RDO Ramblings

Today is my RDO-Regular Day Off, in our alternate pay period here in use at Eddie's Airplane Patch in The SE Kern County Desert.
Found this one on That Book of Face....................................

Browncoats! Unite and Stand Ready!

Time for a somewhat meaningless off beat post...................................

Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black. Tell them I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea. You can't take the sky from me. There's no place I can be Since I've found Serenity……But you can't take the sky from me.

Sunday update and random stuff

Working on a post about my last deployment on The Good Ship Kitty Hawk. I have sent it to a few folks I know that are excellent at the written word, far better than I. I asked them to read it and make any comments and recommendations. When I get it polished it will be here in it's entirety.

Desert=Hot. We hit 111 here in The SE Kern County Desert yesterday and are at 102 today.  Cooling tomorrow, only 91. Then back to the century mark on Tuesday. I like being on swings. At least when the sun goes down the wind picks up and makes life on the line tolerable.

The Kings lost the Western Final in five games to Chicago. They still had a good year as short as it was. I like the way they are using their farm system lately. Detroit is still the best at it, though.

For the mechanics out there...............................
The large version is at this link: http://aviationhumor.net/mechanics-2/ and other funny stuff about aviation.

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.


My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crib, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her: “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said: “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

Saturday and not moving much

I picked up some kind of bug in Oceanside last week. Ugh.
I did go to work on Thursday. Went home about 1000. I went in long enough yesterday to get my CPR re-certification and pick up my cholesterol meds from the base pharmacy.
Home with Mr. Nyquil, orange juice and Powerade.
Got the Sens at Flyers on NHL Network on. Ottawa is up 3-0 in the first period at about the 14 minute mark. Playoff positioning. The playoffs start on the 11th of April.
I did get to meet a lot of folks at Fort Rosecrans on Tuesday that I had only known through the blogs and the social media.
I think I am going to revamp the blog roll and make a separate one for those of us who followed Lex. Just thinking about it as the current one does work, more or less.
Not to sure about the new Blogger set up..............may take some getting used to.