Weekend open thread
Ex-PH2 asked for an open thread and she says that if you have spaces in your prayer list, send one out to Sparks this weekend. He’s fine, but he’s laid up for a few days.
Don Shipley wants to have a photoshop contest using Bernath and Wittgenfeld as subjects. It’s all satire though. Send me your photoshopped pics and I’ll put them all in a post.
Category: Open thread
I wonder if TAH will get to 9000 likes before the end of the year.
That would be great!!!
Also, please add JRM to the prayer list. I’m worried about him.
Positive waves going out to Sparks and JRM. Not much of a weekend open thread without them. The flu virus has hit Dallas. I have 2 kiddos home sick in bed. Yesterday one of them was sporting a fever of 103.7F. I’m just waiting for it to take me out, inevitably.
I thought Sparks had posted since his procedure? If he hadn’t, my bad…and my prayers.
No, you’re right…. he did post. Looking at the recent phonies probably affects his blood pressure adversely.
The Creeping Crud is in San Diego, and it has me, but not the kids, yet. And us all heading for San Antonio for Christmas.
It’s Don Shipley, Bro!
Its time the Mega Hair to have some fun.
Thoughts, prayers and well-wishes for those who need them or even just want them – Ex-PH2 and JRM included.
Today I made 25 lb of lamb and mutton sausage with an oatmeal binder. A no-prize to the first person who guesses what we’re having for dinner tonight and for the rest of this weekend!
Countless MILLIONS of plants are needlessly killed every year to feed this planet’s vegetarians. My solution to assist in that dilemma is to EAT MORE HERBIVOROUS ANIMALS!!
I made chocolate chip cookies last night. Lots of cookies. Finest ingredients available.
Chocolate chip cookies, mmmmm…
WILL YOU ADOPT ME?
Hunter pal is coming by tomorrow with a couple Bambi backstraps. I plan to season ’em up with S&P, thyme, and rosemary, and pan sear ’em quick and hot. I’ll make a pan sauce with red wine to deglaze, then some butter and beef stock. Veg and rustic mashed potatoes on the side. He likes to hunt, I like to cook. Win-win!
Ted Nugent is right, ANIMALS ARE DELICIOUS!
The air was crisp but the muffled air biscuit was crisper. I thought it was a fart…but it was a Giduck.
John Giduck – the turd with a face
Was at the Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Wal-Mart super center the other day with an opportunity to consume a McD’s chicken sandwich and eyeball the other shoppers. That was one of the times I realized how blessed I am despite the wife’s constant bitching. Funny how 38 years later and the benefit of Clergy, they change from a hot piece of strange tail to a royal pain in the ass about everything from what we eat to how much we drink. Regardless, let us all take a moment to reflect and be thankful for our personal situations and how fortunate we are to have what we have, and our life experiences. If looking at the Wal-Mart shoppers does not bring that reflection home, nothing will.
Happy holidays to all.
That royal pain in the ass must love you a lot, to keep badgering you to take care of yourself. Give her a nice pat on the rear and whisper a dirty compliment in her ear for me, and God bless you both.
Understand Club. In 2013 I found that my bride of 30 years had passed in her sleep. Luckily we had kissed that night so our last words and actions were of endearment. That’s a lesson for all of us.
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Club Mgr, if she didn’t give a crap about you, she wouldn’t bitch about stuff.
Why do all the peculiar Alien Nation Walmart shoppers go to other Wally Worlds and not mine? I never, ever see any of those Walmartians or Alien Nation inhabitants at mine. They’re all pretty normal and my Spanish has improved immensely since I started going there.
In my case, it took far less than 38 years to happen. Lucky thankful me.
Since it’s the end of the year and this is an open thread, will take the opportunity to give a shameless plug for a friend’s organization, in case anyone here is looking for a charitable giving opportunity.
A few years back, some Viet Nam vets decided to do something about the guys they had worked with who were suffering horribly in South Vietnam. So they made some visits (at their own expense) and started the Vietnam Healing Foundation. They’ve managed to keep their administrative overhead at under 5%, and continue to provide relief to many who are otherwise forgotten warriors.
Check them out here: http://www.thevhf.org
If you are so moved, send them some prayers, or a few bucks. And, yeah, some of the GoE folks would recognize a name or so on the Board of Directors.
Went to the website, didn’t see a board listed. Is this someone I am familiar with?
Pretty sure that you know at least one of the board members, street. If not, then you know quite a few folks who do.
