Australian broadcasting did a 6 minute morning segment featuring a US Air Force enlisted weather expert who spent two years working with three different extra-terrestrial races.
Unlike other reporting of similar stories by very credible individuals, there was none of the usual attempt to attack or discredit.
If you can’t trust an enlisted meteorologist who played spades with aliens, who can you trust?
Most Aliens I know stay at the Paramis Holiday Inn.
Apparently I have been living under a rock, because I’ve never seen these commercials:
Now that I have seen them though (am home with the wife today) I have been sent into a sub-psychotic rage.
When did they change the rules on how you wipe your ass? For as long as I have been alive it was paper, or wipe, not both. The Chinese invented shit paper in the 6th century, and it has served us well for the next 1400 years, and now Cottonelle wants to lead some sort of asswipe revolution?? No sir! No sir!
My wife thinks I am being ridiculous, but I’ve been forced to wipe with a cardboard MRE box, leaves, the radio portion of a CTT manual, a sock, and T Shirts. In fact, at Fort Polk one time in the box the shit suck truck didn’t make it in to clear out portojohns, and we started using strips of T-Shirts. I walked out of that FTX with 6 Haynes T-Shirt Necklaces.
Back at basic training I had a bunch of PR Guard guys in my unit. When the Drill Sergeant asked at 30 AG (before we went downrange) if we needed anything, one of the guys (Zapata was his name) said we needed sheets of paper. The Drill Sergeant said we wouldn’t take notes until we got downrange at our training unit (D 1-19 INF). Exasperated, Zapata says, “not sheets of paper, sheet paper” while making a wiping motion.
For brave men like Zapata, I will not yield to this commercial pressure. If there is one immutable truth that 12 years of infantry has taught me, it is that paper and wipe is redundant and wasteful. For shame Cottonelle, for shame!
Greetings from balmy Minot, North Dakota where it is an incredibly pleasant 18 degrees and sunny today.
Tomorrow morning I am meeting with/interviewing SSG Clint Romesha, the most recent Medal of Honor recipient. This weekend I met with his commander from COP Keating, Captain Stoney Portis, who in addition to having a total stud name is a hell of a good dude. Anyway, he and I watched the computer reenactment of COP Keating together, and laughed about stuff like dudes wearing full uniforms, since some guys were wearing like boxer shorts.
Anyway, anyone have any questions I should ask Clint for you? I am video taping it, so will put up his responses for you if you would like.
Since apparently I am being accused of buying into the “class warfare” concept, I figured I better put my bona fides on display. So, to clear the air: I have zero problems with exhorbitant salaries and 1 percent getting rich as hell, IN THE PRIVATE MARKETPLACE.
So watch this little bit of idiocy:
As the President might say, Let me be clear, this is the dumbest video since Gigli.
Most people are morons, and I really don’t care what their vision of “what ought to be” is. What I care about is what these numbnuts propose to do about it.
You know what graph I’d like to see? What percent of people actually EMPLOY other folks directly. How many of those rich folks are actually helping OTHER people also get rich.
Most of the billionaires are self-made, 961, while 184 inherited their wealth and 281 inherited part of it and are increasing it.
The oldest billionaires, on average, are in the Americas, with an average age of 67, with those in the United States slightly younger at 65.
The United States had the most billionaires with 442, followed by Asia-Pacific with 386, Europe with 366, Middle East and Africa with 103 and the Americas, excluding the United States, with 129.
The number of women billionaires rose to 138 from 104. The United States has 50 female billionaires, followed by 35 in Europe and 22 in Asia-Pacific.
Oh, so you mean THEY EARNED IT?
Good for them.
You want fairness? Move somewhere else. My checking account is lower than my cholesterol. But sticking it to the man isn’t going to make me feel better about it.
This is the most ridiculous article ever written by the utterly ridiculous Washington Post in history. I’d like to pick out my favorite portions. Bear in mind that this is all from people living in an area that AVERAGES $700,000 homes, you know, people just like you and me.
In Mantua, 14 miles west of the Federal Triangle, the sledgehammer of budget cuts scheduled to hit today are a threat to financial stability, an unnecessary reminder of a political system that seems unable to solve problems, and, perhaps worst of all, a symbol of how dramatically perceptions of government work have shifted.
The remainder of this post if going under the fold, because I am about to lose my Spongebob-loving mind and use a metric shit ton modicum of profanity.
Seriously people, I am about to lose my mind right here, with more F bombs than you can shake a stick at. This is NSFW from here out. (more…)
Jamari Salleh was hired by the State Department in 1981 as a Foreign Service Officer and was subsequently granted career status. In 1989, she was indicted for submitting falsified claims for reimbursement to the U.S. Government to which she pleaded guilty and received a three-year suspended sentence, four years probation, a $5,000 fine, and was ordered to return the illegally obtained money. The court refused to decide whether Ms. Salleh should be required to resign from the Foreign Service, noting that the “proper decision-maker in that connection should be the Department of State.”
After her conviction, the Acting Director General of the Foreign Service proposed that she be discharged. At Ms. Salleh’s request, the Foreign Service Grievance Board conducted an evidentiary hearing on the discharge proposal. The Board concluded that discharging Ms. Salleh would violate § 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 since Ms. Salleh’s criminal conduct stemmed from her alcoholism, a disability under the act, and, even if it were not, discharge would still be inappropriate given the effect drinking had on her behavior.
If I’ve said it once I’d said it 8 trillion times: drinking makes you submit falsified claims to taxpayer money.
I sure hope sequester doesn’t hurt her job prospects.
BTW, we continued to employ this woman after she was found guilty, because who better to have leading the State Department than a drunk who files phony expense reports:
In Alexandria, meanwhile, Salleh’s federal conviction dates to 1989. Salleh was a career foreign service officer who was caught, and pleaded guilty to, submitting $7,650 in phony lodging vouchers to the State Department. She was given a three-year suspended sentence, placed on four years of probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $5,900 restitution.
The State Department then tried to fire her. Salleh appealed to the Foreign Service Grievance Board, saying that her offense stemmed from her alcoholism, and she was reinstated, court records show. The State Department then turned to the federal courts to reverse the grievance board, but two courts upheld the board and Salleh continued to work for State for many years.