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To All,

Good Monday Morning October 7, 2024. .

Well welcome to a new week. I have spent all the time since I got home moving things out of the house and 10 feet away from the sides. Also inside the house anything that is in the way of the windows has to be moved. We are having some major windows and two large sliders replaced. They showed up this morning and I am trying to get the list done while they are hammering and such. The outside of the house is also being painted when these men are done with the windows. I am going to have trouble finding things when this is all done.

Regards,

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Make it a good Day

 

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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History (thanks to NHHC)

Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/.   Go here to see the director's corner for all 83 H-Grams 

Today in Naval and Marine Corps History.

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October. 7

1864—USS Wachusett rams the Confederate raider CSS Florida in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil. The collision brings down Florida's mast, then Wachusett opens fire. After Florida's surrender, both vessels are fired upon by Brazilian coastal forts as Wachusett tows her prize out to sea.

1924—The rigid airship Shenandoah (ZR 1), commanded by Lt. Cmdr. Zachary Lansdowne, begins a roundtrip transcontinental cruise from NAS Lakehurst, NJ. The airship returns 25 Oct. having covered 9,317 miles in 258 hours of flight.

1944—USS Hawkbill (SS 366) and USS Baya (SS 318) attack a Japanese convoy and sink the Japanese cargo ship Kinugasa Maru about 400 miles west of Manila, while USS Cabrilla (SS 288) sinks Japanese transport No.8 Shin'yo Maru off Vigan, Luzon.

1944—USS Greenling (SS 213) sinks the Japanese transport No 8 Kiri Maru and the merchant tanker Kotai Maru.

1955—USS X-1, the U.S. Navy's only midget submarine, is placed into service and conducts numerous scientific tests for the Naval Research Laboratory.

1975—President Gerald Ford signs a law allowing admission of women into service academies (Public Law 94-106).

1985—Palestinian terrorists hijack Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. On 10 Oct. four of the terrorists attempted to escape aboard an Egypt Air Boeing 737 airliner, but F 14As from VF-74 and VF -103 are launched from USS Saratoga (CV 60) and intercepted the aircraft over international waters directing it to NAS Sigonella, Sicily.

2001—Operation Enduring Freedom begins with carrier air strikes and ship and submarine Tomahawk strikes in Afghanistan.  USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and Carl Vinson (CVN 70) spearhead the first coalition strikes against al-Qaeda terrorists and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

2017—The Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Washington (SSN 787) is commissioned in a ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk. Washington, named in honor of the 42nd state, is the 14th Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine to join the Navy's operational fleet.

 

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This Day In World History

October 7

1571 In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain's Don Juan de Austria.

1765 Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it.

1849 Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place.

1870 French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours.

1913 In attempting to find ways to lower the cost of the automobile and make it more affordable to ordinary Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the "father of scientific management." The result was the assembly line that reduced the time it took to manufacture a car, from 12 hours to 93 minutes.

1944 Prisoner uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.

1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.

1949 East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, is formed.

1957 A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor (later called Sellafield) north of Liverpool, England, spreads radioactive iodine and polonium through the countryside and into the Irish Sea. Livestock in the immediate area were destroyed, along with 500,000 gallons of milk. At least 30, and possibly as many as 1,000, cancer deaths were subsequently linked to the accident.

1976 Hua Guofeng, premier of the People's Republic of China, succeeds the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party of China.

1985 Four Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) hijackers seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demand the release of 50 Palestinians held by Israel.

1993 The Great Flood of 1993 on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers ends, the worst US flood since 1927.

1996 Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

2001 US invasion of Afghanistan in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 begins; it will become the longest war in US history.

2003 California voters remove Democratic governor Gray Davis from office in the state's first successful recall of a sitting governor (only the second successful recall of a governor in US history); a Republican candidate, bodybuilder/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wins the election to replace Davis 17 days later.

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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻

OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…

Thanks to the Bear

. From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com

This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip

Vietnam Air Losses Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at:  https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.

 

This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed by last name and has other info  https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM

 .  The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature.  https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )

 

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/wall-of-faces-now-includes-photos-of-all-servicemembers-killed-in-the-vietnam-war/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TMNsend&utm_content=Y84UVhi4Z1MAMHJh1eJHNA==+MD+AFHRM+1+Ret+L+NC

 

Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War

By: Kipp Hanley

AUGUST 15, 2022

 

(To remind folks that these are from the Vietnam Air Losses site that Micro put together. You click on the url below and can read what happened each day to the aircraft and its crew. .Micro is the one also that goes into the archives and finds these inputs and sends them to me for incorporation in the List. It is a lot of work and our thanks goes out to him for his effort.

