This just in……………Doug.
This is a video of the first US jet, way back in October 1942.
It is a classic piece of film I certainly never knew existed. I wasn’t even aware that America HAD a jet that early in the war: 10 months after Pearl Harbor! America’s first jet flight, Oct 1942.
THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE PIECE OF AVIATION HISTORY.
Update: A late audit reveals, this post is the 500th on this blog. So the honor goes to Doug.
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Doug
June 5, 2012 He Calls Himself a Nutrition Expert? • Investigating “Cancer Phobia” • New Breast Cancer Treatment Paradigm from FDA
By Lana Spivak
Big Apple Food Circus still in town
Yesterday we expressed our amazement that The New York Post would run an editorial supporting Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed ban on sugary beverages larger than 16 ounces. Today we were shocked again to see that The Post published a letter to the editor by renowned anti-food industry activist Dr. Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, replete with errors and plain nonsense posing as nutritional facts. For instance:
Sugary soft drinks are the single biggest source of calories in the American diet and are the only food or beverage shown to increase one’s risk of weight gain.
At one meeting, the Chinese ambassador, according to one witness, promised Covec would fulfill its obligation for the sake of “Chinese honor.” When the group reconvened the following afternoon, the ambassador delivered a different message, this person said, saying China’s government had limited leverage with an “independent company.” The Chinese ambassador didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The roads chief at GDDKiA, Mr. Witecki, says that on June 9, Covec’s president Mr. Fang told him work could resume for another $320 million. That would have made the total cost 70% higher than Covec had bid for the project.
The next day the Polish Government fired the Chinese company. The Chinese were shocked.
Since I don’t know if this article is accessible behind WSJ’s paywall, I’ll sum up.
The Chinese firm “Covec” has built many projects in China, the Arabian peninsular and Africa, and in those areas they bring in whatever Chinese workers, equipment or materials that they need. Especially in Africa, they are not used to being held to account by local governments or anyone else. Environmental laws and regulations? What’s that? The required paperwork to validate the work was being done as contracted were not written. (Inspectors don’t just drive up and look at a newly built bridge then drive back to the office and OK the check. They need to examine the paperwork that shows the origin and quality of the material used.) In Poland, they did not prove to be adept at negotiating with sub-contractors, nor did they seem to truly understand what the costs of the building equipment and materials from European suppliers would actually cost. Also, “Where are the frog tunnels?”, (translated from the Chinese) “THE WHAT?”
So in the end it became obvious that the winning Chinese bid was based on …well, nothing at all. Just a belief by the Polish Government that the first, large infra-structure project in the European Union by a major Chinese construction firm would be backed in full by the Chinese government. Which seems like what was going to happen, until the full costs of correcting the fiasco were realized.
Oh! The construction completion bonds that Covec had to cover a non-completion judgement? Held in Chinese banks, in China. There now doesn’t seem to be any way to actually get that money out of China.
MADE IN BY CHINA, gotta love it.
4:00 PM Opening Flag BurningCeremony
4:05 PM Singing of “God Damn America” led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright
4:10 PM Pledge of Allegiance to Obama
4:15 PM Ceremonial ‘I hate America’ led by Michelle Obama
4:30 PM Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire , HillaryClinton
4:45 PM Al Sharpton Leads Castrati Choir in Singing”Great Balls of Fire”
5:00 PM UFO Abduction Survival, JoeBiden
5:30 PM Eliot Spitzer Speaks on “Family Values”via Satellite
5:45 PM Tribute to All 57 States
6:00 PM Joe Biden Delivers 100,000-Word Speech Featuring 23-Minute Question and 2-Hour Answer
8:30 PM Airing of Grievances by the Clintons
9:00 PM Bill Clinton Delivers Rousing Endorsement of Obama Girl
9:15 PM Tribute Film to Freedom Fightersat Gitmo, Michael Moore
9:45 PM Personal Finance Seminar -Charlie Rangel
10:00 PM Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners
10:30 PM Ceremonial Waving of White Flagfor IRAQ & Afghanistan
11:00 PM Obama Energy Plan Symposium/Tire Gauge Demonstration
11:15 PM Free Gov. Blagojevich rally
11:30 PM Obama Accepts Tonyand Latin Grammy Awards
11:45 PM Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish, Obama Presiding
12:00 AM Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Maher
12:01 AM Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
12:05 AM Celestial Choirs Sing
03:00 AM Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech
H/T M Kohl
If you don’t relate to this song at this time…trust me your time will come eventually ?
There’s a group of ladies in the Dallas area who make and stuff neck pillows for soldiers coming through Dallas Fort Worth airport.
They go to the airport and meet the incoming planes every week and greet the soldiers coming back for a few weeks R&R, give them a pillow, tell them they pray for them, and thank them for their service.
