Observations on the CT shotting

In the wake of the tragic shooting in CT, we have seen the usual cry from the left of increased guns laws and banning guns. So instead of trying to argue with these people  I have a few observations of the leftists and their rants over the last few days, and what makes them hypocrites.

Why are they not demanding answers about all of the dead Mexican citizens as a result of Fast and Furious?

Why are they not discussing the 3000 plus innocents killed every day in this country by the abortionists?

Why do they not march in the streets over the shooting in Chicago and D.C and any other leftist controlled gun banning utopia?

Why do they not question the lack of mental health facilities and care or the excessive use of psychotropic drugs that are a common trait in recent mass shoo ting's

Why do they not recognize that these incidents usually occur in so called gun free zones?

Why do they not protest their dear leader in the White House who's questionable drone strike program has killed an untold number of equally Innocent women and children?

Why did the media fail to report that a legal armed citizen confronted the Oregon mall shooter and at that time the shooter retreated and killed himself?

The answer is simple, none of the answers to these questions will fit their preconceived narrative or agenda. What's obvious to me is the leftist want the U.S to be disarmed, this way nothing can stand in the way of their agenda which is turning this country into a socialist hell for our own good.

It's to bad they and the media will not report that the United States has a lower violent crime rate than many of the European countries that the left wants us to emulate.

People in this country need to start educating themselves instead of being a sheep for the state.



Also check out Market Ticker for an approach to solutions for school house safety and what is reasonable in response to these type of incidents.

http://market-ticker.org/

New CSAR Helo for the USAF?

A few years ago the Air Force had the first round of the CSRX and selected a version of the medium lift MH-47 Chinook to be its new helo replacing the MH-53 Pave Low that was retired after many years of service.  After this selection Sikorsky protested the award and just like the abortive Air Force tanker contract the helo competition had to be re-bid.
This happened earlier this week and guess what, nobody bid expect for Sikorsky using the same platformm that lost before an upgraded UH-60M Blackhawk.

The Air Force has had to buy some UH-60M to flesh out the existing PaveHawk fleet and has complained for years about wanting a larger bird with more legs for this role. This bid if allowed to stand does nothing to improve this situation.

What I don't understand is why they just don't piggyback with the USMC and buy the new CH-53K and apply the Pavelow mods to the platform and voila they would have a heavy lift helicopter more suitable for the special operation role than the much smaller UH-60M. This makes to much common sense so there is no hope of this actually happening even though the face of combat rescue is changing and the need to haul a larger PJ contingent with additional equipment would be easier done with a MH-53K heavy lift bird.

Below is a photo of the new CH-53K and a nice video of the PaveLow in action.



CH-53K



North Korean rocket a threat?

The launch yesterday of a North Korean rocket that inserted a satellite into orbit is very significant. What is really disturbing is the lack of any real reaction by the Obama
White House called the launch a "highly provocative act that threatens regional security,"

This is probably the understatement of the day. Aside from the fact that this launch violated various United Nation resolutions the ability to launch a satellite into orbit demonstrates the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon. Now before anyone can dismiss this idea as preposterous remember they don't need to deliver a weapon to a point target on the west coast to hurt the United States. A more effective use  would be to launch a weapon so it explodes 100 miles above the coast and let the electromagnetic pulse take down the grid and all electrical devices that are in line of site.
If this were to happen the great majority of the west coast would be in chaos as they reverted to the 1800's in seconds. An attack of this type would take the United States a generation to recover.

Most of the damage to the electrical grid could be avoided if we would actually spend money to harden it as opposed to giving free phones and foreign aid but this has been argued for by at least one congressman Roscoe Bartlett from MD who lost his last election bid and who was never able to get a bill through to solve this fixable problem.

Here is a link to the Commission that was set up by congress a few years ago to examine this EMP issue. When you read these reports you will only get more pissed off at the fools that run around D.C.
http://www.empcommission.org/reports.php
One more thing on EMP is a book that I will guarantee will make you think about the what if. It titled One Second After written by William Forstchen, here was his C-Span interview. He gives a good overview of what happens and why after an EMP nuclear attack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3RSR0dDW0

Thoughts on the Oregon shooting

Have you ever noticed the left wing media goes crazy every time some deranged individual does one of these shooting's. What I have observed over the years is they only report the shooting when they involve white suburbia, like in this instance CO, and AZ. Sure they give lip service to inner city problems but for the most part they could care less about ganbangers on the south side of Chicago but will endlessly go on and on about evil semi auto's powerfull weapons and such as long as the incident ins in the suburbs and most of the victims are white. Shootings like this are always tragic because of the victims and their families. Using these incidents to promote leftest totalitarian ideas is evil and should be condemned.

