Welcome to another installment of weekend nose art

In continuing the theme of my previous post in beautiful and deadly.
We have this quartet of B-25's taken at a Reno airshow.










Dangerously beautiful- like an armed, angry redhead.

Just couldn't help posting this

Sexydangerous, huh?


It's a Confederate Le Mat revolver.
Developed by Dr. Jean Le Mat back in 1856 in N'awlins.
It holds nine .44 balls and a center barrel will hold 20 gauge worth of whatever you put in it.

Everything old is new again

This time it's the looming water shortage.
Remember it? Last time around it created the 4-flush toilet because Congress forced everyone to get one.

I don't know what the big deal is, the earth is 70% water; and when Global Warming hits full force in 10 years, the oceans will be almost fresh water because of the resulting ice melt.
That alone will raise the sea level by 300 feet and dilute the oceans so only minimal de-sal will be needed.
I'm sure AlGore will be selling Sodium Chloride offsets, too.

Oh, and we're running out of dirt...again, too.

I am definitely putting Rick Moran on the blogroll

I was going to link a post from him (via Say anything -which is giving F/F fits)about how the Clinton machine will do anything to anyone to get over...
That would have been a good excuse to use El Capitains photoshopped Hillary image..but it can wait. (another thank-you-very-much to Bill Gates and VISTA)

I was scrolling down looking for the post in question when I saw this one that pretty much echos my sentiments.

~snip~
But I must confess to being totally uninterested in who gets the Republican nod for the nomination from here on out. I will, like Bob Krumm, vote for Fred in the Super Tuesday primary in Illinois. I will then be able to sit back and watch with amusement as the party turns handsprings trying to make John McCain acceptable to most of the rest of us.

By the time the convention rolls around, McCain will be seen as a savior, just the right man to defeat Hillary Clinton. We can then be further amused as McCain loses handily to Clinton, admittedly as a result of factors largely beyond his control but which could have been mitigated by nominating someone who didn’t deliberately (and with apparent relish) piss off conservatives for much of his career. McCain’s questionable stands on core conservative issues are expertly covered up by his campaign. But Mark Levin exposed the senator’s record in a devastating piece in NRO that included these legislative measures with McCain’s name on them:

McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportation of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety…

McCain’s disdain for the party and for conservatives will almost surely come back to haunt him in November if he is the nominee.

Or let’s say the unexpected happens and Daddy Warbucks outlasts McCain and buys his way to victory. Here’s a guy who wouldn’t be able to remember what he said previously about an issue, the end result being he would end up flipping and flopping so much the media would have to keep a scorecard as to where he stood on an issue on any given day.
~snip~

And Remember, Mitts state (Commonwealth?)"universal Healthcare" plan is only two years old and almost a BILLION Dollars in the red already- AND they're fining 'the rich' for ,,,,ummmm being rich in Mass. Because they're either paying too much- or not enough for health insurance.

Huckabee isn't much more than a white Alan Keyes- with less ethics and a better PR machine.

And Rudy has enough baggage to give the MSM enough ammo to blow another grand canyon wherever he's campaigning.

SHhhhhhh

There's beer in the fridge and munchies in the cupboard.

So sit down and watch this.






(UPDATE)

Mein Fuher, I CAN WALK!

(UPDAT AGAIN) JAN 26

Oh cr@p. I was putting it away and saw the SONY logo.
Now I have to deep scan for rootkits.

Thanks alot SONY, appreciate your customer concerns!
Yep, the customer is #1 with you aren't they?

You just can't get good help now-a-days

I guess the cell leaders are gonna hafta start doing it themselves.

BWAhahahaha.






H/T Robert.

Hi!

So, is anyone else having troubles with Fire Fox?
Is it getting kinda wiggy on two completely different computers, running two completely diferent Win OS and two completely different versions of FireFox?

Both are freezing up, the Vista (F/F 3.0 Beta) just freezes up and the screen goes hazy (thanks Bill for your wondeful VISTA nannyism).

Goodnight Emily

Not only Bob will miss you.


You showed alot of young spankers that it wasn't only blonde over blue that was sexy.

And the husky sexy smokers voice put the hot on top.




(UPDATE JAN 22)
Ok, come ON, don't tell me you perves don't have anything to say about Suzanne Pleshette.

