Weekend Open Thread
Ex-PH2 wanted an open thread this weekend and sent this photo, I think she borrowed it from someone and I’ve heard there are dire consequences for borrowing a red Swingline stapler from folks and not returning it.
Category: Open thread, Politics
I was scrubbing a stain in the carpet yesterday. It took a lot of effort to get it out.
I though of Commander Phil Monkress at All-Points Logistics and how similar the comparison between the two really is.
Anyway, Phildo still and always will take it in the ass as he steals from taxpayers, service members, Native Americans and law enforcement officers.
Loser.
Taking a big morning Giduck as the Weekend Open Thread was posted. Shady and fat…just like Giduck himself.
John Giduck, the turd with a face!
I just read the “TAH FNG
Sorry about that.
I just read the “TAH FNG FAQ”.
Talk about thorough!
Took me about two hours.
Anyway, the SEC West will have separation this week….until next week.
Toughest mini-conference in football.
WAR EAGLE!
Re: TAH FNG FAQ
Holy Guacamole, Batman! I didn’t even know that existed.
Am I detecting the fine hand of Hondo here?
Seems like a good idea, though.
I mowed my trailer trash working class lawn for the last time this till spring. I even hade enough fuel in the tank to get back to garage with some left over. Its always impresses me how well an internal combustion engine runs with fuel in it. Their should be a book or something to let everybody find out this new information.
I like you, unedjumicated and poor lower class looser, am working on my lawn and cutting firewood for winter.
We left our run down apartment in the projects, located in Manhattan, and drove up to FOB in the country as we do every weekend so we can see how the really poor people live.
My garage/barn contains many Mogas powered machines: tractor; lawn mower; chain saw; weed wacker (2); leaf blower; snow blower; Harely and my prized trailor trash 1980 MGB LE (rigged for racing).
I have at least 50 gallons of gas stored for use. I always fill each machine after each use. Oh … I check the oil too.
There is a local uncontrolled airport about 4 miles away. They have a fueling station for aircraft. Pilots in these parts don’t crash their airplanes because their garages are similar to mine. Everyone here knows how to fill a gas tank, calculate usage rates and refill tank as required.
So today, like Plamre and the non-lawyer, I will begin to plan the rest of my life based on bankruptsies, non-payment of personal loans, loosing lawsuits, hiding assets in trusts, paying off santions and fraudulant VA and or SSN claims. I am such a failure!
Ta Ta.
Make sure that when you do all of that you claim you are a Commissioned SEAL Officer, Native American and Law Enforcement Officer.
Felonious Phil Monkress is 3 out of the 5 Village People all by himself.
I did nothing. Absolutely nothing.
And it was everything I thought it would be.
The red Swingline stapler in the photo was a birthday gift to me from a good friend who understood the importance of that object. And the consequences involved, should it disappear.
There was snow on my radar this morning. I had already harvested parsley and winter savory, put away the hoses and made another batch of cookies, but ran out of gas before I finished the baking.
It is cold in my kingdom, but there is a cozy fire going in the royal fireplace. I guess it’s good-by to Summer now.
I am sad.
For a minute I thought there was some sort of “Office Space” thing with the stapler.
I’ve had one on my desk for about 5 years now. And while everyone knows full well how fatal an MIA Red Swingline can be, I also put my name inside because I’m not stupid.
I think mine cost 20 bucks from amazon. Good stuff.
Well, you see, it goes like this:
He who abscondeth with the Red Swingline Stapler shall be sliced and diced (red onion) or minced (garlic), then fed to angry Sand Peoples’ Banthas. Or maybe just scolded a lot and made to watch reruns of ‘Green Acres’ and ‘Mr. Ed’.
That sounds quite fair.
Awesome start of the day, the Navy way. Naval Station Mayport plays colors at 0700 (a much more civilized hour than the Army). Great way to start the day.
They played a march of some kind after the National Anthem but not sure what it was. At first I thought it was Anchors Aweigh but it wasn’t.
Question: what is the protocol these days for being in a vehicle at Colors or Retreat? Old School was you stopped the vehicle, got out, and saluted/faced the flag pole/music. Later it was stop but stay in the car. What is it today?
