Weekend open thread
I’m just sitting here waiting for the Dutch Rudder Club to visit the TAH HQs & Resort like they’ve been promising for years. You guys go ahead and entertain yourselves. Ten Bears wanted the Weekend Open Thread, so here you go.
Category: Open thread
That muzzle is almost as lovely as my Ruger GP100.
It’s my Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk in .44 Magnum and a 10 3/8″ barrel. Just pulling it out makes sissies wet themselves.
Nice Jonn, my brother has the Redhawk chambered for the .454 Casull. He has to take out a bank loan to by a box 25 cartridges for it. For the casual shooting, he shoots .45LC which are bit cheaper.
“It shoots through schools.”
😉
But only once…once
Dammit you beat me to it
Been considering buying one of those for my husband and getting it engraved as an anniversary present. 20 years coming up soon now…
Go for it! That would be a mighty fine Anniversary gift!
Shalom 🙂
A few years ago The Wife and I visited a guy.
We sat on his deck overlooking some woods on a steep hill that GPS said led to his house. No road there, mind you, but it would take a big Cat bulldozer to get there that way.
Anyway, we had a pleasant visit and all the while there was a .45 lying on the table between us.
Point being… Ain’t a .45 big enough?
Yes, but only because they dont make a 46.
But didn’t they take out Hack, Flagwaver, TSO, et al months ago? I don’t know how these folks are posting from the grave.
HEY, I’m still standing too, and NONE of them have ever found who I really am, I just hope they stopped falsely accusing others of being me, they were up to what, seven so far?
Well, they’ve accused at least 4 people of being Ex-PH2, none of which is true, and I’m still standing, too.
They can’t even get pictures that remotely look like you, Proud. Must be their crappy eyesight.
All this does is show their hot air volume and a serious case of OCD. They need new hobbies. I suggest hunting snipe or maybe bootlegging whiskey in the Appalachians.
CDO for serious compulsives there, Ex.
Alphabetized…
In their case, it’s the terminal 24-hour kind of OCD.
You guys are fine. The know exactly who I am, where I go to school, and the general vicinity of where I live and I’m still standing
Maybe they need to join DAI, Imbeciles Against Dyslexia?!
Ex-PH2 – perhaps they could take up hunting for bootleggers in the Appalachians. We wouldn’t have to worry about them ever again…
Excellent idea. I support it.
They tried, but the judge said no.
They tried, but the police knew me.
They tried, but my club found out they were nuts.
Guess they didn’t have the fortitude to accomplish what they tried.
Hack is alive, and relatively well. In fact, Hack was at Bethesda this week for his 10,000 mile checkup, which gave him the opportunity to cruise down Wilson Lane. I decided to visit a Korean church on Wilson just off of River Road. A few houses away, I saw a piece of shit house that looks like it belonged to someone who hasn’t worked in almost two years. A fence that looks ready to fall down, clogged rain gutters, a few shitty cars rustingvawayvparked under some tents, and the BDMF can’t even afford a mailbox door. The guy probably pisses all of his money away on spandex and private detectives
Cheap booze….
They’re probably using one of those GPS thingies that send you to every place but the place you want to visit.
Oh, and there are monitor lizards prowling about in the swamps of Florida, eating stray cats and owls, so anyone who lives down there is in danger!!
Would that be the one made by apple?
Oh, I hope so!
Lowe’s gives “military” a ten percent discount and we are supposed to show our ID card. Yesterday I was behind a guy who got the discount using a Veterans Affairs ID card, the impressive one with the US flag on it. I told the cashier she was supposed to be checking a uniformed services ID card and ask the guy if he was retired military. His response is I’m an “ex-Marine”. I’ve encountered a lot of Marines but all were “former”, never an ex. This guy beat feet before a manager showed up after I told him he was stealing from Lowe’s. Needless to say the Pine Bluff Lowe’s cashiers now understand with military ID is and I shared it with their corporate, did a letter to the editor, etc. We need to protect our benefits and stop these ex’s (thank you for your service) from obtaining benefits earned by those who are serving or put in their 20.
Good on you, brother. My guess is he’s yet another phony scamming the VA as well. But what does the VA care. A DD-214 is a DD-214 right?
Question. I have no military ID card. I have no VA card. I don’t walk around with a brief case full of paperwork to prove I am a Veteran.
Most Veterans are not retired from the military. Most Veterans do not use the VA for anything. How do you suggest I prove my veteran status with Lowes to get a discount?
Dave, showing your DD-214 is the only option without a VA ID card.
Of course it is. Who walks around with their DD214, nobody. How can a clerk in some store even know if it is real? They cant.
What I tell the store is to stop giving out the discount all together. There is no way for them to know who a veteran is.
Dave, I can understand how you feel, but there are those that will take advantage of anything they can get in life, and why should the rest be penalized for it.
Heck, I have been offered discounts just because I have an ACU pattern wallet. I do pull out my VA Card and my expired military ID/privilege card to show them.
Dave…….I took my DD214 to a kinkos and had them make me a wallet size, laminated. The only place I use it is Lowes. They honor it every time!
