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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 06:01 AM (T4oHT)

2 Manafort crying uncle sure has Leftists drooling over the end of President Trump

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 06:02 AM (T4oHT)

3 g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 16, 2018 06:03 AM (KCxzN)

4 Good Morning Morons; today is Sunday, September 16, 2018. On this day in 1987 the Montreal Protocol farce was signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. NASA used to post the size of that so-called hole on the internet. After 10 years of this farce the size of the hole had not changed at all. They took it down after people started noticing. Do you morons know that in a couple of years ALL forms of Freon will be banned and they do not have anything to replace it yet. Surprisingly enough RR was President when we signed this POS.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:03 AM (mpXpK)

5 The cockroaches are coming out of the woodwork now. Wilmington police have arrested 5 looters. Didn't we used to shoot looters? And BION the manager of the store these turds were looting asked the PoPo to stand down. I hope that asshole's insurance company takes note of that.

http://tinyurl.com/y9cmr5ez

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

6 And Florence is still squatting right off the coast near Wilmington. Wind speed is down to 40 mph but it is still bringing a metric shit-ton of rain. It is still raining hard here and expected to continue into next week.

http://tinyurl.com/y8ah2qft

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

7 Sunday greetings Horde!

Posted by: SMOD Keeper at September 16, 2018 06:04 AM (vQUp6)

8 The kitteh pic is gone from Fox but Drudge still has it along with an interview. BION the kitteh's name is 'survivor'.

http://tinyurl.com/y7s4w6yt

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

9 The serial rapist calls for a ban on so-called assault weapons after 5 shot in CA with a pistol. How about a ban on mouthy Democrat ex-presidents who have been impeached?

http://tinyurl.com/yb3nyk2f

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

10 The writer of that BS WP letter has been outed and is now out. He is a retired Navy Admiral and an Obama holdover in the pentagon.

http://tinyurl.com/y8emtaxo

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

11 Ramirez

http://tinyurl.com/ycb5fmdt

And that's it for today.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

12 North Carolina still getting pounded by rain from Florence, many places getting over 20- 30 inches of rain.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 06:05 AM (T4oHT)

13 Very glad to see your above water Vic, much damage in your area?

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 06:07 AM (T4oHT)

14 13
Very glad to see your above water Vic, much damage in your area?

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 06:07 AM (T4oHT)

My MIL who drove around yesterday said there are some big trees down over in town but that's about it. Nothing but rain here where I am. It has been going nonstop for two days now.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

15 All of the flooding seems to be located down along the coast at Wilmington and Myrtle Beach.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

16 F-1 race from Singapore is on at 0800 this morning on ESPN 2

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 06:10 AM (T4oHT)

17 The morning episode of a worship service is on here at 06:30 switching to other religions programing at 07:30 and continuing on and off until 2 pm. But the local station is off the air.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:17 AM (mpXpK)

18 5 am is way too damn early to be awake. But I can never sleep in hotels. And I'm going to be on a plane during the Singapore GP. I hope Hamilton somehow loses.

Harvey gave us 50" of rain over about 36 hours...hard to imagine, isn't it?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 16, 2018 06:18 AM (uxhUz)

19
The writer of that BS WP letter has been outed and is now out. He is a
retired Navy Admiral and an Obama holdover in the pentagon.

http://tinyurl.com/y8emtaxo

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:05 AM

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Good. That's gonna cost him a couple of million $$$$ in perks that he is not going to get now.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 16, 2018 06:19 AM (JUOKG)

20 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 06:23 AM (wldC6)

21 Have Generals/Admirals in politics always been complete shits? I remember thinking how lousy the civil war generals were, but this recent batch of losers is positively McCain-ish.

Posted by: Dharma Institute at September 16, 2018 06:24 AM (VWE5i)

22 "Good. That's gonna cost him a couple of million $$$$ in perks that he is not going to get now. "

I see in the article that the Board was created during the Obama Error, and even has the intellectual luminary known as Neil DeGrasse Dyson on it.

Well, if that isn't a hive of scum and villainy, I don't know what is.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 06:26 AM (wldC6)

23 The writer of that BS WP letter has been outed and is now out. He is a retired Navy Admiral and an Obama holdover in the pentagon.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

From what I read in that article, McRaven wasn't the author of the anonymous op ed but rather wrote an op ed under his name telling the President, after Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance, to revoke his, too.

The only name I've seen guessed as to who wrote the anonymous op ed is Elaine Chao, the current Secretary of Transportation and McTurtle's wife.

Posted by: RickZ at September 16, 2018 06:29 AM (8lsuS)

24 2 Manafort crying uncle sure has Leftists drooling over the end of President Trump
Posted by: Skip

"WE'Z GOTZ THE TRUMPENFUHERER NOW!!!"

Part 4,323,455

The Kabuki Theater continues.

Posted by: Puddleglum, undisclosed location at September 16, 2018 06:30 AM (JdrZO)

25 No Bills!
Can I stay here forever?
Haaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ahhh (cough hack)

Posted by: Hillury Clinton at September 16, 2018 06:31 AM (AsjQP)

26 'Admiral' mCraven turned out to prove that aphorism of 'sending an admiral to sea.'

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:31 AM (xYiAv)

27 It was a nice wedding though. And a veritable bonanza of people watching opportunities. But now it is time to get up and head to the airport. Y'all have a good morning.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 16, 2018 06:31 AM (uxhUz)

28 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:32 AM (hyuyC)

29 VIA, perfect testing ground for the Small Diameter Bomb then?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:33 AM (xYiAv)

30 Manafort crying uncle sure has Leftists drooling over the end of President Trump

Posted by: Skip

"WE'Z GOTZ THE TRUMPENFUHERER NOW!!!"

Part 4,323,455

The Kabuki Theater continues.

Posted by: Puddleglum, undisclosed location at September 16, 2018 06:30 AM

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They are going nuts even though NPR is reporting that the "deal" has nothing to do with the Russia investigation.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 16, 2018 06:34 AM (JUOKG)

31 G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at September 16, 2018 06:34 AM (58Au8)

32 Corgis in the barrel being willowed Sir!

Posted by: saf at September 16, 2018 06:35 AM (5IHGB)

33 Hey Salty Dawg, well the Muse ran away with me yesterday. Batted out almost 1,200 words of story in about two hours yesterday. But then had to go to work. And well this is a totes new story and not something working on previously. But hey progress.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:35 AM (xYiAv)

34 All of the flooding seems to be located down along the coast at Wilmington and Myrtle Beach.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

Lumberton is getting hammered again. Re-living Matthew. May be worse this go round.

