tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post8560388284181345280..comments2024-01-03T05:18:54.650-05:00Comments on CDR Salamander: Caption Contest!CDR Salamanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05981221786954902349noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-22405724379357488622012-01-10T23:09:43.989-05:002012-01-10T23:09:43.989-05:00God help us.God help us.USSHelmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-31973470445898036652012-01-09T10:16:47.073-05:002012-01-09T10:16:47.073-05:00Byron, giving the Muslims all of France except Par...Byron, giving the Muslims all of France except Paris is the exact opposite of what we ought to do. First, they would rip out all of the wineyards because no one should be imbibing alcohol. Then, the beaches in the south of France would be shut down, which I suspect our sailors would be rather unhappy with. Of course, they wouldn't be allowed into Marseilles anyway, so maybe that is moot. Normandy would likely be made off-limits as well, though the military cemeteries for the many north Africans Muslims who died liberating Metropolitan France would still be cared for. Finally, rural France (especially Normandy) is where Americans are still thanked for liberating France - in Paris, not so much. You will find plenty of good food in Lyon, Caen, Bordeaux, Orleans and in small towns throughout the country. So, given a choice between Paris or the rest of France, I'd give them Paris.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-44932940439188756592012-01-09T09:55:34.333-05:002012-01-09T09:55:34.333-05:00I'd add a pessimism (of age?) - never before s...I'd add a pessimism (of age?) - never before so few could kill so many so easy - form the 9/11 to the Tokyo sarin attack we see how small sects/cults/terror cells gain killing potential once reserved for sovereign states. Dual purpose tech is everywhere... the LPG tanker is proverbial tip of the iceberg. And all this is easier to obtain and use than nukes. 9/11 attackers didn't have any state sponsor save AFG being hosts for training bases. Next major attack can have as well no obvious retaliation target.ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-39624597510523699982012-01-09T09:47:01.724-05:002012-01-09T09:47:01.724-05:00<span>Russia has just put some warships on S...<span>Russia has just put some warships on Syria's coast just to spoil any possibility of US airstrikes. Guess they are more than willing to risk a confrontation over not even Tehran but Tehran's ally.</span>ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-86352268031111466722012-01-09T02:31:46.205-05:002012-01-09T02:31:46.205-05:00"Endless low end conventional wars." No..."Endless low end conventional wars." No, just until we learn how to deal with them. Then somebody will try something else. <br /><br />" There will be wars and rumors of wars."<br /><br />It's the old normal. You stall it the same old way. "If you wish for peace, prepare for war".<br /><br />It's the only game in town, always has been.<br /><br />Ah, the innocent optimism of callow youth.Grandpa Bluewaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-31099564184835201512012-01-09T00:34:29.934-05:002012-01-09T00:34:29.934-05:00I think they are more concerned with the effects o...I think they are more concerned with the effects of a BLEVE ( Burning Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion ) involving a LNG tanker catching fire, and rupturing a storage tank. BLEVEs can be very impressive.<br /><br />Fire fighters tease us about explosions and HAZMAT scenes by knowing that you have gotten too close without SCBA, when you reach the "Dead Cop Line", but a BLEVE can reverse that, with the mutual aid FD having to hose the First Due Engine Company off the scenery. SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-66062001737519436112012-01-08T21:47:17.045-05:002012-01-08T21:47:17.045-05:00The LNG tankers are a lot harder to blow up than o...The LNG tankers are a lot harder to blow up than one might think... UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-42813726169075171752012-01-08T20:48:43.102-05:002012-01-08T20:48:43.102-05:00Caption: "I'm going to kick Dave's a...Caption: "I'm going to kick Dave's ass for convincing me to take this job while he got to retire and go to CIA."Adversus Omnes Dissidentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-66043927708843207352012-01-08T19:55:03.799-05:002012-01-08T19:55:03.799-05:00Chick CDR, thanks for looking that up for me. Wow....Chick CDR, thanks for looking that up for me. Wow. Ouch, the good general has sunk maybe not to the bottom, but a good deal towards it. How childish.Outlaw Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-49337936838534517332012-01-08T19:48:21.384-05:002012-01-08T19:48:21.384-05:00<span><span>UltimaRatioRegis </span...<span><strong></strong><span>UltimaRatioRegis </span></span><br /><br /><span></span><br /><span><img></img></span><span> <br /><span>So what is it about us that discounts our enemies' jihandist vows to kill Americans and destroy our country and way of life, when they ALWAYS mean what they say, and on the other hand believe someone like Obama when he pledges to maintain a capable military when he NEVER means what he says? </span></span><br /><span><span></span></span><br /><span><span>Exactly - I'm supposed to believe that Obama means what he says? Where is the same press conference with other cabinet members redesigning the real problem, the entitlement programs????</span></span><br /><br /><strong></strong><span><img></img></span><span>UltimaRatioRegis</span><span><span>View details</span></span><span></span><span></span>Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-72642293470507013842012-01-08T19:06:30.170-05:002012-01-08T19:06:30.170-05:00No, I mean like the guys from The Old Breed.
