A welder set off the fire suppression system at a hanger down at Eglin AFB, which filled the space with fire-retardant foam. Pretty cool pic at first glance, but probably one less Eagle, Viper and Warthog in the fleet!

90 rounds of golf in his first 3 years really paid dividends!

Remember that F-14 pilot who shoved a Fox 2 up the tail of an American RF-4 during an exercise over the Med back in 1987? Exercise 'Display Determination' was a joint USAF, USN and NATO exercise, part of which was designed to test the US Navy's fleet defense. The USAF launched a single RF-4C from Aviano to find the fleet, try to sneak in undetected and (hopefully) snap some pictures of the USS Saratoga. Defending the fleet was a two-ship of F-14 Tomcats, including one commanded by the least experienced pilot on board the ship, LtJG Timothy Dorsey.

Dorsey first intercepted the RF-4 while it was being refueled outside the playground by a KC-135, and actually joined up in trail on the jet after it left the tanker. The RF-4, aware of the two Tomcats behind it,  executed a sliceback maneuver to get down on the deck and make a run-in on the ship. Dorsey, relying on all of his 240 hours of tactical brilliance, radioed to the ship that he had a bogey inbound toward the fleet. "Clear and free" the ship responded, indicating that he was free to engage and 'fire' on the target - engage and fire as in simulated, because after all this was an exercise and the 'target' was of course known to everyone as a friendly. The rest is history and well-documented in a Chicago Tribune article from 1988. Miraculously neither of the RF-4 crewmen were killed in this egregious display of aerial idiocy and buffoonery.

RF-4C aircraft similar to the one splashed over the Med back in 1987 by recently promoted Rear Admiral Dorsey. 

Dorsey had this to say about the incident:  "Under no circumstances do I consider myself trigger-happy. If called upon to do so, I've been trained to react decisively and smartly. In this most unfortunate mishap, I believe that I indeed reacted decisively and, at the time, with the information I had received and interpreted, believed I was acting smartly." Yeah...

The investigation board decided that Dorsey would be allowed to keep his wings but would never again be allowed to fly a USN aircraft. Reduced to shoe clerk status, Dorsey became an intel officer and eventually drifted over to the Naval Reserves to mark his time and earn a retirement. Uh, not so fast. He didn't retire, and in fact was just promoted to Rear Admiral! WTF?

For Dorsey, it didn't hurt that at the time of his crime his old man happened to be a Navy Vice Admiral, who reportedly shot down his own wingman over Vietnam several years before. Apparently, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree! Flying rubber dogshit on a cargo ship outta Hong Kong woulda been too good for this guy!

More details on this buffoon and how his dad saved his ass are over at MilitaryCorruption.com!

If the steady flow of nuclear secrets to the ChiComs over the last decade wasn't enough, the recent capture of one of our RQ-170 "stealth" drones might prove to be a game-changer as far as US military superiority goes. While Iran was beating its chest about the alleged shootdown of the drone, the US military and the Administration were of course denying the whole affair - until Iranian state television produced the aircraft (which appears largely intact) at a propaganda-laced media event - check out the US flag with skulls for stars!

The USAF transition from manned fighter and recce aircraft to a fleet of drones mandates that we maintain a huge edge in technology. These pesky little things can be used quite effectively against enemy targets, whether the "enemy" is some Al-Qaeda asshole - or the US imilitary tself.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about Drone-gate are reports that the US military had a chance to go after the wayward UAV and destroy in on the ground where it went down. This of course was vetoed by Obama, who was afraid the violation of Iran's airspace would have been seen as an act of war. Will the buffoonery never end?

YGBSM!

From the AP:

An Oregon woman who tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son at home after reading the Old Testament and watching YouTube videos has been sentenced to five years of probation.

Keemonta Peterson pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal mistreatment. The 30-year-old Portland woman must also undergo mental health treatment.

Peterson called 911 and the boy was rushed to a hospital last October after her botched effort left the infant bleeding uncontrollably and in intense pain. A prosecutor says (s)he has fully recovered.

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bergstrom told Peterson on Monday that "the reality is you love your children and had absolutely no intent to harm your child."

(Ok, ok, I edited the story slightly. The baby's fine...maybe.)

No, the reality, Judge Bergstrom,

This A-1 Skyraider pilot obviously flunked formation 101, as witnessed by his shitty rejoin on the P-51. I dunno though, maybe it was lead's fault, tough to tell. either way these guys suck...

An awful lot of propaganda from the ChiComs lately, and if their 'aircraft carrier-killing  missile' and their new Franensteinesque 'stealth fighter' aren't enough to make you go "big whoop", check out the recent footage from a Chinese TV broadcast. The clip purports to show a Chinese AF J-10 shooting down an "American made" enemy fighter during a live-fire exercise. Notice at about 1:09 the J-10 fires a missile...and hits the same 'Mig-28 (nee F-5)' that Maverick shot down in the film Top Gun!

