189 Well, the Cupcake is exhausted.

190 I love WWII squadron patches, but damn some are frigging pricey. The one I really like is the USMC VMF 514 "Whistling Death" squadron patch with the skull in the leather cap blowing the red whistle , but you rarely see one for less than $1000 in good shape.

191 PGIS, I suspect it would help you to sleep deeper.  Of course if that doesn't work you should have someone tie your feet to the footboard so you don't rub your heels raw.  What did you think I was going to say.

192 Oh hey it's now Ice Twisters on SciFi.  Seriously, the Horde could easily make a movie that meets and exceeds the SciFi standard.

I suggest we call it Boobs:  The Embiggening. 

193 Orphaned baby rabbits adopted by Chihuahua That is possibly the cutest dang thing i've ever seen. Needs video. The well meaning humanoid probably took them from their mother. Mom stashes them while she forages. On the other hand, they now probably have better odds of living to maturity.

194

Well, the Cupcake is exhausted

Naw, I'm not that tired yet sweetie.

195

I did used to have restless leg syndrome. But I don't anymore.. Perhaps I was curing myself all along without even knowing it.

196 ""I suggest we call it Boobs:  The Embiggening.""


I like it. lol

197 Does sexual intercourse really relieve menstrual cramps? Inquiring minds want to know.

198 Is Zero Hedge trying to start a run on the banks?

Taking ZeroHedge seriously is Step One on the road to Arkham Asylum.

199 126 So my question after watching said stupid movie, since they had a plan to blow up the moon which would somehow save earth, wouldn't it be bad for earth if you blew up the moon?
________

Google "endor holocaust"

200 derit, that I can answer. yes.

201 New world order
 F22 Raptor
 F35 Lightning

202 Well, the Cupcake is exhausted Naw, I'm not that tired yet sweetie. Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:28 PM (RZ8pf) That's so because you're so far away.

203 Was the digital package all it was cracked up to be?

Posted by: oldsailor's poet at April 02, 2011 11:21 PM (cDRYC)

Yes indeed, it really made the aircraft perform. They also replaced every Calfax fastener with Tridairs, so it was a real PITA to get into the gullwings after that.

204 Does sexual intercourse really relieve menstrual cramps? Yep, if there is an actual orgasm involved, for the 'ette.

205 true bebe, thanks for clarifying that. Definitely need to have the orgasm.

206

And looks like I am not going to end up dropping below my current rank of seventh.  Yeah suck on that losers!  This is what not giving a damn about basketball will get you and not really having a clue about which teams are supposed to be the best this year!

Ok I'm done gloating about my wild ass guessing.

207 142 SyFy is bringing forth a BSG Prequel.
_______

Another one? They already did "Caprica".

208

I knew someone who helped design the F-14 once upon a time.

Regarding that other video, while I have never been on a newly-minted battlefield, I imagine that gas being released by fresh corpses, as well as the smell, would not be anuything surprising. Laughing would be a sign of life, though.

209 Please, not another Craprica type series.

210 Perhaps I was curing myself all along without even knowing it.

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:29 PM (RZ8pf)

I feel so much better.  Now I can be honest with everyone.

211 My wife is like a God damn terrible chick flick bloodhound with the remote.

Are there more than one Jennifer Aniston?  How the fuck does she fire out so many shitty movies I've never heard of so quickly?

212 142 SyFy is bringing forth a BSG Prequel. _______ Another one? They already did "Caprica". Posted by: Anachronda at April 02, 2011 11:33 PM (6fER6) It is called Blood and Chrome and takes place 10 years into the first Cylon War.

213
Charlie Sheen Wows Audience in Detroit

214 So have the Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer's showed up in the flick yet?

Not yet.  Also no Sharktopus.  Though the wee little sci boy is adorable.  He's so gonna get ice sharded in the face. 

215 Yep, if there is an actual orgasm involved, for the 'ette.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 02, 2011 11:31 PM (EDWwU)

Good lawd!  You're giving out the secret ingredients.  Shut up!

216 230 126 So my question after watching said stupid movie, since they had a plan to blow up the moon which would somehow save earth, wouldn't it be bad for earth if you blew up the moon?
________

Google "endor holocaust"

Posted by: Anachronda at April 02, 2011 11:30 PM (6fER6)

Why google when you can just watch

217 Thanks! I'm actually still really really really pissed about that whole thing.  I'm somewhere past sick of being told that it's my fault people want to lop my head off for the high crime of breathing.
I'm not going to bother with a link, but Weasel Zippers has a report that one of the Afghan crowds was chanting something about the Joooos being responsible for the koran burning.

218 ""It is called Blood and Chrome and takes place 10 years into the first Cylon War.""


Blood and chrome? Wtf, they couldn't do better than that? That sounds like another custom harley show. lol

219 Good lawd! You're giving out the secret ingredients. Shut up! Posted by: Midol Oh please. you vs schnitzengrueben? no contest.

220 Hey, look. Over on K-2, the church is adding a lighted ball field!

221

OK Star Wars geeks I was asking seriously. Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?

No mocking, remember I have great embouchere.

222 without the moon we are doomed

223 We lose the moon we are fucked.

224 247 239 142 SyFy is bringing forth a BSG Prequel.
_______

Another one? They already did "Caprica".

Posted by: Anachronda at April 02, 2011 11:33 PM (6fER6)

This time it's young Adama and the first Cylon War.  I wonder if they'll use the classic BSG uni's.

Posted by: CDR M at April 02, 2011 11:35 PM (5I8G0)

I wonder if they learned from BSG and from Stargate Universe that having everyone perpetually miserable and at the lowest point of their lives every second makes for really shitty television.

225 I'm not going to bother with a link, but Weasel Zippers has a report that one of the Afghan crowds was chanting something about the Joooos being responsible for the koran burning.

It's Jooooos all the way down.

226 Those darn Christian Jews. They are always causing trouble.

227 Thanks! I'm actually still really really really pissed about that whole thing.  I'm somewhere past sick of being told that it's my fault people want to lop my head off for the high crime of breathing.
I'm not going to bother with a link, but Weasel Zippers has a report that one of the Afghan crowds was chanting something about the Joooos being responsible for the koran burning.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 02, 2011 11:36 PM (/wCSE)

CNN is showing some sort of drivel about Muslims encountering discrimination in America. Boo f'n hoo.

228 OK Star Wars geeks I was asking seriously. Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth? Life would suck without tides.

229 GGE, thanks for the info. Those five years were some of the best times of my life. It was an honor to be the sharp tip of President reagans foreign policy. I personally witnessed the change from Carter to Reagan. When I arrived at the squadron we had two planes that actually flew. The rest were rob birds. Within a year their were no rob birds.

230 Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?

No mocking, remember I have great embouchere.

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:38 PM (RZ8pf)

wheres Kratos when we need him?

231 wheres Kratos when we need him? Haven't seen him. **burp**

232 Yay, F-14!

My dad worked on the F-14's weapon systems for twenty-five years. The Tomcat was like the fourth kid in our house.

233 I have a spare moon you can borrow

234 wheres Kratos when we need him? Posted by: Racefan Grrrr. Tired of tittehs, are you?

235 Life would suck without tides  Boobehs.

Posted by: crabs everywhere at April 02, 2011 11:40 PM (4Kl5M)

FIFY

236 Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?

Need?  Not really, a planet does not need a moon.

That said, the fact that we have a moon now, suddenly removing it would cause havoc (some would say "chaos")

237 255 OK Star Wars geeks I was asking seriously. Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?
________

Well, the fundamental problem is, to quote the immortal scientist Mr. Beakman, "everything goes somewhere". If you blow up the moon, all you've done is change the problem from being hit by a giant rock to being hit by a giant cloud of shrapnel.

As for in general needing the moon? Probably not, but what do I know? I'm just a moron.

238
Michelle vs. Cookiepuss

It's the story of a hulking behemoth that terrorizes small town ice cream shops until she is confronted by an icy alien avenger.

239 We need the moon it helps to maintain our axis I believe.

240 I personally witnessed the change from Carter to Reagan. When I arrived at the squadron we had two planes that actually flew. The rest were rob birds. Within a year their were no rob birds.

Posted by: oldsailor's poet at April 02, 2011 11:41 PM (cDRYC)

I took my first oath the same day President Reagan took his second oath.

When Billy Jeff was Philanderer in Chief we would send everyone on basket leave for three months straight off of cruise and then we would strip their aircraft so that the squadrons working up and on cruise would have parts.  When George Bush the Junior took over that practice ceased post-haste and we finally got parts again.  I hate to think of what is happening on the flight line right now.

241 Grrrr. Tired of tittehs, are you?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 02, 2011 11:43 PM (EDWwU)

no, not at all...............the moon question seemed like sometime he would know................

242 Life would suck without tides Boobehs. Posted by: crabs everywhere FIFY Sorry, we need to be able to dive.

243 Oh, crap. Just up now at WZ that Karzai gave a speech condemning the koran burning and thus working up the crowds. Asshole.

244 no we do kinda need the moon

245 My dad worked on the F-14's weapon systems for twenty-five years. The Tomcat was like the fourth kid in our house.

Posted by: Dumb_Blonde at April 02, 2011 11:43 PM (G4Dm3)

Gosh, that doesn't make me feel old at all...thanks.

246 i love tittehs...............

247 So its decided then, We shall keep the moon

248 ""I wonder if they learned from BSG and from Stargate Universe that having everyone perpetually miserable and at the lowest point of their lives every second makes for really shitty television.""

I fucking hope so, but I doubt it. It seems to be the new thing, misery in space.

249 we need the moon because we have it now; removing it would be harmful for children and other living things

250 272 Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?

Need?  Not really, a planet does not need a moon.

That said, the fact that we have a moon now, suddenly removing it would cause havoc (some would say "chaos")

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 02, 2011 11:44 PM (JMmQ9)

If you mean "need" as in "we'd be fucked without it" then, yeah, we need it.  I'll save you the physics and direct you to Google, Barnes & Noble or Amazon, your pick.

251 Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?


Without the moon there will be no lunacy, only madness !!11!  _{^{(or not...)}}

252 I just did some Internet reading and there is some fascinating stuff about earth and the moon and how differently our planet would have developed without the moon. From my skimming it does seem that if we lost the moon now it would be bad.

253 If you mean "need" as in "we'd be fucked without it" then, yeah, we need it.  I'll save you the physics and direct you to Google, Barnes & Noble or Amazon, your pick.

See also various Discovery channel, Science channel, etc. disaster porn shows. 

254 btw... best ONT in a while.  The boat video and bad time to fart were perfect.

255 "Yay, F-14!"

I don't remember this much excitement last week in the P-3 thread.

<snicker>

256 On the plus side, with no moon, no more werewolves!

257 Something, something, something. Yadda yadda yadda. Look at me go! Trooth to powah!

258 if we lost the moon now it would be bad Life wouldn't be the same.

259

Tings  I saw that on the science channel or sumptin.

Without  the moon we would get a lot more wobbly on our axis.  

The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of 1" every hundred years. 

The moon's gravity causes the tides to slow the rotation of the Earth ever so slightly year after year.

When the moon formed it was only 17,000 miles away. the Earth rotated much faster then.

Except for the lack of water and the molten surface it would be cool to watch the gravity of the moon pull tides out in the face of the Earth be it solid or molten.

260 293 If you mean "need" as in "we'd be fucked without it" then, yeah, we need it.  I'll save you the physics and direct you to Google, Barnes & Noble or Amazon, your pick.

See also various Discovery channel, Science channel, etc. disaster porn shows. 

Posted by: alexthechick at April 02, 2011 11:52 PM (qPgNK)

Those, too.

261

OK, I'll stop with the science questions. Sorry. If it helps, my cleavage tonight is awesome.

262 300 if we lost the moon now it would be bad

Life wouldn't be the same.

Posted by: Three Wolf T Shirt at April 02, 2011 11:54 PM (4Kl5M)

FTFY

263

OK Star Wars geeks I was asking seriously. Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:38 PM (RZ8pf)

No moon for you.  NEXT!

264 If it helps, my cleavage tonight is awesome.

See re: prior comments on vid or it didn't happen. 

265 ""I just did some Internet reading and there is some fascinating stuff about earth and the moon and how differently our planet would have developed without the moon. From my skimming it does seem that if we lost the moon now it would be bad.""



Now you tell us.

266 OK, I'll stop with the science questions.

naw, science is awesome

267 my cleavage tonight is awesome. And? Posted by: CDR M BOOBQUAKE!!!!!!

268 not only do i love titthes......... any girl that says she can touch her forehead with her tongue has a special place in my heart also. but i/m a Moron, theres just some thing i like.

269 307 If it helps, my cleavage tonight is awesome.

See re: prior comments on vid or it didn't happen. 

Posted by: alexthechick at April 02, 2011 11:56 PM (qPgNK)

alex on teh frisky tonight!

270 my cleavage tonight is awesome Anheuser Busch?

271
naw, science is awesome

Posted by: chemjeff at April 02, 2011 11:58 PM (vj0dH)

You know weird science wasn't real, right?

272 my cleavage tonight is awesome.

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:54 PM (RZ8pf)


I had to go home early last night.  Pics or........

273 303

OK, I'll stop with the science questions. Sorry. If it helps, my cleavage tonight is awesome.

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:54 PM (RZ8pf)

Prove it.  Science demands evidence to prove your hypothesis valid.

274 Just at WZ and refreshed my memory... the Afghans were chanting Death to Israel over the Florida anti-religious performance art koran burning.

275 If paranoid anxiety girl was looking for attention, she struck fucking gold. lmao.

276 BOOBQUAKE!!!!!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 02, 2011 11:58 PM (EDWwU)

What a great new ride!!!  I call shotgun!!!  ;p

277 any girl that says she can touch her forehead with her tongue has a special place in my heart also. but i/m a Moron, theres just some thing i like.

Posted by: Racefan at April 02, 2011 11:58 PM (VPuY9)

*facepalm*

You do realize nothing of the sort was said like that, last night?  I'm just saying, you read into it what you wanted to.  You've been had!

278 Short program on the impact of the moon leaving it's orbit and colliding with Earth.  Good graphics and is even accompanied with a sound track.  Not sure it's good science.

279 my cleavage tonight is awesome.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:54 PM (RZ8pf)


They tell me they're more powerful if you push them together. lol

280 Editor, I'm laughing too. I believe what Rum said was that she could stick out her tongue and touch her forehead.

281 So are our wieners. Heh. Heh, heh. Heh.

Fire fire fire!

282 The moon's gravity causes the tides to slow the rotation of the Earth ever so slightly year after year.

I question the time-ing of that.  That would suggest that 'leap seconds' would be increasing in duration year after year.  Off hand I have not noticed this. 

