Weekend open thread
Women in traditional clothing rest on a rough-hewn footbridge in Nubra Valley in Ladakh, India. Barren but breathtaking Ladakh (“land of high mountain passes”) is home to a predominantly Buddhist population who live according to generations-old traditions. “Dubbed ‘Little Tibet’ because of its geographical and cultural proximity to Tibet (and it also is host to many Tibetan refugees),” photographer Kieron Nelson writes, “… this austerely beautiful region is like nowhere else in India.”
Category: Open thread
First
Stinker.
Bwahahahahahahahah!!!
Read it and weep, ye mere mortals!
Congrats Mick!
Thanks!
Aren’t you also “First!”of 2017, Mick?
????
Whoa! Hey! You’re right!!! First in 2017!!!
So what’s my reward for this singularly stellar personal accomplishment?
I know what I’d get if I was still in the Marine Corps: I’d be recommended for a Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal that would be down-graded to a Punitive Letter of Caution by the time that I received it.
TINS. (FYI, that’s the Marine Corps Air Wing acronym for ‘This Is No Shit’, which is also frequently used to preface a good Sea Story.)
The next round of Grog is on me!
Not First!!!
FIRST IN 2017 was yours truly last week just after midnight EST, the first TAH comment of 2017, PERIOD!!! nyehnyehnyehnyeh….
Sorry, API.
Mick was indeed the very first person to post First on the first 2017 WOT.
?
Yeah, he did so, but LOOK AT the WOT from New Year’s weekend and yours truly got THE FIRST TAH comment of 2017 in just after Midnight EST. FIRST TAH comment of 2017, PERIOD!
Neenerneenerneener!
Yeah, but you labeled it as a POST and didn’t correct it to a COMMENT until seven hours later./smile
So…..??/smile
Maybe we need to get a 2/17 Air Cav ruling on this point of order?
Mick, I think your AO may be heading for a Blizzard? ☺
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
and a tiny, tiny penis which resembles a second belly button and makes him cry like a little girl in the darkest of nights.
Then one day, while in the men’s room at a truck stop, an arcade machine granted John Giduck his very own wish. John Giduck immediately wished for a big penis. And then, as if by magic, a trucker ambled by that resembled an angel – decked out in white from his the bottom of his white snakeskin boots to the tip of his white stenson hat. There was another day in which the guy who who ambled by resembled a genie but that’s a different story and John Giduck still wears that genie’s turban on occasion…and even occasionally get free slurpee at the 7-11 were genie man worked.
Anyway..back to our story…
And it was on that fateful day in which John Giduck made his wish for a big penis that John Giduck’s trucker angel promised him that he would gladly give him a big penis. In fact, he could have every big penises that he had ever ever imagined. John Giduck’s eyes grew wide with anticipation. How could this be possible? How could this be? JOhn Giduck’s questions were soon answered the trucker unzipped and John saw that even the angel trucker crotch cheese was white under his balls.
Off they went into stall 4 in that very truck stop….and there…while looking down into the reflection of the toilet water and half flushed paper, John Giduck saw hs own penis for the first time. John Giduck still visits that stall to this day to relive the thrills, chills, spills, and anal fissures of his angel trucker as well as to earn some loose change. He’s much better at working balls now but still, deep in the back of his mind, is the memory of that magic moment when John Giduck saw his own penis grow to slightly larger than belly button. It was a true John Giduck Stall 4 miracle.
First
Blast!
Missed it by seconds.
Of course you missed it by “seconds”. You didn’t miss it by “firsts”. That isn’t how it works.
Cocksuckers.
We are forecast for a hard freeze in East Texas tonight.
Ex-PH2 may laugh at us but we don’t care. I’ll be spending this evening ensuring the pipes are wrapped, the water dripping and other precautions are taken on the Graybeard Compound.
GB, we had a hard frost last night, here in MN -12 below, not counting the wind.
There is a reason Mrs. Graybeard (a South Texas girl) and I don’t live in MN.
That’s one of them.
I have heard her teeth chattering at 72 (from cold – not from just talking…)
I would like to say that the cold weeds out the riff-raff, but that doesn’t explain away Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
I would like to say the same about the heat, but then we have Harris and Austin Counties.
