Weekend open thread
Skippy sends a picture of a burrowing owl doing his best impression of TSO.
Dan Bernath has ordered me to post a weekend open thread and I always do what Dan tells me.
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I’m back in the saddle again
Ride hard, Skippy. And don’t forget: It’s water for you and whiskey for your hoss.
I could use a good bootle of wiskey right about now ?
“I could use a good bootle of wiskey…”? H’mmm, because you have just finished the first bottle of whiskey, Skippy.
I wish ?
Nice shots, Skippy!
Thank You ??
The first time I saw them I thought I was seeing things Lol..
Poor Owls…..
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Difference between a burrowing owl and a non burrowing owl?
More dark meat on a burrowing owl.
🙂
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This just in: according to the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath is still Not Eligible To Practice Law!
It does not appear that this ineligibility to practice law is voluntary. Anyone who is curious regarding why Mr. Bernath is no longer eligible to practice law is invited to read this.
In his latest missive to the judge, he claims that he’s semi-retired.
How many lies can you count?
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“Semi-retired”? That’s a rather optimistic way to refer to being involuntarily suspended from the practice of law while pending debarment decision by the Supreme Court of California.
I’d believe “semi-retarded” is a better term to describe Danni-boi.
Thanks for clarifying…I tend to agree with your assessment.
Semi-retarded is selling him short in my humble opinion. Danni-boy has got an ASI in retarded.
You’re being charitable to a fault, Senior Chief.
I’m in a good mood today…
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Semi-retarded is more apt.
His being a “semi-retired attorney” is like Dennis Howard Chevalier (Denny H Chevalier) being in law enforcement for over 30 years, being a disabled elderly, being a service member, etc. Both exercised a series of piss poor judgements, which cost them repeatedly, making both losers in life. Thus, they do things like advance these claims.
Fucking seriously? The only reason he even sees the inside of a courtroom is 1–he hasn’t been declared a vexatious litigant, 2–no prosecutors have the balls to drag him into court and charge him with the multiple counts of perjury he’s committed.
This is so funny!
Oh … 92st!
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Wow. Tried to file class-action suit against Yelp for not paying~$275.00 per review to each and every user, then apparently harassed the company and made false claims about himself. Not playing with a full deck?
no, he’s really not. He thought a coconut that had fallen in his yard was an bomb, I shit you not.
Hondo I’m not sure if Jonn told you, but I was interviewing former SEAL Steve Robinson for my film and your name came up. Bernath called Steve’s house on Christmas Eve. Steve’s wife answered, and Bernath wanted to know if Steve was Hondo. He told her he needed to know because he was going to sue Hondo but still didn’t know Hondo’s identity. Steve called him back to say he wasn’t Hondo and had no idea what Bernath was talking about. So after threatening to sue him again if actually was Hondo, Bernath wished him a Merry Christmas and hung up.
I am hondo
I know Hondo. Hondo is a friend of mine. And you, sir, are no Hondo.
Maybe you are. What the hell do I know? It’s Friday night, I am sitting on the back deck of Stately Stone Manor listen to 1st Wave and drinking beer.
Je Suis Hondo!
No. No. No. John Wayne is Hondo. I thought that was quite clear. That is what Steve Robinson should have told him.
Try to keep it straight.
https://youtu.be/Ez-PxYIF3Tw
I AM HONDO (maybe!)
I Am HONDOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!
HEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Commissar could be Hondo’s alter ego.
Commissar wishes he were Hondo’s afterbirth.
POTHTPTHTPTHPTHAAATHOOO!
Onth… Thooo…. POTHATO!
Damn it… I’ve told all of you that I am IRON MAN!!!!
I am the walrus. Koo koo ka choo.
Daniel A. Bernath does not know me.
But I know you, Jack!
“Respondent is notified that:
Because you failed to appear at trial, the Court has entered your default and deemed the
facts alleged in the notice of disciplinary charges admitted. Except as ordered by the
Court, you may participate in these proceedings only if the Court sets aside your default. If
you fail to timely move to set aside your default, this Court will enter an order
recommending your disbarment without further hearing or proceeding. (See Rules Proe.
of State Bar, rule 5.80 et seq.)
ORDER ENROLLING INACTIVE:
As the conditions of Business and Professions Code section 6007, subdivision (e)(1), are met,
Respondent is enrolled as an inactive member of the State Bar of California under Business and Professions
Code section 6007, subdivision (e). The inactive enrollment is effective three (3) days after service of this
order. (Rules Proc. of State Bar, rule 5.250.”
The State of CA sure likes to take forever to disbar someone.
Does this mean that Daniel Bernath cannot represent the defendant being sued by Confluence Corporation on July 6, 2016 in Montgomery County Court, Maryland?
DEFINITELY MAYBE!!! ?
