Gas Man

Nothing says "I love you" like a good fisting. With her big ol' ass I bet he can get both up in there.

https://neveryetmelted.com/2009/08/28/cbs-knew-george-w-bush-volunteered-for-vietnam/ CBS Knew George W. Bush Volunteered for Vietnam CBS, Dan Rather, George W. Bush, Mary Mapes, Media Bias, The Mainstream Media line Bernard Goldberg reveals a major detail disclosed by CBS’s investigation of Rathergate which the mainstream media for some mysterious reason has never considered worth reporting. Dan Rather is suing the network that employed him for 44 years, asking for $70 million dollars in damages. Technically, the lawsuit is about a dry legal issue — breach of contract. But it is also about something much more personal to Rather: his legacy. It is a lawsuit, fundamentally, about saving Dan Rather’s reputation. That reputation took a turn for the worse back in 2004. As has been widely reported, just 55 days before a very close presidential election, Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes put a story on the weekday edition of 60 Minutes that brought on the media equivalent of World War III. There were accusations that Rather, Mapes, and maybe the entire CBS News Division had set out to deliberately destroy George W. Bush and get John Kerry elected President of the United States – a charge everyone at CBS vehemently denies. The story was about how the young George Bush got preferential treatment during the Vietnam War; how he wangled his way into the Texas Air National Guard back in the 1960s to avoid service in Vietnam; and how he was able to do it because his father was a big-shot, a United States Congressman from Houston. The story portrayed the Bush as a slacker. Others have said it portrayed him as a “cowardly draft dodger.” And to bolster their story, Rather and Mapes got their hands on “never-before-seen” documents (as Rather put it in his story) that supposedly backed up their months (and in Mapes’ case, years) of reporting. But in no time flat the documents came under attack, mainly by conservatives on the web who examined the typeface of the memos and concluded they were fakes. CBS News management aggressively defended the story in general and the documents in particular – until they didn’t. After about two weeks, CBS threw in the towel and said it could no longer stand by the story. Rather, who had been vigorously defending his story, reluctantly went on the air and admitted the documents could not be authenticated. Later he would say he was forced to do it. In the aftermath of the fiasco, CBS established an outside panel to look into the matter. In January of 2005 the panel issued a report which concluded the news division failed to establish that the documents were legitimate and not bogus. Mapes was fired. A vice president and two producers were forced to resign. And Dan Rather was a dead man walking. He had already lost his job as anchorman of the evening news but was allowed to stay on the weekday edition of 60 Minutes, which his story had sent on a glide path to oblivion. And when that show died an inglorious death Rather went over to the Sunday edition of 60 Minutes. But that wouldn’t last long, either. When his contract ran out CBS yanked him off the show, but made him an offer he decided to refuse: Rather would get an office and an assistant and he could report stories for any CBS News broadcast that called on him – if any CBS News broadcast ever chose to call on him. CBS offered Rather $250,000 a year, according to my sources, who say he wanted a million. When he didn’t get it, he quit. According to Rather, he was pushed out the door by the head of CBS, Leslie Moonves. In 2007, Rather filed his $70 million lawsuit against his old company saying he wasn’t allowed to defend his story because the top management of CBS’ parent company, Viacom, wanted to appease the Bush Administration and protect its business interests. Until now, the controversy over the Rather/Mapes story has centered almost entirely on one issue: the legitimacy of the documents – a very important issue, indeed. But it turns out that there was another very important issue, one that goes to the very heart of what the story was about – and one that has gone virtually unnoticed. This is it: Mary Mapes knew before she put the story on the air that George W. Bush, the alleged slacker, had in fact volunteered to go to Vietnam. Who says? The outside panel CBS brought into to get to the bottom of the so-called “Rathergate” mess says. I recently re-examined the panel’s report after a source, Deep Throat style, told me to “Go to page 130.” When I did, here’s the startling piece of information I found: Mapes had information prior to the airing of the September 8 [2004] Segment that President Bush, while in the TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight instructor who served in the TexANG with Lieutenant Bush advised Mapes in 1999 that Lieutenant Bush “did want to go to Vietnam but others went first.” Similarly, several others advised Mapes in 1999, and again in 2004 before September 8, that Lieutenant Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam but did not have enough flight hours to qualify. This information, despite the fact that it has been available since the CBS report came out four years ago, has remained a secret to almost everybody both in and out of the media — one lonely fact in a 234- page report loaded with thousands of facts, and overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the documents.

