I'm going to go out on a limb here

And wonder how much the union had to do with all that shoddy work that has kept a Navy Cruiser in port since it's last refit.

“Bottom line: severe problems with engines, missiles, guns, links, comms and aviation,” Rear Adm. Rob Wray, president of INSURV, wrote in the April 7 email addressed to the heads of Fleet Forces Command, Pacific Fleet and Naval Surface Forces. “The ship’s material condition did not support underway operations, area air defense operations, or principal warfare commander command and control requirements.”

~snip~

Upon discovering metal debris in the port main reduction gear, the shaft had to be locked for most of the underway part of the inspection. All seven gas turbine engines and generators had multiple problems that precluded their operation. The SPY-1 radar was unable to operate at minimum power and the Aegis weapon system couldn’t provide a “recommend fire” alert in simulation mode, preventing Standard Missile-2 launches. The forward deck gun was inoperable due to a faulty firing pin. Connectivity issues hampered data links, email, radio circuits, naval messages, instant messaging — even Tomahawk mission planning.

How odd- I wonder why it showed up all of a sudden?

OH!

Mobile Bay had completed a 10-month overhaul, billed by Naval Sea Systems Command as “the most comprehensive upgrade and modernization program in the history of the U.S. Navy,” according to a Navy newsstand story. The second cruiser to complete the modernization, the ship had a combat systems upgrade, installing the latest updates to the Aegis weapon system.

So, which union brotherhood do we have to thank for that?

H/T Bob.

I just sent a letter to my Texas Lege

Actually, I sent it to my state rep. in the Lege. and if you know any Texas gun owners you should send them over to The weapons blog for more info on how to get involved on uging them to approve open carry.

Here is my letter. He's a Dem, but not one of those rabid Marxist ones you'd have from Houston or Austin.

Dear Representative King,

I am sure you are aware that HB 2756 (allowing a CHL holder to openly carry a holstered weapon) is set to come up for vote on the House Floor soon.
As you may, or may not realize- if a CHL holder inadvertently allows any part of their pistol to be seen in public- they are subject to arrest and imprisonment.

With the passage of Open Carry, we will have less law abiding citizens arrested for a fluke of circumstance.
Also you may hear the old refrain about turning Texas "Back to the wild west" with shoot-outs on every corner and blood in the street. Perhaps that would be for the better, because in all actuality- the old west had less per-capita gun violence than most large cities in modern America.

In addition to the need to mentioning the Second Amendment- if I were to get a CHL, I wouldn't want to have my rights to freedom taken away by an errant gust of wind that lifted my shirt.

Thank you for your time,
Kurt P
Hondo, Tx

And I got sent their from Sam.
Who I probably need to apologize to for calling his kids fat and illiterate in my previous post- because I'm only making assumptions based on the complete control Dems and unions have on the entire state.

When I first read this, I thought he was a Democrat

But Illinois state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga needs to turn in his Republican card at the first party office he can find. Or, the Republicans should revoke his membership for something so stupid as to tax parents of fat kids.

"It's the parents' responsibility that have obese kids," said state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga. "Take the tax deduction away for parents that have obese kids."

Cultra has not introduced legislation to deny parents the $2,000 standard tax deduction, but he floated the idea Tuesday, when lawmakers took a shot at solving the state's obesity epidemic.

Ohh, it's 'for the children!', well that makes it all better. Because I first thought that it had something to do with the states HUGE tax shortfall instead of a bunch of semi-literate fat kids.

I've never heard it sung like this

Of course, I was taught it in primary school by white folks who probably never knew anyone who was a generation away from being a slave.

AS opposed to these who may actually have been slaves.


Because I didn't know about the National Jukebox until I saw it at Bredas place, so thank you Mrs Librarian!

She IS the teacher of the year

And obviously an 0bamaphile


Like 0bama said, she represents all teachers who can't get close enough to their Chicago Jeezus. I know she couldn't help herself being overwhelmed by the Wonness.

That just doesn't look accidental on her part, does it?

Is this better?

