In this video, Colonel Allison Black summarizes her Air Force service and the events of her first AC-130 combat mission in support of the Horse Soldiers in Afghanistan.
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What am I missing here? If you can pump fuel/air through the axle on the piston side and force purging air through the axle of the cylinder side through some rotary valve, or something? This is an interesting, 2 stroke, circular engine, and I have never seen the concept before. I think it would burn a crapload of oil. Great engineering exercise.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LAebai5ijb0-
I’d say the fuel is introduced into the cylinder side and the exhaust just dumps when the piston pulls out. Fairly insane I’d say, can you image what happens when the piston misses the cylinder by .001″? I think the piston should have some contact with the cylinder at all times, but what do I know?
That said I have rebuilt several engines in my time. Mostly Chevy Small Blocks but one BB 351 Cleveland, a Vega 4 and a International Harvester Scout. That thing had half a V8, a huge 200 CID slant I-4 and the flywheel must have weighed 150 lbs.
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Would it operate as a diesel, what kind of horsepower, torque, fuel efficiency, and peak RPM could it achieve?
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Well it’s Friday and I’ll be mowing again, the rain has perked up the grass.
Mornin’ Gang
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Puppy power!
A courageous canine battled a pack of rabid coyotes that wandered into a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood in a life-or-death ordeal that lasted 45 minutes, heart-pounding video showed.
Home security camera footage from Brea, California, showed the five ravenous coyotes skulk toward and surround the unsuspecting 1-year-old stray — a Labrador retriever-German shepherd mix, now named Duke — in the early hours earlier this month.
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Hey grandpa what for supper?/Extra credit if you pronounce it.LopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygonFor you ABSTENTIOUS folks:Lutefisk
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No thanks, I don’t eat opisthobranch gastropod molluscs.
Aristophanes might have been a funny playwright, but he was a disgusting chef.
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You don’t like clams or oysters? Figures. A man that thinks chili is not allowed to have beans cooked in it is just wrong and does not know what GOOD eatin is.
BTW saying it is okay to have beans on the side of chili is just appeasement to those of us who are right cause you know we are right.
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BTW one of the best bowls of chili I ever had was made with oysters. no beans in that one it distracts from the oysters.
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Philistine.
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Ever since my freshman English teacher shared a sorority hazing activity involving oysters and a string, I can’t even stomach the thought of eating one.
Like I could before.
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In 2020, Marina Medvin was writing for Townhall when she expressed her opinion of Joe Biden. Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Medvin replied to OANN anchor Jack Posobiec’s tweet of the story, saying “WTF is his problem? What kind of person sues nuns?! I can’t stand this creep. Between the sniffing and the suing and deceit – there is nothing worthwhile. He’s a completely worthless human being. Trash, decay, scum. He brings with him nothing but sorrow and theft. Ok rant done.
“For this, she was told by Twitter that she was violating the rules against abuse and harassment.
Medvin is a fearless, both guns blazing lawyer in Virginia. She is also a young, pretty Jewish attorney, one of the few who stepped forward to defend January 6th protestors in the DC courts.
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Is this the beginning of the Kung Flu Boogaloo part 2? A new super secret CIA/deep state op to confound what Trump is trying to do?
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Ace asks…
So, how long before the Elias Rodriguez GoFundMe brings in a million dollars? And how long before Jake Tapper announces that this is all being caused by Trump?
Ace puts together a post on the cold-blooded murder of two, young innocent Jews in Washington DC.
This is CNN.
The leftwing media has argued for a clampdown on rightist rhetoric claiming that it’s “stochastic terrorism.” The idea is that right is “demonizing” some people and thereby increasing the odds that an unhinged person will take the rhetoric as a “permission slip” to shoot the people right-wing people are criticizing.
Viva Frei talks about the left’s endless discussion of “stochastic terrorism” — until a fellow leftwinger cashes in their “permission slip” to shoot up a Republican softball team, in which case stochastic terrorism doesn’t exist and is all just Russian Disinformation, Bigot.
Drew Holden has a question. Given that a left-wing assassin just gunned down two young, beautiful, completely-innocent people by shouting “Intifada!” and “Free Palestine,” where are the screaming headlines about Stochastic Terrorism today?
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perzackly.
The hypocrisy on the left is so insulting. Either they assume we’re stupid or they don’t care about the truth.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this morning in discussions about DOGE the IRS has spent $48 billion over 33 years on computer systems and is still using late 1980s to early 1990s level technology. He said the IRS sends out the same annual amount of payments as a mid-size American bank annually. Except banks do it with it with 10% of the employees at a higher rate of efficiency.
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Kinda like Catholic schools – doing more better and with less.
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Belgian malinois is such an impressive breed. Is there anything they cannot do?
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Hubby came and told me that he’s changed his mind on the move. I’m both relieved and disappointed. I’m going to strongly suggest that after this weekend (car show), that he start focusing his car energy on finishing all of the projects for this house.
I think 20+ years is time enough to get my own home finished. He can’t say I’ve been impatient.
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In case you missed my posts from last night, I had a long phone call with my Wimberley cousin about concerns expressed here about rainwater harvesting for home use. She told me that she’s never run out of water, that her water quality is better (incredibly MUCH better) than what she was getting from her well, and that her neighbors are installing their own RH systems. Their wells are failing in the area, and they’ve been dealing with crappy, stinky, harsh water that is destroying their well equipment, too. From what I gather, water quantity is controlled by roof quantity. That’s a no-brainer. In my reading last night, wooden roofs (and one other that I can’t remember right now) are no bueno for RH. They breed bad stuff in the water, but composite shingle, metal, clay, etc., work just fine. I never thought about wood shingle roofs being an issue.
Hubby still wants to see her setup, so maybe after his knee surgery. Cousin is practically off-grid with her own water system and her solar set up. She said her solar has saved her a lot of money on her power, but I still have reservations. She spent a lot of money on top-of-the-line solar panels that have thus far withstood hail and a tornado that came through her area recently. But was it cheaper than the local power supplier? Of course, if that tornado took out the neighborhood power, she’d still be functioning, so there’s that.
I’m looking forward to seeing her again. She and I get along really well. She’s gay, so I just keep off of those discussions. There’s plenty of other things to talk about.
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Please don’t waste time and money on solar. Take your generator with you and install it. The cost of anything related to solar is getting ready to soar. The “big bill” passed yesterday in the House eliminates all government subsidies and tax breaks for solar.
According to the Texas Water Development Board:
Tyler is in Smith County / Average Annual Runoff From a 2,000 sq. ft. Roof:
44,000 gallons
Average Residential Water Usage in Melissa, Texas in Collin County:
7,400 gallons per month or 88,800 gallons annually
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Weekend open comments is ready done.
Insert evil laugh here.
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My brother-in-law is coming to spend the night. He wants to go to the car show tomorrow: 10-3, El Jardin Park, in Seabrook. The annual “Monumental Bug Bash” featuring all kinds of Volkswagens. Raffling off a dune buggy. Back to the channel:
My BIL is not evil, but he and I are so incompatible, personality-wise, that we all understand there may be moments where I have to leave the room. Snatching the face off of a guest is not considered good manners.
I read the book “Personality Plus” years ago, and took the little test in it. It’s quick and delightful read, having been written by a sanguine, and the author uses the ancient Greek method of defining personalities:
Choleric: doers, movers, shakers. In charge types. Do it or move it types. The extreme: Hitler. The real one. Not the ones called out when libs are losing an argument. Their mood changes are intense and swift.
Melancholy: Perfectionists. Methodical types. Every dot and tittle in place. Think engineers and artists. Musicians. Contract lawyers. Accountants. Need someone to collate data for your group term project? Call on the melancholy. They’d love it. Emotionally they are relatively calm, but are prone to long, deep periods of depression.
Sanguine: Outgoing. Lively. Inspiring to others, when they aren’t looking for their car keys. Cheerleaders (not the mean girls kind, the type of folk who encourage others). Have no problem being the center of attention. Need someone to get a party going? To keep your group from getting discouraged? Call in a sanguine! The extreme: the ditzy blonde who dances on the table and sings, possibly off-key. Mood swings are normal, can be wide and rapid. Like a machine gun spitting out different emotions. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. Machine guns are awful fast.
Phlegmatic: Peacekeepers. Calm. Don’t like conflict. Diplomats. Don’t get ruffled easily. The tortoise in the tortoise and hare fable. If you’re in a high rise and the place catches on fire, find the nearest phlegmatic and hold his hand. He’ll get you out of there without panicking. If you were to chart their mood swings, it’d look an awful lot like a straight line.
When I took the book’s test, I was almost evenly divided between choleric, melancholy, and sanguine. Only 2 of the 100 points were counted as phlegmatic. Each of my personality types take turns on point throughout the day, but I’m rarely phlegmatic. As I have told people, I’m the person who wants to get things done but gets distracted, then kicks myself in the butt for not achieving my goal.
