January 5, 2018
Three Peaks
Your Shot photographer Peter Nestler spent 18 hours in the Italian Alps, admiring the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. “The most peaceful and happy times in my life are when I am alone (or as close as I can get) in nature,” he says. “The more densely populated we become, the more important I believe it is to preserve these natural spaces.”
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141 responses to “Weekend Open Thread”
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Oh yes….typo’d my name but I’ll still claim it.
Congrats of your firtnest! I would have been here sooner, but I had to take a call from my doctors office. They finally gave me my results from my chemo! No Cancer Cells Detected! What a relief! Thank you all!!
Great news, Willy! Enjoy the weekend now. 🙂
Yes!!!
Great way to start the New year, Willie!!
I’m glad for you!
Hallelujah!
Great news, WW.
Victory!
Wonderful news Willy!
WOO-HOO!!! Glad to hear that, Willy!!
It is always good news when someone beats that ugly bitch. Congrats.
Thank you all so much! It really means a lot to me!! Happy New Year!
Wonderful news!! Congrats on win!
Some of us continue to fight it…
Keep fighting!
Great news, WW. Glad to hear it.
Great news, Willy. I am very happy for you and yours. By the way, if anyone tells you I had first dibs on that flat screen on yours, he is lying! (Sorta. Kinda. Okay. I confess. Cripes. Keep your damn TV.)
Excellent news!
Fantastic news, Willy.
Woot!
Didn’t mean to be late, but that is terrific news, Willy!
Gratz brother! good to hear it!
Great news WW.
Let’s keep up the fire on that stuff, it’s always good to get some good news on these pages. We get so many slimebags and other bad news your news really is great to read !!!
Congrats, Willy! That’s the kind of news you wanted to hear!
Zuerst?
Oh hell ya – Shazam!
Sorry Devtun… my comment was undergoing moderation….
Oh, wow. If that ain’t a kick in the ‘ol nutzack…
CWO5USMC did that on purpose, CWORet.
Marines are like that.
Greybeard, a lot of truth to that statement brother but this was an honest mistake. FYI, I’ll be changing my handle on here to CWO5USMC(RET) when I retire later this year.
Yes, we do have Green Wienie tendancies. Since he’s he’s a 5, his deft ninja skills dwarf mine. That must be a TAH record. First on WOT. Under moderation.
First
Thirdsies!!!!
Nice photo, too. There are many places I’d like to visit.
BURST!!! 2018
Top ten!
Friday funny.
Tip o’ the hat to WATM.
Didn’t the Chairforce transition to rubber trashcans because the metal ones kept getting bent?
Does a free can of Brasso®™come with that so the Joes can keep it polished?
Brasso is probably considered HAZMAT these days, API.
The morning following the Parental Consent Form being signed by Momma & Poppa Stone so that Hack can be one of the few and the proud, Poppa Stone came into the BEQ (Brothers Enlisted Quarters) with one of those alarm clocks.
Drop by and see the friendly old Supply Sergeant. He has the necessary components on hand in the supply room. Some assembly required.
7240-160-0440 Can,Trash,Metal,32 gallon.
7240-161-1143 Lid, for Can,Trash, 32 gallon.
8340-261-9751 Stake, Tent, Wood, 24 Inch.
Those must be some OOOOOOLD NSNs, no -00- or -01- in there.
Not NSN’s.
Those are FSN’s (Federal Stock Numbers).
Old Geezers like me work with them when we know the items were already in the inventory prior to the FSN/NSN swap out of 1974/1975./smile
Top Ten and Honorary First. (First in the hearts of my countrymen … LOL.)
Top Ten!
And in the Stolen Valor race of 2018 we have, as of this WOT:
Navy SEALs – 2
Army [Captain] – 1
Marines – 1
Closest I’ve ever been.
Top 20!
I forgot it was Friday because I had a snow day yesterday with kids. outta sync.
HERE DICKWEEDS!!!
