Weekend Open Thread
A man kneels before a Macedonian police officer in an effort to cross the border, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. Scores of migrants stranded at Greece’s northern border have clashed with police while trying to force their way into Macedonia. Macedonia toughened rules for migrant crossings earlier this month, restricting access to citizens from countries typically granted asylum in Europe, including Syria and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
So, here’s your weekend thread.
Folks have been asking whether or not there’s a restraining order against Don Shipley and as near as I can tell, there is not. Has he had his weapons confiscated by the police? No, he has not. He’s enjoying a vacation with his wife and he has not been served any papers for the hearing supposedly scheduled for Monday.
Yes, it’s another huge misinformation campaign designed to scare people away from us. The person who leads this campaign hasn’t stopped emailing us, and it seems to me that if there was indeed a restraining order, he would be restrained from initiating communication with us, too. Its common sense, isn’t it? But, when it comes to dealing with the DRC, sense isn’t very common.
Oh, he filed a restraining against Mr and Mrs Shipley, but the judge rejected them because he “fails to state legal criteria for stalking injunction”. So I hope that answers your questions.
Category: Open thread
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Neener – Neener.
Dan Bernath, the legal loser.
Diickless Dan Bernath – Hamilton Burger’s BYTCH!!!
Oh, I’m sure he has a dick. It’s just that his wife wears it.
I’m not sure, it was confirmed here….
Damn. Beat me to it. 🙂
Great minds and all…….
Daniel A. Bernath THE FRED PHELPS CLONE, The late Fred Phelps was a disbarred Attorney in Kansas as well as the courthouse bully that Daniel A. Bernath has always been.
Keep searching Bernath…I’m right here ?
A high school church camp friend of mine who is now an Episcopal Priest described his run-in he head with the Westboro inbreds. It was the first funeral he ever did, it was for a teenaged boy who died from AIDS (He was a hemophiliac and got the virus from a tainted transfusion), and the Westboro inbreds were there screeching. He went to talk to them, and all they tried to do was antagonize and provoke him into saying or doing something while they recorded his every move. Fred Phelps and his inbred flock filed many a Bernathian lawsuit, and they’ve been called out on it. Just a peek at Daniel A. Bernath the Fred Phelps clone’s filings shows how parallel they are in their ethics and deeds, Bernath the Phelps clone never stops trying to provoke and/or antagonize people and then goes running to the courthouse bawling about how HE’S the victim. I presume that Daniel A. Bernath was cloned from Fred Phelps using DNA taken from hia anal region.
I don’t and can’t understand WHY The California Supreme court is taking so long to disbar Bernath. My family thinks the Judge is in SHOCK and to make sure, she’s rereading Bernaths testimony and antics in the CA Bar Courthouse.
His continuing threats are iffy like he lost his marbles. I AM FORBIDDEN TO FILE ANY LAWSUITS AGAINST HIM..PER BERNATHS THREATS. SO, if I did’nt follow my parents rules who I love, why the hell would I follow anything the person I hate most?
See ya Bernasty in 2016
It looks like someone
(•_•)
Claw’d their way
( •_•)>⌐■-■
To Number One.
(⌐■_■)
YEEEEAAAHHH
You are just NASTY AND MEAN.
Quit complementing him, he already has a big enough ego.
*furiously humps Ex-PH2’s leg*
😀 😀 😀
That does it. You are toast, ChipNASA.
Hmmm, Chip? Toast?
Makes me want some old style GI SOS.
My mother used to make chipped beef gravy. The chipped beef came in a little glass jar. It was a lot like Buddig beef, and she made the gravy then put the beef in it, and put it on rice or toast.
I still make it. Chipped beef on toast.
Yeah, I’ve known the struggle.
I think it was left over from WWII. Everything was recycled, including grease. Not a joke.
I’ll buy you a new stove if you can make SOS just like Mom used to do.
Deal?
Deal, but are you talking about your mom or mine? I didn’t say my mother’s was good. It was kind of bland and the only salt it had in it came from the beef slices.
I think I can do better than that.
You certainly can, lass. Just use this recipe for Army-style SOS:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/14687/army-sos-creamed-ground-beef/
I personally would recommend adding some garlic and onion and maybe doubling the Worcestershire sauce. But that’s just me.
I think we just might be doing either that – or sausage and sausage gravy – over biscuits plus scrambled eggs for dinner tonight.
Hondo,Sir, give us the low down.
Those of us who have been scraping turkey bones for the past three days want to know:
Did you indeed have sausage gravy,biscuits and scrambled eggs for supper last night?
I’m talking about my mom.
Actually she got her SOS recipe from my brother who pulled a stint as a cook his first tour to Germany from 63 to 65.
Danny knew how to cook up infantry style SOS or else he would not have lasted as a cook very long. At least not in 1/48 Inf at Gelnhausen.
THIRD!!!!
Well, the other thread has enough nuts on it. We could do something else here, like movies, TV shows, nostalgia for the Bygones and Days of Yore.
We need some effing nonsense, and we need it right now!
Speaking of working balls,
NONSENSE COMMENCE!!!
Big balls?
Today would have been Jimi Hendrix’s 73rd birthday.
A little bit of Purple Haze may be appropriate for we old-timers.
Thank You, Instinct. I’m not computer literate enough to know how to link stuff.
I’m just a drunk monkey with a keyboard.
😀
From back in the day when men were men, women were women and Purple Haze was made by Timothy Leary….
How many sets of eyes do you have ???
