Some of my pics from Belize

 Yes It was a nice 76 degree,  and yes I did run around in shorts and tshirts

First thing we saw walking to the beach

Part of the beach.

View while seated on lawn chair sipping a beverage and reading one of my books I brought.

Another view

Would come again:)

Running late from Vacation

I ain't gonna get "Monday Music" up until Tuesday, We came back from vacation and from what I saw, the scheduler thingie worked well and kept the contents stocked on the blog.

     

Quickie Post

Well I got a WiFi node going here and figured I would post a few pictures and some pithy comments.

  I am out of the country, I didn't post it on Facebook that we were leaving...I have this thing about announcing that we are away from the house for an extended period...I know...Paranoid..

    The view is awesome, I always seen pics of places like this but never actually seen it until now...

   The ship we are on is Huuuuge and nice.  They ain't Disney but they are a far better than carnival cruise.  

   I did have a few thoughts being on the ship.....when I am in the balcony, it bothers me that this thing is lite up like a Christmas tree.....I kept expecting to see Kate torpedo planes making a run on the ship or seeing a torpedo track.......Strange I know.......and the security personnel on the ship wear pale blue....I keep expecting them to be wearing red.

And a pithy observation about driving here in the Caribbean area...

   Left is Best....and Right is suicide......Just an observation.

    And finally there is a political observation...
    What is up with all these "Impeach Trump" crap that is showing up, these people walked into a stadium past security...you know the same people that give you crap about your water bottle, and make you throw it away so you have to buy the overpriced crap in the stadium, somehow this sign got past them.....riiiiight......

They say that Trump is a threat to the Constitution, like Obungler and Hillary aint?

   What do they expect to happen, if they impeach Trump and succeed in removing him from office...what is gonna happen?  they are going to remove his administration and put the PIAP in the office since she came in second best?  Y'all are dumber than a sack of hammers.

     I have been working on the "Red Storm Rising" stuff, I reread the book so there will be a lot more of the equipment used I will start loading them next week when I have time to actually post this and not have spotty internet.


*Pig in a Pantsuit

NASA Visit Part 2

  This is a continuation of my NASA visit that I started back a week ago.  We took a shuttle bus around the complex and saw a few neat things....like the assembly building

    This was used to build the Apollo Saturn V rocket and then the Space shuttle.  There was a Space X rocket inside getting ready for a launch to the ISS in orbit.   While we were driving around, we also saw one of the crawlers used to move a rocket 1 mile an hour from the assembly building to the launch pad.

The crawler is controlled from two control cabs located at either end of the vehicle, and travels along the 5.6 km (3.5 mi) crawlerway at a maximum speed of 1.6 km/h (1 mph) loaded, or 3.2 km/h (2 mph) unloaded. The average trip time from the VAB along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39 is about five hours.Each crawlerway is 2 m (7 ft) deep and covered with Alabama and Tennessee river rock for its low friction properties to reduce the possibility of sparks. In 2000, NASA unearthed and restored an Apollo-era segment of the crawlerway to provide access to a high-bay building in order to provide protection from a hurricane.
Kennedy Space Center has been using the same two crawlers, nicknamed "Hans" and "Franz",since their initial delivery in 1965. In their lifetime, they have traveled more than 5,500 km (3,400 mi), about the same driving distance as from Miami to Seattle.

The crawlers were overhauled in 2003 with upgrades to the Motor Control Center, which houses the switchgear and electrical controls of all of major systems on board, a new engine and pump ventilation system and new diesel engine radiators, and replacement of the two driver cabs on each vehicle (one on each end). As of 2003, each crawler had 16 traction motors, powered by four 1,000 kW (1,341 hp) generators, in turn driven by two 2,050 kW (2,750 hp) V16 ALCO 251C diesel engines. Two 750 kW (1,006 hp) generators, driven by two 794 kW (1,065 hp) engines, were used for jacking, steering, lighting, and ventilating. Two 150 kW (201 hp) generators were also available to power the Mobile Launcher Platform. The crawler's tanks held 19,000 liters (5,000 U.S. gal) of diesel fuel, and it burned 296 liters per kilometer (125.7 U.S. gal/mi). Due to its age and the need to support the heavier Space Launch System and its launch tower, in mid-2012 one of the crawlers was undergoing an upgrade involving "new engines, new exhausts, new brakes, new hydraulics, new computers," to increase its lifting capacity from 5,400,000 to 8,200,000 kg (12,000,000 to 18,000,000 lb).