Same here. Ran 6 miles in the blizzard, doing my normal predawn run. Didn’t want that to get into the way of one of my daily routines.
Managed to “run” a red light, despite cops cruising the roads. I even saw the entire sky light up a few times. It was like running in Minnesota back in the 1980s. 
To put things into perspective, we got up to 10 inches of snow in this area, the tree in my front yard, as well as other trees in the area, “got flattened”, and I live in the same metropolitan area where a certain disbarred lawyer is enjoying accommodations of a different kind. I spent the rest of the day shoveling my driveway… the longest amount of time I spent shoveling snow in this area.
Our wind chill dipped below zero this morning too, a first since I’ve lived in this area.
Top 20? Cool. Happy Weekend to everyone here.
Glad to be back, missed a few Fridays. Hope everyone is staying warm
Am now. And plan to stay inside for the rest of winter, or at least until the livestock needs more feed and water.
Had great plans for a social event this evening but cancelled after schlepping water around the yard for the outside critters, fed everyone and slipped up and down the driveway getting the mail. Brrrrr.
Where is all that global warming crap? And whoever wrote the forecast for a mild winter in the Farmers Almanac needs a strongly worded letter.
But OWB, Al Gore (you know the guy that also invented the Internet) said yesterday:
“This ‘Bitter Cold’ Is What Global Warming Looks Like”.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/05/this-bitter-cold-is-what-global-warming-looks-like-explains-al-gore/
So, pretty soon you will be out watering & feeding the stock and getting mail in your speedo. 😉
Warm weather – Glowbull Wormening
Cold Spell – Glowbull Wormening
Dry Spell – Glowbull Wormening
Wet Weather – Glowbull Wormening
Manmade CLimate Change – Scam of the Century, since WHEN haven’t the Eco-Doomsday Criers said we only have five to ten years left? I remember the late eighties when they were screeching that by 2000 at least 50% of the Human Race would be dead and half of the World’s species would be extinct due to deforestation, ozone depletion and acid rain.
If only a glacier would form in the area behind Algore’s house, move south rapidly and raze the entire area, leaving nothing but rubble behind.
What? A girl can dream, can’t she?
Yea, the smugliness of the article discussed at that link does make me wanna kick a puppy. So this bitter cold is because of global warming. Hmmh. Can’t make this sh!t up folks. I’m a MN transplant, so I enjoy this weather once in a while, – for a few days, a few times in the winter. Been in NoVA for about 20 years or so. We get like one giant snow every few years, a bitter cold snap every now and then. This one may be slightly colder and lasting longer than I’ve seen in 20 years, but guess what? It’s in the 40’s and raining on Monday. Hell, this is the perfect weekend to stay in, order in, have cocktails and watch mondo football. Bring on the Global Warming winters, I say!
But you’re supposed to panic, Chief! Why aren’t you panicking?
I’ll give it a shot.
Hrrmmmmmpphhh! Oww..
Nope. Couldn’t muster a panic.
We’re all gonna die! (runs in random circles)
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/897/000/6c2.gif
You may consider employing a full bore linear panic.
(ala Patrick Mcmanus)
Both almanacs got it wrong! Both of them!!!
You have my sympathies, OWB, especially if you have to be out at 5AM with food, water and warming stuff for the critters.
Rats. Wrong keyboard.
home alive and well after driving through the “bomb cyclone”…must have happened somewhere because the most I saw was a little wind and an amusing dusting of snow…
Strangely, while I spent a pleasant hour++ going through the archive of photos linked to the Your Shot photo at the top of the page, I found photos of people on the beach in swimsuits and shorts in Newfoundland in December 1961, and people near the top of a snowless Mt. Rainier in the same time period – 1960s.
It seems that the historical stuff escapes the notice of people who have a personal agenda.
::looking for my Shocked Face::
Damn, I forgot it was Friday!