From Vietnam Air Losses site for "for 7 October  

7-Oct:  https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1389

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 Vietnam Air Losses

Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at:  https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.

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Thanks to Al

Monday Morning Humor--Ponderisms

. Submitted by Skip Leonard:

 

• I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
• When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
• The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
• Never take life seriously.  Nobody gets out alive anyway.
• There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
• Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
• The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
• Have you noticed since everyone has a camera on their phones these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?
• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again
• All of us could take a lesson from the weather.  It pays no attention to criticism.
• How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
• Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?'
• Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there? I'm going to eat the next thing that comes out of its butt.'
• Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
• If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?
• If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
• Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?
• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride; he sticks his head out the window?
• Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

 

 

Submitted by Dave Harris:

 

• Fighting for peace is an oxymoron.
• It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
• If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
• Be grateful that no matter how much chocolate you eat, your earrings will still fit.
• Sometimes you meet someone and you know from the first moment that you want to spend your whole life without them.
• Don't tell secrets in the garden.  The potatoes have eyes, the corn has ears, and the beanstalk.
• My teacher told me not to worry about spelling because in the future there will be autocorrect.  And for that I am eternally grapefruit.
• Today I am wearing pink to raise awareness of people like me who forget to separate their red laundry from their whites.
• You know when you buy a bag of salad and it gets all brown and soggy?  Cookies don't do that.

 

 

Submitted by Colleen Grosso:

 

• It's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame.
• We have enough "youth".  How about a fountain of "smart"?
• A fool and his money can throw one heck of a party.
• When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
• Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.
• If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
• We are born naked, wet, and hungry.  Then things get worse.
• Red meat is not bad for you.  Fuzzy green meat is bad for you.
• Could Xerox and Wurlitzer merge to produce reproductive organs?
• Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

 

Submitted by Peggy Yunghahn:

 

• I choked on a carrot this morning, and all I could think of was, "I'll bet a doughnut wouldn't have done this to me."
• It only takes one slow-walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I'm a nice person
• It turns out that when asked who your favorite child is, you're supposed to pick out one of your own.  I know that now.
• It's fine to eat a test grape in the produce section, but you take one bite of rotisserie chicken and it's all, "Sir, you need to leave!"
• One thing no one ever talks about, when it comes to being an older adult, is how much time we devote to keeping a cardboard box because it is, you know, a really good box.
• I can't believe I forgot to go to the gym today.  That's seven years in a row, now.
• If you dropped something when you were younger, you just picked it up.  When you're older and you drop something, you stare at it for just a bit contemplating if you actually need it anymore.
• I like to make lists.  I also like to leave them lying on the kitchen counter, and then guess what's on the list when I am at the store.
• Ask your doctor if a drug with 32 pages of side effects is bad for you.
• I relabeled all of the jars in my wife's spice rack.  I'm not in trouble yet, but the thyme is cumin.
• I just read a book about marriage that says treat your wife like you treated her on your first date.  So tonight after dinner I'm dropping her off at her parent's house.
• The best way to get back on your feet is to miss two car payments.
• I love bacon.  Sometimes I eat it twice a day.  It takes my mind off the terrible chest pains I keep getting.
• As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I am sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation.
• I asked a supermarket employee where they kept the canned peaches.  He said, "I'll see," and walked away.  I asked another and he also said, "I'll see," and walked away.  In the end, I gave up and found them myself, in Aisle C.
• I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.
• I put our scale in the bathroom corner and that's where the little liar will stay until it apologizes.
• When I was a kid, I used to watch the 'Wizard of Oz' and wonder how someone could talk if they didn't have a brain. Then I got Facebook.
• Do you ever get up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, "That can't be accurate!"
• I just burned 1,200 calories.  I forgot the pizza in the oven.
• Who knew that the hardest thing about being an adult is figuring out what to fix for dinner and doing it every single night for the rest of your life until you die?
• I hate it when people act all intellectual and talk about Mozart when they've never even seen one of his paintings.
• Never trust an electrician with no eyebrows.
• Instead of cleaning my house, I just watch an episode of "The Hoarders," and think, "Wow!  My house looks great."