Based on reviewing a small sample of CA lawyers listed as disbarred, it appears that several months typically pass between the bar court recommending disbarment and the CA supreme court ordering same. I’d guess sometime between now and Labor Day, but it could take longer.
So lemme get this straight. At this time, if I wanted to hire Dan Bernath as an attorney in California, we would be a NO-GO at that station? Correct?
Lately I have been wondering if Mike Webb isn’t a protege of Daniel A. Bernath? I’ve begun to think of him as “Daniel A. Bernath Jr.”.
Closest ever for me, to date.
4thish
If ever I find myself with the chance to be first, it will be quite by accident. And if that happens, I will lose my shit, panic, forget to declare First! or some such thing.
Some of us are better stage managers while others star in the production. Which is just fine with me. Especially since there is no chance of my ever being a star. Or first. Whichever.
So there. Thththththththtsssst.
Hey, my first top ten!
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I also have my first top 10
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I’ve been First – it’s over rated.
(Ducks for cover) 😉
Never ??????
I’m not sure of the ruling on the question of whether repeat comments by the same commenter actually are counted separately for establishing the order of comments in a WOT. This is an issue of first impression and will take some research.
Making the officer corps proud with a level head and thoughtful engagement in the argument:
http://wncn.com/2016/06/10/incident-at-hoke-county-mosque-possible-hate-crime-sparks-security-concerns/
Brain Surgeon!
Cheese done slipped off that boy’s cracker.
Yeah, but what’s this “ethnic intimidation” charge? Since when is Muslim an ethnic group? Does this mean I have to stop calling people dumb micks and stupid wops, as appropriate, or is that only if they say that they are intimidated?
I’m ok if you call me a dumb mick as long as you’re buying the Guinness and Jameson’s.
No Jameson’s. Too many fights ensue too early. We’ll go with Guinness with a side of mussels and thick bread.
I’m in
I really like that awesome T-Shirt…nothing like wearing an advertisement expressing the same sentiment as the one that got you arrested….
Geez, where do they find some of these people?
Okay, if you guys decide you want to throw bacon around, please bring it to me, okay? I can always use it for breakfast and BLT sandwiches made with REAL mayonnaise.
I see an EO brief in my future. Thanks Sir.
Never threaten. Either do it or go home.
The aspiring entertainer “One-DMF” makes yet another appearance. Unfortunately.
I’m guessing a certain USAR O4 just might have a “show cause” board in his future.
He’s eleven eggs shy of a dozen.
149th and proud of it!
That should solve the problem of who’s on first!
In other news in my kingdom, the corn is now up. Whether or not it is knee-high by the 4th of July will depend entirely on how much rain, sunshine and pleasant weather we get.
Please, feel free to take some of our rain. We have a small surplus…and it is coming down now.
I’m returning to the cornfields soon.
I’ll let you know how it looks.
My container seed plantings are showing already. Mostly thyme, oregano, marjoram and parsley, and the sunflowers I planted from bird seed are now 14 inches high.
My sunflowers are about 8 feet tall and blooming.
(Sniff) I only have two. If I plant them in the yard, the squirrels will eat them.
I lost most of our flowers in Tucson 5 days of 111 plus turned 80 percent of them crispy brown. Absolutely insane back in March they where getting frozen and then during the day burnt so we have given up…
Late as usual….
It’s a conspiracy.
Just tell everyone that DA MAN is keepin’ your ass down.
It works for me…
I always “identify” as first.
Still need a hug?
Here you are. Pick a good one.
http://www.shutterstock.com/s/hugs+and+kisses/search.html
Here’s a bit of news about someone who ‘never breaks the rules’, but decided that it was okay for him and his sister to leave the marked boardwalk at Yellowstone, a place that will kill you if given a chance.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-confirmed-dead-after-fall-yellowstone-hot-spring-n588556
I’m going grocery shopping. Anyone need anything besides a hug?
Ice Cream!!
Ice Cream!!
We all scream for Ice Cream!!
Oh, and some Beer Nuts.
I grew up (sort of) in the Grand Teton / Yellowstone region, and mother nature can be a coldhearted murderous bitch sometimes!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432684.Death_in_Yellowstone
It isn’t that she is cold or heartless. I’s just that she doesn’t give a damn about you. Or me, or anyone else. She just can’t be bothered. It’s not personal with her, no evil intent, just that in the greater scheme of things we are just not important to her. Violent death is the just the way of the universe.
Yep, people just need to figure out for themselves that the hot tubs at YNP don’t have a euphoria jet and it is definitely not a petting zoo.
But one good thing came out of our trip there last Sunday. There were still plow piles in the parking lot at the Visitor’s Center for the kids who had never seen snow to play King of the Mountain on.
A case of Shiner Bock would be welcome.
Par boiled! As my youngest son says, “Thinning the herd.”
