Midweek Open Thread
Juno Image – Jupiter
Happy Hump-day TAH! Halfway through the week before Christmas! You guys decide the topics for this thread.
In the meantime, the above photo is from NASA’s Juno mission, capturing a portion of Jupiter’s cloud cover…. A natural work of Art. You could look at more of their photos here.
If you guys haven’t heard the sounds of Mars yet, you could listen to the actual video with earphones. Here’s a video of the sounds of Mars, amplified:
Category: Open thread
First.
(Does that count?)
Only for the Midweek Open Thread, not for the Weekend Open Thread. Your name has been recorded in the “MOT Book of Firsts”.
Why do I get the feeling Claw wants exactly nothing to do with this?
*grin*
Claw tracks the firsts on the WOT; MOT is a different animal.
Well, I have seen many of these images and they are astounding. Almost every time I say to myself, “Self….that looks like a vagina.”
Hmmmmm, I wonder what that is all about?
🤔
Also, for the time being, Mars is the only planet in the solar system completely inhabited by Robots.
(Well if you also have to count Venus from the 1970s as someone challenged me last time)
Lately the earth seems populated with a lot of flesh based robots..
People aimlessly doing the same shit day in and day out with very few alternate inputs.
NPCs?
ChipNASA sitting for a Rorschach inkblot test….
Psych: “I have a series of pictures turned down. I will raise one at a time. Please look each and tell me the first thing that comes to mind. Got it.”
ChipNASA: “Got it. Go ahead., doc.”
Picture #1: “Vagina”
Picture #2: “Vagina”
Picture #3: “Vagina”
Picture #4: “Vagina and one tit”
Picture #5: “Vagina”
Psych: Um. Ah. Interesting. Um. Thank you.
ChipNASA: “That it? That was easy.”
Yeah, nailed it. but with more bewbs.
You left out the part about Voyager finally making it OUT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM! ChipNASA.
Also, the report on the Solar Voyager (Solar satellite observing the Sun) is that it’s not working. But we still have the SOHO satellite sending info on the Sun, including NOT ONE SUNSPOT IN A LONG, LONG WHILE
.
“NOT ONE SUNSPOT IN A LONG, LONG WHILE”
This is truly a deep minimum.
I check radio prop daily for my secret government job and today was 209 in a row without a spot to piss on.
http://spaceweather.com/
Did you say “Sunspots?”
Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo
Or you could just fill the box with used cat litter.
There’s also the guy who used shotgun blanks.
I like the meme that says if you want to get rid of some old trash, just put it in an Amazon box and leave it on your front porch.
That one made me howl. Don’t mess with NASA engineers! And the *FART SPRAY* was the ultimate ending.
The guy’s an evil sumbitch. I like him.
I work with engineers just like him. Be glad they’re on our side.
I had a couple of PFC’s, IT guys that would be dangerous if they weren’t ours. DISA scooped them up quick and pays them a metric shitload of money.
Nah, the evil NASA sumbitchs would use bear-caliber pepper spray, not fart spray.
They don’t post those to youtube, GB. *grin*
A retired LEO I know told me about how he worked a purse snatcher problem that was preying upon inattentive old ladies at a Walmart.
He found a big “old lady” purse at a thrift store
He caught a -very- large specimen of black snake.
He stowed the snake in the bag, and arranged for it to be “forgotten” in a cart where the crooks frequented.
Sure enough, a carload of hoods slowly drove up to the cart. One got out, looked around, grabbed the bag, and jumped back in for a fast getaway.
About 100 yards away, all four doors opened on the still moving car, and all four hoods bailed out, screaming. The car ran into a ditch. The snake escaped. The hoods did not.
No more purse snatching at that location.
Oh my…
That is evil incorporated…
I love it !!!
There’s another one that put a board with nails sticking through it on both sides of his MAGA Trump sign…
A half block later three puke lefty POS’s were changing multiple tires on their Prius.
I shit you not !!!
Buddy from childhood had a neighbor that would deliberately run over cats and other critters, but was careful to avoid detection.
So of course T planted a realistic toy cat over a buried nail board.
Neighbor #3 observed changing tire on pickup.
T moves somewhat squashed nail-cat to new location.