Oh well, back to lurking…
This is a no shitter I tell you… So there I was, Knee deep in snow, its minus 11 F outside and I am trying to put my new chains on the plow truck. I bend over to link the chain and my Levies rip straight down the inside right rear pocket. As I stand up a 3×3’ slab of snow falls off the roof of the truck and directly in to the now 8” rip in my jeans. Now I am pretty sure there are not too many of us can say that they have had -11 F snow hit their no-no area, but let me tell you it’s not something anyone should ever experience. So as I am flapping around, chilled both inside from the rip and outside by the melted snow trying to dislodge 10 lbs. of snow from my pants, my 96 lbs. dog thinks I am playing and decides to jump up on me and knocks me back, ass first in to a very nicely plowed snowbank, which also somehow finds its way in to my no-no area. As I walked inside, I find my wife and daughter with literal tears in their eyes, they don’t say a word and my wife jus hands me a cuppa coffee and said with a completely straight face “You look like you need this”
They say I have a different look now in my eyes, It’s call it the -11-degree snow in the pants stare. Its normally seen only in southern boys that get stationed in Alaska or Norway, but I too have it now…the cure is Jim Beam and a really hot fire in the fireplace…
Your sainted wife and daughter aren’t the only ones who now have literal tears in their eyes
Pucker factor -11
??????
Bad touch, Frosty! Bad touch!
Well, Sgt Fon, for the first time in my history with TAH I had to share why I was laughing so hard with my co-workers.
That. Is. Priceless.
(And I am so glad I live in South Texas!)
Yeah Sgt Fon, but you need to look at the bright side.
Instead of snow in your “no-no” area, you could have had 10 pounds of -10 degree snow down your nether region…….we’re talking serious shrinkage if that had happened!
This is the reason 1 piece, trapdoor in the back Longjohns were invented. Snow-in-the-crack is preventable!
My advice is to start drinking heavily.
I think I may have injured myself trying to keep from laughing out loud after reading this. Thanks, I needed that.
WOW, you really got cold-cocked, didn’t you?
Baaahahahahahaha.
Oh, now THAT is funny!!!!!
Having been through many, many pitiless midwestern winters, in which snow fell and was topped by sleet and froze car door locks, or snow drifted and nearly buried my tiny house, I can deeply sympathize with you. Still funny!
Before now, if I’d heard someone say “I froze my nuts out there” I’d have thought he was using a figure of speech.
I guess you really can say you froze your ass off . . . (smile)
Thought I had a couple of cold weather funny stories to share this weekend, but after reading yours, I won’t even bother!
Got cold-cocked, huh? It happens.
Shrinkage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ148NBE_aM
hmmm….I was out snowshoeing at -20, had to take a dump and wiped my nether regions with a handful of snow. You know that moment when you do something and immediately think “that wasn’t smart”? That was it right there.
Does that count? I also beat a hasty retreat back to the woodstove in my hunting camp
Oh yeah. Thirty som………ah screw it. It’s another day, I’m upright (mostly), working in the shop……can’t get better than that!
Vertical and ventilated, can’t ask for anything more. Though, if the lottery gods should find it in their hearts to bless me tonight, or tomorrow, that would be great.
Not First! Woohoo!!!
41rd and I claim Honorary First yet again!
Question for you Baltimore, MD familiar folks. I was watching a documentary about drugs in America and a segment followed drug dealers and LEOs in Baltimore. (As an aside, when the LEO spoke there was just the audio of their voices, when the drug dealers were speaking, they used English subtitles so you could understand them.) Back to my question. One of the drug dealers was laughing about laws in MD and Baltimore and stated that there are no longer any plain clothes law enforcement in Baltimore and he may have said MD. Is that true? My concern is the laws he was speaking of did nothing but make the drug trade easier and law enforcement harder. Thank goodness I don’t live there. Thank you in advance for any help.
Not plain-cloths, more Tommy Tactical.
