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Overnight Open Thread (16 May 2015)

Interesting list but highly unlikely any will enter. 6 military leaders who could run for President in 2016.

Youngins Today

I don't think this lady has what it takes to work in a hospital. Pennsylvania University student suing school after failing required class twice. She even got a distraction-free environment and extra time for the second final. It's a weeding out process and she didn't cut it. Time to find a new field to study for.

Nukes For Everybody

Dangerous times ahead. WaPo worries that Obama is helping China proliferate nuclear weapons.

Earth's Destiny

Reading Earth's destiny in the 'blood spatter' around other stars.

Crazy Canucks

Navy Budget

You can have an aircraft carrier. Or you can have a navy. Pick one. I dunno. Their description of the JHSV is a tad overblown though. Just because it is being outfitted with the rail gun for an experiment does not mean that it will become a permanent fixture on all of them.

School

W.Va students caught screening Fifty Shades of Gray at school. Evidently their teacher had no idea what the movie was about and she agreed to let them watch it as a reward for their good work.

Videobomb News Bloopers

Cat World Record

Rescue cat sets new record for loudest purr. 67.8 decibels.

Cat Video

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1
Early ONT

Posted by: Dr. Evil at May 16, 2015 09:44 PM (FlRtG)

2
... and, seemingly, all alone.

Posted by: Dr. Evil at May 16, 2015 09:45 PM (FlRtG)

3 I was too tired to wait any longer.

Posted by: CDR M at May 16, 2015 09:45 PM (f8lRd)

4 OK, admit it, when you watched the Danger Bay Roman Candle Attack Drone, did you think:

1) Star Wars,

2) That thing shoots like a Storm Trooper,

and

3) SERPENTINE SHELBY!!!

Posted by: Jack Woltz at May 16, 2015 09:48 PM (t//F+)

5 {{{CDR M}}}

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 09:48 PM (TEpA2)

6 and off with the decapitated horse head sock.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2015 09:49 PM (t//F+)

7 Good evening, morons!

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 16, 2015 09:49 PM (0RdKg)

8 Willowed comment from the previous thread:

I have been praying and reflecting about Pope Francis. We've had shitty Popes before. I figure that we will survive this one.

Besides, where else am I going to go? I am hooked on transubstantiation.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 16, 2015 09:49 PM (V70Uh)

9 Dangerous times ahead. WaPo worries that Obama is helping China proliferate nuclear weapons.

When you don't believe in American Exceptionalism, you think giving everyone else an equal footing won't wind up causing problems because everyone else will be as responsible and stable as we are.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 16, 2015 09:50 PM (oVJmc)

10 Hello all.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 16, 2015 09:50 PM (Wo9OY)

11 yo!!!

remember me?

Posted by: Charles Martel at May 16, 2015 09:50 PM (D0Tns)

12 I raise your Whack-a-Cat with Mecha-Neko in a Box

https://youtu.be/3mtFiR23zwY

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 09:51 PM (enkX0)

13 "Dangerous times ahead. WaPo worries that Obama is helping China proliferate nuclear weapons."

And, unlike Bill Clinton, they're not even having to pay him to do so.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 16, 2015 09:52 PM (Wo9OY)

14 Okay, where can I get one of those whiskey vending machines?

Crazy,y Canucks? Take off!

Posted by: logprof at May 16, 2015 09:52 PM (b2o+S)

15 That kitteh's horse lost today?

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at May 16, 2015 09:52 PM (1W6Z5)

16 Hi!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 09:52 PM (Mn2TM)

17 Yo, ONT

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 09:53 PM (QOdik)

18 All our Okies still okay?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 09:53 PM (QOdik)

19 I could use some ice cold whiskey, gonna have to settle for some Crown on rocks. Maybe it will help me forget this nasty bug attacking me thanks to a coworker that doesn't understand the term 'sick leave'. My weekend was shot to hell before it even started.

Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at May 16, 2015 09:53 PM (4CRfK)

20 To hell with Locklear or Webb. I'll happily take any of the others.

Posted by: drill_thrawl at May 16, 2015 09:53 PM (fO0en)

21 Obviously NSFW. Octopi where least expected.

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/selection-du-weekend-140-38.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 09:54 PM (enkX0)

22 "
That kitteh's horse lost today?"


Shoulda bet on AP.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 09:54 PM (QOdik)

23 "9 1/2 Weeks" might have been more worth the students' time. Or "Sex, Lies and Videotape".

The best sex thriller I can recall was Al Pacino's "Sea of Love" but then, I never did see very many.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 09:55 PM (AVEe1)

24 I had a Japanese film teacher back in college who agreed to screen La Blue Girl.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 16, 2015 09:55 PM (aKxcI)

25 In the roman candle video -- was there alcohol involved?

Posted by: Bruce J. at May 16, 2015 09:56 PM (iQIUe)

26 Saw that story about the snowflake suing the school yesterday of Fox Business.

The host and one of the lawyers were laughing at the snowflake, another lawyer was defending her saying how stressful it was to take a test. Laughing lawyer then responded "how stressful do you think being an actual nurse in an ER will be?". Defensive lawyer STFU.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at May 16, 2015 09:56 PM (+Fae7)

27 /sock

Posted by: I'm a drinker, not a thinker at May 16, 2015 09:56 PM (D0Tns)

28 Hola, amigoz en loz tuboz!

Posted by: cthulhu at May 16, 2015 09:57 PM (T1005)

29 Colorado Alex, try Paprika

https://youtu.be/-ZKXXNCkrf4

You may never get your mind back.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 09:58 PM (enkX0)

30 "how stressful do you think being an actual nurse in an ER will be?".

----

Depends on how well the hospital locks up the good painkillers.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 09:58 PM (Mn2TM)

31 That captain's argument is hooey. Twenty-eight frigates do not project the power of one CBG.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 09:58 PM (QOdik)

32 Watched the content, so prolly not first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2015 09:59 PM (QkWlQ)

33 In the roman candle video...

-------

It's a Holy Roman Catholic candle, I think.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 09:59 PM (Mn2TM)

34 25 In the roman candle video -- was there alcohol involved?
Posted by: Bruce J. at May 16, 2015 09:56 PM (iQIUe)

--Did you miss the words "crazy Canucks"?

Posted by: logprof at May 16, 2015 09:59 PM (b2o+S)

35 AP English should watch The Story of O.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 16, 2015 10:00 PM (rwI+c)

36 "Dangerous times ahead. WaPo worries that Obama is helping China proliferate nuclear weapons."

Apparently everybody else *but* the US is allowed to have nuclear tech, according to the Obama Doctrine.

I've noticed that the MFM is hyping the death of Abu Sayyaf, which is a good thing mind you, but isn't mentioning the capture of Ramadi by ISIS quite as much. Which is more important, the death of one man in Syria, or the loss of a city which threatens supply lines to Baghdad?

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:00 PM (wZ2hu)

37 Was it mandatory that I watch the lead-in to this thread before commenting? If so I will have a prepared statement for release in the early morning!

Posted by: tbd at May 16, 2015 10:00 PM (ebNGg)

38
Hard to believe in our age of female led, gay celebrating, tranny accepting US Military, but back in the day our official military magazines actually had cheesecake photos in them.

From Soldiers magazine in the 70s:

www.flickr.com/photos/33158682@N06/16959266574/in/photostream/

Hit the right arrow to get to the lassies.

Can you imagine the outrage today if they tried that? Hashtags and online petitions as far as the eye could see.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:00 PM (kdS6q)

39 President Mattis? Oh God yes. First prez to drop an F bomb at his inaugural address.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:00 PM (jR7Wy)

40 I want one of those whiskey/tampon machines for my house!

Posted by: Diane Sawyer at May 16, 2015 10:00 PM (Xor78)

41 okay, the story of O is probably a winner. In book form anyway. But that's for students of Japanese.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:01 PM (AVEe1)

42 They should have screened Blue Velvet.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 16, 2015 10:01 PM (yCZVl)

43 Crazy Canucks

*wipes away tear of national pride*

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:01 PM (G4aHK)

44 Laughing lawyer then responded "how stressful do you think being an actual nurse in an ER will be?". Defensive lawyer STFU.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at May 16, 2015 09:56 PM (+Fae7)\

Mama Vendette, ER, nurse, would be smacking around.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:01 PM (TEpA2)

45 I saw that Kitteh pic and it reminded me of Baron Von Meow. That made me sad again. R.I.P Baron Von Meow.

You are missed.


Posted by: Luap Nor Amatuer Pyscho....logist at May 16, 2015 10:02 PM (U7H1n)

46 For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.

Or...ummm...maybe that was last Tuesday.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:02 PM (G4aHK)

47 And to no one's surprise, Obama is pursuing this nuclear tech deal with China even as the Chi-Coms build their "wall of sand" in the South China sea.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:02 PM (wZ2hu)

48 Okay, the story of O is probably a winner.

----

Isn't this in many ways the story of me?

Posted by: Oprah at May 16, 2015 10:03 PM (Mn2TM)

49 Thrawn, since killing Abu Sayyaf seems to have inflicted a butthurt on ISIS, it might serve as a SQUIRREL for the media. In the meantime the Iraqis can boot the caliph back out of Ramadi and quietly slaughter a lot of jihadis.

At least, I'm hoping that's what the President was planning. If my only talent was trolling (and some here would suggest it was) then I'd make sure to troll ISIS, and in a way that helped.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:03 PM (AVEe1)

50 Each Ford-class aircraft carrier carries a crew of 4,800, yet is vulnerable to just one lucky strike by an opposing force.

If it was nuclear. Or some kind of ballistic penetrater, maybe.
.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 16, 2015 10:03 PM (rwI+c)

51 Hendrix is merely angling for some of that sweet sweet Pentagon dough as a consultant.

Once BuShips turns the entire LCS class into reefs and explains how they can blow $7 billion on a gator carrier without a welldeck and not compatible with the F-35B. Then I might start to believe BuShips again.

If you really want to cut the cost of a carrier, ask if them being nuclear powered is really needed when their jets and escorts still need fuel.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:04 PM (enkX0)

52 Or...ummm...maybe that was last Tuesday.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:02 PM (G4aHK)



Are you from Alberta?

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:04 PM (TEpA2)

53 Our courageous president has suffered enough from you thoughtless and evil haters. Stop the madness and embrace his courage!

Posted by: Doris from Ashberry,Vt. at May 16, 2015 10:04 PM (ebNGg)

54 Storm just hit in earnest in OKC.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:05 PM (Mn2TM)

55 In my highschool French class, they screened "Mississippi Mermaid" for us.

THAT was some disturbing shit.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:06 PM (AVEe1)

56 Hasn't that whisky machine been here before?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 16, 2015 10:06 PM (W5DcG)

57 I would like a bunch more attack subs though.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 16, 2015 10:06 PM (rwI+c)

58 "Once BuShips turns the entire LCS class"


One of the dumber and more misguided programs I can recall in recent history.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (QOdik)

59 "I am not worthy of such love"

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (AVEe1)

60 Our courageous president has suffered enough from you thoughtless and evil haters.

-----

I put a lot of thought into my hate, thank you very much.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (Mn2TM)

61 Hoooooorde!!!!


Who have we pissed off today?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (GEICT)

62 Nothing scares the PRC navy more than an unknown number of 688 or Virginia class. As opposed to maybe three lurking off their coast.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (enkX0)

63 "
Hasn't that whisky machine been here before?"


Yes, thinking the same.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:08 PM (QOdik)

64 Jenna Jameson plays Whack-A-Mole. Not really unsafe for work, but weird enough:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT6D11m9WCw

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2015 10:08 PM (QkWlQ)

65 42 They should have screened Blue Velvet.

Posted by: Cruzinator



Bring your own Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 16, 2015 10:08 PM (NdpBS)

66 Hoooooorde!!!!





Who have we pissed off today?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (GEICT)


Humidity.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:09 PM (TEpA2)

67
In music:

Son Of Shaft - The Bar-Kays live at Wattstax

https://youtu.be/U1n8Zt--s3o

Wattstax apparently a 1972 black music festival at the LA Coliseum, the movie of which I'm now going to have to hunt down.

If you do nothing else, go to 4:00 in that vid for the gal in the white macrame dress getting down to the sound. She's magnificent.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:09 PM (kdS6q)

68 Are you from Alberta?

Posted by: Vendette


Ontario for now.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:10 PM (G4aHK)

69 Jenna Jameson plays Whack-A-Mole.

That was ... something. She still looks pretty good.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 16, 2015 10:11 PM (rwI+c)

70 Ricardo yup. I know someone inside the Five Sided Puzzle Palace on the Potomac has had to have asked the Navy a simple question as this with regards to the LCS - "So Admiral what happens when a war erupts, the LCS is attacked, and it has the wrong mission module?"

But apparently enough people screamed loud enough to drown out the voice of sanity.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:11 PM (enkX0)

71 I put a lot of thought into my hate, thank you very much.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:07 PM (Mn2TM)
................
I have always admired you 'turd' for your work. Regardless of which side of the handle you were on!

Posted by: Doris from Ashberry,Vt. at May 16, 2015 10:11 PM (ebNGg)

72 Ontario for now.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:10 PM (G4aHK)


Poor dear.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:12 PM (TEpA2)

73 If you really want to cut the cost of a carrier, ask
if them being nuclear powered is really needed when their jets and
escorts still need fuel.


Posted by: Anna Puma


I know you know better, but lifetime costs for a large nuclear surface combatant like a CVA are likely lower than a oil fueled CV.

We have larger problems with the size of our attack boat fleet, and SLBM platforms, which are aging.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 10:12 PM (+1T7c)

74 Errr...from Ontario always I guess. But living arrangements might change depending on how fast Ms. Wynne bankrupts the province.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:12 PM (G4aHK)

75 Evenin' everyone. About to chow down on a nice calzone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 16, 2015 10:13 PM (NbYhK)

76 Ahhhh.....Jenna.

Yessir.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:13 PM (GEICT)

77 I'm watching Engineering Disasters on History now. Fascinating stuff.

Posted by: logprof at May 16, 2015 10:13 PM (OvjCQ)

78 Jenna Jameson plays Whack-A-Mole

"Zombie Strippers" is a must-watch.

Yes, it makes some desultory anti-Dubya comments at the start, and yes it's... feminist... sort of... in its way.

But the movie says it's about zombie fuckin' strippers and that's what it delivers.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:13 PM (AVEe1)

79 Poor dear.

Posted by: Vendette


Hellz yeah.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:13 PM (G4aHK)

80 That cat smells something bad.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2015 10:13 PM (F2IAQ)

81 Gee. The Sun slowly burns hotter as it ages. Therefore the Earth gradually gets hotter. Imagine that.

But no, we all have to reduce our carbon emissions. That'll balance it out, and make Earth a paradise forever.

Posted by: rickl at May 16, 2015 10:14 PM (sdi6R)

82 Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 16, 2015 10:12 PM (G4aHK)



Run away! Run away!!!!!!

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:14 PM (TEpA2)

83 At least, I'm hoping that's what the President was planning. If my only talent was trolling (and some here would suggest it was) then I'd make sure to troll ISIS, and in a way that helped.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:03 PM (AVEe1)

We'll see. So far, I haven't heard anything about increased airstrikes or the like trying to dislodge ISIS from Ramadi.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:14 PM (wZ2hu)

84 I'm watching Engineering Disasters on History now. Fascinating stuff.
Posted by: logprof
---------------

Yeah. Fascinating.

Posted by: Insurance Companies at May 16, 2015 10:14 PM (F2IAQ)

85 Last I saw Jenna's twitter (2012ish, when she endorsed Romney) she'd gotten herself lots of arm tats. I guess she figured that she doesn't really need to work her old job anymore.

I did enjoy how she beat down the SJW haters on Twitter though. They turned me on almost as much as her 1990s-era pr0n did

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:15 PM (AVEe1)

86 "Yeah. Fascinating.

Posted by: Insurance Companies"



Playing cards with El Diablo.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:16 PM (QOdik)

87 We'll see. So far, I haven't heard anything about increased airstrikes or the like trying to dislodge ISIS from Ramadi.
Posted by: Thrawn

In a minute. There's some TV I haven't yet watched.

