Jokes

[M.Becker]

I don't have one so a meme has to do:

[Bob Dedmon]

good one..."Just X more years boys and you can one of your own!"

[OSCSSW]

Good one Herr Becker. Yup the DD-214 is the gateway to most VET goodies.

That can is actually USS Tracy a Clemson-class destroyer. At the time of the photo she was unmodified WW I Four Piper, Later Tracy had a distinguished WW II career as a DM-19. She was named for Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy. As you folks know, I loath the idea of naming USN warships after mother humping politicians and or the latest entitled group of perverts. Not the case with Ben Tracy. He might have been an ambulance chaser, career mother humping politician, government apparatchik, and judge.

He also served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the 109th New York Infantry Regiment. At the Battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864, he was able to rally his men and hold the Union line. For his actions he subsequently was awarded the Medal of Honor. His citation reads: Tracy "seized the colors and led the regiment when other regiments had retired and then reformed his line and held it."

Ben Tracy was noted for his role in the creation of the "New Navy", which replaced the obsolete post Civil War USN. He supported a naval strategy focused more on offense, rather than on coastal defense and commerce raiding. Ben was a major ally in this effort was naval theorist Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan.

[MikeKozlowski]

Good one Herr Becker. Yup the DD-214 is the gateway to most VET goodies.

That can is actually USS Tracy a Clemson-class destroyer. At the time of the photo she was unmodified WW I Four Piper, Later Tracy had a distinguished WW II career as a DM-19. She was named for Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy. As you folks know, I loath the idea of naming USN warships after mother humping politicians and or the latest entitled group of perverts. Not the case with Ben Tracy. He might have been an ambulance chaser, career mother humping politician, government apparatchik, and judge.

He also served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the 109th New York Infantry Regiment. At the Battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864, he was able to rally his men and hold the Union line. For his actions he subsequently was awarded the Medal of Honor. His citation reads: Tracy "seized the colors and led the regiment when other regiments had retired and then reformed his line and held it."

Ben Tracy was noted for his role in the creation of the "New Navy", which replaced the obsolete post Civil War USN. He supported a naval strategy focused more on offense, rather than on coastal defense and commerce raiding. Ben was a major ally in this effort was naval theorist Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan.

Senior Chief,

The four-stackers are, to me, the very definition of 'destroyer' - had a fondness for them since I was a lad. Also, the Fair Melissa's granddad (the one who later went nose-to-nose with a fella named Rickover) was a gunner on DD-147 Barney. Working on a 1/240 model of her in her final WWII rig, which is VERY different from Tracy.

Mike

[OSCSSW]

Good one Herr Becker. Yup the DD-214 is the gateway to most VET goodies.

That can is actually USS Tracy a Clemson-class destroyer. At the time of the photo she was unmodified WW I Four Piper, Later Tracy had a distinguished WW II career as a DM-19. She was named for Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy. As you folks know, I loath the idea of naming USN warships after mother humping politicians and or the latest entitled group of perverts. Not the case with Ben Tracy. He might have been an ambulance chaser, career mother humping politician, government apparatchik, and judge.

He also served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the 109th New York Infantry Regiment. At the Battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864, he was able to rally his men and hold the Union line. For his actions he subsequently was awarded the Medal of Honor. His citation reads: Tracy "seized the colors and led the regiment when other regiments had retired and then reformed his line and held it."

Ben Tracy was noted for his role in the creation of the "New Navy", which replaced the obsolete post Civil War USN. He supported a naval strategy focused more on offense, rather than on coastal defense and commerce raiding. Ben was a major ally in this effort was naval theorist Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan.

Senior Chief,

The four-stackers are, to me, the very definition of 'destroyer' - had a fondness for them since I was a lad. Also, the Fair Melissa's granddad (the one who later went nose-to-nose with a fella named Rickover) was a gunner on DD-147 Barney. Working on a 1/240 model of her in her final WWII rig, which is VERY different from Tracy.

Mike

I too am a fan of the Four Piper Mike. I have been since I read The Caine Mutiny for the first time. Not so sure I'd like to ride one during a N. Atlantic winter. Some wag once wrote "the 4 piper would roll on wet grass. Length to Beam ratio is just too great to make a comfortable "sea Boat". She had plenty of power but her turning radius was far to large to make her a really outstanding ASW ship like th DEs.

There is a really great book , South to Java, about the Asiatic Fleet 4 Pipers in early WW II written by vice admiral William Paden Mack. He was there and done that . He served as Gun Boss aboard John D Ford about the same time as one of my old CPOs.

