So Much For Subtlety

46 thoughts on “So Much For Subtlety”

1. Identify the Aircraft:
   1. Grumman OV-1 Mohawk
   2. Mil Mi-17 Hip
   3. Lockheed P-3 Orion

   1. Beat me to it!

      – Kle.

      1. More good paint on the Hip!

         – Kle.

         1. You can do a lot with those Mi-17s. They’re rugged, relatively inexpensive for rotors and they fit in wherever Russian Junk has been sold.

2. Was it The Gulag Archipelago where the protagonist was pondering, “…should I eat the cockroach now, or save it for later?”

   In the reason for that question there may be a lesson.

   1. Yes. I don’t recall if it was One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Shukhov) or one Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s other books. Your point is well taken.

3. “** The only people who become politicians are those who are least suited to the job. Rather than elections, we should have a lottery.”

   I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
   William F. Buckley, Jr.

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            1. X5

            2. Buckley attended Yale…

4. WA drugs. There are a few articles in the local news about removing Tylenol and other drugs from local supermarkets but I haven’t been to a store to check. Kind of odd that “they” are worried about something like Tylenol since you can buy marijuana legally just about anywhere you want. One more thing I will just drive to Idaho for. Let’s see, paint, diesel and gasoline, ammunition, and now Tylenol or Benadryl.

   P3, great old airplane. I saw one doing touch and goes the other day at the local AFB, I had thought they had totally switched out the P3s for the P8s but guess I was mistaken. Or now they belong to another agency, plane was to far away to see the designation but it was painted Navy grey.

   Not only cell phone bills but clean clothes, traveling in flip flops. Riding in those air conditioned buses must be quite a challenging travail.

   1. When you’re in Idaho picking up things you can’t get in WA anymore don’t forget a couple of cans of R-134a in case you need to top off your car’s AC system.

5. “The insect lifecycle provides the opportunity for full circularity within our value chain, strengthening our commitment to building a more sustainable food system for the future.”

   Raise your hand if you ever sat in a quarterly employee meeting when the CEO said a similar pile of corporate-speak gobblygook?

   Hey Tyson, in case you haven’t noticed you produce chickens!…and here’s a clue:

   Chicken: Chicken (includes chicken flavoring)
   Bug Chicken: Bugs, 42 chemicals & additives, chicken flavoring.

   Last I checked chicken, like beef, was a sustainable food source, so is farming. Guess that’s out now with the deranged woke crowd thinking they need to reinvent everything.

   Bottom line: You wanna eat bug food, go for it…between GoF Covid, Not-A-Vax, Re-Breather Masks, and manufactured proteins, I gotta figure the Zombie Apocalypse is right around the corner.

   ProTip: Buy more ammo.

   No OTC NSAIDS? Health Department heads were emboldened by The Covid Crap, this is their next overstep, which is moronic but intentional. But hey, you can go to a “Safe Injection Site” for free needles and meth. These people are guilty of crimes against humanity.

   Politicians- Working to the lowest common denominator is the modern base tenet of that profession. The Founders wanted the best and brightest from across American communities to do their stint in DC then hightail it back because they thought (assumes integrity) no one would want to be a career DC Politician, thus generating refreshing turnover. Now look.

   Nice meme, good for more VM merch.

   1. The CorporateSpeak about bugs at Tyson means that they are hoping to be able to feed the chicken waste and leftover chicken parts to the bugs, and then sell you the bugs, too.

      – Kle.

      1. Vertical Integration at its finest.

      2. AND – you’ll love it.

         1. Waste not want not.

            Could be projection of things to come, or pure folly (my vote). Then again “Wokeness” is like Liberalism, it’s a mental illness, only on steroids.

            But there may be some hope that ship has sailed and a new boat is approaching when – it appears – some got figuratively “punched in the face” with reality:

            https://www.thefp.com/p/the-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisin

            1. There is no clean end to this turd. No lessons will be learned. If anything were reinforcing bad behavior.

            2. We’re not were. 🙄

            3. The only point in taking away common OTC drugs that people use daily is to make them dependent on; a) opioids pushed by Big Pharma to numb folks out, or b) increase Rec-Med use to keep people in a constant stupor…either way makes people malleable.

               Nah, that couldn’t be it.

            4. 😀

      3. How about eating bugs that have been preprocessed by chickens? Is that allowed?

         1. Or this: https://blackivorycoffee.com/

            Rarest Coffee in the world: Elephant processed coffee. Uh, no.

            1. Cows process grass/corn/silage into beef. Chickens process bugs, and other things, into chicken meat. So if you eat some fried chicken you are eating processed bugs, right?

      4. Ah, kind of like Tilapia.

         For those that don’t know, in fresh-water fish farms, Tilapia are used to purify the water from all other fish, because tilapia eat fish crap.

         So, in the above scenario, feeding chicken crap and scrap to cockroaches and use cockroaches as human food, a better solution would be to use roaches and worms to purify chicken scraps and craps and feed said bugs to the chickens.

         That’s what insects in commercial meat raising should be used for.

         1. The narcos have traditionally fed their murdered foes to the Tilapia Fish Farms found in the Mexican Border States. I don’t move in those circles any more, but it’s one reason that I refuse to eat Tilapia.

   2. Corporate_No_Brains_Mouth_Noises: heard a lot of buzzword bingo before retiring. The best no-brainer example was when a Fortune 500 company I worked at was all giddy about being able to start their IT work in China…who, after completion, then took all the code and kicked the company back to the states. All the IT workers saw it coming, the execs were the only clueless ones.

      1. “ took all the code and kicked the company back to the states.”

