I know this is Monday, I have already posted my Monday Music earlier today and I posted a Hitler parody video over the weekend. This new Hitler Parody video I ran across was awesome so I added it.
This latest escapade has been a boon to us bloggers and we have been taking advantage of it.
The adventures continue......
There is symmetry there...In the 90's a Vagina caused a lot of problems for a Clinton
In 2016 a wiener caused a lot of problems for a Clinton.
I had in mind to do this song after my favorite blogbabe asked me to "do Nirvana", and I can't say no to blonds so I lined up Nirvana for her. I remembered when Nirvana exploded on the music scene. The "grunge" or alternative music was going mainstream and it was pushing my 80's hair metal bands out of the limelight. This was in 1992 when I heard of Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was later touted as the "voice" of the GEN Xers or the slacker generation. The musical influence of Nirvana can't be understated. I saw something on Facebook a few months ago and it showed the kid on the album cover all grown up. Talking about making me feel old after seeing this.
I was saddened to hear about the death of Kurt Cobain, apparently his demons won and he decided to end it with a shotgun. It seems like some of the greatest minds also have the greatest demons and the good guys don't always win.
Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991 by DGC Records. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC. Lead singer Kurt Cobain sought to make music outside of the restrictive confines of the Seattle grunge scene, drawing influence from groups such as the Pixies and their use of "loud/quiet" dynamics. It is their first album to feature drummer Dave Grohl later of the Foo Fighters
Despite low commercial expectations by the band and its record label, Nevermind became a surprise success in late 1991, largely due to the popularity of its first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jackson's album Dangerous at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album also produced three other successful singles: "Come as You Are", "Lithium", and "In Bloom". The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) has certified the album diamond (at least over 10 million copies
shipped), and the album has sold at least 24 million copies worldwide. Nevermind was in part responsible for bringing both alternative rock
and grunge to a large, mainstream audience, and has been ranked highly
on lists of the greatest albums of all time by publications such as Rolling Stone and Time.
"Come as You Are" is a song by American grunge band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain and released as the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind in March 1992. It was the band's second American Top 40 hit, and second UK top 10 hit, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number nine on the UK Singles Chart.
The unexpected success of the album's lead single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" drew Nirvana to mainstream success, with Nevermind
being released two weeks after the single's release. Following the
album's release, the band and its management company debated whether to
release "Come as You Are" or "In Bloom" as the next single from the album due to Cobain's concerns over similarity of the former with the Killing Joke song "Eighties"
(1984). After some persuasion by the management company, Cobain agreed
to release "Come as You Are" as the second single because of its
commercial potential. Killing Joke were upset over the song, and there
were rumors that a lawsuit had been filed over the song, though the suit
never materialized. Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker
was said to be upset about the whole situation, and he felt that
Nirvana (which according to Walker denied the connection between the
songs) handled the matter poorly.
The music video for "Come as You Are" was directed by Kevin Kerslake, who drew inspiration for it from the cover artwork of Nevermind. Rolling Stone ranked "Come as You Are" 445th on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and it placed 452nd on the 2010 edition of the list.
Wary of the similarity between the main riff of "Come as You Are" and English post-punk band Killing Joke's 1984 single "Eighties", Nirvana and its management were unsure about releasing the song as the second single from Nevermind.
Danny Goldberg, head of Nirvana's management Gold Mountain, later
revealed that "[w]e couldn't decide between 'Come as You Are' and 'In
Bloom.' Kurt was nervous about 'Come as You Are' because it was too
similar to a Killing Joke song but we all thought it was still the
better song to go with. And, he was right, Killing Joke later did
complain about it."Nirvana biographer Everett True
writes that "Come as You Are" was eventually chosen for release as a
single because "Goldberg favoured the more obviously commercial song".
It was anticipated that the first single from Nevermind, "Smells Like Teen Spirit",
would be a "base-building alternative cut", while "Come as You Are"
would be able to cross over into other radio formats. However, "Smells
Like Teen Spirit" became a surprise hit and boosted the band's
popularity, whereas "Come as You Are" served to maintain it. After its release as a single in March 1992, "Come as You Are" peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single stayed on the chart for 18 weeks. The song also reached number three on the BillboardMainstream and Modern Rock Tracks charts.The single also broke the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at the ninth spot. This song ranked number 82 in Blender's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born",and 452nd on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Although members of Killing Joke claimed the main guitar riff of
"Come as You Are" plagiarized the riff of "Eighties", the band
reportedly did not file a copyright infringement lawsuit, which Rolling Stone magazine attributes to "personal and financial reasons". However, conflicting reports state that Killing Joke did file a lawsuit but that it was either thrown out of court, or that it was dropped following Cobain's death. Geordie Walker,
Killing Joke's guitar player, said that the band was "very pissed off
about that, but it's obvious to everyone. We had two separate
musicologists' reports saying it was. Our publisher sent their publisher
a letter saying it was and they went 'Boo, never heard of ya!', but the
hysterical thing about Nirvana saying they'd never heard of us was that
they'd already sent us a Christmas card!"
I knew that there would be a new "Hitler Parody" video on the new email probe.
And this is for my favorite smoking hot Blog Babe. Apparently she had a mishap with a ladder. She got dinged up and I am glad that she is ok so in honor of her escapades....I present...
I have been working some long hours this week at work with the employee involvement group that I am a member of so I figured I would post a couple of video's that I have posted in the past and are good for a laugh.
I showed this video to a person from "inFlight Services" and she had never had seen this before and almost passed out laughing at the video.
And of course the "Saga of Bjorn" is a popular one.
And I got a couple of "Hitler parody" video's I found
I was off today from work and I decided to take advantage of the early voting and go ahead and do it rather than wait for November 8. But I decided to go "All American", go shoot then vote...so I bundled off a couple of rifles. I of course took my AR, the battery had died in the optics and I wanted to sight it in better at a longer distance range. So I got my stuff together....
I got my American Eagle ammo together, I remember reading somewhere that it is like the "lake city" loads and my AR likes it. But my AR ain't picky except with Tula Arms and there will be more about that in a few. I had my rifle ready, the replacement battery for my optics, the standard 20 round magazine and the crap Tula ammo to just plink.
Decent grouping and I found out that I really had the wrong target for "dialing" in the rifle....and I suffering from "squirrel syndrome" left my multitool at home to adjust the sight, but I found in my rifle bag...this...
And it worked just fine and I am sure there is irony somewhere in this ;)
I got my rifle dialed in respectable and switched to the crap Tula ammo just to shoot it off,
Yep it performed as expected.......bad primers and insufficient powder to fully cycle the rifle action....Like I said, Tula is better than nothing...and anything else is better than Tula. Well I then decided to switch rifles....I brought out the rifle that I haven't fired in over 25 years...Last time I fired it was in 1990 when I was in a 800 meter silhouette targets in Europe...
It is my 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser. It has been set up for target shooting...and I forgot how loud it was and the recoil. I bought it in this configuration and had the original stock and like a dork gave the stock away to one of my German shooting buddies.
Looking at the peep sights....
Back in the mid 80's it was a shooter, but I don't know how well it would run today. The barrel is fully floating, there is lead inside the foregrip to help with the recoil and the trigger pull is like 1 pound or less. I had thought about putting a scope on it but I have issues with tapping a receiver especially one that old. I can't do it, it would take away from the rifle.
I enjoyed shooting the rifles and it was a treat for me to shoot the Gustav again. Now if I can find a reliable source of ammo I would start shooting again to see how well she would stack up against the "race guns".
I then went from the range to the early voting...
I wasn't crazy for pulling the lever for Trump but Hillary was a non-option. I ain't voting for the man but the message that we "dirt people" still have a say.
This song I heard back in the 70's and I remembered it because of the story it told of a father that was always "too busy". I saw similarities between this and the relationship between me and my Dad. I know it was a different time and my dad had to work. he was a CID agent with the U.S Army and his job kept him hopping so he wasn't around much. My dad did try to play catch with me and my brother a few times and do other things like go fishing as "the guys" but he wasn't around much as I would have hoped. We took a back burner to his career and I don't hate him for it, It was the way it was. His devotion to duty is where I got mine and my brother got his so we did learn a lot from our Dad. But also because this song I make sure that I am available for my son and his activities and I spend a lot of time with my son because he is my son and he is a good kid and hopefully he will be a good man. This song reminded me of that time can move quickly and before you know it, you will be attending graduation and wondering "what the hell happened". I try to balance my work and home life as the best I can. My son is my legacy and I try to "do right" by him. I have a 90's song in mind for next weeks "Monday Music"
The song's lyrics began as a poem written by Harry's wife, Sandra "Sandy" Gaston; the poem itself was inspired by the awkward relationship between her first husband, James Cashmore, and his father, John, a politician who served as BrooklynBorough President. She was also inspired by a country music song she had heard on the radio.Harry also said the song was about his own relationship with his son, Josh, admitting, "Frankly, this song scares me to death."
