Weekend Open Thread
Well, I just did a brutal interview with The Hill, so I’m wiped out and I’m going to take the rest of the day off. So here’s your open thread hosted by Ex-PH2’s picture of a frozen bubbles, you know because it’s so cold in much of the country this weekend.
Category: Open thread
There once was a turd named Phil Monkress…
Who had obsession lying to Congress….
Paulmer (of the Ballsack) got high….
Immediately dropped his fly…
And Phil screamed “Give me the beef!”
All the while Chevy looked on.
And those are just the opening lyrics to the DRC Anthem. Thanks go out to GT for those.
I would try to put the next stanza together, but since I can’t carry a tune in a bucket and I’m for sure not a rhymer nor poet and I know it, I can’t help out.
I’ll leave it to others to continue the theme.
“All the while Chevy looked on”
Thinking of his votes for “The Won”.
He fell to his knees
Dreaming of Dallas Cutting the Cheeze.
That’s all I got for now.
RIP former US Army SGT Leonard Nimoy.
Has anyone heard from Birdbath lately? The last thing I heard was that he was leaving for Florida. Did he crash somewhere between here and there? Did he finally land in the laughing academy? Is he in his evil lair stroking a cat while watching TAH on a small desk-mounted television screen and yelling our name with a raspy voice?
I think he is deeply involved preparing a lawsuit against the company at the link. Seems he bought their product and is upset because it will not fasten on to his diminished size. He may be hitting the DRC to make it a class action suit.
http://www.coloplast.us/About-us/Coloplast_Samples/Male_Incontinence_Conveen_Alternative_to_adult_diapers/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=US&utm_content=RightSide&utm_campaign=US_Facebook_Conveen_062014
By “deeply involved” would you be trying to say smoking the local shrubbery and going Wickre on his liver?
Cause that’s what it seemed like with the last lawsuit I saw come out of his vacuous, cavernous legal mind.
Does anyone know of any career opportunities in the Central Ohio or Southern Tennessee areas? I’d like to move closer to family and have had zero luck with job boards, linkedin and career fairs.
Looking for something in entry level management or project / program administration.
I don’t know if this will help, ByrdMan, but the Willis Group has openings.
https://willis.secure.force.com/careers
You might check out Robert Half, also. They were pretty good to me.
Worth a look. But do not give up. I left the Navy in the midst of the Nixon / Carter recession. It took me 18 months to find a new job. I finally had to leave the east coast and move to Chicago. Had better luck there.
Thank you! I’ll check them out.
I went to the Northport VA Sleep Disorder Center this morning and was diagnosed as having “sleep apnea.” I’m writing only because of the incredibly nice way I was treated, especially by the Doctor and office manager – full explanation, answered all questions and discussed treatment (CPAP, I believe it’s called).
It’ll be nice one day to get more than 3 1/2 hours sleep at one time.
If you have sleep problems don’t be a dope like me waiting so many years to get treatment.
LIRight, I did the sleep study deal and got the CPAP machine. I tried EVERY stinking mask they had and still couldn’t get a good nights sleep. The machine made so much noise that the OB started sleeping in another bedroom. I tried them band aids for your nose but they didn’t help.
A buddy has some device that he puts in his mouth at night and he swears by it. I’ll have to look into that. There’s also an outfit called Thrivent that makes something, maybe look into that.
Good luck,
OC
OC, I was diagnosed a few years back see if you can try a machine from ResMed very quiet machine.
My remedy for a good night’s sleep is to have one or two lousy ones first. By the second or third night, I sleep. That sleep apnea nearly killed–and I mean it–a fellow I know. He was rushed to the hospital, survived, and now wears some contraption to bed.
@ 2/17 AIR CAV:
Were you in the 101st Airborne?
At Camp Eagle (between Hue and Phu Bai), headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), one of our units was “D” Troop, 2/17th Cavalry.
They were a quick reaction team, known familiarly as “The Blues”.
77, the other problem I had with the machine was that I like to sleep on my stomach, problematic with the hose and mask. Thanks tho I’ll look into it.
Try the nose-pillows instead of the mask – they only take a few days to get used to and are much less intrusive. After getting used to them, I can sleep on my stomach, whatever. Beats hell out of my heart stopping multiple times an hour.
wait till you try to sleep in a CPAP… the fun is just beginning
Sounds worse than sleeping in MOPP4!
I am fairly certain I have it. 3 nights out of the week my wife wakes me up because I stop breathing and the other 4 nights she sleeps on the couch!
I once asked her to switch it up to 4 nights waking me and 3 on the couch.
She found no humor in that and I was being serious!
MC
I’ve been doing some reading and also spoke to someone in my Vet Group who uses the CPAP.
Apparently, if you are one of those lucky enough to have the CPAP machine work for them….the positive impact on your life can be far-reaching and remarkable. The operative word here is, “if” it works.
LIR,
I was diagnosed back in 2002. I should submit claim! You are correct!
MC
I was told by my Vet Group leader (a USAR Major) that sleep apnea can be claimed and paid for by the VA. I was also told by the VA doctor that there is a strong relationship between sleep disorders and PTSD.
It seems that the nonCPO from Oregon has had his FB page restored. Damn the bad luck, I guess he was only in time out instead of permanently kicked from FB.
