November 2011 - Argghhh!

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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...

The year is 2016 and the United States has just elected the first woman President – born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, served honorably as a nurse during Gulf I, attended Harvard under the GI Bill, graduated Summa *** Laude, culminated a distinguished career as a twice-re-elected state governor with a successful bid for the Presidency of the United States.A few days after the election, the President-elect calls her father and says, “So, Daddy, you will be coming to my inauguration...

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First up - if you live near Leavenworth, and are a disabled veteran (we'll take your word for it, no documentation required) come have a free pancake breakfast, courtesy of the Rotary Club of Leavenworth, at the Riverfront Community Center. If you aren't a disabled vet but live in the area, come to the pancake breakfast, help us raise some funds, and be positioned to get a good seat for the Veteran's Day parade.Elsewhere around the country...2011 Free Veterans Day MealsApplebee’s...

...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.

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That's what an Afgahtsi (a former Sov Afghan vet) told me today."Where you are going when you leave here. We fought them for keeping Communism. It was not good -- what is best word? -- reason.""You mean 'wrong' reason? 'Not correct' reason?""Da, da -- 'wrong' reason. You fight them for *correct* reason, because they want to later kill us all. Or make us like them.""Ya rozim'yu. Amerikansk' have to stop them -- .""Da...