The song is told in the first-person by a father who is too busy with
work to spend time with his son. Each time the son asks him to join in
childhood activities, the father issues vague promises of spending time
together in the future. While disappointed, the son accepts his excuses
and yearns to "be like you, Dad." The first verse tells of his absence
at his son's birth and walking, as "there were planes to catch and bills
to pay"; the second verse relates the father buying the son a baseball
as a birthday present but likewise declining to play catch.
The final two verses reverse the roles. In the third verse, the son
returns home from college and his father finally has some time to spend
with him. Instead, the son just wants to go out and asks the father for
the car keys. The fourth verse advances the story quite some time, when
the father is long retired and his son has started his own family some
distance away. The father makes a phone call to his son and invites him
for a visit, but the son has his own issues with his job and his
children are sick with the flu. He tells his father he will visit him if
he "can find the time" and says "it's been sure nice talking to you"
before he says goodbye. The final two lines of the song reflect the
father's observation of what has happened:
“
And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me, he'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.
I saw this at ROK. Sometimes I will shamelessly rip off info from another site especially if I like it and I think my fellow bloggers and readers will find it useful. I have tried to explain the "Donald Effect". to my liberal friends. Basically the GOPe and the Democrats created him over the past 20 years. The middle class felt left behind because the GOPe catered to the donor class and the Democrats did also and catered to the "protected class of Immigrants" looking to secure another monolithic block to ensure permanent power and nobody was looking out the American middle class. We had our high paying jobs getting outsourced and what was available didn't even come close to making the same money and you throw in the circus of Obamacare and *Poof* you have Trump.
Whether you love him or hate him, you can’t deny that Donald Trump’s
run for the presidency has had a huge effect on the country, especially
our broken political process. Right now the globalists are working
overtime to crush Trump and his message. They believe that if they can
stop Trump, Americans will go back to being bovine worker drones in
their globalist machine. But that is impossible. What has been seen
cannot be unseen.
Here are some of the ways that Trump has forever changed US politics.
The message is more important than money
Frank Luntz – focus group expert
Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the assumption has been that
the candidate with the largest war chest wins. DC beltway analysts and
New York marketing experts had elections down to a science. If you can
afford to pay the best experts and buy more ads than your competition,
you’ll win. A good example of this was the Marco Rubio campaign.
Everything about Rubio was done according to the textbook. His message
was created and market tested in conjunction with Frank Luntz to ensure
it would have maximum voter appeal. All that Rubio had to do was
execute, run the requisite number of television ads, and he would win.
That conventional wisdom was forever destroyed by Trump.
Instead of following this conventional route, Trump went with his
gut. No doubt he consulted certain people such as Senator Jeff Sessions
in constructing his immigration message, but his general approach was to
bypass focus groups and target big issues that voters felt strongly
about. Because Trump staked out positions that resonated with the GOP
voter base he was able to build a durable following without spending a
lot of money. According to Bloomberg, Hillary has spent roughly $432M on
the campaign while Trump has spent $213M—less than half. Yet the polls
are still close so Trump’s focus on message over Madison Avenue
advertising experts is paying off.
Sometimes you have to offend people
Orlando shooter and misunderstander of Islam
Another piece of conventional wisdom that has been proven wrong by
Trump is the idea that you cannot offend anyone in the electorate, even
very tiny portions of it. You can see it in Hillary’s message, which is
100% focused on women and minorities. Mainstream Republican candidates
are a little less politically correct but not by much. While they might
say “radical Islamic terror,” they are always very quick to point out
that Islam itself is a religion of peace. All terrorists are, in the GOP
view, “perverters” of Islam. The reasoning behind this “don’t offend”
approach is that a politician cannot afford to lose even one vote.
There are many problems with this approach but the biggest one is
that sometimes solving a problem requires offending a group of people.
Trump’s statement that there seems to be a problem with Islam and
terrorism could definitely be construed as being offensive toward
Muslims, but until we have the courage to have an open discussion about
it, we will never solve the problem of terrorism. Trump’s defeat of 16
of GOP’s best and brightest proves that it is more important to speak
the truth than it is to worry about who you offend.
Conservatives are a fake opposition
George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara attends a Hillary Clinton fund raiser in Paris with Huma Abedin
The greatest gift that Trump’s candidacy has given us is the
realization is that the Conservative Movement that powers the Republican
Party was never meant to change America for the better. It’s only
purpose was to provide the appearance that voters have a real choice.
This allowed the progressive agenda of feminism, gay marriage, and the
elimination of national borders to advance without the masses rising up
in open rebellion.
The fact that the GOP was only a fake opposition party became evident
from the moment that Trump announced his candidacy. During his speech
Trump mentioned two distinctive policies that have defined him ever
since. The first is the idea that illegal immigration must be stopped.
The second was that the US has negotiated bad trade deals that are
decimating US manufacturing. While other Republicans had mentioned
immigration as a problem in the past, none of the 2016 batch of
candidates had made it a priority. And none of the other Republicans had
chosen to attack existing trade deals.
There was swift retribution for Trump’s comments. Several companies
canceled contracts that they had with Trump’s company. The Republican
elite rushed to condemn Trump’s statements as offensive to Hispanics.
They also dismissed Trump as not being a serious candidate.
As it became clear that Trump was winning, the GOP establishment
tested various other attacks to no avail. At the GOP convention, most
of them grudgingly endorsed Trump, but they were just waiting for a more
opportune moment to attack Trump. That moment came after the “grab them by the pussy” tapes were released on October 7th. GOP leaders and pundits coordinated their statements against Trump with the media and the Democrats.
The reason the GOP establishment is working to stop Trump because he
represents a genuine departure from the standard Democrat and Republican
policies. Trump’s policies threaten to take away power from the donor
class, the wealthy plutocrats who really run the country. By attacking
Trump the Republican establishment demonstrated that it was only
interested in representing the interests of its wealthy donors, not its
voters.
If elected, Trump will have a chance to change the Republican Party
into a party that really represents the interests of most Americans. If
he loses, the GOP will likely try to revert back to its fake opposition
policy but no one will be fooled into thinking that it presents a real
alternative.
The media is a mouthpiece of the ruling elite
Glenn Thrush
Regular readers of Return of Kings have seen the perfidy of the
mainstream media before. When Roosh tried to hold meet-ups for men, the
international press went into attack mode. Newspapers all over world
obediently printed minor variations on the same false headline that Roosh was “pro-rape.” The same thing has occurred with Donald Trump when women began to accuse him of groping them.
Before publishing a story that tarnishes a person’s reputation, it is
standard journalistic practice to check the accuracy of the story. This
includes contacting the person who has been accused to get their
response. It involves doing some checking of the accuser’s reputation
and looking for corroboration. In the case of the women that Trump
allegedly groped, none of this was done. The media ran the groping
accusations even though the women’s stories were easily debunked because
the media’s only job is to carry the water for the globalist elite.
Sycophant Glenn Thrush asking Hillary’s campaign manager to approve his work
Nowhere has this been more apparent than with the release of the
Wikileaks Podesta emails. The emails show a high degree of coordination
between the media and the Democrats. In one particularly egregious case,
Politico writer asks Podesta to review what he has written to ensure he
has not “fucked up” anything.
Conclusion
Although Trump has changed US politics, we will suffer a serious setback if he loses on November 8th. As I have written before,
it is likely that Clinton will move quickly to modify US demographics
to prevent another conservative from ever being elected. The big
difference will be that we are now wiser as to how things really work.
We’ve been rudely woken from our sleep and injected with 500 mg of
caffeine. There is no way we are going back to sleep again.
I have been taking a bit of time to relax. I do find myself a fan of movies that I watched when I was growing up. I decided to talk about a couple of them. These movies are what I call my "Top 10" movies that I will watch over and over again.
I really liked this movie. The Star Trek (TOS) episode "Balance of Terror" with the cloaked Romulan ship attacking the federation outpost was based upon this movie.
