The Sniper has a video up that helps define “Make My Day” in several ways.
I can’t add anything much other than I enjoyed the hell out of it… and I wish I’d found it first.
Now if I could only get my pool ready, my grass mowed, etc, I be back on my range at least making holes in targets.
Aside: Anyone got a bunch of blue barrels and a Barrett they aren’t using?
Doesn’t much matter which politician is speaking, in general. If I’m likely to be interested I ignore the talking heads and try to find a transcript. THEN I will look at what the pundits think about it if writing a post seems in order. After all, I’m old and lazy. I’ve reinvented the wheel several time already.
So for an overview I offer Ed Morriessy at Hot Air.
The Arab street is disappointed some.
The Israelis are disappointed as well.
Word for the day: Feckless.
This post is almost pointless here, among our erudite readers save for one thing. Sometimes rote learning actually works.
“There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for,” the posting reads. “Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.”
I knew it was coming.
However, the CDC doesn’t tell us the important stuff – like what part of the zombies’ heads we should blast to pieces, or how much ammo we should have. They prattle on about food and water and blankets. Who needs food, water or blankets when the ghouls are feasting on my delicious and ample brains because I didn’t have enough ammo to get to a zombie-free zone?
“It’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek campaign,” Daigle said Wednesday.
Yeah, let’s see how hard you laugh when your tongue is being chewed up in some undead’s cheek.
I need some more ammo.
I’m ready to participate in the testing; where do I sign up?
Wherever man has ventured, beer has followed. Now, two Australian entrepreneurs hope that will include space. The pair have developed a full-bodied brew they believe can stand up to the trials of being drunk in zero gravity.
Problems faced by astronauts include swelling of the tongue with a loss of taste sensation, but it is hoped that space engineers have developed the perfect beer to counter this.
What could go wrong? Passengers drink on airplanes.
Once the prototype was developed it was tested on a zero gravity flight over Florida by a microgravity expert from the non-profit organisation Astronauts4Hire as a test subject.
Throughout the test flight the expert drank almost a litre of the beer despite the challenges of keeping the bottle to his mouth and getting the beer to pour out.
There is also the problem of carbonation and burping. On Earth, due to gravity acting on the stomach, the gas and liquid in the beer separate. However, in space, they come up together in what is called a wet burp. That, explained Mr Held, can be very uncomfortable.
Ain’t science wonderful?
Since Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee both decided to answer the question that no one asked – namely, “will you be our president?” – I figured that I’d better answer the question, too, since no one cares whether I run for president, too.
I will not seek nor will I accept the nomination of my party (which I don’t have, anyway). Now if we can only get Newt Gingrich to follow our example.
Via FB and Lt. Col. Hal Moore:
CSM Plumley and LTG Moore debating who shot Maggie the Mule on the Perimeter at An Khe. Circumstantial evidence points to Gilreath’s platoon. Gilreath is adamant that Maggie did not respond with the password when challenged. Plumley admits the mule carcas found its way to 1/9 Cav area. No further contact. LZXRAY 1/7 Cav reunion Columbus GA
Sometimes things just crack me up. I’m trying to figure out just what might have started the discussion?
Nabka Day – The Palestinian Day of Catastrophe this year even has some fireworks of sorts.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday responded to the events of Nakba Day, particularly attempts to infiltrate Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, saying “we are determined to defend our borders.”
Netanyahu stated that he had instructed the IDF to act with restraint, but to stop all attempts at infiltration and challenges to Israel’s sovereignty.
In a separate and almost laughingly ironic story:
Syria condemned on Sunday Israel’s “criminal activities” in the Golan Heights,Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon where Israeli forces had fired to disperse pro-Palestinian protests.
Israeli troops shot at protesters in three separate locations to prevent crowds from crossing Israeli frontier lines.
There’s a background piece over at the American Thinker:
What is the disaster Nakba Day commemorates? Nothing less than the day on which Israel Declared Independence in 1948. And to add insult to injury, the Palestinians commemorate their national disaster day every year to coincide with Israeli Independence Day, around 15 May.
I wanted title this post WTF, but maybe it’s just me and my inner geezer who is confused?
One version of the story is here.
Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies — if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.
For various reasons this seems to be a proverbial ‘cart before horse’ scenario.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is concerned that, in its haste to “hustle-in homosexuality,” the Navy may be violating federal law – the Defense of Marriage Act.“Offering up federal facilities and federal employees for same-sex marriage violates DOMA, which is still the law of the land and is bound to the duties of our military, including chaplains,” Steve Taylor, communications director for Akin, told CNSNews.com.
“The administration and various states may be operating as if DOMA doesn’t exist, but the Navy and Marine Corps and all the Armed Services are sworn to obey the law, which this new instruction violates,” he added.
And DADT is STILL official policy as far as I can tell anyway? The article goes on to say this particular Navy policy change is in preparation for the time if and or when, the overall policy is changed?
Yep, I’m confused… Geezer or not.