If it Flies, Floats, or Fornicates, you're better off renting! :tooth:
You left out swimming pools. My wife wants one, as well as a boat. I told her that a boat is a hole in the water into which one throws money, whereas a pool is a hole in the ground into which one throws money.
I've had both, and write from experience.
Jerry
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
You left out swimming pools. My wife wants one, as well as a boat. I told her that a boat is a hole in the water into which one throws money, whereas a pool is a hole in the ground into which one throws money.
I've had both, and write from experience.
I feel your pain...
Wife wants a pool, and I finally got her talked into an above ground version as I can throw the damn thing away every 5 years and buy a new one for FAR less than an in-ground.
I think I have her talked outta the boat. I spent 22 years on the water - if I never set foot on another boat it would be exactly 22 seconds too soon! Break Out Another Thousand.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Regarding the hurricanes and fires, there is/was only one country in the UN I know of that sent any people. Israel sent people to PR and Texas to help with disaster relief and search and rescue. They sent more people to other areas hit by the hurricanes. Tiny little Israel is the ONLY one that sent any people. Everybody else just sat on their cans, played pocket pool, and turned their backs.
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” ― Douglas Adams
You left out swimming pools. My wife wants one, as well as a boat. I told her that a boat is a hole in the water into which one throws money, whereas a pool is a hole in the ground into which one throws money.
I've had both, and write from experience.
BOAT = Bring Out Another Thousand
Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
Regarding the hurricanes and fires, there is/was only one country in the UN I know of that sent any people. Israel sent people to PR and Texas to help with disaster relief and search and rescue. They sent more people to other areas hit by the hurricanes. Tiny little Israel is the ONLY one that sent any people. Everybody else just sat on their cans, played pocket pool, and turned their backs.
Put Kiwi land down as having sent aid to the USA in time of need............Firefighters to help in California up to 2008........Aid to Katrina and other natural disasters over the years.
I have always wondered why the rest of the world has always turned to the USA in times of need/natural disasters...........but those countries who accept aid always seem to be missing in action when something happens in the USA.
Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
Put Kiwi land down as having sent aid to the USA in time of need............Firefighters to help in California up to 2008........Aid to Katrina and other natural disasters over the years.
I have always wondered why the rest of the world has always turned to the USA in times of need/natural disasters...........but those countries who accept aid always seem to be missing in action when something happens in the USA.
Due to the highly biased Lame Stream Media, I didn't know that. The LSM has been more into reporting the plight of the undocumented shoppers during natural disasters here. Glad to hear we've got someone else that helps us out in bad times here. ANOTHER nation that is MUCH bigger that all the rest combined when it comes to being a friend in good times and bad.
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” ― Douglas Adams
Due to the highly biased Lame Stream Media, I didn't know that. The LSM has been more into reporting the plight of the undocumented shoppers during natural disasters here. Glad to hear we've got someone else that helps us out in bad times here. ANOTHER nation that is MUCH bigger that all the rest combined when it comes to being a friend in good times and bad.
I second that. Thanks, Kiwi...
And pass that along to all your Kiwi friends.
Our media here tends to overlook good. Were it in my power to apologize for them, I certainly would.
Mike
Thanks,
"Walking away seems to be a lost art form." N454casull
Reminds me of a few fox hunts I went on with my neighbor and his fox hunting buddies in my early teens. Stay up all night, pass the bottle(they wouldn't let me have any most of the time:mad:), listen to the dogs run, arguing about which dog was in the lead, and pee on the fire in the morning to put it out! :roll2: Man, I miss those days! The longer the night went on, the better the stories got! For a young feller my age, I was in high cotton! :up:
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” ― Douglas Adams
The UN is a failed organization, just as the league of nations was. And, unless you have first hand knowledge to say otherwise, your argument is invalid. I have seen UN operations of the course of my career. I have seen were letting UN "operations" has gotten us. I think the Ethiopians had it better when they appealed to the League of Nations.
The UN failed the Balkans, their failure contributed to SFOR operations for the next 7-8 years. The UN has failed dang near all of Africa, a direct result was Operation Gothic Serpent. The UN failed in Iraq with there advise and assist mission. The UN has failed in the Sinai, and we rotate forces there every nine months. You name the operation and there has been a failure. The UN failed the Afghan people during the soviet invasion and allowed the Taliban to flourish in the camps.