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at May 16, 2015 10:16 PM (Mn2TM)

88 But no, we all have to reduce our carbon emissions. That'll balance it out, and make Earth a paradise forever.


Posted by: rickl

Something I read about the other day indicated some solar researchers think the Sun is on an approximate 200 year cycle (besides the 11 year cycles we all know about). The sunspot maxima for this cycle is minimal, and some researchers think we may be heading for another "Maunder Minimum".

Global warming - forward!! The Science is Settled!!!!

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 10:16 PM (+1T7c)

89 We should totally start a campaign to get Jenna to make a comeback.

Somebody should get on that.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:17 PM (GEICT)

90 Playing cards with El Diablo.
Posted by: Ricardo
--------------------

Deals a CE a black Queen.

Posted by: El Diablo at May 16, 2015 10:17 PM (F2IAQ)

91 " The Sun slowly burns hotter as it ages. Therefore the Earth gradually gets hotter. Imagine that."



Ya know, one day the Sun will expand out and extinguish the Earth. How much more taxes do we need to pay to stop that?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:18 PM (QOdik)

92 What is the ratio of the damage an aircraft carrier can do to what it takes to protect it?

Posted by: eman at May 16, 2015 10:18 PM (MQEz6)

93 85 Last I saw Jenna's twitter (2012ish, when she endorsed Romney) she'd gotten herself lots of arm tats. I guess she figured that she doesn't really need to work her old job anymore.

Yeah because lots of tats are a no no for porn stars....

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 10:19 PM (zt+N6)

94 Gee. The Sun slowly burns hotter as it ages. Therefore the Earth gradually gets hotter

----

Seems to me the solution is to build a sun that keeps a steady temperature.

Posted by: Neil deGrassy Tyson's chicken nuggets at May 16, 2015 10:19 PM (Mn2TM)

95 It took a big Draft Eisenhower movement run by the grassroots to get Eisenhower nominated in 1952 over a lame establishment Republican. That list of military guys who ought to run this time is very cool. Mattis has an Eisenhowerish quality. And McChrystal and McRaven have the coolest names! President McRaven would certainly have a ring to it.

Posted by: Emily at May 16, 2015 10:19 PM (7Rn+/)

96 I have been praying and reflecting about Pope Francis. We've had shitty Popes before. I figure that we will survive this one.
Besides, where else am I going to go? I am hooked on transubstantiation.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 16, 2015 09:49 PM (V70Uh)


It seems that there've been hints that his health isn't so good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 16, 2015 10:20 PM (vBpxe)

97 "
Gee. The Sun slowly burns hotter as it ages. Therefore the Earth gradually gets hotter. Imagine that.
"

It's also a variable star.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 16, 2015 10:20 PM (Wo9OY)

98 Somebody should get on that.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:17 PM (GEICT)
---
I think a lot of people have gotten on that.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:21 PM (jR7Wy)

99 Bossy if you got a link showing the nuclear carriers are cheaper I would like to see it.

But I am looking at the Burkes and the F-18s, both burn fuel and use munitions that come in tankers and supply ships.

I am just not seeing the tactical advantage to nuclear power. Abraham Lincoln has gone in for refueling, modernization, and repairs. At the cost of $2.6 billion and will not rejoin the Fleet until 2017.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:21 PM (enkX0)

100
Adm. Locklear? Climate change? Are you effing kidding me? This guy was in charge of anything? Yikes.

Webb. All the crazy of McCain, with more smarts - but not useful smarts. Based on his silly Iraq war shenanigans but even more so on his being part of the destructive, dishonorable, disastrous Dem machine in their worst years. Quite the hero, that one.

McChrystal. Meh. Saw one interview where he came off as quite shallow and unthoughtful about almost anything outside his specialty. Not interesting.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2015 10:21 PM (afQnV)

101 McChrystal likes Bud Light Lime.

That's a deal killer.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 10:21 PM (+1T7c)

102 Somebody should get on that.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:17 PM (GEICT)


ISWYDT

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2015 10:22 PM (QkWlQ)

103 Oh, I'm NOT first. Maybe 100th?

Posted by: Farmer at May 16, 2015 10:22 PM (o/90i)

104 I think a lot of people have gotten on that.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:21 PM (jR7Wy)



*narrows eyes*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:22 PM (GEICT)

105 So, um, how are things?

(Directed to no one in particular)

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:22 PM (Mn2TM)

106 Ya know, one day the Sun will expand out and extinguish the Earth. How much more taxes do we need to pay to stop that?

The GOP has already cut the funding for sun cooling.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 16, 2015 10:23 PM (W5DcG)

107 Seems to me the solution is to build a sun that keeps a steady temperature.

Posted by: Neil deGrassy Tyson's chicken nuggets at May 16, 2015 10:19 PM (Mn2TM)


You could power it with solar cells!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2015 10:23 PM (QkWlQ)

108 The human race will be long extinct or replaced long before the Sun changes very much.



Posted by: eman at May 16, 2015 10:23 PM (MQEz6)

109 Pope Francis calling that Jew-killer Abu Mazen an "angel of peace" was... unwise.

LGF will have a field day with that.

Posted by: alt-universe zimriel, awaken'd from an eight year coma at May 16, 2015 10:23 PM (AVEe1)

110 When you don't believe in American Exceptionalism, you think giving everyone else an equal footing won't wind up causing problems because everyone else will be as responsible and stable as we are.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 16, 2015 09:50 PM (oVJmc)


This shit was predictable. I blame the dumb bastards that voted for him.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 16, 2015 10:24 PM (vBpxe)

111 "Oh, I'm NOT first. Maybe 100th?"

Missed it by THAT much...

Posted by: Agent Maxwell Smart at May 16, 2015 10:24 PM (Wo9OY)

112 Last I saw Jenna's twitter

Lot's of guys have seen Jenna's twitter.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 16, 2015 10:24 PM (rwI+c)

113 And speaking of Jenna --

BC, what's the head count so far?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:24 PM (jR7Wy)

114 "The GOP has already cut the funding for sun cooling."



Ah, good. Damn EPA.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (QOdik)

115 Hey All Hail Eris, got an invite to visit an aviation museum next Wednesday for a lunch gathering. Has a P-51D and an AT-6. And the owner of the Mustang is the son of a former governor. Think I should go?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (enkX0)

116 Yeah. Fascinating.
Posted by: Insurance Companies at May 16, 2015 10:14 PM (F2IAQ)

--Heh, the Chemical Safety Board lead investigator of one disaster interviewed was wearing an eye patch.

Posted by: logprof at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (9qIKa)

117 It's also a variable star.

But enough about Jenna . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (AVEe1)

118 I'm going to call it a night.



{{Everyone}}}

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (TEpA2)

119 BC, what's the head count so far?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:24 PM (jR7Wy)



Shit, I dunno. She's given a lot of head over the years...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (GEICT)

120 Anna, YES, and ride that pony!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:26 PM (jR7Wy)

121
112 Last I saw Jenna's twitter

Lot's of guys have seen Jenna's twitter.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 16, 2015 10:24 PM (rwI+c)

Isn't that a picture of it at the top of the post?

Posted by: eman at May 16, 2015 10:26 PM (MQEz6)

122 For NoVaMoMee, you fool!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:26 PM (jR7Wy)

123 "This shit was predictable. I blame the dumb bastards that voted for him."



Indubatily.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (QOdik)

124 McChrystal has made some interesting statements concerning gun control/assault weapons. No vote from me.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (FviSe)

125 If you really want to cut the cost of a carrier, ask
if them being nuclear powered is really needed when their jets and escorts still need fuel.

Posted by: Anna Puma


This appears to be one of your hobby horses, but you are completely misguided on this point. Power generation on a carrier has a lot more uses than just driving the boat. In addition, refueling time are greatly shortened/simplified, and the ability to store fuel for the jets is increased by not having to bunker oil for the ship's engines.

Finally, there are other uses coming up that will draw even more power. There is a reason why the primary upgrade from the Nimitz class to the Ford class is in electrical generating capacity.

Posted by: A. Guy at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (1EJIj)

126 Copious tattoos on porn starlets show disrepair like barnacles on a ship's hull.

Posted by: derit at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (jT+gh)

127 --Heh, the Chemical Safety Board lead investigator of one disaster interviewed was wearing an eye patch.

Posted by: logprof at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (9qIKa)


Smart guy. he must have heeded the sign: "Warning! Do not look into laser with remaining eye."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (QkWlQ)

128 Pam Geller expressed 'No regrets' after research predicts eventual heat death of the universe.

Posted by: Associated Press at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (rwI+c)

129 All Hail Eris, this is the Mustang

http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/?survivors/serial/44-74977

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:28 PM (enkX0)

130 122 For NoVaMoMee, you fool!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:26 PM (jR7Wy)



Oooooohhhhhhh.

No idea.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:28 PM (GEICT)

131 51 Hendrix is merely angling for some of that sweet sweet Pentagon dough as a consultant.

Once BuShips turns the entire LCS class into reefs and explains how they can blow $7 billion on a gator carrier without a welldeck and not compatible with the F-35B. Then I might start to believe BuShips again.

If you really want to cut the cost of a carrier, ask if them being nuclear powered is really needed when their jets and escorts still need fuel.


Supposedly, only the first of the new LHAs won't have a welldeck. But, yeah, WTF?

And the nuke carriers free up fuel bunker space for JP-5. The Kennedy (CV-67) didn't have nearly the operational endurance as the Nimitz, despite being nearly exactly alike otherwise. JFK was supposed to be the first of that class, but budget cuts forced a redesign to conventional oil-fired boilers.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 16, 2015 10:28 PM (Edob3)

132 Heh, the Chemical Safety Board lead investigator of one disaster interviewed was wearing an eye patch.
Posted by: logprof
-------------------------

I tell them to wear face shields, but do they listen to me? Nooooooo.....

Posted by: Lab Instructor at May 16, 2015 10:28 PM (F2IAQ)

133 Wasn't Mattis behind the Haditha railroading? Yeah, no thanks. Better yet, go fuck yourself.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 16, 2015 10:28 PM (ChPtT)

134 --Heh, the Chemical Safety Board lead investigator of one disaster interviewed was wearing an eye patch.

Posted by: logprof at May 16, 2015 10:25 PM (9qIKa)


Every single Government Agency employee should wear an eye-patch and carry a cutlass.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at May 16, 2015 10:28 PM (1W6Z5)

135 109 Pope Francis calling that Jew-killer Abu Mazen an "angel of peace" was... unwise.

LGF will have a field day with that.
Posted by: alt-universe zimriel, awaken'd from an eight year coma at May 16, 2015 10:23 PM (AVEe1)

Sure LGF will have a field day with that, but only about 50 beings will see that - 45 of them being the cats of 5 people.

By the by, Chuckle's GoFundMe is only up to $2,428 out of a 10k goal at the moment. Not even a fourth covered; What a bunch of fail.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (wZ2hu)

136
refueling time are greatly shortened/simplified
Posted by: A. Guy




All the other ships in the SAG protecting the carrier still need gas. No gain there.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (kdS6q)

137 A battleship with drone defense and railguns seems worth a look.

Posted by: eman at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (MQEz6)

138 Finally, there are other uses coming up that will draw even more power. There is a reason why the primary upgrade from the Nimitz class to the Ford class is in electrical generating capacity.
Posted by: A. Guy at May 16, 2015 10:27 PM (1EJIj)


EMALS. Electromagnetic aircraft catapult. Replaces maintenance intensive and complex steam catapults. CDR M could probably tell a lot more about that, that's in his swim lane.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 16, 2015 10:31 PM (Edob3)

139
Anna, not sure about de-nuking the carriers, but trying to imagine the rationale for yet another hugely expensive "innovation" when (new carriers) when existing models do the job. Smells like another F-35 (without the excuse, cough, rationale of having to cruise supersonically and stealthily and defeat Moscow's air defense, or whatever).

It's not just BuShips. Seems there is an unrelieved string of impractical, wildly and needlessly expensive systems coming from all services.

I've commented before about the USMC F-18 pilot who said he and his mates are not at all excited about the F-35, and would prefer continuing upgrades of the F-18 like the new stores/ordnance system.

Oh, and the young USN servicemember who's part of the west coast LCS break-in crew (forget what that's called). Said - unprompted - that there was zero excitement, morale was terrible, nobody really bought the ship's rationale, and overall it was a shockingly negative environment for a task that usually inspires the people getting to write the manuals for a new class.

I'm shamefully ignorant of these topics in comparison to years of yore, but the first-glance and anecdotal indications are not good. And it seems systemic.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2015 10:31 PM (afQnV)

140 By the by, Chuckle's GoFundMe is only up to $2,428 out of a 10k goal at the moment. Not even a fourth covered; What a bunch of fail.
Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (wZ2hu)


When did you look at it last? I saw someone mention it earlier this week and I swear that was about the same amount.

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 10:31 PM (zt+N6)

141 "Every single Government Agency employee should wear an eye-patch and carry a cutlass."



Arrggh!

Posted by: Gov't Butt Pirate at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (QOdik)

142 For NoVaMoMee, you fool!

I was just looking for flights. I can fly nonstop into Reagan, is this something?

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (rHXGG)

143 All the other ships in the SAG protecting the carrier still need gas. No gain there.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (kdS6q)


For the carrier itself. The other ships can (and do) rotate in and out of formation for refueling purposes. So yes, the gain is still there.

Posted by: A. Guy at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (1EJIj)

144 69 Jenna Jameson plays Whack-A-Mole.

That was ... something. She still looks pretty good.

That film is almost 10 years old. She looks a little more....manufactured now.

Posted by: Weirddave at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (WvS3w)

145 When did you look at it last? I saw someone mention it earlier this week and I swear that was about the same amount.
Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 10:31 PM (zt+N6)

I just looked at it now. There have been some small donations to the GFM over the last couple of days, but nothing otherwise.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:34 PM (wZ2hu)

146 I was just looking for flights. I can fly nonstop into Reagan, is this something?
Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (rHXGG)
---
As long as the plane stops before it hits the gate.

It's only 13 miles from Arlington, so yes!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:35 PM (jR7Wy)

147 Thanks for the information on bunkerage for the airdales increases due to going nuclear.

SAG? Okay going to be funny here. So a carrier is protected by the Screen Actors Guild?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:35 PM (enkX0)

148 "I've commented before about the USMC F-18 pilot who said he and his
mates are not at all excited about the F-35, and would prefer continuing
upgrades of the F-18 like the new stores/ordnance system."


The only problem there is that most of the USMC's legacy Hornets are 20+ years old. And they've flown a lot.

A few years ago they bought the RAF's GR9 fleet to replace some A/Bs that were literally worn out.

And F-35s are days away from op service, so, no going back.

Posted by: Gov't Butt Pirate at May 16, 2015 10:35 PM (QOdik)

149 Get away, pirate!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:36 PM (QOdik)

150 I was just looking for flights. I can fly nonstop into Reagan, is this something?



Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (rHXGG)


Yes!!!

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:36 PM (TEpA2)

151 All the other ships in the SAG protecting the carrier still need gas. No gain there.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (kdS6q)


Now you can have your oiler on station longer, too; servicing only the escorts for Marine Distillate Fuel (DFM) and the carrier will get nearly all the JP-5 (Escorts need small amounts for helos).

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 16, 2015 10:36 PM (Edob3)

152 Posted by: Gov't Butt Pirate at May 16, 2015 10:32 PM (QOdik)

Speaking of...that, here's an important health tip for the ppl inclined to perform this kind of extremely decadent joining ritual:

Anal sex can get a woman preggers (on rare occasion).

http://tinyurl.com/lbhj2zm




Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:36 PM (wZ2hu)

153 At least it wasn't "I Spit On Your Grave".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 16, 2015 10:36 PM (zRby/)

154 15 That kitteh's horse lost today?
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at May 16, 2015 09:52 PM (1W6Z5)


Nope, kittehs are just mean little bastards. They're bullies. Oprah needs to do a special about kittehs bullying doggehs. It's a travesty.

