July 2011 - Argghhh!

Finally, every Marine in the field will be sporting a nifty-ballistics "boys-protector". The Marine Corps Times report that 15,000 future grandkids protectors are being rushed to the battlefield. Full article: HERE . Boq

...as evidenced by the multiple correct answers to yesterday's poser.A pic of the southward-facing cannon in the Veterans' Memorial sward in Woodbury, CTOkay, JoA twigged the exact locale and the direction that particular cannon was pointed – and there *are* two of them, as QM and JimC noted. Mizz Susan – characteristically -- indulged in a bit of whimsy, linking to a pic of *Marine* One (Connecticut is a *maritime* state) flying south (yup) and included the aluminum cap on the...

Knowing how nit-pickingly difficult it is to sell anything to the Australian MOD, I am VERY surprised that this embarrassing misspelling got through their school-marmish product inspections. Boq

This sort of thing usually kills a blog, but Bill, Boq, and Dusty are welcome to keep the lights on. I'm tired, however, and clearly, based on my last post, I'm just phoning it in, and you guys are calling me on it again and again - as you should. But it doesn't appear to be working. So, I'm going to hang up the phone, and see if the bug bites me again, if I can win past the cobwebs that will gather. Not as hasty a decision as it sounds, it's been building. But if I can't...

Heimdall stands ready to allow Preston to cross the bridge.

Behold the next excuse the Great and Powerful Oz and Nurse Bloomberg will float (after they're done exporting rifles to Mexico in order to blame the US-sourced weapons on Mexican violence which means we'll have to disarm Americans to protect the campesinos... from the... ATFE, a USGOV agency, but I digress). No, after teh Usual Suspects are done with that little game they'll use this to come after AirSoft and BB Guns - not only do they look too realistic, terrorists use them... From Strategy...

The year was 1969. And while UnkaBill was tussling with Dyspeptic Water Buffaloes®, in the upper highlands of Nước Mắm, I too was having my scuffles with a dyspeptic codependent...

The SEIU thugs who beat down Kenneth Gladney in Saint Louis walk.From a cursory read, this looks like a case where a baby prosecutor got flim-flammed by the expensive defense lawyer, who was apparently abetted by the judge. It looks like the defense turned the trial backwards - and made the guilt or innocence phase really about the extenuating and mitigation phase of sentencing. I.e., didn't really argue whether or not the beat down occured, (i.e., guilt or innocence) but instead argued that...