24 Replies to “Cold, Manicured Hands”

  1. What is really funny(in a way) is that these people are so functionally brain dead,they do not even realize what aholes they are making of themselves.What is not funny is these are the same people who are responsible for the Chimp in Chief being elected.I really hope I live long enough to see everything west of the Rockies slide off into the Pacific,although I do feel sorry for the marine life.

  2. It might take a shotgun with some reach, like a 10 gauge, to bring down one of those helicopter drones.

  4. Heh. Of course it was bound to happen.
    Commercial applications for the private use of remotely-piloted vehicles make perfect sense.
    Think of a huge cattle-ranching operation. How better to monitor your acreage? Spend long days out on the dusty trail or sit at home in air-conditioned comfort flying your “mini-drone” around the property?

  5. JJM….but keeping an eye on your herd is a little different from keeping an eye on the sheeple.Oh wait.Cows are at least a magnitude smarter than LIV sheeple.Now where’s my Bambiphone and food stamps?

  6. The media have made an issue of search and rescue down here on the Rock. Well, drones are a good answer. I don’t mean little drones, but rather Predator-style or Reaper-style; long range long endurance, optimised to find and track human beings. Of course they are optimised to kill their targets, but they could instead drop emergency supplies. And a Predator, while expensive, is still cheaper than an helicopter.

  7. SAR will be much improved by a combination of satellites and drones doing the wide area serches to pinpoint where to send a manned helicopter to do the rescue. Cheaper running costs, fewer man-hours of SAR crews being put at risk and they will be fresher and fitter when they actually get on task because they launch directly to it instead of flying many hours of search first. Of course it can and probably will mean that the more expensive manned aircraft will be reduced in number and further withdrawn from remote bases to save “resources” so much that the current level of actual rescue performance will not be improved, but barely even maintained. It may even drop initially until enough failures demonstrate that the savings have cut too deep.

  8. It will be possible to ban guns in America about the same time it becomes possible to ban mental illness.
    Once the left figures that one out, we can all rejoice for reality will have been finally understood.

  9. Yeah well, I think ya got a point about manned elements being reduced…..that’s the way the bureaucrats roll.
    IF (it’s always if) drones are added to the organization of SAR, it will reduce costs, save time and increase success rates. Reducing airtime of manned resources, increases crew efficiancies, reduces maintainence, extends aircraft life.
    Use of drones, will impair manned crews ability to search but use of electronic sensors on drones should more than compensate. Manned assets will be primarily rescue and evacuation.
    The main advantage to drones, IMNSHO, is the reduction of personal casualties. All too many SAR missions are in difficult terrain, conditions of poor visibility and dangerous flying conditions. The drone can warn manned assets of wind shear etc.
    If the drones can locate the subjects quickly, assess flying conditions and lower crew casualties it’s all good.

  10. An alternative to drones for SAR is a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon). They’ve been on the market for about five years now. They broadcast on 406MHz, the same frequency as ELTs on aircraft. All Coast Guard helicopter crew have a PLB in the pocket of their lifevest. The PLBs can either be linked to a handheld GPS to obtain the users position or have a GPS inside to obtain it, so it squawks the lat and long of where the person is. The big advantage is no searching is necessary, which means a much quicker evacuation. The PLB units are pricey but the satellite network already exists.
    Here’s what they look like.
    http://www.gpscentral.ca/products/acr-sarlink-plb.html

  12. I am thinking a radio controlled model airplane with a couple of horizontally launched, wing mounted, solid fuel model rockets on a solenoid switch would make for the most entertaining afternoon of drone hunting. Should be good fun against one of these multiple rotor hover thingy’s. An amateur top gun! Heck I would even say you could crash a cheap RC airplane into the drone and come out ahead. I could use my son to do it and say it was a horrible accident,ever so sorry…. Maybe there’s a business line here somewhere.

  14. And the celebs who don’t want to be photographed, or do they?
    Look at me!
    Look at me!
    Look at me!
    Look at me!
    Hey, stop looking at me!
    Look at me!
    Look at me!

  15. It might take a shotgun with some reach, like a 10 gauge, to bring down one of those helicopter drones…
    Perhaps the drones could be armed too; let the games begin.

  16. When they’re being celebs on the red carpet then they’re ‘fair game’; when they’re just going about their private lives then it’s not OK to harass them. France has laws against that sort of breach of privacy, we should do the same.

  17. But the problem is No60,they do NOT want private lives.If they are not in the spotlight,and bitching about it,then they are not known.Their names are not “out there” in the MSM.And to their little schizo minds,that is a death sentence.They seek attention at every chance they can get,then cry about being hounded by the press. You can’t see the problem there?
    Tooner has it bang on.

  19. You can count heads, but you can’t check on their physical well-being.
    For that you need an SUV that rolls coal.

  20. But the problem is No60,they do NOT want private lives. Posted by: Justthinkin
    That’s a gross and inaccurate oversimplification. The simple fact that you don’t know any who maintain private lives and shun publicity proves my point and shows how wrong you are.

  21. If it weren’t for guns, and then for the movies made around them, none of these “celebrities” would have acting careers.
    Hypocrites.

  22. No coverage = no money.
    Hollywierdo’s know this better than anyone.
    Whining about an intrusive public is an industry fad and badge of honor for those that can whine about public intrusiveness.

  23. You just do not get it,Nof60. nv53 and Knight 99 nails it. Without their constant whining and crying to “celebrity” urnalists,none of these hypocrites would be known.Jennifer Aniston and all are like Al Gore. YOU must live in a mud hut,while I fly between my mansions.They make millions from fools,then tell me that I can’t have a gun,but watch my next movie where I shoot anything that moves. Have you actually looked up the meaning of the word hypocrit?

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