Happy Father’s Day!
If there are rioters in your area, don’t be a litterbug – police your brass.
Bullet Points:
**My father used to show up for a week during deer season (the third week in October) and for a week during the summer during my teen years. However, there were neighborhood men who pitched in and served as good role models for me when I was growing up. I appreciate my father for who he was and the neighborhood men for who they were. I envied the kids who had regular families. It encouraged me to be a good father, and now that I have grandchildren, to be a good grandfather.
** No hurricane has ever crossed the equator due to the Coriolis effect, which is essential for a cyclone’s spin but is absent at the equator. As a result, tropical storms cannot form or sustain themselves across this line, keeping all recorded hurricanes confined to their original hemisphere.
** Meanwhile, at the No Kings rally in London, outside the American Embassy. The protesters must not be very good at Land Nav, because the actual king, KC3, is based at Buckingham Palace. He doesn’t live there; I think he lives at Clarence House. He attended the Trooping the Colour celebration. They didn’t protest there – odd.
** ICE conducted its largest workplace enforcement operation in Nebraska since President Trump took office. More than 100 illegal immigrants were working illegally at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha. They were either using fake documents or fraudulently using the identities of U.S. citizens. The owner used E-Verify and says he is frustrated that, despite doing everything he could to hire legally, he now has to rehire an entire workforce. Many of them scattered when officials arrived with a warrant. Some were in the rafters, and one man was hiding in the wall, pulling a box cutter on an agent. He will be charged with assault on a federal officer.
** What is it like to offer a job in the USA to somebody from France? There is a very different work ethic. Never ask them to work in May. Or in the autumn…
** The people being deported have had due process. That term isn’t exclusive to a trial. Under current immigration law, individuals who are present in the United States in violation of immigration laws are eligible for expedited removal (deportation). This includes those who came here with criminal records in their own country, or commit crimes in our country once they are here. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) outlines distinct removal processes for various categories of aliens. Not all are entitled to be seen by an immigration judge, nor does “due process” require it. After a noncitizen is detained, they may go before a judge in immigration court during the deportation (removal) process. However, in some cases, a noncitizen may be subject to expedited removal without being required to attend a hearing in immigration court. Expedited removal may happen when a noncitizen: 1. Comes to the U.S. without proper travel documents; 2. Uses forged travel documents; 3. Does not comply with their visa or other entry document requirements.
** Nobody loves Mexico more than the people who refuse to live there… This is your Mexican word-of-the-day.
** Perennial Leftist crybaby, ultimate beta male soy boy, and Democrat Party political activist Jon Cryer– widely considered one of the least talented entertainers in the industry, one that AI will easily replace–now declares that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem “must resign” after the absurd clown stunt performance by total hack Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA). It’s pathetic and weak, but it’s all the cratered Democrat brand has left.
** “Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey made abundantly clear to radicals during a press conference on Thursday that Florida handles rioters a whole lot differently than authorities on the West Coast, underscoring that violence will be met with violence, and the odds are not in radicals’ favor.”
** The protests across the nation concerning Trump’s deportations have everyone’s heads on a swivel. Still, while the leftist-run media tries to paint Trump as an evil dictator, his poll numbers are going up in the Hispanic community. What the democrats have some difficulty understanding is that the people who came here legally are losing jobs to the wetbacks and they’re not amused.
Operation Rising Lion
The operation, which decimated Iran’s terrorist proxies and damaged its nuclear program, was preceded by a strategic feint involving false diplomatic signals, catching Iranian leaders off guard. There was a time when the Persians were savvy enough not to fall for a trick like that from the Great and Little Satans. Sometimes when you fall in love with your favorite goat, things get strange – I guess.
Israel hit Iran with political decapitations and some precision strikes on their nuclear development facilities. Some are half a mile underground. It may be too deep even for a MOAB. The MOAB was developed to replace the older BLU-82 “Daisy Cutter” and was intended to be a powerful weapon for use against hardened targets, including tunnels and cave systems. The MOAB is carried inside a C-130 aircraft and is dropped using a special cradle and parachute system to stabilize and guide it. The Israelis may not have degraded Iran’s air defenses sufficiently to allow for a series of C-130s carrying MOABs to drop them on the nuclear facilities in series, but that is coming. Mark my words (are you marking them?), it’s coming.
