When the sunrise photographs do not include the sun, it's either because no photo with the sun was among the best photos in the set or because the sun failed to pop. It's back there behind the clouds, we can trust, but the clouds are blocking the popping. Today was one of those days when the clouds won out. They seemed thin and wispy enough that we couldn't know until a few minutes after the sunrise time, and we waited out the time in the bitter cold.Write about whatever you want in the comments.
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Those are pretty good photos. Wispy or not, the clouds make the picture.
I'm going to watch the new Tom Cruise movie this weekend Someone said its not up to the previous one, but 2nd rate cruise is often better than 1st rate anyone else.
"and we waited out the time in the bitter cold."
Your loyal fans appreciate it.
I usually like 'em best without the actual sun. The pix are beautiful but, as in many things, the suggestion often stirs the mind and the heart more powerfully than the graphic close-up.
https://x.com/i/status/2027707881605177575
The first photo is my fave…
“Finally, to the great proud people of the Democrat Party, when we are finished, take over your Party. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations. For many years, you have asked for America’s help, but you never got it. The Democrat leadership made promise after promise. They never delivered. Now you have a president who is giving you what you need. So let’s see how you respond. Now is the time to seize control of your Party and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.“
They all look the same every day now. Boring.
This isn't exactly the variety of monet's garden... a flat industrial skyline with a mix of the same colors orange pink blue grey white etc.
Dont you ever think of finding a different spot to shoot, or are you just committed to your rut and afraid to mix things up?
At least some days there are ducks so we know you're not just rerunning the same shots while you doze in bed.
How many sunrises have you watched and the best descriptive word you use is pops?
No ma'am, look again. It climbs, but there's never a pop where the whole thing appears all at once, like with a toaster.
As long as the smokestacks and crane populate the background, I’m good.
Brava, Eva Marie!
Iran: "I didn't think you had it in you."
US: "I'm your huckleberry."
Iran: "My fights not with you."
US: "I beg to differ. We started a game we never got to finish. Death to America, remember?"
Iran: "I was just fooling about."
US: "I wasn't."
https://x.com/QueEngineering/status/2027840226014679429/photo/1
Mission impossible dead reckoning failed to stick the lsnding
Did it have a script
PALADIN is still favored for 1st Saturday in May in a 6-1,($14.00 for every $2.00 wager.Trained by Chad Brown and scheduled for next race in the Blue Grass stakes. Im still not convinced and will check out his race see what I see. Looking at a couple others right now and upcoming preps.Need to see some loger events to monitor endurance and stamina of these 3 year olds. Bankroll fat and ready for some trips to the windows.Saturday April 4 BLUE GRASS STAKES with $1.25 million purse. Im interested in Commandment (Brad Cox) at 20-1 ,will definitely go off lower than that but still a price but won the Fountain of youth stakes and gained 50 points moved into 2nd place in futures and guaranteed spot.Yeah baby ....and their off. Lot more races to dope over next couple months,
"RCOCEAN II said...
I'm going to watch the new Tom Cruise movie this weekend"
There's a guy on social media that films himself every day running like Tom Cruise to the Mission: Impossible theme song in hope that Cruise will invite him to his next premier. He's at 370+ days now...
Here is day 373 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVKswuLjcrk/
@NotKennyRogers
Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain
Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom
Excellent, Eva Marie!
Mission impossible dead reckoning failed to stick the landing
What do you mean? The timing was perfect when he landed through the side of the train? Ok… that was ridiculous. I’m afraid final reckoning is worse.
Yeah that one dead reckoning held out so much promise of hunts backstory about the entity
And they blew in the first half hour
Iman said...
@NotKennyRogers
Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain
Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom
Minneapolis.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/israels-strike-on-iran-largest-yet-with-500-targets-hit-idf-says/
Looks like the Israelis did the bulk of the SEAD, 500 targets with 200 sorties. And presumably every F35 they had leading the way.
I played Commandment in the Fountain of Youth. He is a grandson of Orb, who won the same race plus the Florida Derby over that track. Orb has not succeeded at stud and now stands in Uruguay, but his daughter Sippican Harbor was a G1 SW at Sar before retiring early. She's the best Orb got in class, and her colt has a big genetic edge at Gulfstream thanks to his grandsire. Both grandsires, in fact.
