Random Open Thread
State Elections are in progress as of this article’s posting time. Voters in a few states are voting in state elections today. Many are looking at New Jersey, New York City, Virginia and other states as a as an indicator of how people see President Donald Trump’s policies as well as on prospects for next year’s midterm elections. Enjoy your evening!
Category: Open thread
First.
Duly recorded onto the Coveted Book of Firsts for all prosperity.
Just for general info purposes, the Coveted Book is now 28 pages long and covers almost 11 years.
Thank You, Claw/Supply Daddy, for the info on the Coveted Books as well as doing a superb job as the Bookeeper.
Another Field Manuel? (Wink, Wink…)
Field Manuel? I know that guy. Hell of a farmer!
SFC D:
Now THAT THERE is funny…😆😅🤣
Thanks for the chuckle!
Salute!
My very first job was moving irrigation pipe at 13. Got fired when this new guy came onboard. Did twice as much for half the price. Some guy named Manuel Labor. I get it, simple economics.
Any relation to Slave Labor?
And his boss was General Labor?
When working at the Ft Carson NBC School, we had a big Jamaican E7 who always told the students to refer to the appropriate “Manuel”. No one ever found that guy….
We are praying that Winsome Earle-Sears, John Reid and Jason Miyares are elected tonight to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia.
From your lips to God’s ears.
Graybeard:
Proverbs 3:5-6.
We know our Lord is in charge.
Yup.
😅🤣😂
We are gonna share that one!
Are you in VA, ninja?
I prefer Spanberger, and, as a poor pun, hope she gets to say, “You Winsome? You lose some.” 😉
LC:
Yes, we are in Virginia.
Are you?
Thank you for being honest on who you prefer. That is the beauty of our Country…we have the freedom to make a choice on who we want elected to govern us.
No, but I used to spend some time there.
And yes, sometimes it’s possible to have reasonable discussions about different politics. I’m good with Earle-Sears’s push for more charter schools, but strongly disagree that the government should be deciding what two consenting adults can marry. I also greatly prefer Spanberger’s intelligence background, but understand why many here prefer Earle-Sears’s service in the Marines.
As I type this, though, looks like they called it for Spanberger. I hope she does well by you, even if she wasn’t your choice!
Highly unlikely since she is a progressive D-rat and believes parents have no right to object to the schools grooming their children to become gay or trannies.
Yeah, the racists came out in force in VA. Another once great state ruled by it’s city dwelling free shit army..
The FSA rules in many metro areas. They are brimming with the real racists and gimmedats.
Colorado is a perfect example of that.. well, and the ability of a cabal of millionaires to buy a state..
See also “Teton County Wyoming”, and soon “Teton County Idaho”.
On 6 February 2025, an individual walks into a Church in Fennimore, Wisconsin, claiming to be Jesus Christ.
This was captured on a LEO bodycam.
The individual purposedly falls backwards, without hesitation, about 3 times. He was definitedly under some type of influence. One of the commentators for the video stated he was a “devout Crystal Methodist.”
Drop kick me Jesus thru the goal posts of life !
I have seen some weird shit in my 76 years but that is bizarre. That dude was WAY out there.
Nice looking Catholic church with an altar rail. Too bad about the modern “altar.” Now a a penitential rite of reparation will have conducted and and the altar will have to be reconsecrated.
We miss our TAH Buddy, The King Of Battle (KoB).
Army beat Air Force, 20-17…One step closer to this year’s Commander-In-Chief Trophy!
GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!
Go Army! beat navy!
Glad the ground pounders whupped on the chair force, but whattaya expect?
Graybeard…
Our dearly beloved KoB is smiling down at you!
Thank You!
Where are you, Hondo…..
Come out, come out, wherever you are…
“Apocalypse Now – New Redux”
D.C…
Every time I wake up, I’m still here. Still in my apartment.
Every day I stay in these pajamas, I get weaker. And every day Congress stays out there arguing, they get stronger.