And my favorite
Hey Joe,Red House,Voodoo Child(Slight Return),The Star Spangled Banner. So much Hendrix so little time…
Easy Rider!
Hendrix’s version of “Watchtower” is one of the few covers (Dylan wrote it) that’s far better than the original. Dave Mason’s IMO is as well.
Then again, neither Hendrix nor Mason needed a bucket to carry a tune. (smile)
A bit of musical trivia: Dave Mason covered “Watchtower” in two different ways. He recorded his own version as vocalist – and also played 12-string acoustic on Hendrix’s cover.
Yep, all Jimi wanted to do all along was just play his guitar.
The judge in Seattle gave him a choice after being picked up a couple of times for riding around in stolen cars:
Two years in prison or join the Army. Jimi took the Army option and enlisted on 31 May 61. He did pretty good for a while, although he never could get qualified on the M-1 Rifle. Made it through Basic and AIT, then was assigned to HQ&A Company, 801st Support Bn of the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell. Completed Jump School, then went downhill from there. A couple of Article 15’s for missing the 2400 hours bed check, reduced to Private E-2, etc. Required constant supervision at his job of being a warehouseman in the repair parts supply shop. Things all came to a head when he was caught choking his chicken in the latrine at 1000 hours instead of cleaning the squad bay ceiling during a GI party. So pysche paperwork went forward for an Undesirable Discharge under Honorable Conditions and on 3 Aug 62 he was separated.
So, all in all, he ended up doing 14 months in the Army instead of two years in prison.
The Army’s loss was Rock&Roll’s gain, so it all worked out.
Easy to see more than a few of us came of age in RVN and parts unknown after that. Here’s some more of the Music of The Day
I never heard about him getting caught milking his lizard, I always heard that he liked weed more than the Army cared for and that’s why they threw him out.
Their was/is a roomer he told people he was discharged for a ankle injury around jump # 100.
Its sounds better than failed to adapt.
Some sources of the rumor say it was only on jump #26 that he injured his ankle, but he did have some actual physical problems regarding his legs/ankles.
There is an article called “Jimis Private Parts” on The Smoking Gun website.
They show most everything about his service, including all the counseling/evaluation statements from his Company CO,1SG, on down to his squad leader that lead to his discharge. It includes the statements from the guys who caught him doing the flogging his dummy routine in the latrine. It even has the set of orders showing he was an unqualified marksman.
It’s a real hoot to read.
Hendrix was a shitbag druggie who happened to be have big enough hands to do weird shit with a guitar.
The most disturbing thing about him getting caught flogging his dog in the crapper is that the guy who reported him watched him for about 15 minutes. Ya figure a glance would be enough.
Dan Bernath works Balls…. Psuls. and Dullass LoNgSchLuRrP gives reach arounds, while Psul tosses salads.
/allegedly
FOUTH !!!!!!
Heeeeee Hawwwwweeeeeee
Or maybe not 🙂
Taylor the Infallible ain’t gonna like the picture, so I’m sure he’ll be here pretty quick to restate his position on free human migration rights.
So, Lars, I’ve been tasked to perform a mission and here it is:
ZAP !! AND DOUBLE ZAP !! A pair of lightning bolts up your ass courtesy of Zeus.
I always complete my mission.
Here is Claw at his weekend LARP group
😉 😉 😀 😀 😀
That kind of stuff is so goofy I can’t even comprehend it’s purpose.
I know as kids we played Cowboys and Indians and Army, but we stopped doing that at what, 7 or 8?
But I guess it gives the yutes of today something to do while Mommy is changing their sheets and fumigating the basement.
Maybe it’s because when they were little kids, they were not allowed to play those make-believe games, so the childhood fantasies are catching up with them now.
But what do I know?
Claw…like you, I am thinking WTF ? Adults dressing up as a bunch of Smurfs and talking like dweebs? Some where along the line I missed that boat. Back in the Hendrix days, some good California Orange Barrel Sunshine might have well made others and me feel as though we were special at the moment. But, Damn, I don’t recall having to dress up in costume once we got loaded.
I view this challenge as worthy of the Black Knight.
https://youtu.be/zKhEw7nD9C4
Got to give a shout out to QUEEFERS, the purple suited skydiving clown!!!
You mean *SLUUURP!*41?
Yes, sir… QuEeFeRs lovers his new TAH code name!!!
In other lawsuit news, the father of Paul Walker (Fast and Furious actor) is suing Porsche over the crash that killed him.
“The lawsuit cites features cited in other pending lawsuits against the automaker over the crash that might have been life-saving, including a stability control system, side-door reinforcements and a breakaway fuel line to help prevent the car from bursting into flames after a collision.”
“Wednesday’s lawsuit repeats a claim from Meadow Walker’s case that the Porsche was traveling between 63 and 71 mph (101 to 114 kph) before it spun out of control.
Investigators concluded the Porsche was going much faster — up to 94 mph (151 kph) — when it crashed.”
Did Bernath get hired for this suit? Can someone ‘splain to me how hitting several trees and a power pole (according to another report) at those speeds is even survivable unless you’re in a tank?
Oops forgot the lawsuit link; http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/11/26/paul-walkers-father-sues-porsche-over-sons-fatal-crash/76412144/
I will explain it for you.
1 – It was the car’s fault.
2 – It was the car manufacturer’s fault.
3 – They couldn’t get money out of the California Highway Department.
Don’t forget to sue the landscaper for not planting a break away tree.
Yep, another Bernathian lawsuit!
