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Thursday, 27 March 2014

Late Pic Dump......................

Aviation Quotes.................

1. When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. - Robert Livingston, "Flying The Aeronca"
 
2. Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day. - Layton A. Bennett
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Never fly the 'A' model of anything. - Ed Thompson
 
4. When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible. - Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. - Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot
 
6. A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum. - Jon McBride, astronaut
 
 
 
 
7. If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

8. If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it; Ride the bastard down. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican'
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I Am 80,000 Feet and Climbing. - Sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location on Kadena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. - Paul F. Crickmore
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. - Richard Herman, Jr., 'Firebreak'
 
12. There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime. - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970. (It was still there in 1972.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                  
13.The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities in life to experience all three at the same time. - Author Unknown
 
H/T Shelly

Israel's African Illegals: A Lesson For "Palestine​?"..........................from Dan Friedman

[Faced with a tide of African “infiltrators” infiltrating into Israel by way of the Sinai, the Israeli government has been uncharacteristically direct and decisive while trying to solve this thorny problem in a humane way. Confronted with Israel’s new strategy, including monetary incentives and beefed up security at the Egyptian border, many of these illegals are now leaving Israel voluntarily. And most surprising, there has been little Israel-bashing by the usual suspects in the media and on the left, and no resolutions from the UN either. The lessons learned from this success can, and should, be applied to the Arabs occupying Jewish land in Judea and Samaria. As Jabotinsky stated around the beginning of the last century, once the “Palestinians” (a word he never used) are convinced the Jews are in Israel to stay and aren’t going anywhere, the Arabs residing there will become a different people. More docile and much less aggressive about their illegitimate claims to Jewish patrimony. But first Israel has some convincing to do. The first step is to make a small amendment to its foundational documents - and its school books – that tells the world who’s boss in the Jewish state and why it exists. Here’s my suggestion: Israel, of the Jews, for the Jews, by the Jews. Then Israelis will have to live like they mean it. After that, and only after that, might there emerge a semblance of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. df]
 
 
Israel Hayom, March 27, 2014
"Number of infiltrators leaving Israel is five times more than in the past," says Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar • Upward trend began in December, after Knesset passed revised version of infiltration law.

Kylie Minogue - Sexercize - Official Video

ZoNation Turns 5! Zo Reflects on His Years at PJTV

It's been five years of ZoNation on PJTV! The mastermind behind the one-of-a-kind rants, skits and musical parodies reflects on some of the highlights over the years. Zo also tells us the story of how he ended up at PJTV and previews his plans for the future of ZoNation.


Bedtime Totty.................

Late News..................

Ah, the misery that is a bachelor's life .... breakfast ....

The ‘Show’ of Support for Common Core in Georgia

US to Commit More Forces to NATO Efforts

Full Circle: Obama Defends Iraq War

"I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm": Meet Senate Hopeful Joni Ernst

CA Democrat's Alleged Arms Traffickin​g Scheme Linked to Islamist Rebels

Chechen al Qaeda commander, popular Saudi cleric, and an Ahrar al Sham leader spotted on front lines in Latakia

Top Obama Aide Uses Expletive in Email Subject Line

Cost of Ferrying Obama Rises Sharply

Report: F-35 Delay to Harm U.S. Warfighting Ability

Untruthful and Untrustworthy Government

Obamacare Navigators Helping People Enroll At Mexican Consulates

Obama Makes Two Major Foreign Policy Gaffes on Europe Trip

‘The cat was terrified’: Gigantic 40-cm-long ‘Ratzilla’ invades family’s apartment in Solna, Sweden

Hamid's Shadow: Karzai Confidant Takes Aim at Afghan Presidency

Is a Philippine-Vietnam Anti-China Alliance in the Making?

The political class should be terrified of Nigel Farage

Scientists believe they know where MH370 crashed

Venezuelan government takes on crossword writers in protest crackdown

Redneck Triathlon 2014 benefitting Boot Campaign

Texas Redneck Triathlon benefitting Boot Campaign! Come try your luck at the very first triathlon event that requires NO athletic ability, and NO cardio what-so-ever!

Assemble a team of 4 and join us for a fun-filled day of excessive displays of redneckery, great fun, great food, and hopefully make some great friends along the way as well. This competition is light-hearted, yet bragging rights are still at stake as you compete to have your names etched on the famous "Chris Kyle Trophy." Each team will be paired with a combat veteran when you arrive, then you'll work your way through each of the shootin', fishin' and pasture-style-golf challenges set up by our distinguished committee. The proceeds from this unique event go directly to the benefit of our nation's truest heroes, those who have proudly served in the Armed Forces.

Date: May 31, 2014
Location: Walsh Ranch in Aledo, Tx
Hosts: Jon Bonnell, Ric Bonnell, Dan Roberts
Benificiary: Boot Campaign
Teams: 4 man team (no individual tickets sold) - $2,500
Limited to 24 teams

A History of the Disastrous Global Warming Hoax



By Alan Caruba

“It is the greatest deception in history and the extent of the damage has yet to be exposed and measured,” says Dr. Tim Ball in his new book, “The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science”.

