Midweek Open Thread
This week, the week of Thanksgiving, presents three open threads. If you missed “first” for today’s MOT, there’s still the HOT and WOT contests in the next two days. If you’re traveling today, be safe. If you must work tomorrow, thanks in advance for the work that you do. Many here and elsewhere appreciate your sacrifice. Enjoy the holiday weekend!
Category: Open thread
first!!!
I get the FIRST beer tonight and rule my small midweek kingdom as a benevolent ruler.
SgtM YEAH BABY, This is the first first of your firsts firstness I’ve seen in a while first.
May you rule gently.
Nothing like being in the right place at the right time, SgtM. Maybe your benevolence will bring the Luck to be in the same postion for The HOT that will drop tomorrow, and then The WOT that will show up Friday, thus giving you a Trifecta of FIRSTs, threepete, back to back to back in a week.
We’ll have to check with The Claw Daddy to see if that has been a FIRST.
Have a Rat from The Cong to go along with your beer!
Got the WOT once several years ago.
SgtM, your other one-time WOT First occurred on 23 Apr 2021at 1504 hrs.
A shout out to all who contributed to the National Capital Region Salvation Army this Thanksgiving holiday. Your $5 contribution to provide a Thanksgiving dinner to those less fortunate among us, particularly those former All Points Logistics employees from the Reston Virginia office. And remember, if you’re cold, they’re cold, so be sure to leave your shed door unlocked to provide adequate shelter to any homeless Vice Presidents of proud but humble woman owned businesses in your neighborhood.
I threw in a couple of extra bucks to maybe pay for a mailbox door, or to get their Jaguar running again.
No need for a mailbox door, it’s not as if Mr. Postman will be delivery any software orders from the federal government. Besides, if you don’t have a home, do you really need a mailbox? Psul is so Lonesome that he Pines for a place to call home. (IYKYK)
Let me be the FIRST (h/t SgtM) to wish you all a very blessed Thanksgiving.
We have so much to be thankful for.
Our Constitution has been attacked, but still stands.
Our Freedoms seem to be safer than they have in years.
Our Government may be improved by 47.
We have freedom to worship God each in our own way, still.
We have the freedom to protect our loved ones from those who would harm them.
We still have the best Country in the world.
We have our loved ones with us – even if only in bittersweet memory.
May God bless you all.
May we be thankful for the things we have, and those that we can share it with! Many blessing on all of you and those who can’t be here to share it with us whether it be because they are away protecting the freedoms that we hold dear or because they have passed on from this earthly plane.
Happy Thanksgiving!…Hook ’em!!!
Well happy thanksgiving eve
This is the only fall colors I could find within 25 miles of my house
There are only a dozen trees in the whole county that change color
Do grapevine leaves count??
My friends over in Benson have a few
This is my backyard we are about 5 miles south of benson
My better half reminded me there is a little color at the school
Fall color around here is white.. got 6 inches of snow since last night..
T-shirt weather in the GB Compound AO today.
However, working out in the shop I turned on the fan to blow the mosquitoes away. Positives and negatives.
Beautiful! The trees here just dropped their leaves in disgust! It was a very dry summer.
Top 10, and I’m hungry.
If this doesn’t piss you off, we’re no longer friends.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/11/27/lather-rinse-repeat-how-making-sure-troops-get-some-ing-food-n3797411
We were led to believe this was fixed. Get Don on the phone, the troops are hungry and pissed.
Absolutely fucking INEXCUSABLE, the Federal Government is taking better care of ILLEGAL ALIENS than its own Military Members.
Complete Shit Show isn’t It
Damn.
I’ve said before, the meal halls in the 5-sided puzzle palace should be shut down, all the staff – all the staff – required to eat in 15 minutes from MREs that have been stuffed in an armory somewhere for 20 years.
The ossifers should be required to not leave their desks through the week except with special leave granted by a former enlisted when he or she feels like it.
All the Pentagon staff should be docked the cost of the food they’ve eaten during the entire time those in the field have had to do without. The amount docked should be increased by a factor of 2 for each step up the ranks they have achieved. This should not be open to any kind of forbearance for hardship cases.
Then all those in the chain of command should be given a ODH discharge, retroactively if necessary, for neglect of duties endangering the readiness of the military and abuse of military property.
Sorry SFC, I don’t believe it.. must be fake news.. They changed the name of the base, got rid of that nasty old Confederate, and they TOLD us that would fix EVERYTHING… so no way this could be happening now.. under the old name?? Sure, but now? No chance!
I assume a /sarc isn’t needed…
Welp, Lil’ Bro, does getting twice as pissed from reading two articles on the same subject in a thread, in less than 2 hours, make me twice the friend? Axin’ for a fren’… I repeat my rant from below’s reply to 5Guy. I also repeat what I axed when this subject was discussed before…Where daphuque are the ossifers and NCOs that should be fixin this issue? I’ve had “food insecurity” a time or 12 in my life, but NEVER while I was serving. Hell one reason why I enlisted those many years ago was for the “3 hots and a cot”…’specially the 3 hots part.
Grrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What’s even more pissing me off is Ft Carson Culinary School making sure they provide 2K + meals to the community but not making sure the troops are properly fed! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
PRESENT and Unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Epstein did not kill himself.