283 319 Just at WZ and refreshed my memory... the Afghans were chanting Death to Israel over the Florida anti-religious performance art koran burning.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2011 12:01 AM (/wCSE)

Ah, those silly little islamic, brainwashed, illiterate nitwits are so much fun when you fire them up and put a knife in their hands, aren't they?

It's like going home and shooting your family because someone rear ended your cousin's nissan 2 months ago.

Logic... brought to you by muhammaed.

284 They aren't on a f'n boat. That's a ship. Submarines are boats. Unless you can maintain a 1.0 surface:dive ratio, you aren't on a boat. WTF, how do LTJG's have time to do this stuff? Grim

285 Hellcat

286

Posted by: Papa Editor at April 03, 2011 12:02 AM (YX6i/)

i do know it was April 1st and was a funny joke..............

287

If paranoid anxiety girl was looking for attention, she struck fucking gold. lmao.

Well, you know I am an attention whore. I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.

288 I don't remember this much excitement last week in the P-3 thread.

<snicker>

My very favorite story about my dad and the F-14 ...

My then boyfriend (an idiot then and, I'm certain, an idiot still) was an E-2 guy. He was a jackass who always had to make himself the center of attention. We were at large party that my folks were also attending. The ex-BF had cornered my dad and was droning on and on and on about the E-2. When my father had finally had enough he said "If it didn't drop bombs or shoot missiles I wasn't interested in it." Then he walked away and got himself another scotch.

I love my dad.

No offense to any E-2 pilots, techs, etc. You'd have to know this guy to realize how incredibly annoying he was.

289 334

If paranoid anxiety girl was looking for attention, she struck fucking gold. lmao.

Well, you know I am an attention whore. I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 03, 2011 12:06 AM (RZ8pf)

I'm not criticizing, I'm admiring.

290

Shorpy> The Athletes: 1897

"Circa 1897. 'U.S.S. Oregon -- the athletes.' 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Edward H. Hart, Detroit Publishing Company."

291 The Earth and the Moon have been partners for over 4 billion years. They need each other.

292

I'm not criticizing, I'm admiring.

Oh, OK then. Nevermind. My sun sign is Cancer, the moon makes me sensitive!

293 If you like the moon you already have, you can keep it.

294

 The Earth and the Moon have been partners for over 4 billion years.

They need each other.

Like chocolate and peanut butter?

295 340 If you like the moon you already have, you can keep it.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at April 03, 2011 12:11 AM (JMmQ9)

^^

My nomination for sock post of the week.

296 My husband thinks you guys are making me negative.

297 Like chocolate and peanut butter? mmmmmmmm

298 tank ewe berry mulch

299 The 3-worded monster will never die! I wearied of servicing that cruel bitch-goddess, for she knows no limits of depravity! The mind is willing, but the flesh truly is weak.

300 It seems to be the new thing, misery in space.

Posted by: Berserker at April 02, 2011 11:48 PM (gWHrG)

You obviously aren't watching the right kind of sci-fi.

301 343 My husband thinks you guys are making me negative.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at April 03, 2011 12:13 AM (Zq0dW)

I wish I was you.

302

So what happened to the Disney excursion?

 

303 So what happened to the Disney excursion? Which one?

304 Last week and this week

305

 My husband thinks you guys are making me negative.

Us? We're sweetness and light.

306

 question the time-ing of that.  That would suggest that 'leap seconds' would be increasing in duration year after year.  Off hand I have not noticed this. 

I believe we had to adjust time by a few seconds a couple years back. 

The Earth rotates on its access every 24 hours but the Moon only rotates around the Earth every 28 days or so.  So, as the Earth turns faster than the Moon, the water raised by the lunar tide is actually pulled back towards the trailing Moon. This is what is slowing the rotation of the Earth. 

So☺mej☼e , if you were a couple billion years old you would be saying, "Has anybody been noticing the days seem longer laately>

307 We just collected beagle number two from the Humane Society today. It's been total mayhem around here all evening. How's the ONT stacking up?

308

It was Rum, you bebe, Gushka and eman somewhere in there..

I even got an invite..

309 last week was fun. eman got the 3 hour super high speed disney tour. we didn't go this weekend.

310 You do realize nothing of the sort was said like that, last night? I'm just saying, you read into it what you wanted to. You've been had! Posted by: Papa Editor at April 03, 2011 12:02 AM (YX6i/) I tried to tell him that earlier today. Failed, I did.

311 343 My husband thinks you guys are making me negative.

you complete me!

312

There is a fine line between being pessimistic and realistic.

I prefer to think of myself as realistic.

313 343 My husband thinks you guys are making me negative.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at April 03, 2011 12:13 AM (Zq0dW)

Tell your husband to stfu and get back into the well.  And the next time he chews through the ropes there will be consequences!

314 Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 02, 2011 10:34 PM

Took your advice and cranked it up on the IPad.  Great movie.

315 357 last week was fun. eman got the 3 hour super high speed disney tour. we didn't go this weekend.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:17 AM (EDWwU)

What comprised the 3 hour tour (wasn't that in Gilligan's Island?)?

316 You know you've lost it when you've lost Detroit ... graveyard of comeback dreams:

Shortly before Charlie Sheen's 20-city tour was to kick off tonight in Detroit, the former Two and a Half Men star tweeted: "The moment of truth is upon us Detroit!! Do not fear ... the Sheenius is here!" Well, he was right about the moment of truth part. According to local reports, fans who packed the Fox Theatre started leaving shortly after the Sheen's show started and eventually booed the actor off the stage.

Things started off horribly with Sheen's opening act, Kirk Fox, who was booed so hard, he didn't finish his set. The same continued during the main attraction, which featured more video clips than actual live show from Sheen. The actor tried to keep his cool, declaring “I’m having a ball, a f**ing good time,” according to Detroit Free Press' live blog. But he eventually got unnerved, shouting back at a fan, "Sorry dude, already got your f**ing money” before leaving the stage never to return.

I know, I know - it's been posted already. But if he can't cut it in Detroit ...

317 "When my father had finally had enough he said "If it didn't drop bombs or shoot missiles I wasn't interested in it." Then he walked away and got himself another scotch."

Ha, good for Dad laying the snark hammer on the Hawkeye driver. 

I flew P-3s by the way.  Let me tell you an exciting P-3 story...

Wait, there isnÂ’t one.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

318 The Earth and the Moon have been partners for over 4 billion years.

They can come here and get married now. We've found a right to it in the Constitution.

319 I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.

Now, now, you can't believe everything you read on the internet.  That's how WWI got started. 

320

What comprised the 3 hour tour (wasn't that in Gilligan's Island?)?

Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:18 AM (QK1rf)

Shouldn't it be a surprise???

321

and futhermore Papa........  you said some bullshit last night to me and i let it go.......... but you know what? ..............  fuck you. i didnt mean nothing wrong by it and thats just the way it is.

322 Like chocolate and peanut butter? Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 03, 2011 12:12 AM (RZ8pf) Exactly like that.

323 Typed on the phone!!! q

324 The Moon better work on her acne scars if she wants to get some Earth lovin'.

325 But he eventually got unnerved, shouting back at a fan, "Sorry dude, already got your f**ing money” before leaving the stage never to return.

I so wanted him to name this 'tour' the Bipolar Express.

326 What comprised the 3 hour tour (wasn't that in Gilligan's Island?)? Well, we went on a bunch of rides and messed his back up. eman can fill you in on that.

327

I seem to recall all the exciting stories at the detachment site AFTER the flight.

Posted by: CDR M at April 03, 2011 12:21 AM (5I8G0)

What goes on det, stays on det.

328 but you know what? .............. fuck you. Can we all just get along????!!!!!

329 375 What comprised the 3 hour tour (wasn't that in Gilligan's Island?)?

Well, we went on a bunch of rides and messed his back up. eman can fill you in on that.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:21 AM (EDWwU)

Sounds like that was quite a tour. I lost a couple of verebrae on Thunder Mountain when I took my 8 year old daughter on that.

330 So, as the Earth turns faster than the Moon, the water raised by the lunar tide is actually pulled back towards the trailing Moon

Does it speed back up when tide goes out?

331 343
My husband thinks you guys are making me negative.
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at April 03, 2011 12:13 AM (Zq0dW)

Nonsense. We've pushed negativity to its limits and breached the barrier that separates extreme negativity from extreme positivity. It's the extremism he can't handle.

332 365 "When my father had finally had enough he said "If it didn't drop bombs or shoot missiles I wasn't interested in it." Then he walked away and got himself another scotch."

Ha, good for Dad laying the snark hammer on the Hawkeye driver. 

I flew P-3s by the way.  Let me tell you an exciting P-3 story...

Wait, there isnÂ’t one.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: fly at April 03, 2011 12:19 AM (gmi2T)

I grew up in AWACS.  Bigger airplane, but you'd be stunned at how far the stench of a saudi aircrew weenie can reach.  Like you, our war stories consisted mainly of foul passengers/food and smuggling runs (you'd be surprised what you can get through customs in the 'classified' area of an E-3... carpet warehouse, baby).

333 ok its cool for the Ettes to talk about cherry tongue trickes but if we say anything back we are wrong?

334

We just collected beagle number two from the Humane Society today. It's been total mayhem around here all evening. How's the ONT stacking up?

Congratulations on your new Beagle! Buddy says "woof" which I think roughly translates to "Beagles will rule the world! Right after dinner."

335

and futhermore Papa........  you said some bullshit last night to me and i let it go.......... but you know what? ..............  fuck you. i didnt mean nothing wrong by it and thats just the way it is.

Posted by: Racefan at April 03, 2011 12:20 AM (VPuY9)

Uh, what the fuck are you talking about?

336 377 heh it is almost like that

337 Ooooh oooh...

338

There once was a man called Sheenius,

Who was really more of a penius

He cut up a whore,

Passed out on the floor.

In prison he'll be someone's queenius.

 

My first limerick

339 Well, we went on a bunch of rides and messed his back up. eman can fill you in on that.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:21 AM (EDWwU)

Hang on to your hats and glasses, 'cause this here's the WILDEST ride int he WEST!!!

340 ok its cool for the Ettes to talk about cherry tongue trickes but if we say anything back we are wrong? ???? what chu talkin bout willis?

341 Haunted Mansion is more my speed. She made me take her on it four times in a row.

342 I sense a disturbance in the ONT Force..

343 Haunted Mansion is more my speed. She made me take her on it four times in a row.

Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:27 AM (QK1rf)

The room dropping out freaks me out every time.

344 ok its cool for the Ettes to talk about cherry tongue trickes but if we say anything back we are wrong?

???? what chu talkin bout willis?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:27 AM (EDWwU)

I think he's talking about tying cherry stems into knots with your tongue.  Which I can do, by the way, or used to be able to. Without cheating.

345

Congratulations on your new Beagle! Buddy says "woof" which I think roughly translates to "Beagles will rule the world! Right after dinner."

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 03, 2011 12:24 AM (RZ8pf)

They finally settled down, but now Rosie is sleeping in Trey's bed and Trey is in Rosie's. That's pretty much how dinner went, too. Rosie is four years old, very much a girl dog, and Trey is three and quite the boy, so, we've gone from "privacy, please" to "here, let me piss on that for you."

On the other hand, they are both quite happy that the other one is here, and my five-year-old son is ecstatic.

Send Buddy over anytime for a play date in the back yard.

346

ok its cool for the Ettes to talk about cherry tongue trickes but if we say anything back we are wrong?

You can say anything to me. I won't bite. Unless you want me to.

347 I kinda like this phone anybody got some good android app recommendations,?

348 The Saudi's are coming ut with their own AWAC. It will be called the ARABWAC.  I will consist of a flying carpet with a radar dish.  Right now it is only in the concept phase.  All praise Allah

349 Haunted Mansion is more my speed. She made me take her on it four times in a row.

Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:27 AM (QK1rf)

Haunted Mansion rulez!  Especially when you smoke a joint on the sky buckets right before.

350 The room dropping out freaks me out every time. is this haunted room actually stretching? or is it your imagination?

351 Naw. Just "if we say anything back we better be prepared for some abuse."

Posted by: Fell off the wagon at 3:00pm EDT at April 03, 2011 12:30 AM (lT0LC)

Well, isn't that why you come to the ONT?

352 399 The Saudi's are coming ut with their own AWAC. It will be called the ARABWAC.  I will consist of a flying carpet with a radar dish.  Right now it is only in the concept phase.  All praise Allah

You're still going to hell.

353 398 I kinda like this phone anybody got some good android app recommendations,?

Posted by: Chemjeff at April 03, 2011 12:30 AM (DX0Rb)

Firefox, Angry Birds, K-9 mail

354 You can say anything to me. I won't bite. Unless you want me to. Yep.

355

 Especially when you smoke a joint on the sky buckets right before.

So you are the reason they got rid of those.

356 Booyah

357 I sense some friskiness.

Posted by: CDR M at April 03, 2011 12:31 AM (5I8G0)

That's probably the beagles.

358 401 The room dropping out freaks me out every time.

is this haunted room actually stretching? or is it your imagination?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:31 AM (EDWwU)

Clever Disney engineers....

359 I kinda like this phone anybody got some good android app recommendations,?

Angry Birds. Well, if you need something to waste countless hours of your life.

360 Especially when you smoke a joint on the sky buckets right before. the sky buckets went bye bye a looonnnngggg time ago

361 It would be cool if the Awac dish could separate like the saucer section of the enterprise and go kick ass.

362

For all you wanna be pilots, May 13th is Top Gun Day!

www.topgunday.com

363 399 The Saudi's are coming ut with their own AWAC. It will be called the ARABWAC.  I will consist of a flying carpet with a radar dish.  Right now it is only in the concept phase.  All praise Allah

Posted by: My Turban is wound too tight. at April 03, 2011 12:30 AM (2o7Ys)

It'd be funny except we've been selling them AWACS for 30 years and they're actually getting fairly proficient at flying them.

But... the SMELL! holy christ...

364 is this haunted room actually stretching? or is it your imagination?

Yes.  I think.  Although I hope its not.  But now I won't sleep tonight.  Thanks, bebe!  I'm so damn confused again.

365 My son was skyping with his cousin (they are both 5 years old) who lives in Long Beach, and he kept pestering her because she "lives next door to Mickey Mouse." Sounds like we are looking at a road trip this summer.

366 Posted by: soulpile is... pissed at April 03, 2011 12:32 AM (afWhQ)

Did we get the scoop on the reason for your moniker change?  Either way, I hope it's better now.

367 the sky buckets went bye bye a looonnnngggg time ago

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:33 AM (EDWwU)

Y'all are some Disney experts here. The things we were in were big round black things..

