Some musings on a Saturday...

I have some musings that are bubbling around my head while I am assembling my NASA part 2 post.  So I will post the musings and keep rolling on the NASA post and then the shooting evaluation post.   First off, I worked 12 hours Overtime so that slowed me down a bit but I don't complain:)

 I was catching up on my reading and Peter posted a comment and a cartoon linkie to his site talking about the moral relativism that is seen today. There is a line that I remember from Babylon 5 from a movie of the series called "In the Beginning"

  I believe that we have a problem as a nation, the lack of morals and lack of a spine that our society has shown.  We no longer have the fire and integrity as a nation that made us the beacon of the free world.
   Here is the cartoon that started the thinking.

   it is a good cartoon and says much.   I believe that God does love us unconditionally but we will have to make an accounting for our actions with St Peter and the ledger when we reach the Pearly Gates

  And finally a last thought, I had a fellow blogger who went by the name "American Mercenary"  and his blog was "Random thoughts and guns".  His was a military centered blog with some personal experience thrown in. To me he wasn't particularly political but it dealt in military tactics and future developments.  Well he abruptly pulled the plug on his blog and shut it down.  his reason was as follows:

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Bob | Wednesday, Oct. 7th | View on http://randomthoughtsandguns.blogspot.com/ Hey AM; I hate to ask, what is going on? If you must go, then thank you for all the good stuff you had posted, I found it all useful ...

AM replied | Wednesday, Oct. 7th | View on http://randomthoughtsandguns.blogspot.com/ Someone aggregated enough personal information about my real life to trigger my "cut sling load" criteria. I use an alias when I blog as do a lot of others, it is sad that there are trolls out there that see great joy in running people off the internet.    I have been following his blog almost as long as OldNFO,Murphy, Peter and Momma Fargo.  He had problems with certain marines that took offense that their corp wasn't the pinnacle of Military services and the  end all and be all of all the services when he made comments about the F35(white elephant) and that the Marines were sacrificing their future air assets on this plane to keep their dedicated air assets.  Any criticism even if it was constructive was anathema to the hard core.  I wonder if those are the ones that shut him down.   I find blogging therapeutic, it helps me get my thoughts out and organize them, and it makes me a better writer.

Interesting stats.....on my blog.

Y'all know that I post "Monday Music", usually on Monday...sometimes on Tuesday or even Sunday.  It depends on my work schedule.  Well I decided to check my stats to see where my "readers" are coming from.  Well I expected to see the US of A as first....No surprise...well my second most visits is by ...Latvia.  Well surprisingly I actually know where that country is.  They are in the Baltic regions of northern Europe, they along with Estonia were basically "absorbed" under Stalin as part of the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" where the Soviets and the Germans promised not to invade each other and secretly partitioned Poland right before they invaded.  Well Latvia got rolled up by the Soviets and was treated as part of the Soviet Union until 1991 when they along with Estonia got their independence from the post Soviet government.  The Capital is Riga and they are part of the EU and part of NATO.  The Latvians have also contributed troops to various peacekeeping missions including Iraq, and Afghanistan.  Per capita, Latvia is one of the largest contributors to international military operations according to our State Dept.  It is on my bucket list to check out the area, from what I have seen, Latvia and Estonia have some pretty countryside and scenery and it would be worth a visit.  
     Well as I continue on my blog, the most visited postings I have had were not in my airplane stuff, although I get a lot of views from that.  Not from my rants, or my historical stuff.  It was from my most recent "Monday Music" with "your Wildest Dreams from the Moody Blues, I got over 250 views from that one.  I was real surprised, I guess it had a porn connotation or something.  I have a small blog and that count was real high especially for that kind of subject.
 

Long weekend...

Sorry about no posting for several days, I worked a lot of hours and had overtime:) I will post again tomorrow, when I have had a chance to recharge.

I got an award....:)

I Got an award from Old NFO    A good guy and a class act

This is hard, I have a lot of good blogs on my rolls and on my favorites.  I will have to pick ones that nobody hasn't nominated yet.

American Mercenary    A blog from a Military guy that has a lot of good info and things that make you think

I aim to misbehave      A blog from a guy that has a warped sense of humor

Mor Lock Revolt        Humor and Satire...against liberals...Need I say more?

The Warrior class      Humor and Kipling.....

Give me liberty       A lot of good information and a good site

Thank you....I never got one of these things....but thank you and I am flattered immensely and a bit humbled that people actually like my brain squeezings and tourettes moments.

Below is the rules of the award:1. Copy and paste the award on our blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave us the award
3. Pick our five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received the award.
4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs