Tuesday, April 23, 2024

This, Is The Massachusetts Transportation Secretary.... Stop the world, I want to get off.....


 One of my fellow employees shared this video clip during lunch... wtaf?



Monica Tibbits-Nutt  ( the last name is missing an 's' )




 I'm sure those plans will attract more people to the State..



Monica Tibbits-Nutt, Gov. Maura Healey’s crewcut Secretary of Transportation, is a real nutjob.

 

In case you’re not familiar with this latest $196,551-a-year local poster gal for leftist lunacy, this Nutt is nuttier than a fruitcake.

 

“We are going after all the people,” she said recently at a public gathering of her fellow tree huggers and climate cultists, “who should be giving us money to make our transportation better.”

 

To elaborate, she said she is “basically going after everyone who has money.”

 

No, not really. Nutty Nutt makes it very clear she only fantasizes about going after everyone who works for a living. Exempt from the apparatchiks’ diktats would be the non-working classes. Aren’t they always?

 

We work, they don’t. Some call it equity.

 

The legislature could not be reached for comment.

 

Here are some of the cabinet secretary’s fondest dreams:

 

Increasing the state payroll tax.

Jacking up local excise taxes.

New tolls on all highways leading into Massachusetts.

Forcing working-class drivers out of their pick-up trucks, which she claimed are “basically” 18-wheelers.

Charging more for Uber/Lyft rides, and for package-delivery services.

Writing more speeding tickets, and suspending more drivers’ licenses, and forcing motorists to appeal the loss of their licenses at the state’s kangaroo-court hearings.

Using state policy to bludgeon citizens into submission to the Deep State — “I’ll 100 percent use it as a weapon.”

Remember, among other things, Tibbits-Nutt is suggesting cracking down on law-abiding motorists in a state where criminal illegal aliens with no licenses are allowed to drive at will, in unregistered, uninsured, uninspected low riders with absolutely no consequences whatsoever.

 

But for taxpaying American motorists, here’s what the Democrats have in store for you:

 

“We’re getting really, really aggressive. We are pushing for less warnings, more citations. I’m telling you, nothing slows down someone real quick like getting your license suspended.”

 

She continued:

 

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

SR-71

 

  I was scrolling social media earlier today and stopped to read this post which had the accompanying image...

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The SR-71 was NOT CANCELED because of the Russian/ Soviet SA-5 missile. My father and his fellow RSOs and Pilots were not worried about being shot out of the air. You have to remember that the SR-71 had more than just cameras. SR-71 had big ears. The Electronic Warfare (EW) suite listened to the radar targeting frequencies for the missiles from the missiles. There were EW antennas throughout the SR 71. Even at three times the speed of sound, The antennas would pick up the radar pulse.
The SR 71 had a very clever deception jammer. The system received a tracking radar pulse, fiddled with it, and returned it. The returning pulse was just a little stronger. The enemy would be tracking the SR 71 and would find the location, but it was FALSE. The deception jammer had drawn the trackers away from the real SR 71. The enemy thought they were tracking, and in some instances, they felt they had a straightforward kill.
But the real SR 71 was far, far away. This interests me because my father, Colonel Richard “Butch” Sheffield, and Bob Spencer collected the SA 5 radar frequency in 1971. The SR-71 was soon after this risky flight (within a few feet of Russia) able to jam the SA 5.
The other reason for the early cancellation of the SR 71 was the Generals were jealous because they ( Two of them) were rejected from the SR 71 program before they were made General. They were so vindictive that they did not promote Lieutenant Colonels to full Colonels who deserved it. They demanded that the special orange flight suit be taken away from the SR 71 Crewmembers.. it was unprofessional and wrong what the two Generals did at the Pentagon. This is the information given to me by the pilots and RSOs who flew the SR 71.
Between the jamming system, the speed, and the altitude, I believe there was no chance of a shootdown. Of course, there could’ve been one million lucky shots, but that never occurred.
Source: BlackBird Rising: birth of an Aviation legend.
Paraphrased by~ Linda Sheffield
 
 

 
 
 
 

Curly Takes The Stand...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Old Maps Of A Few New England States.... A Rabbit Hole If you Chose

 

 Map of The Province of Main

 You can embiggen HERE and scroll around <<<<

 


 

Map of  "His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire"  <<<  embiggen and scroll around

 

 


 

Vermont, click here to embiggen and scroll around <<<< 

 

 


 Rabbit Hole......

 You can get lost in the map aisle of the Library of Congress here <<<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Attitude To Have When You Have Been Paying Attention And Preparing ....

 

 Lower the volume before hitting play, nothing bad, it just may be a bit loud.......

 


 

 

 

Saturday, April 20, 2024

When The Time Comes To Make Difficult Decisions...

 

 

 


 H/t to JB

 

 

 

FAFO That Ended Well..

 

 

 

 

 

The oldest known colonial combatant - Samuel Whittemore Jr.

 

 

Capt. Samuel Whittemore, a seventy-eight year old American farmer, became a legend on April 19, 1775 when he was shot in the face by British soldiers, bayoneted at least six times, and clubbed in the head with the butts of their muskets. Armed with a musket and horse pistol, Whittemore had crouched behind a wall near his home as the British retreated to Boston through Menotomy.[1] As a flank-guard approached, he shot two soldiers dead and possibly killed one more. Inevitably, the soldiers discovered the old farmer and inflicted their wrath upon him, leaving him for dead.

 

Certainly we all would have nodded our heads in sympathy and forgiven Whittemore had he simply succumbed to his terrible injuries. However, in an epic demonstration of New England stubbornness, Whittemore refused to die. Instead, a doctor patched him up and he lived another eighteen years—though perhaps not in much comfort as the British musket ball had torn away part of his face.[2] He died in 1793 at age ninety-six.


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H/t to PS