I actually have copies in my car. Strangely used them three times so far. Once with a guy who was demanding to know how I qualified for a military plate as I was way too young and had long hair. He was kind of mortified to find out I was 39, and had never had another damn haircut after I got out last year…
Honestly, the 10% isn’t much of a cut into the Lowes profit margin, especially since so few take advantage of it, a true veteran or not. For that low cost, Lowes gets a ton of good will mileage and free advertising. They factor in what little they lose to fraud as a cost of doing business and won’t do much to stop it because the time to train employees in the ins and outs of military identification and bad publicity of calling out an actual veteran would be more expensive than the cost of the discount.
While I’ll call out a fraud if I see one trying to get a discount, I’m not going to get butt hurt at Lowes because some asshat has decided to play in the SV sweepstakes.
My point is; although well intended, these type of discounts perpetuate Stolen Valor. Supporting or using these discounts perpetuate Stolen Valor. With no way to verify a veteran in place people who use these programs support their abuse.
I don’t use them. If they offered a discount to retired, active and reserve members and disabled veterans I would have no problem with that. I would not qualify for the discount, so be it.
Using the term ‘Veteran’ paints with too broad of a brush in this case. I would rather do without the discount and preserve the integrity of what being a veteran means.
Semper Fi.
Dave. I appreciate them doing it. They win in the end because I shop there for stuff that I might normally get somewhere else. Rules, from the Lowes website:
“Lowe’s established the 10% Military Discount to support the men and women who are currently serving our country in the Armed Services and to honor Retired Veterans and VA Recipients.2 This 10% discount is also extended to the immediate family of those who are currently serving, Retired Veterans, or VA Recipients.
To qualify for the Everyday 10% Military Discount, you must:
Be currently serving in, or retired from, a qualifying branch of the Armed Services, or be the immediate family member of someone who is and have a valid military ID Card.
Or:
Be a veteran who receives VA benefits and have a valid Veteran Identification Card (VIC).
We honor all Veterans on three specific holidays: Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans Day. During these three holiday weekends, we extend the discount to all veterans who served honorably and who present a valid Form DD214 or other proof of service. The Lowe’s Military Discount is extended to the Veteran community on these three holidays only.”
Thank you for that post. I was looking it up myself.
“valid Form DD214 or other proof of service.”
It does seem they are trying to be as responsible as possible. I stand corrected on my initial impression.
Not every veteran gets a daily discount. I am sure the people at my local Lowes are unaware of that. They will be.
Kinda understand where you are coming from but cannot make the leap to how my using a retired military ID for a discount takes anything away from you or other customers.
Use it or don’t use it – a decision for each of us to make based upon whatever criteria we might want to use. The owner of a store can do the same while deciding to offer or not to offer a discount.
I rather strongly agree OWB. I very rarely use any discounts or even my handicapped placard.
I work for the other big box store. I rarely use my Mil Discount. Unless it’s a big ticket item. They call me to check out credentials. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve said “No” to. I like the multi-font Dd214s the best. I’ve also extended the courtesy to non eligible family members of deployed personnel.
Most DMVs offer an identifier on your licence, but it doesn’t mean much. I’ve seen too many stories about people getting the identifier without a DD214. One DMV worker I was talking to said a guy got his with a letter from the Commandant of the Marine Corps. I’m sorry, but Commandant’s don’t give letters in lieu of DD214s.
I would like to believe that but we did have Almost Famous Amos there for a while. Who knows what that prick was doing.
I show my appreciation to those businesses by not taking advantage of their discount.
Same here–I patronize businesses based on who has the better deal on what I’m looking to buy at a particular time.
About the only time I’ve ever received a veteran discount is when I was at a Texas Roadhouse once, when the bartender noted my ballcap.
I still insisted on showing both my American Legion and VFW ID cards.
Hey, Devil Dog!
A lot of states are now implementing veteran designation on drivers licenses. I recently got mine.
I know Indiana started that now, I will go this week and find out what they require. Thankx for reminding me.
Ohio does. Got Army plates (same cost as ordinary) and an vet identifier on my drivers license.
Showed them a copy of my dd-214.
Unfortunately, Utah will sell United States Army license plates to ANYONE who wants them, with no requirement for a DD-214!
But, I love my Mississippi “BRONZE STAR MEDAL” license plate, “BS 1509”, which in order to obtain, I did have to provide my DD-214.
Of course, the clerk almost made a huge mistake.
They were out of Bronze Star license plates, so she offered to give me a “SIVER STAR MEDAL” license plate!
I corrected her, and had my Bronze Star license plate special ordered from the state capital at Jackson, Mississippi.
I wish Utah offered the option of a Bronze Star license plate, but the only military decorations they have license plates for are the Purple Heart and the Medal of Honor.
In past years, I’ve shown my Viet Nam service in Utah and Idaho by ordering vanity license plates that said, “SAIGON”.
Lowe’s in my area, (3 of them at least), give discounts to military and former military. I am neither retired or active, and my VA ID is adequate. And, most of the clerks thank me for my service. Could be that I live in a very military intense area. The 10% that I save is offset to Lowe’s in that I take all my small jobs to them, rather than shopping Home Depot.
