Weekend open thread
A Flash in the Distance
Flashes of lightning illuminate the night sky above Lake Ontario, as seen from an overlook in Lyndonville, New York—located about an hour from the Canadian border at Niagara Falls.
I’m on my way to upstate New York myself for our annual family reunion so behave yourselves this weekend.
Category: Open thread
First.
Damn! Okay, fine. I’ll get there some day. Meantime, the weather is cooling off at long last.
Same here.
We’re getting rain – fortunately not like our neighbors in Louisiana, but rain.
Downside, the grass is getting up where we can lose our grandkids in it again…
Will be spending the weekend helping gut out the interiors of two sister-in-laws’ flooded houses. You will not believe how far down this was on my list of Things I Wanted To Do This Weekend
My condolences. I’ve helped mud-out a house after a flood. The lady of the house had been a music teacher – we threw out two ruined grand pianos.
A lot of hard, hot, smelly work. Be careful, and hydrate.
My synmpathies, Old Tanker, and I am going to clean out the freezer compartment of the fridge, the rest of the fridge and the rest of the kitchen.
Miss Punkin Squawkypants had her first mouse kill three weeks ago, a fat, grey housemouse, and has been duly rewarded for it. And no more mousetracks.
One of ours once brought his own field rat – live – into the house.
The Mrs. had opened up the door to let him in w/o checking what he had in his mouth, then expected me to go kill the thing.
(I did, too.)
second? Early
Nope…
You’re the twooth…
And I’m the twooth hundred and twenty twooth !!!
John wears his sundresses at night
So he can so he can
Watch them pee then breathe ball cheese
And he wears his sundresses at night
So he can so he can
Keep track of the jism in his eyes
While he’s deceiving me
about Islam and security (has)
He got control of me
You turn to him and say
Don’t switch the orifice on the guy in stall 4, oh no
Don’t masquerade as the guy in stall 4, oh no
I can’t believe it
‘Cause he licked the choad of the guy in stall 4, oh no
And John wears his sundresses at night
So he can so he can
Forget those groins while he collects his coins
And he wears his sundresses at night
So he can so he can
See the shit that’s right on that dude’s dick
While he’s deceiving me
He cuts my security
He got control of me
I turn to him and say,
“Don’t bitch”
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
(smile)
Awesome.
Also, cool picture at the top!
5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tOP FIVE?
Dang.
Hello from Las Vegas. It’s 107 in the shade.
67F in my neck of the woods – finally!
54B. Used to be 54E. Before that 67N.
Oh. Never mind. Ya’ll are talking temperatures…
My bad.
09B, 67N, 57A(waiting to start training),16R(but never started training), 76S, 76D, 76C (Army MOS consolidations over a five year timeframe), then finally 76Y (but held down a 76Z slot for my last three and a half years).
Threw in a little 63B/C/F (OJT only) along the way just for shits and grins and, Badeep, Badeep, Badeep, That’s All Folks.
And there is no shade.
59 here in Fairbanks
Fourth!
And you guys can have some fun with this.
https://www.facebook.com/immiexpose/photos/pb.283187588696112.-2207520000.1468770902./297176707297200/?type=3
Here’s a better link. Have fun.
https://www.facebook.com/immiexpose/
Wittless and is disbarred CA attorney still can’t find me. The two butt fucking losers have a few more blogs. Everyone can go to abuseyourapps, (damn lost my thoughts) to report the dumbshits.
I’m now identified as Yolanda Silva in house I wouldn’t let my dog sleep in and the picture, let’s not go there.. Bernath and Dallassclown EAT SHIT…
Abuse@yourwebs.com The more people that complain and add any threats the quicker their IP address is banned.
Working on his FB bullshit…punk ass bitches..
Okay you Navy types. I have a question. I just watched “In Harm’s Way” for the 50th time probably. On some of the smaller ships like I think, destroyers, on each side at the stern are these cage looking things make of steel piping (I think), that form down from the deck in vertical bars to a curved horizontal bar welded to all of them and the hull. What is this thing and what is its purpose? Thanks for the help.
That’s a good question, since those are the older ships. Could be bumpers of some kind. I’ll get back to you on that, unless someone else has the answer.
