Weekend open thread
I’m binge-watching Season 4 of Longmire on Netflix this afternoon, so here’s your weekend open thread.
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SUCK IT!! BOOYAH!
Oh, I’m sorry. 9/11….that’s pretty irreverent.
🙁
We know you like being first bro, and that you weren’t intentionally irreverent…
Your enthusiasm is duly noted!
I guess being the deuce ain’t half bad either !!!
First time I’m pouring one out for someone else this year before I get started on the weekly ritual of get hammered as hell and attempt to write music; in honor of the day.
Think it was Twain who said “Write drunk, revise sober”.
“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
Peter De Vries, describing a character based on character based the famous drunkard poet, Dylan Thomas.
Need that edit feature, John!
So it was De Vries… Wonder why it got attributed to Twain. Either way, it’s INCREDIBLY sound advice, I’ve found. My production comes out ten times more intricate when I’ve written drunk.
Damn
Lol
Some happy soul went down my street (and under my window) at 3am this morning, singing to the top of his voice in an Irish brogue. Since our local ‘Irish Pub’ is about two miles away, I would assume that is where he came from.
He sang pretty well while he was lubricated; I wonder if he could carry a tune when he was sober?
It wasn’t me, I swear it wasn’t!
Any decent Irishman would be home in bed at that time of the morning….well, most of us, that is.;)
Now, tonight is a different story. (put your a/c on to deaden the sound)
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
As I was returning from foraging for stuff to stock the shelves, I stopped at McD’s on the highway. While waiting for traffic to clear, two guys in camo driving a tan HMVV came flying south and turned at the cut in the median. I thought they were going to drive into the parking lot at the restaurant across the highway, but instead, they made a U-turn and went flying north. I followed them, and watched while they found the turn they were looking for. Then I started giggling.
They can find their way around the desert, where nothing is marked at all, but when it comes to a clearly marked turn, they completely missed it.
They were probably a couple of 2LTs who were told to report to Ft. Drum this morning.
And yes, I know you don’t live in New York.
Or someone gave them grid coordinates for the turn.
No, their platoon sergeants fucked up and let each of them have a compass.
Still have my NCO membership card from Drum…from the way back machine…
They should’ve made that left toin at Albequoique
You’re making a huge assumption there! Very few folks run around in the desert in just one vehicle. Not to mention GPS, Blue Force Tracker, etc.
On the other hand, even if you have all that it only takes one leader to screw up. I think Jessica Lynch can attest to that.
That’s one of my favorite roads when I feel like avoiding the tolls. Driving it in wintertime, not so much.
Perhaps looking for new/used Hellfire missile.
Number 10. In Asian countries that really means something!
All go to 11…one louder tan 10.
As I listened to the radio this AM on the way to work, about Obozo taking his moment to pause for 9/11/01, I couldn’t help but think, given Obola’s lineage and background, whether he was pausing to mourn the near-3000 innocent lives lost on that day, or if he was mourning the 20 Muzzloid lives lost (may Shaitan repeatedly eat and shit their souls for eternity) making this “special day” happen.
Nah, the fucker was probably pausing for a moment to think about how to improve his golf handicap…
Seeing as Obama was raised by a white Christian family from Kansas, never knew his Muslim father, was in separate religion classes for Christian children when he lived in Indonesia, and has never practiced Islam in his life, the better question would be whether Dubya feels any pangs of guilt for telling intelligence officers in August 2001, “You’ve covered your ass now” when they begged him to pay attention to their report that said bin Laden was determined to attack us soon–and then stayed on vacation at the ranch for another 30 days.
Oh, you silly little bint. Try talking to someone who was alive in 2001, mkay?
I was alive, and an adult. Clearly you weren’t, if you’re denying the well-documented fact that Bush ignored the repeated intelligence warnings. Nice to see you’d try to intimidate someone you thought was too young to know any better into believing that the facts are not the facts, though.
Although, I misspoke about Obama’s father–his bio father was atheist, step-father was Muslim. He still wasn’t raised Muslim. mmmkay?
Obummer went to the Punahou School.
Kansas?
Not.
That school ain’t cheap.
And how many times did Bill Clinton have the opportunity to kill Bin Laden while he was in office? What about Jaime “Mistress of Disaster” Gorlick and her role in preventing government agencies from sharing intel?
Well, if we’re going back in time, I wouldn’t be hung up on the guy who didn’t get bin Laden, I’d be talking about the guy who helped him rise to power in the first place–Reagan.
