Weekend Open Thread
Weather the Storm
Photograph by RJ Hooper, National Geographic Your Shot
Waiting for a storm to pass in Utah’s Zion National Park paid off for Your Shot member RJ Hooper, who submitted this image of a rainbow stretched across a golden, post-tempest sky. “A brutal autumn thunderstorm rocked the higher elevations of Zion,” he says. “I hunkered next to some bushes to wait out the storm, [and] it paid off!”
I’m in Martinsburg doing VA stuff when this posts – have a ball!
ADDED: This came in after the Open Thread posted;
Category: Open thread
2 for 2 ……Bernath, FUCK YOU!
/first
Damn you’re good.
First, or close
I just finished reading today’s filings by Bernutless, and dropped over here just in time to see the post come up. Hadn’t been close before, but hadn’t tried either. I claim “First” on more Feel Good Stories than anyone though. Just sayin’.
You guys are going to have to post or link to some of this shit.
I’m still stuck in the corn for another month until I head back to Casa de SEA.
I need the laugh.
^^^^^Word. SVP?
It’s just as muggy in my kingdom as it is in the cornfields, SEA. It’s the prairie. It’ll clear up.
Yeah. Been outside working most of the past month. The first week here was brutal.
Last 2 days I’ve downed probably 6-8 bottles of water a day. Showers after work are a must.
Seconds made the difference, Frankie. And Chip nearly overlooked the requisite declaration–or was he toying with us?
Closer then me
Third. Dang! Following the success of the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters, Hack Stone is developing a remake of another 1980’s classic. I just hope that I get treated better on Twitter than the makers of the new Ghostbusters. Back To Employment In the year 2016, our hero, Palmer McFly visits the laboratory of the town eccentric, crazy Doc Bernath. Doc Bernath shows Palmer his latest invention, a 1980’s vintage Jaguar modified to travel through time. They take the time travelling Jaguar to a potato field 200 yards southeast of Sisters Eagle Airport, and Doc Bernath places his pet LRRP/translator, Dullass, in the driver’s seat. Dullass travels back in time and returns successfully, with the slight exception that he now randomly capitalizes letters throughout his emails. Suddenly, a van full of process servers and bill collectors pulls up to the scene in order to serve Palmer for his latest round of lawsuits. Palmer leaps into the vintage Jaguar in order to escape, and is transported back to Bethesda MD in the year 2013. Palmer meets up with Doc Bernath in 2013. Doc Bernath tells him not to have any interaction with anyone in 2013, otherwise it will have dire repercussions on future events. Ignoring the warnings, Palmer visits himself, and tells him that defending his boss, Biff Monkress, from exposure on the internet of stolen valor blogs may not be such a great idea, career wise. He also instructs himself to spend the extra $4 and buy a mailbox with a door. Palmer then reaches into the pocket of his $3 leisure suit, and notice that the brochure for the proud woman owned software company that he is the Vice President of, one Elaine Ricci, is slowly disappearing. If she completely disappears from the company brochure, the proud woman owned business will never exist, thus Palmer will never be a Vice President. It is up to Palmer to set things right so that Elaine Ricci will exist, and just won’t be the figment of his imagination. Oh, and did I mention that he can’t get back to the present because Crazy… Read more »
Is there going to be a train wreck in one of the sequels?
No, but they will run out of fuel while flying a small aircraft…
If Bernath gets a flying skateboard, does he still try to duct tape a dog to it?
I was thinking of a remake myself, a tropical-themed remake of “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” but it would be “Attack of the Killer Coconuts”, but studios have turned it down out of the fear of lawsuits from Non-CPOs listed as “Ineligible to Practice Law”, THE WUSSES!
But not in Florida!!!
You’re killing me!
Not first.
Again.
Fuck, again.
This just in: per the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath is still Not Eligible to Practice Law!
If anyone is interested, the reason why may be found here.
Let’s just say that being “Not Eligible to Practice Law” doesn’t appear to have been a voluntary decision on Danni-boi’s part.
Moreover, reputedly that’s not the only court that has, shall we say, a less than stellar opinion of the individual.
Count Three – Respondent willfully violated Business and Professions Code section 6106 (moral turpitude – misrepresentation) by making a statement to the State Bar when Respondent knew or was grossly negligent in not knowing the statement was false.
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And the Fat Lady starts to warm up the vocal chords for her aria.
It ain’t over until the day lady goes home with the drunk Marine.
Or the dude goes home with the drunk Marine.
Gotta be careful these days.
And here she is, in person, warming up. Nice voice, too.
https://youtu.be/dIVfbylUU-M
For those of you who received your copy today, I urge you to read paragraph #7 if you need several giggles.
How much longer am I going to have to wait for the monumental post on this?
Patience.
Jonn,
I dman near choked i was laufghing so hard!
I thought Section 2 Paragraph 2 was likewise a generator of numerous gigglesnorts.
*POW!*, right in the kisser! ?????
I’ve heard rumor that there have been group emails among Legit Florida Attorneys mentioning BernASS saying “DON’T EVEN THINK about taking this loon for a client!’
It is doubtful that even the famous Vinny Gambini would think it wise to do so.
Did I say Jerry Gallo? I meant to say Jerry Callo.
BHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!
????????
Apparently a certain lawyer suspended from the practice of law in California just learned the hard way that most judges in other parts of the country have less tolerance for bullsh!t than do those on the Left Coast.
About freaking time.
Definitely NSFW, clergy,kids or any one with virgin ears!
Danni-boi…
Reports of shooting at a Munich,Germany shopping center. Police on scene.
I don’t appreciate you spreading these lies. My President told me that these mass shooting things don’t happen in the rest of the world – only in the United States.
Yeah and the Krauts have strict gun laws so that shit don’t happen there like here.
Another shooting spree…this time in Munich, Germany:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3703705/Major-police-investigation-way-shots-fired-shopping-centre-Munich.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/europe/germany-munich-shooting/index.html
Here’s the developing report from Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/22/shots-fired-at-shopping-center-in-munich-reports-say.html
‘[…]
City police alerted the public that there is a large police operation, and asked that people avoid the area around the shopping center.
Law enforcement officers are responding in large numbers. German media say multiple people are injured.