As an aside, I had an Acura that had sports steering included in the package. The faster I went, the tighter the steering wheel got. I took that car up to 120MPH on the interstate. It was like floating on a cloud.
Either Walker made a serious driving mistake, like swerving to avoid a turtle, or he was a poor driver whose ego got the better of him.
Just because the car can run at high speed, it doesn’t mean you can handle the horses.
I’m going to go with poor driver. Bet he thought that if he drifted out of control, someone could holler “cut” and he’d be home free.
High Performance car, low performance driver.
actually Walker was the passenger … but they are suing Porsche instead of the estate of Walker’s buddy ‘cuz Porsche has deeper pockets.
Walker was a passenger? All the media report I got said he was the driver.
Well, as it is, that crash was the result of poor driving skills and the crash was literally something that anyone in the car had an unlikely chance of surviving.
Regardless of velocity, 60MPH and 90MPH will both kill you if the vehicle goes out of control.
Walker was not the driver of the car, Ex. It was driven by Roger Rodas, his partner in a racing venture. Both were apparently experienced drivers.
Something to consider is that the Carrera GTS is a derivative of the decades-old Porsche 911 rear-engine design, which has always been known to have a quirky handling characteristic called trailing throttle oversteer. What that means is that if you drive hot into a corner, and lift throttle mid-way through, there’s a tendency for the weight bias to shift from the rear to the front wheels, cause loss of control and the car to end up ass-end first where it’s not supposed to be.
Weight bias quirks also exist for front and mid-engine cars; the fact that Porsches’ quirk is different from the others doesn’t make it fundamentally less safe. Coupled with this is the fact that the Carrera GTS is basically a street-legal race car. All of the engineering that went into making it win also means it’s likely to be less forgiving about margin-for-error warnings up to the point when things suddenly decide to go South.
I’m not an expert at this stuff, merely paid attention to some of the motor-head discussions when the Walker accident first happened.
Okay, now I understand a little better. But if Rodas was experienced on the track, he should have known about those things. A stunt driver will know about those faulty characteristics and use them to create spectacle on film. The movie referencing that would be ‘Smoky and the Bandit’, in the scene where Bandit (a stunt driver, not Reynolds) pulls what can only be described as a hockey stop, next to a manikin dressed to look like Sally Fields.
If both of them were experienced drivers, they could have recognized the car’s flaws to avoid a bad accident. It just strikes me that one or both of them misunderstood that, the same way a poorly-trained 18-wheeler rig driver will underestimate the increased moving mass of a full 62,000 lb load at 60MPH on an S-curve. And you know what those accidents look like.
I saw some accidents while commuting between Chicago and Milwaukee daily that would scare the hair off a cat. People who drive small cars badly underestimate their ability to control a small car of any kind moving at high speed. I saw one accident involving a small car- something like a Toyota or HOnda – in which the driver had swerved to avoid pieces of a recap tire coming off a bigrig truck. Driving a car that small at the extremely high speed the drive must have been going made him lose control of the vehicle, and it flipped and rolled a good distance and ended up hanging on the median dividers. I don’t know how fast he was going, but I would regularly drive at 70MPH on the interstate and people like that driver went flying by me as if I were standing still.
What I’m saying is that skill does not matter as much as speed and knowledge of what your vehicle will do, or how it will react, at elevated speeds.
Ex, I wouldn’t speculate on what was going on with Walker and Rodas except to say that sometimes it can be hard to know where the edge is until you’ve gone over it. I’m reminded of the legendary Scottish driver Jim Clark, Formula 1 champion and a guy who changed the face of racing at the Indianapolis 500 while driving for Lotus, who was killed in practice at a minor venue in Germany. Call it fate or whatever.
It’s probably also true that people who live in different parts of the country tend to develop different driving skills. In California, for example, if the clouds put a little rain on the road, don’t be surprised to see a large-scale anxiety attack.
While we’re on a trip down memory lane, it might be mentioned that a film arguably rated higher than Smokey and the Bandit among motor-heads was Bullitt with Steve McQueen, who did his own stunt driving. He was also a racer, and collected not only cars but also vintage motorcycles and airplanes.
Glad you mentioned ‘Bullit’. I had forgotten about that one.
And it’s true that sometimes, the very thing you love doing will kill you.
Cars themselves don’t kill people, people get themselves killed when they get stupid with cars!
When this event first took place, I had a young whippersnapper from my job (at an undisclosed location) saying that Paul Walker’s death in automobile accident was “ironic”. I had to school the young lad that someone starring in a series of films about dangerous car maneuvers dying in an auto accident is not ironic. Ironic is Jermaine Stewart, known for the 1980’s hit “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off (To Have A Good Time)” dying of AIDS is ironic.
Sorry I’m late to the game. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
All Points Logistics has no stalls in the men’s bathrooms. The guys there like seeing each other.
I hear that their management staff and Bethesda consultants are all experienced fighters in hand to gland combat.
That gives a whole new meaning to the term “cock fighting”…
LMAO!
Did someone say cock fight? Mostly SFW (glow in the dark condoms) Watch to the end.
https://youtu.be/fNTg2Uz7-pM
Cock fighting?
https://youtu.be/ABrSYqiqvzc
Word
All Points Logistics has no stalls in the men’s bathrooms. The guys there like seeing each other.
Not only that, they have the lowest of low stolen valor jerkoffs there as “human urinals”
The living lawn dart, Noah Gas.
once was a lawyer, but always an ass
his attempts at litigation seem always to fail
here’s hoping that one day he resides in the jail!
