Weekend Open Thread
Many could go for cheaper gas and meaner tweets. At least we “saved” a “few cents” on the 4th of July. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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P.S. Let’s go Brandon!
Dang it! Congrats, ND.
Have a GREAT weekend!
You too. May your weekend be free of Brandonistas – and the same goes for all of you dickweeds here at the TAH Tavern. I’m going to be enjoying college football conference championship Saturday.
Watch out for Democrats:
Man oh MAN. Is that 2 or 3 in a row? I know 2 for sure…
Rats along to you,
Here I am on the phone with our Agency IT folks trying to order a new network copier.
BAH!!!
Well maybe NEXT Friday.
Chimpy
Another twofer fur the NDHoosier. (quote from Granny re Hoosiers here) Got that copy paste screen shot preloaded comment thing down pat now, huh? May all of your Rats have Kongdong.
That being said, and since there has been NO offering of snaks or refreshment from our mid-westernestor (sod busting be upon you), let me, The King of Battle…THE King of FIRST be the FIRST to invite all of the deplorable miscreanted d’weeds AND the Adorable Deplorables to a Dining In at Firebase Magnolia, given in Honor and Sacred to the Memory of Saint Barbara, the Patron Saint of Gunners. The Celebration is laid on for the Annual Saint Barbara’s Day held on 4 December of each year. Beef beast orasted lowly in the crockett pot, swimming with baby reds, crinkely cut carrots, and the usual spices, appee teasers of grilled brat wurst, Cheesy cat heads, with bacon n shrimps in Cheese Grits. Copious amounts of Artillery Punch and frosty cold Yuenglings and Guinesses. As a hat tip to my other Black Hearted Irish Brothers (talking ABOUT you SFC D) and my Native Northern American Brother (light us up one Hatchet) the Artillery Punch will include a jug of Jameson and some Southern Crown Canadian Whiskey. For those that hasta, some Miller Light (Roh-Dog) and other near beers (Slo Joe) will be available. Desert will be hot, glazed (is there any other kind) Krispy Kreme Donuts.
If you can’t make it by, I’ll meet you all on Fiddlers Green.
Oh…’lest we forget…PHUQUE Joe Biden!
Whoa… K, that is quite the invitation!! And the entirety of your pending menu is absolutely MOUTH-WATERING!!!
A true Son of Georgia invitation…
In honour of the announced day, found this lil goodie for ya(Defense Forces Ireland) –
http://militarychaplaincy.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Barbara_prayer_card.jpg
Prayer to Saint Barbara
===========================
“O Saint Barbara
You are revered among the faithful
as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Your life serves as a vivid reminder
that our world is filled with
extreme anger and pain,
but that our faith and hope in the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
can alleviate our burdens.
Pray for me from Heaven that I
may follow your example by
treating God with His established
plan for my life. Amen.”
That Artillery Punch sounds like it’ll be packing quite the punch too – definitely my kinda adult libation. But man ‘o man, given to the amount of food and drink you’ve described, not sure if I’m gonna need a wheelbarrow or a stretcher… But yeah, I’ll be the one showing up with a decent box of cee-gars.
Pila Maya – Chokma’shki!!!
Tanyan yahi Hatchet! Nobody leaves, keys turned over upon arrival. Spare sleeping quarters all thru Firebase Magnolia, extry trade blankets and quilts stashed everwhere, prolly be a balmy 50F overnight around the log fire Tee Vee. Be a buncha Dog Soldiers sleeping it off around that. Base for the Artillery Punch is rum (dark), brandy, wine, fruits, sugar (pure cane), with a jug of bubbly, just to tickle the nose. That dog will bite you. Sneak up on you like an Apache liberating horses and punch harder than the brass cannons that Geo Washington presented to the Chatham Artillery.
Echanni Anicisni Kte ni!
One recipe version is here:
https://www.southyourmouth.com/2011/11/chatham-artillery-punch-and-why-i.html
Your Lakota is good! The fact you would invite me to your Lodge in MY cradle language… I’m humbled. And no worries Cannon-cocker, these ol bones of mine are knit’n one and pearl’n two as fast as they can – I’ll be well enough, soon enough. Taking our car keys? Entirely thoughtful as are your offered sleeping arrangements. After a read-through, think I’m going to try and make that linky’d version of Artillery Punch. Sounds too delicious to try and imagine what it tastes like…
Pila Maya, čhiyé!
