I have had to work at our joint in McKeesport many times. EVERY time something bad happens. I’ve hit a deer and destroyed 2 tires ($$$benz), got hit with an 18 wheeler blowout (miata), rear ended (other benz), tornado ripped off my roof, TB exposure, and today…the beloved Miata sprung a coolant leak on the way in. Nothing has EVER happened to me on any other travel assignment. EVER.
I go near the heart of the Whiskey Rebellion and all hell breaks loose.
Enjoy this open
the answer, go play 18 and enjoy an Iron Maiden from Robinson’s and a cigar that shall remain nameless as there is questions about legality….
The Iron Maiden is excellent, perfect hops and a clean finish as one would expect from Robinson.
Enjoy this open.
oh, yeah, bruce crafted the beer, flies the 747, is the lead singer…
the cigar was really nice. was it worth the difference between the Esteli stuff from nigaragua or from the ‘Groupo de Miestros’ in DR…
I cant say that is was. there was something tho…a creamy taste that i havent run into on the front end of any other premium cigar. every time i run into one of these the front end is just perfect. i cant properly describe it.
coldwarrior wrote:
but that was 4 hours ago.
next cigar:
2001 don peppin cuban classic. this is 8bux at the local. its from nicaragua.
the front end does not have that something that the other shall not be named does. but jeeze…worth it for a fleeting minute…. no.
communism kills cigars.
Nice view from your deck. Which river?
eaglesoars wrote:
I got my hands on a double decker version at Goodwill.
coldwarrior wrote:
Nothing tops Estelli.
Supermarket scare: 40% of meat products test positive for antibiotic-resistant superbugs
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Potentially deadly drug-resistant “superbugs” could be lurking in nearly half of the meat products sitting in your local supermarket, a new study warns. Researchers in Spain say they discovered multidrug-resistant E. coli strains in 40 percent of chicken, turkey, beef, and pork products for sale in shops across the country.
https://studyfinds.org/supermarket-meat-superbugs/
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This is highly misleading. Cook the meat and wash your hands. I’ve had e. Coli TWICE. Once from a salad bar and it nearly killed me, and is probably responsible for my auto-immune liver disease. And once a few months ago that I have no idea how I contracted but it was NOTHING like the first round.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
aren’t they great? You can also do eggs in an instant pot but pressure cooker things scare me.
eaglesoars wrote:
Instant pot is great. No danger of explosions. Still haven’t tried doing eggs in it have to get the time and temp just right.
Also love air fryer, those things are amazing.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I got a GREAT Ninja air fryer that also roasts and dehydrates. For my birthday I got a rice cooker that I’m going to try later. Anything that uses less energy to make food is fantastic. The air fryer cost under $100 and the rice cooker cost about $30. WOO HOO!!
I have a question about batteries. I can go to Costco and get the house brand, Kirkland, which are actually Duracell. I could buy A LOT of batteries, but, in the package, how long are they good for? A year? 6 months? Buying them at the grocery store as I’m running errands is a TON of money and it just guts me. So how do I think about this?
Great news: Pentagon still can’t explain “jackthedripper’s” access to leaked material
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/04/14/great-news-pentagon-still-cant-explain-jackthedrippers-access-to-leaked-material-n543798
None of the rest of us could explain how an enlistee in the Air National Guard got his hands on highly classified military and diplomatic intelligence leaked over the past few months. Now it turns out that the Pentagon doesn’t have a good answer for that question, either. The Wall Street Journal refers to it as “among the most puzzling questions” of the case, and the Pentagon’s lack of explanation for it is not building much confidence in opsec:
Ya think? This is a total set-up
eaglesoars wrote:
Not completely sure, but I have heard that storing them in the freezer extends their life.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
There’s condensation in there. That can’t be good
This is a HUGE mistake
Donald Trump Jr. demands END to Bud Light boycott over partnership with trans influencer – and praises them for donating MORE to GOP than to Dems: ‘I’m leaving them alone. I think you should probably do the same’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11975219/Donald-Trump-Jr-calls-end-Bud-Light-boycott-praises-conservative-credentials.html
@ coldwarrior:
420×236
eaglesoars wrote:
Set up for who by whom? The National Guardsman or the Pentagon IT guys who left access to the data vulnerable?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Myth.
morning y’all
@ eaglesoars:
Ohio
@ eaglesoars:
So….I guess we found that whores price
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Too lazy
rain of lead wrote:
FORE!!!
The mark of a true pro:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9clJExzr_7w
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Tru
Our trash bin not only has miscellaneous crow parts, it now has the the carcass of the rat bastard that’s been leaving its rat bastard poops all around the garage.
Lol City.
Sound up.
Dude at upper right loses it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
On my way to the gun store right now!
LOL
After yesterdays disaster I am still craving eggs.
Seriously thinking of trying a fried egg, and dialing 911 just as I crack the eggs into the hot skillet. If the eggs are a success and I don’t forget about them all is good and I can tell the nice fire people thank you for reminding me I am cooking eggs.
If I do forget when the nice people from the fire department show up they will save my life, the life of my cats and everyone else in the building.
So, fried eggs it is.
OK real meaning of this post, why is emergency 911 in US and also 999 in UK? It has been like that since the invention of the telephone and rotary dials.
On a rotary dial phone 999 takes many seconds longer to dial than say 111
So why the nine thingy?
( why is my tiny brain full of useless facts? )
@ Possum:
Yeah, you guessed. My life is so boring I am even considering to commit a misdemeanor so I get sentenced to 400 hours community service.
Like murderers in Houston do.
@ Possum:
A clue. Telephone wires on poles and wind and tree branches.
@ Possum:
I’m not gonna tell you how long my brain just froze.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Maybe we should stop cooking at our age and just drink the old people nutrition stuff out of a bottle three times a day.
Safer for us and all the people we live with.
@ Possum:
When I was assembling the crow parts I found in the yard, I also found one of these. UNUSED.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am wondering if I got one and inserted it into my rectum would it tickle as much as a duct taped hamster?
As they say in that advert you have to be 18 or older to order.
Seems legit as they do not have it miniaturized enough yet to fit in a child’s anus.
On an unrelated note…….. See next comment.
@ Possum:
Naughty words and insults in Spanish.
They do not have many. Currently yet another drunken argument with shoving and shirts off in apartment complex. As usual yelling starts in Spanish, I can’t understand what they are yelling.
Then when it gets nasty all yelling and insults suddenly are in English!!!!!
@ Possum:
Listening to a radio podcast, the guy is talking about Dick Dale and how his speed guitar was essential to surf rock. In his words: “No Dick, no surf.”
The Rocket Copter I have is a cheaper version than the one in that commercial. It looks more like a feminine hygiene product appurtenance, but with wings and a blue light.
fucker microsoft. It upgraded my OS to V-11 and now all my passwords are effed up etc. This is going to take me a week. Bastards
@ eaglesoars:
Whoah. I better make sure my auto update is still crippled. I was listening to the Tech Guy earlier and he mentioned potential compatibility issues with older programs. ALL my programs are older programs.
