WWII Aircraft

I'm going to take a guess and say tanks and warship had no "nose art" because the need for camouflage. Airplanes, although they do paint them to make them difficult to see, had less of a need to worry about that.

The roots of feminism are arguable found in the need for women to leave the home and work in the factory. Their contribution was vital.









WOW = "Woman Ordnance Workers". There was also the WACs, of course:



Britain had the ATS....which led to some great recruitment posters:







Interesting to glimpse a time when women weren't such snowflakes and not in need of "safe spaces" (as are many beta males as well).

The sheer art quality of some of these poster is excellent:



This is one of the more famous pieces of art — this one from a The Saturday Evening Post cover:

Hitler was so adamant about keeping women in their traditional roles that he did not allow females to work in factories until very late in the war. Of course, he made up for this by importing slave labor from conquered countries, but I suspect that dedicated German females would have made a better workforce than foreigners who hope for your demise.

Those posters are really attractive and show America of a different time. Boy have we gone downhill.

I was talking to my wife about this just now. Every other Saturday or so, we go to a German restaurant which also has a small delicatessen attached to it. Both their restaurant and deli serve excellent quality products for reasonable prices.

Of course I enjoy the place for that, but I also like it because it is very old fashioned. Many of the patrons are from the Highland Park and North Dallas area and are not your typical slob so often seen today. These people dress properly and don't go around wearing baseball caps turned backwards. They are also polite and will even speak to each other in passing. This happened to me this morning when an older man and two older women walked by my table. I was leaning back in my chair with both my arms resting on the chairs on either side of me. As one woman walked by, she smiled and said that I looked very content. I responded that yes, "I had a full stomach and there was no rain in sight. It doesn't get better than that." She agreed with me and sat down for lunch. As I left I walked by her table and congratulated her on the fact that she would soon be a content as I. She laughed and agreed.

This may seem a small thing, but it has become increasingly rare for people to engage in polite small talk in passing. Even rarer is seeing people dressed properly and taking pride in how they look. Between the isolated fools who walk around with a Bluetooth ear phone surgically inserted into their heads and the tattooed bums wearing baseball caps and baggy polyester basketball outfits, I sometimes despair. Of course the earphone fools and tattooed bums in polyester are often one and the same.

Why just sometimes? That well-written description would seem to demand longer-term despair. And you’re right about small talk. And not just amongst the Left. I think the sourness out there has either caused a lot of people to shrink back as well as creating a lot of social cowards. An inward-pulling narcissism is also rampant. Many conservatives are little different from the Left. They just want to snarl because the world hasn’t lived up to their expectations.

Believe me, it’s not your imagination. Yes, there are still some very sociable (in a good way) young people. But none of what’s going on should be news to a conservative, as I’m sure it is not to you. Yes, sometimes seeing the results of our theories playing out can be unexpected when you actually see them playing out. But we know that the result of socialism is always upping the dog-eat-dog nature of society.

We all become piggies sucking at the government teet. Life is now perceived as a zero-sum game (and is in many ways). Despite the competitive nature of capitalism (wherein the pie can be grown and it is most definitely not a zero-sum game), socialism breeds contempt for your fellow citizen. On some level, everyone knows that society is now ordered by the squeaky wheel principle, thus there is no incentive for anyone to perceive that things (and other people) are good. There is payoff in being the victim.

Alienation and socialism always go together. Surely you see that in the exaggerated “Yes, comrade this” and “Yes comrade that” in the old Soviet Union. People who actually are comrades don’t have to speak like that. They just treat each other with naturally-flowing civility and small talk.

Another element is that people do recognize that other people are now tripwires, or potentially so. One word could get you fired. There are cameras everywhere matched with the most insanely sensitive Snowflake kooks. There’s no room for individuality or spontaneity. When the Nazis are running the place, you have to be careful. Measure every word. Best not to talk to anyone at all.

We’ve seen this problem for a long time, if only in the ability for all the supposedly hot-and-bothered conservatives to speak out against this stuff or resist it in any way. The most many can do is get online and bitch. They’ve been broken and cowed and I suppose getting online and bitching disguises this fact to themselves.

I consider at least 50% of the population to be substantially infected by statists/socialist inhumanity. That’s a shame. But I won’t pretend it isn’t so. But every once in a while you can run into non-pod people in a coffee shop. Not likely in Starbucks, of course.

It's a beauty the way this one has been preserved. Does anyone recognize the model? [Original]

Well, so much for that guess.  I just looked up the P-61 in wikipedia, and it was a twin-boom plane like the P-38.  It also says Marine, which would probably make it a Navy plane, but at the point I don't know.