Weekend Open Thread
Anthony Fauci could not name any study that shows that masks work against COVID-19. (The Epoch Times)
Doctor Anthony Fauci was asked if he knew of any studies that supported the effectiveness of wearing masks. He apparently was not able to point to any reference supporting such. Ironically, he co-authored a study that indicated that the majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic, that started in 1918, was due to pneumonia. Although masks were not mentioned in the study, the reader could tell that the problems that contributed to strengthening of pneumonia and the weakening of the immune system implicated the wearing of masks during that pandemic. Enjoy your weekend.
Category: Open thread
FIRST
congrats.
here you go.
Thank you.
The 5 second rule…RULES! Way to go Tox, another win for (GO) Army (WE BEAT NAVY)! Sending CongRats your way.
Hack Stone will be financing a documentary exposing the vast chicken wing conspiracy to defraud him of First Commenter for Weekend Open Thread. Working title is “2000 Jackasses”. Guaranteed to be more successful at the box office than AOC’s recent documentary.
Oh, Hack of Stone, and King of Battle, BOW before my Magnificence. Once again (for maybe the second or third time ever), I have scaled the lofty heights to seize the WoT crown and scepter.
“So let it be written, so shall it be done”
Actually, counting today’s ascendancy to the Throne, you have scored a total of five (5) WOT “Firsts”.
Your previous Firsts occurred on 13 May 22, 29 Jul 22, 29 Aug 22, and 21 Oct 22.
All Hail The entries in the Coveted Book of FIRST and the Keeper there of…Claw Daddy! ALL HAIL!
Cat’s heads, stogies, and top shelf imbibles for all.
The bar is open!
*Slaps down a sawbuck on the bar*
Whiskey, my good man. Keep it coming until the cash runs out. Then we’ll rinse and repeat until I tip over.
That’s no way to leave a tip.
Now, back to my keyboard pounding rant on the other post about the AZ border.
If you will excuse me, gents, I have business to conduct and continue.
Wow. Rats of the Cong at cha, Tox
Just checking in WAY late….had many gyrations going on today and was on the road at 3. Oh well.
SMOOCHES TOX and love to all this weekend before the holiday weekend.
As is my self imposed Friday doody…
I give you your weekly ammo prices. Bout the same as last week.
CIAO Bella!
I identify with being first. Please don’t step all over my imaginative reality.
Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8-Ball, will America’s weeklong nightmare of suffering under the rule of Roh-Dog as First Commenter for This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread come to a quick and righteous end, and the true and just ruler Hack Stone be restored to the throne?
Magic 8-Ball says….
Missed it by a fraction of a second.
When I am (next) king
You will be first against the wall
With your opinion
Which is of no consequence at all
NSFW: cartoon chesticles and Thom Yorke screams
When I am (next) king
You will be first against the wall
With your opinion
Which is of no consequence at all
NSFW: cartoon chesticles and Thom Yorke screams
(repost as I may have fat fingered. feel free to delete one/both/all/neither/wahtever)
1st
“Third” herd
Regardless whether wearing a face mask would have any effect on preventing the transmission of COVID, when 99% of the people wearing a mask have it underneath their nose, it really doesn’t matter.
5th I guess. I was out trolololing and missed the WOT.
Tox wins the coveted FIRST in the WOT! So, to celebrate, I think I’ll deposit this week’s trivia column. Enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Did a man build his own sports car in the basement of his home?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
I’d planned to start this column off with my annual letter to Santa Claus, but I received another correction to an error in a previous column, and in the interest of accuracy I must make things right!
Besides, Santa already knows what I want for Christmas. Nice baubles for the people who mean most to me, and peace on Earth for everyone else.
My error concerned the layout of the “Qwerty” keyboards we use in typewriters and computers. I said the “Qwerty” layout was designed to slow typists down since they were doing so well with alphabetical layouts.
But my good friend John said such was not the case, and alphabetical layouts are actually slower, and another friend said they jammed the keys. So I stand corrected once again.