Posted by: golfman at September 16, 2018 06:36 AM (rhXTS)

35 Admiral McRaven. I used to think he was a good guy. But, like a lot of Flag Officers selected, seems to have gone off the rail.

There is a very funny picture of him and ISTR the Mayor of Tampa, with pbho bowing to her. He had an interesting expression on his face.

He had to know how bad it was in 2009-20176, and he still thought Trump was the bad guy?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:36 AM (hyuyC)

36 Early Morning thread is... early.

McRaven can EABOD.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 16, 2018 06:38 AM (KCxuz)

37 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

That is wonderful news. I guess Wally World is your version of a person from Porlock.

May the muse have wings for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:39 AM (hyuyC)

38 Hope ya had a great fundraising day yesterday NaCly.

Also heard on the radio that they now have a Chik-Fil-A in the stadium.

Eat Moar Chiken!!

Posted by: teej at September 16, 2018 06:39 AM (tOHeO)

39 Admiral McRaven. I used to think he was a good guy. But, like a lot of Flag Officers selected, seems to have gone off the rail.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:36 AM (hyuyC)

I am generally skeptical of any general that made his way up the ranks during 2009-2017.

Posted by: golfman at September 16, 2018 06:40 AM (rhXTS)

40 Right now WU is only reporting about 3" of rain in Myrtle Beach. That can't be right because we have had more rain than that here.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:41 AM (mpXpK)

41 Dharma Institute

Not always. Admiral Jeremiah Denton was a decent Senator. He is the good Viet Nam POW example.

Some local guy named Eisenhower done pretty good. Maybe you heard of him?

And we will never know, thanks to the media, how General LeMay and Admiral Stockade would have been in office.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:44 AM (hyuyC)

42 What I found in the Navy was that once you got above the level of Captain (O-6) all of it became political. and after Obama scrubbed the officer and senior enlisted under his reign of terror the only ones left were lefty assholes.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:44 AM (mpXpK)

43 Well Gaylord was ably assisted by Mabus, where did that turd go?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:46 AM (xYiAv)

44 golfman

It's not just the flag officers.

Selection boards had quotas. Diversity was more important than operational excellence. I aver we need to prune the officer bloat, get the poor leaders out, and get ready for a war with China in 5 years.

Look at those 7th Fleet COs. Oh well, the US Navy had a very long tradition of poor leadership after long periods of peace.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:47 AM (hyuyC)

45 Savo Sound pruned a lot of substandard officers, alas lost plenty of ships and good men because of it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:49 AM (xYiAv)

46 And we will never know, thanks to the media, how General LeMay and Admiral Stockade would have been in office.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Thinking it's a typo, should that be Admiral Stockdale?

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 06:49 AM (8ikIW)

47 teej

Yes, the Chik-Fil-A is in the Tent City area, where our group started out in 2011.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:49 AM (hyuyC)

48 Well let me get my writing face back on, thought about making things go off the rails for the main character earlier in story but sticking to original plan for them to just start to taste success and it all turns into a mud pie.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:50 AM (xYiAv)

49 Bruce

I used autocorrect to turn my poor spelling into a typo. Thanks for the correction. At some level, we know what we mean, unlike my computer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:51 AM (hyuyC)

50 "Oh stewardess! I read typos!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:51 AM (xYiAv)

51 " VIA, perfect testing ground for the Small Diameter Bomb then?"

How about they just park T.S. Florence over the entire group.

For about a week.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 06:52 AM (wldC6)

52 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

Do you type it all, or use speech recognition?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:52 AM (hyuyC)

53 VIA, I like your idea.

Salty Dawg, no speech recognition I just madly type away

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 16, 2018 06:53 AM (xYiAv)

54 I used autocorrect to turn my poor spelling into a typo. Thanks for the correction. At some level, we know what we mean, unlike my computer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I've been around here for a number of years. Typos can be fun. Another 20 comments at least on a good one.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 06:53 AM (8ikIW)

55 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

LOL. From POW flag officers, to Airplane. Love it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:55 AM (hyuyC)

56 Bruce

FeneloneSpoke is lethal with a typo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 06:56 AM (hyuyC)

57 You get a hate shake, and you get a hate shake, and...

Chines navy?
I could be mistaken. Happens a fair amount.
I just figure our sub guys will play "Now you have a navy,, now you don't" with em.

Posted by: teej at September 16, 2018 06:58 AM (tOHeO)

58 I really hope that McRaven isn't the author of the op ed. It would be unseemly for the man who came to public fame for his motivational speech on bravely facing the day, to pen an anonymous screed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 16, 2018 07:01 AM (kQs4Y)

59 Vic We Have No Party

Thank you for the links. Much appreciated.

Speaking of AoSHQ memes, you mentioned your MIL.
Putting that info together with the upcoming book thread, are you a member of the Howard Family from Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children?
I expect a denial, of course.

That idea would explain a lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:04 AM (hyuyC)

60 Morning you people. I need coffee, stat.

Posted by: Muad'dib at September 16, 2018 07:04 AM (qvdxK)

61 That op-ed could be as much from a intern as well as total bull shit

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:04 AM (T4oHT)

62
NWS WPC @NWSWPC
2 hours ago

[5 AM Sunday] Catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding risk today across much of NC, portions of SC, & southwest VA. Additional rainfall amounts of 5-10" inches are expected, which will produce flash flooding, river flooding and possible landslides in the mountainous areas.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 16, 2018 07:06 AM (LOgQ4)

63 teej

There are valid reasons for my concern.

I have two hopes.
1) We have made clear to Red China that peace is better than war, and we will use robust strategic weapons to trade any sunken ships for their cities.

2) That China is a weaker country than appears on the surface. And bad things happen to them. Except for the replacement of Xi. That would be a good thing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:07 AM (hyuyC)

64 If McRaven really made that remark about Brennan the Traitor's security clearance, PDT should fire his worthless backside.
After stripping him of his rank of course.