Like it or not there will be no change in gun laws because all of our dirt bag politicians know this is ta third rail. Beside that their shouldn't be any changes anyway. We still live in a so called free society and we do have a second amendment that protects are rights. I feel very strongly about this and I'm always amazed when the leftist want to remove our rights. When they go down this road it only means that they in fact do support tyranny and they know the only way they can ever implement their dream of utopia is disarm the American people. Because they know just like I do that those with the guns make the rules

I closing I will leave you with Ice T's interview that he did in England awhile back. He is right in his stance on guns and I support him 100%! I to will only give them up when everyone else does.

Upgraded AH-64E

Nice video of the new upgraded AH-64E, by the look of it the Apache will continue to dominate the battlefield for many years to come.

Today In U.S. History

Today on Dec 11 1972 Challenger, the Lunar Lander for Apollo 17, touched down on the Moon's surface. It was the last time that men visited the Moon. The last two men to walk on the surface of the moon were Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan. Cernan and Schmitt conducted the longest lunar exploration of the Apollo program (75 hours), driving the lunar rover about 22 miles and collecting some 243 pounds of soil and rock.


Last man on the moon Eugene Cernan



Fast forward to 2012 and NASA has no manned space capability and we must pay the Russians a steep fee so our Astronauts can hitch hike to the space station.

John Hinderaker gets it

An Administration That Will Live In Infamy

John Hinderaker once again provides thougtfull insite on our ongoing debt problems.
Check out more of Johns fine work at POWERLINE.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/
There was a time when people assumed that if America’s future was under attack, it must come from a foreign source–like, say, Japan at Pearl Harbor. Those days are long gone. Now, our decline is no one’s fault but our own. We elect leaders who are ignorant of America’s history and contemptuous of its values. The currency in which this ignorance and contempt is expressed is government spending. I am not sure I can fully explain the logic, but those who are filled with hatred for the first 200 years of American history want–for some reason–America’s government to accumulate ever more power and to spend unprecedented amounts of money. Does that make sense? Seemingly not, but it is the world in which we live: the entity that is most bent on destroying the private economy of the United States of America, until recently the envy of the world, is our own government.


 have spent some time thinking about this, and it is hard to find a precedent: when, in human history, has the government of any nation consciously set out to weaken that country? Sure, it has been done by accident from time to time, but on purpose? If you can think of any precedent for the Obama administration, please let it be known in the comments.

The Debt

Here is a great animation to show what are debt looks like. Check the link for more information and visuals at Demon.Ocracy.info, good stuff.

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/fiscal_cliff/fiscal_cliff.html

Fiscal Cliff? Even Democrats don't support the President

The White House on Thursday admitted that even Democrats don't support Obama's tax increases. Of course they don't  well at least some of them. The whole thing is theatre and nothing will be solved until the fiscal crisis causes high inflation or a true collapse, either way we citizens are screwed.

“We don’t have 60 votes in the Senate,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said, adding the White House was “very confident” that Democrats support the principles outlined in Obama’s plan, which has met with derision among Republicans.

For whatever delusional thinking the President and his staff want a collapse. I just don't see how this can end well. If the result of all the fiat money printing and free spending by Washington leads to sever inflation than all bets are off. As food and energy cost rise the main people who are screwed are the working poor.
As it is modern American society and western culture as a whole is nine meals away from anarchy. With are fragile interconnected infrastructure and economy any disruption in energy or the financial markets will have huge repercussions.

It's to bad the idiots in Washington and in most State and local governments are the best we can do.

A Day That Will Live In Infamy

Seventy one years ago today the Imperial Japanese Fleet made the attack on Pearl Harbor ushering the United States into WWII. As the generations have passed its funny how in 1941 the enemy of the United States people were foreign powers. Today it seems are real enemies are the fools that have been elected over the last thirty years to Washington and their enablers on the left the main stream media who together with the current administration are doing all they can to destroy the United States and turn us into some kind of totalitarian socialist state.
The people need to stand up and say no more to the stateist in D.C.

BONE in full burner!

Even though I'm a died in the wool Eagle Keeper, you just have to love the awesome sight of a B-1 in full afterburner on takeoff.

Dumbest Person of the Week

This guy had got to be the dumbest person of the week. Also the statement at the end of the story makes me wonder what his immigration status is. I'm sure no one in the NOPD or ICE bothered to check.