Dr. Ball has been a climatologist for more than forty years and was one of the earliest critics of the global warming hoax that was initiated by the United Nations environmental program that was established in 1972 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established in 1988.

Several UN conferences set in motion the hoax that is based on the assertion that carbon dioxide (CO2) was causing a dramatic surge in heating the Earth. IPCC reports have continued to spread this lie through their summaries for policy makers that influenced policies that have caused nations worldwide to spend billions to reduce and restrict CO2 emissions. Manmade climate change—called anthropogenic global warming—continues to be the message though mankind plays no role whatever
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There is no scientific support for the UN theory.

CO2, despite being a minor element of the Earth’s atmosphere, is essential for all life on Earth because it is the food that nourishes all vegetation. The Earth has passed through many periods of high levels of CO2 and many cycles of warming and cooling that are part of the life of the planet.


“Science works by creating theories based on assumptions,” Dr. Ball notes, “then other scientists—performing their skeptical role—test them. The structure and mandate of the IPCC was in direct contradiction of this scientific method. They set out to prove the theory rather than disprove it.”

“The atmosphere,” Dr. Ball notes, “is three-dimensional and dynamic, so building a computer model that even approximates reality requires far more data than exists and much greater understanding of an extremely turbulent and complex system.” No computer model put forth by the IPCC in support of global warming has been accurate, nor ever could be.

Most of the reports were created by a small group of men working within the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia and all were members of the IPCC. The result was “a totally false picture supposedly based on science.”

The revelations of emails between the members of the CRU were made available in 2009 by an unknown source. Dr. Ball quotes Phil Jones, the Director of the CRU at the time of the leaks, and Tom Wigley, a former director addressing other CRU members admiting that “Many of the uncertainties surrounding the cause of climate change will never be resolved because the necessary data are lacking.”

The IPCC depended upon the public’s lack of knowledge regarding the science involved and the global warming hoax was greatly aided because the “mainstream media bought into and promoted the unproven theory. Scientists who challenged were denied funding and marginalized. National environmental policies were introduced based on the misleading information” of the IPCC summaries of their reports.

“By the time of the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report, the politics and hysteria about climate change had risen to a level that demanded clear evidence of a human signal,” notes Dr. Ball. “An entire industry had developed around massive funding from government. A large number of academic, political, and bureaucratic careers had evolved and depended on expansion of the evidence. Environmentalists were increasing pressure on the public and thereby politicians.”

The growing problem for the CRU and the entire global warming hoax was that no clear evidence existed to blame mankind for changes in the climate and still largely unknown to the public was the fact that the Earth has passed through many natural cycles of warmth and cooling. If humans were responsible, how could the CRU explain a succession of ice ages over millions of years?

The CRU emails revealed their growing concerns regarding a cooling cycle that had begun in the late 1990s and now, some seventeen years later, the Earth is in a widely recognized cooling cycle.

Moreover, the hoax was aimed at vast reductions in the use of coal, oil, and natural gas, as well as nuclear power to produce the electricity on which all modern life depends. There was advocacy of solar and wind power to replace them and nations undertook costly programs to bring about the reduction of the CO2 “fossil fuels” produced and spent billions on the “green” energy. That program is being abandoned.

At the heart of the hoax is a contempt for mankind and a belief that population worldwide should be reduced. The science advisor to President Obama, John Holdren, has advocated forced abortions, sterilization by introducing infertility drugs into the nation’s drinking water and food, and other totalitarian measures. “Overpopulation is still central to the use of climate change as a political vehicle,” warns Dr. Ball.

Given that the environmental movement has been around since the 1960s, it has taken decades for the public to grasp its intent and the torrents of lies that have been used to advance it. “More people,” notes Dr. Ball, “are starting to understand that what they’re told about climate change by academia, the mass media, and the government is wrong, especially the propaganda coming from the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

“Ridiculous claims—like the science is settled or the debate is over—triggered a growing realization that something was wrong.”  When the global warming advocates began to tell people that cooling is caused by warming, the public has realized how absurd the entire UN climate change argument has been.

Worse, however, has been “the deliberate deceptions, misinformation, manipulation of records and misapplying scientific method and research” to pursue a political objective. Much of this is clearly unlawful, but it is unlikely that any of those who perpetrated the hoax will ever be punished and, in the case of Al Gore and the IPCC, they shared a Nobel Peace Prize!

We are all in debt to Dr. Ball and a score of his fellow scientists who exposed the lies and debunked the hoax; their numbers are growing with thousands of scientists signing petitions and participating in international conferences to expose this massive global deception.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Why Texas is Booming: How Low Taxes & Small Government are Transforming the Lone Star State

"A state like this where you see so much growth and so much change...having a limited government apparatus on top of that and a robust private sector has been really good for us," says Erica Grieder, senior editor of Texas Monthly and author of the book Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas. "For the past 10 to 12 years, every economic metric you look at is better than the country as a whole—is better than what you see in most states—and is also pretty broad-based."