I don’t reckon I’ve ever been to Lowe’s, and if any other businesses offer discounts for veterans, I don’t know about it.
As we all know, each Veteran’s Day, the Golden Corral restaurants serves FREE meals to military veterans.
As far as I am aware, they never ask for any proof of whether or not someone is really a military veteran.
The only time I ever went to eat the free Veteran’s Day meal at Golden Corral was here in Vernal, Utah, where almost everybody knows everybody else, and an imposter better dare not show his face.
Even so, when I went to the dinner, I wore my Sunday best coat and tie with all of my medals properly arranged, according to AR 670-1:30-6, just so the folks at Golden Corral would know that they really were feeding a military veteran.
I figure that’s the least we can do to show our appreciation for what they’re doing for us.
And – – – Golden Corral does MORE than that!
At my request via long distance telephone, the Golden Corral in Fayetteville, North Carolina arranged to have my sister, the widow of an Army retiree, take a meal to my stepmother (and one for herself), who is now in an Assisted Living facility, and was one of the first women to enlist in the United States Army at the beginning of the Second World War.
Here is the URL where you can read about her:
http://writesong.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-stepmother-alma-capps-mallernee.html
I ate there once, when taking the family through the dinosaur sites. Nice little town. Have a friend from HS who lives there.
The only discount I’m interested in is the senior discount.
Half off my license plate fee is a LOT more than 10% off at a hardware store, and some hardware stores have specific senior discount days on bigger ticket items, because they want to sell those puppies, because new items are on the way in.
+75.5 with extra cheez.
John, please have your computer wonk add a spew alert button.
Thanks.
Fucking comedy gold, right there.
Fuck’n A AWESOME!!!!! Loved all of it but especially the laws of gravity. Comedy genius right there! Well played Old Dog. I bow to you sir!
Sir,
I am stealing the law of gravity insult.
Pure gold. Pure friggen gold.
You just won the Internet for the rest of the week
Starts slow clap…..
Fuckin’ A!!! 😀
That is fucking HILARIOUS! I haven’t laughed like that for weeks!
I guess that’s the one Hack was talking about in comments to another article.
I was laughing so hard while watching it I was literally having trouble breathing. To whoever did that one: truly well done. Kudos!
HERE, HERE!!
AAAWW SHIT, I did it again!
Now that was definitely worth the price of admission.
Even my old guard cow Scooby is laughing at the DRG.
Priceless… A gem to rival The Hope Diamond.
Was ist los mit Ihnen? Können Vogeltränke nicht Seinen eigenen schlong finden? Müssen wir alles für ihn tun? Er ist der stummste Hahnlicker, der jemals den Schlagbaum herunterkam.
Junge Dame, war frech!
Präzise, aber böse! (Lächeln)
I’m still laughing. The dogs are still scared.
Bwwwahahahahaha!
Though I had nothing to do with the production of this video, I still get a screenwriting credit since I was the one that informed everyone that a certain mailbox on Wilson Lane was missing the mailbox door. And as of this past Thursday, it still is.
What movie is that clip from?
It is from the film “Downfall”. I never had the opportunity to watch it, but maybe one of these North Philly street gang bangers has Netflix, and I can watch it. Not sure how long it has been going on, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of Downfall parodies on YouTube. The one about Obamacare is pretty good.
It’s availiable on You-Tube. Pretty good flick.
Awesome.
That’s some classic stuff there.
I can’t speak for all of us here, but I sure am! (LMAO)
AUSGEZEICHNET!!!!!!!
*wild applause from the masses*
3/17 – Steve. Glad to see you’re on here doing some commenting. Hadn’t seen or heard much from you in the past couple of weeks.
SITREP – Are you doing OK? Again, if you need anything, let us know.
Claw…….some days are better than others. I’m trying to get the paperwork side of my wife’s passing finished. Retirement accounts ect. Some of these institutions act like its their money. Which pisses me off to no end. They are making me take the long road. Letters of testamentary and other bullshit!
On another note. I kind of got called out about being a Vietnam Vet by a acquaintance of mine. I heard about it second hand. This guy was a Vietnam Vet, who also flew as a gunner. Anyway, I tracked the guy down at his local watering hole. I showed up wearing my Army jacket with my bonafides on it. He asked me since I was a doorgunner, what side did I fly on? I told him, that he well knew that we always flew on the right side. Told him I did not appreciate the question. It got pretty quiet after that. What a asshole.
Thanks for the update.
Called out by one of our own? You’re right on what he is. He sounds like the type that would bring out the M60’s with rusted pistons and say “Yeah, we’re good to go!!” and then blame the armorer for not having enough chamber brushes on hand.
Count to ten and stay cool.
Steve:
Please accept my condolences for the loss of your wife.
I reckon with all the phonies out there, now popping up everywhere, left and right, we can all expect to come under suspicion sooner or later.
I’m surprised no one at this web site has questioned my own credentials, since the circumstances of my entry into military service are so unusual.