And lets not talk about Disaster Recovery. What exactly does the UN do for that...Tell me. What resources do they provide? Absolutely zero. It is all the resources of another nation under the flag of the UN.
So it seems to me, that is supporting the UN is going to cost us lives, time, and more money then we should just keep the money ourselves and conduct the operations under our flag...as we see fit.
I have watched the UN place refugees on a bus, take them to their home town, make them sleep in bombed out houses overnight, and return them back to the refugee camp the next day. The UN then counted these refugees as returned, subtracted them from the camp count, and re-added them to the camp count...Why? So they could get more money because they took in more refugees.
Did anyone see the UN during Katrina? Sandy? Puerto Rico? Did the UN bring in extra fire teams to help us in the west.
SO WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR!
My limited first hand knowledge is Balkans. SFOR 7 March thru September 2000. We were MEDEVAC support for the 115th Field Hospital Task Force Med Eagle, Eagle Base/Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our Area of Operation was Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Hungary where a sister hospital was located at Tazar Air Base. With 6 UH-60 Blackhawks we visited many places. I saw very few UN personnel.
I guarantee we saw each other more than once. When back at Tuzla main we ate at the DFAC down by the laundry, not the one in Salute Alley.
The UN Personnel were mostly out in the camps and in the sectors. Saw a crap ton in Sarajevo and Mostar. There was a small posting of them up near Brcko. And there were still some around the Potocari
"To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
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They don't sell, they rent.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
If it Flies, Floats, or Fornicates, you're better off renting! :tooth:
You left out swimming pools. My wife wants one, as well as a boat. I told her that a boat is a hole in the water into which one throws money, whereas a pool is a hole in the ground into which one throws money.
I've had both, and write from experience.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
I feel your pain...
Wife wants a pool, and I finally got her talked into an above ground version as I can throw the damn thing away every 5 years and buy a new one for FAR less than an in-ground.
I think I have her talked outta the boat. I spent 22 years on the water - if I never set foot on another boat it would be exactly 22 seconds too soon! Break Out Another Thousand.
Regarding the hurricanes and fires, there is/was only one country in the UN I know of that sent any people. Israel sent people to PR and Texas to help with disaster relief and search and rescue. They sent more people to other areas hit by the hurricanes. Tiny little Israel is the ONLY one that sent any people. Everybody else just sat on their cans, played pocket pool, and turned their backs.
― Douglas Adams
BOAT = Bring Out Another Thousand
Put Kiwi land down as having sent aid to the USA in time of need............Firefighters to help in California up to 2008........Aid to Katrina and other natural disasters over the years.
I have always wondered why the rest of the world has always turned to the USA in times of need/natural disasters...........but those countries who accept aid always seem to be missing in action when something happens in the USA.
Due to the highly biased Lame Stream Media, I didn't know that. The LSM has been more into reporting the plight of the undocumented shoppers during natural disasters here. Glad to hear we've got someone else that helps us out in bad times here. ANOTHER nation that is MUCH bigger that all the rest combined when it comes to being a friend in good times and bad.
― Douglas Adams
I second that. Thanks, Kiwi...
And pass that along to all your Kiwi friends.
Our media here tends to overlook good. Were it in my power to apologize for them, I certainly would.
Mike
Thanks,
N454casull
That so reminds me of my 4 year old grandson!
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Reminds me of a few fox hunts I went on with my neighbor and his fox hunting buddies in my early teens. Stay up all night, pass the bottle(they wouldn't let me have any most of the time:mad:), listen to the dogs run, arguing about which dog was in the lead, and pee on the fire in the morning to put it out! :roll2: Man, I miss those days! The longer the night went on, the better the stories got! For a young feller my age, I was in high cotton! :up:
― Douglas Adams
They're smarter than dope dealers- - - - -a pusher can't spray a little perfume on his crack and sell it over and over!
:devil:
Jerry
The UN Personnel were mostly out in the camps and in the sectors. Saw a crap ton in Sarajevo and Mostar. There was a small posting of them up near Brcko. And there were still some around the Potocari