tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37757662012-01-26T01:53:34.839-05:00Miscellaneous ravings from a life misspent.Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.comBlogger5491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-8786367783834155952009-06-19T15:43:00.003-04:002009-06-25T09:43:29.274-04:00

As if we needed more evidence that Barry Obama considers himself above the law. He may want to remember that the Magna Carta figures heavily in US law. I know...dead white men and all that. But distilled, the Magna Carta stated that no one, not even the king (or in Barry's case, the Messiah), is above the law.I don't believe for a second that Barry gives a damn about dead white men and Michelle

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Just a quick thought--I'll get into deeper ones later:If Obama were in a penitentiary, he'd be the guy bent over the table while the rest of the inmates lined up behind him...

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Ray Nance passed away Sunday, 19 APR 2009.Who is Ray Nance?, you may ask. Ray Nance was the last surviving member of a group which became known as the "Bedford Boys". Bedford is a small town in Virginia. On 6 JUN 1944 the town lost a significant portion of its young male population, literally in a matter of minutes.The Bedford Boys were a group of childhood friends who signed up in the 29th

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I reek of gasoline. I mean, I am trailing a plume behind me. I am soaked in the stuff.Why? Because the legislators in this state are smarter than me (so they think) and have forbidden normal gasoline cans in favor of the so-called "safety can". I have spilled more gasoline over the past five years using the "safety can" than I have cumulatively in 40+ years of using normal gas cans with a

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As I've done for some time now, a couple of thoughts for Memorial Day. Not my thoughts, but those of a man much more intelligent and articulate than I, United States Marine Corps Chaplain Denis Edward O'Brien.Before I get to Father O'Brien's writings, a couple of thoughts--We (my wife, two children and I), never, ever miss a Memorial Day parade. We just don't. I served ten years in Special Forces

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SSG Matt Maupin's remains have been recovered and identified by US Forces. SSG Maupin was declared missing in action after the fuel convoy in which he was driving was ambushed outside of Baghdad. After that he was seen in a film in which he was forced to the floor while masked Islamic terrorists stood around him. After that, he wasn't seen again until last week.Get captured by western forces and

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I have some more nominations in the "Hometown Heroes" category.Trail's End Popcorn is a company that, as far as I can tell, exists solely as a supplier of fund-raising popcorn for the Boy Scouts. Popcorn sales are a big event every year, sort of the equivalent of Girl Scout cookies, though not nearly as tasty. Each troop even has a popcorn chairperson, dubbed the "Popcorn Colonel". Corny, indeed

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One of my umpire shirts from a few years ago has "Hometown Heroes" embroidered on the Little League patch. I'm not so sure that umpires are heroes--we just show up for a game and shout--but the men and women who put in hours and hours coaching youngsters, teaching them skills and hopefully sportsmanship--they're true hometown heroes.There's no shortage of heroes in the global war on terrorism,

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The kids asked me tonight what Billy Clinton's title would be if his wife were to get elected president.First Gentleman?Well, I had to tell them that he'd be first something, but "gentleman" wasn't in the running. This is a guy who kept a girl under his desk doing you-know-what (Billy seems to crave that particular) while he was on the telephone with a Senator and later Yassir Arafat---and

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My pirate name is: Captain Sam Vane Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that's okay, because it's much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr! Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org network

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The all-time greatest music video.

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And Then There Was OneHarry Landis passed away this past Monday. Landis was one of the last two surviving US WWI veterans.The last German veteran passed in January.There are now three known surviving veterans of that war. Frank Buckles, who served with the US Army; John Babcock, who lives in the US but served with Canadian Forces; and Harry Stone of the UK.

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What military aircraft are you?A-10 Thunderbolt IIYou are an A-10. You may not be the prettiest or swiftest, but you're tough as nails, and everyone knows not to mess with you!Click Here to Take This QuizBrought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

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I'm curious.Two Palestinian murderers went into a strip mall in Israel the other day wearing explosives. Dumbass #1 blew himself up, killing a woman and slamming Dumbass #2 to the ground, rendering him incapacitated. Really, guys, if you're to plan something like that, work it out so you don't blow each other up in the process (sorry if I'm leaking new information to the terrorist murderers).