Beat me to the par-boiled comment.
“An effort to retrieve his remains was called off Wednesday because there was nothing that could safely be recovered, park spokeswoman Charissa Reid said.”
“Many of the hot springs in the Norris Geyser Basin are at or greater than 199 degrees, according to the park’s website.”
Is it soup yet?
Irish stew?
The bears call it a “French Dip Sandwich”.
It’s only 200F; more of a poach.
Some lessons are only learned once without any mercy…too many people think Yellowstone is like every other park and the walkways are just guidelines.
That’s a lesson I hope won’t need repeating anytime soon, boiling yourself alive seems about the most painful way to go I can imagine…
Yep, kind of tough to dip soup with a pitchfork.
Just returned from the commissary. Went in for a FEW things … $158 and an hour later … That’s actually cheap for us. We only go 6-8 times a year and usually spend over $200 per visit. I would have been first but decided to buy food to feed my face. I think I made the right choice. Yum …
some steamed pork?
Popcorn!
“An effort to retrieve his remains was called off Wednesday because there was nothing that could safely be recovered, park spokeswoman Charissa Reid said.”
He obviously thought he could just do as he pleased and sue if anything went wrong.
I’m
FIRSTNot Danial A. Bernath (or Psul or Whitless)/so I got THAT going for me, which is nice.
I think we are all grateful we are not Bernath.
Although I pity Bernath for being Bernath.
I don’t. IMO he used up his lifetime quota of pity and/or sympathy years if not decades ago via being a perfect exemplar of a walking, verbal anus. He thus IMO fully deserves any scorn he gets.
Pity is not something I can feel for those who knowingly select to do things which can cause pain to others, especially those who chose to disregard common sense and decency in the process. Sure, everyone makes mistakes, and sometimes those bad choices unwittingly cause discomfort to others. But to consciously opt to do that which has the greatest possibility of harm to the largest number of people while disregarding any personal responsibility for his own choices is not something to pity.
It’s a choice. This guy decided one day to demand being treated like a respectable adult while acting like a toddler with a dirty diaper, then gets angry when the rest of the world refuses to give it to him.
Oh, well. He’s still not worthy of a single thought from any of us.
Shit… 27th again!
Hey Dickless Danni-boi and QuEeFeRs! How you two little penises doing? Still sucking down those DRG “COCK”tails every weekend and waiting anxiously for the next White Party to show up in your AO? Well, you have each other to keep company with, along with occasional visits from Psul/Palmer, Heavy Chevy and wifey #15, Forgin’ Frank and APL’s own Phildo Monkrees. The lies you must be telling to each other must be higher than cowshit at a stockyard.
Danni…. any day now that special letter is gonna be delivered and you’re legal “career” will formally be over with. All you’ll have to look forward to is being called out by a FL judge as a vexatious litigant and the POPO looking to put some shiny bracelets on you and send you to jail for your bullshit. Such a pathetic life for a bitter, bitter little man….
As for CoCkSlUuUrRrRpEtH41… well, your just nothing but a skydiving, drunk asshole who loves to spend time in jail with Bubba, Thor, Julio and MR. “Tiny”. Speaking of that, can your tell all of us here in TAH land what a cockmeat sammich with manmayo tastes like, since you’re such a connoisseur of such “fine” prison food?
Talk to you two fucknuggets later… I’m OUT!
For anyone interested in the night sky, there are apparently LOTS of supernovae going on that you can see with amateur-level scopes.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/dual-supernovae-light-up-june-nights/
In addition, Mars and Saturn are in Scorpio in the southeastern sky, and Jupiter will be conjunct the quarter moon tomorrow night after sunset.
I watched both in the early predawn sky since January. Saturn didn’t look like it was making progress, but it was. It spent much of that time in Ophiuchus, its distance made it seem like it wasn’t moving that much. Mars, on the other hand, I tracked going from between Libra and Scorpio, through Scorpio, and into the Ophiuchus. In four pre-dawn mornings, I saw it go by Beta Scorpi and got a sense of how fast it was going in its orbit.
Then I watched it “go backwards” as we caught up to it. Got real bright during the days leading up to our overtaking it, our overtaking it, and the days after. It “retrograded” pretty quick as well, giving a sense of how fast the Earth was moving in its orbit.
We overtook Saturn as well, making Saturn look like it was going backwards faster than it was going forward.
Now, both Mars and Saturn are available for viewing in the late evening sky. In fact, sky watchers could view Jupiter, Luna, Mars, and Saturn in one setting provided that there are no clouds blocking them from view. We overtook Jupiter earlier this year, and are set to loop around to the opposite side of the sun to where Jupiter is. Jupiter is going to show up closer and closer to the western horizon each night until then.