Posted by: nerdygirl's beagle at May 16, 2015 10:37 PM (vBpxe)

155
The Kennedy (CV-67) didn't have nearly the operational endurance as the Nimitz, despite being nearly exactly alike otherwise.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer



Would have to look at the numbers. [Opens Harpoon Ship Data Annex]:

For the CVN TR
1954 tons aviation ordnance

For the CV JFK
1250 tons aviation ordnance

Per ship ton, just about the same.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:37 PM (kdS6q)

156 SAG? Okay going to be funny here. So a carrier is protected by the Screen Actors Guild?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:35 PM (enkX0)


SAG is incorrect - it's CVBG or Carrier Battle Group. A SAG is a Surface Action Group, and those went away when we retired the BBs 24 years ago.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 16, 2015 10:38 PM (Edob3)

157 The best sex thriller I can recall was Al Pacino's "Sea of Love" but then, I never did see very many.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 09:55 PM (AVEe1)


Ever see Jagged Edge with Jeff Bridges? It's a good suspense film. 1985

Posted by: nerdygirl's beagle at May 16, 2015 10:38 PM (vBpxe)

158 Anal sex can get a woman preggers (on rare occasion).

That explains Hector

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:38 PM (AVEe1)

159 Evening morons. How fares the horde?

More work, less commenting, such is my life.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at May 16, 2015 10:38 PM (b2cFu)

160 I may have to build one of those cat torture boxes.

Also, I'll need a cat.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 16, 2015 10:39 PM (IeHJQ)

161 I don't mean to sound ignorant re: aircraft carriers, but can't we go back to wind-powered? Sails are much greener, and they were good enough for our founding fathers.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:39 PM (Mn2TM)

162 It's only 13 miles from Arlington, so yes!

So then I just have to figure out how to get from one place to another. And back.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:39 PM (rHXGG)

163 Except the Marines do not have a gator carrier to fly the F-35B off of. USS America, after costing $7 billion, is going back to the yards to strengthen the decks to handle the heat of the F-35B's engine. Work on hardening or moving the antennas on deck edges against the heat also. And trying to figure out how to data-link America with its F-35B air wing.

The 54 or so GR.7/9 Harriers at AMARG are there to serve as parts bins to keep the USMC AV-8B fleet flying.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:40 PM (enkX0)

164 Totally missed "Jagged Edge". Rotten Tomatoes gave it 82% so it seems to agree with you.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:40 PM (AVEe1)

165
And F-35s are days away from op service, so, no going back.

And they've been days away for how many years now?

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 16, 2015 10:40 PM (XO6WW)

166 So then I just have to figure out how to get from one place to another. And back.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:39 PM (rHXGG)


Hmmm...if only there were people you could pay to drive you from place to place....

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 10:41 PM (GEICT)

167 HR,

The Metro?


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 16, 2015 10:41 PM (V70Uh)

168 47 And to no one's surprise, Obama is pursuing this nuclear tech deal with China even as the Chi-Coms build their "wall of sand" in the South China sea.
Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:02 PM (wZ2hu)


He isn't satisfied to wreck our country, he wants to wreck the whole world.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 16, 2015 10:41 PM (vBpxe)

169 Ozone fumes. Better run the fan

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (AVEe1)

170
I don't mean to sound ignorant re: aircraft carriers, but can't we go
back to wind-powered? Sails are much greener, and they were good enough
for our founding fathers.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:39 PM (Mn2TM)


Yeah, because tall poles hung with rags are such a common feature at terrestrial airports.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (QkWlQ)

171 http://fas.org/man/gao/nsiad98001/c3.htm


Anna Puma

The GAO seems to agree with you (at above link).

I saw something on the TV a while back about the powerplant for the new British carrier (about 65k deadweight tons).

It runs on diesel at cruise (very efficient, but not a lot of speed), then has a big gas turbine driven generator for cranking out a large amount of electricity to rev up electric propeller drive for top speed. Very fuel efficient.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (+1T7c)

172 That first cat looks rather angry, or maybe that's just how a cat looks. Not having any and all.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (8zCR+)

173 Hmmm...if only there were people you could pay to drive you from place to place....

I've seen this on TV.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (rHXGG)

174 And they've been days away for how many years now?>>>

#2weeks

Posted by: Robinson at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (+exqw)

175 Metro?

https://youtu.be/_UXtort76gY

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (enkX0)

176 158 Anal sex can get a woman preggers (on rare occasion).

That explains Hector
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 16, 2015 10:38 PM (AVEe1)
---
(((golf clap)))

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:43 PM (jR7Wy)

177 Stay safe, Okies.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 16, 2015 10:43 PM (0RdKg)

178 That first cat looks rather angry, or maybe that's just how a cat looks.

My experience is that they're always angry.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:44 PM (rHXGG)

179 Yeah, because tall poles hung with rags are such a common feature at terrestrial airports.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That might be a problem for *Canadian* pilots, but I'm sure US pilots could do it.





Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:44 PM (Mn2TM)

180 "And they've been days away for how many years now?"


None, really. They've been in various states of testing and training for several years. No op service at least until now.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:44 PM (QOdik)

181 Misericordia is right down the road from my house. She is a laughing stock of the community.

Posted by: mpfs at May 16, 2015 10:45 PM (vMap4)

182 #2weeks
Posted by: Robinson at May 16, 2015 10:42 PM (+exqw)

7 days.

Posted by: The Ghost Girl from "The Ring" at May 16, 2015 10:45 PM (wZ2hu)

183 Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:39 PM (rHXGG)



Hilton Ballston.



If you need details, shoot me an email at linseyziq at hotmail

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:45 PM (TEpA2)

184 For the CVN TR
1954 tons aviation ordnance

For the CV JFK
1250 tons aviation ordnance

Per ship ton, just about the same.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:37 PM (kdS6q)


That's bombs and missiles - what does it say for aviation fuel?

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 16, 2015 10:46 PM (Edob3)

185 Will I be safe dragging my suitcase from the Metro to the hotel?

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:46 PM (rHXGG)

186 He isn't satisfied to wreck our country, he wants to wreck the whole world.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 16, 2015 10:41 PM (vBpxe)

*in Michael Caine voice*

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:46 PM (wZ2hu)

187 It will take the F-35 another five to ten years to come close to the long gestation period of the ECF/ACA/EAP/ACX/Eurofighter Typhoon jobs program.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:47 PM (enkX0)

188
GuvButtPirate, yes, there's the "inevitability" thing created by poor choices having been made. And they've been "re-barrelling" some old F-18s to give them more flight hours, though it's too late to save the current fleet, which the pilot told me is "trapped out" (no longer allowed to do carrier landings).

So in a time of impending/increasing fiscal challenges (unless the Fed's anti-gravity machine *does* work in the end), we'll be pouring vast resources into fewer platforms that are actually inferior for some jobs, possibly the more likely ones. The same pilot told me he has yet to see athreat/intel briefing that's identified a likely scenario where his squadron would rather have the new plane than the F-18.

Again this is anecdotal stuff but ...... the cost per platform isn't, and amazing as it sounds all of us with some common sense and military and geopolitical background can evaluate the practicality of some of these things.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2015 10:47 PM (afQnV)

189 185 Will I be safe dragging my suitcase from the Metro to the hotel?
Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:46 PM (rHXGG)
----
It's DARPA you have to careful of.

http://www.arlnow.com/2012/05/22/darpa-opens-new-headquarters-in-ballston/

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:48 PM (jR7Wy)

190 Nope, kittehs are just mean little bastards. They're bullies. Oprah needs to do a special about kittehs bullying doggehs. It's a travesty.

Posted by: nerdygirl's beagle at May 16, 2015 10:37 PM (vBpxe)


Say hello to my little friend!

Posted by: Doggeh packin' a Dirt Devil at May 16, 2015 10:48 PM (1W6Z5)

191 In case y'all missed this earlier today:

http://heyjackass.com/

Posted by: Bruce J. at May 16, 2015 03:38 PM (iQIUe)


Totally awesome look at Chicago shooting stats.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 16, 2015 10:48 PM (IeHJQ)

192 Cats.

CATS.

Posted by: Null at May 16, 2015 10:48 PM (Hkzjq)

193 "The 54 or so GR.7/9 Harriers at AMARG are there to serve as parts bins to keep the USMC AV-8B fleet flying."


Valid point. They are stock to keep AV-8Bs going.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:49 PM (QOdik)

194 Thanks Bossy for the link. So a CVN is a Ferrari.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:49 PM (enkX0)

195 Misericordia is right down the road from my house. She is a laughing stock of the community.

Posted by: mpfs at May 16, 2015 10:45 PM (vMap4



The Misericordia Hospital is on the west end of the major metropolis where I'm from. I know it's not where you're from.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:50 PM (TEpA2)

196 Ricardo I fully expect in a few years for the RAF to ask the USMC if they can have a GR.9 for their museum.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:50 PM (enkX0)

197 Thanks, Vendette.

It's DARPA you have to careful of.


Yeah, but they can get me here, too. They might be in this computer right now...

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:51 PM (rHXGG)

198 Heather if you're going to be flying you'll need to watch this for proper etiquette.

https://youtu.be/o331HlIeYrw

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 10:51 PM (zt+N6)

199 HR, where is your hotel?

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:52 PM (TEpA2)

200 Well I ordered a pizza, and now I will have to wear pants when I answer the door. Hunger or pants, it's a catch-22 if you will.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 16, 2015 10:53 PM (+4uXG)

201 140 By the by, Chuckle's GoFundMe is only up to $2,428 out of a 10k goal at the moment. Not even a fourth covered; What a bunch of fail.
Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2015 10:30 PM (wZ2hu)


Well that's just sad. An elementary school candy sale makes more than that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 16, 2015 10:53 PM (vBpxe)

202 Hmm. Now you see it, now you don't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2015 10:53 PM (F2IAQ)

203 McChrystal is on record as being against civilian ownership of not only full-auto armaments, but their non NFA counterparts in the AR-15 and AK platform rifles & carbines.

Which puts him in the "not just no, but HELL NO" column, with no redeeming values worth discussing.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (RzZOc)

204 Magic!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (Mn2TM)

205 HR, where is your hotel?

Residence Inn Arlington Ballston. It was on the list Bannion sent out.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (rHXGG)

206 Having stood many a watch in front of a hot fireroom boiler, I can say that I would much prefer a nice cool air-conditioned nuke plant.

Posted by: Agent Maxwell Smart at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (Wo9OY)

207 Oh and that is worth watching for the line "someone who has to pee every 5 minutes" and the Image they use.

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (zt+N6)

208 HOOOORDE

I dint bother to read the comments, but that photobomb news video is 200 proof awesome.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (e+1S5)

209 Whoops. Forgot to change socks.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (Wo9OY)

210 "Again this is anecdotal stuff but ...... the cost per platform isn't,
and amazing as it sounds all of us with some common sense and military
and geopolitical background can evaluate the practicality of some of
these things."



Try landing a Super Hornet on a Wasp LSD. The Marines need a new airplane.

The F-35. Bit of a cluster. Not airplane's nor LockMart's fault. They designed the best thing the could with the specs given. The specs changed over time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 10:55 PM (QOdik)

211
what does it say for aviation fuel?
Posted by: Jeff Weimer



For the TR: "aircraft fuel for 16 days flight operations"

For the JFK: "5915 tons aviation fuel"

Maybe Janes, Friedman or Polmar has the AV fuel tonnage for the TR.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 10:55 PM (kdS6q)

212 In case y'all missed this earlier today:

http://heyjackass.com/

Posted by: Bruce J. at May 16, 2015 03:38 PM (iQIUe)

Totally awesome look at Chicago shooting stats.


Posted by: GnuBreed at May 16, 2015 10:48 PM (IeHJQ)


It's in the 80s this weekend. Good shooting weather

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 16, 2015 10:56 PM (DiZBp)

213 Will I be safe dragging my suitcase from the Metro to the hotel?


Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:46 PM (rHXGG)


As long as you don't encounter any "youths."

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 10:56 PM (8zCR+)

214 "Which puts him in the "not just no, but HELL NO" column, with no redeeming values worth discussing.



Jim"

You can say that again.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 16, 2015 10:56 PM (Wo9OY)

215 It will be a great day when the navy gets all the money they need for carriers and schools have to have a bake sale to support common core.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 16, 2015 10:56 PM (+4uXG)

216 Residence Inn Arlington Ballston. It was on the list Bannion sent out.


Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:54 PM (rHXGG)


You're fine with the hotel. I can't wait to meet you!!!

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:56 PM (TEpA2)

217 Ricardo, the F-35 has become the TFX II

Almost adequate in many things, good in none, and insanely expensive.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:57 PM (enkX0)

218
Misericordia is right down the road from my house. She is a laughing stock of the community.Posted by: mpfs at May 16, 2015 10:45 PM (vMap4)
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The college or the weepy failed nursing student?
My wife could tell you stories about how strict her Nursing school was. She had to wear a mask one day because she was running 102 degree temp and couldn't miss any clinical time. My nursing school wasn't near as bad, but if you failed a class twice, then you were dropped from the program and couldn't come back.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 16, 2015 10:57 PM (KlVdw)

219 200 Well I ordered a pizza, and now I will have to wear pants when I answer the door. Hunger or pants, it's a catch-22 if you will.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 16, 2015 10:53 PM (+4uXG)
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A shorty robe is also acceptable.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 10:58 PM (jR7Wy)

220 Or swim trunks but you must wear a snorkel.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 10:58 PM (enkX0)

221 I'm still...balancing this with a bunch of other shit I have to do this summer before I move. Gotta count up my vacation days.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:59 PM (rHXGG)

222 yo!!!



remember me?

Posted by: Charles Martel at May 16, 2015 09:50 PM (D0Tns)


It's Hammer time. In fact, we're way over due for it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 16, 2015 11:00 PM (DiZBp)

223 221 I'm still...balancing this with a bunch of other shit I have to do this summer before I move. Gotta count up my vacation days.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 10:59 PM (rHXGG)



Totally understand. But trust me, it's worth it.


There are few things better than listening to MWR read one of her rants live and in person.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:01 PM (GEICT)

224 Well I ordered a pizza, and now I will have to wear pants when I answer the door. Hunger or pants, it's a catch-22 if you will.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 16, 2015 10:53 PM (+4uXG)



Pizza from a chain or something local and decent?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:01 PM (8zCR+)

225 http://heyjackass.com/



Hahahahahaha! Sorry, Ace, I just found a way-cooler website!

5 shot in the junk in March!

Posted by: Doggeh packin' a Dirt Devil at May 16, 2015 11:01 PM (1W6Z5)

226 The F-35. Bit of a cluster. Not airplane's nor
LockMart's fault. They designed the best thing the could with the specs
given. The specs changed over time.


Posted by: Ricardo Kill

Actually, it was just the opposite. Lockheed was given a lot of latitude early in the program to bring the F-35 to production in a streamlined and efficient way. They blew it. The DoD ended up really cracking down on them to stop all the bullshit. This is not the Lockheed that built the F-104, P-38, and a lot of other top notch aircraft.

The F-35 in its various iterations will probably be a pretty hot ride, but

1) it's taken too long to produce/bring to active duty operations
2) it will cost too much per copy
3) there won't be enough of them


Boeing - McDonnell would love to get back into F-18 production. And an evolved F-15 to supplement the F-22. The F-15 K and J (built for Korea and Japan, respectively) is a pretty modern bird.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 11:01 PM (+1T7c)

227 And BCochran screaming RINO!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:02 PM (enkX0)

228 "Almost adequate in many things, good in none, and insanely expensive."



Extremely advanced airplane asked to do so many things it was never initially designed for.


I have no problem with it. Everyone's hated the Super Bug for the same reasons yet it's been a Hoss of an airplane.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 11:02 PM (QOdik)

229 NoVaMoMee. Meet AtC, MWR, Hrothgar. Bannion, Cochran...


and me. Hrothgar is the best of all of us.



Email sbannion at gmail for details

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:03 PM (TEpA2)

230
OK, Polmar had:

13.2 million liters of av fuel, which converts to 10,786 tonnes*

*using Kerosene as the fluid, an online calculator and remembering it's the weekend so ymmv on the math.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 11:03 PM (kdS6q)

231 Yeah, but they can get me here, too. They might be in this computer right now...


Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer


GET OUT! THE CALL WAS FROM INSIDE THE BEER BOTTLE!

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 11:03 PM (+1T7c)

232 227 And BCochran screaming RINO!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:02 PM (enkX0)



Supposedly I bellow. But I think people overestimate.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:03 PM (GEICT)

233 Regarding previous comment about the multiplicity of impractical and expensive weapons systems current, I recall that there have been quite a number of such problems in years past, when a peacetime* military invested quite a bit of time and energy in some shiny new toy only to discover when war actually came that it didn't work as advertised. The 1930s magnetic exploder idea and the Mark 14 torpedo in particular comes to mind.

