Husband. Father. Grandfather. Semi recent denizen of the High Desert of South East Kern County California.
Random thoughts and reminisces of things past and
current. Rants at times. Yes I do rant on occasion.
Been there. Done that. Not PC or even remotely polite at times. But I will use civility most of the time.
Got a dues are paid card. That blue retired one that uncle sam issued me one autumn day in 1993 after turning in the green one following twenty years in Naval Aviation Maintenance.
And on occasion there will be things to laugh about. And perhaps shed a tear or two.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Pro Armed Forces. Pro Second Amendment. Pro Life.
Got through a bout with Kidney Cancer in 2009. Renal Cell Carcinoma is the formal name. The left kidney is gone as a result.
Welcome to my world..........such that it is.



Thought for the current times

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."--CS Lewis--

Qualifications

"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, because America gave him the White House based on the same credentials."
Newt Gingrich

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‎"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.("Therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war")" from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

F-35 Lightning II News

U.S. Navy and U.K. Royal Navy F-35 unable to get aboard ship.

We have the F-16C and D blocks 52 and 60 in production but those are for other countries. We are not buying any Fighting Falcons for the US Air Force.

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18E & F are in full rate production for the Navy and soon the Marine Corps and will fit the bill nicely in the multi role capacity. It is constantly being improved to be more competitive in the world market.......But perhaps we should think about it for our Forces. The F-16s in service have been through multiple overhauls and some almost complete rebuilds. It was initially designed as a light weight fighter for air to air only and it was to be, essentially, a throw away airplane.

Gonna be interesting to say the least.

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The Wicked Jester Says

Positively Churchillian:

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

Arnaud Amalric

In 1204, he was named a papal legate and inquisitor and was sent by Innocent III with Peter of Castelnau and Arnoul to attempt the conversion of the Albigensians. Failing in this, he distinguished himself by the zeal with which he incited men by his preaching to the crusade against these heretics. He was in charge of the crusader army that sacked Béziers in 1209.[2] There, according to the Cistercian writer Caesar of Heisterbach, Arnaul Amalric supposedly responded when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics,

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
(Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His.)

This is the origin of the modern phrase, "Kill them all and let God sort them out."

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