On his father's side, the grandsire is Harlan's Holiday, who won the Florida Derby and the Donn Handicap. He was second in the Fountain of Youth, beaten by .... a nose. So this is a family, or two families, that love GP.
A genetic edge for a particular track? Well.... Commandment was all out today to defeat Chief Wallabee, a colt making only his second start. But Chief W is a son of Constitution, who was 3-for-3 over GP, including the Fl Derby and the Donn Handicap, now the Pegasus International. There's a reason the two of them were a few lengths clear of the rest of the field. The Gulfstream strip is pretty sandy dirt and some horses love it and pass that quality on.
Which brings us to Quality Road, who won the same Fountain of Youth stakes and the Florida Derby in his 3yo year, 2009, and then the Donn Handicap at 4.
Quality Road's son City of Light won the Donn in 2019, as the Pegasus World Invitational, and he won it in precisely the same form and almost the identical time as his daddy. You can view their two races on video and the similarities are striking -- like it's the same horse.
And then City of Light's son Fierceness won the Florida Derby at GP in 2024..... by 13 lengths, the best race he ever ran.
There is something in those genes..!
It might be slightly crass to say this, but given what Iranian women have been going through the past 3 generations or so, I like to think that there are quite a few Iranian guys getting lucky tonight.
China has developed several anti-ship missiles, with the YJ-12 being one of the most notable. The YJ-12 is a supersonic cruise missile capable of reaching speeds of Mach 2.5 to 4 and has a range of approximately 250 to 270 nautical miles, making it a significant threat to naval forces.
China’s CM-302 flies 460 kilometers at Mach 3, evades interception, carries a 500-kilogram warhead — and is likely headed to Iran. The CM-302 is the export version of the Chinese YJ-12 anti-ship missile. Iran is close to finalizing a deal to buy these anti-ship cruise missiles.
The prospective sale would deepen China-Iran military ties, potentially defy reimposed UN sanctions, and come as US carriers, including the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford, have moved into striking distance. The CM-302 was designed to be launched from H-6K strategic bombers. It says here that the CM-302 is armed with a 500-kilogram warhead capable of putting a three-foot hole in the hull of our most strategic naval assets.
"Iran is close to finalizing a deal to buy these anti-ship cruise missiles."
Well, they better get a move on…
“Well, they better get a move on…”
That ship has already sailed…
Posted elsewhere:
"I have an idea. President Trump should send 30 million mail-in ballots to Iran, and then see if Democrats will approve the SAVE Act."
a tweet I read today on X.
The fact that a billionaire real estate playboy who liked to slap his name on steaks and wine has proven to be a better diplomat and military strategist than every other politician and foreign policy expert over the last 30 years is such a damning indictment of the DC establishment I honestly don’t know how they recover.
tough year for the hate America, China and Iran and Russia are great crowd.
Russia is now a joke.Iran had no leadership, and soon no Muslims oppressing it.
China has lost millions of barrels of oil, and continues to decline.
Once Trump has finished with those light weights, maybe he can bomb and conquer Calif, Minn etc.
The real capabilities of Chinese military engineering aren't well known (at least publicly), but a reasonable assumption is that they will follow the same overwhelming-quantities-of-cheap-crap approach that they take to commerce. It is likely that they'll use low-quality materials and that quality assurance will be weak, so a fairly large fraction of the drones or missiles will fail to launch or won't reach the target or will blow up at the wrong time--but there will be so many of them that it might not matte. Even if only 75% of them work, 75% of a very large number is still a very large number. Our stuff is much more reliable in part because defense companies protected their profits after the GWOT by swapping quantity for expensive quality.
The big question is if that is enough to deter China? Because thanks to a chain of short-sighted and strategically moronic decisions, most of which go back to Bush Jr, we don't have even a fraction of the mass-quantity manufacturing capacity that China now has. The question is whether or not we can rebuild that capacity fast enough that we won't need to use it.
The next few years are going to be exceedingly dangerous ones in the Pacific. The people Trump put in place are trying to close our window of vulnerability, but that might perversely be an incentive for China to strike earlier, before the window is shut.
The Japanese election is a real wild card, because Chinese people in their 30s and 40s have been taught since birth to believe that Japan would like nothing better than to Nanking them again in an instant, so there is fear of Japan disproportionate to Japan's capabilities or intentions. Does the election cause China to do something precipitous, or does it deter them?
