November 2011 - Argghhh!

I run through my usual tropes below - but I want to make a special point this year to thank our Vietnam-era veterans - like, Bill, V29, Grumpy, Concrete Bob, 11B40, et.al., who made it their mission to ensure that the current generation of brand-new veterans would have a completely different homefront experience than they had. And to thank all the others, veteran and non-veteran, who have worked to make sure that while America was at the Mall (at least back when we had the money for that) some Americans...

Ever since Congress suffered a rectal-crainial infarct (simply the first of many, to be sure) and burped for a resolution authorizing the raising of a new military formation, we've suffered these braggarts. Using that damned document from the Continental Congress, Captain Samuel Nicholas swept through the bars and brothels of Philadelphia and formed two battalions of Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 to serve as naval infantry. They've been annoying us for 236 years now, despite the...

Моє на повітряній подушці наповнене вуграми. Not that the craft I'm currently hovering actually *is* full of eels, but that's one of the gems I scored when I googled "Useful phrases in Ukrainian" last month. Besides, getting it full of eels would involve going Dnieper-dnipping, and it's a tad too chilly for that right now.Although it was pretty temperate when I snapped that.Okay, right about now, you're probably wondering why I was googling "Useful phrases in Ukrainian"...

From ICanHasCheezeburger via the estimable Bad Cat Robot.

...but internet access certainly sucked. Of course, to get anyone to actually watch things like this anymore, apparently you have to have some hot chick do the weapons-handling. Well, enjoy the fat bearded redneck, and envy the fact that I can do this in my backyard... Of course, I'm in such bad shape that my trigger finger got tired.

Boq

Had Sigivald not effectively answered the challenge yesterday - though Slick's admonition to not get too specific on model was apt...

An old Navy Veteran went and hung an American Flag for Navy Day...