 

Submitted by Mark Logan:

 

• I've found marriage to be very educational.  For example, I had no idea there was a wrong way to put milk in the fridge.
• My dog will eat literally everything, until you put a pill in it.  Then he's Gordon Ramsey.
• If vegetables are so good, explain to me why vegans are always trying to make them taste like meat.  Take your time, I'll wait.
• Always make sure someone in the relationship has good credit.  That's why it's called 'significant' other.  Sign / if / I / can't
• If you can't think of a word, say "I forgot the English word for it."  That way, people will think you're bilingual instead of an idiot.
• I think people write "Congrats" because they can't spell 'Congrajlashins".
• As I fold my third load of laundry, I contemplate becoming a nudist.  The I remember what I look like naked, and keep folding.
• Having a teenage daughter is like having a cat that only comes out to eat and hisses when you try to be nice to it.

 

 

Have a great week,

Al

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This Day in U S Military History

 

On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing campaign by American and British forces. Logistical support was provided by other nations including France, Germany, Australia and Canada and, later, troops were provided by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance rebels. The invasion of Afghanistan was the opening salvo in the United States "war on terror" and a response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. The conflict in Afghanistan would span two decades and become the longest war in U.S. history.

Dubbed "Operation Enduring Freedom" in U.S. military parlance, the invasion of Afghanistan was intended to target terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, which was based in the country, as well as the extreme fundamentalist Taliban government that had ruled most of the country since 1996 and supported and protected al-Qaeda.

How Decades of Instability Gave Rise to Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 Attacks

The Taliban, which had imposed its extremist version of Islam on the entire country, also perpetrated countless human rights abuses against its people, especially women, girls and ethnic Hazaras. During their rule, large numbers of Afghans lived in utter poverty, and as many as 4 million Afghans are thought to have suffered from starvation.

In the weeks prior to the invasion, both the United States and the U.N. Security Council had demanded that the Taliban turn over Osama bin Laden for prosecution. After deeming the Taliban's counteroffers unsatisfactory—among them to try bin Laden in an Islamic court—the invasion began with an aerial bombardment of Taliban and al-Qaeda installations in Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Konduz and Mazar-e-Sharif. Other coalition planes flew in airdrops of humanitarian supplies for Afghan civilians. The Taliban called the actions "an attack on Islam."

After the air campaign softened Taliban defenses, the coalition began a ground invasion, with Northern Alliance forces providing most of the troops and the United States and other nations giving air and ground support. On November 12, a little over a month after the military action began, Taliban officials and their forces retreated from the capital of Kabul. By early December, Kandahar, the last Taliban stronghold, had fallen and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar went into hiding rather than surrender.

Al-Qaeda fighters continued to hide out in Afghanistan's mountainous Tora Bora region, where they were engaged by anti-Taliban Afghan forces, backed by U.S. Special Forces troops. Al-Qaeda soon initiated a truce, which is now believed to have been a ploy to allow Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda members time to escape into neighboring Pakistan. By mid-December, the bunker and cave complex used by al-Qaeda at Tora Bora had been captured, but there was no sign of bin Laden. Following a 10-year manhunt, bin Laden was finally found and killed in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALS on May 2, 2011.

After Tora Bora, a grand council of Afghan tribal leaders and former exiles was convened under the leadership of Hamid Karzai, who first served as interim leader before becoming the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan on December 7, 2004. Even as Afghanistan began to take the first steps toward democracy, however, with more than 10,000 U.S. troops in country, al-Qaeda and Taliban forces began to regroup in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Over the next decade-plus, they continued to engage U.S. and Afghan troops in guerilla-style warfare and were also responsible for the deaths of elected government officials and aid workers and the kidnapping of foreigners. Despite a peace agreement signed between the Taliban and U.S. forces in February of 2020, hostilities on both sides continued. 

In April of 2021, President Biden—who, like his previous two predecessors, pledged to end the war in Afghanistan—set the deadline of September 11, 2021 as the date of full U.S. withdrawal, with the final drawdown effort to begin in May. By early August of that year, the Taliban began retaking the country. On August 15, 2021, the capital of Kabul fell to Taliban forces and Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled to the UAE. Following the collapse of the Afghan government and Taliban victory, on August 31, 2021, President Biden declared the war in Afghanistan officially over.

During the 20-year conflict, more than 3,500 allied soldiers were killed, with 20,000-plus Americans injured. Approximately 69,000 Afghan security forces were killed, along with roughly 51,000 civilians and 51,000 militants. According to the United Nations, some 5 million Afghans have been displaced by the war since 2012, making Afghanistan the world's third-largest displaced population.

 

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Thanks to Interesting Facts

World War I helped popularize candy bars.

