Weekend open thread
October 7, 2016 Something to Smile About
It’s World Smile Day, and even the animal kingdom can get in on the fun: Here, a gorilla flashes a mischievous smirk in south Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou National Park. Gorillas are vegetarians, and though they eat ants and termites, they prefer leaves, plant stems, roots, flowers, and plump fruit.
Photograph By David Korte
Category: Open thread
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Goddamnitsomuch!!
😀 😀 😀
Bwahahahaha!
Read it and weep, ye mere mortals!
May your whiskey all turn to water!
You are a deserving first. Of course, sitting at your puter for an hour just waiting does have its advantages.
First.
Have a lovely weekend.
THIRD!!!!!
Dammit, Chip, you are just too sneaky for Pete.
4th
Not fucking first, again.
Cocksuckers.
3rd
Top 10! Holy chit!
Dang! I was wasting time on the NSA leak thread.
TOP TEN!!! ???????
The Dutch Rudder Gang still works wino ballsacks behind bus stops.
11tween
11! It has TWO firsts.
Well, I for one was WORKING!!
20ish
Get a gov’t job and you’ll never have to work again.
bWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
R.O.N.G wrong 2/17
I have a govt job and had to attend a meeting. That counts as work – boring, pointless, and painful.
My idea of purgatory – meetings.
All.
Fucking.
Day.
Dante missed putting that on in his Inferno for some reason.
And the major demon is always the coworker who “had” to provide input, talks for 3/4 of the meeting an never says anything worth while.
I always wanted to take silly-string to those idiots – but for some reason HR doesn’t approve of that response.
That guy is the reason behind “throat punch Thursday”
I like the idea!
I line Clothing Optional Friday. It comes in handy when the dry cleaners have not returned your spandex leisure suit.
Meetings soooooooooooo suck. The point of them is to report that a meeting was held and to record your presence. Unfortunately, there is always one asshole who thinks one must speak at meetings and whoever runs the meeting (always an asshole) thinks that the other asshole must be heard. My favorite meetings are those in which the Head Asshole READS aloud what is in black and white or on the screen. That’s time well spent.
And then the speaker of the meeting says: “Well that wraps it up, anyone have a question?”. And dumb ass Joe who has absolutely no life at all, and has zero ability to grasp anything spoken to him, raises his hand, (while all other attendees groan silently and think of ways to choke him out).
Or the guy who is nominally in charge of the team thinks he has some Words of Wisdom That Must Be Said – and doesn’t have a friggin’ clue.
I know my employees know more than I do about their job – so I try to never miss a good chance to shut up.
One of my fvorite demotivators:
Meetings: Because None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us.
…and no one shuts up the yakker (who is only doing it to get attention), and suggests having a Friday picnic indoor lunch twice a month, where everyone brings something.
Well, that’s what the bathroom is for. The first member of each gender who bolts is the envy of those who remain. In the case of the male bolter, that’s always yours truly. AND I WILL REMAIN in the shithouse for as long as it takes!
I have also used the “come in there in 10 minutes, apologize for the interruption, and whisper in my ear, ruse. I do the double take and spring up, saying, “Scuse me” and roll. They think you’re coming back b/c you left the pad and pencil on the table.
Dry heaves or incessant coughing will also work in a pinch. Hell, everybody WANTS you to leave. It’s a winner but can be used only once. And if someone offers a cough drop, accept it, cough, and shoot it across the room.
This could be a great thread in itself. Tricks to shortening meetings or getting out of one quickly.
Oh, if you cough but you don’t have the nose running and the tears running down your cheeks, it isn’t nearly as effective.
When really desperate and you need the physiological signs and symptoms, a quick sniff of some dry cayenne pepper or something…
With the advent of cell phones, you can preset a message to yourself that requires your immediate attention elsewhere…
My favorite was during my time at Travis. Every Monday we had a formation during which the Captain and the CMSgt would compete to get the last word. After about 45 minutes or more of standing at parade rest and trying to stay awake, I would often forget what their points were. One Monday both the Captain and the Chief were late for their own formation. It was up to me to provide the uniform inspection, wisdom from the mount, and safety briefing. The Chief was sorely pissed when he showed up 20 minutes after the formation started to find all of the troops had been dismissed to their duty stations.
Had the same think happen at MECP (Pohang). 1st Sgt called a 07:00 formation. Marines assembled, ready for the word to fall in. 15 minutes later, no 1st Sgt, so Gunny calls formation, takes the report, and sends them to work. We had comm to install for UFL. 1st Sgt finally shows up, throws a fit, then tells the SNCO’s to stand fast. She starts to team out collective ass about us undermining her because she is a female and African-American. “You can’t make cry.” That was the money shot. I turned by my trusty sidekick Dave, and told him that it sounded like a challenge. By the time she got done speaking, she was sobbing.
