WTF? (**NSFW**)

[Duff_Man]

This cracks me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4A_18kf4PY

[Majestik Møøse]

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/11/fed-how-airforce-blew-one-billion-dud-112612w

A cool Billion for nothing.. though I've seen higher estimates ($3.2 Bil) on non-AF affiliated sites.

"Johnson, who joined the program in May, listed five major causes behind the ECSS failure, including the Air Force’s lack of a master schedule, a change in acquisition strategy and infrastructure problems that slowed the speed at which the system could share data with Air Force installations."

Cause 6: There have probably been 6-9 "Directors of System Integration" since the contract was awarded in 2006. We are terrible at managing our senior leadership. The officer development never stops. Every senior officer job is seen as a stepping stone to the next one, with no one spending more than 12 months at the same desk. Figure 3 months to learn the purpose of the office, 3 months to conference with the contractors, 3 months to compile a 50-page recommendations report (for your newly-replaced boss), and 3 months looking for a new job. Meanwhile nobody reads your report and the contractor continues stealing millions because a new Director is around the corner anyway. It's absolutely ludicrous. It's costing us billions of dollars. This is something I'm glad is being investigated by Congress. IMHO, acquisitions buffoonery (amplified by the Air Force's ridiculous HR management) is our #1 weakness.

[Royal]

Has this been posted yet? This Brit, who's a former naval officer, wrote an AWESOME letter to his worthless kids.

Dear All Three

With last evening's crop of whinges and tidings of more rotten news for which you seem to treat your mother like a cess-pit, I feel it is time to come off my perch.

It is obvious that none of you has the faintest notion of the bitter disappointment each of you has in your own way dished out to us. We are seeing the miserable death throes of the fourth of your collective marriages at the same time we see the advent of a fifth.

We are constantly regaled with chapter and verse of the happy, successful lives of the families of our friends and relatives and being asked of news of our own children and grandchildren. I wonder if you realise how we feel — we have nothing to say which reflects any credit on you or us. We don't ask for your sympathy or understanding — Mum and I have been used to taking our own misfortunes on the chin, and making our own effort to bash our little paths through life without being a burden to others. Having done our best — probably misguidedly — to provide for our children, we naturally hoped to see them in turn take up their own banners and provide happy and stable homes for their own children.

Fulfilling careers based on your educations would have helped — but as yet none of you is what I would confidently term properly self-supporting. Which of you, with or without a spouse, can support your families, finance your home and provide a pension for your old age? Each of you is well able to earn a comfortable living and provide for your children, yet each of you has contrived to avoid even moderate achievement. Far from your children being able to rely on your provision, they are faced with needing to survive their introduction to life with you as parents.

So we witness the introduction to this life of six beautiful children — soon to be seven — none of whose parents have had the maturity and sound judgment to make a reasonable fist at making essential threshold decisions. None of these decisions were made with any pretence to ask for our advice.

In each case we have been expected to acquiesce with mostly hasty, but always in our view, badly judged decisions. None of you has done yourself, or given to us, the basic courtesy to ask us what we think while there was still time finally to think things through. The predictable result has been a decade of deep unhappiness over the fates of our grandchildren. If it wasn't for them, Mum and I would not be too concerned, as each of you consciously, and with eyes wide open, crashes from one cock-up to the next. It makes us weak that so many of these events are copulation-driven, and then helplessly to see these lovely little people being so woefully let down by you, their parents.

I can now tell you that I for one, and I sense Mum feels the same, have had enough of being forced to live through the never-ending bad dream of our children's underachievement and domestic ineptitudes. I want to hear no more from any of you until, if you feel inclined, you have a success or an achievement or a REALISTIC plan for the support and happiness of your children to tell me about. I don't want to see your mother burdened any more with your miserable woes — it's not as if any of the advice she strives to give you has ever been listened to with good grace — far less acted upon. So I ask you to spare her further unhappiness. If you think I have been unfair in what I have said, by all means try to persuade me to change my mind. But you won't do it by simply whingeing and saying you don't like it. You'll have to come up with meaty reasons to demolish my points and build a case for yourself. If that isn't possible, or you simply can't be bothered, then I rest my case.