Where Bubba and Thor will give him a thrill
as they bend him over and show him the drill.
until then I hope his catheter gets stuck
and the rest of his life continues to suck.
so bend over and point your ass to the sky
bite the pillow, your cellmate is going in dry.
From Wednesday’s discussion of Soldiers having to give their quarters to refugees; I took Just an Old Dog’s comment to a university student I know.
I asked her if this would be fair. For each military dorm or barrack used to house refugees, one college or university dorm be used to house refugees.
She stated that was unfair.
I asked why. She stated the students have more input on society. I asked her to be specific; how does a student have more input than a Soldier? She said she couldn’t; she said she didn’t know. Again, she said it wouldn’t be fair. I asked her to whom would it be unfair. She shrugged and said she guessed it would be fair.
I remained convinced, in housing refugees: one military building for one college or university dorm.
I went the other day to buy me a new moose hunting rifle and the NICS came back “delay”. I’ve never had that happen to me before.
That’s weird. Let us know what happens.
Is it because you’re working at a shooting range?
The clerk told me that it happens quite often and they had one guy who gets “delay” for every other gun purchase and that a lady earlier that day had the same thing happen and was approved an hour later.
My wife works in the sporting goods department of one of the Big Box Stores, with headquarters in Bentonville. She says that NICS does that all the time. Some days she gets a lot of delays, others, none at all.
One guy got a delay, then was OK’d. Several weeks later, the same guy bought a shotgun and it went right through.
His name could be on a terrorist watch list and it is taking a coupla days extra to prove he is not the same Ted Kennedy who was on the watch list. (No word on whether Teddy was removed from the list when he died.) And that, boys and girls, is why you don’t want Feinstein’s proposed law restricting people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns: Because there are no checks, no accountability, no visibility, and damn-all appeals if your name goes on that list.
How *IS* the Barrett M82 on Moose?
Someone just asked me in an email if anyone can point him to a place where he can buy 100 pairs of 13-button sailor pants. Any idea?
Surplus stores, maybe? That’s a lot of sailor pants!
Sizes 28 to 44.
That’ll be $3,015.99 please
http://www.armynavysales.com/products/u.s.-navy-13-button-wool-pants-
Wonder what for? DRG costume party?
To use for costuming in some sort of movie, etc?
Or, how about a theater show of some kind? Really, for theatrical stuff, movies or otherwise, you have to have the crackerjack jumper, too, and the tie and cupcake.
Is Cracker Jack looking to update the Sailor Jack image and need them for the male model cattle call?
That’s a lot of USMC serving trays right there.
This is pure comedy gold, subtle, understated with a hint of truth…
100 pair of sailor pants?,, Try the lost and found of any Turkish Gay Bath house in Frisco;.
Last as of this posting, but not for long.
Oh yeah, Daniel Alan Bernath is a big failure in life. Substandard performance at the majority of the efforts he has put forward. Half azz would be too much of a complement for his efforts. Wanting his way at the expense of what he is supposed to do is one of his driving philosophies.
If he put any real, required, effort to his endeavors, he wouldn’t waste time with his legal maneuvers as he’d know beforehand that they’d fail. Just does what he wants, and is controlling with regards to trying to force others to cave to his way.
For those of you who remember “GI Jane” Parkhurst and her whoppers, well, she’s now known as a “he” and goes by the name of Scott Parkhurst. See here: https://twitter.com/cusrace23
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
He Bernasty remember when the catheter pops out the turkey is done.
Daniel A. Bernath would piss on an electric fence and then sue its manufacturer because it fried his catheter!
Electric fence? I’ll just leave this here . . . .
Active shooter in Colorado Springs.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/27/active-shooter-situation-reported-near-colorado-springs-planned-parenthood/?intcmp=hpbt3
Here’s hoping everybody cooked their birds well enough and avoided salmonella.
Except you, Bernath. I hope that bird screamed when you bit into it. And by bird I don’t mean Dallas’ alcohol shriveled dink. I’d bet based on the YouTube video I saw your mouth is wide and comforting.
I’ve heard rumor that DANIEL A. BERNATH THE FRED PHELPS CLONE likes to EAT IT RAW just for the chance to sue somebody, and I’m not just talking about his rumored dates with winos behind bus stops in the seedy parts of town!!!
“and it seems to me that if there was indeed a restraining order, he would be restrained from initiating communication with us, too. Its common sense, isn’t it?” J.L. Post
Yep. It kinda sorts defeats the purpose of a stay-away order when the aggrieved party initiates contact with the person named on such an order.
Yup. Show any judge even a minor percentage of what the DRC sends, and any attempt at a RO would be laughed out of court in about 5 minutes.
If Bernath could shut up for that long.
I was hoping the charming Ms Bernasty would see the light and lock ole Dan up in a happy place so he could bark at the moon there without endangering himself or the Bernasty clan members. They must be so proud of their family member’s awesome legal win/loss record and his remarkable website…not everyone has a family member that is an expert on masturbation and sheep fornication.
Or runs so much crap about an organization of which he claimed he was running for President.
I wonder if the Legion/VFW posts in his area are aware of his shitbaggery? Might be nice if a little birdie dropped a note off to the officers of those posts.
I have a hunch it’s already been done, AL, AMVETS and VFW Posts.
70th!
Yeah baby yeah!
Just doing a bit of advanced math here, and it’s a good news/bad news setup:
Bad news: I’ve worked about 300-350 hours of OT less than last year. Bit of a hit in the income department, that was.
Good news: Because my taxable income is about as low as it gets after itemizing, and I still file Single, I might even get a refund thus year. Not much of one, but a start. Beats paying $6-7k like the last couple of years.
