This is an open thread
I just heard a great stat about Coach Prime Time after he cleaned house in Colorado last winter, there was a mass exodus of slackers (dummies!!!) and a mass buy-in. Last spring, his football team posted the highest GPA ever for the team…he told them, you will be early to class, you will act and dress respectfully, will sit in the front of the class, you will ask at least one question per class per player, you will post good grades, or YOU are gone. These young men have reacted to Prime Time’s guidance and demands in a great way. This is a joy to watch and might just change the culture of the game itself.
ESPN’s Gameday, a staple for decades is in Boulder for the Colorado State V Colorado game and it’s Lee Corso’s 400th Gameday. The guy is a legend.
Alright, let’s get on with it. All the ‘BIG GAMES’ are this evening…multiple screens baby! $900/$1000 so far. $100 bet unless otherwise noted.
7 Penn State @ Illinois 12:00 PM…PSU is back, Coach Franklin has done a great job recovering from the Paterno debacle. They are 14 point favorites and cover. They need a good showing here.
11 Tennessee @ Florida 7:00 PM…The Vols were 7 point favorites, but are now just 5. The money is sliding toward the Gators to cover. This game is in The Swamp, the crowd is a factor. I would have taken the 7 points…5…wellll…..OK, The Vols cover.
Pittsburgh @ West Virginia 7:30 PM. It’s the Backyard Brawl! Throw the records out, burn the stats, none of that matters. PITT was the favorite by 2, now WVU is a 1.5 point favorite. HAIL TO PITT!!! they cover.
Colorado State @ 18 Colorado 10:00 PM. That’s right, Coach Prime has the team ranked after just two weeks. The Buffs are 23 point favorites. Their offense is just amazing, their defense, wellllll….not so much. CSU covers and the Buffs go 3 and 0.
2023 Ruby World Cup is in full swing. BUT! The French hosts are messing it up! They must have never heard the Rubgy song that goes: ‘glorious, victorious, one keg of beer for the 4 of us!’. The All Blacks looked like dog shit V France last week. This weekend is the second round of Pool play and no games should be in question. Yinz can watch if any of yinz have Peacock
NEW THREAD
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/09/16/ncaa-football-week-3-2023-open-and-2023-rugby-world-cup-first-round/
Day 2 at Telluride. Much nicer weather today. About 50 and sunny, no rain in sight.
Ally Venable takes the stage momentarily to open things up.
Life is good
@ lobo91:
Oooh. I’m jealous
Rugby on Peacock? Sounds like a plan!
Guess how many dogs were at work when I got in this morning, go ahead, guess.
FOUR!!!
Heaven. My white slacks are in the washing machine, but so worth it.
TEXAS
Texas AG Ken Paxton Acquitted on All 16 Articles of Impeachment
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-ag-ken-paxton-acquitted-on-all-16-articles-of-impeachment-5491525
hey y’all
go vols!!!
rain of lead wrote:
Beat that spread!!!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
Get on it.
Gonna be some great matches coming up
hmmmm….
Breaking News Alert: UK Biohazzrd tents are being erected at Dover and people seen wearing full hazmat suits have been witnessed there.
Its unclear at this stage what has prompted this however there are breaking reports of a deadly virus identified in India called Nipah with a kill rate of 75% see link on this below, which has caused global concern.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1702975151933890622
wtf is wrong with Tom Cotton?
I wrote to President Biden with my colleagues and urged him to provide Ukraine with the missiles its military needs to win. Not doing so will only prolong the war and cost lives.
https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1703067112896360896
I posted this downstairs last nite
horrendous video
Two Las Vegas scholars steal a car then commit a hit and run on an unsuspecting car before hitting and killing a random man on a bicycle.
They murdered that man for laughs.
Have you had enough yet?
https://twitter.com/PaulHook_em/status/1702852059446256077
It turns out the man they murdered was a former police chief
@ eaglesoars:
Bonnie Raitt had a Ukraine flag onstage last night.
It was still a good set, anyway. Before she sat down to play “Nick of Time,” she said “I wrote this one about turning 40. Seems kind of comical today.”
ok, this is fun!
I’ve never liked Stephen King nor his books.
Gosh, that Lauren Boebert knows how to have fun, doesn’t she? A fine example of the new Republican Party.
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1703115697901998501
And Larry Correia just rips him………..
Motherfucker, you snorted enough coke to pay for one of Pablo Escobar’s hippos. You’re the last asshole anybody should ever take moral sanctimony from
https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1703145711037006197
If I had kids, I’d drag them here at least once. Everyone needs to experience live music the way it was meant to be.
I love seeing 5 year olds here wearing little ear muffs jamming out in front of the stage
lobo91 wrote:
oh ffs…………
Bassman’s slappin’ lika a mofo.
@ eaglesoars:
So far, that was the extent of the political statements from the stage
eaglesoars wrote:
And I posted this downstairs a half hour earlier.
Still no word on the race of the HB murderer (who the LA Times refers to as “a boy”).
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now that I think about it, I heard the police sirens from my house. We’re just a couple miles away.
eaglesoars wrote:
Cotton has a bad case of RINO-itus getti/ng into bed with the ‘arch priestess of RINO’ Collins and of course Ms. Lindsay Graham plus a machine RINO like’ Roger the dDodger’ Wicker?
Get into bed with dogs like these and you get up with fleas Cotton!
Did Cotton get … ‘got at’ by these three morons? I thought better of Cotton!
🙁
sigh.
There is such a lot of this BS going around these days! Still slipping a cog in public can also be a good thing. A t least one has been warned now that Cotton has covert ‘issues’! Better to know about them now rather than find about at your peril later!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Yinz need to swap spit or blood for it to be transferred.
It’s been around for a LONG time.
coldwarrior wrote:
well, that’s good to know!
lobo91 wrote:
Great musician. Moron in real life.
I’m happy she’s still rockin
lobo91 wrote:
My kids have seen DMB 3x, Phish, and of monsters and men twice…among other shows.
YES!!! you are so right!
@ eaglesoars:
Any of Cottons kids in the military???
Yeah…no.
Go die, worker.
@ coldwarrior:
I love festivals like this one, because there’s such a range of performers. Everyone from Ally Venable at 24 years old to Bonnie Raitt and Buddy Guy in their 70s and 80s.
@ lobo91:
Perfect.
@ lobo91:
We had us, the kids, my parents at a DMB show, front lawn. Even pappap was grooving.
It was a perfect moment.
USF is only losing to Bama by 3 with 3 minutes left.
USF coach is russian with the same story as mrs coldwarrior.
USF is now Mrs coldwarrior’s favorite team.
Anders Osborne was great as always. I think this was his 18th year here.
Robert Cray is up next
The Backyard Brawl is on.
Please, please, my Alma Mater, please!!!! Win!!!!
I’m going to Ally’s late night show tonight. I won’t get back to the RV until 1:00, but it’s worth it.
Hopefully no elk will be standing in the road this time
This is a seriously tiny venue. Not what I expected at all
@ coldwarrior:
Not to mention,if you enlarge (or look closely at) the picture,you will see several men wearing sunglasses and no hazmat suit, so…
Lost footage retrieved from the cutting room floor of “Close Encounters’ maybe ?