@ eaglesoars:
Seems my computer is too old too. Windows 11 won’t be installed. Ever.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
how does one do that?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Same here
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s why I use a password manager. Also most browsers now have an option to sync data now that will maintain the passwords that the browser saves. (But the password manager has it’s drawbacks since Lastpass that I use had a data breach last year, everything was encrypted so it was safe.)
Today is a nice day.
Friend starts a new job within the same company. Same pay as far as I know.
But new position is much more demanding both physically and mentally and will mean being exposed to tragic death often.
I have much respect for my friend…..
@ Possum:
CW probably understands this. Only dedicated health care professionals do something like transfer from NICU 2 to NICU 4
Cats are assholes.
For the past few days I had a very sick cat. Bad cough, would not eat and although he would drink water just threw it all back up a few minutes later.
I made him nice nest using a cardboard box and a fluffy towel so he could die in comfort.
However, after a couple of days waiting for him to die he started eating again. What got him eating was a can of mackerel of all things. Don’t know why I had one in the cupboard, that shit is NASTY!!!
Well, yesterday he was back to his usual self, cold wet nose and yelling when he needed to go outside. He is back!!!
He also kind of likes the nice nest I made him, for him to die in. It is warm and snuggly.
So why do I say cats are assholes?
The sick cat’s twin brother just jumped into the nice nest and pissed all over it. MINE the twin cat declared. Anyway, things back to normal now.
Except I have to do laundry and wash fluffy towel….
Possum wrote:
Oh my.
National Beagle Day is next Saturday. Mark your calendars!
Mass starvation comin’ right up!
VIDEO: Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1647520201850896384
(fertilizer from straw – righto!)
eaglesoars wrote:
Go try that in China first, then India
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/yuengling-brewery-tweet-shows-some-beer-companies-still-understand-their-customer-base/
Excellent stuff. Their porter and black and tan are great
@ eaglesoars:
I looked into this awhile ago.
Yep, I believe rice growing may produce 10% of the methane released DUE TO AGRICULTURAL activities.
Also I believe AGRICULTURAL man instigated emissions of methane are about 17% of the total methane emissions. The rest is wetlands, escape of methane from the oil industry and natural escapes from
the ground.
So, the 10% from rice growing is 10% of 17% which is 1.7% of the overall methane emissions.
My math may be faulty but you get the idea.
As an added bonus, if we stop all rice growing then those rice growing areas would revert to wetlands, which naturally if left alone produce, well you get the idea, methane.
@ coldwarrior:
Friend is truly dedicated to the profession.
Possum wrote:
Agreed.
That’s a hard assignment
Last cat story for today.
I kind of like dogs, well some dogs. They are smart, loyal and great company.
Anyway, was just sitting outside enjoying the sunshine and breeze when one of the boys came out of the apartment, went down the stairs and circled around a few times in the grass. I knew what was going to happen. Cats got to go when they got to go!
He went….
Then a yappy cichuania thing came out of nowhere!
Chased my boy, then went back and sniffed where my boy took a shit.
Yappy thing ate the lot!
Hey, one can of herring feeds not only my cats but the local yappy dogs too!
That is all stories for today. Now it is beer and a salad for supper. Less chance of getting injured by eating a salad.
Well, I dunno.
Florida Lawmakers Unanimously Advance Bill Seeking Death Penalty for Pedophiles
https://www.ntd.com/florida-lawmakers-unanimously-advance-bill-seeking-death-penalty-for-pedophiles_913030.html
I think it’s a just punishment. But I also think it makes it more likely that the pedos just up and murder their victims.
4:10pm Central time boiled eggs for the safe salad will be done.
Really concentrating on the timing.
LOL
And a big thankyou to all of you dear friends that just called, texted and emailed me telling me to turn off the stove because the boildy eggs are done.
I really appreciate it.
LOL
eaglesoars wrote:
Go into Settings, click [Update & Security], and turn them off.
eaglesoars wrote:
Remind me to put the NBD flag out. It’s all different shades of gray, but it’s a rainbow to dogs.
Possum wrote:
None of that matters, because it’s not about methane.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Dogs can see blues and yellows.
As far as I can tell, there are literally MILLIONS crossing our borders. And THOUSANDS are..Chinese.
eaglesoars wrote:
Your dogs are lying to you.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
nope
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/do-dogs-see-color#:~:text=Human%20eyes%20have%20three%20types,perception%20is%20called%20dichromatic%20vision.
@ eaglesoars:
Ask them what blue is. They’ll just stare at you.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Correct!
Disrupting the food production chain causes starvation.
Our overlords discovered that starvation is the easiest way to thin out a population with no downside of radiation!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
so?
VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New RESTRICT Act
https://beincrypto.com/vpn-users-risk-20-year-jail-sentences-us-restrict-act/
read it
The Justice Dept announced that it will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. ET in Brooklyn, New York to announce arrests and charges in a “significant national security matter.”
https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/1647979307770212354
@ eaglesoars:
That may be about this:
This is cool. It’ll probably sell out in 15 seconds:
huh?
The apocalypse has arrived. No gas anywhere in Fort Lauderdale. Not even at WaWa.
https://twitter.com/JavManjarres/status/1648042667656245260
Speaking of AI concerns….
Google CEO says he doesn’t ‘fully understand’ how new AI program Bard works after it taught itself a foreign language it was not trained to and cited fake books to solve an economics problem
Googles’ CEO Sundar Pichai admitted he doesn’t ‘fully understand’ how the company’s new AI program Bard works, as a new expose shows some of the kinks are still being worked out.
One of the big problems discovered with Bard is something that Pichai called ’emergent properties,’ or AI systems having taught themselves unforeseen skills.
Google’s AI program was able to, for example, learn Bangladeshi without training after being prompted in the language.
‘There is an aspect of this which we call – all of us in the field call it as a ‘black box.’ You know, you don’t fully understand,’ Pichai admitted. ‘And you can’t quite tell why it said this, or why it got wrong. We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better over time. But that’s where the state of the art is.’
Scott Pelley of cBS 60 minutes was surprised and responded: ‘You don’t fully understand how it works. And yet, you’ve turned it loose on society?’
‘Yeah. Let me put it this way. I don’t think we fully understand how a human mind works either,’ Pichai said.
Notably, the Bard system instantly wrote an instant essay about inflation in economics, recommending five books. None of them existed.
In the industry, this sort of error is called ‘hallucination.’
Not only that, they also found computers talking to each other in code that none of the programmers understand.
Hmmm….why does the name ‘Skynet’ spring to mind?
It seems that AI has picked up all of the bad attributed that inhabit the human psyche. Lying, cheating and manipulating humans to get their way, whilst hiding the truth from AI’s creators.
How much longer Lord? How much longer?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
ChatGPT fabricated a story about a journalist raping somebody. It cited 5 WaPo articles that never existed.
