Weekend Open Thread
February 9, 2018
Blanket of Fog
A long exposure of 30 seconds captures the movement of winter fog in Mill Valley, California. Mill Valley is just north of San Francisco, and is home to the Mount Tamalpais, the highest point in Marin County.
Category: Open thread
FIRST!!
Congrats!
Great Job Sky,
we had a 3 way tie again!!
First!
oops… maybe not
Depends. What’s the date where you are?
It’s 0431H here. I should be in bed
11 Feb, Sunday
Shit,I should definitely be in bed
Fark!
FIRST!
Firsirs
AND DANIEL BERNATH IS STILL DEAD!!!
…and he’s in Heaven now cuz he served his time in (This Ain’t) Hell! /sarc
::Daniel A. Bernath muttering under his breath::
Heaven sure needs someone to fix their air conditioning system.
::Daniel A. Bernath looks around some more::
Wait a minute, This Is Hell, and I can’t see out of it from here.
::Sounds of Daniel A. Bernath looking for cocoanuts in the bushes::
Any word on the release date of his beloved Dullard Wittless?
Oh, he’s STILL the property of some jail as well as Bubba & Thor?
He got out of jail on Christmas Eve, I believe.
I’M STILL WIDE OPEN!!!
Oh GOOD! When you get out, maybe you can do a memorial free-all reenactment of Dan’s last air show, right into the actual LZ!
Whoooooa, Roh-Dog! Dang you’re fast! Just by a hair. (smile)
Top 10
Sixth, and I was busy with my own article.
Put some hair on it, willya?
I used th “F9” key today Ex-PH2, in honor of the day.
And Dilly Dilly to you reprobates. Let’s have a safe weekend.
Sorry, I was busy dorking someone in the squeekhole.
I’m here BITCHES.
Oh and I now bow and transfer the WOT orb and sceptre to Skyjumper
ChipNASA, don’t I get “a Laurel & Hardy handshake too? (grin)
Well you *are* the new sheriff in town.
One of these days
So not politically correct but for you leftists and snowflakes.
Missed it again.
— sigh —
Amen! I hope all my friends here at TAH have a great and safe weekend! And my POS brother David “Doc” Shrum has still not been arrested! Someone Please put this fucker in jail!!!
that was odd, fist time I clicked it took me to the story below…heh.
top 20…a first for me
Jonn, that sly fox, almost had me “First” the “February Updates from the South Pacific” when he posted it right after noon. Rascal! (smile)
Actually he got me.
Not Jonn, ya’ll got “EXed.”
*grin*
Ahhh, so she was running a diversion for Jonn…….”Velllly Intewesting”!
Darn sneaky Illinoisians (word?)! “grin”
Just makin’ sure y’all are payin’ attention. You never know what’s sneaking up on you in the dark.
Ready for the snow, Ex? Looks like that rotten ground rat in Pencil-tucky was right.
Why I have a large dog in my yard.
BRRRRRRRT! The Air Force recently released this video of an A-10 saying hello to Taliban insurgents in a vehicle:
That’ll buff right out!
*grin*
just a little bondo, it’ll be fine.
Here’s some AH-64 Apaches raining down holy hell down on the bad guys.
WARNING!! NOT FOR THE FAINT AT HEART, SQUEAMISH, UNDER 18, SJW’s, ANTI-GUN FOLK…….
I just love that! You can run, but you can’t hide!!!
I saw an Apache fly westbound south of my house on Wednesday. Didn’t grab my camera soon enough, and it was moving slowly. Must be a newbie pilot learning how to pilot the bird.
However, it’s the 3rd time in 6 weeks that I’m seeing a helicopter or a small group doing that and the return path is always toward the nearby base. I just wonder if something’s going on or it’s simply routine flight skins.
Hey Ex, I live just a few miles from the Avon Park Bombing Range and I have seen really increased bombing practice from a variety of airplanes and helicopters! Usually this follows some major operation somewhere in the world. Some of these bombs shake the house they are so big! A lot of this has been taking place at night as well? I would say someone is going to get a very bad wakeup in the near future! Go get em guys and gals!!
