[LonePalm]

Bonjour y'all! Laissez le bon Trump rouler!!!

Know your Nautical Terminology

First Point of Aries
The First Point of Aries is a reference point on the Celestial Sphere coinciding with the March equinox. It is to the Celestial Sphere what the Prime Meridian (Greenwich) is to the Terrestial Sphere.

Nautical Almanac
A nautical almanac is a publication describing the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea. The Almanac specifies for each whole hour of the year the position on the Earth's surface (in declination and Greenwich hour angle) at which the Sun, Moon, planets, and First Point of Aries is directly overhead. The positions of 57 selected stars are specified relative to the First Point of Aries.

Since 1958, the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and His Majestie's Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO) have jointly published a unified nautical almanac, The Astronomical Almanac, for use by the navies of both countries. Almanac data is now available online from the US Naval Observatory.

Sample data from the 2011 Nautical Almanac. Click image for larger version.

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Uber-Eng]

In...and saluting all those in the military who have passed before us. Especially all those that perished for wars that didn’t need to be fought in the first place.

I will do what I can to be part of their retribution.

Nice plaque on the submariners, LonePalm. I remember reading the extensive successes of the USS Tang, only to have it be sank by one of the last torpedoes it launched due to a guidance issue that made it turn back in a large circle.

I ran across a couple of people in church this morning, now known to have intentionally started a grassroots group in order to do their best to overwhelm and discourage all those fighting for election integrity. They still play the game, pretending nothing is amiss and leaving open the possibility that DJT may not be the republican candidate or win the election. Amazingly, everything they’ve done over the past three years to subvert the grassroots will soon be circling back on them, just like that errant torpedo.

You can’t make this stuff up, nor should you try.

Semper Supra/Semper Fidelis to all!