Oh, it appears that one of his daughters kicked him from her friends list too. It just gets better and better.
He has been quiet though. He’s either:
A. In jail (not likely or our benevolent Blogmeister would have that as the #1 headline)
B. On the run (those pesky bush ninja’s have him skeered)
C. Is back on his meds.
D. Crashed somewhere.
Or …
The suspense is killing me, brother.
Whatever it is, he won’t stay quiet for long.
He can’t help himself.
Thanks Ex-PH2 for the Thread request and the photo. In honor of it I offer this,
Memories: I helped modernize the studio where this was recorded. Actually worked on the actual recorder.
Met him several times.
Wow, Don Ho. In December 1968, two guys from my squad and I went to Hawaii for R&R because there were open slots and we thought it was a good opportunity to skate. There was always a big waiting list for places like Bangkok or Australia and Tai Pei. So we did wind up there at Don Ho’s in the International Market place. It was very nice and I was too young to order alcohol so it was the same price as beer for a glass of pop and there was a two drink minimum. But the music was nice and most of the crowd was older, I guess like our age now. Funny how perspectives change as you age.
File Under…Don’t Try This Elsewhere
Comes the story of an American whose Bengali blog, Free Mind, featured articles promoting scientific reasoning and denouncing religious extremism. The blogger, Avijit Roy, was hacked to death by persons unknown who used meat cleavers to express their displeasure with Roy’s point of view. He and his wife, who was also attacked, were walking home from a university book fair. She survived. You know, that 1st Amendment business really doesn’t transfer well.
No it doesn’t. More Americans should keep that in mind while abroad.
But, but, Jawn Fraud sKerry says that we’ve never been safer abroad and at home than under the Regime of Barky Øbola…
It’s a beautiful day in my kingdom. Sun is shining brightly, sky is as clear as a bell, no pollution in sight, no clouds. Nothing to keep the heat in overnight.
We are to have snow again this weekend. I am SO bored with winter.
I am so finished with it. The power went out in my old place that’s on the market. It got cold enough to crack all the pipes and break the toilet bowls. I have gone beyond pissed off. Now the insurance company trying to blame me.
WTF over
-15 this A.M. at 0630, when the dog decided it was time to go out.
Adam Appel of Anchorage Alaska and owner of bouncy house rental company (For Fun Alaska) is back to his lying ways. After lying for years about being a qualified member of the US Army Special Forces and then, when confronted, an 18X SF trainee (also a lie), now he’s lying about having been in a plane crash during his vacation in Fiji.
https://adamappelfraud.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/adam-appel-lies-about-being-in-a-plane-crash-in-fiji-in-january-2015/
he was caught in his lies because the flight had no passengers and his details about the landing gear not extending properly doesn’t apply to an aircraft with fixed landing gear.
Does Adam B. Appel even know what the truth is?
Still Serving wanted you guys to see his highest award;
Awww… that’s so sweet.
Well, that’s cool. I just want to order up a supply of “That Guy” patches since those just crack me up. My brother was notoriously “That Guy”. Not a troublemaker but always up to something.
Thanks, Jonn!
The Army tattoo policy is such a good thing. I don’t think Soldiers should look like so unprofessional. We should ban machetes and green tip 5.556 also, because that will absolutely 100 percent keep those things out of the hands of criminals. And the Stolen Valor Act, that should definitely be overruled and ridden of. Soldiers pay should be cut as well, if they are so honorable then they should be more then happy to take the cuts. Now that is solid logic, my faith in humanity is restored! *shoots himself in the head*
Throw in some sensitivity training, singing kumbaya, and fucking POW training.
*Seriously POW training(2007) pissed me the fuck off.(Know thy enemy)*
The new SMA now has four weeks in the slot.
Has anybody out there seen or heard anything other than “There will be more daily PT” come out of his office?
Just asking.
THIS JUST IN: THE ARMY SWITCHES TO BLUE UNDERSHIRTS, NO MORE TAN!
I thought i heard a noise at first, and then iI realized it was the sound of his tail going between his legs as soon as he got confronted!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that’s SGM Johnathon Paul Freemire you are talking about of 110th Air Wing Air Michigan
He SAYS he’s a SGM while wearing SPC rank, would that make him a SPCM, some new rank we still don’t know about?
Yeah it is basically the new SP9 but I heard he was CID so he pops his collar and wears SPC rank so people won’t know who he really is and what he really does as the SPCM rank is still under SECRET classification
Some bad and good news from my home station.
Had to take my little old (9 years) Corgi dog to the vet for the last time. The diabetes finally got to him.
My wife’s half sister passed from a heart attack up in Libby, MT. The ranch life/this winter got to her. Only 58 years old.
My 89 year old widow friend from back home told the Grim Reaper “Nuts” and is back in her home and getting along reasonably well. A full time caretaker/helper has entered the scene.
You have a lot going on, you are not alone. I have to step back and take a breath myself. Heavy weekend coming for me, Semper Fi.
I hope you get more good news coming your way and less of the bad
Claw………Sorry to hear of your loss. Gotta face facts, we are getting old. I’ve goot a couple german short hairs. One of which is pushing twenty. Nothing but skin and bones. I don’t know how she keeps going.
