Author Archives: DougM ☞ crotchety and judgmental ☜

73-yo retired USAF LtColonel ’69-’92 (Satellite engineering, test, launch, & operations. Strategic planning)
BSE (aerospace eng) UMichigan ’69, MS(astro guidance&control) AF Inst Tech ’75
Living in south-central North Carolina
Shooting, working on my ’74 TR6, a little gunsmithing, and entertaining myself posting here at SondraKistan
Erstwhile single-handed live-aboard sailor/instructor/USCGMaster-50Tons, mounted foxhunter, world traveler, backpacker, book collector, photographer, USCCA corner worker, scuba diver, skier, bicycle & Harley tourist, shooting instructor, and rescuer of maidens fair. Wise ass
(What? Oh, right)
…and pal to my invisible friend, here

Some people aren’t presidents for a good reason

September 23, 2020 – 3:32 pm

_____ Story (Buttster) Story (Newsom) Story (Boycott hearings)

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New meltdown record

September 22, 2020 – 11:17 pm

SPEW ALERT Just in case you hadn’t run across this, yet (sound ON for full enjoyment) Funniest thing you’ll see today And now, a little palate cleanser. Testing-to-destruction is kind of an engineer’s meltdown, and this SpaceX test-tank run is about as elegant as it gets. Also, you olde-tyme witches should get a kick out’a [...]

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HIllary would’a done it

September 22, 2020 – 12:29 am

Just realized that this could go either way Or Trump could just un-pack the court

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Political disgust and outrage are not the same as ethnic hate

September 21, 2020 – 9:12 pm

The American people took you in and saved you from your hellhole. You had a wonderful opportunity to show a little gratitude and understanding and to become one of us; but no, you betray us and insult us at every opportunity. Americans don’t hate your stupid deck of ethnicities, we hate you, personally. We don’t [...]

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Take your daughters to a pro-abortion vigil…

September 21, 2020 – 5:49 pm

…just to remind ‘em that you could’a had ‘em ripped apart in the womb; but you didn’t, so now they owe you, big time Trouble is, everybody else is just gonna be reminded what a sleaze you are _____ Story (Page tweet)

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Swell, now we gotta worry about Canadians

September 21, 2020 – 4:49 pm

Reckon some lady took exception to this? (What? Nope, won’t surprise me one bit, if she turns out to be American)Woman? _____ Story Previously, on KisP

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Musical benches

September 21, 2020 – 1:38 am

Same joke — couldn’t decide

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It’s Sunday, so be nice

September 20, 2020 – 12:39 pm

That doesn’t apply to me, of course _____ Story (Racist, small weenie) Story (Pelosi’s arrows)

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Some recent trends need un-trending

September 19, 2020 – 12:53 pm

Got into a kind of train-of-consciousness rut with ideas that don’t have any specific current-events story to tag. Y’all know what’s goin’ on, anyway

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This is why there’s an Electoral College

September 18, 2020 – 8:30 pm

It acts as a firebreak to limit the impact of illegitimate vote inflation from corrupt, cheating states _____ Picked up by Pookie’s ToonsAh! Finally remembered what this ploy reminded me of: Twelve-O’clock High (Adjutant slow-roll scene)

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