BIL, however, is almost 100% phlegmatic. Stuff doesn’t matter to him. Your stuff, his stuff – doesn’t matter. I saw my FIL almost pull of the road to beat the crap out of him when BIL expressed that he didn’t see the problem with someone stealing two of his mother’s mirrors from her display. MIL and FIL traveled widely, and those small hand mirrors were collected from all over Europe, and she could tell you the story behind each one. When BIL said “I don’t see what the big deal is, they’re just dinky little mirrors,” my FIL had a very physical reaction. Let’s just say that in lieu of a physical beating, BIL got a verbal one. But it didn’t really bother him. Because he’s a phlegmatic. It just rolled off. More accurately, the words just rolled off, like water on a duck’s back.
So, when I’m with my BIL, I have a hard time not backhanding him. Hubby has already told me that there will be no hard feelings if I leave the room. It’s been years since I’ve seen him, so maybe we’ll get along. Time changes a lot of things.
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With perfect timing, Trump had a big televised meeting in the Oval Office today with a bunch of CEOs from the nuclear energy business announcing the federal government’s support for expanding the nuclear power generation.
Right on the tail of literally destroying the financial structure of the solar scam.
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A Jewish author and journalist posted this today, a photo of a poster on the wall at a German University.
I’m sure they’re already being copied here. Universities around the world are cesspits of evil.
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Better late than never: C&C roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! This morning’s roundup focuses on an unexpected special feature: more AI news, on top of yesterday’s big AI news. Then, Trump’s nuclear renaissance; the war with Harvard ratchets up the escalatory ladder; and the President drops the tariff hammer on the world’s richest country. And don’t worry—today’s alarming and informative AI addition contains equally unexpected silver linings.
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I’m gonna let y’all look at the C&C by yourselves. We’re doing some pre-car show, pre-guest stuff here, and I *really* need to get on the treadmill before BIL gets here. There’s a pre-car show gathering tonight that I wanted to get to, and that’s only a few hours from now.
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Mr. C. has an eye opening read on AI.
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I’m about to hit the shower after mowing most of the day. Then we’ll head to Our Place for Catfish Friday.
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Spotted over yonder;
I went to a family reunion and didn’t talk to a single person…No clue whose family it was, but let me tell you -That mac and cheese was worth every awkward glance!
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Since Bongino and Patel are now changing their tunes and saying epstein committed suicide I will from now on refer to them as the Barr brothers, Bill and Bill.
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Heads Up.
If you have not watched Shannon’s headline post video of Colonel Allison Black, you are depriving yourself of a special experience.
This is the kind of woman I would want in the circle of my best and most trusted friends. I wouldn’t have a dinner party to which she wouldn’t be invited.
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Well, BIL is here and he is both a flaming liberal and an atheist. I guess I can boil it down to “Society and the world may be going to heck in a handbasket, but I have mine so it doesn’t bother me. Oh, and Orange Man Bad to the max.”
We’ve decided to shelve the politics and religion discussions. He doesn’t even discuss. He just talks. Talks over me. Talks in spite of me. It’s annoying.
I’m going to study Latin in my bedroom.
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From today’s C&C:
Imagine a nuclear reactor. The core —the part where the super-heated action really happens— is small. The rest of the reactor support system is massive: concrete containment domes, pressure valves, coolant loops, backup systems, waste ponds, shielding, turbine interfaces. All of that massive infrastructure exists just to make the plant’s tiny, burning heart usable without melting everything down.
All of the above support system is a way to absorb and convert/disperse as much of the heat generated as possible. Heat is energy, convert said heat to the greatest degree possible into mechanical/electrical/magnetic energy in order to harness and use it the most efficiently way possible for the given task.
If I were really smart, I would figure out a way to make metal (internal combustion engine blocks and heads, for example) only able to transfer heat in one direction. Imagine the efficiencies that could be extracted from fossil fuels with complete combustion and no loss of heat or need for a radiator; the hotter it ran the more efficient it became. . .
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Imagine a large-scale refinery designed to extract as much heat or steam or whatever mechanical energy as possible to generate the maximum amount of electricity (convert all of the heat energy from the fuel source (garbage, crude oil, bio-waste, garbage stream, etc.) into steam or other energetic force to power electric generators) from the crude oil/bio waste/garbage stream. Imagine this critter uses metal that only conducts heat and/or magnetism in one direction. . .
My ultimate goal is to convert mass into heat with about 90% efficiency./I have been accused of excess in the past.
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How blessed I’ve been when it comes to in-laws.
Mostly.
But certainly no flaming libs or atheists.
I’d go stay in a hotel.
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