Committee for Armed Forces Radio in GITMO to determine a new logo and motto, following State Department request.
Also, no more “We’re close, but no cigar” from station DJs.
"’Since there is not an appointed timeline or issued guidance from the [Department of Defense or State Department] regarding the normalization of relations with Cuba, we are not hard-pressed at the moment to make sudden changes,’ said Steven Jaquin, the officer in charge of Armed Forces Network at Guantanamo. ‘The simple answer is, “Yes, we are going to change the motto and logo.” When? That remains to be determined.’"
https://news.vice.com/article/want-a-fidel-castro-bobblehead-better-get-to-guantanamo-bay-fast?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
Link at https://news.vice.com/article/want-a-fidel-castro-bobblehead-better-get-to-guantanamo-bay-fast?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
How about “AFN Bendover.”
(Search did not hit on any other AFN GTMO changes.
(Also, "Backyard" should be "Back Yard." "Backyard" is an adjective, as in "backyard barbecue" or "backyard pool.")
Friday, May 8, 2015
Once and present governor to environmentalists:
“Shut up, because you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”
All in jest, of course.
Once in a while, Gov. Brown makes sense.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/05/07/jerry-brown-to-environmentalist-water-tunnel-critics-shut-up/
All in jest, of course.
Once in a while, Gov. Brown makes sense.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/05/07/jerry-brown-to-environmentalist-water-tunnel-critics-shut-up/
Franco: What McDonald’s did for me. Writer: No, he’s got it all wrong
Here’s a guy says he couldn’t find a job. A friend asked, “Are you too good to work for McDonald’s?”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/07/mcdonalds-was-there-for-me-when-no-one-else-was/
Writer says Franco’s story is nice, but it doesn’t cover all aspects of fast food operations and wages, and the industry yadda yadda yadda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/07/what-james-franco-gets-wrong-about-working-for-mcdonalds/
Not only did McDonald’s give Franco a job, the franchise cured him of vegetarianism. Now that’s an accomplishment.
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/07/mcdonalds-was-there-for-me-when-no-one-else-was/
Writer says Franco’s story is nice, but it doesn’t cover all aspects of fast food operations and wages, and the industry yadda yadda yadda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/07/what-james-franco-gets-wrong-about-working-for-mcdonalds/
Not only did McDonald’s give Franco a job, the franchise cured him of vegetarianism. Now that’s an accomplishment.
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
Here be camels, and one-handed baseball catches
Satellite photo of Zip Code 77778 in Saudi Arabia.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/77778,+Saudi+Arabia/@30.9184903,38.4668438,5297m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x1511e4c3268aea77:0x6cde40eb9ede2eec
An option on the drop down is search for nearby hotels and restaurants.
Zoom out a couple of times shows tracks and evidence of water flow.
(Some people have too much time on their hands. Well, that old saying has to do with people who are not “productive,” who are not cutting down trees or building house foundations or selling goods at the town hardware store. It’s like 50-plus years ago when baseball coaches yelled, “Use two hands!” when a player caught a fly ball and did not cover the ball with his free hand. That old saying came from the days when it was almost impossible to catch a fly or pop up with only the glove hand; a player had to let the ball hit the middle of the glove and then slap his free hand over the ball to keep the ball in the glove. Sometimes a today player will drop a ball because he failed to use his free hand, but that does not often happen. An old infielder said ballplayers of his time did not dive after hit balls, because the best they could do was maybe knock it down. No way would they catch the thing with gloves worn then, and there was always the possibility of injury. So, because of modern gloves, today’s overpaid players take more chances for injury than did players of the 1940s and 1950s.)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/77778,+Saudi+Arabia/@30.9184903,38.4668438,5297m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x1511e4c3268aea77:0x6cde40eb9ede2eec
An option on the drop down is search for nearby hotels and restaurants.
Zoom out a couple of times shows tracks and evidence of water flow.
(Some people have too much time on their hands. Well, that old saying has to do with people who are not “productive,” who are not cutting down trees or building house foundations or selling goods at the town hardware store. It’s like 50-plus years ago when baseball coaches yelled, “Use two hands!” when a player caught a fly ball and did not cover the ball with his free hand. That old saying came from the days when it was almost impossible to catch a fly or pop up with only the glove hand; a player had to let the ball hit the middle of the glove and then slap his free hand over the ball to keep the ball in the glove. Sometimes a today player will drop a ball because he failed to use his free hand, but that does not often happen. An old infielder said ballplayers of his time did not dive after hit balls, because the best they could do was maybe knock it down. No way would they catch the thing with gloves worn then, and there was always the possibility of injury. So, because of modern gloves, today’s overpaid players take more chances for injury than did players of the 1940s and 1950s.)
Thursday, May 7, 2015
H. Clinton was right
Accused of not doing enough when three Americans were killed in Libya, she asked, “What difference does it make now?” The same question is relevant to accusations she and her husband used the U.S. Department of State to get hundreds of millions of dollars into the family foundation.
