History, Politics And Current Affairs

No not a 'pro' wrestling star. Its a device with a cable cops can attach from their car to a car that is trying to get away. https://policebumper.com/ Seems to work but but if you really, REALLY try and get away other things happen: (imagine the theme from Benny Hill playing) https://youtu.be/rWrnc...

I think the Marines were disappointed they couldn't another "Halls of Montezuma" to the Marine Hymn. I'm sure there were Sergeants Major looking at various Lance Criminals and figuring where they would stand post in Mexico City... Give them time. Sooner or later the rest of Mexico will go...

I thought we took Vera Cruz back during the Baja War… Vera Cruz isn't part of the Security Zone. It was seized more as a bargaining chip and give the Mexicans an impression it was 1847 and Scott's campaign all over again. I think the Marines were disappointed they couldn't another "Halls of Mo...

And something's dropped out of ONI's archives, posted on their website today Remember the Koni FF that was found adrift with the entire crew missing except for the cat? Apparently, the director of ONI sent a Polaroid of the cat, lounging on the bridge chart table like the ship is his personal yacht...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:27 am There's been a couple of Bermuda Triangle books out since the early 2000s that mention this. One author notes that no one in the boarding party, or on the destroyer that found the Koni, could speak "Cat" and thus find out what happened.

Deep in your heart, you know that the cat did it.

And something's dropped out of ONI's archives, posted on their website today Remember the Koni FF that was found adrift with the entire crew missing except for the cat? Apparently, the director of ONI sent a Polaroid of the cat, lounging on the bridge chart table like the ship is his personal yacht,...

Who's yer daddy, Tovarisch?

Welcome. The bar is inviting. We have both types of music here - Country and Western. Someone ironic as this board really has been about getting the band back together! (We are on holiday currently. Epic Euro road trip, 3000 miles each way. On the final leg, I saw a signpost and said to the wife, i...

One of my projects on the someday list is to do this in Command: Modern Operations.

This is a second video that appears to show the actual ejection: https://x.com/weaponoutfitter/status/1956605668032417886?s=46 Oh, that was NOT a good landing. I wouldn't be surprised if he blew his knees out. And a little spinal compression More like a lot, I don't think he was properly braced, be...

Micael wrote: ↑Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:28 pm This is a second video that appears to show the actual ejection:
https://x.com/weaponoutfitter/status/19 ... 17886?s=46

Oh, that was NOT a good landing. I wouldn't be surprised if he blew his knees out.

My dear, departed Dad is probably laughing his ass off in the Valhalla O Club over this.

Welp, it's my two weeks' active duty. Rolled up to the main gate at McConnell in the Beautiful Blue 260Z 2+2, with the Bowers & Wilkins speakers blasting Mike & the Mechanics' Word of Mouth. I turn it down to show my ID, and the guard says, "Oh, leave it cranked up, sir, you guys had th...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:31 am Did better than that: our departure took 512 right over those clowns.

Ah, the sound of freedom!

Had a good Seafair! Never seen Hydroboat racing before, and for both Goalie and myself, it was an eye-opener. Told one of the organizers that it looks like "NASCAR on water", and he said that wasn't far off in the description. The Blue Angels, were, as usual, excellent, and we gave an F-4...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:01 pm ...Murchison's Eye.

Mike

Gripping hand is, we're on the wrong side of the Coal Sack to see it.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Jul 29, 2025 10:27 pm https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bu ... 325723007/


Nothing bad ever came from a supercomputer named Colossus.

Only a problem if there's a Russian counterpart named Guardian.

20 October 1991 Josh and Kathy Mantell's Apartment Sophie sat on the couch, sipping orange juice, composing herself. She looked at Kathy. "I think I know the most messed up thing you ever saw in the war. The changelings." Kathy gave Josh a look that said, Please don't ask. He nodded fract...

Kunkmiester wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 5:02 pm How long did the .25 take to get it's reputation as anemic?

One incident in the US back in the 1920s. A homeowner mag-dumped a burglar and hit him 5 times with .25 ACP.

The burglar proceeded to beat the living crap out of the homeowner and calmly finished robbing the place.

What it doesn't deal with is both sides possessing nuclear weapons. That fundamentally alters the strategic and indeed even the grand strategic calculus yet again. That's a running theme in Japanese military art from Meiji Restoration to 1945. They didn't contemplate what the other guy could do to ...