Got a message from Leah where she answered my egg question. She says she gets her eggs at $2.72 a dozen. See, I think that proves my point of there no longer being this crazy egg shortage or conspiracy or whatever-the-heck.
Yeah, I know, good morning everyone, heck of a way to start the conversation, jump right in talking about eggs, but if you could only walk a little ways in my talons…or better yet, like Pop Smith said last issue, spend 3 minutes in my head, that’ll freak you out.
Yes…YES…it’s been a weird couple of days.
I’m trying my very best to get through it. I don’t really have any other choice, now do I? I went to one of my ministries tonight. Nobody showed. I know, what does that have to do with the price of eggs in Gnaw Bone? (That’s an Indiana joke, by the way)
My tinnitus is LOUD as … I don’t know what … but it’s driving me up the wall. I can usually ignore it, or at least push it to the back of my mind, but for some reason it’s more annoying than usual right now. I know, another useless bit of information. I’m just running out of things to say.
Shoulda said good morning first. But for now, let’s get on to the fun stuff and I’ll work out the weird stuff later.
So, this is a long one with a lot of pictures. It is a well known story to a lot of us in “The Business”. Thanks to Wouter for sharing it.
Here is one brave Air Force Pilot, Captain Kim Campbell. Her A-10 suffered extensive damage during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. For her actions, now Major Kim Campbell received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
One of her exploits in Warthog combat.
The damage to her A-10 Warthog occurred on 7 April 2003 while flying a mission over Baghdad. She did her job along with the troops on the ground and as she was flying out she felt her A-10 get hit. It was pretty obvious as it was very loud. At that moment her A-10 lost all hydraulics instantaneously, and it rolled left and pointed toward the ground. This had to be a very uncomfortable feeling flying over Baghdad.
The A-10 did not respond to any of my control inputs. She tried several procedures to get the aircraft under control, none of which worked. Last Captain Campbell put her plane into manual reversion, meaning she was flying the aircraft without hydraulics. The aircraft immediately responded and started climbing away from the ground. This had to be an awesome feeling to Captain Campbell as you don’t want to eject over Baghdad. With some technical advice from her flight leader, Lieutenant Colonel Turner, she flew the injured plane for an hour back to the air base. Captain Campbell stated the jet was performing exceptionally well and I had no doubt in my mind I was going to land that airplane. Landing was tricky as when you lose all the hydraulics, you don’t have speed brakes, you don’t have brakes, and you don’t have steering.
On the ground it was discovered that her A-10 had sustained damage to one engine and to the redundant hydraulic systems, disabling the flight controls, landing gear and brakes, and horizontal stabilizer. A detailed inspection revealed hundreds of holes in the airframe and that large sections of the stabilizer and hydraulic controls were missing.
General Richard Myers, USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated Captain Campbell is one of the few pilots who ever landed the A-10 in the manual mode.
Now who says women can’t be fighter pilots in the US Air Force. (No one! Dumbest thing I ever heard.) Let’s hear it for patriot Kim Campbell.
The A-10 was so riddled with antiaircraft fire over Baghdad the repair team couldn’t save the jet, so it was dismantled and shipped to Davis-Monthan.
This wonderful aircraft proved with the right pilot it will get you back home no matter what. And the Air Force wants to retire the A-10 even after it has undergone major renovations.
Having worked on this beautiful fighter for many years myself, I can tell you that the pilots that fly in her love her, the ground troops love seeing this Warthog overhead and as a load toad, I enjoyed putting armament on her and sending her on her way.
I didn’t realize that August 21st was Senior Citizen’s Day. Not that I’m sure I would have found a reason to celebrate that, anyway…but here we are, about a week late … which might say something about us forgetful older folks … um … what were we … oh yeah … I think this picture is adorable, so we’ll let it go at that. Happy Belated Senior Citizen’s Day, ya’ll.
Read this next one ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!
Boyfriend: I will never lie to you, dear.
Girlfriend: How sweet!
Boyfriend: Now you tell me a lie.
Magic Genie: I am a magic genie. I will grant you three wishes.
Me: Genie, I wish you were bad at math.
Magic Genie: Your wish is my command! Okay, you have nine wishes left.
Yup … these are the things that keep one up at night.
Just one more in the MANY examples of why Germans don’t play Scrabble.
A statistics major was completely hung over the day of his final exam. It was a True/False test, so he decided to flip a coin for the answers.
The stats professor watched the student the entire two hours as he was flipping the coin… writing the answer… flipping the coin… writing the answer. At the end of the two hours, everyone else had left the final except for the one student. The professor walks up to his desk and interrupts the student, saying: “Listen, I have seen that you did not study for this statistics test, you didn’t even open the exam. If you are just flipping a coin for your answer, what is taking you so long?
“The student replies bitterly, as he is still flipping the coin: “Shhh! I am checking my answers!”
You know, in a weird way, that actually makes sense. The problem is, statistically speaking, he’s going to get an F, based on a standard grading scale because he’s only going to get half the answers correct…actually…thinking about it…he only has a one in four chance of getting the correct answer in any given flip. He’d do better to just guess at each one.
I always took it as a suggestion … but that’s just me.
Yeah, yeah … we’ve heard it all before …
That’s also one of the ways you can tell that the Bible is the truth. What other “spiritual” book is so full of embarrassing stories?
The new father ran out of the delivery room and announced to the rest of his family who were waiting for the news: “We had twins!”
The family was so excited they immediately asked, “Who do they look like?”
The father paused, smiled, and said, “Each other!”
Do I even need to say it?
I was a compulsive gambler. I finally quit and told my best friend that I would never gamble again.
He turns to me and says, “Wanna bet?
HEY!!! There’s NOTHING wrong with wanting to hear Freebird!
A man was selling his house and put the matter in an agent’s hands. The agent wrote up a sales blurb for the house that made for a wonderful reading.
After the man read it, he turned to the agent and asked, “Have I got all that it says here?”
The agent said, “You most certainly have… why do you ask?”
The man replied, “Cancel the sale, this house is too good to part with!”
While fixing his roof, a man fell off the ladder.
After meeting with his wife later, he told her that four ribs were broken.
“Four ribs broken?!” she gasps. “Which hospital did you go to?”
“I didn’t have to go to the hospital.” he replies.
His wife stares in perplexity. “Four broken ribs and you didn’t have to go to the hospital?”
“No, it was the fella I landed on who broke four ribs.”
My mate recently got divorced from his wife.
They decided to split the house.
He got the outside.
And that is it for today my friends. May you live long and prosper. May God Bless you and keep you and smile His face upon you. Until next time.
Dragon Laffs 
I’m in central WV. Egg shortage. Prices went sky high. Chicken flu. Had to destroy all the chickens.
However… Walmart, Kroger, two Dollar General, several convenience stores all had their shelves stocked full at all times. Had to kill all the chickens but there was not a chicken shortage. Funny thing that.
And a fresh egg will break in half cleanly. An old egg shell will shatter into little shards when you crack them. Several folks have chickens around here and peddle eggs. Eggs less than a day old.
there you have it. If you believe there was an actual shortage, you are either blind or willfully stupid.
Sounds like here in IN in that there never was a shortage, I know several people that I could reach out to and get fresh eggs from if I was of a mind, no shortage here, but no real price hike either. I don’t get what the deal was.