Neighbor #3 observed changing tire on wife’s car.
T moves much deformed nail-cat again.
neighbor #3 now changing tire on son’s hot-rod
T puts bedraggled nail-cat in new location.
Yup. Back to truck #1. This time nail-cat comes off the board with a nail and sticks in the tire.
N3 wises up. No further flatcats in neighborhood.
My wife found a news story about Prince Harry no longer participating in pheasant hunts with his brother because Megan is a tree hugger. His balls are secured tightly inside her million-dollar designer purse. I can’t help but find it ironic, though, that she claims a moral objection to shooting game birds for dinner, but openly favors butchering children in the womb.
That is one of the classic hypocrisies of the progtards. They simply don’t see the inconsistency or the irony.
I just hope that they all have a dance with the Devil himself for several thousand centuries in the great beyond…
Over 65 million babies in America since Roe v Wade…
What a real waste.
Hitler was an amateur compared to planned dead babies…
I suggest in Price Harry’s honor we all have lamb chops, veal, and foie gras for dinner while wearing our baby seal coats.
Roasted over a tire fire, no doubt.
Visited a bookstore today. First thing I see on big display as I walk in is a book with Mrs. Red Line on the cover. I fought the urge to do a quick about face and, instead, moved forward. I try not to look at people in book stores. Most everyone, including the things that pass as males nowadays, I imagine with a pussy hat on. I bee-lined to the one place in the store that I knew I’d be alone: the history section. I was not mistaken. Lefties don’t read history. They just don’t.
They not only don’t “read history,” they don’t want to hear or see anything that accurately reports history. Also, don’t forget one of the standard beta male tells, the man-bun.
I mentioned “man bun” in another forum, and was told that it’s now referred to as a “Douche Knob”.
Reservoir tip
Saddlehorn for their boyfriends.
I went for a Kindle some time back for the convenience. Went to a bookstore for the first time in years last week. Forgot how good those places smelled.
A heady mix of Chai tea, patchouli oil and unwashed bodies, right?
Thank you, Kindle. The (small) price of admission was worth every nickel.
For the MOT, here’s a column from back in January. Hope you like it! DID YOU KNOW…? Did a Pope have anything to do with the spread of the “Black Death” in the 1400s? By Commissioner Wretched: I like winter. It must be the fact that I grew up in a big northern city; we had snow and chilly temperatures from September through April, and it wasn’t all that much better the rest of the year. The worst part of winter is when the Sun goes down, which it does about mid-afternoon. Yes, it gets late early up where I come from. But still, I like winter. It’s a lot easier to deal with than summer, you know. In winter, if you get cold, you can add layers of clothing to stay warm. During summer, though, if you get really warm, there’s only so much you can take off in an effort to get cool. (At least, if you want to stay out of jail.) Will this be a colder winter than usual where you are? A warmer one? Are you worried either way? Whatever happens, enjoy it. And drop me a note if you like this silly stuff I write. I’m at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I always reply. On to the trivia, chilling to the bone! Did you know … … actor Sylvester Stallone has not always been a popular person? When he was 15, he was voted by his classmates as “most likely to die in the electric chair.” … when income tax was first enacted, back in 1863, the maximum tax was 3 percent? (Ah, the good old days.) … the government of North Korea is active on Twitter? Well, not really active; they don’t see anything President Trump tweets, for example. Kim Jong-Un’s government follows three accounts – two are pure propaganda, and the third is that of a 25-year-old American from Texas. Nobody knows why. (I do … it’s Texas, man!) … the United States shreds about 7,000 tons of worn currency each year? It adds up to more than $10 billion a year fed into the… Read more »
Will this be a colder winter than usual where you are? A warmer one? Are you worried either way? Whatever happens, enjoy it.
Ahem. It appears that this winter (so far) is mimicking the winter of 2016-2017, with a rough start and then slop and drizzle and gloomy days punctuated by sunny days. 45F outside my house right now and the Marines flew a helicopter past my neighborhood, heading north at a high rate of speed. (I wonder when they learn to hover.)
Ulysses S Grant is reported to have received a speeding ticket early in his presidency. The police pulled him over, cited him for speeding, and he willingly paid a fine for it. This apparently wasn’t his first speeding ticket.
