Bucket, Spade, Sunblock
Sensitive readers may wish to brace themselves. Consider this a trigger warning.
Next week, for the whole week, and for the first time in a long time, I will be away on holiday. A proper holiday, elsewhere, doing other things. I realise that for some of you this may be crushing news. Be brave. Dry those tears.
To prevent you from roaming the streets in a daze, consider this an open thread, in which to share links and bicker. To kick things off, here’s an interview with Thomas Sowell, now a mere 93, in which he discusses his latest book, Social Justice Fallacies. Copies of which can be bought via your host’s Amazon portals, here for the US, and here for the UK.
In addition, you could always pass the time by browsing the Reheated series.
Oh, and the edit-comment option should now be working properly.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
I’m waiting for “Man identifies as F-35.”
Followed by “Leaves wife. Disappears.”
According to the Babylon Bee, the only newspaper that gives you the truth anymore, the USMC is out combing the forest pressing their F-35 key fob. No luck so far.
Two hours. Yes, two hours northeast. Northeast of JB Charleston. By two hours.
*sings ‘Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside’*
Have a great break!
Are you back yet? *taps watch*
Well, that helps.
Opportunities here for inter-service rivalry jokes about what debris has priority.
Heh. Hence the “two hours” bit. AIUI the debris is near Indian town which is 60 miles, as the crow flies, from the base. I suppose it’s two hours if you have to drive there, with traffic and such and want to stay under the speed limit lest the cops….anyway…everything about this story is bloody stupid. The explanations are stupid, the excuses for the explanations are stupid, and even/especially the conspiracy theories are stupid. Even in the context that most conspiracy theories are stupid anyway. Except for the real Conspiracy. Hence I refer you to WTP’s Theory of Conspiracy Theories…Conspiracy theories are devised and perpetrated by the System in such awkward and stupid ways in order to discredit the idea of conspiracies so that, should anyone catch on to the REAL conspiracy going on, they can more easily be discredited.
Interservice rivalries: Every morning in Australia
Scroll down for the full video with the punchline.
I haven’t seen any actual explanations yet. Nor would I expect to see any this soon.
I guess that means it was actually a UFO.
LOL
[ Resists temptation to send “they’re saying aloom-i-num on your blog” alert to David. ]
They’re beating this elderly woman because they enjoy it.
They enjoy it because their culture teaches them that they are entitled to do so.
I don’t mean the explanation the for the crash, outside of the speculations. The explaining what (supposedly) happened such that they couldn’t find it. First, no tracking beacon because (obviously) military stealth thing, except when training they do have them, it’s just not integrated into the black box. Then, well there is a tracking beacon but it wasn’t functional. Which raises a whole lot of other questions. It’s an $80 million (who really knows…at least my checks didn’t bounce) aircraft. Then, well yes there was a beacon but it the ejection seat damaged it . So…whatever the beacon is (I know nothing about that specific device) it’s a bolt on but the only logical place to put such a thing is under the pilot’s seat…where you likely already have one so as to fetch the ejected pilot.
Oh, he’s (assuming gender) not hitting her very hard. Most of those are glancing blows. She’s not knocked out or anything. You right wingers always overreact.
If you don’t log in with a twitter/X account, there’s no scrolling down.
Okay, I’ll give away the punchline:
Most of the emus are dead but the firebase is running out of ammunition. Suddenly a flying aircraft carrier arrives and wipes out the remaining emus. An officer dismounts and confronts an officer in the firebase demanding to know “where is it?” to which the reply is “Where is what?” Soldiers all over the battlefield are searching for “it”. Eventually one of them yells “I’ve found it!” which produces loud cheers, and we see him holding up a box of Crayola crayons. If the fighters had been Navy the lost object would have been a rainbow dildo. If Air Force, a TV remote control. And so on.
The 72 Hour Rule seems applicable here.
True. But they were asking for the public’s help while not being very helpful themselves. As someone who lives in an area where military aircraft fly over rather regularly doing equipment checkouts, quite often flying just above the treetops, this incident occurring just a couple hundred miles away is a bit…disturbing. I am real curious to know why the pilot ejected from an aircraft that was still quite capable of continuing to fly such that he, nor the USMC apparently, had no idea where it might come down. Seems like they were “hoping” it went into one of those two lakes.
Yeah. Some time ago I became unable to view comments.
I miss being able to see the comments to twitter posts. They often were better than the original. I refuse to have an account though, so it’s my own damned fault.
So am I, but I am not paranoid about the lack of explanation so soon after the incident. Such things have happened before. See the Cornfield bomber incident, mentioned upthread by Farnsworth Muldoon.
No. But you do seem to think you can read minds. Unless you are referring to someone else.
And the temperature in the room goes up….
Your comments so far indicate a strong dissatisfaction with the amount of information released so far–far more than I feel, as I am comfortable with following the 72 Hour Rule and also because I assume that even the most honest military will be reticent about quickly releasing unnecessary details. By the end of the week we ought to know more.
I did see a comment thread on one blog where a few people speculated that a traitor had flown the F-35 to Cuba, although such traitors are very rare and the F-35 is a single-seat plane. Sigh.
Meanwhile, back to the usual topics of worldwide insanity (or is it treason?):
The Social Democratic Party of Germany wants all “refugees” to have full voting rights after 6 months of residency. English translation here. English language news orgs seem uninterested in this.
Is there a word for this? Yes. Grotesque.
And I’m sure she has the same principled stance on subjects like the Bataan Death March.