Oh! I saw something at Walmart that I wanted thoughts on. A man walking through the store in front of me was carrying a large revolver, hostered BACKWARDS on his right hip, and a magazine pouch (I’m guessing speedloads, but couldn’t be sure of that) on his left. I’m curious about the holster; as far as I can tell, it was too far around to the right to be a cross draw rig, and yet, to draw it right handed, it would have been upside down?
Any thoughts or insights on this type of carry?
I know some people that will twist their hand around to draw so they wear their sidearm backwards like that. So
I don’t think it’s as fast or probably as comfortable, but I’ve seen it done – just not often.
Left handed cross-draw?
The only thing that makes sense here without a picture of how and where it was holstered IS a crossdraw here, though… Maybe he’s just got really long arms and it’s comfortable for him? Idk
Wasn’t that how Liberty Vallance carried it, and then he drew it with his right arm twisted around?
Southpaw crossdraw. Could be s left-hander who sits in a vehicle a lot, that’s one of the few situations where a crossdraw makes any sense. Although pre-automobile a fella named Hickok used to carry a pair of .36 Navy Colts like that and seems to have done pretty good work with ’em until he hit Deadwood.
You could have done this to him. https://youtu.be/hkCqSHwhKVg
Wild Bill Hickock was famous for using two single-action cap&ball Navy Colts in a twist-draw rig, so it can be done with speed provided the user has some practice. I wonder why anybody in this day and age would want to use a twist-draw, with all the modern holster options that weren’t available in 1869. But, people have weird ideas sometimes, like Steven Lang in that dumbass “Avatar” movie, carrying his sidearm in a cross-draw drop holster for no conceivable reason, or those people who think glocks aren’t worthless pieces of shit… 😉
Once upon a time, I took a really bad fall and trashed a wrist. Had to learn to do all sorts of stuff with the other hand while Doc fixed the primary and healing occurred.
Until the new “other side” holsters arrived, I learned to do that “Hickok” twist-draw with my “weak” hand.
It works surprisingly well, with just a bit of practice.
The person you observed my have had unexpected problems with his left hand. Possibly an arthritis flare-up, if there was no visible bandage or splint.
According to US News, Iran want’s us to stop commemorating the victims of 9-11 because of ‘Feelings’ or some such bullshit.
I say FUCK THEM!!!
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/11/iran-to-americans-stop-commemorating-the-9-11-attacks
My answer is: Be afraid, you old fart. Your days are numbered the same as a fat goat’s.
Tell ’em to ask the Japs if we’ve stopped commemorating Pearl Harbor yet…then tell him to fuck himself
Fuck that guy and anybody that looks like him.
Or does that make me a bad person? 😉
Sure. We’ll cease remembering 11SEP2001 when Shaitan repents.
I say Fuck ‘Em! Fuck Them with a God Damn Black Hawk,sideways!
I was only going to have one drink (bottle) in memory of 9/11, but after reading that. I think I’ll have 2 more!
Those assholes should be grateful that we don’t commemorate it by razing a random middle-eastern city every year.
Anyone here affected by this wellness surcharge bullshit that is part of obamacare? I know little about it other than there is a penalty and a premium surcharge for not doing several things. It’s evidently a mandate that requires folks to eat more vegies, give up smoking, drink less booze, and such other bullshit that should be none of the MF gov’t business but is, thanks to oBaMa, Congress, and that POS John Roberts.
That seems to be a thing; my wife and I had to take a spit test to show my benefits provider we weren’t smokers to avoid a $25 per person fee.
Holy Hannah! I’m getting pissed off all over again over the bill that nobody read. Spit test. Piss test. Blood test. Hair and fingernail clippings next, I suppose. Cripes. We used to feel sorry for the poor bastards in the USSR who were subject to state this and state that, party this and party that. I wish to hell I was born 200 years ago.
Were you asked whether there is a gun in your home?
So Barry the habitual smoker wants to make us pay a penalty for smoking? Sounds about right.
The new season is out? I quit A&E ENTIRELY after they canceled Longmire with such a cliffhanger. Best God rammed show on TV after Hell On Wheels.
Yeah, I just finished the season. Another cliff hanger at the end of this series, too.
I you guys have netflix you should check out Narco sometime, it’s pretty awesome.
