Bang

Bet you he's had a few evenings of practicing "animal husbandry'.

~Baaa

I agree with Jumbo.
These sentences are ridiculously light.

I don't know who needs to still be told this, but prison usually DOESN'T have a positive effect on a person.
These folks will go in a rabble and many will come out full fledged terrorists.

~Bang

"SPO"

or, Sharepoint Online. I'm working a sharepoint site for my customer, and it is a confusing thing if you don't know it.

They have taken to calling the Share Point Online site "SPO", and wonder why the workforce are reluctant to use it. 
 

~Bang

Drunk Donald Trump is funny as hell.

~Bang

US Navy fighter jets strike Houthi missile launchers in Yemen, officials say (msn.com)

A sixth strike by US fighters.

~Bang

OK.

Show me.

~Zap!

And one more just because 
If i had a true guilty pleasure from the 80s, it's Thomas Dolby. 

~Bang

From the playlist

Groovy

Siouxsie and the Banshees get all 80s with it

When people sneer and say the 80s sucked, well. not so fast. This has the hallmarks of what people hated, synths, electronic effects, and it works. This band evolved quite a bit over the years from this starting point. 

may as well stay in the 80s. Graham Parker DEFINITELY had his moments, and this is my favorite. This is a version that I think he performed for European TV.. it's outstanding. I can't tell if it's performed live, this isn't on any album version.  ****ing ROCKS.

OK, so this is an absolutely horrible video of this one "hit" wonder band "playing" this song on American bandstand.
So many ridiculous clichés in this band..  The bass player has THE quintessential bass player dance for 1984, my GOD it's funny. The stupid little tam hat plasterec omn the singer's head.. 

but a cool song, I always liked it. Do you?

~Bang
 

Fox news Morning Zoo:  "We don't have any privacy! The government is overreaching in their investigation!!"

Fox viewers: "I think we need a dictatorship."

**** all these people.

~Bang

16 hours ago, China said:

 

My recollection was that Howard Stern called Air Florida and asked them what the fare was to the 14th Street Bridge, and that's what got him booted, but either way.

I think you're right

~Bang

I do too. Terrible thing.

This was also the final straw for Howard Stern's time on DC101. 
He said on the air that if your drink wasn't cold enough, don't worry, Air Florida will stop for ice on the way.
He was gone after that.

~Bang

Putting him in jail may 'play into his hands' but probably not the way he'd like.
 

Just make sure the cops use live ammo when the mob comes.

~Bang

Oh,, he's "just about had it".

I guess maybe he'll do something about it that doesn't play right into the obvious con man's hands.

But nah, why start now?

~Bang

We definitely get freezing temps as normal here. 
Or, I should say we used to anyway. Winters used to be a lot colder in the DC area.
I can recall seeing the Potomac totally frozen over in the early 80s, I was working on the Washington Harbor construction, watched it freeze, stay frozen for maybe 2 months, then break up and move on. The ground used to freeze hard for the winter. Not now. 
When i first moved to Calvert the Patuxent would freeze, but not as hard as the Potomac. Ten years ago the little coves and inlets would sheet over, you can see them from the bridge over Solomons.

But not anymore. 
The last five winters or so it seems to me we have a handful of days like this, whereas we used to have PLENTY of days in the 20s during a given winter.

Now it feels like we have an avg. temp closer to 50. 
Purely anecdotal, but I hate cold. If it's under 45, I do not like to be out. I play pickleball (and used to be tennis) outdoors, and we play year round now. I play probably 3-4 times a week and the times i cancel for cold are FAR fewer than th times I go outside. 

~Bang

I'm sure everyone is aware we have two missing SEALS during the boarding of the boat carrying Iranian missile components. 
So, this I am having a hard time wrapping my head around. Not like a conspiracy theory or anything paranoid, just genuine wondering. It seems weird to me that two SEALS are missing this long. 
One fell in during the boarding, and another jumped in to rescue, as is protocol. Neither have been seen since.
SEALS are trained for long periods in the water, it's a warm sea, although they did say it was rough water. No dye packs, no flashers.. it just strikes me weird as to what could have happened to them? I'm sure it's possible they could have drowned, maybe weighed down with equipment? But both of them.. that makes it weird to me. 

Yesterday we struck them again, 4 anti-ship ballistic missiles taken out on the ground.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-targets-houthi-anti-ship-missiles-new-strike-yemen-officials-2024-01-16/

~Bang

They'll be OK. They will go down to the welfare office and suck off the tit of the working American.. er.. I mean "pull themselves up by the bootstraps".

~Bang

They'll just say she's an actor. And even SHE will believe it.
She'd go on Fox and say it, too.

~Bang

8 pizzas.

Just stunning leadership qualities.

~Bang

Neither is shame.

the constant non-stop CRYING. 

The universal terror of everything that shapes every ****ing thing they believe and say.

The entirety of the GOP is one big long episode of Emotionally Stunted Housewives of the Insane Asylum.
 

~Bang

"Say, he hates all those darkies too!"

That's how.

Education does not in any way make a person better if they're a piece of **** to begin with.

~Bang

"Oops that is Russian oil" sort of shoots down the entire pretense of disrupting trade in support of the people of Gaza.
But we will continue to give them their propaganda excuses.

Thankfully, smart people are hitting back.

~Bang

Karma is indeed a **** with a great sense of humor.

~Bang

Scientists have been 'talking' to Tuberville like I 'talk' to telemarketers.

This morning on Twitter "Sammy the Bull" is trending again, because MAGA's law loving people are enamored with a mafia hit man who says nice things about Trump.

Republicans: We must close the border to stop drugs and fentanyl!
Also Republicans: Oh, but let's idolize the mob who sells this stuff on our streets and creates the demand that comes across the border.

**** ALL these people.

~Bang

From the playlist

You know how there are bands that are so critically acclaimed you'd think it was in the Critic's Union contract that you had to praise them, but truthfully most of their stuff was crap?
Television is that for me.
But this is a good one

Excellent song. Just discordant enough.

If you can't dig Morphine, you may need to check with a doctor. If you've never heard them, it's a baritone sax, a bass and a drummer. Unique.

Kill All Hippies

Brownout seems to be nothing but a Black Sabbath cover band, but they come up with some really nifty versions, like this. This is my favorite Black Sabbath song, and they do it great. 

~Fang

Pretty sure the Argentines used Exocet anti-ship missiles in the Falklands war in the 80s, and it resulted in several large British Navy ships going to the bottom or at least severely damaged. Also, even if they were 'peacefully protesting' by attempting to board, destroy or commandeer commercial vessels, the disruption of world trade is justification to use lethal methods of ending the 'protest'.
 

~Bang