Weekend Open Thread
Well, someone mentioned in the comments that you needed an open thread on this slow news weekend – so here you go.
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Old school Army cops rule! FIRST IN!
streetsweeper…You’re the first! That makes you da man for the weekend. I agree, Old school Army cops are A-Okay in my book.
To all the dads out there:
If you have one .. call or go visit!
If he is gone, remember him for without him you would not be here.
If you are a dad … Don’t ef it up and keep in mind it is the (your) most important job of your life.
Oh and one final thought …
Bernath is not, never was nor will he ever be a Genuine or Honorary CPO. PERIOD!
And … Nah … I will save what I want to say for another day!
Master Chief…Here-Here. Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! I am a dad and though my dad has been gone for many years, I still hold him dearly and lovingly in my heart. This day also reminds me of my only child, a son. Without whom, I would not have had the privilege of being a Father. He’s a good man. Despite my errors and failures (kids don’t come with an owner’s manual when they’re born) he became a man who makes me a proud Father tomorrow!
Sparks,
Tending my father’s grave site tomorrow with my only son who never met his grandfather!
MCPO
Master Chief…Good on you Sir.
Let’s just say there are some folks in OR who are getting severe butthurt.
And their children don’t care because their father was a deadbeat dad!
Happy Father’s Day, Master Chief. Sounds like you had a great day maintaining the links in the chain of generations.
And no, Bernastyass is no Chief … well, maybe Chief $h!t-Eater.
How do you think he feels, knowing his kids probably hate him because he’s a deadbeat?
Yeah, I don’t care either.
Because a GOOD father would never have brought another man’s family into his butthurt sick little website.
Actions have consequences, Bernath. And you can only delay the inevitable, not avoid it. The shit you’ve pulled can and will come back to fucking haunt you.
And the more shit you pull with me, my family, and my employer, the sweeter it will be when the swift hammer of justice comes down on you, Wittgenfeld, and your sick fucking little game. Believe it.
“Soldiers are trained, conditioned by experts, to do things that the civilized finds abhorrent. If a veteran begins to doubt the justness of the war, then he becomes no more than a hired murderer. This is not pleasant. Thus no one must be permitted to say it. A contagion might result.
“God forbid that soldiers begin to think. Independence of mind is dangerous to militaries. Training is chiefly a means of preventing it. Infrequently a soldier has the courage to see that what he is doing is both stupid and immoral, and walk away from it. Bowe Bergdahl did. I say, speaking as a former Marine in Viet Nam, and as a life member of both the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled Veterans of America: You have my admiration, Sergeant Bergdahl.”
Fred Reed, “The Bergdahl Thing – One Vet’s Take”
http://fredoneverything.net/Bergdahl.shtml
Eagle Keeper…Thanks for the post I had not heard of old Fred before. Well, isn’t Fred Reed just a special kind of old Vietnam snowflake? I could hardly believe what he wrote. Thanks Fred and please feel free to keep your crap to yourself. If you don’t see the problems with Bergdahl, why didn’t you walk away from your unit in Vietnam and head North and wait until several of your unit members died trying to find and save you? What say you Fred? Sounds like you drank the liberal Kool-Aid since rotating back to the world.
“Sounds like you drank the liberal Kool-Aid since rotating back to the world.”
Because all “TRUE vets” are conservatives, and agree on ALL things political?!
What a pitiful, narrow-minded lot you are.
No, we don’t agree on all things, political or otherwise. But we can read and the facts, as we know them, paint Bergdahl as a deserter and quite possibly a traitor. That has nothing to do with left or right, liberal or conservative, Dem or Rep. And there are those among us who leave open the possibility that Bergdahl was just a useful idiot for the Taliban and didn’t really know what he was doing.
“Reed notes that his columns are often provocative and calls himself ‘an equal-opportunity irritant’. His output does not fit into conventional political classification; it includes attacks on feminism (generally the province of the right), George W. Bush (generally the province of the left), Israel (though not of Jews in general), and evolution (generally the province of religious fundamentalists).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Reed
But if you can only comprehend the world if it is made up of just “conservatives” and “lib’ruhls,” whatever …
Stick it.
Wow, gonna take me a long time to think of a worthy reply to THAT one.
How about, “I know you are, but what am I?”
A gargler of balls is my best guess.
Let me guess what book sits on YOUR nightstand:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Book-Insults-Putdowns-Ever/dp/1858684897
Who reads it to you?
“Who reads it to you?”
Ypur Mom
I see you own a copy, too …
Actually, “Ranger” Burrell.
Well, isn’t that Fred Reed one fucked up, bedwetting douchebag. He’s all in on the “no blood for oil” leftist slogan, plus many others. I guess severe brain damage is what qualifies him for membership in Disabled Vets.
Hey, Fred, send us your DD214, will ya?
1. Because YOU are the sole arbiters of who is a vet and who isn’t?
2. Takes a special kind of man to call a stranger (but fellow vet) names on the interwebs just because his politics are different. Totally honorable.
(Of course, if Reed’s NOT a vet, Old Sarge, it should take your crack crew of debunkers about ten minutes to prove it. But having an alternative opinion isn’t proof of anything, is it?)
