Weekend Open Thread
In the 1980s, Yuri Bezmenov participated in an interview. He was a former KGB agent. During the interview, he talked about the Soviet propaganda campaign working through American fronts. Their intent was to incrementally subvert the United States. This subversion included indoctrination and propaganda that would lead people to a certain point to where they would not change their minds even if presented with the facts.
Bezmenov used the metaphor of a banana. E.g., you show the person a banana, tell them it is a banana, and this individual will insist on it being something else. We have seen an example of that here. Instead of a banana, people are shown the reflection on an aircraft contradicting the image that the aircraft is in. There are individuals out there who will insist that the manipulated image is authentic, despite the contradiction between the aircraft’s reflection and what is shown near the aircraft.
Thankfully, most commentators still see the banana as a banana. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
FIRST
KAAAA-BOOOOOOOM! Talk about The Luck of The Irish…The King of Battle…THE King of FIRST done snuck in here and scored hisself another FIRST on the Vaunted EARNED NEVER AWARDED TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread FIRST! How sweet it is! (ht2 “The Great One”) Had just come back in from checking the vast chicken wings smoking on the pecan wood coals, opened up Mr. Chromie and WHUMP!!!, there it was, just sitting there…orphaned, looking for someone to come along and make claim to the title. There will be pizza, homemade cookies and the vast array of refreshing beverages available for all hands. It is good to be the King!
Take THAT!, you Stoned Hacker. Gimme back my Crown and Trappings!
Congrats To The King of Battle!
31 August…Dawgs Against Tigers.
31 August….RTR Against Hilltoppers.
30 August….Black Knights Against Hawks.
gabn/gabaf/hbtd/rtr
Tanks!, ninja…and Welcome Home. Still not sure if your inherwebz is receiving as it should, you are transmitting, I had received your last and replied to same.
I predict a clean sweep for that weekend…and a successful season for all of “Our Boys”. Full disclosure…I will root for Kid Squid’s (ht2 Ol’ Poe) swabbies every weekend but one.
gabn/gabaf/rtr/hbtd
Here’s you a vast plate of smoked chicken wings, pizza pie, some cookies, orange sherbet, and a pitcher of The House Wine…Sweet Iced Tea.
BTW…We just received in the mail a Georgia Peach Pie…the crust is made from lard…LARD…(smile) The pie has been a popular item to order on line…we were on a waiting list and finally received it today…Guess what we are having for dessert tonite…Yum! Yum! Yum!
gabn/gabaf/hbtd/rtr
A little ice cream to go on top?
26Limabeans…
How did you know…😉😎
Vanilla…REAL Vanilla Ice Cream with Vanilla Beans…
Wish McDonalds would bring back those french fries made with Tallow Fat…🫡
French fries cooked in tallow fat….Heart Attack Grill used to do that.
Somebody once told me about someplace he went in Europe where people were eating fries out of a paper cone cup that were absolutely DELICIOUS, and when he asked what their secret was, he got told they were fried in LARD! Look at any pictures of people from the days when they still fried things in animal fat versus today with the seed oils and look at the proportion of overweight people!
Ice Cream, how about the Pearls
singing “Ice Cream Baby” 1957
on the Onyx/relic label
Peach pie…nothing better…unless it’s a peach cobbler! There were air crews bringing aircraft into RAFB that would arrange to arrive on a Tuesday or Thursday in order to get the peach cobbler at Owens Boarding House on the menu for those days. See the linkys in my comment on today’s FGS Thread.
Sister M_____ out in Nebraska just received her a box of fresh Georgia Peaches from an old family orchard that’s been around since the 1890s.
https://gapeaches.com/
Here’s another place that does a good job… since 1885. Been to both, good folks…
https://pearsonfarm.com/
gabn/gabaf/rtr/hbtd
What at in the state? Kin ya marrero it down a bit? You not eatin all that pie yo self now, ar you? Want me to come help?
Did you buy your chicken wings from a former school cook in Chicago?
Been missin’ ya’, ninja.
Praying all is well with you and yours, and welcome home.
WHUMP is RIGHT. KOB Strikes again…and DAMN that 3:00 pm thingie is right out the fkcking window.
