Happy 2012!

God bless America

Blackshoe!

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Merry Christmas

Peace on Earth!

Thank you for letting me sleep in peace tonight.

Retirement Pay

There has been a lot of talk recently about modifying retirement pay for the military.  Something to chew on, as the nation and the military looks at and considers military budget cuts and the ultimate downsizing of personnel also known as "force shaping".  Lets just say for example you have 8-10 years more or less of time wearing the uniform.  You have done your best, did what you were told to do and gone into harms way in order to defend America.  Now the time comes to reduce the size of the military for what ever reason.  You might get lucky and get a decent "severance" package.  Then again you might not.  As the way things sit now, your retirement that you have built up will not follow you to your new job!  Lost are many years of potential savings and worst case, in these troubling economic times, a life ring upon which you could keep you family afloat.  So if "taking care" of our service members who have answered the call and are now asked to leave, is putting them behind their "peers" with respect to financial independence in their golden years, then who ya, bring on the 20 yr only retirement program!

7-Year-Old Accused Of Possible Sexual Harassment For Kicking Boy In Groin « CBS Boston -Link Shared from Drudge Report for Android

I really hope the family counter sues for assault and battery and takes the school to task for not "protecting" her kid while on the bus!

This news link http://readability.iavian.net/?hop=http%3A%2F%2Fboston.cbslocal.com%2F2011%2F12%2F02%2F7-year-old-accused-of-possible-sexual-harassment-for-kicking-boy-in-groin%2F

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Unseasonable?

Must be global warming.....

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Sweepers man your brooms

I think these guys are union?!

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STOP!

The final road trip...

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Now on sale at the exchange

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Front yard treasures

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Scales clocks and

Thermometers cant be trusted

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Oops

Hampton roads fender benders.......

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Oops

crash boom bang in Hampton Roads!

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CRASH!

Bayview and Granby.....gate traffic!
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6am Joy

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NOVA 6AM

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Ooops

I would say moored......

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Changes....

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43 degrees, rain.....

....and chili!

Nice

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Force Protection....

And opsec.....

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Is that pink?

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Rush hour

At least they are fun to watch!

Holy Crap!

Surging Lions Beat Bears 24-13 and Improve to 5-0!

 

 

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Flinstone...

....vitamins are yummy!

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Security

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Ice Road Truckers

If you have a few minutes watch this episode concerning the Yungas Road in Bolivia....I was on this road back in the '90s.
All I can say is holy crap!
 As I like to tell people about the adventure, it is not the fact that you were going to die, but how you were going to die....Bouncing off the side of the mountain, drowning in the river far far below.....The morbid conversation helped mask the shear terror of travelling this road!

Standards

America's Navy, the most technological advanced, lethal and physically fit force on the sea....an equal opportunity employer!

Fun in the View

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Follow up to the Smartest Sailor in the Bay

Well it looks like there is such a thing as "Jewish Lightning"!

From Wavy News 10

The funny thing is that we did not here the "Ocean View Orchestra" when they went cruising by at midnight!  Thank for running with just your lights.

So will Saturday be interesting...

...in lower Manhattan?

Obviously people with nothing better to do!

I bet if this does happen, the area will be left a mess and the taxpayers will have to foot the cleanup bill...

If it is not security

It is a stopped train!

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Never forget

Traffic on Sunday Morning

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Not a good sign....

For a saturday morning....
I really enjoy feeling like a sitting duck!

Never forget Sept 11

Coppers in the view

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Active shooter hayday!

Hope someone is taking notes...

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Working girls

Yes they are...from my driveway!

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Fox News

While sitting at our remote mountain hideaway, even Shepard Smith on Fox News brought exciting Ocean View to national attention by the excitement that never ends here in the "View"
Thanks to the Virginia Pilot for the Picture.

Not the smartest of all mariners on the high seas!

Non event in ov

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Party Time!

To the lyrics of "Come on Eileen"....

So where is the cheaper gas?

Obviously, not at the pump!

From the WSJ.com

Bologna is made of lips and @$$holes as well...