*Were not currently fighting at sea nor engaging in air-to-air combat, so we are in a peacetime of a sort.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 16, 2015 11:05 PM (a42f0)

234 I'm so so so jealous of all you NoVaMoMee peoples. Unfortunately, between air and hotel, it would cost me a months salary to go. I love you people, but not that much.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:05 PM (e+1S5)

235 There are few things better than listening to MWR read one of her rants live and in person.

That does seem worth the rap-e-scan at IND.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 11:06 PM (rHXGG)

236 Ricardo you do know what the TFX was?

USAF wanted a replacement for the F-105. McNamara declared the USAF and Navy will share the TFX. In the name of commonality.

The Navy got 7 F-111Bs before Admiral Tom Connely told Sen. Stennis that all the thrust in Christandom could turn that into a fighter.

The USAF got the F-111A, F-111D, F-111E, F-111F, and the FB-111A. While the Aussies got saddled with the F-111C.

Some commonality.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (enkX0)

237 "Boeing - McDonnell would love to get back into F-18 production. And an
evolved F-15 to supplement the F-22. The F-15 K and J (built for Korea
and Japan, resenginepectively) is a pretty modern bird."



Both are 70's designs. They can be "stealthed" with treatments. They are not new or advanced aircraft. I love the Super Hornet but it's circa 1988 tech. The F-15 is great but the F-35 has it's radar and engine plus 25 years.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (QOdik)

238 234 DC

Would you be up to joining us if we do another SWOHMOME?

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (1brdf)

239 234 I'm so so so jealous of all you NoVaMoMee peoples. Unfortunately, between air and hotel, it would cost me a months salary to go. I love you people, but not that much.
Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:05 PM (e+1S5)
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It's flattering, in a way, that we're too expensive for you.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (jR7Wy)

240 >>>Supposedly I bellow. But I think people overestimate.

People are right. More like squeal in a whiny teenage girl voice. Not judging, just saying.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (e+1S5)

241 157 Ever see Jagged Edge with Jeff Bridges? It's a good suspense film. 1985

Yeah, that was a pretty good movie. Strange, but good. 'Course, you have to know what a typewriter is.

Posted by: Splunge at May 16, 2015 11:08 PM (qyomX)

242 eerr 'could not turn that into a fighter'

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:08 PM (enkX0)

243 dude, Smart Military bloggin right the with the F-111

Posted by: I'm a drinker, not a thinker at May 16, 2015 11:09 PM (D0Tns)

244 "
Ricardo you do know what the TFX was?"


Um, of course.


The F-35 is not the F-111.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 11:09 PM (QOdik)

245 I can't have any distractions when I'm performing craniotomies on my U.S. American patients.

Posted by: Miss Teen U.S. America at May 16, 2015 11:10 PM (Dwehj)

246 Pr0n starlets with lots of tattoos look so... trashy. Really low class. Oh, I still watch the whole movie, but that's because I was raised to be polite.

Posted by: jwpaine at May 16, 2015 11:10 PM (0bXhD)

247 232 227 And BCochran screaming RINO!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:02 PM (enkX0)


Supposedly I bellow. But I think people overestimate.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:03 PM (GEICT)
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Ha! Last year I was a MoMee virgin, and the first thing I saw as I tentatively poked my head into the room was some loudmouth ginger bellowing "You fuckin' RINO!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 11:10 PM (jR7Wy)

248 Not the TFX? How common is the -B with the -A? How many times has Lock-Mart been forced to fix bugs like weight issues?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:10 PM (enkX0)

249 People are right. More like squeal in a whiny teenage girl voice. Not judging, just saying.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (e+1S5)



Says the man that drinks shit more pussy than Zima with a jolly rancher in it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:11 PM (GEICT)

250 Point being, as I forgot to type out, that F-35 and (whatever that shiny expensive eggshell the navy just introduced is called) -type boondoggles might be a natural result of the cycles that militaries go through, not a sign that modern civilization is unusually incompetent.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 16, 2015 11:11 PM (a42f0)

251 *Were not currently fighting at sea nor engaging in air-to-air combat, so we are in a peacetime of a sort.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 16, 2015 11:05 PM (a42f0)

The waste in the military is no less than, although less infuriating, than in all other areas of the Federal Leviathan.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:11 PM (8zCR+)

252 Ha! Last year I was a MoMee virgin, and the first thing I saw as I tentatively poked my head into the room was some loudmouth ginger bellowing "You fuckin' RINO!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 11:10 PM (jR7Wy)



Nearsider was getting mouthy. It was necessary.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:11 PM (GEICT)

253 CM9000 to the Barrel stat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:12 PM (enkX0)

254 Really?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:12 PM (8zCR+)

255

no italiacs-ians!!!

Posted by: I'm a drinker, not a thinker at May 16, 2015 11:12 PM (D0Tns)

256 *burp*

Posted by: The Barrel at May 16, 2015 11:13 PM (Dwehj)

257 238 234 DC

Would you be up to joining us if we do another SWOHMOME?

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:07 PM (1brdf)


I would get in on that one...

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 16, 2015 11:13 PM (1W6Z5)

258 "Not the TFX? How common is the -B with the -A? How many times has Lock-Mart been forced to fix bugs like weight issues?"


About 60 percent. Bugs? A lot.


It being the next primary fighter combat AC of the U.S. 100%

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 11:14 PM (QOdik)

259 And since my browser has decided to start crashing. I will take that as a sign to go and write. The Reyna story needs to get written.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:14 PM (enkX0)

260 cm9000 sure does get the barrel a lot.

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 11:14 PM (zt+N6)

261 You don't come here for the hunting comments do you cm9000?

Posted by: The Barrel at May 16, 2015 11:15 PM (zt+N6)

262 225 Doggeh,

http://heyjackass.com

Ytd, 11 shot in the junk and 52 ass-shot.

Is that great reporting, or what?

Also, notice the death rate for head and chest shots -- ~50% lethality.

Did I mention already what a totes awesome site this is?

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 16, 2015 11:15 PM (IeHJQ)

263 >>>Would you be up to joining us if we do another SWOHMOME?

C'est possible. Keep me in the loop.

Cincy is an easy three hours, Columbus and Dayton are a bit longer but still manageable.

However, the crowd is gonna have to have better boobs than you and Bossy Con for me to make the drive.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:15 PM (e+1S5)

264 Its 100% because the DoD has managed to not have a backup plan.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 16, 2015 11:15 PM (enkX0)

265 The USAF got the F-111A, F-111D, F-111E, F-111F, and the FB-111A. While the Aussies got saddled with the F-111C.

Some commonality.


Posted by: Anna Puma


The F-111 turned out to be a great high-speed low altitude penetration bomber, with some great targeting gizmos, but was hardly worth the price of admission. The TF-30 turbofans always made the plane underpowered and unreliable.

And don't forget the EF-111 Raven.

But it could never have been a fighter. It was too big and un-maneuverable.

McNamera ......may he always be remembered for what he was.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 11:16 PM (+1T7c)

266 >>>Says the man that drinks shit more pussy than Zima with a jolly rancher in it.

Just for fun, what are you currently drinking?

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:17 PM (e+1S5)

267 Just for fun, what are you currently drinking?

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:17 PM (e+1S5)



100proof Smirnoff.

And you?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:18 PM (GEICT)

268
cm9000 sure does get the barrel a lot.

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 11:14 PM (zt+N6)


The italics thing when chronically drunk is risky.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:18 PM (8zCR+)

269 Say what you will about the F-111 boondoggle, but damn, it was a lovely plane to watch in flight.

It really fit the "looks right, flies right" paradigm. And, it fit the need for what used to be called a "Medium Bomber" in days gone by.

I have no doubt that one could take a brand new F-111 airframe, equip it with the newest, but most proven engines, electronics, glass cockpit and whatever "stealth" modifications as would fit the platform, that it would still be fully effective in the modern air war environment.

Yeah, it was too much the pig for the carrier mission. But then, so were Doolittle's B-25s. They both rocked though, when used to their strengths.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2015 11:19 PM (RzZOc)

270 >>>100proof Smirnoff.

Mixed with what?

>>>And you?

Bourbon. Woodford Reserve, to be precise. Although I'm thinking about maybe doing a shot of GM. You in?

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:20 PM (e+1S5)

271 Good night, everyone. Gotta get up early to eat biscuits and gravy.

Posted by: HR drinking beer and drinking beer at May 16, 2015 11:21 PM (rHXGG)

272 mango shake with rum, yum.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at May 16, 2015 11:21 PM (1W6Z5)

273 back in the day our official military magazines actually had cheesecake photos in them.


*************


LDC, I'm sure no one remembers this any more, but there used to be a preventive maintenance cartoon magazine starring Bonnie and Connie, two buxom ladies. Bonnie was black and Connie was white.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (5f5bM)

274 >>>The italics thing when chronically drunk is risky.

Closing tags in your nic. It's what all the pros do. Ask Bannion when he last got barreled.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (e+1S5)

275 Are we toasting? Cuz I've got a glass of mead.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (jR7Wy)

276 Cochran is loud. That is all.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (TEpA2)

277 So, I'm back on the Low Carb diet and really craving bread.

What is the best fake-bread recipe around? Preferably inexpensive and microwaveable. Anyone?

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (1WydT)

278 Bourbon. Woodford Reserve, to be precise. Although I'm thinking about maybe doing a shot of GM. You in?
Posted by: DC in River City

I'm drinking a grape nehi.

Posted by: Radar O'Reilly at May 16, 2015 11:23 PM (Mn2TM)

279 "McNamera ......may he always be remembered for what he was."


Damn near 50 years separate the F-111 from the F-35. The F-35 is a strong airplane. Being lucky, and a Texan, I've seen it flying. Loud and proud.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 11:23 PM (QOdik)

280 I just watched that CBP video from earlier today.

Made me really pissed off.

Then I jumped in to the comments and got more pissed off.

Can't believe people were actually defending cpb...

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:23 PM (AkOaV)

281 Closing tags in your nic. It's what all the pros do. Ask Bannion when he last got barreled.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (e+1S5)


Boring. I'd rather live on the edge.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:23 PM (8zCR+)

282 Good night, HR!!!!!

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:24 PM (TEpA2)

283 276 Cochran is loud. That is all.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (TEpA2)



Exuberant. The word you are looking for is exuberant.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Team Bannion at May 16, 2015 11:24 PM (GEICT)

284 A cute female with glasses was the delivery person last time. "I'm so glad I'm wearing pants" did not come out of my mouth.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 16, 2015 11:24 PM (+4uXG)

285 Closing tags in your nic. It's what all the pros do. Ask Bannion when he last got barreled.
Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:22 PM (e+1S5)


I don't want to jeopardize my amateur status.

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 11:25 PM (zt+N6)

286 "264
Its 100% because the DoD has managed to not have a backup plan."


They don't need one. This is the airplane.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 16, 2015 11:27 PM (QOdik)

287 ***delurk***


closing tags in your nick is like training wheels


***relurk***

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 16, 2015 11:27 PM (NeFrd)

288 If I discarded my glasses, I'd have a problem.

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:27 PM (TEpA2)

289 >>>Exuberant. The word you are looking for is exuberant.

Heh. I was once told "wow, your voice really carries".

I just like to make sure everyone in the county knows what's up.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:27 PM (e+1S5)

290 I just like to make sure everyone in the county knows what's up.
Posted by: DC in River City

!
Put some pants on!

Posted by: Deliver Boy at May 16, 2015 11:28 PM (Mn2TM)

291 >>>closing tags in your nick is like training wheels

Bullshit. With the flower of 1995 technology we have running this joint, it's like buckling up when sitting in a Trabant.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:29 PM (e+1S5)

292 Posted by: Deliver Boy at May 16, 2015 11:28 PM (Mn2TM)

Did you mean "delivery boy", idiot?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 16, 2015 11:30 PM (Mn2TM)

293 Special Little Snowflake Is Everything But the Kitchen Sink

This mentally ill special little snowflake has self described as everything except the kitchen sink...

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9051

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 16, 2015 11:31 PM (7YlUk)

294 257 Cicero

Shoot me an email to swohmome at mail dot com, and I'll add you to the distro.

No current plans, but starting to think ahead.

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:32 PM (1brdf)

295 I'm out. Good night, all!!!!!

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:33 PM (TEpA2)

296 Hat!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson's Oversized Hat at May 16, 2015 11:33 PM (Mn2TM)

297 With the flower of 1995 technology we have running this joint, it's like buckling up when sitting in a Trabant.
Posted by: DC in River City


Ace of Trabants.


Kind of has a ring to it, doesn't it?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 16, 2015 11:35 PM (+1T7c)

298 Special Little Snowflake Is Everything But the Kitchen Sink


TPH, madness is now not only tolerated it is celebrated.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:36 PM (8zCR+)

299 263 DC

Shoot me an email (see #294).

No guarantees re: boobehs.

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:37 PM (1brdf)

300 Those cats, despite the false flag kanji, must be East Coast cats, used to an environment nearly entirely controlled and watched over by video.
The merest thought of freedom is a very slight disappointment: "Where the shrimp scent at? Wut, no timeout to review the call?"

Posted by: Steve White, laugher at the click bait at May 16, 2015 11:38 PM (HndVS)

301 Posted by: The Political Hat at May 16, 2015 11:31 PM (7YlUk)

where do you find this stuff, hat?

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:38 PM (AkOaV)

302 >>>Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:37 PM

Tried to. Got a failure demon notice.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:39 PM (e+1S5)

303 Those news bloopers are a definite cause for hope.
The Info Idiots (aka community organizers) are saying one thing, but We The People are D O I N G another.

Posted by: Steve White, laugher at the click bait at May 16, 2015 11:41 PM (HndVS)

304 where do you find this stuff, hat?
Posted by: mynewhandle
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Yeah, really. I mean I gave up about halfway through that. It's a spoof, right? Tell me that it is a spoof...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2015 11:41 PM (F2IAQ)

305 Yeah, several of those news bloopers were absolutely hilarious.

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 16, 2015 11:43 PM (1WydT)

306 Good night, all!

Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 11:44 PM (TEpA2)

307 Re: Crazy Canucks.
Just wait 'til the proffer goes out from Cook County IL LE for tons of "pet food raw material".
Put the drones to work + Chicago's usual murder rate...
Get yer bid in on this high-grade protein source.




This ain't yer cut-rate Soylent Green.

Posted by: Steve White, laugher at the click bait at May 16, 2015 11:44 PM (HndVS)

308 where do you find this stuff, hat?

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:38 PM (AkOaV)


The origin of most madness... Tumblr

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 16, 2015 11:44 PM (7YlUk)

309 KBDaBear Swimsuit Issue ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599621121756033024

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599621647465873408

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599621838864515072

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599622054544076801

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599622268453552129

Posted by: kbdabear at May 16, 2015 11:44 PM (GrXXa)

310 All the transgender bullshit is right up there with global warming. And what side doesn't believe in science?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:46 PM (8zCR+)

311 KBDaBear Swimsuit Issue ONT Compliance Pics, Pt 2

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599622541712465920

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599674073161990144

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599674361914658816

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599674658242211841

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/599674815440506880

Posted by: kbdabear at May 16, 2015 11:46 PM (GrXXa)

312
preventive maintenance cartoon magazine starring Bonnie and Connie, two buxom ladies.
Posted by: Caesar North



Yeah, many famous comic artists worked on those. Will Eisner of The Spirit fame. Later Murphy Anderson, Joe Kubert, Dan Spiegle and others:

http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/psm

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 16, 2015 11:47 PM (kdS6q)

313 I love when some random asshole comes into a thread that has nothing to do with the subject and drops a

Posted by: fuck da poleese at May 16, 2015 11:49 PM (oNgnl)

314 Moar cause for Hope.
One of the best! Do not miss it!
"Gimme Shelter" (2013)





James Earl Jones is the priest.
[Spoiler alert!] (She keeps her baby.)

