Serious contender for the coolest airplane that ever flew, the Messerschmitt ME-262 test flew using only its jet engines for the first time 18 July 1942 in Leipheim near Günzburg, Germany, piloted by Fritz Wendel. This was almost nine months ahead of the British Gloster Meteor's first flight on 5 March 1943.
Allied pilots referred to it as the "Blow Job".
Wartime footage, history, and THE ME-262 FLIES AGAIN! - STORMBRINGER SENDS
Saturday, 18 July 2009
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: ME 262
COWBOY BALLAD
Most people have heard the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, a ballad about a cowboy and young woman named Felina. It was a very popular song back in its day, still heard today on the 'oldies' stations.
Well there is another song written by Marty Robbins that was never popular. I am sure most people don't know it even exists. It is called "Felina".
If you don't know the song "El Paso" you will not appreciate the other song "Felina".
- STORMBRINGER SENDS
WWI Veteran Henry Allingham Dies Aged 113
Mr Allingham once attributed his grand age to 'cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women'.
He described to the Daily Mail how he remained haunted by scenes from the third battle of Ypres.
'They would just stand there in two feet of water in mud-filled trenches, waiting to go forward,' he said.
'They knew what was coming. It was pathetic to see those men like that.
'In many ways I don't think they have ever got the admiration and respect they deserved.'
He was also shot in the arm, telling the newspaper: 'The bullet passed through my arm and out the other side.
'They just bandaged me up and sent me out again. It's so long ago that the scar has gone.' 18 July 2009
Goodbye, Sir.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The 1930 Version was the Best. The graveyard shelling is spooky.
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Senator Boxer offends head of Black Chamber of Commerce at Energy Hearing.....
This Video is Somethin' Else: Senator Boxer starts off by complaining about how the prior Senator went over his allotted 5 minutes of speaking time, and insists that she get to do the same (prompting laughter amongst the aides behind her)... and then proceeds to lead the hearing downhill from there. She clearly brings race into the matter... and is about as condescending as can be.
H/T Shelly
Also at The Jawa Report
What's working Joe?..............from Rico
Joe Biden says "It's working" but as usual, he's either lying or missing the point.
Mid-way through July there have now been 57 bank failures this year. This compares to 25 failures last year, and 3 (three) in 2007.
"Crashing" the system is certainly "working" but damned little else is.
1st SPECIAL FORCES GROUP, Torii Station, Okinawa
This post is a part of an on-going series History of US Army Special Forces on STORMBRINGER
Given the maritime nature throughout their Area of Operations and Responsibility (AOR), 1st Group SF teams are proficient at maritime operations; surface & sub-surface swimmer infil supported by Zodiac boats and kayaks launched from "mother-ships", submarine lock-out, ramp-launched from MH-47 or MH-53 Special Operations helicopters, or even via parachute from MC-130 aircraft. The teams also infil via fast-rope insertion - allowing them to land directly on top of their target - and military free-fall HALO (High-Altitude, Low-Opening) parachuting, exiting aircraft at 25,000 feet and landing within 75 feet of the objective.
The twin Torii Gates at the front gate of Torii Station, Okinawa.
Somewhere in Pyongyang is a desk drawer filled with photographs of me flipping the bird at the guy who used to take our pictures as we drove out these gates - S.L.
The History of 1st Special Forces Group.
Amerika
"There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom." La Cultus
Old Friend John Jay Writes:
friends:my congressman, "doc" hastings, ran a janitorial service in the tri-cities, washington, before being elected to congress.
i have met him. he is a boob. a good enough natured boob, but he is not a man of intellectual substance.
sonny bono's wife is in congress.
do any of you see an emerging pattern?
when you have people in politics of little substance, and who either do not understand the philosophical underpinnings of our way of life, or are incapable of understanding them, or, far worse, are totally incapable of even an inkling of comprehending them, ... , then, our system of government is absolutely incapable of defending itself against attack by those who would usurp our liberties.
as is the case, right now.
the republicans, thoroughly mediocre to the bone, are incapable of intellectually comprehending the dangers to our liberty, they simply do not see the denounment looming, nad they have not the stuff to rise up and defend us.
they are, moreover, rank physical cowards, as people often are who have very thinkly developed intellects. they are not guided by principle, but by the precepts of survival.
we are in very big trouble.
if anybody is going to assert our liberties, it is going to have to be ourselves.
the republicans simply are not up to the job, no way, no how, no siree bob.
john jay
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Friday, 17 July 2009
RAF Christmas Menu 1943.......
...does anyone have a USAAF Christmas Menu in the UK from the same era?
Also we would like to know what No 10 ITW was?
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H/T Pete H
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Friday Golf Tip........and caddies.
ASK SOPHIE SANDOLO! "Hi ISUCKATGOLF fans, I’m Sophie Sandolo and I’m going to be answering your question for ISUCKATGOLF. You can ask me anything about golf, tips, my game, my experiences as a pro, with modeling, my calendar, whatever! I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Hope to hear from you soon! Ciao!" .jpg)
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Editors note: This is doubling as bedtime totty as I need a decent nights sleep.
Loggers (and Rebs) for Palin
Sarah Palin: The Only Man Left in America
Are We Lumberjacks? is Hooked on Palin! It's the first thing that's made me feel hopeful in awhile. Maybe there will be a Surge in America.
Newsbusters Sends this Greeting From Jackie Mason. I liked the way he says 'hullabaloo.' He nails Obama!
via Lucianne
THEY ARE MASTERS AT CHESS
What is REALLY happening here?
