Weekend Open Thread
No, that’s not a photo of an SR-71 nursing its child after giving birth, nor is it creative work with Photoshop. (smile) It’s a photo of one of the two Lockheed M-21s ever built.
The M-21 was a 2-seat derivative of Lockheed’s A-12 (the SR-71 was also a 2-seat A-12 derivative) that resulted from the downing of Gary Powers’ U-2 over the Soviet Union on 1 May 1960. It was intended to launch Mach 3+ drones over denied territory having an air defense threat deemed too high to allow manned reconnaissance flights. In the photo above, it’s carrying one such drone.
The drone it’s carrying is the Lockheed D-21. The D-21 had a range of 3,000 nautical miles, a maximum speed of Mach 3.3+, and an operational altitude of 90,000+ feet. It carried a high-resolution camera, which went active at a specified point or points along its pre-programmed course. The camera, film, and accompanying control unit were contained in a module called a “hatch” (don’t ask me why) which would be ejected post-mission at a predetermined point. The “hatch” was to be recovered; the rest of the drone was designed to self-destruct after ejecting it.
The launch aircraft and drone were designed under Project Tagboard. Multiple test flights – including four drone launches – were executed as part of the project. The last test flight was a disaster, causing the loss of one M-21 and the death of the aircraft’s “back-seater” Launch Control Officer (the aircraft’s pilot survived). The photo above appears to have been made during one of the early captive test flights.
After the disastrous final test flight of the M-21/D-21, the project’s operational concept was changed to underwing launch of the drone from a B-52 “mothership” using a rocket booster. (The D-21 was ramjet powered and required acceleration to high speed before its engine would function. Even at top speed, a B-52 simply wasn’t fast enough to do that.) The photo below shows a B-52 “mothership” ship carrying 2 modified drones mounted on their booster rockets.
The drones modified for underwing launch from a B-52 were designated the D-21B. (There was no D-21A; the original drones were designated D-21 without letter suffix.) A number of these survive today and are on display to the public in various locations – including one on display in the Chinese Museum of Flight in Peking, PRC (more about this below).
The surviving M-21 “mothership” aircraft is similarly on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight. Though not 100% historically accurate, for display it has a D-21B drone mounted in carry position.
The B-52 launched version of the drone, the D-21B, was used to overfly China’s nuclear test site at Lop Nor multiple times in the late 1960s and early 1970s under a project codenamed Senior Bowl. Due to various technical problems those overflights were unsuccessful, and the program was terminated. The last of those unsuccessful overflights is believed to have provided the D-21B currently on display in Peking. (smile)
OK, that’s enough aviation history. Enjoy this week’s open thread, everyone.
Category: Historical, Open thread
First, deferred to permanent first (Jonn)
Congrats CW! Enjoy your week on the throne!
And don’t forget to wipe !!!
Nicely presented, Commish.
first
First, TAH has the most awesome staff.
Second, the supporters are awesome too.
Third, the detractors can go play kick the can in a minefield.
I was gonna say play on a pogo stick in a minefield, but that works too.
Yesterday, I was reading page after page of 2009 comments from your link, Sparky. I didn’t intend to but I saw that I could move forward and back from your linked page and I couldn’t stop. Thanks for that. I saw some from Blanka. Jonn always had a soft spot for her.
BTW, the link was to the TSO ball- tap post. I haven’t laughed so hard in I don’t know when.
Yeah whatever….
*Throws on up for Jonn*
“ONE” damn it.
Jonn, I am certain, has never had anyone throw up in his honor. I am damn sure he is chuckling.
Yeah, and my typo makes it look like that.
I’m certain no one has ever thrown up *on* Jonn in his honor either, however, knowing the copious amounts of alcohol many may have consumed during his career, I wouldn’t doubt it.
This may help. (SFW)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=throw%20it%20up
Bwahahahahahaha.
ChipNASA, are these in your continent of insults?
Oxygen going into this guy’s cells and giving him life is such a waste when this oxygen could be sustaining the life of an industrious single-celled organism that isn’t trying to steal valor.
If his bullshit was music, he’d be a full blown symphony orchestra.
1stish.
