Overnight Open Thread - 12/03/2024<br><i>[Roger Ball]</i>

Overnight Open Thread - 12/03/2024
[Roger Ball]

Greetings loyal and fabulous HORDE! The picture did not come from a web search or an AI bot. I took the picture with my Samsung S23 [not an endorsement] as I flew the last leg of the last rotation on the last day I was legally allowed to fly for a major airline. We were at 35,000 feet headed eastbound, somewhere over Tennessee at about 0600L. The sunrises are one of the things I miss, even after flying a red eye. There are, of course, some things that I don’t miss.

For example, I don’t miss the freekin’ gunfire. WTH? Spirit, Jet Blue and Southwest. You already have heard the stories but please, just stop! Now, I must admit that Haiti is really no surprise. It is a failed state. But Dallas, as far as I know, hasn’t failed yet. So, I was surprised that Southwest was hit as it was taxiing out at Dallas Love.

The cockpit of a Southwest Airlines plane was hit by a bullet at Dallas Love Field Friday night, sources and officials told WFAA.

So, I wonder if the airlines will start offering stylish Kevlar uniform items? Maybe Kevlar wrapped seat cushions for the peeps? You know, we should remember the experience of our Vietnam vets, eh?

And this, should it ever come to pass, I would not miss:
Airbus Wants to Install a Radio-Equipped Toilet in Airplane Cockpits

The potty proposal by the European aerospace giant is part of ongoing work into what the aviation industry has dubbed Extended Minimum Crew Operations or eMCO for short.
Extended Minimum Crew Operations is a euphemism for single-pilot operations in which just one pilot is at the controls of a packed widebody aircraft during the cruise phase of flight.

e=MCO. I can’t wait for the memes. What does the HORDE think? Good idea or bad idea? Having flown single-seat fighters and multi-crew transports for over 50 years, I think it’s a decidedly bad idea. Two humans are the minimum for a reason. It’s usually true that one pilot can handle everything when operations are normal. But that’s not why they get paid. They get paid to handle everything when things go wrong, as they inevitably will at some point. Predictably, the alarm bells are going off right now.

Suggestions considered by the pan-European agency included asking pilots to deliberately dehydrate themselves before starting a lone shift at the aircraft controls, as well as requiring them to eat a high-protein, low-residue diet to mitigate the risk of them needing to defecate.
The agency also looked at other outlandish solutions like making pilots wear adult diapers, or equipping cockpits with disposable urine collectors.

And y’all think riding in coach sucks. It will be interesting to see where this goes, but with AI seemingly invading every aspect of our existence, I’d say that eMCO is only a matter of time.

It’s not just the airplanes where the shenanigans are in the works: MEET AIMEE

"It starts with a digital control tower. So that is where we replace the out-of-the-window view from the traditional tower cabinets above us. That information, because it's now digital rather than an analogue view, means that we can send that information through processing. And that processing is done through our digital artificial intelligence engine, which is known as AIMEE."

It is a brave new world, eh? I wonder what happens when AIMEE becomes self-aware. I saw a movie about that once. And obviously there’s a stable supply of electrons coming from all those wind turbines, right?

BTW...off topic…what is it with lefty socialists loving rape and suicide?

Rape and Suicide Increase With Religious ‘Nones,’

"Truscott’s analysis showed a very clear correlation between increases in the rate of Americans identifying as religious “nones” and rape and suicide rates."

Now be honest, HORDE, if you are not old enough to watch, don't click!

If it isn’t rape and murder with those people, it’s global thermonuclear war, I guess.

BIDEN to PUTIN: “DUCK!”

"BREAKING: Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces "every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed [to Ukraine] between now and January 20th" when Trump takes office."

Isn’t this called “poisoning the well”? It seems like all the lefties don’t like it and call it a logical fallacy. But I think it seems accurate here. BIDEN: “Hey, Don. Good luck with your next four years. Too bad about WW3 that I started.”

It’s like the left has determined that if they can’t rule the world, they will leave no world left to rule.

From fertile creative minds, perhaps early in 2025 (OFP).

In response to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton’s post on Truth Social that Trump was “prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Trump replied “TRUE!!”

It gets better. Did you catch this story? I found it via Jeff Childers’ excellent daily Coffee & COVID blog.
Texas land commissioner offers 1,400 acres in Starr County to Trump for ‘deportation facilities.

Texas Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham on Nov. 20 sent a letter to the incoming Trump Administration offering over 1,400 acres of newly acquired General Land Office (GLO) state land in Starr County, Texas, for the construction of deportation facilities and staging areas to carry out the Trump Administration’s plans to deport illegal immigrants beginning in 2025.
As Texas Land Commissioner and steward of over 13 million acres, it’s been my promise to all Texans since assuming my role at the GLO to use every tool at my disposal to gain complete operational control of our southern border,”

Giddy up, muchachos and muchachas! Oh, and all the jihadis and TDA gang members too. Bye.

But what about the other border? We seldom even consider it and the news…well, the “news” certainly doesn’t care. I found a nice little essay in The Free Press, The Other American Border Towns, by A.M. Hickman.

Seven months after the roaring success of the Woodstock festival in 1969 in Bethel, New York, a handful of concert promoters would begin an attempt to “take over” Churubusco to host a three-day rock concert they called the “Churubusco Live-in.”
The town’s attorney, J. Bryon O’Connell, warned: “That live-in will turn into a lynch-in. People up here aren’t used to long hair. They don’t fool around with legal niceties and they’re not going to put up with any nonsense from college students. If they come up Route 189, they’re just liable to get shot.” The hippies did not, in the end, come up Route 189.

‘Merica.

BTW, did you notice the temp? Two degrees warmer in Canada. That’s some tough living.

Speaking of tough living, I’ll admit I am a Taylor Sheridan fan. I don’t know how he does it or how many writers he has working, but his stuff is everywhere. It also seems that he is onboard with keeping America the ‘United States” and not “fundamentally transforming:” it into something else. His opinions are sometimes not so subtly worked into the dialog.

Billy Bob Thornton is a riot as a main character and this scene went viral immediately after it showed:

You know the writing is on target if it invokes a lib uproar and reddit poo-storm. "It's 100% propaganda".

Pretty much everything in it, starting from the opening scene, is so [far] from reality it's ridiculous…They could have made a good, realistic show, showcasing some of the history of the oil patch in Texas. Instead, they went with pure fantasy. Even though I'm in the industry, 4th generation from my family in O&G, I don't appreciate them turning the show into a puff piece for big oil. It's 100% propaganda, almost every line of dialogue.

Well, I’m sure the writers have taken some artistic license here and there to make it more entertaining. I mean, that’s kind of their job. But the “pure fantasy” part? In the opening seconds Thronton draws the difference between “clean energy” and “alternative energy...nothing clean about that”. I’d have to say I’m with Thornton on that subject. And is the commenter above trying to say that oil is not in everything? Really? From what I’ve read, the 20-year operating life span mostly seems to be through liuck. And don’t get me started on the migratory bird Cuisinart angle. Buck Throckmorton typically gives the horde pithy updates on the industry, so stay close.

Also, yes, his writers like the f-bomb and other spicey language which gets a little grating at times. But sometimes there is just a gem that pops into the script that could be missed. In the credits of season 5, episode 9 there is a tribute to “the loving memory of Billy Clapper”.
Immediately, I had to look him up, but I suspected it was the steel outfitter craftsman that made the cameo appearance.

A legend in his field, Klapper started to make bits and spurs full-time in 1968. He was specifically known in the cowboy community for his one piece spurs, the very same piece that catches Rip’s eye in the episode. He was also one of the few remaining spur makers to be trained by Adolph Bayers, another legend who made bits and spurs from the 1930s to the ’70s. Over the course of his long career, Klapper made 682 different spur patterns and 816 different bit patterns, according to his obituary. He was revered for his artistry and for his ability to replicate old designs from other makers.
Klapper died on Sept. 10 of this year at the age of 87. He is survived by his two daughters, Deborah Yeates and Elizabeth Wilson, and six grandchildren.

Here’s a very nice video of Billy describing his craft. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

Rest easy, cowboy.

Close it out with a little music, eh? Who would have thought there's even a song about Pampa, Texas, Billy's home town?

Thanks for riding along, HORDE! Keep the blue side up!
Roger, out.

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1 Yay, World Trick Shot Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 03, 2024 09:57 PM (lUFok)

2 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (KwLuP)

3 Roger Roger!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (KcwUg)

4 Sorry I'm late, I had to confiscate the Kaboom! from the penguins.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (R256O)

5 BREAKING: These are the Republican Senators that won’t commit to confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (/7KEl)

6 teenth

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 09:59 PM (WEqNk)

7 That monologue by Billy Bob Thornton is one for the ages

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 09:59 PM (/7KEl)

8 not 1st

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 03, 2024 10:00 PM (yLkiW)

9 Your shredders are useless against my Patriot Act copies!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 03, 2024 10:00 PM (QSrLX)

10 1 Yay, World Trick Shot Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 03, 2024 09:57 PM (lUFok)

That was quite a trick getting first.

Are we talking pool/billiards or pistols? Or do you mean telling the sucker it's Pappy Van Winkle but serving Evan Williams?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 10:00 PM (R256O)

11 5 BREAKING: These are the Republican Senators that won’t commit to confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (/7KEl)
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Surprise, surprise, surprise
_pvt gohmert pile

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:01 PM (WEqNk)

12 Greg Price @greg_price11 50m
How pathetic are the smears against Pete Hegseth getting?

NBC News ran a whole story from anonymous sources claiming that he was drunk while on Fox & Friends.

And they didn't even reach out to the CO-HOST OF THE SHOW.

Will Cain @willcain 2h
I was not contacted by anyone at @NBCNews. And no one had closer proximity on a continuous basis. Well…maybe @RCamposDuffy since she sat between us!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:01 PM (hovnC)

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Dumba$$ rookie. Reading the content.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 03, 2024 10:02 PM (MsrgL)

14 Greg Price @greg_price11 1h
The smears against @PeteHegseth are downright pathetic when you think about them for more than two seconds:

- A sexual assault allegation for which he was never charged because police determined the woman's story to not be credible.
- Claims from anonymous sources that he sometimes, occasionally, every so often, drinks alcohol.

All of it is a joke and it's happening because he serves as a threat to one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington DC: The multi-trillion dollar defense lobby.

Pete Hegseth is not a DC insider. He's not a guy who kissed a lot of ass to become a whatever star General. He's somebody who actually served in their failed wars and wants to do something to stop the gravy train and the wokeness at the Pentagon. I'm sure most of the rank and file of the military are excited that he was nominated. That's why they're trying to destroy him.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:02 PM (hovnC)

15 114 I was kind of expecting to see Art the Clown pop out from behind the carousel.
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 03, 2024 07:18 PM (ftFVW)
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This was from a couple threads ago, but I had a good cackle imagining Art making snow angels in the blood and guts of White House flunkies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 03, 2024 10:03 PM (kpS4V)

16 5 BREAKING: These are the Republican Senators that won’t commit to confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune

I have a good idea where Scott Presler and Charlie Kirk/Turning Point USA need to work the next two years, primarying these traitors.
With Elon's cash to fund their provenly successful efforts, these jackasses only have two more years of insider trading to get rich.

Good evening everyone.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 10:03 PM (2ds6i)

17
Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune

Posted by: Don Black

These a-holes need an agressive primary challenge.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 03, 2024 10:03 PM (MsrgL)

18 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2024 10:04 PM (WXNFJ)

19 Cool stuff here.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 10:04 PM (LHPAg)

20 Thanks for the girthy ONT, Roger Ball!

Always entertaining and enlightening. And enjoyable!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 03, 2024 10:06 PM (rxCpr)

21 ***And this, should it ever come to pass, I would not miss:
Airbus Wants to Install a Radio-Equipped Toilet in Airplane Cockpits***

Ruh-roh,

Engineers at Stanford have invented a smart toilet platform that will autonomously monitor excreted waste from humans. ...easily deployable hardware and software for the long-term analysis of a user's excreta through data collection ... .

The 'smart' toilet...analyses the user's urine using a standard-of-care colorimetric assay that traces red–green–blue values from images of urinalysis strips, calculates the flow rate and volume of urine using computer vision as a uroflowmeter, and classifies stool according to the Bristol stool form scale using deep learning, with performance that is comparable to the performance of trained medical personnel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:06 PM (WEqNk)

22 Evenin’, Again, All. Great Pic, Roger. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 10:07 PM (v6JzV)

23 Thanks for your time, thoughts and the links, Roger.

"FrontPage"Magazine has an article about why the Amish voted in this election. I think it's interesting :

https://tinyurl.com/2jrc38yt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 10:07 PM (yzMjR)

24 Along with Kamala not flipping even one district [a record that goes back to 1920 or something]...

Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky 7h
Trump flipped 55 counties, about half have not voted for a Republican presidential candidate this century... two in South Texas had never voted for a Republican before.

Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky 5h
I updated it to include Lake County.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7cxs2h
great map with all the counties' "last won by GOP" dates colour-coded!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:07 PM (hovnC)

25 Cool stuff here.
Posted by: Eromero

It is the best form of brain candy.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:07 PM (+VovS)

26 Howdy, y'all.

I would've been here sooner… but I just didn't care.

It's been that kind of month.

Posted by: mindful webworker - so wot? at December 03, 2024 10:07 PM (LRgL5)

27 Good evening Horde. Thanks RB!

Posted by: TRex at December 03, 2024 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

28 "BREAKING: Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces "every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed [to Ukraine] between now and January 20th" when Trump takes office."