By now we've all seen it - those of us who monitor the modern alternate to the mainstream media - the Russian handshake snub to President Obama. The question is, did they refuse the handshakes BEFORE or AFTER Obama gave up the missile shield?
My take on it: the Russians are masters at chess. What you saw there was not spontaneous, and nobody at that level in Russia does anything that outrageous without a plan. That was a deliberate move.
What I'm saying happened is a team of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) psychologists analyzed Obama's narcissist make up, and coached the Russian negotiating team. They put Obama so far off his game that, when it was time to sit down to do the talking, he was so desperate to be liked he gave up the major tenet of US foreign policy - the missile shield - without asking a thing in return.
Me? If I was President and a team of Russians did a thing like that to me, I'd say, "Fine. Have a nice party. F*ck you very much." Then flip them all the digitus impudicus and turn and leave the room.
You're the President of the United States, Mr. Obama, the Leader of the Free World and the single most powerful man in the world, and you let a bunch of horse traders play you like a cheap fiddle. Smooth move, Mr. President. NOT.
- Analysis by Team STORMBRINGER
And now, on Tehran TV, the latest news from London ...
Welcome to a special edition of Eye On The Infidel, live from London, capital of the hated New Labour tyranny.
The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Brown, is clinging to power despite receiving only 15 per cent of the vote in last week's elections.
In some conservative tribal regions, the ruling junta's share fell to just 8 per cent, with government candidates beaten into fourth place by fascists and separatists.
Even in lowland Scotland , formerly a Brownite stronghold, Labour was humiliated by nationalist forces.
It represented a new nadir in the fortunes of Labour under the dictator Brown, an ultra-orthodox Presbyterian theocrat, who replaced the despised Bushite running dog Tony Blair in a coup two years ago.
But Brown is refusing to accept the result of the election and has declared himself the winner. He told the official state broadcaster that he was getting on with the job, which is what people wanted him to do.
A clumsy attempt to remove the Supreme Leader by dissidents rallying under the banner of the breakaway Guardianista faction was ruthlessly crushed.
Brown then embarked on a shambolic reshuffle of his Cabinet, in an attempt to purge reformists from key posts. But at least two of the leading dissidents remain in office, a stark illustration of the Supreme Leader's underlying political weakness.
Such is the parlous level of his support at home, he has been forced to draft in from Europe exiled party elders like the twice-disgraced mortgage fraudster Ayatollah Mandelson and expenses baroness Harridan Kinnock to shore up his crumbling regime.
Civil unrest has been mounting since the collapse of the infidel capitalist banking system. In London, a newspaper vendor was clubbed to death by masked police during violent clashes between security forces and anti-globalisation protesters.
Similar hard-line tactics, involving riot shields and baton charges, have also been used to suppress peaceful protests by demonstrators opposed to Labour's totalitarian efforts to eradicate traditional English countryside pursuits.
In the Islamic province of Luton , troops clashed with brave members of local jihadist groups campaigning peacefully for the introduction of Sharia law in Britain and an end to the religious wars of aggression against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hundreds of thousands of women have taken to wearing hijabs to express their support for Sharia. The burqa is now a common sight in British towns and cities.
Meanwhile, in London, millions of commuters took to the streets after the Underground system was brought to a standstill because of a strike by revolutionary transport workers loyal to the deposed spiritual leader, Ayatollah Redken.
At the heart of this crisis is the fact that under the Supreme Leader's profligate stewardship, the country is effectively bankrupt.
Britain 's vast oil and gas reserves have been squandered and taxes are soaring.
As well as a run on the banks, there has been widespread looting of department stores, particularly the John Lewis chain, led by members of the ruling elite making off with sofas, plasma televisions and kitchen sinks.
Politicians from all parties have stolen millions of pounds submitting false expenses claims and using public money to build private property empires and watch pornographic films.
This corruption goes right to the heart of the political establishment, with even the Treasury Minister implicated in wholesale tax evasion. Scandalously, he remains in office, even though the Speaker, Ayatollah Gorbals, has been forced to resign.
Once the home of parliamentary democracy, Westminster is little more than a talking shop, poorly attended and utterly discredited. Most of Britain 's laws are now imposed by foreign bureaucrats and judges without any debate.
Freedom of speech has been brutally repressed. Police arrested an Opposition spokesman simply for doing his job.
There is also the question of the democratic legitimacy of the Brown junta.
He seized power without an election and has repeatedly demonstrated his contempt for accountability and the will of the people.
Yet rather than acknowledge their anger, he persists in changing the subject and is now considering tinkering with the voting system in a cynical last-ditch attempt to remain in power. The Supreme Leader has withdrawn into his bunker and is reduced to issuing deranged statements on YouTube.
It is frightening to think that this madman has access to nuclear weapons and has never accepted Middle England's right to exist. He appears to be hell-bent on wiping the United Kingdom off the map and submerging it into an imperialist European superstate.
And yet the British still have the nerve to lecture us on democracy. My fellow Iranians, we should give thanks that we are in the safe hands of our beloved President Ahmadinejad, peace be upon him.
H/T DML
Bits and Bobs......
Post op..........
A surgeon went to check on his blond patient after an operation.
She was awake, so he examined her. “You’ll be fine,” he said.
She asked, “How long will it be before I am able to have a normal sex life again doctor?”
The surgeon seemed to pause, which alarmed the girl.
“What’s the matter Doctor? I will be all right, won’t I?”
He replied, “Yes, you’ll be fine. It’s just that no one has ever asked me that after having their tonsils out.”
H/Ts DML & Rodney
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