Ok, but how many times was he cited for DUI?🥃🍺🍷🍸
Good one … I should have noted *automotive* speeding ticket. President Grant was cited numerous times for going too fast in his horse and buggy.
The guy getting ticketed was experiencing a “cause and effect” that continued from the horse pulled car days. Sometime in the future, the first person to be ticketed for flying his flying car too fast is going to go down in history.
Ever hear the radio bit where some woman calls a talk show to demand that the state stop putting “deer crossing” signs on busy roads? She wanted them moved to safer, less busy areas.
Are you talking about this?
Yeah … because deer can’t read, after all.
Tucker is a staple at la casa de AW1Ed, and the left is now trying to blacklist him by having Fox’s sponsors drop the show, with IHOP being the latest. Articles like this are what has the left’s panties in a bunch. Tucker on New NJ Gun Law: Venezuela Banned Gun Ownership Before Country’s Collapse Tucker Carlson warned that prior to Venezuela’s economic collapse and descent into public clashes with the government, the Maduro administration banned private ownership of firearms. This week, New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy (D) signed into law several restrictions on firearms — some of which extend to off-duty police officers, Tucker Carlson reported. He said that in Venezuela, the point was not to make people safer, but to “disarm the public.” Now, it is a felony in New Jersey for ordinary citizens to “defend themselves,” Carlson added. Bernard Kerik, who was Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s NYPD police commissioner, said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the law is a “cunning way to attack the legal gun owners.” Focusing on one part of the law, which bans magazines in excess of a 10-round capacity, Kerik said gun owners will have to either destroy the mags or “alter” them — a process that is rarely possible, he said. He said that it was “completely bizarre” that an initial variation of the law extended to cops who are off-duty: “God forbid, that off-duty cop gets involved in a shooting.” Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Third Circuit found the law to be constitutional. Judge Patty Shwartz, an Obama nominee, wrote that the law “reasonably fits the state’s interest in public safety and does not unconstitutionally burden the Second Amendment’s right to self-defense in the home.” But, Trump appointee Stephanos Bibas dissented in the 2-1 opinion, saying that Second Amendment rights are not to be “watered down.” Kerik appeared to agree with Bibas’ dissent, calling the law “another assault on the Second Amendment.” “That’s about taking the guns,” he said. “These are legal, law-abiding citizens, that have been… background-checked.” The rest of the article, and video, may be viewed… Read more »
I can’t imagine this going over well. At least this might leave more openings for Chick-Fil-A and My Pillow to buy more ad space!
Want to cave to Leftard pressure to blacklist one of the most reasoned, common sense guys on TV? Yeah, see ya later. His ratings are doing fine, so if you want to alienate the almost 3 million people who watch him, then by all means fall on your own sword.
Now I only went to Airplane-U, Embry-Riddle for my Aeronautics degree. No one mentioned the business model where one alienates half of the potential customer base.
Or maybe I just missed that class.
Well, I am glad I left New Jersey when I did. It is difficult to believe the NJ law passes the constitutional smell test.
Oh, yes, let’s do turn Joisey into another slum. Used to be a beautiful state.
Liberalism is not liberal with anything but YOUR money.
“Used to be a beautiful state.” Yeah, and then the 1800s arrived.
And the libclowns arrived in 1801 and the place soon became a garbage dump for the entire east coast…
Two days away from the calendar start of the 2018-2019 winter, so here’s the forecasts all ya’ll have been waiting for:
Persimmon seed: 20 cut open – 16 spoons, three knives, one fork.
Wolly Worm: 13 bands of light brown.
Hunker down, stay safe and global warming be Damned!!
Birds aren’t coming to my feeding station like they normally do. I guess they just aren’t hungry. Geese are still here, finding plenty of foraging in harvested fields.
50% chance of a white Christmas, but if we get snow, it probably won’t last beyond Wednesday evening.
Meteorological winter began on December 1. Astronomical winter begins on December 21.
My ass’s winter arrived last month.
By actual feel? Definitely started before December 1. Winter started its march, on this continent and in other parts of the northern hemisphere, during the summer… Hitting the ground running starting in October.
Yes. I’m glad you got that. After I posted, I thought, “Oh shit. I hope he gets what I mean.”
