Ha!
Howdy Glibs. Here we are again in the brief respite between Mexi’s words of wisdom and the evening Zoom. I’m not even going to try and compete with this mornings installment. Let’s see what we can dig up here though.
Who would want a sex doll that’s going to follow you around and want to talk? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
Someone has some serious anger issues.
Eighties!!!
I have the Covid on my Feet, AGHHHH!!!!
Isn’t that called, “Toevid?” If you lose one, it’ll decimate your feet.
Ha! one in Ten, perfect
You were right.
See?
California is hell. Change my mind
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/couple-buys-riverside-dream-home-but-seller-refuses-to-move-out-in-eviction-moratorium-loophole
Well, they bought a house in CA. There are only a hundred ways to get that fuckstick out of there and they arent doing it so….
Not just CA, but Riverside, CA. They should count themselves lucky that they didn’t end up locked in the tenant’s basement…
IT KNOWN AS RIVERTUCKY FOR REASON!
Well, they seem to have cleaned up Tujunga, so there’s that.
Hey, Mrs. Hobbit is from Tujunga! VHHS ’72!
I guess title insurance would cover that, but I’m not sure. I’d be bitching them out either way for missing such an issue.
Just show up and squat in a different part of the house.
Franz Kafka nods in understanding.
I had an employee who rented out rooms at his house. He kicked out about three people who tried to use the eviction laws. He just pushed open the door and threw all their stuff out the front door. Told ’em, ” Time to go.” and that’s it. He figured, let them sue me. Most dead beats are too fucked up in the head to really pull all of that off.
He bought his house with no money down on an adjustable ARM. He ended up renting all of the rooms out and sleeping on a cot behind his car in the garage. When the mortage went to high gear, he sold the first rights to buy it for 20k. There was no way he could pay 4k a month. If the meltdown hadn’t have happened, he could have paid for the whole thing by refi-ing over and over again. After the meltdown, it was impossible to keep refi-ing when the ARM kicked in. I should have scammed my way into a house like that, but it seemed shady.
Nothing a silenced .22 and a shovel wouldn’t fix.
Or just a shovel.
Ammo is expensive these days.
I fully expect to see a comeback of the mafia.
The government is simultaneously authoritarian, incompetent, and malicious. There is a growing market for those that can rectify these types of situations for a price.
Interesting perspective. There might be something to it. One of the few legitimate functions of government is to settle disputes and also to prevent crimes in progress (house squatting).
If the government can’t even do that, something or someone will fill that niche.
It’s even worse in that the government has made it impossible to use the legal system. I think Scruffy is on to something.
Dude, the Italian, Russian, and Mexican Mafias have have made inroads into the freaking tobacco trade in this country by transporting U-Hauls full of cartons of cigarettes from low tax states(like Missouri) to high tax states(like New York).
Tens of thousands of people every day have to negotiate trade with violent criminals to get smokes on the cheap.
It’s fucking absurd.
https://youtu.be/b9NPblHJ-pk
I just watched that entire movie less than three hours ago.
Hell, it may have subconsciously inspired the comment.
Either way…creepy…GL is a Fed!!!
Delete you’re browser history!!!
How does that movie hold up?
Yet another movie I saw in the theater.
It’s still funny. In many respects, it’s too unPC to be filmed today. Despite a black guy as the protagonist.
This is still not as bad as that one date some of us recall on TOS: the day with no links.
In fact, this is way better than that one time Shika did the links.
That was bad. Very, very bad.
Would this be in the, “damned by faint praise” category?
well, we could damn you directly. We have been known to do things like that.
No I think you should just faint from the damn praise.
Oh yeah, it’s real appealing when you peel off your date’s skin and expose their eyeballs. Amirite?
+1 hate crime
Umm…if thats how you treat your guests, I am never having dinner at Rhywun’s.
This sounds suspiciously like a “Fava beans and a nice Chianti” type of situation.
Rhywum cannot speak for long, he is having a friend over for dinner.
Mexican S – thanks for the trigger suggestion. Do you have a link or a description for the exact thing I would want to search for from that brand – or should it be easy to find on most sites?