Life, rain.
if it makes you feel better, it was described as a “mild freeze” to about 29 degrees ony on channel 13 this morning. Tomorrow…that’s another story
Yeah, I’m just North of you up I45 a bit.
Did y’all get sleet this afternoon, also?
And Bexar and Dallas Counties.
Do the Somalis hibernate when it gets this cold, OC?
Houstonians do… at my office the Chinese girls are wearing parkas…indoors.
UpNorth, I don’t know, I don’t hang around Mpls. or St. Cloud where most of the Somalis are.
It’s -25 here right now and expected to reach as low as -40 tonight.
Where you at Twist?
Some place I don’t want to be at this time of year….
I live in Alaska.
Twist, usually when we’re in the deep freeze here in MN, you guys in AK are basking in the 30’s – above.
I once spent a winter up in MN where there was about a two week stretch before the temp got above zero degrees Fahrenheit and since then I have lived where winters are much better than that other than the times when Uncle Sugar had possession of me.
I did twenty one months up there at Ft Wainwright and got to play Army at 40 below…
Truly an enlightening experience…
That is one reason I now live in South Central Texas, Austin, to be exact.
I brought my down parka with me from Wisconsin and these days I am glad I did !!!
I do NOT miss long stretches with that kind of weather in the least.
Take care and stay warm my friend !!!
5F with a wind chill of -7F, clear and sunny, humidity 57%, and I made a pot of bean soup he other day. Still workin’ it.
Just heard it us snowing in Hemphill. Stay warm
Preparing for heavy snowfall this weekend here in The Land O’ Mick.
To all hands on Team TAH: stay safe, warm, and dry this weekend!
You too Mick
Honorary 1st!
Will Phil be working balls this weekend? Will Daniel “Crash ‘n” Bernath be declared mentally incompetent? Will Dullass do something worthy to make him eligible for the 2017 Stolen Valor Tournament? Enquiring minds want to know.
Last! Wittless Dallas still hasn’t COMETH! I’ve been up 36 hours and the SHITY Dallassclown is my first six emails…ASSHOLE! I’M FUCKING TIRED and have more important emails to read. What a damn pussy…
Boy that’s a LOT of almost firsts in 3 minutes.
Dan Bernath can eat our collective asses and I can’t WAIT to see him get his legal beat down coming soon to a TAH near YOU!!
The only thing better would be for Danni-boi and QuEeFeRs to be sharing a jail cell with Thor, Tiny, Julio and Mr. “Tiny”… the Prison deli would be open 24/7 for both of them!
Damn, I forgot to give Bubba a shout-out…
James Walls, phony UH-1 pilot has a new friend, Phil, the southpaw hand job extraordinaire.
TOP 20 ITH!
the Land of High Mountains, looks pristine still in this image, nice to find these places and visit if you can. Alway more fun than giant cities filled with morons.
dag nabbit. My first weekend back on day shift and I blow my chance at being first.
I identify my gender as 1st, so at least I got that going for me.
Anybody else still have to make a conscious effort to use AM/PM time? It annoys me that after being an Army brat and after 13 years of marriage to my that my wife still cannot grasp to concept of the 24 hour clock.
Never switched back here Twist…I even have my time clock set for employees for 24 hours and my home clocks that are digital set the same way…the wife learned to adapt and overcome because I wasn’t changing. Especially when I explained how nonsensical it was to keep 12 hour time like regular civilians.
I like ZULU time. No need for time zones or that stupid daylight moron time every summer.
Mrs. HMC was in the Army, so no problem talking time with her. I find myself using the 24 hour clock when talking with people. I did it today during a visit to the VA. They get it. Most clerical staff are veterans but most providers never served. No problem. It’s the quality of care that I’m impressed with … not the background of the provider. Care is good at my VA once past the ‘Great Wall of Apathy’ displayed by the clerical staff.
I was in the Air Force, so the times is whatever Mickey’s hands point to.
Time flys.
The different branches of the US Armed Forces DO tell time differently. Civilians say 3:00 PM while the US Army says 1500 Hours. In the Navy the bells ring shortly after some Sailor polishes them and paints another part of the boat. In the Air Force some O6 asks an E3 “BILL, do you know what time it is?” to which the E3 says “YEAH Tom, Mickey’s big hand is on the 12 and his little one is on the 3!” and in the USMC it’s “ARRRGGH!*, *OOG!*, *GRUNT*GRUNT*GRUNT!*, FUCK, KILL, *OORAH!*”
I promised HONDO a lapdance. Rumor has it she is related to someone around here.