Posted by: teej at September 16, 2018 07:08 AM (tOHeO)

65 Vic it could be about the rain, I have watched it intently and the storm was pulling it off the ocean just North of the border and pulling it counter clockwise into your area ( as much as I know where you are)
I do have a interest in the MB area so was keeping a eye on it.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:09 AM (T4oHT)

66 I have been out of milk and bread for three days now. This crap hit at the worst time. I was already running low and needed to go to the store. And now I can't because they are all closed. And even if they were not closed they would all be out of milk and bread.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

67 teej

Their is a belief, and IDK how valid it is, that the Chinese have the South China Sea wired for sound, (think SOSUS) making that area a tad dangerous to our subs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:09 AM (hyuyC)

68 59 Speaking of AoSHQ memes, you mentioned your MIL.

Putting that info together with the upcoming book thread, are you a member of the Howard Family from Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children?

I expect a denial, of course.

That idea would explain a lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:04 AM (hyuyC)

Not a chance, all of my male lineage died in their early 60s. I am already older than my father, my grandfather. and my great grandfather when they died.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:11 AM (mpXpK)

69
How do you long in to this place?
Where does the password go?

Posted by: Gordon Gainless at September 16, 2018 07:14 AM (I9Sw7)

70 Well NaCly, I've never been in the loop on all that stuff.
My naval knowledge pretty much begins and ends with Clancy. D)

But in all my favorite books and movies the good guy always wins.
Even if he walks away all downcast at the end like "The Searchers."

Posted by: teej at September 16, 2018 07:14 AM (tOHeO)

71 Vic We Have No Party

Just keep on keeping on, then. Your posts are an AoSHQ treasure. And you pick the most interesting news links.

I'd sent you some brown through the USB port, but my technology is a tad limited here in the rural wilderness.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:15 AM (hyuyC)

72 Good morning horde! Mine arent typos, Im just ignified.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at September 16, 2018 07:15 AM (gUpxZ)

73 Got to watch the fight last night at my cousin's house. Professional boxing is just as corrupt as politics.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 16, 2018 07:16 AM (v1udk)

74 teej

How poorly the UK Royal Navy and the US Navy fight at the start of wars has always been on my mind. Never more so than when we faced off with Libya in 1986, however. I had skin in that game.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:17 AM (hyuyC)

75 71 I'd sent you some brown through the USB port, but my technology is a tad limited here in the rural wilderness.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:15 AM (hyuyC)

Thanks anyway. My brown supply is low right now, down to the bottom of the jug. And today is Sunday so no brown available except from bootleggers. Well, can't go out on the porch anyway.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:17 AM (mpXpK)

76 Man, my typas are out of contrul. And I've noticed my old spell-check seems to be very unhelfpul since my latest OS 10.13 upgrade.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:20 AM (hyuyC)

77 Man, my typas are out of contrul.

I know it's early, check to see if you're using your toes instead of your fingers.

jk

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:22 AM (8ikIW)

78 Vic We Have No Party

We need to get you a supply and send it to you. What are your preferences?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:22 AM (hyuyC)

79 2 days before a snow fall of any dimension you can't find bread in 100 stores within 10 miles of me

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:24 AM (T4oHT)

80 78 We need to get you a supply and send it to you. What are your preferences?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:22 AM (hyuyC)

Alas, can't send brown in the mail in SC. But normally I drink cheap RnR. I used to like Jim Beam but it started getting expensive here and don't even think about the really good stuff like Crown. All liquor is expensive as hell in SC. Even that cheap RnR stuff is $18 here. My little brother in GA gets it for $10.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:26 AM (mpXpK)

81 1) We have made clear to Red China that peace is better than war, and we will use robust strategic weapons to trade any sunken ships for their cities.

Well, if Captain Tracey helps the Khoms out with his phaser, then all hell would break loose.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 16, 2018 07:26 AM (EoRCO)

82 What are your preferences?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Ha. I'm reminded of the time a friend and I walked into a bar on a cheap beer night. Another friend, who we haven't seen for a while, is sitting at the bar with a beer in front of him, talking to a couple of females. The guy I walked in with sits by him and asks the bartender to get this guy a drink. Guy says, without hesitation, I'll have a double Chivas on the rocks.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:27 AM (8ikIW)

83 Bruce

It's probably a control interface problem. If I used my toes I'd need bigger keys on my keyboard. Maybe I need a new brain! Abby Normal has one to donate, ISTR.

Slower typing and proofreading may be my answer. But the thread moves along pretty fast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:27 AM (hyuyC)

84 A interesting thing is I wiped out Jug Ears real name in every way in the tablet dictionary, but a update put them back so now if I type P r e s I d e n t it gives me every option of him and no matter how much I type Trump it doesn't put him there.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:28 AM (T4oHT)

85 LOL, the last "on the rocks" drink I had in a bar was Jim Beam (which was the well brand) and it was $10 a shot. And that was over ten years ago and in FL.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:28 AM (mpXpK)

86 Lying in a hammock in the basement reading a good book with a cat lying on my chest. I might stay here all day.

Posted by: Bama Bubba at September 16, 2018 07:29 AM (p9mPa)

87 South China Sea?
So, shoot some noisemakers into the place that sink and start blaring some heavy metal while our subs are positioning.

Our brand spanking new space force do away with their satellites as we knock out their coastal defenses.

Trump calls Xi and tells him that was just jumping jacks to get warmed up. You SURE you want to step into the ring with a heavyweight?
Because then I might get angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
I'm a firm believer in The Ryan Doctrine.

Posted by: teej at September 16, 2018 07:30 AM (tOHeO)

88 LOL, the last "on the rocks" drink I had in a bar was Jim Beam (which was the well brand) and it was $10 a shot. And that was over ten years ago and in FL.
Posted by: Vic

This took place about 1976. Of course inflation being inflation, it was still expensive. Considering it was 75 cent draft beer night.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:31 AM (8ikIW)

89 84 cont. So the moral of my story is I wonder what organization controls the tablet dictionary updates? That is one example but do think the tablet has a Leftist bent.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:31 AM (T4oHT)

90 Today's limerick contains a bit of medical advice.

Link in Nick

Posted by: Muldoon at September 16, 2018 07:32 AM (m45I2)

91 F-1 race from Singapore is on at 0800 this morning on ESPN 2

Even further OT: was watching some NASCAR-type race, but a lower series. You know figure-eight demolition derby racing? One of the leaders used to do that. In boats! Can Norwegians do that? No, I don't think so!

Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2018 07:32 AM (TQyCa)

92 I assume bars will charge a shot for what they pay the whole bottle for, a restaurant will double the price for a bottle of wine.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:34 AM (T4oHT)

93
Skip - Looks the rain will hit our area noon Monday through Tuesday 8 pm. An inch. Actually a little bit less then our 'normal' this summer.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 16, 2018 07:34 AM (LOgQ4)

94 88 This took place about 1976. Of course inflation
being inflation, it was still expensive. Considering it was 75 cent
draft beer night.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:31 AM (8ikIW)

I was in CA in 1976 I drank mostly beer then, but I think hard liquor was about $4 a shot for the well stuff.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:34 AM (mpXpK)

95
Spell check dictionaries can be edited.
Depending on the dictionary.

Play around with it and see.

Posted by: Gordon Gainless at September 16, 2018 07:35 AM (I9Sw7)

96 As a kid we very often went camping near a dirt track so got to see midgets, oval, figure 8, and demo derby.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:36 AM (T4oHT)

97 I assume bars will charge a shot for what they pay the whole bottle for, a restaurant will double the price for a bottle of wine.
Posted by: Skip

At least. I mainly drink beer. Around here a bottle of Sam Adams, or similar, is now minimally 5 bucks.

60 dollars for a 12 pack is kind of pricey.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:37 AM (8ikIW)

98 92
I assume bars will charge a shot for what they pay the whole bottle for,
a restaurant will double the price for a bottle of wine.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:34 AM (T4oHT)

The last bottle of wine I got in a restaurant was three times what you would pay in a grocery store. Beer, wine, and liquor (if available) are what keep restaurants in business. They actually lose money in the kitchen.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:37 AM (mpXpK)

99 As a kid we very often went camping near a dirt track so got to see midgets

I think they prefer to be called "little people"

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:38 AM (8ikIW)

100 Muldoon

Pretty good limerick. Sounds like San Fransisco or Paris, France. But not Paris, Texas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:38 AM (hyuyC)

101 Same goes for sporting events, a 6 pack at a baseball game will set you back as much as a case

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:39 AM (T4oHT)

102 ...knock out their coastal defences with Tomahawks, that should have read.

Ah well.

I'd best try to do somethinv productive.

Posted by: teej at September 16, 2018 07:39 AM (tOHeO)

103 Taxes on alcohol underpin lots of government. Sin taxes go down well for the control freaks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:40 AM (hyuyC)

104 Same goes for sporting events, a 6 pack at a baseball game will set you back as much as a case
Posted by: Skip

I had read that the Cubs beer was something like 9 bucks a can. And by the time the vendor hauls it around the stadium for 30 minutes, it's pee warm.

No extra charge.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:41 AM (8ikIW)

105 teej

May the fish be biting and the women tasty. Or something like that. Don't reverse the order of those two items.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:41 AM (hyuyC)

106 I made it back from New Jerky last night. good to be home.

Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 07:43 AM (UdKB7)

107 oops typo

Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 07:43 AM (UdKB7)

108 oops typo
Posted by: freaked

Yeah...right.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 07:44 AM (8ikIW)

109 No really. The "g" should be capitalized.

Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 07:45 AM (UdKB7)

110 Roy Cooper is turning Florence into a greater disaster on purpose. He has shut down majority arteries South of the his home at Raleigh trapping people all over the state. He claims flooding, but the flooding of the major arteries is very small, for the most part they are passable. Buy doing this and diverting traffic around NC he is preventing supplies from reaching the affected areas. This is going to become a much larger human tragedy than is necessary.

Posted by: Locke Common at September 16, 2018 07:46 AM (CUym7)

111
If forget what a beer costs at my favorite little restaurant on the banks of the Schuylkill River. Maybe four bucks but it's about 16 ounces. Nice outdoor deck that overlooks a canal.

Too pricey to buy mixed drinks. If I have one, I want three. Beer fills me up. Skip probably knows the place.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 16, 2018 07:46 AM (LOgQ4)

112 NaCly, regarding the Chinese i will give my 2 cents as a Navy vet (quitter after 5 years). I now work in the auto industry as my nic suggests. They make a major component for a car 100% of you have heard of. For 15 months they have been unable to machine one of the sub-components to it. It takes the U.S. Made part that interfaces with that quickly changed to allow the Chinese made junk to function.
If they cannot do that, how they heck could they manage DC in a war time environment?

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 07:47 AM (kiSdp)

113 If you haven't caught the Google TGIF story, it is worth your time. I haven't seen a short video that digests the highlights.

This was three days after the election, and about six months before they fired James Demore. This video is a huge gift to his lawsuit. I hope that he doesn't settle out of court, because this needs to be seen in public, and there needs to be a legal precedent.

I knew that the inmates ran the asylum, but seeing a bunch of people wearing actual propeller beanies is something. Business schools are going to write papers about the cliquish culture running an immensely profitable company off the road.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 16, 2018 07:48 AM (rnAwa)

114 110
Roy Cooper is turning Florence into a greater disaster on purpose. He
has shut down majority arteries South of the his home at Raleigh
trapping people all over the state. He claims flooding, but the flooding
of the major arteries is very small, for the most part they are
passable. Buy doing this and diverting traffic around NC he is
preventing supplies from reaching the affected areas. This is going to
become a much larger human tragedy than is necessary.

Posted by: Locke Common at September 16, 2018 07:46 AM (CUym7)

Of course, he is a Democrat.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 07:48 AM (mpXpK)

115 FMN - probably could walk there

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:49 AM (T4oHT)

116 5 am is way too damn early to be awake. But I can never sleep in hotels. And I'm going to be on a plane during the Singapore GP. I hope Hamilton somehow loses.

Harvey gave us 50" of rain over about 36 hours...hard to imagine, isn't it?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel

Safe travels, Mrs. Peel !

Posted by: JT at September 16, 2018 07:49 AM (XSPsI)

117 As a result, I'm not afraid of them at all militarily. They were provided prints for that component yet cannot make it properly. We had to provide a work-around .

I'm trying to be vague enough to not give away the car or my company.

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 07:50 AM (kiSdp)

118 Night F-1 races are a great visual spectacle, if Hamilton wins it might be getting close to the fat lady warm up.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:50 AM (T4oHT)

119 And NaCly they have CONSTANT quality problems, which MX or certainly our U.S. Suppliers do not have.

I've been with my company 25 years, not a babe in the woods. Got out of the Navy after the Haitian refugee thingy at Gitmo if you remember that.

