BURPELSON AIR FORCE BASE, OMAHA – (CT&P) -The 1.5 trillion-dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is unable to defeat the decades old F-16 in a dogfight, according to a report released last week by the Pentagon.
According to the report, in visual range air-to-air dogfight tests conducted in January between an F-35A and an F-16C, the F-35 was “shot down” by the decades-old F-16 nine out of ten times. In the one instance where the F-35 was victorious it was aided by a flock of geese that flew into the path of the F-16 at a critical moment and collided with it, causing the pilot to eject.
The F-35, nicknamed ‘The Garbage Scow’ or ‘The Widow Maker’ by test pilots, has been plagued with problems from its inception, but the dogfight analysis offered some of the most depressing news yet to USAF officials.
The report stated that F-16 was able to “fly rings around the new jet” and shoot it down as if it were a Sopwith Camel or other World War I flying machine.
The report even goes into what is akin to a fairly desperate move usually only used in one-on-one air combat maneuvers, known as a rudder reversal, that the F-35 is apparently decent at performing at slow speeds. The fact that this was even detailed in the report as a useful tactic is telling. In reality, using such maneuvers means you are probably going to die if any other bad guys are in the area as it rapidly depletes the aircraft’s energy state, leaving it vulnerable to attack.
And to add insult to injury, the JSF flier discovered he couldn’t even comfortably move his head inside the radar-evading jet’s cramped cockpit. “The helmet was too large for the space inside the canopy to adequately see behind the aircraft.” That allowed the F-16 to sneak up on him.
The F-16 pilot, Major T. J. “King” Kong reportedly told his commanding officer that it was like “shooting fish in a barrel.”
“It was just like a turkey shoot back home in Lubbock,” said Major Kong. “I could see that poor feller twistin’ and turnin’ in his seat and bangin’ his head on the canopy just like a coon trapped in a shoebox. It was like going up against Snoopy and his flyin’ doghouse, I tell ya. I mean, it shore is a purty plane and all, but I’ll retire before I have to fly one of those junk heaps!”
USAF General Jack Ripper, who has from the beginning been critical of the trillion-dollar aircraft, told Aviation Week that our only hope is that the Chinese copy the plane down to the last detail.
“It can’t fire its cannon, it has trouble flying right side up, it has a tendency to explode during refueling, it has trouble turning and climbing, it can’t fly near thunderstorms, and it’s computer systems are just as likely to target automobiles on the interstate as enemy aircraft. Hell, even its stealth capabilities have turned out to be a drawback ’cause we can’t find the wreckage when one goes down. It’s a trillion dollar piece of shit!”
Despite all of its troubles the F-35 continues to be a big hit with congressmen in whose districts the plane’s parts are manufactured, and with war hawks intent on bankrupting the country through the military industrial complex.
Each plane will cost over $100 billion and runs about $35,000 per hour to operate. The Pentagon plans on building over 2500 of the abominations.
God help us all.
How to classify a man (?) who aims to murder a lion with a bow and arrow, fails, tracks the terrified animal for several hours, shoots it, skins it, then cuts its head off as a trophy, relegating at the same time the animal’s cubs to a certain death by the Alpha male that takes his place in the pride? Should he be allowed to practice medicine?
Let us start by turning the tables on Walter James Palmer, the dentist from Minnesota, United States of America but before that let us pay tribute to the lion we call Cecil, that magnificent animal which delighted countless visitors, producing numerous cubs from several females, the Alpha male of a pride of 22 lions at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. His movements are well known since 2008, for it was then that he was tagged as part of a scientific study to learn more about Africa’s dwindling lion population.
Thanks to the efforts of this dentist from Minnesota, and monsters like him, the number of lions in the wild in Africa has plummeted to some 20,000 from some 450,000 in the 1940s. Now there is not only one fewer, but a whole family.
Enter Walter James Palmer, described as a dentist and a “big game hunter”, who allegedly paid 50,000 USD for the pleasure of traveling to Zimbabwe, and once this wonderful animal was lured out of the safety of the national park, tried and failed to kill it with a bow and arrow.