In a month-long campaign, they need to eliminate the Iranian nuclear program, all Iranian navy ships, and the facilities they use to make rocket fuel, which means chemical plants in gas fields that will naturally also degrade their capacity to refine oil. I think they’d like to see a new secular government rise in Persia, and they want that new government to sell oil to finance itself, but it may be too much to ask.
The ballistic missiles that Iran fired back at Tel Aviv didn’t seem to do much. Israel learned where they were launched from – that will be dust sooner rather than later. It’s part of the problem that comes with Israeli air supremacy and American control of the overhead space, which we share with our ally.
Will Iran try to engage the US? That would add teeth to the response.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
Walls – Your Sunday Sermonette
Ancient Rome (SPQR) had a problem with both internal stability and illegal aliens. Roman citizens enjoyed significant benefits as a result of being Romans.
The Aurelian Walls of Rome, built between 271 and 275 CE, stand as a monumental feat of Roman engineering and military strategy. Stretching over 19 kilometers, they were constructed to protect the city from external threats, offering a resilient defense for the heart of the Roman Empire during a time of increasing instability.
The walls, constructed from large, carefully hewn stones, stretch across the landscape, their imposing structures now partially overgrown with trees and ivy. The smooth path along the top once allowed Roman soldiers to patrol the perimeter, keeping watch over the bustling city within. As the sun casts light across the brickwork, the shadows reveal the deep history embedded in every stone, while nature softly reclaims the spaces that were once bustling with activity.
Walking alongside the ancient walls, it is impossible not to feel the weight of history and the passage of time. Despite their age and the wear of centuries, the Aurelian Walls continue to stand tall, offering a timeless reminder of the power, resilience, and strategic thinking that defined one of the greatest empires in history.
The Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which succeeded Ancient Rome, each faced their challenges and eventually gave way to the Vatican City, where the last vestiges remain. Different Popes have offered their opinions about nations having walls with a “tear down the wall” theme, but you’ll note that the Vatican hasn’t torn down its walls.
Identify the Aircraft
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Scenario: Israel drops a medium yield nuclear fission weapon at the surface above Iran’s deep underground nuclear processing facility.
They then post a “surprised response”: “Everyone told you that you didn’t know what you were doing and look what you did to yourself.”
FAFO
I don’t rule it out.
There isn’t any spider hole too deep for the Ayatollah to hide in. He should consider Saddam and go to the knacker with the hope of all those children to rape…
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Who was on those last planes out and where did they go (loaded with gold)?
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Douglas A-20 Havoc
2. Brewster F2A Buffalo
3. Brewster SB2A Buccaneer
4. Messerschmitt Bf 110
Yes. Which Bf 110?
Bf 110F-4?
Happy Father’s Day to you!
Yes, I think that’s correct. You can see the Lichtenstein radar on the nose.
Since it’s Father’s Day, I feel like I’m one of the lucky ones who had a great role model and moral compass for a dad. He was 46 when I was born, having gotten married at age 35 in 1947. When I was 46 I asked him why he was still having children at his age? He simply replied; “they were leaving home, I needed help. I had another one after you! Cow’s don’t give milk, you have to take it from them twice a day!”
Wise…those cows won’t milk themselves.
My eldest son is named after Aurelian.
Why yes he is. I didn’t connect the dots when I wrote the post. Both your boys are strong, smart, young men. When they come west again we’ll spend some time on the rifle range.
We always talk about the good role models which of course is a good thing. But I’d like to point out the awful role models imparted equally valuable lessons to a young kid. Various lessons from them when mentally revisited, before deciding what to do, prevented a number of terrible mistakes as an adult.
We learn good judgement from bad judgment.
Quite. How does that go? “We learn good judgement through experience. We gain most experience through bad judgement”
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Won’t dwell on the details, but I learned a few important lessons (not necessarily personally) early on.
1. It is possible to make a mistake you never stop paying for.
2. There are fates worse than death.
3. What you wind up doing is not nearly so important as who chooses to do it with you.
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A couple of good Father’s Day videos here (copy and paste)–
Visage à trois #3341- Father’s Day Edition
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I got divorced in 1999. Two of my three kids hate me. I paid my child support, visiting 3000 miles away and paid 5000 a year for college voluntarily. I did not get a graduation invite. I have not seen them since 2008. The third is doing great. Her mother died in 2008. I plan on leaving half my money to my daughter‘s cancer research and half my cancer research. Do better than I did Tom
Having been on the other side of that divide, I can attest that burying the hatchet is hard. I had to undo a lot of negative programming. In the end, my wife and two separate Catholic priests got me over the hump. The gist of their reasoning was:”who are you to pass judgment?”