The Doofergods for one aren't buying into this whole China BS... 

If your 3 year old were groped in Sunday School like this - you'd go to the police... but when the government does it, what recourse do you have?  Anybody been lucky enough to go through this "enhanced pat down" BS lately?

A couple thoughts:
How about wearing a bathrobe and flipflops to the airport... or better yet a Scottish Kilt and Tartan Sash...and nothing else! 

We ran a story a while back about Apollo XIV astronaut Edgar Mitchell raving about UFO's, ESP and aliens, and now we have a former pole jockey running around claiming aliens deactivated a Minuteman missile site back in 1967.

Speaking at the National Press Club today, Capt Robert Salas, a former USAF missile officer at Malmstrom AFB, MT, claimed that on the night of March 16, 1967 an unidentified flying object hovered over his launch control facility and deactivated ten of his Minuteman missiles.

Salas, a graduate of the Air Force Academy who also holds a MS in Aerospace Engineering, first went public about the incident in 1994. Since then, he has become a minor celebrity in the CUFON and MUFON circles, and has appeared on such heavy-hitting science forums as Larry King Live and Art Bell's radio show. He is also the author of "Faded Giant," a  book about (what else?) aliens messin' with our nukes.

I wonder if Capt. Salas ever met Mr. Seven, the alien from the Star Trek episode "Assignment Earth" who showed up in a human costume and saved Earth from a nuclear holocaust. This was also the episode that you might recall featured, ahem, a very-porkable Teri Garr :-)

This cell phone video is from a passenger on an Atlantic Southeast Airlines  CRJ-900 aircraft that made an emergency landing at JFK due to a gear problem. You can hear the flight attendant in  the soundtrack imploring passengers to stay "heads down" throughout the approach and landing...ad infinitum. The Doofergods wonder why there wasn't someone that stayed "heads up" long enough to smack the  annoying bitch!!!

Fortunately the US Navy doesn't seem to have much trouble attracting new recruits eager to sail off to far away places, meet new people and kill them. Not so for our Japanese counterparts, who seem to be targeting the 'Hello Kitty' generation to help man the battle stations. Below is a clip comparing recruiting commercials from the Japanese and US  Navies;  we can only image how much fear the Japanese version must strike into the hearts of our enemies abroad. Yamamoto is rolling in his grave!

No idea were this was taken, but it appears legit...wonder how the debrief went!

 Granted there's an awful lot of politicians out there who possess the intellect of a sack of wet mice, but Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is well on her way to charter membership in the Dooferbook's Hall of Numbskullery.  She's the one who back in 2005 asked scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab if the Mars Pathfinder had taken a photograph of the flag Neil Armstrong planted there in 1969. At the time she was a member of the House Science Committee.

Yesterday, the now member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee  offered this stunning bit of insight about Vietnam. For the record, she graduated from Yale in 1972 and went on to earn a law degree from the Univ. of Virginia. Draw your own conclusions about Affirmative Action.

Last summer we posted a blurb about "Whale Wars",  the Animal Planet reality show that features the trials and tribulations of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they go to "war" against the Japanese whaling fleet. Each week features new episodes of complete buffoonery as the floundering crew of the 'anti-whaling ship' Steve Irwin lobs stink bombs, fires blinding lasers and drops prop-fouling lines in an attempt to shut down what they consider illegal whaling activity.

Last season ended with the Steve Irwin being impounded in Tasmania as the Aussies investigated them for crimes on the high seas. This year, armed with their shiny-new stealth looking trimaran the Ady Gil (above), the Sea Shepherds appear to have met their match - a Japanese fleet that actually fights back.  Below is a photo of the Ady Gill with its snout ripped off after being rammed by the Japanese ship Shonan Maru 2. As Rodney would say, "Hey! You scratched my anchor!!!"

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My first experience with polyurethane foam was the first week of UPT when we had our helmets poured over at the Life Support shop. Back then PU foam it was difficult to obtain and expensive, but lately I've used quite a bit of it sealing cracks and gaps while remodeling my house. There's a guy in Lithuania that's taken PU foam modeling to the extreme: He starts with Mercedes CL-klasse coupes and turns them into a customized 'sport models'.  The CL-class coupes start at around 150 large, and used ones are upwards of 100 grand. There seems to be a fine line here between brilliance and buffoonery:

Here's the link for the full photo essay on this dubious achievment, including the final product!