The ...No, I mean like the guys from <a href="http://www.militaryvetshop.com/History/1stMarDiv.html" rel="nofollow">The Old Breed</a>.<br /><br />The baddest Hollywood bad guy is a p*ssy compared to either of those guys, or to Conway.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-55239582066216735052012-01-08T18:25:15.287-05:002012-01-08T18:25:15.287-05:00"Best of the best"... you mean like the ..."Best of the best"... you mean like the guys from Men in Black?Alpha Checknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-43081036235653493302012-01-08T17:34:26.749-05:002012-01-08T17:34:26.749-05:00"<span>you will see then ashes of US a..."<span>you will see then ashes of US as every single nuke power retaliates against you... the problem is youre not the only with guns, cowboy."</span><br /><br />Not a chance. If the US strikes in response to a massive attack (chem or nuke, or esp bio), Russia doesn't launch over Teheran. Neither does Beijing. UK, Israel, India, likewise. <br /><br />I do believe that similar conversations to the effect that, "Next 9/11 happens, whether you angry jihadi Muhammedans are involved or not, stand by", was a big impetus to keep the worst of them in check for a while. Which is why POTUS needs to keep his trap shut about removing "ambiguity" from our nuclear policy.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-22231791947430831712012-01-08T17:28:24.425-05:002012-01-08T17:28:24.425-05:00<span>Winner of the Caption Contest above!!!...<span>Winner of the Caption Contest above!!!!</span>UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-90387591764236163562012-01-08T16:10:51.719-05:002012-01-08T16:10:51.719-05:00"It is very difficult to get a man to underst..."It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."FCC(SW)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-44461958742110595762012-01-08T12:58:17.931-05:002012-01-08T12:58:17.931-05:00James, , you will see then ashes of US as every si...James, , you will see then ashes of US as every single nuke power retaliates against you... the problem is youre not the only with guns, cowboy.<br />The "forever defensive" worked well in the cold war. Let the militant Islam prove it's inability to run a society. Win the war of ideas. Minuteman's and Ohio's and B-52s might have deterred Soviet bear, but it was MTV (when it was airing music) and the Star Wars/ET that caught the spirit of youngsters behind the Iron Curtain.ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-34842757281571667272012-01-08T12:34:03.255-05:002012-01-08T12:34:03.255-05:00The problem is how do you tell people that its wro...The problem is how do you tell people that its wrong for a company to bring 2,000 jobs to their town?Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-2308212856002396332012-01-08T12:13:58.704-05:002012-01-08T12:13:58.704-05:00I'll go. Military service is thought of as a t...I'll go. Military service is thought of as a thing to make a family proud down here must not be where your at.<br /><br />You should read Sun Tzu sometime. Strike where your enemy is weakest.<br /><br />If we lose the ability to dominate in conventional warfare that is where the enemy will strengthen himself.<br /><br />The problem with Ewoks and your strategy is that we would forever be on the defensive and in the end the US would turn into a mirror of communist russia.<br /><br />If one of those LNG tankers ever does go off in the US or a nuke........we'll drown the world in blood and you'll see something you havnt seen sence the romans fell......a entirely unrepentent superpower which will accpt nothing but the annhilation of the enemy.<br /><br />The Romans are basicly the mother in many ways of all european civilizations..........they were brutes who accelled at Military strategy, and logistics. They went about it like farms reaping wheat. But they were civilized there is that.......doubt it made any difference when the ripped apart carthage.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-53890046404324234422012-01-08T10:21:03.271-05:002012-01-08T10:21:03.271-05:00Sadly, if you're right all the $ in the world ...Sadly, if you're right all the $ in the world on defence won't mean a thing if you can't use the gear bought and people trained with them - because politicians wont have the will to act - anyway... So far the doctrine for attack with nukes was retaliation with nukes, and I don't expect any less. Even from Obama, actually. He ordered the go on the OBL action, even if he knew it could end another Desert One (the crashed helo shows how close it was), and effectively end his career (which apparently to politician is Fate Worse Than Death).ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-42510829803186835982012-01-08T10:16:52.248-05:002012-01-08T10:16:52.248-05:00Well, then endless low end conventional war is the...Well, then endless low end conventional war is the answer. Sign your kids up for those ships with the 8" guns.Guestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-75060050577818711732012-01-08T10:14:32.067-05:002012-01-08T10:14:32.067-05:00Read what you wrote and explain how that is not ir...Read what you wrote and explain how that is not irrational fear.Guestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-12834435511643822442012-01-08T09:04:20.146-05:002012-01-08T09:04:20.146-05:00The entire defense budget wont mean anything if we...The entire defense budget wont mean anything if we cant pay our bills. This "cut" will be diverted to welfare and other entitlement programs. We are Rome circa 470AD. We may even already have a ceasar, but the Praetoria Guard are actually the Media instead of soldiers.<br /><br />We are screwed.<br /><br />We need a Strategy to arrest the decline in our values and our culture. We need a political system that values honor and merit and good of the nation over good of the self. We lack Virtue. <br /><br />I think Descartes had it right when he stated " Virtue is the only good, among all those we can possess, which depends entirely on our free will”<br /><br />And Centuries later, Benjamin Franklin Distilled it to this simple phrase "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. "<br /><br />We have surely done both.MR T's Haircutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-85850802556652692952012-01-08T08:54:08.114-05:002012-01-08T08:54:08.114-05:00Just imagine how much worse this will be if Tin Fo...Just imagine how much worse this will be if Tin Foil Hat Ron Paul gets elected.........Adversus Omnes Dissidentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-60934627419187405072012-01-08T08:10:00.310-05:002012-01-08T08:10:00.310-05:00OM, when it comes to national defense, I'm not...OM, when it comes to national defense, I'm not a "Navy guy". I'm an American, one of those people who shed blood twice to save Europe from itself. Next time, we keep it...all of it. Except France. We'll give all of France save for Paris (for the food, you know) to the Muslims. Those two deserve each other.Byronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-37041735274929830112012-01-08T07:04:39.021-05:002012-01-08T07:04:39.021-05:00The Marine I work with calls the USAF the most pat...The Marine I work with calls the USAF the most patriotic civilians he knows. :)LT Bnoreply@blogger.com