Very common. I should warn you, some of these are NOT cheap. Brownells and Midway will likely have them as well.
https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/parts-and-accessories/parts-by-gun-model/ar-15/lower-parts/triggers/?cgid=14996
Thanks for the reference. Those cost more than my entire polymer lower. I’ll keep it in mind going forward though. I’d rather have a single piece than a bunch of separate pieces and pins that make things more complicated.
Thems look purtee. I have always built my own from kits, but I may need to check one of these out. Any particular recommendation?
You mean, go back to what you just said didn’t work in 2020?
That’s some great journalisming, The Bulwark. ?
Everytime I see that name, I mentally substitute in Bulworth.
Loeffler was a terrible candidate and a vocal Trump supporter. Perdue was okay and I suspect would have won but for Trump’s shenanigans. That said, The Bulwark is laughably awful.
I don’t trust any of these “elections” and I think it’s a mistake to apply normal assessments of performance to any of them. 2020 was the shadiest election of my lifetime, by a wide margin. The guy who won didn’t even squeak out a hundred words during his campaign. That alone makes it easily shown to be fake. Never mind that the loser had the strongest economy we’ve ever seen until the dems fucked it all up with the ‘vid. You know, his enemies the dems.
Eighties.
Ah, good tune. Brings me back.
Eighties
Ah, Grace Slick’s drag-queen stage.
Jesus, man. Not cool. Not cool at all dude.
Antidote – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUe_v6Mi70
A different sort of burning
I was expecting an ad for gonorrhea treatments, so I guess that was an improvement.
Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” is about his burning anus.
What did you expect from Ted’S?
The clear answer is for Fannin County to report 27,000,001 votes for the Republican candidate.
That Simple Minds tune always sends me right back to watching The Breakfast Club in the theater.
Same here. I can just about quote that flick line by line.
For an early baby boomer, John Hughes could really write characters that resonated with kids born in the late 60s. Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris.
BTW, for Sixteen Candles fans: the license plate on Jake’s Porsche is John Hughes’ birthday.
I like the Simple Minds song, but “The Breakfast Club” is my least favorite of the John Hughes movies I’ve seen.
You got to be number one!
Anti-Banjo’s??
…
Steve Martin and Bela Fleck would disagree.
So would that kid from Deliverence.
So I would think of an anti-banjo as something like bagpipes.
YOU FUNNY! STEVE SMITH RAPE YOU LAST…
Tonight is the city’s daddy daughter dance, so I’m all gussied up and ready to take the 3 year old out for some dancing at the local soccer stadium followed by a trip to her favorite restaurant (whataburger).
Aw, that’s sweet.
She has a favourite restaurant at age three?
Man, kids these days.
Masks optional?
Cause if you accidentally dance with the wrong three year old, you’re gonna have some splainin’ to do.
Yup, masks optional and generally not worn, thank the Lord.
Not too many other three year olds there. Kiddo was probably the youngest there. That didn’t stop her from riding the mechanical bull, though. ?
I remember those days. Sounds sweet.
“Soft liberalism has taken root in the military over several decades….[I]n the wake of President Joe Biden’s election—and more precipitously since the January 6 “insurrection”—bureaucratic progressivism has hardened into iron-fisted wokeism….
“…advocating for the Biblical view of sex and marriage in law and policy is, according to today’s armed forces, tantamount to oath betrayal….
“The truth is that today’s military is running on the fumes of our vastly superior forefathers and the ever-shrinking proportion of each branch that still does truly heroic work and accomplishes truly extraordinary feats. The rest is a bloated military-industrial complex given over to Fortune 500-style corporate progressivism.
“And if it’s bad in the Marine Corps, imagine how much worse it is in the other services.
“America’s enemies are laughing at us. Frankly, we deserve it.”
From an opinion piece in…Newsweek!
https://www.newsweek.com/soft-liberalism-iron-fisted-leftism-todays-us-military-opinion-1576950
Is Newsweek under new management? That’s the only thing I can think of that would explain them letting that piece through.
I regularly read “The Army” magazine, snd I gotta agree with this guy.
