Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Your mileage may vary.
HER Definitely!!! I have seen some others . . . eh, not so much.
Threadjack (sorry, on such a fine post too Lex): is anyone else listening to Good King Barrack lay out his five year command economy plan and direct his loyal subjects as to who will do what and who will give how much to who? Has anyone ever told this guy we’re supposedly a free market economy with a constitutionally constrained government! Yikes. He sounds like the Wizard of Oz explaining how he’ll bring back the sun if no one pisses him off.
I think I’ll be spending a lot more time looking at the hot babe here instead
That’s it. He just proposed to use common sense. There’s only so much I can take. It’s turned off now.
Where’s her left hand?!?!?
Think it’s on her hip, covered by her “chic” SV-2/flight jacket/long sleeve combo dohickey. Or, since they were not dropping any ordnance and to show the inferiority of the taliban, they let a WOMAN fly and scare them with her LEFT ARM CUT OFF. The propaganda value is unbelieeevable…
Where’s her left hand? Adjusting the G-string?
No weapons.
But plenty of zippers.
Tut-tut, SJBill … A zipper is a weapon. You know that …
Also, Prowler, thank you for listening to Mr. Empty Suit so I didn’t have to. I decided to wait for the pundits to sum it up, oh, tomorrow or sometime. Actually, I’m waiting for Mr. Krauthammer’s swordsmanlike filleting of Mr. O. Oh, and of course, Lex’s.
Marianne
Just finished watching the speech and then opened up this page. Am glad to see there is something right with the world somewhere, at least.
As for the speech. Some fine words – some I can agree with. Sadly its the actions likely to follow that will confirm my worst fears I suspect.
But he did call for more nuclear power plants (with the weasly modifier “clean”) and for more offshore drilling (with similar out provided by noting “the difficult choices required”).
More of the same but we’ve come to expect that.
Makes me wish I’d joined the RAF at some point….
I’d like to write stuff on HER kneeboards!
Using an ageing but still highly capable multi-mission Tornado, costing many millions of British £s to fly low and fast, just make a lot of noise is not a very cost-effective utilization of complex and expensive assets.
But with her driving… it becomes priceless.
Ya saved yersef with that last line there, bub…
I went to the DMV with my daughter to get her learners permit. The smiling but not so nice DMV lady says the birth certificate I brought just won’t do, the proof of citizenship must also nclude a SS# (not just the number but a real Social Security card) and we could re-schedule when we were ready to produce the acceptable credentials, thank you very much. So off we went to the Social Security office where we waited in line with about 100 others in various levels of need and entitlement where the clock ticked over 96 times before our number was called…The nice Gubmint lady explained that the birth certificate I produced just wouldn’t do, nor were my IRS W-2′s any good, nor was my official FAA Pilot’s license worthy…..what I needed to get my daughter’s replacement Social Security card was a note from her pediatrician with her full name, address and birth date. Incredible I mouthed and she said, that’s all it takes and come right back to my desk when you get this document and we’ll fix you right up…….un-fricken believeable.
So off we go to the pediatrician’s office to get the aforementioned paper and surprisingly, the medic’s admin staff produced it on short notice with a smile.
Back to the Social Security office and within 10 minutes we are all fixed up with a letter saying we have applied for a SS card and it should be delivered within two weeks. The Social Security Lady said, “don’t bother going back to the DMV with just the letter in hand even though we have acknowledged your daughter was issued a SS # and that everyting you represented is valid, the DMV won’t accept anything other than the original, official SS card.”
My tax dollars at work and I’m none to happy about the runaround which I told my daughter was a lesson in Civics. My daughter did tell me that she wants to be a pilot in the USAF or USN and I could not help think about the lessons we learned today and what the vetting process is for incoming new aviators….all told, today was probably not that bad.
Airmail, you must be in New Jersey. Taxpayer runaraound is a team sport here, especially when it comes to ID requirements for drivers’ licenses.
Floriduh…
Uh-oh! My SS card burned up in the same ashtray with my draft card, back in the 70s. I figured they were both just symbolic gestures, because they’d quit drafting people by then and the schutsstaffel card said “Not for Identification” on it. It’s just an account number for old age and survivor’s insurance, right. Is this why nobody will hire me, because I refuse to provide my SSAN until I’ve already been hired?
p.s. I’m in Flourdough, too. God help me@
Interesting….I grew up in Florida, have recent experience with DHSMV and the Tax Collector’s office and haven’t had a problem, except for one mistake they made that they fixed with a minimum of fuss. If you go to their website, the new requirements for a DL are posted there. And it’s about time, too.
JTS/
In one of my other lives I was an insurance broker. Of all the thousands of insurance companies (1300+now–was1600+ at the time) applications forms,only Northwestern Mutual out of Milwaukee leaves the SS# request off their applications IAW the1935 law.