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 07:52 AM (kiSdp)

120 Max Verstappen is one fearless competitor

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:53 AM (T4oHT)

121 " ... he is preventing supplies from reaching the affected areas. This is going to become a much larger human tragedy than is necessary.
Posted by: Locke Common at September 16, 2018 07:46 AM (CUym7)"

Well, from the demonrat & media (BIRM) perspective, it is necessary for this to be a huge disaster, and for days their fondest hopes have been smashed, one after another.
We have now reached the point where nature will require human assistance.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at September 16, 2018 07:53 AM (58Au8)

122 FMN - probably could walk there

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:49 AM

Ha. Thought from description of you being on the other side of the river you'd know the place. Didn't get a chance this summer to go there with this lousy weather.

I like their fish and chips. Something I never make myself.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 16, 2018 07:53 AM (LOgQ4)

123 God speed Mrs Peel

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:53 AM (T4oHT)

124 Timing and Scoring notes there has been a safety car in every race here

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:55 AM (T4oHT)

125 clutch

I know about the Chinese quality manufacturing issues, but they seem to be building robust ships very quickly. The first mover in a big conflict has an advantage.

The Chinese are a step up from the USSR practices of crudely made ships and tanks in large numbers, only good for limited hours in combat.

The USN has extremely good damage control training, as shown by those 7th Fleet DDGs. But good DC is less of a war winner in a brief war. "Prevention is better than First Aid" is my motto.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:55 AM (hyuyC)

126 As a result, I'm not afraid of them at all militarily. They were provided prints for that component yet cannot make it properly. We had to provide a work-around .
I'm trying to be vague enough to not give away the car or my company.
Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 07:50 AM (kiSdp)

But they know how to turn a television into a watch.

Posted by: Zombie Reggie White at September 16, 2018 07:55 AM (EoRCO)

127 'and for days their fondest hopes have been smashed, one after another. '

They will claim that everyone who dies in North and South Carolina for the next three months is a victim of the hurricane and it will be PDT's fault. You can bet on it.

Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 07:56 AM (UdKB7)

128 NaCly this responds to the first sentence of your 2nd point about being weaker than they appear. They are, at least from an engineering and manufacturing standpoint.

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 07:56 AM (kiSdp)

129 I'm on the Montgomery side, swam in the Schuylkill as a kid often, lived to tell about it and never grew any extra limbs from it.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 07:58 AM (T4oHT)

130 F1 race: Verstappen needs to avoid the Vettle/Hamilton sandwich at turn 1. And hope that the RedBull lasts the race. keeping off the barriers would be good. otherwise, Hamilton closes the title deal.

Posted by: TANJ at September 16, 2018 07:58 AM (Wa5hI)

131
The Mayor of New Bern NC just gave some interview in front of an uprooted tree, hanging by a thread from toppling across the road, while cars are driving by oblivious to the hazard.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 16, 2018 08:01 AM (LOgQ4)

132 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:55 AM (hyuyC)

Yes, I defer to you in regards to the Navy. As I said, I was a quitter, not a 20 year guy. I would question the operability of those quickly built ships. Not sure if a conflict would be quick with them or prolonged.

Personally I think their One Belt strategy will really piss off a bunch of countries over there once the loan bills come due.

Most of the Asians countries already dislike the Chinese, right?

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 08:01 AM (kiSdp)

133 clutch

I have plenty of experience with Chinese grad students. The Red Chinese culture is parasitic, and is just a larger version of corrupt, Second World countries. Their desire for control (the Social Credit idea) will cripple their future. True, the West has been subsidizing them.

IMHO, they are undergoing Imperial Overstretch.

But we have our own worries.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:01 AM (hyuyC)

134 All yesterday, Mr. Black and I were kinda laughing about the nothingburger Florence was bringing to the upstate. I will say that we are getting a boatload of rain and gusty winds now. More than all day yesterday and it's been raining all night. At least the power hasn't gone out yet...and I hope it doesn't. *knocks on wood*

And that cat p'shop on last night's ONT is superb. I lol'd.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun and Rolled Up Man Pants at September 16, 2018 08:01 AM (mQ0Mc)

135 I am thinking a safety car on the first lap

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 08:02 AM (T4oHT)

136 Anne Hathaway denounces white privilege in award speech

Then, speaking to the ladies, gentlemen and "gentlethem" in the crowd, Hathaway denounced white, straight and cisgender privilege.

If the dingbat really hates straight white people why doesn't she rid the world of one of them and off her useless self

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 16, 2018 08:03 AM (SiINZ)

137 NaCly, we agree mostly. What was your rating, if I may ask?

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 08:03 AM (kiSdp)

138 Anybody else do the 'Google American Inventors' thing yesterday, and notice a skewing of the results?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:04 AM (wldC6)

139 clutch

You are not a quitter. Honorable service is needed, of whatever length, to keep the "force for good times" strong.

I aver the USN is Western Civilization's reserve force. A strong Navy prevents piracy and underpins world trade. Without it, the West is in big trouble.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:05 AM (hyuyC)

140 clutch

O-ganger.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:06 AM (hyuyC)

141 VIA,

A couple of months ago on a Book Thread you mentioned you might have a Boiler Technician 3/2 Rate Training Manual. If you do and if you are willing to sell it I would like to buy it.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at September 16, 2018 08:06 AM (5jAa5)

142 Goog did a thing ? Who knew ?

And skewed results ? Inconceivable !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at September 16, 2018 08:06 AM (58Au8)

143 Then, speaking to the ladies, gentlemen and "gentlethem" in the crowd, Hathaway denounced white, straight and cisgender privilege.

--

What an idiot. Gentlethem? FFS...

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun and Rolled Up Man Pants at September 16, 2018 08:08 AM (mQ0Mc)

144 clutch

Ship driving was a lot of fun. But I work for a living these days. At some point we have to move on.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:08 AM (hyuyC)

145 NaCly, should we provide those open sea lanes free of cost to the Asian countries that put our workers out of jobs? Serious question.
I used the pejorative of quitter as I found out that I was spending too much time away from home from my young family. And I had a corruptC.O. on my ship, which was one of the first with women on it. He carried on with a J.O. while we were in the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm.

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 08:10 AM (kiSdp)

146 "A couple of months ago on a Book Thread you mentioned you might have a Boiler Technician 3/2 Rate Training Manual. If you do and if you are willing to sell it I would like to buy it."

I have boxes of stuff in the attic which we won't gain access to till we move.
Which is now projected to be late spring/early summer '19.

