Weekend open thread
April 6, 2018
Underwater Curiosity
Two Steller sea lions inspect a camera while playing with scuba divers off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The carnivorous mammals can grow up to 1.2 tons, and they flock to the area in the winter to feed on herring.
Category: Open thread
First.
THREE-FER BITCHES.
F5 RIGHT UP YOUR OLD WAZOO!!!
I am filing a protest with Bernie Sanders. You already have enough FIRSTS and should be required to give your firsts to someone who does not have one.
Sorry can’t do that.
from Last Week’s WOT
” 2/17 Air Cav says:
March 30, 2018 at 1:12 pm
You do not get a vote. A rule is a rule and we await Claw’s ruling. Also, “First” is not transferable. “
BUT, But, but, that is but a ruling, nothing more than some simple thing, like those petty Constitutional Amendments. The Socialists among us would strike that rule down and walk on it. How dare you expect others to follow established precedent. Shall I take this up with the city council of Deerfield Illinois, for clarification?
Congrats Chip!
You have tied my exhaulted 3 fer WOT!!
And I have tied my own Three-fer WOT
Four-fer?
We’ll have to see next week.
Good luck my friend!!
I coulda been a contenda, except we’re moving. Busy all day moving all kinds of boxes of stuff I never knew we had and other things.
Already told the wife, the next move will be me zipped in a bag and wheeled out the door by the ME. No more of this shit for me.
UpNorth. I am sorry for your situation. I truly am. There are many horrible things that we all must suffer in out lives and moving is one of them. I have another one in my future and I am already dreading it. I’ll probably have nightmares tonight now…
Congrats, ChipNASA.
Glad to see that the electronic F5 & post application you developed is functioning as anticipated. >grin<
Yeah? Well NOBODY can tie MY record for Honorary Firsts!
((((OVER))))
Hmmm, sounds like a challenge.
If one were to go back through all the prior WOTs and, however belatedly, claim Honorary First on each of them, then – theoretically – API’s record of Honorary Firsts could, indeed, be tied or surpassed.
Not that anyone here would be so nefarious as to do that.
Hmmm, never happen GI. Comments are closed on all posts after one year and API’s Honorary Firsts go back at least three years here on the WOT./smile
Dem’s da rules.
SEE, I TOLD YOU SO!!!!
Well, yeah. And it will stand and can never be met much less bettered unless you quit claiming it. Even then it would take a very, very, very long time to surpass your claims.
However, that being said, I claim the title of honorary first firster more firsterer than API. Just because.
Over.
Well, I claimed Honorary First FIRST, so nnnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
((((OVER))))
But ya dint say firsterer first, so THERE!!
First
2nd, or first loser…
Story of my Terrorologist life…
All hail the Great ChipNASA!!!
FIRST!
First!
First? Maybe, maybe not.
I had a leak in my kitchen plumbing, so I was not here to maul my mouse like normal!!
Tonights News for the Hearing Impared,
DANIEL BERNATH IS STILL DEAD!!
Also in Tonights News for the Hearing Impaired,
HILLARY CLINTON IS STILL NOT OUR PRESIDENT!!
Or like my dear Pa used to say,
Thank God and Greyhound she’s Gone!!!
Roy Clark’s best love song ever. Made my eyes water to hear it.
Be grateful it was the kitchen plumbing that was leaking…
That is what my intel shows as well!
LAWN DART DANNY BOI IS STILL -6 FOOT AGL
Yep, that’s what I heard and the rest of The Dutch Rudder Gang can continue to ingest DRG Cocktails (Isopropyl Alcohol flavored with antifreeze and garnished with a lead paint chip) while they PRACTICE COPROPHAGY.
Dirt Dart Danny is still dead as dirt, and the World is still grateful…
And Lawn Dart Danny is still at room temperature. And no longer playing records.
Sixth?
