Missed a day

Sucks to be me.

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Someone asked me about what he should do to build himself a good

Pennsylvania deer rifle.

He went on and on about the various calibers and barrels, scopes and stocks and who to got to put this masterpiece together. He carried on for quite some time before he asked me what I use when I go deer hunting.

His jaw dropped when I told him I use a Model 94 Winchester I picked up in a pawn shop.

Then he started stammering and stuttering about this and that and how I was doing it all wrong because he just KNEW he had to have an expensive custom made rifle to bag a poor deer with.

I shrugged that the old war horse worked for me and I never had any problems with it because the overwhelming majority of deer kills in PA are well under 100 yards and most of them are well under 50 yards.

His brain unfogged a bit when I told him that a custom gun is nice to own but is entirely unnecessary and on top of that I don't care if the old Winchester gets scratched up a bit. It is going to get scratched up in the woods.

Then I asked him how upset he'd be if his new spendy custom got banged up a bit. He looked sort of upset at the thought.

When he asked me about accuracy I told him that a minute of venison is all you need and the deer isn't going to know if he got hit with a 30-30, a.308 or a 6.5 Creedmoor.

I do believe I opened his eyes a bit because he asked me where the pawn shop was.


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I just read that in Virginia the score is now 87 out of 95 counties that

have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries.

Yet the powers that be in Richmond have decided not to back down and plan on enacting unconstitutional gun control laws. Interesting.

There is a protest march scheduled in Richmond for 20 January and from what I have heard the Virginia State Police already estimate that it will be attended by 30,000 people. It is very possible that these figures are low.

For a perspective there are only 7500 people in the Virginia National guard and an inordinate number of them come from the sanctuary counties. It is certain that many of these have no intention of supporting the muckety-mucks running Richmond. An awful lot of these people own guns that are on the proposed ban list.

A number of these will probably call in sick or whatever and it is entirely possible there will be a mutiny. At the very least there will be a lot of foot dragging.

Many plan on attending armed and in full battle kit which should make things interesting. It looks to me like it is more of a show of force than a quiet protest.

Yet the elected officials are probably pretty naive and will likely enact the legislation and we shall see what we shall see.

I have said that a tarring and feathering of a few of these elected officials should make a statement that will get the rest of them to change their minds. I'm not too sure about that anymore.

People in power tend to be insulated and many seem to think they are immune to whatever comes down the pike. Others it has been reported have out and out been bought. They're going to have to drum up an awful lot of cash to pay it back and they are likely scared of what happens if they don't do the bidding for the benefactor.

We may very well be near the time where the people have to revert back to a little Old School persuasion if they want to keep their liberties. I'm sure a lot of people think it's time to dig the pitchfork out of the barn and find a torch of some sort and pay these people a little visit in their homes. Can't say as I blame them.








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Yeah. That was me with the long gun glassing the AO.

It's funny how the sarcasm goes on the net. There's a lot of BS that flies and God only knows how much of it gets taken as gospel.

I was about two thousand miles from an innocent business transaction. One of the guys was selling a radio he outgrew and another guy on the same board bought it. It was a more than fair deal. 

They were discussing the deal on the board because the seller went well out of his way to teach the buyer how the damned thing works.

I jumped in and told them I was in high cover with the long gun glassing the area to make sure nobody tried to rob them during the transaction.

Most people that read this will know it's Bravo Sierra but there's always one guy that will get all wide-eyed and take it as gospel.

When you read something at least TRY and ask your self if it makes sense. Why would I take it upon myself to do something and how was I possibly to know where the transaction was going to take place?  



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Know that wonderful Virginia neighborhood you managed to bust your ass to afford a nice home in?

You went in hock up to your ears to afford a decent place to live there so you could raise your kids in a halfway decent neighborhood. Surprise!

Virginia House Del. Ibraheem Samirah introduced a bill that would override local zoning officials to permit multi-family housing in every neighborhood, changing the character of quiet suburbs.

Good bye American dream.

Enter Section 8 etc, etc.

What REALLY sucks is you are still expected to pay for what is certain to turn into a drug ridden crime infested neighborhood.

Sucks to be you if the Democrats get their way.

Of course you can bet your ass that it won't apply to the people that ram this through. 

These are the same people that are trying to outlaw firearms in Virginia and put the people in the position where they will be unable to tell Richmond to cease and desist.



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I just read where the US is no longer sending bomb sniffing dogs

to either Egypt or Jordan because the animals are being abused.

I have no problem with this at all. None whatsoever.

I don't give a damn how their religion or whatever regards dogs. A trained animal is a true jewel and should be treated well. If you are not going to respect what we send you to try and help you out then we should stop sending them over there.

Find your own bombs.

Good luck.


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Maybe there is something wrong with me but

video games do not interest me in the least.

Not even a little bit.


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Merry

Christmas.


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Very

busy


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Here.

Read the directions.


https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript





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Busy

Busy today


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I did it again

I was sitting in an aisle seat on an airplane that was close to the bathroom. A little girl and her mother were standing next to my seat waiting their turn. 

I looked at the little girl and said, "I used to have a pretty little girl just like you." She smiled.

The mother said to me, "Then she grew up, right?"