It’s the second attack in Germany in less than a week.
[…]’.
There is now report of a second shooting attack at the Stachus metro subway station in Munich city centre. Unclear if this is done by the same perp from the first attack now on the move, or if this is a new attack conducted by another perp or team of perps…
I wonder if Merkel and all the other Eurotrash liberal pols have any regrets about polluting their countries with all those goat-molesting fleabag muzzies? Those “refugees” left their countries which are wretched shitholes and they want to turn wherever they go into just the same. FUCK ISLAM, FUCK SHARIA.
And the host country is expected to pay for it.
Number whatever, The Dutch Rudder Gang members still work wino ballsacks behind bus stops for a nickel and give change.
And I have heard they lowered their prices….
Word has it that there is a lot of competition these days.
Tenth skippy is on his way back up
Great news by the way, per the VA I’m back in the army again the last three weeks have been a trip.
Two letters from them. and it’s like last year all over again this time they are not saying I’m in the Stan.
Also some ass clown or clowns from Texas keeps calling my wife. and me once, and accuses me of being someone with tons of knowledge on this blog.
If you are reading this go FUCK YOURSELF FRUIT CAKE !!!!!!!
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You too?
The VA sent me a letter that said I had over 170 days of military service last fiscal year and needed to pay them back for double dipping.
The only issue is that I didn’t get payments from the VA until after I left active duty.
If you figure out where and who said a-c is, there are a number of us in Texas who don’t take kindly to that behavior.
Disclaimer: The above statement (The Statement) is not intended to represent a threat, promise, or warning of bodily, financial, emotional, or spiritual harm to any person, real or fictional. Any reading of The Statement which construes said entity as a threat, promise, or warning is hereby declared to be a misconstrual of The Statement on the part of the one making the reading. Whereas the author of The Statement is not in a position to determine how the reader of same reads The Statement, all responsibility for said misconstrual of the purpose and import of The Statement resides with the reader, not the author thereof. /snark
I don’t know how these open threads work, so if serious questions are best kept for another thread, I’ll save this for another time. But in the talk about the GOP support for the military, there wasn’t any mention of Mr. Trump’s comments on NATO — comments which, to me, seem pretty dangerous as they question our commitment to alliances.
I’m not trolling, I’m genuinely interested in hearing what people here think about a Presidential candidate suggesting we might not honor a treaty and aid de facto allies? (I assure you I’m aware that Turkey is regrettably an utter shit-show right now, but as a matter of precedent that sounded bad.)
Any thoughts?
Maybe it’s time for NATO to step up and do some of there own work instead of us footing the bill for there defense
^^^Word. I spent many years on a program to get NATO to buy and operate a surveillance platform like they did with NATO AWACS. I had a senior German tell me “why should we buy it…you’ll bring yours if we ever need it”.
I think that’s fair. I guess my view, though, elaborated below in my reply to B Woodman, is that NATO serves as a foil to Russian aggression in Europe, and works well in that regard provided it’s understood that the alliance is strong. Weakening that perception is dangerous.
Mind you, our NATO allies not doing their part is also dangerous, but that’s something I think is better tackled by kicking countries who are not part of NATO out, not by saying we won’t necessarily honor our treaties.
I think we need to look at any/all NATO and alliance treaties, and look for ways to back out of them. Europe is in SUCH a mess, politically, financially, and socially (muzzie open invitation invasion), that if we go to Europe by invitation, we will find ourselves (U S troops), not half stepping, but quarter stepping, tying ourselves in red-ribbon PC knots, tied to other nations whose goals aren’t necessarily the same as ours, and not accomplishing anything useful, just wasting more money and lives (which we can ill afford to lose any more of either).
If we go back at all , it needs to be due to American national interests, we need to go in Reagan “cowboy” style, on our own if necessary, unencumbered by anyone else’s PCness, in it to win it. Totally. No more “nation building”. That way lies historical eventual defeat.
We probably disagree slightly over how much of a mess Europe is, but I certainly won’t argue with you that most of the NATO countries aren’t doing their part in terms of the treaty. I guess my point of view, though, is that NATO exists as a bulwark against Russian aggression (and arguably Chinese aggression these days too, though that’s less of a problem in that area). It wasn’t designed for these new conflicts with terrorists or the highly debated question of whether direct action in the Middle East leads to more safety on the homefront.
And it’s value as a formidable opposition to Russian aggression rests largely with the implicit understanding that an attack against any member is the same as an attack against any other. Now, if we backpedal from that, it seems to say to Putin that we aren’t serious about this. It’s a tiered solution, and some countries who are signed members of NATO are less important. That, to me, sounds like a dangerous precedent.
Whenever I hear something that sets off alarm bells like this, I have to ask myself if I’d feel the same way if the politician on the other side of the political fence said the same words. My guess is that if President Obama suggested we might not defend a de facto ally, there’d be a lot of upset voices here.
I’m all for re-evaluating our needs and alliances with the evolving times, but in this case I think NATO exists as a foil to Russia, and does fairly well in that regard. I don’t want to see that ‘wall’ come down, even if we have other issues with NATO states. Let’s find other ways to address that, ideally in private and not with tipping our hand to our Russian friends.
I’m quite happy to hear contrary opinions; this is admittedly not my area of expertise.
I’ve been wondering how many NATO countries have to be attacked by terrorists before NATO actually does something.
…and tell me again what exactly does the United Nations do?!?
“…and tell me again what exactly does the United Nations do?!?”
Not one fucking thing IDC SARC. NATO is like a money pit house in the ghetto.
The UN, the United Nothing, is an even filthier, inept, incompetent, impotent and more corrupt whorehouse than Washington DC.
IDC SARC:
I ask that same question to myself almost everyday.
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I wrote a long response to B Woodman above, but my take on it is that NATO’s primary focus is presenting a unified defense against Russian aggression. Terrorism is a lot more complicated because we aren’t fighting a nation, and the way we’re fighting the War on Terror has plenty of detractors, especially in Europe.
There’s a big difference between stopping Russian tanks from crossing your borders and hitting a bunch of people you think are potential terrorists, in their own land, with drone strikes, in order to stop those people from traveling to your own land to kill citizens, even without direct evidence that they’re planning on doing exactly that. Trying to push that sort of arrangement under the umbrella of NATO is complicated, I think.