Making my brisket chili this weekend for my troops. It’s going to be warm and smoky with Poblano peppers, Jalapeños, and chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce. Plenty of onions and garlic along with Cayenne, cumin, smoked paprika, diced tomatoes, and oregano. Got 3 different colors of bell peppers for color and sweetness to counterbalance the spice. Last time I made it at home it disappeared with a quickness.
Cheese, my canon cocking brother. Where’s the good ole Wisconsin “come smell our dairy-aire” cheese” on your menu. Didn’t I learnt you anything? (smile)
Sky, read for comprehension My Brother. CHEESE Biscuits…CHEESE Grits. Prolly be a few CHEESE Balls brought in for us (the) Assorted Crackers (my family tree). No way to have a proper Dining In without some your dairy-aire products scattered about. Got word that a pot of Bambi Chilli and some grillable Bambi will be arriving, along with assorted yard bird parts. Fire pit is configured (and big enough) to allow a gazing at fire (producing more coals), a grilling area, and a smoking area for the porked beast.
Hey Pappy, load up a squad ration of that brisket into the trey bucket and launch it my way. Didn’t you Mama teach you to share with the less fortunate?
My bad, brother. Woke up this morning in the fog of coffee inadaquation. Having consumed the right amount now, I have seen the errors of my ways. (grin)
Being of German Bavarian descent (or is that decent?), I’m getting ready to make a batch of Sülze (headcheese to all of you non-speaking krauts).
No cheese included in my Ma’s old recipe (nor meat from a critters head), just ground up veal, pork hocks, gelatin, then boiled in a spicy broth. Let it jell in a cold place or a refrig, then slice it, pour just the right amount of vinegar on it along with some crusty German rye bread. Mmmmmm, mmmmm, good!
::sigh::
Missed it by *that* much.
Rats of the Cong t’ye, NDHoosier!
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Way to go, NDHoosier!! Cong-rats!!!
Dang … another FIRST for NDHoosier! I tried, but I couldn’t beat that lightning. So I’ll drop off my trivia column and let you all enjoy it … and I hope you do! DID YOU KNOW…? What is the “dead man’s hand” in poker, and why is it called that? By Commissioner Wretched didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com And now we are halfway through the four year-end holidays! Halloween has come and gone, and Thanksgiving is now behind us as well. Coming up are Christmas (or Hanukkah, for those who celebrate it) and New Year’s Day. (Technically, I guess New Year’s Day is the first holiday of the new year, but let’s not get pedantic about it.) Over the next few weeks, then, I will be busily preparing my Christmas list for Jolly Old Saint Nick, and when it’s ready I’ll share it with you here before mailing it off to him. I sincerely hope you have a wonderful Christmas. And for my Jewish friends, I hope your Hanukkah celebrations are the best. In the meantime, here is this week’s trivia list, ready for you to enjoy. Did you know … … a Norwegian public broadcasting station is famous for its boring programming? Station NRK has aired such blockbusters as a 12-hour live show about log burning and a five-hour marathon knitting session. Known in the country as “Slow TV,” the shows actually earn decent ratings. (And not much else.) … California law prohibits licking toads? Don’t laugh – some toads produce a toxin that can induce a state of euphoria in humans. People were actually licking toads in order to get “high.” But when some people were harmed by the poisons, the state outlawed the practice. (Nobody ever asked the toads what they thought about it, I’ll bet.) … nuclear reactor kits were once as readily available as chemistry sets? Most people my age remember when children could get home chemistry sets, with which you might create some fancy chemical effects, or you might blow the house up. But in the early 1950s, supply houses like Gilbert Scientific Co. offered the “U-238 Atomic… Read more »
Portsmouth, New Hampshire is on that sliver of coast. Cool little town with fantastic food, and the roads are very efficient for EXFIL when you’ve had enough.
Fast…sausage…money…,there’s a joke in there somewhere.
Decided to go down the rabbit hole on ‘U-238 Atomic Energy Lab’, apparently “A. C. Gilbert is best known as the inventor of the Erector Set.” Fancy that.