Did congress approve this funding? If not arrest Blinken on day one for billions in theft

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 10:09 PM (oZhjI)

29 The 'smart' toilet...analyses the user's urine using a standard-of-care colorimetric assay that traces red–green–blue values from images of urinalysis strips, calculates the flow rate and volume of urine using computer vision as a uroflowmeter, and classifies stool according to the Bristol stool form scale using deep learning, with performance that is comparable to the performance of trained medical personnel.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others

Great, a toilet that scolds me for my dietary choices.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:09 PM (+VovS)

30 BREAKING: These are the Republican Senators that won’t commit to confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (/7KEl)

DJT needs to let these maggots know that if they don't vote to confirm all his picks, he will destroy what remains of their careers by any means necessary.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:10 PM (m4oRq)

31 Did congress approve this funding? If not arrest Blinken on day one for billions in theft
Posted by: 18-1

Or at the very least mis-appropriation of funds!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:10 PM (+VovS)

32 Are we talking pool/billiards or pistols? Or do you mean telling the sucker it's Pappy Van Winkle but serving Evan Williams?

Shooting billiard balls out of a custom pistol at Evan Williams bottles while sipping Pappy Van Winkle.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 03, 2024 10:10 PM (lUFok)

33 Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (/7KEl)

D'you stick around to seed the Avs come back from 4-0 down?

Won 5-4 in regulation.

Someone's getting fired / traded / sent to the Press Box / sent down to Rochester.

That was embarrassing ...

Posted by: browndog befuddled at December 03, 2024 10:11 PM (TTAGa)

34 All I want to know is, do you get AM or FM on those new toilets?

LOL....

Sorry, I've just discovered Jameson and ginger ale.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 03, 2024 10:11 PM (lHPJf)

35 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 03, 2024 10:12 PM (sAmhv)

36
25F at 10PM. And we've got a few more days of this nonsense, although tonight will be the worst.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

37 So it looks like the Democrats/Davos Elite/Media/Military Complex has chosen ThermoNuclear War instead of four more years of Trump.

Yes, these people ARE that evil.

Tucker just posted that he is in Moscow right now and going to interview a senior Russian official, even though the US State Dept tried their damnedest to kill it.

It is because they know how much illegal sh*t they've done over the years and Trump is going to expose them.

F*** all of them to hell. I can't say what needs to happen to them all, I would be the one to get in trouble.

again, F*** all of them to hell.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 10:12 PM (2ds6i)

38 We ain’t running out of oil which is the only BBT comment that I didn’t agree with in that scene. But the writer nailed it showing the girl didn’t hear a word BBT said.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 03, 2024 10:12 PM (D6PGr)

39 Posted by: mindful webworker - so wot? at December 03, 2024 10:07 PM (LRgL5)

Good to see you, Mindful. How are the health issues with you and your family?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 10:13 PM (yzMjR)

40 RB, excellent, interesting reading. Nuce puc up top. Thanks for the ONT. I've enjoyed the first two Landman episodes.

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 10:14 PM (8Yvzj)

41 Extended Minimum Crew Operations

Not a fan. I saw a movie once where something happened to the pilot and copilot, might have been food poisoning, and a stewardess had to land the plane.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 03, 2024 10:14 PM (0Htd1)

42 25F at 10PM. And we've got a few more days of this nonsense, although tonight will be the worst.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

On the one hand, it's not fun. On the other hand, warm weather in December is just wrong.

Plus, cold weather pisses off the Greta Thunbergs of the world.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 03, 2024 10:15 PM (lHPJf)

43 Wow lots of good stuff, Roger. Thanks!

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 10:15 PM (RFPHU)

44 Breaking911 @Breaking911 4h
SEN. GRAHAM ON HEGSETH ALLEGATIONS: "Some of these articles are very disturbing. He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, but some of this stuff is is gonna be difficult, you know, time will tell."

FOOL NELSON @FOOL_NELSON 29m
This guy defended Kavanaugh through his entire confirmation, but can't take a couple of newspaper lies? He just wants bombs guys.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:16 PM (hovnC)

45 Avalanche came back from 4-0 to win, 5-4. This always happens when I bail on a game.

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 10:16 PM (/7KEl)

46 Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck 2h
CBS's Norah O'Donnell with an INSANE open to the 'CBS Evening News' smearing @PeteHegseth like it's the campaign all over again: "We begin with new reporting by CBS News. The highest priority of the president of the United States is the safety and security of the American people. As the commander-in-chief, presidents rely on their defense secretaries to help carry out that solemn task. President-Elect Donald Trump wanted a Fox News weekend host to hold that post. The 44-year-old combat veteran, Pete Hegseth. Tonight, that nomination appears to be on the rocks. Hegseth is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking. Tonight, CBS News has learned Hegseth may not have the support of enough Republican senators to be confirmed for the job, meaning his nomination is in serious jeopardy."

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze 47m
They tried the alcoholic thing with Kavanaugh. Hegseth will have his hearing but it's the same actors pushing almost exactly the same kind accusations they could not corroborate against Kavanaugh, which is why you don't do that.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:17 PM (hovnC)

47 SEN. GRAHAM ON HEGSETH ALLEGATIONS: "Some of these articles are very disturbing. He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, but some of this stuff is is gonna be difficult, you know, time will tell."

FOOL NELSON @FOOL_NELSON 29m
This guy defended Kavanaugh through his entire confirmation, but can't take a couple of newspaper lies? He just wants bombs guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:16 PM (hovnC)

He voted for Austin . That’s all he needs to consider.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 03, 2024 10:17 PM (D6PGr)

48 Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Oh wow!!! Howdy there, stranger!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 03, 2024 10:18 PM (rFHiR)

49 Suggestions considered by the pan-European agency included asking pilots to deliberately dehydrate themselves

>>> Uhhhh.... Isn't that why that Pakistani airliner crashed a few years ago? The pilots completely fasting (including water) for Ramadan?

Posted by: pookysgirl and the ever-growing Lil Pooky at December 03, 2024 10:18 PM (dtlDP)

50 These a-holes need an agressive primary challenge.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 03, 2024 10:03 PM (MsrgL)

McConnell will be primaried by the Reaper.

Have Lindsey Graham arrested and tried and imprisoned until death on any gussied up charge, no matter how absurd.

The rest? Primaried with maximum aggression. Trump should keep his campaign apparatus raising money and running ads, and dumping huge amounts of money into any challenger's campaign, even if he's not ideal. Have Trump personally and vociferously campaign for them. If they should fail, divert the funds into electing the Democrat, and be blunt about the fact that it makes no goddamned difference, at that point, except to have a Senator who's honest about which caucus he's in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 03, 2024 10:18 PM (7oYYI)

51 F*** all of them to hell. I can't say what needs to happen to them all, I would be the one to get in trouble.

again, F*** all of them to hell.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Left Coast!! Where the heck ya been? Good to see you!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:19 PM (+VovS)

52 #12 addendum:

Will Cain @willcain 4h
Your story is horseshit @NBCNews. Put my name on it. On the record. It’ll be your only on the record source.
Signed,
The guy who sat next to him for 8 hours every week for five years starting at 6am.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:20 PM (hovnC)

53 I am a no on the single pilot, especially when the SOP includes deprivation of nutrients the body needs to function optimally. Consistently dehydrating yourself is not good and having organs, like say the heart, malfunction mid flight seems like a bad idea. Radioing from the potty won’t do much in that situation.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 10:22 PM (pZEOD)

54 Great, a toilet that scolds me for my dietary choices.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:09 PM (+VovS)

But you don't have to buy it a diamond to get the free advice, so there's that.

Posted by: RickZ at December 03, 2024 10:23 PM (gKDq2)

55 I think we should try everything possible to make Lindsey Graham lose his job

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 10:23 PM (/7KEl)

56 classifies stool according to the Bristol stool form scale using deep learning, with performance that is comparable to the performance of trained medical personnel.
Posted by: Braenyard

So now there is an AI chunk of code that is expert on shit?

Somewhere, you just know there are teams of developers that, having finished reading the Requirements Doc, are asking - they want what?!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2024 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)

57 Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune

Posted by: Don Black

These a-holes need an agressive primary challenge.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 03, 2024 10:03 PM (MsrgL)

Just ask them how many base closures they'd like to see in their states.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 03, 2024 10:25 PM (VNX3d)

58 So now there is an AI chunk of code that is expert on shit?

Somewhere, you just know there are teams of developers that, having finished reading the Requirements Doc, are asking - they want what?!!

They probably outsourced it to an Indian firm. They already write shit code anyways.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 03, 2024 10:26 PM (lUFok)

59 Good to see you at the helm, Roger!

Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at December 03, 2024 10:26 PM (WC6n6)

60 56 classifies stool according to the Bristol stool form scale using deep learning, with performance that is comparable to the performance of trained medical personnel.

Posted by: Braenyard

So now there is an AI chunk of code that is expert on shit?

Somewhere, you just know there are teams of developers that, having finished reading the Requirements Doc, are asking - they want what?!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2024 10:23 PM

Couldn't they have just recorded the latest Hollywood pitch meeting for their next woke movie?

If the AI trained on that, it would be a world class expert on shit.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 03, 2024 10:27 PM (HlyYF)

61 FL 350.

One of the better flight levels.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 03, 2024 10:28 PM (dDmld)

62 Great picture.
I grew up at a small airport in SW Washington State. Worked washing airplanes and running the gas pumps.
Learned to fly and got my license at 17.
One of my favorite flights was getting up before dawn, climb out heading west and then turn back east heading directly for Mt St Helens (before the eruption). I'd watch the sun come up and then buzz.the top. Just beautiful.
I miss flying.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2024 10:29 PM (W/lyH)

63 I am a no on the single pilot, especially when the SOP includes deprivation of nutrients the body needs to function optimally. Consistently dehydrating yourself is not good and having organs, like say the heart, malfunction mid flight seems like a bad idea. Radioing from the potty won’t do much in that situation.
Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 10:22 PM (pZEOD)

Let the pilot use the regular biffy in the forward cabin. Really, both chairs should be occupied, so that one pilot. can relieve the other as needs require. If they "must" go to one pilot, hand over control of the aircraft to a qualified pilot working remotely from a console in an office building (we steer oil wells that way, now). Remote pilot could have readouts from all the cockpit instruments, plus a camera view out any of the windows on the flight deck. One "remote" pilot could probably handle biffy breaks for several different airplanes, by having the live pilots schedule their breaks in 10-minute time windows.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:29 PM (m4oRq)

64 Pete Hegseth molested me in his house which had one or two doors at one point in uh the 80s? Also he then molested me again in the middle of a department store in New York. On a day in uh the 90s?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 10:29 PM (oZhjI)

65 57 Just ask them how many base closures they'd like to see in their states.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 03, 2024 10:25 PM
***
I'm guessing that DOGE will help know where to apply pressure.

Posted by: TRex at December 03, 2024 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

66 Oh my....

Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 03, 2024 10:30 PM (lHPJf)

67 Did these same A-hole hold up any of Bidens picks..guess mandate elections mean nothing to these fools. A plane 'lands' on the senate chambers and I am standing up and cheering

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 03, 2024 10:31 PM (+I6Y/)

68 I think we should try everything possible to make Lindsey Graham lose his job
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 10:23 PM (/7KEl)

Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland are the most evil living Americans, but once they respectively retired, they relinquished the crown to Graham as the most evil American public official currently serving.

I'd like to see that bitchy old virago bite the dust next.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 03, 2024 10:32 PM (7oYYI)

69 48 Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Oh wow!!! Howdy there, stranger!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 03, 2024 Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Left Coast!! Where the heck ya been? Good to see you!
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:19 PM (+VovS)10:18 PM (rFHiR)

Hey y'all, glad to be here. Nice to be among friends and fellow thinkers that know what this land is all about.

PS, I was going to send an email to Sen. Murray and Cantwell in defense of DoD nominee Pete Hegseth, but I realized it would be more productive if I went outside and screamed at the moon.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 10:32 PM (2ds6i)

70 Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 03, 2024 10:30 PM (lHPJf)

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This is bullshit. F*ck McConnell and his little cabal.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 03, 2024 10:32 PM (dDmld)

71 Flying west and chasing the sunset is a marvelous flying experience when timed correctly. The golden glow hangs in the air longer than your brain is used to seeing it.

Posted by: TRex at December 03, 2024 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

72 Just ask them how many base closures they'd like to see in their states.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 03, 2024 10:25 PM (VNX3d)

There are a lot of things, both ethical and otherwise, that could be done to pressure these asshole Senators to toe the line. "Hey, dillweed, you're on Epstein's list." "I never went to his island!" "I know that, and you know that, but will the public believe that when your name is on the list when we release it?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:33 PM (m4oRq)

73 I just noticed, nurse and Rat, that you are now elevated to the rank of garbage.

Impressive, my friends. Impressive.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 10:34 PM (2ds6i)

74 Mr. Bill Klapper made beautiful, functional art.

Posted by: huerfano at December 03, 2024 10:34 PM (DKIGo)

75 Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.
Posted by: Dr. T

Buckle up. The shit that's gonna come out the FMSM will make ya think they had a prune juice enema.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:34 PM (+VovS)

76 I just noticed, nurse and Rat, that you are now elevated to the rank of garbage.

Impressive, my friends. Impressive.

I missed that event. I'm not alone anymore.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 03, 2024 10:35 PM (lUFok)

77 If that's a whiskey bottle she's holding it sure has a long neck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:35 PM (WEqNk)

78 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:33 PM (m4oRq)

Uh huh. They played the frame up and phony crime gambit shamelessly with Trump.

Turnabout is fair play. Just frame them. This is how things are done now, thanks to them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 03, 2024 10:35 PM (7oYYI)

79 Perused the content. Skimmed the wordy parts.

Now I think it's time I'll check out. Got a dental checkup tomorrow, and I don't want to yawn in the doc's face.

https://youtu.be/bvh0U0Rctuc

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - toothy at December 03, 2024 10:36 PM (LRgL5)

80 The picture did not come from a web search or an AI bot. I took the picture with my Samsung S23 [not an endorsement] as I flew the last leg of the last rotation on the last day I was legally allowed to fly for a major airline. We were at 35,000 feet headed eastbound, somewhere over Tennessee at about 0600L.