National defense or even war making in general are no longer the primary purposes of the armed forces.
This became obvious under Obama when he forcibly retired a lot of brass and likely-future brass so that they’d be replaced with people who buy into Obama’s vision for the military.
There are problems that run a lot deeper than just the last administration or two. I have almost zero confidence in our ability to conduct any kind of serious war effort, and to even learn from getting our asses kicked (as traditionally has happened).
STEVE SMITH HALP. HIM WAR EFFORT GUD. BY WAR EFFORT, MEAN RAPE.
We’ll just see when we really need it. I know 911 had a huge burst of enthusiasm for military service. I’d like to think any real issue would bring forth a similar response.
As a military fossil I gotta agree. When we were preparing to fight the USSR we were conditioned and trained on reality of a major great power clash. Entire units like the 11th ACR were expected to be wiped out, not decimated, wiped out in 1-2 hours and were told “I need you to stand and fight and stop them for an hour.” My entire SF group was expected to be like a LAW- one shot and throw it away. We had resources to get us in, but if any of us were alive we were told to “move west until you can steal a boat.” We determined we would stay in the Warsaw Pact and try and start many guerilla fronts until we lit the spark or were killed.
Desert Storm gave the US the first symptoms of “victors disease” because we had a force ready to fight the USSR take on a third or fourth rate Iraqi army and believe our own press clippings. Since 9/11 the ATO and ITO have been so one sided we never had to fear even a tactical loss at the company level. We owned everything and had no worries except sporadic indirect fires on our large basecamps. This is not to say our enemies were not resourceful, speedy tactical learners, and hard fighters- they were. But if a unit got into problems and could survive the first 15-30 minutes the US would just keep turning up with more resources until the bravery and wherewithal of the enemy was just overwhelmed. The entire military only knows that fight. The USN last lost a major combat vessel in 1945. The USAF had its last knockdown and drawn out fight over North Vietnam (ended 1973). The Army and Marines last had to worry about losing units above the company level in the first year in Korea (1950) or early Vietnam (1964-65).
Now the military is trying to learn how to fight a peer great competitor again from scratch. I was commissioned in 1982 and the only officers from my year are two senior LTG’s and one GEN. Except for a small number of SGM’s and CW5’s there is nobody around who trained for a large fight as a youngster. The mid range officers have had their training blocks centrally controlled since they were LT’s and are weak at planning unit training.
Now we have a force trying to figure out how to fight where the casualties will be wholesale and leaders will have to write off entire units or warships to try to achieve a greater end against an enemy with more of everything than the US can bring to bear. (Itself a formidable task.) Take that and add in all the social bullshit layered on top of it. Soldiers, sailors, marines all know there is a crap load of bullshit, even before the latest “extremist” bunk. Gay stuff doesn’t really bother them since the society they grew up in doesn’t consider that big a deal. But they KNOW that most women (and frankly men) can’t make it as infantry, tube FA, or the hard Special Operations disciplines- and they absolutely do not trust the senior leadership to hold the standards to make sure that they are maintained and not “fortified” to get unprepared women and men into their units. I talk with current SOF folks and they are brutally cynical about this. I see on a regular basis some of the best leaving the Service because they remember the responsibilities they discharged during combat tours being ignored for the SJW madness. As always some of the best stay because they think they can improve the situation- but even they are beginning to throw in the towel.
The Chinese and Russian doctrines both seek to rapidly achieve a fait accompli victories, or to quickly give the US a big bloody nose, and seek conflict termination. Just salami slice until the US walks away and they end up with their goals. They will do use their positions on the UN Security Council and the use of horizontal escalation in the other elements of DIME to ensure that fights terminate before the US can respond. We will not have the luxury of a Bull Run, Kasserine, Guadalcanal Campaign, Paukenschlag to learn the harsh lessons and let the industrial base catch up. The war will be over.
With the pre-Harris administration in place they should see a window open that will close in a few years. As much as OMB had huge foreign policy blind spots everybody- friends, neutrals, and foes knew he would fight. Under Barry we were in a bad place; our allies didn’t trust us and our enemies didn’t fear us. Now it is many times worse. When I work with younger officers and troops I wonder how many will be dead in less than four years.
where the casualties will be wholesale
But we’ll still be able to do death investgiations for every individual, right?