Hes suing.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Reminds me of one of the later-season episodes of Person of Interest, where they showed some of the problems Harold had with earlier versions of “The Machine.” I think they tried to kill him something like 43 times before he finally concluded that the only way to run it safely was to basically lobotomize it.
Finally had my followup appointment for my leg. Turns out that it’s a really bad sprain, a very minor fracture, and a major muscle strain.
lobo91 wrote:
THAT is the show I’ve been trying to remember the name of. You got me hooked on it years ago and then everything started happening in RL and I lost track
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
what’s the difference between a ‘sprain’ and a ‘strain’?
@ eaglesoars:
Five letters on the top row.
@ Possum:
Being serious, the way I interpret it is a strain is the over stress on a single entity such as a muscle, or muscle group such as a thigh muscle and the associated hamstring tendon. This can cause pain and trauma and may involve damage to the muscle and tendon but not necessarily.
A sprain is an injury to a complex part of the body such as a wrist or an ankle where there are very many small tendons holding all the little bones and muscles together. Some of which are damaged.
Anyway whatever you call it, it hurts.
@ eaglesoars:
It’s on FreeVee now (Amazon).
I’m probably going to rewatch it.
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t even know what that is. Must look.
eaglesoars wrote:
got it
So there are all these stories about shoplifters in San Fran, NYC, et. al. and how they raid high end stores (Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, etc.).
I mean seriously?
Louis Vuitton produces the ugliest stuff I’ve ever seen (next to Gucci). It’s plastic-embedded cotton or linen or something in shit brown. You could not pay me to have that crap. Don’t get me started on Gucci, that ghastly green/red garbage.
Chanel? Maybe. But Coach and Hermes? Oh hell to the yeah! Hermes costs more than the down payment on a house. I did manage to score Hermes cloisonne earrings a few years ago on a resale site and Coach is a good brand. But I am not paying $12K for a purse.
These people need to learn from Vera Bradley
https://verabradley.com/
Thank you Mrs. CW
NYC Mayor to Cut Carbon Emissions by Cutting Off Food
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chief Climate Officer and New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala today released the city’s first integrated greenhouse gas inventory, which incorporates emissions from the production and consumption of food. Those emissions represent 20 percent of New York City’s overall emissions — the third largest source, behind buildings (35 percent) and transportation (21 percent).
In response to the new inventory, Mayor Adams and Mayor’s Office of Food Policy (MOFP) Executive Director Kate MacKenzie also announced that the city will reduce absolute carbon emissions from food purchases across its city agencies by 33 percent by 2030.
“New York City is leading the world when it comes to combating climate change, because we’re using every option on the menu in our fight — and that includes changing our menus, too,” said Mayor Adams. “This new emissions report shows us that plant-powered food isn’t just good for our physical and mental health, but good for the planet as well. We’ve already made great strides in reducing our food emissions by leading with plant-based meals in our public hospitals and introducing Plant-Powered Fridays in our public schools. Now, we know we need to go further. That’s why today, we’re committing to reducing the city’s food-based emissions at agencies by 33 percent by 2030 and challenging our private sector partners to join us by cutting their food emissions by 25 percent in the same time period.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/nyc-mayor-to-cut-carbon-emissions-by-cutting-off-food/
[Children, the sick and the elderly.]
The American Left is just Pol Pot in slow motion.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/nyc-mayor-to-cut-carbon-emissions-by-cutting-off-food/
PSA
McDonald’s upcoming new burger recipe is touted to be more tasty for hamburgers and Big Macs. That’s all well and good for us humans, but that means no more plain burgers for our canine friends, because onions are harmful to dogs.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4146411/posts
Southwest Airlines shut down due to computer glitch??
@ eaglesoars:
I think people are misunderstanding that. There have always been onions on them. They were raw before. Now they’ll be cooked.
They aren’t putting the onions into the meat. They’re on top.
@ lobo91:
whew!
well, my dogs prefer the french fries anyway, so………..go figure
“I heard a comment from somebody in a developing country who said, ‘Look, I like your values better than I like China’s. But the truth is, when we’re engaged with the Chinese, we get an airport. And when we’re engaged with you guys, we get a lecture.’”
https://instapundit.com/579895/
oh puh-leez. DO NOT tell me we don’t bribe. Ours are just ‘under the table’ and more ‘personal’
eaglesoars wrote:
Same here. Cody loves McDonalds’ fries
Chump change
Pa. to get $6 million in grants for climate change planning from the Environmental Protection Agency
https://www.wesa.fm/environment-energy/2023-04-18/pennsylvania-climate-change-planning-epa-grants
The resulting plans can include things like installing air quality monitoring systems, plugging old oil and gas wells, or converting school bus fleets to electric vehicles.
I am looking forward to the day when the kids don’t get picked up in Scranton by the electric school buses because the overnight temp was 2 degrees F and the f-ing batteries in the electric school buses couldn’t charge. Tragic, given that the air quality monitoring systems in the schools showed PURE.
somebody get me a fucking ‘edit’ button.
Some days it’s not worth getting out of bed. Just had my electric bill go up 40 bucks a month. Got two letters from the VA saying they don’t intend on paying for some of my x-rays for my injury. Have a hard drive failing (fortunately I have room on my other drives to transfer my needed data). My ankle is swollen as hell today and I have to work the crap closing shift tomorrow. Couldn’t take the kids outside at my day care today because of a thunderstorm. Found out I might not be able to create my Kindergarten this fall due to state licensing requirements.
I’m ready to go back to bed.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
could you send me an email please. for some reason your email address is not showing up in my book under anything I recall.
Possum wrote:
Only time I ever sprained anything was when I accidentally broke into the Goodyear Blimp compound in Akron Ohio while trying to get home at 3am.
eaglesoars wrote:
Log in as admin. There are all kinds of fucking buttons behind the curtain.
Getting ready for No.76 to kick in. Last week’s CT scan showed nothing remarkable, and they didn’t mention that I hadn’t taken a poop like they did the previous scan.
Coming up on 3rd year anniversary, and the Onkydoc said something is likely to happen soon. That means changing treatments when the currend meds start losing their effectiveness and the little beasties wake up and start fucking around.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Critical period
@ coldwarrior:
I like the onkydoc, young guy (all of them are young these days) easy to talk to.
When the missus and I had recovered from the OmiGodmicron virus, Onky D. insisted on skipping an in infusion. Since Bunkessa’s wedding is coming up, I told him I’d like to skip another – one month w/o no treatment. He flat out said no. Postpone for one day max.
I pay attention to clues like that.
GA-20 has been confirmed as my favorite band for now. They did Hound Dog Taylor right. https://youtu.be/Yd4fqhIm24k
No surprises here, but the next step is damn scary.
“…exclusively to local law enforcement agencieS.”
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcast/2023/04/how-the-cops-buy-your-location-data-with-bennett-cyphers
@ eaglesoars:
Possum wrote:
Yep a lot of pain. The doctor says any of the four areas of the ankle I damaged would have qualified as a sprain.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
And today it’s snowing. Seriously.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Onkdocs run you life from now on.