368 Does earth need its moon? Or can it be destroyed with no ill effects on earth?
No mocking, remember I have great embouchure.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 02, 2011 11:38 PM (RZ8pf)

Well, there's that whole conservation of angular momentum thing that might get a tad fucked up. And say "adios" to tides as we know them.

What's more freaky to me is that eventually the interior of the planet cools enough that plate tectonics grinds to a halt and then everything that supports life here eventually escapes and life is boned, boned, boned.

The moon is slowly moving further away from us in any event. Must be something we said ...

369 Man, the Israeli's do recruit well.

Posted by: CDR M at April 03, 2011 12:34 AM (5I8G0)

Look closer. That one's taken.

370 okay I'm downloading angry birds now

371 Also, AppRemover, ASTRO (file manager), Out of Milk, Alchemy, Advanced Task Killer

372 Documents to Go
Scanner Radio
Pandora
Droid Light
A voice recorder
Metal Detector
Live Scores
K-9 Mail
Barcode Scanner
Google Goggles
FreeCaddie
XE Currency converter
Convert Pad
Cribbage
Bubble (leveler)

And many more

373 wait there's no more sky buckets at disneyland?

374 The moon is slowly moving further away from us in any event. Must be something we said ...

Posted by: ya2daup at April 03, 2011 12:36 AM (e5fJM)

Probably the Saudi smell.

375

Look closer. That one's taken.

Posted by: tcn at April 03, 2011 12:36 AM (QuGK2)

Wrong finger. And I have a lot of experience with Sabras. It wouldn't matter anyway..

376 This is late due to bacon. I had a great time being with three very fine ladies at DisneyLand. rum, with her beguiling eyes; bebe, with her boobs extraordinaire, and last not but not least, arhooley. Mighty-Fine arhooley. My back is good working order.

377 well I already got advanced app killer - been using that quite frequently

378 423

The moon is slowly moving further away from us in any event. Must be something we said ...

Posted by: ya2daup at April 03, 2011 12:36 AM (e5fJM)

Sorry, ya'll.  Obama?  I'm out.

379 My back is good working order.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 12:37 AM (dT+/n)

so...it was a ruse?

380 She even has a little bling in her ear.  I do like it that the ladies take the time to pretty themseves up.

381 Arhooley is still my hero.

382 388
My first limerick
Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 03, 2011 12:25 AM (2o7Ys)

And in Latin, too! Kudos!

383 Did we get the scoop on the reason for your moniker change?  Either way, I hope it's better now.

oops.  Meant to change that.  I'm still pissed, but it'll go away.  Car salesmen.  Fucking liars jerking me around and putting me in the middle of their own stupid shit.  I just want my car... without drama.

384 My back is good working order.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 12:37 AM (dT+/n)

Sorry I missed the festivities. Damn oilfield....

385 wait there's no more sky buckets at disneyland? had you not refused to set foot in mickey's domain, you would have seen this. you fucked up sunshine, eman had 3 'ettes all to hisself.

386

So you are the reason they got rid of those.

Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 03, 2011 12:32 AM (RZ8pf)

I hope you're joking.  It was the liability.  I was at the Six Flags Over MidAmerica when a bucket fell.  It was horrible, and took me a long time to get over.

But seriously, it is the liability.  The damned roller coasters are noticeably slower for the same reason.  Oh, and my sky bucket adventure was 1993, and the rides were already slower.

387 429 The moon is slowly moving further away from us in any event. Must be something we said ...

Posted by: ya2daup at April 03, 2011 12:36 AM (e5fJM)

Probably the Saudi smell.

Posted by: tcn at April 03, 2011 12:37 AM (QuGK2)

I'd never put 2 & 2 together like that but goddamit, I think you're right.

388

Wrong finger.

Posted by: CDR M at April 03, 2011 12:38 AM (5I8G0)

Only here. Not in Hebrew tradition.

389

390 oops.  Meant to change that.  I'm still pissed, but it'll go away.  Car salesmen.  Fucking liars jerking me around and putting me in the middle of their own stupid shit.  I just want my car... without drama.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 12:39 AM (afWhQ)

Ah, car salesmen.  The best experiences I have ever had with car salesmen were when I knew exactly what I wanted and what I would pay for it, I give them this information and if they can't come up with the goods, well there are always other dealers and other days.

391 holy shit there's 240 levels to angry birds???

392 425 okay I'm downloading angry birds now

Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 12:36 AM (vj0dH)

Angry Birds will add a solid 5 minutes to your time on the pooper.  guaranteed.

393 I love Angry Birds... it's a nice break from the day sometimes.  Especially when waiting.  I also keep the angry birds walkthrough website on a bookmark in my phone browser. 

394 Anger issues, deety?

395 I hope you're joking. It was the liability. Well, no buckets ever fell at Disneyland. but plenty of stoners were spitting on people. and when a pair opened the door and fell out mid-ride into a tree, that was the end of them.

396 Can we send deety to Afghanistan and put him/her in a UN uniform for the next koran burning?

397 holy shit there's 240 levels to angry birds???

Angry Birds is highly addictive. So much so that I'm planning on buying an iPad just to improve my playing experience. The iPhone is just too small.

398 had you not refused to set foot in mickey's domain, you would have seen this. you fucked up sunshine, eman had 3 'ettes all to hisself.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:39 AM (EDWwU)

Lucky eman. I'm on the wrong coast.  At least for this, anyway.

399 I thought chemjeff was with you guys too? He bailed after dinner.

400 457 I thought chemjeff was with you guys too?

He bailed after dinner.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:43 AM (EDWwU)

A disgrace to Morondom...

401 Return of BanHammer: The Reckoning

402 398 I kinda like this phone anybody got some good android app recommendations,?

Posted by: Chemjeff at April 03, 2011 12:30 AM (DX0Rb)

Angry Birds.  Pew Pew.  A task killer.  I would also recommend getting one a File manager if you don't have one already.  On mine it seems like there wasn't a way to delete e-mail attachments you view on the quickoffice program, so that allows me to.

And I heard Tasker is a good program to get to turn your smartphone into a genius phone.  I haven't decided to download the free trial for it yet.

403 "Car salesmen.  Fucking liars..."

I must confess that in my spare time I like to waste theirs, and "realtors'" too.  Mwahahahah. Blow some more smoke, pal, because it just may get you that sale! bwahaha!

404 Lucky eman. I'm on the wrong coast. At least for this, anyway. June dude. party when nc ref comes home to visit.

405

A disgrace to Morondom...

Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:44 AM (QK1rf)

No joke.  Sleep, moronettes, sleep, moronettes, ah hell you can sleep when you're dead.

406 She even has a little bling in her ear.  I do like it that the ladies take the time to pretty themseves up.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 03, 2011 12:38 AM (2o7Ys)

Death to the patriarchal misogynist oppressor.

407 so...it was a ruse? Posted by: GGE, VF-31 Tomcat Tech at April 03, 2011 12:38 AM (f4gk9) No, my back has found interesting ways to torture me over the years, and I foolishly got on a roller coaster without warning the 'ettes. For that I got a spanking, and deserved it. Interestingly, there were no ill effects. Very encouraging.

408

Evening all.  Looks like I missed all the fun.

 

409 380
So, as the Earth turns faster than the Moon, the water raised by the lunar tide is actually pulled back towards the trailing Moon
Does it speed back up when tide goes out?
Posted by: s☺mej☼e at April 03, 2011 12:24 AM (WbnbO)

For an explanation of the earth-moon-sun system and its effect on tides, put yourself into some knowledge by reading A Scientist at the Seashore by James Trefil. Great explanations and analogies (I can never remember then, but I'm a moron).

410 CDR M, thanks for the cool F-14 thread.  My sister worked for McDonald-Douglas in St Louis where they  made the F-18,  She arranged a short tour of the factory for me and then I got to watch a take-off, and the 'viking ascent' which is straight up to get out of the traffic pattern.  Straight up and accelerating, is this a great country, or what?

411 eman had 3 'ettes all to hisself.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:39 AM (EDWwU)

Been there. Done that.... Uh, I'll be right back.

412 Well, no buckets ever fell at Disneyland. but plenty of stoners were spitting on people. and when a pair opened the door and fell out mid-ride into a tree, that was the end of them.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:42 AM (EDWwU)

Come on.  That doesn't even sound plausible.  They locked the doors, because they thought of stuff like that.  And they put bars around the upper part of the bucket.  Give engineers an ounce of credit.

Think more stoners spit on people, or more preteens and teenagers?  The stoners I know don't like to attract attention.

413 Brittney Spears in a JackAss clip punches Johnny Knoxville in the junk.

414 I miss the F-14. I cried when they decommissioned it.

But not half as much as when they started sawing them up. Fucking government.

415 June dude. party when nc ref comes home to visit.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:45 AM (EDWwU)

hmmmmm

416 lol angry birds is pretty funny

417 He bailed after dinner.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:43 AM (EDWwU)

Most likely because his professional responsibilities called.  I'll give him that out.

418

Ah, car salesmen.  The best experiences I have ever had with car salesmen were when I knew exactly what I wanted and what I would pay for it, I give them this information and if they can't come up with the goods, well there are always other dealers and other days.

Posted by: GGE, VF-31 Tomcat Tech at April 03, 2011 12:41 AM (f4gk9)

This is my issue.  I walked in with a printout detailing exactly what I wanted, figuring I'd have to order it because it's really picky.  The first guy said he found it already made, but it was being shipped to another dealer... two fucking weeks go by (I was really sick, so I didn't care the first week), each time I talk to him no one can find the car.  Suddenly on Friday, I find out that he's moved to another dealer... and he talks shit about the old one.  (alarm bells)

Then, the dealer calls me and says they'll look for the car...  today, I get a message saying the exact same shit - there's one in town, but they're waiting for a call back from the "other dealer."  "We have to work quickly, though!" 

In addition, the salesman who left calls me up and wants to know when I'm coming in... I said I'd let him know... and he gives me a line about the car being down in another town (this via text).  Bullshit.

This car most likely does not currently exist.  I don't know what makes these people think they should string someone along...  sadism?

I'm probably going to end up going to a completely new dealer and telling them not to fuck with me and just order the damn car.

I really hate conflict... it makes me pukey. 

419 chemjeff, you downloaded Angry Birds? There goes your career.

420 474 lol angry birds is pretty funny

Do NOT get sucked in.  Seriously.

421 Come on. That doesn't even sound plausible. Google it. they managed to reach outside, open the door and fall out.

422 426 Also, AppRemover, ASTRO (file manager), Out of Milk, Alchemy, Advanced Task Killer

Posted by: soulpile is... pissed at April 03, 2011 12:37 AM (afWhQ)

Ah Alchemy.  I'm missing two.  And looking through a list of them I still can't figure out which two it was.

423

Well, I'm getting a California oil and gas lease to complicate my life.

Moreover, it's close to San Francisco. So how fucked up is that?

The Greenies are going to kill me.

424 I used to laugh when cashing my monthly per diem checks while on deployment. 

True story.

425 Think more stoners spit on people, or more preteens and teenagers? The stoners I know don't like to attract attention. Well gee. all the stories my father used to get from his friends that worked security there on the side said they had more problems with the stoners. Why the shitty tone? why not just come straight out and call me a fuckwit?

426 Straight up and accelerating, is this a great country, or what?

Posted by: yakima o' canutt, in below the sexy shoes at April 03, 2011 12:47 AM (RJE1e)

Yes it is.

I miss the F-14. I cried when they decommissioned it.

But not half as much as when they started sawing them up. Fucking government.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 03, 2011 12:47 AM (bxiXv)

And had Grumman destroy the tooling, don't forget that.  They had a good reason, though, since we sold some to the Iranians.

427 This has been the best SNL I've seen in ages.

428 93
He still managed to build these amazing fighters and built the camera stands used on the moon during the Apollo missions and the flagpole that Neil Armstrong placed at Tranquility Base. 
Posted by: Crabtree at April 02, 2011 10:43 PM (TVmXj)

So he's down with Sheila Jackson Lee's reason for living: wanting the Mars Rovers to recover said flagpole and return it to Earth?

429 471Brittney Spears in a JackAss clip punches Johnny Knoxville in the junk.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 03, 2011 12:47 AM (2o7Ys)

Well, somebody has to, might as well be her.

430 Well, I'm getting a California oil and gas lease to complicate my life. Moreover, it's close to San Francisco. So how fucked up is that? The Greenies are going to kill me. Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:50 AM (QK1rf) No kidding? I thought all the oil was down south. I live in the SF Bay area and there is no shortage of SUVs here.

431 OMG, I was looking for SNL and found a bunch of people in sperm costumes on Univision. WTF?

432

I'm probably going to end up going to a completely new dealer and telling them not to fuck with me and just order the damn car.

I really hate conflict... it makes me pukey. 

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 12:49 AM (afWhQ)

That's probably your best bet.

I drive by one every day during exercises over at FACSFAC VACAPES.  Still awesome to see.

Posted by: CDR M at April 03, 2011 12:50 AM (5I8G0)

Is it still painted up in VF-31 colors (black nose, red tails with Felix the Cat on them)?

433

And had Grumman destroy the tooling, don't forget that. They had a good reason, though, since we sold some to the Iranians.

Posted by: GGE was a Hornet tech, too at April 03, 2011 12:52 AM (f4gk9)

Not worth it. We should have just taken out the Iranian Air Force and kept the F14s.

At least leave the *fucking* airframes intact. The damn thing was *epic* and simply the most beautiful machine ever engineered.

Yes, moreso than the SR-71.

434 No kidding?

I thought all the oil was down south.

I live in the SF Bay area and there is no shortage of SUVs here.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 12:54 AM (dT+/n)

It's a weird very old doilfield in San Mateo county that was discovered in the 1880's and still produces a little oil with a gravity close to jet fuel. I believe that ir is sitting on top of a huge pile of oil and its source beds are offshore.

My life is about to be a living hell.

435 Did any F-14s end up in Guard units?

436 I'm currently playing the Angry Birds Rio edition.  It's cute.

437 TexasJew, Say "Hi" to Arnold for us.  I would expect the army of lawyers you will be hiring to wade through Ca regulation will be more numerous than trained Libyan rebels.

438 Did any F-14s end up in Guard units?

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 12:56 AM (dT+/n)

Nope, they were all retired and cut up for scrap.

439 Angry Birds has seasonal updates too. If anyone wanted to implement mind control, Angry Birds would be the app to use.

440 Soulpile: What kills me is that these fools think they know what they are doing and that we are willing to put up with it. WE could do their jobs twenty times better than they do, and yet, they are earning some hideously high commission for being the ass-wipes they are.