First off NAVY Colors is 0800 and sundown each day.
Second, when in vehicle, everyone, military and or civilian shal stop their vehicle in a safe manner and sit at attention which is to say legs and back straight with hands palm down flat on each leg.
Any questions?
Carry one!
It was 0800…I realized that after I posted. Even more civilized.
Had the chance to talk with some new Chiefs yesterday. Their organization was raising money for local charities for the holidays by washing RV’s. Fine group of folks. Very impressive.
Bernath would not understand!
Carry one!
I always carry at least one.
Isum made a mastake Masta … Shud have sed “Carry on!”
I do, too. But when the circular imprint gets too noticeable I have to buy a new wallet. 🙂
Try using one of the old-style metal or plastic square aspirin boxes vice yer wallet. (smile)
Wait a minute! What do you mean the Navy is more civilized than the Army because of when you raise the Colors? There are better reasons out there to prove that the Navy is more civilized than the Army!
At the lowest of low working class, trailer dwelling worksite I find myself at most days, locating on a patch of ground claimed by the uneducated losers trapped in the Air Force, the “Giant Voice” system warbles out Reveille and To The Colors at the unearthly early hour of 0800.
Having been already at my working stiff drudgery for the best part of two hours at that point most mornings, I usually mention to my co-worker that it must be time for the AF to finally wake up. Having retired from that particular branch as a CMSgt, he usually just gives me a baleful stare, and makes some remark about the bugler assuredly being drunk, as he was in tune for once.
This call to, well, un-arms, is closed out at 1600 by Retreat and the Star Spangled Banner. Usually having another hour or two of life-shortening hard, belittling and, of course, low-paid labors remaining, I usually remark to this same co-worker how I wish I had signed on with the AF, a corporation with uniforms and such short working hours, instead of serving in the actual military. He usually responds with some witty repartee, and no lawsuits are filed afterwards, amazingly enough.
Currahee John…I was a contractor a few years ago on an Army Chemical Depot, for storage and with destruction in process. Reveille was sounded at 0700 each day. The security force would stop and ticket people who did not pull over and stop until it was finished, morning or evening, including the “California stops”. The Army personnel, dismounted and rendered a salute but there were only 15 AD on the Depot. Civilians would do Mach II to get out of the gate before 1700. Added tickets for speeding, EVERY day. Then, they started closing the gate at 1655 and waiting until “Retreat” and “To The Color” were finished to open it. Couldn’t believe the disrespect of some of those civilian contractors there. Many were even veterans!
I saw that sort of behavior back in my Army days, as well, including guys quickly ducking into the nearest available doorways whenever To the Colors started sounding, to avoid having to render honors. I thought that was distasteful, as well.
To continue the general atmosphere of snark, perhaps those civilian contractors you saw were going Mach II not to avoid the striking of the colors but because they were all disbarred crappy lawyers and general failures as pilots who thought that the “E” on the fuel gauge meant for them to go “Extremely Fast.”
Hey Sparks – which depot? I worked chem demil at JACADS and Pine Bluff before coming back to Texas to do real work. Really miss it.
BTW, on JI we rode a bus back and forth to the plant and would stop and the driver and any troops on board would get out and render proper honors during reveille or retreat. We never heard the bugle at Pine Bluff…
I guess I’m weird, then. It was/is always my pleasure to hear Reveille/Retreat.
When and Army buddy came back from Iraq, I went down to Bragg to welcome him back. We met at around 1645. He remembered my reverence and drove by the Post flag, so we could get out and Salute. Love. that. guy.
For the Army, personnel dismount from civilian vehicles and render honors. This is for cars, etc. For buses and trucks, the senior person dismounts and renders honors.
If they were playing another song after colors at Mayport, there may have been a foreign navy’s ship inport then.
If you get 3 or 4 different countries inport at the same time, colors can go on for a quite a few minutes. Sometimes to the point that you kinda start looking for a broomstick to prop your elbow on.
Ah hah! There is a Sub that came in yesterday. Pretty sure it is from a S. American country but don’t recognize the flag
Google foo’ed and the Sub is from Peru so that explains it. I can see what you mean if they lay the anthems from all nations with ships in port during a NATO exercise….it could be lunch before it ends. Thanks for this Navy education.