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Oh, and I find it...well, amusing, that Billy Bubba Clinton just "needs" the public spotlight so much that he practically jumps in front of his wife as she campaigns for a position that she seems to think that she simply deserves.Before you vote for his wife (I refuse to go with the "rock-star" thing of just calling her by her first name), think what a disaster he'd be as first man. "Look at me,

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Now here's a company that deserves some kudos. Big time.Blackfive reported that Carhartt has donated 750 sets of thermal underwear and 5,000 pairs of socks to paratroopers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.Everyone knows Carhartt. They make those brown overalls and jackets that guys who work outside wear. They make a lot more, obviously, but everyone has seen the overalls and jackets.I

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I am so G*DDAMN SICK of the "war on science" thing that people who simply hate President Bush carry on with.Facts, people, facts.The only thing that Bush has done in his alleged "war on science" is to mandate that the US will continue funding research on existing fetal stem cell lines, but it won't provide government funds for any new cell lines. Got that? Research will continue. For Democrats,

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Oh, and as far as the inner geek thing, I do have an R-390 receiver that I actually found in a dumpster. All I have to do with it is put a plug on the end of the electrical cord--for some reason somebody cut the plug off before pitching it in the dumpster--and hook it up to an antenna of some sort. I've already used window screens as antennas for receivers, so that's no big project, and attaching

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I just haven't had much interesting to say lately.I have no shortage of things to say, but as far as interesting, well, I'm a bit short on that.But I saw something tonight that brought back memories. Proof, I guess, that you can be a graduate of Special Forces school (it ain't easy), and still sort of a geek.When I was at the former Ft. Devens, which was a great place to be stationed but exists

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Al Gore is truly pathetic.He's a big guy--we saw that when he advanced on George Bush in a threatening manner during one of their debates. I'd say that lowered my opinion of him, but actually I already regarded him as benthic, and it doesn't get any lower than that (the Benthic Zone is where you find whale sh*t and Democrat politicians). But big guy or not, he's diminutive in the political

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Philip Agee finally croaked.Agee is a scumbag who worked for the CIA for 12 or so years and then wrote a book exposing dozens of covert operators. He then approached Soviet and Cuban officials and began feeding US secrets to Cuba (which in turn went to the Soviet Union, of course). People died.Agee kicked off in Cuba while undergoing what would have been routine surgery in any country that has

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And Then There Were TwoOne of those things you know is going to happen, but you just wish it wouldn't.J. Russell Coffey just passed away at the age of 109. Mr. Coffey was one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War. Mr. Coffey never "saw the elephant", but he stepped forward and joined the army and served his country during time of war, so he gets just as much credit as anyone

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Can You Say "Jackass"?I've been skiing for over 30 years. For all that time I'm not all that great, but I hit the slopes and have a good time. I've eaten several cubic meters of snow along the way, wrecked a knee (surgery--three weeks in the hospital) and once took a glove off to find it filled with blood. I once saw a guy fall and leave a red streak on the snow. I stood on Killington Peak

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Ok. I'm officially inspired to create my Christmas list and it's all because of this:Who in his right mind could not want a jet-propelled sh*thouse?Next it's the catamaran. I love sailing. Now, nothing comes close to the b*lls-to-the walls feeling of a serious broad reach, but the wife definitely doesn't like it when I have a monohull boat heeled over, lee railing touching the waves. Despite the

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A great web site for all of the other old pharts out there:When Life was in Black and White

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THE DOG KNOWS Have you ever heard that a dog 'knows' when an earthquake is about to hit? Have you ever heard that a dog can 'sense' when a tornado is stirring up, even twenty miles away?Do you remember hearing that, before the December tsunami struck Southeast Asia, dogsstarted running frantically away from the seashore at breakneck

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I'm doing some deep thinking right now. My friend Murf asked me a question that I had a knee jerk answer for, but I decided to dedicate some thought to it instead (I guess that's why I'm not a Democrat).Anyway, here's a little (somewhat belated) Veterans' Day fact. When you hear of our disappearing veterans, mull this one over. There are exactly three US WWI veterans left on this planet. Three.

