GImme a minute…

Gimme a minute, I’m trying to get the seat cushion outta my ass…

Sigh… Let me count the ways I hate LA… Traffic, traffic TRAFFIC!!! 1.5 inches of rain, 4 lanes wide, STILL doing 65mph bumper to bumper, wrecks everywhere and these idjits are honking and cussing each other; and this is at 0630 BEFORE rush hour starts! “Best” wreck seen, Mercedes AMG55 rear ended one of the big 7 series Bimmers- Two blondes out in the middle of the lane, yelling at each other as their hair styles melted and their $1000 dresses got soaking wet. I just kept on driving…

The Grapevine is snowed in, CHP is kicking people off, radio is saying don’t even go that way… Any bets there will be 5-6 hour traffic delays???

Finally get off on the surface streets, one section is about 3-4 inches deep, I’m poking along through it; here comes a little lowered fart mobile, he hits the water at probably 50mph and goes for a hydroplane ride, until he gets stopped by a palm tree… sigh…

We do our conference call, find out there are four of us in the same building, all calling in from different offices… yep, this day is gonna be a REAL winner…

So, we decide to go to lunch, I end up driving, and damned if I don’t get pulled over for a turn signal being out! At least I didn’t get a ticket, but now I’ve got to hassle with that sometime today!

Oh joy- just checked the weather, calling for an inch or more rain later today! LA’s gonna be swimming!

Edit- This was actually from yesterday, this morning was not much better… sigh…

And on the Lightbringer’s rule, we have this…

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968), and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President, was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech: “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”

Heard probably the best description of the porkulus bill a while ago- Congressional ReAllocation Program- CRAP! Yep, works for me, cause they are sure as hell reallocating my money from MY pocket into theirs in the form of more taxes!!!

A dumb question here- IF this CRAP is so important, why has the Lightbringer waited until Tuesday to sign it? Why is the trip to Denver being called a “campaign” appearance?

It looks like our total debt is over $78 Trillion dollars when you add the national debt, Social Security, and Medicare/Medicaid costs together. That exceeds the economy of the ENTIRE world…

We will be working for the rest of our lives to try to pay this off. Retire? I think not…

Oopsie…

Big ocean, small (well relatively speaking) submarines…

The HMS Vanguard was towed back to a submarine base in Scotland with visible dents and scrapes, the BBC reported. The Le Triomphant suffered damaged to a sonar dome in the front of the submarine but returned under its own power to its base on L’Ile Longue on France’s western tip, according to the French military.

Neither France nor Britain would confirm the exact date of the collision, but said it took place earlier this month. France issued a brief statement Feb. 6 saying the Le Triomphant had struck “a submerged object” that was probably a shipping container.
Yep, submerged object alright… Sigh… SOMEBODY was WAY out of their box. Suffice to say, this should never have happened, but as usual, I’m betting the French were off the reservation because they are notorious for this kind of crap…

And of course all the media is in full O.M.G. mode… they have Nuclear MISSLES aboard, why it could have been a world wide DISASTER. HOW could this possibly have happened…

Without going into detail, their entire goal is to be invisible from the time they submerge until the return to port. They don’t use their SONAR at all, the move slow, etc. to minimize their noise signature, and move randomly in (well, supposedly in) their assigned boxes.

Except the USSR has lost four Nuc subs on the bottom over the years and we have lost two (USS Thresher and USS Scorpion). Link is here.

More Chi-town politics…
Horror of horrors, a Chicago politician lied! Burris is now questioning what the definition of is is after being caught up in the Blago scandal, after saying he was squeaky clean…

Comments

GImme a minute… — 12 Comments

  1. Let’s see…

    I went to town this morning. Got to the end of the driveway, there was nothing coming. Drove 12 miles in about 11.5 minutes- never met the first car.

    Took a left at the first traffic light (there’s only 8 in all of town) without using my blinker at all- nobody was around to know any different. Got to the 2nd red light of my journey, making a left and the car in the oncoming lane waved for me to turn in front of him. I smiled back and boogied on. I got the 3rd parking space from the front door of the grocery store…
    Return trip home was about as eventful.
    Don’t you wish you were me?

    😛

    Hang in there NFO and don’t breathe the air out there too much. 😉

  2. Pictures man, I need pictures of the melting blondes!

    Dude, you do some neat things.

    That Submarine story is hilarious. I am glad no one was seriously hurt except the egos of a couple of captains.

    Sounds like nothing in Chicago is as it seems.

  3. You want traffic, come to Atlanta between the hours of 3:30 and 5:00 on a Friday. I live 15 miles from work,takes me two hours to get home. I could almost walk it faster.

    As to UK and France, why do they need nuclear capable subs.Who are they threaten by, the Falklands — poodles. We should take them away,seeing it will be us who will come to the rescue anyways.

    And, we’re shocked a liberal from Chicago lied. I’d be more shocked if one didn’t.

  4. Snigs- Aw shaddup… 🙂

    ADM- I wish I had a camera, that would have been a good one… I spend a LOT of time on the road, and do weird stuff for a living… There is MUCH more to that sub story- question is how much will actually hit the US media.

    CS- I’ve done Atlanta- Trying to get up to Alpharetta during that time… Re the Subs, they are part of an MDP with us against the Soviets, who STILL have SSBNs on patrol…

  5. Great link, thanks. I hadn’t realized the Russkies had lost so many.

    Scalawag is right. When I lived in ATL, I used to have a girlfriend who lived about 20 miles away. I would usually go see her on Friday afternoons, and stay until Monday morning. Sometimes it would take up to 3 hours to go that 20 miles, with the slow part really only being about a 7 mile stretch…

  6. JR- Actually they’ve lost 5 we know about, they did recover Kursk last year. And yeah traffic sucks wherever you are, UNLESS you live in the country like Snigs…

  7. Rain, you don’t know rain until your neighbors start putting “No Wake” signs in their yards.

    Me, I’m more worried about all those old reactors the Russians have “mothballed” in Arkanglesk or sunk in the BArents.

  8. PE- agreed, although they DID pull the Grumman Albatross out of the hangar and test fly it just in case… And yeah, those are real concerns, the Russians have a whole different perspective on nuclear safety than we do…

  9. And yeah traffic sucks wherever you are, UNLESS you live in the country like Snigs…

    Well we do have to slow down for deer, wild hogs and possums every now and again. 😉

    I guess it’s all in what you get used to, but honestly, I don’t see how y’all stand it.

  10. Heheh, I just happened to think of something. Scalawag- I got my first “driving lesson” off I-20 at 138. Daddy said if I could learn to drive there, I’d make it alright. I also remember him nearly crapping his pants wanting me to go faster before we got run over. It was seriously only a couple of hours after I’d gotten my learner’s license. The man was trusting, gutsy or really dumb. 😀 Just figured you being an Atlantan, you’d get a kick out of that.