Nervous Energy

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Larry-Lambert

Captioned: FG-1D Corsair

 

 

Bullet Points:

** Whenever you’re feeling stupid, remember that tens of millions of people stayed in their homes for two years and wore surgical masks because the TV told them to.

** Liberals are only liberal with other people’s money. They’re stingy with their own.

** (Right) Mars 2110 with 3 Death Stars in orbit. Musk won.

** Pedo Joe’s Scranton – Joe Biden loves to talk about Scranton, Pennsylvania and suggests he grew up there. Never mind that he left there when he was ten and has no real connection to the city. Saying he is from Scranton evokes fictitious blue-collar roots and makes people feel like he is a regular guy.

What Joe does not like to talk about is the reality of life in Scranton today. In particular, he does not want to discuss the large homeless encampments in the city.  During the Depression, they called these kinds of places “Hoovervilles” after the sitting President Herbert Hoover. Let’s call these modern-day equivalents “Bidenvilles.” After all, it is “Bidenomics” that has produced them.

Homeless encampments in Scranton are increasingly common and growing in size. The city, a Democratic stronghold, seems largely to ignore the issue. It would after all be uncomfortable to acknowledge that the Biden administration has presided over a significant growth in the size of the homeless population in town. After Joe had sat down in the Oval Office, they renamed the expressway into town as the President Biden Expressway. However, making him take responsibility for what his policies have done to Pennsylvania seems too much.

The problem is not just in Scranton, of course. It is happening nationwide. People can’t afford a place to live. They put tents where they think they won’t get torn down. They live in their cars. In some cities, authorities have set aside parking lots now designated for use only by people living in their vehicles.

** Social Security was earned by payments made into the fund through each and every paycheck. It is not an “entitlement” to be doled out to illegal aliens who contributed nothing.

** The USS Hornet may be a decommissioned aircraft carrier, yet it has nevertheless become the launch site for a controversial new war in the skies.

The Marine Cloud Brightening Program‘s Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement project, led by researchers from the University of Washington, took to the deck of the Hornet Tuesday to launch streams of particles into the sky above the San Francisco Bay. Their ultimate objective is to block and reflect sunlight to limit “global warming.”

CAARE researchers behind the geoengineering scheme opted not to announce their experiment, reportedly citing concerns that there might be significant backlash.

After all, the American public — or at the very least, the residents of Alameda — might first want to hear from the hundreds of scientists who have called for a non-use agreement for solar radiation management and stated in an open letter that the “risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known. Impacts will vary across regions, and there are uncertainties about the effects on weather patterns, agriculture, and the provision of basic food and water needs.”

** If you have more than three baby daddies, maybe you shouldn’t vote. You’ll probably pick the wrong man again.

** It’s a very woke idea to take a black woman off a pancake syrup bottle and put a fake white woman on a beer can…

** Steven Hayward at Power Line wrote, “Given this confession from inside NPR, why shouldn’t Trump, if elected again, arrest and jail the entire staff of NPR on January 20? The legal grounds are simple: NPR accepts taxpayer funds and has misappropriated public funds for partisan purposes, which has to be a violation of several statutes, as Leticia James and Alvin Bragg can surely explain.”

** The plastic industry must be STOPPED now.

** Jules weighs in with more watercolors and an Easter baking adventure debriefing.

 

Integrity

There has been a lot of criticism lately (with full justification) from the US government, the state governments, and county and municipal entities. I held jobs in the military that required completing a Top Secret security clearance with a special background investigation and a full-scope polygraph. I was polygraphed as a course of employment for a different job. My background was probed and investigated, and I had law enforcement polygraphs. The overarching question was whether I could be trusted. Did I have integrity? Was I prone to compromise? Did I use illegal drugs or engage in inappropriate or even illegal conduct? The fact that I continued in those employment situations for over forty years underscored not just me but the nature of the people I worked with.

The commanders in chief I served under, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, could not pass the simplest of investigations for the lowest classification of information access: For Official Use Only. I didn’t work for Pedo Joe Biden, but he was vice president when I served, and I don’t think he’d be granted clearance for For Official Use Only by any objective standard. I can’t speak to the Bush 41 or 43 Administrations. I believe that President Reagan would pass a background investigation. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? Are you kidding?

