No, we’ve just lost our minds and our way. SMH.

That’s the best idea I’ve heard in a while. TBH, I think either of our cats is more qual’d to be SECDEF than the incumbent.

Because of course they did. Little Crappy Ships for effing ever. Thank God I’m retired.

I grew up in this now-dilapidated E. Tennessee cabin in the 70s. It wasn’t much better then. Exposed TVA-era electric wiring, coal-burning fireplace and running water only in an add-on room. Not exactly good times, enough to motivate me to leave at 17 and into a 32-year Navy career w/advanced deg.

Now might be a good time to make a digital version of your Narco Submarines recognition guide available, if there isn’t one already.

Whiskey Long Bin, that takes me back to my youngest Navy days. A real mobile noise generator, that one.

I’ve been wondering when we would start seeing these out here in the Pacific.

This sort of thing is a very common practice in the Ground Troops (aka “Army”). Commanding officers rent conscript soldiers out for labor, while at the same time pocketing both the conscripts’ pay as well as the earnings from their labor out in town.

They must have learned this from a house cat.

“Robot Planes to Fight Enemy Air Raiders”, from 'Modern Mechanix' (July 1934 pages 52-55) blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/23/robot-planes-to-fight-enemy-air-raiders/ also www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sidney-g-browns-robot-planes.5294/

VERY interesting! This is reminiscent of stuff I found in 1930s aviation pulp fiction magazines (I’m not quite that old myself, though). Would love to hear those theories.

Yes.

I guess that means he’s okay with ending up like Mussolini as well?

The other side gets a vote in war and politics, so would not turn out well for Republicans. It would only create a liberal supermajority in the US. Canada is 10 provinces, would never agree to be 1 state. So 10 new states, 20 Senators & just under 50 new Cong reps, who are overwhelmingly liberal.