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* Cultural ref: Mongo in Blazing Saddles
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Since he brought it up, I should mention that when I started reading Whittle’s old blog, Eject! Eject! Eject!, years ago, I first realized that this blogging stuff had real possibilities as a credible conservative medium where entire untainted, logical presentations of important ideas could be distributed to a large portion of the population without being infected by the cesspool which was/is the TV/print media. In my mind, Whittle was to the conservative blogosphere what FoxNews was to TV news and Rush was to talk radio.
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Oh dang it Doug, Now I’m gonna have to play my B.S. BluRay
Again, Whittle has performed his magic. Of course Doug’s “cultural ref:” had me rolling too.
To bad California can’t follow Bill’s math. Guess all they know how to count are illegal ballots.
It is good to see that some companies out there are still moving ahead with new ideas and a willingness to take a chance on themselves.
Best part was Texas get a space program and Ca. is still trying to build something that here in Michigan we turned into snowmoblie trails a long time ago.
That does it! I’m sending an application to X Cor in Midland, TX. I lived in Texas once. It wasn’t that bad. Hotter than hell in the summer, but I hear you can get used to it [spent a week in McAllen, TX in the summer once and used all my spare time at the local, air conditioned, $1 matinee theater watching Total Recall 400 times]. And besides, I’ll bet I could put together a real good band there.
And yes, there will be a fiddle player.
That was depressing…. 10 more years here in beautiful, but corrupt Cali…. Gonna have a beer.
If I had time and the empathy, I would weep for cali.
But what I want to know is why they went to midland when we have a nearly complete spaceport here in New Mexico!
Well there is that income tax thing and the $10,000,000 check.
And I never connected the dots between Bill and Eject, Eject, Eject! (slaps forehead)
Huntsville, Alabama, is another under-appreciated high-tech area. Alabama also has low taxes, and like Texas, does not tax federal retiree pay.
Whittle said “rank incompetence”
Let’s add “by a glittering jewel of colossal stupidity.” **
Name any Cali professional democrat.
** credit to Rush. I really liked the phrase.
I agree with Mech. In 7500 hours in fighter jets, I always thought of ejection as bad form. In Vietnam, I got hit in an 85mm box barrage in my F4B over Vinh, North Vietnam. Blew up my left engine which caught fire, chunk of shrapnel went through the cockpit, shearing off both throttles and causing explosive decompression. I shut down left engine, dove for the ocean, found I could adjust right engine rpm by pulling on a wire bundle hanging out of the throttle quadrant and flew back to Chu Lai home base and landed. In lieu of ejection + pow……
My next adventure was a T33 engine that exploded as I was making an instrument approach into Wright Patterson AFB in Columbus, Ohio. Ejection seat was only good above 1000 ft above dirt, and I was at 800 ft! So, deadsticked into a muddy cornfield & set world record for 100 yard dash in mud and full flight gear!
Second next adventure was in A4 Skyhawk in Beaufort, South Carolina. Oil pump shaft sheared 50 miles out to sea. No oil flow, engine bearings melted after 5 minutes and engine seized. Squadron that owned the A4 had the LONGEST RECORD (14 yrs…) for no accidents in the entire fucking USMC!!!! This child decided he was not gonna break it! So, I glided over the air station at 10,000 ft and shot a deadstick landing and gave the A4 back to the squadron Commanding Officer…………
Luck ran out in an F18 Hornet at El Toro Airshow and I hit ground at 300mph and 75Gs. Broke everything but earlobes. Retired on 30% disability.
Two years later, flying an F260 Marchetti aircraft as a part of civilian airshow team called TEAM AMERICA, Got a bad load of gas with sand. Fouled up fuel filter and engine quit. I deadsticked that aircraft back and landed at the airshow airport.
There were others, like a WWII C47 w 18 passengers and 2500 lbs of cargo w right engine fire that I landed in rain storm at civilian international airport. But that was no biggee………..
BUT, I will say, I never backed up to no Hippie one single time in the 60s or 70s………….or 80s….
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That sir, is a Marine.
HFS Hell Damn, Colonel, Sir! April of 88, My eldest Daughter, GRHS, and I were at that Show!
I had looked away, She grabbed my arm and yelled, “He’s too low!” Rear of the plane hit hard…..Damn.
Sure as hell glad you made it! Small freaking world. Now I’m gonna be weirded out all day……
#6 Fat Baxter. It is said that 98% of the intelligence in Alabama is in Huntsville.
You are so spot-on DouggieM- I would have sex with him if the thought didn’t disgust me. His “It’s a Miracle” is a potential game changer.
I will toss a little sand into Bill’s show. Did the residents of Midland vote to pay the $10MM of their tax money to XCOR? If not, then IMHO this is not very far away from the Solyndra deal. Their city mgmt decided to bribe XCOR to Midland using the taxpayers’ funds instead of using that $10MM for something else. The idea is that XCOR will attract more businesses, etc… and it might work but I question that the city mgmt should be making that “investment” decision. It’s the same thing that states get involved in when bribing auto cos or Boeing or others to come to their state: property tax abatements, low corp taxes for 5 years, etc… If instead Midland has pushed its virtues, low taxes available to anyone, lifestyle, and so on, and XCOR went for it, now that would have been an extra kick to CA.
“Mongo only pawn in game of life…”