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Time was, not so long ago, when some people got over calling troops bad names.People objected to the Vietnam war, so in their infinite intelligence, they took their hostile feelings out on the troops. "The troops" were mostly draftees who didn't have much say in things, so the hostility against them defies logic. The professional soldiers were (and are) just that, so calling them names defies

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In memory of all who have risen to their country's call and served, particularly the late John Wallace (United States Navy, WWII) and my friend William Meyers; a gentle, soft spoken man who once participated in the greatest campaign as a crew member in a B-24 bomber: WHAT IS A VET? Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC WHAT IS A VET? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a

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This just wrong.Yep, an elderly, wheelchair-using nun being frisked at a US airport by a veiled Muslim. Gotta love that TSA.Credits:Found the photo at an interesting blog called Klein Verzet, which I found via The Jawa Report.

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The guys who flew and maintained these babies did more for our country than Hilly, Billy, Teddy, Nancy, Harry and Little Johnnie Murtha combined.And unlike all of the above (Murtha excepted...grudgingly) they weren't "too good" to serve. And die.

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This is supposed to be a joke, but it's so true that it's not really even funny.Bob Sheiffer, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric and a tough old U.S. Marine sergeant were all captured by terrorists in Iraq. The leader of the terrorists told them that he would grant them each one last request before they were beheaded. Sheiffer said, "I'd like one last bowl of hot spicy chili." The leader nodded to an

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A Green Beret walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman.He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his watch for a moment.The woman looks at his wrist and remarks, "That's some watch. I've never seen anything like it before. What is it?""I just got this", he replies. "It's a new military issue. It has a small computer chip which has threat detection and

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I'm absolutely thrilled by the seedings in the Democratic primary race. It appears so far that Hillary is the front runner with Obama following at a distance.Fine with me.Now, I'm not exactly thrilled with the Republican offerings, but I'm terrified by the Democratic offerings. Ergo I'm thrilled by the fact that the Democratic front runner is a thoroughly unlikeable person with stupid ideas and

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The Army is adopting a new parachute.Freefall parachutes aside, the history of the Army parachute has pretty much been one of evolution. The current T-10 and MC-1 parachutes differ little from the T-7 and T-5 that preceded them. Mostly it's involved improving the material the parachute is made of and updating the buckles and snaps. While diameters have varied, all have been parabolic in shape.

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This guy, assuming the evidence is solid (and I'm betting it is), should simply be killed."Neighbor Charged in Hanging of Girl".

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Ok, so I'm having some fun with internet videos now. I'm not going to make it a habit. I just saw the one with the wasps and it reminded me how things can go awry in ways never anticipated, and then I came across this one.The reason this one resonated with me is that I've ridden this thing. German beer fests are fun. There are rarely, rarely fights; the food is great, the beer--well, you can

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Insects have always been a factor in warfare, but it wasn't until the last century (the one we just recently put to bed) that we realized the extent of their effect. And that was mostly yellow fever and malaria.The thing about operating in combat is that you have to expect the unexpected which is, of course, impossible.During the Battle of Antietam, a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers was

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Well, I'll be damned. I'm one of a few.National Geographic magazine recently published an article titled "Green Dreams" which is about creating alternative fuels from plant sources.At one point they paraphrase an executive from an alternative energy firm as saying: 'Only perhaps a dozen people on the planet know how to grow algae in high-density systems'. I'd personally put that figure a bit

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From Military Motivator:And let us not forget, either, the strike on the Pentagon and the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93.

