March 31, 2017
Peek-a-Fog
“During a handful times in a year, the morning marine fog drops to levels low enough to cover the Golden Gate Bridge, while the towers peek out. The bridge lights, during the blue hour creates an eye catching drama” says California based Your Shot photographer Raj Golawar.
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124 responses to “Weekend Open Thread”
FIRST! You deplorable dickweeds.
USAF RULES!!!
Damn, even with a 30 knot tailwind I couldn’t outrun ChipNASA.
I’ve got the sailboat, we’re never seeing 30 knots unless it’s blowing us over….
Congratulations to ChipNASA and all the zoomies with him.
I concede the Throne of Firstness to him.
Thank You Ex-PH2.
I believe (without checking) this is my First “FIRST!” for 2017.
Everyone have a LOVELY weekend.
Please don’t leave out the rotorheads!! ?
First!
Charlie Golf One
Dammit!
6th
Third!!!
Or not!
Dinner tonight is red beans and rice with smoked sausage.
With or without bacon drippings?
I swear, the few times I go to Popeyes, I have to have their smoky creamy bacon/porky Red Beans and Rice. It’s like frecking CRACK
Amen, Brother Chip! Preach it!
With. Always use that. OK, here are the ingredients.
one chorizo sausage, mild or picante, your choice
one cup of rice of your choice
one to two cans of red beans (I use kidney beans canned in chili sauce, saves seasoning)
half to a whole chopped onion, IF desired
one link of smoked sausage, your favorite kind
about one cup of beef broth – dry bouillon w/water will do, but only enough to keep the rice from going too dry
Slice the smoked sausage and set aside
Squeeze the chorizo out of its casing, into the cooking pot with bacon grease, crumble it and sautee it
Add the uncooked rice and stir
Add the canned beans w/sauce and stir
Add some of the beef broth if there is not enough liquid to cook the rice
Keep stirring the pot. When the rice starts to soften, throw in the sliced smoked sausage, add the rest of the beef broth.
For extra flavor, you can also add mesquite steak seasoning, but I wouldn’t use too much.
Turn down the heat, cover the pot, and let it simmer very, very slowly.
Note: if one cup of beef broth is not enough, add more. I use dry bouillon powder. Chicken broth is also okay to use for this.
Make some cornbread to go with it. Lots of butter. Add fresh veggies like radishes, carrots, green onions, sliced zucchini, cucumber – whatever you like, plus stuffed olives.
And for afters: beverage of your choice, cheese and fruit.
Good food.
Thank you, Ma’am! Sounds delicious!
It was so good, I NAMED it!
Dang, girl! I’m drooling now …
🙂
Dinner tonight was pizza. Tomorrow is meatloaf.
Somewhere in there I’m making a nice big batch of Buffalo Chicken Dip.
I was a contender for ‘1st’ today until you head-faked me with your post about the solar-powered fighter!
Ya coulda been a contender. Ya coulda been champ. Instead, you got a one-way ticket to Palookaville. All aboard!
Yeah; woulda, shoulda, coulda.
It’s the story of my life…
Mmmmm … must be a lot of that goin’ around …
Or, as the Brother said at the first Gathering of Eagles on March 17, 2007, “Too soon old, too late wise.”
Next time, Mick! You’ll do it! I know you will!
That’s what she said…
And PRESENT! Forty-eleventeenth approximately
Mick, as we always tell my grandkids when they almost succeed: “Good job.”
Top 10 again`
Huh, #6 this week.
Top Ten and I wasn’t even trying…
Not First!!!
Eighteenth! (Well, it’s better than last week, anyway.)
Tomorrow, 1APR, is the birthday of the founding of the Navy Chief Petty Officer.
“Chief petty officer is the seventh enlisted rate in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, just above petty officer first class and below senior chief petty officer. Chief petty officers are classified as senior non-commissioned officers. The grade of chief petty officer was established on April 1, 1893 for the U.S. Navy.”
Happy Birthday, one day early, to my fellow lowlife miscreants with whom I rubbed elbows and told lies within the CPO Mess. Happy Birthday you reprobates. I love youse guys and gals …
Chief … should we read anything into the fact that the Chief Petty Officer was founded on April Fools’ Day?
