Are you Afraid of the Dark?
Terrorists Attack Kenosha
This picture screams a message to the “woke church”. The individuals that do such things like this don’t care if you are “down for the cause”. Given enough time and opportunity their wicked hearts would soon burn even you alive, even if you screamed “black lives matter” with your fist held in the air.
I can only guess that the Unitarians hoped that the Black Lives Terror Organization would leave them for last…surprise-surprise…they didn’t. Bending a knee to evil is never a good idea.
Restored A6M Zeroes
Regions of Russia with a significant Muslim population
Yes, another map
The Original Car Wash
Here in the Arizona mountains, I’m letting the monsoon do the heavy lifting, and that might have been “the original”. But…
One solution to driving on the dirt roads of the era was a flooded circular basin, such as Chicago’s “Auto Wash Bowl” depicted here, in 1924. The cars were driven around, and then detailed by hand up top.
The Biden Legacy
After former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero met with Joe Biden in 2010, two words stuck with him: tears and suffering.
That’s according to Zapatero’s 2013 memoir, The Dilemma. The two met at the Prime Minister’s residence on the outskirts of Madrid. The meeting was intended as a show of gratitude from the United States about Spain’s involvement in Afghanistan. But the conversation quickly turned to the eurozone, as several countries dealt with the extended fallout of the global financial crisis. “In giving his opinion on the markets,” Zapatero wrote of Biden, “he told me, with a harshness that until then I had not heard, that the only way to gain their trust was by making decisions that made you suffer truly and thoroughly. That you are only credible in certain circumstances if you subject citizens to difficult tests, if the unions openly reject your policy, in short, if there are tears and suffering. I was struck by his message, for its frankness and its toughness. Tears and suffering.”
i don’t think anybody has summarized leftist politics more succinctly.
USAF Equipment
It always looks so new, so unblemished, so clean and without wear.
Where do those Zero’s call home?
At least one of them is part of the Confederate Air Force at Chino, CA.
If it pleases most honored host…
CAF wing is at KCMA Camarillo. Planes of Fame is at KCNO Chino. Both have a A6M. The POF Zero is one of two which has the original Sakai engine (reverse engineered Wright Cyclone 1820). I have lost track of the other. It had been at Camarillo but that was maybe 15 years ago.
Having had aircraft in CAF, knowing how they work, I would not be surprised it those aircraft are rotated to Midland, TX.
Incidentally, the CAF is hosting fly overs on September 2nd which is the 75th Anniversary of the signing of surrender of Japan. That CAF has chapters throughout the states, I might imagine such events would occur throughout the country.
The screwballs at Pearl decided, ‘for their health and safety’, that WWII vets would not be allowed to participate in 75th Anniversary commemorative events.
Last year I was there for veterans piped aboard the Arizona Memorial in a private ceremony.
I have one for now or later use. Name the U.S. General who held command over a Soviet Air Wing. It was during WWII.
USAF Equipment
It always looks so new, so unblemished, so clean and without wear.
Not so the vehicles working out of Warren AFB Cheyenne covering the Minuteman silos. Some of those vehicles look like cast off National Guard stuff. Clean, yes.
Yeah, and the current batch of Chinook flyboys have been doing below radar maneuvers 100′ off the deck above the homestead. Asked them twice [with all due respect] to knock it off, scaring the livestock. They look pretty shiny from below.
Questions is, in the past three weeks they’ve been doing this day and night…thinking it’s more than training exercises.
It would be interesting to know what’s up. But as loud as they are, the Ospreys are worse.
During the previous administration, all of that USAF construction equipment didn’t have money to move out of the motorpool. Or get serviced. They did get washed a lot, according to my nephew.
That shines a light on it. But Biden is mighty proud of his record.
They’re probably the same vintage of vehicles I rode in 1990 going to Minuteman Launch Control Centers in 1990. They were cleaned soon after most every ride in non-freezing weather except when the idiot airman wasn’t speeding, slid, and rolled off a curve on a gravel road in bum-f***-usa. I figure that was the main loss of vehicles. It sure couldn’t have been absolute mileage, but I could be convinced.
USAF equipment being used:
https://ed-bonderenka.blogspot.com/2018/02/snow-sumter-south-carolina-1973.html
My wingman and I spent over two hours getting me out of the ditch.
The winches mounted on the front of the trucks didn’t work!
I later asked Gary why and he said they had disabled them to protect them from getting burned out. Thanks.
Thank you for the memory, Ed.
Thank you for reading it!
Tears and suffering. I’d say Biden’s evil. And curious that Russia’s feminine, but perhaps that makes sense, Mother Russia.
In the meanwhile, things seem to be getting hot in Kenosha. Well done 45 for not snapping at the Kent State 2.0 lure. As it is, people seem to be going roof, and not before time.
45 knows that they’re baiting him. After the election, he might take them up on it.
Afraid of the dark? When I was little…couldn’t see and that bugged me until I learned to “see” in the dark with my other senses. Best time is about 3am, leaving the tent for a watering, and looking up. Always stunning, not fearful (like your pic). Usually though, once dark hits we give the landscape over to the lurking critters for the night…finding a deer carcass drug across the end of the driveway in the morning always confirms the decision.
