From the "born on" dates, it looks like the major is using nice fresh munitions on his B-52. That's a good thing - wouldn't want those babies to go stale on the shelf.
USA! USA! USA!
Now that's a message hard to beat.
What's the (((1))) stuff on the front of the JDAM?
I don't know, Sig. Looks like an "i" broadcasting a message or something.
That's beautiful, Bluto.
Thanks Major!
Internet broadcasting perhaps?
Also, I dont think that is a B-52 in the background. Unless those bombs are WAY bigger than I think they are.
F-16 or F-15 maybe?
DK, I think you are right about it not being a B-52. I don't think they hang ordinance on the wings of a B-52. They have internal bombayd and can carry about twice the 12x2000# jdams mentioned. But, I'm guessing. Anyone out there know?
Oh, Nice blog Bluto.
The Major has intentionally focused the pictures on the JDAMs..the aircraft type might give too much info about the major.
I am not sure about aircraft type, but I wouldn't rule out B-52.
The Air Force fact sheet didn't mention external payload, but I think I have seen pictures of wing mounted bomb racks.
20.7 hours is a long flight. A B-52 out of Diego Garcia? Sounds reasonable to me.
Not a B-52? Compare with this photo, looking past the wing mounted weapons pylon toward the fuselage. Note how all visible features match precisely.
http://public.andrews.amc.af.mil...-52-
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Truly a beautiful sight....I've been to UC Santa Cruz as a visitor, a stepsister attended. Unfortunately she was infected with the local psychosis, explaining why we no longer communicate. These creeps wouldn't dare pull this shit anyplace where they could be confronted....Again, a very nice pic.
Folks, it is indeed a B-52 built in 1961. We carry 2000# JDAM's externally on racks and just shy of 27 500# Mk82's internally when necessary. The 2000#'s pack quite the wallop, I assure you...especially against Taliban mudhuts they shoot at our troops from. Sad thing is, when we drop one of them...or 12, it sure does make it hard to count how many bad guys we sent to hell. Note: F-16's/F-15's can only carry 2 similar sized JDAM.
The (((i))) is the SF-Indybay for "Indymedia." Several of their anti-military protest pictures were posted on SF-Bay Indybay (spelling/ref??) website. They got copies too, under an assumed name. Incidentally, one of the individuals who sent a particularly nasty message to M.Malkin responded to me, "Just like the right to immediately resort to violence..." Ahum.
C.L.
Thanks, C.L.
Wasn't sure whether you wanted your name used or not. Guess you answered that.
FUKENEH!
Thought I should settle a few questions. Dreadpundint-thanks for posting, I do appreciate it. W/your blog theme, I'm going to send you a .jpg of one of our patches. If you want one, I can send one your way. TY for the support all...
CLL
Comrades,
What an excellent response to those cretins in California. I well remember their type back in the day throwing blood and red paint on me and some others and calling us baby-killers when we were on campus.
It would almost be worth my while to pay for a plane ticket out there to be on hand the next time the recruiters want to put up a display. Maybe get a couple hundred veterans and have a sort-of "counter protest"?
I've reached an age when what folks think of me doesn't matter that much. I've become a rather crotchety old opionated fellow, but I'm always willing to listen. Not like those kids in socal.
Ah well... That's a nice touch, CL. Thanks for doing what you're doing. And flying your Grand dad's airplane to boot... (them what knows will know).
Respects,
Gwedd
Former Airdale
This is so wonderful and so specail. Thank you Major and thank you Bluto so much!
Major thank you so much for serving our country. Your response is so perfect, none better!!
THAT's good stuff!...
But I missed the part about WHEN it lands on UCSC. heh
I'll bet those at the front would appreciate some of the MP3's being recorded and uploaded for discerning war supporters everywhere, from:
Karridine.blogspot.com
and
BrainSurgeryWithSpoons.blogspot.com
Favorites include "Its In the Koran!", and "Aloha Snackbar, Resort to Violence!" and "Fjordman's Essays: Oslo Peace Process" and "Corrie Pancake!"
