Bullet Points:
** You’re in, or you’re out – sage advice.
** Saudi Arabians pumping water in the Arizona desert – for the benefit of Saudi Arabia.
** Before I moved to Arizona, I was involved in a road rage incident with a local in the Cottonwood area. I drove my Toyota FJ down the road, and the other driver tried to run me off with a 3/4-ton diesel pickup. (photo, right, from this weekend on the Mogollon Rim). “Oh, this should be fun; I’ll bet he sees a helpless old white-haired man (my hair has been white since I was in my early 30s) driving a rig with California plates. The phone comes out, 911, I’m being attacked and covering my ass. The 45 comes out, and I dent the broad side of his rig with the large ARB bumper (bolted and welded to the frame). His Chevy crumples like a beer can. Deputies arrive; I flash the retired tin and explain the situation to the officers. Tweeker (armed) goes to jail. I should have put a stencil on the door, but it would look weird with only one stencil. You need to be an ace to fully qualify. Nobody bothers the rig with AZ plates—one-off incident.
** Help yourself to another dessert. I dare you.
** Gun control only ends well for the people who control the guns.
** “The barbarians are not at the gate. They are inside the gates and have academic tenure, judicial appointments, government grants, and control of the movies, television, and media.” -Thomas Sowell
** (Thinker) Consider the party’s 2024 party platform. The section “Making Higher Education Accessible and Affordable” advances two aims central to the party’s existence: promoting political indoctrination and rewarding one of the party’s most crucial allies, college professors.
Today’s college campus is, with scant exception, a key instrument for pushing youngsters leftward, so even physics majors must take courses in the humanities and social sciences where they will learn how America was built on slavery with land stolen from the noble indigenous people while women continue to be oppressed by the white patriarchy. Campus propaganda works.
Muslim Advice Corner
When your Muslim neighbors offer to sell you a goat, they just slaughtered…
Are you a lab rat?
Identify the Aircraft
1
138 built
2
230 built
3
1,395 built
It’s not the best photo to ID this aircraft from, but almost 1,400 were put into service during WW2.
4
561 built – used as both a transport and as a bomber through 1957 WW2 & Indochina
Parting Shot
4 is French Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 bomber
Yes
(1) Amiot 143
(2) Breuget 690 series.
(3) Not sure.
(4) The LeO, as above.
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– Kle.
Good!
IDA
1. Amiot-143
2. Breguet-690
3. Potez-630
4.Lioré-et-Olivier LeO-45
Got them all
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Amiot 143
2. Bréguet 693
3. Potez 63.11
4. Lioré et Olivier LeO 451
Surly, putting a finer point on it!
> a goat, they just slaughtered
It’s okay, I do not eat ze hasshole part of ze animal. (I was inspired by some food/travel magazine article I can’t find. Basically, the writer ate some weird meat dish and asked the cook what it was made from. The cook looked around guiltily before leaning in and whispering, “It is made from ze hassholes.”)
Putting on my lawyer cap. So if the man “finishes outside the animal” does it still need to be slaughtered?
Quora question: Do snuff films really exist? Answer: Yes, it’s called Muslim porn.
> Saudi alfalfa
Speaking of hassholes: Worse yet, they use the Arizona-grown alfalfa to feed cows. Well, I guess it’s “nothing’s too good for my girlfriend.”
> Campus propaganda
Continues post-grad as well. Earlier this morning I was submitting an abstract (a brief publication presented at a conference; ideally the prelude to submitting a full length article to a peer-reviewed journal). The on-line submission requires you to fill in your contact info, academic (or industry) title and institution, etc. The usual stuff. This year (I have been presenting at this conference for over 20 years) you now have to GIVE YOUR PRONOUNS. Jumping Buddha on a rubber pogo stick. I left that blank. I filled out the “Feedback” section with some scathing stuff about “normalization of mental illness” then erased it. Because I have a 20+ year streak of presenting at this damn thing and don’t want to blow it. Thus fear of being black-balled (you should pardon the expression — you bigots!) does make cowards of us all.
> men make less in the fashion world
And less in the pr0n world too. [please excuse typos; typing one handed. No! It’s tendonitis! Don’t be ze hasshole.]
So what’s all this black balling at medical conferences?
Mike_C, you could self-identify as Colin Kaepernick, full fro, 6’4″, black…haven’t seen that they have ever asked him for his pronouns.
It’s never happened officially (that I know of).
Generally I do this stuff viva voce rather than in written form anyway.
@Paul, Kaepernick has male privilege, so he’s not enough of a victim. I shall identify as a jellyfish, a creature without a brain. 👍
….Or a spine….
My pronouns are Thee and Thou.
If back in the Philly area mine would be “Yo” and Hey”.
In or out: The merry-go-round doesn’t stop and when you step off, remember that “you can’t go home again.”
That “in or out” bit is 100% true in industry as well, and I’ve got the stab wounds in my back to prove it. Pro tip: When they call you up all remorseful and needing your help desperately, your pronouns should be a, lot, more and money. Alleged “captains of industry” or those who in their delusions think they are, don’t respect anything else.
Cash is king – gold is better.
WWW, Excellent point! Value-added (another corp-speak term) is an imperative when remittance is offered for services rendered under some weirdo aspect. Pretty sure Mike Rowe knows all about “dirty jobs”…this is no different than cleaning a septic tank…from the inside.
I have cleaned septic tanks from the inside… growing up as a skinny kid with my uncle and his two skinny twins(cousins to you Mike_C) he was a plumber and did septic systems and would pay us kids to skinny down the access hole to scrape the sides. Yes, we had protective gear and an outside connected air supply. It certainly was a dirty job and shitty… Oh, we got $20.00 to do that, as a 13 or 14 year old we were rich!
My dad would say – as us boys shoveled the foot of snow in the lengthy driveway when the neighbor had toddlers and was jealous because dad was watching with his coffee: “That’s what you have them for, problem is they’re only good for a couple of years.” Dad humor…but he was RIGHT!
>cousins to you Mike_C
Figuratively, I trust. ’cause I thought y’all are Irish/Swedish. On the other hand, maybe my Mom had a more interesting social life than I was led to believe. Being part squarehead bogtrotter would explain a thing or two about me.
And: Not skinny any more. They days of 7% body fat (by underwater weighing, yet!) are long in the rear view mirror.
Re: Saudi alfalfa in Arizona.
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Yes, it’s idiotic. OTOH, probably no more idiotic than the golf courses, domestic lettuce farms,
vast sprawling suburbs, etc, all on the same limited aquifers.
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Phoenix is gonna make a cool post-water-apocalypse ruin, someday. SoCal too, if the keep at it.
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– Kle.
I should have put a stencil on the door
Willie E. Coyote, Genius?
Super-Genius!
Listening to Bongino now…spot on and minces no words. Raining here, 54 degrees, might snow. Love it.
Thought you might lie this Paul M.
https://youtu.be/I3-pnv7x4TM?si=LMSfh7A2ykq1XMMZ
I highly reccomend whating the whole forum.
STA Lethal Paul
Listening to the whole forum.
Anybody that goes after old men or old women out here ‘might’ survive…or might not. And there is a farm truck running around here with an outline of Wiley E. Coyote on the side from where a bull took ‘offense’ at the truck. And yes, VDH is correct.
Well, the Khomeni didn’t say the other part of the muslim faith. It’s okay to have sex with non-muslims because they are non-humans and it doesn’t count as sex-sex.
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Only L. Ron Hubbard could write up weirder religious rules.