Okay, not sure about this, but those could be where depth charges went, or they could be where the lifeboats were held. This link is to a photo of a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer, USS Downes.
http://www.militaryfactory.com/imageviewer/shp/pic-detail.asp?ship_id=USS-Downes-DD375&sCurrentPic=pic1
This is a picture of a ship with those things on it.
Propeller guards, to keep things from falling off the deck and fouling the props.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NpMAAdqiScc/Un7zJck_JNI/AAAAAAAADAc/-leWHuxVT6k/s1600/DD-824+(6).JPG
AW1Ed…Thank you Sir. Thank all you as well about the history of this ship.
Welcome, Sparks! And every time I hear “Sir” I look around to see who walked into the room. *grin*
SCREWS ! ! !
I wasn’t even in the Navy, and even I know that ships have “SCREWS”, and NOT “propellers”.
They’re called props, wheels or screws pretty much interchangeably. Then there’s pump jets, impellors and thrusters. Stay in your swim land, doggie, and you won’t get hurt too badly.
Thanks, Ed.
Sparks, you may have hit gold without realizing it. The photo you posted is the USS Houston, a/k/a the Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast, sunk by the Japanese in the Sunda Straits during WWII. Here’s a link to her history.
https://news.usni.org/2014/08/22/nightmare-night-uss-houston-went
I remember there was a WWII phony who was featured on TAH a couple of years back who claimed he survived the sinking of USS HOUSTON (CA-30) and was a prisoner of the Japanese and tried to claim all kinds of POW bennies. Turns out the records showed he was actually on the later USS HOUSTON (CL-81) named in honor of the HOUSTON sunk in 1942, and that he was a thief and shitbird and deserter who stole from his shipmates.
Looking at that picture, I would have thought they were a on/off loading platform for the dispatch boat passengers/cargo.
But not being Navy, I could very well not know what I’m talking about.
With all respect, my link to a model is a better depiction, where you can clearly see the guard-prop relationship. The only purpose of that frame was to protect the prop.
The model is an old Gearing FRAM (Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization) DD 710 class, complete with the Navy’s first UAV, the DASH (Drone, Anti Submarine Helo) on the flight deck. That program ended badly.
Ed, with respect, could you tell me what that framework piece (about a third of the way down the hull) is that is depicted on the picture of the Houston?
I’m thinking we’re not discussing the same piece of framework and where it’s located.
Thanks.
They’re the same thing. YOu can see them quite clearly in the photo of the Houston posted by Sparks. The difference in ‘distance’ is the distance from the prop guard to the waterline on the real ship. That WWII Houston was built in the 1930s.
OK, maybe my confusion comes from me not knowing of the location of where the propellers are on a ship of that era.
Like I said, not being Navy doesn’t help.
Thanks to all.
OK. Got it now. The lightbulb finally clicked on. What a dumbass I am.
That picture of the Houston was taken with the stern facing the camera.
See, I told you I wasn’t Navy. I don’t even know which end of a ship it is when I’m looking at it.
Hmmm… where the propellers are located on a ship. Now that gives me an idea. What if they were located up front and the ship was pulled instead of pushed?
Yeah, Yeah, laugh it up. (I’m funning) Have a good joke on the old Claw.
I just didn’t realize I was looking at the Houston from the stern.
But to answer your question. Steering and powering the ship would be just like doing a thruster burn on Apollo 13 without the computer.
Everything would have a reverse translation and you would have to do it while wearing blindfolders.
Sounds like fun.
I’d be more inclined for that way cool side paddle-wheel propulsion. And bring back zeppelins. And 8-track…
Yeah, bring back 8-track. I always scored with the chicks when I played my super funk 8-track.
And reel-to-reel, too. Although I never could figure out how to mount one of those to the headliner in the pick-up truck.
Yep. Put some Jose Feliciano on the ol’ 8-track and the silkies would drop faster than a Florida lawyer crashing in a corn field.
Kicking it old school!
“Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
Like I been tied to the whipping post,
Tied to the whipping post,
Stop-Click-Clack!
Tied to the whipping post,
Good lord, I feel like I’m dyin’.
*grin*
This just in: per the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath is still listed as Not Eligible to Practice Law!
If anyone is interested, the reason why may be found here. Let’s just say that being “Not Eligible to Practice Law” doesn’t appear to have been a voluntary decision on Danni-boi’s part.