Hey kiddies, guess what today is!!!!!!!!!

That's right, it's Martin Luther King day, as you're probably either sick of hearing- or had all forms of the PC MSM brown nosing a guy who's been dead for forty year turned off.
Don't tell me they're going overboard on all this reporting on parades and marches and politicians getting up on a pulpit (even the Godless Liberal ones) and gushing about "THEMessage" because they care about him.

If he wasn't black, and you weren't afraid of being labeled a racist hatemonger, you wouldn't give this day any more attention than you do Veterans day.

I'm just glad I had Charlie Daniels to listen to in my truck.

Ohhh, my sweet Lord

NOW it turns out that it wasn't the complete incompetence of the Democrat political machine that caused all the problems in N'awlins.

It was Big Oil.

It almost looks like I'll be sitting this next election out

Except for the fact that I'll be voting for Quico Conseco.
And maybe some third party that represents my hopes for America.





Original image stolen from Squakbox noise.

The Texas Border coalition

It's a bunch of landowners and municipalities along the texas border- naturally.
These people don't want a fence (just like K.Bailey-Hutchinson) to interfere with their culture and trade.

They've gone to court to stop the gov't from finally trying to build the fence along the border.
McAllen
Harlington.
Brownsville
Laredo

All say they'll fight the fence, because it would interfere with their lives.

OK, the rest of America wants a fence to keep the trash out.

Y'all make your choice- we put up a fence in front of you, or behind you.
......And, no- there'll be no 'do overs' when you're over-run by the third world.

Gaaaahhhhhh.....who am I kidding?
We all know that as soon as some minority (finally) complains about illegals taking over, we'll be throwing half the treasury at the problem- trying to fix it retroactivly.

Another thought on the 'Maverick' Mc Cain

I was listening to Michael Medved on the way home.
He mentioned that several conservative Senators had endorsed John McCain, and used that to bolster his McCain-as-a-conservative argument.

He asked a caller who questioned Big Johns record- why would those Republican conservatives back McCain if he wasn't a real conservative?

The answer, Michael is another question:
Which other Republican Senators are running for President?

They have a vested interest in getting one of them in the top seat, just so they can have a *BIG* lever in steering the course of the next four years of policy.

Or am I being too cynical?

Welcome back to "pinup" fridays- Nose art

Which just happed to be what that B-29 cost back in the day.


'Patches' was probably a reference to the bodyworking ability of her ground crew.

I guess the vast majority of Republicans

Updated with a John McCain speach to a Democrat meeting- during his 2004 Presidential run.



Have the memory capabilities of a goldfish.

Since the maverick John Kennedy-McCain-Feingold is polling well above the negative numbers that he should be, if the voting public remembered all he voted against in his whoring for the Legacy Medias approval.

Ok, he's a war hero. He took what the Viet Cong could throw at him and walked away.
Good, I can respect that.

What I cannot respect is the fact that in the following forty years- he has actively sided with the Democratic party, or undermined the conservative ideals of the Republicans more than he's helped his party.



Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is launching perhaps his harshest attack yet on his own party and his gushiest praise of Democrats.

"I believe my party has gone astray," McCain said yesterday, singling out GOP stands on environmental issues and racial set-asides.

"I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy," he said. "But I also feel the Republican Party can be brought back to the principles I articulated before." J. McCain 2004

I can't forget that.

I will not vote for someone who is so transparent in working against everything I believe in- except the GWoT- that the Left wants to see him in charge of my country.

Nope, ain't gonna happen.

I'll stay home instead.

Dear F-150 drivers

Can I ask you a question?

Why in the F*CK do you all have to drive like speed-freaks on crank EVERY. F*CKING. TIME. the WEATHER. is BAD?
It was cold and windy as h3ll this morning, I was almost rearended but two F-150's because I was only doing 75 (at 6:15AM). Look @sshole, I can only go as fast as the other TWO HUNDRED cars in front of me. You saw the line of taillights when you tried pushing me out of the way.

Also, DICK!, I stop when the light is red, I'm *NOT* going to run a red light because you woke up late.

I bet that the majority of accidents involved an F-150 today.
I don't see (as many) Chevy drivers driving like d1ckheads, or Ram drivers that much. I guess it has something to do with driving something more expensive (with the increased maturity) than a Ford.

