Weekend Open Thread

| April 17, 2020

By Eugeniusz Kazimirowski (1873-1939). Public Domain. (www.cisza2.krakow.dominikanie.pl/ commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9049047)

This Sunday, April 19, is the Octave of Easter, the 8th day of Easter. According to Wikipedia, Pope John Paul II designated the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. He referenced Maria Faustina Kowalska’s (St. Faustina) diary entry. She claimed that Jesus assured her of remissions of sins and punishments for those who attend Mass on this day… Receiving the sacrament of confession and communion. Enjoy your weekend.

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5th/77th FA

1st

AW1Ed

Ya did it, congrats!

Roh-Dog

Congrats FA!

ChipNASA

THERE IT IS MOFOS!!!
BOOYAH!!!!!!
(Bows down)
I need confirmation CLAW,
I believe we have a WINNEAH!!!!

26Limabeans

I witnessed it. History has been made.
And I was there. Late, but I was there.

Commissioner Wretched

The first five-peat! The King of Battle reigns!

SFC D

You’re gonna turn into a real insufferable prick now, aren’t ya?

Congrats on the FIRST 5-peat! Fire for effect!

AW1Ed

You mean MORE of a real insufferable prick.
*grin*

SFC D

I was being polite. Not always my strong suit. I try to avoid it.

Long live the KoB, Lord of the dickweeds!

Sparks

Field Artillery…you must live a charmed life Brother.

5th/77th FA

Tanks Men! See my comment down thread! SFC D “..turn into…”? dahell you been. See ‘Ed’s comment. Bro Sparks, not so much charmed as blessed, or, as thebesig pointed out above, Divine Mercy.

A request to all the TAH Family be they lurkers, hangers on, regular commenters, or Admin types. How about we have, in Honor of the FIRST ACE of FIRST a Roll Call, not so much for my well deserved applause, but to add to the comment count and to let us know who all is out there. Besides, moderating all of the FIRST Time commenters will give poor ol’ AW1Ed something to do in his spare time. Just a howdy and sign your log book. Thanks!

No need to bow, curtsey, ot kiss my ring. A simple 1 fingered salute or mooning will suffice.

AW1Ed

“… will give poor ol’ AW1Ed something to do in his spare time.

Yep. Called it.

Hondo

No need to bow, curtsey, ot kiss my ring. A simple 1 fingered salute or mooning will suffice.

Rather than a mooning, you get an insulting taunting instead.

rgr769

Is that to be followed by the legendary “I fart in your general direction” salutation?

TXNorsky

Congrats KoB,

Didnt think I would see this ever.

Graybeard

Congratulations!

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

A 5-peat? REALLY?! A 5-PEAT?!
(bows down)
WE’RE NOT WORTHY!!

Skyjumper

Congrats on the five-peat, 5th/77th FA!!

Here ya go you old Georgia Bulldog. (smile)

Look what happens when you combine the best of the best……Airborne & Artillery.

“I wanna be an Airborne Artilleryman”…..

5th/77th FA

Sky! fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap

11B-Mailclerk

You aced that one….

Mick

2nd?

Combat Historian

Third…

Hack Stone

Hack Stone declares Not Yet Ready To Claim First Comment On This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread.

Hack Stone would like to notify anyone who may be interested that due to Social Distancing policies in compliance with Coronavirus safety recommendations, Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics will be streaming his ball juggling for the foreseeable future.

Finally, please rest easy knowing that as you read this, software Engineers in the Wuhan Research Laboratory of a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government are still diligently working on software to conquer the Coronavirus threat, and it will be bundled with our Y3K software.

Green Thumb

The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) has issued a statement (in between avoiding calls seeking clarification of his Native American, Law Enforcement and Navy Seal claims) to his taxpayer-funded employees concerning the COVID outbreak.

He called the virus a terrible thing (which it is – Good Job Phildo!). What I find odd is it is a form of discrimination and the kettle calling the pot black. I mean, what are we to think when a disease (aka. Phil Monkress) trashes a virus?

