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Ever wonder why…?

The Mooselimbs are going so hard after France and the UK for one pretty good reason.

Hrm. And suddenly, it all makes sense.

(Via WRSA)

Update! Also via WRSA: Poor little fool.


Since I just used the chorus line, I can’t help but stick the whole song in here.



Immortal classics

Hellacious planes, hellacious stories.

In 1963, a test pilot aimed a massive C-130 Hercules at a carrier deck with no tailhook or arresting wires. He pulled off 21 flawless landings, yet the Navy never did it again.

The audacious experiment was born out of a growing logistical problem: aircraft carriers were operating further out to sea, and standard transport planes were too small to deliver heavy replacement parts like jet engines. To see if they could increase their Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) capacity, the Chief of Naval Operations ordered a feasibility study on landing the cargo plane at sea.

The Navy borrowed a Marine Corps KC-130F, removed its underwing refueling pods, installed heavy-duty anti-skid brakes, and painted a white centerline on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal. Test pilot Lt. James H. Flatley III was chosen to fly the operation without any catapults for takeoff.

To land a 121,000-pound cargo plane on a floating runway, the Forrestal steamed into the wind to generate up to 50 knots of natural wind over the deck. Flatley brought the Hercules down precisely on the carrier’s white line, immediately threw the four massive turboprop engines into reverse pitch, and stood on the anti-skid brakes. During one test run with an 85,000-pound gross weight, he brought the aircraft to a complete halt in just 267 feet.

Over several weeks, the crew completed 29 touch-and-goes alongside the full-stop landings, plus 21 unassisted takeoffs. The tests proved conclusively that the C-130 could safely resupply a carrier at sea, carrying up to 30,000 pounds of cargo and flying thousands of miles without refueling.

Despite the flawless execution, the Navy never adopted the C-130 operationally for one simple reason: its 132-foot wingspan completely monopolized the flight deck. To receive the Hercules, all other aircraft had to be moved out of the way or struck below, paralyzing normal combat operations. Taking a carrier out of the fight simply to receive cargo was considered unacceptable. Instead, the Navy used the C-130 data to justify building a smaller, purpose-built delivery plane—the Grumman C-2 Greyhound—which could carry a heavy payload, fold its wings, and integrate seamlessly into standard flight operations.

Nobody ever called her pretty, but the venerable Herky Bird assumed several different roles over its long operational lifespan, with an almost shocking success rate. Story Numero Dos.

The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U under the 1922 designation system) is a retired single-jet engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority fighter designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Vought. It was the last American fighter that had guns as the primary weapon, earning it the title “The Last of the Gunfighters”.

Development of the F-8 commenced after release of the requirement for a new fighter by the United States Navy in September 1952. Vought’s design team, led by John Russell Clark, produced the V-383, a relatively unorthodox fighter that possessed an innovative high-mounted variable-incidence wing, an area-ruled fuselage, all-moving stabilators, dog-tooth notching at the wing folds for improved yaw stability, and liberal use of titanium throughout the airframe. During June 1953, Vought received an initial order to produce three XF8U-1 prototypes of its design. On 25 March 1955, the first prototype performed its maiden flight. Flight testing proved the aircraft to be relatively problem-free. On 21 August 1956, U.S. Navy pilot R.W. Windsor attained a top speed of 1,015 mph; in doing so, the F-8 became the first jet fighter in American service to reach 1,000 mph.

During March 1957, the F-8 was introduced into regular operations with the US Navy. In addition to the Navy, the type was also operated by the French Navy, and the Philippine Air Force. Early on, the type experienced an above-average mishap rate, being somewhat difficult to pilot. American F-8s saw active combat during the Vietnam War, engaging in multiple dogfights with MiG-17s of the Vietnam People’s Air Force as well as performing ground attack missions in the theatre. The RF-8 Crusader was a photo-reconnaissance model. It played a crucial role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, providing essential low-level photographs of Soviet medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) in Cuba that were impossible to acquire by other means at that time. Several modified F-8s were used by NASA for experimental flights, including the testing of digital fly-by-wire technology and supercritical wing design. The RF-8 operated in U.S. service longer than any of the fighter versions; the United States Navy Reserve withdrew its remaining aircraft during 1987.

Crusader with the variable-instance wing deployed:

Update! What the hey, have another: the Crusader’s badass little brother, the A7 Corsair.

The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV).

The A-7 was developed during the early 1960s as replacement for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. Its design was derived from the Vought F-8 Crusader; in comparison with the F-8, the A-7 is both smaller and restricted to subsonic speeds, its airframe being simpler and cheaper to produce. Following a competitive bid by Vought in response to the United States Navy’s (USN) VAL (Heavier-than-air, Attack, Light) requirement, an initial contract for the type was issued on 8 February 1964. Development was rapid, first flying on 26 September 1965 and entering squadron service with the USN on 1 February 1967. By the end of that year, A-7s were being deployed overseas for the Vietnam War.