Gwedd- UCSC is northern Ca. If you think soCa is bad the north has some hideous enclaves! Lived in Santa Cruz, Mos Eisley has NOTHING on it! When we were there('91-95) it was nothing for students to show up at class wearing nothing but birkenstocks and a backpack(gender optional!) The profs disn't even blink! The students and a large part of the faculty got peeved at admin. for wanting to cut down the "Fairy Tree" which was worshipped by those on campus! Any university that chose the banana slug as a mascot has a few(!) problems!
tmw
Yeah, I've got a question for the major. What possible motive could he have for dissing those people trying vainly to save their countrymen from the pointless, immoral meatgrinder that is Iraq?
Also, does he value his job? I only ask because I'd be surprised if he still has one once those pictures inevitably wind their way to his superiors desk.
I have a question for Sanjo. You support American traitors and Saddam Hussein; do you also support the British traitors who blew up your countrymen?
I guess you must be one of the couple of hundred people who still support the war. Tell me, if I wanted to think more like you would I be better off making the incision through the temporal lobe or just above the eyesocket?
The whole Anti-War=Pro-Saddam false dichotomy is the creation of clueless dumbfucks who spend their lives aimlessly ambling about in an atmosphere of about one part clue per billion. While it is impossible to oppose the abstract idea of liberation per se, those of us with more than a handful of fully firing neurons tend to factor pragmatic concerns into our consideration of military endeavours. The sectarian terrorism, chaos, bloodshed and rampant crime, the rise of repressive and gynophobic fundamentalist Islam, the torture, the utility shortages etc... were perfectly predictable consequences of the invasion. I won't even get into the lies used to sell it.
Put simply, because I think that works best for you, it's all very well jaunting half-way round the world to kick some ass for liberty, but if it's just going to make things worse there's really no fucking point.
By the way Creampuff, why aren't you in Iraq if you're so fucking gung-ho about it all?
You're not capable of thinking like me. It's the genetics. I'd never waste a hundred words with sophomoric ad hominems, when a short paragraph will do.
But thank you for providing everyone with an example of how vapid and pointless pro-terrorist liberals tend to be.
By the way, Ummah, why aren't you in Iraq fighting with the terrorist insurgency?
You're not capable of thinking like me. It's the genetics.
No argument there. It's pretty obvious you have a couple of extra chromosomes. Do you have to wear a crash helmet to go outside?
I'd never waste a hundred words with sophomoric ad hominems, when a short paragraph will do.
It's pretty obvious you don't have the flair. But honestly, was the crux of my post "...it's all very well jaunting half-way round the world to kick some ass for liberty, but if it's just going to make things worse there's really no fucking point." really all that complicated? Maybe you just grew up around a lot of lead paint.
But thank you for providing everyone with an example of how vapid and pointless pro-terrorist liberals tend to be.
What were you saying about sophomoric ad hominems, hypocrite?
Thank you, by the way, for providing everyone with an example of how petulant a wingnut can be when someone dares to puncture their hermetically sealed, hyperbaric, happy-gas filled ideological bubble with a little sharp reality.
By the way, Ummah, why aren't you in Iraq fighting with the terrorist insurgency?
I already deconstructed the anti-war=pro-terrorist wingnut strawman and I'm not going to bother doing so again. I would suggest, however, that you folks really try venturing out of the echo-chamber every once in a while. It would cut down on the incest.
No Sanjo, you made a series of unsupported assertions. Nothing more.
In fact you haven't made a single fact-based statement in any of your comments. Guess that's why I have a popular blog, and you don't.
Again I ask why you aren't helping your Muslim brothers fight to establish the Caliphate.
Sanjo,
You're just another retard who likes to talk trash.
Pound a bag of sand up your ass son.
And yeah asshole, I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt so don't even start ya little worthless, gutless bitch.
Bluto wrote:
No Sanjo, you made a series of unsupported assertions. Nothing more.