That was a great set, but I’m probably going to be deaf for the next 3 days
How to kill lobsters without boiling them.
https://twitter.com/ChefGruel/status/1702843969816887355
The guy arrested at the JFK Jr. event in L.A. appears to be a glowie.
https://twitter.com/JpegjunkieNear/status/1703201464254885989
https://twitter.com/JpegjunkieNear/status/1703270226945597929
Actual headline yesterday: “COVID levels are so high, they’re hovering near 2020’s initial peak, as the WHO urges those at high risk to take any booster they can get their hands on”
https://twitter.com/AmyA1A/status/1703386445639999949
Also a headline yesterday
Doctors say they’re finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish Covid from allergies or the common cold….
https://twitter.com/AmyA1A/status/1703394258382688649
Passing through. Just got a high priority email from apartment complex office.
No it was not about the fact that for the last two months since all apartment doors were painted fluorescent green there are STILL no numbers on the doors. Getting shit delivered is fun….
Talking of shit still no resolution to the problem with the main sewer backing up except for removing inspection covers and letting the shit flow into the parking lot and down the storm drains.
It could have been about the problem with random gunfire. As in this morning shots fired at 3:57am. No blood curdling screams though. These residents need to take shooting classes…..
Did they do something about the Coyote singing? I reported that about six months ago.
Nope, A very important event happening tomorrow.
YUMMY I will be there….
RFK Jr’s 10 point plan to tackle plastic pollution
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1702705913076019352
7. I will ban fracking, which provides the feedstock for most of the plastics produced in the U.S.
eaglesoars wrote:
True, it has really died off in strength
eaglesoars wrote:
He just lost me.
@ coldwarrior:
I have always had the opinion that the USA should close all its borders and import nothing.
Be an isolated territory not dependent of any one ore any thing outside the country.
The USA has EVERYTHING it needs to function within its borders. Think of it as a self sustaining colony on another planet.
The UK could not do that as they cannot even grow a fucking banana. Hence the colonisation stuff and world domination in the 1800s.
A lot of manufacturing went over seas, American companies making goods in foreign countries then importing those goods. One of the main reasons WAS NOT cheap labor but the processes produced toxic waste which is expensive to deal with.
Examples, Integrated Circuits, chips as commonly known as. Not labor intensive at all, all done with machines. But chemicals used are nasty. Same with printed circuit board production. Disposing of the copper and ferric chloride waste expensive if done properly.
Manufacture everything here in the USA and pay the price of disposing of hazardous waste correctly.
coldwarrior wrote:
yup
@ Possum:
This current situation is not what Adam Smith had in mind.
@ coldwarrior:
I did a read. He was correct that the UK needed to be friends with the USA.
As I said the UK cannot survive without partnerships with the rest of the world.
But, the USA CAN stand alone.
Any patriot needs to go to Walmart and look on the shelves and pick up a product and if it says ” Made in China ” they should ask why….
Oh except for things in the Chinese food section. I ain’t stupid.
The mystery of the missing sock. Theory is the washing machine ate the sock. Alternative theory the dryer sent the sock to the afterlife.
Both theories are a load of bollocks. I have a theory. The missing sock departed the planet BEFORE it entered the washing machine.
My reason? I wash my clothes in a bucket in the bath tub. Today is sock day.
Thirteen socks are now soaking in the bucket. One sock is missing.
Probably missing sock is at same place the onion went.
Going to buy some apple tag things and attach them to my socks and onions so I can find them.
Thinking about it, I should put the onions into the used socks. One apple tag does two jobs.
Cat story. For some reason this morning all the cats went nuts. I wish I had cameras set up in the apartment, I have more gopro knock offs than any normal person should own but place is a mess. Embarrassing mess.
Anyway, apartment door was open. Patio door was open so cats had free access to the outside. They were not confined in any way.
For a full thirty minutes it was like the opening credits for a Mission Impossible movie. Cats flying in all directions. Doing the mid air changing direction while climbing backwards upside down in the cat tree.
No guns or explosives but they were awesome.
Never seen that level of action before. Now all three are peacefully sleeping.
I got to get cameras set up, some of the acrobatics were awesome.
@ Possum:
Allis tranquil here now.
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1703479859144487228
Until next time….
EMERGENCY REQUEST.
Just looked at today weather forecast and expected low is 68F
Please send blankets, woolly hats and hot soup. This is going to be brutally cold here.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/missouri-city/77489/weather-forecast/340927
Possum wrote:
Call the health department and ask if it is okay if your cats play in it.
coldwarrior wrote:
Just as the sane doctors who kept their heads forecast, whilst all around them were losing their minds in the ideological shit storm that infected heads globally.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hmmmm
He appears of the class of those who go by the narrative … if thy brain offends you cut it out!
Extremist rhetoric is just as bad if not worse than what ails us!
He lost me too, not that he’ll notice.
🙂
Overheard comment of the day:
“Well, it is a blues and brews festival, so they have blues…and brews.”
@ coldwarrior:
Crazy just hit town with a crew of Keystone cops in tow!
Daughter is visiting long term (6-8 months so that she can write off a chunk of mortgage as she’s struggling with her ‘new’ mortgage regime. She has rented out her place to a family of a workmate. Another Producer of news at TV3.
Miss dog decided that she can’t hold on any longer and refuses to
go toilet on the deck or on the grass beside the cars. She DEMANDS to visit ‘Poo Corner’ two houses away down the street. This is 0430 by the way. Daughter pulls on a puffer jacket over her PJs and escorts Miss dog (OFF LEAD) down the street to ‘go pee’. Miss dog decided to go exploring and heads for the park at the bottom of the hill. Meanwhile a 0430 female jogger is running up the hill in the middle of the street. Miss dog decided to introduce herself (for crying out aloud, she’s a cross La Chien / King Charles spaniel) and loves to lick assorted children and 0430 joggers. Jogger takes freight as after all it is 0430. Dog thinks that she wants to play! WRONG.
Miss dog refuses to take no for an answer. Finally daughter, not 50 metres from home around the corner at 0430 in PJs and puffer jacket catches dog. and points her nose towards home. WRONG. Miss dog sees a random cat and decided to visit the park at the bottom of the hill in pursuit, followed by daughter in puffer jacket and PJs. Daughter ‘rolls an ankle’ whilst in pursuit. Catches Miss dog and staggers back up hill and home. It’s now 0435 and lightly raining.
VERY sore ankle but heads off to work to produce the international news for the post Early show, mid-day news, and 6PM news. By 4Pm her ankle is throbbing. She can’t push the clutch in her car so ‘guess who’ takes my automatic to TV3 and daughter drives home, but directly to A&E at hospital in my car with my cell phone on the seat. I get home in her manual but NO DAUGHTER to be seen. …. did I mention ‘the Keystone Cops’?