FWIW, about 25 years ago I built a scratch model of the USS John D. Ford 228. My first sea going chief served aboard her with the Asiatic fleet from mid 1941 to June 1942 (he was an RM in those days) by which time the Asiatic fleet was no more.
I'd really like to see how your 4 Piper comes out.

[OSCSSW]

Viva la France!

https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/stat ... 1496972288

[Poohbah]

Viva la France!

https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/stat ... 1496972288

https://youtu.be/08Khc2wqtCQ

"Step on the Gas" skit

[David Newton]

What is the most careful type of drink?

A ginger beer.

[OSCSSW]

Viva la France!

https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/stat ... 1496972288

https://youtu.be/08Khc2wqtCQ

"Step on the Gas" skit

Thanks Poohbah that was really great.

[OSCSSW]

I swear the pictures of the Raider really would pass as UFOs in any of the 50's or 60's SciFi B movies I still like to watch.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/as- ... s-probing/

Under the heading of "YOU just can't make this Sh!t up" The US heavy bomber fleet will consist of a
of the ultimate state the art aerial killing machine with the most advanced technology and the 1950's Buff AKA B-52 H.

[OSCSSW]

This comes under You just can't make this shit up!

Happy Tuesday, everybody. Calm down, everybody. So let's talk about the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried

Enjoy
Video link:https://video.foxnews.com/v/6317194826112

It's already starting. He couldn't hide forever. I mean, especially when you look like a cross between Mark Cuban, a Cross Your Heart bra and a wad of pubic hair. It's getting worse. He was scooped up in the Bahamas on Monday and is accused of defrauding investors out of billions. Charges include wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering. Fortune called him the next Warren Buffett. But in their defense, it's a common name. That joke deserved a better laugh. Thank you. It really is a good joke. Screw everybody.

Let's recap what this clown did. Since launching in May 2019, his cryptocurrency firm, FTX, raised $1.8 billion by promoting itself as a safe platform for trading assets. But it turns out that was as safe as finding a suitable dating partner on a subway platform. By the way, cryptocurrency is Latin for "not real money." He then diverted those funds to another company without telling anyone, and from there, he made a bunch of undisclosed investments, lavish real estate purchases, huge political donations to Democrats in time for the midterms, of course. And worse, not once did he consider breast reduction surgery. He could have used the fat to make soap. And then he could have used the soap.

But instead, he's going to be the most popular guy in a cell block. He's going to get passed around like me when I dress up like a plate of potato skins. And I do. You know, I kind of wish I knew him in high school. I would have made it to second base.

 Still, the whole time he was telling investors, including celebrities hypnotized by his cleavage, that it truly was the safest investment. But then it imploded. FTX filed for bankruptcy, leaving millions of people unable to access their funds. And the pyramid scheme was exposed like Sam's D-cups in a wet T-shirt contest. Meanwhile, actual pyramids are like, "Hey, humans, leave us out of this. And go slaves." Don't knock the pyramids. If I could afford it, I'd do the same thing for my grave. You know, they say you can't take it with you, but how does anyone know that? 

But I feel bad for Bankman because we have a lot in common. For one, we both pretend to donate money and we're both polyamorous. Although, I sleep with people. But this whole thing is a lesson in why it's good to trust your instincts when it seems like someone's more full of crap than Ana Navarro's bidet after Cinco de Mayo. That was hard to say. Thank you. You applaud over the meanest things.

And you know someone is full of it when they virtue signal. He says he's vegan. Sure. He got that fat eating vegetables. It's not possible. But that's the armor they don to protect themselves from exposing their real motives. See: Black Lives Matter. Fact is, anyone who saw this video a while back knew something was up.

NAS DAILY: Sam is not a traditional billionaire because he believes in the concept of "earn to give."

SAM BANKMAN-FRIED: Earning to give is thinking about which causes, which charities save the most lives per dollar.

NAS DAILY: Next year, he's planning to donate $500 million a year. And next decade, he will probably give away more than $10 billion. And he is funding everything you can think of. Global warming.

SAM BANKMAN-FRIED: It's one of the biggest problems that we have to tackle together as a world.

NAS DAILY: COVID-19 preparedness.

SAM BANKMAN-FRIED: We have to be ready for the next pandemic.

NAS DAILY: And of course, animal welfare. 

SAM BANKMAN-FRIED: Animals deserve to live just like we do. It's also why I'm vegan.

SAM BANKMAN-FRIED: Look, I screwed up. Like, I was CEO. I had a responsibility here. I had a responsibility to be on top of what was going on on the exchange. I wish I had done much better at that. From my understanding, there were documents drafted up, you know, by legal, that were covering what was happening. And, you know, frankly, I have sort of a tendency to be involved in many things. To be, you know, spread thin sometimes.