Seems unfair to me.

Roh-Dog

The gf and I are looking forward to streeting 3 juvenile squirrels. They are cute…when they’re sleeping.
Have a great weekend y’all!
Enjoy the warm weather

Graybeard

And now you know why the adult squirrels learned to leap to another tree – to get away from the kids.

Roh-Dog

They’re about 7 weeks, learning to run around the cage but their coordination is slightly off, kinda like they’re drunk…
Just like dad. Chips off the ol’ block.
I keep trying to let the gf know that one day they’ll just get mean and that’ll be the day, she says she’s ready, promised she is, but we both know it’ll break her heart.
She’s an animal lover, bigot. I’m still not getting her a dog, and that’s final. (Unless I can teach it to flush…)

Roh-Dog

Bigot=bigly
The iOS doesn’t get Trumpisms, shocked face.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Eighth and Honorary First once again.

((((OVER))))

5th/77th FA

INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!FIRE MISSION!!! FIRE MISSION!!! FIRE MISSION!!!!!!!!!!! TIME ON TARGET!!! The King of Battle has struck a true Time On Target Rolling Thunder Barrage. The FIRST ACE of FIRSTs on the Coveted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread. The ONLY FIRST that is recorded in the Coveted Book of FIRSTS. A 5 pete, unprecedented, never achieved! The King of Battle is now Officially the King of FIRST! Be still my beating heart.

To ALL of my most loyal D’weeds/Weedettes, the POGs, REMFs, Brigands, Feather Merchants, and Ne’er do wells, my most humble Thanks for their Support and Rats of the Cong!

Cold frosty beverages, top shelf whiskey 24 year old Scots Whiskeys, ribs, hot wings, cat heads and cheese grits with shrimps for all hands. My Treat.

First ACE FIRST!!!!!

ChipNASA

Mick

Holy shit. Our first TAH Weekend Open Thread Ace.

Congrats KoB!

Now you’ll have to paint five “1st” insignias in a row on the fuselage outside the cockpit, just below the canopy rail:

1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

Sierra Hotel!

AW1Ed

I recall a silhouette of a SU-22 Fitter on a Tomcat’s starboard vertical stab. One of Wacky Qaddafi’s that didn’t make it home.

Mick

Yup. There were some interesting events during the ’80s that have now been largely forgotten about.

I was acquainted with one of the VF-32 F-14 RIOs who was in the later engagement in 1989 where two VF-32 Tomcats splashed two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers out over the Gulf of Sidra.

Used a combination of Sparrows and a Sidewinder to put ’em both down.

Good stuff.

5th/77th FA

Word up Mick. I remember those. The Libyans sat down and STFU when Unka Ronnie did the bitch slap in the Med and on the land. An F111B knocking on your tent door or a flight of Toms is more than just an attention getter.

I may have to paint up one of my Aerial Artillery Platforms in Honor of my ACE of FIRST. Have a goodly assortment of die cast models from the War Memorial I had built on my desk at out work center. Had everything from a Snoopy SPAD to the F117. P38 to a B1B. There was a representative from every conflict starting with the Rev War going thru the Afgan Campaign. Nothing as elaborate as what TOW’s diorama is but each section was set up in a tactical setting. Safety man made me take the aircraft off of the fishing line suspended from the drop ceiling over the desk. Said it created a hazard. Sissy punk!

ChipNASA

7vntyenth!!!!

The Other Whitey

Red Dawn progress for those interested. At the advice of Prior Service, I made an effort to dirty up both vehicles. They’re probably still not dirty enough, but I reached the limit of my abilities. As it is, I dicked it up in a couple of spots on the tank, luckily I was able to cover most of them up.

https://www.deviantart.com/yt45

AW1Ed

Nicely done, TOW.

Sparks

You amaze me TOW! A true artist indeed. I loved putting together models as a kid. But they were not even close to being in the league you work in. As an old fart, the kid in me gets a real thrill from looking at your work. Keep it up, Brother.

