Theo Spark

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Touring Long Beach Production Facility, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, February 4, 2011

Click on the image and enlarge for the full effect:

Quite an experience. Check the additional pictures here: "Long Beach Boeing C-17 Tour."

And previously: "The End is Near for Southern California's Conventional Aircraft Manufacturing."

Plus, at the Boeing homepage:

C-17 Globemaster III -- The C-17 is the world's premier heavy-airlift aircraft and has proven itself as a versatile strategic and theater airlifter in every recent worldwide operation, from Operation Iraqi Freedom to humanitarian relief missions. Worldwide, there are currently a total of 209 C-17s in service. Boeing is under contract with the U.S. Air Force to design, build and deliver 213 C-17s through July 2011. Boeing has delivered 202 aircraft to the Air Force as of September 2010.

Also, look for breaking updates on the Egypt crisis throughout the day.

Saturday Night is Bath Night..........

Honorable Mentions

Liberty’s Spirit-Cultural Relativism, Political Correctness, Elitist Racism and the Death of Freedom in the Arab Middle East
The Grouch-Beware of that Deadly Hickey!
Thinking Strategically-Shi-lang!
The Political Commentator – Rutgers University: Publicly funded institution or restricted country club?

Council Winners

Joshuapundit--Lipstick On A Pig – Whitewashing The Muslim Brotherhood
Second place with 2 votes – The Razor-Accepting the Change In Egypt
Third place with 1 2/3 votes – Bookworm Room – The Egypt crisis; or, the Community Activist and foreign policy
Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Future Pyramidland
Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Right Truth – You have options if government shuts down Internet
Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Colossus of Rhodey- A “shut up and write” protest doesn’t quite work, but …
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – Of Philanthropists and Monsters – Rockin’ the Casbah
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – Law Prof Gets It Wrong On Right To Revolt
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Simply Jews – Egypt revolution: so this is what it’s all about…
Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – VA Right – Obama Observes 30 Days of Silence on Egypt

Non-Council Winners

TPM- Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story submitted by Joshuapundit
Second place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Big Law Firm Takes Down Big Conservative Blogger submitted by Rhymes With Right
Second Place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –Energy Tribune – Is It Really The Warmest Ever? submitted by Bookworm Room
Second place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –Iowahawk – B.Y.O.B. submitted by The Watcher
Third place with 1 vote –Doug Ross – Constitutional Crisis Brewing: Administration Refuses To Submit to Subpoena Requests submitted by The Watcher
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Center For Security Policy -The Muslim Brotherhood: the enemy in its own words submitted by The Noisy Room
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -American Thinker-The Story Of The Egyptian Revolution submitted by The Watcher
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Passing Parade-State Of The Union submitted by Simply Jews
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Cato @Liberty-Judge Vinson’s Greatest Hits submitted by VA Right
Fifth place with 1/3 vote -The Pagan Temple – Sarah Palin Responds To Obama’s State Of The Union submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey

See ya'll next week! from the WoW grrls at GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD

As Opposed to a Fast Mine Field!!

Australia A Big Place, Mate...

H/T DML

ARABIAN SEA (Feb. 2, 2011) A Sailor stands watch on the fantail of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as bioluminescent organisms and aircraft on final approach light the night around her. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans)

H/T Marc

Dr. Seuss For Older Kids

H/T Gary P

Video: Assault on Taliban camp in Afghanistan

H/T Marc

Pic Dump...........

Scientific Discovery........

Queens University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science: Governmentium.
The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

H/T Rodney

SIGNS ON SYNAGOGUE BULLETIN BOARDS:

1. Under same management for over 5,763 years.

2. Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case.

3. What part of "Thou shalt not" don't you understand?

4 . Shul committees should be made up of three members, two of whom should be absent at every meeting.

5. Sign over the urinal in a bathroom at Hebrew University: "The future of the Jewish people is in your hands."

6. My mother is a typical Jewish mother. Once she was on jury duty. They sent her home. She insisted SHE was guilty.

7. Any time a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

8. It was mealtime during a flight on El Al. "Would you like dinner?," the flight attendant asked Moshe, seated in front. "What are my choices?," Moshe asked. "Yes or no," she replied.

9. An elderly Jewish man is knocked down by a car and is brought to the local hospital. A pretty nurse tucks him into bed and says, "Mr. Gevarter, are you comfortable?"
Gevarter replies, "I make a nice living...."