Chip’s first caused the premature demise of a poor little bird. Bird’s head came clean off pecking the F5 key. Damn shame.
It’s always so sad when they lose their pecker!
Hitting the F5 repeatedly, at a high rate of speed, with my pecker?
“STOP LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER AND GIVING AWAY MY SECRETS!!!!
“A little yellow bird with a yellow bill landed on my window sill”
And continue…….
“I fed him seed and crumbs of bread”
And the wrap-up….
and then I smashed
his fuckin head!
Lured him in with a piece of bread….
um…
Stay with the tempo, Cris. A one and a two…
I wonder if Cris is one of those guys the DI would call Franky…
No, not Franky but I was the scribe… I did have to eat a whole shoe box full of chocolate/chocolate chip cookies that my friend mailed me in front of the platoon before lights out.
Not as bad as the guy who had somone mail him a dildo with a note saying “Give this the DI/Drill Sergeant that you said you told to go fuck himself.”
The first time the DI did that cadence with us I broke laughing. And then there was the clever euphemism for the garrison cap, which also broke me up.
I used that euphemism in front of mom once, not thinking. Yep, just once. I thought dad’s head was gonna pop.
THIRD!!!! I said it first. And anyway, you are a bunch of putzes.
Is Spring EVER going to arrive????
Yes, Spring will arrive on this coming Monday, about two minutes before the first pitch is thrown for the Cubbie’s Home Opener.
Three minutes later the snow showers restart and things return to normal./smile
Go Cubbies!!
Hell, we never had a winter this year, in Tucson…
I think there was about 10 minutes. Shortly after Christmas.
It was fun talking weather with my cousins in NY this past winter.
Spring has arrived in our AO and is in full swing.
My Queen Elizabeth roses are producing more blooms than ever before.
My Knockout rose is living up to its name.
Unfortunately, the Fragrant Cloud has not yet kicked in more than one or two blooms yet.
The Grancy Greybeards were going well until the rains knocked the blooms off.
The Yellow Jasmine and Wisteria vines have put on an impressive display, but are making way for the Indian Blankets and Bluebonnets.
‘Tis a lovely season in the Sunny South, indeed!
In regard to plants and crops, the USDA crop progress report: http://www.farmfutures.com/market-news/usda-crop-progress-agency-s-first-report-2018-debuts
says that while winter wheat is a bit behind, some states are beginning to catch up and move ahead. Sorghum and cotton planting are moving ahead, with Texas at 11% and Arizona at 23% of the year’s cotton crop in the ground.
However, rice is slightly ahead of the same time last year, and rice emergence is at 6%, compared to a 5-year average of 4%.
Looks like we’ll have plenty of stuff to put on the table – again.
Snow IS predicted for this weekend.
Sorry Ex, it is going to be 90 here this weekend! And guess what I’m having for dinner? My wife is frying up some thin pork chops, with the bone of course, then we will have some egg noodles smothered with cream of mushroom soup! She will serve it with some nice garlic bread on the side! I’m really looking forward to it!!!
Take care,
Willy
Okay, but I’m fixing cheesy scalloped potatoes with minced ham and garlic bread on the side. Good stuff.
Sounds good to me! You can never have enough cheese! I’m thinking of putting some chunky blue cheese on my pork chops?
Willy, if’n you’re on a reduced (1500 mg per day) sodium diet like me, you can indeed have too much cheese.
Woe is me.
Not first. Not even close.
Congrats, Chip, on your three-fer!!
NEXT!
And time now for our weekly update on the
TAH 2018 Phony Race™©
To no one’s surprise, the phony Navy SEALs are still in the lead, with 33 to date.
2nd place: Green Berets/SF – 13
3rd place: Marines – 9
4th place: Unearned Awards – 8
5th place: Rangers – 7
6th place: Vietnam Vets – 5
7th place: Phony Deployed/Combat – 4
8th place (tie): Navy, Air Force, Army Officer, and Beirut Bombing survivors at 2 each.
