(Russian SU-24 Fencer twin engine attack jet. Photo Wikipedia Commons). I was electrified when I heard the news yesterday morning: the Turks had dispatched two F-16 Fighting Falcon jets to bushwhack the Russian aircraft that have been conducting bombing missions over northwest Syria- and incidentally crossing Turkish Airspace. It is a tickling bit of business. […]

When I come over Town Hill just south of Breezewood, PA, the big wind farm doesn’t quite shout out “you have a friend in Pennsylvania.” It actually makes me uneasy, since the great ominous blades slicing ponderously through the air makes it appear that the aliens have landed, and they mean us no good. I […]

It will not come as a gigantic surprise that I am appalled by how our nation is responding to all this terror nonsense. Or not responding, as the case may be. Our President, according to reports by crusading journalist Sheryl Attkisson, will not even take briefings on organizations that are on our official list of […]

The driver-less Klown Kar of State, powered by some arcane Google algorithm, continues to hurtle down the road this morning, and needs no comment from me, though you know I will anyway on the way to something else. I mean, really. The Secretary of State of the United States of America actually stumbled through some […]

(Flag of the American Party- the “Know Nothings,” who opposed all immigration in the mid-19th Century. Photo WikiComons). Nope- if you expected me to analyze what the French police are likely to do now that they are going to have State of Emergency powers for three months, I am not going to cooperate. The French […]

(25th Reunion of the Lehigh University School of Engineering? Undated, possibly 1924? J.B. Socotra is in the middle, 5th from the left, second row). It was an emotional weekend, with barbaric Islamic terror against innocent civilians sandwiched between a soaring and somber Catholic Funeral Mass and the dramatic strains of angelic voices rising in praise […]

(Paris soccer fans sign their national anthem as they exit the Stade de France in an orderly manner after the attacks of Friday night). The New York Times is reporting that the French Police are looking for an eighth murderer who may have escaped. Seven are dead, either by their own hands or in a […]

I woke to gunshots here at dawn on the farm. I knew precisely the sound, and after the events of last night, it took a moment to realize that the long-gun deer season had started at sun-up. Someone had got up early and climbed up into their tree stand to get their buck. Friday had […]

Sleep is interesting at Refuge Farm, and the cobwebs are slow in leaving this morning. Weekends, I usually have some project in process and am bushed with the exertion and fresh air at the end of the day. This time is unusual, since I am here just past mid-week because of memorial and automotive-related issues. […]

(Two members of Nagato’s original crew. All Photos USN courtesy Lyle Hansen). Lieutenant Commander Ed Gilfillen confessed to being a little disoriented by the way the Japanese ran their ships of war. He said that: “The design of USN ships were shot through with definite principles, all born of experience and most have the force […]