I’d have to get up and run before 4 AM to catch Pisces, Aquarius, Capricornus and Sagittarius. The closer we get to the summer solstice, the longer the days go and the more of the 4 AM to 5 AM time slot is lighted up.
What’s neat about tracking the planets, the constellations, the sun, moon, and the zodiac is that one could use these, and their position each year behind structures in the neighborhood, as a calendar that measures years, months, seasons, and even hours.
Mars was actually between Virgo and Libra this past January, it went from that position to the track I described above. Jupiter was between Virgo and Leo. Just remembered that Mars and Jupiter had Virgo between them. Jupiter “retrograded” back into Leo when we overtook it.
On July 4th, the NASA probe Juno is expected to go into orbit around Jupiter. According to NASA,
“Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.
Specifically, Juno will…
Determine how much water is in Jupiter’s atmosphere, which helps determine which planet formation theory is correct (or if new theories are needed)
Look deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere to measure composition, temperature, cloud motions and other properties
Map Jupiter’s magnetic and gravity fields, revealing the planet’s deep structure
Explore and study Jupiter’s magnetosphere near the planet’s poles, especially the auroras – Jupiter’s northern and southern lights – providing new insights about how the planet’s enormous magnetic force field affects its atmosphere.”
It is also the first probe to visit Jupiter that is solar powered (all the others were plutonium powered).
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html
FWIW the “Principle Investigator” is from the organization I work for and we built a lot of Juno’s components. Fixing to be another great day for us…
Looking forward to seeing some of the data when it comes back.
We are too. We’re still looking at the Pluto data from New Horizons. We had a big part in that too. Fun stuff.
I’m looking forward to this, too. Sky & Telescope has a real nice write-up about the Juno probe.
There was an article recently about how nitrogen circulating under ice cover on Pluto has been stirring the surface like cooking oatmeal. I don’t remember if Heinlein predicted that, but he did say that Pluto had active volcanism in “Have Spacesuit – Will Travel”.
It appears that writers like Heinlein and Asimov were more insightful than expected.
Hey Ex-PH2, any Astrology forecasts? I miss those.
The only thing I have is that in the last four elections, the three candidates who were frontrunners in the polls lost at the voting booth. That was Kerry, McCain, and Romney. And guess whose gossip polls have her in front of someone else at this point? I’m not saying it happens every time, just that this is the history of the past four elections. It’s one of those ‘could go either way’ deals. If financial markets are wobbling from side to side, up one day or week and down the next, this is what I’m looking at. Both shrillary and Trump have ‘stuff’, as we’ve seen – checkered histories – so you can’t really believe anything you see or hear, but Trump’s legal battles don’t outweigh her arrogance and carelessness with secure material. ‘Trump’s approval and disapproval ratings are extreme, as are those of Democratic contender Hillary Clinton. Typical of the mutable T-square, the populace will alter wildly between supporting one candidate and then the other, all the way into September, if not into the November election itself. In September, the last Saturn/Neptune square passage takes place, and one day earlier (September 9), Jupiter leaves Virgo for Libra for the next year. Sanity starts to return to politics. Or, political leaders start behaving a more maturely. It seems strange they would do this going into the last two months of the election, but that is what the cosmos suggests – unless the solar eclipse in early September, in opposition to Neptune, overrides this.’ – RMA Just keep a weather eye on this. There is the possibility that China will threaten to dump US Treasuries if the US interferes with China’s deals with Russia. It is buying up gold to back its Yuan which verges on becoming a major currency. Keep an eye on financial markets. Greece may leave the Eurozone for good. If so, it may default on its IMF debt. I think that the immature people who want to pass blame for everything onto ‘others’ are going to find themselves left behind when Saturn’s move into Capricorn 12/20/2017… Read more »
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank Sj (and his lovely wife) and 3/17 Air Cav for the most excellent get to-gather this past weekend. To actually think that men would drive literally a thousand miles for a gathering is truly humbling and shows that there is true camaraderie to be had when people who don’t have to fake their careers get together.
We solved many of the world’s problems. We only dealt for a short time on our fallen comrades in arms and then spoke very little of the stolen valor dickweeds that are featured on TAH.
Mostly we talked of the good times, the funny crap that happened to people and places we were in, our individual talents and how we hoped that what we did in the Army was appreciated by those under and above us.
This was just the first annual TAH West Old Phu Bai Farts gathering. In the years to come, perhaps we all can only make it bigger and better.
As a side note, it turned out that Sj’s wife and my wife were both former Postmasters with the USPS, so a girl’s cackle-fest was held by them and we men were just a faint memory as they re-hashed their time with the Federal Government.
Again, Gentlemen, Thank You Very Much. It will be one of the memories that I will hold dear for the rest of my life.
Sounds like a good time was had by all Mr. Claw…I’m glad you guys had a great time, here’s hoping for many more.