26Limabeans

Very nice. Love the detail on the personnel.

Bim

Very nice job, TOW. If you’re interested in weathering and damage techniques for armor, there’s an Eastern European guy on youtube with a channel called Night Shift. The work he does is amazing, and he goes through every technique step by step. I don’t model much anymore, but I can’t stop watching his videos. His finished work always comes out very realistic.

https://youtu.be/ku4comhKHJM

The Other Whitey

I actually subscribe to Night Shift on YouTube. He’s a lot better at this crap than I’ll ever be, but I’ve managed to learn a couple of things from him that I intend to use in the future.

Sparks

I like your North American F-100 Super Sabre for a very special reason. My father served in the Army and then the Air Force.

In April of 1960, while stationed at Donaldson AFB in SC, he took us to see the Thunderbirds flying the F-100. We were able to watch outside our car at the edge of the runway. As an 11-year-old, I was awe struck, to say the least.

Thunderstixx

There’s a program on Amazon Prime called Huns with lots of interviews with the pilots of those planes.
They were the very first supersonic planes that could go supersonic and stay supersonic.
It was all new territory and a lot of pilots made the ultimate sacrifice testing that theory and application scenario.

5th/77th FA

Looking real good TOW. Good to watch the continuing progress. Is the finished diorama gonna have a T72 with a wingwiper spread eagled on it popping smoke?

Thanks Bro!

The Other Whitey

Unfortunately no. I’m not that good. I am kicking around an idea for a future project featuring the same militiamen in a gunfight around a shot-down Mi-8/17 though. I need seriously improve my skill set first, though.

Commissioner Wretched

Beautiful! Simply outstanding!

Commissioner Wretched

As we all celebrate KoB’s FIRST-ever five-peat, I offer some trivia for you all to enjoy! DID YOU KNOW…? Was the first-ever talking motion picture a financial risk for the studio? By Commissioner Wretched The strangest thing happened to me recently. A friend and I were driving through the south Georgia town of Cairo and were arguing about how the name of the town is pronounced. I said, “It’s KAY-ro.” My friend said, “No, it’s KYE-ro.” We went back and forth about it for a while, then I decided to settle the argument once and for all. I pulled into the nearest driveway, drove up to the window, and asked the person inside, “Would you please tell my friend here where we are?” The young lady said, “Burger King.” (Insert rimshot here.) Okay, enough bad jokes … on to the trivia, which is better for you anyway. Did you know … … French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was exiled from his country not once, but twice? In 1814, he was overthrown and banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. The next year, Napoleon escaped, returned to France, resumed being emperor, and was overthrown again in 1816. This time, to ensure he didn’t come back, the new French government sent their ex-emperor to the island of St. Helena, a speck of land in the south Atlantic Ocean. (Had to exile him twice, eh? Some people just never learn.) … the current last word in the Oxford English Dictionary wasn’t added until 2017? Prior to that year, the last word in the OED was zythum, which referred to an ancient form of malt beer. But in 2017, the word zyzzyva was added. What’s a zyzzyva? It’s a kind of tropical weevil found in South America. (It’s also a very contrived attempt to be last in the dictionary, if you ask me.) … the first talking motion picture was made as a financial risk? In 1927, executives of Warner Brothers were having serious financial difficulties. In a bid to try and turn the company’s fortunes around, they decided to experiment with a new… Read more »

SFC D

No shit, there I was… toiling away on a Memorial Day weekend, ass deep in the Lawn and Garden department at Lowe’s, my temporary employer following retirement…

A gentleman walks up, obviously angry, and proceeds to tear me a new asshole because none of the items in the the sale flyer can be found in our store. I let him rant and rave, a crowd of employees and customers gathered…

I smiled and said “Sir, this flyer is from Home Depot…”

Sparks

ROTFLMAO. Please tell me he turned red faced and huffed off, without apology. What a coup!