‘Rapacious Vermin’
“I don’t think any of it matters. The American media is too morally compromised when it comes to the Clintons to turn on them now. The political class is long past policing themselves. The people bankrolling Hillary don’t care that she is a sociopath. In fact, they prefer it. If your plan is to auction off what remains of the country it’s better to have someone in the White House who is a moral nullity.”
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
‘Rapacious Vermin’
“I don’t think any of it matters. The American media is too morally compromised when it comes to the Clintons to turn on them now. The political class is long past policing themselves. The people bankrolling Hillary don’t care that she is a sociopath. In fact, they prefer it. If your plan is to auction off what remains of the country it’s better to have someone in the White House who is a moral nullity.”
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Obama’s people were like, ‘Damn! Why can’t we do that?’
“Chinese authorities have ordered Muslim shopkeepers and restaurant owners in a village in its troubled Xinjiang region to sell alcohol and cigarettes, and promote them in ‘eye-catching displays,’ in an attempt to undermine Islam’s hold on local residents, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. Establishments that failed to comply were threatened with closure and their owners with prosecution.
“Facing widespread discontent over its repressive rule in the mainly Muslim province of Xinjiang, and mounting violence in the past two years, China has launched a series of ‘strike hard’ campaigns to weaken the hold of Islam in the western region. Government employees and children have been barred from attending mosques or observing the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. In many places, women have been barred from wearing face-covering veils, and men discouraged from growing long beards.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
http://muslimglobalnews.com/breaking-news/china-orders-muslim-shopkeepers-to-sell-alcohol-cigarettes-to-weaken-islam/
“Facing widespread discontent over its repressive rule in the mainly Muslim province of Xinjiang, and mounting violence in the past two years, China has launched a series of ‘strike hard’ campaigns to weaken the hold of Islam in the western region. Government employees and children have been barred from attending mosques or observing the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. In many places, women have been barred from wearing face-covering veils, and men discouraged from growing long beards.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
http://muslimglobalnews.com/breaking-news/china-orders-muslim-shopkeepers-to-sell-alcohol-cigarettes-to-weaken-islam/
Green, Madison. Why not Orange?
Orange, Texas, Zip Code 77631. Originally (1836) called Green Bluff, in 1840 changed to Madison in honor of the president. Confusion reigned in mail delivery, given confusion with already formed Texas town of Madisonville. So the name was changed to Orange. Sure. Why not. But, why not Burnt Orange or Red Orange?
The 2010 census shows the population as 18,595. During the last numbered world war, more than 60,000 people lived there.
TSHA says the city was named Orange because of “an orange grove owned by George Patillo.”
Orange County, of which the City of Orange is county seat, was “named after the orange fruit, the common citrus fruit grown by the early settlers of this County near the mouth of the Sabine River.” Farmers no longer grow oranges in Orange County, because of “periodic spells of quite cold weather (frosts) …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_Texas
So, almost 200 years ago, the climate was conducive for oranges, but between then and some unspecified date, weather became too cold for citrus production. Hmm. The weather became too cold.
As with many riverside, state boundary cities, Orange had its share of bad guys, or as TSHA says, “Because of its relative isolation on the Louisiana border, the community became a stopping place for outlaws and renegades interested in crossing the Sabine River into Texas.”
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rrg04
There are a lot of places you don’t want to mess around in, and any Texas town that borders Louisiana, or vice versa, makes that “Don’t Mess With” list. From Texarkana to Orange, you get swamps and deep woods and the accompanying wildlife, human and non-. (Texarkana does not physically border Louisiana, but the Pelican State has influenced the Texas-Arkansas population.)
The 2010 census shows the population as 18,595. During the last numbered world war, more than 60,000 people lived there.
TSHA says the city was named Orange because of “an orange grove owned by George Patillo.”
Orange County, of which the City of Orange is county seat, was “named after the orange fruit, the common citrus fruit grown by the early settlers of this County near the mouth of the Sabine River.” Farmers no longer grow oranges in Orange County, because of “periodic spells of quite cold weather (frosts) …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_Texas
So, almost 200 years ago, the climate was conducive for oranges, but between then and some unspecified date, weather became too cold for citrus production. Hmm. The weather became too cold.
As with many riverside, state boundary cities, Orange had its share of bad guys, or as TSHA says, “Because of its relative isolation on the Louisiana border, the community became a stopping place for outlaws and renegades interested in crossing the Sabine River into Texas.”
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rrg04
There are a lot of places you don’t want to mess around in, and any Texas town that borders Louisiana, or vice versa, makes that “Don’t Mess With” list. From Texarkana to Orange, you get swamps and deep woods and the accompanying wildlife, human and non-. (Texarkana does not physically border Louisiana, but the Pelican State has influenced the Texas-Arkansas population.)
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