A little humor…

To start the week…

Why we miss Rodney Dangerfield. He said…

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me to time an egg.

It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass!

Last night my wife met me at the front door. She was wearing a sexy negligee. The only trouble was, she was coming home.

A girl phoned me and said, ‘Come on  over. There’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home!

A hooker once told me she had a headache.

I went to a massage parlor.. It was self-service. ..

If it weren’t for pickpockets, I’d have no sex life at all.

I was  making love to this girl and she started crying I said, ‘Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?’ She said, ‘No, I hate myself now.’

I knew a girl so ugly… they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.

I’m so ugly I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

The other day I came home and a guy was jogging, naked. I asked him, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because you came home early.’

My wife’s such a bad cook, the dog begs for Alka-Seltzer.

I know I’m not sexy. When I put my underwear on I can hear the Fruit-of-the- Loom guys giggling.

My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the  meal.

My wife likes to talk to me during sex; last night she called me from a hotel.

My family was so poor that if I hadn’t been born a boy, I wouldn’t have had anything to play with.

It’s been a rough day. I got up this morning … put a shirt on and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I’m afraid to go to the bathroom.

I was such an ugly kid! …When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio.

I was such an ugly baby that my mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

I’m so ugly my father carried around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, “I’m sorry. We did everything we could, but he pulled through anyway.”

I’m so ugly my mother had morning sickness…AFTER I was born.

I remember the time that I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more  proof.

Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, “Do you think we’ll ever find them?” He said, “I don’t know kid. There’s so many places they can hide.”

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.

I’m so ugly, I once worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I’d get.

I went to see my doctor. “Doctor, every morning when I get up and I look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What’s wrong with me?” He said…”Nothing, your eyesight is perfect.”

I went to the doctor because I’d swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, “How can I get my kite in the air?” He told me to run off a cliff.

Some dog I got. We call him Egypt because in every room he leaves a pyramid. His favorite bone is in my arm. Last night he went on the paper four times – three of those times I was reading it.

One year they wanted to make me a poster boy – for birth control.

My uncle’s dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair.

DoD’s Twelve Days of Christmas…

The President sighed an EO authorizing the Department of Defense to assist Santa with the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Status of acquisitions follows:
Day 1- Partridge in a Pear Tree: The Army and Air Force are in the process of deciding whose area of responsibility Day 1 falls under. Since the partridge is a bird, the Air Force believes it should have the lead. The Army, however, feels trees are part of the land component command’s area of responsibility. After three months of discussion and repeated OpsDeps tank sessions, a $1M study has been commissioned to decide who should lead this joint program.
Day 2 – Two Turtle Doves: Since doves are birds, the Air Force claims responsibility. However, turtles are amphibious, so the Navy-Marine Corps team feels it should take the lead. Initial studies have shown that turtles and doves may have interoperability problems. Terms of refererence are being coordinated for a four-year, $10M DARPA study.
Day 3 – Three French Hens: At State Department instigation, the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs has blocked off-shore purchase of hens, from the French or anyone else. A $6M program is being developed to find an acceptable domestic alternative.
Day 4 – Four Calling Birds: Source selection has been completed, with the contract awarded to AT&T. However, the award is being challenged by a small disadvantaged business.
Day 5 – Five Golden Rings: No available rings meet MILSPEC for gold plating. A three-year, $5M accelerated development program has been initiated.
Day 6 – Six Geese a-Laying: The six geese have been acquired. However, the shells of their eggs seem to be very fragile. It might have been a mistake to build the production facility on a nuclear waste dump at former Air Force base that was closed under BRAC.
Day 7 – Seven Swans a-Swimming: Fourteen swans have been killed trying to get through the Navy SEAL training program. The program has been put on hold while the training procedures are reviewed to determine why the washout rate is so high.
Day 8 – Eight Maids a-Milking: The entire class of maids a milking training program at Aberdeen is involved in a sexual harassment suit against the Army. The program has been put on hold pending resolution of the lawsuit.
Day 9 – Nine Ladies Dancing: Recruitment of the ladies dancing has been halted by a lawsuit from the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Association.” Members claim they have a right to dance and wear women’s clothing as long as they’re off duty.
Day 10 – Ten Lords a-Leaping: The ten lords have been abducted by terrorists. Congress has approved $2M in funding to conduct a rescue operation. Army Special Forces and a USMC MEU(SOC) are conducting a “NEO-off” competition for the right to rescue.
Day 11 – Eleven Pipers Piping: The pipe contractor delivered the pipes on time. However, he thought DoD wanted smoking pipes. DoD lost the claim due to defective specifications. A $22M dollar retrofit program is in process to bring the pipes into spec.
Day 12 – Twelve Drummers Drumming: Due to cutbacks only six billets are available for drumming drummers. DoD is in the process of coordinating an RFP to obtain the six additional drummers by outsourcing; however, funds will not be available until FY 26. As a result of the above-mentioned programmatic delays, and due to a high OPTEMPO that requires diversion of modernization funds to support current readiness, Christmas is hereby postponed until further notice.