OK so it’s whenever which keeps us on our toes.
FIRST 15th or something to that effect.
Fabulous Fuckery Friday COMMENSE!!! .
Days are getting shorter. Don’t forget to set your
TAH clock back one hour.
You only got frocked for FIRST. Gotta finish the training to maintain it.
Training? We don’t need no steenkin’ training! I got more time as King of FIRST than Tampon Timmy had on active duty.
That’s probably chronologically correct! Give yourself an ARCOM!
Quite a diversion that you set up to distract Hack Stone on his way to Frantic City this afternoon for follow up treatment of his Dippydoodleitis. Traffic was tied up on one of the main highways. When Hack came upon the situation, a large truck carrying recyclable aluminum cans spilled its load all over the road. Never one to pass an opportunity to diversify the portfolio of the proud but humble woman owned business, Hack started rounding up stray cans until the New Jersey State Troopers chased him off. Almost recovered enough to buy a mailbox door.
Shoulda took them stray cans to Paul Pigalousy. He coulda hammered you out a new mailbox door in no time.
Damn, so close
Probably closer than the one (1) minute difference the time stamp show, Fyr. I blinked a time or more when it opened to confirm I was seeing what I thought I saw, then scrolled down to see if there were any comments. Fat fingered the “Be the first to comment” icony, fat fingered typing FIRST (twice), then fat fingered the “Post Comment” button. Then the circle circle circle for the comment to load. The God of FIRSTs smiled upon me today. “Ain’t no doubt about it I was doubly blessed…”
This random drop time is gonna get real tricky…Prepare!
Yep, was reading about the parade the goat f@#kers held for biden / harris, and missed the drop..
Third … sigh.
The Lovely Lois Lane can be such a distraction, can’t she?
You don’t know the half of it, my friend.
“My Friend,” , by the Strangers 1954 on the King record label
The second one for me, she looks like a combination of “That sweet Babe next door” combined with the Naughty Librarian I’d let tie me up and make me write bad checks!
Write bad checks? Hell I’d give her my debit card and PIN #.
RuhRo! Time to take you drunk, you’re home.
She was delightful, at least in my imagination. Despite begging me to wear a black leather cape and spurs. Poor darlin’ nearly choked to death.
Did Annette ever do that roll?
Not Annette Funicello?
The very one, my hearts throb back in the 50s!
3rd place. my best
The King of Battle returns to the throne, and I hope Hack Stone left the throne room in at least acceptable condition. To celebrate his return, I humbly offer trivia. Enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Is a well-known logic problem named after a game show host?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2024
Good grief, we’re almost halfway through the month of August!
You know what that means, right?
That means it’s time to start planning for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Okay, I’m just kidding. That means it’s time to get out and enjoy what’s left of the summer, because in just over a month from now, summer will be over, and fall will be upon us.
This speed-up of time is really starting to get to me. How about you?
The only thing that anchors me in reality is this weekly dive into the trivia vault … which I am pleased to share with you right now. Enjoy!
Did you know …
… the paint color “mummy brown” actually contained parts of mummies? The shade was popular during the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was made with ground-up remains of ancient Egyptians whose mummies had been unearthed. The supply of mummies dried up (see what I did there?) in the 1960s and production of the pigment stopped. (Boris Karloff and Brendan Fraser are probably happy “mummy brown” isn’t available any more.)
… a man’s wife cannot speak the same language he does in one African nation? The farming village of Ubang, in Nigeria, has two languages used – one by men, and one by women. This doesn’t mean there is no understanding, though. Men understand the language used by the women, and the women understand the men’s language. This is because boys grow up speaking women’s language, since they spend so much time with their mothers, and girls learn the language of the men by hanging around with them as well. At the age of maturity, however, the individual switches to the “correct” language in order to get along in Ubang society. (Gives a whole new meaning to “my wife doesn’t understand me,” doesn’t it?)
… a Japanese delicacy is actually poisonous? Fugu, or blowfish, is served at restaurants in Japan and Hong Kong, but diners are warned that they are eating the fish at their own risk. The blowfish contains deadly amounts of a poison known as tetrodotoxin, which is 500 times more deadly than cyanide. Yes, people do die each year from eating the fish, and yes, it continues to be a special delicacy anyway. (A meal to die for, I suppose.)
