little_old_man

This was before I quit smoking and put on a bunch of weight.

On a related note, Jon Stewart just announced that he's leaving the Daily Show at the end of the year. He also said that unlike Colbert who's character pretended to be a conservative, he is tired of living in character as a liberal and will be joining the Jeb Bush presidential election campaign.

Yep just saw that as well. My guess is that he'll never come back since his reputation is seriously tarnished. If it were me I would take my millions and quietly retire out of the limelight, maybe grow a full beard and shave my head, too embarrassed to show my face in public again.

Yeah I know who you're talking about Radar and he's not an XI member. People don't seem to realize that it's a 2 way street depending on which way you are facing when you spawn. You can kill somebody before they know you are there, or they can kill you if you aren't facing them when you spawn. It all works out in the end. TDM has spawn protection, but I think I hate that more than not having it. The people spawning have a distinct advantage being invisible for a couple seconds.

Personally I feel that the funniest part of this entire fiasco are the people on the left trying to justify what Williams did by making constant references to FOX News, Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbagh. They're tripping over each other trying to deflect from what is really happening, which is that their golden child Brian Williams not only lied about a news story to inflate his ego, but it looks like he did it on several occasions and regarding a number of different stories. There is no reality in news, it's all smoke & mirrors regardless of where you get your news from. With any luck if you gather news from enough different sources, somewhere in there you might actually get the real story.

I really want to believe that it's real, but there have been too many instances of these things being a hoax which makes it difficult to believe any of them. The kid who supposedly died, went to heaven and then was brought back was in the news for the last couple of years, wrote a best selling book with his dad, and they even made a movie about it. Then last month the kid admitted he made it all up for attention.

The pilot would have needed his windshield wipers from the shit and piss flying through the air had it been me.

It's easy to make Walmart out as the evil bad guy, but the fact of the matter is that they employ 1% of the US population and many of the talking points you guys have listed simply aren't true. Those figures that actually are close to correct also apply to Target, McDonalds and many other low paying companies. The number of Walmart employees on food stamps is more like 15% and not 99% as cited above. The dead peasant life insurance (something that is common and those of us in the business call key man insurance) ended in the mid 1990's and didn't apply to every store across the country. There are a number of other inaccuracies but I'm simply not going to take the time to research each one. I can tell you that I live in a major metropolitan area with a few million other people and the closest Walmart to me is 35 minutes away. There are however 4 Target stores within 20 minutes of me. The fact of the matter is that there are millions of unskilled workers in the US making at or below the federal minimum wage, and if many of them didn't work at places like Walmart, Target, or McDonalds then they probably wouldn't be working at all and 100% of them would be on Welfare and food stamps. As long as we continue our transformation from a manufacturing country to a consumer country, expect it all to get much worse.

I had my wife print it out without the answers at the bottom. Sadly, I missed one. I couldn't remember how to spell my last name at the top.

