Crap Throwing Monkey

Good memory. Destroyers on a supply run were surprised by an American cruiser force. Americans surprised the Japanese and opened fire, Japanese held fire, turned tail, and launched torpedos to cover their retreat. Torpedos literally blew the bows off Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Pensacola, and sunk the Northampton. Honolulu was the only cruiser to get away unscathed...largely because she was a newer, better design than the other four. (Amazingly, not only was Rear Admiral Carleton Wright, commader of the cruiser force, not reprimanded (as he probably should have been, for his battle management was horrible), he was awarded the Navy Cross for losing 80% of his force to an inferior enemy force that he SURPRISED!.) But anyhow...the guy I met was there. I couldn't get him to open up much, but it was a heartfelt honor to shake the man's hand.

Honestly...I've heard so many "So-and-so did such-and-such on D-Day" stories that turn out to be bull sh-- that I won't accept this one without corroboration. And his IMDB bio doesn't count.

Shut up, Frodo.

Spent half an hour once talking to a guy who was in the Ardennes. Just two months ago, I ran into a guy at the Vietnam Memorial wearing a "USS Honolulu" cap...turned out he was on the ship for the Battle of Tassafaronga (not that any of you know what it was without looking it up...so look it up.) These guys have some good stories to tell, if you can get them to talk.

Actually, the best way to do it is to post something incredibly stupid, then flame everyone in sight about how you're so much better than they are.

They've been looking...but they haven't yet found anyone not taking drugs... Wait a minute...who were the suspending again?

Right. That's not even close.

It's not like YOU'RE going to do anything. It'll fall to Darin and I...

Threatening people with the NYS Democratic Party is hardly going to encourage anyone to take him seriously...

Good to be back, isn't it?

It's less for watching wrestling that it is for calling it an "art form" and bawling their eyes out when Hulk Hogan retires...

I thought Caustic Blood Agent was the name of The Hulkster's opponent on tape #4347, wasn't it?

If there is, RW emasculated his front office, and they still look dithering. It just means the responsibility for such is higher up than Donahoe or Mularkey. Bottom line: it could have been handled better. It wasn't. If Moulds earned a suspension...so be it. But if he earned it for something that happened on Sunday, but was actually suspended on Thursday, and the front office couldn't give a coherent story to the public about what happened or was happening or might possibly happen in the future... At the very least, it's horrible PR management, even if the situation was handled perfectly from the personnel perspective...and don't kid yourself, when a team suspends a ten-year veteran who holds a couple of team records, it is most certainly a PR issue.

Those wrestler guys load caustic nerve gas onto HARM-armed Predator drones too?

I don't claim to know. I do claim that I don't need to answer... More smoothly than it was handled, Mularkey and Donahoe. The way it was handled ultimately generated a lot of rumor, drama, and buildup in the intervening days until not Mularkey but his boss's boss suspended Moulds. Contrast that to the immediate and firm commitment of the entire Eagles front office to Owens' punishment. The Bills organization right now looks weak, indecisive, and out of control of the team, not for suspending Moulds (and irrespective of whether he deserved it or not), but for dithering over it for the better part of the week.

That would upset me if it weren't coming from a guy who cries over professional wrestling.

Fumigation. How do you think I got to be disease-free?

81) Sleeping with the windows open.

Let me put it this way: He was Satan long before Tom Donahue was Satan.

I dread a congressional investigation. Law enforcement, I'm sure, has well-set long-standing procedures for investigating this sort of thing and coming away with constructive criticisms meant to improve responsiveness in the future. A congressional investigation...when's the last time you saw one used for anything other than apportioning blame? sh--, Congress is a useless creature. There's actually a set of ethical rules introduced by some Congressmen to clean up the way Congress works...which have NO chance of being accepted, as they have the effect of forcing our congressmen to do actual work to earn their pay.

As a technical achievement, that's pretty slick. As a social achievement...

I just want everyone to know that I've been certified disease-free. As of Tuesday...

The Dean was looking like a fool here long before you showed us your beaver. Hell, The Dean was probably looking like a fool here before you could drive...

I wouldn't go that far (they very, very probably did the right thing, but I'm willing to equivocate pending investigation)...but I will say unequivocably that his being bipolar is not what would make it the wrong thing. "Mental illness" is a satisfactory explanation, but not an excuse.

But the latter is good money if you can get the job...or so I've heard...