tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46623945593987311222024-03-05T23:02:18.447-05:00Charlie FoxtrotCharlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.comBlogger642125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-54309517010141348212021-12-17T20:00:00.001-05:002021-12-17T20:00:19.140-05:00The Unbearable Failure of Mask Mandates<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-zAhL-mOwz0TnNP8mNNsMX_uxrLzGTYJF-PH0ZyJkJC3YLoRf2V6wJL-XSeZ0CJLzxDN79n55QQ9HuL5HJs4Np6S8b-j585eASF1BTqlZ29HuGw5TXXwIb8hffTmvOMSnltlrfHX6jbGPj9mdz4UqghsExY6W6pmSDFXqhnpkl3Sk2eZZrDMjyqmv3g=s1030" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="1030" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-zAhL-mOwz0TnNP8mNNsMX_uxrLzGTYJF-PH0ZyJkJC3YLoRf2V6wJL-XSeZ0CJLzxDN79n55QQ9HuL5HJs4Np6S8b-j585eASF1BTqlZ29HuGw5TXXwIb8hffTmvOMSnltlrfHX6jbGPj9mdz4UqghsExY6W6pmSDFXqhnpkl3Sk2eZZrDMjyqmv3g=w640-h125" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-29815055493755763242016-11-13T09:59:00.001-05:002016-11-13T09:59:19.640-05:00Hate Trumps Everything<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember that heady time way back in the Fall of 2016, when the Left shouted as one from their Safe Spaces that "Love Trumps Hate"?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">You would think that the United States had suddenly transformed into an oppressive, fascist state overnight. The young lefties who had never been told no,and always been awarded their participation and "Great Try" ribbons, had no idea how to handle losing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Love Trumps Hate" - OUT </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">That moment your realize all the nice countries you might want to live in now that Trump will be President all have extradition treaties with the U.S.</span></span><br />
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<br />Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-22848658711472381612016-03-21T22:50:00.000-04:002016-03-21T23:04:57.541-04:00Commies Aren't Cool...Still.<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't blogged anything in many months, because, you know...life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But what might bring me out of semi-blogtirement is this picture....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This...from my original blog post "<a href="http://charliefoxtrotblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/under-new-management.html">Under New Management</a>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://charliefoxtrotblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/commies-arent-cool-redux.html">Or This</a>... Who knew some lowly campaign worker (Outside of <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/tommy-vietor-journey-obama-van-driver-national-security-122803525.html">Tommy Vietor</a>) in 2008 would now be setting our National Security policy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But as the title suggests, I would like to remind the President...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-9636572090416625192015-07-07T19:59:00.003-04:002015-07-07T20:04:50.305-04:00Ideologies v. Guns, and Hope as a Strategy <span style="font-size: large;">It is good to know that leftist logic never changes. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"...in order for us to defeat terrorist groups like ISIL and al Qaeda it's going to also require us to discredit their ideology -- the twisted thinking that draws vulnerable people into their ranks. As I’ve said before -- and I know our military leaders agree -- this broader challenge of countering violent extremism is not simply a military effort. <u>Ideologies are not defeated with guns;</u> they’re defeated by better ideas..."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, yes, evil ideologies must be supplanted by better ideas, but most times that supplanting must be done at the point of a gun. Those nasty evil guns....and lots of soldiers with guns, occupying enemy territory, and delivering defeat.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Know what really discredits ideologies? Unconditional surrender, occupying their capitals, wrecking their cities, defeating their armies." - <a href="https://twitter.com/20committee/status/618175230725459969">@20Committee</a></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">To use a time tested maxim, "Hope is not a strategy". And "No Boots on-the-Ground" is not a winning strategy either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Better ideas can't retake Ramadi. Better ideas can't retake Mosul. And better ideas can't defeat ISIL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not on their own. Our better ideas require guns to conquer the evil ideas that are washing over the landscape unabated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Evil ideologies are not just defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas backed by the threat, even the use, of guns. The sooner the President realizes that, the better.</span>Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-7251944674194521892014-03-27T11:02:00.000-04:002014-03-27T11:02:18.323-04:00Obamacare Delay? What Delay?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As @JimGeraghty at NRO likes to say "All Obama statements come with an expiration date"... Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-56950910688015508512014-03-12T20:51:00.001-04:002014-03-12T20:51:05.104-04:00Did the CIA really "spy" on SSCI?I suppose that is open to interpretation. But if you read most press accounts, or listen to Diane Feinstein's hyperbole, you might believe that they did. Even though the facts might point in another direction (IMHO).<br />