Also, China's window for projecting power is limited by their demographic crisis. Perhaps the only Western idea more destructive than Marxism has been the Population Crisis delusion that led to the viciously enforced One Child policy.
China's window of strength to be militarily aggressive will be starting to shut at the same time as the U.S. window of vulnerability, which means that if they are determined to take Taiwan militarily, sooner is better than later.
Hopefully the display of U.S. military capabilities in Venezuela and Iran deters China long enough for this dangerous moment to pass, but it--and the loss of Venezuelan and Iranian oil--could have the opposite effect.
Let's say Iran gets their Chinese missiles, and let's say Iran manages to sink a US warship. What does gadfly think would happen next?
Guven the current security (or insecuriry) of Iranian airspace it seems unlikely that Iran can safely receive bulky shipments of that sort from China.
An announcer appearing on state television broke down in tears early on Sunday as he confirmed the killing, saying the 86-year-old "achieved his long cherished wish of martyrdom in the holy month of Ramadan."
He died doing what he loved.
As a follow-on to Prof Drout, if you've got a half hour or so, give a listen to this review of the service of the Chinese copy of the Russian MiG-19 and keep track of the number of times you hear 'quality control problems'. Granted this is 1960s or so Chinese technology but then remember we went to the moon with our 1950s/1960s technology base.
" it seems unlikely that Iran can safely receive bulky shipments of that sort from China."
Don't harsh gadfly's mellow.
An announcer appearing on state television broke down in tears early on Sunday as he confirmed the killing, saying the 86-year-old “achieved his long cherished wish of martyrdom in the holy month of Ramadan.”
Too bad he had to wait so long to fulfill his wish.
I doubt China would be interested in selling Iran gadfly's missiles. Last year, yes. Last month, maybe. Tomorrow? I doubt it.
gadfly said...
China has developed several anti-ship missiles, with the YJ-12 being one of the most notable. The YJ-12 is a supersonic cruise missile capable of reaching speeds of Mach 2.5 to 4 and has a range of approximately 250 to 270 nautical miles, making it a significant threat to naval forces.
China’s CM-302 flies 460 kilometers at Mach 3, evades interception, carries a 500-kilogram warhead — and is likely headed to Iran. The CM-302 is the export version of the Chinese YJ-12 anti-ship missile. Iran is close to finalizing a deal to buy these anti-ship cruise missiles.
LOL. "evades interception"
These people don't even know what they are talking about. They are just stupid people repeating things they don't even think about or have the foggiest idea of how those things actually work.
gadfly is a fucking traitor hoping for US soldiers to die as well.
Didn’t china and Russia already sell their invincible capitalist killer radar shit to Venezuela? How did that work out?
‘fly’s in the stall…
“…the 86-year-old “achieved his long cherished wish of martyrdom in the holy month of Ramadan.”
It’s been renamed to RamaDON, thank you.
“Remember how we went into the USSR archives after the Soviet fall and found out which American groups, etc. they'd been funding? Getting the opportunity to do so with Iran would be very interesting.”
The CCTV commentator, Professor Li Li of China’s National Defense University: “If the United States dares to strike Iran, Iran will wipe out Israel within half an hour.”
this is where the leftist apparatchiks on this blog get their 'info'.
Achilles said...
"Iman said...
@NotKennyRogers
Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain
Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom
Minneapolis."
And Dearborn, Chicago, Berkeley, and Columbia University.
Obama bombed 8 countries without Congress approval and Clinton bombed an aspirin factory to cover up his affair. - US Rep. Tim Burchett
And not a single, fucking word from Freder.
Keep this quote in mind the next time that asshole runs his mouth about Trump's 'illegal' war.
The war against Iran isn't "illegal." It's just undocumented.
(about a million people thought of this joke at the same time, so I have no idea who deserves the credit)
"(about a million people thought of this joke at the same time, so I have no idea who deserves the credit)"
All million of them.
Buck Sexton
@BuckSexton
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5h
Pretty sure Trump can't start World War III in Iran because the people screaming about that now already told us that he started World War III in Ukraine a while back
So this must be World War IV
https://x.com/BuckSexton/status/2027935175288512912?s=20
Bad Hombre
@Badhombre
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9h
Apparently, arresting Maduro and killing Khamenei were easier than getting a Republican Senate majority to pass the Save America Act.
https://x.com/Badhombre/status/2027885161182888185?s=20
Whom cares if this war is illegal or not. Now that our country has committed to it, we must prevail swiftly and decisively without inflicting significant civilian collateral casualties.
