Weekend open thread
April 20, 2018
Dust City
At Black Rock City—the temporary city raised in the Nevadan desert for the annual Burning Man festival—camps are laid out as if on a clock. On a street in the 7:30 camp sector, festival-goers bike through the omnipresent dust as the sun sets.
Category: Open thread
First!
Thanks for the challenge! Had a break at work… back to the grind.
Have a GREAT weekend, y’all!!!
And I’m on travel. I hand over the WOT orb and sceptre to Roh-Dog
I said I wasn’t going to try to push the 4-peat anyway.
Cheers to all TAH and have a good weekend. Talk to you all next week.
“I hand over the WOT orb and sceptre to Roh-Dog” That’s one take. Here’s another:
“Roh-Dog invaded my domain, crushed my guards, and ripped the WOT scepter from my trembling hands.”
Yeah, mea culpa. I didn’t know I was messing with history.
The Glorious Title of First is blindingly beautiful, it’s ambrosia fruits make beasts of reverent Men. The warm embrace of its silken warmth is legend. There can be only one!
I dickweeds. Back to the daily grind.
And I award 1+ Internets and 5+ LOLZ to 2/17 Air Cav
😀 😀 😀 🙂 😉
Five Finger Death Punch
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VsvZmIWxY&feature=share
For the love of sanity, take SFC D’s advice and take your meds Little Yeffy, you’re making yourself the obnoxious little brother nobody wants to own.
YEF! Why are you watching videos that desecrate a classic rock song when your ass should be policing the parade ground! Someone has neglected your education and we’re all suffering for it! GUMP! Get in here and square Yef away!
First!@
This ain’t the f’n Olympics. There are no medals issued. There are no trophies. Only one can stand atop the pedestal each week. Only one can Claw enter into the ancient and venerable Book of Firsts. This day the name “Roh-Dog” shall be entered. All hail Roh-Dog!
Hail Roh-Dog!
This time.
Hmm. Rush tune? By-Tor and the Roh-Dog.
“Roh-Dog, is Victorious!”
“The land of the Overwolrld, is saved again!”
All Hail Indeed! This is an honor that all hope to achieve!!
Highlander -movie-
(Connor MacLeod’s voice)
There should -be- only one!!!
He cares about these helpless mortals…it shall be his undoing.
What if I told y’all that I intended to be first, and could have beaten that Roh-Dog guy but my laptop had updated, and in so doing had logged me out at TAH, and I had to log back in, and, uh, um. Fuggit, forget it, I can’t do the liberal whine worth a damn, carry on, Y’all.
You don’t play the violin well at all, Frankie. Keep practicing.
FIRST!
Uhhhhhhm, nope.
First
OK; 4th.
No shame in top 5, Mick. Congrats to Roh-Dog!
Who dat is First?
Ok, silver medal for me. Grats Roh
I meant Bronze.
If I had been a Marine, I would know my colors better.
I would also know what they taste like, but I would know them better.
That’s ok Jon, they all taste the same!
that’s why I add salt
Congrats Roh-Dog, you got me by mere seconds!
Where is Chip?
Buying a new F5 key?
You too get a +1 Internets and 3 LOLZ. 😀 😀 😀
I was on travel and out of the state and not on the Nets at WOT times.
BUT I’M BACK BITCHEZ
Didn’t think I would be here today, but they moved my surgery to 05/01 instead? I guess my doctor must have had a good tee time today??
Today is 4/20. Maybe he wrote himself a medical marijuana prescription.
Did Dan pass his flight physical?
He might have,,, Blood Pressure wasn’t high, heart rate wasn’t exceptionally fast, and his breathing was not overdone.
Being at ambient temperature was wasn’t helpful, though.
Woooooo ooooooo wooooo! I can float and fly! Woooooooooooooooooo! Oooooooooooooooo! Add my name to the died because of This Aint Hell list! Oooo ooo ooooooo oooooo!
SERIAL STOLEN VALORIST and MEGA CLASS PATHETIC LOSER, Kyle Christopher Barwan, seems to be losing weight over there in the Florida’s most Northwest Panhandle Prison camp at Century Florida. Ol’ prisoner #H50625 did weigh 155 pounds but is now down to 138 pounds. I guess that Bubba is pounding the fat right out of him.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=H50625&TypeSearch=AI
I’m sure the weight loss is due to the famous Tube Steak Diet!