Ignore the dealer, and go straight to the top. Call the company and ask how long it takes to order what you want. Then have them send it to a dealer near you, and tell the dealer exactly what you are going to pay. End of deal. And if they don't get their big commission? Tell them to work harder next time to NOT PISS YOU OFF.

441 My life is about to be a living hell. Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:56 AM (QK1rf) San Mateo? Heck, that's a stone's throw. Everything here is landscaped except the wilderness preserve in the hills along the seashore. Good luck drilling here. Unless it's in South San Francisco. That' place is one giant Superfund site.

442

My life is about to be a living hell.

Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 12:56 AM (QK1rf)

Sorry. I can't help with the insane bureaucracy here, but I can commiserate!

If you do find a huge reserve, they'll just make it illegal to access it, because they prefer oil to leak naturally onto the beaches (it does here in CA) rather than cleanly extract it and using it to help people.

443

Ah Alchemy.  I'm missing two.  And looking through a list of them I still can't figure out which two it was.

Posted by: buzzion at April 03, 2011 12:49 AM (gld1y)

It's an addicting game - I also have an animal version.

For the original, I downloaded all the combos and put them into an excel spreadsheet so it'd make sense.

444 conjugate fap.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 02, 2011 11:24 PM (2o7Ys)

I  knew it was probably not a good idea to fully conjugate the English verb,"to Fap" but I did it anyway and had a SiMass level WOT as a result that I tried to delete.

Now, it is a wall of grey!

So, I'm drunk as hell too now and if ever anyone wants to hear what the correct
Present Perfect Progressive/Continuous use of the verb "to Fap" is...

I will/shall be happy to supply to supply it in a Future Progressive/Continuous fashion which will, no doubt, lead to a perfectly satisfactory simple Future Perfect tense.

Anyways...

Let's Fap!

445 Nope, they were all retired and cut up for scrap. Posted by: GGE was a Hornet tech, too at April 03, 2011 01:00 AM (f4gk9) That is fucked up.

446 467 380

For an explanation of the earth-moon-sun system and its effect on tides, put yourself into some knowledge by reading A Scientist at the Seashore by James Trefil.


I see, _{^{(broke down and looked on internet)}} it is the frictional force of water moving against land, not the moon's gravity "pulling backwards".  Now it makes sense.

447 502 TexasJew, Say "Hi" to Arnold for us.  I would expect the army of lawyers you will be hiring to wade through Ca regulation will be more numerous than trained Libyan rebels.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 03, 2011 12:59 AM (2o7Ys)

Thanks.

Already have hired the best Enviro regs guy in California

448 Conjugate your own damned fap. And don't break the ONT while you are at it.

449 San Mateo?

Heck, that's a stone's throw. Everything here is landscaped except the wilderness preserve in the hills along the seashore. Good luck drilling here.

Unless it's in South San Francisco. That' place is one giant Superfund site.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 01:00 AM (dT+/n)

Three frightening words: Half Moon Bay.

450 soulpile: I have never bought a car from a dealer, and I've never bought a car from someone I didn't know well enough to know the history of the car.

No new cars, the math doesn't work for me.

For some reason this never occurred to me until just now, but most of them cost about the same amount... totally different cars. Weird.

451 427 Documents to Go
Scanner Radio
Pandora
Droid Light
A voice recorder
Metal Detector
Live Scores
K-9 Mail
Barcode Scanner
Google Goggles
FreeCaddie
XE Currency converter
Convert Pad
Cribbage
Bubble (leveler)

And many more

Posted by: Papa Editor at April 03, 2011 12:37 AM (YX6i/)

A lot of those look pretty good.  I may have to try them out.  Though not all are necessary for me.

452

Let's Fap!

Wait... I thought you were a girl?

453 Arnold got to the choppa. It's Jerry now.

454 Three frightening words: Half Moon Bay. Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 01:03 AM (QK1rf) Oh, yeah. You are truly fucked.

455 Speaking of moon and tides and shit...

We hire security guards to stand at the bottom of the gangways of our vessels during shipyards.  This year, we had one security guard who had just moved out here from Iowa.

I shit you not, he asked me, "Why do you make your boats go up and down?  What does that do for you?"

456 Anyone see any rebles around here?

I'm not sposed to bomb them.  Do they look like a SAM site, or a deli??

457

You encouraged me to look up the meaning of exhortatory.

458

I really hate conflict... it makes me pukey. 

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 12:49 AM (afWhQ)

Im the same way too. if it doesnt make me neurotically avoid people it makes me cranky as all git out.

459 519 Three frightening words: Half Moon Bay.

Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 01:03 AM (QK1rf)

Oh, yeah.

You are truly fucked.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 01:05 AM (dT+/n)

I may be truly fucked, but I have two already producing oil wells there.

So there's that...

460 Let's keep it nice, M&Ms. Them that has been drinking should put the bottle down and hit the sack. I'm off to keep the dogs warm myself. Good night!

461 500 I'm currently playing the Angry Birds Rio edition.  It's cute.

Heh, i just got that the other night, haven't checked it out yet. Here's a must have app.

462 505

Posted by: tcn at April 03, 2011 01:00 AM (QuGK2)

You can just call the company?  I'd love to do that... was just saying that I'd rather just put in the order online straight to Ford and skip all the bullshit.

The worst part about car buying is the salesmen.  They turn out to be assholes, eventually or immediately.  I'm wondering if I'd be jerked around like this if I were a guy, honestly.

463 I shit you not, he asked me, "Why do you make your boats go up and down? What does that do for you?" Posted by: Papa Editor at April 03, 2011 01:05 AM (YX6i/) The comeback lines to that are innumerable. A long, quiet stare is fine, too.

464 Ignore the dealer, and go straight to the top. Call the company and ask how long it takes to order what you want. Then have them send it to a dealer near you, and tell the dealer exactly what you are going to pay. End of deal. And if they don't get their big commission? Tell them to work harder next time to NOT PISS YOU OFF.

Posted by: tcn at April 03, 2011 01:00 AM (QuGK2)

THIS^

they are hurtin to sell cars. so you can pretty much do this. tell them not to fuck with you or you will take your business elsewhere.

Hi T J!!!!!

465 There is even a few contractions counting apps.  We used one, but quickly abandoned it when things progressed way too quick and we said, "Fuck it.  We're going to the hospital."

466

Hi T J!!!!!

Posted by: Gushka at April 03, 2011 01:09 AM (93zw2)

Hi Gushka. I was terrorizing people with my Half Moon Bay story..

467 521
Anyone see any rebles around here?
I'm not sposed to bomb them.  Do they look like a SAM site, or a deli??
Posted by: US NAvy at April 03, 2011 01:05 AM (3J6xx)

curious referred to them as "revels" on Friday. A more accurate description, it seems.

468 I may be truly fucked, but I have two already producing oil wells there. So there's that... Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2011 01:06 AM (QK1rf) How many more would you like to have there? That's when the hippies swarm and attack.

469 Well have fun folks.  I didn't mean to stay this long tonight. 

470 My Incredible came with a game on it called Teeter.  That's a fun little game to get the ball to roll into the specific hole.  Its become a real bitch now though that its moved me to having it be "3D" rolling so there are peaks and valleys to get through as well as the insane spacing of the incorrect holes.

471 A long, quiet stare is fine, too.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 01:09 AM (dT+/n)

That's pretty much what it was.  It took me a few seconds just to compute what exactly it was he was asking, because it just wouldn't occur to me someone would ask a question like that seriously.

472 they are hurtin to sell cars. so you can pretty much do this. tell them not to fuck with you or you will take your business elsewhere. why not just go to another dealer now? haven;t htey messed with you enough already?

473 There's a lot of love here tonight ... a lot of inebriation, too, it seems.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

I blame rdbrewer's never-ending story: a fugue in three words.

474 How many more would you like to have there?

That's when the hippies swarm and attack.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 01:11 AM (dT+/n)

I intend to deepen the wells and then.... (drum roll) FRAC THEM!

That ought to make their fucking greenie heads explode...

475 """I miss the F-14. I cried when they decommissioned it.

But not half as much as when they started sawing them up. Fucking government.""



They are wasteful fuckers man. I remember seeing a pic of a shitload of P-40s that were junked right after wwII. They were all stood up on their noses in the dirt. I mean wtf, they should have gave them away.

476 Why the shitty tone? why not just come straight out and call me a fuckwit?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 12:51 AM (EDWwU)

Whoa.  Calm down a little.  We're, um, talking about stoners on the sky buckets.  Believe me, I'm not worked up about it.  You?

477 bebes!!!!!!! where have you been?

478

The worst part about car buying is the salesmen.  They turn out to be assholes, eventually or immediately.  I'm wondering if I'd be jerked around like this if I were a guy, honestly.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 01:08 AM (afWhQ)

I would bet there is some truth to that.  Though likely he's just choosing a different method of jerking you around than if you were a guy.  He probably has a different method for jerking around the guys.

479

Im the same way too. if it doesnt make me neurotically avoid people it makes me cranky as all git out.

Posted by: Gushka at April 03, 2011 01:06 AM (93zw2)

That's how I am!  And I perseverate over shit, too.

515 soulpile: I have never bought a car from a dealer, and I've never bought a car from someone I didn't know well enough to know the history of the car.

No new cars, the math doesn't work for me.

For some reason this never occurred to me until just now, but most of them cost about the same amount... totally different cars. Weird.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 03, 2011 01:04 AM (bxiXv)

It's my first car that I get to pick out... I've had my current since I learned to drive on it (it wasn't new and I didn't pick it out).  Also, they won't be making my car anymore - so I want the newest I can get.  I'll have the new one for a long, long time.  Plus, if I order the car, I get everything (almost) I want in it...  Rather than someone else's choices.

and yes, I have agonized over this damn thing for months/years before getting the courage up to go into the dealer.

480 pg!!!! daddy died, been working a lot. how you been?

481

You can just call the company?  I'd love to do that... was just saying that I'd rather just put in the order online straight to Ford and skip all the bullshit.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 01:08 AM (afWhQ)

This is how I did my Mustang.  Go to the Ford website, select and build your car, then hit the button to find it or build it.  Print out the page that has all the options you want with the internet price, tell them that is what you will pay, period and go from there.  If they even pretend to jerk you around, say goodbye and move on to the next dealer.

Also, talk to people who own the car, find out where they got it and ask them what their experience is.  Check out X plans and anything else that will get you discounts and rebates. With the Mustang there is a national Mustang Club of America that has branch clubs all over the US, they are a great source of information.  Other cars might have something similar, or an online group about them, it's worth checking out.

Good luck!

482 The only brand new car I ever bought was a Saturn. I chose them because they had a no hassle policy. Great car, but new cars turn into just plain old regular cars in about a month. The payments last for years.

483 540 """I miss the F-14. I cried when they decommissioned it.

But not half as much as when they started sawing them up. Fucking government.""



They are wasteful fuckers man. I remember seeing a pic of a shitload of P-40s that were junked right after wwII. They were all stood up on their noses in the dirt. I mean wtf, they should have gave them away.

Posted by: Berserker at April 03, 2011 01:13 AM (gWHrG)

to me this would be like selling a champion racehorse for dogfood (which i have seen happen)

there no words for the wrongness, especially if you have flown one and felt its soul. that would totally mess me up if i had been one of their pilots.

484 {{bebes}} i didn't know, i'm so sorry, deepest sympathy to you and your family......good just working a lot too

485 PG!!!!! its me!!! but you knew that didnt you?

486 why not just go to another dealer now? haven;t htey messed with you enough already?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 03, 2011 01:12 AM (EDWwU)

Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. 

Then, I'll just freak out over telling the other two to go fuck off.

487

oooo Alchemy has increased to 370 combinations now

488 i know gushka...i didn't see you though {{gush}}

489 I'll just leave this here.

490 Interesting, I looked up Exhortatory on Merriam-Webster dot com. They asked to comment why I was looking it up.  I though it was some type survey so I said I saw the word on Ace and was curious.  When I checked my FB page the word and my comment was posted there.  Glad they don't do the same with words on the urban dictionary. 

491 Van Halen rocks.

492 Now that things have died down, how about a few of you story writers join me in the experimental thread.

493 Then, I'll just freak out over telling the other two to go fuck off. Heh, just don't answer the phone or emails.

494 And by the way, for NC morons/ettes who want a car, look up Jim at Crossroads Ford in Wake Forest, tell him that Larry, the guy who bought the bright red California Special convertible last year, sent you.

495 Spam comes alive!

496 I'll just leave this here. Posted by: booger at April 03, 2011 01:20 AM (9RFH1) Her restless leg syndrome is cured.

497 man Angry Birds really is addicting
damn pigs

498 556 Van Halen rocks.

New album with David Lee Roth coming out later this year.

499 ""there no words for the wrongness, especially if you have flown one and felt its soul. that would totally mess me up if i had been one of their pilots.""

You would think they would have allow the pilots to keep them if they were just going to scrap the things.

500 538
I blame rdbrewer's never-ending story: a fugue in three words.
Posted by: ya2daup at April 03, 2011 01:12 AM (e5fJM)

He's still at it, BTW:

2670
that aliens landed
Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:16 AM (nFWaB)

501

Posted by: GGE was a Hornet tech, too at April 03, 2011 01:17 AM (f4gk9)

  That's exactly what I did... my printout was from the website. I'll check on discounts again, though.  I know a forum for the Escape that might be useful.

The whole thing started because I wanted to order that day, but the dealer I went to had just changed owners and "the computers were down."  After that, the shit just went on... I think the salesguy was stringing me along while he decided to move to the other dealer...  (hid that from me for a week...)

I just don't understand why the second guy is giving me the same line... so I'm just not going to deal with either one.

502 New album with David Lee Roth coming out later this year. Posted by: booger What????!!!!! heard anything off it yet?

503 We're gonna write some serious story now, dammit.

504 What????!!!!! heard anything off it yet?


Not yet.

505

The whole thing started because I wanted to order that day, but the dealer I went to had just changed owners and "the computers were down." 

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 01:24 AM (afWhQ)

Yep, that's when I would have gone down the road to Capitol Ford, or maybe to either Creedmore or Louisburg...like I said, there are always other dealers.

506

Then, I'll just freak out over telling the other two to go fuck off.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 03, 2011 01:19 AM (afWhQ)

Just tell them you don' have any more time for them. If they whine, say it's because they're whiners. If they argue, say it's because they always argue with you.

And then tell them not to call you again and hang up.

It's empowering. Be in control. You are the customer, you are the 800-lb gorilla, if they don't treat you that way then move on.

Most car dealers are gonna be pushy and conniving unless you set rules up front and stick to them.

That's why people flocked to "no hassle" car dealers even though they were paying a huge premium in the process.