… man’s best friend is also a master manipulator? If you have or have had dogs, you already know this. But in 2017, a study found that dogs make so-called “puppy eyes” and other facial expressions when they know that humans are watching. Shelter dogs, especially, show this trait, as the “puppy eyes” go a long way toward getting humans to adopt them, more so than tail wagging. (That explains a lot.)
In Old-Time Korea, the men spoke both Chinese and Korean while the Women were only allowed to know Korean. That way, if the Men wanted to discuss anything they didn’t want the Women to know about, they switched to speaking Chinese.
Believe I read that you have to be licensed to serve blowfish, as the prep process is very precise and any variance is potentially lethal.
Yet people still die, every year.
Government oversight has its limits.
… a well-known problem in logic is named after a game show host? Suppose you are on a game show, in which you have a choice of three doors. One of the doors has a new car behind it, and the other two have goats. You pick door number one, and the host opens door number two to show you a goat. (It doesn’t really matter which door of the other two he opens, I just use two for this example.) You have a choice – do you keep door one, or switch to door three? This is called the Monty Hall Problem, named after Hall (1921-2017) who hosted the popular program Let’s Make a Deal for many years. Getting back to the problem – do you switch? You might think that it makes no difference, as the odds of winning the car went from 1-in-3 to 1-in-2. But you actually have a better chance of winning the car if you switch than if you don’t. (You’ll have to consult someone who speaks math to explain the rest of it.)
… a name exists for the “space” from which a cartoon character pulls something he didn’t have earlier? Say, for example, in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, Jerry the mouse swats Tom the cat over the head with a tennis racket he didn’t have a few seconds before. Where did the racket come from? Animators call this area “hammerspace.” (I loved Tom’s howls when Jerry did things like that!)
… a pig was once executed for murder? In 1386, the village of Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, held a trial for a pig. The pig was accused of attacking a baby and biting it so viciously that the baby died. The pig was sent to jail and, after a trial in which it could not provide a solid defense of its actions, was found guilty and executed. (I guess the pig wasn’t about to squeal on itself.)
“hammerspace”, eh?
Is that also what Paul Pelosi calls his domicile when Nancy is out of town?
STOP! Hammer time!
… a celebrated children’s show host always mentioned that he was feeding his fish? Fred Rogers (1928-2003), star of the classic Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, would always tell viewers when he was feeding his fish after he received a letter from a blind child asking him to do so. The child wanted to make sure the fish were all right.
… a large tea and a regular tea at a coffee shop are the same thing? Bear with me a moment. If you order “large tea” you get a large glass of tea. If you order “regular” you get a smaller glass. Both glasses use only one tea bag; the difference is how much water is added. (Hey, wait a minute …)
… people say “bless you” when you sneeze for a reason? Originally, it was from the Middle Ages, when a sneeze was often the first sign of bubonic plague. Offering the “bless you” was thought to invoke spiritual protection from plague germs. (It didn’t work, but they kept doing it.)
… supercooled helium defies gravity, just like its gaseous counterpart? If you take helium and cool it down to about 4.2 Kelvin (just above absolute zero), it becomes a liquid and stays in its container. But make it just a little cooler, say 2 Kelvin, it actually climbs out of the beaker against the pull of gravity. It’s called a superfluid at those temperatures. (It’s also called cold.)
Now … you know!
Ahchoo, ahchoo we all fall down.
Another fine job on the trivia, CW. We are blessed to have this every week. Now…if we could just get Book Three….
When ever I think of “Hot August Nights” for some reason Mr. Neil Diamond comes to mind. I look forward to Autumn…The Fall?…not so much. Prepare
Feed fish with crickets and worms…then filet them rascals and deep fry them in hot oil…Honey infused Hush Puppies and cold slaw on the side.
After the execution was the pig the main course for the dinner on the grounds? He woulda been here. Bless him and pass the dipping sauce.