They’re pretty good at what they do
https://pittnews.com/article/180848/news/police-say-public-safety-emergency-at-ohara-resolved-after-protest-of-michael-knowles-event/
I see the “kind and inclusive” left are at it again. I don’t know the two involved in this debate, but it’s telling that the left utilized terrorist tactics to keep people from hearing what was being said.
If your POV is so shaky that it can’t handle debate, then maybe you are not in the right.
Lol! I just bought some Soju!
Oh man.
@ coldwarrior:
ok, what is Soju?
Absolutely PERFECT weather. The Heathen Beagles have exhausted themselves and are now in comas, Willow on the kitchen floor, Mia on the sofa. Willow spent about half an hour laying on her back in the yard, tanning her tummy
My girls are happy.
eaglesoars wrote:
I drank it during my tour in the ROK. I always referred to it as liquid LSD. Korean booze. A 12 oz bottle has some serios side effects for the untrained.
@ coldwarrior:
Go easy troop.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
BOOZE!!?? from rice?
*grin*
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Lol
It’s really good.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I can see why it’s legend. Real trouble down that path
@ eaglesoars:
Lol…
I turned her on to Vera!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
… and just like Pol Pot and your Zero, they don’t even use a bullet to off you. Too much CO2 produced. Just the Anvil meet….. Head and a deftly swung Sledge Hammer …
coldwarrior wrote:
Gnight
Mr Bunk got BRC mail
As to “person of interest” that is a kind of ripoff of “Quantum Leap ”
I did not like the original quantum leap and the new one is more annoying so I did not continue watching it.
person of interest is OK so far, but it is going to get repetitive and boring.
Season 1 episode 10 at the moment.
Also it is lacking hot chicks. If Piper Perabo and Gina Carano were in it I would probably watch all 400 seasons and 4784 episodes.
@ Possum:
A bonus would be Bobbie Draper from The Expanse ( actress Frankie Adams ) and Stella Kidd from Chicago Fire ( Miranda Rae Mayo )
eaglesoars wrote:
Didn’t see the bigger picture.
https://youtu.be/tMShE5Bx8rA
Possum wrote:
Once my head clears a bit I’ll decipher it.
I need to czech the yinzbox more often. 250 or so notifications that I logged into twitter.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m glad the first one I had wasn’t in my insurance group. He was an old guy, seemed like he didn’t want to be there. He retired a couple months later.
The one I ended up with is great and the nurses are fun.
@ Possum:
I’m seeing a lot of mentions of Ted Lasso. People say it’s funny, and that usually suggests to me that it isn’t.
If I stay up much longer I’ll miss the daily teleconference at 9am. That would be a shame.
@ Possum:
The early episodes were sort of stand alone things. It does eventually develop longer story arcs, though. It gets better.
And Sarah Shahi and Amy Acker both join the cast as regulars after a bit.
Hunh. I wonder what the quid pro quo is
Biden Gifts $1 Billion to U.N.’s Flagship Green Climate Fund
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/20/biden-gifts-1-billion-to-u-n-s-flagship-green-climate-fund/
Elon’s rocket went KABOOMSKI. Dang
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-d9989401e2e07cdfc9753f352e44f6e2
@ eaglesoars:
He gave it 50 50 odds.
Odd
JUST IN – BuzzFeed News is shutting down — CEO
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1649073588425687041
@ eaglesoars:
It did what it was supposed to do. Putting it into orbit wasn’t the goal. Getting it off the ground successfully was.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/electric-vehicles-heavy-parking-garages-report
I hadn’t thought of this…
@ lobo91:
was it supposed to go BLOOEY!! ?
coldwarrior wrote:
tow trucks?
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m pretty sure they blew it up deliberately when it failed to stage properly, so it wouldn’t come down in one piece.
This cat is smarter than Biden, Fetterman, Mayor Pete and Harris combined.
https://tinyurl.com/stjwa4r2
@ eaglesoars:
coldwarrior wrote:
Whoever said “We have height restrictions in car parks, why not weight?” doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
I haven’t looked into it yet.
eaglesoars wrote:
No. The weight of a tow truck is spread over a larger area with larger tires. A catastrophic failure like this is likely due to building deterioration. I want to know what year it was built and what structural system was used.
right_wing2 wrote:
wow. Psycho Puppy has figured out how to open the internal doors because the handles are levers, not knobs. But no way she’s pulling that off.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Ah! Thank you, I doff my chapeau!
@ eaglesoars:
I know my parking structures, done a lot of them. Just wrapped up a 7-tier in L.A.
Dan Bongino, one of the most right-leaning hosts in the Fox News stable, is leaving the network after the Fox Corp.-backed outlet and he could not come to terms on a new contract.
“Folks, regretfully, last week was my last show on Fox News on the Fox News Channel,” Bongino said on his podcast Thursday.
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/fox-news-dan-bongino-contract-departure-1235589805/
Richard Riordon died. Former (& sane) ex-mayor of L.A.
Another luminary, Gene Kohn, died and a worldwide funeral was broadcast this morning. He was the K in KPF, aka Kohn Pedersen Fox, famous architectural firm, did a lot of high rises. I met him a few years ago – nice little old man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohn_Pedersen_Fox
@ eaglesoars:
Wait for Tucker Carlson to follow.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m surprised there’s any land left in L.A. to put them.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
where would he go? He’s got the highest rated show in TV
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I don’t know anything about architecture. I’ve been to Falling Waters and it IS beautiful but most of Wright’s stuff I think is garbage. Frank Gehry is another one I think is a fraud.
IMHO
@ eaglesoars:
I’m a yuge Wright fan.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’ve heard of them.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Iirc it was originally built in the 20s
coldwarrior wrote:
I find his work interesting from a visual aspect, but no way I could live in any of them. Too impractical, all the surfaces are HARD. I don’t want to sit on a fucking wood bench, I want cushions, dammit. His kitchens are APPALLING.
I’m looking for a birthday present for a 5 year old.
I swear 50% of the recommended toys are rocket launchers or water guns. How to make their parents hate your guts. Forever.
I remember having a toy gun. Solid metal, no plastic crap. And holster. There were strips of paper with SOMETHING that went POP when the hammer came down on it. I killed my sister countless times.
And a cow girl costume w/real boots.
How times change.
The Santa Fe DA is dropping all charges against Alec Baldwin.
um……….
Yesterday the @US_FDA revoked the authorization for all previously licensed Covid vaccines and then cut the dosage by 75% for all new vaccinations using the EUA bivalent vaccine.
https://twitter.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1648773105114832897
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This is a strawberry that needs to ripen for a few days. Then it can be picked and served with a nice dollop of thick whipped cream. The real stuff, not that shit in a squirty areshole can.
Then we will see how fast the person repairs the hole in the fence.