I grew up in the wrong era.
https://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id4.html
https://schultzmyers.com/ten-most-dangerous-toys-of-all-time/
Would’ve loved to have been the Yuletide recipient of #5 – Professor Wacko’s Exothermic Exuberance…
But ya, for sure my Uncle Joe(Regina Fireman, later Asst Chief) would’ve been supremely pissed if I’d burned his house down.
“… nuclear reactor kits were once as readily available as chemistry sets? Most people my age remember when children could get home chemistry sets, with which you might create some fancy chemical effects, or you might blow the house up. But in the early 1950s, supply houses like Gilbert Scientific Co. offered the “U-238 Atomic Energy Lab” kit for only $50. The kits were never very popular, and only about 5000 were ever sold. The idea of the kit was to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions using radioactive material. (With one of those kits, a really smart individual could be the first kid on his block to become the last kid on his block.)”
The above trivia entry reminded me of a documentary I watched some years back – called ‘The Radioactive Boy Scout’. I Google-fu’d it to see if I could find an appropriate Ewe-tube linky but after a quick side-bar read up, it unfortunately turns out that our David Hahn/the Radioactive Scout died from intoxication from the combined effects of alcohol, diphenhydramine, and fentanyl.
Think Dave should’ve stayed away from Chemistry and stuck with Physics…but what do I know. While Mom and Dad never did gift me with a reactor kit or any weapons grade uranium, they did get me one of these kits, one happy Christmas many years ago –
I had great parents and BTW, I’ve still got the kit-complete.
I got the 24-in-one for Christmas one year, the 160 the next. I miss Radio Shack.
Hugely cool when ya get stuff like that for Christmas, idn’t it? After Dad got out of the RCAF, he went on to work as a GM for an Electronics Import/Export company that sold a LOT of components and gear to Tandy, Radio Shack, etc(Canada & US) – there were others but those were two of his bigger clients. One of the neat things about Dad’s gig was ‘the samples’. Cannot tell you how many times Dad came home and tossed some cool goody over his shoulder and said ‘Got a sample today, here have fun with it, tell me what you think about it in a week or two’. Some of those goodies – crystal radios, flashlights, LCD watches etc had a few of my classmates pretty envious. Yeah, I still get that 160-set out every once in a while and tinker around with it. I can say, I was THE very first kid on my block to have a solar recharging panel-albeit a postage-stamp-sized solar recharging panel but..
Cool toys, fun days. That and one of my Uncles being a cop, probably kept me out of jail. My birthday a week ago and I’m in my fourth childhood but still adult-ish enough to know that I’ve been very lucky to have had a job throughout the years that allowed me to still keep play’n with some very cool toys. Catch up with you at Fiddlers Green.
Other Norwegian TV classics are trains traversing through the country side, and reindeer migration.
Another fine job CW, muchly Thank ye. Look forward to your column every week. Keep ’em coming.
I licked several what I thought were Princess that turned out to be frogs. And a nice set of 34B cups has caused me to do some erecting.
Roh-Dog, I’ve only grown older…I refuse to grow up!
I ain’t mad. Heck, I look forward to the day when all out of fucks to give, being both physically and chronologically ancient —for all tents and porpoises— to give the finger, middle, 1 Ea., to every soul I see deeming fit to be on the receiving end.
“Awww, look at that old man. His cheese done slid off’is cracker”
(Little will they know….)
Welcome to my World -Dog! I like it here.
‘I refuse to grow up!’
See above. Ditto.
As I always say, “Why would I want to grow up? All the bad stuff in the world was caused by grown-ups. Why in heaven would I want to be one of them?”
Another bit of trivia concerning termites and roaches is that the tree roach is a predator of termites.
During my (very short) stint as an Orkin Man, I learned that if a house had a spot with a large infestation of cockroaches, I was virtually guaranteed to find termites – and upsell them from a pest-control package to a termite-control package.
So, roaches eat their kin. Like Democrats?
“So, roaches eat their kin. Like Democrats”?
Good one!!!
Yet another amazing collection – Thank you, Commissioner Wretched!!
