Barack Obama.
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama.
Remember that name. Thirty years from now, it just may give you the win in a game of Trivial Pursuit.
UPDATE 11/5: Okay, maybe it won’t be trivia until about 2208. Oops!
The Evil Emperor had to get his OC certification yesterday. OC spray is a military-grade Mace, and the certification process is basically just getting blasted in the face with 16% capsicum, and then running a riot-simulation obstacle course.
During the briefing, it was noted that everyone will have a different reaction to OC spray. Out of the approx. 200 guys qualifying, one of the guys said it “tingled”, 196 guys screamed like little girls, and three had their faces swell up so bad they got sent to medical. Guess which group the Evil Emperor belonged to…
One thing they tell you about OC is that you NEVER try to wash it off– water just reactivates it and makes the pain worse. So the first thing the corpsman said when the Emperor got brought into sick bay was “jeez, this guy ain’t breathing right, we’ve got to wash this stuff off!”
The Emperor related all of this last evening in a phone conversation, talking between moans and lots of F-words, interrupted occasionally as a corpsman clicked through on call-waiting to make sure he was still alive.
Another f’n beautiful day in the Corps!
Rumor has it that certain photos and video may exist of the Evil Emperor running the course…
Details to follow…
Best thing about starting up posting again?
It’s making my site traffic go down.
After all, that crazy Google Adsense revenue stream screwed my taxes all to hell last year.
to tell the difference between the right and the left: the right attacks its enemies by quoting, the left by paraphrasing.
Perhaps not the most novel of observations, but I’m really stunned how clockwork predictable and nearly universal this is. It’s why I need the extra punctuation marks in order to say that Reverend Wright said “God damn America,” but no such ornamentation is ever used when saying that John McCain said that he wants 100 years of war in Iraq. It’s why that annoying hyperbolic wingnut fanatic still manages to linkdump 10 citations that go to metrics, data, and graphs; while his lefty counterpart only ever seems to manage a link to an analysis pieces on Slate.com or Truthout.org
Oh, and noting this difference is also a good way to distinguish between fact, and “unvarnished ball-sucking twaddle,” but then I expect you have already figured that out.
when the wife and kids are still at Disneyland when I get home, there’s little more to do than hang out at Hot Air and Ace and drink…
and drink…
and drink…
and drink…
Shit. I’m in major trouble when the wife gets home.
I’m too old for this shit.