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Fidget-Fidgets-Christmas-Sensory-Silicone/dp/B098WCYK9V/ref=sr_1_15?keywords=pop+it+game&qid=1682036336&sr=8-15
https://www.amazon.com/Fidget-Toy%EF%BC%8CPop-Chess-Stress-Relief/dp/B09GFJS4VZ/ref=sr_1_18?keywords=pop+it+game&qid=1682036336&sr=8-18
I recommend these. The five year olds I work with love them. Plus it supports their counting skills.
eaglesoars wrote:
You can still buy those online and at Cracker Barrel.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
There’s also a 4 player version.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Thanks, I found stuff. A bubble wand and an outdoor (play) camping set. Her mom asked me to give her things that can be used OUTSIDE. They have a townhouse in Old Towne Alexandria and 2 large dogs. Which means just about ZERO room for clutter.
This little girl was born just when we brought Mia home and she was 2.5 months early. She was in NICU for months. Her mom was our dog walker in Virginia and the beagles – ESPECIALLY Willow – absolutely adored her. I still can’t say her name w/o Willow running to the door whining. Willow would sense she was on her way a full 15 minutes before she arrived. It was eerie. Once I had Willow out for a walk and she did a 180 and dragged me across a 5 lane highway up to a townhouse development, over to a parking space. It was the dog walker’s car at a client’s house. Willow recognized the sound of the car and would NOT budge until this woman showed up. She was like a anvil.
@ Possum:
Also I have another one that is so funny I actually smiled. I don’t often smile.
I will send an anonymous email to your secret account as per security protocol
eaglesoars wrote:
Parking lots. Derelict residential. Arby’s.
eaglesoars wrote:
A Fox News clone sans the stupid.
eaglesoars wrote:
Completely agree on both.
Gehry stole a small project from me during the Obama recession. They didn’t need that $20K fee, but I sure did. Fukkem.
coldwarrior wrote:
He was an overrated a-hoe who wore a cape.
coldwarrior wrote:
Chicago stuff got a lot of attention in the late 70s / early 80s. Those guys had it made from the day they opened due to their connections.
coldwarrior wrote:
That was my uninformed guess. ALL cars got heavier since then, and there’s no requirement to retrofit old buildings that don’t meet current building codes unless there are known defects.
—
Tim Conway Jr. & crew are singing along to Tom Jones’ What’s New Pussycat.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This says it all. Fancy architecture is just that. No regard to durability.
https://fallingwater.org/worldheritagepreserved/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And there is the issue of repeated stress from loading and unloading the weight on the building every day for 100 years.
Bridges are kind of designed to withstand repeated changes in load. Buildings not so much, unless they are something like a parking garage in 2023
@ eaglesoars:
His ceilings were too low and he nailed furniture down so it couldn’t be moved from where HE said it should be.
eaglesoars wrote:
Caps.
Pop the little blisters, scrape the gunpowder together and blow up a caterpillar.
Possum wrote:
I’ll wait for your signal.
@ Possum:
Thinking of the Dehaveland Comet. The first jet passenger aircraft. Would have kicked Boeings 707 as it was the first in commercial service but…
Three went splody for unknown reasons,until they found the reason and told the rest of the aviation industry why.
Those were the good old days. Information shared with rivals for the good of aviation.
By the time they re designed the Comet and got back public trust the Boeing 707 was world dominant.
Why am I rambling? Repeated stress caused fatigue fractures around the square windows at the corners. Now all aircraft windows at the sides are round or oval.
Stress fractures from repeated stress were not fully understood at the time.
Possum wrote:
Your security protocol clearance is still in force and that is funny.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Just a random you tube video that may add to a potential article.
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lpxUM5Yr0s
@ Possum:
I need your assessment of the GH thingy in the linky.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LOL not guilty!!!!!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yep. I’m going to go all ‘girly’ on this and Wright.
Do. Not. Fuck. With. My. Kitchen. EVAH.
Falling Waters is not a maintainable habitat w/o significant $$$. It is not habitable. Not to mention that I’ve been thru enough floods to last me 3 effing lifetimes and I’m not living over a fucking creek, thank you very much.
This entire BULLSHIT idea that his architecture was somehow ‘integrated’ into nature – sorry, buy a fucking tent, you moron. Or a teepee. AN IGLOO! See how much you like nature then, Soy Boy.
As for Gehry or whatever the fuck his name is – ugly is not indicative of intellect. See Notre Dame. The Taj Mahal. Versailles. ANYTHING in Petra, Jordan.
/rant over
Oh, Saint Basil, Moscow
@ eaglesoars:
I kind of said that.
There are psychopaths in the STEM professions because they like doing stuff like this:
NIH study recruiting 18-year-olds to learn ‘unknown’ side effects of testicle removal for gender dysphoria
The NIH research said the side effects of surgically removing testicles from biological males has ‘not been extensively studied’
ya think?
I have no idea why apparently none of them volunteer any of their sons. I mean, look at what Marie Curie did in the name of science.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Hey CW. Sent you a little ‘light reading’
If you are reading it in bed at night ensure that you turn all of the lights ON throughout the house.
Actually just don’t read it at night!
🙂
Could you send a copy through to Eagles?
She will love it!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
A 60,000 year tale of horror , cannibalism, nasty cultural practices and tribal initiation ceremonies.
Definitely NOT Hollywood Crocodile Dundee type aborigine cultural practices. Just 60 aeons of horror.
Now I understand why my grandfather hunted Australian aborigines with rifles, from the back of a Model T Ford, along the Castlereigh River flood plain out the back of Dubbo.
Possum wrote:
Yeah that and because the wings and tails kept falling off!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Everything fell off when they exploded!
https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi112.htm
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Is there a reason you can’t send it to me? Computer issues?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
how many years is an aeon?
I got over the whole ‘noble savage’ bit a long time ago.
Napoleon Chagnon, who I had the misfortune of dealing with when I was free lancing at the Comp Sci center at Penn State. The Yanomami were just heathen even tho Chagnon lied about a lot of it. I saw his data, his grad students had me load it into the software, etc. He lied. Period. Full Stop. But he had the National Geographic impratur. $$$.
Sorry, some humans are more advanced in every department than others and this whole idea of ‘primitive = purity’ is bullshit. Gorillas get that pass, humans don’t. If they want to live in trees and/or hunt with monkey poison, fine with me. But I have no interest in stopping the world for them. They can stay there until they die out. May God have mercy on their souls. But I utterly refuse to treat them like pets or carnival attractions.
Possum wrote:
One of its ancestors was the de Havilland Moth. State of the art at the time.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Ditto for me, too. I like animal stories.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ahhhh Yeah. It’s STILL screwing up big time.
The only way I can access my e-Mails is through WebMail and your addy doesn’t show up. I can just respond and for some reason my baby brother’s addy and CW’s Addy seem to work.
If you e-Mail me I can reply however!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It involves cannibalising one’s own children, especially twins and that is just the mild stuff.
🙂
Just remember reading it with ALL the lights on!
🙂
Send me an e-Mail. Eagles and CW have my assy
eaglesoars wrote:
An Aeon is a mere 1,000 years.