Today's grocery stores are stocked with a seemingly endless variety of candy bars. This modern-day menagerie of chocolate treats can trace its origins back to World War I, when an increased demand for chocolate rations created a veritable candy bar boom. Chocolate bars were seen as an ideal source of sustenance for soldiers fighting abroad: They provided quick calories, were easy to transport across long distances, and catered to the sweet tooth many American GIs had developed overseas when they began to sample European sweets. In response to this sudden demand, the U.S. government began soliciting donations of 20-pound blocks of chocolate from American candymakers, which were then cut, individually wrapped, and distributed to GIs abroad.

By the end of World War I, American soldiers' love of chocolate bars had spread to become a nationwide sensation. In the 1920s, veterans and civilians alike eagerly sought out candy bars, particularly after Prohibition left them looking for pleasurable alternatives to alcohol. Candymakers across the country began developing different kinds of products. To stand out in a crowded market, these companies would experiment with a variety of ingredients, ranging from nougat to dehydrated vegetables. They also started giving their products catchy names designed to grab people's attention: The Charleston Chew, introduced in 1925, was named after the Charleston dance craze that was sweeping the nation at the time, and in 1921, Baby Ruth bars benefited from their association with baseball superstar Babe Ruth, though they were actually named after the late daughter of former President Grover Cleveland. The Lindy Bar, meanwhile, was named after famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, and there were also tasty treats named for Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, and Betsy Ross. By the end of the 1920s, more than 40,000 different candy bars were being produced in the United States.

 

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.From the Archives

How Is Your Day Going?

By: Bill Schoettler

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I ask this because my days have not been going too well, lately. Yes, I'm retired so I don't have to drive to work five days a week. I own my home, can afford the $5.00 (plus) per gallon I have to pay for gasoline (plus I have an emergency propane generator for when the power goes out), dining out is also more expensive, my kids have their own children (can't believe even my grandchildren are "adults"), and I have acceptable health (considering age and creaking joints, etc.)

But I'm upset when I read about and hear about what is happening and what has been happening in our country. America, when I was growing up (back in the 40's and 50's of the last century), had a pretty good reputation. Yes, everybody wanted to live here because we had so many differences from other countries. We had two great borders, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (plus the Caribbean Sea). To the north was the country of Canada, which had a wonderful and beautiful countryside, a stable economy, was part of the English Commonwealth, spoke the same language we did, and crossing that border allowed you into a country that duplicated us. Unfortunately, that is also true today.

Yes, there was Mexico to the south. They had a marginal economy, crossing the border going out was easy for us and we encountered a lot of different things. Their language was different with some recognizable words. Their food was spicy but for the most part very good. Along the border, on our side, much of the Mexican culture bled across the Rio Grande, many laborers came to us for employment, and we came to rely upon Mexican cooks, agriculture workers, maids, and general laborers. Mostly the Mexican citizens who crossed our southern border came in "legally "; that is, they were invited as workers. Some snuck across and managed to live in our country undetected. But their numbers grew slowly, made little impact on our economy and so long as these "illegal immigrants" obeyed our laws and kept to themselves they rarely caused a problem.

Now it is different. That border that was reasonably secured by a barbed-wire fence and patrolling guards, has grown so porous that we now have millions crossing every few months. And they aren't all Mexicans; they are coming from all the countries of the world. Initially, they were welcomed by some cities and States that announced themselves as "sanctuaries" for these illegals. That meant they would not deport them if they were discovered within their borders. Then it shortly became apparent that the numbers of illegals were putting a tremendous strain on the local economies, presenting health problems, food and housing problems, crime and policing problems, and, of course, political problems.

What opened the southern border was a dramatic change in the political structure of our country. In 2020 we had an election and the Republican President, Donald Trump, who had lowered taxes, eliminated superfluous laws, strengthened our southern border, honored American businesses, took the unique position of putting the United States in a position of primacy in his own mind and the minds of most citizens, publicly supported the police and military, honored the veterans as well as the history and traditions of all Americans (I'm using the xenophobic terms of "Americans" as being the citizens of the United States of America), proudly saluted the AMERICAN FLAG and personally took responsibility for running our country…was replaced by a dipshit whose head has never come out of the sand. Is that too strong? I don't think so.

Now this beautiful country is headed (IMHO ) for perdition (a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death). For whatever reason (there is some suspicion here that the "reason" behind this nonsense is the WEF and privileged wealthy are engineering this effort to better control the population, reduce their numbers, and conform the entire planet to their own view of "how things should be run"), we have been told that the burning of fossil fuels is causing the climate to change for the worse…which will cause unspeakable harm to all civilization…UNLESS they listen to what these exalted ones have decided is "how we should all live".