Phone Mrs. AI who is painting window frames at the beach to get daughters cell # . She’s not answering my calls to my cell in my car that she is driving. I discover from Mrs AI that she is in hospital having an X-ray. Turns out that she broke her foot in 3 places. Hobbles home in my car at 2100 hours with Moon Boot and crutches. Guess who volunteered to be Uber-Driver for her for the duration? What was I thinking???
Did I mention Keystone Cops?
Complications:-
* I apparently don’t know how to cook Cheese Butties for breakfast
* There are 17 stairs and a 180 degree turn half way upstairs to the apartment.
* She can only drive an automatic because her manual Suzuki ‘roller-skate’ clutch can’t be operated with Moon Boot.
*My painting trip to the beach is OFF
* Miss dog in in the dog house.
* My 11 item list of stuff that has to be done this week has been ‘altered!’
* I’m now an Uber-driver for the duration for at lease the next 10 days until a second X-ray happens to ensure that the 3 breaks are knitting OK.
*Daughter will continue Producing International News with her Moon-Boot and all, because she has a contract
at TV3 and after all she has a personal Uber-driver in tow!
🙂
Did I mention the ‘Keystone Cops’?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Oh my!!!
The second international act is up now: The Teskey Brothers, from Melbourne (Australia, not Florida).
Yesterday we had The Heavy Heavy from the UK
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-uns-new-political-declaration-on-pandemics/
Why am I NOT surprised. My only question is HOW I don’t get caught up again in this attempted global scam. I thought doing my bit … (i.e. NOT taking the clot shot no matter what) was enough! Apparently as we are heading towards phase of this global scam.
And surprise surprise guess who made many more hundreds of millions $$$$ out of the last scam
YUP… HIM! amongst others
https://www.newswars.com/bill-gates-massive-covid-profiteering-exposed-in-viral-social-media-post/
What a bunch of evil bastards. Get ready for Round #2 since the last scam worked so well, making billions for BIG Pharma and hundreds of million$ for the usual wicked bastard globalist elites.
SPIT!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh good lord!
@ Possum:
The suburb we’re in has a chance of getting a billion dollar chip manufacturing facility.
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Orde7FtHh0
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Someday I’ll post my ‘Keystone’ cops story. Pennsylvania where I was born and grew up is known as “the Keystone state” and I attended Penn State. It’s a Penn State/Keystone Cops story.
right_wing2 wrote:
Are you in Arizona? That’s where the Advanced Chip Manufacturing Facility, that mirrors the Taiwanese high end chip facility, is being built. That’s so when China invadesTaiwan, the US can flatten the Taiwanese facility and still have access to high end chips. The end run is to starve China weapon systems of advanced chips and stop their airforce and high end systems in their tracks.
🙂
The Facility in Arizona was started about mid 2020 and was scheduled to take 3 years to complete. Slowed down a tad due to Covid but almost ready to begin production. Just in time for China’s scheduled invasion program in Fall 2023 or first quarter of 2024.
🙂
Another Blues & Brews in the books. Next year will be the 30th anniversary
Best set of the weekend: The Word, a supergroup mashup of the Randolph Family Band and the North Mississippi Allstars. The amount of talent on that stage should be illegal.
Worst political rant: Aida Victoria, a black girl whose entire set was songs about how terrible it is to be from the south. Then she finished by complaining about Lauren Boebert
WTAF? You yahoos don’t know where the plane is?
The US military is asking the public for help in locating a missing $80 million F-35 stealth fighter jet that disappeared over North Charleston, South Carolina. Officials have reported that there is no concrete evidence of a crash. The pilot has been found and transported to a hospital
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1703587129253670938
Well isn’t THIS interesting! Jack Posobiec interviews Roseanne Barr. “Trust the Plan” – the biggest psyop in American history.
about 2 mins
https://twitter.com/JosephJFlynn1/status/1703559849873736003
This woman’s bio says she’s in Virginia
Took my 14 year old to the doctor Friday. As if the renewed mask charade wasn’t bad enough, halfway through the doctor asks me to leave. Over my dead body, I said. This is my child, and anything can be discussed with both of us. She then proceeded to ask if there were any questions about gender identity. Nope. I stopped it right there. We cannot continue to fuel this madness. Fight it. Don’t let your child fall prey to a manufactured identity crisis. It ends with us, or it continues to lay claim to more children until the family and our children literally become unrecognizable. Don’t fall for the love narrative. This is a political path that only leads to pain and suffering for everyone involved. Especially the child.
https://twitter.com/MerianneJensen/status/1703583855528366210
@ eaglesoars:
I was extremely leery, and suspicious, when I first started seeing those posts on FB. “Don’t believe everything you read on the ‘Net.” I thought that something’s going on, and I continued my complete lack of political activity during that time. I thought that this had to be some sort of flypaper op, something where people would end up on police watch lists.
Heads up CW. MORGANTOWN?
Currently, multiple units are responding to an urgent manhunt that is underway after a riot broke out, resulting in the escape of 9 juvenile inmates from the Abraxas Academy Youth Detention Center in Morgantown, Pennsylvania. This incident occurred approximately 10 miles from where Danelo Cavalcante was previously captured. Reports indicate that multiple staff members have been injured. The escaped individuals are all male, aged 14 to 18, and are currently in 9th grade or above. hey were last seen stripped of their prison uniforms, initially wearing tank tops and boxers
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1703604717694144958
Canoe Convoy wrote:
The more I read the more I thought it was an attempt to get people to DO NOTHING while the elections were stolen, etc. Also, I smelled a lot of ‘cult’ psychology to it.
And who knows how many posts were from bots?
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
https://globalriskanalysis.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/ethno-linguistic-map-of-ukraine.jpg?resize=434%2C278
Hmmmm now that is a bit eye opening. Especially the latest additions over the past century.
Those Poles and Lithuanians have a bit of explaining as well. Nobody in Central Europe is squeaky clean by any stretch of the imagination.
Got to ask the question about the CIA Ops during the 2014 Civil War, as well. Also there are loads of questions about Western Ukraine during WWII and the local NAZIs and their wilful participation in the war with the Soviets. There is plenty of blood on everyone’s hands to go around.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes. An operation to get folks to do nothing, and not react.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Just outside Wichita, KS. The company is Integra.
Oh you first, Jaime, you miserable cur
Jaime Dimon Now Recommends Seizing Private Property For Wind Farms
https://www.georgiarecord.com/opinion/2023/09/17/jaime-dimon-now-recommends-seizing-private-property-for-wind-farms/
JP Morgan Chase CEO says ’eminent domain’ powers may be needed to accelerate energy transition projects as ‘window is closing’ for climate change action.
In a latest article. The Wall Street titan told JP Morgan’s investors in the bank’s annual report: “Massive global investment in clean energy technologies must be done and must continue to grow year-over-year.
Really? Citizens ask, “What about when school children were told 20 years ago that oil would run out?”, “What about when legislators said we had had ten years to stem global warming?”
Now people must give up their property? For what? Countries across the globe are asking harsh questions about Dimond’s statements, and with apparent good reason.