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The first media reports and screaming headlines made it seem like CIA had sent wet-work teams to break into DiFi's office to bug her computer, ala Watergate. Slowly the hysteria has been walked back, but some still persists. This Arstechnica headline for instance: "<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/how-cia-snooped-on-senate-intel-committees-files/">How CIA snooped on Senate Intel Committee’s filesIt's easy to search someone's network when you hired the IT department</a>"<br /><br />First off, they weren't SSCI's files, they were CIA files in a CIA database that SSCI staffers were allowed access to. Additionally, it wasn't "someone's network" (i.e. SSCI's), it was a CIA network* that contained said database and files. So of course they hired the IT department. But if you read most of the press, you would think CIA was hacking Capitol Hill.<br />
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<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/china-sets-up-air-defense-id-zone-above-senkakus/#.UpJrJJHb24h">China’s new air defense zone above Senkakus ‘very dangerous’ escalation</a><br /><br />
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<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/11/22/hillary_clinton_if_us_doesnt_get_act_together_world_will_de-americanize.html" target="_top">Hillary Warning: World May Leave America Behind</a></b></i></blockquote>
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Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-1464809954766512812013-11-14T00:08:00.000-05:002013-11-14T00:09:35.124-05:00Stop the Fight!Usually, the Drudge Report is pretty good at doling out a fix for my ideological cravings with salty headlines and clever juxtapositions.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">IT LOOKS MORE APPEALING THAN THOSE OBAMACARE ADS: </span><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/catesevilla/generation-opportunity-throws-anti-obamacare-tailgate-party" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">Generation Opportunity Throws Anti-Obamacare Tailgate Party</a> </i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">BAD NUMBERS: </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/13/CNN-Tapper-no-Dems" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">CNN’s Jake Tapper: No Dems Would Talk To Us Today After ObamaCare’s Numbers Came Out</a> </i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING WRONG FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AT ONCE: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/11/13/dems-pummel-administration-on-iran/" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">Dems pummel administration on Iran</a> </i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">WAPO:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/11/13/why-president-obamas-sinking-job-approval-numbers-matter-a-lot/" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">Why President Obama’s sinking job approval numbers matter. A lot.</a> </i></blockquote>
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Stop the fight! Stop the fight, Mick! The Champ is bleeding heavily from a cut above his left eye...Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-22848829676607571062013-10-29T21:12:00.000-04:002013-10-29T21:13:25.746-04:00Rush Limbaugh's New Childrens Book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476755868/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1476755868&linkCode=as2&tag=charliefoxtrot-20">Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans</a><br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Okay, okay, my name’s really Rusty—but my friends call me Rush. Rush Revere. Because I’ve always been the #1 fan of the coolest colonial dude ever, Paul Revere. Talk about a rock star—this guy wanted to protect young America so badly, he rode through those bumpy, cobblestone-y streets shouting “the British are coming!” On a horse. Top of his lungs. Wind blowing, rain streaming. . . .</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Well, you get the picture. But what if you could get the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">real</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> picture—by actually </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">going back in time</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> and seeing with your own eyes how our great country came to be? Meeting the people who made it all happen—people like you and me? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Hold on to your pointy triangle hats, because you </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">can</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">—with me, Rush Revere, seemingly ordinary substitute history teacher, as your tour guide across time! “How?” you ask? Well, there’s this portal. And a horse. My </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">talking</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> horse named Liberty. And—well, just trust me, I’ll get us there. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">We’ll begin by joining a shipload of brave families journeying on the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Mayflower</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> in 1620. Yawn? I don’t think so. 1620 was a pretty awesome time, and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">you’ll</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> experience exactly what</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">they</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> did on that rough, dangerous ocean crossing. Together, we’ll ask the pilgrims all our questions, find out how they live, join them at the first Thanksgiving, and much more. