The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,Transforming … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2007
Everett over at Island Voice has an excellent post up about congresscritters and what they are costing us now, and may cost us in the future. I am in complete agreement with Ev, but howthehell do we get term limits … Continue reading
This one is simply too good not to post… And here is some political humor (more or less) to go with it… ‘If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.’ … Continue reading
This is one of those weeks I shoulda taken vacation…sigh…Monday- Late in because I had to pick up a prescription that actually had a refill on it (gee what a novel concept). Get my ass chewed because I missed a … Continue reading
Well, I stirred up a can of worms at Thanksgiving lunch by accident… Let me set the stage here. There were probably 25-30 people present ranging in age from 12-89; of those three were in their 80’s (husband-WWII vet 101st … Continue reading
This from an article by Ralph Peters- Lawdog also had a post alluding to this from Michael Yon’s website… As Thanksgiving approaches, consider a vignette from Baghdad: As part of its campaign to eliminate Iraq’s Christian communities, alQaeda in 2004 … Continue reading
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. 2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone. 3 Colt: The original point and click interface. 4 Gun control is not … Continue reading
It’s 0100 in Sydney, I’m bored, tired and waiting on work email, so I was popping through a few blogs and saw that Lawdog via LaFemme had found a Discworld quiz. Since I just finished reading Soul Music on the … Continue reading
Since everybody ELSE is playing… NRAhab posted an interesting twist on Kim’s meme about beautiful cars. Since I’m off early, I’ll jump in too- Mine are a little different, in that I have personal connections to each of my selections… … Continue reading
This is a WWII 4″ gun emplacement on Garden Island in Western Australia. The only thing removed were the barrels of the guns, otherwise it remains as it was in 1942. It had communications with a spotting battery located about … Continue reading