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There are cats at my local shooting range that can sleep through 20 people blasting away at targets. Stone deaf or extremely mellow. . .

“The arrest of Jewish organ trafficking gangs. . .” I bought one of those organs and the man said it was a Wurlitzer.

What next accordion trafficking gangs???

THATS IT. . . PAYBACK TIME BABY! Seriously, keep your cats indoors and they won't get run over. Sad.

This sums it up: “The pair fled the apartment because they didn’t want to hear the dying cat’s cries or desperate scratching at the oven door, authorities said.”

You don’t want to “waste court time” on a psychopath that would allow ANYTHING to suffer that terribly!?!? I agree only if the alternative is a bullet to her head. . .

“The country is such a bunch of bone-idle bums. . .” Well said! I was on a US Navy warship that was training Saudi sailors. We were tying up at a pier (a pretty critical phase of ship handling) and all the Saudis handling lines just stopped and dropped them in water!!! After the screaming and yelling stopped it was determined that it was prayer time and they were done!!! If I wouldn’t have seen it with my own eyes I wouldn’t have believed it.

Ditto. . .followed shortly by the “just enough claw to let you know I have them” tap. If anyone would have told me pre-cat that I would have put up with this I would have laughed!

My cat wakes me every morning by purring and tapping my lip with her paw(claws in safe mode)

Eagles: I was stationed in the Aleutians (”Take Me Back To Adak, AK”)and the cats used to scurry around running from car to car and generally keeping a pretty low profile. I wondered why until I saw the bald eagles swooping low over the housing area! I was fishing there once, caught probably the biggest fish (salmon) of my life, only to have a bald eagle grab the fish on the line and take the fish, rod & reel and fly away with them! Bald eagles are not something to be triffled with!

Coyotes: Hate ‘em and it should be open season on the varmints! I live along the American River and there are always coyotes taking rabbits, house cats and anything else they can get. Because they aren't hunted here they are totally fearless and I've had them come to within a couple of feet of me without batting an eye! They were getting really aggressive one year so the rangers posted the area with signs saying keep your pets out of the area. Some lady with a lap dog walks around the signs, and about two minutes later a coyote comes out of the bushes, grabs her dog and runs off with it.

Another time a coyote come trotting past me, kind of slow, with an off-leash golden retrieiver chasing it. Smart coyote was leading dumb dog to the rest of the pack. Don't know how that one turned out but. . . probably a good idea to keep your pets, dogs or cats, on your own property.

Well said!!!

“Buyers remorse is starting to set in.”

This was absolutely buried in the news here in Northern California. I probably shouldn’t be surprised but I am anyway. Has that been the case elsewhere?

As I said in my original post I don’t see any problem with what the Chief of Chaplains did in this instance and I disagree with the article. I do understand where Mr. Weinstein is coming from though.

It is all in the context. I know we don’t know each other but you can trust me when I say I am about as sensitive as a mack truck! There is a difference between being exposed to another faith, that is a great thing, and being coerced to accept another’s beliefs-especially where the military rank structure is involved. Open discussion of The Gospel, or any religion is a benefit to all I think. I know that having the opportunity to discuss religion with a Catholic Priest and a Baptist Minister, both excellent chaplains, and to even pray with them at times strengthened my faith. It is quite another for a senior to pressure a junior to follow their beliefs. That is not only out of line but unconstitutional as well!

Think of it this way: you raise your child to believe in The Gospel. Your child joins the military and has a commanding officer who is a Scientologist. How would you feel if your son or daughter writes home to tell you they are being forced to attend Scientology study sessions, getting time off if the read L. Ron. Hubbard books, etc.? That is the exact sort of thing that happened to Mr. Weinstein - a retired Air Force officer himself.

First, I’m a 25 year-Navy, recently retired Jew. Never had any problems with my religion in the service, other than an occasional bigot, but you find them everywhere. I don’t see any problem here.

Second, I’ve met Mr. Weinstein and he has a valid point. There were chaplains at the Air Force Academy and at some other locations that just “didn’t get it!” A chaplain’s role is to minister to ALL troops of all faiths irregardless of what the chaplain’s personal religion or denomination is. NOT to try and convert troops to THEIR beliefs. Again, my personal experience is that I have had Catholic and Protestant chaplains help me observe MY religion in the far flung corners of the globe.

