Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy 78th birthday to Sam Neill. The great New Zealand actor played Captain Vasily Borodin in 1990's THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.




Sept 14, 1976: the engines on an F-14 Tomcat malfunctioned and caused the fighter to skid off the deck of USS John F. Kennedy near Scotland. The crew safely ejected but the jet plunged to a depth of 1850 feet. With the Soviets trawling the ocean floor with fishing nets in an attempt to scoop up the Tomcat and its AIM-54 Phoenix missiles, the Navy launched an intensive search using the NR-1 research submarine. The Navy was able to recover the plane and all its missiles two months later.

The loss of the F-14 on Sept 14 was not the end of the John F. Kennedy's bad day. The carrier was later that same day involved in a collision with USS Bordelon (DD-881) that snapped the destroyer's main mast. The damage to the superstructure resulted in the decision to decommission the Bordelon.
Fate: dispatched to Iran in July 1977 and cannibalized for spare parts.


Not her first collision. In November 23, 1975, the JFK collides with the USS Belknap (CG-26) in the Mediterranean Sea. Sailors refered to the Kennedy as "The Can Opener".




U.S. Navy gives first look at P-8A carrying LRASM in-flight


As far as I know Kirk was always pro Israel, but up until this summer he started speaking out, questioning Zionists and the Oct 7th massacre narrative. I'm not up to speed on his sphere of influence but sounds like there was some ideological friction going on in the political spheres.


Gov. Spencer Cox

Meanwhile, "Netanyahu's official plane, the "Wing of Zion" will take a longer route to New York [for the UN General Assembly] fearing European countries may block its use of their airspace, as they accuse him of war crimes. According to The Jerusalem Post.



Peter Turchin’s USPVDB shows America’s current assassination rate has exceeded the 1960s peak and is approaching Civil War levels.


An Eruption of Assassinations


Assuming this is true (which it appears to be so), if my kid were in that classroom, I'd probably have to go full-retard for a minute or two on that 'teacher'. On the flip-side if I had 10-11 yr olds they would not be in a public school system, period, end of story.


NY Post


Some peoples have lost their damn minds. As seen in Killingly, Connecticut:


From some of the comments:
His house is on the intersection of a major road that the middle school buses drive by daily, and at a stop light. Killingly is MAGA town and the residents have complained almost daily to the local government, who have upheld his first and second amendment rights to date. He’s on private property he owns, and though Connecticut is a concealed carry state, on private property a citizen can openly carry their firearms. Some context: the guy is well known around here, he’s a lefty. Killingly is affectionately known as KKKillingly and Trump supporting signs are all over. Anyways, helluva town name and he looks to have a nice pile of firewood.

Controversy continues in Killingly over sign near school