(ducking aand running for any cover anywhere)
April 1st…awwwww….man that explains a lot.
Splice the mainbrace!
Happy Birthday Brother!
CTIC (Ret)
Happy Birthday to all the REAL CPOs in the Navy.
Once again not even close to being number one. Well, isn’t that special …
Alas …
Well, top 20, anyway.
Bullshit.
(ex-OS2 kicks shitcan down passageway)
CRASH!!! BANG!!! SMASH!!!
I shall prevail next week! The gloves are off!
Senoras y senores, PRIMERO! (En espanol)
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Und Ich sind Erste in Deutsche.
Re the nice pic above of the Golden Gate Bridge, my wife of nearly 46 years, The Russian, was stationed at Letterman. She could see the bridge from her barracks. It’s really a magnificent engineering feat. Too bad it had to be built in San Fran on the Left Coast.
A little sarc about where it had to be built.
Until the mid- to late-1960’s it was a petty good place. It was great back in the day for the kid of a CWO stationed at the Presidio. We even lived across the bay while he was in Korea. Wonderful memories.
I’ve driven across the Golden Gate Bridge more times than I can remember, and seen an uncounted number of photographs of it. An all-time favorite is one taken in 1935 of the bridge and a Martin flying boat on the maiden flight of China Clipper serviceto the Orient. The bridge itself is still under construction.
I have seen the Golden Gate from the bottom side! Our carrier passed under several times and the radar bell just cleared the bridge by a few feet it looked like! Wonder what these new super duper carriers are doing to clear it?
An interesting thing about the Gate from a sailboat perspective is that passage can be tricky based on tidal flow. Because of the relative narrowness, there’s a Venturi effect that causes currents to accelerate. Time your exit from the SF Bay wrong, and you can find yourself doing laps around the Farallon Islands for six hours waiting to get back in.
Okay, don’t know if this is going to work.
https://www.snapfish.com/library/share?w=snapfish_us&c=snapfish&l=en_US#Nv6-oWzp3wIwHK8i6c1njQ/SFO/27942331620060/SNAPFISH
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
Not first, but at least I’m going to get the
“TAH Participation Trophy”, right people?
Going to put it front & center in my “Love Me Box”.
I can see it now, when guests come over and spot it.
“YOOOU HAVE A TAH PARTICIPATION TROPHY?”
And in most sophisticated manly lowvoice, I’ll say……..
“Why yes, yes I do”.
Phuchin’ Aaaaaa!!!
I once again claim Honorary First.
Thirty-seventh!
Any updates on a certain gentleman who is neither a pilot nor a lawyer?
The dope filed for an extension of time for him to appeal one of the several cases that he has lost. His problem? He didn’t notify all the concerned parties, (Which, as he was admonished; being schooled as a lawyer, he should have known.), thereby getting an admonishment from the court and the concerned parties.
If he is, in fact, “out of the country”, I hope like hell that TSA gives him hell on his attempt to re-enter, complete with the KY jelly total body inspection. And that wHiTgEnFeLd has volunteered to pick him up at the airport, and they get stopped, searched and their open bottles of celebratory MD 20/20 get them busted, and they have to watch their vintage drink get poured out.
You talking about Dufus in headlights Lol..
The recent antics of Dull-ass and Baby Huey Joe Cryer in Maryland, which he pulled the strings for, are going to bite him in the ass.
While he is going to try to deny responsibility, Cryer is looking at assault charges and is going to do anything to weasel out of going to jail.
He has to realize that Bernath threw him under the bus. Any statements he makes at his hearing that implicate Bernath are going into public record for the Shipley’s Attorney’s to use in future cases against Berdterd,
Cryer has a prior history of assault against an ex-wife… plus he’s a Grade “A” shitbird in the court system. If he had a lick of common sense, he’d be sucking someone off to throw Danni-boi in jail.
As for DuLlAsS… he’s probably looking forward to being deloused, three squares and getting dorked in the squeakhole by the guys at the BTJT Deli…
Dullas and Bernath are both due in court in Kansas City Missouri this upcoming week.