Very cool, Roger. Thanks for that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 03, 2024 10:37 PM (mH6SG)

81

Twice around the bowl and pointy at both ends!

Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviara at December 03, 2024 10:37 PM (UhGaD)

82 Impressive, my friends. Impressive.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Can't speak for Nurse, but mine stays up till inauguration day! (sorta like my Christmas Tree)

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:38 PM (+VovS)

83 What does the HORDE think? Good idea or bad idea? Having flown single-seat fighters and multi-crew transports for over 50 years, I think it’s a decidedly bad idea.

Indeed, it is.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 03, 2024 10:39 PM (mH6SG)

84 66 Oh my....

Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 03, 2024 10:30 PM (lHPJf)

Now, how did the WSJ find that out?
Leakers gotta leak.

IMO, Hegseth is worth a recess appointment, simply to piss in the faces of that list of R scumbag losers.

While impounding all federal funds to their respective states until they are primaried. Put the squeeze on them until their voters realize they are a hinderance, not an asset, to their individual states.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 10:41 PM (2ds6i)

85 Funny Graham impression. Skip to 4:35.

https://youtu.be/2fnlw1bwhWY?si=GAyasLj9sx5URlht

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 03, 2024 10:43 PM (7oYYI)

86
IMO, Hegseth is worth a recess appointment, simply to piss in the faces of that list of R scumbag losers.

While impounding all federal funds to their respective states until they are primaried. Put the squeeze on them until their voters realize they are a hinderance, not an asset, to their individual states.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 10:41 PM (2ds6i)

Trump needs to find a way to squeeze Thune into recessing the Senate. Then he can recess-appoint his whole slate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:45 PM (m4oRq)

87 I think US Senators believe that THEY are the true seat of power in Washington, and that this gives them carte blanche to act like privileged assholes.

There are few assemblies in the world I despise as much as I do the Congress of the United States.

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 10:45 PM (/7KEl)

88
This is bullshit. F*ck McConnell and his little cabal.

4 Stolen senate seats has an impact unfortunately

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 10:46 PM (oZhjI)

89 I hope so many liberal heads explode on Jan 20 that one of Elon's rockets can film it from orbit.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 03, 2024 10:46 PM (hcgGK)

90 Evening everyone, thx Roger.
If Hegseth gets to a vote I think he pull through. Of those 6 senators Murkowski and McConnell are the biggest problems. Collins and Graham will come around and Thune the new leader doesn't want to piss off Trump. Don't know enough about Curtis . If it's 50-50 Vance breaks the tie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 03, 2024 10:47 PM (FxDm7)

91 I think US Senators believe that THEY are the true seat of power in Washington, and that this gives them carte blanche to act like privileged assholes.
Posted by: Don Black

More angering is they are SUPPOSED to defend their state
FROM the feds!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:48 PM (+VovS)

92 75 Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.
Posted by: Dr. T
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DeSantis is too shaky. He threw in with the e at the front of the election cycle. He's doing a good job as governor let him stay there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:48 PM (WEqNk)

93 When he gets going, Billy Bob Thornton sounds like Hank Hill (Mike Judge) from King of the Hill. Substitute propane for oil.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 03, 2024 10:49 PM (lg881)

94 Good evening morons and thank you Roger

*madly right-clicking in search of Zappa link*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

95 When he gets going, Billy Bob Thornton sounds like Hank Hill (Mike Judge) from King of the Hill. Substitute propane for oil.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 03, 2024 10:49 PM (lg881)

"Oil is a dignified lady... But she can be a dirty girl, too."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 03, 2024 10:50 PM (7oYYI)

96 turn back east heading directly for Mt St Helens (before the eruption). I'd watch the sun come up and then buzz.the top. Just beautiful.
I miss flying.
Posted by: Diogenes
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That's pretty cool, Diogenes. St. Helen's was quite the event. I have an ash plume picture of it in my garage. May 18, 1980.

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 10:51 PM (8Yvzj)

97 Breaking911 @Breaking911 31m
BREAKING: President-elect Trump considering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Pete Hegseth, his pick to run the Pentagon - WSJ

Breaking911 @Breaking911 15m
Trump also considering Joni Ernst and Bill Hagerty, per CNN

Sean Davis @seanmdav 29m
Sources with direct knowledge tell me this story is nonsense and indicate they’ve had enough with games being played on Hegseth’s Defense nomination by Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

One source said Graham, who has never found a war he didn’t want other people to fight, spent the weekend crying to Trump about Hegseth, while Ernst has been running an inside-the-beltway campaign to knife Hegseth.

Sources say the WSJ article touting DeSantis is a key part of the Ernst/Graham operation to torpedo Hegseth because of his foreign policy views and opposition to endless, pointless wars.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 10:52 PM (hovnC)

98 Two humans are the minimum for a reason.
And three is better. Because all that stuff the two guys can do gets a bit overwhelming when the SHTF. That happens a lot more in military operations, but it would have been the third guy in the Everglades who could have asked "Which one of you is flying the airplane?"

Posted by: GWB at December 03, 2024 10:52 PM (GR9H0)

99 Any particular reason Trump and/or his admin feel the need to announce potential cabinet/appointee positions now instead of January? I mean, they're basically giving the "Resistance" an entire 8 week period to gin up all sorts of bull shit with every appointee they dislike.

Why keep floating names?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2024 10:53 PM (Q4IgG)

100
Miss Lindsey is a piece of shit. Fucker was doing everything he could to knife JD Vance, then once Trump picked him, went on TV lauding JD.

He's a shit weasel.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

101 notus.org/2024-election/joni-ernst-
interest-secretary-of-defense

Joni Ernst Privately Expresses Interest in Becoming Trump's Next ...
Nov 11, 2024 ...
Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is privately expressing interest in becoming the secretary of defense in Donald Trump's next administration, according to two sources.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:57 PM (WEqNk)

102 AOP, I think (something I never knew about) that a president can, indeed, compel a congressional recess, when the two houses cannot agree on one, and one house has recessed.

"in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper" (Article II, Section 3).

So the House could go into recess, when the Senate refuses, the president can adjourn them both.

Possibly I have this wrong, I know it has been discussed for the past month or so by knowledgeable scholars, but language seems pretty plain to me.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 10:57 PM (1m82a)

103 So which one of you yelled out, "Put your pants on" tonight at the leg wound wrapping portion of the first aid/CPR training that I was at?

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 10:57 PM (8Yvzj)

104
Good evening, morons.

My workplace axed 4 senior vice presidents on same-day notice, and service people are dropping like flies. Interesting times around the corner for those of us in Art & Editorial?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 03, 2024 10:57 PM (eqbpp)

105 Miss Lindsey is a piece of shit. Fucker was doing everything he could to knife JD Vance, then once Trump picked him, went on TV lauding JD.

He's a shit weasel.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 10:54 PM (w6EFb

Yeah, the worst part is the hypocrisy.

Posted by: Norm MacDonald & 1.5 Million Dead Slavs & At Least 500 Catamites With 1000yd Stares at December 03, 2024 10:58 PM (7oYYI)

106 99 Any particular reason Trump and/or his admin feel the need to announce potential cabinet/appointee positions now instead of January? I mean, they're basically giving the "Resistance" an entire 8 week period to gin up all sorts of bull shit with every appointee they dislike.

Why keep floating names?
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Same reason he's going to France.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:59 PM (WEqNk)

107 He's a shit weasel.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

DJT should send him a shiny new elastic exercise band. Like Harry Reid had his "accident" with.

"Lindsey, you are looking a little peaked. Some exercise would do you a world of good. Use this thing in good health."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:59 PM (m4oRq)

108 Just today there were multiple GOP senators making positive noises about Hegseth after meeting with him. The claim above that this is a nothingburger/false rumor wave seems credible.

In any case, after the Gaetz episode, I don't think Trump should back off any nominee (those who blow up on their own, like the FL sheriff, are of course an exception - and just WTF was that nomination about?).

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:00 PM (1m82a)

109
Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.

Fox News reporting this as well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:01 PM (63Dwl)

110 Great content, Roger! Love the song about Pampa and the bio on the bit & saddle maker there. IMO, the drive north from Pampa to Perryton is one of my favorites... some ruggedly beautiful country.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 03, 2024 11:01 PM (kOluj)

111 More angering is they are SUPPOSED to defend their state
FROM the feds!
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 10:48 PM (+VovS)

That Founding concept went out the window with the 17th Amendment. Now for senators it's party uber alles. And the party is them, not any of us. Nancy, Chuck, Mitch, Miss Lindsey and all the rest of the Capitol Hill Gang of Old Farts Dedicated To Keeping Their Power And Money. Some lefties get it. It's not D vs. R. anymore, it's gov't bureaucracy/technocrats vs. We The People. Populism in America is never about wanting more government. That's Trump's threat to The Good Ol' Boys and Girls sittin' there in Congress takin' up space. For them, with Trump, where's the grift-graft? Inconceivable!

Posted by: RickZ at December 03, 2024 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

112 Good evening

Informative and entertaining content - thank you Mr. Ball

Blinken is a traitor and should receive a traitor's consequence, as should all those that are putting other countries' interests ahead of our own.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:03 PM (PcTds)

113 Suggestions considered by the pan-European agency included asking pilots to deliberately dehydrate themselves before starting a lone shift at the aircraft controls, as well as requiring them to eat a high-protein, low-residue diet to mitigate the risk of them needing to defecate.

Great idea. The lone pilot could have kidney failure because the kidneys might not have enough water to process the protein. After the pilot becomes incapacitated the passengers might wish they had flown Boeing.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at December 03, 2024 11:03 PM (ANFY9)

114 Trump needs to find a way to squeeze Thune into recessing the Senate. Then he can recess-appoint his whole slate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 10:45 PM (m4oRq)

A few weeks after the election and closed door meetings with Trump, Thune expressly said he would allow this to happen.
A couple of days before Thune announced it, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA said on his podcast that TPUSA could easily go into South Dakota and because it is such a small state, population-wise, it would be easy to run a primary operation.

Since then, Charlie Kirk has spent a week or so at Mar-A-Lago, staying there as a guest. Charlie is now a good friend of the entire Trump family, Don Jr and Charlie talk all the time on their respective podcasts.

Oh, that must have been why Pierre Castreau, on his knees from Canada, groveling to 47, didn't have a room available at MAL and had to find his own hotel room downtown. Yeah, that must have been it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 11:04 PM (2ds6i)

115

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol has lifted his martial law order after a chaotic night which saw MPs block the surprise move.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:04 PM (63Dwl)

116 Damn, the ONTs.
Wow.

I want to thank EVERYONE for help___ me with the cats two nights ago.

Trumpy is better. His human Mom came over, and he was better. She's seen him worse. Me too. All the more reason to turn them into indoor cats. Cold weather in my part of Canada is helping with that. They go outside and are staying out there shorter and shorter.

I'm getting pictures into the Pet Thread so you can see the cats. I just petted Snowflake. It's like petting a cloud with a purr feature.

Thank you.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 11:05 PM (jvJvP)

117 4 Sorry I'm late, I had to confiscate the Kaboom! from the penguins.

RFK, Jr. approves. As long as you don't eat it yourself.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:05 PM (PcTds)

118 Graham went apes**t when Trump rescinded the DACA EO, on a Saturday he lived in front of the cameras and fulminated about taking emergency action. A few weeks prior to the '22 mid-terms, he introduced a ridiculous bill - which nobody of importance was calling for or had even mentioned - to re-nationalize the abortion question, after SCOTUS's historic/long overdue dumping of Roe. To my knowledge, in his long undistinguished career he's had zero profile on abortion beyond the de riguer platitudes and free votes. And he comes out of the blue with that idiocy in the heart of election season.

He's among the most damaging of GOP figures, which is saying something.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:05 PM (1m82a)

119 What does it mean when a craven power-seeker "privately expresses interest" by having that printed in the paper?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2024 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

120 And, Roger, yes, I miss the sunrises after flying a night mission. Best one was after flying a medevac from Maine to Ohio in the middle of the night, and taking off as the sun was rising. It had been a LONG night, and a little wearing waiting for the all clear to head home, then to take off into a sunrise and fly home feeling you'd done good.

Posted by: GWB at December 03, 2024 11:06 PM (GR9H0)

121 Murkowski got in thru rank choice voting, which the people then put on the ballot, which was then defeated thru counting votes until TPTB got the result they wanted. So much corruption.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:07 PM (PcTds)

122 I was expecting a Rick Roll!

Posted by: 3 Angry Irish Inches at December 03, 2024 11:08 PM (H2Hko)

123 Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is privately expressing interest in becoming the secretary of defense in Donald Trump's next administration, according to two sources.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 10:57 PM (WEqNk)

Isn't she just another RINO/Deep Stater? Crap, might as well nominate Michael Moore.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 11:08 PM (2ds6i)

124 Billy Bob Thornton is a riot as a main character and this scene went viral immediately after it showed

That was awesome. There are a number of options like nuclear and hydroelectric. Places like Kali hate both.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2024 11:09 PM (SSBCb)

125 @66

>>Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.

Basically Florida is becoming the Home Base of The MAGA Movement.

Having said that, this is more than likely someone trying to sow discord and not a real thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2024 11:10 PM (XV/Pl)

126 ,@118 I think Graham will come around and vote to confirm, there is no doubt in my mind that there are people behind the scenes who are blackmailing him. Whether it's Ukraine or Syria or gay, they've got him on a string

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 03, 2024 11:10 PM (FxDm7)

127 >He's among the most damaging of GOP figures, which is saying something.

Posted by: rhomboid

---

he is a rock-ribbed conservative for a few months every six years

the rest of the time he is a scheming narcissistic fop

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:11 PM (/7KEl)

128 Liberal dumbass chick in that clip was such a pussy.

Posted by: anch at December 03, 2024 11:11 PM (ufFY8)

129 109
Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Hegseth as SecDef.

