charles F. Adams-class
2. USS Briscoe, Spruance-class
Identify the Aircraft:
3. Fairchild C-82 Packet
IDS:
1. USS Buchanan (DDG-14) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1962 to 1991.
2. The USS Briscoe (DD-977) was a Spruance class destroyer of the United States Navy.
IDA:
3. Fairchild C-82 Packet, a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and Army.
-STA Lethal⚡🐗⚡
Nothing like 50 years and $100K increase in sticker price to improve van quality.
Nothing says all American girl quite like being named “Tatiana”. (Coincidentally the name of my PT instructor) The Atlantic Council (neocon/CityofLondon) left out the bit about Catherine the Great taking Crimea and it being Russian until the internal politics of the USSR assigned it to Ukraine. Also left out was Vicky “FtheEU” Nuland and a few billion in National Endowment for Democracy cash; and cookies. Can’t forget to mention those either. Congratulations on American Women for International Understanding for receiving their Gender Award. “In 2022, AWIU was proud to be recognized by the U.S. State Department with its Gender Champion Award…”. Can we ask why it took so long? Or should I just ask who has been funding them all this time….
When you follow the money, the questions are answered.
The supply and demand aspect of the “War on (some) Drugs” is hardly ever talked about. Especially the demand side. The heart-grabbing aspect of somebody losing their kid is what’s in the headlines, not why the kid tried the drug in the first place. Never mind that the market most guaranteed to be there is those who are addicted to the product. The “law of supply and demand” is pretty much the only law you come across in a class that’s not a hard science that’s as inviolable as the laws of physics. The consequence there is the more of those little drug boats we sink the more we force up the price of the drugs. The higher the prices the more crime that’s going to be created. I sure don’t have an answer to that. The fact that we have “experts” roaming around saying that AI is going to lead to a society where fewer and fewer people do a meaningful job but just sit around playing video games and doing drugs all day makes it seem like some really bad years are coming.
There is no one solution to the demand side, because there is no single cause. However, I can attest that two things that drive a lot of demand are government subsidies creating fungible money for drugs, and lack of hope.
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Saw this plenty from Appalachia to Alaska – people who are convinced they’re “stuck” in a place with no way out, no hope of jobs coming / coming back, way too much time on their hands, far too little community support to keep them grounded and focused on greater things, and enough government paycheck they can waste it on the anything the media promises will make them feel like they want to… if it’s not drugs, it’s alcohol, but it’s usually both. Even in the dry villages in Alaska, bootlegging remains a serious problem.
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So how do you fix that? Jobs are the easy one. Frankly, I’m of the opinion Trump is tackling this is in the extremely limited ways available to him – because he can’t create jobs. Well, he could create make-work jobs, we saw that with the WPA and CCC, but that’s trying to bandaid a bullet wound and doesn’t work. He’s removing as many restrictions on businesses, small and large, growing and hiring domestically as able. He’s using tarriffs to encourage onshoring, cutting back the EPA’s stranglehold on blue-collar jobs, closing the borders and encouraging everyone to self-deport and free up more jobs for Americans.
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The harder one is making people not feel like the system is rigged against them, and they’re stuck at the bottom… and at the very least, he’s taking down the poisonous ideology as and where he can, but cutting it’s funding. DEI is a form of marxism that promises redistribution of status, and turns men, especially white men, into the new kulaks.
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He’s also trying to get the apparatus of government to stop persecuting the churches, and aiding those that actively trash them.
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Is it enough? Of course not. There’s no easy fix for the state we’re in. But it can get better. Are there doomsayers forecasting no jobs soon due to technology? Yeah, but they were saying they were crying that the industrial thresher was going to put all the farmhands out of work. Listening to prophets of doom rarely gets anything done about making a better future.
Pres. Trump has $21 trillion in pledges from various nations to create manufacturing in America to MAGA. None of that is instant money, and not all of it will materialize. It’s like the people who “pledge” money during telethons. I agree that it’s the only way to fix the country with jobs and to help work our way out from under the national debt. We need 20 years of Trump and that won’t happen. We avoided a civil war with this last election. It was headed in that direction and it would have been ugly.