Given the recent revelations regarding JP Morgan financing connections to Epstein and potential child trafficking, many are questioning Dimond’s recommendations. Are these things legal? are they necessary?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s called ‘color revolutions’ and our Victoria Nuland at the State Dept. is up to her fat ass in all of it.
lobo91 wrote:
that stage was not big enough for all that!
WHAT is going on here?
Ukraine’s Trans ‘Spokesperson’ Lashes Out at Sen. Vance for Spreading ‘Gender Chaos’, Refuses to Deny U.S. Gov’t Ties
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/18/ukraines-trans-spokesperson-lashes-out-at-sen-vance-for-spreading-gender-chaos-refuses-to-deny-u-s-govt-ties/
In response to reporting from Breitbart News, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, an American transgender individual claiming to be a “spokesperson” of the Ukrainian military, has criticised Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Moscow for “focussing on the tired trope of gender chaos” after the Republican lawmaker demanded the Biden administration reveal if Ashton-Cirillo receives any American funding or has ties to U.S. intelligence agencies.
On Sunday, Breitbart News revealed that Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio had written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines after apparent Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo had warned that Russian propagandists will be “hunted down”.
No wonder I like Kurt Schlicter. He has a Yinzer for a Mom
I knew there was something wrong with Mitt Romney, really wrong, when my mom – a daughter of Pennsylvania’s steel mill country, but a dedicated Republican, told me back in 2012, “I just don’t like him.” Of course, those steel mills are all gone now, moved to China by guys who either were, or looked exactly like, Mitt Romney.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/09/18/that-miserable-bag-of-goo-mitt-romney-slinks-away-humiliated-n2628520#google_vignette
G20 Announces Plan To Impose Digital Currencies and IDs Worldwide
The Group of 20 leaders have agreed to a plan to eventually impose digital currencies and digital IDs on their respective populations, despite fears that governments will use them to monitor their peoples’ spending and crush dissent.
The G20, which is currently under India’s presidency, adopted a final declaration on the subject over the weekend in New Delhi.
The meeting, which included the world’s leading economies, announced last week that they had agreed to build the necessary infrastructure to implement digital currencies and IDs.
The group said that discussions were already underway to create international regulations for cryptocurrencies, but claimed that there was “no talk of banning cryptocurrency” at the summit.
https://www.gulf-insider.com/g20-announces-plan-to-impose-digital-currencies-and-ids-worldwide/
oh, yeah, remember when the allure of crypto was that it was outside the purview of central banks?
GOOD WORK YA MORONS!
Well it looks like Chicago Fire, Med and PD won’t be coming back this September because of the Hollywood writers strike.
To be honest all three shows have run their course in my way of thinking. I don’t know why they need writers anymore, I could write it.
Chicago Fire episode is now a tiny fire or a traffic accident or someone with their hand in a garbage disposal for five minutes then forty minutes of personal life shit. And of course the bar, Molly’s and I really HATE the accent of Christopher Herrmann, really emphasised New York drawl.
Chicago Med is now boring medical conditions and three quarters of the show is concentrated on some patient or other who has some psychiatric issue.
Chicago PD also got boring.
As I said earlier even I could write the scripts for all three shows, Take me ten minutes per episode but the actors are also on strike in solidarity.
Hope they all go hungry…..
911: What is your emergency?
Husband: I’d like to report a missing wife.
911: What is her height?
Husband: I’m not sure.
911: Skinny or fat?
Husband: Depends on what she’s wearing?
911: What was she wearing?
Husband: I’m not sure.
911: Color of eyes?
Husband: Never noticed.
911: Color of hair?
Husband: It kind of changes with the seasons.
911: Was she driving?
Husband: Yes
911: Color of vehicle
Husband: Black 2020 F350 powerstroke diesel, 475 horsepower with 10-speed heavy-duty TorqShift automatic transmission. It has LED lights and a very small scratch on the rear door.
911: Don’t worry sir, we will find your truck.
yer welcome
right_wing2 wrote:
I assume that the company is an advanced chip company?
What happened to the outfit that has been under construction in Arizona for the last 3 years?
Is there more than one outfit making strategic level chips?
eaglesoars wrote:
First begin with JP Morgan’s support for the NAZIs orchestrated from Switzerland with the other BIG US banks. Or don’t forget that GM and Ford manufactured all of the NAZI half tracks from German factories using slave labour up until 1943 when the 8th Airforce bombed the factories. Remember too that the US taxpayers paid COMPENSATION to Ford / GM for the damage to their German factories.
Sheesh!
Talk about having a bet each way’!
Of course nobody from Ford / GM ever answered for their crimes at Nuremberg and nobody was hanged!
You’d think that Ford could have at least given a vehicle to the families who lost sons bombing Germany Ford /GM armour factories up to 1943!
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course she is up to her bloodshot eyes in this criminal activity. I know … I know …. the CIA has been up to its ears in revolutions for the past 70 years. The Colour Revolutions were just the massed revolutions on steoroids and how did they turn out? How can an organisation like the one down at ‘Olde Foggy Bottom’ consistently get it wrong every time? It’s so consistently ‘wrong’ that you have to wonder aloud that perhaps this is all part of a covert plan to destabilise the globe and keep folks killing people while the USA cashes in and keeps the wars going.
Nah!
That can’t be it?
Can it?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Or paying compensation to the unfortunate person who was having a nice quiet and restful shit in their outhouse when a Ford engine crashed into the garden and destroyed their prize winning Chrysanthemums.
The Ford engine was attached to a German bomber which was on a peaceful flight over London in September 1940 when some reckless 19 year old RAF pilot in a spitfire shot at it just for fun.
Those were the days…..
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Why did I not know that?
@ eaglesoars:
LOL and you probably do not know about the re-write of history where the pilots of the Lancaster bombers who did the Dam Busters raid in 1943 are now regarded as war criminals.
Down stream from the dams that were breached there were camps that held prisoners that worked in the factories which relied on the water from those dams.
They all died….
BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
This keeps getting more bizarre.
According to ABC News, “no units are allowed to fly” unless there is a discussion for two days about “safety measures and procedures.”
“No units are allowed to fly until they have a two-day discussion about safety measures and procedures, the commandant said in a service-wide email on Monday.”
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1703863373174358473
Why do I suspect this genius pilot hit the eject button by accident?
Possum wrote:
Yeah, I did know that. Dad practiced those runs, said they weren’t terribly effective/efficient as the damn things would bounce all over the place and actually hitting the dam was sheer accident. He never had an actual mission that involved dam busting tho and was pretty happy about it. He would have had to fly way too low and slow and it was on his NOPE list.
@ eaglesoars:
Your dad was in 617 squadron RAF?
READ: Daily Wire flew a helicopter over Texas & found that a real estate developer who gave $1.4M to the governor is creating what is apparently a city for illegal immigrants, where buyers get loans directly from the developer so they don’t need SSNs like you would from a bank
https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1703838918460731854
here’s the thread
Have you heard about America’s ‘largest illegal immigrant settlement’ that’s said to be a hub of cartel activity?
I visited Colony Ridge for
@realDailyWire
to learn about a development that’s home to 40k-75k people and is in the midst of a rapid expansion.