If you nose around the site, you will note that they must do some of their stuff on the QT, so I’m not gonna name names publicly either. Call me for additional detail.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I see that the address for Daniel A. Bernath’s webpage of drivel still gets a “404 Not Found” response. Did he take it down, or did he just fail to pay his bill on time again? Either way, he’s not accusing the wrong man of being me for right now! I wish I had photoshop and knew how to use it, but hey, I CAN’T WAIT to see what some of the People of TAH®™ come up with, I’m stocking up on beer and popcorn!!!
No, Proud, he crapped it up a whole lot and nobody with normal IQ can even find it any more. It’s like he WANTS to be ignored while he festers in his private little hellhole, isn’t it?
MAYBE he want to be ignored NOW, but I say TO HELL WITH THAT, he has done his damnedest to agitate and instigate everyone he can into making angry responses to him, thus I think it’s time for that miserable specimen of an adult human male to take what he has dished out to others!
It is odd, isn’t it?
As desperately as he wants attention, you’d think he’d make it easier to find him.
Instead, he screws up and makes his site invisible? I guess his mad computer skills aren’t nearly as honed as he thinks they are.
Actually, Softlayer pulled the rug out from under him and booted him from their servers, so he had to move it all. He’s hiding it because he doesn’t want the same thing to happen again.
Ahh, so Daniel A. “The Crashing Cockroach” Bernath scurries back into his crevice beneath the trash can once more!
Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose of having a webpage to begin with?
Wait, I’m thinking logically and rationally. Never mind.
Oh, well, that DOES make a difference.
I wonder where the little gerbilhunter is hiding now.
Come out, come out, wherever you are!! I’ve got cookies waitin’ fer ya.
Hideout of fat bald man with rat on face has been found.
Sign at entrance says ‘Welcome to Bog of Stench’.
OK, I have to share this because the stupid is so strong here that it defies belief! This guy is perfectly suited to be a trainer at All Points, THAT’S how stupid he is!
The only thing good out of it is that I learned a new word – Dipshidiot!
http://www.easybakegunclub.com/news/5515/You-Dont-Want-to-Miss-the-Worlds-Worst-Tactical-Tr.html
OK, so just saw this – the Navy is working on a shark drone. Yes, a SHARK DRONE.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1113301804/u-s-navy-employs-fully-realistic-shark-drone-121814/
Now, we have lasers and we are working on sharks. How soon till we have sharks with freaking lasers mounted on their heads?!
Dr. Evil is in charge of the Navy R&D
OOOOOHHHH! EVIL Robot Sharks with lasers, *HEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHEEEE!*
Okay, but what happens if the patrol shark get fished up in a net and the fishermen try to cut its fins off for shark fin soup before they throw it back?
Does this thing go into a hypnotic trance when you rub its nose?
But if it’s an EVIL robot shark with an Attack Laser®™, that can do evil things to its captors, *HEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHEH…*!
Adam Appel of Anchorage, Alaska has a history of managing fake charities and asking for online donations. He goes by “professionaladventurer”, “proadventurer”, and “ndjinn” online.
https://adamappelfraud.wordpress.com/
you can read about him at the above link. He’s gotten a cease and desist order from the Hawaii Attorney General office for running a fake charity there and has settled with the Alaska Elder Fraud division after stealing large amounts of money from his mom.
new post about Adam
https://adamappelfraud.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/adam-appel-fraud-indicators-the-luxury-vehicles/
The boy loves cars!
Wow. I wonder what the IRS would have to say about Adam Appel of Anchorage, Alaska and his fake non-profits?
I hope he makes the stolen valor tourney next year! It’s been a while since we saw an Elder Abuse case and a fake SOF combined.
It’s going to be a day filled with manly activities in Enigma-Land.
My son is home on leave, my youngest son is out of school and my oldest brother got his new Dillon press set up this week.
So we are going to add in isolator switch to a truck.
Go to the gun show,
Then the range.
Yep I said it in public I own guns, a lot of them.
The Henry Big Boy 45 long colt will be there, if you have never shot one do it. I believe it to be the finest lever action rifle money can buy. Plus its a work of art.
the 1911 will show up. It old but I love that pistol. it was born in 1916 and was in military service until the late 60s. It has had several face lifts and many new parts but I love that gun.
The M1A1 will come out to play.
Just for shits and grins Im going to get out the Nagant Revolver. I cant hit the side of a barn with it but its a fun gun to get out at the range.