Thanks for that unsupported assertion. Got any examples, chief?
Guess that's why I have a popular blog, and you don't.
Appealing to the court of public opinion doesn't work when the "court" is a self-selecting agglomeration of arch-wingnuts. Besides, the popularity of which you boast isn't difficult to acquire. I could easily emulate it, all I need are a big bag of cheeto's and a few shiny objects.
Again I ask why you aren't helping your Muslim brothers fight to establish the Caliphate.
And, again, I will post my refutation of the transparent and hopelessly stupid anti-war=pro-saddam/terrorist false dichotomy.
While it is impossible to oppose the abstract idea of liberation per se, those of us with more than a handful of fully firing neurons tend to factor pragmatic concerns into our consideration of military endeavours. The sectarian terrorism, chaos, bloodshed and rampant crime, the rise of repressive and gynophobic fundamentalist Islam, the torture, the utility shortages etc... were perfectly predictable consequences of the invasion....
Put simply, because I think that works best for you, it's all very well jaunting half-way round the world to kick some ass for liberty, but if it's just going to make things worse there's really no fucking point.
Does that answer your question? Perhaps you could now return the favour by explaining why you aren't battling the terrorists in Iraq?
dick wrote:
And yeah asshole, I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt so don't even start ya little worthless, gutless bitch.
You mean you were in the armed forces? That's entirely laudable, but please make sure you don't say anything that could be construed as anything less than whole-hearted support of Der Preznit and his magnificent mesopotamian clusterfuck of a war, else Bluto will denounce you as a Godless traitor.
Question for Sanjo: Do you differentiate between the the war in Afghanistan and the insurgency in Iraq? What would your political/international solution been in response to 9/11?
Hey guys, pass the Cheetoes.
C.L. wrote:P
Do you differentiate between the the war in Afghanistan and the insurgency in Iraq?
Very much so. The former was a just response to an attack by a terrorist group protected by the erstwhile government of Afghanistan. In order to eradicate the group we needed to either deal with or depose the government. They weren't open to dealing, so we deposed them. All fair and above board as far as I'm concerned. The war in Iraq, by contrast, I view as being entirely counterproductive.
What would your political/international solution been in response to 9/11?
Well, I was totally with Bush until he started making overtures towards Iraq. I would have used a great chunk of the resources spent on Iraq to shore up the fledgling Afghan democracy. I would have devoted far more time, energy, money, and manpower into eradicating every last trace of the Taliban insurgency (which I recently read was experiencing something of a revival). I would also have leaned on the House of Saud to crack down on the Saudi Islamists in their kingdom. I would have made finding and killing Bin Laden more of a priority than Bush seems to have done.
I also think naming Iran as a member of the 'Axis of Evil' was a colossal tactical blunder. Up until recently there was a burgeoning pro-democracy movement in Iran. That movement has since been decimated. Ahmadinejad's election has effectively killed it for at least the next half decade. A great many people, vaguely aware of the democratic leanings of Iran's youth and middle-class, were surprised by Ahmadinejad's election. However, simple common sense tells us that the best way to eradicate any fledgling pro-democracy movement is to threaten its leadership with annihilation.
Put another way, if Bin Laden released a tape whereupon he vowed to kill the President, what effect do you think it would have on his popularity ratings? I think it would give them a boost, because people naturally rally around their leaders when threatened. In much the same way, when Iranian's saw President Bush denounce their leadership as evil, when they became drenched in images of carnage from post-war Iraq, they naturally gathered around their leadership. Ahmadinejad's election was the unfortunate, but somewhat predictable result. There's no better way to kill off a pro-democracy movement than to bomb the shit out of the country nextdoor and send the unambiguous message that you might be next. Now we face the deeply unsettling prospect of having to make deals on nuclear proliferation with an Islamic fundamentalist with an implicit belief in the metaphysics of martyrdom. As much as I dislike Bush, I wouldn't want to be in his shoes right now.
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