Back… I think…

Posted on by September 23, 2013

I don’t care WHAT the calendar says, it’s STILL Monday…

STILL Monday

 

No energy to do squat today…

I heard about this one on the airplane yesterday, and dug up one link, but it appears the facebook page they had up has disappeared… Facebook strikes again???

One week after nearly a million patriotic bikers converged on Washington, D.C. for the 12th anniversary of 9/11, a large group of truckers has announced its plans to halt commerce across the nation for next month. The strike is planned as a response to D.C. “corruption that is destroying America,” according to the movement’s Facebook page.

Organizers say that truckers taking part in the strike will not haul freight for three days, beginning Oct. 11. A social media campaign launched earlier this week has already garnered tens of thousands of supporters.
Article HERE.
Anybody else hear about this, or did I get snaked (again)???

Discussions with self…

Posted on by September 23, 2013

One can only watch so many movies, thankfully they had a good selection of oldies but goodies…

Are we there yet?there yet1

No, shaddap and go to sleep…

Are we there YET?there yet2

No, not there yet… More coffee…

ARE WE THERE YET???there yet3

 

Yes, we’re there… finally…

I gotta pee…

Just a reminder…

Posted on by September 21, 2013

Us old farts remember, this is for the young ones out there…

Just wanted to refresh your memory regarding the quality of the current WH administration.  We veterans have a special place in our hearts for “Hanoi Jane”.  A sobering reminder:
HJ and JK
Gee, who is that guy standing next to Hanoi Jane at an anti-war rally back in the 70’s???
 
Why it’s none other than our new “Secretary of State”. Now isn’t that SPECIAL???

Random travel…

Posted on by September 22, 2013

The ‘morning’ challenge…

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Trying to figure out the buttons, knobs and what turns on what was a 10 minute evolution, but at least I didn’t fry myself…

And all I wanted for breakfast was an omelet, not a fikkin masterpiece…  I swear the chef took TEN minutes to make my little omelet and it did come out perfectly shaped and perfectly done, but then I had to wait another five minutes for him to brown the two pieces of english bacon into something I was actually willing to eat.  Which meant everything else was cold…

Sigh… I know better…

Heading to the airport shortly for the final leg home! Yea!!!

Hmmm…

Posted on by September 22, 2013

Apparently speaking truth to power is no longer allowed in MD when it comes to schools either…

Baltimore Sun is reporting the dad was charged with One charge, 2nd degree assault of a police officer, max. sentence of 10 years. The other (“disturbing a school operation”) carries a max. sentence of 6 months. So combined is a max. of 10 1/2 years… for questioning a school offiicial and refusing to be silenced.  Doesn’t 2nd degree assault requires the person to have caused physical injury to someone else?

A parent in Towson, Md., was arrested Thursday night at a public forum after vocally expressing his concerns about the Baltimore County School District’s plan to use Common Core standards in its curriculum.

Robert Small, a concerned father, was forcefully removed from the meeting by a police officer after he interrupted Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance during the question-and-answer portion of the forum.

Full article and video HERE.

I guess since he can’t be defined by Sen Feinsteins description of a journalist, he no longer has 1st amendment rights.  And I don’t see anything that realistically constitutes 2nd degree assault either!

What Happens in Vegas???

Posted on by September 20, 2013

Maybe doesn’t stay there anymore…

This is also apparently happening overseas, and not just to military but also to business folks.

Recently and with increasing regularity across the military and overseas civilians,
nefarious entities are targeting people through social networking sites; wherein, an online relationship will be established and nurtured to the point where the victim will share sexually explicit images and or video with an attractive person.  Consequently, once those images/video are received by the nefarious entity, a threat of contacting
friends/family/employer will be made unless a payment is received.

With at least one case, the video and/or hyperlink was posted to youtube and possibly a company site.  Past reporting indicated some persons have made payment, only to be extorted for more.

This has many ramifications, personal and professional, as well as criminal.  Unfortunately, there is most likely no judicial solution to this.

Additionally, scrub your social networking sites in order to identify potential nefarious
persons. 

If you don’t know them, you probably shouldn’t ‘friend’ them…

And if it seems too good to be true, it probably is…  Just sayin…

Damn them all…

Posted on by September 18, 2013

This crap just pisses me off… ‘We’ can’t go to the White House for a tour, even though it IS ‘our’ house, but…

Regular American citizens visiting the nation’s capital lost access to the White House in March as President Obama eliminated public tours to make a point in his battle with House Republicans in the sequestration debate over cutting spending or raising taxes. 

But hundreds of K Street lobbyists, including corporate advocates who are paid to influence policy on behalf of Fortune 500 giants, saw no change in their access to the chief executive and his senior aides, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of White House visitor logs and lobbying records.

The analysis found that 200 lobbyists met 344 times with White House officials at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. between March and May.

Read the whole article HERE.

And the latest ‘rumor’ is that DOD may lose many more than the 7000 estimated in FY-14 under sequestration, now numbers like 35,000 are being bandied around…

So screw the troops and the people that support them by cutting the administrative and logistics tail. And don’t buy spare parts (like radios), but keep funding over budget/non-realistic programs (F-35/LCS among others)… But let’s cut people and MAKE IT HURT…

OPEN MIC NIGHT AFTER THE APOCALYPSE!!!

Posted on by September 20, 2013

Passing the word for Frank-

From Frank James–

Great News! Our son’s film has been accepted by Hulu and is available for viewing FOR FREE to Hulu subscribers, so if you are signed up for HuluPlus all you have to do is type in OPEN MIC NIGHT AFTER THE APOCALYPSE and it will come up on your screen.
Please pass this info around as he needs as many ‘hits’ as physically possible. Do me a favor and pass the word around the web. It would be doing me a tremendous kindness if you would.

Thanks again…

All The Best,
Frank W. James

Y’all go view it, I think you’ll find it interesting, and it’s going to help his son out!

True Colors???

Posted on by September 19, 2013

Dems appear to be showing their true colors/affiliations… To me this is just unconscionable… 

During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused to listen to the testimony of Patricia Smith and Charles Woods. Ms. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, an information management officer killed in the 9/11 Benghazi attack. Charles Woods is the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was also killed.

Gotten from HERE.

If it were me, I’d drag Hillary’s fat ass back and put her under oath, along with every one of the CIA folks.  Those families AND we the people deserve to know the truth.

Unconfirmed list of those that walked out.  If any of them are yours, I’d be calling and asking some questions… Have they no respect???
Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Danny Davis (IL-7)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.)
Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11)
Jim Cooper (TN-5)
John Tierney (MA-6)
Mark Pocan (WI-2)
Matt Cartwright (PA-17)
Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-1)
Peter Welch (VT)
Stephen Lynch (MA-9)
Steven Horsford (NV-4)
Tammy Duckworth (IL-8)
Tony Cardenas (CA-29)
William Lacy Clay (MO-1)

h/t Brighid