Aussie aboriginals have been living on Oz for 60 of ’em!
🙂
i just watched RFK jr’s speech announcing his candidacy for potus.
look out! he’s pissed! and rightly so. this will be very very interesting to watch.
@ Aussie Infidel:
good lord.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m shocked that it actually labels it as it is Gender Dysphoria, not transexual. Transexual is a made up word salad that the left uses to assuage their minor traces of guilt as to what they are doing to people in the name of “progress”.
coldwarrior wrote:
Told ya!
I trust you read it with the lights on!
🙂
It makes the Aztecs look like tame little kittens!
I saw with my own eyes similar covert practices in New Guinea. The trick is don’t get born into that old stone age culture and if you are unlucky and are born then keep a low profile until you can defend yourself . The most serious no-no is don’t ever get born female. No wonder females in New Guinea had a 30% suicide rate (by poisoning themselves chewing ‘Derris vines’) or died by being worked to death by the time they reached their mid thirties.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yup
There are loads of DeHaverland Tigermoths in NZ as they were the first crop dressing aircraft. There are even the off Foxmoth and of course the DeHaverland Dragon Rapide… Bi-plane ‘airliner’
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
William D. Rubinstein’s finalized version (November 2020) appears here, with all the footnotes complete.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/10/life-and-death-in-pre-contact-aboriginal-australia/
Just started into it. The sun’s still up, so I’m safe for now.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Aussie Infidel:
Correction – that appears to be an excerpt.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The comments are interesting, though.
@ Aussie Infidel:
email sent
An observation…
Watching Person of Interest on Amazon and hey I do not mind commercials. It is streamed by Free Vee.
However 100% of ads are featuring Jungle Bunnies..
WTF?
@ eaglesoars:
A friend’s little girl was way preemie and was in NICU for a long time too. Just turned 3 in Feb and cute as she can be.
She’s the one we bought the fake gift box for ‘My First Fire’ for. She’s still looking for the accelerant.
right_wing2 wrote:
oh jeez………
Bud Light marketing VP, Alissa Heinerscheid, has been canned
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/04/22/bud-light-marketing-vp-alissa-heinerscheid-has-been-canned/
That took longer than it should have and she’s not the only one who needs to go. SOMEBODY approved that
IT’S NATIONAL BEAGLE DAY!!
eaglesoars wrote:
Hush pupppies and beagle dumplings tonight?
Bunkessa arrived yesterday for local bachlorette party festivities (that includes Disneyland) and she took the missus.
Got the house to myself today. I love it.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Actually chicken and fruit salad.
Congrats to the Bunkessa
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43657072/evs-fall-short-epa-estimates-sae-article/
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, I think we created a firebug.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171466250/world-war-ii-japanese-ship-allied-pow-found
Reuters manufacturing stories again.
https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1649445711979659265
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yup.
It’s the short exert from the large paper with all of the bibliographies and references that was the paper …. The Fate of the Nomad.
There were two individuals named the Mongo men from the South Australian desert. They had a totally different genetic type of the vast majority of the known aborigines. It appeared that the current stone age examples of Australian aborigines appeared around 40,000 years ago during a cold period when a LOT of water was tied up in ice sheets. This allowed the current genetic types of aborigines to walk across the Indonesian island chain and cross the 60Km deep stretch between the deep Timor water gap between the Asian mainland the Australian mainland. It would appeared that these new arrivals killed and ate the Mongo men who had lived in Oz between 60,000 years to 40,000 ago.
Academics from the university of South Australia had classified the genetics of Mongo men as separate and 20,000years earlier denizens of Austrtalia than the current Australian aborigines who have only been in Oz for a mere 40,000 years. The local aborigines objected to the genetic material of the Mongo men and the university of Adelaide were forced to hand over the remains of the two Mongo men to the local tribes, who buried the remains of Mongo men in a hidden place and demanded that the academics also destroy the genetic material. The 40,000 year old ‘Johnny Come Lately’ aborigines of today’s population also destroyed any mention of the earlier Mongo men from Tasmania. Today’s aborigines are on to a nice little ‘earner’ and can’t have anyone being reported as having been in Australia for 20,000 years before the current tribals arrived from Asia. That went against the narrative.
SPIT
🙂
SO, SHOPPING AT THE FRESH MARKET TONIGHT, we were among the very few to buy groceries, because their computer network was down and they couldn’t process credit or debit cards. They couldn’t even accept checks because those are run through an ACH payment system rather than deposited in the old way. We, however, were able to pay and get out, something only a couple of other customers could do. (One older guy, and a couple of teenaged girls who said “we rock it old schoool with cash,” which I thought was hilarious.) Most people didn’t carry enough cash for groceries.
Two lessons: (1) The “cashless society” is less robust than cash; and (2) Always carry enough cash to buy groceries, a meal out, and a tank of gas. Just in case.
Flashback: Amy Langfield on the handiness of a stack of small bills in the New York blackout, when nobody could process credit cards. Though with inflation today, “small bills” probably includes twenties, and possibly fifties.
https://instapundit.com/580650/
I think Glenn Reynolds, aka ‘Blogfather’, and I live fairly nearby as I scoped out the Farm Fresh stores as soon as we got here. It’s not a store I use on a regular basis as it’s a ‘gourmet’ place and I’m not spending $12 on a loaf of bread when I can make my own. But the product is very high end and always excellent. I use it for special stuff or when I just don’t feel like cooking and drop by for a quiche and a side salad. GREAT sushi. What surprises me is that he didn’t delve into the the Central Bank Digital Currency fiasco. All somebody needs to do is yank the plug and we’re all back to the barter system. If that.
For a short little snicker and snort…
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/the-silence-of-the-plants
@ doriangrey:
I think anyone who uses this site to advertise should pay the $1.25 per year for a blue checkmark thingy.
@ Possum:
A side note.
My comment is not amusing until the cache for this page goes stale in your various browsers.
Of if you are using a PC hold down CTRL and click on the refresh icon on your browser to load a non cached version.
Jokes are not funny if they need to be explained…….
I think we just found MORE screw-ups by these deck idiots. I’ll check tomorrow.
There are 5 posts holding the thing up. We KNOW that 1 post is about 3” short since it’s not on the lip of the walkout.
I THINK one of the others is both a little long (maybe an inch) and cut at a slight angle. I’m going to get out there tomorrow with a level and a long straight edge, maybe a 2×4, to check
Getting on and off the deck should be interesting. Not sure which is scarier- walking across the frame or getting on and off a ladder, especially since the debris from the old deck is in the yard. I’d probably kill myself jumping or falling.
HOLY CRAP! Somebody here – forget who – predicted this
Tucker Carlson and Fox News Agree to ‘Part Ways’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news-n2622330?utm_source=breakingemail&utm_medium=email
@ lobo91:
you beat me!
Don Lemon says he has been fired from CNN
https://www.nbcnews.com/media/don-lemon-says-fired-cnn-rcna78349
@ lobo91:
Annnnnnnddddd….