Have a great weekend ya’ll
Calling IDC!!
Calling IDC!!
We need a ruling on this one.
Thumbs up?? 😉
It’s been almost 32 hours since the call for a ruling went out.
IDC, are you there? Hello? Hello?
Waiting, waiting,…..
Danni-boi is gonna be boned all weekend! Rip out that chrome-tip-catheter, counselor, and represent yourself, pro-spray.
https://youtu.be/3vmPwZT-9zY
Somebody SHOOT IT before it mates and lays eggs!
Dave:
That’s a SHE?
?
Is it human? Now I need to flush my eyes with bleach.
What the hell was that Dave Hardin?
Didn’t know you disliked Hondo so much…my retinas are still burning.
There’s things you just can’t unsee VOV!
Good GAWD Dave.
Here’s a lapdance for Hondo
Thanks Dave! I just threw up in my mouth! Now I need to head to the garage for eye and brain bleach.
Then of course there is the newest dance craze…
Trigglypuff dance remix !!!
A tribute to all the SJW’s in America !!!
He ha top 25!
33.
Son of a gun!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to have to do one of two things:
Not go to lunch on Fridays until the WOT is posted, or …
Stay home on Fridays and make sure I can get to be first at least once.
Anyway, I am 34th this week. Rats.
That’s ok, CW. I was eating lunch @ the desk, and would have beaten Mick except IE lost my cookie and I had to re-enter my name & email.
such are the breaks.
eleventeenth or so
News reports say a gunmen killed three at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. If Daniel Bernath was still a TSA rep, he would have run towards the danger, and hogtied the suspect with his catheter tube. Over.
More likely he would have Shit himself
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!
Maybe shit himself and run while thinking about who he could sue next. He was a TSA puke for what, about two years? He couldn’t even hold on to that job!
Exactly ^^^^^
I’ve heard that Bernasty was disbarred too.
Is that true ???
Why, yes. Yes, it IS true!
YES, Daniel A. Bernath was disbarred in the State of California AND he was handily REJECTED from membership in the Oregon Bar for manifold reasons.
IIRC, he has a little problem with fraud, destroying files and… what’s the phrase… DEADBEAT DAD!
Yea, that’s the ticket!
As well as: D) He loaned money to a client, Tamara Varner (‘Varner’), and collected on the loan from settlement proceeds from Varner’s lawsuit without Varner’s knowledge or agreement. “(E) He signed Varner’s name to a release without Varner’s knowledge and without advising the opposing party or counsel for the opposing party that he was signing the release on behalf of Varner. On that same release he signed as a witness, attesting to the authenticity of Varner’s signature. “(F) He lied by omission to the Board when he told it that he did not notarize the Varner settlement document. “(G) He endorsed Varner’s name to the settlement check without Varner’s knowledge and without advising the bank that he was doing so. “(H) He retained all of the proceeds of the settlement without Varner’s knowledge or agreement. “(I) He failed to respond to a notice from the Committee on Arbitration of the Los Angeles County Bar Association that Varner was disputing his fee and that there would be an arbitration of the dispute. He also failed to appear at the hearing. “(J) He failed to advise the Board of the fee dispute or the award in favor of Varner and against him in the amount of $10,000. “(K) He wrote a letter to Varner after entry of the award against him wherein he misrepresented the law and threatened to sue her if she did not agree to settle with him for $500. “(L) He destroyed all of his files for all of the cases he handled in California. “(M) A judgment was entered in California against him in the amount of $34,000 for malicious prosecution. “(N) He lied by omission to the Board when in his application for admission he stated that the judgment for malicious prosecution was reversed, but did not state that it was reversed by stipulation of the parties rather than on the merits. “(O) He failed to inform the Board about a lawsuit to which he was a party and which settled in applicant’s favor for the amount of approximately $41,000.00. “(P) On May 16, 1997, he issued subpoenas on which he holds himself out to be an… Read more »
Terrorist attack at Fort Lauderdale airport.
3 dead 9 wounded.
