Independence Day & Weekend Plans
 

Two hundred and Forty-Seven years ago, a bunch of folks smarter than us (certainly smarter than me) managed to give the bird to mother England, callsign LOTHAR (Loser Of THe American Revolution), and chart a course for a people unmatched in the millennia of recorded history. The oppression and taxes too great, freedoms too few, these wise folks put all their chips on the table and doubled down for future generations. This country has since become a beacon of hope to people everywhere.


For all of our problems, squabbles, and sparring, this two hundred something year old experiment in Democracy is working and we should strive harder to make it better. Sure, there may be a small handful of countries that may seem, oh I dunno, nicer, due to the lottery of geography, they have not needed to do the heavy lifting of the world. They have not become the melting pot, the inventors, or the facilitator of PAX AMERICANA, nor the bastion of Hope. Having spent time in other countries, including behind the Iron Curtain for a brief stint, we are lucky beyond words by lottery of birth.

This week, embrace your freedoms, reflect on your good fortune, and please do an extra 10%. An extra ten as a parent, child, friend, and citizen. Try to cross the divide with those you may disagree with. The alternatives are far worse than most can comprehend. The hard part has been done, let's not make it harder for ourselves for the next 247 years.

So what's up for the weekend?

Trying to buy a new car :wall:

Jeff, lease a Subaru. Best SUV on the road.

I am working through next Wednesday.

Finish installing some windows, make beer, drink beer. Dinners with different family members depending on the day.

Evis Saturday night at Tanglewood.

Play with the granddaughter and hope not to get whatever is floating around dirty Jersey daycare lately. Last bug was a bit aweful.

Celebrate my birthday (I am a yankee doodle dandy, as the song goes) with a reserve bottle and nice smoke.

Happy Birthday partner. Couldn't be born on a better day!:humpty:

Very nice post John ,

the next 4 days .not a fuc k in thing .. the closest I may get is Monday night at the marina for the fire works ... other with this H & H ............and the A/H oTW ....I,ll stay in the AC ............ a quick trip to POPEYES && relax with Gummies:bshake:

The wife is down in Baltimore til the 4th, so I am unsupervised:hee:

Got my Lynn crew coming over tomorrow for whiskey, cards, and grub.

After that…who knows
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New Bedford yesterday on the way back from a trip with Dangles…. I can’t go by one without stopping…. Stay cool Mike…

Cutting up a bluefin this morning, spending all day trying to get rid of it…..
Laying low,,, yard work,,,, this is ramps zoo week……. :-(

Happy Fourth, Good one Boss

Did a job putting a barge along side of the USS Minneapolis Saint Paul which is anchored off Bristol for the Fourth of July celebrations . Best part time job ever

Translete: Not much over the next 4 days, might check out the local Fireworks Monday, several days of Hot & Humid and the weekend boating yahoos requires retiring to the cool, air conditioned home. Will risk travel for some spicy Chicken, attenuated by The Humbling Candies.

Nice job!

Just do not ask about that particular LCS's previous battle loss in Bal'more

4 1/2 day weekend for me lots of stuff going on and a family cookout on Tuesday if it doesn't rain

Enjoy everyone

Best post in years John. Thank you from one Vet to another.

It’s funny you mention the Danish incident. I happened to look up the ship before we got there and saw that .

the LT running the show when while we were trying to tie up to ship was so concerned about us hitting the ship he keep repeating your not going to hit my ship.

I finally told him not to worry we weren’t Danish . The crew thought it was funny. the LT not so much :jester:

And to think that sucker can do nearly 50 kts.

Not a vet, but that is my annual request ; )


:hihi: - That's absolutely hilarious!! The Little Crappy Ship gets a lot of deserved flack, but not the crew's fault.


It can't for long, and for the little it can, the complexity has created a hull that is overweight, has no room for expansion, destroys its propulsion, and is a pier queen.

Arguably the Navv's largest boondoggle in decades, and there is a lot of competition.

Great read from top to bottom JR….. thanks again…

Wayne I’m jealous ….. great job to have….

Asked the crew about its mission as coastal anti Submarine

His response was the Navy has changed it’s mission but he honestly isn’t sure what it’s going to be …. And he also said it’s horrible at Sea with a draft of 14 ft

She sounds like the F35 designed for weapon systems that haven’t even been tested . Then doesn’t work on the platform as intended

9 freedom class ships the youngest of which commissioned in 2020 – have been marked for disposal as part of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal…. Wow cheaper to get rid of them then operate them. :rotflmao: corporate welfare at its finest

The original concept was a small ship that could swap out mission modules in 48 hours, tiny crew, and do 50 knots.

The Mission Modules were ASW (Anti-Sub), ASuW (Anti-Surface with NLOS missiles), and Anti-Mine (robot mine detection). ALL THREE MISSIONS FAILED. The crews were too small, the hulls corroded too quickly (the fist ships had not Cathodic Protection), and both classes break their Combining gears with the combination Diesel set and Gas Turbine Engine.

They are building 40 ships that cannot fight.

This is cool..

THE FIRST NAVAL BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN BUZZARDS BAY - West Island held prisoners of war.
West Island became host to over 15 British sailors as the first prisoners of war of The United States Navy on May 14, 1775.
Legend and piece meal history has it that the first naval battle of the Revolution was fought off the shores of West Island, within sight of today's Town Beach. Video link:

https://youtu.be/WkUsx3ThqzE

I’m zoning in on an Outback Wilderness. Looks nice and has good reviews. My last two Lexus were great but expensive to maintain. Challenge is inventories are low, prices are high and interest rates suck.

Have you tried looking into buying a lease turn in, they're usually a couple of years old and have low miles

Yea, I have no issues with an off lease car. Barely broken in most of the time,

Replaced flares at West marine during July 4th 25% off sale.

Setting up at one of my late client's harbor front home for fireworks tomorrow night. House is empty so I will just have to have my immediate family there with me as I will have to put out flares for the harbor illumination preceding the fireworks! My mother in law can walk inside four steps from car and there will be a bathroom available, so why not?

Excellent!
Yarmouth no fireworks this year, the f n plovers don’t like them…

They should become extinct,,, they didn’t evolve to the change in their environment ,,,, so there !

:jump:

:gorez:

Well.....Fireworks were not visible due to heavy fog. And they shot them off anyway.....

Here is the view of the night; the little cove i had to cover part of illuminated