Open your eyes and ears, give this a listen! Write your congressman/lady as appropriate if you are so inclined...
Wow!
And here's the link to find your Congress man or lady: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/
Campy "Wicked Beet" Out
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
T.S.A. GROPERS! (Givem a Break Man!)
With respect to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policy on frisking that has received so much coverage in our sensationalized news over the past month...
I get frisked every time I go through the airport, due to my brain implant for Parkinson's Disease. The Deep Brain Stimulator would essentially pick up the X-Ray energy and "swizzle stick" my brain or at the very least cook a significant portion of it. Quite frankly, I'm not all to sensitive to the belly aching whiners complaining about being frisked. To top it all off Chief, my service dog, gets the pat down too... and he seems to like it!
While I never had any issues with a "good frisking", could be my Submariner nature, I think I'm going to take the behavior cue on this one from my dog Chief. When it is his turn to be frisked, he sits down on command, stands up on command, seems to smile a bit wearily with his ears back, wags his tail, and scoots on out of the box when hes told to. But then again, I suppose most good dogs wouldn't complain a bit about being groped anyway, as a matter of fact if you own a dog, you probably grope it daily anyhow... and don't deny it!
How about we all try this for a change? Just for this Christmas season, why don't we thank that wicked stressed out TSA official for keeping you and me safe! AFTER YOU GET FRISKED!
The TSA official, your personal agent of safety, was OBLIGED to endure completing probably a thousand friskings, before yours, of yet mostly overweight, unhealthy, sweaty, pissed off, people... or it could equally have been a healthy, good looking, frisky, able bodied, person who felt it was their right to make a statement about their personal freedoms, liberties, and rights being infringed upon.
How about the TSA official's right to have as safe and stress free of a work environment as possible? Do we really give ourselves that much permission to displace the liberties of those who are charged with protecting us?
Give the TSA official a freaking break man! That person who's about to put his no doubt unwilling hands on your "hot hot sexy body" is not even involved in creating the rules, codes, and policies that they are enforcing. They're just doing their job man, which means that they are employed in this crappy economy and they are actually helping us not hurting us.
IT IS THEIR JOB AND MY SAFETY THAT THEY ARE PROTECTING, NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT YOU CHOSE TO MAKE IT FOR THEM!
So... take a deep breath and and let them to their job and thank them with a smile!
If it really bugs you that much.... TAKE THE FRIGGIN' TRAIN!
Roger
I get frisked every time I go through the airport, due to my brain implant for Parkinson's Disease. The Deep Brain Stimulator would essentially pick up the X-Ray energy and "swizzle stick" my brain or at the very least cook a significant portion of it. Quite frankly, I'm not all to sensitive to the belly aching whiners complaining about being frisked. To top it all off Chief, my service dog, gets the pat down too... and he seems to like it!
While I never had any issues with a "good frisking", could be my Submariner nature, I think I'm going to take the behavior cue on this one from my dog Chief. When it is his turn to be frisked, he sits down on command, stands up on command, seems to smile a bit wearily with his ears back, wags his tail, and scoots on out of the box when hes told to. But then again, I suppose most good dogs wouldn't complain a bit about being groped anyway, as a matter of fact if you own a dog, you probably grope it daily anyhow... and don't deny it!
How about we all try this for a change? Just for this Christmas season, why don't we thank that wicked stressed out TSA official for keeping you and me safe! AFTER YOU GET FRISKED!
The TSA official, your personal agent of safety, was OBLIGED to endure completing probably a thousand friskings, before yours, of yet mostly overweight, unhealthy, sweaty, pissed off, people... or it could equally have been a healthy, good looking, frisky, able bodied, person who felt it was their right to make a statement about their personal freedoms, liberties, and rights being infringed upon.
How about the TSA official's right to have as safe and stress free of a work environment as possible? Do we really give ourselves that much permission to displace the liberties of those who are charged with protecting us?
Give the TSA official a freaking break man! That person who's about to put his no doubt unwilling hands on your "hot hot sexy body" is not even involved in creating the rules, codes, and policies that they are enforcing. They're just doing their job man, which means that they are employed in this crappy economy and they are actually helping us not hurting us.
IT IS THEIR JOB AND MY SAFETY THAT THEY ARE PROTECTING, NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT YOU CHOSE TO MAKE IT FOR THEM!
So... take a deep breath and and let them to their job and thank them with a smile!
If it really bugs you that much.... TAKE THE FRIGGIN' TRAIN!
Roger
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Wiki Leaks Rant!
The issues surrounding the Wiki Leaks are much deeper than we can appreciate. The very fabric of our government is based on secrecy to a certain point. And the very nature of OUR safety at times is dependent upon that secrecy.
"Wiki Leaks" is merely a symptom of a much larger problem that has to deal with the reliability of our society's ability to keep secrets secret. There will always be governmental and military covert operations, scientific developments, information gathering, and questionable actions that will be kept "secret" for many reasons, the least of which is that it may protect the very liberties we have come to enjoy as a nation.
"Wiki Leaks" is not THE problem. "THE" problem as I see it, is our national intelligence system relying on the unreliable and disreputable people, and at times weak and improper technological communication modalities. Whether this is due to ignorance, indifference, impropriety, or the sheer control of the volume of information is the issue. If secrets get out, no matter the method, they are no longer secret are they?
So it looks like the good old Uncle Sam has to deal with the compromised information and address the larger issue. Are we as a Nation too big and too spread out to keep secrets secret?
From a retired Navy Senior Chief who held a military "Secret" clearance and still knows what it meant to be trusted at that level of secrecy.
I gave up my liberties and freedom riding submarines, so YOU can enjoy your liberties and freedom.
With all my LOVE!