SFC D

Dude couldn’t get out of the store fast enough! And I attained “store legend” status for a while. Never been prouder lol

26Limabeans

I’ll bet that happens a lot.

I remeber when the only choice was Grossmans.
Then Home Quarters came to town.
They lasted only a few before Home Depot showed up.
Then Lowes came to town.
Then Corona…..

Graybeard

Priceless!

David

Like Kye-ro, Egypt and Kay-ro IL, or SaLEEnas CA or SaLINE-a Ks?

26th or so? Trying finish the back acres before it rains. Success sorta… it’s cut but definitely a blade sharpening afternoon. Seen fewer ripples in a bag of Lays wavies.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Like Miami FL and My-am-UH Oklahoma, or the State of Nevada and Ne-VAY-da Missouri!

Commissioner Wretched

Old joke: How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky, LOUIE-ville or LOUIS-ville?

I always say “Frankfort,” myself.

SFC D

I pulled that joke on MRS D last week.

I’m still in timeout.

Graybeard

There are a number of street and town names in Texas that always trip up the newbies.

We know “y’all ain’t from ’round here, are ya?” when they try to pronounce them…

SFC D

Used to pass the sign for this road when I was a kid, never failed to crack me up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California

5th/77th FA

Vee ana Austria or Vye ana Georgia. On my last driving trip to NE back in ’15 got off I-70 in MO onto MO Hwy 41. Bad wreck outside of KC. Meandered thru a ways on the old Lewis & Clark Trial crossed over Big Tater Creek. Big Tater Creek turns into Roach Lake.

And it IS Kay row Jawja as in the cane syrup brand.

OWB

Thought it was Vye-eena, like the sausages.

5th/77th FA

Yep OWB, fat fingered my ees on an a. The sausages is pulpwooder/loggers gourmet rations. Step up from potted meat. Chock full of peckers and lips…since 1936. Got any sody crackers? Bottle of Ripple?

OWB

Just to add a bit more inanity to this high octane discussion – the city in Austria has the accent on the second syllable while the name of the sausages is spoken rather flatly with little to no accent ’round these parts. Same in GA, per chance?

5th/77th FA

Yep, and it’s only 1 & 1/2 syllables. And SFC D, the Ft Gordon Town; (Martin-Ez) Some refer to it as Martinniville (for the novour rich subdivisions) or Martinrittaville for the influx of other nationalities. And it’s not Mary etta, it’s May Rhetta. (Go past the Big Chicken and turn left at the Waffle House.)

SFC D

What’s that town in Jawja just outside of FT Gordon? Mar-Tee-Nez, as we pronounce it at D’s Cantina, or is it Martin-Ez?

Hondo

Locally, it’s pronounced “MAR-tin-ez”. Kinda like Buena Vista, GA, is pronounced “BUE-nah Vista”, Madrid, AL, is pronounced “MAD-rid”, and Micanopy, FL, is pronounced “MICK-an-oh-pee” (all caps indicates the syllable that’s stressed).

NHSparky

Rumor had it there was a house (trailer) of ill repute there for a while, but never verified.

rgr1480

I figured the last word would be a small town in California named …

Zzyzx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California

…Curtis Howe Springer made up the name Zzyzx and gave it to the area in 1944, claiming it to be the last word in the English language. He established the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa in 1944 at the spot, which was federal land, after filing mining claims for 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) surrounding the springs. …

I used to drive past the sign when driving from Ft. Irwin to Vegas.

NHSparky

Last I checked the exit sign off I-15 still exists.

Thunderstixx

I was social distancing while doing a light check on my eyelids….
They’re good !!!
Texas just put out their way to open back up with a program that will last over a couple months at the least.
At least they are going forward.
We don’t have that much of an infection rate with only 428 fatalities at this point and 13,266 cases total. I’m an agnostic on this as I know quite a bit about infection control.
Barring that I am pulling some assets together to buy a house in the Austin/Kyle area and put in a recording studio there.
Musical equipment is cheap here as a norm, but it’s REALLY cheap now !!!
Have a great weekend everybody and I hope that all of you have a safe and infection free weekend.
Oh, wash your damn hands !!!