Here’s what I found:
https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797917570507198
Interesting fact about the Lancaster bomber and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The brilliant minds of the Manhattan Project designed the atomic bombs but there was a tiny problem. The B-29 bomb bay was not big enough.
Yep it could carry the weight of the atomic bomb but its bomb bay was divided into two compartments.
Anyway with much modification the B-29 was adapted.
Possum wrote:
No silly, 8th Army Air Corp. I’d have to look up his squadron #. 367 maybe? Anyhoo, bombed Utah Beach on D-Day. But he flew with the RAF in the beginning (and with the Poles who were fucking lunatics) and the Americans did practice dam busting. At first based outside Chelmsford and then they moved that base, can’t remember where.
@ eaglesoars:
The reason I ask is that before the USA got involved in WWII December 1941 there were many pilots and others from the USA who went to the UK via Canada to join the British military.
That was severely frowned upon by the USA at the time.
@ Possum:
Dad enlisted Mar 24 1940, made it to the UK in May of 1941, came home July 1944. D Day was his penultimate mission, he had one more after that. Shipped back on the Mauritania that also carried German POWs. There was supposed to be no fraternization, but he did manage to hook up with some Luftwaffe guys and they had some friendly conversations. All about flying, no politics. He felt sorry for the way their gov’t used them up. There was never any R&R, they flew till they died.
coldwarrior wrote:
Different festival, same guys:
@ eaglesoars:
Not many people understand that. They see German pilots credited with 200 or more kills, where the highest-scoring US ace had 40. It’s not because the German pilots were necessarily that much better. It’s because they were never sent home, unless they were wounded too badly to continue flying.
@ lobo91:
In WWI, Eddie Rickenbacher was America’s first “ace” with a score of five. Germany’s Manfred von Richthofen downed 80.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Rickenbacker had 26
eaglesoars wrote:
@ lobo91:
I see that they finally found that way-ward F-35 at the bottom of a very large field of wreckage! The driver seems to have vanished. Why did he eject when the F-35 just flew on regardless all on its own, until it finally ran out of gas?
Did that naughty little ‘Grey’ flying a cloud of ‘swamp-gas’ behind the F-35 at Mach 1.4 ,steal the airplane and took it for a joy ride. I can just see the USAF jockey, looking in his rear view mirror and seeing a cloud of swamp gas with a small ‘ Grey’ at the controls formatting on him at Mach 1.4 and thinking …. this is above my pay grade … I’m outta here!
HEH
🙂
Somehow methinks that F-35 jockey is now a permanent EX-F-35 pilot and answering the odd list of very pointed questions.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
…before he flew a tad too close to an Aussie Machine Gun Battalion and got his arse shot off my an Aussie Sergeant with a grudge. Don’t give me this Canadian fairy tail either. Richthofen fell into Aussie lines and was buried with full honours by that Aussie Unit.
eaglesoars wrote:
Because the VICTORS write the War Histories and they always blot out all of the war crimes perpetrated by Allies servicemen. Hell just two war criminals who admitted as much were named Le May of the USAAF and Harris of UK Bomber Command
@ Aussie Infidel:
Marine, not USAF. It was an F-35B, the V/STOL version.
So the F-35B was hovering about doing whatever STOVL airplanes do, when he was run down by a way-ward ‘Small Grey’ who was out ‘hooning’ in a patch of Swamp-Gas, roared up behind the floating about F-35B and decided to steal it and try it on for size! The Grey’s legs couldn’t reach the pedals and he just switched on the auto-pilot and dematerialised back to his patch of Swamp-gas and made his get-away!
HEH
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t understand the ‘swamp gas’ thingy?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Well, he panicked or hit the eject button by mistake (I have no idea how you do that, one would THINK the cockpit controls would be designed to avoid that but what do I know) but the fact that they are on stand down until ‘safety procedures’ are beaten into their brains tell me this is ‘pilot error’.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’ll have to think about LeMay but my father DESPISED Harris. He thought the fire bombings of Dresden and Hamburg were war crimes and was glad he just bombed France and surrounds (Netherlands, Belgium, etc.). He LOVED bombing ‘the goddamn French’. He always said “Nobody can get Americans to agree on anything except we all hate the French”.
eaglesoars wrote:
Was that with the Poles of the RAF 303 Squadron?
I had a New Zealand government CAA, A Cat Instructor check me out as a B Cat Instructor when I first arrived in NZ. His name was Antonie Glovasky… (AKA Tony). He was a Pole who fought with 303 (Polish) RAF Squadron in the second half of the Battle of Britain, as well as another Polish Squadron I can’t remember. He ended up with one kill (with the RAF but he had half a dozen with both the Polish and French airforces.) Until after a week with 303 Squadron he got a total of 4 kills in 3 sorties in a single day. 3 Heinckles and a Me109. That made him ‘officially a RAF Ace’ He went on to get 12 1/2 in all with the RAF but was shot down himself as well and lost his nerve. He instructed for a year in 1943 and then returned to Operations and got that last 1 1/2 to make his total for the RAF 12 1/2.
Tony was the ROUGHEST pilot I ever flew with. He almost never used his ailerons. Just stamp on the rudders HARD for yaw, and pull and push on the elevators for pitch. But I blamed myself as I asked him to demonstrate how he flew his Hurricane! He showed me! He also told me to get close 100 to 150 yards behind and just keep firing until the target was destroyed or you ran out of your ‘whole NINE Yards’ of ammo.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Whenever a UFO / UAP is seen, some wise guy immediately decides that it just ‘swamp gas’ hovering over a swamp and NOT a UFO
🙂
HEH
eaglesoars wrote:
in 1946 Bomber Harris even admitted that had the NAZI’s won he’d be hanged as a war criminal. Harris was a prickly vindictive arsehole and choose his targets with the bombing of Coventry in his head!
Did you know that there was a plan to use a British Lancaster flown by US pilots as the delivery aircraft for the second nuke on Nagasaki. It never came to it however as the dropping of nukes was determined to be an All American show.
Ok, amusing war story from Dad. They all knew the frequencies the Luftwaffe used as they knew the Allies I suppose- usually – and in the normal course of events in the early days the Luftwaffe would track them in during a bombing run and just do light harassment. Fly close, wave, Guten Tag! See you on the way back! Have fun!
It was on the way back when they had less fuel that things got ugly and the dog fights started.
Dad figured out a way to break up their formations. He’d get on their frequencies and yell JUDEN! JUDEN! JUDEN!
And they all went nuts looking for the JUDEN! Somehow this got back to his command and they were NOT happy for some reason but they didn’t know who was doing it. For some reason command let it be known that whoever was doing it was asking for a court martial so he stopped. He got the biggest kick out of that story! And eventually they got those P-38 (I think P-38?) escorts so the Luftwaffe weren’t all that comfortable sitting up there waiting for them to come back.
Cuban is SO typical of the arrogant assholes I grew up with in Mt. Lebanon, his home town. I utterly despise him.
NEW: Mark Cuban showed prejudice against unvaxxed journalist Layah Heilpern after she had requested an interview.