In the end doing the right thing, something few have the wherewithal, is what is important. H/t for ‘doing the right thing’ regardless of any preferred outcome…God knows.
Fathers
In hindsight, I was caught in the middle of my parent’s range war of a marriage. I split two days after graduating from high school. After their divorce, he seemingly, age 60, decided to re-invent himself. We were starting to form a good new relationship when he died from un-diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea. I regret we didn’t have the time to work things out, and especially that my sons didn’t have a grandfather.
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Iran
I expect a 9/11 type response from them in our country. Sleeper cells. Perhaps in co-ordination with China, perhaps including Russia.
X2 on the last bit, older brother suggested the same the other day. Of course ALL will have been “watched” by the FBI.
I had a very similar experience to yours, range war wise. It took me a long time to allow myself to reconcile with my father, and I’m very grateful I did. For the two years he had left, I was a son again. He got to be both father and grandfather.
When my marriage was breaking up, I tried to remember and not make the same experience for my sons.
The rest of the world does not remember how angry Americans were after Pearl Harbor or 9/11, and dancing in the streets when OBL got whacked. I’m amazed no one seems able to connect the dots.
Off the wall note: many years ago I, still a young man back then, remember an older gent saying that the calendar was all wrong for Mother’s & Father’s Day. Father’s day should be first, about nine months before Mother’s Day. Is this part of the wisdom older generations pass along to the youth. I have to confess to not passing this one along.
Fathers are important, and I was massively fortunate to have one who always made time to show each of the four of us something specific we needed. We were 3 boys and a sister, who he treated extra special. He would remind my me to “fly a little lower and go a little slower”. Took me years to fully figure that one out, still working on it actually. He also taught me how to use tools and fix things, think through problems, use the drafting board that (found out 20 years later) prompted a call from the shop teacher to find out if I drew the plans…mom said, Paul drew it, his father showed him how.” Dad taught me how to write a cogent argument for a school paper, be disciplined, but most importantly to listen and respect my mother. The list goes on in his modeling of what it took to be a man. We “boys” still discuss and use his lessons everyday. Yet, he always gave full credit to our mom, said to me one day “I couldn’t have done any of what I’ve accomplished without your mother’s support.” Yeah, that…humility with an iron will and a brilliant mind. I was fortunate to have a great one, so major hat-tip Dad, still learning from your wisdom even though we lost you too soon at 57, some 32 years ago in your prime. Thinking you have Heavens “office buildings” redesigned and less costly to construct. (And inside joke about dad…older brother’s eulogy opened with, “Dad is probably up there telling St. Peter, “You know Pete, pearl is pretty expensive, you could have done these entry gates in wrought iron for a lot less and still look great with less maintenance.” Every one of the 600 inside Villanova Cathedral – half I never met before – got the joke and laughed. That was dad to a T. Miss you big time, but we boys carry on the legacy as best we are able, all three of us to make up for his one.
There is no need to destroy the deep sections of Iran’s nuclear program. No need at all.
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Why?
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Well, all you have to do is deny access to and from the lowest levels. Blow the ever-loving dogsqueeze out of all access areas, out of all generating plants that serve the complexes, out of the water plants that supply fresh water and the waste-water plants that process any outflow. Blow every ventilation shaft, air exchange system, out of every communications trunk, everything.
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It’s kind of like the opposite of taking down a medium tall building. No need to go all the way, just blow the snot out of the first 100 feet.
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With as much intel that Israel had on the whole system, doing surface and subsurface strikes, though not touching the deep stuff, should be able to basically isolate forever the bottom layers.
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Imagine, if you will, being stuck 500 to half a mile down in the earth, knowing that there’s no way out, no water, no air, no power, just you and your fellow unwashed pseudo-Persians.
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Isolate them. Completely. Do it properly and there’s no coming up for air this side of the whole Earth cracking.
It’s difficult to ensure that they’re completely entombed without some deep strikes to break up any escape routes. If you have adequate intelligence, you can seal those up, but you never really know if you got them all.