Steve Burton, a bank clerk in Palm Springs, CA, recently attended his 20th high school reunion. Wanting to make a splash, he came costumed as  a highly decorated US Marine LT Colonel, adorned with the Navy Cross, a Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, a Purple Heart, and dozens of other lesser awards. He chronicled his martial exploits on his own blog page, and shared the many heroic 'battles' he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. (On his blog, he also appears as a Master Gunnery Sergent, below). Unfortunately for Steve, a classmate of his who also attended the reunion was a real-life Navy Commander. Sensing this guy was more full of shit than a table of six the day after a meal at PF Chang's, Cmdr. Colleen Salonga posed for a photo with him and quickly alerted the FBI.
Steve earns a Dooferbook trifecta tag for his blatant buffonery, supreme idiocy,  and indefensible douchery - plus a Fail tag to boot!

  As clever as the illegal alien costume (Halloween goodness) is, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the  twisted Headless Ted Williams costume being sported about in the Hub City. If you recall, when the former USMC fighter pilot and "Greatest  Hitter of All-time" passed away back in 2002, his family had his body cryogenically frozen in hopes of someday resurrecting him  - or somehow making a buck off his DNA. Shortly after receiving his remains for freezing, employees at Alcor, the cryonics company hosting the body, mistakenly lopped of his cranium and froze the body and head separately.

Last month a former employee of Alcor published "Frozen: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death",  chronicling among other macabre stuff the sad fate of Ted's head. According to author Larry Johnson, employees posed for pictures with the head and ended up dropping it on more than one occasion. Alcor used tuna cans as pedestals for their frozen heads, and at one point when a tuna can became stuck to Williams' noggin, a fellow employee:

"...grabbed a monkey wrench, heaved a mighty swing, missing the tuna can completely but hitting the head dead center," Johnson wrote. "Tiny pieces of frozen head sprayed around the room."

You just can't make this crap up. Happy Halloween!

 If the idea of a guys taking out a personal ad for a 'bromance' makes your stomach churn, check out these little news bits that offer more evidence that the 'demanlification' of the world's XY's is more advanced than first thought. For many of us, The 40 Year Old Virgin was our first introduction to the notion of 'manscaping' fashion, a practice on the opposite end of normal hetro male behavior. Most of us probably gave the idea of male waxing a laugh and a cringe and haven't thought much of it since. But two recent media reports indicate that the testosterone world is becoming more unmanly than previously thought:

From the UK Daily Mail: Breast reductions amongst men rocket 1,000 per cent in five years

Breast reduction for men? What's wrong with an old-fashioned benchpress or a P-90X DVD? Penis reduction is one thing to brag about, but breast reduction?

From Fox News: More Men Likely to Groom Their Eyebrows These Days

Eyebrow grooming and elective plastic surgery are nothing new - and generally no big deal -  but these kinds of things were always better left out of the public domain. The big concern is the willingness of today's 'manscapers' to admit this kind of stuff in public - I mean really, has pride itself become a thing of the past?

Craigslist , the online clearinghouse best known for free classifieds and dial-a-hooker ads, has a new genre of personals - straight men looking for a "bromance." Call me old-fashioned, but the very word itself conjures a strong degree of shall we say, 'unmanliness'. Here's a couple of bromance ads from Craigslist Personals/Men-Seeking-Men/Platonic, both of which offer further proof that the cultural implosion of this nation is well underway:

They say cheetahs can hit speeds of up to 75mph for short stints, and it seems the Cincinnati Zoo is on the pointy edge when it comes to cheetah racing. Yesterday one of their cheetahs smashed the World Land Mammal speed record, clocking a 100m course in 6.13 seconds - about 3 1/2 seconds faster than Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt. "This is an all-time great day in cheetah racing," quips zoo official Thayne Maynard at 1:29 of the video, while cheetah handler Cathryn Hilker calls it a feat of "heart, skill and commitment." You think these races are paramutualed anywhere?

There was no shortage of things to do in Atlanta today - college football at the Dome, Braves at the Ted, Nascar at the Speedway, and Dragon-con, the largest fantasy/sci-fi convention in the land. Since early season college football doesn't interest me and I already had plans to see the Braves on Sunday - plus the fact that I nearly fell over when I realized the race would cost me over 5 bills to take the kids - we settled on the Freak Show. And what a show it was!

The parade featured a bunch of A-list celebrities including Lou Ferrigno (the original Hulk), Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica (never was a fan), and two of everybody's favorite Dynamic Duo - Bo and Daisy Duke. Daisy has packed on a few extra pounds these days (like your humble narrator), and fortunately was fully clothed for her appearance.

The highlight of the day? Meeting Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, decked out in full 1980's fighter pilot regalia and sporting a girlfriend much younger than Kelly McGillis. What Maverick has to do with Sci-fi is beyond me, but he was no more out of place than the three fat guys I saw dressed up as bumble bees...

Bearing strong witness to the law of unintented consequence, the first scorecard is in from the government's 'Cash for Clunkers' program and the numbers don't look so good. Seems four out of the top five models being purchased are foreign ones - Hondas and Toyotas to be exact - nullifying whatever lame idea Congress had about resuscitating the US auto industry. Your tax dollars at work! Full Story

Ah, the eternal enigmatic question... with no right answer. You probably haven't given either of them much of a thought lately, and neither had I until my wife showed me something shocking this morning...