Here, for you all, is this week’s silly trivia/humor column. I hope it brings a smile to your face, and some information to your brain. DID YOU KNOW…? Was anti-German sentiment in World War I the reason hamburgers were dubbed “Salisbury steak”? By Commissioner Wretched Did you ever have the urge to play, “What If?” You know, the mental exercise where you consider what would happen – or what would have happened – if things in history had been a little different. Like … what if the South won the Civil War? Or what if the U.S. had never gotten involved in either of the World Wars? What if President Kennedy had not been assassinated? What if the Russians had beaten us to the moon? Or the one I’m currently toying with … what if I didn’t write an introduction to the column one week? (Yeah, you knew something like that was coming, didn’t you?) I mean, just jumping into the trivia would be fun, wouldn’t it? Without reading my alleged thoughts? Of course, I’d still have to remind you that I answer all e-mails sent to didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and you’d be tempted to write, wouldn’t you? Ah, well … what if I just went ahead with this week’s installment of fun facts? Did you know … … rabbits have nearly 360-degree panoramic vision? They can actually see behind themselves without turning their heads. (And still, predators sneak up on them. Go figure.) … humans are not the only primate species that walks around on two legs? Gibbons do it as well. (We do it better, maybe, but they do it too.) … one of the duties of the personal valet to Prince Charles of Great Britain is squeezing His Highness’ toothpaste onto his toothbrush? (As Mel Brooks said, it’s good to be the king! I know he isn’t king yet, but just wait.) … thirty-five percent of all aircraft accidents happen during takeoff? If that isn’t sobering enough, realize that sixty percent of all accidents happen during landings. (What really scares me is where that leftover five percent takes place!)… Read more »
Here’s something to consider:
John Connolly, a man who created the ‘Dress For Success’ books, found in one of his surveys that redheaded women were the most successful salespeople. He couldn’t figure out why. I will confirm his results with the fact that a friend of mine got a job as a saleswoman to corporate people and when I saw her about 9 months after she started that job, she said she was having the best year she had ever had.
She was a redhead, with dark red hair.
However, I did not know that about wine. So if the label says ‘mise en bouteille’, it’s baloney, then? And the wine is younger than I thought.
Thanks for the updates, Commish! Carry on.
Redheads do better in sales? Go figure. I could have tole them that 60 years ago from personal experience. I was awe struck the first time by a beautiful redhead. Nothing says lovin’ like…well, a redhead. I could go on but I fear I would embarrass myself and others.
San Francisco bans plastic straws
San Diego Tribune Link
Plastic straws are to be banned, but dirty syringes are just fine. Clearly the inmates are running the asylum.
I believe I just read that part of a new straw law passed in another city in california states that a waiter/waitress/hostess can be fined $1000.00 AND up to 1 year in jail for asking a customer if they would like a straw with their beverage.
Interesting because the the origin of the movement to ban plastic straws came from:
….a 9-year-old boy named Milo Cress and his 2011 campaign, “Be Straw Free,” which launched to raise awareness about plastic waste.
His big finding? Americans use more than 500 million drinking straws daily, enough to fill 125 school buses. That figure has become highly touted since, referenced in straw ban coverage from The New York Times and National Geographic to reports from the National Park Service (and USA TODAY).
I really don’t see how anyone who gives it more than a few second of thought can see that statistic as anything but blatantly false. You’re telling me that every one of the roughly 250 million adults in this country use and toss into the ocean two straws per day? Come on.
Along with the equally quoted “97% scientific consensus” on man-made global warming, the gender pay gap, and the absurd statistics talking points on rape and abortion make me wonder just why anyone believes the news anymore. They constantly spew incredible (as in un-credible) data purely for sensationalism, or worse, to push some agenda.
I hit the Like button on that one Mason.
Read what Santa Barbara wanted to do before someone pulled their head out of their ass:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/27/santa-barbara-backpedals-on-jail-time-for-plastic-straw-offenders.html
‘This straw business is gonna get out of hand. It’s gonna get out of hand and we’ll be lucky to live through it.’ 🙂
On a serious note, Milo Cress’ parents need to take his computer away and cancel his AP Liberal Hand Wringing Classes.