No word if the religion of peace struck again or Black live don’t matter send another message of racial reconciliation.
I am sure the shooter is not white because if he were, the TV would be saying that right now, instead of motive unknown.
“Esteban Santiago has been identified as the gunman who opened fire at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. Nelson told MSNBC that Santiago had a military ID and handgun with him when he shot up the baggage claim, killing several people and wounding more.”
“Military ID…..And here comes the PTSD in 3…..2…….1…”Crazed Veteran”…..3….2….1….
And lack of mental health services from the VA in 3 …. 2 …. 1
Fox News is reporting that they gave the all clear after the shooter was captured and now saying more shots are being fired in the parking garage. 5 dead so far.
Update says that the parking garage episode was not shots, as first suspected, but was a very poor running, beat up, old jaguar backfiring. Part of the cause of the backfiring was that the rotund, old guy, in soiled spandex had pulled the choke out and hung his purse on it. But he did say that he had a lawyer, “across the state”, who would be representing him in the event that anything comes of this.
But… did he have a case of Thunderbird in the trunk? Or was it Elaine Ricci?
Updated casualty count in Ft Lauderdale:
5 KIA
8 WIA
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/06/at-least-5-dead-8-hospitalized-after-shooting-at-ft-lauderdale-airport.html
Update: Shooter was a passanger on a Canadian flight who had checked his pistol. After he retrieved his checked bag he went into the bathroom loaded his pistol and then went out and started firing. Media is already asking the sheriff of Brownward County what type of gun it was, automatic or semi-automatic.
Report is that he joined the NG in August 2016. That raises more questions than answers. He may not have even been to BCT yet, right? That’s assuming that the NG report is true.
They reported that he was in the Puerto Rican NG and then the Alaska NG with a deployment to Iraq 2010-2011 and was discharged last year. Get ready for the PTSD claims in the media.
From Christmas, on into 2017, here in my corner of Paradise, has been filled with good weather, great meet ups with greater friends, and beautiful shooting weather. Every time I look into the scope on my Bear Creek Arsenal AR-15, I see, 100 yds away, a 6 inch circle that I picture being the head of anyone who would bring bad to me. Just plinking gets me to the target, but picturing a threat, brings the group just a little closer together:
With my eyes getting worse for some odd reason, I invested in a laser sight.
Groups are ok, but the added bulk must be making my hands shake – I know I was steadier than that beforehand…
Still, I can get it COM at 75′ – about as far as my backyard range goes…
I choose to rest the barrel, on a saw horse for my kneeling shots, and on my aiming stick for the standing shots.
I think that 30 rounds, inside 4 inches, from 100 yards, through a 16″ barrel, is acceptable accuracy for someone who has completed 76 laps around the Sun.
While running, uphill, naked, in the snow???? Got pictures???
Well done (and I am serious about that!)
I hope to measure up when (if) I get there. I’m only 11 laps behind you.
Talk about another WTF moment almost home and the boss tells me I have received another letter in da mail telling or should a I stating that my medical
PII may have been compromised by a third party talk about 0-4 since I retired in 2013 from the Army and 0-2 from the NG. Hard to believe these dipsticks are allowed to even touch a computer anymore,
Women in traditional clothing rest on a rough-hewn footbridge in Nubra Valley in Ladakh, India…
Ladakh was the scene of India’s greatest military disaster after 1947 independence. In Oct-Nov 1962, Red China invaded the Aksai Chin region of Ladakh as well as the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region on the other side of India to settle long-simmering border disputes between the two states. In both the Aksai Chin and in NEFA, the PLA kicked the Indians’ asses and easily seized the lands that the Red Chinese claimed and killed and wounded tens of thousands of Indian troops in the short campaign. Approximately a quarter of Ladakh (the Aksai Chin portion claimed by the Red Chinese) making up 15,000 square miles as well as a large part of NEFA were seized by the ChiComs, and remain Red Chinese territory to this day. None of this really registered here in the U.S. because we were in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis when all this occurred in South Asia. The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 is basically completely unknown or forgotten here in the states…
“rough-hewn footbridge”
I’m thinkin a couple of 36 inch culverts would do the trick and the abutment stones could be used for rip rap. Install a 6 inch PVC pipe with fire hose adapter and it’s up to code.