I’ve heard that Ghey Whey Shakes can do the same thing to those that are incarcerated.
That or he’s giving up portions of his meals to “buy protection” or just to keep from getting his ass beaten on a regular basis.
TOP TWENTY and Honorary First once again.
And Dirt Bag Dan is still DEAD!
Top 20. First in everyone’s hearts!
Posers love to claim “sniper” but never do the hard work and achieve the discipline required of the job.
Last I heard, Military Sniper Schools had maybe a 30% Graduation Rate.
Once they consider the “alone within range of enemy forces” part, most of the dropees are glad to walk.
I barely qualified with the M16A1 in OSUT, hitting 23 out of 40 to get the Marksman Badge. I was an 11C mortar maggot anyway, so the M16A1 was not my primary weapon; I did better with the mortars…
Is he wearing a flea & tick collar?
LOL! That’s not a bad idea! Wouldn’t stop the snake, though.
Black Racer snakes are cool! Had one (~6ft) living in my backyard under a shed when I lived in Florida.
Shy snakes, easily startled. The pictured sniper did well to be unnoticed by it.
Coulda sworn that was a rat snake (a/k/a black snake) so I looked them up and damned if they aren’t nearly identical. The difference is that a racer has glossier skin. Give me a freakin’ break! Glossier?
I remember this snake very well from growing up in North Carolina. It is the Southern Black Racer. Non venomous, it will act aggressive when cornered and as its name implies, it is quite fast and moves quickly to protect itself. It can be caught, but it’s like catching a chicken. Looks like the Indigo Snake except the Indigo has an orange lower jaw, an iridescent deep blue color and is very aggressive. It is often killed because fools think it is a Cottonmouth. Like the common and bigger, Black Snake, they are beneficial around the barn and farm building for keeping down mice, insects and such. And that’s our Herpetology lesson for today. Thanks for tuning in.
That’s a bad snipper. He didn’t cover his glass.
Lesson number 1.85 in snipper skool, tape your damn scope eye so it is not round and easy to detect.
Big black circle, potentially reflective depending on the sun’s position, is a target indicator.
So your picture sux.
Cool snake though.
Almost as long as my weenie.
Yef. Whose Army are you in?
Me thinks, the Army of the Brain Dead.
Oh no! Someone unleashed
The Army of Dorkness!
Or the Army of Dipshit!
Yef! 1SG needs coffee and the company street needs sweeping! Drop the floor wax and the execute! And no goddamn daisies, do you read me? Bali Bali!
Have him go paint some rocks decorating the walkway leading to the CP…
I’ve considered submitting Yef to Guinness, nominating him as a World Record Meathead.
Hopefully he’s an army of one.
Thank you for your input, moved on from aviation I see. Pro tip, Yef: when slamming someone else’s effort, do try to use proper grammar and syntax.
Otherwise it makes you look like a fucking idiot.
I thought snippers performed vasectomies
Briss.
A “snipper” would be a Mohel.
So, Rabbis make more money than Priests because they get more tips?
A Mohel saved every foreskin he cut and after a few years it amounted to 10 lbs. He went to a leatherworker and asked him to make something of his collection.
Leatherworker said, “Sure, come back next week.”
The next week the leatherworker handed over the finished product to the Mohel.
The Mohel said, “A wallet? I bring you 10 lbs of foreskin and all I get is a wallet?”
Leatherworker said, “Wait, there’s more. Just rub it a few times and it turns into a suitcase.”
[rimshot]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou. I’ll be here all week; be sure to tip your waitress.
Not THAT tip!
[rimshot]
What did the leper say to the hooker?
“Keep the tip.”
Look like?
You do realize that big black circle is the end of his muzzle?
Yeah, but he was talking about the scope that is seen behind the muzzle that is behind the snake.
*behind the muzzle is the snake; behind the snake is the scope.*
sheesh … wish we had an edit button.
I’m here and I’m clear. That’s all that counts.
