The Polack MSgt
The Polack MSgt's JournalJust a much needed reminder
That just because we agree with powerful people on some issues, that doesn't mean that they are allies in any true sense.
The Pope is trying to lead the church in such a way that it retains its power and influence in the future.
The dogma is unchanged.
So, he gives soft words to those who believe that all humans are equal "Who am I to judge?" to lessen their opposition to his power. Those words get mixed with strong signals to the reactionaries he needs to support, or at least not oppose, his agenda in other areas.
He is still in charge of the worlds oldest child abuse factory and has not made any REAL attempts to root out that evil.
His church's position is still explicit in stating that woman are less than men and do not deserve agency in their own body.
He is just a softer glove on the same iron fist
From an article posted by a Right wing Facebook friend
Copied and pasted without editing:
President Barack Hussein Obama’s veritable mini-me, teen con-artist Ahmed Mohamed, must be taking notes from his ostensible mentor, because last Friday, he showed up at the United Nations General Assembly in NYC and met up with Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu for a very sinister Obama-esque reason.
“My dream is to raise consciousness against racism and discrimination,” the Texas teen said to reporters at a press event, according to the Hürriyet Daily News.
Close quote. From the Conservative Tribune.
I no longer believe that we live in the same world
Journalist writes that Bernie fans can be hostile and dismissive
DU Bernie fans respond - with dismissive hostility.
14 Years ago
I was conducting an overnight field training exercise with the radio operators, medics and ground support troops on the back end of the base that day.
My unit was in the process of changing from being a strategic patient movement team to a tactical Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron.
Let's just say that the field craft was lacking in folks who had previously worked in hospitals or offices. So practice practice practice was the plan and older line NCOs such as myself were on hand to gently encourage improvement in the areas that were substandard.
I got a phone call from our orderly room, and was told that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. The Airman on the line gave me no details, and I pictured a small plane dicking around and crashing.
So, I went back to showing the proper way to build a sand bag revetment to a group of teenagers who really didn't give a shit.
Then my OIC came over and told me to break camp and pack up the gear. We were to report to the warehouse to be briefed by the Commander. Another plane had crashed into the WTC and into the Pentagon as well.
With all the incompetence and fuckery that followed it is too easy to forget that moment. But we should not
The dozens of teenagers looking to get the GI bill and a fresh start disappeared and we became a squadron in the course of 5 minutes - 2 minutes of my Colonel speaking and a 3 minute video recap on CNN in the back of a hot dusty warehouse.
I don't know how many man years that group spent in theater, I deployed twice and that is probably below average, but I am proud to have served with them and I hope that my work kept them a little bit safer, more efficient - and I hope sane.
I know this group understands.
Anyone else sick of Disney Sports?
Full disclosure up front. I'm a Cardinals fan, I know that that invalidates my opinions about baseball to a lot of people.
But this isn't about the horribly inaccurate and condescending BFIB crap.
No this is about how awful ESPN is. Broadcast or online makes no difference. Week in and week out their MLB coverage consists of ignoring 24 teams and giving wall to wall coverage of New York Boston LA DC and Chicago.
The 2 best teams in baseball play on MO, but you'd be hard pressed to find any coverage of them (unless they are playing the Mets or Yankees)
So let's get bitching people -
what is it about the Disney Sports Channel that gravels your ass?
Glad to say hello to DU
I am:
Long term lurker, recent member.
Middle aged white man
Retired MSgt, 24 years in service with 3 deployments in SWA. I was not a trigger puller. I fixed communications systems
Life long Democrat from coal mine country, now living in the flat lands of the mid-American prairie
Married for close to 30 years, with two adult children.
I have a 65 pound mongrel from the humane society and she is the smallest dog my wife and I have ever had...
That should tell you all that anyone would ever need to know of me.
Air Superiority - you fight with the Airframes you have not the ones you want
CAP/area denial is still a vital mission. Theoretical abilities limits and ideal (imaginary) aircraft aren't the point. No one is going to dog fight like Me 109s vs. P51s.
Speed vs. maneuver is an argument already settled - jets and missiles are the order of the day.
But from the article I read and the excerpts of the after action report available on line speak of slow turn in, low power to weight ratio, poor tracking and an inability to hold radar lock in aerobatic maneuver. Meat against the older TRAINER VERSION of the Falcon.
This turd is supposedly capable in all fighter-interceptor-deep strike-CAS roles and is shitty at all of them.
That was the point of my rant.
P.S - I would also love to see the F35 go against an F4 - just for giggles.
I love the Phantom even though the Weasels woke my ass up every morning back in George
Satire, sure but the reality is more like horror
The contempt for our service members that the Congress and the defense contractors that have kept this gravy train rolling display is breathtaking.
$1000000000000 so far for an underpowered wallowing pig of a strike fighter.
Not capable of beating a block 40 2 seat F-16 trainer in aerial combat. (the current generation of the Falcon is block 60, and the operational aircraft are faster and lighter single seat models)
Cannot carry the air to ground payload of the F-15, and it's slower
Cannot loiter and survive in close air support like the A-10 and is also seriously under gunned compared the Warthog
Yet the JCS will replace all of these more capable air frames with this turd?
The potential loss of pilots is appalling enough, but military doctrine for the last 40 plus years assumes air superiority in the battle space, and with this P.O.S we will not be assured of having it.
How would our soldiers react if it's them hunkered down in holes while the enemy planes rain bombs on their heads?
Probably not much better than the Republican Guard did during DESERT STORM
Seriously, this is treasonous
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