I’m fully in favor of a more unified approach and additional assets to fight terrorism, but it’s a separate issue to Russian (and arguably Chinese) aggression, I think.
What we are, and what we have been to NATO for many years, are hired bodies that will be used to stop bullets and take the blame for the results of Europe’s political stupidity. Oh, and we’re the cash cow. We need to get out of there, and our “allies” need to weed their own damn yard for awhile.
On one hand I boil over at the thought of not honoring our commitments…on the other, I don’t remember any of those commitments being made to the EU, just to partner countries. As a whole the EU seems to be cut from Obama-cloth. Some of the individual countries I would be very upset if we didn’t defend.
“I don’t know how these open threads work”
Pretty much like maggots boiling round in a ME portajohn
You have a way with words, SARC. Is this why the women here whisper your name with a sort of quiet reverence?
No — it’s because he’s The Man, The Myth, The Legend!
7.62/5.56
I think that Mr. Trump is saying things that need to be said out loud because people are not willing to face those subjects.
In broad terms I appreciate his lack of a filter and it’s often refreshing compared to Mrs. Clinton’s carefully-focus-tested canned responses to every question… but suggesting we might not support an ally strikes me of questionable judgement.
It’s like how I’m all for people being able to speak their mind, but if you yell “Fire!” in a movie theater or, say, “Allahu akbar!” in an airport, there are going to be consequences, even if you’re just trying to make a point.
Really? Strikes me more as the US returning the favor.
Regarding Turkey: Remember how “swimmingly” Turkey supported the US in 2003? As in, refused to let the US use bases there in support of OIF?
I can’t say I have much use for NATO members who pick and choose when they will – and will not – support the US; an unreliable ally is often worse than not having that nation as an ally at all. And pretty much all of the original 16 NATO members have been guilty of that at one point or another. Want proof? Look at Vietnam.
Being in NATO was in the US national interest when the USSR posed an existential threat to Western Democracy. Russia no longer poses that same threat. (They still pose a threat, but one an order of magnitude smaller than the USSR did at the height of the Cold War; they no longer threaten our very existence via conventional war.). Further, the European NATO members have proven historically unwilling to shoulder their fair share of the common NATO burden.
In light of the above, it is IMO fair to question whether NATO has outlived its usefulness for the US.
I HATE when that fire/theater analogy is used. Please use it correctly. It’s, “you cannot yell “FIRE” falsely in a crowded theater.” That changes the total intent of the sentence.
As to the “aloha snackbar” at the airport, you’re on your own.
IMHO one main reason Trump beat his sixteen other competitors for the nomination is that he sounded off on issues that have been irritating people for decades and store his ground once he did. All the other candidates have been regurgitating talking points handed to them by focus groups and sugar-coated political correctness as well as flip flops right and left! The establishment types offered in the past two Presidential Elections wouldn’t do anything other than what their coaches and handlers told them, things like playing “Aw, shucks Mr. Nice Guy” when they should have been going for their opponents’ carotid while holding their feet to the fire on issues and pretending that the DNC Pravda mess media would eventually turn around and be fair with them. Look at the times when Ronald Reagan called Carter and then Mondale on their BS as well as when he handed liberal media heads their asses on a plate!
I understand your concerns, but it’s one thing to be nice.
It’s another thing to be a doormat.
It needs to be addressed, period.
I can see two sides – pushing the NATO folks to ante up more of the financial burden for NATO, and yet protecting our allies there.
I’ve read accounts where the NATO boots-on-the-ground were thought pretty darn good by the guys outside the wire, but the politicos – much like our current clown-in-chief – need a wake-up.
With the shooting going on as we type, I wonder if Merkle will admit her blunder?
I think we absolutely need to crack down on allies that aren’t pulling their weight, both financially and with operational commitments.
I just feel that suggesting our support of an ally is questionable isn’t the way to go about it. If we want to, behind closed doors, insist that ‘allies’ not living up to the treaty are kicked out, I’d be fine with that.
As for the shooting, it’s still unclear what the details are – rumors keep bouncing between it being 1 person or 3 people, and whether it’s right-wing German sorts or Muslim immigrants. They already had an issue earlier this week with a Moroccan man, though, I believe.
I stopped by the commissary yesterday, and I saw some coconuts…
Yeh they have BIG coconuts up at the commissary on Holloman
???
Were they a lovely bunch of coconuts?
Yes indeed, Doc.
However, as lovely as those coconuts were, they were also quite sinister.
It was most unsettling. I shudder at the memory of it.
Calm down no need to shudder. Just
We had coconuts out the yingyang on Guam, growing in the yard of base housing. A chisel and a hammer and we were good to go. Our mailbox was not the conventional type at the curb with an intact, usable door. We had the skinny type attached to the house. No exploding coconuts. No screws in the driveway b/c we had no driveway.
But do they explode?
they stand in a row
You’re not suggesting that coconuts are migratory are you?
Only if a swallow grasps one by the husk.
African or European?
Not being King, I am in no position to know such things.
It’s good to be King.
I called his office, and Phildo is scheduled to work balls this weekend behind the dumpster of the Holiday Inn Express in Titusville. Show times are 8:00 PM and 10:30. You must be at least 8″ for the 10:30 PM ball washing.
Perhaps James Walls aka “Jimmy Balls” aka “The Cocksucker” will attend and get some expert ball washing training. Jerry Foster aka “The Disappearing Dickhead” aka “Lying Phony Commander” can make a guest appearance and perform the miraculous chisel the fucking lies off my headstone skit.
As some of you may know, a few months ago, in buying a $20.00 raffle ticket to support the “Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team”, I won an awesome AR-15. This sucker is sweet, floating barrel, full length Keymod fore piece, chambered in .223 Wylde,(enabling better use of both Remington .223 and 5.56 NATO, and entirely American Made by Bear Creek Arsenal in Sanford, North Carolina. As if that was not good enough, I caught a “one time only” Manager’s offer at a major sporting goods store, to buy ammo for 50% off. I bought 200 rounds of .223 and 350 rounds of .22LR for $50 bucks.