Sky is clear, too. No snow. Mallards are in my yard, like the idiots they are.
“Mallards are in my yard…” Let the cats out. Cats like Mallards.
My youngest dog, 17 months old, turning into a great goat guard, has been keeping the crows out of the pasture. Yesterday he began also keeping the Cattle Egrets flying, proving that he is not a racist. Named “Neally Keneally” after Col. John Keneally Ranger who was killed in the Antelope Island, Utah helicopter crash, is doing his namesake proud. He will face any danger or perceived danger, and chase it off the farm.
You have to ask, Frankie, why they would land in my area where there is NO water for swimming or marshy spot for nesting within at least a mile. The river is about 3 miles west and the wetlands another 2.5 miles further.
This is not a smart move, but they are ducks.
There could well be a food source. Are there any grain type growth, with supple, green stalks? They really don’t prefer bread, (except the slackers that are on duck welfare, hanging in the town ponds, not migrating.), but love to eat fresh grasses.
Well, some of us do put out birdfood, which includes millet and cracked corn and sunflower seeds, so that’s probably what brought them here in the first place. That, and they also like nibbling on grass shoots.
M. R. Ducks.
M. R. Not.
O. S. A. R.
C. M. Wangs
L. I. B.
M. R. Ducks.
*grin*
Ha Ha, I’ve been using that for years… a Kentucky reading test!
believe it or not, ducks prefer to eat things like snails, and slugs if given the opportunity. i am on my 2nd year growing mushrooms, the cooking kind, not the ones that make you see colors and the like and i use them to keep the snails from eating my crop. i feed them in the morning after gathering eggs then by night time they are hungry and go a huntin for the little slimy things! haven’t lost a full crop yet like my neighbor down the road did. of course i have white peekings, and a tolkien Rouen for diversity purposes. i don’t want to be called raciest by the other ducks…
Still winter. Still not first.
Spring is coming, any time now.
*looks at watch, taps foot*
Someone fire that lying groundhog.
Six weeks?
It’s likely that Punxatawney Phil will need to be shielded from lynch mobs for a while.
The snow finally melted in my yard. Now it appears that the snow west of the Mississippi is trying to pick up steam (water vapor load) and head my way.
I hope those mallards found a good spot in someone’s garden to nest and raise babies.
In an adventurous spirit, I ordered the “City Taven Cookbook” by Walter Staib, a nicely done and NOT lightweight tome that updates colonial recipes, including 1st Lady Martha Washington’s chocolate mousse cake. He includes a LOT of the history of Philadelphia as the center of what was going on at the end of the 18th century. It was worth every minute of impatiently waiting for it to arrive, and there are several recipes that I intend to have a shot at this year.
Waiting for the arrival of Hannah Glasse’s “Cookery”, written in 1785, for housewives in England. Since modern refrigeration didn’t come into existence until the 1930s and iceboxes were a development of the middle of the 19th century (you can still get one today), this will be a real lesson in how to keep things from spoiling and tell you quickly if they’re unfit to use.
Also, the Marines keep flying over my house on their training travels. Marines, geese, mallard ducks, and a stray calico cat – what a zoo!
Ex, after the discussion last week about cast-iron cookware, I’ve ordered a Lodge LDP3 reversible grill/griddle which is due to show up Monday. Since I normally use stainless, I’m not exactly clear on how to do the seasoning. Best guess would be to coat it with olive oil and bake it in the oven at 375 degrees for an hour. Any thoughts?
They season it for you, before it ever gets out into the public, and for a few dollars more, will include a spray bottle of canola oil (I prefer olive oil, too) for reseasoning it after you clean it up. Or you can go to Ace and buy the bottle of canola, or get it at your local grocery.
But as I said, like you, I prefer olive oil over canola for everything.
I’d suggest canola, or crisco, not olive, as it’ll go rancid Perry. As to the cookbook Ex, If you’re ever in Phily, they rebuilt City Tavern right around the corner from Independence Hall. The serve recipies from that cookbook, as well as beers brewed according to recipes of the Founding Fathers. It’s all done up as it was originally, even the servers are in period dress… worth your time if you’re there.
When I got that cookbook, I made a fresh pot of tea, sat down at my kitchen table and started reading all the history stuffed into the front of the book.