9th and last place: Military school – 1
TAH 2018 Cranksteppers Race™©
Ossifers: 12
VA: 3
NCO’s: 2
LEOs: 2
TAH 2018 Heroes Scoreboard™©
those who are truly deserving of honor and recognition:
Heroes: 42
Saving the World: 19
Gone Home: 48
Respectfully submitted:
-Graybeard (((OUT)))
Still no complaints, so I’ll drop off this week’s trivia/humor thing that I do. I hope you enjoy it! DID YOU KNOW…? Does it really hurt your eyes to sit too close to the television set? By Commissioner Wretched (the column starts with a cool picture of painted rocks, which I can’t upload but you can imagine) You may be wondering why I’m leading off this week’s column with a picture of painted rocks. (And then again, you may not be, but I’m going to tell you anyway.) I received a delightful letter this week from a lady in Pine Mountain, Ga., who signed herself as, “A fan.” The writer asked me if I was familiar with the somewhat-new painted rock phenomenon, where people paint designs or messages on small rocks and then leave them for others to find and collect. Hey, don’t scoff. They’re cheaper than baseball cards. While I am aware of the painted rock thing, I didn’t know that there are actually rules for the game. Such as … you can’t hide your painted rocks in churches or inside businesses without permission. Actually, that’s the only rule I was informed of. And it makes sense, you know. Anyway, she said in her letter that people who find the painted rocks profess that it makes their day and gives them a lift … and I can see how they would do that. They’re pretty neat, if you ask me. She also wondered if there was any more information about them available, so I will turn to you, my readers, to let us know. Send a note about painted rocks to me at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I’ll share the info in a future column. And the best part – the very best part – of her letter? She says she’s a fan. Of mine. I have a fan. Wow! So, fan – and everyone else – let’s head into the trivia, which doesn’t have to be painted at all! Did you know … … Britain’s version of 911, dialed 999, was established in 1937? In its first month of operation there were… Read more »
And did you know…
That printing off CW’s weekly contribution and taping it in strategic places in the office bathrooms will help raise the IQ of your fellow employees?
At least I hope so. I’ve only done it once so far…
Keep it going, GB … I need all the exposure I can get!
(Wait, that didn’t come out right …)
Well, the bathrooms are a good place to be exposed, I suppose!
Last week, I was going to complain but someone had swiped the pencil on a string and the 3×5 index cards. Went back today and now the whole damn box is gone! So, no, there are no complaints and I don’t think there will be any forthcoming. Carry on.
Thank you, 2/17. That means a lot to me.
It worked well for Jenny.
Vegan vampire rabbit = strips the bark off of trees and gets the sap out of them? Well, since bunnies are herbivores, meat eating by a wabbit unlikely, but they will eat their own feces if there is nothing else.
Hares, however, have been known to eat dead mice and other rodents but they are a species separate from bunny wabbits.
Please consult Wallace and Grommit for further information.
“…but they will eat their own feces if there is nothing else.”
OR if they’re hiding from a Predator for a lengthy period of time, the practice is known in the Biology field as Coprophagy.
Where in Western Georgia are you? I am currently working on a turbine outage in Carrollton. Just wondering.
I live in Pine Mountain and work in Manchester.
I live in Kingston now.
Are you a bona fide US Navy SNIPE?
Do they take new recruits on Snipe hunts?
Mail bouy watch. Send new guy to the pit for a steam blanket, BT punch, fish in the FWDCT etc…
In the Army we’d send him to Supply for Chem Light Batteries, a box of Grid Squares, a box of Ground Guides, send him to POL for some Blinker Fluid or Cable Stretching Oil, send him to Commo for a Prick E6 or E7,…
Former Boiler Technician 2nd class, but force converted to flangehead, then joined the TXARNG
Learned today that RLS, his friend’s daughter, and I share a birthday. Thanks, CW!