I’ve been thinking of the alternatives. The paper straws I used in the 50’s, which last long enough for a 50’s size drink in a 50’s style wax cup, but for a large drink of any kind, especially soda, they disintegrate. Therefore everyone will learn to ask for 3 paper straws. “Oh the trees, the poor trees! What about the trees?”
Of note from HMCS(FMF) ret’s, linked article below, Jerry Brown reduced the penalty for knowingly having HIV and having sex or giving blood without disclosure from a felony to a misdemeanor. Oddly (queer odd not funny odd) it is the same sentence the poor waitress gets for offering a straw. So, let’s see, I have HIV and give blood or have sex and don’t tell and the person in turn gets HIV. I could get 6 months and or $1000 fine. I offer a customer a straw and I get the same thing. Except if there are 4 people in the booth and I offer straws and they faint from the straw fear running rampant and call 911, I get hit with 4 counts of the offense.
I tell you, up is down and in is out and not a lot is making sense anymore. Especially on the Left Coast.
But should I find myself in Seattle, which would only be in a dire emergency, I will purposefully go some place and ask for extra straws with my drink. I’ve just never seen a drive through nimrod making $15 an hour pass out before.
I was just in “The City” yesterday. My beverage of choice came with a paper straw; not the type of paper straw I remember from years gone by, but one that could almost hurt you if you got hit bt it.
I remember, as a child, my mother’s ability to stick a thin paper straw deeply into a potato.
Hey Commish, it’s also been said that Prince Charles also has a Personal Valet to undress him every night, it’s likely that he’s never even undressed himself!
Hum, there were purported to be liaisons between him and the Mrs. long before they were officially married. I rather doubt his valet was invited over for those. 😉
Of course, I could be wrong about that. But even royals draw a few lines hither and yon.
(Picturing the morning staff meeting going over daily appointments: “Oh, Jeeves, I’ll need you for undressing duty this afternoon. You know, the usual place I undress that’s not in the palace.”)
Present.
top 10
10th!
Another lighthearted news report:
https://www.stripes.com/news/rotc-cadets-lost-in-land-navigation-course-rescued-1.540191
If you were ever stationed at Schofield Barracks you know this a near impossible feat. Just a reminder why officers need sergeants.
Were they members of the infamous FAKAWI tribe?
“Just a reminder why officers need sergeants.”
Did anyone else learn what was and was NOT going on in their LT’s mind by his tone of voice and inflection in simply saying Sergeant? You need to imagine these for a moment.
Sergeant.
SERGEANT!
Sergeant?
SERGEANT??…?
Uh…sergeant?…!…????
Have a great weekend y’all!
Accounted for!
Not first.
Poopie Heads.
KA-BLAM!!!
Have a great weekend Mick!
Thanks! Back at ya!
Fresh green beans, tomatoes & peppers from the garden today and being here on the WOT…..winner, winner…chicken dinner!
Have a safe & fantastic weekend all of you Dickweeds!
Umpteenth and I award myself Honorary First yet again. Happy Weekend, fellow Dickweeds!
27rd!
… And Bernath is still dead.
Moore* news from the loony left.
Breitbart News Link
I just shitcanned HBO from my satellite service. Two reasons- Bill Maher and Hanoi Jane.
*intentional misspelling
Hollywood has a sycophantic eagerness to please itself.
I shitcanned HBO years ago.
They are the only people I know who jerk off their egos.
Moore admiring Fonda? Simply not news, nor the slightest bit surprising.
My message to Hanoi Jane and to soon-to-be featured on “My 600 pound life” Moore;
I already hate you, you don’t need to keep constantly giving me more reasons to!
^^^THIS!^^^
As of August 3, 2018, Dennis Howard Chevalier, a.k.a. Denny H Chevalier, phony Gulf War veteran, phony veteran, phony C-130 compass call pilot, phony SWAT veteran, phony retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel… That Dennis Howard Chevalier… Still was arrested on February 27, 2018, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
He pointed a gun at his ex-wife and son, waved a loaded weapon around and pretended to shoot things, threatened an ex-fiancé with putting a round into her head, and then his arrest for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
One of these days, he’s going to point his gun at someone, like he has done before… And BHANG! They need to take this guy’s weapons away before he shoots someone.