I just want to point out something regarding “Longmire”. Morally- and professionally-questionable Deputy Branch Connaly carries a Tupperware glock. Badass Sheriff Walt Longmire carries…a 1911 with bitchin’ antler grips, in other words: A Man’s Gun.
Just wanted to throw that one out there 🙂
The Longmire character is based on an un-named real life USA-CID agent that Craig is friends with.
Woman strip searched: loaded handgun found in her vagina.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/09/09/woman-with-loaded-handgun-in-vagina-charged-with-unlawful-carry-in-texas/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
I saw this the other day and sent a Lol.. E-Mail out about it… LMFAO ! !
all I can say is NASTY AS HELL !!!!!! BHWHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! !
Happiness is indeed a warm gun….
Loves me some hot tuna.
That IS NOT what it was meant for!
The virginia that is.
Hope it wasn’t a 1911 or Judge.
we had two females here in Tucson about a month ago with about 12Ibs of Coke and heroine up there Snach Block one was 18 YRS 5’3″ 98ilbs the other 19 Yrs about 5’5″ and about 118 lbs Talk about Stretching out the BOX ! ! ! BHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! !
A shooter in the cooter!
SFC D. the two females was that down in your neck of the desert???? Lol….
I don’t think so, might have been Nogales. We’d still be laughing it was our area.
MRIs suck. That is all.
I had one for 2 1/2 hours a few years ago. I slept through it.
I’d love to know how you did it. Then again, my knee was propped up and couldn’t move either leg the entire time, including when they pulled me out and shot me up with contrast dye.
Moving it afterwards was, shall we say, fun.
At least the results should be back quickly. Now if it’s just a question of draining or cutting on it.
Easy. Spend a few decades in the infantry so you can sleep anywhere as soon as you can’t move and you tell your body that you’re supposed to be working.
LOL!
My last MRI resulted in two very annoyed techs. Apparently, they are not allowed to shut off the panic microphone.
#1 (peeved) “Sir…. do you always snore like that?”
#2 (annoyed) “Go! go! Godzilla!”
To be fair, they did have some pretty awesome music going on.
Started with the soundtrack to, “Dazed and Confused” and got better from there.
Ha-Ha. I can’t have one anymore….
49th!
Yeah baby!
The suds are flowing here today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! ! ! ! BRO !!!!
No!
I was 49th commenter!
Today is Patriot’s Day, Septeber 11th.
We tend to drink on this day BTW for a few reasons.
I am 53, but look like a 40 year ole’ lad and can still kick anyone’s ass!
Whatever the reason, sláinte!
well congrats on 49th and kicking ass 🙂
Beloved Father-in-Law, 84 years young, USAF Master Sergeant (Ret) went into hospice last night. Same guy that drove 350 miles each way to our house in the Spring.
I mentioned earlier that he has more time than me in Nam (and Laos and Cambodia) but all he says is that he was “just” a Crew Chief. Not a SINGLE thing in the house/truck/car showing his AF Service…until I had a couple of things made. Family knew nothing of his service. Oh, BTW, he lives in the same grid square as Round Ranger.
When Hospice found out he was a Vet, they arranged for a couple of Vets to drop by tomorrow and do a honor ceremony while he is still alert. Apparently they do this a lot. Brings a tear to my eyes. I’ll do an AAR. Makes me hate posers, like his neighbor, Round Ranger, (even more than I already do).
“Just a Crew Chief”. Indeed. This LTC salutes you Master Sergeant.
SJ,
God Bless him as he stands his final watch. The last watch is sometimes long, sometimes short … yet, it is a very tough watch for the watch-stander and those under instruction.
We will pray for a good watch all this weekend.
Salute MCPO. What a humble man. He demanded hospice because he saw that his life was finished because being on dialysis for 6 hours/day 3x/week sucked and zip, zero, nada, chances for improvement. Then pooping in a diaper. Then worrying about the family taking care of him.
He’s a great man. Did his job in the USAF and claimed nothing else. No valor awards. He says his balls were always busted because of weight…he’s at least 6’5″…yet he made Master Sergeant in 20 years. Must have done something right.
“Just a Crew Chief”.
My dad (hard core Korean War Vet) was like that, ’til the end. Very stoic, no pain meds, wanted all his kids around him (7 plus mom) and then he took his last human breath eyes wide open fully awake and knowing.