ATTENTION! We interrupt this thread for a special announcement.
Sky Chief lands on Tuesday. Sky chief lands on Tuesday. STOP.
400 Group 3, two down. 400 Group 3, two down. STOP.
We need return you to the thread.
One of my buds just told me that Crash-and-Bernath is calling himself a “retired” attorney. Isn’t that a laugh. It’s almost like he thinks he was never kicked ass-first out of the California Bar.
Involuntarily retired, I suppose.
I wonder how soon he’ll officially be disbarred? Rumor has it that he’s doing legal work in Florida in violation of the law there.
After all this prelude to Russia going to war with Turkey, I decided to crack a bottle of Stoli and dial up the old Red Army Choir music videos. Also found a nice one of the theme written for “The Hunt For Red October”.
Soviets were some damned fucked up people, but boy howdy could they sing.
https://youtu.be/prpdKVHt9Uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gt0PRpnShQ
The original song was written in 1877 by Percy French — about the then current Russo-Turkish War.
The lyrics are simply magic. Both die after an epic battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Abulbul_Amir
Oh, how very thoughtful of them. But there’s no money in the budget anywhere for raises in SocSec or vadc, and your Medicare premium will go up, too.
Ain’t socialism wunnaful??
I think I’m going to gag.
YEAH, and now we suddenly need to accommodate hordes of ME “refugees” on US soil and hand everything out that we can to every illegal alien that says “GIMME, GIMME, GIMME!”.
Any word on how much they plan to set aside to treat any other preexisting medical conditions that currently bar enlistment?
Well, that would be big news, as it would overturn this VHA Directive and current federal regulations: http://www.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=2863
If I’m not mistaken, they can’t appropriate any funding without a rule actually changing, so I would take this rumor with a grain of salt. There’s been no notice, no pre-rule document, and no news anywhere on this. There’s also congressional oversight on rules like this, especially those that have an impact over $100 million.
A repost November 26, 2015 at 10:37 am: I did not feel like retyping it so I copied and pasted. Just recognizing the False Commander Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) and his proclivity for fake SEAL, false LEO and highly questionable and unproven Native American claims.
My friends went out of town and being that we were sticking around, they dropped off their lab w/ us for five days.
Missed the memo on that one. Must have been last on the list; you know, 2 hours from liftoff last.
But being the nice and helpful guy that I am, I took the dog.
So this morning, I wake up to a very repugnant smell. Upon searching for the source, I found without a doubt the largest, most huge, steaming pile of Phil Monkress in my living room that I have ever seen!
I mean, I could have climbed this pile of Phil Monkress and planted a flag and called it Mt. Lars. It was that big. It was.
Checking to see if my wallet was still in place being missing money and Phil Monkress are frequently used in the same sentence (it was secure), I started to get pissed.
But then it dawned on me. There are worse things in life, for damn sure. And this was just a blip on the radar. And I am truly lucky and thankful to have you folks to share my experiences with and vent, if you will.
On that note, everyone enjoy the holiday and my best to your families and friends on this truly remarkable day.
Ditto, big time.
I’m starting to get emails calling for the expulsion of Commissar from the forum. As most of you know, I’m not a fan of doing that. Most of you know that I started this blog because I had been booted from forums. I have moderated a few people here, but mostly because they came here to troll, to call names and make fun of unfunny things. Not for their opinions.
Lars doesn’t do that. He says a lot of things that simply aren’t true in hopes that someone will believe him. That is not a reason to ban him. Just do like I do…don’t read Lars’ comments if you don’t like what he says.
I’m sorry.
I really did not mean to feed the carp. My bad. I will try to restrain myself, no matter how hard it is. I have been very, very bad about throwing corn at the carp.
I will now go down to the garden and eat worms.
I remember when you banned Insipid from commenting when he constantly kept calling you a racist. I believe that was on the thread about Chris Kyle being murdered.
Even though I have advocated voting him off the island, you’re right. It just pisses me off that his drivel dominates all the threads. Right now “Recent Comments” is full of his bullshit. I’d like to see what folks that I respect are saying not that turd blossom. I will now go color.
If you’ll review Lars’ handiwork at the Nazi imagery thread you might change your opinion. More name-calling than I care to count, plus at one point he tells a commenter that he’d like to see the commenter wiped off the face of the earth, just like he’d like to see ISIS wiped off the face of the earth. The guy appears to be coming unhinged.
Contrary opinions are one thing, but Lars’ consistent (and increasing) assholishness is another. If you’re able to ignore that you have more self-discipline than most. More than I do, for sure.
I simply think that Lars is a narcissistic foaming-at-the-mouth liberal dweeb of a zealot that can’t take what he dishes out.
I’M 180% guilty of posting things I shouldn’t but BERNATH JUST PISSES ME OFF. I will refrain from posting without a email from him to back me up. I’m sorry if I offended and stepped on toes. As a wearer of first responder boots, I know a stomp by someone that weighs over 180 HURTS.
AGAIN MY DEEPEST APOLOGY TO ALL.
Reb
Uhhhm Reb, I don’t think you have done ANYTHING to apologize for, just look at some of the stuff I’VE posted in the past, Ma’am!
The real problem with the carp is that he’s desperate for attention, wants to be part of ‘something’, is a social moron who refuses to allow anyone else to have an opinion, and he resorts to threats and name-calling when he can’t get his ass kissed. He wants to be the One Ring to Rule Them All.