Epstein’s list is still highly guarded, wonder why?
Remember while driving in Arizona
You pass on the RIGHT not the LEFT like they do in the rest of the U.S.
And turn signals stop working as soon as you put an Arizona plate on your car.
And stop signs dis a fuckin peer
That Octagonal red thing is an alternative yield sign.
As in yield to whoever blew through it 🤬
…ain’t that the truth.
AND in AZ among other States, traffic lights are read as follows:
GREEN; Haul ass.
YELLOW: Haul ass through it before it turns red.
RED: Haul ass through the intersection before opposing traffic starts moving.
Not in Colorado.. yellow, especially a yellow arrow means: slam on your brakes as hard as you can, no matte how much space you have to go, nor how many cars are stacked behind you.
Y’know, given how the D-rat support for and to ILLEGAL ALIENS has turned many against it to the point of no return, why bother to interfere while these D-rat pols continue to cut their and their party’s throat day after day? MAGA!
‘He’s Not Kidding’: Trump Border Czar Tom Homan Prepares for Deportation War—With Blue City Mayors
I’m praying for the day they frog march that POS denver mayor to the hoosegow!
Found this the other day, and it brought a smile to my face.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/26/watch-carville-goes-nuclear-on-kamalas-progressive-staffers-id-fire-them-then-fire-who-hired-them-n2182485
Be sure to think of our hungry soldiers on Thanksgiving.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/26/food-hard-find-fort-carson-base-struggles-feeding-soldiers.html
At least with C Rations, you got ham with your lima beans.
Damn 5Guy, I was in a pretty good mood til I read that sh*t. Inexcusable! Now I know it has been a LOOOOOONG minute (decades) since I served and this issue has been talked about here before, but…DAAAAYYUUUM! Collecting an average of $22 million from the BAS and only spending $5 million on food? And “…not sure how the other money is allocated…” W.T.F! Maybe some of y’all can ‘splain to this old Gun Bunny (a) why this is happening (b) how did this happen (c) what’s being done to fix it (d) when the ones responsible for this fiasco are going to be re-assigned to the gravel making facility in Kansas?
Again…a long minute since I’ve had Mess Hall…oops, ‘cuse me…Dining Facility Chow (last time was in ’90 when I went to Ft Sill for a nephew’s graduation) and some folks bitch about Army Chow, but for the most part I never really had a bad meal besides the C Rats. Our chow was always hot, well prepared, and you could take all you wanted so long as you ate all you took. Now granted, back yonder, it was mostly Mess Sgts and cook MOS that ran the facilities. And you can bet that Senior Officers and NCOs were subject to drop in at any meal just to make sure their troops were at least well fed. Is that no longer a thing?
Damnit! The very FIRST (ht2 SgtM) rule of leadership (be it military or civilian) is to look out for the well being of your people. And as a rule, a well fed person is a happy productive person. Is that no longer a thing either?
Grrrrrrr!
Everyone in the chain responsible for this crap should do time in the brig!
If any of you know a junior enlisted that’s affected by this, please ask the admins for my info. I’m close enough, and things might be tight here, but we’ll find enough to share.
Where are the officers who are responsible for the well being of their troops?
Likely too busy playing golf and smooching up at the Officers Club.
Opened the cranberry sauce (in the can, just like Grandma used to make) for my unit’s holiday meal at Nov battle assembly with my P38:
Well, tomorrow being Thanksgiving and all, I guess it’s time for an old flashback:
A true classic!
Even remembered 400 years later and on another world entirely …
Hahaha now that’s funny right there..
Don’t forget the comfy ,eating pants.
They certainly had no shortage of material to work with.
BRAVO!!!
Happy Thanksgiving all.
After 4 days in the hospital last week and now one problem I have now has improved today. I need to buy another roll of toilet paper. HAPPY THANKSGIVING……
Hope you get to stay outta that place.
They’re good when you need ’em, but your better when you don’t need ’em.
Thanks Graybeard
ICYMI – Be careful when taking a whiz while turkey hunting.
JUST A THOUGHT or two: First, I wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to ALL OF The Fine People of TAH®™, and if you REALLY want to save money on Christmas Presents, just open fire on talking politics at the dinner table, AND FOR those really liberal moonbats in your family, (YES, I have one or two), wish them a happy and prosperous TRUMPsgiving, then watch their heads explode while steam blows out their ears!!! 😀🤣😁😂
Little something lighter to make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy. And to say AMEN!
AMEN to that!
Love letter to all of The Adorable Deplorables of TAH! Full disclosure…This is The Gun Bunny’s goal! 😀
?w=768&h=940
Elon Musk is at it again:
https://x.com/i/status/1861601483504185774
I bet Eminem is absolutely thrilled his song is being used in this way.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/11/27/lather-rinse-repeat-how-making-sure-troops-get-some-ing-food-n3797411
Apparently the brass are still having trouble feeding the troops. Lima beans and toast! YGBSM.
Abso-FUCKING-lutely inexcusable.
A very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving to all my friends here on TAH.
The week’s trivia will be dropped during the WOT on Friday, as it always is, so you can have it for dessert with your réchauffé (remember, that means “leftovers”).
Don’t over-overdo it today. I hate that logy feeling I get when I eat too much.