In the Arizona desert near Tucson.
http://www.dhc-2.com/Monthan_Memories.html
Just about every airplane pictured is now gone.
Sent by Joe Rooney.
A few years ago the Confederate Air Force (now the Commemorative Air Force) sent a crew to pick up a B-29 at the desert site. A crew member said they checked the tires, changed the plugs and engine oil, filled the gas tanks, fired up the four engines and flew to the CAF base, then in Harlengin, Texas. No other maintenance necessary.)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
F-100 vs. MiG-17
The F-100 Super Sabre “flew more individual sorties in Vietnam than any other fighter. … In fact, the F-100 Super Sabre did almost everything a modern fighter could do – except shoot down an enemy aircraft.”
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/f-100-versus-mig-17-the-air-battle-nobody-told-you-about/
At xbradtc.com
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/f-100-versus-mig-17-the-air-battle-nobody-told-you-about/
At xbradtc.com
Monday, April 28, 2014
The dumbest thing since the last dumbest thing
On my wife’s Facebook page someone posted a picture of a man standing outside a Cracker Barrel, holding a sign saying Cracker Barrel is racist.
I asked my wife, “How is Cracker Barrel racist?” She handed me her Extremely Intelligent Phone and said, “Look it up.”
According to Google search, here is why Cracker Barrel is racist:
• A site said Cracker Barrel had “surrendered to homophobes and racists” by reinstating Duck Dynasty goods in the stores; and
• Cracker Barrel is a racist term because it refers to crackers; that is the appellation for redneck racists.
I laughed and laughed when reading the second one. What we have is a lack of education, people not knowing that in the days of general stores, customers often stood around a big wooden barrel of crackers, munching while discussing events of the day.
Laugh and laugh I did and then remembered Snapple changing its label because some dumba$$es said the picture of the Boston Tea Party was slave ships unloading chattel. Snapple explained the label, but dumba$$e$ do not understand facts. A DA on TV said, “I don’t care what they say, it reminds me of my enslaved ancestors, and that causes me pain.”
Well, Hell’s Bells, we can’t have anybody getting her feelings hurt, can we. Change the labels!
I asked my wife, “How is Cracker Barrel racist?” She handed me her Extremely Intelligent Phone and said, “Look it up.”
According to Google search, here is why Cracker Barrel is racist:
• A site said Cracker Barrel had “surrendered to homophobes and racists” by reinstating Duck Dynasty goods in the stores; and
• Cracker Barrel is a racist term because it refers to crackers; that is the appellation for redneck racists.
I laughed and laughed when reading the second one. What we have is a lack of education, people not knowing that in the days of general stores, customers often stood around a big wooden barrel of crackers, munching while discussing events of the day.
Laugh and laugh I did and then remembered Snapple changing its label because some dumba$$es said the picture of the Boston Tea Party was slave ships unloading chattel. Snapple explained the label, but dumba$$e$ do not understand facts. A DA on TV said, “I don’t care what they say, it reminds me of my enslaved ancestors, and that causes me pain.”
Well, Hell’s Bells, we can’t have anybody getting her feelings hurt, can we. Change the labels!
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Sometimes a woman’s got to do what a woman’s got to do
Man robs bank, flees. About a quarter mile before heroine rams his car with her pickup.
“It seemed right at the time,” she said.
And every other time, we would add.
http://www.abc27.com/story/25345202/woman-says-she-couldnt-let-bank-robber-get-away
At fark.com
“It seemed right at the time,” she said.
And every other time, we would add.
http://www.abc27.com/story/25345202/woman-says-she-couldnt-let-bank-robber-get-away
At fark.com
Saturday, April 26, 2014
‘Come and take it’ lost in translation from Texian to Arkansian
Last Monday while the Sears repairman worked on my fire-damaged mower, I worked on getting my Come And Take It flag onto a makeshift staff – a four-foot wooden dowel.
When I had the flag ready for insertion into holders on the front porch and when walking by the repairman, I asked if he knew about the flag. He said he did not. Never missing a chance to educate Arkansans in things Texas, I explained:
Colonists in Gonzalez, Texas, petitioned the Mexican army for a cannon to protect against Indian raids, mostly by Comanche. The army sent a small cannon, probably a swivel gun. In 1835, as relations worsened between colonists and the government in Mexico City, the local army commander in San Antonio asked for return of the cannon. Gonzalez residents declined. The commander sent a contingent to get the cannon. The colonists (armed, as all colonists and citizens should be) met the soldiers with the small cannon on a crude carriage, and a flag with a crude drawing of the cannon, a single star, and the words “Come And Take It.” The soldiers tried, but failed. (Two Mexican soldiers were killed.) The cannon might have been used at the Alamo, I said.
When I finished talking, the repairman just looked at me as though trying to process the information. I realized I lost him somewhere around “colonists” and “Mexican army.” He said, “Hunh. That’s an interesting story.”
He went back to working on my mower; I went to the front porch and put up the flag.
I realize not everyone knows anything about Texas history, but everybody should.
When I had the flag ready for insertion into holders on the front porch and when walking by the repairman, I asked if he knew about the flag. He said he did not. Never missing a chance to educate Arkansans in things Texas, I explained:
Colonists in Gonzalez, Texas, petitioned the Mexican army for a cannon to protect against Indian raids, mostly by Comanche. The army sent a small cannon, probably a swivel gun. In 1835, as relations worsened between colonists and the government in Mexico City, the local army commander in San Antonio asked for return of the cannon. Gonzalez residents declined. The commander sent a contingent to get the cannon. The colonists (armed, as all colonists and citizens should be) met the soldiers with the small cannon on a crude carriage, and a flag with a crude drawing of the cannon, a single star, and the words “Come And Take It.” The soldiers tried, but failed. (Two Mexican soldiers were killed.) The cannon might have been used at the Alamo, I said.
When I finished talking, the repairman just looked at me as though trying to process the information. I realized I lost him somewhere around “colonists” and “Mexican army.” He said, “Hunh. That’s an interesting story.”
He went back to working on my mower; I went to the front porch and put up the flag.
I realize not everyone knows anything about Texas history, but everybody should.
Face the fact: If you are not a Muslim, you are a target
An Afghan “security guard” on Thursday shot and killed three Americans and wounded another at a hospital in Kabul
Said the Associated Press: “What prompted the guard to fire on the Americans was not clear …”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/father-son-illinois-killed-kabul-attack-article-1.1770177
What prompted the AP to stupidity is not clear, except perhaps an unwillingness to face the possibilities: the guard was a Muslim who hated Americans; the guard was a Muslim who hated foreigners; the guard was a Muslim who hated Christians; the guard was a Muslim who gated American Christians.
Said the Associated Press: “What prompted the guard to fire on the Americans was not clear …”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/father-son-illinois-killed-kabul-attack-article-1.1770177
What prompted the AP to stupidity is not clear, except perhaps an unwillingness to face the possibilities: the guard was a Muslim who hated Americans; the guard was a Muslim who hated foreigners; the guard was a Muslim who hated Christians; the guard was a Muslim who gated American Christians.
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