Maryland policeman pulls gun on motorcyclist

This Maryland police officer is my hero, risking his life to save lives . . .

Anthony Graber was driving his motorcycle like a maniac, passing on the right, speeding at over 80 MPH and trying to pass people on a one lane ramp!

Fortunately, and alert plain-clothes policeman interceded and probably saved lives by stopping the asswipe.

This officer took a great risk, and deserves recognition. If this had happened in North Carolina where everybody is packing a gun, somebody might have assumed that he was a carjacker and shot him on sight.

Here is the Real picture of the policeman stopping the public menace:


Graber knew this man was a police officer before he pulled his gun

Asswipe Tony Graber claims that there was no marked car, but at 3:00 into his own tape, a marked car can be clearly seen, lights flashing, siren screaming. Graber is a liar.

Based on his own video, the public was in imminent danger and the police would have been justified in shooting him off the road. That would have made a more entertaining video.

Graber posted the whole thing on Youtube and now faces 5 years in prison for illegal audio recording without consent, a felony! Here is the shocking video, sans the felonious audio:



I hope Tony Graber gets the maximum sentence and tossed from the military with a dishonorable discharge because of his felony.

This prick could have killed somebody.

Startled cat videos!

I'm not a cat person, but I love to startle cats! They can go from sound asleep to jumping straight up in the air:



I like to take a clothespin and carefully clip it to the fur on a sleeping cats tail.

Here are some good examples of startled cats!




And this one where a cat gets his claw hooked onto a ceiling fan cord:




Here is another startled cat:

America's best bombers

The United States Air Force as some amazing aircraft, but everybody is fixated with the jet fighters:



Me, I like bombers, and I've booked a B-17 ride at the Oskosh Air Show this year!

In the history of 20th century aviation there were a few bombers that stood out!

- B-17 – The bomber that won WWII
- B-36 – An architectural masterpiece, America’s largest bomber
- B-52 – We are still using B-52’s a half century after they were first built!

Most people don’t know this, but with proper maintenance, a bomber will fly forever (barring metal fatigue), and that's why the B-52 will be in-service until 2052, over 100 years of dropping bombs on people!

The B-17

This bomber was nicknamed the “flying Fortress”, and it truly was an amazing bomber.



The B-17 was built like a brick shitthouse, and a B-17 could take an incredible pounding and bring back the crew safely. Here are some great shots of damaged B-17’s:



The B-17 is also stylist, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever created. Sadly, most of them were destroyed on December 24th, 1945 in an Arizona scrap yard.

There are only a about a dozen B-17 left in flying condition. I'm a licensed pilot, and I’m tracking each B17 and saving my pennies in case I ever get enough money to buy one!

This is that what a B-17 might have looked like if Bert Ruttan has designed her!


If Bert Ruttan had designed the B-17


The B-36

There was a natural evolution from the B17 to the XB-19, the B29 to the B36, a culmination of propeller-driven bombers, and the largest bomber on the world:



The B-36 was so large that you could crawl inside the wings while she was flying!
Here is a B-36 nest to a B-29, an amazing size difference:


In it's day, the B-16 was the world's largest bomber

The B-52

Without question, the B52 is the workhorse bomber of the 20th century, a bomber of magnificent proportions that was a joy to see!


The B52 - Still in use, more than a half century after it's introduction

I grew-up near Kirtland ABF, and it was breathtaking to watch the B-52’s do a formation takeoff, truly awesome!

Lawsuit over “Gorilla holding cage” Halloween costume!

I like these creative Halloween costume such as the Gorilla holding a cage or the weird Easter bunny with man in lap costumes.

These are not new ideas, I remember them from the 1960's:



Evidently this has sparked a lawsuit over the rights to this “invention” (actually a copyright), with a snowballs chance in Hell of winning:

Company sues over right to Gorilla holding cage costume.

IANAL but you cannot copyright clothing . . .

Plus, I remember seeing these types of costumes in the 1960’s years before this clown tried to protect it as his property.

This lawsuit is a candidate for the Stella awards, given for frivolous litigation!

Fake Navy Seal gets a year in prison!

I absolutely hate posers, but none worse than sum of the earth cowards like Thomas Barnhart who pinned-on hero medals to steal valor from real heroes.

I’m thrilled that mega creep Thomas Barnhart received a full year in prison for wearing a Navy Seal trident, plus more ribbons than anybody could earn in a lifetime. Look at this loser, a six-year old could look at this creep and know he is a poser:


Weirdo Thomas Barnhart is off to jail

In additonal to claiming to be a SEAL, he claimed to have earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star with “V” for valor, Purple Heart with four stars, a Combat Action Ribbon and Vietnam War-era awards.