Each morning I tell myself they’ll vote today. Pass something. Anything. A CR. A clean bill. Even just a strongly-worded resolution about naming a post office. But no dice.
I’ve been furloughed for… how many days now? Time moves different when you’re not getting paid. The Price is Right comes on at 11. Drew Carey’s face haunts my dreams. I know every MSRP of every prize now. A Vitamix blender: $449. I could tell you, but what’s the point?
I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. The mission: Survive without a paycheck indefinitely while maintaining the illusion of normalcy to my landlord.
My coffee’s getting cold. It’s instant now – had to downgrade from the good stuff. I stare at it like it holds answers. It doesn’t. It just tastes like disappointment and fiscal uncertainty.
The worst part? I’m essential personnel. But essential to what? To sitting here? To refreshing CNN every thirty seconds? To calculating exactly how many packages of ramen I can buy with my last twenty?
Everyone gets everything they want. I wanted a stable government job. And for my sins, they gave me one. They gave me a front-row seat to democracy’s slowest-moving car crash.
The horror… the horror… of seeing my direct deposit amount say $0.00.
I love the smell of C-SPAN in the morning. Smells like… filibuster.
Sad, but mighty clever prose. But at least you aren’t in the Viet of the Nam.
As my men in my company CP used to comment when we were in the bush and wanted to protest about some stupid assignment or instruction: “But what are they going to do to us if we don’t comply, send up to Vietnam.”
“us” not “up.” I will have to fire my proof reader.
Those darn proof readers can’t be trusted.
Congress can’t pass gas without an impact study.
….and they’re definitely “impacted”….
I could not read that without hearing “This is the end…”
Present & unaccountable as ever.
Been fighting with one of those “safety spigots” on my 5-gallon gas can. A “Scepter 5G SmartControl Gas Container” to be precise.
I have the gas stored in there for the emergency generator. Was unable to use said generator during the last power outage due to bad gas, and unable to get to the good gas because of that “SmartControl” spigot.
Finally got it working (after several hours) and the generator is re-charging its battery.
Beautiful day in the GB Compound. Deer season started last Friday here in the Great State of Texas. Unfortunately (I’m in a mood today – fair warning) the ‘app’ that I am legally required to use to check in and out of the National Forest won’t work on my device. Finally got instructions on how to get to the webpage from the device via interwebz – but haven’t been able to get out and do anything about it.
Accursed technology.
Time to hit the surplus store for a 5 gal Jerry can and mule apparatus (we’re no longer allowed to say donkey dick).
Dad had 3, and they rusted out. I had to get the plastic thing for now until I can get to the surplus store, but it is on the To Do list.
https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Nozzle-Kit-Yellow-Collar-Thread-Fits/dp/B0BL7L84ZT
Fixes all the “safety” features and gets you back to a useful gas can.
Thanks, Mason!
I’d looked (briefly – I was too irritated to look long) for something like this.
This may fit the bill!
I bought the steel 5 gal cans with excellent donkey
dick and cap but the cans rusted out within a year.
Bought the identical version in stainless steel and
no leaks after three years of abuse. All the donkey
dick parts from the rusted out ones fit the SS can so
I am happy with what I got now.
Don’t recall the source but I’m sure they are still
available.
Since this is an open thread, I found this under-reported story on The Conservative Treehouse. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/03/federal-officials-bust-two-mississippi-sheriffs-and-16-law-enforcement-. Eighteen state and local LEO’s in Mississippi have been caught in a dope smuggling conspiracy for the Cartels. Since they are all armed with their duty guns, they are also being charged for possession of firearms while committing drug offenses.
Excellent. Make examples of all of them.
The duty guns add 10 years to each of their sentences.
That one came in too late for last Sunday’s stupid people of the week, but you’ll see it this weekend.
Another cool video posted by The Kinzler Bros.