Oh, I forgot the no swimming sign.
No way on the No Swimming sign. Those hotties on the bridge are wearing thongs under the traditional garb.
National Popcorn Day is January 19, 2017.
I love popcorn.
Is that when all the posers are exposed?
Word
???
Just before I die, I am going to swallow a bag of popcorn kernels.
My cremation is going to be epic! 😉
Make sure it is movie theater butter!
I plan on getting buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti. I’m going to surprise the heck out of some future archeologist.
That there was a good one, Twist. A funny good one.???
Speaking of mountains, I have this. The snows of Kilimanjaro have been melting back since that volcano erupted 10,000 years ago. They were reported to be almost gone in 2002. Wrong, They were created by the elevation of Kilimanjaro’s caldera, which is up there quite high at 19,341 feet. If you hike Kilimanjaro’s slopes, you go through five different ecosystems. It is unusual for a tropical volcano to have a snowy top. According to Lonnie Thompson’s pronouncements in 2002, the ice was supposed to have all been gone by 2015, but it’s still there in 2017. In fact, according to a tour guide who has been working at the park leading hikers up there for going on nine years now, the snow pack is increasing. It appears to be holding steady and not melting back. Well, it doesn’t really melt, you see. Ice at that height sublimes: the physics of it is that, like dry ice, it evaporates (sublimes) into water vapor without actually melting. Sublimation is more obvious with dry ice (frozen CO2). But it’s ‘too dry’ to rain or snow at that height, so how would the ice pack remain stable and/or increase up there? Well, someone suggested that the locals stop cutting trees for firewood and replace what has been cut by planting, which seems to be working because increased tree cover allows the trees to exhale water vapor and oxygen through their tops, increasing humidity that flows up toward the ice pack on the volcano’s slopes. But there is also this: at high elevations the air is too dry to produce rain or snow. However, any stratocirrus or cirrocumulus cloud with a load of ice can drop it on a mountain like Kilimanjaro or even on Everest and keep the ice cover stable. Stratocirrus clouds form around 19,000 to 25,000 feet up, and cirrocumulus clouds form form 20,000 to 38,000 feet up. They are both loaded with water vapor which form ice crystal quickly at those altitudes. If you’ve ever seen cirrus clouds in July dropping trails of white stuff, they are dropping ice from somewhere… Read more »
In Somalia our boxes of water said it came from the melted ice of Kilimanjaro. The good old days.
I think there is some melting going on that isn’t seen, but trickles down to the springs around the volcano’s slopes. What I found the most interesting was that the predicted ‘vanishing ice’ didn’t happen and seems to be reversing itself. 🙂
Everest is never actually bare, either, but always seems to have a cover of what looks like snow, but is really ice from the clouds at the summit. Everest makes its own weather, as I understand it.
Ex, just Google up WWII Model F-2 Heated Flying Suit w/boots.
It’s the real deal. Keeps you comfy-cozy at 20 grand or higher and down to -40.
P.S. – There were also F-3 Heated Suits as an upgrade to the F-2.
Thanks, Claw!! I will do that.
And at Ft Wainwright we had Arctic parkas left over from Korea that were horribly thin and didn’t keep you warm unless you had the Yukon Stove warmed up in the tent or you were humping with a 120lb pack on your back pulling an Ahkio…
Yes, that sucked…
Don’t think you absolutely need a pressure suit; witness the hundreds who climb Everest every year with just supplementary oxygen.
Okay, speaking of not being able to speak. My wife is sitting here watching one of her looney tune, all the same shit, HGTV shows called ‘House Hunters’. So this millennial couple are looking for a house in God knows where, cause I’m not paying attention. Until, the wife unit of these two brainiacs says, “I want to be in this area because the atmosphere is so enerenic”. ENERGENIC! ENERGENIC? I shit you not. The intro said they were both professionals working in their respective college careers. COLLEGE??!!?? What college lets you graduate using words like energenic? I tell you the truth, in 20 years if schools keep letting students push words together and respell existing words to make up whatever they want, I will not be able to understand these newspeak fools. Or…I just gotta start putting in ear plugs so I don’t hear this when she’s watching. Rant…over.
I had to look up that word. There is a company called Energenic-US, LLC, which engages in the design, development, construction, and operation of energy projects.
