So, your host is so outta here for now, having successfully defended, more or less, our brave socialist comrades and their beloved motherland from the Yankee Air Pirates of Carrier Air Wing SEVEN. And whatever odd bits of wreckage represented by the noble steeds flown by our heroic martyrs there lies figuratively dispersed around the ranges of the Fallon Range Training Complex will be swept up in no time at all by wreckers and malcontents pressed into service for the task. Funded, no doubt, by the Imperialist Lickspittle Running Dog Capitalists themselves, overcome as they will no doubt be by paroxysms of guilt for their savage and brutal attacks, combined with a fierce desire to exploit our precious national resources, the wellspring of the Continuous Revolution.
Which anyway, talk amongst yourselves.
So I stop by Lex’s this morning and I see the hot rod, nobody around, keys in it. Dang. I can’t help myself, I’m gonna fire this sucker up.
Al Gore and his acolytes have warned us repeatedly about catostrophic global warming and the need to rape all the top tier economies with the cap and trade scheme. The science is SETTLED after all.
Except…well it’s not settled apparently.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/27/sixteen-prominent-scientists-publish-a-letter-in-wsj-saying-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-global-warming/#more-55508
But hey, pay no attention to those signees at the bottom of the letter. They are all probably racist, homophobe neanderthals desperately clinging to their guns, sliderules and religion.
Dang ignition moderation interlock.
Do these socialist comrades serve Guinness? Adnams Broadside? Adnams Southwold? Old Speckled Hen? Theakston’s Old Peculiar?
Hogday, never trust people who don’t like bars or booze– there’s health, and then there are the neo-prohibitionist Health Nazis..
(PS: My wife the RN does not approve of this message
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Hogday, never trust people who don’t like smoky bars or booze…
Fixd. Although finding a smoky bar these days is like waiting for Godot. Your RN wife prolly approves of that, Virgil.
Don’t care for Booze, although I have been known to go to a pub now and again(Lex and Flit are witnesses to this since I met him at Shakespeare’s), but I don’t drink or smoke, and never did much care for smoky bars as it irritates teh eyes after awhile.
I assure you, however, that I can be trusted at least as far as you can throw me.
Umm, that’s “Old Peculier”, with two Eees, I believe. It is famously reputed to make one feel old and peculiar after quaffing a couple or three.
One week to the Super Bowl…..New England will take Eli & the Giants to task. NY was held in check by SF and the Patriots will present NY with an unstoppable offense….
Tim Thomas made a patriotic statement by not showing up for a photo-op with the ” Empty Suit in Residence ” at the White House, and the LIB Media in Boston became unglued…..My question for these fools is whatever happened to ” Protest is Patriotic ” or is that only when you are protesting GW ? I salute Tim Thomas as he is my MVP.
Afternoon activities will include daughter’s 16th B-Day party with friends & such…I’ll be out back killing a Guinness and a fine Maduro….smoke ‘em if you got’em.
SK1, keeping in mind that I don’t have a dog in the hunt as my team is at home getting ready to watch it on TV, I will note that the Pats were a dropped pass and/or a missed chip shot field goal from watching the game from home….
“Being held in check” for the Giants is pretty much what the Pats had the same day…and but for…
Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah blah. You’re 1-2 vs Eli and Tom and just who do you think is going to cover Victory Cruz and Hakeem without letting Nicks and Mario get free? Oh and who’s gonna block the 4 Horsemen: JPP, JT, Osi, and Mathias? Believe me, Brady wants no part of those guys and he’s not going to have time to throw to Gimpkowski even if he can limp his way open!
I did say I have no dog in the hunt, did I not? I’m a Jaguar fan for my sins…
That wasn’t for you, that was for SK.
The New England Patriots will do their talking on the field. In Tom & Bill we trust.
Eli & crew finished 9 and 7 eh? Talk about BS luck…..NY’s string of luck has just run out.
Patriots 27 – NY 13.
You read it here first. Nuff said.
Whattaya mean, nuff said? It wasn’t when that 9-7 team beat you during the regular season and we lost a few games while guys were out injured. I’m confident.
that should have read “It wasn’t luck…”
I’m a no so good typing.
Well, since Lex was up in cowboy country, here’s some words to live by:
A Jewish Cowboy’s Guide To A Happy Life
1. Never kick a fresh cow chip on a hot day.
2. There’s two theories to arguin’ with a woman. Neither one works.
3. Don’t worry about bitin’ off more than you can chew. Your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger’n you think.
4. If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.
5. Never ask a man the size of his spread.
6. If you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
7. Never smack a man who’s chewin’ tobacco.
8. Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.
9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
10. Always drink upstream from the herd.
11. When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don’t be surprised if theyalready learned that lesson.
12. Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back.
13. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
+1 on #2
My bride’s response to #2… “So, what’s yer point?”
I wholeheartedly concur on #4. On #2, I have lived to an age which, fortunately or not, allows me to avoid interacting with most wimmin. I pray to the Deity that they will do me the same favor.
Say, that Jewish Cowboy wouldn’t be David Allen Coe, would he? “They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore” is one of my favorite songs.
Either that, or Kinky Friedmann.
Wow Lex,
Your prose today reads a lot like the musings I heard on “Democracy Now” the other night… yeah I know… But the battery on my cable remote gave up the ghost mid-video-lap whilst deposited on the most inopportune station! But indeed the rhetoric did have the aire of today’s prose, albeit with not one hint of sarcasm from the unshampoo’d talking heads on the aptly named idiot box.