Between the firest 25 and 30.
In other news, in the GB AO, we are eating way too much good food (tamales, pulled pork, pinto beans, fried rice…) in celebration (?) of the fact that GB Enterprises is relocating to the home AO.
I will be able to comment less frequently (for which circumstance I fully expect there to be great rejoicing) but will endeavor to maintain the scorekeeping for the phony race for 2018.
“tamales, pulled pork, pinto beans, fried rice” Please tell me that you have an outhouse. Or perhaps you have steel-plate on your bathroom walls. Jeez. It burns just to think about the southbound trip for that stuff.
FYI….. If you ever visit Kanuckistan, Vancouver Island is the best place in the country.
I was posted to CFB Esquimalt in Victoria for most of my 20’s. Victoria is a University town and the complete opposite of a Sausage Party ( A Clam Jam maybe?)
Absolute paradise for horny young privates…..hehe
Since we earned way more than most 20yo civvie guys, picking up girls was like shooting fish in a barrel… With an RPG
I could tell you about a week I spent in Penticton one weekend, but you have probably already heard it.
PS, Never drink beer with a bunch of old Dutch resistance fighter Ex-pats during the afternoon. It could change your life.
Been out to the Nanoose Test Range a few times doing, ummm, stuff. Beautiful country, great beer and by all that’s holy, why is there poutine? Heart attack on a plate.
La poutine existe parce que tu la désires avec désespoir.
Riiight, next you’ll “avec désespoir” in mime.
Just shoot me.
Not really, *grin*
But crispy fries, savory brown gravy, and cheese on top with a mega-salt load? It’s a dietician’s nightmare. And completely irresistible, ya Canuk bastards.
Yes, it is, and so is cheesey scalloped potatoes with smoked ham, made from scratch, with butter and REALLY sharp cheddar cheese, in the oven now, and then there’s cheesecake – turtle cheesecake – for dessert.
Enjoy it while you can. The “long term” is now.
Poutine with bacon and cheese, the thought of it nearly makes my heart go *OOK!*…
I must be the only Hoser who does not like poutine, hockey, ‘Canadian’ bacon and the Tragically Hip.(RIP Gord)
( craftbrews not Molson swill)
But damn, we have great beer
I always liked Victoria. When I lived in Washington, I used to take the ferry over from Port Angeles a couple of times a year. I also remember a Summer when Boeing was testing a high-speed hydrofoil it had built destined for English Channel service. For a limited time, they were running it with passenger service between Seattle and Victoria.
The hydrofoil was fast. They didn’t post the numbers while aboard, but I’m guessing the thing was hitting about 50 knots. Much different from the old Princess Marguerite which might have been capable of 20 knots on a good day with a following sea while being towed by dolphins.
The thing was tearing up the shoreline with its gi-normous wake, so they had to throttle it back to more reasonable speeds.
Still a pretty cool ride.
And a hearty hello to Poetrooper. Wishing you well. Miss you and your stuff.
+1, waiting on Poe’s triumphant return.
Yep.
Ditto.
Roger that.
Indeed. Exactly as you say, AC.
He will get well and return here, I know it…
“Knock. Knock.”
“This is Dave, man. Open up.”
“Who?”
“Dave.”
“Dave? Dave’s not here.”
Anyone seen Dave?
Dave’s with Roger re-primering the Jeep.
((Over))
I suspect Russian collusion
DAVE’S NOT HERE!!!
Happy weekend everyone!!
Present. Wishing a great weekend to all my TAH family!
Shutting down the season for collecting sap for maple syrup here.
Gathered about 260+ gallons of sap and boiled it down to about 10 gallons of some of the finest Cheesehead Land maple syrup.
Pancakes, homemade maple syrup, bacon & eggs plus fresh ground coffee for breakfast…..foodie orgasim!
