Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the New F-4?
Is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the New F-4? — War is Boring — Medium:
"“Buying the F-4 for the USAF instead of the much more effective A-4 meant we delivered far less bombs on Vietnam targets at a cost two and a half times as high while losing at least three times as many of our aircrews,” he says.
“You'd have done far better by giving the USAF 500 F-5s for air-to-air and 2,500 A-4s for bombing. That would have cost one-third of what we paid for 3,000 USAF F-4s, and we’d have destroyed far more Vietnamese ground targets and at least twice as many MiGs.”"
"“Buying the F-4 for the USAF instead of the much more effective A-4 meant we delivered far less bombs on Vietnam targets at a cost two and a half times as high while losing at least three times as many of our aircrews,” he says.“You'd have done far better by giving the USAF 500 F-5s for air-to-air and 2,500 A-4s for bombing. That would have cost one-third of what we paid for 3,000 USAF F-4s, and we’d have destroyed far more Vietnamese ground targets and at least twice as many MiGs.”"
The most beautiful snowflake photos you’ll ever see, captured with a cheap DIY camera - Slideshow | ExtremeTech
The most beautiful snowflake photos you’ll ever see, captured with a cheap DIY camera - Slideshow | ExtremeTech: "All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between 1958 and 1992. Such photography ought to be impossible without a microscope or other expensive gear, but it just perfectly illustrates the photographic and aesthetic ingenuity of Alexey Kljatov, a Russian photographer who lives in Moscow."
Obamacare zealots care not whom they destroy-----Protecting Volunteer Firefighters from Obamacare
Protecting Volunteer Firefighters from Obamacare | Washington Free BeaconThe current IRS policy defines volunteer firefighters as employees for federal tax purposes.
....“Make no mistake, this wrinkle we discovered in Obamacare would not provide health insurance to the uninsured, rather it will close down fire companies and do real damage to public safety.”
The “Employer’s Shared Responsibility Provision” of the ACA requires employers with more than 50 employees to provide health insurance for those who work more than 30 hours a week.
Many volunteer firefighters, such as those in Burlington, Wash., work more than 30 hours a week.
New stuff drives the unions and liberals nuts! 11 amazing technologies that have totally changed our world for the better
11 amazing technologies that have totally changed our world for the better | ZDNet:Transistors
Transistors were first developed in 1947 by Bell Laboratories and allow precise control of the flow of current through circuit boards. A transistor is the active component in almost all modern electronics systems. Moore’s law predicted that over the history of computing hardware the amount of transistors in integrated circuits will double every two years, influencing their impact on the evolution of technology.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
The dang ice just won't cooperate------------------Polar Ice Caps Are Global Warming Deniers
Issue #112: Polar Ice Caps Are Global Warming Deniers | Heartlander Magazine:"Southern Hemisphere polar ice extent set new records this week, combining with fairly average Northern Hemisphere polar ice extent to set the final stages of a year marked by above-average global polar ice extent.
Polar ice caps, apparently, are global warming deniers, attacking the science of alarmist global warming predictions."
Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors
Pure "pander for hits" post of the day.
For Forbes and me.....
Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors - Forbes
For Forbes and me.....
Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors - Forbes
Twisting the Constitution to DEATH! The ACLU doesn’t want this high school choir to sing in church concert — read why
Every time they win, America loses.And look for their attacks on the Muslim takeover of some American cities.
And schools.
Ain't gonna find a squeak of protest from these cowards.
The ACLU doesn’t want this high school choir to sing in church concert — read why | Rare:
"The ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation sent letters to the schools within the past week saying participation in the religious event gives the appearance the schools were endorsing or advancing a specific religious message or denomination, in violation of the First Amendment.
The complaints are now aimed at only the Kalispell schools after the groups learned the Whitefish choir is an extracurricular program.
Andrew Seidel, staff attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said the students are being coerced “to forgo their constitutional right to a secular government in order to participate in a school activity.”
Kalispell Superintendent Darlene Schottle said student participation in the concerts is voluntary."
President Obama's minimum wage hike would be JOBICIDE for young Americans hoping for a first job.
Our Panderer in Chief sides with his union comrades.
Again.
Ken Braun: President Obama's minimum wage hike would price young adults out of jobs | MLive.com
Again.
Ken Braun: President Obama's minimum wage hike would price young adults out of jobs | MLive.com
A smattering of fast food workers walked off the job across America again on Thursday, demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage. The demonstrations were most popular in large cities, and 200 picketers reportedly protested outside a McDonald’s in Detroit.
President Obama deliberately added fuel to this fire, delivering a speech in an inner-city D.C. neighborhood a day before the scheduled protests, calling for a minimum wage hike to over $10 per hour and mentioning the fast food industry specifically.