Turning Iran into Gaza would be a disaster.
"Turning Iran into Gaza would be a disaster."
The Palestinians turned Gaza in "Gaza". The Iranians are not the Palestinians. There's hope.
The ordinary citizens of Iran are performing traditional Muslim dances of sorrow in the streets as they learn of Khamenei’s death. Ignore their happy faces and shouts of joy.
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China has developed several anti-ship missiles, with the YJ-12 being one of the most notable. The YJ-12 is a supersonic cruise missile capable of reaching speeds of Mach 2.5 to 4 and has a range of approximately 250 to 270 nautical miles, making it a significant threat to naval forces.”
Better against fixed targets. That’s because the faster the missile goes, the less well it can turn. And the less well it’s going to be able to communicate. At hypersonic speeds, the missile is flying in almost a plasma. This makes any sort of radio communications problematic. On the flip side, that sort of heat is going to make the missile extremely visible. This isn’t that much of a problem with stationary targets. But Carrier Strike Groups are very fast, and the fastest in such a group is the carrier itself. So, the logical response to an attack by this sort of missile is to just go somewhere else. Then, when the missile goes subsonic, and is able to communicate and maneuver, be far enough away that the missile either can’t find the target, or can’t change direction fast enough. And remember, the carrier strike group can detect the incoming missiles from a significantly longer distance than the missiles can detect them. At least, the Chinese have satellites that can aid in this. Not so the Iranians who were supposed to be using these missiles to sink our aircraft carriers.
I still think that surface skimming cruise missiles are the way to go. They are harder to detect, since they almost disappear in the clutter of waves that they are skimming over. And you can redirect them in real time, as the carrier and its strike group veer off in response to missile attacks. If you have sufficient satellite capacity to see what the ships are doing. Which the Iranians didn’t.
But, then, the Chinese are unlikely to even attack a carrier strike group, because if they succeeded, they would immediately face nuclear retaliation. We have consistently had the position that sinking or even significantly damaging, a carrier would result in nuclear retaliation. And while the Russians have a few more nuclear warheads than the US does, the US supply completely dwarfs China’s inventory. And while Obama might have cheered the Chinese on, or Biden already asleep for the day, Republican Presidents would carry out their threats.
One of the funny things that we see from the left is that Sec Hegseth is incompetent and doesn’t listen to, or ignores his generals and admirals. He was a mere field grade officer, who never attended War College, etc. But there is a saying to never trust anyone O-6 or above (some say O-5 or above). Esp in pease (or quasi peace) time, they become too political. And under Obama and Biden, that meant focusing on DEI and sustainability goals, at the expense of their core mission - to break things and kill the enemy.
What Trump and Hegseth have done is to reorient our military to its core mission. And that has been spectacularly successful. Instead of the debacle of our idiotic withdrawal from Kabul, planned by those generals and admirals that Trump and Hegseth are supposed to be listening to, they have been able to surgically eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program, then decapitate both the Venezuelan and Iranian governments, with negligible loss of American lives and equipment. Meanwhile, military recruiting is way up, transitioning from all the services missing their recruiting goals, to surpassing them months before the end of the year - in under a year.
“the debacle of our idiotic withdrawal from Kabul“ vs “surgically eliminat[ing] the Iranian nuclear weapons program, then decapitat[ing] both the Venezuelan and Iranian governments”
What a contrast.
On this the Lord's Day our family is offering prayers for the 3 dead Americans(so far) and the numerous innocent Iranians who are caught up in the WAR. I will pray I will not have to be witness to the body bags of the Vietnam Military conflict during my Miitary service 65-72. There is only ONE who is in charge of all the death and destruction and we willput our Faith there as we watch fallible human beings do what they do best,,kill each.All Authority is placed by God with the premise of opportunities to help rather than hinder. A CHOICE. In the end every knee will bow and the mysteries of LIFE and DEATH will be revealed. FAITH= "being sure of what we hoped for and certain of what we have not seen"Killing on the Sabbath(Saturday, yesterday) and during humans Holy periods dates back centuries. In your hands Lord, the only salvation.JESUS WEPT.
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