With a straight face I answered her, "No, Ma'am. I lost her in a poker game. My wife was so mad about it that she wouldn't speak to me for almost two whole months!"



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It is OK to bring your lunch on an airline.

Lately I have been doing a considerable amount of flying which is no longer any fun but it is what it is.

The airlines have little cold meals you can buy but it sure as hell isn't what it used to be. 

Recently I stuffed a sub sandwich in my bag and TSA saw it, looked at it and let it pass. About halfway across this great land of ours I broke it out and washed it down with an airline supplied soft drink. Nobody looked twice and I get a halfway decent meal with no bullshit or fanfare.

Pro tip: If you can have the sub made with a pretzel roll. It seems not to get anywhere near as soggy as a basic sub roll when you carry it along with you. 

Where possible I am going to make a habit of bringing my own lunch on long flights. 



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Gun control advocation by an elected official is an admission

that they are incapable of leading an armed populace.

An Army platoon sergeant runs a platoon. Generally he's not a college grad but a handful are. He takes the basic responsibility for the lives of about 40 guys. He leads about 40 ARMED men and sometimes in combat.

Some of them are pretty tough cookies. In addition to be responsible for feeding, clothing, sheltering and arming them they are also responsible for disciplining them. Some of these men in his platoon can be pretty rambunctious. They don't like being put on extra duty, losing a stripe or a part of their pay.

There really is nothing keeping one of the good sergeants charges from shooting him in the back in combat and actually getting away with it. Yet is very rarely happens.

Why? It's called leadership. when push comes to shove his people know that he's the guy that will bring them home safely back to their loved ones.

A number of our elected officials seem to want us disarmed.

Sounds to me like an admission that they can't lead. That or they want things from us they couldn't get otherwise if we were armed.

I don't know about them but if I were in a leadership position I would want the people I lead to be armed to the teeth. It would make the group I was leading all that more powerful.



Read 'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli sometime.





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Someone showed me a letter that Elizabeth Warren sent to then president Obama

asking him to issue a pardon for Ethel Rosenberg who was executed with her husband, Julius for selling military secrets to the Russians including nuclear bomb secrets.

Leave it to Elizabeth Warren to ask for Ethel's pardon and throw Julius under the bus. Typical liberal sexist bullshit. I expect no less of her. 



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You can lose your rights.

It's not hard to do.

Someone told me you don't hit a woman. He's wrong. You don't hit a LADY. As soon as she starts something she loses her rights as a lady. 

I saw a women knocked out one time and when it happened every woman present cheered. The victim was a man hating bitch that thought that kneeing a guy in the groin was OK. She tried it to a fisherman and missed his testicles. The fisherman responded in kind. She was promptly knocked cold and the women of the establishment dragged her outside and tossed her into a dumpster where she came to in a pile of beer cans.

By her conduct she lost her rights to be treated like a lady. It's a two way street. If you act like a lady you will be treated like a lady. If you don't act like one you won't be treated like one.

Same hold true for people of any age.

Melania and Barron Trump have chosen to stay out of the political fray. The deserve to be left out. The Obama kids stayed out of the limelight and were allowed to do so. Fair enough.

On the other hand both David Hogg and Greta Thunberg have decided to enter the fray and therefore open themselves up to public criticism. When they entered the fray they lost their rights to be protected from criticism.

I recently criticized Greta and a couple of people gave me the "She's a child" rap. She's a child that chose to enter the public limelight and therefore lost her right to be protected as one.

Someone pointed out that she's a special needs child and therefore is protected. Nope.

Someone else pointed out that her parents should go to jail for child abuse for parading around a special needs child. I do believe they are right but I digress.

The minute she stood up and picked up the microphone and went public she lost her rights. Sorry. You can have one or the other but you can't have both. That's the way it works.

Incidentally you can expect her to fall off the map once her handlers have no more use for her.

David Hogg is another one. He picked up the microphone and spouted off.

A relative said Hogg was a nice boy the media was helping out.

Bullshit! He was and likely still is a tool. His handlers seem to have no use for him anymore because you don't hear much from him these days.




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Time for another sloppy breakfast.

Fry onions and peppers, add some cut up stew pork and fry the whole mess up until it's done. Then toss in a couple of eggs to stick it all together. Scramble until done.




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Update on yesterday's post

It is now 75 counties, 10 cities and 9 towns in Virginia that have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries.

That's about 79%. 

There are 95 counties in Virginia. 

It should be noted that the last seven signed on AFTER the governor had threatened to deny sanctuary counties state money AND had threatened them with using the National Guard to enforce things.

Look for more to join in the next week or so.

It is getting pretty interesting.

Incidentally if you look at the demographics of the National Guard you will see that a mutiny is very possible. I'd estimate that over 90% of National Guardsmen own at least one firearm.

While not too likely, it is very possible the National Guardsmen could be given the order, "About face! Fix bayonets!" It would be worth a week's pay to see the look on the Governor's face if that happened! 

A similar subject came up while I was on active duty. During a riot duty class I was overheard when I commented that "They better have a damned good reason to order me to fire on American citizens. If they don't have one I will fire on the officer or NCO that gave the order."

It was my battery commander that overheard me. He replied, "As you damned well should. We all took an oath to defend the American people, not to kill them."

