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Everything you need to know about US Navy submarines

Ever since the Turtle was used to try to breach the British blockade during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Navy has continued to pursue submarine technology and its advancement. Submarines are a vital part of America’s defense, along with many other allied nations. 

The U.S. officially entered the underwater world of warfare after purchasing the USS Holland (SS-1) in 1900. It was commissioned on Oct. 12, 1900. John Holland designed the USS Holland, which was used for experimental purposes during its 10-year career.

When World War I kicked off, the threat of submarines existed, but it was not prevalent due to the early stages of developing submarine manufacturing and technology. At the time, the Navy had 11 different classes of submarines that used a combination of diesel-electric propulsion systems. 

The diesel-electric submarines were a step up from the previous steam-powered submarines, though the British Royal Navy’s K-class submarines used in WWI were steam-powered. Submarines played a minor part in WWI’s overall warfare.  

Interesting that they skipped Hunley. I get that it was a CSA boat, but it might at least get a mention. Anyhow, learn all about bubbleheads at the link.

Secular Religion

In the battle for America’s soul, every issue is theological

Whether we’re dealing with shamans, witch doctors, or neurosurgeons, no other ethic on this planet will ultimately treat you as anything more than a number. Each according to his abilities, each according to his needs — you’re reduced to a formula or a slogan. But you are certainly not seen as a child of God, and that will not be tolerated. We’ve lied to ourselves for far too long about our role in this con as Americans. The truth is simple, even if it isn’t easy: Every issue is a theological issue. Every choice humans make is an expression of worship. All of it. “Secular” doesn’t exist. The people who sold secularism to you are now openly proving that the lie was the point all along. They are demonically intent on replacing the old-time religion with a new one. And as they looked from man to pig and pig to man and back again, they couldn’t tell the difference. This is how it always ends. Something will always rule, and something will always be worshiped. There is no way around those two iron laws of creation. So will it be the lie of accommodation, the lie of neutrality, the lie of co-existence? Or will it be the truth? If you need to get comfortable with something, why not try the truth for once?

IME, most people who call themselves athiest simply have something else that fills the role of religion in their life. It may be ego, it may be technology it may be authority, but their relationship with whatever it is is no different that a Christian's elationship with God.

Sabotage

Biden Is Totally Trying to Sabotage the Harris-Walz Campaign

Remember when Biden announced — by tweet on a Sunday afternoon! — that he was completely voluntarily and freely of his own strong will dropping out of the race? And how a couple of hours later he finally remembered to announce that, oh yeah, he's also endorsing Harris? If that sequence of events, from the Obama-Pelosi cabal forcing him out to his slow-rolled endorsement, didn't leave a bitter taste in Biden's mouth, it's only because he can no longer remember the flavor. 

And what does Biden care, really, who the next president is? He knows his legacy is the first incumbent president to get forced off his reelection ticket by a cabal of party insiders who were more powerful than a sitting president. And, given Biden's mental and physical decline, that's not really a subject for debate.

Besides, the Biden crime family got a good four years of looting the treasury, Jill got to play-act as POTUS, and Hunter will almost certainly get his pardon.
For a mid-wit schemer with no talents aside from cheap demagoguery and expensive graft, that's not such a bad way to go out.

Still, there is that little matter of Biden's prickly ego. Harris is all but running as the challenger to Biden's record, such as it is, with her "new way forward" BS. She dropped him and all "their" accomplishments faster than Usain Bolt fired out of a cannon attached to a Falcon 9 rocket.

So if Biden somehow manages to deny Harris his reelection prize with backhanded compliments like that one on The View, could you blame him?

Nothing I've ever seen from Biden tells me that he has any loyalty to anyone but himself.

Doooooom

Economic Collapse In Slow Motion

Commercial real estate bears a disproportionate share of the city’s fiscal burden. As those values decline dramatically, the short-term fix will be increasing residential property taxes. That will reduce residential real estate values, and drive more upper-income residents out of the city. Which could turn into a financial death spiral.

Why are Minneapolis’s problems so acute? Because of crime. Formerly a low-crime city, the George Floyd riots and accompanying attacks on law enforcement have caused a dramatic increase in the rate of serious crime. That has caused businesses, as well as individuals, to avoid the city. With leases continuing to expire, there is no reason to think the downward trends have bottomed out.

The City of Minneapolis, meanwhile, is exploring ways of redeveloping George Floyd Square in a manner that will, in the mayor’s words, “honor the life of George Floyd, and point toward a more equitable future.” Somehow, I don’t think that is the focus that the city needs if it is to recover economically.

I'm pretty sure that sometime in the next 4 years, we're going to have a 1929 style business collapse, and the party in power will take the blame.

I'll Take The Hash Browns

Nearly Automatic for the People: The Great American Story of Waffle House

Folks needing food when they are tired, or working odd hours, or on a budget, or just want something familiar have been finding such comfort at Waffle House for over 60 years now, in good times and bad, all hours of the day, every day.

“It is indeed marvelous. An irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts, for everybody regardless of race, creed, color, or degree of inebriation is welcomed,” Anthony Bourdain narrated over his own first experience at Waffle House for his TV show Parts Unknown. The man whose oeuvre became eating anything with anyone anywhere just had to get in on the scattered, smothered, and covered cultural institution, in this case in Charleston, South Carolina. “Its warm yellow glow, a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry, the lost, the seriously hammered all across the South to come inside, a place of safety and nourishment. It never closes. It is always, always faithful, always there for you.”

FEMA does indeed use the “Waffle House Index" to determine the severity of natural disasters. Today I saw a picture from Florida of a Waffle House boarded up tighter than a bank vault. Stay safe, Florida 'rons and 'ettes.

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Crocks and socks too. Hopefully those Crocks are steel toed. Honestly, this thing couldn't be any more dangerous if he added a machine gun.

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