Ex-ph2 will like this, I’ve also got a big 20+ pound orange tabby. Goes by the moniker, big Eddie. Helps me read the paper every morning.
You mention Montana, are you from there? I’m a old Missoula man, born there, moved out when I was just a tyke.
I’ve got one of those 20+ pound orange tabbys too. Goes by the name “Morris.”
Mine doesn’t help me read. He mostly just lies around like a lost sea lion.
It has been a rough week in the Alternate Hack Stone Command Center at a non-disclosed location in North Philadelphia. Wednesday night, Elaine Ricci, under a hypnotic trance, launched an assault against me with a hired assassin team. Fortunately, there was video recording the event.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L29SqAybpQs
#EveryHomeDeservesAMailboxDoor
I see what you did. You located your bunker within olfactory range of Pats. No way their Texas team leader will recon beyond the Cheez Whiz.
Are you going to get me a cheesesteak or not? No peppers, add mushrooms, and extra crispy fries.
You can’t be the real Hack Stone. Wickre just called my wife and told her you and your girlfriend were just shot dead in Philly. That I should think hard about my options. The obese piece of shit.
Ohhhh noesssss!
RIP Hack Stone 🙁
Sorry Ex-PH2 No Philly Cheesesteak for you….
#FindHackStonesKiller
#Find WickresMissingmailboxDoor
#WickreCanSuckMyDick
#SeriouslyNoHeCant
As to (dang, I did it again) Hack Stone’s untimely demise, it is just a cover story so that Hack can infiltrate the bad guys lair, like Mel Gibson’s character in the first Lethal Weapon. Except no racist and anti-Semitic remarks.
#FindHacksKillers
Rest in peace, Hack.
Who filmed it?
I betcha’ Jared Stern did!
He is such a real security professional, know one in the industry has heard of him. Now that is good!
… No one
Anybody have Al Gore phone number ? I need to have a talk with him. His Climate change change just dumped a inch of snow and its still falling. Saturday night it is supposed to drop freezing rain and ice on me. Where is warming we are supposed to be going into ? My driveway is uphill. I then have to avoid sliding off the road in the hills and curves. Never fear Dear Readers I am well stocked on food and have 4-wheel drive on 3 of trucks. I still want to talk with Gore. Joe
May we never forget the hypocrisy of selling his green channel to a Oil Nation….
Bahahaha I just craped myself…. The irony
Get tire chains.
Tire chains are automatically ice skates on icy roads. Been there done that years ago. Never wanted to try it again.
Please send some of that cold air to Arizona, I’m sick and tired of running my AC its to early for that here
Last I heard Al was preaching his stuff in India where a huge portion of the population still has no sanitary facilities and wanders off to the fields or just uses the streets. I guess you can call that “green” technology. I, m sure he didn’t fly there coach on Air India or swim. So you know all that rhetoric he spews only applies to others.
According to this AP article, Antarctica is melting so fast that it will take as much as 200 to 1,000 years to raise the world’s ocean level by 10 feet.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-big-melt-antarcticas-retreating-ice-may-re-shape-earth/ar-BBi1jzz
It’s in the next-to-last paragraph in the article.
We have to have someone checking on this forecast, y’know. Does anyone plan to be here in 200 to 1,000 years? Anyone?
Why is it that all I hear is raucous laughter?? Can’t you people take this seriously???
200 to 1,000 years? AWWW CRAP, there goes my investment in future Oceanfront properties in Arizona and Western Kansas, MY CHEERIOS HAVE BEEN POOPED IN!!! /sarc
I found out my rooster is blind today. he got beat up in September and has been living in the dogs room (unfinished side of the house) since then. the cat thinks hes a moving play toy but when i took him out today for some sun, i saw he has cataracts in both eye.
when i got retired( not by choice but by AR 40-501) , the birds became my first choice for a new Plt. they all act like privates and every now and then you get a bright one you want to see promoted, maybe even above you. Napoleon was that kid. he was the first to crow out of 75 chicks. he would fly up on my shoulder as soon as he saw me, not because i had food but because he knew it would make my day and his as well. He was small but took a hit for the rest of the team from a red fox until i shot that fox with a CCI Stinger. hes an old man at a year and a half and i am not sure what i am going to do.
i find it ironic. i was never put in this position in war, put them on the evac and pray the doc on the receiving end knew a lot more then me. now, well its stupid but i am stumped as what the right call is. well it is an open thread so Puck it right..
FON out
We had an older rooster a few years ago who had been a pet rather than a farm animal. He got to a point that he couldn’t navigate too well, so we just gave a dog pen over to him, and let his favorite hen stay with him until one morning he just didn’t wake up.
He seemed quite content with the arrangement. We miss him still. He was our first chicken, gifted from a friend who needed to reduce their number of roosters. He was happy to sit on a knee and followed us around like a puppy, so we got attached. He was still quite friendly even after we got the hens, but he did his job herding them very well.
There are several very good sites (like http://www.backyardchickens.com ) for more specific information.
My mom had a Banty Hen and would paint her toe (claw?) nails. Lay that damn chicken on its back in her hand and it would fall asleep. Mom would then give her some pink nails.