OBTW: the Peruvian Sub came all the way in. It did not run out of fuel before docking. Over.
Funny story about Mayport unrelated to morning colors. A buddy of mine was stationed on the USS Philippine Sea when she shifted homeports to Mayport. The channel that leads from the Atlantic into Mayport is ridiculously short, almost non-existent. Anyways, the CO of the Philippine Sea decided to make a grand entrance to Mayport by coming in at high speed and doing a crashback* when he got close to the basin. The resultant mini-tsunami rocked the ships docked there enough that a couple of ships had their brows knocked loose.
For you landlubbers:
A modern Cruiser and Destroyer have reversible pitch props. No waiting for the shaft to come to a stop to put it in reverse. You just change the pitch on the props and all that water gets pushed in the opposite direction. A Crashback is where the ship goes from all ahead to all back which will cause the ship to stop within about the full length of the ship…and cause your wake to pass you and cause a tidal wave in enclosed areas.
I’m guessing that skipper was promptly put on a desk?
So, I was going to ask this anyway as part of my Navy education. Let’s say a skipper of a destroyer at Mayport decides on his way to work that he’d like to go water skiing today.
I KNOW! The FIRST thing he would do is have a Real CPO check the fuel status. EVERYONE knows that.
Can he take his ship out without it being on the schedule for months in advance? I’m guessing there is a little old lady in tennis shoes that controls the tugs, the floating gate to the harbor, etc., so she would have final say? But, seriously, how much flex does a skipper have in sailing for crew proficiency etc?
BTW: I heard what you meant a few minutes ago. The Peruvian Anthem is a long one!
My buddy didn’t say what happened after. My guess is that back then it probably rated nothing more than a “WTF were you thinking” from the higher ups.
The Navy tends to frown on CO’s arbitrarily taking their ships out to sea. That would earn a desk assignment for the CO.
Ran across this today…
I hope they include a scene where Kyle punches out an unnamed former UDT crackpot.
Then I hope it makes millions for his widow.
I sent it to Jonn … Clint Eastwood movie, so you know it will be good.
I wonder if they will include the scene where he takes out the Iraqi Major in Sha’ab in 2008. If so, I wonder if they will show my tank crew which was a couple hundred meters away. We saw the Iraqi get hit, heard it was a SEAL team that did it. But we didn’t find out it was Kyle until his book came out.
I figure it will take them awhile to capture the essence of my handsome figure in the background
19D1OR4 – Smitty…”I figure it will take them awhile to capture the essence of my handsome figure in the background.”
You know, that was my first thought when I read your post. It’s hard to find the really manly, masculine men in Hollywood anymore. Rock on brother!
Cool story, bro. Your fuel tank wasn’t on “E” for empty I hope.
No idea what you are implying, but we were on overwatch on RTE Sharps when he made the shot. My battalion 1-68AR was under the impression it was not a righteous shoot until much later after the incident. The SEALs took the guy out and bounced, leaving us to clean up the aftermath. We had less than zero clue why they had capped the guy.
No implication intended. My remark was geared towards Mr. Bernastickus and his low fuel landing. My apologies. Hooah.
No worries. Just didn’t get the reference.
OUTSTANDING!!
It will never replace the hole in her heart, but I pray she prospers.
Bachelor living while the wife is out of town, helping her mom. A pal is coming over with some pricey bourbon, I have the cigars. Part of the bargain is I get to cook dinner. No problem. Tonight’s menu includes a pork roast and gravy, sweet potatoes w/ butter and brown sugar, and sautéed asparagus and mushrooms.
Just pulled two dozen cinnamon rolls out of the oven, and finished sweeping and a bit of mopping and so on. Preparing to go pick up my mother from the airport – tomorrow’s the big sheep cull, so I’ll be making pork ribs in a tangy honey sauce with butternut squash, corn on the cob, and fresh-baked dinner rolls. In the meantime, help yourself to the cookies I baked yesterday – espresso cookies with milk chocolate chunks. Good luck and god bless.
Serve pork at a sheep cull?
And please, next time put dark or semi sweet chips in the cookies. THAT would be heaven!