It’s a criminal case, not one of the bullshit lawsuits.
Apparently Missouri has a pretty low tolerance for indecency and harrassment.
Cockmeat Sammiches for the Dumbfuck duo?
I’d love to see the look on their faces when the judge announces the verdict and slams the gavel down on them!
Any details on the pending Kansas City Massacre?Bernath’s Virginia attorney must be kicking himself for taking up his case.
Kansas? Maybe they were comething after Jonn and took a wrong turn? I thought their AO was Fla, MD, and Tidewater.
Wish there was a table listing all their various charges and current status. These idiots are hard to keep up with unless you have a program.
That’s Kansas City MO, just across the Missouri River from Kansas City KS.
Actually, only a part of the border between Kansas City, KS, and Kansas City, MO, is the Missouri River. Much of the border is dry land, and south of I-70 you can walk directly from one city to the other.
Not Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri.
I’m thinking The DRG has been screwing with someone in that AO.
Update, Exact Dates are April 3rd for Dullass. Berntass got a postposenment until May 11th.
DullASS going to jail on Monday?
And getting out just in time to go to jail in MD.
Time to replenish the popcorn and grain beverages.
DAB got a postponement for KC,MO? Do you have a source for that? If so, please let me know.
I think I stated in a previous thread that if his lawyer in Virginia had a lick of sense (and apparently he does) he got a hell of a retainer up front.
I’m guessing after he goes through that, if Bernath even stutters, this guy is gone.
Gee. That’s . . . just . . . too . . . bad.
Karma, she is a vengeful beeyotch.
Old Dog, can you be more specific without giving away the farm?
EX-PH2,
I’m not privy to all. It seem’s that the DRG went after some who is part of the SV community with their typical vulgar rants, e-mails and other tactics.
This person has their shit together and filed complaints on them and they have been summoned to appear.
And I’m pretty sure it isn’t Mary Schantag, although she’d have an iron-clad case against DullASS at least, given his history with her.
Danni-boi, DullASS, and Cryer. Shit ALWAYS comes back to haunt, fuckers. There’s a lot of people who are going to be very happy the day you cocksuckers go down.
Oh, and Sealy? Better hope you don’t get to spend your time in Jessup. I hear that’s not exactly a country club jail. But what do I know?
holy shit, when and why were they even in Kansas?
I’m quite sure that every member of The Dutch Rudder Gang is fucking himself as fast and hard as he can with his own stupidity.
Does anyone have the schedule for Phil Monkress working balls this weekend? Rumor has it that he has moved up to working behind an industrial size dumpster to handle the customer flow.
Just be careful about dumping any trash in a dumpster within 300 mile radius from APL HQ. You may see Phildo “in the act”….
Phildo Monkress, the Floridian Fellatator of Flaccid Phallus’?
Any Army vet here. Log in to the HRC portal and find some of your info is jacked up. I just saw mine. And apparently. I was born in Houston , Ga. ( actually born in Atlanta. And it lists a prior duty station as Bragg my old unit is now at Bragg. And I’ve done FTX there. But never stationed. Minor descrapancies. But got me shaking my head. Gotta love Military records. They turn innacuracy in to an Art form
No big surprises there
Present and accounted for
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls as he earns his living based on his false Native American, SEAL and Law Enforcement claims.
Phone rings.
Hack Stone: Hello?
Telemarketer: Hello, Rosetta Stone?
Hack Stone: No, this is not Rosetta Stone.
Telemarketer: Hello, Mr. Stone. You are on Medicare and have lower back pain. (Was he asking me or telling me?)
Hack Stone: I have Medicare?
Telemarketer: You have Medicare, good. We can help with your medical issues.
Hack Stone: Great! I have an enlarged penis, and it makes it difficult for me to drive a car. Can you help me?
He then said something I couldn’t understand, then he hung up. I guess Hack won’t be able to get any help with this penis issue.
Hack , I accidentally reported your comment. Meant to reply. But as usual, I forgot to put on my readers and hit the wrong dang button!
Can you get a photo of Pelosi? That ought to be enough to git’r’dun.
Your enlarged penis makes it difficult to drive a car?
You’re not doing it right.
