Subdeacon Joe
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27 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Better planning by REQUIRING cleanup of power right of ways, mantaining fire breaks, building reliable flood and water control facilities and infrastructure, and mandating responsible forestry would have prevented much, if not all of the current disaster!
Our state DOES require cleanup of the power transmission lines and rights of ways. Unfortunately the self proclaimed environmentalists hinder it with lawsuits and protests.
Even while the 2020 Glass Incident Fires were destroying homes and businesses in Sonoma and Napa Counties idiots in, I think, Placer County were climbing trees to prevent PG&E from clearing the lines there. At the same time people and members of our Legislature were demanding PG&E underground their transmission lines, "environmentalists" were doing all they legally could do prevent it.
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17 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
You’d think that they would have planned a little better and had some foresight . This wasn’t the first fire they’ve had. Granted this was a bad one with the winds and all but I still think better planning could have minimized the damage. Just MHO
The only "planned a little better" would have been stopping all construction half a century ago.
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Morons with drones ground tankers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sopfeu-plane-grounded-1.7427777
A Quebec water bomber fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was grounded on Thursday after it collided with a drone flying in restricted airspace, officials said.
The plane, known as Quebec 1, "sustained wing damage and remains grounded and out of service" following the incident, which occurred at 1 p.m. local time, the L.A. County Fire Department said in a statement.
The fire department released photos of the plane, including one showing a hole in its wing. It said the plane was struck by "a civilian drone" and remains "out of service."
If caught the idjits should be part of the next drop.
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If you ever saw Kaopectate you've had kaolin.
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Perfectly cooked and expertly carved!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEkZpTtOCXK/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Hey! Who leaked that?
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12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
They were cowboys from the wild woods and prairies, and sons of the low class planters, with a strong sprinkling of the low white trash clay eaters, so plentiful in the Atlantic Southern States."
After the War of 1861 many former Confederate soldiers, men who had lost family and farms to the predations of federal armies, carpetbaggers, and assorted scalawags migrated West and ended up in Texas and employed as cowboys.
As did many former slaves. Depending on the source cited somewhere around 25% of cowboys were Negros. As an aside, about 15% were Mexican. So, contrary to the Hollywood image, close to half of the men doing that job were not White Texans.
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24 minutes ago, Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 said:
Taught ROTC at a small baptist college in the Appalachians in Kentucky during the mid 80s. The students were always yakking about their southern heritage. I had a great time pointing out that a Union regiment was formed in the area we were at so they were all Yankees. Didn't hear much about the Civil War after that..
Kentucky was a border state that that tried to stay neutral. She was invaded and occupied by both the federal military and Confederate forces. She raised a moderate number of Confederate regiments as well as Federal ones. Drawing on memory, 25,000 to 40,000 for the Confederates, 75,000 to 100,000 for the Federals.
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5 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
Or ...going to water the lillies
Trimming the verge, as Samwise put it.
3 minutes ago, Alpo said:Generally we just say that I got to take a leak.
Saying you have to see a man about a dog is used in mixed company.
Why would you need other terms?
For 40 years or so I've used, "I need to priv."
As to why have other terms, they're just gathered here and there, from this one and that one. Makes it more interesting.
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3 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Never heard any of those euphemisms. The closest we come to down here - if I am understanding what you were speaking about correctly - is see a man about a dog.
Sheltered life, eh?
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5 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
There was a guy on Fox News that lost his house in that Tubbs fire and now his house in this fire! Talk about bad luck! Poor guy 😳
I don't remember if it was the Tubbs, Kincaid, or Glass fire, but a doctor lost a home up here in Sonoma County and a month or two later lost the new house in a Malibu fire.
And in the Tubbs fire several firefighters lost theirs as they were trying to save others.
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What I find interesting is that this native of the Once Golden State has known the phrase and meaning for about half a century.
I don't recall where I first heard it.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
I started to ask about that leaking fence post, but then I decided it was a typo and it was leaning.
Nope...leaking. Turn his bicycle around. Spend a penny. See a man about a horse. Visit the library. Consult the privy council. Avail himself of the euphemism.
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I'll admit that I don't care much for the roles he played. He played them well, but his characters never resonated with me.
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3 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
....... did he actually find out why that fence post was leaking ?
He did,but he had to spend a penny.
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20 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
WTH is a “clay eater”?
I wonder what those Cowboys would think about Cowboy Action Shooting today…wimpy loads and breath-breath distance targets?Probably might whip out their own hog-legs and acquire themselves some nifty new guns and snappy duds.
A derogatory term for southrons. Usually suggesting poor, uneducated, and superstitious.
https://myjrpaper.com/node/6632https://www.jstor.org/stable/2206950
https://bittersoutherner.com/eat-white-dirt
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-american-south-is-still-eating-white-dirt/
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The Essex class aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) passing through the Panama Canal In 1947. She is carrying an carrying an unusual airgroup for an aircraft carrier, six Douglas R4D-5L transports. These aircraft, variants of the famous Douglas C-47 Skytrain, were destined for the Antarctic where they would take part in Operation High Jump.Operation Highjump was Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's scientific expedition to the frozen continent in 1947 for exploration and mapping purposes. Once Philippine Sea arrived in Antarctica, she launched these aircraft to support the expedition ashore.