I have proudly served my country and raised my children to honor G-d as observant Jews, just as Mr. Weinstein has, and I would be madder than hell if some misguided chaplain decided to try to convert them to another faith instead of providing them the comfort and support that they are supposed to. Any good chaplain understands this. If they feel that they absolutely have to convert the “non-believers” to their faith or denomination they don’t belong in the military. There are enough good men (and women) of G-d who DO get it.

Never good to underestimate your enemy, but LMFAO! I was flying around the Gulf back in the day and we get a radio call that goes somthing like: "US Aircraft. . .this is Iranian warship. . .you are approaching us and are in danger" or some such crap like that. We give the "we are in international waters. . ." reply and proceed to boom in on them. This is what we were in "danger" from: I think our prop blast may have capsized them! Here is her sister ship after the US got "irritated:" Weapons away!

Thats good shootin’ brother!

Rabbi Meir Kahane (z”l): “Every Jew a .22”

NFOShekky (me): “If a 9mm or larger is not available.”
Jew, CDR USN Ret., Life Member NRA, and Republican

Where to begin!?!?! First off, I like cats and could care less if they eat the damn seagulls, lizards, bugs, what-have-you! If they are truly bumping the local foxes out of their place in the food chain, then more power to ya kitty!

Second, anyone want to venture a guess as to what this environmental study cost us? What it will cost us to hire tracking dogs, hunters, trappers, and a bunch of eggheads to get rid of a bunch of feral cats?

If you are a cat person or if you just don't like seeing tax money flushed down the toilet - money that could, oh let me see, buy armored humvees or other gear that our troops need, fund veterans programs, or hey just pay off the deficit, then I suggest you send comments to the address given at the bottom of the article. Geez!

I always kind of liked having lions on campus! Fight on State!!!!!!

My guess is some of the “peace loving” anti-military SOB’s that infest that area. I grew up by the Boeing plant when it was Vertol, after Piasecki, and started my military career in the area. In the early 1980’s I was an 18 year old Navy aircrewman stationed at NAS Willow Grove. A group called the “Epiphany Plowshares” cut through the fence and sabotaged a number of airplanes including one I was scheduled to fly on that morning. This group consisted of priests and nuns from some wacky pseudo-Catholic order and the usual moonbats. I always thought it funny that their desire for peace and non-violence didn’t include myself or my twelve shipmates who would have perished when the plane either exploded on engine start or crashed on takeoff!

The saddest part of this is that if I remember correctly, these bastards were never convicted! They would disrupt the proceedings until there was a mistrial. This occured several times and I think the Feds finally gave up trying to prosecute them. I always wished that the sailor on duty who caught them would have been armed with a .45 instead of a nightstick. Would have settled the matter once and for all, and maybe set an example for the other traitors out there!

Anybody remember this???

My guess is some of the “peace loving” anti-military SOB’s that infest that area. I grew up by the Boeing plant when it was Vertol, after Piasecki, and started my military career in the area. In the early 1980’s I was an 18 year old Navy aircrewman stationed at NAS Willow Grove. A group called the “Epiphany Plowshares” cut through the fence and sabotaged a number of airplanes including one I was scheduled to fly on that morning. This group consisted of priests and nuns from some wacky pseudo-Catholic order and the usual moonbats. I always thought it funny that their desire for peace and non-violence didn’t include myself or my twelve shipmates who would have perished when the plane either exploded on engine start or crashed on takeoff!

The saddest part of this is that if I remember correctly, these bastards were never convicted! They would disrupt the proceedings until there was a mistrial. This occured several times and I think the Feds finally gave up trying to prosecute them. I always wished that the sailor on duty who caught them would have been armed with a .45 instead of a nightstick. Would have settled the matter once and for all, and maybe set an example for the other traitors out there!

Anybody remember this???

LMAO!!! Thanks!

Well said Moose! I’m Jewish, but the good Father at the neighborhood church back in Phila PA (probably the Sisters too for that matter) would have clunked these fools heads together and heaved ‘em out into the street without interupting the Mass!