The Corsair ended up being another multirole aircraft, rapidly developing into quite the little jack-of-all-trades, master-of-several mainstay until the F16 and F/A18 came along to elbow it unceremoniously aside. The family resemblance between the two Vought fighter/attack siblings is unmistakable.

See whut I mean?

The “Islamist” dodge

Like so much else nowadays, the non-word is just a cope, a way to avoid facing up to the REAL issue.

In August, the Daily Signal published an article entitled ‘Sharia Takeover’? What Conservatives Miss in the Debate Over Airport Foot Washing by Tyler O’Neil. The article misapprehends the true nature of Islam and is oblivious to Islamic war doctrine.

‘Islamism’

Islam seeks world domination and imposes a religious duty to wage violent jihad as the means to achieve it. These are standard Islamic doctrines, not flights of fancy tacked on later by ‘fundamentalists’ or ‘extremists’. They come straight from the pages of the Quran. The Quran says 164 times in various ways ‘slay the infidel’. Here are two representative passages:

  • Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme. Quran 8:40
  • I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads; strike off the very tips of their fingers. Quran 8:12

Such passages cannot be airbrushed away. Muslims believe the Quran is direct transcription of the words of Allah and, as such, no human being can change them.

As President Erdogan of Turkey put it, “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Thus, the source of the problem is Islam itself. Those who try to separate ‘political Islam’ from ‘religious Islam’ are on a fool’s errand. Moreover, the legions of observers who join the author of the Daily Signal article in referring to ‘Islamists’ (as opposed to ‘peaceful Muslims’) commit fundamental error.

To underscore the point, the threat is not ‘Islamism’ or ‘radical Islam’. The threat is Islam. The author of the Daily Signal article completely misses the mark in writing: “We should condemn any attacks motivated by radical Islam as we condemn attacks on peaceful Muslims who seek to exercise their faith. Preserving that distinction is not weakness — it’s essential to winning the argument against Islamism.” But the argument cannot be against “Islamism”. The argument has to be against Islam itself.

This is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about. But until Islam ceases to exist, the rest of humanity is in mortal danger from self-declared enemies who adhere to Islam’s tenets. All who consider themselves faithful observant Muslims are a threat, whether they’ve ever cracked a Quran or not. The Quran is what they profess to believe, giving license to militant actors to wage war on all nonbelievers. There is no other religion that imposes a doctrinal duty to subjugate and kill nonbelievers.

S’truth. Read every single last word of it. I’m thinking this one is important enough that I’m gonna post it over at Ye Aulde Caulde Fury Muthashippe as well.

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FLYING CARS!

Brought to you, at long last, by the incredible Elon Musk.


Elon’s desert-dry “Well, it worked” at the end is beyond priceless. Lots more way-cool vids—including the one showing this little shit-peeler doing 0-60 in less than one second (!)—at the link up top.

Update! InstaGlenn takes the piss out of a bunch of shitlibs doing what they always do: whining, bitching, and moaning about somebody who just did something they’ll never be able to do themselves in a bajillion years. To wit:

The thing about the left is, it’s made up largely of people who aren’t great at doing things. They don’t get rich by building things or doing things. They get rich, when they do, by declaring problems, getting the government to throw money at them, and then stealing some (sometimes pretty much all) of that money for themselves and their NGOs. There’s nothing for them in flying cars.

But there’s more than that going on here. Because getting rich to them is secondary to self-importance. When Elon does something cool, they’re offended because they feel diminished by that. As Norman Mailer wrote about why the hippies turned against the space program, the hippies spent years going around talking about how they were going to change the world, then a bunch of guys with flattop haircuts and pocket protectors and slide rules went and actually did it. Unforgivable.

Yep, nailed it in one go. Glenn’s closer is priceless: “Cool things are what Americans do. Let’s stay Americans.” Heh. Indeed.

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Memezapoppin’!

Welcome to this week’s installment of our Wednesday meme feature, folks. Links to the “found via” sources will be attached to the specific MiQ’s (Memes in Question) whenever I can remember them, which likely won’t be very often. Only the first two memes will appear above the fold to save on bandwidth usage, since I assume not everybody who shows up at this here websty will want to see all of them. This intro will appear at the top of each week’s Memezapoppin’! post. Enjoy, funny-pitcher lovers.

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News FLASH: Dog bites man!

Elsewhere, Schlichter right again.


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Let Tony say it

Update!  Via our old friend Sefton, Trump had a few choice words to add himself.