Going to celebrate tonight by going to one of the local establishments for breaded Yellow perch or Walleye fillets along with homemade coleslaw, homemade tarter sauce, homemade rye bread, homemade American potato salad, criss-cut fries with sour cream and a fitting beverage.
Mmmmmmmmm……good.
Have a great weekend all!
Mmmmmm, Maple Syrup…
CHUG, CHUG, CHUG!!!
Offering my weekly update on Stolen Valorist Kyle Christopher Barwan, I first checked the Florida Department of Corrections and learned that he has not been transferred from the Century Correctional Installation, in the most Northwest corner of the state. Living just 35 or so miles East of him, (downwind with the prevailings), at night I can often hear some sort of Pitiful Wailing coming from that way, and on Wednesday night I was sure I heard, faintly, “More cooking oil, Bubba, Puleeeeeze, it hurts.”.
Glad to see he is still in the grey bar hotel! Mean while, my pos brother David “Doc” Shrum is still breathing my oxygen. The local VSO that was supposed to be investigating him just turned his case over to the local VSO in Phoenix. So now I have to call them and see if they will do anything to arrest this piece of shit! I really think nobody gives a shit about who steals from the government!
Willy, best of luck with having your brother’s case moved from one VSO to another.
Phoenix is over 400 miles and a different time zone from San Juan County, NM.
But take heart. At least when “David Doc Shrum” is entered into the Gooooogle-Fu search box, his TAH post is still #1 on the hit parade.
67rd!
Bernath is still dead based on my information.
OVER
And likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future, too.
OVER
Thank God for small blessings.
DAB: No. I say OVER, then you say OVER.
MCPO: What?
DAB: No. I talk then I say OVER, then you talk and you say OVER.
MCPO: OVER
DAB: NO!
MCPO: You did not say OVER. OVER.
Comedy that writes itself!
I hadn’t heard that. I thought he was in the Tidewater Hoosegow. I need to get out more.
80st and Honorary First yet again.
((((OVER))))
Since this is an open thread, I’ll make a completely unrelated (but serious) comment. If you are the RV type, please double-check the tires that you are running on your motorhome. Are they Goodyear G159s? If so, remove them with extreme prejudice. It has recently come to light that Goodyear manufactured these tires with a defect for a few years from the late 1990’s to mid 2000. They were originally designed for city freight duty (low speed), but then someone decided they could sell them to RV makers. the problem is, RVs travel on highways at 70 or so MPH. Instead of testing the tires, they just increased the speed rating, which caused them to fail catastrophically due to excess heat buildup. Remember the Firestone tire scandal? Firestone made a 14 million of those tires, of which a blowout failure was noted in 800-900 It was enough to force a recall, as we all know. Roughly 160,000 G159s were made, 40,000 went specifically into new motorhomes. Those 40K tires have accounted for almost 100 deaths or serious injury and 453 separations and other claims. GY got sued, of course. But the GY legal team was able to quash the court records and testimony for each suit, so that new lawsuits could not use the information obtained – and indeed often did not know that those suits had even happened. They also did not pass much of this on the NHTSA, so our safety administration was not told. This just came to light by a lawyer who spent years trying to inform folks of the problem, but was bound by court orders not to. Until recently. look, I have no dog in this fight: I don’t own an RV or own stock in tire companies (i did buy some GY stock back when they were circling the drain in the early 2000’s – the same time this was all going down, BTW), and I’m not one to run through the streets screaming “think of the children!”, but shit: I have friends and family with RVs. With a tread rating of 100K… Read more »
I actually read the doc and it’s awfully damning. The good news is that production of that tire ceased 15 years ago. If anyone is driving on tires that old, they’re asking for trouble. That aside, yeah, it certainly looks like Goodyear hid a lot and settled cases toot sweet.
Edit. Holy shit. I really had diarrhea of the keyboard. Sorry about that.
Useful information, nonetheless.