Moreover, reputedly that’s not the only court that has, shall we say, a less than stellar opinion of the individual.
It also appears that the ineligibility to practice law will very likely be a long-term if not permanent status for Daniel A. Bernath.
In other words, thus spake the Supreme Court of California: “. . . and the horse you rode in on.”
Looks good to me, Hondo.
You gotta be Giduck’ing me!
Where is he working to pay of the fees owed to the state bar this weekend?
Costco loading dock?
HOJO’s dumpsters?
Flying J truckstop?
Quickie Mart ice machine?
He will be with Dustin Caraway sucking cock behind Cactus Canyon this weekend, so I heard.
GEE WHIZ, you make it sound like ?? Bernath?? has been Disbarred, WAIT, never mind.. ???????
As of Aug 28th he’ll be disbarred…
And he owes the CA state bar some money for his “misconduct”…
Thought he already was. I’m so confused.
He owes a few more people than just that, doesn’t he? Perpetual deadbeat is another title that Daniel A. Bernath deserves.
Here’s a little something for the conspiracy theory tinfoil hat crowd, and I’ll bet the back yard they didn’t know about it: Numbers stations.
Numbers Stations: These stations regularly appear and disappear all over the shortwave radio band but are unlicensed and untraceable. It is believed that Numbers Stations are operated by government agencies, and are used to communicate with clandestine operatives working within foreign countries. However, no definitive proof of such use has emerged. Because the vast majority of these broadcasts contain nothing but the recitation of blocks of numbers, in various languages, with occasional bursts of music, they have become known colloquially as “Number Stations”. Perhaps the most noted Number Station is the “Lincolnshire Poacher”, named after the 18th century English folk song, which is transmitted just before the sequences of numbers.
Anyone think Jimmy Janos needs to be advised of this?
Naw, me neither.
When someone buys a cereal boxtop law degree and is so inept that his filings are described as:“In an extraordinary display of obstinance and defiance, the Plaintiff feverishly filed an incomprehensible morass of documents pro se”, one could say that he may want to find a line of work that he is more qualified in.
TOP 20
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I was NEVER here.
And you never hit it.
Uh-huh…..
I’m here.
And I would.
Grab a bottle of wine and some Sarnac beers for me.
I’ll be on the left coast for the next few days, also getting together with family.
Watermelon last week was $4.48 for a 12-pound seedless. This week, it’s $2.29.
Wine, cheese, fresh fruit and a crusty Italian loaf.
Life is definitely good.
Hey Ex-PH2!
My garden is going gang busters….tomatoes, cukes, jalapeños, bell & banana peppers, etc. up the wazoo!
Going to make some more Balsamic Bruchetta this weekend along with some freshly made espresso to be followed by homemade pumpkin bread w/vanilla ice cream…….with espresso while watching Packer reruns.
8-fresh medium tomatoes
1/3 cup chopped fresh basil
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
2-cloves minced garlic
1 tbl spoon balsamic vinegar
1 tsp olive oil
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
toss all ingredients together serve on top of lightly toasted garlic sliced garlic french bread.
Love cooking & baking.
Think I’m trying to make up for all of the C-rats, LRRP rats, & MRE’s I ate during my 21 Army years. 😉
You were doing good until you mentioned the Packers. May I suggest the SAINTS 2009 season?
Tony180a,
The Saints definitely had a great regular season that year, and then their first appearance/first Super Bowl win was the frosting on the cake!
For The Pack fans watching from the sidelines that year, it was fun watching the Saints beat the Vikings in overtime in the NFC Championship game.
As a Colts fan, that Superbowl left a bad taste in my mouth. Damn you Hank “stone hands” Baskett, damn you.
Thank you Peyton Manning (New Orleans native) for getting something in your eye and throwing that int lmao
Now that the weather is starting to cool off, I will make several quiches, cut them into serving-sized portions, and wrap and freeze them. Saves time and effort and gives me a supply of stuff for a quick breakfast. Food must not interfere with other endeavors.
funny…….. seedless melons are grown from seed……. male seeds are a different species. planted in the ratio 1m/ 5f
If they’re seedless, how come they still have seeds?