Update. Here's a post from a Guardsman:

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So far it is 61 out of 95 counties in Virginia are now

Second Amendment sanctuaries.

Interesting.

They have told Richmond to shove it. At least one sheriff has stated he will deputize the entire county or organize the militia if need be.

Interesting.

I have already listened to and read the outraged comments by angry liberals and it makes me laugh out loud.

The very people that say the sheriffs and county governments can't declare themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries are living in cities that are sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.

Pick one. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. 



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Hmmm...I just read where

it is a felony in Virginia for anyone over the age of sixteen to wear a mask.

It probably goes back to the Ku Klux Klan days.

Still, it explains why the Lone Ranger never opened any supermarkets in Virginia.

Now we know.



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Most of us are unconvicted felons.

or at least any of us with any spunk.




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Funny what grease and a couple of lag will do to a garage door opener.

The garage door opener started acting up. It would close part way and reopen. There was a sang of some sort and when it hit the snag the brain in it would act like someone was caught in it so it would stop for a second and then go back up.

I ran it a couple of times and located the snag. It was because the braces were loose and the thing shook a bit when it hit the snag and sort of jammed it momentarily, long enough to get the brain in the thing to react.

I noticed the braces were shaking and looked at them carefully. They appeared to have been installed as an afterthought and were simply held in place by nails that seemed to have worked themselves out.

I also felt the insides of the runners and they were dry. I promptly filled them with grease and that improved things. Still, the rails shook as did the braces.

Out came the old nails and I simply put in a couple of lag bolts. This eliminated about 96.87% of the shaking and the old door runs like a Swiss watch again.

For a minute I was beginning to think I would have to replace the whole shooting match but simple maintenance did the trick. 






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I have a friend who married a Chinese woman

and he has been in and out of China over the years.

He made what I consider to be a very interesting comment about life in China.

He said that on a day to day basis the Chinese have far less government intervention than we do in their daily lives.

Interesting comment.




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I just read where some town in Wisconsin has outlawed

throwing snowballs.

Snowballs!

Every kid in that town ought to head to the next city council meeting and snowball the daylights out of the entire city council.

I'm 68 f***ing years old and STILL like a good old fashioned snowball fight!

What is to become of us?





It's Pearl Harbor day.


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You couldn't hit a guy with a Model 94 at 30 yards?

There is an old rerun of JAG on the TV for background noise. 

While I was going to pee I glanced at it and some guy took a couple of shots at Harm and Mac with one. He missed.

He ought to be ashamed of himself. He missed two people at thirty yards with a Model 94.

John Wayne never missed and Indian with one!

Yeah, it's Hollywood. But, still!


Incidentally it is the one Old School rifle I consider the best one out there to make a quick aimed fairly close range shot with but that is just me.



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Anyone that is ineligible to get a carry permit

in a Shall Issue state does not belong in a classroom full of school kids.

They don't have to own a gun or even have a permit to carry one. They just should be eligible to get a permit.

Think about this. If you are ineligible in a shall issue state there is something wrong with you.


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I held back which is rare.

I am on one of those neighborhood dot com type of sites and occasionally check it out if something interesting comes up in my email box.

The other day some mom type asked, "They are clearing a lot next to such and such a place. What are they going to build there?"

What a target of opportunity! I could see that turning into a three ring circus! All it would have taken me is a couple of seconds and a single click!

"Hopefully a much needed strip club and adult book store." Click.

But I didn't because the account is in my real name which I should have thought of when I opened it.

It would have been a troll's dream. I can just picture the soccer moms going off like skyrockets. 

"What? We don't need a place like that in our town!" a soccer mom would write.

Piccolo replies, "Why? It would save me a couple trips downtown each week and  severely reduce my chances of getting a DUI on the way home."

"I don't want my husband hanging out there!" Says another do good soccer mom.

Piccolo: "Why? It's your golden opportunity if you don't trust him. Slip Bubbles a fast hundred bucks for him to get caught with her off duty. Nail him cold. A good divorce attorney could take him to the cleaners and you'd be sitting pretty and have him out of your hair working three jobs to have you watching TV all day."

"Those women are prostitutes!" screams another indignant woman.

Piccolo: "You know, that's not a bad deal. Your son's gotta get it somewhere and that's a lot better of a deal than having him knock up his girlfriend."

Another indignant one. The local preacher takes the bait. "Those women are being exploited!"

Piccolo. "Nonsense. They are being paid and actually make excellent money. If they got a halfway decent rack and a reasonably good ass they can put their way through college and graduate debt free. You'd be surprised at how many college educations have been funded by exotic dancers. It also encourages them to stay in shape so the tips keep rolling in."

Enter a woman that took one look at the post and knows a troll when she sees one. In reality nature has not been good to her but she doesn't worry about it.  She grew up with seven brothers and shares their sense of humor. She just HAS to enter the fray.

"I've been looking for a boob job, a tummy tuck and a butt life but it's so expensive. Maybe this would be a way to pay for it. What kind of money do dancers make?" she asks, adding to the outrage.

"They sell drugs in places like that! I don't want my son involved with drugs." Another angry mother chimes in.

Piccolo: "So get him a fake ID so after he gets coked up he can go inside and have a few beers to wash the dope out of his system."

