I Hear Organ Music
The Sermonette comes from LSP today: “Quite, and you’ll be pleased to know the Church of England feels tremendously guilty about something called “chattel slavery” and intends to send the wymxn priestess gay sex vote buying (you can’t write that, Ed.) vast sum of £100 million to Africa even as English churches are closing and clergy can’t afford to keep the lights on.” (read more here) It’s an update from the Church of England.
MRSBEANS comments on LSP’s Blog (Via Lord High Executioner Beans): My wife describes leftist organizations, including the city we live in, as a wedding cake. It doesn’t matter how many flowers, how fancy the decorations, how many tiers or other ‘wow’ visible features the cake has if all that covers a flavorless or mold-ridden cake.
Amen
Okay, down to business. If you really want to send money to stop chattel slavery, send your donations to me, care of the White Wolf Mine, and I’ll see that the chattel slavery crisis in Northern Arizona is addressed. Put your hands on that computer, and you’ll feel the warmth of my sincerity. 100% of your donation will go to administering the abatement of chattel slavery.
I will fight the good fight, so you don’t have to. You can send me that money burning a hole in your pocket and sleep soundly afterward, knowing that you did all you could. For every US$5,000.00 you donate, you’ll receive a non-tax deductible certificate of contribution. Please send cash or gold/silver coins with a recognized hallmark.
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Can I get a second amen?
Bullet Points:
** It’s been 0 Days since an illegal alien murdered an American.
** You know there are smart whores in the world. Couldn’t we have picked a smart one to be Vice President of the United States if we were looking for a well-worn prostitute to fill the DEI slot?
** We’ve all had a bit of fun with the US Army trying to find some way to convince everyone that they should have a primary role – I guess – in any future Pacific conflict. My go-to move is to point to this view of the globe and giggle slightly. (CDRSAL)
** Would you like an interest-free home loan?
** The gender pay gap is real…but gender isn’t real. (liberalsplaining)
** Pfizer’s Motto – “A patient cured is a customer lost.”
** There is much to be grumpy about. That this idea could ever even be proposed is outrageous. It’s the Great Replacement theory except trained with an M4. https://americanmilitarynews.com/…/us-military-should…/
** A new Egyptian lake?
DRJIM the Early Years
The Thought of the Day: Jordan Peterson – There is no safe path.
Meme of the Day
Identify the Aircraft:
1
Yes, of course, but which model is it?
2
Prototype
3
Three-fer – It’s not that difficult, but it’s still here.
Identify the Tank
4
Tank looks to be a British Churchill Mk2
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Curtiss P-40K Warhawk
2. Ikarus 451
3. Republic XF-12 Rainbow, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Republic RC-3 Seabee
Identify the Tank:
4. Churchill I
Yes
Meme-
Personally I like .338 Lapua for distance shooting. Got to try Remingtons version among others when they were trying to sell them to Australia (lots of years back).
50 BMG is too heavy for the older me to carry.
At close range .223 is fine (I own a few) but not what I would normally use past 200 metres. That said I have hit live targets at 450 metres (measured later) due to it being what I was holding at the time.
I agree that overall the .338 Lapua is an exceptional cartridge for longer range shooting. the .308 can be stretched to over 800M – but barely. However as the 7.62mm is a NATO cartridge and ammunition is widely available, it’s not a bad caliber of rifle to have in the rack.
“I have hit live targets at 450 metres [with .223]”
When they found out, were they annoyed?
#ifitdoesn’tbeginwitha4
#poodleshooter
… yaddayadda
Dead
Nothing against 7.62 (I used to be well acquainted with M60 and FAL). Just prefer .338 if there is a choice for distance shooting.
X2
Well, .30-06 was designed to kill a horse at a thousand yards, and it’s American all the way. Great in real battle rifles or hunting rifles chambered for it. Yeah, it’s old, so? Still kills like the dickens.
That military times article had an interesting ending:
“This news article was partially created with the assistance of artificial intelligence and edited and fact-checked by a human editor.”
I became of the impression many years ago that we already allowed legal immigrants.
I met a guy in cafe in Italy in the 70’s who said he was retired US Army, but had never gained citizenship.
OK, I just looked:
Citizenship and residency
U.S. citizens and some non-citizens can join the military. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you must:
Have a U.S. Permanent Resident Card (Green Card)
Speak, read, and write English fluently
You cannot join the military to enter the U.S. or to get a visa.
https://www.usa.gov/military-requirements#:~:text=Citizenship%20and%20residency,read%2C%20and%20write%20English%20fluently
Some Navy rates, including cook, and officer’s servant, were available for joining the military and becoming citizens at a later date. It goes back to WW1 or maybe even earlier. They would have no access to classified information, ships power plant or weapons. The same rates were open to non-whites before the military formally integrated. There were other arrangements (see The Sand Pebbles) informally entered into as well in the backwaters and fleshpots of Asia.
not too long ago you couldn’t go past e5 unless you were a citizen. my vietnamese friend and colleague finally gained his papers and went to cw4, in cyber. he is the exception i’m sure.
While watching that video on the Egyptian lake the first thought popped into my head was why a saltwater lake and what good can a saltwater lake do? Then they said the evaporation from the lake would increase rainfall and green the area, but if that’s the case, is the shoreline of the Mediterranean actually green? The photo (?) they used doesn’t show that.
Not having been to Egypt and that area, I have no idea, but it seems like a lot of wishful thinking.
