Well, I AM ex-Navy… 🙂
Hopefully y’all are spending the holidays with family, and if not, at least with friends…
If you aren’t, get a group together and do an ‘orphan’s Thanksgiving’. We used to do this in the Navy all the time when folks were ‘stuck’, and we’d all get together at somebody’s house, and everybody brought food. It usually turned into an all day party, with ‘strays’ usually ending up on couches or the floor later… 🙂
1746 miles… My right ankle now has a 73MPH ‘crick’ in it…
But things are moving, albeit slowly. Boxes unpacked, filled up two trash cans already.
WHY in the hell did I pack empty boxes??? I have no &^$#% clue!
At least the ammo is here, sticking six feet out in the garage, but at least it’s here!
Thanks to friends, the truck was unloaded and returned already. Of course the ‘reason’ they helped was to coon finger all the guns that came off the truck… Sigh…
But thank you FRIENDS! I mean that! Saved me trying to find or pay for folks to unload it.
Three weeks from now I get to do it all over again… Double sigh…
One funny incident, coming through a small town in East Texas, I see the local police flip on the lights, and do a u-turn. He comes up behind the truck, checks it out, then moved around and SLOWLY cruised past me.
Then he pulls in front of me and slows down…
Okay fine, you want a look at the other side of the truck. So I pull out and pass him. Meanwhile, I’m frantically thinking of which LEOs I know in the area, just in case…
At the city limits, he turns around. Whew…
Next town, SAME DAMN THING! Really guys???
But nobody stopped me. If they had, you probably wouldn’t be seeing this post, I’d be calling for bail money! 🙂
If you’re on the roads this week, PLEASE be careful! Lots of folks travelling. Another funny incident last night at the restaurant, multi-generational group of women, probably all the same family come in and are seated two tables over from me.
Great-grandma is dithering over the menu, daughter finally says, “Well, you like broccoli, get that.” Granny says, “No, it makes me fart now.”
Great granddaughter, probably 3-4ish pipes up rather loudly, “Grammy gonna fart? Grammy stink?”
Of course everybody within 6 tables hears this, and we’re all trying not to laugh. Great-grandma says, “If I don’t eat broccoli, I won’t.”
Great granddaughter pipes up again, “Good, cause I got to sleep with you!”
This is one way to ‘distract’ the patrons…
Kudos to those folks for their imaginative use of projectors and graphics!
Still on the road, go read the folks on the sidebar! They’re good!!!
Willie played my song again, but at least ‘this’ time, I’m calling the tune…
Moving some stuff from point a to point b.
Go read the folks on the sidebar, and enjoy the day. I should be back on-line tomorrow, or Tuesday.
You’ve probably heard about the guns being stolen out of an armory in Worcester, MA last weekend…
Someone stole more than a dozen guns from a facility in Worcester without setting off alarms.
Full article HERE.
I was chatting with a Marine Reserve who has been in charge of an weapons locker in a reserve center. He told me point blank, “It HAD to be an inside job.” When he listed all the safeguards, checks, cipher locks, etc. AND cameras, he said there is no way in hell it could be anything else…
The real question is when/where these guns will show up next…
In other news, this one showed up via the mil email chain… Good advice here!
Ten ways to avoid being killed in a terrorist attack- HERE.
I would add one more, if there is a question in your mind about going somewhere/attending something, just don’t go…
Obama accused America of being afraid of women and children from Syria…
As usual, he’s wrong. It’s NOT the women and children that are the issue…
It’s these refugees… 18-30 males, no dependents
The FBI director said last week that they cannot vet those refugees. But the administration doesn’t care. Nor apparently does the Virginia governor, Hillary, or the mayor of NYC…
And one is already missing from the ‘camp’ in Louisiana. And Catholic Charities admits they don’t actually track any refugees they ‘place’… Article HERE.
Bottom line, talking to some folks in law enforcement, nobody knows where the refugees go, they ‘disappear’ into the underground fabric of the USA, and do what they want. 40+ thousand illegal immigrant ‘children’ are missing and never showed for immigration hearings.
Two questions- How many Syrian Christians, or Yazidi have been allowed in?