This week, an Army Ranger friend who is deploying to Italy, had sold his AR and offered me all his “pieces and parts”, which included a couple hundred rounds of 5.56, seven Iraq and Afghanistan tested magazines, (all had held ammo that killed bad guys), a sling, a fore grip, and a bad azz LED light with an IR lens attached. All together, worth around $500 new value. Life is good.
Daily proficiency shooting has me putting 30 rounds into a 6 inch target, from 75 yards at a kneel, using a 3X scope setting.
I am officially turning camo green with jealousy.
And, B Woodman, my AR-15 ASSAULT RIFLE isn’t as scary as those black ones. Mine has the upper and lower receivers and the fore piece Cerakoted in “Burnt Bronze”. I love my mission of supporting the Army Ranger Instructors of the Florida Phase of Ranger School here at Camp Rudder. I usually leave there thinking that I got more than I gave. These guys are not only top shelf people, but they are the best of the best, making me proud to call them friends.
Be still, my beating heart.
Just FTR, the “AR” in “AR15” stands for “Armalite Rifle”, it was design number 15 in 1957 if I’m correct about the year, that’s were the name came from. It became the M16, then M16A1, then the A2 and so on and now the M4 Carbine version is the one mainly in use in the Army.
Word
I love it when you talk gunnery Frankie…..
Oooooh Gun Pr0n!
Sweeeeet…very kewl
speaking of raffles…the Marine Reconnaissance Foundation on FB is raffling an Oris dive watch to raise money if anyone is interested. It’s limited to 200 tickets and the drawing is coming in august. The watch if purchased would be several thousand dollars.
Be still my heart, I think I just had a “gun-gasim”.
Frankie, I am OD Green with envy!
That shore is purty, Frankie.
Frankie you had me at the getgo. Be still my pounding, jealous heart. Well, not still but you get it. Very nice, Frankie.
Top twenty?
Yesterday, SFC D asked what the minimum age is to join the old-age club. Putting aside that crapola (one p or two?) about how young one feels, old is a relative term and the younger one is, the smaller the number that he assigns to old. Ask a teenager when old age begins and the answer is likely to be 50. Ask a 35-year-old and the answer is apt to be 60. Surveys done from time to time indicate that assignment date for “old” is increasing. So, what’s the TAH year for old, as in old timer, old bastard, old geezer, old fart, and older than dirt? I know that falls somewhere between the first time a civilian called you sir or ma’am and the first time you were offered a senior citizen discount for which, by age, you did not qualify. But I don’t know the number.
I prefer the term FAG (Former Action Guy), as an added bonus, it causes the LGBTQEXFPTRVEIEIEIO crowd to scream “cultural appropriation”
Don’t forget Ol’ Curmudgeon (that’s me!).
I’m 65 with a bad back and one bum knee.
Don’t know what old age will bring……;-)
But, but, I thought that most of the crew here on Team TAH were affiliated with the OVYGTBSM* special interest group!
*Old Veteran You’ve Got To Be Shittin’ Me
Mick or anyone else. You might be old. If you are called Old Corps for being a Nam Vet(a Marine Thing).Sidenote , Mick does MOH.com mean anything to you. Joe
As a 1940 model, relatively healthy, and very active, I would agree that that the “old” gateway is being pushed further back. The other day, I was talking to a W-2 Army aviator and mentioned that I had crewed the HUEY “A” model that used to be on a pedestal in front of 101st Division HQ. He said that makes me an official “Old Guy”, or “OG”.
Go to Wiki and type in SH-2 Seasprite. There’s a pic of an -F model landing on a Spruance class DD. The yellow helmet the crewman is wearing is in my closet as I type, ’cause that’s me.
I see you. Now Bernasty will know what you look like.
Had to hike into a repeater station in the Chiricahuas on Wednesday and definitely felt like an old fart. Today, not so much! Best way to delay old age is to follow the wise words of the great philosopher Tom T. Hall. It’s all about faster horses, older whiskey, younger women, and more money!
I’m eleventeenth or something
Hey, you left out those of us not interested in wimmin, SFC D.
Just send Sam Elliott my way and leave the MacAllan on the table.
SFC D, you down in AZ? Love that state. Without my wife, I could have easily turned into a hermit Desert Rat out there somewhere.
(Stationed Ft Huachuca x3 for a total of ten years.)
You’re officially authorized to join the old farts club if you’ve ever used a Claymore bag as a fanny pack.
That’s the criteria.
What if I am “before the Claymore” but after the muzzle loader?
That falls into the fossilized old fart category./smile
Same Same with those who assume the position when the “First Rank Kneel” order is given./smile
This is the 70th year on this planet for me. Some days feel like 100, others-not so much, as it`s all relative.
Harvested my elk last fall, and will, the good Lord willing, do it again this year.
LT said “KEEP MOVIN`”
Old Fart
Best answer: When I turned 35 I thought middle age started at 50. When I turned 50 I realized middle age had started about 35. Old age is past that.
Age is mostly a state of mind.
You can sit down and never get up.
Or you can fight it to the end.
Best answer is ‘old enough to know better and young enough not to care’.
Screw all that “growing old gracefully” crap, I’m kicking and screaming all the way
Exactly. The first time some part of you breaks down is when you have a choice to make: slowly and pitifully sink into the dirt, or fight like hell every step of the way.
Agreed. Stick around. We can tango when I’m 98.
It’s a date
You two are in luck.
February 7th, 2044 falls on a Sunday.
Should be lots of dance halls open to tango in.
PS: SFC D, that’s a week from Valentine’s Day, so make sure you get her a nice wrist corsage.
Dinner’s on me.
Screw it. I get told I look 10+ years younger than I am, although some days I feel 20+ years older.
I entered this world wet, naked, and screaming. I intend to leave the same way.
As the great Satchel Paige once put it …
“Age is the triumph of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, then it don’t matter.”
Zion is a close second to Yosemite on the “most beautiful place I have ever been” list (all of southern Utah is pretty awesome).