My 2 carry weapons will get exercised. One is a 9mm and the other a .380 and yes Bernath I do carry them every where I legally can. I also have a Concealed carry permit. Weel to tell the truth I have 3 of them. All legal. Rack that legal mind trying to figure it out.
Anyone that lives in the Raleigh Area.
Perrys in Wendell has pallets of 22lr with no limits. I picked up 2 1600 round cans of cci mini mag and a couple of bricks of American Eagle. Pricing is in line with other retail outlets when they have it.
Have you ever shot any wild hogs with the .45 lever action? I’m trying to decide on what I want for a hog-hunting rifle, I’m using my SKS for now.
MA sucks. That is all.
Ya think? 😀
You mean “The People’s republic of Taxachusetts”?
Trivia Question for the day:
Is the Military Order of the Purple Heart awarded to civilians? Has it ever been?
Whaddayathink, all?
If you’re talking about the Purple Heart medal, OWB – yes. In the past, award of that decoration to civilians serving with US forces was indeed authorized. It happened fairly often during World War II – if memory serves, Ernie Pyle and many other war correspondents were recipients (I believe Ernie Pyle’s was posthumous). Ditto the Bronze Star, which was awarded to a number of civilians in both World War II and Vietnam.
Later changes in Federal law made award of the BSM and PH to civilians unlawful (BSM in 2001; not sure when that happened for the PH). The current prohibition on award of the Purple Heart to civilians serving with the military who are injured or killed by enemy action is what led to the creation of the Defense of Freedom medal in September 2001. That award recognizes civilian personnel serving with the military who are wounded in a combat zone under circumstances that would have authorized someone in uniform a Purple Heart.
I didn’t really have much heartburn with civilians serving with the military receiving a Purple Heart if wounded/killed in line of duty by enemy action. But I do think having a separate civilian decoration for that is “cleaner”.
Thanks, Hondo. I’m not having much luck with the research here. (Maybe too many Christmas distractions? Yeah, wonderful times!)
I’m with you that a separate award for civilians seems more appropriate, but also have no heartburn under some circumstances – like civilian fire fighters responding to Hickam Field being attacked en route to fill in for the destroyed military facilities and equipment.
I see my penis!
I SEE MY PENIS!!
Oh, false alarm, it is just lint in my belly button.
sincerely
John “Faker 6” Giduck
Mr. Giduck, you’ll want to come back here at about 10 AM today, to see a picture of a real dick.
Morning TAH family. I am caught up on getting all my ducks in a row, so I have some time this weekend. First I want to thank my sister Ex-PH2 for covering me on this one and getting the Weekend Thread started. I thank Jonn as well. Jonn for reasons I was not sharp enough to realize could not tell you about this. HIPAA and all that. Thank you Jonn as well for being heads up, I wouldn’t have wanted to bring any calamity onto TAH. Anyway, the angiogram and possible stents last Monday were a no go. The stress test it seems gives an 80% picture of what he needs to see and the angiogram is the 100% telltale. I heard him say “give him 5ml of adrenaline, I want him awake”. I immediately went from the fond, sweet thoughts of my high school sweetheart, while on the Versed, to working calculus problems in my head. Bummer. A sudden whack of adrenaline is a real rush killer by the way. So he calls the cardiac surgeon and they look over the images and take me into the hallway and call my wife in. The surgeon says, you have three arteries on the front of your left ventricle and possibly a fourth on the back that are 90% blocked. He said most people at that point find out by a heart attack or being in bed most of the time, not knowing why. Good news is, I have not had even a silent heart attack and no heart tissue damage whatsoever! He was surprised I still had the activity level I do. He said I want to do this tomorrow morning. I said nope, I have too many things to get in order for my family before something like this. He said since your activity level is good and there is no heart damage, okay but…take it easy and NO STRESS. (Why oh why, do they always say “No Stress”? I mean really!?) It’s as good as saying “Don’t let your hair grow for a week until surgery”. Just not… Read more »
Sparks, I wish you well. Being ornery keeps people going.
In re: the ‘youthful’ look of medical people: some cable channel is starting reruns of ‘Doogie Howser’. Doogie was supposed to be 17 in the show. Neil Harris looks like he’s about 12.
Ex-PH2…Thank you dear sister. Yea if I show up and someone like Doogie walks over to my gurney, it’s over right then, I’m outta there. My surgeon is at least in his late 40s thank God. You take care as well and have a great Christmas.
