August 2010 - Argghhh!

We all know of the Left's fixation on Che Guevara...

Okay, the previous installments covered critters wearing feathers and critters wearing not much except color, but even though I promised to dangle slithering, venom-slathering, shudder-inducing monsters in front of you introduce some of the more interesting poikilothermic ectotherms waiting to kill me around every corner we occasionally see here, I'm going to take advantage of an encounter I had yesterday and was damned lucky to escape alive fortunate enough to document photographically -- which...

One last look at some venerable birds...

In which we suck up to the leisure class. 08/03/2010 - A B-1B Lancer aircraft takes off from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Aug. 3, 2010, for a training mission. (DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Corey Hook, U.S. Air Force/Released)

Albeit a bit late for General Lavelle.Lavelle Posthumously Nominated to General The Department of Defense announced today that retired Air Force Major General John D. Lavelle has been nominated posthumously by the President for advancement on the retired rolls to the rank of General. This follows an Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records decision and recommendations from the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Air Force. In April 1972, Lavelle was removed from command as a result...

At a White House ceremony around noon today, the President will decorate 13 citizens with the Presidential Citizen's Award. And most of you here know one of the recipients. Beer Girl. Yep. MaryAnn of Soldier's Angels Germany . Just to make sure everybody understand just.how.big.a.deal this is... this medal is the 2nd highest civilian award the US awards. And that there were over 6,000 recommendations this year. And MaryAnn is in some rarefied company . This is very much deserved. And "Well...

...after saying it was a *huge* hole, I cleverly misdirected you guys to the hole within the hole that had the water in it.Okay, I lied. As veterans of innumerable John-inspired misdirection events, you got cleverly misdirected all by yourselves. Your training is complete, and you are now signed off for unsupervised solo iterations of Clever Misdirection whenever it appears on the training schedule -- wear old clothes to the solo party, 'cuz we get raucus.Now, back to the Whatziss. Okay, I lied...