Thunderstixx

Next week is the timeline to begin to open up Texas.
Next Friday retailers can openb their doors for business but must still maintain certain numbers of people allowed and social distancing protocols are still in order for the shoppers.
The Retailers also must maintain a shop and drop policy where people can wait outside the door for people to get their items while waiting in their cars outside the store.
Thank God we can at least get a start of life again…
Here’s the rundown on the Executive Orders he put out today.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/coronavirus/article/Abbott-expected-to-announce-plan-to-reopen-Texas-15207696.php

Graybeard

Surprised to find that I’m in the top 30 posts this week.

Working at various odd jobs around today, but the corn and beans are growing well, the tomatoes and squash doing fine, and the okra is just popping up in their rows.

Lord willing, fall will be good eating time.

Hondo

What’s really interesting is the fact that (per the linked article) nearly 22 million telephone numbers have been terminated in the PRC during the 2019 Wuhan coronavirus pandemic – 21M cellphones and roughly 840k landlines.

Not all of those are associated with Wuhan coronavirus fatalities, of course. But I’d certainly guess some of them are.

How many is the key question.

Hondo

Seems to me a few weeks ago I read that the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is the first period of time during which the total number of cell phone subscribers in the PRC has ever dropped.

5th/77th FA

Started re-reading Clancy’s Executive Orders the other night. Just for gits n shiggles. ’bout halfway thru it. Odd how many parallels in that tome as to what is happening today. And the linky on the dropped cell phone numbers? Spot on. They (the Chinese Communist Gubmint) could care less if they lost 20+ millions of people. With the population they have, that’s a rounding error.

Larsie Boi must be still getting his empirical data bullet points in order. He’s late.

11B-Mailclerk

Doesn’t take a full crew to navigate a ship.

Effort at “face”.

Just updating our target recognition guides for us. They ain’t ready for what they court.

Graybeard

IMHO, they have their “face” up Xi’s nether eye.

Hondo

In the PRC, I doubt they have much choice.

Combat Historian

Chicoms and Norks are employing the usual commie lies. Norks announced they have zero corona cases in the whole country. Commies will lie even when telling the truth makes more sense…

SFC D

But are they really, truly communists?

11B-Mailclerk

Lefties predictably projecting their faults on others.

AW1Ed

Poetrooper sent this:

U.S. military pensions to get invested in Chicom assets?
By Monica Showalter

Military pensions are important, and it’s natural that the agencies investing them would want to get them the best possible returns.

But a new report from John Solomon’s JustTheNews site suggests that something a little disturbing is going on:

U.S. military and other federal pensions are apparently going to be invested Chinese entities if a new investment setup goes through. Christine Dolan of JustTheNews writes:

In November 2017, FRTIB Chairman Michael Kennedy, who is Managing Director of Korn/Ferry International, and his board decided to change $50 billion in U.S. government retirement funds to a new global investment index known as the MSCI ACWI Index. The board hopes the change allows for greater returns on investments in emerging Asian markets but critics warn the index would allow investments in adversarial nation-owned companies in Russia and China.

Read the rest: American Thinker

Brilliant.

11B-Mailclerk

What the actual frak…..

OWB

It’s bad enough that the Exchanges are filled with products made in China because we each at least have a choice in whether to buy them or not. My retirement invested in supporting the Chinese military? That a no go. Negatory. Nyet. Over.

marinedad61

Humor meme.
Stolen Valor Military Phony humor meme.
Funny, but sometimes not so funny,
depending on who is looking at it, and when.
(1 – It’s a public group, so everyone can see it.)
(2 – If this could be uploaded for full time visibility, that would be great.)
Enjoy the weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/vfwopenchatgroup/permalink/2900374750040188/

rgr769

But, but, remember the ChiComs are not real “commies” cuz they don’t practice the pure Marxist form of communist totalitarianism our fave former cuttlefish is so fond of. He being a staunch admirer of the Lenin-Trotsky school of commie-fascist socialism.