“Gun Restoration, WW2 Remington Rand 1911 A1 (With Test Firing):
Saint John Moses Browning (pbuh) designed some firearms that are almost indestructible by mother nature and father time.
rgr769:
Amen on your comment!
🫡👌👍👏
There’s more steel in a 1911 than in any car built after 1960.
On my Gotta Get list a USGI M1911, along with probably another 100 different weapons.
I did just add an 1961 East German Makarov to the collection to go with my Grenztruppen der DDR uniform and Berlin Wall display.
Brings me to 59 weapons and a single Parts Kit in the house.
Mike
USAF Retired
It’s about time…
“Army’s Clock Must Now Start Ticking Faster When A Soldier Goes Missing”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/11/04/armys-clock-must-now-start-ticking-faster-when-a-soldier-goes-missing/
“A new U.S. Army directive orders commanders to act within hours — not days — when a soldier goes missing, giving them three hours to classify a service member as “absent-unknown” and eight hours to notify the soldier’s family once the absence is discovered.”
“Commanders now have 48 hours to determine if a soldier’s disappearance is voluntary or the result of something more serious or sinister. During that window, Army leaders are required to alert local Army law enforcement, enter the soldier’s name into the National Crime Information Center database and issue a “be on the lookout” notice and request help from local civilian police.”
As previously shared:
“Dick Cheney, Former Vice President and Defense Secretary, Dies At 84”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-former-vice-president-and-defense-secretary-dies-at-84/
“Cheney died Monday due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said Tuesday in a statement.”
Since this a Random Thread and the content is wide open for commenting, here’s my proposal:
All of us don’t pay any federal or state taxes (of all types) at all until they (the Poly-Ticks) do away with Daylight Savings Time. It is one of the silliest things we have to do in this age and time. The kids nowadays aren’t doing the same things we did 65 or 70 years ago when we needed the extra sunlight to play outside games. Now they all have an I-Pad or phone and spend all their time indoors texting or playing games.
Daylight Savings Time is like the old Indian adage of:
“Only a white man would believe that if you cut a foot off the top of a blanket and resew it onto the bottom, you end up with a longer blanket.”
‘remember when the authorities called for daylight saving time in the winter during the Arab oil embargo? In the winter many were the suburbanites who wailed and complained about their little children walking to school before sunrise. On the other hand, I’ve been in places that didn’t practice day light saving time. In the summer it was enjoyable walking to my duty station at 0500 in bright sunlight.
The World Famous Spud Drive In (home of the Gladysburger) back in my hometown couldn’t start the movie until 10pm because of daylight savings time.
This Fact Check came out OVER 5 years ago.
Yet there are STILL folks out there posting this BOGUS information on their Fakebook account.
Gee Whiz! TDS Is Really Bad Out There! Or Their Ignorance Is Showing Big Time!
“No, President Trump Didn’t Say This About The Miss Teen USA Pageant”….”A Facebook post misquotes remarks President Donald Trump made about going backstage at Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, where the contestants are over age 18, to make it sound like he admitted to walking into the dressing room at a Miss Teen USA pageant.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/25/viral-image/no-president-trump-didnt-say-about-miss-teen-usa-p/
What do you all think of the Washington Post investigation?
We cut and paste this article because the Washington Post has a paywall that some of you cannot access.
It is worth the read. Thoughts?
“How Some Veterans Exploit $193 Billion VA Program, Due To Lax Controls”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/veterans-affairs-disability-claims-fraud/
“Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims — including cases of brazen fraud totaling tens of millions of dollars — that are exploiting the country’s sacred commitment to compensate those harmed in the line of duty, according to a Washington Post investigation.”
“Taxpayers will spend roughly $193 billion this year for the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate about 6.9 million disabled veterans on the presumption that their ability to work is impaired. VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate.”
“Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss, jock itch and toenail fungus.”
“About 556,000 veterans receive disability benefits for eczema, 332,000 for hemorrhoids, 110,000 for benign skin growths, 81,000 for acne and 74,000 for varicose veins, the most recently available figures from VA show. Individual payouts for such mundane conditions vary, but collectively they cost billions of dollars a year.”