Writers

They sure are a fickle lot, aren't they?

Send us some mujahadin to shoot

Remember, drink milk.



Stolen from the Jawa.

So, Romney won in Michigan

Okay......

And that means exactly what?
That he collected the Republican delegates? What else, since the vote was open to anyone who wanted to claim that they were a Republican for that day.
The only excluding factor in that vote was the fact that the Libs who couldn't even force themselves to pretend to be a Republican for a hour or so didn't vote for Mitt or the Maveric.
...Ohhh and the Democrats who actually respect the sanctity of the vote. All five of them.

The ACLU- defining deviancy down

Again.

We have the next chapter in the Larry Craig colonoscopy.

This time they're claiming that those having sex in a PUBLIC bathroom (I guess) have the same expectation of uninterrupted wild monkey s3x that they would in their own bedroom.
Because in the same trial/ charge was the fact that Craig invaded the privacy of the next stall over by inviting the occupant to ,,,observe his "wide stance."

Hope you all had a good Tuesday

Mine really sucked.
...AND time was so slow the secondhand traveled as slowly as the minute hand usually does.

It was supposed to rain today, so the foreman had us work inside- wiring switches and outlets.
Bo-RIng.
Something a helper could do with a week on the job.

We're behind on the buried stuff, but bossman didn't want us on raw dirt.


Gawd, how. absolutely. depressing. working in a dingey, chilly, depressing school.

When is a donation not a donation?

When it's required.
But, I guess if you're a non-profit organization.

I'm looking at drivers ed classes for Thing-2's birthday and see that Curbbuster is a non-profit foundation that requires a $99 donation for their course.

The mechanics of jerkymaking

There are as many recipes as you want to look for on AlGore's intertubes.

I usually use a cheap brisket because I'm making it to chew on, not enter into some gourmet jerky contest.

Whatever kind of meat you use, there are two ways to slice it, depending on how chewy/ hard you want it. Cutting on a short bias (across) the grain will make it easier to bite and chew, while cutting with the grain will give you a chewier piece.

Putting the meat in the freezer until it's semi-frozen will make it easier to slice thinly (1/8"- 1/4").

While you're freezing the meat is a good time to make the marinade of your choice, from sweet and sour all the way to burn-your-tongue-off hot. Just find (or create) a recipe you like.

Slice your meat and put into a container that you can refrigerate without too much hassle.
I like to use 1 gal. freezer bags because they can seal the air out.
Refrigerate for at least 4 hours- more for stronger flavor- I usually toss mine in the fridge overnight.

To jerkify, I use the oven- set at about 180 for four hours or so.
Put the bottom rack on the bottom position and use foil for a drip catcher.
Skewer your meat with shish-ka-bob skewers and let hang from the top rack set on the top position.

When finished to your liking (soft, brittle chewy, etc,,,) let cool and put into a clean freezer bag, and refrigerate because ALL the responsible site tell you too. Me, I just throw it in the truck and snack till it's gone. The original purpose of jerky was to preserve meat for a long time....


Hope that helped, Vern.

I stopped smoking about eight years ago (part I)

I stopped ALL tobacco products then, because I wanted away from the temptation of lighting up.

But I'm back on the backhoe again, and getting tired of jawbreakers and candy.
I'm starting to want a good ol' chaw of Red Man bulging out my cheek, and flooding my mouth with that sweet tobacco juice while I concentrate on not hitting existing buried utilities.

So I decided to try remembering the old recipe for my "Redman Jerky".

This is about what I came up with:
A $20 cut of brisket


Cut into thirds (these two are ready for the freezer operation)


And the last one for the afternoon lunch- trimmed and coated with a nice dry rub and set in the refrigerator to contemplate it's mission.


When the (soon to be) jerky is frozen hard enough to slice into (about) 1/4" slices
You can see the marinade and the ingredients in the back and to the side.
-FYI- 4 oz of molasses is a little too much.

I stopped smoking about eight years ago Part II)

I broke this post up because Google didn't want me putting too many pics up on one post....

Gently place in the oven with care (about 190 for 4 hours)
I *need* to clean that top front, don't I?


Remove to bake rolls (this step can be skipped)


Remove, let cool and place in re-sealable baggie with all the care that it will be subjected to in the field.


The final result is acceptable for something close to the Red Man experience-
As close as possible with jerky, I guess.