Posted by: Steve White, laugher at the click bait at May 16, 2015 11:49 PM (HndVS)

315 All the transgender bullshit is right up there with global warming. And what side doesn't believe in science?
Posted by: cm9000
------------

heh. A year or so ago, I ordered a Great Courses DVD. Ever since, I periodically receive mailed catalogs. Last week, I'm looking through the mail and WHAM! There's Neil Degrassy's four-color, glossy , 8x10 photo on the cover. The dude's even turning up in my mailbox.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2015 11:49 PM (F2IAQ)

316 Posted by: The Political Hat at May 16, 2015 11:44 PM (7YlUk)

ah. figures

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:52 PM (AkOaV)

317 Just drove home through wild wind & rain, listening to the radio guys talk about 70mph gusts and funnels spotted just a few miles south of us. Sweaty moments, but made it home. The front porch is a sea.

Just another Spring evening in NE Oklahoma.

Folks east of us, look out. This line of storms is not wide, but definitely nasty.

Posted by: mindful webworker - safe n sound at May 16, 2015 11:53 PM (0PD0H)

318 so no one wants to take the bait and talk about the customs and border patrol assholes fucking with that chick in ny?

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:53 PM (AkOaV)

319 Sadly, I do not see anyone with a military background poised for a national campaign.
My [content redacted] in Florida, a very high roller, has met with Lt. Col. West and backs up my very high opinion of him.
Sadly, and this is the crux of our current malaise, the GOP leadership itself would work against him. Some of you despairing Rove-ites would/have work(ed) against him.

We need 1000 Col. Wests, and ZERO Roves.
That's the strategy for victory here and in Iraq.

Posted by: Steve White, laugher at the click bait at May 16, 2015 11:56 PM (HndVS)

320 302 DC

Hrrmmm....

I just sent a test mail and it worked.

All lower case, if that helps:

swohmome at mail dot com

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:56 PM (1brdf)

321 He's from Kentucky speedster. Type slower.

Posted by: buzzion at May 16, 2015 11:57 PM (zt+N6)

322 so no one wants to take the bait and talk about the customs and border patrol assholes fucking with that chick in ny?
Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:53 PM (AkOaV)

****

There was an entire thread done about it today.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 16, 2015 11:57 PM (cIoI4)

323 Boy, I'm late. Anyway, my blog is noteworthy and I hereby mention it

Posted by: Dave M at May 16, 2015 11:57 PM (T1Fev)

324 I'mout.
Sleep well in your beds, because rough men are over there so Muhammed won't cut off your heads over here.

Posted by: Steve White, laugher at the click bait at May 16, 2015 11:57 PM (HndVS)

325 >>>Some of you despairing Rove-ites would/have work(ed) against him.

Ummm....if you're looking for Rove supporters, I think you found the wrong place.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 16, 2015 11:58 PM (e+1S5)

326 321 Buzzion

H-e-h.

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 16, 2015 11:59 PM (1brdf)

327
so no one wants to take the bait and talk about the customs and border patrol assholes fucking with that chick in ny?

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:53 PM (AkOaV)


I'll take the bait. Those kind of checks seem constitutionally suspect to say the least.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:59 PM (8zCR+)

328 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 16, 2015 11:57 PM (cIoI4)

i know, but I missed it.

read through the comments though and am beyond pissed at how many people on there defended the fed gov bureaucrats with badges.

but fine.

will talk about something else.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 16, 2015 11:59 PM (AkOaV)

329 Anna, ask your Pentagon buddies why they paid Billions to develop the perfect multi-role cutter for the Coastguard called the LCS. Then to put a cherry on top, ask them who forgot to test the exhaust temp of the F-35 Aardvark II.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:00 AM (ztOda)

330 Posted by: cm9000 at May 16, 2015 11:59 PM (8zCR+)

They seem to violate the 4th amendment.

and also, SCOTUS smacked down "drug check points", which is what these checkpoints really are.

they have nothing to do with immigration and are dozens of miles away from any international border.

it's beyond ridiculous to me that I get hassled 50 miles from the Canadian border while every amigo in the world can waltz across the Mexican border without a problem.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:01 AM (AkOaV)

331 But I really, really wanna.....

Posted by: fuck da poleese at May 17, 2015 12:01 AM (oNgnl)

332 And I'm gonna talk about something else, right after I.....

Posted by: fuck da poleese at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (oNgnl)

333 >>>He's from Kentucky speedster. Type slower.
1) fuck you
B) I'm not *from* Kentucky, but I got here as soon as I could
Q) fuck you fuck you fuck yoooooou

Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (e+1S5)

334 it's beyond ridiculous to me that I get hassled 50 miles from the Canadian border while every amigo in the world can waltz across the Mexican border without a problem.
Posted by: mynewhandle

Illegals from Vienna waltz over here; from south of Texas they tango or mariachi or something.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson's Oversized Hat at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (MYPM9)

335 The USAF got the F-111A, F-111D, F-111E, F-111F, and the FB-111A.

You forgot the F-111G, which were the FB-111A after SAC gave them up to TAC/USAFE.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (brIR5)

336 I just don't get how someone can be for "small government" and get outraged at the shit the federal bureaucrats in DC do, but slap a badge on a bureaucrat and give him a gun and all of a sudden, (certain) conservatives are lining up to defend them.

I don't know what I would have done in that situation, but suffice to say I'd have spent at least a night in jail.

Usually the guys at the checkpoints realize "oh youre one of those assholes -- clearly an american citizen" and let you go when you push back against them. But not always. sometimes they go on these power trips and really ruin your day.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (AkOaV)

337 302 DC

You have mail....

Posted by: speedster1 on the ipad at May 17, 2015 12:04 AM (1brdf)

338 Dude don't send Rove to Iraq, please. The few guys we have there don't need him.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:04 AM (ztOda)

339 Posted by: fuck da poleese at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (oNgnl)

yep, you caught me.

have to vent a little on this one, its a real big pet peeve of mine.

so i beg your indulgence.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (AkOaV)

340 They seem to violate the 4th amendment.


Why yes they do. But when was the last time the Constitution constrained the Federal Government?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (8zCR+)

341 Posted by: Turd Ferguson's Oversized Hat at May 17, 2015 12:03 AM (MYPM9)

fair enough. but there should be no dancing whatsoever. the least they could do is look contrite.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (AkOaV)

342 Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (8zCR+)

right, well, its not so much that they do it, because of course the government will push its authority as far as it can get away with... but its ridiculous to me that people that are supposedly on the side of smaller government support it when the guy has a uniform and a badge instead of being a pencil pusher.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:06 AM (AkOaV)

343 I got to play with EF-111 EW suite up on Long Island. Sweet for some old shit.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:08 AM (ztOda)

344 fair enough. but there should be no dancing whatsoever. the least they could do is look contrite.
Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (AkOaV)

****

You want contrite.
You would take sheepish.
You will get smug and defiant.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:08 AM (3F6F8)

345 How 'bout that sports thing?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson's Oversized Hat at May 17, 2015 12:08 AM (MYPM9)

346 It's always difficult to tell what someone's peeve is, especially when they only seem to comment on it every other comment on every thread.

Posted by: Kenway at May 17, 2015 12:09 AM (oNgnl)

347 26. Defensive. Lawyer also took as normal the line of ambulances and EMTs available to all those stressed out wanna be lawyers taking the bar exam.

Posted by: gracepmc at May 17, 2015 12:09 AM (xvd51)

348 I know dozens of former military who would make excellent Presidents', unfortunately they were all enlisted.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:10 AM (ztOda)

349 My peeve is when it's hot so my scrotum sticks to my leg. That's the worst, amirite?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson's Oversized Hat at May 17, 2015 12:10 AM (MYPM9)

350 How is being enlisted unfortunate?

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:11 AM (OsWis)

351 yeah, illegals do this with impunity http://tinyurl.com/lzmdgh3

while US citizens get tased for getting a little mouthy with the federal thugs at the internal checkpoints.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:11 AM (AkOaV)

352 People are idiots!

But I'm lmao at the new bombs.


Evening horde.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:12 AM (XAFOu)

353 Posted by: Kenway at May 17, 2015 12:09 AM (oNgnl)

who bitch this is?

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:12 AM (AkOaV)

354 News bombs.

Chalk me up as an idiot.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:12 AM (XAFOu)

355 And who was phone!?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson's Oversized Hat at May 17, 2015 12:13 AM (MYPM9)

356 but its ridiculous to me that people that are
supposedly on the side of smaller government support it when the guy has
a uniform and a badge instead of being a pencil pusher.





Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:06 AM (AkOaV)



Uniforms and badges make me more leery, not less.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:13 AM (8zCR+)

357 8. Yep. I just laser focus on the transubstantiation. Sadly I think it's that that keeps me in the institutional church. The Pope and the church's involvement in illegal immigration are not helping.

Posted by: gracepmc at May 17, 2015 12:14 AM (xvd51)

358 ]Why yes they do. But when was the last time the Constitution constrained the Federal Government?
Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (8zCR+)


April 27 1912

you'd think we'd be used to it now.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2015 12:15 AM (t//F+)

359 Uniforms and badges make me more leery, not less.
Posted by: cm9000

Hmm.
*scribbles gibberish in notebook*

Posted by: Secret Masonic Police at May 17, 2015 12:16 AM (MYPM9)

360 What's a Kenway?

Posted by: redeemed at May 17, 2015 12:16 AM (0guAH)

361 >>>I know dozens of former military who would make excellent Presidents', unfortunately they were all enlisted.

It's not the rank, it's the man. I knew plenty of officers that would great in high office. And plenty of Lance Corporals that I wouldn't trust to park my car. And vice versa.

But it doesn't matter. They all have honor, so they won't be running for office.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:17 AM (e+1S5)

362

have to vent a little on this one, its a real big pet peeve of mine.

so i beg your indulgence.
Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (AkOaV)

We can vent at the HQ now? Fuck. Do yard work all day and you miss the memo.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:18 AM (XAFOu)

363 Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:13 AM (8zCR+)

yeah, i mean... whatever. Like I said, I don't see how anyone can defend it.

But obviously large numbers of people do.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:18 AM (AkOaV)

364 Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:18 AM (XAFOu)

I was doing yard work all day, too. Perfect day for it.

Little bit of rain in the morning, but otherwise a gorgeous day in new england!

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:19 AM (AkOaV)

365 The Pope and the church's involvement in illegal immigration are not helping.

Posted by: gracepmc at May 17, 2015 12:14 AM (xvd51)


The position of the Catholic church is that the US should have totally open borders and allow unfettered immigration.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:19 AM (8zCR+)

366 Do yard work all day....
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA

Si senor.

Posted by: contrite illegals at May 17, 2015 12:20 AM (MYPM9)

367 But obviously large numbers of people do.
Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:18 AM (AkOaV)

***

Large numbers of people where? Just want to make sure I know where you are going with this.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:20 AM (3F6F8)

368 Sorry DC, I rarely see senior enlisted folk act like whatever happens to many Generals when they pin on their second star.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:21 AM (ztOda)

369 What's a Kenway?

1.8 Barbies

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 12:23 AM (W5DcG)

370 >>>Sorry DC, I rarely see senior enlisted folk act like whatever happens to many Generals when they pin on their second star.

Ahh. I don't know many general officers. I was mainly talking about company and field grade officers, who I have found to be pretty solid dudes. (10% exceptions aside)

Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:23 AM (e+1S5)

371 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:20 AM (3F6F

In general.

All over the country. Do a poll, ask people. As long as it's not a #blacklivesmatter situation, no one gives a shit. The reason article quotes locals who are like "whats her problem"

Then even on the hq, there are people defining the cbp.

and whenever a video like this makes it to hotair or redstate or any of the other conservatish site, 90% of the comments are reflexively in favor of the guy with the badge.

but im not really going anywhere with it.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:24 AM (AkOaV)

372
http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=05/17/2015&SO=&HC=3&ID=417839

My Pet Goat. NOT

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 12:24 AM (0guAH)

373 DC unfortunately I'm still in NOVA. Any O-3 around here is desperately trying to transfer, or a future weasel.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:26 AM (ztOda)

374 >>>DC unfortunately I'm still in NOVA. Any O-3 around here is desperately trying to transfer, or a future weasel.

Pentagon officers are the worst. The quality of the officer is inversely proportional to his distance from that cesspit.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:29 AM (e+1S5)

375 Any O-3 around here is desperately trying to transfer, or a future weasel.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:26 AM (ztOda)


Is O-3 a government thing?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:30 AM (8zCR+)

376 *shakes head sadly*

General Odierno had no chance.

Poor bastard.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:30 AM (OsWis)

377 O-3 is a Captain in the Army.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:30 AM (OsWis)

378 CBP has a really bad reputation (almost as low as BoP and ATF) among the Fed cops. Bad management, poor pay, shitty jobs, etc. I generally give LE the benefit of the doubt - but in this case: #1 SCOTUS has already slapped them down - why haven't they changed their behavior?

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:30 AM (ztOda)

379 General Odierno had no chance.

Poor bastard.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:30 AM (OsWis)

****

Same with Honore'.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:31 AM (cIoI4)

380 Yep, this is gonna end fucking swell...


Board members of California's Oakland Unified School District unanimously voted on Wednesday to cease suspending students for what they call 'willful defiance.' Those behaviors can include swearing/yelling at teachers, refusing direct orders, texting, and storming out of class, to name a few.

The reason? Concern that too many black students are being suspended for willful defiance.

One sophomore student, Dan'enicole Williams, told the San Francisco Gate, They never take time out, if someone is sleeping in class, to ask what's wrong. They may be acting that way because they didn't eat the night before.'
--------


Excusing the special snowflake status.... maybe the teacher didn't ask because they couldn't pronounce your damn name.


Dan'enicole???

WTF is that?

I know I'll be triggering you with vast microaggressions if I pronounce it wrong.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:31 AM (XAFOu)

381 Usually Company Commanders.

Unfortunately, I served with a few real dumb ones in 4th ID.

CPT Tobin was the dumbest.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:31 AM (OsWis)

382 We called him 'Goldmember'

When we got set up and running in Bayji in '03, his cowardly ass had an excuse to go back to the states for some skin cancer shit.

It was benign.

Yet he had no problem with sending emails with pics of him and his family at Sea World.

Fucker.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:35 AM (OsWis)

383 CPT Tobin was the dumbest.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:31 AM (OsWis)


Care to amuse us with any examples?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:35 AM (8zCR+)

384 Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:31 AM (XAFOu)

My friends moms is a teacher in the Bronx.

She's had some students with great names.

How, for example, would you pronounce L'aa?

Apparently "La - Dash - ah"

Yes. Yes, you read that right. the ' is pronounced "Dash" apparently.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:36 AM (AkOaV)

385 I'd vote for Mattis in a heartbeat without knowing any of his political beliefs. I just know that he's a real leader and he loves his country. Iran would shit itself if he was elected.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at May 17, 2015 12:36 AM (YikDz)

386 "I am just not seeing the tactical advantage to nuclear power. Abraham Lincoln has gone in for refueling, modernization, and repairs. At the cost of $2.6 billion and will not rejoin the Fleet until 2017."

The new generation reactors are designed to do away with the costly and protracted process of midlife refueling.

I am told that one of the biggest reasons for shunning nuclear power in surface ships other than CVN is simply because America's crummy public high schools are no longer producing a large enough cohort of potential naval recruits who would be able to qualify at nuc training.

(Note the recent scandal in which a bunch of young USN nucs were caught cheating on their quals, and apparently in some cases being encouraged to do so by their command structure.)

Posted by: torquewrench at May 17, 2015 12:37 AM (noWW6)

387 "All our Okies still okay?"

I'm fine so far. Just a little wet in the garage.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at May 17, 2015 12:39 AM (YikDz)

388 Kicking a box on the side of the road when we were on a convoy from Bayji to Tikrit.

He stopped the fucking convoy. On a road infested with IEDs.

To. Kick. A. Fucking. Box.

Him going down the range we set up to test our crew-served weapons, while hot, is another example of his brilliance.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:40 AM (OsWis)

389 Why yes they do. But when was the last time the Constitution constrained the Federal Government?
Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:05 AM (8zCR+)

April 27 1912

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912?

I don't get it...

