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  • World of Warships- Grump’s Good Game

    As an added bonus, here’s some quick hits of my day.  Be sure to watch for the Cleveland.

  • Goodbye Nate Thurmond, Warrior Great Dead at 74

     

    In his prime, Nate Thurmond was one of the greatest defensive centers ever to play in the NBA.  A competent scorer, too, he was a ferocious rebounder and shot-blocker who could dominate the defensive end as only two others, Chamberlain and Russell, ever could.  Cat-quick, relentless, and in superb shape, Thurmond was a close third behind the aforementioned giants, and was a cut above Jerry Lucas, and Willis Reed, and Walt Bellamy, more recognized stars at the position.  

    Thurmond was also an intelligent gentleman and a wonderful ambassador of the game.   Another boyhood sports hero of mine, gone.   The NBA could use his like these days.

  • Whitewashing Islamic Terrorism

    France has been the scene of three horrific attacks in the last 18 months, including the Thursday deaths of 84 people at the hands of a muhammedan truck driver who crushed them in the midst of Bastille Day celebrations, while he shouted "Allahu Akbar!", the signature cry of these Satanic animals, as he did so.  

    Now we are to believe that the driver, 31-year old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, killed by police at the scene, was not a jihadi, or even muhammedan.  MSNBC is quick to headline that his family didn't consider him muslim because he was violent and hit his wife.   Huh.  

    But there is more from France, fast becoming the focal point for islamist terror and ISIS terrorists, er, "refugees".  Seems that the French Government left out some pretty significant information regarding the bloody November 2015 attacks in Paris that left 130 dead.  Seems the victims of these filthy muhammedans were systematically tortured and dismembered by these representatives of the Religion of Peace.    

    According to this testimony, Wahhabist killers reportedly gouged out eyes, castrated victims, and shoved their testicles in their mouths. They may also have disemboweled some poor souls. Women were reportedly stabbed in the genitals – and the torture was, victims told police, filmed for Daesh or Islamic State propaganda. For that reason, medics did not release the bodies of torture victims to the families, investigators said.

    Nope, radical islam isn't the problem.  No siree.  To even hint that it is makes you a racist islamophobe (despite the fact that muhammedanism is not a race).  Nope, sounds like a gun control issue to me.   Worry not. Coming to cities and towns near you.   By the train load.    Allahu akbar.  

    Arm up.  To protect us from our government, from the enemies our government is allowing to pour into our communities, and from the emotion-over-reason incessant moral busybodies who would disarm the law-abiding on order to make us "safe".   If you want to live as if this is your fantasy world, knock yourself out.   Don't expect me to indulge in such weak-minded stupefaction.

  • Trinity

    71 years ago, in the desert of southwestern New Mexico, at 5:29:21AM, Mountain War Time, a blinding flash lit the sky, and for the first time, the power of an atomic explosion was unleashed upon the world. The scientists of the Manhattan project were so confident that the gun type uranium bomb they were developing would work that no test was required. But the far more complex implosion type plutonium weapon was another story. And so a tower 100 feet high was built, and the exorbitantly expensive “Gadget” was installed atop on an oak platform.

    The blast yielded the equivalent of about 20 kilotons of TNT, and left a crater in the desert five feet deep, and about 30 feet across.

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  • F-16 show of force low pass over Ankara

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  • First Flight – Live Webcast | B-29 Doc – Restoring History

    Doc is scheduled to takeoff on Sunday, July 17 from Wichita, Kan. This page will provide a link and embedded video player for the live webcast of the event.  Timing details for first flight will be released soon.

    via www.b-29doc.com

    One of you chuckleheads remind me, please.

  • Helicopters firing in Ankara

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    From what I’m seeing on twitter, it looks like the pro-Western faction of the military was unhappy with Edrogan’s counter terrorism efforts.

  • What’s happening in Turkey?

    Via Ace of Spades:

    https://twitter.com/DEFCONWS/status/754041279479111680 https://twitter.com/WashingtonPoint/status/754039852048355328 https://twitter.com/WashingtonPoint/status/754035122052091905

  • Navy to put armed sailors at recruiting stations

    The Navy is moving to place armed watch-standers at recruiting stations nationwide, a move that comes a year after shootings at a recruiting station and a reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, claimed the lives of four Marines and a sailor.

    The decision is the result of a broad investigation of the security of Navy buildings outside major bases, such as reserve centers and recruiting stations that are often open to the public and, prior to the shooting, did not have armed guards.

    via www.navytimes.com

    It's a damn shame things have come to this, but it is fairly clear that something must be done.

    And it would be nice if the Army would do the same.

    The article doesn't get into the specifics of how such a policy will be implemented, but I can think of a few ways that would be fairly easy to do, and with minimal impact on recruiting duties, and while avoiding inflaming local busybodies.

    Most Army Recruiting stations have multiple recruiters, and a Station Commander (usually a Staff Sergeant or Sergeant First Class) who spends most of his time in the station. A small safe or lockbox could easily be installed, and the Station Commander and one or two other recruiters qualified on the weapon and rules of engagement.

  • Stress fractures and failure mode analysis in World War II Liberty Ships

    Roamy actually wrote about this years ago, but the video, while somewhat cheesy, provides some very interesting visual descriptions of how and why some Liberty ships in World War II suffered catastrophic failures.