My garden failed this year. It’s mostly IN pots, but this time, while some things like cooking herbs prospered, the tomatoes were stolen by squirrels before they were even vaguely ripe, radishes were raid by a raccoon (the Great Raccoon Radish Raid of 2016 – The Horror!) and the heat overwhelmed the flowering plants so much that they quit on me, saying ‘We’ll wait until next year’.
Maybe next year, I can try to do zucchini and radishes – again.
How come I can’t find Saranac at the Andrews package store anymore? Hopefully they will have a table at the National Harbor Oktoberfest next month. I hear that Elaine Ricci may make an appearance.
Depends on if Psulie-Boi has to pay off any more lawsuits, or if he just keeps delaying the ones he’s already facing.
Atta boy, Psulie-Boi, you keep making a mockery of the Maryland judicial system, not that they don’t completely deserve it.
Nth!
OK, that was a bit geeky.
Still better than [n+1]st, though. (smile)
29th.
Busy dealing with psychotic soon to be ex, lawyer, military DFAS and just general all around GREAT TIMES!!
Oh and I just found out that my Reserve retirement for 23 years based on points equals about 8 1/2 years of FULL active time for retirement, and then based on that I’d get about 20% of active duty retirement pay BUT you can’t get VA disability and Retirement consecutively so they deduct the difference.
It leaves me about $10 difference.
Yay Retirement pay.
🙁
ChipNASA,
You can have the VA Disability pay deducted from your retirement pay, which would make the disability pay nontaxable.
Also, if the disability pay is combat related, you could submit paperwork for CRSC (Combat Related Special Compensation) which if approved, would pay you back the amount of VA Disability pay subtracted from you military retire pay.
I am not an attorney , but hell I bet I’m more than two legs up (an a couple of middle fingers)on DISBARRED STOLEN VALOR THIEF ATTORNEY DAN BERNATH!!
If your disability is over 50% you get both retirement and disability.
Correct. Concurrent receipt is authorized for those in receipt VA disability compensation for those with a 50% or higher disability rating from the VA.
Also, read the CSRC information carefully before ruling out submitting a claim. The term “combat related” as regards CSRC includes some – but not all – peacetime training activities. If part or all of your VA disability rating is due to an injury or illness incurred during a peacetime training activity on the qualifying list, you may qualify even without serving in a combat zone.
Or so says the literature, anyway.
That’s right Hondo. Part of my CRSC is because of back injury when my chute didn’t deploy right at Benning (because I dicked up the exit). Rest is because of Agent Orange and prostate cancer (presumptive).
Word has it that The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) has just created a new, secret society.
The Order of The Tickled Taint.
Will be working balls this weekend?
Will Phil be working balls this weekend?
Hack Stone Publishing regrets the error.
Of course the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) will be working balls this weekend.
James Walls, phony UH-1 pilot aka “The Cocksucker” still slurps cock and tucks everyone in at night.
Jimmy, go fuck yourself.
Jimmy Walls is STILL working donkey balls…
Left nut low, Jimmy… left nut low!
Best site everrrrrr!
Still in the top forty and to Bernath and the rest of The Dutch Rudder Gang I say FUCK YOU AND YOUR RETARDED HOUND DOG TOO!
50th!!
Have a safe and great weekend all, I’m headed out for some wind and some sun…I’ll have a drink in your name, and wish you the best.
And fuck those DRG jackasses.
First bitches.
The thread is working backwards today; so let it be written, so let it be done 🙂
Update for Mayor Spodofora, Honorary Vietnam Combat Veteran.
http://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/watchdog/government/2016/08/17/stafford-settles-secret-police-lawsuit/88921600/
Will the voters remember Spodofora’s bullshit come election day? $34k is a nice chunk of change.
Good on Master Chief Galloway for going after cocksucking John Spodofora…
In other news, fuck you Bernastypants and QuEeFeRs!
Looks like Mayor Spodofora is following in the footsteps of Daniel Bernath, helping worthy veterans with financial grants. Too bad that Spodofora had his sense of humor removed when he was injured from his imaginary Vietnam service. The preceding mayor of his town had the same situation, and he rolled with it.
http://www.app.com/story/news/history/erik-larsen/2016/08/19/tale-two-mayors/88984582/
Fuck Spodofora. If he ever rode a boat, he was probably that guy who was one sentence away from getting his ass stuffed down the TDU.