Spread thin? Every time I see him, I think of the slow motion opening of "Baywatch." I still do, as a matter of fact. And what of the suspicious timing of his arrest? He was supposed to testify before Congress this week. There, he would have been grilled like a half-pound patty at George Foreman's house. But now, he's exempt. Now his Democrat beneficiaries are off the hook, like the whale trappers who threw back Joy Behar. Why? No! Don't egg on my writers.

So once again, the public gets nothing. Was he spared because he has a history of donating millions to Democrat campaigns? Well, does a bear crap in the woods? Or a human who identifies as a bear? We can't say for sure. But hell, I will. After all, I'm a commentator, not an anchor. I could tie this whole thing to cattle mutilations if I want to. Tucker is not the only one who cares about cow crime.

But maybe he's being spared because he was their kind of Democrat. So they look the other way faster than Hannity when I ask him to shave my back. Unlike Elon Musk, who the Dems deem evil, even though he's trying to help shareholders, not bilk them. But that's how Dems treat someone who's fighting child porn. I guess they prefer their billionaires to be phony leftists instead of real people doing real stuff. If only someone would have questioned what this fraud was up to three years ago when he started this mess. But they were too busy trying to destroy another billionaire who was doing real stuff for the American people.

Greg Gutfeld currently serves as host of FOX News Channel's (FNC) "Gutfeld!" and co-host of "The Five"

[Drunknsubmrnr]

I had no idea billionaires used Quickbooks. I always thought they had actual accountants.

[Craiglxviii]

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[jediacademy2000]

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[OSCSSW]

One of my grand children selected a Christmas present for me. She handed it to me today because she could not wait.

I mean no disrespect to Stu Slade but I think this minion looks a lot like him.
AND his name is
STUART

[1Big Rich]

[OSCSSW]

Under the heading of "YOU just can't make this Sh!t up"
Does anyone here actually believe this bimbo has any idea what she is doing?

VP Harris blames Republicans for border crisis: 'Unwillingness to engage in any meaningful reform'
Harris was tapped by President Biden to address the root causes of the border crisis in 2021Published
By Hanna Panreck | Fox NewsDecember 20, 2022 9:41am EST

Vice President Kamala Harris blamed Republicans for the border crisis during an interview with NPR on Monday and said they were unwilling to engage on the issue. 

"And sadly, what we have seen in particular, I am sad to say, from Republicans in Congress is an unwillingness to engage in any meaningful reform that could actually fix a lot of what we are witnessing," Harris told NPR. 

Harris, who was tapped by President Biden to address the root causes of the border crisis and effectively became the "border czar" in 2021, told NPR that the White House plans to increase technology and provide more agents to help at the southern border. 

"I think that there is so much that needs to happen to address the issue," she told the outlet before adding, "Reform of our immigration system can only happen through Congress in terms of the passage of an immigration bill that allows for a legal pathway to citizenship and a legal presence in the country." 

Harris told NBC's "Meet the Press" in September that the border is secure.

"The border is secure,her exact words, I rest my case but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed," she told NBC's Chuck Todd. Even a woke moron like Todd did not buy that POS.

Todd asked if she was confident that the border is secure as millions of people were set to cross into the country illegally for the first time ever. 

"We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration," Harris replied. "But there are still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix given the deterioration that happened over the last four years. We also have to put into place a law and a plan for a pathway for citizenship for the millions of people who are here and are prepared to do what is legally required to gain citizenship."

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked an order that would lift Title 42's restrictions that allowed border officials to deter migrants throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The order was set to expire on Wednesday. 

Nineteen states asked the court to keep Title 42 in place as immigration is expected to surge when the measure expires.

White House press secretary Karine Jean Pierre Hell I've seen much brighter rocks. She is so totally clueless she actually thinks she was selected for that job because she was the most qualified and she is doing one hell of a Job. said she was unable to lay out what Harris' work on the border crisis looks like during a press briefing on Monday. 

"I don’t have anything to lay out specifically on what that work looks like," she said in response to a question about the vice president's specific role. 

[jemhouston]

Senior Chief, since the Democrats thinks California, New York, DC, Chicago, LA, and SF are well run areas which should models for the nation, they probably think she's doing a fine job.

[OSCSSW]

Senior Chief, since the Democrats thinks California, New York, DC, Chicago, LA, and SF are well run areas which should models for the nation, they probably think she's doing a fine job.

If a dog were that mad the kind thing would be to put the poor beastie out of it's misery . Enough said!