Tis the season…

And a throw away comment got us chatting about the ‘old days’…

And Christmas stockings. That was one thing we all agreed on was that we ‘got’ a Christmas stocking. Some were personalized, filled with a variety of things, and CANDY!

Some of us got these…

Now if you are OLD, they always had fruit and nuts, with maybe a peppermint stick or two. If you wonder why, it was because things like oranges, apples, and even pears weren’t always available in the stores in the late 50s early 60s.

One of the guys said he actually found some for sale, but all they had was candy and some funky toys, and they were EXPENSIVE!

Another was bemoaning the fact that his wife insisted on getting the fancy embroidered ones for all the grandkids, and he was going broke between the cost of the stocking and trying to find ‘stuff’ to fill them with, since Granny was picky on what she gave the kids…LOL

What do you remember as a child?

OBTW, ‘I’ never got an embroidered one, but I do remember maybe 5th grade we made our own out of felt and used glue and glitter to put our names on them…

Sigh…

I know I’ve been preaching to the ‘choir’ about this already…

The U.S. Navy has wasted $1.84 billion since 2015 on rehabilitating its Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers, funds the service would rather have spent on newer technology, according to a government watchdog report.

The Government Accountability Office released its “Navy Ship Modernization” report Monday, noting that the Navy’s cruiser rehab program has had “weak oversight” and been “plagued with problems like scheduled delays, wasted costs and poor-quality work.”

Full article, HERE, from Navy Times (which is NOT friendly to the Navy, by the way).

The ‘short’ answers are Congress and Congress. The push/pull on budgeting and ‘games’ with who/where the upgrades were to be done have yanked ships and crews all over the place, in addition to some of the units going ‘cold iron’ for over a year.

Additionally, there are ‘periodic’ upgrades to systems that occur on an every other year basis, both to software and hardware onboard the ships. Sooooo, the ‘contract’ might say something like ACB 7, when the fact is there are two more iterations of that build, and one or two or three iterations of hardware also.

Which means the contractor has to go back and get a contract mod, get new funding, retrain workers, etc.

To ‘my’ knowledge, we do not have a single class of ships that all have the same systems and hardware aboard! That is how screwed up this mess is, in addition to the lengths of time (scheduled 2 years, taking 4 years) in the yards.

That pushes the next ships further out, lather, rinse, repeat…

But the Fleet is supposed to meet ALL of its commitments worldwide, plus exercises, plus training commitments, etc. because those are ‘mandated’ by on high.

Grrr…

Really???

This…is so ‘out there’ it’s laughable…

Massachusetts being Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren (D-Cherokee Nation) is still in the Senate, and while she maintained a relatively low profile during the presidential campaign, she is now sending up new smoke signals. After years of turning a blind eye to the massive corruption of the Biden crime family, to say nothing of the Clintons and other leftists, Warren has suddenly discovered that public servants shouldn’t enrich themselves at the public trough, and she’s demanding action. The only problem is, as you may already have suspected, she is demanding it of all the wrong people.