Claw,
Congrats on a good time.
Question? How far “West” was this West Old Phu Bai Farts gathering? I live in Utah, is that West enough? Or am I totally off the grid square/topo map?
Nope, it was up here in Idaho Falls.
Just a hop, skip, and a jump for you.
Sj probably passed right by you on his way up here from Vegas.
Yep. Just a couple of hours up the road.
Most likely did pass right by. How do we keep in contact with each other so as to not miss these eyeball QSOs?
Well, Sj says he will probably be making a return trip out this way (next year?), the when/how/direction of travel is undetermined at this time.
I guess just keep tabs on the Weekend Open Thread, as we will be announcing the itinerary here when TDY plans are firmed up.
Claw…….I had a great time! I think fun was had by all. The gals were great. You and SJ were great. I must admit I was relieved, that SJ being a retired officer and all, had retired his military bearing and did not make us pull extra duty! Smile. I drove straight thru, only stopping twice for fuel made it home about 3.00 your time.
Let’s do it again next year!
Good to know you made it home OK.
I tried a couple of times to raise you by phone, but all I got was the Voicebox is full, not accepting new messages routine.
Yep, a good time was had by all, and if the subject of extra duty/police call had come up, I might have been tempted to not obey a direct order, based on our mutual DD214 blankets./smile
Looking forward to the next go-around. Maybe next time your little next door chickadee can come with you, and again, Thank You for your presence.
I retired my military bearing alright…now I’m a heavy drop. Did you notice that Claw was at attention in the pix posted last weekend?
Anxious for a return trip and, probably go even further west. Us flatlander easterners are in awe of the west.
SJ…….ya, I noticed Claw standing at attention alright. If I didn’t know better, I would think he was fishing for another Good Conduct medal!
Next year you should consider coming clear to the West Coast. Right now I’m watching the game and looking out at the Columbia River. Just beautiful.
I always stand like that.
That is a posture that was ingrained in me by a father who did his spankings with a mattock handle after mom got done with us with a mulberry branch./smile
That was part of the punishment when we screwed up. Cutting the switch that you were going to get your ass tanned with.
Good times.
Back at you Claw. You’re my hero. You didn’t know me from Jack…I could be Bernathian in person yet you graciously opened your door to us. Great conversations all weekend and, as you said, we didn’t dwell on the past but spent a lot of time talking about the beautiful part of the country you live in and the future. And then you and your bride showed us and 3/17 Yellowstone. What a treat. Equally great was meeting 3/17.
And the departure. Claw made a presentation to us: genuine US Army messhall coffee cups…the brown/yellow plastic type… and some shiny new P38s! My bride, not knowing protocol, asked Claw where he got them? She’s new to the Amry life and did not know to never ask that of a Supply Sergeant. Claw and 3/17 were great representatives of the Army to her and she was impressed. And, Mrs Claw is awesome.
We departed the Stately Claw Manor saying that if we croaked that night we’d go smiling at the memories of the great weekend. Already planning a return.
And you couldn’t have come at a better time.
The weather forecast for here is to be only in the mid 60’s and rain for this weekend down here in IF and mid 50’s for highs and overnight lows of mid 30’s for YNP.
It was indeed, a good time of the year to come. Just like the porridge in the Three Little Bears, not too hot, not too cold, just right.
As far as the mess hall coffee cups, there’s nothing better to having a hearty breakfast of SOS than drinking your choice of Joe from a memory.
Next scrounge run will procure the genuine brown mess hall trays to go along with the cups, so put in your requisitions now so I have a quantity to work with.
Enjoy.
You three guys are awesome.
I’ll put the bail money back in the safe and have it available for next time…
Never a worry. Hardly any Class VI involved. We had to be vigilant in case DRG cometh. SHoRTbuSsLEGQueEfEr would not have enjoyeded it.
Plus, 2 wives were in attendance.
If that damn thing were to ever be able to locate Infidel Manor®™, Mrs. Infidel®™ would likely tear him/it limb from limb before I I knew the damn thing was there, I married a born-and-raised Farm Girl that would tear up on any of the DRG vermin like the varmints they are.
Glad you troops had a great time. I’m sure I missed a wonderful opportunity since I’m not that far from you. Maybe next year Claw.
Been doing a quick review of potential attendees for the next TAH West meeting, as they say they are fairly close to the centrally located Stately Claw Manor.
They include: Green Thumb, B Woodman, Sparks.
Plank owners to the TAH West rendezvous shebang are myself, sj, and 3/17 Air Cav.
Anyone else out there want to throw your hats into the ring? Just post your intentions here on the Weekend Open Thread.
Thank You for your attention.
I would attend if invited Claw.
Next!