But, it’s mox nix.
I was there, whether anybody else believes it or not, and I don’t really blame them if they don’t.
When were you in Viet Nam?
I got there late in the war, so chances are, you were probably there and gone before I ever showed up.
Anyway, God bless you for your gutsy, courageous service as a helicopter door gunner, going where others would not go, and doing what others would not do.
And may God bless and comfort you in your hours of loneliness and grief.
Thank you.
John…….Thank you for your kind words. I was in country from Feb. 7th. 1971 to Jan 18th. 1972. I beat the bush for a time out of Phuoc Vinh. Flew out of a place called Phu Loi, which is south of Saigon.
Gosh, you and I were there at the same exact time!
I was in Saigon when I first got there, but then I went up North for the rest of my war.
I extended twice, so I was there for two years straight, from Friday 12 December 1969 until Monday 21 February 1972.
Next time give him a PITT!
What a jack wagon!
PS: your state probably has as advocates office that deals with surviving spouses with respect to the above mentioned issues (if you need it).
They do believe it is their money … Because they are getting richer the longer they hold it!
Again, I want to thank you all for your kind words and support. The last few days for me have not been good! Frequent crying jags.i guess it’s part of the grieving process.i I’ve always been pretty much in control of my emotions, and my life. This is the one time I know I’m not. It’s quite humbling and I hate it.
Again thanks for your support and kind words!
Steve
Steve,
You are in my thoughts and Prayers.
I have lost loved one in my life and one thing that always helped me is telling myself that my life is better for having them as a part of it. The only way not to feel the pain would be never to have known them at all.
I know I can speak for most of the TAH family when I day we are here for you.
I am very sorry for your loss.
3/17 AirCav, it’s best to just let your grief out and not hold it in. Catharsis for a loss is always a necessary thing, even if it is painful.
Hang in there. You have friends.
@ Master Chief:
What’s a “PITT”?
I couldn’t find a definition for it when I Googled “Internet shorthand”.
John…..you can interpret any way you want. For me it mean: “punch in the testicles” it works for me!
Firstly, my condolences on your beloved’s passing.
Secondly, if it makes you feel better, I’m going through the same thing with Dad’s estate. He was declared incompetent and sent to a nursing home some months ago. Good thing for us we have a good lawyer who is handling all issues related to the old man’s care and keeping. I hope you have a good lawyer to help you weed through the bullshit.
I have a couple really fat pork chops in the brine and signed up to hit the grill this afternoon, the official beginning of the SoMD BBQ season. The trick to great chops is to off-set them from the coals, cook at low heat until the desired internal temp is reached, then sear quickly over high heat. Sauce is added last, if desired.
It started hitting 30 degrees the other week so I cleaned the snow off the deck and started grilling.
Base housing in Brunswick, ME, I was the guy who would in the dead of winter shovel a path through the snow to the grill on the patio, and grill the steaks wearing a *cough* appropriated Air Force Artic parka.
Never had any problems with the neighbors…
NASB best home station ever. Was with VP-44 82-87.
Just missed you, OldSarge57. VP-23 1989-1993. Surprised who much I enjoyed Brunswick despite the “June, July, August, and Winter” weather pattern.
Maine has four seasons–winter, still winter, almost winter, and road construction.
In Alaska we have all four seasons. We have winter and June, July, and August.
If you happen to be in Marland, perhaps we can have an impromptu beer summit. I just need to clear my schede so that I can make it down from the North Philly housing project that I am hiding in to avoid death squads and any bounty hunters that may be looking for me because someone on Wilson Lane claims that I am a criminal.
I’m from South Texas, what is this thing called “snow”?
South Texas, huh? Oh, surely you’ve heard of snow in Alpine, haven’t you?
http://visitalpinetx.com/photos/alpine-snow/
We’re Coastal Bend, Alpine is more like Big Bend.
I doubt they see much snow in Alpine, either. Along the way to Alpine are Comfort and Welfare. Not sure how much of either you find in those places. Have wondered from time to time if one might come across Hondo in Hondo.
I still have plenty left. Come on up and take all you want.
Charcoal being the keyword. I haven’t had a grill in a few years, and something remarkable is that gas grills for sale now seem to outnumber the charcoal kind about 10:1. What’s the point?
My past preference has been for mesquite charcoal chunks. If you want variety, oak or almond works fine, but redwood is terrible, and eucalyptus would probably gag a koala.
Perry……..I’ve got a hand make rock firepit with vent holes for drafting and a attachment for my grill made from rebar. It’s the bomb! I cooking everything from steaks to hotdogs. I also acquired a really old campfire frying pan with a three foot handle. It’s great for cooking breakfast in the morning. I’ve got a gas grill but have not used it in years
ME? I have a C.I.H., a Cast Iron Hibachi! Made in the USA, and OH, does it cook a choice steak, bratwurst, or burger!!
Steve, having a fire-pit you can also grill on is an interesting option I hadn’t considered. It would also be useful in the sense of being able burn random wood pieces too big for a chipper-shredder but not what you would want going into the wood-stove.