Anyone have any suggestions for land warfare against an implacable foe? I’ve found analyses of Scipio’s tactics during the 2nd Punic War. I’m not sure that Caesar’s De Bello Gallico is really about warfare in Gaul as much as it’s about his PR for himself. But he did, after all, chase Pompey into Egypt.
Any ideas are welcome.
Meanwhile, and I sent this off to our Glorious Cigar-smoking, Rum-soaked Leader on the Mountain, Aleppo is under bombardment by Russian and Syrian forces and may be completely destroyed before the year is out.
Now my question is why should the Syrians tell al-Qaida to get their people out of there, if the object is to get rid of al-Qaida?
And are we going to get roped into this mess?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-syria-aleppo-could-be-destroyed-20161006-story.html
Jawn Fraud sKerry and Buh-rock must have their panties bunched up tight by now. I wonder if Jawn is foot-stomping in his office, about now?
I just realized it’s Friday, I’d bet that Jawn is off to the Heinz properties to hide for the weekend.
Simple recipe for good, hearty food on a chilly day. The quantity depends on the number of people to be served.
BBQ beans and Smoke Sausage.
Put 4 cans of beans (rinsed) into the slow cooker.
Add a full jar of your favorite BBQ sauce and a whole chopped onion, and stir thoroughly.
Put two 2-pound smoked sausage links on top of the BBQ beans, cover and cook on LOW for 6 hours.
When you serve it, include cornbread or corn muffins, celery, radishes, baby carrots, dill pickles, olives of all sorts, potato salad, and sea salt and cracked pepper potato chips.
Lots of paper napkins are needed. Also, for dessert, apple pie warmed up with some good vanilla ice cream or pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
Coffee, tea, adult beverages of your choice. I think a good red burgundy will work with this, or maybe a Spanish Rioja red.
Entertainment should include dinner table conversation.
What kind of beans and what size can?
I used red kidney beans, 14 oz cans, but you can really use any kind. A mixed bag gives you even more variety.
How does one (or even two) “warm up apple pie with good vanilla ice cream”?
There y’go, Bill, with wanting good grammar.
Misplaced phrases can cause such confusion…
The apple pie is warmed up before adding vanilla ice cream to it.
There, fixed it for you.
You can also wrap a whole cored and peeled apple in pie crust pastry, bake it at 350F for about 30-40 minutes (depends on your oven) and serve that nice, warm baked apple with vanilla ice cream.
Am going with a grilled cheese sammich and tomato soup this evening. Nothing else with it because that should be enough.
Sounds like code for a large pizza with everything on it.
A friend turned me on to a food wagon, (actually 1 of 4), that is located not far from me, vending great Cuban food, Miami style, which is pretty close to authentic. I haven’t had a good Cuban Sandwich since I moved out of the Keys in 2002. This one was just right, pressed, (as all Cuban Sandwiches should be), and really hit the spot. This guy has had all his trailers on Air Force and Army SPECOPS locations, and since I am but a dischargee, and not a retiree, I don’t have access to those Sekrit Squirrel places. His one “off post” location is but 5 miles from me, on my way as I come out of town, to my place in the woods.
Oh, yeah! Grilled cheese, thick with that melted stuff, and any thick soup on a cold winter’s night is always good.
I do wish I had a fireplace, but maybe after Christmas, a room heater with a video of a fire will serve the same purpose.
Haven’t had either in a while. Fall is here and we had some rain today. Just seems right.
Discovered Campbell’s organic tomato & basil bisque late last winter. It’s delish. With a multiple grain bread – very satisfying dinner.
@ EX-PH2 :
I don’t know how much it costs, but my sister has one of those electric faux fireplaces in her home.
It’s portable, so it can be moved around, and when operating the fireplace, having actual heat is optional.
Elsewhere, I’ve seen advertisements for an Amish manufactured frame for the artificial fireplace, giving it a traditional fireplace mantle.
Am trying this with a mixture of navy beans, pintos and kidney beans (because that’s what was handy), some Kirkwood apple chicken sausage and bold & spicy BBQ sauce. Should be good.
Winston Churchill’s writings from his campaigns.
The Malakand campaign in Afghanistan was a hard one, but anybody reading it in ’01 would have had a preview of coming attractions. The verbal descriptions of terrain are so good I could follow the action on Google Maps.
River War, about the reconquest of the Sudan, is a description of combat against islamic fanatics. And his descriptions of the conduct of the people was so good, he effectively predicted the split of Sudan that we saw in recent years. There’s also a first person report of a cavalry charge. One can see why in later years he drank a lot.
The account of the Boer War, and his time as a POW, and his escape, is also not to be missed. The Boers were hard men, good shots, and cost a lot of british blood in their subjugation.
