Jug

RIP Brother

Try "Thud Ridge" by Jim Broughton.

Read the "Donovan Creed" series by John Locke for action, adventure, and laugh-out-loud black humor.

During the Vietnam era, I was actually spit upon by a dude in Columbus, MS, while in uniform. The welcome home was much different then. It has returned to the way it should be and I am eternally grateful to my nation for making this important thing right. RIP, brother, I will take my last flight west with you soon enough.....

Oh boy another target for the aviators!!!!!

Congratulations. God bless and keep you and your family in these trying times.

Stay safe and return to tell us all more. Not real surprised at the technological advances evident in a war-torn country (or lack thereof). Thank the Taliban for that.

Dave, my thoughts and prayers are for you during this trying time. May God bless and keep you and your family.

Jug's rule #1 for boating: If something swims by bigger than the boat, return to shore.

SFB ( Sh*t For Brains). God rest the wee one's soul.

Sounds like future Darwin award candidates here. Not a good thing to be a winner.............

RIP my friends and countrymen....

The red cent bought the ship. The price of ownership is to remove the nuclear propulsion system. More expensive that it sounds like.

Impressive! Thanks for sharing, Nesher.

Hoo-Rah!!!!!!

I love conspiracy theorists. Especially those who make a profit off of the rest of us looking for something under the covers. Good living if you can string the real facts together to make a yarn. A closer look at the facts leaves many holes filled with conjecture (otherwise known as fiction). The Soviets sank a US warship and we covered it up! What a bunch of BS!

RIP, enemy mine.

Physical fitness is a forefront issue for the USPS. Through snow, ice, hail and over occasional sprinklers........................

I'm with you, Erik. Well said!

Tom could spin a yarn better than most. RIP, from an admirer.

SAC's idea at the end of it's life as an Air Force command, was to use large capacity launchers to toss many cruise missiles on a target. The idea was to initialize the target location using GPS coordinates, launch the cruise missile (start the motor, get headed toward the target, and link up with the GPS system for guidance), and guide the missile around terrain and high threat areas to the target. Look at the multiple cruise missile launchers on the later versions of the B-52. Think about a C-5 or several C-5s!!! Remember that 80% of the capacity of the GPS satellite system is reserved for US military use. Talk about saturation effect.............

Thought about this a bit, SayWhatt, and have come to the conclusion that there are two separate things here with Snowden. The revelations from any source, that the representatives of our clandestine services are involved in activities that are outside their charter is a serious and unacceptable situation that must be fixed. The revelations from Snowden and, hence, my distress with the individual is the traitorous actions he took in making his concerns public using foreign nations as his forum. We have a very good and stringent "Whistleblower" programs that could have handled his complaints within the system. This is very American in that we work within the system to resolve things that are wrong. Snowden's flitting around the world to America's military competitors (Russia and China) and making his statement to whatever mic is available is about as far from the proper way to resolve the issues as you can get and puts his actions into the category of the actions of a traitor. The guy took an oath to secure the information he was entrusted with. No way you can excuse a betrayal of that. Since China only kept him for a week and Russia kept him at the airport for several days, says to me that he did not have much in the way of Top Secret stuff anyway. He is enjoying an extended vacation in Russia with limited political utility to the Russians. He will be paying for his indiscretions for many years to come. Good news is that the US taxpayer will not have to pay for his upkeep.

The Jug has been side-lined too. I am glad the first responders have been eliminated from this shut-down, but have another far-out opinion of the no-expense days. We may discover that if this thing lasts a week, we may have a balanced budget for 2013............

Just saw Rush and recommend it to anyone that likes Formula 1 racing. Very well done and reminds me of Gran Prix (the movie) from that era staring a young Tommy Lee Jones. One main difference is that this is a true story of the 1976 competition between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Highly recommend this movie to all of you action-type movie lovers.

Intense rivalry, but not quite up to the level of the Alabama/Auburn stuff. Or maybe I should say down to the level of the Alabama/Auburn stuff!!