In conversation with friends the other day, I brought up that there is a person who refers to non-jump qualified types as “Leggs”, when we all know that one of the first words that we of the Airborne Wings world, learn to spell is “Legs”, so we can properly criticize and condemn those of the grounded variety. One of the guys, a fellow Airborne veteran surmised that perhaps he is “challenged” and as he typed, he picked up a container for his pantyhose, whose brand name sounds like “Legs”, and used the Spelling found on the brand:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/518eb8b4e4b097f3153a8510/t/5265ea9ae4b06564b843157d/1382410907779/leggs.jpg
Which is telling in itself, because how else would he know that spelling if he didn’t have a container for “L’EGGS” at hand?
Bernath, the semi-retired one, after handling thousands of civil cases: “Fill-er up?” “Check your tire pressure sir?”
Trust this guy to check your tire pressure? I don’t think so.
Fuck, you could tell him to “fill ‘er up” and you’d run out of gas within a block.
Assclown couldn’t cut it as a school bus driver… or as a tour bus driver.
You mean when he had that shuttle van with his car license plates on it! I wonder if he even had the DOT-mandated Passenger Endorsement on his Drivers License when he did those fly-by-night “tours”?
I checked the Oregon Department of State to see if he had a business license and he didn’t. Dickless Dan was running a business illegally, but he’s pissed on the law before.
He’s pissed on a lot of things. His catheter leaks…
Those burrowing owls can be nasty. One night, whilst I was fixing a A/S32H-6 40k, a borrowing owl tried to rearrange my own personal facial anatomy. When she failed to gouge out my eyes, she decided to supervise my work and give me guidance. It turns out burrowing owls know about as much about the 40k as the people who wrote the tech orders.
This one has a prime corner on Holloman AFB. I’ve heard story’s about them but until you see it.. its hard to comprehend ???
Every one gives them plenty of space
RCWS of the west.
Remote Controlled Weapon System?
Red Cawcadead woodpeckers.
I think that is how it’s spelled. Little nightmare s of the training areas.
I don’t remember what they were, but in Guam, we had to run half the time with tennis rackets because of these birds that would dive bomb us on the road. Mean little bastards would even draw blood every now and then.
They were probably first cousins to the Re-Up birds we had in Vietnam.
Difference between a burrowing owl and a non burrowing owl?
More dark meat on a burrowing owl.
Since the transgender bathroom situation is getting some momentum I have a practical question–
If we feel a post coming on should we just go ahead and post in any thread we want to?
There’s no need to compartmentalize any more. I’ll show you what I’ve got if you show me what you’ve got.
I’m all about progress.
Well, I do like to keep things tidy, if possible.
The humidity level is so bad that when I went to the store, it was higher inside than outside. Also, the temp is 2F higher than was forecast, but if you’re in the shade, it’s fine. And I am in the shade.
So being the nice guy I am, I offer to run the wife on her errands. (Forgetting my military training of…never, ever volunteer.) So a couple of rather painless stops and then, “Oh, do you mind if we just run in the shoe store here, just for a minute, I need to see if they have the tennis shoes I’m looking for?”. OH…MY…DEAR…GOD! But what could I say at that point? What a cluster fuck mistake that was! 2.5, yes count ’em, 2.5 hours later we are finally at the check out! She not only looked at the tennis shows but as she tried each pair on and walked around to see how they felt, she stops to look at other shoes, which were not in the morning briefing, so to speak. It was, “Well, this one hits my toe, right here next to the side behind my nail. Do you have another pair in the same size?”. Or, “This one feels good but does it look like it slips?”. (LOOK like it slips!!!! It either slips or it doesn’t who the hell cares if it looks like it slips!!!) Moving on, the saleslady now has untold boxes stacked on the floor in piles of nos, maybes and yeses. They are talking in a language I did not understand whatsoever about what goes with what pants, skirts, dresses, ad nausea. One pair goes to the next before ever deciding on the pair she just tried. The disarray, disorder and lack of fundamental discipline in this exercise had me ready to chew drift pins and shit 16 penny nails in frustration and a desire to take all in hand and bring order to this maddening chaos before me. My mind had drifted back to boot camp when my pair of combat boots were shoved at me after a 30 second measurement and I spent half of boot camp breaking them and my feet in. (Do they LOOK like they slip!) Back to the check out counter, at last. I was happy. I don’t know why I was so happy. Perhaps that… Read more »
I recall once taking a young woman to a shoe store and getting that ‘spidey sense’ that things just weren’t right the moment I walked in. That’s when I looked around and saw the soulless eyes of men, shuffling slowly, looking worn to the core, as they followed their wives or girlfriends about on the endless search for the perfect pair of shoes. I think a few might’ve been in there for days!
I feel your pain, but I leave you with hope:
Thank you brother. I know I am not alone and not being alone is the next best thing to not being there.
Okay, Sparks. You should know better and you should have learned a few things over the years. You’ve had a painful reminder. Don’t let it happen again.
