Color me…

Cynical…

If Holder’s announcement came on a Thursday, what are they going to try to slip by on Friday???

Or is this because of the Vaughn file having to be released this month???

Or???

And the apologists are already out in force on the morning news, praising Holder and how ‘good’ a friend he’s been to the GOP, the public, etc…

And I’m sure BO has already signed his blanket pardon, I’m betting THAT was part of the negotiation…

Gag me with a spoon… Sigh…

Can’t wait for 4:30 this afternoon!

Humor in lieu…

I was going to go off on the screwed up ‘bombing’ campaign, but it’s not worth it… If you REALLY want to stop ISIS, why are you bombing empty buildings in the middle of the night???  Just asking…

Why Teachers DRINK

The following questions were set in last year’s GED examination

These are genuine answers (from 16 year olds)

  1. Name the four seasons
  2. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar
  1. How is dew formed
  2. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire
  1. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on
  2. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed
  1. In a democratic society, how important are elections
  2. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election
  1. What are steroids
  2. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs

(Shoot yourself now, there is little hope)

  1. What happens to your body as you age
  2. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental
  1. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty
  2. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery (So true)
  1. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
  2. Premature death
  1. What is artificial insemination
  2. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow
  1. How can you delay milk turning sour
  2. Keep it in the cow

(Simple, but brilliant)

  1. How are the main 20 parts of the body categorized (e.g. The abdomen)
  2. The body is consisted into 3 parts – the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity.  The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A,E,I,O,U
  1. What is the fibula?
  2. A small lie
  1. What does ‘varicose’ mean?
  2. Nearby
  1. What is the most common form of birth control
  2. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium

(That would work)

  1. Give the meaning of the term ‘Caesarean section’
  2. The caesarean section is a district in Rome
  1. What is a seizure?
  2. A Roman Emperor.

(Julius Seizure, I came, I saw, I had a fit)

  1. What is a terminal illness
  2. When you are sick at the airport.

(Irrefutable)

  1. What does the word ‘benign’ mean?
  2. Benign is what you will be after you be eight

(brilliant)

  1. What is a turbine?
  2. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head. Once a Arab boy reaches puberty, he removes his diaper and wraps it around his head.

(now we’re getting somewhere)

Just think… In 10 years or less these kids are going to be in the workforce…

TBT…

Yeesh…

I really DO need to clean out some cabinets…

You youngsters may not recognize this…

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That is a real floppy disk…

And the up close version you can see it’s a start up disk for DOS ver 3.30 from 1987…IMG_1809And I actually do have the book somewhere around here too…

And DOS commands STILL work on Windoze, regardless of what MS says…

Don’t believe me???

Here’s the command prompt where I typed defrag (a DOS 3.3 command)  and guess what…

defrag cmd line

YMMV, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night (Yea!), and I’m not a lawyer, nor I do I play one on TV…

 

Posted in TBT

Prostate Cancer…

With the author’s permission, I’m cross-posting this…

Go read Randy’s ‘experience’ HERE.

He’s the one in six… Thankfully he’s willing to share his experiences and tell the story as it goes along.  I’m also linking him on my sidebar.

Kilted to Kick Cancer…

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Okay, we’re three weeks in, and so far we’ve raised $7,569 thanks to your generous donations.  We’d like to get another $2,500 or $3,000 in this last week to push the total over $10,000.

I know the times are hard, and I know there aren’t many ‘positive’ signs in the fight against either prostate or testicular cancer, but it STILL affects one in six men.  That may be me, or you, or your dad or brother or son…

If you can spare even as little as $5, that would help.

To donate:

  • Click an amount, or add in a custom amount, then check the box next to “This donation is made as part of a Fundraising Team“.
  • You’ll see “Fundraising Team:” and a drop-down box. Pull up “Team OldNFO“.

I’m in the middle of the pack, but as I’ve said, you REALLY don’t want to see me in a kilt… If I had one to start with… (And I’m sure that picture and negative were destroyed LONG ago)…

Seriously, THANK YOU (yes I’m yelling) to all that have donated, and hopefully progress will be made.  This will be my last bleg on this for this year.

Another failure of leadership…

DHS is losing people right and left due to abysmal morale and a dysfunctional work environment (plus lousy pay)…

This has been a dirty little secret for years, but it’s finally getting out to the point that it ‘had’ to be addressed…

Full article HERE in the WAPO.

Of course they blame it on Bush… sigh…

But a good friend and former Naval Aviator who was there (until last month) has told me some horror stories about cronyism, paying the (insert type card here), revolving door political appointees and other major issues.

He actually turned down SES and has bolted to the civilian sector, and in the process doubled his pay.  And this isn’t ‘just’ happening in the cyber arena… Also happening in the CBP side of the house too.

Sigh… Don’t you feel safer now???

Pardon me while I go load a few more mags for backup…

As a matter of fact…

I ‘do’ have some patches…

In answer to an email question, here are two theater made patches from VP-4 that are on my flight jacket…

This is the ‘skinny’ Skinny Dragon logo.

VP4 patch

And our Crew 1A (Alpha status, meaning we were qualified for any P-3 mission) patch.VP4 Crew 1

And your Recce question of the day is… Inbound

What is it?

The P-3 is in what was probably the third pass of a full rig when this picture was taken…

Gotcha…

It’s not often that somebody puts one over on me, but I gotta admit y’all got me on this one…

Jay G, SciFi, and some other folks ‘conspired’ against me here…

And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this…

SciFi was the ‘main’ guilty party, as he actually put all this together, and even went so far as to get the correct paint scheme for the time I was there.

P3 in glass

He also built the case for it, and made the correct decals himself! (And learned a lot more than he wanted to about P-3s and variants and specific BUNOs… 🙂YD10 nose

Yankee Delta 10, from 1975! It has the Alfa crew status on it, and the correct angle and outlining that was used!YD10 tail

And the right ‘tail’ too!  This was the last year of the ‘old’ Skinny Dragon insignia on the tail.YD10 top

Thank you all for this.  It means a lot…  It will go in a place of honor.

WWII Poster…

And we come back around to the Army.

This one is a bit different, but interesting… Done in 1941.

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From the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula website.

Beall did these ‘composite’ water colors quite often, and this one is interesting in that it also includes a Sailor in the poster, but it’s an Army recruiting poster…  Another reason for choosing this, is once again the WWI helmet, and again it looks like an O3 has an early ‘Gas Trap’ M-1 with an M1905 on the end of it.

Cecil Calvert Beall’s works were regularly featured in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s, illustrations done mostly in watercolor. In 1936 Beall painted a portrait of President Roosevelt for the cover of Collier’s, after which he was appointed art director for the National Democratic Committee. During World War II, he continued to produce a popular series of Collier’s cover illustrations depicting decorated WWII war heroes in addition to contributing war-related reportage. At the end of the war, Beall was one of the few aboard the U.S.S. Missouri to record the Japanese surrender ceremony.

Jack Childs did the poem in the lower left corner, as follows:

Keep ’em flying. Keep ’em flying – airplanes, flags, machines, production – nothing lags. Put your shoulder to the wheel; courage staunch with nerves of steel … Here’s a slogan for us all – an answer to our country’s call … so – “Keep ’em fighting”

A year ago…

Well, on the 20th (oops) 16th actually…  PPP offically became PP again…

Jace days old

Now a year later?

Chillin’ on the deck with the pups…

Jace 1 chillin on the deck

 

Happy Birthday Jace, and I’m truly sorry for the world you’re gonna get…