Weekend open thread
April 14, 2017
A dolphin gets up close and personal with Your Shot photographer Dru Matey at the Georgia aquarium. “It was curious about the camera I was holding and both dolphins in the tank kept swimming up to me and the kids,” said Matey.
My email was hinky this morning. If you sent me something and I didn’t answer, try sending it again, I might not have got your email.
Category: Open thread
FIRST!!
Not that I am going to establish protocol however, I was kind establishing a thing in my last WOT “FIRST”!
I now hand the scepter and crown of WOT First to XXXX
Just a thought from last week’s WOT winner MICK
If he shows up in the thread.
Just a thought.
Sorry that I’m getting back in here late. I had to stomp out a lame attempt at an unnecessary ‘Friday Afternoon Emergency’ by some colleagues who clearly do not value their time on weekend liberty as much as I do. Said ’emergency’ is now going to wait until Monday morning, as it should.
Now, back to the business at hand.
I now hand the scepter and crown of WOT First to S.
(Mick genuflects in the direction of S)
And a tip o’ the flight helmet goes out to ChipNASA for the WOT First protocol reminder. Thank you, kind sir.
Not that it’s a *THING* but with all the shittiness and infighting similar to trying to bring some decorum to all of us disgusting fucktards here without Jonn and such invoking rules…..
1. I will not deploy the WALL O INSULTS/SHAME without a vote of those int he thread and/or others in the thread requesting it then putting it up to a vote.
1. (a) Any additional insults are up for inclusion but are free to me for editing such as they are no too repetitive
2. THE WOT passing of the scepter and crown is only a thing I brought up a few weeks ago but I thought it a nice piece of decorum in this place of incouragables that would bring some manners. (as if)
3. Jonn is GOD and makes all the rules and can whup my ass at any time and tell me to eat a dick and delete my comments or my WALL O SHAME/INSULTS if he thinks it’s TOO MUCH TEXT, unreasonable or I”m just being a dick and taking up too much space. (oblig)
So it’s said so it is.
**Genuflecting**
Also, FUCK ALL OF YOU and HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.
(Love almost all of you)
S: I know your little brother,s. I also know your next door neighbors R and T. What do they call you for short?
The guy in the middle??
FIRST!
Eat shit and die bitches.
MOAB AT TAH!!! BNOOOMMMM
Happy Easter You Retards!!!
Cocksucker.
You’ve been subverted, Chip.
All your bragging brought to naught.
Nope I suck. When I posted as fast as I could apparently “S” had better CAT 5 connection than did I.
SECOND!!!
Me, my 4 year old and CURIOUS GEORGE!!
FU!!
/ Me and TSO doing the dance
Nah Chip, you are “da man” this Friday.
Damn soapsuds on my hands from doing noon dishes.
Next time I’m using freekin’ paper plates!
Your post was the only one I saw ChipNASA, hence my “cocksucker” comment. When I hit post, the comment from “S” appeared above yours less one minute.
Twilight Zone….
FIRST!!
Second
CRAP!! SECOND!!
Top Ten!
Top 10? I cheesed out of work early for this?
Just by a nano second, IDC. 😉
I don’t know who “S” is, but I know a cheat when I see one.
LMAO!
That was me, Graybeard.
Got so excited about the thought of being first that I forgot the rest of my name!
Stinker.
Congrats on really being the first this week. I may have to start typing “G” on WOTs to catch up.
I can confirm that Skyjumper. However, 2/17 Air Cav will certify your win.
May the Golden Bird of Paradise take a dump in your top dresser drawer…
I always preferred “May the Bluebird of Happiness poop all over your birthday cake”.
Homer and Jethro had a good one called May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose a few years back.
Homer and Jethro may have covered it, but Little Jimmie Dickens wrote it and had a hit with it. 🙂
Dang, I’d forgotten that. I just remember the H&J LP with that on it.
I learned the other day that Stringbean used an old pair of Little Jimmie Dickens’ pants with an extra-long for his first comedy outfit.
fukk, my bad (I’m usually good with music trivia)according to wiki Neal Merritt wrote it…but Little Jimmie Dickens had the number one with it and pretty much owned the song as much as BB King owned “The Thrill id Gone”
Homer and Jethro actually did release a recording of it but I don’t see that it ever charted.