WARNING TO THE SQUEAMISH. The link (or, if it works, the video arrow) below will take you to an UNCENSORED video of a deranged SOB on a city bus in OK who is ultimately shot and killed by a police officer. The event occurred on 24 June. If ever you want to see how not to approach a suspect in an enclosed area where you cannot see him and his hands at all times, this is it. If ever you wanted to see how hesitation can kill a police officer—but didn’t, thank goodness, in this instance—this is it. This video will be around a long time in police training academies the land over. I hope that the first officer (a/k/a Screechy Fat Ass) either finds another line of work or, if not, is required to undergo about 40 hours of re-training. In a bad situation, she made it worse, failed, and was very nearly another sad and ugly statistic.
On the other hand, kudos to both the bus driver for getting the passengers off and to the second officer (LEO Balls) for winning the fight with no chance of a rematch. Take note of what the rescuing officer is doing with his left hand while he shoots with his right!
I watched that last week 2/17 and I thought “didn’t that twit have ANY fucking training before they put her on the street”?
I’ve never been LE, but I swear I wouldn’t have made the mistakes that she did.
The guy who has assumed room temperature is Miguel Chavez. Not surprisingly, his widow says he did not deserve to die. I see lawsuits against the PD, the cops individually, probably the bus company and driver, etc. They wouldn’t want me on that jury.
When asked why he had to shoot the guy seven times, the cop reportedly replied ‘That’s all the bullets I had’. /sarc Oh, and the Mexican government has weighed in, wanting to know how this could have happened. Maybe they should just watch the video. Worked for me.
Here’s a link to the grieving widow’s defense of the dead guy.
http://www.koco.com/news/Widow-of-man-killed-in-city-bus-shooting-says-he-did-not-deserve-to-die/40807430
OH yeah, the Mexican Government has LOTS of room to talk, just look at what a crime-free Utopia their Gun Laws have made that country into!
That is funny. The f’n Mexican gov’t chimed in? And “partner” said he didn’t deserve to die and wants justice. Hell, he got justice. What he didn’t get is mercy. It just wasn’t available under the circumstances.
Fatty mc mcfatty has most likely been promoted and now in charge of something.
She did give it that old college/ female 11B try.
I’d hit it.
IDC SADC. He’s deceased.
ha…funny man
Maybe ‘promote’ her to the 911 call center. No, that wouldn’t work. She would freak under the pressure. Well, I’m sure she will be promoted up the chain to some position in which she can do the least damage. This is the Peter Principle in living color.
Maybe she can be the Media Relations Spokesperson for the department. Or better yet, do police departments have an old building they send their problem children to in order to perform meaningless work? What is the police equivalent of Linen NCO?
Not sure if he got him after the 5th head shot.+50
Trying to cover her MOUTH?!?!?
/*runs*
Controlled the other officer’s gun with his left hand and shot the shit out of the suspect with his right.
Now that is what I call gun control.
Zactly, RGR.
Man, I’d hate to be in his position, a BG you’ve got to take out now and a Blue Falcon you have to control simultaneously? crud!
I think I know how this will play out. Both will receive commendations for heroism. The real hero, the one with massive stones, will scratch his head and wonder WTH is going on. She’s going to be promoted to a position in which she can do the least damage to herself, the public and her fellow LEOs. Maybe she can be a spokeswoman for the PD. That seems safe enough. She does not belong on the street. The other cop? One bad dude.
I counted 7 shots by the officer with Big Balls and the last 3 were for sure, positive, in the melon hits. He was in total control and kept his cool, got control of HER weapon from the dipshit and used his to clean out the gene pool a bit. Must have said “Shit! I had to handle the screaming, fat assed Affirmative Action officer and the crazy ass hole perp too.”
I hope she’s driving a parking ticket 3 wheeler now. She should not be allowed to face more than an angry driver with an over due meter and never allowed a weapon again.
I don’t think she’s even competent enough to be a Meter Maid, she looks and acts like a TSA slug in some airport! Maybe API is taking apps for their Security Branch..
*OOPS!*, “”…APL Security…”, damn clumsy fingers and shitty proofreading, an “edit” button, please?
Or maybe Ambassador Worldwide Protective Services. I wonder how Turd Bolling is doing these days?
Aaah YES INDEED! Thank You, Hack Stone!
She did over-react, yes. A jolt of adrenaline will do that to you, but not everyone reacts to it with a clear head. She bit off somewhat more than she could chew. I’m as concerned as anyone else that she’ll make a mistake some day that she can’t take back.
I am pretty new to this site, are there any still active members here? Or am I the only one?
Lots.
They’ll let you know.
Welcome 42A CC
I may not be active (I’m retired)…but I train active duty troops every day on Bragg, so now I’m a Plainclothes Pogue (DA Civilian). And there’s a number of us here
Like Chip said…lots of active
thanx, I actually hope to be a DA civilian myself one day.
Make sure you familiarize yourself with the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics).
It will help you streamline the fun!
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More than 2, less than 87,639. Give or take.
If you haven’t been around long, a word of caution. Your opinions are not only welcome, but we look forward to hearing from those doing what the rest of us used to do, or never could do but support wholeheartedly anyway. That said, we have heard occasionally that you should never forget that someone might be looking over your shoulder and post comments accordingly.
Welcome aboard, CC! (Pardon my laziness, but I shorten everyone else’s names as well. Certainly no offense intended.)
no offense taken, I will be sure to not say anything bad about my section chief or the S1 while they are near. lol
Hate to say it, but discretion is the better part of valor, even here.
What mine Lol…
cool, seemed like most of the regular posters are retired.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that other than me being jealous.
Anyway, love the stolen valor work you guys do, and the scathing commentary.
Like others have said there are lots. My first two years here I was active, but I am now retired.
Like others, I was for a couple years, retired in ’13. I found TAH while googling stuff on code twink when they were protesting poor manning-boi when he was at Quantico. Been here ever since, just changed my screen name after retiring (and becoming more vocal about my opinions) Welcome!
Active as a M-DAY soldier in the TXARNG, but in a year or so plan on being a burden on society.
There wern’t no internet thingy when I retired. Dirt was a relatively new thing then. See old fart discussions below. I’m even older than Claw.
I’m Guard and finishing up Annual Training.
Welcome 42A Combat Clerk.
Double digits – alright!
