More on the movie later this week.
Go see it.
BZ
From Captain America: Civil War
Gen Chuck Yeager, 89, in F-15 Eagle
General Chuck Yeager, at the ripe old age of 89 years, boards an F-15 Eagle at Nellis AFB as part of an honor flight. The flight was conducted in recognition of the first manned supersonic flight 65 years prior, when Yeager broke the sound barrier in an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft on October 14, 1947. Filmed on October 14, 2012.
Amazing.
For those who don’t know, Chuck Yeager is the man who first broke the supersonic flight sound barrier on October of 1947 at California’s Muroc Desert Test Center (now known as Edwards AFB) with a speed of 660 mph at 35,000 feet, in the Bell XS-1 rocket-powered aircraft named “Glamorous Glennis” (after Yeager’s wife). With enough fuel for a 2 1/2 minute flight, technicians and engineers were unsure just what would occur at the sound barrier. Would the wings fall off? Could the human body take the stress or would the transition to supersonic speed kill the pilot? No one knew.
Yet there he is, at the age of 89 in the year 2012, strapped into the back seat of a McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle, a twin-engine fighter first introduced into USAF service in 1976, in order to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Yeager’s having broken the sound barrier.
I’m sure a number of AF officers were thinking: “oh please, don’t let General Yeager get killed on my watch.”
Still and all, an amazing feat.
Brigadier General Yeager, 93, lives with his second wife Victoria, 57, in Penn Valley, California, just off Highway 20 and west of Grass Valley. Beale AFB, former home of the SR-71 and current home of the TR-1, is nearby.
BZ
Hillary took millions from the Middle East
And somehow that’s not massive news?
And somehow that’s not plastered across every newspaper above the fold for days and days all across the nation?
Can you say: the American Media Maggots “in the tank” for the Clintons and a Demorat presidential candidate?
From the DailyCaller.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million
by Richard Pollock
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole.
To wit: over $100 million dollars.
The Middle East states are buying the Clintons. And the Clintons don’t mind being bought.
“These regimes are buying access. You’ve got the Saudis. You’ve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension,” Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.
$100 million dollars paid to the Clinton Foundation from Muslim states in the Middle East — they aren’t doing this because of altruism. Mother Teresa was altruistic. And Catholic. These gulf states are not. They expect favors for cash. Quid pro quo.
But wait; there’s more:
The FBI has reportedly launched a second investigation of the former secretary in addition to its probe of her private email server. This investigation is looking into “political corruption” and is seeking evidence where former Secretary Clinton may have offered official government favors to foundation donors.
Most troubling for Hillary, however, could be Bill’s personal, five-year business partnership with Dubai’s authoritarian ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin-Rashid al-Maktoum and his overall friendship with the rulers of the United Arab Emirates — a confederation of states that includes Dubai.
Again I ask: these headlines splashed across the top of newspapers across the country?
You know the answer to that. The American Media Maggots, complicit in corruption — participating in it instead of investigating and revealing it.
The only hope for any amount of truthnfulness lies with the FBI and Director James Comey.
BZ
And you wonder why Conservatives HATE the GOP?
Wonder no more. And NOT covered by the Drudge Report.
From DailySignal.com:
First Senate Appropriations Bill Passed Spends More Than Obama Requested
by Phillip Wegmann
The U.S. Senate’s first spending bill of 2016 spends more than President Barack Obama requested and lacks significant conservative amendments, but it still sailed to passage in the Republican-led Senate Thursday.
An overwhelming number of U.S. senators on both sides of the aisle approved the energy and water development appropriations bill by a vote of 90-8. Conservatives had objected to the higher spending levels and lack of policy riders in the weeks leading up to the vote.
In the end, it didn’t seem to matter.
Of course. It never matters. Not when consistent Republican jobs are on the line. Jobs like those of, say, Mitch McConnell. Paul Ryan. Obama should get more cash than he originally requested because the GOP can’t wait to fellate His Imperial Member.
Leftists still mention the TEA Party. The TEA Party died a few years ago. It gets mentioned only by those who want to use it as a prop for power. But the TEA Party has no power because it doesn’t exist as any form of cohesive unit today. Leftists know this. But they still utilize the phrase. Because they have more balls than the GOP.
Moving legislation and avoiding fights has been a top election year priority for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Kentucky Republican wants the GOP Senate to prove that Republicans can govern by avoiding a one-and-done omnibus spending package at the end of the year.
Right. #BecauseSpineless
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Alexander were the only Republicans to vote against the amendment. Neither responded to multiple comment requests by The Daily Signal.
“McConnell said the ‘Senate is open for business’ and if you’re a K Street lobbyist of Democrat interest group that’s definitely true,” the aide said. “But Harry Reid and the Democrats have made it abundantly clear that conservatives policies will not be tolerated in the appropriations process.”
Good to know that the GOP in DC continue to give the Demorats everything they want and then some.
BZ
Bad news for Ryan and the GOP
Don’t get me wrong.
I think Paul Ryan is a very smart man. With regard to budgets, he gots skills. He gots game.
But as far as being an actual Conservative, Paul Ryan leaves me quite tepid.
From TheHill.com:
Poll: Nearly half of GOP voters disapprove of Ryan
by Harper Neidig
Nearly half of Republican voters disapprove of Paul Ryan’s performance as House speaker, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling.
Only 40 percent of GOP voters are happy with Ryan’s stint as speaker so far, while 44 percent disapprove. Those numbers worsen among all voters, with just 30 percent approval and 48 percent disapproval.
Many establishment Republicans have looked to Ryan unify the party, and speculation has grown as to whether he would mount his own last-ditch candidacy to attempt to block presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
For those who are actually Conservative, with a capital “C,” this comes as little surprise. The GOP has a history of betrayal and backstabbing. But instead of words like “betrayal” and “backstabbing” and “treachery” and “duplicity” and “perfidy,” the GOP embraces words like “conciliatory” and “compromise” and “bi-partisanship.” I tend to think of the GOP as the graphic below illustrates.
There’s a reason for this.
Look, it’s no secret that I’m on the downslope of life. I’m one of those terrible Caucasoid males the Leftists warn Millennials about. But at my age I must admit that I have run out of patience. I would also submit that, after contributing over a MILLION DOLLARS in taxes (yes, I figured it out), I “get” to run out of patience. After all, I’ve paid for that potential privilege. My “patience reservoir” is right out.
In my 60s, imagine that.
Because, you see, I’ve absolutely NO say with what happens to my hard-earned cash. I have had an official job requiring a social security number (in addition to mowing lawns) since I was 14. I know this because Social Security sends me a summary statement periodically. Yes. All the way back to the 60s when I started throwing papers for both of my then-local newspapers — one at 4 AM, and the other at 3 PM. I worked not just because I wanted the money but also because it’s what you did back then. You worked. I had papers dumped at the end of my parents’ driveway in a bundle, and it was up to me to roll them, band them, stuff them into the packs on my bicycle and then ride / throw them onto the porch of each house. If I failed to hit the porch closest, my customers complained.
They complained if I was “late” and they complained if I threw too short and they had to walk a few feet more down their driveway. They complained if I was a few more feet away from their front door.
Back to Paul Ryan.
And with that, back to Donald John Trump because, after all, who is Left besides Hillary and Bernie?
This poll? It’s nothing more than a dipstick into the engine block of the GOP.
Guess what?
BZ