I got to see Mr Dickens perform, but unfortunately never saw Homer and Jethro.
My father used to sing “May the Bird…” when he was in a good mood. 🙂
7th by my count. Don’t I get some sort of honorary promotion for that?
You are hereby proclaimed and recognized as this week’s Sixth Loser!
Enjoy it.
My first participation trophy! I’ll make sure to post it on all my social media ASAP.
Ooops
I’m garnering quite a collection of TAH-WOT nth Loser participation trophies myself.
I guess I’m going to have to build a bigger “I Love Me” wall.
Put yourself in for a NAM.
Of course, being a nuke, by the time it leaves the boat, it’ll be downgraded to a, “Good job,” from the Chief.
But you still have to stay until 2000 on day after duty cause your seapup is dink.
Serial Poser/Phony Soldier/Stolen Valorist, Kyle Barwan has just spent 80 days in jail, (beginning the day after he got married), for his claims. Checking records, it looks like he has used a guilty plea to avoid trial, and has been sentenced to “Time Served” plus 5 years probation. My money says that he will violate well before the 5 years is up. He is the classic “HoboSexual”. If he doesn’t have a woman to live off of, he is homeless. Before he was busted for this mess, he already had been found guilty of 4 counts of Felony posing. This should bring the total to either 6 or possibly 8 counts. I am glad that I had a hand in getting his ass locked up. My call to the Polk County Sheriff’s Department got this started. And sweetening the deal was that he got arrested the day after he got married, winning the woman on his lies.
Now, if we keep his name fresh in Gooooooooogle, perhaps others will see it before he gets their money.
Hi Frankie, I’m so sorry this ass hamster weasel already got out, time served my ass! I thought he had more charges pending? I would love to see a judge give these assholes about 10 years for their shit! I say that is the least they deserve. I can only pray no other women fall victim to his lies!
I just received this as an e-mail from the arresting deputy:
“Greetings Frankie,
I wanted to inform you that I was notified by the State Attorney’s Office that Barwan entered a plea agreement yesterday. He was sentenced to 5 years of felony probation which includes warrantless searches, no contact with the victims, restitution to the victims and investigative/court cost, no access to ANY (online or in person) dating/social networking, and he may not wear or possess any military related apparel, among other standard probation conditions. I am going to ask that the department of corrections makes him stay in Polk County where I can personally keep a close eye on him as I know he is a creature of habit.
I know you, and I, were hoping for him to get some prison time but with his criminal history and these new charges he only had 20 points. In the state of Florida, points must be greater than 22 for prison time. However, one probation violation equals 6 points, so if he violates probation he can be sent to prison. Also, with this plea agreement we got a conviction without going to a jury trial, where it could go either way. ”
Breaking that down, we see:
which includes warrantless searches
no contact with the victims
restitution to the victims and investigative/court cost
no access to ANY (online or in person) dating/social networking
he may not wear or possess any military related apparel
among other standard probation conditions
and this from the deputy:
“I am going to ask that the department of corrections makes him stay in Polk County where I can personally keep a close eye on him as I know he is a creature of habit.”
His new wife may not have been having sex during their honeymoon, but you damn well know that he was.
IMHO it’s not if but When he’ll fuck up yet again and be intimately reunited with Bubba, Thor and Company.
With stipulations like this, how will he have any income? He is too damned lazy to do regular work:
no access to ANY (online or in person) dating/social networking
he may not wear or possess any military related apparel
among other standard probation conditions
And with this hanging over him, he will not be able to use his phone for facebook or the gaming sites:
Probation includes warrantless searches.
Not being released from probation until restitution and costs are paid, might keep him there for a very long time.
I’m betting he’ll be a regular at homeless shelters in his locale.
Oh, yeah?? Well, I’m going shopping ‘cuz Aldi has some good stuff right now and I want it the way cats want catnip.