“In contrast, far fewer veterans receive compensation for certain combat-related injuries. About 10,900 service members who have suffered “severe” or “penetrating” brain injuries since 2000 are eligible for benefits. Fewer than 1,700 receive disability payments for losing limbs during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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“The Post analyzed 25 years of government data on disability claims and sued VA and the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act, forcing the agencies to disclose thousands of pages of internal records and dozens of surveillance videos. The Post also interviewed scores of current and former U.S. officials and visited military bases around the country to speak with veterans”
“The investigation exposed an increasingly costly disability program prone to rampant exaggeration and fraud, which make it harder for veterans with legitimate claims to get their benefits processed. Bipartisan political indifference and a weak array of checks and balances have compounded the dysfunction.”
“Veterans’ advocates, for-profit companies and VA itself encourage vets to file as many claims as possible to milk the system. The documents and data obtained by The Post spotlighted other obvious signs of waste and abuse, as well as an internal awareness and tolerance of such problems.”
“Critically, VA has failed to update antiquated rules that provide outsize benefits for some easily manageable ailments. For instance, VA typically pays veterans diagnosed with sleep apnea, a common breathing disorder, more than a combat vet with a leg amputated below the knee.”
“The easy-to-manipulate regulations have turned the disability program into a rich target for con artists, who are typically prosecuted only in the most egregious and flagrant cases.”
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“Last year, a grand jury indicted an Army veteran on charges of conspiring to defraud the government of $1.1 million by pretending to be paralyzed. According to prosecutors, she spent some of the money on Caribbean vacations and gambling jaunts to Las Vegas. She has pleaded not guilty. In June, a Vietnam War veteran pleaded guilty to ripping off VA by claiming to be blind for 29 years. In fact, he could see well enough to drive and repeatedly renewed his license. The Justice Department said he defrauded taxpayers of nearly $1.2 million.”
“In August, a peripatetic former soldier from Walla Walla, Washington, was arrested on charges of swindling VA of $244,000 by professing to be paraplegic even though he was agile enough to hunt elk and get into fistfights that drew the police. When VA officials began investigating, he vanished in a canoe and faked that he died by drowning in the North Woods of Maine, authorities said. After a year of searching, a fugitive task force finally nabbed him at an Amtrak station in Missouri.”
“A Post review of 70 fraud prosecutions since 2017 shows VA regularly falls victim to half-baked schemes. In three cases, men who never served a day in uniform fooled the department into thinking they were disabled war heroes; two of them also lied that they were held captive by the enemy, records show.”
“The surge in disability claims has come as the population of living veterans has shrunk by about one-third, from 26 million in 2001 to 17.6 million today. And in other critical ways, VA’s compensation system has failed to keep up with medical advances and changes in the workplace.”
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“The current disability program was designed 80 years ago to provide a safety net for unemployable veterans wounded or injured during World War II. Today, the vast majority of disabled veterans under age 65 still work and collect paychecks from full-time jobs, records show.”
“According to the most recent available figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for disabled veterans last year was 4.1 percent, about the same as the population at large. In 2023, more than 100,000 disabled veterans — roughly 1 in 60 — reported an income of $250,000 or higher, according to a Post analysis of VA and census data.”
“The Post’s investigation found that Congress and VA have made it easier to cheat and take advantage of the system.”
“Since 2001, under public pressure to improve care for veterans, lawmakers from both parties have approved a succession of bills lowering the standard of proof for disability claims. The biggest came in 2022, when Congress passed legislation known as the Pact Act, which made it simpler for generations of veterans to assert that their ailments were caused by exposure to airborne toxic substances and other environmental hazards while serving in war zones.”
“The Pact Act has helped many veterans receive compensation for cancer and other serious illnesses diagnosed years or even decades after they left the military, by presuming the conditions are connected to their service. But the law also has led to the approval of a skyrocketing number of claims for treatable respiratory and digestive conditions.”