*grin*
Kinda like when some Telepest who sounded like he was calling from Calcutta trying to sell me a security system and I told him all about how The Great Flyimg Spaghetti Monster keeps us safe and he even thanked me when I said “May The Great Flying Spaghetti Monster be with you too!”.
Present!!
My Gawd! Pure genius!”I have an enlarged…..” Can I use that line on those people? I just wish I could think that fast, just once. Rats!
Made my whole day, God bless you!
Why just hang up on them? They wasted your time calling you, have some fun.
Hack gets a phone call that he can get free solar panels, he pushes 1 to speak to a representative. The guy starts his spiel, and Hack calls him a sick mother effer because his family was killed in a fire that burned down the house, and were they going to out the panels on a pile of ashes.
Hack gets a call from a drug rehab center that will help him with his addiction. Hack asks if they can score him some crack. She told Hack to try Baltimore.
Hack gets a call that the warranty is about to run out on his car. He tells them that he has a 1961 Studebaker. They have no idea what a Studebaker is.
Need help with your credit card debt? Hack pushes #1 to speak to the representative, and when they answer, Hack tells her that he needs $798,000 by 8:00 PM tonight or the mob is going to break his legs.
You can also tell them the following, using your best radio DJ voice:
“Oh, too bad – you’re caller number six. But it’s caller number 7 who wins the all expenses paid trip to Hawaii! Try again!”
THEN hang up. (smile)
Or, “This call is being recorded for legal purposes”, and see how fast they hang up.
I like to answer with “HELLO, you’re on the air with Jim-Bob and Billy-Dan here on 1610 AM Radio, whatcha got for us?” and 95% of the time the answer is *CLICK*.
My fave:
“Okay, it’s done, but there’s blood everywhere! And you better have my other $5k or you’re joining them!”
Or “Okay, it’s done and I got blood all over my favorite fucking clown suit yet again!!!”
Hello?
Oh, hello. Is Mrs. Zippo there?
What do you want with my mother?
https://youtu.be/PZ6NJW4F7gY
I keep getting calls that are a recording by a bimbo who says ‘Oh! Hello! Oh, I thought there was somethign wrong with my headset! But I want to tell you that you are eligible for the blah-blah-blah cruise….’
I don’t know whether to let that run out and then try some smart ass response when the real caller comes on the line, or just hang up.
“Hello! The XYZ-Whatnotyy company would like to offer you…”
“How did you get the number to this facility?”
“..er… I am with the XYZ…”
“I -said-, how did you get the number to this facility?’
“..er.. ..what?”
“Do I sound like a civilian to you? Now tell me, right now, how you got the number to this secure facility? (Off mike). You getting the trace yet?”
“..ah.. er…. um. I won’t tell anyone!!!!! Sorry!” Click…
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I still get the giggles thinking of the panicked sound of that caller.
This just in: per the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath IS STILL DISBARRED!
If anyone is interested, the reason why may be found here.
Yo, Danni-boi:
Too bad, so sad
Sucks to be you
Received your due
Court said, “Screw You . . .
. . . and the horse you rode in on.”
https://cldn0.fiverrcdn.com/fiverr/t_delivery_medium/t_smartwm/deliveries/42196641/original/t-shirts_ws_1464994641.jpg
(Note: linked image is possibly NSFW and also is not recommended around prudes, clergy, or children.)
I’m guessing that Danni-boi, DuLlAsS and Joe “pussy boy” Cryer are all learning about prison life and the BTJT Deli (Home of the COCKMEAT SAMMICH) prior to their trials.
From your lips to God’s ears, HMCS(FMF) ret.
Well, at least the jail part. I don’t think God has much to do with the other. Bubba, Thor, Julio, and Tiny seem to handle the other pretty well all by themselves. (smile)
Has he even paid his “bar tab” yet?
Dude is going to have to sell everything he (whoops–his wife) owns here pretty quickly.
Smokes in jail are getting pretty pricey.
I’m guessing that Danni-boi is going to be snarfing down a lot of COCKMEAT SAMMICHES and GHEY WHEY soon… very, very soon!
I don’t think he’s paid even a dime of the Yelp Judgement against him let alone any of the others including the CA Bar.