10. A rabbi was opening his mail one morning. Taking a single sheet of paper from an envelope he found written on it only one word: "shmuck." At the next Friday night service, the Rabbi announced, "I have known many people who
have written letters and forgot to sign their names, but this week I received a letter from someone who signed his name .. and forgot to write a letter. "

H/T Amnon

Video: 100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs

Video: Dude Gets Frightened Into The Air By Cannon Explosion

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News.............

GOP Poised to Win Senate

Is happiness a reasonable or worthy life goal?

Obama's Blocking Of New Power Plants Triggers Nationwide Blackouts

American Universities and the Fate of the Middle East

Hollywood’s Top 40

Hold the Applause: Revolutions like Egypt's most often end badly.

Britain facing 'unstoppable wave of home-grown suicide bombers' warns MI6

Named and shamed: The European human rights judges wrecking British law

Axing speed cameras has caused road deaths to FALL

Underground world hints at China's coming crisis

Japan 'should develop nuclear weapons to defend itself'

Burma names career soldier as president

Mubarak's Hired Thugs: Rural Poor Paid to Attack Opposition Supporters

Firemen called to rescue beer

German freighter sinks Indian frigate

Four arrested after Bangladesh girl 'lashed to death'

Column One: Israel and Arab democracy

and finally........

When Putin met Reagan H/T DML

Video: Fellas fighting Taliban

Royal Marines in Afghanistan

H/T Marc

Ad: Volkswagen: The Force

H/T Canis 61

"If Only The Islamists Hadn't Lied To Me"............from Dan Friedman

There are times when some conservatives exhibit the same willful intellectual naiveté as liberals, and sound just as thumb-sucking dumb. For a classic example, I urge you to have a look at today’s Wall St. Journal editorial, “Hamas, the Brotherhood and Egypt.” At once a tortured whitewash of Bush’s costly (costly to Israel) mistakes in Gaza and a downright funny plan for Egypt’s transition to “a viable democratic future” that could be taken for satire. It is not to be missed.

Saturday Totty.............

Can't. Won't.............from Rico

Read the following in this context:

"What can't be paid back, won't."

You can safely ignore the National Debt. It is reported on a cash-basis, and it is only $1.4 trillion Dollars.
What you should NOT ignore are the unreported unfunded National obligations that are more tha $100 trillion Dollars!

This is exactly WHY the US has been debasing its currency...it beats defaulting [for Democrats (C) read: we can't pay this back, so we won't]. Better to 'pay back' loans on nickels or pennies on the Dollar.

In two years we'll be 'celebrating' 100 years of the Federal Reserve (the FED). Yippee! Let's ignore the dabate over 'policy' this or 'policy' that for a moment, and consider not what has been SAID but rather what has been DONE!

The monetary rate of decay under the FED since 1913 looks like this (you debate and decide if this is arithmetic or geometric; the end result is the same):
- The Dollar lost 50% of its value in the first 33 years of the FED from 1913 to 1946,
- That 1946 Dollar lost 50% of its value in the following 24 years.
- By 1970, the value of the 1970 dollar halved again (yes, it dropped another 50%) in the following 9 years.
- The 1979 Dollar took 14 years to decline-drop-tank another 50% (give due credit to Volcker).

Before terminal MEGO sets in (my eyes glaze over) let's illustrate this in a simpler way. In a tangible way. Let's call this "A Tale of Two $50's."
- Once upon a time, there were two men. It was 1914 and they were both rich.
-- One had ten freshly printed $50 Dollar bills...the 'new' Federal Reserve Notes. They were pretty, but redeemable for nothing. He hid the notes under the floor of his house.
-- The other man had ten $50 Dollar bills...gold notes. They were also pretty, but they were redeemable for roughly 2.5 ounces of gold. He redeemed them and hid the gold under the floor of his house.
- Skipping the whole nightmare of FDR and Soetoro-Obama and fast forwarding to today. It is 2011.
-- The heirs to the first man's house find ten $50 Dollar bills. They are still redeemable for nothing. They are 'worth' less than a nickel-on-the-dollar from 1914 to 2011. They all celebrate by eating from the Dollar Menu at MacDonald's. Whee.
-- The heirs to the second man's house find 2.5 ounces of gold. That gold is worth over $3,000 present-day Dollars. They decide to keep the gold. It might be worth a lot one day.

This is devaluation. The death of fiat (paper) money.

What would YOU do?