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“Last year, for instance, 680,834 veterans were categorized as disabled for allergic rhinitis, or hay fever, VA figures show. That’s up from 30,705 in 2006 — a 22-fold increase. Payouts for allergic rhinitis can range between $176 and $750 a month.”
“Claims for irritable bowel syndrome have also soared; since 2013, approved cases have risen 400 percent. Cases of hiatal hernia, a condition that causes heartburn and acid reflux, have increased tenfold since 2005.”
“For many of the most common disabilities, including migraines, depression and back pain, there is no conclusive way to determine whether a veteran is telling the truth about the severity of their symptoms. Under federal law, VA must give a veteran the benefit of the doubt and approve their claim when evidence is evenly split.”
“Authorities have known for years that some veterans who don’t genuinely need help are gaming the disability program, according to documents and interviews.”
“One inherent problem [VA] must contend with, is that it operates on an honor system with its veterans,” Justice Department prosecutors wrote in a 2021 court filing for a case involving an Army veteran who defrauded VA of more than $200,000. “… The result is that some veterans can, and unfortunately some veterans do take advantage.”
“Alex Morrow, an Army vet from Colorado Springs who hosts a popular physical fitness podcast, acknowledged that it is “extremely common” for veterans to stretch the truth when applying for disability. He blamed the system for creating incentives to exaggerate.”
“Many veterans see those checks as validation of their service and the sacrifice they made,” he told The Post. “They are sitting at a table and at that table is a stash of cash. I’m not going to tell them not to claim it. It shouldn’t be a crime to claim something.”
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“Embellished and bogus claims are clogging the system and making it harder for veterans with bona fide injuries to get the help they deserve, according to judges and prosecutors who have handled fraud cases. For the past two decades, VA has been overwhelmed by a persistent backlog of applications. As of Sept. 27, VA reported it was processing nearly 635,000 claims, of which 134,000 had been pending for more than four months.”
“There is already a backlog in the system, and … [it] can be notorious to get your legitimate claims through,” Coreen Mao, a federal prosecutor, said during the 2022 sentencing of an Army veteran in Maryland who cheated VA out of $370,000 by faking memory loss and paralysis.”
“Committing fraud on the program makes it harder for all of the other veterans … to get the services that they need in a timely manner.”
“For decades after the Vietnam War, veterans and lawmakers accused VA of being unresponsive and hostile to those with disabilities. Many veterans publicly complained that the agency’s bureaucratic mindset forced them to wait too long for medical care and compensation.”
“Since 9/11 and the wars that followed, however, the pendulum has swung the other way.”
“During the Biden administration, VA went to new lengths to make it as easy as possible for veterans to obtain disability compensation and other benefits. Across the country, the department blanketed buses and billboards with ads encouraging vets to apply. It hosted temporary clinics at conventions and sporting events where vets could walk in, file claims and get same-day approval.”
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There is more in the article. We made the decision to stop cutting and pasting.
Hope you all are able to open the link and read the article. Reminds us of Military Phonies who claimed and received VA Disability payments.
My response?
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
fuck
dem!
I had a close relative, now deceased, who claimed a service connected disability. All of his disabilities could have been explained by his growing old. That didn’t stop him from getting “his share of the loot”. Another close relative was granted an entry level discharge about a week after he graduated BCT. I turned him in to the authorities when I found out he was going to the VA for treatment of his PTSD, he claimed he was a Viet Nam War veteran. It must have been hard to be in high school when the war ended and be in Viet Nam at the same time. He still goes to the VA.
I had a boss that got a nice VA pension for his disability; yet, he was able enough to be my boss. He also threw a bernathian fit when someone parked in the handicap space so he had to walk an extra ten feet.
I say an end must be put to the disability sharks; however, an end must be put to the “Every Veteran is disabled” mentality. For each time a truly disabled veteran’s legitimate disability claim is delayed by a phony milking the system, someone should go to prison.