I wonder if I could get a toe in the "Stop Smoking" market?

Sorry, can't help it

See, Rachel Lucas is doing her Italian trip thing, and is telling about her first impressions of that country (Rome, actually), and one paragraph made me put this You-Tube up.

Oh and before I forget, and there will be more detail on this later, the scenery from the airport to the Termini station was absolutely horrifying. There were actual shanties that people live in. There is so much graffiti, holy SHIT. It is on everything!

So with that segue, I give you "Romani ite domum"

This is not good

It looks like hackers have developed a brand spanking new type of maleware to take control of your Master boot record (it tells your computer which programs to run when you star-up).

The malicious program is a type of virus known as a rootkit and it tries to overwrite part of a computer's hard drive called the Master Boot Record (MBR).

This is where a computer looks when it is switched on for information about the operating system it will be running.

"If you can control the MBR, you can control the operating system and therefore the computer it resides on," wrote Elia Florio on security company Symantec's blog.

Ok, it's a root kit, right? here's where it gets bad (worse):

Once installed the virus, dubbed Mebroot by Symantec, usually downloads other malicious programs, such as keyloggers, to do the work of stealing confidential information.

Most of these associated programs lie in wait on a machine until its owner logs in to the online banking systems of one of more than 900 financial institutions.

The Russian virus-writing group behind Mebroot is thought to have created the torpig family of viruses that are known to have been installed on more than 200,000 systems. This group specialises in stealing bank login information.
~snip~

Analysis of Mebroot has shown that it uses its hidden position on the MBR as a beachhead so it can re-install these associated programs if they are deleted by anti-virus software.

Although the password-stealing programs that Mebroot installs can be found by security software, few commercial anti-virus packages currently detect its presence. Mebroot cannot be removed while a computer is running.

Did you catch that last sentience?
Mebroot cannot be removed while a computer is running.

Which means at least a trip to the GeekSquad of your choice to get rid of it.
But after re-reading the article, it looks like if you're not using IE, AND your updates are...up to date, you shouldn't have much to worry about.

I have to admit

That I'm surprised at the lack of comments my last post generated.

Especially from my female readers.

Let me try something here

Using Liberal ,,,ummmm...extrapolation techniques.

You know, we take a short specific time period and start making 'scientific' pronouncements about the future of all humanity- based on our pre-conceived ideas.

OR, maybe a little AND thrown in- we take our personal pet peeves and look for tenuous scientific links. Like the secondhand smoke boogieman.

So, instead of looking back through millions of years of geological evidence to see the heating and cooling cycles of the earth, and hyping a pet peeve---we can get gullible people to change the way they live.

OK- how does this sound?
The modern brasire is only about a century old.
We're talking the cups and clasps that lifts and seperates,,,,not the whatever they had before girdles and bodices.

I also notice that the incidence of breast cancer has increased these last decades also.
Soooooo, using the Libs theories- I'd have to assume that bras are in some way responsible for the rise in breast cancer.

I think that it's kind of like global warming [times two :-D] there is some type of man made covering that is producing the problem...right? CO2= global warming >carbon offsets.

Now, this man made interference with nature needs to be addressed in the global community- no matter what it takes- - to make Gaea happy.

Ok, in the same vein of the Liberal version of *helping* things- it's my considered opinion (with as much science as AlGore has) that the cause of Breast Cancer is Mammary glands being starved for natural air due to MAN MADE artificial coverings.
In order to help prevent this it should be required --for health reasons only--that women let their sweater puppies breath free air for at least 14 hours a day.

Seriously ladies, I'm only looking out for your health.

Think about the link- increased bra use= increased breast cancer----because of lack of natural ventilation. So, to help the Health Care Crisis, do your part to reduce breast cancer by letting them breath.

FYI- they get better air if they're in open air, but if you're on the psychotically shy side, you should be ok if you wear a tight Tee shirt (to increase the cross-ventilation issues) if you're name is Aunt Bee.

Welcome back to Nose Art Friday

This week we take a look at cartoons at war.

Bashful graced the nose of a B-24 in the Pacific air war in 1943




















Bourbon boxcar was also a B-24 in the Pacific





The Seabees even had their nose art. NCB was the acronym for Naval Construction Battalion, which probably built the planes airstrip.