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Just for grins, and since we're doing parachute-related stuff, here's a photo of Bear's birthday present. She was determined, all 10-years of her, that this is what she wanted to do. Her 15-year old brother went up with her with misgivings, but both were bubbling over when they got back down.

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I'm gonna try something new here and see what I can drum up: Jump stories.Every time a group of paratroopers go up in an airplane there's always the potential for something to happen that makes for a story. You know, "There I was, knee-deep in grenade pins, nothing between me and the Mongol horde but a can opener..."There used to be a place called Ft. Devens. It was a nice place, but it's now

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I don't want to write my autobiography (it would only put people to sleep anyway), but “Anonymous” posted here a couple of times and it seems likely that we know each other, so I'll give away some clues about where I've been and maybe write a bit of a story while I'm at it. I just hope it doesn't turn out that he couldn't stand me.I started my military time in the 20th Special Forces Group, a

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Sorry, just had to post this one.In Jerusalem, a female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long, long time, so she went to check it out. She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was. She watched him pray, and after about 45 minutes when he turned to leave, she approached him for an interview."I'm Rebecca

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Well, I'm goin' downey ocean, Hon.What did he just say?, you ask. You have to understand that people around here talk funny. The most widely spoken form of English is the Merlin Dialect, followed by Bawlmerese. Merlin is a somewhat watered down form of Bawlmerese. Merlin itself is bordered on the north by Pennsylvania, to the south by Virginia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and to the

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Via Blackfive comes the news that "Wild Bill" Guarnere is gravely ill.Guarnere was a member of the storied "Easy Company" made famous by Stephen Ambrose's book cum movie "Band of Brothers". He was noted for his fearlessness on the battlefield and eventually lost a leg while rescuing a comrade under fire.The Grim Reaper can only be dodged for so long, and Guarnere, like all members of our greatest

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The Barack Obama thing leaves me puzzled. "Time" magazine, one of the biggest rags ever published, wants him elected so badly that they've abandoned all pretense of objectivity. I mean, they don't even try and pretend to be objective or non-partisan. Time Magazine wants Obama elected, period. As I've already noted, his platform leaves a lot to be filled in. At this point it's basically "I'm black

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-44176458072349541472007-07-09T23:52:00.000-04:002007-07-10T01:41:38.259-04:00

Oh, fer chrissake. The Democrats are all just outraged that Bush commuted "Scooter" Libby's jail sentence. He didn't pardon him--the conviction stands--he simply commuted the jail time.In the first place, the conviction was a farce. A lynching. Libby said he forgot. You can't prove a negative. You can't prove he didn't forget. Hell, the Clintons spent eight freaking years saying "I don't recall".

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Some 231 years ago, a group of men gathered together and wrote out a treatise explaining why the English colonies in the continent known as America should become a single, antonymous entity. That treatise is now known as our Declaration of Independence. There's a school of thought that holds that the movement for independence wasn't necessarily a popular movement. Most people were happy to go on

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Proof that Uncle Jimbo is a better man than I. My anger issues would have boiled over the top at this forum on a day when we look to honor those who have given their lives when the country asked them to and chose instead to make it not only a political event, but a one-sided political event, ignoring the fact that better men than they went to their deaths to give these a$$holes the freedom to

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I'm glad "Anonymous" stopped by. It's definitely brought back the memories. When I was going through the SFQC I'm sure I thought it wasn't exactly fun and games, but now, 26 years later, I remember the good times and the quirky things as fun.Anonymous on C-rations:they used to flip the cases upside-down so we wouldn't fight for the "good" ones. It didn't take me long to figure out how to tell

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One thing some cultures don't "get" about westerners is our respect for life and our desire to continue living. Mark Bowden makes that point in "Blackhawk Down". The Somalis never understood our troops with their helmets and body armor, medics, evacuation of casualties, etc. And I recently read an article that pointed out that the Islamic extremists are of the same mindset. Of course, we don't

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-18144934097345303942007-07-03T09:42:00.000-04:002007-07-03T09:55:33.739-04:00

The memories come flooding back. "Anonymous" found me when he Googled "Honeybun Hill" on a whim.Honeybun Hill refers to a long steep hill that we used to run up when I was going through the Army Special Forces Qualification Course. We usually got C-Rations, but once in a while got hot breakfasts trucked in from Ft. Bragg (the SFQC is (was?) conducted at Camp Mackall which is separate from Ft.