In Firearm related news, a federal judge in Taxachusetts has upheld the gun-grabbers wet dream ban on AR-15 rifles, stating “The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to ‘bear arms”. “The features of a military-style rifle are “designed and intended to be particularly suitable for combat rather than sporting applications,”.
It would appear that Judge Young, nominated to the court by President Reagan has no idea of what the founders intended when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. Nor does he have even a rudimentary knowledge of the AR-15.
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/381957-federal-judge-upholds-massachusetts-assault-weapons-ban
Did that federal fuckstick write that legal opinion on parchment, with a quill? No? Then it’s invalid. Eat a dick, your honor!
Beat me to it, UpNorth. I just read the story. What firearms and attachments to them are banned or not are mere policy matters, according to His Lordship. Said he, “”These policy matters are simply not of constitutional moment. Americans are not afraid of bumptious, raucous and robust debate about these matters. We call it democracy.” Yeah, and some of us call you an asshole and your decision a feather in tyranny’s cap, William “Don’t Call Me Billy” Young.
And another thing. If an AR-15 is a military weapon, why isn’t it available with full auto? And the venerable 1911 is a military weapon but that’s okay. Go figure. I can’t.
And another another thing. How about His Lordship’s turn of phrase, “not of constitutional moment.” Is that a pip or what? Sounds so…so…assholish.
Gives His Lordship the gravitas, don’t it?
Something, for sure. Is gravitas a synonym for willful ignorance?
The “judge” is ingorant. He needs to check the 3 gun matches/pistol, AR-15 and semi-automatic shotgun. The Camp Perry matches, the list goes on and on. Not to mention hunting with the larger caliber ARs. Dumpass judge! Joe
Yeah, he also needs to check this, from SCOTUS. “But in an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday vacated that ruling. It said the Massachusetts court improperly found that Second Amendment protection applies only to weapons that were in common use at the time of the nation’s founding.
Referring to its landmark 2008 ruling on handguns in the home, the justices said the Second Amendment applies “to all instruments that constitute bearable arms,” even those not in existence at the time of the founding.” Emphasis added.
This from JAIME CAETANO v. MASSACHUSETTS, decided March 21, 2016.
Forgot to add to this, this was a unanimous decision by the Supremes.
I read Billy’s decision and it hinged on words that were lifted from Heller regarding military weaponry. The Heller majority recognized that some weapons fall outside of 2nd Amendment protection. (In that regard, it would be pretty tough to argue that if one wanted a .50 cal or a few sidewinders in his personal arsenal, there should be no legal impediment to their acquisition. Your view may differ.) Anyway, Billy’s test was to ask whether the banned weapon is “most useful in military service.” If the answer is no, then the 2nd A protects it. If the answer is yes, then there is no 2nd A protection. Billy answered yes, that the AR-15 is most useful in military service and, therefore, unprotected by the 2nd Amendment.
The Heller decision was a major foray into an area the Supremes have always been loathe to tread. The decision was close and left many issues purposefully unaddressed. In fact, the only matter it absolutely satisfied was to declare D.C.’s blanket ban unconstitutional. As more states sign on to these partial bans of select weapons, replete with challenges and conflicting Federal Circuit decisions, the matter will again be put to the Supreme Court. When? I have no idea but it will most likely be when the court will have votes that are at least 7-2 one way or another. Anything else merely prolongs this mess.
Here’s Billy’s decision: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2018/04/06/Worman%20dismissal-SJ%20ruling%204-6-18.pdf
I made scalloped potatoes au gratin with ham last night.
Lots of cheese sauce, thick and creamy. The best part was when I took the foil off and finished the dish uncovered, as the recipe says to do. Burnt cheese in the top layer – yummo!
It was to die for.
Only thing I can think to add would be a couple small hand-fulls of frozen peas, stirred in at the last minute. They won’t over cook that way and would add a nice veg note to the dish.
Healthy, ya know, to go with all that creamy buttery cheese sauce with the tasty burnt bits on top.