Then I went to the recipes. by the time I looked up again, it was dark and I was being pestered for food by my cats.
It was worth every coin I put into it, and I will get his other cookbook, too, at the end of summer. The historical stuff was at least as important as the recipes, because they are supported by the history of that place.
I went down Market Street by mistake one day when I was still in Philly. Looks like they’ve cleaned it up a little since then.
If you have a gas grill, 350 or so on indirect heat will keep your house smoke free. I season Dutch ovens that way. And vegetable oil works much better than olive oil. Cast iron gets better with use.
Nix on the olive oil for it’s first seasoning. You really do need a fat which will sustain high heat until you get that first coating well stuck. Crisco is the absolute easiest to use, but lard is better especially if it is hoe rendered.
Yeah, I have tried to make olive oil work and basically ended up with a plastic coating instead of what I wanted. Not good.
Avoid cooking high acid foods until it is well seasoned. That may be the most important consideration.
And to anyone buying a brand new “seasoned” piece of cast iron – you still need to season it. It’s just easier than when seasoning a raw piece of cast iron.
Also, now is the time to clean it well, with soap, even if you plan to never use soap on it again.
Lodge is recommending canola and reseasoning after each use. My next purchase will be their enameled Dutch oven, so I’ll pick up the canola spray when I do that.
Lodge making enameled cast iron now. What fun! When you get a piece, let us know how well (or not) it cooks, and how it compares to any other brands you may have. I have an extensive collection, mainly gathered from thrift shops (before everyone else caught on), and mainly Le Creuset. Love the stuff. Debating having it all buried with me.
Thanks to all for the useful comments. I’ll probably go with the lard option now for first seasoning. If memory serves, it’s available in 1 lb. bricks where Latinos get groceries under the label “Manteca.”
The initial choice of olive oil was pretty much due to reflex. Olive trees grow locally where I live, and using Canola oil, except for maybe deep frying, is generally about as rare as drinking wine with a screw top. This isn’t a matter of foodie snobbery as much as what’s commonly available.
Manteca for lard, it’s the only brand being sold around here.
Ex, I believe the word “Manteca” is Spanish for “Lard.” It’s a content label, not a brand. The stuff I’m talking about is actually a product of Armour Foods. It’s sometimes shelved in obscure places.
Given the hyper-healthy gym rat culture around here, it’s sort of a wonder the stores sell the stuff at all. It wouldn’t be a surprise to find it someday kept behind the counter along with cigarettes, and those adult magazines with the covers not displayed…
Oh, okay, I thought it was the brand name! My bad! It’s not available at regular stores, but the supermercados carry it.
I know that Walmart carries salt pork (for beef burgundy – bacon is insufficient), but I haven’t found out where they hide it so far.
Wal-Mart stocks the salt pork right next to the bacon in the meat cooler. See it every time I go shopping there.
Hmmm…. I will have to speak to the stockers then. Maybe they were out when I went last time.
I just pulled my Lodge cast iron double cooker out of the box and found the instructions guide (in Spanish, French and English) in the large cooker.
It says that for seasoning and re-seasoning the cast iron cookware, they prefer to use soy vegetable oil. That’s after cleanup and drying it. They also recommend steel wool if something is stuck, but I have the non-scratching scouring pads, so I want to see if those work better.
So I’d say if your preference is canola, use that, but they prefer soy oil, and this is to reseason the cookware, not what’s to be used in cooking.
What? No one has mentioned Comey and company yet? The Dems are having convulsions. And then there’s the POS from Fresno State who expressed her joy at the Bush Family’s loss of their matriarch. What else? That’s more than enough for now.
Yeah, that walking obscenity made a name for itself in no time, and I’m sure that the D-rat party doesn’t mind having it as one of their spokemouths.
The have a pic of the land whale you’ve mentioned on a post over at Victory Girls Blog, but fair warning, don’t look if you have a weak stomach..
That “fattening Hog” took her mouth out of the trough low enough to declare that she was a “tenured professor” and her 100K a year job was safe no matter how people complained about her.
The school stepped in, and although they haven’t took any action yet they made it abundantly clear that she is NOT as safe as she thinks she is.
