Weekend Open Thread
Well, we finally got a request for an open thread and this time it comes from SJ with this photo. SJ says; This is MG Alexander R Bolling Jr. (COL in this pix). BG Bolling commanded the 3/82nd (ABN) (SEP) in the Phu Bai AO in ’68. Obit and another one here.
Category: Open thread
squeezing out a big, fat Giduck. Is there any other kind?
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
Phildo works balls.
Watched Captain America last night with my son (he loved it) and thought “Wait, he’s been frozen for 70 years and was a Captain when he went into the ice… That’s a hell of a lot of back pay he has coming to him.”
Thanks Jonn. Finally I beat PH2 to the request.
ADAM APPEL UPDATE So, there’s this chowderhead named Adam Appel of Anchorage, Alaska who was busted on a number of stolen valor items and alleged crimes back in 2010. Here is the original thread from 2010: http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=92356 The link is long and not the easiest to read through so in summary: – Adam Appel ran a fake training charity in Alaska and Hawaii that the Hawaii Attorney General office had to get involved to stop – Adam Appel falsely claimed to have been a qualified member of US Army Special Forces which were claims that got him thrown off his Alaska Mountain Rescue Team. When confronted, he falsely claimed that he’d been an 18X enlistee that washed out in SF training. He’d never been to US Army basic training. – Adam Appel owned properties in Hawaii and made claims to have transported modified fully automatic weapons there from Alaska. This is a guy that had numerous new cars including a rally cars, all sort of tech, and weapons up the ying-yang and yet no real work history beyond security guard level work. He recently settled a suit brought by Alaskan authorities that he had actually stolen the money for his lavish lifestyle including the Hawaii properties from his mother. – Adam Appel started a security company with a fake General Officer (Walt Smith) who couldn’t quite decide if he was a USMC or an Army General Officer. http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=93608 It turns out that Walt Smith was a member of the CA State Guard (not ARNG) in which ranks were conferred titles and not actual federal ranks. Walt apparently received prefertial assignments at his job with the FAA based on his “General Officer experience”. Victimless crime right? Real winner. He was profiled on TAH at one point. Well, Adam Appel appears to be back at it again. Adam Appel has started another “non-profit” using GoFundMe. This time, the non-profit is to help homeless. Site has since been taken down but the captured GoFundMe cache is here: https://pdf.yt/d/6linE0Slh9sqgMvj Adam Appel is again making false claims that he enlisted as an 18X. He also… Read more »
Adam thinks that no one is payig attention anymore.
Knowing that Adam Appel from Anchorage, AK likely has a Google alert for his name, I would welcome him here to explain his side of the story.
If Adam Appel should want to tell his side of the story, he will need to address the following:
– his false Special Forces history and non-existent 18X enlistment
– his false charity activity
Thanks
Thanks for the info, but you have a jacked up name … I guess you get a looks!
MaGroin must be Irish!
My sister, Dixon, had far more problems with her name than I did mith mine.
It is frikkin’ cold in my kingdom today.
My furnace was paid homage by the Furnace Guy, with the installment of a new Thermostat and cleaning the Flame Sensor. I subsequently sacrificed a bit of goat cheese to Vulcan in tribute.
I am warm, toasty, and not going anywhere. I bow to SJ’s accomplishment, getting there ahead of me. 🙂 And I will be in and out of here all weekend.
It’s around -10 here right now. Last night when I went to bring my lab in he didn’t even stop to do his usual sniff everything and pee on everything routine. He pretty much drug me inside. This is the same dog that I can’t take running with me if I actually want to get a good run in. Last time I took him he pissed on every mailbox post for almost a half mile before I gave up and went home.
“[H]e pissed on every mailbox post for almost a half mile before I gave up and went home.”
I have no idea why that stikes me as uproariously funny–but my facial muscles hurt.
