Happy Hour
"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON
Mother, Mother Ocean
Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
Yoda
"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker
Counted the Stars
Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Spot-On Quote of The Day: From Bob Belvedere
On Bob'a most excellent Blog, The Camp Of The Saints.
Complete linkage and the skinny for your perusal and enjoyment.
The Spot-On Quote of The Day!
Complete linkage and the skinny for your perusal and enjoyment.
The Spot-On Quote of The Day!
20,000 pageviews!
Sometime about 1400 Local Time in the Desert, I had my 20,000th viewer here at Old Retired Petty Officer!
Wow! I know it is not a lot but hey, I am still doing the regular old Blogger thing and I still have much to learn.
But it feels good to see that many in just about a year and a half.
Wow! I know it is not a lot but hey, I am still doing the regular old Blogger thing and I still have much to learn.
But it feels good to see that many in just about a year and a half.
From my friend Ira at Facebook
The NEXT time anti-nuclear power activists tell you that nuclear power is inherently unsafe, ask "Safer than what?"
1. In 1944 a gas explosion in Cleveland leveled a neighborhood and killed 130.
2. Coal mining has killed 100,000 miners, in the 20th century and continues to kill an average of six a day in China.
3. A hydro electric dam collapsed during the last earthquake, wiped away 1800 homes and killed a yet to be established number of people.
4. A coal plant must be fed with a 100 car train every 30 hours while an equivalent nuclear plant will see refueling from six trailer trucks once every two years.
5. Uranium is supplied to the world's nuclear plants from 45 mines. Russia is offering to supply all the world's plants from just one mine. There are 283 mines in West Virginia and 449 in Kentucky alone.
6. The amount of energy that can be harvested from wind, hydro electric and solar is about 15 orders of magnitude less than Nuclear; meaning those renewables are 150 times less efficient.
7. The Hoover Dam requires a 250 square mile land area reservoir to produce the energy equivalent of one nuclear plant on one square mile.
8. Windmills require even more land. Replacing the two reactors in Indian Point in Westchester NY would require lining the Hudson River from New York City to Albany NY with 45 story windmills spaced one quarter mile apart, and since they would operate only one third of the time, backup power would be required.
9. Solar too is a land hog, requiring 20 square miles of state of the art mirrors or photovoltaic panels, to equal on nuclear plant. Of course as the sun does not always shine, a backup plant is in order.
1. In 1944 a gas explosion in Cleveland leveled a neighborhood and killed 130.
2. Coal mining has killed 100,000 miners, in the 20th century and continues to kill an average of six a day in China.
3. A hydro electric dam collapsed during the last earthquake, wiped away 1800 homes and killed a yet to be established number of people.
4. A coal plant must be fed with a 100 car train every 30 hours while an equivalent nuclear plant will see refueling from six trailer trucks once every two years.
5. Uranium is supplied to the world's nuclear plants from 45 mines. Russia is offering to supply all the world's plants from just one mine. There are 283 mines in West Virginia and 449 in Kentucky alone.
6. The amount of energy that can be harvested from wind, hydro electric and solar is about 15 orders of magnitude less than Nuclear; meaning those renewables are 150 times less efficient.
7. The Hoover Dam requires a 250 square mile land area reservoir to produce the energy equivalent of one nuclear plant on one square mile.
8. Windmills require even more land. Replacing the two reactors in Indian Point in Westchester NY would require lining the Hudson River from New York City to Albany NY with 45 story windmills spaced one quarter mile apart, and since they would operate only one third of the time, backup power would be required.
9. Solar too is a land hog, requiring 20 square miles of state of the art mirrors or photovoltaic panels, to equal on nuclear plant. Of course as the sun does not always shine, a backup plant is in order.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Pippa Middleton: Upskirt Photo
Link is to Bob's Place: The Camp Of The Saints. I must say that other Middleton Girl is quite the beauty herself.
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2011/04/29/pippa-middleton-upskirt-photo/
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2011/04/29/pippa-middleton-upskirt-photo/
TCOTS: Rule 5 for today
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2011/04/28/rule-5-news-28-april-2011-a-d/
Go to Bob's place and enjoy!
Go to Bob's place and enjoy!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Late Rule Five Saturday
Seriously great linkage here.
Scantily clad and simply gorgeous!
Enjoy!
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2011/04/23/rule-5-saturday-61/
Scantily clad and simply gorgeous!
Enjoy!
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2011/04/23/rule-5-saturday-61/
From NewsRealBlog----Leftist women castrate our men
Go check this one out. What do you think happened to Bill "Air Start" Clinton?
Monday, April 25, 2011
F-16XL Air Refueling Pictures from the Air Refueling Archive
Cool shots over the Mojave Desert with the super modified Falcon taking on fuel in the sky.
http://airrefuelingarchive.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/f-16xl-air-refueling-pictures/
http://airrefuelingarchive.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/f-16xl-air-refueling-pictures/
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Some Rule Five on a Sunday Evening!
Guys don't make passes................................................
Yeah. Right.
Rule 5 from Three Beers Later
Yeah. Right.
Rule 5 from Three Beers Later
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I will not go down and tell my children I didn't have the courage, the conviction, the commitment or the character to fight for this country...Don't go home and let your children down~~ LTC Allen West
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)

