Yet more keen links one might want to share

[Happy Monkey]

That works out well.

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A wooden space shuttle??

A wooden space shuttle.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Here's something interesting, but can be very time consuming, depending on your interest level. It's a website with a US state by state list of 1,982 abandoned airports, many of them military, with old and new photographs of the facilities and planes.

[glatt]

I've been to that site numerous times. My uncle Joe's old airport has a big entry. No direct link to Zahn's Airport. You have to search for the name in the page.

He owned an apple orchard on Long Island not too far from NYC, and in 1936 he put in an airstrip in his orchard. It got more and more popular, and he wound up expanding the place and basically cutting down the whole orchard. He sold it in the 1950's but it kept his name. At one point, it was the busiest private airport in the US. It closed in 1980.

I've got a vague memory of visiting it as a kid. Just going to the parking lot and looking at a hangar with my uncle's name on the roof. I've got more vivid memories of visiting my aunt Emma and uncle Joe at their house on the water in Long Island. They had a big boat in a canal behind their house, and they took us out on the water for the day one time. He did well financially, turning that orchard outside NYC into an airport and selling it.


It's a shopping mall or industrial park now, but I understand there's a hunk of concrete behind one of the stores that was part of one of the old hangers.

That's my uncle on the right.

[lumberjim]

and James Gandolfini in the plane?

' see, there's some gobbalgoo on the plane right here, joey '

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Apparently, Terrence Howard is batshit insane...

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I have a few links for you today:

The Dark Side Of Funny: Growing Up In George Carlin's Shadow

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Have you wondered whatever happened to Joe Pesci?

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A pretty decent interview with Lemmy Kilmister, of Motörhead. I say it's a decent interview, because, well, how many Lemmy interviews have you read?

Talking to the record label is like talking to the cat.

~Lemmy

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Hey, remember The Time A Tanker Saved A Fighter That Was Falling Apart Over The Atlantic, by towing it 160 miles to Gander, Newfoundland using the refueling boom?

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's nuts. But so is air to air refueling, for that matter.

[BigV]

Foxtrot Alpha?

More like. Oscar Hotel Hotel Sierra India Tango!!!

[fargon]

Originally Posted by BigV

Foxtrot Alpha?

More like. Oscar Hotel Sierra Hotel India Tango!!!

FIFY

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A single speck of dust is half way in size between an atom and the Earth.

It's All About Scale

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A Perfect Murder in the French Alps

A fairly long, very interesting, real-life murder mystery.

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Ever wonder what all those secret laundry symbols on that tag in your shirt actually mean?

[xoxoxoBruce]

War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler

Smedley Darlington Butler
•Born: West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881
•Educated: Haverford School
•Married: Ethel C. Peters, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1905
•Awarded two congressional medals of honor:
1.capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
2.capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
•Distinguished service medal, 1919
•Major General - United States Marine Corps
•Retired Oct. 1, 1931
•On leave of absence to act as director of Dept. of Safety, Philadelphia, 1932
•Lecturer -- 1930's
•Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
•Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
•For more information about Major General Butler, contact the United States Marine Corps.

Chapter 1: War Is A Racket
Chapter 2: Who Makes The Profits?
Chapter 3: Who Pays The Bills?
Chapter 4: How To Smash This Racket!
Chapter 5: To Hell With War!

Major General Butler writes about primarily WW I, the war to end all wars, and it's costs not only in blood and treasure, but the fucked up society it leaves behind.

It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war itself. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to a very few.