Lily Camera - The Ultimate Hunting Documentation Drone?

The technology around what is happening with drones is moving at an incredible pace, and one of the most impress that is out there is the new Lily drone.  Check it out:



I can think of a million applications for this, but two specifically for hunting stand out:

• Using Lily in circle mode while duck hunting to evaluate the quality (or lack thereof) of a blind from the ducks' perspectives
• Using Lily in follow mode to document a field of pheasant hunters

This is really cool - hope I'm able to get my hands on one sometime down the road.

Hat-tip to cousin Murphy

Saturday Song Share: Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs

Time to make our way to the country with some newer, old-school stuff from Mr. Yoakam:

The Power of the Image of the Cross

When walking to Starbucks this morning for my usual coffee, I was awestruck by the majesty of the mountains that surround me in my current locale.  A simple image - rocks, sky, and trees, but combined they were astonishing.  I pondered: is there any image that is more powerful than that of a mighty mountain range?

An answer hit me almost immediately: yes.  It's the cross.

Think of what the cross symbolizes - immense suffering, but suffering that was done under the auspices of boundless love.  Horrible, prolonged death, but at the same time life, and everlasting life at that.  Dark loss and defeat, but also ultimate and eternal victory.

One can't look at a cross and not consider the One who hung upon it, and everything that act means to us.

A small, simple symbol, but with a depth of meaning that is nearly impossible for us to truly comprehend. 

Another Reason Why I Do Indeed Love Peyton Manning

I admit it.  I have a massive man-crush on Peyton Manning.  It's bad.  It's so bad, that when I might have the Broncos game on TV, Mrs. YDP will exclaim, "Oh, look, your boyfriend is on TV again!"

So then Manning goes and does this, and makes me love him even more:



In an industry full of self-centered idiots, one guy always seems to stay well above the mire.

Stay classy, Peyton, and I'll stay loving you.

Hillary Doubles Down on Planned Parenthood

It doesn't matter what proof is presented as to the ghoulish practices of Planned Parenthood: they have Hillary's undying support - 



With another trove of damning videos yet to drop, this fight is far from over.  If I think what happens actually happens, Hillary won't be able to hide from her words at the 1:40 mark.

That is how much the Democrats have invested in abortion.  

Abortion uber allies.

Hollywood Comes to the Aid of the Iran Nuke Deal

This is not something from the Onion, and I'm not making this up.

A host of Lefty favorites has published the following tripe in support of the Iran nuclear weapons deal:


This is how low we've sunk, politically.  I'm ashamed of this country.

In the meantime, we thankfully have leaders like Senator Tom Cotton, who flat refuse to let the roaches run rampant in the dark:

Navy Officer that Shot at Jihadist to be Punished?

During the mass-murder Jihad attack in Chattanooga a couple of weeks ago, a Navy officer happened to be armed with a personal sidearm, and returned the fire of the attacker.

The problem?  The officer was working in a "gun free" zone, and it was illegal for him to be carrying that sidearm.

Now the officer is under investigation, and may be punished and/or prosecuted.  

Here at YDP we'll continue to follow this story, as it is not being widely reported, and its injustice (as well as its stupidity) is staggering. 

The Left's Response to the Planned Parenthood Videos

With each new damning video showing the moral depravity of Planned Parenthood, two very interesting things are happening in the Left media and in chatrooms:

1. The Left leaning media are flat ignoring the topic.  It is not being covered one iota, and there appears to be a concerted effort to sweep the entire subject under the rug
2. The talk-off in chatrooms is that the videos are lies, and are the creation of Fox News.  They're highly edited, and flat fiction.  

The latter is the one that is most concerning to me.  American literacy on what is happening in our world are arguably the worst it's been since the dawn of mass media.  Folks cocoon themselves in a world where their "news" comes to them in easily digestible sound bites, and comes to them via a source which reflects messages that the recipient wants to hear.

Thus, a campaign designed to discredit a substantive, factual, fair, and astonishing story can be summarily discounted by just calling it names.  

This is a purely political tactic, and is straight out of Saul Alinski's playbook:  "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

It is scary to me to see the abject manipulation of truth.  This is just profoundly evil.