Injured, the terrified animal scrambled to the safety of the brush, whereupon Palmer and his guides initiated a 40-hour trek to track him down. And now let us turn the tables on Palmer.
How would Mr. Walter James Palmer, the dentist from Minnesota, apparently still eligible to practice medicine (was that the United States of America or some banana republic?)…How would Mr. Walter James Palmer like it if someone lured him out of the safety of his home, or country, and fired an arrow into his neck? How would he feel as he knew instinctively that the hunt was on and that he was running for his life?
How would Mr. Walter James Palmer feel as he dashed into the undergrowth, gasping for breath, hearing the pounding of feet behind him, the shouts of excitement as his predators sensed their kill, knowing that every droplet of blood would bring them nearer as he lay defenseless with only the skin on his body to protect him against the vastly superior firepower of his hunters? How would he feel as they tracked him for forty hours, two days and an entire night, until they finally caught up with him, shot him in the head, skinned him while there was still life in his eyes and then cut his head off to take somewhere as a trophy, cooing with pleasure at such a monumental display of “valor”?
How would he feel as he lay dying, knowing that his children would be killed by the next Alpha male that took over his family and how would he feel knowing that this Alpha male would spend the next few years siring his wife?
And how do we feel when a man (?) like this produces the excuse “I thought it was a legal hunt”?
How can any “hunt” in this day and age be considered “legal”? Has Humankind not destroyed enough of our planet already? Haven’t we poisoned the land, devastated the habitat of countless species, driving thousands of them into extinction every year, turned the oceans into a sea of plastic, which will float around on the currents for the next 4,000 years? Haven’t we left enough swathes of land radioactive for the next half-million years in our attempt to murder each other, wasting trillions of dollars each and every year on military expenditure while our children grow up hungry?
What right does Mr. Palmer have to murder animals, when animals do not belong to anybody to be murdered? Are these not the actions of a psychopath?
Isn’t it about time Humankind manned up for once and drew a line to protect our beautiful home from monsters such as those who go around shooting animals for fun? Isn’t it time we drew a line, stood together, closed ranks and demanded that any acts of hunting for sport or for trophies should be illegal and carry draconian sentences, isn’t it time we protected our collective habitat against those who burn down forests then stand giggling as an orang-utang falls half-burnt to the ground, as some subhuman piece of excrement somewhere in the USA stuffs a firework into the mouth of a dog and stands back laughing as the dog has its face blown off, before it dies, as was the case this week?
Maybe today Walter James Palmer feels what it is like to be the hunted rather than the hunter. Luckily for him, he will not be shot with an arrow, tracked for forty hours, shot, skinned and have his head cut off. But would anyone have an iota of sympathy for him if it happened?
What happens to Mr. Walter James Palmer, the dentist from Minnesota, is up to the courts of law, not vigilante groups. Let us see what justice the American legal system provides. After Guantanamo Bay torture and concentration camp, forgive me for predicting that nothing will happen to this apology of a man and that he will carry on practicing medicine (dentistry) somewhere else as if nothing had happened. In five years’ time there he will be again with a stupid expression on his face next time with a cheetah to add to his collection of rhino, leopards and Cecil the Lion. Only on Planet Earth 2015.
Just let me ask a last question. As he is murdering animals in cold blood in Africa, is he thinking of his wife, his children, his colleagues or his patients? When his patients are lying in that dentist’s chair, have they any idea that the person (?) standing over them is the one who pays to go around firing arrows into lions for fun, shooting animals for fun, having them skinned for fun and their heads cut off? For fun?
Today, like a sniveling, cringing, yellow-bellied little coward, someone is hiding from the wave of hatred that his actions alone have caused. And nobody, anywhere on Earth, feels a shred of sympathy for him. Spare a thought for his wife, who has to wake up every morning and face something like that day in and day out.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
– See more at: http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/30-07-2015/131536-hunting_murder-0/#sthash.L4nbmiDU.dpuf
Goldman Sachs: The bank that rules the world
Ever since the stock market crashed, on the night of September 15, 2008, the name Goldman Sachs, or GS, has been appearing everywhere: in the collapse of the financial system, the Greek crisis, the plunge of the euro, and the campaign to prevent regulation of financial markets.