No need, they’re all Coronoavirus deaths.
A sobering and thoughtful analysis, thank you.
Army magazine from AUSA or something else?
I’m seriously considering letting my membership lapse after twenty five years.
I just read the issues when I am waiting in a GO office. I let my membership lapse decades ago.
I don’t have that option so I’ve been mostly happy with it until recently as somewhat of a way not to entirely lose connection.
In Vegas for the weekend. Locals saying it’s much busier but still not pre-covid. The restrictions are idiotic, but we’re making it work. Haven’t talked to a local or visitor who doesn’t agree this is complete stupidity. Guess we’ll whether this translates to Democrats losing their jobs over the coming years. I’m guessing they won’t.
*Guess we’ll see whether*
It is retarded and even worse outside the strip
I would think all the casino union members are pissed about the restrictions. Seems like they could vote R while lying to the union bosses about it.
I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Something something tonight at 20:00 Eastern as usual. However I’ll most likely be on mute and dropping control to someone quickly.
Link for those who haven’t saved it:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81197592540?pwd=ZTJlS2tYODM1TFBpbmo4czlJWlJDZz09
wait, Wednesday Zoom?
how TF in the world did that happen.
A hot air balloon landed in my residential neighborhood. Technically, it landed on a car I was told.
?
I watched it come down and sink behind the house across the street. I was in the middle of grilling some succulent pork chops, so I couldn’t run out and gawk.
No one hurt.
Were they aiming for the car?
What type of car?
How much damage?
I’ve ridden hot-air balloons.
“Aiming” is a very generous interpretation of how they fly, or land.
I know they don’t really have anything resembling steering.
Sure they do, it’s called the Jetstream….
“I’ve ridden hot-air balloons.”
No way, too easy a target,
Yeah.
“Somewhere in that big ass open field” isn’t exactly what I’d call aiming.
Probably not.
Dunno.
Dunno.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/zcxH-uLlSg2RZf8hgUdL3A.8n0Ll8KS6sFTscPxMkCsAm
I see another one in the background. Maybe you had a hot-air balloon festival nearby.
Nope. Apparently the same company giving rides.
There used to be folks flying hot air balloons near where I grew up. I wonder if it is the same folks.
The derpy face on the balloon in the last shot is just perfect. “Whoops!”
16 people?
Yowza.
I mean, you kill one person, maybe he deserved it. Lord knows there’s enough of those types around.
Kill two, perhaps you live in a neighborhood with a high asshole quotient.
But you kill sixteen? I’m guessing that the problem is with you.
Chicken wings…half tossed with some whiskey bbq sauce I just made and half just salt/pepper. Rack of ribs…chips.
Eating healthy tonight
Went to Jamesport brewery, had a Cherry Bourbon Half pound Burger, Fucking Awesome! The Beer was So So,
/Healthy Eating,
Back from Thai – tom yum soup, appetizer platter and pad thai!
Tasty,
The spousal unit wants to try grilling steaks tonight.
I take it as a sign of recovery that he is getting a little stir crazy. I don’t even care if the steaks are good; I’m just glad he’s trying.
Grilling/Smoking/BBQ is kind of cathartic for me. I’d say it’s a good thing. It makes me feel useful in a relaxing sort of way. I hope it’s the same for him.
Up your game with Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.li/k4QNu
It’s not my game that went up!
No face diapers. Excellent.
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”
― Hannah Arendt, On Violence
Keeping your head down and going along to get along is submission by another name.
Opt out or fight back.
“But I’ve worked so hard for what I still have!”
Yeah? You think anybody with the power to destroy you gives a fuck about how hard you’ve worked or how responsible you’ve been?
More eruption videos
Jeez Ted, that’s it?
Eruption video
Etna eruption live stream. Cloudy at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbuPLm6eNU
Ahem!!! Eruption video!