* The overall length and width of the Crawler is 131 by 113 feet.

* The Crawler burns a gallon of diesel every 42 feet, or gets about 0.008 mpg.

* The water pump is a 75hp electric motor, and the cooling system holds 500 gallons.

* The Crawler has six mufflers, the heaviest coming in at more than 3,000 pounds.

* Two eight-cylinder White-Superior 1,065hp motors are used just for electric and hydraulic power.

* For power, the Crawler uses two 2,750hp, 16-cylinder Alco diesel engines to power sixteen 375hp electric motors.

* Just the Crawler itself, without the Shuttle, is still three stories high.

* Each track (or shoe) on the Crawler weighs 2,200 pounds-and there are 456 of them.

* The Crawler's fuel tank will hold 5,000 gallons, giving it a range of about 40 miles.

* The Crawler is wide enough to take up an entire four-lane freeway-all lanes in both directions.

* The instruction manual on how to start and warm up the Crawler is 39 pages.

* Although there are up to 30 people monitoring various systems, the Crawler can actually be driven by just one person.

* There is a speedometer on the Crawler-from 0-2 mph.

* From the vertical assembly building to the launch platform is a little more than 4 miles. The Crawler can make it in about a day.

* The Crawler's drive system (think rear axle ratio) has a gear ratio of 168:1.

* The Crawler has to tilt the 12-million-pound shuttle and platform at up to 5 degrees to keep it perfectly level on the way to the platform.

* A Crawler can move the slightest distance (for example, only 1/8-inch) if it needs to.

* Both Crawlers, combined, have traveled thousands of miles since being built.

The bus also took us to the Saturn V building, where they had a Saturn V rocket laid down on a platform, kinda like we saw in Huntsville a few years ago. 

   We also saw the origional camper that they used for the Apollo Astronauts to the platform.

  I also took another pic of the First Stage rocket...

    We saw a lot of artifacts, including "Snoopy"

Snoopy was used as a mascot for the space program, he also was used to award people in NASA for doing exemplary things.  Charles M Schultz was happy to have NASA use snoopy on the sole condition that "He" would draw him and nobody else.  And with no royalties involved.
     We also saw the Apollo 11 symbol,

They had all the Apollo Missions patches shown,  My phone by this time was giving me the "Bong of Death".  so I could only take a few more pictures.
     They had set up the mission control room as it looked back in 1968, and it was real neat!

They played the launch sequence from 12:00 out until launch and they would light up the stations as the sequence played out for the launch.

And of course the media had access to the control room during the launch..

  I enjoyed the visit immensely and would like to go back, the picture above was the last picture my phone took before it ran out of power.  They had moon rock exhibits, a food court, slightly overpriced but it was what it was.  My inner geek was very happy.  I want to spend an entire day just in the Saturn building and really look at everything. 

   I really wanted this....would have fit in with my other Haynes Manuals

The Cruise and other stuff

We went on on another cruise with Disney,we left from Port Canaveral, I saw this on the side of the bank near where the cruise ship was leaving,

  I wonder why there is a sub tower in the bank of the Port Canaveral harbor.    Something for me to research...Hello "Google"...

 USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), a James Madison-class submarine, was one of three ships of the United States Navy to be named for Major General Nathanael Greene, who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Both ships of the name USS General Greene were also named for him.
Nathanael Greene's sail has been restored and is now on display in Port Canaveral, Florida as a memorial to the original 41 fleet ballistic missile submarines.

   The memorial looks what is the word I want to use......."Neglected..".?
 

   We had a coast guard ship escort us out.  I never seen that before....but it is logical, a cruise ship is a very soft and squishy target.    I was talking to Old NFO about it while the ship was leaving port. 

  and we had a stop over in Nassau in the Bahamas:

Nassau /ˈnæsɔː/ is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 (2010 census), 70 percent of the entire population of the Bahamas (353,658). Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for the Bahamas, is located about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of Nassau city centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The city is located on the island of New Providence, which functions much like a business district. Nassau is the site of the House of Assembly and various judicial departments and was considered historically to be a stronghold of pirates. The city was named after Nassau, Germany in honor of William of Orange-Nassau.
Nassau's modern growth began in the late eighteenth century, with the influx of thousands of American Loyalists and their slaves to the Bahamas following the American Revolutionary War. Many of them settled in Nassau (then and still the commerce capital of the Bahamas) and eventually came to outnumber the original inhabitants.