Here is one link to one the details:
http://writer-cubed.blogspot.com/2018/05/dennis-h-chevalier-arrested-for.html
Just google “Dennis Chevalier arrested” to get additional details.
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2018/07/29
After successfully executing my brilliant E&E plan to stealthily extricate myself from the insane asylum (a.k.a. work) earlier this afternoon, I am now rewarding myself by sipping a splendid single malt Scotch (no ice; just a wee drop of ice cold water). It’s quite tasty, and I may have another.
Have a great weekend, Team TAH, and thanks to all hands for their tireless efforts, thoughtfulness, and compassion during the past week.
Think I’ll join you, Mick. Mine is a single barrel bourbon with just a splash to “open” the aroma. MMMMmmm.
And +1000 on your comment.
Thanks, brother.
It’s been a long week.
Anyone here ever steamed LIVE Blue Crabs?
This woman from Newport News, Virginia tried…please click on the video embedded in the story to watch her effort…poor crabs…😆
https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/viral-video-crabs-say-no-to-the-pot/1323365862
They are mean little bastards. Tasty though.
AW1Ed…Yep, they sure are (tasty that is) although I have to admit they are a mess to eat…
Bet you and Ex-PH2 have a great recipe for Crab Cakes…😉
As a matter of fact, I do.
Crab Cakes
Keep it simple.
1 pound crab meat.
2 eggs
1/4 cup mayo
Juice and zest from 1 lemon
a few dashes Worcestershire sauce
S&P
Old Bay
Panko crumbs as needed
Flour
Mix eggs, mayo, juice and zest, Wooster sauce in a bowl. Add S&P, Old bay, mix. Gently fold in the crab meat. Add just enough Panko to firm up the mix. Form into patties and dust with the flour. Refrigerate for at least an hour (this is key for pan frying- skip flour, etc if broiling).
Cook ’em up. Pan fry for about four minutes a side, or broil until brown, flip, repeat.
Solomons Island, MD (PAX River), 1975, caught over 75 blue crabs one day. Cooked them and ate as much as we could that day, but that still left several pounds of crab meat. Bought a Coleman ice chest and filled it close to full with the leftover meat plus what we caught the next few days. Man, self-caught crab meat dipped in butter has to rank in the top ten of good chow. We ate crab meat for several days. Man, what great food. Returned to Solomons a few years later but had very little luck. It’s a Navy Recreation facility. They have sites for campers, cabins, etc. for AD and retirees. Also civil service personnel.
Solomon’s Island is right across the Patuxent River from me. Crab catching is the second most holy sport here, with softball being #1.
Crabbing is a great way spend a lazy summer day with family, especially if kids are involved.
Thats the only way to do it Another Pat, the dead ones give off a toxin immediately that makes them inedible… when we were kids, growing up on the East Coast, we’d go to a friends summer house at the South Jersey shore.. we’d go out ad catch blue crabs all day, then the adults thought is was funny as hell to put us barefoot kids in the kitchen, block off the doorways (like an improvised baby gate, they hadn’t come along yet), and dump in all the crabs, so that us kids could toss them into the pot… lots of toes pinched, and kids screaming… I’m pretty sure the adults peed themselves at the show..Ahh the good days!!
They are best as stuffed crab. To me anyway.
Never saw anyone outsmarted by some crabs. That was funny.
Fun Day getting my teeth worked on
Here in the ole Pueblo it’s 108 outside
Can’t wait to get back to my casa
At 9,000 feet and 72
They at least give you some pain meds to make the evening a little more fun?
Question for Vietnam-Era Vets:
Re the draft in the 60s-70s: Was the draft only for the Army, or could someone be drafted into the USN, USAF, USMC?
When the draft was on, was it possible to choose your branch and MOS (or at least request)?
Any guidance appreciated. This is to settle an argument!
– Steve
Australia
Subject to correction from those with better memories:
The draft sent you to either the US Army or the US Navy. If you wanted either the US Marines or the US Air Force you had to volunteer and qualify for either prior to receiving your draft notice. Once drafted, you went where they sent you although sometimes you could get your choice of Army or Navy.