Fresno State has a few big donors who have spoken against The Hog and one, especially, has the school’s attention. Of course, some of The Hog’s fellow swine have invoked “academic freedom” as her shield while she (and I’m not at all certain she is the correct pronoun) is using tenure. I don’t know of any organization that permits its employees to bring the organization into disrepute, other than universities, that is. She has pulled Fresno State into the slop hole in which she wallows.
I read the article at Victory Girls. She tweeted a mental health clinic’s phone number and claimed it was hers and told people to call that number if they had something to say.
Bitch, you have a helluva big shovel. Keep digging.
She thinks that being tenured means that she cannot be fired. That is incorrect. It’s a contract between her and the university and violation of the contract can and will get her fired for cause.
Free speech is protected. Dragging her employer into her hot mess and misdirecting people whose anger at her remarks are not protected.
Man, once in a while – oh, well.
‘…whose anger at her remarks is valid…’
My bad. Sorry.
I’m fine with academic freedom, but pranking the mental health line is grounds for a boot to the ass, even if they were praising Barbara Bush to the heavens.
Agreed. She went far over the line when she did that.
In regard to Mr. Comey’s book and book tour, it appears that it is not going very well for him.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/james-comeys-book-tour-backfires
After a mighty fine meal at Chick-fil-A my girl and I went to Walmart last nite. Mr Comey’s book was on the shelf for $20.99. After thinking to myself, out loud, loud enough to embarrass her, the toilet paper I was holding was over priced by $22.
I admit I read a few pages.
My takeaway: Comey musta had a couple ribs removed…
Is it worth maybe $.50 at a used book sale next year?
Naw. I use the junk mail to start the fire, it comes to the Fort for free.
Well, heck. I’m so far down the line I don’t even think I’ll guess at a number. Congrats, Roh-Dog!
Friends, let’s go again into the world of odd trivia and my bizarre sense of humor … my weekly column! DID YOU KNOW…? When did the running of the Olympic flame via torch relays start? By Commissioner Wretched Technology impresses the heck out of me. I mean, I can remember the days when a telephone was connected to the wall … in the kitchen … with extensions (if you were lucky) in the parents’ bedroom. And it had a rotary dial. (And party lines, too.) Today, we wear our telephones in little holsters on our belts, or carry them in our purses or pockets. (Sometimes all three.) I take it a step further … I also wear a telephone on my wrist. My watch has its own phone number. And the capabilities of the phones staggers the imagination. Back in the day, you had a number to dial to get the time and temperature, and another number where you could dial a prayer. That was about it; if you needed more information, you could call the library, I suppose. Now, we have access to the entire sum total of human knowledge in a device we can hold in our hands … … and we use it to look at pictures of cats. While technology changes, trivia does not – it just grows. And it’s time to take our weekly look at how it’s grown. Drop a note to me at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com if you’ve a mind to, and I’ll gladly reply. It’s time to put the phone down … and read some trivia! Did you know … … there are as many as 3,000 different types of bacteria on that one-dollar bill in your wallet? (Hey, bacteria have to live somewhere, don’t they?) … you are fifteen times more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than by a shark? (Should you see a shark with a coconut, you’re on your own.) … an adult cat will not meow at another cat? Cats use this sound only for humans. Scientists say they’re trying to emulate human speech. (And a lucky… Read more »
I knew maybe two of those. Three if you count my knowing Kiwis are native to New Zealand.
I kinda debate the cat thing but then again my sister’s cats only meow to each other when I’m present to see it and never do when I’m not there
for all I know.
Good stuff!
A group of wives is called a “gossip” and a group of hookers is call a “clap”.
If that isn’t true then by God it should be.
So let it be written
A group of girls is called a “giggle”.
Ah! I have one for you, Commissioner.
New Zealand has a native reptile genus called Sphenodontia, with only two species in the group. The Sphenodonts are genetically linked to, and thought to be, the last remnants of the dinosaurs.
Thank you, Ex! I’ll research it and add it to a future column!
In THE TOP 59.
