Losing one engine on takeoff is hairy enough-I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose both at the same time. These guys know though: NEW YORK (AP) – A cool-headed pilot maneuvered his crippled jetliner over New York City and ditched it in the frigid Hudson River on Thursday, and
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Don’t mess with my boy Atomu……..
Having been a devoted fan of the original cartoon series as a boy-and having adopted him as my moniker for all things Skippy-san, I agree with F*cked Gaijin: “I am quite skeptical that this will be any good”. Then again, I am the boy who was built for adventure! 😉
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In a Carrier Battle Group, ships exchange their radar picture through the use of a computer data link. In today’s world they have, thanks to GPS, become a lot more accurate pictures. In the era that I grew up in-back when Sailors actually still took star sightings, and GPS was
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Too bad he’s been dead for a 1000 years-I would love to thank him personally. For Christmas, one of the S.O.’s friends sent her a Japanese book, “Genji no Sekai” (Genji’s world). It looked to me like one of those little books that you see women reading on the train
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For the man who will go down as one of the worst Presidents the United States has ever had. We the People Everywhere, USA January 6, 2009 President George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500 Re: Termination of Employment Dear President Bush, This is to inform you
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We got back yesterday night with a few extra hours in DFW that I could have done without. Now I am trying to squeeze in a post between the ever present demands of the S.O. that I do house things-this is why I wanted to be skiing yesterday and coming
Continue readingA bad news morning…….
I got up early yesterday-one of the disadvantages of being out west is that the “home office” is already at work and the items of interest that need to address have already begun to fill your in box by the time that you are just working to struggle out of
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Greetings from the foothills of the Rockies. Out here for 3 days on business. In one of my more misguided moments-I agreed to bring the S.O. along. Now -after a long day that began at 5 am she is in a grumpy mood. For the record, I did warn her
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The S.O. that is. In a sign she may have been in the United States too long, the S.O., who could never cuss in English as little as 8 months ago, has now become fond of using the term “F**king Mexicans” to describe the construction workers on the lot across
Continue readingLiberation Theology………..
It pains me greatly (I’ve been OD’ing on John Adams DVD’s today) to give pause from my narrow commentary on the various and sundry musing’s on my life-to jump back into the fluid waters of political discussion. Ordinarily, I would have waited till the year was farther along, but when
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