Whenever I had to travel to the North (shudder) or the west, I always had to order a cup of hot tea, a glass of ice water and a glass of ice. Then and only then could I have me a glass of sweet iced tea to go with my meal.
Iffen I could get a chance to bat my puppy dog eyes at OAM, I’m sure she would want to adopt me. I cook too, you know. My overall skilz would leave The Chipster out in the cold!
But wouldn’t you have to travel to the (shudder) north if OAM adopted you? I believe someone once said she was from or near someplace not remotely south.
Hopefully, she isn’t eating or drinking as she reads this.
As hot as she is, she would keep me warm. And some sacrifices are worth the reward.
Just sayin’…
If I remember, 1 glass of sweet iced tea contains roughly 2 cups of sugar…
Only if it’s an 8oz glass, ‘D. A 12oz glass would be three (3) cups…4 if you put a lemon slice in it.
I never can remember the correct ratio. My buddy from ‘Bama would just keep pouring sugar in until it would no longer dissolve
If you get the right Southern Belle to mix it for you, ‘D, she can just stir the ice around with her little finger to sweeten it up.
Just got finish reading this Army Times article.
What do you all think of the article?
To the besig: Perhaps you can make this an entry on TAH for comments?
“Trump Belittles Medal of Honor Award In Campaign Speech”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2024/08/16/trump-belittles-medal-of-honor-award-in-campaign-speech/
“Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a “better” award than the Defense Department’s Medal of Honor because service members have to sacrifice their lives or health to receive the military’s highest honor, the latest in a series of controversial campaign comments from the Republican presidential candidate.”
It would seem that the intent is that receiving the Medal of Freedom is “better ” because one doesn’t need to sacrifice their health or life.. I get what he probably meant, but a damn stupid way to say it.. President Trump should be better.
Fyrfighter:
Thank You for the feedback!
Was wondering if the Army Times misconstrued what President Trump said.
Or as you stated, “a damn stupid way to say it..”
We cringed when we read that article…
Thank You again!
Army Times will misconstrue anything Trump says because they are all lefty propagandists pretending to be journalists. I figured that out about forty years ago. None of them have ever served in the military or combat, so far as I am aware.
Sounds like PDJT needs to be educated on the differences between the two
We really wished he had not said that…We understand what Fyrfighter said..We are still rooting for him to become our 47th President…
We are now afraid the Army Times article will be used as a weapon against him…
Sigh…
No doubt that it will. The left has nothing to run on but attacking him. Would be very nice if he’d quit giving them ammo that their low info voters will eat up.
Agreed. I understand the point he was attempting to make, but it’s a point that was probably best left alone. He just opened a yuge door that’s gonna have a metric shit-ton of criticism flowing through it.
SFC D and Fyrfighter..
Yep. You both nailed it.
And yet, when Biden made all those boo-boos, the left had nothing to say (but they still threw him under Kam’s yellow school bus).
*Sigh*
P.S. to SFC D: Who knew you and I were stationed in Italy during OEF…(“Walz’s Bagram Air Base in Italy”)…🤣😅😆
Actually, one of us ninja family member was assigned to an airborne unit in Vicenza, Italy while the other family member did several TDY trips there…😉😎
I had a few days in Vicenza during a Partnership for Peace exercise in Albania, 1996. Worked with SETAF and 173rd in Tirana. I think we outnumbered the Albanian Army about 3 to 1.
SFC D:
The US Army is indeed a small world.
Thank You so much for sharing your experience in Vicenza!
Vincenza was where the two infantry battalions of the 509th PIR were repositioned from Lee Barracks in Mainz, Germany, my first duty station after five months of schools. Those two battalions were the rapid reaction force of the 8th ID’s First Airborne Brigade.
I’m inclined to think that if Biden made these comments, the reaction would be the verbal equivalent of nuclear here, not the lukewarm, “Well, he shouldn’t have said it, but I get what he meant..”. Biases work both ways. 😉
I also noticed, ninja, that you haven’t weighed in on thebesig’s ridiculous theory that the crowd at Harris’s hangar rally was fake / AI.
I intend to address his utter lack of understanding about reflections when I get more time, but I do have a good amount of respect for you, across our political differences, to look for truth. I don’t wish to put you on the spot, but I’d be very curious to hear what you see.