Here's a couple of recent photos of Tina Louise (age 75) and Dawn Wells (now 70). After all these years,  did you make the right choice? Which one chose to age gracefully and which one tried to extend her youth with some really bad plastic surgery?

And check out the pics below. I can see aging, insecure Hollywood actresses  desperate to hold onto a career undergoing these kinds of procedures. But Bruce Jenner, Olympic gold medalist, Wheaties spokesman and the guy Sports Illustrated described as having  "All-American good looks"? Buffoon, or mental case?

I used to think whales were pretty cool until I met Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and captain of the 'anti-whaling' ship Steve Irwin. Watson is a radical eco-terrorist who, despite being an original founder of Greenpeace, was thrown out of the group for being a complete idiot. Featured on Animal Planet's'  show Whale Wars, Watson and his band of idealistic, tofu-eating hippie pirates ply the Antarctic seas looking to 'attack' Japanese whaling ships with stink bombs in hopes of shutting down illegal whaling.  The trouble is, the crew of the Steve Irwin spends more time fighting their own demons in the form of extremely poor nautical skills, a complete absence of effective of leadership and an ill-defined mission - which makes it a strangely compelling show to watch.

From nearly killing half the crew during routine deployment of a Zodiac,  to getting their thin-skinned ship stuck in Antarctic ice fields where it was nearly crushed,  to almost running the ship out of fuel 1800nm from the nearest port, you can't help but root for the Japanese whalers to succeed and the crew of the Steve Irwin to meet an icy end. The show airs Friday nights on Animal Planet.

Delta had a viral hit with their Deltalino safety video, and Ryan Air published naked calendars (The Girls of Ryanair!) of their skyhags in hopes of boosting sales. Air New Zealand is the latest to jump on the 'Who the frick came up with this one?' marketing bandwagon in their new "bare essentials of safety" video - featuring crew members dressed only in body paint. Which begs to ask - what self-respecting pilot would ever agree to be wear body paint, short of a private hookup with a 10? The good news is they left out the old fleshy, hairy, endomorphic captain...

The new centerpiece exhibit for the Maryland Zoo is Praire Dog Town, which opened yesterday at the nation's 3rd oldest zoo. Built at a cost of close to a million buckaroos, the habitat houses 28 praire dogs and offers a unique view into the daily lives of these rodents who most (outside of the conservancy establishment anyway)  consider wretched little varmits worthy of a .22. Unfortunately, the designers of the exhibit forgot to look into how smart these little bastards really are, and they all escaped before the exhibit even opened.

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Warship fires on village 'by mistake'

The Russian navy has admitted that one of its anti-submarine ships fired at a village by mistake,

The navy said no-one was injured when a small anti-submarine ship opened fire on a village in the Vyborg region of St Petersburg.

"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland, including artillery fire at aerial targets," RIA quoted a navy spokesman as saying.

"No-one was injured."

Russia's navy has been plagued by a series of mishaps since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000 in which 118 sailors died.

Everyone's favorite little despot is apparently alive and well, and he's on a mission - a mission to...uh...hey, what's he trying to prove?

Kim Jong-il is snarling  his teeth at the US, his southern neighbors and anyone who will listen. He's blowing up nukes and shooting off Estes rockets again to put some bite behind his bark - and once again starting to piss off the world. Today he announced that the North will no longer honor the 1953 Armistice, a move paramount to redeclaring war on the South.

Perhaps Hillary can craft a little peace deal with the North like her husband did over a decade ago. And hey, let's get the UN in on this too...But wait, why is this even happening? I mean, wasn't Bush 43 the only reason Kim, Mahmoud and Osama ever got their panties in a twist?  I thought the  election of Barrack Obama was supposed to put an end to all this international nastiness. Did they not get the word? 

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Speaking of Korea, did you see that 7'2" Korean behemoth that put the beater on Jose Canseco in his MMA debut the other night?  Looks like all those roids didn't help much!

From Times Online May 11, 2009

Buffalo plane crash captain 'failed flight tests'

The captain of the US commuter plane that crashed into a house in Buffalo, New York, in February, had failed flight tests and had never been properly taught how to respond to an emergency, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

All 49 people on board and one person on the ground were killed when the plane, which took off in Newark, New Jersey, was making its approach to land in Buffalo amid light snow and fog.

The plane's captain, Marvin Renslow, apparently did not know how to respond to a warning system activated when the plane slowed. Cockpit voice recordings also revealed that his 24-year-old co-pilot, Rebecca Shaw, should not have been operating the flight because she was complaining of feeling 'congested' and should have called in sick that day.

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