Just Another Non-Existent Terminal
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Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation
Just Another Unnamed/unlisted Air Terminal
The first 70 years. Well, depends. (Sorry, softball over the plate). Hard? At times it seemed so, but life had purpose. We should be so lucky. Now mostly cherished memories of things I miss. Looking back can be hard as well. I would love to go shoot one more rifle match. Problem is, after the first shot string, it would be time for my nap.
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Too much TusK? Not at all. Have always liked this live version with the USC Marching Band.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRVW-p8SJ8&list=RDMrRVW-p8SJ8&start_radio=1
The first 70 years.
Are we talking marriage? :)
Good point. Yes. Once, and still. I was an only child. My folks divorced when I was in second grade, mother got primary custody. Lost her to lung cancer about the middle of my freshman year in high school. Wound up living with my maternal uncle’s family. Only mention all this to emphasize that I was determined to provide a stable home for our three kids. And so we did, living 30 years in what was Chico, CA. All of us have since escaped to Texas.
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#1 son is an assistant super with Roger’s O’Brien construction in Dallas.
#1 daughter is a sergeant with Arlington PD.
#2 son works logistics/procurement for Lockheed/Martin.
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From my point of view, at 80, the second half is better. Being 20 at Parris Island, I could run the ass off of my three DI’s and now I can barely walk although I walk a mile with a cane three days a week at the local rec center and I can still ride a mountain bike which I do almost every day. I’m riding about 100 miles a month. A lot of ups and downs happened the first 70 however, I had a great career, lots of interpersonal relationships, great family(no losers) and wonderful life experiences. The backside has produced a very and highly sensitive BS meter. Wife and I decided after the Nigerian excrement stain was re-elected in 2012 to never again watch the “news”—-propaganda from the left. Blogs like this one and others keep us informed about what’s going on in the world. The important thing to keep in mind about the second half is love of Jesus, family, friends, stay healthy and assist others less fortunate. Stay positive my fellow Americans.
That was amusing. Not realistic, but close enough to be really amusing! I think we’ve all met that bureaucrat, who’s absolutely convinced that having regulatory approval is far more important than, oh, not dying. (I suspect that listening to that is akin to how my love feels when I toss a chapter at him and say “I got as close as I could to writing CQB. How did I get it all wrong, and how do I make it not suck?”)
Fortunately, the designers of transport-category aircraft have a ram air turbine that deploys to provide electrical when primary power fails (If you listen to some real recordings, you can actually pick up the whine in the background of the transmissions). Funny enough, some of the supercubs running around Alaska still have ’em, too, instead of an alternator on the engine (it’s lighter). The kids are horrified at the “ancient” tech when you explain what it is, never realizing if they get to the airlines, the tech doesn’t go away… it just becomes the reliable backup.
Now mind you, I’ve dealt with some student pilots who think their *ipad* running out of battery would be sufficient conditions to declare an emergency. I’ve even seen some safety stand-downs and read the accident report where it did result in fatalities, because the pilot wouldn’t admit that they hadn’t brought along the legally and sensibly required paper backup, and was therefore incapable of following directions given… and by the time ATC figured it out and tried to provide directions they could follow, it was too late.
Sometimes, common sense is punished, but being stupid earns the Darwin Award when you’re up in the sky.
I was curious about how it ended.
After a search: “There is no record of an American Airlines flight 283 emergency landing”
What ever happened to looking out the window? The AF is now a bunch of HUD babies and in the civil arena, many of the pilots I worked with didn’t have a clue as to where the flight plan alternate was physically located. I used to have my students look out the window, point the plane toward a particular airport or town, then look at their map and see if they were at least pointed in the correct direction.
LL thank you and your neighbors for being good neighbors.
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-Financial security is a problem at any age, but it is more apparent when we are old. In a more desired world, government welfare of every description would be phased out and taxpayers would not be on the hook for taking care of the lazy, various corporations, our grifting politicians and so on. Put taking care of the poor back in the hands of the churches and charitable organizations would make a huge difference as they are hands on with those they are helping versus the graft and corruption currently shown in government welfare.
-Not having to pay taxes to support the multitude of government support programs, including the innocuous ones such as mandatory ethanol use and other lofty programs, would free the cash needed to help locally.