Guess if the Missus and I had been around in 1879 and Belgium had asked us, we could’ve saved ’em the trouble and told them that cats are better at shredding the mail than delivering it…
In some old how to fish books I’ve read, there are diagrams on making a loop of fishing line with bait and hook dangling in the open loop. I wonder if that’s what’s meant by lassoing a fish?
That would be about the only way I would think it was possible, though I did enjoy the mental picture of a fisherman riding a huge sea-horse with a rope lasso twirling around his head.
Present after a half day of stringing up Christmas lights (most of that time was UNTANGLING lights). Just hope I didn’t get a sunburn with it being 72 and not a cloud in the sky.
Pack of 200 from Amazon~
Come on Bro, get with the times…..
“CALL NOW AND YOU CAN GET THE WHOLE SET!!!! CALL NOW!!!!!
https://www.amazon.com/PatchOps-Pelosi-Helped-Kamala-Sticker/dp/B09M7HNSJB
Holy Happy Days!!!!
Today’s good news, bad news, and worse news.
Good news – Henry Winkler (The Fonz)
is selling off his valued memorabilia from Happy Days,
including the original Fonz leather jacket,
and the (later, smaller) Fonzie motorcycle.
Bad news – Winkler is giving the money to his daughter’s charity.
Worse news – His daughter’s charity is giving the money to ILLEGAL ALIENS.
[Henry Winkler to auction off personal items from his days as The Fonz]
https://6abc.com/henry-winkler-auction-the-fonz-happy-days-tcm-presents-hollywood-cool/11294477/
Sleepy Joe and the teleprompter?
That explains a lot.
Another holiday at White House.
Cheap gas and mean tweets beat the current state of affairs.
Out running errands and stopped by the Tacoma Costco for gas Wednesday and paid $3.49 a gallon. On the way home went to JBLM to walk the dog and noticed the AFEES gas station price for regular was $3.77 a gallon. Joe did that!
Saw a Walmart station in Tyler today..$2.66 for regular, 2.73 for diesel.
$50 for a toy? That was a week’s wage!
Believe I read the true Dead Man’s hand included a queen kicker.
In my research for the Wild Bill item in the column, I tried to locate what his fifth card was, but there was no consensus. I’d seen the queen, but also a ten, and some accounts gave a four. Nobody bothered to notice the fifth card and write it down, I suppose.
In some high end stations in LA, a gallon of premium is about $7.
Present an unaccountable.
Going through my father’s and brother’s old toolboxes, I find myself saying to them (as if they were there or cared) “What were you doing?
Went to a friend’s mother’s funeral yesterday. Dunno about other regions, but in the South other drivers tend to pull over to the side of the road as the funeral procession passes – many will get out of the car if safe to do so – and remove headgear. Pretty nice custom.
Y’all have a great weekend.
Yeah.
Back in the day it was expected.
Considered good manners.
Found out later this afternoon that Airborne Son had been in a MVA home from Ellington AFB (where he was trying to get his ID from a bunch of “that’s not our policy” petty civilian bureaucrats).
Other driver was in the HOV lane, bounced off/sideswiped a guy trying to drive his young family home to the DFW area after a cruise trip, bounced off the dividing wall, and came to a complete stop in the lane in front of AB Son. He’d managed to slow to 30, but truck needs some repairs and his neck is hurting.
Grateful he didn’t get rear-ended himself, and was not seriously injured, but would sure like to have a “counseling session” with the female driver.
Earlier yesterday the EMS folks in our AO had to respond to 3 (count ’em!) fatality accidents in 4 hours. 1 wrong-way driver, as that was clearing up a guy doing 80 in heavy fog rear-ended an 18-wheeler, ejecting one female who died, and killing another female in the vehicle (the pics showed a stroller, so….) then a 3rd fatality later.
People are stupid.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) his new Phildo Supporter’s balls as they overlook his highly questionable Native American, Law Enforcement and Navy SEAL claims that he uses to bullshit the Federal government and American Taxpayers in his relentless and felonious pursuit to procure government set aside contracts.
“works his”
Interesting.
SGT Danial Perry is being fully charged for shooting the BLM/ANTIFA clown that pointed his AK at him, The district Attorney in Travis county Texas is Jose Garza,, a full blooded member of the Democratic Socialist Party..
Sounds like sides have been picked in Texas.