Those should get you started.
You can also see why he was such a respected writer. He takes you right into the action, and does not spare the sensitive.
Sure, he was also racist, but he was a man of his time. Read and understand.
Thank you! I will look those up. I have H.M. Tomlinson’s ‘Waiting for Daylight’, which contains descriptions of what he saw on the ground as a journalist during WWI. He also recorded what other people told him. There is a lot that gets left out of reference materials that you find in first-hand accounts.
Thanks again!
The following list (and not in any way comprehensive) of folks can bend over and take it straight up the ass.
Dan Bernath
Dullass Witlessgenfield
Psul “I really have a vagina” Wickre
Clark D. Schreiber
Colt Kelly Lee Vernon Albert Bulot
Henry “Steve” Marks
Janaye Ervin
The VA
Hillary
Bradley Man-Thing
Glenn Nicholas
Joe Weeks
Fartbongo
Joe Teti
WWF
IVAV
Carmine Annunziata aka Luciano Benandanti
Eric Nelson
Thomas Wayne Hudson
Darryl Lee Wright
Phillip Dale Monkey-ass
Gary Erdman
John Spodofora
Michael Killiam.
Joe Gainey.
Frank Visconi.
Clarance S. Evans.
Bling Bling Richards.
Lowell G. Freeman.
Gary Gilbert.
Thomas Hudson.
We really need a like button…
We certainly can’t forget:
Thomas Reister
RICK
DAVE
THOMAS REISTERS ASS
TOMS ROIDS….
Add Kyle Barwan to this list. He is still scamming, claiming Cancer that they army won’t cover, claiming IED injury in Iraq that he is waiting for a settlement from the army, claiming to be working at Disney World, doing internal security, (as we know all felons qualify for that slot), and other scam type things. He is a shit bag that fully deserves a new round of Gooooooglization.
I notice that Jarrett “White Castle” Gimbl is missing from that list. And my favorite, since we lived in adjacent towns growing up, “Sgt Maj” Ronald Mailahn deserves some recognition.
Gimbl is still running his bullshit Gunny the service dog face book page,trying tio scame the VA for a full pension and lying about his service, He also whined to Coral Springs Talk because he apparent lost his Job and had to move because of Threats to him.
By the way he has a kid now, almost a year old.
I hate it when they reproduce
I’m afraid that’s just another day behind the dumpster for a few of them, Chip.
Top 25!
I knew that this would pop up as I was in a meeting….
Dang it.
Further evidence that our Republic is doomed, the Washington Post asks-is your dog’s Halloween costume sexist?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/09/29/is-your-dogs-halloween-costume-sexist/?0p19G=c
I mock the Wishingten Post.
It’s only good for wrapping cat doots before you dump them.
Sure, it’s okay for a dof to lick his nuts in front of a whole room of people but just let one human do the same and evetybody gets upset!
Couple of ranchers, sittin’ on the porch, rocking back and forth. A dog curls up at their feet and starts lickin’ his balls. Rancher #1 – “Sure wish I could do that.”
Rancher #2 – “Well ya can, but ya better pet him first.”
get him a clown suit. a rash of robberies by perps in clown masks here; elsewhere, evil clown sightings. fear of clowns is coulrophobia
I’m expecting a clown shooting in AZ any day now. Dumbass is gonna scare the wrong person, and you know we ALL carry in AZ!
Imo, the only indicator of doom for our Republic is the passive acceptance of the multitude of idiocies.
Herd needs culling.
The Washington Post writer’s costume should be a full potato.
#BlackLabsMatter!
Didn’t some Special Snowflake University declare pictures of gorillas to be rayzist sexist macroagressions?
Oh, well. Nobody here but us deplorables.
And as for Duke University and their “safe place” for men – http://hotair.com/archives/2016/10/03/finally-duke-offers-men-safe-space-consider-toxic-masculinity/
my masculinity is only toxic to feminist stupidity.
That’s okay. I still think you’re hot.
That’s because you have a brain and know how to use it, Ex-PH2.
But I appreciate it!
My pleasure, Graybeard.
Body language is different in the animal kingdom. When a gorilla has a smirk like the one in the photo, it means he wants to peel you like a banana.
Now you have Dan Bernath breathing hard…
Well, it’s just a hoot dealing with the leaf peepers. But fall in New England is hard to beat.