1.) Who Cares. 2.) Been to Guam 14 times in the last 6 years. In and out of Hawaii 51 times (at least 18 hrs on the ground) 3.) Sort of true 4.) Damn! Don't get to be shot at or land with 1 truck on the runway and the other in the dirt taking out the runway edge lights with your nose gear....Doh! 5.) See above post 6.) Mildenhall, Fairchild, McConnell, and MacDill.. England, Spokanne, Kansas, Tampa. 3 out of 4 aint too bad. 7.) Join the guard as soon as you can!

One time after a drinking bender I pooped and it curled around the toilet into the shape of a W. So that is a BM W. Does that count?

46L for me too. Sorry I couldn't hook you up. Not that I would, I'm just saying. I keed, I keed, but seriously, I really wouldn't. Dude, my personal thoughts on the issue are you should wait until you get to UPT and let them issue you one. I know you want to impress the ladies and all that with your flight suit, but don't waste your money on a flight suit. Use that money wisely. Spend it on alcohol. If you do that, you are halfway to becoming a pilot. Ok, not halfway, but you've got the right mindset and that counts for something.

That's an expensive way to join the mile high club.

https://www.hogueinc.com/getgrip/merchant.i...=114&step=4 I love these grips!! Spent the $10 on one and it will make a huge difference for the smaller grips.

https://1866jetclub.com/ Does a great job.

https://perdiem.hqda.pentagon.mil/perdiem/jftr(ch1-ch10).pdf

No, I don't think they are worth it anymore. In 98' they were cheap as hell and well worth it. Not so much anymore. Personally I think they are junk. JMHO.

Wow, this is just begging for someone to slam thomas. I'll share...... The last time and only time in the last year I've run 1.5 miles was after my buddies when they took my beer cooler from a BBQ at my house this summer. OK maybe it was only 1/5 of a mile but it seemed a lot further.

You wanted chicks showing some skin...........

Not trying to be a dick to the guys and gals that "Earned" the right to wear a bag but..... The easiest part, by far, of becoming a pilot is being selected to attend UPT. Remember to keep that in mind when you're strutting around in a flight suit. Good on you for being selected, but that's the easy part. Best of luck. I'm sure some of the ones selected for UPT will be joining some of the "rejects" in S&M.

Not my originals, but too funny to pass up. That last one was thrown in just to quiet the depraved masses.

I'm at CFIC right now in Altus. Good times!!!! Microtel is the place to be. It's new and the rooms aren't too bad. As long as you don't call ahead you can pretty much guarantee getting off base. Applebees is right across the street. That's about as good as it gets here. Hopefully this is my last time down here. This place sucks. Bring your golf clubs! That's all I got.

https://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/POWs_Story...noi/0449000990/ Larry Guarino's book. It was hard for me to read this book because it is pretty depressing to imagine what they had to go through. (similar to "Into the Mouth of the Cat"). https://www.amazon.com/First-Heroes-Extraor...2869&sr=1-1 The first heros. It's about Doolittle's raiders. Another sad book, but a ton of history I had no idea about much of the stuff that went down. https://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Biography/...ct_info/754230/ "Shooter" is another great read. You can find this one much cheaper than the link if you try though. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031...okstorenow99-20 Finally "Lone Survivor" for my #1 top pick of the current books I've read. What a stud. Here is a little clip to sum up Marcus Luttrell. https://www.breitbart.tv/?p=1774 or a few more: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer..._type=&aq=0

I was at the Died. I have since talked to our finance people and after having it explained a little better I now understand why I wasn't paid for missed meals. You can't blame a guy for trying can ya?

Thanks for the answer finance guy....I guess. Not exactly what I wanted to hear. I was actually looking for the reg that stated as such. I understand what you had to say and had it been explained to me that way it wouldn't have pissed me off so much in the first place.

I just had a missed meal sheet turned down by finance because they said I could have had an MRE. I had the sheet signed and all of the paperwork in order. Those bastards! I tried to find the reg but couldn't. I guess if that's the case, they could just use the MRE excuse from now on. I guess a 13 hr day of flying doesn't have the same perks it used to.

135 guys are still in CC. Man what a great place.

https://area51specialprojects.com/crashes.html 11 of 29 built crashed. Pretty impressive safety record..............

You mean this elevator porn? It took me acouple of days of riding that elevator before I noticed, then I about fell over laughing. I had to take some pics.

Glad I could share.

I don't know what your talking about. I have read "Little Dieter...." and I think this is an accurate portrayal. As was stated earlier, I think that due to the early point of the war these guys had no idea what was going to happen to them, or could happen to them. I will agree that this isn't the most action packed movie I've ever seen, but seems to be true to life.