I also watched or am watching "300 Spartans", the movie The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. It starred Richard Egan as the Spartan king Leonidas, Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens and David Farrar as Persian king Xerxes, with Diane Baker as Ellas and Barry Coe
as Phylon providing the requisite romantic element in the film. In the
film, a force of Greek warriors, led by 300 Spartans, fights against a
Persian army of almost limitless size. Despite the odds, the Spartans
will not flee or surrender, even if it means their deaths.
This movie is where I heard the term "Molon Labe" or come and take them.
Additionally, there is a modern monument at the site, called the
"Leonidas Monument", in honor of the Spartan king. It features a bronze
statue of Leonidas. A sign, under the statue, reads simply: "Μολὼν λαβÎ" ("Come and take them!"—as in answer to Xerxes' demand that the Greeks give up their weapons). The metope
below depicts battle scenes. The two marble statues on the left and the
right of the monument represent, respectively, the river Eurotas and Mount Taygetos, famous landmarks of Sparta
And I watched this movie last week The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 historical dramawar film directed by Richie Smyth and written by Kevin Brodbin. It was first screened at the 2016 Galway Film Festival.The film received a limited cinema distribution in Ireland in September 2016,and planned for simultaneous worldwide distribution on Netflix and a number of US iPic Theaters during October 2016.The film is based on Declan Power's book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005)
I thought it was a good movie told from a perspective that I didn't know much about. I had mentioned to Mac that this movie made the UN look like bumbling fools. Here is more information at the Link and a good PDF read of the events are Here.
And finally I watched the movie "Zulu is a 1964 epicwar film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War.
It depicts 150 British soldiers, many of whom were sick and wounded
patients in a field hospital, who successfully held off a force of 4,000
Zulu warriors.
I figured I would make a few pithy comments on a few things....First off we have the DNC, you know the people that are trying to push Hillary on us "little people" as a viable candidate for President. The same people that believes that the rules don't apply to them. You know the same people that are trying to foist the most corrupt politician since Huey Long on the American people...Well they got busted dumping crap down a storm drain...
Witness: DNC tour bus dumps human waste into storm drain
Posted:
Oct 18, 2016 1:21 PM EST
Updated:
Oct 19, 2016 6:18 AM EST
By WGCL Digital Team
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA (CBS46) -
Lawrenceville police are investigating a claim
that involves a Democratic National Committee tour bus illegally dumping
human waste into a storm drain between campaign stops.
The
incident happened on Grayson Highway Tuesday morning after the bus left a
campaign stop near the Gwinnett County Board of Elections Office where
hundreds of voters were lined up to take part in Early Voting.
Police
say when officers arrived on the scene, toilet paper was scattered on
the roadway near the storm drain, there was a foul smell.
Mike
Robins, manager of a nearby business, took several photos of the tour
bus dumping waste into the storm drain. In the pictures, a liquid can be
seen coming from the bottom of the bus.
According to Robins, a
hazardous materials crew responded to the location and collected the
waste to keep more of it from entering the storm drain.
"I don't
care who you are. I don't care if you're Hillary Clinton. I don't care
if you're Donald Trump. I don't care who you are, you don't throw human
waste down a storm drain," said Robins. "Waste water just dumping all
out in the street, poured out in the storm drain, and at this time I've
got my cell phone out and I'm taking pictures cause I don't care who you
are. That's just wrong."
CBS46 reached out to the DNC, which issued the following statement:
This
was an honest mistake and we apologize to the Lawrenceville community
for any harm we may have caused. We were unaware of any possible
violations and have already taken corrective action with the charter bus
company to prevent this from happening again. Furthermore, the DNC will
work with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, as well as local
and state officials to determine the best course of corrective action.
Gwinnett
County's storm water department is now involved in the investigation
along with the State Environment Protection Division. Copyright 2016 WGCL-TV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.
Now if us "little people" had done that, we would have the EPA on us like a ton of bricks...because we are citizens and not government. Now if the Government makes a mess....nothing will happen...remember the huge EPA mess, the one that the EPA drilled where they were not supposed to, then broke through, caused a huge spill that polluted 3 states and the Navaho Nation's water. Yep that one....After a year + of stalling, blowing off the IG and a myriad of other things, the person that caused the spill, noting happened to him. If it was a company or a person....aw crap, we would be inundated with lawyers and investigators and any environmental group would be having a field day....but they make a mess.....move along.....move along..nothing to see here
And something else I will discuss....
Millennial...you know the people that overwhelmingly supported Bernie and now support Hillary....Yep them.....Apparently there is an article out there that the large percentage of the millennials...support socialism and communism...
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, citing survey results
released on Monday, blames widespread ignorance for the relatively
positive views millennials have toward socialism and communism.
Of the 2,300 Americans polled by YouGov,
80% of baby boomers and 91% of the elderly agree with the statement
that “communism was and still is a problem” in the world today. Millennials? Only 55%.
‘An emerging generation of Americans has little
understanding of the collectivist system and its dark history.’
Furthermore, almost half of
Americans between the ages of 16 and 20 said they would vote for a
socialist, while 21% would go so far as to back a communist.
Capitalism, on the other hand, is viewed favorably by 64% of those over the age of 65, compared with only 42% of millennials.
In fact, more than half of millennials say the
economic system works against them, while four out of 10 call for a
“complete change” to ensure that the highest earners pay their fair
share. Read:If socialism is incompatible with markets, how can Nordic stocks perform this well?
There’s
a lack of historical perspective, according to the foundation, that the
survey showed among a big chunk of the younger generation. For
instance, a third of millennials say they believe more people were
killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin.
As far as familiarity with historical figures, this chart sums it up:
“One of the concerns [the
foundation] has had since its establishment is that an emerging
generation of Americans has little understanding of the collectivist
system and its dark history,” said Marion Smith, executive director of
the organization. “Unfortunately, this report, which we intend to
release on an annual basis, confirms this worrisome impression.”
Now I am disturbed, it shows how deep the rot is in the educational system when people in the ivory towers are able to indoctrinate generations of students on a system that is a failure and their belief is that one day we will get the right people in there and it will finally work. The problem is that as Margaret Thatcher stated "The problem with socialism is that one day you will run out of other peoples money".
I remembered "Communism" and "Socialism" and what it did, I saw East Germany that had to build a wall to keep people inside so they wouldn't flee to the west for Freedom. When I was in Berlin in 1987 I saw the lack of hope the crushing of the spirit that communism brings and the only people that seem to get ahead in communism and socialism are the leaders, every one else pays the price.
Now back to politics, A couple of GOP election offices have been vandalized, the one in North Carolina was burned down and a note was spray painted on the wall "NAZI Republicans get out". And in Delaware, a GOP office had their windows busted down. Now it is funny that the democrats are always blaming the conservatives for violence but they are the ones causing it from interrupting rally's for Trump to vandalism of vehicles, and many other things...I have never seen the emotions as inflamed as they are now and I blame the media for that, they have as a group overwhelming are in the bag for the democrats. It is funny that something that is supposed to be protected in the U.S Constitution, the 1st amendment is being used by the statist to suppress the opposing candidate and it is troubling that more people are not aware or flat don't care. I truly fear for my country and what my son will have to deal with as an adult.
You know you have been doing "Monday Music" for a while when you have to check your website to make sure that you haven't already "ran a song". I was surprised that I didn't already run this song in the past. This is one of my favorite "Def Leppard" songs. I bought this album in both vinyl and CD. Where I was stationed, we would go to "Robinson Barracks" in Stuttgart to visit the big PX, and for a while they had a hard time keeping this album in stock. I rank this album along with U2 "The Joshua Tree" as the most iconic albums of the late 80's. Def Leppard puts on a hell of a show, I saw them in Europe and from what I have been told, they still so. Back then I had the "stupid" money to lay out for a concert but now my taste have changed, something about crowds I suppose and the cost. I just can't see dropping the money they want for tickets in this day and age. Next week I will run a song from the 70's, I already have one in mind ;)
The mellow ballad features a clean guitar melody that is very reminiscent of "Goodbye Blue Sky" by Pink Floyd, and heavily multi-tracked vocals in its chorus. The "extreme" nature of producerMutt Lange's recording methods is also exampled in the chorus, where the clean guitar chords were recorded one note at a time as opposed to the traditional method of strumming
them, in effect "building" a chord by recording the notes that make
them up as one would build a wall by stacking bricks upon each other
one-by-one as confirmed by recording engineer Mike Shipley. An acoustic rendition of the song was performed by Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen on the Hysteria edition of VH1's Classic Albums.