    We walked around and had a good time despite the humidity, the rain kept threatened to make an appearance.   We visited a few shops

  This was a high end store,  I went in there to get my 15 year old Fossil watch repaired.  Man the prices I saw on watches, bags, electronics and jewelry definitely showed me how the upper crust lived.    And speaking of upper crust, there was a heavy police presence, the local bobbies still wore the British style uniforms

    I saw both unarmed and armed police, apparently there has been an uptick in crime against tourist and tourism is a big part of the countries income stream.  I saw a couple of bobbies making an individual doing the perp walk...so he must have done something I suppose.
     We saw several street performers and it was neat seeing their performance and dodging the people pushing cuban cigars and other cigarello's, apparently cannibus is still very popular.

  We also went over to Senor Frog for a light lunch.....I saw the menu.....very expensive....reminds me of outback or something else.

It was a good trip, we enjoyed it and I always liked traveling over the water, we had sun whereas here in Georgia where I live, they had rain the entire week we were gone. 

Next stop.....Kennedy Space center....!!!!  My Inner geek rejoices!!!.Will blog about that in a few days...

And on a different note, I saw something on a suburban at the hotel we were staying at,....

   I guess he is tied in with some of the government unions, and also to keep the benefits coming, shafts the American public to keep his nest feathered.    I for a moment considered carving "asshole"on the side of his ride and cutting his valve stems on the tires....but my better angels of my nature stopped me....but I considered it.......for a moment.

I survived the vacation....

  I survived the foray into the land of the mouse, and on the ship.  I am pleased...apparently scheduler did what it was supposed to.  I preloaded 4 days worth of stuff on blogger and it all went as it was supposed to.   All I can say, is that once you do a Disney cruise, all others pale in comparison.  All I can say is "Wow".  I went on one other cruise and that was in 2000 with carnival.  Big difference in quality and service.
    We made a stop in Nassau, here is a pic of me in Nassau

  I spent several hours there and dodged the cuban cigar salesmen all over the place, I refused.  I spoke German or used a broken English accent with some German laced in them and they all thought I was a herm.  No problems with that, there are advantages to being multilingual.  I saw a lot of reggae bands playing on the sidewalk, the atmosphere was relaxed but I did notice any halfway decent car had a car alarm and all the shops had security.  Apparently crime is an issue.  I did see quite a few police in their "bobby" suits patrolling and I saw one poor clown being hauled away in handcuffs.  I wouldn't want to spend time in a jail, especially down there.  I saw a lot of tourist on condition "white", I noticed a few people really paying attention to the tourist, I spotted them, the predators with the minnows.  They noticed me watching them and they moved off.  I am surprised sometimes by the cluelessness of the tourist.  I will never if I can help it let somebody get inside my OODA loop.

    I will post more pics later on after they are uploaded to the cloud.

    I will make some observations......1st off, nobody does it like Disney...we did a carnival cruise back in 2000.  No comparison.  They made it as painless as possible to move people around.  Something the .gov could learn from.
      There were a lot of people from the south American countries there on the ship, as a rule I found them totally self absorbed and arrogant.  They thought nothing of cutting in line and berating the staff and generally acting like pricks.   I had to explain to my son that on those countries, there is a wide dichotomy between the rich and the others, there isn't much of a middle class.  So the only people that can afford a Disney cruise were the affluent ones.  They are used to having servants and hired help clean up after them and watch their kids.  And the attitude shows.  I had to use foul language on a couple of them.  Nothing brings in the kumbaya attitude like calling somebody an "idiot" in German, English, Spanish and Russian.  When they flat out cut in front of you and look at you like you are beneath them...Naaa,  I am a polite person almost to a fault My southern upbringing is strong, ...but I will not be a doormat.

saw this and some other shock shirts down there, I will post those once I am home.  The bad thing about flying standby...you get bumped.  We just got bumped...again.   We may have to rent a car to get home unless we want to try tomorrow.  We will see.