2/17 Air Cav…If that gave you a chuckle maybe this will. Okay, so a guy stops to give an old timer and his mutt a lift. But he says your dog can’t ride inside on my new leather. The old timer says, okay I’ll just tie my long rope to him and the bumper and he’ll follow us. The guy says are you sure? Old timer says yea, he’s pretty quick still. So they take off down the road. The driver asks, so how’s he doing? The old timer looks back and says, he’s fine, he’s pissin’ on every telephone post. The driver seems amazed and adds some throttle. He asks, so how’s he doing now? Old timer looks and says he’s hittin’ about every other one. So the driver feeling challenged now bumps it up to 70. He asks, so…how’s he doing BOW! Old timer looks and says, well he’s only gettin’ one ’bout ever so often. Driver yells, THAT’S IT YA LIAR! He slams on the brakes and yanks up the emergency. After he peels himself off the steering wheel and the old timer uncurls from the dash board they get out and walk to the back. There, calm as you please is the mutt. Panting a bit, with a big dog grin and waggin’ his tail to beat the band. The driver says, I don’t believe this! Never saw anything like him in my life! He starts to pet the dog and rub him good. As he feels around the rope he says, hey, that’s a funny kinda collar ya got on him. The old timer says, collar? He looks and give it a feel and says, oh, that ain’t no collar mister. You just stopped so damned fast, his ass hole slipped up around his neck again.
Meant “He asks, so…how’s he doing NOW! Hate it when I blow a joke.
Speaking of blowing a joke:
A vacationing penguin is driving his through Arizona when he notices that the oil pressure light is on. He gets out to look and sees oil dripping out of the motor. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station.
After dropping the car off, the penguin goes for a walk around town. He sees an ice-cream shop and, being a penguin in Arizona, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big dish of ice cream and sits down to eat. Having no hands he makes a real mess trying to eat with his flippers. After finishing his ice cream, he goes back to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he’s found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says “It looks like you blew a seal.”
“No no,” the penguin replies, “it’s just ice cream.”
A Canadian woodpecker flew to the AZ petrified forest and met up with a local woodpecker. They chatted and decided to peck on a tree. The local went first and destroyed his beak. The Canadian woodpecker did one hit and the tree fell over. They discussed this and they both flew to Canada and repeated the drill. This time, the Canadian woodpecker destroyed his beak on a Canadian tree. The AZ woodpecker hit the tree and it fell over. Lesson: the further you are away from home, the harder your pecker.
That was great! Had to wipe tears from my eyes so I could see to type.
MrBill…I’m with you! i only though mine was good but I’ve been sitting here rolling after reading Instinct’s and SJ’s jokes. Brothers, I’m not even asking, I’m stealing those!
Take Poochie out some night for a group howl. That will make the local wolf clan think twice about marking their turf.
Oh, maybe you should do a little scent marking, too. 😉
My daughter has the wolf howl covered. When we went to a wolf rescue we got to go in and pet the wolves (I got video of her scratching one and hitting the right spot making its leg kick) and had had to make sure she didn’t howl while she was in there.
I always thought baying at the moon was guy thing, ’cause I ain’t never seen no girl doin’ it.
“INSPIRED BY THE FULL MOON”
Words and Music by:
JOHN ROBERT MALLERNEE
Sunday 04 July 1993
Salt Lake City, Utah
CHORUS:
When the full moon
Climbs over the mountain
Shining cold
And lonesome up above:
Like a lone wolf
Howling through the darkness,
My heart aches
For a woman I can love.
Hear that locomotive
Cross the desert
As it wails
And thunders through the night:
And I know
It’s time to wander onward;
Find the love
Who’ll make my world all right.
VERSE # 1:
Somewhere out there,
Beyond the far horizon,
Lies a destined
Answer to a prayer.
There’s a woman;
Lonely, lost, and looking
For someone to come
And rescue her out there.
VERSE # 2:
In a plane,
I’ll fly across the heavens.
In a ship,
I’ll sail across the sea.
Through hot jungle
And the freezing tundra,
Fight my way
To true love’s victory!
VERSE # 3:
It’s not right
To live without a woman.
No one knows
The lonely tears I’ve cried.
So, I’ll search,
As all the world I wander,
Until at last,
My true love’s by my side.
It looks like I have to roll the mower out of the shed one last time. I thought I was done–and I should be–but I put off the season’s final cut, so now I have to pay. Sucks.
Yeah, I got the snowblower out of the shed, gassed it up in preparation for the snow tonight and tomorrow. I figured that if I get ready, it’ll mostly blow past us without dumping a ton of snow on us.
Been out in it my last few days in NY state. Get to drive home tomorrow after an 80-hour week and commission reclosers for poletop switchers.
Highs in the low 30’s all week.
Damn it’s a good thing I love my job.
Household 6 and I were messing around last night and she reminded me about how excited I got purchasing a new item about two months ago. I bought my first comb in 22 years. It’s the small things in life.
“If Adam Appel is anything, he is persistent, like a turd that won’t flush.”