I saw this and had to have it, I have discovered Distance, now I’m Dangerous Kids,
https://www.amazon.com/Underestimate-Funny-Disc-Golf-Frisbee/dp/B08NZ5Q2SB/ref=sr_1_20?dchild=1&keywords=disc+golf+cart&qid=1616285694&rnid=2470954011&sr=8-20
Democratic leaders wish to overturn the certified results of an election.
(Trigger warning: Author is Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council)
https://www.lifenews.com/2021/03/20/nancy-pelosi-is-trying-to-kick-a-pro-life-member-from-congress-and-steal-her-election/
Is he as gay as the original Tony Perkins?
I don’t know who this version of that name is, but the article seems like an entirely fair analysis to me.
Head of a SoCon group – I personally think he’s OK, but not everyone agrees with him on the Adam and Steve stuff.
But yes, regarding Democratic/media consistency (or lack thereof) his analysis sounds totally right to me.
Yeah, I remember now a lot of hissing and spitting about that outfit from the sort of media outlets I frequented before a couple decades ago. Now I just ignore that stuff.
WSJ has been reporting this story. It’s a theft if it happens.
As I recall, the opponent went to court as well and was sent home empty handed.
It is pure fucking theft if the House overrides the election.
How does that even work? What possible mechanism do they think they have to do it…?
US Constitution, Article I, Section 5 – “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members…”
…which gives them room to judge unjustly as well as justly.
Supposedly there was an election dispute in the House and Thad Stevens (R-PA) asked about the two contestants. Told that “they’re both damned rascals,” Stevens supposedly asked “which is *our* damned rascal?”
Huh. In that case, I wonder why each party doesn’t routinely steal the House.
That’s a very good question, especially with Teh Norms getting eroded all the time.
If they go forward with it, you can expect more of the same from both sides.
Pelosi seems to want civil war.
So if doing “white” math, chemistry, physics, history, etc. helps a person “get ahead” (in the author’s words), then doesn’t that mean the white way is the best way, one might even call it the supreme way.
Sounds like the only problem here is to refer to orthodox studies as “white” instead of as right. In other words, the only racists here are the progressives, as usual.
Did she say “house n*****s” or did she actually use the word that rappers use and which rhymes with “bigger”?
Bingo!
WTF is tonight’s Zoom channel?
Looks up…
Word on the street is that Nick Sarwark lost his race for treasurer with the NH LP. The delicious part is that he was running against *NO ONE*. He apparently just needed a majority of the vote and he failed to receive that. The delegates broke out in applause after he lost and Sarwark and his CIA buddies left butthurt.
Almost as good as journalists getting laid off, in my opinion
NOTA won?
That signature will look really interesting on the Party’s checks.
That’s good news…. but the LPNH has to do a fuck ton more before I will ever give them support again.
LOL
Nunov Thabuv is a Russian plant by the Mises Caucus who will install Nick Fuentes as LP Dictator for life.
“I can’t wait until you can’t ever tell a sex doll from a real woman.”
uhh…. I’ll take real women, warts and all.
Dare I ask what kind of robots this company is making for the ladies?
(For some reason, I hesitate to look up “male sex dolls”)
I have to assume they exist. Though I would suspect they are a smaller segment of the market.
They look like Ken dolls.
So they’re not anatomically correct?
(Some Assembly Required)
BOB, battery operated boyfriend?
“I dont care if she has HPV. Im willing to risk throat cancer.”
Im off to work kids. Behave.
/looks @ Zoom call ppl
Awesome day today! Got tires put on. Between that and the new shocks, I can’t believe how much better the ride is. Why didn’t I do this years ago?? ?♂️ Bought through Discount Tires and they have totally improved their already decent service. Big focus on using appointments AND they follow them or better. Was told it’d be about an hour yesterday. Came in ten minutes early, said it would take 45 minutes. Guy took my truck even before my scheduled time and had it done in 30 minutes. I tipped him, something I rarely do for tires.
Down side was I was done before the liquor stores open..except for one that’s part of a country convenience store. Holy mother of god have they expanded their selection! Got my bottle in bond Old Granddad and perused their stock. Baiju! I don’t think I’ve seen that here except for the stores around Asian heavy suburbs of Portland. Lots of other labels I don’t often see. Gonna have to make them my new store. Prime Rib on Friday nights, too.