More on vacation....

Well we are here in the land of the rodent.  we took a nap after getting to our room, I was tired having 3 hours of sleep for the past 3 days is draining.   We left to head to the feeding area( I know...sounds like cattle) but yes there was a lot of people there.

For those that have been to the panhandle state, know that rain is a regular fixture in the late summer/early fall.    The view was actually pretty good.  I do know that the people that operate the land of the rodent can move a lot of people efficiently...perhaps the .gov can learn a few things on that.

Here was the view of us flying in.  Again I am appreciative of the view that until recently was undreamed of.   I keep having the line " slipped the bonds of Earth and have touched the sky"

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

During the desperate days of the Battle of Britain, hundreds of Americans crossed the border into Canada to enlist with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Knowingly breaking the law, but with the tacit approval of the then still officially neutral United States Government, they volunteered to fight the Nazis.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was one such American. Born in Shanghai, China, in 1922 to an English mother and a Scotch-Irish-American father, Magee was 18 years old when he entered flight training. Within the year, he was sent to England and posted to the newly formed No 412 Fighter Squadron, RCAF, which was activated at Digby, England, on 30 June 1941. He was qualified on and flew the Supermarine Spitfire.

Flying fighter sweeps over France and air defense over England against the German Luftwaffe, he rose to the rank of Pilot Officer.

On 3 September 1941, Magee flew a high altitude (30,000 feet) test flight in a newer model of the Spitfire V. As he orbited and climbed upward, he was struck with the inspiration of a poem — "To touch the face of God."

Once back on the ground, he wrote a letter to his parents. In it he commented, "I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day. It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed." On the back of the letter, he jotted down his poem, 'High Flight.'

Just three months later, on 11 December 1941 (and only three days after the US entered the war), Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was killed. The Spitfire V he was flying, VZ-H, collided with an Oxford Trainer from Cranwell Airfield flown by one Ernest Aubrey. The mid-air happened over the village of Roxholm which lies between RAF Cranwell and RAF Digby, in the county of Lincolnshire at about 400 feet AGL at 11:30. John was descending in the clouds. At the enquiry a farmer testified that he saw the Spitfire pilot struggle to push back the canopy. The pilot, he said, finally stood up to jump from the plane. John, however, was too close to the ground for his parachute to open. He died instantly. He was 19 years old.

Part of the official letter to his parents read, "Your son's funeral took place at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby Aerodrome, at 2:30 P.M. on Saturday, 13th December, 1941, the service being conducted by Flight Lieutenant S. K. Belton, the Canadian padre of this Station. He was accorded full Service Honors, the coffin being carried by pilots of his own Squadron."

Photo courtesy: Captain Keith Moody

John's parents were living in Washington D.C. at the time, and the sonnet was seen by Archibald MacLeish, who was Librarian of Congress. He included it in an exhibition of poems called 'Faith and Freedom' in February 1942. And after that it was widely copied and distributed. These copies vary widely in punctuation, layout, and capitalization, as I've found out from readers! The original is in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and I think I've transcribed it correctly. Note that most printed versions use "... even eagle" but the original seems to be "... ever eagle," with similar penmanship to the preceding "never."

High flight was read over pictures of mountains and American flags and fighter aircraft as a station closing video on US television stations. To buy an excellent DVD of this video, along with many people reciting the poem, see Ray Hass at HighFlightProductions

High Flight has also inspired many parodies, some of which are in the humor part of this collection.

Ronald Reagan, addressing NASA employees following the tragic loss of the Challenger 7 crew on STS-51L, used the poem in a well-remembered line:

"We shall never forget them nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their mission and waved good-bye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God."

Vacation!!

Well we are at an undisclosed location, where the image of a rodent is prevalent in the landscape.   We are staying at the resort that involves a mammalian life-form that is half man and half fish.
    We left early this morning and caught a flight.   While I was on the flight, I continued reading this book I picked up.

A good book by the way.  

If you havn't bought this book, you need to, it is actually better than the first one and the first one was very good.  