So now the State is hijacking my cell phone

And I can't opt out of hearing about some kid running away getting abducted in Maine where I have absolutely no contacts and could really give a chit less.I'm going to hear my phone going off at three in the morning to find that there was a tornado hitting somewhere in Oklahoma (again, and again). Because it's some kind of national emergency that I have to see the White House sending "URGENT" messages about why 0bama needs to stay in office, and to call your congressman NOW to keep healthcare?!
I bet they don't give warnings when Mr. Common Man snarls traffic for hours to get his motorcade to his fundraisers.

Or to find out that an unknown hurricane just snuck up on the borough of Queens.

So- who is going to be paying for these intrusive and unwanted campaign messages from the Community Organizer in Chief? I have a prepaid plan, do I get to charge the .GOV for those wasted minutes?

Stop laughing!

Progress

Pissed has a post up that will (or might make you wish that you could) remenber back when common sense ruled instead of the statist zero tolerance policy that has gradually suffocated our way of life.
I remember those days where a cop would tell you to knock-it-off, or go home instead of ruining your life by hauling you off to jail for being a stupid teenager.

Which reminded me of this- which will never happen again. because cops aren't cops anymore, they're the storm-trooper inactive reserves.

How could I have been so mistaken?

According to pr.Gutsy- on his 60 Min. (too long) interview:

“We thought it was important to think through ahead of time how we would dispose of the body if he were killed in the compound. And I think that what we tried to do was — consulting with experts in Islamic law and ritual — to find something that was appropriate, that was, respectful of the body.”

You see, ever since that mistake we made by trying too help Somalia-I was under the impression that the proper way to dispose of your foes body was to drag it naked through the streets while mutilating it prior to burning it.

THUMP! Goes the rubber stamp

Of the FISA Court (lead by Eric Holder)as it approves all 1506 of the Obama machines DoJ requests for electronic domestic surveillance.
Which is 13% higher than 2009. But don't worry, they're Democrats:-)

There is no numbers about those evil warrantless wiretaps that BusHitler used when he was becoming a dictator.



Nothing to see here, move along.

Gutsy

It doesn't mean what you're telling me it means.

Dear democrats who are smarter than me

That would, I guess be all of you. Even those who think the sun has nothing to do with how hot the earth gets.

According to the latest in the ever evolving story about the OBL raid, there was a mysterious video blackout of about 20 minutes of the raid.
That's why nobody knows what went on- so they tell us.

I wasn't there, never would have been because I was a SeaBee, not a SEAL.
But SEALs aren't stupid- no matter what you think of them. They have the same self-protection instincts as everyone else.

They follow things in the real world, they see what kind of threats are out there and take steps to reduce their risk.
They probably have a better handle on what goes in in the White House than those working there. So when they see this happening, they find a way to reduce their risk.

I'm not as smart as those SEALs, but if I were doing something that had a good chance of biting me in the @ss- I would find a way to not have a video record for prosecutors to use against me...

I already told you Newt- NO!

Now you're hitting up another of my e-mail boxes for money?
NO! I don't want you on the ticket!
NO! I won't give you any money!

Really dude, I know you'r just another Washington Insider who likes to pretend for the ignrn't peons in unwashed-land that you 'care' and are some kind of conservative...but NO!
WE still remember your handholding with Nancy Pelosi while trying to get that Cap-N-tax abortion passed.

And now you're using the same words as the head Marxist of the United States---probably without even realizing it because you're so used to kegging insider crap without looking and then puking it back up without thinking about what the sh1t smells like.


Just out of curiosity- that bleached blonde you're standing next to- is she #3 or 4?
And did you start with her while you were still married to her predecessor?

Now, there's a protest I'd love to see in my area.

UPDATE---

Hi Toni!
It's really nice to see you here :-)

The background is that some cop- somewhere said something about rape victims might want to think about how provocatively they're dressed.

Except that he didn't say it that way and the word slut slipped in. (heh)
Which, naturally gave a reason to those looking for an excuse to party rally in support of...sluts.
Usually there are some photo blogs that take care of bringing you these picks, but I haven't found them yet, so in the interests of furthering knowledge of important things I give you some protesters. Some of them are kinda NSFW, and others are REALLY NSFW.