Finally the threat comes. "I am reporting this to the CITY POLICE!" 

Piccolo: "Why? What good will that do? I have broken no laws. The police are already on to this. They open this thread several times a day because they are laughing their asses off at all the people that are too stupid to know they are being trolled. If the original poster wanted to know what was going up in the lot that's being cleared she should have called the township. They'll tell you it's going to be a building to store snow removal equipment."

I think I'm going to have to open a troll account there. It sounds to me like a lot of fun. There is nothing more gullible that a soccer mom.




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Paroled to the army with the stipulation he was sent overseas.

Or so they said on an old rerun of 'Dragnet'.

Some guy on the rerun I saw was paroled to the Army with the stipulation he got sent overseas. He was pulling time for robbery.

The ORIGINAL 'Dragnet' with Harry Smith as Joe's partner. NOT the remake that came out in '67 with Harry Morgan playing Officer Bill Gannon.

I guess the army was at that time a dumping ground and for decades took in juvenile delinquents and others that needed a second chance.

The urban legend of this type of thing happening lasts to this day. Recruiters still have parents thinking the services will take a youngster in and straighten him out. They have not done this since the early 60s.

While even back in my day that sort of thing had come pretty much to a halt, I do believe it has a certain amount of merit. 

On the other hand, the NCOs have had a lot of their authority taken away from them to make it work in this day and age.

I have very mixed feelings about this.




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F*** the Fire Department.

Actually I like the Fire department and for that matter have a lot of respect for the Police department.

I just figured the cops get too much crap dumped on them so I figured I'd just dump on the Firemen today and give the cops a much needed break.

After all I'm just trying to be a good communist and spread the misery equally.


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One of the things I think the internet has done

in a positive way is to keep the mainstream media at least a little more honest although I don't think that it does a whole lot of good with CNN, but that is just me. 

I just heard that President Trump sneaked off to Afghanistan to pull KP duty and serve the Troops Thanksgiving dinner which is a lot more than former president Obama did.

The media saw a motorcade of sorts headed to the golf course and carried on about how it looked like Trump was going golfing and duly reported it. However when they figured out it was a ruse most likely for security purposes and that Trump was headed to Afghanistan to serve turkey to the troops it was crickets.

At least until the word broke on the web and finally MSNBC had to admit it and aired a brief segment about it.

Without the web to pressure the media I doubt we would have heard a word about the President that from what I have gathered really cares about the troops and is pretty damned frugal with their lives, unlike a lot of others.

I've harped on this for quite some time.

When the kid down the street gets blown away it's a shame and you drop off the family a casserole on your way to the mall. You still go to the mall, though.

When it's YOUR kid that gets wasted it becomes a family tragedy that no parent ever recovers from.









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Here. Here's a pistol for you. It's loaded. Take it somewhere quiet and do the right thing.

I actually did that to someone once. I handed them a pistol, told them it was loaded and to take it somewhere quiet and do the right thing.

Actually the pistol was unloaded because if they did decide to do the right thing it would have made quite a mess and I didn't want some poor bastard to have to clean it up. 

Besides there is always some idiot that will say something like "It's not a real gun." as they point it at you and pull the trigger.

The world is what it is and there are a number of people out there that have made their careers being a pain in the asses of every else and we would simply be better off without them.




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Ah, yes. A sham shielder strikes again.

Leave it to a Sp/4 to be the guy to designate the smoking areas.

One fine member of the Sp/4 Mafia decided to appoint himself as the smoking area designatior It was a rather simple thing for him to do, really. He just got a small 'designated smoking area' sign and carried it with him.

Any time he wanted to light up he would simply post the sign and have a cigarette. When he was finished he would put the sign away and take it with him.

Needless to say, people would see him smoking, notice the sign and light up. There would be a group of smokers standing around long after the Sp/4 had quietly taken the sign and left.

One day the battalion commander saw the Sp/4 smoking, noticed the sign and sat down to enjoy a cigar. When the Sp/4 had finished his smoke he left. Of course he was carrying the sign which he had discreetly stuffed under his shirt.

A few minutes later the Regimental CO happened on by and saw one of his BnCOs puffing away and promptly gave him holy hell leaving the hapless officer stammering and stuttering that there had been a sign there a minute ago.




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It's Turkey Day and I am in a fleabag somewhere

waiting to go to the airport.

I could have flown out yesterday but the day before Thanksgiving is the always a total zoo. I hate traveling then and it is a lot wiser to simply put the travel off for a day and miss the holiday. 

Sometimes it is so slow you can play cribbage with a bored attendant. 

I admit that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday but I have to have in on my terms. I don't want to come rolling in three minutes before dinner, eat and leave. 

I like at least getting there the day before and waking up to a cup of coffee with a splash of cognac in in and helping out with the dinner all the while clad in a Thanksgiving outfit consisting of sweats and a T-shirt. There's more to it than a turkey dinner. 

It's a time of home, hearth and family and all that good stuff.

Yet this morning I am in a fleabag somewhere using that dopey little coffee maker to make a cup of Joe at 0300 because I can't sleep.


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Hey, smart ass. The next time you say "OK, Boomer" to me

I am going to withhold your participation trophies AND leave you a car with a manual transmission with the directions on how to drive it written in cursive.