Remember now: tomorrow is gitcher taxes in. But you’ve all done that already, right? Of course you have. I always mail my at the last minute on purpose.
They’re due on the 18th this month.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/pf/taxes/tax-return-due-date/
Aldi had frozen OJ on sale last week, I bought 20 cans.
Big Brother has given us until 4/18/2017 for us to remit our extortion payments.
Ex-PH2.
Great minds thing alike, I guess.
Headin’ into town to visit Aldi’s my ownself in just a bit.
Picking up some spiral honey ham for $1.19/lb and some German Apple Strudel for $2.69 just in case someone decides to waddle out to visit me this Sunday. If not, going to have some good eatin’s for next week. (grin)
We’re shopping tonight for the in-laws….and tomorrow morning we’ll head to the italian bakery in the next town for one of their outrageous desserts…
Probably head down and change out the zincs on the prop shaft and check on the progress of soda blasting on the hull…
Regarding tax day I have to say I am oddly pleased that this year for the first time in about 10 years I’m getting money back….I’ve been overpaying to make sure I don’t hit the penalty for not enough taxes paid and apparently I overpaid the state a whopping six bucks…I might be able to afford an ice cream for me and the wife if I pitch in another five bucks or so…
Ex,
Back in those happy days when I would generously have some of my money returned to me by Uncle Sugar, I would file as soon as I had gathered the required paperwork, usually in late January. Now that I seem to owe extra $$$ each year, I wait until the last minute, too.
I have until Monday????? MONDAY????????? NO_O_O_O_O_O_O_O!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, that’s okay. I like to send those missives to Uncle Sugar and The State by certified mail, because that way, I can point at the receipt and say ‘I DID TOO SEND THEM TO YOU!!! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THEM????’
Aside from that, I had to go to Staples and get a new keyboard because the paint has chipped off the cheap-o that I got 2 years ago, and a new one was ->$20, so I’ll be able to see in the dark again. And I need to get some Lexar TwistTurn jump drives to move stuff off my hard drive without relying on unreliable driver software, and some day, when some one does what he’s supposed to do (snorts with laughter) I’ll get a new computer. They are SO cheap now!
One set of errands run (Staples), the next is Aldi, then supper, and then tomorrow, if it’s nice, get out and shoot some bird shots. If not, go to the post office first thing and send my stuff on its way. I may order stamps online with my own photos on them next time. You can do that now, you know. I have some wildflower stuff that should look nice that way, on a stamp.
Later!!!!!
” get a new keyboard because the paint has chipped off the cheap-o”? Why? I have calloused hands, (I don’t wear gloves), and I wear the letters off the keys within a month on the common keys, and 3 to 4 months on the rest of them. Fortunately, I took typing in High School, and don’t look at the keys. Often, when I get up in the night to chat with friends in Afghanistan or the Middle
East, I don’t even turn on a light. If I try to type with one finger, I am lost, as I must look at the keys then.
Present. Twentyfourteenth I think
Hey check your mail
I once again claim Honorary Fist.
My baby girl is coming down from Milwaukee next week on her spring break.
I can’t wait to see my beautiful baby girl !!!
Gonna be a great week !!!
Have a great weekend everybody !!!
Oh, and one not so honorary CPO is still not/neverwas/neverwillbe a CPO of any kind and still cannot practice law in innumerable states…
And gidduk is still the turd with a face. flush him NOW !!!
James Walls, phony UH-1 pilot still works balls for free.
Uncle Jimbo opines on Fox this morning:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5398535167001/#sp=show-clips
Here’s an interesting story about an active Navy SEAL.
CAUTION IDC SARC!!
Do not for any reason, any way, any how look up images of his wife! You have been warned!!
LMAO (because I know you and a lot of others here are going to check her out)
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-seal-porn-20170414-story.html
There was a Marine doing a centerfold in Playgirl? Damn! Which issue?????
As I said…I’d hit it…spitroast it, make it water tight….it’s all good.
Okay, I’ve about had it with this ridiculous crap. These prissypants whiners complaining about someone showing some skin or getting caught pants missing, or whatever are just as bad as the people they complain about and try to punish, or maybe worse. And I’ve seen worse, too.
