Happy Birthday…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Happy Birthday to the Marines! One more year added to the tradition, and hoping like hell we get a lot more… But depending on how bad sequestration gets, the Marines ‘may’ go the way of the dodo… At what point do we say enough??? Enough to the lack of equipment, enough to the lack of support from higher, and OPTEMPO/PERSTEMPO that violates all common sense??? Thankfully the Marines continue to get good folks who are willing to do the hard job, and take pride in their work!

Hand Salute!

Ready Two… Carry on Marines!

Meh…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
There are days it just doesn’t pay to fall out of bed in the morning…

And THIS has been one of them…

First, it’s the pawn shop with the decent rifle and ‘probably’ fake bayonet… Give the guy an honest offer, and what do we get back?

Oh I checked with my wife, she’s an ‘expert’ on M-1s and we want “this” much… Too bad the rifle was an 03 A3…

Second was a stop at Academy Sports (Spit)…  Looking at a little AR type 22 trainer, and I get told you’re out of state and we can’t sell it to you!  WTF???

Sigh… I’ll defer to Lawdog (post to come) on THAT particular set of comments, but suffice to say I will NEVER darken their doorstep again…

And ammo?  Good frikking luck… Talking to a guy at a REAL gun store, he said by 0800 yesterday morning most of the ammo sites were SOLD OUT!!!

And the gun store owner said yesterday was the BEST day he’d ever done for sales (and of course sold the ONE AR 22 he had)…

On the bright side, we have this…

 
Duct tape in colors… Dibs on the Navy Blue!

24 Interludes of Life…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

A few things to think about…

1. Don’t go for looks, they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile.

2. There are moments in life when you really miss someone that you want to pick them up from your dreams and hug them. Hope you dream of that someone.

3. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life.

4. May you have…Enough happiness to make you sweet
Enough trials to make you strong
Enough sorrow to keep you human
Enough hope to make you happy
And enough money to keep you comfortable.

5. When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But we often took so long at the closed door, that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.

6. The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch, swing with, never saying a word and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.

7. It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

8. Always put yourself in other’s shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably does hurt the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle a strife;
A cruel word may wreck a life
A timely word may level stress
A lovely word may heal and bless.

10. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them with our own image, otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

11. The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along the way.

12. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we should know how to be grateful for that gift.

13. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

14. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

15. Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and find out you still care for that person.

16. A sad thing about life is that when you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.

17. Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss and ends with a tear.

18. Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, need to love those who still love, even though they’ve been hurt before.

19. It hurts to love someone, and not to be loved in return but what is most painful is to love someone and never finds the courage to let the person know how you feel.

20. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

21. Never say goodbye when you still want to try;
Never give up when you still feel you can take it;
Never say you don’t love that person anymore when you can’t let go.

22. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back. Don’t expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.

23. There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person whom you would like to hear it from, but don’t be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart.

24. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life to the fullest so that when you die, you’re smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Turn out the lights, the party’s over…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
November 25, 1961 to November 4, 2012…

Just a few days short of 51 years…

And they are ‘literally’ turning out the lights.

Whatinthehellamitalkingabout???

The USS ENTERPRISE pulled into Norfolk yesterday ending the longest commissioned run of any US Navy ship other than the USS Constellation.

She was literally one of a kind, the only ship of her class ever built, and the first CV(N) for nuclear power.  For almost 51 years, 25 deployments; and thousands of days and nights of watches, and over one hundred thousand sailors, she’s been ‘manned’ by the watch.

Today they started shutting down the reactors for the final time.  Never again will the Big “E” sail under her own power, and she will officially be decomissioned in December…

Hand Salute!
Ready Two… 


Welcome home to the Officers, Men and Women of the Enterprise Strike Group.  Y’all done good, and you took her out with class.

 

I Voted…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
I Voted…

Have you??? Do it for yourself and your country!

And remember THIS…

h/t Endlessly Creating Myself  for the I voted sticker.

Go Read…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Engineering Johnson hits a home run with THIS post…

Please exercise your rights and VOTE!!!

h/t Brigid

Twas the Night Before Election…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

T’was the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down

I, in my bathrobe,
With a cat in my lap,
Had cut off the TV,
Tired of political crap.

When all of a sudden,
There arose such a noise,
I peered out my window,
Saw Obama and his boys.

They had come for my wallet,
They wanted my pay,
To give to the others,
Who had not worked a day!

He snatched up my money,
And quick as a wink,
Jumped back on his bandwagon,
As I gagged in the stink.

He then rallied his henchmen,
Who were pulling his cart,
I could tell they were out,
To tear my country apart!

‘On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Reid, On Pelosi,
He screamed at the pairs!

They took off for his cause,
And as they flew out of sight,
I heard him laugh at the nation,
Who wouldn’t stand up and fight!

So I leave you to think,
On this one final note, GET OUT AND VOTE !!!!

Author unknown…

H/T Bill

It’s Almost TIME!!!

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Two more days…

This Flag
Or THIS Flag


The choice is yours…  Please go vote on Nov 6th if you haven’t already.

Just out of curiousity…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Has anybody seen ANYTHING on the burial of Ambassador Stevens???

I posed a question in a comment over at American Perspectives, and she didn’t find anything more than THIS.

So I started digging…I did Google, Bing, and a couple of others and got bupkus…

Nothing more than what Opus #6 found…

Kinda interesting that nothing has been put out. One would think that his being the first Ambassador killed in years, there would be a laying in state at the State Department (at least for a day), and then quite the turnout for the funeral…

But…

Crickets…

YGTBSM #249…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
WTF is going on in NY/NJ???

Just heard that Alabama power line crews were turned away from multiple locations in NY/NJ because they were NOT UNION crews…

People are out of food, water, gas, it’s getting cold and help is being REFUSED, because the help is NON UNION???

And in other news, there is looting, dumpster diving for food, fights,  and whining about how ‘slowly’ help is coming because it’s NEW YAWK, that ‘can’t’ be happening there, they are better than everybody else!!!

And where’s FEMA??? 

Oh, and  one more question…

People need power to survive, and yet Bloomie has two LARGE generators running a TENT in Central Park for the NY Marathon, because THAT is more important???

Can’t Blame Bush for this one…