Now, for you younger guys, here’s the way it works. The first few times, DO go shopping with your wife. DO NOT walk away from her, EVER. Stay with her, mumble, grumble, sigh heavily. In other words, be lousy company. If she asks you what’s wrong, reply, “Nothin” and roll your eyes. DO NOT occupy yourself in electronics, sporting goods, or hardware. This takes great discipline and is painful but stay with her. It may take two times–at the outside three–but I guarantee that she will be so miserable with you as shopping company that she will insist you not go with her ever again.
Word.
Why oh why did I forget this.
The rule I always remember is “don’t piss off Mrs. Sparks. Ever.” I don’t remember why, but that’s not important…
Word
2/17 Air Cav…I forgot to add that, on the upside, she did say in the car heading home, “You don’t do well shoe shopping and you don’t help me. I’ll go with Gail from now on”, rather curtly I might add.
That was like a fresh, still ink wet DD-214 to me.
Ah, the sweet sounds of success. If you don’t screw up again, you should be good for life.
There ya go, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, now treat yourself to a shot and a beer! ?
You both should know better than to EVER go shoe-shopping with women! Have you NOT learned by now that ‘a couple of errands’ ALWAYS means a stop at the shoe store? ALWAYS!!!!!
(Sits and shakes head.) I try to get these things across and none of you ever LISTEN!! EVER!!
I am listening now you can bet!!!
Wife and three grown daughters later I have learned….ALWAYS bring a book (e-books are nice because when you finish one you just roll to the next one), learn how to affirmatively grunt, and try not to think about what you could actually be accomplishing instead. Breathe deep…. open the reader….zone out.
(thumbs up)
David…It was horror, horror I tell you! Not one thing in there that was interesting to me. I looked out the window longingly at the hardware store down the street wishing, so wishing I were there.
I know that feeling well ….. IF ever I get to the hardware store, gun store, or military antique show (with her), after 5 minutes she says, “I’m bored, let’s go.”
Now I ask you: would that statement work for me in a shoe store?
I THINK NOT !
Life just ain’t fair.
Sounds like the status meeting I attended today. Scheduled to begin at 1430L, doubtless to appease those on the Left Coast who shall remain nameless, but who’s initials rhyme with “Boeing.”
As Mickey’s little hand passed the “4” and his big hand passed the “35” I was looking for the clacker on the claymore.
Sadly, I didn’t find it. I also had no second to lop off my head after I split my gut open, so seppuku was out, too.
And they wonder why I don’t want a Management position, and do this shit every day.
Oh, Last!
At least so far.
Regularly heard at MCAF Quantico when I was stationed there:
“What time is the 1400 AOM going to start?”
So, does she play tennis? I am still wondering when my lovely bride, Rosetta Stone, will be hitting the gym with all of that LA Gear that she purchased back in 1990.
There might be worse things than going shoe shopping with a woman, but they would need to rank up there with limb amputation by chainsaw, or being made to watch continuous episodes of Richard Simmons.
I think I’d rather try to stuff a wet spaghetti noodle up a wildcat’s ass while in a phone booth!
zappos.com has free shipping both ways. just sayin’
that’s the only way I buy running shoes these days.
Jonn,
I to do everything Dan tells me to do too!
Everything, I tell ya’!
Ok I’ll take things DallAS would say for 100 bucks
Jimmy Walls, phony UH-1 pilot is still a cocksucker.
Clear copy on Jimmy Walls… Being a fake UH-1 pilot
May his Google score rise to the top ☺️☺️☺️☺️
Which skid is down?
Left cheek looowwwww.
Best site everrrrrrr.
Oh, Danny-boi, disbarrment is a calling,
From court to court, and down in Florida.
Your lawsuits gone, and all your bullshit dying,
Tis you, Tis you must go and fucking hide.
So crash your plane into a fucking meadow,
Cause you can’t read a simple gauge,
Then you run and hide from your own shadow,
When you are called out and then you rage.
When your butt boy cometh, if he is ever sober,
If he plays dead, or just passed out he be,
You fucking clowns, can kiss my Irish ass,
Oh Danny-boi, oh Danny-boi, yourself go fuck thee.
Not as good as “Trannie In A Jag”, but close enough.
Brought a tear to my eye. 😉
Anyone ever have popped sorghum?
I am considering expanding my snack intake and would welcome some feedback.
No, but I have a great dip made with an envelope of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressung for Soylent Green.
Interesting, I may have to try it! Of course not the movie version….
It appears that the ‘millenials’ are finding the tactile sensation of holding a real book, paperback or hardback, in their hands is far more satisfying than using an electronic reader. Probably easier on the eyes, too. According to this, they consider books and bookstores to be part of their social connections, and they are going to the library to check out books and meet with friends.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-money-millennials-books-idUSKCN0YT1IL
I wonder how long it will take them to discover real letters in the mail, which won’t ‘delete’ or ‘crash’.