Now I’m hungry, dammit.
Just saw on FB that the 101st lost an Apache and its crew last night. Can’t find link now. What’s with all these crashes? RIP.
Army Times link.
RIP Pilot Troopers.
No particular knowledge of this incident, of course, but haven’t we historically seen an uptick in aviation accidents flowing lean budget years which made proper maintenance difficult/impossible?
It’s circular- funding shortfalls means lack of parts and people, means lack of aircraft for aircrews to maintain proficiency = more missteps and accidents. Written in blood and I blame, well, doesn’t really matter. The saving grace is now we seem to be on the road to recovery, but the recovery lags and the military are paying the price. As usual.
In a way, aircraft are like us.
Older bones, more glitches.
As you age, you get to the point where you spend a great deal of money trying to slow down that process.
No money? Life sucks.
We have been using aircraft heavily, in a seventeen year war, with signs of being multi-generational, and with idiots playing penny-pinch and other idiots trying to be the nice guy.
Wars may be fought by nice guys. They seldom -win-.
There had better be a strong impression of
“… and do not -ever- piss us off again. Or there might not even be eyes to weep or voices to wail”
If you want to claim the moral high ground in war, you have to end the war. That -requires- a decisive victory. Otherwise, it never ends.
Adam Benjamin Appel formerly of Anchorage Alaska and currently of Pahoa, Hilo, Hawaii can’t stop lying.
https://adamappelemt.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/adam-appel-and-alaskas-elder-fraud-case-against-him/
He claims that he’s never been investigated yet yet anyone can go on the Alaska Court System website as shown at the link above and see that he was investigated by the Alaska Office of Elder Fraud. The case was driven by his own mother. Adam Appel settled that case only because of the lawsuit.
Whats worrisome here is that Adam Appel currently owns a Street Medic charity and solicits donations.
https://adamappelfraud.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/adam-appel-lies-about-being-in-a-plane-crash-in-fiji-in-january-2015/
Adam Appel has a history of telling false narratives about himself. He even lied about being in a plane crash while in Fiji in 2015. There is no doubt that Adam “Beowulf” Appel (as he calls himself now was in Fiji, it’s just that every known aircraft accident is documented and it’s clear that the crash in question had no passengers.
“Pants on fire” fits Adam Appel to a tee.
Holden
And in the “So, what else is new” category, there are reports that Syria used gas against civilians again. Of course, “a hospital” was targeted and whole families were killed. Color me skeptical. The reports have not been confirmed and, I don’t know about you, but the timing of this strikes me as odd, coinciding with Trump’s announcement that US forces would be pulled from that shithole. And is there a checklist with these reports? It seems that if it’s not a school, a hospital is targeted and if neither of those then it’s an orphanage.
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
Monkey see, monkey do. Last month, public school teachers went on strike and won everything they demanded. So, now, KY, AZ, and OK teachers are making noise, staging walk-outs and walk-ins and making demands. Some ‘protest’ signs in KY read, “Don’t make us go West Virginia on you!” Few states require consideration of student performance on standardized tests in teachers evaluations. Must be nice to have a job in which the results of one’s efforts are neither here nor there when it comes to retention and raises. It must also be nice to be paid for degrees held, rather than teaching ability.
WEST VIRGINIA public school teachers
And now a word about weather forecasters. Overall, they suck. Their websites suck. Their predictions suck. Their global-warming drum banging sucks. Among the many weather sites, I have found one that’s good. It’s called Weather Underground. The name is terrible, for those of us who lived during the 60s and paid attention, but their predictions are their website isn’t a mess. On the other hand, there’s The Weather Channel, which has to be the worst in all categories and, maybe tied with it for wrong weather predictions, is Accuweather. Accuweather is so bad, I would not trust it to tell me the current weather conditions anywhere. That is all.
Test – Test – Code Monkey has been fiddling around with the puter.
Guess it works. Thank You for your time.