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I miss the smell of an Old School waterfront gin mill.

Cigarette smoke, stale beer with just a tinge of urine in a dark, dingy atmosphere.

Now waterfront bars are bright, cheery smoke and odor free places and they suck.

They don't make 'em like they used to.



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I just read where plumbers call the day after Thanksgiving

Brown Friday because of all of the calls they get on that day.

I never thought about it but I can certainly see why.


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I have little time on my hands until after Thanksgiving.

Sorry about that, Chief.


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I think the real reason the Democrats want to see us disarmed is

because they don't think they are capable of governing an armed population.

In spite of the fact that every single private in a platoon is armed, most lieutenants could lead their people. It's too bad the Democrats running for political office can't do what an ordinary fresh out of school lieutenant can.

It's sad.


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Someone asked me when I found out Santa wasn't real.

I answered, "I dunno. Maybe 32, 33 or somethin' like that."

They turned their head and looked at me wide-eyed for a second and then scowled. It isn't the first time I have done something like this to him and likely won't be the last. 

How the hell am I supposed to know? It was about 60 years ago.





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I ran into someone about 30 that STILL thinks that if Trump is

impeached and removed from off ice then Hillary gets sworn in.

I swear they don't educate people in our schools anymore. Not even a little bit.

It's ridiculous that a person can get through high school without knowing the basic mechanics of government. 

I told him that Mike Pence would be sworn in if Trump gets the boot and he ought to look up Pence's views on s lot of things he holds near and dear.

Pence is more to the right than Trump is. For someone like that losing Trump would be like going from the frying pan and into the fire.




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Someone aske me what I plan on doing when I retire.

I think I'll get a part time job gathering shopping carts at a supermarket or maybe Target or Wally World. I could probably use the exercise.

I will also find time to work with amputees at the local VA hospital. I seem to do well with them because I don't forget that they are still one of the guys. Just because someone lost a couple of legs doesn't mean he's not one of the guys.

I get along with old people too for the same reason.

What we do to our elders is often a disgrace. A guy may be 107 years old but somewhere along the line people seem to kick him out of the Official He Man Woman Haters Club and treat him like a little kid. It's just plain wrong.

I don't treat them that way and generally get along pretty well with them.

A few years back I got hurt and took therapy with an old WW2 paratrooper and really busted his chops. He's do his reps and I'd make him do an extra "One for the Airborne" and listen to him bitch and moan.

He accused me of being a Goddamned sergeant and I told him I was. 

He griped to me that when he was a private it was sergeants that made his life miserable and later when he commissioned to lieutenant and was given a platoon his company commander told him to listen to his platoon sergeant. He said he could never get away from them and now he was an old man and still had to put up with them. He was hilarious.

Apparently I had done something right because the therapy people asked me to change my schedule to his because I got him worked up enough to actually do all his reps correctly. We kind of became a team.





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Can any of you readers drum me up an old say, 1983 copy of Playboy?

If any of you guys remember this post
You will know what I am up to.

If I pull that line on someone again I want an old copy of Playboy to show them what I used to look like after the surgery I didn't have.

"Was that really you?"

"Absolutely!"



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Where does electricity come from?

Don't tell me. Let me guess. It comes from those plugs in the wall, right? It's magic, right?

I hear a lot about electric cars and how wonderful they are because they do not pollute but few people realize they actually run on coal for the most part.

That's because electricity is not magic that comes from plugs in the wall. It comes from electrical generating plants most of which run on coal.

I get tired of people that want to put us in electrically powered vehicles yet don't want to allow the erection of the additional power plants required to supply the juice to run the cars they want everyone to drive.

You can't have both. You either have to allow more power plants to be built or we have to continue to run cars on gasoline or diesel.

Pick one.

Another thing. They are going to have to come up with the technology to allow a car to run about 400 miles or more and then recharge in about ten minutes before electrical vehicles will be useful for anything but local hops. It is either that or you are going to see a lot of electrical cars making long trips with Honda generators tied to their roof racks banging away.




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This works with cokes, beers and just about anything in a can

So you have a case of beer, sodie-pop, whatever and you have to add some more warm ones to the refrigerator so you don't run out of a cold beverage.

Right now I'm running a case of Coke Zero through the mill.

Anyway, you have some in the fridge that are cold and you want to add warm ones and be able to know which ones are cold.

Look in the fridge. If all the cold ones are not all right side up make them that way.

Add the warm ones upside down and use the right side up ones first.

Later when you run out of cold ones the warm ones should be cold. 

Simply add the new warm cans right side up.

Rinse, repeat.

Works for this tired old sailor.





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Anyone care for a nice, refreshing glass of meatballs?

One day at work my shipmate cooked up a HUGE pot of meatballs. He did this planning ahead. We had a busy period coming up and this meant a few quick meals. We could do spaghetti and make sandwiches on the run. All in all, it was really a pretty good idea.

Of course, after the meal it was my job to clean up and I quickly discovered we didn't have a container big enough to hold the almost entire pot of leftover meatballs.

At sea we improvise. We do what we have to do. I promptly dumped the entire pot into a plastic pitcher that sealed up and put it in the refrigerator.