Here is the actual account of what really happened as told by soldiers who were there. Brian Williams "embellished" the story from the very beginning and the lies snowballed as the years passed. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/business/media/soldiers-in-brian-williams-group-give-account-of-2003-events.html?_r=0 Soldiers in Brian Williams’s Group Give Account of 2003 Helicopter Attack In the earliest days of the Iraq war, in March 2003, two convoys of helicopters left a base in Kuwait, flying toward Najaf and the front line. One convoy was hit by enemy fire, and the other was not, according to four people present that day. What happened to those helicopters has since become a matter of dispute. Brian Williams, the NBC News anchor, was embedded on one of those missions. In an initial report, broadcast in 2003, NBC’s Tom Brokaw described “a close call in the skies over Iraq.” Mr. Williams said, “The Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky.” In the years since, Mr. Williams adapted the story to say that he was actually on a helicopter that crash-landed after taking enemy fire. He apologized for the mistake on Wednesday, but since then, as the controversy over Mr. Williams escalated, conflicting accounts have emerged of what actually happened. On Friday, NBC News said it would begin an internal investigation that would review the Iraq episode and other reporting by Mr. Williams. The following account is based on interviews with four soldiers: Christopher Simeone and Allan Kelly, who say they flew Mr. Williams, and Jerry Pearman and Joe Summerlin, who were part of the mission that was shot down. (Mr. Pearman and Mr. Summerlin also gave an account at the time of the episode in 2003 to the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes.) Three Chinook helicopters of the 11th Aviation Task Force left the base first, the four men said. They were carrying heavy loads of Apache helicopter parts, slung beneath them. They were flying 50 to 100 feet above the desert at more than 100 knots. Mr. Summerlin was on Aircraft 099, the second helicopter in the group. Below him, he saw five or six Iraqi men leap out of a truck, wielding weapons. Bullets began flying. They sounded, Mr. Summerlin said, like hammers hitting the helicopter. Most of the bullets and a rocket-propelled grenade, or R.P.G., hit the boxes of parts they were carrying. This almost certainly saved their lives, Mr. Summerlin and Mr. Pearman said, along with heroic piloting. Another R.P.G. also passed cleanly through the helicopter’s tail rotor without destroying it. Mr. Williams had film of that hole in his 2003 story. One of the bullets that hit the helicopter struck its electrical panel. That and other damage caused the helicopter to rear up and down, its warning lights flashing. It landed and skidded to a halt near a desert airstrip, just feet from a sand berm that happened to have other American troops nearby. The other two aircraft in the convoy flew away to safety. Back at the air base, Mr. Simeone, part of a different division, was told that, in addition to carrying parts for a bridge to an area of desert known as Objective Rams on a separate mission, he would be carrying Mr. Williams, Gen. Wayne A. Downing and two or three of their staff members. Another pilot, Rich Krell, Mr. Simeone and Mr. Kelly said, flew the other helicopter in their group. Mr. Krell told CNN on Wednesday that his helicopter had been fired on, too. But on Thursday, he recanted his story and said he was “questioning his memories.” Mr. Simeone, along with Mr. Kelly and another pilot, said that they completed their mission safely but that a dust storm forced them to land. They saw Mr. Summerlin’s helicopter, surrounded by other soldiers, and decided that would be a good place to set down. As Mr. Summerlin recalls it, Mr. Williams’s helicopter landed at least 30 minutes or as much as an hour after their crash. Mr. Williams disembarked. He asked some questions, Mr. Summerlin recalls, took some video, and then left them without waiting to do an interview. Mr. Summerlin and Mr. Pearman said they thought Mr. Williams’s initial 2003 report was disingenuous. He conflated his mission with theirs, they said, and implied — but never said — that their helicopters were close to his. “It certainly cannot be a case of fog of war, or that someone is confused from 12 years ago,” Mr. Pearman said. “That is the kind of event that, to this day, I can remember a fair amount of detail.” Mr. Summerlin’s wife, watching in Germany, did not see her husband in the NBC report, he said, and worried that perhaps her husband, who slept in the desert for days after the episode, was actually missing in action. “She was pretty upset,” he said. In 2003, Mr. Pearman said, soldiers could not send instant messages to their families. Communication was much more sporadic. “So when you start stories that are really untrue, you start muddying the water,” he said. “It’s not only a large problem because of the stories themselves, it’s hard for the families.” Mr. Pearman said that in another apology that Mr. Williams published on Facebook, the news anchor still seemed to suggest that his helicopter had been close to the ones that came under fire, stating that he “was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the R.P.G. in the tail housing.” He was “still squirming around what actually happened,” Mr. Pearman said. “It wasn’t all that truthful.” For Mr. Summerlin, the reporting by Mr. Williams remains hurtful. “For him to diminish what we felt, what for me was a big experience,” Mr. Summerlin said, “is a slap in the face to all of the soldiers who were there.”

No need to aplogize at all. The loss of a loved one takes time to deal with and we're all here for you if you need us.

That's hilarious and cringeworthy at the same time. I've always had a fairly good opinion of him but somebody in his position really should know better than to embelish a story when there were others there than could call you a liar.

The greatest generation is vanishing quickly. Pay tribute to them while you can. Thanks for the post Loader.

Happy birthday Maz.

I have a half full fifth of George Stagg in my cabinet and I pull a shot out for sippin every once in a while. It really is great bourbon and about the only kind I drink.

It's nearly impossible to get even for locals. My nephews stand in line for many hours each year to get their rations of Pliney the Younger and Pliney the Elder. In fact I believe yesterday was one of those days. I'm not that devoted a beer fan to stand in line for it.

Happy birthday Starfire. I hope you have a great one.

I believe DeathWave said he was lactating if that helps you out at all.

It depends on the age of the people you ask. In your age bracket, I'd say Coor's Light wins hands-down.

Showing Logan's baby pictures is low even for you Beer.

Here are the best beers from each state according to Rate Beer.com. One of my local breweries (Russian River Brewing Co) topped the list from California. I'm more of a lager fan, so there aren't many on the list to my liking. http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/cocktails/the-best-beer-from-every-state/ss-AA8E1uL

Very sad. Imagine how many thousands of other kids are out there in the same or worse situation that haven't been discovered yet.

The most disturbing part of that image is that it's a selfie.

I think he has a breast feeding fetish and is searching for like minded people.

I knew there was a reason I stayed away from Illinois.