This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: YGBSM!!

  • Shocking.

    Provided without comment – except to say that it doesn’t seem to be anyone we “know and love”.  (smile)

    Police: Naked man drove in Boynton with wires attached to groin-area

    No word if the “fine fellow” was humming this tune while driving around wired. (smile)

  • “Such is how folk heroes are born.”

    “Eh, p!ss on him!”  I’m sure we’ve all heard a variant of that muttered by someone, directed towards someone in authority – when they’re out of earshot, of course.  (smile)

    But one time, it literally happened.  In that case, the “whizzer” was a relatively junior officer – and the “target”, a GO.

    And the junior guy got away with it with nothing but an ass-chewing.

    . . .

    The date was 21 September 1944.  It happened somewhere in the air over Germany.

    On that date, the 303th Bombardment Group executed a combat mission against rail yards in Maintz, Germany.  Some of the aircraft involved were from the 359th Bombardment Squadron.

    That squadron had some months prior instituted a rule prohibiting pilots from leaving the cockpit during a mission.

    The earlier practice had been for pilots in need of a “nature call” to go to the bomb bay and take care of business.  The new policy was that the pilot and copilot were to relieve themselves out of their respective cockpit windows after cracking them open slightly, allowing the slipstream to carry away the waste fluid.  After landing, the pilot was required to clean the window area personally.

    During the 21 September mission, the copilot of at least one of the 359th planes had to answer the call of nature.  He did so – unaware that the pilot had simultaneously decided to take a “smoke break”, and also had cracked open his cockpit window.

    Unfortunately, the smoker’s window created a cross-draft.  Not all of the waste fluid went out in the slipstream.  Some of it was caught in the cross-draft and struck the smoker dead in the face.

    The smoker was Brigadier General Robert F. Travis  – CG, 41st Combat Wing.  He was flying in that aircraft that day as pilot and mission commander on what was the final mission of his current combat tour.

    The copilot was the 359th Bombardment Squadron’s Operations Officer – who was a Captain.

    After landing, General Travis chewed the Captain’s butt for an extended period of time.  He told the Captain he would award the navigator and bombardier on the crew a DFC, but that the Captain wouldn’t be getting one.  He even threatened to court-martial him, but that threat was never carried out.  (The fact that General Travis’ tour ended and he left a month later might well have had something to do with that. [smile])

    In fact, other than that ass-chewing nothing at all happened to the young Captain.  He left the service after World War II, but returned to the USAF in 1948.  He then served until January 1977, retiring with 32 years active duty – as a Colonel.  One of his last assignments was as the Commander, Rhein-Main Air Base.

    The copilot’s name was William E. Eisehnart.  As far as I know, he’s the only junior officer who ever literally p!ssed in a general’s face and got away with it.  (smile)

    Lest you think this story can’t possibly be legit and should begin with, “No sh!t, there I was . . . ”, you can read this online Google Books excerpt from Stephen Frater’s Hell Above Earth; it documents the incident.  The title of this article was shamelessly lifted from the end of the incident description in that source.

    A second description of the incident can be found here.  A third description can be found here.

    As of earlier this year, Col. (Ret) William E. Eisehnart was still alive and resided in the Hilton Head, SC, area.  May you continue to live long and prosper, Colonel.

     

    Author’s Notes: 

    1.  Yes, this was the same Brigadier General Robert F. Travis who died in a B-29 crash at what was then Fairfield-Suisun AFB, California, in August 1950. The base was renamed Travis AFB in his memory the following year.

    2.  Hat-tip to the Military Corruption site for the original article I saw concerning the incident. Further research based on information in that original story allowed me to locate the referenced links in the article above.

  • “Thoroughly vetting” refugees? Hardly.

    From an internal DHS memo concerning issues with processing applications for refugee status:

    “Refugee fraud is easy to commit, yet not easy to investigate,” the undated memo says.

    The memo said there are clear instances where “bad actors … have exploited this program,” gaining a foothold in the U.S. through bogus refugee claims.

    Gee – thanks, Captain Obvious.  No one would ever have guessed that might be the case!

    But that’s not even the “money quote”.  That would be this one (emphasis added):

    The U.S. has relaxed requirements for refugees to prove they are who they say they are, and at times may rely solely on testimony. That makes it easier for bogus applicants to conspire to get approved, according to the department memo, which was obtained by the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.

    Yeah, you’re reading that correctly.  Sometimes DHS simply takes people’s word for who they are and why they’re trying to get into the US if they’re claiming to be “refugees”.

