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Scheiss Meister

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  1. That one hurts a lot. Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote a huge chunk of the soundtrack for my early and middle childhood. I have almost all of the songs listed in that tweet in my music files on my tablet and desktop. I am happy to have been blessed to live at the right time to hear his awesome music, but his passing sucks.
  2. Oh, I agree that you go after the aircraft, too. Lost equipment has to be replaced, too. When supplies are more concentrated, giving more bang for the buck as it were, they are the better target.
  3. When I lived in Center, Deep East Texas, there was an old lady in her 80s who would come to a complete stop in a 45 mph zone on one of the busiest streets in town and wait until there was no oncoming traffic before turning right into her driveway. It was common to have to wait 5 or even 10 minutes for her to get off the street. The whole town breathed a sigh of relief when her son took her keys.
  4. There's some red in the smoke, too, which is a signature of nitrates burning. I think that, unlike the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Ukraine targeted both ammo and fuel storage. Airplanes and helicopters without fuel and munitions are just fancy gate guards and scrap metal.
  5. Tell him to get to a doc and get some Paxlovid. It worked for me. Also, my dad got it at 89 and whipped it without Paxlovid. He wouldn't admit he had it until he got over it, but we checked in on him frequently to make sure he got through. Tough old birds don't give a shit, I guess.
  6. Please, Mister, Please... tell me it ain't so.
  7. Pretty hard, I think. The Prowlers have been mothballed for a while, and I'm sure that the equipment for the F-18 Growlers isn't fully compatible, so re-equiping them would be an effort. Then you have to train up pilots and electronic warfare officers on equipment that is very, very different from anything they have ever seen. Finally, the Iron Hand/Wild Weasel electronic warfare mission is one of the most difficult missions to train for and execute successfully. Once Russia is pushed out, I'm sure that it's a mission that the Ukrainian Air Force takes on, but I don't think they have the time or personnel to do it now. More's the pity. That's not to say that they can't get an advantage locally with what they have that would allow close air support for ground operations in limited areas. That could be a game changer, executed judiciously and strategically.
  8. HARMs will help with establishing air superiority, if Ukraine uses them right and follows up. American-style air supremacy is probably out of reach, but even local air superiority can turn a battle.
  9. I wonder which it is. May also be a jury rig on a helicopter, which would be really wild.
  10. It's "lived in", and no one is going to park close to you.
  11. I think you misunderstood the tweet. The Canucks are deploying to the UK to help train troops, not UK. Slight difference. But I would be shocked if we don't have spooks and operators all over Ukraine. We'll just never hear about it.
  12. Look at this wrong son of a bitch. There's water falling from the sky in 77868. It won't be much, but I'll take it!
  13. I can see the tops of those clouds from Navasota, and I know without doubt that I won't get a drop of it on my place. I hope you get some at yours.
  14. That looks like the projectile that hits the IFV is coming in relatively slowly, then shoots the penatrating portion into the target at high speed. Does that look like a brilliant munition to anyone else? ETA - Ukraine must have pretty good control of the airspace over that tank column. I counted at least ten tanks moving in route column on a road and closely spaced, in wide open country. That is a juicy target for any aircraft, manned or unmanned, and they are diddy bopping along like they're on parade. Unless they are in the western half of Ukraine, that's encouraging.
  15. Until I see anything different, I think one win better than last season is pretty optimistic, so 6.
  16. This one's on me. I didn't lock down the lid like I should have, and raccoons are too smart to give them an opening like that. It/they did the deed while I was asleep. I know it's a raccoon from tracks in the sand near the can. Annoying, but not worth shooting anything.
  17. If that dog was really interested in hurting him, Nick would have been in trouble. The dog acted to drive him out, not to attack him.
  18. Nothing starts your day quite like finding your garbage strewn across the yard when you step out to head to work. I normally like trash pandas, but they better give me a wide berth today.
  19. For some there can be no finding out without fucking around.
  20. Re the second floor HIMARS: "How did you get that big ol' Harley up on the high dive, Coy?"
  21. Serbs are clients and allies of Russia and are trying to stir shit in the Balkans to distract NATO from Ukraine and increase the likelihood of general conflict spreading. Problem for the Serbs is that a) Russia doesn't have the arms and supplies to send that they used to, b) with the sanctions it would be much harder for the Russians to get anything of significance to Serbia, and c) Serbia would basically be facing NATO alone. This is like the saber-rattling that Belarus has been doing: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. @The Dog is quicker and more succinct.
  22. Wait, they used Kyler Murray as a model for Satan in the old Star Trek animated series? How? He wasn't born yet.
  23. I was in a beach side bar in Oceanside with some other Marines and a guy came in, sat down, then started twitching his legs like frog legs in a hot pan. I wondered two things: what is he on, and how many of John Wesley Hardin's victims just happened to do that around him and that set him off? Wierd and annoying.
  24. Cody Lee Porter and Heidi Kuntze Porter are disgusting pieces of shit, and deserve a good deal of pain. Reading between the lines, it seems to me that they were torturing his brother and her son. I also would not be at all surprised to learn that their victim has special needs. Good Lord, some people suck.
  25. I just got the results from my fourth Cares draw, and I'm a little confused. S protein is >2500 (booster in early November), N protein is 1.0, but they say that's negative for the N protein. The confusion is because I tested positive almost three weeks ago. The symptoms were pretty mild, especially after I started on Paxlovid, but there should still be some N protein present, shouldn't there? Or could the Paxlovid done the work and I just didn't have to make many antibodies? Maybe it's just too soon after the infection. I don't know what to think.
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