Via Yahoo. News

One generally assumes that an ambulance with its lights flashing can park wherever it pleases. This past weekend in New Orleans, a parked ambulance was "booted" by a convenience store employee, who was apparently annoyed that the ambulance had parked in his store's lot. Never mind that the paramedics were treating a man inside the store. That employee has since been fired.

According to a report from WWLTV.com, the paramedics put the patient in the back of the ambulance and began to drive away when the vehicle came to a sudden stop. The medics saw that someone had put a boot on their vehicle. When a store employee finally removed the boot, the tire was flat. The paramedics had to call for backup while the man with chest pains waited in the back.
Jeb Tate, spokesman for New Orleans Emergency Medical Services, said, "We actually had to delay that patient's care by calling another ambulance out here to come transport this patient."

Now, a few days later, WWLTV.com reports that the convenience store employee has been fired and issued a citation by the New Orleans Police Department for simple criminal damage to property. According to the police report, the man, Ahmed Sidi Aleywa, claimed that he didn't know that the vehicle was an ambulance and that he doesn't speak English

Still no answers on Benghazi

It's been eleven weeks since the terrorist attack in Benghazi and we are still no closer to holding anyone in this administration accountable for the lies, incompetence and the cover up. It a crying shame that all we here from the left wing media is all the talk about the meaningless fiscal cliff. This of course is just to set it up to blame the evil Republicans after no deal is met but I digress.
Here is Peter Brooks from the New York Post op ed from the weekend and the link to the article.

Lost in the hubbub over Who Knew What When (then changed it) about the Sept. 11 terror attack on our Benghazi consulate is one huge question: When do the terrorists pay for what they did?We lost four brave Americans at the hands of a pro-al Qaeda group, Ansar al Sharia, and other extremists. In October, President Obama vowed to “hunt down the attackers.”
Of course, we need to know what happened prior to the tragedy so we can prevent something like this from happening again. For example: Was there an intelligence failure that kept us from having advanced warning?
Plus: Why didn’t we have enough security at the Benghazi consulate despite numerous requests from the staff in the field for more protection? And why wasn’t US military assistance rendered during the attack?
We also have to know why Team Obama so badly bungled how they told us initially what happened, including why UN ambassador Susan Rice said what she said on those Sunday morning new shows.
(You remember: Rather than Benghazi being a terror attack, it was a copy-cat demonstration of the one in Cairo, which arose in response to an anti-Muslim video produced in the United States.)

These questions, and others, are important — and Congress needs to get to the bottom of it all.But when will the terrorists who murdered Americans, including our ambassador, get their due? From the outside, after nearly three months, it doesn’t appear much is happening to bring the terrorists to justice. Yes, the Libyans rounded up a few of the “usual suspects” in the days after the attack, but little more seems to be going on to get as many as 100 terrorists involved in the raid. (A Miami Herald report claims that the Libyans have actually arrested no one.)
Some feel the Libyan government is dragging its feet for fear of making enemies of the myriad powerful, well-armed extremist militias — which, more than a year after the revolution ended, still operate freely across the country.
Indeed, the person many believe responsible for the assault, Ahmed Abu Khattala, the leader of a wing of Ansar al Sharia, is still reportedly walking the streets of Benghazi. (He’s denied involvement in the attack.)
Equally troubling, a Time report indicates that terrorist sympathizers or collaborators among Libya’s law-enforcement and security services might be implicated in the attack. OK, so the Libyans are basically paralyzed, but what are we doing?

Well, the FBI is investigating the case after a very late start. The State Department is also doing a report, and it’sgenerally assumed that US intelligence is gathering information that will pinpoint the attackers.
Of course, before a US special- forces raid or a drone strike is conducted against those who did this, we’ll need good intel to make sure we get the right people at a propitious time and place. But as the old adage goes, punishment should be not only just, it should be swift. Yet “swift” is clearly no longer an option after nearly three months. Our seeming inactivity and silence send a message to the terrorist world — loud and clear: We’re not only inept, we’re weak. It’d be nice to think we’re lulling the bad guys into a false sense of security before we act, catching them off guard. But, for the moment, we may also be giving them the sense that they have license to kill Americans with impunity.
Thankfully, if there’s one thing terrorists understand — and respect — it’s strength. Now would be a good time to show some, by bringing the Benghazi terrorists to account.
Peter Brookes is a Heritage senior fellow and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/will_the_perps_pay_sXh3E8s2TfTAdlWJJsjOuJ

Blast from the past

Here is a song from Lisa Keith who did not get enough credit for her voice back in the day. I stumbled upon it. I believe it was from 1992

XB-47 First Cat shot

Nice video from last weeks first steam catapult shot of the Navy's new XB-47 drone.