Try the bran muffins.
Just because you have a mule doesn’t mean you get to throw your ass in everyone’s face.
Freakin’ guys ought to be on stage.
Get up early in the morning, around 5AM and look east to see Saturn rising ahead of the morning sun.
Are you talking about Jupiter? Jupiter, Mercury, and Antares should be “in the same area” ahead of the rising sun. Venus rises before them.
Okay, I had to check the chart at Sky & Telescope, because I get up early every morning while my neighbors are slamming their car doors to go to work.
I thought it might be Saturn, but it isn’t. Saturn has gone west into the sunset but I never got to see that because it’s been cloudy late at night.
Instead, the morning star is Venus, about 2 hours ahead of sunrise, and next down toward the horizon is Mercury, which may or may not be visible. Below Mercury, just above the horizon (which I can’t see from my spot) is Jupiter.
Sky & Telescope has an online ‘sky at a glance’ chart available on their front page. I should have checked that. Sorry. My bad.
However, the green “Christmas” comet is supposed to be getting bright enough to see it, but I’m not sure exactly where it is, and it may only be visible through a telescope. You can find out about that at Sky & Telescope, too.
Been running 6+ miles for almost three years now, been tracking the constellations, stars, and planets as they’ve moved through the sky. I could use memory alone to time lapse the movement of the zodiac constellations, as well as the polar constellations, to get a sense of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Throw in planetary movement in the mix…
Used to have more clear mornings, but as you’ve experienced, cloudy days have been going up in number.
I’ve seen Venus for weeks now, has to fight through the horizon lights (city) to be seen as soon as it rises. Our horizons look like the bare beginning of dawn/dusk all night long. Stars/constellations and planets are pretty much visible after they clear the city lights’ haze.
I also use Solar System Scope and Stellarium.
5am? Are you kidding me??
Y’all can tell us about it later…
I have heard of 5AM but as I am sorta retired, that concept is entirely theoretical at present.
Anybody seen or heard of the gas from Uranus?
He is probably posting on DU.
A bit of U.S. Navy history and it concerns the war in the Pacific during WW2, an area which much interests me. Peter T Yeschenko LITTLE KNOWN HISTORY! THE LARGEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER THAT SANK WITHOUT SINKING AN ENEMY SHIP, ENGAGING AN ENEMY SHIP OR EVEN LAUNCHING A PLANE! The Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Shinano was, at the time of its completion, the largest aircraft carrier in history to that point. It was heavily armored for a carrier, a 72,000-ton behemoth. A behemoth that sank not only without sinking an enemy ship or engaging in a major battle, but that never even launched a plane. On 7 December 1941, Japan had a much larger and stronger fleet than the US and early Japanese victories after Pearl Harbor made it seem undefeatable. But America’s industrial might and intelligence breakthroughs allowed the US to reverse the tides. The tipping point came at the Battle of Midway when American forces sank four fleet carriers and a heavy cruiser. The Imperial brass had to make tough decisions quickly to protect the Japanese Navy and regain the initiative. Admirals turned to a Yamato-class battleship still under construction, the Shinano, and made the decision to finish it as an aircraft carrier instead. The Yamato-class battleships were the largest in history, greater even than the famed German Bismarck. But as American success had proven, the age of the battleship had closed and the age of the carrier had begun. Converting the Shinano to a carrier took a lot of work and design compromises. The battleship armor was reduced but was still thicker than what most aircraft carriers boasted. All the extra armor limited the Shinano’s potential air fleet to 47 planes. The Shinano held lots of fuel and ammo and was expected to act as a support carrier, launching its own planes and resupplying all nearby aircraft during battle. But that wasn’t in the cards for the massive ship. It was launched on 8 October 1944, and was sent from Yokosuka, Japan, to Kure, where it was scheduled to receive its aircraft. On 29 November 1944, the… Read more »
SHINANO as a carrier was the whitest of expensive white elephants. I will play the devil’s advocate and opine that the IJN should have plunged ahead and completed her as a super BB. As a super BB, she would have been available earlier, and as part of the Japanese Central Force might have stiffened ADM Kurita’s spine into finishing off the U.S. escort carriers of TAFFY 3 and then wrecking much of MacArthur’s amphibious shipping at Leyte Gulf in Oct 1944, thus delaying U.S. victory in the Pacific by a fair number of months…
The IJN missed a golden opportunity. The Japanese made horrible errors during the war. Midway, which was the turning point, might well have turned out differently. Their carrier decks were covered with munitions, and they didn’t know if they should put torpedoes or bombs on their aircraft. They should have gone with torpedoes. Midway Island wasn’t going anywhere and even if the Americans had been able to launch another attack on the carriers from Midway, the Japanese fighters could probably have repelled them. As it was they lost four carriers, about 300 aircraft and hundreds of first rate pilots. They never recovered. They again screwed the pooch re Taffy 3, thinking they were against a much more formidable force. Kurita was so confused by the attacking small boys of the U.S. Fleet that he thought he was against a much larger fleet and broke contact. Had he continued his attack he could have inflicted great loss. He had at his command a force of 23 Japanese warships (four battleships, eight cruisers, and eleven destroyers). Japan made terrible mistakes during he war. They greatly underestimated the ferocity of the American fighting man and our ability to churn out endless numbers of ships and aircraft.