    The memo’s warnings were, of course, ignored by senior DHS officials – or perhaps never made it to them.  One DHS senior official has claimed “never to have seen it”.

    The Washington Times has a good article today discussing the subject.  It’s IMO worth a read, even if it will p!ss you off.

     

     

  • “Governor Moonbeam” Strikes Again

    This time, he’s fighting “climate change”.

    How, you ask?  He’s just pushed through a new law allowing regulation of short-lived “dangerous pollutants”.  In the “Granola State” of California, a whole slew of such emissions are now subject to regulation.

    Those “dangerous pollutants” now regulated by California now include methane emissions – from dairy farms.  Under a newly-passed CA law, those dairy farm methane emissions must be reduced by 40% over the next 17 years.

    I’m dead serious.  CA is now legally regulating cattle farts.

    Elsie the Cow had no comment, other than to burp.  No word on whether or not that subjects her owner to a fine.

    Yet.

  • More Clintoon “Private” Email Surfaces

    Remember those roughly 30,000 work-related emails on Clintoon’s unsecured private email server?  You know, the ones that were turned over to State for review by Clintoon’s lawyers in 2014?   The batch of emails turned over by Clintoon’s lawyers was supposed to consist of “all of them” – right?

    Well, it turns out that 2014 bunch wasn’t exactly “all of them”.  Rather, it turns out that that first batch of 30,000 was only about 2/3 of the total.

    State Department lawyers confirmed recently that the FBI has uncovered another nearly 15,000 emails sent by or to Clintoon at that “private” address while she was SECSTATE.  This new batch of emails wasn’t previously disclosed.  And they haven’t yet been reviewed.

    State is currently “prioritizing” the appraisal of this new batch of email to see what can be released to the public.

    This story at The Hill has more details.  It’s worth a read.

    Sheesh.  If you or I had pulled this stunt, we’d be in jail awaiting trial.  And we’d have been there for months already.

  • Automation Isn’t ALWAYS Such A Good Thing

    If you have dogs and you have an IRobot Roomba, maybe you should re-think scheduling your Roomba to vacuum the house when you’re not around or are fast asleep.

    Why?  Let’s just say that sometimes Roomba and dogs don’t coexist terribly well.

     

    (Yes, the choice of category for this article was intentional. [smile])

  • Yer Slightly Late Midweek Funny: “Love That Car!”

    Some time back, a commenter here at TAH posted a rather, um, “interesting”  video of a guy who “really liked” one particular automobile.  If you’re curious, that video can be viewed here – though I’d suggest doing so where you won’t have to explain it to anyone who happens to see what you’re watching.

    That was several years ago, and guy appears to have gotten away with it. But apparently someone in Dayton, OH, wasn’t so lucky recently.  The guy in Dayton apparently got busted for doing the same thing to a red van.

    I’m not joking.

    I’d guess it would be a good bet that substantial alcohol consumption was involved in both cases.  (smile)

  • Yer Midweek Funny: Do NOT Try This At Home

    Here’s a stunt you do NOT want to attempt yourself.

    Man encases genitals in plaster, gets stuck

    Why not, you ask?  I mean, what’s wrong with making a cast of your . . . self for posterity?

    Well, it’s like this.  Plaster generates additional heat as it cures.

    The       dumb ass       individual doing this had already warmed the plaster to around 158 F before applying it.  That’s fairly hot to begin with – and as the plaster cured, it got considerably hotter.

    As the man began to experience literal bratwurst, he attempted to remove the plaster.  Unfortunately, by that point in time the plaster was rather well hardened.  He was desperate, though – resorting to using a hammer and chisel, a saw, and even a power drill to free his trapped appendage.

    He did eventually end up extricating his family jewels from their artificial stone prison.  However, as he put it, “My (groin was) so hot, I thought they would turn into charcoal.”

    The individual in question is a Russian blogger who goes by the name of “Boroda Dead”.  He’s damned lucky that he doesn’t have to change his online moniker now to “Johnson Dead”.

    Dolbo’yeb here apparently made a video of his ordeal, which has now reputedly gone viral.  Sorry, folks – you’ll have to search the Internet yourself to find that video if you want to watch it.  I’m not going to look for it.

    Sheesh.   Looks like we once again have more proof that the Refreshments were right 25+ years ago.  But tell me:  who’d have guessed that that famous aspiring rapper “1-DMF” had relatives in Russia?