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-69054131588515571452007-07-02T17:22:00.000-04:002007-07-02T17:24:42.789-04:00

Well, I thought I'd turn out to be a Shelby GT500, but I have to admit, the old Barracudas are waaay cool.What kind of Muscle Car are You? (pics) 1971 Plymouth BarracudaYou have a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda. You love beer. You love your car. It's fast as hell, and thats all that matters! And yes, it's got a hemi.....that's right I said a hemi!Take The Quiz Now!Quizzes by myYearbook.com

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Posted without comment (although I reserve the right to comment at great length at a later date).

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I guess I have a slightly off sense of humor, and I'm also constantly adjusting to "new" ways of saying things.Today I ran into the woman who lives across the road from us. She and her husband are nice people. So she says "By the way, we have a big announcement: We're pregnant". Now I know "we're" pregnant is the new way of putting it. But all I could think of is "If you're both pregnant, you'd

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-340189004096213222007-05-29T03:04:00.000-04:002007-05-29T03:13:34.681-04:00

We have a great Memorial Day parade here. Even though the area is growing, everyone still acts like it's a small town. Suits me.I manage to embarrass myself at the parade every year. I have to wear sunglasses and pretend I'm wiping sweat from my face every few minutes.

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I've had an "interesting" day, yet at nearly 2AM, I just can't find sleep.I was up by 5:30 or so. Hung out around here for a while and then the wife called from church that help was needed at the fund-raising carnival at the school. Went up there and spent a few hours putting up tents and so forth. I was sincerely convinced once we put the tents up that someone was coming behind us to stake them

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-11964179283828827672007-05-27T23:12:00.001-04:002007-05-27T23:26:28.174-04:00

I need to throw in another thank you. No man is an island and all that. No military marches to victory on its own.A sincere thank you to all that may not have served, but who give support to those who are. Somewhere there's a quote to the effect that 'they serve as well, who keep the home fires burning'. A lot of people have done much more than just keeping the home fires burning. They've put a

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Memorial Day 2007In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-41042769080814415802007-05-14T14:18:00.000-04:002007-05-14T14:48:12.608-04:00

I just heard two news stories that boggle the mind.In the first one, some teachers and administrators somewhere decided to stage a drill, along the lines of a fire drill or the air raid drills that I'm old enough to remember, and fake a firearms attack on the students. I can see taking some time to talk with the students and say "If anything should ever happen, this what you need to do...". But

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-20373006286863334072007-05-12T17:24:00.000-04:002007-05-12T17:45:25.065-04:00

Almost tossed a coach from a game today. Ultimately I decided tossing him wouldn't help, but in retrospect it would have made me feel better. Next game his butt is mine, though. I'm just not going to put up with him.He started whining about a couple of somewhat flat pitches one of the girls threw. Yes, they didn't have the world's greatest arc, but they were hittable, and that's my standard. He's

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-34688388835416963632007-05-07T14:09:00.000-04:002007-05-07T14:10:54.579-04:00

And now, for the birth control image of the day.I'm not ready to swear off women, but this brings me perilously close...

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Guidons, Guidons, Guidons is always worth reading, and not just for the Girl Fridays. The blogger is an eggbeater pilot who is serving a tour in Iraq, hence he actually knows things that Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama et. al. claim to know. This post is one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever. And the last line of video tells it all. 

