September 2010 - Argghhh!

Yesterday morning whilst doing my rounds, I came across this GIF:

At the nexus of major north-south and east-west rail systems, we get a *lot* of trains. Lot's of trains means lots of right-of-way maintenance (less we have derailments, which we did in area in the mid-nineties). While on my way Saturday to pick up the spring needed to return the lawn mower to service (and, incidentally, attend a gun show on a whim) I saw this kewl bit of maintenance-of-way kit parked on a siding. As for the gun show, it was packed. Most of the gun vendors looked like they did...

Warning: there are two types of bombs going-off in this video. One a hefty load of HE, the other one is a gratuitous detonation of F*USK. By the look of things, a section somewhere in Afghanistan is gonna have some fried fish for dinner. Boq

If they come together, I would hate to serve them at the DFAC. Boq

Well, it's been a while since I did a TINS!, and I'd been meaning to write about the sheer, unadulterated terror uneasiness of being trapped in a zero-visibility situation in a part of the world with only the most rudimentary 'lectronic navigation aids.Oddly enough, one of the guys on our Viet Vet forum wrote just such a tale, thereby sparing me from going through a mind-numbing flashback in order to write it a lotta work.A quick intro: the author and I worked the same AOs in the Delta...

Yesterday there was a telluric shift. Our favorite Eastern governor weighed-in on a Western punk.... I love to see some bit of Joysey smack on West Hollywod lib. Boq

The Daily Mail reports that Guantánamo Bay inmates have been restricted access to ice-cream to One serving of Ben & Jerry's per every 147 inmates. The horror!!! Details: HERE Boq

PARDON me for a few if I slip away from my typical method and indulge in some introspection. Galrahn of Information Dissemination has a rather salient point to be made about the end of combat operations in Iraq, that being, that for the most part, there has been no generational impact upon the American people because of Iraq or Afghanistan theatres. Not surprisingly the meme coined by some Marine in theatre: “America isn’t at War, the Marine’s are at war, America is at the mall”...