February 2012 - Argghhh!

Anyone who has read me from 2003 on knows I was not a fan of invading Iraq, or trying to build Afghanistan into a modern state - if only because I don't believe the US has the stomach for that sort of thing. I'm not sure anyone does, any more, since colonialism has fallen into severe disfavor (and not without good reason). The only people who were any good at it were the Romans and the Brits, and theirs was a centuries-long approach, unfettered by instantaneous communications, which make...

Thank God he didn't bark Boq

...and what they're doing looks like fun. [This pic enlargifies] U.S. Marines conduct insertion exercises from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter in the Arabian Sea, Jan. 19, 2012. The Marines are assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island. The ship is supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class...

Wait, what?Teaser line:...the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant's rectum......

...asking what I've been doing (two so far this week -- a 100% bump over last week), I'll give you a quick synopsis:Between shovelling snow and clearing away storm-felled tree limbs during my three-plus week leave, I managed to1. take and pass a Class II FAA Flight Physical -- piece of cake since I'd just passed a more stringent Class I in the Ukraine in November ("This is same flight physical cosmonauts get. Try to keep head from swelling too big to get back through door, da?"...

...but this post isn't it. Continuing the theme from yesterday, where Our Hero was being a Heater-of-Goats (one of my Indian names), we appear to have had some success in getting a self-centered member our welfare class to assume responsibility for their wanton sexual behavior... i.e., Bubba's mother came looking for him. Probably because her udders hurt, because she just assumed that Bubba was going to be like most men and just make her teats hurt. So here's a pic of the young sleepyhead...

Now there is "The People Who Live With Goats." In their house. Welcome to Castle Argghhh!, where we take our faux-medieval imagery seriously, sometimes....