Trump Says ‘Days of Plunder’ of Columbus Statues ‘Are Over’
President Donald Trump issued a Columbus Day message, stating that the “days of plunder” of radical left Democrats, socialists, and communists ripping down statues of Christopher Columbus “are over.”

In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump issued a Columbus Day message, a day early. In his post, Trump shared that Columbus Day is “a big day for our great Italian American Community.”

“HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY TO ALL, in particular our great Italian American Community which was forced to suffer as the Radical Left Dumocrats, Socialists, and Communists rampaged through our cities and towns ripping down almost all of the beautiful statutes of Christopher Columbus,” Trump said. “Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever.”
“This is a big day for our great Italian American Community, and the Country of Italy itself, maybe the biggest,” Trump added.

On Friday, Trump spoke about how “the radical left communists hate Columbus,” and also accused Democrat Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed of wanting “to abolish Columbus Day.”

Preach it, Mr Preznit, sir.

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Marco gets it

He really, really gets it.

He began with a bit of a history lesson.

“For thousands of years, the civilization that built what stands behind me has captivated the imagination of the Western World. Generations of statesmen, artists, and philosophers have looked to it — they’ve looked to it wonder. They’ve looked to it with awe,” he said. “Now, time has a tendency to dull the senses. Great victories and catastrophic defeats — they seem to shrink to becoming like a footnote in a textbook, another fact for our school children to memorize and forget.”

“But the Greeks of antiquity, they seem to have an almost mystical hold on our memory,” he continued. “They call us back to them again and again.”

Here’s more:

“For 25 centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow.

And the progeny of the men who built it — the sons of Athens and Rome — have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the Earth.

Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now, I stand here today — as the Secretary of State of that republic, and as the great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain — I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space, can ever extinguish.

Today, we find ourselves at a crossroads because the next decade and the decisions we make will write the story of the next century. The course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of atrophy, servitude, and decline. We will either choose to act now, or lose the choice to act at all. Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice.”

Preach it, brother.

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A slight discrepancy

By now, you’ve all heard so much about the Cornell 7 “rape” incident you’re about sick unto death of it, same as me. That being so, I am not gonna belabor the thing further here, just gonna make one minor, trivial little point that I haven’t seen anybody else bring up yet.

‘Cornell 7’ frat bro claimed accuser ‘sodomized’ him and that school didn’t care he was sex-assault ‘survivor:’ report
The frat brother at the center of the “Cornell 7” gang-rape allegations claimed to campus officials that the accuser “sodomized” him — and complained nobody cared he was a sex-assault “survivor,” an explosive new report says.

Matthew Ingalls’ stunning assertions came as separate documents showed the fraternity scrambled to control the story out of fear that “the reputation of all involved and the frat would be ruined” — and tried to frame the alleged rape as a “consensual orgy,’’ ABC News reported.

Ingalls — the Chi Phi brother who the accuser said sparked her alleged 2024 gang rape — wrote to campus officials in a seething email that the Ivy League school was guilty of “gender discrimination” and “entrapment” as it conducted its investigation into him and six of his fraternity brothers over the alleged horror.

“You received information that I was sodomized by her while I was incapacitated back in November, and you never once thought to alert me of my rights under these procedures as a survivor of this assault?” Ingalls said in the February 2025 missive to Cornell’s Title IX office and obtained by ABC.

“The very fact that I had to bring this to your attention now in February confirms my worst fears: that this process is rolled [sic] with gender discrimination,” he said.

The email came three months after the woman, only identified as Jane Doe in her civil lawsuit involving the allegations, accused Ingalls of inviting her to his frat house and plying her with drugs and alcohol, then propositioning her for a three-way that quickly escalated into rounds of fraternity brothers stopping into the room to join in on the sex.

Now, everything I’ve seen so far regarding this mishegoss indicates a classic, Mark 1-Mod 0 case of morning-after-gang-bang guilt leading directly to the inevitable shrieks of “rape, rape, I been RAAAAAAPED!!”

One problem: do note above that Matthew Ingalls not only is referred to, in this and every story you’re gonna see, by his actual, real name; in this particular case, the NYP article also includes a large color photo of the poor schlub as well. He’s been expelled from school, hounded and hassled by the usual AWFL suspects, and no matter how it all turns out in the end, his life has been ruined beyond hope of repair.

All that grief, sorrow, vengeance, and aggravation, mind, just because some nameless cockholster got so fucked up ‘n’ high (as my late wife liked to say) that bringing her dirtiest, most outré sexual fantasies to life began to sound like a good idea.