Still, at this point I would have no clue where to put one; we’re still ripping out 80 years of goofy landscape “day-core” layered over what was, at least at one point, apparently a thoughtful plan. I’ve been thinking that eventually a fire-pit would be a good thing along with some sort of water feature, but don’t know what that would be yet. The hydraulics of a really good water feature can be a serious brain twister.
A few posts ago, there was some ragging going on of the Japanese, and although it might have been warranted, I remember being on the outskirts of Tokyo once and being struck by the culture. Say what you want about the little harbor bombers, they had the whole bonsai landscape thing nailed.
Take care. More than a few of the TAH crew have your six…
Perry……..water features are a good thing! Very soothing, the sound of water moving. I am fortunate that my hillside has natural springs. They are all connected with a three inch line. I have waterfalls stream beds ect. But still very natural looking. As for the fire pit . You can google it to get some ideas. I made mine taller so I can burn the undesirable wood you speak of. Works great. Lining it first with fireplace bricks really helps keep the heat in. I used native rock so it blends in with the natural look.
I refuse to have a gas grill. Charcoal all the way. I also have a fire pit by the slough that we cook over. Besides a grilled cheese sandwich my wife calls my smelling like wood smoke the best aphrodisiac.
I’m with ya. Charcoal or campfire wood or nuthin. I wish I had a wife with your fine sensibilities.
My wife was an Arctic survival instructor so it goes with the territory. Our honeymoon was camping and halibut fishing.
Hickory and oak or mesquite makes for a CHOICE cooking campfire!
Slough=creek
I’m sorry if there was confusion.
I was wondering about that …
Everything peachy on the Homefront these days?
I used to have a fire pit. Until my idiot brother in law laid down a layer of white smoke burning some wet grass. I think they had to wave off a few landings at Reagan Airport.
I have one of the ceramic grill-smokers. Nothing but charcoal and wood goes in there, and lighter fluid is a sin against nature. Naphtha is NOT a flavor.
I priced those Big Green Egg things.
Hoooo-leeeeee-SHIT.
Some people think I’m nuts because I use a propane torch and a small fan to get the charcoal burning, but there’s NO residue to burn off, and the fire’s ready for cooking in NO TIME! You just keep the torch and propane bottle away from the grill once you’ve got it going.
Color me shocked.
My first day as a full fledged civilian after my medical retirement was Mar 26. Thursday I received my rating paperwork from the VA with the effective date of 1 May for payment.
I am crossing the fingers in hopes that the payments do start on 1 May. I can use that cash to pay for the closing on the new house I am buying.
Congratulations on the new house and thank you for your long service.
I am absolutely amazed at how you guys could stand to be in the military with the POTUS and the associated BS that we have now.
I was around when Carter was POTUS and that was bad enough.
Again, congrats and thank you !!!
I stayed in for two reasons.
The first was my grandfather was my role model. He bought me up with the manners to say yes sir, yes ma’am, to open doors, pull out chairs, tip my hat at older women, and paid our debts, even those incurred by family.
He also told me that a real man protected his family, looked after his friends, and took care of those that needed help.
I started off active duty because my biological ran off and left my mother without any support so she had to go to DSS and get food stamps so we could eat.
The second was that I served with some great guys in the guard, and didn’t want to leave them.
Reminds me of going to Freedom Firearms in Battle Creek back in ’09. First time I shot the .500 S&W Magnum. Took me a while to get used to the damn thing. One day, I go there to shoot and I cleaned out their inventory. Bought 7 boxes (140 rounds). God, the next day, my right hand was so sore, I couldn’t even hold on to my toothbrush. I didn’t go back to the range for 3 weeks. I finally had to berate myself into going back. And gradually, I got better and better. And before I knew it, I was shooting that bad boy one handed (both right and left) and hitting bull’s eyes at 30 feet, too. Hot damn! 😀
I just let my dog out.
I imagine he is dropping a huge, steaming pile of oozy Phil Monkress.
Spring thaw started I have piles of Phil Monkress everywhere. It looks like the minefields in Kuwait 1991.
If you would just dress your dog in spandex, you wouldn’t have this problem.
Regarding the last lawsuit from the Pacific Northwest – what ever became of that? I thought someone was going to give an update on Bernastypants’ last courtroom defeat.
The story is here.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=59001
PH2, that link is yet another Bernasty story, and one with a happy ending.
What USMCE8Ret is referring to, I think, is the one where Bernasty was to appear on a TELCON with the Calif Bar re keeping his license in Calif but was a no show. I think we are all waiting to hear what eventually happened…but maybe it has yet to happen. I note that Bernasty calls himself a “prominent California attorney” on his “website”.
From what I gather The Cali Bar send gizzard balls a letter saying the were investigating his misconduct ( mainly soliciting his services as a Ca licenced attorney while his status was inactive).
The letter said that unless he responded by a certain date his licence would be suspended. He set up a date toi do a phone interview than didnt show.
As a result his license is suspended and they are proceeding with a heasring to disbar him.
