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)

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Navy Biofuel Contract: Another Solyndra?

..........At a time when the military budget is under attack and is being cut, the Department of Agriculture and Department of the Navy announced earlier this month (December, 2011) that the Navy bought 450,000 gallons of biofuel at $26 per gallon, $16 per gallon if the biofuel is mixed with regular jet fuel. That is up to nine times the cost of regular jet fuel. In August, 2011, the Obama administration announced their intentions to spend $510 million during the next three years to buy advanced “drop-in” biofuel for military transportation. The purchase is part of the Obama administration’s “We Can’t Wait” initiative, which involves bypassing Congress when possible. And all of this comes as Obama cancels the Keystone XL oil pipeline that would facilitate access to the estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of oil in North America.............


"We Can't Wait" OK. So the rush to bypass the Congress and do business via "executive order" is starting to show some serious problems. 
$26 a gallon? So the forces will simply have to stay at home now due to the extreme cost of operating in what is for them a normal manner? I knew the Sand Crawler In Chief hated us but he has taken that to a completely new level................
The rest is at the link.
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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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