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 17, 2015 12:41 AM (1WydT)

390 I don't get it...
Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 17, 2015 12:41 AM (1WydT)

I don't get it either, I just let it go.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:42 AM (AkOaV)

391 because America's crummy public high schools are no longer producing a
large enough cohort of potential naval recruits who would be able to
qualify at nuc training



Sadly this seems all too likely.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:42 AM (8zCR+)

392 >>>She's had some students with great names

My buddy is a doc on Maryland's eastern shore. Some of his patients include:

Abcde. Pronounced ahh-bee-ce-dee

Orangello and Yellangello. (Twins. Named after orange jello and yellow jello)

Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:42 AM (e+1S5)

393 199 HR, where is your hotel?
Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2015 10:52 PM (TEpA2)

Now that's the spirit of the hoarde I like to see

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 12:42 AM (0guAH)

394 The sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912?

I don't get it...
Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 17, 2015 12:41 AM (1WydT)

Woody Wilson. Federal Reserve. IRS. Jeckyl Island meeting.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:43 AM (cIoI4)

395 "The F-35 is a strong airplane."

I do not understand those words in that order.

Strong airplanes are ones that aren't limited by decree to pulling less than 4G.

Strong airplanes aren't afflicted with severe fatigue cracking all over the airframe from relatively modest pre-acceptance testing maneuvers.

(Fatigue cracking requiring the beefing up of structure, and the addition of new weight, to a design that's right on the razor edge already of exceeding critical weight targets.)

Sometimes designers try too long to combine mutually incompatible design goals. That's what happened here. The F-35 is the Shimmer of fighter jets: "a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"

Posted by: torquewrench at May 17, 2015 12:43 AM (noWW6)

396 Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:42 AM (e+1S5)

oh thats great.

My girlfriend just told me about a girl she knew named "Lazania".

Named after lasagna, which her mother was eating when she went in to labor.

Apparently her mother was not much of a speller.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:44 AM (AkOaV)

397 That kind of stupid is usually self correcting at platoon leader. Stupid doesn't bother me, its the arrogance and game playing that pisses me off.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:45 AM (ztOda)

398 Next, those brainiacs at DARPA are going to try and attach wings to an Abrams...



wait...

I seem to recall that was tried before.



Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:45 AM (OsWis)

399 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:43 AM (cIoI4)

ooooh.

Okay, sure.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:46 AM (AkOaV)

400 How, for example, would you pronounce L'aa?

Apparently "La - Dash - ah"


When we all know it should be Lapostrophe-ahhhhhh.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 12:47 AM (W5DcG)

401 397,

So when it came to reenlist in 2009, there was no fucking ways I was going to serve under the JEF.

Company-grade stupid was bad enough.

CinC-grade on the JEF's level?

Uh-Uh.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:48 AM (OsWis)

402 Just a cabbie

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 12:48 AM (0guAH)

403 Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 12:36 AM (AkOaV

That's why the Key and Peele Substitute Teacher skit is awesome.

AA sub reading off white name.

Damn hilarious.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:48 AM (XAFOu)

404 Those were only the cracks you could see. The PM shop has refused to let some new tech take a look deeper.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:50 AM (ztOda)

405 "The F-35 is a strong airplane."

I think that means "moneymaker".

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 12:50 AM (W5DcG)

406

Orangello and Yellangello. (Twins. Named after orange jello and yellow jello)


Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:42 AM (e+1S5)


Don't be bringing that racism here.

Posted by: Carmen Jello at May 17, 2015 12:51 AM (XAFOu)

407 >>>That's why the Key and Peele Substitute Teacher skit is awesome.

Where Jay-Qwellin at?!?

Still not as good as the East-West Bowl skit, but it's up there.

Posted by: DC in River City at May 17, 2015 12:52 AM (e+1S5)

408
Those were only the cracks you could see. The PM shop has refused to let some new tech take a look deeper.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:50 AM (ztOda)


Cracks in what exactly?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 12:52 AM (8zCR+)

409 My nephew finally arrived.

We are a stop on long drive, just didn't know it would be this late.

Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2015 12:53 AM (o/90i)

410 I seem to recall that was tried before.



Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:45 AM (OsWis)

Nyet!!




Please tell me we didn't try it?

Posted by: Carmen Jello at May 17, 2015 12:53 AM (XAFOu)

411 Abcde. Pronounced ahh-bee-ce-dee

Orangello and Yellangello. (Twins. Named after orange jello and yellow jello)


Didn't Moochellle give a speech last week about people with "different" names being passed over in job applications?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 12:53 AM (W5DcG)

412 Off sock

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:54 AM (XAFOu)

413 Watching SNL here in Mountain Time.

The opener was lame, featured HRC, and made her seem cute.

Louis CK was the bomb. Too bad the whole damn show can't be Louis.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at May 17, 2015 12:55 AM (U6f54)

414 409 My nephew finally arrived.

We are a stop on long drive, just didn't know it would be this late.
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2015 12:53 AM (o/90i

Excuse me waitress...

Send that man a coffee with an espresso shot.

Be safe Farmer.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:55 AM (XAFOu)

415 "I seem to recall that was tried before."

There was a flying APC concept. A modest altitude, modest speed troop carrier armored up to survive anything in MANPAD/30mm class. No tail rotor, protected gear box, etc. Simple to fly, with an immediate autorotate to ground if SHTF.

Didn't make the cut in the spin up to the UH-60 and the M-2.

I still think the idea has merits. 50' of altitude is an excellent way to deal with IEDs.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 12:57 AM (ztOda)

416 Louis CK was the bomb.

Why does everybody have to use stupid made up names?

Posted by: Hubba Bubba X-Ray Spex at May 17, 2015 12:57 AM (W5DcG)

417 395 I'm sorry. I couldn't hear what you were saying. It's hard to hear over the giant sucking sound of taxpayer money.

Posted by: Lockheed Martin Exec at May 17, 2015 12:57 AM (JoIcn)

418 Woody Wilson. Federal Reserve. IRS. Jeckyl Island meeting.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 12:43 AM (cIoI4)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 17, 2015 12:58 AM (1WydT)

419 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 12:59 AM (OsWis)

420 cm9000 - cracks in the composite structure

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:00 AM (ztOda)

421 Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka

"Krylya Tanka" means...tank wings....

Heh.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 01:01 AM (OsWis)

422 Louis CK is a comedian right? And he has a show. That's all I know about him.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 01:01 AM (8zCR+)

423 269 Say what you will about the F-111 boondoggle, but damn, it was a lovely plane to watch in flight.

It really fit the "looks right, flies right" paradigm. And, it fit the need for what used to be called a "Medium Bomber" in days gone by.

I have no doubt that one could take a brand new F-111 airframe, equip it with the newest, but most proven engines, electronics, glass cockpit and whatever "stealth" modifications as would fit the platform, that it would still be fully effective in the modern air war environment.

Yeah, it was too much the pig for the carrier mission. But then, so were Doolittle's B-25s. They both rocked though, when used to their strengths.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2015 11:19 PM (RzZOc)

yup, yup, yup.

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 01:02 AM (0guAH)

424 heya Jim!

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 01:02 AM (OsWis)

425 409 My nephew finally arrived.
We are a stop on long drive, just didn't know it would be this late.
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2015 12:53 AM (o/90i
Excuse me waitress...
Send that man a coffee with an espresso shot.
Be safe Farmer.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 17, 2015 12:55 AM

He's here safe and sound. Be well all.

Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2015 01:02 AM (o/90i)

426 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 12:53 AM (W5DcG)

Yes. Yes, she did.

The easy solution, one would think, would be to give your children pronounceable names if you think having ridiculous names will hinder your childs future job prospects.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 01:03 AM (AkOaV)

427 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHndKZfYtvI

The reason why my dislike of Bill Maher stops at 90%. His studio audience is still swine.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 17, 2015 01:03 AM (+4uXG)

428 How could anyone who banged Ann Coulture be all bad?

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:04 AM (ztOda)

429 I used to work with a guy who worked on F-111 radar units at an Air Force base in Nevada (I think that's where it was) and he thought that place was the greatest thing on earth.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 01:05 AM (W5DcG)

430 The insanely long gestation times for modern defense systems do give one pause to consider.

How in the ever loving hell will the U.S. ever have a prayer to ramp up production, and implement innovation, in a manner similar to the buildup prior to WWII.

And then, in a full war condition, to generate the industrial output necessary for success when in a major war.

The odds, I fear, are frightfully against our repeating those industrial miracles of the '30s and '40s.

And yes, even with the advances of modern systems, we'll still need billions of rounds of ammo, millions of shells, hundreds of thousands of bombs, tens of thousands of missiles.

Not to mention the countless logistical systems to get all the goodies where they've gotta go.

Army and Navy to be as small as pre WWII?

Good way to get into WWIII, that.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 01:05 AM (RzZOc)

431 Jobs? What are those?

Posted by: Dwez'leal parent at May 17, 2015 01:06 AM (ztOda)

432 And by the way he uses the phrase "liberal" as a synonym, not a corollary, of vague general goodness. Precise definitions and good epistemology will tear venn diagrams apart, not smash them together.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 17, 2015 01:08 AM (+4uXG)

433 Good way to get into WWIII, that.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 01:05 AM (RzZOc)

*****

When the military is cut to the size of 12/6/41, events like 12/7/41 tend to occur, in other words.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 01:08 AM (cIoI4)

434 Jim, no one is planning for a major war to last more than a few weeks. Every scenario goes bright.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:08 AM (ztOda)

435 The odds, I fear, are frightfully against our repeating those industrial miracles of the '30s and '40s.

We are a totally different country today.
The sleeping giant will become a wide awake midget staring at the smart phone and playing Candy Crush.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 01:09 AM (W5DcG)

436
cm9000 - cracks in the composite structure

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:00 AM (ztOda)


Thanks for the answer. I'm way out out of my depth here, but how are those cracks measured?

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 01:10 AM (8zCR+)

437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3FynuxMFWs
"dig" this

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 01:10 AM (0guAH)

438 At least were good on drone pilots.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:11 AM (ztOda)

439 I found a Tweet guaranteed to shut up a badgering prog INSTANTLY:

"I see your point on school funding. If you want to share MY experience, why not tutor a student at risk this summer? I can hook you up."

Posted by: Spellcheck, M.D. at May 17, 2015 01:11 AM (iKhVZ)

440 Hiya, SMFH!. Don't know 'bout no flying tanks out there, but rumor has it that A&M has a Batallion of Septic Tanks ready for deployment.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 01:11 AM (RzZOc)

441 440,

Ha.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 17, 2015 01:13 AM (OsWis)

442 CM9000, currently - poorly. The usual tools don't work.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:13 AM (ztOda)

443 OK, got it all under control for the moment.

Please let the doggies allow me to go to work tomorrow.

Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2015 01:13 AM (o/90i)

444 A&M has a Batallion of Septic Tanks ready for deployment.

Deploy the antiseptics.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 01:14 AM (W5DcG)

445 These the ones that washed down from Oklahoma tonight.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:15 AM (ztOda)

446 "428 How could anyone who banged Ann Coulture be all bad?"

They both give the impression of being more political than they really are. Otherwise it would have been the hate-fuck of the century.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 17, 2015 01:16 AM (+4uXG)

447 CM9000, currently - poorly. The usual tools don't work.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:13 AM (ztOda)


So imprecise. I get it.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 01:16 AM (8zCR+)

448 @423 - so here's the question: the reality is that the Aardvark was bought to carry bombs a thousand or so miles just high enough off the ground to keep the crew's scrotums from being left hanging on a Siberian pine.

It did that job, but did it really do it any better than an A-6 or a Buccaneer or something else a lot simpler structurally?

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at May 17, 2015 01:16 AM (o+SC1)

449 Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 17, 2015 01:03 AM (+4uXG)

He's a weird one.

If he wasn't so sanctimonious and condescending maybe I'd be able to listen to him for more then a few minutes.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 01:20 AM (AkOaV)

450 Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 01:05 AM (RzZOc)

Yeah, we'd be fucked.

But on the plus side, everyone else is as fucked or more fucked than us.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 01:22 AM (AkOaV)

451
In the interest of a real come-to-terms moment in the discussion (in which I have felt ennui enblanketiming)
I put forth this proposition;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTUkrXsabp4

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 01:24 AM (0guAH)

452 JEM after the Russkies figured out how to make a look down radar from the designs they stole - the penetration mission was over.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:25 AM (ztOda)

453 Bill Maher and Kristen Powers are the kind of liberals that know how coercive the Left is, but they just hate the Right a little more.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 01:28 AM (8zCR+)

454 According to Drudge, there seems to be the tiniest whiff of corruption in Albany, NY

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 17, 2015 01:28 AM (AVEe1)

455 cm9k, I'm right at the limits of what I can say. Generically, cracks exist, generically we don't have the tools to evaluate the new composite structures.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:28 AM (ztOda)

456
#448:

The F-111 automatically flew nap of the earth. When it worked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain-following_radar

Posted by: Ed Anger at May 17, 2015 01:29 AM (RcpcZ)

457 cm9k, I'm right at the limits of what I can say.
Generically, cracks exist, generically we don't have the tools to
evaluate the new composite structures.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:28 AM (ztOda)


Enough said, thanks.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 01:33 AM (8zCR+)

458 JEM.


The '111 did a few things that the A-6 or Buccaneer didn't.

It could go supersonic when needed, at any altitude. Not for an entire mission, but it sure was important to have on hand.

It employed many of the "Pave" series of target designators, and could be fitted to employ many more.

When not using the PaveWay system, and not using the bomb bay to carry an additional fuel cell, the '111 could carry an internal weapons load, resulting in a clean, more efficient airframe, and a far smaller radar signature than when carrying external stores.

For that matter though, a laden F-111 was still a smaller RCS than a bare naked A-6.

That said, the F-111, in any of it's variants, was not a tactical attack aircraft in the same manner as the A-6.

Practice had the F-111 making (usually) a single, high-speed pass, deploying one or more precision aimed weapons, using speed and surprise to hit unannounced, and escape before effective countermeasures could be brought to bear.

The A-6 & Buccaneer both, were more from the days when an Attack aircraft flew into the teeth of known defenses, evaded flack, tried to jam and/or defeat missiles, and to pickle dumb bombs onto hostile targets that were actively shooting back.

Later versions of the A-6, before they were all grounded, got equipped with precision interfaces, glass cockpits and other miracles of modern war aviation.

Kind of comparing a Clydesdale to a Thoroughbred. They're both great horses, just bred to do things.....differently.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 01:34 AM (RzZOc)

459 The problem with terrain avoidance radar is that it looks like a bunch of guys running across a field with flashlights on the dark night.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:34 AM (ztOda)

460 @456 - yeah, but that wasn't something that needed afterburning TF30s or swing-wings (the center carrier of which proved to be something of a problem for a while, they had to rebuild a whole bunch of 'em after wings started going walkabout.)

Hang external ordnance or tankage on one and it's subsonic at operational altitudes anyway.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at May 17, 2015 01:35 AM (o+SC1)

461 Bill Maher and Kristen Powers are the kind of liberals that know how coercive the Left is, but they just hate the Right a little more.

Just like Alan Dershowitz. They'll whine about the left and crawl over broken glass to get to the poll to pull the D lever.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2015 01:35 AM (W5DcG)

462 forgot - to a sniper.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:36 AM (ztOda)

463 forgot - to a sniper.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:36 AM (ztOda)

464 @459 - the initial premise was that the lower you flew the less reaction time the defense would have, which makes sense if you're talking about discrete standalone installations, but if you've got enough sensors spread around a poodle can do a pretty good job of predicting the inbound route.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at May 17, 2015 01:38 AM (o+SC1)

465
When the military is cut to the size of 12/6/41, events like 12/7/41 tend to occur, in other words.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 01:08 AM (cIoI4)

+1

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 01:38 AM (0guAH)

466 The Russians had enough sensors. The one thing they did well was saturation.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:40 AM (ztOda)

467 Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 17, 2015 01:28 AM (AVEe1)

shocking. seriously, this is my shocked face.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 17, 2015 01:41 AM (AkOaV)

468 The Russians had enough sensors. The one thing they did well was saturation.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 01:40 AM (ztOda)


They also did mass murder well, in the tens of millions.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 01:46 AM (8zCR+)

469
My bumper sticker (tastefully sliced, and strung out horizontally) "says" "quote"

Support Our Troops Especially our Snipers.

with a reflective yellow 'Don't tread on me" flag, below to the right.

Crap, more Keys, Dents, Everywhere, scrape scrape gouge.