When you catch a goof, let me know, please! On to this week’s trivia …
Did you know …
… the term “third world country” did not originally mean a poor land? During the Cold War, the term was first used to speak of nations that did not align with either the United States (“first world”) or the Soviet Union (“second world”). (Now we have to wonder what a “fourth world” country would be.)
… a particular species of caterpillar has a unique way of avoiding being eaten? The caterpillars of the berry butterflies of Singapore group around the top of a stem. The ploy foils predatory birds, because the group gives the appearance of a poisonous berry. (Hey, whatever works!)
Liberia is a “fourth world” country– its neighboring third world countries will let you know that.
The shithole of the A-stan comes in about 13’Th world as far as I’m concerned.
Nuke the whole place and let the oil companies drill for free.
Godspeed to all those lost in that place…
Adam Wolff, Eldon, Iowa, KIA 6-22-2014, IED, Helmand Province Afghanistan.
Godspeed to all those lost in this time of trouble.
Well, the ‘dipole*’ world is about to get a whole lotta bipolar-er.
*to the extent currently or historically it does/did exist
Chicago?
That’s my home town you’re talking about, stranger.
The fact that you happen to be right doesn’t make it any less my home town, of course.
… you may suffer from amathophobia? If you do, you probably have a very clean house. Amathophobia is the fear of dust. (I wonder what the fear of actually dusting a place is called? It seems I have it.)
… the land speed record on the Moon is 10.56 miles per hour? The record was set on December 13, 1972, by astronauts Eugene Cernan (1934-2017) and Harrison Schmitt (born 1935) during the Apollo 17 mission. The two were in the Lunar Rover traversing the countryside of our natural satellite, and when the speed record was set the men were going downhill while carrying a heavy cargo of lunar rocks. (They could have gone as fast as they wanted to. The nearest traffic cop was 250,000 miles away.)
Bet that hit golfball traveled faster!
… it’s always best to have a plan? Consider if you will the case of Ken Imhoff (1923-2016) of Wisconsin. Imhoff had long loved sports cars, and in 1990 he decided to build one of his own – a Lamborghini, no less. Imhoff spent the next 17 years building a Lamborghini Countach from scratch in his basement. Finishing the car in 2007, he found himself confronted with a small problem – getting the car out of the basement. Not one to be easily dissuaded – after all, he’d built his own sports car – Imhoff solved the problem in a very direct manner. He had a hole knocked into the side of his house so he could drive his hand-built vehicle out. Additional trivia note: Imhoff sold the car after a while, realizing that maintaining it was a pretty expensive task. He netted $89,000 for it. (That would just be enough to fix the hole in the side of the house, I reckon.)
… male orb-weaver spiders give the females back rubs? While this may sound like a nice, romantic gesture, there’s more to it than that – the males do this so the females don’t eat them. (Guys, take note of this.)
… a popular trivia game was invented by two men who wanted to play something else? One day in 1981, Canadian residents Chris Haney (1950-2010) and Scott Abbott (born 1955) planned to play a game of Scrabble™ and, while setting up the game, realized that some of the pieces were missing. They decided to create their own game, which they called Trivial Pursuit™. (Thus starting the trivia revolution which I perpetuate weekly!)
… the average American man spends 2,965 hours of his life shaving? (Does this imply that the average American doesn’t have a beard?)
I cheerfully report that I significantly lower that number – having not shaved for better than three decades.
… a housekeeper for Walt Disney became a millionaire? When Disney (1901-1965) hired Thelma Howard (1914-1994) as his housekeeper and cook in 1951, he gave her annual Christmas gifts of stock in the Disney company. Howard never sold the shares, and by the time she left the employ of the Disney family in 1981, those shares of stock were worth more than $9 million.
… a hungry wolf can eat up to 20 pounds of meat in a single meal? To put that into perspective, that’s the same as a human eating one hundred hamburgers at a sitting. (J. Wellington Wimpy would beg to argue with that.)
… a German word packs a real punch? The word Backpfeifengesicht is a literal term for a face that badly needs a punch. (Frankly, whoever coined that word has one.)