Hmm. Looking back at that, not convinced my rememberer is even close to correct. Can say with some degree of surety that USAF remained all volunteer thoughout.
Thanks mate – that’s a huge help!
I’m not sure, but I think if you reported to one of the branch recruiters other than Army, the draft notice usually became a moot point.
On the other hand, someone (don’t remember name) recently posted that he had already been in the Navy for some time when he got his draft notice and got help dealing with that.
Check your email, please. No hurry.
Done.
Thank you Ex – appreciate it.
Good question. What I remembered was that during Vietnam, a Male could be drafted either in the Army or Marine Corps. Perhaps the Navy at one time. To be honest, never heard of any Male being drafted in the Air Force during that timeframe. IMO, it was all based on the needs of each Service. In 1967, US News & World Report posed 20 questions to the Selective Service and other high officials i DC…and according to Question 16, only the Army was taking in Draftees: https://clickamericana.com/topics/war-topics/20-questions-about-the-draft-answered-1967 Evidently, there were enough volunteers during that timeframe who chose to serve in either the Air Force or Navy that there was not a “need” to draft them in those Services. Think of it in this manner (make believe scenario): If the President and the Department of Defense (DoD) determines that it will take 100 Soldiers, 100 Marines, 90 Seaman and 80 Airmen to engage in a battle and the Army only has 60, the Marines 45, the Navy 95 and the Air Force 85, then it is obvious that DoD will only draft to fill the Army and the Marines needs based on understrengh. That still holds true to this day…each Service has quotas based on their individual mission and needs, peacetime and wartime. As far as MOS/Branch choice when drafted during Vietnam: Once again, it based on the NEEDS of the Service. One could request what job they would like when serving…but realistically, one was assigned a duty based on testing scores and other factors (physical, mental, IQ, etc). A 18 year old draftee may have wanted to be a Medic, but the Army/Marines already had enough Medics, yet were short of Truckdrivers or Infantryman. However, that 18 year old scored high in maintenance or had journalist skills…and there happened to be a need in those fields. The 18 year old ended up being a wrench monkey…if you think about it, doesn’t maintenance and medic have the same function, i.e. they both FIX things? 🤔 Hopefully, the same question is asked about those Males who were drafted in WWII and the… Read more »
Much appreciated!
In reference to the debate I was having…..I won (kind of)
Steve: You won…Congrats!
Now you owe us a Foster’s…🍺🍻😉
Oh, my. Some VERY good times were had involving copious amounts of Fosters. May I have more? Please??
DEAL.
Happy Friday.
Just to show how the “needs of the service” prevail, I just found out last night that a friend of my dad’s who was drafted had already graduated college as a tool and die machinist. He ended up a infantry radioman in the Viet of the Nam. Guess they were full up on skilled tradesmen at the time. Seems a waste to me.
Mason: Was he an RTO in the US Army?
Those guys were very important…
Am trying to think of an Army MOS that matched his civilian skills back then and an coming up blank…
He served our country and did not evade the Draft. He played a very crucial role during Vietnam…so it really wasn’t a waste….SOMEONE had to carry and operate all that heavy commo equipment/gear…
Appreciate your honesty.👍
As I understand an RTO, yes, that was him. I don’t know a whole lot about his service other than he had the big radio/target on his back and was in-country for a while. 1st Cav if I recall correct.
Not saying at all his service was a waste. Far from it. I was just thinking that having a mechanical education would make him a candidate for something in the mechanical field, even if not a direct translation.
RTO’s did perform a very important function. We couldn’t communicate in the field without them. I lived in the field with three of them; one from the artillery battery (RTO for the FO) and two company RTO’s. With that antenna sticking out of their rucksack and holding a handset they made an obvious target for the enemy. But since only the RTO’s with line companies were in the field, many RTO’s were out of the line of fire in base camps or on fire support bases.