Navy General Board ·
FollowAfter the last post with USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), I figured I would address the Elephant in the room before I was inevitably asked.Specifically, how did the Navy launch an aircraft as large as a C-47 from an Essex class aircraft carrier?You might be drawing some parallels between this and the Doolittle Raid. USS USS Hornet launched a batch of B-25 bombers. USS Philippine Sea probably did it in the same manner right?Not quite. The C-47 was a much larger aircraft compared to a B-25. Where a B-25 was 52' in length and with a wingspan of 67', the C-47 was 63' in length and 95' from wingtip to wingtip.Okay, but the Essex class were bigger than USS Hornet was. Surely that made up for it?Again, not quite!The Douglas R4D-5Ls were just a bit too big to safely launch conventionally. The wingspan was just large enough that there was a very real possibility that the wingtip could strike the island as the aircraft rumbled down the flightdeck.For this reason, the aircraft could only take off from the forward half of the carrier's flightdeck, leaving them about 400' of usable flight deck.How did they take off?Rockets!JATO (Jet-Assisted Take-Off) Rockets were strapped to the underside of each R4D, allowing them to get up to speed so they can safely take off.The rockets worked well, allowing all of the R4Ds to safely take-off without mishap. They would go on to be instrumental in Operation Highjump, allowing the expedition to map out hundreds of thousands of miles of new territory.
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It was a brisk morning on the set of *Only the Lonely*, the kind of day that hinted at a storm brewing—not in the sky, but in the undercurrents of the production crew. The clamor of cameras being adjusted, lines rehearsed, and coffee cups being passed around filled the air. Amid this controlled chaos stood Maureen O’Hara, a living legend, Hollywood royalty whose name evoked golden-age cinema. But here she was, relegated to a trailer that could generously be described as modest. More accurately, it was a cramped, barely functional box that seemed to mock her illustrious career.
John Candy, the film’s star, noticed it immediately. His towering frame and warm demeanor made him the unofficial big brother of the set, someone who believed in fairness and respect. Candy couldn’t ignore the injustice. O’Hara, a woman who had starred opposite John Wayne and carried films with her fiery charisma, deserved better. Yet, when he approached the producers about the issue, their response was cold and transactional. The budget, they claimed, was stretched thin, prioritizing the film over “extras” like accommodations for “old movie stars.”
Candy’s good-natured smile faded, replaced by a steely determination. Without a word, he walked to his own trailer—a spacious, well-appointed haven that was everything O’Hara’s wasn’t. He gathered his things, handed the keys to O’Hara, and announced that she would be using it from now on. Candy, ever the gentleman, decided he could manage without a trailer at all. For days, he lounged in folding chairs between takes, reading scripts in the open air and cracking jokes with the crew to keep spirits high.
O’Hara, at first reluctant to accept, was visibly moved. She later described Candy as “a true gentleman” whose kindness reminded her of the camaraderie from her early days in Hollywood. Word of Candy’s gesture spread like wildfire across the set, causing a ripple of discomfort among the producers. This wasn’t just a minor protest—it was a statement, one impossible to ignore.
The pressure mounted as whispers turned into outright criticism. If John Candy, the film’s leading man, was willing to go without basic comforts, what did that say about the studio’s treatment of its actors? It didn’t take long for the producers to relent. A new trailer, appropriately comfortable, was brought in for O’Hara, and Candy finally got his space back. But the story didn’t end there.
O’Hara would go on to speak fondly of Candy in interviews, calling him one of the kindest people she’d ever met. For Candy, it wasn’t a grand act of defiance but a simple decision rooted in decency. “It just didn’t sit right with me,” he would later say, brushing off the incident as no big deal. Yet, for those who worked with him, it was a defining moment, a glimpse into the soul of a man who understood the value of respect, no matter the cost.
The story became a quiet legend in Hollywood, a rare reminder that even in an industry often criticized for its ruthlessness, moments of true humanity could shine through. For Candy, it wasn’t about earning applause; it was about standing up for someone who deserved it. And for O’Hara, it was a testament to the kind of character that wasn’t written in scripts but lived in the hearts of those who cared.
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Found on Facebook: "This 1871 description of Texas cowboys is OUTSTANDING! "They were a mixed class with very little good in the mixture.....The masses of them wore spurs on their heels, generally the immense wheel-spur, and though they were not born with them on, yet they might as well have been, for they not only rode in them, but walked in them, ate in them, and slept in them. Their clanking as they walked was like a man in chains. They wore belts around the waist, suspending one or two revolvers and a bowie knife, were experts in the saddle, and had a reckless daredevil look, and were always ready for whiskey and a big chew of tobacco, and the handwriting of passion and appetite was all over them. They were cowboys from the wild woods and prairies, and sons of the low class planters, with a strong sprinkling of the low white trash clay eaters, so plentiful in the Atlantic Southern States."
------- Thomas North, "Five Years in Texas", published in 1871. I read the part about low class clay eaters and thought "Wait a minute ... those are my people!""
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2 hours ago, watab kid said:
i think she has a great palleyt - im fond of that as well , i never tried making it always ordered out
It's not really difficult to make, just seems like a lot of steps, even though it's no more steps than bacon, eggs, and hash browns. To me the worst step is poaching the eggs.
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17 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:
It's amazing that they were able to escape with their lives.
Thanks for the video, it was horribly enlightening.
It's amazing how fast these fires can spread.
Timeline of the 2017 Tubbs fire
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Los Angeles wildfires
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Emotionally I agree with you, but, as I've said before, emotion makes for bad law. How much unopposed power do we want to vest in the State to put down protest we don't like? Do we place a prohibition on lawsuits? Remember how outraged we were when we saw pro-2nd Amendment demonstrations quashed while leftist riots were allowed.
Now, I can see legal protection for persons, both individuals and corporations, who are required to clear trees and brush, who after warnings and a reasonable time for the protesters to leave go ahead with trimming and felling. If the protesters are injured it's their own fault.