In the same vein, Gunichi Mikawa could and should have finished off Kelly Turner’s amphibious landing force off Guadalcanal after virtually annihilating the Allied cruiser covering force near Savo. Mikawa could have nipped the allied Guadalcanal invasion in the bud; his failure to do so allowed the Americans to persevere and eventually win the long campaign. Yamamoto realized this and not so subtly dressed down Mikawa for failing to do so…
Thanks, CH
Coral Sea and Doolittle’s Raid
Doolittle wrecked their sense of invulnerability, and shifted their air-power over to a much more defensive stance, diverting planes and pilots to home island cover instead of attack.
Coral Sea destroyed their naval confidence. We were not the expected pushover, and we hit -much- harder than they thought possible. They were -much- more cautious after Coral Sea, including delaying their intended invasion of Australia and it’s perimeter islands.
That caution and uncertainty led to their debacle at Midway and was why they kept changing their minds on what to do next.
The gov’t shutdown will happen whether the gov’t shutdown happens or not. Huh? Most Federal employees are off Saturday and Sunday. No issue there. Monday is Christmas Eve and President Trump just gave Fed employees off. Tuesday is Christmas and a Federal holiday. So, for four consecutive days, the gov’t shuts down. Will we survive? Most of us won’t even realize that the gov’t is closed.
You forgot about Wed thru the day after New Years. That is the most useless week of the year and nobody gonna do nothin.
I think Trump was punking about the shutdown
and will come out swinging once the Dems own the House in January.
See news below: IS dead and done. Troops being pulled out.
He will have more than just a shutdown to grin about.
And just in time for Christmas, too…. such a sense of timing.
Tanks Ex. I just knew someting was up for the holidays. Great news.
And every outlet is either ignoring it or in the case of the more stridently leftist, calling it a Trump concession to Putin.
I am beginning to think thew world’s most common headline is “Twitter explodes after Trump (fill in the rest)”. Have to wonder how much less disunity we could have by just shutting Twitter down.
Three hundred mile road trip today.
As I throttle up the on ramp in the dark I see a small suv whiz by in the passing lane.
Nobody else around. I match his speed 85-90 and trail him by a half mile. Got me a rabbit!
Hour and a half later we take the same exit and
stop at the light. US Govt plates. Marine Corp
dot com decal.
He pulls into the Armed Forces Recruiting Center.
Thanks pal.
Years ago, a friend of mine in his muscle car got into it with another guy in a muscle car. Speeds were in the trips when the blue lights came on. The two weren’t dragging. They were running hard 1-2 in the same lane. Anyhow, my friend explained, he asked the cop why he didn’t go after the other guy who was obviously going faster. The cop replied, “You were closer.”
And the oblig old joke…..
Driver is pulled over for speeding.
Says, “Hey all the other cars were going the same speed and speeding too!!”
Cop: “Son, you ever been fishing?”
Driver: “Well sure”
Cop: “Ever catch ALL the fish?”