Cuban said he would only give an interview if
@LayahHeilpern
went out and got vaccinated and told “others to do the same.”
Cuban then went a step further and said he wouldn’t “support people who haven’t been vaccinated.”
“When you get vaccinated and tell others to do the same I will come on.”
“My choice not to support people who haven’t been vaccinated.”
Here are the messages between Cuban and Heilpern who shared them on her Telegram channel.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1703921250475839564
@ eaglesoars:
It’s pretty much impossible to accidentally activate the ejection seat. There’s generally a big handle either above the pilot’s head or between their legs (or sometimes both) that has to be pulled. It’s a very deliberate action, for good reason.
Here’s a video that shows the cockpit of an F-35. It’s an A, rather than a B model, but the seats are probably similar. Notice the big round loop between the pilot’s legs. That’s the handle:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LP5F5x6U1tk
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think from memory that the Lancaster could carry 18,000 lbs of bombs and had a huge bomb bay.
The guy who designed the Lancaster also went on ,post war, to design the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan V-Bomber Force and nuclear strike bombers. The Valiant was a dog but the Victor saw action as a re-fueller for the Victors who successfully bombed both NYC and Washington DC (theoretically) during massive air exercises by the USAF in the 1960s.
TWICE.
Just to prove e that they weren’t just lucky!
The Vulcan was originally designed as a very high altitude nuclear bomber but as Russian AAA improved went VERY low and sneaky. Pete Rhodes a Kiwi with Air NZ flew with me, but he also flew as a Victor commander. He used to joke that they were expected to scramble, fight their way through a thicket of Russian AAA defences. Drop a 1.37 Mt Hydrogen bomb on their primary, then move on to their secondary city and obliterate that as well with their second 1.37Mt thermonuclear bomb. Then they were supposed to fight their way back to the ticket of by this time VERY pissed off Russian AAA and land back in Britain at the smoking hole in the ground where their Base used to be!
Pete said that after visiting their Primary and Secondary targets, there was NO GOING BACK, he’d go high and head deep into Siberia, wait until his Vulcan ran out of fuel, eject and meet and marry a pretty Mongolian girl and have 15 kids!
True story!
🙂
Pete was serious!
HEH
HEB is apparently a pharmacy chain in Texas
I just got off the phone with a pharmacist from
@HEB
who told me patients are signing a form stating they’ve received a vaccine information statement (VIS) after getting the COVID shot but are not actually getting one.
Not only that, HEB has told her she is not allowed to give informed consent or answer questions. When this pharmacist told a patient about possible side effects from the COVID shot, she was reported and is now on probation.
https://twitter.com/MdBreathe/status/1703859087123828813Aussie Infidel wrote:
Nope. Why? Was there something special about the configuration of the plane or something?
Victor = Vulcan bomber.
The Victor was used as a fuel stop for the Vulcan, before it headed into the CCCP and a date with Armageddon.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Desk jockeys really should be made to fly with these guys and no parachutes allowed.
lobo91 wrote:
Yuck! I got motion sickness watching that, but I see what you mean, thanks
Volodymyr Zelensky visits wounded Ukrainian soldiers at NYC hospital ahead of UN General Assembly
https://nypost.com/2023/09/18/volodymyr-zelensky-visits-wounded-soldiers-on-staten-island/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
Why are Ukranian soldiers in US hospitals?
eaglesoars wrote:
The B-29 could fly 6,000feet higher and had a pressurised crew compartment and was a much more modern compared to the Brit Lancaster BUT the Lancaster had a Massive bomb load and had an outsized bomb bay to accurate the Tall Boy 5 tonne bombs designed by Barnes Wallis himself. The B-29s were superior aircraft but with a LOT of work and serious modifications including stripping all defences and armour out of the three modified B-29s they were considered a better fit to carry the two nukes to Japan. The Lancasters were also British and the US wanted the nukes on Japan to be an all US affair politically.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integra_Technologies
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m betting the Brits had no problem with that
Jesus Christ, these people are just fucking vampires.
Clinton Global Initiative announces new proposal to help rebuild Ukraine, provide humanitarian support
How did that work out in Haiti?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/clinton-global-initiative-announces-new-proposal-help-rebuild-ukraine-provide-humanitarian-support
I have a sick bird, an ordinary wren. I noticed her yesterday when she didn’t use the bird batch but chose to drink out of water collected in an old cushion on the deck. I could SEE her breathing, it was quite heavy and her beak kept opening and closing.
This evening she flew next to my head, actually grazed it, before landing on the table right in front of me. 9 inches away. I tried to take a picture and that startled her but instead of flying away she landed on the deck floor. I got up to look for her, but of course Psycho Puppy noticed Mom was up to something and went to investigate with her usual enthusiasm. The bird jumped off the deck to the ground and I couldn’t find her again.
The concern is that whatever is wrong with this bird – she’s dying, there’s nothing I can do – she can’t infect the other birds in the yard. It will be cold this evening, I doubt she can fly to a nest. I hope she dies tonight so she doesn’t make the other birds sick.
And I’m off to bed. Nite.
lobo91 wrote:
Guess I missed a few. Faulty memory.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/alabama-band-director-johnny-mims-tased-for-refusing-to-stop-playing-after-hs-football-game/
That must have been the greatest jam ever.
Surgery #1 today, for the stent. A week to recover, then round 2 when they’ll drill the artery out and put another stent in.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think it had more to do with speed and service ceiling given the need to be as far away as possible as quickly as possible
right_wing2 wrote:
VERY expensive plumbing
@ coldwarrior:
Thank God we have good insurance.
right_wing2 wrote:
Amen!
Our twins did 35 days in NICU, my cancer treatments and surgery were over 750k
@ coldwarrior:
A friend’s little girl was in NICU for a couple months.
She’s 3 1/2 now, physically a bit on the small side but ahead on the learning side.
———————
Surgeon said everything went beautifully. Should be able to go home in a few hours
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope not at all. The Brits brought all of their IP and skills to the US because the US didn’t have the necessary background in nuclear weapon tech BUT and it was a huge BUT the US DID have the $$$$$ to finance the research and construction of a nuke within the estimated time frame of WWII. Initially nobody really knew just how advanced the German nuclear research program was advanced. NAZI Germany certainly suggested that a NAZI nuke was potentially part of their ‘Wunderweapon’ program with both London and NYC as potential targets. It was all BS however the Allies needed to have the ‘bomb’ just in case, so they could respond in kind. By 1943/44 it became clear that there would be no NAZI bomb but the US wanted to ‘demonstrate their capability to warn off Stalin, in case he continued to roll West to the Channel Coast in 1945. Truman also wanted to warn off Stalin against a grab in 1945 for Japan.
The whole Pacific War, post 1941, was an American show especially post the Brit loss of Singapore. Roosevelt wanted the Pacific as a US lake post war. French, Brit and Dutch were to be excluded. Once the Australian Forces returned from Egypt and emptied the Japanese out of New Guinea, the US took over totally and completely excluded Australian forces from any of their island hopping exploits.