… a great architect was insulted by a king who did not mean to do so? In 1711, as work on St. Paul’s Cathedral in London was wrapping up, King George I (1660-1727) told the architect, Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), that the work was “aweful” and “artificial.” Wren took offense at the king’s comments, but George was not trying to be insulting. George, who at that time spoke limited English (his first language was German), meant “aweful” to mean “awe-inspiring,” and “artificial” to mean “full of great art.” (It lost a little in the translation, I suppose.)
… sixteen percent of people forget their wedding anniversaries? (Wonder what percentage of that is men?)
… female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other? The only exception to that is during their mating season. (And … ?)
Now … you know!
“A popular trivia book is available on the ‘Zon…and some space stories too!” FIFY CW Another fine job, Good Sir!
Many, many thanks, King!
My pronouns are Liberty/Ordeath.
Have a great weekend y’all.
On station.
This is what Lars was referring to yesterday; humorous on several levels.
Which thread was he bawling on this time?
Mason’s unabashed plug for his book, which I’ll re-post here:
Still looking for a last minute XMas gift? We have you covered! : This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here (valorguardians.com)
Xmas (sic) gifts thread
All in all, I think it’d be humorous if it was some “Jersey Shore” asshole hawking NFTs of their ‘likeness’. A former POTUS who is running for office again? That’s just sad.
He also claimed to be a better President than Washington or Lincoln in the announcement for these. Know who is finding it absolutely hysterical though? Ron DeSantis. What a gift from Trump to him!
Well, you can get the reality set.
I once again award myself Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
And now, ON with the Weekend!!!
Today’s “woke” military moment: OMG, we need beards for “Truman moment” racial justice:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-another-truman-moment-military-161958393.html
Pedos will be the next thing:
True!
He was a bad dude who ran a group of bad boys.
And one from Lars’s heroes.
🤭🤣😅😂
Stolen.
I’m jumping in here with Sniffy Joe too.
Off topic?
Perhaps
Needed?
“You be the judge.” —Paul Harrell
Ole Joey Boy’s Non-Binary Nuclear Waste worker Sam Brinton new pronouns are now Un/Employed.
And yes, he does resemble Matt Damon…
😂😅🤣🤭
Dinesh D’Souza mocked Briton by inquiring:
“Is Sam Briton the first non-binary official to be fired by the US government for theft? Since we’re keeping track of these amazing historical “firsts,” I thought I would inquire about this one”
😉😎👏👏👏
Well, at least he admitted he embellished/lied about his Vietnam service…
“Pastor Admits He Embellished Vietnam Service In Veterans Day Story”
https://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/st
ory/news/local/2022/11/20/pastor-admits-he-embellished-vietnam-service-in-veterans-day-story/69659866007/
“Soldiers for Christ Pastor Gene Mathias admitted he embellished his service in Vietnam to the Eagle-Gazette for a Veterans Day story.”
“He apologized for being untruthful, but he said this is not a case of stolen valor.”
“I have a lot of flight hours,” Mathias, a Berne Union High School graduate, said. “I needed not to embellish anything. I will accept the fact that the story was stretched, but I will not accept the title of stolen valor.”
“In the Nov. 11 story Mathias said he was combat helicopter pilot who was shot down 28 times. He is now saying he lied about being a pilot.”
*Continue*
*Continue*
“I was a crew chief not a pilot,” he said. “Someone suggested it and I went along with it, but I was only a crew chief.”
“Mathias also said he borrowed part of a friend’s story to claim as his own regarding his military service. He said he was shot down and was injured during the war, though. Mathias also said a helicopter he
was on did get hit with an arrow and the pilot landed the aircraft as it was leaking fuel, which he called being shot down.”
“Mathias said there were only two aircraft that his crew had to leave in the battlefield that could not fly.”
“So again, maybe I stretched the truth but we were out of the battle,” he said. “That was shot down.”
“Mathias said he had to set the record straight because he’s a minister.”
“My Lord tells me that a liar will never get to heaven, so it must be gotten straight,” he said.”
