Scott is back with audio only from his high-security compound located at an undisclosed location in South America, Bill is concerned about combat readiness (as usual) and Steve brings us the latest weak tea slur against Florida Governor Rhonda Santis… GET IT?!! All this and so much less on this edition of Right Angle: Backstage, made possible by you.
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The primary difference between the N.A. and S.A. settlers was that the S.A. settlers came in search of gold, and the N.A. settlers came in search of God.When I was on the USS JFK in the early 80’s, we were still recovering from the Resident Carter debacle, and obesity was common. We had one senior chief who died of a heart attack in his rack because he was so huge.
A particularly pun-filled Backstage. Duty bound, HA!
absolutely you should have the isolated woman on the show
Campaign yard signs make great post-election target boards out at the range!
I have lived alone in deep wilderness for extended periods of time before, and only spoke out loud to swear, due to missteps and other accidents, such that my voice was noticeably different (sounded like Red Green, I was told) for a week or so after returning to civilization.
Your campaign signs note cracked me up. I’ve been doing that for my gun club for some time now. Can’t wait until the next campaign to be over!!
One of the best things I did (while still living in CA) during the “pandemic” was to visit this
website:www.fakemaskworldwide.com
and buy a mask that doesn’t restrict my breathing, doesn’t capture CO2, and is in full compliance with all stupid mask laws!
Tha one I have, you can clearly see my mouth through the mesh. It annoys the hell out of the sheep, and has gained me the admiration of several like-minded individuals.
To those who complain, I explain that the mask I have on is in compliance with all mask regulations, and is just as effective as the muzzle that they have strapped to their own face.
Ain’t I a stinker?
At the beginning of this, when businesses were being persnickety around here, I wore a bandana like I was Butch Cassidy. Was going to add a holstered gun (open carry is legal where I live) but my wife convinced me that some idiot would probably see what my limits were as people were extra crazy at the time. I think she was correct in her assessment.
I wore the bandanna, and joked that two years earlier had I walked into a bank like that, they would have called the cops, but at the time if I would have walked in without it, they would have called the cops.
On a lighter note than my previous mini-rant (yes, that was mini; it was only 1 topic and a few paragraphs. ACTS(TM) would have written 14 and , well, leave me alone) if Scott can find a wig and a burgundy bathrobe, I have a great idea for his next Halloween costume.
After much physical therapy, especially on my wife’s part, this year; she and I have recently made a concerted effort to go the a gym together. I state that not to brag, I am still and will be much too round a shape to brag about anything physical.
I say that to say this:
How the hell can people exercise with a F&^(ing mask over their nose and mouth?
Do you not understand 1) the mask does nothing to protect you 2) the extra CO2 you are inhaling while exercising is extremely detrimental to your health 3) you look like a blooming idiot and 4) just WTF???
There always seem to be 3 or 4 people lifting or on the treadmill in a mask. Really! If you are that scared of the public, stay home. Embrace your agoraphobia, anthropophobia, or nosophobia and just stay home.
(BTW – as the current safety person at work, I see people on a treadmill or stationary bike with a mask on and I really want the staff to stop them as it is a safety hazard. If they fall and get hurt I am sure that they would sue the gym.)
So, it surprises me not at all that on his way to a backwater country (BTW, Scott, if you really want to keep your location secret, stop dropping so many clues. One need not be Poirot or Holmes to narrow it down, especially when you give out city names.) that he had to don a mask on the plane but not in the terminal. Airplanes cycle through the air volume pretty frequently compared to say, you home. Else all those people in a tube exhaling would really take its toll.
At this point, the mask is like the Jewish yarmulke, you wear it to show that you are part of that religion. As I’ve mentioned before – to your disgust – the mask does keep our fingers out of noses more frequently, the only reason masks “work” to any degree at all.
That I agree with especially after watching some other drivers on my way to work yesterday. (Auto glass is see through, folks, both ways!)
But watching someone pass out (or even get a little light headed from reduced O2) on a treadmill is not high up on my list of things to have happen.
