Midweek Open Thread: May Day
Happy May Day. (SendScraps.com)
Happy Hump Day and Happy May Day. We’re in a cross-quarter day, or a day that’s “halfway” between an equinox and a solstice. Back in the ancient and medieval times, cross-quarter days were used as markers to aid with long range agriculture related planning and activities. Celebrations accompanied cross-quarter days. Groundhog’s Day is another well known cross-quarter day.
Category: Open thread
First?
Congratulations, T1B. May you reign supreme.
42nd Street and still dancing.
Atmosphere report: heavily overcast, not suitable for inexperienced private pilots who tend to crash planes to get insurance money out of them. Two large pterosaurs the size of Cessnas flew over the local airport, looking for a place to land and have a picnic.
All is not quiet on the southern front.
4th. MP’s are here. Open yer duffle bags foot and wall lockers
‘Junk On The Bunk’
Man, the Grunts are a huge believer in those inspections. Seemed we had one every few months on Hansen.
Sup bitches.
“Looks at Venezuela”….
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Congrats to T1B. Good practice for the race for FIRST on the Coveted Earned (never given) TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread. Was away from the comm link, getting rucked up. The fight for FIRST on Friday should be easier as 5/77 will be detached on TDY 155 years in the past. I will be off the net for awhile due to the massive destruction of the telegraph wires by Stoneman’s and Sherman’s people. The Combined Arms Army will be joined by a detail of CS Navy due to the possible scuttling of the Ironclad CSS Georgia. Wish us luck!
Note to AnotherPat….Check the after action report from last Friday’s WOT….Also the Captain of the CSS Georgia has an opening for a cabin boy if AW1Ed is interested. GO ARMY BEAT NAVY RTR HBTD (grabs his Spencer Carbine, McElroy Sabre, Griswold Revolver and beats feet)
Happy May Day everyone. Revolution for all!
Get out those hammers and sickles it’s time chop of some heads.
Remember this guy?
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=80427
He is in the news Again:
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/04/29/news/midcoast/judge-denies-swanville-farmers-request-to-throw-out-search-warrant-in-pig-massacre-case/
Fuckbucket.
Maybe his old thread needs an update.
Good Pull.
Tip for wannabe embellishers and POSers: try and stay under the radar. Flirt with the boundary but don’t go over it. We had two “Twofers” this past week.
Rank checks out, that sure looks like a special-ist.
He looks like “That Guy” you’d send off looking for Blinker Fluid, Chem Light Batteries and Cable Stretching Oil to get him out of everyone’s hair!
MLB scheduled a afternoon game down in Seattle. I guess they don’t know the moon bats will be out in force.
*an
A month of Sundays…
Speaking of May Day, I wonder when the NTSB will release lawn-dart Danny’s accident report?
Accident means unavoidable.
Lawn Dart Danny was a shitbag who read the writing on the wall which mostly consisted of the shit he was flinging at it.
Open threads we can talk about anything, right?
I just had a tour of the Amphibious ship “New York” here at Port Everglades for Fleet Week.
I know that I am an ofwg when the sailor following the tour group (making sure none of us snuck off) and armed with an M4 looks like a high school student!
Very impressive that it has steel from the twin towers displayed as a permanent part of the ship.
This popped up a few days ago and is interesting. Seems a convicted murder is in a senior position within Loma Linda VA System:
“Manager at Loma Linda VA Center in Redlands
Found To Be A Convicted Murderer”
Edwin Winslow Bennett was still on parole for the 1989 gangland-style execution of a business rival when he began a meteoric rise through the managerial ranks at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System.
Bennett, 57, who says on his LinkedIn page he has an MBA from an online school in Santa Ana called California Coast University and an honorable discharge from the Air Force, honed his skills during the 22 years he spent behind bars, including a stint at Soledad State Prison.
His online resume boasts myriad skills honed behind prison walls, including providing administrative and computer support to Soledad’s associate warden.
In 2013, two years after Bennett was paroled, VA officials took notice and hired him as a supervisor at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System’s outpatient clinic.
Then, in November 2018 — the same month he completed parole — Bennett was promoted to project manager for the VA’s Ambulatory Care Center in Redlands, a 221,000-square-foot facility that provides veterans with dental, mental health and primary medical care. He holds the same position today.
Bennett did not return phone calls or emails regarding his criminal history or job with the VA.
Several Loma Linda Healthcare System employees also declined to comment, saying they fear retaliation.
Hired under Obama policies
Wade J. Habshey, a spokesman for the VA Loma Linda Health Care System, said in a statement that Bennett will remain on the job. He partly blamed his hiring on the administration of former President Barack Obama.
“This hiring decision was made under previous medical center leadership and under the previous presidential administration,” the statement says. “VA Loma Linda cannot and will not defend this action. However, under federal law, VA is unable to take any action against this employee based on conduct that occurred before his hiring.”