I saw this link originally from Kenny's place then from Peters Place. I read the rant early this morning. The use of the "F-bombs" were totally artistic as a rant went and it is one of the best rants I have seen. I have changed some of the words to make it PG for my son that reads my blog.
The pic is compliments of "Facebook" The explanations at the bottom are compliments of "google" and "PIAP" I shamelessly ripped off from somewhere else.
If you don’t like coarse language, the back button is located at the top left of your internet browser…
I generally avoid discussing politics. I don’t believe in human saviors. I do; however, believe in sticking together.
If the Republicans pull a stunt, and Trump runs third party, fantastic.
Mission complete.
It’s winner-take-freaking-all. Either he gets in the Captain’s Chair
and turns the ship around, or he burns the damm house down on
his way out.
The Republican Party, remember them?
They were the ones that were going to end illegal immigration and eviscerate CommieCare™. So for all you, “non-socialist“, “non-politically-correct”
folks out there, why would you continue to not only reward failure, but
continue to show up, and give support to the party that betrays you
time, after time, after time?
You’re like a bunch of bitchy battered spouses.
A freaking meateater shows up to kick your abusive husband’s ass, and you go full blown Stockholm.
Then, during the primaries, these freaking crony-capitalist,
anti-free-market goons have the audacity to parade around the biggest
dogpile of invertebrates this side of the Precambrian Era, and actually
expected us to accept these wishy washy, limp-wristed clowns?
I’ve never seen such a pack of worthless buffoons in my life. Kasich?
Christie!? Rubio!?! Are you kidding me!? 300,000,000 Americans,
and these damp washcloths with pulses were the best the country could
come up with?
Then, to add insult to injury, and prove to the world that they were
more than willing to cut their own nose off to spite their face, they were ready to throw the primary process into the wood chipper,
because you, me, and everyone else is incapable of deciding who the hell we want to vote for!? The GOP Establishment just told you "degenerates"
it doesn’t give a flying soggy biscuit what you meaningless serfs think;
it will pick its own candidate, “screwyou very much“.
And you’re still willing to throw your bibs on, and scootch on up to the crap trough smorgasbord!?!?
Seriously!?
The faux-outrage from crapweasels like Ryan only show who the worms
are. It’s like watching a 500,000,000-lumen light shining down as the
cockroaches scatter.
Trump could run as a the candidate from the Scientology Xenu Collective Party, and he will get my vote.
Trump could whip his Dugan out and piss in Anderson Cooper’s face on live TV…
…Still voting for him.
Enough is enough.
Trump is harder than woodpecker lips. He ante’d up. He’s all-in. And
if he doesn’t win, it will be the biggest failure of his career. Period.
The demonization won’t stop if he simply loses.
He threw down the gauntlet, stepped up to the plate, and has been
a thorn in the side to every corrupt plutocrat, every sniveling
millennial weasel, every social justice sissy, every man-spreading
offense-taking-horn-rimmed-glasses-wearing-soon-to-be-spinster-vegan-cat-lady,
every TelePrompTer-regurgitating dick-squeezer working for state-run
media, every deadbeat-handout-sucking-grifter, every
tip-toeing-closeted-pedophile-politician, every
crony-corporatist-tax-payer-subsidized-offshoring-swindler, every
lowlife-border-serpent coming here to mooch, every
Stars-and-Stripes-asswiping-Old-Glory-burning-Communist-weeniesmoker; in
short, he is an affront to the sensibilities of the worst in America.
He’s the radical Left’s Antichrist; he is everything they hate about America.
And he is the last ticket out of this mess.
He’s the last chance to dance, boys and girls.
It’s not about VOWOOT*…it’s about seeing the ultimate “SCREW YOU” through to the bloody, bitter end.
He’s endured >12 Calendar months of every vile adjective these crap-drapers can throw at him, up to, and including, the cultural
marxists’ most powerful weapon in their arsenal, “racist.”
He’s endured the entire propagandistic might of the media bullcrap machine, endlessly.
He’s still there.
The best they can come up with is the man says nasty things? Mean things?
Grow the hell up, you damned cowards.
The Anti-Free-Market Corporatists, and the Political Establishment
have sold your freaking country down the river, and you’re gonna get your panties in a knot over a guy who said he wants sink his ding-dong into a
hot babe?
If that’s where your priorities are, you deserve every damned ounce of what’s coming.
Ultimately this isn’t about Trump. It’s never been about Trump.
Trump is merely the silver bullet into the heart of the sellout crapweasels.
Trump’s support is a direct result of the seething, white-hot rage in the American spirit.
He’s the final gasp of a dying body politic of red-blooded Americans, manifested in flesh.
He is a political weapon thrust into the side of Leviathan, as a
last-ditch Hail Mary effort to expunge the self-anointed “know-betters”
before they take the whole house down in a blazing cacophony of nuclear
fire-and-brimstone.
Trump is the people’s Ambassador. His message, is nothing more profound than,
“SCRRREEEEEEEEWWW YOU!”
Whether he wins the election, loses the election, has the votes
rigged against him, or the Repugnant party disowns him; it’s irrelevant –
we’ve got a lot of work to do, and the future of American sovereignty,
not-beholden to back-room deals conjured up by Corruptocratican
globalist parasites, literally depends on anyone who doesn’t want to see
their grandkids living in a third-world hellhole, while perennial
near-felons suck caviar and spit in the face of the Rule of Law.
Whether he wins, and wins YUGELY, or is crushed miserably; it doesn’t matter.
TINVOWOOT**.
That said, just remember, by showing up to the polls in November, and
yanking the crank that says, “Donald J. Trump,” you, and millions like
you, will have effectively sent the biggest, meanest, most hateful
bird-finger in the direction of the Deep(Dark) State possible; you’ll have utterly embarrassed them. You will have, if nothing else, given the most thorough, “SCREW YOU,”
of your life to the disgusting scum that have floated to the top, while
simultaneously illustrating that the biggest propaganda machine this
side of Goebbels was utterly incapable of stopping you.
It will be a solid, “SCREW YOU,” to all the political pansies, fruitcakes, weenies, and wimps, crapping their pants in fake “outrage.”
It will be a solid, “SCREW YOU,” to all the enabling bagmen, henchmen, goons, and goobers, that lick the king’s boot for a living.
It will be a solid, “SCREW YOU,” to all the self-appreciative, holier-than-thou, coffee-shop “intellectuals.”
And, most importantly, it will be a solid, “SCREW YOU,” to the state-run media in this country, along with the message that they may have some folks fooled, but this time – it ain’t you.
And no matter what the hell happens – don’t get defeated. I’m seeing a
lot of folks tricked by bogus polling numbers, and other hocus-pocus.
See also: manufactured “consensus.” Reach down, verify your sacks are still attached, and get some fight back in you, you damned wimps.
Whether the WWOTW*** is roundly defeated through the electoral process in November or not, the “SCREW YOU” remains the same.
*Voting Our Way Out Of This
**There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of this
***Wiched Witch of the West Or as I call her PIAP or Pig In A Pantsuit
This started out as a quick post but turned into several hours of research and googling as they say. I remembered seeing a picture of a B36 in a comic book from the early 70's that I had and I always thought such a plane didn't exist. I thought when I was younger that we went from the B29 to the B47 to the B52. Not until highschool did I find out that there actually was a B36 Peacemaker. I saw one at the Airforce Museum and that thing is Huuuge to paraphrase Donald Trump. I later saw a movie with Jimmy Stewart called "Strategic Air Command " and there was footage of the B-36 in action. I thought the movie was pretty neat from an historical and technical perspective and any movie with Jimmy Stewart is a good movie.
Shown here is a 1950 era propaganda produced by the U.S. Signal Corp
highlighting the then new B-36 intercontinental nuclear bomber.
Playing
in the U.S. movie theatres of the era, the film served the dual purpose
of not only informing the U.S. public about U.S. air power but to also
serve notice to the Soviets about what awaited them should they step out
of line.
Built by Convair, the B-36 “Peacemaker” was a strategic
bomber operated solely by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 –
1959.
It was the largest mass-produced piston engine aircraft ever made.
Eclipsing the wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, the Peacemaker
measured in at a whopping 230 ft.
RB-36s
in production – note the heavily-framed “greenhouse” bubble canopy over
the cockpit area, used for all production B-36 airframesBuilt
specifically for the purpose of nuclear warfare, the B-36 was the first
bomber capable of delivering a payload of any nuclear weapon within the
U.S. arsenal without needing any modifications.