SIZE MATTERS 2 - Mike Ryan - INSANE Gymkhana Style Semi Truck Drifting and JUMP

Mike Ryan presents Size Matters 2 -- a gymkhana styled video full of super-sized stunts and close quarters drifting action. Legendary stunt driver and Pikes Peak champion, Mike Ryan in the Banks Super-Turbo Castrol Freightliner, goes toe-to-toe with newcomer Daniel Leavitt on the docks of Long Beach harbor.

Teatime Totty..................

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



H/T Jeff

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

Boko Haram: How a Militant Islamist Group Emerged in Nigeria

Trouble with the Law? Just Plead "Islam"

LOUISIA​NA - Black thugs attack white teens in Lafayette

Outspoken Israel critic said likely to replace Richard Falk as rights monitor

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Obama Investigat​ion; New Criminal Evidence Coming

Carter: Obama may be embarrasse​d to discuss race issues

17 News Companies Support FOIA Lawsuit Against Michael Mann

White man killed giving refuge to black mob victim

Russian Troop Movements Near Eastern Ukraine Trigger Fears of Imminent Invasion

Thousands welcome Blue Angels at first practice of 2014

PPD: Georgia man arrested at airport after trying to steal unoccupied plane

Man wined and dined Birmingham women to get $264,000 for phony investments; now he gets 45 months in prison

Osprey tries to catch an angler's fish; 9 pound bass jumps out of water to get caught in these amazing fishing videos

Rep. Roby: "Obamacare is fundmentally flawed," links to Sebelius saying deadline won't change

Michelle Obama Tells the ChiComs How America Used to Discriminate Against People Like Her and Her Husband

Silk pillows, a Jacuzzi and an honor bar: Inside Michelle Obama's luxurious $8,400-a-night presidential suite in China

The Blues Are Back In Town: Over 25,000 Turn Out For Practice

DUI: ‘Choose Your Ride’ Vehicle Unveiled

More Sleazy Harry Reid Payments to Granddaughter

Report: Obama uses asylum as de facto amnesty

Obama’s Vatican Pit Stop

Egypt’s Gen. El-Sisi runs for president, sets up 10,000-strong crack force to defend his regime

U.S. Tactical Nuclear Arms Mission Could Shift Among NATO Jets

Cartoon Round Up....






The Comic Book Version of an Important Erick Erickson Story...



Guess Where Your Ruling Class Republicans Will Be Next Week?

No bees, no food: John Miller at TEDxUNC

Commercial beekeeper John Miller has fought to help keep our world's natural pollinators alive. "The link between plants and bees is a seductive life cycle, and for 120 years my family has kept bees," he said, describing what he believes is the best job ever. However, over the last 70 years, America has lost half of its bee colonies due to their inability to find pasture, the increasing harm from pesticide and the viral predator bug, the verroa destructor. He came to TEDxUNC to remind us- no bees, no food.



H/T Pete H



H/T Paul B

Thursday Totty................

Flying Wisdom...............

Sage Advice for Flyers
Authors Unknown
Historic illustration credits and appreciation
go to Gil Walker
 
 
 
 
Flying Rules to Live By
 
1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.
 
2. Do not go near the edges of it.
 
3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
 
 
4. The three most common expressions in aviation are, "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh Shit".
 
5.Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Progress in airline flying: Now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.
 
7, Airspeed, altitude or brains: Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
 
 
 
 
 
8. A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
 
9.I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous.
 
10.We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!
 
 
 
 
 
11.If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter - and unsafe.
 
12. Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries.
 
 
 
 
13. Navy carrier pilots to Air Force pilots: Flaring is like squatting to pee.
 
14. Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
 
15.What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.
 
16.If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.
 
H/T Shelly

Political Brain Drain: Are All Politicians Stupid, or Just American Politicians?

Trifecta continues its examination of American political stupidity by asking whether all politicians are stupid, or just the ones in the United States. British politicians, irrespective of party, appear witty and well-informed. So what is wrong with American politicians like Joe Biden, who seem so dumb that they have become late night comedy laugh lines? Find out.


Very Sexy Trends for Spring/Summer 2014

Is housing about to hit the shi--er again?...from TPC/HAS


It seems as if the stock market, particularly some of the higher flying NASDAQ stocks, have hit a brick wall and turned down.

While that may or may not be short-lived, could the same thing be happening in the housing market?

Read at HAS here.

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

What Obama can do to Punish the Russians........................

Much has been said about what Obama should do to hurt the Russian economy. To me the plan is simple:



1) ban the use of coal in Russia,

2) mandate that Russia goes on Obamacare,

3) don't allow any drilling on Russian public land,

4) have the EPA pass rulings on Russian business,

5) re-define the full time Russian work week to 30 hrs,

6) raise the Russian minimum wage,

7) mandate overtime pay for gov’t employees.

8) Demand the Russian Government pay free Welfare benefits to un-qualified Citizens and Illegal immigrants.



I could go on but I guarantee these measures would bring the Russia economy to its knees; it has been working in the U. S. since 2009.

H/T Shelly