49!!!!!!!!!!
I just read, in an e-mail offering, the sweetest document. It was a dismissal of complaint, and signed by the nicest lady judge. Not that I was concerned, but this will make the weekend just that much sweeter as I head out for a 72 hour, or so, good time adventure.
See first comment.
I thought he was talking about police. Are you talking AD mil or police, 42A CC? Actually, doesn’t natter. There are both here.
I was talking about military, but I wont leave out my Brethren in Blue, much respect to LEOs and all first responders.
Clerks are often cussed about, but IMHO a good 42A dedicated to doing the job right is worth his or her weight in Platinum.
Ditto. Anyone doing their job well and serving with honor has my stamp of approval, such as it is. Yeah, and be careful, being active and whatnot. Me? Retired after 23 in 1991. Welcome aboard. As an aside, PH2 makes sammiches every Friday for all.
Is it 5 o’clock yet?
It is somewhere.
It’s getting close to 5PM in Greenland and it’s already past 5AM in Russoye Ust’ie.
it’s always 5 o’clock at SFC D’s Cantina
Colorado man dies fighting ISIS
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/21/colorado-man-levi-shirley-killed-fighting-isis-syria/
A comment above spoke of active members and I thought about Mustang1LT and how its been over a year since he told us he was at the Demob station at his Guard Armory and signed off with “See Ya Later.”
Hope all is going well for him. I miss our old Hoosier home week conversations.
I miss him too.
Oh, and fuck Daniel Bernath.
I also miss JAGC. His insight would have been useful on some recent threads.
If I remember correctly his call sign turned into MustangCPT.
I know he went from Mustang2LT to Mustang1LT during his deployment, but you could be right about the MustangCPT part, just not remembering him signing in as such.
Near as I could tell he was up by Hammond or Chesterton somewhere or close to it.
Well, now. I’ve spent the entire morning at the shop getting a new radiator installed so that my car will continue to be the dream machine it was designed to be.
Thunderstorm last night lasted about 10 minutes of noise and then it settled in to rain for an hour.
For hot weather like this, watch ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ with Taylor and Newman. Really fine black & white film. And get out some of Jimmy Cagney’s stuff or some WWII black & white movies like ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’.
Supper is cold sliced ham, potato salad, sliced tomatoes and onions and bell peppers on the side. Lots of ice tea, and maybe some cold watermelon.
Life is good in my kingdom.
Forgoing the usual traditional “Friday night perch fishfry’ up here in the Home Of the G.B. Packers State for a new Crockpot recipe.
General TS0’s Chicken on a bed of rice with peapods & steamed broccoli to be followed by a slice (or two) of homemade strawberry cheesecake all washed down with some espresso coffee (not a hot tea guy generally).
Then, spreading out on the couch for some great oldie’s cowboy movies (Laramie & McClintock).
Yep, life is good.
Tennessee Williams always seemed a bit pointedly tormented. Neurotic and aware of it, if that makes any sense.
“Stella!!!”
My own favorites of the era tend to drift more toward Bogart. Casa Blanca and Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon have both aged well. The Bogart and Bacall combo also worked well for screen in Chandler’s The Big Sleep and in Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not.
“You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve?”
John Wayne. Any John Wayne movie is good to go. Add to that The Outlaw Josey Wales, Silverado, Verzacruz, The Battle for Apache Pass from the 1950s – you could get into the movies for a nickel back then, and an ice cream float was a dime.
And include the most important movie of all: HONDO!
I have 7+ pounds of piggy all rubbed up in the reefer as I type. We have a date Very Early tomorrow morn with the smoker. Pulled pork sammiches, tater salad, baked beans, sliced ‘maters will be on the menu tomorrow evening, followed by chocolate lave muffins with ice cream.
Then stogies, spendy bourbon, tall tales, and general bullshit until nighty-night.
Speaking of ham, Mrs. HMC and I got some awesome ham sammiches at HoneyBaked Ham last week, along with a ham bone. Man, it was the best bean soup I ever had. Low boiled the ham bone for an hour or so then added dry beans, onions, spices, etc. Just outstanding. Last week’s receipt offered a BOGO sammich of choice for completing an on-line satisfaction survey. Did so, got the code, back today for another purchase. Guess what? Another satisfaction survey code for a BOGO sammich of choice. I know at least one place I’ll be next week.
Hey, TAH says that this is the 72nd post.
Do I get any nubile virgins that could also fill in on the beach volleyball team?
You poor fellow. I’m only doing this because I care….
http://acidcow.com/girls/10323-tight-pants-60-pics.html
Holey Moley!!
What’s up with that guy’s head? Some sort of a picture distortion?
7th picture down in the spread. And yes, I look at other things in the pictures besides girls in tight pants.
Oh! I did not see that! That is a closet leprechaun!!! Holy Cow! They NEVER ever knowingly let anyone shoot pix of them!
Yeah, see, was I right? What is that, some sort of a garden gnome come to life?
Jeepers.
Maybe it’s Yef.
No, it’s a drunken leprechaun. They look like either lounge lizards from the 1980s or fat, middle-aged humans, and sometimes they forget to hide the things that give them away.
The ongoing attack in Munich appears to be getting worse. Initial reports indicate possible multiple shooters at multiple locations, and possibly 15+ civilians KIA.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3703705/Major-police-investigation-way-shots-fired-shopping-centre-Munich.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/22/munich-shooting-police-evacuate-shopping-centre-live
When did this start? I was out all morning, as I said above.
At approximately 1750 local time in Munich according to a Munich Police statement.
If they burn the Reichstag again, let me know.
Around 400AD.
Actually, the profit mo-Ham-med (PB&J) assumed room temperature on June 8, 632 AD
We can say that no sane, law abiding citizens were involved as shooters. Any intimation that it was otherwise is crazy talk as is the suggestion that if my neighbors and/or friends give up their arsenals it would make this a better, more peaceful, world.
skynews has what is supposed to be a live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
That can’t be. They have strict gun laws.