Maybe someone could be hired (suggested? nudged?) to flush this turd? Doesn’t have to be anything permanent. Broken limbs (multiple places). Broken joints. Just enough to discourage him from future endeavors.
Adam sounds like All Point Logistics material (shout out to Green Thumb).
Word.
ATTN: Twist, Winamac is out of it. Last night’s Regional results: #2 Pioneer 28, #1 Winamac 6.
Okay, this is minor in the grand scheme of things but people that pronounce veteran as vet-tran are starting to get on my nerves. Go see Pat Sajak and buy a vowel, for crying out loud.
Seems like most I hear pronounce it “vettrun.” Not certain, but may do that one myself.
CC Senor. Do NOT–I repeat–DO NOT visit Brooklyn. Vet-ran. Bot-el (bottle). Earl (oil). Erster (oyster). Tirdy-tird. (thirty third)
It’s cold and sunny here in Bernath country. Just cranked up the Ninja slow cooker.
Homemade pea soup!
One pound split peas
Ham hocks
Garlic cloves
Chicken broth
Sliced carrots and celery
Sliced red bell pepper
Mrs. Dash all seasoning
Low setting 6-8 hours
Served with warm sour dough bread
What? No lima beans?(smile,and the whole world smiles with you).
Had a hog in the trap this morning.
1 hog.
1 .45 cal. bullet.
1 meat grinder.
1 neighbor.
Lots of alcohol.
Fun times.
Ops, forgot about the half onion sliced
Yer Saturday morning rage item: This twenty-year veteran of the USAF was convicted on bogus charges by an investigator whose peers filed multiple complaints on him for his unethical behavior during the investigation, none of which we mentioned by the prosecution. His first full day in jail was Veteran’s Day.
http://benswann.com/air-force-vet-wakes-up-in-federal-prison-on-veterans-day/
@ JUNIOR, Et Alii:
There’s always more than one version of any criminal court case, and from what I read at the link you supplied, I would say there’s not enough detailed information for us to form an opinion and/or act on that opinion.
From that alone, no, but from poking around a bit, it appears that the consensus among even those who think he’s guilty say it was an outrageously mishandled case.
It’s possible he’s guilty, but they definitely have some things to rectify even if he is.
I made up a big batch of chili to ward off the slight chill here.
1LB of stew meat
2 or 3 cloves of garlic
2 cans of Bush’s Chili Beans
2 cans of diced stewed tomatoes (I like the garlic roasted version)
1 46oz bottle of Spicy V8 juice
Montreal Steak Seasoning
Chili Powder
Cut up the stew meat into small pieces and brown them with some Montreal steak seasoning and chili powder. Drain off the grease.
Dice up the garlic cloves and toss them in.
Add in the stewed tomatoes and chili beans.
Pour in the spicy V8 until you get to the desired consistency (some like their chili thicker than others). If there’s leftover V8, make yourself a bloody mary.
Let the chili simmer for about an hour and then enjoy.
On the plus side, if there’s leftover chili the next day, the stew meat will be really tender from soaking in the citric acid of the V8 juice. 😀
@ JONN, Et Alii:
Was Bolling Air Force Base named after him?
Named after WW1 Army Air Service LTC Raynal Bolling…killed in action in France in 1918.
http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebolling.htm
Thanks.
JRM: Jonn kindly used my pix of MG Bolling. He was an inspirational leader that did a lot in his long career. If you had been at Eagle a few years earlier, you might have me him and would have been impressed also. He was well thought of by all ranks.
A question. Father-in-Law is a retired AF MSgt in his 80’s. No VA disability. He used a VA hospital decades ago for a minor procedure. He normally uses Civ Docs via Medicare/Tricare for Life.
Because of another family member’s plight with assisted/long term care expenses, he was wondering if something happened and he needed assisted care, could he use a VA hospital since there is one in the AO that is good? I don’t know anything about VA, esp for retired Service members. I guess there is a possibility for VA assisted care during convalescence from an accident/illness but probably not for long term care?
And I don’t know if VA would even see him since he has Medicare/Tricare.
And how does a home like JRM lives in come into play? (PS: good to see you posting again JRM!) Comments?
@ SJ:
The Armed Forces Retirement Homes (there are two of them) are for military retirees and/or honorably discharged disabled veterans unable to earn a living.
https://www.afrh.gov/afrh/
Thanks John. The “eligibility” would seem to indicate that my friend wouldn’t pass muster because he has no VA disability. He’s in his 80’s so he really isn’t able to work regularly but he has an AF pension so that probably disqualifies him…and probably rightfully so.