-JC
One of these days I’d love to see a thread where all the Lex-heads can hash out the blue water combat aviation needs of the fleet. I know more about it than a whole bunch of the country, but I’m at a serious disadvantage when discussing the relative nuts and bolts merits of the Superbug versus the F35/F22/whatever. The stealth stuff is all more or less secret and I’ve not seen a reliable indicator of just how big a force multiplier the F35 might be. All I read online tends to range from “we gotta have something better than what we’ve got now” to “what we’ve got now can handle anything any viable OpFor can throw at us”… Seems to me like if we’re talking Fleet on Fleet we’ve got what we need. On the other hand, if it’s our Fleet versus their land-based planes/AAA/SAMS then we’re talking a whole different kettle of fish. Given the trends of the last 40 years and what we’re looking at for the next 40 years I think that scenario is where we need to focus. (?)
My $.02.
Well my invovlement with naval aviation is limited to chucking them off the pointy end hoping they’d get the hint and stop coming back. That being said I’d put myself between the two camps you identified. What we have right now is sufficient to deal with any threat we face. I wouldn’t be unhappy if the Navy decided on another buy of E/F’s. The downside to that plan is that we risk losing the capacity to design the next generation of fighter when China or Russia finally comes out with a Hornet killer. I would like to see a split between design and procurement, where we nearly constantly have design competitions to incorporate the latest technologies and when it’s time to upgrade the fleet we shop a proven design around to the manufacturers to get the best price.
Stealth has its uses but also liabilities (expense, extra maintenance, etc). On the whole we’d be better off doing waht the Russians have – take a good design (Su-27) and keep upgrading it until several areas of technology are ready for cost-effective implementation. There is plenty of life left in the F/A-18 and F-15 designs that could be exploited while researching for a replacement aircraft(s). I’m not 100% certain one design can do all of Tacair for all the services. We tried that with the F-111 and it didn’t work so well.
I’ve seen posts about changing the Tacair structure and giving it back to Army. I would make the USAF the Aerospace Force; that means all Space activities, plus Air Defense, plus Strategic Bombing, Strategic Lift, and let the USMC and Army fight over the A-10′s.
Sir,
You have that revolutionary jargon down waaaaaay too good. Gonna keep an eye on you.
Mike
Who, ME, or Jeff?
This just in: The CDC has now classified Barney Stinson as a serial rapist.
The stealth stuff is all more or less secret and I’ve not seen a reliable indicator of just how big a force multiplier the F35 might be.
@Lescoulee: the F-35 once was a cheaper alternative to the F-22 and F/A-18E/F class. Less capable but still pretty good. It’s now more–much more. Although not done, and pricier by the day, it seems, the F-35 is a formidable descendant of the planes I flew back at the dawn of time.
Tom
I looked in the garage and the crotch rocket ain’t there.
No joy!
Yeah, and the enhanced security in place since that very rowdy comment party makes it much harder to get into the likker locker and the gun safe.
Channel surfing and happened upon Winter X-games. One of the main sponsors is U.S. Navy. Had a good commercial featuring USS Ronald Reagan. Local station has been showing “COPS” from the 1980s. You get the impression from watching that the police were a bit more friendly back then.
Jim,
Is that the one that starts off emphasizing how much of the world’s surface is ocean-covered and how much of the world’s trade sails those seas? Yes, very effective. Right up to the “Global Force for Unicorns,” er, “Good” part.
I prefer they’d go with the ad and the kicker “The United States Navy; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of All Who Threaten Them.” But that’s just me…
Yeah, well, we do own The Trident, since the Brits abandoned it. We should wield it prudently and justly, but we must wield it, because if we don’t, honest seamen going about their lawful honest money-making occasions on the sea might get their stuff stolen, and their throats cut, by pirates.
I don’t know if the site was down today, but I couldn’t get it until just now. In any case, good to see it back.
Paul
I couldn’t get it last night at all. Got on this AM.
Same here. I was afraid the Feds had shut down Lex for the subversion routinely carried on here.
C’mon guys! I know things are tough all over, and I for one am not having a very good life at the moment, but at least we can all belly up to the bar and bitch about our respective situations! Schadenfreude! In Bier, Wahrheit!
Sorry JTG. thing may be tough all over but here they are pretty good. The job’s great, family is doing better, my giants are in the Super Bowl, again! and the Jets aren’t! I haven’t had to break out the snow blower yet. The only thing missing is a red head with long legs and bad taste in men.
The only thing missing is a red head with long legs and bad taste in men.”
LOL. A classic, Daryle! I’m a stealin’ that! Plus: Any man that can conger up a line like that is my kinda guy!
I’ve got a million of them. Don’t forget to tip you waitresses!
Daryle? Pbbfftthsp!
Ok, I give up. You guys are a bunch of sourpusses and poopyheads, with not enough gumption left over from exercising yer Real Lives to put up silly amusing stuff on the ‘net, and help us keep our spirits up in the on-going collapse of Western Civilization.
Based on yesterday’s blog outage, I propose monderizing the terms we know and have loved of UA and AWOL. Now we can say someone is/was “404.” More contextual for this age and reaches out to the masses in translation.
Patriots.
Of the football variety of course.
Nuff said.
I really see no reason to pay attention to any feetball game if one is not sitting in the stands wearing a band uniform. Also, I think the US Army should have shakos for headgear. A shako makes a man look taller and manlier, and besides, you can store a bunch of stuff up in there. Why, my high school sweety had hair long enough to sit upon, but got it into a braid and stuffed it all up into her shako for feetball games.