Fox News reporting this as well.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:01 PM (63Dwl)

This leaker has a good work ethic. Unlike most other Democrats/RINOs.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 03, 2024 11:11 PM (2ds6i)

130 Liberal dumbass chick in that clip was such a pussy.

Posted by: anch at December 03, 2024 11:11 PM (ufFY

Ha!
Typing fail.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 03, 2024 11:12 PM (ufFY8)

131 Ernst should stick to looting the country via ethanol idiocy - and I'm sure she has other pernicious self-dealing crap for IA that she'll destroy the country for.

Not for a nanosecond did I expect Trump to have anything to work with in Congress - the GOP has not changed overall, and the Senate remains a disaster. And the next president, if it's a GOP one, will have nothing to work with, if a decision is not made during this term to re-introduce politics to Congress, and attempt to annihilate many of the incumbent seat-warming non-entities.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:12 PM (1m82a)

132
Isn't she just another RINO/Deep Stater? Crap, might as well nominate Michael Moore.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

=================

Senator Glistening Lipstick has a dazzling smile and many assurances that "we will work to close loopholes."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 03, 2024 11:13 PM (eqbpp)

133 >What does it mean when a craven power-seeker "privately expresses interest" by having that printed in the paper?

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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it's like when a Hollywood talent agent 'campaigns' for his client to get the Oscar
it's all PR flacking

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:13 PM (/7KEl)

134 Still plus one degree C here, 34 F, at 9:15 P.M. The Chinook persists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:13 PM (m4oRq)

135 A lot of pilots on here.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:14 PM (PcTds)

136
flack
tout
tinhorn
etc

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:14 PM (/7KEl)

137
jim (in hospital in Kalifornia)

================

Jeez, Jim, not home yet?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 03, 2024 11:15 PM (eqbpp)

138 That was awesome. There are a number of options like nuclear and hydroelectric. Places like Kali hate both.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2024 11:09 PM (SSBCb)

As much as I've thought nuclear was the way to go (at least for now, until some other energy leap forward is found). But now with terrorists, drones and such, I fear they'd have to be built underground and really hardened as a target.

Sometimes I hate this world -- so many assholes. I hope Elon gets us on a trajectory off this planet and we can leave 'em behind.

Posted by: RickZ at December 03, 2024 11:15 PM (gKDq2)

139 We’re not that far from zero pilots on a plane.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:16 PM (62WQB)

140 >>>Great idea. The lone pilot could have kidney failure because the kidneys might not have enough water to process the protein. After the pilot becomes incapacitated the passengers might wish they had flown Boeing.
Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum
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They'll all do it until there is a flight catastrophe on the way back from Brazil.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:16 PM (WEqNk)

141 134 Still plus one degree C here, 34 F, at 9:15 P.M. The Chinook persists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:13 PM (m4oRq)

Hey, we're aboit the same!

Except, chilly for me. Invigorating

The cats, not ours but...whatever...are happier and happier indoors.

Good night.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 11:16 PM (jvJvP)

142 To all of you aviator folks who are here to tell the tale - you truly done good.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (mH6SG)

143 BREAKING: These are the Republican Senators that won’t commit to confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 09:58 PM (/7KEl)

The douche squad.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

144 Good thing I don't work at an airlines maintenance hangar.

'Cause 1 Apr 24, there WOULD be a 737 or Airbus hooked up to a jetway.

And it would have painted on it, all of the standard makings for Crew Egress Systems (ejection seats). The red outline of the "blow-off" hatches above the seats.

The yellow triangle symbols warning of armed ejection systems inside. The yellow directional arrows with "RESCUE" in capitalized black letters, pointing to imaginary panel access holes for ground crew to "open up" the cockpit for crew rescues.

And of course, matching red "blow off" hatch paintwork over each cabin crew seat, in the bargain.

A bit of creative foam core board and silver & grey and green oxide paints, some gorilla tape, and I could make the pilot n' co-pilot seat resemble a Martin Baker or ACEES II units.

Odds on any given flight, at least ONE passenger would know enough to notice, and then the hilarity would begin.

OF COURSE the flight crew would notice, right? ...Right?...RIGHT?

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (Xo+UM)

145 Liberal dumbass chick in that clip was such a pussy.

Posted by: anch at December 03, 2024 11:11 PM (ufFY

The rattlesnake scene was pretty fake. I have never heard of rattlers striking if you simply stare at them. Generally only strike if cornered.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (m4oRq)

146 103 So which one of you yelled out, "Put your pants on" tonight at the leg wound wrapping portion of the first aid/CPR training that I was at?
Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 10:57 PM (8Yvzj)

I would never encourage the wearing of pants. Even at the Book Thread (don't tell Perfesser Squirrel.)

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:18 PM (R256O)

147 First week of Advent - time to listen to Handel's Messiah.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:18 PM (PcTds)

148 The douche squad.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (VwCD)

Douches are useful. The RINO neocon money-grubbers? Not so much.

Posted by: RickZ at December 03, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

149
It's 24F here now.

A couple of the local stations here, one at a creek bottom and the other right at the Enoree River, are reading 20F and 22F now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

150 General William Sherman's opinion of newzertainment still applies:

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 03, 2024 11:19 PM (sAmhv)

151 I’m skeptical that DeathSantis is in the forever war camp. Very much so.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:19 PM (62WQB)

152 141 134 Still plus one degree C here, 34 F, at 9:15 P.M. The Chinook persists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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A lot better than 8. How's the drive shaft?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:19 PM (WEqNk)

153 I always loved it when a Chinook blew thru. Been a while since I thought of that.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:20 PM (PcTds)

154 Great photo, Roger

Posted by: KT at December 03, 2024 11:20 PM (xekrU)

155 I should have said "aviation" folks, which most certainly include the ground crews, without which none of this matters.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 03, 2024 11:20 PM (mH6SG)

156 I’m skeptical that DeathSantis is in the forever war camp. Very much so.

Heh. Whatever.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 03, 2024 11:22 PM (mH6SG)

157 Judging from my car thermometer it can swing 10 degrees easily during a drive of just a few minutes. And looking at Wunderground map, it confirms it. It can be 35 one block and 37 the next and 33 a few blocks away from that. Then a few miles away it’s 40 or 30 depending on which direction you go.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 PM (62WQB)

158 26F here currently. The Weather Guessers are saying Wednesday night low of 2F.

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 11:22 PM (8Yvzj)

159 A lot better than 8. How's the drive shaft?
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:19 PM (WEqNk)

Well, I drove the 2008 to Calgary and back today. Not a lick of trouble, and no vibration from the driveline. It's go for liftoff to AZ, now. Now to get the house cleaned, and all the other ducks in a row.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:22 PM (m4oRq)

160 should have said "aviation" folks, which most certainly include the ground crews, without which none of this matters.

Nice addition, Dad was airplane maintenance in the army. He took his responsibility very seriously.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:23 PM (PcTds)

161 I’ll take 20 degrees and dry vs 41 and fog. There’s a “but it’s a dry heat” component with cold as well. Cold dry air is much more pleasant than slightly warmer but humid air. For me anyway.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:24 PM (62WQB)

162 Judging from my car thermometer it can swing 10 degrees easily during a drive of just a few minutes. And looking at Wunderground map, it confirms it. It can be 35 one block and 37 the next and 33 a few blocks away from that. Then a few miles away it’s 40 or 30 depending on which direction you go.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:22 PM (62WQB)

Elevation has a huge effect on temperature. In winter, drop into a valley, and it gets colder. In summer, the opposite often happens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:24 PM (m4oRq)

163 The rattlesnake scene was pretty fake. I have never heard of rattlers striking if you simply stare at them. Generally only strike if cornered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (m4oRq)

Snake should have struck just because was was an idiot.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galf at December 03, 2024 11:25 PM (ufFY8)

164 Dad was airplane maintenance in the army. He took his responsibility very seriously.

Well done, Dad.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 03, 2024 11:25 PM (mH6SG)

165 I’ll take 20 degrees and dry vs 41 and fog. There’s a “but it’s a dry heat” component with cold as well. Cold dry air is much more pleasant than slightly warmer but humid air. For me anyway.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:24 PM (62WQB)

Agreed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:26 PM (m4oRq)

166 The rattlesnake scene was pretty fake. I have never heard of rattlers striking if you simply stare at them. Generally only strike if cornered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Snake would have missed me. I'd a been straight up in the air.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:27 PM (WEqNk)

167
I've had more fun with this weather station of mine watching all that stuff, and comparing with the others around the area.

Last night, it cooled off rapidly at sunset. It was a smidge below 30F at 7:30PM. Then, wind picked up, and temp starting rising pretty fast. It got back up to 39F in 45 minutes, and was still around 34 at midnight. Then it slowly cooled back down, low of 23.5 right at sunrise.

The reason for that was some cloud cover moved in and interrupted the radiative cooling process. That was responsible for the wind, which stirred it up as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 11:27 PM (w6EFb)

168 124 That was awesome. There are a number of options like nuclear and hydroelectric. Places like Kali hate both.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2024 11:09 PM (SSBCb)

What he said about transmission is the most important part of that rant. Our electrical need is not going to decrease any time soon. We needed to get to work tripling transmission capability a decade ago. Since it's too late to start then, we should start putting up new wires tomorrow.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:27 PM (R256O)

169 Well done, Dad.

I agree, thanks.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:29 PM (PcTds)

170 18 deg. and falling.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2024 11:29 PM (XeU6L)

171 Speaking of Ida...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtbZ8dp2AIw

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:29 PM (WEqNk)

172 137
jim (in hospital in Kalifornia)

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Jeez, Jim, not home yet?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 03, 2024 11:15 PM (eqbpp)

Trying to resolve issues with my drain. Will most likely leave w PICC line for IV antibiotic and antifungal. So will be here at least another day.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2024 11:29 PM (SSBCb)

173 Any motorcycle rider out on a country road on a cool, crisp day, can tell you instantly of the temperature differences with every rise and fall of the road.

On those days when you can see the kitchen smoke lying damn near motionless, lazily wafting away from the vent pipe on the house, neither rising nor falling, but just...drifting...away.

THOSE are the temps and conditions in which the rider becomes at once, the most accurate Human Weather Station, excepting for every blue water sailor yet at the helm.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2024 11:29 PM (Xo+UM)

174 I’ll take 20 degrees and dry vs 41 and fog. There’s a “but it’s a dry heat” component with cold as well. Cold dry air is much more pleasant than slightly warmer but humid air. For me anyway.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2024 11:24 PM (62WQB)
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Agreed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:26 PM (m4oRq)

Thirded (or whatever).

I grew up in Norfolk when it was much colder. 30 degrees with humidity is colder than a dry 20 degrees. Found that out in college in the mountains.

Posted by: RickZ at December 03, 2024 11:30 PM (gKDq2)

175
Of late, I've been cooling down and warming up faster than many of the local stations -- not the fastest, but one of the top ones.

And that will easily change as conditions vary. Sometimes, I've been high inertia and lag the others.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

176 Snake would have missed me. I'd a been straight up in the air.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:27 PM (WEqNk)

They missed a big opportunity in that windmill scene. Chickie was walking under the windmill; they should have had her find a dead or wounded bird, or a bunch of dead bats, and Billy Bob could then have explained why the windmills are so deadly to avian life. Much more emotionally powerful that a dry recitation of the "carbon footprint" of the damned things.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:31 PM (m4oRq)

177 jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) How are youl holding up? Things moving in the right direction?

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 11:31 PM (8Yvzj)

178 61 degrees here in central Montana this afternoon. thermometer still says 44.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at December 03, 2024 11:31 PM (iNp3L)

179 Just saw your 172 jim.

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 11:32 PM (8Yvzj)

180 What he said about transmission is the most important part of that rant. Our electrical need is not going to decrease any time soon. We needed to get to work tripling transmission capability a decade ago. Since it's too late to start then, we should start putting up new wires tomorrow.
Posted by: tankdemon

My tinfoil hat moment says it won't happen, since being able to keep folks in the dark and cold makes for a compliant populace.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 11:32 PM (+VovS)

181 Rain here for the next two weeks. Well, I like the sound of it on the windows and roof and prefer it to snow. I have a fairly steep driveway off a 90 degree turn.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:33 PM (PcTds)

182 18 deg. and falling.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2024 11:29 PM (XeU6L)

A song comes to mind:

https://youtu.be/g08uyj4t1_s

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:34 PM (m4oRq)

183 148 The douche squad.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (VwCD)

Douches are useful. The RINO neocon money-grubbers? Not so much.
Posted by: RickZ at December 03, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

They work as well as a transgender woman's vagina.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2024 11:35 PM (SSBCb)

184 Thanks for sharing the sunset pic and story. When I look at the puc, I hear Robert Plant's Big Log, an over produced but very pleasant tune.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 03, 2024 11:36 PM (iCuR/)

185 Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2024 11:17 PM (Xo+UM)

I love the way you think.

Posted by: GWB at December 03, 2024 11:36 PM (GR9H0)

186 They missed a big opportunity in that windmill scene. Chickie was walking under the windmill; they should have had her find a dead or wounded bird, or a bunch of dead bats, and Billy Bob could then have explained why the windmills are so deadly to avian life. Much more emotionally powerful that a dry recitation of the "carbon footprint" of the damned things.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:31 PM (m4oRq)

Yep. I was thinking the same thing. What would a reasonable number of decaying bird carcasses under each of those windmills actually be? About half a dozen or so?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:37 PM (R256O)

187 "Pic"

Sorry.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 03, 2024 11:38 PM (iCuR/)

188 Our electrical need is not going to decrease any time soon. We needed to get to work tripling transmission capability a decade ago

Making it cheaper helps. It is still a bill that needs to be paid tho, so it would be nice to be self sufficient as an individual.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:38 PM (PcTds)

189 Thank you for this excellent ONT, and for your service, both military and civilian, Roger Ball.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 03, 2024 11:39 PM (3dw//)

190
I expect I'll get below 20F, maybe a good little bit before sunrise.

Another thing that amazed me was how fast I warmed up after sunrise the past few days (but not this morning). Temp went from 25 to 40 over the 8am hour. That's the solar irradiance.

