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Deformity!!!!!!
And FIRST had 2 say it
Handicaps aren’t always bad!……..?
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955.
Beginning with the successful contract bid on 5 June 1946, the B-52 went through several design steps; from a straight wing aircraft powered by six turboprop engines to the final prototype YB-52, with eight turbojet engines. The aircraft made its first flight on 15 April 1952 with “Tex” Johnston as pilot.[5]
Built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War-era deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36. Although a veteran of a number of wars, the Stratofortress has dropped only conventional munitions in actual combat. The B-52 carries up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons.[6]
The USAF has possessed B-52s in active service since 1955, initially with the Strategic Air Command (SAC), with all aircraft later absorbed into the Air Combat Command (ACC) following SAC’s disestablishment in 1992. Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively low operating costs have kept the B-52 in service despite more developed aircraft or modern aircraft in service including the Mach 3 XB-70 Valkyrie, the supersonic B-1B Lancer, and the B-2 Spirit. In January 2005, the B-52 became the second aircraft, after the English Electric Canberra, to mark 50 years of continuous service with its original primary operator. There are six aircraft altogether that have made this list as of 2009; the other four being the Tupolev Tu-95, the C-130 Hercules, the KC-135 Stratotanker, and the Lockheed U-2.[7][8][9][10]
B-52, C-130, KC-135 and U-2 – Anyone else notice a common factor here?
The names consist of letters and numbers, they are all aircraft, and implements of destruction? They all go voooom as they go by, and require special training to operate? Hollow on the inside, rigid on the exterior? What did I miss?
I was thinking “They’re all American designs”, and, for the record, in order they’re a strategic bomber, a transport aircraft, an airborne fuel tanker (converted from an airliner) and a reconnaisance plane. So that’s 1 out of 4 is an impliment of destruction!
But the list of six in the original also includes one British and one Soviet design, and they are both implements of destruction, which suggests that if you’re an aircraft and want to have a long operational life, you should consider a career in bombing!
Sort of; the longest-lived Canburra applications were as a target tug, and recconaissance again. And actually recce is also the main use that the TU-95 has actually been put to (and the last service role for several other dual or multi-role types), so maybe you should consider a career in taking photographs?
Unfortunately, there are war applications for each issue… it bothers me that one of our most splendid achievements as a species is used for that ends. Who hasn’t wished to be able to fly?
Other than military transport, the C-130 has been used for Search And Rescue work, weather research, delivery of humanitarian aid: The KC-135 has been used in support of same, and as I say was a conversion of an airliner, and the U-2 is the basis of the NASA ER-2, which has all sorts of science applications. I don’t think “there are war applications” stands up as an argument, since there are war applications of a beach pebble, a broken piece of tree…
I know… and as we all know, even transport planes can be used as weapons. It bothers me something so sublime as flying is subverted to that end. I’d prefer we stuck to pebbles and tree branches for war.
My youngest was three when the Twin Towers thing happened, and ever since she could talk, she talked about flying. She pretended to fly, she spoke constantly of it and she had imaginary friends that flew with her. She already knew what she wanted to do in life. When it happened, all that changed, and she changed profoundly. Flying, and all the intellectual achievements it requires now has a locked door it front of it.
I think any leaders that advocates fighting should be the ones to fight, nobody else need be involved. Tie their tails together and throw them over a fence…
Sorry to talk about war! I know my views can be annoying and I will try to avoid it in the future.
Most every sane and reasonable person despises war. But how do we get it to stop? I believe that our foray into Iraq was unnecessary and a terrible blunder. But how could we not respond to the 9/11 attacks without going into Afghanistan after Al Qaida, who of course were responsible for the attacks? I’ve never figured out how even the most ardent pacifist could believe that we shouldn’t have fought WWII. If we hadn’t, Nazism and Fascism would have taken over the world, literally. Alfred Nobel thought the invention of dynamite would make war so terrible people would stop it. Boy, was he wrong! As Einstein said, I don’t know what kind of weapons WWIII will be fought with; but I know the war after it will be fought with rocks and spears.
Throw Bin laden and Bush in a ring while the rest of us eat popcorn and yell. Churchill could have simply sat on Hitler…
It would have been interesting to see an oratorical contest between Hitler and Churchill, provided there were good translators available. As for Bin Laden, unfortunately we still cannot throw him anywhere.