Well, it’s got to slow-cook while people work, and everybody’s taking home some meat. Figured I’d give them something that won’t make ’em get tired of the mutton quite as fast!
I did consider dark or semi-sweet, but the espresso flavoring is a bit bitter, so I used the milk chocolate to play against that bitterness. A little bitter, a little sweet, etc.
Just made the frosting for the cinnamon rolls – delicately flavored with orange and clove. And tomorrow I’ll be making yeasted dinner rolls for with the ribs, and a caramel pear tart for with vanilla ice cream for after. (The pears are from one of our trees, and I made the caramel sauce with juice from some of them!) You’re welcome to come try a cookie or a roll if you can make it in time – we start work no later than 9 am.
farmgirl sniper:
HH6 turns the big six oh on Monday. Not being blessed with excess shekels at the moment, I and number two step-daughter made her a Keto-style chocolate b-day cake with chocolate buttercream (KerryGold) frosting.
A new thing for me, and God bless you, too!
I do like KerryGold butter when I can splurge on it – Costco carries it a lot. A local store sometimes has Amish butter too, which has great results. Mazel tov to HH6 on another circuit around the sun!
Thank you! I hope you had a blessed Yom Kippur.
Shalom!
DMV test is this monday. I imagine I’ll have to put a large amount of fuel in it to make my internal combustion engine run for the test. I imagine I’ll remember to do that, unlike some people.
Carry on.
Brilliant, Junior. Absolutely brilliant.
Good luck on the test. Once you take the piss out of it, it’s not that bad at all.
Thanks. Good luck with the college chicks. I’ve got a few lined up myself 😉
HILLSDALE UPDATE
Not a lot is going on up here at Hillsdale.
Pretty college girls (that situation is developing), far too late hours spent on getting to know friends and homework, and my first midterm.
Here’s hoping that my Western Heritage teacher has a sense of humor, because I threw in a bit of sarcasm in the essay portion of it.
Today is the Homecoming game, so Galloway dorm (my dorm) and all the rest of them are about to go out on parade in 37 degree weather. I doubt the cold will bother me much, I’ve got warm clothes on.
Every time I clean the cat litter box, I’m reminded of a certain google of shitbirds that keep getting themselves noticed by the People of TAH and blame everyone else for what they’ve brought upon themselves!
Hi Infidel, I also have a cat and hated the cleaning out the cat box until a couple of moths ago. My cat is 15 so I have done a lot of that chore and still hated it.
Walmart sells sifting cat litter tray liners, made of a heavy plastic liner they work great and you never have to touch the turds with anything at all.
Just pick it up, shake it out a bit and then toss the entire mess in the trash.
After sifting it your cat will have a clean cat box and the odor and mess are gone.
They work great. You put the whole box of them in the pan and just pick up one while the rest are ready to be used.
I am wondering why the hell didn’t I think of this !!!
Sadly doesn’t work with all cats. One of my little b-st-rds claws through the lining in an attempt to dig to China. However, I’ve found a use for the dirty litter, at least. After I run anything that needs to go through the shredder, it goes into the same garbage bag as the used litter, which sits in the garage until it’s time for another dump run. It’s not perfect, but when there’s a burn ban on, it’s a very determined soul who’ll be willing to play at jigsaw puzzles with THOSE pieces…
There’s another use for the residue in the cat litter box. If you have mole runs in your lawn, dig up the middle and end of the run, and insert some of the stuff your cat leaves behind. It takes a few days, but eventually, the moles will head out for lawns that are far less smelly.
What if the most likely source of Aaron Elijah Colyer’s PTSD came about a result of some big hairy balls swinging from his face? I don’t know how he’d get PTSD from something he so enjoyed such as being made into a “colter-sicle” at an Occupy event.
As was pointed out in the facebook comments in is thread, there is an IRS registered non-profit by the name of Leave No One Behind Inc.
in care of name: NATASHA GREEN
Physical Address: Margate, FL 33063
EIN: 26-4788153
NTEE Category: B Educational Institutions
B90 (Educational Services and Schools – Other)
Ruling Year: 2010
Products
Bilingual Special Education
Grants For Special Education
Early Childhood Special Education
High School Special Education
Elementary Special Education
Location Type: Single Location
Revenue $25,000 – $50,000
Employees 3
Years In Business 3
So, why would Aaron Elijah Colyer need to establish a Rally donation site for a non-profit that isn’t involved in veteran’s issues and doesn’t operate in the state where he lives? A reasonable person might conclude that he is trying to steal your money.