Thanks Ex-PH2 and sj. I’ll look at both of them, then maybe my mind will be refreshed. (I was under the impression the court was gonna hammer his ass for something, but that may be the same action that sj posted).
If you have ever been curious AS TO why a random State Bar might want to treat a random lawer to a turkey dinner with a Hollywood starlet, you might find this document very educational.
Very educational. http://members.calbar.ca.gov/courtDocs/14-O-00699.pdf
Enjoy. 🙂
Hummm. His current website (as of now 1909 EST) calls himself a “prominent California attorney”. That would seem to be of interest to the Calif Bar based on that link.
I think they’re concerned with what he called himself during the period when his license was on inactive status. He toggled back to active on 2014Jan1 IIRC.
That is only PART of the story.
Much more to come … there are suits, violations, charges and past deeds to be adjudicated by various fed, state and local agencies and boards with jurisdiction.
The heat deserved is getting hot.
Where is Paul Harvey when we REALLY NEED
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The REST of the story.
I don’t know which is worse: Standing in formation waiting to do a Division pass in review, or going clothes shopping with my wife.
Clothes shopping, especially if she makes you hold her purse while she’s in the fitting room.
BTDT.
Depends. What kind of clothes?
Careful how you use that word “depends” around senior citizens.
Honestly, I figured the second part of my reply was the one that might get me in trouble.
Depends on location and bugs. Nothing worse than mosquitoes, gnats, noseeums, etc., gnawing on exposed skin while you are sweating buckets in a uniform and can’t move your hands. One thing I don’t miss.
Often wondered how much movement in the ranks could be see from the reviewing stand. Back in the day, the parade ground at APG was located where the Ordnance museum now displays their over-sized weapons. I went through AIT in the suimmer of ’63 and every month we had a parade. As luck would have it, my company, 1st ETC, marched behind the WACs. Can’t remember if it was July or August, but it was hot and humid as hell and it wasn’t long before troops started dropping. Being next to the WACs, there was more then a little curiosity when when one of their number fell out. A number of heads were turned in search of cheap thrills, but no joy. Dresses flapped alright, but they were so long I doubt anyone saw a knee, much less a thigh. Being short, I was in the next to last ranks, so I got to see it all without moving anything more than my eyeballs. Never got an ass chewing for all the movement, so who knows.
Maybe TSO will back me up. At The Citadel we had weekly Fri eve parades. You ain’t lived until you stand on the parade ground in Charleston in the heat and low country humidity in bad ass heavy wool coats whilst every bug in the universe chewed on you. It was bad juju if you moved a hand to flick said bugs. This experience carried over to Bragg, but without the humidity.
Clothes shopping, no contest.
Happy Cambodian New Year.
John Kerry was there decades ago…seered in his memory. Jane Fonda and Brian Williams were with him.
Mention John Kerry to my father-in-law if you want to hear what “lying cocksucker” sounds like in three languages. And he would know: he was stationed on that river at the Vietnamese border in December of ’68. He has pointed out on occasion that he would have noticed if there were any American boats that far upstream at the time.
The DRC would like to “cometh”, but ultra high blood alcohol levels have effects that even Viagria or Cialis can’t fix.
An interesting week at the casa. New phones for me and the missus. Damn thing is bigger than my flat screen television.
At least I got all the pertinent stuff moved over.
iPhone 6, right? My mom showed me her iPhone 6 a few weeks ago; the damn thing is big enough to park a Buick on.
I’m keeping my iPhone 4 till it dies; I don’t want to carry a megalith in my pocket.
iPhone6 Plus is a HUGE bitch. I’m not a big Apple fan. I prefer the Android platform, and what I have now is pretty close to iPhone6 size.
But at least it’s expandable up to 128GB.
Same thing here. Spousal unit upgrades my phone thinking she is helping me out. So now I just got the Note 4 thing. The thing is scary. It knows if I am looking at it, no shit. If I look at it and wave it turns on. If I am reading TAH on it, somehow it knows when it needs to scroll down the page as I read.
She keeps showing me all these ‘Apps’ that can do all kinds of things. I have been looking for the “Its just and old phone you pick up and say hello” app.
It knows you are watching it and what is on your mind. Wait ’til it finds its way into your shower.
-^..^-
Another gift from the A.I. department of people who want to download their brains into a computer, because they think they will live forever. Well, sure, until someboy pulls plug and carts them off to the storage room.
WAY too much Star Trek stuff there for me.
Way too much for me as well. She downloaded the ‘Transparent App’. It uses the camera to display the image as if the screen is clear and you are looking right through a square frame.
There is a neat CCW app that alerts me to changes in the law as I go from state to state and into cities with particular laws.
The thing is big, when I am talking to someone I have flash backs to the late 70’s when the darker green Marines were strutting around with their boom boxes on their shoulders.
Dave………..you might want to checkout the new “retro iPhone” it’s modeled after a claymore clacker you only have one button. Real simple!
Smile
I have been looking for the old fashion telephone ring. You know, like when the damn thing hang on the wall and had a cord.