But if I come across it, I'll let you know.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:11 AM (wldC6)

147 VIA,

Ok, and thanks.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at September 16, 2018 08:12 AM (5jAa5)

148 Anybody else do the 'Google American Inventors' thing yesterday, and notice a skewing of the results?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:04 AM (wldC6)

Odd how they didn't show the black person who invented Googlag. I hope those awful people at Googlag aren't going to try to use their white privilege to claim credit for creating it. They need to immediately announce the black person who created it and hand the company over to him. I mean her.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 16, 2018 08:13 AM (SiINZ)

149 63 your assumption is that the Chinese leaders care about their people. They do not. Killing 30 million of their own did not bother them. They will do it again to keep their own power.

You cannot reason with sociopaths.

Posted by: Le Garde Vieux at September 16, 2018 08:14 AM (swldI)

150 krak, I love you but it's Sunday morning. Couldn't we have left it on the ONT for a while longer? I don't fee so bad sleeping through that. Between you and my neighbor's son, who wanted to go for a walk at 0600, my planned Sunday sleep-in has gone out the window.

(yawn) G'morning, Horde.

Posted by: creeper at September 16, 2018 08:14 AM (l0mIQ)

151 Speaking of petty people, from petty parties.
With their petty protests, in a petty manner.

http://mynorthwest.com/1112081/governor-inslee-marksmanship-certificates/

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:14 AM (wldC6)

152 135 checked off

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 08:15 AM (T4oHT)

153 Is the Weather Channel still on the job, I don't watch them anymore. Still fun watching that guy struggle to stand up while a couple of dudes walk by probably talking about their latest conquest at the bar last night.

Posted by: colin at September 16, 2018 08:16 AM (jPjCK)

154 clutch

Yes we should. Because it does benefit us. Coal and ag products are pretty important exports from the heartland. Additionally, because we can keep shipping lanes open allows us to shut selected shipping lanes if we so desire. This is a strategic power few countries have.

I was on the third haze gray and underway ship in the Atlantic Fleet to get women crew members. A very interesting process, as well as an interesting before and after contrast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:17 AM (hyuyC)

155 145 NaCly, should we provide those open sea lanes free of cost to the Asian countries that put our workers out of jobs? Serious question. "

We should be clear about what our policy actually is. Just as Britain did for 140 years before we took over the job, for the last 80 years we have provided open sea lanes for ourselves, because our economy depends on large part on our ability to export goods around the world. Other nations get a free ride because it's useful to us to have them depend on us for security. Also it keeps any other country from thinking there's a gap they can exploit - a realization that came after we let Japan build an offensive navy that was far too strong in the 30's.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2018 08:18 AM (V2Yro)

156 Still fun watching that guy struggle to stand up while a couple of dudes walk by probably talking about their latest conquest at the bar last night.
Posted by: colin

There were some funny remakes of it on Twitchy

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 08:19 AM (8ikIW)

157 Verizon dropped The Weather Channel few years ago, was funny how they went on every storm.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 08:19 AM (T4oHT)

158 46 And we will never know, thanks to the media, how General LeMay and Admiral Stockade would have been in office.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Thinking it's a typo, should that be Admiral Stockdale?

Posted by: Bruce

I'm thinking autocucumber at work.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 16, 2018 08:19 AM (IeDO8)

159 "I'm thinking autocucumber at work. "

The auto-cucumber mocks me every chance it gets.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:20 AM (wldC6)

160
58 I really hope that McRaven isn't the author of the op ed. It would be unseemly for the man who came to public fame for his motivational speech on bravely facing the day, to pen an anonymous screed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage

It's not him. Too much guts and he already said his piece to WaPo.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 16, 2018 08:21 AM (IeDO8)

161 /governor-inslee-marksmanship-certificates/

Everywhere you look, the Great Unmasking goes forward, ever accelerating.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at September 16, 2018 08:21 AM (58Au8)

162 LOL

Mike Seidel should quit acting and go back to being a weather presenter.

Posted by: JAS at September 16, 2018 08:22 AM (3HNOQ)

163 Good morning fellow mouth breathers and slackers!

That weather channel video.... FFS, does anyone even take those guys seriously? TWC = CNN = MSM

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 16, 2018 08:22 AM (NDcnw)

164 80 78 We need to get you a supply and send it to you. What are your preferences?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 07:22 AM (hyuyC)

Alas, can't send brown in the mail in SC. But normally I drink cheap RnR. I used to like Jim Beam but it started getting expensive here and don't even think about the really good stuff like Crown. All liquor is expensive as hell in SC. Even that cheap RnR stuff is $18 here. My little brother in GA gets it for $10.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

The price of liquor (taxes mostly) in Canada is enough to drive you to...well you know.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 16, 2018 08:23 AM (IeDO8)

165 NaCly I had a poor opinion of women in the workforce when I left the Navy. Many of them used their sexuality to get out of work, advance, and other shitty stuff.

It took two to tango and the men weren't much better.
Fortunately the women are very competent at my company.

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 08:24 AM (kiSdp)

166 8 The kitteh pic is gone from Fox but Drudge still has it along with an interview. BION the kitteh's name is 'survivor'.

http://tinyurl.com/y7s4w6yt
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

I read the whole article. The water stopped rising just short of his front door so his house was dry, but the flooded streets left him feeling "trapped".

His father stayed in the house and didn't want to leave. I would also stay under those circumstances. Sounds like Simmons had sort of a panic attack.

Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 08:25 AM (sdi6R)

167 I'm at the airport and not a single channel is on ESPN2. Unbelievable. But I'm DVRing it and will watch it when I get home.

Verstappen is my favorite driver, actually, but I am also always rooting for Hamilton to lose, so I'm backing Vettel by default. Also, Vettel is kind of cute, in a scrawny* German way. Verstappen, on the other hand... Have you noticed Red Bull photoshops the crap out of him all the time and takes every opportunity they can get to not show his face? Like, if they're making Max and Daniel pose with new gear, Max is always wearing the hoodie or cap with his face in shadow. And their pre-race shots of him are always taken after he has his helmet on. That poor kid.

*I looked it up out of morbid curiosity the other day. He is eight inches taller than me and weighs about thirty-five pounds more than I do. Meanwhile, Altuve is five inches taller than me and over sixty pounds heavier.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 16, 2018 08:26 AM (uxhUz)

168 Le Garde Vieux

We deal with sociopaths all the time.

Around 108 million are in the top 4 megacities in China. That will get even a ChiCom leadership's attention.

17 mega cities in China, with about 55% of the population in urban areas. If you target cities, you can do unrecoverable amounts of damage.