I am not Mr Super Negotiator, but I also tend not to take too much crap and for whatever reason people tend to assume I know what I'm talking about (probably because I do my homework), so for example I tend not to take crap from people like mechanics - but I have "quit" a few shops because of how they treat *other* people, and yes, they do prey on women *a lot*, that's not just a crass stereotype.

507 568 We're gonna write some serious story now, dammit.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:26 AM (nFWaB)

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan...

508

Yep, that's when I would have gone down the road to Capitol Ford, or maybe to either Creedmore or Louisburg...like I said, there are always other dealers.

Posted by: GGE was a Hornet tech, too at April 03, 2011 01:28 AM (f4gk9)

Yeah, what can I say?

I feel stupid for sticking with the dealer/salesman for the past two weeks.  In hindsight, I should have just gone to another dealer right away.

/facepalm

509 These were the last two songs VH did with the original line up, they were on the best of cd back in '96.

510 564 ""there no words for the wrongness, especially if you have flown one and felt its soul. that would totally mess me up if i had been one of their pilots.""

You would think they would have allow the pilots to keep them if they were just going to scrap the things.

Posted by: Berserker at April 03, 2011 01:23 AM (gWHrG)

you would think.

i just had a lady give me a very expensive, very well bred, utterly dangerous horse they were gonna put down. Nothing wrong with her but that she had been fucked over and made it clear she was nobodys slave.

i almost couldnt do it till a friend sponsored her rescue. A pilot.

I get that nauseated feeling every time i pick up one of these cases. I dont know how they could do that to those planes either... sometimes i think some humans who are not makers realize it at some point and decide they were born to destroy.

511 You encouraged me to look up the meaning of exhortatory.

Well, that's your penance then, Ohio Dan, because you are just as much responsible as me for almost breaking the blog, as anyone!

You really shouldn't encourage the passions of of a stone age barbarian, incapable of fully grasping, much less controlling, the the awesome technology at her fingertips.

Meh. My apologies everyone.

512 You would think they would have allow the pilots to keep them if they were just going to scrap the things.

Posted by: Berserker at April 03, 2011 01:23 AM (gWHrG)

You know, no, I would not expect politicians and bureaucrats to do that. Those are valuable government assets, and they have a responsibility to the taxpayer, so much better to spend huge amounts of money destroying them.

Forty years from now we could have F-14s at the Reno Air Races.

Might need a bigger course.

513 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 03, 2011 01:29 AM (bxiXv)

At this moment, I'd love to be an 800 lb gorilla. 

it'd be nice to just send in a negotiator as a proxy.  Ha.

514 I give up on the experiment.  They keep posting random shit.  Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it.  But after that, it's time for a story.

515 579 I give up on the experiment.  They keep posting random shit.  Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it.  But after that, it's time for a story.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:33 AM (nFWaB)

Well, you know morons have the attention span of a gerbil..

516 579 I give up on the experiment. They keep posting random shit. Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it. But after that, it's time for a story.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:33 AM (nFWaB)

I'm thinkin' -

1) A seed for the story

2) More than three words

3) A smaller audience - i.e. not posted in the middle of a huge gap on a busy day. Like, after the ONT.

You could get a story then.

517 But after that, it's time for a story.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:33 AM (nFWaB)

Fairy tale or sea story? One starts "Once upon a time" and the other starts "This is a no-bullshitter"

518

Forty years from now we could have F-14s at the Reno Air Races.

Might need a bigger course.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 03, 2011 01:32 AM (bxiXv)

what a completely awesome thought!

now i am really pissed off.

.. sometimes i think some humans who are not makers realize it at some point and decide they were born to destroy.

...then they become politicians?

519 Was the Unibomber random? Please.

520 I give up on the experiment. They keep posting random shit. Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it. But after that, it's time for a story. Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:33 AM (nFWaB) You tried to make a light bulb out of a banana. Check it off with an x and move on.

521 The only reason they busted the Tomcats up is because we sold them to Iran and we don't want the Iranians to be able to get parts for them.  As if they haven't already figured out how to get reverse engineered parts from second sources, like Russia.

522 Check it off them out with an axe and move on.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 03, 2011 01:37 AM (dT+/n)

fixed it for you mother...

523 This whole sock thing works better if someone else posts between your posts so that it's more difficult to see the same hash on your sockpuppeted posts.

524 fixed it for you mother... Posted by: Norman Bates at April 03, 2011 01:41 AM (f4gk9) Such a good boy!

525 579 I give up on the experiment.  They keep posting random shit.  Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it.  But after that, it's time for a story.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 01:33 AM (nFWaB)

Its something that can work on message boards.  Not on a thread here where things can come rapid fire where 20 posts have shown up between where you wanted your three word portion to go and then die off quickly.

526 damn, I don't know if I can hold out to the unnamed post.

527 I give up on the experiment.  They keep posting random shit.  Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it.  But after that, it's time for a story

  Ahh yes but think of all the mindless senseless fun that was had by all. Like a bunch of monkeys throwing shit at the walls.

528 Any bets on if chemjeff is still playing angry birds, or do you think he's far enough in that he's ready to throw his phone?

529 Oh, stupid story that no one cares about.....I got that VH best of cd the day it came out back in '96 because i wanted to hear those two songs with DLR. Listened to the songs, then just left cd in to play. When it got to Runnin With the Devil though, the song was all fucked up, the guitar solos were in different spots and the choruses and verses were mixed up.

Took out the cd to see if it was scratched, nope, looked fine, played it again and the same thing happened. It didn't sound like it was skipping, it just sounded like for some reason they rearranged the song. A friend got me the same cd for my b day later that year and the first thing i did was listen to Runnin With the Devil and it sounded fine on that cd. I don't know if it's jjust my particular cd that's messed up or if the first copies of it that went out were messed up, keep meaning to try to sell it on ebay and see if it's worth anything.

530 Ahh yes but think of all the mindless senseless fun that was had by all. Like a bunch of monkeys throwing shit at the walls.

Heheh.  Ayup.

531 I'm sure you could do a quick google search to discover if it is.

532 Wow dead already

533 596 I'm sure you could do a quick google search to discover if it is.


You'd think by now  i'd realize that, but nooooo, damn dead brain cells. Anyhoo, here be teh info



Initial pressings of the album contained an alternate edit of "Runnin' with the Devil" where the verses, chorus and solos were arranged in a different order than that of the original album version. It was reported that this was accidental and subsequent pressings have replaced this version with the one found on Van Halen. However, some radio stations still play this erroneous version of the song.

534 They keep posting random shit

  Okay so as far as a literary sharing experiment...  Fail, due to incompatibility with time space logistics and shit.
But.......
 An epic study in contemporary Sociology.... WIN....  run with it !

535 at drudge, on the link where it says obama will seek reelection is the biggest media hack job ever. The losers at politico. They state the "fractured republican field with a recovering economy." Yeah, the economy is completely rosy right now. Feels just like the reagan recovery... not. Stagnation. I'm here in florida $3.71/gal. they also say he has a likely reelection. I swear politico is just a liberal opinion site.

536

Might as well stick this here. Making headlines later today> 2012 budget TBA Tues:

* Majority of entitlement fixes listed below. SS: No specific fix but certain triggers will be given which require action by the president.

* Tax reform: Overhaul of corporate and individual tax code, including capping rates and eliminating loopholes.

*Spending cuts= $?T; savings= $2T; spending levels back to '06

From The Weekly Standard: "The Ryan budget will include significant cuts to domestic discretionary spending. But more fundamentally, it will reform Medicaid into block grants to states to give governors maximum flexibility. It will transform Medicare into a defined contribution program that will be stable for decades to come. And it will propose fundamental tax reform to remove loopholes and increase efficiency and spur economic growth. This is a comprehensive strategy that, over the long term, will reduce spending not by billions but by trillions of dollars."

From CNN: "Starting 10 years from now, in 2021, Americans would no longer enroll in the Medicare program, but instead receive vouchers for private insurance, according to the GOP sources, who stressed anyone 55 or older now would not be affected by the change."

The Medicare portion is a bit more tricky since a few sources are iffy on the voucher portion but a majority quote Budget or other GOP members stating that it's in the plan.

537 Something that might be interesting is to collate responses from particular people--see if there's a pattern.  F/x, I noticed "momma" had dick on her mind.

538 601 ETA: Accidentally erased the bit about Medicaid being cut by $1T; Medicare is getting cut too but they still didn't have a final as of mid-day Friday.

539 Damn, you all still here? I'm still drunk.

540 Tolerant liberals. Btw, apparently Charlie Sheen called Sarah Palin a whore at his Detroit show tonight.

541

602 Something that might be interesting is to collate responses from particular people--see if there's a pattern.  F/x, I noticed "momma" had dick on her mind.

I posted a few bits from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, as well as an object I saw mentioned on SDA. Otherwise, lines from pop culture and movies.

542 Charlie Sheen called a married woman a whore did he. A guy who has respect for and dates porno actresses and strippers calls a married woman with 5 children a whore. Apparently Martin or Emilio forgot to tell him that porno stars and strippers are the most useless human scum on the planet. They may even be hot and nice, but it does not matter. When you become a stripper or a porno star, that means you have been flushed down the toilet of society.

543 okay I finished the first 21 levels of angry birds
I guess after that you have to pay money?
oh well, that last level was challenging enough for me

544 607

Let me add to that, it also means that you have become a lawyer.

545 608 okay I finished the first 21 levels of angry birds

Yes, but did you finish them with high scores? I can't move on to the next round until it says i have the high score, OCD.

546 I give up on the experiment.  They keep posting random shit.  Which is entertaining... the first 2,356 times you see it.  But after that, it's time for a story.

It was a terribly silly "experiment".

If you wanted a story, you should have set up some conditions designed to produce one.

Who are some of our best "story-tellers" around here, Monty?  Drew?  Empire of Jeff?

I'm not sure how much I believe in the very idea of a collaborative or "organic" fucking story telling.  Sounds like a Community College Commie fucking plot to me!

Meh.

I'd rather see a contest where the first three paragraphs are set and then have morons submit an additional 4 max sentences, to be voted on evry 3-4 days.

1st sentence has to transition from the previous writer's narrative.  4th sentence has to "pass the torch".

Let's vote on it!

Top 5 contenders 2x a Week, have to be presented by an editorial board (that would be you rdbrewer!) as being somewhat consonant with a unified narrative.

If the morons decide to go with the silly over the clever, or the clever over the true, then we will know...

It will always have to be funneh but I think we might all be surprised!

547

With regards to these people who bought tickets to see Charlie Sheen, what exactly is his appeal other than some bizarre fascination with seeing someone famous meltdown in public?

548 oh man if the Republicans can voucherize Medicare, I will be so so so so happy
it will go a long way to getting us out of the fiscal disaster that we are in

plus, maybe then the birds won't be so angry

549 Posted by: Samuel Adams at April 03, 2011 02:17 AM (saFHA)

He's just another spoiled fuckwit who's full of himself, can't believe i actually felt a little sorry for him when he started this flame out.

550 Yes, but did you finish them with high scores?

no - a few of them showed only 1 star - but that's okay with me, they were challenging enough

551 I move into an apartment and my cat scratches everything. I'll have to declaw him or lose my deposit. FML!

552 I can't tell stories, it's all i can do to make a somewhat coherent comment about boobs.

553 I used to like Sheen, until he went on that last internet rant wearing a Cincinnati Reds jersey. That's when I first started hating him.

554 at drudge, on the link where it says obama will seek reelection is the biggest media hack job ever.

Welcome to the MFM

What brings you to Florida?  I thought you were in Pennsylvania

555 here's my story:
Once upon a dark and stormy night some angry birds killed some pigs, the end

556 okay, just wondering: I have a Virgin Mobile phone now, it's pay as you go, so how does that work for buying apps from the Android app store?

557 You don't fuck with a Redlegs jersey unless you are Nuxhall, Robinson, Rose, Bench, Morgan, Perez, Concepcion, Foster, Larkin, Sabo, Dibble, Charlton, Griffey, Votto, Bruce, Chapman, and whoever.

558 hey where did everyone go?

559 Just finished watching "Gangs of New York." Scorcese did a hell of a job historically.

560 With regards to these people who bought tickets to see Charlie Sheen, what exactly is his appeal other than some bizarre fascination with seeing someone famous meltdown in public?

Who knows? There's a certain type that just gets off on the celebrity gossip stuff and meltdowns, always has been and always will be i guess. I have no idea what they see in it.

561 625 Just finished watching "Gangs of New York." Scorcese did a hell of a job historically.


Been a while since i watched that, have to put it on the Netflix queue again.

562

614 oh man if the Republicans can voucherize Medicare, I will be so so so so happy
it will go a long way to getting us out of the fiscal disaster that we are in

I don't know how far they're going with it in this proposal, though. The leadership decided they wanted to "play it safe", which the Vice Chairman of Budget disliked. Budget wanted to go further but they can only do what has been rubber-stamped by leadership. What I'm seeing is that they're advocating Rivlin-Ryan, which is not quite as "strident" as the Roadmap but could be moreso depending upon the charge to the specific committee tasked to deal with this. Regardless, it's a bit confusing at this point because some of these articles are contradictory but a majority of them have anonymous budgeteers and GOP aides stating they're going with vouchers. We'll supposedly know more later this morning.

/In other words, details are slowly leaking but some of them are more murky than others.

563 They wanted to re-enforce their own belief and to show the nay sayers that there is nothing wrong with Charlie. That it is just the way he is. A high strung serious minded individual.  And of course they are wrong. Sheen is flying solo and cannot manage his career without guidance. He put the show together without professional help. He is like an out of control rocket.
 And until he is under a doctors care, taking proper meds, we will be seeing more of the same.

564 622 okay, just wondering: I have a Virgin Mobile phone now, it's pay as you go, so how does that work for buying apps from the Android app store?


I assume they'll just get added to your bill, i have iphone and it just takes it off your credit card, not sure how the droid works.

565 I'm drunk and I know I'm going to get my ass kicked for this, but why do we always have to deal with Navy shit. I believe the Air Force contributed a hell of a lot to the freedom to this country. Yeager broke the sound barrier and he was an Air Force pilot. The Army, Navy and Marines get their due here on this smart military blog, how about a shout out to the United States Air Force.

566 I saw earlier that the R plan was to cut 1 trillion from medicare over the next decade.

567 oh I'm all for a shoutout to the entire military, Air Force included of course

568 Oh, i saw it just a few comments ago in Miss 80's Baby's link, heh.

569 631

+1000

570 634
Yellowstone may be waking up.

Posted by: sickinmass at April 03, 2011 02:37 AM (1rflU)

That ain't good. Say goodbye to Nebraska. Good thing I live in southern Kansas.

