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El Diablo

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  1. On 12/28/2021 at 12:00 PM, Lobo said:

    If you paid attention dammit, my mock conversation was the guys in the light house saying (in the Usted). "I see you're headed to Iraq."  They're using maps of the coastline/lighthouse, not charts.  ;)  Plus they've been drinking beers apparently.  

    And no, you don't "head down the coast of Spain to transit the Strait of Gibraltar" from Galicia.  Your chart should tell you that littoral zone isn't 'Spain', it's called Portugal.  If you must stereotype, call it the Iberian Coastline, but you don't run your fleet along "the coast of Spain" to get down to Gibraltar.  But yes Commander, otherwise...it's a perfectly valid course to get to Iraqi airspace via the Mediterranean Sea.  I just didn't want your destroyer to embarrass NATO by radioing in at the Farol de Cabo in Spanish, and insulting our Portuguese friends by asking, "Espanoles de Costa...esta es la ruta a Gibraltar, si?"  It's their coastline, they like their language way more than Spanish.  The old saying goes, "Nobody gets to the Rock but through Us (the Portuguese)."   The Portuguese were once the most vaunted Navy the world have ever known, show some respect.  ;)  

    If steaming from the US a ship will inchop at Rota Spain, then head south and take a left at Gibraltar into the Med. At least that's the way it was 40 years ago. 

  2. I had never used Flonase until this year. Had it at the house but never had used it. I broke into it about a month ago and I think it's kept me alive the last week or so. I take a Zyrtec a day from November until March and that's usually adequate for me but with the added daily nasal blast I'm feeling pretty bulletproof. 

  3. 8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    So one of my wife's medical assistants has fever and is symptomatic and her husband just tested positive for COVID, but they say she has to stay at work or she wont get her holiday pay at all.  This is what happens when corporations take over healthcare.  Good work idiots.

     

    We have similar guidelines wrt to holidays. Pretty sure at least we could go see a doc and that would cover the unplanned absence.

  4. On 12/25/2021 at 11:01 AM, TXSG8R said:

    Yea, it was really weird, even more so with the complete lack of anything to get into the facility. I can’t even get into the VA parking lot without a temp check and question screening. 

    Which VA facility? Doris Miller here in Waco stopped that earlier this year, during the summer maybe? As far as I've seen only the clinic has anyone taking temps and doing questioning upon entry. Other buildings, Blind rehab, physical rehab, hell even the building they're using for COVID shots, aren't doing the screening upon entry. 

  5. I want to know more about this gun running SEAL. We had some sailors selling fake ID's when I was stationed in San Diego, they were paper pushers with access to that sort of thing. And while that's pretty despicable for US military personnel, weapons seem like another level. 

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  6. Empire of the Summer Moon on audio book earlier this month. Fascinating stuff to me in part because my paternal grandfather was born somewhere around Evant in 1866 and the later events in the 1870's would have been a very real part of his life. He died some 20 years before I was born but being only a single generation removed I felt a very real connection and an appreciation for my own dad's upbringing by a man who had lived during such times. 

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