How does this work? To begin with, go back in recent history about 75 years and note that there have been regular predictions, every ten years or so, that the planet Earth would be denuded of:

a) all living things,

b) all humans,

c) all the fishies,

d) all forests,

leaving nothing but deserts. OMG! But wait a minute, none of these predictions came true. Why? Because they were nonsense to begin with. Invasion by space aliens is probably more likely than climate change doing the predicted damage…that never came about.

But this climate change thing they keep talking about is tricky. Every time there is a climate-caused problem we hear it is the result of climate change. Never mind that these climate-caused problems have been occurring at one place or another all around our planet for only about, say a million years or so. Look to the scientists who specialize in the applicable sciences, who have studied climactic conditions for centuries, many, many centuries, and ask them about "climate change". Certainly-they may agree there is climate change, but there always is climate change. But it is the result of the axial tilt of the planet as it revolves around the Sun, the asymmetrical path it follows, and a host of other factors, including, I suppose to some limited extent, the activities of the planet's inhabitants. But the burning of fossil fuels has nothing to do with planet-wide climate change. Nothing!

Now if you look at what this climate-change issue has spawned you hear that we have to "go electric", and to further this absurd goal our beloved President has ordered that after 2045 all new automobiles must be electric-driven. The equally beloved governor of California (yeah, he who reached all the way to the State of Maryland to find a qualified (?) female black lesbian abortionist to become one of the two senators of California, that's the guy) has ordered that all new vehicles sold in California from 2035 onward must be electric. As a matter of fact, these guys (beloved Pres and lunatic Gov) want all motor-driven vehicles (including farm equipment) to be electric-powered. If you haven't heard about the problems with this conversion to electricity, you haven't been listening to the news or reading the electronic newspapers.

Anyway, my wife tells me to stop reading that ignorance of what's happening all around us will allow us to survive whatever few years we have left, and continuing to read and write about these tragedies will only make me upset. She's right, of course, but I enjoy pouring out my anger and frustration by writing these epic pieces. And you should have similar reactions…not the writing stuff but simply reading about the tragedy of America dying before our eyes and on our watch.  What can we do about it?

A Nobel Laureate's Advice to Students

(On Climate Change)

 

By: Ron Barmby (Emphasis added)

Dr. John Clauser is an experimental physicist of the highest order.

His 2022 Nobel Prize in physics is enough to make him one of the preeminent scientists of our times. His work (50 years ago) confirmed the existence of quantum entanglement—that two particles, once linked, remain linked no matter how far apart they are pulled. A change in one linked particle still affects the other linked particle.

A peer of Clauser's said the achievement "will surely go down as one of the most incredible intellectual achievements in the history of science." So, when the Nobel laureate talks about physics, the science of matter and energy, people should listen.

He recently was asked to give an inspirational talk to a group of South Korean students. Rather than discuss quantum physics, he grabbed the world's attention by advising the students their job was to tell the truth. Truth has the property of being in accord with reality, and good science means observing reality in nature and reporting it accurately with no thought to the consequences.

Dr. Clauser told the young South Koreans that when he conducted his prize-winning experiments to settle the debate between Albert Einstein (who rejected quantum entanglement) and Niels Bohr (who supported it), he did not know the answer beforehand. He sought and discovered reality by careful observation of natural phenomena.

Clauser warned the students against being used to manufacture an interpretation of truth at variance with reality, which would then be propagandized opportunistically by non-scientific business and political leaders (he called them "techno-cons"). If the techno-cons can sell this distortion of reality to the public as truth, they win because then they can propose responses or solutions in line with their own agendas. If they can't sell it, they will switch to another contortion of truth and resume selling.

Clauser has been very open about his views (including with the students) on what is one of the worst sources of dangerous scientific misinformation the public has been fed by techno-cons:  the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has called the IPCC's misinformation "a dangerous corruption of science" and "(a) massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience." Dr. Clauser asserts climate change is "not a crisis."

Dr. Clauser joined as a director of the CO2 Coalition, a leading scientific community (that includes many former IPCC contributors!) dedicated to providing facts, resources, and information about the vital role carbon dioxide plays in our environment. He signed the World Climate Declaration (There is no climate emergency), of which the 1,600 signatories rival the IPCC in both numbers and scientific credentials.