When I was a kid we had a ‘party line’. The neighbor and us shared the same line. I would be talking and all of a sudden would hear the click click click of the idiot dialing without checking if anyone was on the line.
I even remember people with phone numbers like Jr. Samples………BR549
I have been looking for the old fashion telephone ring. You know, like when the damn thing hang on the wall and had a cord.
Here ya go, Dave: (iPhone 4s)
Settings
|__Sounds
…..|__Ringtone
………|__Classic
…………..|__Old Phone
Somewhere out there, and I can’t find it, is a HILARIOUS poem, “THE TELEPHONE”, written by Orel Elser, a cattle rancher in Rigby, Idaho.
I hope someday you guys get to see it or hear it.
It’s describing your situation!
I did a little checking, and if the Pac NW “lawer” is in fact to be disbarred, the state Supreme Court has to actually disbar him.
I’m sure that takes a bit more than a couple of weeks, although (guessing) that he could be placed in an Inactive status until such a time as the state court hands down their final disbarment.
Of course, if anyone in the legal profession could expand or correct me, I’m all ears.
They have rendered him “unable to practice law” before due to his failure to pay child support. I think there are measures short of disbarment that have a similar effect. I am no lawyer.
Child support is one thing. The Bar takes a very dim view of someone claiming to be a lawyer when they aren’t. Seems they don’t like it when people make a mockery of the courts.
Did you read that .pdf up above. There’s a lot of stuff they take a dim view of apparently… ha ha.
Dr Phil/TAH Brothers/Sisters/Transgenders: I just suggested to my bride that she take 2 salt tablets and drive on. She looked at me quizzically. She is a Leg. Advice?
It’s been an interesting few weeks in my life.
It seems my left arm has decided not to cooperate with the rest of my body.
It goes completely numb from time to time and I cant lift anywhere near the weight I used to be able to. Sometime I think I’m touching something harder than I am or i’m holding something when I’m not.
The doctors are running all kinds of test and giving me some interesting drugs so Im spending a good deal of the time loopy as hell.
Makes it a bitch to write and even when I do Im not real sure it’s coherent.
Google voice does not work worth a fuck unless I use a chinese accent.
Back to watching movies, in Don Knotts films tonight.
The reluctant astronaut
The Ghost and Mr Chicken
The incredible Mr Limpet
Just to name a few
Sounds like some kind of weird neurological thing, but hopefully you have a good doctor and/or access to good neurologists, and can get squared away.
Neuro stuff can be troubling, but once diagnosed, most conditions are manageable.
Get better.
I had my first encounter with a phony today, and I am really disappointed at where. An AA meeting. Fellow claims over 5 years sobriety. I am even doubting that now. Through the grapevine, he found out I was a vet, so he approached me after the meeting. Said he was a vet too and we got to talking. I was just a grunt, and darned proud of it! Did a lot of stuff, some pretty unique and funny, some downright crappy. He claimed Airborne Ranger. Cool, a brother in arms, and a fellow alcoholic. Because we all know an Airborne Ranger ain’t nothing but a Grunt with a few more skills. Seems each story I had, he had to have the better one. Each drunk I had, he had a worse one. Got to talking about the VA. Told him, yeah, the DAV helped me get my paperwork straightened out. His reply: “DAV???” Told him I had to go and got gone. I know there are a lot of vets that are in AA, so in that program of honesty, I usually give someone the benefit of the doubt. A very low percentage of the population are vets, but a very high percentage of vets have some sort of substance abuse issue. Hell, yes, each one of us can “one up” the other with some of our tales, the ones we can remember at that particular time. Sometimes it is mostly truth with a little good natured BS thrown in to keep the listeners attention. But to claim to be a vet and not know what the DAV is? And be in the program? Really disappointing to me. I did not call him out on it, because as an alcoholic, I have been a liar many times myself. Usually when the wife asked me if I had been drinking. But, no matter how gone I was, I never claimed anything that was not mine to claim. To claim Airborne Ranger and never heard of DAV? An AA meeting was the very last place I ever expected to meet a… Read more »
If he has been sober that long he should know something about ‘taking a personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admitting it’.
You probably did the right thing for now. If he has been out a while and never used any benefits could be he doesnt know what it is.
Easy does it and Semper Fi.
I just now received an electronic notification from Google that somebody watched the video I recorded on Sunday 30 September 2012, announcing myself as an independent write-in candidate for President of the United States of America.
That makes a total of three (03) people who say they’d vote for me.
https://youtu.be/CbY6oIOECY0
GET READY TO PARTY ! ! !
One week from today will be Sunday 19 April 2015, the two hundred and fortieth (240) anniversary of the shot heard ’round the world!
It was just seventy-seven (77) men and boys daring to face the largest, best trained, best equipped, most powerful and successful army in the entire world.
Next Sunday is also the seventy-second (72) anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
And it’s the twenty-second (22) anniversary of the Waco Massacre.
John, It will also be the 68th anniversary of my birth. I always tell people that I was born on the opening shot of the Revolutionary War.
