November 2009 - Argghhh!

JTG asks in email (though I've seen it elsewhere, such as NRO).John, I believe you wrote that you insisted on yer men qualifying with personal hand-held weapons, Redlegs that they were. Your Dad, though a Redleg, got a PH for a bayonet wound. Now that we have an all-volunteer, "professional" armed force, can't we trust the soldiers with soldierly weapons? Well, we've never really had the habit of carrying arms in garrison unless we were going to do something with them - or it...

I apparently am stepping off on my left foot, not my right.So, this video is making the rounds - And I'm not outraged by it. Here's some of the stuff overheard in conversations about the statement: "This video makes me want to puke.""I will admit that the words, "rot in Hell you sorry excuse for a CinC" came to mind""Yeah - when he actually referred to his responsibility as CinC, I gagged.""My first thoughts were “what an entirely inappropriate...

After a long absence (Mien Gott! Has it been that long?), in the immortal words of Gen. MacArthur, I have returned. For a short visit. A tragedy has occurred on Fort Hood, one of the busiest military bases in the United States. A base that has experienced the highest number of casualties in the War on Terror...Islamist Extremism...Insanity. Information remains sketchy. They are putting together a profile of the gunman. As the Armorer would have warned me long ago, until all information is in we cannot...

Having been in the "Bidnez" the video below brought back a torrent of memories...

...I enjoyed yesterday's election returns much better than a year ago.Now to see what message who takes away from it - aside from the Dems spinning the NY-23 election as the single most important indicator of anything that occured yesterday and those two governorships as meaningless, and the Republicans spinning them (probably more correctly, but no doubt overstated) as the opposite.That said - the Republicans need to understand that what happened yesterday wasn't Republicans going to the...

Over at CNN, author Rita Mae Brown talks about animals. I’m going to do a little tongue-in-cheek fisking. Not much, as I agree with most of what she says – and where I disagree, it’s usually funny. But with our 8 horses, 7 goats, peafowl family, chickens, guineas, ducks and 10 cat, 3 dog Castle, we see things a touch differently here. I'd envy her those fox hounds except... they're high maintenance to care for properly! The CNN.com article lists Ms. Brown as "a novelist...

Wishful thinking? You be the judge. Boq