The original story/lie/embellishment that Mathias told the Lancaster Eagle Gazette:
“BU Grad Gene Mathias Talks About Horrors Of Combat In Vietnam As Gunship Pilot”
https://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/story/news/local/2022/11/11/bu-grad-talks-about-horrors-of-combat-in-vietnam-as-helicopter-pilot/69627089007/
“Soldiers for Christ Ministry Pastor Gene Mathias knows all about the horrors of war. The Berne Union High School graduate was a U.S. Army combat helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War and was shot down 28 times.”
“Some people would hate me because I tell them that I loved what I was doing, so I had fun,” Mathias said. “I tried not to look at it as war. But in actuality, the best way I can say it is that it was hours of boredom interspersed with instances of sheer terror. We were probably never more closer to death, but never more alive.”
*Continue*
“Mathias served in Vietnam from November 1965 to July 1968 and acquired 4,800 combat hours of flying time and spent his 19th, 20th and 21st birthday there.”
“He was wounded seven times but never pursued a Purple Heart medal. Mathias said he’s still dealing with the ramifications of his war injuries, including a recent cancer surgery he said came from shrapnel so many years ago. Mathias said he was also exposed to Agent Orange which he said has led to eight heart surgeries.”
“His first mission was on Nov. 8, 1965, as an 18-year-old. He flew the Huey helicopter gunship, which has become synonymous with the Vietnam War.”
*Continue*
Made it through flight school and arrived in Viet of the Nam in less than a year. Impressive. 🙄
“That’s the mission that the country duo of Big and Rich sing about (“8th of November”), the 173rd Airborne being annihilated,” Mathias said of his initial mission. “We had carried them out into the field. We lost three helicopters in front of me and ended up with a ground troop’s head on my windshield. They sent me home for convalescence because it just destroyed this little country boy.”
“Mathias was only sent home twice during his tour of duty. The second time was in 1967, when he married his wife, Alice,. They are still married today.”
“I didn’t like her cooking so I went back over there for another 18 months,” Mathias said.”
“He was training to be a pilot for National Airlines in New York when he was drafted. He then drove to Lancaster and enlisted in army aviation. He said flying was in his blood and something he wanted to do as a child.”
*Continue*
“Mathias said he had a private pilot license when sent to Vietnam and that he didn’t want to march through a rice paddy there.”
“I flew a gunship, so we never went out unless we were in combat,” he said. “I felt invincible at that age. I just felt invincible because I could get away from the fight. But I had armament to protect me as I was firing. Little did we know how bad things could go.”
“Mathias said many things would go through his head when his aircraft was hit and hurtling to the ground.”
“But when you get right down to reality, you don’t have time to think” he said. “All you have time to do is react. You do everything you can to keep from a total crash. You don’t have a whole lot of time to think, but yet a whole lot of things go through your head.”
“As for his faith, Mathias said he was a baby Christian during the war. He said his faith was manifested and amplified in Vietnam.”
*Continue*
“I became a firm believer when I went through the windshield of another aircraft and went through windshield and landed upside down in a rice paddy,” he said. “I decided that God had something for me to do, because I went through the still turning rotor blades. Came home in December and was baptized in the Hocking River Dec. 24, 1966, and became a lay speaker in 2000.”
“While it’s been decades since Mathias flew combat missions in Vietnam, he found one of his old helicopters in Branson, Missouri, at a military museum this summer. He had photographic proof it was his helicopter with one photo showing it upside down with 300 bullet holes in it.”
“It had been damaged enough in ’66 that they brought it home here to be rebuilt,” Mathias said. “It had been rebuilt and put in front of the military museum. It was Bandit 2. My gunships were called the Bandits. That was our platoon name and I happened to be on Bandit 2, and that’s the one they’ve got in front of the museum.”
‘Shutdown 28 times’, lived to talk about it, and was given a chance to ‘go back up’?
Yeah, no.
We had a dude git hit twice in within a week with IEDs and that guy was radio/TOC duty for a month.
The juju speaks and you fucking listen.
I believe he was shut down 28 times. I will never believe he was shot down in a helicopter 28 times. I don’t believe there was any crewman in any aircraft shot down 28 times.