Dennis-not chevy:
You commented: “I say an end must be put to the disability sharks; however, an end must be put to the “Every Veteran is disabled” mentality.”
Yep. Yep. YEP…
Many of us came back from Vietnam with no disabilities. My only physical effect was well tanned exposed skin with jungle rot scars on my hands and forearms.
😆😅🤣😂
The Pact Act. Sounds great, we all looked forward to it. It’s political eyewash. Made many forms of cancer presumptive, based on where you served. I checked every box, two kinds of presumptive cancer. It doesn’t disable me enough to suit them. But hey, under the Pact act, we all get treatment! Guess what folks, we already did! It changed nothing but the process. And congresscritters got to pose and preen.
SFC D:
You Nailed It! 👏👏👏
Ah, therein lies the rub.
Is VA compensation solely for the compensation of a veteran who is unemployed/under-employed due to service-connected injury?
Or is it a cash compensation for the injury the veteran sustained while on active duty?
Example One:
A veteran who was a rancher/cowboy, riding the range, fixing fences, wrestling cattle, etc. serves on active duty, and loses his lower legs to a land mine (or a broken car lift in the motor pool, it really doesn’t matter). He can walk, maybe with a cane or crutches, he is not going to die from his injuries, but he can never again mount a horse, bulldog a steer, or even walk more than 1/2 mile at one time. He is no longer a rancher, and must settle for being a timekeeper, or an inventory clerk for the ranch, at half the pay of an active rancher cowboy who is out riding the herds.
Should he receive DA disability pay for the rest of his life?
Example Two:
A veteran who was a lawyer, but served on active duty as an Airborne Ranger Pathfinder Jumpmaster, made many parachute jumps, rucked miles with heavy loads, and in the process destroyed his knees, leading to traumatic arthritis diagnosed after his discharge. Even with his disability (can’t walk, jump, play racquetball or tennis, etc.) he can, with the installation of artificial knees, resume his practice of law in an office or courtroom or Congress without missing a paycheck.
Should he receive disability pay for the rest of his life?
Is VA compensation a substitute for income the soldier lost as the result of his disability, or is VA disability a cash compensation for the loss of the enjoyment of life that the veteran sustained, even if that loss was not financial?
And just to add one more twist: What if the veteran is the child of a wealthy father who gave the veteran millions of dollars in an inheritance. The veteran — injured or not — need never work again. Should he receive VA disability pay for the rest of his life?
Excellent questions.
I’ve been thinking about your questions. I have never believed in means testing; I have met civilian folks who were disabled but never got a dime from SSI because they worked and earned more than minimum wage. It made me feel the SSA was punishing them. I have also met SSI recipients who never tried to find a job.
So let’s take two veterans, each 68 years old, neither saw combat, neither worked in combat arms. Both have eye troubles and wear coke bottle glasses. 50 years ago, one was stationed on a base that had a bunch of naturally occurring toxins, the base was on a little island on which no one except the GI’s on the base lived, there was no other way anyone would go there; the other has stationed outside the big city with no problems.
I say the VA has the burden of proof the old man from the island eye problems are not service related (especially if similar problems plague his fellows). I say the old man from the big city has the burden of proof his problems are service related.
Perhaps the old man from the island could have invented self slicing bread or something if his eyes weren’t troubled. I say Uncle Sammy should shoulder some responsibility for sending folks out to strange places to do strange things. The old man from the city should get a fair hearing and if Sammy is responsible, Sammy should pay. If the old man from the city eyes are fading from age, then I say it’s part of growing old.
I was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee back in 2020 when they were holding hearings that led to the Pact Act, but COVID travel restrictions prevented that. But I did have to provide them a statement with pictures for a June 2002 incident in Uzbekistan. Got interviewed on that, along with a lot of people in my old unit.