Its a wonder that I passed the NCRP and CPRP pysch-exams.
Actor David Niven returned to the British Army in 1939 upon the outbreak of war. He could have had it easy but he chose not to. He never talked about the war and once explained why:
“I will, however, tell you just one thing about the war, my first story and my last. I was asked by some American friends to search out the grave of their son near Bastogne. I found it where they told me I would, but it was among 27,000 others, and I told myself that here, Niven, were 27,000 reasons why you should keep your mouth shut after the war.”
bravo and amen
The above post inspired me to look up David Niven on IMDB. I found the following:
During his war service, his batman was Pvt. Peter Ustinov.
Okay, I do know who Peter Ustinov was, but other than doing battle with The Joker and Mr. Freeze, what is/was a batman?
#BuyMoreRedHatSoftware
In the British military, the batman is a commissioned officer’s butler or valet, or both.
Wickre thought that it was “buttman” and was ready to enlist in the British Army.
#SpandexForTheJobless
I think the best that Psul could hope for would be “buttboy”, unless he could hook up with Joe Bite Me who has announced that he has at least one “butt buddy”…
In our United States Army, the equivalent, Aide de Camp, is known as a “dog robber”.
One of my fellow church members at Fort Hood, Texas, Second Lieutenant John Boden, was Aide de Camp to the Commanding General of the Second Armored Division.
He taught me how to sing, “SILENT NIGHT”, in German, while accompanying myself on guitar.
I prefer doing it that way, because the first time “SILENT NIGHT” was ever performed, it was in German (because it was in Austria) and it was accompanied on a guitar (because the organ was broken).
That’s what I did this past Christmas Eve, when I also played Santa Claus for the little ones.
Upon learning that the FCC had passed “Net Neutrality” Verizon posted the perfect response. Their reasoning being that the FCC is taking the internet in hand and will do to it what they did to radio back in the 1930s. http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/fccs-throwback-thursday-move-imposes-1930s-rules-on-the-internet
Click on the link and go read their blog.
Welll, that’s just great. I not only have to stand watch over the sea levels at Antarctica, all by my lonesome because none of you ungrateful little twerps will pitch in and do your fair share. No, that’s not enough for you. I also have to dig out the codes book and translate all that @#$!R$@!~ Morse code, too??????
No. Not just ‘no’. No, you do it yourselves. I’ve had it. I’m going to sit at the bar and have quiet, cold one. 😛 😛 😛
No offense, UpNorth, but I’m going to have to tune up the world’s tiniest violin for this one.
Verizon, you might remember, is the descendant of Nynex, one of the Baby Bells spawned from the monopoly breakup of AT&T.
It’s also spreading it a bit thick for Verizon to claim the FCC rule will stifle innovation; the last time the phone companies did anything truly significant in the network space was decades ago when Bell Labs invented the C programming language and Unix. Most of the current network technologies, including this weblog, were developed despite the phone companies and not because of them.
They have also shown no qualms about using legions of lawyers to flout federal law and stifle competition. Research the CLEC/ILEC wars of the late ’90s if you don’t believe me. Such things are one of the reasons broadband in the U.S. is more expensive, and slower, than a lot of other places in the developed world.
Think free enterprise is a good idea? Me too. Now try to see how far you would get putting fiber optic in your own neighborhood.
Not commenting on the merits, demerits or anything else of Verizon, Sprint, Metro PCS, AT&T or anyone else. I just thought their response to the Regime’s heavy-handed attempt to “make things better” was kinda funny.
Remember Reagan’s observation about the most frightening words known to man, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
The current Government has done such a smash up job creating a website for something as simple as comparison shopping of a product, that I fully trust them to manage the internet./SARCASM
There was NOTHING new about comparison shopping insurance online, and yet the ODUMBO crew FUCKED it up royally. Seriously I can go to on any major insurance company website and get a quote for auto, life, renters, or home owners insurance easily. I know I’m missing different types of insurance, but my point still stands that they FUCKED it up royally. Hell I can go on Amazon.com or Ebay.com and buy just about anything I can imagine. The Government ALWAYS fails in execution even when private businesses have been doing the same or similar things for decades.
BTW the reason you or I can’t start a business of laying fiber optic cable has a LOT to do with Government interference IMO. Without property taxes and laws don’t you think it would be EASY to provide FREE lifetime internet service to anyone who you absolutely have to dig in their yard, or give them a STEEP discount.(Outside of the majority of customers you’re just running lines into their homes.)
^^like^^
Some of you may not have a FaceBook account or have access to the Inner Circle to access Hack’s Facebook, so for your benefit, please indulge me while I post a Facebook comment here.
There is a new website available for people conducting research. Unfortunately, this site has multiple problems, to include taking an inordinate amount of time to load; the information provided is riddled with inaccurate statements, no corroborating sources; photos and video are completely unrelated to the information being sought; and the only way any of it could possibly be understood is if you have a Blood Alcohol Content in excess of .15. If you are still interested in using this website, it is called Wickrepedia.