In Wisconsin!

Posted by: make me an offer at May 17, 2015 01:50 AM (0guAH)

470 The Russians had enough sensors.

But purchasers of Russian systems weren't as well equipped, and usually aren't to this very day.

Kadahffi had Russian systems, but bagged only a single F-111 on egress, as the SA-6 at the end of that runway basically had the poor bastard boresighted in a zero-deflection tail shot at minimal range.

That wasn't a triumph of sensor technology or other countermeasures. Just simply pure dumb luck of the radar locking on at a range of under one mile, with a signal strength sufficient to burn through the ECM being thrown from overhead by other U.S. assets.

And, it didn't stop the bombs from hitting the target. Sadly, it only prevented two brave U.S. Airmen from returning home to their families, forever.

Frankly though, a squadron of A-6s would have flown into slaughter if making the same attack.

Conversely, the A-6 completely rocked over the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, and were also wickedly effective over Iraq.

As far as the complexity of the swing wing platform, from mid '60s developed technology?

I'm thinking that we could do it a lot more smoothly and simply now.

IF that is, we let the engineers just DO the damned thing, and keep the bean counters and politicians out of it.

Once the DoD requirements have been set, then let the designs pursue the requirements. Quit moving the damn goal posts, and let's get something off the paper and into the factory.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 01:52 AM (RzZOc)

471
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capp#/media/File:Cappbio46.jpg

Al Capp

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 01:59 AM (0guAH)

472 Jim, unfortunately the F-35 will be anti-Boyd.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 02:00 AM (ztOda)

473 Jim, unfortunately the F-35 will be anti-Boyd.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 02:00 AM (ztOda)

474
473 Jim, unfortunately the F-35 will be anti-Boyd.
Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 02:00 AM (ztOda)

anti-Boyd: ? what does that mean?

It doesn't fly like a Boid?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:03 AM (0guAH)

475
The F-111 was another case of "dessert topping and floor wax". Too many incompatible design goals in one airframe.

USAF wanted an air superiority dogfighter and also wanted a separate long-range low-level penetrating bomber.

USN wanted an air superiority dogfighter as well, and also wanted a separate fleet air defense A/A missile truck.

The systems analysis community at the McNamara Pentagon said, hey, we can assign all three operating roles in one airframe, presto!

Plus since the USAF penetrating bomber capability overlapped that of the USN A-6 Intruder heavy deep strike mission, they presumed to assign that fourth operating role to the F-111 in USN service as well, and retire the A-6 early.

The analysts also touted all of the same malarkey we hear today from the F-35 boosters about combined depot servicing and common logistics tails and shareable spares and simplified training, and so forth.

Unfortunately, the finished F-111 product was woefully incapable of doing dogfighter work for either service. Never did, never could, not a hope in hell.

It did turn out to be a good penetrating bomber in USAF and RAAF service. It also could have done the fleet air defense job for USN, probably better than the design which ended up with the job, the F-14.

Fleet air defense meant being able to quickly carry a big-ass radar and a lot of heavy Phoenix missiles out a considerable distance from the battle group, and then loiter out there waiting to do long-range shootdowns of Soviet Naval Aviation formations. The -111 could carry more such A/A ordnance a lot further out, loiter longer, and safely bring back on board a heavier weight of unexpended Phoenixes. (Phoenices? Latin purists?) No dogfighting required for this duty.

Of course, the F-14 was light and agile enough (at least by comparison to its bigger fatter cousin) to be both a Phoenix hauler and a dogfighter, should dogfighting be required.

Interesting that in later years both the -111 and the -14 had new and not originally intended missions developed, as technology shifted. The electronic warfare role for the Raven version of the -111, and the deep strike capability for the "Bombcat" F-14.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 17, 2015 02:04 AM (noWW6)

476
William Blake. The Tiger

TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies 5
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 10
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp 15
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee? 20

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:08 AM (0guAH)

477 Jean, what's sad is that the F-35 did have, and could still have, the potential for greatness.

I'd love to see a very simple test experiment though.

Stuff the F-35's non VTOL engine into an F-16 airframe, suitably modified. Better still, use that Cranked Arrow F-16 testbed from the mid '80s.

Vectored thrust in an F-16 with double the wing area?

I'll bet it'd out maneuver an F-35 on the '35's best day. And with some suitable modification to the F-16's iconic intake, you might even snarf up some valuable stealth-points.

All you'd have to do then, is to figure out how to use most of the F-35's electronics suite in the '16 airframe, and before you know it, you've got one hell of an attack fighter, for only a fraction of the cost.

Which would really piss off the defense procurement industry, but I'm a rebel that way.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 02:08 AM (RzZOc)

478
Good Lord! Norm MacDonald's first stand-up on the Letterman Show. He looks like he's 15 or something:

05-09-1990 Late Night Letterman Norm MacDonald

https://youtu.be/HimtWV1EUyc

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 17, 2015 02:12 AM (kdS6q)

479 Jim, this biggets problem with the F35 is the contracting. By commitiing to the export orders at the highest level, the program bacame unkillable and bad requirements could not be excised without re-inking off-shore deals.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 02:13 AM (ztOda)

480 Wow look at that spelling, getting late. Night all.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2015 02:13 AM (ztOda)

481 62 Friend of mine - a teacher - had a Pajamas. Pronounced Pa (like path) Jeh mus (like must) . Pajehmus. Emphasis on the jeh.

Posted by: gracepmc at May 17, 2015 02:15 AM (xvd51)

482
http://goo.gl/kKrjTn

That's going to leave a mark

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:18 AM (0guAH)

483 Good Lord! Norm MacDonald's first stand-up on the Letterman Show. He looks like he's 15 or something:

05-09-1990 Late Night Letterman Norm MacDonald

https://youtu.be/HimtWV1EUyc


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 17, 2015 02:12 AM (kdS6q)


My favorite Norm MacDonald was his Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson jokes on SNL.

Posted by: cm9000 at May 17, 2015 02:19 AM (8zCR+)

484 I believe Blake spelled it "Tyger".

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 17, 2015 02:21 AM (+YMhA)

485
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9okWm8A6o
let there be drums

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:22 AM (0guAH)

486
My favorite Norm MacDonald was his Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson jokes on SNL.
Posted by: cm9000




His bit on the death of the Crocodile Hunter:

"Got killed by some fruity fish."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 17, 2015 02:23 AM (kdS6q)

487
Vid of that:

https://youtu.be/qODmxg_dUuI?t=2m50s

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 17, 2015 02:25 AM (kdS6q)

488 484 I believe Blake spelled it "Tyger".
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 17, 2015 02:21 AM (+YMhA)

Spelling of tyger
Blake's spelling is often idiosyncratic, though "tyger" was a common spelling of the word in his day. It has sometimes been argued that he specifically chose archaic or unusual English spellings in his writings, and that perhaps Tyger "suggests the exotic or alien quality of the beast"[1]. However, this may be a projection of modern attitudes, since the same spelling was used by writers other than Blake. The retention of the archaic spelling is a convention in modern editions.

In source 2 we read:
An analysis of "The Tyger" must begin with Blake's stylized spelling of the word Tyger. This spelling makes the reader pause to consider while the symbolic protagonist calls forth multiple, emotional images. The idea, tiger, creates reactions of both awe and terror; however, by placing his tyger "in the forest" (rather than the jungle) Blake both softens the image and contributes to the unnatural atmosphere begun by the word Tyger. Next, Blake's description of his tyger reminds the reader of an artistic criticism. The descriptive word symmetry (excellence of proportion and regularity of form) expands the idea, tiger, to an abstract (like a painting) so that when Blake appends the word fearful (which has more than a hundred synonyms ranging from unearthly and ghoulish to horrible, frightful, and aweful) the reader is nearly startled by both the beautiful contrast and the absolute truth of the description.

And in a book called "Notes and Queries" from 1887, we find this note about spelling (source 3, page 339):

It was not till (sic) the sixteenth century that most of the corrupt forms which grate upon us were introduced. Since the time of Queen Anne there has been but little alteration; but even at the beginning of the present (19th) century it was not unusual to spell tiger "tyger," and set "sett."
Source(s):
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyger
2. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/8...
3. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sl4CAAA...

frum yahoo answers FWIW

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:26 AM (0guAH)

489 62 Friend of mine - a teacher - had a Pajamas. Pronounced Pa (like path) Jeh mus (like must) . Pajehmus. Emphasis on the jeh.
Posted by: gracepmc at May 17, 2015 02:15 AM (xvd51)

******

They are placing their emPHAsis on the wrong syLABle.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at May 17, 2015 02:32 AM (XrHO0)

490 Hasta la nite nite, Horde!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 17, 2015 02:42 AM (RzZOc)

491 I got et by a lyon.

Posted by: Roy Horn at May 17, 2015 02:46 AM (2AlPN)

492 Ahhhh,
Where's the regulars,
we're sinkin' here

'Nite Jim

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:47 AM (0guAH)

493 I hate fucking tygers.

Posted by: Roy Horn at May 17, 2015 02:49 AM (2AlPN)

494 492
Ahhhh,

Where's the regulars,

we're sinkin' here



'Nite Jim

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:47 AM (0guAH)


Got issues, sorry.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 02:50 AM (T1005)

495
Morons everywhere groove to this tune.
Toin it up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0nwSv6cTU

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:51 AM (0guAH)

496
Well, somebody put up the J.J.Sefton light, or the Muldoon, such a solid man. alarm, ' cuz dis tred iz ded

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:56 AM (0guAH)

497 495


Morons everywhere groove to this tune.

Toin it up!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0nwSv6cTU

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 02:51 AM (0guAH)


To really groove to it, you need to "get" that the instrumentation is all whacked. That high-pitched "chirping"? -- that's from the bass. Most of the lower-pitched bass parts are from the keyboard player. Half the sax parts aren't sax. It's an extremely playful piece.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 02:57 AM (T1005)

498 I hate fucking tygers.

Posted by: Roy Horn at May 17, 2015 02:49 AM (2AlPN)


Trying using some lube next time...

Posted by: The Tiger at May 17, 2015 02:58 AM (7YlUk)

499
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ndyILodYwM
this is an amazing, good video, good audio, masterful playing

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:00 AM (0guAH)

500 498 I hate fucking tygers.

Posted by: Roy Horn at May 17, 2015 02:49 AM (2AlPN)

Trying using some lube next time...
Posted by: The Tiger at May 17, 2015 02:58 AM (7YlUk)

You guys never sleep eh...

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:03 AM (0guAH)

501 You guys never sleep eh...

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:03 AM (0guAH)


Good question. Not sure if sleep or simply slipping the bounds of space-time...

P.S. The Klein "Bottle" is just a phased torus...

Posted by: The Phased Hat at May 17, 2015 03:05 AM (7YlUk)

502
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqPjx94YMg

Pretty song

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:05 AM (0guAH)

503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqZ1MLts1yw

Do You drink alone? Hmmm?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:16 AM (0guAH)

504
Dead, Dead, Dead...

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:18 AM (0guAH)

505
Hey, Hat, Whaddya Know?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:19 AM (0guAH)

506 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqZ1MLts1yw

Do You drink alone? Hmmm?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:16 AM (0guAH)


Another drinking song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkOF7BIsAxg

Posted by: The Drinkin' Hat at May 17, 2015 03:19 AM (7YlUk)

507 Just to put this out there one more time -- in regards to my recent problems, if it's a Moron they should contact me privately ASAP. It's going to involve an apology to the fiancee and some personal information, but I'll try to keep you out of the shitstorm that's coming. OTOH, I'm working on this with law enforcement and going viral with your (former) email information and reaching out among connections....



Knowing what you did, anyone saving a cc with Amazon would have to be an idiot, it's got your name on it, and I'm on a quest to change Amazon corporate policy. How much involvement you have in this is up to you.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:19 AM (T1005)

508 Knowing what you did, anyone saving a cc with Amazon would have to be an idiot, it's got your name on it, and I'm on a quest to change Amazon corporate policy. How much involvement you have in this is up to you.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:19 AM (T1005)


An angry Cthulhu is not something you want to deal with...

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:22 AM (7YlUk)

509 "Another Drinkin' Song"

Gonna dive into a dive I've dove into before.
Gonna aunt a haunt I've haunted like a million times or more.
A familiar joint where getting drunk's the only point.
To frequent this place with any frequency at all.
Countin' on a remedy I've counted on before.
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me.
What you call the disease, I call the remedy.
What you're callin' the cause, I call the cure.
Gonna sing a song, a song to you, a song I've sung before.
Belt out a ballad that I've belted out a million times or more.
The words I'm gonna scream,
And getting drunk is the central theme to the lyrics
If you can make the lyrics out at all.
Countin' on a remedy I've counted on before.
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me.
What you call the disease, I call the remedy.
What you're callin' the cause, I call the cure.
Just a devotion to a potion.
Please, no applause.
A dedication to a medication.
A crutch, a cure, a cause.
What I've counted on to pick me up has knocked me to my knees.
Before I hit the floor once more I'll call it the disease.

copy that

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:23 AM (0guAH)

510
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc
I hopa-hopa-hopa
nice cinematography, though.

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:29 AM (0guAH)

511 508
Knowing what you did, anyone saving a cc with Amazon would have to be
an idiot, it's got your name on it, and I'm on a quest to change Amazon
corporate policy. How much involvement you have in this is up to you.



Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:19 AM (T1005)



An angry Cthulhu is not something you want to deal with...

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:22 AM (7YlUk)


Believe it or not, I'm not all that angry at him -- he wanted to "count coup" over cthulhu -- and it was cleverly done [and he managed to sweet-talk my ex-boss on IM into inviting me for coffee, which I am still ROTFL about]. But I am fucking furious at amazon and willing to burn their asses down over being such idiots. My fuckin' mom orders stuff on amazon. And when amazon looks to slap back, I can either point to all the info I have or go, "whuzzup?" If it's a Moron, I'm willing to have memory lapses.

If it's not a Moron, I'm going to use every skill, talent, and expertise I have to clobber Amazon for being such dumbasses, without regard to shielding "DisD0ngMung@outlook.com" from anything.


If he bought this method of spoofing amazon and hitting email accounts from the Yakuza, they might liquidate him for leaving the trail that I followed....in which case, Moron or no, tough shit. But I'm really more angry at the corporates than I am at the perp.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:38 AM (T1005)

512 [i[]Believe it or not, I'm not all that angry at him -- he wanted to "count coup" over cthulhu -- and it was cleverly done [and he managed to sweet-talk my ex-boss on IM into inviting me for coffee, which I am still ROTFL about]. But I am fucking furious at amazon and willing to burn their asses down over being such idiots. My fuckin' mom orders stuff on amazon. And when amazon looks to slap back, I can either point to all the info I have or go, "whuzzup?" If it's a Moron, I'm willing to have memory lapses.

If it's not a Moron, I'm going to use every skill, talent, and expertise I have to clobber Amazon for being such dumbasses, without regard to shielding "DisD0ngMung@outlook.com" from anything.


If he bought this method of spoofing amazon and hitting email accounts from the Yakuza, they might liquidate him for leaving the trail that I followed....in which case, Moron or no, tough shit. But I'm really more angry at the corporates than I am at the perp.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:38 AM (T1005)

A more cold-blooded approach...

Give 'em a taste of R'lyeh

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:41 AM (7YlUk)

513 Honestly, it's hard to believe that any long-standing 'ron would pull any of that s**t on you.

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:42 AM (7YlUk)

514

An angry Cthulhu is not something you want to deal with...
Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:22 AM (7YlUk)

An angry (and a wrongie-wrong-wrong-wrong-wrong) Cthulhu.
is a pussycat, 'till the whip comes down... then we can remake him. Like robocop, that's it robocop!

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:45 AM (0guAH)

515 513 Honestly, it's hard to believe that any long-standing 'ron would pull any of that s**t on you.
Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:42 AM (7YlUk)

Nevertheless, it MUST be true.

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:48 AM (0guAH)

516 513
Honestly, it's hard to believe that any long-standing 'ron would pull any of that s**t on you.

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:42 AM (7YlUk)


I have no suspicions of the old-timers, but we constantly need to refresh the Horde. And, like I said, anyone who 'fessed up privately and apologized to the fiancee using real info, I might forget to mention to future investigators.....but I am so fucking white-hot furious at amazon that there WILL be policy changes. I'll start on their audit committee by the end of next week.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:50 AM (T1005)

517 Hat, be my witness

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:51 AM (0guAH)

518 514




An angry Cthulhu is not something you want to deal with...