I was an Air Reserve Technician, our unit received a 1 year Presidential Activation shortly after 9/11, followed by a second year of activation. Well between my scheduled deployments I had a Widow Maker heart attack. Coded 7 times before they got me into the Cath-Lab. Doc told me afterwards, that if I had coded again they were going to call it.
That was in 2002, MEB found me physically fit and returned to duty. AFRC didn’t like that, but the OSAF upheld that finding. In 2006 I felt a little off, hospital visit determined my heart was getting weaker. More orders and another MEB, which in 2008 found me Permanently Disabled and Unfit for Continued Military Service. The Air Force rated me 100% Disabled and gave me an Active Duty Medical Retirement, a year later in 2009 OPM found me Disabled and retired me under FERS Disability. Social Security found me disabled in 2010 along with the VA rating me 100% PT with no future exams. VA looked at my heart issue only, refused to look at my deployments, didn’t look at anything else that my retirement physical found that was wrong. Hell they didn’t even want to hear about other issues.
Was told after SS found me disabled, I couldn’t work again so by age 43 I was 100% Retired.
Was told in 2006, that by 2016 I would either have had a heart transplant, be waiting for one, or be deceased. None of that has happened, but the heart has gotten weaker and so I know my permanent nap isn’t that far off. But I made a liar out of the doctors.
Mike
USAF Retired
And keep making liars out of them.
Now they should do all the illegals getting government assistance, or why there are people who have been on food stamps for 30 years.
This is a good point:
Graybeard:
😆😅🤣😂
“Prodigal Son Returns After SNAP Benefits Expire”
https://babylonbee.com/news/prodigal-son-returns-after-snap-benefits-expire
“GALILEE — A local family rejoiced after a wayward son returned in repentance to his father, though subsequent reports claimed that this was because he just ran out of SNAP benefits.”
“Sources said that the father ran out to his son, who looked a little pudgy after living on government-subsidized junk food for months, and embraced him.”
Dunno if it’s accurate but saw something today claiming the average weight of a woman buying her own food was 149 pounds. Average weight of a female on food stamps 211.
It’s been non stop drama
So yes they are preoccupying us with BS
A long work day today, but still present and unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Lars tears
Mamdani Commie wins in NYC.
You maniacs, you blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to Hell!
Speaking of Maineacs, Maine rejected voter ID and passed a red flag law. This state is fucked beyond repair.
Your next door neighbor can now have your guns taken
away just by directly petioning a judge of their choosing.
The slippery slope has been greased.
I hope they enjoyable the free stuff coming their way.
Did the Somali mayoral candidate win Minneapolis as well?
“I’m the Captain Now” is behind by 10%.
He is the spitting image of the guy who played the part in the movie.
My first thought was Farina from the Rascals.
I read he lost. How do you say boo frikken hoo in Somalia?
Not that Frey, who won, is much better:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/social-media-erupts-far-left-163050898.html
Now lost because of unassilimilated Somali politics… a clan feud:
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/11/07/somali-clans-fighting-frey-fateh-minneapolis-n2421398
Ilhan Omar adds to the unassimilated clan-minded fun:
https://x.com/Checkmatedsl/status/1986897537173803094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1986897537173803094%7Ctwgr%5Eb142e797856b3360001272882b98eb9e1d4c7f21%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fjustmindy%2F2025%2F11%2F08%2Filhan-omar-lashes-out-kick-out-rogue-somalians-n2421423
This…
Leave voting for “woke” bullcrap that wrecked your home state back there, folks.
Gunnery Sergeant L. Hartman Is angry about the government shutdown
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17MERnH6rZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Brace yourselves for the exodus from New York.
Paging…
Who knew “Escape from New York” was going to be as prophetic as “Idiocracy.”
Shots fired…
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/11/05/hackers-take-over-video-screen-at-mamdani-vhq-victory-party-n2421278
Since this is the random open thread, I bring you a random music clip from back in the day.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKpIq1tMVcB/?hl=en
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