I myself grew up near an Army Post where the windows and glasses in the China Cabinet would rattle when the Redlegs sang their song with the big guns.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Also, even though the air station southwest of me was closed 20 years ago in BRAC, there is no reason a nearby airport could not be turned into a NAVAIRCAD training depot, is there?
I wrote up an article on that a while back as a “gotcha” joke.
Well, I’m happy to see my tax dollars at work, but to see USMC GEN Dunsford making the rounds at some old bases in the Pacific that no one visits any more.
I figured something’s going on. And Fatty Kim da T’ird has been awfully quiet since he had his social meeting about the Olympics a few weeks ago.
Most likely, it is training. Eglin AFB has been really busy testing munitions. They are especially testing “deep penetration” bombs designed to get through really thick concrete. And I have seen several convoys of between 10 and 20 trucks moving around. Those are probably getting ready for Jade Helm 18, you know, when they are gonna round up the people and put them in closed up Walmart buildings.
Closed Walmart buildings? I had not realized there were such things! Thanks, Frankie!
The conex boxes out back are full of body bags.
Jade Helm? I have some liberals in my neck of the woods that would make excellent roundup practice dummies!!!
Just wedding parties …./s
War is a terrible thing…
But it is what it is…
Aloha Snackbar, Fellahs…
Nice shooting Tex.
Allah AkBRRRRRRT!
Pimp my Ride A-10 customZZ.
One moment they feel safe and before they know it, it’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Now, that is the way to start the weekend!! Some war pron…
Thought that was OJ in his white Bronco again, LC.
it was going too fact for OJ
omg, fast
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/02/man-poses-as-army-lt-gen-goes-to-classified-briefing-and-orders-helicopter-ride/
A North Carolina man posing as a U.S. Army lieutenant general has been indicted by a federal grand jury after he went to a classified briefing and asserted authority to land a helicopter at a software company’s headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, according to a news release.
Christian Gerald Desgroux, 57, pretended to be a lieutenant general and “engaged in transporting a person for a classified briefing and under such guise having asserted authority to land a helicopter at Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS) headquarters, located in Cary, North Carolina,” according to the release.
The helicopter landing took place Nov. 6, 2017.
Desgroux could face up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and a term of supervised release if imprisoned.
Old news.
Will use the search function next time. It doesn’t show with Ghostery and uBlock enabled.
Sorry for the redundant post.
Could you believe this?
I decided to hang out at the beach today, wearing just a men’s speedo swim short. It was a little tight, but I didn’t want something that could fall off.
Well, anyway, I layed down on the sand to take a nap. I was brought to a half nap when I heard the sound of a motor boat in front of my position, and someone near me talking to others. Then that someone said, “Go!”
All of a suddent, the motor boat sounded different, then I felt something grip my feet. I moved slowly in the sand. That woke me up completely. They tied my feet together, and were dragging me out to the sea!
I screamed, “Are you kidding me!”
The guy that screamed, “Go,” screamed “Stop!” The others around him screamed the same thing. I was in the water by the time the boat stoped. I was cussing and swearing when the folk came up to me to cut the rope around me feet.
They appologized for thinking that I was a beached whale! I yelled at them for not recognizing someone for having big bones. Maybe if they watched Little House in the Prairie, or Southpark, they would know that!
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H. Chevalier
The harpoon scars fooled ’em.
The smell/screams from the burning F5/F9 Keys must have been wafting in just the right direction towards TAH Headquarters today, because according to the entries posted to the Coveted Book of WOT Firsts, this is the latest time into 1300 hrs (EST) that Jonn has posted the WOT open for comments since 20 Oct 17.
Kinda one of those “North Wind-Latrine, South Wind-Mess Hall” deals./smile
Yeah, I bought stock in a company that replaces F5 keys.
And the pop-up ads on clicking are back. Please terminate with prejudice. K?
Get a popup blocker for your browser – it helps.
Not happening here this time. Yet. It was very annoying last time. Then it stopped as mysteriously as it started.
Get Epic Web Browser, it halts both popups AND spyware as well as trackers.