The only problem I see is that the pre-surgery meds they have you on this time don’t produce material nearly as funny as those prior to your knee surgery, Sparks! Some of that was pure comedy gold.
Otherwise, you know what you gotta do, and we know what we gotta do, Sparks. Just pass along to your loved ones that there are a bunch of us out here helping them with this thing.
OWB…Thank you. I have already told my wife and son I have a whole other family of loves ones they don’t know, who have my six on this. Can’t ask for more than you folks in times like these. Y’all are truly the best! Merry Christmas.
OWB…Pre-surgery meds? yea the doctor beat me outta them. Said he didn’t want me on anything until Monday. Bummer. But guess what, I still have a left over stash from knee surgery and I may “tune up” today and tomorrow. Last chance ya know. 😀
Just make sure the anesthesiologist knows about it if you take that option. 😉
OWB…Roger That!
Prayers Sparks.
Best of luck to you Sparks. Sounds like you have a good team on your side and a good game plan. I’ll be beaming positive energy your way and hoping for your speedy recovery and return. Hurry back so you can vote in the tourney. Looking forward to your sponge bath and dry skin stories. Take care Bud.
woo hoo!
Sparks will be posting on pain meds again!!! That beats Ambien influence and Mad Dog posting any day!
Hey, the surgery is fairly routine and is no big deal. It’s not like you are getting something important like a Neuticle. I’d be worried about your ability to lick an itch otherwise. 😉
clams
clamsgotlegs…LMHO! You made my morning with that one. Remember I just don’t want to fall off the back of the sofa and break my neck.
Best wishes, Sparks. Hearing “no damage” is indeed good news, even if the blockages aren’t.
I’ll put in a request to CINC-ALL that He keep an eye on you during your surgery and recovery.
And remember: YOU DO NOT EVEN TRY TO REMOVE THE CATHETER this time around. Tie a note to it (or something close by) with string if you think you’ll forget due to the influence of pain meds. (smile)
Hondo…Thank you and yes, I have already branded on my brain to not touch the catheter!
When I had my prostate surg at Walter Reed, my HAMMER of a female CPT surgeon responded to my whining about a catheter said: “Col (LTC), shut up…you can sit in your barco lounger and drink all the beer you want without getting up to pee.” If I’m not telling the truth on that quote may lightening strike me.
She is also the one that told me when we first met: “turn around col (LTC), drop trou, bend over.”
You know I am not a religious man, but let me share this out of my respect for knowing you are. ‘The will of God never leads you to a place where the Grace of God can not keep you’.
Get your rest my brother, we got this.
Best Regards
Dave Hardin…Thank you my friend. Knowing you all are here and watching my back, is a comfort to me. I truly mean that too.
His mercies are new every morning.
Been lifting you up since you announced the situation. I will continue until I hear a Good Report. His Grace and Peace be upon you, and all your House, Brother.
Shalom
Speaking of guns, has anyone ever watched the “Gun Gripes” series on YouTube? I agree with these guys nearly all the time!
On Sparks:
I and others are in direct contact with him.
He is in very good hands …
So by today or tomorrow he will be ready and set for Monday.
All shall pray for his speedy recovery and hoist a libation for him and his family during this season of joy.
My prayer kinda goes like this:
Dear Sweet Baby Jesus, Mother Mary and Holy Saint Joseph,
Watch over Sparks Monday and bless his doctors and nurses.
Send him back to us at TAH soon, as he is a good man and funnier as all hell!
Sorry, did not mean to refer to hell, but it is true!
Thanks for your special attention and please take care of Sparks!
Amen! Recover uneventfully and hurry back!
AMEN! May Sparks’s recovery be a full and speedy one!!
Master Chief…Thank you Sir and yea, let’s lay off that “hell” reference part. I hope I’m heading in a different direction anyway but we don’t want anybody getting any ideas of opening “The Big Books” to run a lifetime background check on me either! 😀 😀 😀
That’s it, I’ve had it with the posers.
No. not busting them out, That’;s usually the fun part, although like the rest of you, every now and then one of them sends me up in flames.
I’ve had it with their lack of “poser professionalism” . Not only are they low life shit twinkies for claiming the valor of better men then I, but they almost all, without exception, continue to perpetrate their ignorant, fraudulent, fakerey in halfassed, ill fitting costumes that make a mockery of our armed Forces.