         We saw this sort of thing decades ago when the car companies (and supporting industry) were all excited about China. There was a huge opportunity for Chinese-born engineers to serve as liaisons between Detroit and the PRC. Lots of my parents’ friends leapt at the opportunity (except for the Taiwanese guy who had a great gig stealing American IP for the Japanese). They mocked my father for not taking advantage. He replied that the PRC was the enemy, and not one dime nor process step to those bastards. Friendships were strained. Then within three years, all those persons crept back to the US tails between their legs. After they’d helped set up the plants and process, and pumped dry (intellectually), they were kicked out.

         One guy, a glass (windshield) expert, said on his literal last day his hosts detoured from going to the airport. “We want to show you something.” They took him to another plant that he didn’t know existed. It was a mirror/clone of the one he’d set up. But totally unmonitored by, er, Fnord Motors. He was dumbfounded. His hosts smirked and packed him off to airport.

         Now these “Chinese-Americans” did it for cash and career advancement. There was not really any ideological component nor dual loyalty issue. Now imagine how bad it would be if the main motivation WAS ideology and ethnosupremacy.

         1. If I remember correctly, my IT example took place during the 90’s.

            1. Similar timeframe then. ISTR the auto thing peaked late 80’s early 90’s. The Chicoms did a real number on us, and there were plenty of people (not just chinamen) who went along with it gladly, thinking they’d game the Chinese. That went well. 🙄

6. Uh oh, I think My name Rene spammerlammerdingdong is my fault…I look at a VM post, comment, then “Rene” shows up.

   If you need me I’ll be out at the Pasture Cove sign awaiting the flogging to begin until morale improves.

   1. Trust a Nigerian Prince with your investments, PaulM. It’s woke.

7. I didn’t know you were the last of Barrett’s Privateers.

8. Is it Sweden that has come full circle with the socialist experiment and reverted toward capital and free markets? Great quote L.L.
   Identity the girl? – not by name

   Are there any other nations that sold their public the socialist ” theory” that didn’t turn into totalitarian control? And so goes WA, where BLM thrives but ” they” voted in hb 1240….black guns don’t matter. Then the slippery slope leads to the inability to even take an aspirin without Uncle Sam’s supervision. In WA Moma can see little Johnny off on the bus one morning, only to stand there in tears when he doesn’t get off that afternoon. School and CSD authorities are by LAW required to not answer a parent as to the location of their child, IF they’ve talked little Jonny into thinking he’s a girl. SB 5599
   Remember that new pop group back in 2020? They’re top hit, ” You’ll be happy, and you’ll own nothing.” That Dane Pharisee at the WEF wrote the lyrics, and ol Schwaby, he made it popular. The group was from the Left Coast I believe. Was it Inslee, Newsom, and Brown?

   P.S. Reuters fact checks these things, and it’s gospel, ” you can keep your guns”
   https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wef-idUSKBN2AP2T0
   You, happy, own nothing, is no longer on the record and has been reaffirmed with double speak,
   “Agenda 2030 framework outlines an aim to ensure all people have access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property.”

   1. And all of Inslee’s (and Newsome’s) BS will stand until they are held personally accountable. Now an idiot law is passed and there is a prolonged court case to determine if it is unconstitutional. The taxpayer is on the hook to pay if there is a judgement against the state. To make people a little more, hmm, honest, we need to make the individual governors and legislatures foot the bill. They would be a lot more reluctant to pass so many egregious laws.

      1. Ed, I hear you on the quagmires in the courts. Missouri vs Biden is an example, as posted here on V.M.
         Just when I think the tides of sanity have turned, there’s another appeal ect…
         Lars Larson has covered many voter bills in the state that I’m now a refugee of. We The People voted no to sales tax, how many times???
         Can they be fired, fer even just asking and even just trying to put it in the ballot?
         I sell rope, cheap.

         Yes, wearing the shoe on their own foot is good reasoning.
         I remember when my father in law’s power bill went up, back in the 1990’s, just to pay for the flop trojan nuclear plant. BTW, I’m in great support of SMR’s.

9. Time to start checking the ‘ingredients’ list on any bag of Tyson’s foods now… sigh And I knew all three of the birds today, especially #3, over 7000 hours in those puppies… and those P-3s are Norwegian birds from Andøya.

10. A.I. “Surly” never sleeps and his software doesn’t recognize Japanese aircraft either apparently. 7,000 hours that’s impressive. The last P3-C Orion completed its last active mission on June 30th 2023 at Andoya AFB, Norway.

    -STA Lethal

    1. Hog, I can remember when they were flying B’s…. sigh And they’re getting P-8s now!

11. So how is Washington (state) going to stop people from mail-ordering said drugs that are completely legal elsewhere or keep people from jumping the state or national borders?

    Oh, you can have the fentanyl and heroin and crack and meth and cocaine, but you can’t have a friggin Advil?

    F……. copulate…

    1. They’ll smuggle them over from Canada – or Idaho.

       1. HEB, there you go thinking NOT like a politician but as a rational person, using your head instead of feelings. As Rush would say, symbolism over substance.

          Democrats are demented. There was no real black market for OTC NSAIDS…but hey!…these idiots will create one with their inimitable forcing a solution onto a problem that doesn’t exist so that We The People have to create work-arounds to get what we need (eg. Wind energy, EV’s…the list is long). I do think this was the “test market” because that city, like every other Blue stronghold, has gone down the terlit, and for some bizarro world reason those running these places into the ground don’t/won’t/can’t see that what they are doing has destroyed everything they touch. These people are without any doubt stupid people with authority, and that’s the most dangerous of anything.

12. I’ve always admired your subtle nuance, but that’s just me.

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