Obama, Reid and Environmentalist to Blame (in part) for Jap Nuke Disaster!

Yes, President Obama by nixing funding and Senator Reid’s continual campaign against protecting the world from radioactive waste and the perpetual “what if’s” by environmentalists based on fear and not facts have helped lay the ground work for Japan’s Nuclear disaster.

"This is great news because it not only prevents Nevada from becoming the nation's nuclear dumping ground, it also protects hundreds of communities through which the waste would have had to travel in order to get to Yucca," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who represents Nevada, in a statement released Sunday on his website. (From csmonitor.com)

Japanese spent nuclear fuel (where there is more radioactive material then in the core) could have been safely transported and stored in one of the most researched and geological sound and safest places in America.  Instead of trucks, trains, boats and planes, a plume of radioactive dust will make its way to Yucca Mountain via the jet stream contaminating the Eastern coast of Japan and soon our American West coast and the Pacific Ocean.  

We could have even charged the Japanese for the storage of their waste.  Now we are going to spend untold millions to evacuate our citizens, move our ships and help clean up the mess!  Thank you Obama, Reid and environmentalists for being such great stewards of our environment, tax dollars and not listening to the professionals!

Birthday Cards from around the World!

I wanted to make a collage of these pictures and I finally did!  All 57 states and a couple of far off countries!

Birthday Cards

Book Review: "Broke" by Glenn Beck

Ok, so I finished this on off about a month ago and am just now getting around to writing the review.  I can honestly say that I have never read a text book from cover to cover.  I the case of this book, which is laid out in a similar fashion as text book, I did, minus of course the fifty or so pages of citations.  Facts can be such stubborn things.  

There are some great lessons on our nations history and some good quotes from the Founding Fathers and other notable leaders and thinkers through the ages.  If anything, Mr. Beck has gotten me in to the books and expanded my knowledge of America and its history.  I think my next major read after finishing the Federalist Papers is going to be Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

So much to read and I am such a SLOW reader.

Captain Honor and Senior Military leadership

 I thought this was interesting..


Unfortunately the "standard" is a moving bar based on CYOA or political expediency?

To further the point, in this day and age, how many young Naval officers would "survive" a court martial conviction, remain in the service and rise to become the CNO? (Nimitz did)

Or, in the case of Patton would he have received a 4th star after his Italy stunt.

A politically correct military has and will cost the lives of many a good Americans!  But we should feel good about it..I am sure the letters to the parents of the Airmen killed in Frankfurt were easy to write because the "standard" is such that our soldiers don't need to be armed unless they are in the combat zone. It would not be "politically correct" to not trust the Germans with the safety and security of our military members. Wake up leadership! Remember what your roll is.  Send your subordinates home alive after rapidly and efficiently killing the enemy! If it involves using the naked brutal realities of life to get their attention, to learn their jobs then so be it! I know very little of the Honors case but I know reality from the field or deck plates in naval lingo, the examples of senior military leadership with respect to political correctness and CYOA sucks! By their actions, senior leadership is developing a group of leaders who will not risk when it is time to risk for fear of being burned at the stake for making a "politically" poor decision.  I guess the former CO of the Cole would be one of the few who would agree with me or maybe the senior rater for Major Hasan...

Say good by to focsil follies, shellback shenanigans and be real careful what movies are on CCTV.  Brokeback Mountain or Blazing Saddles might get you relieved. 

I would leave my name however I am fearful of the repercussions of speaking freely.  Where were the smokes in the C-rations again that's right next to the torpedos...NOT!

Book Review: The 5,000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen

This book is something all warriors and patriots alike should keep close by.  A very good read and laid out in such a manner that you can read chapter every night.  As an added bonus the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is also in the back of the book.

The basic focus of the book revolves around the Founding Fathers ideas in their development of the American experiment.  Their personal experiences with a king as a ruler and their exploration of history, as we should all very well know resulted in the combination of the best of all methods of governance.  In really simple terms all boiled down to a small, restricted government at the federal level.

Considering we are the only country on the planet who has come so far in such a short amount of time is testament to their original idea.  Man can rule himself!

Boo to Navy Federal Credit Union

Navy Federal Credit Union has an ATM Machine on Camp Lemonier, Djibouti.   They have the ONLY ATM machine on camp.  As a honor of having the ONLY ATM machine on the camp, they charge all NON NFCU users a $3 dollar service fee to use their machine. 

So, NFCU get access to all the folks here on base, security, power, communications services and a Navy NEX employee services the machine. All NFCU has to do is work the magic crediting their accounts with your money and the $3 dollar service fee!  For some reason I do not see the any portion of the $3 dollar service fee coming back to DJ??

I think I am going to open up the first national bank of Nutz and only charge $1.50 and watch the profits roll in! 

History repeating itself once again...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

Sir Winston Churchill; (The River War, first edition,
Vol. II, pages 248-50)

Federalist #30

If you have not read the Federalist Papers, I would encourage you to do so... I just ready Federalist #30 by Alexander Hamilton and was impressed with his foresight!

Book Review: “Beginning of the End” John Hagee

Well this is one of those that I would not have purchased at the book store.  However it was in a grab box at the Laundromat; I picked it up a few months ago and was in need of something to read.  Although published in 1996, it is very relevant to today’s global events.  I am not much a bible and Jesus kind of guy however, yes this is me going out on a limb, the bible might be more then book of rules written to control the masses.  I will have to let you read it and decide for yourself about the end of the world and the people who heard about it thought god.  Ooh, way too deep for the Nutz!

Here is the Bakken!

Drill Baby drill!

From FOXNEWS 
"The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are each expected to ultimately produce 4 billion barrels of oil. That would make them the fifth- and sixth-biggest oil fields ever discovered in the United States. The top four are Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, Spraberry Trend in West Texas, the East Texas Oilfield and the Kuparuk Field in Alaska".

See my previous post about the Bakken!

 

Out of the box

The US Navy and the American taxpayer will be very sad in the not to distant future when a $10,000 torpedo or ballistic missile puts a multi-billion dollar flat top in the ship yard or worse on the bottom of the ocean! 

Unfortunately, the people that control the defense dollars for the Navy, like their big gun ship of the line battle ship bosses before them will make the same mistake.  In 20 years the future will be the small stealthy UAVs that can carry a $10,000 torpedo and cripple a flat top.  All those carrier based drones X-47 and others will be out of play. Big Navy, think outside the box, think small, think lethal think VSTOL on a cruiser or destroyer!  Tailhookers, your days are numbered!

Book Review: Vince Flynn Consent to Kill

In classic Mitch Rapp style, Vince Flynn creates another good one.  A quick read, I can usually put away a couple of hundred pages in about two weeks. I would like to see a little more on the technical side and the inner working of the magic behind Mitch’s success in the field.   Maybe Vince can do a little research and come up with a techno thriller.

They already did...

At Texas Stadium!

Especially in TEXAS

At Texas Stadium they should have hired these young ladies to sing the National Anthem..



or my three year old... 1.5yrs at the time...

Where's the "Bakken"

 Here is the Bakken! 

Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.