The investment bank created in New York in 1868 has carved out its reputation and success by working silently behind the scenes.
But today GS stands accused of myriad charges: playing a key role in the subprime loan fiasco, pushing several of its competitors into bankruptcy, helping countries like Greece hide their deficits before speculating on their downfall, precipitating the fall of the euro, and influencing the consumer price index. And yet GS has come out of this latest crisis richer and more powerful than ever.
Tony Abbott has been in power since 7 September 2013. From that moment, he and his government have broken promises and hurt Australians. This post will be regularly updated to keep track of the Abbott Government’s broken promises and everything his Government does to hurt Australians. Each separate item will have a link to a source. Broken promises appear in bold and in a separate fully referenced list at the end.
Sally McManus is the Secretary of the Australian Services Union in NSW and the ACT.
She has been a campaigner and an organiser for more than 20 years and spent a lot of time doing and talking about organising and campaigning. Her blog is a comprehensive list of policy and other decisions taken by the Abbott Government. I cannot vouch for the veracity of the entire list, nor do I necessarily agree with everyone (although I have no reason to doubt them) but I recommend the list to those with an interest in how Tony Abbott is changing Australia.
The list has become so lengthy that is best to view it on Sally’s site.
A number of Australia’s private helicopter charters have been placed in voluntary administration, following Speaker Bronwyn Bishop’s resignation yesterday.
Company heads held crisis talks around the country, with many concerned they may not be able to see out the year.
“We used to do the run from Parliament House to Mrs Bishop’s Canberra apartment. She pretty much kept this company going,” a shaken Tom Greig, who runs a luxury helicopter operator, said today.
Jeremy Wiltshire, who owns a charter outfit in Melbourne, said he would need to fundamentally rethink his business model now. “No-one else is going to charter a helicopter from Essendon to Geelong. This changes everything”.
Many, like Sydney operator Ken Low, said they held fond memories of the former Speaker. “I remember once flying Mrs Bishop from the CBD to Paramatta. That paid for the kids to go to private school. Yeah, I’ll miss her”.
Mrs Bishop had agreed to be a guest speaker at a fundraising event for the helicopter industry next week, but then remembered she had no means of getting there.
VATICAN CITY – (CT&P) – Following his usual Friday champagne brunch with Pope Francis this morning, Raptor Jesus paused outside the Vatican long enough to tell journalists that he had “had it up to here” with both poachers and cosmetic dentists.
“Both are the disciples of Lucifer,” said the Prince of Scales.
“Therefore I think it is only just, since he is the very embodiment of evil, that I make an example of Dr. Walter Palmer. After he has a brief, say, 15 year stint in a Zimbabwean butt-rape prison, I’m going to have Gabe pay him a visit and extradite his sorry ass to Hades.”
“He ought to have a real good time in the slam with that dysfunctional penis of his,” chuckled the reptilian Redeemer.
During a brief question and answer period after RJ was finished, a reporter from the Messianic Times commented that although everyone on earth except the soulless cretins at Breitbart and The Blaze wanted Palmer behind bars for what he did to Cecil, he didn’t understand the Savior’s enmity regarding cosmetic dentistry.
“I’ll show you why I hate their guts,” said the Ruler of Reptiles, at which point Raptor Jesus produced a brilliant smile, revealing row after row of razor-sharp teeth, each about two inches long.
“My dentist, Dr. Emilio Lizardo of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, promised me a ‘Hollywood smile,’ and this is what I ended up with. To Hell with all of them is what I say,” said the Lizard King of Kings. “Now if you will excuse me I’ve got to take off. I’m needed on Planet 10 to resolve a dispute between rival sects of sauropods.”
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