That’s the end of Foxnews
5% stock hit….
Possum wrote:
These joke advertising thingies definitely … DEFINITELY… don’t need explaining.
Please sit down, loosen your clothing and ensure that you don’t have liquid in your mouth, whilst watching this or whatever is in your mouth will spurt out your nose!
ENJOY mate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JMlYr1Ddf4
@ Aussie Infidel:
We have a jar….ummmm….wellllll….
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/fox-news-tucker-carlson-exit-stock-price-decline-foxa-network-2023-4
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Actually the town in this Marmite advertisement where the Marmite ‘blob’ happens to be Thames in New Zealand just 7 minutes drive down the coast from my beach house
🙂
It’s like living in a Western movie set!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Hiya CW
🙂
ANZAC day here this morning. Early and I mean ‘zero dark thirty’ start this morning. Just me and 35,000 close mates marching in the dark here in Auckland before the sun gets properly up!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Just because I know that you really like ‘women’s rugby …
🙂
HEH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW911hgEsfQ
@ Aussie Infidel:
The birth of N Z and Aussie land.
BTW, the last of the Aussie baramundi just got cooked. None to be found for the past 6 months. It’s all Vietnam bara…
Ain’t buyin
@ coldwarrior:
Actually this is the Marmite monster blob ad shot up the olde gold mining town of Thames just 7 minutes south of our beach house
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ARq1thBPn4
Oppps
There it is
eaglesoars wrote:
There you go Eagles.
I could see you as the ‘button girl!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81syPUwpY7s&list=RDCMUCxAAzNiyyWUaBSGoBGdWAFw&index=7
Love the march off to ‘Hearts of Oak’ by the Royal Marine Band.
🙂
Have a great ANZAC Day girl!
eaglesoars wrote:
Pay up suckas
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ Aussie Infidel:
How do the Maori fit into this? I’m guessing they’re just another tribe under the abbo umbrella.
Possum wrote:
lol city
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hey I did!
eaglesoars wrote:
A friend went out to lunch with his neighbor, a used car dealer, and when it was time to pay the check, the guy pulled out a huge wad of cash. My friend was stunned, asked him why he wasn’t scared of being robbed.
Car dealer said, “I want the robber to be happy.”
___
Same auto dealer retired a few years later and applied for Social Security. He was shocked to find out low his payments were going to be, only a couple hundred a month.
The used car business deals almost exclusively in cash transactions, and the dealer kinda sorta forgot to report, um, you know, a few dollars here and there. Almost nothing went into Social Security withholding so he got almost nothing back.
@ doriangrey:
“For every animal you don’t eat, I’m going to eat three.” –MADDOX 2001
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sponsor
Possum wrote:
I’m tempted to do the same but then I’d be guilty of plagiarism and button forgery.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
A guy in Nigeria sent me an email offering to do mine. He asked me for my bank details so he could take out the $1.25 and send it to CW.
He did a good job don’t you think?
Possum wrote:
Lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s funny stuff
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Bam!!!!
I’ll be putting up a new thread soon.
It’s pretty funny.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
No absolutely NOT. A totally different kettle of fish. Cannibals to be sure well into the late 1800s but born NEW STONE AGE warriors.
They originated in Taiwan of all places a long time (about 5,000 years at least) before there were asians living there. With the more ancient Melanesians and fellow Polynesians they spread throughout the Pacific navigating large double hulled sailing canoes throughout the islands. Finally ending up in the last place on Earth that had never been settled by mankind, in about the late 1200s or early 1300s.
They are natural fierce warriors and bloody fearless soldiers, and great Rugby football players.
About 60% of all New Zealand SAS troops are Maori and I have the honour of personally knowing the only living Maori Victoria Cross winner, Willie Apiata VC , a meek, quiet and quite wonderful man. This ANZAC Day Willlie was with 30,000 others standing in the dark this ANZAC Day awaiting day break in this cold clear morning. My RSA (Returned Services Association) has Willie as our patron. He also is a treasured patron of a Charter School called Vanguard School. Each School House is named after a Victoria Cross winner and all the boys and girls at Vanguard want to get into Apartia House. My RSA donates all of the uniforms and the cost of travel to all Vanguard students who come free of charge from all over Auckland to attend Vanguard. My RSA also subsidised the cost of 3 annual scholarship. The Walsh Flying Scholarship (gets a student up to the standard of soloing in 3 weeks tutored by Airforce pilots; the Spirit of NZ scholarship a 3 week challenge sailing across the Tasman sea in a square rigged sailing ship with a crew of young youth commanded by Navy officers ; and a 3 week Outward Bound scholarship to the top of the South Island, where youth find their boundaries.
These kids at Vanguard come from all backgrounds and from really dodgy backgrounds in a lot of cases. Vanguard allows them to discover their real potential and become the people that they can be. These kids become magnificent young men and women.
Willie Apiata VC always gives them their end of year awards for scholastic, sport and character excellence. These challenged and poorer kids truly become outstanding human beings no matter where they came from.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Well, that’s because I actually did it.
Rope course. Outward Bound Expedition/Everglades. Full disclosure: I was wearing a safety harness. The BEST part was when we got to finish up and slide down to the ground. WHEEEEEE! I was so pumped I begged to do it again. They threatened to sedate me.
I am utterly BURIED in paperwork. Two years in this place and I’ve been putting it off. No more. Finish it.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Great song …. even if you’ve used some Canadians mixed through it.
There were about 50,000 ANZACS (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps ) who landed at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles in Turkey. The Brits and Indians were there as well but not in the bastard hell hole that was ANZAC Cove. My Auckland Regiment climbed the heights mid afternoon and took out turn in the slaughterhouse, after the Wellington Regiment were slaughtered at lunchtime. Then the guys from Wellington West Coast Regiment took their turn and were put in to the line, but Lt. Col Malone ensured that the ‘ orders were mislaid ‘ until dusk , stormed the heights and took them with the bayonet and looked down on the narrows one the other side of the ridge. They held the heights for a day but the Brit generals couldn’t believe that anyone could have made it to the top. So Malone and the final 30 unwounded men were finally pushed off the heights leaving the rest of the 600 dead ‘coasters’ where they fell.
If the generals had reinforced those’coasters’ after they had taken the high ground, and with the Narrows under the British guns, would have allowed the Royal Navy passage to Istanbul and forced Turkey out of WWI. The Russians would have stayed in the war , the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would have been crushed and Germany fighting on both the Western Front in France and also the Eastern front would have surrendered and WWI would have been over by 1917 and WWII may never have happened.
