So. Transition Assistance Program classes, 0730 until 1600 or so. Provided for the most part by a 30-year bosun’s mate who left the nav to provide 18 years in a sinecure as transition assistance program instructor for the state of California.
That’s credibility for you, comes to looking for outside work. Doesn’t stop the state of California. Not much does.
Phoned in the “Shorting Bubba” post on, well: My cell phone. Tedious work, I can tell you. Slow.
Had a schnack with SNO and one of his mates out in town after. Forgot how hungry college men could get. Your life depended upon keeping loose articles of clothing clear of the intakes when the chow arrived. They’d have been up to your shoulder before you knew it.
Watched a bit of Baz Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliette with the Biscuit. Which is really rather a good movie, says I even if it isn’t entirely flawless. Your mileage may vary.
Haven’t had a spare moment to look into a single other thing, despite the fact that I’ve received a cuppla separate notices that last fuel starvation is probably not the reason why a triple-7 landed short at Heathrow.
The California Coastal Commission – led by state Attorney General Jerry Brown – has inserted itself in a federal dispute between the president and a Los Angeles-based federal judge about how and when the US Navy may use medium frequency SONAR to train shipboard crews in the art and science of undersea warfare.
This is an interesting separation-of-powers argument about which – it seems to me – the state of California really has very little to say. Federal primacy and all that – settled law. The water’s edge versus national territorial seas.
I’m torn on the underlying issue, really. Congress has a right to make laws, the judiciary to interpret them. But then there are those commander-in-chief powers under Article II. And so on.
ASW is hard. Takes time to learn. I’m not certain exactly how many marine mammals I’d be willing to trade against the odds of losing a few aircraft carriers and their crews, push came to shove.
Doesn’t stop the state of California though.
Not much does, for better or worse.
Mostly worse with this state it seems.
I am daily contemplating the relocation of my fat butt else where.
I am sure there are other, more balanced states, that I could co-exist with my fellow travelers in.
RADM Rice states that no marine mammal deaths directly attributable to Navy in SOCAL.
Thanks for the link. I thought this was kind of silly.
Monica Trauzzi: Okay, so should these national security issues take precedence over the health and safety of marine mammals?
Lawrence Rice: Oh, absolutely not!
I mean I understand the point he is trying to make but the question asked in the abstract.
Let’s see … national security v. health of marine mammals …. hmm, that’s a tough one!
And why did I get the sense that she wasn’t really listening to his answers?
Loved the Jerry Brown link! But, pedant that I am… it’s Guv’nor MoonBEAM. Or was, anyway.
He’s still a ‘bat.
I wonder what Kathy Woods thinks about this. There’s no tellin, as she hasn’t updated her blog in a coon’s age, or more. I’ve heard rumors that she was admitted to the Goat Locker.
I write this here, because one of the links on her very short blogroll was to Lex. Maybe she’ll read this and give us a professional opinion.