With four bomb
bays, a range of 10,000 miles and a maximum payload of 87,200 lbs, the
B-36 was the world’s first manned bomber with intercontinental range
capabilities without the need to refuel.
The B-36 was the USAF
Strategic Air Command’s (SAC) primary nuclear weapons delivery arm until
it 1955 when it was replaced by the jet-powered Boeing B-52
Stratofortress.
The first of its kind, the B-36 set the standard in terms of range and payload for all future U.S. intercontinental bombers.
In 1947 the United States Air Force
became an independent service, carved from the Army and placed under the
control of the newly created National Military Establishment. The new
service faced daunting challenges. There was the threat from a new
adversary, the Soviet Union. But there were challenges at home as well:
from the Navy, which viewed those in the new uniforms as rivals for
diminishing defense funds; and from within, as the Air Force struggled
to introduce jet-powered aircraft into operational service.
In the spring of 1949, the country got a new secretary of
defense: Louis Johnson, a wealthy lawyer, aspiring politician, and
former official with the Convair Corporation, which was a longtime
supplier of U.S. military aircraft. That last connection, which today
would seem a scandal worthy of a special prosecutor, was common at the
time. Who knew more about weapons than the men who built them?
When President Harry Truman ordered Johnson to economize, he
obliged in April by canceling the 65,000-ton super-carrier United
States, the keel of which had been laid only a week before. But the
carrier was the linchpin of the Navy's plan to equip itself for the
strategic nuclear mission. Carrying aircraft able to deliver atomic
bombs to a target 1,000 miles away, the United States would have
projected naval air power across the world's oceans, just the mission
the Air Force wanted for its land-based bombers. Johnson's order, though
only two sentences long, set off an interservice squabble the likes of
which the nation had rarely seen.
Relations between the Army and Navy had first soured in the 1920s
over which service should defend the U.S. coast, and World War II had
only sharpened their rivalry. Now the Navy viewed the postwar creation
of the Air Force and the Department of Defense as twin political threats
to its primacy as the defender of U.S. shores. The spat that followed
cancellation of the United States became known as "the revolt of the
admirals," and it pitted the Navy's aircraft carrier against the Air
Force's strategic bombing force--more specifically, Convair's monster
six-engine bomber, the B-36, which had entered service in the summer of
1948.
Now it was a year later, and matters
were coming to a head. The first shot in the battle was fired by Cedric
Worth, a civilian assistant to Navy Undersecretary Dan Kimball for
"special study and research," as he later described his duties under
oath. It came in the form of a nine-page memo for the Navy's internal
use (though he admitted giving copies to three members of Congress and
to aircraft manufacturer Glenn Martin). The document condemned the B-36
as "an obsolete and unsuccessful aircraft" and charged that the Air
Force had acquired it only after Convair had contributed $6.5 million to
various Democratic politicians. See Revolt of the Admirals
The theme was picked up by the Navy League, which spent $500,000
trashing the mega-bomber. (That amount, at least, was the estimate of
the rival Air Force Association. If these sums don't seem exciting,
consider that in 1949, the minimum wage in the aircraft industry was 50
cents an hour.) The B-36 was described as a "lumbering cow" and a
"billion-dollar blunder," and the Navy claimed it had at least three jet
fighters that could leave the monster behind at 40,000 feet. The
admirals wanted a matchup, but they would never get one.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff told Johnson the test was a bad idea.
And the Air Force said it had already demonstrated that fighters
couldn't maneuver at that altitude. Simulated B-36 attacks on bases in
Florida and California were met by three front-line fighters: a North
American F-86A Sabre,
a Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star,
and a Republic
F-84 Thunderjet.
Radar picked up the intruder 30 minutes out; the
fighters took 26 minutes to climb to 40,000 feet and another two minutes
to find the B-36. The fighters were faster than the big bomber, but
their wing loading (the ratio of aircraft weight to area of the wings)
was so high that they couldn't turn with the bomber without stalling in
the thin air. Even if a B-36 were detected and Soviet fighters caught
it, the pilot could evade them by making S-turns, said the Air Force.
Of course, the Russians wouldn't have been flying USAF jets, as
British engineer Harold Saxon argued in an edition of Aviation Week that
appeared in mid-summer. While the Americans valued speed and therefore
reduced the span and area of their jets' wings, the British built
fighters that could maneuver at stratospheric heights, beginning with
the de Havilland Vampire, which had been designed for the first British
turbojet engine, and which by 1949 had done "a lot of development flying
since 1947 between 50,000 and 60,000 feet," according to Saxon.
By early June, the battle had moved into the halls of Congress
when James Van Zandt, a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania and
captain in the Navy reserve, took up the charges leaked by Worth's memo.
On the House floor, Van Zandt demanded an investigation of the "ugly,
disturbing reports" that the bomber project would have been canceled a
year ago if not for wheeling and dealing by Louis Johnson, other Convair
officials, and Stuart Symington, the civilian head of the Air Force.
Symington, in a speech at Brookline, Massachusetts, had summed up
the final judgment on the B-36: The bomber could "take off from bases
on this continent, penetrate enemy defenses, destroy any major urban
industrial area in the world, and return non-stop to the point of
take-off." Symington's claim was preposterous, but it was widely
believed. So Congress did what it does best: It scheduled hearings. But
they were delayed until August, infuriating Van Zandt, and also
broadened into a debate about the strategic roles of the Air Force and
Navy. During the dramatic proceedings, a browbeaten Cedric Worth was
unmasked as the author of the memo that had incited the ruckus and
forced to recant everything. "I think I was wrong," he told the
committee.
"You made a grave error, did you not?" he was asked.
"Yes."
U.S. bombers had been getting steadily bigger, so the enormity of
the B-36 may have seemed part of an American pattern, but the bomber
actually owed its immense bulk to a succession of hostile dictators,
starting with Adolf Hitler. In the spring of 1941, German troops held
most of western Europe and seemed likely to conquer Britain next. The
U.S. Army asked airframe builders for an airplane that could take off
from American soil, bomb Germany, and fly home.
The most promising design came from Consolidated Aircraft in San
Diego, builder of the B-24 Liberator, which was just entering service
with U.S. and British air forces. Consolidated proposed a quantum leap
over the B-17 and B-24 heavy bombers as well as Boeing's next-generation
"very heavy" B-29 Superfortress. The B-36 was to be a mega-bomber,
spanning 230 feet from wingtip to wingtip. It would cross the Atlantic,
enter German airspace at 300 mph, and drop 10,000 pounds of bombs from
40,000 feet, too high for flak or fighters to trouble it. Impressed, the
Army ordered a pair of prototypes on November 15, 1941.
Three weeks later, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the
U.S. suddenly found itself fighting a two-ocean war. The B-36 went on
the back burner while Consolidated turned out thousands of its proven
Liberators. The B-36 suffered another setback when its facilities were
moved to Texas, and yet another when the designers were asked to build a
transport based on the bomber.
While Europe was pounded from bases in England, Japan was to be
targeted by the Boeing Superfortress flying from China. The Japanese set
out to capture the Chinese airfields--and thereby moved the B-36 back
to the front burner. From Hawaii, it could bomb Tokyo as it had once
been expected to bomb Berlin. In June 1943 the Army asked for 100 copies
of the mega-bomber, with the first to arrive in the summer of 1945.
The U.S. Marine Corps moved faster than Convair (Consolidated
merged with Vultee in 1943, and the new name was coined then). Shortly
after Guam, Saipan, and Tinian were in U.S. hands, the Superforts began
their terrible punishment of the Japanese home islands. The Pacific war
ended six months earlier than expected--and six days before the rollout
of the first B-36, its nose jacked up to lower its tail, which was too
tall for the hangar door. It debuted as the Peacemaker, but the name
never took, and even today it is better remembered simply as the B-36.
In a country celebrating peace, the prototype would have been the
last of the line, but the Soviet Union turned out to be as land-hungry
as Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Nonetheless, the U.S. military
packed for home in a stand-down so thorough that it was "Not a demobilization"," as General Leon Johnson noted in a 1954 interview, "it
was a rout." The spring of 1946 became a replay of 1941, with a hostile
dictator swallowing pieces of Europe and the Americans unable to do
anything about it. The "strategic" card--the threat of wholesale
destruction by nuclear weapons--seemed the only one that a demobilized,
budget-cutting United States could play. But which of the services would
play it?