Nice. Good job on the update. That’s really welcome news. New Jersey deserves Spitinafedora, now a two-time loser. First, he was exposed as a liar by Earl Galloway and then he settled Galloway’s suit against him for using gov’t legal muscle to exact revenge. In summary:
Spodofora lies about his military service, including service in Vietnam and his being awarded a Medal of Valor. Next, his lies are exposed and he maintains the lies. The Veteran who exposed him is investigated for crimes related to the exposure of Spodie and the Veteran sues. Spitinafedora settles the suit and admits that he never set foot in Vietnam and that the Medal of Valor was given to him by a private hunting claim, although I do not see that even this was confirmed.
Oh, this should make all of you retirees and taxpayers kind of get a your undies in a wad. Mind you, I don’t know how or if it applies to USAF or USN/MC/CG, but now you do have to ask ‘Where did all that money go?’
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1IG
The first step is for the Government to stop paying for things for which they’ve already paid. Back during the Clinton administration, I compiled the justification to add a high 6-figure addition to my table of allowance (TA for those scoring at home), I asked accounting to figure my daily expenditures beyond the bench stock and costs for other expendables. I figured with the new equipment the same work could be done by the same 14 people 3 days quicker than it was being done. Twelve missions a year would mean more than one month’s added production. Finance told me my day-to-day costs were huge! I ask them to itemize. A large part of the costs to run my outfit was the building. The building was built by the WPA for the USAAC, yet, finance was still allocating money for it. They figured house-keeping which we did ourselves, so no additional costs there. They figured upgrades, nothing had been upgraded since the Roosevelt administration, so again no additional costs. Finance had made up their minds and there was nothing I could do to change their minds. I pointed out by their figures, the new equipment would pay for itself in positive cash flow in less than 18 months. They told me the money was not available. I can only imagine it wasn’t available because they were still paying for the building.
Okay, then – again, I ask where did all that money actually go?
Here’s the reason I’m asking that rather obvious question: I once asked my mother about rationing (gas, food, etc.) during WWII. You had ration coupon books. Anything over your allotment wasn’t officially available (black market). The story was that the food, gas, etc., was needed for the troops at the front lines. That’s what she told me. It was stuff like butter and beefsteak and potatoes.
My response was, ‘Well, the no one at the front lines got any of it, so where did it go?’
Her answer was as direct as you can get. She said ‘Nobody knows.’
I figure that’s where the money is going and has been for some time, and nobody is accountable or really will tell where it goes because nobody knows.
I think they call it battle loss or something like that.
Yeah, but that still doesn’t account for the missing cash!
First! comment of the day, for me.
So, i recently PCSed here to Fort Benning, and i was running the land nav training area for the cadets i am training. All kind of dudes train land nav there, basic training, cadets, NCO schools, etc.
So i got to a porta john, and in the wall it says:
“I want 8-wall and now i live here. Come and see me at 1825. I need food.”
Then somebody else drew a line to “8-wall” and wrote:
“It is A-wall, dumb ass”.
Then yet another guy wrote:
“You to are retards. It is AWOL, Absent With Out Leaf”.
🙂
Excuse me: L-E-A-F?
What kind of leaf? Maple? Oak? Rosemary?
I hope you fixed the spelling problem with a thick black marker.
A plane crashed in the Everglades this m I rnjng, and they said the pilot was from Ft. Myers. Also said it was “engine trouble.”
I kept looking to see if the guy was duct taping his catheter in while he was standing on top of the plane.
Rustle, rustle, bitch.
Oh, the humanity!
The foul babbling fool named Daniel Bernath
Still screeches that in Court he’ll give us a bath
In and out of Court he acted like a ‘tard
It came back to haunt him and now he’s disbarred
He stil keeps screaming while his face is bluing
That everyone will pay he’ll just keep suing
Putting up with him can be a chore
Bernath has made himself a tireless idiot bore.
He has an idiot sidekick with stupidity by the ton
The Witlessone, QuEeFeRs *SLUUUURRP!*41
They snivel and plot, dreaming and scheming
Of what they think they’ll get, perpetually dreaming
One day they will find their stunts at an end
The Law will not yield or no longer bend
Their presence and stunts will be no more
While they are the “Property” of Bubba & Thor
They could stil talk, babble and smell
While they are in the “Greybar Hotel”
©2106 A Proud Infidel®™ All Rights Reserved
When you make that up? Let’s go target shooting in the morning…I love your targets???