I typically go 8-10 MPH above the Speed Limit with the knowledge that the vast majority of LE doesn’t bother to pull someone over unless they’re going more than 10 over the limit, thus when I’m in the left lane passing and someone gets up on me, I’ll gladly get over and let them pass me with the thought of “HEY, Speed Trap Bait!!
Old adage: Never be the fastest car on the road. It’s good to be the SECOND fastest.
And this just in: Trump is pulling 2000 troops out of Syria, has declared IS conflict DONE.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/us-wants-to-pull-troops-from-syria-as-trump-declares-victory-over-isis.html
Anyone with any more info, please fill in.
I am glad the troops will come home but ISIS isn’t done, not by a longshot.
Agreed 2/17 Air Cav, good for the troops to be home.
Does it give IS a face-saving way to ignore us, and maybe focus on someone else? Perhaps the Russians?
Heh.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-hawks-blast-trumps-withdrawal-from-syria/
Rand Paul has praised the decision, though:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/trump-us-troops-in-syria-1068734
Been hearing negative reactions all day, from all sides. Interesting.
I’m guessing that’s because even if you think this is a good idea, catching Congress, the Pentagon and our allies off guard on something like this is less than ideal.
You really are THICK, LC!
Yes, LC, but Trump always has something up his sleeve besides a long arm.
Some people look at the clouds and see spaceships, other see the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich… you see a genius in a con-man.
There’s no ten-moves-ahead thinking with this, it’s just the usual policy-on-a-whim.
Trump is making the same mistake Obama did with Iraq. IS is not done.
However, Trump is doing great things for our country with other policies that I support.
In what way was this a surprise? He telegraphed it during the campaign.
When there is no clear military objective or there is but it is all but impossible to achieve short of dedicating massive manpower and massive firepower, it just makes no sense to me to risk American lives being there. If it all goes to hell in a hand basket, then it all goes to hell in a hand basket. We have hit ISIS there and we have hit Assad’s forces there. Dahell is that when we have, at different times over the years, hit both? ISIS may again change its name but the same crazies will be fighting the other crazies there for who knows how long. Let them have at it w/o American lives lost.
That part of the world has been in perpetual war for 2,000 years. I’m not expecting us to be the ones to fix it. Especially when the only thing they can all agree on is that they hate us more than each other.
“That part of the world” in a state of warfare for a mere 2,000 years? Hah!
“That part of the world” has been in a state of warfare since before Sennacherib stole the statue of Marmuk from a temple and died of a plague from contaminated water.
Try going back some 15,000 years. Warfare is part and parcel of territorial disputes among primates. It’s what we do when we aren’t domesticating grasses like wild wheat and oats for grain crops, wild cattle for meat, and wild sheep for their heavy coats.
2,000 years is an eyeblink in the history of human warfare. It’s about food, fear and females.
The crazies over there aren’t in isolation. They may be different groups, many fighting each other, but they all have one ultimate objective… Uniting the world under the banner of their version of Islam.
Throughout history, the enemies of a civilization, two good examples are the enemies of Ancient Rome and Ancient China, started off as rival tribes fighting against each other. That fight evolved to where one tribe/group dominated the others and presto… We had a unified Mongol military effort that threatened both China and the West. Earlier, it was the Huns versus the Romans. But, that wasn’t the only threat that ended up “closing ranks” to collectively form a threat.
Make no mistake, as history has demonstrated over and over again, what appears to be different groups of people attacking us are actually gunning for the same objective. If left to their own device, “someone” is going to end up prevailing and unifying our radical Islamic Enemies against us.
They want to re-establish the Moorish Caliphates, and then continue where the Moors ended up stopping.
This isn’t something to where we could just sit back and wait till they get here to deal with it. By then, it’ll be too late, we’ll be dealing with a defensive war where we try to minimize their gain and they strive to maximize it… We’d be well on our way to the dustbin of history.
“Rome did not fall until her freed men gave up the will to fight”
That saying still applies today. Part of “not giving up the fight” involves doing what we’ve been doing in the Middle East since 2001. Either we change the geopolitical, geo-strategic, geo-economic, and cultural mindset over there, or their radical elements will succeed in turning the west, including the United States, into a series of Islamic Caliphates. There’s no middle road, and there’s no other option.