How much time or money has the administration spent to help feed American widows or orphans, homeless people, or veterans? THEY are all Americans!
Edit- Oops, I was wrong, Dems only run EIGHT of ten cities with the highest poverty rate…
Sigh…
TL;DR if you desire- I’m tired of the BS PCism and kowtowing to all the little snowflakes…
An interesting conversation at lunch kicked off this rant…
We were discussing the current ‘things’ that seem to have the MSM’s attention-
Starbucks cup- Anti- Christmas? Probably more a $$ decision… How much did they save by NOT spraying white on the cups? What Christians are actually outraged? None of us were…
Missouri protests- Beyond the pale. Plain and simple kowtowing to a bunch of spoiled children. Questions are being raised as to whether ANY of the so-called ‘outrages’ actually occurred. Oh, and one more point. Self-selective forced segregation… As if we haven’t seen that coming for the last 10 years. AND they complained that the Paris terrorist attacks took over the news, leaving them with no coverage… Really??? YGTBSM!
Yale protests- Yeah, special that one… Screeching harpy Mk-1/Mod 0. OVER A FRIKKIN HALLOWEEN MEMO!!!
I was the only one there without a kid in college, but the consensus was if one of the others kids pulled that stunt, or participated the $$ stops immediately… Of course of the six at lunch, four are in STEM degree tracks and one is pre-med. One is a rising senior doing a co-op for a semester and making $35,000 (not bad for a 20-year-old female).
SJW (bullies) vs. everybody and everything- Pick something, anything… Somebody is outraged… e.g. the puppy kicking continues in various media, among other things. And then there’s THIS, supposedly written by a professor at UT-Austin??? Illogic, overtones of racism, etc… And this guy is a PROFESSOR???
Kids talking back to adults- One of the folks at lunch is a former starting defensive lineman at a biggish university. His youngest son’s bike was swiped by a bunch of teen girls and boys. He confronted them, and they gave him enough lip that he called the cops and told them to hurry before he pounded them all in the ground. Of the three parents he knew and called, NONE of them did anything to the kids, but wanted to know why HE was harassing their children!
Open season on cops- This is another one that is beyond the pale… Do you really want to alienate the ONE group of people who just might save your ass? Or get your property back if stolen? I don’t blame the cops at all for being lockwired to the half-cock position, and rolling multiple units on every stop (which increases response times everywhere).
Special Forces in Syria/Afghanistan- Dribs and drabs of troops, little to no tail, and basically throwing these men and women to the dogs. Kidnap targets, assassination targets, Green on Blue targets… Beyond stupid… Put a thousand in with a good loggie tail and I’ll be impressed.
Keystone- Even as we hear about the problems with infrastructure, train car derailment and leaking rail cars, the administration does this… Pandering to the ecoweenies… And probably handing a huge amount of oil to the Chinese…
Paris and the attacks last Friday… I’m going to send you to Larry Correia’s blog HERE, I’ll just say I agree completely with him…
What do all these have in common? Perpetually Outraged Snowflakes, hereafter referred to as POS…
The ‘rule’ says democracies usually last about 200 years, we’ve beat that by 39 years. But I don’t hold much hope going forward. If these POS are indicative of what is to come, I pity this country when they get in charge…
The POS have NO clue about the real world. They don’t know how to earn money, they’ve never ‘failed’ (Hello ‘participation trophies’), don’t know how to deal with things that actually don’t agree with their leftist taught proclivities, anti-gun, etc…
And the little POS expect to be paid $100,000 a year for a non-sensical degree in basketweaving…
They figure if they throw enough temper tantrums, everybody will cave to them. Guess what, it doesn’t work that way in the real world…
I for one, am sick and tired of the BS going on. I’m not putting up with it. Pull your crap on me, you won’t get anything but laughed at. I have better things to do that kowtow to these POS. You want a confrontation? I’ll give you one. You won’t like it, trust me. I’m old and grumpy. I don’t play fair. I don’t ‘talk’… I act.
Oh yeah, and one courtesy of PPP… On the $15/hr thing…
Kicking the soapbox back in the corner and loading spare mags… Sigh…
You know you’re from California if:
If you drive illegally, they take your driver’s license. If you’re here illegally, they want to give you one.
