Well, I’ve been busier than the proverbial one-armed paperhanger, and it ain’t slowing down any time soon. I’ll be making a run with boxes full of stuff to LovAB’s new home, and again tomorrow. Today, I have to take some things by the church for its rummage sale next weekend, and go see my mother to take some things to her and pick up her dirty clothes.
Mother-in-law comes home today, and at least for this week, someone else is available to help her. That gives me time to help Lovely with stuff. I’m sure I’ll be making another trip or two to their new home. I still have stuff in her old room, and things I’ve bought for the baby…aw, shucks, it’s another excuse to see them both again.
Somewhere in there I have to get my some work done.
So, I throw open the door and invite y’all in. What are you planning on doing this weekend?
Friday “Almost the Weekend” Open Comments
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Firsty
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What are you planning on doing this weekend?
Work. But with a little luck that plan will go out the window.
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Well, I’ve been busier than the proverbial one-armed paperhanger
Isn’t that always the case? Good luck this weekend. Remember to be mindful of the heat.
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#3 – TexMo is right! hydrate Hydrate HYDRATE!!! (and not all gatorade – better is 50/50 or so with water)
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Good morning, Hamsterville.
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Re: Last night’s discussion on the Hastings crash:
LA Weekly tries to blame it on alcoholThe L.A. Weekly reports that the early evidence points to speed being a “major factor” in the one-car, 4:30 am car crash that took journalist Michael Hastings life earlier this week in Los Angeles.
According to their police and investigative sources, the engine of Hastings’ 200 horsepower Mercedes-Benz was found a hundred feet from the crash, “a clue that would indicate the vehicle was traveling at more than 60 miles an hour when it apparently veered out of control and struck a palm tree,” writes the Weekly. -
#6 – a reasonably safe presumption at 4:30 in the morning………..
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How can his BAC be determined if he was burned beyond recognition ?
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#8 – They’ll prolly put ‘Ducky’ (aka Ilya Kuryakin) from NCIS on the case! 🙂
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Lordy where’s the blogal defibrulator?
I gotta have me some BLUES then dangit – even by BB’s own words this was one of his BEST………..not the greatest sound quality but there aint no static could possibly dilute the soul he puts out!
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Can you say “Flat Line”?
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I made a trip to the Heights to pick up a package for my uncle. When I got down there I discovered that my dad had already picked up the package. Grrrr! So I took a little drive around the 6th Ward to see what is down there. There are quite a few restored houses down there. It was quaint, but it is still Houston… I’ll pass.
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Psst… I hear there is gonna be a huge party at the dome tonight… er is that tomorrow night?
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It looks like a slow news day. I did a little yard work while it was cooler, but I’ve been online for almost 2 hours and I haven’t seen much to get all worked up about.
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#14 – Other than the slow creeping demise of Amerika?
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#13 Texmo
Psst… I hear there is gonna be a huge party at the dome tonight… er is that tomorrow night?
/watching you with a stern glare of warning >:-[
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#13 – OH!™ I thought you meant the Astrodome!
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#13 Better watch it, she is borrowing our security cameras we bought for the new house while she is helping. So she will have something to take to the cops later!
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OTL: I gonna go all history on you:>)
From my inbox:Doolittle’s Raid
It’s the cup of brandy that no one wants to drink.
On Tuesday, in Fort Walton Beach , Florida , the surviving
Doolittle Raiders gathered publicly for the last time.
They once were among the most universally admired and revered
men in the United States . There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942,
when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring
military operations in this nation’s history. The mere mention of
their unit’s name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of
grateful Americans.
Now only four survive.
After Japan ‘s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the United
States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the
war effort around.
Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to
Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was
devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off from
the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried —
sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier.
The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James
Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew
that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They would have
to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing.
But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of
the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from
much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on. They
were told that because of this they would not have enough fuel to make
it to safety.
And those men went anyway.
They bombed Tokyo , and then flew as far as they could. Four
planes crash-landed ; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the
Raiders died. Eight more were captured ; three were executed. Another
died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to
Russia .
The Doolittle Raid sent a message from the United States to its
enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter
what it takes, we will win.
Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as
national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a
motion picture based on the raid ; “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,”
starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional
box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In
the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was
presenting the story “with supreme pride.”
Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion
each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different
city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson , Arizona , as a gesture
of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set
of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a
Raider.
Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is
transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his
goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his
old friends bear solemn witness.
Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very
Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jim my
Doolittle was born.
There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving
Raiders, they would open the bottle, at last drink from it, and toast
their comrades who preceded them in death.
As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders ; then, in
February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.
What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a
mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with
malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to Europe to
fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22
months in a German prisoner of war camp.
The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts … there was a
passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on
the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that emblematizes the
depth of his sense of duty and devotion:
“When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home,
he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing
home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes.
At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to
her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death
in 2005.”
So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick
Cole (Doolittle’s co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward
Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have decided
that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.
The events in Fort Walton Beach this week will mark the end. It
has come full circle ; Florida ‘s nearby Eglin Field was where the
Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town is planning
to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration of their
valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.
Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save
the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their
sacrifice? They don’t talk about that, at least not around other
people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and
if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer
them a word of thanks. I can tell you from firsthand observation that
they appreciate hearing that they are remembered.
The men have decided that after this final public reunion they
will wait until a later date — sometime this year — to get together
once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is when they will
open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now ;
they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.
They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets.
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This has been a work week “produced and directed by Satan himself” for me.
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In one sentence, who was this Hastings journalist, anyway?
Two sentences:
The Rolling Stone journalist responsible for the expose that resulted in General Stanley McChrystal’s dismissal from Command of US Forces, Afghanistan less than a year after Obama appointed him. He was working on a story regarding NSA snooping at the time of his death. -
He’s the latest example of Speaking Truth To Power.
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Thank you.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Delay in checking in could plausibly be blamed on the cool 71 this morning and enjoying it long enough to stack up the things to do list. Currently vainly searching the sky for some indication of rain and not finding any.
Spouse is out mowing the pastures again. Fortunately it is partly cloudy, breezy, and only (!?) 90. The pastures are mostly shaded except for one, and that one he’ll leave until evening or tomorrow morning. He’s wearing his French Foreign Legion cap with the shading flaps–think we got it at LL Bean–and long-sleeved white shirt, gloves, and jeans.
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#22 Sarge
He was working on a story regarding NSA snooping at the time of his death.
I saw a story several places today that he was talking to Jill Kelly, the Florida fruitcake who got herself involved in Petraeus’ affair.
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#20 Bonecrusher
I believe this is a description of a tontine. Such an arrangement was the focus of an episode of M*A*S*H in which Col. Potter was the last survivor and guardian of the bottle. As I recall it was titled The Tontine.
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I thought that Tontine was Tonto’s wife.
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#27 Adee: I remember that episode, but I would have never remembered the name of the episode. As you indicated, in that episode the last survivor (Col Potter) got the bottle and he really wasn’t too happy about it. I like the idea of the linked article, the last 4 shared the bottle because they were getting so old.
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Tontine was Tonto’s wife.
That is what happens when you get home after having too many toddies and your SO is wissed, you get tontined with a rolling pin.
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#29 Bonecrusher
Agree that the four sharing was a much better end point than a solidary survivor as Col. Potter was. If I recall correctly, he shared the bottle with his compatriots in the unit.
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Hi all, like many of you I have been busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest.
I did have time to discover this shocking video of an actual NSA survalance operation. Chilling.
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The DOJ is granting “journalist status” to the terd-nozzle who illegally bugged Mitch McConnells office.
HEADLINE: DOJ joins probe of Mitch McConnell HQ taping
Justice Department prosecutors in Washington are now part of a high-profile criminal investigation into the secret taping at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign headquarters in Louisville.
The move comes after David Hale, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, recused himself from the McConnell case because he has been mentioned as a possible nominee for a federal judgeship, which would require Senate approval.
At the same time, any attempts to subpoena evidence from Curtis Morrison — a liberal activist who surreptitiously taped McConnell and his aides at a campaign meeting in February — would most likely need the personal approval of Attorney General Eric Holder, according to federal regulations, which require Holder to approve subpoenas for journalists.Eric Holder belongs in prison. He is crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
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#27 Ms Adee
I believe this is a description of a tontine. Such an arrangement was the focus of an episode of M*A*S*H in which Col. Potter was the last survivor and guardian of the bottle. As I recall it was titled The Tontine.
I liked that episode also, but if you recall, this happened in the Korean War, (early 50’s), and the tontine was started by four young men in WW I, I think that they were celebrating in Italy when they made the pact. Col. Potter served in WW I, WW II and Korea.