Our eyes have pretty amazing dynamic range, such that a full Moon can seem bright, yet still handle noon in summer. Orders of magnitude different in radiative flux there.

So the difference between radiation at sunrise, vs when it kicks in during the 8am hour here now is not obvious to the eyes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 11:41 PM (w6EFb)

191 Yep. I was thinking the same thing. What would a reasonable number of decaying bird carcasses under each of those windmills actually be? About half a dozen or so?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:37 PM (R256O)

Anywhere from none to a half-dozen? All it would take for dramatic effect is one. A wounded eagle...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:41 PM (m4oRq)

192 My tinfoil hat moment says it won't happen, since being able to keep folks in the dark and cold makes for a compliant populace.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 03, 2024 11:32 PM (+VovS)

Funny that the locale most intent on mandating electric vehicles is the one least able to provide electricity for its citizens under current load requirements.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:41 PM (R256O)

193 Elon will figure out a way to transmit electricity wirelessly

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (/7KEl)

194 10 Degrees & Getting Colder
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Poignant Lightfoot.

He wrote several such. ''Steel Rail Blues' is a favorite of mine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (XeU6L)

195
They missed a big opportunity in that windmill scene.

Didn't watch the video. Was the windmill actually turning? A lot of them aren't.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (63Dwl)

196
Interesting thing with that rapid warm up period is dew point increases just as sharply for a while, then, boom, it crashes.

That's the inversion layer "burning off". The surface heats rapidly under the inversion layer, warming up moisture. Then, boom, it "bubbles up" and starts mixing with the upper air. Temp increase then levels off, and dew point drops.

It didn't do that this morning so much because of cold air advection (that's my cousin, the retired meteorologist, who explains all this to me).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2024 11:43 PM (w6EFb)

197 Engineers at Stanford have invented a smart toilet platform that will autonomously monitor excreted waste from humans. ...easily deployable hardware and software for the long-term analysis of a user's excreta through data collection ... .

And then the rights to interpret the data will be sold to a corporation that will tell you you need more vaccines and bugs in your diet. And an electric car.

Posted by: azjaeger at December 03, 2024 11:44 PM (3/XaG)

198 So much bullshit from the enviroturds. Not sure how we're gonna power all those EVs with fking windmills & solar arrays. And, of course, teh NW *tribes* are all aboard for anything what screws USA.

tinyurl.com/32m23a59

Let's pray that PDJT can squash this crap!

Posted by: JQ at December 03, 2024 11:44 PM (YoCnN)

199 Must be a dad memory night. Another thing he did was pick up hitchhikers.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:45 PM (PcTds)

200 Elon will figure out a way to transmit electricity wirelessly
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (/7KEl)

Nikola Tesla accomplished that. Problem is, all sorts of stuff that is not supposed to "receive" the power winds up receiving it. Wire fences, fillings in your teeth, your metal watch band. The soil itself. Terribly inefficient.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:45 PM (m4oRq)

201 Heh.

Wisconsin Judge Brad Schimel has approved a subpoena against ActBlue, saying, "Something is NOT right" after hearing evidence that ActBlue is using the names of unsuspecting people to launder dark money to Democrat campaigns.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 03, 2024 11:46 PM (F3SmE)

202 Anywhere from none to a half-dozen? All it would take for dramatic effect is one. A wounded eagle...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:41 PM (m4oRq)

My question is not about the visceral effect for the TV show, but if I were to take an actual walk around the windmills in real life, how many dead birds should I expect to trip over? I am hoping somebody with real world experience might enlighten me. I often hear windmills are avian Cuisinarts, but how many birds do they really kill?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:47 PM (R256O)

203 193 Elon will figure out a way to transmit electricity wirelessly
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (/7KEl)

Tesla already did, though efficiency was an issue

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2024 11:47 PM (SSBCb)

204 >>>
And then the rights to interpret the data will be sold to a corporation that will tell you you need more vaccines and bugs in your diet. And an electric car.
Posted by: azjaeger
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Don't think they have the rights. It was a $6+ million dollar grant from Uncle Sam, (nobody calls him uncle anymore) that sponsored that toilet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:48 PM (WEqNk)

205 I always loved it when a Chinook blew thru. Been a while since I thought of that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Couple of my WOEC instructors were CH-47 pilots during the Vietnam War. The mental image comparison to what they did in the 60s to a cowboy in the 1800s (Montana) frontier is very comparable to both phenomena.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 03, 2024 11:48 PM (MsrgL)

206
Not sure how we're gonna power all those EVs with fking windmills & solar arrays.

We're not.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:49 PM (63Dwl)

207 Didn't watch the video. Was the windmill actually turning? A lot of them aren't.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (63Dwl)

Yes, they were turning. Now, does Big Oil really use windmills to power the pumpjacks? Or do they build windfarms to mine for gummint subsidies? I'd want reliable power to run my pumpjacks, TYVM.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:49 PM (m4oRq)

208 "Let's pray that PDJT can squash this crap!"

It is probably the most important policy challenge he faces, the most consequential for the country. Everything - prosperity, freedom, liberating society from crap "science".

Guess we'll see but I am not wildly optimistic.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 11:49 PM (1m82a)

209 Elon will figure out a way to transmit electricity wirelessly
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2024 11:42 PM (/7KEl)

Tesla already did, though efficiency was an issue
Posted by: jim
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Don't cross the beams!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2024 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

210 You wouldn't have to show it. But the background would be percussive thumps, thuds and squawks punctuating the dialogue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:51 PM (WEqNk)

211 Wisconsin Judge Brad Schimel has approved a subpoena against ActBlue, saying, "Something is NOT right" after hearing evidence that ActBlue is using the names of unsuspecting people to launder dark money to Democrat campaigns.

Posted by: Sock Monkey
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Good.

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2024 11:52 PM (8Yvzj)

212 But if I were to take an actual walk around the windmills in real life, how many dead birds should I expect to trip over?

If I have the opportunity to do this, I will. I'm curious.

A lot of game animals hang out under power lines. I assume it is because of the swaths of grasses growing there.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:53 PM (PcTds)

213 Old C-130 Nav here. My favorite flights were low level night flights with just enough moon to see. It was especially beautiful in the winter. All grey and white and dark. Best flight was dropping Marine LRP guys at a bunch of different 'DZs'. The weather was delta sierra and the DZ's were soccer fields on the edge of town, a HS football stadium, things like that. Very unconventional and a challenge. It was a blast. The next best was my Special Ops Low Level I (Day) qual flight in the Philippines. We joined with a couple of A-10 escorts, and flew over the jungle really low. I could do no wrong that day. My pilot was the Wing DO and on our wing was the Squadron CO. We won all the bets that day. The DO asked me where I wanted to be in the Wing and he's make it happen. I went to the Airlift Control Element as an Ops Officer. Best. Job. Ever.

Posted by: JML at December 03, 2024 11:53 PM (l1UWN)

214 If they can just reverse engineer the stuff from the flying saucers we'll have infinite energy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:54 PM (63Dwl)

215 My question is not about the visceral effect for the TV show, but if I were to take an actual walk around the windmills in real life, how many dead birds should I expect to trip over? I am hoping somebody with real world experience might enlighten me. I often hear windmills are avian Cuisinarts, but how many birds do they really kill?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 11:47 PM (R256O)

I think really not that many. Might be something that happens in episodes as certain species migrate through the windfarm area. Automobiles and airplanes strike birds, too. Really, it's bats that are most likely to fall victim. They hunt insects, and the windmill blades sweep up insects and concentrate them. Good hunting for bats. They can see, and avoid, the blades, but what they cannot see are vortices that trail the blades. They fly into a low-pressure zone aft of a blade, and their little lungs hemhorrage, and they die.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 03, 2024 11:55 PM (m4oRq)

216 Couple of my WOEC instructors were CH-47 pilots during the Vietnam War. The mental image comparison to what they did in the 60s to a cowboy in the 1800s (Montana) frontier is very comparable to both phenomena.

Tell me more?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:56 PM (PcTds)

217 Pumpjacks used to run on the oil they pumped. - I think -
One cylinder diesel, when the counter weight came 'round it would push the piston up - similar to the old giant jackhammers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:56 PM (WEqNk)

218 We won all the bets that day. The DO asked me where I wanted to be in the Wing and he's make it happen. I went to the Airlift Control Element as an Ops Officer. Best. Job. Ever.

Posted by: JML

Niiiiiice.

Skill always wins over DEI, doesn't it?

This makes me wish I could've been on your maintenance crew.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 03, 2024 11:56 PM (MsrgL)

219 Embarrassment for Fani Willis as Young Thug associate she tried to put in jail is found innocent

https://mol.im/a/14153525

Posted by: Ciampino - tire, tyre, tired of retiring, re-tire or changing tires at December 03, 2024 11:56 PM (i0xsb)

220 Must be a dad memory night. Another thing he did was pick up hitchhikers.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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I was with Dad one time, when he picked up a 'hiker. We were going to Spokane. The guy had a wooden sign, with "SEATTLE" routed into it. He was active duty, on leave (so he said) from Army. Dad was former Air Force. They had a good long chat...

Got the fellow another 100 miles closer to his destination anyway, and dropped him off at the I90 junction.

Posted by: JQ at December 03, 2024 11:57 PM (YoCnN)

221 It was especially beautiful in the winter. All grey and white and dark.

Thanks for sharing. I like a grey, white and black color scheme.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 03, 2024 11:58 PM (PcTds)

222
Will most likely leave w PICC line for IV antibiotic and antifungal. So will be here at least another day.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia)

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Darn, sorry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 03, 2024 11:58 PM (eqbpp)

223
But if I were to take an actual walk around the windmills in real life, how many dead birds should I expect to trip over?

I took a walk around an operating windmill about 15 years ago just out of curiosity. Didn't see any dead birds.
There were many many of windmills. Maybe one of the other ones had birds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:59 PM (63Dwl)

224 Good.
Posted by: scampydog

The battle keeps moving forward. We keep taking ground, even if it's only inches at a time, I will take it.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 03, 2024 11:59 PM (F3SmE)

225
Wisconsin Judge Brad Schimel has approved a subpoena against ActBlue, saying, "Something is NOT right" after hearing evidence that ActBlue is using the names of unsuspecting people to launder dark money to Democrat campaigns.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli

===================

ActBlue, BLM, Acorn. Is anyone raising an honest dime for the left?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 04, 2024 12:01 AM (eqbpp)

226 214 If they can just reverse engineer the stuff from the flying saucers we'll have infinite energy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:54 PM (63Dwl)

Solar powered space "lasers". Could double as weapons against our enemies. Sharks optional

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2024 12:01 AM (SSBCb)

227 We’ll put you in a C-130 ballistic aluminum cockpit bathtub and you’ll be fine. These were all the rage in the 1990’s.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 04, 2024 12:01 AM (fY84s)

228 Pumpjacks used to run on the oil they pumped. - I think -
One cylinder diesel, when the counter weight came 'round it would push the piston up - similar to the old giant jackhammers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 03, 2024 11:56 PM (WEqNk)

There were big one-cylinder spark-ignition engines, too. Ran on light crude, or casing-head gas, or straight natural gas. Such things are still used when a new field is being developed, until enough wells are on line to make it cost-effective to run a power line to the field, and electrify the pumps.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:01 AM (m4oRq)

229 I didn't know you were in my neck of the woods at one time JQ.

Hope you are well, pray for you when I think of you, see your nic.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:02 AM (PcTds)

230 Tell me more?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel

CW4 Steele, Ft. Sill lead instructor. 1987. Dude flew medieval in the mountains. Gave us life advice, buying homes, making mortgage payments, renting it out (like a pcs pov) while overseas. He was the dude that instilled in me the "do what you say you'll do" work ethics.

God bless SFC Thorne (RIP) for giving Chief Steele a solid foundation in WOC Bewalski. Between the two of them, they made me a good NCO, and WO.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 04, 2024 12:02 AM (MsrgL)

231 but what they cannot see are vortices that trail the blades. They fly into a low-pressure zone aft of a blade, and their little lungs hemhorrage, and they die.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The things we learn here. Went on a search/read. Longer version of what you posted. Very interesting. https://tinyurl.com/2k6zpbuu

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:04 AM (8Yvzj)

232 AmericanKestrel -- thanks for your prayers. Always welcome.

I grew up near/in Spokane! Now in the middle of Idaho.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:04 AM (YoCnN)

233 ActBlue, BLM, Acorn. Is anyone raising an honest dime for the left?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 04, 2024 12:01 AM (eqbpp)

Yes.

Posted by: The Clinton Foundation, Inc. at December 04, 2024 12:05 AM (gKDq2)

234 222
Will most likely leave w PICC line for IV antibiotic and antifungal. So will be here at least another day.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia)

====================

Darn, sorry.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 03, 2024 11:58 PM (eqbpp)

Doc was forthright with me and I appreciated it. If this doesn't work it's resection time with osteomyelitis bag.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2024 12:05 AM (SSBCb)

235 I took a walk around an operating windmill about 15 years ago just out of curiosity. Didn't see any dead birds.
There were many many of windmills. Maybe one of the other ones had birds.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 03, 2024 11:59 PM (63Dwl)

It would be a full-time job to scan the ground under each windmill for bird carcasses on a daily basis. Actually, that would be a perfect application for camera-equipped drones.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:05 AM (m4oRq)

236 Ostomy, damn autocucumber

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2024 12:05 AM (SSBCb)

237 Jim in Kali-- prayers up for health & healing! You've sure been thru a wringer lately.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:08 AM (YoCnN)

238 They fly into a low-pressure zone aft of a blade, and their little lungs hemhorrage, and they die.

Sad, poor little insect eating critters, insect eating little flying mice.