@ ROGER IN REPUBLIC:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! ! !
https://youtu.be/ctECstDhC9s
Poor Daniel A Bernath has a concern that I will be unable to masterbate due to the problems I am having with my arm.
http://aspecialdayguide.com/
Thanks for the concern Dan but I am a little put off by your ongoing fascination with my Penis. You and Dallas have both spoke of it on several occasions.
It is fine, I am rather attached to it, My penis and I have had a lot of fun together over the years and I am told it has never failed to please.
I will send you a picture of it if it will ease your worries.
Fuck you.
Now that fat bastard is puffing himself off as the national commander of the American Legion.
But in what universe?
Is that like the French Foreign Legion?
He is offended by my choice of language and is sending me Emails to that effect.
He’s offended by such words as
truth
honor
integrity
full gas tank
He should be worried (rather than offended) by:
Seach Warrant
Handcuffs
Charges
No Bail
Trial
Sentencing
Prison
Bubba
But, I am staying over here with my popcorn!
I got nothin’ …
We’re gonna need a bigger popcorn machine.
OH YES WE WILL!
I’m stocked up on popcorn and popping oil. Should I lay in a supply of beverages and other delicacies, such as kielbasa, mustard, pickles, and chili con carne?
I wonder just how close Daniel A. Bernath’s past misconduct and malfeasance is to really catching up to him? I also wonder if he and his Dutch Rudder Gang compadres will actually show up at the AL Convention like they’ve promised, that would be a comedy show!
All with the smell of Commander Phil Monkress of All-Points Logistics balls’ on their breath.
Who would have thought?
Word to the wise Daniel-san. When the day comes that law enforcement shows up at your door to take you away, don’t assume that it’s some ninja knocking and go shooting through the door like you’re the vice president.
E4U, I will send you something to compensate for the rift in the space-time continuum created by birdbraindead bernitwit.
Give me a few minutes.
It is my opinion that Daniel A. Bernath does what Professionals in the Psychology field refer to as “Projection” which was described by Sigmund Freud as when one feels so threatened by or afraid of their own thoughts they “project” them onto others, say when a rapist suddenly accuses his therapist of wanting to do the same. Daniel A. Bernath has repeatedly accused others of homosexuality among other things, and I see it as “Projection”. He also exhibits symptoms of “Paraphrenia”, a paranoid type of schizophrenia, but I’m only a fair-weather student of Psychology, and that’s merely my opinion.
Oh, you picked up on that?
Roger that MCPO! Looking at his drivel via an anonymous surfing shows me that he’s back to his old ways. I see that Daniel A. Bernath has at least temporarily ceased obsessing about me, but I’m sure that I still live rent-free in the Penthouse of his mind. I don’t think I’ve mentioned him here on TAH in at least the past couple of weeks, but I’m sure he’s still up to his usual antics, I’d love to meet up face to face sometime with the TAH regulars who have to put up with his shit and treat y’all to at least a good pizza and the first couple of rounds!
E4U,
Regrettably you forced me to and I have reported you to the TAH Worldwide Corp HQ, Executive Office, General Web Site Operations, Exclusive Members Only, Damn Good Articles, Complaint Department Division of Reporting a Comment for NOT using the “f” word more than once in the aforementioned post.
Sorry!
God, he really is total human debris, isn’t he? Despite his delusions of grandeur, I don’t believe he contributes anything of value to the world. I am starting think that if the oxygen thieves of the world have a commander, it has to be him.
The time and effort he puts into all this nonsense on the net, tortuously twisting words, the photo-shopping, the libel, etc., is just beyond belief. He is a very, very sick pup, possibly due to hundreds of years of isolation and inbreeding within his tribe. The survival of his gene pool has been a tragedy, for him and everyone else.
Explain to me again why the DRC doesn’t have their own cell block?
That’s what I’m saying. And who the fuck would give that worthless shitbag a pilots license. I wouldn’t trust that dumbass with an unsharpened pencil. What a miserable sack of shit.
I want to see them all in the same cell, where they can all sodomize each other to death. Or bore each other to death with their lies. Whichever comes first.
You think like I do! 😀
I’m sure there is an inpatient Mental Health Facility someplace that could house them. They obviously DON’T want to be helped, thus I’m sure the only thing for them is a padded room in a strait jacket with a steady supply of Thorazine.
Congrats to Jordan Spieth on his Masters victory.
I know that it technically isn’t the weekend anymore, but Jonn’s headline picture got me thinking about our current pistol dilemma at Casa Bobo.
The wife has decided that she needs a new, smaller, and lighter carry gun. After looking, she seems to have her heart set on a Kimber Ultra CDP II. I’ve been stashing away some cash for a S&W 500 with a 4″ barrel that will probably spend most of its life in the gun safe.
I don’t think that I’m going to talk her down from the Kimber, and I don’t think that she’s going to buy the argument that the 500 can be a dual use that she can borrow as a carry gun, so the 500 is going to have to be put on hold for a little bit.
Although it’s not the weekend anymore, here is a link to some light reading regarding one Daniel Bernath in case it has not been linked previously.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/courtDocs/14-O-00699.pdf