Word.
Rear Admiral (Ret) John Kirby pisses me off. How he can peddle Kerry’s bullshit re Clinton’s emails and the Iran ransom payment and still look at himself in the mirror amazes me. Of course other State Dept flacks have lied constantly but they were civilians. Kirby has worn the uniform.
The lengths that some will go to when they sell their souls to politics never ceases to amaze me, especially when Retired Flag Grade Officers do so.
Check out MOAA.
Have a strong drink first….
And make it a double followed by a shot with a boilermaker back.
Then finish with a cordial.
That is the “first round”.
MOAA is sliding and hard……
I’ll wait til 1700. I never joined MOAA and the last time I peeked I think I got a hint of what you’re talking about. Tnx.
For all you unsung heroes who served in the mighty Signal Corps of our beloved United States Army, here’s a couple of my memories from those bygone days of the war in the old Republic of Viet Nam. To start with, I was VERY surprised, after completing Basic Combat Training at Fort Lewis, Washington, to learn that I was being sent to the United States Army Southeastern Signal School at Fort Gordon, Georgia. I just couldn’t believe the American taxpayers were spending all that money just to have an ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill, dumb Private in the United States Army fly on a jet airliner all the way clear across the entire United States! Then, if that wasn’t enough, after the tenth week of completing the Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Operator course (MOS 31M20), they sent me through a whole bunch more schooling in the Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair course (MOS 31L20). Unbelievable, right? Hah! You ain’t heard the half of it! I flunked that course. I did try my level best, but with no experience in electronics, I had no idea what was going on. But, I easily figured out how to answer the written questions correctly. It was the practical work that I couldn’t figure out. So, after I flunked the course, they had me do two more weeks of school, and then retested me. Since I’d already passed the written portion of the final exam, and only missed passing the practical exam by two questions, they only asked me two very easy practical questions. “What is this thing?” “Duh – – – it’s a – – – radio?” “Correct. Now, what’s wrong with it?” “Duh – – – it ain’t plugged in.” “CORRECT! You’ve passed the course!” And THAT, boy and girls, is a true story. It’s what our Army does when there’s a war going on, and they’re desperate for warm bodies with which to stop bullets. So, my next stop was Company A, 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion 32d Army Air Defense Command in Kleber Caserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Boy, I was… Read more »
Here’s the URL of a very interesting Internet news report, “HOW FINLAND LOST WORLD WAR II TO THE SOVIETS, BUT WON THE PEACE”, that I just now read:
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-finland-lost-world-war-ii-the-soviets-won-peace-17412?page=show
Any chance that Daniel Bernath is now delivering mail in the Ft. Myers? Or maybe that dumpster is the home address for Dullass.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/08/17/Florida-postal-worker-caught-delivering-mail-to-pizzeria-Dumpster/1601471461129/
Rain coming from the west again. Fall is on its way.
The Farmers Almanac says ‘bitter cold winter’ in my designated section of the country. They’re saying down to -40F. If that’s the case, my pipes will freeze, period. I need an igloo. Alternative approach is to stack straw bales around the base of the house for insulation.
The Old Farmers Almanac says ‘mild winter with snow’ for the same geographic section. If so, I’ll pile snow against the base of the house, keeping the temperature at a steady 32F state.
The ‘official’ word from the Weather Service is ‘no long range forecasts’ and then they go right ahead and make long range forecasts, but I haven’t seen anything from them so far.
My prediction is as follows:
A) I’ll be busy indoors finishing stories so you guys will have something to read.
B) The squirrels will get fat if the winter is mild, but not if it’s cold.
C) Many birds will show up on my doorstep, looking for chow.
D) I may get bored silly, so I’ll cook a lot of stuff.
I still have sidewalk salt from last winter. No problem.
Do some research on the upcoming sunspot winters. Supposedly every few hundred years sunspots all but disappear which causes the earth to experience extremely cold winters. We are in one of those periods now where some scientists anticipate bitter cold by 2030.
Oh, I know. They first noticed it in 2008, but it had really started before then and the sunspots are either low in numbers, or very small, or nonexistent. The ‘official’ term of no sunspots was October 2008 to March 2010, about 18 months, and they were WORRIED!!!! Worried, I tell you!! They tried to call it another Maunder Minimum, but waffled about it.