I have seen better looking “stuff” on Halloween Outlet websites.
My user name, here at Tah has nothing to do with my experience in the Army, it’s my Hobby/part time business ( Props as in props/costumes/masks). I have decided that I am going to create my own unit, uniform, and awards for the Special High-speed Imposter Team/ Bravo Action Group.
When completed I will submit pictures and “documentation” to Jonn and he can decide to post them if he wants. ( It’s the Winter Season, everything is slow and I’m getting bored)
** Caveat, No real world Uniforms, Awards, Medals, scrolls or patches will be used.
I will probably create “patches” “scrolls” and “awards” that occur here in the threads, IE” Space Shuttle Door Gunner, MK III Laser Cannon operator, Sekrit Squirrel Ribbon, Battle of Hoth Campaign medal, etc. 😀
Maybe I can have it done for April 1st. 😀
How about “Apollo Mission Door Gunner”, USAF Submarine Door Gunner” or an M666 Plasma Gun Expert Badge”? Maybe an “Expert Floor Buffer Badge”, something any “Joe” or “Jane” would be qualified for before they even graduate Basic & AIT!
Done….:D
Okay, Propsguy, but the following are mine:
– color block on uniform jacket, designating various divisions, e.g. Battle Fleet
– USF insignia (Three Galaxies, One Law), e.g., embroidered patches with USF/3:1
– Latin blazon: Vigilo quod Vallo
You make your special forces S.H.I.T./B.A.G. costume/uniform and I’ll make mine. we can let the people udge 😀
Damn. Now I have to go get new jungle boots.
Mine were so beat up from wetlands hikes I tossed them.
props….don’t neglect the ammo bearers for space door gunners, bro. lol
I was just enjoying my morning coffee when I had another bright idea. I take credit for “Blobfish” Chevalier’s nickname, and I had a thought about Daniel A. Bernath (GOOGLE HIT!!), he talks bargeloads of trash and threats, but every time someone stands up to him, he runs like a cockroach scurrying for cover once the lights are turned on. He scavenges for whatever half-assed scheme he can to try and take what he can from others like a cockroach scavenging its next meal, and he leaves a trail of feces wherever he goes, thus by the power I’ve invested in Me, Myself, and I, my keyboard, my cup of coffee and the booze I enjoyed last night, I hereby award the title of “CRASH COCKROACH” to Daniel A. Bernath!
Daniel A. “CRASH COCKROACH” Bernath, kinda fitting, isn’t it? Not only did he wreck his airplane, the pics of him with his Cadillac show that it has plenty of dents and scratches in it, who did he threaten to sue over those?
I, OWB, monarch of nada, controller of even fewer, do dub thee, A Proud Infidel, official nom hanger for the TAH underground unofficial society of poser busters international.
(In accordance with all the unspoken and unwritten rules of said society, pending acclimation from the assumed assemblage of other super duper secrit squirrels or squirrelies, as may be appropriate to whatever it is that we were talking about.)
All your handicap parking space are belong to us.
Someone set us up the blob!
I was waiting for the next open thread to help me solve a dilemma. I’m three weeks into retirement, so no more deployments for me. I had three deployments in my career. Kuwait, Jordan, and Africa. For the Kuwait trip, I was at Ali Al Salem from January through July of 2003. I jumped in bunkers a few times from SCUD alerts, but didn’t experience anything close to combat. I never stepped foot in Iraq, but supported a lot of missions that ran out of Salem into Iraq. People have tried to describe me as an OIF veteran, but I don’t like the title. It infers I was in Iraq which I wasn’t. I just call myself a veteran of the war on terror. My better half and I were in Branson and she was trying to by me an OIF Veteran hat, and I told her NO. It caused a mild interruption in our marital bliss. So just looking for some feedback on what I should call myself?
How about a Warrior of the Western World?
You can proudly call yourself a Middle East Veteran, something few American vets can refer to themselves as. I’m an OEF Vet, I did my time there, and I did my time in Kuwait in support of OIF and Operation New dawn, but there’s no way I’ll ever call myself an OIF Vet, I’ve never even set foot in Iraq. “War On Terror Veteran is a title you and I can wear with pride, and I do so. I was AD Army in the early 90’s, I ETS’ed from that and came back in after a nine year break in service knowing that would get me deployed, that’s why I came back in!
What did your mobilization orders say?
😉
Yeah … So the North Koreans may be able to stop Hollywood but Bernath won’t stop be able to stop the next major video production about Stolen Valor.