Unfuckingbelievable.
Watching now but there’s not-a-damn-thing this pencil-necked turd of a ‘human’ can say other than “we have a dash can with SGT Perry initiating contact”.
And he keeps calling him “Mister Perry”.
{need a drink}
Thanks for the heads up/share.
Gun Bunny tells me Go Fund Me will not support Perry. The company also refused assistance to Kyle Rittenhouse.
I see a trend.
Woke Fund Me
We need an alternative to Go Fund Me that does not support the commies and does support real folks in need.
Garza prob’ly knows he’ll lose, but he’s building street cred with the left-wing dingbats in our big cities.
We need to clean house in Texas, too.
Saving up for helicopter ride.
Is this turd of a politician/lawer one of those Soros funded/elected suck-butts?
Sure looks like it to me, I can’t wait to see Soros take a dirt nap!
FIRST 45
From the Thunder Bunker here in the Great State of Texas, I have found out just how good the economy really is in the Great State of Texas.
I bought my house in the middle of the pandemic, and remain incredulous at the advance in the market valuation of my little corner of Heaven here, just south of Austin.
I also heard Alec Baldwin’s lame-ass attempt to blame the gun for going off while he was pointing it at the cinematographer.
These stupid libturds just cannot ever take responsibility for their own stupidity.
It was a revolver and there is only one way for a revolver to go off, it first has to be cocked, and then the trigger has to be pulled, period. Revolvers are the most durable handguns ever invented and even the ones that are over a hundred years still function like they did back in the day that they were manufactured.
I am just so sick of these assholes…..
Anyway, I hope all of my fellow weeds are having a prosperous and healthy time of life.
I still can’t believe that it is December of 2021…
“Let’s go Brandon !!!”
“Let’s go Brandon” indeed, I got a three day Farcebook jail sentence for posting “Joe and the Hoe are in crash and burn mode” as a comment while they let the moonbats post what they want about Donald Trump.
So… the dumb marches on:
On Nov. 23, Wesleyan University—a 3,200-student university located in Connecticut—announced that the university is requiring all students, staff, and faculty to get the booster shots by Jan. 14.
“Vaccine booster shots are now available, and they offer an important additional layer of protection,” the university’s president Michael Roth said in a statement.
……..I know Wesleyan is a Liberal Arts Uni but come the f on. SOMEONE there must be in possession of two functioning brain cells that could muster 5-10 minute of computering powers to work through that ‘problem’.
You know at $56,704/ academic year, I have to say: you get what you pay for. (assholes)
A box of mail in comments was just discovered in a storage facility outside of Bethesda Maryland that clearly indicates that Hack Stone is entitled to claim First Post For The Weekend Open Thread For December 3, 2021. A court injunction rescinding the title from NDHoosier will be issued shortly.
Triple Zing.
UPDATE – On our recent Phony Purple Heart Fake Bronze Star Thomas Cole.
This, now plopped on the Book of the Fake (x3), MP, TAH, and PPD.
(paste)
(Commenter) – I’ll take this as an admission of guilt by Thomas Cole,
who recently changed the Troop 232 photo on his GoFundMe.
(link to the Troop 232 GoFundMe (with NEW photo)
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Pendleton (Indiana) Police Department’s page on the Book of the Fake >>
https://www.facebook.com/PendletonPD/posts/4787721091259481
No more adult Boy Scout uniform.
No more Purple Heart Combat Veteran cap.
I am not even sure Thomas Cole is in this new photo,
but that could be him, blue shirt, front and center, sitting on a rock.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/obtain-a-new-troop-232-trailer
Flashback…. [Thomas Cole – Phony Urgent Fury Commando
| October 29, 2021]
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=118983
Yes, Thomas Cole ALSO wore his Purple Heart Combat Veteran cap
on the Boy Scout field trip to Gettysburg, PA,
apparently the same day and photo op
as the new photo on the GoFundMe.
Photo from VG article above….
?ssl=1
Fan challenge –
Does anyone live close enough to swing on by Pendleton, Indiana
and get a photo of Cole’s Purple Heart license plate?
Specifically, if Cole has the standard Purple Heart plate?
OR, the wheelchair (disabled parking) Purple Heart plate?
ADMINS – Please check your email.