Sure. That, the atrocities in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the Rape of Nanking, were all carefully supervised by evil, grinning Nipponese fishermen from Powell River and Sechelt. </sarc>
Try and make the distinction, please. I seem to recall a certain Gen. Hoffmeister who was hell on the Germans too.
Will I be required to not only “respect their pronouns” but also allow them to hump my leg?
You’re the one making it personal.
I am not looking to condemn/convict anyone at this time. These are legitimate questions in the context of what was presented. It is highly unusual for an aircraft to go missing such that the military puts out requests to the citizenry asking if anyone saw anything. But if one is serious about needing help, one would think far more information would be forthcoming. What base it left from, where was it headed, etc. as I stated above. These things would not/should not be big secrets. The cover was blown the minute they asked for “help”. Then the “we ask that residents of X county stay out of areas of the county, but we’re not going to say where that is”. Again, it’s not like it’s a big secret. The local news eventually was on it, though it was (and still is a bit) odd that Google wasn’t producing much specific information.
To be clear, I do not suspect funny business (not completely ruling it out either) as much as stupidity. The stupidity as to what I just stated is bad enough.
The 72-hour rule (it is just a suggestion) only works because other people are willing to question the story line and work out what is true. Otherwise, like anyone who screws up, they’re not going to be forthcoming about anything that isn’t asked. Some questions, be they later found to be irrelevant or not, need to be raised in the context of the moment. Anyone can sit back like a Monday Morning QB days/weeks later and mock those working on insufficient or inaccurate information. Yet you will never know at what point when or even if you have good information. This is obvious to those who have done the analysis (h/t hf).
Yeah. Yeah, that’s a rational thing to take rationally…and you are inferring…what? If you look hard enough you can find crazy comments about anything. Again, it’s not conspiracy…at least in the context of anything like that that concerns me. I am concerned that this is about the fifth or so (looked it up last night…now forgot) F-35B to have a major malfunction/crash. Out of about 100 produced. F-35A and F-35C variants are double deployed in comparison with about the same number of incidents. Say what one will about the F-35 program in general…there’s the standard excuse that all new high tech fighter jets have problems, and this is true. It’s completely unfalsifiable to argue with it which is a whole other can of worms, but cramming the VSTOL technology into an otherwise-purposed airframe is just bloody stupid. Obviously stupid. And it was designed and built by smart people. Smaaaart. In that regard, that program stinks to high heaven.
Added: Meant to also say, were this a Republican administration the media would be all over this story 24/7. Yet now for the most part….if not silence, the minimum of questions asked.
Would that be before or after they’re castrated?
Maybe it gives the air force diversity hires something important-feeling to do.
Well it did have that feel to it. Very womanly wording as I read it. “Honey, have you seen my car keys?” For some reason can’t get to it now but…Also, what made the “diversity hire” aspect more grating was that this was (supposedly) from the USMC via the US Navy? JB Charleston itself is listed as AF/Navy from what I’m seeing but the F-35 itself supposedly left from Beaufort Marine Corps base. Which itself was not clearly stated. Sure if you know the area, you might guess that but that doesn’t 100% eliminate it coming from JB Charleston. Again, I’m not consipiracizing, it just smells like severely unnecessary incompetence.
There is severely necessary incompetence?
Well there is necessary incompetence. People, especially military people…but carefully…need to be in places just a skoosh beyond their competency once in a while to stretch themselves. If a man’s reach doth not exceed his grasp, yadda yadda. I accept and expect and to some degree excuse some level of f-up once in a while. What really disturbs me is when people in positions/jobs that require that their abilities be stretched f up basic stuff, and do it and similar repeatedly in short periods of time, all under the same umbrella f-up event. And communication stuff especially. Were I directly in charge I would feel that my previous tolerance of such things had been taken advantage of. And most especially where innocent lives have been put at stake. On top of that, the F-35B being my poster boy for Le Grande Stupide F-Uppiness in the military industrial complex, the Pentagon, etc.
I was thinking of certain climate scientists.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
-Upton Sinclair
Metaphor is dead.
Those numbers that I use above are not accurate as I mixed up US vs. international numbers. AFAIK only the US and UK have deployed the B version, the Italians and Japanese have a few but not sure if they are deployed yet. Essentially there are between 100-150 B out there so that part I had essentially in the ballpark. The other variants have far more deployments internationally and domestically, in the neighborhood of 800. I couldn’t find (though didn’t try all that hard) a definitive accounting but the general idea is correct that the B variant has had significantly more problems per deployed aircraft.
Canada’s masked covid clown explains the need for the resurrection of COVID precautions consequent upon the return of winter to the northern hemisphere:
Oh really?
Now explain the “science” of lockdowns again?
Good Christ – fascist UK Parliamentarians are really keen that their ideological enemies not be able to defend themselves against spurious accusations.
This is true.
Heh. Of course many of the people who cheer this on were also ones screeching about net neutrality. The smart people…smaaaart. I liked Rumble’s response. Now watch them get banned.
Teacher of note.
Another teacher of note.
Note the avatar/whatever from that school district. A real traditional look. A fighter even. So brave.
But saying ‘groomer’ is the real problem, right?
If they’re not sexually grooming children – something they vehemently deny – what is it they’re doing?
Wanking. A lot of wanking.
Damn, I missed it.
Often times, mind you.
Well if you consider the 31st of September, April, June, November, and the 30th and 31st of February to be “often times”, well then yeah. But that’s just me.