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That is what happens when you get home after having too many toddies and your SO is wissed, you get tontined with a
rolling pin#12 cast iron skillet.Insert dreaded acronym. 😉
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#35 SD
Good point, Dave, not too many rolling pins still in use these days. Take me, for example. Why, I used to make my own yeast rising bread from scratch, and this was long before I had a bread machine. And now it’s probably been 12 years since the last time I plugged in the bread machine. I am pretty happy with bread that I can get at Kroger.
On the flip side of kitchen operations, I did just have an exquisite T-M/W cheese sammich. Whole wheat toast, 2 slices of swiss and 1 slice of muenster, thinly sliced onion and mushrooms trapped in the melted cheese. Small glass of milk to wash it down.
Now see if you can top my childish dessert. Into a small bowl, I dip out a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter and another spoonful of Nutella. Add a handful of stick pretzels, which I use one at a time to mix some of the 2 butters together and then eat that stick along with the blob of chocoliciousness stuck to the end of it.
So ya see how retirement can be like a 2nd childhood.
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#34 Super Dave
Thanks for filling in more background on Col. Potter’s tontine. I think that was one of the best episodes of M*A*S*H. -
Now see if you can top my childish dessert.
Brownie with chocolate ice cream.
Top with hot fudge.
Serve with shot of Creme de Cacao.
The gauntlet has been cast before you. -
Whelp I get to join mharper42. At 1:21pm this afternoon I had the luck of an email arrival to my work inbox announcing:
On behalf of the US/CAN Service organization, I am happy to inform you that we’ve accepted your decision to retire through the VRIP process.
So now I exit Generous Selectric with my last day of work July 31st of the good year 2013. Heh!! Now that makes me 3x’s retarded so it’s off to wherever it is I have an itch for. Never fear couch taters, I’ll still be checkin in on occassion and let y’all know where my travels take me.
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So ya see how retirement can be like a 2nd childhood.
She’ll be eating mud pies and playing doctor with CbR if we don’t intervene.
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That Tom Mabe is one terrifying secret agent. -
Regarding choice of blunt instruments with which to slug miscreants, I’d have to favor a rolling pin
as much easier to swing. However it isn’t that large, so accuracy is much more important.
Don’t have an iron skillet, but I do have a substantial 11″ West Bend cast aluminum skillet
and a large Club cast aluminum pot, either of which could likely produce satisfactory concussions if necessary. 🙂 Both were wedding gifts, so you know how old they are. -
#39 Pyro
Uh, your dessert sounds pretty grown up. Didja note how I labelled mine “childish”? -
#40 CbR
Uh, Cowboy, I’m confused — are you gettin’ retired or retarded??? In either case, who’s gonna take care of the tiny horses? -
#39 Wagonburner
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#45 mharper42
Well it’s retirement #3 so I must be retarded for it to take 3 times and I finally get the message. Actually it would be #4 if I can find out where Merganthaler Linotype went so I could draw on the pension I had there. -
Merganthaler Linotype
Careful there CbR you’re showing your age. 😉
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“Bout #47 #48
When I was a kid in the early 60’s we went on a field trip to the small town paper in our little town. It was/is a weekly paper, not too interesting but it always had the local news. Anywho, as we were going through the place we came to the Linotype machine, WHAT a noisy Rube Goldberg LQQking thing it was! There was a guy sitting at a typewriter that was hooked up to a big machine that had a big…Crap I can’t explain it so I’ll Google it; Linotype Machine! What fascinated me was watching the little letters slide down a wire into the printing tray and it was working as fast as the guy could type. A little later we saw a guy carving a picture of the scales of justice out of a pine board, used as a visual for a law firm.
FWIW; This newspaper was started by the Adams family in 1867 and has been in business ever since, the great, etc grandson runs it now.
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Welp, ole Dave been done kilt tha’ blog,…..Crap
Oh well it was on life support anyway.
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#49 Dave
This newspaper was started by the Adams family in 1867.
Was that Morticia and Gomez?
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And they live here in defacto amnesty and by God they are being exploited every single day.”
Yeah being exploited by you and your 7 other gangsters Mr. McSlime.
Give an illegal your job and we’d get better representation you Mexican government mole operative.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/john-mccain-erupts-on-senate-floor-blasts-republicans-for-not-supporting-gang-of-8-plan-video/ -
And now on a lighter note or two.
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Or three.
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