If Biden had said it, nobody would’ve understood his words, intent, or thought process.
SOON!
LC: I’m inclined to think that if Biden made these comments, the reaction would be the verbal equivalent of nuclear here, not the lukewarm, “Well, he shouldn’t have said it, but I get what he meant..”. Biases work both ways. This is a spectacularly false statement. I have come across statements made by Joe Biden, and by other Democrats, where they said something that gave people ammunition to criticize him. However, when I checked the actual context, including full text, I saw the actual context and didn’t either criticize him on the conservative social media site where I saw this, or talk about here. As with everything else you’ve said on this post, and with others, you are making assumptions. LC: I also noticed, ninja, that you haven’t weighed in on thebesig’s ridiculous theory that the crowd at Harris’s hangar rally was fake / AI. Don’t dismiss cold, hard, FACTS, that AI was used to fill in the gaps to make it look like the Harris crowds were larger than what they actually were, as “ridiculous theory”, quotation marks used strongly. It is not a “theory”, but proven fact. LC: I intend to address his utter lack of understanding about reflections when I get more time, WRONG! First, scrutinizing details in the environment including objects, reflections, etc., is a military trait, used not just in a combat environment, but in regular operational or training environments such as maritime and land navigation. Second, I generate AI images, many of them used along with my blog articles here, others used on social media elsewhere. The AI characteristics jump out like a sore thumb. Third, doing realistic oil paintings happen to be one of my hobbies, I deal with lighting and reflections to present a realistic picture. Additionally, if you watch the video from the link that MarineDad61 left on the other thread, it’s plainly obvious that the area surrounding the airplane was quiet, the closest crowd noise coming from the concert occurring in one of the hangers. If you watch Kamala Harris’s reflection on the skin of the aircraft, as she deplanes… Read more »
He has to say this stuff in the right way as you said along with the same thing that was mentioned on my radio program.
But never is… Articulate under pressure he ain’t
Sometimes his public speaking is straight stream-of-consciousness, and while it’s definitely entertaining, it ain’t always the best thing politically. As opposed to Joe Biden, who lacks enough consciousness to read the teleprompter.
Yep. His shit to lose.
Loose. My bad.
You can rest assured that this will be taken out of context and twisted to “fit the narrative” of…ORANGE MAN BAD!
Hey Donnie Boy! Don’t run on your record and don’t make any speeches. Run on HER (lack of) record.
Writing speeches for context and comprehension is not that hard. Done it and made them many a’time myself. Some speech writer did a piss poor job on their wording of this.
I don’t know that it’s “better”, but it’s for damn sure “safer”.
Stopped believing anything the Army Enquirer said a while ago– they’d be more interesting with stories about Bat Boy or aliens.
Here’s a slightly longer video of the comments if you like:
Have a great weekend y’all!
And remember, no one is coming to save you.
Back to the salt mine.
Jesus saves….
Yes, He Does…
But Gretzky scores on the rebound!
He shoots! He scores! Hey goalie!
Not 1st again.
Bill Engvall had “Here’s your sign” to warn people not to ask questions because you were stupid and would you give stupid answers. My neighbor should not be let out of her house without the sign. She couldn’t start her car, so she asked me what I thought was wrong. I told her she’d flooded it (she has an old car), she asked what that meant; I told her what it meant and to wait a while for the excess gas too evaporate.
A few moments later I saw her siphoning gas out of her tank. I asked her what she was doing; she sneered at me that I was the one who told her she had too much gas in the system and she was draining out the excess.
Here’s your sign.
Did you ask her if the golf ball made it through the hose?
Clorox would have to go on overtime to create enough brain bleach to wash out that image.
Funny you should mention that….