However, there is a benefit to all of us, even if it is hidden in his diatribe. No one here has posted any kind of threats toward him, nor has anyone labeled him with any sort of pejorative worse than ‘fuckstick’, which, coming you guys, is pretty mild.
He is the one who is making threats. He is the one who wants to see us wiped off the face of the earth. He is the one who is insisting that WE are all rightwing extremists and want to start or endorse or support a theocracy, which is completely not true. He is the one says ‘I’m done, I’m not coming back’ and then comes right back.
He’s gone to a great deal of trouble to be confrontational with people who have not acted that way toward him, and he’s been posting under his own name instead of maintaining anonymity.
If you want a future employer to know what you’re really like, where do those people look first?
Meantime, as far as I’m concerned, he’s just barking at the moon.
Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/88Lsv1JBPSE
Why doesn’t he go to Dim sites where they would all swoon over his “brilliance”?
Sometimes I think he is haunting here because Berkeley gives him credits for trolling conservative sites. He probably does screen shots and his dim profs (I know, redundant) all lust over his inane shit.
I think he said he’d been at the DU site ‘schooling’ them (his words) and they kicked him out for it.
In regard to his haunting TAH, if he’s just trying to get credits, many instructors give extra credit for doing extra work like a research paper on a specific subject. I don’t see that going on in anything he says. His comments are more and more oriented toward picking a fight over nothing, changing the subject, refusing to answer questions – basically, getting attention no matter how negative it may or may not be. He drops in comments that completely change the subject for no reason. If he’s ignored, he goes right on posting on the same change of direction until someone responds and then he throws a tantrum. That is not a particularly good thing to do in a public arena like this.
Those threats he posted in the Nazi Ads column were uncalled for. I would not give someone who that that low a degree of self-control any responsibility higher than making sure the copier has toner and paper in full supply.
‘who that that’ s/b ‘who has that’. Sorry. Didn’t proof first.
“If you want a future employer to know what you’re really like, where do those people look first?”
EEEEEEYUP, that’s why I think he’ll spend the rest of his working adult life as a Government Bureaucrat, I don’t think he’ll last at all in the private sector!
Don’t be so sure. Who was the blonde with the pearls who said ‘they just need jobs’ about ISIS? I don’t think she’s a gov’t employee any more.
Mmmmyeah, and let’s not forget that Daniel A. Bernath couldn’t even make it as a TSA Groper, and we always see and hear about what an incompetent, imbecilic batch of incompetent morons they are!
That’d be Marie Harf USDoS
Thanks, Street!
I truly think that Larsie-pinky is the same variety of attention-craver as Daniel A. Bernath, *SLUUURRP!*41 and other past trolls on TAH. I see him/her/it as just another chew toy! 😀
I don’t like the guy. I wish he would go away. I agree with your reasons to not bannish him. Let him continue to embarrass himself, daily.
Agreed.
I agree with Jonn; I spent 23 years in the USAF so that people like Lars have the freedom to express themselves. I disagree more then agree with what he has to say; but I can always skip what he wrote if I want to.
That doesn’t mean we have to allow him to express himself anywhere he wants to, especially on someone else’s dime.
I agree with Jonn. This is part of what we all served to protect (and yes, I know, the 1st applies to government action, not blog banishment. Humor me), and it is the right thing to do.
Yes, he is a prissy little airhead with serious screwed up ideas of how the world does and should work, and a self-assummed elitist from an institution that I personally find loathsome and revolting, but hey, he does provide some measure of comedic relief in the process.
I’m also half-convinced that he is some sort of leftish-meme spewing bot and not an actual person; I mean, even *he* can’t possibly believe all the stuff that he writes, right?
I often think that Lars-pinky is SO detached from reality that he DOES believe it, I see him as “THAT GUY” who has no friends or confidantes due to his extreme lack of social skills that he latches on to whatever or whoever he thinks will give him the recognition he craves much like *SLUUUURRP!*41 latching onto and being Daniel A. Bernath the Fred Phelps clone’s sniveling lackey!
Thanks, Jonn. Appreciate your attitude.
Came over here to plead with the posters here to quit feeding the troll! If that isn’t possible, could folks at least limit the topics that they assist the troll to highjack to only one each day?
Am getting whiplash trying to figure out what the real topic is, and am wearing out the scroll keys on the computer attempting to bypass all his/her/its nonsense and the responses.
I would pick a thread where you see the carp’s name and just stay there. He’s made it much easier to follow his silliness now. He consistently goes into da stoopid mode and stays there, digging the rut deeper and deeper, like a car’s left rear wheel spinning in an icy hole in the winter.
Dan Bernath’s youtube account has been suspended!
Daniel A. Bernath the Fred Phelps clone? It couldn’t happen to a more deserving individual! Did he post anything at all that wasn’t aimed at antagonizing Don and Diane Shipley?
Yup.
Word on the street is that his Daily Motion account won’t last much longer either.
Daily Motion? Never heard of it before. He’s sure gone even nuttier over Senior Chief.
What is Daily Motion? Is that anything like the yourwebapps junk?
Its a video posting site like YouTube
That is truly something to be thankful for.
Here’s an article with video of a freshly captured suspect ISIS fighter bawling like a jailhouse bitch – FUNNY!!
OH, and Daniel A. Bernath the Fred Phelps Clone AND *SLUUURP!*41 like gazing at nutsacks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3337295/Not-tough-ISIS-fighter-cries-like-baby-captured-Kurdish-forces.html
Ohhhh! Pre-e-e-e-cious!
