Tali-baddie snuffed out in Pakistan Hogs now porting JDAMs Awesome: History’s six most lethal aircraft Squids getting their money’s worth out of LANTFLT An open letter to the CNO Hey, even Islam’s got Rednecks. --John Noonan......
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CDR Salamander wrote an interesting post today on CDR Salamander: Of course …. Here’s a quick excerpt Proactively “From the Seaâ€�; leveraging the littoral best practices for a paradigm breaking six-sigma best business case in the global commons, rightsizing the core values supporting our mission statement via the 5-vector model. … Read the full post here......
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So says SECDEF. Good find from CDR Salamander, with Phibian’s mild pushback of the 1000 Ship Navy concept. Met a couple of folks recently working for Gates somewhat closely. They’re following this guy’s thinking closely. If the rest of Gates’ thinking is like the pull quotes, it sounds a lot like what I have been screaming about at my level for a while.......
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We’re one week out from the election, so it’s time to break out some Thunder(struck, that is). Click here to view the embedded video. Bill Whittle delivers three circles of shame on the viral Barack Obama WBEZ interview Shoebox put up yesterday. Steve T found the Obamination Express targeting Fox News for noticing that interview. Lao brings back a classic speech in r......
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Go read Salamander . Now, what different have you heard from stuff like him and the five or six usual spots lately? We’re getting into a rut. You know as well as I do that a couple of retired O-6s have a plan, if unarticulated, to stir some stuff up, but that’s about all I see right now. And the comment response to Phibian’s rant is to watch a movie? Okay. Stop watching V......
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+ International Observations reprinted the Woodward article that mentioned Tom’s Fallon piece. + So did CDR Salamander . + Albert linked Don’t let the door hit you on your way out . + bootslack added BFA to his reading list. + If We Ran It likes Tom’s articles in Esquire. + The Politics of Scrabble linked Still deeply but closely divided . + Nimble Books linked ......
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I came across this little tidbit a couple of days ago. I sent it over to Phibian because I knew he could capture in writing, the proper level of outrage that this particular type of thinking by our once great Navy deserves. Go read the particulars over at Phibs’s place- here . I’ll wait for you to read it and come back. If you are not outraged when you read that swill-then you have......
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Paul used to be Saul. People have lots of different aspects that make them who they are, and the Salamander unearths his Maximum Rock’ ;n’R oll roots to wax loquacious on his love for his bride and for the music of his youth. Oh yeah: Used to be, youngsters, that there was an AM radio syndicate for 1940’ ;s/1950 217;s tunes with the tagline “The Music Of Your Life.̶......
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I shall write with my head held high. My ideas have value and merit̷ 0;…a nd need to be heard. Even though others shall try to intimdate me, I shall not be swayed. When trolls enter my comment zone-I shall not censor. When I comment over in echo chambers , I shall not back down from expressing strongly held opinions. I will post what I want to, when I want to, as much as I want to......
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So Hanna arrived and dumped 12+ inches in a little over 8 hours: We’re under one of the red spots…(wx station at nearby school reporting 26.8″ - can’t be right…) Between rain bands… The Good : Didn’t have to mow the lawn Half the SJS fleet got a brushless car wash PMS for 7-year old sump pump op-checked good (Byron & Phib ......
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"I don’t care which tanker wins , I just need a new tanker." At last: A robotic tuna fleet for the Navy Sweetman : Making sense of the next gen bomber Italian sportscars warships British badasses just massacring terrorists in Iraq Via Ares : Stanford’s robotic whirlybird......
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Hypocrisy the condition of a person pretending to be something he is not, especially in the area of morals or religion; a false presentation of belief or feeling. — hypocrite , n. — hypocritic, hypocritical , adj. As is my custom, I went and stuck my dick hands into a hornets nest over at all of the other blogs,  where the flurry of mutual admiration,  back slapping, and high f......
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I’m in pretty strong disagreement with Enrevanche here at this post (my position is more like this take ). Buchanan just put out a risible book blaming WWII on Churchill and those evil Allies; this is merely an extension of same. Kevin Drum, a guy who I don’t always agree with, said something useful : I’ve read variations on this theme about a hundred times now, ......
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Been a rough few for our AF comrades in arms and while we well remember all the grief we received when the tables were turned back in ‘92-93 we note with interest the items below passed our way earlier today.  Couple of bullets caught our eye - things like: “…build a balanced force for the future - no litmus tests” “If Navy is the Gold Standard, we will emulat......
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Good for them ! BEIJING — Three American fencers swept the women’s sabre finals on Saturday, winning the first three medals of the Olympics for the United States and at least temporarily investing this little-known sport, introduced to the Olympics in 2004, with some Errol Flynn-like glamour. Mariel Zagunis, of Beaverton, Ore., defeated her teammate Sada Jacobson, of Dunwoody, Ga., to ......
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Heh. The Army Times publishing company [which paid me for a couple of articles when I had the time to write them--and I didn’t even get a free subscription out of it!] had a cover story about “Devil Dog” back in May. You know, how senior enlisted use it to mean “Hey, guy I don’t know the name of but am about to yell at”. And I said unto y’all : Oh, a......
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The Glittering Eye has tagged me with this one and it sounds like fun, so I’m having a run with it. The rules are strict: 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. 2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. 3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs. 4. Let them know they are tagged by leav......
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Obama has been doing his darndest to tie himself to the Kennedy’s, right down to hiring Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg for his Vice President investigation committee.  Hillary, inartfully, also made the Kennedy-Obama link with her references to June assassinations.  (What was the woman thinking?  She was historically accurate, but she must have known how it would play in the media?)......
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There is a horrific story out of Japan today about a man who crashed a truck into a crowd of people, and then proceeded to complete the carnage by stabbing as many of them as possible. The story says that the man ended his spree only when surrounded by police: A witness told NHK the suspect dropped the knife after police threatened to shoot him. An amateur video filmed by a mobile phone showe......
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CDR Salamander talks finance . He’s got good points, and recommends a radio dude. I admit I’m resistant to listen to anybody who says in his book he’s going to teach me market timing, but whatever works. But then again I like ‘B’ shares of Berkshire when I can afford to buy one and boring safe investments that are stupid-friendly so I don’t get great but do......
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Phib has a great post up  musing on many things. Its all worth reading, but in particular if you care about the US Navy and its continuing slide into mediocrity and a fleet that will be “div erse” ;-but way too small, then you need to send this to your Congressman and also send it to a few useless 4 stars. Navy: —- We will have to run aground: The silence and vacuity of our pr......
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You knew this was coming .  There was going to be some sort of payoff to the general, the only real question was would it come now or in the next administration. Now we have the answer-it comes now and in doing so the administration flips a big bird to the forces trying to halt the hemorrhaging of the military’s future to meet the demand now. All the usual suspects will come out an......
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I guess I’m a snob and elitist myself. Because I find myself agreeing with Obama about Pennsylvanians-or the people living here in shopping mall USA. Then again I take the time to read and understand things in context. So if that makes you anti-small town America-guilty as charged. Sometimes, whenever I come back here-I truly believe the country has gone mad. Besides the fact that more tha......
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