Needless to say I'm getting a pretty good natured drubbing over the entire thing. My shipmates are teasing me over it, offering me a nice refreshing glass of meatballs and suggesting that I wash down breakfast with them.

"How about a couple of over easy eggs, some ham and spuds and the wash it down with a glass of meatballs?" I was asked this morning.

Now nobody holds this against me because they do admit I had no real choice save to fill several Tupperware containers.

Still, it is something out here to have some fun with.






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Life gets in the way of a lot of things.

And that's the way it is.


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Another busy day

This will likely be the case until Thanksgiving.

Sorry about that, Chief.



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I have been busy as hell with things lately.

Yesterday one of the younger guys was talking about strip clubs. I told him I hated them because I worked in one once.

"Bartender or bouncer?" he asked.

I put on my cheerful, honest casual voice and replied, "Dancer. That was before I transgendered back in '86."

I thought the kid was going to $hit himself.




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Yesterday I turned 68.

Happy birthday to me.

I spent it busting my ass all day long and dinner was a ham sandwich.


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Veterans day

Actually Armistice day.

• On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11day month of 1918 the fighting stopped in Europe.

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One of the things that travelers often forgets before making a phone call

is the difference in time zones.

I came close to waking someone up in the middle of the night. However I caught myself just before I hit 'send'.



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The other day I said, "Excuse me, young lady." I was being polite.

and got a belligerent "Did you just assume my gender?"in return.

"Yeah, I did," I shot back. "There's a vagina* in those pants. If there isn't then unzip your fly, whip it out and prove me wrong!"

There wasn't really much she could say after that.




*not the word I used.


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I have been very busy lately and it looks like posts for the next three weeks will be sporadic.

Sorry about that but things are busy. I have an inordinate amount of things to do.

Someone asked me what I was going to do when I retire and it's a decent question to ask.

Probably get a few hours part time somewhere to stay busy. The other thing I am going to do is to see if I can spend some time with GIs that have are amputees. For some reason I seem to get along with a lot of them simply because I don't dodder all over them.

Most people are uncomfortable around them. Look at how people in an elevator clam up when a wheelchair bound person rolls in. They don't know what to say.

I just treat him or her with a good word, the same way I do everyone else and am generally treated to an appreciative smile.

An amputee is just like everyone else. Most of them just want to remain useful.








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Busy today

and maybe for a few days after that.


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Halloween AAR. (After action report)

I haven't changed a bit.

Yesterday someone asked me what I did for Halloween. I casually replied "The usual. Candy for the kids, hot buttered rum for the parents and dope brownies for the teenagers."

Of course she took the bait and went through the roof and said I should be in jail.

'I almost was last year. Some idiot sixteen year old thought it was funny to feed four of them to his six year old brother. I ain't never seen even an adult eat that much pot before! It was funny watching the little kid trip his brains out but his mother didn't think so. I had too flush three pans of brownies down the toilet to keep from getting busted! I almost went to jail over that! Can you imagine?! Over some crummy dope brownies!"

''What? What? Giving marijuana to children?" much wheezing and panic.

"Hey, It's a LOT cheaper than cocaine! You never see my house getting plastered with paint, eggs and toilet paper, do you?"I countered. 

It never occurred to her that we have not had Halloween vandalism on the street in years. 

"You give the kids drugs to keep them from vandalizing your property?" she asked. then she looked thoughtful. "We never have any vandalism."

"What do you do? Give out acid?" I asked.

More panic. "No we don't give out drugs!!"

Another neighbor that was out raking leaves had heard the whole exchange. "Billy (her son) says he's got the best

 pot in town!" adding another gallon of gasoline to the fire.

  Suddenly she finally figured it out and turned plum purple. She looked at the two of us. "You assholes!" she shouted and stormed off.  

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well, tomorrow we fall back

Don't forget to change your clocks back.

Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday at 0200.



It is now Saturday morning and the DX clusters are really moving. It happens when the weekenders get on the air.

I just saw Djibouti up and running on 17 meters but I an't got the shot. It would be an ATNO (All Time New One) for me, too, dammit!


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Last night Halloween got pushed back until Saturday night

on account of rain.

Actually it's a shame it wasn't cancelled altogether because I had other plans for the hot buttered rum fixings that didn't get used last night.

I was considering using the leftovers to throw a party with. It would have been a nice outdoor event and be called the First Annual Greta Thunberg Tire Fire.

It would have provided a good opportunity to get rid of those leftover snow tires from the car you sold three years ago.

The neighbors could have gotten together, gotten rid of their old tires and enjoyed a greasy cloud of vile chemical smelling black smoke rising into the air.

Oh, well.

I guess I'll just have to save the tires for Earth Day.....



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I had a pretty good night's sleep last night

which is a joy.





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So far

 I have noticed that there has been no specific unit identification of the guys that whacked Baghdadi and to me that is a good thing.

So far it seems to be attributed to the Delta Force, which the Pentagon says does not exist and "the Rangers"

Which Rangers? The New York Rangers? The National Park Rangers? Roger's Rangers? The latter are a little long in the tooth to have pulled that one off.

In short, a unit has not been identified and if it ever is it will likely come from a Congressional leak.

Joe Biden identified SEAL Team Six as the guys that got Bin Laden and it eventually cost us the lives of 30 of our guys.