571 Yellowstone may be waking up.
Posted by: sickinmass at April 03, 2011 02:37 AM (

That's not good.  When that goes, it'll cover the USA.

572 I assume they'll just get added to your bill, i have iphone and it just takes it off your credit card, not sure how the droid works.

But I don't really have a "bill", that's the thing

oh well, I'm too cheap to buy apps anyway, so it's all just an academic discussion I suppose

573 Good thing I live in southern Kansas.

really?  what part?
I say we should have a midwest moron meetup in KC or something

574 Speaking of Yellowstone, here's a nice video of Old Faithful erupting.

575

626 Who knows? There's a certain type that just gets off on the celebrity gossip stuff and meltdowns, always has been and always will be i guess. I have no idea what they see in it.

I really find the whole fascination with celebrity bizarre, sometimes in a cruel way. The American Idol crowd wants to emulate celebrities while declaring they hate celebrities and their drama but they love to read about it in the tabloids. So it seems to me that our culture has a love/hate relationship and fascination with celebrities, and that includes scorning celebrities while wanting to observe the self-destruction. Though it seems there's something universal that draws us to watch these things, though I can't quite describe the motivation. Hope that makes sense.

576 A nuclear plant worker who fell into the ocean Friday while trying to board a barge carrying water to help cool the plant did not show any immediate signs of being exposed to unsafe levels of radiation, nuclear safety officials said Saturday, but they were waiting for test results to be sure.

  And yet they said nothing of his having gills and scales when he was pulled from the water ?? .

577

632 I saw earlier that the R plan was to cut 1 trillion from medicare over the next decade.

So that was added to the $1T cut to Medicaid over the same time frame?

_{/Since this budget spans 10yrs}

578 chemjeff,

I Heart Radio is a good app.
Keyring.
Barcode Scanner.
First Aid.
Talking Tom.
Shop Savvy.
Yelp!

579 "Yellowstone may be waking up. Posted by: sickinmass at April 03, 2011 02:37 AM ( That's not good. When that goes, it'll cover the USA." National Parks are a business that will eventually get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

580

622 okay, just wondering: I have a Virgin Mobile phone now, it's pay as you go, so how does that work for buying apps from the Android app store?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 02:28 AM (vj0dH)

You'll get a checkout screen if you go to download an app that costs money.  So you'll enter your credit or debit card info in and you'll be charged that way.

581 no - a few of them showed only 1 star - but that's okay with me, they were challenging enough

Blasphemy... I can't move on until I get 3 stars.

Buying apps - you pay through google with a credit card, asfaik.  Most of my apps are free, though.  I only have a few paid ones.

582 So that was added to the $1T cut to Medicaid over the same time frame?

No, it's the same cut, it's just late and i have sleepy head.

583 buzzion okay thanx
it still seems weird to me to enter my debit card info onto my phone

584 I Heart Radio is a good app.


That's a great app, i like the San Francisco stations, lots more variety than we have here.

585 You are being exposed to journalism poisoning one million times more than you are being exposed to radiation poisoning from Japan. I'll never forget last Thursday when our so-called fan Meghan Kelley interviewed a doctor and asking him that since California milk has showed some radiation we should all be worried, he basically told her that this crisis has been overblown. When she challenged him, he reminded her that our biggest study/control group was "FUCKING CHERNOBYL". And that nobody in Western Europe outside of the Ukraine was affected by the disaster even when the fucking infected wind blew right towards the Scandinavian countries. Not to mention that US Army troops who entered Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the bombs hit and never suffered huge side effects.

586 mpfs okay thanx
my phone is charging up right now but those seem like good ones
so the barcode scanner one will work with ordinary barcodes like at the grocery store, or only with the big square ones?

587 I was pissed when Last.fm went to paid on mobile right after I finally decided to open an account.  Deleted it.

588 654 mpfs okay thanx
my phone is charging up right now but those seem like good ones
so the barcode scanner one will work with ordinary barcodes like at the grocery store, or only with the big square ones?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 02:52 AM (vj0dH)

Ordinary, I think.  I have an app that reads the ISBN barcodes on my books.

589 650 It's the first time I've actually been anticipating a federal budget. Seriously, though, looks like these anonymous GOPers-- including Budget Comm. members-- are going to keep talking about this but we won't have full confirmation until the full plan is released Tuesday. I do know Chairman Ryan will be on FNS today but he'll likely avoid giving-away too much. The leadership wants to be careful about the unveiling of this, as they are with most things ^*sigh*.  Strange how circumstances sometimes change the things we political junkies want to see, though, isn't it?

590 Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 02:42 AM (vj0dH)

Wichita. And since I am funemployed and am going back to school thanks to my last employer in May, I have all the time in the world to suggest a meetup in the KC area. Would be honored to give you my email address to work out a KC meetup.

591 Google Googles is a great app too.

Barcode scanner works on just about any barcode.

592 Is it time for Satan?

593 Now?

594 okay Sam Adams I will post something to the yahoo group, are you a member?

595 What the fuck? C'mon Satan kick some ass.

596 I'm baaaaaack

597 When you become a stripper or a porno star, that means you have been flushed down the toilet of society.

Is that true, Sam Adams?

As an actor, I always knew that, even when I was 15 yrs.old!

You were a cop, no?

How many young strippers and crack whores think that they are someday going to become a Julia Roberts?

(Is the word "cop" a pejorative, BTW?)

Meh.

I dunno...

I think that Police Officers and Sheriff's Deputies don't have much to do with someone like me, but for traffic enforcement.  On accident.

Which pretty much, NEVER happens...

What do you guys do, when you get called to a household that generates a fucking "pole-dancer"?

598 I am not fucking SPAM!

599 659 650 Ed.-- I erased the "lol" so the seriously looks rather odd. PIMF.

600 Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 02:57 AM (vj0dH)

Yes, does your header say chemjeff? Cuz, a lot of times I delete AOS yahoo stuff. If I saw chemjeff, I would pay attention.

601 666

Now that is scary.

602 Samuel Adams it says chem.jeff

603 ""I really find the whole fascination with celebrity bizarre, sometimes in a cruel way. The American Idol crowd wants to emulate celebrities while declaring they hate celebrities and their drama but they love to read about it in the tabloids. So it seems to me that our culture has a love/hate relationship and fascination with celebrities, and that includes scorning celebrities while wanting to observe the self-destruction. Though it seems there's something universal that draws us to watch these things, though I can't quite describe the motivation. Hope that makes sense.""

A few thousand years ago they packed the roman colosseum with the same fucking people. The sport has changed, but the mentality is the same.

604 671 666

Now that is scary.

Posted by: mpfs at April 03, 2011 03:00 AM (3TjSM)

Indeed.  So, Bla_zer, did you kiss and make up with Ace?

605 Seriously, though, looks like these anonymous GOPers-- including Budget Comm. members-- are going to keep talking about this but we won't have full confirmation until the full plan is released Tuesday.


Yeah, so much of it is just trying to play it correctly in the public square and that's obviously harder for the R's with most of the media unwilling to help like they are for the left. It'd be nice to jjust be able to lay things out and discuss them rationally instead of having to go through the playground stuff, but it is what is. I'm old enough to remember the Contract With America, just hope this batch of R's don't end up like that batch.

606 (Is the word "cop" a pejorative, BTW?)

Meh.

I dunno...

I think that Police Officers and Sheriff's Deputies don't have much to do with someone like me, but for traffic enforcement.  On accident.

Which pretty much, NEVER happens...

What do you guys do, when you get called to a household that generates a fucking "pole-dancer"?

Posted by: Deety has no patience for "Edgy" little fuckers at April 03, 2011 02:59 AM (Jb3+B)

Did you or a family member change your lifestyle and embrace something good? My niece was a loving sweet child who later became a girlfriend of gang-bangers and then started stripping. That wasn't enough for her, she later became an escort after she became of age. I found that out after I buster her for prostitution. She now has a teenage son who is mixed race and a wonderful child. She on the other hand is still a stripper and a worthless human being. So, the moral of the story is that she had rotten parents and she started out life as a rotten human being, but became a good and loving parent who raised a great child. However, she herself is still a stripper and still a rotten adult human being and a bad role model.

607 No, still persona non grata, but I apologize to all of you. I had a really serious mental breakdown last summer and was going through a lot of shit, still doesn't excuse it... I hope you all forgive me.

608 Posted by: sickinmass at April 03, 2011 02:53 AM (1rflU)


Yeah, that's pretty much it. Dude's also got a lot of daddy issues judging by his Apocalypse Now fixation.

609 I hope you all forgive me.

You shouldn't be asking for our forgiveness, you should be asking for Ace's.  This is his blog.

610 Time for me to hit the hay, nytol.

611 So, the moral of the story is that she had rotten parents and she started out life as a rotten human being, but became a good and loving parent who raised a great child. However, she herself is still a stripper and still a rotten adult human being and a bad role model.

well, I would like to believe that we tend to learn things from the examples presented before us, even if they are bad examples - so there is hope for your teenage grand-nephew

612 Watching a reply of the local ten PM news here in Detroit and the lead story was the Charley Sheen show. The concensus is that it was a waste of time and money. People walked out and others wanted refunds. A local radio DJ says this show, which is in Chicago tomorrow, will really hurt him. 

613 You shouldn't be asking for our forgiveness, you should be asking for Ace's. This is his blog. Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 03:09 AM (vj0dH) I have, but what I did..well is pretty much unforgivable and inexcusable. Also, brewer, I'm sorry for what I said concerning you also. With that said, just wanted to stop in and let you guys know I love you and am sorry for what happened. I really miss you guys. With that I'll move on. It had to be said

614 Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2011 03:15 AM (vj0dH)

He is a great kid and she is a good and loving mother. However, as good as a mother she is, she will fuck you for money. She is just old and savvy enough not to do it in front of her child. She will protect him from that bullshit.

615 That would be a replay of the 10 PM news.

616 I can't say the word that has the hash of kre5q cuz pixie shuts me down.

617 well, time for bed for me as well.
g'night all

618 I don't remember what you said to me, but I think an honest, open self-assessment like that is commendable.  Like chemjeff said, talk to Mr. Spades.  Until then--until something changes--you ought to honor the man's wishes.

619 Although pixie won't stop me from saying that the Redskins suck and the Cowboys rule.

620 Do they still call Kansas "fag land"?

621 Do they still call Kansas "fag land"?

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 03:35 AM (nFWaB)

No, no one has ever called Kansas fag land. They have called it OZ, bleeding Kansas, and flyover country. But they have never called it fag land. Yes, Kansas does have gay people, and my hometown has the largest concentration of gay people in Kansas, but that is because Wichita has over 370,000 people, more than twice the population of the second largest city in Kansas. But we are a solid red state and not considered "fag land."

622 I must have been thinking of Texas.

623 I must have been thinking of Texas.

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 03, 2011 03:43 AM (nFWaB)

Can't help you there, but I do know that Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Houston all have gay bathhouses.

624 Check out the Midtowne spas in the Texas area. That should help you out.

625 A long time ago, I bitched that the USAF was being left out because this smart military blog was occupied primarily by Army, Navy, and Marines. But to help some of you historically, the second man to step on the moon was an Air Force man. Buzz Aldrin was right behind Armstrong on the moon. Not to mention that the first man to break the speed of sound was an Air Force guy plus the guy who dropped out of a balloon at 108,000 feet above the surface of the earth was an Air Force colonel.

626 I think Charlie Sheen constantly lives in such a state, continually warding off shame and a sense of his own damage, filled with feelings of inferiority, and so heavily defended against those feelings he canÂ’t go anywhere near reality, either psychic or external.  ItÂ’s important to remember that, as offensive as his speech can be, itÂ’s actually defensive.

Perhaps.

So, what?

He's obviously a fucking jack-ass, who might have done well to have been under a psychiatrists's care back in the 1990's, but that, apparently, didn't happen...

Fuck him!

627 Morning morons.

Nothing deader than the ONT at 6:25 on a Sunday morning.

628 The French Would Not Let Us Use Their Airspace To Bomb Libya!

Yes, that's old news but gosh watching Geraldo Rivera yesterday you would have been forgiven for thinking that the Lockerbie Bombing happened last week. He went on and on about it, and yeah as an American it makes me angry, it still makes me angry, but I remember a lot more about it that makes me angrier still.

I remember that one of the people who bombed that plane was recently released by the UK.   Yes, that's the same UK that we are helping now.  And of course as I said at the top, when the best President of the 20th century bombed Libya for the attack, you know back when it actually happened, the French stabbed us in the back.

The French, the UK, they did all that back then because Libya is where they get their oil. SO, why are we helping the same people who stabbed us in the backs for that oil then so they can maintain the oil now?

Worse still, it is quite obvious that the rebels, at least most of them are al Qaeda If ole Jerry wants to take a walk down memory lane perhaps he should pause for a moment at something called 911!

The arms we are no doubt giving to al Qaeda in Libya do not think for a moment those same arms won't find their way into Afghanistan and Iraqi into those who will KILL OUR SOLDERS with them.

If we don't think we are not busy enough with Iraq and Afghanistan and want another country to bomb, there are many, many other countries we should choose before Libya. Syria for example. Or since we are going to wars now for things that happened decades before WHEN DO WE GET TO BOMB IRAN.  You know, for that thing we happen to call THE IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.

But Libya, been there done that and it served its purpose. Kadaffi left us alone after Ronald REAGAN took the fight to him! So yeah, Rivera want us to bomb somewhere for stuff that happened decades ago let's do IRAN! Please!

629 I think we should turn our fucking airplanes to the french airplanes and missile lock their damn fighters and then launch saying -- HERE'S YOUR FUCKING AIRSPACE FRENCHES!

630 NATO JUST KILLED 15 al Qaeda  rebels...

YEAH.

It was in Libya...

OH NO!

631 And by the way, it is just so OBVIOUS that John McCain has Stockholm Syndrome.

I mean that man's Obama's BITCH. Whatever he seems to do he backs the man up.

Arm the guys killing our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...Sounds like a good idea to me Mr. President.

This is the same guy who hugged the guy who supposedly tortured him.

DAMN ARIZONA for re-electing him!

632 Frankly I think we should turn our planes towards the Libyan oilfields and then just fucking take them out.

Sorry Frenchies, sorry UK, no more betraying America because old Libyan oil!

And then let us please, please take out some French jets.   AIRSPACE THIS MUTHA FUCKERS!

633
And by the way, it is just so OBVIOUS that John McCain has Stockholm Syndrome.

I mean that man's Obama's BITCH. Whatever he seems to do he backs the man up.

Arm the guys killing our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...Sounds like a good idea to me Mr. President.

This is the same guy who hugged the guy who supposedly tortured him.

DAMN ARIZONA for re-electing him!