My President has a first name, it's B A R R Y. My President has a second name, it's O B A M A. I love to hate him everyday, and if you ask me why I'll ssaaaaayyyyyy... 'Cause Barry Obama has a way of screwing up the U.S.A.

1 Billion Barrels!

That is a lot of oil!

From WSJ.com

HOUSTON—The only thing that surprised the energy industry more than Exxon Mobil Corp.'s mammoth oil find in the Gulf of Mexico is that it kept its size quiet for so long.

The company is notoriously closemouthed. As spokesman Patrick McGinn put it Thursday, Exxon just doesn't "talk much"—even as it became known publicly this week that it discovered possibly one billion barrels of recoverable oil that it could lose it in a court battle with the government.

Glad the government is here to ensure domestic tranquility!

Is this the begining of something bigger?

Militants Launch Deadly Attacks on Israelis Near Egyptian Border

 

 

Sweet!

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I like this...

"If you are always on the hunt for complacency, you will reward risk-takers, and people who thrive in uncertainty."

"Take the mavericks in your service, the ones that wear rumpled uniforms and look like a bag of mud but whose ideas are so offsetting that they actually upset the people in the bureaucracy. 

 

One of your primary jobs is to take the risk and protect these people, because if they are not nurtured in your service, the enemy will bring their contrary ideas to you."

General James Mattis
United States Marine Corps

Crazy AM Traffic

Come on now gang, follow the rules, be nice!

Granby Street and Bay View 06:15AM

Granby street gate traffic

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So much for no trucks

On Hampton blvd after 4pm!

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Nebraska mine find to challenge China’s dominance of vital rare minerals

But can this Nebraska Town win the battle with the FED, EPA. et al to conduct large scale mining?

Your tree hugger electric car just might need a chunk of this to make it to the next coal/nuke fired electrical outlet?

Yes we are

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Tough day at the office!

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Great, now lets bring back the incandescent light bulb, the nuclear power plant,the Ford Bronco and  burn some coal!

From Yahoo.com

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

"The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show," Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release. "There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans."

In addition to finding that far less heat is being trapped than alarmist computer models have predicted, the NASA satellite data show the atmosphere begins shedding heat into space long before United Nations computer models predicted.

The new findings are extremely important and should dramatically alter the global warming debate.

Scientists on all sides of the global warming debate are in general agreement about how much heat is being directly trapped by human emissions of carbon dioxide (the answer is "not much"). 

However, the single most important issue in the global warming debate is whether carbon dioxide emissions will indirectly trap far more heat by causing large increases in atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds. 

Alarmist computer models assume human carbon dioxide emissions indirectly cause substantial increases in atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds (each of which are very effective at trapping heat), but real-world data have long shown that carbon dioxide emissions are not causing as much atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds as the alarmist computer models have predicted.

The new NASA Terra satellite data are consistent with long-term NOAA and NASA data indicating atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds are not increasing in the manner predicted by alarmist computer models. The Terra satellite data also support data collected by NASA's ERBS satellite showing far more longwave radiation (and thus, heat) escaped into space between 1985 and 1999 than alarmist computer models had predicted. Together, the NASA ERBS and Terra satellite data show that for 25 years and counting, carbon dioxide emissions have directly and indirectly trapped far less heat than alarmist computer models have predicted.

In short, the central premise of alarmist global warming theory is that carbon dioxide emissions should be directly and indirectly trapping a certain amount of heat in the earth's atmosphere and preventing it from escaping into space. Real-world measurements, however, show far less heat is being trapped in the earth's atmosphere than the alarmist computer models predict, and far more heat is escaping into space than the alarmist computer models predict.

When objective NASA satellite data, reported in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, show a "huge discrepancy" between alarmist climate models and real-world facts, climate scientists, the media and our elected officials would be wise to take notice. Whether or not they do so will tell us a great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are.

Finally saw it....

Cops giving out tickets at the 1st view restricted right turn!
Give out a couple thousand and it might pay for the paving of Granby street.
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Twinkies

Food of choice for kids raised in the 70's and cockroaches after a nuclear holocaust; however, not the food of choice for my 4yr old. 

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.......

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