There is a guy on x who does a Trump impersonation. I watched one today where, as Trump, he said we are going to change the plural of moose to mooses. Shawn F? Funny guy!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:08 AM (PcTds)

239 It would be a full-time job to scan the ground under each windmill for bird carcasses on a daily basis. Actually, that would be a perfect application for camera-equipped drones.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:05 AM (m4oRq)

As long as the drones can avoid those unseen vortices.

Posted by: RickZ at December 04, 2024 12:08 AM (gKDq2)

240 Getting sleepy. Night all.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2024 12:09 AM (SSBCb)

241 jim in KA. Prayers UP for you for a FULL recovery and a LASTING return to your home!

Here, I'm getting care at max VA efficiency, which is to say, slowly. I'm "guaranteed" full disability and every other benefit. It'll be six months or so before those become realities.

Care wise, my FIRST full appointment at the DeBakey VA Clinic (ALS Clinic) in Houston, is 23 Dec.

And that was after I went very politely nuclear on them, after they tried to sell me a late January appointment.

They're very nice and they're very polite. But they're in no kinda hurry, none at all.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2024 12:10 AM (Xo+UM)

242
Just went past midnight, and so the daily averages are complete. Avg temp here yesterday was 32.7F. Avg dew point, 20.6F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

243 Another thing he did was pick up hitchhikers.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Summer between my sophomore and junior year, abuddy and I went to work for his uncle's carnival in Utah. A couple of weeks before we were going to be finished, my buddy got in a pretty serious fight with his cousin. We decided, screw it, we're leaving. We hitchhiked from Spanish Rivers Utah to Spokane Washington. Pretty dang memorable. A lotta of good folks gave us rides. Old folks, dads, a farmer, a trucker and a van full of stoned hippies were some of the memorable ones.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 12:11 AM (F3SmE)

244 God bless SFC Thorne (RIP) for giving Chief Steele a solid foundation in WOC Bewalski. Between the two of them, they made me a good NCO, and WO.

Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:12 AM (PcTds)

245 Democrats spark fury post mocking Americans struggling to afford item

https://mol.im/a/14154033

Posted by: Ciampino - many of us didn't even have funds for a TG dinner at December 04, 2024 12:13 AM (i0xsb)

246 As long as the drones can avoid those unseen vortices.
Posted by: RickZ at December 04, 2024 12:08 AM (gKDq2)

Drones don't have lungs. Turbulence might upset them. I don't know if drones have any self-righting routine. In any case, you would probably want to fly the drones well below the circle made by the blades, and scan the ground downwind of the towers, too. A stricken bird won't necessarily drop like a rock; might flutter vainly, and be carried by the wind as it loses altitude.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:13 AM (m4oRq)

247 Good night jim. It seems you are in good spirits, I hope so, hoping for better health soon!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:14 AM (PcTds)

248 Is this a stupid question?

What happens to a department when the cabinet level official doesn't get approved by the Senate? The President still has all executive power invested in that office right? If there is no Secretary of Defense appointed, POTUS still can override, at least officially, career bureaucrats, right?

I'm no legal scholar, but it seems like the Senate can block the power of a nominated delegate, but not the words of POTUS himself on purely executive issues.

Posted by: 3 Angry Irish Inches at December 04, 2024 12:14 AM (H2Hko)

249 It's tough to 'get in' to any medical at the end of year. Nurse R wrote about it earlier today.

Just one more reason to hate the health insurance industry and its Calendar Year-based deductibles/OOP maximums.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:15 AM (YoCnN)

250 We hitchhiked from Spanish Rivers Utah to Spokane Washington. Pretty dang memorable. A lotta of good folks gave us rides. Old folks, dads, a farmer, a trucker and a van full of stoned hippies were some of the memorable ones.

Long hike! Great memory!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:16 AM (PcTds)

251 I always loved it when a Chinook blew thru. Been a while since I thought of that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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These guys do Vet funeral fly-bys. If you ever have a chance to see such, do it. Having four Hueys fly by, to be overtaken by a Cobra that peels away is hard on the tear ducts. Also, they give joy rides at air shows. They brought in a pair of Hueys to transport supplies to communities here isolated by the storm.

An old, very good friend (VN vet) is one of their maintenance chiefs. There's more to the story, but for tonight this will do.

Scroll down to Nov. 1 entry"We are still doing what we can..."
Several entries are this at this AO.
https://armyav.org/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:17 AM (XeU6L)

252 Democrats spark fury post mocking Americans struggling to afford item

So out of touch with most of the country!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:19 AM (PcTds)

253 Hegseth seems like a good pick from Trump.
He gets it when he talks about removing all the woke from the military and ending the pointless wars so we can rebuild our forces.

But Hegseth will be the SecDef and that’s a big responsibility in today’s world, especially considering the nuclear aspect.

He’s got a few strikes against him if you look at it objectively.

He’s young. He’s a TV presenter (good on screen but how about in the Situation Room?). He’s never led a large organization, certainly nothing like the behemoth U.S. military.

And if all of these stories circulating about him aren’t complete B.S. then Pete’s got some serious baggage he’s going to have to unpack in front of the world at the confirmation hearing.

If he makes it to a hearing he might surprise everybody and come out a winner.

I like the guy and wish him luck but it looks like they are about to give him the push like Gaetz.
We’ll see how it plays out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 04, 2024 12:22 AM (6ydKt)

254
Scroll down to Nov. 1 entry"We are still doing what we can..."
Several entries are this at this AO.
https://armyav.org/

Very nice - love our military!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:23 AM (PcTds)

255 Just one more reason to hate the health insurance industry and its Calendar Year-based deductibles/OOP maximums.
Posted by: JQ
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See: 'An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back'

Goodreads reviews: t.ly/-dk4i

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:23 AM (XeU6L)

256 Go woke Go broke?????
Beauty salon faces boycott after videos about Trump voters

https://mol.im/a/14154189

Hard to understand this attitude. Normally one wouldn't know the politics of a customer unless the subject was raised, or clothing, etc. I don't discuss politics with strangers.

Posted by: Ciampino - such insecure people at December 04, 2024 12:23 AM (i0xsb)

257 I always loved it when a Chinook blew thru. Been a while since I thought of that.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

I am on a miltary flight path to the Tacoma creek training area in NE Washington. I regularly have CH-47s fly over the house. Generally they are flying pretty dang low. Had one come directly overhead last week. Pretty awesome.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 12:24 AM (F3SmE)

258 We hitchhiked from Spanish Rivers Utah to Spokane Washington. Pretty dang memorable. A lotta of good folks gave us rides. Old folks, dads, a farmer, a trucker and a van full of stoned hippies were some of the memorable ones.

Long hike! Great memory!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:16 AM (PcTds)

You know, hitchhiking has really fallen off. Most people are leery of picking up hitchhikers, and the way many hitchhikers present, I don't blame them.

But we have a perfect tool now, to remedy that, the smart phone. How about a smartphone app, that would put hitchhikers in contact with drivers willing to to give a ride? Kind of like the load-share boards that truckers use. Both drivers and passengers would register with the app, and be subject to some basic vetting, like have a fixed address, have a cell in their name, be able to give a couple of in-country references. And have a destination address, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:24 AM (m4oRq)

259 I like the guy and wish him luck but it looks like they are about to give him the push like Gaetz.
We’ll see how it plays out.

I want him to fight for the position and I don't care about his negatives. He's going against the MIC and I want him to win.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:26 AM (PcTds)

260 Article in the WSJ says Trump might replace Hegseth with DeSantis.

Ace should be happy if that’s the result.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 04, 2024 12:28 AM (6ydKt)

261 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:23 AM

Thanks for that!

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:29 AM (YoCnN)

262 smartphone app, that would put hitchhikers in contact with drivers willing to to give a ride

This is a great idea - any app creators out there?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:29 AM (PcTds)

263 Scroll down to Nov. 1 entry"We are still doing what we can..."
Several entries are this at this AO.
https://armyav.org/
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Very nice.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:29 AM (8Yvzj)

264 Article in the WSJ says Trump might replace Hegseth with DeSantis.

Ace should be happy if that’s the result.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 04, 2024 12:28 AM (6ydKt)

All the Commie Media are spinning the same story. It's an op.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:30 AM (m4oRq)

265 It's scary out there for the hitchhikers, too!

I stopped thumbing rides in the late 70s, after a couple of near-miss experiences.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:31 AM (YoCnN)

266
An op run by Miss Lindsey and Joni Ernst.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 12:31 AM (w6EFb)

267 248
POTUS could appoint the failed nominee to a deputy head position, which doesn't require Senate confirmation, and a figurehead as the Head as approved by the Advise and Consent. Privately the figurehead would know that he keeps the cushy job as long as he doesn't make waves.

Would this work?

Posted by: Ciampino - Loved Drury's first book at December 04, 2024 12:32 AM (i0xsb)

268 253 I like the guy and wish him luck but it looks like they are about to give him the push like Gaetz.
We’ll see how it plays out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Trump needs to fight for whoever they targeted after Gaetz, which is Hegseth. Cannot let them torpedo two in a row.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:33 AM (8Yvzj)

269
And it's 22F now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 12:34 AM (w6EFb)

270 How about a smartphone app, that would put hitchhikers in contact with drivers willing to to give a ride? Kind of like the load-share boards that truckers use.

AOP, find yourself a keyboard geek and partner up. Develop the AP and sell it. You could make some serious retirement play money. Think of all th Suburbans and Studebakers you could buy. That's an awesome idea.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 12:34 AM (F3SmE)

271 17 deg. here at the house.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:35 AM (XeU6L)

272 All the Commie Media are spinning the same story. It's an op.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:30 AM (m4oRq)

— —

Could be, but if I was Trump I’d want DeSantis as a second choice.

Would DeSantis take the job is the question.
It’s a good stepping stone for the politically ambitious.

If they don’t have the votes in the senate there’s not much Trump or Hegseth can do, gotta pick someone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 04, 2024 12:37 AM (6ydKt)

273 Trump needs to fight for whoever they targeted after Gaetz, which is Hegseth. Cannot let them torpedo two in a row.
Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:33 AM (8Yvzj)

Need wartime Trump.

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 04, 2024 12:37 AM (+I6Y/)

274 Ok, you may laugh. Comment 257 put the pieces together for me. I know "Chinook" as a warm sustained wind that brings some joy in cold weather, knowledge gained from a comment growing up and from an excerpt from Little House on the Prairie.

I did not know it was a heavy lift helicopter until comment 257 prompted me to look it up.

Now many comments make so much more sense. Thanks for all of that! 😁

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:37 AM (PcTds)

275 This is a great idea - any app creators out there?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:29 AM (PcTds)

I can envision what the app needs to do, but know nothing about how to make it happen. You would have to have an iron-clad liability disclaimer, like, "we make every effort to vet both drivers and passengers to ensure criminals and insane persons are not acting as drivers or passengers, but no system of vetting is perfect. Ultimately, you have to go with your gut." "Ensure that pickups and drop-offs are done at visibly public places, with some safe sheltered area where passengers can await onward transport." The app will auto call both drivers and passengers at intervals during a hitch, and drivers and passengers should answer, and state that all is well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:37 AM (m4oRq)

276 30F here.

Still no snow, so we gots that going for us...

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:38 AM (YoCnN)

277 I can only think of two things that might go wrong with a hitchike app. The driver, and the hitchhiker.

Search 'Murdered by hitchhiker'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:39 AM (XeU6L)

278 Sounds like AOP is getting a new workshop!

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:40 AM (8Yvzj)

279
If they don’t have the votes in the senate there’s not much Trump or Hegseth can do, gotta pick someone.

Maybe there is an out of the box solution.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:40 AM (PcTds)

280 AOP, find yourself a keyboard geek and partner up. Develop the AP and sell it. You could make some serious retirement play money. Think of all th Suburbans and Studebakers you could buy. That's an awesome idea.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 12:34 AM (F3SmE)

I think I know of one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:41 AM (m4oRq)

281 IMO-- hitchhiking is finished, in the USA. Not worth the risk for either driver or 'hiker.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:41 AM (YoCnN)

282 Trump needs to fight for whoever they targeted after Gaetz, which is Hegseth. Cannot let them torpedo two in a row.
Posted by: scampydog

I think he will. Sec Def is as critical as any of the other positions. I think the people hiding in the shadows fear Hegseth more than Gaetz. He is the man for the job. The DOD, State and the CIA are the triangle that serves as the foundation for the shadow government. Trump knows he has to break that foundation. DOD, in my opinion, is the most critical.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 12:41 AM (F3SmE)

283 >> 17 deg. here at the house.

Teens all around you from Wundermap.

Asheville Regional will update in a few minutes. It was 21.9 at 11:54PM.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

284 I can only think of two things that might go wrong with a hitchike app. The driver, and the hitchhiker.

Search 'Murdered by hitchhiker'
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Good hitchhiker joke. Trucker picks hitchhiker up. After a bit of windshield time, hitchhiker asks driver if he is concerned he may have picked up a serial killer. Driver responds - what are the odds there are two serial killers in the cab of this truck?

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:43 AM (8Yvzj)

285 Leftists tend to be atheists.
Atheists use the lack of God to justify a great deal of shitty behavior on their part.

Rape? Doesn't surprise me as they are phony feminists and don't respect women.
Suicide?
Well, they see themselves as God and it is their right to end their existence when they feel like it in their mind.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at December 04, 2024 12:43 AM (elaR+)

286 I can envision what the app needs to do, but know nothing about how to make it happen

It seems like it would be similar to Uber.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:43 AM (PcTds)

287 Just seeing what's happening here

Posted by: Skip at December 04, 2024 12:44 AM (fwDg9)

288 I pick up hitchhikers, but I live on an island.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:46 AM (PcTds)

289 I can only think of two things that might go wrong with a hitchike app. The driver, and the hitchhiker.

Search 'Murdered by hitchhiker'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:39 AM (XeU6L)

That's why the vetting. Criminal record check. Maybe use a 4473 application? And each entry on the app would include a current photo, and brief bio.