May God bless all you folks who reside in the southeastern United States. As a wee lad in Spring Lake, North Carolina (located just outside the main gate of Fort Bragg), I remember Hurricane Hazel, which was my first hurricane. This coming Wednesday 12 October 2016 is COLUMBUS DAY, and also Yom Kippur. I refuse to observe or celebrate federal Monday holidays, therefore, the REAL Columbus Day will always be 12 October, the real Memorial Day will always be 30 May, and George Washington’s birthday will always be 22 February. For those with Jewish friends, the proper greeting on Yom Kippur would be, “G’mar Hatima Tova”, which means, “May you be sealed in the Book of Life.” It is also appropriate to wish them, “May you have an easy fast.” Do NOT wish someone, “Happy Yom Kippur!”, as Yom Kippur, like Memorial Day, is a sacred and solemn occasion for religious observance, not festively celebrating. This coming Tuesday 11 October 2016, a friend will drive me to Salt Lake City for my appointment with my surgeon, Byron Douglas Lawrence, M.D., of the University of Utah Orthopaedic Center. Afterwards, I’ll meet with the anaesthetist at the University of Utah Medical Center. I’ll spend the night at the Ramada Inn, courtesy of the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. On Wednesday 12 October 2016, I’ll be admitted to the University of Utah Medical Center and undergo surgery on my spine. I’ll be hospitalized for at least a few days. It’s possible that I might be transferred to a long term care facility for rehabilitation. They don’t want me to play my guitar or use my computer, plus no lifting, bending, stooping, or twisting. So, there’ll be no e-mail messages from me, nor any comments from me being posted at Internet web sites, such as this one. I can’t kiss the hand of a pretty lady! When dancing, I am not to do the Limbo, nor should I participate in Sumo wrestling. Oddly, even though the Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered a Powered Mobility Scooter for me, which hasn’t… Read more »
Good luck with your surgery, John. May the good lord give your surgeon steady hands and a clear eye.
Best wishes from all at D’s Cantina, John! And frankly, sumo is overrated. Fun to watch though!
Good luck to you, John.
You’ll be in my prayers, John.
Good luck.
Attitude goes a long way with the healing process and yours is good to go.
We pray for God’s grace on you, His healing on your body, His wisdom upon your surgeons, anesthesiologists, and all the attending nurses.
May your name be inscribed in the Book of Life.
Prayers for you, John. And if I lived close enough I’d volunteer to read TAH each day to you!
KEEP FIGHTING!!!
All the best to you, John. You will be in my prayers.
“THANK YOU ! ! !” to all you guys and gals for your kind thoughts and prayers.
I try to be true to my religious covenants and vows, but the truth is, I’m just another very ordinary weak and tempted mortal human being.
So, I really do NEED all those prayers!
Since I’m so addicted to the Internet, I’m guessing that during the time when I’m not allowed to use a computer, that I’ll probably go through a period of very severe withdrawal symptoms.
Good luck with your surgery, John and I hope you’re able to get back here posting soon.
Best wishes to you, John, for a good and uneventful recovery.
Be praying for a successful recovery..
Like him or not., one has to admit Charles Krauthammer is one smart sumbitch:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-stillborn-legacy-of-barack-obama/2016/10/06/4ac2fa32-8bf7-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html?utm_term=.6e8a1377a3da
“Only amid the most bizarre, most tawdry, most addictive election campaign in memory could the real story of 2016 be so effectively obliterated, namely, that with just four months left in the Obama presidency, its two central pillars are collapsing before our eyes: domestically, its radical reform of American health care, a.k.a. Obamacare; and abroad, its radical reorientation of American foreign policy — disengagement marked by diplomacy and multilateralism.”
He always has been like that. Kind of like the last buffalo.
Did you folks see the story of HO VAN LANG, the real life Tarzan in Viet Nam?
You can see the video recordings at my own personal web site, “OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE”, and the URL is:
https://writesong.blogspot.com/
He went into the jungles with his father and brother when he was just four years old, and was discovered when he was forty-four years old.
He has the skills of a superman, but the mind of a baby, for he hasn’t seen any other human beings in his life, except for his brother and father.
Having never been taught, he doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong, he doesn’t know about females or sex, and although he’s Vietnamese, he cannot speak the language.
Originally aired on Australian television news, it’s an amazing story, which I think you’ll enjoy.
It hit twenty degrees last night. Time to pull the coat out of the closet. I’ll be needing it soon.
Don’t know your AO, Twist, but I’m rockin’ tactical shorts, tee, and sneaks. Headed out to the deck to fire up the CFG* for New Yawk strip steaks, burn a stogie, and sip some fine bourbon. Life is very very good.
*ceramic freakin’ grill
I live in Alaska where 20 degrees is still grilling weather.
I make a habit of grilling even after New Years.
As long as the wind isn’t blowing, it’s all good.
In our AO we have a predicted low of 63. Shorts and t-shirts will be the uniform of the day. A Shiner Oktoberfest and whatever goodness Mrs. GB decides to cook up for me is on the menu.
Got a fish-fry & fishing party on the calendar tomorrow afternoon.
Ist das Leben nicht schön?