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">So saddle up and let’s ride! Our exceptional nation is waiting to be discovered all over again by exceptional young patriots—</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">like you</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">!"</span>Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-53866399150196669172013-10-05T18:01:00.003-04:002013-10-05T18:01:47.001-04:00#OccupyWWII Part 3 - VietnamizationThe disease spreads... Perhaps authorities feel they can better harass younger veterans.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/04/lawmaker-says-barricade-wwii-memorial-thuggery/?intcmp=latestnews">Lawmaker says barricade of WWII memorial is 'Chicago thuggery'</a><a href="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./Hall_100413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./Hall_100413.jpg" width="640" /></a></b>A group of Texas congressmen armed with wire cutters made their way to the World War II Memorial in Washington after they learned the National Park Service had reinforced the barriers blocking the site with wire. </blockquote>
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“This is Chicago thuggery,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told me. “The president is trying to inflict the most amount of pain and suffering. This is not some bureaucratic mistake. This is Chicago thuggery. You try to make people hurt so they don’t resist what you tell them to do in the future.” </blockquote>
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The World War II memorial on the National Mall has become a symbol of the shutdown of the federal government. Earlier this week the National Park Service closed the memorial and erected barriers. Republican lawmakers moved those barricades so that elderly war veterans could access the site.</blockquote>
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Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-60425429462801068802013-10-05T10:45:00.002-04:002013-10-05T16:49:48.539-04:00Occupy WWII!A lot of hay has been made this week about the Obama Administration's petulant and vindictive decision to put on some political theater, and unnecessarily shut down many national parks and memorials. The most publicized of course was the barricading (Barry-cading?) of the World War II Memorial. <br />
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WWII vets showed their spunk and easily moved through the movable barricades to go and view the Memorial. <br />
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Headline writers went in to overdrive and broke out the military metaphors:<br />
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It was hardly an "occupation", but rather a solemn viewing by elderly veterans that occurs most every day. However so egregious was this affront, that the <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/04/wwii-memorial-barricade-wired-shut">barricades have now been wired together</a> to prevent easy "breaching".<br />
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I think that the WWII vets should call the administration's bluff, by taking a page out of the lefty's own Alinskyite playbook. Namely, the aforementioned....OCCUPATION!<br />
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I am sure these vets could show the lefties a thing or two on how to actually do an occupation. Perhaps <a href="http://www.rollingthunder1.com/">Rolling Thunder</a> could ride in to provide them a little "support". Even if it is for a short period of time, it would send a powerful message about the audacity, stupidity, pettiness, and the failure of leadership of this administration.</div>
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Update 1: Have reinforcements landed?<br />
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Update 2: <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/video-meet-vets-who-moved-water-filled-barriers-to-get-to-iwo-jima-memorial/">The breaches continue</a>, but where is the occupation?<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Instapundit subtly points out that the NYT editorial writers (and their overseers) need to go back to school and re-take U.S. History 101.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE NEW YORK TIMES' EDITORS think that the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the Constitution. But then, they believe many things that are demonstrably untrue.</span></i></blockquote>
<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Imagined NYT response:<br /><b>"Constitution, Declaration of Independence...whatever. You are taking my words out of context, and missing the bigger point....blah, blah,blah."</b></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="color: #010101; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Flash forward to 2013, and we can still find prominent lefties who profess alleged love of the Constitution, but have no idea what is (or is not) actually in it. Thanks to Ed Morrissey for pointing us to the confused rambling of the woman who was once only behind Joe Biden in line of Presidential succession. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/24/video-pelosi-confuses-constitution-declaration-of-independence/">Watch and shudder</a>.... </span></span><br />
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Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-49375076685510032592013-09-15T09:53:00.000-04:002013-09-15T09:53:06.656-04:00Drone EnvyIn an article today (mostly behind a paywall) the Sunday Times tries to stir up a tempest by implying that the ChiComs are challenging the U.S. supremacy in drone warfare by building a drone that is faster than the American MQ-1 Predator.<br />
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While the Times is technically correct, it overlooks some pretty obvious points.<br />