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-60166498456512948022007-05-01T22:04:00.000-04:002007-05-01T22:10:03.277-04:00

What is it about Anna Nichole Smith?I'm one of the few males in the country still capable of, umm, functioning, who hasn't had sex with her. And frankly, if I had, I wouldn't be bragging about it.Then again, maybe I should be insulted...

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Ever really, desperately wanted to strangle someone?My wife is on the way to an appointment with the dentist. The dentist is a great guy, and the person who always used to work the front desk is a great guy. A bit effeminate, but very good.I don't know if he left or today is his day off. Anyway, my wife just called and asked if I could look up the dentist's number and let him know she was running

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Every once in a while (well, ok, it happens all the time) you encounter a situation that you just can't imagine how the people involved deal with.Snakeeater, jr. goes to a very expensive school. I think that I related here that I actually broke into tears when I found out he'd been accepted and to this day I'm not sure if it was out of pride or because I knew what it would cost. Basically, it's

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-89360837963341567122007-04-29T00:32:00.000-04:002007-04-29T00:51:36.307-04:00

Oh, and I think I made the grade in umpiring girl's softball. It's been a tad different--I've umpired adult softball and youth baseball. Never did girls before. It's kind of rough in that some of the batters are about three feet tall, which means the strike zone can be a bit funky, and honestly, I don't like calling 7-year old girls out. Even had a coach come up to me the other day who said "I

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-66923688816380599892007-04-28T23:22:00.000-04:002007-04-29T00:31:32.193-04:00

It's amazing how you can so often run across people with whom you have something in common. Sort of the "six degrees of separation" thing.Five years ago I bought some window stickers at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, NC. (Stupendous museum, by the way). One sticker is a Special Forces patch and the other two are the flashes (that's the patch on the beret) from the two

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-91339313761603342382007-04-26T14:31:00.000-04:002007-04-26T15:40:32.086-04:00

Well, it's spring. The tulips are up, the daffodils are up, the crocuses are actually on the way out and the crack of bats has begun to sound.Well, make that the tink of aluminum bats.And best of all, the assholus baseballus has emerged from his long winter sojourn. Sunday we had a makeup baseball game. All went well until the other side realized they were going to lose. A batter hit a ball up

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-32647312246549920512007-04-20T13:47:00.000-04:002007-04-20T14:34:41.568-04:00

I generally support the president. Hell, even on his worst day he's better than John Kerry or Al Gore. Kerry is a buddyf*cker and Gore is an idiot.Having said that, I do recognize that the president has made some errors. He pulled us out of the Clinton-made economic slump and he's been a steadfast leader in the war that radical Islam declared against us, but like all of us, he's made a mistake or

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-52861332459808360272007-04-20T01:19:00.000-04:002007-04-20T02:37:27.467-04:00

Lots of events to comment on the past week--hang on for pithy opinions about Disney World and the wonderful government agency called the TSA.Today I heard something to the effect that Harry Reid declared that we have lost the war in Iraq.Harry Reid is a horse's a$$. He fantasies himself something of a crusader, but a crusader who hates the president more than he loves his own country. He'd sell

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-24051026473502490062007-04-02T23:59:00.000-04:002007-04-03T00:12:04.845-04:00

There's just no making some people happy. I called a girl's softball game this evening, and one of the teams was just getting shelled. The games last 75 minutes and the team getting beaten was the visiting team. At 70 minutes another inning was about to begin, so I went to the visiting coach and told her I'd start the inning, give her girls an at-bat, and then end the game so the other team

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I'm of two minds now. I wanted to post that it's spring, the crack of bats is in the air (well, ok, the "tink" of those freaking aluminum bats) etc. But all I can think of is lynchings.Now, undoubtedly someone is going to take me to task for using the word "lynch", just as someone got taken to task the other week for suggesting that the NBA needs to "crack the whip" on a particularly thuggish

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-72680889732430417822007-03-07T01:00:00.000-05:002007-03-07T01:24:17.150-05:00