I believe that claiming to be an IRS registered non-profit is a crime in some states. Aaron Elijah Colyer, can you help us understand your claims?
My Weekend is complete.
Frank Joseph Visconi showed up on his Blog of Shame giving me the title of Asshole of the year. I feel so honored. No applause please. Don’t want to overkill such a historic moment.
Congratulations Scotty !!!
You must be very proud !!!
I am certain that it took years and years of hard work and practice to finally get your award !!!
Don’t forget to thank your Mom and Dad when you get the award !!!
Frank Joseph Visconi is the blowfish. Dennis Howard Chevalier is the blobfish.
And both of them don’t belong on a professional site such as LinkedIn…but alas, they are.
Forger Frank and Dipshit Denny.
Maggots they are.
Oh Viscunti… I thought the last bitch slap he got in court would have been a hint.
Yeah I’m sure his blog id about like Chubbyliar’s. The only people that read it are those who called him out seeing what shit he pulls next.
Always a classy move, Jion a VSO and forge documents to get awards 40 years after the fact,
Oh Frankee Vee I am still waiting for the answers to my questions about being a aerial gunner. Please respond with the answers . Joe(a real helicopter crew chief . Joe
Congrats, Scotty! An honor well earned. 😉
Chili in the crock pot, loaf of white bread in the bread machine. The trailer is cleaned, windows opened, a slight cool breeze stirring the scents of the cooking food. Football on the TV, cold beer in hand. Girlfriend, kitties and dogs napping on sofas.
Life is pretty damn good this afternoon.
*Even though apparently I’m just some poor dumb schmuck wasting my life…
Seein as how I think Chili is nature’s most nearly perfect food, do you have a recipe to share?
Got a few remarks to send out regarding the Red Staple, but right now I have my football game going between Notre Dame and Stanford, but I’ll get back to this blog before everyone hits the sack, if not, then wish me luck, “Go Irish” and my Iowa Cyclone’s shot craps, like always
Where the tall corn grows
Irish wins!
YES!!!! And the Stanford Traveling Band Squad lets them down once again.
Because I am a low class guy, me and my son split about 1/2 cord of wood and stacked it today. We then blew 1.5 acres of golf course quality turf with a leaf blower because we can’t afford rakes … the leaf blower never ran out of gas! Now I am having a beer down at our local farm beer graden purchased with nickles and dimes I keep in a can under my bed. At least I am not using borrowed money from relatives that I never intend to pay back or VA and SS benefits I am not entitled to receive.
Just sayin’.
Daniel Alan Bernath was never a CPO in any capacity. Dennis Howard Chevalier was never an airman or police SWAT in any capacity. He never flew C130s and he didn’t leave Texas during the Gulf War.
Over…
And in other news,William Derek Church,the Round Ranger,the Liar of Lenoir,still has people stopping by his palatial mansion wanting to know when the yard sale starts.
Yet in other news… Dallas Wittgenfeld is going to ride his ego to the upper edges of the atmosphere, take a leap from said ego, and become our purple moon in the process.
“Who among you ground-pounders can top this for the 4th of July…? YAH….. that’s me….. YaH…. that’s my parachute…. Now “SALUTE” dumb asses.. .” – Dallas Wittgenfeld
S – Size: Huge
A – Activity: Rapidly rising
L – Location: Sky
U – Unit: Dallas Wittgenfeld’s purple suite club, wearing purple suite
T – Time: Now
E – Equipment: Rapidly rising big ego
I can only imagine he is attempting to land on the giant purple phallus.
That would be the one donated by his corporate sponsor: Commander Phil Monkress and his senior staff at All-Points Logistics.
Can we have a thread talking about how James Yeager is as much an embellishing POS as Cory Alan Jackson and it only makes sense they’d be butt buddies?
Yeager comes off as a douche canoe. He runs the same kind of “training” Cory does. I’m not aware of any service cliams he made other than contract security in Iraq.
