Identify the Aircraft
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It never flew — but — there are some tells. Can you ID it?
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Post-it Notes
*** The State Department’s Global Engagement Center used a cutout corporation headed by a former intelligence officer to fund and promote the blacklisting of conservative media outlets and other censorship endeavors, research by The Federalist reveals.
When Elon Musk gave a group of independent journalists access to internal Twitter communications, the resulting “Twitter Files” quickly revealed the existence of a Censorship-Industrial Complex that included an array of federal agencies colluding with social media companies to censor disfavored speech. One of the many federal players was the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) — but GEC did much more than cajole tech giants to censor viewpoints the government didn’t like.
*** I missed it yesterday. But it’s here today and always worth remembering.
*** No voter fraud? No, not at all. It’s a conspiracy theory. Don’t bad mouth their democracy.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. MiG-23
2. North American NR349, proposed three engine interceptor variant of the Vigilante.
3. North American XF-108 Rapier
1. Is either a MiG-23U or a MiG-23UB trainer aircraft, identifiable by the “periscope” extending above the only slightly elevated rear instructor seat. It gave the instructor a limited forward view.
I get so confused about Barr:
Regarding the Fox settlement with Dominion, From The Blaze:
Former Attorney General William Barr stressed in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece late last month that liberal outlets, “blinded by resentment at Fox’s success as an alternative media voice,” have parroted Dominion’s spin at their peril.
“The theory advanced by Dominion is profoundly dangerous to the media industry as whole. Memories are very short and imaginations very limited if the left thinks that only Fox would be vulnerable to lawsuits in a world where defamation liability could be incurred for simply reporting allegations made by others,” wrote Barr.
Barr cited the liberal media’s false claims of “Russian collusion” and the “lurid allegations” advanced on networks such as CNN by Michael Avenatti during the Senate confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh among the instances when outlets exposed themselves to the reasoning behind this week’s defamation suit settlement.
After reiterating that Fox News was well within its rights to have reported on the Dominion story, Barr concluded, “The left should think twice about cheering for Dominion in this case. While the left has more artillery, it also has more targets for defamation cases as left-wing media outlets far outnumber conservative ones.”
Confused? It’s not the first time that a man publicly brandishes the sword of truth in his right hand while privately tickling Mammon with his left.
Bill Barr comes across as positively Jesuitical in all this. Maybe it’s not surprising since his “Early Life” parallels that of many of the founding Jesuits.
Also, and this is of course totally coincidental, father Donald Barr was headmaster of The Dalton School where Jeffrey Epstein got his start. Small world, innit? (I have no idea if Donald Barr personally hired Epstein or indeed whether his tenure at Dalton overlapped Epstein’s. Don’t care enough to look it up. The point is literally that it’s a small world.)
TL;DR — I once had hopes for Bill Barr, but sadly it’s looking like he’s very swampy indeed.
And here I thought Barr was a decent man…that position has changed over the past few years as his comments prove his true character, the “gained” wealth speaks for itself.
Yep.
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When they come for OUR guns, will we rise up to stop them?
I remember Samuel Whitmore on that day (19April) As that was an Amazingly Brave act of Patriotism.
“I missed it yesterday.”
I nearly did too, save for my morning stop by Old NFO’s place.
Funny how Another Brick in the Wall became prophetic. Found an interesting version done in a large park type setting:
http://anodtothegods.com/?p=36047
Who arranges stuff like that, and who finds it important enough to engage?
A question for the ages :)
Yes, at least half of us anyway. Thing is, and because they are cowards, I seriously doubt they will directly engage the rural folks, instead it’s the same-o subversive backdoor hamstringing…because they are cowards and never face their opponent. IF ever they do get cornered, they straight-faced lie.
Oops, a Reply to Ed_B above (re: “come for our guns”)
By their lights they are NOT cowards. And it’d be a mistake to dismiss them as such. (Not saying you Paul M are doing that, but I see comments elsewhere exactly to that effect.) By their reckoning, it’s permissible to say whatever is expedient to “outsiders” so that they can get what they want. (Do you owe your sheep or chickens, or a wild wolf for that matter, the truth? Of course not. Well we are sheep or chickens (and occasionally wolves) in their eyes. You don’t owe your domesticated prey animals nor wild predators a stand up fight, much less chivalrous conduct, either.
Some damned ‘coons (Procyon lotor) got into my attic. I’m using traps. If those don’t work, more permanent means will be called for. No discussion, negotiation, or stand up fair fight for the raccoons from me. They’re just vermin (in this context) to be bent to my will. That’s how our “elites” view us normal people. At least that’s how I see it.
Vermin tend to return once emboldened that they can get in, even if chased away. There is only one solution.
The “coward” moniker stems from observance that they never get their hands dirty, always hire out the dirty work to afford themselves “direct involvement deniability”…like US “supporting” Ukraine, until we find out via “the leaker” our boys are in country.
I shot a coon point blank in the head with a 38 special from 6 feet.
He was on a shelf in my garage. Fell to the floor crying.
Three more shots to kill it.
Thick skulled.
And raccoons carry such interesting parasites with them.
Barr? He does a good job of playing bagpipes.
FOX is paying Dominion $787 million to settle a lawsuit.
Both had the same desired outcome, which is odd. The payoff now gives Dominion freedom to operate without question. Elections are now useless.
30 years ago I worked on one of the first “better mousetrap” electronic voting systems,including the fold-out booths that we see now (not Sequoia, newer than their behemoth). This was to replace the ancient mechanical lever machines (that actuall worked really well and were generally hack proof), and the paper punch card “ballots”. Hours of meetings were involved between the development team disciplines, the MAIN focus and concern was vote tally integrity and data module security and control. That was paramount. Nothing was hooked to external “hacker potential” systems…all internal to each precinct.
Now look what we have, internet connected Dominion systems. That’s by design.
My Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather was present and accounted for that morning. His gravestone reads “A Revolutionary Soldier.” Would that we all could be so described.
Serious hat tip.
Whatever you want to say about North America, you DO have to give them credit for trying… And it was an obvious ‘fix’ for the failed A-5 (the bomb would tag along behind the airplane depending on airspeed). But I would have hated to work on it, and the fuel burn rate would have been horrendous! Re Barr- True colors finally showing???
“the bomb would tag along behind the airplane”
Whut? Is this because of some entrainment phenomenon? Sorry, it sounds like a dumb/obvious question even to me — but I’m genuinely curious.
The bomb bay in the Vigilante was between the two engines and ejected said bombs out it’s butt between the two engines. So the bomb would be riding the draft between the two engines and the rear of the plane.
It was an attempt to not have conventional bays that suck at supersonic speeds and serve as giant air-brakes at high subsonic speeds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_A-5_Vigilante
I built several of those as models when they were new. I always thought it was so cool to shoot the bomb out backwards so you could zoom away from it.
Uh, yeah, kid. Go learn some Physics and Aerodynamics and come back later, and we’ll talk about it.
Oh yeah, and the J-79s burned 67.5 pounds/sec (or 10 gallons/sec) in full afterburner… So the 420 gal hardback tank would last 14 seconds…