Joined the Navy in 68 after graduation high school. Sitting in bleachers at induction center in Raleigh and an officer came. Asked those with commitment to Navy and Air Force to go into one area. He then pulled several from those remaining and told hem they were now going into the USMC. There were some pissed off guys, let me tell you. Didn’t affect me b/c I had been accepted by Navy and had not been drafted. I guess that is how it worked. About three weeks into boot camp, mom sent letter and enclosed was notice from draft boar do report for physical, that I was being drafted into the Army. Got a good chuckle out of that. Asked company commander and he, too, thought it was funny and told me not to worry about it, that they could come get me if they thought they could get away with it.
AnotherPat and Mason, A civilian job for a Tool and Die Machinist could be making replacement parts for machines. Military related job would be precision replacement parts for weapons, large(think ARTY) and small(think shooting match precision pistols and rifles). My dad held a civilian job at Cincinnati Milling Machine in the late 60’s and 70’s after I went into Marines. His jobn was to make new parts from scratch for Milling machines from the 20’s or even earlier that the owner wanted fixed which would have be cheaper and quicker than buying a whole new machine.
I never heard of VN draftees for the Navy or AF. As I understand it, although the Marines maintain that they never have drafted, they did, through the Army’s back door. As I understand it, new conscripts were ‘transferred’ to the USMC several times during the war, but I do not know this from first-hand experience.
If interweb sites are to be believed, only the Army and Marines were drafting. The Navy and Air Force were sufficiently manned and didn’t need draftees. No mention at all of the Coast Guard.
Thanks Both for the reply.
Interesting stuff.
When I went to Ft. Wayne(Detroit), the military folks running the induction center lined up all of the draftees on the other side of the large room we were in. They had them count off by 10’s. Every 10th inductee became the property of the USMC. That was in 1966.
Damn, I’m old.
I can 100% believe it.
When we were finding out which unit we were going to be sent for IET (the Aussie version of AIT), the platoon SGT basically stuck out his hand, dividing the gaggle of trainees in half and said: ‘everyone on this side of my hand, congrats, you’re off to Brisbane for IET, then you’ll post to a unit there afterward; everyone on this side, grab your ankles, and welcome to SOI’.
That’s how arbitrary it is sometimes.
Today’s Interweb Idiot Award goes to Captain “Wrong Way” John Martin.
Yahoo News Link
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
An oldie but goodie. Happy weekend, retards.
‘A Navy Memo’
Subject: The SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING program
This memorandum is a notification that the Department of the Navy (DON) has in order to assure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from sailors, it will be our policy to keep all sailors well trained through our program of SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (S.H.I.T.). We are trying to give our sailors more S.H.I.T. than anyone else.
If you feel that you do not receive your fair share of S.H.I.T. on a regular basis, please see your Leading Petty Officer (LPO) or Chief Petty Officer (CPO) as soon as possible. You will immediately be placed at the top of the S.H.I.T. list and our LPOs & CPOs are especially skilled at seeing that you get all the S.H.I.T. that you can handle.
Sailors who do not take their fair amount of S.H.I.T. will be placed in DEPARTMENTAL EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION PROGRAMS (D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T.). Those who fail to take D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T. seriously will have to go to EDUCATIONAL ATTITUDE TRAINING (E.A.T. S.H.I.T.). Since our LPOs & CPOs took S.H.I.T. for so long they don’t have to do S.H.I.T. anymore and are full of S.H.I.T. already.
If you are full of S.H.I.T. you may be interested in a job mentoring others. We can add your name to our BASIC UNDERSTANDING LECTURE LIST (B.U.L.L. S.H.I.T.).
For sailors who are intending to pursue a career in leadership and management we will refer you to the Department of MANAGERIAL OPERATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION (M.O.R.E. S.H.I.T.). This course emphasizes on how to manage M.O.R.E. S.H.I.T.
If you have further questions, please direct them to our HEAD OF TEACHING SPECIAL INTENSITY TRAINING (H.O.T. S.H.I.T.)
Respectfully,
BOSS IN GENERAL SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (B.I.G. S.H.I.T.)
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
I needed this….thanks from the Pineywoods, still searching for Dennis (Chevalier) Under Mass Bunches (of Cheese and his) Special High Intensity Training (D.U.M.B.S.H.I.T.)
I knew there was a reason to stock up on B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T. repellent.