Critters do lurk, and you don’t want to end up as prey, but I find the night to be magical.
I’m surprised you’re not reacting to Camperfixer calling you in your pic “fearful” (Always stunning, not fearful (like your pic).)
What does Camperfixer have on you that he’s not fearful to use?
I was never fearful of the dark as a kid, but now? Yeah. My vision is nowhere what it was and my ears haven’t stopped ringing in 30 years or more.
Hehe…yeah, wrote that wrong, should be “Always stunning (like your pic), not fearful.” I do like his more accurate “magical” characterization. And based on this blog, LL’s renaissance man (“most interesting man”?) life it’s doubtful he is fearful of much at this point.
Took the dog for his morning coffee walk (me with the coffee), heard a twig snap off to the right, stopped for a minute to look. The very aware dog was smelling some coyote something or other and did not look up. Turned out it was me that made the snap. (it WAS at 6am) Gettin’ older is a bit of a double-edged sword.
Don’t fear the reaper, Camperfixer.
But I know what you mean about making noise and realizing that it was you. I fill like that Indian chief in the movie, “The Outlaw Josie Wales” where he’s old enough that people can sneak up on him. I’m not that old yet, but I can see there from here.
Only because Antifa and other terrorists like the dark.
Sometimes we will be out at night and I enjoy looking at the sky.
The day will come when the Antifa thugs will fear the dark. Today they work hard to provoke a reaction. One day, maybe, the ROE will be ‘weapons free’.
They may begin to get the message.
As we know, last night three were shot, 2 dead. Lib media couching it as unprovoked attack against “protesters”. Truth is, this 17 year old (!!) was protecting a business that had been attacked the night before. This time the human debris anarchists were trying to set it on fire. This kid came armed (heard he also had a bodycam). This young man was knocked to the ground by paid street thugs, one brandishing a weapon. The kid fired back when he felt threatened. Result? The kid was arrested on 1st degree murder under the “new laws” that support the lawless thugs.
Any chance this chaos was purely coincidental right before the RNC Convention? I don’t believe in coincidences.
Stunning view of Orion! Sky viewing is much better here than in SoCal, but lately there’s been too much smoke to see things clearly.
The Unitarian church on the South edge of our square mile has many similar, offensive-to-me, signs on their front lawn. I haven’t seen any lately, as they were getting vandalized a bit, and I think they decided not to replace them.
The “Planes of Fame” air museum in Chino has the world’s only airworthy A6M Zero that still has it’s original engine. They’re not CAF, though.
Agree with WSF; the Hueys I’ve seen pass over look very well used. And yes, Osprey’s have a very distinctive sound. More of a “thrumming” than the rotary wing chop-chop-chop-chop.
And things are getting spicy down in Denver again. Have to start studying my topo maps between here and there….
Rick lays it out below, thanks Rick.
If it pleases most honored host…
CAF wing is at KCMA Camarillo. Planes of Fame is at KCNO Chino. Both have a A6M. The POF Zero is one of two which has the original Sakai engine (reverse engineered Wright Cyclone 1820). I have lost track of the other. It had been at Camarillo but that was maybe 15 years ago.
Having had aircraft in CAF, knowing how they work, I would not be surprised it those aircraft are rotated to Midland, TX.
Incidentally, the CAF is hosting fly overs on September 2nd which is the 75th Anniversary of the signing of surrender of Japan. That CAF has chapters throughout the states, I might imagine such events would occur throughout the country.
The screwballs at Pearl decided, ‘for their health and safety’, that WWII vets would not be allowed to participate in 75th Anniversary commemorative events.
Last year I was there for veterans piped aboard the Arizona Memorial in a private ceremony.
I have one for now or later use. Name the U.S. General who held command over a Soviet Air Wing. It was during WWII.
I’ll guess, Gen. Curtis LeMay, but I could be wrong – easily.
Minor note– Planes of Fame’s B-17 was the last one assigned to my dad’s bomb group ( the 447th) in April of 1945. No records to show that it was ever delivered.
I would like to have met your dad, RHT447.
Thanks. His route was a bit different.
I had a forest for the trees moment long ago. I’ve had copies of his records a long time, but had never really focused on the fact that he served for the entire war. He was inducted. In late November 1941, he boarded a train in San Francisco bound for Ft. Ord. He was two weeks into basic training on December 7th. He told me they pulled guard duty on the coast with whistles and baseball bats.
After basic, he was sent to Camp Barkeley, TX, and trained as a medical admin clerk. In the fall of ’42 he filled out an app for the Air Corps and was accepted, and on his way to many schools. Flew his first mission (of 35) January 2, 1945. Accumulated 1200 hours four engine time. Discharged in November of 1945.
To me, he typified the Greatest Generation. He answered his country’s call, did his best, then came home and got on with his life.
I didn’t realize that the area up around Obskaya was so heavily Muslim; usually it’s down south near the ‘Stans, not up on the top of Siberia. I wonder why the locals were so receptive?
Re: UU church parking lot – I wonder if/when people are going to start catching on?
-Kle.
The progs take a LONG time to catch on. Dim bulbs.
The Siberian Muslims are mostly people brought up to work in mines and the oil fields.
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