Despite his fame and credentials, Dr. Clauser's reward for expressing his views and warnings to the next generation of Korean physicists was to have a previously scheduled address canceled by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This reaction seems at odds with the due diligence requirements of an organization tasked with achieving global sustainable growth and prosperity.

Meanwhile, mainstream news continues to tell us the IPCC has nailed the science and that they should be trusted. We should take it on faith that: carbon dioxide has caused an existential climate change crisis, that CO2 is responsible for an unnatural and abnormal warming period, that all extreme weather events are increasing due to CO2, that CO2 is causing sea level rises that will drown us and that the ocean reefs are dying. It further asks us to believe that the transition to a carbon dioxide-free economy will be affordable, feasible, and quick — even in impoverished nations. These myths are presented as truth by the non-scientific techno-cons.

If all those assertions were true, the techno-cons would not be afraid of Dr. Clauser, and careful observation of natural phenomena would prove their claims to be valid. Instead, they continue to change the supposed reality by saying warming has ended and boiling has begun. Business and political agendas—along with the powerful lobbies they create—can be a poison to serious scientific inquiry. To paraphrase Churchill, each new lie is halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on.

The students in South Korea may be disappointed they did not get a lecture in quantum mechanics; it was their one and only chance to hear from the physicist who stood on the shoulders of Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr and saw even further than those giants. After all, what could be more important in science than seeing further?

But Dr. John Clauser's special message to them was that it is more important to tell the truth about what you see than just seeing further. Truth is either entangled with science, or it isn't science at all.

To quote Churchill directly, "Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is."

CO2 Coalition Member Ron Barmby, a professional engineer, had a 40-year career in the energy industry that covered 40 countries and five continents. He is the author of Sunlight on Climate Change: A Heretic's Guide to Global Climate Hysteria.

If you do not take an interest

in the affairs of your government,

then you are doomed to live under

the rule of fools.

Plato

 

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This Day in U S Military History

 

October 7

1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. Originally it was called Project Astronaut, but President Dwight Eisenhower thought that it gave too much attention to the pilot. Instead, the name Mercury was chosen from Greco-Roman mythology, which already lent names to rockets like the Atlas and Jupiter. It absorbed military projects with the same aim such as the Air Force Man-in-Space-Soonest.

2001 – U.S. aerial bombing campaign began, President Bush said "Full warning had been given, and time is running out." The State Department gave the Pakistani government one last message to the Taliban: Hand over all al-Qaeda leaders or "every pillar of the Taliban regime will be destroyed." Airstrikes were reported in Kabul, at the airport, at Kandahar (home of Mullah Omar), and in the city of Jalalabad. On the ground, teams from the CIA's Special Activities Division arrived first. They were soon joined by U.S. Army Special Forces from the 5th Special Forces Group and other units from United States Special Operations Command. At 17:00 UTC, President Bush confirmed the strikes and Prime Minister Blair addressed his nation. Bush stated that Taliban military sites and terrorist training grounds would be targeted. Food, medicine and supplies would be dropped to "the starving and suffering men, women and children of Afghanistan".

2002 – Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF – HOA) begins. It is one component of the overall mission of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) which has, until the creation of the new Africa Command, been run out of European Command. The Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is the primary (but not sole) military component assigned to accomplish the objectives of the mission. The naval component is the multinational Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) which operates under the direction of the United States Fifth Fleet. Both of these organizations have been historically part of United States Central Command. In February of 2007, United States President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the United States Africa Command which took over all of the area of operations of CJTF-HOA in October of 2007.

 

Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

BARKLEY, JOHN L.

Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company K, 4th Infantry, 3d Division. Place and date: Near Cunel, France, 7 October 1918. Entered service at: Blairstown, Mo. Born: 28 August 1895 Blairstown, Mo. G.O. No.: 44, W.D., 1919. Citation: Pfc. Barkley, who was stationed in an observation post half a kilometer from the German line, on his own initiative repaired a captured enemy machinegun and mounted it in a disabled French tank near his post. Shortly afterward, when the enemy launched a counterattack against our forces, Pfc. Barkley got into the tank, waited under the hostile barrage until the enemy line was abreast of him and then opened fire, completely breaking up the counterattack and killing and wounding a large number of the enemy. Five minutes later an enemy 77 -millimeter gun opened fire on the tank pointblank. One shell struck the drive wheel of the tank, but this soldier nevertheless remained in the tank and after the barrage ceased broke up a second enemy counterattack, thereby enabling our forces to gain and hold Hill 25.