Oh and Bernath is not, never was nor will he ever be an Honorary or Genuine CPO. PERIOD.
Better up your game disgraced former marginal performing PH2(Non-AC).
All who are watching, monitoring and collecting are neither impressed or amused with your utter incompetance and lack of respect for the LAW!
See you in court!
You mean Daniel A. “Crash Cockroach” Bernath, the one that claims “Former Coach at Romanian National Football Team”, “Lives in Ftan, Switzerland”, and “From LaHore, Pakistan” on Facebook?
Silly me, I thought he lived in Florida and Oregon!!
*WHOOOT!* Time for a BEER, I feel like I deserve one (MMMM, fat Tire!)! I have just FINISHED my Christmas shopping without, shooting, punching, choking, or cutting anyone (Not even in Wal Mart!)!
You know what REALLY pisses me off about people who are scared silly of guns?
They’ve made it impossible to include a toy prop gun like a laser tag gun in a costume to wear to a sci-fi convention. Even if it is obviously a non-functioning, batter-powered playtoy, latched and tied down in a holster where it belongs, they will freak out because gunnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!
My cat coughs up hairballs that are smarter than those people are.
My wife starts Christmas shopping on Laborday. She had it done the week before thansgiving.
I was just looking out of my window and I saw the neighbor’s dog drop a HUGE, steaming pile of Phil Monkress in my yard.
In true All-Points Logistics’ fashion, they (he)looked around, pulled the leash and hurried away.
Well, then, you let it freeze, put it in a paper bag with a bow on it and return it to him with a note that say something like ‘Thanks, but I have my own supply of this.’
Or he could let it freeze, then use a shovel or other implement to flip the unwanted organic fertilizer back onto the owner’s lawn. (smile)
I just went out and inspected the steaming pile of Phil Monkress left by my neighbor’s dog.
And I will be the first to admit, the resemblance to Commander Phil Monkress of All-Points Logistics is uncanny.
I need a drink.
Green Thumb…If you have the time Sir, check your email please. Thank you and Merry Christmas.
Sent.
I loved what Sparks wrote about aging. My moment of truth came when I saw a picture of myself and, thought, “Who the hell is that?” Even my mirror had been lying to me, but the damn camera doesn’t go that way.
2/17 Air Cav…Ain’t that the strangest thing! But for me it even happens in the public restroom mirrors at McDonalds. I look and say, “hey, you ain’t lookin’ so good here bud”, then I walk away thinking, screw it, I ain’t so bad and besides…I got skills!
Yeah, aging sucks. But it still beats the $@&!%# out of the alternative. (smile)
Hondo…and the congregation all said…Amen!
Wife is at work, babysitting granddaughter, almost Christmas. Redbull, a whistle, and unrealistic promises from Santa are going to be given before sending her home.
Twist…My very Merry Christmas wish for you is…your granddaughter gets a trumpet and a set of drums! 😀 😀 😀 Merry Christmas, sincerely though!
teach her the phrase “I want a pony!”
works every time!
Beats “I want a Phony”.
“Redbull and a whistle”
You are a bad bad man.
I’ll have to remember that…
Insanity, Jr. Swore in to his state bar association this week! He and his young bride are now warm and fed at the Insanity homestaed, ready for Christmas.
Life is good.
Congrats to your son! Ask him if one of the questions on his State Bar Exam started like this…
“a lawyer flying a light sport plane leaves point A with X gallons of gas. How much duct tape does it take to keep if from crashing?”
Virtual Insanity…Congratulations to you and your son! A REAL lawyer around for a change.
Thanks! Now if he can find a job. Anybody need a lawyer in Maryland?
Hack Stone, check the email inbox of the account you use to comment here.
Take 4 minutes and give it a share:
I have been screaming this for years.
http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/2014/q4/vets-post-complaints-about-wounded-warrior-project/
Green Thumb…Thanks for the link. I have felt the same since I researched WWP in depth.
It gets better.
Some of their “senior staff” try to pass themselves off as combat vets.
And some were hurt in accidents, but not combat even though they try to insinuate they were.
A fucking joke they are. As I have stated before, you do not have to be in combat to be “wounded” under their definition. Just ask the clown that had 100% PTSD because his unit DEPLOYED WITHOUT HIM.
Clowns.
Can I claim PTSD from having to listen to the drivel in their ads?
Sure, since everyone claims anything these days! Claim it, even if you can’t own it.