I’m with you on this, Sparks.
That entire generation is partly comprised of a large group of utter morons who are functionally illiterate. And they are future teachers??? Well, they will be very special because they’ll have their own language that no one but them will understand.
Don’t worry: good grammar and a solid understanding of basic English will never go out of style. I love to spring 16th century Elizabethan English on them, when I run into them.
Thanks Ex-PH2. I looked it up and found the company also. They live no where near it and considering the scope of the corporation, they couldn’t get a job there cleaning rest rooms.
My pleasure, Sparks.
I keep seeing the FL mass shooter described as “a military veteran with an honorable discharge,” but I’m having trouble understanding the details, which maybe someone here could help with? (I have no military background).
“Santiago’s brother, Bryan Santiago, said Esteban Santiago lived in Puerto Rico and enlisted in the Army Reserves while there, serving for six years, including about a year in Iraq in 2011, NBC News reports.”
And they’re all saying he got PTSD from serving in Iraq. But then this:
“Santiago was discharged as a combat engineer and his rank was private first class, NBC reports.”
and
“NBC News reported that the shooter’s family is from Puerto Rico, and he served in National Guard and signed up in August 2016. “He signed up on that just a few months ago…He was not on any active duty,” NBC News reported.”
And he was also charged with crimes (domestic assault, kiddie porn) in Alaska at times when he was allegedly honorably serving in Iraq and getting PTSD?
Is anyone feeling ambitious enough to untangle this? http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/esteban-santiago-fort-lauderdale-airport-shooter-shooting-active-gunman-suspect-photo-citizen-isis-florida-facebook-new-jersey-victims-military/
Sorry, he wasn’t charged with kiddie porn, just “investigated” for it. That was in 2011 or 2012, while he was also getting PTSD in Iraq?
It appears he served in the US military and recently enlisted in the Puerto Rican National Guard.
The MSM outlets scramble to be the “first” to report “facts” and always are incomplete.
Wait and see….
I’m more interested in how he boarded a flight in Canada with a gun and ammo in his luggage. I thought they didn’t go for that sort of thing in that place.
He was on a Delta flight from Alaska to Florida via Minnesota.
Here is an updated article:
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/01/06/sen-bill-nelson-identifies-suspected-fll-gunman/
“Army National Guard confirms to @ ABC alleged shooter Esteban Santiago honorably discharged about 4 months ago. Last post – Ft. Greely, AK.”
So if that was the Porto Rico national guard why was he posted in Alaska?
https://mobile.twitter.com/WashNews/status/817475918692290560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And is that the one he just signed up for in August 2016? And then he was honorably discharged around about September 2016?
Who was he serving with in 2011 when he got sent to Iraq?
The guards that are guarding the missile defense in Alaska right now is a unit from the Porto Rico NG.
Thank you for explaining that! I’m just not familiar with how all that works, and it wasn’t making sense to me.
Also, I’m so sorry, but I accidentally hit “report comment” under your comment rather than “reply” on my first go. Because stupid iPad. To the administrator here, please disregard that! :-/
He was in Puerto Rico National Guard Dec 14, 2007 Deployed to Iraq April 23 2010 to February 19, 2011. Was in Army Reserve pier to joining Alaska Army National Guard,Nov 21, 2014 Received a General Discharge from Alaska NGRD Aug 16, 2016 for unsatisfactory performance.
He was a Combat Engineer (MOS: 21B10) discharged as E-3.
I know you are trying to connect the Alaska thing and PR thing, You have to remember that Porto Rico is going broke and many of them are coming to main land for employment. So what it looks like his family was in Alaska.
Thank you, sir or ma’am.
Know how it’s fun to occasionally read through some of the spam mail subject lines? Still giggling over this one:
“Vegan footwear brand needs your feedback!”
Seriously? Uh-huh.
Coconut clogs. Banana peel sandals.
Footwear from Vega? Sirius-ly?
Fixed it for you.
This just in from Pennsyl-tucky:
“If Penn State had taken up the banner of a being sanctuary campus, the university would have risked nearly $300 million in state funds per year.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/06/penn-state-nixes-sanctuary-campus-plan/
Cha-Ching! Hit ’em where it hurts, right in the wallet. Those ivory towers won’t buff themselves, after all.