You can find the sunspot daily photos from the SOHO satellites at NASA SOHO dot com. If you go back and look at when that started, the drop in sunspot activity began long before 2008.
But the Farmers Almanac bases their forecasts on magnetic solar activity, which may be the reason for the -40F prediction for my section. That would be normal in Minnesota, but not so much further south to Kentucky. A lot of snow would be welcome, yes. That provides a blanket of insulation and gives the ski resorts some income. I’ll get the report on Chilean powder in a little bit. I think New Zealand is open for ski business, too, but got a late start this time.
Here’s the Chilean snow report blog.
http://www.powderquest.com/blog/
Here’s the Kiwi snow report.
http://snow.co.nz/snowreports/
Here’s the link to NASA’s SOHO site.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
Click on the sunspot link. Today’s sunspot count: ZERO.
Here’s an October 2006 sunspot shot.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/sunspots_1024_20061018.jpg
NO sunspots.
And here’s October 2008, when it was officially noticed: NO sunspots.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/sunspots_1024_20081001.jpg
The images are from the SOHO satellites (Stereo Orbiting Heliospheric Observatory)
Here’s an article (recently updated) about the sunspot cycle. It’s plain that the sunspot count has dropped noticeably since the return to activity in 2010. That’s a concern.
In 480AD, the Tiber River froze over, and in 484AD, there was a terrible drought in Africa (probably the northern part, the sahel).
http://nowandfutures.com/large/ExtremeWeather_back%20to_68AD.pdf\
These weather cycles come and go, and we simply have to deal with them. It appears that they are a constant, something not taken into consideration by alarmists. And I’m not getting started on THAT today.
Team TAH: You might want to take a look at this. Just when I think that the world couldn’t possibly get any sicker, another worthless punk-ass thug once again proves me wrong. “‘Evil at its finest’: Teenager charged in killing, burning of 85-year-old Korean War vet” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/19/evil-at-its-finest-teenager-arrested-for-killing-burning-body-of-85-year-old-korean-war-vet/ ‘Gene Emory Dacus often sacrificed his own comfort for that of others. At the beginning of the 1950s, he was one of many young men who shipped off to Korea, fighting a war half a world from his home in Georgia. After the war ended in 1953 and his three sons — one of whom is disabled — finished school, he moved with his wife, Earnestine, to Birmingham, Ala., to care for his grandparents. There, he was embraced by his neighbors, for whom he often cut the grass — even at 85 years old — to keep the neighborhood looking tidy. As his neighbor Helen McComb told AL.com, “He’s been here forever. People here loved Mr. Gene. He was very sweet to all of the children. He kept our neighborhood clean.” After his wife passed away in 2005, he cared for his now 60-year-old disabled son in the house, alone. “Good man. Uncomparably good man,” Robert Stanley, a relative, told WBRC. His son Gary Dacus credits his own success to his father’s example. “He taught me good rules and I have a lot of my father in me,” he told AL.com. “I’m a successful person for that … He was the most kindhearted gentleman you ever met. He never met a stranger, and he helped anybody he could.” On Wednesday, neighbors alerted Stanley, a neighbor and relative of Dacus’s, that they smelled smoke and saw fire coming from the back yard of Dacus’s house. They thought maybe his RV had caught fire, or that someone had set fire to it — police said witnesses had seen a young black man running through a nearby alleyway with a red gasoline jug. Stanley sent his son to investigate. But the camper wasn’t on fire. What he found was far more shocking and horrifying. It was… Read more »
Sick doesn’t describe what the perp did to Mr. Dacus… and I hope that when the perp meets his maker he sent to the lowest level of Hell to pay for what he did to Gene Emory Dacus.
No words harsh enough.
Here’s hoping a little jailhouse justice is dealt out to this fucking waste of life.
DITTO that, our Justice System is agonizingly slow and often it’s too easy on vermin like Mr. Dacus’s killer.