#Don’tMessWithTheHackStone
For those of us who served in the old Republic of Viet Nam, here’s something interesting on the Internet that I just now stumbled across:
http://listverse.com/2015/02/28/10-events-we-cant-figure-out-from-the-vietnam-war/
John…..Nine of the ten stories I don’t know anything about. As for the M-16, two things I remember. The first one I was issued, looked like it had been drug behind a car, going down the interstate at 70 mph. The barrel was peeling like a banana. Seemed like the metal was breaking down. Traded it in after the first time out. Secondly, I remember the first issues had a flash suppressor that was slotted. Rumor has it that was changed because the slotted type could get hung up on a vine. I also kind of remember they changed the bolt from stainless to something else, or it could be the other way around
I arrived in the Republic of Viet Nam on Friday 12 December 1969 at Cam Ranh Bay, from where I was flown to Bien Hoa, bused to Long Binh, trucked to Cho Lon, and finally, arriving at my assigned unit, the Phu Lam Signal Battalion.
I was issued an M-14 rifle, which once in my hands, was immediately returned to the armorer in exchange for an M-16 rifle.
At that time, the Phu Lam Signal Battalion was rearming the entire unit, replacing everyone’s M-14 rifle with the M-16 rifle, and odd as it seems, that was the procedure for us new guys, i.e., being issued an M-14 rifle, immediately handing it back, and then being issued an M-16 rifle.
Weird, huh?
Hey, here’s a question for all you guys at the “THIS AIN’T HELL” web site:
Have any of you ever HEARD of the Phu Lam Signal Battalion?
Believe it or not, it’s STILL there, and STILL operational, except now, it’s run by the Communist regime, and no Americans are allowed to visit or tour that facility.
http://www.phulam.com/
http://youtu.be/zqB-dihdDVI?list=PL8D0EA76F1699D94F
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PhuLam/photos/photostream
When I arrived at the Phu Lam Signal Battalion, I was a Private First Class (E-3).
After a brief period of time, I was called into the Company Commander’s office and promoted to Specialist Four (E-4).
Guys told me that was more or less the unit policy, to promote a man as a reward for coming to Viet Nam.
On Christmas Day, I went swimming in the Phu Lam Signal Battalion’s swimming pool, just so I could write home and brag that I went swimming on Christmas Day.
In the video recordings and photographs, you’ll notice guys wearing civilian clothes.
But, when I was there, we weren’t allowed to have civilian clothes.
Only jungle fatigues were authorized for daily wear, even when going downtown.
In that unit, only guys on the Antenna Maintenance crew, or who were Telephone Pole Linemen, were permitted to wear Boonie Hats.
The rest of us were required to wear the baseball cap.
On Sunday mornings and on Wednesday nights, I went downtown to a house near the intersection of Cong Ly and Nguyen Hue to attend services of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints.
I also frequented the Vietnamese American Friendship Club, trying to learn as much as I could about that country and its customs.
I ate frog legs at the My Canh floating restaurant, which the Viet Cong would sometimes blow up.
The Saigon Zoo was especially beautiful and serene, as if there never was a war.
I attended a movie at a Vietnamese movie theatre, just so I could say I’d done it.
I also took a guided tour of Saigon, and took LOTS of photographs.
As I’m typing this, it’s 0430 Hours, Mountain Time.
I’m hungry, so I’m going to cook a package of beef flavored Ramen noodles, and heat up a can of chili to pour on top of it, with an Army surplus canteen cup filled with hot chocolate.
While I’m chowing down, I’ll listen to Old Time Radio broadcasts at the YOU TUBE web site.
Because there’s no room on this table for placing my meal in front of my computer, it’s impractical to watch a movie while I’m chowing down, so I choose to listen to Old Time Radio, while I’m chowing down on the far side of the table, in back of my computer.
Do any of you old soldiers remember having your canteen cups filled with hot chocolate when you were on guard duty or out in the field on maneuvers?
In the northern part of Viet Nam, the monsoon season was actually COLD, as well as being wet, so being on perimeter bunker guard duty, it was a real treat when one of the sergeants would bring around a mermite can of hot chocolate.
Here in my apartment, I don’t have any dishes or cookware, so I use my Army surplus mess kit and canteen cups for everything.
I don’t need a pot to heat up the chili in, as it can be cooked right inside the can.
Nifty stuff, huh?
Another thing I enjoy chowing down on is a “Computer Supper”, i.e., spam and cookies!
http://youtu.be/Q5C79pJx9ng?list=PLS_d1HpIl9rK9Mo1i32a3QoRPK8HDFmGb
When I was a small boy, Mama and us kids lived with Grammaw and Grampaw in Owensboro, Kentucky while Daddy was in the Korean War.
Later, he would send for us to join him in Ashiya, Japan.
While at Grammaw’s and Grampaw’s house, I remember listening to “THE LONE RANGER” and “HOPALONG CASSIDY” on the big radio in their living room, and I would eat my meals from a Hopalong Cassidy bowl, plate, and cup.
I don’t screw up often but when I do its pretty spectacular.
I am in awe of the mess I have made, it ranks in the the 3 or 4 big messes of my life.
I have managed to got my ford f 350 dully, crew cab long bed stuck, in the mud in the back yard, with a car trailer including the car attached to it.
I cant say for sure how i even got it into the position I did without a teleportation machine.
Two tow truck drivers have refused the job of unfucking this mess.
