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• Have You Ever Seen a Helicopter Doing Backflips? Here’s the Awesome Video

  May 15, 2013 at 2:50pm

  I have posted before , I saw a pilot do these stunts in Vietnam . a 360 loop and a sideways roll in a military issue Loach OH-6 , not a special built Chopper for stunts. I have heard of Cobra gunships doing these stunts also , but I have never witnessed . Kudos to the Vietnam Pilots , saved my **** a bunch of times ..

• Connected? Paramedic Arrested for Possession of Bomb-Making Materials as Criminal Investigation Into Texas Plant Explosion Begins

  May 10, 2013 at 2:39pm

  If we label every explosion a terrorist attack , the terrorist have achieved one step closer to having us chasing shadows . I vote we wait for the end details , and then cast our opinion on the details .

• Is This the Alleged Islamic Cemetery Where Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was Secretly Buried?

  May 10, 2013 at 2:22pm

  A humane and Christian solution to a difficult situation . I didnt see CAIR or a Muslim Cleric , or the ever running at the mouth administration suggest a solution . It came from a brave Christian woman , who saw a problem and took steps to solve it. I guess she took these actions because she could relate , being Christians are at the top of the DHS terrorist list . Her solution does put to rest , a difficult situation , not becoming to America , and better put behind us , for that I praise her effort . This would not have been an issue at all , if he had been transferred to Guantanamo Bay , and the military take care of the details . That is precisely why Guantanamo was formed in the first place , outside the country , outside civil law , and outside politics , with a military tribunal much better equipped mentally to deal with these situations. Just another time the Administration is on the wrong side , of something that has worked for years .

• Bill Maher: It’s ‘Ridiculous,’ ‘Quaint’ & ‘Nonsensical’ to Think 2nd Amendment Can Prevent Tyranny

  May 5, 2013 at 9:10pm

  In reply to Oldscout47.

  GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to the President of Congress, Feb. 9, 1776
  It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defense of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

  This is a letter from Washington calling for the formation of a well armed and supplied National Army and every citizen should participate in funding it . One of the few jobs the Constitution gave government was to supply for the defense of the country , and to deliver the mail . Note the date of this letter .

• Bill Maher: It’s ‘Ridiculous,’ ‘Quaint’ & ‘Nonsensical’ to Think 2nd Amendment Can Prevent Tyranny

  May 5, 2013 at 7:48pm

  In reply to Topcat.

  Definitions ……. http://dictionary.reference.com

• Bill Maher: It’s ‘Ridiculous,’ ‘Quaint’ & ‘Nonsensical’ to Think 2nd Amendment Can Prevent Tyranny

  May 5, 2013 at 7:47pm

  Definitions ……. http://dictionary.reference.com

• Bill Maher: It’s ‘Ridiculous,’ ‘Quaint’ & ‘Nonsensical’ to Think 2nd Amendment Can Prevent Tyranny

  May 5, 2013 at 6:53pm

  Socialism :
  A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
  The stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
  Communism :
  A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
  A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

  Under Obama and the Progressives in the US , where are we currently , in this transition …

• ‘Spectacular’ Helicopter Landing Shows It Balancing on…a Highway Guardrail

  May 3, 2013 at 1:33pm

  In reply to Amdlar.

  How cool is this ….. A small entertaining , general interest story gets discovered in Norway , translated on Google , and posted in the US . Then the subject of that story comes out of nowhere , I assume from Norway and comments on his own story . I have been involved with computers, and the internet , since the beginning , I know you young guys just take this in stride , but this is quite amazing . Stick around in the future Lars , your input to the site is welcome , and thanks for an entertaining moment in our countries craziness lately.

• ‘Spectacular’ Helicopter Landing Shows It Balancing on…a Highway Guardrail

  May 3, 2013 at 12:04am

  In reply to Topcat.

  I dont know who Dustoff was making reference to Deven or myself , but my reference to the Huey and the Loach was two different helicopters , he is correct . I am not a helicopter guy , and I was with the 25th , I believe the Hueys were UH-1H from Bell . I also believe the nickname Huey came from earlier ships in country made by Hughes Aircraft , you helicopter guys will have to verify that .. I believe there were other Huey models in country at the same time.
  The “Loach OH-6 ” I believe , was a Hughes ship , us guys on the ground called them Mosquitos , the pilots called them something else , They were small very fast and maneuverable , and a blast to ride in . The only thing was you sat virtually out in the open , for everyone to see , the one helicopter worse than the OH-6 for being out in the open , was the Bell bubble copter I dont know their model , but I hated to fly in those and they were slow and there was no place to hide in those.

• ‘Spectacular’ Helicopter Landing Shows It Balancing on…a Highway Guardrail

  May 2, 2013 at 8:09pm

  In reply to Topcat.

  Thanks guys for your kind words , to a now aging war veteran . It was 30 years before I said one thing about my service in Vietnam , its kind of nice to talk about it some . I must be careful not to get carried away .