The US even pushed Aussie forces into irrelevant and manpower wasteful sideshows in Borneo that should have been bypassed, just to ensure only US forces effectively fought the Pacific war alone, for post war political and commercial reasons. Echoes of this US, anti-British & Australian attitude, continued by Truman and Eisenhower as the US pushed very hard against a broke Britain, NOT to become a nuclear armed nation, to drive the final nail into the British Empire. Britain did it anyway!
Finally post 1956 Suez the US upped the anti-Brit pressure, and when Australia and Britain began testing Brit A & H bombs in Australia the US refused to allow Britain to transfer to Australia it’s nuclear technology, (even though that was already a done deal as Oz was 100% read in to Brit Nuke Tech already). The US then went further with Kennedy threatening Britain and Australia with economic warfare if Australia continued to co-operate with Britain in establishing an independent nuclear program for Australia. So much for the US being a good ally! The anti Brit campaign dragged on until the 1990s, when Britain finally paid off the debt for the 40 old broken US WWI destroyers ‘sold’ to the UK in 1940. Such was the level of US hate of the British Empire by the US at the strategic level of government in the US.
That is the reality stripped of the PR spin of the so called ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US. Like any rising power the US, like all previous empires, doesn’t actually want allies, what it wants is vassel states. Does anyone really hand on heart believe the US ‘boiler-plate’ rhetoric of the US nuclear umbrella? Seriously folks would the US actually protect Sydney or Taipei by absorbing a nuke strike on LA, NYC, Chicago or DC? Nope neither do I!
🙂
Yet we all cross our ‘Cold-War’ fingers and pretend that we do believe! Oz just has to do its own thing. Buy in 14 Rolls Royce Small reactors, finish the twin breeder reactors at Nowra and start making Plutonium to arm the 300 dialable atomic bombs, use Australian technology to refine a reliable U235 supply of weapons grade triggers for the 100 Thermonuclear devices and take on the responsible position for our own security. This post WWII / Cold War BS has got to stop.
@ coldwarrior:
Yup.
Definitely that too. Geo-Political considerations by the side
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I get it. But it’s been a long day, have to get hubby to the hospital tomorrow for the cardiac procedure.
I’m tired. nite.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Aw shit you mentioned Suez.
They don’t teach that in American history.
@ Possum:
All you have to do if you are American is just look at a map of the world.
Then poke your finger on Korea, the Suez canal, Vietnam and ask yourself one question.
Why???
For CW and all the duffers.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2023/09/meanwhile-on-fairway.html
Possum wrote:
The Domino Theory.
Michael Bloomberg pumps $500 million into bid to close all US coal plants
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Wednesday he will pump $500 million into the next phase of his energy transition campaign, aiming to shut down “every last” coal plant in the United States and slash gas-fired capacity in half by 2030.
The $500 million infusion into his decade-long Beyond Carbon initiative aims to “finish the job on coal” by working with state and local organizations to force the closure of the roughly 150 coal plants that have not yet retired, slash current gas generation in half and block the construction of new gas-fired plants. -Reuters
https://twitter.com/chigrl/status/1704554689927274660
eaglesoars wrote:
Haaa
The easy one’s first ehhh?
To welcome in the New World Order 2030. The core requirement is to destroy the base load power generation capacity and steel production of the US. The USA is the main enemy of the NWO and by NOT destroying it’s core industrial capability first, that globalist dream is a feint hope, and the WEF’s plans for 2030 will be ‘still born’. Lay down with dogs Bloomberg and you get up with authoritarian, corporatist, fascist, socialist fleas.
It really is that simple Eagles.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I was waiting for that old chestnut to make another outing. The Domino Theory. Riddle me this in that case. Why did Vietnam and China decide in in ‘fraternal neighborliness’ have a war that killed slightly more Chinese than the US lost in Vietnam? Why was Thailand never seriously threatened?. Why did the Malays turn on the Communists and pushed them to wither on the vine? Why did Sukarno get replaced by Suharto in Indonesia? Why was Hypong port not get bombed back to the ‘stone age’ allowing resupply by Russia and China to go in unimpeded? Why was the Cold War logic about never using nukes on pretend allies of Russia and China when it was known policy never to help an ally if the cost was a major home city in a nuclear power? Suez! Enough said as Possum opined, and made the point that was conveniently airbrushed from American history. I could go on but you get my drift! Somewhere buried deep was all of those $$$$$$$$ to be made.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Sorry to hear that your man is having a cardiac procedure. I know that you will be there looking after him very well girl!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Dad was a LTJG ret. naval officer and amateur navy historian. His response (ca. 1970) when I asked what we were doing in Vietnam was, “I don’t know,” yet he attributed it to an extension of the Domino Theory.
It was years after the USS Estes had been stationed in Haiphong Harbor (ca. 1953) that he and his crewmates learned that they were there as a deterrent when peace talks had broken down. In his opinion, both Korea and Vietnam conflicts were the result of acceptance of “that old chestnut”, flawed or not.
As for the Suez, I’m not familiar with it.
F-35 pilot ejected from $100M jet over South Carolina due to ‘bad weather’ as experts reveal why plane couldn’t be tracked
https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/f-35-pilot-ejected-over-south-carolina-due-to-bad-weather/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
yeah, I smell a court martial in this FORMER pilot’s future
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t think he really said that he lost it TO bad weather. More likely, he said that he lost it IN bad weather, when asked where the plane went down.
The F-35 is a single-engine plane, and the stealth design makes it inherently unstable. I would imagine that its controls are much like those of the B-2. The pilot doesn’t actually fly the plane. He tells the plane what he’d like it to do, and the onboard computers that keep the thing in the air figure out how to accomplish what he asked. It probably has the glide characteristics of a cinder block.
I’m just guessing, but I’m imagining a catastrophic failure of some sort (engine, control systems, or both) in the middle of a storm, at night. Punching out would be the reasonable thing to do under the circumstances. You have no control over the aircraft, so the only thing staying with it would accomplish is killing yourself.
lobo91 wrote:
Maybe Elon Musk’s neurolink could help.
Not directed to you, but that design is bullshit.
long day. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
No way around it, unfortunately. All modern stealth designs are like that. They’re inherently unstable, aerodynamically. A human literally can’t control them. They require thousands of tiny control inputs per second just to stay in the air.
It’s actually reaching the point where having a pilot in the cockpit is a drawback, since it limits the plane’s maneuverability. The computer won’t allow it to execute maneuvers that would kill the pilot, but it’s technically capable of them. The next generation of fighters will likely be unmanned.
lobo91 wrote:
Me too mate. You don’t just lose a modern aircraft to JUST weather. There is always something else as a complicating factor.
One night of massive tropical storms at night over the Pacific we ended up 200 nM off track attempting to fins a gap in the line of Cb s. This night there were none so we picked the narrowest storm which was 35 miles wide and gritted out teeth. Locked the airplane down good and tight and left the autopilot engaged but uncoupled the height lock so that the airplane just rode out the updrafts and down draughts. We ‘rode the bronco’ up and down 3,000 feet in both directions. but we were talking to Honolulu the whole time. We were so far off track that there was zero traffic. Actually we were the only aircraft in that massive hunk of sky, and there was no other option. Honolulu was our destanation and there was nowhere else to go at that stage of the flight. It was very lumpy but allowing the airplane to just go with the up and down draughts took a lot of the stress off the airframe if we had tried to maintain a specific altitude we could have broken the airplane. It was a 4 hole Boeing and they build ’em tough in Washington State.