Mostly what I see coming out of the younger idiots is simply bad manners, which needs to be corrected.
I find it difficult to grasp the complete lack of understanding of human nature by the upper levels involved here, and I also have difficulty with the simple fact that a number of them (as we have previously seen, repeatedly) are just as bad as the people they are trying to chastise.
I’m much more interested in what I heard tonight over at the restaurant on the highway: some E-2 seaman talking on the phone with his mother, saying ‘if we go to war’. That’s much more worrisome than some senior SEAL PO making a buck on the side in pron videos.
Ir was 49+ years ago that the USS Pueblo was hijacked by North Korea, and some PH1 came out of the Chief’s office saying something about ‘an act of war’, which meant ‘in it for the duration’ if Johnson had decided things should go that way.
Now we may be facing this again, and yet, every time I see someone being chastised for something, it’s usually about someone getting his shorts in a wad over someone else’s sex life.
I would say ‘Grow the fuck up, now. Get some help with your problem, and get your nose out of other people’s sex lives, for Pete’s sake. If that’s all you can think about, you need to quit your job.’
The prissypants whiners you mention are the type my Dad would often look at and say “Here’s a nickel, get a life.”.
Something like ummm 40th???
I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Sunday and spend quality time with family and friends! 🙂
MICK: I hate those damned last minute other peoples ego induced Friday Emergencies. Out here in the Pacific Time Zone I still have to wait out about 4 more hours…
I think Roger in Republic is fairly close to where I live, I haven’t seen him post for a while, is he ok?
Take care all y’all!
Vaping, which is about as dangerous to one’s health as actual smoking, by way of its vapors putting extra moisture into the lungs, has been banned by the Navy because of the problem with batteries:
http://gcaptain.com/
I suppose a link would have been nice:
http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-bans-vaping-across-fleet-over-exploding-batteries/
Vaping is not nearly as dangerous to your lungs as combustible tobacco if there is any long tern danger at all it is that we don’t know yet the long term effects of vaping nicotine vs cigarettes which have been studied and the effects fairly reliable by pack years. The main effect of vaped nicotine in question is its effect on alpha-1-antitrypsin which when inhibited by nicotine, causes cells(macrophages) in the lungs to digest lung tissue eventually causing emphysema.
This subject is actually a research project I’ve been gathering data on. Overall from what I have read, seen and questioned unless you have a tobacco farm or similar stocks there’s no reason to be against vaping especially compared to combustible or chewed tobacco products. The only major problems seen in vaping have involved people misusing the nicotine in the delivery method or concentrations.
Banning vape devices is silly if they aren’t banning all devices with rechargeable batteries, because they all occasionally explode.
Just a reminder:
It took an Act of God, but He found Someone willing to die for His enemies.
Also sitting on pins and needles as grandbaby #8 is showing signs of arriving any time now. (She was due Wednesday. But she is already setting the record straight that she will be the cause that some guy will be Waiting On A Woman.
Y’all have a blessed Easter.
Congrats on the new grandchild GB….you’ve got a few more than I do with your number 8….but my 5 keep me occupied.
Teaching #1 Grandson to sail because he’s old enough to drive now and going to put him through the certificate course so he can understand the entire process and safety stuff…
Good job, VOV.
I took #1 Granddaughter through a Fundamentals of Canoeing course I used to teach (until ARC National stopped us from putting it on). I hope to take her to Boundary Waters eventually, and I’ve found that FoC increases the chances of folks returning alive.
She will be legally old enough to drive this fall – but I’m hinting to her folks to hold off until she’s in her 20s. None of our kids drove until they were nearly 21 – and are safer drivers because of it.
One of these days I want to go through the sailing certification courses – may have to join Sea Scouting to get that done, though.
Present and accounted for
AYYYYY HAAAAAAAA
ITS THE WEEKEND!!!!!!?!!
Happy Good Friday everyone.
Since I’m feeling extra generous today, I’ll hand out a free piece of advice to Daniel A. Bernath: planes need fuel.
