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And the award for the most bitter clinger goes to …

… the driver of the car to which the below bumper sticker’s attached. As seen in the parking garage at the UCLA Medical Center, guessing they really must have been extra cranky walking the facility fully known as the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Now THAT Is A Lot of Bombs

Check out this B-36 dropping bombs at Eglin AFB, FL back in the day.

Even -fritz- was too young to have been around for this one.

See this article about the saga of the last B-36 and how the City of Fort Worth tried to save it

What a beast of [...]

These may have been the droids you were looking for?

But wait, there were more???

Lost in all the hubbub last week about the atrocious (and recently redacted) “redesigned flag” that the Obama campaign featured on its website as part of the “Artists for Obama” project, was one of the other four logos chosen by Team Obama.

50 Years Ago This Week…

A plane designed with slide rules and imagination first took off. Throughout its career it set world records that have never been equaled. It was retired not because we have something better but to save money. The Lockheed family of the A-12/YF-12/SR-71 were a national treasure and an engineering masterpiece. A real tribute to [...]

You’ll Never See This Again

While surfing the INTERNET I found this report done by CBS News in 1965. It’s a fairly straight up report. Something I could never imagine seeing done today by any network, much less CBS. Highly recommended to anyone interested in military history.

That is what they want, this is what they get

Ranger Up’s awesome team, at it yet again with their latest shirt, now available for pre-order. However — and completely sucking up to Outlaw — rather they’d used an Apache firing the kill-shots.

Either:

a) We made this shirt to mock the bastardization of an inane verse in the Koran by Islamic fundamentalists to [...]

Wherefore Art Thou … Mercedes Ruehl?

A face and voice (oh, that voice) so present in many of my favorite late 80s and early 90s movies — Big, Married to the Mob, The Secret of My Success, The Fisher King, Last Action Hero (yes, I liked it), plus a memorable run on Frasier — now relegated to bit TV parts [...]

My Old Unit Kicks Some Ass…OEF 11-12

Warriors! Attack!

Jane Fonda, Commie, Traitor, B!#@H!

Jane Fonda, well known collaborator and giver of aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war, is upset that there are some who still actually remember this and through pressure on QVC forced her scheduled appearance to be canceled.

As quoted in an E-Online Article she said…

“Bottom line, this has [...]

Whatever Happened To…?

I was just listening to this week’s Ricochet podcast, which featured Peter Robinson, James Lileks, Rob Long, Byron York and Andrew Breitbart–you really should be listening–and whose book were they plugging?

Our old friend, Rich Trzupek’s!  It’s in the Encounter Books’ Broadsides series, and isn’t the same as the one we’ve been advertising at the [...]

I’ll Give You my Spoon When You Pry it From my Cold, Dead Hand

The seventh seal is surely broken!

Cap’n Crunch sails into obscurity Quaker Oats By Ryan MacClanathan, business producer at msnbc.com

The Soggies have finally won: Cap’n Crunch is quietly sailing into retirement.

Long derided by health experts for its high sugar content – a single serving contains 12 grams – the cereal is no [...]

Whatever Happened to…

Former FOXNews anchor Laurie Dhue?

God bless her… she’s been through the ringer and it sounds like she’s doing all right. From AOL Health News:

Dhue, who turns 42 tomorrow and was an anchor for the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN, battled her addiction to alcohol for “at least” a decade and [...]

Where Are They Now?

I was channel surfing this morning (I go back to the satin covered ivory tower salt mines on Monday) and came across this (Ben Stiller Show was hit or miss — though he did a killer U2 spoof) on IFC. Anyway… whatever happened to Yakov Smirnoff?

The End of an Era

So Long Old Friend!

Australia has retired the last F-111 in the world. They were the last country operating the type which first flew back in the ’60s. Known as the “Aardvark” the jet was originally developed as part of Defense Secretary McNamara’s TFX project which not unlike the current F-35 project attempted to [...]

So That’s Where He Went

Ben Kotwica (2nd from the left) in 2004 at Camp Taji, Iraq

Once upon a time Ben Kotwica was my company commander. Now he’s the Assistant Special Teams Coach for the NY JETS.

NFL Network has posted a little something about the former Vampire 6.

Go check it out HERE

Bush Rawks

While President Poopypants (thanks Scott M!) vacays somewhere… President and Mrs. Bush are putting their time to good use. They were in Maine Sunday and dropped by The Run For the Fallen. Here’s the story from WMTW Channel8:

Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura surprised participants in the third annual “Run [...]

Friday Gossip: You've Been Wanked!

Last night I noticed what should have been (ahem) a Classic Pick for today…1931, Norma Shearer & Robert Montgomery: Noel Coward’s Private Lives.

Shall I tell you what kind of memories this brings back?

Once upon a time, in a country soon to be ohsoimportant in the Grand Scheme of Things (back in 1989 it [...]

Why I Don’t Like U2 by Rufus T. Firefly

For months I’ve been having a bit of fun at Floyd’s expense vis a vis the band, U2.  Recently the discussion’s grown beyond sophomoric barbs, so, I feel I owe an honest explanation for my dislike of the band.

First, as I wrote earlier, a lot has to do with who I was, and [...]

Give Me a Huey...Any Day

An homage to the first helicopter I flew operationally. It took care of my young ass in El Salvador so I can’t complain too much…and we pissed off all the Black Hawk pilots. The greatest helicopter series ever…the UH-1. Made in Hurst, TX!

WARNING…it might be NSFW

Bryan Adams: A Defense

I guess Bryan Adams (where has he been?) is going to receive a humanitarian award from the Canada Grammys — Juno Awards or somesuch… whatever. Bryan Adams was one of the things that made the 1980s awesomely awesome — at least from this teenager’s perspective. Here’s a nice defense of the Bryan Adams legacy [...]