If he retired from military service after completing a full career, he doesn’t need a VA disability.
He’s eligible for admission.
Was he a commissioned officer?
The Armed Forces Retirement Homes are for enlisted ranks only.
Retired officers can be admitted if at least half of their service, or ten years, was in the enlisted ranks.
There is a waiting list, so go ahead and start the process.
No, he never got corrupted by us officers until now when I entered the scene. AF MSgt. I’m thinking an AFRH is not an option because he is blessed with a huge family support group and would not want to leave this AO.
Any comments from others on a role that the VA could play?
You may wish to look into state level options such as this one in Quincy, IL.
http://www.quincyivh.org/
SJ: You might check with your state dept of veterans affairs to see what is available in your/his state. There often are avenues which can be taken for extended care, for instance, but they probably need some preplanning.
We have a Veterans Home not far from me which is great, if you are willing to turn your income over to them and have no other assets. Even that is possible with a bit of estate planning, but there may also be timelines involved. And there can be in-home care available.
Seriously – I would start asking questions of your local VSOs and your state agencies rather than the VA. YMMV, but we don’t trust the VA much around here.
SJ: to add to what OWB says above (which is excellent advice), you also might find the links at this article useful:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=37747
Not much is going on this weekend…
Sorry I have been around much lately.
I spent the day practicing my terrorist skills.
22 long shooting with my XXX.
BREAK
So Bernath believes he is tall. When I saw him face to face he was shorter than my straight as a needle 6 foot. He was stooped over, wrecked, unhealthy and unkempt. I would say his miserable life is eating him from the inside out. When I was eye to eye with him at about 3 feet, I was looking down on him. He is coward as evidenced by his inability to maintain eye contact.
I am neither afraid, worried or done with Bernath.
The more he writes about untruths the more I own him.
Bernath, keep it up … ALL eyes are on you … Your disgusting past, unforgivable present and predictable future.
Ta Ta …
Sent you something as a reminder, Master Chief.
I am 6’4″ tall. 255 pounds, A full head of hair that would rival Don Shipley’s
Plus I have a 12″ inch D**k (http://www.buzzillions.com/image.dox?R=1635072)
Fuck Bernath and the wifflefuk he road in on
“Plus I have a 12″ inch D**k.”
Twelve inches is average size for a duck. I’m talking full-grown wood here, the wood duck. And it’s not true that the typical African Black Duck (anas sparsa)exceeds that. It’s just a myth.
2/17 Air Cav…I don’t know but since someone else brought it up, I’ll have a go. I never measured “it”. My eye gauge is pretty good. I just know when I have to scratch my thigh a bit above my knee…I sometimes have to “adjust it”, out of the way first. So, you guys can call it, it’s not for me to say. That would be presumptuous of me.
Could it be a 12-inch Legos dock he’s talking about?
The question I’ve had for a while: is birdbrain obssessed or possessed? Or both?
Or is he just a spiteful little snot who got fired repeatedly from one job after another and wants to get even with everyone for his own shortcomings, because it’s all someone else’s fault?
Just curious about the psychology behind such behavior.
A special message from law enforcement:
Alabama beats Miss State. TCU squeaks by what was a 1-5 Kansas team and had to come from behind to do it. Looking like FSU and Oregon gonna be 1-2 this week, unless something very, very unexpected happens to FSU.
Subject: VA & 60 Minutes.
I’m not a huge fan of CBS “news” because I’m a knuckle dragging conservative. But, I was impressed with last week’s bit on the new VA MMFIC. He seems to be a good choice. Am I getting soft? Hard to believe that this Regime could find someone qualified but there is the blind squirrel and acorn thing. Comments?
Just wanted to remind everyone that this year Little Green Army Men beat out My Little Pony for entry into the Toy Hall of Fame. That is all,enuff said.
I just wonder over the years how many of those little green army men met their untimely ends under circumstances that would never have been possible in real life. Like being doused in lighter fluid and set on fire,being tied to arrows and being shot into trees,left on railroad tracks for the train to run over,and many,many other ways concocted by the devious minds of young boys(and some girls).So that brings up the question of how many different ways did we kill them off?
Bottle rockets. Either taped to them or using the bottle rockets like an RPG.
One of my DVDs is Stephen King’s “NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES”, and one the stories in that collection is, “BATTLEGROUND”, starring William Hurt, and it’s all about a grown man’s battle with a box of toy soldiers.
Too bad you can’t do the same things to bronies.