BTW,when we first moved to Kentucky the State used the SS# as the Driver’s lisc# Some sharp gal sued the State and forced it as in violation of the 1935 law to change to a unique identifier not connected to SS numbers.
Interesting and, I’m sure, infuriating story. I notice that my Social Security card says “Not for Use for Identification” across the bottom.
Works for me!
Kind of like defensive gun uses, most of the time when an honest citizen pulls a gun on a thug the thug beats feet with no shots fired in either direction.
I thought makeup (for the ladies and Air Force types) was a no-no if wearing an oxygen mask? Although maybe that’s only if it uses LOX…?
Been so long ago the rememberer is on the fritz…
yak, the gal looks to be wearing ‘embarassment flush’ makeup. She oughtta join the RAAF, Binny will sign her up.
I’m pretty sure the newspaper had her prepped and posed for the pic.
As far as women in flight suits… *yawn*
But men? That’s another matter. Alas, as Lex has repeatedly demonstrated over the years, he has no regard for the needs of us gals.
FbL,
I’d get out one’a my old zoom bzgs and take some pics, but sadly, they all shrank. Guvmint material supplied by the lowest bidder, ya know…
Mercy sakes! Heck of a recruiting poster.
Almost as sexy as women with guns.
There ya go!
Sorry, upon first glimpse my immediate thought was, “so that’s what the kids these days are wearing instead of parachute pants and leg-warmers.”
– Max
What the hell is wrong with her hair? Looks like attempted dreadlocks, or something. Why can’t they do like the boys do; cut it short enough to fit in the helmet and otherwise leave it alone?
Dude, get a grip. Hair? What hair? She could be bald a billiard ball and she’d still be “acceptable”.
The lovely Juliette uses a jet, which is expensive.
They should send in my mother-in-law…she’s louder than a Tornado and she wouldn’t just scare them – she’d bore them to death.
Interesting that the new strategy is to scare instead of subdue.
The roaches flee when turning on the lights but they’ll be back.
I heard about those Page Three girls once, never saw one in the flesh before . . .
Maybe some of the zoomies here can correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that low-level is a bad idea and should be done only when absolutely necessary….unless one is in an armored A-10. Golden BB and all that…
Sober, it really depends upon the threat. Low and fast is better against small-arms and unit-level enemy for a few reasons.
First, at 400mph they’ve only a few seconds warning, and then there’s this brain-damaging roar and several seconds before they can react. By that time the plan is beyond small-arms range.
Second, at just off the ground to the watchful eye you’re in the haze of ground heat or beyond visual due to even minor elevation changes. What this means is they won’t see you or, if it’s flat and they do, they won’t recognize you as a threat as quickly. The human eye is good on movement, pretty poor on static stuff. At 400 knots that airplane 200 feet off the deck isn’t moving, it’s growing larger. That’s a big difference in time to identify the aircraft. Add in reaction time and the aircraft is gone after shacking bombs before you can scream “Mother!”
Granted, being close to the ground makes one a target for any gomer with a rifle and you’re certainly within danger range, though going higher makes for a better target for radar and other fighters.
Long story short, you plan the mission to spend the least amount of time within lethal range of what the enemy has to shoot at you. For small-arms, that’s either high and out of range (in which case SAM’s and other aircraft become a factor) or low and fast so Gomer is dead before he has time to react. Low and fast is not a good place to be when Gomer has aircraft up high, of course, but that’s why we plan missions with multiple groups so each can cover and be in the position to best cover the group doing the mission.
– Max
Ah, lovely English birds and Scottish Lassies.
Airdale rompers? Take em or leave em, leave prefered.
The girls of Britain, as a generality, look great in any sort of clothing and better in none. For further research, see also Theo Spark.
And the accents…ah they have a way with words. Makes one tingle ever so slightly just to listen. Alas, at my age most songs lead in to “Memories” (I like Gladys Knights version best, but I digress).
Great cheesecake, Thanks Lex.
A) Open a new window or tab in your browser
B) Paste or click Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMOD2_fF0mk&feature=related
C) Return to picture above
D) Wipe that grin off your mug!
OBTW, the use of “demonstration runs” has been used pretty effectively both in Af and Iraq on occasion. Especially if the bad guys know the next run will not be just smoke and noise. Groovy.
VR,
Comjam
I need to go PT.
You can run, but you can’t hide, nor can you run fast enough or far enough to outrun those lecherous thoughts.
I’ll pass. I like Girly Girls, not Girls trying to be men.
I’d be interested in hearing the grunt’s take on this “low-pass-without-actually-expending-any-ordnance” tactic.
Men in G suits do the same thing for me.
There once was a pilot – a Brit
Who loved her time in the cockpit
she flew rather low
fright’ning Taliban, you know
(no last line yet – still working on it)
All I remember is her call sign……..Liz. She was a TC-4C pilot in VA-128 during my last shore tour there, 89-92. Yowza!
i always use leg warmers during the winter months to feel comfy.`*;