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The Association of Southern Schools has decided to pursue some of the
seemingly endless taxpayer dollar pipeline through Washington
designating Southern slang, or y'allbonics, as a language to be taught
in all Southern schools.
The following are excerpts from the Y'allbonics/English dictionary:
HEIDI - (noun) -Greeting.
HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage "Heidi, Hire
yew?"
BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow. "Usage "My
brother bard my pickup truck."
JAWJUH - (noun) - The State north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage
"My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."
BAMMER - (noun) - The State west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayum.
Usage "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in
improvements."
MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division. Usage "My brother from Jawjuh bard
my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."
THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."
BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast.
Usage "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."
IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native." Usage "Them
bammer boys sure are ignert!"
RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage "I thank I left
my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a
few munts ago."
ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage "I sure hope my
brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."
FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage "If my brother from Jawjuh don't
change the all in my pickup truck, that thing's gonna catch far."
TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage "Gee, I hope that brother of mine
from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument. Usage "Lord willin' and the creek don't
rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage "My grampaw retard at age 65."
FAT - (noun), (verb) -- a battle or combat; to engage in battle or
combat. Usage "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'uh."
RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage "We Southerners are
willin' to fat for are rats."
CHEER - (adverb) In this place. Usage "Just set that bare rat cheer."
FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he
sed ... must be from some farn country."
DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage "He's did, Jim."
ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas Oxygen. Usage "He cain't
breathe...give 'im some ARE!"
BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage "Boy, stay away from
that bob war fence."
JEW HERE - (noun) and (verb) contraction. Usage "Jew here that my
brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?"
HAZE - a contraction. Usage "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert. He
ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."
SEED - (verb) -- past tense of "to see".
VIEW - contraction (verb) and pronoun. Usage "I ain't never seed New
York City ... view?"
GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution. Usage "Them gubmint boys
shore is ignert."
A Poem published in the year 1949 shown in the attachment hits the nail on the head today. Somebody was thinking of what is happening now more than 50 years ago.
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Wed. Morn., Jan. 4th. – To all of YOU who love to fly.........
This video is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia .
These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VL's and STO's in a three week period. The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the deck and wash sailors overboard. Neither of which happened. You will notice a sailor standing on the bow of the ship as the jet rotates. That was an intentional part of the sea trials.
The USS Wasp is an amphibious assault ship designed to embark a Marine Expeditionary Unit. It is capable of simultaneously supporting rotary and fixed wing STOVL aircraft and amphibious landing craft operations. For this test deployment the USS Wasp was outfitted with special instrumentation to support and measure the unique operating environment as the F-35B conducted short takeoffs and vertical landings.
No catapult...... No hook ............
The shape and scope of warfare - worldwide - just changed.
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Buck SextonQuestion: What do you get when you combine a massive, super-advanced aircraft carrier with some of the best fighter planes on the planet?
Answer: 100,000 tons of U.S. diplomacy.
Meet the USS Gerald Ford.
The Gerald Ford will be the lead ship of the Gerald Ford Class, which is an update to the Nimitz Class Navy Aircraft Carriers that have given the U.S. sea and aerial dominance around the globe for decades. It's also slated to be the most expensive weapon ever created at around $11.5 billion– far and away the Navy's most expensive warship.
Given recent Iranian provocations regarding the Persian Gulf and its threat to close the Straits of Hormuz, the possibility of a deteriorating Iraq in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal, and the climate for another Arab-Israeli conflict, the need for "4.5 acres of mobile and sovereign U.S. territory" has perhaps never been more apparent.
Business Insider has put together some slides that show the design of the ship, and below you can also see some of the state-of-the-art fighter planes and missiles that will make the USS Ford the most tactically dominant naval vessel ever built.
Above is a 2004 artist's rendition of the USS Gerald R. Ford, three years before construction began in 2007. Its design improvements include a larger flight deck, a new propulsion plant design that requires fewer personnel to operate and maintain, and a new smaller island that has been pushed aft.
Technological advances have led to the development of an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System, (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) which will allow 220 aircraft to be deployed each day.
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Above is a cross-section sketch that gives a good overview of the Ford's planned construction.
Of course, an updated multi-billion dollar carrier needs to have billions of dollars of the most advanced fighter planes on earth to transport and deploy.
FA-18 Super Hornet:
The Super Hornet is the aerial work horse of the U.S Navy's fighter plane fleet. It is a twin-engine carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft, with an internal 20 mm gun and configurations of either air-to-air missiles and air-to-surface weapons.