Yes, for the game to work, everyone would have to play. Which means that the guys getting the explosives strapped on would have to say, “uh uh, you first. You’re the one that feels strongly about this! I’m just a person… and that looks dangerous.”
Hitler and Churchill could have speechified each other to death! It would needed judges in shifts.
I believe that if they had translated Spike Jones’ “Der Führer’s Face” into the languages of Europe and played it hourly on the radio, The Third Reich would have never happened.
Heehee! A court jester may be the third leg of democracy! Whatever that means.
I think I heard that the 30 year old space shuttle program is coming to an end.
Yes. There will be no more shuttle launches. The vehicle that will replace the shuttle has yet to be built. Me, I can’t fathom how we walked on the Moon in 1969, but haven’t been back in 35 years. I had imagined ordinary people would be going to the Moon by now, if not colonizing it, and that we’d have been to Mars. Of course, with the way we take care of this planet, one could certainly argue that it’s better that we haven’t had a chance to ruin others.
But unless we find a way to give mars it’s own atmosphere, it would be hard to pollute it the way we pollute earth.
I think you underestimate the power of Human idiocy.
Two are rock bands, but two out of four fail.
For deformed man who is Senior and has ID, it’s only half free.
Is this another case of gender-bigotry? Why doesn’t deformed woman get free ticket?
Because the deformed woman with the uniboob already got a pearl in her palm.
She wasn’t a senior!
Well, seniors here only get half off. If you follow the rules of logic strictly, to get in free you have to be a member of a pair consisting of one short child and one deformed man.
Wait…What happened to Tuesday?!
Tuesday is not even worth mentioning.
At the moment, I’d rather forget about Wednesday. I came to work in some of my spiffiest new clothes, then flopped in a mud puddle. Even though I landed on my right side, I somehow managed to aggravate the injury to the left shoulder I sustained putting up Christmas lights when I took a header off the porch. (Yes, us old fogeys heal slowly!) I haven’t found enough yucks here yet to accomplish an attitude adjustment, so I guess I’ll have to fall back on a little prayer and meditation…
I am having a particularly bad morning too….
Wow, that is not a good start to the day. I am about to call a do over on 2010 in general.
How odd.
I’ve been having problems with the furnace this morning.
In the process of trying to get it going properly I’ve ended up with heating oil all over me. Then I slipped on the mess on the floor, now my neck hurts.
I can’t go into work until the house warms up enough so I can bathe and get all this oil off of me….
And no, I’m not going to use the toilet to wash in.
Hey, just don’t do your hair or your clothes, and it’s cool.
CHEER UP, YOU GUYS!!!! My violent alcoholic schizophrenic neighbor got picked up yesterday, and could be gone for a year!!! Do I have the blues?? I think not!!
Was this a civil commitment? If so, I don’t know how the laws work in your state, but in West Virginia the most you could count on for a civil commitment was 10 days. Here in Kentucky, it’s only 3 days, which makes it hardly worth the effort. Long-term commitments do happen, but not often any more. Sad to say, but I’d hope he was picked up on a criminal charge instead, although even then at a pretrial hearing or trial, they tend to get diverted back into the mental health system. But at least then the person is likely to be gone a few weeks, anyway.
He was whacking on his mom, who is the sweetest lady in the world. I think it’s elder abuse. The bail was steep, and nobody paid it. I tell you, my life suddenly seems a lot easier and brighter. I was hyper-vigilante ALL the time because of this guy. He just kept getting worse. I’m hoping he will be in a situation with no booze, required meds, and occupational therapy. Someone will feed him three meals a day, it will be warm and clean, and there will be SOMEBODY there willing to be friends with him. It’s a big step up.
We started cleaning his den, I mean house, yesterday, so even if he is back in ten days, the garbage will be gone.
He is living proof that trolls in medieval fairy tales were no fantasy. I don’t mean to be cruel, but that’s what it is like.
I am not a wimp, but I have called the cops three times in about 18 months.
You have my sympathy. And usually, you’re right, they get on meds and a sane schedule and good food and they come to their senses. And then they get out and quit taking the medication, quit going to see the counselor, and in no time at all are back where they were. It is a VERY widespread problem.
I dunno, sometimes mental wards seem like the worst places for the mentally ill. I think a lot of it depends on how well the other patients are handled and how good the staff are at their jobs.