If you still have that old copy of ‘The House At Pooh Corners’ or ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’, you might want to hang onto it for your great-grandkids.
The batteries don’t die in hardbound books either…
“It is Saturday Morning and the fuel tank is full.”
I repeat:
“It is Saturday Morning and the fuel tank is full.”
Check codebook and execute your assigned mission.
Codebook is safe. And we are on the alpha mission.
Phrase is coconut, repeat coconut or flying coconuts
Over and out
Jimmy is wearing a white Cowboy hat and has a mustache.
The Conductor and Brakeman have boarded the caboose.
The paper was loaded in the red boxcar.
I’ve got my assignment. Boston tomorrow, off to the heartland Monday. Ne’er to see Casa de SEA until sometime around Labor Day….
https://youtu.be/yrpmv_zOa0k
Have been alternately laughing and weeping for this country. Romney burned any capitol he ever had with me with his comment about
“trickle down racism,” whatever that means. Oh, and he publicly declared his intention to vote for neither Trump nor Clinton.
In the first place, few voters care how a loser intends to vote, but beyond that, making up words and phrases to justify it? It would be laughable were it not so sad.
This absolutely is the silliest campaign season in my lifetime.
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan
Mitt Romney and the rest of the GOP’s inner “Good ‘Ol Boy” club prove him right. IMHO this year’s election is truly proving just what a mega-whorehouse American Politics is.
I always thought Rumney was a democrate.. You know with all the taxes and the big government BS
He did in Massachusetts…
Many is the time I thought that mitt Romney needs to be arrested for impersonating a Republican.
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My wife is walking my dog.
I hope she avoids the steaming piles of Phil Monkress that are cluttering the field.
Muhammad Ali is dead. You know that. Did you know that, at his memorial service, Valerie Jarrett read a statement on behalf of oBaMa that praised Ali for not leaving the country when he refused induction into the Army? In today’s world, that makes Ali a hero. But that wasn’t enough. It got worse. A few lines later came this: “Muhammad Ali was America. He will always be America.” For those two of you who might not know, Cassius Clay, as he was born, changed his name to Muhhammed Ali in 1964 after he converted to Islam. A few years later, when he was 25, he declared that “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong” and told Uncle Sam to stick it. “What a man,” said oBaMa, through Jarrett. What a man? He was a boxer, a prize fighter, and when it came down to it, he was all about himself. Now he’s a hailed a hero for refusing to serve the country that made his fame and his success possible. I can’t wait until Jane Fonda’s funeral service. Can you?
Some day, 2/17 Air Cav, these attention whores will find themselves in the same pile of forgotten dust as the dimwits they admire so much.
It’s their last gasping chance to get in front of people and say something stupid.
Here’s a question: Would Valerie Jarrett be reading the same statement if Muhammad Ali was not black?
It’s also interesting how the White House managed to spin things to make it sound as if Ali getting stripped of his title was part of a struggle for civil rights in a “Jim Crow world” and not a matter of avoiding the draft during time of war. Viet Nam is not even mentioned.
Looking back, I don’t remember most people being all that outraged about Ali’s choice at the time. People make choices, and pay the price for them. Ali deserved what he brought on himself; nothing more, nothing less.
To say Ali was a great boxer is accurate. To say he was America is not.
If Obama had a loud mouth uncle…
Cassius Clay was a great boxer. He should have left it at that. Muhammad Ali was a great boxer and he should have served his country when called as great boxers before him had done. But no he pissed away any liking I had for him when he dodged the draft. Now Obama and his America hating ilk declare he is an American hero for not leaving the country? Why? He had fame and fortune and and a big mouth. Fuck him and fuck Obama and his mouthpiece Valerie Jarrett.
His hate speech about not mixing with the blood of other races was very well spoken.
sarc
Oh, and can I wait for Jane Fonda’s demise? I long for it with fingers crossed every time I read the news.
I would MUCH rather see George Soros kick the bucket first!
Perhaps they can take a plane ride with Bernath.
Might not make much dif depending upon who his beneficiaries are. But, it could be entertaining to watch the fight over the inheritance.
Maybe one can die at the other’s funeral. You know, fall into the hole on top of the casket. Works for me. Maybe leave room for some other liberal traitors.
Sparks, Hanoi Jane just has NO relevance to anything any more.
Her father, Henry Fonda, served in the Navy from 1942 to 1946 on two ships, a destroyer and a seaplane tender. I have never understood how she could justify spitting in her own father’s face the way she did.
As I said, she has no relevance at all any more.
This article from Reuters should annoy a whole bunch of people.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-usa-idUSKCN0YX0N7