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:22 AM (7YlUk)



An angry (and a wrongie-wrong-wrong-wrong-wrong) Cthulhu.

is a pussycat, 'till the whip comes down... then we can remake him. Like robocop, that's it robocop!

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:45 AM (0guAH)


Glad you got around it.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:52 AM (T1005)

519
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZLNLWPt84

pretty baby

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:56 AM (0guAH)

520 For f**ks sake... can't we just enjoy some Malagay Thrash Metal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZUvlq-1ic

Posted by: The Malagasy Hat at May 17, 2015 03:58 AM (7YlUk)

521 518
514







An angry Cthulhu is not something you want to deal with...


Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:22 AM (7YlUk)





An angry (and a wrongie-wrong-wrong-wrong-wrong) Cthulhu.


is a pussycat, 'till the whip comes down... then we can remake him. Like robocop, that's it robocop!



Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:45 AM (0guAH)


Glad you got around it.


Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:52 AM (T1005)


Seriously, write to Maet and use this as evidence that you can play nice. I'm going to go off and write him an email saying the same.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:59 AM (T1005)

522
Hat, you are the smack in the head I need,
not so for Mr Mysterioso though Tsk Tsk

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:01 AM (0guAH)

523
Gimmie a fuckin clue, tenacle boy, how the fuck do I do that? You got an ADDRESS?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:04 AM (0guAH)

524 Of course not, can't give those out...

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:06 AM (0guAH)

525 523


Gimmie a fuckin clue, tenacle boy, how the fuck do I do that? You got an ADDRESS?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:04 AM (0guAH)


Maet's email address is at the bottom of every one of his ONTs.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:09 AM (T1005)

526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPkVEi3Woy0&list=RDTPkVEi3Woy0

What goes up must come down

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:12 AM (0guAH)

527
Oh Dear, right where I would have expected it
THX Bro

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:14 AM (0guAH)

528 521
518

514










An angry Cthulhu is not something you want to deal with...



Posted by: The Non-Euclidean hat at May 17, 2015 03:22 AM (7YlUk)







An angry (and a wrongie-wrong-wrong-wrong-wrong) Cthulhu.



is a pussycat, 'till the whip comes down... then we can remake him. Like robocop, that's it robocop!





Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 03:45 AM (0guAH)


Glad you got around it.




Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:52 AM (T1005)


Seriously,
write to Maet and use this as evidence that you can play nice. I'm
going to go off and write him an email saying the same.


Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 03:59 AM (T1005)


Sorry for the delay, but I actually composed some text to Maet.....being that it's not his night and I suspect that he already banned you (over my objections) once.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:15 AM (T1005)

529 too bad, it's not there,
you are tiring me

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:23 AM (0guAH)

530 526


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPkVEi3Woy0list=RDTPkVEi3Woy0



What goes up must come down

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:12 AM (0guAH)


That's a classic. As is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:23 AM (T1005)

531 tick, tock

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:23 AM (0guAH)

532 early morning has check

Posted by: Guy who checks his hash at May 17, 2015 04:24 AM (91eZY)

533 531
tick, tock

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:23 AM (0guAH)


If you're tick-tockin' for Maet, he's not even supposed to be on tonight.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:27 AM (T1005)

534

That's a classic. As is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:23 AM (T1005)

Oh Yes, there is something, transcendental, y'know, wit incense an' shit and... sniff

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:28 AM (0guAH)

535 Unless I can figure out a way to keep my hash from changing I'll never win the Sock Puppeteer award.


Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 04:30 AM (91eZY)

536 534




That's a classic. As is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A



Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:23 AM (T1005)



Oh Yes, there is something, transcendental, y'know, wit incense an' shit and... sniff

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:28 AM (0guAH)


I happen to like Atomic Dog -- do you have an actual criticism of it to work off of? And, since you've managed to change your hash, wouldn't it be more comfy to use your usual nic?

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:32 AM (T1005)

537
Sorry,
I had to get up and make a Bagel with creamcheese.
Did I miss anything?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:33 AM (0guAH)

538 537


Sorry,

I had to get up and make a Bagel with creamcheese.

Did I miss anything?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:33 AM (0guAH)


Depends. Did you toast it?

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:36 AM (T1005)

539 Now this is a classic. The music the cinematography, it has it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyQoR7EwMuk

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 04:37 AM (91eZY)

540
No, but at least I took it out of the refrigerator, hours before I et it.

Why, are you trying to establish my religion?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:39 AM (0guAH)

541 BTW, if you get a phone call from a number you recognize....answering it with "I'm a Moron" would lead to much better results than trying to deny any knowledge of it. Just sayin'. Did I mention that my neighbor across-the-street is some sort of ATT honcho?

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)

542 541 BTW, if you get a phone call from a number you recognize....answering it with "I'm a Moron" would lead to much better results than trying to deny any knowledge of it. Just sayin'. Did I mention that my neighbor across-the-street is some sort of ATT honcho?
Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)

Oh, fuckity fuck fuck. LOSE THE OBSESSION

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:47 AM (0guAH)

543 Changing your hash is not all that difficult. Unless you have a static IP. If you have a Dynamic IP all you have to do is unplug/turn off your modem and leave off for awhile.

When it comes back online you will have a new IP.

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 04:50 AM (91eZY)

544
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMjnzxo-x-o
appropriate mood music for my ATT uhhh Hookup! that's it

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:52 AM (0guAH)

545 540


No, but at least I took it out of the refrigerator, hours before I et it.



Why, are you trying to establish my religion?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:39 AM (0guAH)


What kind of bagel? I'm fond of the "everything" bagels from House of bagels, 5231 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara
CA
94070

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:52 AM (T1005)

546 Or you could be doomed to have a Satellite Connection like me. Just wait for the Wind to pick up a bit, a bird to land on your Dish or branch to swing across the reception path.


Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 04:54 AM (91eZY)

547 Raisin HA!

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:56 AM (0guAH)

548 542
541 BTW, if you get a phone call from a number you
recognize....answering it with "I'm a Moron" would lead to much better
results than trying to deny any knowledge of it. Just sayin'. Did I
mention that my neighbor across-the-street is some sort of ATT honcho?

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)



Oh, fuckity fuck fuck. LOSE THE OBSESSION

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:47 AM (0guAH)


Hi, Ira. Glad you're back. I'll lose the obsession on the perp if he apologizes to the fiancee and acts like a mensch.....I won't lose the obsession on Amazon until they safeguard my mom like I would.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 04:57 AM (T1005)

549 546 Or you could be doomed to have a Satellite Connection like me. Just wait for the Wind to pick up a bit, a bird to land on your Dish or branch to swing across the reception path.


Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 0

Say, do you work here?

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 04:58 AM (0guAH)

550 OK, Sounds like you found the perp.
Apologies, for bad mojo etc.

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:02 AM (0guAH)

551 "Say, do you work here?"

Nope just passing time while I get up the gumption to do some real work.

As I get older that keeps getting harder.

Whats up?

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:02 AM (91eZY)

552 This is The deadest ONT in the History of man...
Oh I get it ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98_Lqcryp8

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:08 AM (0guAH)

553 Excellent Song......

Might be Saturday Night for some but it's early Sunday Morning for me.

Frankenstein??? LoL

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:13 AM (91eZY)

554 552
This is The deadest ONT in the History of man...

Oh I get it ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98_Lqcryp8

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:08 AM (0guAH)


Seriously, Ira [which, BTW is a great nic -- I don't even know if Methuselah's Children is still in print] WRITE MAET.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:13 AM (T1005)

555 "We had only one Objective, Victory"

We failed again, just like the first three tries.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7bdO7Ph9A

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:17 AM (91eZY)

556 okie-dokie
I shall attempt to hail Maet on all frequencies

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:17 AM (0guAH)

557 I am still catching up

maetenloch at gmail dot com

I think that is his email.

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:19 AM (91eZY)

558 556
okie-dokie

I shall attempt to hail Maet on all frequencies



Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:17 AM (0guAH)


It's not his day, but he can unclusterfuck you better than most. By the way, anyone shorting AMZN is likely to face insider trading investigations.....it'll take a bit (especially over a weekend) but their "one-click" and "apps store" are going to be hammered.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:24 AM (T1005)

559 It's going to break on the blogs. We'll see which ones are first......but it's going to break 'cause I'll break the motherfucker.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:30 AM (T1005)

560 but it's going to break 'cause I'll break the motherfucker.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:30 AM (T1005)


Some mood music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFhWBCfoX0

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 17, 2015 05:32 AM (7YlUk)

561 A not safe for Children might have been in order.


Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:34 AM (91eZY)

562 Bust 'em Undead one, show them horrors beyond their wildest horrors

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:35 AM (0guAH)

563 560
but it's going to break 'cause I'll break the motherfucker.



Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:30 AM (T1005)



Some mood music:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFhWBCfoX0

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 17, 2015 05:32 AM (7YlUk)

Ace, Insty, and Market-Ticker have it but haven't yet published. The San Jose Mercury News is temporarily relocated to Walnut Creek. This is going to be out there.....whether it's linked to "DisD0ngMung@outlook.com" depends on whether it's a Moron.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:40 AM (T1005)

564 562
Bust 'em Undead one, show them horrors beyond their wildest horrors

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:35 AM (0guAH)



They've spent millions on having people expose their info....I don't think they'll be so happy when folks delete.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:44 AM (T1005)

565
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeqTyO5Mbs

Ace, Insty, and Market-Ticker have it but haven't yet published. The San Jose Mercury News is temporarily relocated to Walnut Creek. This is going to be out there.....whether it's linked to "DisD0ngMung@outlook.com" depends on whether it's a Moron.
Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:40 AM (T1005)

Let's start moron betting lines. It will be FUN to point fingers. I accuse ....Willow!

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:44 AM (0guAH)

566
...and now I know why we call ourselves MORONS!

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:47 AM (0guAH)

567
Man, that cat at the top of the post does not like me

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:48 AM (0guAH)

568 565


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeqTyO5Mbs



Ace, Insty, and Market-Ticker have it but haven't yet published. The
San Jose Mercury News is temporarily relocated to Walnut Creek. This is
going to be out there.....whether it's linked to
"DisD0ngMung@outlook.com" depends on whether it's a Moron.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:40 AM (T1005)



Let's start moron betting lines. It will be FUN to point fingers. I accuse ....Willow!

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:44 AM (0guAH)



You're a smart guy........until it gets into old fart territory.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:48 AM (T1005)

569 *types*

*deletes*

*types*

*deletes*

I do not Gamble.... Thank the Lord for small Favors.


Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:48 AM (91eZY)

570

You're a smart guy........until it gets into old fart territory.
Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:48 AM (T1005)

WHAT the hell are you implying?
Shave your head, and hang out at airports, you watch too much TV

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:52 AM (0guAH)

571
The last time I gambled was about 15 years ago.
I found a quarter on the floor, stuck it into a slot and won fifty cents. Thus endeth my gambling career

FART FART ??????

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:56 AM (0guAH)

572
Disregard this cthulhu character, he has IMPORTANT ISSUES, but we can talk, normal talk

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:58 AM (0guAH)

573 Years and Years ago when I was driving a Truck I stopped at the 76 Truck Stop in North Las Vegas. Put 50 cents in a machine. A soda popped out.

I figured then it was time to quit.

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 05:58 AM (91eZY)

574 570




You're a smart guy........until it gets into old fart territory.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:48 AM (T1005)



WHAT the hell are you implying?

Shave your head, and hang out at airports, you watch too much TV

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:52 AM (0guAH)


I watch virtually no TV, I spend little time in airports, and my head looks live I've got radiation sickness................

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:59 AM (T1005)

575 572


Disregard this cthulhu character, he has IMPORTANT ISSUES, but we can talk, normal talk

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 05:58 AM (0guAH)


Yeah, fine, Ira -- just try to keep it polite. Otherwise you're gonna piss off a cob and get banned again.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:02 AM (T1005)

576 I watch virtually no TV, I spend little time in airports, and my head looks live I've got radiation sickness................

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 05:59 AM (T1005)


A little mood music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaScyfSHc-Y

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 17, 2015 06:03 AM (7YlUk)

577
Oh, thanks, cthulhu. I'll call you sometime.
It's been really fun. I'll call my friend Tiffany, she costs a bit more, but she'll fulfill those two little requests much happier than I could ever XOXOXOXO

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 06:06 AM (0guAH)

578 BTW -- if you'd known to ask about it when you chatted with my ex-boss.....why was it so unusual? Was it, perhaps, that I'm a hardline asshole?

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:13 AM (T1005)

579 578

BTW -- if you'd known to ask about it when you chatted with my ex-boss

.....why was it so unusual?

Was it, perhaps, that I'm a hardline asshole?

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:13 AM (T1005)

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 06:16 AM (0guAH)

580 579 578

BTW -- if you'd known to ask about it when you chatted with my ex-boss (WTF?)

.....why was it so unusual? (WTF?)

Was it, perhaps, that I'm a hardline asshole? (WTF?)

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:13 AM (T1005)

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 06:16 AM (0guAH)

SOOOO sorry pixienation just eats things between SOOO sorry for any confusion

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 06:23 AM (0guAH)

581 577


Oh, thanks, cthulhu. I'll call you sometime.

It's been really fun. I'll call my friend Tiffany, she costs a bit
more, but she'll fulfill those two little requests much happier than I
could ever XOXOXOXO



Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 06:06 AM (0guAH)


Keep digging. I'm watching. And please do call me.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:24 AM (T1005)

582 Well now, Watching.... Hmmm I sure hope for your sake you don't get 2 feet inside my door.

Posted by: but first.. at May 17, 2015 06:28 AM (0guAH)

583 Really.....are you back? I'll be sharing all your info with the Horde.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:30 AM (T1005)

584 Y'know, for someone who is so concerned about being accused of internet felonies, you're pretty damned blase about committing more.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:41 AM (T1005)

585 I was serious about trying to help. You are not helping yourself.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:42 AM (T1005)

586 Ira,

I would really like to talk with you. Drop me a mail if you want.

tidavis@hotmail.com

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 06:46 AM (91eZY)

587 586
SOMETIMES I FUCK MY STUFFED ANIMALS

Posted by: Ira Weatheral, man of few words at May 17, 2015 06:45 AM (0guAH)


Good job. You have now linked your attacks on my email with your IP on this blog. Idiot.

Seriously, if you want to get free of my crusade against Amazon, you'd better cut a deal with me. Think about it a bit, but get back to me before my next contact with amazon.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:49 AM (T1005)

588 I can tell this is getting pointless.

Posted by: Luap Nor's never ending hash story at May 17, 2015 07:00 AM (91eZY)

589 587
586

SOMETIMES I FUCK MY STUFFED ANIMALS



Posted by: Ira Weatheral, man of few words at May 17, 2015 06:45 AM (0guAH)


Good job. You have now linked your attacks on my email with your IP on this blog. Idiot.

Seriously,
if you want to get free of my crusade against Amazon, you'd better cut a
deal with me. Think about it a bit, but get back to me before my next
contact with amazon.


Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:49 AM (T1005)


Yeah, no kidding -- he might have skated on a bunch of crap and figured out something meaningful -- not.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 07:25 AM (T1005)

590 590
you'd better cut a deal with me.

you'd better cut a deal with me.

you'd better cut a deal with me.

you'd better cut a deal with me.

you'd better cut a deal with me.

you'd better cut a deal with me.



Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 06:49 AM (T1005)

*deep, heavy sigh*

Posted by: Mitzy at May 17, 2015 07:25 AM (zL0Mr)



Yeah, no shit. I'm committed to a program of burning the shit out of Amazon to protect my mom....and I'm offering a golden ticket to leave someone who screwed me out of the mess, and I'm getting repeated identity thefts as a thank-you. It's depressing.

Posted by: cthulhu at May 17, 2015 07:32 AM (T1005)

591 How can a college girl, distracted by a government that won't sup-ply her with 10 to 15 condoms a day, possibly be expected to concentrate on her studies ?
You're livin in a utopian society now where good is evil and evil is good.

Posted by: ron n. at May 17, 2015 11:20 AM (YVQn/)

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