With all the rain, snow and other frozen crap from the sky a layer of ooze has developed just below the surface, like the Mammoths of times past my truck is mired in the ooze.
I swear it looks at me mournfully, almost pleading. My truck and I have seen things and done shit together. We have braved blizzards and desert heat.
Now its stranded, there is a plan floating about that involves a tracked vehicle, a bottle of rum, two cigars and half a ton of gravel but I dont have much hope.
E4U,
Thge refusal to tow is often associated with a medical principle to “do no harm”.
The bottle and cigars sounds like a better plan.
Wow…that is no way to start a day…
Good luck to you! Is it safe to assume that the seal on the bottle will be broken before commencement of tracked recovery efforts?
😉
Over!
Wow! What a unique piece of yard art. No one else in the neighborhood has one, right?
Meanwhile, if you build a swimming pool around it, maybe it will float out of the yard? Perhaps tie some overinflated inner tubes to it first. If done correctly, your use of cigars and rum could be utilized over a several day period, with considerable savings on gravel.
You could call whatever college or museum you are near and ask the paleontologists how to extricate the remains of a mammoth-sized articulated vehicle from its setting without damaging the specimen.
Well the recovery efforts are underway,
So far I have smoked an Opus X and knocked the dust off a mason Jar full of medicinal peach brandy that was distilled under the light of the moon with the necessary howls and hoots to give it character. (No kidding this is some smooth stuff)
After consulting many ball cap wearing experts on trucks and mud the general consensus of “Damned if I know” has been reached.
The very real possibility of taking down two trees ,20 feet of fence and a power pole exist.
One thing is certain, it aint coming out the way it went in.
So the tally so far is one stuck truck and trailer with a Mecedes on it. I think I can skid the trailer and car out
At least it’s not a Jag.
If you know anyone with a powerful tracked vehicle that owes you a favor, now is the time to call in that favor.
1 – Unhitch the pulling vehicle (truck) from the pulled vehicle (flatbed).
2 – Pull pulling vehicle (truck) out of mudh first.
3 – Pull pulled vehicle (flatbed) out of mud second.
4 – Build campfire. Roast food on sticks.
5 – Make use of cigars and bottled adult beverage.
I was flipping through channels while watching television at my undisclosed location (North Philadelphia Housing Project), and the Americsn History Channel is currently airing this story.
http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/USNAVY/USS_Barb.html
Has this been made into a movie yet, and if not, why not?
#BuyYourSoftwareFromPaul
HACK! YOU’RE ALIVE? /sarc
The Dutch Rudder Gang (Paul K. Wickre, Daniel A. Bernath, Dennis “Blobfish” Chevalier, Visconi,…) andKaren Williams/Wickre STILL haven’t found you either? Gee whiz, I ASSumed they had the best sleuths available! /SARC I wonder if Daniel A. Bernath has found yet another innocent man to accuse of being me, he’s up to at least seven so far!!
#BringElaineRicciHome
#DuctTapeIsNotForDogs
I was blissfully unaware of the term “Dutch Rudder” until recently. I accessed that font of on-line knowledge, the Urban Dictionary, and looked it up. The term was described quite clearly, and I’m fresh out of brain bleach.
So thanks for that. No, really.
*yak*
That name fits them to a “T”, doesn’t it? 😀
I “like” to think of them as a human centipede. Dutch Rudder just doesn’t describe their special brand of bullshit well enough IMHO.
I forget where I came across the term “Dutch Rudder”, but as soon as I did, I thought it described them perfectly!
Holy Clanking Balls! ADM Fluckey had nerves of steel and giant brass balls. Just reading that short bio was thrilling.
The president is out of control and no one is willing or able to rein him in. This past week has been a horror for decent Americans who respect the rule of law. We have billions in unauthorized payments made without appropriations for the funds, thanks to a deal between the Treasury and the Emperor’s lackeys. We have a Republican-led senate okaying DHS funding, even though national security was never threatened by the denial of funds. Thanks, Mitch, you sonofabitch. And then we have this crazy ruling (3-2) by the FCC, which is supposed to be an independent agency. And the jobs-not-terror campaign continues. Crazy stuff, most of which the country doesn’t hear much about (even w/o Brian Williams) or doesn’t understand. Crazy stuff.
Yep. And now the net is working all goofy like. No rhyme or reason for what does and does not work.
Oh, goody. Hang on – this bumpy ride promises to get even bumpier, and not in a good way.
Well, he DID promise change, you know. But when people fell for that claptrap, they didn’t realize that he had not specified what, how much, how often, or what it would cost them.
And now they don’t like what they got. And they don’t like The Won any more, either.
This is a supreme lesson in ‘be careful what you wish for’.
In re: the internet: MSN has so completely screwed up its presentation of itself that it is almost unworkable. The geniuses at MSN decided to take a well-oiled, fully-functioing machine and turn it into a limping, lame excuse for internet service. They keep changing how it looks when you open it. They must be getting a lot more complaints than they ever thought they’d get because they didn’t improve their service. They broke it.
I used to swear by MSN. Now, I swear at them.
And I use Google a lot more than I used to.
Hey, Heavy Chevy the Blobfish Cheese Monster, posted this Facebook photo of his snow covered “patrol car”. He’s still living the fantasy.