I once split a hotel room at a car meet with an old boy who had done time in San Quentin. He was real good company.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:46 AM (m4oRq)

290 Maybe there is an out of the box solution.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:40 AM (PcTds)

— —

Short of McConnell stroking out and going out feet first and Lindsey getting busted with a rentboy I don’t know what can be done.

I just know if Hegseth gets to the hearing the Dems are gonna break out a few Christine Blasey-Two-Door-Fords as witnesses to say Pete sexually harassed them and it will turn into a shitshow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 04, 2024 12:47 AM (6ydKt)

291 Clipper set to come thru tomorrow afternoon. Winds pick up and temps drop into the teens.

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 04, 2024 12:47 AM (+I6Y/)

292 Well, getting late enough, I ought to hit the sack. Outdoor stuff to do, even if the Chinook falters. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2024 12:49 AM (m4oRq)

293 Well, they see themselves as God and it is their right to end their existence when they feel like it in their mind.

It really is a spiritual battle. One of my favorite moments during the campaign was when Vance responded to an audience member by saying "Christ is King" not many days after Harris told Christians that they were at the wrong rally.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:50 AM (PcTds)

294 Good motto for AOP's project:

"Gas Grass or APP. No one rides for free!"

*wicked grin*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2024 12:50 AM (Xo+UM)

295 Night AOP

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:51 AM (YoCnN)

296 Clipper set to come thru tomorrow afternoon. Winds pick up and temps drop into the teens.
Posted by: a dude in MI
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Temps going low here in MN tomorrow night but warming into mid to upper 30s over the weekend. Might head up to the shack and finish building a staircase for a deer stand.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:51 AM (8Yvzj)

297 Asheville Regional will update in a few minutes. It was 21.9 at 11:54PM.
Posted by: publius
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AVL is generally +3 from here. Elevation diferential, mostly

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:51 AM (XeU6L)

298 LIBs, call them Cowards but their NOT.

In times of crisis they will be the first into the bunkers, not because they value their own lives, but rather to displace someone else who does -- and when they're inside, they will loudly demand the unearned, seize the undeserved: Give the Convenience, or Give them DEATH
-- they ALWAYS seek the way to achieve both!

LIBs. What PRICE their Vision?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 04, 2024 12:52 AM (Vu2hN)

299 *differential

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 12:52 AM (XeU6L)

300 the Dems are gonna break out a few Christine Blasey-Two-Door-Fords as witnesses to say Pete sexually harassed them and it will turn into a shitshow

I don't think these type of attacks will be effective anymore.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:52 AM (PcTds)

301 Good night AOP Sleep well.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:52 AM (PcTds)

302 Does Billy Bob believe that or is he just speaking his lines?

Posted by: Archer at December 04, 2024 12:53 AM (IDphi)

303 G'night, AOP. Hictchhiker's Guide to Thumbing the States. And Canada.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:54 AM (8Yvzj)

304 what are the odds there are two serial killers in the cab of this truck?
Posted by: scampydog

FBI database over the last 2 decades, has over 850 murders with significant similarities, believed to have been committed by LH truckers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 12:55 AM (F3SmE)

305 I actually think Trump did win NJ, VA, and MN.

Posted by: eleven at December 04, 2024 12:55 AM (fV+MH)

306 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR DECEMBER 4

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-70
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 4, 2024
Launch Time: 3:29 a.m. ET, 0829 UTC, 09:29 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/05KZAj0mq9Y
__________

ISRO - PSLV-XL - ESA Proba-3
1st Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, INDIA
Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 4, 2024
Launch Time: 5:38 a.m. EST. 16:08 IST, 10:38 UTC, 11:38 CET
Launch Window: Instantaneous launch window

https://www.youtube.com/live/RvXH4LkC5Xo

Later 2 more launches: French Guiana and California

Posted by: Ciampino - Space doesn't wait at December 04, 2024 12:56 AM (i0xsb)

307 FBI database over the last 2 decades, has over 850 murders with significant similarities, believed to have been committed by LH truckers.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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That's almost one per week. Damn.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:56 AM (8Yvzj)

308 DeSantis has done many good things, his decision to go with the e against Trump was a grave error in my book.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 04, 2024 12:57 AM (WEqNk)

309 Well, I've been here longer than expected.

Thanks everyone

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 04, 2024 12:57 AM (PcTds)

310 G'night, AmericanKestrel.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 12:57 AM (8Yvzj)

311 Goodnight AK. While I'm at it

Lord heal our Jims. Give them strength, comfort and peace. Unravel the quagmire in their care and make that path trouble free.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:02 AM (F3SmE)

312
AVL 12:54AM: 19.9F

There is something funny about these ASOS numbers. GSP, GMU and the others do this too. Temps will be given as round numbers, or a ".9" or ".1", but nothing in between, at least that I've seen.

That's odd and there has to be some reason. I'll ask cousin tomorrow, but he may not be up on the latest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 01:04 AM (w6EFb)

313 Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:02 AM
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Amen.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 01:04 AM (YoCnN)

314
The AWOS stations seem to have a resolution of 0.2F, and their numbers will be as expected, all over the range.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 01:06 AM (w6EFb)

315 Lord heal our Jims. Give them strength, comfort and peace. Unravel the quagmire in their care and make that path trouble free.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:02 AM (F3SmE)
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+1 and Amen.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 01:06 AM (8Yvzj)

316

That behavior with the ASOS stations may be with the reporting that gets filtered through to the NWS sites, and not the actual data.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

317
There is something funny about these ASOS numbers. GSP, GMU and the others do this too. Temps will be given as round numbers, or a ".9" or ".1", but nothing in between, at least that I've seen.

That's odd and there has to be some reason. I'll ask cousin tomorrow, but he may not be up on the latest.
Posted by: publius
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I think that I sent you a copy of NOAA's averaging method. I can't recall anything about that which would cause that anomaly, but never considered it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 01:13 AM (XeU6L)

318 279
Have a fireside chat with each recalcitrant R senator. "If you buck me you'll get it back in spades. Would you like your financial affairs looked at with a fine toothcomb? Every year? How about members of your family? Any errors on taxes? If you don't support me then I might as well give money (Musk) to a D opponent next time you run, if we can't get a winning R opponent."

That's me but I'm vindictive with enemies.

Posted by: Ciampino - tired of these fools at December 04, 2024 01:14 AM (i0xsb)

319
Lord heal our Jims. Give them strength, comfort and peace. Unravel the quagmire in their care and make that path trouble free.

That was nice, Sock Monkey, I am just another Amen to your plea.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 04, 2024 01:18 AM (Sgq8y)

320 , you may laugh. Comment 257 put the pieces together for me. I know "Chinook" as a warm sustained wind that brings some joy in cold weather, knowledge gained from a comment growing up and from an excerpt from Little House on the Prairie.

I did not know it was a heavy lift helicopter until comment 257 prompted me to look it up.

I confess that sometimes "skim" the comments. Rereading AK's Chinook comment made me feel silly. I blame it on the ADD.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:18 AM (F3SmE)

321 That's me but I'm vindictive with enemies.
Posted by: Ciampino

I'm thinking Trump 2.0 will be all that and a little nastier. Served with a smile and a firm handshake.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:21 AM (F3SmE)

322 Our forecast highs here in S.F. don't dip below 60 until 12/14. Lows in the various 40's. Dry as a bone. No 2-legged poop in my neighborhood. It's not all that bad. Kinda nice actually. Now, if I had any time to enjoy it....

Posted by: SFGoth at December 04, 2024 01:21 AM (KAi1n)

323 I'm thinking Trump 2.0 will be all that and a little nastier. Served with a smile and a firm handshake.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli
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I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 04, 2024 01:23 AM (WEqNk)

324
Heh, it's warmer in ND that here, now. Still mid-30s up there all around.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

325 Any errors on taxes? If you don't support me then I might as well give money (Musk) to a D opponent next time you run, if we can't get a winning R opponent."

That's me but I'm vindictive with enemies.
Posted by: Ciampino - tired of these fools
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Yes. Make an example of one. Mention that is the first in a series. Survival instinct will kick in. March forward, unapologetically. Those that wish to fight, well... as you said.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 01:24 AM (8Yvzj)

326 281 IMO-- hitchhiking is finished, in the USA. Not worth the risk for either driver or 'hiker.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 12:41 AM (YoCnN)
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Reacher most affected.

Posted by: Ciampino - tired of walking? at December 04, 2024 01:30 AM (i0xsb)

327 Posted by: Ciampino - tired of walking?
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Tired of walking... hell yes, I was tired of walking. Hitching *was* sometimes an option, way back then.

That's why I bought that first POS car. Beat getting groped & threatened while 'hiking.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 01:33 AM (YoCnN)

328 Anyone think that someone from Team Trump reads here? Abundance of plenary logic. Not from me, but it's here and plentiful.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 01:36 AM (8Yvzj)

329 Anyone think that someone from Team Trump reads here?
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Hahaha, I like to think so!

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 01:38 AM (YoCnN)

330 The Horde was good enough for Andrew Breitbart, after all...

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 01:39 AM (YoCnN)

331 Anyone think that someone from Team Trump reads here?

Ace knows a guy. Highly probable.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:41 AM (F3SmE)

332 SpaceX launch time:
New T-Zero: 5:13 a.m. ET, 10:13 UTC, 11:13 CET. Booster B-1067 will become the first booster to launch for its 24th time.

https://www.youtube.com/live/05KZAj0mq9Y

That time is close to the India launch! It got changed for reasons unknown but probably weather related, usually wind, so it may be delayed even further. The launch window extends to 7:11 am.

The Indian link https://www.youtube.com/live/RvXH4LkC5Xo

Posted by: Ciampino - spacy at December 04, 2024 01:43 AM (i0xsb)

333 When the trebuchet shows up at Eagle Pass we'll have confirmation that we have an insider lurking.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:46 AM (F3SmE)

334 Barrhead, a town in Alberta, Canada just voted to ban Pride crosswalks and rainbow flags from municipal property.

Posted by: Ciampino - Wow Eh! at December 04, 2024 01:46 AM (i0xsb)

335 When the trebuchet shows up at Eagle Pass we'll have confirmation that we have an insider lurking.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:46 AM (F3SmE)
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 01:47 AM (8Yvzj)

336 Barrhead, a town in Alberta, Canada just voted to ban Pride crosswalks and rainbow flags from municipal property.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Spokane needs to be read in on this.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 01:50 AM (8Yvzj)

337 Welp, work is emailing and like Fred the Baker, I've got to bake the donuts in the morning. G'night, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at December 04, 2024 01:56 AM (8Yvzj)

338 Hidden detail in Biden's Hunter pardon that means it could BACKFIRE

https://mol.im/a/14154347

Probably wishful thinking.

Posted by: Ciampino - I can't remember at December 04, 2024 01:56 AM (i0xsb)

339 Spokane needs to be read in on this.
Posted by: scampydog

Spokane is where the short bus stops. There are some decent people in the local gubment but they are surrounded by a crowd of shrill idiots.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 01:59 AM (F3SmE)

340 Biden locks in "Work From Home" Deal for 42K Social Security workers until 2029!

https://tinyurl.com/2twbb38k

If this was an EO then Trump can just nullify it. It didn't go through Congress. I don't see a "lock".

Posted by: Ciampino - we have keys at December 04, 2024 02:00 AM (i0xsb)

341 If this was an EO then Trump can just nullify it. It didn't go through Congress. I don't see a "lock".
Posted by: Ciampino

The two Bobs agree.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 04, 2024 02:07 AM (F3SmE)

342 Trump's picks are supposed to be vetted by the DoJ. Garland? Why would this be above board, that the outgoing DoJ staff vets the incoming ones, even though they may be 'enemies'?
The FBI gets to vet their new Head? The very people who are probably going to be fired.

Posted by: Ciampino - we have ways at December 04, 2024 02:09 AM (i0xsb)

343 Trump's picks are supposed to be vetted by the DoJ. Garland? Why would this be above board, that the outgoing DoJ staff vets the incoming ones, even though they may be 'enemies'?
The FBI gets to vet their new Head? The very people who are probably going to be fired.
Posted by: Ciampino

Vetting is done by the OPM, not the DOJ nor the FBI. The OPM routinely farms it out to 3rd party companies. SOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2024 02:11 AM (IG4Id)

344 O'bammy had the highest security " " " clearance " " " in the land... LO f'n L

F the dems, F their "vetting" process.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 02:14 AM (YoCnN)

345 Now 16 deg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 02:15 AM (XeU6L)

346 It seems only fitting that Veterinarians are tasked with clearing nominees for Cabinet Level government officials.

Rabies, hoof-in-mouth, distemper and other horrible disease await, otherwise.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2024 02:16 AM (Xo+UM)

347 I just know if Hegseth gets to the hearing the Dems are gonna break out a few Christine Blasey-Two-Door-Fords as witnesses to say Pete sexually harassed them and it will turn into a shitshow. Posted by: SpeakingOf

Hegseth's future will depend on what the conversation between him and Trump yields about the allegations in the NYTimes and the New Yorker. Hegseth will be gone by the weekend if they are substantially accurate and if not, it is going to one bumpy confirmation. The one-sided picture painted of him is he has gone through life as a drunken frat boy that played grab ass every chance he got. That kind of Comanche warrior wildness might make for a great field commander or a human missile pointed at the DOD deep state but it is hardly the right stuff for running the the vast American war machine, especially with the world sliding towards a world war. Hegseth has certain attributes that would make him an excellent barbarian administrator who could make meaningful changes in the DOD but there has to be more to him than that. It's not clear at this time that there is and with all the other things swirling he is certainly looking like a slim to none chance nominee.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 02:17 AM (vO42M)

348 LOL, Jim SND!

Payperview to see them get their temps taken... rectally? Heh.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 02:18 AM (YoCnN)

349 Trump needs to just shutup about any potential appointments. Why give the asshoes time to invent scandals?

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 02:20 AM (YoCnN)

350 Shut up and eat your bag of d!cks, raimondo.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 02:22 AM (YoCnN)

351
Holding at 22F still. Low was 21.6, but it bounced back up and is 22.3 now.

21.6F is the lowest the station has seen, so that's setting it's lowest counter. I first put it up in early May, so it didn't see winter 2024 at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 02:22 AM (w6EFb)

352 Brrrrrr, publius!

We're holding steady now at 32F. Chilly.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 02:24 AM (YoCnN)

353 Seems like raimondo saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 04, 2024 02:25 AM (Sgq8y)

354 I was not aware that Trump had appointed raimondo to the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) division of HHS?