Ooops...........how did that end up here?

Do you mean....

That treaty where we PAID for the land that we won?
The one where we made the Mexicans who didn't want to leave ,,,CITIZENS?



Via Ringo's Pictures of the LA May Day march, which if you scroll down- shows Obama has hid own brown-shirts.

...And NO! vato, those warrons came with the paperwork from YOUR government to emigrate. That means vato, that they were LEAGAL. Bendejo.





__BREAKING__2:55PM
Fox just broke to Ft. Campbell,KY. for prez Kickazz's address.
They're singing the Star Spangled Banner now...
The podium is empty, 0bama is probably puking in revulsion at the way those soldiers revere that song.

I just hit mute because that's all I need to hear from Ft. Campbell.

More unforseen results coming up

The ICP at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. want's to give the Libyan rebels some money.
In addition to that military aid heading to A'stan that my first poll which only resulted in two sets of answers for.
-As soon as they could load the plane (83%- 25 votes)
-A week (17% -5 votes)

So lets see how much better at predicting the future than those overpaid .GOV 'experts' in DeeCee:

0bama wants to give the Libyan rebels $30 Billion of Gaddafies frozen assets.
	It'll be a 50/50 split between al Queda-Libya and aQ-the 'Stan
	It'll be a 60/40 split between al Queda-Libya and aQ-the 'Stan
	It'll be a 75/25 split between al Queda-Libya and aQ-the 'Stan
	NONE! They're freedom fighters, it'll all stay in Libya!
pollcode.com free polls

I'm already being taxed by the mile

I don't need an intrusive (and expensive) .GOV tracking device on my car.

You see Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the way it works now is that the more I drive and use more gas- the more taxes I pay at the pump. I felt you needed to know that since you probably haven't used a civilian pump since you were a hippie at Woodstock.

Now the 0bama clown posse want's to ad a GPS unit to track my movements and then send a signal to some expensive overpriced program in the pump to add mileage tax to my purchase.

This brainstorm that's scheduled to cost $300 million to replace something that's already working without a hitch ---doesn't even mention ELECTRIC cars.




Have you got anyone special in mind that'll be getting this $300 million dollars that we don't have?

Coastal flooding alert

Because we're told by climate 'experts' that the melting arctic ice caps will flood the earth.

Ummm....not so much Mr. "Arctic ice specialist"
Because I remember my basic earth science...


If there ever was enough global warming to melt the arctic ice cap, the ONLY reason the sea level would rise was because it would be hot enough for the Antarctic ice cap to melt, too.

Remember when I wondered "why" the OBL raid happened when it did?

Because those Chicago pols don't do anything without political motivation.
Or to hide something,,,watch his other hand.

It looks like the guy who couldn't figure out he owed money on a million dollar salary is demanding that congress raise the figurative debt ceiling by two trillion dollars so they don't have to worry about that 'distraction' in the 2012 election cycle.

Now, ask yourself, who stands to benefit when the Dollar falls through the floor?

More unintended consequences from the OBL raid

(Alternative title: Move over Jim Morrison)

It looks like the clown posse at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. just made another terrorist shrine in Pakiland.
See, they didn't want to show the body because that would cause a martyr syndrome and increase terrorist recruits.
Instead they made an enclosed triangular shaped recruiting center for them, and they keep making it worse with their continuously changing story.

You know, the Republicans might be on the wrong end of the MSM, but at least they can get their chit mostly together before getting the Lamestream news involved.

Somewhere a Dalek

is missing it's Dalakeum panels.


You know she ripped them off with her bare hands, too.

0bama:"Americans can't handle that picture."

Because the American people would go off and do sump'in stupid if the ever had their precious sensibilities hurt...

He added: “Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaida killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet. Osama bin Laden is not a trophy — he is dead and let’s now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaida has been eliminated.

Where were you in October of 1993- Barry?
Because obviously you didn't see this:





And who can forget those wackey Iraqi al Quida guys reverence to our sensibilities:


But, you know- maybe all those muslims are right about us disrespecting their rituals of burial....
We forgot that we were supposed to drag OBLs body through the streets while poeple mutilated it and then burned it before we wasted a coffin by dumping it into the sewer.