“Known on the streets as “knockers” or “jump-out boys,” the officers were most often seen wearing tactical vests, jeans and backwards hats as they prowled the city for guns and drugs.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-plainclothes-policing-ends-20170308-story.html
Can’t speak for the rest of MD.
Okay bear with me. Army guy question for Navy folks. Do modern destroyers still use depth charges or are they obsolete due to the advance in submarine technology? Thank you.
I think the whales complained, so the Navy had to abandon them, or something like that.
No, Greenpeace complained, and not just about underwater detonations. Don’t get me started…
Greenpeace is a nasty batch of self-important idiots who believe they are our superiors.
Yep, I have to give props to the French for blowing up one of their boats in the 80’s. For those who know me, it pains me to ever say something nice about the French.
French government stinks.
Often the French civilian is arrogant to visitors – although some I know who’ve lived and worked there had good relationships.
AB son tried to get in a desert warfare training run by French Commandos, but couldn’t pass the swim test. Those guys seem to be squared away warriors.
I really wasn’t sure who complained about it. Thanks for the heads up.
It’s all good, Ex. Lots of restrictions on the Navy’s use of underwater sound emitters, and procedures to follow. No one wants to hurt Flipper or Shamu, but it does add another layer of complexity on an already challenging evolution.
Just out of curiosity, wouldn’t depth charges and other, similar subsurface stuff interfere with sonar detection now?
Like most things ASW, Ex, that depends on many variables. Some older ASW systems used a small explosive charge as a sound source for echo location, so the short answer is, maybe.
Sorry I can’t be more specific.
It was the whales, ‘PH. I read a classified report I can only talk about on TAH. You were right!
Homing torpedoes are the ASW weapon of choice these days, Sparks.
Thank you AW1Ed and all of you for your help.
Anytime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_54_MAKO_Lightweight_Torpedo
Subs carry a nasty piece of work called the Mk-48 ADCAP. Maybe one of our Bubbleheads will chime in.
I want that sex toy!
The early version of the ADCAP came out 30 years ago.
The newer stuff, well, let’s just say I never want to be on the receiving end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vaImLvZbPw
don’t the British have one that is faster? I’m wondering how fast they actually have to be since they are trying to catch a sub and avoid anti-torpedo measures (if that is a thing). Is the speed to hit before the enemy can react in any way?
Brit Spearfish torpedo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearfish_torpedo
Actual max speeds for US torpedoes are classified- the generic answer is 30+ knots.
As for the rest, watch Clancy’s Hunt for “Red October” one of the few Navy movies that didn’t make me laugh out loud (gunfights in Sherwood Forrest notwithstanding).
I remember reading somewhere, back when HFRO was released, that the Navy made a request that they alter sound effects for sonar and torpedoes. “Not that yours are correct of course, but please change them to something a bit different. Please.”
Any Navy types able to comment on that legend?
Don’t recall that, but the sets were pretty close to actual submarine spaces, and a lot of the extras were Navy Sailors. Also, Sean Connery was in the Royal Navy; Scott Glenn was a U.S. Marine; and James Earl Jones was in the ROTC and did U.S. Ranger training during the Korean War.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64931/14-deep-facts-about-hunt-red-october
I’ll just leave this here:
“Two guys were picked up by the cops for being posers and appeared in court before the judge. The judge said, “You seem like nice young men, and I’d like to give you a second chance rather than jail time. I want you to go out this weekend and try to show others the evils of being phonies and pursuade them to give up posing forever. I’ll see you back in court Monday.” Monday, the two guys were in court, and the judge said to the first one, “How did you do over the weekend?” “Well, your honor, I persuaded 17 people to give up posing forever.” “17 people? That’s wonderful. What did you tell them?” “I used a diagram, your honor. I drew two circles like this: O o and told them this (the big circle) is your self esteem before posing and this (small circle)is your self esteem after posing.” “That’s admirable,” said the judge. “And you, how did you do?” (to the 2nd guy) “Well, your honor, I persuaded 156 people to give up posing forever.” “156 people! That’s amazing! How did you manage to do that!” “Well, I used the same two circles. I pointed to the small circle and told them, This is your asshole before prison….” “
Happy New Year
Geez, Frankie, you coulda posted a spew alert!!!