The Super Hornet first flew in 1995, but full-rate production began in September 1997 to replace the somewhat outdated F-14 Tomcat (made famous in the movie "Top Gun").
The fighter is basically a new plane in comparison to the original FA-18 hornet. The original intent was to use the Super Hornet until the the F-35C Lightning II could come online. But given the amount of service– and success– the Super Hornet has seen, it is likely to be a staple of aerial naval warfare for years to come.
Here is a video of the FA-18 Super Hornet taking off from a Carrier and doing a fly-by, courtesy of the US Navy and Airboyd.tv:
F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
F-35C can be fired from the deck of a carrier by the EMALS system. Beyond that, it is a major upgrade over previous stealth aircraft technologies from a maintenance standpoint because it can survive much more hostile environments and is therefore able to operate from an aircraft carrier at sea.
The F-35C weapons system is also reconfigurable, which means "the internal weapons bay can set up all air-to-ground ordnance, all air-to-air ordnance or a blend of both. A missionized version of the 25 mm GAU-22A cannon is installed or removed as needed."
When stealth is not required to execute a mission, the F-35C external pylons are loaded with ordnance, which means the airframe has a total weapons payload exceeding 18,000 pounds.
Here is a video of the F-35 getting launched by EMALS:
E-18 Growler
The Growler is a specialized version on the F/A-18 used for electronic warfare that entered service in 2009 will be deployed along with the Ford Class Aircraft Carriers.
The Growler reportedly can perform defensive and offensive electronic jamming functions, suppression of enemy anti-aircraft measures, and "non-traditional electronic attacks." As fighter planes and bombers increasingly become unmanned, the electronic warfare functions of the E-18 Growler will only increase in importance on the modern battlefield.
And of course, in a pinch, its still an FA-18 platform, and can therefore perform traditional shoot-and-scoot and escort duties .
Raytheon's RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile will be used to protect the Ford from attacking missiles and aircraft. It provides self-defense battlespace and firepower against high-speed, highly maneuverable anti-ship missiles.
Think of it like a more nimble version of the Patriot missile, fired from the deck of a Carrier.
The new Ford Class Carriers are currently being assembled in Newport News, Virginia. This 15-ton piece of a side-shell unit was the first slab of steel cut for the carrier during a 2005 ceremony:
The first keel assembly is put in place by cranes:
According to BI, this "945-ton superlift section of the carrier contains a diesel generator room, a pump room, an oily water waste pump room, 16 complete tanks and 18 partial tanks:"
This stern section was among the largest of the 162 sections that make up the carrier:
When it is finally complete, the Ford will be even bigger than the Nimitz Class USS Theodore Roosevelt, pictured above.
The USS Gerald Ford is set to join the U.S. Navy's fleet in 2015, and is slated to replace the current USS Enterprise, ending her then 50-plus years of active service with the United States Navy.
(h/t Business Insider)
Impressed by the effectiveness of the liberal Center for American Progress, a group of conservative journalists and operatives are preparing to engage in their own sincerest form of flattery — launching an advocacy group with a similar name and mission but very different target.
Part assault on CAP and part homage, the Center for American Freedom's goal is to wage a well-funded assault on the Obama White House and the liberal domination of partisan online media.
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Based in Washington, it will have an annual budget of "several million dollars," according to its chairman, Michael Goldfarb, and will house a new conservative online news outlet, the Washington Free Beacon, edited by former Weekly Standard writer Matthew Continetti. It will also include a campaign-style war room led by two former chiefs of the Republican National Committee's vaunted research operation, and a media-monitoring shop that aims to do to MSNBC what Media Matters has done to Fox News.
"This is a fairly modest start-up that really hopes to combat the Center for American Progress and create something that in the not-so-distant future can be competitive," said Goldfarb, 31, a former Weekly Standard writer who is now a partner in the lobbying firm Orion Strategies, where his clients include Charles and David Koch — liberal bugaboos and dominant funders of a range of conservative causes and politicians.
He declined to say whether they were among the donors to the Center for American Freedom. But the group's birth is the latest chapter of an ongoing battle the Kochs and other wealthy conservatives have been engaged in for a generation. It was their money and encouragement that helped build a vital conserative infrastructure in the 1970s that CAP was somewhat belatedly founded to counter three decades later.
But while conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation remain important sources of conservative policy and strategy, they have struggled to mix it up in the new online media sphere. CAF's founding marks a recognition of the success of the Democratic online infrastructure and its spectrum of successful partisan media operations, which have blended journalistic values of speed and accuracy with ideological and partisan goals to great impact.