The lady who took the pictures said everyone was so surprised to see George and Laura Bush recently just standing quietly in the waiting area with others who come to meet the troop planes. She said it was amazing to watch the faces of the soldiers light up in recognition when they spotted them and that many came over to speak and shake hands
Mac Jeffreys Don’t sweat the small stuff it is all small stuff!
Birds of a feather flock together and so when we see Barack Obama stacking his cabinet with radicals, it tells us a lot about his mentality. Of course, the fact that his entire term in office has been nothing but a slow motion evisceration of the American dream should tell you a lot about how he thinks, too — but a little more evidence is always welcome. Take a look at these quotes from members of Barack Obama’s administration and then ask yourself what sort of man WANTS people like this to help him govern the American people?
I’m going to break this into seven different posts, take the time to follow the links and read about each of Obama’s henchmen. John
1) “Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.” — Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama Administration. Yes, we have someone in charge of regulations in D.C. who thinks pigs should be able to sue farmers and cats should be able to sue their owners. Do you think it’s a coincidence that the cost of business keeps skyrocketing under Obama because of all the new regulations?
What’s the word I’m looking for? NUT! Yes, that’s it. Then there are his un-American ideas on regulating the Internet.
Sunstein’s book is a blueprint for online censorship as he wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading “rumors.”
The advice to Mitt Romney has been to focus his campaign on the Economy. The Economy, The Economy. All well and good.
But even if (at the end of the Obama first term) we all ended up rich as Midas, and fat chance of that! Even if that happened, this person still needs to be voted out the office of the President because he and his friends are the greatest threat to the freedom of every American in the history of our country.
“ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ”
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
John Stuart Mill
‘As respondents’ science literacy scores increased, their concern with climate change decreased.’
Also in the study is the observation that “individualists” tend to reject the Global Warming Hsyteria and the “Equality (above all else)” types buy into AGW and it’s unwholesome option, government control and carbon taxes.
Related story …
“Antiquity knew about Egypt and Mesopotamia, but the Indus civilization, which was bigger than these two, was completely forgotten until the 1920s,” said researcher Liviu Giosan, a geologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. “There are still many things we don’t know about them.”
‘The Indus civilization … was completely forgotten until the 1920s.’
– Researcher Liviu Giosan
Nearly a century ago, researchers began discovering numerous remains of Harappan settlements along the Indus River and its tributaries, as well as in a vast desert region at the border of India and Pakistan. Evidence was uncovered for sophisticated cities, sea links with Mesopotamia, internal trade routes, arts and crafts, and as-yet undeciphered writing.
Interesting story, then I got to this little bit…
“The insolation — the solar energy received by the Earth from the sun — varies in cycles, which can impact monsoons,” Giosan said. “In the last 10,000 years, the Northern Hemisphere had the highest insolation from 7,000 to 5,000 years ago, and since then insolation there decreased. All climate on Earth is driven by the sun, and so the monsoons were affected by the lower insolation, decreasing in force. This meant less rain got into continental regions affected by monsoons over time.”
Eventually, these monsoon-based rivers held too little water and dried, making them unfavorable for civilization.
Whoa! The Sun caused climate change? Not 4000 year old SUV’s? Imagine that!
View from England…
As Mitt Romney closes the gap, it is 1980 all over again for the man in the Oval Office.
From your Word Processor to God’s ear, old boy.
Ordos, China is described as the “best kept ghost town in the world.” A modern city designed for 300,000, with street lamps run by wind turbines and freshly-laid asphalt, now houses no more than 5600 people, predominantly gardeners and builders attracted by the prospect of well-paid seasonal work.
Urban researchers in Berlin are exploring an eerie phenomenon — the modern ghost town. From a deserted Cypriot holiday resort to a brand new Chinese city devoid of inhabitants, they are asking why people abandon their communities and exploring the stories that make these empty places so compelling.
DRESDEN, Germany – A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.
Outstanding!!! Congrats!
BRITAIN is set to suffer a mini ice age that could last for decades and bring with it a series of bitterly cold winters.
And it could all begin within weeks as experts said last night that the mercury may soon plunge below the record -20C endured last year.
Scientists say the anticipated cold blast will be due to the return of a disruptive weather pattern called La Nina. Latest evidence shows La Nina, linked to extreme winter weather in America and with a knock-on effect on Britain, is in force and will gradually strengthen as the year ends
We’ve still talking about this, Why are we still talking about this? 
Because of the governments, here and in Europe, that are still using the Carbon Fraud to drain money out of their economies. As parts of Europe are seeing their economies returning to recession, haven’t they asked themselves if the waste, sky-high costs and drain of attacking carbon unnecessarily might be what is tipping them over the edge?
Marine Beaches in Massachusetts
“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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