A little self felating:
I’m back to work! As of the 12th of April I was hired onto a great outfit and my first paycheck arrived this morning. 6 months after being laid off from a Class III electronics company sucking the tits of unemployment dry I am now working in Elmira, New York (Yes, I know but it’s a living) installing and upgrading radios for first responders, LEOs, school districts and various trucking companies. I am happy once again!
That’s good stuff, Rev. Now, get back to work. (Seriously, congrats on the new gig.)
Thank you, 2/17! It’s a tiny bunch (9 personnel including myself and the owner) and most of us are vets. I didn’t mean to say I wasn’t happy but I’ve never been out of work for so long before. I’ve never been laid off before either so that was two new experiences I got through.
Congrats, Padre!
My appreciation is reciprocated, brother!
Congratz, and thanks for helping out First Responders, that’s good work!
Thank you for having trust in my work. I’ll never let you guys down.
From the bottom of my heart, Fyrfighter thank you for what you do.
Also thanks for letting me drive your vehicles around. If I’m afforded the luxury of time I would like to entertain working reserve in some capacity to any given branch that needs a spare body. I’m not fat, yet.
Sorry, beer on Friday makes me into an overt softy.
The sentiment is genuine but needs toned down on the saccharine.
Throwing congratulations your way, Reverand Pointyhead.
(Just glad I’m retired and can choose what I want to do now.)
Thank you, Ex!
Hopefully I’ll one day achieve retirement. I’ll still be working but at that point I’ll be called the old man who won’t go away and wants to talk to the new guys about his new fishing pole.
Congrats on the job, Rev!
Cool beans RP, glad to hear the good news!
Thanks again guys. Plus we all benefit from my being employed as I’ll have less time to post my dad level groaners!
Present!!!
“Sparks showed up, so all troops are accounted for now Sir.”
FIRST!!!!1111
3E8 Hex, you mean.
and still a tool….
Hor the love of your two remaining brain cells Yef, STOP eating the daisies!
93rd First!
or 60eleventh, I am doing socialist math…
2+2=5
How do you train your non-dominant hand to write? By doing something similar to how you trained your dominant hand to write. Start with your ABCs.
I can smell the hippies through the internet. God damn it, John.
Haight-Ashbury in the summer of 1967, now that was a place where there was really a smell of hippies in the air. The streets in that neighborhood were choked with them. Ah, the combined smells of weed, patchouli oil, incense, and BO–what a smell.
There was a funny story about Burning Man going around a few years ago. It so happened the local Sheriff and a Deputy decided to pay a visit to the festival to check on things. While they were talking to one of the people at the gate, they happened to notice a bunch of people smoking dope and running around naked. Since nobody seemed to be suffering from arterial bleeding or whatever, the Sheriff decided to let it slide.
Deputy: Damnit, Sheriff, how can you do that!? These people are smoking dope and running around naked right in front of us!
Sheriff: How many people do you see doing this?
Deputy: There’s got to be at least two dozen.
Sheriff: And how many people does our jail hold?
Deputy: About six.
Sheriff: Are you gonna have the rest of them stay over at your house?
ahhh Burning Man…the festival held annually to celebrate stupidity by morons just before they go vote.
95rd!
Ha, beat that DW’s.
Comment #101 to honor my Combat Patch.
If you haven’t heard about this rude awakening for the hippies and Greenies, then read the article:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/18/green-shock-entire-forests-being-murdered-to-produce-wood-pellet-biomass/
They thought it was okay to cut down trees, which return tons of oxygen to the atmosphere on a daily basis, because it isn’t coal or oil-based. Now this is blowing up in their faces. They are destroying their own habitat.
They are so completely dense, you wonder how they can function at all.
Saw that. Not only are they cutting them down for biofuel, but shipping that fuel across the Atlantic. LOL
Just like the conversations I like having with electric car driving hippies. You think you’re saving the world? Do you know where your electricity is coming from (mostly coal here) or how those batteries are made (in Chinese mines and sweatshops that belch out toxins)? Not to mention, I can easily rebuild an engine with a minimum of garbage. You cannot do that with those battery packs. Li-Ion batteries are notoriously hard to recycle.
I call ’em coal fired cars, and watch the lib’s heads explode when the truth hits ’em right between the eyes.