For raimondo, that would be the Grab, Grope and Hope job description of his dreams.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2024 02:25 AM (Xo+UM)

355 Raimondo is just mad that the little boy slipped out of the handcuffs he put on him.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at December 04, 2024 02:27 AM (elaR+)

356 Commie NPC drops by

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 04, 2024 02:28 AM (sAmhv)

357 347
Entirely agree. Hegseth has problems being faithful to a wife, of which he's had 3. The current one was a coworker at Fox. He had a fling with her while married. Also the woman from 2017 was a fling while married to #3.
Let's say his personal morals leave something to be desired and I would probably not have picked him for the job. He's open to blackmail.

Posted by: Ciampino - we have ways to make you talk at December 04, 2024 02:28 AM (i0xsb)

358 "I'm just prayin' for the Lord to deliver me from Pick-6's" - Jamis Winston, Cleveland QB, after throwing two Pick-6s in the loss Denver.

That is a Hall of Fame level sportsball statement. I really feel for him. How that game went for him is going to sting for a long time but he's not making it easy with that quote.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 02:29 AM (vO42M)

359 354 Seems like raimondo saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 04, 2024 02:25 AM (Sgq8y)
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What part?

Posted by: Ciampino - Babbo Natale at December 04, 2024 02:30 AM (i0xsb)

360
Those two low, colder stations I mentioned way back are reading 18.1 and 20.6 now.

I'm expecting I'll drop below 20 before sunrise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 04, 2024 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

361 Hey DDS, you are near Boston right? Is there still a large, 2-storey mall on Beacon Hill? I was there last in 1975, yeah a long time ago.

Posted by: Ciampino - mapped out at December 04, 2024 02:33 AM (i0xsb)

362
[pumps frigid air into USB port]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2024 02:35 AM (XeU6L)

363 I want to thank you, Raimondo, for demonstrating your deep love for the country, by castigating Peter Hegseth. The Democrat Party is the party of moral rectitude. When I think of what a stellar, faithful husband John F. kennedy was and Bill Clinton was it gives me a warm feeling. When I consider Ted Kennedy's moral courage it's inspiring.

Posted by: Absolutely at December 04, 2024 02:36 AM (Tt+PH)

364 Guy travels to Europe for a vacation... it's his first time, he sees the sights, has a real good time... after a while he decides to call home... gets his brother on the phone and says 'so how are things back home?'
... and the brother says 'your cat died!'... the guy says 'you shouldn't break bad news like that, you should...
... break it to me gently... like, you should say, 'the cat crawled out on the roof... chasing a squirrel... and got stuck...
we had to call the fire department... the fireman climbed up and got the cat, but on the way down he slipped... the cat fell to the ground...
... we had to take the cat to the vet... they tried to save the cat, they even operated... on the cat... but it was too late... they couldn't save the cat'... that's how you should break bad news like that'... so the guys says to his brother, 'anyway, how's mom?'... and the brother says
… 'SHE'S ON THE ROOF!'...

Posted by: Ciampino - figured it out at December 04, 2024 02:37 AM (i0xsb)

365 When I think of what a stellar, faithful husband John F. kennedy was and Bill Clinton was it gives me a warm feeling. When I consider Ted Kennedy's moral courage it's inspiring.
Posted by: Absolutely
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No one ever speaks of me anymore...

Posted by: Lucy Mercer at December 04, 2024 02:37 AM (XeU6L)

366 241...

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2024 12:10 AM (Xo+UM)

My experience with any large entity, especially Govt ones, is of "hurry up and wait".
You're in my prayers, Jim.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2024 02:38 AM (SSBCb)

367 Quick response before I pack up my tent and head to bed, Ciampino. I don't recall a two story mall on Beacon Hill, but I am seldom in that area. There is a two story mall in Chestnut Hill, again, not in my area of operations, but I bet that is what you are thinking of.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 04, 2024 02:38 AM (Sgq8y)

368 Trump should hire me. I’ll put all of these peckerwoods and then some on notice.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 04, 2024 02:39 AM (fY84s)

369 DDS, yes my mistake, Chestnut Hill it is. Thank you.

Posted by: Ciampino - figured it out at December 04, 2024 02:41 AM (i0xsb)

370 Hegseth's future will depend on what the conversation between him and Trump yields about the allegations in the NYTimes and the New Yorker. Hegseth will be gone by the weekend if they are substantially accurate and if not, it is going to one bumpy confirmation. The one-sided picture painted of him is he has gone through life as a drunken frat boy that played grab ass every chance he got.
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He was in the Army. He consumed alcohol. News flash- alcohol is an important social lubricant in the military. You don't get far if you can't handle the booze. It produces a lot of alcoholics, but the military expects casualties. It also produces people who can perform when impaired, whether by booze, fatigue or bullet.
He chased women and he caught some. BFD. The people complaining about this are either hypocrites, soyboys or harridans.
Read his book. He knows what needs to be done.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 04, 2024 02:45 AM (MnMvi)

371 Let's say his personal morals leave something to be desired and I would probably not have picked him for the job. He's open to blackmail.
Posted by: Ciampino

Effectively he's being blackmailed right now by the media: get out now or what's left to be destroyed will be destroyed. This is is the typical vile Washington DC politics gushing its endless bile. I see these nomination attacks as the opening artillery shots intended to blow up Trump's second presidency by the Left. The barrage to follow Is going to be scorched Earth. As a practical matter it seems to make sense to move on from Hegseth and replace him with a person with rock solid qualifications, such as Bondi or DeSantis DeSantis. Trump has 2 years to make effective changes throughout the entire federal government; he doesn't have time to mess around with the Hegseth circus. I don't like any of these preemptive smear campaigns against Trump nominees but that doesn't matter. The reality is Trump has made two miscues, he corrected one perfectly and now he has a chance to correct the other one before the elephants starts stomping. Desantis could be a great pick.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 02:50 AM (vO42M)

372 Back to sleep again for me.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2024 02:52 AM (SSBCb)

373 He chased women and he caught some. BFD.
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Yeah! It's not like he knocked up (or, knocked down) the hired help...

Or had a kid with a stripper.

Or knocked up a staff member while his wife was dying of cancer.

Or left his date for dead after wrecking the car.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 02:53 AM (YoCnN)

374 He was in the Army. He consumed alcohol. News flash- alcohol is an important social lubricant in the military. You don't get far if you can't handle the booze. It produces a lot of alcoholics, but the military expects casualties. It also produces people who can perform when impaired, whether by booze, fatigue or bullet.
He chased women and he caught some. BFD. The people complaining about this are either hypocrites, soyboys or harridans. Read his book. He knows what needs to be done.
Posted by: buddhaha

Trump's nominations were intended to generationally change the bureaucracy hence picking young fire brands like Gates and Hegseth. I think it was a brilliant strategy and still do. Having worked on essentially start-up projects a couple times, the key skill is not so much what you already know but what you could figure out going forward. Hegseth seem to have that quality and I think he could have grown into the position but that's my speculation. Now that it's become a circus, Trump needs to find somebody else that can fill that slot that doesn't come with all that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 02:55 AM (vO42M)

375 Yeah! It's not like he knocked up (or, knocked down) the hired help...

Or had a kid with a stripper.

Or knocked up a staff member while his wife was dying of cancer.

Or left his date for dead after wrecking the car.
Posted by: JQ

Absolutely correct. Nothing's fair. This whole business reeks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 03:00 AM (vO42M)

376 Hegseth has problems being faithful to a wife, of which he's had 3. The current one was a coworker at Fox. He had a fling with her while married. Also the woman from 2017 was a fling while married to #3.
Let's say his personal morals leave something to be desired and I would probably not have picked him for the job. He's open to blackmail.
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You know who I heard EXACTLY this same kind of complaints about his moral character?
You let the red diaper babies at the New Yorker define who is "qualified" for any position and you've lost the battle before a shot is fired. Trump will stumble out of the White House after 4 years and the left idealoges and the corrupt will still be running things.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 04, 2024 03:01 AM (MnMvi)

377 Seems like raimondo saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 04, 2024 02:25 AM (Sgq8y)

Well, Rainmando was having a threesome with Donder and Blitzen, so he didn't care what Santa was doing to Mommy.

Posted by: RickZ at December 04, 2024 03:01 AM (gKDq2)

378 Ok... I'm out. Finally sleepy!

Good night, horde.

May all your prayers be answered in the affirmative.

Posted by: JQ at December 04, 2024 03:05 AM (YoCnN)

379 You know who I heard EXACTLY this same kind of complaints about his moral character?

You let the red diaper babies at the New Yorker define who is "qualified" for any position and you've lost the battle before a shot is fired. Trump will stumble out of the White House after 4 years and the left idealoges and the corrupt will still be running things.
Posted by: buddhaha

Right there is the rub. Is this is the fight you go scorched Earth on or not? I don't know the answer to that cuz I don't have any details other than the one-sided smear campaign out of the left media. What's going on behind scenes right now between Hegseth and Trump is all that matters. If Trump goes with Hegseth I'm all in in backing him on that decision. If not, we will see how he manages it. Either way, we'll have our answers soon enough. Washington DC is vile.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 03:07 AM (vO42M)

380 Fate of Cheetos revealed after manufacturer files for bankruptcy

https://mol.im/a/14133829

Americans most affected

Posted by: Ciampino - doritos? at December 04, 2024 03:10 AM (i0xsb)

381 Hegseth needs guidance. Don’t just drop him there and allow him to flail. He needs a mentor and a commanding officer. He’ll be fine.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 04, 2024 03:13 AM (fY84s)

382 Who in the heck is Hearthside? I swear if you peel the onion back far enough, you're going to find that everything is managed by a guy that has a hot dog stand in downtown New York.

Meanwhile Hearthside CEO Darlene announced her bankruptcy management team will consist of her best pals, Noreen and Doreen and herself.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 03:15 AM (vO42M)

383 Senate needs to get over themselves..I dont recall policies coming from these corrupt fcuks. We voted for Trump and the president should get his picks...right? RIGHT?

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 04, 2024 03:18 AM (+I6Y/)

384 Howdy all, late here, long day. I wasn't going to complain, but f...it, it's been a ridiculous day. Got stuck in dealing with Medicare and Dad's rehab place trying to kick him out and moved to to third rate care facility. Anyone else dealt with a Medicare appeal on such a move?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 04, 2024 03:31 AM (55Qr6)

385 383 Senate needs to get over themselves..I dont recall policies coming from these corrupt fcuks. We voted for Trump and the president should get his picks...right? RIGHT?

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 04, 2024 03:18 AM (+I6Y/)
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Actually I agree. I can't name anything consequential that the R senators have accomplished, or even the whole Senate, in the last few years.

Posted by: Ciampino - doritos? tostitos? at December 04, 2024 03:38 AM (i0xsb)

386 Morning, fellow insomaniacals! Woden's Day hath begun, wot? It's 46 F. right now, not much wind. Pretty good workout conditions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 04, 2024 03:46 AM (omVj0)

387 New Yorker anonymous smears:

February, 2015—states that, at one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team.

No toga? Come on New Yorker, put some lipstick on this pig.

Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!”

WTF? Is Blasey Ford back on the smear campaign payroll? That is quite the cartoon being sold here.

Blumenthal...“Much as we might be sympathetic to people with continuing alcohol problems, they shouldn’t be at the top of our national-security structure.”

Dude, you had exactly zero fucks about Kamala acting drunk for 4 years as VP. Spare me

In January, 2016, Hegseth resigned from Concerned Veterans for America...a mutual decision.

Then the article goes on and lays out a bunch of anonymous smears that he was pushed out cuz he was drunk all the time.

Wash, rinse, repeat. This reeks of Kavanaugh all over again. Again, what matters here is what Trump decides to do and that will be our answer. All this other stuff, pack sand.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 04, 2024 03:47 AM (vO42M)

388 Farmer - No. Wish I could help though. You have your hands full, I know. So much of life seems to land on us all at once. It's damned debilitating and frustrating. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Lucy Mercer at December 04, 2024 03:51 AM (XeU6L)

389 Got a long day today: dr.'s appt. in the afternoon. If I get out in time, I can come straight home. Beyond a certain point, though, it makes more sense for me to stay near work, miss the rush hour traffic, and have some dinner, then drive home.

So Trump's cabinet picks are being slandered again in the "news," huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 04, 2024 03:52 AM (omVj0)

390 Not a great night but time to get rolling

Posted by: Skip at December 04, 2024 03:53 AM (fwDg9)

391 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 04, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

392 Happy Birthday, Mr. Ball!

I hope you enjoy your mandatory retirement.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 04, 2024 08:03 AM (iZEhM)

393 >>>as I flew the last leg of the last rotation on the last day I was legally allowed to fly for a major airline. We were at 35,000 feet headed eastbound, somewhere over Tennessee at about 0600L. The sunrises are one of the things I miss, even after flying a red eye.

How bittersweet! Thank you for telling us the story.

Posted by: m at December 04, 2024 10:09 AM (VnUSN)

394 I loved everything about this post--thank you Mr. Ball

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Overnight Open Thread - 12/03/2024[Roger Ball]

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Overnight Open Thread - 12/03/2024
[Roger Ball]