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VDH for the win!!!

As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins—with Khalil Gibran pop platitudes—he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others. The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicago—a $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debt—Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off “money, attention, [and] fame.” Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiences–often at $400,000 a shot—on their own false-consciousness shortcomings. Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.

He says it much better than I can, and didn’t even use any four letter words!!! HERE

Personally, I think Harry and Beth Truman were MUCH better examples of the presidency and first lady, but that’s just me...

And in other news, the US beat Australia 2-0 yesterday in the FIFA soccer match in Seattle, much to the dismay of the left...

But the US supporters that were there were very obvious, loud, and enjoying themselves! Now the US is guaranteed a place in the knockout round, still with a long way to go, but small steps get big results sometimes!

And the Qatari 747 is now officially in the Presidential air fleet, pending final checks and flights. It also has a ‘new’ paint scheme...

The new Air Force VC-25B Bridge jet “has officially arrived at the Presidential Airlift Group and will commence its initial commissioning flights, marking the successful delivery of a secure, modified executive platform,” the Air Force announced Friday afternoon.

Full article, HERE from TWZ.

And this one is just too funny...

The research team, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Institute’s (NOAA’s) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) was on a Voyage to the South Pacific in 1997. They were listening through hydrophones for sounds that would indicate underwater volcano activity.

All of a sudden, the scientists heard what they described as a “Bloop.” It was a sound not only heard in the South Pacific over hydrophones. It was picked up by other underwater listening stations as far as 3,000 miles away.

A “Bloop?” Really? It was most unusual. And scientists, being scientists, crave the unusual and can’t resist trying to solve a mystery.

As unscientific as that seems, the researchers on the ship and dozens of other scientists around the globe spent a significant portion of their careers trying to solve the mystery.

“It’s unusual when a sound is recorded on all of the sensors we have deployed,” said NOAA Acoustics Program manager Robert Dziak. “If it’s a ship, or a whale, when it makes a sound in the ocean, it isn’t big enough to be recorded all the way across the Pacific. But this sound was recorded on so many hydrophones, so it stood out in our mind as being something unique.”

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

What always struck me as ‘strange’ was they had all these disparate arrivals over a wide area (yes, the Pacific is BIG), and nobody ever thought about using a ‘magic asshole’ to back plot arrival times and signal strengths... I remember us talking about it, as that was a technique we used in the Navy for ‘distant’ sounds to get rough location data.

When you know the speed of sound in sea water 1540 m/s and you can calculate the effects of Temperature (Increases/decreases by about (4.5 m/s per degree), Salinity (Increases/decreases by about 1.3 m/s per Salinity Unit, nominally assumed to be 35 ppt), and Pressure (expressed as depth) (Increases by about 1.7 m/s per 3 feet of depth based on a nominal surface pressure of 10.3 dbar).

Soooo, you know the depth of your hydrophone, you know the water temp (where you are), and salinity is pretty much the same everywhere other than the arctic/antarctic. You know what time ‘you’ recorded the noise and the strength. You find the arrival times/signal strength at the other locations, and back compute...

Sigh...