He talks up experience as a cop (he was fired from both jobs) a police weapon trainer (he never was) and a police chief (of a city with a whole two officers, where he lost the job for whining that he needed a SWAT team to police 517 people. He’s been in one gunfight and his performance was questionable at best.
Dude is an unfit piece of shit, and I’d take him up on his offer of a duel if he wasn’t such a pussy that he wouldn’t do it.
He’s also never read the code duellp.
Yeager has tied his wagon to the prepper survialist wagon and pimps out his courses using the scare tactics that the government is going to take your guns.
Yeager really hasn’t pulled any military stolen valor, so he really doesnt rate a place here.
I believe he publically stated he had a physical condition that prevented him from joining the military.
If you google him there are tons of people eating his ass alive on shooting forums.
It kind of explains why he sucks Cory Jackson’s dick. Shitbirds of a feather.
Saw this in an obituary in the paper today, and think that someone out there should look into it: “Drewey proudly served our country in the United States Army as a Logistics System Analyst.” Obviously, someone looking to help himself to the glory attached to being a veteran in a very elite group.
OK, all sarcasm aside, that’s the kind of obituary that you can read and respect. He did what needed to be done, and didn’t have to make up stories about it to be proud of what he did. I knew the individual involved, and while he may have “only” been a Logistics System Analyst, I would have felt sorry for the gook/hadji/raghead/nazi/commie/whoever who would have ticked him off. And just for the record, his older brother was a Marine KIA in Viet Nam.
Its Engine time Im finally putting an engine in my Audi. I know its a blue collar car and all that but ya have to make do.
The Medal of Honor Flag presentation ceremony for Corporal Kyle Carpenter at Marine Barracks, 8th and I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtkc8H3e-bE
It’s almost an hour long, so if you watch only one part of it, start at about the 39 minute mark, where Corporal Carpenter speaks.
Well worth the time it takes to listen to him.
That’s a humble young man. May the Good Lord bless him!
Very much enjoying my weekend at home.
Heading back “out west” tomorrow. Oh, joy.
At least nobody gives me shit about not wearing enough pieces of flair.
Found this the other day, found it interesting. For all of you that know of Private or Airman “Snuffy”, the link below details where the story came from and the actual man. Kind of humorous as well as well as informational. http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123288510
A little something for my boy OldSoldier54. A smidge of late 80’s hair metal:
Ah yes, hair metal! Thanks, Brother!
A memorial to disabled vets gets dedicated today in DC. About time…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/03/new-memorial-capitol-hill-american-disabled-veterans/16583399/
My son is retiring from the Navy in February 2015 and I am soliciting ideas for a kickass gift for him. His unit is taking care of his shadowbox. He is an Aviation Structural Mechanic. Any ideas, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks all.
How about a wrench spray-painted gold, with pictures around it?
Ex-PH2, that would be a cool idea. Thanks.
That is very cool!
Add patches for whatever squadrons he worked for, if you can get them. Just printed cutouts are good.
I heard that a couple of hours ago, Thag the Terrorist (you know the one) was killed.
We just got about 6 inches of snow up here at North Pole. My little ones are outside having a snowball fight with the grandkids. This is after they tried to make my black lab white. My kids must be racist. Denali (my lab) loved every minute of it.
Frost Warning in the PV tonight.
Summer was WAY too short this year.
NOAA says we’re supposed to have an El Nino winter – above average warmth, mild, rain, etc.
Farmer’s Almanac and Old Famer’s Almanac both say cold, snowy winter.
We’ll see who’s right.
Or, they might both be right, Ex-PH2. El Nino is a Pacific Ocean event, while the Almanacs have traditionally been more geared for New England.
I’ve been working on the renovation of an old ranch house in the Central Coast area of California, and what’s interesting is that the drought here has gone on so long that the place has lost the thread of where the water is supposed to go if there’s a hard rain. A little El Nino might not be a bad thing.
For what it’s worth, temperatures have also continued into the high ’90s for the past week, which is a headache if you’re, say, ripping out old moldy drywall.
On the other hand, it’s also interesting to see what kind of landscaping has survived on its own over a dry time.