Next up was calling yet another dealer for the Kawasaki side by side. And.. someone already put a deposit on it. No mid week visit to Spudland then. So decided to drive back to the closeish dealer and take another look at the ones they did have in stock. Two hours later, we’re now the proud owners of a green Mule SX. Salesman made it relatively painless and is having it dropped off next week at no additional charge. Now to work on the 40 acres part…
https://ibb.co/KycDr4Y
https://ibb.co/QnGYvmP
40 acres and you got yourself one bad ass mule. Cool.
[Wishing I could buy liquor at a convenience store]
‘…through Discount Tires and they have totally improved their already decent service. Big focus on using appointments AND they follow them or better. Was told it’d be about an hour yesterday. Came in ten minutes early, said it would take 45 minutes. Guy took my truck even before my scheduled time and had it done in 30 minutes. I tipped him, something I rarely do for tires.’
Funny enough, I just had to replace a tire that got a massive nail in the tree and used DT. Got a new tire mounted and balanced for around $80. It was ready in less than an hour/before I smoked a jibber and ate lunch.
A good service indeed. I also tipped the kid who threw the tire in my trun.k
*tree
Tire.
It’s Saturday night and I’ve been drinking.
Fuck off.
🙂
#metoo
I hope work doesn’t call.
I’m sort of on-call.
Only for one specific exercise that I don’t expect they will need my help, though. ?
I’ve worked the last two Saturdays. I’m not working tomorrow for the world.
I’m not a Christian anymore but Sundays are still kinda sacred for me.
Ron DeSantis on lockdowns.
Gab can blow themselves.
Gab.com
@getongab
Tolerance is not a Christian value.
There is no conservatism without Christianity.
Get in the back of the bus or get your own, libertarian.
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1373401600576790528
Tolerance is not a Christian value.
1 Cor 5:9-13
something something for they shall inherit the earth
I don’t know what any of that is supposed to mean.
Looks a bit unseemly, though.
a free translation: libertarians are smelly atheists who need Republican Jesus
oh brothers, let’s go down on each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FKPLdM0DU
I think you’re right. Lol.
random thoughts
Thucydides said the key to happiness is freedom and the key to freedom is courage. He also said the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must.
The most important thing is courage and the most important kind of courage is the courage to be different. That comes from spending a lot of time alone.
The reason the hero’s journey is such a popular formula is because it shows the way for a satisfying life. What you sacrifice is more important than what you achieve.
The key to happiness is understanding that we might not be unerringly correct in our assessment of the predicate requirements of happiness. Sometimes, demanding the thing that’s necessary to bring happiness brings nothing but misery. The key for me is to realize that I only want what I want because I believe it will make me happy. I’m not always right about this kind of stuff. I usually get what I really want, so it sucks to want things that make me miserable, although, I’ve done just that more than a few times.
The words happen and happy have the same root, that is, something you can’t control.
Very Jordan Peterson.
[Kermit the Frog voice]
You see, we’re all full of SNAKES, and if you don’t know your place in the dominance hierarchy, you’re in for a rough ride bucko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COThKm3ftTo
Heh.
J.P. always makes me think of this: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E12/185118
I’m a garbage person and I like garbage music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8X3ACToii0
It’s more than I can…bear.
I say stick to the classics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIb_n8e5hw8
Huh. Just this moment I realized that the Fat Boy Slim version was just a remix. And I own a Groove Armanda CD.
The first movie I remember was Star Wars: A New Hope. I was 4, Most of the dialog went over my head. I understood that even though the Empire was big and powerful, the rebels won because they were brave, and the hero of the battle was a nobody who showed up at the last minute.
Later in church I learned about David and Goliath. And in school I learned about Washington and Valley Forge.
I’m a garbage person and I like garbage music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8
“And in school I learned about Washington and Valley Forge.”
I’m genuinely curious how many U. S. schools still teach that. Un-ironically I mean.