Eleventyseventeenth! Time for a good cigar, but I don’t know what to have. Thinking Camacho
In a dumb ass move yesterday I answered my phone without looking at who was calling. It was one of those Jamaican phone scams. Said I was the UPS monthly winner and that I “won” $850,000 and a new car. Asked where I was because they wanted to bring it over. At this point I’m thinking that someone is trying to find out if I was home so they could rob me. At this point it dawns on me how would some random burglar know my cell phone number. I ask them if they know my address and they hung up on me. 15 minutes later my wife texts me telling me that someone called and tried to scam her. It was the exact same scam. The only difference in the details is that they claimed to be from Publishers Clearing House. The last four of my phone number is XXX1 and my wife’s is XXX2 so it’s pretty easy to figure out how they are choosing their victims.
I forgot to mention that the brand new car I “won” was a kind that they don’t make anymore.
A vintage 1980’s Jaguar?
Oh, you haven’t had the IRS phishing scam yet? I’ll give you the number to report to the real IRS, if you want it.
I posted last month about several (4-6) messages on our answering machine within a period of a few hours. We screen all calls with the machine. They left repeated messages, in a computer generated but obviously foreign voice claiming to be from the ‘Law Enforcement Bureau of the IRS Criminal Enforcement Division’ or some such crap. We were told our home and our movements were being observed at all times and I must call a number (don’t have it now) and cough up some bucks or we would be arrested that very day. Had it been a toll-free number, I would have taken a folding chair to a convenience store with an outside pay phone, sit there all day and call them repeatedly to jam their lines. Wouldn’t call from my line. These scum prey mostly on the elderly, believing them to be trusting and easily manipulated. I turned the number over to the proper people. I’m sure it’s now been changed and the scam continues. Pure trash …
Scumbags who pull con games like that would get rejected for membership even in The Dutch Rudder Gang due to low moral standards.
Here is the link to the National do not call registry.
You can register your numbers in the registry as well as file a complaint for the phone numbers that continue to call or robo dial.
https://www.donotcall.gov/
After I registered our numbers and started filing complaints the number of calls we recieved started falling off.
In the news this week:
“John Kerry walks into a door at No.10 Downing Street”.
Latest reports are that he has applied for his 4th Purple Heart for being injured in the line of duty. /sarc
Dumbass!
Did the British government send a bill to the State Department to fix the door frame?
It’s not the first time that John Kerry crashed through a door.
Saw a post earlier by SEA saying he was still stuck in the corn and it reminded me of the story about Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown and the Cubbies.
I’m wondering when one of the great Baseball HOF injustices of the world will be corrected as to me Kessinger to Beckert to Banks was just as good as Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Hope springs eternal.
The VFW post here in my location, just had a raffle on a restored 1969 Mustang. The winner had purchased one ticket. The proceeds are going to be used for Vets in need. About 13,000.00 was raised.
Good to go. BZ’s for everyone involved.
Mule SITREP? How’s she coming along?
Claw…….mule is supposed to be picked up along with the jeep next week. Now that I got rid of the Mustang, I have more garage space and can pay more attention to the other vehicles.
Rain and overcast here. The past week I’ve been making infused blackberry and apple brandy. The apple brandy has clove and cinnamon in it. Kind of tastes like apple pie. Both are great gifts during the holiday’s
Come on 3/17…you’re being shy and humble. WHOM donated that Mustang for the raffle????? Hmmmmm????
SJ……….Ya, it was me. I restored it about twenty years ago. Nice driver. I gave it to my daughter about ten years ago, with the understanding that she could not sell it. She needed money so I bought it back. Since I drive it about once a year, I thought I’ve had a fortunate life, better than most. So why not help some Vets in need
Outstanding!
Bravo Zulu, 3/17 Air Cav.
Good for you, and a good use for the pony car.
KUDOS to you, 3/17!!
I knew that from our meeting at the Claw stately manor when you mentioned it. That’s why I outed you!
SJ……..I knew I should have checked your security clearance before I told you!
Speaking of security, do you use a private server when transmitting secret documents?
A TOUGH OLD COWBOY FROM SOUTH TEXAS COUNSELED HIS GRANDSON THAT IF HE WANTED TO LIVE A LONG LIFE, THE SECRET WAS TO SPRINKLE A PINCH OF GUN POWDER ON HIS OATMEAL EVERY MORNING.
THE GRANDSON DID THIS RELIGIOUSLY TO THE AGE OF 103 WHEN HE DIED.
HE LEFT BEHIND 14 CHILDREN, 30 GRANDCHILDREN, 45 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN,
25 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AND
A 15-FOOT HOLE WHERE THE CREMATORIUM USED TO BE.
LOL!!!?
Hee Hee. Sounds like the Grandson was as tough as the back wall in a shooting gallery.
It’s been SO DAMNED HOT lately I’ve heard rumors of junkies returning copper lines to A/C units to make them operable again and the pollen has been so damned thick that Law Enforcement has observed meth junkies turning their shit back into Sudafed®™!
It’s 88F in my fort and muggy as hell. I hate to do it but I’m going to move the little lever on the thermostat from off to cool/auto. Sucks. Must be my age.
It’s so muggy here, even the cicadas have shut up and gone to a cooling center.
It’s so hot, Daniel Bernath crashed his airplane into a field of iceberg lettuce.
It’s a steaming 55F here right now. It feels good after last weeks being in the 90’s.
91 at Claw Manor right now.
There’s a tune by Martha & the Vandellas rolling around in my head.
Oh, that wouldn’t be ‘Dancin’ in the Street’ now, would it?
https://youtu.be/CdvITn5cAVc
Nope. “Heat Wave.”
But you and SFC D may be doing that other tune come 2044.
And in response to Heat Wave – “Nowhere to Run.”
We (the US) are smack in the middle of summer now.
I can hear the corn stalks popping at night in Indiana from out here in Idaho.
There was a mystery movie with the title ‘Heat Wave’.
It hit 99 here in South Texas, cold front must have blown thru…..
A weather tidbit for those who wonder how we who live along the Florida Coast survive “All Those Hurricanes”.:
No hurricanes or tropical storms have entered or developed in the Gulf of Mexico since September 2013, a stretch of well over 1,000 days. By the end of next week, the streak could be the longest on record, dating back to the 1800s.
The last hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico was Hurricane Ingrid, which made landfall in northeast Mexico in September 2013.