Total humility, total courage with hope that his faith and love of his family would ride with him …
I have seen at sat at the bedisde of my dad, mom, 2 close uncles and countless others, perhaps because I am familiar with the process and the guy you want around to help out with the details.
However, as difficult as it may seem there is beauty in what is left behind … Children, grandchildren and those great grandchildren yet to be born.
And with that, there will always be the “Crew Chief”.
Prayers lifted up for him, and you, sj.
Just had a thought, jaded by being on TAH too long: what if one of the Vet’s that shows up for tomorrow’s ceremony is Round Ranger? Could happen…this is Round Ranger’s AO. Master Sergeant has seen Round Ranger’s info and was appalled, especially since he is a neighbor. I’ll report in the AAR.
Hope the AAR will be that the ceremony was meaningful, moving, and worthy of a gent that says he was “just a crew chief”. SJ Out.
SJ..promised not to post, however, may Buddha bless your father-on law, Master Sergeant with a peaceful passing. Don’t mourn a heroes death celebrate his life and love.
HAppy to report that Round Ranger was not the Vet that conducted the ceremony. Rather it was a gent who was a Marine and then did 30 years in the Army Guard. All the family was there and he gave a moving tribute about what men like “Just A Crew Chief” meant to the Services and presented a flag, pin, and a certificate of appreciation. His words meant a lot to the family and the Master Sergeant, especially since the family knew almost nothing about his service.
Thanks for the kind words from you folks.
sj: sorry to hear the bad news.
Tell your father-in-law another “just a crew chief” will be there to welcome him right after St. Peter lets him enter the pearly gates. Along with a CPO, and a veteran of the Bulge – and one of Anzio.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=35400
They’ll be honored to help him get settled in in Paradise.
When the time comes… there will be five Union soldiers and a Union chaplain waiting to welcome him, sj. Just a supply corps guy, just a courier, just a horse cavalry troop, just a foot solider, just a chaplain….
Tomorrow I will have completed 75 laps around the sun. As a kid, I didn’t expect to live to see the 21st century,(many people were dying before 60 back then), the local police chief in my small home town told my parents that I wouldn’t live to see 18 if I didn’t change my driving habits and slow down, (I did change them, I bought a faster car), and my maternal grandmother used to light a candle for me at church because she thought I was trying to kill myself, what with jumping out of planes and all.
Here now, I can say that I have done just about every thing that I have wanted to do, and if I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. Still active, (building an enclosed porch and a roofover for my little hideaway trailer this week), still having fun, still doing extreme things. AATW!
Happy birthday my friend. I hope you enjoy your day tomorrow and I hope to see you again next summer.
Happy Birthday, you ole’ fart ya!
Jameson tomorrow fer ya!
Sent you something.
Happy Birthday, Frank!
Many happy returns of the day, Frankie!
BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!
Not sure if any of y’all saw it, but God is pissed at the Muslims.
1) It’s September 11th
2) A freak massive storm blew into Mecca.
3) The wind was high enough to topple a giant crane.
4) The crane fell into, and crumbled parts of, the Mega Mosgue.
5) It happened just as prayers were beginning.
6) The crane, as it turns out, was operated by the bin Laden family.
7) There is no such thing as coincidence.
http://universalfreepress.com/muslim-carnage-on-911-anniversary-watch-bin-ladens-giant-crane-crash-into-mega-mosque/
And there was much rejoicing
Karma. She’s a bitch, and she’s in heat.
Amen, brother.
That ‘mysterious ways’ thing gets around, doesn’t it?
God is indeed on our side.
Heheheheheheheheheh.. 😈
Saw the crane collapse on the news tonight. It looked… painful.
I was 12 or 13 years old, I think it was 7th grade, in Social Studies when the announcement came over the intercom. Where were you guys when you heard the twin towers were hit by the first plane?
Read the posts from earlier thread.
Working in Boise. Not much got done that day. I didn’t get home for a couple weeks.
I was just watching “America’s Book of Secrets”, the episode about “America’s secret Armies”. I was wondering how long it will be before some poser claims to be a “Night Stalker”. Or has it already happened?
I had never heard of them before tonight. I guess it’s a safe bet that none of them would ever be caught bragging over a beer in some dive, for a piece of ass.
Just a thought I had. Happy weekend!
Never heard of a “Night Stalker”.
However, I have flown with the “Night Stalkers” … They Own the Night!
I love the Navy, but I really love Army aviation!
We need an edit button. I meant what you said. Hic up!
