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Scheiss Meister

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  1. Old guy talk incoming. You've been warned. When I was a kid both of my parents were teachers. My dad worked various jobs during the summer to make ends meet while my mom stayed home with us. Usually he or my mom were working on graduate degrees as well. Every day, including weekends, was the same: get up and eat breakfast, then my mom would put us out of the house saying, "Be back in when the street lights come on. Don't come back in before that unless someone is bleeding or dieing." Our city had a low cost summer program with swimming instruction, Red Cross Lifesaving classes, theater, crafts, and other sports and activities. In the mornings we would go to these, then run amok frm noon until dark. It was fabulous. And other than the fact that I post here, we turned out almost normal and nearly civilized.
  2. At full TO&E, a battalion is 811 strong. With transfers, separations, leave, and illness/injuries, it can be much lower.
  3. Hey, guys. Goat ropers need love, too.
  4. Look, I'm really not trying to dog on you, but having the US Military, be they active, reserve, or National Guard, kill or injure even one US citizen exercising their Constitutional rights is unacceptable. Kent State and the other instances are not "a decent track record". I say this as a US Marine, currently not in an active status. I know how I was trained and what my duty is. Harming US citizens exercising their rights is not part of that duty for me or anyone else in the military.
  5. What the fuck do you think those rifles, pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers, and mortars are for?
  6. Russia gonna Russia, I guess.
  7. I'm going to the No Kings protest at the Capitol next Saturday. I look forward to seeing the Texas National Guard there.
  8. Yes, it is. Every National Guardsman that I know who served since 2001 had at least one deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan during their service.
  9. That was nice. Let's do it again next season. I also want to thank JS1, troph, Pancho, and many others for sharing their knowledge and insight of softball, volleyball, women's basketball, and the other women's sports with the rest of us. I've learned a lot from y'all.
  10. As long as cities offer good benefits packages, water and wastewater jobs will be good avenues for smart folks who don't want to go to college and want to make a difference in the world. The pay, especially in smaller cities, can be miserably low, but good benefits can help make up for that. If the benefits get eroded, as some places are doing, it's not such an attractive career. I applaud Pflugerville ISD for doing that. More such programs are desperately needed. I don't understand why TSTC doesn't have a program where an person can get good classroom training and internship like experience and finish with a C license, ready to get a job.
  11. That would be bad for business. I'm glad that they got the repairs done quickly. The shit must flow.
  12. This is infuriating, but not surprising. We don't take care of our vets, so we will definitely fuck over our allies' vets, even those to whom we owe a great debt. If I was a citizen of any other nation on the planet, I would never ever trust the US to keep its commitments on anything.
  13. I'm sure that I'm not the only one here who was looking at 18 wheelers and box trucks differently this morning on the way to church.
  14. You can't be high all day if you don't start first thing in the morning.
  15. Looks like something my dad would have done.
  16. "And when he gets to heaven St. Peter he will tell one more Marine reporting, sir I've served my time in Hell." Semper Fidelis and thank you to every Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Coast Guardsman, and Airman who gave their life for their country and my freedoms.
  17. That batter should wear one in the ribs his next at bat. First pitch.
  18. That kid is going to have nightmares about that.
  19. A pussy ass aggy. But that's redundant.
  20. The fuck it's not. Maybe not #1, but definitely a road trip song. #1 should be Traveling Texas, or What I Like About Texas.
  21. Those fuckheads are testing to prove that the placebo works, not whether the vaccine does.
  22. That "Jack Boyett" dude is welded to his racism. He just can't fathom that Asian people can love sports and their alma mater enough to donate to both. Nope, all progress in any field is only because of the contributions of white males. Dumbass aggy.
  23. When your neighbor has a T-72 in his barn and all you have is a busted ass BMP-1, well, the envy can make a man take risks he wouldn't otherwise take.
  24. Three or four years ago I unknowingly mowed over a bumble bee ground nest. I was stung about 30 times on the head and shoulders before they started calming down and I got away. Bumble bees are normally very docile. Hell, even now, if one lands on me I'll pet it and they seem to enjoy it. But anything will get pissed off and attack if you mess with their home. I got sick as a dog and had to go to the ER. I now have an epipen to carry around, and three or four of the places where I was stung will form pustules from time to time. I was lucky that it wasn't Africanized bees.
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