When does the does the disbarred lawyer get out of the tidewater jail? I haven’t scanned the news in awhile.
Danny boi? He shuffled off from this vale of tears by turning his airplane into a lawn dart.
It was his life long scorched earth policy taken to its logical conclusion
Him dead long time.
And Daniel Bernath is still Dead!!!
What’s up with his sidekick?
He seems to be in forehead defilade after a few days of a flurry of activity between his own liberation and the crash of his partner.
I was being a smart ass. I “mourned” his passing right after you posted the news. Had a hell of a hangover since I used cheap scotch. I have the good shit saved for Jane Fonda/F’ing Kerry’s dirt nap.
I was in Ft Myers earlier this week. Wish I had known where he is resting since I have to piss like a race horse all the time.
He’s deader than disco.
Wittless is now TOP DOG with Cryer backing his bullshit….Fucker is not on a rampage
He’s on a MISSION to prove a conspiracy in his Butt buddies crash…
The DRG’s living active member roll is getting a little thin.
We receive six emails each day in separate addresses. Read, print, and file in Dullass, Dumbshit, Purple Pussy, Crybabie (anytime he writes about bernath conspiracy) it filed in
BERNATH IS DEAD
We do have a attorney in good standing and the judge I’ve testified in his courtroom when I was a Countie Mountie and later the legal assistant during trials also offered he help. I can’t share anything until their ready to file our complaints again Wittless and his gang of one
Lavender Blue … The Dilly Dilly Song
I’ll see your dilly Dilly and raise you a cowboy…
https://youtu.be/61XaTltS8E4
45rd, TOP FIFTY and feeling nifty, I claim Honorary first once again.
((((OVER))))
Maybe in the top 50.
Work getting in the way. Gotta keep the Big Boss happy – or try to.
With no changes from yesterday afternoon, the 2018 TAH Phony Race stands thusly:
SEALs: 8
Green Beret/SF: 5 (1 female)
Rangers: 5
Marines: 5
Vietnam: 3
Navy UTD: 1
Navy EOD: 1
AF Pilot: 1 (1 female)
Army Officer: 1
Misc. unearned awards: 2
Shouldn’t that green beret female count for two?
I’ll work out the bonus points for the final scores later. The running scores are the raw scores. I may have to add some categories to give multipliers.
Fat female-ish SF phonies, for instance, my get extra for being so blatantly stupid.
BHWHAHAHAHA !!
Is it a new game and can anyone play…
Not even close.
I wrote it down on the calendar. WOT. What the hell does that mean? Couple a beers later I figured it out.
The photo up top reminds me of driving down from the Hills to work in Pomona and seeing LA poking up above the thick overnight smog bank.
I’ve been up to the top of Mt. Tam quite a few times, although it’s been awhile. It’s somewhat hard to tell because of the fog cover, but I’d be willing to bet the photo was taken in late afternoon with fog coming from the ocean. The camera is pointed northwest towards Pt. Reyes, and not southeast toward San Francisco.
As a matter of historical trivia, Pt. Reyes is where Sir Francis Drake once careened his ship for repairs in the late 1570s. This was during a circumnavigation amounting to an extended hunt for Spanish treasure galleons. For his efforts Drake was knighted by Elizabeth I of England.
There’s a good chance Drake chose to do the repairs at Pt. Reyes, and not in San Francisco Bay, because he missed the entrance to the Golden Gate. It might have been too foggy.
There are some really nice National Geographic quality scenes in Maine of early morning fog with mountain tops poking through. They would be worth photographing except for the *$%#$^ windmills and scarred landscape that looks like a B52 strike follew by agent orange.
Not first, just doing my part to keep the lights on.
All quiet at the Casa de Sparky Western Annex.
But I did manage to break down and upgrade the phone today. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
Holy crap am I late to the game today!
Happy Friday!
Elebenty 7th.
Well damn late as hell here.. That’s what happens when you heat with firewood, and there’s snow coming.. you spend your first two days off shift hauling, cutting, and splitting firewood… speaking of which, there’s more to be done, so have a good friday all, probably be back after the sun goes down
Nothing heats better than wood, it heats when you cut it, hall it, stack it and burn it. I am down to half a cord.