bwahahahaha. Good One
I’m not sure who else follows this stuff, but there’s been some hysteria about a book being published today called Fire and Fury about the Trump White House by a guy named Michael Wolff. In the book, among other things, Wolff quotes Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch as saying Donald Trump “is a fucking idiot” and Breitbart figure Steve Bannon calling the meeting in Trump Tower with the Russian lawyer chick “treasonous.”
Here’s a little secret. If you look up the term “serial liar” in a dictionary, the chances are good you’ll find a picture of Michael Wolff.
Wolff first popped up on my own radar a few years ago when he wrote an obit about the late New York City restaurateur Elaine Kaufman. He apparently hadn’t gotten the De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est memo about not speaking ill of the dead, and went off on a vicious screed about how Kaufman didn’t know how to respect her betters– such as Michael Wolff.
The general reaction to this was overwhelmingly harsh. Most of the comments at the time said one of the reasons for going to Elaine’s, that was the name of the restaurant, was because you could be, say, either the president of CBS or an assistant to an associate line producer for the same network, and Kaufman would treat everybody pretty much the same. So long as you checked your ego at the door.
This wasn’t an isolated incident. Wolff is a nasty piece of work.
LOL Tiny minds got pwned (Owned, i.e. epicly fooled)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/05/gorilla-channel-warfare-parody-book-excerpt-fools-trump-trashers.html
There’s some news story from a couple of days ago in which a clinical psychologist (no credentials offered, that I remember) tells reporters that the Trump Tweets are an inside look at his mind.
Apparently, the psychologist has no experience with someone who knows how to yank peoples’ chains for the sheer fun and hell of it. And DTrump has had the Mindless Mass Media following his trail of crumbs for more than a year now. You’d think they’d have figured out that they’re being yanked, but they fall for it every time.
As a wise man once said: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/05/how-the-media-mainstreamed-a-democratic-conspiracy-theory/
‘Three days after Lee’s book came out, the APA issued a statement reaffirming the importance of the Goldwater Rule, which instructs physicians “not to provide professional opinions in the media about the mental health of someone they have not personally examined and without patient consent or other legal authority.”’
So much for professional standards.
IMHO the TARD-infested mainstream media reacts to President Trump’s Tweets like kittens do a laser pointer.
Or not. At least the kittens don’t cower every time the laser beam lights up. Here’s a quote from Politico writer Matthew Gertz this week:
“On Tuesday night, I, along with many Americans, was shocked when President Donald Trump tweeted that his ‘Nuclear Button’ is ‘much bigger & more powerful’ than North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s.”
I don’t know about you, API, but it strikes me that such a comment could only come from a guy who has had surgery to remove both his spine and his funny bone…
Three Surgeons were once discussing who was easiest to operate on and the first one said “ Accountants, because they’re organized and filled neatly.”. The second Surgeon said “Engineers, because they’re charted, blueprinted and color coded.” and the third one said “Liberal males because they have no spine, guts or balls.”
86rd!
Hi guys and goulz!
Some Dick hacked my account.
But I am back.
Question for you:
My uncle was a PO2 (Fireman) on the USS Midway from 70-74 and in the offshore within range of the bad guy planes next to/around/floating by or some type of preposition in the Viet Of The ‘Nam. I don’t think you call it “In Country” if you were on a Carrier? Would he be considered “In Theater?”
And what medals were standard for folks in the Navy that were on boats but stayed off-shore? Besides the coveted NDSM.
I’m considering building him a shadow box and want to surprise him.I can have my cousin snatch his 214 but trying to get an idea going in my head.
Thank you in advance.