Hey Eagle: Is your name “Fred Reed”, or do you just troll for him.
Take your meds, son, or stay out of that bottle.
Me: USAF jet engine mechanic, Jan 80-Dec 83. Living in Spokane WA.
Reed: Marine veteran of Vietnam (years unknown). Living in Mexico.
Let me know when you’re ready to actually discuss the issue of soldiers obeying their consciences, instead of just their “orders.” (See “Nuremberg trials.”)
Perhaps this will ring true with you, detective …
“Screwing the Troops – What Else is New?”
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Troops.shtml
Put it to bed, Fred Eagle, but slip into your Depends first.
Bedwetter
Really??
So I take it you WEREN’T the captain of the debate team in high school?
Chicken Keeper: You’re right. I was on the football team while you were practicing for the spelling bee.
Douchebag
“douchebag” – 1. A device used to administer a douche; 2. the go-to putdown for frustrated TAH regulars who lack a substantive retort
Chicken Feeder = Douchebag.
Yup, fits you perfectly.
Well, reading yet another of liberal Fred’s contributions to world-wide wisdom, I can tell that you Eagle Keeper, are either Fred Reed himself, or writing as a shill for him. Fred missed his true calling. Instead of enlisting and going to Vietnam, he should have headed for San Francisco to be the hippie he truly is in his heart. I am sure he is a darling of the leftist liberals who follow him.
Well said, Sparks… Fred “Chicken Keeper” Reed is a true piece of work.
Oh, you’re a GENIUS OF RHETORIC, you are.
“LIBERAL! Game over, thank you!”
I don’t know Fred personally, but I “liberal” misses the mark by a mile. More of a libertarian, if you absolutely MUST HAVE a label.
If you had any integrity, you could read a few of his pieces on random subjects and see for yourself.
But I strongly suspect you have to have others chew your mental food and spoon feed it to you.
“But I strongly suspect you have to have others chew your mental food and spoon feed it to you.”
Fleagle Feeder: Yeah, that would be your mother, troll.
So, Fred “Eagle Keeper” Reed wants a detective? On like Kong, mofo. OR as my dear, departed mama used to say: “like a rat on a Cheeto”. 😎
Shitting my pants. [eyeroll]
Save your money on the detective, Clyde, and ask me a Q. Or HIRE your detective. I got nothing to hide.
But don’t have to prove anything, either. (E.g., that I can swear reeeel funny, which evidently serves as proof of one’s veteran bona fides … )
Clyde…That’ll be “streetsweeper” to you, sir. Hire a detective? Why sir, that is the most profound, thought provocing thing I’ve read all day long. What a “reel” genius.
Mail drop address: Mailboxes Ect, 4619 SAN DARIO AVE LAREDO,TX,78041
2163 Lima Loop, Laredo, Tx 78405, vacant lot, housing subdivision situated two blocks off International Boulevard.
Reed, “Fred”, “Freddy” “Fredrick”, et all. USMC, Not listed in Wounded database. Name check/RFI Vietnam service done!
Back atcha, jack.
OK, so you’re a garbage man. Didn’t know it meant that much to you.
“Back atcha,” WHAT? I know you guys have ways of finding stuff out about valor stealers, or anyone else you get your sights on.
So what?
(BTW, Fred evidently lives in Mexico, with his Mexican wife. I guess your database is missing that info.)
DOOOOOLY IMPRESSED. /sarc
You are almost semi-clever. I like it.
In a van by the river?
A question: Sir, do you gargle balls?
Hey Junior. Go play in traffic if have nothing of substance to add.
I tried. It did really work out.
But back to the point, I think it is a fair question: Do you, sir, gargle balls? And if so, are you compensated?
Fred is both right and wrong. Though he may be a vet, it appears obvious he hasn’t much experience with the VA. fact is, disabled vets in the system get damned near everything the need to help them lead a good and productive life. He also doesn’t know are ignores the fact that much depends on where one is. There are very good regional centers and piss poor ones. To say the entire VA sucks because of his experience with one small part of it is absurd and slanders those good VA employees who work hard to treat the veterans and get them what they need. He’s also oblivious to the fact, or again chooses to ignore it, that disabled veterans aren’t solely dependent on their VA compensation. Those disabled so badly they can’t work are also eligible for SSDI, and many in fact get it as well as their VA compensation. From his rant, it would appear that Fred thinks most veterans are near brain dead morons and nearly illiterate. All have access to a county veterans service officer and to the VSOs with the veterans organizations like the American Legion and VFW. All can and do help the veteran with the paperwork the VA requires.
Understood.
My point in linking to the story wasn’t to take sides in his views on the VA, but rather to simply toss the doubters here (“How about a DD214 Fred?” Harumph harumph HARUMPH!) a bone showing that, yeah, he might actually be a veteran.
Thanks for an on-topic (and respectful) post.
Nonsense. You came here to troll and be insulted, and you got what you asked for.
Tell Fred that his opinion is like a rotten dead cat’s asshole. You see enough of them, but they all stink.
You tell him, tough guy. His email is at the bottom of his page.