Somehow that has to be the fault of George Bush. Or maybe Ronald Reagan’s devastating economic policies.
Darth Cheney is getting on in years, and has let his hurricane generator fall into disrepair.
This Friday, I have more time to be here than most. I have been hanging with a veteran friend, (on the phone), doing what I can. Yesterday, in 7 phone calls, I spent an hour and 46 minutes listening to and talking with a troubled veteran. This morning he said that he is “hanging in there”. He and I have talked 3 more times since I gave him a morning check up.
People, make yourself aware of Boone Cutler’s “Spartan Pledge”:
“I will not take my own life by my own hand without talking to my battle buddy first. My mission is to find a mission to help my warfighter family.”
I pray that I can help this young warrior through this. My time is his.
Frankie, you’re an honorable man… I hope that the friend makes it through this time. Please let him know that I and others are praying for him.
No booze. If he drinks, he sinks. Best of luck to him and to you, Frankie.
So true, 2/17 Air Cav. And fortunately, he realizes that. He has said that he knows that could well cause him to not see a way out. To his credit, as I type this, he is connecting with someone who will have him helping others, even as he needs help. Those who have purpose, have life.
You’re a good man who gives a damn, Frankie!
Thank you, Frankie, for assisting a brother/sister in need. Respect
Went to the local driving range this AM to hit that little white ball a long ways… seem to hit the ball better sans eyeglasses.
Nice to see that Dickless Danni-bitchboi Bernastypanst got his ass handed to him yet one more time in court. Must be on the phone crying to QuEeFeRs about his latest courtroom “victory”. CoCkSlUuUuRrRrPeTh41 must be thinking to himself that “I’m so tired of listing to this wrinkled ballsack tell me about his day in court. The dude is keeping me from downing another gallon of DRG “Cock”tails and dreaming about my glory days as the purple suited pervert.”
Anyway, I’m 127th this week… and proud about it!
Bless you Frankie.
Thank you, sj. I feel blessed to have been the one that this warrior called. I am older than his father, and I have never seen combat, and was not in a unit as “intense” as he was, but somehow I was able to be the one that he could talk to. He’ll make it, I pray, and be as strong after as he was while in the sandbox.
Breaking News:
Commissar was just arrested performing a triple dutch rudder with two other self identifying persons in a downtown Target restroom….Mr. Taylor was quoted as saying to the police, “Come on guyz, let us finish.”
More to follow….
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Breaking News….Update….
The group of friends arrested last night performing a triple dutch rudder in a Target bathroom have just been released after bail was posted by James Walls aka “The Cocksucker”. They plan to consult with barred attorney Daniel A. Bernath. Commissar left the justice center in tears as he was quoted saying “It wasn’t my fault that stupid straight man walked in while I was exploring my friends. I am the captain of the ship dammit!!
Target spokesperson who self identifies as a sheep, stated, “We have always allowed dutch rudders in our family friendly restrooms, baaa, no further comment, baaaaaa.”
I just became aware of a book entitled Dial 911 and Die. I’m curious if anyone has read it, particularly any of you that might be law enforcement officers. What prompted this is that there is a local police officer on our neighborhood Facebook page seemingly trying to tell everyone in the neighborhood that he is a sheepdog and will protect everyone. Color me skeptical. Do sheepdogs really refer to themselves as sheepdogs? Something about this guy just doesn’t seem right. I know another cop personally, and he would be the first one to tell you to get a gun and know how to use it.
****SPEW ALERT****
B. Hussein 0bama tales just briefly to the press about the attack in Germany before chuckling and changing the conversation to his daughter leaving for college, what a shallow, soulless POS of a human being!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3703975/Grinning-Obama-JOKES-Munich-carnage-press-conference-shifts-gears-talk-daughter-Malia-leaving-nest-college.html
Like I’ve said so many, many times, he just does not give a shit. None of it has anything to do with him.
Brrrrraaaaaaaaaaiiiiin! Aaaarrgghhg brrraaaaaaaaaiiinns! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah brraaaaaaaaaaaiiiiins! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Buhbuhraaaaaaaaiiiiiiins!
Two Hundred and Thirteen … Yeah Baby!
My friend’s dog just dropped a steaming pile of Phil Monkress in the neighbor’s yard.
Maybe that’s why they are moving? Who knows.
It looks like I need to get over there and clean it up.
Daniel A. Bernath – *PTUI!*, ditto with his idiot sidekick.
I’m sure it’ll be a article here tomorrow, but it’s official, two women officers were granted the opportunity for SFAS.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/careers/army/officer/2016/07/22/female-officers-sfas/87457530/
But were they born a women or do they think they are females?
The pig is in the smoke. I say again, the pig is in the smoke.
That is all.
Finally, the code change for the coming week. I was beginning to worry, thinking that I had missed it. Thank you. Now I can go to our hidden site and get in to join our private conversation. NEAB STUORPS will get the rest of the messages after you once get in.
Alright, that tears it.
Steak and shrimp on the hotel grill tonight.
What? A secret squirrel ring knocker club on TAH? Say it ain’t so, Frankie!
The catheter has been inserted. Launch Operation Disbarred Attorney.
Jimmy is wearing a black Stetson.
Steve drives a blue pickup truck.
FGD135, I say again, FGD135.
Initiate Wing Attack Plan R.
Message from base confirmed.
Reaffirmed by subordinate command animus via telecom delta zee twixit.
Roger.
Set lockout code prefix OPE into the CRM-114.
Out.
And just when we thought the alligator pond couldn’t get any deeper, I just heard AF is having problems with its fresh water condenser.
ROG that!
OVER
Still SREYWAL code PU-2U2 with EtOH scramble code PDQ or are we going on KP Sequence?
((((OVER))))
KILO PAPA
Able Baker Charlie, this is Roger Fox Dog… Able Baker Charlie, this is Roger Fox Dog… can you read me!
Hey man, someone’s talking pretty bad about Riger, man.
I just have to ask, SEA, are you chopping the weeds out of the soybeans, or detassling corn?
I’ve done both in this kind of weather and it ain’t no fun until you turn the garden hose on yourself.
I hate having to re-read the entire thread just to see what new words of wisdom were posted.