I have found the perfect venue for the Cheeseater’s talents: the Foire de Fromage in Livarot, France. They have a cheese-eating contest along with a degustation des jambes des crapauds. I believe the record is 4.56 lbs of Livarot’s best and creamiest product in the timed 5 minutes. I’m sure he could handle it with aplomb. And they would easily make him a confere de fromage, mostly because of his name: Chevalier.
We could start a collection to send him there. I can kick in 4 cents on Tuesday.
There is a lot of stuff going on which we find upsetting and can do nothing about. But we can take a few minutes to listen to this at the end of the day.
PH2: awesome. You set it up perfectly. Even I, a knuckle dragging old fart Army guy, was stunned to silence. Merci beaucoup.
Just played it again. Sigh.
Made the mistake of going to the Wickre thread. Had to come back here and play it again. Danke.
Any time, SJ. I thought a little peace would be a good thing.
NICE FIND, Ex-PH2, thanks for sharing it!!
I would share this one with you all as a follow up.
Sorry, wrong link
Big like!
Thought you would 😀
It’s open thread so here’s something to contemplate over your sarsaparilla. Just a rambling commentary that others might relate to. E.g., 3/17.
As some of you know, I’m a VN era (82nd and 101st) retired officer. I lost my bride of 30 years in 2013, quite unexpectedly because I had her by 10 years. (Attention to orders: hug your spouse…now! I had done it and sleep well because I did.)
She was laid to rest in Arlington, awaiting me.
Happiness flew into my life later. A true civilian (and, of course, a leg) but her step dad is a retired AF Master Sgt…but she didn’t know it because he never mentions his amazing AF experience in RVN, Cambodia, Laos (I have his 214). No valor awards, just, as he says, “I was just a crew chief”. But, he made E7 in 20 years …oh, he is and was over weight the whole time.
We just did the family planning exercise. I.e., where to plant us (our ashes). I want Arlington, because I’m a soldier and want the Old Guard to plant me. Plus, that’s kind of an agreement, I think, for my wonderful wife’s interment there.
New wife, (aka “my savior” because I’d be in Arlington already had she not flew in) doesn’t feel worthy to “be there” because she never was military related. Just another reason I love her. BTW: it’s not because she would have to join my previous wife…they would have been great friends.
In my case, I’ve held ashes back from Arlington and spread them where we had great memories.
The purpose of this post? Nada. Just an Old Soldier’s geezing. But I hope it made more sense than those from Psal and gives you folks something to think about. Hooah. Airborne.
I never put anything in writing (yet), but my plan is to strip me for serviceable parts, have a get together where everyone in attendance is required to tell a humorous and/or embarrassing event that they witnessed or heard second third or fourth hand involving Hack, and a few kegs of quality brew to send me to my last duty station. The only unanswered question is who will I give my LP, CD and DVD collection to? I want my ashes mixed with dogs ashes. He was my best friend. He never drank my last beer, like Dave did.
I already know what I want: Viking funeral with Siegfried’s funeral march.
I want the Triumphal March from Aida. Might be a tad pretentious though. And, elephants are hard to get on Arlington 🙂
Aww damn PH: a Wagner fan? Damn, I’m married. Net thing you’re going to say is that you have sat through the entire Ring Cycle? (My brother did)
Yes, the entire Ring cycle, start to finish, because it was broadcast one summer a long time ago from Bayreuth. Worth every second of the time it took to listen.
Yes, I do love Wagner. Song to the Evening Star from Tannhauser just sends me.
Sigh.
I did, too!
I watched it when it was shown on a local PBS station.
My final wishes are written and recorded, and pretty much in line with John Prine:
SJ……..I have not thought much about any burial detail. The last few days I’ve found myself restless, can’t really relax for any length of time.
I watch my wife either sleep in the bed or on the couch. Does not eat hardly anything. Bottom line, her quality of life just sucks. Wasting away to nothing.
This is just me, but if I was going thru, what she is experiencing. I’d want to checkout now.
I do know I’m making a major contribution to the folks that make Pendleton blend!
@ 3/17 AIR CAV, Et Alii:
That description reminds me of when my Mama was dying of Pancreatic Cancer, when I was a student at Brigham Young University.
She died in Womack Army Hospital at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Fortunately, my wife and I were able to visit her while she was still alive.
She’s buried next to Daddy (who passed away several years later of a heart attack) in Riverview Memorial Gardens outside of Spring Lake, North Carolina.
Has anyone seen this
http://youtu.be/YyZ9b4My6NU
At the “FREE NORTH CAROLINA” web site, I just now learned that MICHAEL MCNULTY, age 68, of Loveland, Colorado, passed away on Friday 20 February 2015.
A veteran of the United States Navy during the war in the old Republic of Viet Nam, and a member of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints, he is known for his efforts at exposing government lies about the Waco Massacre.
Here is the URL for his official obituary:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/reporterherald/obituary.aspx?n=michael-mcnulty&pid=174243596
Here is the URL for a report on his passing, also detailing his efforts at exposing the Waco Massacre:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/reporterherald/obituary.aspx?n=michael-mcnulty&pid=174243596
http://youtu.be/Xr9pQ1pIbiU
http://youtu.be/-4scgRAJxWc
http://youtu.be/1xcRfIUdFAM
Did anyone pay attention to the calendar today?