President Obama deliberately added fuel to this fire, delivering a speech in an inner-city D.C. neighborhood a day before the scheduled protests, calling for a minimum wage hike to over $10 per hour and mentioning the fast food industry specifically.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report on Friday, showing 20.8 percent of teenagers cannot find work, and 12.5 percent of African-Americans are facing the same prospect. For Detroit, a city with higher unemployment than the nation and a huge population of African-American teenagers, the demonstration outside McDonald’s and the President’s speech were far from helpful.
....Minimum wage jobs are the first rung on the economic ladder for many young Americans, regardless of where they live. An abundance of entry-level jobs means a lot of opportunity for new workers to enter the labor force, gain experience, and move upward.
...Increasing the minimum wage puts that first rung on the economic ladder higher, beyond the reach of more new workers. It causes the employers to hire fewer of them and look for other options.
They didn't simply steal everything they could. They stole ALL the money that was supposed to maintain the city infrastructure! Detroit's water drains away from ravaged pipes
If Obama had a city...... you know the rest.....Sinkholes on the way?
My Way News - Detroit's water drains away from ravaged pipes:
"Torrents of water spew from broken pipes in Detroit's Crosman School, cascading down stairs before pooling on the warped tile of what was once a basketball court.
No one knows how long the water has flowed through the moldy bowels of the massive building a few miles north of downtown, but Crosman has been closed since 2007.
It's not the only empty structure where city water steadily fills dark basements or runs into the gutter, wasting money and creating safety hazards.
As Detroit goes through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, the city's porous water system illustrates how some of its resources are still draining away even as it struggles to stabilize its finances and provide basic services."
They hate us. They really hate us! Air Force Base Takes Down Nativity Scene Following Complaint
Air Force Base Takes Down Nativity Scene Following Complaint « CBS Charlotte:
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (CBS Charlotte/AP) — Officials at Shaw Air Force Base are trying to determine what to do about a holiday display after a Nativity scene was taken down last week.
Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Keavy Rake said Tuesday a Nativity display was set up Friday by a group of volunteers from the base chapel at a small lake on the installation. The site was near where a tree lighting ceremony was scheduled Friday evening.
Rake says the Military Religious Freedom Foundation lodged a complaint about the display through the Air Force in Washington.
And we keep re-electing these scumbags.....Federal workers 'essential' during shutdown now not essential during DC snow day
Federal workers 'essential' during shutdown now not essential during DC snow day | WashingtonExaminer.com
How things change in just two months: Thousands of government workers who were deemed “essential” during the government shutdownin September, when their paychecks were at risk, have now, in a dramatic reversal, been deemed nonessential while they enjoy a paid snow day off.
...In the District of Columbia, which was forced to follow the same standard because of its relationship with the federal government, Mayor Vincent Gray sought to avoid any employees having to be sidelined by arguing that every single one of the city's 33,000 employees was “essential to the protection of public safety, health, and property,” as he wrote to federal officials.
But on Tuesday, a District of Columbia spokeswoman told the Washington Examinerthat virtually all D.C. employees were at home due to the snow that dusted the capital region.
History for December 11
Another pure scam to steal from the citizens of developed countries and give to prop up the leaders of third world dictatorships.
History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com:
"1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases." "
History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com:
"1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases." "
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
This only works if the "racist" is a coward and runs away from the lie.
Odd.
Actually being a coward doesn't seem to bother republican electeds.
I'm thinkin' they might not be so "bold" if it they wanted to slur Muslims..........Atheists' Times Square Billboard: 'Who Needs Christ at Christmas? Nobody'
"Many on the left contest that conservatives have pulled the idea that there is a "War on Christmas" out of thin air.
But even if American liberals deny that such a war is being waged, the country's leading atheist group, American Atheists has no qualms about firing a shot right across the bough of American Christians.
The group has bought and ad on an electronic billboard in Times Square that asks passers-by: "Who need Christ during Christmas? Nobody."
They got the taxpayer to "pay the piper". Now, watch out!-----Detroit's Emergency Manager Threatens Pension Fund Takeover; Blame the Unions
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Detroit's Emergency Manager Threatens Pension Fund Takeover; Blame the Unions:"Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr says a pension fund takeover is a "right, if not an obligation" after Orr learned of extra, unwarranted pension payments.
Kevyn Orr said in a recent interview that at the current pace, the city's General Services System pension fund could lose its ability to pay pensions owed to current and future retirees within 12 years.
A takeover is a "right, if not an obligation, that I have to consider under the statute, and we're considering that right now," he said."
