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Friday, August 26, 2022

Fiery Brandon

 I don't know about you, but I'm grew up thinking the week actually ended on Sunday.  You know?  Having to work for 6 days before reaching that 7th day of rest.  Think about that for a second.  We were never supposed to have 2 days off in a row.  Never.  Only 1.  And even then, Sunday was never supposed to be anything like Funday.  

Anyway, Lily had to go potty outside around 0100 because she doesn't go before climbing the stairs and jumping on the bed.  As she was outside doing her late-night business, I checked the traps.  Success.  One mouse down.

Yesterday, work was meh.  I had a young couple who'd had a measure done for laminate flooring.  The estimate came back much higher than they were expecting, mostly because they didn't have proper dimensions, so the estimate was off.  They will some of the last customers to get an estimate.  We are using a new procedure called SAM that no longer gives an estimate.  Believe me.  Estimates are almost always off.  Sometimes big time.  

One of the main reasons I'm on Facebook is the USS Constellation page.  Pictures get posted which help people understand what life was like on an aircraft carrier.  Here's a berthing compartment similar to the one for Division 90, CIC (Radar), the only difference being we had a green floor and green curtains.  This was taken when we were in port.  At sea, the overhead lighting was red.


And here's the hanger bay.  It was very large.  It's the 01 level.  CIC was on the 03 level.  To get there, you went up a staircase below the AIMD sign, turned right and down the hallway past Communications, and up another staircase to the 03 level.  We were located directly below the flight deck.  Click to embiggen.



With less than 3 months until the midterms, things are really starting to pop across the country.  Biden gave a speech yesterday in which he said pretty much heading into fascism.  Some want to call this version of him Dark Brandon, I, however like Fiery Brandon.  

I was quite pleased to see the White House starting to call out those Republicans shrieking about the student debt relief.  Mike Kelly from PA, almost a million $ in PPP written off.  Republicans weren't expecting this.  They thought there was no way the Democrats were going to kick them in the nuts.  Wow!  Guess who's regretting now wearing a cup?  Dumb asses.

And, of course, there is the Roe v Wade issue.  In their attempt to lock in the Cracker Jack Crazy Christian vote, legislators in the very red states passed extreme laws against abortion, and now their 'oh shit,' moment is happening.  Who do these stringent hurt the most?  The working classes.  Paraphrasing Ruth Bader Ginsberg, "any woman with means, will always find a way to get an abortion."  Now tell me, why would the very male Republican party think about women at all.

















8 comments:

  1. Oh, you know that every repug woman with money is gonna get an abortion because she can pay for it. It's women without means who are going to be in trouble. There's been signs that yeah, the Repugs and their abortion laws may be fucked. Good.
    And I loved how the White House clapped back at the Repugs complaining about college debt with receipts. Loved it.
    And I've been in a ship before. Never at sea. The quarters are tiny but some parts of the ships are HUGE. It blows my mind people can live/sleep in such cramped spaces.

    XOXO

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    1. Keep in mind, you are only seeing 2/3 rds of the hanger bay. The Republicans did really shit in their pants, the Cracker Jack Crazy group they thought would win them elections for decades turns out to be much smaller than they had ever dreamed.

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  2. The hypocrisy in the GOP regarding debt is stunning; no one should have their debts paid unless they're a GOP politician???
    Blake the Nazi running for office in AZ has scrubbed his website of his anti-abortion stance in the hopes that no one will remember he hates women with the right to choose.

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    1. Blake is so stupid. He evidently has no idea that the Internet is eternal, and that everything he has ever posted has been saved for this very moment.

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  3. Probably a dumb question by do those aircraft carriers get really rocked in bad weather - or are they just too big? Oh and my first thought on seeing the berths was "Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot"!

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    1. Yes, they rock, and going up isn't bad but coming down is like a slow-motion drop which is rather nauseating. They try to avoid typhoons and the like because carriers are very top heavy.

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  4. Your closing line said it.

    I always wondered why in a sub the lighting is red?

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    1. That's because at sea we worked 24/7 so someone was always either sleeping or working.

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