Don't want something, then don't start nothing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:27 AM (hyuyC)

169 Buy some gas in Canada (Ontario). Someone has to pay for free health care don't they????

Posted by: colin at September 16, 2018 08:27 AM (jPjCK)

170 Mike Seidel should quit acting and go back to being a weather presenter.
Posted by: JAS

In that video, he's rocking back and forth. Looks like Rain Man waiting to get into the farmhouse to watch Judge Wopner

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 08:29 AM (8ikIW)

171 I started watching F-1 full time in 1997, I wanted anyone one to win but Ferrari

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 08:30 AM (T4oHT)

172 Lap 7 its Ham, Vet, Ver, Bot, Rai

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 08:31 AM (T4oHT)

173 Tom Servo

Clear policy? I want whatever you are drinking. The only clear policy to avoid war given in the last 60 years was during a very few of the Republican administrations.

We have plenty of doctrines we do not follow. Basically, we seem to make it up as we go along, especially under Carter, Clinton, and Obama.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:32 AM (hyuyC)

174 Lap 7 its Ham, Vet, Ver, Bot, Rai
---
Is this a pod race?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 16, 2018 08:32 AM (kQs4Y)

175 50/50 odds that Curtis LeMay woulda carpet-bombed Medicine Hat.

Posted by: klaftern at September 16, 2018 08:32 AM (RuIsu)

176 I saw this tweet from Joe Bastardi about Mike Seidel yesterday:

https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/
1040951724335407104

It's a plausible explanation.

Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 08:33 AM (sdi6R)

177 The only name I've seen guessed as to who wrote the anonymous op ed is Elaine Chao, the current Secretary of Transportation and McTurtle's wife."

There was also a piece making a pretty good case for it being a british born Presidential advisor named Fiona Hill - lots of liberal connections going way back. I think she's a lot more likely suspect than Chao.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2018 08:35 AM (V2Yro)

178 My wife watches the "new" Will and Grace. (I don't know why)

She had recorded the "first look" advertisement show for it that was on a few days ago.

Watching the show itself they all look a little older. When the do a close up interview with them about how funny the show will be this year....I'm sorry. You are all to long in the tooth to be playing clueless 25 year olds anymore.

Posted by: Bruce at September 16, 2018 08:35 AM (8ikIW)

179 clutch

This is a tell that military service is kinda a jobs program, rather than a warfighting machine. We still do pretty good compared with some of the EU militaries.

Given the skill set and numbers, could we go to all-male ships in the USN? Trading skills and diversity for unit cohesion and upper body strength? Back-biting, politicking, and wanting to get out of bilge-diving would be unaffected.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:35 AM (hyuyC)

180 It's a plausible explanation.

So is faking it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 16, 2018 08:36 AM (oVJmc)

181 trespassers wil

Posted by: mjc, the very, at September 16, 2018 08:36 AM (Pg+x7)

182 I had forgotten how great The Beautiful Ones is.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 16, 2018 08:37 AM (PUmDY)

183 I'll read any answers later. Chores beckon. As usual, a great thought-provoking thread.

Have a blessed day, everyone. May you have a home to return to, and not need to tread water.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2018 08:40 AM (hyuyC)

184 Does the navy still have the capability to mine enemy harbors? Or to sink cargo ships at the dock to prevent use of the harbor?

Posted by: Dharma Institute at September 16, 2018 08:43 AM (JFUxT)

185 I made it back from New Jerky last night. good to be home.

Posted by: freaked at September 16, 2018 07:43 AM (UdKB7)

Aww...little too much for ya?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 16, 2018 08:43 AM (9YBqo)

186 It's not fair. NC is getting all that rain while I spent seven hours yesterday dragging the hose around my little acre of Paradise from shrub to tree to flower trying to keep them alive.

Landscaping may be futile here, given the drought and marauding wildlife. Armadillos are moving five-pound rocks to get at the roots of my roses. Deer eat the shoots as fast as they grow. I'm getting no sleep protecting the flora from the fauna.

Posted by: creeper at September 16, 2018 08:45 AM (l0mIQ)

187 "Does the navy still have the capability to mine enemy harbors? Or to sink cargo ships at the dock to prevent use of the harbor?"

Yes

And

Yes

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:45 AM (wldC6)

188 naval policy under Carter, Clinton and Obama was a disaster, of course. Lucky for us it takes 30 years, give or take, for an opponent to build up a competent Navy. Carter got followed by Reagan who built the Navy back. Clinton got incredibly lucky, taking office after the Soviet Union fell apart, so he got handed the only functional Navy in the world for his term in office, and of course he had no idea what to do with it.

Obama is where things really began to fall apart, which is showing up now with the accidents, such as the USS McCain.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2018 08:46 AM (V2Yro)

189 If your bored this Sunday morning, I watched the starting of a big marine engine on YouTube. Not exactly like starting your car engine! I assume the engineer gets paid well. Its about 6 minutes, there are other videos that show it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSo0fb0JQZA

Posted by: colin at September 16, 2018 08:49 AM (jPjCK)

190 How soon do we have the USS McCain and the USS McCain II ?

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 08:50 AM (T4oHT)

191 Mornin', y'all. Rooster cat must understand I want to get up earlier because he's working on it for me; in before the librarian.

Now gonna go chew a couple coffee beans and get the sand outta my gears.

Posted by: mindful webworker - new week, new works at September 16, 2018 08:52 AM (cNEwX)

192 "Obama is where things really began to fall apart, which is showing up now with the accidents, such as the USS McCain."

The Obama era coincided with, in my opinion, the greatest cleansing of professional warfighter and enlisted senior leadership from the military that I had ever witnessed in over thirty years of service.

That era saw a huge influx to the leadership ranks of either true SJW's, or leaders who were willing to trade their core values for recognition, promotion and power by supporting these progressive initiatives which did nothing to support the mission of the military.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:52 AM (wldC6)

193 Horns won! Huskies won! Good morning!!

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2018 08:55 AM (Z48ZB)

194 193: & how to purge the purge?

Posted by: mjc, the very, at September 16, 2018 08:55 AM (Pg+x7)

195 192:
& how to purge the purge?

Posted by: mjc, the very, at September 16, 2018 08:56 AM (Pg+x7)

196 Good morning Glories!
We got some rain last night. Florence is here!
The leaves are starting to turn yellow and red, autumn is fast approaching.