I wonder how much those risky budget “redistributions” would have cost the hockey-stick-climate-hamsters, or Michael Mann, had the the Happy Valley fostered a pogrom of cultural approbation.
What a wunnerful week in SEA-land.
Cooper Edison Form 4D reclosers suck. Back at it Monday when the temp in the switchyard will be about -15.
Remember, no line is safe to touch…ever.
Just ask Algore.
http://i.imgur.com/hOb7pPj.jpg
In Al-Gore’s case, a little ECT might be just the thing to take “the edge” off his “special” knowledge AND he might actually learn how to dance
To quote a lawyer I once worked for when I complained about a judge’s not so bright ruling: “Nobody ever accused that bastard of being smart.”
Cooper Eaton. Damn.
I have a test to study for and my brain is mush.
Maybe this observation would be placed more appropriately in the “Colonel Edmund J. Bowen retires” thread but it just dawned on me that we are a week into 2017. That means that, if it hasn’t happened already, there will soon be a recruit who was born in this century. That’s mind boggling to me, a fellow who is just getting used to writing 20XX instead of 19XX.
That is a disturbing observation. Just think of all the systems and forms which will require revision, among other things.
Got me thinking about millennials. Now that song about them is stuck in my head. Mil-len-nia-L, gotta love millennials…Mil-len-nia-L, gotta love millennials…Mil-len-nia-L, gotta love millennials…Mil-
Here you go!!!
Had finally gotten the loop of that thing to stop – now ya gone and started it up all over again. Gee, thanks, Sparks! Hope something equally as irritating hits you over the week-end.
Just kidding. I laugh every time I think about that guy.
Here’s a little fucked up fun from my neck of the woods.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/01/veterans_affairs_social_worker.html
…and the lesson is, don’t trust the VA shrinks now.
Yeah, one bad apple destroys the entire barrel of them.
I’m trying to get my head around the fact that Reuters News used the word ‘anarchists’ in this article about disrupting the inauguration two weeks from now.
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you! ‘Anarchist’ – it has such a conservative ring to it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-idUSKBN14Q2BG
Not just that, a group of nuthatch Hollywierd celebs are calling for a “Strike” until Trump resigns! Let’s just see what they do when they find out just how irrelevant they are to working people’s daily lives, I bet they’ll adhere to this like they did their promises to leave the USA.
http://spinzon.com/celebrities-call-massive-round-strike-hollywood-fascist-trump-resigns/
Remember the last time a group tried to use a strike to blackmail a president – Reagan said “fukyuu and your horse”.
Like everything else the Left has done, this would backfire in a wonderful way, turning the normal blue collar redneck population even more against them. Plus they’re too damn greedy.
I say let ’em strike.
Please….
“I say let ’em strike.”
DITTO!!!
Well, what would they be striking against? Low wages for overpaid actors? They are so-o-o-o-o irrelevant.
I’m sure the studios would be quite happy to give employment to nonstrikers who aren’t in SAG/AFTRA and who actually do want to work.
Think about it for a minute: Han Solo was Bob Falfa before he was Indiana Jones.
And Opie Taylor was Steve Bolander before he was Richie Cunningham.
Still trying to figure out how Steve Bolander’s 58 Impala ended up with a 327CI as a power plant. He must have had some pretty well off parents.
that has to be a parody. No-one is that stu….never mind. In their happy little world they are all important and every word they utter must be gospel.
Those Hollywierd snowflakes are VERY insulated from reality, most of them are constantly followed by an entourage perpetually kissing their asses and saying “YES” to them all the time.
I wish I was computer smart enough to link this story,(hint, hint) but if anyone is interested in a human interest story from my old stomping grounds, go to the on line version of the Powell Tribune and read about the bored kids on horseback and a goat who made a trip through the McDonald’s Drive Thru in town.
Yeah, the boys ordered a couple of Hot-N-Spicy sandwiches for themselves, but no kids meal or salad for the goat.
Just a feel good story all around to get our minds off of the Florida shootings this morning.
Oops, maybe should have specified that it’s the Powell, Wyoming paper.
There may be other towns named Powell out there somewhere in the States.
Mea Culpa.