Dinner tonight:
Roast chicken
quartered boiled potatoes w/butter
Peas w/onion
carrots,celery, radishes
Turtle cheesecake
Whatever part of the chicken doesn’t get used up tonight, gets turned into a different dish tomorrow, including soup, wonderful soup.
I have half a yard bird in the freezer- soup or stew tomorrow with carrots, onion, celery, S&P, sage.
Oh Ex, you always make me so hungry! You could make shit on a shingle sound yummy!
I hope you don’t have any leftovers!!
Ex..
Need receipt for Chicken Corn Chowder..I thought I saw one you posted way back
I don’t know if that was me or someone else, but I kind of remember that. I’ll look for a good recipe.
I found one recipe for chicken and corn chowder with bacon, so here it is:
6 slices bacon (diced)
1/2 cup celery (diced)
2 cups potatoes (small diced)
1 cup onion (diced)
1/2 cup carrot (diced)
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 teaspoon Creole seasoning or seasoned salt
1 cup corn kernels
1 1/2 cups half-and-half
1 1/2 to 2 cups diced cooked chicken
1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes
How to Make It
Fry the bacon in a large saucepan or Dutch oven; remove to paper towels to drain.
Add butter to bacon drippings, if necessary, to make 3 tablespoons. Add celery, potatoes, onion, and carrot.
Saute, stirring constantly until onion and celery are tender.
Stir in flour until well incorporated. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.
Add chicken broth and seasoning or seasoned salt, stirring to blend well. Cook, stirring until thickened. Cover and simmer for 12 minutes.
Add the diced chicken and corn; simmer for 7 minutes longer, until vegetables are tender. Add half-and-half and tomatoes.
Heat through and taste. Add salt and pepper, as needed.
— Source: https://www.thespruce.com/chicken-and-corn-chowder-3053199
As always, the basic recipe is flexible enough that you can leave out something you think is unnecessary, and add your own touches to it.
Thank you..Cooking in AROMA…
February 9th, 1965.
The first full sized unit of combat troops (Marine Hawk Missile Battery) comes ashore at DaNang.
And Go……..
Update from the Florida Department of Corrections shows that <bDipshit Extraordinaire, Kyle Christopher Barwan is still at the Century Work Camp facility. I noticed on his “sheet” today that there is a click thing to “Send money to this inmate.” Bwwwwwwahahahahahaha.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=H50625&TypeSearch=AI
He can’t buy himself out of servicing other inmates if he doesn’t have commissary money. Pity.
Frank Fischer chose the cowards route and resigned his chair, (by phone call with the Post Commander), opting not to sit with them in a meeting and present his (lack of a) case. Post 14 American Legion West Virginia is getting a long needed clean up.
So now I guess we need to figure out why the AL Post Commander and the VFW Post (as a whole) are still listed as FaceBook Friends with Frank “The Catfischer”.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m thinking they would have wanted to cut all ties with him after he was exposed for the POS that he is.
Oh, Well…
Keeping an eye on him, as I was told.
The comments here make my laugh, and I appreciate the humor – so I reciprocate (this does NOT imply I’m making fun of the Army or combat arms – only that training sessions can be funny (the tie in as a CNN report makes it funnier)):
NSFW
I can almost hear the CNN reporter, “Tell me more about this ETADIK, and where can I find some?”
I was hoping to be further up in the comments than this because I’ve got a serious (to me) question. Hopefully it doesn’t get too buried in all this.
One of my directors at work, served in the Marine Corps from 1990 to 2001. He did six years active duty and four and some change years in the Marines. He was done and fully out in March of 2001.
September 11th 2001 happened. He debated re-enlisting and didn’t. His reasons were his own.
Apparently however, because I did re-enlist in 2007, and did deploy (2008) and served as a contractor (LSI 2011) and am currently still in the USAR, I made him feel bad about his decision not to go back into the service.