As we flew the Boeing 757-300 over the southern United States, I looked out the window and saw this view:

       The lady next to me was amazed by the view and she commented that "we are blessed" to see such a view.  I tend to agree, this view that we see now is almost "old hat", but to the travelers back in the 30 and 40's I am sure were amazed by the view.  Then there was the advent of the Jet Age and this airplane ushered in the era.  We look at this view and don't think anything of it.  A little over 100 years ago man was bound to the Earth with the exception of the crazy people that rode hot air  balloons. 

 This is the famous "Dash 80" the prototype 707 that changed the face of aviation like no aircraft has.

We went there a couple of years ago to check out the Smithsonian Museum, it is so worth the price of admission and it is 15 minutes away from Dulles.  If you are an aviation nut, this place is nirvana.

I will post or load the scheduler every day for the next week so something will be posted on my blog.  I will dredge up some pics that I first used when I first started blogging.   Blame Old NFO and Murphy for starting my blogging.  I was a reader long before I started blogging.  It is their fault...I blame them or y'all can for foisting me on the blogging world.

Monday Music, Boston Bombers....and cub scouting...:) The good, the really bad..and really good.

I have been busy with work and cub scouts, My son and I went to the U.S.S. Yorktown to "camp out" on a real aircraft carrier.  This from Wiki:"
USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Initially to have been named Bon Homme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while under construction to commemorate USS Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Yorktown was commissioned in April 1943, and participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning 11 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.
Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was recommissioned too late to participate in the Korean War but served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War, in which she earned five battle stars. Late in her career she served as a recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, was used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and in the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She is a National Historic Landmark."

We also took a shuttle boat to the Fort Sumter National park, the place where the War against Yankee aggression started, er the war between the states, er..the Civil War started.  The trip is also a worthwhile trip.  You can see how strategic the location was.  They upgraded the fort after the war, and installed some of the disappearing rifles as part of coastal defence back in the day before the advent of airplanes and missiles made such defences obsolete. 

   Now a bit about the Boston Bomber..you know the jerks that paralized a city for 2 days and had people hiding in their house, I cribbed this from Boortz:

"The people directly responsible for the bombings in Boston are either dead, in the case of the older bomber, or shot all to hell and in custody, in the case of the younger bomber.  (I don’t particularly like giving these people the publicity they want by naming them).  So, is it over?  With the death of one, and the arrest of the other brother, is this case pretty much closed?  If they acted alone and absent outside coaching or influence, yes.  If not … no.  It is most certainly not over.
So there we have the Mayor of Boston yesterday telling America that these two bombers acted alone.  That’s it.  It’s over.  We killed on, the other is in custody.  Case closed.  Nobody else was involved  We have them, and there’s nothing  more to see here.
Here’s an oddity for you to consider.  When there is a violent incident; a mass shooting, a bombing, a political assassination; the media seems to be instantly posed to blame it on right wingers.  This happened all the way back with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I lived in Texas at the time, and immediately the national media was blaming right wing elements for Kennedy’s death.  In some areas of the country offices of right wing organizations such as The John Birch Society were being vandalized.  In California cars with Texas license plates were being vandalized as well.  Then … well what do you know? … the assassin turned out to be a communist?  Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

• The man show shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed several people?  That was Sarah Palin’s fault, you know.   In no time at all DailyKos and Think Progress, left wing websites, were blaming this on Palin because she posted a map “targeting” certain congressmen for defeat in the upcoming election.  It was shown that the “targets” she used on that map were really surveyors marks obtained from the Internet – marks used to indicate geographic locations, like congressional districts – but to the left they were telescopic sights – Palin’s message that these people needed to be shot.  The shooter turned out to be a complete lunatic with no discernable political leanings.
• The man who killed those folks in the Aurora, Colorado theater?  In no time at all he was identified as a Tea Party member because Brian Ross at ABC, operating under an assumption that the shooter simply must be a conservative, found a Colorado Tea Party member with the same (quite common) name.