FDR covered Hornet for its part in the Dolittle Raid by saying the raid came from our secret base in Shangri La.

Personally if I were Trump I'd tell CNN the raid was pulled off by Girl Scout Troop 653 of Crystal, Colorado. CNN would go nuts trying to find a Girl Scout troop in a ghost town in the middle of nowhere and look like the fools they are.

Of course the 'He's not presidential enough' set would go ape shit if Trump said, "The fairy fucking godmother did it!" Personally I would laugh like hell.

One thing, though. Trump tipped off Putin with good reason. He wanted to avoid any possibility of a Russian/American conflict in the area. Please note he did NOT notify Congress because he knew damned good and well it would be leaked and Baghdadi's boys would have been tipped off and our guys slaughtered.

Trump has already said this. He didn't notify Congress because he didn't want any of our guys killed.

It's a pretty sorry state when a Congress people would let their hatred of the President permit them to have our troops slaughtered to embarrass him. It's de facto treason, a capital crime and should be treated as such. ANY congress person that leaks anything that leads to the injury or death of any US troop deserves the needle.

I'm going with the Girl Scouts of Crystal, Colorado for one hundred, Alex.

Update: Word is it was Delta Force (a unit the Pentagon says doesn't exist) and the 75th Rangers supplied some of the muscle. In my opinion they should not have identified anyone involved.

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If I am not mistaken it is getting near time for a club I belong to to

and hold elections.

The annual election for the office of Dictator for Life is coming up.

It's an annually elected position but that's the title.




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Trump said he was going to do this and he did.

One of the things Trump said he was going to do as CinC is not announce his plans and he didn't in this case.

A couple of days ago we just removed an ISIS big shot. He's dead and we don't have to worry much about him anymore. One Mr. Baghdadi is now standing in heaven in sad disappointment.

The promised 72 virgins are not there for him because US Servicemen have gotten there first. He's probably going to be met by 72 worn out nasty old whores. I heard at the funeral of one GI his angry wife wanted payback and told her husband, "When you get there cheat on me!"

So much for that.

Back when Trump was running he said he wasn't going to announce military action ahead of time and this is one case of a fulfilled campaign promise. He quietly sent our service people to take care of business. Apparently they did with remarkable success. I heard we didn't lose a man. I read two slightly wounded and one K-9 injured. The two wounded are reported to be back on duty.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Nancy and company are all pissed off because he didn't tell them ahead of time. He just went and had it done. This is fine by me because there are too many congresscritters would have leaked it beforehand just to make the mission fail just to see Trump embarrassed.

There are too damned many people in Congress that hate Trump so bad that they don't give a damn how many US Service people come home in a box if it embarrasses the President.

Of course, none of these people have sons or daughters in uniform. Actually this holds true for the bulk of the country. This ain't WW2 when we had 12 million people in uniform.

I've said this before, I'll say it again. When the kid down the street gets killed overseas it's a shame and you bring over a casserole on your way to the mall. When it's your kid it is a horrible tragedy the family never recovers from.

Every so often I run into a man that is younger than I am that lost his son in Afghanistan.  He's aged horribly and now looks older than I am. It's a terrible thing to see.

I sometimes wonder if the reason his son got killed is because then president Obama announced our plans.

I have no problem whatsoever with Trump withholding future plans from Congress, especially the House because it saves lives and accomplishes the mission.

What I WOULD like to see is some of these Congressional leakers caught, tried for high treason, convicted and executed. Maybe then it would make a few things change.

If you don't like it then take a long hard look at your children. How would YOU like to see one of them come home in a box because some dime store congress critter tipped off the enemy to embarrass the president? It puts the shoe on a different foot, doesn't it? Now it's not the kid down the street. Oh, well. You don't have to cook dinner tonight. One of the neighbors will be by with a casserole on their way to the mall.



Below is a link to Trump's victory speech. It's not in Youtube and I didn't know how to post it because of that. I think it's worth watching.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-leader-dead-trump-says-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-died-like-a-coward-in-us-raid-in-syria-today-2019-10-27/





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I see where another retired general has run his mouth and insulted POTUS.

I am not surprised. He was promoted under Obama and it shows.

Let's look at the majority of general officers. They are political animals. You can make it to colonel by being a good soldier but becoming a general requires being a politician which outright sucks.

It's actually a part of the reason the army is what it is today.

Ever since Grant was elected a lot of generals seem to think the presidency should be occupied by retired general and some start getting political. It doesn't work, of course although there have been notable exceptions like Eisenhower. 

Still, Ike was more of a politician than a fighting man's general. He was a politician appointed to run the ETO because of his ability to hold a coalition together. He could rein in personalities like Patton and Montgomery.

Trump's recent withdrawal from Syria has gotten congress and a bunch of retired generals all steamed up because it opens the area up to the Russians.

Actually this is not a bad idea at all when you consider that Syria is a quagmire of tribalism and unsolvable headaches and having troops there really doesn't solve anything except to be able to issue Purple Hearts. It's a true mess that does us little or no good.

Everyone thinks Putin will step in and I do beleive that's what Trump wants because it means Russian troops will bleed instead of ours.

I can't say I disagree. I'm tired of seeing our guys get chewed up.