That’s right – – – ,
Before you can eat breakfast, or go to church, or whatever – – – ,
According to today’s calendar, you must – – – ,
MARCH FIRST!
Today, everybody has to MARCH FIRST.
That’s because we’re preparing for Wednesday, when we are to – – – ,
MARCH FORTH!
Anyone know what Steven Segal movie Phildo watched this morning?
Was it one were Segal played a Native American? Or a SEAL? Or a cop? Or Officer?
Phil Monkress sucks ass.
To whoever is keeping track of such things, it’s chilly here, maybe even cold. Kinda like winter is supposed to be. But spring is on the way.
That is all. OVER.
Oh, and there’s some intermittent precipitatin’ goin’ on.
There may or may not be more. There was something which looked suspiciously like the sun out there earlier. We suspect that it’s still there even when we can’t see it.
Wow, you saw BOB today? Ain’t seen him in a few days!!
BOB – Big Orange Ball up in the sky!
Yep. BOB was in the sky, right where he/she/it is supposed to be.
Ahhhh ….the “Big Heat Tab in the Sky.”
I see by the Facebook comment at the top of the page that Dullass Thunderchicken has somehow managed to hijack yet another account in an attempt to spread his asshattery all over the internet again.
Hey, Slurp41, if you’re so damn smart, what’s a “Slackman”?
I’ve already contacted them and let them know they were hacked. They’ve reported the hacking to the federal authorities. Too bad it was a government site. City government, but still government.
Oh boy… Dullass got real stupid on that one… guess he’s gonna get a visit real soon for his “computer skills”.
If he keeps this up, hacking accounts, is it possible he can be barred from internet use at some point?
I’m a little fuzzy on the rules for that kind of thing.
OBAMA (OR WHOEVER HE IS), made NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN, THREATENED TO SHOOT DOWN ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE FIGHTER JETS.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191966#.VPO7zJvwsyU
That was probably part of the reason Netanyahu was invited to speak before Congress.
Dennis (Denny) Howard Chevalier rants against “Internet Trolls,” and mentions this site in his screed:
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/rnr/4899542634.html
My response:
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/rnr/4913349060.html
Bravo! Well done!
NICE WORK!! 😀
Dennis (Denny) Howard Chevalier is still rocking the lies about being an Air Force and SWAT veteran. 🙄
He was so close to winning that he wants to shoot for number one blue falcon.
In other news, Minnie Minoso passed away over the weekend.
http://wgntv.com/2015/03/02/chicago-remembers-white-sox-great-minnie-minoso/
Ernie Banks also passed, January 23.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-ernie-banks-probate-court-met-20150224-story.html
Dullass mis-appropriated someone else’s page to drop his drawers in our FB comments section, leaving this pile of untruths.
“Hey…! Legg…. Frankie Cee “loud and clear” the dumb ass. Stop making poems about me and your other cyber/suicide victims. You haven’t learned your lesson since the Cafe Press canned you ass N/A for what all you do here in this shit-hole..?
Did you (Frankee Dee Felon) get everything straightened out with your Sheriff Department recently….. If you fuck with the bull, you will get the horn up your ass, Goober…”
He suggested that Cafepress “canned” me. Little does he know that I was not an employee of Cafepress. I once operated a store there, to both vend goods and to showcase my artwork. I am in the final steps of selling the first bundle of art, and in doing, have closed the Cafepress shop that I originally opened.
He also suggests that I may have problems with LEO, or something.For some reason he likes to claim that I am a felon. Couldn’t be farther from the truth. I hold several licenses, permits, and certificates that say that I am anything but a felon.
I can see that he might convince someone who had never heard of me that these things are true, but it totally escapes me how someone can be so dumb, so thickheaded to think that they can convince me or those who know me.
I don’t know you Frankie, I couldn’t pick you out of a lineup if my life depended on it….
But I would hold your word as truth long before some of those you are discussing.
I can’t speak for anybody else, but I suspect I am not alone in my view on this for whatever that’s worth to you.
Major snowstorm impacting the National Calital Region, precluding me from reporting to work as Director Of Media Relations for FirsTech Solutions, so I am attending to more important matters, watching a rerun of Green Acres. Yet, again, Oliver Douglass’s Hoyt Clagwell tractor is as reliable as a vintage 1980’s Jaguar. So, curiosity got the better of me, and I came across a website that catalogues vehicles in farm and television. Check it out.
http://www.imcdb.org
Your jaguar comment made me laugh…had me thinking about some old school dirtbikes…fella I knew often remarked some of the early ones should include a crank in their spare parts kit.
Change to read “I came across a website the catalogues vehicles in film and television.”
Hack Stone Publishing regrets the error.
Green Acres? Great show. Eddie Albert enlisted at the age of 37 and was in the Pacific, ferrying Marines to Tarawa. Here’s a link to a quick read about Albert from the US Naval Institute. It was published in 2005, following Albert’s death at age 99.
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2005-07/remembering-eddie-albert
Commander Phil Monkress and All-Points Logistics’ theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCMUkqpI7o
“Fake Down Street”.
No disrespect to the Dead.