I have two cans of it left. No expiration date.
Cool picture.
It’s weird not having John around. 😔
Fat Circles0311:
Look at it this way: Jonn IS still around…look at all of us minions who are keeping TAH alive and kicking, to include WOT.
A person’s body will go…however, their spirit will live forever…🤗
This + 1000 He is present in Spirit Sir!
Bernath is still dead.
Gregory Banks has a therapy dog and provides PTSD counseling for Vets.
Here is his dig Pumba dresses in digitals:
http://gbankscounseling.com/meet_pumba
I guess if Greggie Boy can’t play dress up, his dog can.
There seems to be a dog (or a vest) connected to each of these Valor Thieves … and in this case it is a dog with a vest.
Voepel is still a Valor Thief and is collared by the CA Dem Party now.
Check out Whiskey Patriots.
for some reason i read whiskey parrots…. i’ll have what they are having….
That is all.
MCPO OUT!
The DREAM Act, you will recall, was never passed by Congress, despite several attempts to do so and despite its sugary name. However, Trump’s immediate predecessor in office, having a pen and a phone, used the latter to effectively legislate and enacted his version of the DREAM Act, called DACA, ostensibly as a stopgap measure until Congress marched to his special drum. Bye-bye drummer and hello Trump, who also had a pen and a phone. He used his to direct the phase-out of DACA and, you guessed it, the matter ended up in court. Well, one man, a lawyer in a black robe, now has decided that what Trump did is unconstitutional and has directed that Trump’s phone call be disregarded. Go figure. How many laws are made by lawyers in black robes? Honestly, I used to think that wasn’t the job of the judiciary or the executive branches. Really.
Lebenty seventy-fortyth.
Hey – on the tribute thread for Jonn, I saw a post from “commissar”. Was that the one and only Bezerkeley Bezerker and known lover of all things socialist?
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=80829&cpage=7#comment-3143690
I saw that, too, but it’s hard to believe that LT, the guy who many times called this group a bunch of Nazis and fascists, among other sweet things, would write those words.
Jonn did verify him during his first rodeo on this site, and allowed him to continue to post on here despite calls to have him banned. Jonn later came out and pointed out something about his also being a veteran and that he was allowed a voice here.
That post isn’t surprising.
He’s also tried to ID myself, EX-PH2 and a few others here – I think it was the final straw in Jonn dropping the TAH Banhammer on him.
He’s a major in the Army Reserve, Civil Affairs type, that’s something he shouldn’t have done.
Doing my part to keep the name alive, I have an update on Perennial Phony Phucker, Kyle Christopher Barwan; he has been moved from one Florida Prison Work Camp to another. He is now at Lancaster Correctional Institution, near Trenton Florida, West of Gainesville, out in the srublands. He still shows a release date of December 2, 2018.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=H50625&TypeSearch=AI
Must be Thor’s turn with KYLE CHRISTOPHER BARWAN…
Kyle Christopher Barwan, the dunking bird phony, has been dunking for something else over the past few months. 🙄
Happy birthday United States Coast Guard …
Protecting our borders to and from the sea, patrolling our inter-coastal waterways and providing the best life sustaining and saving services …
Well done to my sea-service brother s and sisters.
A day late and a dollar short, but I get the 100th post, it seems.
Happy weekend, y’all.
Remember Therese Patricia Okoumou — the former Congolese national who caused the shutdown of an otherwise happy 4th of July gathering when she climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty? Jonn posted about her. Well, you’ll love this. You won’t believe it, but you will love this. She wrote a song, which she, um, sang outside of court. The lyrics are below. I just wish I could capture her tortured-cat-Yoko-Ono voice in words:
America……..
America you mother fucker;
You drug addict;
You KKK;
You fascist USA
And here’s the link to the Fox News intro and video:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/04/statue-liberty-climber-spews-anti-america-chant-outside-manhattan-court
Then go back to the Congo, you moron! I’ll start a collection, we can have you on a plane by tomorrow.
I’ve known many, many immigrants from all over the world. The vast majority are the most patriotic and pro-American people you will ever meet because they know just how much better their lives are here. This woman (I know, I’m assuming her gender preference) has apparently forgotten how great the arid, ebola-infested, no clean drinking water, GDP of $500 “Democratic People’s” Republic of Congo is.