When Congress had created the independent air force in 1947, the
new service had been organized around two combat arms: a Tactical Air
Command (TAC) to support the ground troops and a Strategic Air Command
(SAC) to take the war to the enemy. The Air Force would have a fleet
twice the size of the Navy's--24,000 aircraft to 11,500--and only the
Air Force would have heavy bombers.
Following the U.S. withdrawal to the continental United States
and the emergence of Joseph Stalin's ambitions, SAC's strategic mission
was in the ascendant and there was no longer any question who the
"enemy" was. By happenstance, the long-distance payload of the B-36
equalled the weight of one atomic bomb--roughly 10,000 pounds--and its
combat radius equalled the great-circle route from Maine to Leningrad.
Pending the arrival of its new $5.7-million-dollar baby, SAC made do
with 160 veteran B-29 Superforts, and it was these aircraft that
answered the call to deploy to European bases when the Russians shut off
ground access to Berlin in the summer of 1948.
It was a colossal bluff. In all of SAC, only 27 Superforts had
the "Silver Plate" modifications needed to carry an atomic bomb, and
these were all assigned to the 509th Bomb Group, which stayed home. As
for bombs, the U.S. "stockpile" contained exactly 13, controlled by the
Atomic Energy Commission, and President Harry Truman refused to say if
he'd ever release them to the military. Even if he had given the order
to launch an attack, the 509th would have needed five days to pack up,
fly to an AEC depot, load the nukes, and move overseas.
Perhaps the reality of the situation didn't matter to the
Soviets. As they demonstrated again and again during the cold war, their
pattern was to push until they met a determined response, then back off
and wait for the next opportunity. They could easily have prevented an
airlift by jamming U.S. radio beacons, but they didn't. And when General
Curtis LeMay, to everyone's astonishment, fed and heated Berlin by air,
the Russians quietly reopened land routes in the spring of 1949. The
blockade succeeded only in burnishing LeMay's reputation, heightening
American fear of Russia, and confirming the belief that the B-36 was
America's best hope to contain Communism.
In June 1948, Convair delivered the first operational B-36A to
SAC's 7th Bomb Group at Carswell Air Force Base, across the runway from
its Fort Worth plant. Big as the B-29 Superfort was, it could nearly fit
beneath one wing of a B-36. Despite the difference in size, the two
airplanes had similar vertical tails, and they had slim fuselages, like
cigarettes, round in cross-section, with two pressurized crew cabins
separated by two bomb bays and connected by a tunnel.
But the wings were different. The Superfort's were thin,
straight, and glider-like, while the B-36's wings were more than seven
feet thick at the root, enough for a crewman to crawl in and reach the
engines or the landing gear in flight. The wings were tapered, with the
leading edges swept back, and the effect of that, combined with the
wings' location so far back on the fuselage, made the airplane appear
out of balance. Strangest of all, the B-36's six Pratt & Whitney
Wasp Major engines were faired into the trailing edges, with the
propellers located aft in the pusher configuration. Although it was
supposed to reduce the propeller swirl's turbulence over the wing, the
pusher design was rarely used on U.S. aircraft. Apparently it worked,
though, because the B-36 had very low drag. The main drawback was that
air for cooling the engines was ducted from intakes in the leading edge
of the wing, and there was never enough of it, especially at high
altitude.
The propellers were 19 feet in diameter, and to keep the tips
from going supersonic they were geared to turn less than half as fast as
the engines. The engines and propellers produced an unforgettable
throbbing sound when the B-36 flew overhead. A friend of mine remembers
the sound from his boyhood as a "captivating drone. The noise went down
to your heels, it was so resonant. It just stopped you in your tracks.
You looked up into the sky to try to find this thing, and it was just a
tiny cross, it was so high." Others remember that it rattled windows on
the ground from 40,000 feet.
The airplane's most eye-catching feature was the Plexiglas canopy
that enclosed a flight deck, which, while ample for a crew of four,
seemed small on such a whale of a plane. A dome below the nose housed a
radar antenna, and two transparent blisters allowed the crew to aim the
guns and observe any mechanical breakdowns. The effect was a face like a
prairie dog's peering from a burrow, with the flight deck for eyes, the
scanning blisters for ears, and the radome for tucked-up paws.
The ailerons, flaps, rudder, and elevators had a combined total
surface area greater than both wings of a B-24. The pilot's control
input moved a trim tab in the opposite direction, forcing the control
surface in the desired direction.
Two flight engineers monitored the six
4,360-cubic-inch engines, each with four rows of seven cylinders, a
configuration that earned the nickname "corncob." The bombardier,
navigator, radioman, and gunners brought the population of the forward
cabin to 10.
You could visit the aft cabin by lying supine on a wheeled cart
and pulling yourself along an overhead rope through a tunnel 85 feet
long and two feet in diameter. The cart also served as a dumbwaiter,
sending hot entrees from the galley to the forward cabin. The aft
compartment accommodated five men and was equipped with bunks, an
electric range, and the world's smallest urinal, which had to be voided
to the outside at intervals. B-36 veterans like to tell the story of the
new captain who came aft to relieve himself but didn't ask for
instructions and, as a result, peed on his boots.
Later models had larger crews, up to 22 in reconnaissance
versions. And everyone had a job to do--two jobs, in the case of the
gunners. It took the ground crew six hours to prepare the bomber for a
mission, and the flight crew needed another hour for a preflight check
involving 600 steps, beginning with climbing the landing gear and
removing the clamps that kept the gear from folding accidentally.
The B-36A couldn't fight--the electrically operated cannon were
so trouble-prone they were simply eliminated--much less scramble to
retaliate, and it ended up becoming little more than a crew trainer.
Twenty-two were delivered, each virtually handmade, and "so flimsily
built," says Jim Little, who served on one after it was converted to an
RB-36E, "that the upper wing skin would actually pull loose from the
wing ribs." Sometimes, Little recalls in the book RB-36 Days at Rapid
City, "you would meet [the plane] with a crew of 30 or 40 sheet metal
men."
The propellers were reversible for braking on landing, but
sometimes they reversed in flight or while the airplane was straining to
take off--at least once with fatal consequences. The stainless steel
firewalls enclosing the engines cracked. The cylinders overheated. Lead
in the gasoline fouled the spark plugs at cruising speed. Each airplane
had 336 spark plugs, and after a flight lasting a day and a half, a
mechanic would have to haul a bucket of replacement plugs to the
airplane to service all six engines. The engines leaked oil, and
sometimes a flight engineer had to shut one down because it had
exhausted its allotment of 150 gallons.
Then there was the "wet wing." The outboard fuel tanks were
formed by the wing panels and sealed at the junctions, and after the
wing flexed for a few hundred hours the sealant was apt to fail. Jim
Little recalls that one airplane leaked so badly "the ground underneath
was just purple [from the dye in the high-octane gasoline]--it was
raining fuel under that airplane."
Pilot opinion of the B-36 tended to run to the extremes, but most
crew members loved it--"this big, wonderful old bird," Jim Edmundson
calls it. As a colonel in the early 1950s, Edmundson commanded a B-36
group at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington. But even he
admitted that the airplane could be a chore for its pilot--"like sitting
on your front porch and flying your house around."
Of course most of the pilots were young and eager, and the older
men had flown worse contraptions during the war. "It was a noisy
airplane; it was big," former radioman/gunner Raleigh Watson recalled at
a B-36 reunion at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California last
September, "but it was comfortable, and I think we felt it was a safe
airplane, a very well-built airplane." Moxie Shirley, a pilot with more
than a thousand hours in the B-36, loved the airplane, declaring that it
"kept the Russians off our backs." But he went on to add, "Every crew
that ever flew that airplane had stories that would make your hair stand
on end."
Ed Griemsmann expressed another view in Thundering Peacemaker: "A
horrible, lazy beast to fly," he told the book's author. Griemsmann
survived a fiery crash in 1956. Most B-36 crashes were fiery because of
the magnesium used in its construction. Rather than fly another, he
said, he'd join the infantry.
If the B-36A was ineffective, the Strategic Air Command was
little better. Its first commander, General George Kenney, didn't
believe in the B-36, arguing in 1947 that the bomber was too slow to
survive over enemy territory, with engines and an airframe that couldn't
withstand an 8,000-mile flight. Kenney urged the Air Force to put its
money into bombers that could fly at the speed of sound, even if that
meant depending on overseas bases.
Kenney was right, of course. But at the time, his advice seemed
disloyal, and he compounded the offense by letting his deputy run SAC
while he himself campaigned for the top job in the Air Force. Not long
after the first B-36A arrived, Kenney was fired. SAC's new commander was
General Curtis LeMay, the pudgy, ferocious, cigar-smoking general famed
for his B-29 tactics in the Pacific and for the more recent and
successful Berlin airlift.