HILL, RALYN M.

Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company H, 129th Infantry, 33d Division. Place and date: Near Donnevoux, France, 7 October 1918. Entered service at: Oregon, Ill. Born: 6 May 1899, Lindenwood, Ill. G.O. No.: 34, W.D., 1919. Citation: Seeing a French airplane fall out of control on the enemy side of the Meuse River with its pilot injured, Cpl. Hill voluntarily dashed across the footbridge to the side of the wounded man and, taking him on his back, started back to his lines. During the entire exploit he was subjected to murderous fire of enemy machineguns and artillery, but he successfully accomplished his mission and brought his man to a place of safety, a distance of several hundred yards.

TALLEY, EDWARD R.

Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company L, 117th Infantry, 30th Division. Place and date: Near Ponchaux, France, 7 October 1918. Entered service at: Russellville, Tenn. Born: 8 September 1890, Russellville, Tenn. G.O. No.: 50, W.D., 1919. Citation: Undeterred by seeing several comrades killed in attempting to put a hostile machinegun nest out of action, Sgt. Talley attacked the position single -handed. Armed only with a rifle, he rushed the nest in the face of intense enemy fire, killed or wounded at least 6 of the crew, and silenced the gun. When the enemy attempted to bring forward another gun and ammunition he drove them back by effective fire from his rifle.

WHITTLESEY, CHARLES W.

Rank and organization: Major, U.S. Army, 308th Infantry, 77th Division. Place and date: Northeast of Binarville, in the forest of Argonne France, 2 -7 October 1918. Entered service at: Pittsfield, Mass. Birth. Florence, Wis. G.O. No.: 118, W.D., 1918. Citation: Although cut off for 5 days from the remainder of his division, Maj. Whittlesey maintained his position, which he had reached under orders received for an advance, and held his command, consisting originally of 46 officers and men of the 308th Infantry and of Company K of the 307th Infantry, together in the face of superior numbers of the enemy during the 5 days. Maj. Whittlesey and his command were thus cut off, and no rations or other supplies reached him, in spite of determined efforts which were made by his division. On the 4th day Maj. Whittlesey received from the enemy a written proposition to surrender, which he treated with contempt, although he was at the time out of rations and had suffered a loss of about 50 percent in killed and wounded of his command and was surrounded by the enemy

*HARRIS, JAMES L.

Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 756th Tank Battalion. Place and date: At Vagney, France, 7 October 1944. Entered service at: Hillsboro, Tex. Birth: Hillsboro, Tex. G.O. No.: 32, 23 April 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 7 October 1944, in Vagney, France. At 9 p.m. an enemy raiding party, comprising a tank and 2 platoons of infantry, infiltrated through the lines under cover of mist and darkness and attacked an infantry battalion command post with hand grenades, retiring a short distance to an ambush position on hearing the approach of the M -4 tank commanded by 2d Lt. Harris. Realizing the need for bold aggressive action, 2d Lt. Harris ordered his tank to halt while he proceeded on foot, fully 10 yards ahead of his 6 -man patrol and armed only with a service pistol, to probe the darkness for the enemy. Although struck down and mortally wounded by machinegun bullets which penetrated his solar plexus, he crawled back to his tank, leaving a trail of blood behind him, and, too weak to climb inside it, issued fire orders while lying on the road between the 2 contending armored vehicles. Although the tank which he commanded was destroyed in the course of the fire fight, he stood the enemy off until friendly tanks, preparing to come to his aid, caused the enemy to withdraw and thereby lose an opportunity to kill or capture the entire battalion command personnel. Suffering a second wound, which severed his leg at the hip, in the course of this tank duel, 2d Lt. Harris refused aid until after a wounded member of his crew had been carried to safety. He died before he could be given medical attention.

*WATKINS, LEWIS G.

Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, Company I, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place and date: Korea, 7 October 1952. Entered service at: Seneca, S.C. Born. 6 June 1925, Seneca, S.C. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a guide of a rifle platoon of Company I, in action against enemy aggressor forces during the hours of darkness on the morning of 7 October 1952. With his platoon assigned the mission of retaking an outpost which had been overrun by the enemy earlier in the night, S/Sgt. Watkins skillfully led his unit in the assault up the designated hill. Although painfully wounded when a well -entrenched hostile force at the crest of the hill engaged the platoon with intense small -arms and grenade fire, he gallantly continued to lead his men. Obtaining an automatic rifle from 1 of the wounded men, he assisted in pinning down an enemy machine gun holding up the assault. When an enemy grenade landed among S/Sgt. Watkins and several other marines while they were moving forward through a trench on the hill crest, he immediately pushed his companions aside, placed himself in a position to shield them and picked up the deadly missile in an attempt to throw it outside the trench. Mortally wounded when the grenade exploded in his hand, S/Sgt. Watkins, by his great personal valor in the face of almost certain death, saved the lives of several of his comrades and contributed materially to the success of the mission. His extraordinary heroism, inspiring leadership, and resolute spirit of self -sacrifice reflect the highest credit upon himself and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country

 

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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 7,  FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY

 

7 October

1909: Glenn H. Curtiss became the first American to earn a FAI airplane certificate, Aero Club of France Certificate No. 2. (24)

1913: Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels formed the Chambers Board (named after Navy Capt W. Irving Chambers) to develop a naval air service organization. (10)

1916: Harry E. Honeywell won the National Balloon Race by flying 519 miles from Muskogee, Okla., to Cascade, Iowa. (24)

1918: 2Lt Samuel R. Keesler and pilot 1Lt H.R. Riley of the 24th Aero Squadron went on a special reconnaissance mission and were attacked in flight by four German fighters. Keesler tried to drive off the Germans with his machine gun, but the attackers shot then down behind enemy lines. Keesler died the next day from his wounds. Keesler AFB in Mississippi is named in his honor. (4)

1931: Navy and Army observers tested Carl J. Norden's bombsight. Later, the Navy provided the Army the Norden sights for use in World War II. (21)

1943: The 422 BS dispatched four aircraft on a leaflet-dropping mission over Paris to begin special operations from the UK. (21)

1950: KOREAN WAR. The USAF dropped food to a group of 150 former POWs, who had escaped during the N. Korean retreat. (28)

1952: KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force fighter pilots and US Navy airmen attacked the Communist Chinese Force's 26th Army at Yongpyongni. (28)

1963: The FAA expanded its traffic control system over most ADC airborne interceptor operations made under instrument flight rules.

1964: SYNCOM III communications link from Tokyo to Point Mugu began transmitting to US television stations. (5) (16)

1965: The Society of Automotive Engineers gave the 1964 Wright Brothers Medal to NASA scientists Marion O. McKinney, Jr., Richard E. Kuhn, and John P. Reeder for writing "Aerodynamics and Flying Qualities of Jet/Vertical Takeoff-Landing and Short Take-Off Landing Airplanes."

1966: The Air Force selected the University of Colorado to conduct independent investigations of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). (26)

1986: SAC received the last production ALCM from the Boeing Military Airplane Company. (16)

1987: The DoD awarded three contracts, at $25.5 million each, to McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, General Dynamics in Fort Worth, and Rockwell's North American Aircraft in Los Angeles to build selected aircraft components for the hypersonic National Aerospace Plane. (12)

1996: At Whiteman AFB, two 509 BW pilots, Capt Tony Monetti and Maj Chris Inman, flew a 34- hour long-endurance flight in the B-2 simulator. (AFNEWS Article 970175, 18 Feb 97)

2001: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The US initiated airstrikes against terrorist and Taliban targets in Afghanistan. The 509 BW at Whiteman AFB launched six B-2 bombers on the longest bombing missions in aviation history. The B-2s flew from Whiteman AFB over the Pacific to drop bombs on targets in Afghanistan and recovered at Diego Garcia. The longest flight took 44 hours, the longest combat mission in history. ENDURING FREEDOM also involved B-1Bs, B-52Hs, F-15Es, KC-10s and KC-135 tankers, E-3 AWACS, EC-130s, AC-130 gunships, and MC-130 and MH-53 special operations aircraft. Naval involvement included F-14s, F/A-18s, and AV-8 aircraft from three carriers in the Indian Ocean. (21)

2002: NASA launched the Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS mission 112 to install the S1 Truss to the new International Space Station. On 18 October, the shuttle returned and landed at the Kennedy Space Center. The crew included Capt Jeffrey S. Ashby (USN), commander (3); Col Pamela Ann Melroy (USAF 3), pilot; and David A. Wolf (ANG 3), Sandra H. Magnus (1), Piers J. Sellers (1), and Fyodor Yurchikhin (1) as mission specialists. Ashby, Melroy, and Wolf made their third flights into space on this mission, while Magnus, Sellers, and Yurchikhin were making their first flights. (32) (http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/STS-112/spk-112.pdf)

 

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