She does that thing. Ahh, but then, after thinking it over for a cpl-three weeks, discussing all the ins and outs (heh; sorry) with The Girls, and staring at herself in mirrors, window panes, and various other reflective surfaces for extended periods, she decides she’d like to take it all back? That, far from being a consensual if admittedly kinky encounter, she had in fact been brutally gang-raped by slavering, monstrous frat-house horndogs?

We know Matt Ingalls’ name; we know who he is and what he looks like; we know what to make of him and his ill-advised actions that fateful night. And yet, for undisclosed reasons, the accuser remains well beyond stand-off distance, protected from all scrutiny by the “Jane Doe” shield.

I can’t be the only person out here who thinks this is horribly unfair. If the Chi-Phi bros who climbed this sleazy, greasy cum-dumpster are to be named and shamed, then shouldn’t she be as well?

Seems to me that, after the Tompkins County DA’s office had wrapped up its investigation and decided against charges and/or indictments for rape, the booze, Special K, and semen-sodden bimbette behind these essentially meritless accusations ought to lose at least some of her “unidentified victim” gloss, no?

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About today’s Eyrie offering

CF Lifers will no doubt recognize the “ICC and the Dark Lord” title as being one of the ancient CF posts from back in those halcyon days of yore before the first (of 2, count em , two) Rooskie hacks which burned down more than a decade’s worth of CF archives. That’s neither coinkydink nor happenstance; finding myself at totally loose ends for a post topic and all, I just happened to catch an NPR report which featured the ICC, for whatever bizarre reason, and thus was an idea born.

Don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful, gang.

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Memezapoppin’!

Welcome to this week’s installment of our Wednesday meme feature, folks. Links to the “found via” sources will be attached to the specific MiQ’s (Memes in Question) whenever I can remember them, which likely won’t be very often. Only the first two memes will appear above the fold to save on bandwidth usage, since I assume not everybody who shows up at this here websty will want to see all of them. This intro will appear at the top of each week’s Memezapoppin’! post. Enjoy, funny-pitcher lovers.

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When rape-rape…ISN’T

Which, as it turns out, is most of the time.

The Campus Rape Myth
The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys

The campus rape industry’s central tenet is that one-quarter of all college girls will be raped or be the targets of attempted rape by the end of their college years (completed rapes outnumbering attempted rapes by a ratio of about three to two). The girls’ assailants are not terrifying strangers grabbing them in dark alleys but the guys sitting next to them in class or at the cafeteria.

This claim, first published in Ms. magazine in 1987, took the universities by storm. By the early 1990s, campus rape centers and 24-hour hotlines were opening across the country, aided by tens of millions of dollars of federal funding. Victimhood rituals sprang up: first the Take Back the Night rallies, in which alleged rape victims reveal their stories to gathered crowds of candle-holding supporters; then the Clothesline Project, in which T-shirts made by self-proclaimed rape survivors are strung on campus, while recorded sounds of gongs and drums mark minute-by-minute casualties of the “rape culture.” A special rhetoric emerged: victims’ family and friends were “co-survivors”; “survivors” existed in a larger “community of survivors.”

An army of salesmen took to the road, selling advice to administrators on how to structure sexual-assault procedures, and lecturing freshmen on the “undetected rapists” in their midst. Rape bureaucrats exchanged notes at such gatherings as the Inter Ivy Sexual Assault Conferences and the New England College Sexual Assault Network. Organizations like One in Four and Men Can Stop Rape tried to persuade college boys to redefine their masculinity away from the “rape culture.” The college rape infrastructure shows no signs of a slowdown. In 2006, for example, Yale created a new Sexual Harassment and Assault Resources and Education Center, despite numerous resources for rape victims already on campus.

If the one-in-four statistic is correct—it is sometimes modified to “one-in-five to one-in-four”—campus rape represents a crime wave of unprecedented proportions. No crime, much less one as serious as rape, has a victimization rate remotely approaching 20 or 25 percent, even over many years. The 2006 violent crime rate in Detroit, one of the most violent cities in America, was 2,400 murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults per 100,000 inhabitants—a rate of 2.4 percent. The one-in-four statistic would mean that every year, millions of young women graduate who have suffered the most terrifying assault, short of murder, that a woman can experience. Such a crime wave would require nothing less than a state of emergency—Take Back the Night rallies and 24-hour hotlines would hardly be adequate to counter this tsunami of sexual violence. Admissions policies letting in tens of thousands of vicious criminals would require a complete revision, perhaps banning boys entirely. The nation’s nearly 10 million female undergrads would need to take the most stringent safety precautions. Certainly, they would have to alter their sexual behavior radically to avoid falling prey to the rape epidemic.

None of this crisis response occurs, of course—because the crisis doesn’t exist.

SO. Same as nearly all the other “liberal”-panic shibboleths we’ve been (force)fed over lo, these many years, then.

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