This Sunday morning at first light it was a bone chilling 58.5 degrees outside. I will give the Sun an hour to heat things up before I do some tomahawk work at the range. Yesterday, I worked out with both my .22 carbine lever gun and my .22 Single Action. I kept a 13 round group inside 3 inches from 75 yards, resting the barrel, with the rifle, and a six shot group from 30 feet with the wheel gun was within 6 inches. Not bad for an old fart.
James Walls, phony UH-1 pilot still works balls.
Clark D. Schreiber, phony combat veteran, stole $880 in donations.
Thomas Reister, phony combat wounded veteran, still has not enrolled in a remedial grammar class.
RICK is a cocksucker.
DAVE is a cocksucker.
Daniel Bernath enjoys choking on hairy balls behind Waste Management dumpsters.
Monday morning I was called to my young ones school…using profanity in class. On my way I was PISSED!
My young one had problems with a bully who picked on others since fourth grade. When she saw the bully in action, she’d walk up talk the little one and say let’s go…In 6th grade the bully took a swing and being well trained to protect herself grabbed the hand/thumb twisted took her to the ground and said I can let you up shake hands and walk away or you scream uncle… They shook hands…
In first period now in seventh grade bully refused to stand during the pledge since last week. My Pozz said at least stand…bully said fuck you and America…
YOU BITCH, PEOPLE DIED FOR THAT FLAG AND IF YOU DONT STAND GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY!
I’m not angry except for the cussing and she has to write a apology to the teacher and class…she wrote one and brought me to tears…she reads it to the class on Monday..
I’ll share after I get some opinions on was she right to defend her flag and country in school?
I’ll be waiting…
HOOAH! Good on her!
“To every person in uniform who died for our flag an our Liberty that it represents, I am sorry that mewling troll is such an ungrateful, disrespectful idiot.”
Absolutely.
If we don’t start standing up to these puke face ball licking dogs we will surely lose this country.
Good for her and good for you for teaching her the proper use of force and respect.
And if she has to apologize for her use of the word bitch, doesn’t the puke have to apologize for their use of the fuck you ???
Of is the school so polluted with liberal bull shit that their part doesn’t matter.
And why the fuck does she have to apologize???
I would be furious and after some school teacher and administrator like they ain’t never seen before.
I went after a couple of them back when they started that whole math concept and whole language thing back in the 90’s.
that was fun and I even got to bitch them out in front of a school board meeting.
Yes, she was. Anyone who shows a lack of respect for his/her own country needs to be taught to respect it.
I am Rebs kid ? I got suspended from school for using gutter language and I have to write a apology…This is what I will read with dad and nana there on Monday. Since they called me the instigater she only has to say she’s sorry and nothing more and I think that’s bullshit. (Sorry) First.. To Miss.. and my classmates who I have known since fourth grade and do respect, I’m sorry for using bad language in class. Second.. I will stand, face the flag and say the pledge I have done since I kindergarten.. Third..I am a American and to watch a bully who speaks little English sit with her arms crossed while we say the pledge put a anger in my mind and heart. I felt I had to stand up and defend not just our flag but our country. When I heard her say what she did I lost control of my mouth. These are special words to a song we all have heard during our young lives, “and the rockets red glared, bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our FLAG was still there. Oh say does that STAR SPANGLED BANNER yet wave.. over the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE. How many of you know there’s four more verses and it was written by Attorney Francis Key during the battle of 1812. Did you know Betsy Ross made our flag? Millions of men women and yes children our age died for OUR FREEDOM and still do, so other countries can be as free as we are. Sitting during the pledge is like spitting on YOUR ancestors since she doesn’t have any here. I proudly wear a bracelet for a POW-MIA SSGT JAMES M. RAY after nana told me his story. As a twenty year old ARMY Private First Class he was captured in Vietnam after a gun fight on March 18, 1968. PFC Ray attempted three escapes and was awarded the Silver Star and promoted to SSGT. He is still waiting to come home and until he… Read more »
Your nana and dad have raised a great daughter and a great person. Do not change anything and remember to stand tall when you say your piece.
I wish that I could be standing next to you when you give your talk.
Thank you Sirs and Ma’ams,
My friend think Nana’s a badass because of the things she’s taught my friends and I. Me? She’s my nana and I love a person so dedicated to the military who didn’t serve.
Nana does serve her State and America but always has time for me.
I will be standing PROUD and YOU’LL all be next to me, especially SSGT RAY. IF by chance she takes another swing I’ll be home all next week ?
NANA I’M GOING TO BED….??
God Bless America and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE WITH MY DEEPEST RESPECT.
Rebs kid?