I just passed by a burned-out Tesla about 2 weeks ago, on 23 March. I was headed north towards Redwood City and it was on 101 south near the 85 turn-off, not far from Moffett Field. Fire trucks all over that side and traffic was backed up for five miles.
I hoped nobody was injured but read later that the driver was killed.
The FD couldn’t put out the fire and had to call Tesla, who sent out a team. There are certain protocols regarding battery-cars.
Thanks Elon Musk, but I’ll stick to my Prius V.
(and yes, I do drink caffè-latte.)
Image:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/23/tesla-catches-fire-driver-suffers-major-injuries-after-crash-on-highway-101/
“Why the Fire that Incinerated a Tesla Was Such a Nightmare to Put Out”
https://www.livescience.com/62179-tesla-fire-cleanup-danger.html
Okay … about 4 weeks ago. My! how time flies when you get old.
Class D fire, I believe.
Battery fires are noxious personified.
Or the Chevy Volt which will spontaneously catch fire. No thanks on all that, I’ll stick with my good old F150.
Back in them there Days of Yore, I had this wickerbill Dodge 2-door thing for commuting to work from Alexandria to NAS Anacostia. One sunny morning, in the middle of the drawbridge over the Potomac, the battery on that piece of trash shorted out and set something on fire. Being the nub that I was, I did not have a fire extinguisher in the car.
Fortunately, someone stopped and yanked the wires off the battery posts, which ended the charge, but the car was toasted to perfection. Went to the junkyard. It is the reason I hate Dodges.
I bought a Chevy to replace it.
The Maine paper mills are gone.
The puplwood is now ground at a mill in Calais and put on ships to China. They make the paper products and sell them to you and me. Thank you hippies.
All jobs seem to move around.
The US furniture industry started in the south, in the Carolinas, then moved to Michigan. From there it went to Japan, and now, it’s in China.
This ties right in with something that happened a couple of weeks ago. It’s worth capitalizing on it, too, because it’s all current and the sudden awareness that comes up is priceless.
Here is the skinny on burning wood.
Realtime data for ISO New England.
Click on the Fuel Mix Chart tab “renewables” to see the wood, refuse, landfill gas, wind and cow fart percentages.
https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/
If you are looking for something to do tomorrow, and just happen to be in DC, stop by Nationals Park for the beer festival. You can tip a few beers with Hack and his gang of North Philly street gang members, and he will entertain you with tales as to (see what I did there?) the genius of Paul. Hack will be attending the 12:00 – 15:00 one.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-dc-beer-fest-tickets-42298045593
Thanks for the invite, Hack, I’m an hour or so south of Mordor on the Potomac. It would take a Congressional subpoena to drag me there.
Have a great time, and leave early.
AW1Ed sends
Bobo and I happened to meet up for one or two of these type events a few years back. If you can’t make this one, in June there is the Beer Bourbon & Barbecue Festival at National Harbor. Hack will be going to the Saturday event.
https://festivalnet.com/47263/Oxon-Hill-Maryland/Festivals/Beer,-Bourbon-BBQ-Festival-National-Harbor
That pic looks like me at work today.
I might wish cancer on my enemies, but I wouldn’t wish Pecos, Texas on them.
Nuff said.
Not a bad little town, went to a wedding and spent the night once. Not exactly the entertainment capitol unless you go out to the interchange and watch I20 and I10 split.
Trump is being sued by Hillary for collusion with Russia.
Another one of those “Are you really sure you want to go there?” moments. Discovery will be interesting.
This is what happens when you start believing your own lies.
There is a Stantis cartoon in the paper this morning of Shrillary looking at some papers, and the Donkeycrat walking away, saying ‘Consider yourself served’. The title of the cartoon is “If the Democrats want to sue the true culprit of their 2016 defeat”.
Here’s the link: http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm?cartoonist=StantS
Priceless.
Excellent… 🙂
On another note, there may be some vacancies at SCOTUS before too long.
Trey Gowdy has already announced that he’s leaving politics and returning to the practice of law.
Who would you want more in one of those seats than him?
Ted Cruz would be my first choice.
I would be quite happy with both of them.