For heroes only – The Navy SEAL trident

Prick Thomas Barnhart also must repay $11,098 in veteran’s benefits that he wasn't entitled to receive.

“He was passing himself off as a member of SEAL Team 1 with five Purple Hearts and a nomination for the Medal of Honor.”

Not Enough Punishment for Stolen Valor

It makes me sick that a 69 year old asswipe William Lawson was caught posing as a major general and only got probation from a hippie judge:


Scumbag Bill Lawson (right) disgracing the Marine Corps by pretending to be a hero general

I want to see the Stolen Valor Act amended to include mandatory prison time, no mercy for creeps.

When George Washington created the purple heart, he specifically stated:

“Should any who are not entitled to these honors have the insolence to assume the badges of them they shall be severely punished" – George Washington

A year is jail is not enough, if you ask me.

I hope he drops the soap in the shower . . .

Winners and losers - 1950 compared to present:

What a loser:

Subliminal messages in Kubrick films

I miss Stanley Kubrick, and I’ve probably seen the movie “AI” at least five times.

On every viewing I catch something new, some little crumb of Kubrick’s genius.

Kubrick loves to have fun with the viewer, and sometimes his messages have deep meaning while at other times he is just messing with the viewers.

I was re-viewing “Dr. Strangelove”, a timeless classic, and I clearly noticed that the B-52 was casting the shadow of a WWII B-17 bomber against the Siberian snow.


The B52 casts the shadow of a B17

It’s also incredible that the B-52 has been so successful that the USAF plans to keep them flying for 100 years, and not fully retire the B-52 until the 2050’s:


The B52 Bomber - 100 years of service to America

It’s hard to imagine that Kubrick would even know, or care about American bomber history.

I love Dr. Strangelove because most folks don’t notice that Peter Sellers plays three critical roles in the movie:



According to Pulitzer Prize winner Neil Sheehan, “Jack D. Ripper” the crazy Brigadier General in Dr. Strangelove was modeled after USAF general Curtis LeMay.

It's also obvious that General Tirgidson (played by George C. Scott) was Bernie Schriever, the pilot who flew in a famous bomnbing mission with my father over Rabaul harbor in WWII.


The real General Tirgidson was Ben Schriever
father of Mutually Assured Destruction

Dr. Strangelove also shows the war room at NORAD, inside Cheyenne mountain.


Cheyenne Mountain NORAD war room

When I was teaching graduate school at Wenster University at the Air Force academy campus, a senior officer invited me to see the NORAD war room in person.

The real war room looks different, but it's truly amazing.

There is always a general in the war room, and I was shocked to meet him as I walked in!

Why discriminate against Camel Jockeys?

Personally, I don't care for camels, they smell like somebody took a crap on them, and I had one spit on me once, nasty dam things.



But I have nothing against camel races and the camel jockies.

I’ve noticed a lot of people bad-mouthing Camel Jockey’s these days, and I remember the same kind of prejudice against horse jockeys. I guess it because of their small size. . . .


A bunch of camel jockies on their desert steeds

I did a web search, and Camel races use small Camel Jockey’s, often children:



Some Camel Jockies practice between races:



I've bet on horses and dogs, but I suspect that the Camel Jockey is just as important as the horse jockey:

Bacon baby food!

This was my favorite April fools day joke, Bacon baby food:

The original purple heart

George Washington knew that soldiers will fight and die for recognition in the form of bits of metal and swatches of cloth, and he created the original Purple Heart award out of cloth, dubbing it the “Badge of Military Merit” and presented it to three brave revolutionary war soldiers:





It was only years later that the Purple heat became a medal for being wounded:



Washington authorized several other “badges of honor” for soldiers, the original chevrons for PFC’s and corporals:

“Honorary Badges of distinction are to be conferred on the veteran Non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the army who have served more than three years with bravery, fidelity and good conduct; for this purpose a narrow piece of white cloth of an angular form is to be fixed to the left arm on the uniform Coat.

Non commissioned officers and soldiers who have served with equal reputation more than six years are to be distinguished by two pieces of cloth set in parallel to each other in a similar form”

These later became the stripes that enlished people wear:



It’s interesting how different generals viewed the giving of military awards:
Napoleon said that soldiers fight for bits of metal and cloth and with enough bolts of cloth he could rule the world.

Robert E. Lee on the other hand did not like medals. He said that all of his men were heroes . . .