Okay, Hack made it over the Maryland State Line into the Republic of Biden, AKA Delaware. Crawling along in the right lane of I-95 along with the thousands of other vehicles trying to get the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Look over to the left, and one lane over is white vehicle being driven by an older woman who looks like she still wants Hillary as President. Front passenger seat is a young man, maybe late teens/early twenties. Looking at his cell phone with his right foot resting on the dashboard. Hack motions to the driver, and she (eventually) lowers her window. Hack says to the teenager “You know, if that airbag deploys, it’s going to rip your leg off.” His response? “I know.” Well, unless he is trying to score a handicapped placard, why would he put his leg on the dashboard? Where’s his fucking sign?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-painful-crash-mom-warns-passengers-to-keep-feet-off-of-the-dashboard/
There is switch on my dash to turn off the passenger side
airbag. Always wondered why no option for the driver.
I think Hack is on to something here.
Lady calls her husband and says her car won’t start and the carb may be flooded so the husband says where is the car now and the wife says, I’m in the lake.
Top ten?
An hour late and a dollar short.
Even though it’s an hour early according to the old standard WoT kick-off time.
Wot-the-hell?
Don’t feel bad. I thought yesterday was Friday and waited, and waited, and waited.
Looks like Clapton has joined Roger Watters on the I hate Israel bus tour.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-804047
Well fuck.
Has he gone back to drinking, again?
“Yuri Bezmenov participated in an interview”
That’s quite the light bulb head in the photo.
Not a 100 watt but pretty close.
Roh-Dog nailed it!
AIRBORNE!
ATW!
It is also AB Son’s 10th anniversary!
Didn’t remember they got hitched on National Airborne! Day.
Mrs. GB and got to keep their kiddos. Grandchild #11 still has not made an appearance. We get their kiddos back when their sibling decides to show up.
Time with grandkids is always good. They grow up too fast.
“Peter Marshall, ‘Hollywood Squares’ Host, Dead At 98”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/peter-marshall-hollywood-squares-tv-host-dead-98
“Peter Marshall, the Emmy Award-winning host of “Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.”
“Marshall died Thursday of kidney failure at his home in Los Angeles, his publicist Harlan Boll said…”
“Marshall hosted “The Hollywood Squares” for 15 years, from 1966 to 1981.”
“After his high school graduation, Marshall was drafted into the Army in 1944 and began work as a disc jockey for Armed Forces Radio.”
Rest In Peace.
Well fifty-something and I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Epstein did not kill himself.
A bunch of unanswered questions remain about the attempted assassination of Donald trump and the establishment remains tight-lipped.
FUCK the members of the alphabet agencies and bureaucracies, they’re nobody’s friend.
The Secret Service is not at liberty to discuss an ongoing coverup.
Shhhh. We have agents breast feeding while on protective detail. We’re trying to get the baby to go to sleep.
That is why they are requiring all assassination attempts to use silencers.
Well duh…why do you think they call it secret?
API, read Congressman Clay Higgins’ preliminary report of his investigation into the assassination attempt. It is quite revealing. Sundance has it posted on The Conservative Treehouse.
Sundance breaks it down to where even I can understand it.
Last evening Hack Stone sent an email to the TAH Election Commission withdrawing from the Weekend Open Thread competition for August 16, 2024. This decision had nothing to do with Hack’s performance in this week’s debate with KoB. Regardless, either the email was not read in time to be included in the opening comments for today’s WOT, or more likely the vast chicken wing conspiracy is trying to silence Hack Stone. So please indulge Hack for posting the following:
“It has been the greatest honor of your life for Hack Stone to serve as your First Commenter for This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread. And while it has been Hack’s intention to not cede the throne, Hack believe it is in the best interest of the Dickweeds and Deplorables for Hack Stone to stand down and to focus solely on driving to Frantic City today to catch The Stray Cats show tonight. Hack Stone will address the thread later this weekend in more detail about the concert and results of playing the slots.
For now, let Hack express his deepest scorn to all those who have worked so hard to undermine Hack’s term. Hack wants to thank President Elaine Ricci for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let Hack express his heartfelt contempt to KoB and Commissioner Wretched for the backstabbing and conspiring you committed against Hack. I believe today what I always have: You’re all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!. We just have to remember that Weekend Open Thread doesn’t always drop at 15:00 Eastern.”
Thank you, Mr. Stone for your continued disrespect and may the odds of the slots paying you off in plugged nickles and stray cats using your face as a litter box not be EVAH in your favor.