And the Ducati out and running!
PGR missions pending.
Traffic was mercifully light today, as most of New England has decided to take Good Friday off.
To which my employer says, “Nay, nay!”
Also, Monday is Patriots Day in MA, and most of MA has the day off. Again, my employer says, “Nay, nay!”
But thankfully, I’ll avoid the worst of traffic driving to Worcester for next job Monday night. You couldn’t pay me enough to drive inside 495 on Monday. Lowell/Lawrence interchanges suck bad enough as it is.
Enjoying some 14th Star Brewing company 11-Bravo beer.
59st!
For those who have to fly this weekend:
“You can’t beat United, but we sure as heck can bet you.”
TSA = Transport Sturm Abteilung
(This one stolen from The Liberty Zone)
I always use either Thieves, Shitheads and Assholes or Thugs Sexually Assaulting.
Taking Scissors Away.
I call for a “do-over”.
I forgot it was Friday…
Damn old people.
Great looking weekend ahead. Lots of food with lots of fine folks. Making some congealed salad stuff to offer those cooking who know what they are doing.
Hope this doesn’t start an argument, but am willing to admit my ignorance on the subject. What is the difference between the genres “Fantasy” and “Science Fiction?”
Have a wonderful weekend everybody. For those celebrating, it’s a real, “He is risen!” event. For everyone else, go on, enjoy some Easter candy anyway!
Science Fiction is strictly hardware, real-world stuff like politics and warfare. No magic stuff, despite Darth Vader’s electric discharges. The light sabre in Star Wars is physically possible, if someone can figure out how to make light solid, when has the properties of both waves and particles (photons). A good example is Robert Heinlein’s YA novel ‘Have Spacesuit-Will Travel’.
Fantasy revolves around plausible use of magic, not stage magic, but Gandalf-type magic, manipulating the real world stuff as in Lord of the Rings. It is usually set in worlds of the Vivid Imagination, where anything is possible.
The aphorism that best describes this is “One man’s technology is another man’s magic.”
Thanks, PH. Figured it was something fairly simple like that.
Clarke’s Law “sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic”
Here’s a little snark for the WOT that I just got in email:
The USS Donald Trump:
http://imgur.com/goa1BRm
Happy Easter, everyone!
That’s a scream. I bet the Prez would love to see that.
Love it. Let me play 21 holes.
18, 19 Ivanka Melonia.
Hello Secret Service, yes, I said I’d bang both of them. I tool the hit for IDC SARC
Now that is funny! I see Obama on the back 9!!
More like “taking it” in the back 9….
Greetings from the other side of the world. Operation Spandex, the privately financed effort to rescue Elaine Ricci was a complete disaster. Here is a rundown of the action: The Zodiac boats that were supposed to ferry us to shore never arrived, since the check written by the Vice President of the company financing the operation was returned for insufficient funds. Daniel Bernath was able to secure one locally procured fishing boat, which inexplicably ran out of fuel 20 yards from shore. I say inexplicably because we launched 225 yards from shore. Jared Stern was supposed to provide us intel on the target site. Instead of a satellite image, he provided a photograph of the Western hemisphere. And those night vision goggles he was supposed to get us? You guessed it; X-Ray Specs. Those came in real handy. As soon as his feet touched sad, he ran up and down the beach looking for a Gator Ade bottle to piss in. Stephen Franklin Cio Burrell was completely worthless. As soon as we made it ashore, the fourth most dangerous man in the world met up with the second most convincing transvestite prostitute in the world, who happened to be named Rita, and we have not seen the happy couple all weekend. Ron Mailahn wandered off looking for a phone to call a sexchat line, but he got busted by the resort security for stealing change from cars in the parking lot, so we have no idea when he will get out. Dennis Chevalier headed over to the concession stand to get some grapes and cheese, and in those twenty minutes, he somehow managed to get married three times. Now all of those wives want military dependent ID cards. This should get interesting. Jarrett Otto Gimbl followed Chevalier over to the concession stand, looking to score some “hamburgers”, but he got whacked in the face with a bamboo pipe, so he immediately picked up a stray dog, wandered over to the internet café, and updated his Facebook page with a photo f him and his new dog, Brig Rat. Dallas Wittgenfeld… Read more »
Did Tom Clancy author this masterpiece? Has a movie deal been cut? Will it go straight to VHS?