I would not change one word, BZ!
sounds like it’s time for ice cream and a talk about when not to use the word fuck in public…^_^
So, I’m tooling down the road and turn on te radio in time to hear some show in which the topic is college students demanding that profs put trigger warnings on syllabi. It seems that some college students are deathly afeared and ascared that they will hear or read something in a class that disturbs them. Unbelievable. Incredible. These pansies and their sissy-mary instructors need a good whipping. (Should I have preceded that with a trigger warning?)
No. Reality will eff ’em if they can’t take a joke.
Or if they can’t handle reality.
Isn’t it time they grew up? Just how psychotic are these children?
Seriously, I could not wait to leave home, get a job, and get away from my parents.
@ EX-PH2 :
Me, too!
Society’s way of thinking has definitely changed, especially in the youngsters.
Why do you reckon that fully grown kids today have become so afraid to leave home and venture out into the world on their own?
Trigger warning: If that phrase is useful to you, be warned that my class will cause your head to explode.
This just in: according the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath IS STILL DISBARRED.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
Did his hovel get leveled by flying drywall screws and coconuts exploding against his porch?
No? Damn shame.
I was kinda hoping that his house would be the only one in the neighborhood to suffer some sort of damage
Lien his pit and when he HAS TO SELL IT, correct your awards and level it…the rudest person and non attorney I’m glad to say I never met, but did hold open the court door for him?
???
???
Like Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is reportedly still dead, I believe it will be a permanent condition.
Here’s a little bit of PR he got last year. You may find it interesting. There is a link to the source of it all, which is worth a look.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2015/08/17/court-says-yelp-reviewers-arent-employees/#3cb36ce73fec
I will pass on reading the link, knowing that it will involve more of the outrageous idiocy that is Daniel A. Bernath. He give “incoherent” a new definition. I don’t know what possessed him to soil the ground, air and landscape of Florida with his presence. I can think of many other places on the planet more like his personna, though none would be improved in the slightest with his being there, not even the worst of the county landfills.
Due to the impact of Hurricane Matthew in the Merritt Island area, for this weekend only, Phil will be working balls in the parking lot of the Reston VA branch this weekend.
Trying for 100th!!
Screw Phil, Paul, Dennis, Daniel and all the rest of those shitheads.
Done being trapped on Ft Bliss… didn’t even make the top 100
Eleventy-umpteenth!!! Oh, well. Busy with EMS Academy, aka Death by PowerPoint. It’s Fuente Friday, what y’all smokin’ tonight? A nearly 2yo Opus X for me
First!
John Giduck – the Turd with a face!
Will everyone who’s safe and sound, doing fine in spite of this hurricane please raise you hand so we can get a handle on who might need some back up?
Thank you. Virtual roll call complete.
I just now saw a headline (but I didn’t read the story) that I-95 was closed in both directions in South Carolina.
Most everyone is suffering from the same Weather Channel-caused maladies: melodrama, hysterics, and a mega dose of stupid.
At the MERRIAM-WEBSTER web site, the LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE for today, Saturday 08 October 2016, is a real DOOZY!
It took me thirty-four (34) minutes to solve it, and for a while, I wondered if I could solve it, because it really strained my brain.
Boy, oh boy, what am I going to do for fun after they operate on me, and I’m no longer allowed to use a computer?
Anyway, you guys go ahead and have fun with today’s crossword puzzle.
There’s actually two (02) different LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLEs, with different formats.
I hate the new format at the LOS ANGELES TIMES web site, because it’s too easy, and so, I no longer go there to work crossword puzzles.
But, the MERRIAM-WEBSTER web site still uses the old format, which is a whole lot more fun, so that’s the one that I recommend.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls as he uses his fake Native American, SEAL and Law Enforcement claims to score with young men.
Here’s my weekly shout-out to some of the losers that are Stolen Valor assclowns.
Fuck you to:
Glenn Nicholas
Thomas Reister – who still takes it in the keister!
Thomas Wayne Hudson
Colt Bulot
Clark Schreiber
Rick Cantor
Joseph Stetson
Jimmy Walls – who works donkey balls!
Bobbie Glen Davis – sekrit skwirrl taxi driver
Jerry Forster
Richard “Rick the Dick” Bucklew
William Blake
And, of course, to the charter members of the DRG, especially to Dan “CA disbarred lawer” Bernath and CoCkSlUuUuRrRrPeTh41 (the purple suited piss covered clown).
Kinda chill and damp here at La Casa de AW1Ed in the PRCofMD, and COMHOUSE is having one of her old horse riding pals over, hmmm. what to do for dinner?
Chicken stew, just the thing! I’m making the stock in my pressure cooker now- what a time saver- with thighs, celery, carrots, onion, herbs and pepper corns.