Authorities grew suspicious when she used the name Elaine Ricci.
http://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/04/slidell_woman_used_stolen_id_t.html
Adam Appel formerly of Anchorage, Alaska and now apparently hailing from Pahoa, Hilo, Hawaii has found the inside of a civil courtroom again….well…sort of
https://adamappelemt.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/adam-appel-more-civil-legal-action-but-this-time-in-hawaii/
Adam Appel in court shouldn’t surprise anyone given that he was forced to settle a suit by the Alaska Office of Elder Fraud for allegedly stealing money from his own mother. Real winner here, folks.
https://adamappelemt.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/adam-appel-and-alaskas-elder-fraud-case-against-him/
So, what does a guy that had to be chased down for Elder Fraud do with his seemingly ample leisure time with no seemingly visible means of support? He owns a charity and solicit donations of course.
Sigh.
Holden Magroin
Felony fajita. Holy shit! Some guy, we’ll call him Gilberto Escamilla, was working at a Texas juvenile detention facility when he started ordering fajitas for the facility, even though fajitas aren’t served there. Well, nine years and 1.2 million dollars worth of fajitas later, he appears in court for sentencing for the theft. Slap on the wrist? How about 50 years! He got caught b/c some diligent employee–not of the detention facility but of the delivery company–called the facility to let them know that 800 lbs of fajitas had been delivered.
In a world of taint, the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress was no saint….
Say what you will of Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics, but he must have aced Employee Management in order to convince one of his flunkies to go on line and defend Phil’s false claims of being a Navy SEAL, to such an extent that the moron lost his job, his savings, his home, what little reputation that he had, and probably his marriage.
I was doing some research on the origins of Georgia’s Stolen Valor laws, and I came across this story: http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Proposed-Georgia-bill-to-penalize–284807251.html
Does anybody know this Stephen Lewandowski?
John Giduck- the turd with a face!
Bruno Sammartino has departed the earthly ring:
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/04/22/wrestler-bruno-sammartinos-viewing-draws-hundreds-fans.html
An Icon of Pittsburgh.
so i know the weekend is almost over, but knowing how highly we all regard the Huffington Post, i thought we could all help them with some research since they are soliciting stories… have at em boys
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hate-crimes-tracker_us_58d3fd28e4b0b22b0d1abc26
It’s a snowflake whining form. No, really. For the whining snowflake database HuffPo is starting up.
Guess I can’t contribute much to them then. Not a victim of anything here except the aging process. And whining is not something you hear much around here. Well, maybe a little around April 15 each year.
Trump is being sued by Hillary for collusion (according to CNN) and I am being investigated by the FAA for murder of DAB (according to some sources) …
The cray-cray is mighty strong in some quarters. I think the first guy to say Liberalism is a mental disease was Michael Savage. D-rats keep proving that proposition daily.
The only thing that guy was a victim of was using his intelligence to thwart gravity.
The DNC is suing the MAGA campaign. Considering the DoJ and Congress haven’t found a damn thing, makes you wonder iffin those Commie sh*theads, specifically Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, are getting high on their own supply again.
The Dems and our not-very-good pilot/lawyer friend apparently have the same brain activity levels.
DB’s piloting skillz were on the same par as his lawering skilz–practically non-existant. This lawer stunt by the D-rats is nothing more than a fundraising/PR stunt because someone has told them Mueller is not getting anywhere with the Russia, Russia!! witch hunt. They have to keep their phony meme/narrative alive until the November mid-terms. They can allege but can’t prove Wikileaks was Trump’s agent. The lawsuit will be dismissed or dumped by motions for summary judgement, but that will take over six months to accomplish. This is nothing but the latest example of D-rat lawfare. Soros can buy lots of law whores.
I have to mention this b/c it’s gov’t at its finest. A woman returning to the US from a trip to France was given an apple on Delta Airlines and put it in her carry-on bag for a later snack. The apple was wrapped in plastic with Delta Airlines printed on the wrapper. At Customs, her bag was searched and the apple was found. Because all fruit and veggies have to be declared and she didn’t mention the apple, she was fined $500. That’s insane, especially since she didn’t acquire it overseas. She offered to eat the apple or dispose of it but the agent said Nyet! and confiscated it. Idiocy.