Same thing I said to Old Sarge about discussing **the issue** (the moral validity of soldiers’ consciences) instead of dodging it and calling names. (Talk about shooting blanks.)
Really?
Turd.
Yo, dude.
http://www.actdu.org.au/archives/actein_site/basicskills.html
Really. Do yourself a favor.
“Turd” won’t get you anywhere quick.
How about explosive diarrhea ?
Were you a front line airman or REMF? Never mind, Fairchild AFB, 1980-1983, jet engine mechanic…You got guilty feelings because you what? Smoked a joint or four in the barracks, went downtown Spokane hung out at strip clubs hoping to hook a lift on a fine looking dancer OR after the bars closed at 2AM, you sat at the counter eyeballing the ugly waitresses working graveyard shift at the Husky truckstop.
So I was stationed at Fairchild because I live in Spokane?! You’re no Sherlock Holmes OR Miss Cleo.
After Basic (Lackland AFB/San Antonio TX) and Tech School (Chanute AFB/Rantoul IL), I did 30 months at Bitburg AB W. Germany, followed by 13 months at Luke AFB (Phoenix).
No “guilt” at all — but thanks for your concern, Padre. Given the little I knew of the world when I was 18, what I wanted to do (work on planes), I’d probably do it all over again.
But not knowing what I know 30 years later. After watching this country get lied into invading Iraq between Sep 2001 and Mar 2003, I changed my mind about wanting my sons to join the Army or the Marines.
“You’re no Sherlock Holmes OR Miss Cleo.”
I always preferred Hamilton Burger.
He did win, once. I get this.
But he won.
“You’re no Sherlock Holmes OR Miss Cleo.”
I always preferred Hamilton Burger.
He did win, once. I get this.
But he won.
One small detail though, I’m not a preacher nor have I ever wanted to be one, vato.
Well, what with your concern for my “guilty conscience” and all …
One thing’s for certain, save the mind-reading schtick for the county fair. You missed by a mile.
Nope, I was as clean-cut as they come. Well, almost. Went to a nudie joint or two in Germany, and not proud of it. Drank some, never touched the weed.
But what that has to do with my or Fred’s view on Bergdashl is known only to your fevered little mind.
*yawn*….Next.
Buh bye, Miss Cleo …
@ EAGLE KEEPER:
Before I went to Viet Nam, I spent a year (1968 – 1969) in Germany, mostly TDY to Spangdahlem Air Force Base.
Being a Mormon, each Sunday, I would hitch hike to Bitburg Air Force Base to go to church.
I was a PFC in the United States Army, and being stationed on an Air Force base was like dying and going to Heaven!
JRM, “Bitte Ein Bit?” B Battery, 6/56 ADA Bitburg AB, 74-77. We simulated shooting down all those F-4’s/F-15’s during crew drills for ORE’s. You should have seen the looks on the faces of the AF types at the NCO club when we told them they were out of a job.
@ CLAW and EAGLE:
My MOS was 31 L 20, Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair, and in 1968 – 1969, my unit was Company A, 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion, 32d Army Air Defense Command, at Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern.
I was mostly TDY to Team A-2 at Spangdahlem Air Force Base.
http://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/
Yup. Spang is right across the valley from the Bush. Their F-4s would buzz us to simulate enemy attacks during alerts. I assume our guys returned the favor. I think Spang is still open, but Bitburg closed up shop years ago. I’d give my eye teeth to spend a week in the Eiffel again. (On a motorcycle.)
We had an Army dorm/barracks that manned the Chapparal batteries that provided the base’s ground-to-air defense. Never met any of the soldiers. I do recall one day in class hearing — then seeing — the troops doing what I assume was PE in fatigues, boots and tee shirts. Air Force didn’t do PE after Basic Training. One of the reasons I wanted my kids to go Army or Marines.
You’ll be able to appreciate this:
We also “shot down” quite a few A-10’s also. B Btry was tasked to perform visual evaluations of the different paint schemes on the A-10 while it was still in the prototype phase.
“Lied into invading Iraq?” You know this for a fact, do you?
“We KNOW Saddam has WMD. It’s a SLAM DUNK.”
Saddam possessed WMD that were an imminent threat to his neighbors and the world? Hell yeah, that was a lie. We knew he DIDN’T. E.g., look up Col. Hussein Kamel (sp?), head of Iraq’s unconventional weapons programs and Saddam’s son-in-law. He defected after Gulf War I; we debriefed him; he told us that Iraq had disposed of all unconventional weapons; Saddam coaxed him back with an “all-is-forgiven” ploy, and beheaded him for his troubles.
Or the Downing Street Memo showing the BushCo was “fixing the facts around the policy” of regime change.
I watched it develop. I read the administration’s critics for over a year … and they were right. Nope, no WMD. We went there for regime change and nation building — a war of Bush’s and the Necons’ choice — not a necessary war of national defense.
PS: F-15s at both Bitburg and Luke. (Hence the “Eagle Keeper”: http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/lg/P4158_lg.jpg )
No shit? I mean like, nooooo shit!
Hey Clyde … sorry, “Sanitation Engineer” … YOU’RE the one who figured I served at Fairchild.
How should I know how ignorant you REALLY are?