Posted by: ALH at September 16, 2018 08:57 AM (6Zmow)

197 The Obama era coincided with, in my opinion, the greatest cleansing of professional warfighter and enlisted senior leadership from the military that I had ever witnessed in over thirty years of service.

That era saw a huge influx to the leadership ranks of either true SJW's, or leaders who were willing to trade their core values for recognition, promotion and power by supporting these progressive initiatives which did nothing to support the mission of the military.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:52 AM (wldC6)

Who would have thunk that electing an anti-American, commie as president would have been so deleterious to the military?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 16, 2018 08:57 AM (SiINZ)

198 I love stories with a happy ending.

http://tinyurl.com/yc6jgrwr

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:57 AM (wldC6)

199 Alabama has scored at least 50 pts in each of their three games this season.

Just noting.

Posted by: Grump928(C) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, Twice as Smug as You at September 16, 2018 08:57 AM (yQpMk)

200 *clear sigline*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2018 08:58 AM (yQpMk)

201 Obama is where things really began to fall apart, which is showing up now with the accidents, such as the USS McCain."

The Obama era coincided with, in my opinion, the greatest cleansing of professional warfighter and enlisted senior leadership from the military that I had ever witnessed in over thirty years of service.

That era saw a huge influx to the leadership ranks of either true SJW's, or leaders who were willing to trade their core values for recognition, promotion and power by supporting these progressive initiatives which did nothing to support the mission of the military.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 08:52 AM (wldC6)

Didn't I read it here that one of the ships collided because the two female officers weren't talking to each other.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 16, 2018 08:58 AM (dKiJG)

202 Didn't I read it here that one of the ships collided because the two female officers weren't talking to each other.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 16, 2018 08:58 AM (dKiJG)

Diversity is our strength comrade

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 16, 2018 09:00 AM (SiINZ)

203 "Didn't I read it here that one of the ships collided because the two female officers weren't talking to each other."

I had read that in several locations.

The truthfulness and accuracy of it is still, as far as I know, unverified.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2018 09:00 AM (wldC6)

204 Why did Seb take ultras? Of course, this works out well for Max, so there's that, but still.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 16, 2018 09:00 AM (uxhUz)

205 books up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 09:00 AM (mpXpK)

206 Alabama has scored at least 50 pts in each of their three games this season.

Just noting.

Posted by: Grump928(C) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, Twice as Smug as You

Noted. Penn State did have a game in which we only scored 45 points.

Twice as smug is a tall order, though.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, what is a proud Nitwit Lion at September 16, 2018 09:01 AM (fuK7c)

207 It's a plausible explanation.

So are fouls in soccer. Joe's trying to be very generous to his friend.

Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2018 09:02 AM (dVAq+)

208 I have a spam mail with the subject: A Guide to Solo Sex

also just noting.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2018 09:02 AM (yQpMk)

209 I really hope that McRaven isn't the author of the op ed.

McRaven penned an op-ed in response to Trump announcing he was to revoke Brennan's security clearance. He told the President to take his too. It was a couple of weeks ago. It isn't the anonymous one.

Posted by: no good deed at September 16, 2018 09:03 AM (1uG1d)

210 202 Didn't I read it here that one of the ships collided because the two female officers weren't talking to each other."

heh - wouldn't surprise me. The worst thing about the one with the slow cargo ship was that the only thing needed to avoid it was one seaman, standing on deck, saying "uh hey guys there's a pretty big ship over there and it's kinda coming our way." But nobody was posted.

that accident was like the scene in Austin Powers where the security guard stands in front of a very slow moving steam roller until it runs him over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2018 09:03 AM (V2Yro)

211 207
Joe's trying to be very generous to his friend.
Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2018 09:02 AM (dVAq+)

Yeah, but Bastardi is usually pretty quick to call out weather-related BS.

Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2018 09:05 AM (sdi6R)

212 Big rehabilitation push by ESPN this morning for Urban Meyer. Guess they had to wait to see if they'd survive TCU.

Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2018 09:05 AM (ziPP0)

213 I was actually worried about Ole Miss's offensive capability against Alabama's new secondary before the game, and even more so after they scored a TD on the first play from scrimmage. But that score was it for them. I liked Darth Saban's answer when he was asked at half time how Alabama was able to shut that down after the first play; 'We put a different guy on #14.'

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2018 09:08 AM (yQpMk)

214 T-bird, I wouldn't know, I don't watch SECSPN except for games. OSU is a NCAA glamor school, so of course he will be rehabbed.
Nice hash by the way.

Posted by: clutch at September 16, 2018 09:08 AM (kiSdp)

215 nude books

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2018 09:11 AM (yQpMk)

216 I just drug out my Icom receiver and tuned it to the local FM station just to make sure it wasn't just my reception for that low power local station. Nothing there at all, not even a carrier signal so they are probably without power. I tried a station in Columbia and got that fine.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 09:13 AM (mpXpK)

217 I presume someone has already noted that the flammable media post for the week is up.

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=377015

Posted by: mindful webworker - bookmarkey at September 16, 2018 09:17 AM (cNEwX)

218 'A Guide to Solo Sex'

The chapter on Wookies is pretty interesting.

Posted by: Han at September 16, 2018 09:17 AM (UdKB7)

219 The state of Georgia is hanging on horizontally for dear life. God help us.

Posted by: Ripley at September 16, 2018 09:34 AM (NbRJx)

220 Vic they are reporting lots of power outage, I would guess radio stations would have generators but who knows.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 09:35 AM (T4oHT)

221 220
Vic they are reporting lots of power outage, I would guess radio stations would have generators but who knows.

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2018 09:35 AM (T4oHT)

The local FM radio station is a low power "community service" station operated out of a guy's house about 5 miles from me. I doubt if he has a generator backup.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 09:37 AM (mpXpK)

222 BTW, the only power outage I have heard about around me the the local town. I have had a few flickers but no sustained power loss.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 16, 2018 09:50 AM (mpXpK)

223 190 How soon do we have the USS McCain and the USS McCain II ?

~~~
Do you, perhaps, mean *USS McCain II-mor * ?

Posted by: socalcon at September 16, 2018 09:56 AM (WAnre)

224 off sock.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 16, 2018 12:04 PM (u7ERy)

225 Florence Daniels wet and windy heading for the swamp with a greasy lawyer..MAN Tha FORTS..I will be telling ALL after a big bank deposit but will accept a K street hooker.........c/o Cox, Suker & Woodward.

Posted by: saf at September 16, 2018 02:25 PM (5IHGB)

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