By the way. As far as "Taps" and military funerals...Strapped as they are, the military only guarantees two uniformed persons and a tape recording of "Taps" a veteran's funeral. Because of that, an organization called Bugles Across America has sprung up. Bugles Across America strives to provide a person (not the tape recording) to blow Taps at veterans' funerals.  I don't want any "props" for

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TAPSIt's been quite the last month, with three deaths that touched upon me one way or another.“Johnny” Lusby was the father of one of my fellow Boy Scout leaders. Johnny was an infantryman in the 45th Infantry Division (Thunderbirds) and participated in the amphibious assault of Sicily. Some time thereafter he was captured and served time as a prisoner of war in Germany. The historical material

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-58962286674483418472007-02-24T01:15:00.000-05:002007-02-24T01:57:53.359-05:00

Back to Dimocrats, some WMD information.Once again, most Democrats believe in their positions and ways to get things done. The difference, as Charles Krauthammer observed, is that while Republicans think Democrats are wrong, Democrats think Republicans are evil. There's a difference. It's pretty damned probable that the so-called WMDs in Iraq got trucked out to Syria while we were making threats.

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I'm trying--really. It's just that damned black dog of depression curled up at my feet. I think of posts all the time, I just can't bring myself to sit down and write them out. It's the damndest thing--I got so wrapped up in my son's competetive band season that when it ended I felt like the bottom dropped out from under me. I'll get better, though.Anyway, some thoughts...The new Congress...

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I know that people align themselves to political groups (Democrats, Republicans, etc.) for various reasons, and most of those people are pretty sincere. They believe in the way a particular group seeks to address issues. While I can't imagine ever becoming a politician of any stripe, the last week stands out as perfect example of why I could not, will not, can't ever align myself with the

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Got a twofer, or actually a hat trick, via Blackfive this evening. Found a new blog, a terrific post and a new name to add to my short list of the least informed bloggers.Blackfive links here to an excellent commentary on war in general and Iraq in particular. Thanks to the link I've now added Crittenden's blog to my reading list. And check the comments to the post in question (on Chrittenden's

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I'm back. I hope. The "black dog", as James Lileks puts it, has been curled up at my feet for a while, but hopefully I'm fighting back to the surface. I'm not a professional sports fan by any stretch. I have no idea how people can get excited over a bunch of guys who don't even live in the same state and are hired by some rich guy to play a game. Joe Buttplug on the street worships these guys and

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I was going to add some narrative to the photo below, mostly about what an elitist horse's a$$ John Kerry is, and how, in fact, he's frankly a traitor despite his bleating about being a patriot. His "service" was coldly calculated to launch him into politics and he even somehow wrangled an "early out" from the Navy so he could participate in a political campaign. That would be before he showed up

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Irak 

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Last rant for tonight. I have an incredibly long day facing me and I have to be up in 2 1/2 hours, but I just can't quite get to sleep. So one last rant.Stem cells.George W. Bush did not outlaw stem cell research. I've said tht before. It's a simple fact, easily ascertained, but the facts of the situation get played by certain politicians to make you believe that Bush has literally outlawed

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Been away a while, but I'll try to do better. I'm half-laughing, half being disgusted by the latest "Republican scandal". As for Tom Foley, he should kill himself. Seriously. If he had any honor he would do so, but we know from what he did that he has no honor. So instead he's going to hide behind an alcoholism program and a wall he threw up claiming he was abused as a child. Reminds me of a

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I just found out that Steve Irwin was killed recently. I'm sort of two minds on the whole thing.For one, he deserves great credit for his work. Like Jacques Cousteau and Marlin Perkins (along with poor Jim Fowler who always got saddled with wrestling enraged hippos while Marlin spoke into the camera), he really brought the beauty of nature to the forefront. Through his personality he was able to

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What an evening.I am probably a contradiction--I hunt, I fish, I love being in the woods, I was once a real live Green Beret...but I have also played musical instruments and marched with them most of my life. I was six when my overachieving father demanded I start taking music lessons. I didn't even really know what I wanted to play, but I told him I'd play the "long black thing" (I'd seen

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-1155789885388018892006-08-17T00:39:00.000-04:002006-08-17T00:44:45.400-04:00

I've not been very good at keeping my links updated. It's a task I really need to undertake--many of the links no longer function, and there are so many I really should include. It's a huge task, but I'll start of with a link to a blog I find interesting: http://bttrflynrvrse.blogspot.com/The url is new, but the blogger has a solid history of interesting posts.