Yet EK was the one ignorant enough, or emotionally immature enough, to take the bait.
Nicely done, street.
Comrades in Arms:
I have read Fred’s blog many times, as he is frequently cited at the “FREE NORTH CAROLINA” web site, which I visit daily, and which my own web site, “OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE”, provides a link to.
Based on his past publicized opinions “on everything”, I would never consider Fred to be a “liberal”, “leftist”, and/or anything resembling a “hippy”.
On this particular issue, he’s expressed an unpopular viewpoint (which I also disagree with).
Shucks, that’s nothing.
You ought to see the unpopular viewpoints I express.
A few months ago, I even had one of my comments at THIS web site edited by Jonn Lilyea, himself, and the Master Chief Petty Officer in New York City seriously considered challenging me on the Field of Honor at twenty paces.
Not only that, but due to my quick temper, big mouth, ignorance, and stupidity, plus wildly extremist views, there were even a few times during my years in the United States Army, when I narrowly avoided being court-martialed and dishonorably discharged.
That’s what the First Amendment is all about – – – , i.e., our unalienable right to publicly express a controversial and UNPOPULAR opinion.
Now, you may continue your piling on, but I think it’s bad form, and rather lacking in character.
Mox nix.
Xin loi.
Thank you.
John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Gulfport, Mississippi 39507
John Robert,
Thanks for thinking for yourself, friend.
Peace.
Eagle Turd Keeper,
If you think everyone here is in lock-step with one side of the aisle or another you are sadly mistaken.
Anyone who tries to insinuate Terdahl made his decision to run off and play slap and tickle with the Taliban based on “higher morals” is way off track.
Terdahl didn’t simply try to avoid a distasteful duty that he came to disagree with. The little shit took off seeking to turn himself over to the enemy.
You repeatedly championing him as an “emlightened soldier” who acted on his conscience isn’t getting any traction here.
All of these “facts” I assume you know from sources OTHER than the media? Because as far as I know, he hasn’t even been charged with anything yet, let alone been questioned.
I think he was a naive fool to walk off into hostile territory. If he were my son and I knew he was facing some kind of crisis of conscience, I would have urged him to a. apply for conscientious objector status/discharge; and until then, b. refuse to fight. “If ordered outside the wire, I will not go. If dragged out, I will not fight. Now, do with me what you will.”
When you scrape away all the hysterics about Mr. Bergdahl’s “Taliban beard” and speaking Pashto or Farsi or whateverthehell at the Rose Garden, I think his advice to his son was pretty much spot on:
“OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!
“Dear Bowe, In matters of life and death, and especially at war, it is never safe to ignore ones’ conscience. Ethics demands obedience to our conscience. It is best to also have a systematic oral defense of what our conscience demands. Stand with like minded men when possible. — dad.”
I doubt he suspected his son would walk off, though.
And your “palling around with the Taliban” is more Fox fever-swamp Bravo Sierra, until facts come to light that say otherwise.
“If you think everyone here is in lock-step with one side of the aisle or another you are sadly mistaken.”
Except when it comes to what soldiers are expected to do, and their conscience be damned.
Hell, if you (generally speaking — all of you) wanna disagree, fine. That’s what I’m here for, to tip over some money tables.
But don’t call names and pretend that it’s substantive engagement. That kind of “death to the dissenters” BS gives vets a bad name.
There is plenty of evidence that Terdahl was conniving to go bump dick with the Taliban well in advance of him walking hi narrow ass out the wire.
This wasn’t some kid who got a case of the regrets and screwed up in boot camp to get kicked out or skipped out on going over seas.
Hell he could have pulled some ass-hat trick to get pulled off the front lines.
He decided to scoot off and make buddies out of people who were killing Americans.
Or maybe he just thought he’d commit suicide by enemy (if he didn’t somehow actually make it to India or Pakistan)?
http://virginiaconservative.net/?p=5103
Face it, Old Dog Turd, you don’t KNOW anymore about the sitch than anyone else.
… and “mox nix,” too! 😉
“God forbid that soldiers begin to think”
And for that line old Fred can go fuck himself with agave plant.
Kinda old,
So I suppose you think that the German soldiers in WWII SHOULD HAVE obeyed their orders rather than “think for themselves”? Especially toward the end, when it became clear to all and sundry just what Der Fuhrer was up to?
Or is it only AMERICAN SOLDIERS who should never think for themselves? (Presumably because our country and its leaders are so virtuous … )
Eagle Keeper,
Are you really going to put that out there and compare the 101st Airborne to the Death Camp SS?
Was Terdahl told to shoot unarmed Afghan women and children or gas them?
You are a lost cause.
Who said anything about the SS? I’m talking about the Wehrmacht (sp).
Was the conscientious German draftee morally obligated to fight for what he (rightly, in retrospect) considered to be an unjust cause?
And what about the US soldier who experiences a sincere change of conscience after enlisting? “Tough shit, soldier”? “Just suck it up … your ass is ours”?
Eagle terd keeper,
Terdahl didn’t simply try to disown U S Policy, he actively embraced, or a a minimum enabled the Taliban.