Everyone else –
Check out the “Newest” December 4 comments on the Thomas Cole post
on the Military Phonies page on the Book of the Fake.
Wow.
https://www.facebook.com/Military-Phonies-309018389463535/
Wow.
New claims today, by Cole’s primary phony defender.
Claims that Cole served in Grenada under Gen. Michael Flynn,
and not only that Flynn can vouch for Cole,
but Flynn will vouch for Cole at an event in February 2022.
It’s all at the link just above.
If it’s an attempt by a phony defender to buy some time,
I have a hunch that it’s not only going to backfire,
but end poorly for Cole, long before February 2022.
Dude,
I totally piled on there. Took me a moment to find the linky but DAMN, old Todd is a full fledged IDIOT!!!
ChipNASA,
This seems about right,
although comparing him to Curly Howard of The Three Stooges,
is an insult to Curly Howard and The Three Stooges.
ChipNASA,
No dead horse here with Thomas Cole (and his small circle).
This horse is very much alive.
🙂
I mark myself PRESENT and Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
Um… 9 C-17s have departed form various locations squawking THUGXX, converging on S.CA/N.MX-Tijuana Area….
Are we invading Norte Mexico?
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae1455
Looks like 11 total C-17s landing at March AFB. That’s a lot of lift.
What I wouldn’t give to watch that.
Found old reference to JFEX from 2017
https://mobile.twitter.com/aircraftspots/status/939750135096999936?lang=en
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1270261/mobility-forces-enable-joint-forcible-entry-exercise/
Delivering some voters?
Surprise, Surprise, SURPRISE…
“CNN Terminates Chris Cuomo ‘Effective Immediately'”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-terminates-chris-cuomo-effective-immediately
BTW: ROLL TIDE ROLL!
gabn 😎😉
I am amazed. I thought Fredo was never going for that final “fishing” boat ride. I was sure “Wanker” aka “Zoomin” Toobin was right when he said Fredo would be back after the first of the year. Apparently, Zuck the Cuck is very unforgiving of anyone who lies to him. But you can bet this won’t be the last we hear from either of the Dumb or Dumber (Fredo) brothers. Fredo will likely have a job at MSDNC within six months.
Woops, ye beat me to it. Late to the party.
Posted with a valentine for Chris.
*grin*
THE TIDE wins again and Cuomo gets canned from the Clinton News Network, life is good!
Chris Cuomo aka Fredo has been wacked. He is officially no longer an employee of CNN. The bad karma is strong. Big bro Andy is unemployed, and now Fredo gets a boat ride on the lake. 😆
Warning! Plane prons
https://youtu.be/Tnda8IVqkyI
SR-71 evening launch Okinawa late ’80’s
Bless the harsh of them airmens, but after wash rack operations I’d wish they’ve let that poor plane dry so’s them did’t have to work with it drippin on ’em like that. Also, around the 3:30ish mark, looks like one gets a little close to the intake to them fans… closer than I would’ve anyway.
Sorry it gets a little 720pOTATO at the end, aint my vid.
Ok, one more on the Y-12/SR-71
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgO7IYvJscw
I’m done. promise.
Thanks for the links. I wondered what all was involved in getting one of those launched. In the mid 80’s, my instrument rating flight instructor was a retired LTC who was a SR-71 pilot. I enjoyed his stories about those interminable flights. I wish I’d asked him about whether they had a piss tube. I think not. It looks like the pilot and back-seater are wearing diapers under those flight suits. My instructor did tell me they took a C-rat meal on those long flights. He said they heated the can by placing it against the inside of the canopy, as the friction heat would heat the can.
First time seeing the famous fuel leeks out of the Black Beast.
‘The VA C&P Office doesn’t find your feet skin falling off or “everything smelling like JP7” service related. Sorry about the second head you’re growing too. Since you are now two sentient beings your retirement will be split in half because half of your being(s) didn’t serve. May God have mercy on your soul(s?).” — The dotgov
The reason the fuel tanks leak is because the tank sections are designed to expand from heat and seal. According to my instructor (SR-71 pilot), the tanks then seal when the skin heats up after take-off. They take off with just enough fuel to rendezvous with the tanker to take on the fuel required for the flight before the next refuel.