November 2010 - Argghhh!

...the tennis ball that sits forlorn under the chair. The unchewed chew-toy. All signs of a huge hole in the family.Longtime Castle reader Miss Ladybug has lost her best friend - the one who was *always* there. You were my dog your entire life. I saw you be born. I always loved how your one ear never really stood up all the way. But it was time to let you go. I miss you already. I love you.We know how it feels here at the Castle. But we couldn't imagine the Castle without the Guard.Gunner! Assemble...

I lurves me some words and language. Which causes me some pet peeves and admitted philosophical inconsistencies.Language is a living, breathing thing. The French choose to ignore this, and via the Academy, try to give French usages the force of law. Which gives us good movie fodder, for those of you who remember "Royal with Cheese" vice "Quarter Pounder with Cheese.But language is one place where the masses of the great unwashed can, and do, thumb their noses at the patrician elites...

Because boiling a turkey in oil is for P*ssies...

...is a never-ending chore, thankfully. In addition to small arms maintenance (mainly pistols and one machine gun [DEWAT for any interested LEO types]) this weekend, I did a little work on the Howitzer of Argghhh!.There is some new kit for the cannon. New sponge and rammer, vent cover, and, for you people who simply get *offended* because I use cannon fuse on *koff* my cannon... a percussion lock. The lock will still require drilling and tapping the vent for a nipple, and some custom leather work...

Turbo Tax Timmy , can't fight his way out of a computerized tax software program. Yet, he gleefully enforces our tax code. Rep. Charles Rangel is unwilling to follow the tax laws that he himself writes.<

It'd frost Damncat's, too, but he's 'nardless.As is, evidently, Michael L. Rhodes, director of administration and management at the Pentagon.In May, the commission met with representatives of 60 veterans organizations to solicit their views. They had hoped to create an advisory board with representatives of officer and enlisted ranks from each of the services. Our source said Mr. Rhodes would allow only one veteran, at most. The commission had planned to meet in October with representatives...

On a day like today a President dedicated just under two-an-a-half minutes of his valuable time to redefine the fundamental principles of our republic. Let us pray that neither we nor future generations are called upon to reforge our republic as they once forced to do. Boq

Ummmmm -- it's not because I've been going out with the patrols (fat chance of *that* happening, curse the luck).Aaaaaand it's not because I'm living outside the wire.It's just because I'm no longer living on a FOB.*sigh*Forward Operating Base Warrior has been redesignated Contingency Operating Site Warrior.Only thing I can come up with now is COSplayer. Or COSiner. Oh, right, *you* can do better? Go ahead...*snerk*...