A better WW2 Parable would have been if a US Marine on Okinawa, who was a conscientiuos objector crossed over to the Japanses.
I have no idea what Bergdahl was told to do, but he evidently witnessed a young Afghan child being run over by an MRAP, and his fellow soldiers routinely laughing at the Afghan civilians he thought they were there to defend from the Taliban.
Eagle Keeper, we’ve had this discussion before about your behavior. If you want to be Alex Jones’ spambot please go somewhere else. There are a thousand other forums upon which you can spray that irrational venom, this one isn’t your personal playground. You’ve taken advantage of my good humor for the last time. Try Code Pink, I hear they like that shit.
Hey, no problem, sarge. It’s your echo chamber.
(And we wouldn’t want the widdle vets feewings hurt with alternative views now, would we?)
Tschüß …
EK,
The reason I invited Fred *and yourself if you are inclined to agree with him* to fuck himself with a pointy plant is the tone Fred takes, that the average solider CANT think for themselves.
Which is a load of hogwash. Our fighting men and women are for the most part highly trained and highly intelligent.
That and the assertation that modern wars are ONLY fought for profit, again hogwash.
Is it ALWAYS the moral duty of the soldier to loyally wage the war his government is waging, and to NEVER question whether his government is in the right or wrong in waging the war?
http://fff.org/2014/06/06/d-day-bergdahl-and-conscience-in-nazi-germany/
It would appear that this Eagle Keeper person loves to stir the pot, yet doesn’t like to debate. I’ve answered several of his posts and have yet to see a reply.
You’ll forgive me for not hovering over the page and swooping down as soon as I see a reply.
*I* don’t like to debate?
Debate what? “Ball gargler”? “Douchebag”? Second-rate attempts at mind-reading or long-distance psychoanalysis?
That’s too rich for words.
I’m starting to wonder if LTC Bateman has sprouted a new alterego.
How about a twin, and separated at birth?
Bateman is as bald as Blobfish Chevalier, albeit he isn’t as corpulent,but still almost as idiotic, maybe they were separated at birth?
“Is it ALWAYS the moral duty of the soldier to loyally wage the war his government is waging, and to NEVER question whether his government is in the right or wrong in waging the war?”
What would the virtuous morally superior Bergdahl have done if the French Foreign Legion had accepted him? What did this home schooled Einstein anticipate about that endeavor? I think that given your material (Bergdahl), your argument has no legs from the git go. Can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear as hard as you might try.
Being it is the weekend to which we honor fathers across the world, I would like to give a special shout out first to all honorable fathers out here on TAH and then shout out to my own father, stepfather and father-in-law and my two younger brothers, both fathers and all of them honorable.
Having said that, Dennis Chevalier, Dallas Wittengfield, and Daniel Bernath, along with all the other posers and liars, including an ex-brother-in-law who shall remain nameless here but is close to where Chevalier claims to be, let me say this. You failed to be honorable as children of God, so I say I hope your children do honor you by being a far better person then you were, are or ever can be. You all can go rot in the deepest corners of an eternal hell.
Dennis, you and your partners in shame, and your sock puppets too, can all go find life in hell very enjoyable…as you deserve hell..and will continue to get it from those of us with honor, of which you are not and never will be.
I wonder what Dennis kid really thinks about Dennis. Just beyond the fear of a fat father who failed in life.
Buried back in the thousands of posts on Shitaliar was a link to an email from his son, who called him out as being a piece of shit. It caled hm out for the way he treated his wives and the constant lies he told him. He specifically mentioned Blob-turd promising to help him get ready for Don Shipley’s Course and then sending him there, which cheeseass failed to do. The kid made it a point to mention he would refer to him as Dennis, and not “Dad”.
Commander Phil Monkress at All-Points Logistics exudes criminal behavior.
Also, when is the tourney?
Good point, tourney is starting late this year
Man, oh, man do we have some contenders.
Quite a few, some I know I forgot about. Like that phony who had the business and looked like he has a superimposed knife, was that Dukes?
Aye, that was him.
Well I have finally broke down and went and bought my first AR15. I have always been a 7.62 Nato guy and I own three AR10 type rifles, but after looking at a Colt LE6920 M4 at a Dunham’s Spoting Goods. It reminded me of the M4 I carried in Iraq.
This will remain in the box unfired, heck, I have not bought any 5.56/223 ammo for it because I am set up for reloading my 308/7.62 nato.
all you need is a set of 5.56 dies, primers and bullets… Varget , IMR 3031, and other powders work well for both. You won’t hurt the value of the Colt by firing it if you maintain it well. LOTS cheaper to shoot, too… bullets are generally cheaper, primers cost no more, and you will be using about 1/2-2/3 the powder. (Hint – Mobil1 may be expensive motor oil but it’s dirt-cheap gun lube.)
My stupid curiosity strikes again, I use Royal Purple in my truck engine, and I’ve started to use it on my firearms as well. Does the grade matter? I’ve been using the same 5W20 that I put in my truck (Yes it costs more, but I can get up to 20K miles in between oil changes, and I get better gas mileage).
What a beautiful weapon. I have the LE6920 with Magpul MOE furniture and Troy Battlesight – the LAPD “surplus” package – and I am not sure I’ll ever shoot it. It’s an instant classic.