"We didn't have one crew, not one crew, in the entire command who
could do a professional job," LeMay wrote of the SAC he inherited. He
challenged his crews to stage a practice bomb raid on Dayton, Ohio, from
30,000 feet, using photographs taken in 1941--the best they'd have for
the Soviet Union. (All SAC had were captured photographs the Germans had
taken during the occupation of western Russia. Of the country beyond
Moscow, there were no photographs available at all.) After the fiasco
that ensued, LeMay whipped the crews into shape. He moved the best
people from other groups to make the nuclear-capable 509th combat-ready,
then did the same for the next most promising group.
By the fall of 1948 an improved B-36B had arrived, armed with
pairs of 20-millimeter guns in the nose and tail, and six turrets that
opened out like flowers in a slow-motion film; the gunners aimed from
remote blisters. On December 7, the seventh anniversary of the Japanese
raid on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Colonel John Bartlett took off in a
B-36 from Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, flew to Hawaii, dropped a
10,000-pound dummy bomb, and returned without being spotted on the
island's radar. LeMay must have bitten through his cigar when he got the
news. If he could reach Hawaii from Texas, he could hit the Soviet
Union from Maine. And if he could figure out how to operate the B-36 in
the cold of Alaska, all of Siberia would fall under its shadow.
The B model also had the "Grand Slam" modifications needed for
carrying a hydrogen bomb, which was 30 feet long and weighed 43,000
pounds and had been created in such secrecy that Convair didn't have the
dimensions in time for the A models.
The B-36B was the last true reciprocating-engine bomber in the
U.S. strategic bomber force. In hindsight, it seems obvious that the
mega-bomber should have been jet-powered from the start. But the
turbojet had been developed during World War II for fast-climbing,
high-flying interceptors, and they gulped fuel at a prodigious rate.
Nobody dreamed they could cross an ocean. Two developments changed
everything: a new generation of twin-spool turbojets with markedly
improved fuel consumption and, more significantly, the advent of
inflight refueling. By 1949, Boeing's B-47 Stratojet was entering
production, and the B-52 Stratofortress, an intercontinental giant, was
making progress on paper.
Even before the uproar started in Congress in the summer of '49,
the Air Force was apparently worried about the vulnerability of the
B-36, and as an interim measure asked Convair to hang a pair of jet pods
near the B-36's wingtips. By March, a B-36B had flown with four Allison
J35s installed. On the production versions that emerged in July, each
pod housed two General Electric J-47-GE-19s modified to run on
gasoline--tiny compared to the Wasp Majors, but effectively doubling the
airplane's installed horsepower. The jets were employed for takeoff,
climbing to extreme altitudes, and dashing across hostile territory.
With "six turning and four burning," as the saying went, a B-36 could
finally top 400 mph. But fighter jockeys were flirting with the sound
barrier in their North American F-86 Sabre jets, and whatever the
Americans deployed--nukes, missiles, supersonic jets--the Russians
matched, beginning with copies and sometimes ending with improved
weapons.
For the benefit of Congress, the Air Force then released what
Aviation Week described as "sensational new performance figures" on the
jet-assisted B-36D: 435-mph top speed, 50,000-foot ceiling, range of up
to 12,000 miles. LeMay added his personal pledge: "I believe we can get
the B-36 over a target and not have the enemy know it is there until the
bombs hit."
Even George Kenney came out of exile from his post as commander
of the officer training center, Air University, to praise the airplane.
"The B-36 went higher, faster, and farther than anybody thought it
would," he said, "and the pilots liked it. It was a lucky freak."
However, Kenney guessed that both the U.S. Navy Banshee and the Royal
Air Force Vampire could intercept the B-36 in daylight; he recommended
that it be used only on night raids.
On September 5, Aviation Week reported "Symington and Defense
Chiefs Exonerated," as the House Armed Services Committee gave a clean
bill of health to Johnson, Symington, the Air Force, and Convair. There
wasn't "one iota, not one scintilla, of evidence...that would support
charges or insinuations that collusion, fraud, corruption, influence, or
favoritism played any part whatsoever in the procurement of the B-36
bomber," the committee concluded. Even Congressman Van Zandt voted for
the absolving resolution.
At 4 a.m. local time on June 25, 1950, North Korean troops
stormed across the 38th parallel. In November they were joined by
Chinese "volunteers." These developments marked the end of President
Truman's defense economy drive. First Germany, then Japan, then Russia,
and now events in Korea had succeeded in advancing the cause of the
B-36. Suddenly plenty of money was available for mega-bombers, and for
super-carriers as well.
The Korean war produced another milestone for SAC: Truman
released nine atomic bombs to the military. They probably didn't leave
the country, but the B-36 did, flying from Texas to airfields in Britain
and Morocco in the spring and fall of 1951. Only six airplanes were
involved and their visits were short, but the message couldn't have
escaped Moscow's attention. However briefly, the capital and most of the
territory of the Soviet Union had come within the combat radius of the
B-36.
Altogether, 1951 was a good year for mega-bombers. Margaret
Bourke-White rhapsodized over the B-36 in a photo-essay for Life
magazine, with photographs taken at 41,000 feet, where the sky "was a
color such as I've never seen, the darkest blue imaginable, yet luminous
like the hottest cobalt, too brilliant for the eyes to bear." She
photographed fluffy white contrails streaming from the reciprocating
engines, a 55-foot scaffold used to repair the rudder, and (from both
ends) the marvelous flying boom that refueled bombers in flight.
An alert reader might have noted some oddities in Bourke-White's
essay. The bomber being refueled was a Superfort, not a B-36, none of
which was ever equipped for inflight refueling. She rode in a B-47, its
raked tail clearly visible in one photograph. And the accompanying map
depicted a Soviet Union surrounded by small bombers based in Alaska,
Canada, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Japan: the Peacemaker
hunkered at home.
But if Superforts were on the Russian border, and if midair
refueling allowed them to fly indefinitely, and with the Stratojet
coming on line, why bother with the B-36? The jet pods had added so much
weight and gobbled so much fuel that the combat radius had dropped
first to 3,525 miles, then to 3,110. What was LeMay planning? From
Maine, South Dakota, and Washington, the B-36 could barely scratch the
edges of the Soviet empire, and even at those bases it faced hard
sledding in the winter. At Rapid City, mechanics had to build a repair
dock with sliding doors and cutouts for the fuselage so they could work
on the engines while the tail stayed out in the snow. There were SAC
bases in Alaska and Greenland, but the climate was so forbidding that
LeMay never stationed any B-36s there. The Arctic airfields were used as
staging points, with the bombers returning to the south 48 after each
mission. Another ploy was the shuttle mission, with a takeoff from
Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington. After bombing
Irkutsk, in central Siberia, the bombers would have refueled at Okinawa
before returning home.
But to do any real damage, LeMay had to launch it from an
overseas base or order a one-way mission. He would have scoffed at this
latter-day quarterbacking, of course. "The B-36 was often called an
interim bomber," he wrote in his memoir, Mission With LeMay. "For my
dough, every bomber which ever has been or ever will be is an interim
bomber." He had a point: at the time, SAC even considered the B-52
nothing more than a fill-in for the supersonic B-70.
LeMay may have been loyal to his hardware, but there were signs
that General Kenney wasn't alone in his initial doubts about the B-36.
One scheme would have equipped it with a pilotless drone to fight off
enemy interceptors. Then the Air Force experimented with a manned
parasite--the XF-85 Goblin--which would ride to war in a bomb bay. Still
later, Republic adapted its F-84 to snuggle into the belly of the
beast. By 1953 this last concept had changed from one of defending the
B-36 to replacing it: The mother plane would linger offshore while the
Thunderjet dashed in to take photographs or drop a bomb.