Go back home if you don’t like it here. Don’t try to turn our home into a place as terrible as yours.
👍
I particularly like that Wm. Kunstler-imitator beside her. He just stood there stone-faced while she did that. His pony tail didn’t so much as flinch an inch. If you google her name and add “hero” to it, you’ll be amazed and sickened by how many assholes call her heroic. I may get me a MAGA hat.
#WaKAnDA
Easy fix.
Quit giving her attention, i.e. the media.
The Navy found they had too many officers and Chiefs and decided to offer an early retirement bonus. They promised any officer or Chief who volunteered for Retirement a bonus of $1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line between any two points in his body. The officer got to choose what those two points would be.
The first officer who accepted asked that he be measured from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. He was measured at six feet and walked out with a bonus of $72,000.
The second officer who accepted was a little smarter and asked to be measured from the tip of his outstretched hands to his toes. He walked away with $96,000.
The third one was a non-commissioned officer, a grizzly old Chief who, when asked where he would like to be measured replied, ‘From the tip of my “private part” to my testicles.
It was suggested by the pension man that he might want to reconsider, explaining about the nice big checks the previous two Officers had received. But the old Chief insisted, and they decided to go along with him providing the measurement was taken by a Medical Officer.
The Medical Officer arrived and instructed the Chief to ‘drop ’em,’ which he did. The medical officer placed the tape measure on the tip of the Chief’s weenie and began to work back “Dear Lord!”, he suddenly exclaimed, ”Where are your testicles?”
The old Chief calmly replied, ”Vietnam”.
Okay, please bear with me…again. It’s time once more for, “Uniformed Army guy questions for Navy Professionals”.
I have a friend who was a nuclear propulsion tech on a boomer. I asked him some questions about “Crimson Tide”. He said first, the sets used in the movie were far more Hollywood glamorous than what is actually onboard.
He said even if a Captain had a dog on board, he would never allow it to take a piss and not clean it up himself.
I asked about the general theme of the movie and shook his head and smiled. He said there are always two armed men onboard. Their being armed and their additional duties for being armed are unknown to the rest of the crew. He said these two would never have allowed such an altercation between a Captain and an Executive Officer during such a scenario as DEFCON 2. That these men would have had no hesitation in killing either or both.
Now then, and that is a BIG now then, is this guy pulling my leg for shits and giggles? Are there such security protocols and measures onboard?
I understand I may be asking things that, if known to you Submariners, would not be open for confirmation or denial. This is why they are called, uniformed Army guy type question.
One last little thing. Does the COB always stand over the two guys driving the boat and keep his hands on their shoulders? I assume for stability?
Thank you again, for your patience and for not laughing.
P.S. I promise these will be my last Crimson Tide questions because I know some of you are weary of them.
Among the things I cannot do well and consistently, is tear a section of plastic wrap from its roll. I can’t tell you how many yards of that stuff I have tossed out for my inability to get a clean tear. Sometimes, I’d get the plastic to tear as it should, only to have the damn plastic stick together as I pulled it away from the box. Most times, I’d gingerly try to start the tear, only to fail immediately. Cripes. And then, one day, I found the answer that had eluded me for I don’t know how long: over sized zip-lock bags. No more plastic wrap! If aluminum foil won’t do it, and Tupperware won’t do it, then, by gosh, zip-lock bags will. So, every night, before I retire, I say prayers, and I finish with this one: “And, Lord, please bless whoever it was you inspired to make zip-lock bags, especially the gallon ones. Amen.”
Just wait until you discover that they make a 2-gal size!
Surprised that you did not get a finger cut from those sharp teeth on the row.
I started to use scissors after my futile attempts…
The other one is trying to open medicines that are in blister packets that has ” Tear Here” for instructions. After other frustrating, futile attempts, finally found a way to open them:
https://youtu.be/hZ1N1ndqYW4
Good luck with the Zip Lock bags…😉
How about “arthritis strength” analgesics
With child-proof caps.
11B-Mailclerk:
Yep…you are so right..😉