Her name

Is Paige Duke


She's a NASCAR trophy girl.

You need to trust us on this

Because we in government would NEVER lie to you. Believe us, it's for your own good that we don't show you those pictures.

Besides, we wouldn't want these pictures out so as not to inflame islamic extremists and increase the risk to our men and women who are putting it on the line.

When you have a reputation for baldfaced lies

Changing the story about Bin-ladins final minutes don't help your credibility. Even to your sycophants in the MSM.

The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.

Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces

And now, after listening to this clusterf*ck of a story, are we going to say Osama was murdered? Or is the word assassinated? Terminated with extreme prejudice?
In another background briefing early Monday morning, a senior administration official also said bin Laden put up a fight. “He did resist the assault force. And he was killed in a firefight,” the official said.

However, during a background, off-camera briefing for television reporters later Monday, a senior White House official said bin Laden was not armed when he was killed, apparently by the U.S. raid team.

Another White House official familiar with the TV briefing confirmed the change to POLITICO, adding, “I’m not aware of him having a weapon.”

“The bottom line is the team that entered that room was met with resistance and took appropriate action,” said a third American official.
UMmm...did you just admit that 0bama just ok'd something against the laws of war?
Now, are those SEALs going to be subject to the Hague? Or is Hte iWON going to get a pass for who he is?

But, Hey- lets get in the time machine and pretend like we haven't had those reports for over a week, the proles are gullible enough to forget we only broke the news a week after it happened.
“Two women were shot here. It sounds like their fates were mixed up,” said the U.S. official. “This is hours old and the full facts are still being ascertained as those involved are debriefed.”

For you electricians out there

The U.S. Postal service,

always looking out for the welfare of their clients.
That's what they tell us anyway.

Susan Savage, an actress, went to check on Vickers after noticing old letters and cobwebs in her elderly neighbor's mailbox.

"The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow," Savage said. "I just had a bad feeling."

Where she was lucky she wasn't charged (yet) with breaking and entering-
After pushing open a barricaded front gate and scaling a hillside, Savage peered through a broken window with another piece of glass taped over the hole. She decided to enter the house after seeing a shock of blond hair, which turned out to be a wig.

Where she found the mummified corpse (THAT Mr. Smartest Negro in America is a corpse) of the actress who played the 50 foot woman of that classic "The attack of the 50 foot woman"-Yvette Vickers.

But even more strangely, even after almost a year- her space heater was running.
Which means she hadn't payed her bills for over a year, but nobody shut off her power.

You knew this was coming, right?

Look who stopped by...

STEVE!

Anyone who has a blog probably got visited by him with this comment:

AWESOME POST! Thanks for putting this up!!

Steve
Common
http://www.xxxxxxx.blogspot.com

Ummm, Steve- I don't think I've ever had an awesome post.
Especially something that I just threw out about a power outage that only affected my area, and not even that much.
You *may* have seen a jump in hits, but anyone who looks at their posts is going to recognize cut & paste spam.

I know they say the way to get readers is to comment on other blogs, BUT that comment is supposed to actually- you know- have something to do with that posting.

The obligatory Osama post

The White House says they killed Osama bin Ladin.

I'm glad he's gone, but it doesn't really affect me all that much.
He had judgment coming, and all.
I just want to point out that 0bama sent them out as an assassination team, not to bring him to justice.

Now, I want to point out some things you won't hear from the lapdogs in the MSM.
-You wont hear about how this is going to inflame Jihadis and increase recruiting.
-You won't hear anything about war crimes connected to 0bama sending a hit team after Bin-laden like you would about BusHaliburtonMcHitler.
--You won't hear about the next shitty economic report that's probably coming out today or tomorrow.


But, hey- president Kickazz just did something else unprecedented in sending out an assassination team.


OHHHH...so we don't even have a body. The most honest administration in history says they dumped the body at sea....

It's May second

In south Texas, and I have to have the heater on. Happy global warming celebration are breaking out all over the ice caps.