"It's very impressive what they've done," Goldfarb said. "Obviously, I think they're misguided and they have some horrible policy views and they've done some things I wouldn't do, but the premise of it is extremely impressive."
A test run for CAF, Goldfarb said, was the Emergency Committee for Israel, which he also advised, and which waged a relentless guerrilla media campaign against the efforts of J Street — a national membership organization with a sizable Washington staff — to create a liberal counterweight in American Middle East policy.
"That showed that you can have a less well-funded organization but you can present a pretty devastating asymmetric counterweight to something much larger and more established on the other side if you go about it in an effective way," Goldfarb said.
Another model may be Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe, a tiny group with similar leadership — Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, Goldfarb's mentor, is on the board of all three groups. The Center for American Freedom's president, Aaron Harison, 30, was the executive director of Keep America Safe, which ran a 2009 campaign against Obama administration lawyers who had represented alleged terrorists before joining the administration. It labeled them "The Al Qaeda Seven."
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The real inspiration for the Center for American Freedom, though, is the Center for American Progress — the new group's mission statement, for instance, appears at points to be literally copied and pasted from CAP's, with the word "freedom" substituted for "progress" — as well as other unabashedly liberal websites.
"Our models are the Center for American Progress /Think Progress, TPM, and Huffington Post politics," Continetti said in an email."These outlets have been at the cutting edge of ideological journalism for years, and it is time for the right to emulate their success."
Continetti, 30, is the author most recently of a sympathetic account of Sarah Palin's career, "The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star." He's not, however a pure partisan, and is also known for a slashing long-form take-down of the Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He and Goldfarb said the Beacon had been promised editorial independence.
And Continetti has already hired a staff on a scale that will make an immediate impact on the Washington media scene.
They include Bill Gertz, a veteran Washington Times defense national security writer, and the Washington Jewish Week's Adam Kredo, a well-sourced beat reporter with a reputation for neutrality. The Beacon has also poached Andrew Stiles from National Review online; CJ Ciaramella from The Daily Caller; Patrick Howley from the American Spectator; and Sonny Bunch, a former Weekly Standard and Washington Times writer now at the lobbying and corporate public relations firm Berman & Co.
The Beacon won't cover the Republican presidential campaign currently consuming much of the nation's media attention, Goldfarb said.
"We want to break news, we want to do investigative reporting, and that's a big reason why we're investing so heavily in the research component of this thing," he said. "I suspect most of the press is going to be pretty suspicious of this. I think they should have been more suspicious of places like the Center for Public Integrity and Pro Publica" — new, independent, not-for-profit media organizations — "but this has become a new and legitimate model and we're hoping to create something on the right that will hopefully challenge those organizations on the left."
"If we break news and our work is of quality, people will necessarily have to treat it as legitimate," he said.
The group is currently structured as a 501(c)(4) advocacy group, Goldfarb said, mimicking CAP's more combative media and research arm. the Center for American Progress Action Fund; it may add a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, like CAP , for less overtly partisan work, he said.
Goldfarb said he's borrowing another position from the liberal think tank, which was founded in 2003 to buttress the Democratic opposition to a Republican president.
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Like CAP, his group won't disclose its donors. CAP has justified that stance by saying that, unlike the anonymously financed campaign groups it criticizes for secrecy, it doesn't run TV ads.
"We've really modeled ourselves on the CAP Action Fund, which has set a rather arbitrary position, but it's a position we'll adhere to, which is that as long as you're not engaged in paid media, there really shouldn't be an issue as to transparency and who's funding it," he said.
The group's new offices, at 1600 K St., have at their physical heart a campaign-style war room and wall of televisions, where Drew Florio, who ran Meg Whitman's campaign war room when she ran for governor of California and did opposition research for Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign, will lead a team of junior staffers. The research department, meanwhile, is led by Tim Killeen, a former acting RNC research director; former RNC research director Shawn Reinschmidt is a consultant to the group.
And like the Center for American Progress, which had its start opposing the policies of President George W. Bush, the new operation will be defined by its opposition to the White House, its leaders said.
"Our original reporting and commentary will hold the left to the same standards to which ThinkProgress, TPM and Huffington Post hold the right. Liberals in journalism excel at portraying the GOP and conservatives as hypocritical self-dealers and lunatics," said Continetti. "But it is only the activist press's ideological and partisan biases which prevent it from seeing the Obama administration, Democrats in Congress and the broader progressive movement through exactly the same lens."
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