Long before hard hitting Naval Aviation classic movies like Hot Shots, or the tour de force Top Gun, steely eyed Naval Aviators, Navy Pilot professionals were on the silver screen, inspiring one and all with their airmanship and acts of derring-do. In that vein, the 1950’s era movie, “Launch ‘Em” was created. Watch and be inspired, as was I. This is exactly how I remember Carrier Ops, and perhaps why I then went to fixed wing, land based P-3C Orions. Which wasn’t that different after all.
Now sit back with a beverage and some popcorn (I’m looking at YOU, ex-OS2!) and enjoy, Launch ‘Em!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfEF2eHEwiA
Where did you get that? I have been looking all over for it since the day I saw it in the screening room at NPC in 1968!
On the interwebs, m’lady. And now here it is for your viewing pleasure.
*grin*
That was good… thanks AW1Ed for posting that.
If we’re going to dig into the past, it’s worth 8 minutes of your time to watch this rendering of ‘The Impossible Dream’. What a voice this guy had!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlgio-UOng
I’m looking out the window of Casa de SEA, and someone forgot to check the calendar.
Winter is OVER, assholes! You’re not supposed to be dumping another 6-12″ of that heavy wet concrete snowblower clogging shit on my driveway!
Well I thought i was going home to bed. I’m now sitting on the side of the interstate waiting for a wreaker for the car #1 son was using.
Oh well.
WOW, this week I’m in the top 90. last week I would have been somewhere in the top 200 this close to 2400 on Friday night.
that’s 2400 CDST.
“…in a year, the morning marine fog drops…”, What the? The Marines have their own fog? I did not know that. I have seen leadership from all branches that seemed to be “in a fog”, but for a Branch to have it’s own fog is news to me.
They, the Marines, have been working on it at various Littoral locations for years. While the counter UAS feature is obvious they are still working on a DCGS compliant version.
First place I saw “rolling” fog was in San Fran.
Literally looked like a waterfall coming down the hills heading from Marin into the city.
I am moved to post this, apropos of nothing, except an article I read on another website;
There lived a man, let’s call him John
and he was called to war.
His father old and infirm, said I
believe this cause is done for.
His father handed him a musket, some food
and said, son I cannot give you more.
You are chosen to protect us, which I cannot do
so go forth and do your best and may God bless
you.
John strode forth, wiped away tears as he saw
the shadow of his mother,
knowing that unless a miracle came to pass,
they would never again see each other.
He had no horse and walked the road, when he
came across a man so splendid, in uniform and
surrounded by soldiers.
This man asked him, where do you go today friend,
with that musket and look upon your face?
He answered, I must go sir, to protect my family and country as I have been called.
The man looked upon him, and wanting something more, asked why do you think this is your fight?
John looked up at the man on the horse and answered, as only he know how,
We have a chance sir, to make this country ours.
Taking a breath, he repeated himself and added, or else we shall lose it.
The man on the horse looked down at him, smiled and called for a horse. Ride with us patriot, although you ride to certain death.
John rode a while, then turned to the man, and asked, how should I call you?
The man smiled and said, I am known as Jack Steward.
John died but his life was not in vain even though his blood was spilt upon the second abatis together with the other heroes.
That such men lived.
We must never forget.
A timely posting, as far as I am concerned, because today I was thinking about our Gold Star Moms. Perhaps they thinh the world has forgotten about them, their great losses, and the sacrifices of their children. It has not.
Have a great weekend my good friends.
Off to work for a spell.
Remember, be alert, the world needs more lerts !!!
More unrelated news from D and D’s site.
Apparently the phoney AJ Dickens is out of Jail and coaching little league.
Some concerned parents googled him after hearing him spin tales about playing college ball at UCLA.
For those who don’t remember Dicken was sent to jail back in 2014 for defrauding people out of thousands of dollars saying he was a security expert and former SEAL.
Just looked at the old stories about him… didn’t the Feds go after him?
Hopefully the LL parents got his felonious ass away from their kids…
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=54415
Looks like he was was sentenced to one to three years back in 2014. News said he had 5 prior felonies prior to this.