Here’s the link.
http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/15588-bored-teens-take-horses-goat-to-local-mcdonald-s
Back in the Very Long Ago, I used to get on my horse and ride over to the local gas station, but that was before McDonald’s existed. The gas station had every kind of stupid, bad-for-you junk that kids love, and I could get this Hostess French Cake (two layers of chocolate cake with a creme filling) for a quarter, plus a Coke for a dime. Always got the nickel back from the gas station for the bottle deposit, too.
Good times. Thanks for the reminder, Claw.
Yep, that’s the story. Thank You very much, Ex.
Good old America is still out there if you take the time to look for it.
Yes, it is, and you’re quite welcome.
It occurred to me that Alpine, Texas, has something sort of like that. Photo at the bottom of the restaurants page.
http://visitalpinetx.com/food-drink/
As someone that grew up as a “city kid” I feel like I missed out on a lot of things that kids in rural areas did while growing up.
Loved the story and the picture – thanks for sharing it.
You’re right. I can’t imagine city kids running around loose like we did back then, especially now when it’s the price of some kid’s life to just walk to school in some cities.
I spent a large cunk of my “yute” where the nearest McD’s was 100 miles away.
Never thought much about it, and we had the Arctic Circle Drive-In.
Some are saying this was the visual that went with the intelligence report.
https://gfycat.com/OddballUnrulyChicken
I am enjoying my Life day. Fifty years ago Today at appox. 1345 I was blown out of my helo. A lot of things saved,being on the ground , 4 or 5 grunts between me and the frag genade. A of Renault wraparound sunglasses saved my right eye. MY gunner instantly KIA.One grunt KIA and 4 or 5 WIA . Joe
We’re so glad you are still with us, Joe. Have enjoyed our conversations over the past few years.
I never had one of Life days myself during my flight time over there, but I did qualify Expert with the M60D MG. Fired thousands of rounds and managed to hit Viet of the Nam with every one. (Ha Ha) Charlie
Glad you’re both here to tell us about these things.
JUST FOR shits & giggles, here’s “Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen played on a 100+ Year old fairground organ:
Seeing/hearing something like that is just proof positive that human beings will remain on the top of the food chain until our sun is just a burnt out cinder in the sky.
Thanks, API.
No Problemo, glad you liked it! When I was a teeny-bopper, my Dad would always call the original song “Damned Noise”, maybe I oughtta play him this version next time we’re together?
Here are a few happy thoughts. Imagine you are H. Clinton right now. A few short weeks ago your aides had to screen your calls, keep your overflowing social calendar, and take care of all of the mundane matters that a future empress has many little people to do for her. A few short weeks ago, you were poised to become the next leader of the free world, the greatest nation on the face of the earth. You were even signing early copies of Newsweek, those with your face on their cover with the subtitle, “Madam President.” And now? Now your voice mail is devoid of messages from world leaders, corporate CEOs, and, of course, the White House. There are calls but mostly they’re bill collectors. And to add insult to injury, there is no one to keep your toilet paper stocked. Thank you, God.
Maybe so, but there’s also been some serious recent punditry about her running for Mayor of New York.
http://nypost.com/2017/01/06/new-york-city-needs-hillary-clinton-to-run-for-mayor/
I don’t call that serious punditry, not coming from one writer at that rag. No way that dame is going from almost-empress status to Gracie Mansion. Aside from the fact that she isn’t eligible to run for mayor, I understand that during a recent Manhattan visit she was heard to say, “Tell me again. The streets run north/south and the avenues east/west or is it the other way around?”
My happy thought includes her sitting around in fuzzy slippers eating Cheetos waiting for her next injection while watching reruns of LA Law. Chill, baby!
It’s been a year and a day since the pages of TAH were first graced with the presence of Sockpuppet Gainey.
Still waiting for the results of the 3rd SEAC’s investigation and the VA doctor’s report on the bullet wound to Killer Killam’s left leg.
BTW, for those interested, the Gainey Cup will be held this year from 1-4 May at Benning.
Please tell me I got someone.
This is last month, Air Cav.
Yes, that was the point. The “Recent Comments” column on the home page only show “Weekend open thread.” Thus, my satanic trickery to dupe others looking for the current WOT to click on my cmt and race here—only to find it is an old WOT.
Last!
LOL
I bit.
Nice head fake.