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First, the <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/air-force-is-through-with-predator-drones/">Air Force Is Through With Predator Drones</a>.<br />
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Second, the Air Force is transitioning to MQ-9 Reapers.<br />
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So if you want to compare the Chinese drone with the MQ-9 on paper, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper">it is no contest</a>. It can cruise at 193mph, and carry "<i>Up to 14 AGM-114 Hellfire air to ground missiles can be carried or four Hellfire missiles and two 500 lb</i>". While the BZK-005 can fly unarmed for 40 hours, the MQ-9 can fly 42 hours with external fuel tanks and a thousand pounds of munitions. If it were to fly unarmed, the MQ-9 would fly even longer.<br />
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While it is always fun to compare capabilities, and here the MQ-9 is the better comparison than it's little brother, the simple fact is there are many different types of drones, designed for different types of missions. Some are faster, some fly higher, some carry more, some are more stealthy. But it is useless to make comparisons in a vacuum, unless you are comparing similar mission profiles.<br />
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Yes, Chinese drones are coming, and they will be capable. But if you want to make comparisons, at least choose a peer competitor.Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-48667792453572186502013-09-13T00:11:00.000-04:002013-09-13T17:27:09.485-04:00An "Unexpected" Reset<a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/175860/">News from the real world</a>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">But those pesky Commies took the opportunity to instead reset it to 1979...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">As with all "well intentioned" liberal efforts, the word that always rears its ugly head is...."unexpectedly"!</span></span></div>
Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-27123186631790719592013-09-07T08:59:00.001-04:002013-09-07T08:59:28.505-04:00Time to Go Shopping...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-86332021775067190532013-09-06T21:40:00.000-04:002013-09-06T21:47:32.789-04:00Another Rube Bites The DustToday's release of the latest employment figures was greeted with the normal cheerleading from journalistic titans like The Today Show, and The View.... <br />
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But it also garnered scorn from the standard retinue of reality-based individuals who have the temerity to point out the obvious....the unemployment rate actually dropped because more people are <b><i><u><span style="color: red;">not</span></u></i></b> working.<br />
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<a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/175533/">As pointed out by Instapundit</a>, this growing cabal of racist naysayers of President Obama's heroic rescue of the American economy now includes the Washington Post....<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">THE BAD REVIEWS KEEP COMING IN — AND THAT’S JUST AT THE </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">WAPO:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/06/the-five-worst-things-about-this-crummy-jobs-report/?wprss=rss_social-postbusinessonly&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost&clsrd" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">The five worst things about this crummy jobs report.</a></i></blockquote>
However this not just the WaPo, but the insufferable Ezra Klein. You just know Obama has jumped the shark when stalwart rubes like Klein refuse to toe the line...and then whip out charts and figures to cut the President's rosy economic agitprop off at the knees.<br />
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However, the best takedown of the recent "improvement" in unemployment is offered by <a href="https://twitter.com/Travesham/status/375963038924304384">@travesham</a> in under 140 characters:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 28px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Our drop from 8.1% unemployment to 7.3% is analogous to losing 20 pounds by cutting off a body part.</i></span></blockquote>
And Obama will call it a dieting success!<br />
<br />Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-69099636631824877092013-01-01T09:05:00.000-05:002013-01-01T22:04:38.126-05:00Knife-Free ZonesProf. Reynolds at Instapundit starts off the new year by dispensing some good common sense advice:<br />
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Common sense that is, unless you work in some Federal facilities like the one I work in. It used to be that one could posses a knife with a blade 2.5 inches or shorter. But no longer. My facility, which follows its larger national agency security guidelines, prohibits "Knives" from being brought into the facility. No provisions or exceptions apparently. A co-worker was even asked to take a Swiss Army knife back out to his truck.<br />
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So you thought you would bring in a kitchen knife to cut the birthday cake brought to work? Nope, prohibited.<br />
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You thought that since you are in the military you would wear that Gerber/Whetstone/Spyderco folding knife that you deployed with on your belt? Nope, prohibited.<br />
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Ironically, one could get "knives" in our cafeteria. It is really just flatware, but I bet they have some sharp things back in the kitchen....<br />