The Night Witches of WW2 is worth the look up. All female combat pilot’s on the Eastern front.
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Task Force 160). The best of the best in Army Aviation.
Valkyrie, It was “The Nightstalkers” that flew the Rangers into Mogudishu in “Gothic Serpant” (aka Blackhawk down), and who flew the Delta guys in on their little birds, (a friend of mine rode one of those in and ran “The Mogudishu Mile” back to the barracks.
Their biggest unit is at Ft. Campbell, KY.
I had the pleasure of riding with them from Bagram to Kabul in March 2002 I think it was. Talk about an E ticket ride! It was exhilarating terrifying and the most fun I ever had in a Blackhawk! Never felt safer in an aircraft either.
oBaMa is upset with Vlad and is cautioning him. Vlad is quaking in his boots(“Here, Baracka, use my pen to draw your red line.”) Biden is still waiting for someone in Moscow to take his call regarding Ukraine. Sometimes they don’t answer. Sometimes they answer and tell him wrong number. And sometimes they have fun and say, “Ivan’s Pizza. May I take your order?” Kerry is upset, too, but he’s so pathetic there’s no point in joking about him any more.
Do you mean that they are finally getting an eyeful of the real world?
It must hurt.
It’s a day or two late on this piece of info, but better late than never, eh?
It seems that Minnesota, the Land of Woods and Lakes, has updated and improved its list of CCW recognition, back in August. Sorry for the delay.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150813/minnesota-dps-announces-updated-list-of-out-of-state-handgun-carry-permits-recognized-new-information-for-your-state-permit
In addition, in Montana, a high school student is collecting signatures for legislation to allow teachers, etc., in schools to carry guns, for the protection of their students.
http://mtpr.org/post/proposed-initiative-calls-concealed-weapons-montana-schools
I heard that a plainly pathetic person pissed on passengers on a plane. My question is: “Was this person wearing a catheter?” And, “Was he headed for or coming from a California BAR hearing?”
Was he rocking in his chair after insertion of said catheter, into his penis, past his prostate and into his bladder, every 2 – 4 hours to relieve his discomfort?
Looks like Danny-boi’s dance card is full in late September and Early October with Judge Lucy Armendariz… I wonder what’s that all about? 😉
Whatever it is, someone needs to tape that shit and post it on YouTube afterwards.
Everything involving that no-talent ass clown has been pure comedy gold so far.
This how to handle any member of the “DRG”.
https://video-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xla1/v/t42.1790-2/11978972_10154021378869179_877592167_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjQxOSwicmxhIjo1MTJ9&rl=419&vabr=233&oh=3f4ccda661eb3dd5c22ebf9915c51772&oe=55F4721F
Doesn’t seem like a weekend open thread without CLAW on the net. CLAW and Scooby: Com check!
Piney woods NCO, if you see this, I made it as far east as Tyler yesterday on I-20. Bought a wood stove from a guy and then headed north up towards the Red River. Nice drive. Next time maybe I’ll go a little further east and knock on the door at the VFW.
Well, maybe you’ll enjoy knowing that the DRC has identified you as the wrong guy this weekend.
Those idiots. I have a mani-pedi at the place next door to Chevy’s world headquarters every Thursday. I keep waiting for them to join me (my treat). I’d even pay for their lunch at Chan’s if they had enough fuel to make it that far.
I always know when I get to Chan’s before Chevy does because they still have food in the trough.
They think you’re married to Not-Julie.
When I contemplate the existence of a not-julie, I picture her as being married to a not-cpo, or maybe a not-pilot, or maybe a not-lawyer, or maybe a not-capable-of-erection-drooling-moron. Birdbath projecting again?
Do these chodes ever get tired of fucking up?
They remind me of this guy I knew in college who had 15 points deducted on a 10 point question. When he asked the professor about it, he was told, “But you were so WRONG.”
Who are those idiots accusing of being me this week? Is it one of the past eight, or are those snotweasels accusing a ninth? Those toad snot-brained Swamp Donkeys couldn’t even find their own asses at high noon with a searchlight and GPS!
And in other (late) news, a soon to be disbarred non-CPO “lawer” is trying to clean up his Web presence.
Efforts include shutting down his Disqus account, 13th Amendment Law Firm (Yelp suit) page on Facebook, etc.
Too little, too late, dickhead. You are still defaming a lot of people here on your shit website, and the AlGoreNet never forgets.