Roh-Dog

You don’t HAVE to be a party member to start a business, but if you’d like to keep your organs here’s an envelope for your dues.
Thank you in advance for your mandatory optional remittance.

That video is a good watch. Love me some China Uncensored.

Friend

Read that crap this morning.
1. Moratorium on executing MURDERING SCUM
2. Sanctuary State
3. Free money to illegals

NEXT…????
STUPID ASSHOLE…

A Proud Infidel®™

Yeah, give all you can to illegal aliens, what could go wrong?

AW1Ed

BUFF at 68

5th/77th FA

Boner, Freedom, One (1) each!

My all around fav old school Aerial Artillery Platform.

One has to wonder if any of that ordnance has B61 or W80 nomenclature. Asking for a friend.

11B-Mailclerk

The black and white one on the left, rear rank, I believe, might be a 61.

And the rotary rack in the middle holds ALCMs, which have the “epic kaboom” option.

OWB

Cool. Very cool. Thanks for reminding us, Ed.

Never got to ride one of those. It was pretty neat to get to spend some time near one once. As in guarding it.

11B-Mailclerk

Buff, the magic bomber
B fifty two…

(Grin)

Sapper3307

Bernie’s space hippy collective in Burlington Vermont has gone full retard again. The goal is stop all F-35 flights and have the Airforce build houses for homeless among other progressive things.

A Proud Infidel®™

So just how do they plan to stop F-35 flights, don’t they know that lethal force IS authorized on US Air Force Bases?

Sapper3307

The towns man bun, hipster, gender confused BOD voted(We no like) and sent a letter to the governor. Its Bernie’s stronghold of welfare and free housing for life, Burlington, Vermont.

26Limabeans

Is that snow flurries or spittle?

Looks like he had a stroke and they cut away.

AW1Ed

Boomer sends. Sorry, Joe Biden: Barack Obama’s endorsements have a huge record of failure John Podhoretz April 15, 2020 At long last, former President Barack Obama has endorsed Joe Biden, who claimed he didn’t want his ex-boss’ endorsement during the nominating process. You know what? Maybe Biden was right, even though he was lying. Maybe he shouldn’t have wanted Obama’s endorsement. For while it is true that Obama is a genius at winning elections, he is only a genius at it when he’s the one running. No one has ever done better for himself in US politics — or been as ineffectual in his efforts to get other people elected. No one has ever so thoroughly dominated politics — or so thoroughly decimated the party he led to victory. When Obama was elected president in 2008 Democrats had been in control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for two years. His colossal victory — 70 million votes — extended Democratic congressional margins substantially. Indeed, for much of his first year, Obama had a super majority in the Senate. He only lost that super majority because Ted Kennedy died — but in a pregnant sign that Obama wouldn’t be the transformational party leader he seemed at first, Democrats lost the Kennedy seat in Massachusetts in January 2010 to a little-known Republican named Scott Brown. Truth to tell, Obama had ­already shown his feet of clay in 2009 in a series of endorsements that didn’t turn the tide for the candidates he stumped for. New Jersey Govenor Jon Corzine lost his reelection bid to Chris Christie, while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds was blown out in Virginia. And a few months later, in 2010, Obama went all in for Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania — a deeply unpleasant Republican who had desperately gone Democrat because he had lost the confidence of his original party — only to see Specter lose . . . In the Democratic primary! (The guy who beat Specter then lost in November.) True, Obama secured four massive pieces of legislation in his first 15 months in office and increased… Read more »

11B-Mailclerk

The shitbringer…..

HMCS(FMF) ret

Anything the JEF touches, turns to shit…

marinedad61

Oh no!
It is soon to be announced that the VFW is CANCELLING the
121st VFW National Convention in Reno, NV in July.

I was so looking forward to not only giving some free publicity to the
Valor Guardians and Military Phony websites,
but also showcasing
LES BROWN and the Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass.
as the local Nevada example of Stolen Valor
to a national audience of VFW members from all across the USA.