Frank Stallone is on the short list to portray Hack.
Will it be rated “R”?
Rated NS, for “No Shit”.
Our predeployment training consisted of watching a copy of Uncommon Valor, but Bernath only had a VHS tape of it, and the AV equipment secured by the Vice president of the proud woman owned business was Beta, so Bernath had to tell retell the story, the best that he could remember. Unfortunately, Bernath is getting on in years, and he confused Gene Hackman with Gene Kelly, then went off on a tangent on how they used used milk in the scene where Gene Kelly was “singing in the rain”. Yeah, that really helped. (Eye roll)
Please change “Daniel Bernath was able to secure one locally procured fishing boat, which inexplicably ran out of fuel 20 yards from shore” to read “Daniel Bernath was able to secure one locally procured fishing boat, which inexplicably ran out of fuel 200 yards from shore”.
Hack Stone Publishing regrets the error.
So that was “Fantasy,” right?
No, I have the photos of the “mined beach”. They were clever; they discussed all f those mines as coconuts that washed up on shore. Head on over to hack’s Facebook page to see the proof.
😉
God Bless
Masterpiece!!!
DUDE, you forgot to copyright that!
I left in the public domain. These mensch shall not be forgotten
I noticed that a few of the phony SEALs that my associates and I exposed for prosecution have shown up on this site.
But, I truly came here to announce that I’m the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico and Canada. I set, as my capital, the Wisconsin city closest to the heaviest cheese production. I will establish a fleet of amber lamps with a short yellow school bus driven by FuelPlanBuddy serving as the cheese delivery flag ship.
I will name my C-130 as “Cheese 1”.
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H. Chevalier
85th…oh well.
Wishing all true members a very happy Easter; wishing all non-true members a good swift in the ass from the Easter bunnies.
And watching as for the second time in just over four days, we have a cat experiencing her first litter…PV2 Sweepea is contracting as we speak. PFC Ginny brought in three newborns on Monday…two males, one female. We have named them in order of birth and color, PVTs Blackie (black tiger stripes), Brownie (brown tiger stripes) and Frostie (all white)
Followup:
PV2 Sweepea welcomed in four newborns this morning. Mother and babies are doing very well with all four different from each other in color.
PFC Ginny and the PVTs Blackie, Brownie and Frostie are doing well as well.
Rest of the “Milk Brigade” are dealing with being isolated from two rooms.
After Jan 2016 people get a CPT device for ARCOMs and AAMS and a few other choice awards given during a deployment versus stateside, I just want you to know that….
*C device, my apologies. I have been heavily drinking.
For anyone interested in the Bernath saga he was served with an RO on 6PM 13 April by the state of Maryland for harassing the Shipley’s and a local store they do business with.
Not sure where he was at when served but pretty sure hes not in Europe.
He has a court date Monday in Va (State of Va Vs Bernath) for violating an RO there.
The Walls are closing in on the disbarred and disgraced attorney.
Aren’t they just?
Berdturd is now not playing the civil law suit game of “Bernath Vs So and So” and “So and So Vs Bernath” over libel fractured taint syndrome and emotional distress.
He is in the game of ” The State of Virginia Vs Bernath” and ” The State of Missouri Vs Bernath”. Its a CRIMINAL case dealing with stalking and breaking restraining orders.
If he continues with the ignorance ” The State of Maryland Vs Bernath” might follow.
The Dutch Rudder Gang members fucketh themselves to no end, I wonder how soon they’ll be in the clutches of Bubba, Thor and Company?
I’m hoping that Danni-boi is looking forward to his new “friends” at the BTJT Deli (Home of the Cockmeat Sammich and Ghey Whey Glaze).
I wonder if he’ll bring Dullass with him as a “translator”?
#100, Happy Weekend, everyone!