Dedicated to Lars. nsfw
https://youtu.be/ExriVI5KnHs
He made mention last March that he wanted to get us out, so he announces it. Get us completely off the ground in everyone of those tar baby countries.
Congress Critters: phuque ’em. Damn if he does, damn if he don’t. They are only concerned about their own reelection, nothing else.
Next pullout, A’stan and it can’t come too soon to suit me.
Well, see, you have to understand that the Congress Critters expect to be consulted on everything from what table linen to use to which way the wind blows. They aren’t used to someone who thinks for himself.
I am quite sure that dTrump would not do this without consulting The Warrior Monk first.
So now the howling about the threats and dangers of the Middle East will rise like a phantom wind blowing leaves around and all the criticisms will be awash in tears.
Some people would complain if they were hung with a brand new rope.
(snert)
Jonn posted about this a year or so ago. This was announced only this week. Don’t see how he can escape ALL the charges/potential charges. Thinking his career might be over. Navy Times Cmdr. John M. Neuhart is facing potential court-martial in connection to the incident, which allegedly took place at the woman’s San Diego residence after the two were out drinking. (Navy) A Navy commander facing charges for allegedly raping a female subordinate in 2016 was actually “engaged in a bizarre role playing sexual game” with the woman, the officer’s attorney said this week. Cmdr. John M. Neuhart is facing potential court-martial in connection to the incident, which allegedly took place at the woman’s San Diego residence after the two were out drinking. An Article 32 hearing was held Tuesday, where the presiding officer reviewed the evidence and will make a recommendation to superiors in the coming weeks if the case should go to trial. Neuhart was tried twice in civilian courts in connection to the allegations, but both ended with a hung jury. A San Diego judge dismissed the case as Neuhart faced a third trial in June. Neuhart’s current civilian attorney, Michael Hanzel, said this week that the accuser “created this allegation of sexual assault,” but that they were role playing. “When you look at it out of context, it might seem jarring or shocking,” Hanzel said in an email to Navy Times recounting his argument at the hearing. “But this is role playing, and both of them are participating in it, and both have been for a lot of the night.” Second mistrial in ex-Navy commander’s attempted rape trial Second mistrial in ex-Navy commander’s attempted rape trial A deadlocked jury led to a second mistrial Monday in the case of a former Navy commander charged with the attempted rape of a junior officer in San Diego. “She created this allegation because in the middle of this role playing, she and her former CO are caught having sex in her house because a neighbor walks over in the middle and jumps to a conclusion and calls the… Read more »
Now that’s a complicated case. The videos and his testimony must have been convincing to get two hung juries.
Biggest question I would have is, if it was all consenting adult play, why run from the cops? I guess a married superior officer doinking a subordinate would most definitely be a career ender, but lord did he make it worse on himself.
Brian Kolfake (US Air Force veteran) started a ‘GoFundMe’ for the wall, so far over 25K people have donated, and it’s reached over $1.5M.
https://www.gofundme.com/thetrumpwall
Er, Kolfage. Here’s his page on the Gary Sinise Foundation:
https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/specially-adapted-smart-homes/brian-kolfage/
thebesig – I do some amateur astronomy (when the skies are clear in my AO) and have started doing astrophotography. If you would like, I can send you some of my photos to post for other OT’s.
Thanks, I’ll send you an email.
To our racist firefighters, you see this story?
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/12/20/ucla-professor-too-many-firefighters-are-white/
Who knew that volunteering to go into Dante’s inferno was part of the patriarchal white supremacy?
Everytime I think I have seen or read it all, somebody comes along and proves me wrong. YGBSM! I could pick that whole article apart, but it is not worth the keyboard ribbon ink.
I just checked the race/gender of faculty at UCLA. Data for five years (2012-2016) are given. You’ll love this. The percentage of faculty that is (or identifies as, I guess) African American has skyrocketed from a low of 3.3% in 2012 to a high of 4% in 2016. And in Author and Researcher Corrine’s school at UCLA (Anderson), that number has dropped from 1.1% in 2012 to 1% in 2016. Bwahahahahahahah.
They may as well put up signs at UCLA reading, “No Blacks Need Apply.”
And there it is – GEN Mattis is resigning:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/defense-secretary-jim-mattis-leaving-his-post-trump-announces-n950616