I’m not young and most of that I learned through Peanuts.
Schoolhouse Rock was better:
https://youtu.be/rZMmPWTwTHc
I think mine is Escape to Witch Mountain.
LOL growing up was watching the left winning the culture war in live action
linky
Narrator: The “depths of the Cold War” extended well beyond 1968, or 1975 for that matter.
I saw my local congresscritter congratulating Julia Letlow for winning a special election.
I know that widows being elected to serve their dead husband’s term is an American tradition going back at least to Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming (some cynics would say as far back as Edith Wilson), but is there any other endeavor where the surviving spouse is plugged in when the leader shuffles off this mortal coil? Can you imagine settling down into seat 5A, only to hear the announcement “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your first officer speaking. Our captain had a massive heart attack about an hour ago, but nothing to fear: we’ve notified his wife and she’s on the way to the
hospitalairport right now.”Maybe it just goes to show how utterly unimportant it is who actually fills the seat.
a heart to heart talk with one of my higher ups, a dramatic re-enactment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfdbcG0BTSk
You just don’t turn it off.
Imagine how different things would have been if they went with the ending from the books
Been a while since I read the book, but wasn’t it more of a deliberate execution by Trautman?, like Lennie and George in “of mice and men”
I haven’t read that particular David Morrrell book (but remember loving “The Brotherhood of the Rose” back in the day) but, yes, my understanding is that Trautman blew Rambo’s head off with a shotgun, very much on purpose.
So you stuck to your guns, then?
I just want to say Thanks to all the Glibs for backing my play, it is working out better than I imagined,
Life is OK again,
?
Glad to hear it.
Stick around, Bob. You’re loved here.
I’m here til they Ban me, thanks bro,
If i fuck up, SP squares my shit up, and I duck the Razor can lids,
/Cool people
During the Korean War, a depressingly large number of US soldiers surrendered. This led to the creation of The Code of Conduct.
***
I am an American fighting in the forces that guard my country and our way of life,
I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the
members of my command while they still have the means to resist.
If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every
effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special
favors from the enemy.
If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no
information nor take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades.
If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those
appointed over me and will back them up in every way.
Should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank,
service number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of
my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its allies.
I will never forget that I am an American fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions,
and dedicated to the principles which made my country free.
I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.
***
My brother went to SERE school and told me about it. He should not have and promised not to in writing, The taxpayers have a right to know what goes on there, so I will give a little taste. When he was ‘captured’, he was taken into a room with the other ‘prisoners’. His ‘captors’ said sign this and we’ll give you a bottle of water. Unlike the other ‘prisoners’ my brother reads it before signing. When he’s done reading, he says he won’t sign a statement disloyal to his country. So then a big burly dude picks up my brother and body slams him Wrestlemania style. My brother is short like me, 5’4. He got a slammed a few more times and didn’t sign. My brother, my hero.
I saw a documentary about SERE school once. On ‘liberation’ day, the POWs formed up and saluted the flag as it was raised over the camp.
Not just surrendered but broke under the Norks’ pow camp warfare.
I went to SERE in December 1986 less than a month after graduating SFQC. It was a a very well run course but it kicked my ass six ways to Sunday. I am glad I went to the course, and even gladder I never have to go again.
Hell yeah we we salted the flag and had tears in our eyes. They manipulated us like experts they were.
Nick Rowe, the only American to successfully escape Vietnamese captivity was brought out of retirement by President Reagan to establish the SERE school. He later was my commander when I went to SFQC and spoke to us at SERE graduation. His book “Five Years to Freedom” is a good read, but not uplifting.
Rowe was later killed by the communists in the Philippines in a meticulous ambush in 1989.