When that’s done I’ll use this recipe as a guide line:
Ingredients:
• 1 double chicken breast
• 4 carrots
• 4 potatoes
• 2 celery sticks
• 1 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 500 ml chicken stock (2.1 cups)
• 125 g flour (8.5 tbsp)
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 5 g chopped parsley
• 1 tbsp dried thyme
• salt and pepper
Instructions:
1. Season the flour with salt and pepper, to taste. Chop the chicken breast into large cuts and coat with flour.
2. Cook oil in the pressure cooker base.
3. Add a few pieces of chicken at a time and cook until golden brown.
4. Once cooked, add in all of the chicken back and cook for 3 more minutes with the sliced onion and crushed garlic.
5. Add carrots, potatoes, celery, and thyme to the pressure cooker. Cook for another 3 minutes.
6. Pour in stock and let it boil. Regularly stir to scrape off any brown bits at the base of the pan.
That sounds really good. Turned chilly overnight in my kingdom, down to 38F last night. I had to turn on the furnace, for Pete’s sake! The HORROR!
I can do something like that in the crockpot with leftover roast chicken and icebox biscuits from the fridge case at the store. I’ll have to give that a try.
So, a Montana rancher is driving along checking his fences. He sees a hitch hiker and decides to offer him a lift. They talk a bit, the rancher asks where he is from and the rider says San Francisco. In a little while the rancher slams on the brakes, jumps out and heads to the fence. There in the fence, is a sheep with its head caught in the barbed wire. The rancher yanks down his jeans and tears the sheep a new ass hole. He then yells over to the truck, “HEY FRISCO! You want some of this?” The guy in the truck says, “Well…YEA! But…do I have to put my head in the barbed wire?”
Maybe only you older folks will be interested in this, but this morning, on the Internet, I just discovered a radio station that plays nothing but music from the ‘FIFTIES.
It’s an APP, called, “APP RADIO”, available on WINDOWS 10, and the particular station is called, “FOREVER FIFTIES”.
You’ll have to hunt for it, so after opening APP RADIO, look for the APP that is a big “G” on a blue square.
It’s not just ‘Fifties Rock ‘n’ Roll oldies, but also show tunes from the ‘Fifties.
This is all stuff from when I was in elementary school.
Me, too, John. Sounds like fun.
If you aren’t allowed to use your computer while you’re recovering, can’t you at least use pen/pencil and paper?
I don’t yet know what they’ll let me do.
The nurse said I shouldn’t play my guitar or use my computer because they don’t want me hunched over or twisting.
Hmmm… I have a bad back, too. Not as bad as yours, but I use an orthopedic pillow when I’m at my computer. Maybe they could get a back brace for you to use. Ask them about it.
Most important thing to do is focus on healing and getting well.
Actually, at the moment, if you can believe this, I’m really FAR more worried about going through possible withdrawal symptoms when I can’t use the computer and go on the Internet.
Oops!
I goofed when describing the “FOREVER FIFTIES” app.
It’s a huge blue “G” on a gray square.
You don’t have to search for the Windows 10 APP.
I just now found the web site URL.
Here ’tis:
http://gotradioforeverfifties.radio.net/
you old folks know you can make Pandora.com play nothing but fifties music right? You just start a station with either a favorite song or Musician and it pulls from it’s library of music things that are similar. I feel like the grand kid showing grandpa how to fix the VCR…(which we don’t even have anymore)
As of 1330 hrs EST I have been married to the most wonderful woman in the world for 11 years.
That is all.
Congrats!
Thank you. Three wonderful kids and a pretty dang good job as well.
Can honestly say I am very happy.
CONGRATULATIONS ! ! !
Our Country desperately needs more of this.
Thank you, trying to set a good example for the kids.
Rookie.
Had to wait till I found the right one 2/17.
It took a while.
😀
I waited, too. I had to interview about 30 different women before I found the right one for the job. Some of the interviews lasted weeks, some months, and two lasted years.
Congratulations.
Wow, a two year ‘interview’. I don’t think I could last that long. I’d have to take a break for like, water, and maybe food.
Oh, wait… not that kind of interview.
My bad. 😀
Sorry, I forgot to add my congratulations on your anniversary. My bad!
All good. 😀
Thank you.
Current LIVE camera view on the coast of North Carolina:
http://www.eilivesurf.com/livecams.asp
So, I took a minute to read what Trump was caught on tape saying, figuring it was likely some locker room talk that was blown way out of proportion. Um. Ah. Um. How can I say this? He’s a first rate piece of shit. The problem is that so is his opponent. Would somebody please put them both out of our misery?
Trump has Pence as his Veep.
Shrillary has Kaine.
Pence for President!
Wait until you hear what he can do with a cigar and intern. ..
Sorry – wrong year / different standards.