Anyone with a crop duster in Salt Lake City or Wendover interested in dropping a few thousand leaflets over Elko and Carlin, Nevada?

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/121st-vfw-national-convention

OWB

Since I don’t usually watch infomercials (are they still called that?), it is somewhat alarming that as I sit here, am thoroughly enjoying one. TimeLife evidently is hawking CD’s from various eras. I am shocked to discover just how much 70’s music is familiar sounding. And I even know the names of a few artists.

Should we worry that I may order the collection? Then would need a CD player. Maybe it would be easier to just dust off the old tape player.

Hondo

Barring damage, CDs are forever – and their audio quality doesn’t degrade with playing like tape or vinyl. Plus, last time I checked CD players were reasonably priced.

Plus, there’s an added bonus. You can use software provided gratis with any Windows PC to “rip” MP3 versions of anything on CD to digital format for play on an MP3 player (or through an auto sound system if it has that capability; many newer vehicles do). That’s quite worthwhile if you like to listen to music of choice vice whatever happens to be on the radio while you drive.

You like the music, IMO it’s worth the relatively few $$$ involved. But it’s your $$$, so it’s your call. (smile)

OWB

Yep. Giving it serious thought. They are beyond my comfort zone financially (“five easy payments…”) but still well worth it. And affordable.

The greatest disappointment in my “new” (now 3 year old) car was it’s lack of CD player. Have all those travel CD’s and nowhere to play them. Sure, have considered getting a retrofit player to put into the car but just haven’t gotten down that far on the list of things to do.

Thunderstixx

Just remember as we sit on our asses watching our lives continue to spiral down the drain of lost opportunity that many of our major corporations like Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and scores more have supported the Chicoms for years.
It’s also come out now that the Wuhan laboratory received a 750 million dollar grant from the US State Department under the tutelage of our great leader oblowme in 2015 to study this same virus.
So, I sincerely hope that the changes we see coming from this horrific mess brought on by the Chicoms and sponsored by those companies are off the list of purchasing by all of us.
No matter how they try to cover their asses, the responsibility and the deaths are part and parcel of the policies that were supported by those companies for decades.
There is no way they can shirk their responsibility…
Fuck them, every last one of them…

26Limabeans

Label reading for source will become common.
The market will eventually respond and China
can go back to pre Nixon status.

Combat Historian

To spite the fucking chicoms even more, everyone should not just boycott the chicoms but also make a conscious effort to purchase products “Made in Taiwan”. Support the Free Chinese and hit the fucking chicoms where it hurts…

HMCS(FMF) ret

Waiting for the Chinese water boi to come in and defend this is….

marinedad61
marinedad61

Any other stories of military phonies exploiting the current terrain?
We already read about the Carlisle, PA truck stop wheelchair beggar.

On the opposite side, this phony is getting EARLY RELEASE.
Ugh.
(A 44-year-old woman [Joyell Riley]
who lied about military service and needing breast cancer treatments
to solicit money could get out of prison a couple of months early
due to the coronavirus pandemic.)

https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2020/04/09/riley-could-get-early-release-prison-help-reduce-pandemic/5121716002/

Green Thumb

If Phildo had a daughter….

Sapper3307

I remember her hurricane (Irian?)scam.

Cameron

The Swiss have been lighting up the famous mountain Matterhorn with different flags, the first one being the American flag.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/matterhorn-in-swiss-alps-lit-up-with-american-flag-in-show-of-solidarity-during-coronavirus

Cameron

What can possibly go wrong? If the police thought their job was hard now, they just succeeded in making it a whole lot harder. This is not how you get the public on your side. This is how you drive them even further away.

https://www.westernjournal.com/big-brother-expands-govt-drones-now-tracking-americans-body-temps-without-permission/

26Limabeans

Well, this old classic has new meaning:

https://youtu.be/MRuS3dxKK9U?t=2