The intrepid former Native American has decided to use insinuations of a conflict of interest as a rhetorical weapon against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. When, however, Warren sent out her shot across the Trump camp’s bow, she didn’t get the defensiveness, apologies, and resignations that leftists have come to expect from supine uniparty Republicans. Quite the contrary, in fact. 

Warren asserted in a snippy letter to the Trump transition team that “putting Mr. Musk in a position to influence billions of dollars of government contracts and regulatory enforcement without a stringent conflict of interest agreement in place is an invitation for corruption on a scale not seen in our lifetimes.” 

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Especially with this coming from Warren of all people.

One has to have been blind to what the Dems and Pubs have been doing for…years… Go to Congress poor, retire rich…

Gah…

Kicking the soapbox back in the corner because I was about to descend into four letter words. Now where did I put the BP meds???

Another one gone…

Sadly, one of the last few survivors of Pearl Harbor has passed away…

https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1867348183233228969

With his death, I ‘believe’ there are around fifteen actual survivors left.

Fair Winds and Following Seas to Robert Fernandez, one of the Greatest Generation!

A little humor…

To start the week!

  1. There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and asshole’s.

    2. The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in college was my blood alcohol content.

    3. I live in my own little world but it’s OK, everyone knows me here.

    4. I saw a rather large woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said, “Thyroid problem?”

    5. I don’t do drugs ’cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.

    6. A sign In a Chinese Pet Store: “Buy one dog, get one flea.”

    7. Money can’t buy happiness but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

    8. I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.

    9. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the “terminal”?

    10. I don’t approve of political jokes. I’ve seen too many of them get elected and re-elected.

    11. The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.

    12. If life deals you lemons, make lemonade. If life deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Mary’s.

    13. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

    14. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for a buck at bowling alleys.

    15. I am a nobody; nobody is perfect, and therefore I am perfect.

    16. Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

    17. That Claudia Schiffer must be a genius because I told a friend my plan  to attain world peace, and he told me I have “Schiffer Brains.”

    18. No one ever says, “It’s only a game!” when their team is winning.

    19. Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling well?

    20. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on.

    21. Isn’t having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

    22. Marriage changes passion… suddenly you’re in bed with a relative.

    23. Why is it that most nudists are people you don’t want to see naked?

    24. Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

    25. Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom ‘s wise words:

     “Don’t pick that up; you don’t know where it’s been!”

If you would…

I don’t normally ask things like this, but a good friend’s son who is barely in his 20s has cancer.

His third Chemotherapy is this coming week.

If you would take a minute and say a prayer for him, I know he’d appreciate it.

Thank you.

 

Snort…

USPS at its ‘finest’???

“The Postal Service Electric Truck: A Comedy in Two Acts” is not the name of an off-broadway musical. But if someone writes it, I want royalties.

The story is a familiar one when discussing the efficacy (or lack thereof) of EVs. Joe Biden, bless his departing soul, thought that the United States Postal Service should set an example for Americans by using electric trucks to move the mail around. He and the Democrats stuffed $3 billion into the farcically misnamed Inflation Reduction Act as a down payment to force the postal service to purchase 60,000 electric postal trucks at an eventual cost of $10 billion.

What happened next was worthy of Buster Keaton or the Keystone Kops. 

Defense contractor Oshkosh got the contract and not only proceeded to screw it up but also kept the bad news from the Postal Service brass for more than a year.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Soooo, 3 billion has got 93 trucks delivered… That’s a ‘tad’ expensive…

Like new fighter expensive…

And they are building ONE a day, not the 80 they were supposed to be doing. Seems to oh, a ‘bit’ of a problem here, or is it just me?

We know EVs are a failure in rural areas, extreme cold, etc. but USPS is supposed to use these things in ALL climates and locations.

Something tells me our mail is going to be even slower being delivered than it is now…