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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I hope the Air Force continues to use the A-10 Warthog.
Not related thereto, attached is a collage of this morning’s workout. I am a 67-year old diabetic cardiac patient and a recovering alcoholic dope fiend who should be dead, but due to the Lord’s mercy, I still live. As a result thereof, I have made a ritual of morning Rosary and Scripture reading following by sweating on the rowing machine. I encourage everyone to spend an hour a day with the Lord and then an hour a day sweating. I do these things because left to my own devices, I am a very sick human being: spiritually, mentally, and physically. It is only by God’s grace that I can enjoy time with the grandchildren this weekend, and to not cause my wife to become revolted when she sees me in the bedroom. So please, for the sake of health – body, mind, and spirit – engage in a regular exercise program, even if it is only walking 2 to 3 miles per day. Besides, I have found that the discipline necessitated by seven cardiac stents in four coronary artieries has had a saluatory effect on my otherwise dismal and irascible attitude. 😉 Sadly, the Holy Spirit has always had to take the baseball bat of “wake the frack up and fly straight” to the side of my head. At least that’s how my 12-sponsor explained it to me.
In the opening days of the war in Ukraine, the ground was muddy and the Russian’s attacked on roads. Long straight columns of tanks, armored and support vehicles and fuel tanker trucks. Imagine what a few A-10s could’ve accomplished.
During Desert Storm, in two separate incidents, an A-10 shot down an Iraqi helicopter. The Warthog: built for air-to-air combat. Another natural fighter plane, the AC-130, scored a helicopter kill in Vietnam.
I almost wanted to say “hog on ISIS”, but that’s the wrong sect. But it is amusing that radical Islam is assailed by a warcraft named for a pig. Fry their bacon!
LQC, I couldn’t agree more. I follow the morning Rosary with about 45-50 minutes on the recumbent cycle (bad back) while reciting Matins and sometimes also Lauds from the 1954 or 1960 Rubrics. Usually about 14.5 miles of simulated cycling. Then a half hour of PT exercises given by my orthopedic surgeon after my hip replacement two years ago. At 72 it’s sometimes hard, but I was an athlete years ago, and those instincts never go away, so I still push myself.
As for the A-10, also agreed. It’s way too soon to retire it. The Air Force has never really liked the Hog, and their excuse today is that it’s too vulnerable in modern combat zones to both ground and air threats. I don’t know the veracity of that claim.
Calling Candace Owens Gal Sharpton is Dana Loesch’s greatest contribution to mankind. Change my mind.
Chuck Norris, RIP.
I can only imagine the sorry shape the grim reaper is in right now …
That was what I was thinking as I just heard the news on the car radio.
Grim Reaper staff: “How come the boss looks like Chuck Norris now?”
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The Prime Minister of Australia recently made a courtesy visit to a mosque in Sydney. (You’ll recall that three months ago a pair of Pakistani immigrants massacred a group of Jews at a Hannukkah celebration). Ann Coulter took a certain amount of flak in 2001 for saying one possible way of addressing our issues would be to tell Muslim aliens to leave en bloc. Certainly these characters are asking for it.
I love the smell of a Warthog in the morning…
The Air Force doesn’t want the Warthog give it to the Marines, just like F4U Corsair
For the Air Force weenies who don’t know history, I invite them to study the exploits of the Soviet Night Witches of WW II. They were women combat pilots who flew low and slow on moonlit nights over German positions and blasted everything from tanks to personnel. BTY, the title was given them by the enemy which indicates their effectiveness.