            This is common behavior for the left and the 0bamaMedia.  There’s been an act of violence.  Blame the right.  After the Boston bombings CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was saying that due to the fact it was Patriot’s Day, and Tax Day, perhaps anti-government right wing groups are to blame.  Looney old Chris Matthews was also blaming the right, saying that normally domestic terrorism comes from the right.  We had a Salon Magazine columnist begging for the bombes to be white males.   CNN had a so-called counter-terrorism expert on the air who said that pressure cooker bombs were a signature of the right wing, though there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for that statement.  MSNBC puts a Harvard Professor on the air to suggest that the “far right” might be responsible.  An NPR “journalist” said that the attack could have been right-wingers celebrating Columbine or Hitler’s birthday.  Can you believe this stuff?  Well, believe it.  It’s the normal course of conduct after an incident such as this … right up until the time when it’s discovered that the perps aren’t right-wingers, as is normally the case.
So then did you see the Mayor of Boston yesterday?  After the identity and political and religious leanings fo the bombers became known the whole incident suddenly morphed from being caused by some evil right-wing political movement to two men out on their own..Sure enough the Boston mayor, a Democrat (of course) was telling America that the bombers acted alone.  It was just them.  Case pretty much closed.
     The needs of political correctness dictate the “acted alone” conclusion.  If government, particularly the Feds and Homeland Security, do not use the “acted alone” approach then the follow-up question will naturally be: “Well, what are you doing to find out who was involved with the bombers?  Who influenced them?  What happened on that trip to Russia?  What about the Mosques the brothers attended?  Are there other known radicals involved with that Mosque?  Have known radicals who could have had influence on the members visited Mosque?   You cannot address these questions without focusing on Muslims – on the wonderful, serene, peaceful, loving religion of Islam.  And of course as soon as you start focusing on Muslims, on Mosques, and on the associates of the two bombing brothers --- you’re then engaging in the hideous, horrible practice of profiling!  OMG!  It might even be racial profiling!  After all, the vast majority of Muslim radicals are from the Middle East!
Of course as long as you think that right wing militias committed some heinous act, or the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party or white supremacists – you can blame groups and movements and investigate to your heart’s content.  After all … these people are perceived as predominantly white, and to make things worse, they’re largely believed to be white (ugh) males!  But if a protected religious or racial minority might have been involved … be careful!  You don’t want to profile!"

    This is also an installment of my Monday Music, I am going to pull this from the "Born in the U.S.A." album from Bruce Springstein.  I don't like his politics but his older albums are good where they spoke from the blue collar workers point of view.  This song is "I'm on fire"  it is a short song and a real cool video with a 57 T-bird.

                                              
I'm on Fire" was recorded in February 1982 during the first wave of Born in the U.S.A. sessions. This took place in impromptu fashion when Springsteen started making up a slow tune on guitar for some lyrics he had, some of which had been written for Spanish Eyes, which would later surface on The Promise, and drummer Max Weinberg and keyboardist Roy Bittan, hearing it for the first time, created an accompaniment on the spot. The result was a moody number that merges a soft rockabilly beat, lyrics built around sexual tension, and synthesizers into an effective whole; it was one of the first uses of that instrument in Springsteen's music.
The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles charts in early 1985. It was the fourth of a record-tying seven Top 10 hit singles to be released from Born in the U.S.A. It is also remarkable that the single reached #1 in the Netherlands for 3 weeks in August 1985, at the same time as 2 other Springsteen singles ("Dancing in the Dark" and "Born in the U.S.A.") were occupying the Top 12.
Unlike the first three singles from the album, no remixes were made for "I'm on Fire" (nor were any made for any of the subsequent singles released).

The music video for the song was shot in March 1985 in Los Angeles, and was directed by filmmaker John Sayles. Unlike the previous videos from the album, this video was not a performance clip but rather portrayed a dramatic storyline that alluded to some of the song's emotions.
In it, Springsteen plays a working class automobile mechanic with an attractive, married, very well-to-do, mostly unseen female customer who brings her vintage Ford Thunderbird in for frequent servicing, always requesting that he does the work. She leaves a small bunch of keys with him when she leaves in her car, possibly including house keys, but declines his offer to bring the car out to her house when it's ready. Later that night, he drives the car up to her mansion high in the hills above the city. He looks to a second floor window with the light on and is about to ring the bell, when he thinks better of it and drops her keys in the mailbox next to the door. He smiles wistfully and walks away down towards the city lights below.^[4]
The video began airing in mid-April, received extensive MTV airplay, and later in the year won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video.