Let us know how it goes with the TAH Wild World HQs’s Complaint Dprt. Mention me to Hellen Waite.
Hit big at a low rent casino. They pay out all jackpots in outdated Red Hat Software. Those discs make great coasters for placing the Mad Dog cocktails on the particle board furniture with wood grain contact paper.
You forgot, “Thank me for my service.”
You’re welcome
I found something for you to take your mind off not being first. Save it for the day your crusty, rusty, dusty daily jag becomes untrustworthy.
https://www.kimdutoit.com/2024/08/14/alternative-4/
Well that will certainly be a tad difficult for fans of the Jaguar who had their electricity cut off for not paying their bills. Hey PEOCO, if he stiffed Bank of America and his own mother, what makes you think that he will pay you?
I was referring to the red convertible with the old fashioned, lately unacceptable, ICE engine.
It brought this to mind.
FIRST SIXTY SECOND
Dedicated to Tampon Timmy A-Walz.
Who, me?
Any chance you have a link to the greatest Downfall parody where Hitler was bitching about Stolen Valor? The part where the General points out the house on Wilson Lane in Bethesda with the missing mailbox door was pure gold.
*rustle-rustle*
Are you talking about this video? Hitler Tries to Undermine TAH using Posers:
Lots of good insults in this to remember.
Do Trump supporters really have bobble heads?
From South China Morning Post.
Donald Trump’s fans love his bobbleheads, but most are made in tariff-targeted China
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3274667/donald-trumps-fans-love-his-bobbleheads-most-are-made-tariff-targeted-china
For those that aren’t already pissed off, we have this little jewel that dropped on Fox. EH and The JEF…grin
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol-agent-killers-sentence-overturned-death-exposed-fast-furious-sting
Correctamundo, Besig. I refuse to be convinced that 2+2 equals anything other than 4.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls.
TGIF
Reminder in Arizona you pass on the Right not the left….
I take it you were on I-10 today…
Yes
Oddly ADOT will stop and inspect national Carriers haven forbid not the local idiot hauling lose 500 lbs hay bales
Anybody who has driven OTR knows the phrase… big trucks, big bucks.
In my AO I’ve been pulled over for inspection repeatedly while those driving junkers that look like they’re 10-15 years late for the junkyard putt right past.
2 and a half hours to go 9 miles
Went to a Cards/Royals game last weekend, and I 70 between St. Louis and KC looked like I 15 between San Bernardino and Vegas. 75-80 mph and you were still a traffic obstruction.
Hell, we already have the Department of Education. Who needs a foreign communist when they’re already on the American payroll.
FU James Earl Carter.
Present.
Walz is a cowardly Blue Falcon. Fitting accomplice for Kneepad Kackles.
Hottern’ a Hoochie Koochie in the AO. Then the A/C decided to quit mid-afternoon. Got it back online, though.
https://youtu.be/JW5UEW2kYvc?si=KzPG77STjTE9cNiV
Y’all can drool over Lois Lane, whichever version{s} suit your fancy. Mrs. GB has my heart forever.
God bless and keep the U.S.A., and break the bow of the wicked who seek to destroy her.
You got the pick of the litter, GB.
Blessed beyond measure, KoB. And I know it, and work to show it every day.
Light show before the storm
The storm
Meanwhile, at Casa de Sparky Western Annex, a couple of friendly type pit bulls decided to wander into a substation at which yours truly was working. So much for keeping your pets under control.
FY 25 GSA per diem rates released, with a corresponding 10 percent bump for hotel and meals. Must be an election year, considering we didn’t get jack shit the last 3 years.
$25 an hour to flip burgers.
Had a friendly fox wander into the Huachuca substation a few years back. Stuck his head somewhere he shouldn’t have and blacked out the whole post. MRS D made the following statement at the time: “What does the fox say? BOOM, muthafucker!”
Did the fox survive, or was he a crispy critter?
This thing really should be divided into 2 separate threads. One for the actual content being put forth and the one for those obsessed with the “being first” gig. That single thing ends up taking up all of the space and does not allow for any comment on the subject of the thread. Just make a thread called “first contest” for the folks that play that game and then put out the content for real commentary.