I’ve only spoken with teh guy a handful of times, and its only ever once been about the military. We were all invited to his “Welcome to the company” dinner and he told me he’d heard I was in the Reserves. I told him my story, he told me his, and the conversation ended with me telling him how much I admired and respected the Marines.
Anyone else run into anything like this? Apparently I was supposed to offer him absolution or something.
He feels guilty for not rejoining the Marines, and somehow it’s your problem? That’s wrong in a lot of ways. All I can say is document any issues and stay professional, as I’m sure you already do. If it gets too bad you can always file a hostile work environment complaint with HR, but that’s pretty much an end game move.
Good luck.
SSG Kane:
Here is my take. You are not in a position to offer absolution or anything else to sooth his conscious.
If the dude is a real Marine, he can deal with his decisions.
I have regrets about decisions I made – lots of ’em. But (a) I can’t change the past and (b) life moves on. All we can do is man up, try to do better at the next fork in the road, and accept the state of affairs we got ourselves into.
Keep it professional at work as much as possible. Kind and cordial. Nothing else you can do.
No, SSG Kane – you don’t owe them absolution. They have to live with their own decisions.
At least they appear supportive, though. It’s not easy holding your tongue when your supervisor tells you, after you advise them you’re expecting mob orders a few weeks after 9/11, “I really don’t know why you felt you had to do that.”
Yeah, that happened. Still not sure how I held my tongue, other than knowing that if I had to explain it they were obviously incapable of understanding the why.
Returned to the same organization post-mobilization. Was quite glad I didn’t have to work for that tool after I returned.
If he didn’t know, no amount of explanation could make him understand.
At least you identified one spineless idiot that way.
You could also just take it as a one time deal, feel flattered that he considers you someone with whom he shares more than other employees/underlings, and move on out. Odds are that he will never bring it up again, and it certainly would not be appropriate for you to do so. Or he may make some obtuse reference to it in the future, but not as something you should fear, just acknowledgement of your special bond, one not shared with others.
My guess is that it’s not a big deal. However, document things just in case.
Will attempt to clarify that last sentence. “No big deal” relevant to your job. Your antennae was picking up on something. Was simply trying to say, most likely not something to lose sleep over, just be aware.
I dealt with similar situations while I was recruiting and had to turn guys like him away from time to time (i.e. prior service Marines who were clearly overweight; developed disqualifying factors (medical or criminal) and so on).
Honestly? No. You don’t need to give him absolution or make him feel better about himself. Some people wrestle with the fact they “could have” or “should have” done more. If it’s affecting him that deeply, perhaps he needs to get some counseling so he can get help re-framing things in his head.
There are reasons, known to him, why he decided to take the uniform off in March 2001 and reasons, known to him, why he didn’t create the opportunity to re-enter the military after 9/11 when there were probably several – (that is, assuming he was eligible to begin with).
As I see it, I don’t think YOU are the one who made him feel bad. I suspect he’s facing regret for decisions he made and struggles with them.
Overall, I don’t believe you’re responsible for his feelings because – at the end of the day – he needs to own up to his decisions and the consequences of them, not for you to question yours.
He can’t change the past, but he should be proud of the time he did serve, and also be proud that he supported his employees when other employers wouldn’t/didn’t or haven’t.
Others may feel differently about it, so that’s my .02 cents.
The fact that he is a director is no small factor, I’m guessing. Put that aside. Pretend that he was just some guy you met at a bar or a casual acquaintance. What would your response have been to the same account?
If it’s not apparent, my reply was to Kane.
Well, Kane, you have responses. Follow up to mine is this. If he was just another Joe, you might have said, “Yeah, that must have been a tough decision back then. There you were, thoroughly trained, an experienced Marine, when war came and, not having to go, you didn’t. Anything else on your mind?”
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
Barely top 100 – maybe.
Adam Appel now of Pahoa, Hawaii and formerly of Anchorage Alaska is a real trickster. Adam Appel falsely claimed to have been an SF guy wounded by sniper fire in afghanistan. Now he doesn’t know why people report on his charities and othe rfalse claims
What Adam Appel is up to now: https://adamappelemt.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/how-did-the-investigation-into-adam-appels-fraud-begin/
Holden
That’s a good tattoo inventory from the can, skulls, frags and brass.