I had a plaque that I made in my office that followed me from place to place. “If you read about what you did in the morning newspaper, would you be embarrassed?” I applied that standard in decisions I made in often very stressful situations. I recall reminding others of the standard when a question arose about how we’d proceed.

Today, in 2024, circumstances, behaviors, standards, and conduct seem to have departed from those I lived by in the grossest possible way. Can integrity be restored? Integrity is as integrity does.

 

Identify the Armor

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Identify the Aircraft

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53 thoughts on “Nervous Energy”

  1. IDARMOR –
    1. Panzerkampfwagen II
    2. 5-CM Pak38
    IDA –
    1. Boeing CH-47 Chinook

    1. I would like to believe that the Pz II is towing a trailer full of “der bier”.
      .
      -Kle.

  2.  “If you read about what you did in the morning newspaper, would you be embarrassed?”

    I’d probably be arrested, sectioned or applauded. You never know.

    There is still integrity out there, you just have to look a little harder.

      1. I’m always interested in the etymology of words I haven’t run across before: to wit: jiggier, which I’m assuming (’til advised otherwise) arises from the word”jigger” in this case (arising from the Sun article) employing the meaning: (nautical) A light tackle.

        1. Heh. I made it up…maybe”jiggy-er”. Or in British, “barmy” (looked it up…Jules can check me, maybe there’s a more better word.)

          1. Jules, who has a way with our mother tongue combined with a wry sense British humor, might understand the “nautical” derivation somewhat better.

      2. “I’m very sorry to all the people, I was very drunk.”
        Being drunk only removes the inhibitions to the rot inside.

        “I appreciate it’s not acceptable in your culture and it won’t happen again.”
        How about any culture? And I bet it won’t. There.

        1. Exactly, more and more people work hard to excuse their despicable behavior like they’re juveniles.

        2. Exactly. It’s not acceptable in Brit or American culture either.
          But frankly I’m more offended by his being a slobby fat f*ck. If you’re hot (of either sex) and you strip down at least you’re not committing an aesthetic offense. Or less of one. Whatever. The point is that that … person is offensive even IN his crappy polo shirt, much less out of it.

  3. Identify the Armor:
    1. Panzer I
    2. Sd.Kfz. 10 with 50mm gun

    Identify the Aircraft:
    3. CH-47 Chinook

        1. Be careful with upgrades, “Data” got an emotional chip upgrade and it totally messed him up.

      2. The key is the size of the turret and the overall size of the vehicle in relation to a man. The Mk I was small, really an overgrown tankette.

  4. Integrity matters, fits right in there with gratitude and humility.
    —
    “Character is who you are when no one is watching.” h/t Bill Hybels, who shortly after announcing his retirement from his 42 year tenure as founder and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church and a top voice in Christendom, was ousted in as ugly a manner by the jealous weaklings, using false allegations from 40 years prior (typical slanderous tactic). These were prior friends and coworkers who owed their tenure to him. Integrity went out the door…but once the lie starts you can’t undo it.
    *
    Grandparents landed off the boat in Scranton, dad was born there (’36). Blue collar. Union city. Not unlike Bethlehem or Allentown or a host of other cities. But classically Liberal…until now. No one intentionally moves there.
    *
    Dilbert was a weekly must for us engineer-types…humorously true every time. As a young-ish consultant dad told me “take your estimate then double it, if you get it done sooner and under budget you look like a hero.” Often not always possible…with what I would characterize by marketing and sales as “creeping featuritus” I’d explain that “if this occurs we stop the project and regroup because it is not possible to do constant “adds/changes” and end up with a cohesive design; if the premise gets too skewed from the original concept we need to start over.” They didn’t like that but it kept them in check.

    1. Re: Scranton….. x2
      I’ve live in Easton PA for the past 45 years. NO ONE goes to Scranton or moves there by choice.
      We’ve been fortunate in Easton. We have a lot of Democrats but most are old-school and have held off the hard Lefties.