It gets better. Call them at the number provided on their “Mutual of Omaha” commercials. You know, you too can support your very own wounded Vet for the price of a cup of coffee.
Then ask them if your money goes to a PH recipient. They get edgy and spooky in their responses. Then ask them what wounded means. They get downright pissed.
They cannot guarantee where the money goes. To them, wounded means post 9/11 service. That’s it. You do not even have to deploy.
WWP is also riddled with posers. They suck but do not take my word for it. Give them a call.
Your link’s author “recommends” Veterans for Peace as an alternative veterans’ service organization.
Not that anyone should base their opinions on this alone, but I have never been spit upon, bodily threatened, had small children following me around using R-rated language, or been otherwise harassed by WWP. Can testify that all that and much more has been done to me by the Idiots for Peace. I also know several other persons who comment here have had similar experiences with them all over the country.
So, yeah, they certainly are an alternative to a service organization. But feel to support them, if that is your desire. I don’t believe anything that they say about anything. Idiots. Idiots for Peace. Sad reality is that some fine veterans have been sucked into their fold, some never to find sanity again.
Not a big fan of them either.
I am unsurprised at this. I’ve seen it in many so-called Christian/Missionary organizations. This is why I think ALL staff should be volunteer ONLY. Plane tickets, hotel food covered, and that’s it. Zero giant salaries.
Americans are a very giving people. Organizations dealing with all that money attract leeches like flies to feces.
I try not to give anything until I research where does the money go. Been screwed just too many times.
Salvation Army. No one getting getting rich there. When we had a hurricane, SA was first and last to leave. Red Cross did a drive-by.
YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, SJ!! No games, gimmicks, gags, or jokes, The Salvation Army is A VERY LEGIT Organization to donate to, and I give to them without a second thought! Many times when and where a natural disaster occurs, they’re up and running at the scene well before the Red Cross even arrives, feeding people, etcetera without any questions. The Red Cross has a Board of Directors, each of which enjoys a six-figure salary with cushy benefits while The Commanding General of the Salvation Army gets paid about $30K per year. During my time in the NG, I’ve seen the Salvation Army in action, they’re for real!!
Salvation Army will pay the heating or electric bill if someone is having a rough time.
More WWP.
As I said, some good folks, a lot of turds, a handful of shitbags and a WHOLE LOT of senior leadership and employees and members passing themselves off as combat-wounded Vets.
http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=10373
These guys suck.
They are recently (2 years?) certified as VSO folks.
All they argue (in most cases – look at the numbers) is PTSD.
In some cases, deserved, but in many, “Oh…I slipped while fucking in the Porta-jon and I got caught”.
But in reality: “I got caught in violation of a General Order, got busted, and when I got booted or pushed out (denied re-enlistment), I claimed…wait…WOUNDED” and I get PTSD.
Toss in some untrained VA personnel and you have the trifecta!
WWP’s “stock in trade”.
Crooked fucking VSO’s screwing over many that have “rode” the Line or been PH recipients.
Turds.
For everyone here and our loved ones around the world:
***M*E*R*R*Y C*H*R*I*S*T*M*A*S***
I just came back from my final Christmas party of the week: Monday through tonight … 9 parties! I am officially ready for Santa!
If I ever needed a 12 step program …
BOOZE, it’s NOT just for breakfast anymoooooore…
My TAH Family. I am getting ready to head to the big house…er…hospital. I’ll send an update as soon as I’m able. Thank each of you for your thoughts, prayers and well wishes.
I pray each of you has a wonderful and Merry Christmas, filled with happiness and joy.
I regret most, missing the vote on the tournament but hey, at least it’s not a lame excuse like, “Hey Top, I ain’t feeling so hot this morning, think I need to report to sick call?” To which he would say, “Well then…NOW LISTEN UP YOU F@CK!N’ P@SS! PUKE! If you can’t hold your booze, when are you ever gonna be a man? Ain’t no brown bottle flu light weight, from my outfit reporting to sick call…GOT THAT! I was drinkin’ till all hours with the chief NCO from medical at the club. Known him for years and I got a reputation around here. Now…report back to your f@ck!ing duty ASAP or I’ll SEND you to sick call WITH damn good reasons to go!”
It was always the LOVE I felt from Top that touched me and meant the most. Kinda makes me tear up all over again just remembering it. Know what I mean?
Any news on Sparks?
Sent an email.
No response of yet.