Murph did some digging around in HIS safe, and he’s done Pick Two- Sequel. You can see it HERE. I’ll have to admit he ‘does’ have some interesting choices… 🙂
I’m working on a follow-on post based on some of the sidebars/emails I’ve received, and I can’t help but wonder what choices y’all will make at Murph’s place…
I know I’m late, but Brigid has her book up on Amazon now in Kindle format! If you like her blog, you’ll REALLY like the book.
Hit the picture for the link.
I have actually had the pleasure of meeting Barkley, and he was something special, no question… And he and Brigid have shared many ups and downs, but this book is more than that. It’s a trip through life lessons and memories, and the changes Barkley wrought on not just Brigid, but those around her.
I’ve known Brigid for a number of years, and I can honestly say I never saw her happier than when she had Barkley in her life. Even with all the ‘little’ things… but my favorite story is the kids at the back fence… 😀
Go get it and read it, you won’t be disappointed!
My post from Friday (HERE) on the suicide rates elicited some interesting sidebar discussions. One of those was from Scribbler, and he’s put a very good post up responding to my post. His post is HERE.
Of note, this is his generation, so I’m glad to get his perspective on the whole mess, and he does have a cogent piece that is a bit of an eye opener…
Well worth the read. Scribbler is also a shooter and one of our ‘tribe’ so to speak, we’ve met him at a couple of events over the last two years.
I can only watch in amazement at what is going on over the Israel/Gaza incursion…
Hamas stated goal is to destroy Israel/kill Israelis. They are firing rockets indiscriminately into to kill/maim the population, in addition to sneaking through tunnels to kill or kidnap Israelis…
And they’ve been doing this for a long time, violating all the agreements/peacekeeping accords etc…
AND Hamas is siting the rockets in civilian areas on purpose, using Palestinian citizens as human shields, along with storing rockets in UN and other schools, hospitals and mosques. And this is okay???
But somehow this gets twisted to be Israel’s fault???
HERE is an article from the LA Times…
WTF???
And Israel is being accused of using “excessive” force? Since when is war supposed to be fair? They are doing their best to minimize collateral damage, but it’s rather hard when the rockets are being fired from an apartment complex…
And then there’s this-
The situation facing European Jewry is “simply intolerable, unacceptable and inexcusable,” Israeli Jewish Congress president Vladimir Sloutsker told MKs and foreign diplomats at a special session of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Committee on Monday.
Calling the rise in anti-Semitic incidents accompanying Israel’s invasion of Gaza an “SOS situation,” Sloutsker warned that if left unchecked, such behavior could lead to another European genocide.
This is from the Jerusalem Post article HERE.
And this link from PJ Media HERE.
Islam is the religion of peace??? My ass…
How can any rational human being think that firing rockets into your town/country is okay??? Would YOU put up with that without reaction?
I know I wouldn’t and I’d use every means possible to stop it… And I’d bring all my friends with guns, airplanes and anything else I could lay hands on…
Actually I’d have to say I admire the Israelis for their restraint. I know they have much more capable weapons they could use, if they really didn’t care about loss of life…
But it seems the whole damn world is upside down lately… Makes me think I’ve stepped into Bizarro World or something…
Oh yeah, and Kerry’s ‘input’ to the peace process? Support a cease fire that gives Hamas every thing they want…
I gotta find that rabbit hole and get back to reality somehow!
Rant off/Kicking soapbox back in the corner…
You have 5 minutes…
The safe is open, the roads are blocked and you’re going to be walking…
For miles… Just you, your BOB (50ish lbs without ammo), and whatever you pick out of the safe…
Which pair do you pick?
Savage .22 and Ruger .22
M-1 Carbine and .45
M4 and Glock 26
Model 94 and Python
SCAR 17 and Glock 17
And grab a knife too…
I’m curious, what would you choose and why???
I’ll post my answer in comments later today…
The Times of Israel blog pretty much lays it out…
It’s worth the time to go HERE and read it…
And some of the ‘dead baby’ pictures are apparently from Syria earlier in the year…
h/t Dammit
It’s the Navy’s turn again…
Very plain by comparison to many of the other posters out there…
But one difference is the ‘reality’ of the face and expression. The artist was John Falter, an illustrator for magazines that actually enlisted in the Navy in 1943. He left the Navy as a Chief.
