Bullet Points:
** As for a possible replacement, Politico writes that “Rice’s departure leaves a major hole within the top ranks of the White House right as it gears up for a likely re-election campaign and as it faces a stare down with congressional Republicans over raising the debt limit. Among those being eyed as a replacement for her include Neera Tanden, Biden’s staff secretary and a senior adviser, four people with knowledge of the deliberations told POLITICO.”
Neera Tanden is one of the dumbest people in Washington DC. She makes Kamela look like a rocket scientist. Tanden is dumber than box of rocks.
** Got Milk?
Identify the Aircraft
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Rice is abandoning a sinking ship…like most rats. We’ll have to see where her next political assignment will be.
They are ‘rescuing’ her for later use. And whomever replaces her will be offered up as a sacrifice for all the badness of the last two years.
Rice is a member of the Trilateral Commission – deep swamp. They won’t abandon the asset. I don’t know where she will end up. Maybe Boeing or Proctor Gamble while she cools off.
1. Tupolov TU-95 outfitted as an AWACS.
2. Nord 1500 Griffon, experimental ramjet fighter.
3. Fieseler Storch. Nice STOL observation aircraft. There have been some kit-builds and one ‘enhanced and updated’ version made. Good aircraft.
The Beans AI struck. Good going.
That’s some fierce AI competition brewing.
The Bear is easy. Prop version of a B-52.
The Nord Griffon? Interesting attempt to harness the power of the ramjet. The French have always been very experimental. After all, most of the features of modern tanks are theirs.
Always wanted a Fieseler Storch. Thought they looked neat, flew neat, just were neat. Someone out there makes a stretch-version that can handle 4 or 6 people, so a Cessna 170 that can take off in a quarter of the distance.
I have my occasional moments. Not up to even a quarter-Surly.
TU-126 Moss to be precise.
See, I knew that Surly would come through.
Proud to say I recognized #3 even before noticing the caption.
The Storch was ahead of its time.
IIRC, while stationed in post war Germany, Colonel Hubert “Hub” Zemke scrounged up a half dozen or so to use for travel as his duties required. They were referred to as “Zemke’s Air Force.
#3 was kind of a freebie, what with the picture of the stork on the plane and the caption.
-Kle.
Rice is swamp creature out to protect her “brand” from any volcanic negative Biden bad influence. She’s another Democrat criminal with power. ‘How’ she ended up in that position is beyond me.
By all accounts, she’s not stupid, and she is both female and African. She’s educated and has been a policy wonk in DC more or less her whole life. She cut her teeth with the Clintons.
“What do you want to do when you grow up, Susan?”
“I want to be a policy maker in Washington, DC.”
Yeah. No wonder America is going off the cliff. Not what The Founders had in mind.
We’re a long way from 1776.
True. Some will always find a way to corrupt even the simplest of things, usually to line their pockets or gain power.
We might be close to it after all.
Well, Roger the milkman has just RUINED my cups of tea. And butter- solidified udder juice. Ewww. Does that mean I’ve got to drink oat milk now? No. Can’t. And no, I’m not having it iced.
I agree with him on diamonds. I’ve always thought that. I’d rather have a nice pair of cowboy boots.
How do you milk oats? (I always thought you process them through dairy animals…)
As to stones and pebbles, diamonds are as common as sand. Now jewelry-level topaz, or sapphire (which is literally transparent aluminum, no, seriously,) ruby or others like them, those are actually rare. And far more beautiful to my eyes than diamonds. Still, the whole industry is designed to fleece people out of their money, and there are far better things to put one’s money into. It’s not like the days where you actually wore your fortune.
Apparently if you feed a cow oats it produces oat milk. Skinny cows produce fat free milk and fat cows make full fat milk. I’ve actually seen some people state this on social media when asked where different milk comes from. It’s not going to be very difficult for AI to destroy our future generation, is it…
Transparent aluminum/sapphire can be manufactured now – used in high-end bulletproof systems.
Jules, at least city people identify milk with cows (or oats or almonds). They understand that it doesn’t just arrive at the store in a package. It’s a step forward. They don’t think that whipped cream is the result of a tortured animal – I’ve seen that in social media when discussing animal justice.
Trans Al-You-Min-E-Um-
That’s because Scotty came back in time and gave the manufacturer the formula.
There’s a story to all this. We were testing a drone aircraft near JPL and one of the guys present did the armor for the Abraham, presidential limo. The discussion went from drones to explosive-formed projectiles (EFPs) to armor and I thought that he was bullshitting about “transparent aluminum” but he wasn’t. My mind immediately went to Star Trek too.
Yeah, I piss Trekkers off all the time when they are talking about Transparent Aluminum and I say, “Oh, you mean Sapphire?”
Who knew that I was a pendejo?
Sapphire is useful as part of composite armor. But it does eventually shatter, thus the need to composite it.
There’s a company in Florida that makes private submersibles. They have one that’s done all the deepest spots in the world’s oceans. Big old chunks of clear ‘artificial’ sapphire used for the viewports. Amazing stuff.
Whats the American jet just visible aft of the Tupolov’s tail?
A-4 Skyhawk perhaps.
Concur. Definitely a Skyhawk. No dihedral on the stabilators. Also, the positioning of NAVY over the US insignia. EA-3Bs were so big that both were on the fuselage, with NAVY trailing the US insignia.
Possibly a Typhoon F2. Flown by U K, Germany, Spain, or even Italian. Photo could be from another F2 escort from above. Could be from exercises off the coast of France, 2008. H/ T Wikipedia
NATO intercepts and escorts are like routine combat practice, true?
It looks more like an EA-3B to me.
I’m going with Skyhawk too, although Skywarrior is a possibility.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f3/c9/90/f3c990fe907b6ae59058261a43bd8443.jpg
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=a4+skyhawk&atb=v142-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fpacificcoastairmuseum.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F11%2Fa4e-skyahawk-pcam-04.jpg
“Navy” is in the typical A-4 position above the roundel, and the pictured aircraft seems to have the larger/longer forward extension of the vertical stabilizer characteristic of the Skyhawk. Also, the size of the rudder as a fraction of the vertical stabilizer seems greater, as in an A-4 compared to the Skywarrior.
-Kle.
Yes. I should’ve read all the way through the comments before commenting.
One could get sucked into the Cracked series of videos, thanks LL for sending me and making me aware of THAT rabbit hole to fulfill my lonely, cantankerous shell of a life…
hahaha – yes, the Cracked series will do it to you.