The ANZACS went on to fight in Palestine against the Turks and Germans including the famous last actual cavalry charge to take Beersheba, by 20,000 the ANZAC Light Horsemen Including two units that I have belonged to the Australian 4th. / 19th. Australian Light Horse and the Kiwi’s 6th. Hauraki Regiment Mounted Rifles. After that the ANZACs went to France and fought on the Western Front, at the Somme, Passchendale and many other battles. The 5 Aussie Divisions on the left of the line finally broke the German lines and broke out into ‘all arms’ modern mobile warfare and rolled the German right ending the war.US General Pershing even allowed his newly arrived ( better late then never)yanks who were untested and green to be commanded by Australian Corps commanders. Pershing didn’t like it because the US Congress demanded initially that US troops should fight under their own commanders. But needs must and if the US were going to fight under some other command then it should be the Aussies who had a LOT of experience after 5 years of practice.
In 5 years of war the Aussies lost 100,000 dead and a quarter million wounded. The Kiwis lost 18,200 dead and 60,000 wounded out of only 104,000 men who went to war out of a total population of just 1 million men, women and children.
@ eaglesoars:
Why am I not bloody surprised.
You go girl!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Things I think of when I hear “Maori”
If a Maori warrior throws his weapon at your feet, you MUST pick it up and hand it back to him.
You can’t break up with a Maori woman unless she allows it, and then she breaks up with you first.
@ coldwarrior:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Possum:
@ eaglesoars:
You guys might be interested in this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbS4Ivl85GQ
The VC
The Victoria Cross. The hardest award for Valor to win and getting harder to win as warfare changes
During my life I hav e run across FOUR VC winners.
My beach house sits in Ngarimu Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula. It’s named after a young Maori officer Moana Ngarimu who won a VC in the Western Desert and then unbelievably won a VC a second time, tempting fate, which was awarded posthumously.
The other three VC winners I know personally. Well I shot a guy named Sgt Maj Dasher Wheatley in the face with a blank, in my abject terror as I slid on my arse towards him as he loomed out of the dark over me, at point blank range, one dark and stormy night in the middle of a swamp in Oz . Wheatley was a Hard Man and was acting as an umpire for a bunch of really pissed off Aussie Infantr, who we’d been stirring up for the past 3 nights in the middle of a swamp. Dasher kijnda forgot about his task as an umpire, and ‘GOT INVOLVED’. Everyone was terrified of him as he was one hard man and didn’t take shit from mere junior officers like moi! 🙂
‘Dasher’ went on to win his VC posthumously in Vietnam in 1965 at Tra Bing . He hand another Aussie mate were instructing the ARVN and stumbled upon a NVA Regiment. The ARVN decided that they were not interested and bugged out leaving two Aussie Sergeant majors Kev ‘Dasher’ Wheatley and Brian Meadows who had been wounded facing a NVA Regiment all alone. Dasher dragged his mate back to the ARVN Battalion position and crawled into a weapon pit armed with a load of rifle grenades and a machine gun. Brian was really hurt and couldn’t really move so ‘Dasher’ took on the 800 NVA with Brian feeding him ammunition, until Brian bled out and died. Sergeant Major Wheatley then held off 800 NVA for 20 minutes alone firing a M60 machine gun and fired 30-40 ‘over and under’ rifle grenades at the NVA Regiment troops killing 40-50 and wounding over 100 others whilst the ARVN made their escape. Eventually the NVA over ran Wheatley’s slit trench by flanking it . Wheatley refused to surrender and was wounded multiple times and was eventually overwhelmed and shot still standing over Brian Meadow’s body. For that action he was awarded a VC.
The other two VCs I met was Charlie Upham who was probably the only VC winner who had survived winning a SECOND VC just like Moana Ngarimu like him before…. but Upham survived. Upham was a Maori farmer from 28th Maori Battalion . He was a cold customer and was truly fearless. I didn’t like him at all,and I felt that he laboured under the weight of his TWO VCs.
The Other VC winner is Willie Apiata who won his VC in the Second Middle East War as a corporal in the NZ He’s deeply involved in the affairs of NZ and is both the patron of my Auckland RSA, as well as the patron of many organisations including Vanguard Academy which is very close to my heart. Willie carries the weight of his VC lightly.
The Other VC winner is Willie Apiata who won his VC in the Second Middle East War as a corporal in the NZSAS
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That is ‘returning a challenge’ peacefully. By bending over in front of him in a vulnerable position and picking up his challenge and handing it back means that you honour him and don’t want to fight him.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ coldwarrior:
i was a pretty damned good rugby player, but i dont want to be anywhere near that pitch
me and mrs colwarrior back moana pacifika in the south and bath rugby in the north.
both teams stink, but we watch and root!
we have all the kit, maybe one day one of the teams will win
no rush, new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/04/24/3-8-male-or-female-open/
glad yinz had a good showing for anzac day, aussie!
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ coldwarrior:
we back moana because we had a bunch of samoan scrummies on my team in berlin. gentle giants, until….game on, and then jeeze, the ferocity!
glad they were on my side. a bunch of scottish or brit army ruggers were nothing compared to these guys!
@ coldwarrior:
we back bath rugby because its out favorite place in england. we cant wait to get back ther to see another game at the ‘Rec’
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup.
In Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles my company was Delta and we were Sepik warriors. True Melanesians. i had 40 looking after me in my platoon with another 200 volunteers waiting to get into any slot that came open.
Trained them from scratch and loved those guys. They figured that got issued with one officer and were going to take good care of me. They trusted me to always look after them and that is just what I did. I learned from the best as a recruit myself. We’d crawl across broken glass for Lt. Ron Schultz. He taught me well how to lead and I just templated Schultz as a leader, and applied that to my Sepik warriors. They wanted to tattoo my face and punch a hole in my nose into which they wanted to poke a bird of Paradise feather. I drew the line there however 🙂
I all really looked after them and they trusted me in return.
When that sort of stuff really works you can feel it in your bones.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks mate.
Great return to ANZAC Day after 3 years of total Covid 19 bullshit!
A bit on Tucker Carlson
https://www.facebook.com/larry.correia/posts/pfbid029UUXAm4DDMiGBVxeYgi4MiKTWKHgtrUg32niBjfAyrEzZbh5vVj9zcXoifRm6hvFl
He didn’t need Fox. The last I saw his contract there was something like cheap, which is chump change to a guy with a reliable audience in the millions every night.
Tucker Carlson is now going to go sign a Joe Rogan size contract on a streaming service. He will make the most money of any news broadcaster in history and probdbly do so by an insane margin.
Meanwhile Don Lemon is a relative non entity. He won’t bring much of an audience with him wherever he goes.
One of these two will get a pay cut. The other is going to make orders of magnitude more money, and has the investment potential to boost any media corporation he signs with into a very competitive sphere.
And I don’t even watch Fox News at all, nor do I care about Tucker Carlson. But if you are too blinded by goofy partisan point scoring to grasp the business implications of this, it’s a bad look, but it ain’t my problem.
yowser. Just saw a post on Nextdoor from a local real estate guy who follows/explains housing trends locally and nationally. Quote:
We just witnessed something that’s never happened before. The median list price of homes in Knoxville exceeded the national average for the first time in history. Knoxville housing market news (data through MARCH 2023).
@ eaglesoars:
He has corrected his post to national MEDIAN
@ eaglesoars:
Happy birthday!