      1. Exactly. Always liked Easton, smallish feel despite its size, old school, established…always a stopping point before heading to the Delaware Water Gap/Appalachian Trail from my Bucks County roots.

    2. I’ve probably just cost myself another job.
      In a sense, my integrity as an engineer insists that I point out something that needs to be done by the mechanical guys on a project just handed over to me for programming.
      Now, I’m an “armchair quarterback”, and “Why wasn’t this shared earlier?”
      I’ve refrained so far from “You didn’t ask or task me earlier.”

      1. I used to say that many engineers need to rent a personality just to get along in the world, but for the rest of us “not that way” (well, mostly), communication is critical to success. Could say that about everything, but keeping it confined for arguments sake…similar to this: Engineering is supposed to be a collaborative deal, and no egos allowed. Affords a more efficient and better result.

      2. I told a former boss (lazy, slovenly drunk who took credit for other people’s work), “Failure to prepare on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.” He tried to have me fired. I had markers that I laid down. He was fired and as I recall, he moved to Toledo, where his roots were. His old lady divorced him, took the house and stayed behind in Southern California.

        Nobody was ever successful in terminating me. Several tried.

        Take heart, Ed.

          1. Seems your boss understands your value to the organization. Good. During the Covidiocy “the they” corporate ninny’s tried to “let go” (aka fire) DrMrsPaulM despite working remote as she has for 10 years (150 in her shop got canned due to not getting the Not-A-Vax). Submitted a religious exemption, wasn’t budging. One day a lawyer calls, says “I’ve been told I need to speak with you about this…we never talk to anyone.” (The nebulous “them” doing the letting go to avoid actual conversation. A chickens–t tactic.) The woman was surprised at the facts of the matter, plus MrsPaulM’s bosses (multiple levels) went to bat for her. She stayed…then like clockwork, a year later, some HR dufus got an award for hiring 150 new employees to refill the positions they forced out. Now…crickets. Gone by the wayside.

            Good to have a boss who understands they’d be in a tough spot without you.

      3. I probably got myself “fired” a week or two ago. Not from my regular job, from serving as a reviewer for a medical journal. (We don’t get paid for this.)
        One of the editorial questions was whether the submitted manuscript needed to undergo additional review from the “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” perspective. I wrote back “This paper does not need DEI ‘oversight’. (And just call it DEI like everyone else instead of EDI.) NOTHING needs to be subjected to a DEI struggle session.” We shall see what happens. As in whether I ever get asked to review for that journal again. That would be the minimal damage. Greater damage would be if the handling editor decides to make my dissent public. That probably won’t happen, but if it does, then that’s where the fun will REALLY start.

        1. “probably”? You know you’re a rabble Mike…as are the rest of us who didn’t grow up in this era.

  5. Marine Cloud Brightening. Not even a rainbow on the website. I am soooo disappointed, but not surprised that there is a Pritzker involved. Need we ask who elected these self anointed saviors to do Wuhan lab type “open research ” on a planetary scale? Is the peer-review like all the fraudulent peer reviews – sufficient to get federal money but not available to the public or able to be criticized or experiments reproduced?

    1. What do you want to wager that they’re heavy democrat donors? That’s how the laundry works. I form a hairbrained company, the federal government funds it the way they did Solyndra, I donate a hefty portion of the funds to the democrat party (+10% to the Big Guy) and then I bankrupt it and form another company, rinse repeat. Riddle me this: What percent of companies that administer foreign aid on behalf of the US State Dept. are heavy democrat donors (+10% to the Big Guy)? You’re right, 100%.

      1. You mean all those NGOs leaning Left that are funneling ‘refugees’ into the US could be defunded by Orange Man and various executives and other employees arrested for being co-conspirators to the criminal conduct of said refugees?

        1. President Trump needs department secretaries who are willing to take a meat cleaver to their staffs. Clean house and start fresh to the extent possible.

  6. I did get the CH-47. They’re stationed up at Gardner Kansas and fly over my place every once in a while. I can always tell what’s coming just by the sound.