It’s officially Saturday in my present location, so Swahili is my preferred cuss language so “KUTOMBA WEWE” to the Dutch Rudder gang.
Just an FYI and to go along with the dolphin pic above – April the Giraffe had her calf this morning…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnQCgFa9lCBL-KXZMOoO9Q/live
Today while working, I was listening to the lacrosse game between the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy.
For as long as I can remember, this is referred to as an “Army – Navy” game.
Yet while the announcers referred to the Naval Academy as “Navy,” they constantly referred to the other team as “Army West Point.”
Did I miss something? Is “Army West Point” now the official nickname of the school?
No. You did not miss something. The announcers are just stupid people. They probably can’t figure out what to wear unless they have a color chart and a guidebook, either.
IMHO most reporters and news yaps are dumber than a moldy tree stump.
A lady in Italy just died, quite peacefully. She saw a lot in her lifetime. Or maybe she didn’t bother with world events. There are many folks like that. If it doesn’t directly affect them or theirs, it’s not worth thinking or talking about. She couldn’t ignore WW II or, for that matter, WW I. She was Italian and, officially the world’s oldest person. She was 117, born in 1899. Her life touched three centuries. That’s longer than I want to live, by decades. It’s also longer than I will live, by decades. Still, 117 is pretty cool.
That means that we all move up one slot on the World’s Oldest Person list.
I guess I’m the only one who had no problem with the airline dragging that screeching baby from his seat a few days ago. There was more than one video, but the popular one doesn’t show the numerous requests for him to get up or his promise to sue the shit out of the airline. The good doctor, a 1974 graduate of Ho-Ho-Ho’s Medical School, lost his license to practice medicine after he was nailed writing scripts in a sting op. He also was accused by a male he hired of wanting sex from the guy in exchange for drugs. He is an asshole who acted like an asshole and was treated like the asshole he is. Thank you.
No, you are not the only one, A/C. There are likely quite a few of us – but most may not wish to expend the energy necessary to declare it.
Meanwhile, everyone will get to pay more for airline tickets in the name of “fairness,” or being PC. Or something.
Watch it. Nicki reads things. She thought that dragging off the airplane was an unspeakable abomination.
Nikki is hardly a genius, despite how much credit you give her. I have read her website and she is frequently wrong. Especially on matters legal. Resist cops performing their lawful duties and you are going to be subject to force. It is that simple. The only reason this guy was roughed up is because he refused to comply.
Dao’s license was suspended in 2005. What does that have to do with him being dragged off the plane?
Are we saying the police knew the guy’s record? Or are we saying that an incident in the past for which he has paid a price means law enforcement can just drag him around like a sack of potatoes?
The accusation for sex was never proven and even so, once again, what does that have to do with the actions of the police that day?
The airline offered vouchers for anyone on the plane to disembark. No one took them up on the offer. They upped their offer and once again, no one took them up on it.
So they picked 4 people. While they may have a legal right to do demand that people exit the plane, there are many people who feel that the force used was excessive against a 69 year old man who did nothing other than say “no.”
It is interesting that the CEO of United has said they were wrong and that the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave.
The pilots union has come out against what happened as well.
Maybe United should have offered cash or even a larger voucher in order to entice people to get off the plane. Instead, they took a route that will likely cost them and the police more.
I am sorry, but saying “no” and “if you drag me off the plane, I will sue” is not belligerent, nor is it cause for the force that was used against the man.
United and the cops screwed the pooch on this one.
Badly.
If some of the rest of the story I heard is remotely correct, then we all need to hear the rest of the story. And it will all come out eventually. Perhaps in court, maybe more than one.
Several folks are reporting that he walked off the plane when asked, then snuck back aboard. And that is when the trouble began.
Could it have been handled better? Probably. Most things could.
This promises to be interesting.
I didn’t have a problem with it either. If the crew decides you need to leave the plane. You leave the plane. Only a retard would think he could defy the orders of the flight crew and get away with it. This asswipe deserved what he received from the cops for resisting. Contary to popular belief, the temporary license to sit in an airline seat is not a property ownership right. Your reservation is subject to bumping as a matter of law.