Posted by: Kevin at April 03, 2011 07:09 AM (km2tG)

You can see a much younger McCain whoring his ass off in this video about Kara Hultgreen. It actually tells the truth.

634   Straight up and accelerating, is this a great country, or what?

Posted by: yakima o' canutt, in below the sexy shoes at April 03, 2011 12:47 AM (RJE1e)

No, not really.

635 Tunisia, Egypt, now Libya, now Syria?

Look I despise Kaddafi.  I despise al-Assad but there is no doubt that what is going on is nothing less than a Caliphate being formed.  Which in the end is far worse than Kaddafi remaining is power -  far worse than even al-Assad.

Yet we are helping the emerging Caliphate?  You need to wonder with someone by the name Barack Hussian Obama as our President? The name says it all!

636
I've done the Army and Marines.  Air Force will be next.

Posted by: CDR M at April 03, 2011 07:20 AM (5I8G0)

And I thought you were just a lowly squid. Now it turns out you deserve some respect!

637 I hate to say it but I think that having Kadaffi survive and beat the rebels might actually be the best thing to those of us who care about the long term interests of the United States.

He would certainly be a thorn in the side of the obviously emerging Caliphate.  He has always been a more secular tyrant.

Look, the Shaw wasn't good either but in removing him look what chain of events that caused.  Since Jerry Rivera wants us to go down memory lane isn't what happened with the Shaw in Iran a good warning as to what could happen if Kaddafi loses in Libya!

Not a fan of Kadaffi but I am afraid in my hearts of hearts I hope he survives the NATO attacks (and with France leading them now there's a good chance of that) and just totally crush the al Qaeda laced rebels.  Crush the bastards hard!

Might be one of the only things that could slow down this Caliphate's rise!

638 Our daughter went to Butler, a little while back, but remembers that the lacrosse players were the god-kings, and not the basketball players.

639 Not to worry.  I'm doing brackets on volcanic eruptions.

640 Good morning, Morons. I've a miserable cold, and none of my usual anodynes are working at all. And so I sit here on the ground, as cold and drunk as I can be, and yet somehow I'm still lucid. Or so it seems to me.

641 Cheers!

642 Gosh, remember back to when killing al Qaeda rebels was a good thing?

643

I believe itÂ’s FAM-3 where SNAs at Whiting Field learn about approach turn stalls and how not to tromp on the inside rudder to swing the nose around in an attempt to salvage a pending overshoot of final.

Maybe it was FAM-4.

644 Not that I'm ever a real major poster here, but I've been completely absent for a while because I've started a blog. Nothing about politics, boobies nor bacons, so it's no competition for this fine site. It's about my ongoing restoration of our Victorian home. After years of having no desire to blog, of having a decidedly non-bloggish site that no one read, suddenly I don't care if anyone reads it anymore. That proved to be surprisingly liberating.

645 No War for Frenchies' Oil!

Fuck their Airspace!

646 715 Cheers!

Back at yez! I've just about run out of bourbon, and soon I'll have to switch to Irish. From there, Scotch, and then I'll hop the Channel and just march across Europe.

647 Enter a place where al Qaeda are actually the "good guys" That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Obama Zone. ...

Please stand by (for the emerging Caliphate).

648 The Unified Theory of Obama

And I thought I was a theory slut!

649
A great article from The Belmont Club:

Steven Metz at the New Republic has an interesting interpretation of President ObamaÂ’s Libya strategy.  He argues that the apparently disjointed actions of the administration makes sense looked at a certain way. He endeavors to find it. Examining the PresidentÂ’s actions he distills some of the concepts he perceives. First: you canÂ’t lose a war if you never define it as such. And if you always keep your options open the door will never close behind you. And if everybody else loses, you win, if you define “you” narrowly enough. Finally, if you donÂ’t care about anything it doesnÂ’t matter. Metz knows it sounds funny as doctrine, but he lays it out anyway.

[ . . . ]

In the past everyone took “war” and “peace” too seriously. They got hung up on signing fancy declarations and complex surrender ceremonies on the decks of battleships.  The key to avoiding the nettlesome problems of those complex events lay in redefining and transcending everything.  All the baggage formerly imposed by military science, logistics, history and the Constitution could be disposed of at a stroke simply by redefining the terms. Metz writes, “in a broader sense, President Obama is struggling to transcend American history. For two centuries, Americans have believed that any use of military power is war, and the objective in war is victory over the enemy.”
---------

Left wing insanity on full display. As Instapundit would say, read the whole thing.

650 Sky buckets.  Good riddance.  I despised this ride.  There you are, suspended several hundred feet above ground, going at a snail's pace, wondering what the smack impact would feel like, like a slow-motion death nightmare.  Give me the fastest, jaw-breaking topsy-turvy fly on the windshield ride anytime. Anytime.

651 Geraldo Rivera on his program last night was going on and on about the Lockerbie Plane. Remember the Lockerbie Plane Bombing. Remember the Lockerbie Plane Bombing.

Oh, I remember the Lockerbie Plane Bombing... And yeah, Geraldo you are right. It does want me to go to war...

WITH THE FRENCH!

FUCK THEIR AIRSPACE!

And don't forget the Scots (the UK). They released one of the terrorists responsible for bombing the plane.

And now we are helping the same French, the Same UK who stabbed us in the back.  To protect the very same oil that they stabbed us in the back over?

652 716 Gosh, remember back to when killing al Qaeda rebels was a good thing?

Posted by: Max at April 03, 2011 07:50 AM (km2tG)

717

Not anymore.  Anywho.

653 Worst of all we are going to get our OWN SOLDIERS KILLED.  Because the weapons we give al Qaeda in Libya will find its way to Iraq and Afghanistan and be used against our own soldiers.

But hell not only Obama but McCain as well LOVE THE IDEA.

McCain though hugged his torturer when the monster came to DC.

You know, Bui Tin. He actually hugged the guy. And now he is Obama's BITCH.

Talk about a guy with a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Several cases that is!

654 Yeah, now killing al Qaeda rebels is a mistake.

Friendly fire...

Well, I had to say when I heard we made that mistake my heart was overjoyed.

Although in this case it was probably the French.  Yeah, this is why they aren't really the type you want to have your back...

655 Yeah, that's what you get with the French on your team.

Fuck them and fuck their fucking air space!

656 It's Sunday kids.  What the heck?  I'll sleep in, try not to disturb your heinousness, crouched beside me.  She'll (isn't that funny "she'll" "shell", there's a bracket for that), order her usual "Grand Slam Breakfast" and I'll be off to the links, if the weather is fine.  I am not really playing golf, just getting my head straight, especially over all, the jobs I saved or created (damn to hell Pelosi and Biden), this  "war" in Libya that theys  has found themselves in....I should say something.  Oh, yes, there's that Japanese thingy.  Plus, I've got to practice my  renewal, I mean revival tent show whole election speechy stuff. I am good at that.

657 Wikileaks:

U.S. Embassy Cables: 90 Percent of Mexican Drug Cartels' Most Lethal Weapons Come From Central America--Not USA


So why Operation Gunrunner?  I think I need a tin foil hat.

658 BTW:

I saw HOP last night. Boring movie.  Even most of the kids were talking and playing 1/4 the way through it.  Plus, if you see the ad, you've seen most of the jokes.

659 Some people have forgotten but there was a major battle in WWII AGAINST the FRENCH who was allied at that time with the NAZIS.

And one of the first major conflicts for the American Colonials was actually AGAINST THE FRENCH! 

There's a great book called "Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France" by John J Miller and Mark Molesky

And yeah I know how some like to go on and on about French support of the colonials during our Revolutionary War.  But they only did to to stick it to their enemy England.

And then look how quickly they turned against us in their Quasi-War.

No the French has been America's Eternal Frienemy and back when the Lockerbie Bombing really did happen they said "STAY OUT OF OUR AIRSPACE"!

 And that is exactly what we should do now! Stay out of their air space. Stay out of their war.  NO WAR FOR FRENCHIES' OIL!

660
Yea man, winning!  Last night was bitchin', with the hooker's and blow non-stop until dawn.  That Detroit audience were a bunch of fucking losers.  Didn't recognize real talent.......gotta go, it's time for breakfast.  I'm gonna snort coke from a hooker's ass and eat her muffin!  Cool man!

661 FUCK YOU FRENCH.

IT'S YOUR OIL. 

FUCK YOUR AIRSPACE!

662 Anyone (CDR-M) know what the medal is called that the US Army give soldiers for defensive driving in a war zone?  Meaning his driving (not his job) saved lives?

Plus, what do they call the white cord that sits on shoulder with the white cord?

I suck at Googling.

663 Your warped brain cannot grasp it.  I am so shockingly amazing, I amaze myself.  It was a system I introduced myself.  It is a mole I (and I cannot emphasis this enough) IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, or, MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY idea in the first place  How hard is that?
You people, especially you, have no concept of brilliance, that is for sure.

664 Former Club Gitmo Guest Training Libyan Rebels
plus

Deathly Ill Horse Saved By Beer

665 REMEMBER THE QUASI WAR! (Even though most have indeed forgotten it).

The French Were OUR ENEMIES In the FRENCH INDIAN WARS.

And they AMOUNTED TO our enemies when the plane that Geraldo Rivera is NOW so hot and bothered about was shot down.  They said "You can't penetrate our airspace to bomb Libya".

So FRENCHIES it's your oil (along with the UKs) it's your war!

FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING COUNTY AND ITS FUCKING AIRSPACE!

666 I meant bombed of course. The plane was bombed and then the Scots let one of the terrorists who bombed the plane out of Prison.

Yet we stand beside them in this?

667 Teacher Tapes Students Mouth Shut
Both mom and daughter admit kid talks too much.

668 I have to say when I read NATO Kills Rebels I thought...

WINNING!

Now I am just hoping to read "French Plane shot down".


WINNING!

669
Otis:

How is your house framed? 126 yrs old would suggest balloon or post-and-beam, and since your structure is supposed to be light I guess post-and-beam can be ruled out.

I lived in/house sat a Gothic/Victorian house for a couple of years. 14" wide yellow poplar baseboards and 9 over 9 windows. The house was painted green with the trim painted a red color like yours. It matched the original colors very well.

It was a neat house but will be a bear to keep up. The chimneys are massive and the owners are gonna have some serious problems repairing them when the time comes.

Good luck with your endeavor -- It looks doable if you have the $$$.

670 The Iowa eagle had a dead eaglet. She's eating it now (I think)

671 Never mind.  Just a bunny!  Thank Golly.  They closed up on it and all you could see is light gray fur. 

672 See, just like that, BO is a conservative again:

All across town, agencies are holding hearings, scouring specs, setting up websites and assembling plans to carry out President Barack Obama's order for a "retrospective review" of decade upon decade of government regulations.

673

"retrospective review" of decade upon decade of government regulations.

To see where more is needed.

674 Ed, it is balloon framed. Happily, we've done the really expensive stuff already, at least the expensive-labor stuff, and the rest is pretty much mine to do. Also, I've bought a lot of the materials already, especially the varnish that can't even be imported into California anymore. 

Thanks for axing!

675 Yes, Geraldo, I remember the Lockerbie Plane.

You are right it should make us mad. Mad enough to go to war...

AGAINST FRANCE!

It's time to tell the Frenchies to GET OUT OF OUR AIRSPACE!

Stop operations in Libya. We shouldn't be spending any money in military operations over there.  NOT ONE DIME!

WHERE'S THE PROTESTS AGAINST THIS ILLEGAL WAR COMING FROM OUR SIDE!  For the first time I am ready to sing "give peace a chance"(to mock the Left mostly)

Sadly the best thing would be for Kadaffi to win. There's a Caliphate being built in that region and Kadaffi as a secular tyrant might be able to slow it down.

As bad as Kadaffi is it's a lot better that he is in power in Libya than al Qaeda.

676 Oh, and regarding chimneys, ours were total goners, so we replaced them with B-vent. You can't really tell from the outside, and eventually you won't be able to tell from the inside either.

677 All we are saying is fuck you, your fucking air space and your fucking war for oil France!

All we are saying is fuck you, your fucking air space and your fucking war for oil France!

678 Pretty sure the French aren't reading this thread right now, but good luck.

679 I'm starting to get the feeling that Kevin is trying to tell us something.

680 I don't know what Kevin is trying to say but does any one else here besides him and I think what's going on here is just INSANE!

And I usually respect FOXNEWS but gosh, guys, have you ever met a war you didn't like!

Same goes for Republicans! At least the leadership. Where's the tea part?. They remain silent.

Look, I am all for war.  When a country poses a threat to Americans and our interests, yeah, bomb the hell out of it.  But Libya doesn't pose a threat. Not today.  Yeah, it posed a threat back at the time of the Lockerbie bombing but Reagan took care of it. And yeah, back then the same French who we are now helping bomb Libya told us that we could not use their airspace at all for the bombing.

To say we should bomb them now for something that happened a generation ago is insane.  If that's the case yeah, why not bomb Iran for  the hostage thing?

This is the most clear of an example of a "war for oil" that one can ever find. But we don't get our oil from Libya.  The UK and France does which is why they were so quick to go to war.

Obama is doing everything that he himself said and all the other damn liberals said Bush did wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has even done worse. Sure I have always wanted official war declarations but in both Iraq and Afghanistan Bush got at least some kind of official congressional approval, but Obama - NOTHING. He barely even talked to them.

This is hypocritical, expensive, and it's going to get our own people killed. If not in Libya then by the weapons that will be funneled into Iraq and Afghanistan.  And while it might be hard to imagine how opposing Gadaffi or Kaddiffi or however you want to spell it as being bad, when it's Kadaffi vs al  Qaeda, when there's a Caliphate rising up all around that area, then indeed we are on the wrong side if we choose al Qaeda over a man who indeed might have been bad, but still seemed a little controllable as long as you lob a few bombs in his direction every so often, then indeed we are on the wrong side of all this.

Especially since they are going to use the Libya example, if successful, as a model to go in against Israel.

681 Oh, and yeah  SINCE I haven't forgotten Lockerbie I say FUCK THE FRENCH and their fucking airspace!

682 Here's an interesting Stratfor article explaining the French and UK interests in the Libyan intervention. (Reprinted an linked to in Forbes Magazine):

France, U.K. Have Differing Motives For Intervening In Libya

683 Like I said remember when killing al Qaeda rebels was a good thing?

To me it still is.

And if some French War Planes get knocked out of the skies for intruding into Libyan airspace so much the better, because if I remember correctly the fact that we couldn't use French airspace cost the lives of a couple of our pilots.

I agree France has always been our Frenemy.  Emphasis on the enemy part. Sure they helped us in our war of Independence but not out of any great love of America but out of a deep hatred of their enemy England at the time.