Good afternoon, TAH. God bless all you fathers out there this weekend. Have a great day.
Doing a combined BD for son #2 and FD tomorrow. Depending on his arrival time we’ll do some range time with an AR-15 I don’t *cough* posses, and watch the MotoGP race, with steaks on the CFG for dinner. I’ll brace myself for the day with Eggs Benedict for breakfast- you know, toasted English muffins, topped with poached eggs and in this case country ham, slathered in Hollandaise sauce.
The sauce to fussy for you? Stupid easy to make, do you this:
Microwave Hollandaise Sauce
2 egg yolks
1/4 lemon, juiced, or to taste
1 pinch salt
1 pinch cayenne pepper
1/4 cup butter, melted
Directions:
1. Beat egg yolks, lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper together in a microwave-safe bowl until smooth. Slowly stream melted butter into the egg yolk mixture while whisking to incorporate.
2. Heat in microwave for 15 to 20 seconds; whisk. Done.
I’ll be making a double batch.
Oh, and Happy Birthday doggies!;-)
15 year old Glenfiddich Scotch and a Montecristo cigar…pretty nice way to kill some time on a Saturday afternoon.
The Navy announced today that the USS George Bush, the USS Philippine Sea and the USS Truxton will move into the Arabian Gulf to allow for increased options with the Iraq situation.
As many of you know I have a Sailor of the Philippine Sea. The logical part of me knows that the risk to the ships are minimal. The Dad part of me is worried.
Enigma4you…I do remember your son and I do keep him in my prayers.
Nice I broght home Walmarts Colt M4 my self. Gota love that 18 months no interest. And its seams I have AImpolt for it from dumpster diveing.
Happy Fathers Day to all our fathers here at TAH (You too, Jonn) and those that are filling in for missing fathers.
So, Eagle Keeper…GFY
In other news—here’s how my week’s been going. So, way back when in fourth through sixth grade, I was stricken with Lyme Disease. It was pretty much the worst time of my life; there were times I didn’t have the strength to walk across the parking lot because my spinal cord was so inflamed, I missed tremendous amounts of school, and I didn’t have any friends (no energy to socialize). Well, I ended up getting through that, and my life improved drastically. I figured I’d never go through anything that miserable again. And then came this year. So over the summer, while my family was in Italy for a nice trip, I came down with a 103 degree fever and some severe flu symptoms and felt lousy the rest of the trip. Then school started. During the school year, I had, in the following order (no, really): -two severe head colds that made me miss school plus another that didn’t -one severe vomiting flu that kept me out for a week -bronchitis that kept me out for a little less than a week -walking pneumonia, which kept me out for ten days -mono from February until the present, which I finally got diagnosed in late May when it got especially bad and which forced me to reschedule my finals. Mind you, I go to a tough Jesuit school that’s only in session for 142 days instead of the usual 180 due to money issues (i.e., everything is much more compressed, and missing one day of school is like missing two at a regular school). And I take tough classes. I missed roughly one third of the school year, and still managed to scrape out an A and a B and four C’s. So, what is the reason for all this sickness and pain, you might ask? My mom figured it was stress, which in turn was causing all my illnesses, combined with a chronic inability to organize myself and encouraged me to leave the Jesuit school in favor of something easier, which I finally agreed to do. Well, two days… Read more »
HSSoph:
Bellarmine?
How did you know?
HS Soph, My dad always told me that adversity was good training for adulthood. That life was tough for a reason, mother nature made it tough so only the best would survive to reproduce. He said that we have perverted nature with all this modern medicine as over 50 percent of us were supposed to die in childhood. He always said things like that when smiling, but I don’t think he was kidding. Hang in there and think of the stories you will have to tell your children when they complain about how tough things are for them.
Thanks for that, Roger. That’s what I keep telling myself as I try to finish my finals now.
I’m a Bay Area local. Several of my friends from my “youth” went there. Long time ago.
You’re doing fine, even if it doesn’t look like it, right now. Lyme disease is no fun at all, but in pulling yourself over this hump, you are going to find resources, both within and outside of yourself, that will carry you through your future life.
The Internet is your friend. Scour it for treatments, and look for success on the obscure edge, because there is no really good recognized traditional-medical treatment for lyme disease, yet. That does not mean, however, that there are not useful treatments, support measures, or even a cure available. It does mean that you may have to put it together yourself.
I have a son no more than two years older than you, who has been diagnosed with ADD, the real thing that shows up on a brain scan, who is being treated with neurofeedback (video games). My side of the family thinks I’m just doing what my cousins did — moving heaven and earth on behalf of my kid. They expect me to win this one. His dad’s side of the family stopped listening when I said “brain scan.”
Keep pushing.
Thanks, Val. Good luck with your boy; ADD is no fun either. I’ve got some good meds lined up to fight this thing (and a good specialist I worked with last time), but it’s going to take a while.