Does anyone know if Daniel Bernath has been in Germany recently?
http://wtop.com/world/2016/08/ultralight-pilot-spends-night-in-tree-awaiting-rescue/
Amazing we found him in da Stan and he still can’t fly Lol..
https://youtu.be/kdE186SVfPU
This is what the news headline says:
“FIREFIGHTERS STAND WITH DEPARTMENT THAT WAS TOLD TO REMOVE AMERICAN FLAGS FROM TRUCKS”
Here is the URL for that news report:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/20/firefighters-stand-dept-was-asked-remove-american-flags-trucks
Here was my posted responses:
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There is an old saying that I think is appropriate in this situation, i.e., “Overfamiliarity breeds contempt”.
Also, in order to restore our lost Republic, restore our inalienable rights as individual citizens, and enforce our divinely inspired Constitution of the United States of America, it is imperative that we restore and enforce the sovereignty of the several states and local government.
Thus, unless the fire department is a federal agency (such as the one I was employed by), they should not be displaying the national colors.
Instead, local community fire departments should proudly and properly fly the flags of their state and local municipalities or counties.
Similarly, local police and firefighters should wear only the flag of their community on their uniform, and not the flag of the United States of America.
That same practice needs to be instituted at state and local buildings, such as public schools (which, in reality, should be eliminated), courthouses, and offices.
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On the passenger side of my four wheel drive pickup truck, above the cab window, I choose to defiantly fly my currently much maligned Confederate Battle Flag.
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Of no particular interest to anyone other than myself, my little hometown West Hog Flats Indiana football team started out like gangbusters this past Friday night, losing 63-16.
For Twist: Also this past Friday, the Starke County seat football team beat the Pulaski County seat football team 14-12.
End of report.
PS: Does anyone else think the “Here was my posted responses” comment immediately preceding this comment are a little on the radical side? Almost bordering Communism? Or am I just being a silly old coot?
Thank you for your time.
Dunno, Claw. I tend to defer judgments on communism to our elusive Berkeley academic consultant, particularly for flavors of the red menace involving the Marxist-Leninist social-economic progressive-revisionist Dalai Lama-holistic macrobiotic-low cholesterol kind.
It has the advantage of sending 2/17 Air Cav into some spectacular rants which are not to be missed…
No, Claw, I’m an old school commie hater and that doesn’t seem commie to me. It is ardent federalism is what it is, at least as I see it. I don’t agree with the sentiments inasmuch as we are not an either/or land but both. We are citizens of the US and citizens of the state in which we reside.
On a different note, I’m guessing that The Other whitey is battling fires so do what you (collective) will with that.
Well, since I don’t even know what federalism is, whenever I read that someone is opposed to having the fire/police/other agencies that are not federal in nature, display or wear the American flag, to me that reeks of Communism.(although I really don’t understand what the intricacies of old school Communism is all about, either)
I just thought it strange that he would write something like that here at TAH. It brought to mind the old saying of “Silence is Approval” when nobody else commented or replied to what he said.
Claw, you really need to understand what federalism and communism are in order to make sense of this discussion. You are basing your comments on what you think communism is rather than on what it actually is.
Claw. Whatever. Out.
For the record (for any wannabe stolen valor hunters):
There are four components in the Texas State Guard: Army, Air, Medical, and Maritime. Army and Medical components wear Army uniforms (with TXSG insignia); Air component wears Air Force uniforms, Maritime wears Marine uniforms with Navy rank insignia (unless they’re prior service Marines). Those with prior federal service have the option of wearing the uniform of their federal service, but most opt to wear that of their TXSG unit. They are authorized to wear all awards and decorations from their federal service, regardless of branch/component.
Texas State Guardsmen don’t immediately receive their ID cards as soon as they swear in. Depending on drilling dates, the efficiency of their 1 shop, etc., it could take as much as several months. Just because they don’t yet have their ID doesn’t mean they’re not legit. (Photos have to be taken and sent to Austin–they can’t just walk into any National Guard ID place and get one.)
Some yahoo was harassing one of my brand new Soldiers this afternoon as she was on her way home from the first weekend of TXSG basic training and scared the daylights out of her. (She just was sworn in last week and didn’t even have all of the insignia for her uniform yet.) It better not have been anyone here who pulled that stunt.
So Texas is like California it has its own state funded, state guard ???
Good info I’ve been told by a few about it but this is the first time I’ve heard it explained
Yes. As I recall, there are 22 states with an official, state-sanctioned, state-funded state defense force (the official DOD term for them). Naturally, Texas has the largest SDF, and I believe is the only one with all components.