Did you see that part in Kill Bill where the Bride tells the kid ‘That’s what you get for messing with the Yakuza! Now go home to your mommy!’?
That’s the first thing I thought of.
Hope this doesn’t get buried in all of the usual Saturday craziness.
I recently received a box of papers that belonged to an uncle who passed away last spring. To my utter shock, I found his Honorable Discharge certificate from the U.S. Navy and his 4-page original Record of Naval Reserve Service. I never knew he had spent any time in the service. No one ever mentioned it, even though he has a brother who served in the Army (I’ve always known about that one).
Now for a couple of questions:
1. Am I likely to get any more than what I already have if I request his records? (He never married and had no children.)
2. Is there anything that can be done at this point about a headstone or memorial somewhere? His body was cremated after his death, and his ashes are interred in a church (in another state) where he used to serve as a lay pastor.
Jonn Lilyea and Hondo can probably help you out with that kind of thing.
Thanks, Ex-PH2. Are you up on reading Navy records from the ’50s? I’m trying to make sense of all of this.
I can look at them if you want. My email address is in the “contact us” link above. In the “military records” link, there are instructions and links for you to get family members’ military records with the SF 180. It should be easy if you have his serial number.
I’m not sure. I don’t know how much changed between the 1950s post-WWII and the Vietnam era, but we can all give it a go here. There may be someone who knows about that kind of thing.
I would scan them and send the jpgs to Jonn, and see what happens from there. Hondo is really good on the history part, too.
How many of these great folks are out there? I’ve written about my Father-In-Law who did 20 in the AF and, essentially, no one in the family knew it. Going through his stuff when he passed we found all kinds of interesting stuff where he was in Laos, Cambodia, VN (several times), and was “just a Crew Chief”. Even found matches, cigs, and cards from Air Force One in the LBJ era.
At a minimum, he should be eligible for a VA marker identifying him as a military veteran. His legal next-of-kin will almost certainly need to be the one to request it, and will likely need a copy of his death certificate and DD214.
Pretty sure you have to apply through the VA to get the marker. Not sure of the process, but a rep from one of the local VSOs should be able to assist with that.
Regarding getting a full copy of the man’s records: his legal next-of-kin will have to request his records to get the full copy. The National Archives website has a page on requesting military records that (if memory serves) details precisely who qualifies as legal next-of-kin. Working from memory, but if his parents are deceased; he has no children; and he has no surviving spouse, I’m pretty sure his siblings are next in line to be next-of-kin. Not sure how the “pecking order” is defined for nieces/nephews regarding legal next-of-kin if the man had no legal children and has no surviving parents/siblings/spouse. By age would be my guess, but that’s what it is – a blind guess.
The process appears to be pretty straightforward. I researched it a few years ago. I found that my great-uncle lies in an unmarked grave in San Antonio. He was an MD and a flight surgeon during WWII. He bought the plot and told the family not to come visit the grave, so presumably he did not want a marker. I have thought about getting him one, just never acted on it yet.
Eden. Regarding the marker, the VA has step-by-step instructions on line. Also, the VA will answer your questions. Just keep them direct and to the point. If you have more than two questions, number them. Many a question is lost inside a paragraph, sandwiched between other sentences.
Thanks, everyone! I guess my mother and the other siblings would be “next of kin” at this point. Maybe I can get one of them to agree to request his records. The headstone may be a little more tricky.
They all got first crack at all of my uncle’s papers, but apparently none of them were interested in any of it, nor were any of my cousins.
Jonn, I’ll get those papers scanned and let you take a look at them.
One of the This Aint Hell cadre challenged me to eat a 10 block pound of cheese in one sitting. Are you kidding me? I do everything in one sitting, because I sit on my ass all day! If I’m doing something, it’s usually with me sitting on my ass!
You can’t say, “lazy ass” or “lazy butt”, because my butt is the only part of my body that’s doing what it’s supposed to do. Just call me lazy blobfish!
In honor of my non lazy ass, I invite each and every one of you to apologize to me for doubting my claims of being a LTC in CAP, for being a reserve police officer, and for being in the Texas State Guard at the time we first interacted. In return, I will be willing to forgive those who apologize.
Cheese,
Dennis (Denny) Howard Chevalier
I stand corrected, my butt isn’t the only part of my body that does what it’s supposed to. My mouth is another part of my body that’s constantly doing what it’s supposed to. Eat, and spew nonsense and attempt to baffle people with bullshit.
Cheese,
Dennis (Denny) Howard Chevalier
Errrr, I sit corrected… blob… blob… blob…
Cheese,
Dennis (Denny) Howard Chevalier
Do you all realize it’s been nearly 3 years since psulie-o the uncoolie-o had a bunch of us up all night defending the Fortress that is This Aint Hell? Transducing his faux Norwegian gibberish into intelligible English was an experience that one rarely has an opportunity to acquire. Despite the repeated warnings to ‘go away’, he stuck like airplane model glue, made an atlas of enemas, and nearly made this Universe implode by humping the keyboard all night long. TAH was threatened repeatedly with shutdowns and yet, it’s still here.
Since this Thanksgiving weekend comes to an end tomorrow, I offer this:
In the name of God, St Michael and St George, I give you the right to bear arms and the power to mete justice!
And it has been about a year since the mysterious disappearance of Elaine Ricci. I miss her. She was the one that signed me to a lifetime contract as Director of Media Relations for a third party software vendor in Bethesda MD.
#FindAndFreeElaineRicci
And wouldn’t you know it, as soon as Wickre gets his pecker smacked in court (AGAIN!) he seems to have disappeared.