You are a good egg, dude. Something I read a long time ago (in a Thomas Ricks novel – no gagging from the cheap seats please) went to the effect that a positive attitude and ability to do what was asked of one, always went a lot further than high intelligence and a sense of entitlement. You’re wise for your years with a genuinely good attitude toward life, coupled with a fine sense of justice and a good BS meter. Whatever you decide to do with yourself, I suspect you will do well at it – as well as being a good husband, father, son, brother (? don’t know if you’re an only or have siblings) and friend, all of which are more important than career crap.
All hail the amber lights, slow traffic keep to the right. So, any of you ever watch or listen to David Barton, Historian and Wall Builders dot Org founder? Wife is watching some of his video’s and pretty impressed with his work, too.
well, first of all to everyone out there “happy fathers day”.
now, when bow bergdahl was first released I thought it was greay. I did not agree with the publicity session at the white house, but I did think it was good to have a pow released. I also thought that his fellow squad members were maybe down on him because he was a leg in an airborne unit, still have not been able to find out if he ever went through jump school. than about a week later I read that he was released by the coast guard after less than a month for physchological reasons and thought wtf. now I guess I will just wait to see if he gets a medal or a court martial. probably should be a court martial but after that big publicity session at the white house I doubt if he will get what should probably be coming to him
I missed last night’s Army Birthday celebration. Yesterday morning, I had to go to Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi for an MRI scan of my brain and my neck. By the time I got back to my room here in the Armed Forces Retirement Home, I was too physically exhausted to even don my kilt and Highland regalia and go downstairs to the festivities at the dinner-dance. Have any of you ever had a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test? Boy, it was quite an experience! First of all, I had to register as a patient, and then fill out a form listing any and all metal objects in my body. So, I thunk REAL hard, and began listing thusly – – – ; Tin ear, plus hammer, anvil, and stirrups in each ear, silver tongue, iron lung, cast iron stomach, lead bottom, brass balls, knife in back (from backstabber), and (Cupid’s) arrow through heart, Seriously, I definitely informed them of the four (04) drug eluting stents in the arteries surrounding my heart, along with the recent history of heart attack and kidney disease. They had me lie down on this conveyor belt, with my head properly wedged and positioned for the autopsy. Then, to make certain I didn’t escape, a plastic grill cage was placed over my face, and ear plugs installed to prevent my overhearing their diabolical conniving. When the scan started, I was very glad to have those ear plugs, for the mechanizations of the MRI are very, VERY loud! Amidst the explosions and artillery, there were gremlins and leprechauns banging away on the pipes with hammers and wrenches. Seven dwarves were having a drunken spree, and while under the influence, happily joined in with the “Pink Elephants On Parade” (from the Walt Disney movie, “DUMBO”). A guy from the 4077th MASH was trying to play the bugle, but could only sound one (01) note, which was flat and off key. However, that bugle was sufficient to get the Browning M-2 .50 calibre machine gun going, as its crew desperately fought off the invading hordes. Finally, a fog… Read more »
Glad you are back settled in and hope you feel better.
I had to have a few MRIs done, all on my brain housing group.
The last one was about three years ago. The worse part about that one was I had to be injected with a dye to trace the circulation ( or lack of it) in my brain. It made me queasy right away and by the time the MRI was done I was heaving all over the place.
You’re in my prayers, sir. Brain scans of any kind are no fun (I had a couple last time I had Lyme). Hope you get through this soon 🙁
John,
Based on your posting … You are fine … Don’t go anywhere yet! We all enjoy your material. Well … Most of it anyway!
MCPO
Had two done for my back- they had plastic ear phones to pipe in some tunes while I was in the coffin. I asked for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, seemed appropriate. They said no one had ever asked for that album before…
At least now you know what a suppository feels like…
Getting ready to get some sleep. I made it over here in less than 36 hours. We all got here safe and I just got off the phone with my wife to let her know that I’m here and I’m safe. We’ll be getting settled in over the next couple of days and I will send my mailing address to the admins sometime later this week. Thank you for your thoughts, prayers, and well-wishes.
Cool, 1LT!
Or as safe as one can be in a hot LZ anyway. Keep your head on a swivel and your ass down. Good luck and stay safe soldier.
36 hours? Good. My getting to Afghanistan took about a week. For some reason, they just didn’t want to let me deploy forward from Kuwait until I was reissued the IBA/ACH/a few other items that the USAF lost between CONUS and Ali Al Salem AB. (smile)
I won’t tell you to “stay safe”; mission may make that impossible, and the enemy has a vote in that. I will say, “Be careful out there” and “Bring as many of your troops back as you can – all of them if possible.”
Vaya con Dios, Teniente.
Muchas gracias. Con la proteccion de El Senor espero que mis soldados lograran la mision y que todos regresaremos.
For those requiring a translation:
Thank you. With the Lord’s protection, I hope that my soldiers accomplish the mission and return home.
Que El Señor conceda, Teniente. May God so grant.
Mustang1LT…Happy Father’s Day. Praying for you, your men and your family.
The AP has a story tonight that thousands of Shiites from southern Iraq are answering the government’s call to arms. I wonder how much vetting these recruits are receiving before they are issued their AK’s. I would be very wary of arming anyone from that part of the world that I didn’t know personally. These jokers are going to wearout a lot of rifles from dropping them on the way off the battlefield.