Roger "Doc" Campanelli, HMCS(SS), USN, RET
USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47)
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654)(BLUE)
USS OHIO (SSBN-726)(GOLD)
"Wiki Leaks" is merely a symptom of a much larger problem that has to deal with the reliability of our society's ability to keep secrets secret. There will always be governmental and military covert operations, scientific developments, information gathering, and questionable actions that will be kept "secret" for many reasons, the least of which is that it may protect the very liberties we have come to enjoy as a nation.
"Wiki Leaks" is not THE problem. "THE" problem as I see it, is our national intelligence system relying on the unreliable and disreputable people, and at times weak and improper technological communication modalities. Whether this is due to ignorance, indifference, impropriety, or the sheer control of the volume of information is the issue. If secrets get out, no matter the method, they are no longer secret are they?
So it looks like the good old Uncle Sam has to deal with the compromised information and address the larger issue. Are we as a Nation too big and too spread out to keep secrets secret?
From a retired Navy Senior Chief who held a military "Secret" clearance and still knows what it meant to be trusted at that level of secrecy.
I gave up my liberties and freedom riding submarines, so YOU can enjoy your liberties and freedom.
With all my LOVE!
Roger "Doc" Campanelli, HMCS(SS), USN, RET
USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47)
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654)(BLUE)
USS OHIO (SSBN-726)(GOLD)
This is the Wicked Cool Link of the Week!
World War II Aircraft: A Small Tribute to WWII Veterans
Click on the link below...
It provides a 360 degree view of a WWII P-51 Mustang cockpit. It takes a few moments to load but it is very well worth it! Skip provided us with the Wicked Cool link of the week!
P-51 Mustang from outside:
Wow!
Just think of the history... probably some of the gauges have been updated due to FAA rules, however it doesn't change the fact that most of the flying done back then was purely and literally by wire or cable as it is.
One of my most impressive memories of WWII Aircraft was when I got to tour a B-24 Liberator and a B-17 Flying Fortress in Spokane, about three years ago, and actually walk, crawl, and sit where the actual crew and pilots did. The pilots really were steering, pushing, and pulling the plane's control surfaces via cables! Not only were these guys brave, they were cold, wicked strong, and had "nards" the like and size of 20 pound lead cannon balls. I became fully cognizant of the fact that when these guys got shot at, the 1/8th inch thick riveted to hollowed out aluminum holed frame bays, just let the bullets pass through... by the thousands, and these air craft just kept on flying if not by pure luck by pure brute, and I mean BRUTE strength!
Just think... One of the reasons the Allies won the war was America's collaborative determination and ability to turn her industrial might to making these war planes by the thousands! The Veteran's say that the sky used to be so full of these planes that the noise was deafening, and that the sun would be blocked as they passed overhead for what seemed like an hour as women flew these aircraft to where ever they were needed from the factories! Sadly, now there are only less than a handful known to be flying in the entire world!
I learned later that day that the restoration society was offering hour long public flights for $400. I hemmed and hawed, toed the ground, thought about the check book, and the credit card, and my responsibilities to the family, projects on the boat, the house and decided not to partake in the flight. Reflecting on that moment now, I realize that there were and are many things I have squandered $400 on and should have taken that opportunity to fly in an actual museum to World War II.
Probably wouldn't have had the "nards" to be a WWII crew member now would I?
Bibliographic special thanks to:
1. 360 degree view of P-51 Mustang received via email and located at:
http://www.stclairphoto-imaging.com/360/P51-Mustang/P51_swf.html
Click on the link below...
It provides a 360 degree view of a WWII P-51 Mustang cockpit. It takes a few moments to load but it is very well worth it! Skip provided us with the Wicked Cool link of the week!
P-51 Mustang from outside:
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| P-51 Mustang |
Just think of the history... probably some of the gauges have been updated due to FAA rules, however it doesn't change the fact that most of the flying done back then was purely and literally by wire or cable as it is.
One of my most impressive memories of WWII Aircraft was when I got to tour a B-24 Liberator and a B-17 Flying Fortress in Spokane, about three years ago, and actually walk, crawl, and sit where the actual crew and pilots did. The pilots really were steering, pushing, and pulling the plane's control surfaces via cables! Not only were these guys brave, they were cold, wicked strong, and had "nards" the like and size of 20 pound lead cannon balls. I became fully cognizant of the fact that when these guys got shot at, the 1/8th inch thick riveted to hollowed out aluminum holed frame bays, just let the bullets pass through... by the thousands, and these air craft just kept on flying if not by pure luck by pure brute, and I mean BRUTE strength!
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| B-24 Liberator |
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| B-17 Flying Fortress |
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| B-24 Factory |
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| B-17 Factory |
I learned later that day that the restoration society was offering hour long public flights for $400. I hemmed and hawed, toed the ground, thought about the check book, and the credit card, and my responsibilities to the family, projects on the boat, the house and decided not to partake in the flight. Reflecting on that moment now, I realize that there were and are many things I have squandered $400 on and should have taken that opportunity to fly in an actual museum to World War II.
Probably wouldn't have had the "nards" to be a WWII crew member now would I?
Bibliographic special thanks to:
1. 360 degree view of P-51 Mustang received via email and located at:
http://www.stclairphoto-imaging.com/360/P51-Mustang/P51_swf.html
2. North American P-51 Mustang picture found using Google Image search and located at:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/north-american-p-51-mustang.htm
3. B-24 Banking picture found using Google Image search and located at:
4.B-17 Flying Fortresses picture found using Google Image search and located at:
5. B-24 factory picture found using Google Image search and located at:
http://www.aviation-history.com/consolidated/b24-factory.jpg
6. B-17 factory picture found using Google Image search and located at:
freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Campy Out!!
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