A member of my family is schizophrenic and has been all over this system; she’s dealt with clueless, jerky staff and out-of-control patients. Now she lives in assisted housing, in a very nice house with staff who seem to know what they’re doing, and she’s doing very well. She’s been there quite a long time, now. Still needs the support but isn’t anywhere near as crazy-out-of-control as she used to be.
This guy has a mean streak. He uses the crazy thing to intimidate, and get away with stuff. He steals, bullies, and hits little old ladies. I had two roommates when I was a young person with mental stuff (don’t know the diagnosis) and they were absolutely fine as housemates. Unusual, but fine. A close friend has a number of schizophrenics in his family, and they’re not like this guy. I thought this guy would be ok, that was so not the case. I do not wish to imply prejudice toward mental illness. This guy is just a pain, and I think he would be a pain without schizophrenia.
I can turn the lights off at night now. I will no longer be on engrish in the middle of the night, listening for shouting and pounding on the walls. I can stop worrying about someone trying to drug my dog.
The local kids won’t have any one to buy booze for them, in return for whiskey.
We have a state hospital in the next town, everyone I’ve met that works there has been good.
Unlike the impression one would get from TV and the movies, most people with mental illness are quite harmless. You’re much more likely to be assaulted by someone trying to rip you off than by someone who thinks you’re a pod person from the planet Grbxx#. And in general, I agree with the principle of deinstitutionalization. But there are a few problems with deinstitutionalization as it has been implemented. One is that the community mental health programs have never been funded at anything approaching their level of need. A second is that there are a few people who will never function outside of an institution, if for no other reason than that’s about all they’ve ever known. A third is that there is presently no legal way to compel a person to cooperate with outpatient treatment. The fourth is that there are some people, although not nearly as many as you see in entertainment media, who inhabit a twilight zone between sociopathy and mental illness, and neither the mental health nor the criminal justice systems deal with such people well.
State hospitals are generally not top-notch treatment facilities, but I have been in practice long enough to still vividly recall an era when many state institutions were hell-holes of neglect and abuse. The state hospitals of today are far, far better places than those. But it can be difficult to find a good doctor for garden-variety illnesses; in mental health, where we know much less, and where so much more depends upon personal character than technique or knowledge, good staff are always hard to find.
I’ve wondered if people with mental illnesses tend to act out and behave like a**h*l*s just because of the pressure that their illness puts on them. I know my family member has been an outrageous jerk when she’s not doing well, even though the personality she exhibits otherwise is perfectly pleasant.
Re: the state institutions, my mom works at a state-run mental health facility, and they’ve had quite a history of doing dumb, counterproductive things thus far. Admittedly, we need these institutions, but it would be nice if they could be better run, as well as better staffed.
I can’t believe how much this person was influencing my daily life. I couldn’t afford to move and so I was toughing it out. Also, if I gave notice, his parents would have taken him back in to keep me from moving, and I was sure he would take his anger out on his mom. Which he did anyway. I am glad she took steps.
He didn’t take his meds, he preferred alcohol and whatever else he could get. When asked, he would say he was taking them.
The local hospital is for criminally insane. I have met several employees and been favorably impressed. My oldest kid is considering working there. However, administration has had mixed reviews. There have been safety issues for the staff.
I don’t know of other suitable options for him. He would be extremely disruptive in a group home.
This guy is a serious energy suck for everyone he comes in contact with.
His mom dropped charges. She is worried that when he gets over schizophrenia, he will have a felony on his record and will have trouble finding a job. I am going to the hearing and making persistent yapping noises.
Hang in there. I hope you can get the right people to listen to you.
Thanks, I’ll do our best. I do not like this situation at all.
We’re off to see the Wizard…
With all that text to read, john and bluejade would have problems finding anybody to listen to them! *ugh*
I know you’re a young buck, but patience is a skill to be avidly cultivated.
If your attention span is too short, it’s not meant for you…
WHO ARE YOU CALLIN-…….what were we talking about?
I pity the deformed man
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Why? He has free eterance.
Eterance: The gateway to eternity?
‘Cause he needs a deformed entrance…
At first glance this one looked like Feeling Ancient Observatory, or at least that is how it appeared on my screen.
View of my bedroom, ~06:47 local time (about 22:47 on Jan 19th Cheeztime) this morning then!
Sucks for the deformed women
Who does?
Drat that Stephen Hawking!