Nuff said…
Why are all these kids committing suicide?
A friend’s daughter, 26 and a college grad, tried to commit suicide last month. Granted she is ADHD with known problems, but still… She was on medication, but tried it anyway.
The other day, another friend told me his son’s former girlfriend (Whom I’d met), age 24, college grad, and a pretty vivacious young lady, was found dead in her car at 0100 in the morning.
The next day a third friend sent me an email, a young lady I bounced on my knee as a child had killed herself.
I know we have a lot of issues with military suicides, we saw the same thing ager Nam, some people just cannot reintegrate into society, and the VA is failing them badly…
But I don’t understand the other ones…
I was chatting with Spear about this and I think he may have ID’ed a key point. The kids that are mid 20s are the bow wave of the generation that was never allowed to fail, and pretty much got everything they wanted. Now that they are in the ‘real’ world, they cannot deal with not having the ‘success’ that they previously had.
Also, they are the lead of the ‘smartphone’ age… They didn’t grow up actually having conversations, preferring to have electronic ‘friends’ and texting rather than actual communication.
The other thing I think plays into this is they are the ‘video game’ generation, and they are the sickliest generation, with a higher preponderance of allergies, respiratory issues, and obesity. I think this is because they didn’t get outside and play and get dirty…
On a slightly different point-
The ‘little’ kids today are even worse from talking to some of the Docs I work with… Their immune systems are in even worse shape than those in their 20s…
Part of this is the fault of ‘celebrities’ like McCarthy claiming vaccinations cause autism. And she apparently continues to beat that drum even after it’s been dis-proven… Her ‘celebrity’? She showed the world her tits in Playboy… Sigh… And for THAT people listen to her???
When you combine that with what is coming across the border and the potential for disease vectors we haven’t seen since ‘I’ was a kid, are we setting this country up for an epidemic?
Apparently CBP is so overloaded, and DHS has directed they be moved ‘immediately’, so they are being relocated without even basic medical screening.
Now before you say that’s all BS, my older grandson’s HS in California had nine- count em, NINE cases of TB within his high school last year, but neither the parents nor EMS in the area were notified… When PP started digging into it, it was apparently ‘isolated’ to a different building than the one my grandson was in. I’m betting if the truth be told, that TB was brought in by illegals that were placed in Northern California in the last year or so, and THEY probably weren’t screened either!!!
I’m sorry, but this crap HAS been brought on by the edumacation system and the feel good PC world that is getting crammed down our throats…
Failure IS going to happen, like it or not, this is NOT a perfect world there snowflake…
Of the eleven men who were in Alcatraz, the most notorious Hanoi POW camp, only four remain with the death of Jeremiah (Jerry) A. Denton Jr., RADM USN Ret and former Senator. He actually died March 28th in the Norfolk area, but due to the busy schedule at Arlington, he was finally laid to rest on Tuesday July the 21st. Approved or not, the Navy did send two F/A-18s up from Norfolk for the flyover, but they were too high by the time they went over the office for me to see which squadron they were. From what I understand, there was quite a turnout for him, and a well deserved one.
Shot down in 1965 while flying an A-6 Intruder and badly injured, he was a POW for seven years and seven months. He was also the one that blinked in Morse Code T O R T U R E in the infamous television interview.
I was honored to meet him a number of years ago at a function in Pensacola, and he always said he survived through his faith in God, the USA, his family, and the Navy. He was considered by all who knew him to be a patriot’s patriot, and one that truly NEVER gave up. He wrote When Hell is in Session in 1976, and it was considered then (and probably still is) one of the definitive books on POW life in Vietnam. You can find it HERE.
Captain Denton was the first officer off the first C-141 from Hanoi in 1973. That video is HERE. Captain Denton is at 3:03 into the video.
Thank you for the example you set for us with your sacrifices….
RIP RADM Denton, you deserve it.