Finally, in 1955, Convair took a different approach, stripping
the mega-bomber to the essentials. Just as LeMay had gambled his B-29s
in 1945, sending them low and fast over Tokyo armed only with tail guns,
SAC got a "featherweight" B-36 with only two guns, a smaller crew, no
stove or other luxuries, and, in the bargain, a longer range. Many of
the earlier models were modified to the new standard, especially the
reconnaissance versions. Indeed, it's possible that LeMay's fondness for
the B-36 may have had less to do with its potential as a bomber than
its value as a spyplane. SAC ended up with 369 of the jet-recip hybrids,
including modified versions, and more than a third were reconnaissance
bombers. The RB-36 could carry an atomic bomb, but its principal weapon
was a camera the size of a Geo Metro, set in a photo studio that
replaced the forward bomb bay. Loaded with a roll of film 18 inches wide
and 1,000 feet long, this great camera once photographed a golf course
from 40,000 feet, and in the contact print, on display at the Air Force
Museum in Dayton, an actual golf ball can be seen. If an RB-36 could see
a golf ball from eight miles up, it could see tanks, airplanes,
missiles, and factories. Surely this was the task that LeMay saw for the
Peacemaker: With its enormous wings and extra fuel, who knows how high
and how far it could fly? B-36 crews speak of 45-hour missions,
presumably with fuel cells instead of nukes in the rear bomb bays; at
cruise speed, a "featherweight" could travel almost 9,000 miles in that
period. The official ceiling was 41,300 feet, but again, crews say that
they routinely flew higher than 50,000 feet, and one man--John McCoy,
quoted in Thundering Peacemaker--boasted of soaring to 58,000 feet. On
missions over China, McCoy said, his RB-36 was chased by MiG fighters
that couldn't climb anywhere near it. U.S. fighter pilots of that period
also recall B-36s cruising comfortably well above their own maximum
altitude. Not until the advent of the "century series" fighters--the
F-100 and up--would the B-36 be challenged. Whether the RB-36 ever
overflew Russia is anyone's guess, but it was the U.S. altitude and
distance champ until the Lockheed U-2 came on line toward the end of the
decade.
In the end, the B-36 turned out to be a place holder for the B-52
Stratofortress. Convair attempted to stave off Boeing's
intercontinental jet bomber with the YB-60, which premiered as the
YB-36G, with eight jets, a five-man crew, completely redesigned swept
wings, a speed of 508 mph, and a 2,920-mile combat radius--in short, a
knock-off that was inferior in every respect to its competitor. Boeing's
bombers had the advantage of having been designed for jet power from
the start. The Air Force didn't even bother to supply engines for the
second YB-60 prototype.
Though obsolescent, the B-36 still had some momentum. Before
descending into retirement, it made its first overseas deployment with a
USAF unit in 1955, to Britain and Guam. In the same year, it starred in
a Hollywood epic, Strategic Air Command--though in Jimmy Stewart's
final scene with Frank Lovejoy, who played the LeMay-like general, a
model of an early B-52 can be seen on the general's desk. The B-36
remained in the inventory for four more years, while the new
Stratofortress was being tweaked to its full potential.
The B-36 was nowhere near as durable as the B-52 would prove to
be, but it did the work asked of it. And eventually, the inter-service
rivalry that led to the Congressional eruption over the big bomber's
strategic mission died down, with the Navy's missile-submarine fleet
garnering a permanent place in the strategic "triad" along with bombers
and land-based missiles. Perhaps the best thing that can be said about
the Peacemaker is that it lived up to its name. The B-36 never went to
war, never dropped a bomb in anger, nor (so far as we know) even fired
its cannon at an enemy airplane. Created at a time when the atomic bomb
redefined strategic air power and the turbojet redefined performance,
its career spanned the crossroads that divided two era
The adventures continue......
"Come as You Are" is a song by American grunge band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain and released as the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind in March 1992. It was the band's second American Top 40 hit, and second UK top 10 hit, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number nine on the UK Singles Chart.
It was anticipated that the first single from Nevermind, "Smells Like Teen Spirit",
would be a "base-building alternative cut", while "Come as You Are"
would be able to cross over into other radio formats. However, "Smells
Like Teen Spirit" became a surprise hit and boosted the band's
popularity, whereas "Come as You Are" served to maintain it. After its release as a single in March 1992, "Come as You Are" peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single stayed on the chart for 18 weeks. The song also reached number three on the Billboard Mainstream and Modern Rock Tracks charts.The single also broke the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at the ninth spot. This song ranked number 82 in Blender's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born",and 452nd on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Although members of Killing Joke claimed the main guitar riff of
"Come as You Are" plagiarized the riff of "Eighties", the band
reportedly did not file a copyright infringement lawsuit, which Rolling Stone magazine attributes to "personal and financial reasons". However, conflicting reports state that Killing Joke did file a lawsuit but that it was either thrown out of court, or that it was dropped following Cobain's death. Geordie Walker,
Killing Joke's guitar player, said that the band was "very pissed off
about that, but it's obvious to everyone. We had two separate
musicologists' reports saying it was. Our publisher sent their publisher
a letter saying it was and they went 'Boo, never heard of ya!', but the
hysterical thing about Nirvana saying they'd never heard of us was that
they'd already sent us a Christmas card!"
I got my American Eagle ammo together, I remember reading somewhere that it is like the "lake city" loads and my AR likes it. But my AR ain't picky except with Tula Arms and there will be more about that in a few. I had my rifle ready, the replacement battery for my optics, the standard 20 round magazine and the 
And it worked just fine and I am sure there is irony somewhere in this ;)
Yep it performed as expected.......bad primers and insufficient powder to fully cycle the rifle action....Like I said, Tula is better than nothing...and anything else is better than Tula. Well I then decided to switch rifles....I brought out the rifle that I haven't fired in over 25 years...Last time I fired it was in 1990 when I was in a 800 meter silhouette targets in Europe...
It is my 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser. It has been set up for target shooting...and I forgot how loud it was and the recoil. I bought it in this configuration and had the original stock and like a dork gave the stock away to one of my German shooting buddies. 
Looking at the peep sights....
Back in the mid 80's it was a shooter, but I don't know how well it would run today. The barrel is fully floating, there is lead inside the foregrip to help with the recoil and the trigger pull is like 1 pound or less. I had thought about putting a scope on it but I have issues with tapping a receiver especially one that old. I can't do it, it would take away from the rifle.
The song's lyrics began as a poem written by Harry's wife, Sandra "Sandy" Gaston; the poem itself was inspired by the awkward relationship between her first husband, James Cashmore, and his father, John, a politician who served as Brooklyn Borough President. She was also inspired by a country music song she had heard on the radio. Harry also said the song was about his own relationship with his son, Josh, admitting, "Frankly, this song scares me to death." 
And something else I will discuss....
Now I am disturbed, it shows how deep the rot is in the educational system when people in the ivory towers are able to indoctrinate generations of students on a system that is a failure and their belief is that one day we will get the right people in there and it will finally work. The problem is that as Margaret Thatcher stated "The problem with socialism is that one day you will run out of other peoples money". 
a Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star,
and a Republic
F-84 Thunderjet.
Radar picked up the intruder 30 minutes out; the
fighters took 26 minutes to climb to 40,000 feet and another two minutes
to find the B-36. The fighters were faster than the big bomber, but
their wing loading (the ratio of aircraft weight to area of the wings)
was so high that they couldn't turn with the bomber without stalling in
the thin air. Even if a B-36 were detected and Soviet fighters caught
it, the pilot could evade them by making S-turns, said the Air Force.
Symington, in a speech at Brookline, Massachusetts, had summed up
the final judgment on the B-36: The bomber could "take off from bases
on this continent, penetrate enemy defenses, destroy any major urban
industrial area in the world, and return non-stop to the point of
take-off." Symington's claim was preposterous, but it was widely
believed. So Congress did what it does best: It scheduled hearings. But
they were delayed until August, infuriating Van Zandt, and also
broadened into a debate about the strategic roles of the Air Force and
Navy. During the dramatic proceedings, a browbeaten Cedric Worth was
unmasked as the author of the memo that had incited the ruckus and
forced to recant everything. "I think I was wrong," he told the
committee.
Two flight engineers monitored the six
4,360-cubic-inch engines, each with four rows of seven cylinders, a
configuration that earned the nickname "corncob." The bombardier,
navigator, radioman, and gunners brought the population of the forward
cabin to 10.
By the fall of 1948 an improved B-36B had arrived, armed with
pairs of 20-millimeter guns in the nose and tail, and six turrets that
opened out like flowers in a slow-motion film; the gunners aimed from
remote blisters. On December 7, the seventh anniversary of the Japanese
raid on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Colonel John Bartlett took off in a
B-36 from Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, flew to Hawaii, dropped a
10,000-pound dummy bomb, and returned without being spotted on the
island's radar. LeMay must have bitten through his cigar when he got the
news. If he could reach Hawaii from Texas, he could hit the Soviet
Union from Maine. And if he could figure out how to operate the B-36 in
the cold of Alaska, all of Siberia would fall under its shadow.