It would cool the climate. The introduction of soil bacteria in the form of animal fertilizer would have to take place, and they could desalinate the lake as needed. Much more would be involved than digging a ditch. The addition of nuclear power to manage desalination in that place would be a must. Small modular reactors could also power homes, and what industry took hold there in what once was the Quatara Depression.
The two times I went to Saudi Arabia in C-130s about 45 years ago, we flew over that area. It is amazingly empty. Even then, they were talking about creating a canal from the Mediterranean Sea. In wetter times, thousands of years ago, the area was a lake.
A shallow lake, 100-150 ft deep, which it would be, would have less cooling convection currents than the Mediterranean, thus it would have much more evaporation from the new lake than said sea. It’s a semi-legitimate concept, but…
But one full of failure as saltwater invasion into surrounding ground would slowly kill off vegetation. And then there’s the whole increase in salinity due to evaporation of pure water from the salt water.
Much better would to build a couple nuke plants and use them to power Israeli-designed desalination plants and pump fresh water to farms and the evaporation from the farms would have some of the same results, without any of the funky toxicology that comes from saltwater intrusion.
What a bunch of maroons.
Amen! (There’s your “second”)
”The Church” has gone far afield astray…to be fair maybe not all or entirely, but certainly a large portion has been secularized to fit the world versus the other way around. Just finished watching and closely listening to Father Johannes’ “December 2023” video…his ending ‘Reflection’ is, as were the other 11 months, deeply profound (quoting Chesterton, and others, and speaking to, in part, that we as Believers should not fear death). If The Church were to embrace the true Gospel and minimize the man-made accoutrements that obscure the Faith, or make it a mere emotional experience, people would be better equipped to take on the day to day without fear or trepidation but with boldness and courage.
+1.
“The Church” is not a denomination.
Exactly…and religion and spirituality are two very different things; one is man-made, the other is our connection to God (who, by the way, is not a vending machine despite may pastors telling us otherwise)…they go hand in hand. However it starts with our relationship with God, the other stuff is the support mechanism.
Excellent explanation, Paul, and something I struggled with for years.
+ another one.
Amen. It is a Body. The Body of the Living Christ.
Non citizen soldiers? Hasn’t that always been a path to citizenship? Circa 1960’s I served with several non-citizens (Canadian, German, Cuban). The reason the service’s cannot meet recruitment goals is wokism, DEI is our strength, disdain for rural male Caucasians and veterans telling their children and grandchildren, “Hell No!”.
The initial casualties in the next shooting war will be horrendous. Especially the Army, the mental toughness just isn’t there and the leadership isn’t focused on combat, IMO. Navy? I just don’t know. I would guess damage control is physically demanding as an example.
Today the most battle proven armed force is the IDF. Even there, the boots on the ground in the Gaza street to street fighting are males.
Granted, there are a lot of seriously tough Israeli woman soldiers, wouldn’t want to mess with any of them, well trained and at the ready. However, wasn’t it years ago the IDF abandoned woman in combat roles because it messed with unit cohesiveness due to the men’s innate DNA to protect woman? Thought I heard that back in G. Gordan Liddy days on his program.
Ahh, was in reply to WSF.
Nothing I said should be taken as anti-female. From my knowledge 50+ years removed I know physically women don’t have the physical strength even the average male has. Courage and determination isn’t gender specific. Humping 120 lbs ten or more miles is beyond most females physical ability. Bless the ones who can but those who can’t become a liability.
The same with Firemen. My radio club had a speaker from the LAFD once, and he said the accommodations they had to make for female firefighters reduced their effectiveness. Things like ladders, hoses, and ropes had to be made differently to get the weight down, and they didn’t work as well.
Thanks for the chuckle, LL. They’re been lacking here the last few days…..
I was trying to fit in that old humorous line, My karma ran over your dogma somewhere, so you get the honors. Heh
Keep smiling, DRJIM.
Ha. Mrs. Beans (otherwise known as Mrs. Andrew (for long reasons dealing with me first blogging and before I was hit with the ‘Beans’ name by the unholy trio of OldAFSarge, juvat and Tuna over at Chant du Departe) got a chuckle from the quoting of her.
As to the role of the US Army in the Pacific Theater, well, there is a role. To garrison islands taken back, or to provide forces (like construction battalions) to aid in the SeaBees and Marines in building and rebuilding. And, well, if there ever is an open water assault like the Island Hopping campaigns, then the Army could provide some of the meat for said invasions. Except they aren’t trained for beach assault, which is a real issue, especially in a very contested environment involving long-range missiles and such.
Sure, we could try Festung Pacifica, but with about the same results as Festung Europa. Too easy, especially today, to break strongholds using long-range fire and hordes of people, both of which the CCP has access to in job lots (though no-one actually knows how well the Chink missiles work, even the Chinks, and Joe Chink has always been far better at fighting Joe Chink than anyone else, and especially in the current dire straights that the CCP is in, exactly how politically motivated and reliable are the PLA, PLAAF, PLAN, PLatipuses and all the PLothers?)
As to illegals in the military, sure, let them come, then arrest them and ship them back to their countries, in containers, with no air holes.
“I have fought the good fight”, that’s 2d Timothy. In a beautiful bit of irony, Christopher Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, was lector in his church on the day Hong Kong was turned over to the PRC, and that was the Epistle. I remember that, because I, too, was lector in my small parish on that day. Bit dusty, innit?
+1
+2
AMEN.
You’ll be pleased to know I got that coat, which is bullet proof, tailored in a bit.
Good to hear the Krugerrands are flowing in. That Chattel Slavery’s not going to abolish itself!