C W, the teenage years...

Picture via Irish.

Dan'l Webster rules

So true...

It's gonna come to this before too much longer.

And thus it ever was.

The Washington Examiner has an extrordinary investigative story out, called " The Obama you don't know," covering in some detail the difference between the Obama spin on his history, and the reality.

It's a great story which everyone should read, given the near complete lack of true reporting on his real past.  

Nevertheless, in one place in the story there is this statement:

"But beyond the spin and the polls, a starkly different picture emerges. It is a portrait of a man quite unlike his image, not a visionary reformer but rather a classic Chicago machine pol who thrives on rewarding himself and his friends with the spoils of public office, and who uses his position to punish his enemies."

Compare this story in the news just today that Obama has nominated the wife of a major donor to the Democratic party to the UN General Assembly.

Talk about rewarding his friends with the spoils of office!  How corrupt, but completely in character for the real Mr. Obama.

No further comment needed.

President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan that featured a champagne tower of 350 bottles worth $105,000 – more than twice the median household income of an American family.
The tower of $300-a-bottle Armand de Brignac Brut Gold . . . is a permanent fixture at the club. ‘It’s floor-to-ceiling gold bottles in the entire space,’ a 40/40 representative told the New York Post. ‘It’s beautiful—breathtaking. It’s the first thing you see when you walk in.’The median income for an American family was $51,413 in 2011.

13 year old girl leaves a dubious Simon Cowell and the other judges astounded.

Via Ace of Spades

 

Gotta be some freckles under all that mud.

 

Continuing his quest to destroy the United States economy, and the coal industry in particular, President Obama must be overjoyed today to learn that Alpha Coal is closing 8 mines and laying off 1200 bitter clingers - opps, I meant miners.

  "Crutchfield said the shutdowns and layoffs are a necessary part of ensuring Alpha survives in what has become a difficult U.S. market, where coal companies face a dual challenge: Power plants are shifting to cheap, abundant natural gas, while companies like his face "a regulatory environment that's aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal."

Yeah, that regulatory environment that aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal, that's Obama's work right there.

I have never seen a president before so hostile to cheap energy, and to industry in general.  It might be nice to send him packing in November, and hopefully those 1200 newly out of work miners think the same way.

Cool deep sea angler lamp made from junk.

That thing could hurt you if you bumbled into it.

Found here.

Tungsten filled 10 oz gold bar is discovered in Manhattan.

There is never one cockroach, and whoever did this didn't do all that work to make just one bar.

A great story from WWII.

Via Maggie's Farm

An enemy fighter attacking a 97th Bomb Group formation went out of control, probably with a wounded pilot then continued its crashing descent into the rear of the fuselage of a Fortress named All American, piloted by Lt. Kendrick R. Bragg, of the 414th Bomb Squadron.

When it struck, the fighter broke apart, but left some pieces in the B-17. The left horizontal stabilizer of the Fortress and left elevator were completely torn away. The two right engines were out and one on the left had a serious oil pump leak.

The vertical fin and the rudder had been damaged, the fuselage had been cut almost completely through connected only at two small parts of the frame and the radios, electrical and oxygen systems were damaged.

There was also a hole in the top that was over 16 feet long and 4 feet wide at its widest and the split in the fuselage went all the way to the top gunners turret. Although the tail actually bounced and swayed in the wind and twisted when the plane turned and all the control cables were severed, except one single elevator cable still worked, and the aircraft still flew - miraculously!

The tail gunner was trapped because there was no floor connecting the tail to the rest of the plane. The waist and tail gunners used parts of the German fighter and their own parachute harnesses in an attempt to keep the tail from ripping off and the two sides of the fuselage from splitting apart. While the crew was trying to keep the bomber from coming apart, the pilot continued on his bomb run and released his bombs over the target.

When the bomb bay doors were opened, the wind turbulence was so great that it blew one of the waist gunners into the broken tail section. It took several minutes and four crew members to pass him ropes from parachutes and haul him back into the forward part of the plane. When they tried to do the same for the tail gunner, the tail began flapping so hard that it began to break off.

The weight of the gunner was adding some stability to the tail section, so he went back to his position. The turn back toward England had to be very slow to keep the tail from twisting off. They actually covered almost 70 miles to make the turn home. The bomber was so badly damaged that it was losing altitude and speed and was soon alone in the sky. For a brief time, two more Me-109 German fighters attacked the All American. Despite the extensive damage, all of the machine gunners were able to respond to these attacks and soon drove off the fighters.

The two waist gunners stood up with their heads sticking out through the hole in the top of the fuselage to aim and fire their machine guns. The tail gunner had to shoot in short bursts because the recoil was actually causing the plane to turn. Allied P-51 fighters intercepted the All American as it crossed over the Channel and took one of the pictures shown. They also radioed to the base describing that the empennage was waving like a fish tail and that the plane would not make it and to send out boats to rescue the crew when they bailed out.

The fighters stayed with the Fortress taking hand signals from Lt. Bragg and relaying them to the base. Lt. Bragg signaled that 5 parachutes and the spare had been "used" so five of the crew could not bail out. He made the decision that if they could not bail out safely, then he would stay with the plane and land it.Two and a half hours after being hit, the aircraft made its final turn to line up with the runway while it was still over 40 miles away.

It descended into an emergency landing and a normal roll-out on its landing gear. When the ambulance pulled alongside, it was waved off because not a single member of the crew had been injured. No one could believe that the aircraft could still fly in such a condition. The Fortress sat placidly until the crew all exited through the door in the fuselage and the tail gunner had climbed down a ladder, at which time the entire rear section of the aircraft collapsed onto the ground. The rugged old bird had done its job.

Interesting concept.  Wonder how they do at highway speeds?

Grey haired grandma single handedly chases five robbers out of her jewelry store.

I like the pile up at the door on the way out.