MSM, Code Pink, University riot-a-day types strangely silent-----Obama Administration Sees Three Quarters of All U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
Remember when the networks really "cared" about our military deaths?I think they sorta became less interested around the end of January, 2009.
Obama Administration Sees Three Quarters of All U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan:
"Almost three quarters of the 2,153 U.S. military fatalities in the 12-year-old Afghanistan war have taken place since Obama was first inaugurated, according to an Associated Press (AP) tally."
OMG, they're gonna kill the Pizza Bowl!!! ---- Is this the final Pizza Bowl?
MM3rdQB: Is this the final Pizza Bowl? | Crain's Detroit Business:"This year’s bowl, which will be Pitt (6-6) versus Bowling Green (10-3) at 6 p.m. on Dec. 26, is the final game under the current contract with Ford Field.
The fate of the Pizza Bowl has been in doubt since the Detroit Lions announced over the summer that they’ll host a new bowl matching Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference teams at Ford Field in a six-year deal that begins in 2014.
“If you look at any city right now, there are very, very few that can support two major bowl games,” Lions President Tom Lewand said in July, adding that the Lions would be putting all of their support behind the yet-to-be-named Big Ten/ACC bowl."
First chick to run a big automotive. Gotta make the lib's thongs quiver------Mary Barra to replace Dan Akerson as CEO of GM
Mary Barra to replace Dan Akerson as CEO of GM | Crain's Detroit Business:"General Motors has named product development chief Mary Barra to succeed Dan Akerson as CEO, making her the first female CEO in the global automotive industry, the automaker said today."
I think the TSA agent was afraid of sock monkeys named "Rooster"-------TSA shakes down a toy monkey for his tiny gun
TSA shakes down a toy monkey for his tiny gun | Rare:"We can all rest a little easier now:
Mr. Rooster Monkburn, the cowboy sock monkey, has been disarmed by the fine agents of the Transportation Security Administration in St. Louis.
Phyllis May is a small business owner who makes and sells sock monkey dolls.
She had a few with her to work on during the flight, and one was a cowboy character with a small plastic gun in his holster.
“She said ‘If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,’ and I said ‘really?’” said May.
Obviously a tiny plastic gun stolen from a sock monkey would be enough to scare any thinking person. I mean, look at this terrifying weapon.
The agent then threatened to call the police."
31.9%: U.S.-Mexico Border City Leads Nation in Unemployment
31.9%: U.S.-Mexico Border City Leads Nation in Unemployment | CNS News:"The Yuma, Ariz., metropolitan area, which sits on the U.S-Mexico border, had a 31.9 percent unemployment rate in October, the highest of any metropolitan area in the country, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The El Centro, Calif., metropolitan area, also on the U.S.-Mexico border, had a unemployment rate of 22.8 percent, the second highest in the country."
MUST SEE morons on the road-----Amazing video shows 40 car pile-up on snow-covered Wisconsin highway
Amazing video shows 40 car pile-up on snow-covered Wisconsin highway | Mail Online:
"Incredible footage of a mass pile-up, involving around 40 cars on a snow-covered highway, has been released - and miraculously, no one died.
The crashes occurred on Highway 41/45 near Germantown, Wisconsin on Sunday and continued for around five minutes.
Several cars skidded off the road onto a grass verge, while many others crashed as they sped towards the carnage, unable to stop fast enough in the wintry conditions."
"Incredible footage of a mass pile-up, involving around 40 cars on a snow-covered highway, has been released - and miraculously, no one died.
The crashes occurred on Highway 41/45 near Germantown, Wisconsin on Sunday and continued for around five minutes.
Several cars skidded off the road onto a grass verge, while many others crashed as they sped towards the carnage, unable to stop fast enough in the wintry conditions."
Well heck, the guy WAS speeding! ---Cop Kills Unarmed Man After Sarcastic Remark
» Cop Kills Unarmed Man After Sarcastic Remark Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: "A campus police offer in San Antonio has been placed on paid leave following the shooting of an unarmed student who directed a sarcastic remark toward the officer.The incident took place Friday morning during a traffic stop close to the University of the Incarnate Word. KSAT News reports that 23-year-old honor student Robert Cameron Redus was shot to death by Cpl. Christopher Carter at around around 2 a.m.
After pulling Redus over for speeding, according to the police report, witnesses said that the officer emptied his gun into the student, without warning and despite the fact he was unarmed.
“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know? I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” one witness said. “He emptied the gun on him… Boom, boom, boom.Six shots — five or six.”
Another witness, Mohammad Haidarasl, says that Redus’ last words were “Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?” said to Carter in a sarcastic off-handed tone. Haidarasl added that he heard the officer saying “Stop resisting, stop resisting.”"
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