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My main point here, besides snark, is that everyone should remember that federal facilities are essentially weapons-free zones. I have heard some gun control advocates poo-poo the pro-gun argument that gun-free zones encourage mass-shootings by pointing out that Nidal Hasan perpetrated his acts on a military base. But even military bases, counter to what most people would think, have very
restrictive weapons rules. Despite the presence of lots of soldiers, while in garrison the only ones with guns are Military/Security Police, as local/state carry laws do not apply on base. So like other gun free-zones, when seconds count, the Military Police are but minutes away.<br />
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Meanwhile, you had better cut that birthday cake at home before you bring it in, or else run the risk of becoming a federal felon....<br />
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<br />Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-20937553187628240372012-11-30T21:58:00.004-05:002012-11-30T21:59:25.435-05:00How to Market a Disaster for Profit and Ratings<a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/158737/">Today Glenn Reynolds asks</a>:
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Because, silly...it wasn't a Hurricane, it was a <u><i>Superstorm</i></u>! <br />
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You know, that class of storm that did not exist until some aspiring intern at one of the <strike><i>ratings whores</i></strike> media outlets turned to his/her boss and said "Dude, hurricanes are boring. Can't we call it <i>Superstorm</i> Sandy?" And thus an ironclad, socially-conscious, and fraudulently empathetic marketing ploy was born.<br />
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Of course, there is no such thing as a "Superstorm". Don't believe me, just ask both the <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml">National Hurricane Center</a> and <a href="http://w1.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?letter=s">National Weather Service</a>. Find me "Superstorm" in their glossaries.<br />
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During its existence, Sandy was both a Tropical Storm and a Hurricane. One thing it never was...was a "Superstorm."<br />
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Of course we can't let such a small oversight get in the way of a sure-fire money raising scheme. Just ask the allegedly straight-laced Red Cross.<br />
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There have been, like, a million hurricanes. Thus that term is so 2005, and it doesn't bring in the cash/ratings like it used to. Marketing ploys to the rescue.<br />
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Frauds and charlatans all.....Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-66008385766568647562012-11-05T21:07:00.001-05:002012-11-05T21:12:53.255-05:00A Thought for Tomorrow...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/02/keep-calm-and-finish-him/?singlepage=true">Stolen blatantly from PJ Media</a>, thanks!Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-47480275530434198112012-10-27T20:08:00.000-04:002012-10-27T20:08:01.314-04:00First Time RidiculeI am sure this "First Time" video plays well in many urban neighborhoods on the coasts, but I am not sure it is going to help Obama win Ohio...<br />
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Now the left would like to portray the response from the right as "hate", but I think the better word is "bewilderment".<br />
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So of course the best response to such tripe...is ridicule!<br />
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<br />Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-7152062373338603372012-10-26T19:35:00.002-04:002012-10-26T19:35:40.324-04:00Why Obama Is Toast#hhrs #tcot #sgp<br />
Redstate has an <a href="http://www.redstate.com/2012/10/26/why-i-think-obama-is-toast/">exhaustive analysis as to why Obama is toast</a>.
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<i>"The waterfront of analyzing all the factors that go into my conclusion here is too large to cover in one post, but the signs of Obama’s defeat are too clear now to ignore. Given all the available information – Romney’s lead among independents, the outlier nature of the 2008 turnout model, the elections held since 2008, the party ID surveys, the voter registration, early voting and absentee ballot data – I have to conclude that there is no remaining path at this late date for Obama to win the national popular vote. He is toast." </i></div>
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If you can find a more thoroughly researched piece of election analysis (outside of Keith Backer's <a href="http://battlegroundwatch.com/">BattleGroundWatch</a>), please let me know. Congrats to <a href="http://www.redstate.com/users/dan_mclaughlin/">Dan McGlaughlin</a> on a great effort!Charlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626849671304505177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4662394559398731122.post-259837775532621812012-10-26T06:14:00.002-04:002012-10-26T06:16:12.914-04:00The Risk of Unwanted PresidencyPerhaps you have seen this truly sophomoric ad put out by the Obama campaign. You must watch the whole thing.<br />
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While it has left Powerline <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/posted-without-comment.php">speechless</a>, the best statement I have seen on this tripe is in the <a href="http://ricochet.com/main-feed/The-Most-Desperate-Political-Ad-In-History/%28comment%29/504463#comment-504463">comments over at Ricochet</a>.<br />
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