Even the ones who aren’t going to commit green-on-blue attacks at the first available opportunity are probably going to be damn near useless in a fight. Reading the stories of how the Shiite authorities are arming random people to fight ISIS reminds me of how the Taliban handed random people in refugee camps AK’s and SKS’s and told them to kill Americans during the first weeks of the GWOT. By all accounts, they were pretty much useless; the ones that didn’t throw down their guns and throw up their hands the second the first shot got fired got killed pretty much instantly by US troops and air support. I suspect it will be much the same here. They’re sending untrained people with crappy, dented guns to a front held by a fanatical, well-organized, well-trained, and combat experienced veterans. I don’t picture that ending well for the auxiliaries. Preliminary is that it does not look at all good for semi-sane Iraq.
You knew it was coming…
Nothing bears taking a bg fat Giduck in the weekend open thread. John Giduck – the turd with a face and falsified claims in his speaker bios and book.
http://thetruthaboutsocnetlies.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/john-giduck-clings-to-flawed-improbable-5-september-2004-beslan-arrival/
Perhaps God miracled John Giduck to Beslan sometime in the week or so after the Russian forces retook the school.
*flush*
Did All-Points Logistics and “Balls in the Face” Phil Monkress have a logistical supply contract with that school?
What a great read! Some excellent give and take.
Bottomline – I wish all of you old SOB’s a very Happy Father’s Day!
God knows, I earned mine! 🙂
Happy Father’s Day to all you Dad’s and Mom’s that had to be Dad’s when the no good son of a bitch that knocked you up ran out on you and the kids but still brags about how they do.
Happy Fathers Day to all the real Dads out there!
Have to vent on this Post Office SNAFU. Granddaughters hand carried a Father’s Day card to the Fort Bragg Post Office operated by the US Postal Service, had it weighed and paid $1.19 postage. The card arrives here with $1.13 postage due. I complaint to what is supposed to be the regional consumer advocate in Little Rock, he refers me to the local station manager – the jerk who assigned the postage due. Thankfully, Congressman Tom Cotton has a pit bull for a military affairs staff member and she immediately went for the throat with a Congressional to the Postal Service HQ. The rational of the local station manger was even if they figure the postage incorrectly, the customer is still wrong. That is why our country is FUBAR.
Remember the story a few months ago about a knucklehead with a gun tattoo on his stomach, that others mistook for a real gun? He’s now been arrested with a real gun tucked into his waistband –
http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/06/13/norridgewock-gun-tattoo-man-arrested-with-real-gun/
It’s a pity National Lampoon never went ahead and made this movie SCREW CAIR and their ilk to death up the ass sideways with a frozen porcupine!!
Not Sure if this went though to the Staff at TAH, but this crap happened May 22 at a Veteran’s Cemetery in Alabama.I guess it was a memorial day event.
Anyway the report was cozying up to “16 Year Marine Veteran” Julee Johns who ran her lips about being in Iraq andAfghanistan and losing friends.
At the :41 Mark it shows a bunch of ribbons on her vest.
Shit all out of order,,, 3 bronze stars, CAR upside down, out of order, 3 DI tours, Redon jump wings, EOD badge…http://wiat.com/2014/05/22/alabama-national-cemetery-gives-military-honor-to-fallen-veterans/
Jacked up, bad.
I kept looking for the “Big Shitbag” Riley Keeton in the background.
Shit stain! On her left lapel, she is wearing the American Flag Pin, upside down! I think we need an FOIA on Julee Johns with her 3 Bronze Stars and more shit than the Christmas turkey.
This just in, Iraqi Army AK-47 for sale, never fired and only dropped once.
Hey guys, remember me? It’s been a while so I thought I’d drop in to say hello and ask a favor. I’ve not been around for a few reasons and due to a couple of those reasons I probably won’t be doing much more than lurking. Anyway I’m asking for a few prayers. It’s been a rough few weeks, days, hours for me and mine. I had like a super flu that kept me down for a couple weeks. Then last weekend my brother in law was shot in the back over a “barroom disagreement”, the disagreement was over the fact these 2 guys thought my brother’s blood belonged on the outside of his body, he didn’t agree. He’s home from the hospital but the other 2 aren’t, and one of them might not ever leave. But the prayers I’m asking for are not for either of us. See before I moved a few months ago I had the best neighbor ever! She was a two time breast cancer survivor with a heart of gold and a mouth that made me blush. She has 2 grown children but none with her current husband who had helped raise her kids. They wanted a baby together but after 2 miscarriages, they didn’t think it was possible. The day I moved she informed me she was pregnant, a couple weeks later we found out it was twins, a boy and a girl. Today was her baby shower, during which she passed out. At the hospital they revived her hoping to perform a c-section to save the babies. They were not successful and 30 minutes later we were informed we lost all three. Cari was 38, the twins were Jaden and Jada. 28 weeks gestation. I know that all of us are very aware of the fact that this is not a fair and just world. Hell you guys know this better than most. I’m sorry to dump this here, but I count y’all as friends and I just need some prayers and love sent out. I need and am telling everyone who’s touched… Read more »
You got it, Valkyrie.
Thank you!