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"Band of Brothers" has been shown numerous times on cable television over the last few years. It's also been a book even longer than that.Even though I read the book some years ago, I find the series incredibly compelling (probably because of the high degree of accuracy), so I find myself watching it every time it appears on the History Channel. Tonight's episode was entitled "Why We Fight", and

Snakeeaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410779896418020086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775766.post-1155316725358168552006-08-11T13:08:00.000-04:002006-08-11T13:18:46.870-04:00

I emailed the writer of the story I referenced below and asked her if she was proud of revealing a potential vulerability in our defense during a time of conflict.Her reply was full of the usual arrogant platitudes about "keeping the taxpayers informed", etc. She went on to state that the agency was aware that she was writing the article and raised no objections. Of course they didn't. They knew

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Newspeople are whores. Plain and simple.I'd like to find a more acceptable, less abrasive monicker, but time and time again they show themselves to be nothing more than gutter whores.Just the other day a local paper (which is read by a lot more people than who read this blog) "broke" the story that a government agency might be hitting the wall on energy requirements. For the life of me, I can't

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I feel like I often play off on the fact that I was in the Army for about ten years. I've been out for some 16 years now, so sometimes I feel like I'm trying to make currency on something I no longer am. But I can't deny that I still feel a tremendous pull toward the military in general and the Army in particular. Military service is an incredibly profound, soul-deep experience that people who

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Ten Simple Rules for Dating My DaughterRule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure as hell not picking anything up.Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them from

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I had no intention of ever posting anything like this, but I was trying to think of a city in Florida synonymous with retirees and stumbled over this article:STDs Running Rampant in Retirement Community

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Talk about egos. It wasn't enough for John Kerry to come home from Vietnam and accuse every other person in Vietnam of being a war criminal (but not him, of course--after all, he earned three purple hearts), now he thinks he has the master plan for the world.Via Toni (owner of the best legs in Bloggerdom), a new height in Kerry's delusional "I'm King of the World" ego: "If I was president, this

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I know that I've visited this subject before, but it deserves clarification, especially since the left hates Bush so much that they'll make an issue out of anything.We on the right didn't much care for the Boy President, Billy "Can I Look Up Your Skirt" Clinton, but the vitriol unleashed against Bush is ridiculous, and much of it is utterly unwarranted--it's just pure hate, which I thought the

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Thought I was done with baseball two weekends ago when I threw my keys at an obese guy whose hair, beard and physique make him look exactly like a garden gnome. I kid you not--picture the "roaming gnome" from Expedia or whatever it is, add 400 pounds and a self-serving ego equal to a Clinton, and you have this guy.Well, turns out we're sponsoring the state senior league tournament. We spent five

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One of my pet peeves is highly paid newspeople who just can't get it right. Some months ago the local paper wrote an article about a guy who was deploying with the "82nd Engineer Armored Tank Division". I wrote an email to the editor explaining that there are no engineer divisions and "Armored Tank" was redundant. I found an 82nd Engineer Bn (SEP) stationed in Germany which was no doubt what the

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Children aren't stupid. They're less experienced, but not stupid.Some time ago my son read the book "Blackhawk Down". I probably should have sat down with him after he read it and talked about certain things, but I never did.Today we drove down to where the wife works to look at a vehicle. Looked at it, test-drove it, etc. Then I put the kids back in the truck and we drove out of the parking lot.

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Independence 

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