Less than sanguine on the staffs’ ability to perform adequate first aid. My kit from my certification is in the car, but maybe I ought to see what they have for lacerations in their cabinet.
Given the age of the clientele (broad but lots of people “of a certain age”) perhaps I should see if they have a defibrillator on site and note its location.
The funniest the other day was the guy with a mask and glasses on. I know he couldn’t see through the fog on his lenses.
Scott’s recognition of the reasons for my participation on these comments was a little too close to home. (Although I think I’m up to 27 articles on American Thinker, so I actually do “participate” in these topics outside the comments section). Bill’s knowledge that I frequently haven’t finished listening to the entire piece before typing a response was too true as well.
Pardon moi’ (?sp.?)
Small children in especially useless cloth masks is horrible to see.
Does this bill allow women who claim to be boys to transfer to the men’s prison? Or can they transfer to the boys’ juvie hall?
I just rewatched “Arthur” a few weeks ago. Yes, it held up well!
Best line: “This is a goner!”
“Normally, one would go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature”
Speaking about “facilities”, when my wife and I were at the train station in Lake Cuomo in Northern Italy, I went to use the restroom and encountered a hole to squat over. Lake Cuomo is one of the most civilized places in the world. (I live on the Appalachian equivalent of ‘Lake Cuomo’ currently). Steve’s right. No lingering.
Saw the same thing in Rome in the late 80s. Took a picture of it to show people as it was pretty hard to describe if you hadn’t seen it.
Reading the linked article before commenting is such a rookie move
Scott, in current year, I would not be at all surprised to see an Afghan war vet running for office… who fought for the other side. And for that guy to win.
Working a flight deck may seem like fun, Steve, but I used to work about a mile off the end of the flight line at Miramar. Those F-18s were cool for about a week. After that, they were just noisy.
My brother met his wife at a bowling alley so the Arthur line was cause for much family mirth when it came out.
The Burgess Meredith episode ‘ Time enough at last ‘ was aired Nov. 20, 1959, a few months earlier a few friends and I attended a quiz show taping that he was on and waited at the stage door for autographs, he came out and spoke with us for a while, very nice man considering we were a bunch of 12 year old street urchins. But in that episode the character appears to be at the 42St and 5th Ave library in Manhattan, there has to be dozens of optometry shops nearby where he could have found glasses amid the rubble.
Agreed. I feel like his problem had a couple of solutions. Even a magnifying glass would help.
The one thing I do miss living in LA is the lemon trees in every house I rented. I had no idea what a lemon cost till I moved back to TX.
The SpaceX launch has been scheduled for 4/20/23 at 5AM if you want to view the latest attempt of a launch.
Just before I sat down to watch this, I went to the grocery store. A whole group of people had masks on. Loud, obnoxious, and even one, double masked. One had a complete winter face mask over top…lol. All you can do is pray for them. They’re dangerously on the verge of cognitive dissonance.
When trolls criticize, it’s to exalt themselves, when supporters do it, it’s to exalt the content provider. The difference is, it’s constructive and meant with the best intentions. You’ll know them by their fruits, essentially.
What if North really isn’t North, and we’ve been upside down all this time? lol
Don’t credit me, I think that might have been a “Deep Thoughts: with Jack Handey” work.
We had a problem during the Mariel boatlift with the refugees tossing tp into waste cans at Eglin AFB. It turns out the Cuban used smaller diameter pipes. And the Soviet made toilet paper can deflect radar guided missiles. A few signs cured the problem.
What did the signs say? I ran into Scott’s problem here in the good ol’ US of A. LA and Orange County have large Asian immigrant populations, and I always saw those trash cans next to the toilets in any Asian restaurant in the area.
I wanted to put up signs that stated, “This is the USA! Our plumbing works, so kindly put the TP in the DAM TOILET where it belongs!”
If I remember right. It was similar to what you said. But more Picard than Kirk.
“ Soviet made toilet paper can deflect radar guided missiles“
A remarkable mental image! I’ve never had the ‘pleasure’ of encountering Soviet TP. Thankfully.