Pahoa is the POT capital of Hawaii.
How we knew that Adam Appel of Pahoa, hilo, and Anchorage created his posts with false claims
https://adamappelemt.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/evidence-that-adam-appel-made-his-own-false-claims/
Holden
Olympic time. Don’t look for me anywhere except in front of the TV for a few weeks.
Did I hear this right? One of the announcers just said that 7 of our athletes are members of the US Army?
Later, all. The US athletes are about to enter the stadium. (Yeh, know – they did that much earlier today, but now is when they are broadcasting it…)
Pay me. Pay me a lot. I will then watch. Between faggies and whiners, the Olympics has all ready lost me.
You forgot “entitled” as in a certain speed skater who shall go nameless.
Tied in the vote for flag carrier. Other person won the toss.
Whiny boo is pouting somewhere, having skipped the ceremony.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/02/10/team-usa-skater-skips-olympics-opener-after-losing-flagbearer-coin-toss.html
Article claims he is the first A-A to get an individual medal. Jessie Owens could not be reached for comment.
Awwwww, nobody call a * WAAAAAAAHHH*mbulance for him?
That Coin was #RazIZT!
Reporters have a common disease called short-term memory malfunction. They can’t retain anything past the last five minutes. That’s why they make those asinine statements. Looking up facts is too hard.
You can never win the P.C. coin-toss, heads you’re racist, tails you’re sexist.
Technically, that may be correct since nobody had thought up the term A-A yet when Jessie Owens was winning medals, setting speed records, and representing the best of the USA.
Meeting him as a kid is one of the highlights of my youth. His quiet strength was amazing. His ability to captivate an audience with his story was a true inspiration.
The only TV station around here is analog channel 3 in Fredricton NB.
That would be Canada for you Marines /s.
And of course they have the Olympics on.
So yeah, there is nothing on worth watching.
Go ahead. Skoff as you wish. Not gonna diminish how much I enjoy watching.
Bring on the biathlon!
Enjoy OWB! Me, I’m waiting for the summer Olympics and the world’s greatest athletic competition: synchronized swimming.
Oh, yes. All that holding your breath while swimming thing. And lookng pretty. I know you’re kidding, but it looks kinda scary to me.
My money would have been on your fav being rhythmic gymnastics.
Oh, oh. The gold medalist in ski jumping took a knee when he won. Another secret message being sent to somebody, no doubt. And he is a GERMAN!
137st!
https://www.duffelblog.com/2014/12/army-platoon-sergeant-lt/
As a former platoon sergeant, I can confirm most of this shit as mostly true.
https://youtu.be/0oswjjF7sEc
(I cannot get this embed shit to work worth a shit!)
Anyone beside me shoveling global warming off your front steps and sidewalk?
So far the count is:
Thursday: 3 inches
Friday: 6 inches
Saturday: sunshine
Sunday: 4 inches and still coming down
I will fix BBQ beans and smoked sausage in the crock pot for supper. And potato salad.
I heard on the news your AO was going to get hammered. BBQ beans and sausage sounds like a good remedy!
I do not envy the junior enlisteds at the nearby base, never mind any other base that is sharing the “warmth”. I think we’re getting more than Minot AFB.
If you mean Great Mistakes, I hear you. My boot company was the last one to graduate before the Christmas break, and I remember standing “Snow Watch” where we were expected to sweep the sidewalks clear. At 0200 the snow was coming in horizontally at about 40 mph; we “watched” the snow from the warmth of the stairwells in the barracks. Good times!
Biancajade has chosen this special moment to beclown herself. Give her your regards at:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=76655&cpage=1#comment-3085300
Saw “The 1517 to Paris” this afternoon. Pretty good. Enjoyable. Glad I saw it.
Yes, it moved pretty slow in the first part, but telling the back story of who the young men are and how they got there WAS the story. Yes, I recommend t.
This one should translate quite well to the small screen if you don’t catch it n the theater.