Matt Morhockey-Morbooks

Beautiful piece of machinery.

Absolutely delightful.

Especially with the leap at the end.

kharg island sounds like a place on the klingon homeworld that the enterprise crashes on

Beer. Dark beer.

Ah, confusion all around.

Yeah, corpsmen can only handle so much without a flattop.

Not like Princeton, Tripoli, Roberts, or Stark either. It's one thing when there's air superiority if a ship gets hit. In contested waters, ships will need to fight their way to safety as well as saving the boat.

Yeah, WA and CA do tend to push the point within the contiguous US.

Last couple times I was up that way, prices weren't much below what they were down here.

Greatful for rez gas, truck stops, and Costco.

MQ-25 is massively important.

Hell, that's something the PLAN would love to have. Especially with their Russkie retread benttops.

But if it goes boink, there's going to need to be a massive, successful procurement project to enable the chicken-leg air wings in the Pacific.

They just get up there and lie every single day. I paid $2.01/gallon a month ago & 3.24 today.

I paid $4.39 before all this started.

(We're switching to summer blend, so I expected it to stay high as winter stocks deplete.)

Same station was $5.49 last night. My cheap roadtrip station's gone from $3.95 to $4.69 to $4.85.

I recommend dish soap, Gojo, or hot sauce for this much willful lyin'.

And we're losing loggy birds for the most part.

I've got ten (3 F-15Es, 1 KC-135, 6 TBD tankers) and the one damaged KC-135 from yesterday on the tally sheet.

Navy doesn't exactly need enteric tanker capability for now, but their decision to get rid of any tanking but buddy tanking...

What kind of rec is it? School or job?

Not so much if KC-46s, but if they were KC-135s? Rut-roh.

Ooof.

Oh geez.

Actually get a good night's sleep and eat a square meal, what'd I miss?

In person by Zoom and they didn't even do that?

Dude is a repeat offender par excellence. He should be looking at ten for this plus the hit on Crosby in Milan.

Season 2 of *Andor* was so awesome that you could almost forget (no you can't) it started with an already amazing chase scene featuring a TIE AVENGER prototype 🤩

I was an exceptional TIE Avenger pilot when I was 15. While playing LucasArts & Totally Games' TIE Fighter.

Sweet!

The bagged ones do need some work, but if you want tri-tip on the cheap it works. I think the local Gross Outs have something similar.

I miss having a proper meat market in walking distance. Little farm town had the best tri-tips. Saturdays you could smell the ones they were doing up for sammiches.

Need to make a Trader Joe's run tomorrow. I'm out of their ketchup flavored waffle chips and their new dark russet kettle chips both.

Frito Lay has nothing on Jose.

Fucking dumbasses want a way out while giving Iran nothing of the sort.

What happens when you back someone against a wall, let alone into a corner? Children? Anyone remember?

The democratization of weaponry means those teeth are a lot more plentiful and the claws are bigger.

It is. And the inclination is strong.

Especially after 2021, I wanted us as a world to have time to soothe our battered brains. Not so much in reality.

I know the folks of which you speak. The ones on the left side of moderate just say fuck it and tend not to vote.

As those trad folks and back to the land types have found, it ain't so easy to follow Fleetwood Mac's dictum.

I've read a lot on the Tanker Wars, otherwise I'd know next to nada.

Large point of embarkation for petroleum transport out of Iran.

The linchpin of islands. No Kharg, minimal exports, less than 15% if memory serves.

Fox said fuck it, I'll Brexit myself.

Why are these boxes all taped up and not available for play?

Taxes are a necessity if we want public services.

Especially in a large, populous state such as California.

Respect to VFDs, but do you want the entire state to go that way?

If it does happen, that doesn't absolve residents of their Federal tax burden.

Gubernatorial grandstanding garbage.

I'm still looking for that upward mobility we were sold on.

Having been across a decent swath of the state in the last month, it's shocking.

Locally, we've gone from 4.69 to 5.49. Cheap stations an hour and a half away went from 3.99 to 4.85.

Multiple stations with diesel prices between 6.19 and 6.59 now.