“…not a case of stolen valor.” Welp, that’s another lie “Preacher Man” told. I don’t think Red Adair hisself could put out the fire in this dudes pants. The Souls of all of the Sky Soldiers will be awaiting you in a double lined gauntlet. May your Eternity in Hell be trying to get thru that to the Final Judge.
And Lawrence Joel will be there to resuscitate him for some additional ass-whoopin’.
Total bullshit. How about we FOIA his ass?
So, a commercial airline was training him to be a pilot when he musta been 17. I don’t think so.
I call bullshit on his hit with an arrow story. I had one of those Montanyard crossbows. It didn’t have enough power to penetrate a cardboard box at fifteen feet.
Can we say‘asp whole’?
Has anybody watched AOC’s new climate change pron?
Looks like effective money laundering for her.
Missed it by 58
Present and unaccounted for.
Got out of prison a little early today – but trying to teach inmates the Friday afternoon before Christmas break is just as fruitless an effort as trying to teach children in public school just before break.
A couple want to learn, the rest want to dance in the aisles.
Y’all have a great weekend.
Another Army one-star seemingly steps in it.
Army general faulted by inspector general for White House misconduct (armytimes.com)
-Promote above peers
-Maintains a highly motivated work environment
-Constantly strives for excellence, from self and subordinates
HEY, YA-KNOW, maybe we just need to send a peaceful polka-packed message to fatty-‘lil Kim-Cheese in North Korea to not try-ta nuke us and everything will be okay, just relax and enjoy some “Weird Al” Yankovic …
“Weird Al” Yankovic – The North Korea Polka – YouTube
FAUCI IS MY GOD AND TEH SCIENCE IS MY BIBLE!!!
Time for me to get my 27th jab and change out my triple layer mask!!!
A triple layer flask, I’m in.
A triple layer flask? You mean one that will hold this?
Well the Repubs got the Vax Mandate removed from the DOD. They had to threaten to kill the Defense Bill and F. Joe Biden screamed and cried but it sailed on through. There is also $10B for Taiwan to play “military build up game” with China over the next 5 years.
The “everyone gets a trophy” kids are now in college. Now they want everyone to get an “A”, even if they don’t show up for class…
https://www.foxnews.com/media/students-expensive-new-york-university-occupy-campus-demand-grades-everyone
Orwell missed that one. It would’ve been too stupid.
Merry Christmas.
(with instrumental Jingle Bells)
Full disclosure, I ain’t a Catholic. (but my Boss might be) So If I offend, please don’t take it personally.
Via CFP:
It seems he’s been a thorn in the side to those who’d go-along-to-get-along for some time:
Other than ‘pissing off the terrestrial chain of command’ seems like he’s broke a couple serious no-nos by backing and ‘campaigning for’ PDJT.
I can’t but help think if you’re attempting to get asses in pews, wouldn’t you want some press; good, bad, indifferent?
It seems The Holy See might be DoDing itself in the rectory over feelingspolitik.
let’s see how this plays out for them
The Souls of unnecessarily murdered Babies will be in the Jury Box. The Judge of the proceedings has a favorite saying; “vengeance is mine.”
Always will be His.
Heard there’s a Book about that!
Father Frank out of fucks to give. (NSFW: language and descriptions, images of baby-murder)
The current resident of the Vatican is just as legitimate as FJB.. He’s a socialist, not a man of God, and he proves it with most all of his utterances..
Well, I’m a lapsed Catholic but I ain’t offended. I consider myself a Catholic who is boycotting a corrupt institution. The current pope is an abomination, which is why I believe the Jesuit order should be dissolved. Bunch of leftist proponents of liberation theology, which is heretical and puts a Christian cover on leftist, globalist plans.
Haven’t seen this one here before, and it made me laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY0eUQ06Q2g
You want his guns? Come and take them libs.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) takes it in ass.
Blatantly stolen from another blog. Dust Bunny/allergy alert. Better get a beach towel, hanky won’t do it.
https://dont-sir-me.blogspot.com/2022/12/always-keep-them-in-your-hearts.html