And maybe a third thread to talk about the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) and his unfailing proclivity to work balls.
I always let my GF claim “first” but sometimes I just pretend
for the sake of argument. She probably does the same.
People come here for “content”?
The “content” is in the False Commander’s “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) loose asshole.
You know, Old tanker, this is not the FIRST ( 😀 ) time you’ve had this complaint…not that there’s anything wrong with that, being as this IS a Free Speech Vet’s Forum and an Open Thread for any subject’s conversation. I have no problem with your complaint (Hell’en Waite was unavailable for comment) ’cause I understand that a bitching soldier is a happy soldier.
A quick count of the 141 comments shows that only 12 or so are related to the word FIRST, including your’s, ‘bean’s below, and API declaration of Honorary. Less than half of those are about the contest for FIRST. Less than 10% total. A count also shows less than 10% of the total is in re of the subject post heading. 141 comments doesn’t even fill up the FIRST (snickers) page of a thread and I’m not sure what the comment limit would be before comments are closed. That being said, there’s plenty of room in the thread for you to bring up anything you may want to discuss. Add to our conversation and knowledge by posting articles or comments on your specialty, which I would guess to be…Old Tanks. I likes me some mobile artillery platforms and would enjoy you posting about tanks, past, present, or future. Some stories about your service in Armor would be nice too. Do a deep dive on the Tank Battles in the ‘kraine/Russia Theater, or past tank battles and hook a brother up! 😀 I know you have the required skilz from your postings/submissions of FGS Videos.
Have a TAH Day, Good Sir, and mention me to Hell’en Waite! 😉
Well, at least he isn’t complaining about the trivia. Whew!
Nobody better ever complain about that.
Thought y’all might enjoy this little piece of good news going out to some troops in Hungary. Didn’t know we had troops in Hungary.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLb3ywiV0v79NMrEx3QzXTXR1PgD_xuIxP-GhB3Wfw8TMC_8Zca2MljtL3Xy08eJA3DmD86RKUGB7wBRiiIqU5_Xg3YOLDLj_tza43zyn7QOuvubkfcAdjlll6C6-6aSXv3HQhuZI_XcY9zIRcOxdXrG9VazkuF_OUx8TGijKJAYVWbL4ZgR5K0rr7IBE=w670-h693
Who’s the slimy little twinkletoed communist cocksucker that’s behind this? It’s bad enough they still put “charms” in MRE’s (Even Somali kids didn’t want them, they’d throw ‘em back.), they’ve taken away Tobasco?
What’d ya expect, ‘D? After all, Edmund McIlhenny was a Southerner and (gasp, clutches pearls…THE HORROR) worked as a civilian for the Confederate Army (Commissary and Payroll Clerk) in Texas during the war after the Federal Army over ran his wife’s Avery Island Home to confiscate the salt works there. History Linky:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210824112412/https://bi.hcpdts.com/reflowable/scrollableiframe/9780061844249
The Lady Friend I mentioned on the Woooo Woooo Big Boy Train Thread did a very indepth study and presentation on sauce and salt during The War. She had waaaaay yonder more info on him than what’s in the linky. It does make for a very interesting read.
Lake Balaton.
We received small boxes of mini-bottles of Tabasco in the Viet of the Nam, along with their famous C-Ration Cookbook.
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Links no worky for me.
Never mind. Figured it out.
This is an important analysis from Sundance, Why Did Barack Obama and Eric Holder Select Kamala? – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)read it:
Outstanding linky, rgr769. He does a damn good job of laying out how, and why, we got to where we are today. If we had true journalists in the sleaze media, this article would (should) be front page/lead stories on every outlet available. It also tells us clearly what many have known and preached about for years. We have a grubermint that if rife with corrupted, power hungry despots that do NOT give a damn about We, The People OR The Constitution and they are on BOTH sides of the “aisle”. Trump attempted to tear away the scab of the deep state and only managed to raise the veil a bit.
There is another way to dismantle this apparatus. It will require torches, pitch forks, ropes, and lamp posts.
Prepare
One day, they will take it as firmly as they dish it out. I hope we’re all around to see it.