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If I remember correctly, Nicaragua used to take the fried brain drug and glue users into the jungle and shoot them in that government’s solution to reducing the demand for mind altering experiences. I’m not suggesting such a solution, but only mentioning the harsh methods used by a close neighbor.
Nicaragua did that. In Mexico, if you’re a hardcore sex criminal, they do that too. Or they used to.
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There is a fine line between being a good neighbor and being an ‘enabler.’ Most people who live where I do (a small population) are financially okay. There are cabins owned by people who live in Phoenix, most of which are never visited. Or maybe one week a year. Some homes (such as mine) are occupied year-round. Most of those aren’t ‘cabins’ and some, such as mine, are best described as ‘homes’. My place is too big. There is a large area for guests that is seldom visited. Then there are a handful of people who struggle, either because of age or a physical disability. The closest store, gas station or restaurant is an hour away. Medical care is not readily available, but you can be medevaced by air in an emergency. For the most part, you’re on your own. There is almost no law enforcement presence, but people tend to sort out problems on their own and the courts back them up. If it’s a big problem, posses are formed and the problem is solved. A 911 call for police assistance is a 2-3 hour code 3 run. So being neighborly is important.
My dressing is always on the side. I don’t live by an “influencer’s” dictates.
I don’t trust someone else not to drench it when I’m a minimalist.
I’m only a couple years in, but already the 2nd 70 are not looking that appetizing.
Helping out neighbors and others in bona fide need is the way it is supposed to be. Blessings to you for helping where you can. I live in Northern Wisconsin and it is not uncommon for people to lose control on roads covered with snow and ice. I carry a tow rope to pull them out of the ditch if their vehicle is still operable. I have plowed the road leading to our cul de sac so the neighbors can get to work after a blizzard. That’s just what you do.
As to Tusk, my son attended USC and played in the “marching band.” Its actually more of an ongoing party than a band. Sometimes I tell people I saw my son play for USC in Notre Dame Stadium (my alma mater–ouch), The Coliseum and the Rose Bowl. When they ask what position he played I hem and haw a bit and then say “Uh, tenor sax.”
Love that drum beat, I didn’t know they had a long version. Thanks.
Tusk! Fight on!
“Have Doughnut”
My Q+ clearance at NTS in the 70s was good enough to allow me to the receptionist for certain places. Rumors(?) abounded that I still don’t speak of. But on public land between some places north of Death Valley and Edwards is/was a good place to see things not in Janes.
“… is there a solution to this dilemma??
Yes, I believe there is.
My wife uses the word, perhaps incorrectly, but triage it is.
I do not believe AI is the answer to coming national financial difficulties.
Dor those who wish to work, provide a test: mechanical and written to determine capabilities; send the results out to companies looking for people wishing to work; they can provide further testing.
Those, somewhat to totally disabled who want to work, devise examination s that point to their capabilities and offer them a payihng position.
For those who do not wish to work, offer them (very) basic sustenance.
Housing, medical care must be included
There are millions of us (and millions more to come – very shortly, eho are sitting around on our duffs twiddling our thumbs wwho have been train in one field, but are willing to be active/be trained in another.
Thousands have put aside the money they thought would be required to carry them (and their spouses) through to the grave. By one means or another, the purchasing power of this accumulation has dwindled to almost nopthing and their is no means of retrieval from the people/institutions that have created this problem..
Can I compete with AI and/or robo5tics, particularly where a significant decision must be made , I think so.
Please pardon any spelling/grammatical errors; just had my second cataract peratioin this AM>
Sometimes I think all drugs – especially the most dangerous ones – should be legalized and provided freely but only at specific locations. Give the users a place to do their thing to their heart’s desire until they all croak. But I’ve been known to be too much of an unsympathetic hardass.
Nah! you.re really a softyie.
I wouldn’t spend the money on them.
one thing bothers me, though:
there are those of us who’ve done really stupid things as a result of hormones, youth, so-called friends, ad inf.
so/should we lose this segment of adventurous apirits and wind up with girly men/robots?
Is there another wwy like letting them watch their soulmates as they die?