His Silver Star Citation:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 8, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Major (Field Artillery) James Nicholas “Nick” Rowe (ASN: 0-91033), United States Army, for gallantry in action on 31 December 1968, while a prisoner of the Viet Cong in the U Minh Forest of South Vietnam. During the period 22 to 31 December 1968, after more than five years in Viet Cong prison camps, Major Rowe was forced by his captors to move at least twice daily to avoid friendly airstrikes. On 31 December at approximately 0900 hours, two helicopter gunships began firing into an area approximately 300 meters from his location. The guard detail consisted of one Viet Cong cadreman and five guards, one of whom was assigned to remain with Major Rowe at all times. The guard detail, while monitoring a radio, learned that South Vietnamese infantrymen were searching the terrain nearby. Becoming frightened, the guards moved Major Rowe into a large field of reeds, hoping to evade the infantry force. Major Rowe realized that if he were to escape, he must first get away from some of his guards, so he tricked them into splitting into smaller groups in order to exfiltrate the area. Major Rowe persuaded his one remaining guard that they were being surrounded and kept him moving in a circle through the dense underbrush. While doing so, Major Rowe was able to remove the magazine from the weapon slung across his guard’s back. Finding a club, he overpowered his guard, knocking him unconscious, seized his radio, and moved 200 meters into a grassy area. At great personal risk he quickly cleared a section and signaled one of the circling helicopters, which landed and picked him up. His first action after rescue was to request permission to re-enter the area with combat troops and to continue the fight based upon his intimate knowledge of the area. Major Rowe’s burning determination to escape, undiminished after five years of intimidation and deprivation, his clear-headedness in formulating an effective plan, and his audacity in executing it successfully, reflect the highest credit on his professionalism and extraordinary courage and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.[11]
For those of you who care about March Madness(TM) trivia (will post again in the morning for a slightly wider audience):
Teams Appearing in Every NCAA Tournament Since 2017
Florida, Florida State, Gonzaga, Iona, Kansas, Michigan, Michigan State, North Carolina, Purdue, Villanova, Virginia, Virginia Tech
Teams who dropped off this list in 2021: Cincinnati, Duke, Kansas State, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico State, North Carolina Central, Seton Hall
Teams With At Least One Win in Every NCAA Tournament Since 2017
Duke*, Florida, Florida State, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky*, Michigan,
Michigan State,North Carolina,Purdue, Villanova,*Not in 2021 field
Is there anybody out there out there out there…?
Bon soir, Monsieur le Broche.
After two comments in a row with no replies, I just figured everyone was (a) zooming, or (b) passed out.
Nearing the second option.
I’m just now getting here after a full day of housework.
Then I watched a couple of episodes of Parks and Rec. One was where the 4th grade girl visits Ron Swanson about government do she can write a report on it.
Good times.
The highlight of the day was digging into the rum tort I bought from the Montenegrin market. The cake was made in Latvia and imported frozen through Canada.
Good grief, that cake is sinful. It has thin layers of cake and frosting, chocolate, vanilla and something brown and spiced, alternating layers. The whole thing is frosted in chocolate and cherry.
If I have to choose the means of my demise, eating that cake filled with flavorless poison is right up there on the list.
I’m neither A nor B. But if I had interesting anything to say I’ve forgotten it.
Derp, thanks for the Freedom Toons link.
Someone nuked the Zoom. I got ten bucks it was BP.
I think I was still the host, but I didn’t end it, I don’t know what happened. I was talking and then got a message that the zoom was ending and there was a 3 second countdown and in my drunken state couldn’t see how to stop it in the allotted time.
try this.
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musta been.
Sophistry is the word of the day.
whaddup fam ?
HOLA!
I have a short Youtube playlist, with different versions of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT7Lz5YKoImfO0BumQ4f8J3OeqXAZrfV
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/13-year-old-charged-in-shooting-death-of-younger-sister-in-collegeville/article_82e78b2e-891a-11eb-9482-9bffc16f5683.html
Sad.
“The investigation found that the mother of the children asked her son Jah’sir to go outside to her car to get a 9mm handgun that was legally registered to her, the DA’s office said. The DA’s office says home surveillance video recovered by detectives depicts Jah’sir entering the house with the handgun in his right hand and then pointing it at his 12-year-old sister Jasiyah.”
Looks to me like the mother should be charged with negligence, or something.
Kids that age can handle weapons safely. Just not all kids.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=otZ1SfwbE64
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*sips coffee while contemplating the reason anyone would ever commit seppuku*