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I have no problems with 99.9% of the gay individuals I have met

but I sure have a bone to pick with the gay rights people.

They have destroyed the Boy Scouts for one thing and I won't get into that here.

I WILL however, point out what they have done by targeting Chick Fil A.

Chick Fil A has done nothing whatsoever to harm the gay community. Nothing. One of the execs said he's opposed to gay marriage. So what.

I'm opposed to having government in the marriage business entirely. They should just offer civil unions to any two people that want one. Either that or allow people to pass on their estates without robbing the recipient. A person ought to be able to pass their estate on to anyone they want without government interference, period.

What the gay activists have done to the Chick Fil A people is a damned disgrace. It speaks very poorly for the gay community.

Chick Fil A bears no ill will toward anyone. They insist on having well mannered help. They serve a decent product for a reasonable price and are what a lot of other fast food places wish they were.

They have a history of putting people ahead of profit and several stores have thrown their doors open in times of emergency, fed the hungry and charged nothing.

If you take the time to read their mission statement you will find they bear no ill will toward anyone.

They are Christian based which is fine. They are not some bastard Christian based cult that wants to harm anybody. They believe in treating all people with respect and dignity.

Yet the gay community has chosen them to be bashed.

Actually it's backfired on them because in the States they are a thriving business and very well may be one of the fastest growing fast food chains. People are not fooled and probably wish the gay activist community can kiss their ass. They can kiss mine.

I really wish there were more businesses run the way Chick Fil A runs theirs.


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I is up.

and kind of beat up after yesterday's cleanup of the wayback.

Last night a neighbor had me over for dinner which I am grateful for. 



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The wayback if getting mowed today

which is a bitch.

It's the annual fall cleanup of the wayback and entails mowing and weed whacking every single square foot of it.

Normally it's not too bad but we had a rainy and sunny summer and I have never seen the weeds so dense. It's going to be a real slug fest.

There's a lot of work to be done there.




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I see a team or five running for school committee which scares me.

The so-called dream team scares me to look at.

It looks to me like four soccer moms and some smiling guy. Just what we need. The parents of students running the show.

That ought to be considered a conflict of interest to begin with and it looks to me that no good is likely to come out of a team like that. The first thing they will do as ask for more money instead of looking to spend what they have a little more efficiently. 

Of course, it not like the parents of students don't have an agenda.....

Of course, the ad says "Accountability to taxpayers". Yeah, right.

(Those crayon eating second graders NEED a laptop powerful enough to run the space program!)  

If you think that the way you judge a school system is by how much money they spend per student then try looking at some of the cities and tell me what kind of education they deliver.

I have no problem whatsoever with spending money to our young people. Education is a good thing and more and these days kids need it to go anywhere. It pays good dividends to all of us in the long run.

What I DON'T want to see is spending perfectly good money and getting little or nothing in return.

Back in Bill Clinton's day he wanted every schoolkid to be able to log into the internet which made sense and makes sense today even more so. Computer literacy is important and a computer illiterate child is going to have a hard row to hoe. 

Still, I can just picture what the dream team is going to ask for and I'd bet a pretty good chunk of it is going to be wasteful. 

The other thing is they look like the type that will fall for every big and little expensive 'good idea' that comes down the pike. A second grade kid doesn't need a brand new laptop every fall. While technology does change fast, it sure as hell doesn't change that fast.

Of course, that would be a slam dunk easy sell to a naive soccer mom. All the salesman has to say is, "You don't want to cheat the children out of the latest technology, do you? Sign here."

Scribble, scribble. And presto! Now the kids that are still eating crayons now have laptops capable of running the entire space program.  Of course, we are paying for it.

One area I would like to see them spend a little money on is the truly top level gifted kids, the top .25% that are brilliant and are constantly being held back. Instead we spend a lot on the slower kids. I suppose that the slower kids need a little extra help but there's no reason we should hold back the truly brilliant. These are the kids that will go out and cure cancer or invent a vaccination of some sort. Let's spend some money on success!

This is the place for the earlier mentioned laptops that are capable of running the space program! Give them to these brilliant kids and turn them loose!

Betcha the dream team doesn't think that way. If they do I would be surprised.

Actually a lot of teachers really don't know what to do with these brilliant kids because they are in a situation where they have to really be on their game. They have to push themselves to keep up with their students in some cases. 

I always wonder about the mentality of people that run for school committee. 

My guess is that they are parents of students that want to make damned good and sure their kids get a bigger slice of the pie than the average kid. You can bet your ass that any teacher that has one of their kids in their class is going to tread lightly and probably let the little whelp get away with murder.

"His/her mother is on the SCHOOL COMMITTEE!" will be the watchword among the teachers. 

Of course, if the mother is one of those 'My kid is an angel' type idiots then the teacher is truly screwed. The little punk can probably stab a schoolmate and the teachers will cover it up because his mother is on the school committee and they are now in fear of their jobs if they report the little saint.

Frankly I see little good of a school committee where the members of it are parents of students in that school. Little good is likely to come of it. It is simply a de facto conflict on interest.

The true test of a public school system isn't how much money is spent per student. It's how well prepared they are to either go on to further education (college or vocational) or enter the work force successfully. 










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