Weather Channel Idiot: “This storm will kill you! Get out now! Seek shelter now!” –spoken from the beach
Weather Channel Idiot: “Never drive through moving water. It only takes several inches to sweep your vehicle away.” –spoken while a Weather Channel van drives through moving water on street
Weather Channel Idiot: “Let’s look at the damage….” –spoken to introduce the same two scenes of debris being looped for two minutes
Is that Tim Reed? He also chases after tornadoes and stands right in their path. If he’s looking for cheap thrills, his ego is out of control
I’ve checked Windyty dot com several times today. It almost appears that the storm is hugging the coast and starting to move north.
Personally, I don’t think it is going to circle back. The moisture is being pulled northeast out of it. It’s almost out of North Carolina now. This Doppler radar display shows it. Click on the +/- icon in the upper lefthand corner to reduce the size of the map and find the Atlantic coast. You’ll see the storm itself.
http://chicagoweathercenter.com/radar
I was right.
Hurr. Matthew is not going back into the Atlantic. It is going straight up the east coast and pounding New York!
To quote Peter Falk from ‘The Princess Bride’:
“Yes you’re very smart. Shut up.”
“We interrupt this Army/Duke football game to remind you that we are in the midst of a storm and that tonight’s football games have been uncancelled. Drive safely.”
Wanted: An attractive woman with a heart of gold and a shapely body. Will have to put up with an asshole who will treat you like a queen. Retirement not an option. This is a lifelong, volunteer position.
Bored, are you, AirCav?
Speaking of dating Ads someone is still putting himself out as available, methinks the latest wife and him are on the skids.
What number is he on? 12? 13?
Some people exist simply to be an example of what NOT to grow up into.
Think its 8 or 9, to be honest I don’t know. Believe this last one has lasted a whopping 4 months.
He is a “HOBOSEXUAL”. If he doesn’t have a wife, he is homeless. Oh, and out of cheese, too.
HOBOSEXUAL. Bwahahahahahahah.That’s a keeper.
Where is the assclown posting at? Is he still posting on Craigslist? Still calling himself a “sensitive” individual, looking for a “meaningful” relationship?
What the hell is everyone else doing that they’re not here?
I’m watching the small bears and large people-go large people.
Negative!! Negative!!
Go Small Bears!! Go Small Bears!!
All The Way!! WETSU!! WETSU!!
Claw………finally got the m38a1 jeep back today! Purring like a kitten. Next, the weapon package. Decisions decisions!
Well, for the jeep I’d go with a pintle mounted 30. But maybe for awesomeness, ole Ma Deuce.
More authentic time wise.
I’m still a big fan of either the 60 or a 106 RR for the mule, though.
Cubs 5
Largepeople 2
Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win!!!!!
I was cleaning pistols. Took the wife out to lunch and then we hit the range for some recoil time together.
If you haven’t tried the newer Rock Island Armory pistols, I certainly recommend them. My wife’s 1911 Officer in 9mm is a seriously nice pistol. Smooth trigger, great sites and very comfortable.
Dunno, but it seemed important at the time.
My Bear Creek Arsenal AR-15, chambered in .223 WYLDE, began to not cycle properly. I thought that some new Remington ammo had caused the gas tube to clog. As I was using a medical syringe to inject some Remington oil into it, I saw it sliding forward. I removed the Key Mod foregrip and found the the housing that takes the gas from the port in the barrel into the tube, had come loose. Re-tightened it, and all is good now. If it loosens again, I will put some thread locker on the allen screws that hold it in place. This is one great fire arm, the first that I have seen with an Octagon, full length, Key Mod foregrip and floating barrel. Having a Picatinny rail on top and 7 Key Mod facets, gives me plenty of places to mount accessories.
Just don’t go all geer queer with it an mount everything in the world 😀
Though, thinking about it, IDC SARC would mount everything in the world.. just in a different way.
Scope, 500 meter LED light, and vertical front grip on forepiece. 1 point sling on buffer tube. That is enough for me. I have a couple of good “tactical” lights, one has an IR lens, the other is just plain awesome out to 500 meters. I can switch them as I need to.
I enjoy attending the local high school’s home football games each Friday evening. This week was the homecoming game. When the National Anthem played, all motion stopped and you could hear a pin drop. That’s the way it always is. At halftime, a new King and Queen of the senior class are selected. (And, no, there is no foolishness. Males candidates are princes and females are princesses!) Any how, the previous year’s selectees turn over their crowns. Well, last year’s King was unavailable. When the public address announcer announced his absence due to his being in service with the USMC, the place erupted in applause. Did my old heart good, I’ll tell you.
As it should be. I thing that about 99% of us here at TAH would like you to find some way to let that Marine’s family know that we appreciate both his service, and their raising of him.
Hillary Cankles is deplorable.
Oh by the way,
Go fuck yourself Clark D. Schreiber, phony combat veteran.