I don’t know the answer technically, but, My Father in Law was on a Navy destroyer in the Viet of the Nam War. Four deployments. He was a mechanic but actually received the Navy CAR (combat action ribbon) for a fight they had with an anti aircraft gun used on them off the coast. They got hit pretty good and limped to San Francisco for repairs. Hope this helps.
Check out the Military Records tab at the top of the page. Lots of information there on how to get information.
I feel the need….the need to feed! Yah!!!
I’M OPEN for whatever else comes along!!!
Even a horny Bradley Manning?
On this first Friday of 2018, I must mention that scumbag, Stolen Valorist, Kyle Christopher Barwan, and do my part to keep him alive in Goooooooooooooogle, so his future attempts may bother to run his name and learn about him. Yes, there will be future attempts, when he gets out of the Florida State Prison sysem, (Or before, if he can access computers while incarcerated.), and goes back to the only thing he knows; lying his sorry way through life.
To the tune of Merle Haggard’s old song:
“He turned 28 in Prison, doing 2 years for being an asshole”,
and now all he has is a stretched asshole.” Anyone going to the effort to reply, could use his name instead of a masculine pronoun, (I suppose that right now he is not feeling too masculine, what with Bubba having him biting his pillow every night, wearing his pants low to signify that he is a bitch.
I’m sure he walks everywhere right next to Bubba or Thor while holding their pants pocket turned inside out waiting to be exchanged for cigarettes or magazines.
Couldn’t happen to a douchier bag than Stolen Valorist, Kyle Christopher Barwan!!!
Over the past several weeks, I’ve watched Jupiter, Mars, and other astronomical points of references in the sky. Mars and Jupiter have been closing the gap with each other, or, rather, Mars has been catching up to Jupiter.
This morning, while cooling (as if I needed help with that) down from my pre dawn 6 mile run, I saw Jupiter and Mars real close to each other.
If you don’t mind the morning, cold, you could watch the overtaking process as Mars and Jupiter switch places in the predawn skies.
In Vermont we just had one of our Mohamed type guests took a machete to an elderly women last night. Not much coverage of our diversity improvement.
So some paranoid migrant named Ibrahim took a machete to a 73-year-old woman who had volunteered to deliver meals for Meals on Wheels to people living in emergency shelter.
Yeah, that’s real encouraging to know about those ‘migrants’, isn’t it? Not that it makes me view any of them with suspicion or anything….
the crashed C2A Greyhound has been located.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/07/navy-plane-that-crashed-in-philippine-sea-located-deep-in-pacific.html
while checking the Florida Department of Corrections inmate count this morning I found that Stolen Valorist Kyle Christopher Barwan has been assigned to the Chipley Prison, just 60 or so miles down the road from me. Maybe I should take him some Astrolube, KY, or just cheap motor oil.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=H50625&TypeSearch=AI
Looking at the info on his page, I see that he has a tattoo, “Gernade“. What in hell is a “Gernade”?
Scars, Marks, and Tattoos:
Type Location Description
TATTOO LEFT ARM CROSS, NO REGRETS, DOVES, ANGEL
TATTOO LEFT CHEST STAR
TATTOO RIGHT ARM OL GLORY, GERNADE, BRASS
TATTOO RIGHT ARM ONE SHOT, ONE KILL, SKULL, GUNS
Is that a flavor saver he’s trying to grow on his chin?
Or is that just another of the non verbal signals that say “I’m a prison bitch.”
The boys at the BTJT Deli (Home of the WORLD-FAMOUS cockmeat sammich) call Kyle Christopher Barwan “the Crisco Kid” on man-love Thursdays…
Gotcha.
Come on! Tell me I got somebody with this. I figured that in the months I’ve been absent, no one else used this stunt to snooker youse guys. I gotta have one…
No one bit? Not one? You’re telling me that not a soul said, “Oh shit! I missed being first!” only to learn this is not today’s WOT? Is that what you’re telling me? Is that it? Well, gaaaaaaadddddddammit.