    1. First airshow I attended (too many moons ago now) there was a flyover scheduled, they came to cheers. The announcer said, “You realize that if this was war you’d already be dead and wouldn’t have heard them.” Stuck with me. Reality catches people who aren’t knowledgeable in such things (myself included).

      1. I was driving a deuce and a half behind the captains jeep in a convoy during a war game once.
        We weren’t in the war but we were testing some detection equipment we had buried roadside.
        I saw a black bar sticking out from a tree ahead over the forest road.
        I hit the air horn and stopped, but the captain kept going.
        That’s when the Cobra swung out over the road and we were looking up rocket tubes.
        More he than me.
        Had this been a real emergency, I would have been out of the cab.

  7. Pancake syrup bottle and beer can. Then there’s Land O’ Lakes. Typical white man, boot the Indian and keep the land.

    1. First heard that listening to Dana Loesch…funny but not funny. Question is always, removing/toppling statues, taking [those offensive] pictures off packaging…has ANYTHING changed? Nope. And most of us knew it wouldn’t do a damn thing. Morons running on their childish narcissistic emotions.

      1. Agreed. I also think it runs deeper beyond the “Useful Idiots” to a deliberate move to erase our history and eventually, “us”. It ties to integrity as well. How can integrity not be tied to our past, both good and bad?

  8. Your opening paragraph on Integrity, taking multiple polygraphs and background checks, is exactly what both my wife and I, along with several friends, have gone through – minus the law enforcement positions. Those of us who designed and worked on those classified projects get those things, too.

    There isn’t the smallest measure of doubt that if we did any of the frankly completely illegal things Biden has done we’d be in jail awaiting trial. Biden, and Obama both are documented doing things that we’d be in jail for. I’m not sure about W and further back. So who’s the one being tried in kangaroo courts for violating their secrecy oaths? The president between Biden and Obama.

    1. General question, not just to SiG.
      So I went through my last security clearance thing (DOD) over 30 years ago. (That was fairly quick since I got the colonoscopy for a prior DOE clearance.) Both DOD and DOE are long expired. But I wonder if I could pass these days. After all, I express “incorrect” views that offend not only the left/govt orthodoxy, but also the right.

      1. Last time I got mine renewed it flew right through, even though it was~10 years lapsed. I don’t know about new ones, but if you had a high-level clearance before, and passed a simple investigation this time, you got it back.

        1. I won’t even get the Passport renewed, not planning to be that far from home with the goofball anarchists running things aground (even Canmore, Canada, is off the bucket list with all the shenanigans in “our attic”).

  9. Integrity. Found in those with a strong sense of self. Those with no integrity? Never let the same snake bite you twice.

    I’m reminded of an uncle. WWII Navy vet who was a gunner on armed merchant ships (Murmansk runs among others). A gifted mechanic, he worked at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. At the time, nuclear bombs were produced there. Many family members were intensely curious about what his actual duties were and some pressured him. To my knowledge, he never once told anyone including his wife and sons. On any other subject he talked freely.

    1. My best friend was Force Recon and attached to NSA at one point and in Intelligence.
      Never talks about it in detail, but one day I mentioned a name in front of him. Just the name.
      It was fun to see his jaw drop.

  11. I tend to think that things like integrity, morality, right-and-wrong, and ethics, must be taught to children as their part of a conventional/traditional childhood. Either by their parents, or other caregiver. They are things that must be learned and practiced to be considered civilized. Unfortunately, somebody let the barbarians in, and we’re spiraling down.

  13. Back when I worked for a police department as a staff assistant, during the hiring process they conducted a full security check on me, even going so far as to interview teachers at various schools and demanding the Holloman AFB hospital let them review my birth records. Had to pee in a cup and get a blood draw for drug testing. And lie detector testing (which the first one I failed due to being so nervous I popped false on my name.)

    The cops? Eh, 6 months drug free of hard stuff, no pee in the cup, check high school and college transcripts, no visits needed.

    Always wondered about that. They wouldn’t let me carry a pocket knife but someone with a sketchy background could be a cop. And it showed in the quality of ethics amongst many of the cops.

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