I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed.

Dad

More info

[disgruntledemployee]

Might as well be an open letter to a large chunk of America.

Out

[sky_king]

A lot of honesty in the letter, but an email isn't the best way to approach it. A much better way would have been to do it in person, 35 years ago.

[Guest]

He probably did. More than once.

[Royal]

A lot of honesty in the letter, but an email isn't the best way to approach it. A much better way would have been to do it in person, 35 years ago.

But then we wouldn't have gotten to read it.

[LJDRVR]

Cheesy website aside, she seems like a tough-ass chick who's done well for herself. Good for her.

Exactly. I mean it's kind of funny that a motivational speaker is that round, but it sounds like folks are buying her product, so good for her. I'll tell you one thing. Having watched her video, she's a very talented speaker. (And there aren't too many.) And she's likable to boot. If she was thin, we would't be as critical.

[matmacwc]

But then we wouldn't have gotten to read it.

You could read that?

[Guest]

she's a very talented speaker. (And there aren't too many.)

and by that you mean...?

[Royal]

You could read that?

Are you kidding, man? That was some legendary prose. I mean, I won't confirm or deny that I understood all the words he used.

[LJDRVR]

and by that you mean...?

I watched her video. I thought she was above average. YMMV.

[Guest one]

Has anyone posted this yet. I can't believe this is an officer in the Air Force.

PYB...Wow. I might be late but wow. Edited November 30, 2012 by one

[Guest]

Butters, you should choke yourself.

One, welcome to two years ago. Everyone has seen this stupid bullshit and yes, you look like an idiot dragging that video back out. Go hang out with him if you want but don't drag anymore of his bullshit over here.

[Butters]

My bad.

Hey, wasn't it that french guy that said those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? And he who armors his car should pick something better than a 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse? Maybe he was German.

Edited November 30, 2012 by Butters

[sky_king]

I'd rather see the videos of him doing this shit at SERE.

[Guest one]

Butters, you should choke yourself.

One, welcome to two years ago. Everyone has seen this stupid bullshit and yes, you look like an idiot dragging that video back out. Go hang out with him if you want but don't drag anymore of his bullshit over here.

I figured. I didn't frequent the site two years ago as much as I do now. You can't be suprised of my reaction when this is the first time I saw this shit.

[XL0901]

Quick Re-direct...

Merry Christmas!

[Royal]

Anyone tried this yet? Seems like it's a lot more efficient to bring your clubs and guns to one spot.

[Learjetter]

Anyone tried this yet? Seems like it's a lot more efficient to bring your clubs and guns to one spot.

Yep. Done that.

[Guest]

I shot my limit of geese with my brother and one of my boys today. That was more fun that this looks. Besides, you can't eat a golf ball.

[Day Man]

pics or you buy your geese pre-murdered...

[Guest]

Standby.

[Fuzz]

Girl, 8, bitten by dolphin at SeaWorld:

https://www.clickorla...kz/-/index.html

Eight-year-old Jillian Thomas was having the time of her life, getting up close and personal with dolphins, her favorite animal.

As her mom and dad captured her feeding the dolphins on camera she picked up the tray of fish to say she was done, and that's when a dolphin leapt out of the water after the tray and instead got Jillian's arm. The dolphin closed its jaws on the 8-year-old's arm and pulled her toward the pool before letting go.

Sometimes I think people shouldn't be allowed to have kids:

"We think that attraction at SeaWorld is dangerous and it was traumatic for us to go through that event," said Jamie Thomas. (the dad)

Apparently it wasn't too dangerous to allow your kids in there in the first place

[Guest]

pics or you buy your geese pre-murdered...

Here you go.