At least on the surface he seems to be smart enough to know when he’s beaten.
Yep! I remember that! Hadn’t been for your decoding skills, I’d still be back at the first turn eyeballing ruts in the muddy road. lol.
It’s officially Christmas season. If you take a few minutes to watch this it may give you something to think about. It may even cause a feeling of some kind, not me of course, man of stone here.
A couple of plane-stealing stories:
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-tale-of-when-a-marine-mechanic-stole-an-a-4-skyhawk-1745015819
http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/mind-if-i-borrow-it-76518363/?all&no-ist
I well remember the A-4 story.
That Lance Corporal went on to bigger and better things. Good for him.
I always thought the Skyhawk was a sexy little plane. I wanted one. I guess they don’t sell those at the used airplane lots, though.
They are fun to watch. There are a couple of them flying around at air shows these days, here’s one of them:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/aircrafts/mcdonnell-ta-4j-skyhawk/
Interesting story behind how they acquired it.
And they’ll give you a complete flight experience in it:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/vmf-flight-experiences-flight-training-programs/
Don’t remember who has the other one, but it’s a single-seater. I’ve seen both of them at our Thunder Over Michigan airshows.
They don’t call it “Heinemann’s Hot Rod” for nothing.
With respect to Lars, I can convert him.
I posted 2 weeks ago that he is a ‘conversational narcissist’.
An infliction that can be cured.
PS: Finally, it feels like winter up here and the venison is good!
Does the cure involve thorazine and a cattle prod?
But the mental exercises are a benefit for all the rest of us, Master Chief. Do you really want to take that away from us?
Besides, he’s beginning to implode. He almost did last night. It’s only a matter of time.
Larsie-pinky aka Captain Butthurt has suddenly disappeared, is it because
A. He got voted off the island,
B. His Mommy found out what he was posting and revoked his computer privileges
C. He quit because his Profs weren’t giving raving reviews of his trolling
D. It’s Sunday and the Public libraries and Internet Cafe is closed.
E. He’s somewhere sleeping off last night’s bong water and DRG Cocktail binge.
Daniel Alan Bernath, what’s with the frozen open mouth with hanging jaw? Trying to re-enact what you saw on a nature documentary? Click if you want to see an old guy act juvenile.
The SEAL commeth to the phony CPO 
Still waiting on ShortYellowSchoolBus41 to commeth… perhaps the phony CPO could give him a ride in his bicycle. 😀
Yeah, that gaping maw was pretty funny to see. Couple that with the ball-tickling neckbeard of his, and he could make some serious money at the rest stops or truck stops along the Florida Turnpike, I-75, or I-95.
Has Senior Chief scored any Bernath Bucks and/or new ride?
Only a matter of time at this rate.
Actually, it’s my sincerest hope that everyone and anyone who the DRG has tried to sue or harass, or who has been named on their websites gets a nice infusion of Bernathbucks.
Daniel A. Bernath the Fred Phelps clone has only named me by my screen name and he still hasn’t found me yet. I think that each of the EIGHT innocent men he’s accused of being me are FAR more worthy of a dump truck load of Bernath Bucks!
There’s only one thing I want for Christmas…to see Bernaths face when he finally meets me face to face and I not stupid enough to come alone. We’ll video tape because he’ll be running while pissing his pants…should of never email threats to a persons lil sister?
This is Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.
There is a great deal of music for musicians who have the use of only one arm or hand. This is due to the efforts of Paul Wittgenstein, a classical pianist who enlisted in the Austrian army in World War I and lost his right arm to a bullet through his shoulder. He commissioned a great deal of music to be written for a single-hand musician. Watch the closeups of the pianist’s left hand, because this was written specifically for the left hand alone. It is THE most difficult piece Ravel wrote.
And the next time one of these obnoxious trolls who claim fake disabilities shows up, think about Paul Wittgenstein and this young lady.
https://youtu.be/KJTUUKAdZDU
Outstanding! I’ve seen a fair share of others that had real disabilities and conditions that worked like there was no tomorrow to overcome them and produce, thus I have NO sympathy for those who manufacture a condition and use it as a crutch while demanding everyone else compensate for them being perpetually mediocre.
I remember an episode of M*A*S*H that dealt with a pianist that had lost his hand and Charles was trying to help him with dealing with it – this concerto was played in the last few seconds of the episode. I thought it was a beautiful piece of music
I’m not a fan of Ravel’s music, but that was an amazing performance.
I know a little girl (I guess she’s about 8yo now) who is missing the fingers of her left hand above the first joint due to a birth defect. She has learned to play the violin “backwards”, using her left hand for her bow hand, and fingering with her right hand. She has a prosthetic (her mother is an engineering professor, and her students built it), but she doesn’t like to play with it because she can’t feel what she’s doing when she’s using it.
Just paid $1.459/gal for super unleaded. Bush’s fault?
Absolutely Bush’s fault! It’s down to $1.719 in places around here and I expect to see it drop more before Christmas. Frees up money for stocking the pantry.
I spent an hour plus on the phone with my sister, who wants to ditch her 8-room Federalist-style house and go to a 1 bedroom, 4 room house. Even where she is that will be hard to find.
Thanksgiving weekend is never complete until you watch probably and arguably one of the best classic scenes for TV ever written, performed and broadcast.
The infamous WKRP In Cincinatti TURKEY DROP !!!!!
I still love this episode.
Well, that screwed up…
Here’s the right one. I still laugh my ass off everytime I see it !!!
Here’s the right link.