HERE we go, this article tells about how violence erupted in Bezerkely when organizers decided to hold a pro-President trump rally and the usual liberal Nazis showed up. Intolerant little shits, those liberals!
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-trump-rally-20170415-story.html
I’m guessing that the SJW was there burning his jock strap… while hearing it.
I’m sure he was there screeching and pouting like he’s done here every time he makes hImself our chew toy. Every time I see libtards screeching and being violent whenever someone dissents with them I see it as proof that Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!
Fox is reporting that the encounters between masked leftiods and Veterans did not quite go the way the lefties hoped it would.
The wheelchair-bound vet speaking truth to Stupid for a masked juvenile Berzerkloid idiot was priceless.
Cowards! Take off those masks so that your Mama knows how you are squandering your college opportunity! (and Mama’s money…)
Cowards! No one will take seriously the politics or word of those who hide their faces behind masks!
Cowards! No real veteran of the US Armed Forces will think the least of your pathetic attempts to pretend to be an intimidating force. Your farcical attempts to hide your faces form accountability just mark you as cowards and as priority targets. Besides, what kind of stupid does take to go into a potential -fight- with a partially-tied -noose- around your own neck?
Cowards and Fools!
…..
Not even our Zampolit seems to be out to defend these nincompoops. Perhaps he is wising up, at last.
Regarding SERIAL POSER/STOLEN VALORIST KYLE CHRISTOPHER BARWAN, and his 5 years probation, one tenet being “no access to ANY (online or in person) dating/social networking”, I will learn on monday how that is interpreted. Out of jail on 4/14/17, by 9:44PM he had a facebook page up and running.
Nearly any Violation of Probation will get him prison time. I will call the assistant prosecuting attorney in Polk County, Florid on Monday and inquire about Facebook being or not being “Any social networking site”.
Sounds like he’s already missing the cockmeat sammiches and ghey whey glaze on his sticky bums…
Players gotta play, and Barwan gotta Barwan. Too bad, we really could have used him on our rescue attempt of Elaine Ricci.
There’s a trailer out now on the next, and newest, ‘Aliens’ movie, invoking the spirit and stuff of ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’.
There’s also some sort of trailer on the new ‘Star Wars’ movie. A local classical station was playing Darth Vader’s Imperial March this morning. It was a lovely day, too, and I got a lot done.
the speculation and various trailer/leaked videos are all over youtube. I am eagerly awaiting the film. Is Dr Shaw alive? Did David kill her? Did he turn her into a queen?
Come on now, there’s NO way Jonn will NOT post this tomorrow or in a few days!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/15/navy-investigates-seals-porn-movie-moonlighting.html
At least it wasn’t gay porn, no harm no foul.
You’re a bit behind the times, Tman. He posted it a couple days ago.
Oh, darn, thanks!
The lady takes her car to the mechanic. He says “I found the problem. You blew a seal”.
She says “Leave my professional life out of this, and fix the car.”
A HAPPY EASTER to all the Fine People of TAH from A Proud Infidel®™ Manor where things are kinda shaky right now. You see, A Proud Infidel®™ Junior said he wanted a bunny, so lo and behold I saw one shot, cleaned, dressed and marinated him and now he doesn’t want to speak to me right now. I told him he was a naughty Bunny like the one in this video but he wouldn’t buy it. It looks like we’ll have fried chicken instead.
Or this bunny. It was said their kids thought he was a cousin to Disney’s “Thumper” so they named him “Humper”.
I can’t wait until the next WOT. It’s too far away and I’ll probably be unpissed by then–about this, anyway. Seems that six New England Patriots have distinguished themselves by publicly stating that they will not be with the team for the traditional visit to the White House by the champs. They could have just missed it, quietly. They could have said, “Sorry. Prior commitment.” Instead, they decided to politically grandstand. The assholes are, in no particular order: Chris Long, Alan Branch, and four guys (Blount, Hightower, Bennett, McCourty) with absolutely ridiculous first names. Hey, it’s their call. I know that, but I get to make a call too: they’re assholes each.
Cocksuckers too.