684 They were making war against Americans before the Revolutionary War with the French Indian wars.  And they made war against the Americans after the Revolutionary War with the Quasi War.  And yeah French troops did indeed fire against us in WWII!

Let is not be blinded by what they did in the Revolutionary War because indeed, they just saw it as a way to harm their enemy - ENGLAND.

685 Gosh Ed, after reading that article it just reaffirms my belief that it would be best from an US perspective for Gadaffi to hold on to power whether our leaders realize that or not.

If the French win that would just increase their power which in the end has rarely been a good thing for America. 

It is too bad we just can't switch quickly and choose Kadaffi and help him shoot French Planes from the skies.  That would be the smart thing but of course our leaders rarely do the smart thing. And with Kadaffi as "our Bastard" he of course wouldn't be bombing any of our airplanes (just like he hasn't since Reagan bombed him) so we wouldn't have to worry about that happening (not that I have been worried about that since oh Reagan bombed him) and perhaps he can fight the growing Caliphate.

But of course Obama is on the side of the Caliphate and against the American people. HE is the enemy within.  I think McCain's excuse is that he is just plain insane, and Foxnews, well if we were on Kadaffi's side they could still have their fun war videos. 

By the way did you know that there's a Cricket Stadium in Pakistan named after Kaddafi?  Yet we still allies with Pakistan. We have to understand that allies don't ever ever mean friends. France didn't being a ally with US stop them from defacto siding with Libya when we bombed them in the 1980s. Time for us to stab France in the back for a change instead of it always being the other way around.

686 CDR I realize you have to please everyone, but keep those brownshoe stories coming.

687 One thing the report doesn't say but is a consideration is that France has an increasing number of Muslim radicals in their country. So, they can find common ground with the Muslim radicals in Libya if they take over. But if Kaddaffi stays then since that would be bad news for the Muslim radicals in Libya the Muslim radicals in France wouldn't like it too.

But yeah, if we could (though I know because of Obama this would be impossible ) get on team Kadaffi then we take France's Oil away from them for them to be ours and we use Libya as a base to fight increasing Islamization.

And I could just imagine it would be great.

French Pilot: The American Pilots have just made radar lock. Must be some mechanical problem...US airplanes what is the nature of your malfunction.

American Pilot: No malfuction we are going to mess up your airspace big time! Launch all missiles!

688 Actually though,  why would we want to shoot the French Planes when it looks like they are doing Kadaffi's work for him.

Except for the fun of doing it I mean.

689 Well Geraldo is certainly on Team Al Qaeda,  You should have seen him last night.  Like I said he acted like Lockerbie happened last week instead of a generation ago.

But then again, I wouldn't shed a tear if something happened to him. I really didn't like it when FOX hired him. Since we are talking long memories here before Fox hired him he was totally pro-Clinton.

And of course before that he had that circus of a talk show where people threw chairs at each other and before that he had that show about a safe that they found in a building that Capone owned and when it opened nothing was in it.

So, yeah Jerry, I can remember more than just what happened with Lockerbie since you want me to reach back that far.

690 I would never ever get on an Airbus.

After all, since the French built it how safe could it be!

691 Yea Okay but damn, the things they do with food !

692

This is hypocritical, expensive, and it's going to get our own people killed. If not in Libya then by the weapons that will be funneled into Iraq and Afghanistan. 

I'm sure this is a feature, not a bug.  I hate this administration.

693 "CDR I realize you have to please everyone, but keep those brownshoe stories coming."

I'll take the heat off of CDR and give you one from my personal Brownshoe Diary:

I was in a VP squadron that didnÂ’t have the greatest safety record during the general time frame I flew with them.  Before my arrival there was an incident at NAS Adak that, if I recall correctly, resulted in no loss of life, but the aircraft was declared a total strike. 

Also before my time, there was an all-world fuck up during an air show in Pago Pago where the pilot, on a low altitude pass, flew into an unseen cable car tram wire.   If I recall that one correctly, the severed cable wrapped around the #3 engine propeller and also took off the vertical stabilizer.  The aircraft crashed into a hotel killing a few civilians and the entire crew, of course.  Not good.

About a year after I left the squadron, there was a mid-air collision between two Fifty birds off the coast of San Diego.  (I lost a couple of buddies in that one, including one of the mishap plane commanders who was the second pilot on my crew for a short spell).

I was around, however, when one of our aircrews knocked the landing gear off their Orion touching down short of the runway at NAS Jacksonville.   The plane commander was a buddy of mine.  He was landing to the west at sunset (difficult to see) and didnÂ’t know that the runway was undergoing some re-construction at the approach end at the time.

The first 1000 feet or so of runway concrete had been ripped up.  There was no displaced threshold marking and tower personnel had failed to inform the pilots of the displacement when they cleared the aircraft to land.   (NAS operations department had failed to put out a notice to airman about the displacement, as well). 

The displaced portion was dirt with an 18-inch lip up to concrete surface.  In the flare, the  main landing gear struck the concrete lip.  On one side of the aircraft, the entire gear -- tires/wheels and the strut assembly -- were ripped from the frame.  On the other side, the tire/wheel assembly was sheared off with the strut hanging down like a loose tooth.  

Upon hearing the ‘thunkÂ’ in the cockpit, the plane commander (landing from the left seat) initiated an immediate go-around.  Soon thereafter, of course, the hydraulic system warning lights in the cockpit lit up.  Once the pilots got their shit together after climb out, the flight engineer went back to the aft windows to check out the situation.   He returned to the cockpit white as a sheet to deliver the bad news.

Ultimately, the crew elected to divert over to NAS Cecil Field to belly it in.  No injuries to the five crew members, but they were pretty shaken up. That bird was also declared a strike, but the depot-level maintenance unit a Jax decided to make it a pet project (with Navy approval, of course) and rebuilt it using airframe parts located in various locations around the world and brought in.  The bird eventually flew again with wings taken from a Canadian Aurora, if memory serves.

(I told you I had no exciting P-3 stories).

694 I have no idea why that entire thing posted in italics.

695 Good Morning CDM, 771 hits on your thread. I guess you know what the Ron's like. Ace should be pleased.

696

The thread is dead at this point but this way I can have the final say.  As I have stated on earlier posts, I am ambivalent on the Libyan war.  I stated it before the war started and I still am.  Quadaffy can rot in Hell for all I care but I have no love for the useless ass rebels either.  I am sure they have no love for us.    I think that's the way most Americans think.  I never say lets go on a trip without having some idea where I'm going.  Same thing with Libya.  If we don't have a clear cut idea of what we want to accomplish why do anything?  Stopping the death of people that want to kill us by an asshole that wants and has killed us seems like a bad idea. 

It might be a good idea to get a handle on what Obama's motivation is for getting us in to this shit.  Is he just clueless?  Does he want to piss off more Muslims?  Is it crony captalism?  I don't know, though I lean towards the first.  What ever it is it isn't good for the good old USA.

697 The PPC in the Jax incident was FNAEB'd, of course, but he kept his wings. 

698 CDR, Mixed in amongst the innuendo, frivolities and insanity of an ONT are always lots of educational and entertaining commentary from some very smart people.  Thanks for entertaining us Roon's.

699 Otis Criblecoblis , I couldn't figure out how to post on your blog.  Maybe that's why it seems a little lonely there. OD

700 Oh, and we had a PPC/MC on a tactical in the South China Sea mistakenly overfly Taiwan.  Penetration was about 15 miles, if  recall correctly.

Yeah, that caused an international incident.  The PPC lost his Mission Commander papers for about six months.

701

One more...

I joined the squadron shortly after its deployment to Diego Garcia.  Command of the unit was about to change with the CO leaving and the XO taking his place.  It was tradition that the outgoing COÂ’s last flight be scheduled with the unitÂ’s most-junior pilot.  That was me.

The runway at DGAR had been closed for quite some time while the civilian contractors extended it and resurfaced its entire length.  The day of my flight with the outgoing CO was the same day the new runway opened. 

Pre-flight, engine starts and taxi were uneventful.  Because the CO was busy with Change of Command stuff, he only wanted to take-off, turn downwind and return for a full-stop landing.   He hadnÂ’t flown in a few weeks and it showed.  He touched down on the newly-poured concrete displaced threshold, about 50Â’ short of the actual runway. 

Two black rubber marks on that new, white concrete really stood out.

I knew he was going to land short, too, but I didn't say anything.  I was too intimidated, him being an O-5 and the squadron CO and me being a lowly O-2.

My bad.  I should've said something.

702 Masturbation cures Restless Leg Syndrome... good thing this was discovered after the passage of ObamaCare, otherwise the dems would have found a way to regulate and tax it!

703 Okay, since nobody is reading this thread other than those looking for stories, I remembered another one.

We were deployed to Misawa, Japan.  It was winter and me and my two junior pilots were scheduled for a night bounce (practice touch-and-goes) with some precision instrument approaches (ILS) thrown into the mix to meet the scheduled flight time requirement.  The location of Misawa AB is such that in the winter time, snow squalls can move in rather quickly and catch you unaware if youÂ’re not careful.  The weather forecast for the time we were to be aloft was generally good, with a just a chance of snow.  Nonetheless, on pre-flight, I directed the flight engineer to put on a few more thousand pounds of fuel than normal, just in case.

We started with a several instrument approaches (ILS) before going into the VFR bounce pattern for touch-and-go work.  After many touch and goes and switching seats amongst the pilots so that we all got work, just as the nose wheel was lifting off the runway on another go, we noticed it beginning to snow.  By the time we completed our crosswind turn, we had difficulty seeing the runway it was snowing so hard.  At the 180-degree position (abeam the intended point of landing) we couldnÂ’t see shit.  I was able to break out of the pattern to a relatively clear area to the north and request an instrument pick-up for the ILS approach and a full-stop landing to the active runway. 

Fuel was starting to become a concern.  At that point, we only enough to fly down to our alternate near Tokyo (Yokota AB) while still meeting the minimum reserve fuel requirement upon landing.  As we were being vectored out, the controller stated that weather at the field had improved with an estimated 300 foot ceiling and 2 miles visibility. 

Cool.

He gave us delay vectors while they brought a C-141 arriving from the states to land in front of us.  So, we were out burning fuel waiting for this C-141 to come in and land, not realizing that the weather at the field was starting to deteriorate again.   

We were vectored around for awhile, before finally being turned inbound to pick up the localizer.  (The C-141 just barely made it in weather-wise, we found out later).  We joined the ILS glide slope and began our descent.  At this point, the controller decided to inform us about the weather going to shit again.  The airfield was zero ceiling and zero visibility with heavy, blowing snow.

Shit.

We continued the approach hoping weÂ’d catch a break in the weather and land.

Nope.

I executed the missed approach and we did a quick calculation on how much fuel weÂ’d have remaining if we were to bingo down to Yokota.  We determined that weÂ’d touch down at Yokota just about the time the engines flamed out from fuel starvation.

Gulp. Yokota was no longer an option.

Two more ILSs to a missed approach followed as the weather had not improved.  While being vectored around for what was going to be our fourth ILS, I told my other pilots that I was going to have to cheat and bust minimum descent altitude a little to try to put this event to rest as fuel remaining was really becoming a concern.

On the approach, at minimum descent altitude, my co-pilot, looking for the lead-in lights, saw nothing.  I continued the descent on glide slope for a few seconds, my eyes repeatedly darting to the radar altimeter.  At around 70 feet, a mere split second before I was about to give it the gas and execute another missed approach, the co-pilot said he had the lead-in lights.  I looked-up, saw the lights and followed them visually to the runway.  Once we passed over the lead-in lights, everything went white again. 

Shit.

I was actually just starting to rotate back on the control yoke while pushing up the power levers when I felt the main wheels touch down on the runway.  I quickly pulled the power levers to idle and set the nose wheel down...and I saw nothing.  There was no forward visibility.  While applying reverse thrust, I had to look out the side window of the cockpit where I could just barely see one runway side marker light.  Bringing the aircraft to a stop and setting the parking brake, I realized that I had essentially just performed a zero-zero landing. 

Since we couldnÂ’t see shit due to blowing snow, I elected to shutdown the engines on the runway and call for a tow into the parking ramp.  There was going to be a delay with the tow tug, so we shut down the APU, as well, closed up the aircraft and all walked to the hangar.

The next morning I learned that the tug operator had gone out with another line guy to tow the aircraft into the ramp.  (The airfield was closed, so there was no problem with the tug going out onto the runway).  He was going slow, but couldnÂ’t see shit, either.  He was literally trying to find the aircraft in a snow storm.  He did – running the tug into the nose of the aircraft, just aft of the radar dome.

 

 

 

704 Ptooie!

705 High pucker facter on that one.  Your training kicked in and you pulled it off but nobody wants to go to that well too often.

706 Yep.  I was a dumb-ass. 

After passing over the lead-in lights, I didn't anticipate the coming white-out.  In that WTF moment while off-instruments and looking for the runway, I was still descending slightly and didn't know it.  Rotating the nose to initiate the go-around actually translated into the nicest flare and touch down one could imagine.My  knees were shaking a little while going through the engine shutdown checklist, I'm not embarrassed to say.

I remember going back to the BOQ that night and just staring at the wall for awhile and thinking, Jesus...

707 Tunisia, Egypt, now Libya, now Syria?

Really?

Honest to Gawd,  I'm with the rest of those genocidal maniacs in the State Department!

I hope that you kill each other, dead!

This cracks my ass up!

Also,  I really want to bomb the shit out of fucking Pock -Eee-Stahn! immediately...

You culturally retarded, fucking goat rapers!

708

Anyway, to any young pilots out there reading who are working on their instrument rating, learn from my dumbass-ness.

Stay on your instruments until the runway centerline lights are in sight, not just the lead-in lights.

In my anxiousness to get the plane on the ground, I made the classic mistake of “tuck-under” on that approach, going off instruments (and below glide slope)  thinking I had the landing assured once I picked up the lead in lights.

Wrong.  The runway centerline lights had been covered with snow.

I never made that mistake again.

709 Brownshoe and skimmer content. Where is the real sailors?

710 ^^^ It's not called The Silent Service for nutin', ya know.

711 Yes it is Maureen H - but she always looked the same!

712

The F-14 has always been and always will be, my favorite fighter.  My late father worked for Grumman as its Director of Federal Legislation, and he was involved with the Apollo and F-14 contracts that Grumman received from the Navy.  I still remember the night that he came home with the news that the contract for the Tomcat had been awarded, as if it were only yesterday. I still tell people that my Dad was responsible for the F-14- yes, a loving daughter's tribute to her dad. 

 

AND, the star of Top Gun was the Tomcat, not Tom Cruise, and therefore the ONLY reason that I have for watching it~!