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Had an instructor who used to fly an F-86 E Sabre ages ago. He was the ace of the base at Williamstown AFB commonly known as ‘Nucksville’ (as in the meme …. a place where Knuckle-heads hang out … fighter pilots) He lost his one engine at 20,000 feet and dead-sticked it onto the base Runway. Admittedly he was at 20,000 feet and the base was in sight. Still like most one homers swept wing airplanes they had the gliding characteristics of a brick. You may have guessed his name Flt Lt Bricknell. The base and squadron Commanders both bawled him out for not punching out, but then congratulated him for some fancy flying and having quite a lot of luck and saving his aircraft.
The same guy when an instructor at #1 BFTS Point Cook had an engine failure over the Werebee sewage farm and ‘dead sticked’ a trainer (that was NOT swept wing) with a large high lift wing onto the access roads between the sewage pools. For the next week every time Bricknell entered the Mess for lunch, everyone … and especially the students, all held their noses, and said together … “phew .. what’s that terrible smell?”
HEH
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
@ Possum:
In 1956 Britain and France jointly ran the Suez Canal , seeing that they had dug the bloody thing in the first place. The ran it on’ behalf’ of Egypt and to ensure that the freighters of Britain and France got access for their cargos regardless of politics. For reasons known only to Eisenhower and his State Department and CIA, threw both the UK and France under the bus and supported Nasser and his communist mates in Moscow. Then Nassar threw Eisenhower under the following bus, and climbed into bed with Egypt’s BFF the Soviets. A few years later Israel fought the second ME war amongst many against Egypt. The Israeli ‘establishment war was the first war. Yom Kipper was the final war that Egypt fought before it got smart and signed a ‘peace accord with Israel. That got Egypt’s President Sadat assassinated as he watched a parade by his own military.
Eisenhower was highly pissed that both Britain and France went with independent nuclear forces, as their final guarantee of National sovereignty, rather trusting in US ‘so called guarantees’ that they could safely shelter under the US nuclear umbrella. Suez was a demonstration of ‘real politick’ and US power flexing against upperty allies!
🙂
@ lobo91:
I just finished reading Ben Rich’s book “Skunk Works” about the Lockheed division that designed the U-2, SR-71, F-117, and other advanced aircraft.
You’re 100% on target. So many of today’s aircraft are so unstable.
I highly recommend Rich’s book.
With news just coming in from America that Greg Abbott the Governor of Texas has officially declared an Invasion at the #USA southern border and deployed the Texas National Guard to halt the #WEF2030Agenda #Soros funded Invasion of America.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1704850376816525318
yeah, nothing gets by good ole Abbott…………..
BREAKING: Project Veritas suspends all operations effective immediately.
CEO
@HannahMGiles
and Jen Kiyak of Human Resources cite financial ruin as reason for additional layoffs on 9/20/23 leaving merely a handful of employees left.
All investigations halted as of today.
Wow. I thought it would take them about a year to finish running it into the ground. About 7 mos. ahead of schedule. GOOD WORK!
https://twitter.com/BobbyHReports/status/1704583028943491164
@ Aussie Infidel:
Grassyass.
oh ffs
BREAKING: Pentagon has decided to exempt Ukraine operations from a potential shutdown if lawmakers can’t agree on a deal by the end of the month – Politico
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1704973934301458621
right_wing2 wrote:
Thanks to you, I just found out that the sonic booms we heard in the early 1990s were due to test flights of a hyper-sonic aircraft that didn’t exist. We were told that it was the Aurora spy plane flying out of Los Alamitos.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/murdoch-says-the-media-is-in-cahoots?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2dyeu
Not too sure about the trustworthiness of Lauchlan Murdoch either. Much into the elitist ‘cabal’ for my liking!
🙂
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ eaglesoars:
@ Possum:
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/alex-holland-race-based-division
Never venture here because here live the monsters of Racism writ large.
Fortunately New Zealand have awoken to the horror that is about to foisted upon New Zealand and not a moment too soon. The total, and for some catastrophic destruction of a major leftist political entity is well entrain on the 14 October. The racialist Labour/Pati Maori / Green administration is headed for perdition in a landslide to beat all landslides!
Given the hard core racist neo-Marxist actions given above, they deserve the hammering they deserve!
🙂
Welcome to the
Cluster B Society.
A pathological society that we are rapidly finding has taken over the street and now the society as a whole.
Well worth a look
https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-cluster-b-society
@ Aussie Infidel:
Cluster F society might be more appropriate.
So, under Reagan we had trickle down economics. Apparently under Biden we are now at piss all over you economics.
Just realized I haven’t stocked up on pasta roni in a while. Realized it’s because I’ve been waiting for a 10 for $10 that is never coming back. I wish these dem politicos would be forced to live on what the average person has to in my area.
This is going to get nasty.
There is only so much work for illegals.
right_wing2 wrote:
Heh.
Possum wrote:
There is only so much work for illegals.
The business of shipping them off to “sanctuary states” and “sanctuary cities” is funny on the surface, but the people who didn’t vote for the insanity get caught in the crossfire. The unemployed fugitive illegals have unrestrained travel and there are plenty of nearby neighborhoods to exploit.
ABELEEDAWEEWOWEH
Iowahawk attacked Europe – and he’s winning. 😀
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1704490762472157695
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Good stuff!
Wow, the golf course is bone dry. We need some rain
coldwarrior wrote:
You can have some of mine. It’s trying to decide if it’s going to turn into snow or not.
BELGRADE — Most of Europe was in lockdown in April 2020 when a plane arrived in the Serbian capital bearing a well-timed gift from the People’s Republic of China. Inside was a Chinese invention called the Fire-Eye, a sophisticated portable lab that could detect coronavirus infections from tiny genetic fragments the pathogen leaves behind.
And that, as Serbians soon discovered, was the least of its capabilities.
The Fire-Eye excelled not only at cracking the genetic code for viruses, but also for humans, with machines that can decipher genetic instructions contained within the cells of every person on Earth, according to its Chinese inventors. In late 2021, with the pandemic still raging, Serbian officials announced they were working with a Chinese company to convert the lab into a permanent facility with plans to harvest and curate the entire genomes, or genetics blueprints, of Serbian citizens.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/china-dna-sequencing-bgi-covid/
coldwarrior wrote:
Vermont has had twice it’s usual rainfall. The farmers can’t get their equipment into the fields w/o getting stuck.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
the ohio river is really low, not as bad as i’ve seen, but still. From the deck, it looks about 5 feet lower than normal.
new thread, yinz
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/09/22/ncaa-football-week-4-2023-and-rugby-world-cup-open/
@ eaglesoars:
Why, what could possibly go wrong ? /facetious